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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL IT, 1873. VOL. XIV-NO. 40. I WS OF SUBSCRIPTION.- ONK HOLLAH .nd Ki KT Y CKHTS per annum, in advene*. Two I'm.i. un at cud of year. BBYKXTY-KIVB CKSTS for alx nioullia. Suby-hptions aro not taken for a less period <ban ?Ix laontlis. RATES OF ADVERTISING.-Ont Do|Iar nor s |.m c ol ?no I:icli 'ur Hie first insertion,and Kitty Outs per iquar? forsubsequent InMrtlonslcsstharj three months. No advertlseuicnts couulc leso than a sonare. l.ll*r.tlrontractft will be raadealththosowisblns; to advertise fer three, six or twelve months. Ad vertl-ing hy contract must bo confined to the (tu m?llate business of thu Urtu or individual coutrac Uni?. Obituary Notices exceeding Ave linns, Tribut? .. of Respect, and all |>ersoua) communications or mattera of individual interest, ?111 l>0 charged for at advertising rates. Announcements of mai ri jes .iud 'leaths, and notices of a religious < har ... re ..'tieetfullv solicited , and will bu ir.seri .is "THE ITO UTI SU ALSTON'S." A Ciirollnn Family Wilone Member* Mina Alt DI? With Their Dooli On-Strange mill Violent Deitthn of the Alstons 'J lo i > u 11 Many (ieneriit iotiH. Atlanta Iffier in New York Herald. The killin}.* of Robert A. Alslon in this, city on last '1 uesday revives the memory ?if the most faniouM family probably of the old-time chivalry days - thc lighting Alstons nf Carolina. The history of this audacious strain of blond is interwove!! with the history of those turbulent days when gentlemen fought at thc drop nf a hat, and a slight movement of tho pistol finger was thc nnswe. to all insult or in sinuation-the close of all argument. The Alstons wero gallant men of gentle blood and usually large fortunes. They were free livers and reckless fighters, and frequently became involved in difficul ties and drained their estate with costs and forfeitures. Probably the best known nf then), Col. Hen Alston, had several affairs of honor, and wounded his antag onist every time ho went to tho field, lie was mi inperious, passionate man, and aa cool under fire as bc would bo in bis drawing-room. His most notable duel wus with J layne, whom he wounded ir. the knee. On one occasioti be was visiting in Augusta, when a gentleman, mistaking him for au acquaintance, tapped him across the shoulders with a riding whip. Alston wheeled as riuick as lightening. Thc gentleman apologiz ed in thc most ample terms. Alston took tho whip from his hands, lashed him across the back, and then said: "Now, eir, your apology isaceepted." Of course a meeting followed. It is said that Alston once fought a gentleman who disputed the age of some wino of which Alston lind been bonsling, throwing some ol thc wine in his face that he might get its full flavor. Col. Hob Alston came of tho family known as thc Halifax Alstons. Their estate lay about Halifax, N. C., and they dominated that whole section for years. They were enormously wealthy, and traveled from one of their estates to an other in almost regal state. They had hundreds of slaves, and always traveled with a coach ami a small army of retain ers. The men were .>tincely in their habits of expense, and put the "code" above thc Bible. Tho women were high strung and spirited. Mrs. Hob Alston, the grandmother of the subject of this sketch, always carried her own .?beets and pillows with her when BIIO traveled, and a case of loaf-sugar. "I have known her," says Colonel Tom Howard, a connection, "to put $100 on a cock light, with her own birds, and then stand and watch tho struggle to the death." Colonel Willis Alston, known ns "Honest Willis Alston," the grand uncle of Bob Alston, fought a dozen duels in one winter, numberless quarrels having sprung from hisassualts ?m a de faulting Slate Treasurer. He killed two men and was himself frequently woun ded. His favorite weapon was an old fashioned "yager," which is a sort of blunderbuss, carrying a double handful ol'buck-shot and of fearful execution. A volume might bc filled with the bloody exploits of these two brothers, but I shall deal only with the sons of Colonel Hob Alston, who were the later Alstons' i inmediato ancestors. AN ALSTON MUST DIE WITH HIS HOOTS ON. Old Colonel Alston, who was himself killed in a duel, had three :.ons-Willis, Gideon and Augustus. Willis Alston, was tho father of Colonel R. A. Alston Each of these brothers came to his death by violence, or died, as the family tradi tion runs, "in his boots." Gideon Al Hton, the first of the three to die, was killed in a peculiar manner. His brother Wills was in Nashville, on a lordly frolic when he became very much enamored of the lady who ifterward married Sam Houston-a Miss Trimble, I believe. He paid her assiduous suit for several months, and, while engaged in this dalli ance, formed an attachment for a young; Spanish boy, amed Pelat. This boy was friendless and poor and Alston adopted him, taking bim with him when be left Nashville. It appears that there was sumo feeling between Pelat and Gideon Alston ; at any rate they left the house at night and went into the yard for thc purpose of "practicing with their pistols." Gideon was then a col lege boy having just turned sophomore in the Slate University. Io a few mo ments afier he left tho house w: ' Pelat he was found in the yard, with a pistol bullet through his brain. Pelat said that he had shot himself accidentally, and this is al! that was ever known of the matter. A FLORIDA TRAGEDY. And now come? one of the most re markable tragedies in tho history of this section so full of tragedies. There was living in Florida, then a primitive rep^n, young Leigh Reed, n man of great .uil ity. gentleness and courage, ito was almost idolized by tho people of that State for his gallant services in the uerco Indian wars, having by his skill and fearlessness several times saved tho little colony from destruction by tho Seminoles mid their allies. A story is told of him that will illustrate his character and nt the same time show how dciicato was the sense of personal honor at that time. General Reed was a political opponent of Govcnor Call's son nud at the same time his personal friend. Political feeling ran very high, and on election day a Mr. White miltie some reflections upon the integrity of Govenor Call. Recd at once chal lenged him for a duel. The men went, were both desperately wounded, and be haved with great gallantry, fighting I believe, wan bowie knives, their lett, hands being strapped together. Some timo afterward Reed became involved in a difficulty with the Alstons. I give thc story as it was given me by Colonel It. A. Alston himself. He said thal an article appear??! in a newspaper reflec ting oil Govenor Call. Colonel Augus tus Alston, wini was tho leader of tho Call faction, demanded the name of the author. He waa furnished with the name nf General Recd, who was thc lead er of the opposite faction. He nt once challenged General Recd, and a meeting wn". arranged. The weapons neil eu ted Were "yager-.," ibis ?leadly weapon being, n- 1 have said, a favorite with thc Alstons. Colonel Alston was