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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-14
AFFAIRS IN THE STATE.

The Court Of Sessions for this county conf
mences it's session on the first Monday in
February, and the Court of Common Pleas on
the Wednesday thereafter. ;
The Star says that timer is very much
wanted in Marion, and would do we'll there.
The Star is informed that a white nlan-de-
scrption not known-has recently been having
meetings of the. solored people in different
not to enter into any contracts with our farm
ers for the present year, and charging each
person thus advised one dollar.
Magistrate McIntyre's court is so crowded
with business, that he is compelled to hear
cases every day in the week, in order to facili-
tate and dispose OF the business as it accumu-
lates.
!. Great Peedee is full TO. overdowing at this
tin, time; g: -, The x swamp Y impossible at Mars
river, are compelled TO do SO by railroad.
trate for the Mars Biaff preoinct. ''1 n'ak's-
The Star is informed on reliable authority
that w. A. Hayne, cOlOred, who has recently
been appointed magistrate for this district by
Governor Scott, has been officially perforning
Il the duties /: e this important Office without
Messrs Moody b Smith intend to erect 4
trrpentine stili near Marion, provided they
can rent q sufficient number or trees or con-
tract for sufficient quantity Of crude tnrper,-
tine to justify The enterprise.
] NichAnma.
The Columbia Phoenix says: Constable Hub
bard informs us that Talbot was surrounded IN a
swamp by his deputies, and considering that
'discretion was the batter part OF valor, there's
fore surrendered. He states, however, that
Talbot had determined several weeks ago to
expose the whole affair, but was prevented by
his friends. @sea
The following letter siss published in the
Phenix OF yesterday: From political and party
influence, General +. <. SCOTT was eisy,tsd TO
the Y Chief Msgistraoy of the State 81 sonta
dered in the public mind, that his adrninistra-
they are mistaken. Governor Scott ID no CAR
pet.baggeT; II he was. he has thrown ii away
and identified himself with the State both by
interest," and adoption --by having invested
largely In her real estate and plante himself
SP9nh her sSa soil e shsIs TIE gSa n ~
State involved, and began his administration
with depleted treasury aud void or State
credit; her bonds not recognized abroad, and
deemed almost next TO WORTHLESS at home; herf
bills receivable siuggishly circulating at from.
scribed to localities. Governor Scott soor
gave birthto confidence abroad. The State
bonds are now conspicuous in foreign markets.
commanding from sixtysnya 10 sixty eight
cents on the dollar, with an upward tendency;
f eS Soasa no aEs 5asy RE
pose, IVES the masterly scheme or thS Execu-
live in dispOsing Of the Columbia canal. Frona
that standpoint he threw Ont his Atrategic
rope, BY which he harpoonod the golden
whale ,:ls 6 Rhode Island ThSao Gil iI soon
hope, wealth and sparity Ia every qnertsr
of the commonwealth 81 South CatolinA. This.
la connection with his recommend ation t0 She
Legislature now in session, to perpetnate The
South CafAlsna COL thai time -h0ncroA In
ssssuslS NJ iesa1sn snss szoys
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[sPEoIAL TELEGRAM TO DAILY NEws.l

LsPEcLAL TELEGRAM TO DAILY NEws.1
COLUMBIA, January s18.-THE SENATE in ex-
ecutive session to-day confirmed the nomina-
tion of Stolbrand as Superintendent of the
Penitentiary, and Tomlinson as State Auditor.
The bill to organize the militia and the bill
to amend the act to establish the State Police
were recommitted with amendments by Leslie
to the Committee on Military Affairs.
The bill to regulate tho formation Of corpo-
rations was read the second time and ordered
to be engrossed for q third reading.
The Senate by unanim ous vote Indefinitely
postponed the House resolution depriving
members Of their pay during the recess
The bill aiding the Greenville and Columbia
Railroad was passed unanimously, and sent to
the House.
THE HOUSE, to-day, elected Byas, colored
Sergeant-at-Arms.
Ferriter introduced bill to provide for
licensing peddlers.
The House was engaged in discussing the
project of making new county to be called
Aiken.
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$-AEE6IRs IN GE0RG.1A.

