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f traps and Jacts.
A hotel keeper in Danville, New York
brags of one boarder who has been with hin
over thirty-five years.
The building of a narrow gauge rail
road has been commenced near Columbus
Georgia. The gauge is to be three feet. .
The bark, Nehemiah Gibson, which ar
rived at New York from Colombo on Thurs
day last, had on board the unusual cargo o
eleven elephants?reported all well. Th
custom-house officers passed their trunks with
out examination.
Atlanta, Georgia, has a woman shoe
maker. Her husband, who fell battling fo
the South, left her his kit of tools as a legacy
but hard times coming on she has taken th
strap and the last, and is pegging out an hoc
est livelihood.
The Texas Gazette speaks in this styl
of a politician of that State : "Should th
brains of a decent white man be deposited ii
the Mississippi river at St. Louis, ten drops c
river water at Vicksburg would fully repre
sent his intellectual capacity."
A girl in Portland was reading the par
able of the wise and foolish virgins when sh
suddenly paused. "Well, what did they for
get ?" asked the teacher, encouragingly
"They forgot their kerosene," responded Mis
Five-year-old.
At the Convention of Kentucky Baj
tists, recently in session at Louisville, an offe
of $300,000 was made to remove the Baptis
University from Greenville, S. C., to an eligi
hie point in Kentucky, provided the othe
Southern States will raise $200,000.
Among recent deaths is that of Ed war
B. Ketchum, whose career upon Wall steee
with his subsequent trial and conviction t
Sing Sing prison, upon a charge of forgery
will be recollected by most of our readers a
one of the most exciting topics of the day i;
which it occurred.
It is an exploded theory that woma
dresses to please man. They dress to please o
spite each other. Any girl of sense and es
perience knows that it is just as easy to brea
a man's heart in a two dollar muslin, neatl
made up, as it is in a five hundred dollar sill
costume made up by a man dress-maker.
Josh Billings says: "Most enny ma
. will conceed that it looks foolish to see a bo
drag a heavy sled up a hill for the fleetir
pleshurs of ridiu' down again ; but it appear
to me the boy is a sage beside of the youn;
man who works hard all the week, and drink
his wages on Saturday night."
The Cincinnati Gazette thinks that th
great need of the country is not schools of th
fine arts, but of the mechanic arts; schools t
train boys and girls to earn a living. Th
great educational problem is how to direc
school education to the great necessity o
labor. And one of the greatest labor pro!
lerns is, how shall the rising generation lean
the trades they must follow tor a living?
The Savannah Republican contains a:
account of a turnpike road steam engin<
which was received in that city a few day
ago, and is to be tested en the common road:
as to its adaptability to work on the ordinar
roads of the country. It is eight horse-pov
er, weighs five tons, and is calculated to dra^
fifteen or twenty tons. It was built by th
Grant Locomotive "NVorks, at Patterson, ?
J., at a cost of 85000, and is the fifth of il
class that has been turned out from this e:
tablishraent.
Mr. Beecher says of novels : "I believ
in them. I think they are no more to be di
allowed than any other part of literatun
They can be made to serve the very best end
of economy, of virtue and morality, to sa
nothing of religion; but a man who feeds o
nothing but these, how miserable and wretel
ed he is! These are the whips and syllabub
of life. They are not the bread nor the meai
They are the confections of life. But ough
a man to sit down and eat sugar-plums for hi
? dinner ind nnthimr. w -i
; A Colorado saloon keeper said ot i
rough crowd: "I couldn't get their whisk;
strong enough for them, so after trying ever;
way, I at last made a mixture of poison oal
and butter-nut. That fetched 'em. I calle<
it the sheep herder's delight; and it was i
popular drink. The first Pike I tried it oi
yelled with delight; the next one took tw
drinks, and turned a double somerset in th
road before the house. A peddler came along
and after he took several drinks of my sheej
herder's delight, he went off and stole his owi
pack, and hid it in the woods."
ju. ?uinvan aas, iu juiviiigsioii cuuuiy
Illinois, a farm eight miles square, contain
ing 40,960 acres,?64 sections, govern men
survey. This vast tract is sub-divided int
32 farms of 1280 acres each. Each farm ha
a captain and first and second lieutenant, al
under the control of a coinmauder-in-chieJ
There are 15,000 acres under the plow, ove
10,000 of which are this season in com
which looks supurbly. The whole of tli
land was entered from the government b
the present owner some twenty years since, a
81.52 per acre, and is now worth, with th
improvements made upon it, at least 82,000
000.
The New York Herald, in a length
and exhaustive article on "Southern troubles,
says: The wonder is that so few exist, an
this is the best evidence that the mass of th
Southern people are law-abiding. When
brave and high-spirited people submit so we
to, and make the best of, their humiliatin
situation, we have the best guarantee of thei
future good conduct and of peace. Let u
be just and magnanimous. Let us have som
consideration for the people of our own rac
and blood, and not rush thein beneath the q
norant and semi-barbarous negroes and th
carpet-bag scum of the North
Lewenboeck tells us of an insect see
with the microscope of which 29,000,00
would equal a mite. Insects of various kinc
may be seen in the cavities of a grain of sane
Mould is a forest of beautiful trees, with tb
branches, leaves and fruit. Butterflies ai
fully feathered. Hairs are hollow tube
The surface of our bodies is covered wit
scales like a fish ; asingle grain of sand woul
cover 150 of these scales; and yet a sea]
covers 200 pores. Through these narro
openings the sweat forces itself like watt
through a sieve. The mites make 500 steps
second. Each drop of stagnant water coi
tains a world of animated beings, swimrain
with as much liberty as whales in the sei
Each leaf has a colony of insects grazing o
it like cows in a meadow.
The new law relating to railway acc
dents in Germany will place the compani*
in a more disadvantageous position than thi
which they hold in England. The burden <
proof lies entirely with the company, and
is not sufficient to show that there was r
culpable neglect on the part of its servants
nor indeed will any other plea relieve it of i
responsibility, except that of the sole culp
bilityof the person injured. If a merestrai
ger, not a traveler, should pass through a st
tion, and a locomotive should burst and ki
him, the company would be liable to the su
viving family, even though it should be ab
to prove that the accident arose from such
peculiar combination of circumstances that i
blame is attached to anybody. The act b
came law June 14.
