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mm VOLUME VIII.-NUMBER 1190. CHARLESTON, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1869. SIX DOLLARS A YEAR. I -. mj vi vnsrrrrp V TT- K T. 1TX SAID. THE ELECTIONS. PENNSYLVANIA PROBABLY CAR? RIED BY THE DEMOCRATS. OHIO STILL IN DOUBT. [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEWS.] WASHINGTON, October 14-io P. M. The fact that the news dispatches from Penn? sylvania and Ohio reached us, for the most part, through Radical sources, has thus far given an unfavorable coloring to the returns. The Democrats to-night are much elated by pri? vate and trustworthy advices indicating that, after all, Packer (Democrat) has beaten Geary (Radical) for Governor Lu Pennsylvania. Ia Ohio, too, the prospect, In the light of the latest returns, looks decidedly brighter; and even bets are offered to-night that Pendleton is elected. It is certain, at least, that the contest is so close as to require the official count to determine the result. [FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.] WASHINGTON, October 14-Noon. The result in Pennsylvania between Packer and Geary is considered doubtful. The election of Wil? liams (Republican) to the Supreme Court is con? ceded. The Press estimates Geary's majority at two to three thousand. The Radical State Cen? tral Committee estimates the majority at four thousand. The Age says: "The contest ls close, and a few hundred votes may settle the matter." A prominent Radical telegraphs the President, claiming 10,000 majority for Hayes, (Radical,) in Ohio, and also a Radical majority lu the Legisla ture. LATER.-8:30 P. M.-Private dispatches Just re? ceived seem to render thc election of Packer, (De? mocrat,) in Penney Hania, tolerably certain." The official retur s will be necessary to decide the result in Ohio. AN ELECTION ROW. PH i LADE LP n IA. October 14. During the session of the judges of election for receiving the returns, a sheriff's officer attempt? ed to serve a writ of injunction to prevent count? ing the vote ;. The officer was resisted and eject? ed from the room, to which he had obtained ad? mission under pretence of being a return Judge. He came back with a posse, followed by a crowd, broke open the door, and served the writ. He then ordered the arrest of sundry persons in the room, whom he charged with resisting him. A reporter of the Associated Press was beaten in a shocking manner by the police and locked up. The return judges ?re now Lu court to await its action. There ls great excitement in Chestnut street at this time. THE OLD DOMINION. RICHMOND, October 14. The premiums awarded at the State Fair at Staunton to-day amounted to two thousand dol? lars. Charles M. Stieff, of Baltimore, received the first award for pianos; A?T. Routh, of Vir? ginia, for the best useful inventions, and Benja? min Smith, colored, for the best specimen of b?r? rela The fair closed with practice hy the ladies in archery, a tournament and masked ball. A telegram tb the Dispatch says: "Governor Walker made an address to-day at Danville. In the political portion of his address he said he felt nothing but pity for the opposition party in thc late canvass, who were led by a set of cormorants and carpet-baggers, who had nothing at stake but their own selfish interests. He- rejoiced that thc election settled the fact that Virginia was here? after to be ruled on principles of right and justice, and civil and political equality. What she now needs is plenty of honest, industrious and intelli? gent laborers, no matter from what source they come. He appealed to the young men of Virginia not to forsake the State, and hot to forsake thc plough and fly to the large cities of the North, where vice and demoralization awaited them." Judge Rye, the State Treasurer, also spoke, much in the same strain. EUROPE. The Thunderer on the Fenian Amnes? ty and American Finance?-T h e Fighting in Spain-Eugenie at Con? stantinople, ?Seo. LONDON, October 12. The Times, in an editorial on the Fenian am? nesty meeting, says: "The Crown is invited to pardon rebels who do not pretend to be penitent, not because conspiracy is crushed, but because it is still formidable enough to rally sympathiz? ers. No one doubts the right of government to suppress with vigor outrages against law and or? der. Had the forbearance or the Crown been in? voked in a becoming tone, with a recognition of its rights to protect peaceable and loyal citizens, amnesty might be a message of peace. At pre? sent we see no presumption that lt would be re? ceived in that spirit by the demanden*. While it must operate as a discouragement to those who helped to crush the Fenian outbreak, there can be no greater injustice or more impolitic step than such an act, if Ireland ls still Fenian at heart or hostile to union. We believe the majority of the Irish would rejoice at the suppression of Fen lanlsm, and that some who signed the amnesty petitions would be thankful if the petitions would be rejected." The Times hos an editorial to-day on financial matters in the United States. The writer says: "There may be circumstances in the financial po? sition of the United States authorizing so glaring a departure from the sound rules of public econ? omy; but lt is difficult to deny that the mere struggle of gamblers, by an act of government, ls magnified into an event of national importance. If Mr. Boutwell had persevered, more money would have changed bands, more fortunes been made or marred, other brokers gone mad, ab? sconded or committed suicide, and the threat against Fisk might have been executed. It is not easy to decide whether this will be for good or evil. It might have allayed the speculative fever, sobered the gambling madness, weaned some helpless dupes from the exchange, rid lt of some arrant rogues. The lesson will not be altogether lost. Had the leeson gone on to the end it might have been more impressive, and its precepts en? hanced by higher cost." MADRID, October 14. The railroad near Valencia was destroyed after a light in which 250 were killed on both sides. The troops are intrenched in Valencia awaiting reinforcements before making a final attack. The frigate In the harbor will support the troops In the assault. PARIS, October 14. There were several large meetings yesterday and no disturbances. The Empress Eugenie arrived at Constantino? ple to-day. