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VOL. I---NO. 131 WINNSBORO, S. C.. THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, l877. 1-- -' MARRIAGE WITH A GHOST. The LatetStor" Matarie.lization--A Wedding \ t -Spirit BrIe. Correspondence Cmiinnmati Commercial. TiA JIAU1n, December 18.-We, the undersigned, managers of Anna' Stewart's soances, are in daily re ceipt of letters calling our attention to a report under the caption of .uirr ying Ghost," found in your issue of a recent (late, asking our version of the unique wedding. In. reply we take from said report the following extract fully endorsing the statomonts made therein by your * rrespondent : "At 7 o'clock Mrs. Stewart enter ed the cabinet, the lights woro turn ed down, and quiet prevailod, broken only by the sweet and trembling vi brations of the doctor's imursic-box, ia condition necessary to assist the controlling spirit to more fully materialize. Some twenty minutes were in this manner whiled away, when the door of the cabinet openel, disclosing an augelic figure arrayed n a complete bridal costumo of snow white texture, indescribably beautiful. The veil, which appear ed like a fleecy vapor, eticircled her )row, and being caught at the 'emnple.s, fell in graceful folds, mind lceiingly alinost civOloped her entire form. Thus, like treading on the clouds, the foi-m walked softly out upon the rostrum. The Judge, who had received spiritual intelli gence as to what was about to oc (ur, at once recognized the materi aliz ttiou as that of his departed wife, and exhibiting considlcrable feeling mingled with much dignity of man ner, appro'vlhed her with afr3Otion ato greeting, and plaiulg within her gloved hand a bouquet of rare flowers, imprinted upon her lips a fervent kiss. 'Are you ready I inquired the Doctor. 'We are,' re sponded the Judge. Justice Dene- I hlic, of this city, then stepped upon the rostrum, and joining the hands of the couple, a few well chosen words, in the namo of the great Overruling Power, uuited the mor tal to the immortal; vows of eternal constancy and fideljty were ex changed, pledges of love were made anew. At the conclusion of this ceremony, the spirit bride received the congratuations of the company present, and then slowly receded. As she crossed the threshold of the cabinet a dazzling light foode'l its precincts, revealing to the aulienec a spirit face of murvlloui beauty." The above, as reported, was wit z. inessed on Sunday evening, the 19th 1 of November last, by twenty persous, composed equally of each sex. The prelimiuary arrangem eits were cou summated in a priva.3 cLeance on the morning of the same day. During, the fliften minutes taken up by the interview the apparition was seated by his side, asking and replying to questions indicative of a sUperior I intellect. The conversation on her part was conducted in a loud and distinct whisper. ShI mi ifested the greatest pleasure in accepting the privilege granted to reassure him of her continued rogalrd and atffection. In reply to the question referring to the proposed marriage: "What will the ignorant and preju diced say ? Will they not regard me as crazy ?" "It matters not as to what they may say, let us p~leano ourselves," was the (decisive andl mn phatic reply. H is wishes reg trding the wvedding dress were .consulted with manifest interest and scrupu .lous care. She appeared en the momentous occasion attired in the h abilimnents agreed upon, with the pleasing exception that in splendor they sur passed the hopeful an ticin~a tions of the anxious mind, the ~ex quisite beauty of which beggars description. Linus Bl. Benehie, .7sq., the official whose services by wrnling to halt was perceived. Alas I the apparition was faltering. In * w~aying, the head and shoulders fell backward, the face, partially dema terialized, assumed a pallid and ghastly app'iarance. Awe-stricken, his Honor, the squire, awaited the results with anxious solicitude. In the meantime, uympathetic rminds imploringly and silently offered prayers in her behalf. A few mon mnents of breathless suspen~se and the crisis passed. B~ahold I she rlied, co~miung up with a power that inspired all with' a grateful confi .rlliantroigh fthed awy oreaa.A th reappearidn ofo haemns wth tjudge, nutdhet the ciraneaf terllwrds wih all iluminaron re turring to tas cntroducd.lose the door and was seen no more. Thus termirnated the most startling and interesting event ever recorded in t'he annals of spirit phenomena. In c meclusion, WO desire to safy t'at the location of the judge in Vermont was incorrectly reported, and the initial "A." is fictitions. 