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ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1881. YOLUME XVI.?NO. 29.
THE LAWS OP THE STATE.
Important Acts of the Last General^As
semhlT.
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An Act to amend Section 113 of the
-Code pf Procedure relating to the time
Vof commencing Actions other than for
the Recovery of Eeal Property.
. Beit enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, how met and sitting iu General
Assembly; and by the authority of the
same:
Section!; That Section 113, Chapter
HI, Title H, of the' Code of Procedure
be, and the same is hereby amended by
adding to subdivision 2 of said Section
the following: "An action upon a bond
or other'contract in writing secured by a
mortgage-of real property, bo that said
suo-divisiou with the amendment thereto,
. approved 25th November 1873, shall read
as follows: "Sub-division 2, an action
upon a bond or other contract-in: writing
secured by a mortgage of real property ;
an action upon a sealed instrument, other
than a sealed note and a personal bond:
for the payment of money only, whereof
tho period of limitation snail be the sa'me
as prescribed in the following section. -.
Approved December 24, 1880.
Art Act to.providelor the Approval of |
Bopdsof PpMiC Officers, iu tfaejnatter
of T?fgf?lL&wtffi-** * J -L
B& itiaiacUd by jkhe;i
of Sepre6entaiives..'o|s
Carolina/ nowflfcetf an.
Assembly, 'aad by the
same?- ?
That.every boud to be hereafter given,
by any public officer, for the faithful per?
formance of .has duties, shall previously
to ivS being accepted or recorded, be ex
am bed by the Attorney-General, or by
on,e, of the Solicitors, who shall, if he ap?
prove thereof, certify in writing thereon
that he approves of the form and execu?
tion of tho said boud, without which
certificate no such bond shall hereafter
be accepted.
'J. Approved December 24, 1880.
An Act to extend the operation of an
Act entitled "An Act respecting the
Filling of Vacancies in County Offi?
ces," approved December 20, 1878.
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:
That the operation of the Act entitled
"An A"fc respecting the filling of vacan?
cies in i unty offices," approved Decem?
ber 20,1878, be extended by striking out
the last clause of Section 1 thereof, to
wit, "And in cases of persons appointed,
until the adjournment of the General
^Assembly at the regular session in 1880,"
and by inserting in 1: eu thereof the words
"And in cases of peisons appointed, until
the adjournment of the General Assem?
bly at the regular session next after the
date of such appointment."
Approved December 24,1880.
An Act to regulate the penalty of Bonds
; given by County Commissioners in the
various counties in the State.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives f the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly, and by the authority of the
same:
' Section 1. 'That the penalty of all
bonds hereafter given by County Com?
missioners, heretofore or hereafter elect?
ed, shall be ten thousand ($10,000) dol?
lars, by each Commissioner of Charleston
County, and two thousand (?2,000) dol?
lars by each Commissioner of every other
Connty, except in the County of Horry,
in which the bonds of the County Com?
missioners shall be one thousand ($1,000)
dollars each, and in the County of Colle
ton, in which the bonds of the County
Commissioners shall be two thousand
dollars each.
Sec 2. That all Acts and parte of Acts
inconsistent with this Act be, and the
same are hereby, repealed.
Approved December 11,1880.
An Act to repeal Section 6 of Chapter
LXII, Title XIII, of the General
Statutes and the Acts amendatory
thereof, relating to the Licensing of
Insurance Companies, and to insert in
lieu thereof a new section relating to
the same matter.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting iu General
Assembly, and by the authority of the
same:
Section 1. That Section 6 of Chapter
LXII, Title XIII, of the General Stat?
utes and the several Acts amendatory
thereof be, and the same are hereby, re?
pealed, and the following clause inserted
in lieu of said Section 6 of Chapter
LXn, Title XIII, of tue General Stat?
utes:
"That it shall not be lawful for any
insurance company, not incorporated un?
der the laws of this State, or any agent
of such company, to take risks or trans?
act any business of insurance of this
State, without first obtaining a license
from the Comptroller-General for each
county of this State in which such risks
are taken or such insurance business is
transacted, which license shall expire on
the 31st day of March in each year; and
for every such license the said company
or agent taking out the same shall pay or
cause to be paid into the treasury of the
State the sum of five dollars, the same to
be appropriated for the use and benefit
of the State.
Approved December 24,1880.
An Act to aid and encourage Immi?
gration into this State, by returning
the amount of Taxes paid* by Iinmi
grauts upon all Real Estate purchased
by them, and upon the Capital used in
improvements thereon, except the two
mill School Tax, for a period of five
years, and by authorizing the Depart?
ment of Agriculture to use the Funds
under its control, in its discretion, for
that purpose.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in Gen?
eral Assembly, and by tho authority ofj
the same:
Section 1. That on and after the pas?
sage of this Act, for the purpose of in?
ducing immigration to this btate, any
and all persons who may hereafter
remove into this State for the purpose of
becoming residente thereof and citizens
of the same, and upou satisfactory proof
furnished to the Comptroller-General of
this State of his or their purpose to so
make this State bis or their home, shall
be entitled to receive from the treasury
of the State, annually, a sum equal to
the aggregate amount of State taxes,-less
two mills to be used for school purposes,
which shall be exclusively so applied,
which shall be levied and collected upon
anv and all real estate purchased by said
immigrant of person moving into this
State, in any city, town or county with?
in this State, and used as a residence or in
connection therewith, and upon the capi?
tal which may be invested in the im?
provement and development of said real
estate, not to exceed in value the sum
of $1,500, by the said immigrant or
fixed said person moving into this
State, the said sum of money to be
and determined by the comptroller
general of the State, in accordance with j
the tax returns, and to be paid by the
State treasurer on the warrant of the said
comptroller-general.
Sec.' 2. That it shall be the duty of all
county treasurers and of the treasurers of
all municipal corporations which are by
law authorized to levy and collect taxes,
to pay to the individual or individuals
described in the first section of this Act
a sum of money, annually, equal to the
aggregate amount of county or munici?
pal taxes levied and collected daring any
year upon tbe property or capital
described in the first Section of this
Act.
Sec. 3. That the benefits of this Act
shall extend to the real estate purchased
and the capital invested in the improve
i ment and development of the same des?
ignated in the first Section of this Act for
a period of five years after the purchase
and improvement of said real estate, and
no longer.
