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VOLUME X.-NUMBER 2173. CHARLESTON, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1873. EIGHT DOLLARS A YEAR. ELLIOTT ON PATTERSON. AN INTERVIEW WITH THE COLORED CONGRESSMAN. How he Lives and what lie Says-The Social irouble* of hie Wife-He Tell How the L gislature of South Carol!, na has been Bought-Sixty Thonsand Dollars the Price of a Scnatorshlp Patterson's Troubles not yet Ended. [Dr. Redfield'^ Letter from Colombia, S. C., to the Cincinnati Commercial.] Yesterday I went around to Bee the black lion in his den-I beg pardon, home-for he lives In a style such as few white people in Hila smitten city can support. Elliott was originally from Massachusetts, where he picked up and crammed in a good education and enough knowledge to support a shingle down here. Being an aspiring young man, he wisely concluded not to settle In the solid State of Massachusetts. He wanted to wing his flight to some clime where his own race predominated. Africa would have been the most congenial point, but as that Is some dis tance, and as a man can't get there without having his stomach turned wrong side out crossing the briny deep. Elliott set his sails j for the next .best Africanized land, and hove j to in E Igefleld, South Carolina. There he practiced law, and fell in love with a beauti ful three-fourths white damsel. As soon as he bad lost and won a sufficient number of oases to have what the calculating and cold blooded world calls a start, he married and moved to Colombia, Tnen the colored people put bim In an office of some sort, and then In another, and finally pitched him, head first, into Congress, where be made a sensation on account of color and previous condition and i an ability to speak. The white noodles of that mighty body were astonished to find a colored man who could talk as much as they could, AU as large a space in the Globe, and have as J many Ideas to the square yard. In fact, El liott was well received by the gentlemen, bnt " MRS. ELLIOTT WAS HOT BT THE LADIES. She had colored blood In her inferior veins, and therefore most not move in Washington white circles. It ls a sad commentary on human depravity .to say that the wives and daughters of the Congressmen who owed their positions to the ballon, of the colored race would not associate with Mrs. Elliott, but j lt ls true, and as an Impartial historian ol cur rent events I am obliged to reoorB.it. ff Bot I will go back to where I was a while ago, If I can find the place. Oh, yes-the El liott Interview. I called at the color . states man's house, on Lady street. The house Is an attractive two-story, with a Mansard roof, green blinds, large pwrob, aud two fountains playing In iront. A amall yellow boy received me. I inquired for the staetsmao. The statesman slept, Conld I see him ? The boy said he would take np my name. The states man awoke and Jumped out of bed like a cricket. I was thown into the sitting-room. It ls a gem. A rich carpet covers the floor, and three large glass-fronted cases of choicest J books stand against the wells. The mantles | and tables are covered with ornaments, and everything ls as neates a pin, and arranged like a charm. The Congressman came down in SLITTERS AND DRESSING-GOWN. He ls a short, thick-set man, very black, and with the typical features, even to the slant of the lorehead. He is, no doubt, one of the smartest really black men now living. As a lawyer he has a front rank, and can nold his own with any of that technical and learned profession who roost In this State. While his lace ls black and bis features heavy, there ls an absence of the African dialect. He talks like a well-bred white mao. "Mr. Elliott," I said, after some preliminary conversation, "the opinion Is abroad that Pat terson bought his election to '.Le Senate with money.". . "The opinion ls correct," he answered quickly; "that's what he did do." " WA ac do yoatalak it cost him ?" ' - Well, the amount Is variously estimated at from ITJTr TO SIXTY--.VE THOUSAND DOLLARS. I suppose about fifty thousandls what he ex pended.'' "How would he have ran provided he had expended no money f "Not at all. I don't, believe he would have got a vote. He owes his election entirely to money.. -He bought up the Legislature; that Ja the truth of the matter." f "Tnat ls a humiliating statement," I laid. UI know lt is," he replied, "out lt ls the truth. Now, understand me; I am not saying this out of personal feeling. I was a candi date before the Legislature and was defeated. I can bear defeat, but the humiliation the thing has brought upon our colored race, that's what hurt me. .Our race la now on trial before the world as to Its fitness to gov ern. What would -lie said after such a whole- j sale buylog-np as this f The colored men, as you know, are In largelmajority In the Legis-1 iainre; and then for them to deliberately sell out by wholesale i_ a blow that we can't get over for jears. It is a blow at' our integrity, our honesty, our manhood. The report bas gone to the world that the colored legislators, making laws for South Carolina, have been bribed by wholesale, and the report ls, un fortunately, true. What will the world think of it*" i I told him the world would think it A PRETTY HARD CASE. '.Yea," he continued, ' it was Patterson's money that elected him. His strength was lu bis purse. He bad no claim upon the party; he had no party statu a in fact. He was a mere tradesman, a speculator, a Jobber. Others before tbe Legislature had claims; Scott bad Claims; I had claims. The, party owed us Bomehlng; lt owed Patterson nothing. Take my case; I am a man of color. Toe colored people of this State are greatly in the majori ty. I carried this district at the last election by over twenty thousand majority. If this senatorial election had been beiore the people I would have beaten Patterson ten votes to one. The legislators are the representatives of the people, so we must conclude that there ls something wrong.'' "Suppose Mr. Patterson Is not allowed to "Well, then, there will have to be another eleotlon. Then If he- can be elected without money, ail right; nobody should complain. But this thing, ot buyin- up a whole Legisla ture ls disgraceful. It ought not to be en couraged." . r.7 Perhaps not; but it will never be stopped in I South Carolina. The last Legislature could be * bought, and was bought time and again. This one ls a still more disgraceful gang of political prostitutes, and the next one will likely be worse.' There* ls no Improvement, but year after year the rotten demoralization in this unhappy State continues. Elliott knows this to be true; Scott knows lt; they all know lt, and in confidential moments they will Bay as mnob. HOW THE LEGISLATORS WAS BOUGHT. By the law of the State the first ballot fer senator Is taken lu the Senate. The result is then announced to the House, and the House ballots. Patterson wanted the moral effect of | a large vote in the Senate, and there he ii shelled out freely. It ls said that on