The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-21
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COLUMBIA, 8. c., January 19.--Attorney Con
eral D. H. Chamberlain, Esq, returned from
Abbeville this evening. The trial Of the par
ties, charged as principals and accessories in
the Martin and Randolph murders has been
postponed to the May term OF The court for
that circuit
The hall Of the House Of Representatives
has been both tastefully and handsomely deco
rated. The national and State fags--the latter
bearing the palmetto and tho 4crasnes,!.--1
intertwined and suspended over the speakers
desk, snrnounted by golden eagle. The
Aags are about elk feet by four, and the eagle
about four feet. A very beautiful effect is pro
duced, and the Democrats are particularly
gratiied at the intermingling Of the two ban
ners.
Hon. James Augustus Black, for several
years Comptroller General Of the State, is
lying seriously ill at his boarding house in this
city, and his physicians pronounce his recovery
very doubtful. He was recently elected by the
Democratic party in Abbeyille to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the resignation OF Valentine, q
member Of the House Of Representatives. Mr..
Black arrived here last Saturday with his Gre
dentials, prepared to take his seat. He was
universally popular in this city, and his illness
ID uSoply r6SroCt0I Oy I'll ClaSS0S.
During the absence Of Speaker Moses to-day
at the Senate, for the purpose Of ratifying San
act to establish State Orphan Asylum" the
member who was temporarily called to the
chair became so tangled up with motions,
points of order, the calling Of the previous
question, &C., that it was found necessary TO
dispatch messenger in all haste, requesting
the Speaker to return, or the House would be-
come uncomfortable. The members seemed
determined TO test to the fullest the parlla-
mentary knowledge Of the new presiding off,
cer, and with such success as to cast entirely
in the shade the most uproarious meeting Of
"C!d Tanmany." On the reappearance OF tho
Speaker, his emphatic voice and use Of the
gavel soon restored the usual quiet, with only
here and there broad grin pcrceptibe upon
the faces of some Of the wags, who had played
off their joke at the expense of the unfortu-
nate Speaker pro te,,spors.
Senator Leslie delivered another speech to-
day. which Brought down the Senate. His
subject was bill to change the county seat Of
Barnwell County from BarDw ell Courthouse to
Blaokville, 8. O. His earnestness Of manner
in speaking, his gestures, his habit Of passing
his fingers through his hair, and particularly
his CRY ut intervals OF "Mr. President" were
altogether too much for the usual gravity OF
the senatore. His speech was. however, lis
that ali seats in ills s ge os, shoud b be-
located at the greatest commercial centres,
along this railroad and telegraph lines, and that
the day was gone by when county seats were
stream ran through it. Or because the Inlif, had
once turned in that directions his Quill.adorned
moccasin. Barnwell Courthouse, he contend
ed, was established more than fifty years ago,
when there were no railroads, and the moment
the railroad was run through thai county the
whole tide OF business changed itR base. Barn
well C0ni thoase, he said, Is dried up, with NOT
life enough to build chicken-coop. Four
ifths OF oil the active capital OF the county was
dreds or persons who live four or five miles
nearer to BarnwelI than Blackville,s always
went 70 the latter place to tradeg There was
nov now no conrshonso. mo .sail at Barnwell
place, neither had IL increased one hundred
inhabitants In the last twenty years. sAsafor
its central locataonlit was not nearly 30 central
nave the county aeat astab blishod, but WAere he
would say that nearly the only voices heard
were tnose o. the lugsAb aQad druped eds called
bull M frogss he showed M that M he was not per-
bnt that with Q view to benefit sle great mass
Of the people he wanted this bill passed before
the conpty issionorB levied and collected
Look at the question as they might, he said,
in this age II resolves itself into this !:
that commercial atid business s centres
are political centres. and where the stean er-
viii bs the msrssss 81 tic people ana the sls psii
ttcaI centres OF the surrounding country. Not
less then six thousand bales Of cotton had been
shipped, he ssid, from Blackyilie this yeor. 1t
passs sons nS 81 s
through Barnwell County. 1t was true that
there were few flna residences at Barnwell