attended by Mr. Ke iniu, his brother-in-law. At the word ' One'' Colonel Alston's gun exploded, It being hair-triggered, The contents wero discharged into the air. General Reed, aiming with deliberation, fired, and Colonel Alston dropped dead in his tracks. His sister, a most spirited woman, wu" nearly erased at the news ?if hi de..th. She secure4.! the lead that lind killed him. nm! with her own baud? '.'np molded il iulo bullets and sent them tn he; brother, Willis Alston (thc mirier of R. A. Alston), and implored him to come and avenge the death of his broth er. She wrote thal he had been murder. erl, And tho ALtnus adhered tn this be lief, sjthough the general Matenn-nt is that the meeting wa-? n fair one, General Reed using only hi* just Vighl in firing after the explosion ?if Alston s "yager." At any rate it was very wei! understood thal Willis Alston would seek revenge i->. for his brother's death ns the family for ? generations lind rumio one of all their : quarrels. The first meeting between i Alston and Heed was dramatic. Tho 1 L?gislature had just met and Heed had been elected Speakor. He was a young man, of exceptional power anil popularity , and his life promised to he brilliant nr.d illustrious. He had invited his friends to the usual legislative supper, and tho banquet was in progr?s,-, everything going merrily and well. Suddenly a tali figure, muffled in a swinging cloak and with a slouch hut diawa down over the face, stalked through the open door. Without a word it made for the head of the table, where General Heed was sit- ! ting. Instantly cries of "Alston ! Al- : Mon !" arose and ran down tho table. At these cries the cloak was thrown back and Alston was recognized. Heed rose from his scat, and, whipping a pistol out of his pocket, leveled it nt Iiis assailant and fired. The ball struck Alston in his uplifted hand, carrying away two lingers. This did not stop him, but brandishing [ a bowie-knife, he closed on Keed. Ile- ; fore the men could be parted Keed wns cut pretty severely, nnd Alston, I believe, wounded again. Alston was taken from thc room, and for some months nothing more was heard of the matter. One day General Heed was walking down tho streets of Tallahassee when he was fired upon by Colonel Alston. The contents ol one barrel of a shotgun was poured into his shoulder, mid as he turned to confront his assailant, the other loud went into his heurt. He fell and died. Colonel Alston's friends 6ay that he had given Reed notice that heiutended to kill him on sight. KILLED BY A MOIL Willis Alston went to Texas, where he lived for some time. He Bett ?ed near Hrazorin. There was a Dr. .Steward, who for soino reason or other pursued the matter of tho Reed killing, and used remark? derogatory to Alston. Alston hearing of it wrote the remarks down, and meeting Steward on tho prairie one day, asked him to say whether or not he was responsible for those remarks. Dr. Steward took the paper, and while pre tending to read it, put his hand into his holsters and drew his pistol. He jumped oil'his horse on the side opposite Alston nnd fired into him. A ar.spe. ate fight ensued, in which Alston was shit twice, and his stomach so cut that his bowels protruded. He killed Steward, however, pouring a load of buckshot into him after ?ie was prone upon the earth. Ho wns taken to jail almost dead. Ho was a famous fiddler, and procuring a fiddle, sal there "with ills euiraiis protruding," as he wrote to a friend, playing tho old tunes of his boyhood. Iiis body servnnt gained admission to his sell and lind a coil of rope wrapped about Iiis body. With this he was going to try and escape. Suddenly a mob assaulted the jail, over powered the Sheriff, broke in tho doors and seized Colonel Alston. He wns game to thc last, and fiddled up to thc very instant he was seized, his dauntless face looking full upon his assailants. He was tumbled into a blanket, the ends twisted, and he was then hustled out of tho jail. Once out in tho street ho was thrown to the ground, still enveloped in thc blanket, and a hundred bullets w ere poured into his body. Thus died the last of the "Halifax Alstons." They wero a remarkably athletic and hand some rnce of men. Gideon, who was killed by Pelat, is always cited as the hadsomest youngster of his day. It may be said here that the young Custilion who killed him was put into the navy as a midshipman, and was drowned in the Mediterranean. Willis Alston was a man of wonderful strength. He once shoul dered a load of SOO pounds dead weight, and carried it through the streota of Sp::rta on a bot. His life was a stormy one. His feud with the Ingrams, a brave and powerful family, was tho sensation of Georgia tor the time it las ted. He always carried bia "yager" with him, aud escaped tho whole difficul ty with only ono finger shot away. This feud was dramatized under the title of "The Watch," and sold largely. Its authors were never discovered, or they would have been killed, as the heroes of that day did not tolerate the publication of their troubles. The manuscript was dis covered one morning in the yard of a fearless widow, who published it herself and sold it, making agr< it deal of money by it. COLONEL ROBERT A. ALSTON*. Col. It. A Alston was a remarkable man. Filled with all tho chivalry, fear lessness and hotheadedness of his race, ho dreaded, above all other things, meeting au cud like Iiis ancestors. It was not fear, for an Alston does not know what fear is. He was as brave a man as evet lived. In the army, as one of Morgan'? lieutenant, he was tho most reckless and daring of them all. He once actually bad a biscuit shot from between his teeth, but with a laugh he continued hu breakfast. He said to your correspon dent once : "I have a boy who is a hot hended fellow himself, and I have take? my wife's hand in mino many a time and knelt with her by his bed-si do ant prnyed to God that I might bequeatl him a legacy of peace and a quiet death.' It was his highest ambition, aa ho liai ofton Maid, to break the old tradition tba "an Alston must die in his boots.' Once again, I was with him when h< was going to tho field to meet Col. E. Y Clarke, of a rival newspaper. The chai lcnge had been issued, and he waa jus Suing to take the midnight train. Sud only, ho turned to a dark wall, am leaning his head on his hand, prayei aloud that. God might spnro him thc death Ids people lind died, and allov him to live tn pence till a quiet drat l could claim him. lie never believed however, that this would be granted him It mado him gloomy to talk of it but t< his friends ho would say that ho knet his destiny was to "dio the Alston death.' He even bad superstition that a certaii man was going to kill him. Th.