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f craps and <facts.
Ohio boasts of a man who eloped with
his mother-in-law.
Twenty-seven newspaper establishments
were destroyed by the Boston fire.
Sergeant Bates is walking through England
with the American flag, unmolested.
People in Central Illinois are selling
their cattle on account of the scarcity of water.
Detroit has two citizens down with the
horse disease, which is producing no little excitement
in that city.
During October eighty-six new newspapers
were established in the United States,
and forty-one suspensions were announced.
Mr. J. Henley Smith has sold his interest
iu the Atlanta Sun to Hon. A. H. Stephens,
who thus becomes sole proprietor of
the Sun.
A Carter county, Kentucky, man who
avowed his intention to find silver, or go to
hell for it, has already gone 160 feet in that
direction and sent for more rope and powder.
A fire occurred in Philadelphia on Friday
last from the explosion of an oil can,
which destroyed 6156,000 worth of property
and threw one thousand men out of employment.
-?Gen. Gordon, Hon. B. H. Hill, Dr. H.
V. M. Miller, Judge Underwood, Gen. A. H.
Benning, Gen. L. J. Gartrell and Gen. A. H.
Colquitt, are candidates for the Uuited States
Senate in Georgia.
The Mayor of Augusta, Georgia, refuses
to allow Robinson's circus to visit that city for
fear of the horse disease being communicated
by the circus horses, some of which it is said
are affected.
A meeting of colored persons was recently
held in Washington, at the Fifteenth
Presbyterian Chureh. for the nurnose of rais
ing funds for the relief of Osborne P. Anderson,
the only survivor of the John Brown raid.
It is stated that Louis Napoleon has
requested permission of the German Government
to reside in Germany, and has been refused,
on the ground that his presence there
would be unwelcome.
Benevolently disposed persons will be
likely to sympathize with a neighboring grocer,
who having sold a poor fellow a dime's
worth of spice, attempted to make exact
weight by biting a grain in two, and found
out by the operation that the rats had been
fooling with his stock.
The Presbytery of Kentucky have rendered
a verdict of guilty against Rev. Dr. Gilbert
H. Robinson, on charges of drunkenness,
lasciviousness and falsehood, and sentenced
him to be deposed from the ministry, and suspended
from the privileges of the church unless
he show a repentance fitting him for membership.
An ingenious improvement in the construction
of cotton gins consists in the appliances
of an air exhaust, which facilitates the
feeding of the cotton to the rollers, and an air
draught for removing the cotton from the
rollers, which it does most effectively, thus
dispensing with the use of brushes or other
devices for that purpose.
Certain Liberal Republicans of Cincinnati
have resolved to organize afresh on
the basis of the good old platform, excluding
the tariff plank and substituting one affirming
the expediency of tariffs for revenue only.
The tariff question will probably be thoroughly
canvassed in 1876.
A machine at JNew Haven performs the
whole process of making needles without the
manual labor of any person and turns out
30,000 to 40,000 of them daily. Another
machine picks them up and arranges them
heads and points together, and the third piece
of mechanism puts them into paper. It is
needless to remark that this is bringing the
thing down to a very fine point.
An ingenious man in Philadelphia has
found a new use for an artificial leg. He
worked in a pipe factory, and was in the habit
of filling his porcelain limb each day with a
choice assortment of meerschaums, which he
disposed of on his own account. When discovered
he had made about 8800 by this illegitimate
traffic. In this way he was walking
off with a goodly share of the profits of the
establishment.
The latest and lowest estimate of insurance
losses by the Boston fire, gives the total
amount as 848,752,300, distributed as follows:
Massachusetts companies, 829,710,000; Connecticut,
82,952,800; New York, 86,850,000;
Maine, 8400,000; Rhode Island, 8920,000;!
California, 875,000; Illinois, 830,000 ; Missouri,
825,000; Minnesota, 850,000; New
Jersev. 17.000: Ohio. S205.000: Pennsvlva
nia, $2,776,500; Wisconsin, $50,000; Foreign,
$4,<il0,000.
Under date of Friday last, the Washington
correspondent of the New York Herald
telegraphs that "the President, in his next
message to Congress, will review the operation
and effect of the ku-klux legislation, and
ask for a repeal of such parts as are notably
oppressive. There seems no room to doubt
that a generous and conciliatory policy will
be pursued by the administration toward the
South during the Presidential terra, and it is
highly probable that a representative of that
section will be placed in the new Cabinet."
In the event of the reconstruction of
President Grant's Cabinet, an earnest effort
will be made to have the colored element of
the country represented. An article appeared
a few days ago in the Chronicle which is
thought to be the entering wedge in that direction.
Professor John M. Langston has
been fixed upon as the representative of the
colored race, and his appointment as Attorney-General
will be urged by Fred Douglas
and other prominent colored as well as white
men throughout the country. The colored
Republicans of the South are unanimous in
this movement.
It may not be generally known that
Washington Irving was the author of the
phrase, "the almighty dollar." He used it in a
sketch entitled "The Creole Village," published
in 1847, and it quickly passed into universal
usage. He himself says of it: "This
phrase, used for the first time in this sketch,
"The Creole Village," has since passed into j
n11 f n\ 1 ?i f lrvn onrl V\vr er?mo V? o e V*nnn i
vUi i ^ii ^ vuvuiubiuu) uuu ?j j cuiug nao utcu
questioned as savoring of irreverence. The
author, therefore, owes it to his orthodoxy to
declare that no irreverence was intended, even
to the dollar itself, which he is aware is daily j
becoming more and more an object of wor-1
ship."
