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WINNSBORO, S. 0. Thursday, March 7. * 1878. R. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, JNO. S. REYNOLDS, Associate Editor. THE UNIVERSITY DILL, With many amendments, has passed its third reading in the Senate. RussIA AND TURKEY have signed articles of peace. Intelligence as to the terms is very indefinite. THE SENATE and the House are quarreling over the terms of a bill regulating voting precincts in the State. The difficulty sos to be in the counties of Charleston and Colleton. Ac0oRDINO TO THE Columbia re-. porters there are more "brilliant" men in our Legislature than are to be found in any similar body except perhaps the Georgia Assembly. We backwoods people always road the reports in order to gauge our great men, but when we are gravely informed that all are "brilliant" we begin to fear a mistake somewhere. Raising the Wind. The supply bill for the present year levies a tax of five and a quar ter mills, exclusive of school tax and county tax, or a total of ten and a quarter mills, a quarter of a mill, or twenty-five cents on the thousand dollars, in advance of the taxes last year. It will be collected in two equal instalnents payable respec tively in May and October. The whole tax may be paid in October, but in that case a six par cent. penalty is paid on the May instal ment. On the first of November the regular penalty of fifteen per cent. will attach, and delinquent property will be sold on the 15th of November. The poll tax will be collected on all able -bodied males from twenty-one to Bixty years of age. School trustees are not ex empt as heretofore. It is estimated that $619,824 will be acquired from taxation. As one mill realized $119,115 last year, the present levy is expected fully to meet all demands. This seems to be as reasonable a tax as can be expected. We hope that successful crops this year will enable the peo, ple to meet it without trouble. The Refinement of Rascality. The Legislative investigating com mittee peformed a last amount of labor, and tho reports they are now issuing weekly are choice reading. The reckless prodigality and un blushing villainy that characterized all the leadors of the Radical party almost surpasses belief. The tax payers, although painfully conscious of the fact that were being shame fully plundered, never dreauned of the extent of the systematic rob bery that was carried on. Legisla tive pay certificates alone served as a means of extraoting annually from two hundred thousand to a mil-lion dollars. Frank Moses and Iatter son were-the chief conspirators,. the one issuing and the other purchas-. ing certifioates. In one-session these certificates were- issued~ to the amount of' $1,168,255, "every dollar of which was a robbery ex cept about two hundred thoucand dollars.." "Gratification certificates,'' without any consideration, were lavishly issued. Certinecates- were dealt out to leading officials by ficti ions names. F. L. Cardozo received $2500 as L. F. Christopher and $4,000 as. C. L. Frankfort, J. H. Bowley $2500 as A. B. Jordan,. and F. 3. Mosea untold sums as 3. M.. Fbreman. Among others. a certifi" eate issued to M. Moston for $500 (of which $800' went to Gleaves for signing his name) represented the spoils of none other than ex-Sena tor Mose Martin of this county. It will be remembered that a high joint investigating committee were appointed in 1870, to investigate the public affirs. They had unlimited powers. In June 1871 they went to New York, and to give Kimapton time agreed to take a recess of a month, which time they spent at the, fashionable watering .places or in onsent of the governor, and their alaries A.ppat $2,000- instead of 18,000. A contingent fund of $1,000 is also appropriated for the 1O.Vatsission.. The Senate then. took up the re, >ort of the bond rominission. Mr. ItborspookI 'spoke in favor (,tb report. j . Pendling the discussion, the ques. ion wal ado %pecil order for he 5thI t. The bill to amend the act to stabe1h uniformity in the sessions if the ciibuit oonrts passed a second eadj'pg,g ... Ad ourned. No*sE OlF.REPREENTATIVES. hk.Shionion offered a resolution hat a vote be taken on the bond tuestion at 1 o'clock on Thursday, he 7th i ng. Mr. Giay Inoved to substitute Vednosday for Thursday. Mr. George Johnstone moved to able this resolution, but his motion vas not agreed to. The resolution as amended was hen voted upon, and the yeas and tays - called-yeas, 87 ; nays, 37. Speakerx, Sheppard decided the iuestion -by casting hl vote in the flirmativo. Mr. Youmans offered a concur.. ent rosolution that the General Lssembly adj~urn on the 16th netant. . Laid-over under the rules. The University bill was received rom the Senate, with sundry mendments. These amendments vere concurred in by the House ,nd the Oill was ordered to be en oiled far ratification. At this point Mr. Hamilton arose n a privileged question in refer nce .to eertain charges made gainst hiro. by the investigating ommittse., He made a very 'iolent speech, emphatically deny ng the charges and characterizing hem 'as malignant and false. Mr. duller moved that a special com 4ittee bd 'fppointed to investigate he chaiig'ed made against Mr. iamilton. and the accused have an >pportunity to prove his innocence. 