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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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