The Fairfield herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, June 07, 1871, Image 1
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The Morning Bells.
flow sweetly sound the merry bells,
Upon the pleasant summer air ;
How gayly through the fragrant dells,
Float their d~eop notes so rich and rare.
Oh. sunny Soult ! Oh, land of bloom,
When closed for aye my weary eyes,
On thy broad bosom be ny lonb,
'Neath thy enchanting, cloudless skies.
Around my grave let zephyrs play,
Freighted with sweet perfume of June,
O'er me let sunteamis lance by day,
At night, sof( glimmers of ilho moon.
Near miy lone home shal! blue birds sing,
And joyous, warbling red-breasis build i
ve Let those whos thoughts to me still cling,
Heatr, and wit I peace, their hearts be filled.
Illoom o'er my bel, thou sweet while rose,
Eiblen of spotless purity,
Diroot. the thought that upward soars,
And tell them there I'm like to thee.
And o'er n, weeping willow, bend,
Thy drooping boti,bis my requ'm sigh,
When fervent looks to Ond they send,
Telt tem that I no more shall die.
Shine on me stars. dispel the gloom,
Banis i Ihe shadows dark and dread,
Titn hang at inight around iny tom'tb,
L And uake the tiw! f -a. t.e dead.
Flow geintly by, thou silver stream,
Al iImur Ilhy miusio suft Ands low,
l'ass, like sote bright and hleeiing dream,
Of other tines, of long ago,
On Rabbat i-eve let children come,
And wander rouA in gente imood,
Let. them forget the city's h11um1,
Their lcarts be filled with to ler-ts good.
Oh ! little footnleps, print the ground,
And prattling voices, pierce the air,
Linger awhile, about the mound,
That holds the one to mem'ry dear.
Come youths and maidens to the spot,
And breathe the vows of fondest live,
Aluse on of soic enchanting cot.
On hill, in dale, or flower gemmed grove.
Old men and matrons, crowd around,
Leave for awhile, your busy cares,
Kneel with deep rev'rence on the ground,
Trust lim .who die:J, forget your fears
Sweet morning hells, ring out your chimes,
When I shall be at anget fair,
In other lands, in other climis.
There are no notes so s-vect anil clear.
Wanted at the Cross Roads,
I was in a hurry to reach home.
No wonder, for it was the wildvst
night I had ever known in my life,
and the country road over which L
took ny way was as bad and as dark
as country roads arc in general. Conse.
quently I was walking at a great rate,
-' with the collatr of a rough coat over
my oars andt a comforter tied over my
soft hat; under my chin, to keep it on
and to protect my cars, when sud
denly a rman stood full. In my path,
and caught me by the arm.
"Hiallo l'' said be, "You're just in
time ; you are wanted at the Cross
Roods to-night."
'rhe vo'iee was the voice of a ruflian.
I fancied myself attacked by a high.
wayman. I stood quite still and
strove to show hitm by tm ymanner that
1 was able to protect myself.
"What the deuce amn I wanted at
the Cross Roads for ?" said I. "Un.
less I should choose, it would be hard
to got me there."
Bdt instead of producing a pistol
and demanding my money or my life,
ho answered in an altered tone:
?"Beg pardon ; I mtade a mistake.
I thought it was my brother, and
wanted to frighten hima. Bad night,
"Verry !" said 1.
"You don't know the time ?" he
asked. hnIlftetri
'It was-sevenwhnIeftetri
at L--," said I.
"Thank ye," said the man, "Good
night.'
If his olj.et had been robbery,
prohally1 hu hmad' decided, from may
rought tutfllersm, thtat I wans tot) poor' a
nmn to b~e worth the trouble.
But aifter aill, I said probably he
,,pnke the trut h ; A mau maiy have
auha voice without, being a high
wasymana, no dottbt.'
So 1 went on homeward, and sooni
ltfound myself under shelter, and par.
taktag of a warm and savory sup.
p~er.
