Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, September 07, 1871, Image 2
f craps and Jacfs.
The New York papers in one day last
week recorded one murder and suicide, two
attempted murders, a shooting and stabbing
affray, and one car robbery, besides a long
list of minor offences.
Dio Lewis declares that the present
system of employing doctors is wrong, and advised
people to make contracts with them at
$200 a year for each family, and a deduction
of $2 for each case of sicknc-ss.
The prominent physician to whom the
State Department sent samples of the famous
herb cundurango, claimed to be a specific for
cancer, have generally made their report to
the department, stating, as the result of their
trial, that the new drug is of no value in curing
this malady.
A new Masonic journal will be published
in the city of Washington on the 1st of
October next. The title will be, Mackey's
National Freemason, and the journal will be
published monthly. It will be edited by Hon.
A. G. Mackey, now residing in Washington.
It will have many contributors from the different
sections of the country.
An examination of the population tables
just issued from the census office shows
that there are Chinese residents in twenty-four
States, and seven out of the eight organized
Territories. The entire Chinese population is
about 69,000, of whom all but about 1000 are
found in the Pacific States and mining Territories.
*
During the delivery of a speech recent\
ly by Gen. Butler at Springfield, Mass., several
spoons enclosed in an envelope were passed
up to him. The General tore open the
envelope, saw the corner of one of the spoons
and the joke at the same time, and, hastily
slipping the package into his pocket, proceeded
with his address.
In Marine City, Michigan, the other
day, a young man was walking out with some
young ladies, when he found a small frog, and
holding it in the palm of his hand, brought it
near his mouth, which he opened wide. The
juvenile croaker seeing what appeared to be a
place of refuge, gave a jump into the cave.
fni 1?I?j? i c
me yuuug iuuii iuo&t*i very rcu iu uie lute,
and the ladies looked down in the mouth, but
the frog has never been seen from that day to
this.
Dr. Lisle, of London, says that he has
cured twenty-one cases of cholera out of twenty-six
by administering a solution of five parts
sulphate of copper to one hundred parts distilled
water, about thirty drops, to which add
ten drops of Sydenham's laudanum and four
oz. of sugar and water. Dr. Drouet advocates
a solution of castor oil in collodion being applied
with a brush to the abdomen. The mixture
forms a waterproof film which prevents
perspiration, and vomiting and cramps are instantly
arrested.
Desertion from the army in the West is
said to be a growing evil. The men weary
of the monotonous life, and the result is that
the day after pay-day almost invariably sees
the ranks thinner than before. The recent
action of the Government in lowering the rate
of pay nearly $4 per month has had a powerful
influence in this direction. A few days
ago sixty men deserted from Fort Hays in a
body, and only eight were recaptured. Every
Indian tribe has more or less of them domiciled
among it, and they are said to be first in
everything that is barbarous and cruel.
It may not be generally known that by
a recent judicial decision touching the tax
upon cigars, a penalty of fifty dollars is imposed
in case of failure to destroy the box after
the cigars shall have been taken therefrom.
This applies not only to the regular
dealer in the article, but to the consumer, and
the individual who has a dozen empty cigarboxes
in his house, or in the possession of his
children, had better put his foot in them, or
institute a savings bank in order to meet the
penalty, since the law does not excuse iguorance.
The Loudon Times has been figuring up
the miles of existing telegraph wires on the
globe at the present day, and with the loiiowing
result: Thre are 30,000 miles of submarine
cable; 180,000 miles of wire in America,
(North and South ;) 460,000 miles in Europe
and Northern Asia ; 14,000 in India, and 10,000
in Australia. It is also estimated that
additional lines are now being constructed at
the rate of one hundred thousand miles per
year. The total length at present is 684,000
miles, and, at the above rate of increase, it
cannot be many years before nearly all communications
will be made by telegraph, and
as cheaply as they were conducted twenty
years ago by mail.
Telegraphic messages are becoming
very popular in Great Britaiu as a means of
rapid communication between private individuals.
From statements made in Parliament,
a short time ago, it appears that the system of
twenty-five cent messages, adopted when the
British Government took possession of the
telegraph lines, is working satisfactorily, the
offices being overwhelmed with messages, and
from 810,000 to $15,000 a week being earned
ever the corresponding week of last year. It
is under consideration whether a system of
twelve cent telegrams could not be adopted,
and it is believed that the plan will be put in
operation as soon as the lines are sufficiently
extended to accommodate the anticipated increase
of messages.
The census office furnishes the following
statistics of homicide for the year ending in
May: Alabama, 100; Arkansas, 76; Arizona,
44 ; Colorado, 45; California, 47 ; Connecticut,
6 ; Delaware, 4; Dakota, 4; District of
Columbia, 13; Florida, 44; Georgia, 116;
Idaho, 2; Illinois, 56; Iudiaua, 32; Iowa, 24;
Kansas, 42; Kentucky, 13; Louisiana, 128;
Maine, 7; Maryland, 20; Massachusetts, 22;
Michigan, 11; Minnesota, 5; Mississippi, 89 ;
Missouri, 94; Montana, 37; Nebraska, 9;
Nevada, 19; New Hampshire, 1; New Mexico,
54; New Jersey, 5; New York, 70; North
Carolina, 48; Ohio, 61; Oregon 5; Pennsylvania,
55; Rhode Island, 5; South Carolina,
37; Tennessee, 117; Texas, 323; Utah, 1;
Vermont, none ; Virginia, 73 ; West Virginia,
9; Wisconsin, 10 ; Wyoming, 13. The above
includes 160 killod by Indians.
From all parts of the State we have
very encouraging accounts of the growing sugar
crop of Louisiana. The cane is in splendid
condition and still improving. The crop,
on the whole, is in a better condition than the
most sanguine anticipated early in the season,
and should the latter portion of the year be
favorable for cutting and grinding, our State
will turn out a crop something like those of
ante bellum times. We do not think that
225,000 is a high estimate of the crop at this
time, though of course the contingencies of the
fall must enter the calculation so far as the
merchant is concerned. If the season continues
as favorable throughout as it has been thus
far, this great staple will be re-instated in its
former position within a very few years. We
have the capacity to produce 1,000,000, and
these Bgures will sooner or later be reached.?
New Orleans Picayune.
It now comes out that when the French
were making enormous purchases of arms in
this country to use against the Germans, Baron
Gerolt, the Prussian Minister at Washington,
secured a fortnight's delay until he
could get instructions from Bismarck. By
putting up twenty per cent, he could have
stopped the entire shipment, and he wanted
to know, also, whether the conduct of our
government in allowing the deportation of
arms was considered to be in good faith toward
a friendly power. The answer came
from Bismarck that he did not care where the
French bought their arms nor who sold them.