the first ballot there, sixteen votes cost him not less * than twenty-five thou and dollars. At all events, he bad been sufficiently liberal to get a majority. When tho result was known in the House there was a stampede to the standard ot the golden Patterson. The darkeys were told that his election was sure, and ihatif they did not come np to the work they would not "g'et j anything." The hope of something more, In addition to what they already had, was of healthy effect, lor the one ballot taken result ed in the overwhelming election of honest John Patterson. He got more votes than all the rest put together. The bribing busings was at first pretty well covered up, bit on the home stretch, when matters got warmed up tbe thing was oarrled OB In open daylight. Twenty minutes before the vote was taken a member. Fortune Giles by name, was called to one side by W. H. Worthington, Patterson's agent, and A ROLL OP GREENBACKS handed him. His colleague was then called, and a roll given him, after which they voted for Patterson. Four oredlble witnesses saw this transaction, as lt occurred right In the { Hoots. On the Bight of the election victorious Pat terson was ARRESTED FOR BRIBERY on the affidavit of one Miller, whom he had offered from five hundred to a thousand dol lars to vote for him, which Miller would not agree to do. Either he is an honest man, or the price waa not high enough. There were jtalso other affidavits, and I had copies of them to inclose in ibis letter, but the overly neat colored lady who cleans my room by sweep log everything Into the fire has made no ex ception in the matter of the affidavits. Pat terson was arrested, taken belore Trial Jus tice Kirk by Officer Hendricks. mob as sembled and ramie alters pretty lively lor the trial justice. Patterson swore, and, In the estimation of the Justice, Insulted the court For this he was sentenced to twelve hours' Imprisonment as punishment for the alleged contempt. He was followed to durance vile by a concourse of his friends, who were de termined to aee him "oui" In more senses than one. Others ran for Judge Mackey, who happened to be in town, for a writ of habeas corpus, which they got without trouble. Pat terson was brought out. Kirk was sent for to come and uBhow cause" why the prisoner should not be released. The officer seat to notify Kirk lound bim entrenched in his own house with the doors barricaded. Kirk stuck his lips to the crack and told the officer to go to b-1), and the officer left. Mackey released Patterson, and his friends carried him to the nearest grocery, where they ALL TOOK A DRINK. The Legislature cut off Kirk's head next day, bat not until he had returned the napers ia the case to court. Well Informed people don't see how the grand jury next term can fall to indict Patterson. There Is an abundance of evidence. Attorney-General Melton is report ed to have sufficient backbone to thoroughly plft the whole matter. Under such sifting lt is a matter of grievous doubt whether Patter son will go to the Senate or to the peniten tiary. The report has been telegraphed over l he country from here-and perhaps the luckless senator elect was at the bottom of lt-that the investigation has fallen through and that the affiants bad ''gone back" on their solemn swearing. Ic is not true. The Investigation lacks ever so much of having fallen through. It promises to be.a rather tough and long lived affair. THE KU-KLVX PRISONERS. Their Appearance In New York-The Party en Koule for the Penitentiary. Saturday morning, at a few minutes before noon, the steamer James Adger came to her moorings at the foot ol Warren street. Mew York, having on board the Ku-Ktux prisoners lately sentenced by Judge Bond In Columbia. The New York Herald says: The vessel was encrusted fore and aft with a ibick coaling of ice. which made ber decks as slippery an a skating pond, and on which the sailors repeatedly tell while handling the ropes which were belog used to moor her io the pier. Ten Kn-Klux prisoners were found ia the second cabin, who were on their way to the Albany penitentiary to undergo various terms ot imprisonment. The party looked jaded and worn, having all been great martyrs to sea sickness. As soon as. the steamer was moored the party landed on the pier, headed by A SOUTH CAROLINA MARSHAL and two deputy marshals, their rear being guarded by several members of tbe river police attached to harbor police boat Seneoa, which was lying off in the stream, awaiting 11 their arrival'at the. adjoining wharf, belong-1, lng to the Narragansett Steamship Company. | The prisoners marched along with downcast heads to the end of the pier, wa-ire a number of colored men were at work moving bales ot cotton, WHO SCOWLED AT THE PARTT as they went by. and sevoral of them remark . ed they supposed they were belog taken to |1 the Tombs, which was the proper place for such murderous individuals. As the prison ers passed toto West street the procession of sleighs, freighted with merchandise, swept on In the even tenor of their way, while their I j drivers were unconscious of who the strang- 11 looking Individuals were composing the email procession; while on the sidewalk the shiver ing pedeatrlaos rushed along, looking neither to the right nor tbe left, but all Impelled by the same motive, viz, to reaoh their destina-. tions quickly. Leaving the street with Us snow hummock's, and Its roadway with the | j snow of fully a foot in depth, through which the sorrow! u! party tramped, the wharf of ihe Narragansett Steamship Company was reach-11 ed, and when they nae1 arrived at the further end a ha<t was called by the marshals. THE PARTY GAZED WISTFULLY across the broad expanse of the Hudson until their attention was called to the evolutions of | the police steamer Seneca, which was seen j fighting her way through the Ice lo the end ol < the wharf to take the party on board and to ] transport them to Forty-second street, on the i East Elver, where they were to be taken to the Grand Central Depot, and forwarded by J < ibe afternoon train to Albany. At last the | j trim little steamer buffeted her way through the ice and waa close to the pier, from which a plank was thrown out, and a few seconds later the prisoners were on board the Seneca CAPTAIN FRANK SPEIQHT, THE COMMANDER, stood on the deck and Instructed the prison-1 j ers to move alt. This order was obeyed with , alacrliy, lor tbe men were glad to escape from the cold and pitiless blasts which came sweeping across the Hudson. After the pris oners wereduly placed In sale keeping, one ol the South Carolina marshals jocularly re marked to the prisoners, k,We have come to put you boys among white people, ch ?