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- - -- W I-IAMS 8 BA'G, -PMpnetors% A Family IPapert Devoted to 8cieid At, InqWt.iIndustry and UiterAtldr6, Et VOL. XI.] WINBOO 0. .W D ED YM RNI ING, JUNE217 A nmennuuunm THE 0 0'1R L IIf RI D Is WUA.hII.D KE&A n w L L I A AtkN &. 0 A V i s. T.rms.--The IIERA, 6 I AUniled Veek - In theTown of Winnsboro, At $3.00 n Var'aiLy iia udaide. S' All translent adi'rCisements to be tl.ITD [M ADV4NCI. t'utuary Notice's anid Tributes $1.00 BTATR TAXAT-ON AND TYftrICEASE;'6F DEDT. NVw ORLEAN3,May 10, 1875. Here are a few figures which give 'fone idei of how the affairs of Lohiiiaua have been managed un 'de' the rndioal rule of government 'since 1868. 'CoT OF TllH L.EGIS.ATURK. V'or milleage, per dier. and con tingeut ecpenss the General As semblyof the Stato cost, in 1860, before the war, $99,435; in 1861, $131,480 ; in '1866, the year after the war, *160,906 ; in 1868, the year of reconstruction, *363,150 ; in 1869, $360,214 ; in 1870, $722,231 ; in 1871, $658,9$6 ; in 1872, $350,000 ; ?in 1873, $461,450 ; last year a 'much smal-or sunm, over $200,000; but still the Comptroller of the State says, $60,000 above is estimatoq of the proper cost. STATE FRINTING. In '1809 the State printing cost '$40,9VO. In 1867, the year before reconstruction, it cost $15,000. The Legi'litue of 1868 adopted a system undi Wyh'ibh each parish h .a an offioial orgar, which prints at, the -public oost, not only the laws, but thejourfialb o'f the fegislature and the proedidgs df police juries. This aibuee has beu checked, but Inot yet*ntirely stopped. During its height these pe't'ty -jouthals were, with a very few exception, owned %y memberi of the Legi.ilature. Verbe these persons every year voted themselves handsome subsidies, 'aidd tihoState printing bill, which 'timobtitid to $75,000 in 1867, jamp 'ed to.4d1,84h 5, in' 1869, $313,920; Ii870, $3971600 in 1871, $154 752 in 1872, and '$160,806 in 1873. Thn't is to -8ay, the reconstructoro managed to spend -out df the Treasm - -ry in five years for prifting alone very nearly 41;500,'000, a'td a great lpa'rt'df th'is they vdted ifito their own lpodk6ts. S T' 1t T I X R i T . in 181 the State 'til ht9iitd to 29 cints'on'VA dl' in i'867, the 'year before redonstraction, to '874 'cents ; in i96 to -52J oebts'; in .1869 'to 90 cents ; 'in 11861 to $1,45 ; , in 11872 to $2.15 ; in 1873 to $2 '15, and in 1874 to $1 45, at wh1ch *it is 'fixea, now, I believ'e,'by tho vonsti Itution. 'STATE DE?T. ti spitb bf'bhis enormoiks :1fo'bado in the ta't%;te,'the-debt of the State -ha trea~t" .. &Q06., fir do .yer 'the 'adolaft and contingent 'debti(by which the State acoountLats here piedn'the'debt 'owing ed for 'which the State ha's dbgaged t..,if for the fritenre'b atnounted to $11, .182,87, 'In 'l868, the year of re construicti n 'it ambunted to $163, '885,9 82. 9n '18710 'i had 'been run 'up tv *40,456,13't. Thf repiort of "the 56eint be'gislative .'Committee to investigate the S3tate Auditor's uffice .-:!l4 'edmmittee 'is composed on tire'Iy 'of repuxblioa'fs-.giv the 'followitlg dumnmary of the Btate 'debt at tih 'begining cof the -pt'esdatl 'pondas !0aed, 4,880,688 8: iondd'd btope'r', 22.184.800 01 'catigdt't 'e rtp h '19,896,000 01 Oontin{'e't, debt. a 64" '9,805,500 01 -$.-9,604,1550 TruSt ben8s aid bbnAb minh g 991,194 9 'iotal $50,697,89-4 9 .1'9Ieiommit'tee adft'to this ata%c Y'?46thtberemarks:- . . Iu %oni'tsion the commisin fnu that a large po6rt1in of the publi lebt:.hs arisen fr'odIl extravaganas p'o'fgley an'd iuge -o the rovenOi of th% 'Btate i that'&s to .al'l that poi tion cetahed, side'18S656 the Stat did not realise over fifty cente c the dollar, ha6r *as the autount reo lised expended for the benefit the State to the extent of mdrr% thet one-half ; in other words, the Sta has not been actually boenfted an amont siceedinig one-.fod3rth lihe debt created', nor to an ameu bxoeeding one-hialf of the taxes c Jeeted sinO6 1865. 