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THE BEAUFORT REPUBLICAN, Printed and Published by the PORT ftOYAL PRINTING COMPANY, BEAUFORT, 3 C. 8UBSCRIPTI0SS. One Tear, $2 00 ?*x?Jontfea, SI 00 * ADVERTISING RATE?. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of $1.V) per quarc (12 Nonpareil lines or leas) for the 1st insertion 1 and f 1.00 for each subsequent insertion. A discount will be made to those who advertise by the year, and special contract* will be made. AGENT IN NEW YORK, GEO. P. ROWELL A CO. AO letters relating to the business or editorial department wil be addressed to J. G. THOMPfiOV, Manager. ff&f ?ra?fort fvfjmMifan. THURSDAY NOVEMBER, 30. 1871. ' Official Paper of the State and County. Largest Circulation in the C:u nty. NOTICE. In consequence of continued ill health 1 find myself compelled to retire from the Beaufort Republican and Port Royal Printing Co. Geobge W. Johnson. ? i mmj'Jp "We are most happy to announce to the patrons and friends of the Republican, those who compose the audience to whom it weekly addresses itself; and to those throughout the County who for various reasons have not desired or welcomed its visits, but who are favorable disposed toward all such enterprises as have for their object the enlightenment and substantial progress of community; that a veteran Journalist?albeit, a practical typo?and well known in ihis County as an Editor years ago?will from henceforth be the conductor, the president, superintendent, engineer, and brakeman as well, of the Beaufort Republican, and will, beyond question, run the machine for the public and convenience, fif not for his own.) Mr. James G. Thompson has before this venture shown his ability to trim the sails of a newspaper craft; now he proposes to assume command, to look after the helm, and con the s?ip generally, and while whatever has seemed obnoxious to any class in the community, either in person or sentiment, will thus give place to a fresh, vigorous, and unprejudiced force and intelligence, all the .best sympathies and support of those who have heretofore had the conduct and management of the Republican will be given and continued toward the new dispensation. It is only simple justice to the retiring manager, Mr. G. W. Johnson, that his former associates should publicly say that he has done all and more than a man prostrated by severe and protracted, if 1 not hopeless disease, should do, to sustain and render the paper acceptable and valuable. But the hard pressure o? pain and acute suffering must absolve all shortcomings and deficiencies, and Mr. John son will carry with him to a milder climate, where he may seek such measure of relief as Providence shall vouchsafe to him, our hearty sympathy, and we doubt not that of others also, who have known him as the Editor of this paper. Regarding the future of the Republican, we shall not presume to epeak, except that in behalf of the new management and chief proprietorship we respectfully solicit the cordial, friendly, appreciative good feeling of the public, which help an editor so greatly in achieving success. There is abundant scope and a wide field in our county for a well-conducted journal, devoted to the dissemination of Republican principles, to labor in; and the concurrence, the united support of all those who uphold such principles, is only *. needed, to effect the best results. Let all of the past that is bitter and evil be covered in the grave of oblivion, or at least * * * * * w .V _ _1 ?1 J De maaen Dy ine manue 01 cuariiy auu forgiveness, and "let us have peace;" the peace that builds railroads aud steamships; and grows cotton, corn and rice; develops harbors, and all great industries, and advances the smallest communities, as well as a nation to the high-ground of materir' prosperity. Y7e are compelled to bring the extracts from the Governor's message to an adrupt conclusion, owing to the late hour and want of space; but will give any further portions that may seem to be of general interest next week. SALUTATORY. In taking possession of a newspaper ii Beaufort, the writer does not feel that h< is entering on a new field,but rather tha he is resuming a connection with the pub lie of this County, which was long sus tained in trying times and which has beei only temporarily severed. Under his management the Beaufor Republican will aim to be a good loca paper, devoted to the inte-ests of the towi and county. He will endeavor so far a in him lies to aid whatsoever things ar pure, just and of goud report, recognizinj a deep responsibility as resting upon om speaking to the public through the press In politics it will