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E. B. MURRAY, Editor. THURSDAY, MAY 19. 1881. TERMS i ONE YEAR..-.?1.50. SIX MONTHS_. 75c. Two Dollar* if not paid in advance. Blaine is the giant of the new adminis? tration. He wili crush Roscoe Conkling before his term ends. By defeating Conkling the Democrats will probably carry New York, and then the Presidency will be in easy reach, if they do not throw away their opportuni? ties once more. In the conflict of giants poor little Mahone and his Virginia canvass have been lost sight of altogether. When trading with tricksters it is well to re* quire payment in advance. Since Mahone does not hold the bal? ance of power in the Senate, very little at? tention is being paid him. If the Republi? cans fail to elect two Republicans from New York to the Senate, the little trick? ster from Virginia will scarcely ever be heard of again. Mrs. Garfield, the wife of the President, has been and still is ill with malarial fever, which has assumed typhoid fever. This illness has made public the fact that Mrs. Garfield employs as her regular physician a female doctor, Mrs. Dr. Ed son, but during the present illness she is attended by the ablest male practi? tioners of the Capitol. What about the proposition to disband the Democratic party ? The politicians * who knew more than all of tbe editors in South Carolina a few months ago, when disaster seemed to rest on the De? mocracy, have been amazingly quiet un? der the influence of tbe success which has .crowned a little skirmish in the . Senate. They shoufd give us a chapter from their storehouse of knowledge at this time. mm It is alleged that Grant and Conkling snlked in the late presidential campaign until satisfactory arrangements were made to fie cure their services on the stump to aid the waning cause of repub? licanism. The rumor goes to the effect that Grant received one hundred thou? sand dollars, and Conkling was promised the patronage of New York by the then candidate, and now President of the United States. They both went into the campaign and pulled Garfield through. Grant got his money in advance, but Conkling took his in credit on die Re j publican party, and now finds that be baa lost his work. The Republican caucus of the Senate has become panic-stricken by the fight in their party, and have determined to act at once upon the President's nomina? tions, and adjourn probably this week. .They have given up all hope of electing Senate officers, and are in such a straight that they are even willing to elect a President pro tempore from among the Democrats, and have named Senator Harris, of Tennessee, as a Senator they would be willing to accept for this posi? tion. Their demoralization may be im? agined from their haste to get away from Washington. The fight which the Dem? ocrats have made has proven very disas? trous to them, and they do not care to run the risk of any new complications. So much may be credited to the acconnt of a little backbone on tbe part of the Democrats. Among the various rumors following the resignations of the New York Sena? tors is one to tbe effect tbat a combina? tion will be made in the Legislature of that State between the Democrats and Independent Republicans by which tbe Senatorial vacancies will be filled by one Democrat and one of the anti-Conk ling Republicans. Such a course would be a death blow to Conkling and the machine, and is too good to be effected. We have no doubt that Conkling and Platt know just how many votes they can secure for a re-election, and have re? signed to be endorsed by tbe Legislature of New York. This, they think, will strengthen their position before tbe coun? try, but such a disguise is too poor to ac? complish anything for the stalwarts. The country knows that New York Re? publicans are controlled by the party machine, and of course tbe boss will be endorsed. The Senate on last Thursday, by a vote of twenty-two to twenty-one, confirmed the Hon. Stanley Matthews as Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. This was a great surprise to every one, as his rejection was looked for as a certain? ty. The railroad corporations rallied to bis support, and their influence helped to secure him tbe seat which should have been given to some abler lawyer, and one leas mixed up with corporate monopo? lies. On strange feature of the confir? mation is, that tbe Democratic Senators saved him?a majority of tbe Republi cnas voting against him. This may have been policy, but we do not so view the matter, and therefore regret the confir? mation. Mr. Matthews helped engineer the frauds of 1876-77, and it is a strange >ight to see Democrats voting for a man as Judge of the Supreme Court who had four yean ago helped to cbeat us out of a President we bad fairly elected. ? It is said that the.fish in several creeks of this county are dying up. The cause is attributed to the saw mills ou those creeks. These mills are so con? structed as to allow all tbe sawdust to fall iu the water, and the sawdust kills the fish. Saw mills are very useful institutions, but they should not be allowed to destroy the fish of our streams, since the State has spent so much money in the effort to improve the fish in her limits. We suggest that the Fish Commissioner look into the matter.?Abbeville Medi urn. ? A dramatic incident occurred in Au? gusta Friday afternoon. A colored theo? logical student, a graduate of the Atlanta colored university, was convicted in tbe Superior Court of seduction, but escaped punishment by marrying tbe girl, the Judge performing the ceremony in open Court. Immediately after tbe marriage jiuoiher girl, who had claims on the de? fendant, went out on the steps of the lourthouse and swallowed an ounce of laudxnura. She then started down the i street, but fell and had to be carried iiome. She will probably die. letter from florida. Pem, Fla., May 2,1881. Editor Anderson Intelligencer : I wrote to the Intelligencer in Feb? ruary giving some dots from Florida that I thought might be interesting to your readers. Our eagerness is such always to hear of everything concerning old Anderson, that no item in your much esteemed journal ever escapes our notice. We have never seen our letter published, and unwilling to believe that it was con? signed to the "waste basket," have thought if it did not miscarry, that there was one number at least of your paper that we did not receive; hence, like that old traditional "bad