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VOL. V*---NO. 13,1 WINNSBORO, S. C.. TH-URSDAY MORNINGs JANUARY 4, 8 MARRIAGE WITH A GHOST. The Latest Story of Matorialization--1 Weddin' With a Spirit Bride. Correspoidence cincinnati Comnmercial TEnRRA HAUE, Deccmber 18.-We the undersigned, managers of Ani Stowart's seances, are in daily re ceipt of letters calling our attentiov to a report under the caption oj ''arrying a Ghost," found in youl issue of a recent date, asking oni version of the unique wedding. 11 ruply we take from sid report th4 following extract fully endorbing th< statomoits made thorein by you $orrespondont : "At 7 o'clock Mr. Stewart enter od the cabinet, the lights woro turn ed down, and quiet prevaile(l, brokei only by the sweet and trembling vi brations of the doctor's music-box a condition necessary to assist thi controlling spirit to more fullZ matorializo. Sone twenty,' minute4 wore in this manner whiled awiay when the door of the cabinet opened disclosing an augelic figure a.rrayet in a conplete bridal costume o snow white texture, indesciribali)1 beautiful. The veil, which appetr ed like a fleecy v.por, encircled he; brow, aud being caught at thl -keiples, fell in graceful fulds, am seemiiingly almiost euvelopod lie] entire form. Thus, like treading ot the clouds, the foni walked softh out upon the rostriun. The Judge who had received spiritual intelil . gence as to what was about to oc cur, it once recognized thie materi Iiz ttion as that of his departud wife and exhibiting etmAiderable feelin mingled with mauch dignity of man loir, appro'llie1 he with afftion ato greetiing, and pladug within he gloved band a bouquet of ran flowers, iiprinted upon her lipr, fervent kiss. 'Are you ready inquired the Doctor. 'We arc,' Ie spionded the Judge. Justice Deln hie, of this city, then stepped upol 1 h rostriii, and joiing tile bandi of the cIuple, a few well choumet words, in the n-ue of the gre-. Overruling Power, Uuited the mor tal to tile inuaortal; vows of eterna constncy and fidoljty were ex changed, pledges of love were mad, manow. At the conclusion of ti ceremony, the spirit bride recei ve( the congratudtiona of the comuan, present, and then slowly receded As she crossed the threshold of th< cabinet a dazzling light floodel iti precinets, reveailiug to the nu linc< a spirit face of marvellous bea 'utv." The above, as repori.ted, wa; wit a iessed on Sunday evening, the 191 of November last, by twenty persons composed equally of t;wh sex. Tiit prelimniuary arraugemntis were cou sumnmatited in a priv'ate Veancle on tl morning of the same day. Duriu, the iifte.n minutes taken up by th< interview the apparition wsu seate< by his side, asking and replying t< c1uestions indicative of a sUpLio: intelleet. The conversation on lie part was conducted in a loud au distinct whisper. She m mifestei the greateit pleasure in aceipting the privilege granted to reassur< him of her continued rogairdl itai an'oction. In reply to the questioi reforrin g to the pr'opos~ed marriage "What will the ignorant and prejnm diced say ? Wiill they not reg'ar( me as -razy ?" "It matters not na to what they may say, let uis pleast( ourselven," was the decisive an em phlatic reply. His wishes reg irdin; the wvedding dress were coilutie with manifest interest and scrupui .lous care. She app~ear'ed on th<l Ilmmentous occasion attired in th< habhilimentIs agreed upon, with the pleasing excepition that in splendo: t hey surpassed the hiopeful anticjina tions of the anxious min 1, the ~ex quisite beauty of which beggar description. Linus B. Benehie Y~sq., the official whose services b pre-engagement were secured1 p)rompltly miounited the rostrum a the proper time, and passed on tt meet them as they arm in arm ad vanced to the front. Unexpected!' warning to haltwas perceivedl. Alas the apparition was falte~ing. .l swaying, the head and shoulders fel backward, the face, partially dema terializoed, assiumed a pdulid and ghastHl~y app aranuce. Awe-stricken, his Honor, the squire, awaited th< results with anxious solicitude. Ii the meantime, uymp~athetie mindc] imploringly and silently ore prayers in her behalf. A few mo ments of breathless suspense ao the crisis passe:1. Bahold ! sh<n r*allied, coming up 'with a power tha inapired all with a grateful confi dlonce in her ability to p iansccs fully through the trying ordeal. A: the conclusion of the caremony the judge conducmted her to the cabinet gialfolowing which the illumination re forred to