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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-14

Among all the important measures
for our people, adopted by the recent
General Assembly, none will be more
beneficial than the act requiring the Blue
Ridge Railroad, which is now owned and
controlled by the South Carolina Road,
to establish and keep open for the trans
fer of freight depot at Seneca City.
The course of this Road in refusing to
receive freight from or carry it to Seneca
City, has been very oppressive to this
section of our country, and the act above
referred to will do much to correct this
evil. We regret that the bill to prevent
discrimination in freights did not also
pass, as it was the more important of the
two, and would have afforded relief to a
greater portion of upper South Carolina
than almost any measure that could have
been adopted. The bill has not been
killed, but will come up at the next ses-
sion of the Legislature for action. We
hope every town interested will memori-
alize the Legislature to enact a law to
prevent unjust determinations in freights,
and by doing so they will strengthen the
efforts of the Anderson and Union mer-
chants. A few more acts like the one
requiring the opening of depot at SEN
eca City will soon convince the naughty
South Carolina Railroad Company that
the people have some few rights which
even powerful railroad corporations are
bound to respect, however intractable
they may be in their disposition.
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The Circuit Judges will henceforth be
required to interchange Circuits, as was
the practice with the old Judges. This
is good law, and will do much to pre-
vent fayoritism on the part of Judges to
particular lawyers or litigants. 1t will
also prevent to very great extent, law
yers in some Circuits from talking over
their cases with the Judges before Court,
thereby making unjust and erroneous
impressions in advance of the judicial
hearing. The tendency of the new law
will be to elevate and dignity the Judge,
and at the same time to render the law
yer independent of any petty spite or
prejudice which may be entertained
against him by any Judge. There are
many other reasons which sustain the
wisdom of the new law, as, for instance,
if Circuit has lazy or incompetent
Judge, the people of that Circuit will
not be obliged to suffer perpetually from
his short comings. Where the Judges
interchange Circuits they will be held
more rigidly to discharge of their du-
ties, and will no doubt perform them
with more diligence. They will be COM
PEELED to show themselves all over the
State, and the people will thereby be
better able to decide as to the propriety
of continuing them in Office when new
election recurs. It will doubtless prove
beneficial to the public service.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-14

One of the most important measures
adopted at the recent session of the Leg
islature was the appointment of gen.
eral investigating committee under sena-
tor Bowen's resolutions. This committee
is composed of good material, and we
have no doubt they will bring light out
of some of the dark transactions of the
past eight years. We hope they will
perform the duty imposed upon them
with rigidity, and that they will carry
every man of whom completely in the
Sinking Fund, Land Commission, Re-
publican Printing Company, Funding,
or other swindles can be proved, to the
criminal courts to answer for their
crimes. The subject of bribery will also
afford them an ample theme for investi-
CATION. If they do not find enough to
consign Patterson, Chamberlain, Kimp-
ton, Woodruff, Leslie, Whittemore, Mo-
ses and score of other ex-exalted Re
publican officials to the penitentiary, it
will indeed be surprising to US. 1t is
possible, also, that some Democrats may
be connected with the corruptions of the
past, and if SO, We hope no favors will be
shown them. What we want now is that
the public service be cleared of dishonest
men, and that those who have disgraced
and plundered our State be severely pun
ished as warning to any who may feel
tempted to follow their vile footprints
hereafter.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-14

The House of Representatives, by more
than two-thirds vote, impeached Judge
Wright for drunkenness and other often
ces in Office, and the Senate postponed
the trial of the case until its next regular
session. The result of this action is
that Wright is suspended from exercising
the duties of Associate Justice until the
trial is over, and South Carolina has a
Supreme Court composed at present only
of Chief Justice Willard and Associate
Justice McIver. This is better than to
have full bench, if it has to be dis
graced by the presence of such man as
Wright. The Senate acted prudently in
postponing the trial until next session,
for to have gone into it at this time was
equivalent to granting the offending sable
Justice an acquittal. 1t requires vote
of thirds of the Senate to convict on
an impeachment trial, and in the present
inAamed condition of political parties in
the Senate, the Republicans would never
have consented to convict Wright. By
the postponement, time will be given for
reflection, and by next session convic-
tion may be had. At least, we are rid
of the presence of this infamous charac-
ter from our highest Court for the pres
ent, and hope we may remain so.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-14

