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CHAMBERLAIN, CORBIN, fc CO. r~ ——~ -4- • * - Util U|mui the Con nplracy to Carry larolliiH for llayaa. ■ (Jorrtepondenee Xeic 1 ork <St*a. H Chahlkston. S. U.. -Jan. W.—During the ttfrnpajgn of last fall there was a dc tfrininea effort upon the part ol the white people of this State to enoire every exhi bition of violence upon the part of the ne groes. They regarded endurance as poli tic, and acted in accordance with advice from the national leaders of the Democratic partv. This policy, however, was distaste ful to the Republicans. It took away the breeze upon which they sailed. Accord ingly it was necessary for them to raise the j wind from the recesses ot then o\\ n Himg- | inations, as they had oftentimes done be- j l\2e. Murders, inas.-acrcs, aud outrages upon negroes bv the Democrats had to be invented and telegraphed throughout the land, id order to tire the Republican heart. Accordingly, the Iliunhvtrg horror and El lcnton massacre were seized upon and col ored to suit the demands of the situation. „ Three courts at Aiken, the county scat where the Hamburg affair should be tried, have come and goue, and the Republican solicitor, with a Republican Judge on the bench, has each time continued the cases, though the accused were ready for trial. One of the Tnited States Deputy District [Attorneys investigated the Fllenton massa cre and gave his opinion that there was Biothing political in it, and that the white people were in the right. Two courts have passed in Barnwell County, where Ellcu ton is situated, and the same solicitor and J udge are not ready to try the cases. In fact, no bill has been found against the accused parties. At the late session of the Senate Inves tigating Committee in Columbia, Judge Thompson JL Cooke was called upon for his testimony, and threw a great deal of light upon the bloody coloring these trage dies received during the campaign. Judge Cooke is a Republican. He was elected to iiill the place of Judge James 1,. Orr when she was sent as Minister to the Russian [Court, and was re-elected about a year ago. [The Judge was an ardent advocate of [chamberlain until his fraternizatian with [the worse elements of the Republican party in the State, and then the J udge de clared for llayes and Hampton. When, however, the Federal troops were poured into the State, and it became evident that I Hayes was to be elected by their help, the | Judge declared for Tilden. Hampton was nominated before Chamberlain, and it was liu this interval, while Cooke was still an [ ardent Chamberlain mail, ami in full fellow ship with the wirepullers of the Republi can party, Unit lie was taken into their confidence. He said that United States District At j torney Corbin informed him that something must be done by the Republican party to break the enthusiasm of the white people .JA-r Jlanu.ton oy tfiey Uotjpat .hj party. Tnis could only be done by bring ing llnited States troops into the State; and for that purpose cases had to be made ; for the United States Court, and some ne [ groes had to be killed. He further stated that the Hamburg horror and the Ellenton | massacre followed soon after this conver ! sation. Corbin lias for years been known as “ Ku Klux Korbut,"’. having made a specialty of propogating this class of" outrage, lie lately pulled the last apple off the Repub lican Christinas tree in tiiis State by having himself elected a so-called United States Senator by" the spurious Legislature. No doubt, from his previous character, his of ficial position, and his political aspirations, he was in a position to effectively set in motion the conspiracy indicated in his alleged declarations to Judge Cooke. In fact, without this direct testimony of the latter, it is asserted that sufficient circum stantial evidence could he brought to bear to convict Corbin of the conspiracy before any intelligent jury of the country*. His motive is plain, his accusations against the Democratic leaders false, and the witnesses whom he used were notoriously unworthy of belief. Corbin being apprised by the Republic#! members of the committee of what CooijU had sworn, appeared before the committei aud under oath denied the charge. He sail Cooke's character was bad. and that m should not be believed upon’oath. •Judge Mackey, however, came to the rescue of Cooke. The Judge is a Repub lican who voted for Hampton, fie testilie i before the committee that Judge Cooke ipi i informed him of the conspiracy at the t'irihe of this Corbin conversation, immediately