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VOLUME XI.-NUMBER 1578. CHARLESTON, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1871. EIGHT DOLLARS A YEAR. PLUNDERING THE PEOPLE. HOW THE SOUTH CAROLINA STATE? HOUSE WAS FURNISHED. General Dennis's Vice Little Bills Eight Dollar .Spittoons for Negro Members-A 83600 Chandelier-Smoky Legislators-How They "Choke Off" an Obnoxious Speaker. [Correspondence of the New York San.] COLUMBIA. S. C., April IC. I have got at some facts about the fliting np of the Statehouse here, and kindred subjects interesting to South Carolina taxpayers. Gen? eral John. B. Dennis, who had the matter In charge, is disposed t6 be reticeui. bst through another source I have got at the little bill of furniture and fixings, and the fig? ures it contains are somewhat startling. It seems that when the Job- was first put up to saddle the cost of this extrava? gant furniture upon the peoph ;t was intend? ed to couflne it simply to the as mbly chamb? er, which, by the way, was in rather a dilapi? dated condition. Speaker Moses took the thing in hand and gave an order in writing to Dennis to contract for the furniture, nt the sartjp time enjoining upon him the necessity of strict economy ? and a wholesome regard for the t hen impoverished condition of the people. In upholstery Dennis is an artist, or .at least he thinks he is, and he didn't propose to throw away his talent upon the mere decoration of an assembly chamber. He resolved to lurnlsh the whole Statehouse, and for this purpose he went to New York to consult his brother ar? tists Messrs. Nicol & Davidson. The latter firm were NOT AVERSE TO TUE LITTLE JOH. and of course they did their best to secure it. , Stewart Sutphen, of Brooklyn, also had a J finger lu the pie, and furnished carpets enough | j at $2 50 a yard to flt out every private house . in Columbia. , In course of time the furniture and uphol- , stery arrived, and was put in the Statehouse, j I went all over tho building a lew days ago, , and was enabled to Judge lor myself of the j value of the articles. A plain clock, with a | carved walnut i'rnme, that Benedict would put , up lor about $100, is charged on Nicol & , Davidson's bill at $185. The clock has not run j hut a lew bours since it was placed over the ? door of the library in the rotunda. Another , clock of the same kind hangs in the Assembly j Chamber. It cost $475-worth about $75. There are abeut twenty small rooms in the , Statehouse known as committee rooms. These j are never used except as loafing places for ] negro members oras convenient retreats in L which to enjoy a little ganlc of draw ut odd , times while the Legislature is in session. Into , each of these little rooms General Dennis put I | a handsome carpet, a black walnut table cov-1 , ered with green cloth (very convenient lor ( poker,) and walnut, chairs by the dozen. He . purchased for. each ol these rooms a large I, German (not French) plate mirror, with cheap ? walnut frame. Nicol <fc Davidson charge on I , the bill $355 each for these mirrors. What the j per cent, on them le, of course, no one can j. teJgl, but certain it is thia they are NOT WORTH ONE-HALF THE MONET. 11 So certain is Governor Scott that there* Is J fraud lu the purchase of these mirrors, that j ! he will not allow them to be unpacke i, and I ' says they shall not bu placed in the rooms. ; He has ordered Dennis to -send them back to 1 New York. 1 In the Assembly room we have a central * chandelier. Invoiced by N. & D. at $3600. It is ! a gilt chandelier, with 1G0 burners, but ex- 1 ceedingly plain*.. One thousand dollars would 1 be a very high price for it almost any wherein 11 New York. Mr. Speaker Moses sits in front ol 1 a crimson silk rsp-3 curtain,' furnished bv 11 Stewart Sutphen, of Brooklyn, at $13C5,' and I under a gilt cornice bearing the palmetto 11 tree and coat of arms, put up by Nicol & 11 Davidson for $805. But tbe grossest swindle, Is and one that excites more comment and in-11 dignaci?n here than . any other part of- the 11 whole bill, is that of the -"cuspadore" or Jv I a spittoon?. They are ol French china, hand- J 8omely enamelled and marked in gilt '-House 1 of Representatives, South Carolina." They 1 were invoiced by Nicol & Davidson at $9C "a 18 dozen, and there are about tea dozen or them. | ' Governor Scott says: "They (ihe cuspadors) f are so thick in lhere (the House.) that the ne- I ' groes that wear No. fourteens cant put their * leet on t he floor wimont crushing one or two to j ' atoms." It is so; lhere have been nearly forty I( broken already In that way Of course, in a 5 Legislature like Souib Carolina's it ls necessa- 18 ry ?or the health and convenience of all that j * ABLUTIONS SH:-CLO BB FREQUENT. J ? General Dennis kindly afforded the necessa- I, ry facilities in elegant chipa enamelled toilet I. sets, at $65 each. Each commute (or poker ?) j i room bas one. But I have neither lime nor I r space to devote to a more particular enumera- I *? tlon of the articles in this huge swindle. I I, have given the prominent ones, and that ls I r enough to judge by. The whole bill amounts {. to #92.500. and lt ia safe to say that fully one- . hali oil' ls a fraud. J. I was here the night of the adjournment of the Legislature last mouth, and saw the ma-1 . cbinery in full blast. The complexion of this n wonderful body is both cutically and politlcallv ? very black. In point of intellect, 1 wouldn't I !j give much for the Lower House. There are I " some smart white men, and one or two rather I intelligent necroes In It, but what brains there I are are so swallowed up in rascality as to be utterly useless In framing laws lor the benefit of the State. The majority of the negroes are either wholly ignorant field hands, or ex-por? ters, barbers, or waiters In hotels, who can v just manage to read and write. Of this latter i. "class Is Jones, who, like tho President ot the United States, always has a cigar in his month 11 In session or ont. ti JONES IS A POKEP.