Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 30, 1873, Image 2
Scraps and ^acts.
The snow is fully three feet deep in
central New Hampshire.
The Hudson is frozen over at Peekskill
and loaded wagons cross on the ice.
The only Republican paper in Georgia
has suspended publication.
London underwriters refused to insure
a vessel because it was named "The Devil."
At the Alabama Lunatic Asylum the
inmates publish a paper called the Meteor.
Lake Champlain was frozeu over last
week for the first time in fifty-eight years.
Thousands of young women practice at
the bar in England. They are known as bar
maids.
A pound of energy with an ounce of
talent will achieve greater results than a
pound of talent and an ounce of energy.
The epizootic is reported to have attacked
the rabbits and other small game in
the Kentucky mountains.
It is stated that a general reduction of
telegraph rates will be inaugurated shortly by
all the companies. J
Forty per cent, of the suicides in New
York, last year, were Germans, yet in their
native land suicide is very rare.
The Georgia Senate has passed a bill
to repeal the usury laws. It fixes the rate of
interest only in the absence of an agreement.
Four thousand dollars Confederate
money were sold in Lake City, Fla., last
week, at 82.50 per thousand.
Josh Billings says that if he can have
plenty of mackerel for breakfast he can generally
manage to make the other two meals
out of water.
An Iowa man, who had heard complaints
of the scarcity of small change, went
into the manufacture of nickels. His efforts
were appreciated, and he is now in jail.
It is reported of a Cincinnati clergyman
that he refused to commune with his
congregation, because his salary was reduced
to two thousand dollars a year.
Eighteen cadets of the youngest class
at West Point, having failed to pass the preliminary
examination, are to be discharged.
This uuraber of failures is larger than usual.
A Chinaman, who had become snowblind
while working on the Central Pacific
Railway, applied at a San Francisco Police
station on the 3d instant, for official permission
to have himself shot.
A Milwaukie lady had several hundred
dollars worth of point lace clipped off
her clothing by an adroit thTef while she was
at church singing "Strip me of the robe of
pride; clothe me in humility."
A gentleman at Lancaster, Pa., has a
horse that takes his children to school in the
morning, returning home driverless, and at
night returns for thern in the same way, rubbing
his nose against the window pane to indicate
his presence.
A lady went out with her little girl and
boy, and purchased the latter a rubber balloon,
which escaped him and went up in the air.
The girl, seeing tears in his eyes, said "Never
mind, Neddy; when you die and go to heaven,
you'll dit it."
The Montgomery Advertiser learns
from gentlemen just returned from Texas,
that there are in that State not less than
10,000 meu who would be willing to work as
day laborers on the farms of Alabama, if by
so doing they could be assured of their return
to that State.
The military escort at the inauguration
of Presideut Grant is to be a brillant display;
There will be present in Washington several
of the smartest volunteer regiments from the
Eastern cities, four companies of regulars, a
battalion of marines and the whole of the
Cadets from West Point.
The colored people are to have an excursion
to Washington to witness the inauguration
of Grant, on the^ 4th of next March.
Charleston,Columbia, Wilmington and Goldsboro,
are to be the starting points, and the 2d
of March the time specified for taking the
cars.
A charitable lady of St. Louis sent one
of her last vear's dresses to a destitute woman
recently. She was somewhat surprised to
have it returned with the: statement that it
was too full behind for the present style, and
hoped she would take out a breadth and change
the trimming.
The tempest of snow which recently
swept over Minnesota and Iowa, is described
by letters written from the scene, as having
been unparalleled in that section. How many
people perished is not positively known, but
the estimates range from 250 to 738, and hundreds
of cattle have also been frozen to death
or buried alive in the snow.
A writer in the Kansas Magazine has
measured the type used in a copy of the New
York Herald, and also that used in a popular
volume of travels. The former was found to
coutain about 960,000 ems, while the latter, a
book of 591 pages, measured only 836,000
ems. In other words, the single copy of the
newspaper, which sold at four cents, was
equivalent to a book of 680 pages, or 89 more j
pages than were contained in a volume that
sold for 83.50.
