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irr^T TTUff IT_N?TMRER 1259. CHARLESTON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1870. SIX DOLLARS A YEAR. COLUMBIA. REPOSTED OUTRAGES IN SUMTES. TWO MILITIA REGIMENTS TO BE ORGANIZED. Ckmeral Legislative Proceedings. (STACIA!. TILE O KAM TO THE MEWS.) Ca UMBI A, February 18. IQ the Senate, Nash introduced a bill to amend the act to Incorporate the Barnwell Rail? road Company. A bill was introduced to amend an act to or? ganize the Circuit Court. A bUl to amend the charter and extend tbc lim? its of Columbia, received a second reading. In executive session the Senate confirmed the appointment of State Constable Griffin, as audi? tor of Abbeville Coauty, vice D. O. Hawthorne, removed. In the House Ferlter presented a letter from Coghlan, the shorUT of Sumter County, with the affidavit or Jacob Price, relative to the burning ot a corn crib and Ku-Klux outrages in said coun? ty. Arter a debate it was referred to the Commit? tee on Grievances. Bills providing for the general elections and the manner sf conducting the same, and to ap? point trustees of the estate or De La Howe, pass ?d and were sent to the Senate. Notices were given: by Wells, of a fclU to in? corporate thc Bay Point Railroad Company; by Stober, of ? bili io incorporate the Florence Oil Company. The committee reported favorably on bills to re? peal the ordinance or the Charleston City Coun? cil relative to wooden buildings, and to Incorpo? rate the Cooper's Trades Union. The bill to incorporate the Union Kalo and Fe male Society was read a first time. The bul to provide ror the construction and keeping in repair or pnbUc highways and roads was ?ead & second time. It ls rumored that two regiments of miana will be Immediately organized in Sumter County. A TALK WITH THE G O VER XOR. TUE .RADICAL PLAN FOB TUS PALL CAMPAIGN. The Mil lt lix and tile Next Election-Cl v ll Rig bte-Educational-Trial Justices-. Stray Items. [MlOU OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] COLUMBIA, February 17. TBS MILITIA AND TUE GEN Kit AL ELECTION. Last night the correspondent ol TUB NKWS bod a chance conversation with Governor Scott, Superintendent Stoibrand and Joseph Crews, during which many things were said concerning the action oJ the Republican party at the next election. A3 the conversation was private, the correspondent asked the Governor if he would object to a certain portion or his remarks being published lu THE NEWS, to which he replied that lt was his desire that what he said should be pub? lished, and be would be gratified Hit were men? tioned in the next letter Irom Colombia. That portion of the conversation reierred to ls sub Joined. The Governor was asked if there was any truth in the report that State arms were being distri? buted throughont the counties. He replied that arms had been sent to only one or two places-York County was mentioned as one-where the "Ku Klnx" or some secret organization had been mal? treating Republicans, beating them and destroy? ing their property. To tbe question whether arms would bc gene? rally distributed previous to the time ot holding the, general election next fall, he replied that thc Legislature had passed an act providing for thc organization of the militia of the State; and as it was his duty to carry out the provisions of the act, he Intended to see them executed as quickly -as possible. He wished to see the militia organ? ized under men who could be trusted to preserve border in their districts at any and at all times, whether the disturbers of the peace were Demo? crats or Republicans; he desired to see all classes In the militia, and lt made no difference to bim whether a Confederate or Federal commanded them; in fact, it never occurred to him to ask anon a question ; ah he wished to know was, "would he obey and execute the laws." The Governor mentioned one or two Confederate offi? cers whom he had either entrusted or Intended entrusting with militia commands. In response to the interrogatory: Would not the arming or the militia and their presence at thc elections tend to provoke a disturbance and cause bloodshed? he answered that ho thought not; that tho knowledge that there was a force ade? quate to check all disturbances would deter thc evil-minded mea in any community from com? mencing or Instigating a disturbance. "But now let me tell you, slr," said he, "yon may rest assur? ed that ufte'- the next election the Republican party will never go before Congress stating that . its voters were Intimidated or prever.-ed from voting by Democrats, Eu-Klux or any organiza? tion whatever. The Republicans want to have peace and order during the next election, and ir possible they will have it. If the Democrats eau beat us fairly wc will submit; but wc will not be driven from the State, as some propose. Wc from the North have come here to stay, and intend to do BO. If the Democrats choose to practice their old tricks of murder and Intimidation, thc result wUl be terrible to them and to the State." Thc above ls almost a verbatim slaloment of that portion of thc conversation, to report which permission was as kee and granted. CIVIL RIO UTS. It was generally believed that ther? weald be ft Btoj:sj debate tn the Senate to-day over the re? port of the Committee on the Judiciary on ti.? "bill to euforce the provisions of thc Civil Bights bill of the United States Congress, and to secure to tho people the bcneflL* of a republican govern? ment in this State," and the usual hangers on tn that body had large accessions to their number from parties who desired to know what would bc said about "civil rights." About half-past ll o'clock Maxwell moved that the bill bc made the Bpeclal order Tor Tuesday next. Nash hoped there would be no postponement. Max wed gave as his reason ror desiring a postpone? ment, that there were several special orders ror to-day, which were important and should be con? sidered at once. Nash did not know or any more Important measure than this; he wanted his rights-all or them-and he did not want to wait fifteen minutes to get them; lt would not hurt ir It were passed to-day, signed by thc Governor to? morrow andjjceorae a law. Cain was lu ravor or taking up the bill at once, saying "all bauds were spoiling to get a hold or lt." After a Tew "dilato? ry