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% <4 I" fcrTFiHirriiiiiT:rTWifcMi ?tfia 11 iTftiiiifiaTgMiiB i _____ VOLUME XXXIII. ' CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1874. NUMBER 33. TflK CAMIK JOUBNAL AN Independent Family Paper. PCBLIIHXD WIZK.LT BT TKAITHAM + MAY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES . Om? y**r, in advance $2 60 tlx naatka 1 60 tkrM months ^ 76 i^tll T*?Unt Advart iaekientfl will be tkarged Oil Dollak per Squsrt for the first ist satbxry-riyb Cists per Sqaaro for Bask subsequent insertion. Single insertion, $110 par square. tfF" Transient Advertisements most be fall for in advance. PHOTOGRAPHS. a . i Tha undersigned haying returned and opened a gallery will be .pleased to see his friends. With more experience and IMPROVED APPARATUS he feels mote oapable than eyer before of pleasing the people. Oome and have your pictures Trrfr Vr*? grim Winter with kli frost sod snows pounces np? on ns. Qtllsry in Workman House. JLB.LEE. Cmrfu, 8. C., 8?pt. 11,1873. A FAMILY ARTICLE. If?ta Mki $12.60 par daj, $76 p?r WMk. All BNTIBBLY. NSW assise MACHINE VW PliMlU VN, ONLY FIVE DOLLARS. ' With tk* New Patont BUTTON HOLS WO{RKlE PaUatad Jua?7th, 1671. AWAXDMD TH HMT FEPfTDM AT TBI icnucjLX LsmrtJTK AlOMAXTLAJn) uorriTUTs PAOta, len. Ml woaadtrftal and olagantlj conatnaoWd toVDM MAOKUlYor Family Wtrk. Com. {! * ia all it* Part*, Usm tht Straight Ay? Kwhrf JTmB*. Bnt TaWADiKO, dirtct up right Pwuiti Motion,d Now Tension, Self Vedfl sad Cloth Guidsr. Operates bt Whbil ud ftf a Tani. Light Running. Smooth and Mini?, like all food high-priced machines. Mas Patent Cluck to prevent the wheel being tamed the wrong way. Uses the thread Street frees the spool. Makes the Elastic Look fmoi, (inest and strongest stioh known;! irm, durable, elose and rapid. Will da all Binds of work, fuu and eoaree, from Camanac to hoary Cloth or LBAyjua, and nftea all deoeriptions of thread. ThisMachine k kbatut ooesTBocrsD to giro it STftnaOTH; all the pot* *f each Machine being made alike Iy si as* is try, and beautifully finished and or i??' It is easy to learn. Rapid, Smooth and RUmt in operation. Reliable at all times, and ft PnacnoAL, ScinvTinc, Micbajucal bmurtxon, at ft Greatly Reduced Price. A flood. Cheap Family Sewing Machine at last, f he Aset and only success in producing ft Tahuble, substantial and reliable low prieftd dewing Machine. Its extreme low price Beaches all conditional Its simplicity and strength adapts it to all capacities, while its aaay merits make it a universal favorite whsforat used, and creates a rapid demand. IT IS ALL IT IS KBCOH.KKNX>ED. I aaa cheerfully and confidently recommend Ms nsoto those who are wanting a really good lisisi Machine, at a low price. Mas. H. B. JAME80N, P so tone. Will County, 111. Prissof sac)( Machine. "Class A." "One," (warranted for five years by special cert 14 safiA) with alt the fixturu, and everything complete belonging to it, including Silt Tbkiadum Rinnan, packed In a strong wooden box, asd dsUrcrort toauy part at the country, by >Threes, mm of further charges, on receipt of prion, only Pirn Dollabs. Barn delivery guaranteed With each Machine we will send, em receipt of $1 extra, the new patent. BUTTON HOLE WORKER, Owe at the most Important and useful inventions at the age. So simple and certain, that a ehild saa work the finest button hols with regnJarUy and ease. Strong and beautiful. Smoiax Tanas, end Extra Inducements to Iau aad Fisau Agent*, Store Keepers, Ac. who will establish agencies though ths country smd and keep oar Nxw Macbixis on Exmtttm sad Sale. Cocbtt Rights given to matt agents run. Agent's complete outfit, famished without any bxtxa chasos. Sam M NiMMf, descriptive circulars contain, ing Arm, Testimonials, Engravings, As., ft*., Nltnu. We alto supply AflKJCTLTUHAL IMPLFlffcrrS. Iltl* PatHti and Improvements for the Vimial Oardea. Mow#r?, Reapers, Cul. tieators, Feed Cutters, Harrows, Farm Mills, Htfiwi. Harvesters, Threshers and all artieles aeeded far Farm vork. Rare Seeds in large variety. All moneysent in Poet OSes Meaey Orders, Bank Drafts, or by express, will be at oar risk, and are perfectly secure. Safe delivery of all our goods guaranteed "An old and responsible inn that sell the beet goods at the lowest prise, and can be relied npon by ear readers."