Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.?craps and <fad5. It is said that the small-pox now raging in Philadelphia was brought there in bales of buffalo robes taken from the Piegan Indians. A malignant and fatal disease closely resembling yellow fever, is prevailing at Gainesville, Florida. Two carrier pigeons arrived in Mountclair, N. J., recently, from a distance of 1,004 and 1,500 miles. The first made the journey at the rate of 196 miles an hour, and the other 202 miles an hour. In Harrison county, Indiana, when the "regulars" want a man to leave the neighborhood, they leave a bundle of switches at his door. This ominious warning is immediately V* oo/] IICCUCU* A French chemist recommends grinding tea like coffee before pouring hot water upon it. He asserts that by this process it will be made to yield double the amount of exhilarating qualities. The New York World perpetrates this: "The little error in the President's South Carolina ku klux proclamation arose from his thinking that marrin' meant union. His long residence in Illinois ought to have taught him better. "A girl of the period" commeuts thus on Mormonism: "How absurd; four or?five wives for one man, when the fact is each woman in these times ought to have four or five husbands. It would take about that number to support me decently." A Richmond-womau voted last week. Her ballot was deposited with this endorsement: "By the Constitution of the United States, I, Sirs. A. Whitehead Bodeker have a right to give my vote at this election, and in vindication of it drop this vote in the ballotbox." ?1? That was a palpable hit made by Secretary Belknap in reply to a newspaper iuterviewer who had the bad taste to ask what would become of the army during General Sherman's absence. The Secretary said he thought the newspaper men could manage it, with a little help from him. The agricultural department at Washington is p-eparing seeds seasonable for the South. A supply may be obtained by application to the'agents of the department or through the members of Congress. The distribution is gratuitous, the onlv condition im/ > .1. _1 J_ ...Ml poseu is inai wie seeus win um ltc umiui. A clergyman at Council Bluff, Iowa, has made a new departure in the matter of "hitching up*' folks. He has swept away the old established rules of marrying for fees, and announces that he shall hereafter marry by weight, charging four cents per pound for the happy man, and two cents for the bride. ?-y- The town of Liadei?, in Marengo county, Alabama, has recently been threatened with serious disturbances by negroes, armed and organized. Their leaders have been arrested and lodged in jail by the sheriff, aided by the Federal troops, and all has since been quiet. The Republican majority for Governor in Minnesota is simmered down, by the official returns, to thirteen hundred. There appears to be s small remnant, at least, of the I)emocratic party in that State, where the Rads used to count their majorities by the many thousands. A German farmer, who had brought eggs to market, not finding them meeting with as ready sale as he could wish, and hearing them calling out: "Fresh potatoes from Ireland," thought that a similar recomendation would improve the sale of his eggs, and therefore called out: "Fresh eggs from Ireland !" An English farmer possesses a novelty ' in the shape of a cow with a woden leg. The animal having lamed one of her hind legs, ' a skilful veterinary surgeon tried the experiment of amputation. The operation was successful. A wooden leg was provided, and the cow walkes about very comfortably. The Knoxville Press and Herald coutains a letter from A. B. Watkins, of Brooks county, Ga., to Major D. A. Carpenter, of that city, stating that a lady of Brooks counts kod hre>n onmnletelv cured of a cancer on V """ '? 1 j her right cheek, of eighteen year's standing, by applying a decoction of clover twice a day, and drinking a quart of the decoction each day. A New York correspondent writes under date of the 10th instant: "About the 20th of this month there will be a conference in New York ofas many leading Democratic politicians as.can be got together from different sections of the country, to compare notes and takes counsel together with reference to the present position and future course of their party with particular reference to concert of action in the coming Presidential election." While the editor of the New York Sun was assistant Secretary of State under Mr. Stanton, he rendered General Grant a service, of which he reminds him in answering a charge that he was personally hostile to the President. He says: "We have no more personal hostility against General Grant now than we had in 1863, when, at Vicksburg, we saved him from being relieved from his command and sent back to sell sole leather at Galena on a salary of 8800 a year." There is not any room for doubting that the coming winter is to be awfully cold. The prophets all say so, and the man is insane who disputes the prophets. They have found the moss growing thick on the trees, frogs standing on their heads, sunflowers pointing toward the North Pole, grape vines running around poles iustead of up them, and there are a thousand other signs to show that every human being will be frozen as stiff as a chip before February. Brandy is in disgrace at last. For a long time, it maintained a sort of qucusi-respectability, even in the opinion of temperance people, who all conceded to it a medicinal value. Now, however, comes Hall's Journal oj Health, denying it eveu this credit. It asserts that recent extensive experimenis in England have demonstrated it to be worthless as a stimulant; that in a majority of cases, when ^ administered, it actually hastens death. Many people will be sorry to hear such discouraging accounts of au old and esteemed friend. ?=?-A Washington letter-writer thus refers to the burning of the emancipation proclamation of Lincoln: "It is announced that the origiual copy of Lincoln's proclamation, by which the people of the South were robbed of 8400,000,000 worth of property, was consumed in the Chicago fire. It is further stated that this precious document cost the people of Chicago 825,000. Now, can any one tell how the people of Chicago got possession of an original document, which belongs to the archives of the Government, and who got the $25,000?" Reverdy Johnson favors the proposed abandonment by the Democratic party of the ground it has hitherto occupied. He recommends the following policy for adoption by the next National Democratic Convention : "Let the members of the convention place before the country some name which all Conservatives as well as all Democrats can support, and announce, if they declare any political principles, nothing which would be offensive to either conservative Republicans or Democrats Tf this shall be done. I believe that our triumph will be certain, and surely all should unite in labor to that end who value the constitution of the nation, and know the worth of political and civil liberty." Five weeks have elapsed since the great fire, and the citizens of Chicago are now able to look around the ruins in a buisness-like manner, and make a rational estimate of the situation. The Tribune declares that they "have got far enough ahead in the work of rebuilding the city to need no forbearance in a commercial point of view" at the hands of their rival*. They have not much to offer in the way of show# Their architecural exhibition is deeidedly poo." thei.r clothes are shabby, but the same spin?.rema'ns ^at made i the former Chicago what it was. They have | an unimpaired credit in all the markets of the I world, and enlarged and improved experience i i in the way of building cities. The railways j S are as numerous as before the fire, and their . 