4r. .91u I's motion was agreed o by a ver "large vote, and the ,hair appointed the following gen lemen to pqustitute the committeei lessrs. (Qegge Johnstone, R. R. lemphill'&a R. B. Bhett. A bill to redistrict the State, into ive Congressional Districts, with najority and minority reports, next ame up for co nsideration, and licited a short debate between lessrs. Aldrich and Buist, the ormer speaking in favor ''of the ckajority, and the latter arguing in upport of/the minority report. Lhe bill reported by the minority I the committee was laid upon the able by a vote of 55 to 34. Mr, Gray moved to commit the ill of the majority' of the committee o a special committee. Messrs.Rlhett, Aldrich, Orr and thera argued. for and against the notion to comnmit, and a vote was 45; nays, 58. A motion was then made that the nacting clause gi the bill be tricken out : yeas, 38; nays, b5. A motion Was also imade that the ill be laid upon the table, which r'as agreed to by A vote of 49 to 47. Adjourned. TLwao4y March 5, 1878. ..he .bHi fpr othe aprotection ad 'reservation of the game, fish and yster'A in this State passed with mondments, anid wals returned to be House for/c4oncurrence. The iep6kt of the donferecee omnmittee og the bill to prevent ruelty to animals was adopted, and be. bill ordered for ratification. The bill to alter and amend the chool law was amnended by adopt.. ag, thq rp gnendeions of th~e pecial comtiuttee of the O2harleston elegation, and the bill passed ists econad readin~g. -The b'ond questions came up as a pecial order,, and Mr. Yraser de.. vered an address in favor of stand.. ag by the Obneoliatign Act. f the Coldinbia' "$'ying Artillery ras lost. Adjourned. . ' ,. >HoUsE or REPESENTATIVEs. Mr. D. F. Bradley ofered the fol-. )tving, which was adopted: 'Resolved,. That the special comn iittee to whom was. referred the ase of the Ron.. Thomias. Hamilton e, Ang tlheyare aerey,. instrtcted -torou ly investigat. the bg gagaiset all raeanbers f this Ho~use, i. .the report~ of said If.. CIonner-oft'ered the .fellowing ontrreittsolai,. which was t $14k II1tee o Rep.. asenttives, t)pntq qonurigg. 'hat~ the mem b~i~' f tthis Ode'al inebbly hereby agre -4hat . their 'rdientapn9 tbw'teads son a191, xed a i~ ay. M to 80}aeo by Kimpton reached $17,000. Det- < nis says that only $12,500 went to 8 the committee. Besides this, the armed force fund was drawn upg%. . for this committee, so that each member received' from twenty to I sixty dollars a day apiece. 411 this was charged to the StAte, and allowed by Scott, Parker and t Chamberlain, those composing the I financial board. . Moses and Dennis testify to a specimen steal. Speaker Moses told Dennis, the chairman of the p9M. mittoe, that he ought to have ashare of the good things going, ;'and a certificate for $2500, payable to J. t G. Gershon, was made out. It was < necessary for Ransier, as lieutenant., I governor, to sign the certificate, and , this he refused to do unless an equal amount was given to him. To t satisfy all parties the following was ' issued : State of South Carolina,. To James Gershon, Dr. For room rent, fees, &c., for Joint Special Investigating Committee in New York. $5,000. Not only this, but Dennis -got r $1500 in addition, as his share of the steal. These claims are now in the treasurer's office, cancelled as paid. Ex-Associately Justice Wright v figures on the books as having col-. C lected two claims of $640 each, is sued to "J. N. Dobson" and "0. N. Smith" as committee clerks, neither c of whom has any real existence. a Wright denied any knowledge of the c claims or the endorsement, but the committee are satisfied of his guilt. t During the campaign of 1872, 1 when Speaker Moses was a candi date for governor, he issued half a million certificates as gratuities and bribes. A large number were col- 3 lected for Governor Scott in pay. I ment of a debt due by Moses, addi tional consideration being Scott's permission to Crews to payi oseg a ] $10,000 bribe promised fPtSN son on the Greenville and Jd)mbia Railroad consolidation billls i The following are Idamild 'of our native young g olor's b g I ness way of doing thiigs. ,U: I writea to A. 0. Jones, clerk uf thd X House : My Dear Oceola--Please S 1,6 by bearer a certificat fo A $4 " favor of J. H. and Mf. Li.'nG $' "sundries furnished" and one f" $1,500 in favor of Hardy Solomon i for "sundries furnished," ahd oblige,. 