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W&t ?j)?ilt?t0m Jails jfefeg, VOLUME X.-NUMBER 2179. ' CHARLESTON, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1873. EIGHT DOLLARS A YEAR7 HONEST JOHN PATTERSON. TUE STORY OF BIS ELECTION TO TBE SENATE. A Sign lucent Picture of Palmetto Poll. tles-Tho Rise ?nd Progresa of an En . terprlslng Adven t iixor. The pretensions of "Honest" John Patter? son to a seat in the United States Senate are Jost now attracting a large degree of atten? tion la Washington circles and lo the press of the whole country, and lt muy not be unin? teresting at this time to briefly recapitulate the story of his election at tne last session of toe South Carolina Legislature, the devices that were notoriously employed by him to se? cure that election, the exposure that followed close upon the heels of bia supposed success, and the wily stratagems that have been since resorted lo, to prevent bis arraignment In the criminal courts to answer his aocusers. Tbe beginning of the scheme to elevate this enterprising adventurer to the dignity of a United Slates senator ls hardly known. The plan, however, first took a definite shape just alter the success of the Moses party in the State campaign, and Its first public manifesta? tions waa tba openlcg by Mr. Patterson ol an extensive "Headquarter^" in the Capitol saloon building on Main street, Columbia, a building devoted to the alluring bucking ol the sp?culative tiger and the study of tbe doc? trine of chances as applied to a laro lay-out. These surrounding? appeared congenial lo the political gamester from Pc n n s y 1 van ia, a D d here he rented a suite ol hall a dozen rooms, which vere speedily fitted up as the Patterson Head? quarters. The furnishing of these rooms showed much care and forethought. They were of varions degrees ot elegance according . to -the various tastes ol' the members whose votes lt was desirable to obtain. In some the floors were richly carpeted with noiseless vel? vet, tbe walls were thickly buog with alter? nating mirrors and oil paintings, the liquid hospitality of the host sparkled In cut-glass decanters upon rosewood buffets, and over all a mellow light was thrown lrom gilded chan? deliers. This waa ior those of the incoming members ol tbe Legislature who bad scruples, and who would have been shocked if a bribe had been called a bribe, or a spade a spade. Other apartments there were, however, for those dusky "honorables" whose previous views of nature bad been from the vantage ground of the rice field or the corn patcb, and who would have been lil at ease in the midst of magnificence. With native delicacy Mr. Patterson provided for them a place wMcu was quite In keeping with their untutored taste, and with their previous education. This was a large square room, with walis that were not only innocent of decoration, but de? void of the small advantages of lath and plast? er. The-floor was thickly strewn wlih saw? dust, and the only attention which lt received during the wbole campaign consisted ot' the addition of more sawdust. A row of benches occupied each Bide of the room, and a lew strong chairs were scattered about, while, lo the centre of tbe room, stood a table, resem? bling io Its general architectural design a i carpenter's beuch, but surmounted with the crowning glory of the apartment-a jug of , oom whiskey. Here tbe rural members were I entertained after their own heart, and when j the eventful time of voting for a United States ' senator; arrived, they testified their gratitude by shouting Patterson. Meantime the other candidates for the een atorshlp had also hung their banners on the outer walls, and established their respective headquarters. Congressman R. B. Elliott hav? ing taken a few rooms In a corner house on Main street juBt opposite the Statehouse, and Governor Scott having rented a neat little pottage on a 6lde street. These, however, were modest and humble as compared with the magnificent and varied hospitality of the Pattersonlans,and their attempts at bribery, If they-made any, were as far outdone by the princely liberality of the Pennsylvanian as were their attempts at entertaining members with food and drink. Tba election took place on Tuesday, Decem? ber lQin. The result waa announced at the tune In the telegraphic columns of THE NEWS.' .? follows: COLUMBIA, 8. C., Tuesday, December 10. The election of a Culled States senator, in the place of Senator Sawyer, whose term ex? pire? on Marou 4, 1873, look place to-day. and resulted In aa overwhelming victory for John J. Patterson, the bead-centre ot the Blue Ridge Railroad Bing. According to law, the vote was taken lu tbe Senate and in the House as distinct and Independent bodies, aud if no candidate had received a majority vote in both' houses, a joint session would have been held -to-day, when tne candidate who received a majority on Joint ballot would have been elected. The wires ot Patterson, how? ever, bad been so skilfully laid that he was elected on tbe second ballot in the Senate, and on the first ballot in tue House, his oppo? nents tailing to make even a respectable show of opposition. . Tbe announcement was followed by a scene ct the wildest confusion. Among tbe Patter aonlans the excitement was intense, and the cheering: made tbe walls of tbe Statehouse groan. Tbe victory ls now In course of cele? bration at the bar-room where Patterson's headquarters have been during the canvaas, and champagne and whiskey are flowing like water. ? Before the Bon had set upon this triumph, however, the corrupt devices which had pe cured lt recoiled upon their author. A few of the members of the House of BepreseatativeB had refused the bribes offered by Patterson or hiB agents, and they had, further, in the inter *ests of pnbllo Justice, gone before Trial Jus? tice B. H. Kirk and made the following Bifida vita to tbe facts of tbe attempted bribery: AFFIDAVIT 07 M. B. HILLEK. South Carolina, County of Richland. Personally appeared before me, R. H. Kirk, trial justice in and tor said county and Stale, M. 8. Miller, of Fairfield County, member ot the .Sooth Carolina Legislature, who, upon oath, deposeth and saya: That at Columbia, S. C., on three different occasions in tbe month of November, 1872, one Job n J. Patterson, of said county and State, did offer and deliver to me money, amounting In tbe aggregate to sixty-five dol? lars, tor wblcb he now bolds a due bill signed by me, and which rooney ls now In possession ot Trial Justice R. H. Kirk, of said county and State. Deponent further states that the money was given In part payment, and In consideration of deponent's casting his vote tor the said Jno. J. Patterson, on Tuesday next, at the election by tbe Legislature, of which the deponent Is a member, the said Patterson being a candidate for the United Stales Senate. The deponent further Btates that said John J. Patterson told him that li he should BO cast his vote, the said due bill would be returned to bim, and regarded aB a cancellation ot a ?id claim. M. 8. MILLER. 