The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-01-15

assigned to duty with the 9th u. s.
Cavalry, coIored, which is now stationed
on the Texas frontier.
IT is reported that Governor Vance
will appoint Senator Mcrrimoa Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of North
Carolina, and General James NJ. Leach
to Judge Merrimon's seat in the Senate.
BEAST BUTLER has written letter
denying that he contemplates intro0u-
cling in the House Of Representatives
measure for investigating the acti1gs
and donss of the Electoral Commission
or that he knows anything about the
matter.
TIE State press is unanimous in its
condemnation Of independent Demo.
cratic candidates. Tie universal cpin
ion is that patriotic citizen will not
become a candidate for any Office in op-
position to the regular nominee Of his
party.
JANAuscHEK, the world-renowned
tragcdiennr, is playing in Charleston
this week. And next week the Charles
tonians will have the pleasure Of seeing
and hearing Lawrenc, Barrett, who Is
hardly the second Of Edwin Booth as
an actor Of the highest order.
4 DUEL occurred near Savannah on
Saturday afternoon between Mcssrs. W.
S. Harley and Robert Fishburne, both
Of Walterborn. S. c., in which the for
mcr was mortally wounled in the right
side. The parties were brothers.n law,
having married sisters.
SPEAKER SHEPARD is the youngest
presiding officer either branch of the
General Assembly of this State has ever
had, and Solicitor Abncy the younGcs.
man who ever held his office in South
Carolina; and both Of them are model
officers. Edg'Gcld should be proud Of
them.
THE Investigating Committee are
represented in getting straight after
Corbin on the subject Of buying his So
called election 10 the L. S. Senate from
the Chamberlain legislature. 1t would
crafty the good people of the State to
sec the old Ku Klux prosecutor in the
pcnitentiary.
Hon. II. NJ. PEARSON, Chief Justice
ofthc Supreme Court of North Carolina,
died last week, in the 73d year of his
age. lie had an unbroken career upon
the bench of nearly forty years, nine.
teen of which he served us Chief JUS
,lce. He was Republican in politics.
Ir is thought By no means impruba-
bic that Honest John Patterson, should
he recov'r from ILL illness, will resi- gn
his seat in the United States Senate,
and retire to Pennsylvania, the place
from whence he swooped down upon
South Carolina at The close Of the war.
The re.isnation Of Patterson would. il
is to be regretted, produce rush in the
rank, Of the Democracy for his place.
IT is said that 0sman Pasha, tho
Turkish commander who defended
Plevna SO heroically, is TO be tried by n
Russian Court martial for inhuman cru
city TO prisoners. Should lie be found
guilty, and shot. and it is made to ap-
pear that he was responsible for the
treatment visited upon the Russians that
fell into his hands, the world will ap-
prove the act.
THE New York World urges Demo
Gratis in the Senate to support the policy
Of Mr. Hayes by voting for the confir.
nation Of his appointments unless there
be special personal objections to the
parties nominated by him. 1t thinks
the surest way to uuild up the Radical
party again is for tic Democrats to es-
pouse the cause of Gonkling in his war
upon the President.
More LlBERIAN NIcTIMs.-Some
eight or ten more unfortunate colored
men came down from Spartarburg aud
the adjacent country yesterday morning
to take passage on the Liberan ship.
OF course they shared the misfortunes
of their predecessors on the same er-
rand. One poor fellow had been swim.
died out Of SO, having prepaid his
passage to Liberia to some genuine or
bogus agent of the l.. i. A. All Of
these people, the others, have Invested
portion of their hard earnings in stock
in tic phantom ship."-Mens and
Courier.
A BILL is now before the Legislature,
which compels the manufacturers aud