*' while another Individual remarked, "You're going loto an awful tight place, my lads." The pris-1 j oners io whom these would-be facetious re marks were addressed, received ' '.era in dif ferent manners. Some tried to smile, as If I j reckless as to what fate might await them, while others uttered suppressed oaths, doubt less wishing the United States authorities EVERYTHING BOT A HAPPT NEW YEAR. The following ls a list ol the tea prisoners : Rev. John h zeil, ot Maoedonian Baptist Church, near Lewiston Spring?, Spartanburg County, S. C.; married and has oblldren. Alfred Lemaistre. Union County, 8. C. ' John Whitlock, Union County, 8. C. < Marlon Fowler, Union County, H. C. 1 Hosea Matthews. Union County, 8. C. 1 H. Whltesldes, York County, 8. C. 1 Jemmy Donald. York County, 8. C. > Robert Moore, York County, 8. C. I John Whisonant, York County, 8. C. Jerome Wblsooant, York County, 8. C. The ages of the prisoners varied from nine teen to thirty-live, and al) are married except McDonald. The terms of imprisonment and does vary considerably. Jemmy Donald is sentenced to two years. Fowler to four, and all the others to five years' imprisonment each. The Rev. John Ezell is sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and the others $200 each. AK INTERVIEW WITH THE BAPTIST MINISTER. This individual, who waa terribly crestfallen, told the lol io wi ug story in a tremulous tone : "I was ordained lo the Baptist ministry in 1846. In Spartanburg County. I used to go among the neighbors, and used to iry to dis suade them from entering into any conspiracy, bul my motives have been misconstrued, and I was arrested, tried and condemned. I am a married mao. My eldest son Isa theological student at Greenville, N. C., and the other ls at a theological seminary in Watford County, N. C. I consider I am an ill-used man." THE SOOTH CAROLINA MARSHALS. The names of the marshals who brought on the men from Charleston are Colonel R. M. Wallace aad Deputy Marshals N. Hubbard and Coates, the latter wearing an Immense bear skin ooar, while Mr. Hubbard wore a private soldier's blue overcoat. The prisoners had no overooats, but had blankets thrown over their shoulders. Their beards were stubby, and they all looked much In need of rest. They refused to hold any convene on the subject of their crimes, real or ai'-.-ged. Their faces, with one or two notable exceptions, were ol an agricultural type of a somewhat low order, which was borne out by their conversation. They appear io have hopes of clemency lt om Washington. They lett for Albany lost night. THE WEATHER THIS DAY. WASHINGTON, January l. For the Soul hern States, east of IheMissip pi, easterly to southerly winds and cloudy weather, with rain from the Ohio Valley to ihe Galt. THE STRIKES IN ENGLA i , THE STRUGGLES OE WORKING FOR ADEQUATE FAL The Case of Reddln tbe Fmlan Hyde Paris Affair-Wholesnle P cation of Gasmen for Striking, [Correspondence or the New York San. LONDON; Decembei Victimizing and persecution, followe legal prosecution, is the order o the The most outrageous eas ol persecute that of one of the FenUn prisoners, D Bed din, lately released ou the explratli his Ave years' term cf imprisonment, other political prlson rs before him he bs turned a ruined man physical:y, n consequ of ill-treatment bylallors and doctors, bo Millbank prison lt London and inJ^he^l at Chatham. H now Hes In Dublini V a dangerous tate that bis doctor n ed permission to friends to visit him week, as tbe excitement might prove much for hie mind. In consequence of tl committee .tas been formed in London foi purpose o'immediately laking steps to pr cute, on behalf ol Daniel Reddln, the Jai doctorsand wardens who tortured him bri ly during his term of Imprisonment. The legal talent Is to be employed to bring tl torturers before the legal tribunals, and co-operation of friends are to be eolic throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Mi dearden ls treasurer, and Mr. Thomas Moe secretary ot the committee. Tho fact both these gentlemen have means, and wllllug to make some sacrifices lu the mat Is a guarantee that the Intention will be ried Into execution. THE HYDE PARE OFFENDERS are liberally supported by subscriptions fi their friends throughout the country. I calculated that some 150 will be require; appeal to the Queen's Bench agalnt-t sentence of the magistrate. Of the wt number summoned lor having spoken Hvde Park, contrary to'the regulations of Ringer, the magistrate picked out only upon whom be Imposed a fine of 5, lor purpose of having the case carried Inti superior court. The hearing of the ol oases was adjourned indefinitely. At I lhere was some disagreement as to what \ best to be done. Adger was for paying flue and compelling the magistrate to u bis case next. Be was dissatisfied with defence that had been made, and he was p sueded that he could make a better Job oi himself. To this it was objected that pay the floe would amount to admitting the fence and the guilt, and tne magistrate mli not Lake bis case next. At this stage the ec uti ve of i he Labor Representation t< the matter up by subscribing so money (or the defence, and offering to operate with the Hyde Park Defence Cornu tee in gelling UP the appeal. Toe result we joint committee, consisting of two lawy and four workingmen, one of whom is Adg to consult with the lawyers who are to ci duct the case of the appellants against t government. The line of defence to be tau is that neither Government nor Parliami have the right to Interfere with the lmmen rial right ot the people to the use of the pi lie parks, and ire speech lu those pari which puts the question, whether the Gi ernment regulations could be enloroed bete they had been laid on the table ot the Hoi st Commons, aside. The Labor Represen Hon League has Issued subscription sheets seist in Hie deieuce. v d at the rate at wbl money ls coming In now the necessary IUD will be collected before the close ol the yet As an Instance of how widespread ls the d content with the proceedings of the Govei ment in this affair, lt may be mentioned th money was remitted last week trom BHfa Birkenhead, Manchester, Halifax, Nor Shields, Cheltenham, and St. Nea -a rustic place. The largest amour vere. 5 collected among the wo people ot an Iron firm at Mlddleboroug ind 5 9*. collected among the Hyde Park a lienoe of Charles Bradlaugh on December 1 .tie only sensible thing done at the meetin (Vbatever the upshot of the affair may b iladstoue has done no good for himself ai Dis colleagues by it. He might have sate ell the Hyde Park legislation to other peopl There are a set of Democrats tn London wb ike cackling hens, null out every time tin [eel an inclination to cackle at something, ai the more sensible portion of the worstln 3lass Democracy would have frustrated the jame ere long, but even at the risk of bein Annoyed by mountebank bawlers, In seasc md out of season, the right to meet lo Hyc Park must be upheld for rare occasions, whf aotblng short of showing one's teeth wi iring noodles to their senses, as in 1866. Pe laps Gladstone will retrieve his honor t licking Ayrtoo-that most insolent of all Ii lian nabobs who have taken lt Into the leads that nature Intended them for leglsli tors-out of the ministry, and the electot Df the Tower Hamlets will surely kick hil jut of Parliament at the next election. Brat augh ls trying, in vain, to get his seat. A MONSTER PROSECUTION. .? going to be opened to-morrow against th gat- stokers. The prosecution ls the result < \ strike arising out ot a system of vlctlmlzln the leaders of a newly-established union. 