motions." Maxwell's motion to make the bill the 6peclal order ror Tuesday next was carried. COUNTY omen. To-day, in the Senate, Corbin Introduced a bill to provide for an election to HU vacancies occur? ring in county offices, thc provisious of which are that, as by ihc constitution tuc election or judge of probate, conn y commissioners, clerk of the Court ot Common Pleas, and school commission? ers, rest* w.th the people, thererore bc it enacted that whenever any vacancy occurs iu these offices the conniy commissioners shall, within thirty days thereafter, call au election, giving at least fifteen days' notice thereof, to be posted courthouse and three other public places county; that thc electlou shall bcconduc accordance with the general election law State, provided that If'there bc a vacancy office established by law required for the c< of said election, the county commissioner fill said office. LIGHTHOUSE AND RAILROADS. Corbin's bill, authorizing the cession o: and the Jurisdiction thereof of the State of Carolina to thc United States or Amer lighthouse purposes, which was Introduced Senate yesterday, received a second readi day. Corbin stated thc object of the bill \ give to thc United States a small portion o on Sullivan's Island to build a lighthouse Thc bills to incorporate the Columbia Railroad; the Enterprise Railroad, or Charl and the Wilmington and Carolina Railroad panics were to-day rererred to the Commit Railroads. This committee has reported Ti bly upon thc bill to extend the South Ca Central Railroad to Sumter. EDUCATIONAL. A bill providing that thc salaries of thc s county school commissioners shall commcr thc first ol November, 1869; end that thc board ot education shall hold its first mccti thc loth of March, 1S70, received a second lug In thc Senate to-day. The election for a member or the State f commission provided Tor In Section 3 or an establish and maintain a system or Irec cot schooS In this State, was a "special ordc both bodies ol the General Assembly to-day. crt Smalls, colored, or Beaufort, was eleel the House, and H. J. Maxwell, colored, or boro', by the Senate. Cain was thc oppon* the latter, but received only a few votes, well ls one of the free school teachers, and know what character or text books is nece for thc school children. TRIAL JUSTICES. A bill recently introduced by Corbin, to pr< for the appointment or trial justices, was cvssed by the Senate about two hours and a to-day. The bill provides for the abollshli thc onlcc of magistrate after the first or next, and that the Governor shall appoint commission a suitable number of trial jostle the several counties or the State, the whole i ber not to exceed one hundred and fifty average number for each county {except Cha ton, for which eighteen are provided) being It was with some difficulty that Corbin snocei In getting the bill considered, but, after get lt under way, section first was passed withe dissenting voice. Section second, which prov for the number or justices in each county, amended considerably, the apportionment or framer or thc- bill being Increased until the w number amounted to two hundred and th divided as follows: Abbeville, ten; Ander six, Barnwell, sixteen; Beaufort, ten; Charles eighteen; Chester, six; Clarendon, foor; Colle eight; Chesterfield, four; Darlington, eight; E< field, seven; Fairfield, seven; Georgetown, f< Greenville, five; norry, foor; Kershaw, six; I caster, four; Laurena, five; Lexington, sei Marion, six; Marlboro', six; Newberry, six; ? nee, five; Orangeburg, seven; Pickens, live; R laud, eight; Spartanburg, eight; Sumter, ? Union, five; WU iamsburg, six; York, three. CHARACTER OP MAGISTRATES. Before the amendments above referred to w made, Arnim moved that thc bil! bc so amene as to provide that thc trial justices be elected the people instead or appolutcd by thc Govern Corbin did not like thc motion, but wanted i bill passed, stating that if something or the kl was not done, thc Senate had better rescind action in regard to thc Code, repeal thc consti tion, and then go home. The codifiers tried th best lo do something with the magistrates, a hud to give it up us a bad job. lt is ce rt an best that thc Governor should appoint them, a it is to bc hoped that with his experience wi many ol those who have been appointed, he y> make better selections hereafter. A senator moved to' give Abbeville ten tr Justices; upon which motion there was some d cussion, one or two senators asserting that that county was not represented in the Sena lt should be left to tts representatives lu t House to designate the number. Ralney so that Abbeville was lei": as a foundling to the Se atc, ana it should bc well nourished by the se ators. Leslie desired sixteen trial justices for "to county" (Barnwell,) and proceeded to showe actly where he would place each one so th; every person who desired "justice" would liai to go no more thau twelve or thirteen miles i thc farthest. After having shown this to Ii satisfaction, he commenced abusing thc otb< senators for not looking after the interests of Hi poor people, and asserted that some of them di not know as much about their counties as he dh He talked a long while, aud wound up by savin that the Governor had exercised very little dh cretlon lu appointing thc magistrates. CORBIN BAYS LESLIE 19 CRAZY. Several or thc scna'ors upbraided Leslie for hi unwarranted attack upon them, arter whlcl Rainey said as he had oever heard the scuato from Barnwell (Leslie) make such a dull speed before, he would move that lt bc printed. Cornil said Leslie was a little crazy to-day, and if no that, a tittle looney. CHARLESTON MAGISTRATES. Section third, providing that tho trial Justice; shall bc commissioned aud hold their offices foi the term or two years, unless sooner removed bj thc Governor, and that ir a trial Justice chang? his domicile, his authority and jurisdiction as sud justice shall thereupon cease, aud another tria justice muy bc designated and appointed In hi; place, was next discussed. Several or the sena tors were opposed to this section, not under? standing exactly what was meant by the word '.domicile" in this connection. Corbin ex? plained that ic meant that if a trial justice moved away' from his place ot residence, he was relieved from all authority as a Justice. He (Corbin) did not