penny," we are on hand again. There has been some irreg? ularity in tne reception of "our Anderson paper"?missing a week sometimes, but frequently, when such is the case, the next week there comes two, and we know it is no fault of the publisher. Just at this time the absorbing topic of thought and conversation with the people of Tampa and this portion of South Florida, by day, mingled with the reveries of our dreams by night, is rail? roads, and no wonder that it is so. The genial nature of onr climate, the general healthfulness of our section, our freedom from severe cold, as instanced by the past winter, is daily attracting tbe atten? tion of other sections, so that indeed all that is desired to develop us into a pros? perous, thriving aud populous people is a railroad. Quick transportation for our fruits and vegetables is the ne plus ultra of our desires. With such facilities immigration, we believe, will not be wanting, where there is so much that is attractive. The vegetable industry is beginning largely to engage tbe attention of tbe people of middle, east and south Florida. Thousands of nabobs at the North stand ready to gratify themselves with every luxury the market can afford, and to tickle their palates with the rare viands that it is Florida's peculiar pro? vince to furnish, since in this genial clime the most tender vegetables can be reared for market, even at Christmas. And especially is this true of South Florida. Her people, too, realizing that there is "money in it," have gone to work with characteristic energy, so that very soon every hamlet will have its gar? den of vegetables for early market, aud sitting under its own "vine and fig tree," thank Providence for what is already enjoyed, but still listen anxiously for tbe whistle of the iron horse. We are glad to learn from tbe Intel? ligencer of the continued and growing prosperity of Anderson. ' Long may sbo wave." Saddened are we occasionally, too, at tbe passing away of some of the old landmarks which we see recorded in the death of some of her esteemed fellc w-citizens. Tbe names of Benson and Sullivan were synonyms for all that was clever and upright, while the famil? iar and kindly face of Mr. McCuIly will long be remembered by ail who knew him. 'Midst her general thrift and pros? perity may Providence kindly withhold from her many such afflictions. I mentioned in my last that though we realized none of it here, a sympathetic shiver passed over us for yon iu last win? ter's cold. That you may form a better idea of our seasons here, I give you tho tberraometrical record as kept by tbe hospital steward of Fort Brooke, Tampa, Florida, for the week ending April 8tb, 1881, and also twenty days later, week ending April 29th, 1881, remarking that tbe thermometer rarely goes much be? yond five degrees higher than the highest point reached in the table at any time during the year; so that we may now be considered as in midsummer, and scarce? ly ever without the most delightful sea breeze: ' For Week Ending April 8th. Day. 7 a.m. 2 p. m. 9 p. m. Saturday. 65 82 60 Sunday. 58 75 56 Monday. 52 80 62 Tuesday. 65 82 71 Wednesday. 70 81 62 Thursday. 60 63 56 Friday. 52 70 57 Week Ending April 29th. Day. 7 a.m. 2 p. m. 9 p. m. Saturday. 68 95 72 Sunday. 73 90 75 Monday. 73 90 73 Tuesday. 75 90 75 Wednesday. 76 90 72 Thursday. 72 87 72 Friday. 72 90 75 Saturday. 72 90 75 I see now and then people from An? derson seeking new homes. Say to any who may have Florida in view, I will be glad to furnish them upon application any information that I can. G. H. S. Executing the Concealed Weapon Act ?with Vigor, Judge Wallace sentenced Willis Mc? Donald, a young white man of 27 years of age, under two indictments at the February term of the Aiken Session Court; under one for assault with intent to kill, he sentenced McDonald, who bad shot a roan, to three months' imprison ment in the County jail. For the other offense, of carrying a concealed weapon, the Judge sentenced the offender to three months' bard labor in tbe State Peniten? tiary. This looks like business, and if this exemplary way of treating this of? fense is followed throughout the State this thing of carrying concealed weapons will cease to be a holiday amusement. Many a valuable life perchance, and many a heart-ache saved to wives and mothers and the wolfish thirst for blood stopped in tbe land. Carrying weapons is not necessary now in South Carolina, if it ever was. If one man carries a weapon another must and thus we will go armed for each other as if we were a society of cut throats. Let us depend upon tbe rigid enforce? ment of the law for protection and not upon the bowie knife and the revolver. Civilized society then puts on tbe com? plexion of bravely adjusted peace, when the wicked must cease from troubling. An old-established commonwealth like South Carolina should surely be above the ranch civilization of "cow-boys" and cut-throats. With such a rigorous enforcement of the law as Judge Wallace administered in this case, these revolver jobs will be at an end. The prisoner was brought and lodged in the Penitentiary yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Holley, of Aiken County.?Co? lumbia Register. ? One hundred and sixty ladies have signed a petition asking tbe town council of Georgetown, S. C, to adopt Borne meas? ures of relief against the growth of in? temperance- in that community. The colored people are also moving against tbe sale of intoxicating liquors. The town council has taken the ground that tbe licenses having already oeen issued and the money paid into tbe treasury tbe licenses have assumed tbe nature of a contract, and that the town c>umil is therefore unable to do anything in the matter. CON'KMN?'S TUR*. He and Platt Resign. Washington, May 16. The vice-president laid beiore tho Senate the following communication: Washington, May 16,1881.?Hon. C. A. Arthur, Vice President?Sir: Will you please announce to tbe Senate that my resignation as a senator of the United States, from the state of New York, has been forwarded to the governor of the state. I have the honor to be, with great respect, your obedient servant, Roecoe Conkling. This communication was read with great sensation, which was heightened when the vice-president laid the following before the senate: Senate Chamber, May 16, 1881.?To Hon. C.A. Arthur, Vice President?Sir: I have forwarded to the governor of the state of New York my resignation as seu ator of tbe