was introdlucedl. After ti brilliant light faded away, the ap~pari tion reappeared, shmook; hands witl the judge, then the squire, and af~ terwards with all in the room, re turning to the cabinet, closed the door and was seen no more. Thin termninatedl the most startling am interesting event ever recorded ii t'he annals of spirit phenomena. In c meclusion, we desire to sa' t'mt the location of the judge ii Vermont wvas incorrectly rep~orted and the initial "A." is fletitious Daubtless the omission was for pru dential reasons The inaccuracy i1 the location and the initial letter d< not change the important fact, an< a ccion is auniriorun. I may be proper, however, to assure tihe public that hi 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 Pence, James Hook, Samuel Connor, Committee. To the interested be it known, that I, Linns B. Denehie, certify that the statements in the above refer ring to my connection therewith are strictly correct. L. B. DKNEuE. Clored Damocrata in Louialcna. From the S8pringfieid Re.paiblican. The testimony produced before the House comuuittee of investig L tion at New Orleans, very recently hts only confirmed and sul)plement ed the evidence already furnished Sth Northern public by such in - telligent obsorvers as Messrs. White of the New York T'ribune, Redfield of the Cincinnati Commercial mnd Handy of the P/hiladephia Times. No candid person can longer doubt that there was a large colored Democratic vote in Loui~ifia at the recent election, and that more ne groes would have voted the same way but for ilimiiation that was frequently practiced,-intimidation noUC the less effectual that it was oft-'m of a moral or religious rather tan a phvsical character. 1t ii not singular that the Demo crits shoul(d have won over a large ection of the colored people to their side. As early as two years ago, they had accoimiplished consgid erable in this direct-ion. Indeed, the Democratic programme in all p'uts of the State, except perhaps portions of the "bulldozed" parishes 2"ews to have been the sune during the hLAt e.iupaign am in 1874, which tter Republican Congressiumn Foster, of Ohio, thus described It became the interest of the Conservatives, at least at the late election., not to intimidate, but to acquire, by every fair means, the colored vote. Parties who were :lleged to have threatened blacks even witi the refusal of employment were subject to prompt arrest It was known that pretoxts would he Sought to deprive the Conservatives of the result, if they prevailed in the election. It wai , thereforo, their interest to avoid giving any such pretexts. Accordingly, they deter mined everywhere to co-operate and conciliate the blacks. They voted dlown the propositions or sugges tions which were made in the early part of the campaign for refusal to cruploy those colored votors who Would not co-operate with them, and generally sought, by combining wi ith olored voters, to carry the elctior. At the same time the more iii telligent negroes were already in 1B74 appreciating the fact that their own interest were bound up in the change of government. "An in teigvent colored witness," says Mr. Foster, "testified that he desired better government, and to that endl 'wvas will ig to swallow the white men, if the white men would swallow the colored.' "These causes and feelings," Mr. F'oster continuied, "naturally united to swell the Con servattive Vote in such localities exactly as5 are indicated by the re turns,"-though the very fact of such swelling of the Conservative vote, t hen as now, bad been seizedI lupon by the RepuIbean managers Ias proof conclusive of DeJ~mrtic intimidation, and juistitic Wton for th "i legal" reversal of the result wdh iucurred Vice-President WVheeler'si "eumphlatic disapproba-. .1f thme Democrats got a consideram 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 up)on them,--a gover'n ment, the enormity of which haa never been more forceibly described than in these extracts from last ye tr's filles of two of the chief Re pulican) organs of the country-the New York T'ines and the Boston Adnertiser. The government of William Pitt Kellogg in Louisiana is one which we have never been able to defend. Durell's decision, which aided in esitab)lihing it, was an outrage. The conduct of the Returning Board which declared it elected wasI dishonest. The taxation since 1872 has been arbitrary and oppressive. Legislation has in huudredsu of cases beeni a shamueful farce. Districts have been represented by men