My .mother was there, and my
brother1Ben. TRon was a great and
str aliping fellow who could beait any
boy 9f his ago for miles around, if It
came to wrestlinag, or boxing, and a.
good lemrored a boy as ever lived;
e.a boyA ways to his mother, although~
he il' exeorcised his right to vote
alrea y ip one Prl iitial ..ojeofion,
When sunan as ov. nr andr1 ad
chat ted for an hour, we went up-stair
together. We share one room,
The moment Ben's head touche<
the pillow hi alwa3s went to sleop
That night I followed his example.
But I did not sleep withouta dreain
-a dream in which I felt a rougl
grip on uy arm and was rouaed by a
cryina in my ear :
"Wake up I you're wanted at th
Crots Roads."
It was so real, so palpable, thal
when I startlod broad awake I actual
ly believed that some one was in th<
r.om-the man who intended robber3
or violence. But when I had li
my lamp the ro(.om was enptyexcep
myself and Ben, lying snoring on hit
pillow.
I went to the door ; it was looked
I went to the window ; the rush of
rain against paines was all I heard
I even went across the passage to iy
another's room. She was awake.
There had been no unusual sound she
was quite sure.
Only a dream, born of my meeting
with the stiango man upon my road,
I felt sure lad awakened me. I went
to bed and foil asleep sin. Again
I was awakened by the same
words-this time they came to my
ears by an unearthly voice :
"Wake up, you are wanted at the
Cross lLods-."
I again sprang from the bed and
said to 1kn :
"Vake up I did you hear a yell.
i)g ?"
"My star," said Ben, "Yelling I
wake up 1 You fairly frightened me."
"Ben,'' said I, "wait until I light
the lump. I heard aa.other voice.
There mau-t be some one in the house
or ont.-ide."
So we lit the lanp, and we searehed,
but in vain.
"Nightmiare," said lien when I told
him nay atory.
"lBen," said I, "what is there at the
Cross Roads V
'A hous.e," said Ben.
Itn had lied in the neighborhood
a lot g while, and I but a 01bort time.
"One little house, beside.4 two oak
trees and a fence. An old man lives
there, a rich old fellow, tand a bit. of a
miser they say. His grand daughter
keeps loute for him."
"Ben," said I, "that follow may
have meantharmn to them, I may be
wanted at, the Cross ikoads.'
"IBrother," said Ben,"go to sleep.
You had a nightmare'l-and Ben
plunged in between the blankets and
was soon snoring agun.
I also in ten minutes was sleeping
soundly as before, but the wakening
quickly came again.
I opened my eyes to see a girl
standing at the foot of the bed. A
girl with white robes and golden hair
all abot her shoulders who wrung
her hands and oried, "Oh, wake up ;
you are wanted at the Cross Roads."
This time I started out of bed bath.
ed in a cold perspiration. I trembled
like a leaf, and had no doubt that I
had received a supernatural warning.
"Ben," I cried, "Ben for the third
time I've been told that I am wanted
at the Cross Roads, and I am going."
And I began to dress myself as
speedily as possible, listening mean
while to the storm, raging madder and
wilder than any other period since
its comamencement.
Ben remonsatratedl with me in vain.
At last he began to huddle oa his
clothes.
"If you have gone mad, I must go
with you and take care of you," he
said. "But fancy another man going
in a storm like this to the Crorn
Ro'ads, because a nightmare advises
him to do so, and what would you
think of him ?"
I said nothing. All I could have
anawored would have been:
"I aam impelled to go ;I dare not
refuse, whatever may he thought of
In ten minutes we were splashing
through mnd and rain along the
road. It was perfectly d ark ; now
and then a blazang red star in the dis.
tatnce told us that .a lamp was gleam
ing through the rsin in some cottage
winsdow, but otherwise we would not
have been conseions of our proximity
to any habitation twhatever. AL last
nearing the spot where the road from
8-- crosses the road from P
we wore indeed, in as solitary a place
as could be well imagined.
The house, which abutted on the very
angle of the roads called in faamillar
parlance the Cross Roads, was the
only one for soume distanace in either
direetion, and certaiaaly on such a
night we wore not likely to meet er any
tracelers.
"Well," lie said, "homv now 1 will
you go home and have another night
mare ?