R. D. Munson is a persistent Yanke
a native of Williston, Vermont, who has d
voted ten years to the achievement of makir
a clock that is more complicatedly ingenioi
than the Strasbourg time-piece, and vast!
more serviceable. It runs eight days, and tl
dial marks the second, minute, hour, and da
of the week, month and year; a thermomeh
rests against the pendulum, giving the stai
of temperature; the ball of the pendului
contains a miniature time-piece, which deriv<
its motive power solely from its vibrating p
sition, and keeps accurate time; with th
there is a delightful musical apparatus, whic
plays an air at the end of each hour, and it
(piously precontrived so as to play only sacre
.times on Sunday, beginning and ending wit
, the "Doxology." On national holidays, the
' airs are diversified patriotically, with "Yanr
I kee Doodle," etc. This wonderful time-piece
}, presents a black walnut front ten feet high,
3 I twenty inches wide and ten deep, and is em1
bellished with profuse scroll work and national
designs.
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YORKVILLE, S. C.:
I; THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 20,1871.
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s paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued,
the date must be kept in advance.
Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that
our terms for subscription, advertising and jobe
work, are cash, in advance
JOB PRINTING.
8 Having determined to devote more attention
hereafter to job printing than we have
h done in the past, we would inform the public
t that our office is now well supplied with new
j type of the latest styles, and the best mar
j chinery in use; and with a choice stock of
I inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to
d i execute as good work as can be done anyt,
where in the United States^ Orders for
0 Ball Tickets, Freight Billheads,
r, Bank Notices, Labels,
a Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks,
Bill Heads, Law Briefs,
Q Business Cards, Letter Circulars,
Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings,
Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads
Q Checks, Note Circulars,
r Deposit Tickets, Note Headings,
Drafts and Notes, ; Programmes,
1 Envelopes, ; Policies, FireA Life Ins.,
K Election Tickets, jSliinplasters,
y Festival Tickets, I Wedding Cards,
h will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction
as to quality of work, guaranteed in every
n instance. Particular attention given to fine
^ work in colors.
s personalT
? Colonel I. G. McKissick, who at the last
8 election was the candidate of the "Reform"
party for Congress in this District, was in
e Yorkville last week. He is visiting the sev0
eral counties with the view of procuring suffie
cient testimony to enable him to contest the
it seat held by Hon. A. S. Wallace. His ground
^ of contest is that he was defeated by fraudulent
means. We have not learned what progress
he has made in securing testimony to
sustain the contest, but judge that he is on a
, bootless expedition, as the frauds practiced at
s the last election were so carefully covered up,
3, that it will be next to impossible to get any?
? i ?1 n
y tiling tangiDie upon wnicn 10 miugu utie.
(v GOING T(TLIBERIA.
e We learn that a large number of negroes?
comprising sixty or eighty familes?in the
s vicinity of Clay Hill, in the north-east part
3" of this county, have determined to emigrate
to Liberia, and are now making their ar?
raugements to embark in the vessel of the
3 Colonization Society, which will sail from
Is Charleston or Baltimore early in November
y next. Rev. Elias Hill and June Moore, (two
n colored men of this county) are at the head
l* of the movement, and it is the intention of
the emigrants to locate in that part of Libej
ria known as the North Carolina Colony.
s These emigrants are to be received at Rock
V ' XI'1 uu iU1U1J||Cu imnapmuhiuii ny
a j Liberia by the Colonization Society. AVe uny
derstand that several hundred other negroes
Y in this county are making preparations to
j follow in the vessel which sails next May.
3
a INCENDIARY CAUGHT.
^ On Thursday last, Jack Brooks, alias James
e Jackson Brooks, a negro aged about twenty
years, in the employ of John S. Bratton, Esq.,
p was arrested and lodged in jail at this place,
a under a warrant issued by Trial Justice W.
B. Williams, on the charge of burning the
'? threshing house, etc., of Mr. Bratton, men"
tiou of which was made in last week's issue
1 of the Enquirer.
s The information which led to the arrest was
] furnished by negroes employed on the plantaf.
tion, who immediately after the occurrence of
r the fire, went to work for the purpose of fer
'? reting out the criminal. The unusual conduct
e of Brooks rendered him an object of suspi^
cion, and upon being directly charged with
e the burning, made a confession of his guilt
}. I From all that can be learned, Brooks had no
| confederates, and the act has no political sigy
nificance whatever, as was apprehended by
many persons. The negroes who engaged in
^ the efforts to discover the incendiary, without
e regard to the motives which may have actuII
ated them, are entitled to the highest praise.
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P STATE ITEMS,
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8 ? Aiken is to have a fruit-canning estabe
lishment.
:e ? Work has been commenced upon a new
V Methodist brick church in Chester.
e ? Efforts are being made to organize a National
Bank at Anderson, with a capital stock
J of $60,000.
|g ? Watermelons are more abundant in Co]
lumbia and Augusta, than they have been for
ie several years past.
e ?John H. Galloway has tendered his res'
signation as coroner of Union county, and
the resignation has been accepted by the
I Governor.
w ?Colonel Myers, of the 7th Cavalry, stair
tioned at Spartanburg, died on the 11th ina
staut, at that place, after a short illness. He
i- had been in the army for forty years.
& ? A lodge of colored Good Templars, was
a* organized last week at Columbia under the
'U ~~o"
name of "Palmetto Lodge, No. 4." A Rastrom,
Esq., of Charleston, State Deputy, offi33
ciated.
it ? The iron on the railroad between Sumter
af and Columbia is being rapidly put down.
Arrangements are in progress for continuing
the road to Augusta, which will give a con^
tinuous line from "Wilmington to the latter
a_ point.
a- ?Narrow gauge railroads, it is thought,
a- will soon be introduced into this State. It is
11 in contemplation to run a line of that kind
r" from Newberry to Laurens; another line is
e also proposed across Lexington county, con10
necting the Greenville and Augusta Railroads,
q. | via. Lexington Court House.
?The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
e, | Railroad Company gives notice that at the
e- j State Fair, full freight will be charged on all
'g j stock, merchandise, etc., sent to the Fair, but
J will refund the charge on the return of the
^ : freight?thus conveying the freight designed for
>Y ! the Fair free of charge both ways.
;r j ? The Reporter says that John C. Reistei
te i forwarded last week his resignation of the ofm
| fice of Clerk of the Court for Chester county,
33 i and the same was accepted by Governor Scott.