As a consequence, some 350,000 rifles were
shipped, mostly Remington's, and Mr. Remington
sold also one hundred batteries of artillery.
He is still delivering twelve hundred
rifles weekly, the contract not having yet expired.
Bismarck's policy seems to have been
to take the guns at nothing a piece from the
French. They were cheaper on the Loire,
than they were in New York.
An extraordinary case was recently be-'
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fore the criminal court of St Louis. A man ,
named Patrick Burns was some time ago convicted
of murd jr in the first degree and sentenced
to be hung, but the Governor of Missouri
commuted his punishment to imprisonment
in the peniveDtiary for ten years. Burns
is in doubt whether to accept the Governor's
grace or not Hanging is soon over; ten j
years in prison is a long time. On the whole, . e
his preferences are for the gibbet; but not! ?
wishing to decide the question hastily, and ; t
i having been aocuslomed of late to rely on le- j
gala. dvice, he has consulted his lawyer, and !
?;ii Ko miidad hv that, individual in making
TT 111 MW gu?-w - w j
up his mind. Feeling strongly inclined to be ;
swung up, Burns was solicitous to know if any ,
legal obstacles stood in his way, inP:onse- j
quence of the Governor's action. He applied ; *
to Judge Prim, of the court which sentenced j *
him, and was gratified to learn from that 13
functionary that the option?rope or prison? I
| rested with the prisoner exclusively. A par- ]
don, or commutation, was in the nature of a ]
deed addressed to the convict, said the judge, ]
j which he has a right to accept or reject. If j
! Burns preferred hanging, the judge would ac- (
| commodate him. ?
Ike ffltMlr (?nquim.'
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THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 7,1871. '
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job pbnmm [
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tion hereafter to job printing than we have
done in the past, we would inform the public
that our office is now well supplied with new
type of the latest styles, and the best machinery
in use; and with a choice stock of
ioks, cards, papers, Ac., we are prepared to
execute as good work as can be done anywhere
in the United States. Orders for
Ball Tickets, Freight Billheads,
Bank Notices, Labels,
Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks,
Bill Heads, Law Briefs,
Business Cards, Letter Circulars,
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Checks, Note Circulars,
Deposit Tickets, Note Headings,
Drafts and Notes, {Programmes,
Envelopes, I Policies, Fire A Life Ins.,
Election Tickets, 'Shinplasters,
Festival Tickets, I Wedding Cards,
will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction
as to quality of work, guaranteed in every
instance. Particular attention given to fine
work in colors.
A. R. PRESBYTERY.
The First Presbytery of the A. R. Church
held its regular Fall meeting at Back Creek
church, Mecklenburg county, N. C., on the
4th instant. The usual routine of business
was transacted. A call from Union and
Neely's Creek churches was presented to the
Rev. C. B. Betts, and by him accepted. The
installation will take place on the Friday before
the first Sabbath iu November. Two
young men, James A. Hunter and G. R.
White were received as students of theology, j
The next meeting of the presbytery will be
at Coddle Creek church, Iredell county N. C., |
on the third Monday of April, 1872. I
FATAL* ACCIDENT. j
^ TIL j l__i. T T W^A floo
VJU 1 nursuay mat, aao. ?j. hwu, mi
ton county, N. C., who was employed as an
agent for the coach factory of Conner, Hobbs
& Dobson, of this place, was proceeding here, ?
he met with two friends, Messrs. Forbis and 1
Hays, and when near the residence of James ?
Hemphill, four miles from town, for amuse- t
ment, they commenced running their horses. 1
While Mr. Wood was endeavoring to check ?
the speed of his horse ' n a sharp curve of the 1
road, his saddle girth broke, causing him to *
I fall against a tree with such force as to crush 1
his leg and fracture his skull. He was im- 1
mediately taken to the residence of Wm. <
Wood, near the scene of the accident, where 1
he died next day. i
THE K. M. MILITARY SCHOOL.
Since the close of the war, this admirable
institution has been under the exclusive control
of Colonel A. Coward, who has steadily
maintained its reputation as one of the best
schools in the country. We are gratified to
learn that after the first of January next, he
will have associated with him, as co-principal.
Col. John P. Thomas, of Columbia, who will
then make Yorkville his home. Col. Thorn- 1
as i9 possessed of the large experience necessary
to the successful management of such an in-i:.....:?
!,/> Vinn'c Mountain Military
SMIUUUU as II1C -IVIt.g a J
School, he having been for a uumber of years
the Superintendent of the State Arsenal Academy
at Columbia. We congratulate Colonel
Coward and the patrons of the school on the 1
happy combination, and our citizens generally
on the fact that Colonel Thomas is to become
a resident of our town.
MORE ATTEMPTS AT ROBBERY. <
During the early part of last week, Andrew
Cathcart, a negro man who resides about
seven miles from Yorkville, near the road i
leading to Charlotte, sold several beeves, for
which it was understood in the neighborhood >
he had received the purchase money. On i'
\ Thursday night last, his house was visited by
two men in disguise, who made a demand i
upon Cathcart's wife for possession of the
money in question. The demand was refused, .
whereupon the villians proceeded to search
the house, but failed to find any money. 1
Failed in their object, they left the premises J
after abusing the inmates and offering them '
other indignities.
nAmnlaint wns made before I
V/U 1' 1 1UOJ ) WUI^/IMIMV ???>W _
Trial Justice Williams, charging John Benfield
and Romulus Hopper, two white men,
with the outrage. A warrant was forthwith 1
issued and placed in the hands of the Sheriff,
who proceeded to the residences of these men
i for the purpose of arresting them. The 1
Sheriff succeeded in arresting Hopper, but
failed to find Benfield. A preliminary exam- <
[ ination disclosed that Hopper was not guilty
j of the charges alleged against him, but that
' he was in possession of facta which implicated i
| John Benfield and James Bennett. The war- i
I rant against him was then withdrawn, and he i
was discharged from custody.
: On the night of the occurrence atCathcart's, i
; two men visited the residence of Miles Wat- i
j son, a negro man who lives on the plantation 1 ]
j of the late Joseph Miller, deceased, about one i ]
; and a half miles from the dwelling of Cath- 1
cart. These men took from the premises a ;
double-barrel gun, and attempted to ravish the , 1
wife of Watson. In defending herself from I i
- - ~ i i *1 ?..t i,
j the designs ot the scounareis, me wumau vuv ; <
! one of them on the arm with an ax, after I
which they left the premises. From facts i
which have since been ascertained, there seems <
to be no doubt but what the persons who vis- j (
ited Watson's house were Bennett and Ben-! t
ield, as it was subsequently ascertained that
Benfield had received, on the night in quesion,
a severe wound in the arm. Warrants
vere issued for the arrest of both these men;
)ut they having fled, have not, up to this
ime, been arrested.