The members of the Legislature COM
promised on the pay question by fixing
their salary at six hundred dollars, with
twenty cents mileage. AS we have al
ready said, we think the mileage ought
to have been omitted, as the members of
the Gen eral Assembly were presented
with free passes over the different rail-
roads; and hence when they take mileage
it is simply quiet way of adding about
twenty-five dollars clear to their COM
pensation. The sum taken amounts to
near ten dollars per dayfor both sessions,
and seems rather large, especially as so
much noise and debate has been made
over it as to attract the critical attention
of our people. AS they have agreed to
reduce the salaries of future Legislatures
to three hundred dollars per session, the
taxpayers may be willing to accept the
figures fixed upon without much COM
plant, as it was probably as economical
afgure as could be agreed on by both
Houses, and by settling the question an
earlier adjournment was effected than
could otherwise have been secured, and
of course the State was saved considera-
BILE expense by the adjournment.
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The Supreme Court has rendered its
decision in the case of Whipper VS.. Reed,
which involved the question of the ten
ure of Office of the Circuit Judges. The
decision of the Court which was rendered
by Chief Justice Willard, and concurred
in by Associate Justice McIyer, was ia
vorable to Judge Reed, and decides that
Judges are elected for the full term of
four years, whether the election is for
a regular term or for an unexpired term.
The result will be to continue Judges
Reed and Shaw in Office for about two
years longer, and exclude the pretensions
Of Whipper and ex-Gov. Moses. This
decision will be of great service to the
people of our State in enabling them to
secure free and untrammelled action and
choice in the election of Judges. 1t is
easier for an Indifferent or weak man to
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-14
THE FINANCIAL INVESTIGATION.

Messrs. Walker, Witherspoon and
Meetze, from the Senate, and Messrs.
Bamberg, Colt, Shaw and Hood, from
the House, were appointed as committee
to investigate the validity of the various
kinds of public debt hanging over South
Carolina, and to report their action to the
next session of the General Assembly.
This committee has very important
and responsible duty to perform to the
people-tbo taxpayers of South Caro-
lina-and we believe it will be dis
charged faithfully and fully, despite the
general intimation that the consolidated
debt is to be accepted as finality by
them, and that their only duty is to as
certain the character of the remainder Of
the outstanding debt. No one is author
lied to say this of the committee, and we
think it derogatory to the honor and in
tegrity of the gentlemen who compose it,
to suppose that they will follow the ex-
ample of .he infamous presidential COM
mission by Sinking a plain and open
duty.
The committee was raised to investi-
gate the State debt, and it is their sworn
duty to do so fully and without reference
to what any political party has done upon
the question. They do not represent
anybody except the Legislature, and they
cannot consistently refuse to investigate
every particle of the public debt, and if
they fail to make full and complete in
vestigation of the whole debt the Legisla-
ture will be obliged to reject their report.
The people will not be triaed with upon
this matter. They have heard so much
about the fraud connected with the State
debt that they will not rest satisfied with
anything short of a minute examination
of every bond and its antecedents; No
commission dodge will satisfy them, and
the advocates of any evasion of the in
tended investigation had as we'll cease
their efforts to distort the meaning of the
resolutions appointing the committee, for
the gentlemen composing it will not, we
believe, pursue any such extraordinary
course as that desired.
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THE FENCE LAW.

