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VOLUME XXXIII. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH S0, 1874. NUMBER UU.
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Hampden Sidney College. (
THE next session of this Seminary of learn
ing will commence on Thursday, September
4th, 1873.
Hampden Sidney is 8ituated in Prince Ed- 1
ward Caunty, Va., within a few hundred
yards of Union Theological 8eminary, and
seren miles from Farmrillethe nearest depot .
of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Rail- *
road. The locality of the College is most
bealthr. and the community around distin
guished for intelligence and piety.
There is no Grammar or Preparatory School ?
connected with the College. It retains the
curriculum and the great aim of its teachers
ie to secure thoroughness in the training and
instruction of their pupils and thus to preEire
them for professional studies or the acre
duties of life.
I The ordinary expenses of a student exclusive
of the cost of clothing, travelling and Q
fcooks, are from $225 to $275 a year
V For Catalogue and further information ap^
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J PresidentJHampden Sidney College,
V * Prince Edward County, Va
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Returns made as aoon as sales are effected.
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109 kits MACKEREL,
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my injurious mineral subsance', but is
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ontaining those Southern Roots and Hsrbs
vhich an all-wise Providence has*placed in
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ommend it as the most
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For Dpspepsia, or Indigestion.
Lrmed with this antidote all climates
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jaundice, nausea,
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t is the cheapest, the purest aud best Family
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January 1, 1878. 12m
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January 1. tf
A Scene in the Legislature.
We chpy from the letter of "Vidette,"
the Columbia correspondent of the Charles
ton Xcws ami Courier, the following account
of the difficulty in tho House of
Representatives, at Columbia, on the night
of the 12th inst.:
"It was about this time that, in the language
of the minstrel people,
THE TROUBLE COMMENCED.
The House, after disposing of this matter,
proceeded to take kup the bills on the
calendar, but it was up hill work in consequence
of the quantity of bad whiskey
which had been so freely imbibed by
some of the rural members. Dannerly, of
rv i 1 i i .v u
wraugeuurg, iiuu vy tuis wine u ecu me au
drunk and in his inebriation developed
his combativeness to such an extent,
that it was a difficult thing to keep him
squelched, notwithstanding the fact that
the services of the sergeant-at arms were
called into requisition. A discussion arose
upon the bill to amend Part 4, Title 1,
Chapter 136 of the General Statutes.?
The bill proposed to strike out Section 9
of the chapter in question, which, it
seems, is a kind of civil rights sectionj
prescribing a penalty for distinctions on
account of race or color by railroads and
steamboats. It was upon this that Dannerly
spread himself. After a good deal
of persuasion he was, however, silenced,
and, a vote being reached, the enacting
clause of the bill was stricken out.
BROKE UP IN A ROW
' The next bill which came up for a second
reading .vas the Senate bill to amend
the act to regulate the pay of the members '
of the General Assembly. Tho bill pro-,
vides that each member of the General
Assembly, hereafter, shall receive such
per diem compensation for each regular
session as will amount to, and not exceed
?600, and the further sum of 20 cents foi^
every mile of ordinary route of travel iu
going to and returning from the sessions
of the General Assembly. And when ,
convened in extra session, each member
shall receive the same per dieui compensation,
not exceeding in tho aggregate
three hundred and fifty dollars and mileage,
as are fixed by law for the regular
session, and none other. Bowlcy moved
to amend by striking out the word "six"
and insert seven dollars per diem, <tc.?
This caused the member f&om Orange!?!?
f?linpa
being too affected to allow him to sit still.
His articulation by this time hud become
very husky and his patriotism under the
influence of bad whiskey bubbled from him.
He was called to order, but he refused to
come to order for the "G damnation
crowd." The sergeant-at-arms attempted
to remove the honorable member, but he :
resisted and drew
A PERSUADER WITH POUR BARRELS,
silver-mounted and loaded with slugs, by
the assistance of which he completely demoralized
the sub-sergeant-at arms and a
half dozen deputies, and put them to in
glorious flight. Several members made a
rush to get to tho bellicose representative, j
but his colleague, H. Riley, another color- ;
ed member from Orangeburg, rallied to i
his support, and grabbing him by the collar
with one hand, kept the crowd at bay
with the other
PISTOLS WERE DRAWN,
and sixteen dollar cuspadors, desks, chairs,
and inkstands overturned in the melcc
which ensued. For a considerable length
of time the Orangeburg delegation kept
the floor, and remained masters of the
situation. Tho sergeant-at arms was not
present, and his deputies evidently entertained
a wholesome dread of the "persuaders"
which were flourished around so
promiscuously. In the meantime, the
seats in the vicinity of the row wero
hastily vacated, and those members of
the House who seemed more inclined to
peuce thau to war, made tracks for the
door. The speaker rapped his gavel industriously,
and called upon the scrgeantat-arms
to
DO HIS Ol'TT,
but the person who was acting in that capacity
*as powerless to do anything.?
