The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, March 09, 1875, Image 2
COLUMBIA, S~. C.
Taasiay Morning, March 9,1878.
IrturooBO of AiietammU and Tnwi No
Remedy for Our KviU.
A writer, under the savory signature
of "Ibex," in the Union-Herald, of
Sunday, arraigns the County Auditors
and Treasurers of this State for care?
lessness and inoompetenoy in the as
eessment of properly. Aooording to
bis statements and reasoning, the re?
sult of this failure to discharge their
proper duties, iB that property to tbe
amount of $75,000,000 is not taxed at
all. Hs speoifles a decrease in the
?aloe of real property, as returned be?
tween 1872 and 1874, as nearly 836,
000,000, and runs a comparison in cer?
tain Counties between the valuation of
dogs and thu valuation of money,
groaiiy to the advantage of the dogs,
ondJorthwith oonoludes the reBult to
Jjg^reposteroua. The remedy for this
?^Supposed negligence or fraud in the
' returns, in the judgment of the writer,
might be found in the employment of
an expert to examine and balance the
books of the Auditors and Treasurers,
and thus to oorroot their abuses. This
is one conclusion. Another is, that
the system of assessments is radically
wrong; that no owner of property
should be allowed tc value it; and that
assessors shoold be men of experience
and Bound knowledge, and be com?
pelled by law, personally or by deputy,
*o examine every pieoe of property as?
sessed in their respective districts.
-VNo 8tater" eayo "Ibex," in a burst of
offloial indignation, "oan long sustain
such looseness and irregularities; its
oreditand permanent prosperity will
immediately suffer."
We have no criticism to expross
'?agon the conolusioDO announced by
?this writer upon the official oondaot of
'the Auditora aud Treasurers. They
uro .a41 Republicans, appointed spe
'Oially to. servo, the.? interest* of tbe
.party in ascendancy here. If they are
?not intelligent, experienced and capa?
ble, it ja no f.\ult of tbo*o who pay the
ti*X(ft< aad bear the bur.3en.-i which they
impose. Wo suppose, however, that
they have generally been controlled in
their dutioe by tbe requirement of tbe
Constitution and laws, which enjoin
that property shall be aesessad aooord?
ing to its value. They have been con?
stantly instructed from the headquar?
ters of the State officials to lay it on
heavily. Their error has been consi?
dered to bo a too .ready compliance
with these mandates. Their assess?
ments became an evil of such magni?
tude that the tax-payers were compelled
to take organized action against them.
Tbe public mind became highly ex?
cited and indignant, and by general
consent and greater fairness in tbe
estimates, a reduction was at last
aohieved. In the lost election oam
paigo, this was claimed as a merit by
tbe Republioaus, altbongh, of course,
they had reluctantly conceded the re?
duction. Now comes "Ibex," and
?would butt all this down again. He
can't conceive" bow property should
have dooroaood oo much Jin value be
tweoa '72 and *'Vl. This is a difficulty
which others do not experience. It is
plain enough-how it any have oo
onrred. Bad government, spoliation,
diversion of funds from public to pri
vute-aao, tho , burden of I taxes at i
msll?ihm, the'flttnditiona of all classes |
of Hvusiness pitiable in Che extreme,
ultft?jjon between employers and la
bonraf prodttoecLby harpers for politi
cilusej&iot?are^'not these sufficient
oafisos to produce shrinkage of values? I
AtSCQ oonsiffericg the question! it
mu&Miob be forgotten tjjgfc the valua
tion watch was, ^educed, was reduced in
consequence orbits previflflfo unjnstiUa
ble exaggeration* "Ibex" may write
till doome-day/jgbt he cannot convince
any one but an. office-holder, who lives
on the prooeedT^and management of
the tax funded that tbe "credit end
permanent prosperity" of the people
of South Ctsroliqn. fii .iho condition
they are in now, can ^a-Drojrioted by
Increasing fgjff 'aa^pie&te^tff; their
property rw^Mj^^Q^^bW\ them
by taxation ^vU all ope?^a tdlk to
say that w? sl)oliiuO?eA#eof tUeiaxa
ble sum o^j^^^i^^^j^^'^^^'
tion wou*s|npi^^i^^^^*^aat'
won't woMB j^^w!jH^^6ohth
Carolina.-a^.i^Ja^^^hoye si class of
people, ,w ho3fc np> ' jp&vife* U?p*;
wioldln^^be;pb,we>( td'exa?t tbe>eaW
of '.(lief^Dp^iiiin'. Mfeness.and laxn
pro?erli ,ajnd / i?dastry bat? a fair
lot.fclirwsA*itQisro.ready toanveat their:
the justice! ahd economy Of -the ad
mfi^^
office-holding" soass be diminished'at
H t-.-.:-*?; t i. *r
least one-third in number aud one
third iu their salaries, out off abuses,
rebuke frauds, take the hardens off
the tax-payers, lovy a tax of five
mills?and our word for it, prosperity
will return to bless the people onoa
more.