1 trains are as heavily laden. The harbor is as full of shipping as ever. The merchants are re-established, in less commodious homes indeed, but in such quarters that they will be prepared for the exigencies of the coming sea- -i son. Money is at hand for paying the interest v on the city debt and rebuilding the burned c bridges and public offices. And more than v all, the inhabitants preserve unimpaired their j characteristic energy and self-reliance, and as I the Tribune says, are fully prepared to start N anew, "a trifle crippled, a little hurt, some- 1 what untidy in outward seeming, but with t still unconquered souls." \ jibe fotbrille ^ORKVILLE, S. C.: j THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 23, 1871.! Watch the Figures.?The dale on the "address- j i labol" shows the time to which the subscription is j ! paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers dis- ; continued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that \ ' our terms for subscription, advertising and job- ; j work, are cash, in advance j JOB PRINTING. I Having determined to devote more atten-! tion hereafter to job printing than we have i doue in the past, we would inform the public . j that our office is now well supplied with new : j type of the latest styles, and the best ma- j j : chinery in use; and with a choice stock of1 y inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to j, execute as good work as can be done any-! j where in the Ijnited States. Orders for ( Ball Tickets, (Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, j Labels, Bonds and Coupons, i Law Blanks, ; Bill Hoads, i Law Briefs, Ilnomnoo Puf/lo iT.pHpr f HpPllllirfi I Certificates of Deposit, : Letter Headings, j ] j Certificates of Stock, .Memorandum Billheads j ? | Checks, Note Circulars, i Deposit Tickets, 'NoteHeadings, \ t j Drafts and Notes, Programmes, ; Envelopes, Policies, Fire A Life Ins., j 1 Election Tickets, Shinplasters, t Festival Tickets, Wedding Cards, . will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction 1. as to quality of work, guaranteed in every j r instance. Particular attention given to fine h work in colors. I ^ ! THE YORKVILLE ENQUIRER FOR 1872. i' PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS. i t In accordance with our annual custom at ( i this season of the year, we make our regular j r offering of premiums for clubs, and at a future |s day will announce the attractions we have in j j store for the readers of the Enquirer next! t ! year. J ^ We offer three premiums for the three larg-: J i est clubs of subscribers for the year 1872, j f | amounting in the aggregate to Seventy-five , t j Dollars. : "j The first premium will represent the value c of Thirty-Five Dollars ; the second, the i j value of Twenty-Five Dollars ; and the i ! third, the value of Fifteen Dollars. I The proprietor, instead of designating cer: * tain articles as nrefciums, has adopted the ; above plan, in order that persons who secure j | the premiums may select any article that may i j be preferred of the value to which each may \ ( j be entitled. j | The person getting up the largest Club, at j i S2.50 for each subscriber, will be entitled to ; ! the first of the above premiums; the person j1 j getting up the second largest, to the second I ? I premium, and the person getting up the third j g j largest, to the third premium. Competitors f I may begin to procure subscribers at once?the j j time of subscription to commence whenever t the name is handed in, or, on the first of Jan- ^ ! f j uary, 1872, as may be preferred. The money ^ for each subscriber is expected to be paid i whenever the name is entered on our books, i1 , and no name will be entered in competition ' * : until it is paid for. To persons who make up Clubs of ten or j t | more names, but who may fail to obtain a pre-! ( j mium, we will send the Enquirer one year ; I | free of charge; and to those who send a Club j1 | of twenty or more names, but who may fail to : j I get a premium, we will forward a copy of the j J j Enquirer one year free of charge, and a copy i {of the Rural Carolinian and the Southern i 1 ' ; Cultivator, or a copy of the Enquirer and j1 either Gody's Lady's Book, Peterson's Maga- i i zine, Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine, or any j i weekly newspaper published in the United | i States. I ^ The premiums will be awarded to the sue- j g j cessful competitors at one o'clock, p. ni., on \. j fc ; the first Monday in March, 1872. I f ? | THE MILITARY PRISONERS. i 11 ,i Since our last report, the following persons Viovo hoon nrrpstpd : J. T. O'Farrell, Win. Lowry, A. Springs Withers, Bishop Sandifer, ( i E. R. Stewart, Evans Murphy, 1 Josiah Martin, Wra. Montgomery. i.< I Wm. Thomasson, j ] .Mr. O'Farrell was discharged on the same | i day of his arrest; and of those whose names , i ! which have heretofore been published, 0. C. j < I Bearaguard has been released on bail, and the ( j following have been paroled for various peri- j I ods, to report to the officer in charge of the : t ! prison at the expiration of their respective ' ] j paroles: . t i John Rattaree, Samuel Ramsey, 1 R. A. Black, E. F. Bell, j ; Iredell Jones, J. P. Herndon, .r j John Ramsey, Wm. Moss, ' ' Elias Ramsey, R. T. May, j1 j R. K. Seahorn, H. H. Sherer, , ! J. W. Dobson, S, J. Harvey. , i I A public examination of the prisoners will;( ; not be had here previous to the sitting of the ( ! Circuit Court in Columbia. Each prisoner , will be served with a copy of the charge or 5 | charges made against him, which papers are t i now being made out as rapidly as possible, and 1 { will at once be given to the men in custody,1 ! which will enable them to make preparation ? i for their approaching trials. ; ( In regard to the removal of the prisoners to ' ? ] Columbia, on application to the authorities :1 ? ' ?* ? i !, i' for information upon tne suojeoi, we icam % I that it has not yet been definitely decided when ! the transfer will be made. None will be re-!1 j moved to Columbia unless indictments may c I be found against them, of which they will re- ] ceive due notice, aod their removal will not 1 then take place until the cases are ready to 1 . come up for trial. A story in circulation to the effect that the t prisoners are to be taken to Columbia hand- ( cuffed, has, we are assured by Colonel Merrill, i i ' no foundation whatever. 