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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. - Robert W. Shand, Esq., of Union, has been appointed reporter of the Supreme Court for two years. - In the event that Governor Simpson does not desire re-election, the Newberry Herald nominates Hon. John H. Evins, of Spartanburg, for the position. - The Court of General Sessions for Richland county will begin on the fourth Monday in October. His Honor T. J. Mackey will preside. - Dr. J. F. Ensor, late Superintendent of the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, has received an appointment as Surgeon in the United States Army. - Napoleon B. Taylor, the party who shot and instantly killed a man by the name of Sewell, in Monroe county, N. C., on the 26th of February last, and for whom a reward of $700 was offered, was recently arrested while attending preaching at Cheraw in this State. - The Register has been informed, on what it supposes to be good authority, that the Winnsboro case on appeal to the Circuit Court, involving the right of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad to charge on cotton by measurement, has been decided in favor of the railroad. -Speights, of the Greenville City Item, says: "The Democrats of South Carolina can make up their minds now to dance square up to the music, and give the prominent working Democrats seats in front of the aristocracy, or suffer ignominious defeat at the next election." - The two Cobbs, Dunlap and Long, four of the parties charged with the murder of Bryce, in Oconee, were brought before Judge Pressley, at Anderson, on Monday of last week, on a writ of habeas corpus, and bailed in the sum of $300. There was no evidence against any of them. The elder Moore, the father of the men at present in custody, has escaped from the State. Some time since, Christopher G. Betchler, a son of Christopher Betchler who became famous by the manufacture of the Betchler gold coin, specially recognized by the government, and who died within the past year in Charlotte, N. C., was arrested in or near Spartanburg on a charge of manufacturing counterfeit coins. At the late term of the United States Court at Greenville, his case was called up for trial, and the jury failing to agree, a mistrial was ordered. The family of Betchlers have always stood well, and their friends and acquaintances will regret to hear that one of the number has dishonored the name. - One of the editors of the Abbeville Me dium has recently visited Charleston, and furnishes his paper with the following in regard to the notorious D. T. Corbin "Chief Justice Corbin, of Utah, has opened an office in this city for the practice of law and established himself as a permanent citizen. He is the same sleek sinner he used to be when he manipulated the phosphate money and pulled the party wires at Columbia. He has a pretty strong hold on the radical and fusion element, is a favorite with the general government, a shrewd and managing lawyer, and will get enough to live on in the ordinary way of his profession until he can make an opening, or the demands of the political situation will give employment to his special gifts. He has already been prominently named in connection with the next radical nomination for Governor." - The suspension of the banking house of James Adger & Co., of Charleston, was announced in that city on Friday last. J. E. Adger & Co., wholesale hardware dealers, also suspended in consequence of being involved as the endorsers of James Adger & Co. As a result of these suspensions, the Peoples' Bank has suspended operations and its affairs will be wound up as early as possible. The liabilities of the Adgers are not definitely known, yet it is generally understood that they are large, and have been stated at about two millions of dollars. Their ability to resume is considered as doubtful. The Peoples' Bank is a state institution and had but little capital. The outlook is that but little will be realized from its assets. - Ugly rumors are afloat in regard to the cruel treatment of penitentiary convicts, by some of the lessees, and an investigation seems to be in order. The monthly meeting of the board of directors of the penitentiary was held in Columbia on Thursday last, in regard to which the Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier, says: "I called, as usual, and sent in my card as the representative of the News and Courier, and it was returned to me with the endorsement that the meeting was of a privare nature, and no representative of the press was to be admitted. Enough is known of their proceedings, however, to justify me in saying that the principal subject of discussion was the terrible death rate and the alleged bad treatment of the leased convicts, and especially those hired by the Greenwood and Augusta Railroad Company. About one hundred out of two hundred and twenty-five, are stated to have died within the last year." It is stated that charges of cruel treatment of convicts will be brought against some of the lessees, if not at this at some-fure meeting, and that at least
