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USELESS RESOLUTIONS.

Even the Senate of the United States
does foolish things sometimes, and among
them is the passage of the following reso-
lutions, offered by Senator Edmunds, on
the re-assembling of the Senate after the
Christmas holidays:
Rcsolped. AS the judgment of the SEN
ate, that the thirteenth, fourteenth and
| fifteenth amendments to the constitution
of the United States have been legally
ratified, and are as valid and of the same
paramount authority as any other part of
the constitution that the people Of each
State have common interest in the en-
forcement of the whole constitution in
every State in the Union, and that it is
alike the right and duty of Congress to
enforce said amendments, and to protect
every citizen in the exercise of the rights
thereby secured by laws of the general
character already passed for that purpose,
and by further appropriate legislation, so
far ss such enforcement and protection
are not secured by existing laws; and
that it is the duty of the executive de-
partment of the government faithfully
and with diligence to carry all such laws
into impartial execution, and of Congress
to appropriate all moneys needful to that
end.
Resolued, further, That it is the duty of
Congress to provide by law for the full
and impartial protection of all citizens of
the United States, legally qualified, in
the right to vote for Representatives in
Congress, and to this end the Committee
on the Judiciary be, and it hereby is, in
structed to prepare and report, as soon
as may be, bill for the protection of
such rights, and the punishment Of in
fractions thereof.
The Senate is not a judicial body for
the construction of law, and therefore its
opinion as to the constitutional amend
ments is not worth any more than the
opinion of the same number of private
citizens of equal ability. 1t, therefore,
can accomplish nothing by its declara-
ton of the effect of the constitutional
amendments, and the instruction to the
Judiciary Committee to report bill to
secure protection to citizens in their
rights of suffrage is only intended as
little cheap party capital. To begin
with, the Senate knows very we'll that
the right ofsufrage is now fully protec-
ted and exercised, and in Che next place
the Committee will not have time to pre-
pare and report bill that can possibly
be passed before the present Congress
ends. Therefore the whole proceeding
was foolish and child-like piece of bus
iness on the part of the Radical Senators,
who realize that power will pass from
them on the 4th of March never perhaps
to return again.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-13

The passage ofthe pension arrears bill
as explained in Col. Aiken's letter, which
we publish elsewhere, is little less than
Legislative robbery by which the people
Of the United States will be required to
pay out an enormous sum Of money. 1t
only refers to pensions OF federal soldiers
in tho late war, and gives them back pay,
besides opening the lists for names which
were not presented under the bill as it
originally passed, The desire to prove its
loyalty to the Union induced both. .,polit-
ical parties to vie with each other in
their efforts to pass the bill, and by such
course they have both proven that they
are great deal more loyal to themselves
than to The Union. It is humiliating to
see two great political parties lacking in
the moral courage to stand up for the
rights of the whole people because each
is afraid that the other will gain few
votes by different action. II the coun-
try could swap of the politicians for
statesmen it would be a grand exchange.
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The city debts Of number of South

The city debts of number of South
sern cities are SO enormous that their citi-
gems feel that it will be utterly impossi-
BILE for them ever to meet them. The
city of Memphis, Tennessee, has had its
charter repealed in order to avoid the
payment of the city debt, and in future
viii have district government under
the State authorities. The creditors,
however, have instituted suits in the
United States Court to compel the pay
5msnt of the debts, and therefore an end
lei,s litigation is in prospect. The city of
Macon, Ca, is also overwhelmed with an
immense city debt, which it has not pro-
yiaed for the payment of the interest
,lr;cn, and. its creditors have instituted
proceedings for the appointment of a
Receiver to take charge Of the affairs OF
the city, and for an injunction against
the levy or collection Of taxes by the
city government This is novel pro-
scseding, but in these days of wonderful
surispruderce the application may be
rrasnted. I :. There are q number Of other
cites ID very nearly IS bad 3 situation.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-13

