Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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... . . "r ** ' \ \ SHI Eflsiinifl sffaata'i. BY F. M. TRIMMIER. Devoted to Education, Agricultural, Manufacturing and Mechanical Arte. $2.00 IN ADVANCE VOL XXIII. SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 6, 1806. NO 89 THE ijPMSMf IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, A T Two Dollars (Specie) in Advance. . m ^ RATES OP ADVERTISING. One Square, First Insertion, $1; Subsequent Insertions, 76 cents, in Specie. Stamp Outlet! IMPOSED BY ACT OF CONGRESS, TO TAKE EFFECT AUGUST 1, 18G0. The following is an alphabetical list of . the Stamp Duties imposed by act of Con- i gress, passed July 13. 1806 : Agreement.?Other than those mentioned iu this schedule, (or any appraisement) for every sheet or piece of paper 011 1 which it is written, 5 cents. ' Bill of Exchange, Foreign.?Drawn in 1 but payable out of the United States, if 1 drawn singly or otherwise than in a set of ' three or more?same as inland bills of ex- 1 change or promissory notes. Drawn in sets of three or more, for every bill of each set, where the sum made payable shall not ex- 1 cetd $100, or the equivalent thereof, in 1 any foreign currency in which such bills 1 may be expressed, 2 cents : for every ad ditional S100, or fractional part thereof in 1 excess of $100, 2 cents. 1 Bill of Exchange, Inland.?Draft or or ' der for the payment of any sum of money, * not exceeding $100, otherwise than at sight 1 or on demand, or promissory notes, except ' bank notes and checks : or any luemorau- ] duui, ch:ck, receipt, or other written or 1 printed evidence of an amount of money to be paid on demand or at a time to be dc- j stgnated, for a sum not exceeding $100, 5 ' cents ; for every additional $100. or frac- : tionai part in excess of $100, 5 cents. ' Bill of Sale.?Bills of sale bv which any ship or vessel, or any part thereof, shall be ' conveyed to or vested in any other person or persons, when the consideration shall j - not exceed $500, stamp duty 50 cents ; do., ' * when the consideration exceeds $500 and does not exceed $1,000, $1. Exceeding ' 81,000, for every additional amount ofi* $500, or fr.ictiona< part thereof, 50 cents ' Personal property, other tt.an ships or ves- ' cola F\ /ionfa 1 Bill of Lading.?For goods and mer chandiso exported to foreign ports, other than charter party, each 10 cents. Bonds?of indemnity?where the money ( ultimately recoverable thereupon is SI,000 or less, 10 cents; where the penalty ex ceeds SI,000, for every additional SI,000 ' or fractional part in excess of SI,000, 50 ' cents. For the due execution of the du- : tics of any olhce, St. Of any description 1 other than such as may be required in le- 1 gal proceedings, or used in connection with ' mortgage deeds, and not otherwise charged in this schedule, 25 cents. Certificate?Other than those mention- ' | ed, 5 cents. i Certificate of Damage?And all other ' ^ documents issued by any port-warden or marine surveyor, 25 cents. 1 Certificate of l^cposite?For a sum not cxcediug S100, 5 cents. Certificate of Profits?In any incorpo- ' rated company, for an amount not less than 1 $10, nor exceeding .850, cents ; from 850 ' to $1,000, 25 cents ; exceeding 81,000, for every additional 1,000, or fractional part 1 thereof, 25 cents. 1 Certificate of Stock?In incorporated i I coniimnv. '25 o.outa < Charter Party?On any letter or memo s randum rulating to the charter of any ves- ' sel, if the registered tonnage does not ex \ cccd 150 tons 81 ; from 150 to 300, S3 ; 1 1 from 300 to 000 tons, 85; over GOO tons, ( | S10. 1 ' Checks, Drafts or Orders?For any ' amount on any bank, broker or trust company, at sight or on demand, 2 cents; for amount exceeding $10 on any person other ' ' than a bank, banker or trust company, at ! ^ sight or on demand, 2 cents. ^ Cigar Lights?Made in part of wood, ! wax, glass, paper or oiher materials, in 1 parcels or packages, 1 cent; in packages ' of more than 25 and not more than 50 lights, 2 cents; for every additional 25 lights, or fractional part of that number, 1 cent. Contracts?Contracts, broker's note, or memorandum of sale of any goods or mcr chundisu, stocks, bonds, notes of hand, for each note or ni'morunduiu of sale, 10 cents. Conveyance or Deed of Grant?Where \ the consideration or deed of value does not j oxcccd 8500, 50 cents ; $500 to 1,000,81; j for every additional 8500, or fractional part thereof, in excess of 81,000, 50 cents. Entry of Goods?At custom house, not excoeding in valuo 8100, 25 cents ; from $100 to 500, 50 cents; exceeding $500, 1 dollar : for the withdrawal of goods from ^ bonded warchouso, 50 cents. Friction Matches?Or lucifer matches, made in part of wood, in packages of 100 or less, 1 cent; when