who never saw them. The small revenue gl eanied from the impoverished peo ple hast been diverted to improper uses. For years, the great State of Louisiana, whose peop~le have as good a right to be left alone to Imanage their own affairs as the peo ple of Massachusetts, has been ruled not by its own citizens, but by two Scarpot-baggers (referring to K~ellogg the present Governor, and Packard, ,the Republican candidate to succeed .him) holding Federal office and - having the adroitness to enlist all the power of tihe Government upon > their side in the inevitable confusion I which. they p~rovoked. Whenever athe elootione hamv not been arrIe in their favor, they have overthrown the returns by soni jugglery, like Judge Duroll's midnight order, or the manipulations of a Roturning Board; and, when that has not suo ceeded, orders from Walshington have re-onforced thei, and the poo ple have had no alternative but to protest and bido their time. To declare, as the average Re pulbliemn orgais now repeats, day after day, that the colored votors of Louisiana-mon who have now ex. oreied the right of 6ufirage for ten years-would go in a solid unss for four years more of such government, -and this, too, in face of the fact that thousmands of them went with the Democrats in 18741-would be a confession of such dense and hope less ignorance on the part of the negro race as might well make us i despair of the future. It is the one hopeful feature of the Louisiana election that the negro vote was not cast in a lump, this year-that so many of the Colored men have come to see the outrageous charac tar of topublicin rule in Louisiana, and, aftar "biding their time," as the A doertiser put it, seized last month's opportunity to declare that they would have no more of it. AN AxCiENT JITIs4 VILL aGE.-I preparing the -round for new uni. versity schools in Oxford, England, the rem Ains of what ii supporse:l to have been an ancient British village i dating b.tck perhaps two hundred thousand yoars, have been found. They look like mounds of gravel, but are apparently circular wall, of six inohog or more in thickness. The I mounds or walls cover a largo ex tent of ground, and are of various sizes. lit all are on or about the Ime beYel. The floor of one has app arently been covored with con crate, and is snaficiently compact to allow one-hadf of it to be romoved in a single piece. The bonos of domes tic animai, a portion of a tuni i crosts, a Saxon knife anid arrow head have also been found. It ha ,s been irreverently suggested that the sita i3 nothing more nor less than that of an Old gravel pit, and the discov ery akin to that which excite-. the minds of Pickwickians seeking in vain to find the meaning of "Ril Stunpe (his Mark;") but the anti q1tarians a. e e:mtleat that the re mains are those of an mcie'it villaga, and they are preparing for an ex haustivo exmination of the subject. PROPOSED A1OLITION OF THR PREsI DxNe.1--The New York VOr/r's Washington special says a ul)lc meeting to discuss the question and petition Congressi to pass amend mlents to the constitution abolish';n the Preiecy will (aLe place Il P. Vey short time. The public and members o Congress especiaily are iuvited. It is proposed to abolish the Presidency aind sub stitute an Exeentive Council there for, to be composed of feven se -re taries or heads of departments ; four to be elected b),y the Houtse of Representatives a1nd three by the Senate from members of their re rpeetive hiouses for two years ; one or all to be removed at any time by' the house electing them, aind each to have the right of a membler in both houses. F I.NGs AMONa TTnx' SomI~s. - We have rec'eived a letter ''from a private in the ranks of the United States army, at the Warshington Arsenal, used1 nOW for nool soldier ing." The want of space prevents its plien(tionl in fall, but we be lieve that the writer expresse the pos~jiion an d ideas, not only~ of him.. self, but of a fmjrity' of his comn rados andi superioru. Hoe mays: "I have been att a~ great many places of late, and I find the great est numbier' of enlisted men are for Tilden and Hendricks." Again "I ask tihe people of the Unit-ed Stlates, would a soldier of the United States army be bound to 'put in a corrupt President, not lawvfully electedl ? Why, a r;oldier would be b~reakcing the laws of the country by puttimg im a Premdent that ist not lawfully elected b~y the people's voteS, and a soldier ought not to be used asm a tool for political parties." --WaJek/ington U~nion. Oia Buur~.