8worn to and subscribed before me at Co? lumbia, 8. C., this 11th day '? December, 1872. R. H. KIRK, Trial Jostice, Richland County, S. C. AFFIDAVIT OP H. H. ELLISON. Slate of South Carolina, Richland County: Personally appeared belore me, R. H. Kirk, Ulai Justice in and for said county and State, H. H. Ellison, a member to the 8outh farollna Legislature, from Abbeville County, S. C., Who, upon oath deposeth and says, that one John J. Patterson, of the county and State aforesaid, did, on ihe 27th day ot November. 1872, in the City of Columbia, S. C., offer and promise io give the deponent any eui money between Ave hundred dollars and thousand dollars. If the deponent wou'd lor him, (.he said Patterson,) for the Ut Stales Senate at the election on Tuesday E the 10th December, 1872. Said Patterson stated to deponent that i ' half of the amount agreed on would be In advance, and the balance Immediately t said election. H. H. ELLISO I Sttorn to and subscribed belore me. this day of December, 1872. R. H KIRK, Trial Justice, Richland County, 8.1 AFFIDAVIT OF M. 8. MILLES. State of South Carolina, County ofRichla Personally appeared before me, R. H. K a trial Justice la and for said county and St M. S. Miller, a member to the South Caro Legislature from the County of Fairfield, I upon oath deposetb and says that on or ab last Wednesday evening, December the ' 1372, in the City of Columbia, 8. C., la c pany with James Batteas, o? Falrd?ld Coui He?ry G. Worthington, sometimes ca Harry G. Worthington, called to me, say "that he wished tb see me." He toole asiue from said Batteas, am.? .old me that was authorized to offer me lour hundred < lars as a consideration tor my casting my v for John J. Patterson at the election United States Senator on Tuesday next. I mediately remarked to said Batteas t?at E terson was offering me, through said Wot Ington, one hundred dollars more lor my v than Patterson did a few days ago. M. 8. MILLEU Sworn to and subscribed belore me* at < lumbla, 6. C., this seventh day of Docemb eighteen hundred and seventy-two. R. H. EIRE, Trial Justice, Richland County, S. C Upon these and other similar affidavits, I trial Justice did not hesitate to Issue a w rant lor Patterson's arrest, and the evei which followed were related as follows in T NEWS of the 11th : COLOMBIA, December 10-6 P. M, John J. Patterson, the senator elect, w arrested at four o'clock this evening in l First National Bank by James A. Beatty United States deputy marshal, deputized at constable lor this occasion. The arrest w made upon a warrant issued by Trial Jusii B. H. Kirk, upon the affidavit ol M. 8. Mille a member of the House of RepreseBilves fro Fairfield, charging Patterson with brlbii bim to vote for Patterson for senator. Patterson was taken to Kirk's office, whei a crowd ot bis friends gathered, and creati adsmrbunce In the office which came net resulting In a riot. Patterson Indulged i most abusive language toward Kirk, and, it said, attempted to get a pistol from Hurle with the avowed intention of shooting Kiri Minion, a colored adherent ol Patterson' aiso drew a pistol on Beatty, and attempte to get possession of the warrant and d< elroy lt. IQ the confusion Patterson walke aw4y. Kirk has since, It is said, issued anotbc warrant for the arrest of Patterson, which hi been placed in the hands of Hendricks an Hernandez, and which is to be executed tc aignt. COLUMBIA, December 10-9.30 P. M. Patterson was re arrested this evening upo anoiher warrant from Kirk, by special con stables Hendricks and Hernandez, who als had In their possession a commitment to lb county jail for twelve hours, lor his allege contempt of court this afternoon. Worthlnc ton was also arrested upon a warrant and all davit charging bribery. Both were taken t Kirk's office, which was found closed. Hen drlcks then took Patterson, accompanied by large concourse, ot lriends and spectators, t the county J ill, where he waa turned ove lo the sheriff of Richland. Hardly had th) been done, however, when special constabl Canton appeared on the scene, with a writ c habeas corpus, Issued by Judge Mackey a chambers in lbs Columbia Hotel, and return able at len o'clock this evening, before Judg Mackey, at Improvised chamoers over tbi Carolina National Bank. Patterson waa tbereiore, released, and a forge crowd ls no? assembled over the room of the Carolina Bani awaking the proceedings upon the return t< the habeas corpus. Among the crowd an Patterson. Worthington, Moses, Gurney Bowen, Ed. Mackey, Chamberlain, Wbltte more, and a host of other Radical leaders am friends of the prisoner. COLOMBIA, December 10-10.30 P. M. Judge Mackey sent notice to Kirk that tb' return to the habeas corpus would be bean at ten o'clock to-night, so that he might at tend to show cause why the petitioner sboult not be released. Kirk sent word back lha be wouldn't come lor all the Mackeys lo th< country. Judge Mackey then proceeded tc try the contempt r^?e. Hurley, Patterson and a colored man ?-mlfled, all agreeing thal no disrespectful language wu used until aftei Kirk bad adjourned his court. Patterson wat therefore released from the commitment foi contempt, and was carried out of the impro? vised courtroom on the shoulders ot hit Irlands, sloging, "When Johnny comes march? ing home again.'' The action ol Judge Mackej has no reference to the charges ol' bribery, under which Patterson was originally arrest? ed. O her warran IB are out i'or bia arrest, which may or may not be served to-morrow, Tne next day the senator elect, who bad doubtless been advised that it would not do to disregard all the forms of law, surrendered himself to the (rial jus lice, and was held lo ball in the aggregate sum of $25,500, lo ap? pear before the Court of General Sessions for the County of Richland at the February term and answer the charges of bribery that bad been made against him. Patterson now began to find himself getting deeply entangled in the toils, and he had recourse to a desperate remedy. The services of one A. C. Rlohmond, who was then a trial justice In Columbia, were obtained, and a sort of examination of the charges was had belore him on Tuesday, the 17th ol December. The Idea ol the case of a defendant who had just been held to ball by one trial Justice being carried before