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' 1 1 1 * sas ifiiiffii. . # BY F. M. TKIMMIER Devoted to Education, Agricultural, Manufacturing and Mechanical Arts. $2.00 IN ADVANCE VOL XXIII. SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1866. NOW THE SA&O&nSfA BJPMlMKf 18 PUBLISHED EVEEI THURSDAY MORNING, AT Two Dollars (Specie) In Advance. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square, First Insertion. SI; Subsequent Insertions, 75 cents, in Specie. NOTICE 18 hereby given that application will be made to the Legislature at its next Session for an Act of Incorporation for the Presbyterian Church of Spartauburg, O. II. Sept 18 33 tf W JL JL'> L TS hereby given that application will V>c made J_ at the next sitting ot the Legislature for F a renewal of the act of incorporation of the Nazareth Presbyterian Church, Spartanburg District. Sept 6 32 Sin NOTICE. The commissioners of free 8CHOOLS are requested to meet at Spartanburg C. II. on tnc FIRST MONDAY in NOVEMBER next. Teachers will have their claims properly made out. nnd present them to me by the 16TH of OCTOBER next. JOSEPH FOSTER, Chairman Board Commissioners. Sept 27-35-4 NOTICE. ALL persons living in Spartanburg District indebted to the subscriber for services of imported Stallions, ? AYSGARTH " and "BOSQUET," are requested to make payment to Messrs. FOSTER & JUDD, who are author lied to receipt them. Wp P TOT VJ A KJ X * September 27, 18G6. 35 4t NOTICE. J HE blacksmith books of Da. J. J. VERNON, deceased, are placed in my hands settlement And collection. All persons & thus indebted, are hereby notified to settle the r same on or before the first dnv of Senteinber next. T. 0. V. VERNON, All y. August 2 27 tf NOTICE. PERSONS indebted to the Estate of CASSANDRA BARNETT, dec'd, ate hereby requested to make settlement by the FIRST of OCTOBER next. All who fail to do ho will find their Notes in the hands of an Attorney for collection. M. F. BARNETT, Ex'or. Sept 20 34 tf Executor's Notice. ALL persons indebted to the Estate of GIDEON II. KING, will make immediate payment to the undersigned. All having claims against said Estate will hand them in properly attested to either the undersigned or to Farrow and Duncan. JONAS BREWTON. Sept 20 34 tf IVotice to Debtors. PERSONS indebted to the estate of RICH ARD B. SMITH, are hereby requested to r meet me at the Court House, on Sale-days in September and October, lor the purpose of making settlement. All who fail to make settlement with me by Salesduy in October next, will find their notes in the hands of an Attorney for collection. Give attention to this ami eave cost. S. F. SMITH, Aug 9-28-td Administrator. Notice. ALL persons indebted to tlie Estate of HENRY BISHOP, deceased, arc hcrcIV, I I. nnliK.ll Ik.l .1.-1. V/1TLM ..-I, . /, uiun inch .IIMM .AC counts must be paid on or before the lOlh day of October next, or suit for the same will be oomuieuced, as we arc obliged to wind up the Estate. Parlies indebted will please not puss this notice by, as we do not wish to sue, but will be compelled to do so to save our selves. C. II. MARRY, J no. UL knett, Administrators. Sept 20 31 3t Estate TVol iee. rk LL persons indebted to the Estate of P. y\ H. UUNTElt, deceased, are notified to make immediate payment All claims over the amount of TWENTY DOLLARS, will be I settled with Farrow & Duncan, Attorneys. All sums of and under the ninount of Twenty Dollars, will be settled with Sain'l Lancaster, esq. All persons having claims against the estate will hand them in properlv attested to the un dersigned. POLLY W. HUNTER, Administratrix. Sept 20 84 if Final Notice. ALL persons having demands againrt the estate of JAMES M. NESIUTT, dee'd., are hereby notified to present them duly attested, and persons indebted by NOTE or ACCOUN 1, previous to his dentil, are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned, and thereby save cost. E D. NESBITT, 1 THOS. P. FIELDER. / vx 10 * Sept. 20 84 # 4 I.TACONET, DOTTED AND PLAIN SWISS, NANSOOK AND MULL Muslins, A NEW SUPPLY, at CLEVELAND, WALKER & CO. Terrible Tragedy In Virginia. A correspondent oi the Richmond Dispatch, writing from Buckingham Court House, Ya., Sept. 6th, gives the following particulars of the tcrriLlc tragedy which recently occurred there: The most thrilling and melancholy affair took place here on the 1st instant, that has shocked the feelings of our citizens sinco the close ol the war. The causes and results are as follows : About three weeks ago, or more, Mr. Anthony Walton, a wealthy mill owner ol this town, arose early in the morning with the alleged intention