be an organ of the Re publican party, but will not fail to rebuk those who may prove false to the trust committed to them by the people. Ai honest, economical and energetic govern ment will be demanded. If there are im noc troitnrs in rmr na.rt.v_ i l/UJVTVO r -j j . will assist to purge them out of it.Abov all, as long the Republican Is under th management of the writer, it will be inde pendent of all factions, cabals and cliques "The pen of Douglass is his own." J. G. THOMPSON". Spare your forest trees. Let all wh own land keep a goodly portion of wood land untouched by the axe. Every on who owns land deuuded of its wood shoulc immediately set to work and plant fores trees. Many think they canot spare fror tillage any land devoted to wood. It is terribly false economy. A'person may bi the gainer for a few.' years, but the lam will be sure to avenge itself, not only oi himself but his neighbors. It is a well established fact that fores trees are great conservators of moisture ii the soil. A case now comes to mind wher a man had upon his land near his dwell ing a thick grove of trees in which was s spring of excellent water, almost unfailing In an evil hour he had the grove cu down, the spring dried up. Upon digginj a little he came to water, but as tim passed that dried up, till at length a trel took the place of the spring. And so it is everywhere, the powers c the sun, for exhalation are tremenduou3, and when its influence upon the soil is un checked, the moisture is rapidly taken in to the air and is home away ny me wiuu It is difficult, and unnecessary here to ex plain the philosophy of the matter, but i is a well kuown fact that all deserts ar devoid of trees,?that iu all places in tli desert where water is found, trees ar found; that the remorseless cutt ng awa; our forests at the West is followed by lorn continued droughts, and these again witl tremendous floods in times of rain, fo there is no wood land to retain the wate for the innumerable rootlets of the trees or in pools and lakes formed by the nu raerous tree roots lying above the ground The soil having no call for the water sheds it like a house roof, and the soil be ing deprived of its moisture by the ex posuie to the sun, there is no moisture t< form vapor for raiu and'so no rain come: only as it is brought by storms from far. Our thoughts have been turned in thii channel, not for the sake of philosophi zing, but for practical purposes; by readinj of the fearful fires of the Northwest, an< thinking what should be their cause. Tba tenible tornado which swooped down up on Peshtigo and swallowed up its dwell ings with their inhabitants so remorseless lv. and swept over the country like a be 8om of destruction, had lost well nigh al its terror but for its terrible ally?fire Fire found abundant fuel from the pro longed drough's Aod these come be cause so much of the land is denuded o its trees. And so when I cut off all m] timber my neighbor must suffer as well ai I. And so, "Woodman spare that tree' loses its sentimentality, and becomes o tremendous practical import. _ Therefor* we owe it to the community at large a: well as to ourselves to .spare the forests The beauty of a landscape interspersec with forests, properly managed, needs ar article by itself. Trial of Cotton Gins in Great Britain.?From a letter recently pub lished in the Manchester papers, it ap pears that the long deferred trial of cot ton gins, under tne auspices or tne inaiar Government, will take place in Manches ter on the 28th of the present month Premises suitable for trial have been se cured, and upwards of thirty tons of seec cotton have been provided. The cottor consists chiefly of native or indigenous In dian varieties, and of American seed cot ton grown in Dharwar. Every facility will be afforded to the competing manu facturers. Hon. Frederick A. Sawyer of ihe Unit ed States Senate, is at the Charleston Ho tel. Charleston Cowrier. THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 1 We present herewith excerpts, drawn 5 seriatim from this long State paper, and t comprising the chief points, (the message - is a complete chevaux de f rise of naked - points,) set forth in defence of executive i action during the past year, supplemented by a profusion of recommendations for ret trenchment and reform. Oar paper is sc 1 nearly ready for the press that all comi ment will be reserved for another issue: 8 but in the meantime we commend some ol e the suggestions of Gov. Scott to th? I thoughtful consideration of our readers. 