? Sec: 4. That the Department of Ag
rfciutfure be, and is hereby, authorized to
use1 so much of the fund now by law
i under the control of that department as
may, in its discretion, be deemed proper
to encourage and aid in the introduction
of intelligent and thrifty immigrants into
this State.
Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect on
and after its passage.
An Act to amend Section of 3 Chap
"; ter LXXXIII of the General Statutes,
relating to Estates in Duwcr and of
Inheritance.
Be it enacied by the Senate aud 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 Section 3, Chapter
LXXXIII of tha General Statutes of the
State of South Carolina, be amended by
inserting between the word "be" and the
word "and" on the fifth line of said sec?
tion the words:
"And in case such wife shall reside
beyond the limits of this State, by going
before any notary public of said State in
which she shall reside," and by adding
at the end of said section the words:
"Provided, That such notary shall affix
to the certificate required in Section 4 of
said chapter his official seal. And pro?
vided, further, That tbe official capacity
of tbe notary public shall be certified to
by tbe clerk of tbe court of record of the
county in which such wife may reside at
the time such renunciation was made."
Sec. 2. That all Acts and parts of Acts
inconsistent with this Act be, and the
same are hereby repealed.
Approved December 24 1880.
An Act to bar the right and claim of
Dower of a Widow who accepts a dis?
tributive share of tbe Personal Estate
of the deceased Husband.
Be it enacted by the Senate and nouse
of Representatives of tbe State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly, and by tbe authority of the
same:
Section 1. That When a husband dies
intestate and its widow accepts her dis?
tributive share in his estate she shall be
barred of her dower in the lands of
which her husband died seized and of all
such as he had aliened.
Sec. 2. That so much of all Acts and
parts of Act as is inconsistent with this
Act be and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved December 24,1880.
An Act to change the time of holding
the Courts of General Sessions and
Common Pleas in the Eighth Judicial
Circuit of the State of South Carolina,
and to further regulate the same.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in Gener?
al Assembly, and by the authority of the
same:
Section 1. That the Circuit Courts of
the Eighth Jndicial Circuit in the said
State shall, from and aller the passage of
this Act, be held in each and every year
as follows:
The Court of General Sessions at Pick
ens for the County of Pickens on the
second Monday in January, tbe first
Monday in June, and the third Monday
in September; and the Court of Common
Pleas for the said county, at the same
place, on the Wednesdays next following
the second Monday in January the
first Monday in June and the third Mon?
day in September.
The Court of General Sessions for the
county of Abbeville, at Abbeville, on the
first Monday after the fourth Monday in
January, the second Monday in June and
the third Monday in October; and the
Court of Common Pleas for said county
at the same place, on the Wednesdays
following the first Monday after the
fourth Monday in January, second
Monday in June, aud the third Monday
in October.
The Court of General Sessions at
Anderson, for the county of Anderson,
on the fourth Monday in February,
the third Monday in June, and the first
Monday in October; and the Court of
Common Pleas for said county at the
same place, on the Wednesdays next
following the fourth Monday in February,
the third Monday in June, and the first
Monday iu October.
The Court of General Sessions at
Walhalla, for the County of Ocouee, on
the second Monday in March, the fourth
Monday in June, and the first Monday
after the fourth Monday in October; and
the Court of Common Pleas for the said
County at the same place, on the Wed?
nesdays next following the seiond Mon?
day in March, the fourth Monday in
June, and tho first Monday after the
fourth Monday in October.
The Court of General Sessions at
Greenville, for the County of Greenville,
on the fourth Monday in March, the first
Monday in July, and she third Monday
after the fourth Monday in October; and
the Court of Common Pleas for the
said County at the same place, on the
Wednesdays next followiug the fourth
Monday in March, the first Monday in
July and the third Monday after the
fourth Monday in October.
Sec. 2. Should tho business before the
Court of General Sessions at any term
be completed before the arrival of the day
"fixed by law for the holding of the Court
of Common Pleas for any county in said
Circuit, the presiding Judge may in hii
discretion, immediately upon the ad?
journment of the Court of General Ses?
sions open the Court of Common Pleas
for said county for the trial of all causes
and the dispatch of all business that
may be pending in said Court; Provided,
however, That no peremptory call of
Docket No. 1 shall be made "until the
arrival of the regular day fixed by law
for the Court of Common Pleas in said
county.
Sec. 3. Jfo civil business requiring a
jury shall be heard at the summer term
of the Court of Commor. Pleas for any
county in said Circuit except in the
County of Greenville.
Sec. 4. That all Acts inconsistent with
this Act be and the same arj he-eb, re?
pealed.
Approved December 24,1830.
A MURDER MOST FOUL.
The Diabolical Crime of two Negroes.
Special Dispatch to the News and Courier.
Prosperity, S. C, January 39.
This whole neighborhood is aroused
and horrified by the murder of Miss
Bessie Werts, on Monday night, near
this place. The crime is without parallel
in its details, and the people here have
been almost wild in their determination
to visit swift punishment on the perpe?
trators. The victim was the daughter of
Mr. William Werts, living two mile3 from
this place.
Miss Bessie left her father's house
on the afternoon of the 17th instant
to visit her brother who lives a mile
distant. Two colored men, named David
Spearman and Sam Fair, who were work?
ing on Mr. Werts's place, saw her leave.
Sam says that Dave told him that he in?
tended to meet her as she returned home
thnt evening and assault her. He said
he told Dave not to doit. They were
ploughing together when this colloquy
took place. Shortly after Mr. Werts
stopped Dave from ploughing and put
him at other work, which was unfortu?
nately, near the path that Miss Bessie
would have to return on. He said Dave
went to the spring which she would have
to rep ass. While there he sang as a signal
for Sam to come to his assistance, but
Sam says he would not go. After supper
he and Dave left Mr. Werts to go to a
neighbor's house. When they reached
the spring he wanted to go tbe path on
which the dead body was afterwards
found. Dave told him not to go that
way as somebody was up there. They
went a short distance and separated.
I understand that Dave confesses to
being behind a pine near the path that
Miss'Werts would return. As she passed
he caught and choked her, and accomplish?
ed his purpose. He 'hen tied her to a
bush and went to Mr. Werts's and attended
to his duties and ate his supper, and then
he and Sam returned together, and after
they had both abused the poor girl, they
killed her. Last night about 1 o'clock
the coroner's court adjourned without a
verdict. Trial Justice A. H. Wheeler
had the prisoners safely placed in the
guardhouse. He and others remaiued
near some time until the crowd partially
dispersed and tho excitement baa abated.