-PLATKR . p and a clever fi-llow. but he doesn't even him- ?j Bell'deny that he is a great rascal. Whippet is another. He has natural ability, but, like 1 some of inc plantations hereabouts, he . hicks ci cultivation. Whipper is a general, and is the c brolher-in-!aw ol' the young and beautiful _ Misses Rollin who "?.veii up the little claim of $1000 lor Speaker Moses to sign, justas if it a had passed the Legislature." Tue young and c beautiful Misses Rollin ' called this a school claim lor leaching." Smoking lu the Lower House while it is in session is "un indecent habit that lt would be A Well if Speaker Moses would abolish next win? ter. If there ls no nile to prevent ?tone should be made. In one sense, however, the habit ol' smoking, "while on duty," so to speak, may 2 be made useful' They say that when a mem? ber gets np to make a speech in opposition to v any scheme ol' plunder, or upon any other dis- u tasteful subject, the oilier members crowd around him with cigars in their mouths, und, t willie pretending to be. deeply interested in v what the fellow is saying, quietly puff cloud b a:l#r cloud into his face until he can neither see the speaker nor ?rei his brealli. This pro- u cess they call ''choking off a speech," and it fl certainly ls effective, Perhaps it is Ihls cns- li tom that led Genend Dennis to provide such n hundsome receptacles for the saliva engender- a od by such rapid smoking us ls uecessary to a j prompt choking off of these strains of elo- y quence._ _ A. P. r THE GREAT CREVASSE. NEW ORLEANS, April 2C. It is officially stated that the Bouvet Carre crevasse wus eleven hundred leet wide at two o'clock this evening. Immense volumes of water are pouring through the break at the twelve mile post, un the Jackson Railroad, the water running six inches over ihe track. En? gineers who came down from Cribbing report WaikelPa Swamp completely submerged and water coming into the fields around Kenner ville, and the swamps uae'e of ibis city are commencing to fill up from water backing in lrom the Lake. The latest accounts state that the crevasse ls eleven hundred feet wide by actual measure - ment, and the volume of water passing through it is one-sixth of the whole volume ol the Mississippi. No further damage is ap? prehended, 03 the flood ia the river is sub? siding. LATEST-Poverty Point and Marere cre? vasse are closed. Nothing (Vom Bouvet Carre crevasse to-day. Tnere ls no material change In the flood on the Jackson Railroad. V AN OLD TIMK STATESMAN. Autobiographical Letter of William L. flin roy. The Washington Patriot gives a letter, hitherto unpublished, writeu by William L. Marcy, and dated '-from December 31st to Jan? uary 1,1839,"' which latter figure is obviously wrong. It begins by saying: ''Before this is finished I shall have passed from public to private life, and be in a situai ion that I have not occupied for the last eighteen years," and the following ls a liberal portion of what fol? lows: We sometimes arrive at particular points the journey where retrospection is naturally forced upon us. I have reached one of these stages in my career. Havins arrived so near to its close,"it is natural that I should.ask what I have done lor myself and what for others. J do not think that I am open to the reproach of | having been idle or uselessly employed, yet I cannot boast of hnvlng done much. What I have done for rovself I may speak-what for others, they can better judge. The stations i have held are honorable, and such as are not usually atlained by accident or good fortune alone. Whatever other consequences.that have attended them, they have not been proa table. The pecuniary compensation which I have received lor eighteen years ot incessant labors-the largest portion ol active and vigor? ous lite-has been a bare subsistence lor my? self and my comparatively small family;, per? haps not entirely that. The means I bail when I entered into the public service, If led to ac? cumulate lu Hie ordinary way, would have be? come at this time more than I 'dare promise myself I now have. My labor, cares and re? sponsibilities have been greater than would have fallen to my lot in Hie ordinary pursuits ot private life. Jf my acquisitions in a pecuni? ary -way have probably been less, and ray la? bors and vexations greater, what compensa? ting advantages are to be brought inlo the cal sniatlon to balance the account? Public life ls Ul Rome sense a servitude, but it is usually accompanied with enjoyments, ind these are to most minds a sufficient re? gard; but the extent of these enjoyments de? pends essentially upon the character of the recipient. If a public man ls endowed with' a ;ood degree of vanity he is made happy by the respect hts station procures him;if he is am jitious, he is made happy by the opportunity iflbrded him ol gratifying that dominant pas? sion; if he is anxious to extend the sphere of j [lis uselulness. he is maoe happy by the real? ization of lils benevolent wishes. * I will not say that from each of these sources I have not ierlved some enjoyment, but if I do not mis ndge of myself, lt has been less than, most, libers would have felt in my situation. This implies an opinion'that 1 have less vanity and oss ambition than most other men. The in? dulgence of this opinion you may regard as a refutation ol' Its correctness. Sell-delusion ?nore readily and more egregiously errs in dis Believing Une existence of faillis tlian over-esti? mating claims to merit. Ail the acquisition* jf life are generally pronounced empty anti jnsatisiactory as soon as the passions which ittended the pursuit of them h.ive subsided. Honest fame deserves to be prized as highly, perhaps more so, than any of them, and this jsually accompanies, in a greater or less de? cree, a man lu an elevated*.station, who has seen faithful to his trust, even it his capacity md qualifications are of an ordinary character. How much of lt I merit, or how much will be iwarded to me, (for a man may get mure or ess than he deserves,) I will not attempt, to settle at the risk of rendering myself ridicu ous, even to an intimate friend: but If, in mv Tree unbosoming cf myself-to yon, I felt at llb-1 ! ;rty to express an opinion on that subject, 11 should be ata loss to graduate lt. I migut say, perhaps without arrogance or the imputation . , )l vanity, that I have a (air claim to considera .lon for good intentions; for a diligent npplica .lcn of my faculties, whatever they are, to my I j )tiblic duties; !or having lakeu, at least, usual talus to guard myself against the intrusion of mproper motives ol actlou. and to adhere to [ md follow ont correct principles, or rather, , ?uch as I thought to be correct. I do not deny f hat I have had regard to the Interests of my . ?any, ont I have pursued these as subordinate md subservient lo Hie public good. But hou? rly" ot purpose and industry, the only points n regard to my claims to public consideration ipon which I presume to venture an opinion, ire but a trivial part of the materials required or the foundation of public fame-indeed, ol hemselves lliey do nothing toward lt. Good mentions, without abilities to carry Hiern imo .fleet, and Industry without u sound judgment oyive it a proper and useful application, Ure livery little worth. No one can earn for hlm ?elf th? praiseworthy distinction which de ierres the name ol fame without native tal? in ts, large acquirements, sagacity, prudence, ind a sound judgment. Many claim a lair hare o? these, and t hose who (hink they have hem in un eminent degree are the most likely o be mistaken. Of my endowments in these espects I shall only say that l have enough of irudence and judgment not to indulge In even conjectural estimate of Hie share of Hiern hat I p/>3sess. You may think that I am atuer prematurely cumming np the cause be? rne all the lacts are brought out. but 1 think he testimony is closed. My spring and Slim? ier are past, and I have advanced ;nr Into the ulumn of life. It would be folly in ine to hlnk of sowing seed lor another harvesf. At lost, I can only glean a little longer lu Hie ld fields. I neither see a prospect nur feel a eslre of returning again to life. Nor a:n 1 at ll unhappy that it is so. A ?ICE POINT. NEW ORLEANS, April 27. Two colored graduates of the Howard Uni erslty, District ol' Columbia, wore this morn lg applicants'al thc Supreme Court for ad ilsslon to the bar of this State. The applica on was refused, on the ground that although artios who hare practiced before Hie Su rome Court of any State can be admitted lion motion before tho court, yet these antidates, coming from a territory, do not otae within the hitter ol Hie law, and will ave to pass au examination by a committee ppointed by th? Supremo Court before they an be admitted to practice. XILSSOX AND GUSTAVE DOSE. L Refutation of the si ?ry tliat She Jilt? ed thc GK ai Artist. CHICAGO, January 13,1S71. "o the Editor of the Republican: Your issue ul yesterday contains an article rltb Hie heading, -How Clara Louise Kellogg ande Nilsson break her ran." On the occasion referred to by Hie writer of hat article, I was uear Mlle. Nilsson, und eau ouch that Hie statement about .Mlle. Nilsson icing angry, ?fcc., is untrue. I should uot a-sk you to allow rae to trespass ipon your valuable space, but that il is as pain? ui lo Mlle. Nilsson as it would be to any other idy to be represented in such an odious man? ier as that described iu your columns. Il is Iso unjust toward .Mons. Dore, the "great minter," that it should be supposed that any >er?on whom he may honor with a visit should iave, "In Hie co"mp*ieiest sense ol the tenn, orbiddenhim the house." Mons. Gustave Dore never presented liiin elf at tue house of lille. Nilsson. Mlle. Nils? on has seen M>.>us. Dot e but three limes wice at Hie house ol' my brother, Mr, Mau.ice ilrakoscli. aod once at Hie house of Hie edu? cated composer, Signor Rossini, at diuuer Mtrties. Il is, therefore, unnecessary to say hat the assertion ol' Mlle. Nilsson having been mgaged to Mons. Gustave Dore is without ouudation. I believe, sir. that you will agree Hutt the vhuie of the article is as siily as it is spiteful. Yours, respectfully." MAX STKAKOSCU. INDIANAPOLIS. January IC. 1870. Co the Editor oj the Chicago Republican: SIR-lu your Journal of Thursday last an ?r? lele appeared describing how Mlle. Christina Nilsson behaved at a concert given by Miss Jlara Louise Kellogg, at the Academy of Music n New York. Will you please allow me to state that dur? ing the whole of that concert I sat in the same private box with Mlle. Nilsson, and I pledge ny honor that the statement in that anid?is nitrite. I wish also to add that I am a per ional friend ol Mons. Gustave Dore, and I am n a position to say that, the account of Mlle. Sliissou having been ..orougluiutu notice'' by, ir engaged lo him, is all untrue. I beg leave to remain your obedient servant. H. VJBOITEUPS. THE BOOM OF A CIRCE. THE W03TAN WHO SHOT A MAX FOR KISSING HIS WIFE. The Verdict-Marder in the First De? gree-Interesting Review of the Case An Eminent Lawyer in the Tolls of a . Circe-Afloat upon the Sea of Frce I.;n-t-Thc Squalls of Jealousy rind the Keefs of Passion- 1 Lesson from Life. One of the most exciting criminal cases ever tried before ihe courts of San Francisco, and equalled in intensity of interest only by the cel. ebrated McFarland trial io NewYork, is that of Laura D. Fair, tor tho assassination of Judge A. P. Crittenden, which lias just been brought to a close, by the conviction ol the licensed of Mard.fr in thc First Degree. The iacls of the sase are so revolting that even a faithful chronicler ol' passing events, whose duty it is to give "the f jrm an t pressure of the time," might desire to withhold them from the public observation. Tue- caso is analogous to the McFarland tragedy, but marked by three-fold