?" | Under the law, as it stands, the duty of filling
| the vacancy thereby created devolves upon
js! Judge Thomas.
id j ? The Lancaster Ledger says that violent
;h i storms of wind and rain, accompanied with a
little hail, visited sorae portions af that coun-1
' ty on Sunday evening last. The hail did no
j serious damage, though the wind was de-.
| structive to the heavy-loaded fruit trees in j
the Waxhaws and along the course of the |
storm. j#
?The Charleston News relates the following
: "About 5 o'clock on Thursday afternoon,
as a party of boys were bathing at the floodgate
near the offices of the Savannah and
! Charleston Railroad, one of their number, a
j colored boy about twelve years of age, named
1 James Smith, got beyond his depth, aud was j
I unable to stem the current and swim back, j
i He was about to drown, and had sunk twice ;
! when his companions raised their voices for |
j help. Mr. S. W. Fisher, the treasurer of the
company, was attracted hy their cries, and,
running to the spot, saw in a moment what
had happened. Without waiting to get rid |
of any encumbrances but his watch, he plung- j
ed into the water, and succeeded in catching j
the drowning bov under the water, after he I
had gone down for the third time. The boy, I
as we stated above, was black, and his rescuer
was white."
? Some of the Charleston people are just
now employing a part of their time in capturing
a few of the sharks which infest that
harbor. The News of Saturday last says:
"Yesterday morning a party of gentlemen
procured the carcass Qf a dead horse, and,
following it down the harbor with the ebb
tide, succeeded in capturing two sharks of
enormous dimensions, just off Fort Sumter.
The monsters were towed up to North Atlantic
dock, and were speedily hoisted upon the
wharf The larger one measured twelve feet
and one inch from the tip of his nose to the
end of his tail, and weighed five hundred and
eighty pounds. The other measured eleven
feet four inches, and weighed five hundred
and sixty pounds. These are two of the largest
marine monsters which have been captured
lately, and one of them is the largest thst
has been taken here since the war. His mouth
is a serrated cavern, armed with several rows
of sharp saw teeth, aud the look from his eyes
is anything but inviting. He had about
twenty-five pounds of horse flesh between his
jaws, which added not a little to the beauty
? ? mi i. J? 5 J
ot His appearance, inese iwo luuiviuuuis,
just introduced to the city of Charleston, are
said to belong to the common species of ground
sharks."
? The following in relation to the doings
of the Sub-Outrage Committee at Spartanburg,
is from the Columbia Union: "From a
gentleman of Spartanburg, we learn something
of the work, which has been laborious,
of the Sub-Committee on Southern Outrages
at that place. Evidence in about three hundred
cases of outrages has been taken, consisting
of all grades of horror and cruelty.
Many cases have been before the committee
where backs that had been lacerated, and other
bodily injuries received from the hands of
the ku-xlux have spoken louder than words
of the sufferings of the loyal people of that
portion of the country. Scores of witnesses,
and persons who had received injury in one
way or another have been turned away, as
the mass of evidence adduced is undeniable
and horrible, and tells the tale known before
to many, but through fear remaining untold.
In view of threats, which have been freely
made, to commence again the ku-klux work
when the committee adjourns, the Chairman
of the Committee, Senator Scott, has plainly
indicated the consequences of any such course,
as the county would surely be placed und?r
. miirtinl low'in fact, enough is now known tr~Wflrrflnt
qii/>JVO V-^
ble to give the county one more trial."
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Capt. R. A. Shotwell, a lawyer, and
formerly editor of a democratic paper in
Rutherfordton, has been committed to the
jail in that place on a charge of ku-kluxing.
? George Sinclair, who represented himself
as agent for an imaginary theatrical
troupe, was committed to jail in Wilmington
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Jast week tor obtaining ooara unaer mise pretenses.
? The executive committee of the State
Agricultural Society have fixed upon Tuesday
the 17th of October as the day for the
opening of the next fair, which will continue
four days.
? Henderson Young, the negro convicted
at the last term of Mecklenburg Superior
Court of the murder of Edward Smith, of
that county, was hung in Charlotte on Friday
last.
? Edward Cantwell, famous as the man
who wore the first secession badge seen in
Raleigh, and who, since the organization of
the present State government, has been a radical
office holder, was conspicuous at a radical
mass meeting held at Weldon last week.
?At the Baptist Educational Convention
which convened in Richmond last week, North
Carolina was represented by Dr. Pritchard,
of Raleigh, Rev. N. Bowen, of Hendersonville,
Rev. P. H. Fontaine, of Wake Forest,
Professors Simmons, Mills, Taylor and W. B.
Royall.
? The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the North Carolina Railroad took place in
Greensboro on the 13th instant. The only account
we have seen of the proceedings is in
the Raleigh Sentinel. That paper charges
that certain stockholders had conspired to
prevent a meeting by refusing t^ give in their
stock ; and as a quorum could not be obtained,
the meeting adjourned, to meet on the
20th of September next.
? F. N. Strudwick, of Hillsboro, having
been summoned to appear before the ku-klux
committee at Washington, and failed to appear,
was treated as an absconding witness,
anfl a second summons was served on him by |
a United States Deputy Marshal at his home
in Hillsboro. Mr. Strudwick has published
a card stating that it was not his intention to
evade an examination. He has also telegraphed
to the committee that at present he
is too ill to return to Washington.
? It is stated that forty or fifty persons i
have surrendered to the civil authorities of
Rutherford county, and confessed the part
they acted in the recent disguise outrages in
that county. Some have been committed to
i jail, while others have fled to avoid arrest. A
U. S. Deputy Marshal with a detachment of j
the 7th cavalry, has been operating in that j
county. He reports that he has been engaged |
in arresting illicit distillers, and parties en-!
I gaged in committing outrages. Ten distille.
ries were destroyed, besides a large quantity
i' of whisky.
. | ? A Wilmington dispatch, dated the 17th,
; j says that on that morning the Robeson despe11
radoes, Lowrey and his gang of outlaws, way
{laid and killed Daniel Murdock McLean, a
I prominent citizen, and Hugh McLean, his
! brother, a youth only thirteen years old. They
| also wounded Archibald McCollum. These
, | parties were riding along the public road in
a buggy, and were fired on from a thicket in
; the woods. A fearful state of terror exists
i among the women and children in Robeson
county. The Sheriff has a posse of one hun;
dred and fifty in the field, but their efforts
, thus far are utterly fruitless.
? The western division of the North Caro- J
lina railroad company has brought a suit in :
the Supreme Court of New York against S. |
W. Perkins, to recover $800,000 on an.accepted
order. The suit grew out of issuing
$4,000,000 of the bonds of the State to Gi W.
