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COLUMBIA, 'S. C. 1 >!??-j-j] Wednesday Morning, May 13, 1874. Ti?a tniulttcn I>aw. There is a law above that which is written. It is more power!al than all codes. It springs from the consoieuco, and it only has power to bind the eon soienoe. Enactments may be wise? they may be well adapted to the genius of a people; bat their object is mainly to restrain, to operate as a chectf on passion and evil propensity. But the law written in the heart has a different and a nobler office. It acts on the bet? ter side of our nature, keeping it up to an ideal standard. When its force is dulled in an individual, he loses tone, the moral perceptions become blunted, and what is oalledobaraoter begins to wane. The man who is not a law unto himself, who requires the hangman's rope and its representative, the penal 'law, to keep him in order, can accom? plish no good in the world. The emo? tions of gratitude, the inspiration of duty, tho love of country, a reverence for troth, aro all strange to him. When he is gone, he is not missed from tho current of the higher influences of lifo. Having done, Buid and thought nothing that should place him above tho plane of a merely sensual and animal exist? ence, he passes to eternity, leaving scarcely a ripple of memory in the minds of men. There are era* iu tho history of peo? ples when tho couscieneeless man ?comes forth to exercise n temporary, but baleful, sway. Wo eutered upou that era in this country when the bar . Tiers of justice, as between its sections, ? were broken down. Once tho bul -? warksof honor were overthrown, and the iustinot of refined feeling, which, ? from Keif-respect, learns to respect ??others and consecrates tho Scriptural injunction to do ns you would be done by, was transmuted into a so-called .higher law and made aggressive upou uacred rights, the tide of immorality poured over tho land and swept away all ita ancient landmarks. Wo need .not trace its disastrous flow or point to its consequences of war, famine, degra? dation and misgovernment. The vials of wrath have beeu poured out, and 'WO see to-day a "noisome and grievous sere" fixed upon the vitals of the -country. In a groat measure, tho sense of responsibility, other than what is merely technical and formal, is lost. Those who, in positions of power, thought it smart to tamper with truth, and, as they phrased it, to "camp outside of tho Gouslituti ??u," did not consider that in parting with necessary restraints they were aban? doning all idea of obligation, popular? izing looseness of thought about duty, and opening the flood-gates of corrup? tion and ruin. The prevaricutions which, in Wash? ington, have met the remonstrances of the conservative people of South Caro? lina against tho erils which oppress them, are auuh as could not have been altered unless degradation had first been installed in place and power. Gen. Grant may be popular now; he may cherish hopes of being elected President for the third term; he may, indeed, be elected, and poms may again bo sung iu his praise, but ho? norable men of all ages will recognize a shameful moral obtusenoss, an well as disregard of those sweet 6iua!l courtesies which grace statiou, iu the coarso reception given to gentlemen who, nsking nothing for thomselves, went only to represent the wrongs of a whole people, and to ask the President's good offices in having them properly considered. Tho kindness extended, ou tho other hand, to the Whittemore delegation, the ready credence accord? ed to their false statements, showed where his sympathies were, and a mortifying iack of that nice discern? ment which it is u disgrace not to have as an instinct. Our poor tortured Stute, ruled by un organized baud of thieves, is perhaps the most flagrant instanoo of the effect of oonfonnding just moral distinctions. Where is the aot, in tho whole history of their sway here, whioh gives even a .faint indication that they understand what principle is? H?b not everything tended from the start to tho ruin of the people and the disgraoe of the go? vernment? It is now a hideous and re? volting