Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BT E. B. MUKKAY & CO. VOLUME XVl. -K( . 27. THE EYENTS OF THE TEAR. A Blrd'g-Eye View of South Carolina in 1880. JANUARY. 1. Gen. Grant's reception in Beaufort. 7. Congress reassembled. Capture of a whale in Charleston harbor. Enlarge? ment of the Weekly-Newt. 8. Transfer of Arsenal to H. Ci. C. In? stitute. Commissioners of Charleston Ship Canal appointed. 10. First ripo strawberries in Charles? ton. 12. Laying of corner-stone of Holy Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church, Charleston. 13. First frost of 1880 in Charleston. Municipal election at Newberry and Marion. 19. Mass meeting at Charleston in aid of Irish relief fund. 22. Fire at South Carolina Railroad car-sheds. Suicide of Preston D. Mood at Manning. 24. Water turned into the Meeting street mains, Charleston. 26. End of the long drought in Char? leston . 27. Governor Simpson calls an extra session of the Legislature, the supply Act having been declared invalid by the Supreme Court. 29. Home Insurance Company of Charleston winds up business. 81. Destructive fire at Chester. Meet? ing in Charleston for the revival of the Blue Ridge Railroad project. FEBRUARY. 3. Meetiag of the State Grange at Charleston. 4. Spriug meeting of the South Caro? lina Jockey Club at Charleston. Rob? bery and outrage in Orangeburg County by a band of negroes. 5. Nine negroes accidentally burned to death near Columbia. 6. Gen. M. W. Gary serenaded at Charleston. First session of the Reform? ed Episcopal Convocation in Charleston. 10. Extra session of the Legislature convened. 14. Wm. Parker aod J. F. Martin killed at the house of J. H. Shell, Lau rens County. 18. W. 8. Bates convicted of the mur? der of Stephen Bush at Barn well. 19. Capers S. Bowers convicted of the murder of Marion Sullivan at Barn well. 20. Extra session of the Legislature adjourned 21. Beginning of the King's Mountain Centennial celebration. 26. Reese Co nelly killed at Hampton by A. J. Gill. 28. Close of Revival services under Dr. Inskip, Trinity Church, Charles? ton. 29. Suicide of J. L. Southern at Green . ville. . MARCH. L Louis Kinder lynched at Waterloo for an outrage on a* lady. The Speer man tragedy at Silver street. Wm. Ste? venson, killed at Winnsboro.' Work commenced on the South Jetty iu Char? leston Harbor. 8. Consolidation of the Augusta and Greenwood and Augusta and Knoxville Railroad. 8. Burning of Joyncr's Hotel, Colum? bia. 10. Meeting of the State Democratic Executive Committee. 11. Capture of incendiaries at Green? ville. 16. Destructive fire at Branch ville. 17. Formal opening of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. 20. County Board of Health organized at Walterboro. 21. Heavy frost in Pee Dee section. 28. Easter Sunday. SO. Cold snap in Charleston. Ther? mometer 41 degrees. APRIL. 2. Opening of the Baruwell and Black ville Railroad. 5. Work commenced at E&sley on the Atlantic and French Broad Railroad. Tornado in Edgefield County. 7. Sch?tzenfest at Aiken. 9. Amos Wooten hanged at Bennetts ville for arson. Snow in the eastern sec? tion of the State. 11. Dedication of the new Catholic Church in Charleston. 12. Meeting of State Survivors' Asso? ciation at Charleston. Bloody Affray at Edgefield, (Blaud-Clisby.) Inaugura? tion of the Mayor and Aldermen elect of Columbia. 15. Sale of the Greenville and Colum? bia Railroad. 16. W. S. Bates hanged at Barnwell fur murder. 18. Arrival of excursionists from Cin? cinnati at Charleston. 20. Meeting of the South Carolina Medical Association at Columbia. 22. Alexander Williams hanged at Lexington for murder. 25. George Callabackcr killed in the Lunatic Asylum by another inmate. 26. Sch?tzenfest at Charleston. 27. Republican State Convention at Columbia. 29. Three laborers suffocated iu a fire well, Charleston. Destructive tornado at Columbia. 80. Judge Pressly decide? that impris? onment for the non-payment of the poll tax is unconstitutional. MAY. I. Confederate Monument at Darling? ton unveiled. 5. State Convention of Colored Bap? tists met at Greenville. 9. Dedication of the new Catholic Chutch at Aiken. II. Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor met at Charleston. Formal opening of the new Opera House, Spartanburg. 12. Episcopal Diocesan Convention at Charleston. Water first turnt J into the Reservoir of the Charleston Water-works Company. Election of Professors of the Agricultural College at Columbia. 14. Thomas White executed at Spar? tan bnrg for murder. 20. Meeting of the Presbyterian Gen? eral Assembly at Charleston. 25. ' Attempted duel between Col. De Pass and Col. Cash stopped at Cumden. Miss Lillie Glass burned to death at Cokesbury. 26. First stream of water thrown through the hydrants in Charleston. 28. Organization of the Charleston Amusement Association. 31. Levi Folk committed suicide at Newberry. Killing of Thos. M. Blcase at Edgefield. JUNE. 1. State Democratic Convention, Col? umbia. Nomination of Johnson Hagood for Governor. S. Anti-Duelling Society organized at Camden. First hose reel coutest held in Charleston. 5. W. G. Lawton arrested in Charles? ton for robbing the mail. 7. Sale of the Savannah and Charles? ton Railroad. Sale of Bath Paper Mills. 8. James A. Gar?eid nominated for President by the National Republican Convention at Chicago. 9. Society for the Prevention of Cru? elty to Animals reorganized in Charles? ton. 12. Fire at the Etiwan Phosphate Works. 16. Fireman's Tournament at Colum- j bia. 17. The State Press Association met at Greenville. 20. Bloody affray at Spartanburg; Jos. Vinsen killed by W. H. Burnett. 22. Corner stone of the King's Moun? tain monument laid. Regatta at Char? leston. Meeting of the Natioual Demo? cratic Convention. 24. Gen. \V. S. Hancock nominated for President by the National Democratic Convention. SO. Unveiling of the Confederate monument at Newberry. JULY. I. Defalcation of A. C. Laughlin, ,{BiIls of the Bank of the State) discov? ered. Organization of the Municipal Gas Company, Charleston. 5. W. M. Shannon killed in a duel by E. B. C. Cash. Cyclone at Columbia; portion of the Penitentiary blown down. 6. State Dental Association at Char? leston. First train from Charleston to Wadesboro' over the Cheraw and Sauls | bury Railroad. 7. Hugh Ferguson appointed sheriff of Charleston County. Incendiary burning I of the store of J. W. Peeple3 near Lawtonville. [ 9. Daniel Washington banged at Charleston for murder. II. Escape of convicts from the stock? ade of Cahill & Wise near Charleston. Work commenced on a cotton factory at Rock Hill. 13. Isaac Boston, a colored desperado, shot and killed by a policeman in New? berry. 