'Doubtless the omission was for pru-: dential reasons The inaccuracy in the location and the initial letter do not change. the important fact, and1 a coebleidon' is, nnImdortans. IW m1iay be proper, however, to assure tie public that his Honor occupied the executive chair in a judicial ca pacity of judge in his Circuit Court District for fourteen consecutive years. The execution of his official acts was noted for accuracy and promptness, filing the position with honor and acknowledged ability. Allen Ponce, James Hook, Samuel Connor, Committee. To the interested be it known, that I, Linns B. Denehie, certify that the statements in the above refor ring to my connection therewith are strictly correct. L. B. DENIE. Colored Democrats in Louisiana. Froa tihe Spring&eld Re3publican. The testituony prodaced before the House committee of investig k tion at New Orleans, very recently has only confirmed aid supplement ed the evidence alraady furnished the Northern publ e by such in - telligent obsorvers as Messrs. White of the New York TIribune, Redfield of the Cincinati Cennmercial and Handy of the I'hi1adelphia i mes. No candid person can longer doubt that there was a large colored Democratie vote in Louisinua at the recent election, and tat more ne groes would have voted the same way but for intimilation that was frequently practiced,-intiiidation none the less effectu.il that it was often of a moral or religious rather 1 tin a physical character. 1t i.i not singular that the Demo crAts shou'd have won over a large ectiou of the colored people to their idde. As early as two yearn ago. they had accoplihed consid erable in this direction. Indeed, the Democratic programme in allj p-rtu of tie State, except perhaps portions of the "bulldozed" parishes seems to have been the same during the auit emnpaign ta in 1874, which I'ttter Riepublican Congre'ss:nUi Foster, of Ohio, thus described: It became the interest of the Conservatives, at least at the late electiou., not to intimidate, but to acquire, by every fair means, the colored vote. Parties who were alleged to have threatened blacks even with the refusal of employment were subject to prompt arrest It was known that pretexts would be sought to deprive the Conservatives of the result, if they prevailed in the election. It waq, therefore, their interest to avoid giving any such pretext.s. Accordingly, they deter-' miued everywhere to co-operate and conieliate the blacks. They voted down the propositions or sugges tions which were wade in the early part of the campaign for refusal to employ those colored voterVs who would not co-operate with them, and generally sought, by combining with colored voters, to carry the election. At the same time the more in telligent negroes were already in 1874 appreciating the fact that their own interest were bound up in the change of government. "An in telligent colored witness," says Mr. Foster, "testified that he desired better government, and to that end 'was willing to swallow the white men, if the white men would swallow the colored.' "These causes and feelings," Mr. Foster continued, "naturally united to swell the Con servative) vote in such localities enactly as are indicated by the re turns,"-though the very fact of such swelling of -the Conservative vote, then as now, had been seized upon by the Rep~ublican managers as proof conclusive of Decmocratic in timidation, and justification for that "illegal" reversal of the result which iucurred Vice-President Wheelr's "emphatic disapproba ion." Jf the Democrats got a considera ble negro vote in 1874, it would have been strange, indeed, if they bad not securedl a much larger one in 1876. Two years more of dis graceful Republican rule have been imposed upoun them,--a govern mnt, the enormity of which has never beeni more forceibly described than in these extracts from last ye tr's files of twvo of the chief Re publican organs of the country--the New York TIimes. and the loston Advertiser. The government of William Pitt Kellogg in Louisiana is one which we have never beenf able to defend. DuroU~'s decision, which aided in establishing it, was an outrage. The conduct of. the Returning Board which dlechlu'ed it elected was. dishonest. The taxation since 1872 has been arbitrary and oppressive. Logislation has in hundreds of cases been a shameful faree. Districts have been represented by men who never saw them. The small revenue gleaned from the impoverished peo ple has been diverted to improper uses. For years, the great State of Louisiana, whose people have as good a right to be left alone to manage their own affairs as the peo p~le of Massachusetts, has been ruled not by its own citizens, but by two carpet-baggers (referring to Kellogg the p resent Governor, and Packard, the Republican candidate to succeed