-re ha never been any trr-oblo between them but Alston always jaid, "That man i my fate." The man was his friend, am never became anything else. Despit these gloomy thoughts, Alston was devout believer in tho code. After h lind joined the church he still adhere to his belief, "lt ia a peacemaker," h said. In South Carolina, where th codo stood above thc State law, ther never was so quiet and decorous a comme nity. In Charleston county there wn nota murder in eighteen years, and th files ot the Charleston Courier fo nearly twenty-five years do not show th use of tho word "Har" or "scoundrel" c any similar epithets a single timi There were no streets tights or rowi and no assassination*. A high codo r honor was established, and it mnde eve coward)? brave men. He u~?d to tell ? a Carolina Judge (Mr. Pettigrew), whi having two men before him for trying t fight a duel, said : "Gentlemen, it wi take me an hour to write out these wai rant . In tho meantime there in steamer at my wharf that eau take yo out of my jurisdiction, so that you ca complete your work before I could liol you." Col. AUlon fought, u duel htn>-c though he issued and accepted seven challenges. The conservative spirit i these latter days almost always settli these multeT without tho exchange of allots. Whilo Alston would have died before he would have submitted toa dis honorable compromise, I know what stubborn heroism it required to carry him into un afluir of honor. He shrank with horror from such test. His whole life was overshadowed by the memory of his ancestors and their bloody ends. He was a recognized authority on mat ters of the code, and was usually called into all prominent allai rs. While he was tenacious of the honor of his princi pals, ho never stickled for technicalities, and usually succeeded in adjusting tho differences. Only once was he second in a fatal meeting. He attend young McGraw, of Charleston, and loaded the pistol (hat killed Tabor. There had ap peared in thc Charleston Mercury a com munication assailing Judge McGraw signed with a non de plume. Contrary to the usual practice of demanding thc name of the author of the offensive arti cle Alston demanded for McGraw satis faction of Tabor and his two editorial associates, holding that grr.vamen of the offence was in the publication. The name of thc author was offered and de-j dined. Tabor then announced himself responsible. McGraw, through Alston, challenged the three editors, naming Ta bor first. The parties went to the field. At thc second shot Tabor jumped straight into the air, fell upon his hack, shivered and died. Mci .raw was unhurt, and the affair stopped there. HIS LAST MEETING. Alston had been engaged in many prcsonal encontere, but never had bceu seriously hurt. It was harder for him to take an insinuation of insult than for almost any one else ; but he always re repressed bia anger, if possible, avoided truble. He was a fine talker, a genial gentleman, of winning address, and those saved him from many difficulties thal his impetuosity would have lcd him into. His favorito maxim, however, was saying of Sir Boyle Roach, "Tho best way to avoid danger is to meet it plumply 1" and his boldness often sufficed w here tempo rizing would have failed. In tho trou ble that led to his death, after he had been sent on by Cox to arm himself, his first impulse was to .get a double-barreled shot gun and go and look Cox up and kill him. He was thoroughly acquain ted willi thc violent babils of his enemy, and knew best how to meet them. l?e was dissuaded from this course, however by Govenor Colquitt and others. Ho was very much depressed at tho idcathnt Cox was hunting him down, and seemed to have a premonition of what was coming, lie said throwing himself inlo a chair in the Treasurer's office, "lt i is awful hard to know that a man is dogging you and that you have got to kill him or be kille i." Juster.d of going off to arm himself, he went to a restaurant to get some dinner. Ho ate heartily, i but was very much worried. At length ho was persuaded to take a pistol,getting ' ono that he had never seen before, a sclf-cooking-six shooter. When he en tered the Treasurer'n office he seemed relieved to think ho had found a retreat from the trouble. No sort of personal fear moved him, but the idea of blood shed seemed to sicken him. When ho saw Cox enter and half draw his pistol at a man evidently mistaken for him he seemed to know that his time had come. He grew a shade pale and his face har dened and grew stern. His first word was an appeal : "I nm not going to have any difficulty with you," he said ; "you must let mo alone." Cox still persisted, however, growing angrier all tue time. At lengh, when he stepped back and closed thc dooi and said, "I will force you, sir," Le seemed to give up all hope. Capt. John Nevins, his frieud, who witnessed it nil, describes the scenes that followed: "Colonel Hob rose quiet and calm, just like he was going to make a speech There was not a tremor about him. 'Ali right, he says, we'll have it out right herc. Are you arr. ed ?" With that he drew his pistol. Cox's was already out. I threw myself between them and said, 'No you don't, gentlemen 1' Colonel lion thrust his hand over ?ny ?boulder ami fited, striking Cox io the mouth. At the same time Cox fired and tho ball went thro-gb my whiskers. Their hands nearly crossed aa they fired. I still held t hem apart. They fired again by me and I then turned them loose. Cox was jumping und dodging around, b it Colo nel hob never moved. He stood straight as a statue. After be had shot his fourth shot he turned his face to mc and smiled that peculiar smile he has. As he turned he pulled trigger again and his pistol snapped. Then Cox fired again, and I saw a red spot ooze out in Col. Bob's temple. Cox was trying to cock his pis tol again when I jumped in and threw him back, catching Col. Bob. He sank in my arms. When I turned, Cox was sit ting in a chair spitting blood, with his pistol on a table. He said, 'I am a dead man.' I cut Col. Bob's shirt open." State Treasurer Raynor Bays that Alston put both his hands'on Cox's breast and said, "Ed., for Cod's Bake let us have no difficulty. I don't want to kill yo" ; you shouldn't want to kill me." TUE AUSTON DESTINY. Alston lind a peculiarly winning and handsome fuce, and a semi-military man ner. He stood like a statue while shoot ing, his handsome faco set and stern with tho old Alston fire blazing from his eyes, turning his erect figure by military half wheels to present his side alway.-, to his shifting enemy. After ho had been shot down Mr. Ed. Mercer, who knew of his foreboding about dying with his boots on, said, "He shall not die in his booti, by, God !" and tenderly took them off. "The scene nr. the death bedside was affecting in tho extreme. Only tho most intimate friends and the family were admitted, a for*e of police bealing back the host that, urged against the doors. As it was cvidt'.t that he must die in a few moments, MT. Alston asked Govenor Colquitt, who was kneeling by the bedside and who wns devotedly nt tached to tho dying man, to pray. With a Aoice broken with emotion, holding Aslton's hand, the Govenor prayed aloud while every head in the room was bowed and every eye streamed with toara. And thus without a shudder, with hardly a moan, his face peaceful and half smiling bc died. In his bed, his wife and friends about him, prayers going to dod with his fleeting soul, and only thc ghastly blue-red hole in his temple to tell tba? tho old Alston destiny had overtaken him and that he had lett thc old Alston heritage to his son. STAxr. ALONE.-Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder is free from all substances detrimental to health. In these respects it rt and* alone. Who can tell how many invalids and tender children havo fallen victims to the dangerous adulteration* practiced upon food? Obtain pure ar ticles only. THE TnuTH.-In thc whole United tales Ibero is not a flavoring extract ihat is so valuable, so positive, so effect ual in pi.(docing the most delicious, de sirable, and delicate flavored cakes, pastry, icc cream, etc., as Dr. Price's justly celebrated Spo.inl Flavoring Ex tracts. Radical False Pr?teuses. In order to show "ihe true inward ness" of the Republican. revolutionists, w ho now ito diligently distuih the public peace by crying "revolution" at the heils of a Democratic majority of both hot'sea of Congress, we extract from the lie'?' York World a recitation of thc proceeJ- ? ings of the session of 1*72, when the He publicans had a majority in both houses. Here are the extraordinary scenes which occurred on .lune the J!th, 1?72. This was the last day of one of the cast-iron sessions of Cirant and Blaine, immediate ly preceding the second Grant Presiden tial campaign, the new tenn beginning on the 4th bf March, 1873 : "A sundry civil ~i>propriation bill had been passed by i!io liouse of Representa tives several weeks previously which had duly reached the Senate, where tho lint of Conkling, Chandler, and others, had added the amendatory provisions author izing bayonets at the polls in the South and supervisors and deputy marshals upon election day iii tho North. When this amended bill was returned to the House, which ulotie can originate appro priations, the Democrats resisted the amendments. Tho bill reached tho House on .Saturday morning, June 8, and Mr. Garfield immediately moved that it be relerred to the Committee on Appro priations. Mr. Brooks, of New York, opposed the motion, on thc ground '.hat it would facilitate the passage of the civil appropriation bill with the objectionable amenumeut known as the enforcement act. In reply to a question ny Mr. Eld ridge, Speaker Blaine stated that the bill could not be reached without a two-thirds majority, while it would require only a majority vote to poss it if Mr. Garfield's tactics prevailed. In order to respect the necessity lor the appropriations, Mr. Kerr moved that all thc Senate amend ments, upon appropriations be passed upon by the majority vote, except as to the objectionable amendments, and that these should take their chance of a two thirds vote. Mr. Hoar made the point of order thal the House had no right to adopt such a resoliilicn, which Speaker Blame sustained. "Mr. Beck then offered a resolution which asserted that the objectionable Senate amendment was unconstitutional because inserted in an appropriation bill, and that therefore it be returned to the Senate. Every Republican voted that the course was constitutional. The reso lution of course was lost, and the prece dent stands upon the parliamentary re cord. "il:. Garikld tuen pressed his resolu tion to a vote, but although tho latter stood 07 Republican yeas to 71) Demo cratic nays, thc motion was lost became two-thirds did not favor it. Other busi ness intervened, but when the morning hour expired Mr. Garfield renewed thc conllict. Mr. Garfield moved to proceed tn the business upon the Speaker's table This was a motion that rec.lured only t majority vote, and its object was to lav aside measure aller measure until thc civil appropriation bill was reached mic referred to a conference committee. Im mediately the Democrats commencet dilatory motions, and after six hours hat been wasted with them, Mr. Gariiek made an appeal to thc House from whn he called the dead-lock, and moved ti non-concur in all the Senate amendment and refer them to a committee of cou ference with a recess until Monday morn ing, which was agreed to without i division. Speaker Blaine then appointe. Messrs. Garfield and Palmer, Republi cans, and Niblnck,of Indiana, Democrat as the members of conference. Durinj the 'filibustering' it was repeatedly statei that 'President Craut is going openl into Congress to-day to press this bill foi ward to its passage, and ho is prepared t force it through into a law by au extr session if ho fails to secure its ouactmen to-day.' "What occurred over Sunday wi stated thu next morning by Mr. Kelly, ( Philadelphia, who with Farnsworth, ( Illinois, were the only Republicans wh c posed the arbitrary legislation in que lion. Thc conference committees ha met and, of course with u Republic? majority upon them, had agreed to rt commend the .Senate bill intact. But ii asn inch as the rule had ul ways beeu IL: reports from conference committees we subject to dilatory motions, no dang was apprehended by the Democrats, DI to their surprise it was soou intimuted I thc Speaker that he could hold the repu to be a privileged uuestiou. And accor bigly, when tho House met on Mondi morning, thc Speaker so decided and tl report was received. This brought il Kelly to an attitude of indignant el quenco, and ho said : "I move to recommit the confered report. I make this motion under adc senseof responsibility. I um constrain to make this by a proper sense of se respect. Tho bill bas attained in present state what, st; far RS my cc sciousness is concerned, appears lo ht false pretense, characterized by all I features of that offense which tho law Peunsylvania punishes. On Salurd last the minority of the House, in virt nf parliamentary law and tho usages the House, not by thc weakness of t Republican party or of the members that party, held this bill in their pow ' Take from it one amendment and y may have all thc rest without objecti on our part,' was ??.id. Take from it c provision and you may have your i journmcnt and appropriation. Tb came on this floor a Senator, a merni of tho conference committee, (Cole, California,) and he gavo assurance gentlemen around me that if thc I could go to a conference committee Senate would recede from that ame: ment, lt was known thnt he would chairman of the conference committet this House, and that be disapproved that amendment and had given oj and public nssurancc that hedisappro of it as heartily as any gentleman on other side of Ibo House. Thero liai be, according to parliamentary usr two Democrats on the conference c; initi?e-ono from the House and from the Senate-and there, would, tin fore, it seemed to mc and otliers, be possibility of tho objectionable ame ment being adhered to; and I and ott as radical as I am went not merely v me, but in ad' ..nee of me, to gentlci on the other side and t-aid : 'Tho circi .anees are such as to guarantee thc tv il of this amendment. You car . . deceived.' Nor yet did they yi They hesitated and inquired and did yield until from the Speaker's chair t received thc assurance that the rcpor a conference committee, was subject tx thc dilatory motions that any other r ter was subject to. I bad gono to tl meanwhile and lind given them nssun that il they lost position or powc would co-operate