27. Ground broken for the erection of the Agricultural Hall, Charlestou. 23. Inter-State shooting match at Hendersouville. Grand Division Sous of Temperance met at Columbia. J. T. Robertson's residence at Abbeville de? stroyed by fire. AUGUST. 2. Democratic mass-meeting at Ben? netts vi He. 3. Meeting of State Grange and State Agricultural Society at Darlington, Opening of the State Normal Institute at Spartaoburg. 5. Sixth Regiment Survivors' reunion at Blackville. Lexington Survivors Association. 6. Decisiou in South Carolina Rail? road cases filed. 7. Survivors' reunion at Winnsboro.' 8. C. W. Harrell murdered in Marion County. 9. First bale of new Georgia cotton received at Charleston. 10. W. G. Beck commits suicide at Columbia. 11. Laying of the corner-stone of the Agricultural Building at Charleston. 12. Concert in aid of the German Con? federate Monument, Charleston. Bloody affray in Union County ; Bullock killed by his father. First bale of new crop South Carolina cottoa received in Char? leston. 14. John Warren killed by B. M. Riley at Brunson's. 19. Twelfth Regiment reunion, York ville. 20. Joe McGowan killed at Trenton by-Mobley. Destructive fire in Georgetown. 22. Drowniug of F. P. Elford, Charles? ton. Dorsey aud Pru Grier lynched in Laurens County for an outrage. 26. Inter-State glass ball shooting match at Spartanburg. SEPTEMBER. 1. Meeting of the Republican State Couveution in Columbia. Hon. T. B. Jeter entered upon the office of Governor. Isaac Hall killed at Aiken by Andrew Scott. 4. Steamship Charleston run ashore on Charleston bar. 7. State Democratic campaign opened at Columbia. Senator Tina. F. Bayard speaks. 8. Laying the corner-stone of the new M~. E. Church at Branchville. Survivors of lost steamer Vera Cruz arrived in Charleston. 9. Quaekenbush Flour Mills burned at Charleston. The Mark Lane, first foreign steamship of the cotton season of 1880, sailed from Charleston. 10. The steamer M. S. Allison burned at Charleston. 14. Richland Couuty Democratic pri? maries. 23. Formal opening of the Wagener buildiug, Charleston Water-works trans? ferred to the Charleston Water Company. 24. Democratic primaries in Charles? ton : Convention vs. primary plan. 25. Final decree in tue South Carolina Railroad case filed. 27. Democratic County Convention, Charleston, adopts ibe Convention plan of nominating candidates. Pern Guflin killed at Abbeville byChas. McClung. 28. Greenback Slate Convention at Cheater. L. W. R. Blair nominated for Governor. OCTOBER. 1. Mrs. Fanny Easterling burned to death at Georgetown. 4. Centennial celebration at King's Mountain. The Clyde committee made the first payment of purchase money lor the Greenville and Columbia Railroad under Judge Hudson's order. 7. Laying the corner-stone of the Cowpen's Monument at Spartanburg. Destructive fire at Manning. Jack Oden killed Ly F. Covington in Marlboro' County. 10. Burning of the old Calhoun resi? dence in Pickens County. 13. High School of Charleston reor? ganized. 14. Charleston Couuty Democratic Nominating Convention. Supreme Court decides in favor of Chief Justice Simpson. Radical riot in Aiken. Lu? theran Synod met at Lee3ville. 17. Destructive cottou fire at Commer? cial Wharves, Charleston. 20. W. P. Russell & Co's new rice mill opened in Charleston. 25. Democratic torchlight procession, Charleston. NOVEMBER. 2. Election day. 4. Death of A. R. Laughliu, Incendi? ary fire in Hampton County, Isaac Cot son murdered near Lawtonville. 5. Increase iu capital stock of the Charleston Bagging Factory. 8. The county treasurer of Barn well robbed. 10. State Fair opened in Columbia. 17. William Mattox murdered in Ab? beville County. 21. Rev. W. S. Bowmans farewell ser? mon at Wentworth Street Lutheran Chnrch. 22. First entertainment of the Charles? ton Amusement Association. 23. Meeting of the Legislature. La? dies temperance appeal presented to the City Council of Charleston. 25. Permanent organization of the new Greenville and Columbia Railroad Com? pany. Eph Kelly killed by Major Jeter, Union county. 20. State Baptist Convention at Cain den. 28. Fast mail South established. 30. Governor Hagood inaugurated. DECEMBER. 1. Meeting of Electoral College of So ii.li Ca-oiitia. 2. Opera of Martha lerurmei by Chorleston amateurs, Civil service reform resolution adopted by the South Carolina Legislature. Judge Kershaw re-elected lor the Fifth Circuit. 3. Anti-duelling bill introduced in the Senate. Lyles tragedy at Maybinlon, Union County. 7. Industrial Exhibition of 1SS0 open? ed at Cnarleston. State Grange Patrons of Husbandry met at Charleston. Burn? ing of the Leesville Institute, Leesville, S. C. 8. Race meeting at the Washington course. Lynching of the murderers of Mrs. Thomas Kennedy iu Clarendon county. 9. Walter R. Whildon killed on tho South Carolina Railroad train near Sum merville. 10. Heavy frost in Charleston; mercu? ry 4? below freezing point. 13. The bill to punish the carrying of concealed weapons passed bv the House. 14. Grand Lodge A. F. M. of South Carolina met at Charleston. Contract awarded for building quay of Charleston canal. 15. First National Bank of Charleston reduces its capital stock. Annual Con? ference M. E. Church met at Marion. 1C. Anti-Whiskey bill passes the House. 18. The Democrat newspaper office at Orangeburg destroyed by fire. 19. The Rev. J. J. Mongham ordained to the priesthood in Charleston. The Rev. L. K. Probst elected pastor Wenth worth street Lutheran Church. 20. Comptroller General Coit resigns. Anti-Whiskey bill passes the Senate. Destructive "fire at Bamberg. Henry McFall killed by Charles Ford, Barn well. 21. Meeting of the floating debt creditors of the South Carolina Railroad, Charleston. 22. Gen. John Brattou elected comp troller-geueral by the Legislature. 24. Adjournment of the Legislature. 25. James M. Timmons found dead near Jackson boro.' 27. Frightful accident on the Air Line Railroad; five persons killed. Tea farm selected at Summerville. 29. Centennial parade of Knights Templar, Charleston. Severe Jrost; mercury 19 degrees below freezing point at Charleston. Lease for experimental tea farm signed. 30. Jack Wright, colored, shot and killed at Wedgefield while resisting arrest. Coldest weather known in many years. Lowest temperature recorded in Charleston 9 degrees. 