Dannrrly and bis colleague, in the meantime,
kept up an incessant firo of oaths,
and still held their position. In this
emergency, Howl :y, the colored chairmnn
of the committee on ways and means, Sam
Greei, of Beaufort, Lilly, of Chester, and
one->r two other colored members who
weie evidently not afraid of Orangeburg
peiuaders, made a rush at the belligerent
numbers, seized their pistols, and bore
nem bodily out of the House. This done,
|uiot for a time was restored. Soveral of
he pale-faced brethren, who had taken
emporary refuge beneath the desks,
imerged from their hiding-places, and the
douse at once addressed itself to ths sub*
ect of vindicating its wounded dignity.
SWIFT PUNISHMENT.
Minort, of Richland, introduced a rcsoLutim
expelling both members from j
! Orangeburg. Hurley thought that they
ought to be first brought toihe bar of the
House, and this was accordingly done.?
Riley, who is a black man, and who seems
Vo have been forced into the row by a
desiro to protect his colleague Dannerly,
first came up. To him the speaker said :
"You have been charged by the House
with conduct unbecoming a gentleman
and a member of the Legislature. Do you
desire to make any explanation ?" Riley
replied that "he had only tried to quiet
his colleague when the members crowded
around him; he knew that Dannerly wasn't
conducting himself right, but didn't want
to see him crowded. Ii the House would
take him at any other time be could talk,
but now that he was in the heat of passion,
it was in him and had-to come out.
He was sorry for what he had done, and
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oeggeu paruon in tun uuucc, a*j 4Ufc
which he withdrew. The House decided
to take up each case separately, and consider
Riley's case first. Bowley hoped that
swift and prompt punishment would be
meted out to the offenders.
AN EXCUSE FROM AN UNEXPDCTEE
SOURCE.
Crittenden, of Greenville, was more intimately
acquainted with Mr. Pannerly
than any member of the House, and he
regarded him as one of the most honest
and high minded members of the General
Assembly. He knew that the demon
liquor had caused the disturbance, and
many men of higher intellect than the
member had fallen under its influence.?
He hoped that the House would excuse
the members if they came before the bar
of the House and apologised. This apology
from such an unexpected quarter
produced a visible sensation. N. B. Meyers,
of Beaufort, hoped the House would
not allow the newspapers to say that this !
Gcncrul Assembly, composed as it was of
a majority of Republicans, did not have
the nerve to expel two Republican members
who had disgraced it. Crittenden
wanted to know whether the members
considered it a greater disgrace to be unfortunately
caught under the influence of
liquor than for one member to charge another
on the floor of the House with having
received bribes? Duncan, the colleague
of the members from Orangeburg, didn't
think that the action of his colleagues
warranted their ?xpalsioi^ Dunnerly had
raised the row, but Rile^fcad been drawn
into the fuss. Minort 'Voped that both
the members would be because
their conduct was not only disgraceful to
the State of South Carolina, but to every
member of the House.
AN IMPORTANT POINT.
Spcrry wanted to know whether expulsion
would prevent the gentlemen from
getting their pay. The speakur replied
that it would not, as they hud drawn it
already. The previous question was called
on the resolution to expel Riley, and the |
IIou.sc voted 66 ayes, nays 25. Under i
tho constitution a vote of two-thirds is necessary
for expulsion, and so the speaker
ruled that the resolution was lost, and the i
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memuer notexpewea. in. n Meyers raiseu
the point that a rote of two-thirds of the
members present was all that was required
under the constitution, and that the Supremo
Court had so decided on the Morton-Bliss
case. It took some time to decide
this
KNOTTY POINT.
Hurley moved as the sense of ihe House,
that two-thirds of the members present be
deemed :i sufficient vote toeipcl a member.
This motion wa9 adopted, and the
member accordingly declired expelled.