The advance in the price of copper has
called out many hidden stores of the metal,
and steamships from foreign ports bring large
quantities of it to New York for sale. Fortyseven
huge bronze cannons recently arrived
at New York from Mexico and were placed
in bond at the Empire stores in Brooklyn.
An analysis of the metal at the United States I
Assay office, shows that it is composed of j
ninety-five per cent, copper, and five per cent. \
of tin, both metals being of the best and finest!
qualities. The weights range from 6,000 to j
7,000 pounds each. The guns came from j
Vera Cruz, where, with many others of the i
same character, they had been recently condemned.
E. A. & G. R. Meneely of "West
Troy, N. Y., have just received fifty tons of
the cannons above alluded to, which they will
manufacture into bells. ;
The question of capital punishment has
excited much comment and discussion. The
effect of its abolition in Iowa does not seem to ,
give satisfaction in that State. The Northern !
Iowa Synod of the Presbyterian Church, at
its last session in Dubuque, passed a resolution
declaring that the action of the last Legislature,
in abolishing capital punishment and
substituting therefor imprisonment for life,
was hasty and unwise, and recommending to
all Christian people that petitions be circula- J
ted looking to the restoration of the law as it
formerly stood. Their action has been endorsed
by most of the leading journals of the
State, one of which, the Waterloo Journal
states that since the repeal of the death pen
I
alty, only six months ago, the increase in the
ratio of crime has been enormous, aud this
1 fact, coupled with the interpretation of the
law by the courts in the case of capital felons,
! has already created in some places a determination
to resort to lynch law and administer
j unauthorized vengeance.
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YORKVILLE, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 21, 1872.
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"ACCEPTING THE SITUATION."
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since tne surrender 01 xvodi. Jh. uee, mucu
has been said in the South about accepting
the situation of things. In a political point
of view, there has been very little discretion
left to most of the southern States. The present
condition of things has been forced upon
them, willing or unwilling, and there is not
much probability that in a practical point of
view, any change will take place in the southern
States at an early period. The government
of most of the southern States will remain
in the hands of the present incumbents
for a long time. This is especially true of
South Carolina. It is hardly possible for any
great political change to take place in this
State during the present generation. Our
people may just as well accept this now, as
wait ten or twenty years and then do it. We
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are nrmiy conviaceu mat uu auvautagc,
either for the individual or for the community,
can be secured in any way, or to any extent,
from meddling in politics. Now, as all
the elections are over, we (if we may take the
liberty) would most earnestly advise our people
to do as the fox did which strained every
nerve to reach a ripe bunch of grapes but was
not able. This animal, noted for its cunning,
said, concerning the grapes, when exhausted
by useless labor: "They are sour!" Our
people have struggled manfully to bring about
a political reform and failed?signally failed.
Let us now, as a brave people, quit politics
and go to something else. If our object is
only to make money, there are few better
places on the continent than the State of
South Carolina. Our taxes are high and labor
is uncertain, but in spite of both these
drawbacks, as much money can be made in
South Carolina by farming, in proportion to
the amount of capital necessary to be invested,
as in any State in the Union.
Some of our readers may be disposed to
call this declaration into question. All we
ask is a careful examination of the facts in
the case. Money is power, and land is power.
It will keep any law making body in the
world busy to deprive the land holders from
exercising an influence in society and from
controling their enactments. The men who
own the soil control the bread and meat market,
and consequently exercise an influence
over all in society who eat. With regard to
taxes, it matters veiy little to the property
holder whether they are great or small. The
poor man, who has no capital but his labor,
has to pay them all, or the heaviest part of
the burden falls upon him. A few days ago
we heard a planter of this county declare that
he would not take twenty dollars per acre for
his land. The reason he assigned was that
land was a better investment than money
loaned at one and one-half per cent, per
month. He positively declared that his
lands had paid him, the present year, from
twenty to thirty-five per cent, on the capital
invested. Let us make the calculation. Three
acres of ordinary land will, one year with
another, make a bale of cotton. The land
will cost not more than ten dollars per acre.
This would make the three acres worth thirty
dollars. The bale of cotton would sell for
seventy dollars. Suppose it takes one half to
produce it; this would leave thirty-five dollars.
Suppose that it takes one half of this
thirty-five dollars to keep up repairs, pay
taxes and supply the means for cultivating
the land. This would leave a clear gain of
seventeen dollars and fifty cents, or a little
more than fifty-eight per cent, on the capital
invested. A thousand dollars thus invested
would make, in round numbers, five hundred
and eighty-three dollars.
If labor is uncertain, it is surely cheaper
and more profitable than it ever was. Once
there was money invested in the labor of this
country ; now there is none. This is one condition
our people should accept. It may be
said that labor will become scarce in this
country. There is nothing gained by anticipating
evils. There is not much danger of
such a state of things. It will be time enough
to talk about the scarcity of labor, when that
crisis is upon us.