Chamberlain, Corbin, and their gang gath ered to swear that these Judges, whoa they had placed upon the bench, were of such a notoriously bad charrcter that they could not be believed upon their oaths. Rut they desisted from this effort wlen they were notified that their own charac ters would be spread upon the records as depicted by the testimony of clouds of re spectable witnesses. Judge Cooke, however, smarting under the denial of Corbin and the personal at tack .of Chamberlain, presented the whde ?ang to the Grand Jury of his first Cirmjt hurt at Abbeville Tor indictment. He charged them all with a treasonable.con spiracy against the State, in which't>ey had levied war upon the peaceable citizms thereof by brjnging armed soldiers nto their midst with a hostile intent. Fie iir ther charged Chamberlain with line! in publishing false, scandalous, and malicous statements concerning the peace of puth Carolina, to the great detriment of hei cit izens. as an inducement to the Presided of the United States to send the troops wuich Chamberlain required in said libelous jub lication. The Grand Jury have the muter under consideration, and. should they find a hill, Judge Cooke says be will iss,u his bench warrant and bring Chamberlan and his accomplices into court for immdiate trial. Judge Mackey also became indignmt at his propostM treatntant. ahdnotiHed <ham beriain unless he relinquished his jreten sions as Governor, he (Mackey) wtuld on j $1.50 A VEAR. the Ist of February publish ccrtiin papers which would consign the Governor to the penitentiary. It is generally believed t! at Mackey lias such papers in his possession. I pun opening his court in Chester, lie tur ther gave notice that any person recogniz ing Chamberlain as the Governor, by pro ducing a commission from him before the Court, would be committed for a contempt of court. , , , , The so-called Governor is also oeset ny other Judges, who question his immunity from arrest. There is Judge Carpenter, before whom one Peter Smith, a peniten tiary convict pardoned by Chamberlain, lias’ been brought upon habeas corpus, after the refusal of the penitentiary keeper to recognize Chamberlain's authority to pardon. The Judge has to decide the ques tion ol who is Governor. He could not make it out at home, and so went to W asli ingtoH to find out. The decree lias been foreshadowed by those in the secret, who say that he will decide Chamberlain s title under his last inauguration to be defective, and that he cannot hold over from his first term on account of having set up a second title. This decree will strip Chamberlain of all the immunities which are claimed lor the office of Chief Executive, and subject him to the demands of Judges t o >ke anu Mackey. , . ... , The State Supreme Court is awaiting the canvass they have ordered by a referee of the election returns of the State before taking such other steps as they may bo re quested to take in the work ol ousting Chamberlain. The referee will report Hampton, Simpson, Connor, and Leapnearl of the Democrats on the State ticket eleited. Duel in Mid Air. The atmosphere is so full of duelling that th way it was done by two Frenchman, DtCourcy and Remonin, near Barit, is of interest. 'The quarrel was about the fa in>us danseuse llenriettc, and as there was some difficulty’' during the preliminary ne gotiations about selecting a spot for the encounter, somebody suggested that the fight should come oft —in air ! A piquant suggestion of this kind was suyt to taxe with Frenchmen, anil it was at ofcoe adopt ed. Nadir furnished two ballooijs. of about thirty thousand cubic feet each—Jhat is, of mpacity for carjry'iag eacib,thfr‘4.pA‘J>pn *, Vlien all was ready the aerostats werecon veyed to a secluded spot near the Capital, where they were expeditiously inflated by i secret chemical process. Det’ourcy. w ith its second and a physician, entered one car; Remonin, Gen. Nebel and surgeon keeupied another, and preparations were nade for the start. When all was in read iness, the word "let go” was given, and distantly the two aerostats shot into the fir. J >eCourcy’’s balloon was made of blue aid white spindles of silk ; that of liemo lin was white silk, painted with diagonal stripes of purple and green. At the height jf 1.000. feet while the balloons were yet very near together, the seconds exchanged rapid signals, and agreed that the condi tions were favorable for the contest. Ready*! ” —a pause—“ Fire ! ” —nobody hit. “ Reload and repeat —quick!" Bang! When the smoke cleared away Remoniii looked over the side of the car and saw his