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VOLUME X.-NUMBER 2179. ' CHARLESTON, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1873. EIGHT DOLLARS A YEAR7
A NICE KETTLE OF FISH.
THE WHOLE CHARLESTON DELEGA?
TION IN A BAD BOX.
That Plumper for Patterton-Wai the
Delegation Pledged T-The Alleged
Reason tbat Influenced their So id
Vote-The Rigors of the Law to be
Visited Upon the Lawgivers, ?ic.
[8PKCIAL TELEGRAM TO THE SEWS.]
COLOMBIA, Sunday, January 2G.
The latest sensation here Is a rumor that the
entire Charleston delegation, in the General
Assembly, are to be presented for indictment
at the approaching term of the Court of Gen
Keral Sessions, which opens here next week,
on charges ot bribery and corruption, in con?
nection with the election of Patterson to the
United States Sonate. It ls alleged, and Indeed
has been currently reported and believed here
lor some mon tbs, that the whole delegation,
with probably one exception, signed a formal
pledge to support and vote for Patterson in
consideration of securing his Influence with
the State board of canvassers in their favor,
and against the Mackey delegation, which
claimed to have been elected. If ls under?
stood that they are not to be charged with re?
ceiving any money for their votes, but that
they are to be prosecuted for the above
mentioned bargain, under Section 22, Chapter
131 of the General Statutes. Th? puni-, ment
for their conviction upon this charge would
Include a fine, imprisonment and expulsion
from the General Assembly. PICKET.
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
The Fight upon the Scrip Bill-Tying
the Hands or the Comptroller-The
Prospect In the House-Amending the
Game Laws-Exchange or Judicial
Circuits-A Legislative Pawnbroking"]
Concern.
[FBOM OOS OWN CORRESPONDENT ]
COLUMBIA, S. C., January 24.
Another victory over the Blue Ridge rinc
was achieved to-day In the passage by the
Senate, after a desperate struggle which oc?
cupied four hours of the sharpest filibuster?
ing which has occurred during the session, ol
?the bill to repeal that portion of the Blue
Ridge scrip act ot last winter which requires
the levy of an annual special tax of i h ree
mills on the dollar, and which the holders of
the Blue Ridge scrip are attempting lo enforce
by the mandamus proceedings now pending
In the Supreme Court. Toe bill, as lt passed
the Senate, reads as follows, and It will le
seen that lt not only repeals the tax section of
the'Blue Ridge act, but that lt restrains the
comptroller-general from levying any tax
without Bpeciflo authorization "hereafter,"
given by the General Assembly, wt Ich will
render Inoperative the tax sections of all the
laws under which State bonds have been,
' jesued, and will leave the question of the pay?
ment of the interest of the public debt wholly
In the banda of the General Assembly:
Btit enacted, SECTION 1. That Section 4 of
an act entitled "Au act lo relieve the State of
South Carolina of all liability fur Its guarantee
of the bonds ol the Blue Ridge Railroad Com?
pany, by providing tor I he securing and de?
struction of the same," approved March 2,
1872, providing for an annual lax of three
millo oo the dollar for the redemption ot the
revenue bond scrip, be, and the same Is here?
by repealed.
SEO. 2. That so much of section 72, Chapter
12, Title 3, as directs that the State auditor
eball, on or before November 16, annually,
give notice to each county auditor of the rates
per centum authorized by law to be levied
for various State purposes, be, and the Burne
ls hereby repealed, and tue comptroller-gene?
ral is hereby forbidden lo levy any lax for
any purpose whatever, unless expressly here?
after authorized so lo do by statutes.
The bill now goes to the House for concur?
rence where lt ls expected that the scrip men
who have hitherto been all powerful In that
branch of the Assembly will use strenuous
efforts to prevent Us passage by fair means or
foul; but lt ls believed tbat the bill bp.? a deal
of vitality In it, and that it will require the
* roost liberal distribution of what is known
here as the "Spinner argument" to prevent Us
passage.
THC GAME LAW.
The Senate committee on agriculture has re?
ported a bill, which ls Intended as a substitute
lor the various bills which have been proposed
to amend the game law. The amendments
contained by the committee's bill propose to
shorten the time for the protection of deer by
one month, by fixing lt irom January first to
August first, lneteadof from January first to
Se Die m er first, and to shorten the lime lor the
protection ol wild turkey, partridge, dove,
woodcock, snipe or pheasant, by fixing it
irom April 1 to October 15, instead ot irom
February 15 to October 15, as now prescribed
by law. Tne report of the committee makes
the following comments upon the various bills
which have been referred :
That they have carelully considered ibe
same, and recommend that they do not pass.
The committee arc persuaded that ibe
?erlod within which lt shall not be lawlul to
Ul aoy deer, or any game mentioned In the
act, Bbould Bot, under any circumstances, be
shortened to the extent proposed in these
bills, If shortened at all.
Tne committee are also persuaded that the
number of birds which ii shall not be lawful lo
kill should not be lessened, as proposed In
one ol these bills. On the contrary, the com?
mittee are quite persuaded that the admirable
remarks ot his Excellency the Governor, in
bis first annual message recently submitted lo
the General Assembly, should lead to the
passage of aa act provldlog for the punish?
ment, by a moderate fine and i m pr ison meut,
of any person who shall wantonly kill or in?
jure any insectivorous bird at any season of
me year.
In deference, however, to the views and
wishes of a large number of intelligent cltl
zons, as represented by letters and otherwise,
the committee recommended the passage of
the accompanying bill as a substitute.
INTERCHANGE OF CIRCUITS.
A bill was referred to the Judiciary commit?
tee ol the Senate about two weeks ago, en?
titled "a bill to carry into effect the fourteenth
"reectlon of the lounh article of the constitu?
tion of the State referring to the interchange
of Judges on the circuits." which proposed
that all the circuit judges should bold all the
conrts in the various circuits in rotation and
according to seniority ol commission; the old?
est Judge In commission commencing with the
?rst circuit and going next to the second,
third, 4c., to be followed by tbe'remalnder
according to the dates of their commission.
The committee to-day reported a substitute
lor this bill, woich provides that the circuit
Judges or a majority of them shall meet on
the Tuesday af.er the second Monday of April
of each year, at 12 M., in the library of ihe
Supreme Court, and shall then provide tor an
interchange ol circuits with each other during
the ensuing year, In such manner as shall best
suit the convenience ol the Judges and the
public Interest, filing a roster with the clerk
of the Supreme Court. Should they tall to
Interchange as required, the Justices of ihe
Supreme Court shad prepare a roster assign?
ing the circuit Judges and orders necessary to
carry the same lnio effect, furnishing a copy
thereof to each circuit judge, and cause the
same lo be published iu a newspaper In the
City ?f Columbia.
MORE BANE CLAIM?.