him) holding Federal office and having the adroitnes to enlist all the power of the Government upon their side in the inevitable confusion which, they. ,>ovoked. Whenever e nielbiuona o been amrkw1 in their favor, they have overthrown the returns by soie jugglery, like Judge Duroll's midnight order, or the ianipulations of a Roturning Board; and, when that has not suo ceeded, orders from W'ashington have re-onforced thorn, and the peo ple have had no alternative but to protest and bide their time. To declare, as the average Re publican organs now ropeats, day after day, that the colored votors of Louisiana-mon who have now ex ercised the right of uufragc for ten years-would go in a solid mass for four years more of such government, -and this, too, in face of the fact that thousanids of theim Went with the Democratts in 1874-would be a conifession of such dense and hope lsis ignorance on the part of the negro race as might well ImIA-ke us despair of the future. It is the one hopeful feature of the Louisiana election that the negro voto was not cast in a lump, this year-that sQ niany of the colored men have come to see the outrageous charac ter of Republican rule in Louisiana, and, aftar "biding their time," as the Advertiscr put it, seized last mouth's opportunity to declare that they would have no moro of it. AN ANxIENT .BRIT1i1H VILLAGE.-In preparing the eround for now uni versity schools in Oxford, Eagland, the remains of what is supposed1 to have been an ancient British village dating bxek perhaps two hundred thousand yoard, have been found. They look like mounds of graveL but are apparently circular wall, of six incho or more in thickness. Tho mounds or walls cover a largo ex tent of ground, and are of various sizes. but all are on or about the a tine level. The floor of one has apparently been covered with con crete, and is sufliciently compact to allow one-half of it to be removed in a single piece. The bonos of domes tie animalr, a portion of a Runin cross, a Saxon knife and arrow head have also been found. It hil.s been irreverently suggested that the sita is nothing more nor less than that of an old gravel pit, and the discov ery akin to that which excited the minds of Pickwickians seeking in V:ain to find the moaning of "Bil Stumpe (his mark ;") but the anti quarians are enii leat that the re mains are those of an ancient village, and they are preparing for an ex haastive exmination of the subject. PROPOSED AJnoLITION OF Tax PIRESI nxNxr.-The New York Vor'/ Is WasLington special says V public meeting to disuss. the question and petition Congress to pass amend ments to the constitution abolishi;ng the Presidency will take place in a very s.hort time. The public and members of Congress especially are invited. It iw proposed Lo abolish the Presidency aind sub stitute an Executive Council there. for, to be composed of reven secre taries or heads of departments ; four to be elected by tho House of Representatives an(d three b-y the Senate from members of their re. spective hiouses for two years ; one or all to be rem~oved at any time by the houise electing them, and each to have the right of a member in both houses. Fzaiuso AMONG THlE Soi~nws. WVe hatve received a letter 'from a private in the ranks of the United States army, at the~ Washington Arsenal, used now for tool soldier ing." Tihie wanut of spare pre'vents itS publlliendtion in full, hut we be lieve that the writer expresses the poslit~ion and ideas, not only of him self, but of a manjor~ity* of his com rades and1 sup~eriorri. lHe says : "I have been at a great many places of late, and I find the great est numb~er of enlisted men are for Tilden and Hendricks." Again :"I ask the people of the United Sitates, would a soldier of the. United States army be bound to 'put in a corrupt President, not lawfully electedi Why, a ;olier would be breaking the laws of the country by putting mn a President that is not lawfully elected by the p~eople's votesi, and a soldier ought not to be used as a tool for political parties." --Washltington Uniton. Oca B~rur.-DOZED~ PREsIDEN'r.-Our bull dozedl President is pursuing a course of which lie will rep~ent. President Grant's own imnpulses would dover have hurried him into complicitv with ihe law-defying pro ecedings mn South Carolina. He is misled by the Chandlersi, Cameorons and hot-headed partisans to whom he has un warily given his confidence and who seek to make him theI instrument of their' partisan vio lence. We call on him to discard these reckless advisers, who are using him as a ladder- which they will kick dlown when they have elimbed on it to the attainment of their objects.