THE BEAUFOBT BEPU3LICAN, i Printed rtrui PnhUahed by the 1 rOKT ROYAL PRINTING COMPANY, BEAUFORT, S C. 1 SUBSCRIPT! OXS. 1 ??'* Year, ?3 00 1 MUlontb*. SI 00 , ADVERTISING RATIX Advertisements will be Inserted at the rate of ?l.50 jK>r square il2 Nonpareil limn or less) for the insertion, 1 and $1.00 for each sulisenuent insertion. A, discount will be made to thoad who advertise by the jrar, and special contracts will be made. j ACEXT IN NEW YORK, | GEO. P. ROW ELL A CO. | All letters relating to the business or eilitorial artment irill ^ be addressed to } CEO. IV. JOHNSOV, Manager. ^ ?>fauf.ori gUjraMifan. * THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 12,1871. [ Official Paper of the State and County. Largest Circulation in the County. 8 Correspondent Beaufort Republican. i tt. n?m ^ x\EW HAVEN, V/ONN., ^ Sept., 1871. ) * ? /bar Republican : I told }'0U last week, something concerning the situation and bu- h siness one of the industrious villages, 8 dignified by the title, city of Vergennes, \ in Vermont. This week, if your readers choose to- follow me, they may catch way- ^ side glimpses of Xcw England scenery as it appears to the traveller, passing across the Green mountains from tlie Champlain valley into the wider and perhaps more fertile val- * ley of'rhe Connecticut; and down that love\ , , r ly plain, for it expands so gently into the broad acres of Massachusetts that you iuipcreeptably come to realize that on the east the ^ mountains have mettled into low, gracefully r< rounded hills?always excepting classic Mt Holyokc?while the green mountains have receded so far to the west that one feels no w more of the sensation of being over-topped 551 and hemmed in, as is somewhat the cause j* while riding through the first named valley. There7s a mania for swallowing railroads at the north which I suppose has been about as much epidemic as Yellow Fever in Charleston, for a few late years. Parties in- al forested are more precise in the use of terms w than I need to be. and call the devouring of w one road by another and wealthier corpora- ^ tion, "consolidating." This process has ' quite obliterated the Rutland and Burlington 11. R., the Vermont Central, and other roads, and under both the lion and eagle they are unitedly ruin, as the Vermont and ^ Canada line. I cannot give the elevation in 1,v figures at which the road crosses the summit 11 of the mountains, but am sure that it fur- ^ nishes a grand post of observation from 0 whence the eye can range over a wonderfully ? varied and just now peculiarly beautiful pan- 11 orama, that is bounded only by the capacity n of vision. The rich tints of Autumn, which u adds so largely to the beauty of northern scenery are beginning to array the forests, ** and give j . monitions of the gl wv lint shall ; t , ? , , J?1 t farms, and historic old towns. Greeufield, v ami tlicprfwiirifrnnd I tl J ii*? iU-'j 4i"tiii(iiiij win?i?4 * ?>. v? v?^< ....v. re-crossing of the river, which has widened 0 into :i most lovely expanse of "sky-wrought b Uiosai<*is neither tame or uninteresting : and trs afternoon? beginning at high twelve t on Mount Holly, and gliding into a delicious h September night as the ears glide into t Hartford in Connecticut, spent on this route c adds much to the pleasant memories oi' li geutle, quiet aud reposeful things. For a t considerable space upoo the mountain's summit, portions oi four States are visible. < without the aid of glasses, the distance being t perhaps fifteeu miles to New Hampshire, j and twice that iuto New 1'ork, or Massa- t ehusetts. * Hartford exalts over its success in out- 1 ! " " xr TT-vcs, iu the t ital of the nut- < i better sit -s for > . H-.