Senator Nash this morning introduced a
joint resolution which proposes to make an
appropriation to pay the sum ol $3233 33 to
the Central National Bank of Columbia, on
account of Interest on an acceptance of H. H.
Klmpton, financial agent, ?c., ot adralt for
$25.000 drawn by Niles G. Parker, late State
treasurer. , , ,
The same senator also presented a claim by
ex-Governor R. K. Scott for the sum of
?3473 13. the princlDal items ol the claim being
for various repairs and improvements to the
Executive MansloD, ordered by him during his
.occupancy of that residence.
"FENDING IN" 8T0CK.
.Representative Crews has proven himself a
determined champion of the much needed re
peal of the lenee law and of the system of
] "fencing In" instead of "fencing out" the
slock employed in the agricultural districts of
the Stale. He has already introduced a bill
for the repeal of the existing lenee law, and
to-day he followed np ihe attack by the Intro?
duction of a bill io provide for the keeping
and pasturage of stock. This bill provides
that if any horses, mules, cattle, goals, sheep,
or bogs, shall break Into or be found In any
cultivated field it shall be lawful lor the owner
or occupant of the field lo seize such horses,
?c., keep them impounded, and nottty the
owner, or advertise the same In a newspaper,
and retain euch stock until all damages shall
have been paid. In case of failure of the
owner ol ihe animals to pay such damages
they are to be sold at public auction. The bill
also requires owners of stock to keep their
pasture grounds surrounded with a lawful
fence.
A PAWNBROKERS' BANK.
The proposition to establish a pawbroking
stock company in Charleston was supplement?
ed to-day by the introduction of a bill by Rep?
resentative Hurley to lucorporate the "Fawn?
ers' Banking Company of South Carolina."
The Incorporator* named are T. Hurley, Wm.
R. Jervey, W. B. Nash, James Dirnbir, A. Ca?
nal??, Wm. Ourney, E. Stone, F. 8. Jacob?, S.
A. 8wall8 and James A. Bowley. These par?
lies with Iheir associates, successors and ns
elgns are authorized to open offices in Charles?
ton And Columbia to transact the business nf
loaning money upon the pledge of goods and
chattels, and with all the powers and privi?
leges of other banking companies in this
State, so far as they are applicable to the ob
[ Jecls of the proposed concern. The capital
stock of the company is fixed at $300,000, iu
shares of fifty dollars each, and authority ls
given to commence business when the sum ot
$50,000 shall have been subscribed.
PRIVATE HANGINGS.
Senator Corwin, to-day. Introduced a bill to |
regulate the execution of the death penalty,
which provides that the judge shall appoint J
the date for the execution not less than thirty |
nor more than ninety dava from the date of
sentence. The bill further requires that the
sentence shall be executed in some private
^closure as near the Jail as possible, and that
the sheriff shall invite to be present the so?
licitor, clerk ot the court, probate Judge, mem?
bers of the Legislature, two physicians and
twelve respectable citizens, selected by him;
and, at the request of the convict, shall per?
mit any minister of the gospel and any of bis
relatives to be present, but that no other per?
son and no person under age shall be allowed
to be present. PICKET.
THE FIGHT EOE THE SCRIP.
Senator Whlttemore .Leading the for?
lorn Hope-Another Host of New
Dlcaanrri-Thc Constitutional Amend?
ments Ratified.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT ]
COLUMBIA, January 25.
The legislative proceedings to-day have In?
cluded the Introduction of another large batch
of bills, the final passage of a number ot
measures In the House, and the ratification of
several important acts, which have passed
both branches of the General Assembly, and
now await only the approval ol the Governor
to become laws. In the Senate this morning
Mr. Whlttemore obtained the floor ou a ques?
tion of privilege, and made what, according to
his own definition, must be considered a Bort
Ot ex post facto argument against the bill to
repeal a ponton ol the Blue Ridge scrip act,
which was passed In the Senate yesterday by
an overwhelming vote, notwithstanding the
objections ol the very small majority of which
the senator from Darlington formed a part.
The point of his speech was that at the con?
clusion of the debate upon the bill yesterday,
after the patience ol tue Se?ale had been
exhausted by tour hours'of desperate filibus?
tering on the part of the corporal's guard
ot senators who were opposing the bill, he
made a last desperate effort to stave off the
vote by ilslog to a question of privilege, and
that the presiding officer failed to recognize
him. Now ii lp eminently probable that the
presiding officer did not bear the honorable
gentleman from Darlington, but at all events
li was eminently sensible on the part of the
presiding officer lo allow the vote to proceed,
and it was manlfes.ly satisfactory io ihe vast j
majority ot the senators who bad been trying
fur tour 1 iou rs to come to a vole, but it result?
ed this morning In the infliction ot a long |
speech In which the senator from Darlington
grandiloquently declared that he demanded
a recognition ot bis righis and privil?ges upon
the floor of the Senate, which were nigher
than ibe constitution I vested In him by no
legislative authority ! inalienable 1 unques?
tionable ! He then demanded that llb
vote be recorded against the bill, and
proceeded to read an argument againsl
lt, which was ordered to be printed on ihe
tournai, where any of his constituents may
find il it lie should ever desire to be re-elected.
This is supposed to be an indication of the
despetation with which the rcrlp men propose
to fight Ihe bill in the House, but it ls believed
by mose who are best posted about the tem?
per and motives of ibe members of that body
that they will not dare io vote down a bill
which proposes to deleat so palpable a scheme
of plunder after lt has been almost unani?
mously passed by the Senate. This would
place the House in Ibe position of preventing
by IIB aciion a measure of relorm which was j
promised in Its party platform and adopted by
the Senate. The Blue Ridge scrip swindle
has become notorious enough by this lime for
such a stigma to stick until the nexi election.
The Heoator from Darlington does not appear
lo fear bis constituents, or perhaps does not
desire a re-election, but the majority of the
members ol ihe House will bardly care to
place In the hands of their rivale in the late
election BO potent a weapon for their own de?
feat as would be afforded by a vole to per?
petuate this scrip swindle.
A NEW ASSESSMENT FOR TAXES.
The senator from Darlington, whose pyro-.
technic eloquence In the as.-ertlcn of his rights']
ls only equalled by his untiring fecundity in
ihe production ol bills, this morning intro?
duced a bill to provide lor an assessment ot
real properly ihroughout the State during the
year 1873. The bill authorizes and directs the
comptroller-general to adopt measures to
make an assessment of all ibe real property
In the Stale during the present year, at Ihe
same lime that the assessment of personal
property is matte, and in the manner and ac?
cording lo the rules prescribed by law lor
such assessments.
OBSTRUCTIONS IN HARBORS.