The Gnaws Bill- ?This is a bill to
provide for tho settlement and re?
demption of certain claims constitut?
ing the floating debt, and embracing
pay certificate?, billH payable uud other
evidcuces of indebtedness, not to ex?
ceed tbo sum of 8500,000. Under it a
committee of three is to incubate over
all these multitudinous claims und
hatch out tho required amount. They
are thou to cancel them in their old
shape aud to io^ue io lion thereof to
the holders certificates of Stuto indebt?
edness, to bo signed by the committee'
or a majority of it. The holders uru
to present them at the Comptroller'*
office aud receive four warrauts, euch
being for one-eighth of tho amount of
the now certificate. Then comes the
part which makes it interesting. Tb--so
warrants are to be scoured by a lovy of
of ono mill on the dollar, and aro to
be paid out of the taxes to be levied
aud collected for the fiscal yoars com?
mencing November 1, 1875, '76, '77
and '78, and amounting in tho aggre?
gate to 8259,000, Iu the Senate, the
power of appointing the committee
bus been taken from the Governor and
exorcised by the Senate itsolf. Messrs.
Qulick, Nash and Solomon being ap?
pointed.
-??< -? ?
Major Delaoy delivered au address
in Irving Hall, New Yoik city, last
Friday evening, upou tho relations of
tbo rucos iu the Southern States.
Wm. Gullen Bryant presided, aud Mr.
Peter Cooper sat on bis rigut bund.
Tbe Major's views were such as we are
familiar with here, aud generally just.
Ee showed bow political adventurers
bad towed the needs of disagreement
between the white and colored people,
but also insisted that they were des?
tined to lire together in peace, har?
mony and friendship. In ppeaking jf
this State, he said:
"During the political t'xeitumeut
whioh followed tho war, these men
from tho Nortb, who had no interest
?ither iu the white man of the South
[>r in the negro, stood between the
whites and tbe blacks and warned the
blacks away from impending ruin.
While performing this kind and chari?
table office, they bad ono band elbow
?eep in the pocket of tbe negro, and
the other shoulder-deep iu the pocket
3f the white man."
Remahkb ot- Hon. Qko. A. Tuen
holm.?The following is an abstract of
tbe eloquent address delivered by Mr.
Frenholm, in tbe House of Repre?
sentatives on the charges against Trea?
surer Cardoso:
He said that at tbe commencement
jf tbe session tbe very first report of a
3tnto officer which uud been sent in
was tbe Treasurer's report. From
that report be bad learned, for the first
time, that a difference of opinion ex*
isted as to the scope and extent of tbe
Aot to reduce the volume of the publio
debt. Ha bad naturally felt a great
interest in the question, aud had beeu
very anxious to ascertain whether the
State had suffered any detriment in
the course pursued by tbe State Trea?
surer in fonding tbe bouda which had
been alleged to have been unlawfully
bypotheoated. In order to obtain tbe
necessary information, he bad gone to
tbe Treasurer's office, aud bad ascer?
tained what was tbe amount of princi?
pal ahd accrued iutorest that hud been
funded under the Aot. It was then
that he had .expressed the opinion that
even if tbe Treasurer had committed a
mistake in giving 8400,000 of the new
bond*, for $600,000 of tbe pledged
bonds, the State would suffer no detri?
ment; bnt he viewed it only in a busi?
ness.point of view. He bad expressed
no -opinion as to tbe legality or ille?
gality of the funding of these hypo?
thecated bonds. A committee of tho'
General Assembly had deolared that I
those bonds were uot. lawfally hypo- j
thecated, and tbat tbey did not consti?
tute a valid and binding obligation of I
tbe State, that tbey had beon illegally |
funded. Upon this question he was
not. prepared to> express an opinion.