another trial Justice lor review and reversal was of course exquisitely absurd, and it ls not pretended now by Patterson's friends that the proceedings before Richmond have any bearing whatever on the status of the case. A BO-called examination was had by Richmond, and that official took lt upon himself to discharge the d?tendant from ball. This fact was then telegraphed all over the country with the evidect Intention of causing the Impression that the charges against Pat? terson had been finally tried and dleproven, and the object of these proceedings belore Richmond was thereby accomplished. At about this same time Trial Justice Kirk was deposed from office by the same Senate that had elected Patterson, and Captain H. W. Hendricks, who had arrested Patterson on the night of December 10th, was removed from his position as a deputy United Slates marshal. In the meantime, Trial Justice Kirk bad taken care that the papers and testimony In his possession, and upon which he had held Patterson In ball for trial, Bhould be preserved and be In readiness for the next term of the criminal court. To secure their safe-keeping, he deposited them In the office of lhe secre? tary of Slate, taking that officer's receipt therefor, and he deposited that receipt In the Central National Bank ol Columbia, and ob? talned the receipt of -that Institution for the paper. The next move appears to have been the removal of the then Jury commissioner of Richland County, and the appointment of a colored man in bis place, who, from 6ome convenient Ignorance, or perhaps from eagerness to go to work, drew the grand Jury for the year some three weeks be? fore the time In which the law dictated that the Jury should be drawn. This Irregularity appears to have been remarked In legal circles In Columbia at the lime, but no particular significance was attached to it until the Felruary term of the Court of Gene? ral Sessions came to be opened. This was on Monday, the 3d of February. Judge Carpen? ter, who bad Just been elected by the same body tbat bad elected Patterson, was on I bench; nearly the whole number of the gra and petit Jurors were in attendance, and J torney-General Melton and Solicitor Bunl were present to represent the people in t prosecution of John J. Patterson and the otb alleged criminals. Before any business cot be commenced, however, the late Attorns General D. H. Chamberlain arose, and, wltl perfectly serious lace, announced tb he appeared as the counsel of Bobe Cooper, and that he desired to ma! a motion. The case ot Bobert Cooper prov? to be one in which the defendant, a brig mulatto, who nins a well kno wn gara bili saloon In Columbia, bad fleeced a soldier the Eighteenth Infantry out o' some tblr dollars, and bad been held to bail therefor, was as trivial a case perhaps as could hai been found upon the docket, but still it was case, and the distinguished ex-attorney-ge eral, as counsel for "Robert Cooper," bad right to make his motion. This proved to I a motion to quash the whole array of Juror on the ground that the law requires a Jury l be drawn not less than seven nor more tba fifteen days before the opening of the cour while these Jurors were drawn on the 10th < January, twenty-three days before the opel lng. This caused an adjournment of th court for one day, and, on the next day, tb arguments fdr and agalast the motion wer beard. It was strange, then, to see the arra of eminent counsel who had been relalne by "Bobert Cooper" to argue thlB motlot An ezhanstlve address was first made b Mr. Chamberlain. He was followed by Mr. C Davis Melton, and a half dozen other distil gulsbed lawyers followed on behalf of "Rober Cooper." The motion was opposed by Attoi ney-General Mellon and Mr. Leroy F. You mans, and after an all-day argument the conr was adjourned until the next moral Dg,at whlcl time Judge Carpenter decided, the Jury wai Illegally drawn, and that there was no Cour Df General Sessions. The effect of this decls ion IR to prevent the possibility of any Cour 31 General Sessions being held In Blchlant County until February, 1874, as the law de ?lares that the grand jury sha!i be drawn bu once a year, and during a certain sp?cifi?e period In the month of January. TQUB thc whole course ot criminal justice In one of th< most, important counties of the State is to b< 3bBtructed for a year In order to HI ave off thc prosecution of Honest John Patterson. This 1B a record of this case so far as It hat progressed here. The question of the admis Jlblllty of Patterson to a seat In the United States Senate after these conclusive evidence! sf the intrigues by whiob he secured his elec Lion thereto, remains with that body tc answer. The record of this would-be senator before his Inauspicious advent In ibis state should be best known by the people of that section of Pennsylvania whence he came, and aB s sample of their appreciation ofthat record we append two articles from recent Pennsylvania exchanges upon this subject. The first Is from the Belief on te (Pa) Watch? man, and is as follows: John J. Patterson, Esq., formerly of Ju ni als County, Pennsylvania, but for the last three jr four years one of a gang of carpet-baggere who have been robbing the State ct South Carolina, bas been elected United Slates Senator lrom that mate by the mongrel Legis? lature. Wnile figuring tn politics here. Patter? son was one ot the most unscrupulous rasca1 a In the Slate, and, lt ihe truth were known, lt would be seen that he "left bia country for his country's good." Having been a resident of thia senatorial district, our people can appreciate and under? stand the deep disgrace that bas fallen upon the Stale of South Carolina io his election to tbe Benate ot tbe United States. In the bor? ough In which Patterson lived while In this State, he could not have been elected to the most menial office, nor could be have succeed? ed in securing any position from the people either lo his county, or bis congressional, senatorial <tf representative districts. In 1862 by ihe most villanous frauds In a conference meeting he obtained a nomination tor Con? gress in a elsi rici that usually gives about two thousand Badlcal majority, and such was ihe disgust for the man ihat his Democratic com? petitor, General William H. Miller, was elect? ed by an overwhelming majority. His next effort to secure a position waa a little more successlul, and by some means or other he had himself appointed provost marshal of the Fourteenth District. In ibis position he proved the estimate the people ot his district had placed upon him when a candid ile for Congress, corrupt beyond any question, for a more corrupt, Incompetent, bare-faced, viiian