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The Beaufort Republican. THURSDAY, JANUARY 1873. J. O. TllOJIWHi, Kdltov. aVBSCRlTTlOSX. One Year, S? 00 . Miwtbi, $100 ADVERTISING RATES. A'lrrrtiVnmiM wfll lie inserted at the rate of $1.50 pr i'IO Nonpareil' lin -s or bss'for the firnt insertion. subsequent ia?ertions by contract. uEO. P. ROW EI. LACO, NEW YORK AGENTS. ' ? Tiia Largest Bona Fide Circulation. Sheriff) sides and all other official advert iseracnts of general interest to cltlxensof this Comity, will always be found in the REPUBLICAN. 1 JJ^" We present our readers tbis week with the fir3t of a series of articles on ^Beaufort and the Sea Islands?Their History amd I Traditions." These sketches will i * be continued from week to week, 1 ! and will doubtless interest all classes of our readers. The author is a gentleman well qualified for the task, having passed a life amidst I these lovely scenes, and having a w 7 r natural inclination for antiquarian j and legendary lore. //\ A TAX ON ENTERPRISE. In Charleston and Columbia there ! ii? a strong opposition to that form . of municipal taxation called Licenses^ The discussion has mainly been confined to the constitutional question involved. We think all such unequal taxes contrary to the spirit of our state constitution if not to its letter; but we do not i mean now to entjr upon tnat question. It is to the fact that every such law is a direct attack upon the best interests of. the community we wish to call attention. From one and all we bear constantly reiterated that our chief wants are capital, enterprise and .labor. Willi these we all feel an abiding confidence in the capacities of the state to create wealth and sustain a large population. We point to large tracts of cheap land, to our valuable forests, to our mines of phosphates, to cotton, rice, turpentine, and rosin, as inducements for men to come here ! to engage in business. Suppose j such men to come, how are they en- ! couragcd when they get here? One j of them stops in Charleston. lie j sees that twenty thousand dollars, now locked up * in government bonds, can be used' to stimulate business. lie will become a broker. The first demand is one or two hundred dollars for a license. So, lie I 7 I thinks, goes half or all of one per : cent, of his capital. Another will epeti a blacksmith's shop; first pay $10, before you can blow a bellows. ; Book binders, shoemakers, bakers, j millers, painters, printers, tailors, : and fifty other mechanics are thus repelled from entering into business, which if practiced in our state would keep thousands of dollars, from beinx sent to the north for 1 goods made where none of the profits will ever be expended with us. The folly of such legislation is so patent to us that it seems only ne i cessary to state it to have it abolished. And yet it will gO on for years, repelling the industrious ami chilling every ambitious workman ; who desires to be in business for himself. Men need rather stimulation to settle in South Carolina, cursed as she is by a social and political complication of evils, which only j . tho infusion of new blood will rid ^ i lier of. These license taxes, too, strike at enterprise at its very inception. Before a beginning is made toward O O a return from his capital and skill lie is obliged to encroach upon his | scanty funds. To how many is ' this first outlay more important than ten times the amount in future years. In how many cases docs it hamper and retard the worker. It tnay be be is unable to add sonic j tool or convenience, or, m .re fatal yet, he may not insure his property, ! and all may be lost by the calamity of fire. i'JiJIIj Vt ^ivubvob i?/i tui.w have been won by men whose first j efforts would have been disastrous- j ly affected by an immediate demand for fifty dollars, and the instances arc more numerous where enterprises now thriving, blessing those engaged in them and adding to the comfort and prosperity of the communities where they are located, which would have been nipped in in the very bud by such <? demand, or would have been driven to some more liberal state, where energy, industry and ingenuity meet with encouragement instead of repulsion. The great city of Philadelphia, the only place yet discovered to put a tax which will U, universal, equal, impossible to evade and cheap to collect. To this will be replied : Philadelphia is so prosperous that her real estate can bear all the burdens of taxation. But what made it prosperous. We reply, labor. Labor created the capital. Capital in turn employs the labor and stimulates it. This again demands homes for its votaries; real estate rises