with them in regaii their lost power and their lost rig and I make this motion in redemptic my word. If it brings upon mc cond nation I shall not heed that. "Mr. Gnrlield sait! that ho would speak as to thc merits of tho proposi before the House, except to say thai one regretteil more than he did the that Hie House had been brought ?lend lock on this question. The q timi which lind arisen was far above bill. It was whether tho majority tlie r?jillt, und could insist upon their right, to consider a grout appropriation bill t!ie moment that any minority, bon*-1 over large, raid no to that proposition. ' If not, then they were in thc midst of a parliamentary revolution, out of which there was no legislation ?if any sort pos sible forevermore until that proposition was abandoned. He regarded it as most Unwise and unfortunate that the gentle men on the other side of the House had seen fit to say that unless this amend ment were struck out this great public measure, without which the government could not go on, could not become a law. He would never give way in any form of compromise until that ussu: "Uion was utterly abandoned. He recognized tho right of dilatory motions where a mi? ! nority was being oppressed by any un parliamentary proceedings, but where I the proposition was to proceed according ' to parliamentary law, and where the mi hority said that should not he done, then if tho minority was to prevail there Was the end of parliamentary government, il was a simple, plain denial of the right i of the American people to make laws, speaking through the majority of their j representatives. "Mr. 1'.rooks made thc suggestion that ! the enforcement bill was uuconstitu tional, and was proceeding to establish tl it point by reference to the fourth article of the Constitution, but was in terrupted by Mr. ningham, who had ob tained thc floor, and who insisted upon proceeding with his remarks. "An exciting scene ensued, during which Mr. Bingham had to withdraw offensive words and Speaker Blaine lo apologize, when tho matter was recom mitted to the conference committee. Several hours later Mr. Garfield, from the reconvened conference committee, ! reported an inability to agree and moved a new conference. This was merely a I technical proceeding, but gave the Re publicans a way out of the dilemmas into which the speeches of Messrs. Kelly, Garfield and Bingham had placed them ; and a new conference committee was ostensibly appointed, but it consisted of thc former members of the first commit tee. Meanwhile the sessions of both Senate and House had been prolonged a few hours by joint resolution, and thc Republicans had agreed to take out the enforcement clauses which tho Senate had inserted in the appropriation bill, and the Democrats ngrced to withdraw 'filibustering.' This left merely the Da venport amendments, with a withdrawal from supervisors of the right to arrest without warrants. Upon the new report being presented, Mr. Garfield explained it. He said : "The effect of thc proviso that super visors shall not have the power to make arrest:- was that those officers should stand by and witness any proceedings of tho election and should have the official right to do so, so that if fiauds vere per petrated tho United States government might have witnesses. In answer to a question hy Mr. Brooks, Mr. Garfield stated that the supervisors of election would have nothing to do officially with challenging illegal voters or deciding such challenges or with giving or with holding certificates of election or returns. Mr. Kerr asked Mr. Garfield whether there was anything in the enforcement of the amendment which touched tho matter of tho qualifications of electors. Mr. Garfield replied in the negative and said that there was nothing in it that, could touch or chango thc qualifications of electors aa now provided by law. Mr. Niblock, the Democratic member of the conference committee, made a statement as to tho enforcement amendment. He had declined signing the report solely on the ground of his objection to that amendment as interfering with the Staes. But the compromise reported was he con fessed a mere sketch ol the original Sen ale amendments. The supervisors pro vided for were to be mere official witness to elections with no other power thau to make complaint ii" the election laws were violated. Although he was opposed to thc amendment in any shape he did not feel justified in carryiny on factious op position to it, but waa disposed to let the yote be taken on the proposition. He believed that was the best policy, and he said so frankly to his friends. "Mr. Kerr said that he looked with complete abhorrence on any attempt on the part of tho Federal government to extend its jurisdiction over thc conduct of elections in thc States, as hu thought it a most dangerous innovation in the rightful power and jurisdiction of tho State. Siill tho amendment was so far clipped of its dangerous influence and power ns that these additional super visors, in the language ndopted, should hnve no power or authority to do any thing except it bo in the immediate presence of the election officers, and to witness all their proceedings, including the counting of thc votes and thc making a return thereof. "Mr. Rotter regarded thc amendment as unconstitutional, dangerous and un called for, hut still he did not feel justi fied in resorting further to dilatory mo tions, but would submit to have the vote taken ?nd would record himself, ns he was most ?"?urlily ngaiust it. "Mr. Holman undertook to initiate, dilatory motiins, declaring thu? this was thc most fatal project ever brought be fore Congress and that it was infamous in ita character, He had not, however, enough supporters to order the yeas and nays, only fourteen members voting to order them. "Mr. Garfield moved to suspend the rules and vote immediately on tho con ference report. Agreed to hy 132 to 23. "The conference report itself was then agreed to-yeas, 1U2 ; nays, 70-a party rote. !t only remains to add to these references to history that thc same Gen eral Garfield who in 1872 so strenuously insisted upon retaining amendments to an appropriation bill is the same General Garfield who is now leading the same party on a platform that to repeal those amendments in an appropriation bill is revolutionary." AnofT GOLP.-It ?snow just thirty one years since tho grund discovery of gold was made in California. During that period Ibero has been produced in the Siaies and Territories west of thc Miss issippi River hallion to tho value of ?1, i).S.r),.ri27,'J30. Of this amount nboat $1,081,443,003 has consisted of gold and I $405,0i)4,.*>4G of silver. Besides this j there has been produced to dato in the several Alantic States, something like $80,000,000, the most of it in North Car olina, Virginia and Georgia. If to this bc added tho entire yield of British Col umbia to date $33,000,000, San Francis co receipts from tho Northwest coast of Mexico, $9,000,000, and the product of the Atlantic States $30,000,000, wo havo a total of $2,857,527,03!) produced from the above sources, all but 42,000,000 be ing from mines within thc limits, of the United StnteB. DELIGHTFUL BOUQUETS.