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ff M^??Ht.^.^?M....?u.UMM..."',' BY D. B. DUBISOE EDGEFIELD, S; G., .e..^#H-M.-M?..n.,....l,...^..|....^."M..*|.....,l-..?WH?>(Mtf...H?............-..H...H.?."??"-?.?'M.-. VOLUME XXXVm.-No. 32. DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, mmm, mis TOILET AMD FAJfCY ASTICL1S, GROCERIES, TOBACCO, SEGAES, &o. HAVE, now in Store full.stocks of all Goods in the Drug or Gro cery Business, which are Fresh aud Genuine, and which we will sell as cheap as any other House. , (KT PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED day or night. May 7, tf 20 \f i irv > r***} Iii i l ? i i v I ? ! . * i DAVID L. TURNER, Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Groceries, m &c, <&c, <fcc, Edgcfield, S. C., WOULD respectfully state to his Friends and the Public Generally that he has purchased of Dr. W. A. SANDERS, his Entire Stock, and wili keep on hand full supplies of JCS, MEDICIS, iiiiMiuiiu?, F&aey Goods, Foreign & Domestic Perfumery, HAIR BRUSHES, COMBS, TOILET ARTICLES, Bathing and .Surgeon's Sp'-nge*, Brandies, Wines and Whiskies for Medicinal Purposes, PAINTS. OILS, VARNISHES, GLASS, PUTTY, Paint, Varnish and White Wash Brushes, Fi LL SUPPLY OF ALL KINDS GA lt DE IV SEEDS, Together with a general assortment of GROCERIES, TOBACCO, LIQUORS, &c, Such as BACON SIDES, HAMS, SHOULDERS, LARD, MACKEREL, FLOUR, MEAL, SALT, SUGARS, SYRUPS, MOLASSES, COFFEE, TEAS,. . . ? . RICE, CHEESE, MACCARONI, CI,'ACKERS, Soda, Starch, Soaps. Candles, -*m WINES, BRANDIES, WHISKIES, &c. Fine White Wine and Apple VINEGARS, Chewing and Smoking TOBACCO and SEGARS, Citron, Currants, Raisins, Pickles, Jellies, Almonds, Pecan Nuts, Brazil Nuts, Walnuts, Buckets, Tubs, Brooms, &c, All of which will be sold at the lowest rates foi Cash. A share of the trade solicited. Dr. Sanders will be on hand at all times to COMPOUND PRESCRIP TIONS at the shortest notice. D. L. TURNER. Jan 28 tf 6 NOTICE TO THE CITIZENS OF EDCEFIELD WE are receiving our SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, consisting of all the Novelties of the Season. Our Stock.is much .larger than usual, and never more complete. Close buyers will save money by giving it an inspection. Also, full line of FURNISHING GOODS on hand. WHITMAN & BENSON, fBfSO Broad Street, Augusta, Ga., Opposite Masonic Hall. Augusta, Ga., April 2 3m m 15 r. T. J". ??ACrfX DRUGGIST, JOHNSTON'S DEPOT, S. C. ?VT??G'' just ojpened a Drug S?ore at this place. I take this method of informing my friends and the public generally that I now have in Store a-full tine pf. Drugs, Paient Medicines, Toilet Articles, Perfumery, GLASS, PUTTY, KEROSENE OIL, Tobacco. Segars, In fact everything usually kept in a Drug Store*-all new and -warranted genuine. * My prices are as low as such Goods ?ean be sold in any market in the saine quantity. T. J. TEAGUE. .Johnston's Depot, Feb 19 ly 9 MILLER, B?SELL 4 BURUM -AND Commission JVteroh'ts 175 and 177 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. WE are now in receipt of our Fall Stock of GROCERIES, consist ing in part of Bacon SIDES. Bacon SHOULDERS, Dry Salt SIDES, SUGARS of all grades. SYRUPS-New Orleans and New York Drips, MOLASSES. Rio, Lagpyra and Java COFFEE, TOBACCO. SALT, PEPPKR, SPICE, Crackers, Pickles. Cove Oysters, CANNED GOODS consisting of Peaches, Blackberries, Tomatoes, &c. MACKEREL in Barrels, half and quarter bbl?, and Kits, ?geed WHEAT, Seed RYE, Seed OATS, Seed BARLEY, Case. Liquors of BRANDY, WHISKEY, GIN, "Wfl are also offering the most complete and largest stock of BARRE LIQUORS of any House in the City, and selling at prices that will indux buvera ?d purchase nearer home-than in Eastern markets, "To the Planters and'Merchants of Edgefield we would take, this occasion to express our thanks for their past liberal patronage, and respectfully re quest a continuance of the same. fi?TBuying our Good? for-CASH, we are prepared to sell as low, and oft times lowef, than any other House in tlve City. Aoguata,Oot9 ! ti i? GUARD WELL THY LIPS. BY MISS ELLIOTT. " He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life."-Prov, xiii, 3. Guard weil thy lips; none, none can know What evils from the tongue may flow; What guilt, what grief, may be incurred, By one incautious, hasty word. Be "slow to speak ;" look well within, To check what there may lead to sin ; And pray unceasingly for aid, Lest unawares thou be betrayed. " Condemn not, judge not"-not to man Is given bis brother's faults to sean ; One task is thine, and one alone, To search out ana subdue thine own. Indulge no murmurings} oh, restrain Those lips so ready to complain ! And if they can be numbered, count' Of one day's mercies the amount. Shun vain discussions, trifling themes ; Dwell not on earthly hopes or Bchemes ; Let words of wisdom, meekness, love, Thy heart's true renovation prove. Set God before thee ; e^ery word Thytlips pronounce by Him is heard ; Ob, couldst thou realize this thought, What,care, whatcaution, would be taught! Think on thy parting hour ; ere long The approach of death may chain thy tongue, And powerless all attempts be fonnd, To articulate one meaning sound. M The time is short"-?his day may be The very last assigned to thee : So speak, that shouldst thou ne'er speak more, Thou mayst not this day's