United States lor the state of New York. Will you please announce tbe fact to tbe senate. With great res? pect, your obedient servant, T. C. Platt. A hum of astonishment followed the reading of the communications, and Mr. Hill, of Georgia, suggested, sotto voce, that this would be a good time to elect officers of the Senate. Current Comments on the Resignation. Some of the republican senators said they were too mu'jh surprised to express any opinion on the subject. The democratic senators were delighted at the action of the New York senators, They made no effort to conceal this grat? ification. Some of them said it would widen tbe breach in the republican party As to the action of the democratic side the Star reporter inquired of the senators who control that side. They will go right ahead with executive business and will ad? journ as soon as the president has nothing more for them to do. Rumors of a reorgan? ization of the committee were pronounced as groundless and absurd by the democrats. Their leaders state that uothing of the kind will be thought of; that they will not attempt to call up the resolution to elect senate officers for the purpose of laying it on the table; that tbey will not do anything with it unless tbe republi? cans should:bring it up. This, it can bo authoritatively stated, the republicans will not do. The universal opinion as far a? ex pressed was that Conkling and Platt will both go before tbe legislature for re-elec? tion ; that th<y will regard their re elec? tion as a rebuke l:o the administration as weil as an approval of the course they have taken. Some of the democrats spoke of this action as "claptrap," saving that Conk? ling and Platt knew in advance precisely how the legislature stands; just how many votes tbey can get, and tbat they are in no danger of losing their seats. Those who are disposed to criticise to any extent hold that the indorsement Conkling and Pla .c will get will not count for much, because they are assured of the result, that if they would wait and go before the people that course would be more commendatory. After tbe senate bad adjourned an ad? mirer of Conkling expressed the belief tbnt he will not ask re-election from this legislature, but will go before tbe people next fall and make a fight to elect the legislature which will re-elect him. How the News was Received in New York. New York, May 16.?The 6tir created in this city by tbe Conkling-Platt resig? nations is simply indescribable. At tbe clubs, hotels?everywhere, it is the one topic of discussion. Tbe republicans show consternation, as none of them foresaw the wildest pitch of opposition would carry Conkling so far, or make the split so irremediable. If he w in? dorsed by tbe legislature and sent'back to the senate, he will only be the more offensive. If he is repudiated by tbe legislature, through the efforts of Gar? field and Blaine, he will tear the temple down, even if, Sampson-like, he is buried in its ruin. Among the New York city republicans to-night, there is about an equal division, and the bitterest talk. It is thought that Conkling and Platt will be re-elected by tho legislature with little opposition. President Garfield is said to prefer thin as a possible palliation. There is, how? ever, a growing feeling in favor of mak? ing a straight out ifight against the mal? contents, and tbe putting up of Fenton and Robertson 8S tbe administration can? didates for tbe senate. With a solid democratic vote they could be elected. Platt has merited and receives universal contempt. Dragged into the senate by Conkling he is now dragged out with no Grievance except tbat bis boss is mad. t is said that be had to trade with Rob? ertson for his first election and then broke his pledge. Tbe democrats are jubilant, and claim that tbe disintegration of the republicans is now certain, the vindictive and repre? hensible feuds having gone so far that they cannot be stopped. The Blaine and Conkling elements and the stal waits and half breeds will never again be united on a candidate. A letter from General Grant shows that he sympathizes with Conkling in the Garfield fight, and the evidence is plentiful that the Grant crowd follows Conkling with unanimity. What the Papers Say. The Washington Star says: When the news of tbe resignation of Senators Conkling and Platt reached the treasury department to-day, great excitement en? sued, and tbe officials and subordinates alike were soon gathered in groups throughout the building discussing the situation and its probable effect. Tbe theory which has been advanced that the senators who resigned quite confident of being returned by the New York leg? islature, is very generally accepted, but in some quarters it is maintained tbat on account of the legislature having hereto? fore indorsed tbe nomination of Robert? son to be collector of the port of New York, it cannot consistently indorse the action of the two senators in opposing it. This course, however,it is conceded by Erominent Republicans, can easily be rought about. President Garfield was apprised of the contemplated resigna? tions this morning aud remarked to a treasury official shortly before 12 o'clock that he expected the news to arrive mo? mentarily. Tbe resignation of the two senators are topics nf conversation at the hotels and other public places and groups of men may be seen ou the street cor? ners discussing affairs in an excited man? ner. The Star &ho publishes the following news concerning the senatorial sensation: One republican senator said: Tbey will both be re-elected by the New York legislature. Another said that while he had not been informed of this step, his opinion was that it was simply an ap? peal to the New York legislature, now in session, by Messrs. Conkling and Platt, for au indorsement of the position they bad taken on tbe Robertson nomination. Warm friends of Senator Conkling said it means tbat Conkling and Platt will not be insulted and outraged by this ad? ministration. They have known from the first tbat the nomination was Blaine's declaration of war against the ruling ele? ment of the republican party in New York. Tbey have known that Robert? son was selected to crush Conkling and destroy his influence if possible; they bad done everything they could to pre? vent this bitter war in the repub? lican party; they showed that they had tbe republican party of New York behind them; that only a small ringof disorgan? izes and bolters supported