Dispatches from Washington on the
3rd inst. state that the Democratic caucus
has agreed to support bill abolishing
the national banking system, and re-
placing national bank notes with green
backs. This is in accordance with Sen
ator NJ. O. Buffers financial views, and,
if coupled with his idea of repeating the
tax on State banks, will prove a great
relief to the country. The national bank
act was war measure, the object Of
which was to place the whole currency
of the Union under the control Of the
administration. 1t has done this, and
the effect all over the country has been
to secure banking monopolies, which, in
the larger cities, have been the powerful
allies and abcttors of Republicanism in
order to keep in power the party which
has given to them their privileges, and
continue the system which has to so large
an extent centralized the money power
of the country. The system is moreover
a very burdensome one to the country,
for the basis upon which these banks are
established is capital invested in United
States bonds to secure their circulation,
which gives to them interest on their
bonds which represent their capital stock,
and the further privilege Of loaning their
circulation on interest by which double
income is derived from them. These
things, with the protection guaranteed
against State banks, has given to national
banks q monopoly of the business
throughout the entire country. The pro-
posed change would be decidedly bene-
fetal to all parts of our country. in the
South the injury would be very little to
the banks themselves, because they could
change and conduct their business as
State bankers, and still be free from any
over competition, for there is no money
in the country with which to start new
banks. 1t is in the large Northern and
Western cities that the most important
changes would take place.
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The Democratic caucus in Washington

The Democratic caucus in Washington
has at last summoned sufficient nerve to
offer pitched battle with the Republi-
cans over the test oath for United States
jurors, and will amend one of the impor-
tant appropriation bills so rs to include
a provision abolishing the right of the
District Attorney or Of the presiding
Judge in the Federal Courts to require
the test oath of jurors in any case. Tho
present law is most iniquitous one,
which was repealed several years ago,
but again slipped into the revised sta
tutes so as to raise the question of its
validity, and while it is generally be-
lieved to be imperative the Democrats
in Congress intend to make it SO beyond
a doubt. The law, if enforced, would
debar evory man who fought in the Con-
federate war, or sympathized with the
South, from serving on juries, which
would leave them to be composed of
negroes and young men who have grown
up since the war. It's enforcement would
give the District Attorneys most ex-
cellent opportunity to pack juries for the
trial of political or other prosecutions,
and would be used to defeat justice and
crafty personal revenges by most of the
men who fill these positions in the South.
The propriety of the repeal cannot for
an instant be doubted by any impartial
man, and although it is bad policy, gen.
orally speaking, to tack general legisla-
ton on to appropriation bills, in this
instance the end justifes the means, and
the Democrats in Congress will be sus-
tained by public sentiment in removing
from our statute books such an unjust
and infamous law.
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The whipping-post is proposed in q
number of States, and will almost surely
bs adopted in several of them. In Vir-
ginia, Delaware and North Carolina it
has proven very efhcacious as 8 punish
mont for and preventive of crime. 1t is
8 sheap, severe and certain punishment,
glsich makes the rogue suffer for his
crimes, and does not burden the State
With the expense Of boarding and cloth
inn Ss the criminal, It ought to be- adopted
eYeTyTner6. - ~ 4
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The astalwartsD are coming back TO
poSer Conkling, Blaine, Cameron, Lo-.
gan, Carpenter, zack Chandler and other
conspicuous Grantites, and bloody-shirt
Republicans will control their party in
the nsxt Senate. It i even reported
that Senator David Davis is to be given
tbs Berlin mission to make room for
0glesby from Illinois. The great influx
of Grants friends IN the Senate will
alarm and iisgust the country SO much,
that there RilIbe very little disposition
to give Grlnt,. the great political bum
mer, another term of the Presidency.
: His riendsiin advancing their OWL in
tsreMs hare destroyed his prospects. }
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The following Sub-Granges are clear
on my books to the 91st December, 1878,
viz: Nos. II, 141, 154, 2l4, 2l5, ZIG,
25l, 266, 271, 3a9, $40, 242, 295, ITS, 300.
The following are delinquent one quar-
ter: 176, 235. Delinquent two quarters :
21S, 264, 364. Delinquent three quar-
tiers: 263, 27S, 800. Delinquent four
quarters: 1T, 2l2, 294. Delinquent six
quarters: 272. Delinquent twelve quar-
ters 343.
J. w. NORRIS, Sec. P.G.P.H.
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The Supreme Court of the United
states has reversed the decisions of the
State Courts in the case of the Comp
troller-G General against the Atlanta and
Richmond Air Line Railroad Company
TO decide the States right to tax the
property Of this Road situated in South
Garolins. Tne State Courts decided
against the States right to tax, while the
United States Supreme Court has:held
that there was no exemption from tx. tx
4 tion in the original charter a subsequent
graut is liable to. repeal, and that the
RoaSis now liable to'State, County and
Municipal taxation. The effect of this
decision viii be to add very materially
to the taxable properly Of the counties
through which the Road passes, and to
this extent it will be relieft to the other
property in those counties which are now
80 grieyonsly taxed to pay interest on
bonds subscribed to this Road.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-13