-i, ims no i ' * ' < ould i acquire v.. ...w t 'Jt.te ?' will socti have as line a Capitol as ours, 01 ' so, and with this advantage, theirs will be t Completed for the benefit of the present gen- 1 eration, while ours may not. A gentleman t uot unknown in Beaufort County?S. A. i Coolky?maybe met in the spacious depot at \ ' - llartford, where he holds a responsible and i good position, his family residing in the I city. Ijeavin this city, in which every other block of buildings contains at least one !nsurau ^p"ndcnt jour neyed westward, until he found himself again among the broken ranges of hills, which falls off rapidly in altitude after they pass south of the region of the Iloosac tunnel, and here become nothing more than the torment of horses who must drag heavy wagons up th? i by no means gentle declivities. Our party had an example which is delightful as a memory, hut that was an experience ;>f weariness to the horse, and to those who followed him, but could not ride because of die ruggedncss and steepness of the way. | (Jetting lost in a maze of turnings, at sunset! >n Saturday evenings, is a stouey fact which ?the church spire and the grave yard are he fiuger-hoards, to tell the travellers "here s a town/1 Of course this is suggestive, onv it might he more strictly true to give out hat ' 'it was a town before these tombs were illcd." But the dust of some of the great oen of the earlier times reposes in such conpicuous places, and perhaps they are worldly buried, inasmuch as their greatness ifted them to a moral eminence which is fity represented by their sepulchres. Turning again to the westward, and folding the carvings of a clear stream led * # -1 -i j1 . l? rom tno coia springs mat, rise m me siues01 he hills ; with the West Rock?which used > seem a veritable mountain to our yonthul imagination, but as the New Haven Palldum tells us. only "394 feet high"?on our 3ft, we pass down a vcrv green valley and r>!l pleasantly over one of the best roads in he land, into Westvilie, once Ilotch-kiss >wn?a name good enough when the writer ras a baby, and the old red house, which tands there still, (perhaps because he was om there, who knows?) belonged to a famy of Ho toll-kiss's. Not far from this same old rod house lives le man who so deceived the reading public ears ago by pretending to be a ".Bachelor," rul to have "reveries," when he neither as the one nor had the other; who afterards built a house with "seven stones," hieh is all in your eye, for his "farm at idgewood," can't boast a building of any ind?unless it is the pigeon roost?what as these stones. Wkalley avenue, the principal Street by hieh New Haven is entered from the north ' the continuation of the wide thoroughfare pon the sides whereof the neat cottages of V'cstvillc are builded. In going down one f the steep hills of which we have made lention above, a countryman was met, drivig a team of oxen with a loaded cart. The mn after good-humordly forcing his oxen p to the very rock that bounded his side of ie road, remarked, "land must ha' been iurce when this yerc path was dug". We "finij V'lh hlm but, at Westville found that | i;r , .icbisi ?n wi- a mistake; the surplus , 1 was v..f ted f ' front yards, they are '! -! . .V ;L-. iir^ol ^rv and flowers. Yale s Yale, from the Col a *ng interval of years since our eyes beheld hem had been daj*s instead, Men have arued at length, and perhaps after all have tiled to prove that natural affection exhists. lit it would he as difficult to show that there < not a natural and universal desire to reisit the scenes of childhood, while there are lany, very many, who ''go home to die", r if that be impossible! show their longing o do so. CJ ... a,., mnn.l (\f* flw? ln>]l OCCII 1IUL11 tin: filmi'l UMII h/ii ... VV ewer on the City I fall, New Haven resembles more than any other la rye place fanii i tr o us, a }>ark ; the principal structures, hurches, colleges, manufactories and pubic buildings being far enoueh apart?much hat intervenes being hid by the great Kims ?to give the effect of isolation, and to renler the whole view picturesque. Some of he noblest mansions in the city are couidetcly embowered, so that they can only be li.-covered by riding past them, and hardly | hen. At some time or other the various j Railroad corpopations centering hero will mite to have a suitable l>epot, in the place >f the den now used, where travellers if the :nioke will allow, can pass his time of waitng in the study of the literature of the place n the shape of placards mainly of this char tot it, "Beware of female Pickpockets". 