in value by reason of demand. Thus labor creates and sustains all. THE BILL RIVER RAILROAD A NECESSITY. The disaster to the Ancilla furnishes in argument in favor of the speedy construction of the Hull Kiver ri.hoid Or, rather, it adds one tc a long list of previous nrgnments of tlie same kind. If the phosphate de'.osi'sin the neighborhood of Hull Kiver are ever to he fully developed and the immense expenditure ol cipitol already made is to be supplemented by greiter efforts on the part of owners, tho tucilities for the shipment of the rock must be made safer and cheaper. No port iu the south has now a worse reputation than St. Helena Sound. It is dangerous to go in and more so to go out "iihiu a year there have been half a dozen tases of injury to the few ships entet e i. and the narrow escapes may be set down as al most as frequent as the departures. Since the Annlla disaster we have heard of one of these na'row escapes made by a Spanish b;rk going in, which ran ashore near the entrance to St. Helena Sound, but fortunately it was at low tide and she slid off easily. When we think of the different experience wo had at Port Reynl entrance during the war the contrast is so great that it hardly needs to be restated. Then, we saw often tvo hundred sai. of vessels lying in-our harbor. The arrivals * ere sometimes scores in a day. livery rig and every size were represented, from-the smallest coaster to the IYut.anh and the Vermont. During the whole war, from November, 1801, to the close in 180-3, no instance of disaster occurred. Ships and steamers came in at ail hours of the day and night; at all stages of tide; at all seasons of the year, with the weather running the whole gamut, from calms to the fiercest gales. % No shipmaster, who had ever entered, waited a second time for a pilot, and linn dreds who never saw the bar sailed in without tear. No instance of a vessel striking on the bar ever occurred to our knowledge, except that of the Vermont. She, alter 11 inn- t hree veiirs us a store-ship, lost her moorings and went to sea in n gnle. She was ! drawing twenty-seven feet, with the accumulation of three years upon her button:. She touched but tatue oil without hurt. If the railroad were completed now, ships could be cliartcred for L'ort Rayal at rates of freight aud insurance sufiiciently lower when compared with Hull River to pay a ban 1 - line freight to the railroad. Instead | of hav.ng to lighter the greater portion of t ieir cargoes they could receive them from shoots and be loaded in a few days. When loaded they could goto sea at once, without waiting for just such a favorable wind as at j St. Helena. > In fact, it may be said, that tie succcjs of operations at Bull River depend upon tbe completion of the railroad Large sums have been expended there, and as yet no return has been made to tbe impatient IioUcmk of stock in the different companies. We predict that rhc matter will sootj receive : tj>e earnest attention of these so decpiy interested. / ?-? The Phosphate Fleet. The following named vessels are reported at the Custom house here as being : a Hull iiivcr. This quite respectable I duet will loud with pho-pliates for foreign pons. They c;ui carry about four thousiud tons of the crude rock, be-ide a large quantity of lumber. The value of j the cargoes of phosphate alone will reach ; the suui of Facts like these j le.id us not to despair of t'io ultimate pro periiV of South Carolina " Ur ti h hark Terentia, 345 tons. Spaui -h bark tfpita, 291 tons. British brig 7/io, 27^ tons. British bark Mountain Ash, 428 tons. British bark Cimrca, 344 tons. Ituliau bark Aim, 530 tons. British bark Furvcepore, 475 tons. American -hip Webster, 1717 tons. Briii.sh ship Audita, 714 tons. American schooner G. L itcrencc, 309 tons. The Columbia Fretting Herald. Wc have received the first issues of this lively sheet, which began its careei last week in Columbia. Its .ditors ate .Mr. Lucius C. Northrop, who wields a vigorous and graceful pen, and Major E , , W. Everson, a trained and indefatigable joumaj.Lt, who has just relinquished the r- IOMM i i ?fwi?ywwwBwuyMww year, and whose taxable property is twict thai, of the entire state of South Carolina, has been brought to its present prosperity by manufactures, Its wealth is created by labor and machinery. No license scheme was ever put in force to retard the development of business? to prevent the union of capital, ingenuity and labor for the creation of wealth. There are thousands of men in business there, adding millions to the capital of the city, employing other thousands of laborers, attracted by employment from every quarter of the world, who