Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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T“ HOW LITTLE WW KNOW OF EACR » ' OTHER. How Httte we know of eacli other Aa W<i pMe lh rough the journey of life, j lions and companies seokin^lh’wdly lc^« i latron'or dreading tltat whicli mijihl prove adverse to their in!orerts. Some pf them IjiJJ very high headsmanJ frown With its h!i uggli*s, its ami tempteiiors, gravely on the jobbers who**11 their votes sud arc caught yrith the scrip in their pockets. ' But tinder tlje robes of professional counsel,'* grett ideal of very cheap virtihp and very little integrity maybe covered. ■4 If tli« South should assume control, arr-hcheve there will ho reform. Soutb- ern Senators and IlcprcscntativeS arc not accnsed of makleg merchandisebf their . It»jMM*t*br^hing.**roseud ft* atrifa. Wcoanonly see^ingnon the surfttca, For few people gfery in *in, And an unruffled face Is nh index To the tumult which rages within. Dow-Utlle we know of ea<4) Other I Ana holding his proud head so h May carry a dead secret with him Which makes of hi* bosom shell, And he, sooner or later, a felon, May writhe in a prisoner's cell. (titles, ^ >gh, (J flow lijtle we know pf each other! That woman of fashion who sneers . At the poor girl betrayed and abandoned, . And left to her sigh* Mid her tenrA,’ May r «re the sun rises to morrow, -— Have the mask rudely torn from her face, And sink from thoheigfit of her glory _ T> the dark shades of shame and disgrace. How little we kndw of each other! X Of ourselves, too, how little we knew! We are all weak ’when under temptation. All subject to errorand woe, Then let blessedehnrity rifle us— Let us pul away envy and spite— Ortheahel«iot>.y4wr la pureoiit May eouie dsy be brought te the light. aaiiust Wiccne. positions. It is still an honest ft . - ■*. While so many IlcpublicanH have grolfh. rch on their salaries, S 'tfThci'ti Congress- men live meacerly and die peor»- A great temptation will shortly be prescU> ed to test even thegreateu virtue^ v ■ — ’ TUK Gt>A-Tr^:. ’■'■vrw YwM«ig> Women Orivlng: a d'ow 'I'hraujrfe the Mtrentw of >**. l*anl. Sl : • — "X .Head of the -Army to Operate on the SoHth--*Sellie and Her Mother. ♦ "he !P»r(» Letter to the Sew Yurt Trthuno.] Since General Grant came to Europe hlstma^ue W; gnined if) loquacity. He disclaims the ambitious projecls anu-ibed [rion-.-er-Fresi.] Yesterday morning about 10 d*clock, two yodng ladies were aecn marching down Third street, one leading atid the other driving a cqw. The young 1 olios wefa good-looking, dre$ged in the attire of country girls, and trndued along till Mauuhctmer’s dry goods store, on Third strerl, was reached. Here they tied the animal and disappeared iu the store, whereupon a young man was seen to t i>h out of the back door, and it was some time before he could he found. Upon making inquiiics into this myste*. ri ms affair, the reporter • learned that the young Indies were Miss Emma T'a- ber, daughter of P;^l Faber, of St. Pitul, snd Miss Mary Hendricks, of Winona lllyAses Kays He Only Wants to beat the They were 5 * anxious to Interview Mr. to him. A lilt e wants is his old |ioskion ! would perform the above act [CUrouMi- and'ioiiiiitftioQalUt.j ^ Qn the 4th of March there will be a | transformation scene in the United ot the head of the Uniiel States arniy, and he think.