Baut hard1)ly hd the words escaped
hais lips when a shriek -broke on the
air, and a woman's voice plainly corn
ing from the interior' of the cottage
cried:
"Help I help I helps!"
"lien," said I, "we are wanted at
the Cross Rea*dse" and -'then under.
standing each other without more
words we made ouan ray to a window,
through whioh a light shone. A mua<
lin curtain draped the panes, .but
through it we baW an awful eight; -
An old :nan lay upon the floor and
Qver him bent a ru iang olutohiag ble
throat, and holding at pitol to his ear.
3 while another iman grasped a shriek.
ing girl by the arnq-a gii I in A fl at
Ing night dress-with such lobg gold.
en hair as belonged to the woman of
my Vision.
Not a moment was to be wated.
Ben flung his weight against the
slender lattice and ortbbed It in, and
we hid grappled with the ruffians ba.
i fore they knew whence the attaok
' mc or ho. wany focs were upon
them.
I do haut lintend to desoribd the
struggle ; indeed, I could not if I
would. But we were men, and in.
bpired by the cries of the helple.ss
old man and the terrified girl, bOOU
i had one of the villains bound and the
other lying prost rate on the floor. ,
Then Ben started for absistanco,
and before morning both were in jail.
lien admittitog, is we shook each
ither by the hand, that we were
'wnotud at the Cross Roads."
The old man was not a miser, but
he had saved some few thousands
.or his old age, and living more plain.
ly than he need have done, had given
rie to the rumor, and so brought
the burglars to the Cross Roads, in
iho hope of booty.
The girl, a beautiful creature of
seventeen, and as a story is iot aeoep.
table to the lady reader without a
flavor of romance, I will tell them
hat she became in after year.4,
not my wife, but the wife of my dar
ling biother lien.
The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad.
We have received a report of the
proceedings of the stockholders of the
Co arlotte, Coluibia and Augusta
Railroad Company, from, which we
learn that the Coupany is in a flour
ashiiag conditioni.
The grozs earnings during the
fiscal year euding December 21rt,
1870, amounted to $560,474.05,
while the expenios of operating the
road, t,-geth.r with tlo taxes, amount
ed to $289, 542.70, leaving a balance
of $270,931.35, with wbich to pay in.
tei ests un bunda, notes, etc.
The eapital tstuck of the Coip any
is $2,571,299.99, so that it will be
seeu that the net balance, after ay.
iug expenses for operating the road,
t wother with the State and
Federal taxes, is a little over ten per
cent. of the capital. This is a very
gratif3 ing exhibit, and when compar.
ed 'witli last years operations, it Ohow,
conclusively, that the Company is do.
ing a good paying bu:,iness. Last
)ear, tuje gross receipts were $403,.
785.49, and this 3ear 'they exceed
that sum by $156,698.56. This is
about forty per centumo increate, and
the Company even hope to do much
better than this during the present
year.
The entire bonded debt January
let, 1871, was $1,229,500, and the
floating debt amounted to $741,302.
61. Since that tine, however, abgut
$20,000 of the floating debt has been
paid. The first mortgage limits the
issue of bonds to $2,000,000, so that
after the floating detbt is deducted
therefrom, there is left $279,000, in,
round numbers, with which to odeem
$256,000 old bonds. This leaves the.
Company ap excess of assets ove.r
liabilities of nearly $25,000.
Intportant to Solltiefit. $xeoltors.
In the United 8times'Oircuit Court,
sitting at Savannah last 'week, sMtW
Justice Bradley, of the Supreme
Court of the United States, prsmdlng,
decided that the investment by eke.
cutors, adninistrators and trustses of
funids in their handS, us trustes, in
Confedera'e States bonds, and securia"
ties, under the acts of the Geogi~a
fbegielature, passed during the' wa4,
were not illegal and void,'but that all
such investments, when made 'In good
faith by trustees, are valid~ and bind~
ing.