enormity in every feature. It is that ol'a mar? ier, or assassination, perpetrated by a woman,, steeped in morai turpitude, upon a paramour ao less guilt; of conjuga] faithlessness and so? cial crime. Thc circumstances ot the crime, so (ar as the; have been revealed at the trial, ire briefly these: ursToitr OF TUE CASE. A woman, now known as Mr. Laura Fair, ?vho is described aa handsome and fascinating n her appearance and manners, andas having ?arly developed strong-minded proclivities kvhich thc reader may understand to mean ibsencc of modest and delicate sentiment, Im? patience of parental restraint, and contempt )f ihe refinement of thought and action due to 1er sex-was married at the age of sixteen, md separated from her first love and young nisbaiwl within a year. A Second husband ?ooo. succeeded? whose wedded life was limi ed to half a ?var, at ll:? end of which time the "ailliless wile had forsaken her secoud home. S'o divorce appears to have been required in .??tiler case io consummate a separatio!! saiis nctorilyto both parties. A third husband .vas soon found in a Colonel Fair, whose iam?*lhe wretched woman now bears. The jonneclion willi him, for some congeniality or :atise not explained, wa3 of longer cominu itice, having listed harmoniously several rears, and until a more absolute and eflectual separation than in the other cases had been ef ected by hi-s death. These events had trans-11 ?ired somewhere at the South, the last-men-11 doned husband having been ensnared In New Jrlean?. About the lime of his death the rest ess widow had removed to lian Francisco, ivhere she bt*cam? a hotel-keeper on u some ivhal extensive scale, and where in due timi 1er Hrrong-inlnded' proclivities were put in practice in a personal quarrel, in which she .vas somehow ihecauseol the unnatural death >f .'vex antagonist, by shooting orotherwig Having occasion for legal defence In the case, ?he employed Mr. A. P. Crittenden, a disiln-1 1 ruished or popular criminal lawyer of San francisco, wno managed her defence so elo jnently and adroitly as to obtain her ac ]uittal, while she Improved thc oppor unity to manage for herself so adroitly is io obtain his conviction lhat she was a | s it and willing object of his criminal regard \n lnthnncy succeeded, which was continued br three or four years, and carried to the ex-11 lernest extent ol vicious affection and mad lened folly, to the existence and long condon ince ol which the fact 61 his huvluga wife and | > amily in San Francisco who were cognizant >i the unlicensed and shameless acquaintance, teems tu have presented no effectual obstacle. < Jrittenden's wife visited the sorceress, and be- I ought her lor her own sake und that ol the tn- I ?ituated husband and his children to abandon I he guilty course which was bringing shume ? ind ruin upon both. She was met by a firm I elnswi and abold declaration of strong-minded inpiety, mat Mrs. Crittenden herself wastne inly'adulteress in tho mutter, and that she I Mrs. Fair) was Inti true wife ol Crittenden. < laving married bim, not in any legal or other ' VT ai recognized l>y the weak-minded world, 1 int in "Hie purest, most, holy and faulest ensc." Pure and holy und Inseparable, how- < iver, as this -elution wa?, its course, like that I dime love, was not Invariably smooth. A ' ronslent misunderstanding separnted the par- I ?es for a brief period, during which the tiifec- 1 Ions find plighted faith ol' mis holy wife were niiisl'erred to uuother man by the narnu ol < Inyder, lo whom she wis actually and legally 1 narried. This uillance was purely ephemeral, i inyder was soon disposed of by ft divorce, und Ir*. Fair, as she again called herself, nannied 0 the en chan tiiir in of Crittenden, lrom whom he succeeded la obtaining a pruml.se that h ronkl procure a divorce lrom lils wile and narr)* her, not merely in the "purest, holiest ? nd fullest sensu" wnlcii they hud heretolore t ecognized, but according io the forms ol law. % 'rillenden lt seems was inclined lo evade the c .'?eked and foolish promise he hud made ? nder the duress of his mischievous passion,; B 3d upon being Importuned Very strenuously c y Mrs. Fair for Mic fulfilment ol' lt. effected a t ompromlse t y substituting a pledge, which, it , .ss wicket!, ?ms ?nore foolish, that he would 01 kiss his wile upon aveling her. ns ho wa? hen expecting to do, on her return from au glenden visit to the Atlantic States. She I rent to the railroad station lo witness the j icetlng and to lest the sincerity ol the pledge. t 'he miserable Crittenden met lils abused bm Ul lt ful and truly loving wife with a kiss and i the next moment met almost instant death wn a pistol ball nt the hands nt his more . lisurab.e coinpauion In ali?os* unexampled ! alic , TUK LOVE-LETTERS. Tile love-leiters which make a part ot' this jost extraordinary nud shocking uffair, give n idea ol'the Infatuallon ol ?lie victim w hich io inwre narrative of th? leading Incidents ol he transiction eas possibly convey, rive ears ago. in the early stage "ol the illicit nc ualntunce, ?iiueuden, on leaving Hie city emporarily, writes tu the object ol hi* front* L'SS passion, from the first post, thal he "can lOt get a dozen miles from home without .Titing to tell her good-bye again." Soon at-1 j envaras he writes: "lu my eyes lhere is but j. roman, and thal is my Laura. My darling, 1 rhen I meet others I only draw ihe contrast in ay own mind, knowing thal on earth there Is c nit one woman." In un apparently cons- . c-enre-smitten moment, on -anouvr oe aston, the loollsh dupe says: "Phy- * ioally, my darling, 1 am well, lim t ay heart, my God ! how it siuks, at c ime3, when I dare lo look into the lui ure-al irhat is inevitable, and what 1 feel is even ow approaching. Tnere are moments when dread Insanity and crime, but lt is folly to iiher ieel or talk so.'