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determined efforts of the old "ring,"
fighting for the spoils, backed by the fec
BILE efforts of the editor of the Latsiligen-
Ger, fighting for bread-and-butter. Ir-
mediately after this result was ascer-
tanned, L. V. Wyckoff, the "ring" can
didate for Sheriff, announced himself as
an independent candidate for that office.
MIR. II. A. Atkins will undoubtedly be
the regular nominee of the party, and
as he was among the first to avow hostii-
ity to the ring, he is fairly entitled to
the support Of every man in the county
who is honestly in favor of reform III
county management.
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The line of the Northern Pacific Rail
road between the same points not only
shortens the distance but crosses the
mountains at lower elevation than the
Canadian line, and in this, as also in
the matter of tie snow range, has
great advantage over both the Canadian
and the Union Pacific lines, and g in en-
,eripg into competition for the through
traffic between the two oceans, will pos
sess IN very high degree the essential
element of success.
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REroRM.-The first fruits of our agit

REroRM.-The first fruits of our agita-
tion for reform in county affairs were
manifested in the Republican caucus on
Saturday last. The ring was utter
ly routed The gentlemen who last
spring signed call en- the Auditor for
detailed report of the financial condi-
ton of the county, and were &C used
through the HteItigence,' of getting up
that call in the interest of the DISPATCH,
are now nearly all elected delegates t.
the county conv ention, against the most
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King County Reformers'

VKyHE VOTERS OF THE SEVERAL PRE-
cincts of King County who favor selecting
a ticket for Legislative and County officers un-
connected with party organizations, are request
ed to meet at their several voting places OIL Sat
urtlay 18th inst, to select Delegates to the
County Convention to be held ut Seattle on the
18th inst.
The following are the number CT Delegates
appor,ioned to each precinct.
Freeport. 2
Moxluplus. ....-..-.-J
Nu1tc U
Lake Washington. .......................-5
Squak.
SnoqualnIie. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. .-.-..
Lower Snoqualmie. ......................
b. order of Executive Committee OF King
County Reform clubs
Seattle, Oct, 7 1872.
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Dissolution.

FEyHE CO-PARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE
4 existing between $. +. COOMBS and VIM.
ii. HUMPHREY. dealers in Books, Stationery
and Fancy Goods i'll Seattle. has been dissolved
by mutual consent. Hereafter the business will
be conducted by, ana under the firm name of
PUaIPHREY X YOUNG, they assuming all the
PHREY.
oc9tf.
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this date, by the directors of the Nor
tbern Pacific Railroad Company, to
eomplete the railroad from Hodgden s to
OLYMPIA without delay. We are not at
liberty to be more explicit, nor can We
give the names of informants, but We
believe our authority to be correct
C,,y;er
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We state it, neither rs rumor nor a
fact, but as logical inference drawn
recently transpirel, that it viii be deter
mined within two or three weeks flon
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The South CaroIinian.

Col. J. P. Thomas has retired from the edi-
torial control of the Columbia Phs"iS, and has
started new daily paper in Columbia, under
the name of the South Carolinian. His con-
nection with the Psanir was severed in conse-
q1ence of refusal by the proprietor OF that
paper to publish an editorial on the Blue Ridge
Railroad scheme. We are in receipt of several
numbers of the South Carolinian, in which Col.
Thomas is effectually using the weapons OF
truth and vigilance against the corrupt State
government and its plundering officials. We
learn that handsome list of subscribers to his
new journal has already been forwarded from
our town, which is substantial evidence that
the efforts of Col. Thomas are duly appreciated
I'D this community. We extend cordial well
come to the South Garolinian, and trust its en-
esgetic ard talented editor will receive merit
ed Support from the people, whose cause he has
espoused, and whose best interests will be siren
sously advocated by his able pen.
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The Court.