'Ike1 entire br gsnee say one.half of all the tax and three'.fourths of all the prese dayt~ hate been squandered or do worse with by the administrati of the goVeramctnt uined that date. tAgas CO0t,adTEb IN 5RVEN tEAnBS TIhe State reendes, as given the Auditor's reports for' the diffe eot years, *ere : 1868 $8,462,589 1875 $4,818, 1869 4,987,769 -,878 4,018, 1870 0,537.939 181k .51882 1871 6,610 843 Total $83,48t065 ooll-eted in taxes from the p4ple for tbo support of the State goiorn ment in seven years, besi.dos cityand parish taxes. The various petty nonopolies and swindles to which State aid wa so profuseiy given, and sone of ihioh I mentioned in a previou's lettok no 'count for a smull pArt of this huge debt and expeuditure. Suel ex travagance as is mentioned b; the Auditor in his last report (187 , in the following words account; for more : Thus the number of pages'in the Legislature), which by uot N. 11 of 1872 is limited to ten, at 0 com. peusation for each of $180, vas in. or*eased more than sixty, and qouoh era issued to them at from $50 to $180 each, nor was this praotbe con fined to this particular class !of em ployees, but was carried A other classos, such as enrolling auI coal. wittee clerks, porters, &o. lie also, in the saie repor., com plains that he has vainly tied to, get the Legislature to adopt a new plan of assessing propurty or tax attion which "would save th State $156,000 a year." in the kuditor'i repott f-jr the year 1871, oinpluint was made to the Legislature of the great cost of coltoting t)e taxe's. "Ilu 1870," -says this rep -t, "the actual ooumissions paid ori account of assessors was $181,975, tie amount paid to tax collectors $215411. In 1871 the commissions of tic collec tor amounted to $320,252, -nd tha. of assessors to $250,834." PENITENTIARY. Of course there were jo.e heaw jobs, which helped to rtn up tie debt. For instance in the Auditors, repo;*t for 1871 1 find a statamllt that during the two previous yeaC the State, underan arrai,gimnut wi the firm of Jones & lltgez, les.eesI the ponitentiary, had isstl,;d $500,0 0 in State bonds for imuchi ery for tl institution. The lvssec(were to p one-half their clear prtfto to I State. Thoy paid notling, and 1870 transferred their contract another set of men, the S ate agreei theicafter to iocept $5, .0 a yeat a lieu of all profits, with a Iinoreasf f $1,000 a year. Betwee' 1869 -pd 1871, two years, "th ,neuitently I had cost the State $79 )00.' ' A nAILROAD Jn. In 1868 the New MinO ila and ChOattanooga Railra s a ar tered in Louisiana, an it was er mi6od to connect Mbile and New I Orleans with Housto, Texas. in 1869 the Legislaturo agreed to on dorso the second morfage boods of the road to the oxtoutpf $12,500 per mile, and to make t' endorsement fur every section of In miles built. They built seventy 1-iles and the State indorsod -$81,000 of their second mortgage bods. 'ie next Legislature agreed in addition to give the road a Site subbidy of $3.000,000 of bouds;u,d of this they drew $75a,000. T4. company now proposed to build . railroad from Verwillionville to j-oveport, and in 16'It11e State agrid to take stock iu this enterptrise, A,i00,000, paying for it in bonds, anno1s whld of thiero bonds were deliverd to the cotmpany when they had don.one day's work a it I j' They ha'y never done any hmTha?t is to sy, tho ompuany uno nplL a-ll soenty iles of anl lcse road, gdgherefore, worth. State $4,250,000A\ived from the umile, 'besides a grvit offl.$5,000 a part of the New OAeans lcee .,of a at $1 ,U00,000, andthey hamve keln#4 pall. 'Finally, it rinmains to he said that two different im panies of North ern 'oapitalists offtredl to build the 'Houston -and Now Orleans road with. 