1 DEATH OF OLD CITIZENS. Mr. Richard M. Pressley, and Mr. J. Wra. foungblood, old citizens of this county, dial ast week. Both have been in feeble health or several years. ? THE COLUMBIA PH(ENIX. With the issue of last Sunday, the Daily i r*ha:nix was considerably enlarged and other- j vise improved in appearance; and, besides, ontains the salutatory of Col. J. P. Thomas, vho assumes chief control of its editorial demrtraent. Colonel Thomas is a graceful and ; 'igorous writer, and the Phoenix under his! nanagement, will doubtless reflect the senti- ; nents and feelings of the majority of the ; vhite people of the State. THE K. M. MILITARY SCHOOL. In to-day's paper, we publish a card by j vhich it will be seen that the arrangement en-1 ered into sometime ago between Col. Coward md Col. J. P. Thomas for conducting the ving's Mountain Military School, at this , )lace, has been broken up. This result has j >een brought about in consequence of thedis-1 urbed condition of affairs in the up-country, j hese gentlemen believing it impracticable for ; he School to receive sufficient patronage to . ender the proposed combination advisable, i While we regret that this course has been j leemed necessary under the pressure of the events by which we are surrounded, yet we : ire pleased to be able to state that the exer- j jises of the School will be continued under ,he management of Col. Coward, who will )ring to his aid a corps of assistants equal to ill deraauds that may be made on the instituion. THE PAYMENT OF TAXES. The State Auditor publishes a remarkable ; lotice to the tax-payers of the State, inform- j ng them that they will be expected promptly o pay the taxes of 1871, the collection of vhich commenced on Monday last, and that io extension of time will be granted, except n extreme cases, which will only be considered on petition. Of course the taxes must be paid; and we j ^resume those possessed of the means will pay | is cheerfully this year as the first of next.! ^ -1 1'? - -.- -? .r n...iAnnAM C/iAtt in f Vi o nrom. I out lilt; ttCUUU Ul UUVC11IUI ULubb iu vuu jviviu ses?his deception and duplicity?will at,ract the attention of the people. His promse to the tax-payers' convention in reference ;o the postponement of the collection of taxes s fresh in the minds of all; and in addition ,o the correspondence between Col. J. P. Thomas and Gen. M. C. Butler upon the subect, we also reproduce the following extract rom the Union, the organ of the Governor, published at Columbia, which is the version jiven by that paper after the revocation of lie Governor's promise: "The Governor did not attempt to compronise these differences of opinion, but simply tated that he thought that the interests of he State, and the convenience of the taxpaysr, would be better subserved by collecting he taxes 'within the time prescribed by law, nz: from the 20th of November to the 15th >f January, arid that the books of the County Treasurers would be accordingly then opened or the receipt of taxes, but'that in the cases of hose who might be unable to pay within ?he prescribed period, he would extend the ime to the first day of March, and that in those 'ases no penalty should attach until that date'" This is an admission that the Governor iromised not to enforce the penalty for nonlaymeut until the first of March; and the E" llowing report of the committee, published the time, and never contradicted, would em to be conclusive evidence of tne Goverior's dissimulation: "The Special Committee directed by the '/inrontir.n to pnnfpr with t.he Governor of he State, in relation to the postponement of he collection of the taxes in November ensung, beg leave to report: "That impressed with the conviction, under he peculiar circumstances of the case, and in view of the fact that the people of the State ire thus called upon to pay the taxes for two eparate years in one, of the justice of the neasure of relief proposed, they have had an nterview with the Governor, who has authorzed them to state to the Convention, that vhile the various offices will be open in November for the reception of the taxes at that time, rom such of the citizens as may be then prepared to pay them, yet that the period for their payment will be extended to the tirst of March, 1872, within which time if payment is made no peualty will attach. T. Y. Simons, Chairman." The paying of taxes, always regarded as he most onerous and burdensome duty of the :itizen, will bear unusually severe upon our people, who are thus compelled to pay two axes the present year ; and we think it would pe but an act of simple justice to a tax-ridden State were the Governor to officially authorize he county treasurers to keep open their books mtil the 1st of March. Then none could pave excuse, and all would have an opportulity to prepare for the payment of their taxes n November of each succeeding year, as provided by the last Legislature. This edict of the Governor, coming so soon ifter the recent bond developments in New fork, presents that affair in an ugly light, to iay the least; and, in the minds of many, jives foundation to the alleged charges of Yaud and over-issue of the bonds of the State, vhich the Governor will find it difficult to emove. statVitems. ? Dr. Win. C. Horlbeck, of Charleston, lied on the 13th. ? Geo. W. Williams, Esq., has returned to Charleston, after a tour of several months in Europe. ?The Newberry Herald of last week, aulounces the death in that town of Mrs. Helen 3'Neall, relict of the late Chief Justice D'Neall. ? The Union Times of last week, announces Lofnllnwinor additional arrest in that county: i Dr. J. N. Moore, Nevil Hawkins, C. Hawkins ind Isaac Trammel. ? We were in error last week in statins: that ;he Legislature would assemble on the 21st. The session commences on Tuesday next, 28th nstant. ? Secretary of State F. L. Cardozo has withdrawn his resignation, which was to take iffect November 1st, until such time as a sucjessor shall have been appointed. ? One hundred and fifty-five horses for the seventh cavalry now statioped in Union, Spar;anburg and Chester counties, arrived in Co-' urabia on Sunday last. ? The Phcenix is advised that Hon. Reverdy j Johnson will arrive in Columbia on to-morrow : >r next day. He has been employed to assist in the defence of the citizens of the State i ,vho may be prosecuted under the Ku-Klux j >r force bill of Congress. ? The Chester Reporter says : "Munroe Wilkes and Thomas Land, colored, bothliviug ! >n Major John W. Wilke's plantation, near 1 Broad River, went out to kill rabbits, one day j astweek. Munroe Wilkes accidentally killed limself." ? The Union gives currency to a report that j he Chapel, beyond the campus of the South i Carolina University in Columbia, is to be put j n condition for the reception of prisoners who ! iave been or may l>e arrested on ku-klux' charges. The clearing out of the same has j been commenced. ? The Columbia Union reports the follow-; ing from Spartanburg: "On Saturday last four men came in voluntarily, and confessed their active connection with the ku-klux or- j der, and gave the names of the members of their Den.