want men who were travelling around the country with a stick on shoulder, and clothes lu a handkerchief dangling at thc end, acting as Justices. He did not want carpet-bag? gers to besuch; they ought not to have oblce any? how; only those were emit led to such who stuck a stake down and settled where it was stuck. II? well knew that the Governor had appointed some no-accouut men ai magistrates; men whose only recommendation was that they had two legs; some or them didn't have habitations. Down there in Charleston, some or the magistrates, who were so numerous that you couldn't walk around without stumbling over them, didn't live any? where in particular; people didn't know auy thiug about them; the more that was known ot them, thc less they were thought or. After these remarks, it was agreed to make the bill the special order for to-morrow. STRAY ITEMS. About 3 o'clock this morning, while the upward bound passenger and freight train on thc South Carolina Railroad was near Gadsden station, about twenty miles distant, a freight cur, loaded with flour, broke in two. and another freight car was badly damaged. This accident detained the tr.dn so that il did not arrive here until 12 M., seven hours behind time. Martin, who "burglarized" several rooms or the Columbia Hotel last week, was convicted or grand larceny lu Judge Melton's court to-day. Thc object or the bill to Incorporate the Colum? bia Horse Car Company seems to be to constiuct a track to convey passengers and freight to and from the depots or the Greenville and Columbia and thc Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail? roads. Someone ninst have been mal.ing a specula? tion or the curiosity of the peoj 'e to see Stol band'spets. A resolution instructing thc Com? mittee ou the Penitentiary tu Inquire the n ason or visitors to the penitentiary ba?ar chanted for emruuec. w is Introduced in ihc House to-day. I The Governor does not yet know that he will I become a candidate ror Governor. L. WASHINGTON. COBBUPTIOX OP CA Ii I'ET- BA G COX GBKSBMElf. WHITTEMORB PINNED AT LAST. Karo and Racy Doing?. WASHINGTON, February 18. Congressman Whlttcmoro is pinned this time. An original letter, written by him, was produced before the Military Committee to-day, In which letter Whittemore offers to sell his West Point cadetship for five hundred dollars. Another witness swore that he bought a West Point cadetship from Congressman Blackburn, of Louisiana, last year, for winch he paid fifteen hundred dollars. The same witness had negotiations with Sy per, but no bargain was made, as the prloe asked was too high. (FROM THE ASSOCIATED TRESS.] ? WASHINGTON, February 18. Thc Senate, In executive session to-day, con? firmed thc nomination of Judge Strong, of Penn? sylvania, for thc Supreme Bench. A motion was made to reconsider thc confirmation, and is now pending. No action was takeu upon thc nomina? tion of Bradley. Neither of these nominations designate thc vacancy which lt shall fill. Latham was confirmed as collector of the Third Alabama District, Walsh ns assessor of the First Georgia District, and Blocker as assessor of thc Third North Carolina District. Revenue receipts to-day $332,000. Thc Committee on Foreign Relations will report resolutions requiring the observance of strict neutrality between Spain and Cuba. narria, Meier, Murphy and Pearce, Congress? men from Mississippi, desire the President to de? lay signing the bill for the admission of Missis? sippi. There was a fall Cabinet meeting to-day. The trastees of the Peabody fund have appro? priated $81,000 to be expended by September next. CONOREHSIOXAI.. In thc Honse several documents were read, In? cluding thc particulars of the recent Havana as? sassination. The discussion on appropriations was resumed, as also on disability bills. Nothing ef Importance from the Senate. LATER.-Thc funding bill has been made the special order for Wednesday. Tie Committee on Commerce have Introduced a bil! making the importation of immigrants un? der labor contracts unlawful. The House was engaged all day In discussing thc appropriation bill. NEWS AND GOSSIP BY MAIL. Legal-Tender Decision of (he Supreme Court-What is Sa'd About It-Radi? cals Threaten to Force a Reversal of thc Decision-Pledges Said tobe Given by Judges Strong and Bradley. A Washington letter to thc Baltimore Ga? zette says: The recent decision of the Supreme Court In relation to legal-tender notes is being made the pretext here for placing that tribunal un? der strict subserviency to Congress. Undoubt? edly thc judgment of the court was Justified hv ure ceden ts in analacous cases, independent? ly of the general principles avowed in mo opinion. If tho court erred at all, lt was un? questionably in recognizing Hie law of Con? gress as forming part and parcel of contracts entered into subsequent to Its passage. It is admitted on all sides that, practically, the "de? cision" will have little, it any, effect. Yet, under these circumstances, the country is gravely and by authority told that the Judg? ment must be reversed ! And how ? It is stated herc. In a Journal careful of its words, on the authority of senators, that the President has declared that no man shall bc put in tho vacant seats upon thc bench of thc Supreme Court "who ls not pledged in ad? vance to unite with thc dissenting Judges In reversing the decision Just rendered." Is it the purpose, In this matter of the' present Ex? ecutive and the majority in Congrcss,to trst to the utmost thc forbearance of tho people ? Is lt not enough that Congress threatens the court, on thc one hand, to destroy its func? tions, and, on the other, by Increasing the number ot Judges to subsidize Its Judgments ? Is thc country to bc now informed that tho whole Jurisprudence af the country, so far as it depends upon the Judicial decisions of thc Su? preme Court, is to bc submitted to unscrupu? lous partisan "reconstruction ?" In the vehement efforts of thc Chronicle to get Judge Strong confirmed, this point is dis? tinctly made, and his decision or ipso dixil while on thc Supreme bench lu Pennsylvania quoted in proof of his willingness to upset tho decision Just made. Indeed, it is "upon au? thority" announced that both bu and Mr. Brad Icy bavo "pledged'1 themselves "in advance" to General Grant, not only upon this, but other specific points