monster, contemned by all man? kind. From its own ranks oome ex? ceptional voices occasionally, whioh . show the enormity of its wiokednoss. A few days ago, the Attorney-General, in language whioh laid bare the pre? vailing iniquity, contrasted tho honesty of the times when other men rnled the State with the tnrpitude of the prosent regime, "Saoh was the innate honesty," ho said, "of the men of those days, that defalcations were of the rarest ocecr reooe. Bat now, in spite of the oor dona drawn around tuoHtatu Treasury, in Bpite of .tho .bars, and b?tods and triple lock?, in spite of the guards who surround it, nnd of the lamp that never ceases to burn, vast nmouuts of mo noy?money wrung from a struggling people?have been recklessly stolen and squandered, leaving tho whole government clogged and her credit destroyed. There now exists in the Stato of South Carolina an era of cor? ruption Bitch as has never before been witnessed." How true! how lamentable! Tho law whioh Socrates discoursed upon and Saint Paul exalted is a dead letter in the hearts of those who control its present destiny, and, that being dead, no other can havo much force. Certificate* or InUentvtl neu?. Mr. Cardozo, in a correspondence with the Attorney-General, gives some very good reasons for not issuing the certificates of indebtedness ordered (o bo issued by the Legislature. That the failure to do ao will work some hardship is not to be doubted; but the fault will belong tho Legislature itso.f, which baa ordered a deficiency of ?515,000 to be pa d by certificates, aggregating about $310,000, to be absorbed by a levy of 1 -1-5 mills of the next year's tax, which will proba? bly not amount to more than 3250,000. There is no correspondence between tho sum to bu paid with tho means provided for its payment. The lan? guage of Attorney-General Melton is noticeable aud commendable us avow? ing a purpo3a "to leavo no effort untried to stora tho tido of extrava? gance and corruption which now threatens to cngnlph tho Republican parly aud bring tho Slate to irretrieva? bly ruin." Wo sincerely hope that tho ceuteu nial Appropriation bill i3 at last done lor. It has been a clog to Congress und a oost to the country, and a great job in all its parts. Few honest men will regrot its defeat and its death. We oannot presout the argument against it more forcibly thau Mr. Phelps, of New Jersey, did a day or two ago when he said: "Unfortunately this bill calls upon us to shed, nut tears, (alluding tu a few sentences in Mr. Frye's speech,) but money. Not money which we can take from the surplus of au overflowing treasury; uot money which wo can gather with easy hands by a loan which our chil? dren must pay; but monoy which we mast tax on the business aud property of a people which is not at tbia time rich or prosperous. And for what? Not to feed our poor, of whom we havo many; uot to strengthen our de? fences, uot to unlock our harbors, not to straighten our water courses, but to imitate here, on the boil of the new world, a fashionable, gaudy, old-world i pageant, like to that into which ull tho principal sovereignties of Europe, one after the other, have poured their full coffers, aud out of which they havo taken nothing but disappointment aud failure." We are glad it is dead. CiiANGE in tui: Swiss Republic ? For nearly fifty years, the Government of Switzerland has been a confederu tiou of small States, each of the can? tons being endowed with separate aud nearly sovereigu functions. Those powers have just been surrendered into the bands of one central author? ity. All military resources of Switzer? land, whether of offence or defence, aro henceforth taken from the cantons and held completely under the author? ity of tho national power. Hitherto there have been iu Switzerland Conser? vative uud National parties, somewhat ns there havo been in the United States?the one holding to tho dec trine of State rights, the other lnaiu tainiug tho expediency of a central government, with full uud complete power. A definite scheme for a revi? sion of the Constitution was submit? ted to tho people, and on tho 10th of