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LI. Vol. 1.MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2-5,189 OUR LAWMAKERS. HOW THEY PROGRESS IN LAW MAKING. Some Account of the Work of the Menate and the House---Judges and Other Omcers Elected. Below will be found some account of the important proceedings of the Legis lature since our last report: THE CLEMSON COLLEGE. The passage of the Clermson bill to its third reading did not end the discus sion of its provisions. Indeed, the < warmest debate of the session arose upon the question of its final passage. The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier reports as follows: Mr. Haskell, who, with Messrs O'Brien c and McKissick, had gone to New Or- ca leans to represent the State at the fun eral of Mr. Davis, was again with his colleagues in the hall whan the Clemson b College bill came up for its final read ing. He took the opportunity, which , was thus afforded, for placing himself to upon record in regard to the bill, and for expressing his opinion as to the manner in S which it had been pressed during his absence. When the question was put as- to whether the bill should be passed and at to the Senate Col. Haskell said that be had hoped at the opening of the ses sioa that such a bill would pas as he 6 could vote for. He must say a few f words now to show why he could not vote for the bill in its present shape. ut Last week when he, with two other ha members, was sent to another State to perform a sacred duty, he felt so certain he that the, managers of the bill would ut exercise ordinary parliamentary courtesy- ha by postponing the consideration of the bill for a day, that he did not even sh pair upon it. Having been 'dcnied the he privilege of being present to discuss Cl its provisions as they came up [amend- r ments are not allowed on the final read- e ing] he must take this opportunity io ge ,place himself upon the record. an He was willing. to appropriate not he only $98,000, but $198,000 for the Col lege, but he would not consent to free it fa from respousibilit -th people whose money it would use. He would dem:n he strate th though the appropriations se were- direct, they were nevertheless sc al out of the pockets of the people. He would ask this self-appointed be Moses of the farmers, who advocated this bill against those who were born in ha this State and fought and bled for it wa before he had even heard of it, why he, with his knowledge of the law, put pro- ch VisloLs in this bill which would pre vent the State's regaining control of its its fundst an With a great deal of irony Co!. Has- , kell read from the News and Courier elo Mr. Benet's reply to Gen. McCrady, a if t lawyer of thirty years' experience, that dis in regard to the rights of Miss Lee in by the Clemson estate "he was satisfied." a He defied any lawyer to gainsay Gen. McCrady's declaration that Miss Lee had not lost her rights to a part of the estate. It was unanswerable. to Col. Haskell dissected the bill and liq made objections to it in detail. Rit * Mr. Irby apologized to Col. Haskell ma for daring to consider the bill during the an< absence of that gentleman. "gl Every face was turned toward Mr. Cai Benet as he rose to reply. fro Mr. Benet said that he was sorry the ene gentleman from Richland had not been its present during the 'debate, for he would slec then have learned how gentlemen could Ho conduct a debate without personality, cot It was a mean thing to taunt him with fro not being a native-born Carolinian, and prc with not having been in that noble hit army which, when he was a student at school, marched out to defend the me rights of the South. He had lived in the South Carolina for twenty-one years, a evi time long enough to have enabled him aid to be born again here and become a wa voter. set The gentleman knew well that the int ones who were dearest to him on earth ind were South Carolinians born. I' was me true that he had found Abbeville a thE plessanter home than the gentleman tet from Richland seemed to have done, thi [CoL Hasktll was raised in Abbeville.- j kep.,] and that he had been elected to an< this House by the good people of that to county, who had given him the largest the vote ever cast in Abbeville for a candi date. The gentleman from Richiand would have been proud to be the lead er of the farmers' forces, if he had not ba been on the wrong side- rie He was very sarcastic in his apology au for the acin of the House in not sus-St pendicr.usiness while the gentleman to from Richland was absent. His lieu- WE tenants should never have consented to go on with the bill without him- to gHe made further explanation of his by discussion with Gen. McCrady on the he legal points involved in the Clemson co bequest. Iin conclusion he begged pardon at of the House for giving way to natural in- ne dignation at the "unmanly taunts" of the' cc gentleman from Richland. in CoL Haskell said that the gentleman m from Abbeville had misunderstood a cc part of his remarks and misstated the 2: remainder. He had not taunted the et gentlemen from Abbeville with being su born in Scotland. That was absurh- in Scotland was a good country to be born m in. But he objected to the tone be had et assumed toward men who ventured to p oppose him-men of proved devotion to , the State. Anything for the good of - this State he would work for in the w future as in the past. He had nACt a charged the House with discourtesy. He had been told that the other side had been asked to wait because three gen tlemen who would bave opposed the u bill were absent in New Orleans, but i~ they had peremptorily refused. The i~ votes of those three mnembera would e have changed the result of several of the t amendments offered to this bi!l. t Mr. O'Brien, one of the returned dele- 5 gatee, said that he had heard no one r offer to apologize to him for going on with the bill in his absence, but that was all right. He ventures to assure the gentleman from Abbeville that~ he t had made a mistake in attempting to ~ "dry nurse" the horny-handed sons of toil. He would find himself in error as to their wants. He did not feel called upon to apologize for not having been I born in Ireland, and found it a good I place to get away from. As to this bill, it was not tbe fair. pehonest bill to support the farmers' college which he had expected, and would have voted for. He represented I a county of farmers, but he could oppose tbis bill and be returned to the Legisla ture with the approbation of the farm ers of Colleton- And he would defy any member to stump Colleton on that issue aainst him. He had as much right to feel interest in this college as the gen tleman from Abbeville, but the people ought to have the right to pass upon it. *Mr. Benet thanked Mr. O'Brien for bin pleasantry, and said that he proudly accepted the position of dry nurse to th< farmers' movement. He had a health3 eharge and a full grown one. He declared to the gentleman from Rich. land that he k.