It was purely a legal question which he I
was fdroed to submit to tbe better
judgment >of those who were more
learned iu - fibo law than himself. Bat
independently of that, be thought there
was ample justification for condemn?
ing tbe course of the Treasurer, which,
in bis judgment, subjected him to
those; i proceedings, i There were
8li?eO/00O of1 Stato bond*' in New
York, which bad never passed out of
the h?UfU of -tub- ?tal?, but whioh had
been hypothecated for a loan of 8400,
000, sappodedtb-bare been made to
tbs Btfit,y.' What bo complained of war,
<nat fljgttt ,WW?Gyu, of these bonds
were presented, ,whioh the Treasurer
knew- to be the bonds of the State I
pledged InWeW'York, it Wae' his duty
go nave said , to the* period' who j pro?
Canted theni to-be funded, "Those
bonds,! when- last beard ? of, were tho
Rroper ty ef the State; I lvavo no infor?
mation that ^Uoy U'-ivz e?,or ocased tp
"ire
'?to*
He dlil uot do bo, and this mast be re*
garded as a great and culpable neglect
of duty, ovinoing a great disregard
of the pablio interest or gross ignor?
ance. Shell It be said that any State
officer shall undertake to redeem these
bonds, without making a single in?
quiry? Ho stood appalled at the pros
peots of the State finances, if soob
things oould be done unrobnked. It
was u gross oegleot of duty, aud the
Treasurer has furnished no evidence
that the fault has been rectified, or
that he has any information as to how
tho persons who presented these bonds
oamo in possession of them. It was
true, that when they were presented,
if the party presenting them hid
proved that ho pnrcbased them, or
that he was an innocent holder, they
shuitld have been funded; but not. ut
lea-t., until the title had been proved.
If S'JOU.0000 of these bonds muy be
taken in this way. tho entire 81,000,001)
might be taken, and the consolidated
! debt of the Stats increased 8800,000,
I in addition to tho $160,000 for which
I tho bouds were pledged. If the bunds
were still the properly of those who
advauoed the money tu tboStjfe when
the contract was made?and there w.ih
no ovideucu that they were not?both
demands are still standing. The mete
statement was sufficient to satisfy him
that there was gross neglect, if not u
gross violation of duty on the part of
the Treasurer. In addition to this, there
had been presented for funding ovor
$500,000 of detached coupons, some of
whioh belonged to these very bonds.
When these coupons were presented
to the State Treasurer, was I hern
not still more occasion for the exercise
of the utmost vigilance ou bis part?
This be regarded as a still more con?
spicuous, inexplicable and inconceiva?
ble neglect of duty?that uearly 8500.
000 of coupons should have, been
presented and funded without any iu
formation us to whether they bad beeu
previously paid or not. The defeuoe
was thnt there were 8582,000 of out
standing coupons against the State?
aoupous which had uot been paid. In
reply to this the report of the commit?
tee shows that the amount of interest
paid during the time in question, by
Kimpton and Parker, wsb more than
$?100,000, more than thoamouut stutod
by the Treasurer. It bad been con?
tended that the committee report was
based upon the estimates made by thi
Gomptroller-Generil. So much the
worse for the Treasurer. As to that
portiou of tbe report which charged a
division of the intere.it fund by the
Treasurer he entirely agreed with it.
Tbe law becomes a nullity if any of?
ficer of the Stuto Government muv
construe it according to bis judgment,
and, departing from tbe strict con?
struction, oonfound tbe various funds.
It seemed to be regarded by some as
an almost irreligious not to question
the oundnct of auy high official. Wbou
the State Treasurer was summoned be?
fore tbe bar of the House to give an
account of his fidelity and tbe honest
administration of the sffiirs of tbe
State, was be in any worse condition
than members would he when they
were called upon by the people to give
an account of their stewardship? The
eyes of tbe whole world wore concen?
trated upon this State, iu the effort to
redeem it from that system of corrup?
tion, fraud and robbery which had
prevailed for tho past six years. The
dominant party of the nation had sum?
moned the Republicans of tbe State to
put their bouse in order, and to reform
the errors and abuses of the past.
Shall we defend ourselves by saying
that in this case the officer stands too
high? Would that be an adequate de?
fence? No, sir; we stand here to do
our duty, aud, no matter who tbe man
may be, let us do it without pity, with?
out love and without fear. The higher
and more shining the mark, the
greater honor, tbe greater serviae will
we have rendered tbe pnblio morals
by oondemning him if he be guilty.