pf law, long since thought to bc 'well settled. It is, therefore, bo longer a question whether the Sn .icm*' Court ls here? after to act as a conservative obstado to thc en? croach incnLs of Federal atti liority. Tile thing is plain that it is to be used as an engine ol* further oppression, and as a means of wholesale pecula? tion! Such a revelation ought to convulse thc country-but will it? Thu idea that any man lit to bb a judge of the Supreme Court would pledge himself "in advance,'' upon a particu? lar point, sure lo come before him for adjudi? cation (as the price of his appointment ) is suf? ficiently alarming. But what ls tlift country to antic?pale as to Its liberties, or the people as to their property or personal safely, when thc purpose to exact such "pledges'" is openly avowed ? Wc all know what sort of a Judge Jeffries was. But history excuses King James of demanding a previous "pledge" ol' his Judi? cial brutality as the Incentive for his employ? ment Let the people ponder upon the'fol? lowing piece of bruLen impudence Hom thc Court Journal: "Happily for thc country the last decision is not beyoud cure. There arc other coses which must soon come before thc court when the two vacancies are filled by th'-. President and Senate-cases involving thc same principle, and we are confident of ihe reversal of tiiat most damaging decree if thc new Justices are selected with distinct reference to their ll'uown opinions on thew great statutes, enacted to save thc republic. On this, point there should bc neither mystery nor reserve The prospect of a speedy reversal of thc last decision ol' the court will bc good news to the country." SPA HKS. Nebraska has ratiilod the Fifteenth amend? ment. There was an earthquake at San Francisco on 'thursday, lasting seven seconds, lt caused an i Intense pauic, but no Injury. Henry C. Swcetzer, a New York Journalist, Is dead. The weather In Havana ls Intensely hot. There was a furious snow storm at Memphis on Thursday. lt rained lu Washington yesterday, and In Philadelphia last night there was a furious rain with thunder and lightning accompaniments. The faculty of Harvard College ask that positive rank be giveu navy surgeons. Eight thousand citizens of Maryland ask for the recognition of Cuba in the name of thc God of Liberty. Charles D. Kirk, a Louisville Journalist, ls dead, aged 3T. Thc Mystic Crew or Kotnus will make their an? nual parade on thc night of March 1st, in New Orleans. The exhibition of this year will far sur? pass anything ye: attcmpied by this timc-hoaor ed company. There was a heavy thunder storm, with light? ning aud ram, at lt elita jud yesterday morning, and a hard snow sto rm at night. EUROPE, Thc Crltlsli Parliament. LONDON, February 16. Thc House of Lords transacted no business of Importance today, and adjourned at an early hour to enable their lordships to attend the House or Commons, where lt was expected that thc new Irish Land bill would be Introduced. BOUSE OF COMMONS. In the House of Commons the benches were Ulled and the galleries crowded. Notices were given or bills to relieve the bishops rrom attend? ance on Parliament, and to reduce the rate or let ter and newspaper postage. A denial was made on the part or the govern? ment that negotiations had been entered upon tor the renewal or the commercial treaty with France. BBPORH IN ?BEI.AND-SPEECn OF MK. GLADSTONE. Mr. Gladstone then rose and asked leave to bring In a bill for land reform In Ireland. He re? ferred to the day on which he introduced the Irish Church bril, when other measures to meet the demands or Ireland were promised, and he said he would now proceed to fulUl that promise. He recapitulated the history or the land question since 1833. Thc necessity for Its settlement was now generally admitted. De hoped there would be a union or all parties In favor or thc proposed reform. Thc best talent or the kingdom had been applied to the solution or the problem. It must gratiry the Irish people to sec England glvlnj years or ungrudging labor to the under? standing and redress of their grievances. The recent agrarian outrages were not due to the revival of this question. They were -not of j frequent occurrence lu thc agricultural section, and were rare in the purely Celtic ones. Irish land tenures were widely different from those or | England and Scotland. Thc Irish lao-'lord usual? ly differed rroni his tenant In politics and religion, and seldom lived on his estates. The tenant was bound to Improve the land, but was orten de? prived or thc crops he had planted. The people believed that the soil was their own, and that lt had been taken rrom them by conquest and con? fiscation. During the last ten years, while thc value or labor bad remained stationary, the eost of living had increased, and thc progress or Ire? land bad been checked. Hair a century or legis? lation had done nothing for the small landhold? ers or the peasantry. Mr. Gladstone then review? ed the legislation cn this subject since the act or onion, and continued: Emigration was a good method of relief when voluntary, but when lt be? came compulsory, and men were compelled to leave who were willing to remain, lt was exile, and angered Its victims. In thc west of Ireland, where the tenant was the least secure, the value of thc land Iud not doubled in ninety years, while In England Ithad trebled within that time, and in Scotland, where thc tenant was most secure, it had increased six-fold. Mr. Glad? stone then enumerated tho features of the bill which he proposed to introduced. It provided for security of tenure, the facilitation of transfer aud purchase or land; for loans to tenants desiring to buy, and landlords to cnablo them to reclaim waste lands. The new law Is to be administered by a court or arbitration ; Dlster customs arc to be recognized; Improvements giving value to land are to be paid ror; evictions ror non-pay? ments or rent are to bar all claims agaiust ten? ants; notices to quit are to give tho tenants one year's Mme rrom the end or thc current year; and thc county cess Is to bc divided betwecu thc laud lords and thc tenants. Thc bill will be rend a second time on the7th or March. THE "TIMES"' ON TnE DESATES. The Times this morning, in reviewing last eve? ning's debates in Parliament, rejoices that the government has adopted the idea