A Aasuata g e papers are urslng the building Of
The public schools OF Columbus have re-
tnousand dollars rom The Psaboay j G una .A1ee
The people or AmeriCuE, 9eOrgin. are takinn
steps to bn,ld Q cotton factory ia thet four.
ishing little oity. ss isss NJ
that the Dalton Academy waa burned on
ChristmaH night. S iS y Ss s8 8f
The okarges on cotton srom Columbus ia
Savannah have baen Increased to one dollar,
and 70 New York one dollar and eight cents
Two men at Buena vista laak Alpant twenty
fiye cracks ct each other with pistols ON Tues.
day. Owing to q derange Of nerves. the
only danage sustained vas the grazing ofan
The Hancock Journal says there was con-
sidesable amount ot property sold at Sparta
on Tuesday iass. Tho lands ranged from Oh 80
to "a per acre, and other properly, !, generally,
The Athens Banner learns shat land aold last
Tuesday in Jackson County at three TO sonr
dollars an acre. One tga6t cf Ave hundred
acIroa, With afty acres of bottom Land, sold for
q little over two thpusand oiiars.
H Mr. n. Wa keaton, a citizsn OK Early County.
and, before the war, & nian 0k large means.
comnnitte suicide On tie 28th December. by
shooting hinself thr0ug II the head. His great
loss of property "a alleged M have induced thia
4 Dr. o a. cushman accidentally shot him
seiY III Columbus, s3atnrdey aftsrncon. The
wound "a PAINFUL Though not sosioue. He
was examiniIiE k navy pistpl, as0nO ia hia
room. The ball took esfsct iti the cali of ths
The Anericus ,RepubiicAn STATS that d oners,
Grant hns aert Colonel Baba0ck, Or his ntaT,
To ueOrEia, tor the purpose OK Il pors0nSss Ia
gessigation Of acts of ioleneg aud zrAud. seid
siection ia the portion oi the Ssste Known "A
the stBlAck BELT. y ESEsS
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to be brought up as their own. When the
child was nine years old the father appeared
and endeevored to assert his claims. Judge
Hoar refused to grant him the custody OF the
child, holding, with the concurrence of the
other judges, that where, by misfortune or
accident, q father has left his child destitute
and dependent upon charity, and the child has
been permitted to form new relations in life so
and character, the child should be considered
as emancipated by the father, and the father
cannot assert his legal right to it's custody.
TBOstOn AduerLsser
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CONGRESSIONAL.

Il a IRLEaRApH WITHOUT wIREs-MEssAGEs TO BE
eIsatT UGH THE CLOUDS MISREPRESENTATION
or taoAI4aE5-PAYlNay souTHNRN aovEnN
AENT EMPLOYEES WHO CANNOT TAKE THF
TEST OATH.
WASHINGTON, January 13.-M THE SENATE.
petition was read from Nation Loomis, ask
ing for an appropriation Of $50 900 to complete
experiments for telegraph without wires, or
battery using clouds instead of wires. Re-
ferred to the Committee on Patents.
Buckalew introduced bill amending repre-
sentation in Congress. It provides for the
representation OF minorities. Referred to q
select committee Of seven.
Abbott introduced bill aiding railroad
from the Rio Grande to the Pacific.
Sawyer introduced hill for paying govern
ment employees at the South, who, though
they would not take the iron-clad oath, would
take an ordinary oath of allegiance to support
the constitution. Referred to the Committee
on Finance.
The bill to amend the act relating to habeas
corpus and to regulate judicial proceedings
was passed by vote of thirty-two to ten.
Conkling, explaining the bill, said that there
were cases arising in the Southern States. par
ticularly in Georgia. where the Northern
stockholders in express and steamboat com.
panies wero sued for property taken by the
public enemy, and the object OF the bill was to
enable the defendants to transfer these cases
to the United States Courts, to the end that
they might go to the Supreme Court and have q
decision, whittier the principle is the same as
/ in the prize cases. This principle they were
unable to get any ruling upon in the State courts
because Q carrier, to defend himself, technical
~ must prove that the loss Of the goods was
occasioned either BY the act Of the government
or OF the public enemy, and in the cases that
had arisen, the defendants were met by in
struetions from the judges Of the State Courts
which prevented the jury from giving any de-
cision upon this point.
The case OF Sue Murphy was resumed and
discussed without action.
The Senate refused to allow the rotunda to
be used for the inauguration ball. Adjourned
IN THE HOUSE, the discussion on the subject
Of the protection OF Hayti and st. Domingo
was resumed.
Elliott was seated from Arkansas.
Amemcr.al from Texas was presented, ask
Ing leave to raise regiment for protection
against the Indians.
ButleY offered q substitute For Banks' Hayt
protectorase, providing that the President
should extend the protection OF the govern.
ment over any Of the Antilles that might de-
sire 1t, bnt report the same to Congress, and
not expend any money for such protectorate
without the consent OF Congress-. A loud de.
bate ensued, when the bin and amendment
were tabled by o vote Of 1875 to SO.
The Alaska Territorial bill was tabled. Ad-
journed.
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SPECIE PAYMENTS.