ous official never disgraced any position. How often he and members of his board were locked up in a private room In the State Capitol Hotel, at Harrisburg, to keep from being arrested for fraudulent transactions In office, lt woul i be hard lo say. For weeks at a time we have known them to be hld away, while oiber members ol their ring were in Washington tiling "maners up." How much he swindled the government, how much he robbed those unlucky enough to fall into his c.menes, Is known only to himself and his associates. This, however, ls known, that Patterson was poor when be became provost marshal, and when he was kicked out ot that office, after having squandered thousands upon thousands of dollars on lewd women, at gambling sa? loons, and In riotous living, he was compara? tively wealthy. It was this same John J. Patterson, now Uulted Btates Senator from South Carolina, who acknowledged lo a prominent citizen of this Slate, shortly after the Investigation ot of the charges against Cameron, by Mr. Boyer, of Clearfield, that be had attempted to bribe members of the Legislature to vote for bim for United "States senator-that had be (Pat? terson) sworn the truth, Cameron would have fone to the penitentiary. Il was this same alterson who laid about Harrisburg during the winier ot 1868, hiring witnesses to per? juro themselves, when giving testimony In the contested election case of Shugert vs. Robinson, and who, when he succeeded in thia-the most Infamous of all political tricks In giving the seat to a man who had been re? jected by the people, admitted openly that lt the Democrats had paid him ten thousand dollars, he would have Booinson withdraw from the contest and acknowledge he was fairly beaten at the election. In this Slate we have never heard him spoken of by any one, trend or foe, but as a low, scrubby, vlllanous trickster, a common political thiel, who never attempted anything but In a manner honorable men would despise. And we suppose the same disgraceful efforts be made here he has followed In South Caro? lina, and with a great deal better success. In Pennsylvania be never could have risen above his natural level, because he was too well known; but down la the crushed and bleeding Palmetto State, among ihe niggers und scala? wags, he passed off his tinsel and varnish for pure gold. By means of his money, of which he had plenty, he succeeded in manipulating the darky legislators In accordance with his desires, and the result is seen In his election to a position that waa formerly considered as honorable as any under the American Consti? tution. We do not desire lo say anything harsh or unkind of Mr. Patterson, bul when he lived over here In Juniata Couuty we have a distinct recollection that he was considered low-down and played out. Morally and politically he was a wreck, and like Morton, of Indiana, the sins of his past life were revenging themselves upon bis body. And this Is the man whom the mongrel Legislature of the proud old Slate bas chosen to represent her in the United States Senate. A Pennsylvania outcast,, who has been In the South scarcely four years 1 Is It any wonder that the country is going to the devil ? The second certificate of character from Mr. Patterson's recent neighbors, comes In the following shape from the Centre Beporter, published at Centre Hail, Pennsylvania John J. Patterson, whom every one here? about knows, and who very recently packed bia unwashed shirts Into his carpet sack and went to Soutb Carolina, has Just been elected a United States senator from that State, as will be seen by the proceedings ot Its Legis? lature in another column. John J. Patterson is notorious as one of the greatest Radical corruptlonlsts ot Pennsylvania, whose trade lt was to debauch the Legislature ot our own Commonwealth. He did not forget his practices by going to South Carolina, as his transactions there have al? ready shown. They have a negro Legislature there since tbe Radicals reconstructed the Palmetto State, and John went down and bought up the Africans of the 8enate and House, and had tl.em do some railroad legi? latlou ior bim which gave bim and a few oth? ers the ownership ol one o? the most impor? tant roads In that Stale, and by ii John Came? ron & Co. made a big thing-the affair amount? ed lo a virtual stealing of a railroad. This was some two years ago. By this infamous game John got three hundred thousand dol? lars into bis purse, after having leitJunlata County a complete bankrupt, both lo purse, morals and standing in the community, and tbe present Legislature of that State being again composed nearly entirely ol darks, he used a large portion of lt to boy up the sable members and thus bad himself elevated to the United Stales Senatorshlp the other day 1 Mauy readers of the Beporter will recollect the speech made by Charley Shrelner at the M?lheim meeting, Bhor?a iefore the October election. Charley CoId'tBsre how he had met Patterson In Washington, driving a magnifi? cent ris; bow he told him (8hreiner) how he bad made bis money down In South Carolina, by buying ihe 4,d-d nigger legislature" Patterson's own language-to do tbe needed railroad legislation; how he made $300,000 by ir,*and that he would take $260.000 of that next (iblB) winter to buy the nigger legisla? ture again, and have himself elected to tbe United States Senate. And be did so, just as he told Shrelner, and Just as Sbrelner told lt in his M?lheim speech, which has come true, word for word. Now, honest men, look at that. This ulcer, Patterson, going from Pennsylvania down to South Carolina, and after assisting to rob and plunder her, impoverished as she was, he now turns np as her United States senator ! Shades ol Calhoun I A SKETCH OF SALT LAKE CITY. Ita Magnificent Distances-Its Other Pecullarltici-Street? and Garden* Modern Improvement?