'omit subsidy or St.to aid of any kind, b'tt the Legislatu-e would not give ' them a charter. A great deal if money has bert -spent and squabtlered sinoe ti'e wai Son the reeonstruition oif the leveem and their repai-, and democrats a: well, as republi6 us have taken p; this jobbing, th6greautest wux.' Il" ever, L.oing situe 18H , hoW " eda 6f jj j,71000 of State, e arnd still noid fa r levee purposes, money was s'rveen. MoSt of thb 'of Publio Wt by a "State 15oard were appoitn'kA," whoSe members myoth. ia e by Governor Wor hwas adopteV71 a diffdent system and undnr ,tich still is in force, o rnues of& a large part bf the In ovtr fok'.& e8 litae has been handed atprivat&40 ps, t.brm of yearS to a whichtb E'ion, with privileges 1-der t " to imisuse and squan~. * 35 .y . ost shocking way. st was to fy~ eorpierations, whIoh no ospital a~ ion of dollars in te pair thtl. Cgr6e o build and re >nrespone() of the 4ste atid to ho toe an 9 damages -o the plan loss b5 jrs who ou mld ster in turn tojQNW or oreva . 1~ roe r.- them a e the J,eg'sl re gave they -om dollars dow , before )88 anncuall ora, and the \rococdse 90tax of -a term of 7eas, ofa laon the wholt (axa. ble propert:y of Louisiana, and au. thorit3d them to charge, against thc gre t fund, sixty cents per oubio yard for beir work. But a groat part of the ree work 'done by planters - for the sel'ves, cost only frota fifteen (o eg loon oents per cubij yard: and thi ly cents for the average of all ki d of wolk all over thoStato would be experts tell rae, a high rate. In fa t, the first chargo was so exorbi= ta I that it has been reduced to fifty c qle, and in 1874 the levee tax, w ioh the company continues to re c ivo, was reduced to three mills. I U1t the compauy never had any oney ; the levees have not boon kept in proper repiir, and the losses frin ovet flow have never boon so groat as since it'went into operation ; pd having no oapital of their own, ifthiy'are sued for damages they bqst pay these out of tho State fund, 'Oit thus, in foot, the taxpayers pay ftleir own insurance. The company rceive about $720,000 a year. This wa's one of the mnost notorious jobs perpetrated bp the Legislature, ind attracted attention at the time iecauso a great many members not Holy received bribes for its support ihich was too common ant ocour. reneo to be noticed-but actually gave their receipts for the money paid them. The following letter, of which the original is before me, shows how .peuly Logislative bribery was ear ritd on under Warmoth's adminiistra fion. The writer was then a mem ber of the Assembly, is now State Senator and m ember of the State 3chool Board, and, I'm sorry to saiy is negro ; ROUSC RIaMSENTArivi.-H, STATE I F LUMISANA. NEW OR.P.-ANS, Feb. 25th, 1871. n7ciatmen of Finance Coamitoee oj Louisiana Levee Company. Sins-Please pay to IIon. A. W. ?aulkner the amount you may doem ropor to pay me on account of Levee 3ill, I being absent at the time un, her orders of the House. But would iave voted for the Bill had [ been mre. Mlr. Faulkner is authoriz,d to 1e06ivo and receipt for me. Very lespectfully Gentlemen Your obt. ervt. T. B. S'AM PS. Surely the brazonness of corrupt ion ould go no further than this-wheni legislator dlaims a bribe on the core that he would have rendered he service had he been in his place, nd asked his friend not merely to eceive,but to receipt for it. N:W ORh.EANS. The city of Now Orleans is made o pay a very g eat part of the Stat e ;ax, and has been, besides, burdened i various ways by the Legislaturv vhich has set apart a large pait of ta revenues for State or special pur oses. It has nbw a debt of its own if about $22,000,000, and its tax ate has been run up to three pt r. ent. About $17-,000,000 of it. Donds are worth but thirty-five cents -o the dollar in the niarket. Here s an exatmple which tells the tale cf mastef ul misgovernmot. :-An estate Mhich could have bee sold in 1867 f,r Dver $1,000,000, showed on its Looks in 1872, this remarkable condition. After pa3ing for insurance and 'usual repairs, the taxes levied that. yar on the property exceeded the entire ren tal by $540. In the next year thme ro eipts. exceed the taxes, repairs and inurance by .