SPECIE PAYMENTS.
The Hon. Thomas Ewing, Secretary of tn,
Treasury under Presidents Harrison and Ty.
Ter, and subsequently Secretary Of the Inte
| rior under President Taylor, has addressed 6
letter to the Finance Committee of the United
! States Senate on the subject Of the resumption
OF specie payments. After insisting that eve
are not bound in faith or morals to make the
funds which we pay to the creditor for his
| principal-be it what it may, gold or legal-tep.
! der notes-wolth moro at the. time Of payment
than it was worth when borrowed" Mr.. Ewing
goes on to argue against immediate specie re.
sumption on the ground that general provis.
ion OF this kind would prove great hardship
and injustice to the debtor GLASS; ruin the
productive class, I" and drive them into bank.
ruptcy. The postponement of resumption by
Law for two years, and then masking it abso.
lutte, he thinks, would produce the same re-
suit in slightly miGgated Degree" Mr..
Ewing says:
Make the greenbacks payable in gold in two
years, and they will be at once bought up and
hoarded by capitalists. To all who understand
their value they would be worth at once as
much as gold, less two years discount upon
them not quite twelve per cent. The debtor
class then instantly suffer loss OF about
tWenty,two per cent. on six thousand millions
oL inaeDteament-a loss oI 81. 429 UOo tai ken from
tne GeDtor ana gwen 10 the creditor class, for
Wnicn IL VIII pe dlmcuit 70 nnd reason other
lahan the true klngly $40 u0{O. The same act,
when 1T should produce its full effect, would
make our NATIONAL DEBT, now equivalent to
III S50, ,0O0vU0 IN gold. rise at once in value to
y. .6ou ,OOOUo0 making an increased gold in
deotedment Of $500 100000, and it would at
once involve the payment OF interest on an
amouns OF additional debt Learly equal to our
,fHool
u.s. o5o to our annual interest. This nSal loohs
like sinking the ship, and I am afraid of it. It
is certainly better to let the law Of trade regu
late the currency than to hasten measures
fraught with such consequences
The object OF this proposed most dangerous
measures is to remove the evils Of depreci-
ated currency-the end is good, but not worth
the sacrifice It must involve. Itwould enrich
the capitalist generally a non producer. The
burden OF the war, which almost; crushed the
nation, has not borne heavily on them. They
loaned the United States very large amount
Of money, each hundred dollars of which rang
ed in value from little less than forty to about
eighty dollars. ut six dollars q year, in gold.
for every nominal one bundled making the
aggregate interest on the whole debt, when res
This debt, IL we compound the interest, which
is the legitimate mode OF estimating it. where
paid punctually (for the interest may be at once
Teinvested and made to produce Interest," y
doubles every six years. Y y
" Thus the purchaser Of our fve-twenties who
/ purchased when currency was worth Fifty cents
on the dollar will. when they become due, at
the end or twenty years, have received some.
thing more than four times the amount Of his
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EUROPE.

PRUSSIA oEJECrs TO Won BEUsT.
VIENaA, January 10. Post, an Official
organ, says that Bismarck told the Austrian
Minister at Berlin that the retention OF Baron
Won Benst ia Office would provoke serious ac-
tion on The part Of Prussia.
THE aREoTAN MINISTRY.
3 IS PARIS, January 13.--It is stated that Rangabe
the present ambassador at Paris from Greece,
has been recalled to preside over Tho ministry.
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With large outlay for new machinery since
the war, it's dividends have not been less than
10 per cent. Its not earnings amount to about
ployed, 125. Wages from SIS to s85 per month,
house rent free-the company having tenement
houses expressly for operatives.
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FROM THE STATE CAPIT.aL.