7. J. Mossa, JR., , Speaker, &c. February 23, 1872. Again he writes. : .Dear Jones-Please fix the with in for ou~r friend Hurloy. Sincerely, Mos1es. j Hurley 'writes: Frrank-Thiese are the cussea Make an order tos A. 0. Jones. T. H. Charles Reade,. Messenger. John B. T urner, Clerk. Amos Barns. Clerk.. David D. Cooper, Messenger. Andrew Sith, Messenger. Elias Woodrow, Clerk.C Jones says the handwriting on the above seems to be that of Mr. Hurley. C .lDear Oeoa-Please make me out a certificate for my pet. Sin. eerely your., F. J. Mf. The half is not told. Yet enough i is known to give a full insight int o S the way the carpet-baggers and C scallawags, propped by the bayonets .e of the best government the world a ever saw,. ran riot with the State. I After this,. who can deny that the ' order of 'the Ku.klux was at most' christian and praiseworthy institk tion i T M* ET ATRLRtt8L ATtrz., MONDAY, Mareh4 d 1878 SENATE. The following were passed to ia third reading: Bill to restore the. t remedy of distress for ren~t ;. bil to provide for the. payment of past dte a school claims of Fairfield eown..p The joint resolution authoisng c the attqrney-general ho-.pr. ceed against raitroads who' hav a failed to make their reports as pro-- a vided by law was lost. ' . ?.. The bill to reduice an4 lix tba r salaries of certain officers was lost~g tj The joint resolution, with amnend ments, to appoint a commi * to codif the lawseof . 'darigby-atid withtheaA 11 for cutting off the debate on the bond question at 2 o'clock on the 7th inst. Mr. Moore moved to table Mr. Hemphill's motion, but this was not agreed to. Tho motion was thou put and agreed to by a very large vote. A motion was then made to fix the time for reach ing a de 'sion on the debt question at .2 o'clock on the 8th i St., but this was voted down. The 4ebate on the bond Uestion was thea opened by Mr. Memminger, who spoke in fav9r of the Concolidation Act. Mr. Robt. Aldrich followed on the other side. Adjourned. __ ARIC-A-nMAC. General Beauregard was chief marshal of the grand street pageant in honor of the late Pope in New Orleans. Eighteen million dollars in judg. ments are down to Tweed's account in the courts' and the proceeding to declare him a bankrupt has failed. Three weeks ago the aggregate sum which John T. Baymond the actor, had paid Mark Twain for the right of playing "Colonel Sellers" in the "Gilded Age" was $100,000. King Humbert, of Sardinia, is reported to be seriously indisposed. He has been subject to blood-spit. ting for a long time, and recent fatigue and excitement have aggra vated his complaint. Pious tramps now infest Fitch burg, Mass. They enter a house uninvited, inquire if the inmates love the Lord Jesus, distribute a few tracts. and make themselves at home for an indefinite period. Mr. William B. Astor has just bought for $10,000 General Phillips, a horse which has won many races in the Gulf States, and which the Galvestoun News predicts will be at. four years old the fastest horse of his age in the country. Some of the foreign papers ae count for Prince Bismarck's in creasing irritability by his financial einbarrassments. His grand specu lations at Varzin have turned out, badly, and the Lauenberg estates, presented to him him by the nation, yield only a small interest. The London correspondent of the Edinburgh Scotma says Mr. John Walter (liberal), member of Parliament for Berks and chief pro. prietor of the London Timeq, was black-balled at the Athensoum Club on account of his anti-Tur kish sentiments. The Silver bill having passed Congress by more than a two..thirds vote, comprising many of the purest and ablest men in- that body, it would be in good taste for Mr. Ben Hill and the .Netos anad (Courier~ no loinger to speak of it as- "the pick pocket bill." Valentine Baker, formerly colonel of the Tenth Hussars in the British army, writes to the London papers that he has not been relieved of his command nor has he resigned. He has simply been forloughed, and his position in the Turkish army re mainis unchanged. Mr. James McKay, the Chdifornia Bonanza millionaire, said to be the richest man in the worl, intends to bear the expense of' the California mineral display at the Paris Exhi bition, the. Legislature of the State having refused an appropriation for the purpose. The Revision Committee of the American Bible Society haa. proe. gressed with the revision of the Old Testament through Jeremiah and Lamentations anxd the first three chapters of Ezekiel. The New- Testament Committee has re vised the larger part of the Epistle to the Galatians. A few days since Colonel Brad,. ley T. Johnson, of Richmond, Va., requested permission from Gover nor Vance for the Walker Light Guard to pass through the State of North Carolina, on their way to Charleston. Governor Vance re-. spondedi aa follows: "Permission granted to pass through North Carolina with your command. Bie virtuous and you'll be 'happy--but you won't have much fun." Last Sunday the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., of New York, said that $180g000' had beein subscribed to pay off the 420'0,000 debt of the church, and, thath g anted $20,000 before Lent. Four men, who. had alr ady subgeribed .810,000a eah, add twenty. 