On motion of Hurley, tho sergeant-at
arms was sent after
TF1E CHIEF OFFEHDER,
Banner! v. A member suggested that the
member was not in a erudition to be
brought up before the House; but this '
suggestion was disregarded, and the offending
member brought up. He was j
decidedly limp, and on taking his stand ;
delivered a rambling speeel, of wfiich the |
following is a fair synopsii: He said, "he
hoped de members wonU 'sense hint as
he was a repsentive of le people from
Ongcburg County as in independent
man and he felt his father was a repscn- .
live on dis floor although he didn't say he
was an cddicated man and lie demanded <
ns much respect ns any imn Some might i
think thnt lie was in wHskey but God ]
forgive hnn lie was not in no whiskey i
There was no whiskey in h ui nnd he spoke <
from his heart if he had done anything
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*\uiauj 1 '?lll lid l\ VTtt Ut Ul I1U t'UIUUlltiOC t
bat he hoped he was one itanding on die (
floor an a republican which h? was one j
and didn't mean to cast ro reflectun on <
the house only with a certain party and i
he would settle that outside for his vote 1
was as intelligent as any man's on de flow j
and if he was ignorant he would stand by '
the spenkcr and the gentlemen to the end !
and he hoped if he did anything wrong I
that they would forgive him and that's ]
what I had to eay." This explanation <
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having been made the member withdrew,
and the House proceeded to consider the
resolution to expel him. The previous
question was called on the whole matter,
and the House voted to expel the "repsentive
from Ongebnrg" by a vote of 71
ayes to 18 nays. Hurley then made a
motion to reconsidor the vote just taken,
and to lay the motion on the table, which
motion was carried, and ro the House for
once, put it out of its power to indulge in
that peculiar kind of eccentricity which
has been so largely developed during the
present session, and the members stand
irretrievably and irrevocally expelled with
tho pay in their pockets. Selah ! This
little episode having been settled and the
equanimity of the House restored the discussion
was resumed on the bill to amend
the law in relation to the per diem and
mileage of the members of the General
Assembly,-pending which the House adjourned.
The Story of the Curfew.
The first line of Gray's Elegy,?
"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,"
has made the word airfcic familiar to
every English-speaking boy and girl. The
word is formed of two French words,
couvre feu, or couvrir feu, (cover fire,)
and came into use when William the Norman,
the first monarch of England, made
a law that all fires should be extinguished
at the sound of the evening bell.
To many hearts in the old country that
cherish its traditions, the "curfew" recalls
a story of love's devotion.
In the time of Cromwell a young soldier,
for some offence, was oondemned to
die, and the time of his death was fixod
"at the ringing of the curfew." Naturally
such a doom would be fearful and bitter
to one in the years of his hope and prime
but to this unhappy youth death was
doubly terrible, since he was soon to have
been married to a beautiful young lady
whom he had long loved.
The lady, who loved him ardently in
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return, naa usea ner utmost euww iu
avert his fate, pleading with the judges,
and oven with Cromwell himself, but all
in vain. In her despair, she tried to bribe
the old sexton not to ring the bell, but
she found that impossible. The hour
drew near for the execution. The prepa.
cations were completed. The officers of
the law brought forth the prisoner, and
waited, while the sun was setting, for the
signal from the distant bell-tower.
To the wonder of everybody, it did not
ring ! Only one human being at that moment
knew the reason. The poor girl,
half wild with the thought of her lover's
peril, had rushed unseen up the winding
stairs, and climbed the ladders into the
belfry loft and seized the tongue of the
bell.
The old sexton was in his place, prompt
to the fatal moment. He threw his
weight upon the rope, and the bell, obe.
dient to his practised hand, reeled and
swung to and fro in the tower. But the
brave girl kept her hold, and no sound
issued from its metallio lips.
Again and again the sexton drew the
rope, but with desperate strength the
young heroine held on. Every moment
made her position more fearful; every
sway of the bell's huge weight threatened
to fling her through the high tower window;
but she would not let go.
At last the sexton went away. Old and
deaf, he had not noticed that the ourfew
gave no peal, the brave girl descended
from belfry, wounded and trembling.?
She hurried from the church to the placo
of execution. Cromwell himself was there,
and was just demanding why the bell was
ailent. Sho saw him,?
"and her brow,
Lately white with sickening horror, glows
with hope and courage now;
At his feet sho told her story, showed her
hands all bruised and torn,
And ber sweet young face slill haggard with
the anguish it had worn,
Touched his heart with sudden pity, lit his
eyes with misty light?
Uo; your lover lives,' cried Cromwell; 'cflrfew
shall not ring to-night."' <
Youth't Companion.