1 is only about six months since, after every body had obtained advances of wages and rt ludions of the working hours, that the gu stokers bethought themselves lo unite t et a little relief and a little more money. Pre vlous to that, whether they were on the da shift or the night shirt, they bad to be in at tendance at the fiery furnaces from six to si: luring seven days of the week for no mere ind In many cases less, wages than worker a the cool daylight. I caunot say whetbe lhere was any concert between the stokers o Birmingham and ihe surrounding towns an ne metropolitan district, but lu Angus ast I was present at a stokers' meeting lt Birmingham,where I was informed that ever; precaution had been taken to provide for thi worst. The demand to be made was 3s. Cd. ad rance on the week's wages, which 1 under stood to be 24s, and the reduction of 8unda; work so that the men might have every alter late Sunday a holiday. Something einalla was gained in London shortly after, not with )ut a partial strike; but those who headed tb movement became marked men, and, as ii jsual in such cases, the weeding process com meoced. Men were discharged weeks ago ot some paltry pretence; the real reason was thal they were the spokesmen of tho unionists They were supported while out of work auc smuggled Into other firms, and when fouuc jut utscbarged again. This, without en teri nt into details, ls the sum and substance ol ttu strike that broke out among the gas stoken last week. The great difficulty ls that the gai works, being everywhere the property ol heartless and soulless corporations are herc In ihe hands of more heartless and soulless managers and directors, who are anxious tc snow good dividends, which they secure by long hours and short pay, and il anything turne amiss they have no power to act speedily. There is more trouble with works belonging io corporations In the factory districts than lhere ls with the most stingy Individual em ployers, because corporations cannot be reasoned with. To put a stop lo the weedina and victimizing process which was put lu practice at the close of the week before last, between two thousand and three thousand gasmen turned out last Monday, until certain men should be reinstated in their work. In one place the manager consented, in another he was not to be approached, and ihe men would not turn in lill all was right, and then tiley were denied. The press, the police and the gas-tiurnlug public toole ihn side ul the corporations against the men. The men had a right to strike, everybody admitted, but the press disputed that the gasmen were like other men. By striking they injured the whole ol the public, put London at the mercy of the thieve.9, and so on, and on Tuesday one police magistrale granted summonses against six men for conspiracy and against five hundred for breach of con tract. Tnere is no written agree ment as to the duration of the hire; the men receive so much a day. and are paid every Saturday, and this the magistrale look as sufficient evidence that they were tacitly under a weekly contract, and ought to have given a week's notice to leave, upon which he granled the summonses. At another police court summonses were granted against six conspirators, as a beginning, and a threat is held out that these prosecutions are only the beginning. The conspirators-the ringlead ers-may be Imprisoned, on conviction, foi any term not exceeding two year?, the con tract breakers for three months; and the ma gistrate who granted the five hundred and six summonses Is so sure of conviction that be bas beforehand calculated now many convicts can be conveniently admitted into the county lall on any one day, and bas made tbe sum monses returnable accordingly. The worst ls that the places of the turnouts were filled up in three days, some at 3s. 6d. a day. It is all unskilled labor at the best, however hard lt may be. AN INTERNATIONAL VICTIM has been made at Amsterdam, of Gerhard, a working tailor, who was one ot the vice-presi dents of the International Congress at the Hague. Ha used to get work enough from first-class firms to work with several helps, but DOW, I am told, since bis return lrom the Hanne, he cannot get work enough for him self, and having a wife and eight children te provide for, he is in a state of destitution. JOTTINGS ABOUT TBK STATE. -Hiram Lee was duly qualified on Saturday last as trial Justice at Manon. -The citizens at Nicholas Depot intend ap plying to the Legislature for an act of Incor poration. -Dr. Amory Cofflo, of Aiken, is recovering rapidly from a recent dangerous attack of Illness. -A temperaDce lecture will be delivered at Aiken tomorrow night at the Methodist Church by Rev. Thomas A. Griffiths, of Baltimore. -The Wlnnsboro' Coucert Club gave au en tertainment on New Year's eve with tableaux, singing, c. -Shade trees are being planted at Mullins, and i he streets are belog otherwise beautified and Improved. -Right Rev. Bishop Quintard was an nounced to deliver a dlscourae yesterday at the Episcopal church ID Winnsboro', In behalf of the University ol the South. . -The members of the Methodist Church at. Buck Swamp Circuit have purchased a par sonage at Mullins, where their pastor will hereafter reside. -Messrs. Drayton A Foggs'sjewelry store la Wlnnsboro' was burglariously entered a few nights ago, and $6000 worth of watches and jewelry was stolen. -The cotton gin of Mr. E. M. Wells In Che raw took Are one day last week, but tbe flames were soon extinguished, and the dam age was but slight -Several new buldlngs are to be ereoted in Aiken, one of which will ooataln a public hall aod one will be used by Miss M. A. Buie for her Female Institute. -The verdict of the coroner's Jury of inquest in regard to late Granltevllle tragedy finds the murder of Clem Gu l ledge upon Joe Green, D. A. Foskett, H. Turner, J. Johnson, Robert Haicber aod Tom McHann. -Coroner Jackson at Marlon held an in quest over the remains of Robert S. Hughes, who was found dead on tbe track of the Wil mington, Augusta and Columbia Railroad, and the verdict is that be WM murdered by some persons unknown. THE LOUISIANA Ol'IMAGE. Pacta and Commenta from I itt/ New York Pre . NEW YORK. January 1. A New Orleans dispatch to tue Times says lt is rumored there will be ad attempt to In augurate tbe Mcllneney State officials on the 9tb instant, and trouble is anticipated. Tbe World says that several of the sub-com mittee ol the Louisiana de|egatlon are still In this city, and are dally receiving assurances that the people of the North are begianlng thoroughly to understand their cause and the situation ot affairs In Louisiana. They pro nounce several recent telegrams from New Orleans by way of Washington, asserting that the people of New Orleans and Louisiana have qti etly acquiesced In