Then feeling they were secure he went
home and left the key with a constable.
Some time after 2 o'clock this morning
the guardhouse was broken open and the
prisoners taken out. Dave was found
dead this morning tied to the pine tree
he had concealed himself behind. Sam
was found at home, with the marks of
four balls, all slight. An immense crowd
of infuriated citizens weut to his house
and brought him back to Prosperity. Mr.
Wheeler, the trial justice, and the jurors
demanded the prisioner, but the crowd
refused to give him up. As the news
spread the crowd increased aud be?
came moro infurated, and rushed over
Justice Wheeler and took Sam to the
suburbs of the town and hanged him.
Both colored and white people participa?
ted in the lynching. Miss Werts was an
amiable and pretty young lady, about 20
years old.
Farther Details of the Dreadful Crime
aad its Punishment.
Correspondence of Columbia Register.
Prosperity, S. 0., January 19.?As
Miss Bettie Wertz was returning home
on the evening of the 17th from her
brother's she was attacked by Dave
Spearman and Sam Fair, colored em?
ployees of Miss Wertz's father, and out?
raged. She was then tied and gagged.
Dave and Sam then went to Mr. Wertz's
and eat supper, afterwards returning to
their victim, again outraging her, and
then choked her to death. Tho body
was then carried about twenty yards and
laid dowu where the fence crossed the
foot path, and left were she was found.
Yesterday morning Trial J us Lice Wneeler
held a Coroner's inquest, at which suspi?
cion rested on the above mentioned par?
ties. Sam confessed that he knew that
the deed was to be done, but claimed
that he was not a participant in the act.
The guilty parties were put in the
fuard house, to be carried to jail to-day.
)uring last night the guard house doors
were forced open and Dave was taken to
the spot where the deed was committed,
and I understand he made a full confes?
sion that he and Sam committed the act.
Dave was then tied to a pine tree and
shot. The infuriated party returned to
the guard house and took Sam out and
shot him ou tbe spot, and left him for
dead.
After daylight the incensed people
searched for the bodies, and found Sam
at his mother's in bed with several bullet
holes in him. He was brought to Pros?
perity and taken about one mile from
town and hung at 1 p. m. The hanging
was participated in by both whites aud
blacks, and about 250 or 300 men were
witnesses.
Everything quiet to-night. The deed
was nearly a year in being planned, ac>
cording to their confessions. Miss Wertz
was highly respected. L.
? The cotton crop in Caldwell County,
N. C, has paid from $25 to $30 per acre.
? The experiment has been success
fully made of growing cork trees in
Georgia.
? A Laporte City, Iowa, man recently
found a good-sized lizard io a plug of
tobacco. The animal was all there ex?
cept the head, which had been bitten off
by the discoverer.
? Rev. J. O. Westrup, missionary of
the Southern Baptist Convention to
Mexico, was recently murderod by the
Indians and Mexicans, somewhere be?
tween Santa Rosa and Monterey.
? A figbt is reported to have occurred
in the Bethany Baptist Church, Pulaski
County, Ky., last Sunday, in which
knives are reported to have beeu used.
One man was fatally cut. The row was
started by the deacons attempting to sit
in the same pews with the ladies whom
they had brought there, which it con?
trary to rule.
? Mr. Cox, of New York, has intro?
duced in the House of Representatives
an apportionment bill, which fixes the
number of Representatives at 201, and
which was referred to the Committee on
the Census. It apportions the Represen?
tatives among the Slates as follows:
Alabama 8, Arkansas 5, California 5,
Colorado 1, Florida 1, Georgia 9, Illinois
10, Indiana 12, Iowa 10, Kansas G, Ken?
tucky 10, Louisiana 6, Maine 4, Mary?
land 0, Massachusetts 11, Michigan 10,
Minnesota 5, Mississippi 7, Missouri 13,
Nebraska 8, Nevada 1, New Hampshire
2, New Jersey 7, New York 31, North
Carolina 8, Ohio 19, Oregon 1, Pennsyl?
vania 26, Rhode Ii' .nd 2, South Curolina
6, Tennesseo 9, Texas 10, Vermont 2,
Virginia 9, West Virginia 4, Wiscon?
sin 8. As comparod with the present
number of members, this bill of Mr. Cox
makes the following losses and gains:
Arkansas, California, Iowa, Michigan,
Mississippi, South Carolina and West
Virginia gain 1 each. Kansas gains 3,
Texas 4, Minnesota and Nebraska gain
2 each, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hamp?
shire, Maine, Indiana, Tennessee, Florida
and Vermont lose 1 each, and New York
loses 2.
Import And Export Statistics.
The summary statement of tho im?
ports and exports of the United States,
for the ten raonlhs ending October 31, is
just out, and is as full of interesting and
significant figures, as has bosn character?
istic of similar statements for the past
year. Nothing published in the course
of the year throws more light on the
tariff question than this summary of sta?
tistics. It is a striking and startling
commentary on the results of our pro?
tective system. Take for example our
cotton manufactures. According to this
summary, wo imported during the ten
months as fellows:
Quautitlcd. Values.
Bleached and unbleached, square
yards. 435,505 3052,269
Printed, painted or oolored. 210,020 944.651
During the same period, we exported
as follows:
Quantifies. Values.
Uucolored cottons, yards. 0,391,278 85,237,527
Colored, yards. 4,483,140 2,314,243
Apparently this is a good showing, but
the fact is, that in this very article of
cottons, in which we ought to lead the
world, we import more than we export,
and during tue ten months in question
our imports of the two manufactures
mentioned above, of which alone we
supply more than we receive, grew while
our exports of prints diminished. The
following comparative table of values
will show the precise figures:
,-Imports.-. ,-Exports.-,
1873. 1880. 1879. 1880.
Uncolored.3763,159 2962,206 ?5,069,254 85,227,527
Colored. 70fl,GC4 944,651 2,885,367 2,tl4,243
Altogether, there is a falliDg off in the
aggregate of the exports, and a material
increase in the aggregate of imports.
The duty on uncolored cottons ranges
from 85 to 48.89 per cent, ad valorem.