The Late Senator-Sumner.?The
Savannah h'epublicun will Unci lew men '
in the South to endorse its estimate of 1
the political character of Sumner, and the
loss to the country in his death; but the '
publication of the following fact, which \
aur cotcmporary vouches for, may be due
to the deceased:
We are informed, upon the most un- 1
ioubted authority, that, during the pen- '
iencyof the Senatorial election in the Virginia
Legislature, Mr. Sumner warmly
spoused the cause of Mr. Hunter. He 1
?ent word to Richmond, begging that Mr J
Hunter should be returned to the Senate, ,
giving as a reason that the Republicans i
were tired and disgusted with carpet-bag '
Senators, and that the country needed |
the wisdom and experience, ability and {
patriotism of Hunter, to help save it from (
lisastors which seemed to bo impending.
Thk North Carolina Visuviub.?
The Old North State, it teems, is about <
to contribute a startling chapter to natu- <
ral history. Rumblings, thuuderings and I
quakings have proceeded for many days ]
past from the bowels of the mountainous <
regions of McDowell county. The inhabitants,
fearing volcanic eruption, an earth- <
quake, or something of the sort, hare left,
or are preparing to leave thoir homes.? i
Consternation has seized upon that whole
section.
Now this is the liveliest sensation we
have had in North Carolina since the fires
of war died out in the spring of 1865?a
splendid sensation, of which we are as
proud as the Icelander of Hecla or the
Neapolitans of Vesuvius. Long may the
proud crest of old Baldy wave in the sea
of mountains around him. Mav no sneak
ing South American earthquakes whelm
him in eternal ruin, but let him go down
to the latest generation of man as the
equal of any Italian volcano that ever
lighted mariner or appalled house holder.
Bald Mountain, the scene of these
strange noises and quaking*, is situated
in the Southern part of MoDowell county,
near tho Blue Ridge main range, and
is a sentinel of the grand entrance to
Hickory Nut Gap, justly regarded as the
most Swiss of American mountain passesThe
nearest point of these mountains to
Asheville is fifteen miles air line. Its
most northern poin t is nine miles from
Marion, the county seat of McDowell.?
There are other mountains in the State
bearing the same name.
Wilmington Star. *
Novel Cure for Hysteria.?Brown
Sequard says: The daughter of a friend
of mine was attacked with a fit of hyste
r 15 i?__ . I
ria every morning, x succeeded ior a
time in bstaking up the fit by the use of
violent means for half an hour before the
paroxysm was due. But after a time the
means I used completely failed. My friend
i then went to see a gymnast in Paris, named
Triat, who was far more daring than
I am, and was in the habit of treating hysteria
in a very oold and unique way. He
used to take his patients, as he did this
lady, up a ladder after having bandaged
their eyes, so they could see nothing.
After they had ascended to the height
of about twenty feet, he made them walk
very carefully on a plank that was about
seven or eight inches in width. He, of
mm, will i
walk there, so that he could easily lead
the person forward. When the young
lady had reached the middle of the plank,
which waa pretty long?for it was a large
gymnasium?he said to his patient, "Now
you are perfectly safe, and there is no
possibility of your fit coming on again."?
He had previously assured her that this
means was infallible; had referred to hundreds
of other cases, and exaggerated his
success in order to act on the mind of the
patient.
"Now," said he, "after I have left you,
you will not try to lift up the piece of
cotton wool that is fixed on your eyes f
until the lapse of one minute." He start
I
ed away and left the patient in great dan- ,
ger, as you may imagine, of falling. Af- j
ter a minute had passed the patient remo- ,
ved the bandage and opened her eyos,?
Fortunately for Mr. Triat no accident has t
ever occurred there How many patients }
he cured that way I don't |know; but I
know the daughter of my friend was certainly
cured. The next day there was no (
need of taking her up there. She had
enough. t
Mrs Astor, wife of the New York millionaire,
appeared at a party recently giv- '
en in that city literally covered with dia- a
monds. She was diamonds from head to
toe, and it wa9 estimated by connoisseurs ^
in precious stones that her outfit must v
have cost at least one million of dollars!?
All tho fools are not dead yet. Every
mail brings harrowing accounts of the suffering
existing among the poor people in
tho Northern cities, and the blood runs
cold at the bare recital of their woes.?
Whole familcs arc homeless and houseless,
and thousands of poor creatures are
starving for bread. Yet Mrs. Astor spends ^
a million dollars on an evening dretis and ^
worships fashion, while her brothers and ^
risters of a more lowly lot are dying for ^
bread. She is a fair sample of the rich ^
Northern Christian, who, clothed in fine .
1J AttAdtr /loft Ok'
iiiiwii, ittica nuuiptuuuvij otuj u?j. vu.
for a little of that charity that crucifies ^
telf for the good of the human race.