?Farmrr't Joursslt'-Fito York. J0T Tfot RupontibU for RtguUrtd Lttttrt. Ambbss Oanans JEROME B. HUDSON A Co., Corner Orsonwioh ft Cortlandt Streets, N. T Sept. 26, 6m. asrmAtiPV Me U/ITT CD WIBHWriEi T W nil! kilt AUCTION AND C?Mi?ion Merchants, Brosd-St. Camden, S. 0. Will attaad to the selling of Real Ertats, MniIhUm, Product, to. BtiiMN entrusted to thoir oar* will moot with prompt attention. litvsi mad# as ?oon aa tales are effeoted. KING'S MOUNTAIN Military School^ YORKVILLE, S. C. TM> Institution it fully supplied with arms aad all ntotseary tcieatiflo apparatus; aad the reseat ezteatiou of the course of studies plants it la the front raak of South era Educa* tioaal Institutions. The first session of 1874, will begin on ths 2ND OP PIBBUART.? Apply for eatalogne nontaining full particufst. A COWARD/ Principal. ate Yv&P mm? vnrfldtim? nnim? dfmwiv 1UA fATUiUXA ilUIILD lmiUAUl. This unrivalled Medicine is warranted mat to contain a ainglo partidle of MxacukT, or nay injurioua mineral subsance, bat it Purely Veg-etable, containing those Southern Roots and Herbs which an all-wise Providence has plaoed in oountries where Liver Diseases most prevail. It will euro all Dioeatoo cauttd by Dorangomont of Ihe Livtr or Bowtls. Simmons' Liver Regulator, or Medicine, Is eminently a Family Medicine: and by being kept ready for immediate resort will save saany an hour of suffering and many a dollar in time and doctors' bills. After~over forty years' trial, it is still receiving the most unqualified testimonials te its virtues from persons of the highest character and responsibility. Eminent physicians commend it as the most EFFECTUAL. REMEDY Y For Dpepepsia, or Indigreatioxx. Armed with this ANTIDOTE all climates and changes of water and food may be faced without fear, Asa remedy for MALARIO US FEVERS, BOWEL COMPLAINTS, RESTLESSNESS, JAUNDICE, NAUSEA, IT HAS NO EQUAL. It is the cheapest, the purest and best Family (Medicine in the world. MAJTUTaCTUKBD 010.T IT J. H. ZEILIN & CO., MACON, OA. AND PHILADELPHIA. Price $100- Sold by all Druggists. January 1, 1878. 12m FALL AID Winter Goods I A.T jr. A T. I. JOKE'S CHEAP Cj^lSih: store Our 8tock of General Merchandize, Consisting in part, of IDIRTZ- GOODS, Groceries, Hardware, Cutlery, Boots, & Shoes, Notions, Hats, &c. Will be sold at the very lowest prices for cash or its equivalent in barter. Ill Goods sold by us are warranted as represented We have a large and well selected stock 01 North Carolina Shoes, Which we offer at low figures. We pay the highest market prices for Oottoo and other Country Froduoe. Agents for Neblett 4 Goodrich's Cotton Gins, which we offer at Manufacturer's prices. 19"All Goods purchased by parties re ding within the corporate limits of the town will be delivered by us free of charge J & T- I. JONES. Camden, Sept. 25. tf. Bagging, Ties, &c. 40 bales BAGGING, various brands, ? tons ARROW TIES. MACKAREL. in barrels, half-barrels, quar rels, kits and at retail. CROCKERY. Ac. Ac. ^ AAAlVAf) lktT \9 UOV IVVVITCU J. & T. I. JONES. August 28. tf Bagging* and Ties. 10,000 yards BAGGING 25,000 pounds TIES. For sale by BAUM BBO. Butter and Cheene. 50 boxes CHEESE, 25 firkins GOSHEN BUTTER. For sale by BAUM BRO. NOTICE. All person* indebted to me ere requested to pay up immediately. Those who do not eomply with this request by the 10th of Janvary, 1874, will find their notes in the hands of an Attorney for collection. 1 shall remain Camden until the first of April, and will hare a lot of fine Horses and Mules always on hand, which will be sold lowsr than slsewhersin South Carolina. W. H. HUDSON. Doc. 26. tf; * * A Bridegroom's Troubles. IDIOTIC PROCEEDINGS IN IOWA?A BRIDE NAILED IN. i Last night a party drove up, assembled in the parlor of a hotel, and sent for the ^ landlord. They had come in from the prairie, and were in search of an official to tie the knot that should make them one ^ and inseparable forevermore. I was in- ( vited to witness the ceremony, and, as- ^ cending to the parlor, found the expectant ( bridegroom, a man about forty years of . age, and a fair and blushing damsel of ( sweet sixteen, waiting impatiently the ar- ( rival of the parson. For somp reason no preacher could be fonnd, and they were ^ obliged to fall back at last upon a very ] young fellow, a newly elected Justice of I the peace, who had never before officiated j at a ceremony of this kind. He was very nervous at the idea of having to perform the ceremony, and brought with him a copy of "Every Man His Own Lawyer," through which he looked for tho desired form. Not 6nding any, and the crowd growing impatient, ho told the couple to stand up and hold up