The law providing for the holding of
elections in the various counties of the
State upon the subject of changing our
fence laws, Sc as to require persons to
keep their stock inclosed, was amended
in the House so as to require the sigma
ture of seventy-fve taxpayers in every
township to sign the petition in order to
secure the election to be held in the
County, and the length of notice to be
given was changed from sixty to thirty
days, so that the time in which to get up
petitions is considerably extended.
lis not necessary that the signing tax
payer shall be gentleman, for ladies
who pay taxes have as much right to
petition as men. We make this state
ment that persons who have gotten up
fifty petitioners may 60 on and secure
seventy-fve at once, and forward them
to this place by Tuesday, 10th of July
next, directed to o. H. P. FAINT, Esq,
Chairman of the Board of County Com
missioners. This is the last day that it
will do to have the petitions reach here,
in order to give the Commissioners time
to make up the order for the election.
We would again urge our people to dill
gence in every township in Anderson
County in procuring the necessary sigma
lures to petition, and having it here by
the 10th day of July next. We have
heard from Savannah, Garvin, Martin,
Honea PATH md Centreville, and are au-
thorized to say that the necessary peti.
tions will be perfected in each of them
The other townships will no doubt act
promptly, and be up with the ones
named above. 1t is very important to
have the vote taken this year, for if it is
deferred to next year, it will be used by
designing men to injure the Democratic
party by effecting a dissatisfaction in it.
which cannot be cured in time for the
fall State and County election. Let US
then, attend to it now, and, in order tc
do so, some man in each township must
go to work upon it Immediately. We
will be glad to hear from each township
as soon as seventy-6ve petitioners have
been secured.
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The Legislature has at last adjourned,

The Legislature has at last adjourned,
and although there are some things upon
which we are not fully in accord with its
action upon, yet, as a session, it must
undoubtedly be considered a success. 1t
has done much in the great work of re-
form, and no doubt at its next session
will carry this important matter much
further than it has done up to this time.
The reduction of taxes for State purpo-
ses to seven instead of twelve or even
fifteen mills on the dollar, as has been
the Republican practice, affords our peo-
pie demonst.ative evidence of the bene-
fits to be derived from Democratic gov
ernment. This immense reduction of
expenses is en- Ugh to induce our people
to have pat ace with any apparent
minor shortcomings, and we believe that
at the next session the reforms necessary
will be perfected. We publish elsewhere
the list of acts passed at the late session,
and by reference to their titles our peo-
pie will perceive that although the ses-
sion has seemed long its results have
been very advantageous. The removal
of the oppressive tax on certain counties
for widows and orphans of persons al
ledeed to have been killed for political
reasons, the fence law, the law requiring
Judges to rotate, the new law relative to
drawing juries, the prohibition of the
sale of seed cotton after sunset, the abo-
lition of the lien law, and the election
law for Charleston, and some other SIM
liar laws, are very important features Of
the permanent work of the session, and
every one of these measures will afford
great relief TO the State from abuses, the
oppression Of which has long been felt.
The acts reducing the expenses of the
government are another admirable fea-
ture of the session, and are probably as
extensive in their application as the
nature of the case would allow at this
time. The session has been sufficient to
prove that reform can be effected, even
with our present cumbrous form of gov
ernment, and we congratulate the men,
bers upon the result of their labors.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-14

Senator Ransom, of North Car olina
whilst appreciating President Hayes lib
erality and fair dealing towards the
South, scouts the idea that it will produce
sufficient disaffection in the Democratic
ranks in North Carolina or Tennessee
to give the Republicans control OF those
States.
- Jarrett's bridge, which for many
years has spanned the Tugalo River six
miles from this place was on last Thurs
day night lifted from its pillows by a
severe wind and set fiat down in the
river. The Bridge was covered, and
ever three hundred feet in LENGTH
70ccoa Herald. =
j. G. Payne, son of Bishop Payne, of
the Southern Methodist Church, is an
nounced as candidate for Sergeant-at-
Arms of the House. He is brother-ln-
law of Senator Gordon, and classmate
of Senator Lamar and Representative
Chalmers, of Mississippi.
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THE PUBLIC DEBT.