Swepson, who was President of the company i
at the time, and M. S. Littlefield. It iwJ-fi
leged that the bonds are in New York, clover
$1,000,000 of the proceeds of bo^ht ]
bonds of some Florida railroad -wmpifcy, I
which were afterwards consolidated ; and flat
the Florida Legislature offered State bondiin
exchange for the first mortgage bonds of he
consolidated company. These Florida bflhlrV
were sent here to Hopkins & Co., for sale.. Ihe
State of North Carolina afterwards appoint^ |
a commission to examine into what had beet j
flnno u?ith thp hnmls of the North Carolim ;
Railroad Company, and it is alleged that'll- j
der a threat of criminal prosecution, Swepsta |
& Littlefield gave an order for $800,000 f| ;
favor of the North Carolina railroad, and (A
fered to furnish iron for 53 miles of thatroadii.
This order Hopkins & Co. accepted, but af-|
terwards declined to pay; whereupon Sydney1
W. Hopkins was arrested and placed under
$300,000 bail.
? For several days past the Sheriff oir
Robeson county has been making strenuous eft
forts to arrest the freebooters of that county,'
known as the "Lowrey gang," and on -Tuesday
afternoon of last week a fearful bufcclfery ]
was perpetrated by Henry Berry Lowrey and
a band of negro outlaws. The Sheri^^^M
having in charge Lowrey's wife and several f
others, whp have been aiding and abettiufej
outlaws, was ambuscaded near Buis' Store,
on the Wilmington, Charlotte <fe Rutherford j
railroad, and of the posse Hector
Archibald Brown and Hector McNeille were
killed, and D. McCormick, B. Barnes, and
James Lowrey wounded. The fight resbhed
itself into a regular battle, which lasted until
the outlaws were pursued far into a swamp.
Pop Oxendine was captured, and is now in
jail at Wilmington, and the citizens of Robeson
are determined to capture or exterminate
the last one of the gang. All the members
of this band are negroes and mulattoes
pying a barren tract of country, known as
"Scuffletown," and when compelled to work
for a subsistence, engage in hewing timber,
for exportation, at which they are experts.
Henry Berry Lowrey has sent a message tor
the authorities at Lumberton, informing
them that if the wives of the outlaws are pot
released, they will make reprisals by the capture
of white women, and fill the county with
slaughter aud blood.
WASHINGTON ITEMS* ^
As the Presidential pardon of Bowen could
not effect his relation to Mrs. fettigrew King
Bowen, and as the jury by their verdictdeclared
that she was not his wife, there is some
comment over the fact that the third Mrs.
Bowen announces her purpose to live with
him.
The southern mail contracts are subject to
the order of the Postmaster-General, dated
April 4th, 1866, directing that certain railroads
indebted to the Government for railroad
materials purchased by them, and all
orders recognizing accounts due said companies
for transporting the mails, shall be specially
referred to the Auditor to be placed ta
the credit of the quartermaster's department.
The United States army comprises at th^
present time about 30,000 men, divided into
forty regiments, of which ten are cavalry^M^
mTfitary:,pos^, and includes ' 227 coim!^
sioned officers. The highest salary paid to
an officer, that of Gen. Sherman, is $13,500;^
the lowest, paid to second lieutenants," is
$1400 a year. The Quartermaster's Department
buys annually about 2,000,000 busSels
of corn and oats, 125,000 cords of wood, 30,- ]
000 tons of coal, and moves 100,000 tons of
army stores. There are 25,000 horses, mules,
and oxen in the army; some of the array
wagon routes require 800 miles of hauling in
a straight line. The Military Academy at
West Point costs $220,000 a year; bes'des
this institution, there is a school of artillery
at Fort Monroe, and a torpedo school at Willet's
Point, N. Y. On the 12th of June 113,266
soldiers' widows were on the rolls of the
United States Pension Office.
The Patriot mentions that a delegation
from the South who recently called upon King
Grant at Long Branch, returned to Washington
very much disgusted. His Majesty, it
seems, refused to see them, but gave them to
understand that his house at Long Branch
was a private residence, and that for official
business they must take their chances of
catching him in Washington. The delegation,
it is understood, came from an impoverished
portion of the South, and had no presents
to offer. Nor was there any money in
their mission.
The Attorney-General instructs di&trict attorneys
to make extraordinary exertion in the
execution of the ku-klux bill. Whenever
they hear of outrages they shall procure warrants
from the Federal commissioners, arrest
parties accused, and have them bound over
or committed until the ensuing terra of the
Federal Court. Virgil S. Lusk has been appointed
special assistant district attorney to
prosecute the ku-klux law in North Carolina,
with Federal troops at his call. He is instructed
to open his office in Raleigh, put himself
in communication with the United States
riomniiasioners and marshals and local State
authorities in all sections of the State, and to
receive reports from them of any ku-klux
outrages committed ; to have warrants lSfnflJdiately
issued for the apprehension of the offenders
and witnesses, and to hold immediate
examinations of the cases before the United
States Commissioners, with a view of commiting
or binding the parties for their appearance
at court; to search up and collate ^hp
evidence for the United States in each case,
and to take such other steps as may be necessary
to secure the conviction of the offenders.
This appointment, it is said, meets the full approbation
of District Attorney Starbuck, of
North Carolina.
No more applications for soldiers' discharges
will be entertained, as the army is
now reduced to 30,000.
President Grant, it is stated, will remain at
Long Branch until the 15th of August, when
Tip will pro to California, without even return
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ing to Washington, unless an emergency requires
it.
It has been decided by the Postmaster-General
to advertise again for proposals for carrying
the mails in all the Southern States, except
Tennessee and. Kentucky, for the fiscal
year just commenced. This action is reirtfetfed
necessary on account of the refusal of many
of those persons to whom contracts had been
awarded to accept the awards, basing their
refusal on the assertion that they had fixed
the amount of compensation at too low a figure.
An ex-Confederate Captain, named Taliafero,
planting near Macon, Miss., has been examined
as a witness by the ku-klux committee.
He testified that fifteen persons had been
killed and many whipped in that vicinity
withj the past year. There is an organized ' I
band of ku-klux in that county. Taliaferro i
atteijled several meetings, though he never i
took the required oath; the supposition of i
thoa present being that he was initiated by ;
the-'aptain of the band, who can swear in a '
menber; his friends and neighbors all belong-1
ing to the band. Taliaferro gave the com-!
mittee the details of the organization, signs,
grips, etc. He once went on a raid with the
band, and was present when several negroes
were whipped. No prosecution has or could
be instituted in that county, as nobody dare
prosecute. Taliaferro was a witness before j
the grand jury, at Oxford, Miss., and by his
testimony several members of the'ku-klux
were indicted.