their right hands. This done, he pronounced the following charge: "You, and each of you, do solemnly swear that in the case now upon hearing you will tell the truth, the whole truth,'and nothing but the truth, and that you will love, honor, cherish and obey each other during the term of your natural lives, so help you Hod." Both answered solemnly, "I will." Then the justice charged them a dollar each, and pronounced them man and wife. One of the friends then produced a jug of whisky from their deigh, and proceeded to compound a > punch, of which the whole party drank j freely, and then had a dance. As they ; * w _ iL I could nod do music, meir cnons were | j principally confined to jigs and break ^ downs. At last the party concluded to put j the happy couple to bed. The bride was 1 ( willing to go, because she said she was , ( tired, and her shoes pinched her feet, j j The girls of the party took her off to her ohamber, and soon announced to the i | bridegroom that everything was ready, i | The fellows then intimated to the ^ride j groom that they proposed to divest him of | ^ hi* wearing tpparcl. Ho ob-ccio<l, und , ] then a scuffle commenced. The bridej ' groom was strong as an ox, and. getting } angry, he blackened one fellow's eye, and j tore another oue'scoat off bis back. In j ( the turmoil tho whole party got out of the room, and went to the saloon close by and took a drink. In spite of all persuasions, the newly married man declared that he ( was not going to let them take off his i clothes. His friends then got a rope. ( and, making a noose, slipped it over his , head and tried to drag him up stairs. They noarly choked him to death, when ( the doctor interfered, and cut tho rope. ( ^Then they fastened it to his legs, and, in ( trying to drag him up stairs, broke a lounge and tore down half tho balustrade. j, Finding they could not get him up stairs, j they went up to see if they could not make the bride get up and come down. Hut she j had locked tho door, and would not let the ( crowd in. Some of them got a hammer , and nails, and getting a ladder, put it upon , the outside of the house, and climbed into { the bride's apartment and nailed up the | door firmly, saying if the bridegroom , would not let them put him to Led, he should not get into the room anyhow. 1 They hid the ladder and went off. Tho ( happy man finding the way clonr, walked | quietly to his room and attempted to enter. , He could not get in, and he shouted. "My ( dear, open the door." She informed him , that it was nailed up. He then tried to , kick it open, when the landlord interfered, j and told him h?* was not going to have his , furniture and house ruined in that way. j He went out and tried to find the ladder, j L ?a U? /Ja if A f loaf onnid fin/* UUb UU WUUiU UUb UV lb. 41V IH9V nvutw vi>? remembered that a lightning-rud man had some ladders at the other barn, and down the newly married bouI hastened, and at 5.30 in the morning succeeded in joining bis bride in the room above. '; Council Bluffi Xcha. 11 I j The third annual statement of the p??rk packing operations this season in the West i have jqst been published. Returns from i 389 points and 21 additional estimated, 11 gives total packing of hogs, to date, of I 4,700,000. Estimated for the season , i 393,000. Packed at these points lust sea- i son. 5,526000. Hogs packed this season equal to 4,774:000 of last year's average weight. The estimated decrease in average weight is ten per cent, showing a decrease i of 176,000,000 in the aggregate weight. ' i Decrease in the production of hams, shoul- i ders and sides is estimated at 106,000,. | 000 pounds. The falling off in yield of lard is estimated at seven pounds per hog, being an aggregate decrease of 46,000,. 000 pounds, equivalent to 143,000 tierces. The sugar crop of Louisiana is estimated for this season at 100,000 hogsheads. Northerners at the South. The Springfield Republican, commenting upon the debate between Senators Merrimon and Edmunds, says : We share in Mr. Edmunds' pleasure at learning from the lips of a Southern Senitor of Mr. Mcrrimon's standing, that in it least one Southern State the natives ire beginning to get the nonsense out of iheir heads and the rancor out of their hearts, and to heed the apostolic injunct tion about using hospitality, and entertain ing strangers. Tho quicker and more thorough the process, Jthe better for North Carolina, and the coihltry at large. We :ould wish, though, that he had not laid such a