1T the time we went to press last week, the
Circuit Court was engaged upon criminal busi'
ness, but on Thursday morning the petit juries
were discharged from further attendance du-
ring that week, and required to be present on
Monday last, when the Sessions business was
resumed. In the meantime, such cases as did
not require jury were adjudicated.
On Monday morning, the most important
case upon the Sessions docket was called up.
The State &c. George w. Rankin, indicted for
keeping public nuisance, will be long remem-
bered by the citizens of Anderson. Maj. Ran
kin is the proprietor Of mill upon Three-and-
Twenty Creek, in the northern portion of this
County, and it is alleged in the Indictment that
his mill-dam has created vast deal of sick
ness in the neighborhood. 1t is matter of
fact that the vicinage was unusually sickly the
past season, scores of persons suffering from
ehills and fever, and bilious fevers. A large
amount of testimony has been introduced on
both sides, and at this writing "wednesday
afternoon) witnesses are still being examined.
Ths case will occupy at least one day longer
The Solicitor is assisted by Messrs. Reed &
Brown for the prosecution, while the defence
is conducted by Messrs. MCGOWAN & Moore,
and Thomas Thompson, Esq, Of Abbeville.
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The Democratic Programme.

1t is understood that the National Democrat
ic Executive Committee will not meet in Wash
ington this winter, but will postpone their ses-
sion until after the Republican Convention is
held at Philadelphia in June, when there will
be ample time for all the elements of opposi-
ton to unite against the present administration,
should Grant be re-nominated, and to call
national convention to nominate Presidential
opposition ticket. This view meets the ap-
proval of leading Democrats in Congress, and
would seem to indicate pretty strongly the
adoption Of the passive policy" so warmly
urged by the Missouri Democracy. We think
the course suggested will prove wise and proper,
as there is no harm to result from awaiting the
action of the Republican Convention before
placing candidates in the field.
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Cumulative YOtind.

The subject of minority or proportional rep
resentation, which has been explained in these
columns 81 various times during the lastseveral
years, is receiving large share of attention
throughout the country. Our readers are aware
that the plan of cumulative voting, adopted in
Illinois and Pennsylvania, secures to each po-
litical party representation equivalent to its
strength, instead of the majority electing an
entire ticket and the minority electing none.
The application of this principle is sought to
be effected in Kansas, and proposition to
adopt cumulative voting has been introduced
into the Wisconsin Legislature. The subject
has been frequently discussed in this State, and
last spring it was thought by many to be the
best panacea for our political woes it was posi-
Bile to obtain, under existing circumstances
We believe that proportional representation lis
right and proper, and secures more uniformly
the voice of the people in administering public
affairs than any system of representation yet
devised. Senator Cardoza, of Kershaw, pro-
poses to amend the Constitution of South Car
olina, so as to adopt this principle in all elec-
tions hereafter, and for this purpose has intro
duced the following joint resolution, which is now
upon the calendar of the Senate. Should this
resolution pass both Houses by the requisite
majority, the people will be called upon next
fall TO pronounce their judgment upon the
question, which will be thoroughly discussed
in the coming campaign:
JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMEND
MENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE
OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
Resolrsd by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the State of South Carolina, two
thirds of both Houses concurring,) That the
following Article be submitted to the qualified
electors Of the State, at the next general elec.
ton for Representatives, as an amendment to
the Constitution of the State, which, ii ma
iority of the electors qualified to vote for men,
bers of the General Assembly, voting thereon.
shall vote in favor of such amendment, and
two-thirds of each branch of the next General
Assembly shall, after such an election, and be-
fore another, ratify the same, shall become part
of the Constitution, namely:
ARTICLE XVI.-To the end that the electors
of South Carolina may exercise their right OF
suffrage freely and without undue constraint,
and may obtain for themselves complete repre-
sentation in the government of their affairs, the
plan of free or cumulative voting shall be law
full and is hereby authorized, in all cases where
more persons than one are to be chosen or elec-
ted to the same Office for the same time or term
of service; each voter duly qualified shall be
entitled to as many votes as the number of per-
sons to be chosen, and may poll them for one
or more of said persons in such ratio as he may
deem proper.
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The Impeachment Failure.