31. Sleet in Charleston. Some Oil and Vinegar. The recent legislation iu South Caro? lina ou the subject of duelling, drinking and concealed weapons has attracted at? tention in every part of the couutry, and few newspapers let the opportunity pass of giving the State a good word or of cracking a joke at our expense. It is in? structive, if it is not always pleasant, to know tho way in which our actions are regarded by our neighbors, and we shall, therefore, give our readers the benefit of the comments which are most peculiar | and striking, whether the papers that publish them are friendly or not. Three newspapers in Hartford come to the front. The Pod (Rep.) has a horri? ble suspicion that the inclusion of razors among the deadly weapons which shall not be carried concealed is intended to disarm the negroes. It naively says : "Of course a shot-gun is not usually concealed about the person any more thau a red shirt, which makes the polit? ical cavalry of that State of service to the Democratic party when elections are pending, and the carrying of that deadly weapou will probably be prohibited in a separate enactment when there shall be no further use for it. We suspect that the present law is only a half-way at? tempt to reform society. It is a prohibi? tion of the razor, the only weapon which tho colored people have been able to secure as a defence in shot-gun warfare. In the old slave times the negroes had only this weapou to use when pursued by hounds, and they came to acceptitas the only righteous weapon they could have to protect themselves. Because of its general use in the South, it is now car? ried by many colored men in the cities of the North, former slaves having mixed with the colored population and made its use the fashion. Though a deadly wea? pon, it is surprising how few deaths re? sult from its employment in a rough-and tumble. One shot-gun at a colored ball or picnic would do more damage than a whole case of razors. For a starting point South Carolina does well, and, if finally razors and shot-guns are laid by, there will be a more agreeable state of things where the palmetto grows." We Bhould like to know who palmed off on the Post that story about toe uses of the razor in slavery time*. The fact is that the negroes had just as many pocket knives as they could buy or bor? row, and were 'not depeudent on razors for any other purpose than shaving. Nor was the razor ever used as a weapon of offence in the South uutil after the late war. We grant that one shot-gun might do more damage than a whole case of razors, but then, you know, a Napo leou, with a double charge of canister, would do more damage than a whole box of shot-guns, and yet cannon arc not mentioned in the law relating to con? cealed weopons. The Courant (Dem.) takes a cheerful riew of the situation. It says: "The South Carolina Legislature, which has just adjourued, gave an exam? ple of wise and progressive legislation. It passed a severe Act against duelling, subjecting a challenger or the acceptor of a challenge to loss of suffrage, to disa? bility to hold any office of honor or profit iu the Stute and to two years' imprison? ment in the Penitentiary, and the slayer in a duel to death for wilful murder. This is good, but it is doubtless in ad? vance of public opinion. The era of good feeling was also marked by a clos? ing speech from a mulatto Senator from Beaufort, in behalt of the Republicans, thauking the Democrats for their impar? tial and generous treatment." The Hartford Times (Dem.) thinks the Anti Duelling law "will go far towards abolishing the silly and wicked practice of duelling?absurdly regarded, in that region, as a highly 'chivalrous' method of settling personal differences." As to the Concealed Weapons law it says: "It is as sorely needed in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, California, &c, ay it is in the South?and it is in the South? and it is greatly needed in all quarters. The custom of permitting men, who in personal affrays draw concealed weapons, to escape the proper consequences of that offence, has for long years led to more murders, in the South and West especial? ly, thau any ouo would readily believe. Carrying concealed weapons is essential? ly a cowardly practice, and severe laws to paufeh it should not only be enacted, but relentlessly enforced. It is a very vicious part of a highly vicious Ameri? can practice, which, originating in the necessities of a rude border life, and strengthened in :he South by the insti tut.ou of negro slavery, and in the West by the preponderance of daring, swag? gering or reckless men, has grown and spread, through all of this boasted nine toenth century, until it has become not only a national reproach, but an unbear? able evil. So far as the South Carolina 'chivalry' arc concerned, they will evi? dently meet with obstacles in the further pursuit of their beloved pastime, if, asia probable, this bill becomes a law." The Boston Advertiser (Hep.) refuses to be comforted. It insists that the whole social and political fabric in the South shall be rebuilt in a day. This is its view: "The South Carolina Legislature is credited with some good work of late, I imposing stringent penalties fur duelling, exempting immigrants into tbe State from taxation for three years, and the like. Now, if the Legislature would in good faith provide some way of punish? ing frauds upon the ballot bos, it would go far to make South Carolina a com? fortable State to live in. But uo emi? grant who is worth having, if ho knows what he is about, will ever choose to set? tle permanently in a State where tissue ballots are treated as a good joke and false counting is considered honest. Siuce tbe November election the Repub? lican Executive Committee of that State have issued a statement of the manner in which they were defrauded. Such a statement, or rather such a state of so? ciety as it reveals, will keep more people out of the State than exemption from taxation would call in for a generation." We assure our Boston friend that every immigrant who is qualified to vote can vote as often in South Carolina as in any other State, aud have his vote counted quite as accurately as in municipal elec? tions at "the Hub." Irregularities at elections in the South are the conse? quence of fear of negro rule, and against that rule immigrants are a protection. We should be glad to have immigrants who could legally vote twice, and be counted four times. The Quaker City is represented on our list by the Record (Rep.) and the Times (Ind.) The former admits that wo are getting on, but is fearful lest its readers should believe that the millenium has come in South Carolina. So it says: "South Carolina is for going ahead in the line of Northern precedents. The Anti-Whiskey bill recently referred to in these columns has