-New York H~erakd. "Tain't no use in your cryinA'," said a heartless maiden to .her prostrate lover ; "I wouldn't ma~y you if you were the last man on earth." "Well, Mary," he replied, breathing through his nose with great difficulty, "you'll lend me your pocket handkerchief, won't you 1" Subseribe for TME Niws AUD Hun Ato., and be sure to have the ready. OAROLINA's CHOICE. Her New Senator, Gonoral M. 0. Butler No one suPPoses that the Demo crnic Legislature of South Carolin: either would or could plense th( Northern R1adicals in their choice o a United States Senator. Genera Butler is known to us all as one o the most noderate and Conserva tive men in South Carolina, ani knowing this fact, it is not necessa ry for us to enlarge upon it. Bu' we take pleasure in reproducing from the Philadelphia Times, a journal thoroughly, independent ir politics, the following article. In speaking of General Butler's carcar and antecedents, it sayn: Mr. Butler is a highly cultured South Carolinian, who haS; ever been conspicuous for his ' neervative counsels and actions. e served under Hampton during the rebellion, lost a leg at Drandy Station, rose to the rank of Major General in the insurgent army by his merits as a soldier, and, like all brave men on both sides, when the war ended he bowed to the arbitrament of the sword, and has ever beon in accord with Hampton in teaching, alike by precept and example, submission to the government in the generous spirit that is due from faithful citizenship. He was at Hamburg on professional business on the day of the horrible butchery, and, as the preliminary hearing proved, had no pu-rt in the bloody affair, except to mnke exhautistivo efforts to maintain tie peace. But his prominence as a citizen made him an inviting target for those who sought to turn a cowardly murder to political advant age, instead of judicially ascertain ing the truth and punilhing the guilty, and his name has been in separably interwoven with that revolting tragedy. Governor Cham berlain was then the undisputed Governor of South Carolina, with the regular'trnoops practicaly at his cominand, with his State militia armed and absolutely under his orders, with Republican judges in every judicial district, and with Re publican machinery for th selection of jurors. He had but to omniand the law, whose agencies wore all in political accord with himself, to enforce swift judgment against the muxrderers, for attocious i4urderors there were at Hamburg beyond a question. But that did not suit the purpose of the man who was charg ed with the preservation of the peace of the State, and the enforcement of the laws. Instead of summoning the law to assert its majesty, he rushed away to Washington and called for "more troops" with dra iatic ilourisb to fire the Northern heart. In a public l3tter lie as sociated the 'amne of Mr. Butler with the massacre, to which the ac eu:sed publicly answered that he was innocent, that. lie was voluntarily in the hands of the law, and that he challenged prompt and searching judicial investigation of the mur derons affair, so that the innocent should be acquitted and the guilty punished. Nor did Mr. Butler, h ko Governor Chamberlain, stop withi a newspaper' proclamiation. At thme earliest moment lie ap~pearedl before a Republican judge and asked not for his discharge, but for a reference of the case to the proper tribunal for the most exhaustive investigation. The Rep~ublican judge hold this "red-handed ruffian," this "moving spirit in the bloodiest deed recorded in our miodern histo ry," to bail in the cum of $1,000 for his appearance at the court for trial. TUhis wvas last mid-summer, and wvhy has he not been triedl? Why has the Republican Governor not made his Republican judge call in his Republican jurors and try Mr. Butler for the Hamburg massacre ? Five blacks were horribly butchered after they had been captured and disarmed. There must be a clear case of most diabolical murder against some parties, and if Mr. Butler aided or abetted the mur derers, he is equally guilty with them alikie in law and mno~:alsa, and why has lie not been triedl? Hie publicly challenged Chamberlain to try him before all the Chamberlain legal machinery, and he~ gave notice that he would then andl there show who weore the real authors of the Hamburg tragedly, that lie had striven most earnestly to prevent. It was this notice that made Cham berlain retreat from the trial of Butler. It was the fear that Butler would prove that the Hamburg massacre was concocted and forced to consummation by political leaders most trusted in the counsels of Chamberlain, and that it would be established before a Republican court and a Republican jury that the Hamburg outbreak was one of the deliberately planned features of the