in parrels or packs gcs of more than 100. and not more than j c 200, each parcel or package, 2 cents, nnd ' t for CTery additional or fractional part p thereof, 1 cent; for wax tapors, double the ' f rates herein imposed upon friction matches, t 1 cent. t Lease?Where rent is 8300, or less, 50 c cents ; where the rent exceeds 8300, for i each additional 8200, or fraction in ex- <i cess of 300 dollars, 50 cents ; assignment r of a lease, same stamp as original, and ad- s ditional stamp upon the value or considera- t tion of transfer, according to the rates on a deeds (See Conveyance.) h Manifest Entry, Clearance?Of cargo of s vessel for foreign port, if tonnage does not e exceed 300 tons, 1 dollar; froiu 300 to s GOO, 3 dollars ; exceeding GOO, 5 dollars, s Meats, Fish, Fruits, Sauces, Jellies, &c. o ?For and upon every can, bottle or other r single package, containing meats, fish, shell v fish, fruits, vegetables, sauces, syrups, pre t pared mustared, jams or jellies, contained c therein, nacked or coaled, made nr?>nir<>it r ? ? r" wr? and sold, or offered for sale, or removed for t consumption in the United States, on or f after the first day of October, 18GG, when such can, bottle, or other single package d with its contents, shall exceed two pounds a in weight, for every additional pound of fractional part, 1 cent. Mortgage or Personal Bonds?Given as security for the payment of any definite j. sum. from 8100 to 500. 50 cents - exceed- (J iug 8500, and not exceeding 81,000,81. () For every additional 500 dollars, or frac- (j tional part thereof, in excess of 500, fifty cents provided that upon each and every assignment or transfer of mortgage, policy ,] of insurance, or the renewal or continuance j of any agreement, contract or charter, by c letter or otherwise, a stamp duty shall be ^ required equal to that imposed oil the orig q inal instrument. a Passage Ticket?To a foreign port, if of cj less price than 35 dollars, 50 cents ; from j 35 to 50 dollars, 1 dollar ; and lor every t; ldditional 50 dollars, or fractional par'. 0 thereof in excess of 50 dollars, 1 dollar. Pawnbroker's Certificate?-For any imount, 5 cents. Playing Cards?For and upon every '( aack, not exceeding b'l cards in number, rrespective of price or value, 5 cents. Policy of insurance?(in any life or !' ives, where the aim unt insured does me ' xceed 1,000 dollars, 25 cants; Ironi 1,001 c iollurs to 5,000, 50 cents ; cxcecdin. >,000 dollars, "1 dollar. Hire and Marin< I1 llisks?Premium not exceeding 10 dollars 1 10 cents ; premium not exceeding 50 uol ? ars, 25 cents ; exceeding 50 dol ars, 5" c :ents; Accidental insurance policies are exempt. '' Power of Attorney?To transfer stock, '' jonds or scrip, to collect dividends, inter- s ist or rent, 25 cents; to vote by proxy, 11 ixcept in charitnblo, religious, literary ^ ind cemetery societies, 10 cents; to sell or 11 lease real estate, and perform all other ae's ^ not specified; SI; fur any other purpose, 50 cents. Probate of Will, or Letter of Adminis- v Iration.?Where the estate does not ex- n ceed the value of $2,000, $1; for every Additional $1,000, or fractional part in cx- 8 cess of $2,000, 50 cents. 7 Protest of Notes, Draft, &c.?Or marine 1 protest, &c., 25 cents. Proprietary Medicines, Cosmetics, Sic. 11 ?Not over 25 cents, 1 cent; not over 50 '' cents, 2 cents; not over 75 cents, 3 cents; 8 not over $1, 4 cents. For every additional c 50 cents, or fractions thereof, 2 cents. ltcccipt.?Receipt for the payment of ' my min of money, or for the payment of c iny debt due exceeding $20, not being for ^ iatisfactiou of any mortgage or judgment, ' >r decree of a court, or endorsement on Any stamp obligation in acknowledgment ? >f its fulfillment, for each receipt, 2 cents. ,! Provided, That when more than one sig- ;i nature is affixed to the same paper, one 1 jr more stamps may be affixed thereto rep resenting the whole amount of stamps re- !' juired for such signatures. ^ Sales.?Or contract for sales of stocks, I1 bonds, foreign exchange, gold and silver bullion and coin, promissory notes or other securities, when made by brokers, banks, I bankers who pay a special tnx, require f equal to 1 cent on every 8100. If there (, is a fraction over 8100, the same to be stamped at the full rate of 8100. When made by a person, firm or corporation not ? payingspecial tax, for every 8100 of value t 5 cents. A memorandum of sale or con ; j, tract must be made by the seller to the : r buyer upon the sule or contract being made, and the stamps affixed thereto. v Writ.?Writ 50 cents. Where the t amount claimed in a writ, issued by a court j| not of record, is 8100 or over, 50 cents. (j Upou every confession of judgment, or cog- ^ novit, for 8100 or over (except in those , cases where the tax for the writ of a commenccuient of suit has been paid), 50 cents, j Writs or other process on nppculs from jus- ^ ticcs' courts or other court of inferior jurisdiction to a court of record, 50 cents. War rant of distress, when the amount of rent j, cla med docs not exceed $100, 2t? oents; when exceeding $100, 50 cents. EXEMPTION. a No btamp duty shall bo required on pow- C x of attorney or any other paper relating o application for bounties, arrearages of >ay, or pensions, or to the receipt thereof rom time to time; or upon tickets or conracts of insurance when limited to injury o persons while traveling; nor on certificates of the measurement or weight of aninals, wood, coal, or other articles, nor on leposit notes to mutual insurance cotnpalies for the insurance upon which policies uhject to stomp duties have been or are o be issued; nor on any warrant of attorney ccotnpanying a bond or note, when such loud or note shall have a (fixed thereto the tamp or stamps denoting ?he duty recjuir d; by and by whenever any bond or note hall be secured by a mortgage, but. one tamp duty shall be required to be placed n such paper; nor on any certificate of the ccord of a deed or other irstruuient in mling, or of the acknowledgment or proof hereof by attesting witnesses; nor to any ndorsemcnt of a negotiable instrument. Provided that tin- stamp duty placed hereon shall he the highest rate required or said instruments, or either of theui. Receipts by'cxpress companies for the elivery of any property for transportation rc exemnt from stnnm dutv A I* J " PENALTIES. Penalty fur making, signing or issuing ny instrument, document or paper of any iud whatsoever, or shall accept, negotiate r pay, or cause to be accepted, negotiated r paid, any bill of exchange, draft or orer, or promissory note for the payment ot toney, without the same being duly stampd, or denoting the duty hereby imposed hereon, S,")0; and the instrument shall be ccmcd invalid mid ol' no effect; or for ouutcrfciting stamps or dies SI.000, and inprisontnent to hard labor not exceeding vc years. For making, signing, issuing, cccpting or paying any bill of exchange, raft order, or note without stauip, ?200. 'or selling property, cosmetics, matches, ;eals, Gsh, Iruit, sauces, jellies, See, withut proper stamps, fifty dollars. oTiiF.it rnovisroNs. Instruments arc not to be recorded un)8s properly stamped. No instrument is invalid for the want of he particular kinds . \ st mps designated, rovided a legal stamp of equal amount except proprietary stamps i>; duly affix d. All official instruments, documents and apers issued or used by officers of the Jnited States government or by the officers f any State, county or other municipal orporation, are exempt. In cases where an adhesive stamp shall e used for denoting any duty imposed by liis act, the person using or affixing the arae shall write thereon the initials of his ante and date upon which the same shall e attached or used, so that the same may ot again be used, under a penalty of fifty ollars. Instruments heretofore issued without tamps, not to be void where stamps are ubscquently affixed. Postage stamps ean ot be used as revenue stamps. Any person may present to the com mis ioner of internal revenue any instrument nd require his opinion whether the same s chargcablo with any duty; and if the aid commissioner shall be of opinion that t is not chargeable with any stamp duty, e is required to impress on it a particular tamp, with words to signify that it is nut hargeablo with stamp duty; and every intrument on which said stamp is impressd shall he received in cv'detice in all ourts, notwithstanding objections on the round of such instrument being without lie proper stamp. Tlie party to whom a document is issud from a foreign country, or by whom it ? to be used, shall, before using the same, ffix thereon the stamp or stamps itidica ing the duty thereon. Proprietors 01 cosmetics, medicines or roprietary articles, may furnish private ies, and are allowed 5 ner cent 011 all urchases ot 8f>0U; over ?00, 1U per eent. Method of Rendering ai.l Sorts of 'aper fire-proof.?This astonishing cfcct is produced by the ino.