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. General Belknap has accepted the position of Secretary of War. There arc no new developments In regard to thc Tenneasee senatorshlp. Captain Godfrey, the well known proprietor of the Battle House, MobUe, died yesterday. Grant, Sherman, Cresswell and Robeson have arrived in Frederick, Md., to attend the Maryland State Fair. Business was suspended yesterday, in Louis vLUe, to permit everybody to Join in the Com? mercial Convention procession, which was five mlleB long. The agitation between the Catholics and Pro? testants of Cincinnati, on the subject of the Bible infhe schools, continues. Archbishop Purcell has started for Rome. TUE COMM ERC IA Z CONVENTION. LOUISVILLE, October 14. Committees of one from each State have been appointed on the following subjects : Southern Pacific Railroad; Railroads in General; JDirect Eu? ropean Trade; Immigration; Mississippi and Ten? nessee River Improvements: Direct Communica? tion by Water with the Atlantic; Levees; Missis? sippi Outlets: Protection of Labor; Reduction o." Taxation._ THE LAURENS RAILROAD SQUAB? BLE. What thc Citizens of Laareng have to Say about it. MARTIN'S DEPOT, LAURENS, S. C., Sept, 30. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEWS, We, the undersigned, citizens of Laurens, of the immediate vicinity of Martin's Depot, de? siring that falsehood should not pass for truth, and having read and heard of the late scanda? lous and false publication made, through thc columns of a Radical press, by one Joe Crews, against our neighbor, Dr. Benjamin S. James, lessee of the Laurens Railroad, and knowing Dr. James to be a high-toned gentleman, and that he would not condescend to notice any? thing coming from the dirty source from which the article above referred to purports to come, feel it due to truth and to the reading public outside of our district, where the character of Dr. James, for sterling integrity, moral worth, and for all that is just, true, generous, honest and noble, may not be known, to state that the article written against him over the signature of the said Joe Crews is as false, scandalous and infamous as he, the said Joe Crews, is worthless, and unworthy of belief or of any confidence. The whole publication of Crews ls a tissue of falsehoods. Signed : Wm. F. Motts, H. R. T. Bonds, J. Y. Hunter, J. S. Johnson, Wm. Smith, J. E. Abrams, J. P. Johnson, Jared S. Johnson, F. Johnson, B. S. Jones, D. H. A. Mason, L. L. Young, D. C. Suber, J. W. Oxner, J. A. Dice, P. L. Grimes, Samuel Ferguson, John Miller, Robert S. Vance, Henry Suber, James Hernan? dez, S. L. Vance, W. M. Entrikln, J. T. Finney, J. D. Copeland, James H. Boyd, Samuel Copeland, J. G. Entrikln, J. 8. McCrary, G. A. MiUer, J. M. Meadows, W. W. Neil, G. T. Speake, Olin D. East, L. F. Duckett, S. W. Vance, C. Pitts, J. C. Miller, Ewell K. Trlbble, J. 8. Karsten, George W. Sadler, S. B. Monroe, Thomas NeU, Wm. East, R. J. Copeland, L. A. East, J. L. Young, John A. Smith, J. D. Wat? son, J. L. Crawford, W. H. Farrar, R. Blalock, Moses Potter, Thomas Weir, Jr., Wm. Rook, M. D., Wm. J. Rook, P. M. Meadows, Rev. T. H. Pope, Dr. T. P. Rook, J. W. Riser, Laurens Metis, C. D. East. I'ERE^QTA CINTHE. The Bishop of Orleans Adjures him to Retrace his Steps-Hyacinthe's Reply. The French journals publish the following letter from the Bishop of Orleans to Father Hyacinthe: ORLEANS, September 25, 1869. My Dear Brother-As soon as I learned from Paris what you were about to do, I endeavored, as you know, to spare you, at all cost, what would be, on your part," so great a fault and misfortune, and al the same time a cause of profound sorrow to the church. I sent at thc moment, and at night, your former co-dlscl Sle and friend to slop you, if it was posstbh>. ut it was too late; the scandal was consum? mated, and now you eau measure, from the grief of your friends in thc church, and the joy of all her enemies, thc harm you have don?. To-day I can do no moro than pray to Got!, and conjure you to arrest yourself on the de? clivity you are on, and winch leads to abysses that the troubled eye of your soul has never seen. You have suffered, I know; but let me say to you that Fathers Lacordaire and De Ra vignan, I also know, suffered more than you. and raised themselves thc more In patience .and In strength by theil' love of the church and of Jesus Christ. How have you failed to feel the injury you do to the church, your mother, by these accusatory anticipations, and the injury yon do to Jesus Christ, in placing yourself alone before him, in contempt of His church ? But I desire to hope, and hope that lt will bc nothing but a transient deviation. Come again among us; alter causing the Catho? lic world this sorrow, give her a great conso? lation and example. Go, throw yourself at the feet of the Holy Father. He will open his arms to you, press yon to his fraternal heart, and restore your peace of conscience and thc honor of your life. Receive from one who was your bishop, and who will never cease to love your soul, this testimony and these counsels i rom a true and religious affection. FELIX, Bishop of Orleans. Father Hyaciuthe has written the following reply: Jfonseio7ieur : I am much touched by tho sentiment which dictated the letter yon have done me the honor of writing, and I am most grateful for the prayers which you are kind enough to offer up In my behalf; but I can neither accept the reproaches nor thc counsels you address to me. What you call a ?reat fault committed, I call a great duty fai? ned. Accept, Monseigneur, the homage of the respectful sentiments with which I remain, in Jesus Christ and in His church, your very humble and obedient servant, FATHER HTACINTHE. Paris, September 26, 1869. MUSICAL. -Adelina Patti is now In Paris, after her visits to Baden and Homburg. -An orcnostra, composed entirely of female performers, !s making a concert tour through Germany. -Balfe is about to bring out in Paris the "Bohemian Girl," under the title of "La Boh?? mienne." -Albonl receives at St. Petersburg the same pay as Patti-otherwise elie would not have gone there. -Offenbach affects eccentricity in dross, and wears "a blue velvet coat, a conical pinched hat and a pink parasol." La Grange, according to late accounts from abroad, has not abandoned thc stage, but will sing this winter in some of the German cities. -Halevy's opera of "Noe" is to be brought out In Paris next January. M. Bizet has writ? ten for one of the acts a symphony descriptive of the deluge. -Wagner's new opera of "Rheingold" has been postponed a'fter thc first dress rehearsal. The difficulty is to make the gods and god? desses walk on a rainbow. -Maretzek played the piano accompaniment for CarlotLt Patti, at a concert in New York, last week, and did lt well, too, although unac? customed to such work for the last ten years. -Capoul, the tenor, wantedto accept an en? gagement