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Sf(taps and Jattis. Gov. Smith, of Georgia, has received applications from 35,000 office-seekers. There are 185 tobacco factories in Virginia, of which seventy are in Richmond. Boston has a charity hospital for the cure of corns. Nine million two hundred and fifty thousand bushels of wheat are in store and afloat at Chicago. London, with a population of 3,251,000, has 123,849 paupers, or about one pauper to every twenty-six of the inhabitants. Poraeroy's Democrat humorously says: "Grant for President and Tweed for VicePresident. The one giveth and the other taketh. Blessed be their names." The Atlanta Sun announces the connection of Mr. David Wills, D. D., President of Oglethorpe University, with the editorial corns of that DaDer. A A A The number of deaths in Philadelphia, last week, from small-pox was one hundred and eighty-three, which is a considerable increase over the previous week's report. Thomas A. Scott, President of the Pennsylvania Central railroad, is reported to receive S 150,000 a year as the sura of his united salaries from the different railroads under his control. A Boston physician says he has a patient in charge, married at fourteen, and who at thirty-seven had been the mother of twenty-five living children, and never more than one child at a birth. ' Parties implicated in the New York City King frauds have offered to compromise with four millions. Their prosecutors demand six miliions. A compromise is probable upon the disgorgement of five millions. The Postmaster-General requests that in future the County as well as the post office and State be superscribed udou all letters. circulars, newspapers, <fec., to be forwarded by mail in order that the sorting and distribution of the mail may be facilitated. Pennsylvania has had a genuine case of Ku Kluxing. A little negro boy played some mischievous trick on three Irishmen, and they, in order to seek revenge, caught the little fellow asleep, saturated his clothing with kerosine oil, set fire to them, and literally burnt the boy up alive. At last accounts the Irishmen had not been arrested, but warrants were issued for that purpose. The majority of the congressional Ku Klux Committee having obtained the authority of Congress to print their report, the minority are now vigorously at work getting ready their exhibit. The Democrats who speak without partisan bias on the subject regard the investigation as a drawn battle, the outrages of the Ku Klux being offset by the mismanagement and corruption of the "carpet-bag governments of the Southern States." The New York Tribune, in an interesting article, shows that commercial fertilizers are sixty-five per cent higher in this country than in Liverpool or Hamburg, and that the cause of it is the tariff, which, until a year ago, taxed bone-dust, ammonia, phosphates, &c., twenty-per cent, and which still taxes ill * L j_II ? c-_ suijiuuiiu auiu ov/euLy uuuars per WJU. ou this tariff tax of twenty per cent., when its burden reaches the people, is swelled to a tax of sixty-five per cent. Cincinnati has a retail trade protection agency, the office of which is to collect "little bills" for small tradesmen. In extreme cases, the agency "wagons" a man, the process being to send to the debtor's residence or place of business a gorgeously-painted wagon conspicuously lettered, "Protective Agency?Bad Debts Collected," accompanied by two colectors big enough to deter the mortified victim from attempting personal violence. It is said that a few applications will "fetch, the worst cases. Says the Richmond Enquirer: "President Joseph J. Roberts, recently inaugurated President of Liberia, under the new constitution, is well known in this section of the country. He had a good common education at Fredericksburg, Va., and went to Monrovia in 1829. He was appointed Governor of Liberia by the American Colonization Society in 1841. On the declaration of independence by Liberia in July, 1847, he was elected the Hof rlnnf T *"* 1 LnntMM J III Cls ICOIUCllli XII liaviilg UCt'llllCU re-election, Stephen H. Benson was chosen President. In 1861 Mr Roberts was appointed President of Liberia College. He is a rather tall man, of dignified appearance, and both affable and iuteligent." A Washington telegram of the 11th instant, to the New York Tribune, says:- "It will be remembered that the prosecutions of the Ku Klux in South Carolina were suddenly suspended, a few weeks ago, because of the disagreement of the circuit judge and the district judge, sitting together, for trial of those causes. The cases were, therefore, certified up to the Supreme Court of the United States. The points upon which the court will be required to decide are as follows: First as to whether, under the enforcement law of May 31,1870, persons can be punished for commiting a crime defined under the laws of the State; and second, as to whether the right to bear arras is a right guaranteed by the constitution, and to be protected under the enforcement act This will substantially test the validity of the act in question, and decide whether criminals shall be punished for violating this law, as those that ore punished under the State law. This important question will be brought up in a short time in the Supreme Court. Attorney-General Williams and General Bristow will appear for the government, and Reverdy Johnson and Henry Stanbery for the Ku-Klux." We published a telegram the other day, says the Richmond Enquirer, statiug that Govenor Reed of Florida had been irn peached by the Hocse of Representatives of that State. The American Union present at this time a most extraordinary spectacle. The Governor of Texas is threatened with impeachment. The Governor of Louisana, after the most violent and revolutionary proceedings, on his part, has just been arraigned before a Congressional Investigation Committee. The Governor of Alabama had to be driven out of his office after his term expired. The Governor of Nebraska has been impeached. The Governor of North Carolina has been impeached and removed. The Governor of Georgia fled the State to avoid impeachment. The Governor of South Carolina is implicated in the most gigantic frauds, and has been threatened with impeachment. The late Governor of Arkansas is charged with high crimes and misdemeanors. All of these are Republican Governors, and belong to the party of "moral ideas." All of them but one are representives of "Reconstruction" in the South. Such are the governments imposed upon the Southern people, and afflicted with such government, the Southern people, are assailed by the whole Northern Republican press for the prevalence of violence and social disorders, which are a necessary result of so much misrule and oppression. rri. a. n.i 