oi visiting his mill and plantation, but suddenly changing his route returned to the house. There he lound Mr. James Leach (a young lawyer who makes Mr. Walton's house his home during the sessions of court) in the room with his wife. Their position relative to each other was such as to excite suspicion on the part of the liu band, who at once ordered Mr. Leach out of the house, and forced the execution of his mandate at the point of the revolver; after which he called ibr the carriage, and putting madam in, sent her to her mother. Nothing further of interest transpired in the case except that a bill of divorce was filed by Mr Walton, uutil last Saturday, when Lcach agaiu ro !e into town. Alter strolling about the village for some time, lie met Anderson Walton, a son ol Anthony by a lirst wife. /? ndcrson reproached Leach at once with the scandal, which Leach denied with groat emphasis; whereupon Anderson shook his list in his face and exclaimed, "Vou l>i'ig , you did, for pa saw you," at the same time putting his hand under his coat. "So you will shoot nie, will you?" yelled Lcuch, and drawing his six shooter, he tired, and young Walton fell, pierced througli the lungs, the blood gushing from his mouth and nostrils. Just then Mr. Walton, the cider, rushed up and fired three shots Irotn his pistol directly at i.cacn, out missing 111111 entirely, slightly wounded Captain A. T. Mosely and u lie gro. Once more l^cuch fired, und the el der Walton lay oil the .sward a corpse The bull entered just above his heart, severing the tnuin arteries and causing instant death. Anderson lingered until Monday evening about 2 o'clock, when as they were closing the grave over all that was mortal of his father, his soul joined him in the spirit world. But the tale of death does not end lure. The Kcv. .James 11. C. I,each, 1) D., a highly respected 1' res by tcrian minister, died soon alter hearing of the bloody drama in which his son bad acted so prominent a part; possibly in eon sequence, though as to this no one can do ought but conjecture. Mrs. Walton was one of tho wives ol llobert, the ceronaut, whose cars were cut off in Louisville, Ky., for bigamy. Soon after their marriage he ran off with her money, leaving her destitute; though legally free?for lie had two wives living wl.en he married her?Mr. Walton became so enamored with the beautiful widow that he bought her wedding clotlu-s, and finished on her every luxury that wealth could procure, until the recent affair which led to the double homicide. I.eaeh has been justified on the plea ol self-defence. Mil. Davis.? A dispatch toon fortress Monroe on Wednesday states that during the interview of Bishop CSreeue and Lev Mr. Kelly with Mr. Davis, Bishop (Jrecne mentioned the great desire prevailing throughout the South of having liini released, and stating their intention, if meeting with his approval, of proceeding to Washington for the purpose ol having a personal interview with President John son, and persuading him to liberate Mr. ! )uvis. The latter replied that their efforts would be futile. His counsel, Mr. O'Conor, and more lately, the lion. William l>. Heed, bad both personal interviews with the President for the same object, and the only answer to their petitions was, that he (Davis) would have to be tried under the charges now pending against him, before , both a military and civil tribunal Pro | viding, of course, that no now unforeseen circumstance should transpire in the time intervening before a trial should take place, but for tl.e present he had given up all hopes of a release from his confinement. The two gentlemen, however, have left for Washington. Colored People sent North.?On Wednesday evening sixty-three colored people?thirty men and thirty-three women?were sent from this city to Provi denco, by way of New York, from the agency of Mrs. J. S. Grilling, to be disj tributcd from the latter named city to their destined homes. Tliey were all cotnforta bly dressed and in clean condition. Since April last more than a thousand have been sent into Northern families, besides a large number that, under tho auspices of the j Freed man s llureau, have been sent, in accordance with their desire, to their old : homes or elsewhere in the iSouth. A car load is sent every week?National Jnttl' It'gentcr. Accident at Niagara Falln. The following details of the sad acci, dent which occurred at Niagara Falls on ] ! Wednesday last, brief' allusion to which | j was made a few days since, are received by mail: It seems that on the afternoon of Wednesday last, Mr. Cooper, the postmaster at Chippewa, on