The duty on prints is from 35 to 58.09
per cent. The duties probably make the
home market a very profitable one for
the manufacturer. The duty on other
manufactured cottons runs from 20 per
per cent, ad valorem for waste or flocks to
53.95, 59.36 and 62.88 for threads, yarns,
etc.; 73.34 to 76.08 for thread on spools,
and 35 to 63.17 for jeans, denims, etc.
And yet we exported of all these for the
ten months as follows:
1879. 1830.
Exports of above.81071,214 Si,384,028
And on imported.13,010,689 26,413,100
Here is a balance against us, and one
growing enormously, in cottons, of $19,
384,219. There is no duty on raw cotton,
and we imported only $555,942 worth in
the ten months covered by the summary.
Even this was an increase of our imports
over the corresponding ten months of the
Erevioua year. Our exports of cotton,
owever, greatly increased, and, as usual,
as will be shown further on, that increase
was absolutely necessary for the preserva?
tion of the balance of trade in our favor.
The exports of cotton for the ton months
of tho two years were as follows:
1879. 1830.
8ca Island. 8658,074 S945.087
Others.124,C40,C22 106,303,773
We send our unprotected cotton abroad
to be made up into manufactured articles,
which are brought back and sold to our
people in competition with our protected
manufactures.
Iron Is protected from 20 to 105 per
cent., and what has that protection done
for us? We have, in the ten months of
1880, imported iron aud manufactures of
iron.and steel to the rulue of ?58,483,320,
as against $12,485,694 for the correspond?
ing ten months of 1879. During these
two periods our exports have been, re?
spectively, as follows: 1879, $10,535,801;
18S0, $10,415,078.
A comparison of some of the items
which go to make up these totals will bo
interesting. During tho ten mouths of
1879, our export* of fire-arms amounted
to $1,957,022; in 18S0 they fell off to
$1,010,871. Yet, our fire-anns are noted
the world over. In the same periods our
imports of fire-arms increased from $541,
829 to $903,686. Our imports also great?
ly increased in respect to other article* of
iron and steal, as will be seen from the
following table:
1S79. 1S80.
Pig-iron.S3,783,6?6 814^26,033
Bar-iron.- 821.8G0 5,340,724
Itailr'd baiB or rails of Irou 286,882 3,923,044
Eailr'd bars or rails of steel ?8,978 4,285,2.*!
Old and scrap iron. 1,077,314 13,983,333
Other manufactures of Iron
and steel. 2,059,999 5,786,3*5
In 1879 we expo" d of steel rails,
which are protected by a duty of 104.90
per cent., $59,455 worth; in 1880 our ex?
ports fell to $6,118. Our large imports
of these rails are given iu the above table.
Is there any better comment to be made
on the benefits of protection ?
During the two periods under exami?
nation, the ten months ending, respect?
ively, October 31,1879 and 1880, our im?
ports of fi?h inci jaied from $972,743 to
$1,063,777; of manu Pictures of flax from
$14,499.240 to $18,680,558; human hair
from $892,000 to $SU0,000; raw hemp
from $1,950,642 to $3,157,066; raw jute
from $3,324,233 to $4,196,301; paper
from $108,256 to $270,739; silks from
$23,849,073 to $32,340,211; sugar from
$60,484,702 to $81,978,600; wool and
manufactures of wool from ?31,169,372 to
$52,290.215. Our total imoorta iucreased
from $403,532,564 to $602,318,605.
Ou the other hand, our exports of
ricultural implements, fell from $2,244/
852 to $2,365,520, and of wool and man?
ufactures of wool from $300,790 to $231,
691. Our exports of bacon and hams in?
creased from $40,312,337 to $47,803,091;
of fresh beef, from $4,703,997 to $7.093,
417; of cheese, from $9,437,631 to $13,
478,575; wheat, from $144,182,916 to
$147,007,011; Indian corn, from $35,970,
564 to $55,167,040. Our total exports for
these two periods was for 1879, $596,544,
931; and for 1880, $696,846,938.
This is > gain ol $10,302,002 against
an iucrease in imports of $118,7S?,041.
This is certainly not a comfortable show?
ing, aud indicates that the baLance of j
trade is not to be in our favor long, at'
least unless somothing shall be doue to
decrease our imports and moroaae our
eiports. As it is, the balance in our
favor for the ten months of 1880 is $94,
528,328, and this is made up by the gains
In our exportation* of wheat, corn, cot?
ton aud provisions. On our manufac?
tured products we maJce a loss.
? Senator Blake is about to build a
$50,000 residence in Washington.
? One of the most interesting objects
offersd to public inspection at the Sydney
Interuational Exhibition was a dwelling
house exclusively made of paper, and
furnished throughout with articles man?
ufactured from the same material. Walls
roofs, floorings and staircases alike con
sisted of cartonpierre; the carpets and j
curtains, bedsteads, lamps, shcct3 and
counterpane?, towels, bootjacks, bath3,
kitchen utensils, etc., were one and all
preparations of papier-mache, as was tho
very stoves used for heating the rooms,
in which large fires were kept burning
daily, throughout the duration of the ex?
hibition. Several banquets wero given
in the paper house by its owners to tho
commissioners, members of the press,
aud foreigners of distinction. All the
plates and dishes, knives and forks, bot?
tles aud drinking vessels used at tho en?
tertainments were fabricated entirely and
solely of paper. Should these paper
buildings come into vogue they may be
expected to superinduce some striking
changes in the rates of the insurance, a'
present calculated upon a basis of br.ck,
and mortar.?New York Sun.
Whiskey in Congress.
A Washington telegram to the Phila?
delphia Times, describing a disgraceful
scene in House of Representatives on the
11th instant, says:
The simple war of words is nothing in
the lower house of Congress. Billings?
gate is tbe common dialect of bullies and
excited, ill-tempered men in Congress as
well as in the corner groggeries. Men
call each other liars and scoundrels with
more impunity on tb6 floor of the House
because they cannot be hold personally
accountable there or elsewhere. There
was nothing of tho charactor of the
Weaver-Sparks affair to-day. Mr. Scales
simply said that Mr. Blount said so and
so. Mr. Blount said he did not. Mr.
Scales vociferated that ho did, whereat
Blount brought his fist down upon a desk
with a force that made things ring again
and substantially called Mr. Scales a
falsifier. A witty remark from a mem?
ber brought both men to their senses
and broke the impending quarrel in a
ripple of laughter. Thi3 was nothing.
