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RT V, B. MnRTtAY & co. * ~ ' ANDERSON^ S. c TO?rIdAY MORNING, MARCH^ 13, 1884. ' ^LlJM?^x'.---m 35 THE CHERAW TRAGEDY. Another Version of the Bloody Affray. Wadcsboro {N. C.) Intelligencer, March 1. Last week we gave the particulars of a fight between Bogan Cash, the out? law, and Mr. W. H. H. Richards, Mar? shal of Cheraw, which had its origin in the attempt of the Marshal to arscst Cash for drunkenness and disorderly conduct on the streets of Cheraw, Saturday night, February 16th. When we burlesqued the combat, in our last issue, we little thought the affair would terminate in so deplorable a man? ner ; for we deemed Cash a man of cour? age and could not believe he would take any nndne advantage of a man whose only offense was the faithful discharge of his duty and the possession of courage superior to his own. We believed Cash, were he disposed to pursue the matter further, would face his adversary as be? comes a brave man, first warning him ; and in this event, we bad no fear of Mar? shal Richards' ability to defend himself. The sequel, however, shows that Bogan Cash is not only a graceless reprobate, a bully, a bulldozer of timid people, a vil? lain, a cruel, brutal wretch, but that he is withal a consummate coward. On Saturday last he went to Cheraw, ?submitted and paid his fine?forty dol? lars.'. The Marshal, being just as well as brave, was satisfied, declined to prosecute' Cash, and expressed himself as willing to let the matter drop. And so it did drop. Cash remained in town several .hours, attending to certain business mat? ters, and appeared unusually quiet and circumspect. He passed the Marshal several times during the day, but made no hostile demonstration, and this treach? ery led the Marshal to believe that he had nothing to apprehend. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon he was standing on a corner, leaning up against a tree, sunning himself and conversing with a friend, and thinking, perhaps, less of Bogan Cash than of anybody else in the world. While he thus stood, with his back to the sidewalk, Cash walked up unheeded if not unobserved. When he had passed some three or four steps, he suddenly wheeled and commenced dis? charging a No. 88 Smith & Wesson pis? tol. The first shot missed the Marshal two feet, and struck Mr. James Coward in one side, penetrating his body to the other side, within a short distance of the surface, where it was cut out by the sur? geon. When the Marshal beard the explosion of the pistol, he tamed to see what was the matter, and as he turned Cash fired again. The second shot struck the Mar? shal in the breast, pierced one lung and lodged in the region of the spine, in about the position that cowardly Guiteau's ball found a lodgment in thobody of Garfield. A third time Cash fired, but missed again, the ball grazing the Marshal's* clothing and burying itself in a tree. Then there appeared a scene well cal? culated to besmear the reputation for courage which the Cashes have acquired among timid people, and to establish the fact that the younger Cash, at least, is a craven-hearted, black-hearted, sneaking coward, even if his miserable shooting were not sufficient to prove that he was scared out of his wits when he fired at the brave man whom he feared to face. At the third shot Cash ran with all his might for one block?ran as becomes a coward, with his back to the foe. When he had run about a hundred yards, he turned and, Beeing that he was not pur? sued, bravely retreated backwards, brand? ishing his pistol and calling for his boy to bring his horse, which the hoy failed ^fbVdo. He retreated backwards?very bravs indeed, as there was no one follow? ing him?to where the animal was stand? ing, fie leaped upon his horse and gal? loped away at full speed homeward. When the up train reached Cash's De? pot, Cash the younger was standing on the platform, armed with a Winchester rifle and putting on a great many airs. The old man Cash was also with him, but quiet. He pretended to be defying everybody, but when it is remembered that the train had left Darlington before the shooting occurred, and that tbe peo? ple at' Dove's and Society Hill, if tbey had heard of tbe shooting, had no time to prepare themselves, aside from having 00 authority to arrest him, even if they had the inclination to do so. When the train reached Cash's Depot, nobody on board had beard of tbe shoot? ing, and they did not hear of it until th? train reached Cheraw. Cash had calcu? lated on this. He knew that uo attempt would be made to arrest him, and bis valiant strutting up and down the depot platform was nothing more than the meaningless bravado of a coward. Cow? ards axe always brave .vben tbey know there is no danger. Why is it he has not shown himself around tbe depot since the evening in question ? Why is he not so nrave and defiant now as he was then ? Immediately after the shooting, and before Cash had got half way home, J. T. McNair, Esq., the Mayor, volunteered to be one of a party who should pursue Cash and arrest him. Others quickly volunteered, and tbe assassin might have been caught, but when they asked Depu? ty Sheriff Wells to lead them, he uot only refused, but actually got down on his knees and prayed them not to do anything so rash. Without a leader and without authori? ty, tbe citizens cared not to act, but pre? ferred waiting till the Sheriff should execute the law. It was confidently be? lieved that the Sheriff would do his duty, and it was time and again asserted, "When Spofford comes we'll have him," but when Spofford came and went out to arrest Cash, it would appear that, unlike Csesar, he simply went, was seen and was conquered. 1 Arriving at Cash's residence, accompa? nied by only one man?King Timmons, one of Perkins's pals and a henchman of Cash?he was cordially met at the door by the Colonel, who extended bis band, iuvitid him in, and expressed himself as overjoyed to Bee Sheriff Spofford. Tim? mons remained ou his horse at the front gate, but the Colonel waved him to dis? mount, insisting that he should enter and partake of bis hospitality. He did so, of course, for how could a gentleman of King Timmons's calibre be so rude as to refuse bo agreeable an invitation fr???? so delightful an old gentleman an Colo? nel Cash ? On the inside the Sheriff and Timmons fared well. The noble old feudal Lord set out a decanter and with his own royal; hands prepared a toddy for bis guests. After imbibing, smacking tbeir lips and patting their stomachs in ecstacy, tbey sat down to discuss the passing events of the period. The Colonel led the conver? sation-and by-a masterly flank movement quickly came to the topic nearest his heart?tbe heroic action of his son in Cheraw the day before. He spoke at length upon the subject, declaring' him? self well pleased with the deed, but ex Eressing sincere regret that Bogan