! Ia the abruce of his I, nch.mtress, the mean aud unhappy mau was 1 onstantly brooding over ihe chalices of her ursaking and lorgeiiing him in oilier associa- ;i ?ons by which she was surrounded, and speut. . lis time mainly in the pursuit ot objects and ,11 ructions which were calculated to stifle his ? eatons apprehensions. On one occasion he trites: "At my oilice on sunday, only to 11 bink of you. Solitary, ami oh : how desolate. Vhut are you doing ? No doubt gaily enter awing your company without a thought ol' I ? ne, or thinking ot me with indifference, as a | ^ kw fool, who has loved you too well for his ?wn good." Again in a remittent gushing UOOd, he writes: "1 am iu the midst ol' busi H'ss. with not a moment to spare, and yet I nus. stop lo tell you Hint I lo*e aud long or my darling." His letters alternate be aveeu daile "and fearful humors and de? spondencies and the exuberaut lollies ol' love. ?ne day-lie is in a slate of miud bordering on lespairand niter wretchedness, and Hie next n a corresponding state of exhilaration, look ng every hour of Hie day willi unmlngled de? light upun the picture of his darling. At a iiiae when she seems lo have required a new issiuance ol' his love, he tells her that "his love tor her hus been and is the one passtou of lis life. It is my wnole life, and never can cease but. willi death. When that comes, your name wili be on my lips and your image in inv heart"-a prediction, alas, thut was uot prob ibly fulfilled. Hut we have room ?or no fur? ther extracts from these effusions ol madness md folly, .although many other quotations might be made which are equally illustrative dud instructive. In one inslauce he signs him? self "Hu?baud;" in many he affects "a hilari? us lone; and in ail he shows himsell toben miserable, wretched, conscience-stricken fool. THE ASPECT OF CIRCE. Mrs. Fair Ss said to be one of the most fasci natlng women that ever destroyed the peace ol'a family. She is above the ordinary height of women, symmetrical in form, graceful In carriage, and Infatuating in manners and mag? netism. Her hair is a dark ehesnut, her eyes dark brown, and her complexion as clear as that of a child of three years. Her hands and feet are small and elegantly moulded. With the exception of her liaison with Crittenden, she was always wary and cunning, and the ter? ror of married women wherever she went. It was evident to men of the world that., although she never did anything which could call lor rebuke, she was" a smouldering volcano, and not averse to a warm flirtation. Men throng? ed around her wherever .sin? went; and women hated her with Inexpressible viru? lence. She had the entree to tho best society in Kentucky and New Orleans. Shu ls nut a thoroughbred, but ls vivacious, sprightly mid magnetic, and when she entered a salem or a ball-room, the gentlemen -would dustin other ladles to gather around her and compete tor her smiles and recognition. Sh? never allow? ed herself lo be under any pecuniary obliga-, lion to men; but always delighted lu inking their husbands from young married women. . She had ? mania for stock speculations, and. an immense gift for luring bunkers and mer-1 chants Into her schemes. Her temper la ex? ceeding); violent, and she has been known to break the head ot a str-ant willi a chair. Sho is fond of champagne, and sometimes takes too much of it at dinner. In Hhort, ?lin ls a beautiful, heartless, fearless, terrible tigress, who loves and oates liken wild boast, and ls always ready to murder anybody who crosses her passions. EXCITEMENT IS CLARENDON. Killing of a Vcgro County Ci>mmM<ilon er-One Hundred Armut! .Vegrm-N Unter thc Town of .llauulug anti Threat?? to Kill Ten White Men au,I Burn thu Town-They arc ima with Boldness and Decidion, anti Retire, [From the Sum'rer Watchman.] Since Sunday morning last, excited and ex? citing rumors have prevailed In our midst, concerning the disturbance In the adjoining County of Clarendon, producing moro or less igltation of the public mindi On Wednesday Uternoon last, Peter Lemon, a black man. and i county commissioner ol Clarendon, was as? sassinated in hts bnggJS on thu public road, lbout two and a hair miles from Manning. The assassination took place at or near a branch or swamp thicket. Buck-shot entered the legs, stomach, breast and head of the unfor? tunate man, which* lt Is believed, produced instant death. Nothing satisfactory has come Lo light in regard to the assassins, btu. neither the whites or negroes believe that anv such imler as the Kn--Klux had anything lo do with il. Lemon was a turbulent and offensive nm .TO-notoriously so-aud huH been onco. or twice shot at-once by a colored renn, whose elster, lt Is alleged, he hud ravished, And some of these parlies (probably white and col? ored,) moved entirely hy feelings of personal revenge, are believed to have taken his life. He was returning from Manning, where, lt ls reported, he had made some disturbance and liad some rillliciilly on thu day ol lils death. He is said lo huve been In a state ol Intoxication, ind to have been driven back Into Manning once or twice belore finally taking lils leave. On Saturday, the negroes, armed, to the number of .100 or -IOU, rendezvoused at Fellow? ship Chprch (near thu place of the killing.) aud luout 100 of them proceeded to Maiming, threatening to take the lives ol ten while men iqd to burn the town. There were but few white men In town, but mossengers were dis [latched, and the handful was speedily aug? mented, until probably some 1?00 or 300, at du? r?rent limes, were present. The sheriff and Intendant, we learn, request id'Colonel H. L. Benbow to act. A parley en? sued- Ihe character or particulars of which we lavo not learned-ana both sides finally dis? persed after iwo days. The leading whites icted with promptness, but with calmness and prudence, and but for this there must have jeen a bloody collision. At one time ute negroes seized a colored nan named Egbert Nelson, whom they suspi? cioned, Intending lo pul him lo death. He ./as rescued by tho whites, who declared that ie should not die without u fuir trial. The negroes seem ta have been greatly ex? il ted, and greatly lu confusion as to their sus ilclons or information and counsels.