*ew nothing of any appeal for delay on account of the absence of the gentleman at New Orleans. He beard nothing of any such request, and asked the gentleman to state his author ty for the assertion. [Mr. Haskell was tt this moment entering the hall.] Mr. Brawley said that be was respon ible for the statement that the consid ratton of the bill had been prematurely orced last week. He had gone into the onference with an earnest effort to each an agreement on the bill which could be satisfactory to all parties. The onferences were interrupted, he was nable to say why, but not broken up, nd on Friday, before any agreement had een reached, the gentleman from Abbe ille, to his surprise, had called up the ill. He had objected to its immediate :sideration, not on account of .the asence of the gentleman from Richland at in order to obtain time for further torght on the subject. That delay had -en refused. Mr. Bean saw, in what he c .lled the litter opposition" to this bill, an at rapt to prevent the farmers from get ng their college wirthout bu:dening the ate with taxes. A slip of the tongue r woich Mr. Bean alluded to the 2orny-hea'ied sons of toil," set the ouie in a laugh, which lasted during e remaiuder of his remarks. Mr. O'Brien was perfectly willing to mat that the gentleman from Edge id fully represented the variety of rmer he had happily described as Corny-headed," but h-, Ir. O'Brien, derto>k to speak for the "horey need." Mr. Bean explained that he was very arse, and hadinot used the term attrib :d to him, He was sure the reporters d put him down c:rrectly. Mr. Mc~ijeick felt it due that he :uid make some short remarks. Had been hare he would have voted for a !mson Collegc, but not for all of these visions. He begged to remind some atlemen in this H->use that he had in a .ploughman wh :n they had bee:i king their fingers in infancy, and that was not going to be put out of sympa with the farmers. He cautioned the s'ers agaist selecting poor lawyer ders. He did not expect to re:urn -e. but some one would who would thousands of dollars eaen up by this lege in its present shape. a r. Benet explained that the bill had n called up not becauso the gentle n were absent, but because it would re jeopardised its passage to have ited any longer. lIr. Brawisy said that he did not trge unfairness. CI.e bill then passed its final reading, opponents not calling for the yeas I nays. Che contraversy had been a hot and quent one, and for a time it looked as rubble would come of it. But the putants had been mnoved to laughter the mishaps of Mr. Bean, aod the cloud floated away. PROHIBITION DEFEATED. The bill. with an unfavorably report. prohibit the sale of intoxicating Iuirs, introduced by Mr. Childs, of bland, was called for by that gentle n when it was reached on the calendar, I he made a gallant but unavailing it for it. Mr. Childs said that South 'olina had always been found in the ot rank of advancemnent against nay my threatening its rights, its liberties,. peace or its welfare, the empty tves of many of the members of the use attesting their devotion to their .ntry's cause. To-day she was con ated by an enemy that checked her sperity, retarded her advancemnent and dered the progress of Christiabity.i ir. Childs then reviewed all the argu- 1 nts for and against the prohibition of liquor traffic, and said that it was dlont that the flowing dde was on the e of temperance reform, ad that it Sthe next great question that must be tied by this country. The bill he had roduced did not affect the question of ividual abstinence, but was openly ant to check the evils resulting from liquor traffic. High license, he con ded, could not cheek or control the' sg. Ie thea appealed to the Christianity I moral sentiment of the Legislature bhrow the weight of their influence on side of the bill, and let the State RIGHTS OW '3ARRIED WOMEN. several hours were consumed in de ing the question of the rights of mar fi women, as developed in two bills to end a certain sectioni of the General btutes, and to declare tlie law relating the separate estates of married men. ['he substance of the bills is in relation the right of married women to acouire purchase any species of property in :own name and to take proper legal nveyances therejor, and to contract d be contracted with in the same man r as if she were unmarried, and that all oveyances, mortgages and like formal ttruments of writing, executed by a arried woman, shall be effectual to nvey or charge her separate estate, lenever the intention so to convey, or arge such se parate estate is declared in ch conveyances, mortgages or other struments of writing. The bill was Lfavorat~ly reported. A general debate sued on the motion to indefinitely >stpone, and the bill was finally rejected ra vote of 23 to 9. The bill to limit the right of dower as rejected by a vote of 20 to 10, after spirited debate. FUNDS FOR CONTROfLING DISEASES. The moemorial of the executive com ittee of the State board of health, re ting to the corgrol of contagious and fectious diseases, was favorably report i, and the committee recommended iat the aid asked for be granted and iat the amount of $500 be appropriated yr the purposes mentioned in the memo al. The report was adopted. THlE APPROPRIATIONS. The Legislative appropriation bill was akenx up, and passed a second reading rith but little amendment. The contingtent fund of the House was aised to $2,500. The pay of Mr. R. M. Anderson s leading~ Clerk of the House was raised rom $250 to $350. The sum of $250 was added for suck xtra clerical services as might be needec n the engrossing department. The