From circumstances that have since tranipired,
it is generally believed that Bennett
md Benfield are the two persons who atteraped
to rob Mr. Luther Tate, several weeks
igo, in the same neighborhood.
PETIT AND GRAND JURORS.
We have been furnished with the subjoined
ist of Petit Jurors drawn on Monday last,
or the term of the Circuit Court which comnences
its sitting at Yorkville on the third
Monday in this month?the 18th :
Perry Witherspoon, Jesse Minnet, T. B.
Barnett, Jack Johnson, Ned Wheeler, E. N.
Davidson, John C. Jackson, Wm. R. Burris,
ETardy Tate, J. J. Biggers, B. F. Boyd, Geo.
&.dams, D. J. Good, Dudley Jones, sr., Jos.
j. Webber, W. J. Kimbrell, S. N. Miller,
Jacob Choat, B. F. Powell, J. M. Smarr, R.
L. Lindsay, Jefferson McCall, ?. M. Scott, Lc oy
Pierce, Larkin Bigger, O. J. Gwinn, J.
L Guy, D. W. Barron, S. D. Carothers, E,
A Crawford, A. F. Fewell.
The Grand Jurors who served at the two
ast terms of the Court, are required by the
Judge to be in attendance at the approaching
ierm. The following embraces the list:
A. E. Hutchinson, Gilly Hambright, D. B
McCarter, R. T. May, Thomas McGill, Wal
ter Brian, Primus Ellis, Ella Good, Thomas
B. Neely, Edward Wilson, Joseph N. Steele
rhomas Wright, Geo. Witherspoon, Alien
Workman, John R. Patton, Allen Jones
Nelson Scott, Andy Steele.
THE GREENVILLE COACH FACTORY.
In to-day's paper may be found the adver
tisement of the Greenville Coach Factory, located
at Greenville, S. C.?one of the largesl
manufactories of the kind in the State, if nol
in the South. The establishment has been ir
successful operation for more than thirty-fiv(
years, and during the whole of that period hat
Bnjoyed an enviable reputation. The present
proprietors?Messrs. Gower, Cox A Markley?
are all practical men, fully imbued with the
spirit of progress and the necessity for devel
Dping the resources of our southern country
Their shops are supplied with all the latest im
provements in machinery adapted to theii
business, and with abundant supplies of th<
best materials, they are prepared to compeU
successfully with Northern manufacturers, not
only in prices, but in styles and beauty of fin
isfa. The following paragraph from the En
lerprise, published at Greenville, will give oui
readers an idea of the extensive character oi
the establishment:
"The concern is now conducted with ar
outlay of near $75,000, and employs over sev
snty persons; these, with their families, an
sustained by this truly valuable establishment
The demand for their vehicles was so great
last year that they were more than fifty orders
behind, until spring. They continually
manufacture buggies, rockaways and lighl
four-seat vehicles, of all kinds, both plain and
elegant, and get up to order any style desira
ble. Their carriage repository is a place ot
interest, and those visiting it, are pleased and
delighted. They also raanufecture iron axl?
?%? rnkinl* a ro onfl.
piltUmtlUIl woguus, iui nui\;u luiij uiu sj/u
sially noted in tv:s State, Georgia and Florida
; in this class of vehicles they excel all oth3r
makers. A recent visit over their premises,
fully confirms in our opinion their claims oi
workmanship. Another feature in this establishment.
They keep always on hand large
supplies of material, such as spokes, hubs and
lumber, vast stores of which is half-prepared;
f?art of this is from eight * to ten years old,
therefore, well seasoned aud superior. We
think we have heard one of the proprietors
/alue the contents of the lumber shed at from
$7,000 to $8,000."
MARTIAL *L AW.
As will be seen in our columns to-day, Senitor
Scott, chairman of the ku-klux committee,
has had an interview with President Grant,
ind as the result of the communication which
the chairman submitted to the President, martial
law may be declared at an early day in
leveral of the upper counties of South Carolina?especially,
the counties of York and
Spartanburg. At our present advices, thu
letter of Senator Scott's has been referred tc
the Attorney-General, who is to take action
concerning the application of the ku-kluts
law upon the statements contaiued therein
ind as soon as that official has made a report,
the proclamation will be issued.
While fully conscious of the futility of anything
we might say upon the subject, we cannot,
on behalf of the good people of Yorl
county, refrain from entering our protest
against such action by the Executive, feeling
fully conscious, as we do, that it is entirel)
unwarranted by the circumstances, and thai
the condition of affairs in our midst has beer
grossly exaggerated. It is not uncharitabh
to say that the witnesses, in many instances
who were examined by the committee in thii
place, overstated facts, and that in their zeal
to make a good case, the majority of the committee,
when they made their report, and Sen
ator Scott, in his recent letter to the President
gave full play to their imaginative faculties
with the view to bolster up the tottering tern
pie of radicalism and strengthen the chance*
of republican success in many of the ap
proaching State elections which are consider
ed doubtful.
Senator Scott insists that from informatior
recently received from this county, he learns
that since the committee were here, "the ku
klux have renewed their deeds of violence
and crime, whipping influential men 'for n(
other cause than their political opinions anc
the color of their skin,' and burning a negr(
school-house." The source of Senator Scott'i
information is, doubtless, better than that en
joyed by others, and no doubt his informants
possess facilities denied the less favored foi
obtaining the news, as is apparent from th<
fact that after the most diligent enquiry we
have been unable to procure any authentie
facts to warant the Senator in his assertion
that deeds of violence and crime have been re
newed.
The statement that a school-house was re
cently burned in this county is erroneous. Ii
is true that a school-house was torn down?
the result of a feud between two rival factions
each one contending for the possession of th<
house in which to conduct a school for color
ed children. As the facts are related to us
it was a matter in which the white citizens o
the neighborhood had no concern, and cer
tainly in which, according to the commor
usage of the meaning, ku-kluxism had noth
iug whatever to do.
We make no attempts to conceal acts o:
violence that may transpire in this section
and invariably publish all authenticated re
ports that reach us; and in another place we
publish an account of two "outrages" perpe
trated in this county within the past week,
We suppose these occurrences will, in due
time, be reported to the astute Senator, whc
is so extremely solicitous for the maintenance
:>f order in York county, as the most ghoetlj
Ui L-iu-v- fT-Qn-ofiipq vet. enacted. But are such
& U'AIUA IIIHguuivw j ww ?
lets confined to York county ??to the Stat*
of South Carolina ??to any Southern State ??