passed both houses of the Legislature, and is now a law. The sale of all kinds of intoxicating liquors, including malt liquors and wines, is abso? lutely prohibited outside of the incorpo? rated cities, towns and villages. When it is considered that the points thus ex? cepted are exceedingly few in compari? son with similar municipalities at the North, the widespread extent and conse? quent harshness of the prohibition will be perceived. If the new statute is rig? idly enforced it will operate as a very effectual blockade upon the rural dram drinkers. The Legislature of the same State has also passed an Act to punish the carrying about the person of con? cealed deadly weapons. Among the weapons enumerated are pistols, dirks, daggers, slung shots, metal knuckles and razors. It must not be taken for granted from all this that the millenium is about to be instituted in South Carolina, for it is ouc thing to make laws and another and a harder thing to enforce them." From the Times comes the admission that "the world is moving" (which is a gratifying fact) and that South Carolina "is moving with it," (which is another gratifying fact,) and that we really are makiug substantial and liberal progress. Thus: "There is substantial and liberal pro? gress in South Carolina. Her State ad? ministration that cost three millions or more under former carpet-bag rule now costs about cnc-tcnlh of that amount, and twelve hundred colored teachers are now teaching colored schools at the cost of the State. A stringent license law has just been enacted prohibiting tbe sale of liquors outside of incorporated cities and towns; another imposes severe pen? alties for carrying concealed weapons; another inflicts the severest penalties upon the duellist; another offers special exemption from taxes to actual settlers, and a law of a former session exempts factories started in the Slate from all taxation for-tcn years. The world moves, and the Palmetto State is moving with it." As might be expected, the New York Tribune sneers at the good work, aud hints that it is discountenanced by the people. This is what it says: "A great moral revival is going on in South Carolina. The Legislature is tus? sling with the evils of dram-drinking, duelling aud carrying concealed weapons, all at once. Perhaps it is too much to expect that it will take hold of bull? dozing and ballot box-stuffing. Old fashioned South Carolinians are already accusing it of shaking the pillars of so? ciety." The Chicago Time* (Ind.) is disposed to be facetious about the razor clause. It says: "It is true, as every barber will testify, that razors are 'usually used for tbe iu? fiiction of personal injury ;' but whether they are deadly weapons or not depends somewhat on circumstances. They are often so in the South, it is well known, and the South Carolina Legislature may have done well in including them in the law for tbe special benefit of the colored population. But it will be difficult in practice to decide when a razor is a 'deadly weapon' and when it is a legal instrument of torture." The Nation is cynical and cold blooded, as usual, and is conspicuously inaccurate, beside*, in speaking of South Carolina aud Mississippi as standing in the same scale as Albania and Corsica. Lawless? ness ia incidental in the South; in the countries the Nation names it is the rule. Crime is punished here; it is not pun? ished there. Trade aud agriculture flourish here; they are dead and dying there. We fear that the Nation is more intent on saying something smart than in sticking to the facts. Nothing is to be gained by speakiug of Southerners who violate the law as "brigands" or "assassins" while men in the North and West who commit worse crimes, and more of them, attract no attention and pass unnoticed. When the Nation treats the people in the South as it treats the people in ks own neighborhood, we shall be satisfied. The Nation says : "The South Carolina Legislature has been doing some excellent work. One of its Acts provides very stringent penal tics for duelling, which will be very effec? tive it juries can he got to enforce them. Another exempts immigrants from taxa? tion for three years after their arrival. We would recommend, however, in addi? tion to this, and as a supplement to it, tbe provision of a good pension for all persons maimed in personal difficulties,' and aid for their wives or children or aged aud infirm parents, in case of their death. Jf a community enjoys or toler? ates savage fights on its stieeis and high? ways, it ought in common decency to pay something for the lun. If it expects men on pain of disgrace to cut aud shoot those who offend them, it ought to pro? vide for the di.-abled and for the families of ibe fallen, just as it provii.es lor the wounded aud the families of the slain whom it forces into the army iu time of war. In shooting and stabbing, South Carolina and Misrissippi now stand iu the same scalo as Albania aud Corsica. Montenegro and Sicily have, we believe, risen above theiv in self-restraint and rest eel for law. The Albanian, however, has the advantage in manliness, as he carries his weapons in a large belt on his stomach, in full view of everybody, so that any one who does not care for dis? cussion with him can keep out of his way. In South Carolina and Mississippi, on the other hand, one may any day get into a dispute with a gentleman who in dress and other externals has the air of a minister of the Gospel, but has con? cealed in his pockets behind his back the full outfit of a brigand and assassin of the worst type." The South Carolina Legislature value the good opinion of the people of other States, as a matter of course, but they did not try to curry favor with anybody. Seeing that evils existed which might be reached by law they grappled with them, and if they do not succeed in their aims, at the first effort, they will try again. One thing is certain. No one in South Carolina will mock at Northern reform? ers in the way that so many of them mock at us. Whenever we see them honestly striving to correct abuses and repress crime we give them hearty sup? port and sympathy. This is a more American way of feeling and acting, we fancy, than that which is pursued by papers of the class at the head of which the Kation stands.?Charleston News and Courier. TERRIBLE WORK OF THE FLAMES. A Human Holocaust in New York?Nino Persons Burned to Death In Madison Street. At 8.15, on the morning of the 4th instant, a fire broke out in a tenement house in the rear of James Doyle's liquor store, at Madison street, in New York, in which nine