April, their judgment was pronounced through the ballot-box. Tho result WitB, thai the ceutrali:'.itiou proposed was endorsed by 321,370 votes, against only 177,800 cast for the old confede? ration. The majority of the Judiciary Com ! tn it too, in their report noon the South I Carolina memorial, say that the co j lored voters of South Carolina aro about 00,000 aud tho white voters aro about -10,000. This is a serious blun? der. According to the United States census, the colored population of tho State in 1870, was 115,814, and tho whito population 239,0157. This would make tho oolorod voto about 83,000, and the whito vote about 57,000. The general belief is that tho vote now stands 00,000 whites to 00,000. In the minority report there is a clerical error. It is there stated that "contin? gent funds" havo been increased from $0,092 in 1805-66, to 8293,068 in 1872-73. The "contingent funds," as stated in the memorial, have been in? creased from $6,092 to $75,033, but the "sundries" havo been increased from $83.413 to $289,688. [Charleston News and Courier. A Key West despatch from Havana says William Lauten, an American, who aots as Yioe-Gonsul for Great Bri? tain and Germany at Manzanillo, has been ordered to leave tho island with? in ton days, in conaeqnenoa of having had communication with the insur? gents. Fred. Dookray is still in prison atPiferto Prineipe. Ohofs?Reports prom Four Sooth Carolina Counties.?A gentleman of this city, who has just returned from a tonr through Aiken, Abbeville, Edge Qeld and Laarens Co an ties, 6. O., guve us some interesting items in regard to the orops in that section. In Aiken, there is bat a smill grain crop, and the largest proportion of it is badly rusted. The farmers are ploughing np cotton, whioh was damaged by the recent frost, aud replanting. A large area is planted in com. In EdgeQeld, Abbo villo and Laurens, a largo wheat and corn o:op bus been planted. Ho saw in Edgciiold one aero in wheat, from whioh the owner expected to gather aeventy-flve bushels of the grain. The planters in those Counties havo just begun to plant cotton siuce tho rains ceased, and tho majority of thorn have J not yot put a seed iu the ground, but I are only preparing tho laud. The! area iu cotton, he thinks, is fully one- j third less than that planted last season. 1 lie found only one planter who in- i tended to plunt as much cotton uu last J year. Not more thuo one-half the quantity of guauo used last year wili be put on the laud this season, lint j few of the planters were giviug factor.- j liens.?Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel. ( A Democratic Jcmlee.?The Man-! haltau club of New York, its member? ship composed of leading Democrats of the Empire city, gavo u reception i at their Fifth avenue pnlace on Th?r-.- ? day night, to rejoice over the victories | in New Hampshire and Connecticut, ! and to exchuugu views in regard to t'.e j future policy of the party. The ur- j raugCUients und appointments were nit . a maguilicoct scale, tue rooms bearing the usual ndorumeuts of flags aud pen naots, und after the speeches had been 1 delivered the guests partook of a col? lation lavishly spread. Among the numerous gentlemen present, includ- I ing those who accepted the invitation ' of tho club, were ?Seuators Kmsom, of North Carolina, Bayard of Delaware, j Gordon, of Georgia, ex-Ssuatora JJrad- I bury, of Maine, .Stark, of Oregon, and | Fitch, of Nevada, Governor McEucry, i of Louisiauu, ex-Governor Kiudolph, of New Jersey, ex Governor L iwreuoe, j of Rhode Island, Judge C. M. Osborn, < of Illinois, Judge Sbipmsn, of Con- j necticut, Congressman George \V. Woodward, Musars. Henry B. Smith, J ?Stokes Boyd and Charles W.Carrigun, j of Pennsylvania. Several letters of j excuse for nou-uttendauce were read j by the chairman. Philadelphia is engaged iu restoring Independence Hall. Qj>iito a number of portraits of siguers of the declara? tion have beeu uddod to those already adorning the walls, aud tho lattor have been renovated and the coloring brought out to its original brilliancy. Two of tho original chairs of the chamber have beeu