Benator Jones, to day, Introduced bis bill to
prevent the obstruction of harbors and navi?
gable streams in ibis State, by the discbarge
therein of ballast ot stones, dirt or other
heavy material. The bill makes it a misde?
meanor, punishable by floe and Imprisonment,
tor ihe owner or master of any vessel navi?
gating the waters of this Stale, to discharge
trom the said vessel any ballast of stone ur
other heavy material Into any harbor, bay or
navigable stream, whereby the navigation
thereof is hindered or obstructed, or ls made
liable to be hindered or obstructed.
ANOTHER SPECIAL TAX.
Senator Smalls, to-day, introduced a jolnl
resolution lo require a special tax of two mills
on the dollar on all ihe taxable properly In
Beautort County, to be used exclusively for
the payment of the county debt, ard io be
levied yearly until the said debt shall be paid.
Similar resolutions have been introduced for
almost every county In the Slate, under pre- [
tence ol paying the county debt, repairing
bridges or building a new Jail or courthouse; ]
bul mis ls ihe only one which proposes to
make the special tax perpetual.
A LEGISLATIVE EXPRESS COMPANY.
In the House this morning there was a host
of new billa introduced, the most important
being a bill by Representative Crews, entitled
a bili to incorporate the South Carolina Trans?
portation Company. The bill provides Ibat
W. H. Jones, Jr., senator lrom Georgetown; j
John K. Cochrane, representative from An?
derson; James M. Baxter, C. H. Baldwin,
treasurer of Richland County; Thomas Doda-1
mead, F. J. Moses. Jr., Governor of South
Carolina; S. A. Swalls, senator lrom Williams?
burg; Joseph Crews, representative from Lau?
rens; W. B. Nash, senator from Richland; Y.
J. P. Oweue, senator lrom Laurens; James A.
Dunbar, James A. Bowley, representative
from Georgetown; W. A. Grant, represen
sentallve from Charleston; William E. Earle,
assistant district attorney; Thomas M. Cox,
Tv". C. Keith, senator from Oconee; 8. 8.
trnden, representative lrom Greenville; I
lilt Sullivan, Sr., and Buch other persoi
may hereafter be associated with t
and their associates and assigns, be
they are hereby constituted and dec!
a body politic and corporate, under
name and Btyle of the South Care
Transportation Company, with succ?s
ot officers, ?sc. The capital stock ls fl
at one hundred thousand dollars, \
power to Increase the same to five bunt
thousand dollars, and when five thous
dollars is subscribed and paid in, the comp
may organize and proceed to business, i
tlon three provides that ihe said company
authorized and empowered to receive, tr:
port, Issue and deliver boxes, parcels, measi
and packages of goods and commodrtiei
any kind whatsoever at any point or plac
this Slate, at such rates or prices and u
such terms and conditions as they by ll
officers may fix and determine. The next i
lion auttorizes the company to buy and
real and personal properly, and also to m
and enforce contra?is with such railroi
coach or oiher transportation companlef
they mav deem proper. The remaining i
lions of the bill contain the usual provis!
for the election and succession of officers,
adoption of a common seal, and of such ri
and by laws as are net repugnant to ihe
ot the land; and authorizes the company
lease or erect f>uch buildings as they may
sire for ibe carrying on of their business
such places within this Stale as they may de
expedient.
TWO NEW FERRIES.
Representative Spencer to day Introduce
bill to charter Lanneau's Ferry, which lac
Ically enacts "that Lanneau's Ferry, over i
Santee River, ls hereby chartered for I
years with the usual rates ot toll, and ves
in Robert Jefferson and W. G. Plnckney.
Representative North, according to p
vious notice, introduced his bill to Ineorpr.r
the Charleston and James Island Sie,
Ferry Company, which names Henry
Pinckney. McCormick aDd oin? rs as lncori
miora, wlih authority lo keep up a ferry a
convey passengers and transler goods, wa
and merchandise by steamboat* between l
Cily of Cbaile8ton and James Island, and cc
vey passengers, goods, wares and mercht
dise between the said city and any other pla
or places. The capital stock of the compa
is hxed at twenty-five thousand dollars In Qi
dollar shares, with authority lo increase t
same to one hundred thousand dollars, ot
fourth of the said capital slock lo be subscrib
before commencing business. The bill cn
laius Ihe other usual provisions, and Is lo i
main in force lor ihe lerm of tweniy-oi
years.
COMPULSORT VACCINATION.
Representative Spencer also Introducer
bill to require all persons residing in tl
Slate lo be vaccinated. The bill requires i
parents and guardians to cause their chlldr
and wards to be vaccinated before they alu
the age of two years, and re vaccinated whe
ever the city or town authorities shall requi
it. after five years from the last vacclnailo
ihe cities and towns to furnish the means
vaccination to such of their inhabitants as a
unable to pay for the same. The bill also r
quires that incorporated manufacturing cot
panies, superintendents ot almshouses, Sta
reform school, Lunatic Asylum, or olh
places where ihe poor or sick are receive
masters of houses of correction, Jailors, s
perlntendent of the penitentiary and super!
tecaeciB or officers of all other lnslllutioi
supported or aided by the State or any cou
ty, shall, at ihe expense of their respects
establishments or institutions, cause all 1
mates thereof to be vaccinated Immediate
upon their entrance thereto unless they pr
duce sufficient evidence of previous succesal
vaccination within five years.
NEW SCHOOL HOUSES FOR CHARLESTON.
Representative Petty to-day Introduced
bill to establish about a dozen more achoo
houses io Charleston County, which requlrt
that the school commissioner ot Charlesto
County Is hereby authorized and required I
cause to be built two school-houses OB Jam?
Island, two on Wad mala w Island, three o
Edlsto and three on John's Island.
RATIFICATION OP ACT*.
The following acts and Joint resolutions hat
lng passed both houses, were signed lo-day I
the Senate Chamber by the president of ih
Se?ale and the speaker of the House, an
sent to ihe Governor for his approval :
An ad to amend an act entllled an act t
provide for the election of officers of lncorpoi
ated cities and towns.
An act io fix the time of holding the Apr
term of ibe Supreme Court.
An act to empower ibe Supreme Court t
frame Issues, and direct t h-- same to be trie
In the circuit courts, and to order reference
in certain cases.
An act to amend Section 12, Chapter 103 c
the General Statutes.
An act to chango the name of Alic
dight, &c.
Au act lo change the name of Elmira Mc
Nary Speers, Ac.
, Au act to repeal Sections S, 6 and 7, o
Chapter 83, of Hie General Statutes.
A joint resolution to relieve J. E. Dent
former sheriff of Richland County, of a pen
ally on lax executions.
A joint resolution authorizing the attorney
general to commence proceedings against thi
commissioners ot the sinking fund.
A joint resolut ion to make appropriation fo
the payment of ihe outstanding pay certitl
cates of the members ot the last General As
sembly.
