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VOLUME IX.-NUMBER 1268. CHARLESTON, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1870. SIX DOLLARS A YEAR. IT i fiTTivrimA?i I crntuoin tho mnrip nrpRrribcd bv that lnstru-1 tion is settled ia favor of the government;!!! COLUMBIA. - PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. / [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEWS.] COLUMBIA, January 13. Tn the Senate, to-day, thc House bill to au? thorize the Governor to remove county oflleers, the bill to extend the limits of Charleston, and the bill to create a metropolitan police force, (providing that the whole State be a police dis? trict, with three commissioners and one superin? tendent to have charge of all police matters.) were read thc flrst lime. Tfe Committee on Finance reported favorably on the bill to i-j^uc one million of State bonds for the purpose or buying lands for the homeless. Hayes gave notice ora bili to amend the act to provide for perpetuating testimony in relation to deeds, choses in action, aud deeds destroyed du? ring the war. The bill to amend an act incorporating the Georgetown Railroad Company received its se? cond reading. All the phosphate bills, with Corbin's resolotion ^requesting the Attorney-General to take proceed? ings to protect thc right of the State to river phos? phates, were referred to the Committee on Incor? porations. lu the Honse, the bills to punish conspiracies, to prosecute an innocent person, and for other cases, was recommitted. TUc enactment clauses were stricken from the followiug bills: A bill to provide for the Ucensing of peddlers; a bill to protect from arrest the ofll? eers of the State police for any alleged offence committed by them m thc discharge of their du? ties; a bill father to amend the law of landlords and tenants; a bill to abolish imparlanec in all cases brought to recover wages or shares of ?.rops, and a bill in relation to fences. The bill to extend the limits of Charleston, and also the bill to empower the Governor to remove county auditors, treasurers and other civil offi? cers by him appointed, were passed and sent to the Senate. The Committee on Incorporations reported fa? vorably on the Senate bill to incorporate the Charleston Loan Company. The Educational bill was then taken np and dis? cussed. Great opposition was manifested to the cause giving to the superintendent of education the rower to purchase the school-books. ANOTHER DAY'S DOINGS. THE BLCE RIDGE ROAD AND SENATORIAL AMI A KI LIT V. Charleston Extension*-Social- Equality and Civil Rights-Blue Ridge Ring Show thc Black Spot-An Insult to thc Governor-Son.Concnrrcncc-Re r peal of thc Township Act-Absent Senators-The State Secured-No Hope from the Legislature-Kills Destroy? ed-C ou nty Officer s-Charleston, "Water Company. . f [FROM OCR OWN CORRESrONDENl^^ COLL uni A, January 12. TIIK CHARLESTON EXTENSION BILL. To-day the House Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred DcLarge's bill to alter and amend , thc charter and extend thc limits of the City of Charleston, and provide for an election for Mayor and Aldermen of the same, reported, recommending its passage with an amendment providing that a flue of Ave hundred dollars be imposed opon aiy person who attempt? ed to obstruct the officers elected nndcr the pro? visions of tins bill. At a quarter-past 2 o'clock ? the bill was taken np for Its Becond reading. Alderman McKinlay made several "dilatory mo? tions," which were voted down. Small moved to amend the twelfth section by making lt include the Imprisonment In the penitentiary of the present Mayor and Board of Aldermen. DcLarge said they should have been there long ago. Ran? gier wanted to know if the individual (Corbin, supposed to be referred to,) who advised thc Conney that they could not take action in regard to distinctions made In Charleston against race and color, could not be Included. After this by? play, the vote was taken npon thc passage of the bill through its second reading with the amend? ment to Une and imprison aoy one who ob? structed officers elected ander the acL McKinlay was the only one or the Charleston delegation who voted against the bill. Jcnks is jpot in the city. Dennis and Tomlinson were not in the House when the vote was taken, but stated after that had they been they would have voted for it. SOCIAL EQUALITY AND CIVIL RIGHTS. There is a great deal of discussion at present whether or not the colored people of the State en? joy all the rights and privileges guaranteed them i under thc constitution. The Judiciary Committee of thc Honse seems to think they do. On the 21st of December last a bill "to scenre equal civil rights, and to provide for the enjoyment of all remedies In law by all persons, regardless .f race or color," wo? introduced in thc House and referred to the said committee. It rceited that as the constitution of this State, in article l, section 39, provides that distinction on account of race or color, In any case whatever, shall be prohibited, and all classes of citizens shall enjoy, equally, all common, pub? lic, legal and political privileges;" and serious doubts are entertained as to whether the reme? dies in certain cases onder existing statutes aro applicable to colored as well ns white persons, therefore, wherever authority has heretofore been conferred by law upon any free white person or persons to Institute any suit or proceedings, or to prefer any information or complaint in any mat? ter, civil, penal or criminal, the same rights shall be enjoyed by, and the same remedies applicable to, all persons whatsoever, regardless of race or color, subject to the same conditions and none other. The committee reported a few days ago recommending that the bill do not pass. Ko ac? tion has been taken npon the report. THE BLUR RIDOE RING. Thc conenrrent resolntion passed by thc Honse yesterday, providing that a committee, to consist %t three members of the House and two of the Senate, be appointed, with full power to send for persons and papers, for the investigation of every transaction had since the reorganization of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company, came up in the Senate thi3 morning for a "flrst reading." It was read, and a motion was made to refer lt to thc Committee on Railroads. To this motion Cain objected and made a speech in opposition, during which he Intimated (or led every one who heard him to believe that he did so) that that committee knew entirely too much about the Blue Ridge Railroad already. Lesllo fldgelted In his seat (some other senator's scat rather, for he rarely sits in his own, but runs around thc chamber loosely for some time,} until ho