-DB. PnicE'.s Concealed Delight, Pet Rose, Hyacinth, Alista Bouquet, Ladies' Favorite, and his other handkerchief perfumes, are truly delightful bouquets. They are cer tainly tho most exquisite scents that can bo imagined-the odors of dainty buds and rich blossoms. What Northern Men Soy of tho South. Thia is a pamphlet of Home sixty-three pages, containing tlie proceedings of tho convention of Northern residents of tho South which assembl?e! at Charlotte on thc loth of January, 187D, at tho invita tion of Mr. Dumont, of Charlotte, who, in a mont admirable and patriotic circu lar, inaugurated the assembling of these Northern settlers to "speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," as to the South, her people, her laws and her resources. The pamphlet also con tains the proceedings of a second con vention held ut Raleigh, on March 1, 187". The South, or rather the old residents of the South, can hut feel grateful for the manifestation of the higli sense of esteem in which tlicv are held by their fellow-citizens from the North, who have como to dwell amongst them. Tho pamphlet contains also many varied and valuable communications of Northern settlers who were unable to attend ihe convention at Charlotte. Truly these communications touching thc relations, political, social and industrial, from every part of the South, should be of au thority amongst good, well-meaning citi zens everywuro in the broad Union. Without knowing positively tho social relations of these Northern residents, we were not prepared to sec a relation of the faets so creditable to our people from all directions. For wc knew that owing to the terrible misrule under which many portions of the South have groaned, there was ?ti certain quarters more ?ir less an tipathy existing to tho live Yankee. That our people should have mastered this desire to inflict the wrongs they were forced to endure, on Northern settlers, is highly creditable no less to the Southern born portion of our communities, than to the good sense and manliness of North ern residents. Wc lind much valuable information in thc pamphlet as to the varied industries now existing in the South as well as thc vast resources awaiting the full advent of progressive free labor. We presume we have to thank our contemporary, the Charlotte Observer, at wdiose steam job print establishment the pamphlet is pub lished, tor the copy kindly furnished us. We have only space this moruiug to give the report of tho committee on reso lutions, consisting of: Rev. Dr. Mattoon, President of Hiddle University, Charlotte, N. C., formerly ol New York. A. J. Curtis, of San Mateo, Fla., form crty os .,?n mih, II. Coykenda.il, of Black's Station, S, C., formerly of Des Moines, Iowa. \V. B. Midduugh, of Danville, Va., formerly of Pennsylvania. H. D. Ingersoll, of Loudsville, Ga. formerly of New York. To the People oj the Several Common irmtth* composing ihe United States oj A mcricti : We, the representatives of Northen settlers in the Southern States, and bein* ourselves immigrants from localities ii thc Northern States lu the respective States following our individual signa tures, in convention assembled, do cal your attention to the following, fecliiij assured that cuni judgment upon tin facts shown will set in now thc current of reason, and action will follow reason ing without prejudice. Wo prefer t make findings specifically and at length and we find : That in the States of our former home there exists an activo prejudice ngaitn the South and its people; that by it un through it thc conditions of the conn tr are largely disquieted ; that it is foment ed and kept alive for ends ulterior to th common weal ; that the real interests ( the nation are kept out of sight in keej ing alive this prejudice. That much < this prejudice, ff not all of it, is du mainly to wrong information concernir1 (.md partial and total ignorance of) tl facts existing in a large portion of tl South. That in tho portions of the South i which wo reside, the right of any mn from no matter where, to express pul iicly as well as privately his opinic upon any subject and of every nature, nowhere and in no manner rcstraine That all laws are well administered ai as truly eulorced against the wrongdo as in any part of any State of tho Unio That nnv man who has so conduct himself at his former home as to win tl regard of honest men and decent peopl by pursuing the same course of life the South, does gair: and keep therega and respect of all people, regardless any question of politics or religious fait and we further find that being a Nort ern man is certainly no disadvantage. That every citizen recognizes that is amenable to the law, and that Im self-government is as much required a encroachments upon these us much t plorcd ns in any State North, East West. We find, too, that persons foisted the selves upon the polity of the South, n by their conduct cast discredit upon 1 Northern name. Those of us who were in tho army thc Union never for a moment protein to think of denying our uniform.or t old cause. Tho Confederate soldier 1 always evinced the true soldier instil in thc grasj) nf those who were bise mies in war. Thnt considering reputed outrages these wcie carefully sifted, it will found that the complainants for liko ? would have sufiercd at the hands of i people under like provocation. ? * * * * * We find that no man is ostracised his opinions or on account of thc lane: ?.:.. '....:!. , bul, as elsewhere, for ms nets mid dishonest failure to meet trusts and obligations. We find, that it is a mistake to trent suspicioi or to ignore thc kindly olliccs of nci borly friendship in all cases extended a stranger, amt thnt sometimes pen have repelled kindness and then c plained of being let alono. We find that thc Southern nativo peels Northern peoplo to have not on politics and other topics different f his, and views with as much contemr. is elsewhere dono any man who true or toadies f;r simple gain. We lind that to the people of theo sections of thc United States thc S< is an unknown land so far as relnti knowledgo nf its soil, its climate, health fulness and its people. That libelled for partisan cuds, and wo pre this document in all conscience honor, to givo honest knowledgo and rcct wrong reports. In a document of this kind we cn give detailed figures of products peri nor tho yield per ton of ores, no: assay value of minerals, nor tho moi: Un i mal range for each point, nor o other special facts, but we, each o invito correspondence and will fur facts and figures regarding our sc localities on application. To tho truth of all this we plcd^j selves and stand upon its truth b; signatures hereto. Here follows tho signatures of r bera of tho convention, from toi. original localities viz. : New Hamps 1 ; Vermont, 1 ; Massachusetts, 6 ; necticut, 1 ; New York, 21; Now Je 9; Pennsylvania, 15; Maryland, 3; trict of Columbia, ;'. ; Ohio, Michi gan, 1 ; Wisconsin, 1 ; Iowa, 2.