the situation, untrue. The Tribune's Washington dispatch says: "Some Louisiana Liberals, now In this city, are discussing the shortest way out of tbe po' Utlcal muddle in that State. They say that matters have become so much mixed up there that they can see no method of remedy ex cept to revive reconstruction, aud they pro pose that Congress pass a reconstruction act declaring that tbe republican form of. govern ment no longer exists In Louisiana, aod that lt then proceed to order a new election." The tun to-day calls upon Congress to make a thorough investigation of the Louisiana case when lt reassembles. The Sun also re tines the aspertlou that lt ls useless to Investi gate the causes of the quarrel lu Louisiana, aod says this disposition lo shrink from the discharge of a great duty like that which has arisen lu that Stale is an alarming sign of the times. So that to say that thorough discus sion ot this Louisiana business will do no good ls simply an excuse for neglecting a duty, the performance of which requires skill and nerve. A Blank Vote for President. WASHINGTON. January 1. General R. B. Slmmes, the bearer of the vote ot the electoral college of Louisiana, has Arrived and delivered his packages. It is un derstood that the vote which be bears for President ls blank, and for vice-President B. Gratz Brown. DISASTERS ON SBA AND SHORE. HALIFAX, January 1. The brig Brittania bas been wrecked in Cow Bay, aud the schooner Anna Laura ls reported lost near Point Aconle. The crews In bolh cases were saved. NEWPORT. R. L, January L The schooner Louisa A, from Hay tl for Bos ton, put In here last night with the loss ol her deck load, and reports that on the 20th ol De cember she saw an unknown ship ol about a thousand tons on fire, but no crew or boats could be seen. The officers of the schooner believed she was petroleum laden. NEW YORK, January 1. By tho falling of a scaffolding at the Liberty Copper Mines, Frederick County, yesterday, twenty-six miners were precipitated several hundred leet into a pit, and eight seriously injured. The last accident of the year was the ex plosion of a soda water fountain at May's fac tory, on Rose sireet, last night. One man was Injured, and the building was badly dam aged. CINCIKNATI, January L At hair-past ten o'clock this morning the ice In the river gorged and stopped runulng, but at a few minutes past eleven it commenced to move slowly aguln. A terry boat was thrown on i he Kentucky shore opposite the lower part o the city, aud about titty barges have been crushed lo pieces and scattered along the shore on both sides of the river below the elly. MORE FOOD FOR THE FLAMES. The Fifth Avenue Theatre Barned to the Ground. NEW YORK, January 1. The Fifth Avenue Theatre, on Twenty fourth street, adjoining the Fifth Avenue Hotel, was burned lo the ground soon alter the matinee performance thin afternoon. The audience which had assembled to witness the play ol "False Shame" had scarcely more than dis persed when the fire was discovered. Tibel's furnishing Blore, on Church street, was burned last night. Loss seventeen thous and dollars. Other Large Fires. GALESBORO, lu.., January 1. Eight of the finest stores In the Metropoli tan Block were burned last night, causing a loss ot f 100.000. The Opera House was saved by demolishing an adjoining bouse. BOSTON, January L A Ore last night In the granite building No. 281 Washington street, caused a loss of $30,000. _ NE IV TEAR FESTIVITIES. NEW YORK, January L All the Blores and places ot business are closed, aod everybody ls intent upon enjoying holiday and In making New Year calls. WASHINGTON. January 1. The reception at the White House to-day I illly equalled lu splendor that of any former occasion. Almost the entire diplomatic corps was present in full court costume and headed by B.ai que Bey the dean ol the corps. Many of Its members were attended by the ladies of their families. The army and navy were largely represent ed. Th Judges of ihe Supreme Court and the Court ol Claims, the members of Cougrees, and many of the oldest inhabitants were also present. The public reception began at one o'clock, and the entire ceremonies termluated at two o'clock. THE GREAT SNOW STORM. APPREHENSIONS OF FIEE-HOW TO] BUILD EIRE-PROOF HOT SES. Departure of Fronde lor England Cheap Telegraphing-No Wine on | New Year's Day-Personalities or New Torie Editors-Mr. Frederick Hulion'i History of American Journalism. [FROM ODB OWN CORRESPONDENT.J NEW Toax, December 28. We are beginning to get out of our weather troubles. Tbe sun bas been shining to-day, the sidewalks aie well cleared of snow, tba horse-care are running again, and the tempe rature ls comfortable. The "oide?t inhabi tant" does not remember the like of Thurs day's visitation and Its consequences, lt Is ! not extravagance to say that Ute In Gotham stood Billi for twenty-four hours, so complete was the snow blockade. There was much apprehension yesterday that the Fire Department would be "stalled" bj the heavy snow drifts. Had there been a large conflagration on Thursday there would really have been great difficulty to drag the engines to lt. Bat at the burning of Hall iard's Confectionery Store and Hotel on Broadway yesterday morning the depart ment did some effective work. The force baa been badly overworked of late, and deserves credit for Its excellent service under the cir cumstances. The newspapers are still discussing the problem of "ti i -proof bandings." It is evi dent that we have not yet found out how to construct them. Hiram Poweas, the Ameri can sculptor, writes from Florence to the Eve nine Post that during his thirty-five years' residence In that olty, he baa not Known of a house being destroyed by fire there. As lt ls a place of one hundred and seventy-seven thousand inhabitants, thia statement seems almost incredible. But Mr. Powers ea lt by showing that trie floors ol all lae rfffflSs are constructed of brick. His receipt for fire proof buildings is as follows: First, the abandonment of all wood floors; second, the floors to be made bf brisks, thus sealing down all ventilation in case of Are; third the stairs to be metallic, or of stone; fourth, the rafters of the roof, like the joists of the fl, ora. to be all bricked over before putting on the slates or tiles. Mr. Fronde sailed for England to-day in the Cunard steamer Adriatic: In one or two senses his visit to America has been a failure. He came lo appeal to an American tribunal in the matter of (he controversy between Eng land und Ireland, and to persuade us to nae our influence with the Irish to Induce them to ?listen to reason." He succeeded lb stirring np a hornet's nest ot Celtio orators, and ol getting himself roundly abused on all sides, for not only did the majority of American newspapers take up cudgels lor the Irish, bot the English press berated bim for bis assur ance la assuming that be had a right to sub mit British affairs to the consciences of Yankees. His other failure has been as a pub lie lecturer. Bis delivery was so