felt that that the Railroad Committee, of which he is chairman, had been in? sulted enough ; and then he desired to know if Cain wished to bc understood as Intimating that the Railroad Committee was Interested in the Blue Ridge or any other railroad. To this ques? tion Cain stated that he did mean to say that the committee knew something of the affairs of these railroads; for it had reported upon them. He knew that a large amount or state money bad been paid oct for this Blue Ridge Railroad, and nothing had come of it, and an investigation was needed; ont he did not want the Railroad Com? mittee to do it. He then mot ed to lay the motion to refer the resolution to thc Railroad Committee on the table. SHOW TH* BLACK ST?T. As soon as Cain seated himself, Leslie arose, and after working himself into a passion, said it was unfair and indecent for a senator, even In admiting way, as did the senator from Charles? ton, to get up and intimate that if the Railroad Committee wa* appointed to investigate t fairs of thc' Itiue Ridge Railroad Corapar ?would investigate its own crime. [Cain, rupUng: I di l not say any such thing, and misunderstood if the senator from Banr.i understood me.] Leslie, eoutinuing: If he i to say that, why did he not say it openly intimate it: why did he not state what crin Railroad Committee as a body, or its mei individually, had committeed? Re couh point ont any crime. I challenge him or other senator to point out a crime, or to put Unger on a black spot. The Railroad Conni did report favorably upon a bill lo give $i ooo to aid thc Rino Ridge Road, and thc sc from Charleston not only voted for it, but : the biggest speech in favor or it that was i AN INSCLT TO THE GOVERNOR. Cain stated that he had made no such charj the senator from Barnwell alleged he ha wanted the resolution to go to a special ..ot tee, and not to thc Railroad Committee, be it had had the matters of the road under con atiou before, Lesliesaifl the resolution was and contemptible, and Intended only as an i to the Governor and thc olllcers of the Blue! road. If the mover and supporters of tho lotion had desired Information on thc sn they would first have gone to the Govern* thc officers of thc road, who arc In Columbia asked them; and if the road refused togiv information desired, then have introduced resolution. But they tiffi not want informa they wanted to Insult the Governor, adn this method of doing it. The Democrats d yet their ^brethren a: e mostly connected wit railroad. You can't step anywhere around State, but you step on something rotten belongs to the Democrats; yet if they wat stir lt up, let them go ahead. The report ol matter will get out to the people of thc S If the Senate concur in this resolution, the p< will say, "There, the Republicans are after Governor with a sharp stick; they arc goln singe him and drive him out of his hole." I refuse to concur, they will say we have stifling a matter which would have exposed Executive. Sec the position wc have been pl in by thc supporters of tne resolution. I willing to have the resolution referred to a i mittee, but I am not willing to have it cons ed without its being referred and reported i first. NON-CONCCRRENCE. At this stage of Leslie's argument, during w he displayed more temper than he has show any other time this session, thc hour for the 4 cial order" arrived.aud lt was taken up and dh ed of, after which thc resolution was again coi ered. Hay ne opposed its reference to the Rall Com mi.-tee, and intimated thal some of the s tors knew a little too much already of thc Ridge Railroad, and lu response to a questic Leslie whether he meant to say that thc Raih Committee knew too much, replied he had n< much reference to the committee as to some ol members of thc Senate. Leslie commenced ano harangue about such slurs being cast upon sonators, but was rapped out of order, as ^??so Mayne, who attempted to deny some cha: of intimations made by Leslie. Rafncy tumour the language of the senators In their discus upon thc resolution as undignified, and dcclii that the impugning of the motive* of scuators of committees should uot bc permitted. In < eluding his remarks lie very sensiblbly said I it didn't make any difference to what comml thc resolution was referred, that if the par interested in the road had anything to com they would so cover lt up that it would not bc the power of any committee to bring-any thin) light. A motion to uou-concur was made and < ried. REPEAL OF THE TOWNSHIP ACT. The Senate's special order for one o'clock day was the third reading of the House bill to peal an act entitled "an act to organize toi ships, and to define their powers and privilege As soon as it was called up, Corbin moved to t: up with it '.he bill to amend an act entitled 1 act to organize townships and to define tt powers and privileges." This motion caused c siderable discussion, but was finally voted do and thc first bill considered. Arnim, Hay Cain, Maxwell, and Raincy spoke in iavor of I bill passing at once, argnlug that the State v too sparsely settled for thc act to be operat with any success; besides the expenses necessi to carry on Its operations were more than I people coo ld bear. Corbin and Wright were i posed to thc passage of thc bill, taking thegrou that the act had not been given a fair trial. Af a discussion lasting a little over an hour, thc n tion to read the bill the third time and have it < rolled was put and carried-Arnim, Barber, But Bieman, Duncan, Foster, Hoyt, Hayes, Hayi Johnston, Leslie, Lunney, Montgomery, Maxwt Kash, Owens, Raincy, Reid, Rose, Rodgers,Swal Wimbush, (24,) voting in thc affirmative; Coro: Greene, JilLson and Wright (4) in thc negatli Cain was not in thc chamber when the vote w taken. Had he been he would have voted In t affirmative. The Radical party of this State never hero did anything that will give more satisfaction tnt this. By their action thc people arc relieved the taxation necessary to support a useless sj tem which cost thc State annually about one m ?ion one huvdnd and sixty-five thousand fi hundred dollars. Corbin, Jillson and Wngli after the passage of thc bill, gave notice that tin would, on to morrow, give their reasons for vt lng against Us passage, and wished them r corded. ABSENT SENATORS. Early in tho morning session Jillson desired know if thc President n-as informed of thc cam of thc absentees without leave of the Benato from Chesterfield (Donaldson,) Lancaster (ide son,) and Clarendon (Sims.) Thc President wi not informed, and so staled, whereupon Jillie gave notice that he would, on to-morrow, intr duce a resolution in reference to thc matter. E request of several of the senators, however, he li troduccd