-Bigotry of tne Mormons-The Tabernacle-Political Sermons-The Invasion of Fashion-A Remedy for Polygamy - Brigham's Family, Sic. SA.LT LAKE CrrY, UTAH. February 6. Topographically this city of tbe "latter-day saints" 16 something like Washington, one of i magnificent distances, and ts scattered and lengthened out to ouch a degree that it has the appearance of having undergone the "spread? ing influence" of some immense roller. As to city limits, they are limitless except in the direction of tho lake, that stops the city from going that way, and the government reserva? tion ?tops it ia another, but iu any other way it extends as far aa Brigham Young has build? ing lots. The streets axe wide and regularly laid out, with streams of water running down each side, though in winter time they general? ly lake to tbe middle ol the street. The city is beautifully laii out in squares of a large size, and except in tbe business portion of the city, most of tbe squares are only partially built upon, the remainder being converted into gar? dens, apple and peach orohaids, which, when in full bloom in tho spring, give to the city a most beautiful appearance, and one can hardly tell wea her bo is ia a country dod city or a citi? fied country. In winter it ia Ihe muddiest, dreariest placo west of tba Mlsaonri, and one can say of it, aa Tom Moore said of Ireland, "It's a beautiful place to live ont of." Since the arrival of the' (ientiiea Salt Lake City has trraduully improved io its buildings, and has received many ef the ''modern im? provements," such as gas works, steam fire engines, /street car rairwny, theatres and ro spectablo hotels-in tact changing itself thoroughly, yet alowly, so that now aa tho city Stands it consists of palaces and buts placed promiscuously side ny side, and one can pass from the sandstone pavement of an ''iron front" to the clayey waik of an adobio brick shanty, walking down the principal street of the city. Much has been said about the Mormons during tbe last few years, so I shall say but liitle of them. In their religious duties they aro aa bigoted as they are careless, and all that their leaders ask of them is a strict payment ot their tithing, and a dislike of anything anti Mormon. Their cbnroh service ts very like that of the Methodist. Their place of worship is what is called the Tabernacle, the largest boilding in the country, which will hold four? teen thousand people bitting. Here they wor? ship and here they listen to sermons which are nothing but political harangues, or else speeches to arouse a feeling against the gov? ernment aud the "'Gentiles." As I said, the oomine of the "Gentiles" has improved tbe city wonderfully, but the change caused by tbem did not ooase here; with them came fashion, and that made the greatest, and to the husband of ten or fifteen wives, the sad? dest change. Before his chief expense was in buying gingham to make bis wives bonnets. Alas! now the envious wives won't wear ging? ham bonnnets while their Gentile neighbor oan wear "those loves of things" made up of velvet, flowers. &c. Ncr would they wear unpanniered cali :o whilo lheir more mo .ern neighbor bus? tled about in silks and poplins. So had the green cotton "umbril" to give way to tbe silk parasol, acd thus tbe change oame. If the au? thorities at Washington will only let polygamy alone, fashion will kill it quicker than any thing that they can do. for what man oan stand the requisitions of several fashionable wives? Let me say that Eastern people endeavor to make Brigham Youhg, "the prophet, seer and sage" of Mormonism, more miserable than he is; instead of sixty some odd wives, be has only nineteen, and matead of some two or three h ur. dre d caldron, he has only fifty or sixty; still he has enough to make it quite an outlay to furnish them all wltb Christmas present?. There is a garrison of United States troops stationed"near the city. I have not been up there yet but I can seo from here that they have a vory commanding position ovor the city. ANDERSON AND POET ROYAL BAIL ROAD. I From the Columbia ?don.] This railroad, which was chartered at the recent session of tbe Legislature Is, we are reliably Informed, likely to be built very soon. Parties possessing the means are ready to take hold of ihe enterprise, and assist the people In building the road. Besides this, lt ls slated tbat large numbers of people In the counties through which the road passes are ready to subscribe to the stock of the road. The road runs through Andetson to Abbeville Courthouse, Edgefleld Courthouse, Aiken and so on to Port Royal and thence to Charleston Parties weli posted, Buy that $100,000 worth of stock would be at once subscribed lu Abbeville County alone, If the books were opened. The charter of tala road is a liberal one. It runs through one of the richest cotton growing acd most salubrious portions of ihe State, and would Boon build up a local trade ot great value, besides being an Important link ia the network of roads now building or soon to be constructed. The building or this road will give employment to thousands of men, de? velop the resources of the section through which lt passes, add millions ol dollars to the value ot lands along the route, and Increase the business, wealth and power ot tbe State. THE IRISH GIANT IN JAIL. STEUBENYIIXE, OHIO, March 5. Ned O'BaldwIo, me Irish giant, and a party of rougns arrived here last night lrom Wept Virginia, where a prize fight had been going on. Alter visiting the drinking saloons they attacked an Irishman, who caused tbe giant's arrest. His tines amount to fltiy-tour dollars, and he will remain in the calaboose ten days at the expense of ihe county. THE WEATHER THIS DAY. WASHDJQTON, March 6. Probabilities: For Wednesday, m New Eng? land, the winds will bick to Boutbwest and south with rising temperature; for ihe Middle Stales southerly winds and lalllng barometer, with increasing cloudiness; for ihe South At? lantic and Gulf States southeasterly winds and clondy weather, with rain on the Western Gulf and possibly on the 8ouib Allautlc coast; from the Ohio Valley northward over the Lake region falling barometer, Increasing southerly winds, cloudy and threatening weather. SHAKESPEARE. AJ? EVKXIX0 WITH TBS GRSAT POST. Lecture by Professor J. xv. Milei on "The Clowns of Shakespeare." The first ot the series of lectures which Pro? fessor J. W. Hiles has consented to deliver at the Confederate Home was given last evening, and proved a source of unusual pleasure to the large and refined andlenoe that had been attracted by Its announcement. The speciflo subject of last evening's lecture was "The Clowns of Shakespeare," but the lecturer took occasion In the outset to present an analysis of tbe genius ol Shakespeare, with a sketch of the literary characteristics of the age In whioh he lived, and a comparison of his artistic and constructive skill with that of the other great poets of ancient and modern times, BB a general Introduction to the lectures which are to follow, and which will treat principally of the dramatlo works of Shakespeare. ThlB Intro? duction was almost a panegyric, the warmth of the lecturer's admiration being tempered only bi tbe sorupulous_care jylth_whlch the cause for admiration In each case was pointed otu and Illustrated. The various schools of Shakes? pearian students and .critics were described, and the credit of the most accurate and genu? ine criticism was awarded to Coleridge and Schlegel. The flippant criticism that lt was the