Tne revised census tables show the population
of States and organized territories as fol
lows: Whites, 83,681,680; Colored, 4,87y,3Z3; i
Indian, 25,723; Chinese, 63,196; Japanese,
65. Total, 38,549,987.
An important decision has been made by
the United States Supreme Court, which is,
that the limitation laws oftheSouthern States
were suspended for the full period between
he proclamation of blockade of the Southern
>orts of April 19th, 1861, and the proclamation
of restoration of Federal authority of
August 20th, 1866. The effect of this decision
will be to re-open the courts of the SouthBrii"
States to ante-war claims of Northern
Creditors,* and to give vitality to obligations
which have been barred by limitation under
tiiKritberto ruling of State courts. The principle
will apply equally to Federal and State
courts.
I, >
EDlTORlAiTlNKLINfiS.
IA Knotty Question.
One of the oddest questions ever submitted
to lawyers is now puzzling the legal
'.fraternity of Hartford, Conn. It seems that
fc'faan who recently died tl^ere left a widow,
fehildless, but expecting shortly to become a
toother. By his will he provided that if the
I expected child should prove to be a boy, twothirds
of the property should go to him, and
ne-third to the widowed mother. If, however,
the child proved to be a girl, only onethird
of the estate was to go to her, and twothirds
to the mother. The result, of course,
was awaited with an interest even greater
than that usually bestowed upon such events.
_?he result is the widow has become the mother
of twins?a boy and girl.
Festive Kn-Klux.
A story is going the rounds that two
festive Floridians were fined $100 each for
shooting at a canary bird, the cage of which
hung in the window of a private residence in
Savannah. The facts are even so; but the
Savannah Republican strips the story of any
enormity it might otherwise possess, by stating
that the amiable young gentlemen are not
Floridians, but respectable citizens of N. York
and Boston?the aristocratic sons of shoddy.
The report thus sent forth may suit their
notions, but not suit the ideas of the law-loving
people of Savannah. One of the festive
young gentlemen mentioned above is the
nephew of Henry Ward Beecher, and the
other one of an equally distinguished Northern
family.
Comfort for Little Men.
A foreign correspondent writes that "itis-a
curious study for physiologists to observe
with what inequality nature deals out her materials
in the manufacture of heroes. The
Sjnajority of great reformers are remarkably
^j^Amen.- Louis Blaqc is a diminutive figaaigeTowm
middle height, and Vermeesch?the terrible
Veermeesch?Peere Duchense, was often mistaken
for a girl in boy's clothes. It is wonderful
to reflect that but a short while ago
Veermeesch was the leader of fashion in Par
is?never wearing the same gloves twice, picking
his way over the asphalte in the daintiest
of Riel boots, and never deigning to appear
even at the officeof his journal before his hair
had been duly curled and annointed by the
hairdresser."
.A Financiering Darkey.
Recently an express car was robbed by a
party of negroes in Alabama, and the manner
in which the spoils were divided by the
robbers shows in the case of one of them a
sad instance of the depravity of the times,
as well as misdirected intelligence. None of
the gang could read ; but after the safe was
tgpken open, Alfred Crosby tore off the ends
of some of the packages, and soon discovered
that the largest contained the smallest
bills, and consequently the least money.
Therefore, in making the division, Alfred
proposed that two small packages should
count as one large one, to which the others
readily assented; and he then took care to
take his part in the small packages, thus getting
a double share of the booty. Alfred's
friends insist that he has eminent qualifications
for an office-holder.
International Money Order System.
The necessary documents of a convention
establishing an exchange of postal money
orders between the United States and England
have been received at "Washington, and
having been executed on the part of England,
now await the signature of the Presicfcni
and Postmaster General. The arrangement
is to go into effect on the first of October.
Each order is limited to ten pounds
when issued in England, and fifty dollars
when issued in the United States. The superintendent
of the money order system, who
concluded this convention, has gone to Berlin
I tq effect similar arrangements between the
fUnlfKrStates and Germany.
So well does the system of postal money
orders work, that we are not surprised at the
government enlarging upon it, by establishing
an international system with foreign countries;
though it is a matter of surprise that
the- facilities which it affords are withheld
from so large a number of towns in the
-United States.
Bowen's Pardon.
The fact of the President of the United
States exercising the authority to grant a pardon
to Bowen, convicted of an offence against
the laws of a State, and of which the United
States takes no cognizance, is beginning to
attract attention in States further north than
the doorine of State-rights had been supposed
to have an advocate. A writer in the New
York Tribune argues that the President has
BOUthe power of pardoning Bowen, for the
reason that the District of Columbia has a
territorial constitution, under which the Governor
is vested with the power of pardoning
common criminals sentenced by the courts of
th3 District. Bigamy is a common crime,
and in no way an offence against the United
States ; and so this writer maintains that the
Preiident could have no legal authority to
pardon in this case.
j Bit the President having pardoned the
J biganist, his troubles do not end with his reI
leasefrom the State prison. He is not the
j husbtnd of Mrs. King, his third wife, nor can !
I he be until the death of, or his divorce from I
! his first wife. This he will probably be unable j
| to piDCure without her consent, and should he (
I cone ude to re-marry Mrs. King, he will again !
be liable to indictmeut for bigamy; and as !
they were not lawfully wedded, should they
continue to live together as man and wife they j
may both be prosecuted for a different crime? !
he for adultery, and she for fornication.
Money-Order Offices.
? ?The Washington Chronicle of Saturday ;
last, announces that on the 31st of July, the 1
Postmaster-General will put the following !
new money-order offices in operation in South :
and North Carolina:
South Carolina?Abbeville Court House, '
Abbeville county ; Yorkville, York county, '
and Spartanburg Court House, Spartanburg
county.
North Carolina?High Point, Guilford
county; Kinston, Lenoir county; Lincolnton,:
Lincoln county ; Rutherfordton, Rutherford |
county; Rocky Mount, Edgecomb county;!
Enfield. Halifax countv: Williamstown, Mar
tin county, and Wilson, Wilson county.
These will make the number of money-order
offices in South Carolina, fifteen ; and in
North Carolina thirty-five.
Core for Fever and Ague.