LoCISVUjXiE CoUKIBB JoUBNALTSMS.
Grant is a wiser and a sadder man to?
day. Let him taper off, abjure sack
and live clean. After all, it is better
to walk out than to be carried out ou a
stretcher.
Tbe overflowed Tennesseeaus are
engaged in ereotiug d?ns, but tbe
flood doesn't saem to mind them.
Good-bye, Beujamin. Exit Benja?
min. Get thee to a nunnery, Benja?
min. We'll none o' theo, Benjamin.
Thy jig is up. Thy comb is cot. Tby
goose is cooked. Vanish. Evaporate.
Skedaddle.
Tbe insertion, ia the sundry civil
appropriation bill, of the olause ap?
plying $10,000 for the continuation of
tbe building of tbo Custom House at
New Orleans, mast have been a mis?
take. It should have appeared in the
fortification bill, as the New Orleans
Custom House seems to be mainly
used 09 a Kellogg oitadel.
The great, tbe important day, big
with the fate of [Ccoiar] and of' Rome,
has come and gone, end there seems to
be still room for hopa for therepnblio.
The Civil Rights Bill is not so very bad
since it was toned down, -and has
yet to stand tbe test of tho judicial
r'ordoal. The Arkansas message is flat?
tened out under the Arkansas resolu?
tion. Senator Morton's project for
providing for tbe Presidential succes?
sion by perpetuation is among the
?broken relics of the seasion. The
Force Bill ban ponsed?into oblivion.
.Butler has withdrawn. Pinobbaok has
no seat. The tax bill is generally con?
ceded to be u heavy load on its friends.
General Graut ia not satisfied. Clay?
ton is disgusted^ and Kellogg has no
.bops bat id Sheridan. Tbo unbroken
Radical majority <in . brokenj and alto?
gether, tb^ prospect iu net utjpromiu
ICongressman Boffihgton. of Massa
busetts, is dead.
TUB STATE LKUl?liATl'HK.
Monday. Marcs 8, 1875.
SENATE.
Bills to amend an Aot to grant, re
new and amond tbo Charter? of oertuin
towns end villages therein mentioned,
as relates to village of St. Stephen's;
to amend an Act for incorporation of
town of Georgetown; to alter and
amend tho charter of German llifla
Ulub, of Charleston, und to rouuw aud
extend same; to inoorpoiuto Ashley
River Riilroad Cjnipauj, ohauged to
Acts.
Mr. Nadi presented claims of M. F.
Nixon, for making arrests under Go?
vernor's proclamation.
Mr. Giilurd iutroduoad a hili to
amend an Aot to regulato the election
of Mayor aud Aldermeu of the city of
Charleston.
Mr. Whillumorc?Dill to provide for
li?itig of vaunucies iu several Execu?
tive offices of tho Slate.
Mr. Androws? Bill to iucorpora*e
towa of Fort Motte, id lb*) Cmiily ? f
Oraugeburg.
Mr. SwaiIh introduced a resolution,
which was adopt od, that thu Attorney
[ General is hereby directed mid re?
quired to give his aid aud advice to
the Speoial Joiut Committeu of the
two houses in the .irraugemeut aud
preparation of the add res? to thu Go?
vernor, for the removal of F. L. Car
dozo from the office of State Treasurer,
and to utteud the two houses ou hear?
ing thereof, aud also to procure ser?
vice of 8UO? assistant counsel us be
may deem proper.
Ullis relative to COtl'.racts for Tin
plies for Executive Departments of
State Government and for General
Assembly; to amend an Act to mcor
p ?rat? Euterpriflrt lliilroad Compuuy, j
of Charleston, approved Maroh 1,
1870; to repeal ttu miiuh of uu Aot to
provide for (granting of certsiti char
tors as provide* for grantiug of char?
ters to military c ?uipauies, were
amende.1, passed and returned to tho
House.
R-solutiou that General Assembly
adjourn sine tlie Wednesday, Maren
10, 1S73. was ordered to lie uu table.
The Speaker of the House attended
in Senate, when the following were
ratified: Act to umeu 1 an Act to in?
corporate town of Blackstoch; joint
resolution authorizing (Jouuty Com
iniasiuuers of Orangeunrg to levy a
speoial lax; Acts to amend uu Act to
incorporate Caroliua Saviugd Mauli, of
OharleNfon; tn amend uu Act to incor?
porate E.lge?el 1 Cotton auil Wooleu
Manufacturing Company; relative to
State officers uud offices; to incorporate
Middlo Street Sullivan's I-daud itiil
wuy Compiiiy; to empower mechanics
to eell property left with them for re?
pairs after out) year; to uhauge names
of Jacob B. Ko >u und Augusta C.