the resolution Just before thc adjouri ment for thc day. It provides that each of Tti senators be fined six dollars each day of their at sence ofter the passage of thc resolution. It wi poss to-morrow. TUE STATE SECURED. It will be remembered that a few days agc Arnim introduced a resolution authorizing th Committee on Finance to inquire and report wha amount of security, if ony, ls deposited by th Financial Agent to secure thc Stale. Thc com mittee reponed to-day that they found In th State Treasurer's office a bond duly aud correct ly executed according to law, for the penal sun of five hundred thousand dollars, and the sam' rocorded in the office or the Secretary of State and that a voluntary act on the part or th; Financial Agent, inasmuch as au act authorizing the appointment of said agent do"s not exact ? bond. NO DOPE FROM TUB LEGISLATURE, A short time ago the petition of the citizens o Cole Hill Township, In thc County of Chesterfield asking the removal from thc real estate of lol! township of the one hundred and fifty per cent' assessed by thc State Board of Equalization to al thc real estate property of the county, was refer red to Auditor Tomlinson. To-day he reported that he could not recommend Hie granting of tin. petition, on thc ground that thc County Board ol Equalization, which held Us annual meeting last month, had full power to revise the assessment! In this county, and to remove auy Inequities that might exist a3 between individuals or town? ships, aud if they railed to make any changes, lt is to be presumed that they thought no chauges were needed. It may be, says he, that thc pe? titioners have been inequitably dealt with, but the law provides a remedy, and it seemed to him that nothing but confusion will result ii the Gene? ral Assembly undertake to decide upon special cases like this of the petition. It is very probable that thc Senate will adopt ihi3 report. From this lt may be seen that the people need expect no legislative relief from the oppressions ami unjust assessments of Hie County Hoards of Equalization. DILLS DESTROYED. At the last regular .session of the L?gislature J. H. Rainey, J. 0. Crews and 15. A. Hosemon, .Ir., were appointed a joint committee to numerate and destroy hills of "thc Rank of the State,1' for which tionds have becu Issued in compliance with an act entitled "An act to close the operations of thc Hank of the Slate.'' Thc committee submit? ted the following report to both houses to-day: Thc committee met In October last at the office of the Comptroller-General, where they received, examined, counted and destroyed thc aforesaid lulls to the amount of one million one hundred and ninety-four thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars, and examined interest vouchers therefor to thc amount of sixty-five thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy-two cents, and round the dates and amount strictly correct. In ihe opinion of the committee, this occurrence reflects credit upon thc Treasury Department in funding the bills, when thc mutilated and defaced condition of the same is considered. All or which is respectfully submitted. COUNTY OFFICERS. In the House, to day, a "bill to empower the Governor to remove county auditors, treasurers, and other civil otllcrs by him appointed," re? ceived tts second reading. It simply provides that in cases of misconduct of any or the officers named (he?Governor may suspend him and ap? point some ono to discharge the duties of thc of? fice until the charges be investigated, and ir such officer be found guiliy the Governor eau remove him. CilAKLESTON WATER COMPANY. Thc Senate bill to Incorporate the Charleston Water Company, of the City or Charleston, Slate of South Carolina, was thc special order in lhe House for half-past 1 o'clock to-day. At that hour it was called up. DcLargc said that he did not believe that water would ever be carried into charleston by thc corporators named in this bill: they only got it up for speculation. It will cost millions of <lollars to carry waterInto Charleston, and some of these men named In the bill bc would not trust with fifteen cents or his own mnnev. Without waltiug for fa rt lier remarks* the : un her consideration or the bill was made the special order for thc loth of this month. ? ' L. THE GEE AT SAXITAltlVMjS Aiken as Described by a visitor. A travelling correspondent rjf the Norfolk Journal, writing from Aiken, S. C., says: jWhile roaming around at random this win? ter "way down in Dixie," for my own recrea? tion and the gratification of an iure curiosity, I happened one day to alight in tho thriving, beautifully planned and healthful little town from which I date this communication; and, as it is a place much resorted to In the winter months, from all sections of the country, and with marked success, by persons suffering from physical debility or thc various forms bf pulmonary disease, lt has occured to me that I might improve some of my abundant leisure hours in benefitting those of my former fellow citizens of Norfolk who may be suffering from the diseases alluded to, by making known to them, through the columns of your Journal, some ol' the advantages of this great sanita? rium, and the very flattering prospects ot cure held out by it to those who are not too deeply entangled within thc meshes of disease. Aiken Is situated on the South Carolina Rail? road, one hundred and twenty miles west wardly from Charleston, and seventeen miles eastwardly from Augusta, Ga. lt is elevated six hundred feet above Charleston and three hundred and forty above Augusta. The site ol thc town is a beautiful and ex? tensive plateau of light sandy soil, varying only in its aspect from a level plain by BUCH geriilo undulations of thc surface as are sufli ctent in their grades to cause a speedy dis? charge of rain water. Tins feature, added lo thc porosity of tho underlying stratum, a red, ferruginous perme? able clay, enables a person (although thctu. arc no paved sidewalks) to walk all over town Incommoded by either mud or water, within an hour aller a heavy rain. Another evidence ol the porousness and consequent dryness of the soil, exist in the great depths of the wolls^ which, in order to reach water, have to pene? trate thc earth at distances i'roiu thc surface varying from ninety lo one hundred and thirty feet. In the town itself and in the adjacent coun? try, to a great distance around, levers arc hardly known, 'fliedew point is very bw, and when dew is deposited iris so very slight in quantity that It quickly disappears from the grass after sun? rise. The atmosphere is so dry that surgical and other delicate instruments, guus, ?