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WINNSBORO, S. C. Tuesday, February 0, 1877. JNO. S. RE YNOLDS, Editor. The Publio Schools. The necessity existing for closing tho public schools is a cause for deep regrot, e!spoially as no certain lato can be fixed for reopening thon. The Board of Examiners aro Confident that the appropriation for the year will be umde at somo future time ; but no such certainty exists as woul .1 warrant thom in permitting the county to runA into debt. But if any teachers are willing to continue their schools, taking the chances for re'eiving their pay, we so0 no reason why a coi rted should not bo made with thcm, on condi tion that if tho appropriation be made for the yeau-, pay certificates for a certain amounit may be issued: but if rno appropriation ho mnatde, then tho trustees are not to be beld liable Or the te'chers' salaries. Or, it may be agreed that those who teach voluntarily this year will re coive extra componsatioln next year. WhVilo these propositions ma11y seCmI itnjust to the teowhers, it will he remembered that no obligation rests n)11 any one to accept them ; while at the same time they offer a slight in ilucenent to those teachers who would otherwise be compelled to -close, but who prefer to continue. It is not known whether either teachers, trustees or the B)ard of Examiners will agreo to this proposi Lion. It is simply thrown out, a a possible soluition of a grave probl'emn. As to the possibility of receiving :n appropriation for the schools, this in our opinion depends entirely 111)011 the prompt recognition of Governor lhaupton, and the convening by him (of a constitutional Legislature. As long as the present muddle con tinues, the schools (n'hnot prosper. But as soon as Chumberlain is dis posed of,'all the eduatin 11 institu tions will go on smoothly. Those who wish their children educated cannot too soon recognize the Coil stitutional governmiient. A Pretty Kettle of Fish. The decison of Judge Carpenter, if su.tained by the Supreme Court, will confter on the us r :er Chambler lain an empl1ty hauble, as it wvould (10 prive limn of at pOrtionl of e'ven small fraction of governmient over which hie at present (la1ims5 to pmre nide. He no0w hams a pret ended ean ne cnssin ob number of inidi vidlsh claiminig to) have been elee't ed an~d to havo qualified as State -on~ers. Thle c'onstitlution lprovides that these ofliecs shall be ilted for two years, anid that thie oflicials elect shall enltor upon their duties ait the time of the installation of the gov ernor who) was elected along with them. The terms of the Stalte otli cils all expired at the timhe of thd receint election, or, to be more pre cise, ill the October preceding. HIayne, Cardoza, Dunn and that crowd claim to have entered their respective offices on the day that Chamberlain wem, through~ tile fare of his installat ion. As Governor Hampton was inugnrated a few day3s after the enactmeni, of the Chamber lain farce, it has beeni taciily agreed that the State officials can qualify and, be installed so soon1 as the Supreme Court decides, in the sever al quo warranlto cases brought be-. fore it, who have been elected. Noa decision setting aside tclie inlstallationl of both Chamberlain anud Gov'ernor Hampton mlakes a clean sweep of the State officers. Hayne, Cardoza, Dunn, Pu-vis and the rest cannot hold over by virtueo of their old election, since the: constitution mrakes no provision for this, aind their successors cannot be! installed until the Legislature; shall hate inaugurated the governor Chazwbprlamu would bo left perched alone likeo some buzzard, *conting thwearioni which his elippod wings willipt .e ouble hinm to roe. Ho (5) 9 eeprivd oven of the invalua hle uoeyees of the Adjutant and in iupetor Generatl in calling out; his phantom militia to quell the Kuklux. Ile has no tax levy, bceause the alleged tax bill was enacted by a mob. He will havo neither Comp. troller nor Treasurer to aid him in repelling angry bondholders and ravenous "bonanza" claimants. le cannot call together the Legislature, because that would bo playing direct ly int) the hands of Hamipton. Indeced, he ean (o nothing. As his power is now zero, it will be ox pressed in the event of this decision, by the old mlatheumatical