Koon, ohildreu of Mary C. Kooo, of
Lexiugton, to that of Jacob B. Rawlu
and Augusta C. R*wls, and to legiti?
mize them as children of Birrott II
Rawls; to authorize and require County
Commissioners of Darliogiou to levy a
special tax, and for other purposes; to
incorporate Palmetto Oil aud Grease
Company, of Charleston; to vest cer?
tain real estate in city of Columbia,
liable to escheat, iu Solomon Auraauti;
to provide for payment of past due in?
debtedness of Chester Couuty; ?o
regulate appointment of Trial Jus?
tices in aud for Couuty of Sumter;
joiut robolutiou authorizing Couuty
Commissioners of Abbeville to levy
and cause to be collected special tax
of three mills on tho dollar; Acts to
incorporate town of Ridgeway, in the
Couuty of Fairfleld; to permit Couuty
Commissioners of Lexington to pay
out of taxes oolleoted for the present
fiscal year claims against Baid Couuty
for preceding nasal year, which have
been audited and ordered paid, but
which remain unpaid; to authorize
and empower County Commissioners
of Greenville to open aud establish a
public road; joint resolutions author?
izing and direotiog Trustees of State
Orphau Asylum to remove said insti?
tution from city of Charleston to Co?
lumbia; authorizing County Commis?
sioners of Marlboro to levy und oollect
special tax of 1 >.2 mills on the dollar
for payment of tbe past iudootednefs
of Haid County; Acts to charter Wal?
halla bank; to incorporate Street Rail?
way Company, of city of Greenville;
joint resolution authoring County
Commissioners of Olarendou and Fair
field to levy and oollect special tax of
1}.< mills on tho dollar for payment of
past due indebtedness of said Counties
and to regulate manuer of disbursing
same. p
A message wai received from the
Governor, stating that he had ap?
proved tbe following: Aot to provide
for payment of pant indebtedness of
Union Couuty; joint resolutions to
authorize County Commissioners of
Chesterfield to ievy r. special tax; to
levy and collect a speoial tax to pay
past due indebtedness of Spartacburg
County; authorizing County Commis?
sioners of Colleton to levy and collect
a special tax of two mills to pay past
due indebtedness; authorizing tbe
County Comissionors of Sumter to de?
vote one mill of the tax levied for
County purposes for the fiscal year
1874-75, to payment, of past duo in?
debtedness of said County.
I Joint resolution to authorizeSohool
Commissioner of Anderson County to
make oertain repairs upon the Greeley4
Sohool Honao, was ordered to lie on
table.
Mr. Cochran gave notico of a bill to
provido for deposit and safe-keeping of
I moneys of tbe State.
General and speoial orders, reports
of committees, oto., considered until
adjournment.- >
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
A number of claims of C. J. Hous?
ton and others were presented;;
Mr. Boston, from tbe eommittee ap?
pointed under joint resolution, and
instructed to repair to the County of
EJge&Vld for tbe purpose of investi?
gating and reporting the condition of
ufftirs, reported that, having daties to
discharge in tbe House and in stand
ing committees, that did not admit of
their proceeding immediately to tbe
County of Edgefield, they were com
polled to postpone, for a time tbe dis?
charge of the dnties imposed upon
them. In the meunwhile, all informa?
tion sought to be obtained by the ap?
pointment of this oouimittee bus
been officially furuiubed through (be
reports made to tbe Governor. This
being now the slate of the eise, fur?
ther proceeding?, on tbo part of tbe
committee, seem to be unnecessary,
and respectfully submit to tbo House,
that, from this consideration, and to
avoid farther expenditure of money,
they may be discharged from further
consideration of the subject. Re?
ceived us information und committee
discharged.
Bills to amend "An Act to incorpo?
rate curtain towns uud villages, and to
renew und amend certain charters
herotoforo granted," ratified 22d De?
cember, 1859; to provide for redemp?
tion of bills of the President and Di?
rectors of tbo Bank of the Sttte, wero
indefinitely postponed.