-c., which in many oilier localities need great care to bc Liken of them In order to prevent thc ravages ol rust, may herc bc exposed for mouths whil? om, suffering detriment., I have this fact from physicians long resident here. Thc dryness of the soil and atmosphere, the purity arid balminess of thc air, impregnated as it is with thc fragrant and medical odors of the long-leaved pine that here abounds, the mildness and equableness of thc temperature, added to the great elevation of the place, Utt? ing it ubove the miasmatic influences of (he low country, and with no hills above Aiken anywhere near or even In sight, lo stay or im? pede thc free How of the air from any quarter of thc horizon, secinl to be the principal cl?? ments that combine In causing this locality to bc regarded by some of thc most eminent phy? sicians even of distant Europe as the most desirable place of resort in tho world for con? sumptives. A gentleman of Charleston, while In Europe last year, hud occasion to consult an eminent London physician as to the state of his lungs, and during the interview asked the doctor what locality abroad (meaning lu Europe) lie would advise him to reside lu tor the purpose of benefitting his health. "Why, replied the doctor, "there is a lillie town In your Southern country that excels nil other localities for those troubled like your? self: 1 think it is called Aiken." I know of another South Carolinian who. some lime ago. on consulting a New York physician ol eminence for some affection of his lungs, and asking to bc directed to some Climate and place most suitable for his case, was told by ilic physician lo go straight to Aiken, as thc very best thing he could do. There is a professional gentleman ol' this town now regularly pursuing his business here, who. thirty years ago, was brought here from Charleston so utterly emaciated and en? feebled by pulmonary phthisic that he had to be curried in a bed lroin the curs to his hotel, and his physicians told him he would die if hu remained in Charleston. The fact ofhis be'ug here now in good health and conducting busi? ness thirty years after having so closely grazed thc grave, ls alone a pregnant proof of the In? valuable hygienic conditions of this locality. I am personally acquainted with another fcntlemcn, who, being engaged in a profltuble usiness In Charleston f.eventeeu years ago, became then so dangerously and painfully af? fected by larugitis and bronchitis, that he had to give up business on the order of his physi? cians. He went to Florida, the south of France, and to Haly for relief, but in vain. Ultimately he came to Aiken, where he immediately be? gan to improve, and where he is now actively engaged in business, and bids fair lo live many years'longer untroubled by his former afflic? tions. I could detail here* the particulars of many other similar cases did I suppose you could sparc mc room. Should any of your readers, who may be suf? fering from tho "diseases :u verUd to in thia communication, desire to visit this place for the benefit of their health, they caa obtain all necessary informaiion as to hotels, boarding? houses, terms, ifcc., Ac., by addressing a line to George Gevncr, Esq., secretary of the Hoard of Improvements of Aiken, S. C., ob? serving to inclose a postage stamp for his reply. ' This town is most beautifully laid out. Wherever tko streets intersect each other, they do so precisely at right angles, aud at such regular distances as to make each block pr square a parallelogram of four ncres whose long side is to Its short,slde as six is to three. None of thc streets are less than one liuu dred and liity feet In width. The dwellings are not crowded into one lo? cality; but being sprinkled over a large areu (a few houses lo a block, embowered among trees and adorned with gardens) seem more nearly to realize the old classic poet's saying of "ms in urbe" than many anolber country town that I have 6een. Preaching in thc churches of five religious denominations is conducted hero every Sun? day, viz: the Presbyterian, hpistopal, Roman Catholic, Methodik, and Baptist I was much surprised to And in my walks about town much fewer negroes ir. proportion to Hie whites than I did in Norfolk. The de? portment of thc negroes here towards thc whites is unexceptionable so far aa 1 can ob? serve, and I hear of no Jarring or collision bel ween the two races. Accord reigns between them. E U K U f E . THE MUTTERINGS OF REVOLUTION IN PARIS. Funeral of Victor Noir- Great Excite? ment-T lie Workingmen attend cn Masse-Thc Crowd Dispersed by thc Military-Rochefort. TARIS, Jauuary 13. Five thousand workingmen from the Fau? bourgs attended the funeral of Noir, also many ladles in carriages dressed In mourning. Rochefoit's presence caused great excitement, and frequent cries of "Vive la Republic" occurred at thc cemetery. Hochcfort came down the Champs Elysees escorted by a great crowd sing? ing Hie Marsellalse. They were dispersed by the military. Rochcfort claiming his privilege as a deputy, was allowed to pass to the chamber, where he arrived pale and much excited. The crowd was llia'ly dispersed without resist? ing military or police, though some arrests were made. LATER. - The police and magistrates were stoned. There ls intense excitement, but no se? rious trouble. There are one hundred thousand soldiers In Taris. Thc police force has been large? ly increased. The Marsellaiie appeared as usual to day-the tone was very violent. Rochefort's leader says the cry of yesterday was for justice; to-morrow the cry may come lor vengeance. OUR AGRICULTURAL INTERESTl DANGER. I [From the Sumter Watchman.] Wc saw, with much concern, among the pro I wedings ortho Legislature, on the Ctn instant, ? a notice by Wimbush, ol' the Senate, of a bili to repeal thc act of September, 18C6, which se? cures liens upon the growing crop, as security for advances made for supplies to carry on said crop. We were concerned, because we feared that the withdrawal of the security basis upon which such advances were made would put a stop to such advances, in thc main, and Just at thn season when arrangements are being made for thc present year's operations, discon? cert, disarrange, seriously cripple and obstruct our Mgricului&l interests-the great basis and substratum of the recuperation, prosperity and development of the country. A let ter before us, from a leading factorage house in Charleston, under date of January 7 one of enlarged liberality and conservative views-one that advanced more than $100,000 on lions Um past rear, aud, nuder earnest ap? plication, was making arrangements to proba? bly double that amount the present year-con? firms our apprehensions, and puls the matter even in a more serious light ilia ti appeared to us ar. Hist thought. Wc make thc following extract from this letter, addressed to parties ar this place: "Wc saw. thia morning, In the dallies, a no? tice of a bill repealing thc Lien Law of 18G6. This stops all proceedings towards advances. Yon will please suspend all issues of liens, as we shall lill no order for advances until this question is settled In the Assembly. If this act ls repealed it will nearly ruin our planting friend.