general appropriation bill was ther aken up. Section 9 of the bill was amended b3 idding at the end of it an apprt priatiot >f $3,000 to carry out the provisions oi bhe Act to quarantine the State againsi nfectious diseaees. An amendment offered by Mr. Bean sppropriating $300 to aid the Clarioso pbie Society of the South Carolina Uni rersity, was voted down Mr. Hazard move4crease the ap prnnriatinn for th niem depart ment of the University from $2,000 t $5,000. Mr. Whitlock moved to lay on th table. . Mr. O' en moved to substitute $4,00 for $5,000. Mr. Hazard accepted th amendment; and, in this shape, the in creased appropriation was granted by i vote of 53 to 49. Mr. John Gary Evans, of Aiken, moved to strike out the appropriation of $5,00( to Claflin University. Lost-99 to 9. Mr. Gary then moved to reduce the ap propriation to $1,000. Tabled-86 to 19, Mr. Peurifoy. of Edgefield, moved to strike out $32,500 from the appropriation for the schools of the University, and substitute $20,000 in place thereof. Tabled-S 'to 19. Mr. W. D. Evans moved to strike out the $15,000 appropriated .for the brick building for the colored insane, stating that he did so in order to make the bill conform to the action of the House in passing the joint resolution providing for a commission to select a suitable site for said building. The amendment was adopted. Mr. Hazard offered an amendment which was adopted, appropriating $5,000 from the penitentiary earnings to erect a hospital within the walls of the peniten tiarv. An amendment was also passed provid ing for the payment of salary due Lieu tenant Governor Mauldin for the month of November, 1888. The bill was then passed without any further material changes. Senate. When the bill to provide the method of voting in stockholders' meetings, which had already caused such a hard fight came up for a second reading, Senator Ferguson moved to indefinitely postpone. The yeas and nays were demanded and resulted: Yeas 23, nays 9; so the bill was rejected. [Thin bill sought to "scale" the voting in corporate bodies. so that one person :r body controlling a bare majority of the shares could not also have the man agement of the concern. THE USURY LAW. Quite a stubborn fight was made over a bill to amend the statutes regulating the rate of interest. An amendment by Senator Edwards that the provision should not apply to :ontracts or arrangements prior to March 1, 1890, was adopted. The yeas and nays were called on the third reading and resulted: Yeas 18, nays 16. MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES. Among the important bills which be :ame Acts upon their third reading were' Bill to provide for the payment of a alary to be paid to the Sheriff of Fair ield County, and to provide for the man ner in which the same shall be paid. Among those which passed and were lent to the House were: Bill to charter the Chesterfield and Eershaw Railroad Company. Bill to prevent the killing and destruc :ion of fish in the fresh waters of this tate by the use of dynamite, giant pow ler, or other explosive material. Bill to amend an Acc in relation to for eited lands, delinquent lands, and col ection of taxes. The following bills were rejected: Joint resolution providing for a sub icription by the State to the Annotated ;ode of South Carolina, prepared and published by Osmund W. Buchanan. Bill to secure rent to landlord in case )f neglect, abandonment of crop, or leath of tenant, and providing manner ~or proceedIngs thereunder. ACTS RATIFED. Among the Acts ratified are the fol owing: Relatitig to the opening and closing of he polls for municipal elections in the own of Ridgeway, in Fairfield County. To recharter Davies Ferry, across 3ataw ba River, in Chesterfield County. THE CLEMSON COLLEGE. The Clemson College bill came up in he Senate on Thursday night. Mr. Kennedy, of Chesterfield, moved to indefinitely postpone the bill. He urged that the separate college was un necessary, and that the people did not desire it. The motion to indefinitely postpone was opposed ioy Senators Pope, Smythe, Buist and Donaldron. Senators Kennedy, McMaster, So journer and Smith spoke in favor of the postponement. The yeas and nays were calied on a motion to table the motion to postpone, and were as follows: Yea-Messrs. Bell, Buist, Howell, Moore, Donaldson, Magill, Munro, Edwards, Mason, Pattersoc, Ferguson, McCall, Pope, Fields, Meetze, Ready, Moise, R. 3. Smith, Smythe, Soujourner, Wilson, (21). Nay- Messrs. By'rd, Dozier, Erwin, Kennedy, McMaster, Moody, Rhame, Sinkler, Jeremib Smith, Verdier, Wood ward. Senator Hemphill was paired, on the bill generally, with Senator Murray. Mr. Kennedy moved to strike out sec tion three, appropriating the privilege tax. Mr. Smythe -nos'ed to amend by appropriating ten thousand dollars4 which would be equivalent, he declared, to the sum obtained from the sinking fund from the past year's collection. Mr. Patterson offered an amendment appropriating fifty thousand dollars in. stead of the sinking fund and tag tax funds appropriated in sections three and four. Lost-22 to 10. Mr. Smythe's amendment appropriat ing $10,000 directly in lieu of the sink ing fund funds was adopted by a vote of 17 to 16. Mr. Kennedy next moved to strike out section five giving all the property of the Department of Agriculture to the Clem son College and authorizing the sale of the two farces. The motion was carried by a vote of 18 to 14 and the section was striCken out. A motion to strike out section four, giving three-fifths of the tag tax to the college was killed-19 to 12. An at tempt to strike out that part of the sec tion giving the three-fifths for future years was defeated by a majority of one vote. Af ter further amendments the bill was passed to its third reading by a vote of 20 to 32. The bill as thus passed had the section appropriating the sinking fund proceeds is stricken out and tbt words"$10, 000 be appropriated"inserted. Section 4, relating to the privilege tai proceeds, was so changed as to appro priate three fifths of such moneys as are now on hand and three-fifths of wha will be collected for the fiscal year end ing Gctober 31, 1890. The entire fifti section, appropriating all the propert of tbe Agricultural Department, wa stricren out. The bill came up on its third reading