have never consciously paid a state, county or city tax. They do not escape taxation, for they live in houses and carry on their business i mi i l i: in nouses, xneir worn men uvu m other houses. They buy of ami sell to other men who live in houses. The only tax is upon real property ?immovable property?which is Elliott on th? P&ttersontans* Congressman R. B. Elliott was recently interviewed by a correspondent of the Cincinnati (Sominerciq.1. He is quite pathetic over what will be thought of his race when it is kuown that they prefer Patterson's green to Elliott's black arguments. It is sad enough to think of seats on the U. S. Seuate as objects 9f merchandize, but it makes one smile to hear of Elliott bemoauihg the venality of bis colored brothers. He is an example himself of how much money ct'n be made out of politics. Let him explain how he defeated impeachmcut; how he helped pass the validating bill; onwhat terms he favored the settlement bill; what it cost to pass the Blue Ridge bill; why hcjeft his place in congress to spend his time in the lobby at Columbia, The weapons which beat him in his contest with Patterson were perfectly familar to him. It is the pot calling the kettle black for him to cry out against Putt reon. Itrnrvmn SinoaUs First. Brunson, P. R. R. R., 1 January 10, 1873. } EdiXor of tin Beaufort Republican: Dkar Stn :?I see a notice i i your paper, desiring a suitable locality for the establishment of a large male and female academy. I take pleasure in offering lo!s in our tov>'ri gratis, for religious and school purposes. We will be glad to welcome as many as will come among u> and will contribute all itt our power to promote, their advancement. Brunson is well and favorably situated lor business and health, excellent water, good- society, &c., and offers rare advantages. Yours very respectfully, William Ediur Brcnson. S&* Pocotaligo station on the Savannah & Charleston railroad has been abolished and all goods consigned to that point will hereafter ho left.at Yemassce. Victory! Victory! Sir Knight of the Golden Fleece, Z. Searson, a noble specimen of the chivalry of Beaufort county, having obtained nine rings at the Walterboro tourn.'nuciit received the prize. He crowned, as the Queen of .Love and Beauty. 3Hss rnceoe Farmer, daughter of Judge G. B. Farmer. The Cotton .Market. Late cotton circulars contain the following statistics: Total receipts since Sept. J, 1?72, lu,69u bags against 7,liOO last year. Stock, 4,900 bags against 1\700 bags last year. On hand, 5,900 bags agaiiut 3,600 last year. Quotations ate for common, 3-(?'42c; medium, 45c; good, 4S(?55c; line, 75(? 85c; extra, 90(? !20c. The ctnp has been folly threefourths marketed, hut a large part oi that to come consists of frost and stained cotton. In this vicinity, lrotn earnest inquiry, we arc convinced that seven-eighths ol the crop is now ginned and in market. The buyers all co plain of the scarcity of seed cotton. The crop comes into I lilt ill<ll AUli Vill 1^ llilO > VUt Mbt/Iiu i no drought matured the plant and picking began ami ended early. Another rea.-ou is found in the fact of the greatly increased facilities' for giuing. Planters, who last year sent their crops away to be ginned, this year have their own gin*. The market in Charleston is very dull even ior good cottons. The price is altogether in the hands of the buyers, and any reasonable bid is sure to find takers. ??y* A turn-table ha- been finished at Port ltoyal, and hereafter we shall have the satisfaction of goingnp the road with our engine right end lbrcmost, which will Lc safer as well as more dignified. A Fine (inn. In the South it is not only very convenient hut often neces-ary to be the owner of a safe, reliable, long ra go gun. Parties who may be at a loss for information as to where such guns can he procured, are called upon to read the card or Messrs. Pakcr B ros-, West Meriden, Conn. The finest breech-loading shot guns in the world are manufactured by this firm, at prices ranging from $7"? to and sent by express to any address "on trial. ?A resolution lias been adopted by the General Assembly ordering the Attorney-General to investigate the payments made by the late Slate treasurer, ami if any are illogal'y made to prosecute him. And that is the last of it. Parker has a voucher for everything doubtless. Investigate the vouchers if you dare. The ca]>tain of a fine schooner which arrived, at Port Iloyal the other day, was asked after he had returned from a brief first vi-it to llcaufort, what he thought of the town. "It puts tue in mind," replied he, "of a town three hundred years old in San Domingo, ti/ity there lire mar ihirfays in it. " ?And now commences the season of dunning mid being dtuiuel. We scarcely know whicli is the \r <r.