Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, April 13, 1871, Image 2

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V ".^......,_^WHWS,-... ..i ?.".'.-.-.^U..WM.U..H...-.M....UT-..U^.-~?-......u..-.?-.-.'"..."*" ,M" . . .-, :/ - >*;...:; ? BY D. R. EDGEFIELD, S. G., VOLUME. XXX?.-So. 16. THE CHOICEST mmm m rm su i\T erohant Tailor DEALER IN RE?D?-MABE CLOTHING, And Gents' Furnishing Goods, 220 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga., DESIRES to inform his friends, patrons and the public generally that he has received and has now in store the best and most desirable ' selection of Goods, which will be unequalled for extent, variety and novelty, which will be made up in the latest and most fashionable styles and best workmanship, and at the no3t reasonable prices. Also, on hand a Full Stock Ready-Made Clothing, Gents' Furnishing Goods, AUGUST DORR, 220 Broad St. New Spring Dry Goods James W. T u r 1 e y, BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA., DEALER IN FIRST-CLASS DRY GOODS, HAS JUST RETURNED FROM NEW YORK, and is now fully prepared to offer to the public a completely assorted Stock of SEASONABLE FIRST CLASS DRY GOODS. Great care has been taken to supply each Department with EVERYTHING NEW AND FASHIONABLE, as well as .the more staple articles of the Trade. The Cash System will be Strictly Adhered to, and it is much cheaper to pay 25 per cent, for money, and buy your Dry Goods for Cash, than to buy them on time. The best judges of Dry Goods, 'and the closest buyers, are particularly re quested to examine my present schedule of prices. . : JAMES W. TURLEY. Mar 29 . . tf 14 Important to Cotton Planters. -0 THE JNI^JRYL^JSTD FERTILIZING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Have prepared a Special Fertilizer adapted to the Cotton Plant, under the name of COTTON FOOD, Which they claim to be of the highest grade of Fertilizer sold in the South, equal in its results to Peruvian Guano, and of more permanent benefit to the soil. It has been used by Several Hundred Planters in North and South Carolina and Georgia for two seasons, with the following results : It increases the crop from 100 to 200 per cent. It resists drought in all cases. The crop is not affected by rust. It matures the crop three to four weeks in advance, thus insuring the crop against early frosts, or in the event of a backward season for planting, enables the planter to put in his crop three or four weeks later, even as late as the 1st of June, with a certainty of success. If his crop is only doubled by the use of "COTTON FOOD," it wilf give him from one to two hundred per cent, profit on his outlay, with Cotton at 121 cents per pound, and it will enable him to plant fewer acres with a correspond ing reduction of labor and expense, with better results. COTTON TAKEN IN FA YMENT FOR G UANO. Price, $60.per Ton in Augusta. O. IV. BUTLER, Agent. Mar 29 3t 14 E. E. STVENS. M. C. STEVENS. F. E. STEVENS & CO., -AND Commission Merchants 259 Broad Street, Augusta, 6a,, NEXT DOOR BELOWFREDERICKSBURG STORE LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE ON SHIPMENTS. Prompt attention given to HANDLING PRODUCE and FILL ING OF COUNTRY ORDERS. Cotton received for SALE and STORAGE, or for SHIPMENT to Liverpool, New York, or Philadelphia. Will make LIBERAL ADVANCES to parties desiring to Store or Ship. F. E. STEVENS & CO. ' ??t:'25 tf : . 44 BITTERS AND SCHNAPPS. Having received the Agency of RUSS' CELEBRATED BITTERS and SCHNAPPS, I am prepared to sell all Goods in this line at New York Cost, with freight added. _ ? . Hf. O'DOWD. Augusta? Mar 1 _. ..?.: ?:.-- ? .. ?? '. - - . 3ml0 M. O'DOWD, it?* -^ , - rl-*SX C^-vV *-?'.'* ' .' *"?'.?' -A V ' ' * Wholesale Grocer -AND Commission Merchant, 283 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga., H?^NOW ON ?IAND a Full and Complete Scock of CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES and PLANTERS SUPPLIES, among which may be found the following :- i 50 Hhds. BACON, Sides & Shomlere I 10 Bbls. COGNAC BRANDY, 30 Bbls. LARD, ! 