‘Tthnt ns muitary exuuman- d» r of He niilitury fonoea' ef-dhe Utihm there will ore long be work fur hi^t to get through down South. However, i( ie speaks w itii no vrriirc pensv, which Nathan and this was the rcas n; A few evem ings since Mr. Lyon accused the young ladies of being too proud to stoop to the duties of a farmer's daughter; 1 ard. promised to each a §aO silk dr^ss if they Fo yes- Lyon, in Mannheimer’a More, t Wp sleep that night, ami the most vivid (Ireaia I ever experienced in my life crotmed my elumbeis. I dreamt I wmf in aapadous room, fnd that in tt I whs m «ved to all part#,of the State, eo that I triet my aesembled frl**ml*» everywhere. I remembered most dls- ^ tlnctly of all old Beaufort, whera-T V rtk3r n ^ ornin g' Mtircd io a farmers] h^aet i^n. It aocnv'd th-re were immense asseniDlnges, and as I look ecj down upon them a grave personage approached meandtouched me on the shoulder and said to me: “These people arrf all praying for you. Live, d mghtrrh- costume, they drove Mr. Fa- cr's cow from the barn, attached • rope, arid whi'e Mi*s Faber led the animal, Mils llciulncks walked behind with a •omstick to hasten the trip. Without his most intimate friends assure me that fear they passed down Third., from tb*.-Illihii3t£-1-- I never realized anything States >enate worth witnessing. The d oa , n „t, he wants, more Irqjn a pe { Seven Cohujis to Wabasha, there tied Democracy then, fofl the first tiaic iu enniary than a political motive, to regain The eighteen years, will orgnuiie and control the high post of Generelw-iuio. that body. It is * curious fact that J fm , r ^ Old Wo-ii has very nearly from 178D down to th« present time the emptied his pockets, nrid he 1ms come io Secretary of the Senate of tlm Uniied $tatrs has never one# be n held by a Southern man. It is remarkable that in these iituety years only six persons hive filled the olfi -e. Max<a<huseitsand New liampshire lurnisliol the Seeretai an ngc when' enterprise is ditt, and a regular sa ary for routine work is very grateful. He wid not go back to the the bovine, and hastened to re oire their wages. The youn ladies would hardly have been recognized ip their impromptu costumes by their most intimate friends, and certainly not in the position in which they were placed But they won the silk dresses, which will soon be forth. States a rich man. whatever hewas when ! c mring, and the deed onlv r prompts the he left them, i he iusicht widely he has i uugallant question: What wori’i a acquired into tlie European courts has young 1 dy do for a silk dress? rk*s fr< m 1789 to 182;», or thirty .six u-.t, he says, sharpened his ambition, .VUks;* Pennsylvania W1825 to 1863, Lut the contrary. Emperors and kings or forty'three years; and (Won.* ■ ^ it *„**,., lUe *} uco 18,i8 ’ ' vi,, » Gorham, the presort eourticrv, and the slat^Xof a futile eti- int.imlieiiL j queite. wukh, given the functions of the II we arc to credit Mr. Dina, until, monarrh. he imflrper.Pubk*. Mrs. Sartoris j pid spread up 4.e Volga river iitvgouth- t K' aavrnt.or rt»rncy, from ISCl ; (Nrlli. Grant that wa<) is on a vi>ii >vmIi 1368 p ditiess h d little t‘..do with h >r futl.er. ami mother at adun.us mtuUi of the office; hut hem Live-pool ft'he i- a very charming thought tj have been ItYou.ht to Kuaria pra tice of rewarding young w..m-.n, and is The Plngae In Hie Ivast. Lonook, J an u try <?,).—Ac-ording to the Britisli Mcd'ral jnuri^il gi-cat amrm prevails in Eastern Euro|jfr oyer the ra t reduce 1 the eas’eni Russia of an extremely fatal dts the Hotel de j case believed to he the plague. It {s' charming tuougnt t.) nave -r ut y attached by two regiments of Cossaoks reiirn'ng iri-ods and pmiisning SuspcC cd . no-, , 0 H ], e .\ lM omred and the ' r. r Tmhor m ' 08 01 an extensive scale. Hits prw. J t . olintry of ],. r a 1( ^ . h[iV A>ds I Rt Tlio diaeaf-o was regarded at first ns. a variety of tin* i l-n ttimjl jibes and sneer j typhus fever and negected, but its ter- in tlic society joiirnitls against ! r ihlc : mortality soon c mp lied tlic au- liee hi* succes-or has continued, until gor« k- the wh"h^clerieal f.rce may now he sai l to be little more than a collection of the SV* pi s an<i partisans ot tin lb pnbli a ' . Je.