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TRi-WEEKLY EDITION.- WINNSBORO. S. C., SATfURDAY,1 DECEVMBER 1878 IvOL. 2. NO, 132 COMMENTS ON THE MESSAGE. ---0 CRITICISMS AND COMIMENDrAT1ONS OFA.PERRNCEAS TO THESOUTr, What Mr. Stephens Has to Say--Com ments of Other Leading Democrata --Wrangling in the House. [6brreipondence of the New York Herem,] WASHINGTON, December 2.-The message is received with general but mild approval. Some people com plain that it is a very unexciting document, but the general opinion is that this is one of its merits. The soft money men are, of course, irritated at the passages relating to the currency. The Southern men, almost without exception, are satis fled with the President's reference to the South and are disposed at the time to grant the money asked for to defray the expenses of trials for violation of the election laws. It is probable, however, that there will be a lively disciissian on this matter whenever it eoo. up. Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, this evening expressed to a Weral( correspon dent what seems to be the gener -l Southern opinion of the message. He said: Upon thle whole I think very well of the miessage. Of course, I differ with thle Preiident upon his finan cial policy. The message upon the subject of Southern outrages was not different from what I expected. I tbink, however, very exLggeatud accounts have reached the Presi dent as to South Caolina and Louisiana, and when the facts come to be inquired into it will be found that a great deal of the newspapoe statements are totally withoit foundation. How it really is I do not know. One thing, however, I would say :-If there have been any outrages or violations of law. they ought to be redressed. I am a law and order abiding man. The main tenance of the majesty of the law is the only hope of the preservation of. the rights of a free people. Govern muents. in the last resort, may be put into two classes-the govern ment of laws and the government of arms-and all free people ought to see that the laws are executed and enforced, otherwise they mast in the end have a government of arms. But I think in the South generally the elections were as free from ille gal interfereae as in any part of the United States. In Goor.-Iia I never knew or heard of a more quiet oloc tion. If in any of the recent elec tions to Congress State laws haveI been violated, North or South, the proper remedy ought to be enforced through the State judiciary. If any federal law has been thus violated, the wrong should be righte:1 through the federal judiciary, and as it is the duty of the governors re, spectively to see that the State laws as expounded by the State courts, are enforced, so it is the duty of the President to see that the federal laws, as expounded by the federal courts, are enforced. But most of those questions, it seems to me, properly belong to the House of Rlepresen tatives, which is the sole judge of the election and qualica, tion of its members. Mr. Wilson, of WVest Virginia, said he was a life long Democrat but doubted the propriety of criti cising the message for the sugges - tions about the elections in South Carolina and Louisiana. As long as the act of Congress is on the statutes Ie said it was the duty of the President to see that the liw wvas excnted. The fact that Mr. Hayes called attention. to election frauds in South Carolina and L'uis.. iana an4 not to frauds in New' York, spoken of by Mr. Wood to-day, can not be considered an effort on Mr. Hayes' part to suppress any infor mation ais to New York elections, as his attention was not called to them. lMr. Wood himself sai:1 there had .been no publicity giv en to them. Mr. Williams, of Michigan, Demo, erat, thought that too much spa.ce. was devoted to intimidation in the. South. "He thoughtVthe Presidunt should have referred'to intimidiation at th Nort. Inhis district there were $2,500 employes in shops who were compelled to vote as directed .by their employers, otherwise, they would have been discharged. Judge Mayhen, of New York, Democrat, disapproved of the reference so a rongly to Southern done as a lover in the eledti,Me iin 1880. the reference to Southern matters was just what ho expected. Among the topics referred to in the message which attract the aitten tion of thoughtful members of both houses are the infoination that a new commercial treaty with J pan hos been framed, and thIt notsurves are pending for more intitnate com inercial relations wili S.