offered to him for America by Max Strakosch, but the manager of the Opera Com? ique thinks he has a claim to tho popular tenor, and threatens a lawsuit about it. -Speaking of amateur singers, an English writer says that while they are all wearisome, the ladies are the more endurable, for "they are more up to their work. The number of ladies who can play and sing tolerably well is infinitely greater than that of the gentlemen possessing the same talent and skill. The great fault of the ladles is that they are too am? bitious. A girl who has a good voice, which is really effective in a small room, thinks-and herein deceives herself-that it will be equally effective in a large concert room or theatre. She sings ballads admirably, as well, perhaps, as they need be sung. Therefore she attempts bravura airs, and does not sing them nearly so well as they would be sung by a fourth-rat.? ttcitn?a donna on the Italian stage." THE GREAT PARIS MURDER. THE MOST REMARKABLE AND ATROCIOUS CRIME OF THE AGE. Thc Effect of Reading Eugene Sue's Wandering Jew-Seven Persons tn one Family Butchered near Pari* Thc Motive of thc Murderer-A Mid? night Struggle-Finding of the Buried Bodies-Arrest of thc Murderer-His Attempted Suicide, and his Confession. Pantin is the name of an obscure suburb of Paris, not lar from the gates of the city pro? per. In tlie early gray dawn of the morn? ing of the 20th of September, a laborer in this locality named Langlois set out for his morning's work. It happened that lils way led across a Held which had recently been ploughed. The ground was damp and heavy, and he plodded along slowly. As he passed the mid? dle of thc field, he saw something white. Very naturally he went up^tO it, and seeing that il was a handkerchief, he picked it up and looked at it. He saw that it was stained with blood. He stopped and looked around thc place where he found it. The earth was thrown about as though it had been lately disturbed, and, on searching more carefully, the workman found that directly under the spot where he lind picked up the handkerchief a human body lay covered with a few inches of earth, and appa? rently just buried. The man was very much frightened, and started for thc nearest police station, running os fast as he could. THE VICTIMS OP THE MASSACRE. The station was not far off, and he soon re? turned with aid. Careful search was made, and within a short distance of each other were discovered the dead bodies of a woman and Ave children, who had evidently just been murdered, for the corpses were not yet cold. The woman was apparently about 38 years old. She had a beautiful face and splendid dark hair. Her black eyes were open and staring with a lo?k of despair. She evidently belonged to a family In easy circumstances, as she was clad In a black silk dress, and had money, a watch and jewelry upon her person. There" were eighty wounds on her body, the frenter number having boen made with a nlfe. A few were the effect of blows. Close to the murdered mother lay thc first of the five nyirdered children-the eldest son, probably 16 years old. On his neck was the dark blue murk of the place where the hand? kerchief had evidently strangled him. Hi.; hands were tightly clasped, "and on his face was a look of the most awftu agony-his eyes starting from their orbits. Next was another boy. whose age was thought to be ll. From his appearance it ls thought that he was burled alive. There were two other boys, one 14 years old and one 8, both hacked as If by a knife, and horribly disfigured. But saddest of all was the poor little girl. She was fonr years old, and must have been very prelty. Hers was the only face that was calm, and her death must have been instanta? neous. There was but one wound on her body-her stomach was completely ripped open. wno DII> TnE nEEn ? Tlie day had well advanced before th?; bodies were all removed. The excitement in the neighborhood became intense. The place is a somewhat obscure one, but nevertheless there are plenty of dwellings near lt, and the rail? road depot, and the military post of Aubervil llers are both within earshot of thc spot where the bodies were disinterred. Two hundred and Illlty yards off is a cotton mill, ut which a night watchman is stationed; and he, as well as the porter on duty nt the railway depot, and the sentinels at Aub?rvilllers, were within easy hearing distance ol'any outcries at Hie scene of the mnrder. But the truth is that at about a quarter to 12 o'clock on the night of the 19th. the watchman In the colton mill ol' MM. Cartier & Bresson did hear cries from this very spot. He heard the screams of children, and the words "Mam? ma ! mamma !'" And the railway porter heard cries, too, among which he distinguished the voice of a man; but he thought there were some drunkards quarrelling in the field. Such an occurrence was not very uncommon, so he did not go out to seo what was taking place. The night was pleasant, with a clear sky and bright moonlight. There were at least six persons who ought to have known if anything wrong was occurring in that field that night. People were likely to pass throught it at any hour. Thc crime "must have been committed within a space of time which could not exceed four hours, as was known from the fact of per? sons having been near there that length of lime previous to the discovery by Langlois. Of all thc persons who crowded uround to view the bodies, not one was able to recognize them, or to say that he hail ever seen any one of the six persons who had been murdered thus, close to the gates of Paris, on a fair moonlight night, with dwellings on every hand, and with six persons within earshot of Hie place of the awful deed of blood. THE CLUE. The murder was committed ut near midnight on Sunday, September 19th, and up to the fol? lowing Wednesday no relations had proclaim? ed the victims missing, their names and even their nationality remaining unknown to the French police. But there was a clue. Tlie buttons on thc coats of thc four murdered boys bore the name of Thomas, tailor, ut Roubaix. Roubaix Is a town on the Belgian frontier, near Lisle, in the northeast part of France. In connection with this circumstance, it was ascertained that about a week before a young man of twenty..with a fluffy moustache, came to a furnished lodging house opposite the sta? tion of the Northern Railroad in Paris, and kept by a M. Rigny. He gave his name as M. Kinch, engineer, Ruc de l'Alou? ette, at Roubaix. Hu said IK; had a good deal of night work to do, and therefore wished to sleep in the daytime. The people of thc hotel did not like tho look of him. He carno daily for a few minutes