30 Bbls. CORN WHISKEY, 200 " FLOUR, all:grades, 20 Hhds-: SUGAR, ' 300 Ska:.COFFEE, 300 Boxes SOAP, 200 " CANDLES, -100 STARCHY 100 " SODA," * ' 2000 Bushels CORN, 1000 " OATS, ' 500 Sacks SALT, 100 Cases LYE and POTASH, 100 " RYE WHISKEY, 10 " APPLE BRANDY, 20 " GIN and RUM, 20 " SHERRY and PORT WINE 200 M. SEGARS, various grades, 15a Boxes TOBACCO, 200 Doz. BUCKETS, 50 Doz. BROOMS, 50 Nests TUBS, 50 Hhds. MOLASSES, 100 Bbls. SYRUP. ALL GOODS WILL BE SOLD VERY LCW. GIVE ME A CALL. Jan ll * . 3m 3 Established 1849. ? Choice Loi of Gennme George L. Penn, . .* . EDGEFIELD, 8. C., HAS in Store another large and superior Stock of Goods in the DRUG TRADE, which he warrants Fr*esh and Genuine, and which he will sell-as low as%the same Goods can be "bought in any other Southern market. His Stock embraces in part, 500 Lbs. WHITE LEAD, One Barrel each of LINSEED OIL and VARNISH, '. . 50 Gallons Spts. TURPENTINE, ? v ^ .75 LKs. Spanish BROWN and Venetian RED, 10 Boxes WINDOW GLASS and 100 Lbs. PUTTY, 75 Gallons MACHINE OIL, 25 " TRAIN OIL 9 Doz. GLASS LAMPS* all styles, 35 " LAMP CHIMNEYS, 100 Lbs. each SODA, SALTS, SULPHUR, COPPERAS, . 800 Lbs. Family and Toilet SOAPS, 4 Bbls. Best KEROSENE OIL, &c, &c. Patent Medicines and Invaluable Remedies. HEGEMAN'S ELIXIR CALESAYA BARK, BRADFIELD'S FEMALE REGULATOR. DR. SIMMONS' LIVER MEDICINE, AYER'S HAIR VIGOR, CHERRY PECTORAL, SARSAPARILLA, AGUE CURE and CATHARTIC PILLS, ALLEN'S LUNG BALSUM, COOK'S WINE OF TAR for Coughs and Colds, A full Stock of all kind of BITTERS. WHITCOMBS ASTHMA REMEDY, PHILOTOKEN OR FEMALE'S FRIEND, RAD WAY1 S PILL'S AND READY RELIEF, MUSTANG LINIMENT, COD LIVER OIL, TARRLNTS SELTZER APERIFNT, HALL'S HAIR RESTORER, ? ' ARRY'S TRIGOPHERUS, GURNETS COCOAIN for tho Hair, BUR KALLESTON lo? the Complexion, CONGRESS WATER, CITRATE MAGNESIA. EXTRACT A full line For Cooking: Purposes. : LEMON, ROSE, ORANGE, VANILLA, PINE APPLE, of BAKING POWDERS, and SPICES of all kinds. Toilet Articles for the ladies. POWDER BOXES, very handsome, CAMPHOR ICE and VINEGAR ROUGES, TOOTH POWDERS AND PASTE, GENUINE BELL COLOGNE, LUBIN'S GENUINE EXTRACT, PENN'S EXCELSIOR HAIR OIL, PREMIUM BEARS OIL, HANDKERCHIEF EXTRACTS, in prreat varioty, HAIR POMADES, TOILET POWDERS, in great variety, TOILET SOAPS, all Flavors, (fcc., <fcc. CHOICE GROCERIES. HAMS, Clear R. SIDES, LARD, FLOUR, MEAL, Crushed, Loaf, Pow dered and Brown SUGARS, MOLASSES, SYRUPS, TEAS, COFFEE, CHEESE, MACCARONI, and all Goods kept in a first class stock, which will be sold low for Cash. It will be a pleasure to wait on my Friends and Customers at all times. t?-Prescriptions Carefully Compounded day or night. Apr 5 tf 15 Grand Opening OF ; * Spring aa? Summer Fashionable Millinery Goods RS.- LEIOSCS HAVING just returned from New York, takes pleasure in informing her friends and the Ladies generally, that on TUESDAY. APRIL 4th, She will open a SPLENDID ASSORTMENT of PATTERN BONNETS and HATS, purchased from some of the LEADING IMPORTERS of New York. Beautifel SASH RIBBONS, cheap. Ladies' DRESS CAPS, Infant's LACE BONNETS and HATS, The largest stock ot' FRENCH FLOWERS in thc city. The handsomest assortment of Jet and Gilt JEWELRY in the city. Thc larccit stock of Jute and Real HAIR CURLS.and CHIGNONS in the city. All the above goods will BE SOLD AT REMARKABLY LOW PRICES. Augusta, April 1, MRS. LECKIE, 171 BK O A I) STKKET, 5 lt Under thc Augusta Hotel. 15 Selling Off! G HEAT BARGAINS - IN - DRY GOODS! As I w' j compelled to Komovo frotn my present I JD, I will, from this dato, commen?a SELLI. OFF MY GOODS AT VERY LOW FIGURES in order to redoce my Stock. Having lalcly laid in a CHOICE and FULL ASSORTMENT of Spring and Summer Goods, LadieB will find this a raro opportunity to secure New and Desirable Goods at Bargain prices. My Stock includes a fine assortment of Goods for GENTS' AND BOYS WEAR. Pitalu.cull and examine wheo )ou visit our City. You will find it to your iuterett. Orders will be, RS usual, promptly und faith fully attended to. GEORGE WEBER, BEE HIVE STOKE, No. 104 ll road Street, AUGUSTA, GA. ti AUGUSTA HOTEL MURPHY & MAY, Proprietors, VT^E take this opportunity of returning otr thanks to the citizens of Edgefield for their pst kindness to us. Our House