It was amended by giving the College instead of a three fifths of the fertilize tax, $10,000 from the cash now on hand -and $15,000 from the collections of th' - Inext year. The House refused to con -- cu.a cmmnite of conference wa appointed, and they recommended tha the House concur in all the Senate amend ments, and that the direct appropriation be raised from $10,000 to $15,000. This was adopted by both House and Senate. The bill, as thus completed, gives the - Clemson College about $47,000 to begin with. MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES. Among the bills passeed to a second reading are the following: To prohibit memburs of the General Assembly from accepting free passes from any railroad in the State or doing business within the State; to extend the jurisdiction of trial justices for HamD'on and Beaufort Coun ties resident at or near Yemassee and Ridgeland; to amend an Act in reiation to forfeited land, delinquent land and collector of taxes, approved 24th Decem ber, 1887, and the amendments of 24th December, 1888; to provids for the pr vision, digest and arrangement of the statute laws of this-8tate; to pay certain expenses of elections in this State. Bill to prohibit the sale or furnishing or giving or providing to minors of cigarettes, tobacco or cigarette paper, or any substitute therefor, and to provide penalties for the same, was passed. Joint resolution to authorize and direct the comptroller general of this State to drawn his warrant on the State treasurer to pay the Rev. John Johnson the sum of four hundred dollars for one hundred full bound copies of his recently pub lished historical narrative of the defense of Charleston*harbor, including Fort Sumter and adjacent islands, to become the property of this State, and to ' placed in the libraries and other pub .c institutions of this State, was passel. Senator Pope secured the passage of i n amendment to this bill requiring these books to be distributed to the libraries of all the colleges in this State, both mae and female. Joint Assembly. The Senate and House of Representa tives assembled in joint session in the ball of the House at eleven c'clock Wed nesday morning. Lieutenant Governor Mauldin presided. The first elections were for judges of the First, Second, Fourth and Sixth Cir cuits. Eugene B. Gary, of Abbeville, nomi nated Gen. James F. Izlar for judge of the First Circuit. E. G. Graydon, of Abbeville. nominated J. F. Ficken. The ballot resulted: Total vote cast 143: Izlar 101; Ficken 40: Asher D. Cohen 2. General Iziar was declared elected. The ballot came next for the judge of the Second Circuit in which there had been an exciting triangular ract between < James Aldrich, General J. W. Moore and Judge J. J. Maher. General Moore was nominated by Senator Y. J. Pope, Mr. Aldrich by John Gary Evans and 1 Judge Maher by Col. J. G. McKissick. 1 The result of the vote was as follows: Total vote cast 145; Aldrich 75; Moore 1 41; Maber 25; George Croft 1. Mr. Al- i drich was declared elected. Judge 1 Hudson and Judge Witherspoon were unanimously reelected for the Fourth and Sixth Circuits. A. P. Butler was re-elected Commis sioner of Agriculture with np opposition. Five vacancies in the Board of Agri culture were filled by the election of the 1 following incumbents without opposi tion: General Johnson, Hagood, John Lawton, H. L. Buck, R. A. Love and B. F. Crayton. E. R. McIver was elected State Treas- ] urer and Charles Kerrison, Jr., Regis trar of Mense Conveyance for Charleston ] County, neither having any opposition. For directors of the penitentiary T. 0.1 Sanders and J. J. Sarratt were elected. Tbe last and most tedious ballot ting was for six members of the board of trustees of the Clemson Agricultural College. The ticket agreed on in the Clemson College caucus was nominated by Mr. Brawley, of Charleston, who said: "An era of good feeling having arrived, I beg leave to place in nomination the following: B. W. Ed wards, of Darling on: J. L. Orr, Greenville; E. T. Stack house, Marion; T. H. Harden, Chester; Allan Jobnstone, Newberry; J. E. Tin dall, Clarendon." Harry Hammond, of Aiken, was nomi nated by Jobn Gary, Evans, and J. L. Shanklitn, of .Oconee, by Senator Mason. The regular ticket was eleteed, though Messrs. Hammond and Shanklin both re ceived good votes. This completed the elections set for the day and the joint assembly, a little after three o'clock, adjourned. Notes of the Session. Mr. Dantzler, for the committee on battle flags, submitted a report, which was unanimously adopted, and which provides that the battle flag presented by the First South Carolina Volunteers, and all others which may be hereafter presented to the State, shall be placed in charge of the Secretary of State, and kept by him in glass cases in the State Library, The resolution further in structs the Adjutant General to corres pond with surviving officers of regiments in the Confederate service from South Carolina, and if possible, gather up al he battle Lags, to be kept as above sta ted. The sum of $200 is by the resolu tion appropriated for the purchase of she glass cases. The Senate after wards concurred. Both houses have passed the joint res olution for the appointment of a com mission to inquire into and report upon suitable localities for the establishment of an asylum for the colored insane, and also to call tar donations of land for such purpose. The commission is to consist of one Senator, appointed by the Presi dent of the Senate. one member of the Iouse, appointed by the Speaker, and the president of the board of regents. They are to call for offers of land, not less than 300 acres, on which to erect the necessary buildings, and, in the ab sence of such offers, to ascertain the cost of such land, together with such buildings. A Remedy ter Diphtheria, That malignant enemy <.f children the diphtheria--is again prevalent in various localities. Dr. Field, a cele brated physician of England, when the disease raged in that country, several years ago, wa very successful in treat ing it by the application of a simple remedy. He used nothing but coixnmon flour of sulphur-a teaspoouful mixed with the finger in a wineglassful of water, given as a gargle. In ten min utes the patient w is out of danger, and the doctor never lost a case of the dis ease. In extreme cases, where a gargle was not pract ica ble, dry sulphur was blown down the throat through a quill, and was equally effective Chicago Journal. The leaning tower of Pisa is being of fered as the prize of a monster lottery. rPisa is so poor that money must be raised at once, and the municipal authorities .expect their fnmous tower to realize a higher price than any other of the city mnments.