impeachment has again proved failure in
the House of Representatives. Whipper's res
olution, introduced on the 22nd of January,
came up for action on last Wednesday. The
resolution proposed to impeach R. K. Scott,
Governor of South Carolina, for high crimes
and misdemeanors in Office. On the question
of adopting the resolution, the yeas and nays
were ordered, and resulted as follows: Yeas,
40; nays, Al. 1t required eighty-eight votes to
carry the resolution, and there were not enough
members in attendance, if all had been in favor
of it. We presume that no further attempt at
impeachment will be made, as it is manifest that
Scott has sufficient number of members under
his power to prevent success at any time. The
only alternative left to his opponents in the
Republican ranks is to go before the colored
people in the approaching campaign, and do
their duty in bringing about his defeat at the
next election.
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Mr.. Crittenden's Bill.

The House of Representatives, after con-
siderable amount of discussion, has adopted
Mr.. Crittenden's bill to provide for the election
of County Treasurers and County Auditors 1t
passed in the following form, and it is hoped
that the Senate will take prompt action upon
the measure when it reaches that body:
''That at the next general election, to be held
on the third Wednesday in October, 1872, and
every second year thereafter, there shall be
elected, in and for each County, one County
Treasurer and one County Auditor, who shall
hold their offices for the term of two years,
and until their successors are elected and quail
ifed."
1t is not often that we can endorse the edito-
rial utterances of the Columbia Union, but the
following article on the above subject is worthy
of commendation, emanating as it does from q
Radical source:
The bill for the election of County Treasu.
rers and Auditors, by the people, is good
measure. All offices of this kind, together with
those of Justices of the Peace, or Trial Justices
should be filled by election, and not by appoint
ment Indeed, there are but very few offices
that should be entrusted to executive discre-
ton. The people are much better judges Of
the fitness and qualifications of the men who
should be selected, than it is possible for the
Governor or the Legislature to be.
County Treasurers and County Auditors
should be chosen from among the best men in
the respective counties; men of intelligence,
capacity and energy, for the duties of those po-
sitions are such as require more than ordinary
ability. Should the Legislature pass the bill
providing for the election of these officers by
the people, the next step will be to fix the sal
aries of County Treasurers at sum not to ex-
ceed fifteen hundred dollars per annum. There
are plenty of good men who would be glad to
discharge the duties of the Office at this salary,
and it would save to the State at least fifty
thousand dollars per annum-more than enough
TO pay the salary of the State officers for an en-
tire year.
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An Important Law.

The attention of our readers is directed to the
following Act recently passed by the Legisla-
ture, and. which is vitally important to all own
ers and purchasers of real estate:
AN ACT TO MORE EFFECrUALLY PROVIDE FOR
THE RECORDING OF ALL CoNvEYANCEs OF
REAL ESTATE.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina now met and sitting in General AS
sembly, and by the authority of the same, That
every conveyance of real estate within this
State, hereafter made, shall, within thirty-three
days, be recorded in the Office Of the Clerk of
the County in which such real estate shall be
situated except in the County of Charleston,
where all such conveyances shall be recorded,
within the same time, in the Office of the Reg
lister of Mesne Conveyance and every such
conveyance not so recorded, shall be void, as
against any subsequent purchas,r in good faith
and for valuable consideration, of the same
real estate, or any portion thereof: Provided,
Such subsequent purchaser shall have first re-
corded his said conveyance.
SEC. 2. Different sets of books shall be pro-
vided by the Clerks of the several Counties, for
the recording of deeds and mortgages, in one
of which sets all conveyances, absolute in their
terms and not intended as mortgages, or as
suretes in the nature of mortgages, shall be
recorded, and in the other set all such mort
cages, or sureties in the nature of mortgages,
shall be recorded.
SEC. 8. All Acts or parts of Acts, inconsis-
tent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby
repealed.
Approved January Sth, 1872.
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An Unusual Proceeding.