A Bankrupt no Rtight to' Fee Consel,
A new and impprtanmt qurestlou i
bankruptcy has risen in th~e Uoited
Statee Distriet Court of New York,~
It has been found that in a majority
of instances no account has been. ren
dered of the suma paid by 'bonkrupts.
to their lawyers ; and *siamli the assets
'of a bankrupt belong to his creditore
It Is Qlsimned that a bankrupt has no
right to fee' cousel with spy of tthe
p/ocee do f his est~ate, and that ooong.
sel, in reoeiving euch fees, lnvolunta
rily takes the .place of debtors, sand
may be sued.
Yetoes.
The Governor of Nsw York has
vetoed upward of one hundred bills'
since the Jiegiilature adjmnded-..:..
'The World learnis frowm Atbany that
he wonld sedd: these . billa to t e ofioel
of the Secretat'y 'ofttatie with'-his ob'
'ections in brief? 1I'i~repattldtht
amnorg the number Is the bill making
amend'eeta-to the ode',''y kh
the liberte of ongl'as Wdll as 'tb&
press was to be restridted by the i
ial of ' obsldte jout'
court.''
There is bitby'ahb'ats StII~
at whioh prises are odfNd ''fth6.
heve'-ud'el ofe'th'most te~Jpi
y oinfavidsagqetwiis '.d"411: h
qaalti.
Stole Finaneese
E litor ASuDter i i/nome :,l~avin
iu a brief nannie, in -my .4As con
munication to your aipor, showni hos
the special tax bond debt widoreated
and having advised that isbo lef
forever wteue the autlprp ol its crea
tion left it attheclose of the I 4tseissioi
of the legislattre, I beg toi iUvit
your attention to another 'Alin -o
StWe liabilities.:
The ol I and real debt of Nort
Oarolia , with inter'est tW Janiuary
1st, 1871, will be about $20,000,000
With lore than $140,000,000 of taxa
ble property in the State, neoordiq
to the Iabt a.sosseserit retuna, thia
is moro th.n t he people Can pay. . The
interest oi this sutn i8 $1.200,000
The people are not able to meet th<
half of this sum, And provide for thc
expenses of a Staut Government
with the necess.ary:conComitants uf ar
Asylum, Common S1Auvlt, Ut,jversity
&c. It is idle to deny ot ignore th<
fact that the people are not able to
pay thin debtor the interest thereof,
it cannot be controrerted tfiat, undei
bauefal leg islation, the resoittces of
the State have not materially increas.
ed since 1866. More than teh per
sons, have, within that period, emi.
grated from North Carolina, carr3 inip
capitul with them, for every one who
has come into the 8tute, to flnally
sittle. The prospect of the fitture
development is, therefore, unpromis.
ing. Ilowever this progresi may be
in the future, it will scarcely eoal
the accumulating interest on the old
debt, This debt was based on the
taxable property in the State, bWfore
the war, and was ablout $10,000,000,
qr one-halt its present anoutit, and
was contracted principAlly for inter
nal improvementr4. The sad and
malignant results of the war deht-os ed
at least three fifths of the wealth ef
the people of North Carolina, while
their publio debt hai doubled.
Thi, debt. of ten milliuns was based
largely uponi silave property, which,
although not involved in the issues of
the atae struggle as the North pro.
claimed, was swept away with all
baik stooks, b nds and n.uoh of the
debtadue, with tihe deprooiatini of
lands and other property, mAklhig our
people poor indeed. With a proper
ty before the war e.timated at over
$4u0,000.000, the State debt was
$!0,1100,000. Now we hautve a debt
of $20,000,000, and aibotit $1835,000,.
000of property. In the impoverished
condition of a people, robbed of near
ly two-thirds of their estates, how is
this debt to be troaited I The very
parties who hold the large majoi Ity
of the debt deprived los o' the very
means upon which it was in a great
degree based, and forced us to repu
diate our own debts. Many States
and nations have heretofore ruptdi.
ated their obligations after great wdrs
and other ealamities. Our ancestors
did this, after the colonies had won
their independence of: the mother
coutAry-simply because they. %ere
not able to pay their debts.