-so. Some verses by the autlior of, A rigil quarau^ine was enforced agaiust .Senators. Under the existing organiza-j the Coming' K , inflicted rankling | Astrachan where it origitmted, hut the tion, th° Sgcn tary b* little more tliiin a wounds t>n everv member of the cx- j atoie i General and Mrs. Giant and her brother 1 thorities to take steps for its restriction. ■Xanaptoa'a I'alili la the Power DelroH** I,ute«t Roy Plienomr- . - I of Prayer. non. f\ ^ v : H 1 believe, as oonldeotly as I do that Detroit baa developed another boy I liveptlittCMie pray ere, of the people, phrtirmenttij, Thfe ttme tt tpanlfle-" saved tay'life. I,will tell you why I ffflatid bHl-v.e It ao fli mly. Whlfot2 wonHying berwat the of death and had become utterly l&dilTemjt whether I lived or died., 1 got a letter from an old Methodist p^ieher, dtae oi my old rrlend«r Bo, wrote me word .Informing me of fhe ; 7!e%>B«l ?JleVout petUfnns put op la u. half of my resto ration by t ho Methodist Conference then In seaeion at Newberry. He then urged npon me to fxercteg my will to Ifveln response to the supplications a»f the pe.q.le of the whole Stnle, who are praying for me night and day In every hulls.-belli In VheBta'f. Mysls- ier, who had trerphllngly broiiphr the letter to my bed shlo and read it to me, then iirsred mo to Ite'en to the kiiid, loving words <.f«,thp man of God and to route mjt will to live ; and I promised her to do so. | fell into a yeiffifrld b*d, who tells Instantly the day the week: of any given date, whether past or future,. Thus, If one says to him, “I was boru August 13, 1843, what day of the Week did that full on ?” he will reply Instantly and correctly. He Is »qually ready In that regard concerning tb** future. He has been enbjeoietf to many tests, but thus fur he has Invariably been correct. He b :s no knowledge of th* method by which he anives at these results. When aakedi how'ta knows he replieig •*Bccaube I know It’s so." The most eurptlsing feature of the case Is the fact that the boy Is semMdietlc,—Free Press, January 16. — Important Aclo Approved by the Governor, like it before. It seemed a Vision. I woke the rn-xt morning feeling the life-blood creeping through my veins, and I told my family the crisis was passed and I would get better.”' A Ktrnnge Story. Qf the late C zur Nicholas, “AlbiB- siula Nihilist ” tells the North Ameii- c-in Rpyli.w a striking story. A young student, a relative of the writer, bad with a fpw friends formed a litornry socleiy, in which >1*6 words of con- tempoiury political ecOttomlsts, puh- Hela s and philosophers werM ead atid debated. The Secret police demtHpccd i he society as a revulull umry orgahK^ , zi'ioii, and the youngatudeut w«h im- pi honed and condemned to Siberia. All possible It flueuce wa# brought to b^ar upon the Czar, butTh Vafo, ntrd at foist the young inau’a mother, meet i ig the Czar one day In the Summer Gftr.lets kfo-Ft and trtfjrtored! her ftori’s pardon, uS'(>rt!r.g Tils Innocence. The Ax a or to provlue fora reassessment of the real estate of this Btate to fix the standard at which property shall be assessed and to amend the law In relation to the cuganteatioa of tba|44 fcfca Btate Board of Equalization. Be It enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State in General Assembly and by the au thority of the same: Sectiox 1. That there shall be a valuation and assessment of all lands, and the Improvements thereon, within this State, by the proper authorities, In the year one'thousand eight hun dred and eoventy-nlne^ at the same time that the assessment of personal property Is made, and In the manner and seoorhlng to the rules prescribed for the assessment of real salute. Sec 2. That all property sb^U be valued for taxation at its true value In money, which In all cases not oth erwise specially provided for by law, ahull be held to be ns follows, to-wlt: For personal property the usual celling price, on the usual terms of similar property at administrators' or eiecu- tors’ pales at the place where the re turn Is made; and for real property, the u*ual selling price, ou