The editor of an exchange who has
been afflicted with fever and ague, and having
been cured by a simple remedy, is so overjoyed
at the result that he made the matter
the subject of a leading editorial. We givfe
our readers the benefit of the remedy. If it
does not cure, it will not kill. Here it is:
"We wish to give a very simple remedy
for fever and ague, and wish to emphasize it
by saying that it has, to our knowledge,
proved very efficacious. It is simply common
salt. A teaspoonful takeh in water, and a
teaspoonful deposited inside each stocking,
next the foot, just as the chtll is coming on.
That's all there is of it; but knowing that it
has been very efficacious in 'breaking' a chill
and perfecting a cure, we put it in our editorial
columns, where no humbug remedy shall
ever find a place, if we know it."
The Cotton Crop.
The official returns for July, at the Bureau
of Agriculture in Washington City of
the condition of the cotton crop do not materially
change the prospects reported last
month. No estimates can be authoritatively
made thus early in the season; though information
furnished by the returns is sufficient
to lead to the following conclusions:
v.... ? in i
" wiin a reaucuon 01 i?7 per vein., ? icmtively
low condition, and a season as long as
that of 1870, there should be gathered a crop
of 3,200,000 bales, or about as large as that
of 1869; with a season of average length,
2,900,000 bales; and with an early frost and
a very unfavorable season for picking, 2,700,000.
The prevalence of insects, with other
unpropitious circumstances, would probably
reduce the crop to 2,500,000 bales; and a
steady improvement of the plant for sixty
days, with the longest and most favorable
picking season, might carry the aggregate up
to 3,500,000 bales.
This is represented as a fair statement oi
the range of probabilities, based on the most
extensive and reliable data, and uninfluenced
by buyers and speculators.
The Soldiers of 1812.
The regulations of the Commissioner oi
Pensions in regard to the surviving soldiers
in the Southern States of the war of 1812,
will cause a great deal of red-tape and circumlocutory
work, and prove a source of much
vexatious delay to those veterans, who are as
deserving of the gratitude and bounty of theii
country as are those of the "loyal" States, tc
whom the regulations do not apply. The
Commissioner says :
"In view of the express requirements of the
act of February 14,1871, granting pensions tc
the survivors of the War of 1812, proof oi
-loyalty will, in aU cas^ube carefiilly exanr
witnesses testify to the foyalty of a claimant,
their own loyalty must be shown by the certificate
of an officer of the United States
Court, a United States Commissioner, or an
officer of the Internal Revenue Bureau, setting
forth that, after careful investigation, he
is convinced the witnesses at no time during
the late rebellion against the authority of the
United States, adhered to the cause of the
enemies of the Government, giving them aid
and comfort, or exercised the functions of anj
office whatever, under any authority, or pre
tended authority, in hostility to the Unitec
States."
The Yankee Factory Girls.
Southern emigration societies and oth
ers who are desirous of introducing Northeri
help into the South, have now a splendid op
portunity, and especially inviting should it tx
to bachelors, who can no longer have a valic
excuse for their state of single wretchedness
In one of the factories in Maine, recently, th<
proprietors reduced the wages, whereupor
there was a general determination among the
girls employed therein to strike; and, as they
were obliged to give a month's notice beftm
quitting work, they had meanwhile issued ?
circular to the world at large, in which is th(
following interesting paragraph:
"We are now working out our notice?car
turn our hands to most anything?don't like
to be idle?but determined not to work foi
nothing where folks can afford to pay. Who
wants help ? We can make bonnets, dresses,
puddings, pies, knit, roast, stew and fry; make
butter and cheese; milk cows, feed chickens,
hoe corn, sweep out the kitchen, put the parlor
to rights, make beds, split wood, kindle fires,
wash and iron, besides Deing remarkably fond
of babies; in fact can do anything the most
accomplished housewife is capable of doing,
not forgetting the scoldings on Mondays and
Saturdays; for specimens of spirit will refer
you to our overseer. Speak quick. Black
eyes, fair foreheads, clustering locks, beautiful
as Hebe; can sing like a seraph and smile
most bewitchingly; any elderly gentleman in
want of a good housekeeper, or a nice young
man in want of a wife?willing to sustain either
character; in fact, we are in the market.
Who bids ? Going, going, gone ! Who's the
lucky man ?
MERE-MENTION.
Wire-glass bird cages are the latest novel
ties. Gen. Kilpatrick is announced as a
Republican candidate for Governor of New
Jersey. The first narrow gauge engine
built in America, was shipped last week from
Philadelphia, for Pike's Peak. Four
George Washingtons, six Andrew Jacksons,
five Henry Clays and two Jas. K. Polks, all
negroes, reside at present in the Louisana
Penitentiary. A Chicago youth receives
from his lady-love three letters daily, averaging
twelve pages each. He thinks of starting
a paper mill. Newark, New Jersey,
manufactured $5,500,000 worth of patent
leather last year. They have a school
director in New York, who, in repeating the
resignation of one of the young lady teachers,
said "she had decided to engage in domestic
relations." King Kamehameha V, of the
Sandwich Islands, had his boots made in
New York. He wears nines. General
! Butler has announced himself as a candidate
for Governor of Massachusetts. Tad
Lincoln, son of the late President Lincoln*
died of dropsy on Monday last
Civil Rights Case.?On the affidavit of
Mr. W. A. Havne, a warrant was issued yesterday
by Trial Justice T. J. Mackey, for the
arrest of J. Lombardo, the Market street barber,
for refusing to shave Mr. Hayne, on accout
of color. Mr. Lombardo was brought
before Justice Mackey and bound over in $1,000
to answer the charge of violating the civil
rights law at the next term of the United
States District Court.? Charleston Republican.
I
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROjf LICK CREEK.
Mr. Editor: The wheel of fortune, in its
precarious revolutions, has dropped me down '
on the hanks of "Lick Creek." There is,
however, nothing remarkableabout the creek
or the surrounding country, save the fadt;
that there is but one copy of your excellent I
paper received at our office. I do not think,
however, that it can be said of this place
much longer, for as much as you editors somer,nor.ol
at it vuo Vin vp hppn lnaninc our
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paper around for some time, and hope soon to
be able to seed you a good club as the result.
Being unknown to you, we scarcely hope
to find a vacant corner in the Enquirer,
more especially after the announcement that
"we are only an old field school teacherbut
you may not know how disreputable, in the
I eyes of some, it is to be an old "old field teach|
er." Considering ourself one of the "impori
tants," and our vocation an honorable one,
we go on "conquering" young America. A
teacher occasionally has to encounter rough
cases, such as the following: Mr. Smith was
delighted one Monday morning to see a new
scholar walk in and accosted him with?