Chamberlamn political cam paign to arouse the country, furnish an excuse to place South Carolina under martial law, and thus insure a new lease of carpet-bag power in the State. -From August last until now Mr. Butler has defied Chamberlain in his own courts, and as yet he is without any to accuse him at the b~ar of justice. Such is the truth of Mt. Butler's association with the Hamburg butchery so far as the publfc can judge fromn an impartial hearing of both sides. So -long as this dia'Inguished onlightened prossi and people of the North, ho can afford to pass over iA silence the petty mouthing of tho.o Radical papers whose political creed begins and ends witlh hatred to the South and her people. Redflold's Lantt Lottor. Correspo.ni neo Cincinnati Commercial. CHATTANo0oA, T.N., Decomber 21.-Lately I met a Northern Deiocritd who was as mad as a dog with a tin kettlo tied to his tail, and uiot without it reason, from his point 0oL viow, Caually substantial. "Why," said he, in an outbuist of indignation, "if it handt been for the yelp of Solid South, Solid South. we would have carried Ohio iti Pomisylvania. The Radicals ph. ved ujpon the fears of the peopic by pointing to the fact that the South was solid for Tilden. That very thing defeated us inl those two States, to say nothing of Wisconsin, and the Pacific slope. And now, aftor defeating us in the North by the Solid South bugaboo, they Eny the South wasn't solid after all, and proceed to take from us South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida I Did you ever hear of iuch im. pudence ? But they havo played this Solid South card the last time. Hereafter they will have to have some other stock in trade." And the Democrat cousoled himself with this reflection. ' So, Republican orators, you must. spring a now issue for 1880 ani1d intermediate election ii. You startled the countiry by the cry of a solid South, when, i' fact, the South wasn't solid after all. What will be the result of the present complication in Souti Carolina? Those who expect to find any permanent solition of the difficulty other than turning the State over to the Democats-that is, the white popl-can 11ndocoivc thiomnselvos. So-called 1)publican government is at an el there, and if, perchance, Chamberlain con tinies to act as Governor, he will be powerles~s. What is such a governient as his in South Carolina and Kellogg's in Louisiana good for anyway? They cannot stand alone an hour if Federal protection is witl(raw'n, and with that. protoction they are powerless to command respect or enforce law. I fail to soc iliat good is to come from a cont'nina tion of an attempt to uphold so called Republican governminents in these States. Tie double governiimit it p Ont in South Carolina is tihe foirt lh of the sort we have had in the Southern States tine the war. You remenmb)er' tihe two-headed gov ernment in Alabuna that was for so long a time a nuisance and a shame. You reiember' the appeals to Wash ington, the fights and turmoil. It is all over, and Alabanm is at peace. Then there was the double11 govern ment in Arkansar-Brooks at the head of one end and Baxter at the other. It is over; the white people, that is to say the Democracy, are in p)owerI. 01ld Joe Brooks ha:s a postoflice, aind there is pene('c ini IArkansas. Louisiana had( a long experiienee withI a (double go'vern1 ment, andi, indtee~d, has; it now, for M~cEnieryhas niever entirely subsid od1. After January Lsho will have more of it, for Nichmols andt Packr will bothi be inaugurated. ca( Th'lo reason thait the Republican party is a failure in the Cotton States is because there is no whlite element in it exceplt the oflice holdors. The blacks cannot con duct glood government, and if they could, I don't believe the whitens would long submnit to it. Theso agitators in the Cotton State.s are . rebellious against no-.fro rule where the negroes aro in the majority.. That is the truth of the matter. And you need not look for peace under so-called Republican govern- I ment in the Cotton States, unless someo white material can be got into the Republican party. It is the talk here that Hayes, if inauguratedi may attempht to build upi the shant tered Republican pa~rty in the Southern States. It can be (lone, but the effort will req(uireO .skil1 l n the cutting loose from numerous catrpet-baggrs3 who have brought shame and disgrace upon the very I: name of Republican. There is a good opportunity for statesmen tc come to the front ablout this time if there are ainy in t'ao country. H. V. R. 1 Judge Lawrence, a Republican] member of the Congressional conm mittee in Cohlunbia, regards any thin~g with black skin as an ebony cherub without wings. He had thirty-five