Hence. the wortbless proclamat ion
money after the Revolution. Yet
there is a moral as well- as a legal
obligation in-tl 'valid dontraefswhioh
a creditor cannot igtfore.e To a real
sonable oxtent'of his meati ho nust
respond toils&reditors.- OA this
prindiple thousand&' of envkpetsplb
have oompromnised' and settled all
their debts s irio6 tife late war at' ten
Mo*nty-mnd forty 'eus.ontedi1'ellnri
'1%is principle is'reeoAtnisd aS m'or
ally right the 'wotld o er,' orba .the re
parties' ave wilfully andoi61kedly
lost their estates as illtiStrated by the
banmkrupt laws of all oftilfkad cotina
tries more especially'does'thb prinol
peapply 'wheroe great 'bktional ea'
famities befall co hnndinitles'f aitd still
at'tonger is the base where individuals
atdd States have beezt robbed and
plundlered of their estates ender a
pretegtedisevoedd at th6s beginnin~g
of the .late struggles URecognisiiag
'fis princ-ipleEnglIand, 'onb of the
proudest nations of e'artbh'aid: one of
the highest ore'rnnt lcanoIs
eredit, red u66bet, itunieate dubs Udd
rate 'of 'inteesti" after aun etha'(shbg
war df her own seeking, fenowe the
S'per cent. eonsols, th'e great nattional
security of IKnglantd hu d.regarded the
Wrest investmiens ArId "'flnAoiah
'w6rld. Within taenty-fie 3 ekra
Spain' eenspromised or -ooflsoidated
htur -national .debt' by *gfvlmgne
bende or obligations for on'estWhffd the
'athounti of the old ttid pfledginog hpb
the failth of the nation 'te'jay tbe
.eAnle,' Anid"ll-her~rdtes op aecpd
the teru .' 8 5 havd tiarb.7'ott e
stises adud'natoi'ds aded' 'Tth% ik
three oentitries.' Thb pidi le 'is
thbat certoinomt~es. beyond our eo~
4t961o rell e a ft-or All, or a 'p~rtiep
of ouit frme-V alid 6blij aIlois..
7NorthiO4olli~Wohn'silli af
ti of her honest detkti'u
mdiany, of her citignirwAt a .r eied ini
tbuOneit df Olatins bf tUh5-Fedet tNor'
erninentaltrthelir 'iights'bit
idfly 'repudiate' hr eetaseil
ours" No'W, iu 'eoafbrohis VietjIele
las ia* adihorlins'ti~ ntautlh
Ttasury to issue a 'new bond at i90 01
lid pledge the faith and resourbidib
the State to the pront navment o
the same, and levy a tax at the sruni
time to pay the intere.st oj the n)on
bondessiued. 'to c'oditorm wil
cilme inand itake thle new bondis, tor
, they candonolotter. The old bond.
L *re PoW selling at 40 on the 100 ex-cou
pons. The fir. year not more that
k one-half iay neeept the terms, bu.
I they will ultinately all accept them.
r Thus the deit of the State canl be
rdduced to 7 or $8,000,000. The
k ant til tax to nicet t his would be
about #450,000. This li as much as
the people in their condition arn bear.
A greater tax for interest., beaildes
the other expentes of the State, will
drive off taure population, than wil,
migrate to tie 8:Iate, aid thus retard
its lrogr-S. PAobiatly not more th ii
half the a11moneaaat of the old debt would
be cansollbjated the lst twelve
montihs 'hen ubout $225,000 of
taxatiou would meaet the accruing
interest t herel'n. In the nie In
time the Legislature of 1871 and '72
could authoa ize the sale ot all the
public works of North Caroiona, paya.
ble in tihe now or cons.olidated bonds
of the Stato at par or geebiheks.
As this debt was contracted for thebe
public works, there l not oul' great
propriety, but a moo al (bliVati(ona to
apply the proceeds to the pay
ment of this debt. Tie proceeds
of the sale of the Sate's interest thus
applied would reduce her debt to
-three 1r four railions of dollars.