- Thev re .Ired with threats against eenuin purtles'sus >icioned by them, und Hie end of the dllllcultv s probably not yet. The whiles are calm anil lelertulned, and.whilst they will neither seek ? ir encourage a dljDoulty with thurn, will not ?eslluiu to strike telling blows In defence If a lollislun cannot be avoided. I From the Sumter Xews.] Both parties remained under arms until ilonday morning, when thu negroes disbanded ind went hume, quite badly frightened. Thc legrocs alleged that thu cai|su uf their assent ?ling was lo avenge the death ol Peter Lem in, who was killed on Wednesday of, lust reek by parties unknown. The negroes iluiiued a new inquesl upon the body ol' ..einon, which was granted, with the ?tine resuit os that of the previous hi? lliest. Tho facts elicited al the lnvestlga ion led Hie negroes lo suspect that a negro tamed Egbert Nelson was the murderer, vhom they seized and were going to hang, rhen he was rescued by Hie white people, vho claimed for him an impartial trial. Fur? ber Investigation convinced the negroes Hitit Sgbert was not guilty. Though defeated in heir designs, they left on Monday morning, hreateniug vengeance Hereafter, 'linell ol trie tersons suspected and threatened by them can ilearlypiove an alibi by a number ol' uniin leuchable witnesses. Lemon was killed lu hu day-time, and lhere ls no evidence what ver tit indicate Hutt the Ku-Klux had anv? iling to du with Hie murder. NEUS ERO M WASHINGTON. flic Joint High Commission- T h c Legal-Tender Decision. WASHINGTON*, April 27. The Joint High (Immission has adjourned to .lay 3d, when, it is understood, tho clerks will lave thc treaty in shape. The Impression ls general that the opinion if Hie Supreme Court-on Monday will bead erse in some, ll not in ail respects, to the ate decision regarding the legal-tender act; mt it ls impossible by open ?ind fair means tu ibtain the facts. Colonel Ruger has been appointed stiperln* lent of West. Point. Collector Wallace, of the Third South Caro ina District, reports that Deputy Marshal ?herman, while seizing contraband whiskey it Greenville, was struck on the head lrom ??bind, and his skull fractured. Result, pro jabiy, fatal. The Georgia case, recently argued before he Supreme Court, involving the value ol' lotes for slaves, will not be decided until mother case from Arkansas is argued, which viii not probably occur until December. MEMPHIS RACES. MEMPUIS, April 27. At tue races to-day Hie first was won by Bouquet in 2:18. Thesecond was a sweepstake, mlle dash, won by Sea Bird, beating Sir Rufus, Lady Fair. Child and Hampton; time-1:49$. Third race, lor all ages, Corsica won in two heats, bealing Tanglefoot. Derringer, Quarter? master, Ella, Jackson, Sue and Dougherty; tirne-l:49.j, 1:48 J. THE WEATHER THIS DAT. WASHINGTON-, April 27. It is probable that brisk and high westerly winds will be experienced for a short time on the lower lakes, followed by clearing up weather on Friday. Partially cloudy and olearing weather is probable lor the Ohio val? ley and lower Mississippi. Cloudy, followed by clearing weather, on the South Atlantic coast. A MESS AGE F?OM BISMARCK BB A BM I Nt8 TB RS A GENTLE WARN? ING TO TUE COMMUNE. Fort Insy Silenced-Seven of Us Gans Demounted-Preparations for the Grand Attack-Unsuccessful Attempt to Cross thc Seine-Thc Communists T In-cuti. ?j to Blow up the Forts-Louis Blanc Denounces thc Commune-A Na? poleonic Reaction. VERSAILLES, April 2G-Evening. Port Issy's Are ceased at noon to-day. Tte other Insurgent works continue to fire. The flrsi parallel ol the besiegers was opened to? day; tho second parallel ls commenced. A general alluck Is expected to-night. Thc Commune, luis sent Its best battalions to threat? ened poliiLs, but the deience seems In? sufficient, LONDON, April 27. Tlilcj-H announces that active operations commenced yesterday. The Versuillists made an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Seine to Cllcliy. Seven of Fort Issy's guns have been dismounted. Fort Montrouge ls In ruins. The southern forts are'badly damaged. The Vcr-' sallllst projectiles from thc South fall within the ramparts, and many persons have boen killed and wounded. The Mot D'Ordre says tho Commune will blow up the forts If necessary. The Commune Council now holds secret sessions. A strong reaction favorable to the restora? tion of the Emperor Napoleon ls reported to have sot In In Uie province's. A number of the deputies in the Assembly are known to have a desire to make the Duke d'Anmale President of the Republic. Louis Diane has published a long letter agalnstthe Commune. Minister Picard repudlaten government in? terference in municipal elections to take place throughout France on thc .loth instant. Admiral Polth nallian has decided to disarm ility-tour men-of-war. Thc Latest. LONDON, April 27-Evening. The Standard lins the following dispatch lrom Paris : " The Commune suffers for want sf union among the members, as well as lack jf money and men. The National Guards jpenly disobey Hie orders of the Commune, ind it is believed lhat the Commune will make its last stand in the Rue de Rivoli and Ruc Dastigllone, In the Immediate vicinity of the Place Vendome. Fort Montrouge will proba 3ly be stormed by thc Versailles army to-day. [he Commune has impressed Into the military service portions ol the Lyons Railway." BERLIN, April 27. The Kruz Zeitung announces that Prince Bismarck has Instructed General Fabrice to represent to the Paris Commune that In case }f any mishap to the Archbishop of Paris the Prussians might probably Interfere In the af? fairs ofthe city In lavor of the Versailles Gov irnment. SPARKS PROM THE WIRES. -At Hartford, Connecticut, Frederick Hall, colored, has been convicted of murder in the first degree, for killing a colored