strong accent on the word "gentlemen," or that he had taken time to explain what he meant by that uiuch ubused term. "Gentleman" used to mean, on 3outhern lips, a man who had a greatgrandfather, and a larger or smaller number of (unpaid) servants?a man who didn't earn his own living. But the great mass of our Northern people have neither joat of arms nor family portraits, and they earn their own living It is these bonest, hard working, frugal people? small farmers, artisans, mechanics, thrifty trades-people?whom the South most aecds to-dav. They can do a great deal more for her, if she will let them, than she :an hope for from the capital classes par xeellence?the millionaire railroad men, manufacturers or real astato speculators. But these people have a New England pride of their own, and as Mr. Edmunds :oId his friend irom ixortn uaronna, uiey ire not going anvwbero, where they can tot take their pride along with them, villi the assurance that it will be sufe from outrage. We wish Mr. Merrimou md bid fur this kind of immigration a little ^ore explicitly. We nre afraid, too, that it will hardly jo prudent to argue from, the state of hings in North Carolina to a goncralica,ion embracing the entire South. Mr. Kduiutids might have reminded Mr Merrimon that the latter State iiud always been rather looked dowu upon and snubbed by their neighbors, as deficient in blood, gentility, "Southernisui. ' We susjieet there are stilly fioo&uywjt) commitaitics in wliich a Vunkc^^f'uriio r, shoemaker or storekeeper, would find himself rather lonesome, and his wife exceedingly bomesick. Dr. Henry W. Bellows, a very >on?ervative man by temperament, and not ^ivcu to exaggeration, writes from Florila to this paper : "The skin is tolerably unooth, but under it tho Soul born flesh jreons still, and is very sore and exasperited towards the North. While Northjrncrs arc treated civilly, there is very it tic social communication between North ind South, mid the bitter feeling toward he Xni tli is far from being fol'tened, Jf concealed. It will take a whole generalion to change this Marah into a sweet tpriiig." And the most enlightened of Southern newspapers, the Louisville Covrin- Journal, is at this moment engaged?more power to its elbow!?in an attempt in persuade the Kentucky legislature and people, that immigration would be a good tlting for the people of the State, and that the old cry of "Kentucky for Keninckians,"has outlived its usefulness. TiieIUnkiiupt Law.?The New York Bulletin throws considerable light on some of'the objectionable features of the bankrupt law by reporting the answers of well known merchants and business men [Dodge. < laflin, Opdyke, Mayor Havetnoyer, &c.) to categorical (juestions regarding the working of the law. These gentlemen, to the number of a dozen, are almost unanimous in the opinion that the law. as it stands at present, has not benefited the commercial community, and is not an i ff. cttinl un ans of collecting debts Mr. Dodge says he has got dividends in only twelve or fifteen out of one hundred uid twenty-five eases and Mr. ('laflin that 'out of thousands of cases they have rarely reooveud anything, the little that is realized bo ng eaten up by the expenses of passing tin ugh the court." On the nthhand. Mr. Dodge says that "in private settlements we have always received something. and never so low as fifty cents 011 the dollar.'' but this is partially owing to the fact that the most promising failures are settled in this way. Complaint is also made of the excessive fees, an I on the whole, these opinions do not confirm Mr. Jenckes's view that this is a -business man's law . and not a lawyer's latv." Tlmt the country needs permanently ;in equitable and iiiexpRUKtvo bankrupt law there can be no d ubt, ami it in tin- duty of Congress to so amend the present Imw as to make it such. Andrew Jackson wns accused of bad spelling, but John Kundoiph defended him by declaring that "n man must be a fool who couldn't spell a Wold more wny s than one." A Debtor For Life. A STRANOE STOP.Y. Twenty-five years ago, a young physician named Weiting, of Syracuse, N. Y., was just beginning to reap coiumensurate reward for a previous career of self-denying industry and needy endurance?having developed an ability as a professional lecturer by which both reputation arid profit were coming to him rapidly. A part of the gratification ho experienced in this rise was in the thought that it would enable him, possibly, to help some "forlorn