should ave done sncb poor shooting. Said he : "I just ougbt to have been there; and, by the way, if Richards don't die, he had better die ; if he gets well I shall kill him myself." Colonel Cash then courteously inform? ed the Sheriff that he could not see Bo ! gan, but intimated that Timmons could > see him if he so desired. All that passed is not known, but it is I known that the Sheriff returned to Che raw without making the arrest, and that ! he refuses to render any sort of an ex ! planation for his non-performance of duty. Thus the matter rests. Thus it will rest; for courage has fled to the bushes ' and justice is a corpse in Chesterfield j County. I We will not too readily censure Sheriff Spofford. Perhaps he may know what be is doing, but we venture to say, were Bogan Cash a poor man, be would now be in jail. A wonderful immunity in? deed does wealth give, if its possessor may murder poor men at will and then defy the law. We hear that Col. Cash is one of Spof ford's bondsmen. We do not know if this is true, but if it is true, it may ex? plain the mystery of brave Spofford's non-performance of duty, for be is known to be a courageous man, who has never before shrunk from duty or quailed in the face of danger. We go so far as to say, however, that Cash will not be arrested. After awhile he will name the terms of his surrender, will be allowed bail and will go unwhip? ped of justice. If he ever has a trial it will be but a shameless, brazen-faced mockery. He will be acquitted with honor, and will be turned loose like a mad bull upon the Community, to murder other innocent, unoffending men una? wares and to make widows and orphans at his brutal pleasure. We have always denounced the North? ern outcry, "Lawlessness in the South," as a shame, an imposition, a wrong ; but we are at last forced to admit that it is not altogether a bugbear in some parts of the South at least, and in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, especially. In that County a man who has lived in open defiance of the law for years is allowed to enter the principal town in broad open daylight, walk up behind the Chief of Police and shoot him down like a dog, while a private citizen falls pierced through and through by a random shot. In his flight, he passes three sworn po? licemen, who make no effort to arrest. When a few brave, law-abiding citizens desire to pursue and capture the assassin, the Deputy Sheriff refuses to lead them, falls upon his knees and beseeches them to do nothing so rash. The Sheriff of the County, with a warrant in his pock? et, goes to the bouse where the fugitive is secreted, but, instead of arresting the outlaw, drinks with the outlaw's father, who commends the crime, and, coming away, refuses to speak upon the subject. That is the state of affairs in Chester? field County, and it is a blackening, damning shame upon the County whose proud boast is its chivalry. The truth of the matter is that honest, peaceable, law-observing men are in the | minority in that County. There is a I predominating element, naturally lawless in spirit, whose desire is to live unre? stricted and to be governed only by the bent of its own inclinations. This ele? ment is proud of the Cashes, and prefers to be subject to their imperial will rather than to recognize the majesty of the law and to see that the law is enforced. Were this not true, the Cashes could not behave as they do, and tbe last out? rage would not be permitted to pass with? out an effort being made to bring the guilty to justice. Two-thirds of tbe people in Chester? field County are in sympathy with the Cashes. Every half hour, day and night, a runner posts from Cberaw to their ren? dezvous to inform them of what is said and done. Every cbauge in the condi? tion of '-he wounded men is promptly-re? ported, and they are informed from day to day of every shade of public senti? ment better than any two men in the County. Those who would execute justice are silenced if not intimidated, and while it is intimated that there is a deep-rooted determination among the good people of that outraged community not to let the crime go unpunished, yet we fear their numbers arc too limited for them to do anything. thirsting for more gore. Cash, we hear from good authority, swears to have tbe blood of tbe editor of the Intelligencer. He is welcome to it, but if he comes to Wadesboro after it, we shall always feel in future that our existence in this world has not been passed without the accomplishment of some good. A Heartless Swain. St. Louis, March 2.?Miss Carrie Swain, tbe actress, who is so well known by her work in "Cad, the Tom Boy," has begun a suit for divorce in the St. Louis Circuit Court. In her petition she al? leges that she was married to Samuel C. Swain at San Francisco, Cal., on the 15th day of February, 1876, and lived with bim up to October, 1881, when he deser? ted ber. Depositions taken this after? noon at the ofiice of Mrs. Swain's attor? neys revealed a case of deception on the part of the husband and devotion on the part of the wife which is, to say the least, interesting. Mr*. Swain testified that about three years ago her husband fell ill and it became necessary, as he and his doctor alleged, that be should go to the Bermudas. Mr. Swain left California for tbe Bermudas with tbe agreement from his wife that she should remit to him half of her salary. She was then getting SSO a week and remitted to bis bankers in New York every week the sum of $40. Happening to go to New York Mrs. Swain told some friends about her husband's illness aud trip to the Bermudas, when she was astonished to learn that he had frequently been seen about New York. These statements coupled with the fact that her remittance bad always been sent to New York awoke a suspicion, which was verified when she called at a honse where she learned Mr. Swain was living. Asking for him she was told be was out, "but she could see Mrs. Swain." She did see Mrs. Swain, and from ber learned that she and the erring Samuel had been living together as man and wife on the money sent by her faithful self. She never saw Swaiu again and he has not answered her com? plaint for divorce, so that it will proba? bly be granted by default. Mrs. Swain's testimony was corroborated by her sister, Mrs. Sophia Thias. How (o Stop Bleeding. j If a man is wounded so that the blood i flows, tbnt flow is either regular, or by j jets or spurts. If it flows regularly, a a vein has been wounded, and a string j should be bound tightly around below ! 