The New Army Register, just issued, I
reports that during last year there were thir-1
ty-six resignations, ten commissions vacated j
by new appointments, three commissions can- j
celled, thirty-two deaths, two officers retired,;
four dismissed, five cashiered, and nineteen !
honorably discharged. No officer above the
grade of a captain either resigned or was dismissed,
cashiered, retired, or discharged.
Four of the officers who died were killed in
fighting the Indians. Two Major-Generals
died during the year?Meade and Halleck.
The Petersburg Index believes that I
Virginia is not so badly off after all. It says:
"Money is more plentiful and at easier rates
year by year. New industries have been established
and are prospering, while those already
established have advanced far beyond
their former measure of profit. Not a town
in our limits but is fairly prosperous, and not
a county where fences have not been replaced,
houses built, stock increased, farming utensils
renewed, fertilizers applied and increased pro- j
ft notion nvor tko <torl- yoarc of'67, '68 and I
'69 realized.
Reading, Penn., possesses, among its |
citizens, one Professor Donaldson, who has ,!
successfully made, since last August, twenty- j
four ascents in his balloon in various parts of
the South and West. He has been up as high j
as three miles, as indicated by his barometer, I
and, although many accidents have befallen [
him, he has survived them all. Having per- j
formed many daring exploits above the clouds j
he now proposes, as he told the reporter of a j
Reading paper, to cross the Atlantic Ocean j
the ensuing summer, availing himself of the !
current of wind which, it has been ascertained,!
blows from West to East, at a distance of say 1
two miles and a half above the earth. He |
expects to complete the trip of 2000 miles in :
? . -i rni t__ll !
something over two aays. jrnree uuuouns :
joined together, with boat, ballast, provisions, j
and all the necessary requirements, and with ;
a basket attached to the balloon, will consti-1
tute his aerial ship. Previous to this grand j
venture, he will first make a voyage from St. j
Louis to Boston.
The New York Commercial Advertiser :
is responsible for the following: Some months j
ago, an Episcopalian clergyman who intended
to pass the Sabbath in one of the out-of-theway
districts of South Carolina, gave notice
that he would hold divine service in a dilapi- j
dated hall that had been unused since the !
breaking out of the civil war. The inhabit-1
ants of this unfrequented place were mostly :
negroes, and at the appointed hour they filled
the hall to overflowing. On the entrance of
the clergyman, clothed in the sacred vestments ;
of the church, an old darkey, sitting beside ;
the door, espied him, and mistaking his call-1
ing, sung out "Ku-Klux," when the entire
congregation tumbled every which way, out
of the windows and through the doors, making
.for the woods as fast as their legs would carry
them. One old darkey woman foil headlong
into an unused post hole, with her heels high
in the air, but was rescued by a couple of colored
deacons after a good deal of squalling
and protestation that she really thought them
"ongracious white niggers" were about to
slaughter her. Order and a portion of the
audience having returned, the services were
j concluded, the clergyman preaching a very
' eloquent sermon from the text, "None but the
upright shall enter."
She ^torhviUf (Jritquiw.
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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate, on the 21st, the credentials
of Pinchback, claiming to be the duly elected
Senator from Louisiana, were presented. A
bill was introduced by Alcorn of Mississippi
in behalf of the levees on the Mississippi
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thorizing the reference to the Court of Claims
of the claims of book agents of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South. The Civil Rights
bill passed, two conservative Senators voting
with the majority. In the House, the Committee
on Appropriations was ordered to enquire
into the details of the telegraph business.
The admission of Colorado was discussed
the remainder of the day.
In the Senate, on the 22nd, a memorial
was presented from the merchants of New
Orleans, asking the Government to take
charge of the Mississippi levees. The bill for
building war sloops passed. The bill abolishing
the rank of Admiral and Vice-Admiral
of the Navy was passed, and goe3 to the
President. The bill abolishing the franking
privilege, commencing the 1st of July next,
passed. The House proceedings were unimportant.
The Senate proceedings on the 23rd, were
unimportant. In the .tiouse, the Ureciit luobilier
Committee were instructed to investigate
the Central Pacific and other railroad
operations affecting members of Congress. A
bill was passed relieving alcohol used for
scientific purposes from tax. The appropriation
Committee of the House agreed to appropriate
$125,000 for public buildings in
Columbia, S. C.
In the Senate, on the 24th, there was a
long debate over exacting money from the
Pacific railroad already paid for freights.