-t of the two. From our window we already see people boning each other pitilessly, ha, ha. ha ! as the people say in the plays, how funny it is through a gla.-s darkly ! SzOF "S. Cillillatt,'" is the way the reporters translate Millctt'ssignature in the Charleston hotel arrivals. BvtUlRUS' A.NItptSTkMTOKs SCKCIAL N<ITI< E.? Poors, Sashes, lilinJ*, Window and Plate (tl'iM, Builders' Furnishing lUnlwarr, Moulding* Stair Fixtures Marole and Slate Mautlejiieeca, Ftit-uusiic Floor Tile, l'r.iiu 1'ipe, Ae., at the lowest wholesale prices, at the greai Southern Factory ol P. 1*. Tualc, Chaihwtou, S. C. ?A recent con. us of Paris shows a decrease :.-f population, since 18M of 366,350. War aud the exodus of the Germans are the causes. ?The Supreme Court of this State decides the act of 1X72,conferring exclusivejurisdiction of minor criminal eases upon the inferior court of Charleston, so far as it excludes the court of General Session-, A Fat Office. ggj| A gentleman connected with the phosphate business informs us that the fatest office in the state (without stealing) is the inspectorship of phosphates, now held by 0. A. Moses, of Charleston. He gets, it is said, $2000 salary from the .-tute and twenty-five cents per ton on It every tou sold in the state or exported, rem As the estimated amount thus inspected and readies nearly 200.000 tons his perquis- tere: ites alone must approach $50,000 per thos year. If this is true anothe. Moses has peri a soft thing. thei ?Whittetnore introduced a bill to en- T . l pr force the payment of the poll tax, inflict- y0U] ing a double penalty and thirty days iu fuj x jaii for nonpayment. The jails would ua|j have to be greatly enlarged if such a law j was passed and enforced. But there is niay not the slightest danger of it. The scrv legislature will sell out the property of a]^0 delinquents without redemption, but our they will never dnre enfo;cc the- head tax wjtj; hv the only way it can be collected, i.e., f.K.t, Ly making the payment oi' it a prelimi- I asi!U nary to voting. Abolish it altogether. tjje; .As it is now enforced, it is a delusion. 0f t mar Stabbing Affray. age> A row occurred at the house of Me. stea Tourious on Saturday night la=t, at mid* and, night, iu which Charles Talbird was niit ! stabbed in the back of the neck by Win. und Lawrence, from'Ladies Island; Law- that rence was arrested by the town marshal who and lodged in jail. On Monday he was dest brought before II. G. Judd, Esq., for an of t examination, and indefau'tof baiUwas com sent back to jail to be iu sale-keeping for tc b the next term of court less m^' tlic Sailed.?The schooner Izelta, Smith, master, loaded with 151,000 feet of timber sailed for New York, on the 13th, from Port Boyal. She was loaded by y John Hicli & Co., wliich firm is daily ex pccting another vessel for a similar cargo. ^ ( The Stock on Hund, nnsi Wc have ascertained by enquiry that uior there are now in Beaufort 436 bales of rcpl Sea Island cotton. The amount of seed pro< cotton is small and very little is coming ting in. the as if trOT The taxpayers come up promptly gntj iu this section and money is flowing into ru(j( the county tieasurer's hands rapidly. <(0I The Lieu Law. oan The senate has repealed the law giving ?ut' a preferiod iicn upon crops to factors and t0,u others fumi.-hieg supplies to farmers and" !lK'r planters. it will probably pass the oxt< House. ' ,)ro< - ? "it The Kxprcss. ?-o Koute agent O. M. Sadhr couimcnced "T cairying the express over the 1'ort iloyal J{ railroad on Mondry last. Agencies are npo >stab!ished at all the principal stations as ry o tar as Allendale. The express leaves was Beaufort Mondays, Wednesdays and and Fridays and returns the alternate day-, in o connecting both ways with the S. & C. bau railroad. lion On Our Table. ,,on The Plantation* Fott January, ,,r|j lSTd.?Contents varied and interesting, as usual. There are articles of first rate f j value on Agriculture, Stock liaising. In- J? duslries?for the little folks and the l4.v Household. The lniseeilany and editorials ' . are also very good. Priee $1.50 per an- J)1,11 nuni, published by 1'lantatiou Publishing '. Company, Atlauta, Ga. ('n:~ Kill The American Iarmer for January j begins a new year with a number of even ,je more than usual merit. Its contents are ^jp varied and attractive, every branch of jrm; rural life receiving full attention. Wc anj commend the Farmer to our readers. 0I)p Published by Sam'l. Sands & Son, Haiti' more, Md , at $1.50 a year. I,cj( Report of the Department or at Aoriculturk for Nov. and Dec. 1872. trai ?This interesting periodical presents a eve lige.