woman. -The train from Plainfield, N. J., for New York, struck one of Barnum's circus wagons yesterday morning, killing three men outright and dangerously iujurlng two others. -Twelve persons were arrested in New l'ork yesterday for forging bounty claims. The fraud Involves over a million. -A dispatch lost evening from Alexandria, Vu., says : "J. M. Mason, of Virginia, ex-Con? federate Minister to England, ls not expected to live through the night. His disease ls gene? ra! nervous prostration." A SERIOUS ENCOUNTER. WILMINGTON, N. C., April 27. A fight took place yesterday between negro outlaws In Robeson County and a party ol citi? zens under command of the sheriff, in which two of the sheriffs posse were killed und one severely wounded. No particulars. LAWS OP THE STATE. Acts and Joint Resolutions, Passed hy thc General Assembly of South Caro? lina. Session of 1870--71. [OFFICIAL.! . AN Ac: to iucrrporato tho Camden Steam Mill Company. SECTION 1. He it enacted by the Senate and House of Repr?sentai ives of the State of South Carolina, uoi7 me, and sittiug in General As? semble, and by tho authority of the same : Tint Colin Macrae, A. J. Frei tun jud Walter F. Roed, and their associates and BnccoBSora, are hereby constituted a body politic and cor? porate, by thc name of the Camden Stearn Mill Company, with power to sue and be eued, to plc-ad and be impioaded, ia all the courts of law and equity, may c:-joy all the privileges inci? dent to corporations, and m tv purchase, hold iud convey roil sud personal estate to a:i imounc cot esccedi.ig twenty-five thousand dollars. ^BC 2. The boniness of said compauy shall be glinting grain, ginning cotton, hulling and prosing cotton s?ed, or any otuer similar me? chanical or industrial pursuit they may choose :o embark in in the Towu of Camden, South Carolina. Tho bo ks for subscription to the npital stock of sa'd compauy shall bs opened by the above named poisons io Camdeu as soon aa convenient alter tho grauting of this jharter, iu shares of twonty-fivo dollars each Said corporation may have and usc a common seal, which they may altor at pleasure. SEC. 3. Tue shares shall ba deemed persona! . property, and be transferred only on the books of said compauy, in such form as the directors may prescr.be. The said company shall, at all times, have a Ifen oa all tho stock or properly of the m imbers of said corpjratiou invented therein for all debts duo hom them to said cor? poral ion. ADd no transfer of scrip or st .ck shall bc valid until SJCU de': t, if any, shall bc dis? charged; and said corporation miy organize, go imo operation and commence busiucss whenever, and as sooa a? five thousand dollars to said stock shall b^ subscribed foi-, and five dollars per share .of the same paid in-o the treasury of the said company in caso, aud a certificate sigocd by tho president and secre? tary of said company, under oath, setting forth sail subscript.on and payment, shill be filed io the office of ihe secretary of State. SEC. 1. The stock, property and affairs of said corporation shall bi managed by a board of directors, not less than three, nor more than five, one of whom shall be chosen by them prcsideol, aod all ot whom shall hold their offices for one year, and until others are chosen; and said duectors shall be annually eiecte j, at such times and places as the Dy laws of said corporation shaH prescribe, mijority of said directors shall in all cai constitute a, board for tho transaction of bo ness, and a majority of the stockholders, any legal meeting, shall be capable of trai acting the business of said meeting, ea share entitling the owner thereof to one vi which may bo given in person or lawful pro: The first meeting of said corporation here formed may be called by a majority of the pi eons named in tba first section of this act, such lime and place, and upon giving su notice thereof, aa they shall deem reasonat and proper. SEO. 5. The prudent ?nd directors, or majority of them, fo. the time being, shi luve power to fill any vacancy which m happen by death, resignation or otherwise! tho current year, or appoint a secetary ai treasurer and such other officers as may 1 necessary, and ma'yreqn ire thc treasurer ai ot li er ufficf-rt ;o give bonds for the faithful dj charge of their trust and dnty as the said c rectors may deem proper, and also to mal aud establish such by-laws,-ruleB and reguli tiona us they shall doom expedient for tt management of the affairs ol'said corporatio; and tho samo to alter and amend: Providt-i That the same bo not inconsistent with tt Jaws ot this Slate or tho United States. SEC. G. Thc booka of said corporation, coi tainiug their accounts, shall, at all rcasbhab times, he open for the inspection of any of tt stockholders of said corporation ; and anno statements of the accounts of said corpor: tion shall be made and a- omi tt ed to the anno meetings of the stockholders. The directoi moy call in the subscription to the capiti stock by instalments, in such proportion, an at snc.i times and places as they may deei proper, giving due uotico thereof, under sue regulations and conditions as they may prc scribe. SEC. 7. The said corporation shall, wit hi thirty da} s of each annual meeting of th stockholders, lodge a certificate with th secretary of Slate, setting forth-tho amount c capital slock of Kairi company actually pa*d ir and tho amount of the liabilities of tho sail corporation, which certificate shall be signe, by the president and secretary of unid com pfeny, and certified by their oaili. This ac shall continuo to be ia force for twenty years Approved March 7,1871. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to au tborize tho commissioners of public build ings for Williamsburg District to Bell cortan portions of tho public grounds," passed th, twenty-second day of December, A. D. 1859. SECTION 1. Le it enacted by the Senate am House of P.eprescntativea of tho State of Soo tl Carolina, now mot and sitting in General As sombly, and by the authority of the same: Tbat BO much of an act entitled "An act t< authorize the commissioners of public baild ince for Williamsburg District to sell certaii portions of the public grounds," passed thi twenty-second day of December, A. D. 1859, ai provides that it shall bo au irrevocable condi tiou of salo that the parchasen shall erect noni other than bri -k buildings, thereon, be, and tb? samo is hereby, repealed. Approved March 2d. A. D. 1871. As Ac: to incorporate th* Caarfestoa Bille mea Crab. SECTIOS L Be ii matted i-f ate S;=aie an? House of Berjeseota::T(?s o? itt? ?"ate of Seoti Carolina, now oe*, ind strung :a Gsaer?! As? sembly, and by the authority cf the same: lu at thc Charleston P. flameo Cub, ol Charleston, and the several persons who no? arc, or' hereafter ma; bo, office ra and members thereof, and their successors, officers and members, bo, and they aro hereby, declared to bc a body corporate nod politic, by the name and Stylo of tho Charleston Riflemen Club. SEO. 2 That the said corporation hereby cre? al od and established, shall have succession ol officers and members, according to its by-laws, and shall have power to make all necessary by? laws not repugn ..ut to thc laws of tbe land, and to have, use and keep a common seal, and the Krane to alter at will, to sue ?iud be auid, plead and bo impleadcd, in any of the courts of this Slate, und to have and enjoy every right, power and privilege incident to such corporation; and it ie hereby empowered to take, bold, retain, possess and etijoy all euch properly, real and personal, as it may acquire by purchase, right, devise or bequest, or in any other manner whatsoever, aud tbe same, or any part thereof, to sell, alien, incomber, mortgage, or convey, at the will and pleasure of such corporation : Pro? vided, That the amount of property, real and pctsoi.ol, so held, shall not, at any one lime, exceed thc sum often thousand dollars. SEC. 3. That this act shall continue in force for the space of fourteen yeari, aud until the meeting of the next General Assembly there? after, and that the same shall be taken and deemed a public act, and may be given in evi? dence without being specially pleaded. Approved Gth day of March, A. D. 1871. Ay ACT IO empower, authorize and require the county commissioners of Oranpeburg County to build a bridge across tbs north fork of Eu i s to River, and establishing a road there? from to thc Town of Branchville. SECTION 1 J3e il enacted by the Seoate and Boase of Representatives of the state of Sonth Carolina, now met and aittintr in Gsneral As? sembly, and by thc authority of tho Burne, That the county commiasiooerB of Orangc burg Couuty bo, and ate hereby, empowered and required to build (as early as practicable) u Dridgo across the north rolk of Edislo River, and to establish a road therefrom to tho Town of Branchville in said couti ty, and, if necessary tor said purpose, they may and shall bave tho right to levy a special tux for the purpose afore? said. Approved March 9th, A. D. 1871. AN ACT to recharter Maxwells Bridge over Seneca River, in Oconeo County. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the S ate of Soutb Carolina, no*.v met and sitting in General As? sembly, and by thc authority of the sumo: That the bridge kuown as Maxwcl.'s Bridge, over Seneca River, in Oconee County, bo and the same ie hereby rechartered for the term of fourteen years, and the -same vested in Mary L. Maxwell, Marion Maxwell and Annie Sloan, their here and aasipns, with the same privile? ges and rates cf loll as those heretofore allow? ed by law. Approved March 9, A. D., 1871. AN ACT to permit William L. Wood to adopt Napoleon B. Smith, to make him his lawful heir, and to change the name or the said Napoleon B. Smith to that of Napoleon B. Wood. Wliereas William L. Wood, of the County of Laurena, has aaopted, with the consent of his parents, a child of the age of seven yean, known by -the name of Napoleon B. Smith ; and whereas he is desirous of treating said child, in every respect, as bis own, to make him hie lawful heir, and to confer npon him his own name ; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate an d Honae of Represen t a ti ves of the State of Sont h Carolina, now met and sitting in Geieral As? sembly, and by the authority of the same : That the name of the said Napoleon B. Smith be changed to Napoleon B. Wood, and that hereafter' the said Napoleon B. Smith be known and called Nipoleon B. Wood. SEO. 2. That the said Napoleon B. Wood shall hereat ter ba deemed a legal heir of tb? said William L. Wood, and shall, upon the death of the said Wood, (providing he die in? testate) inherit his property, in common with such other legal heirs aa tbe said Wood shall leave at tho time of his death. Approved March 23, A. D. 1871. _ j; AN Aar to recharter the Cypress Causeway; SECTION 1. Be if enacted by the Senate andr - Ho uso of Representatives .of the State of South Carolina now met and sitting in General As? sembly, and by the authority of the Bame : - That the Cypress Causeway, on the road leading from Orang?burg to Charleston, be-, and the same is hereby, rechartered, and Test-' , sd in Samuel Haynes, hie heirs and assipna, for the term of fourteen years, with the same rates; of toll heretofore allowed by law: Provided, That voters going to and returning from the polls on election days, rad children going to anti returning from school, shall be passed free over said causeway. Approved March T, 1871. Era <?ooos, 8t. B A E G A I N SI IN LADIES' AND GENT'S HOSIERY. . FURCHGOTT, BENEDICT & CO. are oflerlng foll regular mide COTTON HOSE 25 cents per pair, value 40 cents. An extra superfine Cotton HOBO at 60 cents per pair, value 75 cents; also, a large supply of Bal brbjgp. and Lisle Hose, Gauze, Merino, Cotton and. Lisle Underwear, at corresponding prices. 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