orteu advoca? ted in the columns of thc Times, viz: The with? drawal of the troops from Canada. The Times i | admits thatX'anad* IS tue IMUJf BBgium WMIUJ -j liable to be invaded lu case or war, yet peace ls so assured that lt ls foolish to provide now ror its rupture. Thc Revolution Fiasco. PARIS, February 18 Arthur Fouville, the rioter, has been sentenced to six months' Imprisonment and a fine ol five thousand francs. Rochefort writes from prison to his paper that the prefect or police hos seized his editorial arti des. He complains that white up to the present time incarcerated Journalists have been allowed to write to newspapers, he has been denied the I I usual privilege, notwithstanding he ls a member ol thc Corps Leglslaiir, and hus not seen de prlved or lils civil rights. TUE EAST. SAN FRANCISCO, February 18. Thc Japan steamer has arrived. Destructive fires have occurred at Tcddo, In? cluding thc war department buildings. Owing to the failure or thc rice crop, exporta? tions have been rorbiddeu. The telegraph between Ycddo and Yokohama ls completed. Thc winter lu Chinabas been unusually mode? rate. Seven hnndrcd native Japan Christians have been banished, against thc protest ortho foreign legations. THE MOBILE MAYORALTY. MOBILE, February 18. Judge Elliott commuted Mayor Price to jail to-day for refusing to give thc office and becki of ilieMayoralty to Harrington, and refused to allow any appeal, although blind was offered to ny amount. When the bill of exceptions was pre? sented. Elliott put it lu his pocket, said he would read it at his leisure, and tonk thc train for .Mont? gomery. His conduct is generally condemned. TUE MEXICAN REVOLUTION. NEW YORK, February 18. Thc Herald's Mexican special says that thc Loyalists were forced rrom San Luis Potosi to San Jalono, thence to Gnanmayeralo by thc in? surgents, without light. General Garcia dc Cardlna is suggested as thc rebel President, with thc capital at Aqua Com? entos. TUE POLICY OF TUE NEWS. A Prank and Ucarty Endorsement. [From, inc Barnwell Journal.] The policy, as sketched by TUE CHARLESTON NEWS, as the platform of tho coming party for the next campaign, has received tho general concurrence of the State press. Wc look oc? casion, soiiio mouths ago. to direct the allen lion ol'our people to Hie formation of a party bearing the new name, as better calculated lo allay all prejudice, and furnishing grounds tor a general concei t of action among all thc Con? servatives of the Suite. Wc very much fear that if thc future political contests bc narrowed down to a conflict between Radicals and Dem? ?crata as such, wc shall fail to achieve a triumph iu thc political redemption of our State. There aro many colored voters who have become heartily disgusted willi thc prin? ciples and practices of thc Radical party, and who arc ready for a change, but they would hesitate to identify themselves, on 'account of past associations, with any principles set forth under thc auspices of a Democratic party. In our opinion, thc good of thc Stale demands thu sacrifice of party names, and ?ill lovers ol' law and order should be willing to work nu? der a new name, with true Conservative prin? ciples. Wc are prepared to endorse the plat? form ot principles laid down by thu NEWS, ami the sooner we can agree upon a name under which to fight the bolter it will bc for our so? cial and political Interests. Hero ls the plat? form, and If tho principles enunciated therein be distinctly laid before the people, and bc zealously defended, wc can hope certainly for success : "And wc propose to go bclore the whole people, white and colored, as thc party of houost government and equal rights-as thc friends of low taxation-?is the friends of the workingman-as the supporters and advocates of industrial activity-as the persistent oppo? nents of monopolies and class legislation-as iv party pledged to represent faithfully and equally thc wuuts, righis and necessities of all classes and ali conditions of men." TBE BOFE OX AMERICA. He Explains his Views on Relisions Liberty. The London Catholic Mirror gives some in? cidents of an audience which the Pope gave to the American bishops. The writer thus mentions the Pope's reference to religious liberty : He then referred to the subject of liberty of religious worship, which, he said, in view of the establishment of His Church by our Lord as the ark of safety and salvation, with his positive revelation of the truth, could not be recognized in principle, since all wore bound to hear, believe, and obey God ; but which might, however, from particular circumstances of diversity of sects and denominations, be? come a social necessity, as it ls, he said, in the United States, where there are so many differ? ent religions. Ho then, laughing, called to mind the declaration of Mr. Cass, the former American minister at Rome, telling him that thu United States was the most religious coun? try in thc world, having churches and creeds ot every sort, to suit all sentiments, views, and opinions. IL was certainly desirable that all should believe and obey the one truth, and where they were thus divided into creeds and churches there was nothing to bc done but to leave them to their responsibility to God. In thc United States, said tic, the church is left free with the rest, and I see not how there could be any arrangement there which could be more favorable to her. Ile adds : I noticed that several of the bishops, when leaving, placed on thc Pope's table the offerings of their dioceses. Toward the last the arch? bishop of San Francisco came forward with his gifts, among which was a splendid gold snuff-box tilled with gold pieces, from twenty dollar pieces down, all California gold-sent, I believe, by Dr. Cooke, vicar general of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The Pope was seemingly delighted with the offering, and, as Hie archbishop of Baltimore, before leaving, tendered the Pope a pinch of snuff from his box, thc Holy Father, accepting lt, said : "Your snuff is very fine; tnt" said he, point? ing to thc California box, "this is far prefer? able." O BORO IA. The Rump Legislature -Adoption of ix Stay Law. In the Georgia Senate, on Thursday, the fol? lowing waB adopted: Resolved, by the General Assembly. That all proceedings in thc several courts ot this State, founded on