The following preamble and resolution was
recently offered by Mr.. Yocum, who represents
Chester in the House of Representatives.
Thinking that its purpose was to reach news
paper reporters, instead of which it was inten-
ded to develope the bribery by which the Gov
ernor defeated the impeachment resolution be-
fore the recess, the members generally voted
| for its immediate consideration and adoption.
Under the resolution, the speaker appointed
three members to investigate the alleged defa-
| nations of character, and the committee began
to work in earnest. The facts of the case be-
coming known to the friends of Gov. Scott,
it was determined to squelch the whole busi-
ness, and on Friday last one of the Executive
benchmen moved that the aforesaid committee
be discharged without report This motion
was Immediately resisted by the opposition,
but their efforts again proved futile, and the
motion was adopted and the committee dis
charged. The chairman, Mr.. Yocum, says that
he has information, which he threatens to make
public and which would no doubt afix the
guilt of bribery upon his Excellency and his
satellites We trust that he will be induced to
furnish the press with all the facts in his pos
session
Whereas, certain defamatory statements have
appeared in the columns of the New York Sun,
Of December last purporting to emanate from
the regular correspondent of that journal in
Columbia, who occupies seat at the reporters
table, corroborated, subsequently,, by an almost
similar statement from the Washington cores
pondent of the New York Herald, as constitu-
ting the result of an interview with member
of this Legislature, which said statement, to-
gether with others, have been most extensively
copied throughout the Union, and more gene
rally by the press of South Carolina, in which
it is charged that undue influences were en-
ployed in certain proceedings upon the floor
of this House; and whereas said statements
materially affect the Speaker of the House and
others, and are calculated to prejudice the
party interests representing the majority of
this Legislature
Be it Resolued, That committee of three
members of this House be appointed by the
Speaker to enquire into the facts connected
with all such allegations, and report the same
at the earliest possible moment-said commit
tee to have power to send for persons and pa
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THE DIVORCE LAw.-The editor of the
Aiken Tribune, in letter from Columbia,
writes as follows concerning the divorce law
recently enacted by the Legislature:
The most practical public measure which has
engaged the attention of the General Assembly
at its present session, and one that is likely to
be fraught with as many important results as
any other that has been discussed since the
close of the war, is the divorce law Just passed.
This provides, first, that when the validity of
marriage shall be denied or doubted by either
of the parties, th Ter may institute suit for
affirming the marriage; and upon due proof of
the validity thereof it shall be dccreed to be
valid, and such decree shall be conclusive upon
all persons concerned. And secondly, that
divorce from the band of matrimony may be
tccreed for the following causes: 1. Adultery.
9 When either party wilfully abandons or de-
serts the other, for the period of two years,
provided, that when the suit is instituted by
the party deserting, it appears that the deser-
ton was caused by the extreme cruelty, OF the
other party, or that the desertion by the wife
was caused by the gross or wanton and cruel
neglect of the husband to provide suitable
maintenance for her, he being of sufficient abil-
ity so to do. The rest of the act is mainly de-
voted to prescription of the processes OF law
by which divorce may be obtained, and to fix.
ing provisions for alimony and for the main
tenance of the wife and children in suitable
cases. The law is a step in the right direction,
and, whilst meeting social necessity that has
long been experienced, is so thoroughly guar
ded i'm it's scope and authority that it does not
violate to any considerable degree that conser-
vatism of the past which has always forbidden
the granting of divorces in this State under
any circumstances whatever.
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azhS7> It was stated last week that the price
Of Mapes' Phosphate had again been reduced,
but it seems that an error occurred in getting
np On the advertisement. The cash price In
Charleston is s45 per ton /; on time, $50. This
IS reduction from last year, and places 1t
s1faao,ng the cheapest, as it has long been among
the most reliable fertilizers offered to the farm
g,commanity. Mr.. G. A. Reed is the author
ised agent for Anderson County, and will be
pleased to give further information to those in
tereste6
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legislative Matters.
The correspondent of the Charleston Ners
furnishes the following items of interest:
THE BLUE RIDGE SCHEME.