-t of returns lVoui various correspon- be dents throughout the United States, Am show ng the average yield per acre and alsc price of each principal crop in the eouu- not ties of the .several States, arula record of j prices of farm products in the principal |iav cities, and a current statistical <lnUi, with ',.nv tlic results of investigations in the ],?j0 several divisions of the departments. Tiif. Pcblic IjBdokh Almanac? tor Which is given away to every subscriber eoa to the Philadelphia Public Ledger- It is his very neatly printed, and the publishers sooi have our thanks. hav We have received a copy of the l"s Carolina Fertilizer Almanac and Farmers ^('n Journal for 187o, issued by Messrs. Geo. *'at W. Williams A* Co. Ic contains much ''xr valuable information to planters. kin zca XEWSITiiMS. the | I ?Tilton has written a very unsatisi fa'ctorv letter about the scandal printed : by Mrs. Wood hull ill regard to his vvifc Wlt and Beeeher. f1u ?The Aiken Tribune lias been greatly enlarged and improved. j ^ ?Mrs. Sherman, the Connecticut j{;v B irgia, adnyts the poisoning of eight n;l)1 persons?three husbands and five eliildren. . )inf. ?The federal judiciary committee is of t : to investigate Judge JLfurell, of New fina Orleans. mn< ?An earthquake has destroyed tlie w''' j towu of Sotnghcn in India, swallowing dist uj> fifteen hundred persons. The grand jury of Charleston has ,n^ found a true lull against the Hon. Cor.- ^nj' 1 gressinau-at-large-L'arson-daddy Cain for 4 j 1 ! obtaining money under false pretences. ?The Prince of Wales represented r 1 I I P * I ? .1... l\. 1 ..r V.nA. > ' I nic royai laiiiuy at mc iumciui ui ...jjfv/ arm loon. The <qucea sent an autograph let- sfre I ter of condolence to the empress. The wa( remains were interred under the family scn) seal in the vaults of the catholic chapel in Chiselhurst Many pr ruiueut French- ?aE men attended the funeral. asw *m it? QCIT CLAIM DEEDS, nv S CITABLE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF j8 f( land acquired at Plat* or National Tax Sales, __fjIT-Saig^2L thL pffiu?. _ ; .UFOBI AND THE SEA ISLANDS. di Their History and Traditions. it ei BY J. A. J. w ri . has been suggested to me that some ti iniscences of Beaufort, its people aJ its surroundings, might prove in b sting to the rising generation, and to e, too, who, in the late eventful b; od of our history, have taken up f< r abode among us. Having a por- <1 of my time just now unemployed, h opose to commit to' paper?and with n permission, to your paper?a faith- ai ecord of those incidents and eveuts, si of which I saw, and part of which ai is." In addition, however, to what a ' have fallen under my personal ob- ci ation, you will permit me ?to record tl such traditions of the olden time, as a forefathers have handed down to us n k all tlie outward marks of veritable I S not unaccompanied by th ir sincere e ranees of authenticity, or. at least, of ti r own implicit faith in the statement w hose handing down to them, in like P iner as they to us. In this go-ahead u when movements by the power of si m are too dilatory for our purpose; ? .grasping the lightnings, we tran- P our correspondence over the land or r< er the sea, with a speed exceeding a ; of earth's revolution about her axis; I n communications reach their remote I inations btfort, as it were, the hour y heir departure; and, even in our o paratively new countryr a town is held b e beyond the pale of civilization unable to hold daily intercourse with t most distant cities, whether of the I or west?in this progressive age, I 1 it is difficult indeed, to arrest the at- t ion. and call back the mind to the t igs of the past. Utility, material I; 1th, body-comforts, arc the desiderata a he day. Impatient for an affirmative ? fcr, we a<k, "will it pay?" "is there v iey in it?" Satisfied with a quick u y to this all-important question, we v xed to lay hold on the present, let- t 1 " u'l.11,1 I] (Hi; ui'au uui > liiuu uvau. m uitv. throng is thus pressing forward, eaeli, f t were,'propelling the other, we may v , here and there, one refusing to be ?' sly hurried dowu the stream without a ping to note objects of interest on its Its. Nay, some, at the peril of being t stripped in the race, will even look t lly back at scenes now growing dim- a ' and dimmer as the distance is fast 1 ;nded by our onward, onward-, o ward v jress. These delight to I ansnck the tombs for pastime, frura the dust ' ill up the sleeping hero, hid him tread r be scene for their amusement.?