Our people, generally, are prodigal in their
habits. Few men in the State of South Carolina
have ever learned the art of saving. "We '
must make a change in this respect. The
amount annually expended by our people in
toys and gew gaws, is enormous. We have,
as a whole, contracted the habit of buying
whistles for ourselves, for our wives and for
our children. Dumb watches, brass jewelry j
and wooden nutmegs find a good market j
everywhere amongst our people. All this must
come to an end. There is no economy and ;
far less sense in a people who can make fifty !
eight per cent, on their capital by farming, j
in squandering it in purchasing chips and
whetstones.
There is one other condition which we, as a j
whole, must accept. We must each and all;
of us attend to our own business closely. The
only way that we can make the shop keep us,1
is for us to keep the shop. We aro evidently
passing through a crisis. How long before !
| we will get through no one certainly knows, j
One thing is sure, those who get ahead now j
will, in all human probability, come out first [
and best. Those who got a good start after
the Revolutionary war kept it for a long
time. Some foresighted men at that time
laid the foundation of fortunes which remain
to the present day.
To our people generally, we would say
struggle manfully. Never despair. Let the
man who Is in debt get out as soon as possible,
even if he has to sacrifice some of his
property; and let the man who is out of debt
invest every dollar in property of some kind.
Property of all kinds, and especially lands,
will be valuable some day in South Carolina.
We believe it is the duty of all our people to
become property holders and to educate their
children. Without any education and possessed
of no property, a man holds a position
in society not much, if any, higher than a
monkey. Such au individual is torcea, Dy
surrounding circumstances, to do the dirty
work of the community in which he lives.
THE COLLECTION OF TAXES.
Orders for the hearing of two motions for
injunctions have been granted by Judge Melton,
in Columbia, during the past week. The
first is intended to prevent Parker, the present
Treasurer, from diverting the new levy of
taxes, when collected, to improper purposes,
and is ordered for a hearing to-day. The
second is for the purpose of restraining the
collection of the taxes, and Saturday next is
fixed for a hearing. The reason assigned for
the last mentioned injunction is that as the law
now stands, no tax can be legitimately levied
and collected, inasmuch as the Constitution
only authorizes the collection of an annual
tax. The tax collected last winter was for
the purpose of meeting the appropriations for
the fiscal year commencing November 1st,
1871. By the late levy, it is proposed to apply
the taxes, now ordered to be collected, to
the appropriations made for the same year,
leaving the expenses for the year, commencing
November 1st, 1872, to be provided for hereafter.
The order of Judge Melton is based
upon a complaint made by Attorney-General
Chamberlain, on the part of the tax payers
and citizens of the State, and it is asserted by
the Carolinian that the new administration
are at the bottom of the proceedings. If this
be correct, the indications are that it is the
purpose of the new "powers that be," to pay
some attention to the rights of the people. Of
one thing, however, our people may rest assured,
that they will have to pay taxes, let
the matters at issue be decided as they may.
FACTS.
It is universally admitted that South
Carolinans are a disconted people. Nearly
every planter is ready to sell out, pack up
and leave for some place where things are, as
he supposes, better. What are the facts in
the case? South Carolinians are agriculturists.
To this they have been educated. The
mass of our people know nothing about any
thing else. We have facilities for manufacturing,
but we are by no means disposed to
avail ourselves of these natural facilities.
Now how does South Carolina compare as an
agricultural country with other sections of
the United States ? Taking all things into
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there is not another State in the Union which
has so many agricultural advantages. In
some States more of some particular production
of the soil can be made; but so far as variety
of productions and certainty of crops
are concerned, South Carolina stands unrivaled.
Never, within the history of any living
man, has there been an entire failure of
crops in South Carolina. In many of her
sister Southern States it is no uncommon thing
for the cotton crop to be totally cut off by
rot, caterpillar, boll worm or something else.
In some of the best cotton growing States
about one crop in three years is all that is
made. We dread long droughts in South
Carolina, but the droughts in any and every
other section of the United States, are as
common and often more severe. In the middle
and upper sections of South Carolina, the
soil and climate are admirably adapted both
to'the raising of cereals and cotton. Wheat,
rye, oats, barley and corn do well on soil
which produces good crops of cotton. Clover
and timothy, and in fact all of the better
kinds of grass, grow well in the upper and
middle sections of the State. South Carolina,
as a farming country, has as many advantages,
and as few drawbacks as any State in
the Union. The government of the State we
admit is unfavorable. This we from our
heart deplore. It is a pity that any people,
possessing so many natural advantages, should
be oppressed by such a freak as is the governernment
of South Carolina.
SOUTH UAKUL13A HEWS.
? Dr. Eli Cornwell, of Cheater, died on the
12th instant.
? The horse-disease has appeared in Columbia
and Winnsboro. It is of a mild type.
? The Circuit Court for Union county, commenced
its sitting on Monday last.
? The Clarendon Press learns that a project
is on foot, to annex Clarendon to Sumter.
? There will be seventeen new Senators in
the next Legislature.
? Governor-elect Moses has selected H. H.
DeByron of Union, as his private Secretary.
? Governor Scott has appoiuted John C.
Reister and Benjamin Macon, Trial Justices
for Chester County.
? The Chester Division, No. 10, of Sons of
Temperance, has sent in a handsome donation
to the Palmetto Orphan Home.