returned by their j owners, aud oue has been returned ! from the Supreme Court room at Washington, whither it is supposed to i have gone when the seut of Govern? ment was removed?iu 180d. Teu of ? the old chairs arc now in the hall, aud ' there is a prospect of recovering three j more. The committee iu charge of the > work have procured tho port nits of I the English rnouarchs who exercised royal authority over this country, us j well as thoro of prominent Americans associated with our early history nod tho struggle for independence. By j tho time tho centennial comes off, , Independence Hall will bo filled with ! relics and remembrances of the times j wo will thou celebrate To all, particularly invalids, spring! is a tryiugseason. Indications of sick-' ucss shouid at once bo attended to. I Fatal diseases may be caused by allow? ing the bowels to become constipated, \ and tho system to remain ia a disor? dered condition, until the disorder has time to develop itself. An ounce of prevention is worth a pottud of cure, is; an old und truthful saying. Therefore, ! we advise all who are trcubled with tho | complaintH now very prevalent?-head- j aohe, indigestion, disordered liver, ; want of appetite, nutisea, or feverish skin, to take, without delay, Sekouck's Mandrako Pills. Wo know of no remedy so harmless and decisive in its j action. It at once strikes at the root; of the disease and produces a healthy 1 tone to thejsystom. People never need goffer from any disease arising from n disordered condition of tho liver, if! they would lake I his excellent modi cine when they feel the lirst indica? tions of tho- malady. Families leav? ing lioinu for the summer months should take throe or four boxes of theso pills with them. They have an | almost iustautaueous effect. They will I relieve tho patient of headache in oue or two hours, and will rapidly cleanse tho liver of surrounding bile, aud will effectually prevent a bilious attack. They are sold bv all druggists. iIiOt-211 Gov. did well, of North Carolina, says the reward of ?5,000 ottered for Gen .M.S. Littlelield some yoars since, will be given any one delivering him to the Sheriff of Bunoomb County. Littlefield is implicated iu swindles in North Carolina in 18(31, and rau away to Florida, where he has since beou engaged in doubtful railroad transac? tions. The several Governors of Flori? da have refused to recognize requisi? tions ior him. A Sham.?And now it has been re? luctantly confessed iu tho British Par? liament that the navy whioh was sup? posed to be the finest on the planet is no better than a sham. Mr. Rood, the great constructor, oallod it a "phantom nu7y," and nobody denied the troth of this allegation. Pond's Extract.?Large eums of money are spent by the aillioted to find relief from piles. The Extraot is a oertain cure of blind or bleeding piles. Ml'2fl?;i City Mattebs.?Subscribe (or the PnazNix. What is the use of always trying to hunt out faults? A case where actuation was u fail? ure?The Pbcouix. This office lacks nothing of being a first class job office. Any style of work desired we cau do, and that at low figures and ou short uotice. Condensed soda water, fifty cents I per bottle, containing tuateiial for twelve to fifteen glasses', for ealo at Drs. C. H. Miot and W. C. Fisher, druggists. 3* There were rumors on the street, yes? terday, of tho murder of a colored infant by its youthful malu attendant?, but we c mid trace them to no reliable sot: ice. Tho PnoiNlX job office is complete iu every respect, und cards, posters, pamphlets, programmes, bill-heads, etc., are turned out with thicrity. We are requested to urge upon the rneinbern of Catawba Tribe, No. 1, Im? proved Order ??f Rod Men, to attend their meeting ibis evening, us bUKiuesh of iuiporlar.ee is to be transacted. The Governor has commuted the sentence of H. A. Smith, late Treasu? rer of Fairiield County, who was sen? tenced to one y>-ar iu tho penitentiary, to one year iu too County jail. The Governor has appointed Mr. Chillies S. Jt-rvey, oi Charleston, a Notary Public, and C?