the usual t*-mis of similar property at sales for parthion under the order of the Court, ab Ihe place where the refurn is to be rands' If there be no usual Belling price, then at what l»*honestly be- Ib-ved could be obtained for the sums f ill sod accurate atateraeut of all moneys collected by them on account of licenses, tines, penalties or forfei tures during the past month; and, to default ^hereof, upon conviction thero- o\ shall bn liable to a fids not exceed ing one hundred dollars or Imprison ment. In the common Jail not exceed- In r 'wo months, or both,at the discre tion of the Court 4 -- - ; r Kkc 2. All acts and parts of acts'ta- cons stent with this accare hereby re pealed. ' Approved December 23,1878. A Ifew Postage Mlamp. rrH; " The post Office Department has or dered a now pot-taee stamp to be used on letters not prepaid. Heretofore a 1-tter hss been held In the office at which it was' tnaHed. The postmaster at this offlee then writes to the Indi vidual addressed, saying that such-a . let ter has been held Iu that office for him, postage not having been prepaid. The new stamp which has Just been ordered under the new regulation Is put on the letter not prepaid and sent destination, who is charged with the amount due, and to collect the same from the person addressed on the of 8»hlhflatoHna- now met and alt ting dettvery of the letter. A new stamp has also been ordered to be put on the letter after it passes Into lb'' hands of the carrier, who then becomes respon sible for the collection of the postage a This new stamp Is Intended as • check upon the carrieri who Is hereby pre vented from pocketing IBs collections. The new system acts somewhat simi lar to the bell-punch of the street ear conductors. With wrest Its ef ihining laurel Tbs hero’s brow is bright ; Deep la the costly-marble -j ills be!lie names ws writs; ~ ; T Who .slggji. the. pstleat ibonMncLi^ That won f.«r him each fielu? . -jX . The world rings with their praise Who conquer land and sea, V By line*'of speech electric Or roedi where ships sail free: Who sings the ptfiewt thousands That wrought each bolt and keyf erent hJ^Wa Nsttici ough centuries despoil; it at owe and the piotn-m iti* saeredtoil; 'f . 3. -A 9 •ings the patient tbousends That ground their stone and sit f 0 men ef sturdy muscle, . By them theworid growefMr,- Who in no glory share ; But ante toil and danger Daily their bosoms, bars/ e The noble, patient thousands I 0 cureless world and blythe, Be grateful and unloosen Eaeh needless chain and withe, And give them of your triumphs Their just and honest tithe 1 — w-A-- GETERAI. -TBWrtt K^erctary h liulaxuorc tliiin a ' wound* mere ffruivlirad. lie hnv Hirmicfored mi every President * family. his autliiiii'y, and hardly iii»ii.taita even j Mis. Gnat In* mii -h p’raMi.t } ;o rip the emp y foi-iii of dis<-i]i!ine. j (, c-immuuic itc abaut the illuririoua p<«)- I he i-ame nu.lrnUy exp-etj that the l.p!* who;since she came to Kurope, ex Democracy will *• letter oythU ins:rue* j tcil (i 0 .j hospitality t<. her oud the GeheT tiou,” not only Wewse-tkoj have an ra j; \V| iat most struck her about them p - |iiic ft ickcn inhabitants of that city fled in all directions and scattered the germtof infection over the provinces of Samara and Saratov lying along tl^ i ppor nmly to cx -rt tlu ir p<.w 0 r i<>r ^.g t h e unaffected simplicity of their | the Yoli/a connected by rail with the profif. 