Robertson, but the president refused to listen to any appeals for peace and hnrmony. Conk line and Platt then appealed to the Republican senator to uuite with them in saving the republican party in New York from disorganization?to help tbem to gave the state in the comiug election. I But thy republican Senators, too many of j them, preferred to ?tick to the side wLich controls the patronage, and Cotikliug determined that he would not sit in the senate and see such an outrage put upon the party be has so ably organized and brilliantly led in New York. Mr. Platt agreed with him and they have resigned. Yes; no doubt they will appeal to their party for the approval or disapproval of their course, and any man who knows anything about the republican party of New York, will tell you that Conkling and Platt will be endorsed with a vim. The National Republican, under the caption "The Crisis Met," says: "The republican senators have almost as one man regretted and most of them have urged the withdrawal of the nomi? nation of Robertson. They have been met with the arrogance and obstinacy of a weak man adhering to a wrong act. In a crisis like this, when an arbitrary demand is made by the president for senatorial submission on a question, which, under the constitution, senators are to decide on their oaths unawed by power and uninfluenced by 'rewards,' the senators from New York have done well to resist the executive mandate and to return their commission to the power that bestowed it on them. Next week their places will be filled. The new senators will be instructed by the very facts under which they will be elected. They will not be creatures who can be made to stand on their hind legs at the white house entrance aud bark for the bones of tbe office in the bands of a president oblivious of tbe limitations 'ipon his lawful power, but tbey will be men earnest of conviction, courageous of action, and able to deal with every situa? tion that the enemies of tbe republican party of the constitutional government can create." Commenting on the resignation of i;he New York senators, the Times says;? "With all the stage tinsel of heroism, the act is not heroic; it is an assumed appeal to the people of New York. It may triumph now by the aid of a super serviceable legislature, but it will be the beginning of the end of the Conkling dynasty, and the only vital question for the future will be whether Conkling is strong enough to destroy the republican temple in his fall. He is vanquished on his own issue. He links the fate of his party with himself, and the great leader will either die alone or date his party's death even with his own." The North American says: "The re? publicans of New York cannot afford to indorse Mr. Conkling. Failing to attract the support of tbe country, and having failed in every appeal he ever made to the country, he now demands local re? cognition. His demand should be ig? nored and he should be taught that not even so bright a man can play the fool and escape the consequences." The Record says: "The resignation of the two senators from New York affords the people of that State an excellent chance of selecting better men. It is safe to say if there bad not been a posi? tive certainty that a subservient assem? bly would re-elect both Conkling and Platf, neither one would have thought of resigning his senatorship. Considered in this light their action is more hysteric than heroic." MURDER IN SPARTANBURG. A White Man Edits his "Wife and tries to Kill Himself?The Murderer in Jail. Special Dispatch to the News and Courier. Spabtanburg, S. C, May 12. On Monday night, near the Cowpens, in this county, Berryman W. Hicks, a white man about 30 years old, murdered his wife by shooting her in tbe abdomen with a shot-gun loaded with birdshot and by cutting her throat with a razor. She died almost instantly. Hicks then tried to kill himself by cutting his throat from ear to ear with a razor and stabbing him? self to the heart with a pocket knife. He was arrested by Trial Justice J. T. Scruggs and sent in charge of Benson Martin to jail, where he now lies. I interviewed Hicks to-day. He is a fine looking man, with clear blue eyes and a good face. He claims his wife was unfaithful, and that be killed her because be loved her. Her maiden name was Mary Clem? ents. They were married in March, 1880, and have one child, a baby. The wife was about ten years older than Hicks. He says theygotalong well until a month ago, when she got contrary because she liked somebody else better than me? George Henderson?who bad lived at her mother's before we were married. I thought they were intimate, but did not know it until a month ago, when Hen? derson came to our house and made a ?ign, "stretching his eyes at her." On Monday I saw him drop a bush in the road in front of the house. Afterwards she went out and laid little sticks near the bush as a signal for meeting at night. Henderson came back early, and I beard him "hawk." She went out on the piaz? za and around the house to meet him. I didn't see them together, but knew in reason tbey did meet. In about fifteen minutes I went out on the [piazza and and she came from around the house. our baby was very sick, dying, and I told her "God was going to take it away for her sins." I had talked to her before and asked her to pray for me and I would pray for her, but it got worse and worse. I told her I thought it was better for both of us to be dead than living. I got my gun and aimed to go to my mother's, pull of my shoe, work the trigger with my toe and kill myself after I had cut her throat. She caught the gun, which discharged the load which entered her groin. I then took the razor and j cut her throat and then left the house and went to my mother's, one mile distant. When I got there I tried to cut my throat with a razor, cutting it from ear to ear. The razor wouldn't cut and I pulled out my pocket knife and tried to stab myself to the heart. The blade struck tbe rib and glanced off. Tuen I tried the knife on my throat, cut? ting under the right jaw. No one caught me or tried to keep me from killing my? self. I went out bebind tbe garden, and laid down then into the woods and then tried to cut my throat until fainted from loss of blood. After I recovered I went back to the house, leaving the knife and razor in l;be woods, and asked them to kill me. I stayed there until Benson Martin arrested me and brought me to jail in a wagon. On Tuesday