? The publication of the Temperance Cause,
which was issued at Chester, has been discontinued
for the want of sufficient patronage.
? Roland Rhett, Esq., has been appointed
General Agent of the South Carolina Railroad
at Columbia, vice John E. Marley, deceased.
? In the contested election cases from Lancaster,
the Board of State Canvassers have
declared the persons who received the largest
number of votes as duly elected.
? Hon. R. B. Elliott, colored, Gov. Scott,
Hon. F. J. Moses, Sr., and "Honest" John
.Patterson, are candidates lor tne united states
Senate.
? Mrs. Cynthia Poag, widow of John Poag,
and Mrs. Chambers, widow of W. McCreight
Chambers, died in the town of Chester last
week.
? S. S. Walker, J. Tolleson and A. F. Kendrick,
of Union county, were arrested last j
week on the charge of being ku-klux. They j
were admitted to bail.
? The Marion Star says that John Robin- j
son's circus did not give a night performance ;
in that place because there were so many !
drunken men in town.
? Tim Hurley, of Charleston, and S. J.
Lee, colored, of Aiken, are the two most
prominent candidates for the Speakership of!
the House of Representatives.
? Mr. W. M. McDonald, of Chester, has j
been reinstated in the office of Trial Justice, j
from which he was suspended a short timej
ago. i
? The General Assembly of South Carolina
will meet at Columbia on Tuesday next, 26th
instant. The Union expresses the opinion
that the newly elected State officers will be
inaugurated about the 6rst of December.
? The AugUBta papers report that Rev.
Tilman R. Gaines, the general agent of the
Palmetto Orphan Home, located in Columbia,
is meeting with considerable success soliciting
subscriptions in Augusta.
? Mr. E. V. Smalley, traveling correspondent
of the New York Tribune, was in Columbia
a few days ago. It is rumored that
his visit was for the purpose of securing testimony
to be used in the libel suit Governor
Scott has instituted against the Tribune.
? The Synod of South Carolina met at the
Presbyteriau church in Columbia, on Wednesday
evening of last week. There was a full
attendance of ministers. Rev. H. R. Dickson
called the body to order, and preached the
opening sermon. The new organization was
then made. Rev. J. 0. Lindsay was elected
Moderator, Rev. R. A. Mickle, temporary
clerk, and Gen. W. L. T. Prince, assistant
clerk.
? At the residence of the Misses Rollin, in
Columbia, last week, there was a meeting of
the Woman's Suffrage Association of the
State, Gov. R. K. Scott, presiding. Lieutenant-Governor
A. J. Ransier, Governor elect
F. J. Moses, Jr., W. J. Whipper, Miss Lottie
Rollin, Hon. D. H. Chamberlain, Mrs. R. C.
DeLarge and Miss Martha Schoheld, were
chosen delegates to the National Convention
of Woman's Suffrage Association which was
to assemble at St. Louis on yesterday.
? The Missionary Record, of which R. H.
Cain, (colored,) the Congressman at Large
from South Carolina, is the editor and proprietor,
says that the policy indicated in the
Republican State Conventions "will be strictly
carried out by the Legislature and State
officers?and throughout the whole State there
will be efforts made to bring about that Btate
of affairs which will secure to the whole people
a prosperity heretofore unknown since, or
before Reconstruction."
? The Rock Hill Lantern, of Tuesday, says:
"A move has been made by the Rock Hill
Grange to petition the General Assembly to
repeal the law concerning fences, and in lieu
thereof to enact a stock law for the eastern
section of York county. Petitions are now
in the hands of men who will canvass this
part of the county and take the names of all
who approve the measure. The western section
of the county will not be included in this
petition, because it is understood that that
section does not desire a change in the law."
? The Welsh Neck Baptist Association,
which was in session at Darlington at the
time of the Boston conflagration, received the
tidings of the great calamity with the warmest
exp ression of sorrow and sympathy. A
handsjme collection was immediately taken
up, and the proceeds sent to the stricken city.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? At the recent term of Gaston Superior
Court, Judge Logan presiding, His Honor
especially charged the grand jury on the subject
of ku-kluxing, conspiracy, &c.
? York Lattimore and Jerry Thompson,
colored, convicted at the last term of Rutherford
Superior Court for the murder of Samuel
Martin, colored, in March last, were hanged
at Rutherford on Friday.
? James W. Elliott was convicted at the last
term of Davidson Superior Court of killing
Jesse Harris, and sentenced to be hung December
20th. An appeal was taken to the
Supreme Court.
? Charlotte has had two cases of small pox,
the first case having been brought there by a
railroad conductor. The Democrat says the
two cases are almost entirely well, and no new
case has occurred.
? The Legislature met on Monday last and
organized. Col. James T. Morehead, of Guilford,
was elected Speaker of the Senate to
hold that position until the inauguration of
the -Lieutenant-ijovernor; ana dames Li.
Robinson, of Macon, was made Speaker of
the House.
? Among the agricultural implements exhibited
at the fair at Wilmington, was a cotton-picking
machine, which, it is claimed,
will do the work of fifty-two hands. Tho
machine was tested in a cotton field near the
grounds, but the report of the committee has
not yet been published.