words deplore. The Modoc Trials. The trial of the Modocs implica ted in the murder of General Canby and Peace Commissioner Thomas, on 'the lilli of last April, began at Fort Klamath, Oregon, on the 5th instant, and closed on the 9th. The tcsti-. inony for the prosecution was of the most positive character, and such as to leave little doubt of the goflt of th? prisoners. The only witness for the prosecution whose testimony was of little value was Mr. Dvar, Indian agent for the Klamath Reservation. He could swear p?sitiv*ely to nothing, except that he accompanied General Canby and the peace commissioners on the 11th of April. On the first day of the .trial charges and speci fications against the prisoners was read to the following named Indians, all of whom pleaded " Not guilty :" Captain Jack, Schonchin, John, Bos ton Charley, Black Jim, Sholocks and Bonchew. The following sum mary of the first and second day's proceedings is given by the San Fran cisco Alta California : T. K. Riddle was? the first witness placed on the stand. He gave the usual story about the facts of the .raaesaism^-fe'^neweES. fo.a*> question as to whether he had any information of danger in visiting the Modocs, he said : 1 was warned by Hooka Jim at Fair-child's ranch ; this Indian told me that I had better not come with the commission, as they would be murdered ; he also told me that if I did come, and anything was going to happen, that he (Hooka Jim) would push me to one side, and that I must then go away, and I would not be harmed ; I warned General Canby of the danger, and told him that if I were he I would not moet them ; I also advised him to secrete a body of men in the'rocks beyond where the meeting was proposed ; General Can by would not accede to this, and ex plained that it would be an insult anti breach of faith toward Captain .Jack, and that if Jack should dis cover it, it might provoke hostilities. Mrs. Kkldle (Toby) substantiated her husband's testimony. Peace Cominis1 sioner Dyar gave his story of the af fair. He did not look on General Canby as one of the peace commis sion, but supposed he had a supervis ion over it, and inferred that the commissioners were to act in conjunc tion with and be advised by him. On the Becond day of the trial Shacknasty Jim, one ol the Modocs who deserted Jack anti aided in his capture, was cal led as a witness. He testified to nothing new, other than that he had not heard any previous planning of the maseacre. On the oth er hand, Steamboat Frank had head Captain Jack and Schonchin planning the mulder the previous evening and morning of the massacre. Dyar be ing recalled stated that he also' had heard something about this. Hooka Jim knew that the peace commission ers would be kil lexi when they wen tte thc meeting; ho had tried to kill Dyar. William, a Modoc, told Toby to tell the peace commissioners not to come to the meeting. Alfred B. Meachara was now placed on tue stand. Ile testified a long., full and explicit, account of all the facts of the meeting of the peace com missioners previous to the time .of the massacre. Captain Jack had re quested the meeting at which the* assassinations took place. He (Meach am) had protested against this con ference, being fully assured that it would end disastrously. Sis advice was not taken. . He detailed min utely, and in thefullest completeness the facts of the meeting and the sub, sequent massacre : On the third day, July 8, Captain Jack entered upon his defence and said .he wanted to call Dave, One eyed Mose and Scar-faced Charley as witnesses. They were called, but their testimony was of little value to the prisoners. It was simply a reci tal of what the Klamath Lake In dians had done and told them (the Modocs) since the trouble began. Af ter the examination of Lieutenant H. R. Anderson, of the Fourth Artillery, and Assistant Surgeon McElderry, Captain Jack made a speech, in which he said he did not want to fight with the whites, but was driven to it by ether Modocs. He said he had been told by squaws that the peace com missioners wanted to kill the Modocs, and also that Mr. Meacham had a pile of wood upon which he wanted to burn him (Jack.) He continued as follows : Af ter hewing ?ll this I waa afraid to come. [To Riddle.] You Toby gave me good advioe. If I listened to you and not,/ to 1 squaws, I would not be in the now am. The reason I did not c [ when the wagon was sent was bec of the story of the squaws. I now see that all the squaws Whittle's squaw lied to me. told mc she was not of my pee and she did not give me good ad' She told me if she didn't come \ next day I might know the sole would come next day. I have all about the lies I ieard, and I afraid to come. When you cam see me I was not chief. When reporters came I didn't want to fi and did not know what to say. white men's chief believes his t but my men would not. I told tl not to fight. I wanted to make pe but the men would net listen to None of the men in the cave can I ever told them to fight ; and w I met in council it was in a frier I way, and that if they would figl would be against my will. My ing chief is the cause of the wh thinking me the cause of all trouble. I told them the wh would think this, and they must fi on their own account. Hooka vocaled fight, and I got the bia: Sconchin, with Hooka and all the : of my men were mad at me. Tr. were different thought? about w .the whites would think. My r would not. I love my wife and el dren, and I wanted peace. I ne commenced the fight. Hooka is one who always advocated fight ; called ma an " old squaw." Hoi and I fought ; I told him he was cause, and if I could have seen 1 I wanted to kill him, because killed men on Tule Lake. I thouj the whites wanted Lost River, s that is why the fight commenced. 