1 ut because “ »t w.U go hard with privft . e li ve# . Princes Bismarck, will, i whole of flnasia and Eastern Knrope, isfinguishcd 8cnat )rs to give up tii ir^j. ( . rown hands, wrapped her np iu her and finally appeared in Nislu.ii Novgo- muffling the evening *lie dined at the ^ rod, only a few hours distant from Mos- I’alace Ifoidzivill. As to the Croavri j cow. Some Russian newspapers com 1’rtncess, she is ihe most motherly of rider the disease only a species of ma young mothers, which docs m t prevent her being the most learned woman in ri ver Volga higher up, and in spite of aft autocracy ?” Tba surprised prisoner efforts at restriction it -soon reached • • N-'S. Tsaritzin, an important trading towu’on Cz<r seetm-d touched, and promised to i>iye the y- mh a personal iiirorvicw. The was brought to his Maj-sty the iioxv day, grad the Czar fo rcing him to his kners' before an iiringo of the SaviOur, exclaiim d : •* Can you swear before the Almighty God that 'neither you nor your associates had any eriinin.-il flealgn rignlnat my life? Can you swear Uiat-ytiu believe in ihe holiness and eternity of the Russian chairmanships, and the [ower wielded through them to surrender their pri vate secretaries, who ar? miintained so liberally at the publi: expense as e’erks to committees • and to part with favor ites who liave^been billeted ou the SeCi ive^liera umeiea ou uie -ticCi Germany. Concerning Ferdinand, lath- reiary or the k eruantiftl-Arms. , , ! er of the reigning King of Portugal, and iignant typhus fovec, but the f^t. Pe- tersburg Medecinisehr Xnc icnschrift, of January 11th, says that it cannot be »\ lint sqrl^f. a happy iainily this lus .soeond spouse, tlic Countess Edla, tions to official papers that it is the Icon, Mr. t-lU n, id W» »k.,l,i„ S L Mfr. Or,n,t ,p,-.i...ith 1^*. Dr. Z..lckaucr »»d Prof. Hot- way: | and admiration. King Ferdinand is a 1 kin conclude from iu rapid spread ftnd The sons, mplu.ws. co-sins, and nepheW of tho late King of die Belgians, J extraordinary mortality, there being few bro-hcrs-.n-law, who have been l..xn„a. jUlJ ~ r ,„„ in of g umi Vietoria.! if aay recoveries, that it U the plague MWm ^rths, drawing large salu- He is of 8axe .C,.-burg and was educated in its-worst form. The most rbid quar ries, and flgnring as swells in the shoddy al j IleideUxug. Tire Countess society of Washington-, have a very bad El , ft y the , al , , islcr ( ,p Faluiy Eilsler, opinion of the appronehtrig ehange in the Senate. Hie prosjieet of being that ini mi table balitrine. She is am it- obligcd to pull <tll their coats and go to ble, simple in her tastes, highly tecom. work in earnest, after dancing the Ger* pij^ed, and delights her circle with her laaBjin winter and visiting the wateiiug R „j conversational talents. 'Jhs places in summer as their chief occupa- Af%J ^ ¥erAimuil iel umed General tion, is (,uite diseouregiug lb these g»7 Gra , lt| ^ Mra Grtht| , n lief unnf . rind-festive patriots. The;; see a sad day f, c tcd manner, asked his Majf-sty now for the conntry in the revolution that hir ^ did. "Tery woR, I tfoanTi ouT will semi them adnft, without a balk ^ ^ 1Kjt oharming? - was tll0 an- sccount,- a cahiug, or a resource te fall wer of t , ie r0Va( husband Gen. Grant bacLupon, while wai-infon Providence y vcry de9irous of pas8ing a fjuJet cvc . for something to turn up. The depart- ning with Gambetia in an English houxe menu wifflsiTe shelter to some of those wb#r| Freiu h? t which he fm- who have most influential connections, pcifcct | v knows, is understood and sp* hut the rank and file will have to shift k9n \ My connecte(1 wilh t h c Lon. for themsahes. press, tg whom this wish has been Thc breaking up of this close coi-po. ednummkated, isgetttoi upa znug liftle ration will make an important epoch in ai „ ocr at wli ^ h tbc luture i> re8 i dent of American history, and we shall see tho Fretudi Republic will meet the past whether it be in the nature of a reform lhe Ul)ite(1 StatC9) m. or not. We are told by the editor of thc 8imon and three notabk , £ Dg |y l . ^Shh that John Sharman is by no means ^ in amine is enforced against the infeded towus and vilfog'S, which are divided who . used* to serve, as portc danteut* to j into districts, and not allowed to conp- munhate ^ith one another. The Vien na Mdical Review states that about one-third of the physicians in Russia died