-DozEDn PRtE5IDENT.-Our bull dozed President is; pursuing a course of which lie will repent. President Grant's own impulses would (lover have hurried him into compllicity with the law-defying pro. ceedmngs m South Carolina. He is misled by the Obhandlers, Camerons andi hot-headed partisans to whom lie has unwarily given his conftidene and 'who seek to make hinm the instrument of their p~artisan vio lence. We call on him to diuscard these reckless advisers, who are using him as a ladder which they will kick clown when they have elimbed on it to the attainment of their objects.-New York Herald. "Tain't no use in your cryin'," said a heartless maiden to her prostrate lover ; "I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on earth." "Well, Mary," he replied, breathing through his nose with groat difficulty, "you 11 lend me your pocket handikerchief, won't yon 1" Subscribe for THJ News AID HDI ALD, and ba snre to hare th. reedy OAROLINA'S CHOICE. Her New senator, General M, C. Butler. No one supposes that the Demo critic Legislature of South Carolina either would or could please the Northern Radicals in their choice of a United Mtates Senator. General Butler is known to us all as one of the most moderate and Conserva tive men in South Carolina, and knowing this fact, it is not necessa ry for us to enlarge upon it. But we take pleacure in reproducing from the Philadelphia imres, a journal thoroughly independent in politics, the following article. In speaking of General Butler's career and antecedents, it saya: Mr. Butler i3 a higbty cultured South Carolinian, who hvh ever been conspicuous for his donservative counsels and actions. j[e served under Hampton during the rebellion, lost a leg t lrandy Station, rose to the rank of Major General in the insurgent army by his jmerita 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 been 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 io part in the bloody affair, except to make exhaustive efforts to maintain Vie peace. But his prominence as a citizen made him an inviting target for those who sought to turn a cowardly murder to political advant aLge, instead of judicially ascertain in the truth and punighing 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 troops practically at his command, with his State militia arne-d amd absolutely under his orders, with Republican judges in every judicial district, and with le publicam machinery for th selection of jurors. He had but to ommand the law, whose agencies were all in political accord with himself, to enforce swift judgment against the murderers, for at-rocious :Aurderers there were at Hamburg beyond a question. But that (lid 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 matic flourish to fire the Northern heart. In a pubhc ltter he as sociated the 2-uame of Mr. Butler with the massacre, to which the ac cu:sed publicly answered that he was innocent, that. he was voluntarily in the hands of the law, and that he challenged prompt and searching judicial investigation of the miur derous affair, so that the innocent should be acquitted and the guilty punished. Nor did Mr. Butler, hike Governor Chamberlain, stop with a ne(wspaperl piroclamjation. At the earliest moment he appeared 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 Republican jutdge hold this "red-handed ruffian," thmis "moving spirit in the bloodiest deedl recorded in our modern histo ry," to bafil in the sum of $1,000 for is appearance at the coumt for trial. This wr last mid-summer, and why has he not been triedl? Why has the Repulican Governor not made his.Republican judge call in his Republiean jurors and try Mr. Butler for the Hamburg massacre ?I Five blacks wore 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 alike in law and morals, and why has lhe not been tried'? He publicly challenged Chamberlain to try him before aill the Chamberlain legal machinery, anid hec gave notice that lie would then and there show who wore the real authors of the Hamburg tragedy, that lhe had striven most earnestly to prevent. It was this notice that mado Chamn b~erlaiin 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 thie deliberately planned features of the Chamberlain political cam paign to arouse the country, furnish an excuse to place South Carolina under martial law, and thus insure a newv 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 bar' of justice. Such is the truth of Mt. Butler's association with the Hamburg butchery so far as the public can judge from an impartial hearing of both sides. So long as this d'stinguished Carolinian isi thus known to tho enlightened press and people of thc North, lhe can afford to pajs over i2 silence the petty mouthinig of tho-se Radical papers whose political creed begins and ends with hatred to the South and her people. RodfiOld's Last Lottor. Correspoiinco Cinciinati Coniiercial. CHATTANoooA, TENN., December 21.