only, received a good many letters, and paid his very small expenses day by day. At u in the evening ol' Sunday ii lady with live chUdren came to the hotel, and inquired for M. Jean Kinck. When told he was not within, she 6aid. "I am not surprised; I am Iwo hours before my time; I will call again." At 8 o'clock she returned, and then expressed surprise at not Anding If. Kinck. "He Is, perhaps." she said, "iu the dining-room; I will go and see." Not finding him. she returned to the children waiting in the hall. They were laugh? ing, and in high spirits. The landlady asked her if she would not wait and take some re? freshment, but she said. "No, I dare say it would be expensive; and, besides, I do not know where 1 am going to bc Taken to dinner." .She then went away, having first enraged two bedrooms for herself and children, and she left In the hotel a small parcel, and a basket containing some linen and a child's paletot. She never came back. The next morning (Monday) at 8 o'clock, Kinck, ac? companied by another mau, came lo the hotel in a great hurry. He took the key of his room, went up stairs, changed his clothes, and at the end of live minutes left the house with lils companion. He never returned. In the drawers of his room a bloody shirt and trow sers have been found, and also a piece ol' cra? vat, which it ls supposed was used to strangle one of the victims. Later In the day a tele? gram from Roubaix arrived to the address ol' Kinck, in these words : " Wait ; we are not ready." On Tuesday a letter, on blue paper, with the Roubaix post mark, came for Kinck. This letter was given unopened to the Judge of Instruction. A hal left by Kinck nt the hotel bears, in the lining, Hie address of a Roubaix maker. On the blood-stained clothes in tho hotel room, portions of brains were found adhering lo the clots of blood mixed with the earth by which they were soiled. THE ROUDAIX FAMILT. The police sat earnestly about investigating the awful mystery. By the 24th of September the bodies were identified as those of the wife and children of Jean Kinck, who resided with his family at Roubaix, in the Rue de l'Alouette. The father and a sou by a former marriage, named Gustave, carried on thc trade ol brush manufacturers lhere, aud were doing well. Kinck wanted to extend lils business; and as he wished to turn the house at Roubaix into a manufactory, desired his wife to go with the children to il house in Alsace, which he owned. She did not like the project, aud a quarrel, al? though not a very serious one, ?.asued; and about five weeks before the monler the and son left home on the pretence of bu Two weeks afterward Madame Kinck, v luctantly, in pursuance of a pressing from her husband, drew out a sum c francs which was at her disposal in a Ri bank, and remitted It to him In Alsace, shortly afterward the father and son Paris. From Paris Jean Kinck wrote wife to come for a matter of importanc lng, "Xever mind spending a matter francs; you will soon make up the sum September 19, as above stated, she ca Paris with her children, and went to t dross given her, the Hotel du Nord, k Rlgny, where she asked for M. Kinck. THE MASSACRE. It is supposed that Kinck and his wi! family met on Sunday at Pantin. Mrs. had failed to find her husband nt the and then, it seems, went to Pantin. A ployee of the railway, named Benaude deposed that, on the arrival of the tr Pantin at 7:58, he received from a lady, five children, five tickets of the third There was some discussion about there only Ave tickets for six people, but alb explanations of the mother it was adn that two of the children were young er to travel at half price. The hours that eli afterwards, before their assassination, ai accounted for. Thc supposition was, how that Kinck and his stepson, with the assis of a third person, committed thc mm Thc stepson, lt was thought, prepare* graves, in the evening, beforehand. He met thc pnrty at the Pantin sU A hackney coachman has given i nfc tion that on the night of the crime h< cessively took a lady and a child, thei children, and a third time two other chili to a spot near Pantin, where somebody waiting to receive them. The eldest son lloved to have Induced tho mother ant of the children to get out at the place ? the murder was committed, leaving the o In the carriage. He and his father, ass by a third man, then fell upon the motliei the two children and killed them, first stri them with axes, so as to stun them, and stabbing them repeatedly. By this meai noise was stifled; and if, as is supposed, t were three men, each of them could e mauage one ot the victims. Gustave K then returned to thc cab, brought out the t remaining children, dismissed the coachi and the second batch of murders was < mitted in precisely the same manner a? three first. THE VILLAIN TKAUPMANN. The police were on the keen lookout foi murderers; but the week was passing a and all that was known were the probabil above given. The first traces ol' the gi parties were found at Havre. At 10 o'clock in the evening, aa a ma gendarme, named Ferrand, was going rounds to drive tardy sailors on board t ships, he saw a man taking a glass of beer sailors' drinking pluce in the Rue Royale, did nor like the looks of him, and asked what he was doing in Havre. "I am on the lookout for work." "Have you any papers ?" "No." "Well, you must have a passport." ..How so ? There ls no need of a passj to travel In the interior of France." "Tliat'8 more than I know. As you hav? papers, you must come alon" with mc to police office to establish your identity." "Very well." They started out together, and as they w along, the gendanne Ferrand kept up a m inquisitorial series of questions, which quasi prisoner answered in an embarras and contradictory manner. "Where do you live ?" asked Ferrand. "At Roubaix." "Where did you last come from ?" "Paris." "Andyour business ?" "I am a mechanic." Now the mind of thc gendarme was full Hie Pantin murder, and ho rather foolish said: "Yes. and I believe you left Paris by the \\ of Pantin." AN ATTEM1T AT SUICIDE. He tlid not know how desperate lils qu companion was becoming. They were nc the riverland he took advantage of a cab pa lng along the carriage road to rush to the I footway, while Ferrand was on the right, a Jumped over the railing of the bridge into t dodi basin. "Who will save that man for rae?" erl out Ferrand In a stentorian voice. In an instant one of the dock porters, a m named Hatigcl, who has already saved fo lives, plunged Into the water, and after a vi lent struggle-for the would-be suicide did 1 utmost to drown himself and disable Haugel thc murderer was brought near