>r, (excuse the comparison) to any State of
he Union ? Bad men are in all communities.
I Robberies and murders are planned and exe(
cuted almost daily in every State; and we
submit that only the most tyrannical spirit
| would prompt the inconvenience and hard;
ship to which a whole community would be
i subjected by the enforcement of military rule
or martial law, simply on account of the conduct
of a few, who would transgress the laws
and evade punishment just as readily were
martial law declared, as they now dp.
We have read somewhere that it is~well for
a man to cast the beam from his own eye be|
before he attempts to pluck the mote from
I the eye of his neighbor. This injunction
! doubtless escaped the attention of Congress
; at the time tlje ku-klux law was enacted, and
i it has certainly passed away from the memory
I of Senator Scott altogether. We would there-*
! fore most resnectfullv suggest to the honora
ble Senator that so soon as his arduous labor>,
of hunting up and collating cases of crime in
South Carolina is concluded, he turn'his'at'
tention to other sections nearer his own proper
bailiwick. His native State,Pennsylvania,
will furnish ample material for the exercise
of his peculiar talent, and should he exhaust
the fertile resources there at his command,
i let him turn his attention to the more'en-'
> lightened New England, and our word for it,'
; he will find a task to which the cleansing of
the Augean stables was a mere circumstance.
; crime in Tew york.^ .
j ) We doubt if there is a city
, which r:ore crime is committed thalR*^ne
i boasted metropolis of America. Hardly a.
> day passes that does not reveal a horrid murder
or some other heinous crime at which the
semi-barbarous would shudder. Two horrors
. are just now agitating the public mind of
. that city, which have their origin in the ne-'
I farious practice of procuring abortions for
\ females who wish to conceal their shame.
! One of these victims, the daughter of a weal>
thy man in New Jersey, lost her life at the
3 hands of one of these child-slayers, and the
t indignation of all New York is justly aroused
at the revelation of the fact that a fee of only
forty dollars had been paid to the practition-'
er. He and his accomplice, a notorious woman,
have been committed to prison for trial,
bail having been refused.
The next case is one of more horrible de^
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> tails. A trims, cnecsea at too xxuubuu hv?
? depot by a woman who had purchased a tickt
et to Chicago, was found, on handling it, to
. contain a corpse, and was immediately ^opened;
. when a hideous spectacle was presented*
Crammed in an ordinaly-sized packing trunk,
f was the nude body cf a young and baaCimul
woman, who, as the physicians affirm, was
, placed in the trunk before life was extinct.
Of course the woman who purchased the tick*
5 et disappeared and no traces of her have yet
been discovered; but by the aid of the dray"
man who hauled the trunk to the depot, the
, perpetrator of the dark deed was soon dist
covered and arrested. He proves to be a no|
torious abortionist named Dr. Rosenzweig,
and the victim of his criminal profession a
f Miss Bowleaby, of New Jersey. The case
1 is now undergoing investigation, and after a
leDgthy trial, by which the sensational papers
. will reap a pecuniay harvest and some of the
. lawyers large fees, we will doubtless hear that
, the guilty practitioner was sentenced to a few
? months in prison, to be released in due course
of time only to resume his nefarious calling.
I ANOTHER RAILROAD FOR YORK. J
' Our live coteraporary, the Chester jfepo'flC,
| in its issue for last week, submits a proposJflra
, for the extension of the King's Mountain
Railroad, from Yorkville to Lincolnton, N.
C., and thence to Hickory Tavern, a town on
the western extension of the North CaroHim
Railroad?altogether a distance of a little less
than sixty miles from Yorkville. Our cotetnporary,
in designating such a route, might
' also have very well included Dallas, as it is
very near to the direct line from this place jto
Lincolnton. The Reporter's suggestion- submits
the narrow-gauge principle as the one on
| which the road should be built. It says:
"TKo rlioton^o fmm TTirlrnrv Tavern to
J Lincolnton
is only twenty miles, along a ridge
* that would require no more grading than the
i line of the King's Mountain Road aid. From
: Lincolnton to Yorkville, the distance is thirty-seven
miles, over a country that, for the
greater part, would require a very little hea^
' grading. The estimate is that a narrow-gauge
road over these fifty-seven miles could be
' built and equipped for seven thousand 'dollars
per mile. By getting the stock-holders of the
: King's Mountain Railroad interested in this
I scheme, and consolidating with a new corap^?
ny to be now organized, the track of the
' King's Mountain could, at a very little cost,
be changed to the narrow-gauge. For the
^ accomplishment of such a scheme, it would
' be the policy of Chester to do her utmost
) We must have an outlet in some direction, if
t wo expect ever to add materially to the pop,
ulation and business of our town. And it is
I a matter in which the county is as much interested
as the town. This road, if completed,
would give direct communication with the
corn growing regions of western North Caro,
lina, and with the fertile valleys of east Tenn,
essee. The immense advantage this would be
. to our cotton planters who buy corn and ba3
con is at once apparent to all. The scheme
jumps with our judgment as being the best
yet proposed for making railroad connection
" with western North Carolina, and we hope
our people will give it more than a passing
i thought."
3 If Chester, situated on a first-class railroad
- line, is interested in such a project, it seems to
) our humble view that Yorkville and vicinity,
> and the country contiguous to the proposed
I 'route, should be more so. DependenF^pSp
) now are wholly upon the Charlotte, Columbia
3 and Augusta Railroad, for railroad inter
course with the outside world, and subject to
3 the onerous taxes and unjust d criminations
r it has not scrupled to impose upon our transi
portation, it behooves us to cast about for the
i means of helping ourselves. Any such scheme
J as the Reporter suggests should command
i our attention, and if upon investigation it is
J A ^ _ J ? - Vvly-i on/1 o/lronfofWL
(l^inuusiruitju tu) pmutiwui^ ouu auTuuwgv
ous, let us go about it at once and have such
- a road. A railroad over the proposed route
t would?
1. Give us two lines for the shipment of
, our produce, and the option of which ever
5 would take it for the least money.
2. It would tap the grain-growing regions
, of North Carolina and East Tennessee, and
f afford to the whole State, as well as ourselves,
- the boon so long and hopelessly sought through
i the Blue Ridge Railroad.
3. It would compensate the people of York
for the loss of the Air-Line Railroad, by tagf
ping it at an easy point of access to Charlotte.
, 4. It would give us the communication with
- Shelby, Morganton and Rutherford, sought
? in the proposition last year, for the direct ex
tension of the King's Mountain road to Mor.
j ganton, and at vastly less expense.