poor that only respect for his abilities as a writer insured bim a handtul of hearers anywhere. As it was, he addressed beggarly nooses outside of New Tork and Boston. Protesaor Tyndall; on the other hand, has a pleasing manner and ls greeted, by large au diences. His experiments are very beautiful, j and not at all difficult to understand by the unscientific. Another step tn the cheapening of tele graphic communication may be notloed. A new company advertises to-day that lt has completed Unes between New Tork, Phila delphia and Washington, and will take mes sages of twenty words at Just half the rates charged by the other comDanles. A dispatch by this line, from New Tork to Washington, of twenty words, will cost one cent and a half per word, and one cent for each addi tional word. There was a meeting of temperance people, held at the Brooklyn Tabernacie Churoh last night, to protest against the nee of wine on next New Tear's ? day. An appeal was pre sauted to the ladles of New Tork to keep their refreshment tables clear of all that will intox lcate. Many ladles, lt may be remarked, have discontinued ttie refreshment feature alto gelber on New Tear's day. Many others offer coffee and weak lemonade to their visitors Instead of winn and brandy. The "parlor drinking taloon" bas seen Its best days, and after a few years more lt will probably not be in good taste for a lady to ask her caller to take a drink. Temperance sentimentalists are fond of attributing tbe drinking habits ol our young men to the fir ? i v jae cup filled by woman's fair hand at a New Tear's day meet ing. Homebody was .congratulating the New Tork press the other day on Its Improved manners. The Herald, which bas been the. chiefest of sinners, had set a beautiful exam pie of courtesy lo contemporaries, which the oiher papers seemed Inclined to follow. But the Times and the World baVe already forgot ten the lesson, and are drubbing each other in the good cid style of the daas of the elder Bennelt. The editor of ibe Times accuses Mr. Marble of taking a bouse on Fifth avenue as a bribe from tbe Tweed Ring. Marble shows that be owned the bouse long before the Ring war began, and files at Jennings in this ferocious manner: 'If our readers are bored by this topic we beg to suggest that since an egregious ass has got control of a newspaper once respectable, lt is best to prevent his doing mischief by prodding him awhile lill his hearse andjiailve accents have widely betrayed the nature of the beast. After that he can safely be left to bis digufses." Mr. Hudson's long promised "History of Journalism In the United States" ls announced by the Harpers. It covers the ground away back to 1690, when the first newspaper was printed in Boston. Mr. Hudson ls one of the ablest and most experienced of American journalists, and 1B admirably fitted for the task of collating all the inlormation about the American press in its past and present condl tlon. ' It seems proper that his reoord should close Just as personal Journalism ls dying out with Bennelt and Greeley, and a new era ls openlflg. ' . NTM. ' SAM PATO Bl'8 LA8T LEAP. Who bas not heard of Sam Patch, his fa mous leap, and his tragic death ? Many per sons imagine that be was killed at Niagara. It was at Geneeee Falls, however, near Ro chester, New Tork. Some person bas been Interviewing the oldest Inhabitant of that flourishing and Interesting city, who saw the last leap nearly forty years ago. A staging had been erected a hundred feet above the bolling cauldron below. Amid the death like stillness of thousands of spectotors, Patch an a few steps and gave oie leap Into the air and fell, cutting the mist like a lead sinker, two hundred feet Into the seething whirlpool. As be left the staging his body assumed an oblique position, his head foremost, but above lils leer.. As he struck the water lhere was a dreadful silence, while the populace awaited, with choking breath, his reappearance. One minute-two minutes-three minutes-and no signs ol the daring Jumper. Then the peo ple set up a loud wall-a long murmur of Bor row. This was the end of Sam Patch. They Bay he had been drinking during the morning, and failed to keep his feet together and lils body perpendicular, as on previous occasions. So when he struck the waler ihe breath left bis body, and he was knocked senseless. A month afterward they found bis body away down below Rochester, drllted upon the rocks. INTOLERANCE IN GERMANT. BERLIN-, January 1. Prosecutions have been Instituted against Roman Caiholic Journals In this city, and In the German province?, which have published the recent Papal allocution. The excitement on this subject is increasing throughout the empire._ SPARKS FROM IRE WIRES. -Mr. J. S. Adams, emigrant commissioner of Florida, disappeared on t aturduy, but has returned to his hotel In Jersey City. -Governor Tod B. Culdwell aud the olher Republican State officials recenily elected In North Carolina, were inauguraied in Raleigh 1 yesterday. -4 fJUMJCX RM i/UjiOAIIia. The Emancipation Celebration a Fix j li;-Report of the Superintendent of Education. [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TH NK wa, ] ', COLUMBIA, January 1. Now Year's Day has passed off very quietly. Tbe celebration of mancipation, which bas heretofore been a grand gala occasion with the freedmen, proved a deolded failure. A procession of a hundred, or perhaps a hun dred and fifty, composed chiefly of colored militia, paraded the streets, with a drum and fife at their head, but this was all. There waa no speech-making and great glorification as heretofore. A mixed troupe,, composed of members pf the -garrison band, with the Federal uniform, and of the city band in Con federate gray, gave a general serenade around the city. The Idea was lo give a practical illus tration of that reconciliation hoped for if not yet attained. - To-morrow ls the day appointed for . the hearing of the return in the new mandamus case In relation to the Blue Ridge scrip, but I am Informed by the counsel that a postpone ment of Beveral days will be hrd. Ur. C. G. Memmingerhas been employed to assist Judge Melton In resisting the granting of the writ of mandamus to compel the comptroller to order the levy lor the redemption of the scrip. The report of State Superintendent of Edu cation JU ison ls not yet oat, but I have suc ceeded in getting a glimpse at a rough proof of lt. The amount demanded for the support of the pubilo sonoola for the current year ts six hundred thousand dollars, Just double the appropriation of last year. Ol this Mr. Jlllaon says that not a single dollar has been received lrom the treasury. He recommends suitable legislation lo keep the tax foV public schools separate and distinct from all other taxes, and lo make it a misdemeanor, punishable with heavy fine and imprisonment, for the treasu rer to pay ont the school funds to any other purpose. He also recommends that the pay ment of the poll tax be enforced by some pen alty belog attached to default therein. QPI Viva. ARCTIC HEATHER AT SUMTER. Hardly any Thermometer Lett and Plenty of Snow and Ice. [FROl OVA OWN COBRXSrONDSNT.] 