1 T* ? JL ne resiguuuuu 01 v/oiuuei r uruey, us collector of customs, at Philadelphia, was handed to President Grant on Saturday last. The letter of resignation has in it no word in praise or support of the administration or the acts of the Executive. Colonel Forney says he will devote his efforts to his newspaper "and to the energetic support of the principles of the great republican party." He thanks General Grant for his kindness and consideration, but he don't say a word about supporting him for re-nomination. He reluctantly accepted the office of collector because he apprehended it would seriously interfere with his business, and especially with his independence as a journalist. After ten months' experience he is entirely confirmed in this impression, all of which means that whilst he held office he was under obligations to maintain the administration and support Grant, and that he has, in the meantime, been forced to do violence to his better judgement, and that now he throws off the official shackles, and is free to criticise General Grant as a candidate for re-election tu the office of President. It is a well-known fact that Forney is no believer in the great political sagacity of Grant, and does not approve of his management of party affairs in some respects, and we may in due time expect to hear from Forney to that effect. ikr ?trrMIr YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 22, 1872. Watch the Fieures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance WHO PAYS THE TAXES ? At this time when there is an almost universal cry against high taxes, it is well enough to investigate the question who pays the taxes ? The man who toils from sun to tun that he may procure for himself and household a scantv liviner. is ready to say, "I ?? " J w ? * have no property, aud of course high taxes do not affect me." This is only apparently true. The persons who think they do not pay the taxes, are the very individuals who indirectly pay the whole of them. All the per ceutages and storages which are charged upon any article of commerce, ultimately are paid by the consumer. The man who produces tobacco has to pay the government a duty?a tax?before he can legally put it in the market. Who utimately pays this tobacco tax ? Why the persons who chew and smoke and snuff tobacco. On every box of friction matches the manufacturer is compelled by law to place a one cent revenue stamp. Who pays this one cent tax? We answer, the man who consumes the matches. Not only does the consumer pay all the tax or duty in the cases mentioned, but all the expenses connected with this tax. Exorbitant taxes do not crush the property holder so much as the man who has no property. Those whose business it is to levy taxes, should remember that when they transgress the legitimate bounds of taxation, they crush nuAnnAM^tf 4-VIA nAiinfrw KTT rrrin^Inr* tVio LUC JJlUOpCliLjr VI IUV wuillflj KJJ guuuitig vuv face of the poor. Every dollar of tax-money stolen or squandered, is a dollar taken from the poor. It is a rent made in the garments of the laboring man. It is bread taken out of the mouth of his hungry children. It is scarcely possible to crush out the property holder by high taxes. This individual can protect himself by lowering the price of labor and by increasing the price of bread. High taxes have a tendency to increase the wealth of a few and the poverty of the many. Such a state of things indicates that there is something wrong. The tax to support a well regulated government, ought never to be onerous. When it is, it declares that the government is in a sickly and dying condition. STATE ITEMS. ? The population of the town of Union, by a recent census, is put down at 1,061. Whites, 508; colored, 553. ? Dr. John IT. Herndon, a prominent citizen of Union, died at his residence, near Indian creek, in that county, on the 12th instant, from paralysis. ? Calvin Wall, D. L. Jolly, Alfred Burke, William Robbinsand J. E. Scruggs, sentenced to three months' imprisonment by the United States Court on the charge of ku-kluxing, have been sent to Spartanburg to serve out the balance of their terra. ? F. L. Cardoza, Secretary of State, who sometime ago, tendered his resignation to Governor Scott, in order to accept a professorship in the Howard University, has been :i.J i prevaneu upuu tu wnuuian mo igcigmuiuu, and continue in his position in this State. ? David Foulke, captain of the guard at the penitentiary, was convicted at Columbia last week of manslaughter. He was indicted for killing a convict sometime ago, who died while undergoing the punishment of the shower-bath. Before sentence was passed, Foulke was pardoned by Governor Scott. ?The Phoenix of Friday last, says: "General Wade Hampton and General Butler left for Washington yesterday morning. It is said that the object of their visit is to denounce the vile calumny of Edmunds, of Vermont, who, in a recent speech in the Senate, charged that they and General Kershaw were leaders of the ku-klux klan in South Carolina. General Kershaw, we are informed, will join Generals Hampton and Butler in Washington." ? At the recent meeting of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter, in Charleston, the following officers were elected for the ensuing Masonic year : James A. Hoyt, Anderson, G. H. P. ; James Birnie, Greenville, D. G. H. P.; E. W. Loyd, Florence, G. K.; W. H. D. Gaillard, Pendleton, G. S.; Rev. John M. Carlisle, Charleston, R. R. A. G. Chaplain; C. Frank Jackson,Columbia,G. Treasurer; Augustine T. Smythe, Charleston, G. Secretary; B. Z. Herndon, Cokesbury, G. C. H.; Harris Covington, Bennettsville, G. R. A. C.; L. F. Meyer, Charleston, G. Sentinel. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Raleigh people are feasting on herrings, at 84 per hundred. ? It is said that a telegraph line will soon be established on the W.,C. and R. Railroad from Wilmington to Charlotte. ? According to the census, Wilmington has a population of 18,446; Charlotte, 4,473 ; and Salisbury, 3,327. | ?The original revenue act has been rnodi; fied by the Legislature, reducing the tax for | penitentiary purposes and applying the same j to the common school fund, j ? The Warrenton Gazette develops the fact that Horace Greeley was married in the EpisI copal church of that town. His wife was a teacher in the Warrenton Female College. I ?Judge Dick, of the Supreme Court, has ' been appointed to a seat on the bench of the \ U. S. Circuit Court, the district having been divided between himself and Judge Bond, i ?According to the report of the treasurer of Mecklenburg, the receipts of that county , during the past year were S54,474.17, and the j expenditures 842,313.06. I ?The Weldon Netvs says the negroes in that section have conceived the