This would bring tle public deht
within her cotrol, put her bonds to
par and fully rewure the credit of!
the State. That the true interests of
tie StAte reqii-e the iale of li r
railrond and canal interest at the
proper time La be~ond controversy.
li the first pl co when she ru ar an
ges her public debt., le needs the
proceeds to pay it ofI. Il the econd
place they are in a dilapidated and 1n
finiabed c- ndit ion, atad will proha
bly retiman Io in her hanids. Tit the
third place she is wholly unable to
finish them, while a sale would bring
a large additional capital in tle
State to complete themta, and thus
contribute largely to i -rease the
resources a-f thae people and the rev
enue to the Tre-sury. As at fourth
CoituIderaa tion, they probably will re
main a source of co, ruption, and be
tsed for political pui poses in fututire as
In tle pa-t, while in pi lvate hands they
will become much more eWacient as
agt nts for transportatita rantI to that
ex:ent confer grener beiLefi:s a.n the
people. Petns) lvania and other
States had for these reasohs to sell
all their roads and and ennals, and
it will be the policy of North Caroli
na at the proper time todo the iane, as
goei,.as te re arranges her old bond
debt, and thus restores ier credir.
As private property tley will
become the subjects of taxation and
revenue to the Treaanry.
Having thus surrendered for the
benefit ot her cred.itors all her pub.
lie property eXce'.t ber benevolent
institutions..which are pecuniurily
Worthless, ahd a burden to her, but
rekluired by the clvilisation and chris.
tianity of the age-with a debt of otnly
three or fotur millions, Impoverished
as her people are, they woild re
double their energieds itumigratitan
atd capital wkitld rupidly flow itl,
aati North (larolinma would again soon
reocQupy her fornmer high atal eleva
ted poston amaong the $t-ates of this
It is trlderstood that certain per
sons tire engaged in gdLting up ' a
':~ie of Riulloff? The bogua nature
Of the. proposed ,volume Is settled by
t~ he following letters given to tbe local
p.apers of IIntghamton, by the mar'
derer bitan'elf,' Jbst bdfore his execu
l1ZoH~AM'roN, May l(G, 1871.
Having been eredibly' inaformed
that eertailn persdns are preparing fore
pu'blieation a ,ark to be sold- as .my,
life, and whbich will purport to bei~
Wfitteta t'ron i'faot'ni ion faurnishe d
by tayselt, this i~to'6ertlfy that any
fuOl ork-will-beu Vsatta it-su far ats
Ittmay - p-urporte to be -written from'
sany such information. I have in no
way contribu.tesl. to the p reparationI
of te'h a work, nor haivo I knowinagly
f enaighed a ingie iteha of infortnma.
tion to be used' tor any such pu rpose
'(Signed)
Ts 'to obtiff ilat; [ haive never
in any way, cottbted to the prepa
raisonof a work to'bo sold as my
life,.and ihttany such work purpor
iug to bc..written from iniformation
fd~hiised byrme will be fraudulent and
utntrua.
- 'EDWARD RUJALOFF.
"Th.esana 'of our: expose of the
out opgoesls week was
T6'att&i eage i Mte~dtd best, as
dp'bad' owh is Bandsykle.1thes, which
th''te W~ieb t@aqil Be vent hoine
t' d bpg mhsJMj @ht)n trim and,
u frned to the rt 96qOe for.a
W MM~ W of mutual re
i itafeiot'try'it ~&in U~pt the beo-'
rgrgr * hs reAlgnede ad his
s , as a~ for a adsi reasignation
tib Gnovernor ..- Oa.je. J/hprkr
could enlighten thom on sundry facts
which the committee ought by all
means to know,
INsbring One's ie for the Benefit of
One's Creditors.
A recent decision in the Supreme
r Court of Missouri in favor of the
claims of creditors agaInst the bulk of
the funds paid by the Charter Oak
Life Insuranyce Company to the estate
of nu insolvent policy-holder, is like
ly to give some uneasinebs to those
who are carrying heavy life Insurance
polioies under the impression that
their families will be handsomely
provided for after their decease,
without reference to their solvency or
insolvency. Mobt of the States of
the Union have limited the amount
of premiums that may be paid on a
life policy which should be exempt
from the claims of creditors. Con
necticut exempts an amount the an
nual premium of which shall not ex
ceed one hundred and fifty dollars 1
New Jersey one hundred dollars ;
Ohio and Missouri three hundred,
anld so on, The decision to which
we have referred settles the principle
that except when insurance is effected
in a company the charter of which
expressly exempts policies issued by
it from liability for the debts of the
insured, the amount of premium, if
in excess of the limit prescribed, be
comes a part and parcel of the assets
of the person Insured,
Alarmed.