enough to boat to bc pulled on board by Ferrand aliv He was taken to the prison infirmary, and r stor.itives soon brought him to a state whi< thc doctors said was not dangerous. For long time he kept his head under the be clothes, pretending to be worse than he wa and to all questions put to him answered onl "Let me be quiet." At length he said : "I wi tell what I know to-morrow." THE ilORRIT! STORY. Tills man's name proved to be Traupmani and his confession shows that he was one ? those engaged In the terrible deed of blood i Pantin; and later Intelligence tends to imp! cate him as the solo criminal. Papers wei found beneath Traupmiinn's shirt, nil bearii! on the affairs of the Kinck family-as, for it stance, the sale ot a house at Roubaix, a n celpt for 8000f (?340) for the said house, sev< ral extracts from mortgages on lnnds belon; lng to the Kinck family; also, n silk handke' chief in which wits fastened about ?13 in golt two watches, one of silver and the other ? gold, with a gold chain and key, and a knil hacked nt tin; edge. This evidence, together with many cuts an bruises upon his body, told strongly against th prisoner, and on the subsequent day an intel rogatory took place before thc magistrate. Th following particulars of lt are from the Com rler de Rouen : "Jean Baptiste Traupiiiann conics from Cerna (Selnc-et-Olsc.) This individual had known Kinck the lather, with whom he had worked at Houbai: and at Paris, and whom he had lately met in th capital. The latter had expressed a desire to ern! grate to America) after having taken vengeanc on his wife, whom he licensed of infidelity. Th interviews of the two men were held at the Caf Parisien. With a view lo obviate all suspicion Traupiiiann hail assumed thc namcor Jean Kind with the owner's consent, and went ti? lind a lodg lng where he could, being also authorized to opel all letters arriving in his assumed appellation The sou did not come to Paris at the same time a: his father, but only shortly before the crime ww committed. Except the precise nature of tin vengeance, everything was arranged between tin accomplices. The woman Kinck was written tc requesting her to come io Paris. As she hesitar cd, a second letter was sent by Traup maun, under the pretext that her husband had sprained his wrist, and announcing that the latter had bought a house at Pantin. An appointment was made at thc station, where she was to arrive at 10 o'clock on Sunday night. But as she left by an earlier train, she came before the stated hour, and as no one was there to meet her, she went to thc hotel, but the person she In? quired for was not at home. She then returned to thc railway to wait for her husband. At thc time lixed Traupniann appeared and put the whole party Into a cab, to go and join the father and son. The spot where the crime was to bc commited was selected beforehand. Moreover, thc elder Kinck and Traupniann had arranged that the latter should conduct thc motheraloue to the place." Then follows an account of thc mo? ther's arrival with the two children, and Kinck's exclamation of his being betrayed. The narrative then proceeds: "At the same moment thc father plunged thc knife into thc back of one of the chil? dren, and then, with the rapidity or lightning, assailed his wife. A loug struggle ensued be? tween them, und the prisoner asserts that, with? out the assistance which he airordcd Kinck, thc latter would have been mastered, and perhaps killed bv the woman. Traupniann refused to go for the other children, so that the son Went; this latter llrst strangled lils brother with a silk hand? kerchief lent him bv the prisoner, and which was a yellow one with flowers on if, similar to that In which he hail the money tied up when he was ar? rested. Traupniann asserts that he remained until three o'clock near the scene of the crime, which was committed at one, because, before arriving at thc place lixed for a subsequent meet? ing, he had lost lils way. and walked about for two or three miles lu a wrong direction. He re? turned to his hotel about 8 in the morning; he saw the younger Kinck, who told him that his father had remained on the watch to know wheth? er the crime was discovered. At li the son came and informed him that the murder had been dis covered. The arrangement at first was that all three should go away together, but under the cir? cumstances thev decided to separate. They met at the Cafe Parisien, and Traupniann received the papers and title deeds found in his possession and about 300 francs. Thc wound on bia hand and the scratches he received In snatching from the hands of Madame Kinck the knife which she had wrested from her husband. Kftck, after having literally hacked his wife and children to pieces with his knife, completed his work with a pickaxe. Then thc prisoner started for Havre, whence he calculated on escaping to America, He does not know what has become of the Kincks, bat thluks that they are still in Paria." THE MTRDERER AT PAMS. Thus it has been seen that lt was Trnup mann, who. at thc hotel, had given thc name of Jean Kinck, the father. On Saturday, Traupmnnn was taken to Pari". The trained reached there at half-past 4. Spe? cial precautions were taken to prevent the prisoner being seen, and he was taken out of thc station by a private door to avoid the great crowd which, in a highly excited state, awaited his arrival. He was put into the cab and driven away almost before thc arrival of the train became known. While leaving the train the countenance of Traupmann was perfectly livid, and his legs shook so that he had to be supported. m Inside the morgue thc accused was awaited by thcJuge d'Instruction and the Procureur Im? perial. Traupmann was then shown the bodies of Mme. Kinck and her children laid out on the marble slabs, and he was asked if he recognized them, "The prisoner," says thc account in the Gaulois, "walked a few steps along the room, and with a sana froid no one present exhibit? ed, said, without "moving a muscle of his face or faltering In his voice, as he pointed with his finger to each of the dead bodies, 'That is Mme. Kinck, that ls Emile, that is Henry, that is Alfred, that is Achilles, that is little Mary."' The account further states that he did not even take off his cap, and that his cynicism shocked all who were present. In lils examination herc he afterward said: I was nothing more than Jean and Gustave Klnck's accomplice. I held them (the de? ceased.) I,pushed them toward thc hole, while Kinck, father and son, gave the blows." THE CONFESSION FALSE. At the time that the confession of Traup mann first became public, disbelief in Its truth, now Justified, was openly proclaimed by many. It indeed seemed strange that neither of the Hincks, father or son. appeared after the mur? der ; but might not this be because they too were dead ? A letter from one of the relatives of the Kinck family, printed on the 27th of September, said : "All that has'teen printed on the origin and circumstances of the crime Is absolutely false and altogether absurd. I was verv Intimate with that unhappy family, and a more united circle could hardly he found. Therefore, all the alleged disagreements between them arc untrue; and, if thc father and mother differed about the plan of settling in Alsace, It never went so far as t? create a serious dissent. Jean Kinck and his son had an excellent character. * * * * Mi friend Kinck left for Alsace abont a month ago, to prepare his establishment there. Some time after I was talking with Mr. Loft, a workman here, and a cousin of Kinck, and asked him if he had heard from his relative. 