? David Cloninger, living near Catawba
Station, was arrested a few days ago upon a
United States Commissioner's warrant and
bound over to the U. S. District Court on a
charge of violating the internal revenue laws,
his offense consisting in paying a neighbor
three twists of home-made tobacco for splitting
a few rails.
? Messrs. J. Y. Bryce & Co., and B. R.
Smith & Co., two Charlotte firms engaged in
business in Boston, lost their office and office
furniture, by the recent fire in the latter city.
It is understood that the books, papers, etc.,
belonging to the business of each of these
firms were saved. No cotton was destroyed
by the fire belonging to either of these firms.
? The decision of the coroner's jury in the
case of the Rev. Dr. J. Brinton Smith, who
died in Raleigh on the morning of the 1st
ultimo, was rendered on the 13th instant,
after the reception of the report of Dr. Geuth,
of Philadelphia, who made a chemical analysis
of the stomach and brains of the deceased.
Traces of poison are alleged to have been
found, sufficient to confirm the suspicions at
first entertained, that Dr. Smith had been
poisoned, and his wife and daughter have
been arrested and committed to jail on the
charge of having administered the fatal dose.
The case excites much interest in Raleigh on
account of the high social position of the
parties. Dr. Smith was a northern man, and
has been a resident of Raleigh for the past
four or five years. He was President of St.
Augustine College, (colored) and an able and
distisguished Episcopal minister. He is said
to have been a gentleman of rare intellectual
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endowments, uuu naa many menus auu aumirers
in Raleigh. The accused had a hearing
before Judge Watts on Saturday last, and
were discharged on the ground that there was
no evidence against them.
The New Tax Levy.?The following is
the full text of the circular issued by Comptroller-General
Neagle to the various County
Auditors, directing the tax levy :
You are hereby authorized and directed, in
accordance with the provisions of law on this
subject, to levy the following taxes on all
taxable property in your county: To meet
appropriations for the fiscal year commencing
November 1, 1871, six mills on a dollar; for
the support of public schools, two mills on a
dollar; for payment of the interest accruing
prior to January 1, 1873, on the following
bonds and stocks: Bonds and stocks outstanding
on the 1st November, 1870, as shown by
Comptroller-General's report for the fiscal
vear ending 31st October, 1870,87,665,908.98; j
balance of new bonds in hands of the Finan-1
cial Agent of the State on the above date,!
and since sold for the benefit of the State, I
82,200,000?total, $9,865,908.98.^ And such j
others as may have been issued in exchange j
for any of the above, under Conversion Act
of March 23, 1869, four mills on a dollar. j
Columbia, S. C., November 13, 1872. I
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
M. Strauss A Son?Shirting?Spool Cotton?Bedticks?Calico?Mutual
Benefit?Raglans,
Overcoats and Derbies?Breakfast ShawlsBroad
Cloth?Received this Week?Groat
Fire in Boston.
E. N. Crawford A Co.?Hats?Snuff and Segars?
Jeans?Powder, Shot and Caps.
Carroll, Clark A Co.?Wooden Ware?Glass and
Putty?Hardware?Tacks?Locks?Opera
Flannel?Planes?Cartridges?Mills?Paper
Collars?Cards.
T. M. Dobson A Co.?Groceries?Blank BooksInitial
Paper?Looking Glasses?ReadyMade
Clothing?Shoes?John Oates?Sad
Irons?Flannels?Dress Goods?Furs?Coffee
Mills?Bed Castors and Screws?Cashmere?Bombazine?Suspenders?Bleached
Goods?Plow Steel.
S. A. McElwee?Estray Cow.
W. B. Williams?House and Lot for Sale.
Walker A Brice, Plaintiff's Attorneys?To Minor
Wallace, James Gill, and Julia Gill, his
wife.
Carolina National Bank of Columbia, S. C.
W. H. A J. P. Herndon?Truth?Yarn?Come?
Andirons?Flour.
John C. Kuykendftl?The York Drn& Store?Another
Supply?Mineral Sperm Oil?Snuff
and Tobacco?Smoker's Articles.
GOING TO TEXAS.
Mr. Peter McOallum, one of the old citizens
of this county, is perfecting arrangements
for removing to Texas with his family. He
informs us that he expects to start in about
two weeks.
DEMONSTRATOR OF ANATOMY.
We are pleased to learn from the Columbia
papers that our young fellow citizen, Dr. John
A. Watson, of Clay Hill, in this county, has
been appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy in
the South Carolina University, vice Dr. Edward
Smith, resigned.
PETITION FOR PARDON.
The Columbia papers of Saturday last say
that a numerously-signed petition has been
prepared, to which Governor Scott and Governor-elect
Moses will append their signatures,
requesting President Grant to pardon
the ku-klux prisoners now confined in the
Albany Penitentiary.
THE JUDGE OF PROBATE'S OFFICE.
On Friday last the Board of State Canvassers
in Columbia, took up the contested election
case from this county in regard to the
office of Judge of Probate. Gen. R. B. Elliott
and J. A. Dunbar, Esq., appeared for
Samuel B. Hall, Esq., the contestant, and
and Maj. C. Davis Melton, for Col. Joseph
A. McLean, the contestee. After hearing
the arguments, the returns of the county canvassers
were confirmed and Col. McLean declared
duly elected.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM "DOWN EAST."