* Some of the latter have fled, aud i others will be arrested. Many have been ad-1 mitted to bail, and many more discharged, because nothing except initiation into the order was proved against them. Those who have not actively engaged in perpetrating out-' rages are discharged, though members of the | Klans. The most guilty have as yet not been I reached. The proof will come." ? The Governor, bv proclamation, has de- i clared vacant the offices of county commissioner, to which William T. Thorn, of Spartanburg county, and David Foulk, of Laurens county, were elected, for the reason that j they neglected to qualify in accordance with the law governing such proceedings. ? A negro man was burned to death in j Williamsburg county, last week, under some-j what singular circumstances. The man was ! a turpentine hand, and having his clothes be- j smeared with turpentine when he caught on fire, it v/as impossible to put it out. He was almost burned into a crisp, and died very 1 soon. ; ? The Columbia correspondent of the Charleston News says: "All the State officers are now at their posts and basily ?i'nrk PffH paring the annual reports, which it is promised will be printed and rendered to the Leg-' islature on the first day of the session. Many persons having claims against the State, upon presenting the same since the return of State" Treasurer-Parker, have received the reply thar no payments?not even the interest on State bonds?will be made before the collection of taxes, about the 15th proximo." nkorloa .Tutor .T Rinft Rncrprs. Rohflrtr \/?mi>vw vvvv*l v O ' Grier, John Bevis, Harrison Hawkins, Edward Hawkins, Robert Hawkins, Isaac McKissick, Jr., WvUiam Bentley, and Richard Parr, the prisoners arrested in Union last week, and taken to Columbia, had an examination before the United States Commissioner on Friday last. They were all remanded to, jail to await the action of the Grand Jury at the term of the United States Circuit Court which convenes on Monday next. One of the witnesses, a negro named Major Palmer, swore positively that he recognized all of the parties as some of those who were engaged in both of the lynchings at Union county jail last winter, he being a prisoner in the jail aL the time. ? The Union Times of last week says: "The result of the present state of affairs in this county will inevitably bring great suffering and want upon the colored people next year. Already, in consequence of arrests and flights, a sufficient number of white land owners and > employers have left farms whereon at least two hundred laborers are employed this year^ These farms will not be cultivated next year, while all the necessary animals, implements, &c., employed upon them must be sold out of the county, for but few in it will be able to buy them. Without horses or mules, implements i or food, and with no money or credit to buy j these indispensibles for making a crop, the ne-1 groes will be compelled to resort to one of two ! plans, robbing and stealing, or leave the coungj ty. The food crop of this county, in gregate, is not sufficient to last over and as the negroes own but a very of it, w? cannot s^e pie are to do. Truly will they say^^^H^J from our friends." ?The Union Times, of last week, in to the appointments made of County officera^ says : "We doubt much if a better qualified" man could be found in Union, to fill the office of Probate Judge, than Mr. Young. He is a responsible and honorable man and has had much experience in the duties that will devolve upon him. Mr. Utley is an intelligent and energetic man, who has been for some years actively engaged in developing the 'West Gold Mine' of this county. Jas. H. Vinson is well known in Union and was one of the meu elected by the people under the Governor's proclamation. W. B. Farr is also well known in this county as an industrious and gentlemanly colored man; greatly esteemed by all the people. He is also a man of integrity and we think the most intelligent colored man in the county. All of them will make good officers, and do their duties fea?-^ lessly, faithfully and honestly. We hope the Commissioners will go to work at once and get the county out of the vexatious tangle it; is now in. It will be our pleasure to aid and cheer them. In these appointments the Gov-! ernor has evidently succeeded in pleasing the people, and he cannot be complained of by his party." ? NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Prof. Phillips, of Davidson College, is lying dangerously ill. ? There are now over forty ku-klux prisoners in the jail of Rutherford county. ? The Sheriff of Mecklenburg settled with the State treasurer last week, paying into the treasury the sum of $24,234.73. ? David Schenck, of Lincolnton, was summoned last Sunday to appear before the kuklux Committee in Washington. ? Wilson county claims to be the banner cotton county of the South. It has taken the first, second and third premiums for the finest staple of upland cotton at the St. Louis Fair, j ? A woman's rights association Js to km formed in Raleigh. ? Miss Sue Dimraock, a young lady of North Carolina, recently graduated from theMedical University of Zurith, one of the highest medical schools of the world. mi... \fnfk/\r)iot Prntoatont.flnnfflrfinfifi will ? JL lie iUCl/liUUlOV a iuwuvmuw . be held this year at Salem church, Orange 1 county, commencing on the second Saturday of next month. ? It is reported that S. H. Wiley, United j States revenue collector for the seventh, or j Charlotte district, has resigned, and that J. j J. Mott, of Catawba station, has been ap- j pointed to fill the vacancy. ? The adjourned term of the U. S. Circuit j Court commences in Raleigh on the 25th in- i stant, aud the regular term begins on the' Monday following. A large number of ku-! klux cases are pending. ? A heavy storm raged along the sea-coast of North Carolina last week, and it is feared i there was much loss of life and property : among the shipping caught off the dangerous capes. ? In attempting to use the expression, "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," the. printer of the Raleigh Sentinel, gives it a smack of originality by saying, "God tempers the wind to the shore land." He evidently came up from the coast of Ha^eras.. ? The Hickory Station Eagle says that last I week quite a number of the citizens of that j county were summoned to appear at Lincoln- j ton before a U. S. Commissioner, on charges of ku-kluxing, and on reporting there, they were informed by that official that the notices had been served upon them without authority i or without his sanction, and they were accord-1 ly dismissed. Many of these persons had I previously been bound over for their appear-1 ance at the next term of the Circuit Court to be held in Raleigh. ? A correspondent of the Charlotte Demo- \ crai, writing from Wilkesboro, gives the par-1 ticulars of a murder and suicide which occur-. red in Wilkes county last week. A party ! had been engaged in a fox hunt, and after returning to a neighbor's house, some dispute took place between ayoung man named Gray and Wm. Mathis, when they got into an affray. While thus engaged, the father of young Gray ran up and cut the throat of Matnis, irom wnicn ne uiea in a snort time. Gray escaped immediate arrest, but in a day or two after commiting the deed, he cut his own throat, and bled to death in a few hours. ? We learn from the Charlotte Observer that about 2 o'clock on Friday morning last the store of B. Koopman, on north-trade street, was discovered to be on fire; and so rap- j idly did the flames spread that the fire was i not subdued until it had destroyed two other I Hmildings?the stores of James Henderson and j S. Frankford. While the crowd that had * been attracted to the fire, were dispersing, a second alarm was given, when it was found to proceed from the livery stables of Suggs & Co., in rear of the Mansibn House. The -fetftbles were rapidly consumed, and with them one valuable horse; and only by tearing away several adjoining wooden buildings, was a thfc business part of the city ;Bave<r The losses sustained by the various sufferers amount to some $35,000. There seems to be no doubt but these fires were the work of incendiaries ; and the Observer says j-a remarkable fact in connection with them is I that just one year ago