6 As the Ku-Klux question is discussed a1 ^ great length, we are unable to reproduce - any of that portion of the message, bui e must leave it for another day, when pers haps the trials going on in the United 1 States Circuit Court now in session at Co lumbia, wiil either result in sustaining oi - controverting the positions taken by th? 1 governor. e Executive Department, 1 e Columbia, .November 28,1871. j _ Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Rep resentatives: You have assembled for the fourth timi sincj the establishment of a system ot tree government in SDuth Carolina. Pursuant to the constitution, it is the duty of the 0 Governor to "give to tha General Assem bly information of the condition of the e State, and recommend to their. consider 1 tion such measures as he shall judge net cessary or expedient." a The present financial condition of the a Si ate demands a rigid and unshrinking e compliance with this constitutional re 1 quirement, in order that the General Aa 1 sembly and every department of the State government may unite in a qommon effort ' to correct juch evils as are remediable a and prevent their recurrence. In this, th< e last annual message that I shall transmit " to the General Assembly, I propose t< 1 state my views fraDkly upon the chie matters of pnblic interest, and to give al 1 the facts within my knowledge, without ? reserve, as alike due to the people, and im e posed by my official obligation. I wil thus, I trust, be enabled to correct grose exaggerations that are being dilligentlj ^ circulated in reference to our finances, anc the entire administration of the State. In performing this duty, I shall not shriuk from charging upon others any just share of their responsibility for evil com " sequences of their acts, and will not hesi1 tate fully to admit my own. e l THE STATE DECT. e The following is the treasurer's exhibil e of the actual debt of the State. I know y from severe personal scrutiny, that this % exhibit is full and correct. It shows the 1 present debt of the Suite, in its entirety, r suppressing nothing: r Am?>uut of bunds printed by the Ameri ' can Bank note Company, $22,540,000. Accouuted for as follows: On hand in State Treasury?Bonds con' version State securities, not signed, $473,1 500; Bonds relief of treasury, (7 per cent.; $101,000; Bonds payment interest publit 3 debt,850,000; Bunds redemption bilk 3 Bans of State, $331,000; Stock conversion State securities, $2,127,300.?Total, $3,? 3 072,800. Deposited for safe-keeping with Ameri* can Bank-note Company.?Sterling loan, * $6,000,000;?Bonds cancelled and de^ stroyed.?500 bends, payment interest on public debt, burned in Statehouse, $500,000 ; 500 bonds,con version State securities, erroneously printed, returned and cancelled by American Bank-note Com* pauy, $500,000; Conversion bonds issued * in effecting conversions at State treasury, $1,260,500; Conversion bond, No. 520, " cancelled and destroyed at State treasury, r ?1,000; Bonds redemption, bills Bank 7 State, issued at State treasury, $1,259,3 000; Conversion stock, issued, cancelled ' and transferred at State treasury, $432,f 700?Total,$13,0*20,000 00.-$9,514,000 00. 3 Statement of Debt.?Olddebt$G,665,90S3 98. Less old bonds paid July 1, 1871, $212,000.?Total $0,453,908 9& J New bonds, $9,514,000. Less in hands 1 of financial agent, to the credit of sinking fund commission, $200,000.?Total, $9,314,000. p New bonds, in hands of financial agent, now in use as collateral security for loans, $3,773,000. Amount of new bonds sold, $5,541,000. Old debt, as above, $G,453,i 90S.-Tot.il, $11,994,SOS 98. The fact and data upon which the fore going statement, which has been exam ined and approved by the financial board, I is based, are open to the inpection of the 4 puDiic, Dotn at tne state treasury and at " the financial agency in New York. Many and extravagant statements have f been made regarding the assessment and " collection of taxes, and those not familiar with the actual facts, when compared with collection of revenue for the same purpos es in other States, are doubtless frequently ' led to believe that taxation is extravagant and unusual. I undertake to say that not a State in the Union has collected less tax in the same length of time in proportion to its population and resources. The following is a correct exhibit of the appro1 priation of moneys, the levy of tax, coli lection of revenue per annum, and the de, linquent list for the year 1S68, 1869 and t 1870: Statement of amount of taxes levied, amount collected, and appropriations made, during years 1868, 1868, and 1870. Total taxation for 1868?rate of taxa. tion, State, 7? mills, $1,338,74219.?Total j. amount collected, $1,163,053 28. Delinquent, $175,588 91.?Total appro* priations for the year 1868, exclusive of interest on public debt, for which no ap, propriation was made, $817,968 28. > Total taxation for 1869, rate, State 5 . mills $1,014,901 83.?Total amount collected, $766 08. Delinquent, $248,165 75. Total appro1 priations for the year 1869, including in terest on public debt, $1,191,805 09. Total taxation for 1870?State 9 mills j $1,670,063 66;?Total amount collected I a. ? ?