-Colum bia JicgUlfT. Bill Arp'H Sunday Chat. Its a thrillin timo when a country family have invited their city cousins to visit em, and are fixin up to receive 'cm in a hospitable manner. My wife, ?Mrs. Aro, she were not at home and BO the giris took matters in charge, and for sev eral days thc exciting episode went on. It was like clearing the deck of a man of war for a fight. Tho house has been scoured, and scrubbed, and sand papered. Everything in it has been taken down and put up again, and moved to i\ now place, and I can't find anything now when I want it. Thc old faded carpets have been taken up and healed, and patched all over, and curtailed and put down again. They get smaller and smaller, which they say, is a good way lo wear 'em out without taking cola. Thc furniture has been freshly varnished with kerosene oil ; tho window glass washed on both sides, and tho knives and forks, water buckets, wash pana, and shovel and tongs brightened up. Tho hearths have been painted with spanish brown, tho family portraits dusted cas tors and spoons and napkin rings pol ished as Uno as a jewelry store. I surveyed tho operations from day to day with affectionate interest for it docs me good to see young poeplo work dili gently in a meritorious cause : neverthe less my routine of daily lifo seems to bc somewhat demoralized. On the first-lay our humble dinner was dispensed with and mo and the boys invited to lunch on bread nnd sorghum at a side table. Tho next day wc were allowed to lunch in the back pinzzor for fenr wo would mess up the dining-room, and the next we were confined to the water-shed to keep us from messing up tho pinzzer nnd after that I meekly prepared myself to bo showed out doors on a plank, but we wascut. Ivo been doing some more work on the front yard to surprise Mrs. Arp when she conies, but thcyvo locked thc front door to keep us from tramping through the hall and we have to go aron nd about a hundred yards for a drink of water. This is allcorcect I reckon for theres no malice in it nnd they praise up our terraces so gushingly Ive a'mind to keep on with em down into the pub lic road and cascado that to thc branch. Delicate hints havo been given that it ain't polite to set down to dinner with one's coat eil', ur io drink cotieo out of a saucer, or eat hominy with a knife, or smoko in thc parlor. Tho wash bowl has been turned upsido down to keep us from ::.?ing it. With this side up it holds about a pint and a half, and as I was washing my faco with the tips of my fingers they surveyed mo with looks of unutterable despare. When I raise my workin' boots on tho banister rai! for nu evening rest they wipe it off with a wot rag as soon as I leave. I muscut step on the purty red hearth to make up r. fire or to put a back log on that weighs 50 pounds. Theyve put pillows on about half ns big ns a bnlo of cotton nnd fringed all round liico a pctticont. They aro to stny on in dny-timo and bc taken ofl" at night. Whem Im tired and feel the need of a midday nap that bed waB a comfort, but tho best I can do now ia to sit up in a chair and nod. The dogs don't understand the new system nt all. Old flows has been coming in tho house to the fiio or lying in the pinzzer lor 14 years, and it does seem impossible to break him of it in a sudden though dog matic manner. Iiroom-handlcs and fibb ing poles move cm out at one door, but they slip in at another. Theyl enter an appeal when Mrs. Arn comes home. Im waiting patiently for her advent myself, but am going to conform to the new or der just as long as I can in reason. Shed take care of me and restore my ancient privileges. She never would allow anybody to regulato mc but herself, company or no compnuy. Shes over stayed her time two days trying to decide what to buy with two dollars and a half. Poor thing! I wish she had a hundred. Id loller her about from store to store all tho day long. Then sho wouldnt buy nothing for herself but a nair of specks, and !-hc.'d buy them on the sly, for she dont want it generally understood she has to ujc them. I woko up one night about midnight and discovered her sit ting by the fire willi my glasses on, read ing Molly Brown. Im revell?n now at her delight, when sho sees all the ira [irovements that wo havo made in her ong absence, for it seems like she baa been oft" to Eurone, or Jeruselem, or the Suez Canal. We've turfed all tho ter races with blue grass sod. They run round tho form of a Bnako with two crooks in him but which our poetic girls speak of as Mr. Hogarth's line of beauty. We'vo leveled off another yard for cro kay ground ; she loves to play some times, and it does nie good to seo her throw tho mullet after tho ball when it misses the wicket two or three limes iu succession. She's is a cumin'. Tho flowers arc waiting for her, and tho chickens and cults, nnd tho dogs and cats, and tho children and me. Wo'er all a waiting. BILI. /-.AP. Evolution. In 1824, Daguerre commenced experi menting. In 1839, ho gave to tho world the process of making Daguerreotypes. By patient industry, the arl has evolved into tho perfect pictures of the present. Ko who views tho fast fadi*-? pictures of his ancestors, and compares them with I hi? nlmfnl living ?lf?d li^t'P" ..Iml/iA-ranhq of to-day must acknowledge an advance ment. If an advancement has been made in photography and other sciences, is it asking too much, simply because it cannot bo ocularly demonstrated, that thc doubts and uncertainties of Sir Ast ley Cooper's timo bo se* aside, and an equal improvement granted in the science oi medicine? Must the ubility of the studious and experienced physician be doubted, simply because the negligent and inexperienced fail? Buta few years sine:;, the diseases and weaknesses peculiar tc wemen were regarded as incurable. Now Dr. Plerco's Favorite Prescription is sold under a positive guarantee to cure. Ladies, if afflicted, and you wish to avoid painful examinations and useless local treatment, and employ a medicine that is scientifically prepared; that is chemical ly pure, that in regularly graduated in strength, and that will never disappoint you in its action, use Dr. Pierco's Favor ite Prescription. - On Saturday afternoon a young heifer, owned by Mr. Ryan, gave birth to one red calf and thirty-ono monstrosi ties. Mr. Ryan described the monstrosi ties os about tho siro of large mico. Their heads, legs and bodies resembled thoso of calves, only there was no hair upon them. Tho probable weight of these unnatural animals was from two to three ounces each, Tho red calf is liv ing, whilo the others wara dead when born. Mr. Ryan ia one of our substan tial business men, and has the reputation of being truthful and honest, so thcro is no cause to doubt tho above statements. -Cor. Indianapolis Journal, 1 LEGAL ADVEtTISINQ.-Vlt ar? compelled to require, cub Mn.<o?* /br advertising ordered by Executors, Admit?) ?.tors and other fiduciaries and herewith appe- 1 Dib ratee for the ordinary notle?, which -'.l, only i," ?neerea when tba money cornea with the order z Citation?, two Insertions, - - . 83.0? I-slatc Noller?, three Insertions, - . 2.09 Final Rottlementu. five insertions . - 0.00 TO COnURSl'ON.ORNT8.