>mth Amenri can States; the suggesti.mn tliA In dians shall be enlisred as an anxili. ary military force ou ti.o plains, which would, ill the opinli.l> of ool potent exports, be one of the mijost important and boneficial neasures for civilizing the Indi.ms at a sm.il cost ; the recommendation to relieve the pressure of business. on the judi cial courts, and the business on tile federal courts and the Supreme Court, by the cre:tion of a uuber of additional circuit judges or by some other means, a relief whien the judges and the mumbers of the bar know to be very neessary, and the recommendation to const,uA!t a new Congiomional library bu I ling' Tije inre p,1isi os evidently i.d f uit because Lao mcb:ttro de t. so mullch witi the mae.ii int"r.ss o t.e count.y. bu ou t1aAt 110ad the peop"o will no agr0 withI Wom OPENIN3 TIS BMLL ON TId '3OJrtZ3X QUESTI.,NS Thore is somothing frightfully tedious an.l iaoton u3 about tW%j fully of some of the Democrats. They begin anew p'ocisuly whare they loft off before. To- day, for insiance, wuen the nessage had been read in tao [lous.i, AL:. Fjr nando Woo I, in the c.ap ,city or lead er of the Houste, dragged his follow Democrats into a qigmire, nd, with the iloip of tie previ*a ques tion left thol s.ickmng taore. It seoimod to Mr. WoUd judOcious to arraign the President for the ox tremely moderate views of the nes sage on the Southern eledios. He thought a great deal too much hAd been said of wiat was of no conse quence, and duclacod Lhas the ex treme or Radical wing of the Re publicans had captured the Presi. dent and made hii vacillate in his policy toward tie South. Mr. Wood am azed and startleA the whol-3 House, and dealghted time Rpublicasus as Inticli. dis he disgust ed most of the Deawocr.,ts. He gave Mr. Garfioid tho opportunity to umi:k a judicious and extremey effective rep,nder and Mr. i.1me tie chance for a neat partis in appe4, ' and wherea.s, befoie he spoce, thel extreme Republicans h.d been die - i1 posed to growl at the "n asige and 1 to quarrel witu the President, Mr. i Wood's remarks brought them all together. It must be said, to the credit of I the Democrats, that at le ist three quarters of them sat inl their se.Ats I filled with indignation and disgust. at what they saw to be a gross blunder, and if Mr. Wood had not,! by the use of the p.eiAN question,_! stopped discusision af cer Mr. C->x h d. adroitly done all he could to cover up the mistake that had b)een made, i Mr. WVooit wvould h .ve he ard somei< plain langu ige from his own side. I Several Demnorcrats said after the adjourmnent h:at if they had had a chance they wvouil have said precise- I ly wh it Mr. Garfield said on the q uestion,-and there is not the least ( doubt that r.t least three quarters and probly seventh-eightbo of tihei Democratic side wereC entirely con tent with wvhat' the resijdent sail 3 about the South. The Soutamern I men particularly were well s.atisfied, and would have voted at once tne ad- i ditiona4)rm ney asked for in the mnes- a sage to carry on tihe election trials. They say, very sensibly, that these trials before federal courts will de-. I monstrate to the country accourately, not only how much, but howv little, disorder and wrong w is co.ninitte 1 anywhere in the South during the recent canv.ass i.nd election. Tauey are confident tu it in this w ay the exaggerated par t.isan accounts will be showvn to be largely false, and that tl.io regu iar trial according to law is tihe best and only way to make the truth known in the North, and they are not afraid of the truth, One o)f the proposeli amendrments to the Constitution of iLouisia&na fixes the loeation of the Capital, and the vote seemis to have been very close, all but five parishes giving: For Baton Rouge 87,047, for Nef0i-lans 87,995. Among the o'miosities at thei dead letter oflae is a1lette cotin--* I' ipig fifty dalr . and/ t4dre%sed . to Hoboken, S,i*v Tid.leinks &#6,: pig "dealers,:,~ .Hoffeusnipper's Terrade (corner FiddIake, avenue EGISLATIVE PROREDING, WEDNEsDAY, December 4, 1878. SENAT1. The special committee reported bIat Hon. Robert Fishburne, of. Colleton, has not been shown to be: 10ligible to a set in the Sente. A number of bills were intoduoed Ind refe:re.1, Mr. Crittenden's bill to investi Yate the li:biiity of the State on 3ndursenents to the Greenville and jolu:ubi Railroad was passd. Adjourned. Hou,s OF REPRESENTATIVES. A comuittee of one from each -ounty was appointed to consult ipon the tuanner of equalizing as iwSsments. A number of bills were introduced. 'he ways and means committee re- i ported fiLvorably on - several joint resolu.ions, amnlg them ona to fix Lo tt tnd;.rd at which property shatll be assessed. They also re, rorted unfavorably on Mr. Callifon's Jill to reopen the debt question. The ju liciary committve reported av,>.bly on a bill to make juror tad witness tickets in State cases :eeiv,tblo for taxes, on a bill to )rovide for a codifination of the .ws, and1 to amend the lIav provid ng uniformity in holding courts. V'hey reported that the Legislature 2is not the power to valid.tts sales or ptrtition mide by probate lu-ges. The enacting clause of a bill to dlow counties that have issued Iailroad bonds to retain the State tx on railroa.Is for a sinking fund ;o pty the bouls was stricken out, tfter debate. A bill to prevent stock from one ount-y or township from trespass ig upon lnds of an adjoining 'oun1ty or toWnsUCIP P Msed its sec )nd reading. The repirt of the committee on rivileges andl elecions in thie case I )f Hastin1s G.mtt wAs alopte 1, and .essru. Kenne-ly, Aldrich, Ceve and, Perry and Lambson were ap J4inte. oil the cotmittee. A bill requiring a special license )n dogs was killed. Adjourned. TUURSDAY, Dicambar 5, 1878. SENATE. A number of bills an .1 resolutions vere introduced, ra.d by title, and )roperly referred. The special order for 1 p. m.