The Savannah and Charleston Rail-
rond-FeeltnE OF .the Legislnture-Re-
marks OF Mr.. C0rbin ON the Greenville
Railroad agHi1l-Important BILLS Intro
duced- General Legislative Business.
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.A FArHRR's RIaHg8. The Supreme Court
has decided q case or much interest. the point
decided having never before, we believe, been
r0iaed In that court. III @arne In The form of q
etiti0n hy q father for tho custody or his
child, Ia tbs abaences 0s the father, who fol-
lcwe the non. the mother died. ,a1l6 the child
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Jannaryi
FOR RRUNgWlCY. 9

FOR RRUNSyvlCxE. GA.
uK TME STEAMER "DIOTATOR,s -
daes Captain CzARLEs whitley, win touch
at This point every yYeiassddys leaving savannah
Nine As M, and on her return trip Will touch there
on Sisnday kosning. II y. I'LL SsikisJ & CO.,
November a. $s lS ysg Agents.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
THE STATE CAPITAL.

APPOINTMENTS CoNFIRMED-THE MILITARY BILL
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Bull AIDING THE GREEN
VILE AND COLUMBIA RAILROAD PASSED uNAN1-
MoUsLy BY THE SENATE.
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INLAND ROUTE.
THROUGH TTCKHTS no FLORIDA.
CHARLEST ON AND SAVANNAH HTEAM PACKET
LINE, VIA EnIaTO, BEAUHoRr MDNMTON
HEAD,
CONNECTING WITH a
THE ATLANTIC AND GULF RAILROAD AND
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR All POINTS IN
FLORIDA.
.suKs@h THE FINE, FAST STEAM u Il
e PILOT BOY, Captain FRMN PReK, will
leave Charleston ON MONDAY and THURsDAx MoaM.
Moa at Eight O'Clock Returning, will leave Savannah
TuEsDAY MORNINGS at Eight O'clock, and FaIDAx
AFTERNOON at Two O'Clock, touching at Edisto on
THuRsDAY trip from Charleston, at Eleven A. M,
and leaving Eoist0 at Nine A. H. SATunpAYs ON re.
turn trip.
each way. every two weeks, commencing with trip
OF january 2Ist.
For Freight or Passage apply to
JOHN FERGWSON,
& January III Accommodation Wharf.
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BRASS WOR *.

STEAM GUAGEs, GoNGs, GUAaE COCKS
STEAM BIBBs AND STOP COCKS. STEAM
WHISTLES & # Il
GLOBE AND CHECK VALVES. ON. CUPS
wATER GUAGEs. GLASS GUAoE TUHEs
GERcJRy GUAGEs, Low WATER DETRc-
N, TORS Nj
COPPER AND BRASS WIRE.
sANTEsR0N. BaazxLBY Is css.,
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Shipping.

FOfS P4HLADELPFlIA-E LIME.
T. ,Fvs> THE SCHOONER SURPRISE, sY8MES
LIN Maste". having nearly all her cargo engaged
ZNkSNwiu sail in few days. For engagements
sA1assnapP!y to b. F. BAKER & CO..
January II No. 20 Cumberland street
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-19
3AYoNEr CHAReEs.-Th,

BAYONET CHARGEs.-The French
journals are now earnestly debating the
question whether opposing armies fre-
quently cross bayonets. It is asserted
in all the wars of the first Empire there
were only two actions in which troops
actually metal the bayonets' point. One
was in 1905, at Amastetten, when Oud-
inot's grendadiers attacked the grena-
diers of the Russian rear guard, and
the bayOnet engagement lasted several
minutes. The second instance was at
Lutzen, in 1913, when the 18th Regiment
of the Line, piqued that the Emperor
seemed to doubt its proves s,fought the
whole with the bayOnet, without burn
ing a cartridge.
1t is argued that the phrase tsbayonet
encounter" in the ordinary language OF
the soldier. means pressure altogeth-
er moral" and that the shock of troops,
which is ordinarily called an attack OF
charge at the point of the bayonet,
fbayonet demonstration AS an illus
tration of the truth of this statement
the statistics of the u. s. Surgeon Cen
eral, collected from the battles in the
late rebellion, are cited. From the rec
ords it appears that during the first
three wears of the war, only one hun
dred and five sabre, and one hundred
and three bayonet wounds were report
ed from the whole field of operations,
and of these only two-tilirds were re.
ceived in action. Only twenty-five sa.
bre wounds were reported as the result
of Sheridan's many ssfferee" cavalry and
infantry encounters in 1854 and 50.
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THE NEW yOTERs.