'Baggage at the risk of owners", and inincn.se insurance posters of all kinds, life, ire, marine, and accident. It seoms a ?vouler that souic cute citizen of Conneticut has tot adopted the idea of insurance against ;hert, in view of all the warnings of the dau?er the travellers incur here and in Hartford from the lislit-fingered gentry. But if female pi<-kp< kots do abound here, it is cons-ding to the oomunity to be iissured that they are nrop- . ert v. The success of such schemes rests in fact that the immense losses arc divided among so many, that each individual loss is comparatively small and not felt, though it is just as certain a loss, and it is passing strange that so many can be found who are willing to hike upon themselves at a positive loss a share of the elephant to relievo the burdens of the generally wealtl^y, holders. An examination of the lista will ehow that the ticket holders are either poor or have but a very moderate auiouut of property. People who are shrewd enough to accumulate wealth never take the risk. They originate the schemes. Says an exchange: Lotteries are the bane of many poor men who might otherwise lay by of their earnings for future use. Success comes to common people by means of thrift, economy, and not by Uu? ^mbKng schemes of "policy" and "lottery" shops. A few cents or a few dollars may he spent foolishly and forgotten, but the loss remains. It it thus money spent that keeps people I>oor. The man who keeps a record of the dimes ami dollars thus spent, will at the cud of the year need no other arrangement to convince him of the truth above stated. But what shall we say of the scheme* of "charitable" (?) institutions that must first make poor people poorer that they may dispense charity to its special subjects, the particular ones of which arc the originators of the schemes. How many immigration societies supported by Lottery Schemes will South Carolina require to give her a vigorous growth like that of Iowa, where the dames of the soil till it themselves and support free Schools that educate all the chil .1 . .1 M V... dren. We opine tnat tue many pmu ,iui Lottery tickets in South Carolina, would do the purchaser much good if spent in purchase of real estate at fair prices and in the support of free school?, STATE ITEMS. Robert Hogan, a baker of Chester, ia reported absconded by the Reporter. I A monthly meeting of the Marion Agi ricultural Society was held at the court house on Monday, 2d instant The Winusboro News complains of the number of vagrant frequenting the street and lounging on the corners. , The regular October Term of the Court for Sumter county began its settings on Monday last, Judge J. T. Green presiding. The editor of the Winnsboro News is bothering his brains to define his position under the "uncompromisingly conserva tive" phrase. The lirst monthly meeting of the Chester County Agricultural and Mechanical Association was held in the Court House on Monday last. The Watchvuvn also state that Murphy, shot some days ago at his store at Lynchburg, is, we learn, recovering from his wounds, the balls having been extracted. The Sumter Watchman says: The coti ton crop is turning out sadly Bhort. We I do not believe that previous estimates will , be sustained. One-third short, compared | with last year, will not cover it. BY SPECIH. TELEHRAPH TO THE REPUBLICAN r __ CHICAGO in ASHES I i THE BUSINESS PORTION OF THE CITY BURNED. THE HOTELS ALL DESTROYED, I I . ' ALL PRINTING OFFICES BURNED. I i The Inhabitants Suffering for Food. SYMPATHY FOR THE PEOPLEt J ] New York, Oct. 7th, 12 M.?The most 1 destructive fire ever known on this conti- : nent is now raging in Chicago. The fire broke out at 11 o'clock on Saturday night, and was extinguished after half a million dollars worth of property had been consumed. The immense grain Elevator of Nelson & Co. was saved. At 9 o'clock Monday night another fire broke out in the western district, two miles distant from tho Court House. This fire spread with fearful rapidity. Whole bocks of buildings, 20 in all were consumed. The wind was blowing freely from the south, and burning brands fiying over the doomed city, threatened a total destruction. The immense lumber with the frieghtde A A A H 3 11 _ J .1 . J A _ pot next caugni ore, ana mese aauea w> the fury of the conflagration. At this time the Are is still raging and is wholly beyond the control of the Are men who are completely exhausted. The fire swept over the City, all the telegraph offices, Sherman's Bridge, the Court House, the Fremont House, the Board of Tiade Rooms, the Post office, are destroyed. The business part of the city is level with the ground. From north canal and to the Lake, the city is a heap of ruins. There is no more water. The loss is estimated at Ave hundred millions. Washington D. C. 9th 12, M. The whole of Chicago is threatened with destruction. 