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WINNSBORO, S. C. Tuesday, May 22, : : : 1877. It. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, JNO. S. REYNOLDS, Associato Editor. In the Ellenton trials? now in progress in Charleston, M1fajor IHutson Leo was rejected as a United States juror becauso ho had been a volunteer in the Confederate service. This law has slept a long time, and few people knew of its existence. Congress should abolish it at the next session. It and Rto conlstruction are now the "twinl rolics -of barbarism." The refreshing intelligorce has boel received that Senator Morton 'ill not Oppose the President's Southern policy. The paralytic howler's seat in the Senate is tmcer tam enough now, and as the 1)00 pie of Indiana are said to favor IIayos, Morton cannot afford to antagonize has party. The )enio - crats are confident of electing a successor to Morton next year. The poople of Augusta are all agog upon the subject of a railroad from that city to Knoxville. Thme distance is two hllul(reld and forty miles, and the cost is estimated at from two and it half to five millions. The object of this road is to secure the trade of the West. and the move ment ' is in competition with the Blue Ridge and the Spartmbug .and Ashville road in our State. Tho Pay of the Legislators. One of the most important niat tors that leLman( the attention of the members -of the Legislature is the amount of their own pay, and front all reports, opinion is much divided as to what it shall be. A proposition has been made to allow six hundred dollars to each member present at the December session, while two hundred dollars is to be the compensation for the prosent session. This is too too much. The con stant cry of the Democracy for ten years has been that the Radical logislators wore receiving exorbitant paty ; and pledges .o9f retrenchment in legislative matters, as well as in everything else, have been freely made. The Legislature has done well in this matter, and salaries generally have been brought down to thoe lowest living rates. It only remains for the reformers to put the pruning kinife to their own salaries and tho work is complete. We wish it to be dlistincetly nndler,. stood, right here, that we are by no means advocates of excessive fru gality. T.ho only perfect govern mnent is that which has thoroughly competet and trustworthy oflici als, anmd suchl men command and always will command good wages. But the State is in soro straits, financially3, and for a while at least strict economy must bo practiced. Dur ing thia period the nmoembers of the Legislature must be contenmt merely to save expenses. Eight hundred dollars for thme work of about two months is. pro p)osterous, especially when there is to be another session in tho winter. No reason exists why a member of the Logislatture should receive a sum for this short timo, oqual to the ~salary of a treasurer of one of our largest counties for a whole year's wor~k. And ini our opiinion, any imember who puts such am estimate supon huivmelf, during these hard -times, willm~ot have another oppor .tuniity 'to servo the State in a public capacity. Tfho measure has not yet been discussed ; anid we are confident thaut the Legislature will not be guilty of extravagance. A word of warnming, however, at this timuo wvill not be amniss. Thme argament is used thlat the burdin4 of the .Decemb~or session woero 'peculiarly' arduous and atten dod also with p~ositivp dangemr. This is true. But the huardships of that time cannot b)o measured with mnoney and the Legislaiturc was only at its post of ;duty. The Jmejmbers had .agroed .to perform a certain wvork, amnd they did it well. But they should not sully the reputation they have gained as 'patriots by laying thomsolvos open to the chargo of being morconaries. The sum of three Imndred dollars, at the present rate of paying public servants, is enough for the work of last Decom ber. For the present session livo dollars a day might b allowed. But eight hundred dollars for two months' work, besides the honors accruing, is p1 opostorous, and any attempt to exact it will raise a ter rific howl along the whole line. LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. FIDAY, May 18. SENATE. Several committees made reports, which were laid over under the rules. Hon. W. A. Walker, senator elect from Chester county, presonted his credentials, was duly sworn and assigned to a seat several bills were received from the House. read by title and appro priately refei red. A bill to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Piedmont Manufacturing Comiipany," and ia bill to amend an act entitlCd "An act supplementary to chapter 15, title 4, part 1, of the general statutes, relating to the militia, and for the better organization and government of the same," were ordered to a third reading. Mr. Gary introduced a bill to abolish all attorneys' taxed costs, plaintiffs' or defendants' co.sts, as allowed by the Code, and the act ameInlatory thereto. Bill (House) to incorporate the town of Batesburg, in the county of Lexington,received its third reading, passed and was sent to the House of Iepresentaiyes. A resolution (by Mr. H. J. Max well) to postpone to the next regu lar session all bills relative to the granting of a charter to a new com pany, or for the amendment of a charter heretofore granted, for the purpose of lining and digging for phosphates, was agreed to. A bill to prohibit the unauthor izeCl absence of certain oflicers from duty, was ordered to a third reading. Report (favorable) of committee on retrenclunent on bill to reduce and fix the price of dieting prisoners was ordered to a third reading. Adjourned. H OUsE OF REPIRESENTATIVEs. Mr. Stoan introduced a resolu tion that the sergeant at.armsi fur nish ice for the use of the House -not more than twenty. five pounds daily. Adopted. Bill to fmrther reduce and fix the number and regulate the pay of at tachees of tihe General Assembly pass ed its third reading and was sent, to the Senate wi th amendmnents. A bill to make appropriations to pay salaries anid mileage of memtbers snd salaries of the employees of the General Assembly, was amendled and ordered to) be re-eng'rossed. Tihe discussion of tihe appropria.. tion bill *was resumaed. At the hour appointed the Senate camne in, and the joint assemblly pro ceeded to elect an associate jus~ee in the pla1ce of Judge Wilard. Mrp. (Coit, of Chesterfield, nominat Mr. Kei lh, color'ed llepulic an from DI arlington, seconded the M~,r. Gary obtained the consent of tihe joint assembly to make a second seconid to the nomination. Mr. H-amtilton wyished~ to second the nlomination of Mr. Mclvor, but the Chair ruled that any further second to the nomination was out of Tile vote wyas then taken, arnd Mr. Mclver unanimously elected, roecciv ing 129 votes. Thlie announcement of the result was received with ch eers. The House thon resumed its session, and( discussed the appro.. priaition bill-wvhih wasl odered to hoc engrossed for a third reading. Adjourned. SA Trumn~y, May 19. TnlE SENATE was5 not in Session1. HOUSE OF' UEPRCEAENTATIvES. Several committees -submitted res ports, which laid over under .the rules. T1he consideration of the report of the special committee as to the conduct of Judge Wright was post p)oned till next session. .The following bills wore read a secondl~ time To regulate the public printing ; to provc~ent thme sale of slirituous liquors withiin three miles of Williamsiton Female CJollego; to regulate aplpointment and salary of trial justices in Ilarnwoll county ; to incorporato tihe Pied muont Manufacturing Company -;. to provid1o for the filling of vacancies mn county oflicos ; to authorize the governor to effeot a loan; to amend an act to amend chae. of tow of Johnston's Turnout ; to amend the charter of the town of Yorkvillo ; joint resolution directing the attor noy} -general to e:<amino in to certain facts touching the interest of the Stato in the affairs of the Greenvillo and Columbia Railroad Company ; to reduco^tho pay of county comn missionera and their clerks ; to incor porate the town of Elko ; to regu late tho inspection of timber ; to fund the past indebtednoss of tho town of Sumtor. Joint resolution to appoint a con mission to codify the acts was post poned till next session. House bill to till vacancies in county ollices and Houso bill to amend charter of Yorkville were laid on the table. Billto establish a new county from a portion of Beaufort county, to bo known as Palmetto county, N% postponed till next session. Adjourned. NEWS OF THE DAY. The governor of Massachusetts has vetoed the local option liquor law. 