night Dr. Romeo Hicks, my cousin, sewed up my throat before I left home, and said I might live if inflamma? tion didn't set in. I think it has now set in and that i will die, if I am not hung before court. I think they will hang me if I live, and I am ready to die. My wife was a Baptist, and professed religion in the Baptist church about four years ago, but now has no active membership." When Hicks was first brought to jail be pretended to be crazy, but he is getting better very fast, aud will probably get well, although the wounds in bis throat and breast are serious. He was first mar? ried to Adelane Feagan, in North Caro olina, where he lived for ten or fifteen years, but be treated her so badly that she was also unfaithful to him, but others say the divorce was granted on the ground of cruelty to her. To day Hicks has been attempting tho Sious dodge, and begging the sheriff for a ible. He ate a hearty breakfast and talks without pain. J. C. H. ? Dr. Joseph Billinger, of Barnwell C. H., committed suicide last Friday by taking an overdose of morphine. THE STAR ROUTE FRAUDS. A Fall Exposure of one of the Conspiracies of Carpet-Rag Senator Dorsey, of Arlcuti ?as. Chicago, May 15. A special from Little Rock, Ark., says that the frauds of the Star Route Ring, which are attracting the attention of the country, are no news in Arkansas, where ex-Senator Dorsey's connection with them hr_-> long been more than suspected. He ptocured the appointment of ex Governor 0. A. Had ley as postmaster at Little Rock, supposing he could count on his assistance in forwarding his schemes on the treasury in connection with the Star routes. .'Knowing this, in January, 1878, he sent Hadley about six hundred blank proposals and bonds which the Ring had printed for their own use, which were different iu some respects from those printed by the government, and forwarded to bidders, with instructions to Hadley to get securities on the bonds, have them signed in blank, approved them as postmaster and return them to him. This was done and bonds to. the number of four or five hundred were fixed up in this way. The number of routes, termi nal points, amount of hid and name of bidder were not inserted aa required by law before being approved by the post? master. These bonds were then approv? ed by Postmaster Hadley in direct vio? lation of law and then sent by ex? press to S. W. Dorsey, then senator of the United States, for such use as he might make of them. They were not even straw bonds. The blank bonds were ap? proved here on the 19th January, 1878, shipped by Postmaster Hadley per the Southern Express on January 20th, to S. W. Dorsey, and delivered at his committee room in the capitol on January 23. The numbers of routes, terminal points, amounts of bids and the bidders' names were then filled in, bidders' signatures attached and acknowledgment taken by a notary public, one A. T. Boone, who was a member of the Ring, dated Washington, D. C., January 5, and other days prior to those upon which the bonds were ap? proved. To the lowest of these bids the name of John M. Peck, Dorsey's brother in-law, was attached, and an acknowledg? ment was taken by Boone as notary pub? lic, but it was afterwards discovered that Peck had uot been in Washington for over a year, and that the signatures were forgeries. . Dorsey himself stated that the signature was written by Joseph R. Richards, who, he said, had been Dor sey's clerk, and he presumed was author? ized to 3ign his name. Parties who know Dmsey's handwriting says that the signatures resembled his more than Richard's. Richards and Peck sudden? ly put in an appearance a day or two since, and it is thought for the purpose of covering up some of tbe operations of the Ring, Thev have been in close consultation with Postmaster Hadley and. others, but their plans are not known About the time that Dorsey sent the blank bonds to Hadley he sent blanks to J. H. Clendenning, postmaster at Fort Smith, and requested him to procure sureties, approve in blank and return to him. This Postmaster Clendenning re? fused, and so wrote Dorsey, and quoted the law making it a penal offence punish? able with imprisonment in the peniten? tiary for one year or more for postmasters to approve bonds before the number and description of tbe route, amount of bid and bidders' name were inserted and bidders bad signed the proposal and made acknowledgement before an officer quali? fied to administer an oath. Dorsey has ever since been an enemy of Clenden? ning. Clendenning has preserved Dor aey's letter and his reply thereto. It is now said, by the knowing ones here, that Jack Kerrat, assistant Postmaster, who left here suddenly a few days ago, and is charged with being a defaulter, did not leave on that account and is not a defaul? ter, but left because ho was in possession of a great many facts which the Star Route Ring did not not care to have made public, and that they induced him to leave the country and then started the story that he was a defaulter. I dorsey pays wilcox for tell-tale ! papers. Denver, Col., May 14.?The Tribune contains the following: "Immediately after the exposure of Dnrsey's complicity in the Star route Ring, as telegraphed over the country, attempts were begun to squash the suit which had been brough t toj recover certain document*. Yester? day the effort was successful, the letters were surrendered, and Dorsey paid the money to Wilcox, for which the suit was brought. This money, as is known, is for Wilcnx's work in securing petitions for expediting routes and sub-letting small contracts. The same day on which the papers were surrendered Postmaster General Jame3 telegraphed to Denver for either letters, certified copies or photo? graphs of them. Tbe telegram came nfter the papers had been surrendered, and tbe Star route rogues probably con? cluded they were safe, but they are mis? taken. There are certified copies in ex? istence which will be used in connection with documents now in Portland, Ore? gon." ? Capt. W. L. DePass, of Camden, while in Columbia last week on business before the Supreme Court, had an attack of heart disease, from which he died. On Monday, 9th instant, he conducted his labors as usual, and looked us well as ever, complaining however that he felt unwell. He did not pass a restful night, and his condition was worse next morn? ing, although he would not allow a phy? sician to be summoned, deprecating the idea of any danger from his