development of literary advantages and opportunities In the Elizabethan age that had produced a Shakespeare, was combated as a scarcely respectable sophism; the genius of Shakespeare was Innate and was not the product ol the age. It was admitted that wlthont the advancement of the history of the world Bp to that age the writings of Shakespeare would have been an impossibili? ty lor lack of the abundant material which lay under his hand, but lt was shown that as Chaucer had been the greatest ol English poets In the days of King Edward III, sur. passing all predecessors and contemporaries to that time, BO Shakespeare In his age, had seized, compacted and crystalized in his verse all of the progress of the world up to the age In which he lived. The charm ot the Shakes? pearian diction was shown to have been pro? duced not by a copiousness of vocabulary, but by consummate skill In selection and arrange? ment; for while in the whole writings of Shakespeare lhere were but fifteen thousand words employed, the works of Hooker and other coBtemporaneons writers contained twice or thrice that number, and lt was prob? able that the authorized vocabulary of that day would Include some fifty thousand words. In the effort to compare the works of Shakes? peare with that ot other poets, the leotnrer bad fonnd but few with whom comparison was possible, and of these he camed, among the ancients, Sophocles, and among the mod? ern writers Schiller Ind Goethe. He cited tbe remark of a distinguished critic that Shakespeare had delighted in portraying In different works the contrasted action of hu? man pa=-1 )QB In different hu man beings, as, for example, he bad illustrated in Othello the tragic side of Jealousy, and In the Kerry Wives of Windsor Its comlo features; but he combated this suggestion and believed that each sepa? rate work was the separate, spontaneous em? anation of bis teeming brain, and that the simple reason why the contrasts were ex? hibited In the several werks was that the contrasts existed In nature and were caught, fixed and presented as they existed. The lecturer then arrived at the specific subject of the evening'? lecture, and illustra? ted the versatility of the author's genius by analysis ol the characterization displayed In the various clowns to be met with In his dramas. Of these there were fourteen or Alteen, and while no two were alike-no two could be taken for the same character under diverse circumstances-they were capable of arrangement Into classes, of which the more prominent were, first, the merry and simple hearted fools, whose wits were not unsettled; second, the cunning vagrants, with acute but unsettled mind, and third, the poor good-for-naughts ol low intellect, confused and muddled, but not crazy. These different phases of more or less nebulous Intellect were amusingly illus? trated by the lecturer by readings from the texts ol several comedies, the extracts being most happily selected to Illustrate the particu? lar species of clown Intended, and the readings being accompanied by a lasclnatlDg strain of running oomment. The first illustration given was the scllloqny of Launce In "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," (act. 2, scene 3,) in which that Incorrigible scatter brain is berat? ing his dog Crab for bis hard-headed stoicism upon the departure of his master, like the "prodigious sm ' Next, Bottom was present? ed with blB lunr.frerabla but irresistible ego? tism In the arrsgements for the play, In which he was ambitious to perform the lion's part, and would "roar you as gently as auy sucking dove." Touchstone, In "As You Like It," was presented as a gentlemanly foo), and his brusque love making with Audrey and his transcendent Impudence to all comers, Including the exiled duke, to whom he ex? plained the niceties of the code duello from the retort courteous to the lie direct, were read to the manifest delight of the audience. The clown In "All's Well Tb at Ends Weil'? was described as an official fool, and depicted In bis conversation with the Countess of Bouslllon, where he offers his phrase "0 Lord, Slr," as an apt answer to all possible questions. The clown in "Twelfth Night"! wes presented In the scene In which, lo the assumed character o? Slr Topas, he ls made j an humble Instrument of torture to the Ill fated lover, Malvollo. A troop ol other merry creatures ot the dramatist's fancy were exhibited In their most striking light, and the series closed with the imperturbable Dog? berry, with his matter ot faot pomposity In the charge to the night-watch, In "Much Ado About Nothing." Altogether, the evening was one of the highest enjoyment to the brilliant audience assembled, and the next lecture, of which the subject Is lo be "Hamlet," will be Im? patiently awaited. AFFAIRS IN SUMMERVILLE. Almost Another Fire. On Tuesday morning the kitchen of B. J. Magill, Eeq., In Summerville, was discovered to be on fire. The chimney was built inside the klichen, and there were some Inches space between lt and the weather-boarding. This space the rats had filled with rags and other rubbish, and the heft got the rata' nest on fire. The fire had burned through the weather-boarding and one or two upright posts belore lt was discovered. The well oeing near, the people in the yard were able to put out the fire In a few moments. If the accident had occurred at night, the kitchen certainly, and the dwelling-house probably, would have been destroyed. THE CATHOLIC ORPHAN ASYLUM. A Catholic's Reply to the Protest of : Alderman Gage. Tbe protest ol Alerman Gage before tbe City Council egalost the appropriation for tbe Catholic orphans in charge el the Sisters of Mercy, wbloh appeared in your paper ot yesterday, seems to be the product ol a mind laboring under some strange hallucination. The matter was argued irom the economical point of view, under the administration of Major Pillsbury, and admitted to be a Just claim. Tne present Mayor and Council, for tbe past two years, with the Bingle exception of Alderman Gage, have viewed the matter in the same light, and Catholics were beginning to believe that an era of Justice and fair-deal? ing bad dawned upon tbem. By what pro? cess of ratiocination bas the gentleman per? suaded himself that one hundred and ten or? phans could be supported ior one-third of Ibis wicked appropriation-two thousand dollars ? We are ready to show bim and the communi? ty that the arguments which Induced the City Council to grant lt still hold good, and can be made even more convincing to any reas """H? rntnA w? wont nothlne doneln a corner, but everything Tn mie Americarf style, in the broad light of day. Les ne hear his reasons