idea that they can do better for themselves by farming on their own hook with oxen or cows and on poor land, than by hiring themselves for a part of : the crop. ? Wayne county has a genuine sensation in ! the matrimonial liue. A couple, respectably connected, after enjoying the felicities, of wedlock for the brief period of a single week, ' agreed to disagree, and the groom departed on a northward-bound train on one day, and 1 the next morning the bride eloped with ; "another fellow" on a south bound train. ? The junior editor of the Hillsboro Recorder who for some weeks past has been employed on a Raleigh paper, has returned to his post, whereat his father, the senior editor rejoiceth. It is a wise father who knows his own son. ? The largest winner on the American turf last season was Col. McDaniel, who heads the list with over 850,000, the result of thirty-seven successful races. The Colonel is a North Carolinian and owner of the celebrated "Harvey Bassett." ? The Greeusboro North State says: On Thursday night last, during a severe storm, the engine, on the mail train coming West from Raleigh, struck a tree which had fallen across the track. The engine and cars were thrown into the ditch. The engineer, Mr. Murphy, was severely injured. Mr. Wait, the conductor, is highly complimented Tor his resolute and prompt action on the occasion. The accident occurred two miles West of Mebansville. PROCEEDINGS^ CONGRESS. In the Senate, On Tuesday the 13th, the executive, legislative and judicial appropriation bill was taken up and some progress made with it. An ineffectual effort was made to get up theamnesty bill, which Sumner threatened tn ommiil The TTmiisp in enmmittee nf the whole, appropriated nearly eighteen millions to the navy. The debate developed the fact that the government couldn't add three vessels to the preseut force, in case of war, until the personnel of the navy be increased, which is now limited to 8500 men, while the British navy has 64,000 men. On the 14th, a short debate took place over Mr. Sumner's resolution of inqury into the sale by the United States Government of war material to purchasers in account of the French Government, during the recent European war. Mr. Sumner contended that a grave breach of neutrality had been committed. The day was consumed with this matter, a disposition being manifested to investigate it. In the House, the committee of ways and means introducted a bill abolishing the tax on tea aud coffee, which was referred. Naval appropriations occupied the entire day: The loth was devoted by the Senate to a continuation of the discussion of the bill of enquiry regarding the sale of arras to the French. The House was occupied in discussing naval appropriations, the discussion being mainly directed to extravagance at marine hospitals. In the Senate on Friday, it was ordered that 25,000 copies of the American "case," in reference to the Alabama claims, now before .i /-, i J j me Wlieva aruiirauou, ue priuieu, turn iui. Sumner's resolution for an investigation into the sale of arras to France was further debated. Nothing of importance was transacted in the House. Mr. Beck made a personal explanation in reply to remarks made by Senator Browlow, from which it would seem they both are proficients in blackguarding. On Saturday the Senate was not in session, and the House was occupied in debate. On Monday, the 19th, in the Senate, the majority and minority reports of the ku-klux committee were presented and ordered to be printed. In the House, a civil rights bill, similar to Sumner's, was reported and went over to next week. The bill abolishing duty on tea and coffee passed. The minority report of the ku-klux committee was presented but not received until disrespectful allusions to the President were erased. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The South Carolina Rail Road. At the recent meeting of the stockhold ers of the South Carolina Railroad Company, the following persons were elected Directors for the ensuing year: Wm. J. Magrath, George A. Trenholm, L. D. DeSaussure, John Hanckle, Andrew Simonds, George \V. Williams, Henry Gourdin, Francis J. Pelzer, B. H. Rice, Wm. A. Courtney, James S. Gibbes, [James P. Boyce, James Conner, W. L. Ellis and Daniel Tyler. In view of the fact that parties connected with the Georgia Central Railroad, are attempting to get control of the South Carolina Railroad, the stockholders adopted the following resolutions i Resolved, That it be earnestly recommended to the South Carolina stockholders to retain their stock, and that when necessity compels them to dispose of it, they do so to those who nave a common interest in the prosperity of the State; to the end that our citizens, who have so long borne the burden of carrying the stock in adversity, may, now that prosperity is dawning upon us, permanently control the business of the South Carolina Railroad and the trade and interest of the State on this great highway of her commerce. Resolved, That we are ready, cordially and in good faith, to co-operate with the railroads in our sister States, to work with them in a system which will retain the business of the South on our own lines of communication and for our seaports. "A State for Salef" Such is the heading of the following article which appears in the Little Rock (Arsas) Gazette. There are many persons who think they can improve their condition by removing from South Carolina to Arkansas; but surely, the following facts will convey a different impression as to the inducements presented by that State. All the reconstructed States have suffered by carpet-bag rule, but with all her political troubles, the natural resources and advantages of our State are sunprinr in mnnv resneots to anv in the Union. Let our people be content at home, and work only half as hard as they would be compelled to labor in one of the western States, and our word for it, they will be more prosperous thaii by "flying to ills they know not of." "We have the fruits of the carpet-bag system of taxation before us in the shape of auditor's advertisements of "sale of lands forfeited to the State of Arkansas in consequence of the non-payment of taxes due thereon," to take place on the "second Monday in February, 1872," published in the Weekly Republican of January 9. Some idea of the magnitude of the taxation imposed upon the people of Arkansas by Mr. Carpet-bagger's government in the first year of his rule, may be derived from an examination of this advertisement, recollecting that the lands embraced in it are only the residuum after the collectors have sifted all that could be sold in the counties where forfeited for the price of the taxes unpaid, and after the owners have had two years to redeem from the auditors such as they