1 fight with Geoi<ge, because I fell < with Hooka, and he called me squaw because I never, kill wh man. He (George) had -killed ma whites and soldiers. I told him George was not ashamed of it. . told me I lay around the camp li a chunk, and they went and kill and stole and were not afraid. Th would say to me. " What do you w? with a gun ? You never do anythi with it. You sit on the rucks and nothing." I was not ashamed to called a iquaW, and told them til killed against my will. Scarfac Charley told me he would go wi Hooka. I told them to go ; I did i want to live with them. Scarf will tell everything, and I do i want to keep anything back. Schonchio John followed, and sa When Iv...- pe?3 >n 7. ? Eh I was scarei by . wi living in pe out hunting ^Idiarajgi - soldiers wei to kill my e why they c; putting thu " ? . When I got there Indians all gor houses on fire, and I went to the hi in search of ray family. I lou' Hooka Jim. He told me two of o men killed. Hooka very mad, ai kept on in the mountains? I to him not to fight, but to stay in tl mountains. I followed him a Joi way and talked to him. J le saw fo white men. I did not see them, was oe foot ; the others were ridin I left them at the lake. After \ parted my son followed Hooka, told him not to go. I sat down on rock for a long time. I looked t wards Lost River and saw the sc diers coming. Then I came dov from the mountain to the lake ai met the Doctor and Hooka. I to, them not to'kill, but they would ni listen. I saw two men near the soul end of the lake. The next day Captain Jack made second speech, as follows : The four scout3, -Bogus Charle; Shaeknasty Jim, Steamboat Fran! and Hooka advocated, with me an others, tue murder of General Canb and the Peace Commissioners. Tli discussion about the murder of Cai by did not take place in my cave, bi in the camp of the other Indian, All the Indians agreed to the mill der, because they did not want to g away from this to another country Hooka Jim went out on the mornin of the 11th of April for the expr?s purpose of killing Meacham. Th four scouts above mentioned all ad vised me in council to?e a party t the massacre of General Can by ant tho Peace Commission, and I alway thought I would have to bear th blame. Another thing which mad me afraid to kill the Commissioner was that I had been told that the' carried arms, and that they wonk kill me when we met. Hooka Jiu again advised the killing of Meachan and the Peace Commission, but I die not want to do so or to ' have anj trouble with them. The court soon after went into se cret session, and it is thought th< ?Vlodocs will undoubtedly be lounc guilty. Let Us Help One Another. This little sentence should be writ ten on every heart and stamped or every memory. It should be thc Golden Rule practiced not only ir every household, but throughout the world. By helping one another, we not only remove thorns from the path way, and anxiety from the mind, but we feel P sense of pleasure in our own hearts, knowing we are doing a duty to a fellow creature. A help ing hand, or an encouraging word is no loss to us, yet it is a benefit to oth ers. Who has not needed the aid and encouragement >f a kind friend ? How soothing when perplexed with some task that is mysterious and burden some, to feel a gentle band on your shoulder, and to hear a kind voice I whispering : " Do not be discouraged; II see your trouble ; let me help you." What strength is inspired I what hope created I what sweet gratitude is felt I and the great difficulty is dissolved as the dew beueath the sun 1 shine. Yes, let us help one another by endeavoring to help and encour age the weak and lift the burden of core from the Weary and oppressed, ' that life inay glide smoothly on and ward our humble endeavors, and ev ery good deed will be as "bread cast upon the watery to return after many days,' if not to us,\io those we love." - From the Greenville Bepiibfican. Wooden Railroads, To develop the resources of a country, facilities for transportation are indispensable. Iron^ore could be mined and lumber mauufjctured'only to a very limited exterfj if wagon transportation for any ^considerable distance over common '-roads were necessary to reach a market. Where the business is sufficiently extensive to warrant it, and the capital can be secured, railroads, eithei?