1per cent. to. their stib riptions, making' Of8 000. The rest was -iekly' sabedrbed, makfaug 5200,1 .4 as h gy total. The subsorionbo n the bollection were~ a4,q n Tfn h rmsas he sang: "Praise the congrega oneu and- ehofr oin This Was sievork ohurch debt raiser. .ood gtmly biliats hft vheli jwoperly at the -r-i ht perocds bnt to overfeed the . fa toesie n , 4nd'ndude a . suffdb , ;~ll's Bab yr Is the best r m4'for t- dscomfort aising froth ovedig the baby. ?rioe POZZTIZAZ 1VOrz'. Now York Republicans are un happy because Conkling had noth ing to bay about the silver bill. The Washington Post is wishing itself a very long life. It wants to live to see General Tom Ewing President-of those United StAtes. If there is anybody who has ever said anything abont the Presiden tial intrigue of last year and has not been called a liar, he can con sider that he has been overlooked in the general confusion incident to a calm discussion of this interesting matter. Mr. James Q. Howard tumbled into the New York Assistant Ap praisership a day or two ago, and the natural inquiry followed : Who is James Q. Howard 7 All was peaceful when it was learned that he is from Ohio aid wrote the life of President Hayes. Massachusetts is waiting with some anxiety to see where Ben Butler is going to drop. With the unprejudiced observer it is simply the flip of a copper whetheivvhe goes back to the Democracy or falls into the absorbing embrace. of the new National party. Representative Southard, of Ohio, has an elaborate proposition for the election of three presidents, to constitute the executive. branch of the goverment. Mr. gouthard, we fear, doesn't understand hos much trouble the people of the United States have over one president. Where they don't have. a. Green-, back party to fret the . old parties, they have something else. The taxpayers elected their cabdidate for senator in Santa Clara county, California, last week. - and the working nien chose the assembly man. Things is knixed 1 Some of the ftepublican organs in New Hampshi-e are inanifesting symptoms of Tmeasiness regarding le result of the election shortly to occur in that State. The bloody shirt ha been dragged ont by some of them, eonfidence in the Hayes platform seeming to . have . been shattered to, a great. eztent. Some of thb Ls4islatures out West are still adopting resolutions urging the passage of tile silver bill. The Philadelphia Tmethopes that somebody -will kilidly notify them that the &easu alt gog sfely. through both houses, an4 gie the legislators a chance to adjoturn ir? time to do their spring plo wing. The Indiana Denioracy iA some. what torn up by a. conflict of factions F on one side are ~the swallow-flails and on the oither are the short-hairs. . Governor Blue Jeans Williams belongs to bot~h sides by spells r Governor Hen, dricks is on the fence' thinking it. over, and Senator Toorhees'is doing such a big business in silver dollars at Washington that he- hasn't time to go home and see the boys. The Indianapolis .Tournd ays that only one of the slae cani dates reeiv~ed a nomination at the. hands of the late Detancratic- Con.. vention in Tndiana. The rural delegates came in strong, and 'as there were nearly a thousand of them with voting power in . the.- conven tion they ran things in a way that some of the politieiaans despised, and turned out a tickot which is goner ally well spoken of. They understand irn Connecticut that schools are for th'e edtcation of youth and not for the benefit of politicians. The Republican 'Legis. Fature of that Stata has ,just. re elected Mr. Henry (. Miles. Demo.. orat, school fund commissioner, over Mr.. Jeremiah Olney, the Re publican caucus enndidate, because of Mr. Miles' eminqrit Stness and. lidelity as a public- ofeer. Now IEngland values, her schools; and her' people- prove how, well good schools repay faftllfui directioN DEMOCRATIC eOUNTY CLUB. A. azestin. of ,the Pafrgel'd. County Iemocratie Club, will be held on the afth Saturday In Mhrch. Thsn Club will be composed. as heretofore, of nye dole.. gates from each local or subordinate club.. The purp~ag of~ .M pmenng is te' maisidleration ot'stjej measaeee s will, plAoe our cnunty organization in acoord ,tth "the forny, presaned.!by the- State. D~emocatatio Conwention of Auguiet, 1876,. mdt asostof' suph'oral% af iegplations ~or the goerninead, ok our county, qrgani.. stion s will secure . fullest suppot >f Its ou.mina nmhionas, pial agali 1h4'dangers of disoord .4 itemu, 'al ieiail9s, All ite ranaks and starengthen 'its, Lies 'foe Ume' alMigfo 'w hieh it is. about to enter.,. TIhese prelImInary 4te99s, $aqly and~ deliberately taken, will place our jiar'ty iM14i stronge&~pdeltion. ydnmible to us~ rpjgthat thae emrnu.es of the cam.. paign L.ay require.