It was the appearance of Mr. Hooker
upon the floor in an exhilarating
frame of mind that carried the day
for disgrace. Mr. Hooker is a flu?
ent and graceful speaker, drunk or
sober. To-day Mr. Hooker was drunk.
The right to get drunk is an inalienable
right guaranteed by the Constitution
to every American citizens, and not for
feited because of being elected to Con?
gress. When a member gets intoxicated
and interferes with tho dispatch of public
business it is another thing. This was
the condition and attitude of Mr. Hooker,
of Mississippi, to-day, during the debate
on the Indian bill. He felt well enough
at 1 o'clock to manage the bill himself.
At 2 he was flowery and persistent. At
8 he occupied the floor most all the time
between drinks, surpassing himself in
rhetoric and confounding the house. At
4 he was maudlin. He offered amend?
ments, made speeches, made points of
order, withdrew amendments, made
speeches, called for divisions and was
wholly beyond expostulation and ridicule.
He moved down to the foot of the maiu
aisle and divided the time between step?
ping on Mr. Chittenden's toes and giving
elaborate instructions to the Chair. Iu
vain tho Chair gently evaded him. In vain
his humiliaUd friends went to him, one
after another, and persuaded him to with?
draw. Hooker was unconscious of the
diegustiug spectacle he was making.
He insisted on being heard on every
point and was wholly unmanageable.
For awhile members were amused.
Then, they gathered around him, like
heedless boys about a drunken man in the
streets, and laughed. Such a sight in
the streets is sickening to most people. On
the floor of Congress, as in this instance,
it was doubly disgusting. This was soon
evident on the faces of members and in a
scarcely suppressed hiss from tbe galleries.
The hilarity on the floor soon gave way
to a painful silence, and various ruses
were adopted to choke Hooker off. It
was not until the committee rose, as it
did while the member from Mississippi
was iu the midst of a maudlin speech,
that he was finally squelched. Thr- he
staggered back to his placo and from
tbeuce entertained his audience with o<:ca
yional whoops and attempts to assist the
Reading Clerk in calling the roll. The
stern frown of Speaker Randall had no
effect upon him. It was the more humil?
iating and disgraceful because the sub?
ject of all this is one of the most courte?
ous and accomplished gentlemen on the
floor. Even while making this painful
exhibition of himself his language was
chaste, his manner graceful and his bear
iug ludicrously courtoous. The House
bore with him patiently, although be was
the cause of extending tho proceedings
over the entire day. Owing to this ob?
struction they failed to reach the funding
bill, as was expected to be done.
Mr. Cannon, of Utah.
Washington, Jan. 11.
I hunted up our much-married Demo?
cratic friend, Hon. Geo. Q. Cannon, Del?
egate from Utah, this evening, to see
him iu regard to tho recent action of
Gov. Eli H. Murray, Governor of that
Territory, in giviug the certificate of
election to the Forty-seventh Congress to
Caaipbeii instead of Cannon.
"What were your respective votes V I
asked.
"He received about 1,300," returned
Mr. C? "while i got over 18,000."
"What was the mats issue. Mr. Cau
non, between you and Campbell during
the canvass 1"
"It was Gentile agahst Mormon all
the time."
"1 see thai Gov. Murray's only point
against giviag you the certificate of elec?
tion was that you are not a naturalized
citizen ; how is that?"
"I came to this country," replied the
gentleman from Utah, "when quite a
boy. I was legally naturalized in open
court, a fact which "I can and have here?
tofore established by secondary evidence,
but the minntes of the court were lost,
but this does not matter,"
"In the Forty-fourth Congress, my op?
ponent, Mr. Baskin, contested my seat,
making the same charge?that I was not
naturalized?likewise that I was too
much married, but, aftor a thorough
hearing, the Committee on Elections
made a '.unanimous report in my favor.
I will have no trouble in laying out Mr.
Campbell in a like style."
"Do you have your four wives in
Washington with you, Mr. Cannon ?" I
asked, and involuntarily ducked my
head for fear of a too emphatic reply,
"or do you leave them at home to take
care of the babies V
"I have generally kept one of them
here during the session," replied the
polygamous statesmau, "but I found it
interfered with the education of my chil?
dren, so I leave them all at home bow."
"What retort was it you made to a
certain loose-jointed Congressman once,
who asked you how many wives you
had r
"I told him," said Mr. Caunon, "that,
unlike many of my brother Congressmen,
I had just exactly enough wives of my
own to keep me from interfering with the
wives of other men," and our Cannon,
who had been held impatiently for sev?
eral minutes, thereupon went off. Mr.
Caunon was born in Liverpool, and is an
editor by profession.?Correspondence
Courier Journal.
? William H. Vandcrbilt'e wealth is
estimated at $120,000,000.
? Ham Dewhara, mulatto boy, living
near Sedalia, Tenu., was recently mur?
dered by his sister, because she didn't
waut him to get married.
? There is nothing mean about Ken?
tucky. She freely gives her great men to
her neighbors. Last Monday Cnllum,
Kentuckian, was iuaugurated for a sec?
ond time aa Governor of Illinois; Tues?
day, Orittenden, Kentuckian, was inau?
gurated Governor of Missouri; Wednes?
day, Churchill, Kentuckiau, was inaugu?
rated Governor of Arkansas ; Hawkins,
Kentuckian, is soon to bo inaugurated
Governor of Tennessee, and Murray
Kentuckian, and Saunders, Kentuckian.
are in the Gubernatorial chairs of Utah
gad Nevada.
A mT,OJ? WAE HISTORY.
Some' Interesting >"otea] of the Operations
Do for* Charleston in May. and July, 18G2,
Diary of Col. Carlos Tracy, of Um. Gist's Staff.
May 17.?Enemy sounding Stono
channel in barges; one fired on from
Goat Island by riflemen and driven off
May 19.?Several of the enemy's gun?
boats attempted to enter Stono Inlet;
one ran around and all put back.
May 20.?Throe gunboats crossed the
bar and entered the Stono River about
10 o'clock a. m. One ran up and anch?
ored a little below "Battery Island/'
commanding the old (river) route from
"Cole's "Island," the 2'enemy thinking
probably to cut off our troops ou Cole's
Island. Lieut.-Colonel Ellison Capers,
Twenty-fourth Regiment South Carolina
Volunteers, commanding on Cole's Is?
land, withdrew his force, (two compa?
nies,) under standing orders, to James
Island by the new (back) and scarcely
completed rottte over. Dixon's Island.