were able to redeem. The advertisement is printed in small type and occupies more than sixteen pages of a sheet as large as'the Weekly Gazette. At legal (carpet-bag) rates the mere publication of it one insertion costs the State of Arkansas twelve thousand three hundred and twelve dollars! It is published also in pamphlet form. This pamphlet contains, in the same size type, in medium octavo form, 228 closely printed pages. We have taken one page as an average of the whole. The auditor offers for sale on that page seventy-two tracts, 16,837.27 acres, taxed ; for $2901,62, or nearly nineteen cents per \ acre. Taking page 111 as an avergage ot tne j whole 228 pages, and we learn that, comprised j in 16,416 tracts, the whole number of acres of-, fered by the auditor, of lands forfeited in 1868,' is 3,662,340 94?on which the amount of tax- j es unpaid is 8651,461 20?a sum far greater , than the entire revenue of any year before j 1868 ! "We commend this statement of fig-1 ures to those States who keep the carpet-bag- j gers in their own penitentiaries." LOCAL ITEMS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. R. Lathan?Mules Wanted. W. W. Fowler, Business Manager?Swiss Bell Ringers. R. Tozer, Columbia, S. C.?Portable Steam Enirfnes. J. F. Wallace, Agent at Yorkville, S. C.?Universal Life Insurance Company. S. B. Hall, Judge of Probate?Citation?D. W. Mayes, Applicant?David B. Miller, deceased. T. M. Dobson A Co.?Prints?Towels?Handker- i chiefs?Needles?Ticking?Yarn? Pistols? Salem Jeans?The Elephant?Irons?Well Chains?Seed Potatoes?Ladies Don't Read This?Sheeting?Blasting Powder?Steel Thimbles. Uarroil, uiarK ? uo.?ureal c?nonce?uuuery? Gun Locks?Clothing?Hosiery?SheetingFlannel?Y aril?Seed Potatoes?GroceriesFlour?Iron. J. A. Erwiu, Administrator?Application for Discharge. DIED FROM HER INJURIES. Mrs. Seohrest, who was so badly burned on the morning of the 4th instant, died on Sunday aternoon last from the injuries she sustained. THE 1IERGER FAMILY. By announcement, it will be seen tbat this company will give an entertainment in Yorkville, on Tuesday evening next. The press of the country speaks in the highest terms of the Bergers, and we doubt not a rich treat is in store for our citizens. TOZER'S ENGINES. We have replaced our old steam engine, which had been itt constant use for several ? * 1 TY 1 years, with a new one manufactured Dy mcnard Tozer, of the "City Machine Works," Columbia, S. C. Mr. Tozer has acquired much celebrity as a builder of steam engines, and in the one which he has just constructed for the Enquirer, which is the first of that particular style as yet in operation, he has excelled all of his previous efforts. And aside from its chief points of excellence over other engines, which can be best explained to those interested by an inspection of the one in our office, it is really an ornament to the room, and appears as much in . its proper place as one of the printing presses beside it. Mr. Tozer builds stationary engines of any desired capacity, and also an improved portable engine which is attracting considerable attention in various sections of the Union? North and South. It is specially adapted to driving cotton gins, threshing machines and any other farming machinery where power is required, and can be easily drawn by horses from one plantation to another. As our people awaken to the. importance of improved machinery for conducting the operations of the farm, we shall look to the rapid introduction of this engine as a great auxiliary to the economizing of time and labor, and hope the time is not distant when at least one may be fi-mnrl in enprr neicrhHnrhnnd nf the State. J o ? This engine has taken the premium at thtee annual fairs of the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Society, and also the premium at the Industrial Association of Georgia, in Savannah, last November, in competition with two engines of northern manufacture. We direct attention to the advertisement in another column. 4-^4 WASHINGTON ITEMS. ? The Chronicle says that R. M. Wallace will undoubtedly be appointed United States marshal of South Carolina, to succeed Major Johnson, resigned. ? The report of the ku-klux committee has been submitted. There is a majority and a minority report. The majority report recommends the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus to the end of the present Congress. It also recommends exceptional general amnesty. ? Treasury detectives who recently made several seizures of tobacco in South Carolina, for violation of the stamp duties, report that two thirds of the tobacco in the rural districts of that State has been purchased from fraudulent pedlars in North Carolina, who are engaged in the trade in violation of the revenue laws. ? In the case of Abbott, claiming a "seat in the United States Senate from North Carolina, which is now before the committee on elections and privileges, the committee has been apprized that those who voted for Vance did so on a promise from Senator Pool that his disabilities should be removed before the time for him to take his seat. So says the correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette. A aP T?nk?>iiort7 1 ill IT OaUIUgWIIU?|JaiiV/U U1 X VUIUUI^ ^wru| to the Baltimore Sun, says the Senate committee on elections have decided to report in favor of admitting General Ransom, and ignore the claims of Abbott; though Abbott's friends do not believe that the decision of the committee is to be taken as an evidence of the disposition of the Senate, and announce their intention of further contesting the case. ? A dispatch to the New York Post, under date of the 12th, says that prominent Senators express the opiniou that the prospects of the success of an Amnesty Bill are better now than at any time this session. There are now two House Amnesty Bills on the Senate table. Senator Trumbull will immediately take charge of the most liberal of these and press it to a final vote. Since Senator Sumner has declared it to be his intention to propose his Civil Rights Bill as an amendment to every Amnesty Bill offered, many Senators who voted for the Civil Rights Amendment on Friday last, now assert chat while they will hereafter be willing to vote for both amnesty and civil rights, as independent propositions, they are unwilling further to hazard the success of amnesty by an amendment so inap propriate as Sumner's Civil Rights Bill. They insist that the Civil Rights Bill can at any time secure a majority vote, but that it cannot now obtain the two-thirds vote requisite for amnesty. Samuel Harper, of Boston, will introduce a Civil Rights Bill nearly identical with Mr. Sumner's Civil Rights Amendment to the Amnesty Bill. The Bill will apply to citizens instead of persons. This distinction is intended to conciliate the anti-Chinese prejudices of the Pacific Coast Congressmen. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. FROM UNION COUNTY. THESE EVIL DAYS. It would seem that we have reached a dark chapter in our country's history. Every newspaper details instances of swindling and corruption on the part of public officers. Crime of every shade and hue stalks abroad through the land, and almost without a rebuke. The worse part of mau's nature seems to be dominant. All sorts of scoundrels are recognized as pretty clever fellows. "Evil, be then my good," is the motto of the day. The results of this condition of affairs is not only felt in New York and Washington and ! Columbia, but they reach the smallest vil- j lage and the humblest house of the country, j ^ " i * 1 i une win not nave to travel very ?*r uciuic he will learn that all this is telling fatally | against schools, newspapers and churches, the j very souroes of that intelligence and morality | necessary to keep society and the Spate in a | healthy condition. ? Heretofore our schools I have been too few; The parents have shame-; fully neglected the generation of children now coming on. And now since troubles have, come on our section of the country, the schools are still more neglected. This should not be If our political condition is ever bettered, i must be done by intelligence and honestj Too few newspapers are read by the mass o people. Some worthy and good men stil sneer at and abuse papers and the editors and long for the good old days when ther were only a few papers published in America They look backward through a mist, and the; look at the present through a dense fog. Th newspaper, be it only a weekly journal, is ai educator, and a powerful one. It contain the weekly lesson for the grown up people Even in these hard times every family shouh have its paper. Nearly every one is able b afford this means of improvement. It i rather singular that in times of political ex citeraent and trouble, the church is neglected The preachers' pay, which in most prosperou times, is not fabulously large, is cut down The congregations are thin. Lukewarranes and semi-infidelity get hold of the people A distrust of the goodness and wisdom of th Ruler of nations prevails. Such are some of the evils coming right t our homes. It is time that a manly effor should be made to avert them. Let ou schools flourish. Put every child, not necee sary for farm work, to his book. Let th press be supported. It is our political guid and text-book. Do not neglect the preache and the church. We cannot afford to ad< that sin to all the other grievances that ar now weighing us down. We are not withou hope, if we only labor honestly in the righ direction. These days demand our stronges efforts for good. Let us not grow weak au< despondent and negligent because we canno count out our gains at the end of each daj as the laborer does his wages. P. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. FROM LIBERIA. LETTER FROM REV. ELI AS HILL. Monrovia, Liberia, Jan. 3, 1872. I thank God that I have arrived here, wit! 244 iu all, as emigrants?68 from Georgia; i from Florida; 5 from North Carolina; and from Virginia?only losing 2 on the voyage These were children, who had contracted die eases long before they embarked or left thei homes. One of them was 19 months old, i native ot Florida, and nao nao tne inrusi since June; the other was a native of Geor gia, and had suffered with a lingering diseas for months before its death. One of the chil dren died on the 12th of November, early ii the night. As soou as its deatl) was announced the captain of the vessel, A. Alexander, sen for the father and told him to appoint th hour for the child to be buried according t the custom on board of vessels. He consentei for it to be buried immediately, and the firs mate forthwith prepared it for burial, by sew ing its body in canvas and carrying it oi deck. After prayer by Rev. E. T. Dillon, i was let down into the ocean. The night fol lowing, the other child died, for which even its parents were prepared before leaving thei home, and its mortal remains were dispose! of in the same manner as the preceding death These are the only deaths that occurred 01 the voyage. Our voyage to Monrovia was very speed; and prosperous, and accomplished in 38 day from Hampton Roads, Va. On the 1st o November we encountered swift gales and i boisterous sea, when many on board experi enced the usual sea-sickness incident to th first sail on the ocean. All adults from 6< years of age and upward, and all the infant escaped the unpleasantness of sea-sickness, an< what seems more remarkable, those embrace! in those ages were less affected by the voyag than any of the others. After the 25th of November, we had caln and moderate weather and sailed very well On some days the vessel made 520 miles i dav and on others not more than 13. Whei we reached the trade winds, the ship was fre quently stationary. From the 7th to the 25th of November w encountered many storms and had much roug] veather, and when sailing at the speed of 521 miles a day, our wise and benevolent captain A. Alexander, of New Yark, was so trouble< that he never gave slumber to his eyes or sleej to his eye-lids, being apprehensive of dange from the speed the vessel was making. Hi also refused to eat his regular food, but sat a navigation point and ordered and guided, am walked the deck in trouble, but seemed caln and studious, while the vessel was reeling wit! mighty power to and fro, first on one side am then on the other, while it rode and dashe< with fury over and through the mighty bil lows and waves, by the force and power o the winds. The sea was like hills and moun tains. During the boisterous period of our voyag( the captain and sailors were agitated, each am all acting promptly day and night. Table? beds, boxes and all movables rolled and turn bled over the ship, and could be confined onl; with ropes. Many persons had also to be tiei in their beds, and others arranged ropes t their beds, by which to hold, lest they shouh fall out, such was the rocking of the ship am waves. While the storm and rough sea continued men, women and children were seen stagger ing and falling down prostrate on the floor both on deck and below. When they wouh be trying to get their meals prepared an< cooked, they did so atgreat inconvenience, an< were worn out at night; but they sang praise to God, and prayed fervently, and so the Lori heard and answered by delivering us am blessing us to the present time. While on the voyage, a fine daughter wa born to Elijah Watson, of Clay Hill, and Ra chel Garrison also gave birth to a promisinj girl, all of whom are doing well. As regards our rations, never did a peopl have more to