Senator Jones, of Nevada, has intro
dnced q bill in the United States Senate
giving any railroad company the right to
.,sSnstruct 4 telegraph line along its road,
lind to connect with the lines of other
.i-oads, 10 as to form continuous lines for
The transmission of messages between
any points in the United States. His
bill also prohibits telegraph companies
from erecting their lines along railroad
lires without the consent of the railroad
company. This is good bill and should
be adopted, thereby securing competition
gtos considerable extent with the present
chartered companies, which are huge
inonopolies. The passage of this bill
would save thousands of dollars to the
business men Of the country.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-13

The Executive Committee of Pomona
Grange are requested to meet at John B.
Watson's store on Monday, the 18th inst,
at 10 o'clock. Members please attend
promptly.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-13

Governor Marks, of Tennessee, advo-
Gates a reduction of expenses of The State
government, and, to prove his sincerity,
proposes to reduce his own salary to one
fiiousIand dollars. This is the way for
men 10 advocate reform, and if we had a
fsw such in South Carolina the effect
woul,i be to speedily secure a return to
oisss Jshn, expenses in all ofthe depart
ments of the State government. Is
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-13
THURSDAY MORNING. FEB. 70, 1879.

The State Of Tennessee owes tie State
Of Maryland, and it is said the latter will
sac i;er in the Federal Courts. After
sae gets judgment, however, ahe will
have seriers trouble to get her money.
Il win be.the first instance of such a case,
and many intricate and interesting legal
Questions will arise if the suit is entered.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-13

Kingstree Star: Kingstree has had
its fourth annual incendiary fire. 1t
occurred on Sunday last, destroying the
store and stock of the Messrs. Benjamin,
valued at $4,000.
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GRANGE pgPARTMEHg.

Under the Supervision OF the Executive
Committee of Pomona Grange.
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J. W. NORRIS, Sec. P.G.P.H.
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ana WnatcVer IS CalCuiateu W CiiPPie tnio
industry is "a blow aimed at the best in
interests of the Commonwealth" "The
.monopolists who couspired to commit
this wrong are enemies of the farming
community" because they sought to
oppress those engaged in agriculture to
an unjustiiiable degree to promote their
own interests, and it is not surprising
that meeting of agriculturalists should
pronounce them "a monopoly which
seeks selfaggrandizement at the expense
of the rights of others, and that it should
be "rooted out of existence" The man
ufacturers who sought to create this mo-
nopoly have certain chartered rights
given them by the people of this State,
not simply for the profit of those obtain
ing them, but also for the mutual benefit
of the whole people of the State, and one
of the implied conditions of every charter
is that the privileges granted therein
shall not be used for the oppression Of
the Commonwealth which grants them.
In this case the farmers of Anderson
County expressed the opinion that these
charter rights had been so used, and
that the parties offending ought to have
their power to oppress taken away from
them by the same sovereign power which
granted it. The companies themselves
have virtually plead guilty to the charge
of attempting to oppress the people, for
they have receded from their original
prices by fifty pounds of lint cotton on
each ton of fertilizer, which shows that
they know the price they asked was too
high. The Greenville resolutions only
express the opinion which the farmers of
that County entertain upon this subject.
The Meus and Courier shows an utter
lack of acquaintance with the feelings
and wants of the farmers of South Caro-
lima when it charges these sentiments OF
indignation to politicians. 1t is the
voice of the people, class for whom our
naughty contemporary may yet learn
that some consideration even from mo-
nopolists is necessary.
The courze Of the Nesrs and Courier in
llugging the bond question into every dis
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-10