Tbe enacting clause of a bill to
??mend Section 29, Chapter XXV,
Title VI, Tart 1, of General Statutes,
relating to fees of Trial Justices aud
Sheriffi or Couitablea, was strickeu
out
Bill to provide for filling of noy va?
cancies thut may occur in certain Stute
offices, was read third time, aud or?
dered to Senate.
Joint resolution to provide for pay?
ment of cert,on moneys to S. W. Mc?
Kenzie; bills to authorize Town Coun?
cil of Florence to locate a new road
from said towu toward Durliugton
Court House; to uuthorizo Charleston
Mining und Manufacturing Company
to construct a private railroad troui
plantation known us "Maguolia," ou
Ashley River, alongside St. Audrew's
Roud, to Bee's Ferry Road; to confer
rights of legitimacy upon William H.
Priut, of Anderson Couuty, were read
third time, and titles changed to Act?.
A message, was received from Senate,
refusing to concur in amendment to bill
to provide for enumeration of inhabi?
tants of this State; House insisted ou
itrt amendments.
Title of a bill to authorize' County
Commissioners uf Nowberry to le*y
I aud collect 1,'J miils ou the dollar und
other m-itlsrs therein mentioned, was
changed to Uli Act.
A message was received from the
Governor, approving "au Aot to alter
.aud amend Mm code of procedure, be?
ing 'TiMe V, Part III, of General
Statutes."
A resolution to requre and direct tbo
Attorney-General to assist the com?
mittee ou uddress to the Governor de?
manding removal of F. L. Cardozo
I from office of Stato Treasurer, was
amended by striking out, "aud also to
procure tbe services of such assistant
I counsel in the business us be may
I deem proper."
A Staiit's a Stabt.?The people of
the United States may fairly date a
ui-w era from the out going of tbe Re?
publican oligarchy in tbo lower House
of Congress. 'The action of Congress
upon the Arkansas matter, aud tbe
failure of the Senate to act on the force
bill, take tbe inauguration of civil war
out of tbe President's hands. The
division of parties in the Government
gives us a guarantee of somethiug like
a Hcnue of responsibility in onr go
> vernors. Tbe game of the conspire
I tors is for tbe moment blocked. To
revive it, with any show of suooess,
depends rather npon tbe unwisdom of
tbe Democrats than upon any possible
devices of tbe Radicals; and there is
reason to believe that the Daaoorats,
North and South, are sober-minded
and conservative; that they will not fly
to extremes or fall into excesses; that,
they will be prudent and temperate,
setting an example of moderation even
in tbe reforms wbioh they will put on
draught, to tbo eager haste which has
marked the legislation of tbe last ten
years. Tbe policy of the Republican
party has been a system of experiments
and expedients, hot-headed and theo
rhetioal. Roconttr ction, from first to
last, was a bougie of inconsistencies,
the logic of war. as represented in the
praotioe of the period, being a compound
of timidity and hato, persecuting
to-day aud vacillating to-morrow, all
things by turns and nothing long,' ex?
cept the spirit whioh animated it,
keeping the South in a perpetual stew
and tbe whole! country in suspense.
Tbore has been no stability in the ad?
ministration of the General Govern?
ment since the war. The finances have
beep mismanaged. Tbo Iqriff hoe been
misdirected. At lerigth the7 people
oame to believe that they could not
worse themselves,*and do tbey hare
turned out the Radicals, and: propose
to try tbe Democrats a while. It ia
now in order for tbe leaders of the in*
coming party to see that tbe country
has not jumped out of the frying-pan
into the fire. Tbe Republicans will
never oome in again. Sot the Demo?
crats are taken on trial, and in order
to stay in they must approve them?
selves by their , works. We are told
'that a new broom sweeps clean. 6a!
this Demooratio ibroom in not a new
broom. It ia an old broom and, has
itself done some ogty sweeping iu lip,
time. It mast show that, though the
handle ia the same, li is Hopplied with
fresh straw. In other words; ,11 mbM
go-to work busily and i oiroamBppotly,
Sicking only the woruo'pla?ea and gra*.
oally goipg,,9yer jhe, .Uttered,, and
'dirty hprfaoo of aiYafrfl,. ,Meanwhile
the country may congratulate itself on
a change.- The spur is at last wtyb
, Brawn from' tbe war-horeo. Y/o are
to have' the check-rein awhile.. .', , - .,.
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Reading matter on every page.
Blaok-birds are beginning to pat ia
an appearance.
Tbe Oongaree is up again, anr] was
still rising last evening.