~ THE DEATH OF DAVID BILL ARP WRITES OF THE LEA ER OF THE CONFEDERACY. What Daniel w ebMter Said orJuhn C. C houn. Could With Propriety be Salt Davi .' Old Father Time is a wonderful d tor. It is a real comfort to the Sot to read the kind words of tha Nort ern press touching the death of Jeff son Davis. My faith is that the spi of the illustrious dead is reading the too, and is comforted. How sweet ai tender are the benedictions upon t] dead. This is right, and it is Chris anity; for when a man has gone befo his Maker it becomes all earthly ju ges to be silent ifthey connot be ge erous. "How would we be if He, wl is the top of judgment, should bi judge us as we are?" The New Yoi Sun dares to say: "There is now r one revile and there are many to hot or and respect his memory. He ha outlived sectional enmity and pers-)n; detraction." Is that so? I wish that I could b< lieve it. The Sun says: "Many yea: of peace have been required to cot vince the men who fought and sufiere for the Union that Jefferson Davis wt entirely sincere and was powerfull; fortified by teaching and example, an the ill-starred president of the Souti ern Confederacy did but: carry to thei conclusion the doctrines formulate by John C. Calhoun and avowed b such representatives of New En= land as Timothy Pickering and Josia Quincy." Yes, and he might have named score of other Northern men who were c the same State's right faith, and the: include the Hartford convention whic made the first secession from the un ion. New England never produced nobler, grander man than Quincy, any he was in all respects of the faith an< principles of Calhoun and Davis. Young men of the South, listen for a momen to what the great Webster said abou Hr. Calhoun: "He had the indispensable basis o ll high character, and that was un spotted irtegrity and unimpeache< onor. There was notbing grovelling )r low or meanly selsfisi that camp near the head or the heart of Mr. Cal ioun. Whether his political opinion; were right or wrong, they will descent ,o posterity under the sanction of i reat name. He is now an historica haracter. We shall indulge in it as i grateful recollection that we have liven n his age-that we have been his con emporaries-that we ha'v Leen him ieard him, known him- we shall de. ight to speak of him to those who arc ising up to fill our places. And whet ne after another we shall go to our raves we shall carry with us a deel ense of his honor and integrity-the Durity of his privae life and of his ex lted patriotism." Isn't that splendid nd yet every word )f it tits Jeffersor Davis. You might substitute his nam< >or r. Calhoun with the utmost pro riety, and Webster would he.it if h< were here. Daniel Webster had n< rejudices, and his great regret war hat his people had not conquerec beirs. How we all do love and honoi great man-a pure man-men lika ebster and Clay and Calhoun anc efferson Davis. It- used to be a trium ~irate, but another~namne has now to oc ~dded and Mr. Davis will go down in >o history as the peer of those histo. c names- H e wa% their equal in every aing that makes a msn a statesmat nd a patriot. He was their superio1 none thing, for he was a great sol ier, and illusti ated his patriotism or he field as in the forum. "Papa, what did Mr. Davis do tha akes everybody talk about him so?' My boy, I will tell you in a fey ords. The North and the South hat een quarrelling for fif~ y years abou e negroes and the tariff and th< rights of the States. At last they con ~luded to fight it out and Jetfersoi avis was chosen as our leader. H< .id not seek the ,>ace, for he was modest man, but we made nim take it e believed that the btates were reater than tbe government at Wash agton, for the States created tha overnment as their agent. But thi overnment at Washington soon be ame very bold and powerful and be gan to control the States. It was: uestion whether the dog should wai e tail or the tail wag the dog. Mr alhoun and M! r. Davis and most all c s down South were for the rights c he States, but the people up Nortl hought the govern ment at Washing ton was a bigger thing and ought t ontrol an i so the quarrelling went ol for years and years and at last it brok out in a war. We left the union ani anted to go back where we were be fore we went irato the union, but the; hipped us and so we are in the unio still. It wvas much like little chidre who gather together to play an .me of them get mad and say, 'I'r going to take up things and go h:>m -you don't play fair and I shan t pln with you any more.' Then the other etmad, too, and say: 'We do pla fair and you shan't go home.' ands they take hold of them and keep the d make them stay whether the wish to or not. And so the States ha o give it up and now the tail is was ging the dog." The Ohio river is before me while write. This is a part of MIason's an Dixon's line that I nev r sawv unt yesterday and I wondered how a ri va could make such a differenee in pe< ple. "Do your people in Maysvil mix and mingle with those acrosa ti river at Aberdeen?" said I. "'No, si not at all. They never have and the never will. They don't like us at we don't like them. We pass and ri pass like the fellow did his Jersy bu but we don't affiliate nor associate n< assimilate nor amalgamate. The fa is our negroes won't mix with ther There are not a dozen negroes ovi there, but tbere are 2,000 here in May ville. When our negroes cut up ai misbehave we threaten to run tba across the river and it has a good efle upon them. Now in Cincinnati y can't hardly tell the diflerence betwel a yankee and a Kentuckian, but out the country thcre is a big ditlference "But I don't understand," said I, "wh you mean by the difference. In wh respect do those people over the riv differ from you Kentuckians-are th not good citizens?" "Oh, yes," sa my friend, "they are peaceable eooug but they are as cold as an iceber They are selfish