A bill was introduced authorizing a pneumatic
tube from New York to Chicago. A bill
for the construction of public buildings at
Montgomery, Ala., was introduced. A Memorial
of the National Commercial Convention,
in behalf of the Atlantic and Great Western
Canal, was presented and referred to a
special committee on National Navigation.
In the House, the report of the Election Committee
that neither DeLarge nor Bowen, of
South Carolina, were entitled to a seat, was
adopted without a dissenting voice.
The Senate was not in session on the 25th.
In the House a bill was passed ordering the
sale of the Custom House property at Plymouth,
N. C.
In the Senate, on the 27th, a bill was passed
requiring National Banks to restore their capital
when impaired, and in other respects
amending the National currency act. In the
House, bills were introduced by Mr. Beck to
refund certain cotton taxes. A bill was
passed declaring that the meaning of the
amendment to the bankrupt law was to allow
the exemption provided for by the State laws.
A resolution instructing the Committee of
Ways and Means to report a bill to refund
the cotton tax was lost by a vote of 76 to 105.
The bill abolishing the franking privilege as
passed by the Senate, was passed by a vote of
143 to 48, and goes to the Presideut. The
bill has not been published ; but it is said to
be simple and unincumbered with provisions.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Governor Moses ha3 appointed Allan
Jones, of Rock Hill, a Notary Public.
? Over 1900 people of Oconee have paid
their taxes.
? J. L. Dowdle, of York, has been finally
discharged from bankruptcy.
? W. S. Gregory, Esq., has been appointed
postmaster at Cross Keys, Union county, vice
Miss F. Sparks, resigned.
? The Reporter of last week announces the
death of Dr. R. H. Jordan, one of Chester's
best citizens.
? Walter Morris, of Timmonsville, claims
to have killed ninety-six rice birds at one
shooting of both barrels of his gun, a few days
since.
? W. F. Hague, formerly private Secretary
of ex-Governor Scott, was frozen to death recently,
about five hundred miles west of
Omaha.
? The National Bank of Anderson was
opened on Wednesday of last week. Movements
are on foot to establish National'Banks
in Aiken, Abbeville and Camden.
? The Supreme Court has issued an order
fixing Wednesday, the 7th of May, for the
call of the Sixth Circuit. The term of the
Court will commence on the 15th of April.
? Prof. Jas. Woodrow, editor of the Southern
Presbyterian, returned to Columbia on
last Thursday, after a residence in Europe
for the past ten months.
? The movement in the legislature for a repeal
of the lien law has been defeated for the
present session, by the House striking out the
enacting clause of the bill.
i ?Joseph F. Price, of Union county, con
' victed last year of ku-kluxing and sentenced
(to twelve months imprisonment in the Albany
; penitentiary, returned to his home last week,
' having served out his sentence.
? Hon. James L. Orr, recently appointed
Minister to Russia, left Columbia on Thursday
| last, en route for New York, from whence he
; will proceed to his destination. He is accom'
panied by a son and daughter,
j ?The Lantern gives the following as the
| result of the municipal election at Rock Hill
J on the 15th instant: Intendent?Col. R. M.
{Sims. Wardens?R. T. May, Allen Jones,
! J. J. Hagins and Foster Wood.
? Trial Justice J. G. Mackey, died in Charleston
last week at the age of forty-eight
years. He was a native of that city, and a
half brother of the well-known Masonic writer,
I)r. Albert G. Mackey, and brother of
Judge Thomas J. Mackey.
? W. J. Whipper has written a letter to the
Legislature acknowledging his neglect to turn
over the records of the siuking fund commission,
but excusing himself by charging other
acts of negligence upon ex-Governor Scott and
the other commissioners.
? The Union Times announces the death, at
that place, last week, of Rev. F. Bruce Davis,
Rector of the Episcopal Church in Union, by
being thrown from his horse. Mr. Davis was
a son of the late Right Rev. Thomas F. Davis,
Bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina.
? The bill before the legislature to aid and
encourage manufactures and internal improvements,
was amended on its reading so as
to exempt manufacturers of cotton and woolen
fabrics, and agricultural implements and
railroads from all taxes, except two mills for
school purposes.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The proposition to form several new counties
in the State is now before the Legislature.
