Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-08-19

charleston COH}lef ana DGuy NetcS we Coh
tinue to furnish our readers with synopsis
OF the proceedings and doings of the bogus
Legslature-still in session in Columbia
legislating (socalled3 ostensibly for the good
Of the country, but in reality only for the Sc
per diem, which they are so wantonly stealing
from the oppressed tax payers of South Caro-
> lima. Go on, ye damnable freebooters, and
vile usurpers, in plundering and despoiling
this once fair land of ours. Now's yoatr day,
and now's your hour. But bear in mind !:
- There's day Of reckoning comingl
COLUMBIA, S. c., August 10.
In the. House. -Neagles-l the, Comptroller
Geuerat elect the blowing paper read
: by: theiC Clerk - ),
~. .Iyhereas certain affidsvits have appeared
in. the &c charleston Daily Ners. seu1apating
from cestan Rock Hill Conservative Club,
making the infamous attempt to fix on me an
.iafanoas crime, therefore 1Ifeguest the ap-
.noiintnents of "a fCommitIee:of five, with in
..strnetiors to examine evidenced propose to
prodGce aud report TO the House as to- the
..correctnessof the.affiaavits.n q.
l., Neagle in. Explanation, contended that the
rvaf6dayits were gotten mp by parties who
twame1to kitlshim politically, that they pos
,Asesssed no shadow Of truth, and that the par
tieswelld ;assassinate hiniif they dared. He
was prepared to prove the whole thing an in-
famous SANDER. Tho House agreed to ap-
5oint.the committee as asked.
Al, iii1JetbsctgaF effort was made to allow
Sneaker Moses s.. per diem extra from the
reommencemen otthc sessions on account OF
his. arluops labors. - -,
A resolution was adopted providing Tor the
:. election Of eight Circuit Judges on Thursday
49, Sam. Lee (maattol introduced a Ba1to-
rapeal .tle charter Of the town Of hamburg
. which, vas. read aud referred to the Connit-
tee ON Interpretations. ~. -, .
. GE.A q coin mumcstiop was read from General
Scott ANNOUNCING, his approval of the Acta.er
tlorlzine a'loan Of 1926, 900, -.
- m the Senate, the Bill te e.regulate the ten
: ure OF certain officers, vas amended so as to
allow all Slate and County officers elected in
ApEif on JUNG, TO. file their bonds within
7. twenty DAYS from the passage Of the Act;
r. ,sssS- ABR proposing to.tiitet offices only 8ith
persons fsyoraoIe 70 the present State Goyern--
= .mnent' was fsbleda -. =. =
e. The Legislature has been in Session thirty
days, ssy, aiiiFing which time i has passed
TIM tax Bill giicall for million of dollars.
81 The case OF the Attorney General Cham
kberiain against Trhohlas P. Walker, on. a writ
: Of dDo aca1Tante, was brought before Al.
y Willard this morning. The informatioa. sets
= ont that Wal,er was pot Coroner OF Richland
@ County, but Vim. B. Johnson; who unsolicited
under tie new constitution. Walker pleaded
.!t5;' the Jurisdiction Of the Court on three.
: .egfroa1ds; 3 First. That D. Fl. GhAnberlmn:Was.
: not Attorasy- General, but I. w Ilsyne. Sec
ond.. Fiat Willard was not Associate Justice,
y but. that CHEF Justice Dunkin and his asso-
eiatss constitute the Supreme Court of thhtc
8 State. Third. That-.the so-called court has
No ;srisdictfon in Rich1and District, aud there
IS no sl1ch jurisdiction known us the County
1oof Riehladd in Che constitution.
s. The counsel for the respondent are Messrs
Jas, D. TraaeweIl, F. W: Ficklmg and Joseph
ID. Pope. ..,.,f ,.
vi, samgrEtlaIpl moved psFsmptoriIy: to
disAiss-fhe Plea; -.
Is arspe any motion except on constitutional ION
M. FickliDg followed, aud +. addressed the
C0uTC'"AldY IL PiSdSS. 4OuA i!OnOi' =
Chamberlain iinterposed, saying that, taes
counsel's mode of address was ITSELF an adj
mission. of jurisdiction. -. ...t.,..... :.
Mr.. FicGli1g replied that he, had been eda-
Gated in school which taught politeness be;
tween meubers of the bar. BE went on to
sag that he did not otrecdgnize, the persontsit-
ting on the bench as an Associate Justice
'constitutionalfy elacted, nor the Attorney
General as such, nor johnson as Coroner OF
tho District, nor Walker. as, Coroner OF the
County. :. ..p-..s. -.
{. Willard everruled the plea, of Jurisdiction,
on the gfoundthat to grant j: would be to ad' !
nittbat the State Constitution, the elections,
his own Office, and the whole system Of gov
,.ernment was q .nullity. He would hear no
such argument. y. :-s.s;a
- The counsel for, the respondent then asked
for time to argue. the .easeon its merits. Mir.
Chamberlain opposed the,motion. -.
Mr.. Pope: said. it was the first time in his:
career that he had everknown such motion
to be opposed. - sM. ~
Nj. Chamberlain said the community was
in danger, and in-behalf Of good order he felt-
tits his duty to urge the speGdiest .hearingo of
she questions involved. p. -.
= Mr.. lradewell said that, rom the course
Enlargement >1i. counsel and the manner in
witch motions had been oyerrnled, he felt en-
1irely convinced, that the court and the at
,6rney.general intended to. conduct, the case
in dedsnce ,of. all the. rules of justice and
equity, lew or;the, constitution 60
The case was then. .adjourned until to-rnor- \
ron. IT ia understood that it will be carried
up Ia tla Supreme Court. = S..es.
-. ".PsasoxyE," the Columbia correspondent
,ofthe Ne,cs, says '=
The Senate to-day was made 9 tolerably
slfvdly place by Leslie, who with his usual hui
morous frankness, took occasion to ventilate
his. opinions or the subject-of the Land Com
mission bill, which has already been published
and criticised iuyonr columns
The measure originated with one Pardee, a
Negs York specuafor in lands, who arrived
:iu Sonth Carolina during the session of the
Convention, at once threw himself heartily
into the canvass for Governor, made speeches
for Tom Robertson and embraced Gen. Scott.
He published a pamphlet in blue and gold On
the resorfces-of South Carolina, and was ap-
painted secretary.of one of the commissions
created By the Convention to investigate the
affairs Of the State On the assembling of
the Legislature he deserted Wallstreet, hur-
.ffed to Coiumbia, and has since been confor
'tably ensconcea in Nickerson's Hotel, where
the precious bill was prepared; which propo
aes to confer upon two or three indVfdials
himself included, of course, the control of al
ths> s>land in South Carolina that may be sold
atpubhc 'outcry. 80
ssWhet the subject came up to-day, In the