during the late war, aqd insists up on the importance, in the interest of the whole of Europe, of sending medical as sist ance to Russia and helping bar to Aytranly one among these Senators who rown rjch on a salary' of threB or Mis* Lee, daughter of the late Gqn^ ve thousand a year. Others who paid Robert E. Lee, is said to bean energetic high priaes for their seats are believed traveller. She was not Ion}!: ago enter eoaics as retained counsel for corp^t-1 iritbin thc Russtao lines in Turkey. .7- I keep dov n her malignant enemy. ■ U I » mm-* —“ Brisoner, look on do courd,” said a Cincinnati justice who had occasion to sentence a man guilty of contemp*. “ Brisoner, you haf been guiidy of a grade grime. * You haf been lucky in your lawyer. Brisoner, I know dot lawyer ven he vas a 'eedle poy. Bris- ouer, I paint dot lawyer’s ladder's house. Brisoner, I know ven he was a leedle poy he would be a grade man. I vached him krow cop, uud, brisoaer, he is a grade man. Brisoner, ko be like him, und siu qo more. I discharge yon-new, you bay dc goats.” r answered ; “ I can swear to your Ma- j sty that neither I nor any of my friends had the remotest id*a ngaifist your Sidety., As to tne autocratic form of governuleiit I cannot cou- scientlously swear that I believe In its eternity. The history of other coun tries tenehts us that the time must come, oven in Rustdh, when the people itself will rake part iu Its goverum* nt.” The Czar tenderly embraced the stt • dent, and piving him a ring drawn from the Imperial linger, said : “ This at a fair sale under the eouditioua be fore mentioned. t t o. 3. 1 be K+a e Board of Equalza tion shall consist of one member from ench county of the State, to be aelec- ted for the respective counties, by the county board of cqm.l z-ttion for the year iu which the State board con venes, and tbs selection certified to the Comptroller-General ou or before the meeting of the Sturo board. Seo. 4. The Comptroller-General shall submit the said c<rtifleat*s of election, and the abstracts of real property transmitted to him by the county auditors to the Btate board wtun it convenes ; and ahull transmit its decisions to the county auditors, who shall forthwith conform their ac tion thereto. *■' Sec. 5. AM acts and parts of acts Inconsistent or repugnant to thin act are hereby repealed. Approved December 24,1878. Ax act to make the pay certificates of jury tickets for attendance upon the Circuit Courts of tbo Btate recelv- — able for taxes due the county io Is a token fof respect from your Czar. . "*** 8ttid “tendered. You have becu nlhoere and truthful to Be it enacted by the Beuate and Cat and Dried. It is confidently stated by tb« spe cial advocates of the fraudulent debt that 'pe Supreme Court will reverse i be decision of tbe Bond Court and sustain Judge Hudson In his dissent ing opinion, which Is said to be only a mere rehearsal of the Judgment that high tribunal stands ready to render; that it Is disposed to favor tbs Redical consolidation settlement, and that in timations have leaked out as to the disposition of tbs vexed-matter. We would like to kntto Just exactly bow the mind of the Supreme Court Is known—who has been .pulling the Ju dicial strings and how It happens tbat tbs wlrtem Of the people and the laws A man fesls cold nowadays weather or no. It Is said that vast nit minus »f TiMi are emigrating to Booth Australia. Isn't It funny fbat when fish are weighed the weight of the scales baa to be counted la. Be active, be active; find something to dc, if nothing mpre than the sating of a twenty cent stew. The man who wills bl* body to a medical college for the benefit ot science gives himself dead away. Senator Burnside has removed from his bat tbe band of crape wbiob ha put on two yearn ago when bis wife died. Senator Lamat mmm to bo the coming man. As a co niog man should he ignores railway passes and pays h!s own