formnuia of zero divided by two. South Carolina News. Siir. J. J. Richardson killed three wild turkeys last, week in the Congaree bottom. Tho latrge.4t had a be: r I over twelve inches in length. The Tionllil sville Xeres will be removed to Darlington U. H., and will 11reafter' h) known as the D.. ringt on \c"s. Mr. James I. Perrin, a well known ciliz-n of Abbeville, died at his residence in that town on Sun day before last of consumiiiption. The Abl'eville Press (and( Banner publishes the nrames of 250 tlxpay ers who havo paid taxes to the Hampton government in one week. Joseph, a three year old son of Mr. J. I. Ligon, of the Lebanon neighborhood, in Abbeville, was accide.'ntlv bmrned. to death on Wed nesdaly last. 'The t. instces of Newberry Col lege have' conc'ieided to remiovo the college flomil \\'alhilla, and are now calling for proposals for the location of the instituition. A negro caught il the net of corn mnit i ing a robbery was shot near W'oodward's stoic, in Aiken county, on Monday night list. The coroner we'nct down to hold an inquest. ThIe otlicers of York, viz : probate judge. sheriff. county school Comfl milissliler, coiiit.v comlllmissiOne's hid clerk of the court, have received their commissions from Governor Hiamtpton. Some fishermen from Cape Cod halve arrived at Port Royal with an immense seine. and proposo to sup, ply the fleet and city with fish. The net was spread out one day ard covered almost, the whole town. Two business men at flalberg whose ten per cent. tax amounited respectively to :17 and 825, con tribuiteld each 85O, while the total lmolillt ol!lected there exceeded by one hunldied dollars that of any other phee in Barnwell. T he Keirsah av Ga(('( t(" advert'-s as that it will receive sealed proposals from trial justices bet ween this date and the 1.4th of Februarv for the mitretf to) eolleect "all mionevs due th is. oillee by delinquent subs)cr'i bers." A bond of 81,500) will be required 11rom the successful bidder. On Wed1nesday afternoon, 24th ultimo, Al fred Taylor and( Jim Gill. colored, living en the plantation of Captain William McAliley in Ches ter county, got into a quarrel about a pint of whiskey, when Taylor dres a istol,. fired on Gill, and killed him. Eight een (deaSths have occurred in Fort Mill and vicinity sinee the 30th day of last month-five whites and t hir teen colored--mos8t ly child ren. Several of the deaths resulted from measles, whieb disease has been prva'~lenit in thait commuslnity for th p)ast two mlonths. Chief Justice M[oses has reap pointedl Albert M. Boozer Clerk of he Supreme Court for tile ensuing two years. This is Mr. Boozer's lifth term of two years each. Mr. Richardson, of Sumter, was also reappointed Reporter of the Supremo Court. The Abboville Medibu~m chronicles with feelings of the mlost profound gratitude, tile filet that numbers of the vagabmond negroes whlo used to infest that town are leaving. Greenville is said to be the place of their destination. Happy Abbe villo! Poor Greenville ! The Newberry Herald office was thrown into consternation a few days ago by a subscriber presenting a $50 bill in paiyment. Two editors, foreman, journeymen and devils emptied their purses in a vain effort to make change-the united pool amiounting~ onh to one dollar and seventy-tivo cents. Lieut. J. H Todd, who was sta~ tioned at Prosperity, Newberry coumty, on election day, was tried by court martial in Cohtmnbia on the charge of interfering with voters. It wasB charged that Lieut. Todd worked for the Democrats on that day, an~d an affidavit to that effet was mado by Charley Gary, a low negro politician of Nelg 'Tho verdiet waa "No gnmht. COUNTING THE VOTES. No Indicaton Yet How Soon a Docision Will be Reachod. BECoN) DAY. When the Grand Conmission mbt the president annjnceod that two objectors on each side would be allowed to speak, one in each case. The word case was declared to mean a State. Tho' is no provision for replies. Mr David Dudley Field opened for the Tilden Electors. After alluding to the action of the Florida returning board, which, ho said, was shown by the evidence to include the throwing out of precinets upon the inure belief that intimidation liid boon ppracticed, he argued that the pirlllount question before the Con, mission was whether, in