-Lately I met a Northern Democrat who was as mad is a dog with a tin kettle tied to his tail, and not without a reason, from his point 6 1 iew, niually subsitantial. "Why," said he, in an outburst of indignation, "if it hand't been for the yell) of Solid South, Solid South. we would have carried Ohio and Pennlsylvania. The Radicals played upon the fears of tle people by pointing to the fact that the Sout'h was solid for Tilden. Thnt very thing defeated us in those two States, to sly nothing of Wisconsin, and the Pacific slope. And now, after defeating us in the North by the Solid South bugaboo, they say the South wasn't solid after all, and proceed to take from us South Carolina, Louisiana and Floridal Did you ever hear of sjucli im pudence ? But they have played this Solid South card tho last time. Hereafter they will have to have some other stock in trade." And the Democrat consoled himself with this reflection. So, 1tepublican orators, you must spring a new issue for 1880 and intermediato electionsj. You startled the comitiy )y the cry of a solid South, when, in fact, the South Wasn't solid after all. What will be the result of the present complication in South Carolina? Those who expect to find any permanent solution of the difficulty other than turning the State over to the Democrats-that is, the White people-ean undecoive themselves. So-called lepuhlican government is at an end there, and if, perchance, Chamliberlain continues to act as Governor, he will be powerless. What is such a governmont as his in South Carolina and Kellogg's in Louisiana good for anyway? 'Thliey :!annot stanld alone an hour if Federal protectioni is withdrawn, md with that protection they are powerless to conmand respect or mnforce law. I fail to see what Vood is to come from a cont'nua Lion of an attclmpt to uphold so ,alled leplublican governinn ts in these States. The double government at pres Mnt in South Carolina is the fourth :f the sort we have had in the Southern States fince the war. You remeb!n er tie t wo-headed gov urnment in Alah:a that was for so long a time a nuisance and a shame. You remember the appeals to W'ashi ington, the fights and turmCil. It is all over, and Alabamni is at peace. rien there was the d(oul)1e govern nent in Arkansar-Brooks at the hlead of one end and Baxtor at the other. It is over; the white people, that is to say the Democracy, are in po-wer.* Old Joe Brooks ha~s a p)ostoficC, and1( thereii pea)cel in Arkansar. L'muisiana had a long experienc with a double govern mnent, andl, indlood, hauu it now, for NlcEnory h as nevor eutirely subsid sd. After January sho will have more of it, for Nichols and Packard wrill both be inaugurated. Th'lo reason tha~t thme Republican party is a failure in the Cotton States is because there is no whito lonment in it exwep~t the office hioldors. The~ blacks c'annot con niuct good government, and if they 3ould, I don't believe the whitesi would long submit to it. T.heso ingitators in the Cotton States are rebellious against negro rule where the negroes are in the majority. T'hat is the truth of the matter. And you nood not look for peace under so-called Republican govern ament in the Cotton States, unless' W~mo whiite material can be got into the Republican party. It is the talk here that Hayes, if inaugurated may attempt to build up the shat tered Republican pa~rty in the Southern States. It can be (lone, but the effort will require . skill and the cutting loose from numorous earp)et-baggersj who have brought shame and disgrace upon the very: wnae of liepubhean. There is a good opportunity for statesmeon to come to the front ibout this time if there are iany in t'ae country. H. V. R. Judge Lawrence, a Republican member of the Congressional conm mittee in Columbia, regards any thinig with black skin as an ebony oberub without wings. He hadl thirty-five of these wingloss angels of a dark comlelxion hanging arounid the Wheeler House efor a week drawing por 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-lid as to steal a Congressman's boots. There was a bloodyr