attack. His illness rapidly increased, however, and a physician was called for, but before the latter arrived he rose, walked a few paces and fell, dying in a few moments, at half past 8 o'clock. He had only time to give a word of message to Imr wife before his death. Capt. DePass will be remember? ed bv our renders as the gentleman whom E. B. C. Cash, the slayer of Col. Shan? non, first challenged to a deadly combat, and who was prevented from meeting bim by officers of the law. He was a gentleman of fine abilities and stood high in his community. A correspondent of the News and Courier, writing from Orangeburg, relates tbe following inci? dent in tbe military career of Capt. De Pasp, which proves him to have been a bra\e and unselfish man : "The news of Capt. DePass's death recalls an incident which fell under my eye. At Tullana ny, when.Colonel Daniel's Georgia regi? ment was pushed back by a force of five to one, and just before tho cadets under Major White recovered the lost ground, Capt. DePass worked in by hand a single cannon inro the tangled wood anil swamp. His vigorous firing checked the enemy's charge. Then began a terrible fight from tree to tree, iu which Capt. DePass was shot in the upper arm. He approached a surgeon just as a young Georgian who had been shot in the breast was brought in. "Captain," said the surgeon, "let me examine your wound." "Attend to that poor fellow first. He needs quick help." The soldier looked grateful, but died very soon. Capt De Pass fought well for Carolina." ? The last issue of the Pickens Senti? nel tells of eight new residences being built in that county within the editor's knowledge, while the Pumpkintown re? porter tells of a new steam saw and grist mill at Oolenoy Church, and tho follow? ing: Mr. William Hudson, of Green? ville, has purchased a tract of 1,000 acres of land, and will erect a saw and grist mill, wool cards and cotton gin at Mul lekin's Ford. It is his intention to divide his land into suitable, lots, erect nice cottsges nn each, ami establish a colony of immigrants in that section. Mr. John Goodwin contemplates erecting a Clement Attachment Cotton Factory and ?aw mill on thn Greenvillo side of Saluda river. Massachusetts and South Caro? lina.?There was a striking exhibition of the progress of reconstruction and re? conciliation at Spartanburg yesterday, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, one of the most advanced of Massachusetts "radicals," anJ Senator Wade Hampton, A very distinguished representative of Southern conservatism, spoke from the same platform, and theie was no conflict of opinion or sentiment. Both orators ? dwelt with equal fervor upon the glorious memories of the past, and both took the same view of the present. Colonel Hig ginson went to South Carolina nineteen years ago as an officer in the fifty-first Masaschu setts regiment, but was soon mustered out to take command of the first South Carolina Colored Volunteers, a regiment which was recruited in the vicinity of Beaufort mainly by his exer? tions. He led his regiment in the assault on Fort Wagner, August 3, 1863, and was severely wounded.?Baltimore Sun. A Relic of the Valley Cam? paign.?Mr. 0. Henderson, who live?* near Dorn's mine, has in his possession the Bword of a Federal Captain, which he found on the battle field during the val? ley campaign of Virginia. The following inscription is found on the hilt of the sword: C. D. Crittendon?Presented by his company, 76 N. Y. State Volunteers. Mr. Henderson was a Lieutenant in Company K. Fifteenth S. C, and has made several efTortB to ascertain whether the captain to whom the sword belonged was killed or whether any of his relations are still living, that he might return it to them. The sword will cheerfully be de? livered up to the captain or any of his kindred.?Abbeville Medium, May, 12. ? Mr. D. C. Wilson, President of the Port Royal Railroad, and Hon. Win. Elliot, of Beaufort, visited Washington last week and opposed the ^abandon merit of the naval station at Port Rnval, S. C, as indicated to be the policy of the naval department by the withdrawal of the frigate New Hamp? shire. They were strongly backed by Senator Hampton, who called with them upon the President on the 9th inst. The delegation was received kindly by Mr. Garfield, who was much interested in the statement that the duties paid at the Beaufort custom house wero equal to those paid at Charleston and Savannah fiut together, while the expenses of col ection were only a twentieth part of either one of those ports. The secretary of the navy was visited, as was also Admi? ral Porter. The result was that a prom? ise was secured that Port Royal would be continued as a naval station, and another storeship would soon take the place of the New Hampshire. Admiral Porter favors the establishment of a depot for naval repairs in the noble har? bor of Port Royal, which, he said, was the only one worthy of the name on the South Atlantic coast scuth of Norfolk. ? Captain John W. Watts, the Sheriff of our County, has a little son about 5 years old, that is indeed a prodigy. You can ask him to multiply any given num? bers, and he will multiply them correctly in a second's time. His faculty for mul? tiplying is not only confined to hundreds, but he can multiply thousands as well. The fact that this little prodigy does not know one figure from another, makes it I the more mysterious. Give out the inul I tiplicatiou table, and tell him how much I each line increases, and he will multiply I them as fast as they can be written down, ! or, in other words, just as fast as a person can give them rut to him. Ask him to explain how he multiplies numbers so readily, and his quick, intelligent an? swers are as mysterious as his faculty for multiplying.?Laurensville Herald. I ' ? A stage coach was recently stopped j by robbers not far from Corpus Christi, Texas, and the passengers made some remarkably hasty movements in chang? ing the locality of their valuables. Capt. Millet snatched off his watch and chain and threw them into the brush, and wear? ing a long beard, he managed to conceal a valuable diamond pin by holding down his head. He also cut a slit in the lin? ing of the coach and slipped rfGOO in greenbacks out of sight, judge Leisen ring shoved his watch and chain into his boot. All this was accomplished before the robbers could get tbetn out of the coach. There was great cursing by the robbers at the poverty of the