! j 5. Its natural direction would carry it
?i through a country rich in cotton, woolen,
s paper and iron manufactures, and afford our
' j farmers, mechanics and merchants all the adi
vantages to be derived from a mercantile coni
tact with such desirable points.
? - 1 i _1
j We look upon the advantages to De aerivea
' | in the way of cheapening freights from this
! point northward, by having a shorter line to
I
connect us with the North Carolina roads, as
of the most important character. As to the
practicability of such a road, we can perceive ; i
but one obstacle; and that lies in the tardiness
of our people to take hold of such enterprises
and work them op successfully. York alone
is able to build such a road out of her own
capital, upon the economic principle of the!
narrow-gauge, if her people attach the irupor-1
tapce to it tne enterprise merits.
1 ' It is estimated that a narrow-gauge road of J
this length can be built and equipped at $7000
per mile, which, for a length of sixty miles,
would cost $420,000. One half of this amount
subscribed in cash, would give the company a
credit on its bonds for a sum sufficient for its j
completion. The present road bed of the
Kind's Mountain Railroad could be adjusted !
to the narrow-gauge at a cost of less than !
$5000. The sale of its broad gauge engines
and rolling stock would furnish nearly the
same quantity of narrow-gauge rolling stock
for the new company, if the stock-holders of
the present road were to think proper to consolidate
with a new enterprise of this character.
If there is any merit in this proposition, let
our people act for themselves and look about
for the means to develop it
A DESTRUCTIVE STORM.
A gentleman of this place has placed at our
disposal for publication, the subjoined letter
received a few days ago from a relation at
limestone (Springs, in Spartanburg county.
tTlte letter is dated August 27th: '
r "One of the most terrible and destructive
storms, or cyclones, passed through our neighborhood
on yesterday morning about nine
o'clock, that has ever been witnessed in
our community. It did not, however, pass
very near to us. The farthest point south,
that we have heard from, is Mr. Obediah
Tate's, in Union county, about six miles from
us. It is decribed by eye witnesses as moving
in a due north course, by Isaac Peeler's,
thence to Maynus Coyle's, blowing down
every log of his house, and the chimney to
within two feet of the ground?piling the timbers
in every direction, and carrying some of
the logs from one hundred to a hundred and
fifty yards. Mr. Coyle was badly hurt by the
timbers, and his daughter was dangerously
mashed and bruised?a heavy cupboard falling
upon her when the house was blown
down. The next we hear of it in its course
was at Pinckney Cole's, below Mr. T. Service's.
It blew his house down and injured his wife
and Btep-daughter, though not seriously. The
next place in its track was Mr. Samuel S.
Roes'. - It appears only to have struck one
corner of his main dwelling, and did not prostrate
it, but unroofed four or five negro houses,
upset his corn-crib and stables, sweeping
garden and fences and everything in its track,
which is generally said to not have exceeded
seventy-five or eighty yards in breadth. Mr.
Ross says he saw it coming and observed it
very particularly. He says it was a most
terrific spectacle, and he saw it when it struck
the "Drummer Mountain," which appeared
to check its progress for a short time; but
very soon on it came, the elements filled with
its wreck! Large tree tops and everything
elBe in its course was flying in the air; clouus
were seen, in funnel shape, hurling and wreathing?sometimes
one end up and then the other.
He ran into the house and fastened the
doors to keep the wind out, and expected the
house to be blown down, but as I have already
said, it did not strike it fairly; but he felt it
quiver very sensibly. In a moment almost
it was perfectly calm ; and what appears singular,
there was not a drop of rain with it,
though we had rain about that time. I could
sive more particulars but have not time."
A TRANSPARENT FORGERY.
wTb^ New York Herald, of 4 repent ^iate
publishes what purports to be a pamphlet entitled
"Concession; or, How the Lost Cause
may be Regained and the Independence of
the South Secured." The Herald also publishes
in connection with the pamphlet a pretended
"strictly confidential" circular, which
is dated "Rooms of the Southern Association,
New York, August, 1871." With the very
virtuous innocence and artlessness which characterize
all the Herald'# sensations, it professes
to know nothing more about the mysterious
pamphlet, though it gives an epitome of
the document, which may be embraced in the
following words:
"The pamphlet is divided into three parts.
Part first is a compact, double-distilled Southern
argument, intended to show that 'we, the
people of the South, are a nation, different
and distinct from the people of the North,'
and that 'no effort to bmd us together by force
can succeed,' and that at best 'such a union
can only be temporary.' Part second enters
npon the main question, 'how the lost cause
may be regained,' and says that to this end
'the first step is to turn back forever upon the
venal, hypocritical, false-hearted, Yankee new
departure Democracy of the North,' because,
intent only upon the spoils of office, 'they
have ever deluded and deceived us.' Next,
'concentrate all your attention and energies
upon your own domestic political affairs,' and
then, men of the South, having cleared the
track, you have only to do three things to secure
your independence, viz:
First?Secure the complete control, through
the ballot-box, of the local government of
every fjuthern State.
Second?When this is done call a convention
of the States and elect' a President for
your Southern Confederacy.
Third?Appoint a commission to Washingington
to demand your independence, and
treat for a peaceable separation."
The Herald then proceeds to comment upon
its imaginary pamphlet in the following manner,
of which one paragraph will suffice:
"Whence cometh this extraordinary revolutionary
document ? You may call it madness
; 'but there is method in it' It is concessionist,
and yet it is secessionist. It preaches
concession in order to earn secession, and,
sticking a pin here, we tnink there is something
in it. We are informed, in the circular
letter, that this Southern programme of independence
was 'prepared by one of the most
distinguished of Georgia's statesmen.' This
means, we suspect, that Mr. A. H. Stephens
on one? unnn fhia assiimnt.inn WA Can I
lO I'll VJ UJWU | IU1U U|#VII VM>U
account for the establishment of the new
Southern rights paper at Atlanta, of which he
is the political editor, and in which his whole
heart is devoted to a Southern repudiation of
the Northern Democracy on their'new departure.'
And to strengthen this opinion that
Mr. Stephens is the author of this pamphlet,
we are told in it (Part Second) that 'that
glorious banner, which was so sadly furled at
Appomattox, will once more fly freely from
the Capitol at Richmond, and he who of
right out to sit there (Jeff. Davis, of course,)
to preside over our destiny, will be recalled
from his his retirement, amid the rejoicings of
a redeemed people'"
While such absurdities answer the purposes
of the Herald in making political capital
to the detriment of the South, and in gratify iog
the pruriency of its morbid readers, surely
the intelligent people even of the prejudiced
North cannot longer be gulled and misled by
such deceptions. It is reported that Presi- j
dent Grant recently said at Long Branch, j
when speaking of the recent treaty with Eng- i
land, that he feared another war with the!