Boston, Mass., November 14,1872.
The old saying:?
"troubles never come singly,"
Has been fearfully illustrated by recent events
in this city. First came the small pox, leaving
traces of its terrible ravages on many of
the fairest faces in the community. This horrible
enemy to the "human face divine" having
been checked in its epidemic career, and
believed to be under control, the horse distemper
made its appearance, causing great inconvenience
and serious loss to many people.
The horse disease abating, Grant's reelection
to the Presidency was a new calamity to many
of the "unterrified," and hopes were expressed
both "loud and deep," that the ghost of Nick
Whiffle's dog had disappeared from the mundane
sphere, and old "Calamity" would give
iia ft nhnrt 9Pft9on of reaL But not 80. There
seems to be "no rest for the wicked," for the
LAST CALAMITY
Was the most terrible and serious of any that
preceded it I have reference to the
GREAT FIRE
Which broke out in this city on the evening
of the 9th?the most terrible and destructive,
to both life and property, with probably one
exception, that ever occurred in the United
States. The flames swept over about eighty
acres of territory, nine-tenths of which was
occupied by the finest business buildings in
this city. All that portion, described in my
last letter as the headquarters of the wholesale
merchants, and a large portion mentioned as
the marts of the retail trade, is now a burning
and smoking pile of ruins. The wealthiest
portion of the City of Boston exists no longer,
and it is estimated that the actual loss of real
and personal property will amount to
ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.
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isotwitnstanaing mis great loss mere win not
be so much pereoDal suffering as was experienced
by the recent disastrous conflagration
at Chicago, from the fact that the greater portion
of the city over which the flames swept
was devoted to business, and but comparatively
few residences were destroyed, The horrors
of the Chicago fire, to some extent, were
repeated, and as a strange coincidence, both
fires broke out on the same day of the month
and the same day of the week. The Chicago
fire commenced on Saturday night, October
9, and the Boston fire on Saturday night, November
9. Nearly all the buildings destroyed
first caught in the roof and burned downward,
the roofs falling in, carrying with them such
an intense heat that everything inflammable
was soon a burning mass. By midnight the
streets were one vast sea of men, women and
children, and teams were moving in every direction,
with great piles of merchandise, seeking
places of safety. The Common was transformed
into a vast store-house for rescued
goods, while the City Hall yard, the City Hall
and the nrinciDal hotels in the vicinitv were
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turned into temporary depots.
It was soon found that the fire had got beyond
the control of the fire-department, and
telegrams were sent to neighboring cities for
assistance. By means of extra trains, engines
from Lynn, Lowell, Lawrence, Worcester,
Springfield, Providence, R. L, Hartford and
New Haven, Connecticut, arrived here early
on Sunday morning.
It is said that at a distance of a hundred
miles the glare of the fire could be seen. The
dome on the State House and the taller church
steeples stood out in brilliant magnificence,
and every street within the radius of a mile
was beautifully illuminated. The adage, j
"riches take to themselves wings and fly away" i
was very truthfully verified in one instance, <
at least. A fifty dollar note, considerably
crisped and blackened, was picked up twenty :
miles from the city, and almost as soon as it <
came in contact with the hands of the finder, I
crumbled to ashes. I
The fire got under considerable headway 1
before it was discovered, and owing to the <
continued prevalence of the distemper among <
the horses of the fire department, most of the i
engines had to be drawn to the scene of the i
conflagration by hand, and the delay thus 1
caused made the control of the burning build- i
ings a matter of considerable doubt. A fresh 1
breeze was blowing, which caused a spread of I
the fire after the walls of the building, in I
which the fire originated, fell. The walls i
parted and tumbled with a terrible crash in i
three parts, scattering the fire in all directions,
while the fearful heat of the burning building ]
soon caused the ignition of neighboring stores, i
The flames, being entirely beyond human control,
soon swept block after block and engines 1
became almost useless. Great sheets of flame i
went forward, breaking iuto forks of fire and i
rolled up volumes of smoke. The air seemed j
burned out and the heavens appeared dull and
lifeless. About midnight
THE STREETS WERE FULL OF MOVERS.
Here, there, and everywhere was to be seen
people with bundles of all kinds, hurrying
away from the flames. At almost every step
men were met carrying bundles of books in
their arms, with the remark, "that is all we
could save." Thieves, with plunder, could be
seen "running the gauntlet" of the cordon of
police, while everywhere men and boys were
laden with clothing and other valuables,
which had been given them to save from the
burning elements. So great was the uncertainty
of the direction the fire would take, it
became a difficult matter to decide what place
would be safe for the storage of goods after
they were rescued from the burning buildings.
When it became evident that stores and their
contents could not De secured, raercnants gave
a general invitation to on-lookers to "walk in
and help themselves," and you can rest assured
many poor fellows are supplied with a good
stock of winter clothing.
The struggle with the fire was the most severe
on Washington street, and the firemen
fought it inch by inch, amid falling walls and
terrible heat. The buildings fell aud the firemen
retreated only far enough to get beyond
the crumbling walls. As soon as the smoke
and dirt would clear away they went to work
again, only to be driven back in the same
manner.