** and at once throw out of employment I 25.001) laborers." If the object of legislation be the public good -to foster and develop thc Industry and ma? terial Interest of the State-then we are totally at a loss to discover the basis of argument and reasoning for the proposed action. It is so manifest as to be apparent to every observer, that; thc application of the limited capital of the country, through the operations of this act, to the industry ot the country, has been such as constituted it almost the prime basis ol'the action of the latter. A large por lion of thc planting interests of the State huve been conducted, since thc war, upon this basts, and such was the destitution of the country, that lt could not have been conducted upon any other basis. Il has added to the product of the State thousands of bales of cotton aud lens ol' thousands of bushels of corn-put In cultivation broad fields, and; almost Innumera? ble smaller ones, which, otherwise would have continued to lay in fruitless waste, and given employment, with lair earnings, to thousands of thc freed people. .And very many of these people, who, by Industry and frugality, have been enabled, from the earnings of the pre? vious year, to rent or purchase small parcels of land for cultivation, have secured assistance, and were now making arrangements to secure such assistance-which they could not other? wise obtain-under the provisions of this act. Wc know hundreds of colored men now making arrangements to carry on their crops the present year under this lien law, who, by the inevitable results ol' its repeal, will find their whole basis of work in the soil for the year checkmated and their operations brought io a perfect standstill. And so of hundreds of while farmers. And if the Legislature repeal this act it cauuot oth wise result than lu reducing, to a great extent, the agricultural products ol' the State the pre? sent year, ?ts it will amount virtually to tho Withdrawal ol a large amount of capital from assistance of this great central, vital iuterest. If, therefore. Hie movement to repeal this act be designed as a blow at the landed inter? ests of Hie Slate-to cripple aud obstruct this, in onler to force the sale of lands, and thus to wrest it from the hands ol' present owners (and wc confess we can see no other possible motive)-it must not only signally full of Its design upon this class, separately-since It i will lull upou the colored as well as thc white 1 man-and can only be accomplished by putting an incubus upon the industrial Interests mid energies of the country generally, and inflict? ing u heavy loss upon the earnings ol' the State nt large. We call upon those In authority to pause. These are the facts of the case, disconnected from all political feeling or priuclple-regard? less of party or race-and we trust that those who now sit In the councils of tho State will not exhibit themselves so blinded and preju? diced by partisan feeling, as to rush wildly into a measure like this, regardless ot the common good. -The New York papers publish a record, made up from old diaries, of the weather during the winters which elapsed between 1789 und 1S32. The table gives thc dates of the closing by Ice of the Hudson Ri? cr, and of the opening of naviga? tion in the spring. No general rule as to the regu? lar alternat iou of mild and severe weather can be laid down from this table. Of these forty-two winters sixteen were mild, but 6omo of tin m oe curred in immediate succession. Thus, from 1792 to 1790, there were four mihi winters; then from 1790 to 1799 three severe; from 1799 to lSQl five mild winters; then a succession of mild and severe winters until 1811, when a long series of eighteen severe wlntcrsset in, broken only by three mild winters. The record would have been more valu? able had the warmth of the summers been noted, as there is a theory that thc average temperature ls the same for every year; that is, a hot summer ls counterbalanced by a severe winter, and a tem? perate summer by a mild winter. -There was a meeting at St. Louis, on Thurs? day night, to consider the removing of thc Na? tional Capital. Thc chairman was authorized to appoint a committee to visit Washington to usc their influence in getting the removal question berorc Congress, but especially to prevent, if pos? sible, fun her appropriations for government buildings ut Washington. It was stated by some of the speakers that there ls a Congressional or? ganization which, two weeks ago, numbered nearly eighty members, and ls constantly In? creasing, whose purpose ls to defeat appropria? tions und generally agitate the removal ques? tion. -A landslide of extensive siao receutly took place in Radnorshire, Wales. The mass of earth travelled half a mile before becoming stationary and then rested within a few yards of the mall road. This occurrence will be quoted to support the theory recently advanced in England that in time thc whole island will be washed away Into thc sea. VVA?nilllx JLAJll. UNCONSTITUTIONAL ADMISSION OF VIRGINIA PROBABLE AT LAST. [srj:CUL TELEGRAM TO TUE NEWS.] WASHINGTON, January 13. There has been another bitter and protracted debate to-day on thc Virginia bill, in both houses, but thc Conservatives have gained, and now be? lieve that they will be able to finally pass a bill simply admitting thc State, and Imposing no new conditions. Thc President lue informed senators, in con? versation, that he ls opposed to the proposed in? terference in Tennessee. [FROM TUE ASSOCIATED TRESS.] WASHINGTON, January 13. Regarding Virginia, the best opinion ls that the original Senate bill, pure and simple, will pass that body. Thc House will amend, and a com? mittee of conference will be appointed at an carly day. Admission is regarded as certain. In the House the yeas and nays were called on a bill forbidding clerks to make presents to chiefs of bureaus. In thc scuatc thc bill making treaties for the acquisition of more territory was discussed in open session. The Committee on Ways and Means ls engaged In hearing testimony regarding the abolition of the duty on coal. In the Senate, the Committee on Foreign Rela? tions have agreed to Insert a clause In thc French Cable^blil forbidding its consolidation with the Anglo-American