is thoroughly renovated for SUM MER ACCOMMADATIONS-Rooms large ad airy, and Tablo always supplied with tho bet tho market affords. Wo will be pleased to welcome our Edgcfieu friends and customers, and will use every cfifot to Tender their s'journ with us pleasant an! agreeable. Augusta, Mur 29 ,'iiul? JOHN BAUSKETT, Attorney and Counsellor at kaw, COLUMBIA, S. C., W ILL Practice in Mar 29 J. W. BAco.v. lt J. J. BACON J. W. Bacon & Bro., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Manufacturers and Dealers lu all kinds of SADDLES, HARNESS, LEATHER, TRUNKS, RUBBER AND LEATHER BBLTIX?, WOOD HAMES, WHIPS, VALISES, CARPET BAGS, SHOE FINDINGS, Fronen and American CALF SKINS, AND ALL KINDS OF LEATHER, Ac. SADDLES and HARNESS Repaired and Made to Order. Highest Prices Paid for Hides, Agents for Pioneer Papor Mills. All kinds of MANILLA WRAPPING PAPER on hand. Don't forget the place,-166 Broad Street, under thc Augusta Hotel, Augusta, (?a. Mar 20_3m 14 Notice. ALL Persons having demands against the ES TATE of Mrs. ESTHER RAINSFORD, are requested to present the same properly attest ed; and all persons in anywise indebted to said Estate ara notified to make payment to R. CANTELO U, Ex'or. Mar 22 tf 15 Barnwell and Richland. Columbia, Mar S Edgefield, Lexington, ly ll FRESH GROCERIES ! CHEAPER THAN EVER. D ]VoW in Store A FULli SUPPLY OF FAMI- c LY GROCERIES which I am setline at thc,, , ? ii very bottom prices. ' j W. F. DTTRTS?K. Sr. MarS H. PAnKER. Mar :. W. F. DURIS0E, Sr. .tf 10 V B. H. TEAGUE, f D C a t u 12 il PARKER & TEAGUE, DENTISTS, EDGF* ?ELL), 8. C. .dusonic Hall on West sido. Cm - 3, REEDER & DAVIS, b COTTON FACTORS,0 AND ?j General Coinmission Merchants^ ADGER'S WHARF, ? Charleston, S. G. OSWELL RKXDKR. Oct 17 ZIMMERMAN DAVIS. , 6m 43 T -n u WM. SHEPHERD & CO., Ko. 34, Kayne St., Charleston, S. C., ?? DEALER IN q CO OKI IV G S T O Y fi S,<; Ranges, and Heating Stoves. - c ^?r^Pictores of Stoves, with Prices and Des-j cription, will bo sent upon application. Charleston, June 3u ly 27 , .it,.,?. j," ? i i = ? .?0! when.fhe heart i?bleeding,' And bitter tear drops fall,; And all our joys seem shrouded In sorrow's heavy pall "Wien Mends we love, have left us, Alone fo destiny,' * j Ol Whatiean soothe and bless us ' j! > tike-words . of sympathy^*, j Hope,'with crowns of happy dreams L Close folded .to her breast Hath died, and in our fainting hearts' Been sadly Jain Jt? fest t '0! then, whUeVUdly tossing I (^.liftf^lidrktr?t?bled sea, I How swept a.wbfd'jctf kindness I' ' A tear of sympathy.;. ** "Whenwildlywe^are-yearning Z For pleasures '?riehjoy?d, fc Alo?ko?^ymp?thy:will fill . And cheerful willwe be If softly o'er our hearts there falls A fay of sympathy." -:-> ?, ? General Kershaw?s Reply to Sena tor Robertson. CAMDEN, S. C., March 25, i?71.: Sim. ^ J. Robertson, ?n?ed State Senator : . DEAB SIB-I have the honor to ac knowledge the receipt of yonr favoi of the 18th instant, and, after giving it that consideration which its gravi importance demands, proceed tb answe; it. This I am- compelled to do wi thou that conference with those gentlemei with whom y?u -have associated me, ic the address of your letter, which 3 would gladly have had, if it had beer practicable. * I need not assure you of my earnest ?esire to secure peace and order, and a ?ust.'and faithful administration of lawi a this ruined and desolated State. The jacrific?s .I have made of time and la bor, sentiment and feeling, and even oi the regard of valued friends to promote those ends, are well known to you. Nor. need I do more to vindicate the sarnest' heart yearnings of our good people for peace and security, than to poiut to their unanimous support of a 3arty which sought, last year, a balm br?the healing of the hideous diseases )f society, in a concession of legal effi :acy and obligation to the amendments )f the constitution and the so-called .econstruction acts, asking nothing in .eturn but an honest and just adminis xation of affairs. These concessions and al) overtures br peace were scornfully rejected by he colored people and their leaders. Under the high-sounding and preten tious title of "National Guards," the ?egroes were armed and equipped with he deadliest and costliest weapons and nunition3 of war, at the expense of the Deople. They were excited, incensed md infuriated by the speeches of false md unscrupulous demagogues, who >layed upon their blind passions and irejudices, as a skillful harper upon the )assive and obedient chords of nis in irument, until they were ready for a :arnival ofblood at the bidding of their eaders. The commissioners, managers md boards of election were so selected, md the election laws so cunningly de mised, os to secure the result of the bal or, irrespective of the will of the peo >le. Thus by fraud, by force and by anning artifice, negro domination was ecureo, and the whites were practical y disfranchised. The Legislature thus onstituted, and many ol the public fficials, openly, notoriously and shame essly plundered the people of tho State, ecklessly squandered the public money, .ppropriating it to their own uses, and elling their votes and their influence or the passage of laws to open the reasury to corrupt speculators. By hese means the expenditures of the ?tate Government have been increased o more than five times the amount re hired before the war. while the means f the people have correspondingly liminished. The taxes Tor two years, ggregating more than four millions of .ollars, are exacted in this year, a pe iod of greater financial distress than his people has encountered since 1865. Iwarms of high salaried offices have een created before unknown to us, nd, for the most part, filled with in ompetent negroes or malignant and orrupt white men, who seek to perpet ate their power by fomenting discord e tween the races. Under these cor upti'ng influences, the negroes, in many ilaces, have become violent, threaten eg and dangerous. Murder, arson and lillage have stalked through the land lmost unrebuked of justice, while eve y defensive act of the white victims as been magnified into a national rime. All these are facts known- to ou. That in consequence there should ?e a disturbed condition of affairs in ome localities, deplorable though it e, is not to be wondered at. Let us ather be thankful that it has been con ned to the Counties of Laurens, Union, ipartanburg, York and Chester. We .'ill consider these disturbances for a loment. In Laurens and Chester there were OII?B?ODS between the armed militia, or ational guards (negroes,) and the whites, ti open daylight, the circumstances of /hieb, are well known to you. In the ther counties disguised parties have, rom time to time, within the last three lonths, administered Lynch law in attain cases. While these occurrences re greatly to be deplored, and some of . hem merit and have received almost , niversal condemnation, the collisions ( a Laurens and Chester, by far the most ] erious of them all, are regarded by the 3 est men who know the facts, as neces- ? ary md justifiable acts of self-defence \ n the part of the whiles. It is very j 'cnerally bclieccd that their prompt ac~ ] ion prevented thc general war of races, - vhic? tl?: j i if ul men have regarded \ mmx: tent for some years past. j While these things have occurred in ( he counties mentioned, which are all ow quieted by the disarming of the ailitia, in other counties, profound peace i as prevailed. Here, for instance, we 11 ?ave enjoyed an unbroken reign of c uiet and order. There was, at the last Jourt of Sessions, not one act of vio- t ence demanding investigation, a cir- r umstance which elicited the congratu- 1 ations of ,the presiding,judge. \ Here there has been no organized s and threatening .demonst?ai?p^ of the militia, who, though arm?d,>Ea^e; not, lam informed, Been furnlehe^rW ball cartridges. On the: other ?tef?a,:I am satisfied there has never been in-this county any organization ?oiTespondihg ?in any way to what is termed;the-" Ku Klux Klan,"- or any other unlawf?l'?s sociafion. I take it that this condition1* ipf .things exists in by far the larger iportion of the State. But like causes produce Wte.results, and, therefore, any 'demonstration on the part of the negroes, and especially the armed militia, which wouid render our people apmehensive of an attack,,'yiould very probably induce organizations for defensive or preventive cmer?t?omr??ai?