and ship-wreckctf brother;" wherever he went his heart and hand were ever ready for kind and generous deeds, and in addressing an audience he was quick to discern in it any apparently poor student, to whoso suppositious case might bo addressed words of cheer and sympathy. During a series of lectures on physiology and the laws of health, at Quincy. Mass., in the winter of 1PI9, he noticed among the regular students a palcfaced, poorlyattired. and singularly intellectual-looking young manv whose earnest attention and fixed gaxe individualized him to such a degree in his observation, that at last he found himselfalmost designating him specially, in some of his remarks. From Quincy the lecturer went with his course to Plymouth in the same State, and when there, again the strange youth appeared as one of his auditors.* He determined to ascertain who he was, but before he could take the ordinary step!; to such end, the faithful follower undertook his own introduction. j After the lecture, one evening, the j ; youthful stranger sought the Doctor on j ; the platform, and giving his name as W. j ! Z. Wright. aBked the privilege of n brief! conversation. He was. he said, a poor ' iMassnchiuetts boy, not yet of age, without; relatives or friends, who felt in himself a j possibility of great things, and an irresistible inspiration to find some one who j had the mind and means to assist. Accij dent had led him to attend the first lecture in Quincy, when at first sight of the declarer's face he had been impressed with tenxo of * peculiar natural sympathy between theui. Aside from the matter of scientific discourse, the speaker's peisonality had exercised a magnetic influence over him, not to be described or resisted, so that he had been compelled to follow to Plymouth. It was his final conviction that the speaker who so influenced him, could be no i-olinr 1I1111 tlii> friend whom his uvtivt o* I J needs had instigated him to look for, and ' in this belief he now wished to submit a I certain proposition. The California gold fever had just bro! ken out; ho felt absolutely sure that if he could go out as a miner, it would be to j certain riches, and his proposition was, I i that in consideration of receiving half of : ! the proceeds of the golden venture, the I lecturer should supply him with a pecuni. ' ary outfit of one thousand dollars. ' 1 shall surely succeed," concluded the youth, with singular earnestness of manner. "Only lend me the sum i ask, and have faith in my honesty, and I will make fortunes for both of us. Trust mo, and trnti ahull find me true !'' Extraordinary and incongruous us this proposition to a scientific lecturer was, Dr. Weiting did not receive it so astoundedly us a more ordinary person might have done. The stranger hud magnetized him in his turn, and the disposition to charity, of which previous mention has been made, inclined him to take a peculiar view of the curious application. Hence, instead of dismissing the applicant us a lunatic, or as a very audacious and shallow impostor, he told liiui to cull upon him at his rooms on the following day. Nor did subsequent reflection, and conversation with his more worldly uiinded i who was his business agent induce I the benevolent lecturer to think worse of his would bo Californinn. In short, at I the next appointed interview, he thought still more highly of the youth's sincerity, ability and confident mission, and after an earnest conversation ,bade the youth come with him to Boston, where the money should be given him. ' Wright went to that eitj, of course, re! eeived the thousand dollars, and, with the words repeated, "you shall find mo true." departed quietly and resolutely for the gold-fields of the Pacific Slope. By in- 1 compatible instinct, rather than reason.Dr. I Wciling felt sure that his generosity in so j | trusting a strange boy, bad not been fool- J j ish?sure that he and Wright had been predestined to a mutually beneficent assoi cintion, and that the generous act would | he blessed. Nor was his blind problematic faith disappointed. Within two years he received from bis absent debtor from various ad dresses in California mines, no less than five thousand dollars in gold. Writing at last to say that he was already munificently overpaid for his benefaction, and to release his grateful correspondent from all possible future obligation, he was answered that the contract for the half of all mining gains still held good, and should never be foregone.? "The