Tbe grace of conrteay often pours
oil upon trobled waters.
If the New York Tribun: ia right,
some one else, and" not C. C. P., has
been appointed minister Jto Belgium.
MoKsrs. J. C. Squier, of Winnsboro.
and Julius Poppe, of Anderson, are
authorized to dispose of tickets for the
real estate distribntiou in this city.
An accident on the Charlotte, Co?
lumbia and Augusta Railroad, near
Fort Mill*, on Sunday, detained tho
passenger train several hours.
To make room for his spring stock,
Mr. D. Epstin offers tho balance of hia
winter clothing at greatly reduced
prices.
The flue weather, yesterday after?
noon, attracted a great many persona
to the garrison grounds, to listen to
the d.-licious music fsreished by Prof.
Boohar's fine band.
It was Senator Cocbran, of Ander?
son, who introduced the resolution
relative to Treasurer Cardozo's bond,
on Saturday. The namo was accident?
al! y omitted.
In tho House, yesterday, the bill to
provide for the redemption of the bills
of the President and Directors of she
Bauk of the State, waa indefinitely
postponed, by a vote of ayes 63; nays
12.
Frank Camile, convicted of highway
robbety, aud Charles Smith, of man?
slaughter, were added to those al?
ready confined in the penitentiary,
yesterday; the former for a period of
five years, and the latter of four times
uve years.
The Columbia correspondent of the
New York Sun seems to have no meroy
on some of our officials, and is mak?
ing exposes which may pr ve damaging
in certain quarters. He seems, too,
to be blessed v.ith fine imaginative
powers.
The rain conliuued all Saturday
night aud part of Sunday, followed by
a regular gale of wind. Yesterday the
wind lulled, the rain clouds disap?
peared and for a while it was a square,
steady cold; but afterwards warm and
pleasant.
It seems evident that the members
of the Legislature are determined to
get round the violation of the Consti?
tution, relative to increasing their pay
from ?6 a day to $600 a year, by sitting
ont tbe 100. They bava alieady been
in session over seventy days, and the
end is not yet.
The reaignation of Comptroller
Qenerul H?ge has been accepted by
Qov. Chamberlain, and an eleotion
will at once be ordered, it is pre?
sumed. The retiring Comptroller has
acceptably filled the position, and the
management of his offloe bas been
highly commended by all parties. It
was through bis instrumentality that
several defaulting County Treasurers
were brought up with a abort torn.
No progress was made in the Car
dozo investigation matter, yesterday,
further than the adoption of a resolu?
tion in the Senate, to call upon the
Attorney-General, in his official capa?
city, to give the Joint. ?pJW?Ul8P.,J?i ?
aid of his legal eorviooa in.drawing tbo
letter to tbe Governor, demanding the
removsl of the Treasurer,1 and author?
ing the Joint Committee to employ
such other,legal advisers as |;bey may
need in the case. ?
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Death op an Old Citizen.?Mrs.
Elizabeth Lyons, relict of the late
Mr. Henry Lyons, departed this life,
yesterday, after a ehore and pain?
ful illness. Mrs. Lyons was*, wo bof
Hove, a native of Philadelphia, bot
had resided in Columbia for many
years. Many relatives and ; friends
[?will mouin her . Aweaen,., ,Her -age wee
about fifty?eeven? - < ""
List ov New Adyebtisbmbntb.
D. Gembrill?City Taxes. : .....,
Meeting Riohland Rifle Club.
J. T. Rhett? Keys Loot.
Meeting Columbia Ohapter.
Hot*l AnruvALS, March 8, 1875.~/
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PaW Duffle, H J Moroeo, Charleston;
A J Gheathsm, Md; Henry 8pr\rniok,
Aikon: John Febrecbalob, Ohio; Col
i-A Q Howard, Marion; RB Carpenter,
MdLutw/' W - H RosW??U;' Je toes ,
{Icwpuiil und v'ife,""Chester;. S Rot-.
, orrl, 1st Y; J Dxioher, Gs; A A Glover,
EdRefleld.
kMansion House?3 S C?lcs,. Chap
ell^ C R Morrlaon.r Doko;. Benj F
[arlour. Atlanta; G W Porrio, Rich?
mond; M P Pereons, S O; E G RobertfciW
Charleston;ThO? V Wicker, Nowborry;,
II D Hamitor, Riohland; T C Whit
worth, Va; R H Sorlvon, Savannah.