expenses. Tbe sofa upon which the sixth Prei- Idei t, John Quinev Adame, died le now tbe wcll-preeerved property of i tleman to Georgetown. Five hundred mlltlone of Florida hopes to export this year, wad ■ '£L .11 me, and there is nothing I bate so much as a He.” He then approached tbo writing labic, where luythesiu- deut’s s-nteiH-c of exile, and with one stroke cf the pen—signed the paper- “ I phy you from the bottom of my heart,” he said; “you are an hontst man, and an honest man, true to bis convictions, is more dangerous to au tocracy tha'i an Ufoprincipled rascal. Theteforo, I must punish you, though never was this duty more painful to me than now. God bless you, my son. and Judge me mercifully' If I should- next flacal year. appear to be In the wrong.” once mote embtadng dismist-ed him to t- Iberia. Then Detroit Free Press'; Bkatlng Is very heakuful exercise. It not only puts iu piny nil the muhctes of the legs and To~¥ave tyade profit Ale intesti&ent*. 7 fai«e^ **y Lsrd sod Lfcdy Napier, « hot-it -creates bumps ou the 4atoeoatK»lgIttu H -Settiite he will make Others atiil have had steadfind large in- Gibraltar, and s fsw weeks before was [iead (or future phrenologists to fesi k bot tor them that they wlU be and report oa. 8un: “Bime surprise has been caused among stalwart Republi cans of the Senate by a declaration from Mr. Blaine that he will not vote to unseat Mr.-Butler, of South Caro- llsa. It is rumored that Mr. Edmunds is of the same way of thinking It is bilieved tbat this determination arises from the generally conceded fact that It will not be possible to get Sutler out between now and lb« 4th of March, and if the leading Republicans counte nance tbs attempt ihey will set a pre- c "dent by which tbs Democrats may uQse.'d. Kellogg after tbe 4; h of March. Senator Edmunds said » day or two ago that r/the Democrats should an- densks to eyeTfogell -ggwUen theyob- Bouse of R-presentatiVes of the State of S rath Unroll aa, bow met and sit ting in* Gem-rut Assembly, and by Uie authority of the same : 3 SectioH L That the pay certificates of all Jurors and Stats witnesses tn the Circuit Courts of the State be; and the entne aie hereby, made teieivable fir taxes due the respective conn- ties In which the nervioes are reader* d: Provided, ■That said certificates be tendered for tbe tuxes of tbefisoa! year in which tbe same are iosued, or tbe and right The Supreme Court is tbs highest Judicial power lu the State and its authority should be used wilh an eya to tbe general good. When It becomes tbe tool of tbe rings It is tbe foe of the people. [Abbeville Medium. Mtatc Arms. On his way to tho military cbnven tion in New Yoik, Gen. llfolee will visit Washington City te consult the am her dies there la. Telatioo to tbe claim ol the United States against the State of South Carolina for arms. Tbe claim oriffiaated in this way: Io tbe year 1869, Governor Scott obtained from the United States Government $124,- 000 vtorth of arms for the militia; the yearly quota for this Stats being $3,309. Attar charging the State with Its quou for tbe years of the war, and ever sinee- to the present time, the United Ctutes Government still claims that the State owes It $82,000. I bis amounts to our quota for twenty-four yearn, Gen. Moise will endeavor to sCTect a satisfactory settlement Sev eral distinguished South Carolina mli- 1’ary officers have been invited-to ac company him. of the Ipnd protect a set of heartless Speeutators against law and evident * ,)l,r y ear8 b p r orange crop •/N . S*>. 