'the wounded part, that is, beyond it from I the heart. If the blood comes out by j j leaps or jets, an artery has been severed, I I and the person may bleed to death in a | j few minutes; to prevent which apply 1 the cord above the wound, that is, be- < ' tween the wound and the heart. In case a string or cord is not at han<\ tie tbe ' two opposite corners of a handkerchief around tbe limb, put a stick between and turn it around until the handkerchief is twisted sufficiently tight to stop the bleed? ing, and keep it so until a physician can be had. BILL ART'S LETTER. The "Shycoon" Discussed?Hin Effort to Console, Etc. Atlanta Constitution. I reckon tbe elements are satisfied now and will let us alone for a season. We've got nothing to complain of at my house and much to be grateful for, nevertheless one of my props have been k?ocked from under, for I'vejfeen saying and thinking for seven years that these hills and mountains that surround us were like fortifications against storms and tempests and cyclones and simoons and tornadoes and all those sort of things. I thought that tbe high peaks and ridges broke them to pieces when tbey come and we were in no danger, but the other day we could look out at our windows and see tbe raging balloon on its wind? ing way tearing up things and paying no respect to houses or trees or man or beast. It lifted up the roof off of Nabor Mun ford's nice dwelling like the shingles were feathers, and then took hold of his big two-story barn and twisted it it all to pieces, and then dropped the fragments about on nine mules and two horses and a carriage and all sorts of machines, and nine niggers to boot that were inside the building. No, those darkeys were not in. They saw the cyclone fooling round the dwelling house and they run out of the barn just as the suburbs of the monster got there. Says I, "John what did those darkeys do then?" "Good gracious, boss, I tell you?dem niggers just frow demselves down on de groun', sir and holler 'Oh, Lordy?good Lord bab mercy on a poor nigger. Neb? ber be a bad nigger any more, oh, Lordy ?good Lordy'?and de old slycoon pay no 'tentiou at all, but jes' lif 'em up and twis' 'em all roun' and roun' and toss 'em. ober de fence into de red mud and Gim, ray soul I wish you could hab seen Gim, for as he was gwine ober de fence he struck a postis dat was stick-in' up, and he getbered it with both arms and held on and hollered wus than eber, 'Oh, Lordy?oh, my good Lord. Bless de Lord, hab mercy on a poor nigger;' and about that time tbe old slycoou twis he tail &roun' and lif Gim's feet way up over he's head and bis holt broke and he bounced off on the groun' and den took anoder bounce into de mud hold, and dar de consarn lef him. "Atter de Blycoon gone clean away I run up to Gim, and says I, 'Gim, is you dead or no/ Gim lyin' dar in de mud hole wid nuffin but his head out. Gim neber spoke nary word, and his eyes was walled like a dead steer, and so says I agin, 'I say, Gim, is you done gone cleau dead,' for you see I thought if Gim dead no use in my wading in de mud atter him, and Gim he grunt and wall one eye at me and whisper, 'whar is he.' 'Whar's who,'said I. 'De debbil,'said he. 'Done gone,' said I?'gone clean away. Git up from dar?git up I say.' Gim gib a groan and say, 'I can't. I'm done dead.' 'Git up I tell you,' said I, but Gim neber move. Bymeby I frow up my bands and look down de big road and say 'my good Lord Almighty, ef dat ole slycoon aint a comin' right back here.' Neber see a dead nigger come to life like Gim. He bounce outen dat mud hole and start off up de road a runnin' and hollerin' for quarter ot a mile. White folks come along and stop him and look all ober him and neber find a scratch. When he got back we was all cuttin' away de timbers fybm offen de mules, and it was a half an hour before we could git Gim to strike ary lick. Tell you what, boss, e was all mighty bad skeered, but I neber see a nigger as onready for judgment as dat Bame nigger, Gim. When de old debil do git him he raise a rumpus down in dem settlements shore." "Didn't the cyclone take off the roof of your cabin, John V "Of course be did boss. He take de roof off all along ebery where he go. Look like ebery house he come to he dip down and say take your hat off, don't, you see me comin', aint you got no manners, and zip he strike 'em and take it off hisself. He take de roof offen de colored school and offen de white school all de same. He no respeckter of pussons, bless God. Tell you boss, what I tink about dis old slycoon. I tink he nuffin but de old debil on a scurscion. Yah, yah, yah," and John cackled at his own ideas. Well, I was mighty sorry for Nabor Munford, for it tore him up awfully, but it left him bis wife and his pretty little children and his good old mother and all, and he is thankful for that and said to me that his gratitude would be complete if his shade trees bad been left, for ho cuuldent replace them. It was only a few days ago and now you could hardly tell that the storm had been there. In twenty-four hours he had 75 hands at work repairing the damages for be just called for the bands at the mines close by and tbey came, and it was lively times there for a few days, and now every? thing is as good or better than before. I wish all the sufferers could do that way, but alas, there are a hundred families who have lost treasures that money could not replace?treasures of the heart and home that will never re? turn. What a terrible death. Verily these cyclones seem like things of life, or instruments of vengence in the bands of the gods we read about in old mythology. All that ancient romance has recorded of Ajax and Hercules and Jupiter, or all that the Arabian Knights tell us of the genii does not surpass the power and grandeur aud desolation of the modern cyclone. It humbles us more than prayers or preaching. It takes us una? wares. It is the constant dread of the timid and defenceless, and now it takes all my philosophy to keep my household calm and serene. "There is the base? ment," said I, "and we could all run down stairs and be beneath the track of tbe cyclone, for it never wa3 known to attack a basement that was below the ground, nor a cellar, nor a well." Mrs. Arp laid down her kuitting and said, "you don't suppose for a moment that anybody in their right miud would go down in that- basement during a cyclone and have all the timbers of the old house crash iu on them?" "Why, my dear," paid I, "the timbers of this house are old fashioned and strong. Do you know that these sills are 14 inches square and all framed and draw pinued." "So much the worse," said she ; "the heavier the timber the heavier it would full on us. If the house was light it might blow clean away and leave us uu harmed, but these big sills you tell about would just be lifted up a little and drop? ped back into the basement." "Well then there is the flower pit," said I. "That is a good place. There are no timbers over that." "But how are we going to get to the flower-pit," said the girls. "The cyclone comes before anybody knows it, and while we are running to the flower pit it catches us and carries us off." "Not only that," said Mrs. Arp, "but the trees are all about and they would be pulled up by the roots and