/* An * v i . a% a r\c\r% r*r\ $1,146,U3Y uo; delinquent; q>oz4,uzo ou ?Total appropriations for the year, 1870 81,604,058 54. Total ^delinquent taxes, ' $947,881^26; ' Twenty per cent, penalty, $189,576 25.? Total, $1,137,457 51. ' If the taxes as shown in the foregoing * statement, had been paid, as they should have been, it would have saved the State 5 at least two millions and a half of bonded debt. _ Expenditures of the State Government. While holding the political opponents j of the State Government responsible for r the great depreciation in the market v il. ue of our securities?a depreciation direct. ly due to their conspiracy against the > credit of the State?I am bound by my t sense of the public duty to expose to the , reprobation of the people the improvident > expenditures incurred by the General-Asb sembly, and the extravagant and illicit ) disbursement of the State moneys, to f which the legislative department has giv1 en either its express or implied sanction, b In so doing, I do not wish to be consid eied as wanting in a due and proper re1 spect to a co-ordinate branch of the State 3 Government, but I desire to appeal, in r plain and earnest language, to the sober I judgement, the decent self-resided and the public spirit of each member of the Gent eral Assembly, to give his active aid in aft feeling an instant reform in this direction; - for the whole people, with united voice, - demand it, aud the condition of our fin ances, and every instinct of self-preservation, require it at your hands. I It would scarcely have been possible r for the men who combined to destroy the ( credit of the State to have executed their ? purpose so successfully had not the General Assembly lent tbera its practical cooperation by exhausting, through its extravagance, the funds in the treasury, thus leaving the State without any real rv3 balance to meet the financial exi-< gency. I instance the following among many other items of extravant expenditures. The money drawn upon the orders of the J presiding officers of the two Houses durt ing the last session for current printing amounts to 868, 904 40. In addition to this large sum, 830,000 were appropriated for current printing for the same session, making a total of 898,904 90 expended on this item alone. There was further drawn from the treasury and disbursed by the cierks of the Senate and House, for printing the laws, &c., the sum of 103,651 44. These figures show the enormous aggregate of 8202,556 34 expended on printing alone during and incident to the last session of tbe General Assembly, while large claims for public printing are still outstanding. Iu addition to these expenditures, the sum of 829,814 05 was drawn upon the ordeis of the president of the Senate and speaker of the House for purposes not very well defined, but designated as "contingent expenses and repairs," making an aggregate for^the above sped fied objects of *232,370 39 ?a sum startling in its magnitude for one session Of the General Assembly, aud which may well bid the legislature department pause in the path that it has been pursuing. The appropriations, including those vetoed by the Executive, aggregate a total of $4S0,0O0. To this is to be added the amount of ?103,651 44, as shown above, drawn upon the certificates of the clerks of the two houses of the General Assembly, on account of printing the laws, and the grand total of expenditures, on account of "legislative expenses," amounts ' to 8583,651 44. As an evidence of the pernicious consequences of permitting this "mor.ey order" system on the part of the presiding officers of the Senate and House, I refer to the fact, well known to the members of the General Assembly, that during the past year, upon the order of the speaker of the House, an alleged liability against the State was contracted to the amount of 891,500, for furniture for the House. This was entirely without warrant of law, and B if the principle is admitted that moneys B can be thus drawn from the treasury, or debts contracted without appropriations made by law," then all proper safeguards of the treasury are broken down, and a few ministerial officers in the State may mortage its revenue in advance, or