Acts to Incorporate the Lincoln Light In
faniry, National Zouaves, Palmetto State Rifli
Club, Bowen Riflemen, Irish Volunteer Rifle
Club.
WHITEWASH AT WHOLESALE.
8tate Treasurer Cardozo to-day transmitted
to the Genend Assembly, in accordance wilt
a recent resolution requesting ihe facts in re?
lation to ibe settlement with Financial Agent
Klmplon, the following Interesting document
from the late financial board:
TUE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, CITY Ol
f-- CHARLESTON.
' Know ail men by these presents that we,
the financial board of ibe State of South Car?
olina, by virtue of an act relating to the finan?
cial agent ol the State, and ID virtue of any
oiher power vesied in the said board, have
adjusted and Bellied, and do hereby adjust
and settle, the claims, demands and accounts,
and all or any matters of difference relating
to the financial ageni of Ibe State, H. H.
Klmpton, Including all property or effects be?
longing to this Slate, which have come Into
the possession of the said financial agent by
virtue of his office, and we have adjusted and
settled, and do hereby adjust and settle, that
thc said financial agent received from this
State, or for account of this State, in the ag?
gregate, from the lime of the commencement
ot hie agency lo the present time, ihe following
bonds: $9,614,000 ot ihe bonds of the Stale ot
South Carolina, $599,000 of the bonds of
the Blue Ridge Railroad Company, $200,000
of the bonds of the Stale bourru by the said
financial agent for account of the sinking
fund, and that he has in ihe accounts rendered
fully accounted for all the properly and effects
belonging lo ibis Slate which have heretofore
come into his possession, and for the proceeds
of all sales and transactions for or on account
of ihe State In the premises, except the prop?
erty known as the agricultural college land
scrip, resulting, after crediting bim with a
Just and proper commission In ihe premises,
as will more fully appear by reference to said
accounts, in a balance In favor bf Ihe said
agent, against Ibis State, amounting to $139,
432 7G; aud that he has returned to this Stale
all coupons paid and all coupons not paid, ex?
cepting on outstanding bonds now owned by
third parties or held us collaterals, as herein?
after meuiioned, and lor which he Is not in
any way accountable; and he has also re?
turned to this State the Blue Ridge Railroad
bond for one thousand dollars, also men?
tioned in said accounts, and that, as will more
tully appear by the said accounts, he has
credited ihe State wilh the sum of $489.982 50,
the proceeds of loans effected by him for this
State upon collateral security and now out?
standing, and for which the lollowing bonds
were given as collateral security: $1,656,600 of
bonds of the State of South Carolinn, which
amount Includes the $200,000 bonds bought
for the sinking fund; ulso $598,000 of Blue
Ridge bonds, and that the said financial agenl
has individually guaranteed the payment of a
portion ol'the said loanp, namely, about $220,
000, and that the said financial agent has
made due payment and satisfaction of any de?
mand Ihai haB existed against bim in the
premises; and the said board does hereby, in
consideration ol the premises, execute and
deliver to him a lull release and discharge
from all liability to this State, by reason of,
any matter or thing due in the course of such
?uanci il agency.
Nothing herein contained, however, is In
tended to relinquish, or operate as a relin
qulsbment, of the claim and title of this State
to such of the bonds as are held as collateral
security us hereinbefore stated, subject, never?
theless, to payment of the said loans, for
which they are held as collaterals.
IQ witness whereof we have hereunto set our
hands and seals.
(Signed,)
N. G. PARKER, Treasurer.
D. H. CHAMBERAIN, Attorney-General.
R. K. SCOTT, Governor.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
The final action ol the General Assemblv,
which was rpqnlred to make the constitution?
al amendments adopted by the people at the
last election a part of the constitution of ihe
8tate, was taken by the House to-day In the
unanimous adoption by the Senat? resolutions
of ratillcation. They are entitled respectively
as follows :
A Joint resolution to ratify ihe amendment
to the constitution ol the State of South Caro?
lina relative to the Increase of the State debt.
A joint resolution to ratify the amendment
to the Constitution ol the State of South Caro?
lina relative to the lime of holding elections.
Final action was also taken by ibe House
to-day upon the following bills which have
already passed the Senate and are now ready
lo be ratified and sent to the Governor:
A bill lo amend an act to renew and extend
the charters of certain towns and villages.
A bill to allow W. H. Wynn to chaDge his
name, &c.
A bill to extend the time for officers to
qualify.
The following bills and joint resolutions re?
ceived their final reading In me House, passed,
and were ordered to be sent to the Senate:
A Joint resolution lo authorize the levy of a
special tax In Richland County.
A bill to amend the charter of IheLaureDB
and Asheville Railroad Company.
A bill to amend Chapter 13, Section 3, of the
General Statutes.
A bill to require county treasurers to re?
ceive Jury certificates and school claims in
payment of taxes.
A bill to repeal the charters of' the Charles?
ton Charitable Association and the Charleston
Joint Stock Company.
A bill to require county commissioners to
give bond.
A bill to aid and encourage manufactures.
Bills to incorporate the Georgetown Cypress
Company, the Greenville Agricultural and
Mechanical Society, the Campbell Fair Arbor
Society, me Garrison Light Infantry, the
??rant and Wilson Guards, the Bowen Light
Infantry, the Wadmataw Riflemen, the Ford
Riflemen, the Scott United Blues, and the
Bryan Light Infantry. PICKET,
THE LOUISIANA FIGHT.
WASHINGTON. January 26.
The Congressional committee will Invest??
gate the claims of the contending parties in
the Louisiana State Government next week.
Messrs Lynch and Longstreet, representing
the Kellogg returning coard, and Messrs.
Foreman, Mitchell and South maid, represent
lDg the McEnery returning board, {arrived
here to-day from New Orleans. The former
claim to have the law on ihelr side, Inasmuch
as the Supreme Court of Louisiana has decided
In their favor; but Ihe latter have brought
with them ihree trunks full of documents,
supposed to be the returns of the recent elec?
tion, which have been called for by the com?
mittee on privileges and elections.
BEYOND TBE BRINE.
LONDON, Jun nary 25.
Eugenie leaves Cblaelrjurst, but remains In
England for the present.
Greece refuses to arbitrate the Laurlum
Mines question, whereupon France and Italy
suspended diplomatic relations with Greece.
The Shah of Persia will occupy Buckingham
Palace while visiting England.
Dispatches from Switzerland report Dr.
Pusey belier. ?
BERLIN, January 26.
In the Chamber or Deputies yesterday, Bis?
marck said that his retirement from the min?
isterial presidency was owing eniirely lo ill
health and a desire for rest irom bis official
duties, and not lo any disagreement with his
colleagues. _
OUR SOUTH ATLANTIC NEIGHBORS.