persons perished. It started at the bottom of the stairs that furnished the only mode of exit for the tenements of the five story building, barring outside fire escapes, and iu less than five minutes swept through the stairway to the roof, cutting off the escape of a score of per? sons. The suddenly imperilled tenants made a rush for the roof, but the scuttle was firmly hooked and would nut yield. The ascending flames drove them back in their rooms and a scene of the wildest confusion ensued. Men aud women threw their children from 'be windows and jumped after them through the flamc3 that swept across the yard and caught their clothing. When the firemen mas? tered the raging element, the dead bodies of nine persons who had been burned were taken out. Several were injured in making their escape aud were sent to Chambers Street Hospital. The scene of the dreadful holocaust, the like of which has not occurred in New York since the tenement house fire in Common street more than a year ago, aud the dreadful Turner Hall calamity about the same time, is approached through a narrow alley, hardly wide enough to allow the passage of a portly man, between two tall tenements, No. 35 aud 33 Madison street. In front of No. 35 is James Doyle's liquor store. Its back door opens directly upon the nar? row hallway iu the rear tenement, where a start was given to this morning's fire. Plumbers were busy at the foot of the stairs thawing out Irozen water pipes, and for this purpose used gasoline apparatus. By some means it was upset and the in? flammable material ran out. There was a blinding flash as of an explosion, that blew in the door of the saloon, and in an instant black smoke welled up the long stairway, impelled by the draught setting towards" the open windows in the top story. The fire finding \ent through the open doors aud windows of the untenan? ted ground floor of the house, had seized upon the shutters, window frames and wooden floors of the balconies outside, licking them up like so much tissue paper and reaching upward toward the floors, where frightened men and women hud? dled together, afraid to venture out upon the fireescape that seemed to lead into the very jaws of death. Eight families occupied the house, two on each floor. On the second floor the Egans aud Mul doons had the first alarm and escaped through the windows. Mrs. Mary Egan, widow, aud her four grown children, Margaret, Thomas, Joseph and John, reached the ground in safety by a quick jump. Mrs. Muldoon, who is over eighty 'years old, was less fortunate, seizing her two grand children, Annie, aged 10; and Kate, aged 7; she sprang from the fire escape, but in the fall sprained or broke her leg, aud she crawled away with diffi? culty. On the floor above, Mr. Egan, who lived alone, escaped with his neighbors. Tho McKana family likewise by jump? ing; James, aged 9; Hugh, aged 4, and baby; were thrown through the window by Charles, their eldest brother, a lad of 15. The mother, Mrs. Kana, was sweep? ing iu the yard when the lire broke out; she rushed to the stairway, but was met by a solid sheet of flame aud realizing the danger of her children, roused them by shouting before they knew of the approach of the deadly visitor. "Jump, Charles, and throw them down," the the agon'?.ed mother cried, and stretched out her arms to receive them, as three little heads looked over the window sill beside their brother. The lad measured the distance with his eyes. It was more than twenty feet, and he shrank from the venture with a dread of instant death. But the smoke was already filling the room and pouring through the window. The children now cried aud stretched their bands towards their mother. The baby's call, "Mama! Mama!" was heard above the roar of the fire aud clamor of the streets. The mother cried . "Charlie, for God's sake, jump I" and the boy flung the baby into her arms. The other chil? dren followed?himself leaping last, all reachiug the ground in satety. Ou the fourth floor lived the Cassidy family and the Egaus, another family but of the sauie name as those on the first floor, aud in the filth aud topmost story Mrs. Ellen Sheridan was at breakfast with her lour children. The men, as in all the other latnilies, had gone to their work. At the first alarm Mrs. Sheridan ran to the door, and, seeing the hallway effectually block? ed, turned to the window. The flames there met her also, and in despair she rushed for the scuttle on the roof. It was firmly hooked, and her strength, desperate as she was, did not suffice to open. Returning to her room she closed the door on the advancing fire, but too late?the rooms were filletl with smoke, growing more dense every moment, in which the woman and 'her children groped about, vainly seeking the window. They were found dead, evidently'choked before the flames reached them. The Cassidy family had attempted to escape by the roof, also, and failing had reached the wiudows and flung themselves out? only two of them, Charles and Thomas, boys of six and eight years, were left. They were suffocated, and when found their clothes were burned. Of the Egan family all were saved. A little girl of two years escaped by throwing herself into the yard, but Mary Egan was badly injured in the lall and was taken to the hospital. The whole was over in less time by far ihan it takes to tell it. The yard was filled with writhing bodies of scorched and injured women, aud police and firemen quickly removed these, and made heroic efforts to gain the upper floors, whence issued cries of those yet imprisoned. They were beaten back each time. Officer Thomas Barrett reached the second floor on a fire-escape and assisted in the rescue of two chil? dren, before he himself was compelled to jump for bis life. In .half an hour al! was over. The house stood scorched, blackened and dripping from roof to | cellar with torreuts of water that had I flooded it. The damage to the house was ! estimated at $3,000. The building is the property of Mrs. Eagan, a wealthy resi? dent of an up-town street, and was a fair type of hundreds of structures in New York, in which the poor are huddled without sufficient means of escape in case of fire. Another victim of the fire was found this afternoon in the person of a babe of Mrs. Cassidy. The little one was clasped to its mother's breast, wrapped in a blanket. The ten bodies were placed iu coffins and removed from the station house to the Morgue. Timothy Harring? ton, one of the plumbers, through whose carelessness it is charged the fire had its origin, when questioned by Corouer HeirmaD, explained