The N. Y. Tribune thinks that "the
next Presidential campaign will be
the hottest within the memory of this
generation." It admonishes its Re
publican friends that "the new (Demo.
cratie) movement means danger,'' and
that they must stop "wrangling over
the publication of a treaty at Wash'
lngton, dividing the spoils of office
at New York and frittering away
their influence elsewhere in needless
contents and relentless personal
feuds." It reminds them that in thq
last Presidential election the contest
was so close that the change of a few
thousand votes in three States in the
October elections would have turned
the scale against their party, and
that it was Democratic folly and nob
Republican wisdom and popularity
that secured the victory. The
Tribune discerns danger in the pacifio
and conservative sentiments that now
animate the opposition, and in the
feuds and quarrels that prevail in the
ranks of its own party, and it is alarm.
ed.
-Ech an Opology.
The following "apology" is publish
ed in a Topeka (Kan.) paper : "An
Apology. Some time last winter Dr.
F. E. Sheldon ordered me to make
him a singlebreasted frock coat, to be
worth $45. I made the coat, and it
was a perfect fit ; but he left it. on my
hands, because he wanted a swallow
tail instead, whereby I suffered a loss
of $20. This spring he ordered of
me a business suit, and again endeava
ored to leave a coat on my hands. I
told him to leave the whole suit or
pay me for it. Ho refused, and I
kicked him out of my shop at 8 o'olook
on the morning of Mlarch 27th, 1871.
H le has since, hiowever, paid me, and
requested an opology, which 1 now
make, and state that had he paid me
for my work as requnested, I would not
have kicked him out my shop as above
mentioned,.-J. V. H art."
Riemedy for Cancer.
Some months ago Colonol Capron,
Commissioner of Agricnuture, receiv,
ed from Ecuador a package of roots
and bark shrub or tree, ocalled "cin
derange," which Is found growing in
abundance in EWuador and, it is
believed, in other other South Ameri..
can States. Cunderango was repra
sented as a specific for that hereto4
fore supposed to be incitrable and
deadly diaease, cancer. The Clommis.
sioner distributed this plant among
our leading medicsl professors and
physicians. One of these has been
applying cunderango with extraordin
ary and unlooked forsucoess, and in
twenty days has almost entirely
cured the mother of Vice President
Colfax and other patients who are
afflicted with cancer-- Washington
*letter Baltirmore Gazelle.
"Solidified boer" is the latest thing.
It is lager beer concentrated the way
they do milk, so that the sesount you
can hold on the point of a knife will
make yoq drarhk clear through. A
man can carry enouigh of It in his vest
pocket to knock a Temperance Socle.
ty into a serious-looking aspect, em I6
would not be used in tlhe form of a
drink.
Fashion, in the mnidst of her many
eocenrcities, has revived the high
shell-comb of our grand mothers.
Gold buckles hay, also appeared, awd,
as- waists are rapidly growing shorter
and more deoollate, we shall probably
soon see the styles of Iteoamler, an
the toilets of the FIrsthaplre the fee
vorite styles.
A movement has been sob on foot
looking. tombou holig of an -Amerl
Icani Chem Congresa at name noan in
A Ilotten Sate of Affairs.