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Pensions for Mexican Veterans.? >|
The sub committee appointed recently by ^
he Committee on Pensions to consider
he claims of the survivors of the Mexi;an
war for pensions, *held a meeting, re;ently,
and agreed to perfect a bill to ol
neet these cases. A bill is already pend- to
ng which provides that the survivors of
he Indian wars and the war with Mexico
ihall all be placed on the same footing as
he soldiers of 1812, or the widows and
irphans of such soldiers. A
Lexington Ditpatch. "<
Tde Bottom Dollar?Treasurer ( arioso
told the army of attaches, yc^-orisy,
that the tax levied by the Leg'sia
Lore, to meet their expenses was enure
ly insufficient, and that only two-tli;;ds
of the amount levied has been received
in the State Treasury. He had paid tho
expenses of the extra session, amounting
to $75,000, and had finished paying
off the members for the session now concluded,
amounting to $103,000. iho
treasury was empty. He had no funds on
hand. It was not his fault. Ho hoped
and trusted that the County Treasurers
who had failed to report would do so.
within the next week. When he was in
funds, he would liquidate their claims, as
far at least, as the means on baoa wou;a
allow. He was ready to endorse their pay
ceitificates, but money was out of the
question. Governor Moses appeared up
on the scene and explained Treasurer
Cardozo's explanation, bat no money v.is
forthcoming. One desperate colored
"snatchee" offered a rosolntion, to appeal
to the United States government to establish
military rule and give them their
rights.?Phoenix.
An exchange says: "Compare the publisher
of a newspaper, who has to go nil1
around the country to collect his pay, to
a farmer who sells his wheat on credit,
and not more than a bushel to any person.
If any farmer will try the experiment
of distributing the proceeds of^his
laoor oyer two or turec vuuuuca, nm1 un
additional one to two or three distant'
States, for one year, wo will guarantee '
that he will never, after that year's
rience, ask a publisher to supply him v.' h
a paper for a year or two without the j y'
for it.
Boys, Mind Your Commas.?The
comma, like the tongue is a good thing,
and it will make good sense or nonsen e,
just according a? it is used. Take, nr
instance,the old nursery rhyme. With
the commas misplaced, it is so nonsen-ical
that it needs a commentary to cxp'aiu
it:
Every lady in the land
Has twenty nails on each hand,
Five and twenty on hands and fa t;
This is true without deceit.
Alter the position of the comma*, id
the meaning is clear:
Every lady in the land
An auctioneer once advertised a lot of
chairs,"which, he said, had been used ' v
gchool children without backs.
A second handed furniture dealer on
Michigan avenue, Detroit, hung ou: a
card inscribed, "Buggy! for sale! and inadvertently
hung it on a second kind
bedstead on the sidewalk, where it attracted
much attention. This fable should
show that punctuation should be taught
in the public shools.
An Irishman, driven to desperatiou ly
the stringency in the money market and
the high price of provisions, procure J a
pistol and took to the road. Meet . u, a
traveler, he stopped him with, "Yer money
or yer life!"
Seeing Pat was "green," he said. 11
tell you what I'll do?I'll give you aii y
money for that pistol."
"Agreed!"
Pat received the money, and hand d
>ver the pistol.
"Now," said the traveler, "hand ' . k
he money or I'll blow your brains 11 .'
"Blaze away my hearty," said i,
'niver a dhropo' powther there's in 1. at
ill"
Idleness.?Many young pcoplo think
hat an idle life must be a pleasant me;
>ut there are none who enjoy so little, d
re such burdens to themselves, as ;b c
rho have nothing to do. Those wh no
hliged to work hard all day enjoy ; ir
hort periods of rest and recreation so
ouch, that they are apt to think if t r
rhole lives were spent in rest and re ration,
it would be the most pleasant f
11. But this is a sad mistako as i y
"ould soon find out if they made a trir1 >f
lie life they think so agreeable. r-i<j
ho is never busy can novor enjoy 1 .;
>r rest implies a relief from previous 1 r
ad if our whole time were spent in r. ung
ourselves, we should find it i e
earisomo than the hardest day's work ?
ecrcation is only valuable as it unbe: .Is
s; the idle can know nothing of it. ?
[any people loave off business and .? 'o . i
jwn to a life of enjoyment;- but i! y
inerally find that they are not nearly so
ippy as they were before, and they no
ten glad to return to their old occupai i ns
i escape the miseries of idleness.
Jlcrald of Health.
The first thing a promising youth said to
dog presenting his nose at his heels was :
Jo away 1 po you think I'm a bone V*