any debt or contract made or en? tered Into before the 1st of Juno, 1865, and all levies and sales by virtue of nny execution so founded, shall bc and arc hereby stayed, until twenty days after the recess taken by this General Assembly shall have expired. Resolved further, That the General Assem? bly, in compliance with the just demands ot thc people, earnestly appeal to Major-General A. H. Terry to sanction and enforce the above resolution, alter Ita approval by the Provision? al Governor. Thc negro senator T. G. Campbell intro? duced a resolution to the effect that all pro? ceedings in the courts ot the State, either civil or criminal, be suspended until the courts of the State shall have been reorganized and civil law re-established. Bullock ls requested to ask General Terry to give tho resolution the full force and effect of a law. The resolution was laid on tho table. Mr. Harris offered a resolution that the General Assembly take a recess for sixty days, and to reassemble on the 13th day of next April, subject toTie called together before that time by a; proclamation from the Governor. During the recess tho members, officers and constitunal clerks arc to be allowed no pay ex? cept for mileage. Thc amendment was pitt to the vote and udopted. In the House the Slay-law resolution, and the resolution for a recess, was adopted. Both Houses adjourned to April 18. Shreds of State News. Mrs. M. S. Ollivicr, an unsexed specimen of the Cincinnati "Sorosis," will lecture at Atlan? ta on Monday night on female suffrage. ?at??^ 30,000 men, women and children, this gives a debt of $P?? to every one of her population. A convention of thc people of Georgia. Irre? spective of party, Is called to meet In Albinia on thc 15th of March, to consider the condi? tion of Hie Stale and to protest against ihe usurpation of Bullock and his reckless extrava? gance. The Monroe Southern "Witness says thc pros? pect ol' wheat at this time of thc year was never more favorable In Walton. Our farmers, it is true, have planted largo areas, but they hive ment more care In the preparation and ferti? lizing. Without a disaster, thc harvest will jcriainly be abundant. Deep breaking, libe? ral manuring and shallow planting ls the far? mer's motlo. THE CARPET-BAGGERS. (Vhat they Arc and What They Are Doing. ["Mack," in Cincinnati Enquirer.] It ls now quite well understood thal at least me carpet-bag member of Die House-a gen Icmau irom South Carolina-is Implicated in ho sale of West Point cadctships. There is iromisc of full exposure, and the public will ;oou know all about ll. But Hie most reinarle ible feature of the thing to my mind is, not hat the carpet-baggers should sell their ln lucnce and votes for such sums as they can ret, but that the people should wonder when hey do so. Congress has deliberately Imposed his set ol'vile creatures upon ten States of the Jnion. Tlie Reconstruction laws have render id anything like respectable representation inpossible; they have excluded from office ivory man In the South who is tit to hold I. and made len millions of people thc vic? iais ol unprincipled adventurers. You can IOI name to-day, among thc carpet-bag meru if rs and senators In Congress, a single man ibo could bc elected lo any office in Hie coun y in the North, from which he emigrated to usten himself upon an unwilling people brough the instrumentality of Congressional cconstruciion. Thc Republicans in Congress .rc beginning to sec this, and to complain of t; but it la loo late. As Mirabeau said in the "ouvention of France, when the Abbe Sieyes ompluined ol'thc extremes to which the rcvo ul!onlst3 were going, "My dear Abbe, you ave loosed thc bull; do you think he will not ise his horns?" Congress lias "loosed thc 11111," and he ls simply using his horus. There lever was a more dastardly crime committed gainst a brave people than that which called he carpet-baggers into existence and Ulled he halls of Congress with tho mean wretches /ho now represent the South. Nor is the in nry confined to the South alone. The carpet laggcr's vote counts for us much on a tariff or . currency question affecting the whole coun ry as the vote of a member trom New YOIK or 'ineiunatl,-and we have now twenty such 'otes in the Senate and eighty in the House .ny one of them a merchantable article (or ule to the highest, bidder, the aggregate form uganarmy ol'rascality sufficiently large to lorruptand befoul lite entire l?gislation of 'digress. Nor is there any prospect ot imme liato relief. The itilliietice of these men is lousfantly excited to prevent the extension of nuncsty to lliosu likely tu prove competitors br their succession. A general removal of Usabilities would soon purify thc political at nosphere of the South; but Congress never vas farther from that sort of magnanimity han it is to-duy. Thc Southern delegations ire solid against lt, and arc likely to remain so md to defeat auy measure ol'the kind. So, 1 repeat, the sale of cadctships. though i disgraceful thing, is but a drop in lite great Wean of corruption. It is us nothing coin Mirud to tho villany and venality which ure useparable from a system which makes sena ors and representatives out ol* men who come lore for the sole purpose nf making as much ts possible mu ol' their positions in Congress, diese facts may as well be looked squarely in .he face, and the people mayas well make up heir minds to accept the disgraceful situation vhich party malice has forced upon them. It trill be the work ot twenty years to "disinfect'' .he hulls of national legislation, and remove "rom them the impurities of Congressional rc XMistruclloa. -Apropos of Chief Justice Chase's recent leclslon against Ibo Legal-lender act, thc Bos? ton Transcript says: "The man whose face is un wiuvt the Supreme Court calls 'irredeema? ble paper currency* has some 'check' to turn his back on his portrait. No man ever pro? nounced against his own issue to the extent of Chief Justice Chase.'' AMERICAIN TEMPLARS. South Carolina First on the Record. The English papers publish a list of the Americans admitted in the last century as mem? bers of the London Inns of Court, to plead at the bar In the English courts of common law and equity. It will be seen that South Caro? lina leads all the other States handsomely on the list: TBS HIDDLE TEMPLH. Edmund Key.Maryland.1760 Alexander Lawson.Maryland.17i9 William Fauntleroy.Virginia.neu Waiter Livingston.New York.1761 Rooert Livingston.New York.1701 Lloyd Dulany.Maryland.1761 Joseph Yeates.Pen nay Ivan ia.1762 Gabriel Cathcart.North Carolina.1763 Nicholas Wain.Pennsylvania.1763 Joseph Heed.New Jersey.1763 William Hamilton,.Pennsylvania.1764 C. Cotesworth Flnckncy.South Carolina.1764 John Matthews.South Carolina.1764 Thomas Hey ward.South Carolina.1763 James Wright. Georgia.1705 Hugh Rutledge.South Carolina.1705 Henry Yonge.Georgia.1766 Ndward Rutledge.South Carolina.1767 Paul Ttapler.South Carolina.1767 Thomas Lynch.South Carolina.1767 Gustavus Scott.Virginia.1767 Alexander Monltrle.South Carolina.._1768 Richard Shubrlck.South Carolina.17?8 Phillp Neyle.South Carolina.1768 James Peronueuu.