for his opinions. But really the economical view ls, to his mind, scarcely worth arguing, because, I presume, he must know that he cannot argue lt without suffer? ing the humiliation of defeat. But the troth ls that the liberties of the people and the principles of their government are endan? gered by .this appropriation of six thousand dollars, or, at least, by the principle upon which it Is granted, although tbat principle ls admitted to be Just. We most emphatically deny this assertion of Alderman Gage, and call upon him as a gentleman either to prove lt or to withdraw lt. The Catholics cf this community have proved themselves In the past to have been law-abiding citizens, and firm, conscientlouB upholders of the princi? ples of government that gnlde the legislators of inls country, and they will not suffer any man, whether he be a native Southron or an Immigrant from the Icy regions of the North, t) falsify their record by reckless assertion. The appropriation ls not unjust; on the con? trary, its Justloe has been proved and ad? mitted even by the silence of Mr. Gage him? self for over two years, and consequently lt cannot be Illegal. But the alderman must get a hearing somewhere, and In order to obtain it be knocks at the doors of the public schools. We have the gravest objection to the system ofpublio schools as now established In this country, wbloh are not of Southern origin, but an exotic transplanted into our land from New England, whence many other evils have come to us. History attests that the Catholic Church by ber sobools of every grade has civilized the world; how can the principles which she Inculcates endanger true liberty ? We ask that Alderman Gage will condescend to enlighten us. The many other cogent reasons which he bolds in the secret of bis own bosom he bad also better bring forth, If be wishes to prove to others that his convic? tions rest upon a solid basis. But you are sectarian, says the alderman. We assert that, even In the sense In which be uses the term, we are not more so than the public Orphan bouse, In whosa favor he ls willing to exhaust his energies; and, moreover, we have good reason to believe that there ls not another alderman lo tho City Council to whom this truth can be more easily brought home than to Mr. Gage himself. Messrs. Editors, the Catholics of this com? munity are not at all desirous to disturb Its peace by the agitation of religious controversy; yet, they will have lt clearly understood by all tbat they have no thought of shrinking from lt, lt lt be lo reed upon them. They are con? vinced that they can make their claims good to even-handed Justice in all matters tbat con? cern tbe community in which they live; they ask no more, and they will never be satisfied with less.- A CATHOLIC. HOTEL ARRIVALS-MARCH S. Charleston. O Smith, H Williams, New York; E T Jaques, Philadelphia; W O Uughart, Pittsburg; Max Furchgott, City; T Byrne, Jonesbor o', Qa; J D Willis and lady, H A Willis, Toeodore P Willis, Brooklyn; James P Low, Edwin F Gary, (Jalum* bia; Mrs s Hooper, Miss Hooper, Miss Oreen, Washington City; T O stanly, Mrs Joae?,E K Gaanawny, savannah; H L Hobart, New Tork; N Seeley and lady, Miss F B Thumpsou, New York; J M Hustle*, K P Bostlok, Sonth carolina; Frank? lin Fraser, Jacksonville; S A Durham, Sonth Carolina; Mr and Mrs R Q Uno, Miss Bradford, New York; Mrs F Titus. Mrs T T Rodenbough. J s Rodenbough. lady and child, Easton, Pa; W E Ohoroh, New York; w Wallace, O J DunUp, O B Dunlap, South Carolina; Mrs A Laand, A JU Farge, New York; O K Prloleau, lady, child and servant, London; Mrs Morrow, Miss Davis, Hall' rax; Mrs Jones, Miss Jones, New York; W II Alden, Jr, and lady, st Helena. Pavilion. Captain F W Milne, Bun Hiver; Mrs W E Spald? ing, Washington; C Gooch, China; J F Stroebel, Orangebnrg; R E Holcombe, Plckens; L, R Mc Airy, North Ca;ollna; Dr S Lewis, Q Hollow, WV Bl Lewis, New loris; J D Pickett, St Matthew's; J B Sardy, city: J E Tagln, Camden; E F Kittos, Oak Point, Mass; J J Muldrotv, alngstree; W 8 Hut Bon, Master Hatson, Lynchburg; B O Pierson, Cades; S W Maurice and lady, Hlogstree; H L McMillan, Bamberg; T H Lyerly, Williamsburg; M Rickenbacker, Sonth Carolina; W S Harley Wal terboro'; A Partridge, New York; J L Oarreit, M D, Pennsylvania. BEY OND^HE BRINE "* Tho Bank of England Swindle-Thc Germans in Franc?-Agitation for a Fenian Amnesty. LONDON, March 6. The circumstances of the fraud on tbe Bank of England remain a mystery. Noyes, the forgers' confederate, now under arrest, Is a native of the United Slates. Although be de? clares bis Innocence, he probably knows more ot the operations than he Is wilting lo tell at present. Astonishment is expressed that the exient of the transactions did not rouse Ihe suspicion of the bank officers; but lt seems that tbe operators represented themselves as being Interested in tbe introduction of Ameri? can palace cars on British railways, and ar? ranging ior their manufacture on a scale re? quiring the employment ot a large amount of "iba Times has a special from Berlin stating that the ability of the French Government, to clve financial guarantees sufficient to secure the early evacuation of French territory by the German troops was considered doubtful In that city. _ ?, The son of the late ex-Emperor Napoleon paid a visit to Queen Victoria yesterday. A movement ls on foot among the Irish population to bring about a large meeting on the 16.h instaut. In Hyde Park, io favor ot amnesty lor Fenians now held io British prisons. Dr. Isaao Butt, member of Parlia? ment from Limerick, will probably preside. -The managers of the Florida Winter Home Association are energetically at work improving -Arlington Heights," the sight selected ior their enterprise. Three hundred lots, averaging one hundred and fifty feet square, have already been laid out, and will soon be offered tor sale. THE GRAFT CABINET. ! EXCITEMENT OF TBE WASHINGTON WISEACRES. So Changes Whatever to bo Xa?o at Pr?tent. WASHINGTON, March 6. There ls mocil ?ipeca! a ti on relative to the Cabinet, founded on the mere report that recently the member? of lt navel dered their resignations, thoa ni new nominations to me Senate, was, however, settled last fall, soon i re-election of President Grant. At . meeting, all the members belog presen iaformed the President that, wishing nothing whatever to embarrass him taJbUAd? ministration, they would tender their resigna? tions, to Ufte effect on the 4th of March ensu? ing. The President expressed his thanks lor their friendly feelings and informed them that he bad no desire for any one of them to with? draw lrom their present positions, bot pre? ferred they should