travellers, and in revenge they were kept about two hours with their hands up in the air. ? The ratification of the Chinese? trea? tise, which was agreed to by the Senate last week, will not, it is claimed, bring the relief to the people of the Pacific coast from Chinese immigration which they are so anxiously clamoring for. The regulations concerning the importa? tion of Chinese to the United States, which the treaty concedes shall he made, it is now said in diplomatic circles must be adopted by the legislative branch of the government. The executive branch can enforce the regulations, but it has no power to prescribe what they shall be. This being the case, it would seem that Chinese immigration must go on unchecked till the meeting of Congress in December next. ? Prohibitory Jaws are not what we want; temperance organizations will not meet the end desired ; 'dry' elections will not answer the purpose. Reform must begin elsewhere, if we desire effectually to remove this curse from the land. We may be wrong, but it is our firm convic? tion that unless public sentiment be di? rected against this liquor drinking; unless it is frowned down by our leaders, both in church and State; unless the agitators in this question and those to whom the great masses of the ppople look up, and follow as leaders; unless these, we say, preach not only by precept, but by example, all the prohibitory laws that forty Legislatures could pass would be of no avail.?Abbeville Medium. Gen. Gary's will gives his entire property to his three sisters, Mrs. Gen. Evans, Mrs. Hodges and Miss Luella Gary. The impression has prevailed in our community, for two or three weeks past, that Mrs. Evans and her family would come to Edgefield to live?occu? pying Oakley Park?but, and we are very sorry to say so, this seems to be un? certain. We suppose the property will ultimately be sold.?Edgefield- Advertiser. ? Peter Blassingame, a colored car Eenter, while at work on a trestle being uilt on the Air-Line Railroad across the Saluda River, five miles from Greenville, was instantly killed Friday last by a fall? ing piece of timber striking him on the head and knocking out his brains. Bis body fell into the river and floated some distance before being recovered. ? Judging from the number of loads of baled hay, sacks of corn and sides of bacon hauled away from Bamberg, last Saturday, we concluded that that section must have been sorely troubled last year with cotton fever. Other sections of Barnwell county have been similarly afflicted.?Barnwell Sentinel._ NOTICE T? CREDITORS" ! All persons having demands ngainst i the Estate of N. K. Sullivan, deceased, are hereby notified to prove and pre-! sent the same to J. M. Sullivan within the time prescribed by law ; and those in? debted to said Estate "must make payment without delav. J. M. SULLIVAN, Adm'r. E. K. SULLIVAN, Adru'x. May_10,18?1_.__45 3 j WARNING. ALL persons are hereby forbidden to employ or harbor Tom Hardy, color-' ed, as he is under contract to me, and has left my employ without my consent. Per- '? sons disregarding this notice will be pro? ceeded against at law. w. t. McGregor. May 10, 18S1_45_t*_ _ WARNING. ALL persons are hereby warned not to cut any trees, nor to molest any al ready cut, nor in any other way trespass on my Plantation at Double Branches, in An? derson County. Those disregarding this notice will be proceeded against at law. eleanor J. walker. F. M. GLENN, Assistant. Garfleld ami Brady. Washington, May 4. The President's attention having been called to a letter {published this morning) alleged to have been written by him to the Hon. J. A. Hubbell from Mentor, August 23, 1880, in which he says. "'Please say to Brady that I hope he will give us all the assistance possible," stated there was not a line in the letter that he ': would have the slightest objection to giving to the public ; that the Star route contractors were neither mentioned nor thought of; that it was simply an ex- : nression of hope that Brady, a citizen of i Indiana, who was reported to have made ? an immense fortune in "Bell Telephone j stock," would respond from his ample j means and aid his party in the life and death struggle then going on in his i own State. OBITUARY. Mrs. Elvira. Waters was born in Union j County Dec. 15. 1805. and died in Anderson County, May 11, 1881, aged 75 years, 4 months and 21! days. She was an acceptable member of the Methodist Church, in the communion of which she had lived about C1 years. On account of the infirmities of age she had nut been able to attend her church for some time previous to her death, vet she sought and found communion with her Saviour at home, and spoke with much confidence of resting at hist in that "house not made with hands, eternal in the heav? ens." She died in peace, leaving two chil? dren, who also belong to the church of their mother. They sorrow, but not as those without hope. * WONDERFUL. The Cheapest aud Best TWIN SPUING BED is Sold by C. F. TOLLY, I At the Extremely Low Price or $3.00. It contains 48 Honest Steel Springs, THIS Bed is GUARANTEED to be as good as those heretofore sold in this section at $5.00. I am prepared to supply orders from this and surrounding Counties, and warrant satisfaction in every case. DON'T FORGET That G. F. TOLLY sells the CHEAPEST and BEST FURNITURE in the upper portion of South Curolina. His prices arc reduced to the minimum, and he invites the public to price Furniture in any sur? rounding market, and then call upon him and see for themselves. May l'J, 1881_45_ REPORT OP THE CONDITION National Bank of Anderson, AT Anderson, in the State of South Carolina, at the clone of business May 6th, 1S<?1: RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts.$M\i-0 is Overdrafts. 67 U. S. Bonds to secure Circulation. 50.000 00 Other stocks, bonds and mortgage*. 3?2l.'tf9 00 Due from approved Reserve Agents. 12,'l?S 79 Due from other National Banks. 12,479 96 Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures. 1.00U 00 Current Expenses aud Taxes paid. 2,414 90 Bills of other Banks. 10,115 00 Fractional paper currencv, nickels, pon ; nles. 22 23 j Specie. 22.79S 25 I Legal Tender Notes. 10,245 00 Redemption Fund with U.S. Treasurer, (5 per cent, of Circulation,). 2,250 00 Total.$304,653 93 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock paid in.$ 50,000 00 Surplus Fund. 25.000 00 Undivided Profits. 16,710 49 National Bank Notes outstanding. 40,500 00 Dividends unpaid. 