that he was using a gasoline lamp to thaw out the pipes. With fiim was a boy named McGloan, a green hand, who had worked for him only since the previous day. He held the lamp, the contents of which were exceedingly inflammable. He had been warned several times, but heedlessly tipped the lamp and some of the oil ran out. It flashed at once. Iu his flight, Harrington's hands were burned. The boy, McGloan, disappeared. The police are looking for him, and at the order of Coroner Sherman, took Harrington to the House of Detention, where he will be held as a witness pending inquiry. His employer, Mr. Patten, was taken to the station by a policeman at two o'clock and examined by the Corouer. An in? quest will be held next week. PltOURESS IX THE SOUTH. The Views of a Philadelphia Journalist After Observation. Col. A. K. McClure.of the Philadelphia Times, Ind., has receutly traveled through the South op a professional tour of in? spection, and thus narrates his impres? sions : "Prosperity South means prosperity North, and the South ia prospering now as she never prospered before. Her crops are the largest in ali her history, and she is beginning to quiver with new life and energy, social, political and in? dustrial. "The 'Old south/"' Mr Mc Clure remarked, "was described by Sena? tor Chestnut, of South Carolina, in a memorable speech in the. Senate before the war, in which he said : "There are two classes in the South. Those who rule, who have made her il? lustrious in Statesmanship, aud the servile classes, who have made her prosperous beyond anything in the world, while you of the North," he added, "are made up of close-fisted farmers, greasy mechanics and mercenary traders." "That," said Colonel McClure, "was the old South. Seuator Chestnut's pic? ture was accurately painted, true to the life." "As a companion picture Lo the one painted by Mr. Chestnut, we have it in the equally forcible, clear cut and elo? quent words of General Joe Brown. 'The world,' he says substantially, 'moves, and we must move with it. La? bor is wealth.'" "That," Mr. McClure went on to say, "is the policy of the South to-day. The old ruling classes have become workers; the old sei vile classes are working belter than they worked in the days of slavery, aud the 'close fisted farmers and the greasy mechanics' of tbe North and East and West are everywhere welcomed. This is the great social and industrial revolution which the late war accom? plished. In th days when the planter was king the South had no need for these classes. And they did not go there. The civilization amid which they grew up was the very converse of the civiliza? tion then in tbe South. In the one section labor was honorable, iu the other it was dishonorable. To be a workmau was to be a serf. All this has been changed. The pursuit of commerce and trade which in the past carried a so? cial stigma with it, is now the pathway to distinction. In fact the South is en? deavoring to convert itself as rapidly as possible into a nation of mercenary tra? ders, close-fisted farmers and greasy toechanics. The la'.tle aud clatter of the factory are beginning to be heard all over the South. The South to-day seems to me to present the most magnificent field for industry and investment in the world. She has raised 500,000,000 bales of cotton, this year, and there can be no doubt that the annual production, so far from diminishing, will grow every year larger and larger. The great problem before her now is to convert it into the manufactured article instead of sending the raw material a thousand miles to be made in cloth. That problem she is working out and with the most profitable results. It is almost impossible to pic ture the prosperity of the South when that day shall come. She will be richer than ever India was. Just consider the advantages she possesses. The climate can not be surpassed. Labor is cheaper, and, owing to her climatic superiority, it always must be cheaper in the South than in the North. Then there are her unrivalled water facilities. The streams that now run idly to the sea are capable of running all the spindles of New Eng? land and of Old Euglaud from one end of the yeai to the other without a single in? terruption. In ten years, I firmly be- | lieve, the South will convert at her own j doors one half her cotton crop iuto cloth, and in a quarter of a century she will be j the greatest manufacturing centre in the world in this particular line. The prcs- j eat condition of affairs is an anomaly; it j is against all the laws of trade, and it is impossible that it should last. Capital i always seeks the most profitable field in which it can operate?the field in which I it can find the largest returns. But | except in some rare ioatances theie is no oppression of the black man in the South to-day. He is paid fair wages and he \ has all the work he cares to do. His j work, however, is altogether iu the field.: He is not a success?at least the present j generation is not a success?in the facto ry. He has not the steady application j that is needed around machinery. The next generation may be better in this re? spect, but I have no hope for the present one. Hence it is that in nearly all the! Southern factories the persons employed j are white. It is a curious fact that the j abolition of slavery has had as great a ! beneficial effect upon the 'poor whites' as ! it has had upon the blacks. Their con? dition has improved wonderfully, and iu a few years they promise to become what white men everywhere ought tobe?en? lightened, intelligent and self-respecting. There is, however, one great evil so far as the negto is concerned, and it seems i almost impossible to fiud a way to remedy or remove it. The negro is mercilessly cheated by a class of people who, as a rule, have gone down there from the North?I mean the small traders who make advances in provisions, clothing, seed, liquors, tobacco, &c, while the crops are ripening.'' "The negro, politically, is on the look? out for himself. In a national election he is a Republican, but as soon as he gets a mule and a bale of cotton he wants to keep them, and he has seen from bitter experience that the way to lose them, to have them stolen from him [ is to restore negro ascendancy in the management of Southern Stale politics. He does not want to be robbed, taxed out of existence, and robbery and pillage on the greatest scale ever witnessed is the record that bLck Republican rule in the South has left behind it. As a rule the negro is now free to vote in the South? ern States. Four black Democrats sit in the State