opponent’s balloon rushing downward with frightful rapidity. His shot had pierced the gas-bag, and the violent out-rush of gas had torn open tho whole side of the fabric and a general smash of the occu pants of the car seemed inevitable. How ever, the bag. suddenly loosening itself from below*, gathered upward in the net ting like a parachute, the terrific descent of the machine was arrested, and DeCourcy and his friends reached the earth with no further damage than a sousing in a small brook. They landed within a kilometer of the place of ascension. Remonin and his friends, honever, were wafted in the direc tion of 'fours, and a freshening of the wind made their descent soinewliat more difficult and perilous. However, they managed at length to anchor, and got out of the car with nothing worse than a few bruises. -f - ■<> Salting Hogs. Some years ago. a gentleman experiment ed in giving salt to swine which he was fat tening. lie selected two pair of harrow hogs, weighing tvo hundred pounds apiece. One pair received with their daily allow ance of ood two ounces of salt; the other pair similarly red. none. In the course of a week, it was,easily seen that the salted | pair bar a stronger appetite than the ■ others, md after a fortnight it was increased to two ninces,'apiece. After four months, the weight of the salted hogs was three hundrel and fifty pounds each, while that of the insalttd, five weeks later, reached only tljee hundred pounds. The experi ment vis repeated with almost precisely the saiie results. ! —* A Sleeping Car Adventure. Amfng the passengers in a sleeping car of tin Eric Railroad the other night were a'couple of sisters occupying a berth to gether During the night one of them had occasion tp get up, and in getting hack made a mistake aud got into the next berth with a man. She supposing it was her sis ter who had rolled to the front began to nudge the sleeper to lie over. The fellow woko up and seized the girl by the neck, supposing he hkd caught a thief. The scenp which ensued was mortifying as well as amusing. HARTWELL, LA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3J, Is,”. LOVE AND JEALOUSY. A Voting thinly tttnbbcil by Her I.over— At-re*.l ol' llic Dcmnitcil Dun. Fro in the Anderson (<S. V) Intelligencer, The quiet community of Williamston was startled on last Wednesday aught with one of the most shocking occurrences it has ever been our fortune to record. In a jealous rage at the refusal of a yodng lady to re ceive his attentions aud accept his proposals of marriage, a young man attempted to tuke the life of the young lady, afyl Ims thrown a gloom over respectable households by his rashness and deaperatiou. The particulars are stated as follows : Between the hours of eight and nine o'clock on Wednesday evening, a young mail named Lawrence Smith, of Greenville County, who was visiting the house of E. J. Pinson, Fsq., induced the daughter of his host, Miss Pinson, to accompany him a short distance from her father's house, and without provocation intiicjf&d eleven or twelve wounds upon her with a knife, lie had been a suitor for the young lady’s hand for the last six (freight months, and it is supposed that her refusal to accept his otters ot marriage so on Aged him that lie resolved to take her lifr. The young lady was fearfully stabbed, jgnd at one time her condition was consideijed critical, but the latest information givqe promise of a speedy recovery from her \founds. Lawrence Smith, after qpiniuittiiig this terrible act, is said to have wandered about the vicinity of Williamston, but he was found the next day at his mother's resi dence, near Grove Station, on the Green ville and Columbia RailrofEjd. His uncle, Mr. Trowbridge, upon hearing Uie facts relative to the tragic occurence, immediate ly went the house of Smith s mother, and t arried him to Greenville, where lie was placed in the custody of the Sherilf. He belongs" to a respectable family, and is a young man of intelligence. He stated upon his arrest that he had always entertained the highest respect for the young lady, and declared that there was no premeditation in the act, though he exhibited no unusual re morse. and did not seem to comprehend the enormity of the crime he had committed. His friends claim that he is demented. The authorities of Greenville County surrender ed Smith to the jailor of Anderson County, and he was brought to jail here on last Saturday. Blue Jeans Williams. The State of Indiana has amongst her cit izens a tall, gaunt old farmer, less remark able for his good looks than lie is for