a destructive fire oc- j curred within two doors of the building in j which the first fire mentioned above originated. A second incendiary attempt was made on Saturday night, by setting fire to the building of Sprinkle & Bro., near where Koopraan's stood, but it was discovered in time to prevent mischief. ? The following persons from Lincoln county were carried to Raleigh last week by United States Deputy Marshal Bosher, they having failed to give bail for their appearance: James Cody, J. M. Heffler, J. C. Hoyle, T. M. Foster, J. F. Bens, J. A. Lackey, J. C. j Ledford, Filo Jonas, John Barnes, John Jonas, Andrew Sain, Pinckney Wood, Andrew Seigle, James Goodman, P. Z. Baxter, John Staray, Anderson Lingerfelt, Jacob Wilson, David McCowan, H. E. Baxter, T. 0. Lack?ey, Wm. Seigle, Manly Lutze, C. F. Felmont, Ebenezer Newton, David Newton, Sylvanus Workman, J. R. Felmont, John Hope, Christopher Beal, Jonas Finger, Christopher Beal, (No. 2,) Ambrose Keener, Benj. F. Hamlet, Wm. Turner, jr., Perry Carpenter, Robert Carpenter, Wm. Putnam, J. J. Childers, J. F. Black, Dayid Hoyle, "Franklin Beam, fhos. A. Hope, Lafayette Keener, Wm. Lowery and Jacob Cody. * ? ? NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. W. Carroll, Bullock's Creek?Look SharpTurn Back?Don't Read This. -$j. B. Hall, Judge of Probate?Citation?Hosey Hufman, Applicant?John Capps, deceased. Edwin P. Gary, State Auditor?Official. Elizabeth Latta?For Sale. S. B. Iiall, Judgeof Probate?Citation?S. Sadler, Applicant?W. E. Murphy, deceased. S. Alexander, Assignee?Bankrupt Sale of Land, <ke. M. Jones, Deputy Collector?U. S. Internal Revenue Notice. rl'~ I^^Tones, Agent?Wealth?Wonders. Mounted Colt's RepeatingPIstol Lost. Collingwood, Secretary?Southern and AtH^Ll&ntic Telegraph Company. . A: JJoiApany. Charleston, ^^^ WeSouth Caiolina Land and Immigration ^^wAasociation. ^Hudler?To the Public. ^Ktton, Mason & Withers?Cloths and CassiW meres?Money Wanted?Ready-Made Ck>L thing?Woolen Goods?Dress Goods?Hardw wnre?Crockery and Tinware. A. Williford?Notice*. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Kn-Elux in Indiana. On Thursday last, three negroes charged with murdering a family of whites, were taken out of the jail atCharlestown, Indiana, at about 2 o'clock in the morning, by forty persons, masked and disguised, thirty-three of 'whom entered the jail, and the rest stood guard in the streets. The negroes were hung "to the woods, about two miles from the town. The State Bonds. The following is the latest rumor in relation to the over-issue of State bonds by the I State authorities. It is a special dispatch fi;om Columbia to the Charleston News: I "There are rumors on the street that under wery act authorizing the issue of State bonds there has been an over-issue. Rumor states that under the act funding the bills of the Bank of the State there was an over-issue of half a million. It is rumored that under the act of 1868 for the relief of the treasury, there i were^duplicate issues, making an amount doui hie that anticipated by the people. The act | for the conversion of securities, rumor says, is i-even worse. The first issue was from one to | two thousand bonds numbered in red ink. { The second issue, of like amount, was numbered in blue ink, and so on. It is asserted | that parties here are preparing affidavits lookI ing to suits against the persons implicated." j The Blue Ridge Railroad. ! A meeting of the Stockholders of the | Blue Ridge Railroad Company was held in ! Columbia last week. The several officers of ; the road submitted reports, from- which we i understand the affairs of the road to be in a tangled condition. The following Board of r Directors was elected : "Gen. John A. Wagener, Mayor of Charlesi ton ; Henry Gourdin, of Charleston ; Wilt liam J. Magrath, President of South Caroii^First^NattonaP^ank^Charleston ; George S. : Cameron, President South Carolina Loan and Trust Company, Charleston ; Gen. M. C. Buti fer, of Richland ; Gen. M. W. Gary, of Edgefield ; Col. J. S. Cothran, of Abbeville; Wm. B. Gulick, Cashier of National Bank, Colum-1 bia; X J. Patterson, Vice President GreenI ville and Columbia Railroad; J. B. Palmer, j President Central National Bank, Columbia; Gen. J. \V. Harrison, of Anderson; Thomas A. Scott, President of Pennsylvania Railroad Company ; Hardy Solomons, President Loan apd Trust Company, Columbia; T. J. Steers, nf Clnnnaa TTia If. i JJiSljij v/i yuuuwoi Af IV MAvvtavMvj v^wk ?... | Scott, e*-oflBcio. The Corrupt State Governments. The New York Tribune of a late date, has the following paragraph in relation to the corrupt governments which have been fasten^ ed on the Southern States by reconstruction. The Tribune, it must be remembered, is a radical paper: "For months, the developments of rascality in the management of the reconstructed governments of several Southern States have been i growing more and more conclusive. No intelligent man longer doubts that those governments have been flagrantly expensive and corrupt?that they have increased taxation, incurred debt and issued bonds, to an enormous extent. The facts are in part concealed or obscured, but cannot long remain so; enough 1 is already known to justify the very gravest j apprehensions. In the two Carolinas, esjpecially, the robberies appear to have been quite as gigantic, when the relative wealth of the ; respective communities is considered, &9 in j this city. Yet men whom we have esteemed j honest, talk as though all exposure and rep.-' rehension of these villainies should be left to ' ^Democratic journals?that we ought to ignore,! or befog, or belittle them. They represent j such exposure as calculated to damage the | Republican party generally; we hold that, even if this be so, that party will be fur worse damaged by seeking to cover up those iniquities, and thus making them, .to some extent, its own. Let it promptly and fearlessly expose and denounce the criminals, if it would vindicate itself from all complicity in their crimes." The Cotton Crop. The Department of Agriculture, in its report isaped on the 18th instant, furnishes the following in relation to the condition ol the cotton crop in the Southern States: The November returns of the Department of Agriculture relative to the condition and yield of the cotton crop, indicate a larger 1 . .t? ? ??,i pruuuci limn wiu* cajjculcu hi vubuuui, auu promise fully to make good the moderate expectation of July and August. There had been no killing frosts up to the date of these reports. In rich and well cultivated soils ol the lower tier of States, the plant was as green^and vigorous as in summer. In some places the top crop was maturing, though complaints of the immaturity or loss ?f the latter growth, are quite general. In thil latitude of middle Georgia the squares formed between August 25 and September 25, undei favorable circumstances, promised to make good cotton. The principal cause of the reduction of yield in Texas is drought; in Louisiana drought and black rot; in Mississippi, wel weather in spring and drought in summer; and in isolated sections the caterpillar or boll worm; in Florida, driving winds and floods which occasioned nearly a total destruction ol considerable areas. Drought has wrought more or less injury in Alabama, Georgia anc South Carolina. The yield per acre, as indicated by county estimates, is largest in Arkan sas, decreasing in the following order: Texas Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Car olina, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina anc Florida. The more northern belt of cottor estimates shows the least reduction from theii usual average. The tabulations for Novem ber are estimates for each county of the total product of the year, expres?ed as per ceutagej of the actual crop of last year. These avera ges are adjusted with regard to the relative production of the counties reported, and give the following result as the average of eacl: State: North Carolina, 80 per cent.; South Carolina, 68 ; Georgia, 67 ; Florida, 58; A1 abama, 73 ; Mississippi, 72; Louisiana, 65 Texas, 68 ; Arkansas, 85: Tennessee, 90. A few counties in Virginia, Kentucky and Mis souri make the reports of iiuch the same tenoi as the returns from North Carolina and Tennessee. The quality of the fibre is reported good in all sections up to the present date. A very small proportion of discolored or trash) cotton has been gathered; some attention has been paid to improvement in quality, by the introduction of the Peeler and other improved varieties. Many correspondents note the su periority in yield and comparative exemption from disease, under careful culture and judi cious fertilization. Why Bullock Runaway. Mr. Redfield, thespecial correspondenl of the Cincinnati Commercial, in a letter ti his paper from Atlanta, gives the following as the reasons why Governor Bullock, oi Georgia, ranaway, and subsequently resigned his office: I will tell you why Bullock ran away. lit had issued to H. I. Kimball and others all the bonds going to the Macon and Bruuswich Road, over five millions of dollars, while still the road lacked seveity-five miles of being completed. The work is now stopped, and the State has of course been swindled. Kimball ran short of funds and got the Governoi to over-issue the amount of funds due him, sc that he could hypothecate them. He deposited them in New Fork and obtained an advance of sixty cents on the dollar. When the time came for him to redeem he could not dc it, and as the Legislature was about to meet, ihey would be sure to unearth the yrhole thing, Impose theiraud ancT?mpeach Bullock for violating the law. When Kimball failed, Bullook made frantic efforts to get up the money himself, so as to get back 1he bonds and show that Kimball had not been overpaid, but he failed, Some of the lessees of the State Road proposed to help him, but til would not consent tc it when they found the' amount was so large This last, however, is mere rumor. At all events, Bullock failed to raise the wind sufficient to set himself square on the record, and went to New York to see what be could do there. He had his resignation and "address to the people" prepared before he lefl here, but to be kept secret until he found oul what he could do in New York. He failed tc make any arrangement there, and with certain impeachment staring him in the face if h( came back, he let fly his address and resigna tion, and remains away. The conspiracy against him was noue other than a determina tion to impeach him if he had misappropriated the public funds. If this could not have beec proved against him, and a clear case made out, he would not have been impeached. The Democracy of this State are not anxious tc make a martyr of Bullock, and the majority of the .Legislature are not the men to commit I perjuiy to remove an innocent man, especially so when he has only twelve months to serve Not two months ago Bullock told me that the present Legislature was one of the best thai had ever been elected in Georgia; that they were capable and honest, although Democrat ic, and much better representatives of the peo pie than the last one. The notion about f conspiracy against him, and "another attempi at separation," must have entered his head af ter he found out to a certainty that he coulc not replace what he had wrongfully taker from the treasury. The fear that ran Bui lock off was a conscientiousness ol guilt. THE CARPET-BAGGERS. Akerman, after returning from the South informed the President of the excesses anc shameless corruptions and frauds of the car pet-baggers, and expressed the opinion that ii would be necessary for the good of the Re publican party that they, as well as the ku xlux, should be punished. Of prominent Re publicans, Mr. Greeley first called attentioi to these people and their crimes. He boldly charged them with-their vices and frauds, anc criGd out to them : "Go back, thieves." Mr Hughes, of this State, in his late letter on th< subject, said that they had brought disgrace upon the Republican party. The declaration of prominent Republicans show the enormity of the wrongs perpetrated by the carpet-baggers upon the Southern peo pie. Nothing less outrageous tjiap the mps| open and extravagant transgressions and de pravities could have provoked Republic^ leaders to denounce tbera. What have nol the Southern people had to endure from these people ? Mr. Hughes contended that the carpet-bag gsrs had an undue influence at Washington, and that the favor they had received at the lands of the Executive had been damaging fo the Republican cause. It seems that these warning voices have been heard at Washingx>n. The Chronicle (Radical) declares itselJ in favor of conferring Federal offices in the South upon Southern men. It confesses thai it is impolitic to show distrust in the Southern people by confiding the trusts of the government so exclusively to strangers?to the carpet-baggers. This is a tardy confession?very tardy?and too late to do good. After the Southern people have been harrassed to death by these people, it is confessed that they are not as good as they should be, and that possibly there are some Southern people as good as they are, and may be a little better! Indeed ? In this question the Government is not exactly free from embarrassment. The black voters had to be drilled and disciplined with lna miPQ Xro and kent readv tn vote the richt AV-WbV.V~, v?> ?j y ? r-o ? way. Tbeir drill officers had to be upon terms of entire intimacy, with them, aud smartly gifted wjth the art of lying and in the manufacture of cunningly-devised fables, whereby to delude the negro. Jn this occupation they bad in a great degree to cut themselves off from white society for two reasons. First, the , whites despised them for their moan arts and ! i vulgar devices ; and secondly, as they proi fessed to hate the Southern whites, and daily charged them with every sort of oppression and wrong, for consistency sake they had to shun white society. Had the negroes caught i them in such bad company they would have cut loose from them in great indignation. But the carpet-baggers, understanding their trade, ' were guilty of no such folly. We can bear I testimony to the faithful manner in which , | they performed their office of self-degradation and artful deception of the negroes.?Richmond Dispatch. 