of these wingloss ang'ols of a dark comploxioni hanging aromnd the WVhoolor House 'for a week drawing per diem and mileage from the government The other night one of them stole his boots, and the next day the Judge might have been seen skipping around in his slippers, looking very disconso late, and wondering how any por tion of the colored race could be* so degra-ledl as to steal a Congressman's boots. There won a bloody row at Chap poll's, on th. Greenville and C olum.. baRiroad, on Christmas, in which a man was no severely hurt that he mayv lose his life. South Ca olin1a NOWS. The Abbeville boys had a merry times lat wook, rolling the citizens in the slow. Th county officers of Pickens have all filed their boldi, none of whiich have bueu rojected. A negro shot and killed himself by accident on the Chalmers placo in Newborry county liut week. Mrs. M. A. Davis., of Graniteville, i8 looking for a Iunaway son who left his home some days since. l'le Hurter True Routhrovn. men tionsi nlot le.Ssi than two dozeon gin holile robbeieis it that county with mn a week. Tho Keowue C(orier confgratu lates its reideis on the ab.ence of Canes of IUustrkLe in tLE Ocolee coillmunity. Two town lots ;ol I in George town lately for tisxty dollars-(one for tventy-five dll:ar, and the oth or for thirty-five dollaris. Tihe cotton house of J. J. Dale. of liadies' I;land, leatufort county, was t.urned down quito recently. The caulse of the fire is nOt known. Nearly five hundro:A ddAlar's worth of good1 we e tolen from the yV nousll; IrchIiants ,f N -wherry on the saturday be 'foae ( hiiim.u.as. T tilxpayers ol HImiiter county held a Iias Im ecting on the 1st of January. Those of M.rion 'pill holdo011 ('o n the 8th,1 (if January. They a1ro going to docido who to pay taxos to. Anderson county follows Charles ton. Tho Dcmnoc:rats are called to attend a Umss mieeting on Monday, tIe 8th of January, to taike some aetion in regard to tle paymeut of taxes. S On the 21st uWt. the gin of Mr. William 11. Stiniuever, near Brad f(rd lSprilgs inl Stitifer county, t'ook Rire by accilent, while in opeistion, mId the giun-house with it contents was destroyoL On Saturday, the 23rd ult., a man c by the name of Campbell was as e mlulted in the upper part of lu ion a 'ounty by two nogIroe'J, Who beat hia C With chlib Lo that ie died the next i day. The murdevler havoe ac &r- I rested. On Christmias (Iy a diaiculty 11ose bet~ween MacCorrbac, eno oft the soldio. , , tationled at Marion, and I I colored m armtUed losesx, in 4 which the latter cut, ' the roldier wvith ( x knife. All er being teverely pan- n shed, Moses took to hii heols and e IM) away. A ian nmied Meeker was recent ly run over aid Uilled by a train on thie Air Line Railroad, nmoar Liberty. It i s:aid th-at this imfortunate n b:. at 1inIlar predilection, whtun intoxiatlt, to lie down on the rail road track, aid it is supposed ho met his death in I hat way. A wagon loaded1 with whiskey wasa recently' attacl~ed near Pendleton by 1, p triy of ne~grt( I, the wagonere bi naly beaten, anid the wiskey stolen. Theo whmiItos, onm lealrnintg of thmis out ra:ge, inalo iup at parity mand visito:1 smmaisry plimisl~mnti upon the hee.One negro was shot inthe hipi and1( 1bigl', mnd another in the irima. A serious sh~ootin~g anid stabbing aiffray oQccurred aut Uriancihville on he 2th uill., in w'Ihi a colored nanl nl:iuied Stephen fligsby wvas ho1t atnd hil led, anothier namixed Ware WVilson shot iui the leg, and t white mian nlamhed J. W. Fairyb *tabhod in) thme thigh. HI. 0. Juda, clerk of court ofi Bleauufort countyL, hmolds the fort. He .efusjos to suirrend~er his office to thme" ~anary-coIloredl Rapioiild, andi it isP taid that the rest of the onlic ors will old the fort with him. The reason n Lsaigno(d is that there is no law for S mI cloction of county onficers on the Ith of November. All the contest ng parties arc Radicals. 0 South Carolina. s< b How can Chtamberlain hold on to ho oflice of Governor ini opplositionl ( ~o the tax-payers and respectable toplo all over the State, defeated [ t the polls andI counted in by fraud, I t. mad inaugurated by an illegal Leg- b slaturo ? Of course he could not remiin a single hour in the office ti ault for a b 'dy-guard of Federal, ioldiors which President Grant'h iceps around him. Ho cannot re-'i rnain thus long. Deprived1 of all ti nuthority by tihe decisilon of the b hupreme Court, as ho will be, and n atterly dlorided by the people, what 3an he (do? He cain appeal to President Grant, and wvhat will 1F bo (10? If ho procoods further to a bolster the illegal government he o ancountors tho decisions of the e sourts and the public verdict in L ma~ny forms, and stands forth boldly ia is the usurpor still defying law and t right, and tiroading into dust overy t principle of liberty and self-govern ment. It would be wvell for this issue to be settled. Grant does not a1 rest soundly upon this South Cairo- l lina business. It is worse than the a murder of a man.