"come here young man and let's see how far
you're advanced. Do you know your letters ?
"Oh! yes."
"Well what is that?"
"A B C D E?"
"Hold on; say a."
?T.I ? ?
"OUllii?on J a.
"Well, what is that?"
"Don't know, sir."
"What does it look like ?"
"Looks like an ox yoke."
"That's b."
"That's b."
"Well, what's that?"
"Don't know."
"What do I.do when I look at you?"
" 'Fraid to say, you might lick me: say you
won't, I'll tell you."
"Well, I won't; now what is it?"
"You squint."
"That's c."
"That's c."
"WhaTs thatf"
"Don't know."
"Thai'8 d for dunce, like yourself"
"That's d for dunce, like yourself."
Mr. Smith?pretty blue?"John, you can
1 take your seat 'till you learn manners."
"Got nobody to learn me, sir."
We have never met just such a case, but
have seen enough to convince us of the sad
1 neglect prevalent in the country. This neglect
has and ever will show its fruits in socie1
ty. Much of the fault lies with the parents;
1 but more of it is to be charged to our present
? free school system, which pays so badly that
! competent teachers will not accept the em'
ployment, and a great many who will not labor,
accept. There are also very few country
school rooms fit for the business, they be*
ing small log cabins, entirely inadequate to
' the purpose. But to another subjeot.
This has been called one of the dark corn[
ers of South Carolina; but it is not so dark
as one might suppose. We have very good
( society and the people are law abiding; there
being no such thing as ku-klux or anything
( of the kind. We have had fine seasons and
, the crops, which at first did not look so well,
are growing. ELEBA.
:
' From the Chetter Reporter.
[ COL. JOHNSTON'S REPLY TO M. L JESUP.
- published a few weeks_agfij^ circular
rlrOm ??rmijl' tv, Vpw ?
i fleeting very seriously upon Colonel William
' Johnston, President of the Charlot|e, Colum.bia
and* Augusta Railroad Company. The
' following is the reply of Colonel Johnston to
j the same. As an act of justice to Colonel
; Johnston, we take great pleasure in laying it
5 before our readers:
! Office of C., C. and A. R. R. Co.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of
the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railj
road Company, held on the 27th day of June,
1871, the following members being present,
viz: Messrs. A. B. Springs, James H. Rion,
W. L. Robertson, John Pisher, Giles J. Pat
terson, Edward Hope, 8. D. Heard, J. J. Mci
Lure, J. B. Palmer, F. W. McMaster, R.
. Barringer, John J. Cohen, and Colonel J. B.
, Palmer being in the chair, the following resoI
lution was unanimously adopted and directed
to be published:
Resolved, That the Board of Directors, after
3 careful and deliberate consideration of the
t request of President William Johnston, made
> at our last meeting, for an investigation into
r the charge made through M. K. Jesup, of New
i York, and after consultation with many dis'
creet gentlemen not connected with this com1
pany, are of opinion that the charge does not
1 merit an investigation, and that an investigation
could not satisfy any one not already sati
isfied as to the falsity of the charges,
i The reasons for the conclusion reached by
the Board are, briefly, these :
i The letter of Charles L. Frost, Director of
, the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad Comi
pany, to the stockholders, dated New'York,
, December 23, 1868, and the letter of John S.
Kennedy, former partner of Morris K. Jesup,
, dated New York, March 25th, 1869, together
Tooiirk'a TOrnnorful rlpftlincs with the Co
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lumbia and Augusta Railroad Company,
, place Mr. Jesup's character in such a light as
to destroy the force of any charge made by
' him and denied by a gentleman.
The fact that Mr. Jesup has allowed near
three years to elapse, during a portion of
i which time his relations with Mr. Johnston
have been very unfriendly, without making
the charge, creates a strong presumption
against its truth.
The books of our company afford no corroboration
whatever of the charge.
The stockholders, at their annual meeting,
by a vote of a very large majority, considering
the stock represented by the respective
voters, have pronounced the charge unworthy
of investigation.
The stockholders, by an enormous stock
vote, re-elected Mr. Johnston, with the charge
pending, thereby giving a most conclusive
evidence of their disbelief of the truth of the
charge.
And, finally, the difficulty of disproving a
charge of this nature, referring to a transaction
alleged to have taken place near three
years ago, and in the city of New York, appears
to be insuperable, however false the
charge may be.
For these reasons, the Board of Directors
think Mr. Johnston may place a well established
reputation for hvnor and honesty in the
scale ap-ainat anv charge made by Mr. Jesup.
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The foregoing resolution is a true copy of
the proceedings of the Board of Directors had
at the meeting held this day.
(Signed) JOHN FISHER,
Secretary of the Board of Directors.
Charlotte, N. C., June 27,1871.
Charlotte, N. C., July 3,1871.
To the Stockholders of the Charlotte, Columbia j
and Augusta Railroad Company:
i You no doubt have received the printed i
circular of Mr. M. K. Jesup, of New York, j
(under the style of M. K. Jesup & Co.,) and 1
many of you have seen the manuscript letters ,
on the same subject circulated by Mr. Manson, j
former Treasurer of the company.
It is due, to you as well as to myself that I,
append the following statement of facts to the j
resolution adopted by the Board of Directors:;
In the year 1867,1 contracted with Mr. J.,
S. Kennedy, a member of the firm of M. K.:
Jesup & Co., of NewYork city, for the future j
delivery of 2,800 tons of rails for the Colum-1
)ia and Augusta Railroad Company, amountng,
with interest at maturity of the note, to
>ver $260,000. Mr. Kennedy delivered 800
;ons of said railsfrom New York. Mr. Jesup
,vas then in England, and furnished the balmce
from Wales.
For the payment of this debt, $400,000 of
the bonds of the company were pledged as
jollateral security. At the maturity of the
Bret notes, an extension was given by paying
one per cent, per month until $130,000 had ,
matured, when payment was demanded. They J
were then authorized to sell $200,000 of the
bonds held as collateral at not less than seventy-five
cents on the dollar. The sale was
effected by Mr. Jesup; and this and all njy
subsequent transactions with them were
through him, Mr. Kennedy having, sometime
previously, retired from the firm and being
then in Europe.