the Canada side, two miles above the Falls, stalled with Frank Leutzc, a ferryman, to cross the river in a small boat. Usually the course is to pull about two miles up the river before attempting j to cross, hut on this occasion the unlortunatc men seemed to have imagined that the heavy wind blowing up stream would I counteract the f'o:ce of the current, and consequently attempted to cross in a direct line. When near the centre of the stream, the folly ol the hazardous feat became apparent to the occupants ol the boat, who, despite the effort of the oarsman to stem the swift current, soon found themselves gliding swiftly to the thundering cataract below. Still the terror stricken boatman plied his oars with frantic energy, while his companion, rushing from side to side of the boat and wildly gesticulating, pile ously appcah d for assistance, from those on shore, hut which, of course, these horrorstricken observers were unable to render. As the boat drew nearer and nearer the mighty cataract, the velocity with which it was hurried on, became accelerated, un til striking the rapids near Goat Island, the little craft was lor a moment caught in the eddying circling current, out of which it, however, soon shot, and in un instant afterward reached the verge of the precipice, over which it plunged with its human freight into the learning abyss bo low. Hundreds of persons lined the shores and gathered upon Goat Island, ntute wit nesses of the terrible ride of death. It is considered very singular that Lcutzc, the boatman, who had crossed and re crossed a hundred times in all kinds of weather, should have so sadly misjudged the torce of the current, and overestimated to such a degree the strength ol the wind. Although diligent search has been made lor the bodies ol the unfortunate men, up to the latest accounts no trace of e tl-.r had boon discovered. IIouiublk Accident.?The litehinond Times gives the particulars of a shocking accident which occurred in that city on Thursday last, at liaxull & Crenshaw's Hour mills : Mrs. l.illie Ann Harlow, wife of Mr John I'. Harlow, the shipper and superin I tcndeiit of the mills, had, iu company with two or throe lady acquaintances, \ ist ten the establishment to witness its extensive operations, ami alter passing through every story reached the top of the buthl iug, where a lew minutes were spent in [ viewing the intricate machinery and surveying the surrounding country from the lolly ! eight at which they were standing. 1 On turning to retrace their steps, Mrs. Harlow's dress flirted against the revolving cogs ot the ponderous t.'oiivev. >r, ' ; which, almost as quick as thought, dragged Iter forward and into the Uiacdiitu iy, literally cutting her into Iragments. The j body was severed entirely in two across the clo >t, both arms were cut oil, an 1 j other portions of her person were horribly mashed. One of the'anns loll to the story ' below, while the lileless trunks rolled over | on the floor, and streams ot blood spirted i from them lor several feet around. Mr. Taylor, an employee, standing near by, made every elldrt to extricate her, but , finding himself entangled was compelled to let go and tear himselt loose. The re,.i 1 .i - - : , n>.iv |I|1IV1V< I'ltl III II V" 'III II ! and carried t? In r husband's residence a , ! short distance oil. 'I lie score which cnj sued when Mr. llarluw reaclwd the .-put i was truly heart-rending- -ueh giiel we luVO liuto seen exceeded. iqi . am Mr. William Cameron, in his return lrom abroad, has brought with him home a pair ut emus or cussi awaries, which are 1 designated in the dictionary as ' a kind of, ostrich." They ire rather more ferocious however, and possess a power for destine tivciuss and idlest ion which is perfectly savage. They were believed to be quite tame when they reached the city, and the owner amiably turned tlmn loose on his lawn. Last evening two interesting coli Ored children and several pigs were miss- 1 ing Iroiu the vicinity. The inference is painful, but as public journalists wc arc bound to state facts as they occur, or at least as they seem?