-.South Carolina.1768 william Ollphaut.South Carolina.1769 James F. Grdnke.South Carolina.1769 Henry Lee Ball.Virginia.1770 Richard Tilghinan.Pennsylvania.1769 Daniel Dulany.Maryland.1770 Phineas Bond.Pennsylvania.1771 Walter Atchlson.Virginia.1771 Cyrus Grimn.Virginia.1771 Wm. Ward Barrows.South Carolina.1772 William Hey ward.South Carolina.1772 Edward Tilghman.Maryland.1772 Johu Laurens.South Carolina.1772 Henry Lee.Virginia.1773 Richard Beresford.South Carolina.1773 Charles Pinckney.South Carolina.1773 Nicholas Maccubbin.Maryland.1773 Thomas Shubrlck.South Carolina.1773 Jared Ingersoll.Pennsylvania.1773 Henry Nicholas.South Carolina.1773 John Pringle.South Carolina.1773 Jos. Ball Downmau.Virginia.1773 Arthur Lee.Virginia.1773 Moses Franks.Pennsylvania.1774 Benjamin Smith.South Carolina.:_1774 William Smith.South Carolina.1774 Robert Milligan.5Iarylanil.1774 William Simpson.South Carolina.1775 John Parker.South Carolina.1776 Hoyt McCall.South Carolina.1775 Wm. Sumner Powell_Massachusetts.1776 Charles Bryce.South Carolina.1776 James Simpson.Georgia.1777 William Roberts.Virginia.1781 James Smith.South Carolina.1781 William Rawle.Pennsylvania.1781 Joseph Manlgault.South Carolina.1781 Daniel Uorry.Souih Carolina.1781 Peter Porcher.South Carolina.1782 John Gaillard.South Carolina.1782 Theodore Gaillard.South Carolina.1782 Archibald Young.South Carolina.1782 Thomas Simons.South Carolina.1783 William Mazyck.South Carolina_.1783 Benjamin Chuo.Pennsylvania.1784 John Saunders.Virginia.1784 Phillp Key.Maryland.1784 William Vars Murray.. ..Maryland.1784 J. Leeds Bozmor.Maryland.i;85 Robert Alexander.Vlqaaia.1785 George Boom Roupell....South Carolina.1785 Henry Gibbes.Som li Carolina.1785 William Allen Deas.South Carolina.1780 TUB INNER TEMPLE. Phillp Alexander.Virginia.17C0 William Pace.Mn ry land.i: 02 Alexander White. Virginia.1762 Edmund Key.Maryland.17U2 Lewis Boswell.Virginia.1765 William Cooke.Maryland.1788 James Lloyd Rogers.Maryland.1708 John Pcronncau.South Carolina.1772 Kean Osborne.America [sic].1772 John W. Irwin.America.1772 Gibbes w. jordan.America.1773 S. Gcorgo Tucker.Virginia.1773 James McKcely.Virginia.1775 William Houston.Georgia.1770 Francis Corbin.Virginia..1777 Daniel Leonard.Virginia.1777 Wm. Robert Hay.Virginia.1781 George Tyson.America.1781 John K Usai I.America.1783 Francis Rush Clark_Aanexlca_^1783 Carter Braxton....AmeTrcl?-*..".'.rlS'J RichahFpostcr Clark 1... America: : : : : : 1182 John Wentworth.1785 LINCOLN'S INN. Phillp Livingston.New York.1761 Arthur Lee.Virginia.1770 William Vassall.Boston.1773 Francis Kinloch.South Carolina.1774 William Walton.South Carolina.1775 John Stuart.South Carolina.1775 Peter Murkoe.Pennsylvania.1776 Ben jam In Lovell.Massachusetts.1776 Robert Williams.South Carolina.1777 Gabriel Manlganlt.South Carolina.1777 Clement C. Clarke.New York.1778 Alexander Gordon.South Carolina.1779 Richard Henderson.Maryland.1781 Nell Jamieson.New York.1782 Thomas Bec.South Carolina.1782 PERSONAL GOSSIP. -John H. Surrat is a grocer in Baltimore, -A monument to Prentice ls proposed in Louisville. -Secretary Seward sailed from Havana on Wednesday for Ballimore. -Boston ls delighted. Prince Arthur prom? ised to visit there ngain in May. -Senator Grimes, who is ill In Europe, will probably not survive thc Journey home. -Martin Farquhar Tupper has been writing "A Few Words about Animals' Hereafter." -Mr. Dion Boucicault has produced in his time over one hundred and fifty dramatic pieces. He is an Irishman, and was educated by Dr. Lardner. -Auerbach Is willing to dispos* ol the copy? right of his latest novel for the trifling sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. -Mrs. General Gaines 1B described as look? ing as bright and young as a woman of forty. Her eyes are clear, complexion fresh, and her Step elastic. -Fourteen of the most beautiful shopwo mcn at thc Palace of the Universal Exposition have been married in tire course of the lost few years to wealthy Frenchmen. -A rich Mussulman at Smyrna has Just died, leaving no heirs-at-law, and five hundred thousand dollars thus drops Into the Turkish treasury, where lt ls very much needed. -Miss Susan B. Anthony, being fifty years of age on Tuesday, her lrlends gave her an entertainment at the Women's Bureau, In New York, on that evening. All the distinguished people connected with tho woman suffrage movement were present to do honor to their Intrepid leader. The donations were many ?iud very handsome, and tho best feeling pre? vailed. -There are six stars playing Hamlet at dif? ferent theatres in New York at present. Among them the most conspicuous rivals are Booth and Fechter. Both of them are re. producing classically the sedate and melan? choly Prince whom Shakespeare drew. But the sensation of the season ls a burlesque written by T. C. DeLeon, Esq., and produced with all the comical stage effect which out? landish costuming and ridiculous scenery can lend. What shall we not travesty next ? -Berezowskl, tho Pole, who attempted to assassinate the Emperor Alexander of Rus? sia, in Juno, 1867, on thc occasion of his visit to thc French Exposition, was condemned to the guillotine, but on the intercession of the Czar the sentence was commuted to Imprison? ment for life. The latest intelligence from Europe announces that Berezowski managed to escape from the French penal settlement at New Caledonia, but after wandering about for three or four days was recaptured In a state of complete exhaustion, not having tasled food for fifty-two hours. r,ls sufferings were Intense, und he