\ possibly, lead io similar disastrous conflicts as ensued at Laurens and Chester. .'. Now you desire my ? aid in arousing and concentrating the opinion of all good citizens in favor of law and or der." You attribute to me, in common with the other gentlemen ? whom you have addressed, intelligence and good in tentipns^" - Let me remark by the way, as illustrating one of the'-many ano malies of the day, that, notwithstand ing the confidence i-hus expressed, the most liberal amnesty bill yet reported by your committee does not propose to plac? at the disposal of the State, in any official capacity, those qualities which you suppose me to possess. Nev ertheless, disfranchised and " unpar doned rebels" though we be, I claim, in common with others. similarly situated, to have done more to promote peace and order in South Carolina, than all the so-called loyal people within her borders. I am still for peace-a last ing peace-such as you rightly suppose :an only be preserved in any communi ty by a wholesome " public opinion." My co-operation shall not be wanting n any feasible plan for harmonizing society here. But to be perfectly can lid with you, I must declare my settled conviction, that while I do not appre aend any further disturbances,: unless, mere be fresh irritations, there can nev rr be tiwi security which will ever pre \erve the peace of society, until some of 'he errors of the past be corrected, ana lome of our grievances be removed. All :lass legislation be repealed. Taxpay ers ought to be secured a representation n the Legislature, adequate to their protection. Honest, capable and corn Detent men should be placed in office. Accomplish these things, and this whole Deople will rise.up and call you bless ;d. Less than this would leave the ?ame causes at work which have pro duced the prevailttrgriiscord, and there :oulcl not be that security which con stitutes the essential foundation of so :iety. The white people of South Car bina are now enslaved by their former llaves. " Taxation without represen ation" was the battle guage accepted >y our Revolutionary sires-unrepre ented and politically disfranchised, we ire taxed for wanton and corrupt pur >oses beyond all precedent and without iven the poor privilege of protest or ippeal. Cannot our rulers understand hat, sooner or later, even our end?r ame must give way under such a mon trous imposition ? I propose to invite a meeting of prom nent and influential men from each :ounty, to consider the condition of hings, and to consult for the common veal. If you, or any of your political .ssociates, can propose anything that viii tend to satisfy the demands and lecessitifs of the case-to harmonize ,nd to ameliorate the condition of the leople, I doubt not they will consider ?our suggestions most carefully and espectfully. I shall be most happy to ie the medium of any such communi ations as you may desire to make to hem. I trust this proposed measure uay meet your approval, as it accords nth your own suggestion. I shall in ite the co-operation of the other gen lemen named. Appreciating the sincere and patrio ic pu i pose which induced your commu lication, and thanking you personally or your good opinions, I am, very res lectfully, yours, J. B. KERSHAW. How TO Do IT-A NEW MODE OF DECONSTRUCTION.-A bellicose blue lose resident of New York has been ately struck with anew'idea, which he ommunicates to the Tribune in the fol owing letter : A PLAN TO MEET TUE KU-KLUX. To the Editor of the Tribune : SIR :-The Ku-Klux can be suppress d only as Kansas was preserved from lavery and border ruffianism. Let nough of our men, carrying rifles with hem, if necessary, go South and settle n colonies. Innumerable, unwilling aembers -of the Ku-Klux will point iut and expose the rascals individually. H. H. F. New York, March 18,1871. This bloodthirsty. H. R. F. can rely ipon it. He and his friends will re leiye a cordial welcome, provided they ?ring their rifles or anything else with hem; and do not resort to rifling the mblic treasury. Unfortunately, his predecessors in unigration, rarely brought anything mt their boots and carpet bags. They ame as the hawk to the chicken roost, inly to ravage and carry away. Besides his, H. R. F's friends may find their ifles useful, judging by the fate of the ilepublicans massacred at Donaldson ille, (La.,) and the Republican Judge ecently shot down upon his bench at Meridian, Miss., by insurgent negrops. ?. R. F. could not have- hit npen a letter idea, and we trust, in all sinceri y, it may be carried out.