At the beginning of the fire, merchants removed
their books and papers from their own
places of business to points quite remote from
the fire, but lost their valuables in the end, as
most of the fancied secure places of deposit
were destroyed. Thieves were in profusion
everywhere, and several persons who had secured
valuables from the burning ruins at the
risk of their lives, were assaulted and robbed
while on the way to their homes.
The fire burned telegraph poles, and lines
were broken all through the burnt district,
but by means of extemporized offices, Boston
was soon placed in communication with the
"outside world," and as I write hundreds of
<^>eratives are at work all over the city putting
up new wires.
Telegrams having been received from New
York that large numbers of thieves were en
route for this city, troops were summoned
from "Porta Tndenendenoe and Warren and
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stationed at the sub-treasury and at the Bank
of Safe Deposit, ready to give the New York
roughs a warm reception. The marines from
the navy yard at Charleston came over and
assisted in guarding the places where it was
deemed necessary to protect the property of
citizens.
As is usual in such cases, there was a heavy
demand for vehicles of all kinds, and people
who were fortunate enough to own a horse and
wagon or hand cart, reaped a rich harvest.
A merchant who offered a teamster $50 for
the use of his team to remove a load of valuables,
was coolly informed that the team was
already engaged at 8100 per load.
The daily Transcript office, very recently
erected, and one of the finest printing offices
in TTnif/wl Qfo foo moa anfi rnltr
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Within this immediate vicinity all the daily
newspapers are printed, but the Trariscript
was the only daily office destroyed. Eleven
monthly and fifteen weekly papers, besides a
large number of book aud job offices were
burnt out; and to add to the uncertainty of
resuming business, all the type foundries were
swept away.
The Post Office was so badly damaged that
it is unfit for occupancy, and Fanueil Hall is
now the temporary quarters of the postal department
in this city. The new Post Office
OA V>o rl 1YT mo re a A f VlO f if will Ka nrfthft
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bly two years before it can be occupied for the
purposes for which it was being erected. The
Old South Church, (described in a former
letter to the Enquirer, and which has been
the scene of so many interesting events in the
history of Boston,) has been leased to the government
for two years, and will be used for
a post office as soon as the necessary alterations
can be made.
Strange as it may appear, there was much
coolness exhibited under all the heating circumstances,
and as an incident of this class, it
was amusing to witness the undisturbed aspect
of a chestnut vender on one of the corners
near the scene of the fire. While thousands
were hurrying past with boxes and bundles
of every conceivable description, this
child of "Sunny Italy" pursued his humble
calling, seeming totally unconscious of danger;
and while Boston burned the Italian roasted?
his chestnuts.
Great excitement prevailed along all the
lines of travel leading into the city, and the
early boats and trains arriving on Sunday
morning were crowded with passengers to witness
the effect of the fire fiend. Every street
and avenue was crowded with curiosity seekers,
and it was with great difficulty that pedestrians
were able to get along. Notwithstanding
the great crowds of people jostling
and pushing each other in their eagerness to
get glimpses of the great disaster, the best of
order prevailed.
A large number of thieves availed themselves
of the opportunity to follow their favorite
calling during the general panic,
though, fortunately, large numbers of them
fell into the hands of the police, and were
locked up to await the disposition of the
courts. The Tombs and all the station-houses
were crowded with the light-fingered gentry,
and there appeared to be no room left for their
accommodation. But "where there's a will
there's a way," and it was no uncommon sight
in the environs of the burnt district to see
many of these gentry quietly standing in the
streets, ornamented with "corporation bracelets,"
awaiting their removal to a place where
there would be little danger of getting their
garments scorched.
THE SUFFERING
Of poor people in that portion of the city
where tenement houses were burned was very
great. Old men and woraei, with children
and sick people were obliged to exchange the
comforts of warm rooms for the open streets.
Those persons who were so sick as to be bedridden
were carried into houses where it seemed
impossible for the fire to reach, but in
many cases the worst was realized and the
temporary abiding places were swept before
the fury of the blaze. At one place hundreds
sf the homeless poor were collected, and their
londition was pitiful indeed. In many instances
inmates of the honses escaped with
nothing but their night-clothes. As the fresh
breeze chilled the women and children, roughlooking
men, with warm hearts, procured articles
of bedding and carefully wrapped up
the suffering ones. The terrors of the fire often
affected weak human nature, and many
instances of fainting and occasional loss of
reason occurred.
To add to the horrors of the situation, gaspipes
exploded in many places, and the city
for nights was in
COMPLETE DARKNE8S,
Causing great inconvenience and much uneas-1
mess on account of the opportunity for thiev- j
ng and burglary. Although the streets were I
left without the usual illumination, people
made the best of the situation by laying in
supplies of indies and lamps, and by Tuesday
noon the lamp-stores were exhausted of their
large stock, and candles were at a premium.
The exigencies of the case seemed to demand
it, and the city was placed under
MARTIAL LAW,
While all the approaches to the burnt district,
within the radius of a half mile, are guarded
by the State militia, some three thousand of
whom are constantly on duty.
INCIDENT.
During the progress of the fire it was believed
utterly impossible to stay its onward
march by means of water, and the only recourse
left seemed to be that "last resort," the
blowing up of buildings with powder. Several
buildings were thus removed, when it was
found that there was not sufficient powder in
the city to complete the work. An order was
sent to the Charleston Navy Yard, and the
commandant promptly furnished the desired
article. The curiosity of the crowd to see the
fire?wherever they could get access to it?was
so crreat in manv instances as to render them
almost indifferent to danger in any form.