Georgia.
-Adieos wants a steam fire engine.
-Thu Ailaniu Sun says lhat no city In the
world needs sidewalks UH bad y as Allanta.
- l'h?re ls au organized band of burglars in
Foray i h.
-Atlanta ls to have a manufacturing asso?
ciation.
-Another cotton factory ls lo be put up lu
Columbus.
-It ls rumored in Columbus that another
large factory will be erected lhere this sum?
mer upon the site of the old Palace Mills.
-Mjrlon Bethune, ol Talbot County, ln
lenris io contest the teat of Colonel Henry B.
Harris, the member elect to the Forty-third
Congress, irom Ihe Fourth District, in Georgia.
-Washington Ouoty produces annually
over twenty five thousund bales of colton,
thu largest cotton producing county in the
State.
-Mrs. Francis L. Barlow, the mother of
General Barlow who fell at Manassas, died In
Chattanooga, on the 18th Instant, aged eighty
years.
-The Savannah papers announce the death
of Mr. Francis Wilson, who has for many
years filled the position ol cotton registry
clerk at Ihe Central Railroad.
_A yoting man named William S. Daven?
port was kuocked ofi*a freight train on ihe
Macon and Western Railroad Wednesday
morning and Instantly killed, his body being
mangled iu a most shocking manner.
-Mr. Phillp Riley, ot Nottinghamshire,
Eugland, alter a three months' inspection ol
the gold mines in Cherokee, has returned to*
England with the Intention of organizing a
company, with a capital of $200,000, to develop
ihe veins already opened and to prospect for
more.
-On Tuesday morniog the small steamer
Fannie Fern, Captain Trott, while towing
four barges from me shell banks, exploded at
Cedar Creek, eight miles below Jacksonville,
causing the death of three men-George
Willy, the pilot; Henry Robinson, fireman,
and a young man named Alonzo Garvin. The
engineer, Mr. Thomas Keller, as by a miracle,
escaped with only very slight injuries. It ls
believed that a crack in one of the boiler
Dlates caused the disaster. The Fanny Fern
Was blown lo pieces and sank instantly, and
one of ihe lighters was considerably injured.
Norih Carolina.
-Yanceyville is doing a lively tobacco trade,
-Small-pox no longer exists in Harnett.
-Revenue offico:8 are seizing whiskey in
Gaston County.
-Quito a number of eagles have been recent?
ly killed in Polk County.
-There is some talk about having a bank at
Magnolia.
-Sixty-five negroes left Greensboro' for
Georgia, last we?-k, to work OD railroads.
-The Seamen's Home at Wilmington is to be
remodelled and improved.
-T ie concert fo be given at Wilmington in
aid of tho Jo .mu. Synagogue will como off on
tho 30tb instant.
-Some oftlie farmors in Orange and Cas?
well aie going to put in half a crop of cotton
this year.
-A flat loaded with twelve thousand bricks
was swamped near tho mouth of Smith's Creek
last week.
-A bill liaBbccn introduced in the Legisla?
ture to incoporate the Richm ind Building and
Improvement Company with a capital stock of
$100,000.
-A serious row occured at Wilmington on
Tuesday night Inst, at a house which Cm jar's
wifo would not bavo visited, and a lighted
koroaeue lamp was hurled by ono of tho bellig?
erents at the head of another.
-Governor Caldwell proposes that tho State
of North Carolina shall ?asuo bonds to the
amount of $15,000,000, having forty years to
run, with interest at the rate of four per cent,
por annum for tho first five years and five per
cent, afterwards.
Florida.
-Dr. Miles Nash, an old citizen of Tallahas?
see, is doad.
-The Gainesville Nen Era says: "We learn
with much pleasure tha: at a meeting of the
trustees of tbe State Agricultural College, he id
recently at Tallahassee, it was unanimously
decided to locate the institution at this place."
CRIMINALS IN CONGRESS.
STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS OP THE
CREDIT-MOBILIER BRIBERS.
Oakea Ames Controverts the Statement?
or several Congrt samen-A Clear State"
ment of the Transactions of Each Ac?
cused Member-A Disgraceful Exhibit
of Oort ?pitea- Colfax in a Bad Fix.
The Cr?dit-Mobilier Investigation, at Wash?
ington, lias developed so shameful a condition
of things that no one any longer attempts to
shield tlie parlies Implicated, and the leading
Journals of ill shades of opinion unite in
roundly denouncing the whole dirty business.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune writes as follows la regard to
the terribly damaging evidence given by Mr.
Oakes Ames on Wednesday last :
If Oakes Ames told Ihe truth to-day, there
is no escape from the conclusion that a num?
ber of congressmen have liberally made lalee
statements about their connection with the
Credit Mobilier, either lr jm a sense of wrong
doing, or from a cowardly lear of public
opinion. The position of these congressmen
Is deplorable. They can hardly hope to make
thc public believe that Mr. Ames's story is lalee,
that his memoranda are all fabricated, and tbat
the checks he drew upon the sergeant-at
arms of the House, lo pay dividends upon
their stock, as he alleges, were a part of a
cunningly devised scheme to entangle them.
Mr. Ames deposited $10,000 with the serjeant
at-arms in the long session of 1868, for the ex?
press purpose, as be declares, ol drawing
checks upon lt to pay the dividends of the
Credit Mobilier shares which he held for con?
gressmen. He slates the amount he drew for
each, and the checks and books In the ser?
geants-arms' c fil ce corroborate his state?
ment. Ia some cases the Initial of the payee
was Inserted; in others the check was payable
lo bearer, without any name. There was one
lame point In his evlcence. He did not pro?
duce his orignal memoranda, but exhibited
statements ot accounts drawn from them, lo
which the transactions with the members
were set down on half sheels of paper? under
the heads of debit and credit. Perhaps the
original memoranda book would sliow'some
things which Mr. Ames would net like to have
divulged
Mr. Ames began his statement to-day with
an account of his dealings with Mr. Colfax.
In January, 1868, he said Mr. Colfax agreed to
lake twenty shares of Credit Mobilier stock.
He paid no cash. In February Mr. Ames re?
ceived thu eighty per cent, dividend in first
mortgage Union Pacific bonds, sold them, and
? credited Mr. Colfax with the proceeds. On
March 6 Mr. Colfax paid him the balance due
I lor the purchase money for the shares, In a
check on the sergeant-at-arms for $534 72. In
the following June Mr. Ames paid him a cash
dividend of $1200 by a check on the sergeaot
at-arms, payable to S. C. or bearer. He never
handed him the stock dividends declared,
but still held them, wailing the result of the
McComb suit. He considered them and the
twenty shares of Credit Mobilier stock lo be
still Mr. Colfax's property. Mr. Colfax had
never paid back the $1200.