$900. Yet, in 1867, this property netted seven por' cent n over $1,000,000-tha't is to any nore thani $70,000, :tfter paying in surance, taxes-and repairs. It is not the wealtly, alone who complain. t-.irv& spoken *ith it least a n talall property owners nath and they all tell the same uit the country the small far to lain that they are fereed ic 'heavy taxes, while ini ~,v a their rieb neighbors re S re allo*ed. to re~fuse pay hd'elay. I was struck wvith a of okasperation told tuo by h Io said :"Oine piece of y after atnother belonging o rs of my fatmily had been sold r taxos. Two years ago :v a neatly to the end. We bould Ot soll, and1( we cduld not pay the terrible takec.s. I wotut to the Sheriff and saiid to him i. 'This piroperty which you are advertising is the last possessien of my mo'the.t and sisters, and their only support. [ warn you etiat on the day you put it up at nub tiont I am going to attendi the sale wilth my double-barrelled shotgun. And it ~aa not sold. Next year we were .foi'tunately able t.i nay.. Now I ktJdn the tian very jwellI.wIho thtus didi and I know hiin to be a peaceable respectable, law- ecspecting citizeni, oine of the most imp rtant and useful moenabers of the ~ommunl ty in whichb he lived, iIe aw that I was sholhed and paitned a hIis Itory, "W hat could I do I" We were tvealthy people before tlt war ; we have been eatitented4in o r poverty since, and I have worke hard ani. lived very boQnottieally. My sisters \teadh school. Btit the tdles aro so hard ate the taxes so gh that it watrs all we could do to 1 c, ardd when I satw the laAt little d sedence of my mother and sisters out to be sold to satIsfy thouo e njorante and thiees Icoud not sta it."m So great is even yet the.distress that the Legislaturo has Jit Passod a tax iedemption law,forbiding Sheriffs sales where inability to pay taxes is shown. In the parish of St. Landry aloeo, as I think I have before state there were between Novem. bar, 1871, and November 1873, 821 sales of plantations and lands for taxes. The newspapers in New Or. loans speak of this Tax '8tay law as an aot of bonofleenoe. Yet Louis isna is by nature one of the riehcst States in the Union and New Orleans is one of the greatest commercial ports. Is it surprising that thowhole white population of the State, otcept the oflico-holders and their rolativei and intimates, united, in 1874, in the endeavor to overthrow a part) which has so abused its powers ? CIARUES NORDIOFF. A Breathing Cave. In the range of mountains in Wes. tern North Carolina known so the "Fox Range," a most singular pho nomenon exists. It is a "breathing cave." In the summer inonths a current of air comes Irom It sostrong ly that a person 'an't walk against it, .while in the winter the suction is just as great. The cool air from the mountains in summer if felt f.r miles in a direct line from the cave. At times a most unpleasant odor is emitted upon the current fron dead carcasses of animals sucked in and killed by the violence. The loss of cattle and stook in that section in winter is accounted for in this way Tihey range too near the mouth of the cave, and . the current carries thm in. At times, when the ohanue front inhalation begins, the air is fille<t with various hairs of animals ; not frequently hones and whole carcasses are found miles flomt the place. The air has beenI known to change materially in tem pe.tature during exhalation from quito cool to unpleasantly hot, with ering vegetation within reach, and accompanied by a terrible roaring, gurgling sound, like a pot boiling. It is unaccounted for by