row at Chap poll's, on the Greenville andl Colum bia Railroad, on Christmas, in which a man was rso severely hurt that lhe may lona his Iief South Cat omira Nows. The Abboville boys had a merry timo last wook, rolling the citizens in the sn1ow. The county officers of Pickens have all filed their bonds, none of which have (beeU rejected. A negro shot and killed himself by accident on the Chalmers place in Nowberry county laut week. Mrs. M. A. Davis, of Graniteville, is looking for a runawaty son who ft his home some days since. Tho Sumter True A8outhrEm Men tions not. less than two dozoen gin house robberies in that county with In a week. Tho Keowie Courier oongrata lafes its readeit4 on the adsence of cases of tunstroke in the Oconeai community. Two town lots Fol l in George town lately for s;xty dollars-one I for twenty-five doll:lrs, and the oth er for thirty-five, dollars. The cotton houise of J. J. Dalo. of Ladies' Iiland, Beautfort county, was Lurned down quite recently. The cause of the fire is nlot known. Nearly live hnndred d:llar's worth of goods wei e stoles from the va-, n1ou; mIrchants of N bwherry on the Saiturday 1. -fo'0 Chrik;,u.as. The tnxpayers of Smnter county held a maifss meeting (a) the 1st of January. Those of Mr.i ion will hold one on the 8th of January. They are going to decide who to pay taxes to. Anderson county follows Charles ton. The Deinoerats are called to attend a miass iteeting on Monday, the 8th of January, to take some action im regard to the payment of taxes. On the 21st, it. the gin of Mr. William H. Stin' eyer, near Brad ford Spriugs ini S11fyer colmtv, took fire by a.ccident, while in opelation, and the giu-house with is contents was destroyod. On Saturday, the 23rd ult., a man by the name of Campbell vas as saulted in the upper part of 1i"t ion comty by two nogroou, who beat hiua with clubs so that lie died the next day. The murdelors I have 1,eeCn ar rested. On Christmasf5 dy a difficulty arose but wecn MacCorrhac, ('no of the soldie. s Atationed at Marion, and ] a colored nrm Iniamed Mosem, in which the laltter cul. the roldier witb a knife. After being reverely pan ished, Moses took to his hools and ran away. A man naned Meeker wan recent ly run over and killed by a train on the Air Line Railroad, near Liberty. It ii said that this unfortunate man hiad itngular predilection, wln imtoicated, to lie down on the rail ro.id track, and it is supposed he met his death in I hat way. A wagon loaded with whiskey was recently attaciked near Pendleton by a p urty of negroes, the wagoners b Iuly boa: ten, an~d the whisikey stolen. The whtitma, on leatrning of this out rage, mlado upl a party and( visitoed 8,amnuuTy punllishmeunt uponU the2 tbuev'es. One negro was shot in the hipan tig, und enother in the A serious shooting and stabbing affray ,cc~ur red at Uranchville on [te 26th uIt., in wvhich a colored mant named Stephen Rigaby was-4 shot nd killed, another named Warren Wilhon shot ini theO leg, aind a whtiteo man inedl J. W. Fairy1 stabbhed in the thigh. HI. 0. Judd, clerk of court of I Beaufort county, holds the fort. Hie refuses to surrenlder his office to the!' caniary-color'ed ilamptield, and it is '] said that the rest of the oficers wvill hold the fort. with him. Tho reason assigned is that thore is no law for an eloction of county oflieors on the 7th of Novoeur. All the .uon test ing parties are Radicals. Sout~h Caroliua. How can Chatmnberlaint hold on to the oflic~e of Governor in opposition ( to the tax-payers and respectable people1 all over the State, defeated[ at the polls and counted in by fraud,l and in-mgurated by an illegal Leg- 1 islaturo '? Of course he could not romain a single hour in the office ' but for a b kdy-guiard of Fodoral, soldiers which President Glrant' keeps around1 hime. Hie cannot re-'s main thnus long. Deprived of all authority by the deciusion of the ! S:1preme Court, as he will be, and' utterly derided by tihe pople, what' can he do? Ho can appeal to .Presid(ent Grant, and whlat will] lhe do? If ho p)rOoOds further to bolster the illegal government he encounters the decisions of tho courts and the public verdict in1 many forms, and stands forth boldlyi as tihe usurper still defying law and1 right, and ti ending into dust overy1 prinlciple of liberty and self-govern ment. It would be well for this issue to be set tled. Grant does not rest soundly upon this South Caro lina business. It is worse than the murder of a man. It is the murdor of a whbole State. Hlow 'to "trammel up the Consequences," that's the matter at the White House.