cable. Tl?t>cu9tom8 for thc week ending on the 8th were three millions. Thc supervisory inspectors of steamboats arc in consultation herc preparing a report. Charles S. Cooper has been nominated as sur? veyor of customs at Memphis. Thc President, IJelkuap and ShermaD, after con? sultation, are preparing Terry to proceed vigo? rously against flagrant cases of perjury In organ? izing the Georgia legislature. The vote In the Senate ^o-day to go Into execu? tive session was 2fl to 27. The friends of the ad? ministration, pure and simple, voted in the mi? nority. In the Senate the Postofllce Committee reported a bill establishing a lind or steamers between New York and Enropc. The Virginia bill was resumed. Drake's amend? ment was rejected by a vote of 45 to ll. The question recurred on the amendment prescrib? ing oaths ol the third section or the Four? teenth amendment to members or thc Legisla? ture. It was discussed to executive session. The Senate confirmed Thoma* Biddle, or Penn? sylvania, as Consul General at Havana. The House preliminary proceedings were pro? longed by a filibustering spirit. The Virginia bill was finally resumed and discussed to thc adjourn? ment. Laurence supported the bill; Logan and Wood opposed it. Thc nou9C ls in session to? night for debate. NEWS AND GOSSIP BT MAIL. Sumner'* Dill to Kegroizc thc Paulie Schools-Virginia to bc Kept In a Con? dition of Pupilage-Thc Progress of Had leal ihiri-Pro tee lion Uti Lsbby lng -Thc Present Tu rliT to bo Maintain? ed-Boutwcll's Financial Bill. A Washington letter of Tuesday to the Balti? more Gazette says: The slow, but sure, process in vogue of ncgroizlug the public schools of the district, does not suit the sanguine temperament of Senatorial Dictator Sumner. He has conse? quently Introduced a bill which provides that all th<? powers exercised heretofore In re? spect to this matter, shall be invested in a new board, but that "no distinction on ac? count of race, color or previous condition of servitude snail be made in the admission of pupils to any of the public schools un? der thc control of such trustees or other per? sons, or in thc mode of education or treatment of pupils in such schools." By his bill it is also provided that instead of separate funds (here? tofore existing) there shall bu one common fund set apart and devoted to educational pur? poses generally. It further requires that tho name ot every child (without ''regard to race or color") applying tor admission to a public school, and ot every person applying for ser? vice as a teacher, shall be recorded In the order of application, and acted on accordingly, and that "there shall be no preference in respect to teachers, on account ot race or coftr, nor shall there bc on this account any difference in the grade or compensation of teachers." This bill, the practical effect of which will be not ouly to inaugurate mixed schools, but, to a large extent, to put white scholars under the tuition of black teachers, will .undoubtedly be? come a law (so-called) this session. So they go. ...?j^f?a The discussion In thc Senate this morning proves that even those of the Radical scuators who voted against postponement in the case of Virginia (in other words, for Immediate ad? mission,) did so avowedly upon the ground that Impliedly thc State would still remain un? der Congressional surveillance. Senator Mor? ton, tho leader of tho "moderate" wing, dis? tinctly declared this to be the doctrine ol' the party at large ! And thus has culminated Hie vexed question of Virginia's "admission." The Suite, after admission, ls to be regarded as in the condition of pupilage, and liable to be re? manded to military rule at thc whim of Con? gress ! This feature of tho Radical programme is iullnltely more alarming than would be the rejection of the claim to admission altogether, si net' it develops a clear purpose to use thc whole South for partisan purposes alone. Mor? ton declared that If Congress had the authorl-' ty to reconstruct under conditions, and make a Slate under additional conditions (which they had done,) they clearly had the power to unmake lt at pleasure ! This is logical. But why prate ? The steady and rapid encroach? ments of tue dominant party have by no means reached a stopping point. The word is "On? ward I" Go ahead ! The necks of the people are ready ! Thc manuiactnrers' gang of lobbyists have Just arrived. It was thought that an effort would be mude to release people fi om the one? rous burden imposed upon them by the Eastern protectionists, and hence this efliux of patent legislative engineers. Their loaders, In a few hours salidiactorily ascertained that no dan? ger was to be apprehended from the defec? tion of the miserable whimperers representing tlie West. The tariff, it was quickly ascertain? ed, would not be touched in a solitary impor? tant point; the bulk of this section of thc lobby consequently contemplate an early exodus. Those lobbyists In the interests ol' "concerns" interested In a revision and loweridg of the in? ternal laxes might as well also depart in peace, however dissat isfied ! Cougress will do no? thing outside of their programme of retention of power. 1 learn that not oue of the mea? sures of relief so blatantly promised a lew weeks ago, will be so much as seriously con? sidered. Thc financial bill of Boutwell, as bad as lt ls, ls a mere tub to the whale. Well, will the people submit to all these In? sults ? (for they are such. ) I say, yes, and many more ! Never, until they are manacled hand and foot, will they see their dauger, and thou it will be too late I Thc Fifteenth Amendment-Important Question. A Washington letter ol'Tuesday, speaking of that day's proceedings. In Congress, says : < One of the most important legal questions debated was that tt3 to the effect of a revoca? tion by one Legislature of a State of the ratification of the Fifteenth amendment by u preceding Legislature of the same State, as Illustrated lu Hie action taken on the amendment in New York. It was argued by several senators that the constitution does not confer any power of revocatiou upon a State Legislature; that that body can only considerer the question ol' ratifica? tion, and dispose of it only by adopting or refused lo adopt it. aud there its authority over the subject ends; the Legislature has no jurisdiction over the subject save that w hlch lt dei ives from thc Constitution of the C nited rient; that in pursuance ofthat mode Congress submitted thc Fifteenth amendment for muti? lation, and the Legislature can only determino hat it will not ratify, and there ls an end of :ho State's Jurisdiction; having ratified thc imcndmcnt, lt is not competent for the Legislature