In the settlement, $130,000 of the proceeds
of the bonds -were retained by Mr. Jesup on
the notes then due; also $5000 for commissions,
making $135,000. The balance of
$15,000 realized from the sale was all that
ever came into my hands. For this sum, I
accounted to the company. Mr. Jesup delivered
the notes of the company, for the sum of
$130,000, with statement of commissions refninn/1
vaiuwi
Id the settlement, Mr. Jcgup claimed at first
five per cent, as commissions for introducing A
and selling the bonds. This I refused to
low. After some time and altercation, he o^^^H
fered to reduce nis claim to two and one-halH^H
per cent, and in this persisted, alleging tha^^^J
other railroad Presidents had allowed a higl^HH
er rate. The company still owing him a largl^QE
debt, and he still holding $200,000 of its bonds ^
as collateral therefor, and learning from James
Robb, Esq., a gentleman of high personal atjd
financial character, that two and one-half per
cent, was fair for introducing and selling new
; bonds, I yielded to his demand as the b^t
settlement to be had. I subsequently sdtd
$200,000 of the company's bonds at par, and
paid Mr. Jesup all that was due them.
Mr. Jesup, in his letter to Mr. Manson, says
they charged two and one-half per cent, by
my "direction," then, by "his [my] requirement,
returned," Ac.
In his printed circular, he says: "We paid
to him 'our check drawn to bearer."' These
contradictory statements do not bear the semblance
of truth or of a business transaction.
No receipt or voucher for the disbursement is
produced as evidence of the truth of the assertion.
Mr. Jesup, or any of his friends, or
any ont lse, could have collected such a check
as well as I could. The statement appears to
have been framed so as to render the charge
incapable of disproof, while no proof, except
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allegation.
Has the clerk or treasurer of any copartnership
the right to disburse the copartnership
funds without taking a receipt or voucher for
the same; or will a copartner even do it ? No
business man could entertain such an idea;and
such statements, contradictory in themselves,
are absurd as business transactions.
The statement of Mr. Jesup, sent to Mr.
Man son, copied from his firm books, showing
that he only charged himself with $2^00 to
his firm, when he admits he received $6,000
commissions, is only evidence of the manner
in which he accounted to his copartners for
hisprofits.
Having conceded his demands of two and
one-half per centum commission, and he bavins
all the bonds and funds in his own hands,
I bad no power, by "requirement' or otherwise,
to appropriate or make him "refund" that
which belonged to him or his firm. In this
he speaks as a very innocent and pure child
under my absolute control. He had to surrender
to my "requirements" the one-half of
his "not unusual charge" of commissions.
This explanation may satisfy some persons,
but thoee who know Mr. Jesup and his exacting
charges and rules of business, in New
York, will doubt its truth. No one ever knew
him to transact business for only one half the
"not unusual rate" of charges for his services.
"?utterly denying tun iniirf ui Mr. jmups
statement, it is apparent that I had no control
over that which was his and in his fripearion.
If any wrong or injury was done to the Columbia
and Augusta Railroad Company, it
must have been by a combination between
him and myself, he being a stockholder, as he
states, in the company. According to his
own statements it couldf not have been otherwise.
He was, then, particem eriminis, a willing
coadjutor in the alleged fraud, and comes
before the public with all the discredit which
he endeavors to throw upon me. He seems,
however, perfectly willing to bear his share of
the disgrace, provided he can involve me with
him.
After the Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Company, in June, 1869, settled its important
litigation with the South Carolina Railroad
Company, having left with' Messrs. Jesup &
Co., on special deposit, $100,000 of its bonds
wholly unencumbered, I drew on them for
$75,000 of the bonds to pay the South Carolina
Railroad Company. The draft was refused
payment After an unsatisfactory correspondence
with Mr. Jesup, and no sufficient
reason given for the dishonor of the company's
draft, I went to New York and demanded
from Mr. Jesup the reason for the refusal to
pay. He replied: "You gave us no notice of
the draft" 1 replied: "None was necessary,
as the bonds were on special deposit, and your
course is dishonorable," &c. "He replied:
"Mr. Johnston, I will not argue the question
with you," and left his office.
The only solution I could give of his conduct
in this matter was that he, without authority,
had wrongfully pledged those bonds
to sustain his private credit.
In July, 1867, the firm of M. K. Jesup &
Co. was dissolved, Mr. J. S. Kennedy withdrawing
on account of unsatisfactory relations
with Mr. Jesup, as shown by his published
card.
The 2,000 tons of rails, purchased by Mr.
Jesup himself in England, and laid on the
road in 1868, having proved a fraud upon the
company, Jesup & Co. were addressed twice
to make reparation for the injury to the company.
To these letters, no reply was made.
Suit was then instituted by Messrs. Ward,
Jones & Whitehead, solicitors for the company,
to recover damage for the cheat in the
| rails, against M. K. Jesup <fe Co. This suit
is still pending, notwithstanding Mr. Jesup
says it was dismissed. Since Mr. Kennedy
withdrew from the copartnership of Messrs.
M. K. Jesup & Co., I have bought rails from
him for the Statesville Railroad ; but I have ^
made no contract nor entered into any new
business with Mr. Jesup. It is untrue that I
bought rails from Messrs. Jesup & Co., up to
February, 1870. as he states. Since he dishonored
the coopany's draft for the bends,
and since I had the unfriendly interview with
him, I have no: spoken to him; but by letter
demanded reparation, as stated, for fraud in
the rails sold by him.
That Mr. Jessap might be able to get up an
ex 'parte, certificate or affidavit in New York
is very probaMe. But that he should have
told his story in two different ways about the
commissions, first signing the communication
as M. K. Jetup and then as M. K. Jesup &
Co., more tlan three years after the dissolution
of the firm, with deep-seated malice
against me for contesting the rights of the
company, hsulting him, and even deferring
payment vhen his notes fell due, as he says,
and he a aockholder. too. he must have been
a very M)ses to have kept his secret about
commissions for more than two years, and until
he b&* been informed that a combination
had beerformed to supplant me as President.
Then tie wonderful revelation is made
througba recently removed Treasurer; and
Mr. Je#p undertakes to render me as odious
as he acknowledges himself to be by his own
discred table and untruthful statement, hoping
that ht may escape the exposure of his own
acts.
Hewho knows me could not believe tbat I
woulcpufc myself in the power of such a man
as M> Jesup, and then pursue the company's
right against him as I have done.
Te publisheu cards in relation to Mr.
Jesf and his malpractices, by Mr. Charles