Mr. Colfax cross-examined Mr. Amos al
some length, but only verified the old adage
that, "He who ls his own lawyer hus a fool tor
a client." He tried hard to get Mr. Ames to
admit that be (Ames) might have got the
money himself on ihe $1200 check, but Mr.
Ames was positive that he gave Mr. Collax
the check. To all questions about his reasons
for not staling all the facts when be first tes?
tified, Mr. Ames gave such answers as these:
"I was willing to believe II was as you Bald; I
had not my memoranda; you told me ll was so
and I presumed lt was, or you wouldn't have
said so." Mr. Colfax, In conclusion, posi?
tively asserted on bis oath that he had never
received the $1200 dividend.
The Hon. Heury Wilson's case was next re?
ferred to, and Mr. Ames confirmed Mr. Wil?
son's statement of the transaction. Senator
Patterson's case having beer, disposed of yes?
terday, nothing was said regarding lt. Sena-'
tor-elect Allison, according to Mr. Ames,
agreed to buy ten shares of the stock In Jan?
uary, 1868, and In April paid $271 as the differ?
ence between the proceeds ol the sale of tho
bond dividend and the cost of the bend with
interest. This was also paid by a check on the
sergeant-at-arm?. Mr. Allison got ihn other
dividends some lime in Hie full ol 18(18. Mr.
Allison got alarmed by the lawsuit, und gave
' Mr. Ames a receipt staling he held the stock
as Ames's properly. To make a show of buy?
ing them back, Mr. Ames paid him five cents.
Some time ago be got an envelope mailed al
Dubuque, containing ten shares ol Credit Mo?
bilier und ten Union Pacific shares. He sup?
posed they were Allison's; be thought he got
the envelope in October last, but he observed
bv the postmark that lt was malled in March,
1872. Mr. Allison came into the committee
room Boon stier Mr. Ames had finished all of |
his evidence ibat related to him. He made a
stalement which did not materially differ from
Mr. Ames's. He said that he had told Mr.
Ames thal he did not want to keep the stock
as long ago as 1S68, not on account of the law?
suit, but because ne had been assailed for own?
ing stock in the Sioux City Railroad. Finding
the stock among the papers be returned it.
Mr. Allison Bald be had sent Mr. Ames a check,
refunding the dividend, but Mr. Ames said ihe
check was to settle another account.
"We will now go to ihe other wing ol the
Capitol," said Mr. Poland when Mr. Ames had
flnlBhed his account of his business wilb Alli?
son. "Wnat about Mr. Blaine?" Mr. Ames
replied that Mr. Blaine never held any stock
or got any advantage from the Credit Mobilier
except abuse on Its account. Mr. Dawes, he
Bald, bought ten shares and paid lor them.
Of the first bond dividend Mr. Ames paid him
?bout $40J. the balance being retained io set?
tle another transaction. He also got the
second dividend. In December, 1868, Mr.
Ames settled with him, and believed that In
Hie whole transaction the latter only got his
money back wllh len per cent. Interest. Mr.
Garfield agreed lo take ten shares of the stock,
and the first two dividends paid for Ihe shares
and left a balance of $329, which Ur. Ames
said he paid him in Juue. 1868. Thal ended
the transaction, and lhere were no more pay?
ments and no conversation about the affair till
ibis winier, when Mr. Garfield told him tbat
he thought lt was a loan and not a dividend
he got. Mr. Ames's recollection was positive
lt w?'s a dividend, and supposed Mr. Garfield
so understood it when be took the check for
the money. Mr. Garfield bad never taken it
back.
Mr. Kelley's case, Mr. Ames went on lo say,
was Identical with Mr. Garfield's. The same
number of chares were bargained for, and
there was the same payment ot $329 In June,
I860. In October, Mr. Kelley borrowed $750
irom him, and Mr. Ames supposed he got this
contused with ihe dividend, when he testified
to having borrowed $1000. The money had
not been' returned, aud Mr. Ames still held
the Credit Mobilier shares and ihe Uuion
Pacific slock dividends on them subject lo Mr.
Kelley'u order. Mr. Scotleld took ten shares,
loo, but paid the cash tor them. He gol
frightened at the same time Mr. Dawes did,
and Mr. Ames settled with bim, and took the
Block off his hands. Mr. Bingham's statement
to the committee Mr. ames corroborated, but
said he paid him $800 more than Mr. Bingham
Btated. Mr. J. F. WIIPOU'S statement WSB cor?
rect. Mr. Bom well talked of taking the stock,
but did not. Mr. Fowler, ol Tennessee, and
Mr. Bayard, ol Delaware, did not take lt. Mr.
Painter, the correspondent of Hie Philadel?
phia Inquirer, look thirty shares and paid fur
them.
This was the substance of Mr. Ames's testi?
mony. At the conclusion, be was usked what
became of the remainder of the three hun?
dred and lorty-three shares which he took lo
fill engagements. These he said be had Bold
io persons not connected with Congress. "To
any officiais?'' he was asked. "No, slr," he
replied, "and I don't think I will ever sell
stock ic members ol' Congress or officials
again." Mr. Ames gave bis testimony for Hie
most pan. in a dejected way, with lils eyes
fixed on the table before him, as If he was
going through a disagreeable ordeal and he
was bearing it with a'dogged deleiminaiion.
Once or twice, however, he threw In a dryly
humorous remark, which caused a general
laugh. With this exception, tue whole three
hours' session of the committee was as gloomy
as a funeral. The room was crowded with
spectators, aud the proceedings were listened
to throughout with iuienee Interest. The last
witness was ex-Muyor Emery, ol Wash logion,
who testified that lie Indorsed a note for Sen?
ator Patterson for four thousand dollars, to
enable him to buy the Credit Mobilier stock.
The committee adjourned till Friday.
Caught?
[From the New York San-Editorial]
The Ma8sacbuBelts Samson who baa made
sport for the Philistines for all these weeks
and months, has recovered bis strength with
his memory. Yesterday, putting his arma
around Colfax, Garfield, Dawes, Wilson, Alli?
son, Kelley, Scofleld and Bingham, pillars in
the Bc publican temple of Dagon, he tumbled
the whole edifice of falsehood and corruption
to ruins. There were premonitions of it on
Monday, wbeu be began to be Jocular about
sending money lo Indiana, "where lt would
do us most good." Yesterday he unbosomed
himself. Tired of being made the scapegoat
of these men's sins, of seeing their virtuous
airs and listening to their fulee statements,
and goaded to lt by their ingratitude after
be had saved the party and the Presidential
election, he gave them fair notice that he
had done lying and they must stand from
under.
And so there's the testimony. The very
men who, with a show of Indignation, last
summer denied any knowledge of or connec?
tion with the Credit Mobilier are proven to
have ?led-not by the unsupported testimony
of Mr. Oakes Ames, but by the record evi?
dence, the checks and receipts, and written
memoran ta, about which there can be no
mistake and which cannot be controverted.