Capt. L. Buist, Palmetto Guard, com?
manding ou Battery Island, withdrew
h:j force, (two companies,) under similar
orders, ^also to James Island. By like
orders the buildings on Colo's and on
Battery Island were fired by our men be?
fore retiring. On appearance of a gun?
boat off mouth of Folly River carronade
on marsh battery, near Folly River,
thrown overboard by those in charge.
Cole's and Battery Island shelled by the
anomy.
May 21.?Six of our 'pickets, of Capt.
Jones' company, Twenty-fourth Regi?
ment South Carolina Volunteers, made
prisoners on Battery Island; expecting,
apparently, the enemy to pass by without
discovering them, they, instead of with?
drawing, hid themselves in the magazine
on the approach of a gunboat up the
Stono. Enemy saw them and landed.
"Legare's," on James Island, shelled this
day by a gunboat slowly going up the I
Stono.
May 25?Gunboats to this time had
been running up the Stono for several
miles every day, shelling both sides of
the river, aud returning in the evening
to Battery Island. Effort to-day of Gen.
Ripley to draw them within effective
reach of guns of "Fort Pemberton"
failed. Gallantry of Capt. Frank Bon
neau and the men of our little floating
battery, stationed for the day in the
creek near Dixon's Island, remarked. A
gunboat which engaged the battery was
driven off in a few miuutes. The battery
was moored to the land. Three gunboats
had been drawn up the river a short dis?
tance by Gen. Ripley'B movements. On
their return, they had passed by alto?
gether, when one came back, apparently
to learn what was the little dark object
across the marshes and the small islands.
Capt. B., who was aboard, had just re?
ceived orders not to fire unless attacked.
Ho had his men ashore under cover.
The gunboat opened on him. Capt. B.
promptly fired his battery (two or three
guns) himself. His men, at the first
sound of the enemy's gun, came bound?
ing to their little float, and soon man?
ning their guns, drove the gunboat away.
May 31.?Gunboats, to this time, run?
ning up the Stono every morning as be?
fore, shelling every one who come in
"Newton Cut" bridge in a buggy, during
this period, were very much startled by
a shell, and tool: to fiight on foot across the
field*. Te-day a few shells thrown from
the Stono towards Secessionville, fell
near the camp of the Twenty-fourth reg?
iment South Carolina Volunteers, aud to
Biig.-Gen. Gist, Capt. James Gist and
Capt. Joseph Glover, of hi? staff, who
were riding out.
June 1 (Sunday.)?A gunboat came
some distance up Folly river, but soon
returning. Reconnoitering, probably.
June 2.?A gunboat came up Folly
river this morning on the flood about 9
a. m., ehelled the battery of Capt. Chi
cbester at Legare's Point, that of Capt.
Warley, close to Secessionville, aud Se?
cessionville itself. This place being then
occupied by the Eutaw battalion, Col.
Charles H. Simonton commanding; the
Charleston battaliou, Col. P. C. Gaillard
commanding; the cavalry companies ot
Capt. W. L. Dish er, and of Captain
McKeiver, and beiug the headquarters of
Gen. R. Gist, commanding on the island.
Our batteries responded vigorously. No
damage was done by the enemy, except
to a horse, which had his leg broken by
a shell that passed through au outhouse
just behind the Gonerars headquarters
and exploded. After firing for about an
hour the enemy withdrew. No damage
up to this time done by the enemy's fir?
ing, except to horses.
Evening.?More than twenty vessels
in sight off. Charleston bar and Stono
Iulet and in Stono River. Enemy re?
ported as beiug on James Island, at the
point nearest Battery Island, and as
having driven in our pickets. Captain
Carlos Tracy, volunteer aid to Geu. Gist,
and Lieut. Winter, Wassamassaw Caval?
ry, fired on while reconnoitering their
position. Geu. Gist and Capt. Tracy
repeatedly fired on same oveuing by ene?
my's advance guard. This firing the
first news in camp of enemy's landing.
June 3.?Last night the enemy and a
small party of our meu lay near each
other all night, at Legare's. Captain
Chichester's guns, ia being withdrawn
from Legare's poijQt during the night,
stuck in the mud. Men engaged in en?
deavoring to extricate them driven off by
the enemy near morning. Col. Ellison
Capers, Twenty-fourth Regimeut South
Carolina Volunteers, with several com?
panies, sent just after daylight to bring
off the guns and to ascertain euetny's
position. Sharp skirmish with the ene?
my at Legare's, in which Col. Capers
drove back for a half mile or more the
enemy's troops in his front, though very
much outnumbering him; took twenty
three prisoners, and retired only ou the
appearance of the enemy in heavy force
on the field, supported by a cross fire
from gunboats in the Stono and in Folly
river. Enemy engaged said to have been
Twenty-eighth Massachusetts and One
hundredth Pennsylvania volunteers. Our
loss, several wounded, and one taken pris?
oner. Lieut. Walker, adjutant Charleston
battalion, wounded in the leg iu an en?
deavor to bring off whom, it was said,
private Bresuihan, Irish Volunteers, was
mortally wounded. Gallantry aud dis?
cretion of Col. Capers marked. Captaiu
Ryan, Irish Volunteers, Charleston Bat?
talion, distinguished himself by his dash?
ing courage. Lieut. J. Ward Hopkins,
Sumter Guards, Charleston battalion,
wounded iu shoulder. Our companies
first engaged were reinforced during the
action by several others. All fell back
across the causeway to rivers merely,
and joined the maiu body of our troops.
Enemy ascertained from prisoners to be
in strong force at Legare's under com?
mand of Gen. Stevens. Heavy bombard?
ment all day by gunboats of our troops
in line of battle to resist enemy's advance
from Legare's?our troops necessarily
much exposed. A section of Capt. Wm.
C. Preston's battery, light artillery, under
Capt. Preston and Lieut. Julius Rhett,
was carried with great promptness and
dash into position, and worked with fierce
energy, under a heavy cross-fire from the
gunboats in the two rivers, and under a
direct fire from a piece of the enemy's at
the woods on Legare's, in front. The fire
from these guns, and from the stationary
and more distant batteries of Col. T. G.
Lamar and of Capt. Warley, in the di?
rection of Secessionville, rendered the
enemy's advauce across the causeway,
though repeatedly threatened, too peril?
ous for him to attempt. Gen. H. W.