-Charleston Jourier. fig?* A Syracuse court has assessed the 'alue of two young bears, lost on a railway, ,t $450 apiece!; of an infant, killed by a street ar, at $200. * . IJgyThe Japanese, instead of spending heir time in listening to a long sermon, narch decorously to the temple wherein their iriests are performing service, throw in a irinted prayer and a little money, and go .bout their business with a satisfied con cicn?e. Robberyand Rnin-Wili ibe Peo * t ^? Submit? .J - T^jsxgjjeof this ??tate know that thetaxa?hm of the current year, if coL .lectedianeans. Starvation and Confisca tion;. ;j*Bufc tixe people of ; Northern. and W-estejn: Qtatesj where-the rax levies am?uot-to tens.of millions, must think it mat?h-ado*about-nothing when the ?peoplesdf South: Carolina are driven to despeeation by a tax of about four miltidfii$?llars*. A comparison between the expanses of the State Government, and the^ftmount. of taxes levied upon the peojpb, at different dates, will show the magnitude of the evil, and explain the reason of the discontent ania in dignation which fill the breasts of the taxpayers of the State. tn 1858 the entire cost of. the State Government, including the police as sessment, was $683,877. At that time, the State was wealthy and the. pros pects of the people- were bright in the extreme. The bulk of the real proper ty was assessed at a nominal price, and the State Government was in the handb of a body of cultiv?ted and honorable gentlemen, who watched with unceas ing vigilance over the liberties, aa well as the pecuniary interest, of the people. In 1868, when the people had lost their slave property, Governor Orr, whom the Radicals themselves regard as a wise, sound and practical states man, estimated that the entire cost ol the State Government, exclusive of the interest on the public debt, would not: exceed $375,000. The debt was les* than $5,000,000, bearing an interest ol about'$300,000. Governor Orr's esti mate, therefore, was $673,000. "We now turn to the record of the Radical administration which is still in power. For the fiscal year 1868, the Radical tax levy was : 3tate tax. $1,263,259 CO County tax. 501,097 001 Poll tax. 70,748 001 Total 1868.$1,835,104 0U It must he noted, moreover, that the returns from all the counties were not. i complete. The total poll tax, for in-, j j. 3tance, was really $150,000. For the fiscal year 1869, the Radical tax levy was. State tax.# $1,014,901 001 ? County tax.607,756 00 Total 1869.$1,622,657 00 For the fiscal year 1870, the Radical tax levy is : State tax. $1,647,000 0.0 County tax. 618,047 OO, Poll tax... 150,000 00 Total 1870.....$2,415,047 00 I For the fiscal year 1871, the Radical v ;ax levy is : * 3tate tax.,.$1,281,000 00 ? bounty tax.-..549,000 00 Poll tax. 150,000 0C Total 1871.$1,980,000 00 | > It is plain, therefore, that thc Radi cal administration are levying taxes ot iver $2,000,000 a year to pay for work J a ivhich was clone before the war for p600,000, and could he dene, under my honest government, for, at the ? nost, $750,000. But this is not all. b in order that they may obtain means a, br paying off the huge floating debt of 0 he State in New York, the General Issembly anticipate the time of collect- C ng taxes, and make the taxes for 1870 h ind 1871 payable during the present rear. The taxpayers, therefore, are re juired to pay this year : b L'axes of 1870., .$2,415.047 Taxes of 1871.1,980,000 Total.