Every one of them ls proven to have beld
stock in the Credit Mobilier, and to have re?
ceived each lils share of Its enormous divi?
dends. Even though the transaction bad not
worn the badge of traud from the outset io
being held by Oakes Ames in trust for men
who were ashamed or alrald to appear as
stockholders, the criminated members are
debarred from pleading that they were Inno?
cent of evil Intention by the eagerness with
which they washed their hands of lt last sum?
mer. That of itself was confession that lt was
dishonorable and corrupt. Tney stand before
the country now branded with falsehood and
covered with disgrace. The very least that
Congress can do Is lo expel them.
"Discreditable and Disant rous.
[From the New York Tribune-Editorial.]
The whole evidence as lt stands ls discredi?
table and disastrous. There ls something
more than misunderstanding here. It Mr.
Ames paid a dividend of $1200, as be says be
did, to Mr. Colfax, lt is hardly credible that
that gentleman could have BO soon forgotten
he ever received lt. On the other band, If
Mr. Ames did not pay that amount, his clear
and positive statement that he did ls a false?
hood; for no respectably correct business man
could commit such an enormous blunder.
The case about Mr. Colfax is made more
striking by the exactness of the figures which
occur In what Mr. Ames calls an Interest ac?
count. Mr. Colfax says $500 were paid; Mr.
Ames, with buslnesB-llke particularity, says
$634 72 were paid, and paid as Interest on the
purchase money of Mr. Colfax's stock. We leave
this Irreconcilable difference In the statements
of Messrs. Ames and Coliax with the slogle re?
mark that Mr. Colfax seems to be a defendant
In the case, testifying In his own behalt, and
Mr. Ames appears an unwilling witness,
without Interest in the conviction of any man.
TUE GALLOWS, IN MARION.
Kurth'r Particulars ot the Extention
ot Sam Brown-The Crime and Its
Srqael.
[FROM A3* OCCASIONAL CORRESPOND EST.]
MARION COURTHOUSE, January 25.
The readers ci your excellent paper will re?
member that during the month of August
last Ebb West, a colored man of excellent
character, was fatally stabbed by bis son-lr
iaw, Sam Brown, also colored. The deed
was done In this county, near the store of a
Mr. Manheim, which ls situated on the west
side ol Great Peedee River, and not very far
from Effingham Depot. Sam was Intoxicat?
ed, and was abusing another colored mao
who happened to be at the store, when Ebb
reproved and sought to quiet him. This in?
terference appeared to Incense Sam, and,
without a word of warning, he burled his
knife In the body of poor Ebb. Ebb died in a
few hours alter. Sam then attempted lo stab
the mau with whom be had been quarrelling,
but failing lo ibis he ran off lu bis home,
where he was lound next morning by bis wife.
On being told by lier of the fatal deed, he pro?
fessed io be profoundly Ignorant of having
committed ibe crime, buttouk care to make
lils escape lo North Carolina. There he was
recognized, arrested sud brought back, and
at Ihe October term ot the Couri ol General
Sessions for ibis county was tried, fouud
guilty of murder, and sentenced lo be hung
on the 24th day January, 1873.
Yesterday, about noon, he was brought
from his cell to the gallows, which had been
erected lu the Jail-yard. He walked composed?
ly and seemed io oe perfectly resigned to his
late aa t ready to meet lt bravely. Sheriff
Berty read his warrant, and then told tam il
he wished to say anything he could do so.
Sum first requested a colored ml nia. er. Damed
Edwards, to pray for him, and then spoke
to ihe large crowd around him for some
minutes. He never alluded to ihe crime be
hud commuted, save in general terms, bul
confined himself to a statement ot his
preparailoD lor, and hopes lo, eternity.
The minister was requested to say some?
thing by way of warning to others, and
Sam again spoke. The sheriff had waited
patiently until near one o'cock, when he
bade the prisoner good-bye, and. after lying
his hands and adjusting the rope, be drew the
black cap over his bead. Not a muscle In the
prisoner's frame seemed to move, but he stood
as steadfast as a rock. A moment after, the
sherifl stepped back, ihe prop was stricken
away, the doors fell, and with a heavy thud
Sam Brown's body was dangling in air. He
fell lull six feet and was Instantly killed-not
making a single struggle.
There seemed bul li nie sympathy felt for
poor Sam by the crowd, and yet we think he
deeerved lt, fur the deed was certainly done
while he was under the Influence ot liquor.
True, he was said to be a bad man, yet his I
chara ter should not have entered into the
consideration of this case. The Jury rightly
lound him guilty, but we think many crimi?
nals, more gullly than poor, friendless Sam
Brown, have escaped Ihe Judgment of the
law. May our county long be spared such an?
other day as was yesterday. JUVENIS.
TUE RET. J. BRUCE DAVIS.
Some Particulars of his Life and Death.
[From the Union Times.]
This Christian gentleman had only recently
become the rector of tn? f?hurch of the Na?
tivity (Episcopal) of Union, and had per?
formed the office of his ministry for two Sun?
days when the fatal accident wbioh removed
him from us transpired. The rectory was
being repaired for Ihe accommodation ol him?
self and his lamlly. On Friday last, just two
weeks after his arrival, he rode lo see the
progress ol the work. Having finished his in?
spection he remounted. The horse had be?
come restive from standing, and ran imme?
diately. He lost control, and was dashed
against a fence a short distance from the start?
ing point. He was carried, stunned and uncon?
scious, to the house of Mrs. James, near by,
where he was visiied by ihe physicians of ihe
lowu. Cn ihe third day, still remaining un?
conscious, he was removed on a liner to ihe
home of William Munro, Esq., where be was
slaying at the lime ol' his aouident. Every at?
tention that loving hearts could devise was
bestowed upon him, and unceaslug and devo?
ted medical efforts were made without avail.
He lingered in painless unconsciousness until
half-past seven o'clock on Tuesday evening,
when his pure spirit passed away
..To where beyond these voices there is peace."
His wire and brother. James M. Davis. Esq.,
arrived the day before his death. They took
his remains en route for Camden on Wednes?
day morning.
Mr. Davis was a son of the late Bight Rev.
Thomas F. Davis, bishop of the Diocese of
South Carolina. Although so short a time
among us, he had made strong impressions ol
holiness, of earnest purpose and Christian
zeal. lu his brief term of mlDlstry wilh us, he
seem3 to have left nothing undone that he
ought io have done. It seemed io us that the
life of one with such Christian graces would
work to the glory of God, and to the salvation
of souls. Bul the Lord sees not as man sees,
and, although afflicted and chastened, we bow
our heads iu submission to the will of the all
wise, all-powerful Creator, praying ibat he
will take us in His keeping, and bring us near?
er and nearer to Him.