Mercer arrived from Charleston in the
afternoon. Col. Johnson Hagood, First
Regiment South Carolina Volunteers,
previously detained in the city by his
duties aR provost marshal, joined his reg?
iment during the day, with Capt. B. G.
Hay, Lieut. Ben. Martin und others of
his staff. Casualties light. Gen. Gist
and aides covered with sand, from explo?
sion of shells. Tbe screeching of the
rifle-shells and the heavy explosions of
the 11 and 13-inch subsided a little after
dark into a discharge of a shell from a
gunboat, at regular intervals of half an
hour, during the night. Our men, wot,
weary and hungry, slept on their arms.
The night was tempestuous.
June 4.?Main body of our troops
drawn within the lines. Gunboats from
creek in front shelled Secessionville.
Design of the enemy to occupy apparent.
Enemy said to be advancing this evening.
Untrue.
June 5.?Enemy said to be advancing
this evening. Our troops marched to the
front. Everything quiet by sundown.
No fight.
June G.?Erig.-Gcn. \V. D. Smith ar?
rived on the island and assumed com?
mand, Gen. Mercer having been ordered
to take command at Savannah. Picket
guard this evening, under Colonel C. H.
Stevens, skirmished with the enemy at
the Presbyterian church ; enemy left one
dead on the ground?indications that he
suffered further. A section of Preston's
battery did some firing. No loss on our
side. A prisoner brought into camp.
June?.?Alarm in the evening, troops
to the front. Everything soon quiet.
Enemy moving about Grimball's on the
Stono."
June 8.?Enemy evidently in force at
Grimball's. A prisoner brought in this
evening.
June 10.?During a reconnoisance in
some force this afternoon, under Gen.
Smith, a part of the troops?the Forty
seventh Georgia volunteers, Col. Wil?
liams commanding?were repulsed in the
woods at Grimball's, after a gallant on?
set upon tbe enemy, advantageously
posted, supported by artillery and aided
by his gunboats in the Stono. Our loss
serious; Capt. Williams killed. The
wood through which the Forty-seventh
advanced so dense that order, it is said,
could not be preserved, nor could com?
mands be properly extended. Great
regret for the loss of the brave Georgians.
Heavy firing nearly all night from gun?
boats in the Stono.
June 14.?Brig. Gen. N. G. Evans ar?
rived on the island to assume command.
Heavy firing of shot and shell upon Se?
cessionville from the enemy's gunboats
and from a battery erected at Legare's
Point. Vigorous replies of Col. Lamar's
guns. Firing nearly all day. One man
! killed in his tent, at Secessionville, by
a shell.
June 15.?Similar firing upon Seces?
sionville. Col. Lamar replies more de?
liberately. Firing very slow towards
night. Two meu wounded on our side.
June. 16.?Attack of the enemy at
daylight on the earthwork at Secession?
ville; Brig. Gen. Stevens in command of
assaulting column of six regiments
Eighth Michigan, Seventh Connecticut,
Twenty-eighth Massachusetts, Seventy
ninth " Highlanders, Forty-Sixth New
York and One Hundreth Pennsylvania.
Brig. Gen. Williams in command of
brigade operating to flar.k tbe work on
its right by an advance on Hill's place;
Brig. Gen. Benham in commaud of
whole. Our work a simple "priest cap,"
covering a neck of land about fifty yards
wide, flanked right and left by a creek,
and defended by four guas and about six
hundred men. Enemy repulsed with
fearful loss. Col. T. G. Lamar in imme?
diate command of four batteries, assisted
by the bo less bravo Lieut. Col. Thomas
M. Wagner, Capt. Reid, Lieut. Hum?
bert and others, aud supported by the
brave Cr 1. Gaillard and the infantry.
Col. C. ?1. Stevens and Co!. Simouton
showed promptitude and skill, repulsing
the flank movement on our right.
Enemy's fire from gunboats in Stono and
Folly Rivers, from his stationary battery
at Legare's Point, from his light artil?
lery, and from hie small arms, terribly
severe; particularly so his fire on our
right flank from across the creek at
Hill's. Our battery at one time was
almost sileoced by this latter fire. A
gun, worked by Lieut. Col. Ellison Ca?
pers, in a little battery across the crock at
Clarke's, somewhat flanking the enemy's
advance, did effective service. By order
of Col. Johnson Hagood, in command of
advanced troops, the Louisiana battalion,
Lieut. Col. McEuery, reioforced the gar?
rison at Secessionville during the fight,
and rushing gallautly into the fire, with
the cry of "Remember Butler," soon drove
the enemy from his flanking position at
Hill's. The Eutaw Battalion, on the
right, engaged the enemy for a short
time iu tbe woods, to the rear of Hill's
house, when he fell back, together with
tho troops engaged by the Louisiana
battulion and our other troops from
across the creek. Then the entire force
of the enemy, betweeu five and six thou?
sand stroug, slowly and sullenly retired
from the attack to their positions on the
Stono, aud within their late line of pick?
ets, burning River's house on their
retreat. Enemy's loss probably eight
hundred men; ours under one hundred.
The brave Capts. Reid, of Col. Lamar's
regiment of artillery, and King, of Suni
ter Guards, Charleston Battalion; Lieut.
Edwards and many other gallant men of
ours killed. Col. Hagood, while leading
his horse by the reins had them severed
by a piece of shell. Several of the enemy
bravely mounted our ramparts. Several
got to the rear of it by flanking it on the
left.
June 17.?Gen. S. Cooper, senior Gen?
eral Confederate States Army, visited the
island to-day.
June 18.?Flag of truce from the enemy
to inquire after wounded and prisoners,
j aud asking leave to send comforts to
j them, and offering similar privileges to
I us as to our men.
j June 20.?A few shell thrown by a
guuboat to-day at men at work on our
went line.
j July 1.?Total inactivity of the enemy,
j offensively, since repulse of 16th ult., ex
I cept the tiring of the few shell on 20th.
Grand salute to-day at suuriso along our I
entire line, aud at Forts Johnson, Sum
ter and Moultric, in honor of our success
ess before Richmond. Enemy reported
to be advaucing. Troops under arms
and to the front. False alarm. Enemy
suspected to be about to retire from the
island.