$4,395.047 While, then, the taxable property ot he State is reduced in amount from *p >489,000,000 (according to the United a1 States census) in I860, to $83,000,000 w o.ccording to the State assessment) in y* .o.O, the taxation of one vear is raised rom $684,000, in 1858, to $4,495,047 n 1871. Nor must it be forgotten that ill property in the State is now assess ?d at far more than its market value ; vhile in 1S60 it was valued at mw-b ess than its real selling value in gold Worse remains behind. The taxes lave been raised from $684,000 to $4, 595,047. and at the same time thc ac tnowledged debt of the State is increas id from $4,934,849 in 1S68 to $9,865, )08 in 1870. Besides this, the Genera Assembly cancelled the first lien which he State had as security for the $4, 100,000 guaranteed for the Blue Ridge Railroad, and for the $2,000,000 guar inteed for the Greenville and Colum na Railroad. It is also proposed to ?reate a new sterling debt of ?1,200, )00, which would be absolutely at the lisposal of the men who have increased he taxes eight-fold and have trebled he State debt. It is safe to say that he debt of Soiith Carolina (without he sterling debt, and including the un ;ecured guarantees) is at least $16. )00,000? How much more it is, no nan who is outside of the Radical Ring :an say. Is it not time that the taxpayers ol he State, who are without representa ion in the General Assembly ; who lave been for three years the foot-stool >f a gang of mercenary politicians and gnorant negroes ; should band them ielves together to save the State from ltter ruin, and themselve? from bank ruptcy and the Poorhouse 9-Charles ;on News. A little boy named Knight, who re ?ently entered a mission school in New London, was told by his teachers that ie must be a good boy, and when he lied he would go to Heaven. The lit ;le fellow was pleased with the prospect, ind promised to be the best kind of a )oy. The next Sunday he appeared n his place, looking sorrowful,, and the ?eacher asked him if he had been a good )oy. " Yes," he replied, " I've tried ;o be good, but it's no use. 'The boys lay I can't go to heaven if I am ever io good." " Why do the boys sav ,hat?" asked tho teacher. "They lay," replied the boy, with the utmost iimplicity, " there'll be no night there." it Platform of the Rhode Island Dem ocrats*: The Rhode Island Democrats, at their State Cduventioh in Providence, on .Thursday, adopted the following plat form by a unanimous vote: Resolved, That the principles .of the ' Democratic party, as enunciated, by' JeHef8'on, and the National Convention' of the Democracy, '?re as essential ter the welfare ?f 'the;hatr?? now as at anjjf time! in .our history,' arid as applicable io, che.present condition of the American, people as they haye ever been; that we, reaffirm our.beu?f in them,., and our> confidence that they will again- be. andoreed by the people .ajfld daecome. Duce more, as they have been in times past, their guide and the support o? sheir national and political progress. Resolved, That we hail with admira ion the result of the efforts of our breth ren in New Hampshire, and1 congratu late them on the glorious victory they lave won by an earnest and' persistent ievotion to" the"t'heory and practice of Democratic' doctrines. Resolved, That Congress, by. its con-' emptuous disregard for the interests of. ;hepeople; by its unjust and unequal fixation; its special legislation : itsuni bnn encouragement 01 huge and swin Uing monopolies; its robbing the peo ple Of the public lands and giving it to ?rasping speculators.; its unjust bur lening of trade by enormous and pro libitory duties ; its unconcern for the joor man, and its heaping of individual indeserved advantages upon the rich, las forfeited the respect of the country, md failed in its duty to the citizens. Resolved, That the usurpation of Con fess in placing the ballot-box at thc nercy of the bayonet is in keeping with ts indifference to the rights of thc peo de, and evidence of the unworthiness ?f its spirit and disloyalty to republican nstitutions. Resolved, That every citizen, naturali :ed or native-born, is entitled to equal )olitical rights with every other citizen, ind that the constitution of the State lught to be so amended as that the unjust liscrimination now made between natu alized and native-born citizens should >e abolished. Resolved, That, planting ourselves, as leretofore, on the Constitution of the Jniteil States as the bulwark of our iberties, we will never cease our labora m til it is once more made in fact, as in aw, the supreme law of the land. ?? m * - Brevities and Levities, JG?