? The Raleigh News says that along the
route of the North Carolina Road, the white
people are making a general exodus.
? Four young brides recently met together
in a parlor in Milton. They couldn't look
at each other for laughing.
? Violet Sloan, colored, sentenced to Mecklenburg
county jail one year for concealing
the birth of her child, has been pardoned by
Gov. Caldwell.
? The paper mills belonging to Robert Gray,
of Winston, were entirely destroyed by fire
on Saturday night of last week. The loss is
ueavy, Willi no uisuiituue.
? The people of North Carolina are clamorous
for a repeal of the fence laws, and desire
a change similar to that proposed by
Governor Moses, of this State.
? The melting of the snow in the mountains
last week during the warm spell, says the
Charlotte Observer} caused a tremendous
freshet in Catawba river. The stream was
fuller than it has been for several years.
? The Eagle, published at Hickory, has
donned a new dress and changed its title to
the Piedmont Press. Under the able management
of Mr. John B. Hussey, the Press
is a well-conducted sheet and deserves a liberal
patronage.
? A bill before the Legislature to consolidate
the proposed North Carolina Narrow
Guage railroad with the proposed Chester
and Lenoir Narrow Gauge railroad of South
Carolina, has passed its second reading in the
House of Representatives.
? David Collins, of Rutherford county, convicted
in 1871 of ku-kluxing and sentenced
to the Albany penitentiary for four years, has
been pardoned by the President, and arrived
at his home last week. David Ramseur, convicted
in 1871, at Columbia, has also been
pardoned, and has returned to his home in
Cleveland.
? Last week four negroes were arrested and
confined in the Statesville jail for the murder
of a negro by the name of Redman during the
Christmas holidays. It was reported at the
time that the negro had frozen, and a coroner's
jury rendered a verdict to that effect;
but subsequent events proved that he had
been murdered, which led to an investigation
resulting in the arrest above stated.
? The Charlotte Observer learns that the
King's Mountain gold mine has just been purchased
by a company of gentlemen, most of
whom are fresh from the gold fields of the
Pacific slope, with large experience in mining.
It is said the mine will be worked on an extensive
scale. The newly-discovered process
of desulphurizing the ore will be employed,
by which 97 per cent, of the gold can be saved.
? Ex-Governor Vance recently published a
lengthy letter, vindicating himself and friends
in regard to the Senatorial contest, and insin
uating that Judge Merrimon owes his election
to collusion and intrigue with the Republicans.
Judge Merrimon replies to Vance, and
while he denies having acted with duplicity
or made any dishonorable efforts to secure his
election, he asserts that he is as essentially
conservative to-day as when a candidate last
year on the Democratic ticket for Governor,
and as Senator it is his unalterable purpose
to do his utmost to benefit the whole people,
of all classes, conditions and colors.
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WASHINGTON ITEMS.
? Washington letter writers report that the
cotton tax refunding bill is killed. They say
the committee having it in charge will report
I against it. The adverse report, it is supposed,
I will be made on the ground that the scheme
is intended for the benefit of speculators, instead
of the cotton producers,
? A bill to increase the currency $5,000,000
per annum for five years is before CoDgress,
and was to have been taken up by the Banki
ing and Currency Committee on Tuesday.
! Some of the members of the committee are in
! favor of ameuding the bill by attaching to it
! provisions for free banking, which will prob|
ably kill the original bill,
j ?Mr. Sherman's bill, providing for free
banking, to take effect from July next, and
the resumption of specie payment in January
1 next, meets with considerable favor in both
; Houses of Congress. It is regarded as the
| only feasible mode of reaching specie payi
ments.
! ? A Washington dispatch says that Elliott,
! colored member of Congress from the 3rd j
I South Carolina District, has arrived in Wash-1
: ington in good mental and physical health.
| It is also reported that Elliott says "he has J
abandoned all interest in the late Senatorial
fight, and intends letting the Senate decide on i
Patterson's qualifications without his assis- j
' tance."