The Senate and House finally agreed
upon the following as compromise of
their differences about the payment Of
interest on the public debt, and made it
the first section of the appropriation bill:
. SECTION l. That tax Oft mills upon
every dollar of the value of all taxable
property in this State be, and the same
is hereby, levied for the following pur-
poses, to wit: To meet appropriations
First, defray the current expenses of the
government for the fiscal year ending
31st October, 1877 second, to pay the
interest due the first of January, 1877,
and the first of July, 1877, upon the con-
solidated bonds and certificates of stock
which have been issued under the "Act
to reduce the volume of the public debt,
and provide for the payment of the same,"
approved December %, 1878, which shall
be found to be valid and bona 6de by the
commission to investigate the same, and
be approved by the General Assembly at
the next regular session thereof; and,
third, to pay such other Indebtedness of
the State as may be reported to be valid
by the said commission, and to which it
may be applied by the General Assembly
at its next regular session. Should the
proceeds of said tax be insufficient to
meet all the payments provided for in
this act, the Governor is hereby author
lied to borrow, on the credit of the State,
such sum, not exceeding S1OO, 900 as may
be necessary to meet such deficiency.
It was also amended by substituting
the first of July and August instead Of
the 18th of June and July, as the time
for the payment of taxes; also, so as to
charge per cent. per month instead of
z per cent. per annum on unpaid taxes.
Under this provision the tax will be
collected for the payment of the interest
which may be found due, but the money
will not be paid out until after the Legisla-
ture passes upon the legality of the bon
ded debt of the State. This renders the
payment of the fraudulent debt an i'm
possibility, unless it is approved by the
General Assembly. We think it the
wiser ana SAFER course nOI 10 nave palu
the interest until after the investigation
and its adoption by the Legislature, and
hence approve the substitute, which re-
quires the full investigation of the debt.
To have paid the interest on it was to
admit its legality, and hence it is better
to formally admit the legality of all that
we intend to pay, and then 60 to work
and pay the interest on it. 1t was prob
ably better to collect the tax this year
than to wait until next year, when it
would have been necessary to levy
double tax for interest in one year, which
would have been injurious to the pros
poets of the Democratic party. Hence,
if the investigation of the debt is rigidly
carried out, the settlement is probably
the best one which could have been
made of this question, which has vexed
the Legislature so much and caused so
much discussion throughout the State.
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MacVeagh's Reply to Butler.

Mr.. Wayne MacVeagh publishes the
following letter in reply to Gen. Buffers
scurrilous reply:
PHILADELPHIA, June 6.
Gen. B. F. Butler, Washington. d. g.:
1 fear you have overworked your in
vective faculties, for your long and Ia
bored letter of to-day shows signs OF
failing powers, and will 60 far to destroy
that reputation for scurrilitty which you
have so sedulously fostered. The issue
between you and me was of your own
seeking, and is so plain that you cannot
obscure it by any amount of misrepre-
sentation, however irrelevant or vulgar;
You deliberately wrote and published
concerning me four sheer falsehoods,
without a particle of foundation for any
one of them. Thereupon I promptly put
you on the national pillory, with very
legible statement of your offenses upon
your forehead. AS you have endured
YOUR punishment for an entire week, and
now virtually confess that every state
ment made by you was untrue, l have
no objection to your getting down but
you must not suppose that | placed you
there in resentment only. My chief pur-
pose was to exhibit you as a warning to
younger men, by showing them that in
spite Of great ability and energy you had
become the leper of our politics, by rea-
son of the general conviction that you
habitually disregard the eighth and ninth
commandments. That purpose has been
fully answered by the comments OF the
country upon your character, and have
no further interest in the matter. shall
not even take the trouble TO deny any
new falsehood you may think it to your
advantage to invent about me, for those
who know me will not believe anything
you say against me, and those who know
YOU, of course, will not believe anything
you say against anybody.
(Signed) WAYNE MAcVEAGH.
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appointment of County Officers.