'No,' was the reply; 'but my wife, who ls staying at Guebwlller, writes that she knows where Kinck Is, the latter having let her know, but that he wished it to be kept secret.' I only laughed at my friend's whim; hut two circumstances communicated by Mme. Lceft to her husband seem very strange to me, and throw ?\ strong light on the whole affair. A young ^.man called at a notary's in Guebwlller with a power of attorney from Jean Kinck. ?You arc Gustave Kinck ?' Inquired the notary.? -Yes, slr,' was the reply. However, the notary was not pleased with the young man's appearance, had some suspicion something was wrong, and did not give up, thc money he ?une for. Four or live days afterward another Gustave Kinck appeared. The notary nesltatrd again, though he thought this one had a family likeness with Jean Knick, and said, 'Come again with your father.' Since that day, the no? tary has seen no one-neither father nor son, true or false. Two or three days later a registered let? ter arrived at Roubaix for Gustave Kinck, who was not at home; but lu thc afternoon an indi? vidual applied at the otllcc and said, 'My name ls Gustave Kinck; have yon a letter for mc?' Thc clerk, who knew a little the real Gustave Kinck by sight, saw that the man before him was not the same, and refused, in consequence, to deliver the letter. * * * * Since her husband left for Alsace, Madame Kinck received not one single let? ter In lils own handwriting. She wus uneasy at this, and mentioned lt to her neighbors. When Kinck gave her lils address at the Hotel du Chemin de Fer ilu Nord, she asked him why these letfers were not In his handwriting; the answer was that he had sprained his wrist, and used thc hand of a friend, which reassured herat once. Jean Kinck has not been seen at lluhl or at Guebwlller. He must have been murdered on the journey; and the power of attorney shown at the notary's was either forged or stolen. As to Gustave, nobody saw him since he went to thc notary, and he is totally unlike what they described the man to be who stayed at the hotel in Paris. Now a few words about Traupmnnn, who has been arrested in Havre. He was a friend of the family, and did business with Kinck. I am convinced the father and son have been killed in Alsace, as the mother anil children were at Pantin. The man arrested, Traupmann, and his accomplices, have stolen thc power of attorney, and attempted to steal the re? gistered letter. Afterwards they drew thc family to Paris In order to murder them, and, If the crime was not discovered, they would have ob? tained with forged powers of attorney the money for thc property sold.'' And now later Intelligence proves that Traup? mnnn did not reveal au. There are KCRTHER HORRORS. The French Journals state that thc body of Gustavo Kinck, the son, has been found at Pantin, with a knife sticking in his throat. It has been Identified by Traupmann. It was found quite accidentally by a passer-by, and was about thirty yards from where the other bodies were. As soon as the news of Its discovery was made known, the crowd, already consid? erable, became enlarged until it numbered thirty theiisand persons, and military assist? ance" had to be obtained to convey the corpse to the morgue. THE WANDERING JEW. It ls stated that Traupmann, previous to his arrest, became acquainted with u man named Dourson, wieh whom he took breakfast. At this breakfast they had a philosophical discus tion, in which Traupmann remarked that he bad read the " Wandering Jew," and that he made the character of Rodin his Iden!. Our readers will recollect that Rodin. In the story of thc " Wandering Jew." was thc head of the order of Jesuits, and devoted himself with great assiduity to procuring the death of those who stood between his order and an im? mense sum of money which would come into Its collers were they removed. And It is re? markable that Tniupaiann's crime, suggested by reading about Rodin, was due to the desire to procure the money of his victims. Traupmann is described as a man of a small statue, with a keen eye, well formed features, an ordinary forehead, an ill-made figure and a slouching gait. He stated to the authorities that his name was Jean Baptiste Tropmann, (spelling it with an o instead of an a.) that he was 22 years of age, born at Cernay, and that be was by trade an engineer. He is undoubt? edly one of the worst villains on record. The body of the elder Kinck remains to be found. Then thc bloody record will be com? plete. Since the above was in type, a cable tele? gram has been received announcing the dis? covery of the corpse of the elder Kinck in Alsace. MATERIA LISM. Thc Views of Churles Dickens. Mr. Charles Dickens, in the course of his Inaugural address at the recent opening of thc Birmingham aad Midland Institute, observed: It ls much too commonly assumed that this age is a material age, and that a material agc is an Irreligious age. . I have been pained lately to see this assumption repeated in cer? tain influential quarters. I confess that I do not understand that much-used and much abused phrase, "a material age." I cannot comprehend-If anybody can, which I very much doubt-its logical signification. For In? stance, has electricity become the more mate? rial in the mind of any sane, or moderately sane -[laughter]-man, woman, or child, because of the discovery that in the good providence of God it was made available for the service and use of man to an immeasurably greater extent than for his destruction ? Do I make u more material journey to the bedside of my (ly? ing parent or child when I travel thither at the rate of sixty miles an hour than when I travel thither at "the rate of six? Rather, in