South, and hence his great desire for peace j
? * % I . M 1 '
with that power. It is extremely douottui j
that Grant made such an utterance, and if he j
did, he only reudered himself an object of1
ridicule to all the world, while he spoke what j
he knew to be false. To attempt to argue !
that the South has no desire to revive any of'
the dead questions of the past, or as the Pres* J
ident would put it, to go again to "war," I
would be to dignify such puerility with an
importance more ridiculous even than the authors
of the mischievous stories.
?
STATE ITEMS.
? Columbia has a brick-making machine
which turns out 60,000 a day.
? Mr. Phillip Walker, aged 86 years, died
in Chester on the 23rd ultimo.
? A mad dog was killed in Charleston one
day tot-week. - < ?
? The Enterprise says it is fully expected
that the Air-Line Railroad will be completed
to Greenville by next February.
? Governor Scott returned to Columbia on
i . a? __ ? ,1,0
Saturday jasi, ironi an encuucu wm m
West.
? Mr. Wra. E. Johnson, for many years
President of the Bank of Camden, died at his
residence in that place, on Sunday last
? The residence of Dr. J. J. Bannon, of
Barnwell, was accidentally burned down on
Tuesday of last week. Insured for $1600.
? B. Byas, a member of the South Carolina
Legislature, has been attending school at
Washington during the vacation.
? The Columbia oil mills were sold at
auction on Monday last, under a foreclosure
of mortgage for $19,500.
? The troops formerly stationed in Charleston
have moved to Summerville, in consequence
of the prevalence of the yellow fever
in the city.
? Owing to the number of persons who
have left Charleston in consequence of the
yellow fever, the hotels in Columbia are all
full.
? From advance sheets of the census, it
appears that the present population of South
Carolina is 705,606, classed as follows: Whites
289,667 ; Colored 415,814 ; Indians 124 ;
Chinese 1.
? The Greenville Mountaineer says that
Rev. B. Manly, D. D., has accepted the presidency
of the Georgetown (Ky.) College, and
will soon remove thither. Dr. Manly has
been a professor in the Theological Seminary
at Greenville, since its inauguration..
'T'1" loo ma that tho rSdmnR1
A VIWIM* 1?MUQ IMJW> M4V
Savings Bank, in Columbia, has sold the stock
held by that institution in the Charlotte,. Columbia
and Augusta Railroad. It was a large
lot, amounting to nearly 1200 shares. Rumor
has it that, with this purchase, the Pennsylvania
Cent; A bold possession of nearly
10,000 shares?almost a controlling interest
iu the company.
m
NORTH CAROLINA NEW8.
? It is announced that the re-building oi
the Methodist Female College in Greensboroj
has been commenced in earnest
?The authorities of Wilmington are taking
active sanitary measures against the approach
of the yellow fellow in that city.
? The Northern and Atlantic teLgraph
(which will connect Yorkville with the main
line) has commenced operations at Greensboro,
and the gap between that place and Savannah
is being rapidly filled.
? Greensboro has a man in jail who can
swallow live fire coals without squinting, and
do many other marvelous things. There is
also confined there a ventriloquist, sleight of
hand performer and a dancer.
?On Tuesday night of last week a negro
man burglariously entered the dwelling house
of G. Snugg, of Charlotte, but was detected
before accomplishing the object of his visit,
and in his attempt to capture the intruder,
Mr. Snugg received two slight wounds from
ti pistol, t
? The first annual fair of the Western
North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical
Association will be held in Salisbury on October
10th, and continue four days. General
A Wiofl nf Vifmnio f}finorft1 Wa/ip
JLLCLI1 jr XX. f T IOVj Ul f V.VMV.M . ,
Hampton, of South Carolina, General R. B.
Vance, of North Carolina, and other distinguished
gentlemen are expected to be present
?The Hickory Tavern Eagle sayB a serious
accident happened to the stage rnnning
between Asheville and the head of the Western
North Carolina Railroad, on Monday
night of lost week. On crossing the Blue
Ridge the stage was precipitated some hundred
feet down the mountain sides, seriously
injuring a number of the passengers.
? The Raleigh Sentinel says: Sixteen citizens
of Rutherford were brought down here
on the night of the 29th ultimo, charged with
ku-kluxing. A large crowd of negroes were
at the depot to see them, at the hour of 2
o'clock, at night. Federal soldiers were in
attendance, with Carrow and his deputy marshals.
We did not learn why they were
brought here so long before court.
? The Rockingham Observer says that a
German, Andrew Alo, who has been employed
for some time past as a weaver in the Great
Falls Factory, has been missing since Sunday
of last week. When last seen he was in company
with two young men named Farmer.
They were arrested on suspicion, but after examination,
discharged. The factory pond is
to be searched for his body.
? W. A. Smith, President of the N. C.
railroad, says in a card, that the published
assertion that he has been prostrating his road
to Dolitical purposes is not true. He says:
A A * "Application
was made to me by the chairman
of the executive committee of the Newbern
district to charter a train to run from
Raleigh to Goldsboro' on the 29 th of July, the
day of the much talked of riot at Goldsboro.
1 refused peremptorily. No trains were run
during the canvass or the day of election for
or in the interest of either party* I always contending
that railroad affairs should be managed
independent of and free from party and
partizan politics. Passes were not given to
one party more than to the other, and I know
some gentlemen of the opposite party will
bear me out in what I say. Half rate tickets
were sold to persons of each party attending
their "mass meetings," and done so without
regard to party."
+ ?
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Since the adjournment of the Southern
Claims Commission in July last, over three
thousand new applications have been filed at
Washington for compensation for forage and
provisions taken by the Federal array from
Southern loyalists. The special commissioners
are taking testimony in all cases under
three thousand dollars, and will report on the
1st of October, the time when the commission
re-assembles in Washington.
The San Domingo Report has been printed,
and is being sent out from the Executive
Mansion to many government officials and
others. It makes a volume of 300 pages, and
contains several maps.
The Union Executive Republican Committee
is preparing for the great political campaign
of 1872. by sending off in large numbers
Senator Sherman's Columbus "New Departure"
speech ; also, pamphlets on land grants,
allowing homesteads, <fec,, printed in English
and German ; one on national finances, (English
and G erman ;) one on the reci i of the
" it; * ? a
ACpilOllCBU party uxi oiaioi j auu ciuouvijw
tion; the duty of working men, and their relations
to the Republican party; a pamphlet
on the two decades, contrasting ten years' rule
of the Democracy with a like number of years
' of the Republican Administration. Governor
Boutwell's speech will be distributed princi,
pally in Ohio.