at a subs?quent time to annul he ratification by a resolution of revocation. Senator Howe and others wore not so clear )f opinion, however, that it ls not within the lower of a State Legislature at any time prior o thc adoption of thc amendment by three ourths of the States to revoke, or refuse, or repeal, their former action, and reject the imendment. Thc proposition is novel, v4th )tit precedent, and is to bc thc fruitful subject Jf discussion hereafter unless very soon the requisite number of States shall ratify thc imendment If lt shall turn out that the Lhree-fourlhs vote of the State can only be made up by Including New York, lt will be some a momentous question whether a State :an revoke Its ralillcation. Political Disabilities. A Washington telegram to the New York IVorld says : It is said that, under thc influence of Butler ind his man Whlttemore, the Reconstruction Committee are refusing to take any steps to? wards preparing a bill to remove the political disabilities of any persons in the South. Mean Llmc, there aro over two Int nd red and fifty thousand leading citizens excluded from all public employment-Federal, State, county or municipal-under the Fourteenth amendment; while from all Federal employments the whole mass of the Southern whites of both sexes ?re excluded by tho iron-clad test-oath of 1862; Thc object is to enable the carpet-baggers to monopolize all the offices as long as possible, 30 that the New England system of tariffs and class legislation can be maintained. It ls thought that thc members of this committee who desired to reconstruct Tennessee and Im? pose new conditions, but to keep out Virginia, ire not much encouraged by the manifesta? tions of public opinion during the recess. . BOVTWEZT, O JV THE BEBT. address of the Secretary of thc Treas? ury-The Burdens of War-Thc Debts of thc Revolution and the Rebellion -Resources of tile Nation-Arguments Against th? Reduction of the Reve? nue. Secretary BoutweU delivered a lecture in Washington on Monday night, for the benefit af the Charity Fund of the Grand Army of the Republic. His subject was "The Progress of American Independence." He traced the history of the country at length, showing that resistance to tyranny and love of freedom were characteristic of thc col? onists, and that the general spirit of thc peo? ple found expression lu the declaration of American Independence. He asserted that the student of history will find an intimate connection between thc rejection of so much of the original draft of that declaration as de? nounced the slave trade, and thc attempt to dissolve the Union in 18C1. Independence was inevitable. It came and it secured equali? ty to thc colonies as States, in full recognition of thc American Union and Its rightful posi? tion among thc nations of thc world. The civil war was alike inevitable. It came and secured freedom and equality to the citizen. The war for independence gave us States, and it gave us a nation, but citizenship was a privilege and was confined to a class. The States and thc nation emerged from the civil war purified and chastened, while citizenship is no longer a pri? vilege merely, but lt ls now established as a right. But it is not enough that we are inde? pendent politically as a nation. It is not enough that the inhabitants of the country are all citizens, and equal before thc law. A na? tion cannot act fully and freely before the world. She is not independent in the largest and best sense unless she is comparatively free of debt, with capacity to raise revenue much in excess of ordinary demands, and a credit unstained by auy act of dishonor, and relieved of every apprehension oven in the minds of the most timi J. This statement suggests the only remaining di liku! ty in our country's path. As thc men ot thc revolutionary war did not hesitate to assume their share ol the burden of thc war debt so I trust that you, who have made so great sacrifices for the Union, will courageously Im?talo their example. At thc close of the revolutionary war the Interest-bearing debt of the country was about $75,000,000. Thc population of the country was less than three millions, but, accepting that number as the nearest approximation to the truth, the debt aveniged $25 to each per? son. The present Interest-bearing debt of the United States can be put ut about $2,100.000, 000, and it is not unreasonable to estimate the present population of thc country at 42,000,000. Thc debi, therefore, averages $50 for each per? l?n. It is safe lo assume, also, that the prop? erty of thc country in proportion to its popula? tion, estimaled at its gold value, js more than three times as great as lt was in 1780 or 1790 even. If we assume the value of property in 1790 to have been equal to three hundred dol? lars for each inhabitant lt would be proper to estimate the aggregate property of the couu Iry at the present moment to bc at least one thousand dollars for each in? habitant or au aggregate of nine hun? dred millions of dollars at the former pe? riod against forty-two thousand millions at the present time. But whether these estimates of the aggregate property of thc country at thc two dilferent periods bc correct or not, it can? not well be denied that tho present average is more than three times the average in 1790. The result is that at Ihe former period the debt was eight and three-tenths per cent, while al the present time it is only five per cent, ct thc property of-the country. This es? timate is at best but an approximation to the truth; yet relatively lt is an under estimate rather than an over estimate of thc present re? sources. I cannot doubt that it was as difficult for Mr. Jefferson's administration nnd for thc people of thc country to reduce the debt dur? ing his term at thc rate of three and a half millions pur annum, ns lt ls for us to reduce thc debi at thc rate of one hundred millions per annum. From 1801 to 1801? the country was subjected to all tho taxation which those In pow? er dared to Anposc, for the reduction ol the debt was a leading feature of Mr. Jeffer? son's policy. Our condition at the present time is peculiar. Thc revenue ls large, and aRer the payment of ordinary expenses, pen? sions and interest we have a surplus of one hundred millions annually for the reduction of the principal of tho debt. The treasury is free from embrassmcnt and we have no occasion to borrow a dollar tor any purpose whatever. Provlslou can bc easily made for thc payment of the ten-forty bonds, amounting to $194,000, 000, in 1874, when they will be flrst redeema? ble, or they may be postponed for thirty years more, as the public interest may require. The amount of $2S2.000,000 due in 1881 can bc