Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, January 16, 1873, Image 2
The Beaufort Republican.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 1873.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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J . liny Flood widow of Janus Mood.
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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