/' (rrsburj luJtx. A special to the Philadelphia Ledger from Washington says Thurlow Weed, (who is really tho active and controlling editor of the New York Times,) who has been here ou a political mission, which is believed to have for its object a modification of the Presidential policy, so us to secure the caily representation of the South in Congrcbs, through the adoption of tho I Constitutional amendment, returned to I New York to night. What In Truth. Snid a dying young man to me, in re- ] ply tu my earnest entreaty that ho would east himself as a lost sinner on Christ, "there are so many diQercnt creeds all protesting to be drawn from the Bible, that I know not what to do, or what to believe." And turning to his wife, with 1 whom he had passed I ut three short years, he said, "she leels just so too." "But," saiJ I, "does the idea that there are so many different views of what the B;ble teaches, alters the fact that there is truth somewhere '! Suppose you are a perfevt stranger in this region, and are inquiring the way to Boston One says, go due north, another says no, you must go ast: a third charges the other with falsehood, and assures y<>u that the only right way to Boston is South. \v"ill you sit down, especially when some grrut peeuni?pv -i... i 1 i- ? ...J .H|.. IIU.1 Ull your oouig 111 DU3 ton at a certain time, and say : "There arc so many opinions on this question, that I will do nothing, I will make no further attempt to reach Boston ; in fact I doubt whether there is such a place as Boston alter all ? "Or counterfeit money is passed upon you. The notes look well, tlicy all promise well. All state upon the face of them that they are true bills, the true 'fives' ami 'tens.' Bo you say, does any sensible business man say, upon finding that they are worthless, '1 will have nothing to do with money of anv kind; 1 will let the whole tiling entirely alone. "Why then do you not exercise the same common sense about the Bible, and the way to find out its meanings? Grant that, there are different opinions as to what the truth really is; that docs not prove what the practical conduct of so many assorts, that there is no truth anywhere. "Only seek lor Religious Truth, my dear." said I, "as you seek for any other kind ol truth, with the same singleness ot purpose, the same zeal, the same discritui nation, the sume sense of personal responsibility, und you will find it. You arc thrown on your own responsibility here as everywhere else. You are to dig for the truth as for hid treasures. God has provided helps enough. With sincerity, with u u..cl.u'i.'ic ...ii.d, wi.'u a player iu! spirit, you car.not fail of planting your feet ou the rock of God's eternal truth." Tax on Cotton.? Hereafter the inter rial revenue tax on cotton will he inelud ed in the price when sold. For instance good mi Idling, which was quoted last week at 28 Cents, will henceforth he minted. with the tax of three cents per pound added, viz : dl cents, if the price should n.it vary. Of course the producer, or own or of the cotton will pay the tax, &c. In future the Southern reports ot the market ! will he in accordance with this State of affairs, as in the present custom in Savan nali and t 'harTstou. ' Mr. Hii'Wn," said a constable to this ubhjuit .us personage the other day, "how many cows do you own?" "Why do you i-h was the tjuery. ' Roeaiise I wish to levy on tlieni," was the prompt rejoinder. "Well, let me sec," said Mr 1> , abstract i dly, "how many cows does the law allow me.'" "Two," rejoined the constable. fwo." said Mr. I?., with good-natured as tonishiiient; "well if the law allows tne two, I wish it would make haste and send the other along, as 1 haven't hut one I" An F.asteru editor says that a man in New York got himself into trouble by marrying two wives. A Western Kditor replies by assuring his eoieinporary that u good many men in that .sectinn have done the same tiling by | marrying one. A Northern editor report that quite a [ number ol his acquaintance found trouble I by barely promising to marry, without go i ing any further ? ? i mm i i "'fillies are so hard I can hardly manage to beep my nose above water," said a hud.an 1 the other night to his wife, who i was importuning h1111 lor a new dress No," she replied with some asperity, "but you manage to keep it above brandy and water easy enough !" A waggish husband recently cured his wife ol divers ills in this wise; he kissed j the servant girl one tu? ruing, and got caught at it. Mrs. ,1. was up in an instant. She 1'orgot all her complaints, and the man of the house declares that he has never had to pay a cent for "help" sicca. < <f? ? Tragedy has its comic accompaniment, oven a> the best wit has a sad element. Washington was amused a few days since with the in -r of an irrej roachablc married lady, who said, "Ah ! I am so sorry for ( that neeidrnt on Sunday I have not been ! able to g> t any gentleman to speak with ine since I've heard ol it." Hon. .1 V*. Bknjamin ?Kx Secretary Menjaiiiin made his first appearance as a banister on the Northern circuit in Eng. land in August. The Eogliah