- \ ut I am growing weary of ray long :l logy for going baric tothc first di-covc- ' f our noble harbor. As the opinion 1 held by many of our ancestor-. 1 now shared with them, by not a few ur midst, that the fort built by Hi- 1 It on his arrival here, and called, i" ' or of his King, ''Charles Fort," wa- a e other than the old work near the f tent terminus of tlie Port Royal 1 road ; and, as many utc unaware ol > existence of any other work claiming ae the veritable "Charles Fort," I ' 0 thought proper to set that uru%r- i ty at rest before entering upon my u purpose. I derive my information u the most authentic source, the I inal account of the voyage* of 'J ault himself, ami of his successor. ' idonnicre; as contained in "LTIistoirc ' Nouvellc France.? a Pari : CXVin." I am compelled tof|note t 11 meinory, a* the ho.ik is inaccessible. I of such extreme rarity that the I r copy for sale "in the world,in * I) was at The Hague, where it was 1 (though only a single volume, 12mo.) i thirty dollars! I am aware of no t islation into English. There is, how- t r, a general outline of its contents to found in Ilackluyt's Collection of ' eieiit Voyages. A rare Latin version 1 i exists, with the title of which, 1 am familiar. < Yancis I., anxious that France should 1 " " flrlnrv <\f ilia. 1 C ruing niuiv m v?t*^ ^ cries in the New World, had sent the ' rentino, Giovanni Veraz/ani to ' icrica as early as 1524. This naviri 1 reached, with his single vessel, the st of North Carolina, and extending ' explorations southward, soon?too : n?concluded that there were no ens in tlrit direction. He changed 1 course, ami ran as far north as Nova tin. Two successive voyages umW 1 tier put an end. for the time, to the ' icditions organized hy the French g. It remained now. for religi hi- ' I to undertake the task abandoned hy 1 crown. Tiie great Admiral Colignv ! ! ed permission to found an asylum for testants in America. Jean Rihault. ( li a number of cnp .rants, reached our 4 thorn shores in May. 1552. It will. 1 ill probability, remain forever an tin- : led question, whether the present St. iii's River, I'ln., or our own Mayer, is the stream to which lie gave the ie of "May." Of his "Port ;al," however, there is no room for * ortainty. Visiting and naming many ' he bays ami inlets on our coast, he 8 lly entered our waters, and to this 1 irnifieent harbor he gave the name 1 eh, clown to the present, has always inguished it. Let us follow him to landing: Having ascended a few ps, he discovered that there were two is of the sea accessible to him, with wig point of land between thoni okiinr directly towards the entrance." lat land can this he other than Paris ind? ITe enters the right branch, or i, and near this point of land, on a atn, not affording sufficient depth of cr for his ships, but into which he t boats, lie builds a for t and names i Carles Fort," in honor of his master, i the site of this fort he definitely irtained at this late day? Certainly in: On the banks of a bold creek, wering with accuracy his description, jund an extensive earth-work the ag -;j < T t * igantic live oaks which crown its well co' ulioeated crest. The nature and outline do 10, of this work, oonclusively show that was designed as a defence against rgi :iemies approaching by land, not by wl ater; while the work higher up the ver, on Port Royal island, and 'someuics called Smith's Fort, is a defence i gainst approaches by water; and is id: uilt of tabby, a material of compara- su vely recent invention and largely used 00 n . i o T.?I !j i PV y tne opaniaras or norma, wuere u is wj >und iu great abundance, but of inferior an uality, being tlic product of nature's and, and there called "Coquina.*' J)id ot this natural concrete give rise to the 5 j rtificial combination of the same, or it] milar ingredients? Not a few dwelliugs Ml nd other buildings on our southern coast ? re constructed of this artificial concrete jfj ailed "tabby." It has been objected 2i| fiat the creek referred to above does not 2J, dmit boats at low water, and could ^ ever, therefore-,- bavo been chosen by ] libault for the settlement of his follow- j rs. Allowance must be made for the iling up which is always going on, and rhich is prodigiously accelerated by the lough and other agricultural iniplelents, especially in a soil so loose and andy as that of our islands. This shaljwing of our salt water streams is ap- _ reciable to many of us within our own k. ecollc-tion. How considerable then, fter the lapse of three centuries! Old )addy Ben, late a venerable resident of 'aris Island, told me more than thirty LI ears ago, that when he was a boy, boats f the largest size, ascendent low water, 0 what