! It is claimed that the Government pays
. more to its army pensioners than for the sup|
port of either the army or navy. For the
present year the war appropriation is $30,000,000;
the naval $20,000,000; and for pensions,
$34,500,000. Of the amount appropriated as
pensions, $4,500,000 is for the survivors of
the war of 1812.
I The Washington Chronicle of Friday thus
records the unexpected arrival at Washington
of the rambling "PresidentYesterday
morning the President and General Horace
Porter arrived at the Executive Mansion from
Long Branch, both looking remarkably well.
In the forenoon the President visited the Department
of the Interior, and had a long interview
with the acting Secretary, General
Cowen. He also visited the Post Office Department,
and convened some time with Mr.
Manhall, acting Postmaster General. A
call was also made on Mr. Douglass, Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, with whom the
President had a pleasant chat and a general
talk about reveuue matters. To his office at
the White House were admitted only Senator
Scott, General Sherman, Governor Cooke, and
General Chipman ; but both the sterner and
gentler sex raided him when he appeared on
the front portico to enjoy his Havana, and it
was nearly half an hour before he succeeded
jn freeing himself of them. .
'The Postmaster General re-advertises the
following routes on which contractors have
failed to comply with the terms of their bids:
' Alabama, 81 routes; Texas, 46; Arkansas,
50; Louisiana, 12; and several in Virginia,
1 West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia,
Florida and Mississippi, from January, 1872,
to January, 1875. Bidders are required to
' forward certified check, with bid, for five per
cent of bid on all amounts over five thousand
dollars. The certificate of postmasters will
1 be required in 89 of the more important routes
to insure consideration. Postmasters disregarding
the instructions of the Department
regarding certificates will be subject to immediate
removal.
A special telegram to the Richmond Dis1
patch says: It seems that the idea of issuing a
proclamation declaring martial law in South
' Carolina has been in existence among leading
Radicals for some time. The object is to have
1 some official backing for the hobgoblin stories
which have been strewn broadcast in
Pennsylvania and other doubtful States dur.
ing the present campaign. The hope is, that
with a timely proclamation, declaring martial
law in certain localities South, there will be a
gain of several voters in the rural districts.
The question of issuing the proclamation was
discussed in Cabinet to-day, and according to
the best indications it was agreed to issue one
as early as possible.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
J. W. Avery?New Goods.
H. K. Roberts, Clerk of Board?Bridge Proposals.
M. Jones, Agent?Miracles of Enterprise.
J. 8. R. Thomson, Assignee?In Bankruptcy?
Dividend Meeting and Application ibr tfnal
Discharge?In the Matter of H. W. Wilson.
I R. H. Glenn, 8. Y. C.?Sheriff's saies?Joage 01
Probate'8 Sale.
Kinsman A Howell?Factors and Commission
Merchants.
W. E. Rose, Proprietor?Roee's Hotel.
J. P. Hood?No more Goods on Time.
! R. C. Sbiver A Co., Colombia, S. C.?Wholesale
and Jobbing Goods.
Gower, Cox A Markley?The Grernville Coach
Factory.
' Sam'l B. Hall, Judge of Probate?No Joe to the
Heirs-at-Law of W. H. Ward, deceased.
Wm. G. Whilden, Agent, Charleston, S. C.?Dealer
in Watches, Jewelry, Ac. ,
A. Coward, Principal end Proprietor?King'rM.
Military School.
Black Feather Fan Lost.
J. N. Robson, Charleston, S. C.-The "Willis"
Tie.
editorialTnklings.
i Charleston Advertisements.
In to-day's paper may be found the advertisements
of Messrs. W. G. Whilden, J. N.
Robson, and Kinsman & Howell, to which
attention is directed.
Yellow FeTer in Charleston.
The latest advices indicate that the fever
is dying out On Monday the Board of
1 Health reported only three deaths for the two
' preceding days.
The WeitleM Boiler Explosion.
The grand jury of New York have
found bills of indictment for manslaughter in
' the third degree against Jacob Vanderbilt,
President of the Staten Island Ferry Com
" ? a j t
pany, James n. Draisieo, oujwriuusuucuh,
' and Henry Robinson, Engineer. An indict.
ment for manslaughter in the fourth degree
was presented against John K. Matthews,
' United States Inspector of Boilers. The indictment
against Vanderbilt reads, that "he
did wilfully and feloniously neglect and omit
to have a sound boiler and competent enginer,
Ac., on the Westfield." Much importance
is attached to the action of the grand
jury, from the fact that Vanderbilt is one of
the wealthiest men of New York, and it is
probable that this condition of his worldly
estate will cause many to overlook the less
important fact that one hundred and four
persons lost their lives by the disaster, and
that a large number are maimed and crippled
for life.
Another Steamboat Explosion.
A 8team boat explosion occurred near
ri y A OT.U
M.0DU6 on oonuay aiieniuuu, tuc *< ut uiuuiu,
by which some sixty persons were killed or
1 wounded: Of one family of seven persons,
six were lost The captain, engineer, and
pilot were killed. So far, the bodies of nineteen
dead, eight ladies among the number,
have been recovered. The vessel has, fbr
some time, been considered unsafe, and a
criminal responsibility rests somewhere. The
1 boiler was not so much exploded as it was
torn open with a long seam. It is said to
have been perfectly rotten, and that if it had
1 been stronger, so as to explode with greater
violence, the destruction would have been
' greater. The unusually large number of
| boiler explosions which have occurred within
| the past few weeks is certainly evidence of
! great recklessness or culpable negligence on
the part of those having them in charge.
The Mania for Pnblle Meetings.
The mania for public meetings and
conventions for which our free and democrat*
' ~ ? oanma nf Into
I 1C people nave ever uevu uuvcu, o?..?i ? ?w,
| years to be on the increase, albeit their deliberations
are not every time for the public
weal. A case in point is reported from Cheyenne.
In that territory, when anything happens,
the people consider it a duty to hold a
! meeting and pass resolutions upon it The
other day a woman fell into Crow Creek and
sank. A large crowd of people were standing
upon the bank at the time, and they instantly
proceeded to organize a meeting for the purpose
of devising means for rescuing the woman.
After a spirited debate M. A. Arnold
was elected chairman; and, on taking his
' seat, not only thanked the meeting very warm;
ly for the compliment offered him, but made
i a long speech in which he discussed the tariff1,
! the coal product for 1871, and the Alabama
claims. A series of resolutions was then offered,
and after a prolonged discussion, and
i the acceptance of several amendments, they
were passed. They embraced a protest against j
the depth of Crow Creek, regrets that all wo-1
men were not taught to swim, and a resolve
to rescue the particular woman wV> had fallen
overboard. A committee of one was appointed
to dive for her. None of the women
in Cheyenne can hold their breath more than
an hour pt a time, so when this one was recovered
she was dead.
