The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-03-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Lancaster Ledger says it is ru-
mored that the leaders of the Regular
Republicans in Columbia have settled
upon portion of their candidates, whose
names will be presented and carried
through the State Convention. The fol-
lowing is the ticket so far as made up:
For Governor, D. H. Chamberlain !;
Lieutenant Governor, Gen. j. B. Kershaw,
Dem.; Attorney General, R. B. Elliot;
State Treasurer, G. A. Trenholm, Dem.
The idea of sandwiching Gen. Kershaw
between Chamberlain and Elliot!
The appointment of Judge Alphonso
G. Taft, of Ohio, as Secretary of War
may be considered an experiment Of
President Grant. Judge Taft has en-
joyed no great distinction in the country,
although he is regarded by all parties in
Ohio as eminently trustworthy, having
an umblemished reputation for integrity
and fair ability. He has qualified and
entered upon the duties of his Office, and
for the good name of the American peo-
pie, we trust that he will redeem the War
Department from the disgrace into which
it was plunged by his immediate prede-
cessor, the immaculate Belknap.
The Charleston Me,cs and Courier pub
fishes table, showing the shipments of
guano and other fertilizers over the South
Carolina Railroad since the beginning of
the season to the last of February for the
past seven years. The total shipments
are as follows: In 1S70-18,223 tons; in
1S71-1O,061 tons; in 1S72-16,S66 tons;
in 1S73-23,265 TONS; in 1S7420,5 0,565
tons; in 1S75-19,174 tons; in 1876
25,196 tons. 1t is worthy of note that
the shipments this season are larger by
nearly two thousand tons than any
previous season to date since 1870, and
that in 1871 the shipments were only
two-ifths of what they are in 1876.
These facts demonstrate the lack of relia-
bility in the calculation that the farmers
intended to use less fertilizers this season
than ever before, and to our mind indi-
cate another large cotton crop. Eight
cents q pound for cotton may be classed
among the probabilities" of the next
season.
Pinchback, the colored claimant from
Louisiana for a seat in the United States
Senate, has finally come to grief, and has
been refused admission into that august
body. His case has consumed more or
less time every session for the last three
years, and the strongest efforts have been
made by the extreme Radicals, with SEN
ator Morton in the lead, to secure his ad-
mission. On Wednesday last, vote was
reached upon the amendment of Senator
Edmunds, of Vermont, to insert the word
"not" before the word admitted" so
that the resolution would read: "Re-
solued, That P. B. S. Pinchback be not
admitted as Senator from Louisiana for
the term of six years, beginning on the
4th of March, 1873" The amendment
was agreed to-yeas, s2; nays, 20. Sen
ators Christiancy, Edmunds, Paddock,
Morrill, of Maine and Morrill, of Vermont
(Republicans) voted aye with the Demo
Gratis, and ended the long agony. The
result of the vote unsettles the Louisiana
question once more, and leaves the
Kellogg government again in dispute.
Judge Thomas Jefferson Mackey, of
the Sixth Circuit, is again in hot water,
which seems to be his natural element.
We present summary elsewhere of the
charges made against him, together with
q brief statement of the opinions ex-
pressed by Gov. Chamberlain, the letter
in opposition of Maj. S. P. Hamilton,
and the circular of Judge Mackey in re-
gard to the charges. The effort in the
Legislature to investigate the charges
utterly failed, and the resolution was in
definitely postponed, on motion of Mr..
Crittenden, by yeas 81, nays IA. All the
Democratic members, except Mr.. Fergu-
son, of Greenville, voted to postpone.
The charges are certainly grave and
serious, and seem worthy of investigation.
But the majority in the House of Repre-
sentatives has decided otherwise, and we
presume for good reasons. 1t is notice
able that Gov. Chamberlain rushed with
undue haste to the rescue of his friend
and judicial ally, Judge Mackey, whose
intimacy with the Governor last summer
when Parker was released has never been
fully explained. Mackey's conduct on
the beach at various times has been SUBJ
versiye of the true ends Of justice, and
we regret to observe that there is dispo-
sition to regard him as martyr in the
recent proceedings. i
Richard II. Dana, jr., of Massachusetts,,
has been appointed by the President to
succeed Gen. Schenck as Minister to
England. Mr.. Dana is man of clever
literary reputation, and his appointment
is regarded with much favor in England.
The London Times says President Grant
has returned to custom as honorable to
the United States as it is agreeable to
other countries, and that an American
Minister could bring no better credentials
than the literary reputation of Mr.. Dana.
The London News thinks the appoint
ment is one of the most acceptable that
could be suggested. 1t revives the old
Tradition of honorary men of letters with