-.ich-. mond JPiwatech. Miscellaneous Nows. The Lake shore train, bound West went through the river bridge near Auhtabnla, Ohio, on the 29th lit., and fell seventy-five foot into the river. One-fiflh of the passengors were killed. Governor Fairbanks, of Vormont, 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 fine of $20 and imprisonment in the county jail for not less than one or moro than three months, in the discretion of the court. Otis D. Swan, broker, of Wall street, New York, disappeared on the 38th of December. Beforo leaving he stated that he had Iisap propriated fun~ds held by him im trust for his brother and sister. The amount is stated to be $600,000. He is also in default for four or fivo thousand dollars belonging to the Union League Clab, of which he was one of the founders. The New Orleans -Democrat of the 24th gays that the Superior i uiminal Court in that city had been compelled to adjourn over for three days because there was no fire in th court room, the State having thrown the expenso.of providing for that court upon the city, and the city being out of funds. The delay mulets the city in heavy costs, such as continuances, sulmonses, deten tions in prison at sixty cents per head per day, &c. And yet New Orleane ahould be one of the most independent and flourishing -ities in the Union. "Reconstruc Lion" has done the work for her. On the Fourth of July a little girl cianied Bondar was so seriously in ured by a brick falling from the top Af the new American office, Balti nore, And striking her on tho head as to eause her death in the course of a ,ow days. The father of the ohild )rought sait against the A merican, aying damages at $10,000, but which )n the payment of $1,000, was dis -on tiuued. Now Bondar brings mit in $10,000 against tho gas Jitters )f the building, through whose care essness, it is alleged, the casualty iappened. The little girl was very lear to him, and he proposes to nake her so to others. The Sprague mills at Augusta, ffaine, are now employing &bout L50 persons, and week before last lid their largest week's work. They nanufactured 156,000 yards of print ,loths, all finished and put into bales mnd forwarded to the print works at 3ariston, Ithode Island, where the loth will be stamped ready to ho )ut upon the iuuket. Ninety-five housand yards of cloth wore woven ,he last month in excess of the mount woven at the mills during ,he correspnnding month last year. Governor Lafayette Grover, of 3regon, is a native of Bethel, Maine, md~ over fifty years old. Gen, .Juvier Grover, of the regular army, s his brother lie i:s a graduate of BoUwdoin College, and has lived in 3regon since 1850. Ho has hold all ;orts of Territorial and Stato oflicos, m~d was the first Representative of ,he Stato in Congress. The Grand Rlapid1s 1)emnocrat says the Governor a a Michigan man, hails from Cold vater and was a colonel in the army. PhRETEN~DED AoTs.--The following s a full list of the acts pretended to myve been passed by the Bayonet louse and the Senate, and approved >y ex-Governor Chamberlain : An act tomake approp~riations for he expenses of the Legislature. An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to fix the salaries of certain )blic oficers." An act to make appropriations to neet the ordinary expenses of the tate govennmt. An act relative to county officers. An act to extend bhe time for >ficers to. qualify. A joint resolution requiring lohool claims of Newberry county to >A registered. An aet to charter a ferry in ]eorgetown county. An act to repeal the lien law. This pretended act is not intended .> go into offect, if at all, till Decem or 31, 1877.] An act to regulate the payment of he debt of Newberry county. The bogus Legislature doubtless n'd a fino time in going through the kree of passing b lts and declaring hemn to be laws: They will have a n~rd time Indeed in enforcing their naasures. The inmates of the poor-house of K(ershaw county are threatened with storyfation, and no sup plies can bo >btainlel except upon the individual 3redit of tho meinbers of the old b)oard of county commissioners. It 8 hard to see what- our public insti butions are Igoing to do . for money bhis year. Mr Henry Moats, living near Jalapa, In Newberry county, had hi hand caught in a gin a few days ago, auad so badly mangled that four (mgersA had to be amputated John (I. Wilson, of Newberry, recently lost four chijaron from diphtheria wini e. L'a m