'T'welve Republican papers in Iowa denounce the President's Southern policy. Tho city bank of Macon, Ga., has made an assignment for tho benefit of creditors. Both the Republicans and the Demnocrats of Ohio are anxious about the fall election. ]laine is in Washington, and is quite a lion. He had as many as two hundred visitors one day last week. The court house at Rockford, Ill., while in process of construction, fell in on the 11tH inst., killing twelve and wounding fourteen persons. The Republican executive con nitte of Iowa has issued a regular. bloody--shirt address to the people. It still howls about slavery and the W;11i'. At Cleveland, Ohio, fifteen hun (red striking, coopers have returned to wolrk at the colipany's terms. The company agree not to employ boys. The lowest bidders to whom was awarded the contract for plain postal cards wvo the American Phototype Company of New York. The father of Charlio Ross and P. T. Barnum, the great showman. of'er a reward of ten thousanid dol lars for the lost boy, and no ques tions asked. Barnini's motives and purposes may be well understood. There is a woman in Georgia who sets all the type on a weekly news pal)ei and washes and cooks for a large family, while her husband writes the editorials and smokes the cigars. President Hayes was present at the recent haniuct of the Newv York Chamuiuber of Counnerce. Mr. Tilen and Governor Robin son were invi ted to attend(, but declined, it is said1, beenuse ?1hey construed an aiccep)t ance into a recognition of the legali. ty of Rayos' title.. An effort is making to prevail on President Hayes to make an asso eiate justice of Judge Spofford, thme new .Democratic senator from ;Newv Orleans. This is a move by Kecl logg's friends, but will not,~ help them, as Governor Nicholls wvould apploint a senator in Judge Spof ford' 1)place. Several Detr'oi t capital istIs, among them a manm namned Stevens, engaged a nnmber of laborers to go to the mines at California Gulch in Colora do0. On their arrival, the miners found there was no work for them. They organized a riot, besieged Stevens and his partners in a house, compelled them to isue a draft in favor of the strikems for . 84,000 and at last accounts wvere pr'eparing to lynch thenm. Parties in Denver have gone to the relief of Stevens. New Yor'k had on the 15th what wvas initended to bei a gr'and earnival similar to the Mardi Gras festivals of New Orleans and other Soathern cities. But Rex was a briewer and thme procession wais scarcely more oir les;; tharn a long line of dr'ays and earts 'oelonging to blakers, brewvers, b lutchers, patent soap men, peddlers and hucksters advertising their waries ; and all .Gotham sei up ai howl of disgust. The spectacular displaiy was a coinplete humbug. New York has had her firset and Iprobably her last carnival. Tho annual celebration of tihe .Philomnath can Literary Socioty of I'rskine Collego wvill take plaice on June 29th. They pr~opose discussing the subject, "Have falso systems of religion caused moroe misery than false systems of governont ?" The orators for the occasion are Messrs. R. -C. Davis, of Ga, and J. T. Chial meors, of N. C., foi- the affirmative, and Meissrs. J. C. S. Birico and1 J. E. IMcDonald, of S. (s., for the neoga Ii~iv SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Evorybody in Spartanulrg is put ting Up ia lightning-rod. iMr.John M. Ross, an ag'd :md res poeted citizen of Yorkville, died on Sunday before last. A regiment of cavalry has been organized in Colleton ccnnty, and Capt. J. J. Fox elected colonel. The officers will be commissionod at once. A movement is on foot among the citizens of Yorkville to reorganize the Jasper Light Infantry, a very old company, and a moeting with that object in view was hold on Thursday evening. Mr. E. C. Sumner, of Lincolnt.on N.C., has been appointed superinton dont of the (lester & Lenoir Rail road, in place of Mrldward Thomas -wliereat the Yorkville A/fpirer is much surprised and somewhat wroth. The anusomen is in the town of Anderson (lrilng the present season are, for men, pitching quoits, and for boys, spiinng tops. Both are engaged in with a zest by numbelI)(:rs of the ilhait ialts. So says the Ir. M. C. Connor has succeeded in securing the press, tV)o and oflice of the lIte W;ilterl >o ,\'e w,', and expect., on Or )cfoe Ju1e 1st, next, to publish, at that place, a straightout Denocraitic paper, ad vocating the genuine principles of Democratcy. 