34 blocks arc already burned. The Mayor of Cfucaro has sent a mesamre to the Mayor of St. Louis asking for food for the suffering. The message says the City is in ashes tond the Water Works are burned to the ground. At latest accounts the Arc was spreading in a southeast direction. The fire has reached Wabash Avenue in the southeast quarter of the City upon the Lake and is still advancing. Washington D. C., 9th, 2 p. m. The Chicago fire is still raging with unabated fury. President Grant baa telegraphed the commanding General at Chicago to issue rations to the suffering. If supply not sufficient St.Louis is to be called on. New York 9th 4 P. M. A report just received here says : The fire is burning as far south as Harrison street and as far north as Chicago Avenue, and badly on the west side. The Mayor of Cincinnati telegraphs the Mayor of Chiaago tendering the fire department. Many houses have been blown up to stop the conflagration without effect. A mass meeting is being held in Columbus Ohio, Oovernor Ilayes presiding, for the relief of Chicago. The Palmer House is burned. The Crosby Opera House also burned. Loss is now estimated at fifty millions. The Chief Engineer of Cincinnati with three Engines and Hose has started for Chicago. Washington D. C. 12 m. 10th The fire in Chicago is out, but the city ia as completely destroyed as was Moscow after the French invasion. A heavy fall of rain last night assisted in quenching the bursting ruins. Englewooi>, 10 Miles from Chicago, ) Monday 11 o'clock A. M. ) UolC /.f fVm niK' iq dnsfmvtftil arid the I lail UIU Vi \JJ ?u v?\. UVI VJ W _ flames continue unappeased. Tlie pas works and Court House have been destroyed. All the heavf business houses are burned. A hundred and fifty thousand people are houseless. Fabulous prices are paid for vehicles, to carry valuables from danger. The bridges have been destroyed. The loss of life is unknown, but the streets are filled with people looking out for the lost. Madison, Market Clinton, Jeff rson, Buffalo, and Griswold streets are in ruins, and Wh sides of the Chicago river are a heap of ruins; all efforts to save the Court House and Gas works were futile. Thirty or forty vessels arc burn ing now and many have been destroyed. Kvnrvnirm in the eity is called on to do duty. Nearly every bridge over the Chicago river is burned. All is terror. Later,?The fire in Chicago Is at last under control. Three quarters of the City lying north of the river is in ruins. Chicago yth, 5 P. M.?The entire busines8 portion of the City north of 12tli street on all sides of the river and branches has been ! destroyed. Every printing ofliee, hotel, and '^railroad depot are burned and the whole north sidt is reported to be destroyed. A large district is still burning on the west side north of 12th street. The fire has Been , stayed at IlarHscm street from thence to Division street, and from the river to the lake, an area of four miles long and one mile wide is all swept off. The wind is blowing a gale from the south cast and a change to the ! north is almost sure to sweep the entire resi" dence district south of 12th street. The i water works are still all right but the water 1 has been shut off from the south to supply the demand on the north. Thousands are ' leaving the City by every availab e means, and great hunger a ;d suffering is inevitable. A SCENE OF DISASTER. The Hoiuettm ?nd?the Hungry. New York 10th, 12 M. The excitement in regard to the Chicago fire is nowise abated. An immense number ' [>f newspapers have heen sdd and business is generally suspended. Many Insurance