crush down on the flower-pit and and even the sash frames and the glass could kill us, and then there is always hail with the cyclone and that would beat us all to pieces?no I'm not goiog in the flower pit." "All right," said I. "We will stay right here in the family toora and see it out. I don't think it wil do anything but take the roof off." "Why, it tore Mr. Mun foil's bigstrong barn all to pieces and killec his mules," said she. "It wouldn't mini this house at all." "Then where are you all goiig," said 1, and there wad silence for i season. Finally Mrs. Arp said she flanted to move somewhere where there were no storms or cyclones. "There is \o such place," said I, "this side of heave\." Last night my women folks slajjd up I at nabor Freeman's to tea and abo\t ten o'clock be came down alone and sad he wanted somebody to eo up after.my folks. \ "Why didn't they come down w?,h you?" said I. "Afraid"said he. "Afrdd of what?" said I. "Cyclones," said h\ I was about to express my indignation when he said they bad all been talking about spirits and ghosts and his wife didn't want to be left alone an' so bo left ray folks up there while ho came down. It does look like spirits and mag natism and cyclones are about to take this country and a man don't hardly know whether it is worth while to plant a crop or not, but I reckon we will plant. We have been sowing oats all the week as hard as we can and are still living in hope that sunshine and the seasons will continue and the earth give its increase and this year be a better one than the last. So mote it be. Bill A bp. Raising a Mustache. It might have been Solomon, but most likely it was some of the Latter-day Mormons, who remarked that there were only two interesting events in a man's life. The first was when hair began to come on hi? upper lip, and tbe second when it commenced to go from the top of his head. When a person stops to con? sider how much attention is bestowed on these appendages, and how small the most of them are in spite of all their nursing, the rank they take among ob? jects of interest seems very remarkable. A doting father at the South End has been watching the unfolding of his son's upper lip from doivny bloom through all the stages to hirsute callowuess with a closeness of scrutiny that only a fond parent can bestow, and has arrived at some startling conclusions. He was talking of his family one day last week in a drug store, and, after alluding to the dentition of his youngest, which had just taken place, he dropped off into a reverie and said: "Yes, teething is bad enough, the Lord knows ; but, for real trouble?genuine anguish, you know there is nothing like a mustache that has sprouted and just begun to break ground. My boy Jack had it dreadful about two years ago, and he hasn't recovered yet. Why, the way that fellow acted was enough to break your heart. He would stand before the glass for a half a day at a time, looking at his face and rubbing it in terrible agony. Now and then he would make a frantic grab at his upper lip, and stretching it out over his teeth the way a butcher does a piece of tripe when he is cleaning it, he would rivet his eyes on one corner of his mouth and say 'golly/ in a way that made us think he was going mad. By and by a few hairs came up on each side of his nose, and when he had got eight little saplings on one side and nine on the other, he commenced to twist them for all he was worth. Such coiling and twisting and fondling and patting and nursing I never saw in my born days. Eight hours every day was devoted to this work, and frequently he got in ten or twelve. Giv? ing it a speed of about six revolutions a minute, he would sit facing a mirror and work away without paying attention to any one. Now working eight hours a day at a rate of six turns a minute he makes 8,640 twists between tbe time he gets up and goes to bed again, and con? tinuing at the same speed for a year it reaches the enormous number of 3,153, 600?more revolutions than the earth has made since the nzoic period. Why, if he had beeu boring an artesian well with an auger and turned the crank as often as he has bis mustache, and worked at it as steadily, he would have made a hole over six miles deep in a year, allowing the auger to cut only one-eighth of an inch to every turn. If he had gone to work in a net factory the labor he has put into those seventeen hairs would have twisted marlin enough to catch all tbe fish that swim and had euough over to fence a henyard of a million acres. It j has troubled him so much that he is sen- j siLi ve, and tbe least allusion to it makes him as mad as a bumble bee. Only last | week bis cousin Jennie came down from ; Vermont on a visit, and when she had j kissed me, and my wife, she looked up to I my boy and said : 'Why, Jackey, what a j dizzy little mustache you have got.' j Jack turned as red as a rooster, and my wife, knowing how sensitive he was, tried to keep peace in the family by saying: j 'If you had seen how much he turned it round and round you wouldn't wonder, it ia enough to make anybody dizzy.' Then Jack said, 'Cheese it, mother,' and left j the room in an awful fit of temper. He woo't come into the room where Jennie is, and bis mother is wondering what j makes him act so odd. AU I can say about it is that a father who has a boy with a sprouting mustache is a terribly j afflicted parent, and he has my sympa thy, for I have been there." He arose J after making these observations, and wandered dejectedly homeward. Governor HcDanicl's Wounds, I have before me a letter from Mr. S. E. Keller, of Baltimore, in which there is an interestings'ory. Mr. Keller writes that he lived during tbe war near Funks town, Maryland. As Lee was retreatiug from Gettysburg a sharp skirmish oc? curred in front of his home. While the fight was raging a wounded Confederate was brought into the yard and laid on the pavement. He was horribly wound? ed in the stomach aud the entrails were protruding. His death was considered certain, and this fact was announced to bim. He replied very deliberately: "Dulcc est decorum patria mori?I am in the hands of my Maker?and a Southern soldier kuows how to die." Mr. Keller adds that the scene made a profound im? pression on him and he bad often won? dered what became of the brave Confed? erate, who was shortly afterward moved from bis house. He says: "His name was McDaniel, he was Major of a Geor? gia regiment and had an impediment in his speech. I have seen that a man named McDaniel is elected Governor of your State, and I thought he might know something of the matter of which I have written." Governor McDaniel was himself the Georgia Major alluded to, and Dr. Roach, of tbis city, was tue Confederate surgeon whose prompt and skillful treatment saved the Governor from death as by a miracle. The Governor still suffers from the effects of the wound, and day and night wears a plate