JO. JEFFERSON.
BETDSy OF THE CH ABZ BS TOy FA?
VORITE OF TWENTE YEAHS AGO.
Reminiscences of bis Karly Caree r.-An
Interesting Occasion-Hu Son to Blake
his First Appearance on Wednesday
Rix?.
Tbe reappearance of Ur. Joseph Jefferson
on the Charleston boards ls an event worthy
of more than a passing notice. It ls twenty
years-Just tbe length of Bip Van Winkle's
nap-since the greatest of actors last de?
lighted a Charleston audience, and lt ls
pleasant to think that lt was here that his re?
markable comlo genius was first fully recog?
nized and rewarded. Ur. Jefferson comes of
ancestors with whom dramatic pawer
seems to have been an hereditary trait.
He Is the son of Joseph Jefferson the
second, whom many of the older readers of
THE NEWS will remember. His mother wac
Mrs. Burke Jefferson, a daughter o? a citizen
of Charleston, who escapes the massacre of
St. Domingo and settled in this city. By her
?rst husband this lady had but one son,
Charles Burke, a comedian o? the rarest gifts.
By her second marriage she had two children,
one of whom appears to-olgbt as Bip Yan
Winkle. Apropos of Mr. Jefferson's present
visit, "Nym," our chatty and wide-awake New
York correspondent, writes ns as follows :
"I notloe In THE NEWS that yon are to have
the greatest of living actors in the English
language on the boards of your theatre next
week. The event suggests reminiscences of
Mr. Jefferson's first appearance in Charleston
over twenty years ago. The rising genera
Hon of ibeatre-goers hardly know that be waa
once manager of the old theatre on Meeting
street, which was destroyed in the great fire.
I remember, though I was bnt a youngster
then, that Jefferson came to Charleston aa the
low comedian of the stock company. He waa
not more than nineteen years old, bnt even
then gave striking evidence of his wonderful
talents. There were a plenty of critics In
those days, like the late Colonel O. W. Brown
and Mr. Gatewood, who were predicting bis
future greatness. His 'Bob Acres11 recol?
lect was the town talk. He and some other
members of the company bad a disagreement
with the manager, and seceded, and went to
Savannah to play. After the manager had duly
'bumed up,' as most of them did In Charles?
ton at that time, the speeders returned, and
reopened the theatre themselves. The Inn
was Jefferson, EilslerA Linden. Ur. EUsler
ls now manager of a Cleveland theatre, I be?
lieve. I do not know what became of Linden.
The new managers were all yoong mea, bot
they had talent, were rewarded with good
houses, and played the season ont. It waa
during this winter that Jefferson and his wife
appeared one evening In the farce of 'Ur. and
Mrs. Peter White,' and introduced Master Jef?
ferson, their infant son, to the audience, 'bia
first appearance on any stage.' I was present,,
and remember bow Ihe little fellow kicked In
his mother's arms."
And now this kicking Infant, whose early
venture upon the mimic stage seems so fresh
In the memory ofonr correspondent, is once
more amongst us. Gifted with no mean share
of that dramatic power, which Is bis rightful
Inheritance, young Charles Burke Jefferson
has chosen Charleston tobe the scene of bia
second, as lt was of his first appearance In
public. At a matinee on Wednesday next he
will personate two of bis father's greatest comlo
characters. For his own sake, for bis father's
sake, and for the sake sf Auld Lang Syne,
our people will greet him with a wara and
generous welcome.
Of the wonderful dramalio creation which
has made the fame of Jo. Jefferson world-wide,
we need hardly speak. Those who have be?
held ic can understand how hard lt ls to de?
scribe in words the subtle charm with which he
Invests the character of the rollicking and In?
corrigible Bip. We borrow the apt remarks
of a contemporary, and everybody who sees
Jefferson to night will feel their troth:
''Jefferson plays the drunken little Dutch
vagabond to life, and that ls all of lt. lt ls
Blmply a perfectly true and natural represen?
tation, done so quietly, so easily, so truthfully,
that art is exhausted. Every motion, every
word, every action, ls Just what lt should be. *
The dramatist, ot course, has had lo make an
interesting character. But Jefferson has crys
talized the character Into life. The author's
genius and the actor's genius blend to make np
the exquisite perlormance. From the time old
Rip comes on the stage until the curtain falls,
the packed audiences, in sympathetic rapport,
haag enraptured on the gilding like episode of
the simple Dutchman's uncouth but touching
career of dissipation, domestic lroat, and his
pathetic return lo his home alter his twenty
years of slumber. From roars o? laughter to
quiet and unsubdued tears the auditors pass,
and this under no fierce straining after fun
or drenching strains of woe, but simply be?
neath the Inspiration o? humor as quiet as
true grief, and of pathos that never appears
so touching as when most grotesque. That
this Bolt-talking actor, In such an odd, ridicu?
lous old part, should so rivet his vast aggre?
gations of hearers, keeping up the public In"
terest at the cost of its pocket, in his simple
rendition year after year, ls a marvel In
theatrical experience, and shows a consum?
mation of art as rare as it ls deservedly suc?
cessful."
OFF TO HUS SI A.
[From the Colombia Union of Saturday.]
United States Minister Orr left on tbe
eleven A. M. train yesterday for Washington,
where he win spend a day or two. and then
proceed to New York, from wbr nee be will
sail about February first, or soon thereafter.
The ex-governor goes out accompanied by hts
son and daughter. The latter he contemplates
leaving in Germany to be educated, while the
former will accompany him to St. Petersburg,
aa private secretary. Quite a large number of
gentlemen availed themselves of the oppor?
tunity of calling upon the minister-whose
quarters were In the spacious mansion of Col?
onel Childs, of the Carolina National Bank
to pay their respects, and bid bim God-speed
upon his long Journey.
IHE WEATHER THIS BAY.
WASHINGTON, January 26.
Probabilities: For the New Eugland States,
falling barometer, somewhat higher tempera?
ture, northeasterly to southeasterly winds,
cloudy weather and snow. For the Middle
States, light to fresh northeasterly an' south?
easterly winds, falling barometer, cloudy
weather and snow, excepting for the southern
portion, in which lt will probably ratu. For
the South Atlantic Slates, falling barometer,
light to fresh northeasterly and southeasterly
winds, cloudy weather and rain. From TeE
nesBee to Lake Erie and the upper lakes,
winds shifting from the northwest to the
northeast and "partly cloudy weather. Wrtoe
Northwest, falling barometer, winds eh tung
from the east to the Booth, with cloudy
weather. The afternoon telegraphic reporta
irom the Western Gull, Western Tennessee,
Kansas, and a portion of those lrom lower
Michigan and the extreme Northwest, have
not yet been received.