11 MERE-MENTION. j The new Virginia Legislature will meet on I i the first Monday in December. Two days in the guard house, and bread and water. is what an enthusiastic woman got for r talking about women's rights in Russia. A ( lady advertises in an exchange for the person , who is in the habit of serenading her to stand i nearer to the house so that she can scald 11 him. It is computed that a sewing soci' ety can blast a person's reputation in seven minutes. Five days to prepare for mar,i tial law, and thirty days to prepare for thanks[ giving (?) so says Gen. Grant General . Joseph E. Johnson, is preparing for public* ; tion, a history of his campaigns during the I late war. It is proposed to build the ^' great Southern Pacific Road on the three foot gauge. t WASHINGTON ITEMS. * ?The President has commenced preparing [ his annual message to Congress. It is onlj known that it will be about the sume lengtl . as the one last year. I ? The consolidation of internal revenue dis i tricts has ceased for the present. Every move r raent in this direction that was intended bj I the government has ceased as far as the reve l | nue districts in cities are concerned. Th< .; cost of collecting the revenue in county dis i | tricts exceeds the receipts, and very little wil ; { be done in changing the system applicable U I ; them. The territorial districts are not paying II and the revenue received from them does nol j I come up to the expenditures for collecting th< ' ! same. . ? The Secretary of the National Republicar Committee has issued a call to have a meeting in Washington on the 11th of January to de ' cide when and where the next Presidential ; Convention shall be held. So far as mem( bers of the Committee have been heard from , New York city is favored. | TO THE PUBLIC. ( Columbia, S. C.f November 17, 1871. Is consequence of the blow inflicted upon | the educational and industrial interests of thic Oi-A. I T> !J A n I oiaie oy rresiueui vjrrauLB ujiuuujr jji wccu' t ings in the up-country, the undersigned have abandoned their proposed association in the ) conduct of the King's Mountain Military School, at Yorkville?deeming it unwise, unf der present circumstances, to enter upou a I special expansion of the school. The present Principal and Proprietor will carry on the , school as heretofore. f ASBURY COWARD, ! JOHN P. THOMAS. , The undersigned, in relinquishing bis conj nection with the above enterprise, desires most cordially to commend the King's Mountain . Military School to the support and confidence t of his friends. As a tried and gallant soldier, a christian gentleman, a thorough disciplinarian, and an excellent teacher, Col. Coward if , well known to the State. Singly he is fully | equal to all the demands that may be made upon his school; and the undersigned hopes ' that all those who proposed to entrust tbeii ' ?oys to his chaise will not hesitate to send (hem forwardJA enjoy the benofit of Colonel j Coward's control of their conduct and studies. The undersigned will remain in Columbia Having formed an association in the practice [ of law with James H. Rion, Esa., he will em ( bark in that profession, in combination with the active and earnest journalism in which he is now engaged. JOHN P. THOMAS. | CORRESPONDENCE. Columbia, S. C., November 17,1871. [ Gen. M. C. Butler, late Chairman of the Com t mittee of Eleven, Tax-Payers' Convention. t Sir : You have, doubtless, observed the de ) nial of the promise made by Governor Scot , to the late Tax-Payers' Convention, in refer ? ence to the postponement of the collection o: . the taxes of the State. Be pleased to givi r the public your reply to his said denial. ] . am yours, respectfully, | J. P. THOMAS, Editor of the Phoenix. i ; Columbia, S. C., November 18,1871. 5 Col. J. P. Thomas, Editor of Columbia Phoenix > Dear Sir: Your note of yesterday, calling ' my attention to the denial of the promis* t made by Governor Scott to the late Tax-Pay r ers' Convention, "in reference to the postpone . raent of the payment of the taxes of th< i State," and asking me "to give the public m] - reply to said denial," has been received. r My recollection of that promise is as fol - lows, And if the notes of the stenographs: present at the interview are preserved, I thiol i they will bear me out: t Upon it being represented to Gov. Scott bi ; the committee, that it would be a great hard I ship upon the people to pay two levies in oni i year, especially when farming operations hat - been so disastrous the preceding year, hi promised to postpone the enforcement of pen ; alty for non-payment untrhtlfif 1st of next ! March ; that he would have the tax book, ,1 open, and in the meantime, if any tax-payer 1J felt disposed to pay their taxes, they migh - have the opportunity to do so. t The promise not to enforce the penalty foi non-payment until the 1st of March was clear - reiterated, conclusive and unmistakable. Governor Scott, in assigning a reason for i i change of the time of collection to November r did say that prominent gentlemen in thi I State had recommended a change to the fall o . the year, as a more convenient season for per i sons in some portions of tha State to pay tneii i taxes; but this hod nothing whatever to d( with his promise to postpone the penalty ) which was complete and unqualified. I Such, at least, are my recollections of "th< f>romise" and the interview. Very respectful y, your obedient'seryant. M. C. BUTLER. [ THE GATHESIMTOF TlfE C?ANS. > i The Ooluipbia correspondent of the Char i leston New, writing under date of the 14th instant, says: , The vultures are returning in full force foi ! the winter's campaign, and all sorts of rumors ; are afloat as to the intentions of the dominant s party for the coming season. Govenor Scott, Comptroller-General Neagle and AttorneyF General Chamberlain have, as your readers t are aware, been here some days. Messrs. C, ; j C. Bo wen and P. J. Moses arrived to-day, and i' Treasurer Parker is expected to arrive to j morrow afternoon. The latter officer will ! have for one portion of his rather comfortless i reception the presentation of a mandamus, 1 obtained by State Superintendent Jillson, to j compel him to disburse the money needed for i {the salaries of the school officers and teachers, or show cause for his neglect There are hun: [ dreds more of the minor officers of the State ; who are anxious to see the treasurer in regard ' to their claims for services, but there appears j to be but a small chance of the settlement for some time yet of any of their little bills. I Senator Nash expressed himself strongly ! to-day on the subject of repudiation. He said that the members of his race proposed, if there j were any repudidating.to be done, to strike j first at the old bonds of the State which were i issued, to use his own words, at a time "wfien he was a nigger;" and which were used to help " keen them in bondage by paying the patrol 1 guard, building guardhouses, #c. He said ! he was in favor of paying all the bonds of the j State which had been honestly issued; but if such citizens as were represented by the Tax! payers' Convention were in favor of repudiaI ting the new debt of the State, then his people | proposed to repudiate the old debt. He said, however, that he would not undertake to : forecast the action of the Legislature on this j subject until he had a consultation with his I friendsin the party. TheState officials pooh! pooh the determination of the colored men to I repudiate the bonds, and declare that they j can control all that, and, remembering the j very simple and efficient device by which this Legislature has generally been "controlled" in the past, this seems eminently probable, un- i less, indeed, the supplies of public pelf should be in some way withheld from these State officials for the next two or three months. By the way, this same Nash is a man of great ingenuity