scientific men Who h .vo examined, though no exploration can take place. It is fered by many that a volcanio eruption may broak forth there some time. In addition to her other pre tontions California promises to be come an important tobacco producing State at no dittant day. Ii 187 1 a conpay was formed in Santa Clara county for the culture and prepara tion of tobacco under a new process. ie first erop in 1872 amounted to a few thousand,, pounds ; in 1873 it rose ' to 500,000, and to -1about 1,500,000 in 1874. A port'on of the crop wias from Havana seed, adapted to cigar-making, the remainder be ing from Florida seed, better adapt. od to pipo smoking and chewing tobaeco. Tho company were comdel ed to manufacture their own mateiil E Mnd are now making 200.000 cigars 1 per month, besides packing about ( 10,000 pounds of sm'oking tobacco, f and have recently determined to I greatly extend their operations. The aica suited to the growth of tobacco1 under the process employed is said to be unlimited. The steady and rapid incereaso of crime in the city and County of New York is assigned as the reason for appointing a legislative oomnmitteo to sit during recess an 4 investigate the caunses, with a view to ascertain ing whether the laws olk the courts are to blame.' Ono T'rot'ision of the resolutons constitating this com-. mittee is pecnliar, namely, that the State shall be at no e*penso for the support of its mehribers at hotels. TIhey will have to ddpend on their .por diem, the seame as though th'ey wore In legislative session at Albany. Th'le smaller courts of the nmotropolis, and some of t-he higher Ooes, view the inovement with anythin.gbt favoring eyes. Artemus Ward was one (lay lying upon thme sofa, onjoying a cigar, in, thme little office of his publiher, in Nes York, when a telegraphic despatch from San Franbisco was handed him. It was from Mr. McGuire, of the Opera House, who inquired - "What~ will you take for ten nights in Cali forrnia 1" Without -a moment's rO. flection, or ehaniging his position, lie wrote his reply in three words, and handed it *,o the messenger, as fol lows :"Brandy and water-As Ward." This was not all he (lid tako, however, for sooi aftorward Mc. Guire engaged the. showman, and he lectured in California with extra<ir.. dinary success. The hittle despatch -a ten dollar joko-tras pulishod in the San Francisco papers, and set e4ery body laughing and anticipating thie author's arrival. Idr. Wiley Willis~ tiho yug than who *as so sadly injured at Chatlotte on Thursday the 20th of May. was in twenty-four battles dur ing the laLO war and eseaped uphurt to boe terribly wounded, at last, in a civil celebration. [Correspon-.lent News and Courielr.' OlffipIal Jl3coudut, SUMTER,' ,May g20.-Catobing the in"ections of honesty. which seems to be sproading like an el idemi ovo the State, the county of Sumter iE beginning to see light upon the dark. ness which has pervaded its fisoal affairs. Tho first.of a series'of prosecutions comm noed to day, viz., the Stato vs. W. 11. Gardner, late county troas urer, for offioial misconduct. Your correspondent 9hanopd to bo'in co' t while the olso was going on, and forcibly struck by the peouliar man ner in which the defene was conduct. od.., Fii' t,,they objected to the in diotment because it contained . us they said, different charges. hat being defeated,'they then objooted to the -cush book of the Treasurer being used as evidenoo,-olaiming that it was a private book ;.. whereoupon a long discussion ensued between the attor neys of the parties, but before it was dcuided the defence withdrew its ob jection. Thereupon the State proved that at a timo whel the treasurer had reported "no fundi" there was notu ally over seven thousand dollars in hands. Soon after this the court took a recess for dinner. After din,. nor the case was resumed, and it was pretty cl!ogrly