eat, and of that which was goo< and palatable, than were the provisions dU tributed to our emigrants, and the same qua! ity of provisions continues to the present time On board the vessel, every day, rations wer issued, with orders to cook them, and on Sal urday a sufficient supply was given out t last through Sunday, so that no cooking shouli be done on that day, that it might be kep blameless, This plan was inaugurated b; myself and Scott Mason, and some others, an< at first was opposed by many; but the captaii and first mate approved the plan, and it wa carried out. We also organized and maintained a Sun day-school during the voyage, and to this em found the publications of the American Sun day-school Union, which had been donated t< us, of great help and advantage. On ever favorable Sabbath divine services was con ducted by your correspondent, (of the Baptis denomination) and Rev. T. E. Dillon, of th< Presbyterian church of Liberia, who has beei a resident of this country since 1864. He ha published an interesting history of Liberia containing all that is valuable and interesting pertaining to the qualities of the soil, thi manners and customs of the people, their pros pects, etc., etc. A copy of this interesting lit tie volume will be forwarded to any persoi who will remit to me a sufficient amount t< pay the postage. Its author is a man. of ex tensive influence, and has traveled much ant nvrvnwianno^ a n???no f /lool rltlmfirr fvla fjq of qavai CA|^I l^UV/V^U U gl Ui*i UUi tug vtiv |/muv uv t vt years. His recent trip to America was foi the purpose of attending the Presbyteries o the United States. He lectured to us fre quently on board the vessel, respecting th< country of our adoption, and we nave so fa: found his words verified. As you will see in the journals, we returnee our thanks to the captain and crew for medi cal attendance and medicines furnished at al tjipes when needed and asked for. We coulc not have asked or received better attentior than was bestowed qp.on us by .the officers o the vessel. It was on the 14th of December, at 8 o'clock when we first saw land and trees, at a distanc< s. j of forty miles, Grand Cape Mount nearing to t' our view. Oh! what a welcome sight to us r# j was laud and trees, even at a distance. We f j came in sight of Monrovia on the 15th, at 9 , } o'clock, a. m., and anchored at 3, p. m., our ! captain going ashore and making nis report, '?I after which he returned to us. He made are ; rangeraents for all the South Carolinians to i. j be landed first, which was done on Saturday, Y the 16th. The boatmen were busy from early e in the morning until late that day in transj ferring us from the vessel to the shore. I was j carried in a hammock to the receptacle, and 8 ' went in a room with my brother Madison, but ? | petitioned for private and more retired room i | elsewhere, as there were thirty families in a | twenty-four rooms of the receptacle. \fnnir nf fVin S/MlfVl ParnlilHAnH Attended the Baptist church next day, and I complied with an invitation to preach at 3, p. in., selecting as my text the 1st verse of the 10th chap3 ter of Romans. All were pleased and interesi. ted, and followed me to the receptacle, visi- J s ting me in crowds and thronging my room from day to day?the visitors consisting of | e Senators, Representatives, attorneys, and ministers of all denominations, with their wives and daughters. 0 I was moved to private apartments in a t handsome two-story house with basement, r rented by the American Colonization Society, i- expressly for me. e Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, is clothed e with green, and rich with fruit trees laden with delicious fruit?oranges, lemons, piner apples, the cassada, eddoes, melons, sweet po* tatoes, and coffee, of which the latter berry is e now in the process of hulling. The whole city t is covered with green and flourishing herbs t and fruits, and presents, with the hills and 1 rocks with which it is interspersed, a fine and , picturesque appearance. In front of my door are three cotton trees?volunteers?the least ' one of which is seven feet high, and now conr> tains 300 bolls, after much has been picked and used, it will bear six.teen years, without requiring any attention. I enclose a specimen of the cotton taken from it The buildings are of stone and brick. The churches are good edifices with steeples and bells. The city contains a goodly number of stores, wholesale and retail, all which are doing a good business. But with all this, the city is poorly improved, [j and is permitted to grow up with shrubs, 5 grass and useless weeds, as well as the varieties 1 of fruits already mentioned. All the fruits i and esculants are of spontaneous growth, and ,1 reach perfection; ana in addition to that r which grows in the city, a goodly quantity, a brought in from the country, finds ready sale [j every day. The city, in appearance, is a simile of lazie nesa and negligence on the part of its inhabi. tants. It is only a place of trade and mera chaudize, and its inhabitants eat and dress I and walk and talk and "show offlegislate, I plead cases, judge and cheat, and the rich e live and delight in ease and luxury, and, con0 sequently, hire the natives to wait on and j work for them at low wages, while the latter t class are also oppressed by heavy burdens. They are compelled to carry on their heads 3 all kinds of merchandize, nor are they clothed t as they should be, being left, in this respect, . to following their natural propensity of weart ing only a cloth about the middle of their r bodies. Shame and disgrace on the mean, j wealthy and respected people of the city! The streets, cross-streets, walks and backj lots of the city speak loudly of the laziness, negligence, manners and customs of the peoj pie; exhibiting selfishness, direspect, inhu8 manity and oppression on the part of the rich t and well-to-do toward the poor and ignorant. a I was carried out for three Sabbaths?the . 