The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-25
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[FRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
CoLUMs1A, 8. c., September 2S.-The lower
House, which sits upstairs in Janney's Hal,
wasted three mortal hours this morning, in
discussing the question, whether or no they
should ccncur in the Senate resolution to give
the Co.. ernor power to call the regular session
in Cha rleston. They finally refused to concur
by a vary close vote, forty-three to forty-one.
The discussion was very u1interesting, but
the n,c:.oiony of calling the ayes and noes.
which proceeds Was gone through several tiraee,
was amusiDgly varied by the conduct and COM
ments of little Columbia shopkeeper, who
was very much worried by the idea Of the
Legislature meeting in Charleston instead of
Columbis. He was standing near the re-
porters' table, and it was quite laughable to
watch his restlessness, and the changes of his
countenance as his spirits rose and fell with
the state o. the vote. When vote was given
tavoring move to Charleston, he would ex-
claim, "Oh, mein Gott, vot fool" and when
one against the move was given, he would say,
ssDat ish right, dat ish right" When the final
vote was announced, he grinned from ear to
ear, and departed hilarious.
The election of W. n. Thomas, of Green
viIle to be Circuit Judge Of the Sixth District,
was move of desperation on the part Of the
Legislature. The Office was going begging.
Nobody wanted it. One Judge had already
been elected and declined to serve. AS far as
I can learn, this Thomas is low fellow. OF
whom his. family feel very much ashamed.
He was q commissioner Of equity in Greenville
during the war; has all the little dirty
cases that can be picked up at that bar. His
talents are summed up by one who ought to
know as uor ct preterea, raiha, and he has been
q Radical for short time. The Repu blicans
did not want him, and those who knew him
best wanted him least; but there was no choice,
80 he was nominated by the Republican caucus,
after hard fight. Even then it took two bal
lots Of the Legislature to elect him. The DEM
Gratis voted for Moore, aud the disgustsd Re-
publicans scattered their votes around loosely,
some of them falling on men who are dread
fully annoyed at this mark Of attention. Lang
ston, the colored Demosthenes, wfo spouted
for the darNes here q few nights since,
received five votes. Langston has more white
blood in his veins than black, and il q man of
acknowledged parts. He is Superinten dent Of
Education in the Freedmen's Bureau, Ind has
been admitted to practice in the United States
Supreme Court.
The admission of three negroes to-day to the
bar of South Carolina is an event charac-
teristic Of the times. Ths Supreme Court
which admitted them was composed OF two
Associate Justices, neither Of whom has ever
been admitted to the bar Of this State, aud
neither of whom, without further study, could
be admitted on an examination before the leglt-
innate Supreme Court. One Of these Judges,
so-calIed, is from New York; the other from
Ohio-ne;ther is citizen Of this State, except
under the negro o-carpet-bag constitution. 80
much for the Judges who admitted them. The
Attorney General who examined them was him
self admitted to the bar to-day on motion, he
having previously been member of the Mas
sachusetts bar. AS for the negroes themselves,
have only their own account. According to
this veracious authority, J. ]. Wright, senator
from Beaufort, has already been admitted to
the bar Of Pennsylvania, and has an album
with extracts from three hundred different
newspapers, referring to his admission, which
excited much attention at the time. suppose
he must have satisfied the Court of the truth
of this statement, as he was admitted on mo-
tion without examination. R. B. Elliott, re-
preventative from Barnwell, says that he at
tended the Massachusetts Law School for two
years, then entered the volunteer service. At
the close of the war he went back to Massa-
chusetts and read law nine months, and at the
end Of three more would have been admitted
to the bar, but came down South and was thus
prevented from being admitted. WI. Whip
per, representative from Beaufort, was before
the war in a lawyers Office in Detroit, Michi-
gan, out whether as Office boy, clerk or stu
dent I do not now recolect. When he COM
menced practice in the Provost Courts Of this
State after the war, he was very green, but he
has improved greatly, and gets along tolerably
well as chairman Of the Judiciary Committee OF
the House. All these men ale full blooded ne
groes, with black skins, thick lips and woolly
heads, and yet, in justice to them, must say