-.1 >il by Gou. M. W. Gary to repeal "joint resilution providing a ao.le of ascertainiuga the debt of the tate and liquidating and settling, ho stun)," -tpproved M rot 22, .878--was taken up. Ganoral Gary rad a lengthy speech in favor of he propoe I repeal, Adjourined. HOUsE OF REPRESENTATIVEs. A number of bills were introduced, ead by title and properly referred. Mr. Blue introduced a bill requir g25 per cent, of all moneys re nived for liquor licenses throufihout hie Stite to be patid into the State e-iury. A resolution to inquire as to the ropriety of reducing the salaries of ny or all of tihe executive and judi MI odlecers of South Carolina who1 hall hereafter be elected t o Ofice was rejected. A bi to extend the time for the ede:nption of forfeited, lands and iie sale thereof was rejected. T he House refused to reconsider he vote bywhich the enacting words! f a bill for the relhef of the couties! I Spartanburg, Greenville, Union, ~ickens, Yorlk, - Chester, Lancaster nd Onesterfield, which have sub cribedl bondls in aid of certain rail onds were stricken out. A bill to make purchase money g eon up.in personal property was jcetedl. Mtr Mcoowan, from the commit 00 o13 the judicimey, reported the ollowing reskointion, which was greed to: Raesotlved, That it be referred to ~he Attorney General to examine *ntQ the title of the State to -the Blue Ridge Bailroad, and to take uchb action in the premises to estab. ish the rights of the State as the acts roay reire. The speci committee to wait ipon H is Excellency Governor Eampton made a report of the in-.. ugatration. The en.toting words of the bill to )rotect the rights of mortgagee.of ersonai proporty were striOke6 -out. The following bills were read .the econ'd time an d ordered to be ou grossedll or a third readingT & 191il to aanend act otilt Mn setyto oimburge the of chlan rorsons tried for orimes committed while such persons wore offivers of this State," approved March 1, 1878. A bill to amend an act entitled "An act to reduce the pay of witnesses in State cases." A bill to punish assault or assault and battery with any fire-arms committed on streets and places of public resort war takan up. The title wao amended so as to read : "A bill to punish assault or assault and battery with any fire-arms com mnitted on streets and placei of pub lic resort," and in this shape the bills wa read a third time, passed and ordered to the Senate. Adjourned. WiY TALlAoE IS TIHA NKFUL, In his thanksgiving sermon, Talmage gave the following reasons, among others, why he had cause for gratitude : "Year after year and under all circumstances God is fulfilling the promise made by the chapter I read at the opening of the service: --"Soed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter shall not cease." Thank God, all ve churches and storehouses and 'homes for plenty of bread, not only enough for us but for other nations ; broad for us and broad for tho. Give us a fill round slice, an honest, old fashioned slice of country bread such as your tuothers used to make, and, I suppose, your wives make better. (L.aughter.) What would you want better than bread ? Do you want cake? BreAd is more easily digested; it makes more muscle and bone. I never knew any one worth anything to church or State wto was brought up on cake. Thank God for bread. I make another dash into a Southern plantation. The dusky laborers are gathering rice-the queen of all delicacies. The whip ped lyllabubs of the English and the meringue of the French go into nothingness before one spoonful of ho'itt American rice pudding. Thank God for rice I Our next dash is into a country orchard with apples, russet and brown and red. Solomon was very foud of apples, for hA sId, "Jonfort mue with apples." (Laughter.) Thank God for apples. Another dash is into a votton plantation. Summer snow that the sun does not melt hanging all over the field. Have the clouds of heaven shaken off their fleece I Most important of all the American exports, in 1872, amounting to $180,684,595 1 Thank God for Ootton I We have on this platform to.. day products of all the country. What a wonderful change I That is a palmetto tree. Twenty years ago the planting of such a treo as that in a church would have created a riot, but last night that tree was planted by men who had been soidiers in the Northern army. (Applause.) North and South were divorced . to-day I remarry them under the palmetto tree, and this moss from Southern forests shall be the bridal veil. What God bath joined together let not man put lAunder," INTIMIDATION.