obligation of the contract is as much with my maker as with you," wrote the Californian, "and I insist upon paying according to my agreement" So at intervals of months, from year to year, but no lon?rer with!:nlaces of address given, the o ? w overwhelmed benefactor was the recipient of the golden shipments, until 1862 the sum9 which had bei>n sent amounted to about forty thousand dollars. Soon after, these splendid figures had been reached, there came another surprise. The voluntry debtor wrote that he was about entering a business enterprise requiring thirty thousand dollars more capital than he had at command and begged his benefactor to lend him that amount. Here again another man might have hesitated, but the Doctor with faith unshaken freely sont the money, even at great inconvenito himself, in those war times. In 1864 it came back to him with full interest and with it another letter expressing the most ardent gratitude to his benefactor. "You doubtless think/' concluded the writer ' that you have already been well repaid for your kindness, but the time is coming when you shall rcceivo further proof of my gratitude. You will yet be the possessor of a larger frntuno than you ever thought.possible." But since the Jotter so ending, and without address, Dr. Weit ing has never heard again from Wright. Whether the grateful Californian is dead, or has experienced reverses of fortune which he cares not to reveal, is unknown to his benefactor, whose^etters to California, inquiries and messages, have ail proved unavailing to solve the mystery.? Hence it is, after all, in a most unsatisfactory condition of incompleteness that the remarkable narrative finally comes to public knowledge; but this artistic effect is moro than counterbalanced by tbe high and fairly poetic humanity running through the given facta. Mid the fine spirit ot inatHy trutsf-und consummate fidelity characterising the respective actors in this drama of faith.?Happy Home. As Example.?Thee people of the Southern States, who are desirous of securing white immigration, may perhaps gain hints of value from the experience of Maine iu colonizing New Sweden, in the northern wilderness of that State. In December, 1871, the colony of New Sweden was founded, and it now numbers six hundred souls. The colonists have taken up twenty thousand acres of land, have felled twenty-two hundred acres of forest, and have seeded four huudred acres of mvic.2 Linft Tlio Stnlr. furnished the ........ Swedes, from the founding of the colony* in 1S71, to September 30, 1S73, the sum of *24,321, of which the Swedes have repaid $3,028 in labor on public roads, leaving a balance of little more than ?1(3,000. which is to be paid in road labor when wanted. Provisions and tools were tbo principal articles supplied to the colonists by the State which also put up twenty six houses to receive them on their arrival. Since then the Swedes have built one hundred and four houses, one hundred and thirty barus, two steam shiuglo mills, and one water power saw-uiill. One hundred and thirty men of the colony have declared their intention ofbccoming American citizens. Hut this is not all. In addition to the six hundred Swedes in New Sweden, there are nine hundred friends and relations of the colonists scattered through the State, adding, by their industry, to the wealth of the community. Tho fifteen hundred Swedes in Maine all paid their passage to this country, anJ brought witli them one hundred thousand dollars in cask. It is esteemed that as a producing force these immigrants are worth one million five hundred thousand dollars to the State, all this has been accomplished by the intelligent expenditure of twenty thousand dollars, a third of which has already been repaid iu labor on public works, and the remainder of which will also he repaid in duo time. Forfkitkd Lands.?