-lu order to receive attention, communications must bo accompanied VJ the true name and address of the writer. Re jected manuscripts will not be returned, unless ttl? "hereon'*lUtD?* *re fumlalied to repay the postage tar We are not responsible for the views etd opinions of our correspondente. AU communications should be addressed to"Ed itors Intelligencer." and all checks, drafts, money orders, ?c., should bo made payable to the order of E. B. HUB RAY A CO.. Anderson,B.C. A CRUEL FATE. General Slocum on th? Murder of Hr?. Barratt. General H. W. Slocum, one of thc moat distinguished brigade, disvision, corna and grund division commanders of tho war recently delivered a lecture in Brooklyn on events of tho great struggle, during the course of which ho expressed tho opinion, always hold by thc Union, that Mrs. Surratt was a murdered woman. Ile said : I am ceing to speak to you ono word about t\o execution of Mrs. Surratt at the close of tho war, for I think some good lessons can bo learned from tho story of her trial and death. I believe any people situated as we were ought to be cautioned against placing implicit confidence in evidence, given at a timo of high excitement. I could stand here to night and relato to you fifty incidents that would serve to caution everybody against taking evidence against others when tho people were all in a state of intense excitement. There never was a day, thcro never was an hour, that I did not believe Mrs. Surratt was as inno cent a woman as there is in this hall. [Applause.] Sho was tho keeper of a boarding houso in Washington. Sho boarded Wilkes Booth and a half dozen other rebel sympathizers, and sho lind n son, John H. Surratt. Wilkes Booth was guilty of shooting Mr. Lincoln, and this poor woman wns brought to trial in connection with Wilkes Booth, and through tho excitement of the times her neck was brought to tho halter. Uer daughter, a young girl 18 or li) years of age, on thc morning of the execution went to the President's room and beg ged permission to say few words to him on behalf of her mother, and a United States Seuator from our own State, who acted as door tender, repulsed her saying, "No, no ; you cannot go in." Worse than that, meaner than that, tho poor girl threo or four years afterward married a clerk in the Treasury Department. No charges were made against him, but becauso this clerk had married the daughter of Mrs. Surratt ho was dis charged. Lot us brag of our achieve ments, but at the samo timo let us learn to look our faults and errors squarely in tho faco and acknowledge them whom we have cause to." Tho murder of Mrs. Surratt waa tho most cruel and cowardly act ever com mitted in any civilized country. It is a curious and suggestive fact that all who wero rognons.hie for the execution of that innocent woman have felt tho un seen hnnd of tho Great Avenger. Stanton Secretary of War, who was, perhaps, tho worst of tho number, committed suicido in a fit of remorse, although the fact was Bought to bo concealed. Preston King, tho tienator from New York, who repul sed Annie Surratt from tho President's door, In ?ike manner ended his own l?<b by deliberately jumping from a ferry boat in tho North River, at New York, and drowning himself. Andrew Johnson, who signed tue death warrant and des potically suspended the writ of habeas corpus that had been granted by tho court, waa stricken suddenly with death upon his return to tho Senate after he had left the Presidency. Judge Advo cate Holt, who jondueied tho prosecution long ago disappeared from public view ann whether ue?.d or alive nobody knows and nobody cates. And John A. Bing ham, who assisted Holt, was driven from Congress in disgrace as one of tho Credit Mobilier bribe takers, and sought retuge in Japan, where, we believe ho now is -Itochctter (N. Y.) Union. WOMEN VOTERS IN KANSAS.-A Hoosier secs in Kansas many nov.* and unfamiliar sights, but none moro inter esting than that of the ladies voting. They havo ibo privilege of voting in all matters pertaining to schools. As far os my observation goes, tho ladies hero have minds of their own. They neither vote for the "handsomest man" nor tho ono their husbands tell them to vote for, unless the candidate is, in their own opinion, tho proper one. Their votes can not bo bought. They are universally on tbesido of morality and temperance; bonce the workers in tho causeare v... in advocates of equal suffrage. Election daya poss quietly. If there is any drink ing or fighting done, it is not at tho polls. Everything is orderly there not withstanding contrary reports circulated by anti-suffragists in the Eastern States. Candidates keep carriages running for the accommodation of tho ladies, but a great many walk tin and deposit their votes. As tho result, BO far, has been very satisfactory, even to tho uien (tho brutes), it will probably be but a short time until equal sufcrago is granted. Tho gentlemen show their gallantry and faith in tho ability of tho ladies by ap pointing them to office. Tho enrolling clerks of the Legislature are ladies ; also a large proportion of the county super intendents^ who, in every instanco dis charge their duties in a manner that gives universal satisfaction. We have in this city among tho ladies a physician, a printer and numerous clerks, agents and women carrying on business successfully in various ways. One of them is a barber, who supports herself and chil dren comfortably. Ladies aro not so ?denty hero as in Indiana. Perhaps that s the reason they are so woll respected ! and protected. They are scarco enough to bo precious. In proof of which wo often seo advertisements for wives, by some of tho young men who took Gree ley's advice Eoiiio time ago, and now have handsome farms and homes of their own. I noticed in a paper a few days since tho offer of a fine hovaa tn th A per. son who would assist the advertiser in se curing a "good, industrious wife."-Sati na letter to Indianapolis Herald. A BOY'S HARD SUNDAY.-Tho head of a boy about ten years old might have been seen stlckng through a picket fenco on Beaubieu street Sunday evening os a loud "yanhoor" Bingal was given to some ons in the houso. A lad of "there abouts" finally lened the door and came out and as'ied : "Is that yon, Jim? What yer Waul? "I didn't seo yo down where wo was riding on cakes of ico in the ship," re plied tho other. "I know ye didn't. This bas bin tho hardest Sunday I over put ic on earth." "Dad sick ?'* "No, dad'a iu Saginaw, but ma'm got some gold in her front teeth yesterday, and she was bound to go to church to day if it killed her. I had to rnn nil over and borry things fur her, and then stay home and take hoer of sis." ,1ls it r*al gold, Jim V "I gue ? i so, for she went in tho morn ing, thea in the afternoon, 'hen to n lecture, and abo's now gitliu' ready for tho oveniu* sermon, an* practical' on showin' her three front teeth. I'm goin* to run away as soon as grass starts." Ires Press._ ..' - Rowel, the English pedestrian, sailed for homo on tho 1st, accompanied by his attendants. Ao takes back about $19, 000, tho champion bolt, a valuable dia? mond ring from a lady admirer, a dia I mond scarf pin, a gold watch and chain I and other gifts.