lie significantly called "the fort.'' Some, still fondly clinging to the idea hat Smith's Fort was Ribault's "Charles iort," the later Col. Geo. P. Elliott, the irojector of our P. R. R. It., detenu in d 0 explore the work on Paris island, and hus set the mutter at rest. According- 1 y, about fifteen years ago, he visited the llcged site and finding the situation and acasurement to correspond so exactly riih the account given in the rare volinio above referred to, he resolved to erify every thing, if nosaible, by excavaions. lie was richly rewarded. He inearthed numerous fragments of French ^ ottcry, and discovered the old gateway. J ritli its charred posts, of our durable edar, portions of the hinges being still ttaclred. I r.iVHK, lllltJ T ItiJlArd AuI'lMl.liArl I I ..Ml* UlUO, .? J. LFB..V.*, | _ myoiid farther controversy the fact! ~ hat "Charles Fort" was built on Paris, | nd not on Port Royal island ; it re* uains for another occasion to notice the rorks foun I higher up the river. These b I lowers of Kibuult having been reduced c; o extreme want in consequence of the cftisul of tho Indians to supply pro- c isions, after much suffering,, resolved to c, ibnndon the situation- durh>g the absence if their leader. Admiral Coligny 3 enewed the enterprise and sent Laudon- cliere with three ships and a number of c. nthu-ia-tic followers, attracted by the : c. eport of abundance, an-1 of gold. The unded at ''the Iliver of May,'' (1504) ind there fortified themselves. A similar c ate awaited them; hut Ribanlt returned ii 1565 with other adventurers and their |11 am Hies. lie brought also supplies, in- r iluding implements of husbandry. On lis arrival, he found the settlers prcparng to desert the country. Pedro delcndez arrived soon after from Spain. iml before the expiration of the year, >ut to the sword, by order of Philip IT., ilmost all the col-mists. Dominic de 4 * iMa lUUItjUU?) ill l t?un, nun uiicu i*i ivcd on tlic coast, and cajrturing two or ^ lircc of the Spanish forts, executed, in 11 urn al! their occupants. History refers 10! h these butcheries to the coast of Florida; but if so, who then were the judders of our "Old Spanish Fort,'' railed also "Smith's Fort?" The latter / mine has long attached to it as the V ?ro| erty of the lute John J. Smith, a wealthy and most estimable citizen, who lurvived the recent war, hut to see his beautiful country'scat. ir> the possession >? a not rn r, under the tax act of 1HC1. flii.s eminent t-hi i-tian has but lately A ecn called from our midst to reap the award of a well spent life. His works ?f charity were continued even-after the ruel reduction of his worldly wealth; mt lie had laid up for himself "treasures in heaven, v. here neither moth nor rust " loth corrupt, and where thieves do not i1 jreak through nor steal." I have di :rc?*cd from my purpose to pay this light tribute to the memory of a good ? uan. We have no historical record of the entury succeeding these 1-utcheries. Kugli>h and French adventurers coniuued to seek the New World; but lireeted their voyages to the more f lorthcrn shore*: n< did also the Swedes, 'i [In landers and others. Little is definite- r y known of the condition of our southern oast, thus abandoned to the Spanish *rown until Itiij.i, when the grant of I?>??.'? i) the Karl of Clarendon, was so enlarged ja is to extend the western limit of '"Caroina" to the Pacific. The Heath of Napoleon. The cx-etnperor of the French died, at ( ['hiselhurst, England, on the 9th inst. } History will name him the greatest t( lovereign of his tiine, notwithstanding he disaster-which closed his reign. He '] rare to France a government suited to n ver and the freest she has ever known- s L5ut go?d or bad it was the choice of a " fast majority of her people. Could that Jt teople now speak we believe the dynasty ?i ould continue iti the Prince Imperial. v The man who mailt* hiuisen uiciaior )f France, who humbled Russia, de- T bated Austria, and made Italy jwtssiblc. vill remain forever the Caesar of the linctccnth century. He ruled France, iot by the grace of allied arm lea, or by he moneybags of the bourgeois king, jut by the stern mailed hand of a dictator. (Juder his rule there was no insurrection of raging madmen 'of the Coniimne. The Parisian knew that his life ind property were safe from the assassin tud the robber, and the Frenchman, of whatever partv, recognized that Napoeon had made France the* arbiter of Europe. Nannleon may have been the jjward that Kinglakc paints him, and 1 vered him to ho 8ince}prus.