that fits over the spot at which the bullet entered. If this plate were displaced by accident, fatal, certainly serious, results might follow.? Henry W. Grady in Atlanta, Constitution, THE LAW OF THE LAND, The Supremo Court of the United Stales Holds that the Federal Election Laws arc Constitutional and Must he Obeyed. Washington, March 3.?A decision was rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States to-day in what are known as the Kuklux cases, which stand on the original docket under the title Ex parte in the matter of Jasper Yarbo rough and others. They are petitions for writs of habeas corpus to release a number of persons now imprisoned under judgment of the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Geor? gia, rendered after the trial and convic? tion of the prisoners for the offence of threatening, beating and otherwise iutim idating colored voters at an election in Georgia for member of Congress. The principal question presented by the cases relates to the constitutionality of the law under which the prisoners are held. Justice Miller, speaking for the vourt, after deciding that the offence set *rth in the indictment is fully covered h Sections 5,508 and 5,320 of the Re vied Statutes, says: "That a Govern J?? whose essential character is repub? lic^, whose executive head and iegisla tivety)dy are both elective, whose most numrous and powerful branch of the Legiauure is elected by the people direct^ has no power by appropriate laws toiecure this election from the iu fluencejof violeuce, of corruption and fraud, I6\ proposition so 1 :artling as to arrest tl* attention and demand the gravest tysidoration. If this Govern? ment is ari^hing more than a mere ag? gregation f delegated agents of other States and Wernmenls each of which is superior t'v the General Government, it must have\ower to protect the elec? tions, on whib its existence depends, from violence ?,d corruption. If it has not this ? .?wert is jeR helpless before the two greatpatural and historical enemies of all Vpublicans?open vio? lence and insiddyg corruption." Ad? dressing himself t the argument made in this case, that b\aUse there is no ex? press power deleted to Congress to I provide for preventiv violence exercised on a voter as a meanipf controlling his ! vote no such law can \ enacted, he says : "It destroys at one bio jn constructing the Constitution of tl United States, j the doctrine universaUappijed to all i instruments of wriUnnfhat what is i implied is as much a par^.f the instru? ment as what is expressed '["his princi- j pie in its application to ^Constitution i of the United States, more\jian almost i any other writing, is a necefyy by rea- I son of the inherent inability0 pUt into i words all the derivative pow^ a diffi- ; culty which the instrument il^f recog- < nizes by conferring on Congress^, thority i to pass all laws necessary and )(,per to i carry into execution powers fepressly i granted and all other powers V^ed jn , the Government, or any branch oir by ] the Constitution." He points V the i power of Congress tc pass laws to l>oisli I theft or robbery of the treasury othe | United States and depredations or>he j mails, although Congress has been ghn , no express authority to pass such lay ( As to the argument that the States , pas3 the necessary laws on this subject ' and that no necessity exists for such1 action by Congress, he points out that the existence of State laws punishing the counterfeiting of coin of the United States has never been held to supersede the Acts of Congress passed for the pur? pose or to justify the United States in failing to enforce its own laws to protect tbe circulation of the coin which it issues. He directs attention also to the attempts of Cougre?s to protect officers of the Government in the exercise of their duties in hostile communities, in the nul? lification troubles in South Carolina and in tbe late rebellion during the troubles growing out of the enforcement of the draft. Heask3: "If it be not doubted that Congress has power to provide laws for tbe proper conduct of elections for representatives in Congress, are such powers annulled because an election for State officers is held at the same time and place?" and replies : "These ques? tions answer themselves. It is only bo cause the Congress of the United Slates through long habit and years of forbear? ance has, in deference and respect to the States, refrained from the exercise of these powers that they are now doubted." He holds that the 15th amendment of the Constitution, by its limitation ou the power of the States in the exercise of their right to prescribe the qualifications of voters in their own elections and by its limitation of the power of the United States over that subject, clearly shows that the right of suffrage was considered to he of supreme importance to the National Government and was not inten? ded to be left within the exclusive con? trol of the State. He closes with this language: ''In a Republican Govern? ment like ours, where political power is reposed exclusively in the representatives of the entire body of the people chosen at short intervals by popular elections, the temptation to control these elections by violence and by corruption is a con? stant source of danger. Such has been the history of all Republicans, and though it has been comparatively free from both these evils iu the past, no lover of his country can shut his eyes to the fear of future danger from both sources. If the recurrence of such acts as these prisoners stand convicted of are too common in one quarter of the country and give , omen of danger from lawless violence, ; the free use of money in elections arising I from the vast growth of recent wealth in i other quarters presents equal cause for I anxiety. ' "The rule to show cause in this case is i discharged and the writs of habeas corpus \ denied." Good Advice. Edison Gay lord, of Floyd County, Iowa, advocates setting trees in a leaning posture, to prevent them from being killed by the combined effects of the wind and the sun on their Southwest side. Prof. J. L. Uudd, of the Iowa Agricultural College, .says, in confirma? tion of Mr. Gaylord's view, he saw hun? dreds of the liner cherry and plum tnr-s in Russia planted at an angle of -15? to? wards the 1 o'clock sun. lie says that only for a short time will trees thus set have an awkward appearance. Other parlies than those named, and in other States than Iowa, have recommended this method of planting some kinds of fruit trees. The rationale of the recom? mendation is, that the effect of the rays of the sun on the sides of tbe tree slock is diminished, thus lessening the risk of what is called "sun scald," so detrimen? tal to apple trees, particularly after severe freezing in Winter, which injures the bark on the Southwest side of the stocks, and ultimately destroys the trees. When the large