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J~~ ewberriN,j 8.J erIC.. RA E 12.00 PER ANNUM. --------------------- V.vu Kxuv .NJWBL+'R, S, C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH y----___ _-____ _.. A R C H ). RR7- 9 i11an ailkes a Seusa. tion. D. C., March 2"-In ,ort will be found a a wrangle between n, of South Carolina, eed and Long. The iled report of the war )rove of interest to the ders, Mr. Trigg, of mitted the conference private claim bill com ert If. Emery for the of an iron and steel 3ine for the United bill, as it passed the priated $200,000. This se reduced to $63,000. nee report fixed the 100,000. Mr. Springer report, and character. Im as iniquitous. Mr. f New Hampshire vig. nded it and contended im was a Just one. Mr. e to oppose the bill, and remarks created a great itement and confusion. "ed the claim as the most nd unjust one which had presented to Congress. d it would show that a rder to be successful, had , fraudulent and large divide, and to be pushed less, persistent audacity. said divide, he did not vide with coll'eagues, here, itnesses, attorneys, claim. ex-members. He charged ues with laziness [laugh. ith not being willing to the fraudulent claims ited the statement made by ger that when the bill was sideration in the House, emen on the Repu.lican t friends of the claimant, to him and said that if he rmit the bill to go through ting $63,000, the claimant satisfied. It was on that that he had refrained from libustering against the bill. o gentlemen were Mr. Long, qe 9_ and ?M?r .Re o,i. A Rfap for Mr. Trenhloln, The Macon, Ga., Telegraph an(d Messenger says editorially : . Recently a Southern society has been formed in New York city. It had its first annual feed and oratory on the night of February 22nd. After reading the proceedings we are forced to a confession of disap. pointment. There was nothing de. velot,ed of which Southerners have any special reason to be proud. But about the same time other societies were feeding and talking and now and then a Southerner paid for his plate by a postprandial effort. At the dinner of the board of trade of New York, General Sher. man was called upon to give his ex perience of "Marching through Geor gia." This is the General's best piece. He always enthuses over the recollection of the unopposed raid from Atlanta to Savannah, when the swords of his warriors were nightly flashed on the. contents of the smoke houses of Georgia plant ers, when burning mansions dimmed the rays of his camp fires, and when the loot was rich and the danger naught. On this occasion he is thus quo. ted : But, as a man said to me to-night, a man (Mr. Trenholm) whom I re gard with the. highest esteem, "Harsh and stern as that march was I am glad you did it." Mr. Trenholm is a South Caroli. nian and occupies a responsible po sition under the present administra. tion. His words will be accepted by the people of the North as the language of a representative man. In behalf of some of the people of Georgia, . we enter protest. Mr. Trenholm may be glad that Sherman devastated the State of Georgia, but there are some people here who do. not share his joy. It is true that some folks calling themselves Geor. gians, desired to give Sherman a banquet on one occasion and this may be the warrant for the speech f Mr. Trenholm. He may very nat. irally think that it is his duty to be AN INT1E1tVIEWF, WITH NEEP.1 Y. 'Th1e Apbearance or the Person Under so Grave a Clarie. By the courtsey of Sheriff Rowan a representative of '1Le Register was yesterday afforded an opportunity for an interview with J. II. Neely, charged with criminal assault on a child at Chester. tating the object of his errand to Jailer Coleman, the reporter was ad. mitted to Columbia's safe repository of criminals, taken up stairs and through the grated door to the North line of cells in which the white por. tion of the prisoners are confined. Iausing at the iron grating which closes the passage leading by the cells, the jailer called out "Mr. Neely." In response to the call, the person addressed came out of the third cell from the door and came forward to the door-way, while his fellow-pris. oners clustered at respectful distance to learn the object of the visitation. The person against whom this grave charge is brought is certainly one of the last in personal appear ance to suggest anything of the kind. -Of spare build and more than or. ainary height, his head reached al. most to the top of the grating. He has a pleasant face, partly covered by heavy black side whiskers, streaked with gray, and a pair of ark gray eyes, that are able to look one straight in the face. le was neatly clad in a business suit, and, but for tumble hair and a slight paleness, showed no outward signs of the perilous position in which he finds himself placed. The reporter being introduced, stated the reason of his visit not to be the gratification of idle curiosty, but the affording of an opportunity to the prisoner, if he saw fit, to have published some statement of his side of the case. le expressed his appreciation of the offer, and appeared glad to see the reporter, but stated that his coun 3el had instructed him "not to talk." je did, however enter into conver 9'aionwt h as qthers have, but the idea of any. thing like what lie was charged with never had entered his mind. The reporter finally prepared to withdraw, and asked the prisoner if there was anything lie needed, lie replied that his quaers were clean and he was as comfortable as any. body could be in such a grave situa. tion as his, and said some very pleas. lug things of his treatment by Sherifr Rowan as the jailer, "There is one thing I should like if I could get it," he said, in conclu. sion, "What is that?" asked the reporter "I want to have The Reyister sent to me," was the reply. Finding that no objection thereto existed the scribe promised to see to the matter and withdrew. During the interview Neely talked straight-forwardly and seemed reas onably calm and composed, and. his manner and appearance is character. ized to make it diflicult for one to be. lieve that lie is the perpetrator of a crime in the condemnation and ab. horrence of which all must join. 