papers praise him Tho Oxford (Mississippi) Falcon publishes a letter dated in Dublin from Hon. Jacob Thompson, one of the cxilted Confederates, in the course of which he nys t " 1 assure you that, with all her faults, L love uiy country. There is no other such country in the world. I have visited every kingdom and people which have any position among the nations of the earth, and with the intension?if ever 1 could Gud an acceptable place?to.settle down and gather my littlo fait ily around me, and there, in quiet, spend the remainder of tuy days, but I find no plane in which 1 urn willing to leave my family. No, for good or evil, the best couutrv is in the United States; and if there could only be security of person, property and reputation, it would be the most desirable country on earth. At all cvonts, those dependent on me, I want them to remain and abide the late and destiny of their country. What shall beeome of me is of but little consequence ; my days of usefulness are past. My sun is fast hastening to ita sitting, but my will shall be that wheu life's fitful fever is over, my body shall be buried beneath the soil which has been fattened with the blood of my ancestors in the struggle for its independence." Mr. ThotnsoQ complains bitterly of the accusation of complicity in Mr. Lincoln's murder, and 6ays: " 1 weigh not my own fate as a feather in the balance ; 1 only hope to live until 1 shall have power under the law to prosecute the perjurer and inflict punishment upon thoso who have wronged me*" The Memphis Daily Commercial say* ; ''The cheapest leaf tobacco grown and prepared for market in the Southern States (and comparatively little of this staple is grown chew here in the Union) is sold at about six ceuU per pound. This tobacoo pays an internal revenue of forty cents per pound i And the best article of leaf tobacco, which sells for only 15 to 16 cents per pound. The tax on cotton, independently of its flagrant illegality, is onerously oppressive; it will amount, upon an average, to thirty-three and one tlnrd per ccoL Iiut the i-A on tobn^o, equally unjust, in a constitutional point of view, amounts to five hundred or six hundred per cent, oa he raw material. Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee are the tobacco States; and, upon that single article alone, they pay an internal revenue tax of $19,* U(JU,UOU. Sale or tiik Largest Farm in Illinois.? A. few days since Michael L. Sullivant sold his farm ot 22,000 acres, lying six to ten tniles south of this place, to Mr. Alexander, of Morgan county, for seventeen dollars per acre, or three hundred and seventy four thousand dollars, cash. Mr. Alexander also bought the stock, grain, buy, and farming uteusils on the place of Mr. Sull'vaut, which made tho whole amount oi purchase money uearly or i|uite live hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Sullivaut has yet a "place" of forty-five thousand acres in Iroquois county, beside old laud. Mr. Alexander will "stock" the "tarm" immediately with three thousand or more head of cattle. He will ship five hundred head per week to market lrom this point. Wc "fariu" oat here, and do hiibiness generally cu a large scale, [ Homer ( Champion County') Journal. Chinese Mode of Making Change. ?A novel way of making change ocourri'll at Hull" Knn<?. ('hilia All A mmri. can having complained to a native judge of a tailor who hud cheated him, the official sentenced the culprit to fifty blows of the bastinado?a sentence which was at once executed, and the American charged tilt; cents cost. The judge, not being able to change the dollar given him by tho American, the latter humorously told him tu take it out in the same manner. Accordingly the tailor was again tied dowu and received fifty more blows, thus making up in his own person tbe requirod change. A Prussian named Rooscn Quist, a tailor, of Chicago, being accused of stealing some money from a fcllow-boardef, denied the charge, and called upon God tostriko him dead if he was guilty. No sooner were these words uttered than he fell dead. The stolen money was found in his pocket. Admiral Raphaol Scmmes, formerly of the Confederate navy, has become editor in chief and part proprietor of the Mobil* Gaze.to, a new and sprightly daily. Pendleton Colston, Judge Advocate of tbe Confederate Navy during tho war, is to be assistant editor. ' Young man do you believo in a future state?" "In course I dui?and what'* uio.e I intend to enter it as soon as Betsy gets her things ready." " "I have not loved lightly," as tho man said when he married widow weighing three hundred pound?