peach orchards were planted out in tbe vicinity of Aikcn some thirty years ago, which gave a rep? utation to the fruit iu New York and Charleston markets, this plan was adop? ted of setting the trees with a slight inclination to the Southwest, for the very purpose mentioned above. ? In the North Carolina Penitentiary thero are IIS whites aud 894 blacks. SISTER SUE'S WEDDING. Jimmy Tries His Trlnting Press on Hii Sinter's Wedding Invitations. Sue ought to have been married ? long while ago. That's what everybody says as knows her. She has been engaged to Mr. Travers for three years and she had to refuse lots of offers to go to the circus with other young men. I have wanted her to get married so that I could go and live with her aud Mr. Travers, When I think that if it hadn't been for a mistake I made she would have been married yesterday, I find it dreadfully hard to be resigned. But we ought al? ways to be resigned to everything when we'ean't help it. Befoie I go any further I must tell about my printing press. It belonged to Tommy McGinuis, but he got tired of it and sold it to me real cheap. He was going to write to the Young Peo? ple's post-office box and offer to exchange it for a bicycle, a St. Bernard dog, and twelve good books, but he finally let me have it for a dollar and a half. It prints beautifully, and I have printed cards for ever so mauy people, and made three dollars and seventy cents already. I thought it would be nice to be able to print circus bills in case Tom and I should ever have another circus, so I sent to the city and bought some type more than an inch high, and some beautiful yellow paper. Last week it was decided that Sue and Mr. Travers should be married without waiting any longer. You should have seen what a state of mind her and mother were in. Tbey did nothing but buy new clothes, and sew and talk of the wedding all day loug. She was determined to be married in church, and to have six bridesmaids and six bridegrooms, and flowers, aud music, and things till you couldn't rest. The only thing that troubled her was making up her mind who to invite. Mother wanted to invite Mr. aud Mrs. McFadden and the seven McFadden girls; but Sue said they had insulted her, and she couldn't bear the idea of inviting the McFadden tribe. Everybody agreed that old Mr. Wilkin? son, who once came to a party at our house with one boot and one slipper, couldn't be invited; but it was decided that every one else that was on good terms with the family should be invited. She counted up all the people she raaent to invite, and there were uearly three hundred of them. You would hardly believe it but she told me I must carry around all the invitations and deliver Lhein myself. Of course I could not do this without neglecting my studies and loosing time, which is always precious, io I thought of a plan which would save 3ue the trouble of directing three hun Jred invitations and save me from wast: ing time delivering them. I got to work with ray printing press and printed a Jozen splendid big bills about the wed Jing. When they were printed I cut a lot of small pictures of animals and ladies riding on horses out of some old circus bills, and pasted them on the wedding bills. Tbey were perfectly georgeous, and you could see them four or five rods off. When they were all done, I made some paste in a tin pail aud went out after dark and pasted them in good places all over the village. The next afternoon father came into the house looking very stern, and carrying one of the wedding vlla in his hand. He handed it to \isan and said: VSusan, what does this mean ? These h\d are pasted all over the village, and thV) are crowds of people reading tho,(? S)5 read the bill and then she gave an awfi^ahriek aud fainted away, and I hurria jown t0 the post-office to see if the m;, had come. This was on the bill, a\j i am sure it was spelled all right: V Miss Sus,! Brown announces that she will . , Vry Mr. James Travers at the chuyij next Thursday at 7.30 sharp. All tV Friends of the'Family, , T T, ,, Xith the exception of McFadden\jue and 0id Mr. Wilkinson, ., ? are invited. ^?Vc early and bring us of flowers. Now, what there to find fault with in that? It w^prjnted beautifully and every word was,peiieQ right, with the exception of thvname of the church, and I wasn't quiy BUre how to spell it. The bill saved S*, an the trouble of sendiugout invitatio and itsaid every? thing that anybodywant to know about the wedding. \?V 0tber girl but Sue would have been leased, and would have thanked me for niy trouble, but she was as angry as if I hat done something real bad. Mr. Traveri was almost as angry as Sue, and it wti tbe first time he was ever angry with me. I am afraid now he won't ever let me come and live with him. He hasn't said a word about my coming since the wedding bills were put up. As for '.he wedding, it has been put off, and Sue taya she will go to New York to be married, for she vould per? fectly die if she w?re to have * weddiug at home after that boy's dreadful conduct. What is worse, I art to be Bent away to a boarding school, and all because I made a mistake in printing the wedding bills without first a*king ftue how she would like to have them prided. To a Yotiujr Housekeeper. I think you will find the follow1*? rules very good. Tbouga the time ft* boiling green vegetables depends mucV upou the time they have teen gathered and the more quickly the-, are cooked. Always let the water boil Wore putting them iu, and continue to bol until done. Turuips. Should be scriped before boiling, boil frjm 40 rainuss to one hour. If mashed, press the water out first. Beets. Should never be cut 6 scraped. Boil from 1 to 2 hours, when lone put them one at a time into a pat.of cold water and slip the skins off. Carrots. Can be cut if too large. Boil from 30 minutes to an hour?ind a half. Spinach. Should boil V, hours. I Parsnips. From 20 to 3? minute.