Legislature of South Caroli? na from the City of Charleston. Has New York or Pennsylvania ever done as much for their colored population ? There are black policemen in New Or? leans swinging their clubs around the beads of the ex-planters and slave own? ers of Louisiana moro frequently than they (the ex-planters) would perhaps care to tell. I never saw a a colored policeman in New York. Its Republi? can Legislature, which regulates the police force ofthat city, has never provi? ded for the appointment of a colored policemen there, and I feel certain that if Mr. Stokley, Republican Mayor of Republican Philadelphia, were to attempt to place one on Chestnut street there would be a good sized rebellion in the party ranks. That there are some dis? tricts in the South where a different or? der of things prevails I admit?as, for instance, in some parts of Mississippi? but, as a rule, the negro in the South to? day is as free, and a good deal freer, as we saw in the late election, to vote pret? ty much as he pleases, as they are in Pennsylvania. And he rotes for his own interests?first, last and all the time. Negro rule and white Republican rule mean to him plunder, a war of races, unrest, strife and the suspennion of nearly all industry. Those who have some little property or a few hundred dollars in bank do not want to have it stolen from them, and they vote for those who they know will protect it." "The way to make the South Repub? lican is to do it without their knowing it. Let Garfield give it decent, respectable officials?I do "not care, and the South does not care, whether they be black or white, Republicans or Democrats?and he will have taken the first great step in this direction. All that they want in the South is honest, fair government. The South wants her affairs, Federal and State to be honestly administered. If General Garfield will do all he can in this direc? tion, he will insensibly win supporters for his administration there, and if ever ho should get into a conflict with the ex? treme Radical wing or any other party, they will sustain and hold up his hands." A New Year's Eve Tragedy. A correspondent of the Charleston tVewj ami Courier, writing frcm Florence, S. C, under date of December 31, say3: On last Saturday night a traveller pre? sented himself at Schroeder's Hotel at this place and called for lodgings, with the request that he should not be called up in the morning for breakfast, as he was very tired and wanted sleep. He was evidently a German Jew, aged be? tween 45 and 50 years, of low stature, dark hair, gray whiskers, small hands and feet; wore dark business suit of clothes, low shoes, cloth leggins, gray woolen socks, and stiff brim "black felt hat. He came on the train from Charles? ton ; was seen at the depot in that city and on the traiu by the stewardess. He told the night porter of Schroeder's that he had not slept for four nights aud wanted a late breakfast. He was called by the hall-boy at 10 a. m. for breakfast, but refused to get up or eat, and said he wanted to sleep until dinner. He was called up by the same boy at dinner, and again refused to get up, but told the boy to call him at G o'clock p. m. for supper. The proprietor of the hotel saw him about 6 o'clock p. m., and was told that he wanted to sleep, that he could not eat, but that he (Mr. S.) ;ould send him a cup of coffee, which was sent. He then gave the boy twenty-live cents to get him some whiskey, and told him that he had been on an awful drunk for three or four days and wauted to sleep. The porter tried to awaken him on Wednes? day morning at 2 o'clock, but could not get in the room. The porter again tried to enter the room about 10 o'clock a. m. Wednesday morning and again called at 11 o'clock, but did not report it to the proprietor until about half-past 1 o'clock, when the proprietor was informed by him that the man was standing in a corner of the room dead. An entrance was effected through the window, and the horrible reality con? firmed, for the poor man had hung him? self, as stated, with a handkerchief to a wooden peg about Gl feet from the floor. There were no contortions of the body or limbs, and his limbs were not confined. The nearly filled flask of whiskey was on tho mantlcpiece withiu reach of the corpse. Mr. S. cut the handkerchief and had the body put on the bed, but too late to restore life. Au inquest was held yesterday after- , noon, and the jury found in the pockets I of the unknown man two watches?one | a ladies' gold hunting case made by Ray-1 mond, at Lode; the other a silver hunt? ing case. There was also found in his pockets two dollars and thirty-five cents, some rosin, a blank book with several leaves erased, and a small red leather pockelbook. The corpse was buried to? day by the town. There waH no mark or name ou any of his clothes?not a line j of writing c letters to trace who he was, but several gentlemen who saw the corpse said they thought he was a rosin dealer by the name of Fulcher. A Happy Country fob Children*. ?"I never saw the people take so much delight hi their children," writes Miss Bird in her new book on the Japanese, "carrying them about or holding their hands in walking, watching and entering into their games, supplying them con? stantly with toys, taking them to picnics and festivals, and never being content to be without them. Both fathers and mothers take a pride in their children. It is most amusing, about six every morning, to sec twelve or fourteen men sitting on a low wall, each with a child or two in his arms, fondling and playing with it, and showing off its physique and intelligence. At night, after the houses are shut up, looking through the long fringe of rope or rattan which conceals tho sliding door, you see the naked father bending his ugly, kindly faco over a gentlo-looking baby; and the mother, who more often than not has dropped the kimono frcm her shoulders, enfolding two children destitute of clothing in her arms. The children, though for our ideas too gentle and formal, are very pre? possessing in looks and behavior. They are little men and women, rather thau children, and their old fashioned appear? ance is aided by their dress, which is tho same as that of adults," The Liquor Law. As Act to further regulate the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors in this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: Section* 1. That from aud after the passage of this Act, no license for the sale of spirituous or intoxicating liquors shall be granted in South Carolina out? side of the incorporated cities, towns and