the swift case, does not my agonized heart become overftungnt with gratitude to that supreme ! beneficence from which alone can have pro? ceeded the wonderful means of shortening my suspense ? What is the materiality of the cable and the wire compared to the Immate? riality of the spark ? What is the materiality of certain chemical substances that I can weigh and measure, Imprison or release, com? pared with the immateriality ol* their appoint? ed affinities and repulsions prescribed to them from the instant of their creation to the day of judgment ? When did this so-called material age begin ? With the use of clothing ? With thc discovery of the compass ? With the in vention of the art of printing ? Surely, ic nas been a long time about, which is the most material object - thc earthing tallow candle that will not give me light, or the flaming gas that will ? [Cheers.] Now don't let us be discouraged or deceived by vain, vapid, empty words. The true material age is the stupid Chinese age, In which no new and grand revelations of nature are granted, because they are ignorantly and insolently re? pelled. Instead of being dllligcntly and humbly sought. [Cheers.] The difference between the antique fiction of the mad braggart defy? ing the lightning and the modern historical picture ot Franklin drawing it towards his Kite, in order that he might the more pro? foundly study what was set before him to study, (or lt would not have been there,) hap? pily expresses to my mind the difference be? tween our much maligned material sages and the certainly, in one sense, very immaterial sages of the Celestial Empire school. Consider whether lt is likely or unlikely, natural or un? natural, reasonable or unreasonable, that I, being capable of thought, and finding my? self surrounded by such discovered won? ders on every hand, should ask myself the question sometimes, and put to myself the solemn consideration, "Can these things be among those which might have been disclosed by Divine lips nigh upon two thous and years ago, but that the people ofthat time could not bear them ?" But, whether that be so or not, I being so surrounded on every hand, ls not my moral responsibility tremendously Increased thereby, and with lt my Intelligent submission of myself, as a child of Adam and of dust, before that shining source equally of all that is granted and all that is withheld, who holds In His mighty hand the unapproach? able mysteries of life and death ? [Cheers. Let me give thc students of the industrial classes generally a short motto In two words, "Courage, persevere." I do not give them that motto because the eyes of Europe arc upon them, for I do not In the least believe it-[laughter]-nor because the eyes of Eng? land are upon them, for I do not in ihe least believe that either; nor because their doings will be proclaimed with blast of trumpet at the street corners, for no such musical performance will take place-[laughter]-uor because self improvement is at all certain to lead to worldly success: but simply because it is good and right of Itself, and, ?herefore, will assuredly bring with lt Its own resources and Its own re? wards. I would further commend to them a very wise and witty piece of advice on the conduct of the understanding, which was given more than half a century ago by the Rev. Syd? ney Smith-wisest and wittiest of the friends I have lost. Speaking to a circle of voluntary students, he says: "There is a piece of foppery which is to be cautiously guarded against, the foppery of universality, of knowing all sciences, of excelling in all arts-chemistry, mathemat? ics, algebra, dancing, history, reason, riding, fencing, low Dutch, high Dutch, and natural philosophy. In short, the modern precept of education rery often Is-take the Admiral Crichton for your model, and be ignorant of nothing. My advice, on the contra? ry, is to have the courage to be Ignorant of a great number of things, In order that you may avoid the calamity of being Ignorant of every? thing. [Cheers and laughter.] To this I would superadd a little truth, which holds equally good of my own life, and of the life of every eminent man I have ever known. The one serviceable, safe, certain, remunerative, at? tainable quality In every study and In every pursuit, ls the quality ot attention. My Inven? tion or imagination, such as it is, I can most truthfully assure you would never nave served me as lt has but for thc habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily tolling, drudging at? tention. [Applause.] Genius, vivacity, quick? ness of perception, and brilliancy In the as? sociation of Ideas-such mental qualities, like the secret of the apparition of the armed head in Macbeth, v 111 not be commanded; but atten? tion, after due term of submissive service, al? ways will. Like certain plants which tho poor? est peasant may grow on the poorest soil, it can be cultivated by any one, and it ls certain In Its good season to'bring forth flowers and fruit [Applause.] I cannot but reflect how often you have probably heurd within these walls one of the foremost men and certainly one of the best (if not the very best) speakers in England. [Cheers.] I could not say to_ my? self, when I began Just now In Shakespeare s line, " I will bc bright and shining jgold" [laughter]-but I could and did say to myself, " I will be as easy and as natural as I possibly can, because my heart has long been in my subject, and I bear an old love towards Bir? mingham and towards Birmingham men and women. The ring I now wear was a Bir? mingham gift, and if by rubbing lt I could raise the spirit that was obedient to Aladdin's ring, I assure you that my first instruction to the geni on the spot would be to place himself at Birmingham's disposal in the best of causes. [Cheers.] ALL ABOUT THE STATE. Shocking Double-Murder In Edgefield. The Edgefleld Advertiser says : " A murder was committed in the vicinity of the Rocky Ponds, on the western side of our district, on Saturday night last, In the shooting and kill? ing of a colored man bj the name of John Landrus, and his wife Lohlsa, both of whom were found lying dead on the floor of their house on Saturday morning. No clue has been received up to this lime (Tuesday morning) as to who were the perpetrators of this atrocious crime. Landrus only a few days previous to his death, was paitl hy his employer some forty or fifty dollars, and lt has been intimated that this murder was committed with the view of obtaining the money which he was known to have In his possession." Anon In Sumter. The Sumter News says: "On last Mauday night, about 12 or 1 o'clock, the gin-house of