When orders were given for blowing up a
building on Water street a large crowd lingered
a little too near for safety, and were informed
of the fact by the police, but they paid
no attention to the warning. Soon a team,
loaded with powder, drove up, and the driver
remarked to those near him that they were in
danger and had better retire. A by-stander
sneeringly inquired where the danger was,
whereupon the driver, lifting the wet blankkets
covering his load, qujetly remarked: "In ?
this wagon there is a thousand pouqds of powder
and the air is full of sparks of fire 1" It
is hardly necessary to add that discretion got
the better of curiosity, and the vicinity of that
team was cleared of people just as quick as
legs could carry them.
THE CITY CROWDED. ,, .,
The influx of strangers from all sections is
very great. The hotels and boarding houses
are full, and strangers experieuce much difficulty
in procuring adequate accommodations.
Every train and steamboat seems to add to
the large multitude already gathered here,
and judging from the space occupied in the
streets by paniers and Grecian bends, the fair
sex predominates.
TEN THOUSAND SEWING GIRLS,
Besides several thousand book-keepers, salesmen
and laborers have been thrown out of employment
by the ravages of the fire. There
is no fear of destitution, as aid, in the shape
of money, is coming in from all quartyrs.
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treasurers appointed to receive and disburse
donations. All the sewing girls who have
been thrown out of employment, and others
who were rendered destitute, will be prompt- ly
relieved.
AN EXTRA SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE.
Gov. Washburn, at the solicitation of the
City Council, has issued a proclamation calling
upon the members of the Legislature to
meet in extra session, in this city, on the 19th
instant, for the purpose of taking such steps
as may be deemed necessary for the relief of
the sufferers. The principal business to be
transacted by that body will be the passage
of a law granting to the city#authorities power
to issue twenty million dollars worth of bonds,
redeemable in not less than ten years, and
bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent,
per annnm. It is proposed to place the proceeds
of the sale of such bonds at the disposal
of merchants to resume business. There is
much sympathy for the sufferers, and little
doubt is entertained that ample provision will
be made.
THE LIQUOR SALOONS
Have been closed by the authorities, and policemen
are stationed at the doors to see that
no liquor is sold or given away. This action
on the part of the authorities has proved a
wise precautionary measure, for with the absence
of drunkenness general quiet has prevailed.
REBUILDING COMMENCED.
To give you an idea of the energy and
cheerfulness of the people, it is only necessary
to state that laborers are busily engaged
clearing away the debris of the ruins for the
purpose of erecting new buildings. Even at
this early stage of the great disaster, many
building permits have been issued.
ALL QUIET.
Quiet reigns supreme, and the people are
gradually resuming business in new locations,
and but for the soldiery on guard and patroling
the streets, a stranger would not suppose
anything extraordinary had occurred.
HUITKIDOBI.
DELINQUENT LAND SALE8.
The following extracts from a recent discussion
of the Supreme Court of this State on
the above subject, presents matters of general
interest:
It will be perceived by Section 114, that no
deed was to be made "for any real estate sold
at delinquent land sale until the expiration of
two years/' and by Bection 116 of the same
act, that land sold at any such delinquent sale
might "be redeemed at any time within two
years from and after such sale." Therefore, it
is clear, that when land was sold at any snch
delinquent land sale, such land might be redeemed
at any time within two years, or
before the deed of conveyance was made to
the purchaser; but after the two years had
expired, the purchaser was entitled to the
deed as the title passed to the purchaser, and
there could be no redemption.
The said section of the act of Assembly of
September loth, 1868, was amended by the act
of Assembly of March 12, 1872, (acts of A.
1871-72, p. 163.) Section 114 was amended
by striking out the words "two years," and inserting
in lieu thereof the words "ninety days."
Thereby declaring that "no deed should be
made for real estate sold at delinquent land
sale until the expiration of "ninety days."
Section 116, which defines the limit of the
time for redemption, as striking out the words *
"two years" wherever the same appears therein,
and inserting in lieu thereof "ninety days."
Section 117, which defines the mode of redemption,
and requires persons desiring to redeem
to, commence action within a certain
time; such action by the said section of the
act was to be commenced "within one year
after the date thereof, or within one year after
the expiration of the disabilities named in
the preceding section" (section 116.) This
section was amended by striking out the
words "one year" wherever the same appeared
therein, and inserting in lieu thereof "thirty
daysand by striking out the words "two
years" wherever the same appears therein, and
inserting the words "ninety days in lieu thereof.
Therefore, if a person whose real estate has
been sold for delinqent taxes since the passage
of the act of March 12th, 1872, wishes to redeem
such real estate, such person must commence
action for such redemption within thirty
days from the time of eole, or from the time a
of the removal of such disabilities mentioned
in section 116, and as no deed should be made
until the expiration of ninety day*, such person
has ninety days in which to redeem such
real estate; and, after the expiration of ninety
days, no redemption can be had of real property
sold under the above named act, unless
action to redeem should be stayed by due process
of law.
Section 4 of the act of Assembly of March
12, 1872, which declares "that all lauds and