>t simple proess. It is only necessary, whether the >aper bo plain, written, 01 piintcd on, or tainted lor hangings, to he immersed in u trong solution of alum-water and then horou^hly dry it, when it will immediatey become fire proof. This experiment is eadily ascertained, by holding a slip of taper over a candle. Some paper, however, rid require to imbibo more of the solution linn it may receive by a single immersion, n which case, the operation of dipping and Irying must be repeated till such paper ifcouies fully saturated, when, it is postively asserted, neither the color nor the juality of the paper will be in the smallest legree affected ; but that on the contrary, ioth will be even improved wrnm ? A lawyer is something of n carpenter ic can filo a bill, split a hair, mako an ntry, get up a case, frame an indictment, inpannel a jury, put thcoi in a box, nail i witness, hammer a iadge, and bore a lourt. The Soul's Oasis. An onsis lien in the desert of years That never loses its green, And often watered by memory's tears, Are the burial ground of joys and fears, With rich violet turf between. Through that emerald spot the waters roll That were quaffed in my boyhood's day, When a merry chime, not a funeral toll, Rang out in the belfry of my soul, And life seemed an endless May. A summer lodge in that place of bloom, Fi r off in the desolate waste, Is en wreathed with roses of rare perfume. And portraits hang in an inner rtfbm lty no mortal pencil traced. They need not repair at the hands of Art, For their colors will vanish never; And with flash of eye and beat of heart Loved forms from enchanted frameworks And whisper?"We perish never'." [start. In tlint oasts, so sweet and lone, Begirt by the wild, gray sand. From a lucid lake, with silvery tone. Comes music sweeter than Ariel's awn, That was beard by Ferdinand. Old favorite airs that were sung so well By lips that in youth I kissed, Weave round me a weird, bewitching spelll | ui.:i ? niui? i.-iy itcari lb WHrmeil to its inmost ccl, And uiiuc eyes grow dim with mist. Iu the solemn hush of the quiet night My spirit oft waudcrs thither, And I talk with the sainted, in robot of white, Tn that beautiful land of bloom and light, Where the blossoms grow n>>t to wither. A YouTn who Never Saw a Woman ?Meadow's history of the Chinese, lately published in London, in a chapter on love, has the following story : A Chinese who had been disappointed in marriage, aud had grievously suffered through women in many other ways, retired with his infant son to the peaks of a mountain range in Kweichoo, to a spot quite inaccessible to the little footed Chinese women. He trained the boy to worship the gods and stand in awe and abhor rence ot the devils, but lie never mentioned women to him, always descending the mountain alone to buy food. At length, however the infirmities of age compelled l.l 11. to tale the young man with him to carry the heavy bagot riee. As they were leaving the market together, the son stopped short and pointing to three approach ing objects, cried, "Father, what are those things. Look! look! what are they?" The father instantly answered with the peremptory order, "Turn away your head : they arc devils V The son in some alarm turned away, noticing that the evil things were gazing at him with surprise from be hind their ians lie walked to the mountain in silence, cat no supper, and from that day lost his appetite and was afflicted with melancholy. For some time his troubled and anxious parent could get no satisfactory answer to his inquiries, but at length the young man burst out, crying with inexplicable pain. "Oh, father, that tallest devil, father." <m m Interesting to Travelers.?The Augusta Chronicle says : We learn that arrangements have been recently entered into between the Georgia and South Carolina Railroads, and the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad, of North Carolina, by which through passenger trains will be run daily between Atlanta and Wilmington. Passe ngers, baggage and mails will be carried daily between these points, without i change of ears. The most luxurious sleeninn cars, built exnrosslc fr?r tl.i" I!..** I . , - ?r J "" ? "'""I a,t-' on these trains. The care are both day and night care, and passengers need not change their scats from Atlanta to Wilmington, and have no trouble about baggage or transfers. Passengers going North, and taking this routo and going up the Chesapeake 1 lay, do not lose any night's rest from Atlanta to New York, or oven Huston. Through tickets aro sold at Atlanta, Augusta, or any other point on tho route. The arrangement commenced Au gust 4th, and is a step forward iu railroad enterprise. Woman?-To tho h ?a>r, th) eternal ot i the fair sex, be it said, that in tho path of duty no sacrifice is with them too hiirh or tint dear. Nothing is with them impossible, but to shrink from what love, honor, innocence and religion require. The voice of pleasure or of power may pass by unheeded, but the voice of affliction uever. The chamber of the sick, the pillow of the I dying, tho vigils of the dead, tbe altars of religion, uever iuis.->ed the presence or aym pat lues of woman. Timid though she be, and so delicate that the winds of heaven may not too roundly visit her, on such occasions she loses all sense of dauger, and assumes a preternatural courage whioh knows not and fears no eonseauonces. Then she displays that undauntea spirit which neither courts difficnltios nor evades them; that resignation which utters neither j murmurs nor regrets; and that patience in suflering which seems victorious over death itself.?Judge Story. 