Mrs. Webb, about two miles from Sumter, was entirely destroyed by lire, with the entire crop of cotton, as fur as picked, of Captain Mell wuin, her son-in-law, and a bale belonging to another party, just ginned. The lire was set by incendiaries, who were discovered and pur? sued by Captain Mcllwain a short distance, but made their escape." Good Picking. The Sumter Watchman gives the following report of cotton picking on the plantation of Mr. Thus. 0. Sanders, on the :tOth of Septem? ber: "Scipio, :17G pounds;Collins 347; Ben, 335; Charles, 321; Sallie, 270 Elsey, 270; Daniel, 267; Daw, 258, Harrison, 253; Betsy, 251-ten hands, 2918 pounds. Nine other hands picked over 200 each. They began to pick at twenty minutes past ti o'clock, took one hour for din? ner, and closed the day's work at sunset. Shooting Affray. The Marion Crescent says : "A pretty rough affair occurred on the 5th' instant, a few miles above the village, between Evaiuler Bethea, D. F. Berry and Charles Hyatt, in which Bethen received au ugly gunshot wound in the arm, and Berry a pistol shot in the mouth, lacera? ting the tongue badly and fracturing the jaw? bone. Berry is In "quite a precarious condi? tion." Another Iniquitous Pardon. The Marion Crescent says: "Mingo Rowell, convicted at the last term of the court tor this district of larceny in two cases, and sentenced by Judge Rutland to hard labor in the peniten? tiary for three years, has, after a confinement of about two weeks in the penitentiary, been turned loose by Governor Scott, and is already back in the field of his enterprise and success. It is difficult for us to express the astonish? ment and indignation of the community upon this event. There is not a doubt ol' his guilt. lie having been caught, in one case, in the very act. What makes the ca?e still worse, is that Mingo is an old rogue, ?iud has plundered the community and corrupted his race for nearly 1 we ii ty years. It is impossible for us here to resist tile conviction thal this danger? ous man has been turtled loose for electioneer? ing purposes, he being a smart fellow among the black voters." Shreds of State Xcws. The slander suit of I.oyns vs. Strauss, in Darlington, resulted in a verdict for the plain? tiff of $49-half the amount claimed. The de? fendant appealed. The Darlington Democrat, comes to us en? larged and otherwise improved. Mr. F. A. Connor, of Cokesbury, and Mr. J. N.^fcmng, of Due West, are the anti-Radical candidates to till the vacancies in the State Legislature from Abbeville County. At a meeting of the Columbia Board of Trade, held a few nights since, the following officers were elected: President, R. C. Shiver; vice President, E. Hope: Secretary anti Treasurer, R. O'Neale. Jr. * . .. Mr. Taylor, financial agent of Messrs. Cress? well & Co., the contractors of the Blue Ridge Railroad, left Columbia on Wednesday for his home. He selected a residence and an office for the company In Columbia. MAYESVTIXE, S. C., October 12. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEWS. In your issue of the 7th instant, the letter of yonr Mayesville correspondent is headed, "A Ghastly Apparition and what Came of It-A Warning to Dealers in Stolen Cotton." As the last phrase seems to reflect on the character of the merchants visited, I write to say something of the character of the gentle? men referred to. The Messrs. Mayes are well ? known throughout the whole community as honest and upright merchants and true Chris? tian gentlemen. They do a large business here, and have lost heavily by liberally credit? ing such of the planters as required assurance. They buy cotton by the bale and aro forced to take it In the seed, as up to a short time ago lt was the currency of the country. The smaller planters, as well as the freedmen, often bring to the country stores a few pounds of seed cotton, to procure some articles they need, without walting till they can get out a bale. Were they to refuse the trade, lt weald only pass on to some neighbor not so foolishly scrupulous. Again, these gentlemen close at early candlc-lignt, and have been repeatedly assured by the neighboring planters that their stores are a benefit to the community. Their business partners are large planters, men of wealth and Integrity, who, If these stores were repositories of "stolen cotton," would speedily withdraw their countenance and support from the business. I woidd say, In conclusion, that it is now es? tablished beyond a peradventure, that the So called Ku-Klux were not of this neighborhood, but some rowdies from another section of country. JUSTICE. Special Notices. ^?0-CONSIGNEES PER STEAMSHIP CHARLESTON, from New York, are hereby noti? fied that she ls THIS DAY discharging cargo at Adger's South Wharf. All goods remaining on the wharf at sunset will be stored at expense and? risk of Consignees. JAMES ADGER A CO., oct 15_2_Agents. OFFICE SAVANNAH AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD COMPANY, CHARLES? TON, OCTOBER 12,1869.-This company ls now prepared to F?ND THE INTEREST DUE on the bonds or the CHARLESTON AND SAVANNAH RAILROAD COMPANY, endorsed by the State of South Carolina, according to the provisions of Section Third (3d) of an Act to enable the Savannah and Charleston Railroad Company to complete their Road. The? Treasurer of the Company will be found at the office of Messrs. CAMPBELL A SEABROOK, No. 50 Broad street, on THURSDAY of each week, between the hours ot 9 AH. and 2 P. M. On other days at the office of the Company, foot of Mill street. S. W. FISHER, octl3 wfm_Secretary and Treasurer. ^PUBLIC SCHOOLS-EXAMINA TION OF TEACHERS.-The Regular Quarterly Examination of candidates for the office of Teach? er In the Public Schools will be held at the Nor? mal School, St. Phillp street, on SATURDAY, 16th instant, commencing at 9 o'clock A. M. Applicants are requested to be present punc? tually at the appointed hour. By order of the Board. E. MONTAGUE GRTMKE. - - Secretary Commissioners Free Schools. OCU2 5_ ?&- EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.-ALL PER? SONS having demands against the Estate of PAUL D. KEMLEY. late of Christ Church Parish, will present tho same, legally attested, to JOHN E RIVERS, Esq., Attorney at Law, at his office. No. 1 Courthouse Square, on or before the FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER next, or they will be debarred payment; and those indebted to said Estate will make Immediate payment to thc same. O. E. HUGHES, Executor. July20 1, aug 2-16, sept 1-15, oct 1-15, nov 1 ?gf CHARLESTON COUNTY-IN E QUIT Y.-LAWRENCE W. O'UEAR and CHARLES M. 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