2 That the ooonty: are hereby required . to refs ve the pay certificates of tbs aforesaid jura s and witnesses, whenever presented by Washington special to tbe BaltRnoro" Rn ? party holding the same, m paj ment of taxes due to the amount of such cer tificate. - Approved December 20,1878. An act to requtrd all clerks of courts, sheriff* and trial Justices to make giontbly reports of all licenses, fines N and penalties collected by them to the auditor and treasurer of their several couhties. Re it enacted by fhe Senate and Foosa of Representtyflvee of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting to General Assembly, *nd by tbe au thority of the same ;. Section 1. That all clerks of courts, sheriff* and trial JoettO'B b* t and they are hprebjf, required, on the first Wed needay In every month or mttiddjUQ days- thereafter, ter -make, to the respective auditors and urers cf their several /= Hon. J. P. Benjamin, According to a London correspondent,occupies an ele gant suit of law chambers and baa a practice wliichylelfo hltn$160,000 year ly, for which reason he would decline a judgeship, which only pays $25,000. Mr. 13C».Jamla is repreaented as say ing that be could easily etedre a seat in the'~HoUb0 of Commons, several constituences bavieg-glven him very fla'tering invitations to represent them, but he has bo desire to go into B r Parliament for the same rgason that he would decline a ]u volves too many saerifi* jamln has a house in ways spends his cummer there. ' / -It in- Mr. Ben- and al- vaeatlooe glad to abaudoq the attempt* The oldeet lubabltauts io Texas and Louisiana do not recollect a wlater in which such an an amount of anew has fallen as during tbs present. Thera have been several weeks of skating around Dallas; Texis, and sleighs have been ron for tbewteommodatlonof »b« horse in public at SbWveVort, La.; while tbs telegraph wires have beep down for a week near Galveston under loads of sleet tbit coated them. By way cf cnnaoHowths sharehold ers of tbe exploded Otty of Glasgow lit, the Lord Provost tells them IrtAiL jMktferAk. seats bat six months' expenditure of IS cstfmafed, exeiid in value her cot ton crop. Dr. fistnoci Walker, of New Orleans, has sued the Howard Association of that city to recover $6,000, which sum he claims fer service at Greenville* Mias., during the epidemic. Strange aa it may appear, there tt one Legislature that has not a lawyer In either branch. It is tbe little State of Delaware, and It manage* to gel along with no mors than tbs usual friction. We learn from the ftxsk HIU Herald tbat many negroes srs leaving that, section for Texas. Agents from tbat Btate have been among them telling of tbe money to be mads in the Lons Star State, C >1. A Dudley Mann, tbe et-Coh- federate etatseman, now lives, self-ex iled, upon a beautiful estate In tbs forest of Obabtlliy, near Paris. He Is very Infirm, but ratal os tbs grade** manners ot tbe old-school gentleman- J udge James Dandridgo Halyburtoo, a distinguished. Virginia Jurist, who was s classmate ol Edward Everett, married lute.the Castle family and ad- mleUttered the oath of office to Jrif T- sou Davis as President of the Confed eracy, died in Richmond on Sunday; the 26th cf January, aged 76 years. A Washington letter says: " F. tf Cardoso, the colored Treasurer of South Carolina under Chamberlain, Who a few months ago was appointed a 1,200 dollar clerk to the Sixth Audi tor's Office, has at last arisen to tho dignity of a second-class clerkship, reach log that elevation after an exam ination iu which he worsted twenty- one competitors.” The Gcrasn army benpaeasaitafr fed on biscuits of three parts inch of rye flour, oat flour and dextnnated pea flour and one part of linseed flour. Tbs biscuits art made with S hole in tho middle of each, so they can be strung ou a string and hung to tbe saddle-bow, or be carried by the trooper around bis waist Each bla- cult weighs, when baked bard and dry, about two ounces. Seven bis cuits are broken up and given to tbe . V- convenient, otherwise dry; fctnoon, oud seven at night. water twelve at After careful experiment la ( the march and campaigning, I report* d ‘ lery officers better i caa < .■ seats bat «x memos exp J the inhabitants for liquor. V, _ 1 . ■ _ '.-i> , v v -