1 f Novel Employment. The New Orleans Times tells a story of a man who, some years ago, was doing an extensive business in that oity, and, owing to his singular blending of roughness and severity with gentleness, acquired the sobriquet of the "Artful Dodger." One cold November morning, an urchin applied to him for a situation, and in answer to his sharp interrogatories, the boy stated that his mother was a widow, and supported herself by her needle, and during the summer she had been attacked with the yellow fever, and had not yet recovered from the debility which it had produced. Up to this time the boy had been going to school, and expected to enter the high school, but was compelled to go to work. For tome time the Dodger sat buried in profound thought; then suddenly turning rnnnrf stared the petitioner full in Hie face and thus delivered himself: ' Boy you are employed; I give you fifteen dollars a month, but on certain express conditions. Saturdays you shall have all to yourself?all boys should have time to play?but I pay in advance, and when I hire people I expect them to work?work hard you understand?You gi*"C me your time?I give you my money. If I do what I please with your five days in the week, you do what you pleaso with my fifteen dollars. He then turned to his desk, scribbled off a note, and then took six two dollar and a half gold pieces out of his safe, which he placed in the boy's hand, and told him to deliver the letter. "Mr. , Principal of School: I have hired at fifteen dollars a month. His time is my property, and I will most certainly dispose of it as I see fit. I choose that he shall go to school. If yon find him negligent, let me know, and he will immediately be discharged. Respectfully, " The salary was paid promptly until the old gentleman's death, and the novel ensployee now occupies a good position in a large commcroial house, in Texas. 1 What "I'lTht" Can Do.?"Children, those of you who will bring new scholars to school shall be rewarded with some nice dooes," said the Superintendant of a Sunday-School in Kentucky, to his scholira1 one Sunday. "I can't get any new scholars," jaid seteral of the children to themselves. "I'll try what I can do," said one little boy. He went homo to his fathor, and said : "Father, will you go to Sunday school with me ?" "I can't read, my son," said the father with a look of shame. "Our teachers will teach you, dear father," said he in a respectful and affectionate manner. "Well, I'll go," said the father. He went. He learned to read. He became a christian. Then he felt so much int -ested in the Sunday-school cause, that he engaged himself as a Sunday sehool colporteur, and in four days that man had established four hundred Sunday-schools, into which thirfivc thousand ohildren had been gathered. Only think of all this amount of good resulting from one effort of that little boy, when he said, "I'll try." A Beautiful Reflection.?It cannot dc that the earth is cast up by the oecan of eternity to float a moment upon ita waves and to Bink to nothingness. Else why is it that the high and glorious aspira ? tions which leap frfim the temple of our hearts are forever wandering about unsatisr..?A v uri? i- a a- -? uvu i u H) is it mat me rainbow and cloud couie over us with a beauty not earth, and then pass of! and leave ua to mose upon their faded loveliness ? Why is it that stars who hold their festival around the midnight throne, arc set above the grasp of our limited faculties, forever mocking us with their unapproachable glory ? And finally, why is it that brightor forms of human beauty are presented to our view, then taken from us?leaving the thousand streams of our affections to flow in Alpine torrents upon our hearts ? We are born tor higher destiny than that of earth; thorc is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread out beforo us like islands that slumber on the ooean, and whero the beautiful which begins hero, and passes before us like shadows, will stay in our possession forever." The Raleigh (N. CA Progress, of tho 18th instant, says : "\\ o aro informed that the oitizens of Warren county will, on tha 8th proximo, erect a monument over the daughter of General Robert E. Lee. She is buried near Jones' Springs: Invitations to be present have been sent to the General and his family, Fitshugh and William Henry Leo, General Ransom and others. It is quite probable they will all attend. This ocoasion will evidently attraot a great crowd, not as a matter of oariosity bat that tho people may evidence their respect for the old ohieftein.