< ? Onions. Are best boiled in 2 r 3 i waters, adding milk the last time, oil ; from 20 to 30 minutes. String Beans. From 1 hour to ^ ! hours. i Shelled beans. Require from \ a ; hour to 1 hour. ! Green Com. From 20 to 30 minutes. Green Peas. Should be boiled in as i little water as possible, for 20 minutes. Asparagus. Same as peas; serve on toast with cream gravy, i Winter Squash. Cut in pieces and i boil 20 to 40 minutes in a small quantity j of water; when done press the water ! out, mash, smooth and season with butter, j pepper and salt. 9 I Cabbage and Dandelions. Boil from A to 1 houi in plenty of water, if the cabbage is large 1A hours. If salt is used in greens or cabbage put in while boiling. Old potatoes. Are better to have the skins cut off the seed end, and better still to he pared and put into cold water I 2 or 3 hours before boiling; then put them in fresh water; when done pour j off the water, put the kettle on the top j of the stove uncovered until the potatoes I are dry. A Woman's Plain Talk. 1 It seems to be an accepted fact, writes j a clear-headed and noble housekeeper ; (who signs herself "A Woman") to the ! Barnesville (Georgia) Gazette, that wo? men are becoming more self-reliant than of yore, and also that more is expected of them by the men who are respectively ! most interested in them. The toiling j father exerts himself to give his daugh , ter all the advantages that are now added to the studies for women, and, when she has acquired these?many of which have formerly been considered the special ad ; vocations of the sterner sex?he very I naturally and properly expects her to j make a practical application of her ac | quirements. \ The husband who is forced to labor lor ; the support of the family, of course, ' expects iue co oppration of his wife in I whatever way proves best and wisest for their mutual interests. To the honor of the sex be it said, that the woman, either daughter or wife, who fails to give all the aid within her power, is the exception and not tbe rule. It is tbe worker at home in whom I, at present, feel most deeply interested, and, of her. I propose to say a few words of encouragement and defense. We do not all go out in the world and in return, for services given, come back to our families with wages in baud, so many dollars and cents to be expended for their bread and raiment; few of us arc capacitated for that, and if we were, tbe most of us are so circumstanced that such qualifications would afford us but little advantage. No; our work for the most part must necessarily be performed within the narrow confines of home, but is it the less important for this ? Nay ; on the contrary, it is the work that every wife and mother should consider tbe most important of her life, and to it she should give her most faithful attention. It is work tbat is above price or tbe con? sideration of wages, as every woman knows who has ever tried to turn it over to the bands of hirelings. How strange, then, that such work should be estimated as standing with tbe trifles that make up the sum of life. How often do we see men who place this estimate on the work of women, who spend their lives looking after the everyday comforts of their hus? bands and childrfln. Such men know their homes are com? fortable, their meals are regularly served to them just to suit their tastes ; their clothing is in good order; their children are neatly and comfortably clad ; every? thing is tidy in the house when they re? turn after the day's labor is over; tbey know and injoy these comforts, and yet how few realize or even think how much care is necessary to keep this state of things in order in the household. How rtTrr?^ *hem.?yer think of the amount of sweeping, scruvttr^Wns?ng, bed making, baking, stitching, darning, -^hiae ironing, milking, churning, nursing, cTR* it requires to keep up even a decent show of neatness and comfort in a household where there are children and inefficient heln? Herein lies the secret of many a wo? man's weariness of the whole problem of house-keeping and its never-lifted bur? dens. It is because, toil as she may, after all her work is done, it is accepted as a matter of course and considered a service that should be rendered as a mere pastime. The women who perform the duties of house-keeping for men of this stamp (they are numerous) soon learn to expect nothing in the way of compensation for such service. On the contrary, one finds that she is expected to do the work and to do it in such an unobtrusive way that her lord may not be annoyed with any of the disagreeable things attending it. He is known as the breac vinner and she as the bread eater. He onus the money and spends it. If she asl:? for money she is greeted with a stare of surprise and he forthwith wants to know what she did with the last he gave her?twenty-five cents perhaps. She accounts for twenty cents, and he at once bends all tbe powers of his mind to the task of finding out what she did with the nickel of which she has not spoken. She never asks bim for money when she can avoid it, and when she does never gets it until she is made to feel meanly bumble as if she bad robbed a ben roost! She feels that she has worked as honestly, and far more laboriously, than the gifted man who had painted a picture and sold it, but she dare not think of such a thing as spending her money as freely, or would not if she could get it. Every woman is necessarily dependent upon her husband more or less for tbe money she spends, and this dependance is either very pleasant or very bitter. A right understanding and adjustment of affairs can enable her to receive monoy at tbe bands of ber husband in a spirit not only of self-respect, but of rejoicing in ber despondency ; or, it can be given to her in such & way that she will feel like a dog when she asks for it and when she receives it. In another article I pro? pose to suggest some ideas and the better way. In Old Story Revised and Improved. An Irishman, finding his cash at low ;bb, resolved to adopt "the road" as a professional means of refreshing the ex? chequer ; and hayiDg provided himself with a huge horse-pistol, proceeded forth? in to the conventional "lonely com? mon" and lay in wait. The no less con? ventional farmer returning from the mar? ket with a "bag of money," of course, soon appeared, to whom entered Pat with the regulation highwayman offer of choice, "Your money or your life!" a remark fortified by the simultaneous ex? hibition of the firearm in the usual way. The farmer, who was a Quaker, essayed to temporize: "I would not have thee staiu thy soul with sin, friend; and didst thou rob me of my gold, it would be theft ? and didst thou kill me, it would be murder. But hold! A bargaiu is no sin, bm a commerce betweeu two honest men. I will give thee this bag of gold for the pistol which thou holdest at my ear." The unsuspecting amateur Mac? beth, yielding, perhaps, to the Quaker's logic and solicitude for his spiritual wel? fare, made the exchange without a mo? ment's hesitation. "Now, friend," cried the wily Ephraim, leveling the weapon, "give me back my gold or I'll blow thy brains out!" "Blaze away thin, darlint I" said Pat. "Sure, there's niver a dhrop of powtber in it." The resulc was a sold Quaker. i L ' ? "In this issue," said an exchange, 's an article headed 'What will the ccninggirl wear?" We rather think, b(vever, she won't wear anything?when 8hicomes." -"How is the earth divided V asked ; a poipous examiner, who had already I wormut the patience of the class. "By j earthiiakes," replied one boy, after ! whichthe examiner found that he had I enoughof that class. I i ? A jt of women voted in Ringham I ton, NewYork, the Other day, and when their ticets were handed' them tbey wanted tttake them home and run a hem arourj the edges so they wouldn't ravel out. A woman kn >ws lots about the ballot. A Marriage In China. I