July 5.?Enemy's land force, known
to have been retiring for several days
from Grimball's, now ascertained to be
all withdrawn from that place. Traus?
ports for several days past seen going
out of Stono. Gunboat? in the river off'
Grim ball's. |
July 7.?Maj. William Duncan, First
regiment South Carolina Volunteers,
narrowly escaped being made prisonec
by a party of the enemy at the large
work, thrown up between River's burnt?
house and the Stono; party probabh
from gunboats. Enemy withdrawn from
Legare's.
July 8.?Enemy known to have alto
gether abandoned James Island, and our
city to bo safe for the present.
General News^Sunimary.
? In Arkansas the influx of immi?
grants from all parts continues.
? Ou one ranch in Texas a thousand
lambs were killed by cold weather.
? The Osago Indians own about 5,
700 head of cattle and 6,000 ponies.
? Ia Columbus county, N. O, it ii
proposed to cultivate jute for market.
? It is said that castor beans can be
raised to perfection in Western Texas.
? At Columbus, Miss., fire-proof
vaults have been built for the county
records.
? Gen. Walker estimates that in 1890
the population of the United States will
be 63,467,000.
? Last year the losses by fire in the
United States, as far as reported, footed
up ?76,513.100.
? W. H. Vanderbilt draws $510,000
interest every ninety days from the
United States Treasury,
? In Alabama a law has been passed
giving blacksmiths and vtookworkers a
lien on vehicles repaired by them until
the price is paid.
? From Jacksonville, Fla., the ship?
ments of lumber last year aggregated
41,719,225 feet, an increase of 7,740,
317 over the year previous.
? It has been developed that 35,613
000,000 friction matches arc consumed
every year in the United States, or 700
for every man, woman, child and baby.
? Twenty-seven families of immigrants
from Tennessee arrived in Bonham, Tex?
as. Among them was a man named
Jones, who has nine boys under fifteen
years of age.
? One of the most serious drawbacks
to the prosperity of South Florida, issaid
to be the fact that so large a portion of
the supplies is imported from the North.
The remark might be extended to other
parts of the South.
? Natchez Democrat: A young gen?
tleman of this city having offered his
lady love his heart and hand as a Christ?
mas gift, was very much astonished when
she told him that she would a great deal
rather have a pound of mixed candy.
? Bishop Elder, of Cincinnati, said in
his recent episcopal letter to the clergy
of his diocese: "In entertainments given
for church purposes, or in any way sanc?
tioned by the priest, there must be no
dancing after dark and no round dancing
at any time."
? Little Kock Gazette: Arkansas can
afford to snap her fingers at politics.
With plenty of biead and meat to feed
her people, and "as many more as may
choose to cast their lot with us, nothing
is wanted to keep on the high road to
prosperity and progress but wise, equi?
table aud common-sense legislation.
? A man who went to Arkansas from
McNairy county, Tennessee, thirty-two
years ago, on a recent visit to his old
home, hunted up the heirs of a man to
whom he owed sixty-five cents at the time
of his departure, and paid the principal
and interest, amounting to two collars.
? During the recent cold term ice was
seen at Waldo, Fia., fully an inch thick.
At Cedar Keys ice was found three-fourths
of an inch thick. At Mandarin, on the
St. Johns river, all the oranges were fro?
zen, the loss being estimated at $15,000.
The thermometer at Fernandina went
down to seveuteen degrees above zero.
? During the remainder of the winter
the Signal Service will notify the Super?
intendent of the Texas divisiou of the
United States military telegraph lines
when "northers" may be anticipated.
These predictions will be conspicuously
posted in the telegraph offices along the
line, for the benefit of sheep and cattle?
men.
? In the eastern portion of Terrell
county, G.i., Elder Mathias F. Cowley
and John W. Taylor, two Mormon
preachers from Salt Lake City, Utah,
have been for several weeks past holding
frequent services and proclaiming the
tenets of their faith. They have been
zealously working in behalf of their cause,
distributing tracts containing their creed,
and preaching on Sunday and during the
week.
? Eugene Hale, of Maine, will bo one
of the youngest members of United States
Senate. He Is 44 years of age, having
been born in 1836. Butler, of South Car?
olina, was born in thesameyear; Plumb,
ofKansas,in JS37; Groome, ofMarylatid,
in 1838; and Bruce, of Mississippi, in
1841. These are the ouly Senators under
45.
? The few inhabitants upon the Red
River, Texas, are much excited 07er a
strange rumbling noise that is heard both
night and day It resembles the sound
of a railroad train, but as there are no
railroads within fifty miles of the locality
the people believe it is a passage of vol?
canic action. Its range is from north to
northwest, and it recalls the ominous
sounds described by Humboldt as pre?
ceding the great earthquake of 1759 in
Mexico, when the volcanic mountain of
Jorulia was upheaved.
? Sarah Bernhardt is investing the
profits of her American tour iu a necklace
that is being made in Paris, and which
will be the finest specimen of the jewel?
er's art of this century. It is composed
of two rows of magnificent brilliants,
about an inch and a quarter apart, be?
tween which a wreath of field-fl crs in
precious stones, representing the natural
colors of the rustic blossoms, seems to flow
with the greatest ease and grace imagina?
ble. The minute poppies are composed
of rubies, the cornflowers of saphires, the
mangolds of topaz and so on, while the
leaves are of emeralds. No two flowers
are alike, and, altogether, the necklace is
pronounced the finest composed during
this generation.
? The Philadelphia American maps
out a very correct course for Garfield to
take, for the purpose of strenthening his
party, when it says: "Our belief is that
Mr. Garfield will pursue neither Mr.
Grant's policy nor that of Mr. Hayes in
this matter. We look to see him ignoro
all lines within the party, as neither of
these two gentlemen has done. It is indif?
ference, nor hostility, that will give fac?
tions the coup de grace. We have had
twelve years of factional distribution of
patronage under the Republican party,
and they have been years of growing dis
sensiou. Let us have four years of a
rule which shall know a candidate only
as a Republican, and after that ask only
as to his integrity and capacity?which
shall receive frankly recommendations
from Senators and Representative as
from any one else?and which shall ac?
cept dictation from no one in making the
final selection. Let us have these^ from
a man who can make his subordinates
feel that they enter the public service,
not to represent any leader or to serve
any faction, but to attend to their duties
and restore the credit of the party as a
whole by the excellence of their admin
j istration. That, and that alone, is the
; policy which will dissolve the riugs in
' side the party, and make their factional
I allegiance to a Senator or a Represents
j tivo as barren as it is servile."