- narrow or ordinary gauge, will aflbid the best facilities.. But there arefaany locali ties in which ordinary -.railroads are impracticable, not fromphysical, but from financial difficultie?in the way of their construction. With a limited capital and a sparse population, rail roads can not be built,.e.ven in locali ties highly favored inf natural re sourcesior operations>?f quarrying, mining, and heavy manufacturing. In such cases a substitute for ?he wagon road, less expe?SIr? than the railroad, becomes a desideratum. .This substitute has been proposed in a new style of wooden railroad, costing but little more' to construct than' an ordinary wagon road, yet, affording transportation", afc less than one-fifth the cost by wagon, and less also than the ordinary cost by rail, where interest on capital invested is considered. This road^clifFers essen tially from the ordinary, tram-road, which consisted of sawed rails about three inches wide, laid on cross-ties, and used with narrow tread iron wheeled cars. Such roads although some improvement on -.the common wagon road with it? mad holes and deep ruts, have given very unsatis factory results. The;; differences ex tend to the track, cars,-and motive power. . %f TRACK. - The track is formed of heavy logs, hewed on the upper side to the width of eight indies, and on the inside at right angles, sufficiently'deep to form a straight, edge for thetflange. These logs, are buried so tbat.the top, or rail surface, is almost level with the road .surface, resting on stout sills at thc ends and middle, to which they arc secured by wedged >tree nails. The rails there foi e are solidly bedded, and not liable to warper twist. Twen ty feet. mwn!?? ' * "frr.v--.-,'. . ' . _??] in geneial be crossed with rough trea ties or timber cribs. Hewing thu timber would cost about $200 per mile. In a wooded country, where timber can be obtained along the J.'ne of the road, where no large bridges are required, and no rock to be ex cavated, the cost of such a woodeu railroad should be covered, bv from $500 to $2,000 dollars per mile, de pending upon the - amount of earth work. CABS! The cars proposed for such wooden railroads are simple frames placed-on wheels, without, springs, and covered with a floor ol' plank. The wheels are of wood, built up of pieces cut from two-inch planks ii, the form ol secular sectors, about eight inches at the wide etid. Four thicknesses of plank will build a wheel with a tread of eight inches, corresponding with the face of the rail. A cast iron hub is inserted in the centre, through which an iron axle passes, and a cast iron flange is bolted on the inside. The timber should be of hard wood, well seasoned, the sectors laid so as to break joint and well bolted. Di ameter of wheels about thirty inches. Such cars, ii" usad with horses, will cost about $40 to $50, or about one third the pr ce of a farm wagon. They will carry three tons,, and can be made by any rough hand who can use carpenters' tools.- If designed for use with locomotives in trains, draw-bars and springs must be used, and the cost per car increased. ' ' MOTIVE POWER. Horse or mule power can be used ; but if the tonnage is considerable, it will be preferable to adopt a light engine of six or seven tons, with wide driving wheels, covered with vulcan ized rubber tire. Such engines can be manufactured at the Baldwin Lo comotive Works for about $4,000. Passengers could be carried on the I proposed roads with such engines at a speed of ten or twelve miles au hour, which would make a great im provement on the stage coach. Such roads would rot out long be fore they would wear out, and the answer to the objection that they are not durable is simply that they will last just as long as the cross-ties on an ordinary railroad, and it will cost less to renew them. Po3t oak ties in the South last from ten to fourteen years. The cost of transportation bv wagons, for a distance of twenty-five miles, without, return load, is fifty cents per 100 lbsn or $10 per ton of $2,000 lbs. Assuming the tractive power on such a wooden road, for the purposes of an approximation, .to be double that, of an ordinary railroad, or 20 lbs. per ton, the angle of friction would bc forty-eight feet to the mule. And a horse exerting a power of 150 lbs., at 2* miles per hour, or four j horses 600 IK, would haul on agrade of 144 feet to the mile one-fourth of the gross load on a level, pr 7 J tons giving 6 tons of net load. As a trip of twenty-five miles, returning empty, could be made in two days, assuming a team to be worth $5 a day, the cost of the round trip would be $10 or $1.66 per ton, as against $10 per ton by wagon transportation ; and this too on grades ot 150 feet to the mile, pearly-atolls for use of road not be ing included m either oas?. Thia illustration will show the great economy of sucji roads over wagon transportation, even when operated by horse power, but where the busi- j ness will warrant it, the rubber-tired | lobomotive should be used. If, after.; a few.years, a business should be de- j veloped sufficient to justify the ex pense, an iron railroad could be sub stituted ; of which the orignal gra ding would form a part-the expen diture would not be lost. It is also to be observed that the rails of the proposed wooden railroad being even with the surface of the road bed, or nearly so, would permit the same road bed to be used for ?ordinary ve hicles. *: .COStK)F OPERATING the wooden railway, as compared with an ordinary iron road. Assume length of'road twenty-five miles. In terest 10 per cent, and one eugine only, to be provided with a minimum equipment of cars in each case. For an ordinary railway, with 45 lb, rails. 46 miles, ?18,000 per mile, ?450,000; interest, ? 