17th, 24th and 31st of December?into the e town, on the first two Sabbaths to the Baptist, ^ and on the third, to the M. E. Church, preachs ing at each church to large and attentive conj gregations, though I witnessed in them as much 3 pomp and pride as I ever saw in South Caroe lina. The governmental affairs of the Republic a are now in great disorder. The President, the Attorney-General, the Secretary of the Rel public, the Secretary of the Interior, the a Speaker of the House, the Secretary of State, r the Superintendent of a certain county, and the judge of a probate court, are all in jail, on e charges of robbing or otherwise defrauding ^ the claims of the Republic of a certain loan ) from Great Britain. The Legislature was in session some days j before we arrived, and will continue until 3 February. The regular court, which brought r together men of note from all the counties of e the Republic, is also in session. Christmas t day was observed in different ways, as best j suited the tastes of the different classes. a Our South Carolina colony have sent out a six men?judges of land?to select situations j for all. They have made two inspections, ] and report in favor of Arthin^ton, twenty [. miles in the interior, where land is good and f timber plentiful. Schools and churches are _ however needed, though to supply the former deficiency, two hundred acres of land have , been appropriated for a college. J Some of our people are now moving up, and , every encouragement is presented for the pro' duction of corn and cotton and stock-raising y with little labor. The air is bracing and the j water refreshing, though the atmosphere is 0 heavy and cool of mornings and evenings, but ^ in the middle of the day hot and enervating, j The sun rises and sets here in all seasons at 6 o'clock. 1 For the information of my friends I have given the aboye facts as to ray impressions of . Liberia up to this time. Respectfully, j ELIAS HILL. j J SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. g Tuesday, February 13,1872. I In the Senate, Mr. Nash presented the i petition of the owners and representatives of owners of bonds of this State, praying the s passage of an act providing for the funding and consolidation of the various loans of the g State into registered stock. The following are the main features of the bill: e "It provides for the issue of ten millions of reg^ istered stock, for which the outstanding State I- cents in stock for every dollar in bonds. J. speL cial tax of four mills to be levied every year for the payment of interest. Messrs. Orr, Palmer and Childs and two citizens of New York to be come missioners to certify to bonds presented for ex.. change. The financial board to select a New York bank to transact the business of exchanging. No 0 more bonds to be issued without the sanction of 1 two-thirds ofthe voters of the State. Tenthousand t dollars are appropriated for expenses." y The bill was referred to the Pgramittee on j Finance. 3 The following Acts were duly ratified: s An act to provide the manner for obtaining the right of way where lands are surrounded by other lands. An act to repeal ap act to provide for the appoints J meqt of a Land Commissioner, and to define his powers and duties. - An act to authorize Clerks of the Courts of Com' 3 mon Pleas to take testimony in certain cases, f In the House, a bill to grant, renew, and * amend the charter of the village of Bock Hill, fc Zmm. Va*1v tTTflfl T\C% OOA/^ O fl/I Ill LUC UUUULJT U1 1 UiA) TTOO |/ooo^u uuu \jauv? 3 ed to be sent to the Senate. 1 Mr. Jervey from the Committee on Privil3 eges and Elections reported favorably on a bill ? compelling Representatives to reside in the ? county from which they were elected. The B bill was ordered to lie over for a second reading. Mr. S. Greene introduced a bill to compel 1 the attendance at school of all children be} tween the ages of six and sixteen years, residing in the incorporated towns and cities of 1 the State. By the terms of the bill it is made the duty of r every parent, guardian and other person having ! f i children within the ages specified in their employ | . | or charge, to send them to school for a period of I | at least four consecutive months each year. Nbn- ' 8 > compliance with this act is deemed a crime, and r! is punishable with a fine of $30 and imprisonment i in the county jail for thirty days. Trial Justices . . and their constables are charged with enforcing I j the act and are paid one-sixth of the penalty for -1 every conviction in addition to the regular costs. 1J The bill was referred to the Committee ou 1 Education. i ' A joint resolution to relieve the late county f j treasurer of York county, E. M. Rose and his bondsmen, was passed to a third reading. f A bill to relieve the State of South Carolii na of all liability fop its guarantee of fhe bonds of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company, by providing for the securing and destruction of the same, was passed to a third reading. A Senate bill to provide for the speedy apportionment of State appropriations, made for the support and maintenance of free common schools, was passed to a third reading. Wednesday, February 14,1872. In the Senate, upon the concurrent resolution from the House, requesting the Senators representing the State of South Carolina in the Congress of the United States to resign their positions, a long debate followed, participated in by Messrs. Johnston, Whittemore, Hayne and others, after which the resolution was indefinitely postponed by a vote of 17 to 5. In the House, for the concurrent resolution from the Senate that the General Assembly adjourn on the 16th, a substitute was offer-j ? ' ??-JAnfoJ *Ka+ tlio Oonprtil A a. eu uuu uuan^ auujjKM tuu> ?? sembly do adjourn on the 26th day of February, 1872, subject to the call of a majority of the members of both Houses, who shall signify their assent in writing to the Clerks of their respective Houses: Provided, that no pay be allowed during said adjournment. The Senate refused to concur in the substitute. Mr. Bowley from the Committee on Engrossed bills, reported a bill to relieve the State of Carolina from all liability on account of the guarantee of the Blue Ridge Railroad bonds, which was passed by a vote of 87 to 19. As a substitute for the general appropriation bill, prepared by the committee on ways and means, Mr. S. J. Lee submitted a bill which provides for a State tax of fifteen mills, and county taxes of two-and-a-half mills on the dollar. This substitute was debated by ! Keith, Smith, Boseman, Hayne and others, j and finally referred to a special committee of fiuo /vmaisHna nf Messrs. Havne. Jones. ~ B ? J Thomas, Jamison and Rivers, with orders to , report to-morrow. The following are the leading features of the bill: Section 1. That to defray the current expenses of the State for the fiscal year ending the thirtyfirst day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy two, the 8tate auditor is hereby authorized and required to levy a tax of six mills on the dollar of the assessed value of all taxable propty in the State; and he is hereby further authorized and required to levy atax of four mills on the dolI lar of the assessed value of all the taxable property of the State, to pay the interest on the pul t>lic debt; and in addition to the aforesaid taxes, the State auditor shall levy a further tax of five mills on the dollar of the assessed value of all the taxable property in the State, to meet the deficiencies in the revenue for the fiscal year ending on the fMrtir.firat. ria.'u of October. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. Sec. 2. In addition to the foregoing taxes, there shall be levied, in each and every county of the State, a tax of two and a half mills on the dollar of the assessed value of all taxable property in said counties, respectively, to be used for county purposes as provided by law. Sec. 3. That all taxes levied, and payable under this act, shall be payable in United States treasury notes, in thenotes of national banks, and in gold or silver coin. Sec. 4. That the following sums bo, and are hereby appropriated for the payment of the several officers and the expenses of the State Government, as hereinafter specified, for the fiscal year ending on the thirty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two. Then follow the various appropriations, which foot upas follows: Salaries $165,900 Executive Department 18,300 Judiciary 2,300 Ordinary civil expenses 111,800 Extraordinary expenses 60,000 Educational (In addition to the per capita tax) 183,000 Total $531,300 In relation to the bill, the correspondent of the Charleston News says: "There is every probability that this bill will pass. The united brethren are pushing it with all their force and influence, the arguments in its favor which appeals to them, and all the other members, being that it authorizes the treasurer to cash their pay certificates, which, after all, is the nearest ana dearest subject to the hearts of these model legislators." Mr. Whipper, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported favorably a-Senate bill to amend an act providing for the assessment and taxation of property, passed December, 1868, and all acts amendatory thereto. The enrreannndent of the Charleston Courier aavs this bill is known as the "Confiscation Bill." The main features of the measure are embodied in the two following sections: Sec. 2. That so much of the Act entitled "An Act to further amend an Act entitled an Act to further amend an Act entitled an Act providing for the assessment and taxation of property," passed March 8,1871, as provides that all deeds of conveyances of real estate shall be placed on record in the office of the county Auditor before the same can be placed on record in the office of the Register of Mesne Conveyance, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding the following, viz: "And for each and every violation of this provision by a Clerk of Court or Register of Mesne Conveyance, he shall, upon conviction before any Court ofcompetentjurisdiction, be fined in a sum of not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty dollars, and the cost of the action, one half of said fine to be paid into the County Treasury for the benefit of the County, and the other half to be paid to the County Auditor. Sec. 3. That all lands which have been forfeited to the State under the provisions of the Act providing for the assessment and taxation of property passed September 15. 1868, and other Acts amendatory tnereto, shall be advertised by the County Auditor, in manner provided bv Section 10, of said Act, and sold by the County Treasurer to the highest bidder, and the County Auditor shall execute a "warranty deed" to the purchaser. The proceeds of the sale, after deducting fees allowed by law, and paying the county the amount of taxes and penalties due from such land, shall be forwarded to the State Treasurer by the County Treasurer, and shall be credited to the county from which it is received on account of the forfeited lands. The Committee of Ways and Means also reported favorably on a bill for the relief of the orphans and widows of persons killed by the ku-klux. The following are its provisions : That in the counties of Union, York, Chester, Lancaster, Chesterfield, Laurens, Spartanburg. Newberry and Fairfield, there shall be levied ana collected, at the same time, and in the same manner that other taxes are collected, a special tax of one-half mill on the dollar of the assessed value of all the taxable property of each and everv of said counties, the proceeds of which tax shall be paid into the County Treasurv in said Counties, respectively, and shall constitute a pension funa for the support of the indigent widows and orphans of those citizens who have been murdered by the ku-klux klans in said counties. That each of such destitute or indigent widows or orphans, on satisfactory proof furnished the County Treasurer of his or her county, shall receive an allowance or pension, of the amount, as follows, to wit: For each widow, six dollars per month; for each orphan or fatherless child under the age of fifteen years, four dollars per month, payable on the first day of each and every month by the County Treasurer; such allowance to be continued during the widowhood of such widow; and, as to the orphan children, the allowance or pension shall cease on such child's attaining the age of fifteen years. Thursday, February 15, 1872. In the Senate, the Charleston New says, "the report of the committee op priyilegea and elections, in the coptested senatorial election case of phin B. Tompkins against F. A. Clinton, the sitting member from Lancaster, met with a very cavalier reception, being promptly killed and buried by the following well known parliamentay device: The report be ing called up, Mr. uayne moved that it be jaid on the table. This being agreed to Mr, Smalls moved to reconsider tne vote to lay on the table, and then moved to table the motion to reconsider. This motion prevailed, and the report of the committee, and all hopes of unseating Mr. F. A. Clinton, at least during the present session, were dead beyond resuscitation. It was all done in a breath and greatly to the disgust of Mr. Corbin, whose name was the only one signed to the report. That gentleman was highly incensed, but in view of the irrevocable action of the Senate, he could only allow his indignation to explode in a strong protest, of which the following is the conluding paragraph: "I protest against this action as unconstitutional, unjust and an outrage, and as fastening upon the Republican majority of this Senate a stain not to be effaced by time." A communication was received from the State Treasurer to the effect, that he had a registry of the entire bonded and stock debt of the State numerically, and that the statement submitted to the General Assembly of the indebtedness of the State is correct in every particular. In the House, the following bill to divide the State into five Congressional Districts, was passed by a vote of 61 to 35: The First Congressional District, to be composed of the counties of Georgetown, Williamsburg, Horry, Marion, Marlboro, Chesterfield, Darlington, Sumter. The Second Congressional District, to be com