his sound common-sense, familiarly known as *• Blue Jeans Williams," from the fact that for almost a score of years he has dressed in a full suit of blue jeans. Recently the lady boarders of the Galt House in Louisville. Ky., through the kind ness of a prominent manufacturer, were en abled to select a few pounds of the finest merino woolgrown in theNtateof Kentucky, and have constructed a peculiar loom upon which this wool was woven into the finest quality of blue jeans ever seen in the United States'. This specimen of blue jeans was cut and made into the best fitting suit of clothes possible by the most fashionable tailor of Louisville, and formally presented to the aforesaid Williams, who dressed, and we may say bedecked in that suit was, on the Bth' day of the present month, in augurated without pomp, but amidst the cheers of an admiring constituency, the Governor of the great Democratic State of Indiana. His inaugural was, of course, sound to the core, and eminently practical. For tho benefit of our farmer friends, we publish the following extract, aud commend to their especial attention the duplicate idea of exercising this year the strictest econ omy. besides discharging all those who are found to be unnecessary hangers on about the farm. We say with Governor Wil liams, produce more, consume less. Here is the extract: Our State in common with the rest of the Union, and especially of the \\ estern por tion, is experiencing the distress and em barrassment consequent upon a system of over-trading and deceptive speculation. Our consumption having exceeded our income, the balance must be restored by a corres ponding excess of our receipts over our ex penses. We have been lured to the em brace of debt under the flattering guise of credit, and we can be extricated only by the joint aid of industry and economy. We should again seek the ancient landmarks of frugality and republican simplicity from which too many have unwittingly strayed. Labor is the prime source of wealth in a State. No community can prosper without it. Commerce, the business of which is only to exchange the products of the indus try of one place for those of another, highly advantageous as it is to a community, can not exist without the life-sustaining breath of labor. It is gratifying to see. from re cent indications, that this opinion is gaining ground in unexpected quarters. This should serve as an encouragement of the advocate of truth under adverse circumstances, prov ing, as it does, that sooner or later her right will be vindicated and her supremacy acknowledged. Our position, soil and cli mate, as well as the habits of our people, all point to that branch of labor which is devoted to agriculture as our chief reliance for lasting wealth and returning prosperity. This calling should rank with us first in respectability, as it unquestionably is first in importance. The principal, and indeed almost the only assistance, which can he rendered to this vital interest, the removal of indirect impositions, the more dangerous and oppressive because unseen and stealthy in their operation, is beyond tho reach of State legislation. It is to he regretted that a growing distaste exists in too many quar ters against this nurqpry of virtue, tins surest guaranty of comfort and indepen dence, this sheet anchor of our conunou prosperity, as exhibited in the increasing numbers of our youth who are crowding the other professions to seek a livelihood on the accidents of human life. The true principles of economy in the ad ministration of public a Hairs are essentially the same as those which obtain in individ ual transactions. No expenditure should be incurred for otficial services or other wise unless found necessary or useful, and then at the lowest amount compatible, with full and intrinsic value and ample ability of performance. Tested by this rule, all unnecessary offices, if any arc found to exist, should be abolished. Paragraphs of the Period. The following paragraph from a speech of Aaron Burr when Vine-President, said to have been one of the most effective pieces of oratory ever pronounced under tho roof of the Capitol, may not be inappropriate to the present crisis: “This house is a sanctuary ; a citadel of law, of order, and of liberty; and it is here—it is here in this exalted refuge—here, if any where, will re sistance be made to the storms of political frenzy and the silent arts of corruption; and if the Constitution be destined ever to per ish by the sacrilegious hands of the dem agogue ortho usurper, which God avert, its expiring agonies will be witnessed upon tliis floor.'’ Did he behold in a long vista, Grant in the White House and Morton in in the Senate? Miss Van Sipp goes to church every Sunday, and occupies a pew near the mid dle of the house. Last Sunday sHfc 1 enfirted some curiosity among a portion of the con gregation by going up and taking a seat in the “ amen corner" near the pulpit, where she could sweep the entire congregation with her eyes without turning her head. When it was afterwards ascertained that she had a painful boil on the hack of her neck it was readily understood why she ‘didn't pop into her own pew. ns usual. It worries a boil more than a little to have its owner twist her neck every time the church door opens. AYe always did think the cat a spiteful and ungrateful beast, and now we have proof of it. A young man in Now York, on hearing the pitiful and forlorn cry. of a houseless feline, was moved with pity and sought to take her in and comfort her. No sooner did he exfbnd the hand of relief'than the wretched beast sprang upon it, fixing her teeth and claws in his flesh. It was with difficulty and excrucriating pain that he tore her off, and ran to the nearest drug store to have his lacerated hand cauterized. The next time lie hears the pathetic cry of a cat out in the cold he will pass by on the other side. The New A"ork Journal of Commerce has been investigating the length of time it Lakes to transmit a message over the Atlantic cable. The first signal is felt in four-tenths of a Second: but the following one goes through more rapidly. As many as seven teen words have been sent over the Atlan tic cable in one minute. Fifteen can easily be sent under pressure; and twelve words a minute is a good working rate. A fact not yet explained by the scientists is that the electricity does not move so rapidly from New York to London as in the oppo site direction. The temperance cause, we are pained to announce, has received another setback. John McCummisky, of Erie, intended to take passage on the fatal tram that went through the Ashtabula bridge but stopped at a saloon to get a drink of something that rhymes with some of his last name, and thereby missed the train. This is a very poor incident to build a temperance story upon. A Rome miss of seven summers has con cluded to marry a big man for her first husband and a little one for the second, so that she can cut the clothes of the first down and make them over for his successor. Thus the hard times force home lessons of rigid economy and practical sense upon tender childhood. “The Rev. Mr Hughes has recently eloped with one of his flock, Mrs. Faith larbox,” says an exchange, “ but we doubt if he can find anything in the Bible to justify the act.” Well what if he can’t? All he wants is “justification by Faith.” The Chinese are the most silent of all the races of mankind, and account for this taciturnity on the ground that they never mind anybody’s business but their own. Water, though well warmed, would, nev ertheless, quench the fire that warmed it. Thus may the character of a treacherous person he described. We are glad, says an exchange, that leap year is over. This having to reject girl after girl is a cruel strain upon a sensitive man. The next Congress will have seven or eight members each selected by less than twenty majority. An old bachelor says that when he wooed she wouldn’t, and that, was the cause of it. Subscribe for The Sun—sl.so a year. j A CORPSE COMES TO SI DJiEXI.tr 11,. WrciiclicH oil llic < „IIIn-Ilil While mini; Transport**! "■> a Truitt. t'nni i the Fort Wttynt ttnd.) Ornette*. The village of Monroeville is nil aflame with a sensation, the dimensions of which are in an inverse ratio to tilt* town. On Friday last a young man named ('harloa Hurston was attacked with a disease sup posed to be congestion of the lungs. After remaining in an unconscious condition for about two hours the attending physician examined him and pronounced him dead. In the meantime lus relatives, living at Forest, Ohio, hud been apprised by tele graph ol his illness, but they arrived at Monroeville too Jato to see the loved one alive. They were much affected at his sudden death, and the grief of his sifter, w hose age was near his own, was distress ing to see. The remains were placed on board the afternoon passenger train on tho Pittsburg! Fort Wayne anu t’hiongo Rail way, to be taken to Forest, Ohio, for inter ment. The grief-stricken parents and sis ter accompanied tin* remains. The latter refused to go into the passenger coach, but remained in the express ear, to be close to the body of him she loved. It was nearly an hour before the train arrived at Forest, when a loud, unearthly shriek was heard, and in a second the young girl was pros trate upon the Hour in a swooni. Several persona hastened to her rescue, when they, too, were, nearly paralyzed by the discov ery of the cause of her singular conduct. I lie supposed corpse of (.