is now almost an Idiot. New Caledonia is situated in the South Pacific Ocean, in latitude 21 degrees south, and longi? tude 1C5 degrees east. It is 30 miles broad and 220 miles long; its surface ls mountainous, rising in the centre to 8000 feet. MRS. STOWE IN FLORIDA. A Pen Flotare - of Her Household. A correspondent of the Nashville Union ?did American, who was one of the Green Line excursion party, writes to that paper a long and interesting letter from Jacksonville, Fla., giving a description of the country along the beautiful St John's, and a visit ptfid by a few of the "excursionists" to Mrs. ("Uncle Tom'? Cabin") Stowe, who ls now spending the win? ter amid the orange groves of the Land of Flowers. We give his report of the visit in hi? own words. He says: About 12 o'clock- a party of about thirty ladies and gentlemen took an excursion on* small steamboat twelve, or fifteen miles up the ':' St. John's. After wa had been sometime ont.' ... the captain informed us that Mrs. Harriet. Beecher Stowe's plantation lay immediately on the bank of the river, and that the oidhvdy ' had arrived there but a few days previous, for her usual winter sojourn. It was then deter? mined that the excursionists would call npon her, and when the boat arrived opposite ber residence, a committee of Cincinnati gentle? men called at the house to learn whether it would be f-reeablc for us to pay our respecto to her. She Informed the committee that sha would be pleased to receive the ladies and gen? tlemen of the excursion. Accordingly all marched up to the house and were presented to Mrs. Stowe. We were very much disappoint? ed in her appearance. She is scarcely up to tho medium height, and hos strong masculine features, but greatly lacking in the Intelli? gence she has displayed in her contributions to the literature of the day. Were she placed in a room with a number of ladles selected promiscuously, there is scarcely one In a hun? dred who would select her as a woman of ?renius. She appeared diffident and ill at ease n the company of our ladies. Whether ahe was embarrassed and forgot, or whether it la characteristic of her, she certainly exhibited none of the hospitality with which a lady In the South receives visitors. She left the ladles of our porty to get seato as best, they could, did not Introduce them to ber daughters, who were present, nor did she offer them a cup of water nor an orange, which hung in profusion on the trees around her door. Her daughters, twin sisters, had noth? ing to say; Indeed, we believe, ?hey did not speak to one of the visitors. One of them was engaged on a piece of crochet work, and she plied herself to the work before her, aa though she were a hired seamstress, who had no right to speak. This conduct attracted the attention of both ladles and gentlemen of the party, and it was suggested in extenuation of their want of hospitality, that, being the fami? ly of a distinguished authoress, they were, per? haps, subjected to visits from a great many curious and Impertinent people, and that they had adopted this meth? od -to rid themselves of both boors and bores. One ol our party, a mischievous, fun-loving disciple of Blackstone, from At? lanta, states that while one portion of the party were Interviewing "the old woman" on thc verandah fronting the river, and others were viewing the oranges as they hung tempt' Ingly on the trees on either side, and In the rear of the house, bc made bis way to the kitchen to interview the servants. He en? countered a rather pretty and witty Irish girl, from whom he learned a good deal in regard to the domestic habits of the Stowe family. In response to an inquiry, she stated that Mrs. Stowe's twin daughters were thirty years old, and that they did not want lo marry. Our At? lanta friend sold he thought as much from their behavior. Mrs. Stowe looks to bo sixty-fire years old, though under fifty-eight, having been born June io, 1812. She wears her bau*, which ls quita gray, In curls, and was dressed in very plain, unpretending style. She was married In 1836 to the Rev. Professor Calvin Ellis Stowe. Shortly afterwards she commenced her liter? ary career, and In 1851 began the publication In the National Era, an anti-slavery paper In Washington, as a serial tale, her celebrated work entitled Uncle Tom's Cabin. It at? tracted so much attention, lhat when com PJcte'k in JSSJLft was published in book Torin Tu HOSTOU; imu BU gi eat HTM-tho-de wm] 8oTd.1f- '^ -?y?^oo^copiei estimated to have reached BOOlfith copies. "' and lt was ruDldly translated Into all European and some Asiatic languages, and lt was aleo extensively dramatized. It has been justly sold, with reference to this book, that "never did an American writer achieve BO sudden and great a literary success, or exert a more profound Influence upon American golltics and society." One of our party, .? ?publican, remarked that our troubles dated from thu promulgation of this work, and the memory of the "lat, sleek negroes" he lost by the war, inspired In him no high respect for Mrs. Stowe. Although she hos written two other anti-slavery and a number of literary books, none of them are remembered, except her last, which has called forth the denunciation of almost every press In the country. Not* withstanding her abuse and misrepresenta? tion of the people of the. South, she is treated by them with the courtesy due to a lady. It was learned from the gentleman who has charge of tho place, that Mrs. Stowe owns ubout ninety acres of land, on which there isa small orange grove. He stated that the trees yield from 20uo to 3000 oranges each, and that they sell for $5 to $8 per barrel, averaging 250 to 300 oranges per barrel. The demand for oranges ls not so good this season as formerly, and prices are lower, lt was noted that Mrs. Stowe's oramres were not so large as those on an adjoining' place ; hut perhaps the larger ones hod-been gathered and marketed. A few minutes before the party returned to thc boat Professor Stowe made his appear? ance, and was Introduced lo a few who still lingered at the house. He is a vene; able, pa? triae] ?lal looking man, and made rather a fa? vorable impression upon t hose who conversed with him. Mrs. Stowe stated tbalidie would return to her New England home in May. 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