? Petitions from various cities, asking the
removal of the tax on deposits in savings;
banks, will be presented in the Senate in a few >
days. This tax is asked to be taken off on :
the ground that it is a tax on the industrial'
: interests and labor of the country, and, inasmuch
as the income tax has been abolished,
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the poor classes claim equal justice with the '
rich.
j ?The two claimants for the Louisiana senatorship
have presented! their certificates,!
which were referred to the Committee on
Elections. The antecedents of Pinchback are 1
i well known. His contestant, General W. L. i
I 1
McMillan, elected by the Warm nth Logisla
turc, is a Russian, and served in the Union
army as Colonel of a regiment of Ohio volun!
teers. Since the termination of the war,he
j has been engaged in cotton planting,
j ? The Senate Committee on Elections and
Privileges have commenced the investigation
: of Louisiana affairs. The investigation is
open and public, its scope being?first, as to
j the Presidential Electors ; second, regarding
the legality of the election; third, whether a
J-legal government exists in Louisiana. One
' person on each side will be allowed to make
1 suggestions and cross question witnesses, hut
j the committee will not hear arguments,
j ?Senator Sawyer, from South Carolina,
j has presented in the Senate the presentment
. of the grand jury of the United States District
Court lor the Western District of South
Carolina, representing that there is no penitentiary
within the limits of this State for the
confinement of prisoners of the United States,
and asking for the erection of such a building
at Greenville, and also for the erection of a
building for a United States court house at
that place, and moved the reference of this
document to the committee on nublic build
ings and grounds. The motion was agreed to.
? To secure the more efficient working of
the registered letter system, the Post-master
General has designated an entirely new office,
which has already been filled by a new appointment.
Everything in connection with
the system of registered letters comes under
the charge of this officer, and as more attention
will be paid to registered letter affairs,
the consequence will be a more perfect arrangement.
A9 it is now, a missing letter
that has been registered, can only be traced to
the office in which it disappeared. It is hoped,
under the new arrangement, that a registered
letter can be traced through every step
of its transmission, when the Government
would be safe in assuming all responsibility
and reliability for its contents.
EDITORIAL^INKLINGS.
The Georgia Senatorsliip.
The contest for Senator from Georgia
resulted in the election of Gen. J. B. Gordon,
whose competitors were A. H. Stephens and
B. PI. Hill. The prospect is quite favorable,
however, for Mr. Stephens to represent the
Augusta District in Congress, in place of
Gen. Wright, member elect, who died a few
weeks ago. At a meeting held in Atlanta on
Wednesday after the election for Senator, it
wa9 determined to request Mr. Stephens to
become a candidate for Representative, each
of the candidates declaring in his favor, and
all of them uniting in making the request,
thus leaving the field unobstructed. Mr.
Stephens, it is understood, has consented to
serve if elected.
Crime in New York.
Murders accumulate in New York. Two
more have occurred within a fortnight. Two
young men quarreled in regard to a supposed
insult which one thought he had received from
the other, which resulted in the fatal shooting
of one of the parties. And later, a reckless
and drunken driver shot a man off his horse
in a crowded street in a dispute about the
right of way! Surely, a few wholesome examples
ought to be made in a commuuity
where there is so little regard for human life.
The newspapers are urging the rigid pun
ishment of crime as the only remedy. The
Supreme Court of New York has rejected the
appeal of Foster, the car-hook murderer, for a
new trial, and he has been sentenced to be
hung on the 7th of March. The belief prevails
that Stokes will also pay the penalty of
his crime; and it would seem that he is of
the same opinion too, he having transferred
his property to his mother.
New Postal Measures.
It is in contemplation to reduce the
rates of letter postage to two cents for each
half ounce, instead of three cents, as the law
now stands, and to require the prepayment of
all newspaper postage, whether the papers be
transient or regularly mailed to bona fide
I subscribers. The former measure is generally
approved ; but the practicability of prepaying
newspaper postage is seriously doubted, to
say nothing of the inconvenience it would
cause, especially with dailies and weeklies of
j large circulation. It is not believed that the
! prepayment of nepspaper postage would add
I materially to the revenue of the Department,
while it is further claimed that if the postmasters
were more particular to enforce existing
regulations, no matter would go through
the mails unpaid. The large deficiency in
revenue of the Post-office Department is attributable
largely to the mail-car service, and
the non-paying character of the extended ser,
vice in the southern States.
I The Bankrupt Act.
The passing of a bill by the House of
T> 1 4-Usv Dnnlrwimt 10 XT?