240 00 Individual Deposits subject to check. 132,954 07 Demand Certificates of Deposit. 38,982 48 Due to other National Bai. ks. 266 39 Total.$304,053 93 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, I County op Anderson. j 33 ? I, j. A. Brock, Cashier of the above named Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true, to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. A. BROCK, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before mc this 14th day of May, 18S1. B. FRANK MAULDIN, Notnry Public. Correct?Attest: sylvester blecklev,) o. II. P. Faxt, /Directors. j. IV*. Norris, ) May 11.1S81 45 ? 1 WARNING. ALL persons are hereby notified not t<i employ or harbor S?m Ailcen, as he is under contract with me, and has left without my consent. Any persons disre? garding this notice will be proceeded a*ainst at law. McDUFFIE SINGLETON. May 19. 1881 _ 45_ 1 Assessment Notice. THE Auditor's Office will be open from the First day of June, 1881. until and including the Twentieth day u" Julv. 18S1, to receive Tax Returns of Personal Proper? ty in Anderson County for the year 1881. And for the convenience of Tax Payers will have Deputies at each of the places named below to receive Returns for the said vear:? Beiton?At Beiton. II, 12th and 13th July. Brushv Creek?At J. \V. Rosamond's, 11th and 12th July. Brushv Creek?At Equalitv, 13th and 14th July. ' Dark Corner?At Sherard's Store, 11th and I2th Julv. Fork?At N\ O. Farmer's, Uth and 12th Julv. Fork?At G. W. Marefs, 13th and 14th July. Garvin?At Bethany. 8th and 9th July. Hall?At Dr. Milford's, 13th and 14th Julv. Honea Path?At Honea Path, 14th, 15th and 16th July. Hopewell?At Piercetown, 15th and 16th July. Martin?At Clinkseales' Mill, 18th and 10th July. Pendleton?At Pendlcton, 5th, Cth and 7th July. Pendleton?At Pendleton Factory, 11th Julv. Rock Mills?At Williford's Store, 18th July. Savannah?At Holland's Store, 15th and 16th July. Williamston?At Williamston, 18th, 19th and 20th July. Real Estate is not assessed this year, and remains at the same valuation it was in I 1879. ! Where parties have erected new buildings between the 1st of June, 1880, and the 1st of June, 1881, worth one hundred dollars or more, they will please notify the As? sessor, and have him to add the "new struc? ture, and its value, to their Returns. If changes have been made in land, it is better to make the return at the Auditor's office, where the books can be examined and the return made correct. Insurance Agents will please return tho amount of gross receipts between the 1st of June, 1880, and the 1st of June, 1881. Yon return all the property you own, or have under your control, as parent, guar? dian, trustee, executor, administrator, agent, &c, on the 1st day of June, 1881. All males who are twenty-one years old on the 1st day of June, 1881, are liable to Poll Tax, and those sixty years old on that i day arc exempt. THOMAS J. WEBB, County Auditor, j May 12, 1881_44_2_ ! Special Meeting of Stockholders or the I Savannah Vaiiey ?. E. Go, ASPECIAL Meeting of the Stockholders of the Savannah Valley Railroad i Company will be held at Lowndesville on the 22nd day of June next, at 10 o'clock a. m. The "Taxpayers of the following ! named Townships, in Anderson County, ? will meet at 3 o'clock p. m. on the 18th day ! of June next, and choose not less than i three nor more than live delegates to said i special meetiiiR. to wit: ? Centreville Township.at Hunter's Spring. Varennes Township, at Flat Rock. Hall Township, at Carswell. Savannah Township, at Wm. Jones'. Dark Corner Township, at Moffattsville. The Taxpayers of the Town of Anderson will meet on same day at 5 o'clock p. m. Bv order of the Board. J. M. LATIMER, President. J. E- Breazeale, Secretary. May 12,1881_44__ Ji WANTED! A Goo J Milch Cow with Young Calf, APPLY TO J.M.MATTHEWS BELTON, S. C, AGENT FOR THE CELEBRATED EJUTTERWORTH Thresher and Sepa ? rator, Buckeye Mowers and Reapers, the New Economizer, the Self-Propelling Monitor, and other Steam Engines, Saw and Grist Mills, Cotton Gins, Self-Feeders, Condensers and Presses, and all Plantation Machinery. Write for prices and terms. Repairing faithfully done. Letters by mail receive prompt attention. May 4, 1H81 42 4m JULIUS Klllg'S A GREAT INVENTION V TT JJ. AVING obtained the Exclusive Agency tbr KING'S SPECTACLES, with a large stock of the very best Ptbble and French Lenses, [nterchangable in all my Gold, Sil? ver, Nickle, Rubber. Cellumid and Contbina CO^A tion Frames, 1 am prepared to fit anv Eyes CORRECTLY with King's improved system I ?r fitting Spectacles. All kinds of Colored *AHQE 0F^JV* -r.vuuun .T.A.DANIELS. _ _ May 14, 1SS1 45 mm ENGINES, GINS, THRESHERS, &C. The Tozer, and Wood, Tabor & Morse Engines. Three New Improved Cardwell Threshers on hand, And for sale at low figures. Call and examine them. THE SMITH COTTON PRESS ON HAND. PLATFORM WAGON SCALES, FOR GINNERS. A 2-Ton SCALE FOR FORTY DOLLARS. They have been tested in this County, and give satisfaction. Every Ginuer should have one. A great convenience lo the customer. Saves lime and labor to the Gioner. RUBBER BELTING, LEATHER BELTING, LACE LEATHER, PACKUNG, &C. The largest Stock we ever carried. Prices lower thau ever before. Do not fail to try us on Belting if you want Bottom Prices. SULLIVAN & MATT1SON, Centennial Building, next to Crayton'p. Max 19. 1881 U_ CALL ON BLECKLEY, BROWN & CO., ANDERSON C. H., S. C, AND BUY YOUR GOODS. Their stock is large, consisting of General Merchan chandise. sav? 40,000 pounds Meat, Five Car Loads Flour, Two Car Loads Corn. -'.000 Steel Plows, P.ow Stocks, ?fcc, 500 Handled and other Hoes, $3,500 worth Marcy's Shoes. A large stock of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Hats, Yankee Notions, Saddlerv, Crockervware, Tobacco, Ac. (Sc.. always on hand. All of which we will sell as cheaply for Cash, or on a Credit to aood, reliable and prompt paying customers as can be bought any where in this conntrv. ^Ve ure still agents for the celebrated Wando Fertilizer and also for the Piedmont Gnano, manufactured at Baltimore, Md., both of which are first-class manures. BLECKLEY, BROWN A CO. Feb 3.1881_29__ NEW FURNITURE STORE. WE have CHAIRS, BED3TEADS. BUREAUS, DRESSING CASES. SIDEBOARDS, CHAMBER SUITES, PARLOR SUITES, MATTRESSES, LOUNGES, PICTURES and FRAMES, together with a line LOT OF COFFINS ar.d CASKETS. All in the Masonic Hall. Terms Cash, and Hmall profits. March 2, 1881. 34?3m JOHN B. MOORE.