11 fourth annual ineeting of the stockholders of the Ch ester anil .Lenoir iNarrov (htwgo iiilroad Colil'anv, met in the tow-n of (hes, ter. onl the 1Wth. T1he old president and board of direeL.trs were electei1. This road vill now lhe ptshed to early comlipletioni. A Washiington desptch says that L. ('ass Carpenter has not m111(1le a f( uina1 resiguation. hI 1 upon t he return of the P'esi!ent his rtsig;a tion Vill be treated as nile aind aceepted, alld ia new c(llet Ior lie alp. pointedl for the third South Caroli, na district. MIr. John iothwell. secretary of the Young Men's Chiristian Assoei tion of Charleston, has been doing a good Christian wi uk in Anderson for the past few wcoks. Several persons have uited wit lithe clurelh in consequence of his lab ors, and others are intcrestod on the subject of religion. The carpet-bagger dies hard. One of his niuher 1hats bei lpretIch ing to the colored peoplo of Aiken the comfortable doctrine that Haves has only puit Mr. Hamnpton into the governorship for eigllt ( m11 1)onths on trial. If he doesn't aiswer, Mr. Hayes will then (ethirone him nd(11 reseat Chlamberla~in. iMr. imon M. Mills, of Rlock lill]. mrot with the miisfortuniie to) break his ight i leg 1ab)ovet the kniec. iHe was onl his way toi the depot, to take the tndat for his home, and aI. tempting to cross ai dlep ?9vine by walkinig on a narrow foot- way over it, tbe night very3 dark, missed his footing andi~ fell, with tihe result ablove described. A. S. Richardlson, colored, well knoewn as a Oefaulter inl thte Cho stor poist oflice, was arrested Tue sday hoefore last on the chtarge of for'ging' the name of Jul ins C. Stevonson to a teacher's pay~i certificate. In default of hail in the suml of 0one thonsimal dlhLrs lie was committed to jail, but hall s'inIco been dischargecd. Col. ,John iM. White, of York county, died at hlis r'esidee in Fort Mill, on Sunidayv last, after a brief illness. At the time of his death he was forty four years of age. Hie served with gallantry through the late war, at the ('1oso of which he was1. lieu tenant--colonel of then Sixth South Caroilina RLegimen~it. As a Mason lie was aL brighlt and~ COnl Ispicuous memberh). bieinig at the timo of his death Worshipful M\aster of Catawba Lodge. He was also0 a decaconi ini the0 Presb~yterian church at Fort Mill. As a citizen 110 was upright and faithful ini the discharge ing ando liberl-anid in his donathi tihe commiuinity will .sustain a serious loss. There is rathoir an uinfortunate dlisagreemel(nt anmong the D~emocrats of 'Williamusburg county. It -seems tha1t the county chairman, under the advice of the county executive comn mnittee, reconmmenided a Mr. Loo for the position of county treasurer, and the aippoli nmn t was according. ly madioo. This was not liked by3 some1 of the Demiocrats in thie In, diantowvn section, who desi red the appointment of Mr. 0. M. McCutch on, and a mass meeting wvas called to reorganize the p)arty and mrako new ricommnd~ationls for oilicors. It appears,howevor, t hat the nowv move mont makes little or no progress. It is to be hoped that everything will soon go on smol oli- mo.. SAVE YOUR MONEY --GO TO D ANNE NB ER G'S. JUST RECEIVED, A leautiful line (f LadieiR' and euts' Notions. Ihamuburg Edgings and Insertions, at 7ets.. 1ets. and 12. ct.s, per yard. HANDSOME ASSORTMENT OF White and Striped Ihosiery, at all prices. PARASOLS, SILK tnd COTTON. Gents' Unlaurndried Shirts, Wmnsutta 'Mills, $12 per dozen. Pereacte Shirts, $12 per dozen. 3EAUTIFUL DRESS GOODS, Only 124 cents per yard. 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