the faco of such testimony as this, it can be claimed that the face of the returns is conclusivo and binding, The usual form of st:iting the question, "Can you go behind the certificates?" is an erroneors forni. The question should be revised so as: to read : "Can the certificate go behind the truth and conceal it ?" There is no ,pretenceo that the voto of the State was not given for Mr. Tilden, the solo pretext for denying it being the certificato of Governor Stearns. :Mr. J. Randolph Tucker, of Vir ginia, followed Mir. Field on1 the 8m1110 side. In conicluidiig his ob jections he gave notice that, as soon as the Court should prescribe- the ilode, they were prepared to unkennel the frauds, and the illegal I it' that attends the title of the Hayes claimants. Messrs. Kasson and MeCrary followed for the Hayes Electors. Kasson argued strongly against going behind the decision of the returning board. This closed the argument of the objectors. THIRD DAY. The Electoral Commission Court allowed counsel to file evidence. The question of its reception will be decided hereafter. Two hours were allowed to the discussion whether the Commission shall confine itself to matter laid beforo it. by the President of the Senate. In the preliminary struggle the Republicans arguedito confine, the Democrats to enlarge the scope of the investigation. Nothing was c icited beyon-1 elaborations. Merrick, Evarts, O'Conor aid Mat thews each spoke for the admission of evidence, when the Commission adjourned to 10 o'clock Monday. The Commission was called to order by Judge Chifford, the presid ing justice. After a few remarks by the presiding Justice as to the order of procedure to he observed, to the effect that, in his view, it would be in order for the Democratic counsel t pre ent, in a hri( firealsons whyy th Haves and Wheeler electoral certiti cate should not not be received, and tihat tihe 1tepublican counisel mlight follow with reasons whly tile Tilden an~d Hendricks certilleate ought not to be received. O'Conor, of tile Democratie 00oun rei, arose anld proceeded to address tihe Commission. He said he would address himself to what seemed most pertinent in tihe Florida case, and would otter proof wily tile first certiticate of Hayes anid Wheeler should not be counted. Evarts, of the counsel for tile Hayes and Wi eeler electors, -said that if tile order of procedure. ,sug gested by the presiding Justice should be followed it was tile first initimuation the counisel on his side had hard of it and they wouldl not be preparel to go on t&day. TIhe presiding Julstice stated that hlis remmarks wvere in the naiture of a suggest ion and did not embody a ruling of tile Commission. O'oo, after a few preliminary rmks as to what he thought would be the best methed of pro cedure. read a brief setting forth whlat he thought ought to be sub, nitted as evidence. He said that on December 6th last~ the electors foz Hayes and Wheeler and for Tihdemu and Hendricks met andl~ cast thir~i votes and transmitted the returns tc tile seat of Government. Both sets of electors complied wvith the re. quiremlents of law. A writ of gue wcarranto was served on tile Hayes electors on that daiy, before they can vassedl the vote, whieb eventua, ted in a judgment against themn and in favor of the Tilden and Hendricke electors on theO 27th of January, 1877. He thlen reviewed tile action of thle Courts of Florida and of the Legislature ordering a recanvase o1 the votes, and said that the~ Can, vassing Board without warrant, threw out the whole of the returm~ from Manatee county and s p~art of the returni from Hamjilton, Jackson and Monroe counties. lIi conclusion, lhe referred to the in eligibility of HUynphmreys, one of th Hayes electors/~who was at Untted States Shipping Commissioner. Judge Blaekeo~f thoeremocratic counsel, arose tio makea snggestipp as to the miethod oi procedure.H~ believed that ho had the rightkt saggeft whats' evidence should be prepeteafi d~bpkd on'i%'1 point The presiding Justice said no evidence was before the Corn mission. After a colloquy between counsel and member's o -tho Commission, Senator, Thurman.asked the Hayes, ai Wheeler cqwinsel what objetion thoro could be to receiving all the evidence- suggested by Mr. O'Con or, subject to