paid al. maturity. For thc present we are at case in financial affairs. The proposition for a new loan has one purpose, and one only-thc re? duction of tho interest account-and if this cannot be accomplished wc have no occasion lo intrude upon the markets of the ' .orld. Our power to place a new loan at reduccu rate of in? terest ls, in my opinion, wholly dependent upon Hie magnitude of our surplus revenue. Noth? ing but menace" of payment will Induce the holders of six per cent, bonds to surrender them and accept a bond bearing a lower rate of interest. If yon reduce thc revenue so that lt is barely adequate to meet the necessary ex? penses arid thc accruing Interest, the holders of five-twenty bonds will resolutely resist every effort to induce them to accept a lower rate ol' Interest Our net interest account, ex? cluding Pacitlc Railway bonds, i3 $125,000,000. Thc government has already bought $90,000, 000 ol' its own bonds, the interest on which is paid to the Treasurer, lcavinc our actual in? terest at about $120,000,000. Thc reduction ol tho interest account, $18,000.000 a year, will enable us, if we choose, to make this the basis of a sinking fund lo pay thc principal ol the interest-bearing debt in thirty-rive years, 1J we reduce our revenue to the necessary expenses of thc government and the amouul needed to pay the Interest at thc pres? ent rate. That ls to 6ay, a saving of $18,000, 000 annually, on the amount of interest, will In thirty-live years, with thc accumiilalcii intcrest'bc equal to the bonded debt of tilt United States. Ought there then, In thc pres once of such a possible advantage, to be auj doubt aa to Hie ?wisdom of maintaining oui revenue at a higher rate for one or two, or ever three years, if accessary? With a large reve nue for three years; the result is surely accom plishod In one way or the other. If the publli accept tho new bond at a lower rate thu qnes they decline the opportunity, the revenues will liquidate the principal of the debt and the in? to rest will disappear proportionately. In either case the country succeeds. If, however, we at once reduce the revenues till they are suffi? cient for ordinary expenses, pensions, and In? terest on the public debt, and the public credi? tors shall consequently refuse to receive a new bond at a lower rate of Interest, what will be the condition of the country thirty-five years hence? It will have paid $4,200,000,000 of Interest upon thc public debt, and the entire principal will then bc unpaid. Again, I say, lt is not sufficient for a nation that it ls politically independent of foreign hostile pow? ers. It ls not sufficient that the people are all ( citizens; that they are free and equal, or even 1 that political power is in their hands. To ali these must bc added national financial Inde? pendence. This America lias not. This she cannot have until she iiminlshes perceptibly her public debt and renders its nayment cer? tain within a generation. I dare not cite ex? amples, but the nations are many that are crippled in their policy and retarded In the de? velopment of their industries by the magnitude of their debts. Their example should be a warning to us. The public debt ls the only se - rious result of the war of any considerable magnitude now remaining; but it ls a result BO serious as to demand some present sacrifices for the future public good. They are sacrifices, how? ever, which will not interfere with the general prosperity of the country; nor is the exigency so exact as to leave us without the opportunity ot relieving from time to time those interests that are most heavily burdened. On the. one hand by courage and thc manful acceptance, temporarily, of a burden, considerable, no doubt, but not Insupportable, we secure the permanent prosperity and financial indepen? dence ol the country. On the other hand, if we shrink from the task and the duty, may I not say, of mastering these difficulties at once, we Increase the aggregate burdens of taxation and leave to another generation the comple? tion of a work which should hare been exclu? sively our own. Hr. Boutwell was applauded and congratu? lated on the conclusion of his lecture. A SHEPHERD ASTRAY. A Well-known Clergyman Elopes with a Young Lady of hie Congregation. Another evidence of the social depravity of New York city bas come to light. Last week a prominent clergyman of Gotham-the Rev. William Cooke, of West Seventh street Metho dlst church-eloped with a yoong bury member of his congr?gation, and the pair have left foi* parts unknown. This minister of the gospel and teacher of piety to the people left behind him a wife and several children. . The New York World of Monday says of the missing pair: It is believed they left the country. Tho evening before their departure he packed his trunk, after bis family bad retired, supposing tho good man of the house was preparing his sermon for Sunday. He quietly took his trunk out of thc front door and had lt conveyed somewhere, to await his arrival the following night. Friday evening he remained ont quite late, and at mid-night, as he had not returned, his wife became apprehensive of his welfare. At about this time thc mother of the young lady, who had not returned, also heard of her pastor's absence, and that fact, taken in con- . nee ti on with thc fact that for some time past he hos been quite attentive to her daughter, forced upon her mind the unpleasant Deller that the missing parties had left in each other's company. Further revelations made the u?c^rtain con? jectures a veritable tact. Saturday everything was quietly kept from all ears. But yesterday the flock gathered In their church without their shepherd. The bishop of the diocese took thc pulpit and announced the mysterious disappearance to no one. A pretei.ee was made for the absence, which satisfied the par? ishioners. The clergyman is well known in this city, and his genial and courtly manners have made him numerous blends. He is a fine looking man of thirty years of age, tall, and Eossesscd of a magisterial dignity which makes lm distingu?. The lady ls quite pretty, and belongs to a highly respectable and wealthy family. Her mother had prudently intimated to her that the attentions of the minister were more than a strictly pastoral duty called for. but thc young lady heeded not She once told her mother that the pastor was quite flatter? ing in his remarks to her, but that anything harmful would grow out of it was not consid? ered, nor did lt enter Into their minds to com? prehend. The clergyman has a wife and two children, whom he professed to love devoted? ly, and his actions did not belle his profes? sions. 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