proved that the late treoasuror failed to make the reports required by law from about March, 1873, to January 1874. It does not fullow that Mr. Gardner embezzled gny of the funds. No such charge is made, but it is believed that he did Lise the county funds to speculate, ither directly or indirectly, in claims lury tiokets, witncss tickets, &o., and ;hut he put in these papers in lieu of he cash collected. No doubt the lut teasurer did take some ot these apors at par. Ilo certainly did so at leat in one instanceo to my own tnowledge. There are other indiot uonts against the'sanie party. As he is low out of office, it is highly proba. )>C that thoso who might, under other liroumstanlues, stick by him, will do ert hi n like rats from 'asinkiug ship. t is remarkable how quickly Itadi. tals find out the short-comings or the rauds of their associate ju,t as 8oon Lgthey lose the power to serve them, ier politioally or financially. A.ly Mn imupro.sion is that there are nuch woreo men than Mr. Gardeler u Publio offices in this county. The ,raid jury is after some of them, and will keep you posted if anything aligible proved. J UNIUS. LATER. S1AIE1, May 22.-The jury in tihe Iase of the State against Gardner enained out nineteen hours, without grecing, and a mi,trial ordered. vine jurors voted for conviction on very count, and three jurors, one* olored, voted against; conviction on fly count. . JUNIUS. Twe(d's Conditioni. The warden of Mlackwell's Island tates that William M.Tweed was ox 0iiiied. rccently by three distinguish. J physioiani, who say that le iR af ected with heart disease and an affoc. ion of the* kidneys. They did not xpress any fear of immendiate danger >ut, thought thuat his situation was ufliciently grave to justify unuaual .nsideration on the part of the eoepers. .Twood is allowed to sleep ut of his cell, for the reason that he rownm so stout that it is impossible or hint to get ini the door of one. diven if ho could be squeezed in, the >ed with which each cell -is provided s too narrow for his bulky form, and here is not room for a larger cot. It s said that the grand jury, in niak: ng thteir presentment, will recom mend that Mr. Tweed be allowed acre priv'ileges lin osequence of is sioknteas. A Revolullonary RelIe. The colonial maoce belonging to he excutive department of South J~aroliga was bernto in the centenniial >arde at Chlarlottn. T1he mace is low the only remnant of offial roy. tity in this section. It is made of dilver, gildod orer with gold, anid is aid to have cost two hundred fian.. :as It is about four feet long, and f somne considerable' weight, being auramounted withi the crown and great eal of England, around the verge of rhich are the tweo faces of the pro rinaolal seal of South Carolina highly amnbossed, and other ornameal levides. This mace hias in It *1,000 vorth of silver* and its great antiqui y makes it inv'aluable. The now five-cont stamp to be fused ~or int.urnatlonal postage under the late Borne treaty hase upon it a picture of Gons. Zacehary Taylor in lull uniform5 Th'e Rtamnp will be issued lin a few weeks. - Nolt that the Moolenctburg celebra tioni over tbers remain only fifty three revolutionary events to eonii mnemorate, They extond over a pord od of six years, ending with Yorktown in 1781. Bunker Hill, on the 17th of June, will be the next feature of the nenateunial programme. The Clinch Riflew -The Clinoh,.RIE9sspelrap S$: tb1 ropws op .Broad sageet, belp,w IeIn. tosh, last night, in full foroe, or the pu-pose bf ehrieteig tb' ag4 punoh bowl wow at the-- 86htelfl for the beat oompany shotu 1i *11 be tomembored that the bowl was wot by the phot of Marker Th6iba Jones, ToASTS.