objections. Mr. Evarts briefly gave his rea sons for objecting to the nietli6diif introducing evidence groppsed, by the opposig counsel. Judge Black insisted upon it that the evidence suggestedt by Mr, O'Conor had already been taken by the two houses of Congress. Com mittees were sent toFlorida;they took evidence, had it printed, and thus made it a part of this case. That taken by the House was submitted to the house after a fierce struggle, fillibustoring lasting half a night. Ho could not conceive anything more unjust than to compel them to sub imit evidenco by piecemeal. When a party files a bill in a Court of Equity, he may put in all the evi donco lie choo. es, and the same is true of the party filing an answer. The evidence cannot berejected, but must be accepted as a part of the record. While Judge Black was speaking'two special artists on the spot were busily engaged sketching the scene. The presiding Justice said Judge Black had exhausted the fifteen minutes allowed. Justice Miller moved that the counsel on either side have two hours, in which to discuss the objectioin of Mr. Evarts as to whether any other evidence than that laid before the two Houses of Congress by the President pro tempore of the Senate should be received by the Cnlmmis sion. Senator Thurman thought the ar gument ought to go further and embrace the admissibility of testimo, mony taken by either of the two Houses. The iuostiou should not be narrowed down to the papers presented from Florida by the President pro teipore of the Seiate to the Houses of Congress, Representative Garfield desired the motion of Justice Miller to be en largod, so as to embrace an argament as the scope of the power of the Commission in the premises. Representative Hoar offered a substitute for JustiW Millor's mo tion, as aniieided by' lIr. Garfield, but withdrow it, '4teid Field renewed it. The presiding Justice put the question on Field's . subdti tute and it was lost. -The motion of Justice Miller as amended was then adopted. Evazrts suggested that each side have three hours instead of two, and the Commission accepted the sug gestion. - Evarts suggested that counsel have more time to prepare their arguinents. The Commission then took a recess. On re-assembling the Commission agreed to hear one counsel on each side to-day and the others 9n Mon. (day. Mr. O'Conor said lie p~resumed the three hours allowed each side might lie divided among counsel as they might agree, and the presiding off cer said that was the understanding. Judge Black asked if he miglit make some general remarks and let Mir. Merrick go inlto the details of the case. The Commission finally decided that three counsel might speak, pro vided they did not exceed three hours. Mr. Merrick, of Washington, open ed the di.scusion for the Democratic side. He considered it clearlj the duty of the Commisson to go to the root of the difth n'.ty by regarding as it mnnet and ought.re tgitimogy of the Hous~e Cominiittes on T'ldrida as evidence in the case. H~e read from the acet -ercathig th& "Commission' te show that its powers were ample for this purpose, and argued that every consideration of lawv and of -equity required them to inquiro ihtQ the action of the Returning Board, taih. ed as it palpably was - with.' fraud. He cited the guo ibarranqo case . of Drewv vs. Stearns apid others in sup port of his views.. He was followed by Mr. Stanley Mathews, forthe Regublicans, who. mainitained, substantially, that the act of any board constituted-by law, or having apparently legal title, coulnot be set asido, a4 this upon grounds of public P6hoy. . Mr.. . WV. Stoughton followed the acts ofjhe Goyerner of Florida, and denied the right of the Commis sint o behind the returns of the State Board of Cativassers. It is expected that oii $otida agogming Mr,. Evart5. will finish for the Republicans, and Mr. J/ Black or Mr. Oha.aOConor' for' ti 1 Datn, cats, on the qgtigan g WPg, theQhpQ of testimony, la beore it*. and what are the powers.of the Comn. mission mi im premis, have the caso o grc 'in ,a en( tion to submnit its action or it to the Houses'in- joint session' beford '$Y4k. kT WEEKLY EDITION, I$ rVBLI&RED E!*RY TUUEDDAY At WINNSBORO, S. 0. $Y T$] WINNSBORO PUBLISHING CO. 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