The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-02-15
South Carolina.

South Carolina.
The New York Heraids Columbia
special says that Hampton having
pardoned convict and the Sheriff
refusing to release him, Judge j. 7.
Mackey issued habeas corpus writ.
The case was argued aud decision
rendered by Judge Mackey immed-
lately. 1t holds that Hampton is
Governor. The prisoner was dis.
charged and an appeal to the Super
Tor Court taken.
1t is now reported that one Of the
Republican Electors from Louisiana
the third ineligible Elector from
that State Frank Josephs, has sery-
ed three years in a penitentiary, and
this little disability has not been re-
moved. VIII this fact weigh with
the Eight to Seven Commission2
Ferry is said to be disconsolato over
his failure to win fame as Returning
Board Generalissimo. Poor mani
Even Wells is ahead of him now.
Old Simon Cameron's case should
by all means be referred to the Ma
tional Returning Board, they having
IFefused togo behind the returns; a
decision could soon be arrived atthat
would let Simon out and the buxom
widow of forty summers in.
The Democratic Governor of North
Carolina has appointed several col
orcd men to positions within the gift
Of the Executive. The colored pco'
pie in that State are rcportSd to have
cut loose in regiments from theranka
of the party which for years held
them in a second condition Of slavery.
If the heart of Joyce, the poet, is
not made to rejoice by pardon
within the next twenty-four days,
Grant will be guilty of gross par.
TALLY among the whiskey thieves
He is now, like the last rose of sum
mer, left blooming alone.
Gen. Sheridan said several years
ago, thatJ Madison Wells had nc
friends among honest men. That i.
the way this community divides in
regard to him now.
Morton and Garfield toook the oath
to determine the Presidential ques
ton impartially according to the Law
and the facts, but nobody expects
them to pay any attention to it.
AS the end of Grants term APP
proaches he seems to talk and ACT
with considerable sense and discre'
ton. 1t is pity that he could not
have been made to believe the end
was near during the whole of the
last eight years,
The Republicans always raise the
"stop thief cry when about to en-
gage in any villiany and 50 Wells
called it a Counter movement when
he started for million dollars as the
price of giving Louisiana to Hayes
The office holders heroabouts are
sanguine in the belief that the Com
mission has no right to go behind
the certificate of the Governor o.
Florida. Will they stick to the same
rule when the Oregon case is reach
ed2
One hundred thousand oilice'hold
ers are in the condition of the Irish
man, who trembled for fear that just
ice would be done him.
! --s.------
Only twenty days more of Grant
ism, then listen for the walls and
howls of Postmasters and other gov,
eminent officials, Their days arc
numbered, and they will soon have
| to lSaGomc tenants of a corrupt polit
icai tomb
Petitions are Icing freely circulat
ed, and perfected preparatory 20 an
assault upon the appointing power
in Washington.
Death of q Veteran Journalist,
The Hon. John S. Gallaher, third
third auditor of the treasury under
the Fillmore administration, and af
| forwards for many, vnors n rlnrl; in