all remain. Nothing bas since occurred to change the position ot affairs as lt existed at that time, ihe only immediate change will be in the secretaryship of the treasury, should the rsy?ghTfta,TbtgaiH.h'1 $MfiSfcn*"mrm President need not renominate the prisent members of the Cabinet for confirmation by ;he Senate, ls strengthened by the tact that all of them were at their resoectlve depart? ments to-day, attending to their official du? ties, and, lt ls said by gentlemen in executive positions, that no such renominations will be made. Vows and Gotiip. Levi B. Lucky succeeds Colonel Douglass as the Presto en t's private secretary. C. 0. sniffer ls appointed assistant private secre? tary, y nd 0. L. Pru den executive clerk. Senator Edmunds, yesterday, received a dispatch lrom the citizen's committee, al Hew Orleans, calling upon the Senate to take Im? mediate action upon the credentials of Hon. W. H. McMlllen. Upon the motlonioi Mr. Yoorhees the House voted Its thanks to Speaker Blaine. The "Ecce Homo" Inscription In the Inau? guration building was pat ap by the- artist, and ordered down by the committee. Most ot i be new senators were seal id yes? terday. Spencer, of Alabama, was called oat did not put In an appearance. Begaralng his belog assigned a sear, lt ls said that had lt been donn objections would have been made* Neither McMiilen or Plncbback was called. David C. Smith bas been confirmed as'In? spector-general ot steamboats. ni The department of State ls In recelrt of In? formation that no fines on American vessel! lo Cuba are to be. enforced until approached by the Intendente. ?LIMPSES OE GOTHAM. -- j i The New Tock Press on tho President's Address. Nsw YOBS, March?, All the morning papers comment on tbe In? augural address. The Herald says: "It the address ot the President cannot be character? ized as a great fe tate paper it certainly makes up lo honesty and sincerity lor all lt lacks, la diplomatic tact and finished rhetoric. Enter? taining tbe views he expresses regarding Ee publlcanlsm, lt Is not possible to understand bow he can retrain from adopting warmly the cause ot the Cuban Republic. He seemBrather inclined to apply the word annexation to oar own than te the foimatloo of other republics. He adheres lo bis annexation policy regarding San Domingo." The Berald, bowever, believes lt ls the wisest policy to foster the establish? ing of independent republics la all outlylDg territory where the peone are prepared /or the change, and bad hoped that the advocacy of mis cause hy the President, might have helped to establish the Independence of Cuba, . and advance the prospects of a Canadian re? public Concerning home Affairs, it thinks wa bave a right to expeot lrom bim such a change of policy towards tbe South as will restore good ieellng. It Instances ihe case of Louisi? ana, and says : M The address affords a hope that the South will be no longer subjected to oppression, but we are inclined to the be? lief that the President must have forgotten Louisiana." ! The Tribune styles the address brief, and striking y characteristic ol the President;lt ls clear and pronounced on the subject of civil rtgbtc; regarding annexation, bis delerence to the will ol tbe people is manliest. The Times thinks the address Isa blunt,out? spoken, practical document, bearing ihe stamp of ihe President's Individuality; he ls too outspoken to conceal bis belief that the National Government ought to do sundry things usually committed to individual enter? prise; while lt ls certain he has too keen a sense of bis responsibility to urge snob details of policy beyond the limits which the people aud their representatives would approve. ' News and Gossip. The chemical works of Jacob Ellas have been burned. Loss $80,000. The weather la clear and cold, the gale having somewhat subsided. Foster received bis reprieve last night amid great rejoicing. His friends hope for a oom mutation of his sentence to Imprisonment-for Hie. .lay Cooke Sc Co. have received no advices cr ; .cernlng their reported loss of a quarter of a million by the irauds on the Bank ot Eng? land. A woman died yesterday with symptoms of yellow fever. Tne agent of Explorer Stanley bas abscond? ed witt ISM. A REVOLT IN ALGESIA. ' SJ Imminent Danger of the Duke de Char? tres. * PARIS, March 6. The government is in receipt of dispatches from the Fveoch governor ot Algeria to the effect that a terrible revolt has again broken ont In that province. The native Algerians have banded together with the other tribes in the province against the French rule, and a determined and probably successful effort ls about to be made to overlbrow lt. Upwards of ten thousand Algerians, all fully armed and desperate, have surrounded a body ot French troops, seven hundred strong, under the com? mand ol the Duke de Chartres. An attack by the rebels ls probable at any moment. The French troops, are determined to make'he beet possible defence, but In view ot the over? whelming numbers of the Algerians a bloody massacre appears inevitable should they be attacked. The news of the crIUcal situation ol tbe Duke de Chartres's command causes much anxiety to the government bera, and a sufficient Icrce will in all probability be or? dered to bis relier at once. Tbe Kaoyls are beading the revolt, and mao* ot the most prominent are those who through tbe leniency of the government escaped punishment for participation in the rising ot last year. - SPARES EEOM TBE WISES. -The Blverslde Hotel at Paterson, N. J., '8-Theeddecieion In the Campbell-Hicken prize fight at Pittsburgh, Pa., ls lo favor Of -Allan 0. Jones, a bookkeeper o? the Som hem Bank of Georgia, at Savannah, ran away yesterday, after robbing the bank of fifty-thousand dollars. -By special application of Hon. W. A. Handly, the President will pardon B. 8. Gray, Eu-Elux prisoner, confined at Albany Jail. Gray ls a citizen ol Randolph County, Ala. -The Democrats at Saratoga have elected the board of supervisors. List year the board consisted of fourteen Republicans and six Democrats. The Democrats also carry Ducbeses County, Kentucky. -The failure of the Anti-Scott Alt Line Ballroad bill ia the New Jersey Legislature on Tuesday created great indignation, and it was feared that some of the senators woola be lynched. -There ls some talk oflormlnganew State, to be called "Allegheny,* opt _?*3ggg North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee and South? western Virginia, with the ?pl|?* Se? ville or Chattanooga. The territory thus de? scribed consists almost wholly of mountain land, and the new Slate would be the Swit? zerland of America. It would also be Im meHsely rich In mineral deposito.