viiliagea of this State, and it shall be unlawful for any person or persons tosell such liquors without a license so to do. Sec. 2. No license for the sale of in? toxicating liquors shall be grauted by any municipal authorities in any city, town, or village in this State, except upon the payment by the person applying for the same to the treasurer of the ccunty in which such city, town or villiage is situ? ated, the sum of one hundred dollars, in addition to the licence charged by such city, town or village, for the use of such county, to he applied to the ordinary ex? penses of the county : Provided, that all licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors granted within the limits of the City of Charleston the said sum of one hundred dollars shall be paid by the parties obtaining such "licenses to the treasurer of the said City of Charleston, for the uac of the said city, instead of to the treasurer of the County of Charleston ; Provided, however, that the amount now charged by the said City Council of Charleston for a license for the sale of intoxicating liquors shall not be reduced in consequence of the foregoing provis sion, but that the aggregate of the license fees charged under this Act, and uuder the ordinances of said city for the sale of intoxicating liquors within the limits of the said city shall not at any time be less then two hundred dollars. Sec 3. That hereafter the sale of all wines, fruit prepared with spirituous liquors, bitters or other beverages of which spirituous liquors form an ingredi? ent, be, and the same is hereby, prohibi? ted within the limits of this State, except in the incorporate limits of cities, towns and villages, where they shall only be sold under the same term as intoxicating liquors as provided for in Section 2 hereof. sec. 4. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum of not less than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned for a term of not less than six months, or both lined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the Court trying the case. Sec. 5. This Act shall not take effect as to any licenses already granted in any county, city, town or village, uutil such licenses now granted shall expire. Sec 5. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to authorize the issuiug of any license for the sale of intoxicating liquors, in any city, town or villiage, within this State, where the sale of such liquors is now or may hereafter be prohibited, either under Act of the Gen? eral Assembly or by ordinance of the re? spective municipal authorities of said city, town or village. The Auti-Duclling Lair. Ax Act to amend Chapter CXXVIII of the General Statutes, entitled "Of Of? fences against the Person," to declare the Law in regard to Homicide in Duelling and to provide for the pun? ishment of the same. Whereas, great uncertainty has here? tofore existed in this State in the admin? istration of the law in regard to duelling; and whereas, it is therefore proper and expedient that the law in regard to the same should be plainly declared, that it may be known in the future : Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Caroliua, now met and sitting in General Assembly, aud by the authority of the same: Section 1. That Section seven (7) of the one hundred and twenty-eighth Chapter of the General Statutes, entitled "Of offences against the pcrsou," be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: "Section 7. Whoever shall challenge another to fight at sword, pistol, rapies, or any other deadly weap? on, or who shall accept any such chal? lenge, shall for every such offence, on conviction thereof, be deprived of the right of suffrage and be disabled forever from holding any office of profit or hon? or in this State, and shall be imprison? ed in the Penitentiary for a term not ex? ceeding two years, at the discretion of the Court. And incase any person shall kill another in any duel with a deadly weapon, or shall inflict a wound or wounds upon any person iu auy duel so as the person or per? sons so wounded shall thereof die within the space of six months the next following, that such person so killing another or so wounding any person or persons whereby such person or persons so wounded shall die as aforesaid, being thereof convicted, shall suffer death as in tbe case of wilful murder." Sec 2. That Section 8 of the said Chapter of the General Statutes be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: "Section 8. Whoever shall willingly or knowingly carry or deliver any such challenge, in writing or verbal? ly, deliver any message-intended or as pur? porting to be such challange, or who shall be present at the fighting of any duel as a second or aid or give coun? tenance thereto, shall, for every such offence, on conviction thereof, be for? ever disabled frcm holding any office of profit or honor in this State, and shall be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for a term not exceeding two years, at the dis? cretion of the Court, and shall be, fined in a sum not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars." Sec 3. That from and after the passr.ge of this Act all members elected to the General Assembly, and all officers now required to take and subscribe the oath perscribed in Art. II. Section 30 of the Constitution of the State, shall in addi tiou thereto, take the following oath, be? fore entering upon the duties of their respective offices, to be administered in like manner as the oath now required : "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I have not, since the first day of January, A. D. 1831, engaged in a duel within or without the State, either as principal or second, or been present thereat as a parly thereto in be? half of cither of the principals in such duel, and that I will not, during the term of office to which I have been elected, (or appointed, as the case may be,) en? gage in a duel as principal, or aid and abet in such a duel as second, or as a party thereto in behalf of either principal or otherwise." To which shall be added in the case of all officers charged with the preservation of the peace, the following: "And I will, to the extent of my ability, enforce the penalties prescribed by law against duel? ling, and will not fail to bring to justice all persons offending against '.he said law that may come within my view or knowledge." sec. 4. That this Act shall not effect indictments now pending for -offences under the law as it now exists, or indict? ments that may be brought for offences committed before the passagoof this Act.