and stingy and pic ayucish. They live close and wo their wives and daughters for all th are wortn. They don't like us becau the negro dolike us, and because i I make the negro do what they have to . do for themselves. Oh, I can't tell you exactly what is the matter but we want D- them to shinny on their own side of the river "I do not like thee, Dr. Fell; The reason why I cannot tell." "Are the negroes giving you any * trouble?" -aid I. "Not a bit-not at I all. The negroes never gives a gen c- tieman any trouble. He respectt him th and loves to live with him, but just h- let a man level himself with the negro and then comes the trouble. The race %r- -problem will never bother old Ken rit tucky. The lines are drawn and they ,m will stay drawn." "Well, what about d the negroes voting het e? I see that Mr. Harrison is still harping upon the 2e suppression of his vote." "Not a word ti- of it true, sir-not a word of it so for re as this portion of Kentucky is con. cerned. We. thought that Harrison was hitting at you people down in a- Georgia." "Maybe he was," said I, to "but I have been diligently hunting for the place where the negro vote is ,k suppressed, and I have not yet found it. Mr. Harrison's message upon that to subject has let him down at the South L- and Wanamaker' appointment of ne a gro postrnasters has widened the breach. The admisistration have wantonly insulted our people and hence the South will remain solid. If : e negro was appointed postmaster in my cs town the Republicans there would mob him. Many of our best citivens are Republicans, but the negro question is d not a political one. It is a social one ia and there is not a white man in the r town who would submit to it, and d there is not a nergo who would dare to ask for it. The rights of the States are fast fading away under the power of r federal domination, but the social d status of the people will be maintained at all hazards.' A DEBATE OF THE NEGRO QUES TION IN THE SENATE. S f The Race Problem Will pet the statesnen a Speaklng-Me-nator Butler's Viewr---A 2 Republican &'enator Favors Wholesale Colonization of Negrocs. Washington Letter to The Baltimore Sun. The speeches of Mr. Cleveland and . 3r.Grady at Boston, but more par t ticularly the speech of Mr. Grady, have excited wide and interesting comment i f here. The was a large demand for the Sun, which printed a more complete i report of Mr. Grad y's. speech than any of the New York papers. Since the t assembling of Congress there have C been evidence of awakening conserva tism in the midst of Northern Con gressmen and remarks of Southern c men couched in such terms as those of t Mr. Grady will inevitably strengthen such tendency. Of all the Southern men %'ho spoke c on the subject there was not one who e did not heartily echo his assertion of C the impossibility of devising any scheme which can throw the Common wealths of the South back into the con- e trol of vice, villany and ignorance f The Sena ; ) - Representatives of c the North are fast finding that their people appreciate the situation at the a South better than they do, and are not C to be cajoled into any endorsement of schemes which have no other than poli 8 tical purpose. The propositions of this e character already submitted will be 8 followed by various others of equal or perhaps greater enormity, but it t will be a long day before any of them are passed. Democrats in the Senate and Demo- i era a in the House are in the minority, a but it is a minority powerful in num- 8 bers, and, on this Question certainly, t strong in conviction, solid as a rock, ~ earnest in aggression and invincible C in defence. Any and every force will ~ be resisted inch by inch. The .House ~ Republicans have put in the Chair L their best debater and their best fight- I er. They have really no men on the ~ floor capable af coping in debate with r any one of a dozen who might be ' named on the other side. The Demo cratt have no fear of locking horns a with the majority on election bills, ror ~ they are not only conscious of their 2J own power for resistance, but are as sured they will have public, sentiment t behind them, not only in the South t - but in the North. It is noticed that petitions have al ready been presented from Louisiana 3 -and other Southern States in favor of i - a new n'ational election law. Of course t i every one can see that this is the old dodge renewed. These petitions can be easily manufactured by the bushel, I f just as those of like charact er have [ f been in the past. Mr. Ingalls has pre- ( sented some of them in the Senate. I - He is now preparing a speech on the > Southern question which may be ~ 2 looked for with interest. Privately the I e Kansas Senator freely admits the difli. culties which surround the South in - dealing with the negro race, but whether he will express the same views publicly may be a matter of a doubt. : A memorable debate on this whole a subject, lasting for weeks in the Sen e ate, is now liainly foreshadowed, and y continuously crowded galleries, such s as have not been seen for years, y may be anticipated. In the light of o facts and by the force of reason it is . n not an impossibility that division in y the Republican ranks may be devel- 1 oped before tne debate is ended. The arge majority of the Southern Sena- < tors will inevitably be drawn into it,1 I and their views on the~ material aspects d of the problem must be~ ot-value as i coming from those whose information r and deductions are based on associa tion and experience. - senators Butler, of South Carolina, e and Gibson, of Louisiana, are stanch r; advocates of at least partial deporta y tion. It is settled beyond any dispute d that white labor will not go where a- there is a preponderance of black, and 11 the blacks are increasing so rapidly in >r many sections of the South as to cause t absolutely a glut in the labor market. a. Senator Butler satid that it would be r an absolute relief to South Carolina if s- 250,000 of its negro population could Ld be withdrawn ; that with this diminu ntion there would be the greatest abun. et dance of labor left. He said in the u black districts of South Carolina, mI where the negroes have not the benetit in of contact with the sunerior civiliza ." tion of the whites, their condition is at ,pitiable in its destitution and its de at imoralization. He asked Mr. Ingalls if er his State would not like to have some aof the black surplus of Souttg Carolina, id .and Mr. Ingalls quickly replied they hhad enough in Kansas now and didi g. not want aniy more. Another Western i Republicain Senator said he would be rk willing to vote for any appropriation, y however large, to transport and colo se nize the entire negro race in the iemUited States A CHRISTMAS DINNER. SHOWING THE STRAITS AND DEVICES OF WAR TIMES. A Contrast Between the Regu!ur Ch:-!rt tnaus Style and tie: War-Time Make shift-. Home and Farm. In the Old Dominion, as well as is the "Mother Country," Christmas las alway s been the season devoted to feasting and good cheer. Since "the good old colony times," plum puddings I and mince pies have made the frosty December air fragrant with their spicy odors ; but, though the knightly sirloin of beef is ever welcome on the board, yet the crowning honors in Vir ginia are allotted to the lordly turkey roasted to a gold brown, and redolent of the onions and sage liberally mixed in the stuffing. For weeks before, his majesty has been fed, morning, noon and night, to t bring him to a proper state of fatness, and of all that summer has allowed us to store away for winter, the best is e C chosen to add to the Christmas dinner, while the winter hog-killing furnishes c a dish of sausage, and often the chines c and spareribs figure on this occasion, is, it overtooked by the "white folks," 1l they are warmly appreciated by the o expectant group that swarm in ti she kitchen. Last of all, a mighty r+ >owl of foaming egg-nog finishes the s] repast, and, if us'd in moderation, o: ssists the overburdened stomach to igest its contents. . a With the memories of suc'i dinners, o: -epeated yeai af r year, can you won- v ler that 1 keenly seL the hardship of al he experience 1 am going to relate. al I belonged to the Fourth Virginia s ,avalry, under Gen. Wickham's com. if nand, station in the Valley of Vir- sc inia, in the winter of 1864, though ". eally it was scarcely a stationary ai ondition, as we were constantly sent is ut on the march. 01 At 2 o'clock on Christmas morning 4e received orders to mount and march! apidly eastward to intercept a party f raiders, reported to be advancing p the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge A ection of the country. We were not I lowed time either to eat or to pgck p any food to carry with us, but were' mforted by the assurance that we i v ould find rations awaiting us at Ivy hi )epot, more than thirty miles distant. As I mounted my horse in the dim, O old starlight, many a thought passed c' trough my mind of the days gone by, -hen I thought it a great, hardship to . e awakened so early on the night of in ristmas Eve [y the impatient littfe i nes, rushing long before daylight to xamine the hanging stockings, while utside the explosion of the Christmas A;;.tb~e firing qithe Chris masg . nd the noisy cries of "Chrisanas gift ! bristmasgift!" heralded theapproach I. f Christmas morning long before the gi rst rosy tinge of dawn. But then, I I ould turn over in my luxurious . -ather-bed and take anoth--r nap fter the hubbub ceased, secure that u a rising I would take my place at 'a reakfast table loaded with all th ood things one could desire, while at hi ach plate the "grown folks" were are to find their Christmas gifts. How different now! I even envied at e infantry fellows, snug in winter ke arters and rejoicing in Chrismas c oxes from home, while the cavalry- c uen we left in camp were sure to for- e e around and add something like Pt od cheer to the scanty rations which, i ien, were all our bankrupt govern-u ent cou!d bestow On we rode, how- Uh ti, through the cold and the dark, br iaking up our minris to bear it bravely dr d make no complaint. Some of the oys were jolly enough to brighten the yc assing hours with singing, and the hE ild, romantic clifis of Rock Fish Gap .-echoed with "Lorena" and "When 'his Cruel War is Over.''" When morning broke we halted, d d rations of corn were distributed our horses, but nothing could be iven to the poor, hungry men, as aere was no time to stop to forage in e neighborhood ; and an appeal to be generosity of the residents, who oud doubtless have given us what ey could, though after nearly four ears of war the homesteads of Vir- to inia could no longer spare much to au ie soldier for tighting her battles. wl Still, but little ceremony was ob- co erved when we had time, and the he enards and corntields were made to pi av tributc to our needs, whether the m wnerw were willing or not. I think, bi Lowever, they were generally willing hi We bore patiently enough the ab- pe nce of any breakfast, for such had fr. en our luck many a time before; N hough to the regular old Virginian, a re ;ood breakfast on Christmas day seems tu ,s much one of the inalienable rights vi f man as a good dinner, neither of as rhich rights we could hope to enforce in n that day. At noon, we haltei again to feed our di vearv horses, and by this time the as ~nawings of hunger were not to be re- e isted, so we parched a portion of the cc horses' corn and satistied ourselves as ri vel as we could in that way. Cl Such was my Christmas dinner that i i rear, but I had the most delicious feast v hat I ever tasted. fI When we had reached our place ofh estinaion, we learned that the raidi ' g h: arty had returned, so that our long, rced ride was unnecessary after al-t {either were the rations on hand. so Ms~i of us were sent out on detail to I : orag for man ar~d beastr-, nM ora had given out. l I went to a neighboring far m house d .d received a kindly respouse to my c: equest for corn, after which I put in A v own claim. The farmer's wife inuded me a cold hog's head, as y,et mntouched, and a huge pone of corn )read, but it was so late and dark I it ould not eat much then, so I threw it .uy bag of shelled c >rn -n rmy horse's n ack and tilled my haversack with my a reasures. I lost my way and had to -~ swim a creek. I was weS, and coid, ~ too, when I entered camp after 9 'clock. The men were sleeping p~eace hully, but a glorious fire was buining,i p and after I haid tie-d my horse aid given her a liberal Ieed of corn, I L. seated myself against a tree near the