The grand jury for the May tern
of court in Newberry County hav
made their presentment-a well con
sidered and able document The
pronounce the jail iisecure, as no
being in such a condition is to preven
the escape of prisoners. The othe
public buildings were found all right
The probate office was not accessible
Mr. Leahy, the present judge, beinj
absent from town. Treasurer's offici
all right, books "properly balanced,'
Trial Justices Furman's and Peter
RMs's books and papers upon exam
antion, proved all right. From thi
following pen picture, Trial Justic<
LI g seens to be a candidate for th<
otaimpionship in South Carolina. Th<
grand jury says :
"As to Trial Justice Long, th<
keeping of his books. and his ability
as an officer, it is with the deepesi
humility that they are constrained
to make such an unfavorable report
As an offic.r, they unhesitatingly pro.
iounce hiu utterly incompetent in
every respect. lIe can neither read
nor write suffici-ntly to be intelligi.
ble to any one but himself ; and, as a
natural consequence his books are in tic
order, or, in other words, are not kept
at all. They find that he has rcceiv
ed fines, but has neither turned I bem
over to the county treasurer nor
o herwise accounted for the same.
They, therefore, unhesitatingly, for
the peace, dignity atnd prosperity of
the comniuutity, recommlend his spee
dy removal."
Bad as this is, the grand jury does
not reach the climax till they get to
the county cominmitsioners. Of all
the offices inaugurated by the new
regime, this would scom to be the
best. Heie is unlimited opportuni
ty for stealing, and we feel in all
3.an1dor bound to say that these op.
portunitic do not. always remain un
improved. The grand jurysays ' "In
0he present board of county commis
ioncra they find, after a careful inves
btgation, a system of corruption, bri
bery and theft stupendous to behold
-a system of wholesale robbery
which was to them alinost preposter
aus. In examining the books, pa
rPers, &a., of the old board of county
sotmmibsioners they found indubita
,le evidence of perjury on the part of
2ne Samjuel Dogan and Thomas M.
Jo.ikins, by probating and payin.g
he tae account twice. Dogan has
iold the proceeds of the poai house
arm and has never accounted for the
moneys arising from such sale, and
also sold a horse belonging to the
auie institution, and has likewise not
iccounted for the proceeds of such
m.le. And so as to the newboard, they
1d that they indulge in all species
)f fraud and corruption, and, as the
;rand jurors are informed, this board
>, commissioners have never visited
,he poorhouse to examine into the
sonIdition of its unfortunate inmates,
is has always heretofore been the
:ustom. Sineon Young, one of the
iforesaid board, has had himself
elected superintendent of the poor
house, with a salary of five hundred
lollars, and sub-lets the same for two
hundred dollars on hiis own account,
;he same being paid by the treasurer
of the county, on recommendiation of
Young. They also found a cheek for
one hundred and twenty-five dollars
in invor of Simneon Young, passed
and approved by the board of which
ho is chairman ; said check was given
for no consideration."
And so on, adl infiunt. The pro.
sentment goes on to say:
"Finding such corruption, venalty
an'd robbery to exist in the aforesaid
board of commnissione, the grand
jurors feel it their privilege, and their
sa cred duty, to denounce the samte,
and respectfully recommend to this
honorable court that such speedy
measures be taken, that this gross
and mnanifcst evil may be forthwith
removed. The poorhouse the grand
)urors find in a dilapidated condition,
the fences down, inmates dissatisfied,
badly clothed, and a general r'lscon
teat prevalent. As to the roads and
highways in the county, the grand
jurors find them, with few exceptions,
in a very bad condition. They would
likewise say that they regret to find
that their county has been the scene
of violent disctue bances, by disguised
parties, commonly called Ku-Klux.
Thbat they raise their voices against
all violence by whomsoever commit.
ted. Wrong can never restore right.
Ahd they hold that It is the duty of
all good citizens to rebuke all wrong,
expose all corruption, and on deavor
by peaceable means to achieve that
restoration to purity, economy and
an honest and equal administratiori
of the laws, which is essential to the
security and prosperity of their be
loved $tate. Apd they farther di.
tinctly deolare that their findings apd
investigations have not been ditotated
'by any partisan 'spirit, and they can
sbow stnple und plain proof of all
their Sndings, whether against crime,
fraud or .oqrruption. '
The above is a mere outline of the
ptes'nient. The grand jury hav4
duEolh4I r Wor thoroughly, and we
hope whea the orgressional omemit
Mqe cornes to this State to investig at.
"utr~agge9 the will nsoL pass Ne
befry by. TAhgn' shoulId by all moan
summoaon this samoe grand *pry wh