furnishes the following items of interest:
THE BLUE RIDGE SCHEME.
The finance committee of the Senate repor-
ted bill to cancel the liability of the State on
the guaranty of the bonds of the Blue Ridge
Railroad. The bill provides that the State
shall assume all the debts and liabilities of the
several companies constituting the Blue Ridge
Railroad upon the surrender of the four mil
lion bonds guaranteed by the State. The treas
urer is authorized to use for this purpose any
bonds now in his possession except the Sterling
loan, and also, if necessary, to issue bonds OF
the State The Blue Ridge Railroad Company
is authorized, if the directors desire, to change
its name to the Tennessee and South Carolina
Railroad Company, and to extend the road and
branches anywhere within the State. All sales
of the Blue Ridge Railroad stock by the COM
missioners of the sinking fund are confirmed.
The bill came up in the Senate to-day and was
denounced as an infamous measure by Leslie,
Cardozo and others. The outstanding liabili-
ties of the Blue Ridge Railroad were stated at
between five and six hundred thousand dollars,
but senators declared that they did not know
how much they were and that the bill, as drawn,
would authorize the issue of twenty million, or
any other amount, of bonds. The bill was IL
nally postponed to Tuesday.
AN EARLY ADJOURNMENT IN PROSPECT.
The beginning of the end has come, and the
speedy dissolution of this remarkable Legisln-
ture of 1912 is plainly foreshadowcd. The
session so far has been eminently unsatisfacto-
ry in every respect 1t has been wasted time
so far as legislation is concerned, for final ac-
ton has been taken on but few measures, and
on none of any special interest; it has been
most barren of news or sensations for the news
paper men, except such as they have been
Obliged to make for themselves; it has been
harassing to the State officials, because they
have been suspended like Mahomet's coffin,
midway between the heaven of exculpation
and the earth of impeachment, and it has been
simply disgusting to the members themselves,
because there has been a scarcity of money in
the lobby, and they have had to get along as
best they could on their dry six dollars per di-
EN-. The Senate is committed to final ad-
iournment on the 10th proxmo, and is putting
through it's labors with the bells on in view of
that arrangement, and the House is rapidly
running to seed with prospect of speedy ex-
tincton. This may be a false surmise after all, !,
but it is pleasant to cherish the hope, and
among the scanty pleasures of this place it
would be cruel to deprive ourselves of this in
nocent hope.
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Homicide in WaIhalla.

we are informed that bloody rencontre
took place in Walhalla last Saturday night, in
a-liqnor saloon on Main street, between John
Petty and John Dale, resulting in the latter be-
ing shot in three or four places, from the effects
of which he died on Monday afternoon. Both
were drinking characters, and difficulty arose
between them several days before, terminating
finally as above stated. Petty was arrested and
lodged in Jail.
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crand CHAPTER of South Carolina.

The annual convocation Of the Grand Royal
Arch Chapter of South Carolina will be holden
in the city of Charleston on Tuesday, 18th inst.
Delegates will pass for one fare over the various
railroads, paying full fare at the place of start
ing, and returning upon the certificate of the
Grand Secretary. It is sincerely hoped that
there will be general attendance, as business
of Importance will be presented for considera-
tinn
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shipments of Cotton.

We are indebted to o. n. P. FAINT, Esq, the
accommodating Agent at this place, for the in
formation that the shipments of cotton from
this Depot, from Sept. 1st, 1871, to January
goth, 1872, inclusive, reached $500 bales. This
does not include cotton passing over the Blue
Ridge Railroad, and re-shipped at this point.
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SNOWY and Cold Weather.

"a heavy snow fell in this vicinity on Thurs
day night last, and was followed by another
snow on Friday night. The weather for the
past three weeks has been unusually cold, and
altogether we have experienced the severest
winter known for many years.