Companies have temporarily suspended to see how they stand. All of them will pay up as rapidly m possible, and have begun their irrangements for meeting all claims. The life insurance companies have loaned many miliums upou tut; aeouriiy ui rtrui t-siau, m Chicago, but as their rule is to advance less than the value of the naked loan, they apprehend no loss. A special telegram to the New York Times cated at 2.20, A. M., says "Chicago is in nins and still burning!in Division, Taylor aid Halstead sheets, the water works, went early. The loss of life by falling walk is feuful. Two thousand business men will to conpelled to make assignments. The iiverjL. is iupassable except at bridge 12." Tie other bridges are burned and 'it is fearei that bridge 12 will be crushed. All the ail roads are closed and there are no mails. The loss Ls estimated at two hundred milliois. Fire proof buildings burned like timber. Ten of the business firms saved their papers. No newspapers can be printed until tjpe and materials arc brought from , other points. Some vessels escaped by being seit adrifl into Lake Michigan. The fire originated in a stable and was caused by the upsttting of kerosene lamp carried by a woman who went to milk a cow. A large number of firemen were killed. The Convent of the Sisters of Mercy was burned. A hundred squares are burned in the South division of the city. One hundred thousand persons arc thrown out of employment. The county records are saved, but the city records arc lost. At midnight last night the W. U. Telegraph office was driven hv the flinn,.* tv 1 the >>ri r of YV.?!> ish A cn>io and ?''ill St. and was rem > Ik 22 d 8; \t this in ; tr6 thai i was ?: upon 1iem; im tbej r 'rod ; the) n'i?! ftuie there has f?vp is , ooinnjiit.i' atiu-r vvj'.h tii?? c:ty. r' iir !ii oi* ?? ?t j lees than $20,000 nor more than $50;000 to the suffering at Chicago. The Superintendent of Telegraph in this j Department has issued the following: all offices, on account of the confusion caused by the great conflagration at Clf&ago, and the destruction of nearly all telegraph facilities, and the extreme difficulty of making delivery, we do not desire at present to accept any business for that point. Whatever is urged upon us maybe recciv ed at senders risk, and on payment of douU J regular day rates. J. A. Brenner. Chicago has met with a sad cheek to her prosperity by the largest and most disastrous conflagration that ever occurred in our country. The loss is variously est imated from lifty to seventy-five millions, and as we write, the telegraph brings us news that it is not yet subdued. The business portion of the city is completely prostrated, and the residences are falling a prey to the fiery element. The inbabii o..rr?_;~~ r?_ r??.1 \ir? I LUUU3 aic OUllCllUg IUI 1WU. fTC ttic gW? to see such substantial tokens of sympathy emanating from every quarter. Buffalo contributes $100,000, St. Louis, her rival in commercial prosperity donates $75,000, Cincinnati has done nobly. There will be neither lack of money or food, but all of these cannot prevent the people from suilering to an undeilnite extent. Have we a fire department among us V So long a time has elapsed since we have seen a parade that we cannot answer the question, and submit the problem to the Chief for solution. Washingtot and Lee University, Lexington, Va., May'M, 1871. The fame of Webster's Dictionary is, ol course, so well established as to render commendation unnecessary. I will simply say that it was my happy fortune tc be a member of the happy family of Dr. C. A. F. Mahn, in Berlin, while he waf engaged in preparing etymological work in the revised edition. I was a witness of the unwearied care with which he dc voted himself to that task, and knowing as I did, his pre eminent qualifications foi it, I should have needed no other assurance of the supreme value of his work, which, as presented in the etymology 01 Webster's Dictionary, I consider the besl lexicographical authority extent, in t's.i: department of our language- Lly inlimat acquaintances with that eminent scholar 9 has made mc feel a kind of personal in- fl terest in the Dictionary itself. ? ^ > EDWARD S. .JONE3, Vrfcssor - I Of Modern Languages and English Vhi- S lology. *\ 9 Nut by the pub'ishers of Webster's Die- 9 tionary: Professor Mahn, of Berlin, spent 9 nearly five years in laboring on theetymo- 9 logical department of the present edition _ of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, and ? the other departments werp edited with. 9 equal fidelity. B NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. I mmb9odie? ^9 CARPENTER AND HOUSE BUILDER, I JOBBING nwrUALLY ATTRSDBD TO. i i OFFICE, Comer Bay and Ninth St., ]j L A U PU It T S C. Oct-12-tf. "? SHERIFF'S SALE. V<" F. IlirrsoN, Trustee of children of G CHKEoopir, r*. II. >1. Fuller, Jr. Bill for Foreclosure. i BY virtue of a Decretal ord"r in the above case ?ado m t!ie 11th day of February Itjfts, by Cl.aucellor il. i>. irSf-SKF., directing tire (orumiioioner hi equity. then in ofcee to sell the mortgaged premiiK s hereinafter described in the 2ud Monday in April. A. !>., 18 the successor in eitiec of tht Commissioner a fori said, It pursuance H.T.if, 'a ill si on the first Monday in Kcwntbtr u*i.t, Using ilio si?h day thereof, between the hours of 11 o'clock, A. M, ad 1 p- in., the following property to wit: .11 'liu let el lu.d 'ti'tj .Iv-coiog thereon standing wl -in tl e lat: Col. V.*tn: riAtet l-si fril in his lift (laF aitate in the town of U< aufort, in l et iiojt County in? Unsaid .State of South Carolina, which l it is knot, n as . No in the plan of the .-aid town madu before the lato f waund contains acres niore or itas, known uuuro rca.tly .fine tnu war as Block :tl aceor iin, to the map or at of said town as recorded ia the old w of the Unittl i p?;r otTnx Commissioner, and Itottnlcl north hy I ' ' Mr?', east by 5th street, south b H ,str >:t r.ad r/est by tiaj'.rsot. Ten ?oi;e-iliinl cash; bal. .?? ? on a credit of '. tviwe months, to be secured by tiic Iks til ?f the pur< ]ia*>; " . er. ud a mortgage of the p'retni.ja sdi. i'u.cii.w r - . t tnyjn far stamiw and |>ap.'re. ^ b irtu. "f :m... wr.t- o'exe-.i-ll... W nw din rtcd I ? sell t?i puoiie on.- i in ! n; . tt v;fV ji u,?> I.'l ^ Ti '? ? * T' ' M-* y'*r 1 ['' *., S7' : til* Otb i',ty of ..til! ?:ti, '. w.tru fl.w 'egsi 1 u: t, tr .1* foijew .nv rtyU-vh: :w. - ryjv >.*. \ v , . . . - ,,, * " i.'.it'Vl. ';r ' ; and i 5.-if in Om lOlt,- " B hv tun il of I 1 'a' ' 'tCv, i .i.'i and smith b) ?.? " ? o. i'f '^it.-e.t,and west hj' Whale Branch Creek, coniauiing thn-c hundred' and /criy-ine {jU 1) a' res more or lay. ALSO r, ? . K i :,!? ' J ' ;f? ?X. / '1 GEO WATfJ'.HOUSL. iv. MAltPLE A ROBINSON., AUthe right till" aod interest of 'V. U". Mar pin and J. ('.lihtrwoon Robinson, itr and to ail that plantation or, : trat'tof land situate, lying and being in the County of , . Beau art and State of South Carolina, known as "t'larendoii" a. .ii..b d ii'irth by laiuls ol B. \V. I'u iei', east and l(. south by lands ot S. 1). <7illw-rr and west hy Whale Branch Cre?!k. continuing three hun.lrid andforty-oiio (34l)acreiio yix-soaii il rarrynl'. Ort.Il-ti. AildrcM llox <52 Beaufort S. C. J.:'*" j NOTICE. \iTUlAYiON FOR FINAL MSCHaROE AS AI>Diitii.itrat<>r of ?l:i' < :i:k1 irhalU-ln, rlglitA aui tiir J'td^o ol !'r?d'at?j for IkrauortC'iaiiij loth ^...ciabvr, next. j Oct 12-1. W M. rOSTICK. J I GET THE BEST. Waster's Unslrldgcd Diction: y. 10,000 IViirdi mul inswinf/s not inot/w.r fb't"-w.rins 300O Ka^ravlnt^H lH'K) 1'apci Rmirtn I'rleo 81* t Glo.1 to add my testimony iti its favor. t (IWt Walkor of Harvard.] \ i scholar knows it-valtn\ 4 | I- l\V. 11 1'rrn'ott, Ui'? Historian.] Tli? 1.10 t complete olcli ?i ary ; (Hid" to atu iofit.-. of i. ;r 1 m/uase. J I John o*ti?rity. 1 [< 'liaucvllor Kent.l j Etymological jiarts "irpwaos anything by earlier la- 1 bureni [(ieorge Bancroft^ - I l$i iriap relation to Language Priminia does t?? Phil- I ITS usojhy. [Wilm IftirriU.J 1 Exci'l? nil other* in deftuing scientific term*. I President Hit* hcock.] fl Si> M' r.- F know hii fi uiary. WfcllST ( NATIONAL l'l? M'kiai.V" ' r..^c3 Uflavo Ungruvlti Th<> w i f)i !, fur tilt! million -.1. ?'? /./ ! ' ,<' ,p<'l Mirw ui/t i'libluLnd b} > A i. MKiiUIA M, HprinBteH. M Mjiu hy ali 1hki!;v:11 r*. . .J m:iys depot. i ' ;; .v P I: i-.