I I\epresUIILllllvea iu ic|jc<w uic a->uuniuf>i. n>n
j took the people by surprise. The question
was promptly called and put; no discussion
was allowed, and without a moment's consideration
the vote was taken and the resolution
passed by a decisive majority. But notwithstanding
the precipitate haste of the House, it
is not thought that the Senate will agree to
I it. Since the act passed in the House numerous
petitions have been sent from various
parts of the country against the repeal, and
but one in favor of the measure, which was
from the merchants of New York.
So far from, repealing the act, it would be
better for the country to enact a permanant
bankrupt law, so that the creditor should
know what laws are to affect the debtor at
the time he contracts the debt. Such a law
as this would equally protect the creditor
and debtor, and would be a national blessing,'
while temporary enactments for the relief of
debtors who contracted their obligations in
the absence of such laws are generally harmful
in their effects, and tend to the diminution
of confidence bctweeu man and man.
Marine Disaster.
A terrible marine disaster occurred on
the night of the 23rd, in the English channel
offDungess Light House. The London emigrant
ship, Northfleet, which sailed from London
several days previous to the disaster, i
bound to Australia, with four hundred and j
twelve passengers, was run into by an un-1
known vessel and sunk. Only ninety-seven
persons on board the ill-fated vessel are known
to have been saved?all the others having
been drowned. No attention was paid by the
steamship to the emigrant vessel after the collision,
aud she proceeded on her course, leaving
the sufferers to their fate.
The collision caused a frightful panic on
board the emigrant ship. The passengers
who were asleep rushed from their berths to !
every portion of the ship where they thought j
they might be safe, and utterly refused to
obey the orders of the captain. That officer, |
as a last resort to enforce obedience to his j
command, was compelled to fire upon the !
terror-stricken people. One of them was !
wounded. It is believed that if the passen-1
ger3 had obeyed the orders of the captain !
more of them would have been saved.
A sunken vessel has been discovered near
the scene of the calamity, which tends to the
belief that the colliding vessel was also sunk,
thus increasing the horror.
. LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
C. L. Anderson, Colloctor 3d District, South Carolina?United
States Internal Revenue.
. James Anderson, General Superintendent?Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad.
I Carroll, Clark A Co.?Get Your Money BackPearl
Grist?Molasses?Hams?Tron?Hollow
Ware?Dippers?Leather?Chains?Cotton
Cards?Buckets?Tubs?Crockery.
T. M. Dobson A Co.?Remember Our Thread?
Wheelbarrow Wheels?Sole Leather?Steel
for Plows?Axes?Why Is It?Ilorso and
Mule Shoes?Iron?Knobs?Bed ScrewsHammers?Buggy
Umbrellas?Overcoats?
Oil Cloth?Yarn?Shirting?Furs?February
1st?Shoes and Boots?Froes?Our Dress
Goods?Well Buckets?Salem Jeans?Razor
Strops ?Squares?Marking Gauges.
W. B. Metts, Assistant Casliier?The Yorkvillo
Branch of the Citizen's Savings Bank of
South Carolina.
Sergeant it McCauley, Proprietors, Greensboro,
N. C.?The North Carolina Foundry, Machine
and Agricultural Works.
Thos. S. Neely?Red Bull Strayed.
M. Strauss & Son?A Costly Whistle?Credit.
W. IT. it J. P. Herndon?Axes?You KnowSpring?
Sharpen?Andirons*
G. W. Chalk, Charlotte, N. C.?Bfiying and Selling
Flour, Corn, Ac.
Win. Whvto, Administrator?Application for Dis
UUUI^Ui
John L. Watson, County Treasurer?State and
County Taxes.
GARDEN SEEDS.
Our thanks are hereby tendered to Hon.
A. S. Wallace, for a package of valuable garden
seeds from the Department of Agriculture.
We doubt not that any of Mr. Wallace's
constituents who want seeds, will be
supplied upon making the application.
RETURNED.
A detachment of Troop K, of the 7th C'avarly,
which has been stationed at Chester for
some time past, under the command of Lieut.
Godfrey, returned to this place last week.
The post at Chester has been discontinued.
There are now two companies stationed here;
Company C, of the 18th Infantry, under command
of Capt. John Christopher, and Troop
K, of the 7th Cavalry, under command of
Capt. Owen Hale.