-A poem ic an agricultural paper, call d " Song of thi Farmer Boy," vary appro niately commences with " Ho, brothel's, ho!" jBSfAn old negro man nam^d M?ypey edwards was beaten to death by a colored roman in Clinton, Tenn., a few days since. Ie had promised niarry her, bat was u>o loor to buy the u-cessary document*, and he made up her mind to take his brokru lith out of his skin? As old Van Chroomps was giving his 'oungest, who was inclined to be lazy, a gcod owhiding, the boy cried out: "Oh fodder, t makes me smart !" " Dat's shoost vat I rants," said the old man, as lie whacked way with renewed vigor. jj??Columbus was desperately excited, laturday, over a four mule ? wagon load of om in the ear that was brought in to sell y an Alabama planter. Several persons sked for an ear or two to preserve as curi sities. SST'. The wind blows with such force in lolorado that when a man loses his hat he as to telegraph to the next station to have Dine one to stop it. fi?* The following stanza is said to have een copied from the tombstone of a husband nd wile : " Within this grave do lie, Back to back, my wife and I ; When the last trump the air shall fill, If she gets up, I'll just .lie still." a?- Don Piatt nov; says : "The late Rep ublican party i? the deadest dead thing bove ground, and if the surviving friends 'tub. to retain for it any feelings of respect ley will hasten its funeral." I?* The ladie gives as a reason for mar king for money, that they now seldom find lything else in a man worth having. ??T'Thcre is a man living in the mouu tins bf North Carolina, not more than forty liles from Greenville, S. C., says the T.ar Dro' Carolina, who has reached the extraor inary age of 143 years. AT the time of raddock's defeat he was twenty years old, ad had a wife rad three children. A gen eman at Greenville states that this man, hp has come down lo us from a former gc-u .ation, has always been in moderate cir imstances; lived upon a course vegetable ?et ; that he has never drunk tey liquid but wring water, and bids fair to live maty ears longer. Ho enjoys perfect heaith ; pos ?sses all of manhood's attributes, an'l wishes ) many.. He has survived seven wives, and ewing lost his last one about sixty years ;o, he now begins to ieci quito lonely. 5?a)rThe great joiner-Thc Uwycr. He in rcpl&cc u. tenant, empann?l a jury, b< x witness, before the court, chisel BIS client, ager the gains,' floor a witness, cut his aard, nail the case, hummer -"he desk, lilo is bill, and gurgc thc whole community. .??y Ali?u McClean, a young Kentuckian, ?siding in Campbell County, had bee? nite aissipated, but "grit ?e?gion" al a [cthodist revival, and regarding himself as etter prepared to die than he ever would be gain, he went to tho Licking-River, uud, Uer singing, " i want lo he au Angel," leap 1 into the stream und drowned himself. fi?*A disconsolate utiz.'ii of New Ol? taus put the following question to one of thc apera published there: "Mr. Edytux 'hat I wish to ask you is whet lier strychnine, .hat the pohce give to dogs, \ or.'t pizen tue umun being a?er sassengers ia s been fried, lease put ia the paper how ii is, for if fried trychmne is pizen, 1 go ag. m sassengers, fours, till pizeued." Ina Wyoming tavern, a mountain ough, venomously drunk, was practic ng with his revolver at various objects a the bar-room. An ox teamster en ured; callad for a drink, and a ball from he rough's pistol shattered the glass at is lips. Without a word the bull whacker put his hand behind his back, iroduced his pistol, leveled it at the uffiau's head, and remarked, as * the lody dropped to the floor, "That d-d coundroi would have hurt somebody iretty soon." He then filled another ?lass and drank the contents, strode out ,s deliberately as he had come in . and ri th a " Whoa, haw, there," started his i up the road. _ ?