45000 Road repairs, 1 man, per mile (labor) 7500 Locomotive engine, ?12,000; inter est and repairs-20 per cent., 2408 One good passenger oar, ?4,500 ; in terest and repairs 20 per cent., 20 freight cars, ?800, ?16,000 ; inter est and repairs 20 per cent., 3200': Engineer and fireman, ?4 50 per day, 3U0 days, 1350 One conductor for both freight and passengers, mixed train, 750 3 brakemen, ?1 per day, 1080 Agent at each end of line, 1200 Fuel for engine, 2 cords per trip, 1 ?rip per day, 1200 Renewals>cf ties, ?120 per mile, . 4800 Wear of rails 20 years, annual { wear, ?150 per mile, ? 3750 Supervision, " 1000 Depots and siding repairs, <tc, 80? Stationery, insurance, loss, damage and incidentals' ? 1000 ?7J5,S50 This is a .moderate estimate of I the cost pf operating an ordinary railroad, with a minimum equipment, for one year, including repairs, re newals and 10 per cent, on capital, and amounts to about $3,000 per mile. If one-third of this income should be derived from passengers and two-thirds from freight, carrie?" at 6 cents per nassenger and 10 cents per ton per mile, the number of pas sengers carried the 25 miles would be 16,180 and the number of tons 20,200; this amount of business would pay 10 per cent, on capital invested. To cover running expenses and pay nothing on capital, would require a business of 0,140 passengers and 7, 360 tons-yielding a revenue of $27, 650. *? j A wooden railway for the accom modation of an equal business would require the following estimate : ?14,706 To pay running expenses and 10 per cent, on capital will require an income of only $15,000 per annum. To cover operating expenses, without interest on capital or equipment, about $10,000. The amount of business that would pay uperating expenses only, without dividends, on an ordinary iron road, would pay operating expenses ami a dividend of 40 per cent, upon the wooden railway ; and the business that would pay 10 per cent, upon the iron road would pay 142 per cent upon the wooden road. To pay 10 per cent, upon the wooden road would require a business at the prices stated of 3,300 'passcnger3 and 4,000 tons freight. The capacity ol' a wooden railway with a single engine of 7 tons and grades ol' 150 feet to ihe mile would be: adhesion of eugine, 3,200 lbs.; traction on level 20 lbs per ton ; load on level 1G0 tons ; on grade of 15? feet, 40 tons; requiring at 3 tons Lo a car, 14 cars, or 12 cars exclusive of weight of engine. The-net load car ried would be about 2S tons. . A day's trip each way for 300 days would give an annual capacity ol 16.S00 tons. If the trade should be ail one way, only half this amount carried and no passengers, $2 per ton for 25 miles, or 10 cents per 100 lbs. would pay running expenses on such a road, and 12 per cents, dividends ; while an iron road couM not be op erated at all with ordinary ?quip ement, inasmuch as the income would not pay running expenses. The cases are numerous where such roads would perfectly meet the wants of the piiblic in developing the re sources ?f sparsely settled localities, and serving as valuable feeders to trunk lines. The estimate for ca pacity has been made for a single en gine of G to 7 tons. If the weight or number or engines bo increased,, the capacity would be increased pro portionally. The ultimate capacity with increased equipment would far exceed the requirements of any lo cality where such roads would be employed. The question is often asked : What is the limit cf grade that ca*n be em ployed oh such wooden railroad? The answer is, grade affects only the load which a given power can trans port, and is independent of the road itself, gravity being a retarding force due to .inclination solely. At the same time it is true that the more perfect the construction of the ::oad bed and the machinery, the more rapidly does grade reduce the trac tive power.? On a well constructed railroad 8 lbs. per ton will move a train, and a grade of 20 feet to the mile will more than double the re quired traction for a given load. And every additional 20 feet would re quire additional power equal to the resistance of the train upun a level. On a wooden railroad, assuming trac tion a? 20 lbs. per ton, it would re quire a grade of nearly 50 feet per mile to double the power, or with a given power to reduce the load one-1 alf. On a grade of 250 feet to the ! mile a team of four horses could haul five tons. The adhesion of locomotives on or dinary railroads does not exceed one-. fifth of the weight in drivers, and is* measured by the friction of iron upon iron, but the friction of wood on wood is fifty per cent., 'and that of rubber on wood is probably greater ; consequently rubber-tired locomotives could ascend much higher inclina tions than ordinary engines upon iailroads, the. limit of which is about 800 feet to ttie-mile without load, and whole weight on drivers. The sur plus adhesion, however can not be utilized without a proportionate in crease of cylinder power, which in volves also increased boiler capacity. Said wooden railways, operated either by locomotive or animal power, may become very important agencies in promoting the settlement of locali ties not supplied with railroad facli ties and in developing mineral and agricultural resources. In the last number of Van Nos trand's Magazine, July, there is a statement that more than 100 miles of wooden railroads are in operation in Canada, in the province of ?Quebec alone. -That the gauge is 4 feet,. 