deprive it at will of the means of meeting its legal liabilities. THE FINANCIAL AGENT OF THE STATE. When the present State Government was inaugurated, (July 6, 1868,) there were only forty-five (45) dollars in the State treasury. A large bonded and floating debt, incurred by former administrations, had to be provided .for. The an- ~i cient credit of the State,, that lyu| - once stood so justly high in the money markets of the world, was gone. It had been blown away with the smoke of the first gun fired at Fort Sumter. * r. w/i1. k >1 t In order to meet the current expenses, until money could be realized from the tax levy, it was necessary for the' Stale to borrow on its securities. To effect this object on the beat terms for the State, the General Assembly authorized the Governor, Attorney-General and the Treasurer, "to appoint, under a commission signed by them, some responsible bank or banker in the City of New York, to act as financial agent of the State.?? > j jTo this end I visited New York,'' and conferred with leading banks. They all declined the agency, alleging that the duties were arduous and the tiftife of payment uncertain; that we were only bor- ^ rowers in the market. - ? >? While thus endeavoring to secure the services of a responsible and efficient financial agent, the name of Mr. H. H. Kimp-^ , ton was presented. He was highly en- 4 dorscd by prominent officials of^the State, and by leading bankers in New York, among whom were the -presidents of the Broadway Bank ahd the Bank of the Republic. ' O NOTES AID COMMENTS BY KAIL* . ' i uLALt.Ki;* The Gathtilng of the Soloas?What They Talk of Doing?An Ishuc WjfU Gurrrnor geott?A Prrpetnal Senion!-A Pill Pronosed fur Charleston. ' *. J * Columbia, S. C., November 24. The town is rapidly fillibg with legislative Solons of variegated complexion^ caucusing is becoming frequent and animated, and rumor is busy with the expected trausactions of the coming Legislature. It is no small labor to separate among the J innumerable prophecies atid speculations J now indulged in,"the grains of truth from the tusbels of chafF, but the following stalcments may be relied upon as .funshing a fair and rather detailed intimation of the lone and temper^ofthe legislature. One of the first bills to be Introduced (probably next Tuesday by a suspension of the rules) will provide for a trausfer of the place of dep?*jit of the State funds fiom Ilardy Solomon's Bank to the Carolina National Bank, and perhaps{>4e other, and a radical change in the foi^p of deposits. It will be ordered that county treasurers and others receiving State funds shall, on the 15th of each'month transmit the same, not to the State treasurer, as at present, but direct to the back, which will receipt therefor in triplicate, one copy going to the depositor, another to the treasurer, and the third to the comptroller-general. It will be ftirt&er or- J dered that these funds shall not be drawn m upon, except for specific purposes, ex pressed by appropriations, and theif upon ? the warrant of the State treasurer, without requiring, as at present, the countersignature of the Governor. The' intent y . of this action is perfectly apparent It is a part of the plan of the Radical majority, already announced, to "keep the State money within the State." The legislature want to repudiate, at least teethe extent of refusing to pay interest, and tbey think they can do so onl? by faking the control of the State's income out of the 1' ' & hands of the State officials, and folding the State funds, subject only to their own specific appropi iations. An issue is expected, uery early in the session, between the Governor and the Jf*4 Legislature, which will be provoked as % follows: The message proposes, among its other recommendations for retrenchment, a gradual reduction, after a certain number of days in session, of the {tor diem allowance of the members of the Legislature on the priciple that the sessions are now unnecessarily prolonged for the simple purpose of getting six dollars per day. It is needless to say that this suggestion will ^ certainly not be complied with, but it is J reported that the Legislature will not only 1 disregard the recommendation, but will j retaliate by resolving to hold a perpetual session. Another quarrel will grow out of the statement in the message that the * Legislature's expenses for last session ^ were $500,000. The reply ot the Legisla- 1 ture to Governor Scott upon this point will be, in effect, that the appropriation J for the legislative expenses was only $135,000; that they tried to get another appropriation of $265,000 passed, but it was