The happiest men in town yesterday
were our lately enfranchised fellow cit
liens of color, who for the first time ia
their lives participated in an election.
There were some fifty or sixty registered
and they were nearly ali on hand at the
polls in the morning. There was some
effort made on the part of a few Dem
Ocrats to deceive them aud to buy or
coax them into voting the Democratic
ticket, but we are not aware that they
succeeded in any instance, though il Il
reported that they did in one or two.
AS body the colored men voted the
Republican ticket, going to the polls
quietly and behaving themselves like
good citizens as they are. In the first
and fifth wards the Republicans are in
debted to them for the election Of their
candidates for aldermen, and they also
helped to swell the majorities Of all 9th
err candidates elected on our ticket The
colored voters did well and we ara
not aware that any Democrat objected
to theii. voting or staid away from the
polls because he had to vote with ssni1.
gers" Colored suffrage is e. fact, end &c
Is going to be a fact in, Iowa a. long as
any kind Of suffrage. We heartily con.
graduate the coIored citizens of Bur-
lingtOn who have received and exer.
cised this right--also on the fact that
they proved true to thier principles
and true to the great Republican party
who gave them q chance to exercfse q
right which had been so long and 80
unjustly withheld from thenIs-61y-
tfngtO1 lIOwa) Hoackeye. saSs
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0uR WHEAT FIELDS.

1t is q noteworthy fact that in all til e
States east of the Mississippi river the
area devoted to wheat is yearly dimin-
fishing, and the average product per
acre is diminishing rapidly also. In
some OF the States the yield is so small
as hardly TO prove remunerative. II
offers no inducement to farmers aow in
the east as a general crop. But, ON the
other hand, in that bouRdless section of
country stretching beyond the Missis-
sipi and Missouri .iyers, the wheat crop
shows most fiattering increase, both
in production and area. Ten years ago,
in that section, the yield was but %, Co.,
coo bushels annually now it is 65,O00,-
600 bushels. Less than ten years ago
the country west of the Mississippi pro-
duced about One-seventh of the wheat
crop of the United States now it sup
plies tulip one-third of the eastern pro-
ducts. These are significant facts show
ing a wonderful growth and production
In these few western States indicating
enthusiastically where the center OF
wheat production ten years hence will
be. The averages of this years crop
show a decrease in nearly all the east
ern States, while more gratifying in-
crease is observable in the far western
States. In Minnesota the increase is Ii
per cent. Iowa, per cent. !: Nebraska.
Is per cent. !; Kansas, % per cent. Cali
fornia % per cent.
There is a grand future before the eyes
of the population now thiekly -throng-
ing the lines of travel to the unoccupi-
ed acres of Kansas, Nebraska and be-
yond.
The opening of numberless markets
east and west, by the completion of the
Union Pacific railway, through some of
the most fertile valleys of that State
westward; the pushing of side lines in
to the Indian Territory and Texas, and
far beyond into New Mexico aud South
California, cannot fail to make that vast
section of our country one Of the most
fiourishfng beauty spots on the face of
the earth. We predict for Kansas and
Nebraska a most fattering prosperity.
The right kind of energetic men are 81
lently making these States their homes,
and, with every favoring condition of
soil and climate, what binders them
from making most honorable and pros
porous record.-EE.
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PREPARATION OF WnITEWAsH.

There are but few things that add
more to the looks of a home than nicely
whitewashed fences and out-houses.
Though not looking SO well as paint,
the expense of whitewashing building
is bnt tribe, and is good substitute
for paint. Now is a good time to
commence fixing up the yards, Let
every person read the following, which
we clip from en exchange, and as soon
as possible, make the preparation and
apply it TO every naked spot around
their yards, and the result viii be
delightful: $50
"Whitewash is one of the most valu-
able articles in the world when proper
ly applied. 1t prevents not only the
decay of wood, but eonduces greatly TO
the health of all buildings, whether of
wood or stone. Ont-buildiHgs and
fences, when not painted, should be
supplied once or twice q year with q
good coat of whitewash, which should
be prepared in the following manner :
Take clean, water-tigfst barrel or
some other suitable cask, and put into
it half a bushel of lime. Slack 1t by
pouring over II boiling water, and in
sufficient quantity TO cover it Eve inches
deep, and stir it biisk1y till it is thor
oughIy stacked. When the Stacking has
been effected, dissolve il in water, and
add two pounds Of zinc and one Of
common salt These will cause the
wash to harden and prevent its crack
ing, which will give an unseemiy ap-
peaFance 20 the work; If desirable, q
be4utiful cream color may be commune
icated ~ the above wash by adding
three pounds of yellow ocilre or q
good pearl or lead color By the addition
of lamp vine or ivory black.