8* inches, the running time about 16 miles per hour ; but that trains have been run at the rate of 35. miles per hour. The cars have four wheels ; some of the engines .weigh 30 tons. These rails were of sawed timber laid on cross-ties ; and if such roads run with cars and ' engines with iron wheels at speeds of 16 to 35 miles, per hour, and engin?s of 30 tons have proved so serviceable that their use is extending, there can be no room to question the success of the system here proposed, ot solid rails perma nently bedded, wooden wheels, light engines with rubber tires, and mod erate speeds.. H. HAUPT. Beauregard Follows Longstreet. From the Atlanta Herald. Not without the deepest possible regret, do we find published, in the Nashville papers a note from General Beauregard, in which he avows him self the father of the amalgamation resolutions. He says that they had become a necessity: that it was a question of existence with them. We cannot understand the necessi ty that impels white Southern men 1 to make such startling concessions to an inferior race, as those proposed 1 by General Beauregard and his ad herents. Does the General mean to J tell us that the existence of white Louisiana depends upon what his resolutions call the " unification of the races" Is their existence depen dent upon the sweeping away in one blow ol every barrier that four cen befiweeu-tbeui? J- ??iero not "-u:v . ? ;.? . ard reward,-v :*. rh ii had . become so great, anu Luci! up pressions so severe, that the existence ol white men was at stake, was there no nobler and more manly method of meeting the danger than by welcom ing the doctrines of the most violent advocates of social equality ? Twen ty well armed, determined men could certainly have been found in Louisi ana to strike one bold, daring blow and end fhe danger. True enough, such a course would have put the State under martial law : but it would, at any rate, have taken Louisiana out of the hands of the scoundrels who had placed the very existence of her white population at peril. Exactly what General Beauregard experts to gain by his present course we cannot imagine. The negroes whose votes he expects to obtain will not place credence' in the sincerity of his declarations : and it will be ut terly impossible for him to unite the whites on any platform of social equality with negroes. All, then, that he can possibly effect will be the division of the whites in a crisis which demands their complete unity. Under the plea of necessity the South, has, for eight years past, made concession after concession, and in re turn has obtained .nothing but op pressiot? a d contumely. Is it likely that thc- movement inaugurated by General Beauregard and his allies will produce any more palatable re sult?? If political success depends upon concession to negro arrogance be well fixed, hf will find the adven turer more than his match. There is not u single privilege he can offer to the negro that 'lie carpet-hagger has not already offered him ; and bereen the two, the negro will trust the ad venturer. Stooping, then, will not even enable him tu conquer. Not a negro will vote his ticket, who would not have voted it upon a promise to respect his political rights and to protect him in their exercise. On the other hand, thousands of while men, disgusted and indignant, and feeling that the concessions offered are a humiliation to their race, will abandonee political field in disgust, and thiia leave Louisiana more hope lessly in the hands of carpet-baggers and other scoundrels than ever. General Beauregard has not only committed a gross blunder, he has committed a crime against his race and his people. His resolutions cannot elevate the negro, but they can drag white men down to the level of ne groes. It would have been better to have re-enacted the scenesOof the barricades in the streets of New Or leans, than to have given to despair of succor that cowardly form which abandons pride of race, pride of birth and devotion to principles, and by basely surrendering everything-even manhood-sought to retain two piti ful gifts-ni ti ful when placed beside right and liberty, a little money and a few years of life. Alas I we fear that Louisiana perished when Lee surrendered ! ?ST- Tho rage for the " ie" termination to girls' names has come to a disastrous conclusion in ono Oregon family. A far mer named Ako christened his oldest girl Belle. She had some cards printed in tho "le" fashion, and-well, after look ing at the result, she concluded Belle was pretty enough for her, and burned them. ! Treasurer Cantazo Interviewed.