MacMahon. She used to walk about
Paris leaning on the arm of her chill.
dren's head govsrneSs, a tall, gaunt,
bolt-up-right lady, wearing blue spec
tacles. With the Grand Ducal chill
dren her royal highness spent a sum
mer at Trouville. Orders were given
to perceptors and nursery maids to in
fict a minimum of chastisements and
seedlings on their youthful charges.
The eason was the Grand Duchess,
whose husband had Just succeeded
his uncle, had observed in her sons
and daughters a spirit of animosity
towards this country, which grieved
her. She wanted to root it out Of
their breasts by rendering all their
childish associates with France de-
lightful. Truly, her short life was
angelic, and her end was peace.
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THE PRINCESS ALICE.
Some "Reminiscences Of the Royal Lady
who has Lately Died.

A correspondent of the New York
Tribune writing from Paris under date
Of December 18th, devotes a large
portion of his letter to the late Prin-
cess Alice. Among ether things he
says:
No fight Of philosophy was too high
for her TO follow ; and she was wholly
free from Intellectual pride and the
harshness that comes so often of
women breaking their heads against
metaphysical systems. When the
princess wanted to digest an abstruse
work she sat down to the piano or
organ and let her fingers wander over
the keyboard. She had the sensibili-
ties of a musician, a skilled hand and
a cultivated ear. Her thoughts while
she played took order, shape and wing.
The deceased English princess, to
whom an old English name was given
at the baptismal font, was the Lady
Bountiful Of her little state. She
founded orphanages and a training
school for domestic servants, which
she frequently inspected herself. The
lark, which she made her emblem,
lived, she was prone to reflect, on the
ground and obscurely. 1t taught that
in the discharge Of homeIy duties we
find the strength, the knowledge and
the inspiration to ill the air with joy
GUS and sou -stirring music. How the
Princess Alice was the solace Of her
father, the prince consort, in his dying
hours is known to the world. She, BY
her s%isterly care, preserved the life Of
the Prince Of Wales when he was
stricken with typhoid fever SIX years
ago. II was in watching by the bed
side Of her husband and five children,
when suffering from diphtheria, that
she caught the malady which proved
fatal to her, and lost the strength
which might have enabled her to
resist it. The fact of her
death happening on the l4th Of De-
cember, the anniversary Of the Prince
.Consorts death, cannotfail to intensity
the gloom Of Queen Victoria. The
Russians have a superstition that in
lamenting long the dead we trouble
their spirits and offend Divine Provi
deace, who, on the anniversaries Of
the days on which he called their
spirits TO him, sends some punishment
to teach us the sinfulness Of nursing
grief to the detriment of the duties Of
our lot and station in life. 1t would
be well for England's queen we're this
belief, which, like all superstitions,
overlies a truth, impressed on her
majesty by the Duchess Of Edinburgh.
Providence acts toward us as we do
toward weeping children. When they
cry oyermuch, we teach them TO dry
their tears by giving them cause to
weep.
Princess Alice visited Paris in the
summer Of 1877. She lodged at the
Hotel du Rhin. When here she called
on NJ. Luttre. He was not in town,
but she was taken by a literary friend
Of hers, who accompanied her through
bis sitting-room, study and library.
Her royal highness was the FIRST lady
of a royal house isabella Of Spain
and the Orleans and Nsapolitan Bour-
bons excepted to call on Marechele
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better not delay it, for Mr.. 0'Brier
was liable TO drop of at any time, anC
could not possibly survive but a few
days at most.
On the seventh day Of their stay
Mr.. Waters brought them a letter
about B o'clock in the evening, and
being familiar with Smiths handwrit.
ing, knew 1t was from him, aid he
knew, too, that they had anxioRsly e.
pected this letter. Handing the letter
to the woman, Waters remarked
Here's a letter from lawyer Smith"
That same night about s O'Clock Mr..
Waters was called into their room and
told by them that they would leave on
the 3 o'clock train next morning that
they had received a letter stating that
they must be In New YORK with Mr..
lO'Brien by the 10th, and that they
had ordered the carriage to convey
them to the depot Mr.. Waters thinks
it was a premeditated affair, as no one
had been inor out of his house since he
came with the letter, about 5 O'Clock.
Previous to their leaving they gave
Mr.. 0Brien a strong egg-nog, SOM
posed of three kinds ofwhisky. The
poor fellow was drunk with the
draught, and by the time they reached
the depot he had to be, or should have
been, redressed. There we're no male
attendants to help them nurse him,
and so they left.
Consumption had 50 reduced Mr..
O'Brien that had it been made known
that it was the intention to 90 with
him p~erforce they would have been
detained. But Father White did not
learn of the absconding parties, with
their helpless invalid, until they had
safely made their way of. They left
without settling their board bill even.
The women promised to write Mr..
Waters. Mr.. O'Brien also promised
to write, and told Mr.. Waters that he
should also write Father White, but
to the present date not a syllable has
been heard of their whereabouts.
People here are greatly puzzled as to
thC ObJOOb VI bdhluB DIl6u away.
1t is the opinion of those acquainted
with the circumstances, that Mr..
O'Brien is in bad hands, and there is
no hesitancy in saying the object was
to secure p. S. 0Brien's signature, as
that is the only signature by which
the 100000 coming to him can ever
be secured. The indifference of the
women does not accord with the ac-
tions of a wife and daughter; their
sudden appearance and departure, as
we'll as that while here they did not
want to be known, is a queer chapter
in the history.
1t is alleged that Mr.. 0'Brien has
been kidnapped by the women and
to sign papers setting aside the
will Of his brother, and that his part
of the estate will be used by the
sharpers, who, no doubt, had the
whole thing mapped out before
0'Brien ever dreamed of seeing his
dead wife.
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SOUTHERN EDUCATION.
Encouraging Reports from ali the States.