'Ihe trial, which shall prove Neely's guilt or innocence, occurs at the next term of the Court of General Sessions for Chester county, to' be held in Chester this month.--Colun>hi(t Rey. ister, AIwch 4th. An Ugly AIruir In Chester. CHESTEit, March L.-John Iar. vey Neely, a large farmer on Fishing Creek in this county was arrested and lodged in the jail at this place last Sunday charged with ravishing the four-year-old daughter of George B3. Mosely, who lives near Lowrys. ville, and is a brother-in-law of Neely. he crime is alleged to have been 'ommitted on Saturday morning, ieely-having stayed at Mosely's louse on Friday night. Neely came to Chester about mid. lay last Saturday and tried to sell a ;pan of horses, but failing to do so, ie became intoxicated and took a 'oom at the Cotton Hotel on Satur lay night. He was arrested on Sun. Ia jeri jflo Son a A. U. JONE'S, Pul slaher Mr. Tillman's farmers' movement than its enemies say there is it will soon eXpire of pure inanition. If there is any cause for Mr. Till. man's agitation it should not and cannot be suppressed by any amount of opposition that may be arrayed against it. OUR ME;XICAN VE1,11;1tANS. A Partial List of the Survivors of the 011 1'aulnict.to Regiment.. South Carolina and Illinois are the only States which have published rolls of their sons who participated in the war with Mexico, The rolls of the regiments from the other States are pigeon-holed in the war depart. ment at Washington. The Legisla. Lure of Illinois authorized its Gover. nor to demand a copy of the rolls of Mexican war soldiers from that State; and the roll of the Palmetto Regi. ment, giving the names of those who were killed in Mexico, was published ) private enterprise under the super vision of Governor S. 11. Means, of South Carolina. A beautifully framed opy of the roll of the Palmetto Regi. ment was presented to the City Coun ,.l of Charleston several years ago by Lhe late W. S. Hastie, and hangs in he Mayor's office at the City Hall. Application has been made to Mr. i A. M. Kenedy, secretary of the Na tional Association of Veterans of the < Mexican war, for a list of tihe stir. vivors of the Palmetto Regiment, ind of the widows of veterans, but lie s unable to furnish such a list. NIujor W. B. Stanley,- of Columbia, .resident of the Survivor's Associa. ( Aion of the Palmetto Regiment, was 1 Iso unable to give a list of the sur vivors, or of the surviving widows. i Nlajor Stanley is of the opinion that not more than twenty-five of the gal. 'ant old Palmetto Regiment are now ive, but this is under the true figure 1 i8 a reporter for the Suiiy News has .ollected the following list of sur tivors from inquiries made in Char eston alone : COMPANY A. I' 1 ii El ' etc. If she dcpnllids ou her daily labor to obtain her subsis"tence, an female who has attained the age of forty-five years is in a state of lisa bility that wvoul(i bie regrded' as a disqualieation for doing a fair day's work. '.'herefore, the widow of f:orty flve is in the same category as tbe soldier at fifty-five years. If i soldier of the M,xicain N-ar ill. curred a disabilit,y Ihilie sulse quent,ly engaged I in the Con fede(rate service, it would he folly in lim to plead that (isabilty ats a reason for his pension ; but if he is fify..fie years old lhe should be entitled to pension on1 account of his inability to perform a fair day's labor the same ats any other beneficiary. l'herefore, he should not be cateellised on sIll) lects that are a dead-lettLer in this law by the repeal of Section .1,'7 ( so f'atr ts it relates to this law. "Uur Womel Ill the Wa r. The above was the sujclcl xi )y Capt. F. W. Dawson. of t;Iv Nri("a und Couralicr, f'or his cha ste and el( luent address bef'tre te l?i.hth A ll ual Rieunion of the Assoiation (-f .he laryla (1Ii ba i Lhitire- last I'uesday night W(-eVk' T1Ile A(mly )f Altisic, where the reluiion was iel(, was filled( to its Itnmost, cpaei .y by the best people of the eil.. f he stage was 4':uil I Iy tle I il'.s' mee of mIany of the nlost d istil. ;uished vitizens of' Ial.tiore id thier cities, anllt II!f w lll were ilayor I lodges, of lialtiiiioi'e- (e11 3radley '. .Johnsion, Presideni, of the ssociation of the Mlaryland ine, apt. P. 'W. )awson, tihe orator of' le evening, the lion. I1gh S. hopson, Ex-(iove,Inilior of ;( 11tli arolina, I.;x-Alym"' , liow .J111g' 3rown, of Ialtinmre, nd ( Gens. Lriu ble and G eorre I. Stewart. P he audience nimbered1 between two 4housanld people, to whom Capt. )awson, the orator of the evenin. was happily, gracef'ully and e0 luently introduced by G"ell. .ohnsol,n ,ble .Iresidenit oif t,be A SSOCjio). ,aptain Dawson's speech was in wer wy wnrLhy o' the an and the