^ " Qui Vive," the Columbia corres pondent of the Charleston News, call ed on Treasurer Cardozo, after his ..return from New York, and elieitea froin'hini the following statements : I have nothing to do whatever with ! any speculation in State securities, and my recent trip to New York was i purely on account of my own private , affair's. I had some private matters ! to look after, principally in Washing j ton, and after I had finished feat, I ; ran on and spent a few days in New ! York. j The State's credit is entirely gone, i and the bonds are as fiat as can be ? It would be a fool's errand for myself or any one else to go to New York to raise money on account of the State. I do not think there are any sales of our bonds at all. No one comes to1 buy them, even at the lov figures at which they are quoted, and the hold ers are simply keeping them in the hope that some'hing may turn up by which they may .be able to realizo Something for them. There has been no business done between Mr. Kimpton and myself. I have neither paid him nor received from him any money aV^ll ; and so far as my administration ?s'cc-'r?cerned, he has had nothing to do with the finances of the State. He has no bonds of the State, or, at least, claims to have .none. The bonds purchased on account of the sinking fund, Agricultural Col lege scrip, and the $6C\fi,000 of the bonds of-the Blue Ridge Railroads every one of them was hypothecated for loansjmacte in Parker's term, and the whole' of the $191,000 in the bonds of the State, in which the ag ricultural land scrip, or rather the proceeds from the sale of it, was in vested, together with the $200,000 of bonds purchased with the proceeds of the sales of the assets of the State by the Sinking Fund Commission, are a total loss to the State, uuless the offi cials who illegally disposed of them can be held personally responsible. I notice in the New York papers that the January and July bonds are quoted at 15, and the April*and Oc tober bonds at 22(rtj23. I have been struck with this seemingly unreason able disparity, and I cannot account for it, except upon, the supposition that by January and July bonds are really meant the conversion bonds. All of the latter haVe interest paya ble in January and July. But all Ja?uary and July bonds are not con version bonds; for there are, I know, the first $200,000 of land commission bond*, the bonds issued for funding the bills of the Bank of the State, ? il .' .r- eomo '.?'...ava nf tho new bond-i infer&tt a w&cli is ateo .' V: . ??re ;;n';i? be??n .?. sr:;: Li- io .. y. cosy to ac:. Treasury, for, to speak in round num bers, I am called upon to pay $2,500, 000 of claims against the State with but a little over half that amount in the Treasury to do ic with. Here are -the itemized appropriations for the current fiscal year : General appropriation bill, $989, 876; Henry Ware & Son, $12,000; claims nuder Governor's proclamation. $35,000; lands in Darlington, $2.000; building ?tate Orpbuu Asylum, $20, 000 ; legislative expenses, 1872 and l?To, $75,000; permanent printing, 187? and 1872, $250,000; publishing Acts, $75.0u0; legislative exuenses, 1S70, 1871 and 1872, $25.000; legis lative expenses. 1872 and 1873, $135, 000; current printing, $L?0,000; fit-' ting up House of Representatives, $58,000 ; total, $1,727,476. The total represents the appropria tions merely for the current fiscal year. Besides this, there was a defi ciency arising from the non-payment of the actual appropriations of. his! year, amounting to $691,396. The aggregate, therefore, of the appro priations which I was called upon to pay was within a fraction of $2.500, 000, or, in other word?, $1,727,476 and $691,396. To raise this amount a tax of twelve mills was levied, which any one can see is totn.llv inad equate upon a taxable basis of $150, 00.0,000.. which is an extreme figure to he relied upon as the property of the State as at present assessed. My receipt.? have been, so far, as follows: Received from N. G. Parker, ex Treasurer, $194; received from taxes, $1.606,465.83 ; received from licenses, $11,809.68 ; received from lees of of fice Secretary of State, $6,040 36; re ceived from fees of uffioe Compt rolier Genera^, $2.190; leceived, from re* fund ol over-payment, $8.182.16 ; re ceived from Charleston Joint Stock Company, $2,000; received from sale of books and materials, $45.15; total receipts, $1,636.927.18. Of the amount stated as received from taxes, $1.596.442.81 are from the taxes of this year, the balance, about $10,000, CM me from the delin quent taxes of preceding years. There will be a large deficiency, then, for the General Assembly to provide for next year. If you take into consideration laet year's deficien cy, still unpaid, and this year's de ficiency, the aggregate will be about $800,000, or the difference in my re ceipts, in round numbers, $1,600,000, and the appropriations of this year and of last year's deficiencies, $2, 400,000. I haven't the figures precisely, but about $700,000 have been paid of last year's deficiencies. y I have paid the printing and other danns, lor which appropriations were mp.de this' year, though the services were performed last, out of the defi-' ciency tax, as I conceived it proper to do. These claims amounted to something like'$400,000, and conse quently the deficiency for thia year will be $400,000 instead ot $800.000, and there will 4>e about $400,000 of the old deficiency still remaining. It was robbing Peter to pay Paul, but, of course( it is all the same to the State. I have paid all the salaries, I think, 1 up to the end of the second quarter^ I the 30th April. ? I have'paid the Lu ! natic Asylum, Penitentiary. &<:. up ^ tol^out 1st June, and upon'all other i appropriations proportionally a-near iy as I could. . On /account 01 last : year's deficiencies, I have paid the i salaries very nearly in full, the Lu j natic Asylum entirely, the Deaf, j Dumb and Blind and the StateAOr-: : phan Asylum nearly in full ; to'the ; Penitentiary I have paid $45,000, or j nine of the twelve warrants which. I were out. You > know three of them, j had been put #pon the market by Gov..Scjpfct without any authority of law. Iror the deficiency in last year's public school appropriation I haje paid about $80.000. Though rhett' was an appropriation of $300,000 there was only about f 100,000 ex pended or contracted to be paid last year on account of the public schools. jThey were not in operation bul a short while during the year, not Oe ing able to get any money from.'