1 I SOWER, December 30. Tbere must be something besides the greater elevation ol this place and the modifying influ ence of the ocean with you to account for the -difTereoce in temperature between Charleston and Sumter in the past lew days.. We are told that for every one hundred yards of increased altitude the thermometer, will indicate one degree of depression. If thia test be applied to the'range of that Instrument on Saturday, our coldest day, lt would show that we were set oral hundred yards higher than geographi cal funs will establish. On Saturday, tne 28th Instant, the mercury stood as follows : At 7 o'clock A. M., 12 degrees above zero;' at 10 o'clock A. M., 18 degrees above zero; ' at 9 o'clock P.M., 22 degrees above zero.' Tam told that In some situations in Sumter the figure at sunrise was down to 9 degrees above zero. On Sunday, 29th instant, a slight improve ment took place, as the following figures wHl show: At 7 o'clock A. M. 12 degrees above zero; at 10 A M. 28; at 12 M. 34; at 4 P. M. 42* at 6 P. M. 30; at 9 P. M 24. The sun came out brightly and a general thaw commenced,.bat was soon cheeked aa: the cooler shades of night came on. This morning a marked change has taken place, aa follows: At 7 o'clock A. M. 18 degrees above zero; at 10 A. M. 28; at ll A. M. 44. The ground is still al most entirely bidden by the frozen sleet, and ld situations with a northern aspect lt ls as bard aa ever. Tbe tee which accumulated naturally on the platform ot our town Scale, seven by twelve leet, weighed 1390 pour.de. JONTUB. TEE COLD LN TUE UT- COUJTTBT. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] . PENDLETON, December 30. I see in your Friday's paper, received yes terday, that you cry out, "Grim Winter In Earnest," and, no doubt, well you may. But li you were up here, JuBt below the moun tains, you would have occasion to cry louder, and scarcely be able to do Justice to the subject. Although the fore part of the winter, or rather latter part of the fall, was the dryest we have witnessed in many years, yet the nights were, bitter cold. The roads dry and dusty; too dry to put In wheaton our stiff red lands.' On Thursday, the 14th of No vember, the weather waa dry, clear and cold. On the 15th, at sunrise, the thermometer stood at 30 degrees in a shed facing ihe west: On the 16th at 28 degrees. On the 17th at 18 degrees. On the 19:h at 26 degrees, and on the 20th at 32 degree!. The weather continued dry and cold up to the 29tb, when we bad the coldest northwest wind that bas been ex perienced in many years, and on Saturday morning, the 30tb, we were down to 14 de grees. On Sunday, the 1st of December, cloudy and threatening snow, cold raia and light sleet at night. The 2d, olear and pleas ant comparatively to the 8tb, which was cold, and on the 9lh a cold norm wester; 10th, ther mometer at 17 degrees -llch at 32 degrees; 12th at 30 degrees; 13th at li degrees. Then four days rain; 21st, thermometer 26 degrees; 22d at 20 degrees; 23d at 22 degrees: 24th, clear, thermometer 23 degrees, rain and aleet throughout the night, and next, 26th day and night, dreadful weather, thermometer down to 21 degrees, and BO on, St John's Day, 27th, and on the 28th at 14 degrees, and 29th at 22 degrees. The sleet yet on the ground, with a prospect of another on top of it. We have had less snow than usual. When lt snowed from Abbeville to Charleston we had a light sleet, too cold for snow. Bo you see, Messrs. Editors, you have less reason to complain than we have. It ls much feared that late-sown wheat, and much was sown late on account of continued dry weather in November, ls greatly injured ll not entirely destroyed. B. [From'the Working Christian.] BET. E. T. BUIST, D. D. This distinguished divine,who ls now pastor of the Preabyteriau Church at Greenville, spent several days In Bamberg the past week. In stature, he ia tall and rooust, with a fine complexion, and has a quick and firm step, he walks as If he had no time to loose, and meant business, and nothing but business. Ii was our pleasure to enjoy much of his com pany, and found bim one of the most pleasant and edli ving of Christian gentlemen, fie may have equals socially, but we doubt bis having any superiors-hts conversation is full ol knowledge and wisdom for both old and young. By special request, he occupied the pulpit of ne Methodist Church morning and night. His sermon in the morning wa a oleai and lorcible exposition and development ol the 1st chapter of Revelation, verse 20. He took aa Btand-polnts: The mission of the cburet and ministry, together with the ultimate suc cess ihat would attend them. In a clear or! ginal and forcible development of these truths, did he, for forty minutes. Interest blt congregation, and we all felt sorry when hi closed lils sermon. At night he gave us a rici least of truths contained in 2d chapter of Bev elation, verse 7. We all felt it was good for ai io be there, as be beautifully and tenderly tole us of the helps that came to the aid of ih< Christiao In this life, to assist him saielj through to the end. We left the church oom forted, thanking the Doctor for his sermon We feel that we express the sentiment of tbi community, when we say that the Doctor' visit was a happy and useful one, and will bi remembered long. Ttu< blessing of tbe wholi community attend him, and a hearty am warm welcome he will away/B find In the towt of Bamberg. A CITIZEN. AIN AWifUL HOLOCAUST. EXHUMATION OF JSODLE TN THU CENTRE STREET FIRE, A Dligrecefal Parley boat ttl Ex *' ptvreu, fcc. . ft The re In Centre street, New York, on.be 24th of December, burled In lu ruins seven persons, ail girl?, whose relative* and friends, unable to remove the debris themselves, have importuned the municipal authorities cf that , City ever since the-sad disaster occurred to. . have the rubbish removed and the bod los ex bumed. The New York Journals give the fol- % lowing In relation to the mattw: ' "??'