--A, maghiloant . b ksl bouqut, presented : by 'Misi Tilh Platt, was huspended fropm.the llaha delior in the oentre of the rom.: The firsttoast of th eoypning, pffer,ed. b Capt.. Fiank G. Ford, was, "Sout. Carolina, her past, bresent and fi. ture." Major W. T. Gary respVnded In a most eloquent manner. Wd give his respnso As aLearl.y.possible.. in. hia .own wor4s : . I "This tribute of the oitien oA46y of Augusta, to the good 46ple of the State of my -nativity, fills my heiatt with emotiont which are.-shared. by many who are hereto night. Tio hearts of Georgians .bat in unison with those of the brave bu op. pressed Caroliniaks. In the,pat, South Carolina,a like sentinel upon the watch tower of liberty, has warned us of the dangers which ' we wore not able to avert. Her fidelity has brought upon her those ills which now griovosly op, press her, but which she has the h6roo ista to boar . with , fortitude.i -o% many years her offige.holdeib, laive brought disgrace upon themselves, and infamy upon the Government which has sustained them. But I their acts, they could not tatnish the reputation of.the eate, whi'bA they did not assist to make. The Palmet to emblazoned upon her escutcheon was made illustrious by her sons. Prondly has it floated above tha touch of those who sought to defile it. .Du*f spiro #pero pep will shine forth with the first gle am, of the sunlight of lib. erty whioh shall dash upon banners. Brave men never despair. The spiriit which actuated her Sumter, her Marion, her Calhoun and her Pickeno, her Butler and her Hampton)! will again place her sons %- te front ranks of American heroes aW'd states men. And until that day Wlhl come "whatsoever things u e tust (Vh to. ever things are lovely, whats'oever things are of good report," you may. expoet to hear from the good peoe of South Carolina.-Constitutionale, SMdden Death of a Coluibla Merchant. The news that Ur. Edward Hope, an old merchant of this city, was found dead in his room yesterday, about noon, startled the 'combinity by the siddenness of the demise of the unfortunate gentlemAn. The particulars o' f.his death, as gathered froin the witness at the coroner's jury and other sources, are that Hope retired 'to hik room on Situr day evening as usual, and was not afterwards sieo until found lying dead on the floor by Mr. Capers. At a Coroners inquest the jury render ed a verdict that the deceased came to his death by the 'to page of blood circulating frhm the heart to the lungs. Mr. Hope was 4boYit flfty years old, a native of tondoA and unmarried. Ie had beew successful in business but lost his .Yortune by his trusting Lature.- He \vss buried yesterday, at 8 P. M., in El mwood cometery. His coffin whie, follo'wd by many sympathizing hiedsu Ooluwubia U. Hf. Death :of 110t. Jelise D. Brlg t. IThe death of this .honored sdn .'f. Indiana, removes anoth'er of 1fe strong meah wyho bontrolled. the desti-n nias of thiA coniltry i the political contest whicii freceded a resdrto arms in 1861, and jit would have hebb well if his couiidelh had" protale'd. Mr. Brighit *As'borti in 6b6tml 14ew York, in 1812, and there stuidied law. Soon after removing to. .lhdian., he became deeply interosted in politics, andl almost fromi the outset of his putblio career, was a public leader. lHe was successively a Circuit Judge, State SentorUnited States Marshal, Lieutena,1nt Governor and United Sta.tesu Senator. Hlis service in the Fede*ral Senate begau in i845, and continued unubrokon down to his ex pulsion in 1862. Suit AgalesL thle Sllk 8mntalois, UJnited States Distriot Atterhey Blie (f New York, haA follo*ed up the criminal prosecutions agaibat the ring of silk smugglers in that eit by the inithtion of civil proceedings to tocover for the gdtvernmbent the ill. gotten gains It htA been defrataded of. The rate of duty to *hibh the hoeilery and other fratidulent "sampile" goodA were subject was paid upon the best hy silks which werd smhggled. Thg difi'erence tiet*een this rate MAcd t\at which ought 'to hate btOei pat.i is claimed to have aimodted to