‘buries llueston was living, moving and breathing. The head was thrust above the colfili. and the and the face, with its deathly pallor, pre sented a weird and ghastly spectacle. The young man was evidently amazed at his surroundings and the first, returning gleams of consciousness found him in a position of bewilderment, llueston was taken from his colfili, restoratives applied under tho direction of physicians who were on the tram, am!,when he reached Forest ho was removed to his father's residence. On Tues day he was alive, and although very ill he was improved somewhat, and none was en tertained that he would completely recover. The saddtvt feature in the case is yet to tell. The young lady has not had one moment of consciousness since the wild shriek which she gave in the car at the dreadlul specta cle which met her eyes, it is feared, in deed, that her reason is permanently de throned by the shock. M MISER 23. Married Couples’ Quarrels. Peqple talk of lovers* qnarrels ns rat hot* pleasant episodes. Probably because they are not quarrels at nil. She pouts; lie kisses. lie fihftlrns; she coaxes. It is ball play, and they know it. Matrimonial quarrels i4'c another tiling. 1 doubt seriously if married people evyr truly forgive each other after their first falling out. They gloss it Over; they kiss and make up; the wound apparently heals, but only, as some of those horrible wohnus given in battle, to break out again at Homo unexpected moment. The man who has sneered and said cruel things to a sensitive woman never has her whole heart again. ’The woman who has uttered reproaches, to a man can never ho taken to his bosom with the same tenderness ns before those wonts were spoken. The two people who must never quarrel are husband and wife. One may tall out with kinsmen, and make tip and he fribndH again. r lhe tie of blood is a strong one, and affection may return alter it has How u away; but love, once banished, is a dead aud buried thing. The heart may ache, but is with hopelessness. It may be im possible to love any one else, hut it is more impossible to restore the old idol to the empty niche. For a word or two —for a sharpening of the wits—for a moment's self assertion, two people have often been made miserable lor life. For whatever there may he before, there are no lovers’ quarrels al tof marriage. .— He Touched Her Heart. Detririt Free, Pmm. Yesterday morning a woman living on Napoleon street was seen on the walk in front of the gate heaving the snow right and left, and she only had got fairly settled to work when a hoy lounged up and re marked : “ I’ll clear off the walk for ten cents.” “ I guess I'm able to do it,” she replied. ” But see how it looks,” he continued. u Here you are a perfect lady in look and action, highly educated, and yet you grov el in the dust, as it were, to save the pitiful sum of ten cents.” “ You grovel along and mind your own business,” she curtly replied, still digging away. “It’s worth ten cents,” he said a’rf he leaned against the fence, “hut I'm a fel ler with some sentiment in my bosom. Now, we'll say live cents, or just enough to cover wear and tear o' my bones. Give me the shovel and you go in, get on your sealskin sacquc and best jewelry, and while I work you stand out here and boss around, and talk as if you owned the big gest half of North America, while I had nothing, and was in debt for that.” She looked at him sharply, saw that he was in earnest, and when she passed over the snow-shovel she put two nickels into his hand. He looked after her as she wont in, and then sadly mused : 0! Flattery, thy surest victim is a wo man homely enough for a scarecrow !” Can a State Get Drunk ? A few j-ears ago the State attorney of a northern County in Vermont, although a man of great legal ability, was very fund of the bottle. On one occasion an impor tant criminal case was called on by the clerk; but the attorney, with owl-like grav ity, kept his chair, being, in fact, not fairly able to stand on his feet. “Mr. Attorney, is the State ready to proceed ?” said the Judge. “ Yes— hie —no—your honor.” stammer ed the lawyer; “the State—is not — in a statd to try this case to-day; the State, your honor, is— drunk !”