>i. Charles Kno bictulorfi, 01 Chicago. Illinois, a Com? missioner of Deeds for S >tith Carolinu. The gentleman who wrote the wea? ther local-) for this paper is abbeut from Iiis po.->t. The local pro tent. feels his inability to do justice to such an important subject, uud knows our readers know how it is themselves. The Germans of Columbia uro pre pating for a Suhuelzeufeht iu this city during the present season; and if they meet with success, will continue it unuually. Success, though, isintured, as Seegers' Henry has the biggest linger in the pie. Messrs. W. H. LyDraud Jc Sju hold one of their mnguiheeut Loriug Sc Blake's $230 organs, yesterday, to Myrtle Lodge, No. 3, Kuights of Pythias, which we tuko as an evidouco of the prosperity of this youug lodge, as also of the popularity of the above organs. At u meeting of the Enterprise Fire Eugiue Company, held Monday night, tho followiug olficcrs were elected: President, H. E. Hayne; Vice Presi deut, James Wells; First Director, N. Shclton; Second Director, Dauiel Lit tlee; Third Director, B. F. Payne; Fourth Director, John Nott; Secre? tary, II. II. Login; Assistant Secre? tary, T. J. Gregory; Treasurer, W. 11. Jo ues. Auction Sale ok Fine PicroitKs.? U. & S. Beard have received u large consignment of superior oil cbromos from New York, which will be sold at auction this (Wednesday) eveuiug, at S o'clock. The cbromos are now on ex? hibition at tho store-room, next door to It. & W. C. Swaffiald's olothing stoio, Main street. Ladies and gen tlemeu arc respectfully invited to call and examine tho collection. M ail Au itAHGBU en TS.?Northern rnail opens G.30 A. M., 3 P. M.; closes 11 A. M.,0 P. M. Charleston open*8 A. M., ?.30 P. M.;c!ot!ci?S A. M..G P. M. Western opens G A. M., 12.30 P. M.; closes G. 1.30 l*. M. Greenville opens G.L") P. M.: closes G A. M. Wil tniuutuu opens 1 P. M.: closes 10.30 A. M. On rl inday opou from 'J.30to 3.30 P. M. SUPKEME COUKT, tuesday, Miiy 8.? The Court met at 10 A. M. Present? Chief Justice Moses aud Associate Jus? tices Wright and Willard. The Eighth Circuit was called. Susan Trotter, appellaut, r.s.Win. W. Itobinson, respondent. Coutiuuod and special order made. \V. T. Shumate, respondent, rs. E. E. Powell, appellant. Submitted ou printed argument by Win. Eirle, ap? pellant's attorney. Amanda C. Wilson, respondent, rs. Johu Harper, appellant. Mr. Reed was heard for appellant; Mr. Whitner for respondent. Edward F. Stokes, appellaut, in re Earlo rs. Stokes. Mr. Haskell was heard for appellant; Mr. Earlo for re? spondent; Mr. Haskell for appellant, iu reply. The following cases were ooutinued: Garaty fc Armstrong, appellants, vs. Bobort M. DuBose, respondent; Bar? rister Allen, appellaut, rs. Win. Speer, respondent; Trustees of the estate of DeLa Howe, appellant, vs. Harper, re? spondent. The State cx rel. A. G. Breoizer, Felix Cardarelli, W. E. Roso and P.F. Frazee vs. F. L. Oardozo, Treasurer of State of South Carolina. Petitions for mandamus Messrs. Rion and Danbar submitted petitions, but subsequently withdrow them, at requeat of Attor? ney-General Melton, until Thursday, the 14th. At. 3 P. M., the Court adjourned uutil Wednesday, 13th, 10 A. M. Piioenixiaha. ?Bett^^TfTonT^roiTr acquaintance than loap yoat ohatacter. "Take a Company of boys chasing buttet flies," , says a ^cynical writer; j "pat' long-tailed j coats on the -boye, aud turn the butterflies into dollars, and yoa havn tho panorama, of tbe world." A gentleman should have more in his pocket than ou his back. Borne mou are ?s proud as a peacock?all btrut and no show. Gone ?Yoh, gentle reader, (all read? ers aro considered gentle, except those who don't pay for the .paper,) he is gone. Wo a;iw hitn Monday evening, in all tho freshuess rod bouyanoy of spirits for which h'j is proverbial; in all hid majesty ot height; in all his i firmness of foundation; but, alas! j yester morn ho was gone! Unlike tho suddeu taking off of many of hia pre* deceasors, his departure was with tbe full intent of benefiting others as much us himself; aud us evidence of the fact, he took a frieud with him. Where'er ho may bo tossed by the surging bil? lows of tho np-coantry streams, wb ! hope he may find a t-afs