> . KO ONE Di AUTH0E1TT. "' ' Nb one seemed td baye or be wini og- to as-1 sume the authority and rely upon the city to pay the bill, and the agonized'relatives of tun unfortunate girls and the public had to bear with the delay until Sunday., when justice . Dowling, passing the ruine with Captain Ken nedy, remarked that lt was a disgrace to tba ' cl tr that no effort bad been made to find, tba bodies. Captain Kennedy acknowledgijjth t lt v as, but said he did not know, what, to do.. "I will tell you what yon' will do," said the V ' Judge; "put all the available men yon can ?' dnd to work u n tbs ruins. I will assume *_ the responsibility 8nd give two hundred and fifty riot!t rs towards paying the men.". Oap- . tain Kennedy immediately availed himself of the offrir, and gathering-a .large num jer of laborers commenced work. Juotlce Dowling waa seconded by an equal contribution''from Mr. Morgan Jones, when the work com- ? men oed a large crowd of spectators who. had assembled In the street cheered the wo kmeu. The excitement .soon, widened, and the , crowd Inoreased to such an extent that lt be came necessary to form a cordon of police ' around the rn los to keep'back'the people.' The work was extremely ' SF - DIFFICULT ANO DAN0 J10DS. The great beams ot the ruined build! jg had been frozen firm ? into the placee where they bad fallen, while fae machinery and printing presses were woven into one solid .mass. The beams and brickwork were covered iwith layers of lee, and the snow, whloh had became - hardened, was as firmly imbedded as a rock. .The beams were BO treacherous that; lt was almost impossible to walk opon them without being perclpitat^d into a yawning chasm be-" low. The gas and. steam pipe* had been ' frozen into the woodwork, and were eo firmly , fixed that they could notrbe moved. Piles of burned paper, brick and stone lay thickly - around, with here ard there fragment* of the clothing worn.by tbs giris, who, In their har ry to escape, left their rfleets behind. In twenty minutes after the first shovel had been placed in the ruins, an exclamation from A fireman who was toiling under the beams _ attracted attention. . .'i HIVE Foran A aofrr," he said, "and I think lt Isa woman." The police immediately rushed to the spot, and. - the fireman was lound l> be correct. Covered. with Ice and snow, and frozen so hard that lt cracked whee touched by the hand, wea the trunk of human being. Were lt not that very one was prepared for the sight, pone would suspect thgt the. blackened and shape less form which lay before him was but five * days before a young woman lo -the pride of health and beauty.: The Hash : waa barned to ! a crisp. The right leg -waa lopped- off from the body. The left leg ' was gone from the ' .knee, and the skull was nothing botan empty' cavity. The right arm was goo , from.the' ? - - elbow down, and on the left arm .the bones were burned bare. No trace oi features re mained, the Iront part of the head being '''.'" EEDDOKD TO A CIK IR, " .'.' ? ^ and save for the delicacy of the fragment of ,the left band that remained and some wire*, whloh comprised part ol a hoop shire, the sex of the body would not have besn aaoert wed. It was tenderly lifted by the policemen'sad firemen after the icebed in which it waa en cased bad been broken up by axes. When.lt .came In sight of the people who were congre-. gated at, the cross lo ja on Leonard and Worth streets, a deep sensation was produced, and a shudder ran through the vast throng.' When taken to the e ge of the building lt was placed en a stretcher, over which a quilt was thrown,. and from there lt waa conveyed to the station house. At bair past three o'clock the body, which had been taken to thestntioii-Iiouse was j Identified. , . A girl who worked In the bookbindery was in the station-house making some Inquiries about the body, when she waa told thai the hand whloh had, remained bad two rings opon one of the H gers. She waa asked to goto the room io which 1t haft beer placed to iden- - illy lt. This she refused to do, as she said she would not oe able to stand the horrible sight. In a few moments a young mau, accom panied by a gentlemap, came rushing Into the station-house. He tore past lift police to the apartment in whloh the body waa laid, When first-taken In, as n.'ated before, lt, waa thickly covered with ice, but toe short time lt had re mained In the room bad partially thawed if The brother came in, took c no look at the left - hand, and then burst Into tears, say lpg, In a, heart-broken voice, Ob. that's my suter, that's my sister I Ob, Jennie, Jennie !M The gen tleman wbo accompanied him stooped down , and looked at tbe hand. It was th jeweller who made the rings for the unfortunate giri. One was a plain gold ring, the 'other wanaX chased ring, containing a portion of her moth- i er's hair. The Jeweller immediately- recog nized the rings, and the lndentlflcatlon was complete. Toe brother did not'remain more' >. than haifa minute in the room; when bo rushed ont again. For the past lew days he has not been In complete POSSESSIO* or ms LEN s KU, and his oonduot had been tbat ot a crazy man. " ' When he came odt to the door of the station house his father, an old min, who was child. -- lsh with grief, stood upon the steps. "I have found her; I have found Jennie," said the son. The ol4' man went to rush Into the station house,when the son restrained him, saying passionately, "You shan't do lt: yon will cot be able to endure the sight." The old man In sisted on going in, but the son used force to keep bim back, and be was finally led away by some friends. A large ? crowd - had collected arouod the door-in the meantime, and the young man, breaking through them, freed himself from the fearful scene. The fe male friend of Jennie, who was lu the station house at the time o; the recognition, said that "_ the girl was remarkably pretty. She was slight in form, and bad peculiarly small arms and wrists. She was a great favorite with her comoaclons, and ber untimely death ls deeply deplored. When the relatives had, left tbe. station-house the remains were covered with & blanket to oanceai them from the gaze of the curious. Had lt not been fdr the rings the body would never have been recognized, sad the police are hoping that the remaining ones, which are still to be found, may be as easyof Identification. Among tbe friends of the deceased who _ were upon the ground were the brotheraild ?' mother ot the two Donobo sisters. The broth er ls a cripple and the mother ls an old, totter ing, gray-haired woman. Her cries could be. beard all over the street, and she had finally to be taken home by'her BOA. The mother of the girl McGrath accompanied ber son. and she was equally loud In ber lamentations. She says her eon and daughter and herself have kept house together for years, the daughter by her earning contributing io their' support, Tbe work continued.?. ontu night with unabted zeal, but no other bodies were found. . < Justice Dowling In the afternoon went in search ol the commissioners- of charities and corrections, and found one of .them, Mr, Owen Brennan, who readily consented that a hun dred from the workhouse be added to the force the next morning. 1 \ -The Nashville Union pobltebes a graphie account of the festivities attendant upon the arrival ot Colonel Cole with his lovely bride, {nee, Miss Anna Bussel, ot Augusta,) and lue host of friends who accompanied the bridal party. Amongst tbe latter were the mother of tbe bride, Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Cohen, Miss Russel and Miss Mayes, of Augusta, sod Messrs. Harris, Hull and Thomas, of Athens. Colonel Cole's reception, at his home in Nash ville, was surpassingly elegant and sumptuous* -The pupils of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind Institute, at Baielgli, had a happy Christmas, thanks to the kindness of some benevolent gentlemen who treated them to a feast and to a "fish pond," ont ef which maoy valuable gifts were drawn.