about $1,386,400, sind a suit *Es b,ega on F'riday lin the United Stab,s itricg (Jourt againset Charles L.. Lawan0e the recently extradited foi e5'r n confe4erate of the qemug&5Eh t only t5rst of seveaI Mmiip.r suit to.be instituted. Wrtalk qklts AMA li. MA.D']ORt P.Aff XDT k~ PULLCE' 119i8 DRAIN. - The. foiull9w vurious -1wo" I melt is wAde in the Ide'd Mr Oafruti, o. tie' e 6 ky Yn4h. e aEt404e Is 'ed "Adlos" (aionf b*6t hoed Venture to assert that, notwiths ing the pfesenfe of lead g6 o' a Vital rei8jn6 it ii .UadjA *ith ,ohoy .: ith.'this Iee*:t d otit.ftcn- %heqd1tor44j0 ad oC torihipo the l ed' r1 en'd - .9tirlpatros - -and Maflt -h It ind tftst, thet under his g the paper will give . inoresed htis, fation.to it readlqs-. Thiid GundIing o? 6ur 'conne6tief uewspaperd'oi will sorprisn & doubtless disgust, naby ot our friends, but there *a' no altern4v4x Two montha 'ontapt wrestle with hostile bullot in or* btaln hs coA Vloed do that We laA tfhe oitp*p1t to develop a lead mine sd dpblp an independent Vineland iewspapei at the oamo time. :Opt' Irijo4 yesight, bhattered herves and sating brainadwonish us that b bowing year we inust not 'stiy t6 far from the hospital. To Qur bubld'ribeft wA . for"Aw past four years,have read the IndO pondent and paid rot It, we hereby. tender our acknowlodgment. Thop who have taken the Pappr just,t lhelp It alongi ne'vor volunteeringa ' dime or roe6gulzing , duon, we shall feel it our duty, if 'W% redovek out ;j health, to thaVik in person. We cannot omit to embkaoe. 4AU. p'ethaps .lab free opportuntty t& thank our editorial aotidenj Who in their kindn'ess oth batt have -at tered our 'Abillties' extolled ofr virtues and w i'tewash'e4 .our fauit. The ooyot'e of the liraft who ta king advintage 6V o'U'r our helpless ness, have attepted to ie'dem past, cowardice by yelping over. oftw g ae we can afford to forgive and. fer geL. And noW, with 'obarity t6r 11' and malioe towaid none; we bid goodby to friends and foe, ald set. tie baok on Aur pill-w fr.* long, refreshing na I Cork fehnmt f 9.-86idfh Th' inart'ermaster's dogattieht the army has rpoeiVed a samPle the new ooA helmet lately adopto for British tr&oets in hot'oliaSteg. has been'%bmitf6d to Whd s-e'eoroTy of ' wa' *Ith- tWe 'erom'miudatlop that it b' referred to the ffediobl d partment b 'UainiWAio n that 06 4[ then be orloro to issue t 116' tybdps 1h Teaa wid A rizona'. bflsgnsted. 'toji'ieYeppblican 16t% 'df en ' tuoky is tfie-si'xthb M%go' th' whid Radicals', at their beo.t coiiv'ntions, have completely. forgotten that therd, is a.freedbiao in 61isteoAD D is sid a obleod deIttae esafe d speak', 60t $6 s*ifttWb t eM4ieen guisbet put iupoin bhu oftatiki d'outt Q. fuhs'r he will eteor bpea a~1~' : " A dis'tresshas aboldetsb ),Bohrted ted a pert4y of 'irem.en Mnagoge Iu blas~ .in~ in l?kedorkho uznty Maryl~ - recently6 They. had i-etukned N oharge *ih had [ii i'6the 'oatu*$ failed tb ot j,todb at the skpeot4d tiilhoj alid on theiir kriktt the blseS ooodirr#d, iunuing them all siol~ Adld sbuae prob'abl. fsahly. , Ransas, reports that thiefe ars ha in h ivi:niy,but hb belioebFei fronier rbe to b6 oo*i-fr sumtiier. 81i oo:ilpahids of 'the 61 oavalfy have started from 1idrt L7u I to relioe'd the 6th ltdiantry, s pottQI of which will mhdet tili kt;a4 "tah aere .aothe leaderf 1heb* me 1" nDcirQd' a Gersitif dh thet erni dslivdr~ *indloFbt the % 4ti1oe yeste dy: ..NUs honb be~~ was the reply. WVehll et is~tt 1ti he.0dutisded, ge$ting is head the wisdd# j iyb.We hbdf disjs et. dreg leddIairtit bft . u:id I get flouse. I Ie - dW1ie as he does; diud I lui liefe P ledder yht. How 'e 46' Q It liworthy of toEd*) idIe i ' been this year & 4 tha t~~ It is said 66A?2 ~ iVi~ 'bow sets t'$ ,dane e~~ r1 Kiug NabIe 9 I.as6 that he ha~'bp ~ forttune follng~,q., IThe taa~ble. *th~t Of. a said to have been inro.se4 pcent. in f?ur ypare. d <