No Troops for the Frontier.
Many of the Western papers find great
fault with Gen. Sherman for distributing the
army so that there are hot troops in the Indian
country to prcperve order there and protect
the settlers against savage outrages. In
this spirit the Cincinnati Enquirer complains
that four companies of infantry are kept in
South Carolina, four in Georgia, three in
I ? J _ * i . _ r
jyiississippi, raree id noriaa,ten in -uouisuuia,
six in Alabama, one in Arkansas, eight in
Tennessee, ten in Kentucky, and forty in
Texas; and that they are there to carry elections
and to overawe Republican conventions,
and ensure the appointment of delegates favorable
to the renomination of Gen. Grant
The New York Sun says the above statement
may be true, and the troops may be scattered
about in the manner specified, but that
it does not include ten companies of infantry,
comprising the whole of the Eighth Regiment,
that have been kept on David's Island near
New York for a year or more. The Sun says
there is no use for these troops in New York,
and will not be any until the approaching
State Convention on the 27th instant, when
Horace Greeley, Reuben E. Fen ton, B. F.
Merritt and their friends propose to take tr *" "
part in the proceedings. As these gentlemen
are believed to be opposed to Grant's renomination
it may be thought best to have a military
force there to prevent trouble by keeping
them out of the Convention. Though by way
of admonition the Sun suggests that when this
arrangement is tried at Syracuse, Grant will
do well not to limit the armed force to two
companies and two Gatlin guns, as he did at
New Orleans. The Republicans ofNew York,
it intimates, are a harder set of men to put
down than those of Louisiana.
Words Fitly Spokea.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
(Republican) has the following frank and
just remarks upon the proposed declaration
of martial law in South Carolina:
"That there should be any necessity for
martial law in South Carolina is a most tell
j , Ai ./ iL. _~i: ?i
lug uuuueuiuBUuu vi uia jiuiivj ui r ouoim
interference in the internal affiurs of that
State, and of the malignant influence of carpet-bag
government No better evidence is
needed to show that the men foisted upon the
people by violence or chicanery are as incom- J
petenfc as they are corrupt South Carolina M
is as much under the heel of political dema- fl
gogues as France in the days of Louis XIV. a
was under the heel of political despotism. *
Can she be blamed, when patienoe ceases to
bea virtue, for resorting to unwarrantable
means to get rid of the vampires who are sacking
the very life-blood out of her? We tell
you, Mr. President, if you must use bayonets,
that their points should be turned against the
scoundrels who have produced this state of affairs,
and not against the people. Depend
upon it, the mass of the people are right?it
is the plundering politicians only who are
wrong.
Fresh Texas Beef in Philadelphia*
The arrival in Philadelphia a few days
since of a vessel direct from Texas laden with
fresh beef, brought under a patent refrigerating
process, created quite an excitement in
that city. The butchers, however, would not
purchase the cargo, and consequently, the
owners gave notice that beef as fresh and
.firm and sweet as the moat daiafa^yiotito'?*
could ask, would be sold at retail on board
their vessel at five to fifteen cents per pound.
When it became known that fresh Texas beef
was selling on the steamer at half the rates
charged in the street markets, a great rush of
people of all colors was at once made to take
advantage of the rare opportnnity. Captain
Townsend at once transformed a portion of
the fore-deck into a well-appointed meatstand,
and secured a corps of carvers to attend
to the host of customers constantly pressing
forward for the cheap Texas beef. The
scene was an iui/c resting uuw. xwvu ww jiwi
crowded forward to be served, calling for
quantities from a pound to a quarter, and
while waiting were prolific in their encomiums
upon its good quality and its cheapness, and
their riddance from the "butcher monopoly"
which they were compelled to support for so
long a time.
The Philadelphia North American devotes
an editorial column to a history of the enterprise
and the plan for its future prosecution.
It says: i ,7
"lie refrigerating process involved is a
patent, and has worked with the utmost satisfaction.
The meat is sweet and tender and
juicy, and wants only in those characteristics
that belong to stalhfed or highly prepared
animals that are sought by ooonoisseurs at extreme
prices. Those used were an average of
interior herds. The bides and horns were
sent on the same ship with the carcasses, on
deck, and found ready sale at private terms.
The temperature there, when killed, was 85
degrees. As the first shipment was in its nature
experimental, nearly a week was allowed
to elapse before an organized effort was made
to market it This it is calculated would remove
anv Dreiudice that existed, or show the
failure of t?e enterprise decisively. The point
is settled, and it is so settled that while this
beef has been disposed of at between five and
fifteen cents, according to quality, we may
look forward to sales at still lower prices.
Now large receiving; refrigerators will be built
there and here. Philadelphia butchers will
leave here on the return trip. An United
States inspector will be sent oat to certify the ^
quality of the meat. The cattle will bo grain* ' ~ ~
fed on their reoeipt before being butchered,
the poorer portions salted, and only the beet
shipped. And the ship running between the
great refrigerators will not be detained at
either port. It is intended to add mutton to
the cargo, and to bring red fish, red snapper,
pompano and other choice varieties of fish.
And should the demand warrant, the endless
oyster-filled bayoosof Baratariaand thewhole
coast, and the countless flocks of ducks that
waste along the streams of Southeastern Texas,
where they can be, and are, killed by the
boat load, will also be sent forward. The
next cargo is to be expected in about fortyfive
days from the day of departure here. It
may be sold by the cargo on arrival, or stored
and retailed to large dealers. It will not be
retailed again as in this instance."
About to Spring.?The telegram in our
yesterday's paper showed that the tiger of the
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Government was preparing w spring air OUUtU
Carolina. That poor State?the object of
the sympathy and coram iteration of every
intelligent and considerate person?a raonuraent
of misgovernment ana persecution?is
to be struck st to inspire the "wholesome
alarm" spoken of by Radicals throughout the
South. That is, to fill the southern public
mind with dismay and restrain the southern
people from opposition to the war party now
in power.
Martial law is to be declared in oertain districts.
What do those who declared that the
ku-klux law gave no such power to the President
say to that ? The chairman of the Committee
to Investigate "Southern Outrages"
suggests to the President the propriety of this
measure. He understands what is authorized
by the ku-klux law, and so does Gen. Grant,
not that he is a lawyer, but that he knows
what powers he asked Congress to give him,
| and that was one of them.
Poor South Carolina! Her case cannot