The following county officers have been
appointed by the Governor and con-
6rmed by the Senate:
County Treasurers-Abbeville, J. D.
Perrin Aiken, L. A. Ransom Ander:
son, Samuel E. Moore; Barnwell, Alfred
Aldrich; Beaufort, w. j. Gooding;
Charleston, P. G. Gaillard; Chester,
John B. McFadden Chesterfield, Theo.
F. Malloy; Clarendon, J. I. Ingram;
Colleton, John D. Edwards; Darlington,
J. A. Law; Edgefeld, B. F. Mayes;
Fairfield, James Q. Davis; Georgetown,
IS. Fraser; Greenville, W. W. Gilreath;
Horny, E. R. Beatty; Kershaw, p. B.
Cantey; Laurens, VIM. Anderson; Lex
ington, D. 1. Hendrix; Marion, S. "A.
Mcintyre; Marlboro, J. A. Peterkin;
Newberry, A. B. Whites; Oconee, r. S.
Porcher; Orangeburg, Robert Copes;
Pickens, VIM. r. Perry Richland, W.
II. Gibbes; Spartanburg, J. H. Blassin-
game Sumter, w. F. B. Haynesworth
Union, John P. Thomas Williamsburg,
w. J. Lee; York, T. c. Robertson.
County Auditors-Abbeville, j. Townes
Robertson; Aiken, J. 81. Morgan; An
derson, TT. Pickens; rBarnwell, J. j.
Weissinger; Beaufort, B. B. Sans
Charleston, w. S. Eason; Chester, ]. NJ.
Brawley; Chesterfield, Calom l.: Evans;
Clarendon, Junius E. Scott; Colleton, j.
J. Fox; Darlington, James T. Bristow;
Edgefeld, Joseph Merriwether; Fair
field, J. N. Withers; Georgetown, w. H.
Dorrill; Greenville, l.. Williams; Horny,
J. e. Beatty; Kershaw, D. Mcqueen;
Lancaster, T. F. Clyburn; Laurens, w.
L. Boyd; Lexington, W. NJ. Drafts;
Marion, J. A. Smith; Marlboro, p. P.
Meekins Oconee, Charles E. Watson;
Orangeburg, James Van Tassell; Pickens,
John o. Davis; Richland, j. Meighan;
Spartanburg, Benz. Wofford; Sumter, G.
Il. Noise; Union, D. Johnson; Will
liamsburg, T. NJ. McCutchen; York, W.
A. Moore.
Jury Commissioners-Abbeville Ed
ward Henderson Aiken, n. B. Burkhal-
ter; Anderson, Samuel Johnson; Barn.
we'll, J. NJ. Hair; Beaufort, John Conant;
Charleston, Richard Holloway; Chester,
M. White; Chesterfield, S. W. Spencer;
Clarendon, James E. Tindal; Colleton,
Charles B. Farmer, Sr.; Darlington, L.
w. Cannon; Edgefeld, E. w. Bunson (;
Fairfield, ]. S. Lee; Georgetown, ]. A.
Jackson Greenville, George F. Townes;
Horny, B. T.. Beatty; Kershaw, L: W. r.
Blair; Lancaster, James M. Shaver
Laurens, s. D. Darlington Lexington,
John Fox; Marion, d. Murchison /;
Marlboro, John A. McRae Newberry,
John S. Hair; Oconee, H. S. Vandiver; /;
Orangeburg, j. w. Moseley; Pickens,
w. +. Bowen; Richland, Glenn A..
Kaminer; Spartanburg, John 81. Mont
gomery; Sumter, J. N. Frierson; Union,
Asa Smith; Williamsburg, Mcbride
Scott; York, d. G. Mckinney.
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BIG INyESr1oN.-Lloyd, the famous map
man, who made all the maps for General
Grant and the Union army, certificates of
which he published, has just invented way
of getting relief plate from steel SO as to
print Lloyd's Map of American Continent
showing from ocean to ocean-on one entire
sheet of bank note paper, 40x50 inches large,
on lightning press, and colored, sized and
vanished for the wall so as to stand wash
ing, and mailing anywhere in the world fer
80 cents, or unvarnished for 25 cents. This
map shows the whole United States and
Territories in group, from surveys to 1877,
with million places on it, such as towns,
cities, villages, mountains, lakes, rivers,
streams. gold mines, railway stations, DC.
This map should be in every house. Also
Lloyd's Great Map of Philadelphia and the
Centennial Grounds, showing every house,
street and number. Same size and price as
America. Send 80 cents to the Lloyd Map
Company, Philadelphia, and you will get
copy by return mail.-M Y. Illustrated
Christian Weekly. 43-S
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- The Cabinet to-day instructed
Eyarts to address a letter to Minister
Foster, at Mexico, to communicate the
determination of this Governmentto stop
predatory incursions into Texas. Mexico
must restrain her people or General Ord
will be instructed to follow and punish
marauders on Mexican soil. Among the
causes of delay in reaching an under
standing between the two Governments
will be the translation of Mr.. Warts
English into Spanish, and meantime
General Ord is to be vigilant under the
old system.