New Orleans Democrat
A most fattering report comes from
all the Southern States in the matter
of public education. There eye
have been so many schools open in
South Carolina as at present, and the
attendance ofcolored children at these
is extraordinary. The same can be
said of Alabama, where, as some of
the papers in the central portion of
the State declare, the negroes show
more disposition to take advantage of
the public schools than the whites. We
all knew how it isGn this State. I'm
der Radical rule the schoolfunds were
used almost wholly in politics. The
ability of the Radicals to hold on to
our State government as long as they
did was due largely to our school fund,
which always furnished them with
campaign funds. All is changed to-
day. In the last campaign the Demo
cratic leaders promised the negroes
schools, and they have nobly kept their
pledge. This is appreciated by our
colored people, who are wisely taking
advantage of the opportunity offered
them to secure an education.
1t is impossible to estimate the i'm
proYement among them just yet; the
new regime has not been in power long
enough for that. The school returns
of a neighboring State, however
Georgia-enable us to see how much
the Southern State Democratic gov
ernments have done for the negroes in
the way of education. In 1874, some
short time after Radical rule had
ended in Georgia, there were 1856, ga
educatable persons in that State be-
tween the ages Of ten and eighteen
unable to read and write, most of them
ignorant negroes. To-day there are
only $3.50; hat is, under, a Demo-
cratic State government, 00,614 ig-
norant persons, mostly negroes, have
been taught to read and write.
This is what the Republicans never
did for the negro. They founnd him
Ignorant and uneducated, but they
never attempted to improve him. The
Southern Democrats are doing this to-
day. Is there any wonder that the
negro has ceased to vote the Republi-
can ticket?