haven, where subscribers are plentiful and money more so. Trent him kindly?he is an orphan; give him plenty of money? his pockets are capaoious; feed him bouutifully?bis place for lodging food is like his pockets; but if be takes j your name as a subscriber, write your iowu address, as he doesu't know how j to write. Iu short, the head-centre of ' the Phoznix is on a tonr through the up-country ou business. Count of General Sessions, May 12. This Court met at 10 A. M., Hon. B. 13. Carpenter presiding. Mr. C. D. Melton submitted to the Court the return of A. O. Haskell, j Esq., in the matter of contempt in the Citizens' Savings Bank case, which being satisfactory, the rule as to him I was discharged. Mutual explanations and expressions of regret at this oc? currence were made by the Cour' and i by Mr. Haskell, and the Judge, as he gave tho order dismissing the rale as to the attorneys to the Olerk of the Court to be tiled, said that he took leave of the cibe with much more plea? sure than he had ever felt in taking it up aud investigating it, and that bis uction iu the premises waa taken only for the preservation of the dignity of the Court. The Court announced to the bar that no civil cises would bo called or tried that day, but thai, the issue dooket would bo called peremptorily to-mor? row morning, at 10 o'clock. The Court asked if the Solicitor was ready to take up the case of the State against Silas Davis. The Solioitor an? swered, that be ](referred to try the case of the State against Alfred Sim*, for malicious trespass. A. C. Moore appeared for the defendant, and after testimony ou both sides had been con? cluded, uud Mr. Moore had proceeded tin his argument to the jury for some I time, the Court directed tbe jury to tliud a verdict of not gailty, on the [ground that, at common law, there could be no indictment for trespass as t to personal property, and that there is no statute in this Stato under which an indictment for such an offence oould lie. The Court decided that the only redress the injured party had in this ca-.e was by a suit at law, and e?id that he would be glad if tbe prosecutor would take the case before a Trial Jus? tice at once. . The case of the State against Wesley Simmons and Alexander Mack, charged with the murder of Bobert Good, on tho 21th day of December last, was called, Hou. B. B. Elliott appearing for Alexauder Mack, General Cham berlaiu for Wesley Simmons, and Mr. C. D. Melton for the Stato, lie having beeu appointed by the Court Solioitor [protein, for the management of this case. After arraignment, Mr. Elliott, ou behalf of Alexander Mack, moved that the Court, in tho exercise of its j judicial discretion, would grant a seve? rance iu thin case, on tho ground that his client thought that he cocld not defend himself iu this trial joined in the same indictment aud tried at the sumo timo with Wesley Simmons as well as he could if tried alone. The Court could not see why the defend? ant, Mack, could not defend himself as well joined with Simmon1^ as he could if u severance were allowed, und, therefore, overruled tho motion. The Court directed that oaoh defendant had twenty peremptory challenges and the Stuto four?two iu theoaseof eaoh defendant?and that the State and the defendants had as many challenges for causo us they oould sustain when the jurors were placed upon tbe voir dire. It also direoted that the Solioitor could cause jurors to stand aside until the venire should be exhausted, whoa these jurors were to be examined as to their qualifications by the State or chal? lenged peremptorily, after whioh the defendants were to choose or object to them, as they s?* fit. The regular venire was exhausted before the panel was filled, and the summoning of tales? men according to the reoent statute occupied tho Court until 2 P. M. At 3 30 P. M., the Court re-assem? bled, aud the case was continued up to adjournment, the Solioitor having ex- \ aminod five witnesses for the State. Tho Court of General Sessions then adjourned until 9 o'clock to morrow morning. Iiist of New Advertisements. Meeting Golumbia Chapter. Meetiug Cutawba Tribe.