--We are not coun sel for Mr. Sutherland or for United States Marshal Brownfield, but we would call to ther attention a few cases of intimidation from the western side of Wateree, as they seem thus far to have neglected that portion of th~ county. The Reverend MarshaW McGraw, aged eighty--six, andl who was in the wvar of 1812, approached the polls with two heavy sticks, and with those sticks absolutely got to the polls and voted the Democratic ticket. We all feel proud of such patriot. ism as this noble old gentleman showed, and are inclined to give. bim great praise for it. Then again M.John H*ollis, nearly the same age, rode fifteen miles to vote the same ticket. These estimable old gentlemen, it can be proved, went to the polls each armed with sticlfs. How many Redpublican voters they knocked downu and kept away, we dont know, Doubtless there are a plenty of readcy tools who will make the proper affidavits. Won't you look after these good and true sons of Kershaw 7 .They are both patr'iots, and we can make the re quiredl oath as far as the sticks go, Comp now, Judge, hurry up, you have,i not dr'agged any of the Westetn Watermo boys before you, and *'e don't .like tobe behind. Timb is precious,--(Jmd?en Jour-. Ne1~ither Philadelphia or WilmlnTg ton, Del., I Oss any tazuow1 the aee~ *q9 aa4' WASIXINGTON QOMIP. Going to Work in Earnest-The Our ronoy Question--The Texas Pacific The Indian Bureau. [CORIP3PONVENCH OF Tun NKWS AND JIRRALD.] WASHINOTOx, Deceinbor 5,-The TlouEo on yesterday, the second day of the session. p.is'ed two approria tion bills-the Fortification bill amounting to $275,000, the same as last year, and the West Point bill, amounting to about $300,000. There was no opposition and but little discussion. The appropriation com, mittee will have its bills ready as fast as the House can take care of then.9in the larger ones there will of course bo debate, but everything so far indicates a working rather than a talking session. Even Sena tor Blaine's buncombe resolution as to the intimidation of voters, whIch comes up to-day, will probably pass with little or no discussion. The Democrats will attempt to secure amendments, but seem disposed not insist on them. Senator Thurman and perhaps one Southern Senator will make short speeches, Many bills on financial subjects have been presented, but it becomes cleater every day that none of thein will ever receive consideration until after the fixed day for resumption -January 1. Secretary Thurman prepared and had submitted to the House and Senate the bill providing for the issue by government of certificates for $10 and larger amounts, bearing interest at 3.65 per cent., and oon. vertible within a year into four per cent, bonds. This will have the eart est support of Secretary Sherman and other members of the Cabinet. The interesiL of yesterday's ses sion was almost entirely confined to the speech of Senator Stanley Mat. thews in support of the bill in aid of the Texes Pacific Railroad. Mr. Mlatthows is a pleasant speaker, had a subject just now attracting at tention throughout the country,and was attentively listened to through, out, He claimed that the contem plated aid would result in great and general benefit, would not cost the government a dollar, and was not .a subsidy. The ablest men in the Senate will be heard on this subject. The. friends of the measure are very san guine, and, apparently, with roto, General Sherman and Quarter, master-General Meigs yesterday gave their opinion at length on the subject of the Indian Bureau trans fer. General Moigs is an officer of experience and sense, and has the confidence of Congreao to as great an extent, perhaps, as any other man living. His opinion will have great weight. He thinks the trans. for will be beneficial to both races, General Sherman favors it also, but General Sherman ia not a ran of great influence with Congress. The proposed change is certainly grow. ing in favor. especially since .ecre. tary Schurz says it is now impossible for the Department to take are of the Indians without a great dea6 more money and without saddling upon the country a new and nurge rouis class of office-holders. It is safe to predict that government money will not be spent as loosely in the next few years. as Iu' the past, and that the Secretary will soon be laughed at who proposes to increase the already absurdly large number of officials. REx. SERIoUs SHooTING SonApE.-Pur... ing Saturday Mr. Thomas IU. Kir ton had some difficulty with Mr. JO, F. Berry. He related the fact to Mr. J. T, Dozier, and expressed ap., prehensions of further trouble,s as B3erry, he said, had inade threats against him. To avoid a collision with I3rrry, it appears (hamt Klirton in going home about 6:30. ., wvent a roundabout way, Mr. Dozier seeing him,. and thinking to play a practical joke: uspon Kir-. ton, walked rapidly. tpwards him, whereupon Ktirton Bred his pistoi, he says, in the air. Dozier also fired his, it is said, into the air, whereupon K(irton, believin~ bi eney asreally upori b1rm .e0i~ hslife, fird a decndshot, the bi' passing through the body of Dozioie They were perfectly friendly, and no' one regrots the unfottunato A'aff mome than Mr. Kirton..,Mffo# 2Ierchant and Far'moi RUssuA'S GIr T TO THas AMzasa..The Russian Khillut, or' gif4to .the Ameer of Usbul, was a no~ p no. nificent one. in a#tition o yaz.I ous artlo1es, of plge. is aup4 splendid seV of jsweis ~ opclhy j manufaotiurd by 4w'1 3own F'rench i'F A hadso~b 's~o, with brillbte,- fh & Oz'al?4 souveni, Wn 4 '%qetM