All Sorts Of Pen-scratches

In " The South Carolina Problem," n the June number of Scrïbrwr's Monthly, Kdward King tells how a rectiiit eleotion was carried in Charleston. Ho says : ' Tho law requirod evcry person voting to swear that ho was a oitizen of Charleston, but tho imported voters (negrona) were provided with printed forma of the oath, from which tho clsiuae conccrmng the place of reaidence was omitted." And again ; " The present Governor not long aince told an editor in Charleston, that every citizun of South Carolina oould vote in Charleston, if he ohose, without hindrance ; there was no manner in which tho Charlestonians could htlp theuiselves." And so a cuy of ."0,000 inhabitants, with thirty millions of capital, by the aid of imported field hands, who know nothing of voting or anything else, is " delivered over, bouiid hand and foot, to the tender niercies of the ignorant and vicious." - Some months ago tho Duüoit Jivening News suggosted that the tlien proposed to bo auionded Constitution was to bo subinitted at the April eluction, to wkich tho Akous responded by citing the requirement for submission at a general election. The Netos now re-openg the question and quotes the Lansing Iieyublican as holding that "the adoption of the Constitution would euro all irregularities." Wel!, what is an irreirularitv V Is a mission at a day other tbau provided by the organio law itself - and where the electora are not bound to be present or even to take notice - an irregularity t "We rather guess that it is a little more than that. The doubling up of amendmüiits into a large amendmeut (or revisión) may be tortured into an irregularity - and cured by adoption ; the other not. - Of woman suffrage, Dr. Holland Bays in a recent Scribner paper : " It would rob her of her peculiar power - a power which all experience provea cannot be preserved too carefully. Woman cannot afford the ballot. It would tie her hands, weaken her inrluence, destroy her disinterestednoss in the treatment of' of all public questions, and open into the beautiful realrns of her moral power ten thousand streams of weakness and corruption. The woman who recently said that this crusade ' rueans the ballot,' proved only by that speech how poorly qualified thoy are to use the ballot." All of which is true : that is to one mind. - " Etchings" - in the June Scribner - pictures " Diogenes in America" (both in verse and with the graver), searching in vain for that honest man," and finally dying heart-broketi on the steps of the Capítol at Washington : " He had been for a week pust vanderlng round, With a luntern, making culi ufter cali, On members, senators, judges, - all "Who would see him. One üid'nt take loit to flfid That the poor old creature wils out of his mind." Yes, " out of his mind" to search for "the honest rnan" in congressional or departinent halls, that is, if oldfashioned in his notions of honesty. - The grand jury of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, has indicted Gov. Moses for ' breach of trust and grand larceny with fraudulent intentions :" that is for counselling the County Treasurer to use $6,000 of public funds to pay Moses's debts. The Governor refuses to be arrested, and has called out the military to protect him. If South Carolina juries propose to indict all public ofücers who have been stealing the people's moneys it will take them more than all summer. - Yesterday was gala day at the " White House," the occasion of the feasting being the marriage of Ellen Wrenshall Grant, daughter of the President, to Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris, of Warsach House, Litehfield-Hauts, England. The mother of Sartoris was a younger sister of the celebrated actress Fanny Kemble. The match is understood to be purely a love affair and without official significance. But "Jenkins" will probably make the most of it. - In the House on Saturday last, Mr. E. B. Hoar mado a speech on the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Bill, ia which he charged that James Watson Webb, when Minister to Brazil, collectod L14,330 of the Brazilian Government on an nnjust claim, and misappropriated or smouged L9,3üO of it. A son of Gen. Wobb publishes a card asking a suspenion of publio opinión until his father's return froin Europe. - President Grant is reported as approving the decoration alike of tho graves of the Union and Confedérate dead, " lieving that the time has come when every feeling of fraternity should be encouraged, and advantage taken of the opportunity for the removal of auy animosity occasioned by the war." The hoaryheaded, bloody-handed rebel sympathizer ! - Nast, in a recent numbor of Harper's Weehly, pictures a man with the head of an ass, engaged in the laudable exercise of atteinpting to writo his resignation ; and then, for fear that the public will not appreciate the " palpable hit," imitates the paintist who wrote " ïhis is a Horse," and inscribes hig work, " The portrait of the Secretary of the Treasury is drawn as mildly as possible." - "Brooks silently steuls away " is the how a waggish nowspaper man heads a telegraph announcement that " Gov " B. had eraeuated the Arkansas State House. If he didn't steal something more material and valuable the good people of Arkansas have abundant reason for thankfulness. - The öenate passed auother ourrency bill on Thursduy of last week : a bilí ■which is do improveinent ou its vetoed predecessor, and which, the House being hkely to make it worse iustoad of better, is more than likely to run against a presidential snag. - Friday last was evidently a bad day in the Massaohusetts Senato : the bill repealing the State Constabulary law was ordered to a third roading, wonian suffrago was defoated, and u liceuse law voted up. - No heresy on Prof. S wing's plate : or so says the Chicago Presbytery, whioh acquitted him Wednesday, by a vote of 45 to 15. Prof. Pat ton proposea toappeal. " Discretion is the better part of valor." - lioth Houso3 of Congress have agreed to adjourn on the 22d day of June. "Itoll swiftly round ye wheels of time and bring the welcoine day." ïhat's all at this writing. - The Wayne body-snatohing case was finished ou Friday last, and the two defeudants - Dr. Curtis and father - were acquitted and dischaigod. Ex-Senator Pomeroy's trial is again the subject of conversation in Kausas. [t is said now that it will bugin in June, but a general impression prevaila that it will never begin at uil. A TERRIBLE CALAMITY befell the I ing villages of Willianisburg.Skinnervüle, Haydenville and Leeds, Mass., on Saturday last. At au early bour that inorning the dam of Ashfield reservoir, located on the east brauoh of Mili Biver, nbout three miles above Williamsburg, gave way, and within ninety minutes the unconirollable torrent poured into the Connecticut Rivor Süme eight or ten miles below, having in ita mad progresa swept away houses. barns, milis, faetones, shops, and bnried nearly two hundred men, women and children beneath, timbers, gravel beds, and boulders. The work was done quioker than pen can teil of it. The loss in property is estimated by the million, whieh is but a grain of dust in the bilanoe oompared with the loss of life. The reservoir covered 1 1 1 acres and the water averaged a depth of 24 feet. A cheap and badly built dam is the eause.