-. tire Treasury. I suppo?e there is a floating debt of at least $1,000.000, composed of claims of a?l sorts not passed upon-by t1ie Legislature, and they, are being continually presented at the Treasu- t ry. Of course, I cannot pay them, and the holders become dissatisfied. Brevities and Levities. 4B*r A Utica paper says thal sumo wretell^entapostal card written in Latin, .and it took the post olliec clerks more than an hour to find a dictionary, ?nd . now they do not know whether the card was a dry goods bill or an invitation to a wedding. . mt , HST Abominations at seaside lintels : Matches that won't light, soap that won't wash, towels that correspond in sizo.to napkins, flies in soup, sand in water pitcher}"" and looking-glasses "fearfully and wonderfully made." ?5" One of the late boys while reading a chapter of Genesis, paused to ask his mother whether the boys in tho olden time used to do their sumstm the ground. It was discovered that he had been read ing the passage, " and the sons O?' men . multiplied upon the face of the earth" .?c$?s3r " Wm- do men marry ?" Quinapa lu8 saith : Some men marry for dinar pies, some eurs, some noses; the contest, however, generally lies between the eyes and the hair. The mouth is occasionally married ; tho chin not so often.". .aer-" You Abe Linkum, tell Ben Butler to bring Lysses Grant in out ub dat sun dis minit, or I'll tar. you to doth. Dat child might get sun stroke for all you mean Erogtown niggers 'ud keer." ??r The only safeguard against cholera, is announced by an Atlanta, (Georgia) doctor. It is to stand on your head for a minute three times a day. He says'it arrests abdominal denression. j.w?l regret ivn??. !.-.::. .crt m a iji mai nimmer lan, Werk, bm waa not killed." An Engl ish shopkeeper has, for his virtues obu?ued the uumc ot "Utile rascal." A stranger asked him why this j appellation had been given to him ? " To distinguish me from thefestof my trade " quoth he, "who are ali great rascals." -Air Half a pound of shot judiciously administered to sympathetic cats, al this season of thc year, will bear fruit in increased hours ol' slumber throughout thc summer and have a tendency to prevent a corner in thc chicken market. ???* Never go to sloe,, in au auction room A man lately nodding in one found himself charged with half the goods sold during the evening. .2-?r A Baptist clergyman out West un dertook to baptize his wife at an unsea sonable hour. . He kept her head under water too long, and now be has to Ire hung to dry in consequence. p?i" There aro some unreconstructed t?males in the western part of thc State, as tho following from thc Newtuu Vindi cator proves : " An old lady selling eggs last week asked, as is usual,4 What's the n?ws7" "The latest," said the obliging clerk, " is that the Yankees have got the Modocs." "Good," said she, striking the counter with her kuucklcs. " T hope the last one will die with it." Young Paddy MdShane, sure no lad could be bolder, coaxed Biddy McShae to be sharing his lot, and Pat had a lively young p;g on his shoul der, and she on her head bore a big sirou pof. From the town just at nightfall, as home they were walking, through a dark, lonely thicket their winding path lay ; Biddy sat down rho pot. stopped her laughing .-.nd talking. Paddy turned round, and asked her the cause of thc delay. "Oh," says she, "I'm afraid you'll be acting uncivil ; I'll not go alone through *he thicket wid you; ?or Paddy avick, you're as wild as ! he divil; you'll be. kissing and squazing mc, that's what you'll do!" ." i'ut the pig." replied Pat, "that I've jug ged so securely, if loQse, back totown like the divil he'd trot.-" "Och, Pad dy," says she, as she -glanced up de murely, "couldn't yes put the pig under the pot?" JEFF. DAVIS AND HIS COLOUED FRIENDS.-The St. Louis Christian Advocate says: " During the late visit of the Hon. Jefferson Davis to this city, while he was being called on by crowds of respectable citizens, and receiving manifestations of re spect from hundreds of the most prominent and worthy ladies and gentlemen of the? city, there occurred a little episode of a very pleasing character. One night during his stay at the Planters' House He was serenaded by some colored people who were formerly his slaves. After \ their, dulcet strains had ceased, Mr. Davis called them into his room-, where, after cordial greetings on botlj sides and a little chat about old times, he made each a handsome present. At another time during his stay he was. called on by an ' old aunty, who had been the nurse of his eldest child. The affection that'the ex slaves manifested for .their former master and the interest which he manifested for them, and their future welfare were really affecting."