*i$n soldiers'*? -feated French armies, hot that ha ew how tor rule France, and dared to le Jilt; that for thirty ^rears he never Laxcti the grip with winch he seized a tole nation; and that insurrection ver dared to- confront him duiing hislole career, are facts that none can rese to admit. Thiers will rejoice that the most fonnible of his enemies is removed, but the pporiers of the empire will doubtless w joiu themselves to the radical 'its Means, and the struggle for power* 11 be narrowed to these and the mon-' dusts. Miuatare Umanac. jAirriBT I Sun I ton I Moon | !?*?? JAnUABT. | 1 K. * & I WaUr Friday | 7-2 | 5?13 | 8-3? | 1...07 Saturday.? | 7-2 | .V..20 [ 8...S4 | 2-61 Sunday | 7...2 | 5.-21 | 10.J50 I 2-54 Monday T 7...1 | 5-22 l" II -46 | 3-485 Tuesday | 7...1 | 3?2:1 | Morn | 4-33 WedTusMtay...1 7...1 | 3.7.24 | 11.-46 | S...28 Thursday7...0 | 5-25 | 1-.48 | 6.-22 MOU>'S phases FOB JxHViur* First Quarter, ,'th, 5 hours, ft mil), evening. Full Moon, 13th, 11 hours, 4 min. morning. Last Quarter, alst, 3 hours, 11 min, oreiilng. (tew Moon. 2Sth, 12 hours, 8 min. evening. High water is calculated for tbe'bar. A LAE&E ASSORTMENT or STATIONERY, C05SKTWO or iTTER PAPER, MOTE PAPER, ENVELOPES, BILL HEADS, CARDS. SUITABLE FOR business Printing, Just Rooelved. rAT THE OFFICE Of THE IEFUBLICAN. ?{ 0 } 3est Work - Lowest Price PENSIONERS. :o: V7WNTF.P AT THIS OFFICE THE FOLLOWjy ing'iuunod irtsoiis or their ncarcrt heirs: Joneph (Lib i 1, late of Co. K. aith Regt. U. 8. C. T. Thomas Tliump*>n, iato of (Y>. A, 7th Regt. U. 8. William Rardlr, lat of Co. R, .V.lh Rngt, U. S. C. T. Richard .Singleton, late of Co. K, lJitu Regt. U. 8. Wallace ?3lngleten, late of Co. K, :t3rd Regt. U. 8. Liiward Hawkins late of Co. R 21*t Regt U. 8. C.T. |H Miley Mills wloow of Win. Mtll?, lata of Co. JC, K !ni tte.'t. U. S. C T. M Jane Chaplin widow of Nod Chaplin, late of Co.- |^| 2W Regt. L*. 8. C. T. Walloon Vordore, Iato of Co. D, 2I?t Regt U. 8* (ioo. Washington, late o. Co. K, 3drd Rogt. U.S. ^ T. I (' Ha Da'-U. widow of Alton. Ifaris, lata of Co. E ml Re?1. U. 8. C. T. Stephen biunuaus, lata of Co. D, 2lst Regt. C.9i T. (iilbcrt C,rv>n fatherof Stepney Oreen, Iato of Co. .'1st Itagt V. S.C.T. Anii Canfi-M widow of Silas Canfield, lata of Co. . l!'.?t tl'Ki. r. S. C T. < Mar; pi ret King widow of Jusiah King, late of Co. -'1st Regt U.S. C. T. Mary Ann Shaw widow of Isaac Share.. J . liny Flood widow of Janus Mood. / Mini Itaynanl widow of Andrew Barnard. Lucy Biu kitcy wfo?>w of William 1'inckncy. l'liiltisli Scribbinr widow of Robert Scrilihlns. J Tiiomas Holler in lh? nt-e of Napoleon Harris lata' ' Co R 21st Rogt U. S. C. T. NEW BUTCHERSHOPT &EO. H. DURANr I LI. CONSTANTLY KKF.P (SOOD bKF. l'OKK, MUTTON, SACS ACES, VKCKTABLES, Ac. N. E. Corner Seventh and Bay St BEAUFORT. S. C. Carolina Fertilizer 1 STILL TRIUMPHANT! I lis Marl of tlis CAROUA IS I VX EXCELLED. I > offer rr to our friends as ak rtiolc that cannot be suqiaescd. And which viQi and the tot with any other FISST CLASS 1IANUBJB. We recommend it to the use of the Planting Continuity u an article to be relied upoa. r rice i?T Charleston and Wllmlngtoiv Vt srrhunui t ash, per Ton, 2,000 Lb*., liS.OO6 'imo, per Ton, 2,000 Lbs., o3.0(J tyable 1st November free of Interest. GEO. W. WILLIAMS & CO., ~M ^IIAnrjESTON, is. o. m ld.6-3UI. STATE AND < 01 NTT TAXES. Corntt Treasurer's O print, ) Corirr llnrsr., Hkai port, So. Ca. ( A Notice Is hereby given thsU thU office will I* ope? ir the receipt bf the Slate and County Taxes for thr ear 1*72 on (he 1st day of January 1873. All Taxes not paid on or before the 13th Inst., will"B liable to a penalty of twenty per cent. All Ileal and Personal Property Is charged withsolve (12) mills on the dollar for State purposes, five >) tuills on the dollar for County purposes, one (1) till on the dollar for School puqsiscs, except* Jg lieldon Township where the school tax is two 12). illls, and l'if|tha? Township one and one-half mills. Poll Tax ooe II) dollar per capita and one (l)dolir on e?cry legal voter, except llilton Head Towndp-where the tax Is forty (40) cents on each legal uter. The Treasurer will visit the following named laces in the County to facilitate tlio collection of axes: m Glllsonvllle, January 13. Grubumrtllc, January 14. Rfititii X Koaila, January IS. Brighton, January 16. K1ILV k Goethe Store, Jannajy 17. Lawtonville, January 13. Bearh Hrauch, January 20. Brunaon, 1*. K. K. It., January 21. Crlckeivllle, January 22. l'aul k Webb'a Store, January 53. Wbiptjer'a Store, January 24. Gardner* Corner*, January *5. Savannah, Ga_ SlirrilTa vfflc*. January 30. J uo. K. Wall a Store, January 31. Mardrvllle, February 1. ' New Hirer. February 3. Blnffton, February 4. Hilton Head Eebruarr 5. J GEORffHOCMER, HHH