- It jA the murder f of a whole State. Hlow-tQ "tanage up the consequences," that's the matter at the White House.-Rich~ inond J~ispatch. Miscelaneous Nows. The Lake shore train, bound west wont through the river bridge near Aslitabula, Ohio, on the 29th uit., and fell seventy-five foot into the river. One-fifth of the passongors were killed. Governor Fairbanks, of Vermont, has signed the "nuisance bill," and it is now a law. The bill makes every liquor saloon a nuisance, and for every conviction the penalty is a fine of from $20 to $200, or a fino of $20 and imprisonment in the county jail for not less than one or more than three months, in the discretion of the eourt. Otis D. Swan, broker, of Vall street, New York, disappeared on the 38th of December. Bofore leaving he stated that he had misap propriated funds hold by him mii trust, for his brother and hister. The aniount is stated to be $600,000. lie is also in default for four or five thousand dollars belonging to the Union League Club, of which he was one of the founders. The New Orleans Democrat of ,he 24th says that the Superior Diminal Court in that city had been wrmipelled to adjourn over for threo lays becauso there was no fire in 11 court roomn, the State having Jhroywn the expense.of providing for hat court upon the city, and the ity being out of funds. The delay uunlets the city in heavy costs, such ,u continuances, siummonsos, deten. ions in prison at sixty cents per Load por day, &c. And yet qew Orleans abould be one of the nost independent and flourishing itios in the Union. "Reconstruc ion" has done the work for her. On 6he Fourth of July a little girl iamed Bondar was so seriously in nired by a brick falling from the top Ithe new American offine, Balti aore, nnd striking her on the head as o eause her death in the courso of a ouw days. The father of the ehild irought suit againat the A nerican, tying damages at $10,000, but which >n the payment of $1,000, was dis ontinuied. Now Bondar brings (it in $10,000 against the gas fitters f the building, through whose care Dsness, it is alleged, the casualty appened. The little girl was very tear to him, and he proposes to aake bor so to others. The Sprague mills at Augusta, fame, are now employing about 50 persons, and week before last id their largest week's work. They i-nufactured 156,000 yards of print loths, all finished and put into bales nd forwarded to the print works at 4rston, Ithode Island, where the loth will be stamped ready to 1o ut upon the muarkot. Ninety-five lousand yards of cloth were woven lie last month in excess of the mount woven at the mills during Lie correspnnding muoith last year. Governor Lafayette Grover, of ~regon, is a native of Bethel, Maine, ndl over fifty years old. Gon, ~uvier Grover, of the regular army, his brother He is~ a graduate of ktowdoin College, and has lived in )regon since 1850. He has held all urts of Territoriid and State oflices, nid was the first Representative of bie Stato in Congress. The Grand tapids 1)emocrat says the G~overnor a a Michigan man, hails from Cold rater and was a colonel in the army. lI'RETENDED AOTs.-Thoe following a full list of the acts pretended-to ave been passed by the Bayonet [ouse and the Senate, and approved y ex-Governor Chamberlain : An act to, make appropriations for le expenses of the Legislature. An act to amendl an act entitled A.n act to fix the salaries of certain ublic oficers." An act to make appropriations to ieet the ordinary expenses of the tate government. An act relative to Gounty oflicers. An act to extend the time for [11cers to. qualify. A joint resolution requiring shool claims of Newborry county to o registered. An ae6 to charter a ferry in reorgetown county. An act to rapeal the lien law. ['his pretended aot is not intended > go into effect, if at all, till Decom or 31, 1877.]* An act to regulate the payment of eo debt of Newberry county. The bogus Legislature doubtless rid a fine ine in going through the iree of passing bilis and declaring iem to be Iawui They will have a rird time indeed in. enforcing their reasures. The inmates of the poor-house of :ershaw couty are threatened with lhrv.ation, and ino sup plies can be btained except upon the individual redit of the mQeibers of the old oard of county Qomleioners. It. hi rd to see wpait our .publio insti. ations are holy~g to.c94for money. tus year. alapf, In er count ,ahd a John C. Wilson, of eeently lost four eki3 ,