ire, and as I hasKed in its general p warmth and dried my wet and froze n garments, I munched away on my coldI hoits head and cornbrei, thinki:2g that sarely no food was ever so de- 3 licious. I can recall now most vividly 'z my seisations of perfect bliss, as I re- e dined lazily against my tree, and I listened to the crackling flames and the peceful breathing (I might say snoring) of my comrades. At length it was all eaten up. I had I devoredat o.ne meal what would have h -en eonsidered a sufficient share of meat for our whole family at home for a dinner, and a goodly part would I ave been sent out to the kitchen, too. Sleep now began to assert its claims, and I rose. and scraping away some of the snow Ira.m a convenient hollow cLsen by some of my companions, I lay dowin aid covered myself snugly with my blanket, with my feet turned toward the ;ire, which was near enough to give out a kindly warmth to the sleeping group. At various intervals during the night some one would arise and heap on more wood, and woe to the farmers' fences if our resting places at night chance to be near. - An axe, however, was the regular =quipment of the soldiers on march to )rovide himself with camp~fires at hort notice. The noble forests, the rowth of c.Antioa, .;oh wrroan y both friend and foe, are not the east of the losses that Virginia has to nourn. Next morning we again had parchedT :crn for breakfast, but after my enor sous supper, I cou.d better endure ne meagre fare and I hope that my omrades were equally as fortunate in he expedition of the preceding night. At noon we reached the point vhere our rations awaited us, and to ach mess was. for one day, attached * ie pound of flour and a half pound of neat. We made up the flour into akes, with soda, salt and water, and poked it in the ashes, grieving much ver the quantity of bread we had to >se when we washed off the coating 3at stuck to it. But no French rolls r fancy bread of any kind can ever iste so well, as we ate with the keen slish of of men whose appetites were iarpened by exercise and a life in the pen air. There are many happy hours in such career. The hardships and fatigues sly make rest more delicious, and hen gathered around the camp-fires ter a long march, the jests and songs -e as~brgn ;a.nd gay as if at a festal ene in times of peace; and I doubt the well-fed, well-clothed Federal lIdiers had any jollier times than we rohnny Rebs" over our ash-cakes id scanty allowance of meat. Hunger the best sauce after all, as we found it. THRASHED IN OPEN COURT. P.nnsvIvania Justice Gives a Wife Dcser:er a Good Beating. WILKESBARRE, PA., December 19. istice Donohue of this city hates ire beaters and deserters as much as does snakes, and woe be to the man Jo comes before him on the above arse. Yesterday George Sh'ner, a boiler aker, was unfortunate enough to fall to the hands of the Justice. He was arged with des- rting his wife and c children. The justice.was ery gry, and, after hearing the evidence, id: "There is no use of my sen ' iu to jail, because while i fnmifiywil-saflfr But I'll tell u what I propose to do. I intend to ve you a good thrashing right here, pull off your coat." Shiner was dumbfounded, but the stice insisted that he must get ready. ie alderman came down from the dicial bench, rollhd up his sleeves, d, a'ter counting three, waded into 3 prisoner. Shiner, however, showed more skill a pugilist than was expected, and first it looked as though he would Lock out the justice. The latter is a avy man with a true aldermanic rporation, but he finally managed to t his man in a corner, where he .mmeled him in great shape. The justice iet go his right and leflt quick succesaion, and would not let until Shriner cried "enough." .Thena e justice straightened himself .ap for eath. and said : "Now, you scoun el, will you go home and support ur wife and little onese?" Shriner said, in humble tones, that would. 'All right, then," replied rthe justice, he resumed his seat. "This case is smissed." This evening Shriner brought suit - ainst Donohue for assault aad 'oat y. He says he suffered terrible nishment at the justice'ehands and anot work. A n Egyptian Queen. ~ The Khedive of Egypt is not in an al get~ber enviable position. He is a bject of the Sultan of Turkey, to iom he pays an enormous tribute. His untry is enormously in debt;, and he 's to levy enormous taxes on the peo e. In consequence he 'is about th >st bated man in the.wr~.. s credit be is a monogamist, a mrthnany one else, is due the ,rianeancipation ofnative women >m th thre~domn of ancient customs. evertneless women still occupy a very. stricted sphere in Egypt, and many of e old be bit an;d customs are still ia gue. The curious dress of centuries :0 i s:all worn. The Khedive is much b.ve wi', 'is wife, who wears a oer cstume, 'while their children e-s like Arr.ericans. The Khediveh, s:.e is esiied, has her harem, or ame:: servao.s, by scores. She is ac rnpanied w~henever she goes out to deg or drive by some of her numerous ~auchs, a~nd ;-be keeps up a big estab amowt separate from that of the King. 'ho s~h. sits down to dinner or bresk .3r. is aos: "ith the King, but with Sosi' lsadiis. The King eats with 3 ownl officcrs, according to Moham edan etiqjuet:e, and his apartments, or e a00u ik, are s ,th Ahe and asbn have done uch t. down the rigidity of . :tn scil.customs. Their ye for each other and the example of ie 1&eive~ in having but one wife is acing, and maniy of the other noble rab gentlemen are fuiloving it. -Mr. Erower, of North Carolina, has todIuced in the [louse a bill provid-. g o the ~rpea of the internal reve uC !ax upC'* "obacco. He claims that n:.r Jer of Dernocrats from Virginia, etai~ssee and his own State propose to i:ppert this measure. -Robexrt Irowning, the eccentric -at, n:ed in England on Thursday iht. A site in Westminster Abbey sbeen te-:dared for hi' remains;. but it betered th' famigy pireer him to be ltced bjeside his wife. -melowstone Kit, a stylish vendor pastent mediciwes, hasi had trouble is iobile. tic had some sort of exhibition achi tick.:s to v bich entitled the hold rto a chanceja a gift distribution. :it was thereupon charged with run ing a lottery, and was fined1 1,000. -Col. J. H. Rathbone, founder of the eder of Knights Pythias, died at Lima, ), o n Monday.