fertility of imagination. His ponderous brain is occupied now with a plan for deposing Governor Scott, which is all very well so far as that goes, but he proposes j to substitute Dr. A. G.Mackey, late of Charleston and now of Washington, which reminds one of the frying-pan and fire, King Log and King Stork, and other climacteric similes. If he cannot make him Governor, Mr. Nash is ' quite willing to secure for Dr. Mackey the po1 sition of United States Senator, from this dis trict; but it is almost needless to explain that > both of these schemes are to the last degree , chimerical, for the reasons, among others, that 5 Dr. Mackey is very comfortably established in position at Washington, and that he is not now a citizen of South Carolina. RADICAL REPUDIATION. ? Senators Nash and Wimbush, and the oth.tf colored members of tbe-GeoeraLAssembly who advocate total repudiation or the State debt, have divulged their plans rather earlier * than was expected, but it has been known for some weeks that the leaders among the colored Radicals were ready to seize the first opportunity of wiping out the old and new obligations which now consume, in interest, about six hundred thousand dollars a year of the taxes which the Radical repudiaton do not ' | pay. These people own no Stete bonds, and ) have nothing to lose by refusing to recognize them. But it must not be imagined that they ' have anv reeard for the welfare of the tax paying public. The amount of taxation is } expected to remain the same. But Nash and ' Wirabush and tbeir followers propose to di- \ i vide amongst themselves, under the ibrms of r law, the hundreds of thousands of dollars, in | coin, which now go into the pockets of the holders of State securities. We now know the plans of the Radical re- M ' pudiatore. They may build better than they M t know. But we are confident that we express ? the opinions of the property-holders and tax- ^ payers of the State when we say that they are just as firmly resolved to recognize and pay, whenever they have the power, all legal i claims upon the State, as they are determined ) to refuse and reiect all claims, whatever their nature, which have been fraudulently cons traded. And, right here, we have a word to s say in regard to what is called Repudiation. ' In its conventional sense, in the sense in which . it is understood throughout the civilized world, i Repudiation is the refusal to reoogniee and ; pay a just debt of the individual or of the State. ) Now, in this sense, the taxpayers of South Carolina are not, and never will be, the sopporters of repudiation. They are ready to acknowledge and pay, when they can, every just ? and legal claim, but they positively refuse to - recognize any claim of a fraudulent character. In holding this position the people of South Carolina are no more repndiators than arwtlfe merchants who refuse to pay a forged draft; There is something in a name, after all, and from our stand-point, this taxpaying people, while opposing illegality and fraud in the issue and use of State securities, are not, in the common acceptance of the phrase, ue advocates of reparation. The colored Radicals, whom Nash and Wimbush represent,.are theqply true repudiators ip all South jCarolfria.? <Charleston N*ir?. . ~~ ^ r-?7 * ?' OUR FINANCIAL CRISIS?THE IMMEDfATE REMEDY. We have said that, as soon as possible, we , should indicate our judgment upon tne duty , of the people of South Carolina in this financial emergency. We are fully satisfied that there has been an extensive, fraudulent overissue of State bonds. vThe minimum is about $10,000,000. The maximum may be $30,. 000,000, more or less. What is the immediate remedy ? The patient is ill. The Charleston Courier advises repudiation of the bonds t issued in fraud. The Charleston New says . stop the supplies. The Wiunsboro' News says, f call a convention.' In our judgment, all of 3 these expedients may come in hereafter. At [ present, the expedients proposal fail to meet the case. They are premature. What, then, is the course proper to be pursued? We deem it plain. The Legislature assembles soon. Thomas Jefferson Mackey, we learn, is writing the Governor's message. The plan of ' the ring leaders will be to cover up what has * been done, and to make new issues of bonds. 0 The vultures are now gathering about the ' State House, and the plan is laid for Bowen ' tojoin Whittemore in the Legislature. What , 3 shall be done in view of further bond legisla- I 7 tion ? It is to apply promptly to some South | Carolina Judge?any Judge Melton?/or an " injunction, restraining the Legislature from furr (her bond issues, until we have indemnity and ' explanation for the past, and security for the future. Goto the courts. Let us see if we f have in South Carolina a Judge bold enough " and true enough?like Judge Barnard, of New 3 York?to throw his mantle between a plun1 dered people and a horde of hungry th*'evee 0 and swindlers. Let us, first, try the courts? . ' as has been done in New York with success to t the people and damnation to the Tammany 3 thieves. After this immediate, practical and 3 effective remedy, which will bring forward t persons and papers, we may talk of other matters still left to an outraged people. Our r idea is this: The mad bull of financial rhdi? calism is in the China closet of the State. Some say let us examine him. Some sav lot 1 us starve him. Some say let us ignore him. > We say let us first seize him by thehorns, and 3 then, at our leisure, after we have stopped his ' wild career, we can skin him, cut him up, dis" sect him, and examine the contents of his car pacfous maw. The remedy that wefQg^is } one practical, tenable, discreet and sagaSoos. ? Let us try the one proposed, before essaying avncdienta. In the meantime, nothing 31 will be lost We shall have new 4evelq> ' j meats. Discordant elements are at wort_ ' within the ranks of the conspirators. 'Letos i watch and wait Oar objective point is now to secure the restraining writ of injunction.? Columbia Phoenix, 18th instant. : i CARPET-BAG GOVERNORS. We invite attention to the following frorp the leading Republican journal of the west, i the Chicago Tribune: ; "There is considerable excitement over the condition of the finances of the State of South Carolina. One party asserts that there is an over-issue of at least $13,000,000 of State bonds, making tbe State debt $22,000,000, when even its extravagant administration only authorized a debt of $9,000,000. On tbe other side these assertions are denied officially; but the denial is not accompanied by any intelligent statement of the actual condition of affairs. It is impossible to obtain any information from the discussions now going on in : the South Carolina papers. Everything is marked by intense partisan feeling. Stale- #. | ments and accusations are made by the conI tending factions in tbe most reckless manner, ! and without the least evidence to sustain i them. In Georgia the long and flagitious | rule of Governor Bullock has been brought to a close by his flight and his resignatioq, In what condition he Jeft the State hps not yet been disclosed; but his administration has beep marked by such a continued traffic in State bonds thpt the State, which emerged from the war without any debt, has now an J amopnt of outstanding debt which wi)l not b^^ : paid during this century. f j "Speaking from the records made by ' \ J M _____ mM