had not been to the hotel here in ; Jlong Kong five minutes before my at? tention was distracted by a tenific noise. Hushing to the front balcony, I was just '? in time to see quite a remarkable wed? ding procession. At first, from the noise 1 and general style of the affair, T thought : it was a funeral, but I soon discovered j the difference. A funeral procession is a j more cheerful instruction than a wedding ! procession?with the possible exception, ' perhaps, of the hired mourners. Besides j this there is one other difference?tbe j corpse at a wedding is a live one instead of a dead one. I think if I had my choice I would rather be the dead than j the live corpse. The inferiority of the female sex is one of the fundamental principles to which the Chinese hold. Even Confucious does not seem to have had a very broad and elevated sentiment in this regard, for he is quoted as having said : "Of all people, women are the most difficult to manage. If you are familiar with them, they become forward, and if you keep them at a distance, they become discon? tented." Many women here are in the habit of praying that they may be born men in the next world. But this wedding procession. First came a dozen musicians, who were beat? ing gongs and blowing fish-horns, each apparently without any reference to the rest. Then followed a company of men and boys, bearing flags and lanterns, after which came a series of gilded tables with elaborately carved and paiuted canopies over them. The display of fruits was quite tempting, and I longed for a slice of the roast pig and the roast sheep. But there were also native dishes which by experiment I had previously found to be far from appetizing. Thus far every thing was arranged just as a funeral procession wotild be, and was composed' of the same features. But now there wa3 a slight departure from the funeral order of this society. There came a magnificent sedan chair, the windows of which were thoroughly curtained, but which I was told contain the happy (?) bride. This gorgeous se? dan chair was followed by others, and also by gayly decorated jinrikishas, in which were seated the relatives of both contracting parties. More so-called mu? sicians followed, and the procession wound up with a load of boxes, which I inferred contained the marriage offerings, and perhaps the trousseau of the bride. In the north of Mongolia it is custo? mary for the native to capture his wife after a chase, and in any part of the Em? pire the latter becomes his property when the twain have formerly been made one flesh. Marriage usually takes place at an immature age. In the great ma? jority of cases the bridegroom never sees his intended wife until the wedding night, all negotiations being conducted ^^gO;betweens. This intercessor lavs jec?T?r ewoWl^'8 ffathtr- who r'e' In case of a favorab^VSf^Jj pleaSef* are exchanged, and, after consultff^^:8 auguries, an engagement is ontered^ntoT" In case a piece ot chinawarc shotrtti-w.. broken in either home, or an article be lost within three days of the engagement, this is considered good ground for the immediate dissolution of the engagement Astrologers determine the wedding day, which is entirely beyond the control of the pair. The ceremony tukes place at the home of the bridegroom, to which the bride is escorted by the groom's "best man," being lifted from her sedan chair over a pot of burning charcoals at the threshold. The bridegroom meanwhile is waiting for his unseen Dulcina in a rccjption room, being seated on a raised dais. Ap? proaching this dais, the fair one prostrates herself humbly before her future lord. While she is in this attitude of humility he descends benignantly to her level, re? moves her veil and gazes for the first time upon her face. Theu, without ex? changing a word, they seat themselves side by side, and each try to sit on a part of the other's gown, in order to deter? mine who is destined to hold sway in the household. There is no real occasion for this, since there is a tacit understand? ing that it will be the. man. The trial of skill over, the pair proceed to the ancestrial ball, and there worship heaven, earth and their ancestors, after which dinner is served. The most sin? gular feature of the wedding repast is enforced abstinence from ail the dainties on the part of the bride. Later in the evening the bride will answer conundrums as they are propoun? ded to her by the guests. The wedding day is the last occasion upon which the wile can enjoy the society of her husband in public?one of the hardest and most barbarous features of social life in China. After the labor of the day no citizen of the flowery kingdom can take his wife and family for a pleasant walk at dusk ; neither can he accompany her to a picnic or public entertainment without violat? ing the proprieties. Woman's Tenacity of Life. It appears from tbe gathered statistics of the world that women have a greater tenacity of life than men. Nature wor Rhips the female in ail its varieties. Among insects the male perishes at a relatively early period. In plants tho seminate blossoms die earliest and are produced in the weaker limbs. Female quadrupeds have more endurance than males. In the human race, despite the intellectual and physical strength of the man, the womau endures longest, and will bear pain to which the strong man succumbs. Zymotic diseases are more fatal to males, and more male children die than female. Deverga asserts that the proportion dying suddenly 13 about 100 women to SSO men ; 1,080 men in the United States in 1870 committed sui? cide to 2S5 women. Intemperance, apo? plexy, gout, hydrocephalus, aff.'eiinns of the heart or liver, scrofula, paralysis, are far more fatal to males than fema'e3. Pulmonary consumption, on the other hand, is more deadly to the latter. Fe? males in cities are more prone to con? sumption than in the country. All old countries not disturbed by immigration have a majority of females in the popu? lation. Iu the royal families the statis? tics show more daughters than sons. The Hebrew woman is exceptionally long lived ; the colored man exception? ally short lived. The married state is favorable to prolongation of life among women. Dr. Hough remarks that there are from two to six per cent, more males born than females, yet there are more than six per cent, excess of females in the living populations. From which statistics we conclude that all women who can possibly obtain one of those rapidly departing men ought to marry, and that, as men are likely to become so very scarce, they canuot be sufficiently prized by the other sex. ? It was a temperance meeting, and the speaker, with a smile of modesty, began: "Ladies and gcullemqn, were I to talk lengthily upon this subject I would no doubt bore you." In a mo? ment, however, a voice from the gallery was heard to retort, "Na fear, mister, you're no sharp enough for that.