- A glance at the list of lands forfeited to the State of South Carolina for the non-payment of taxes during the year ending October 31, 1873, shews how generally and thoroughly the people of that State have been impoverish. ?d by their carpet-bag and scalawag rul The whole amount of delinquent payments was 822,858, and for the failure to pay this no loss than 208,553 acres of land and 309 buildings were sold. It is also stated that the amount of delinquent laxcs as first levied was only 820,903, the differentia between this and tha amount collected, $,858? being made up by th? penalties, costs and fees imposed upon delinquents. Tbeso are the perquisite* which fall to the lot of the men who rule South Carolina. It is no wonder that the people of that State pray for deliverance from such a band of corrupt extortionists. Ml. (JV. J.) Herald. Troops in the South.?The following is the first of the testimony given by the military commander of this department, and is worthy of the attention of our rea ders : Major-General McDowell, commanding the Department of the South, appeared before the House Military Committee and made a full statement of the present conditions and needs of the army in the South* em States. He is clearly of the opinion that no further reduction of the troups in that section is eithor wise or practicable this year.- The number of men nuder hid command is between three and four thou.** and. They arc scattered at the poms ail over the South, there being not more thuo three hundred or four hundred m?a at tl^e largest post. This number includes all wbo are doing garrison doty at the fortifications on the coast. There are only * fourteen companies, numbering less than one thousand men in all, for the Stales of Mississippi and Louisiana. All the cavalry, numbering one thousand men, were taken away a year ago, and sent to guard the Hue of the Northern Pacific Bail iioad. The general informed the committee that it was the policy of the government to interfere as rarely and as slightly as possible iu the affairs of tbe South. The priuci pal service of the troops is in aiding the United States Marshals in serving their writs. The troops were really no more than a national police, and not much if any larger than the police force of >Tew York city. Matters were gonerally peaceful in the South, but thore wouldcoutiuuo to be a good deal of friction betweeu the two races for some time to come, and it is well for Congress to consider whether the moral effect of maintaining a certain military force in the South can be dispensed with. The General emphasizes the necessity of keeping up the moral force of the army as a means of preventing disor- N to alla^Lellng, wherSVliP ft *11 pUMtWe ' to do so, and has mingled freely with both sides. He ridiculed the idea that there was such a thing as a bayonet anywhere in the South, or any necessity for it; yet he believed ? certain amount of military force necessary at present. He gave to the committee detailed statements of his forces and thejr whereabouts. Under the circumstances it is hardly probable that w;i1 krt VMA/In in OonnrA. ttUJf 1CUU VV1UU nut UV uiuuw ?u McDowell's department. Spain, during less than a year past, ha had seven different governments. The Republic was proclaimed last February, and since then there have been two cabinets under the premiership of Figueras, two under Margall, one under Saluiuron, one under Castelar, and the present one Serrano. Whilst five statesmen have thus at different times during the year been at the head of the government, there have been six different finance ministers, and the London Timts says they have managed 'to bring the credit of the country to a level with that of most petty -;id dishonest of defaulting States." It is a curious fact that the intelligence of the overthrow of the Spanish Republic caustd uy advance of about one per cent, in Spanish bonds on the London Stock Exchange. Ann Elita on Mormokibm.?Ann Eliza Young, nineteenth wife of the much married Mormon prophet, and now in search of a divorce and alimony, has advanced as far eastward as St. Louis, ou a lecturing excursion, her exhaustless aubi ject being the sins of Mormonism. Or of Mormon polygamy. From the brief report given of the St. Louis lecture, al:o evidently speaks as one having authority. She is sharp, and earnest, she knows whereof she speaks, and she rakos the ? i fnrn ft nil ..ill poivgauiuua aaiuto V4 v?w? -v.v .S!ic describes from experience the heartburnings, the strife, the docoption, the unspeakable misery and degradation of Mormon polygamy. She denounces it m without one redeeming feature and a* utterly diabolical and repulsive. She re* joices in her emancipation from this loathsome system of bondage, and is in a fair way to turn it to a good account. It is said that oho is on her way to Washington to illuminate the darkness of the Mormon system of many wives before the benighted law-wnkers of Congress. A couple at Woodville, Iowa, have been divorced four times, and now contemplate a firth rc-union. , "Anti-breach-of-promise" ink. warranted to fade away in a month, is a London invention