CIIROMO FRAMES.
For the convenience of those of our subscribers
who desire frames for the Enquirer
chromo, we have made arrangements to procure
the same, made of solid walnut with
gilt lining, which we will furnish, delivered at
this office, with glass, &c., complete, for
81.50?the bare cost. Those who may desire
the frames will please hand in their names
and the amount at an early day, as the frames
can be furnished at the above price only by
making a large order.
KU-KLUX PARDONS.
The President has pardoned George Sylvester
Wright, from this county, sentenced to
the Albany penitentiary for a violation of the
enforcement law. Galbraith Ham bright, pardoned
several weeks aero, has returned to his
home in this county. A recent Washington
despatch to the New York Herald says : "The
President will, in a few days, pardon twelve
or fourteen ku-klux prisoners confined at Albany.
The favored ones are those who appear
to have been induced to join the order
without knowing the real object of the klan."
THE CITIZEN'S SAVINGS BANK.
The attention of our readers is directed to
the advertisement of the Yorkville branch of
the Citizen's Savings Bank. This institution
commenced operations here on the 1st of October,
1869, since which time its transactions
aggregate $2,970,583, or within a small fraction
of three millions of dollars. During the
month of last December the deposits amounted
to $78,289; and for January, up to and including
the 25th, nearly $57,000. Since its
establishment, the bank has promptly met all
demands which depositors have made upon
it, and its affairs have been conducted in such
a manner that it is constantly growing in public
confidence.
THE STATE AND COUNTY TAXES.
Treasurer Watson having filled his appointments
throughout the county for the collection
of State and county taxes, returned to Yorkville
on Monday last and opened his office.
Since his return, the office has been crowded
to such an extent by persons, awaiting an opportunity
to pay their taxes, as to render necessary
the keeping open the office, on one occasion
at least, until after midnight. Up to
yesterday morning about 2700 persons had
paid their taxes, leaving more than one-third
of those in the county who are liable, to pay
yet. By reference to advertisement in another
column, it will be seen that Tuesday next is
the day appointed for closing the books.
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.
The following transfers of real estate in
York county, have been reported to the County
Auditor since the 20th instant:
P. B. Darwin, trustee, to H. C. Conner. A
tract of 228 acres of land in York township,
formerly occupied by T. & ?/. Dickson. Consideration,
$1350.
Alfred McMuIlan to G. B. Collins. A
tract of 67 acres of land in Catawba township.
Consideration, $280.
S. E. White to Henry Massey. Lot at
Fort Mill. Consideration, $150.
S. E. White to A. B. Bradford. Two lots
at Fort Mill. Consideration, $75 each.
Isabella Steele to J. N. Roberts. A tract
of 18 acres of land in York township. Consideration,
$50.
COUNTERFEIT MONEY.
We were shown at the Citizen's Savings
Bank, in this place, a few days ago, a counterfeit
fifty dollar legal tender note, which had
been recently paid to a citizen of this county
by one of the banks at Charlotte, N. C. A
large number of these notes are said to be
circulating in this State and North Carolina,
and we deem it necessary to mention the fact,
in order to put the unwary on their guard
against them. The note is tolerably well executed
; but its spuriousness can be readily
detected on examination. The ink used in
printing both the face and the back is much
lighter in depth of color than on the genuine.
The paper is harsh and stiff, whiter than the
genuine, and does not contain the veins or
streaks which on the genuine paper are woven
in finrimr thn nroeess of manufacture. The
streaks can be readily seen by holding the
bill to the light. In the genuine note of the
same denomination and series, there is a small
mark or "flourish" between the words "series
of " and "1869" near the "50" in the left hand
corner. In the counterfeit this "flourish" or
mark is absent. There are other means of
detecting the worthlessness of the bill, but the
above tests are sufficient.
The Bond Scrip Law.?The Columbia '
correspondent of the Charleston News, writing ;
on Friday last, says:
"The Senate was occupied from one o'clock j
to five o'clock this evening in a debate upon !
the bill to repeal the fourth section of the:
Blue Ridge Act of March 2,1872, which sec- j
tion pledges the credit of the State for the
payment of the Blue Ridge scrip, makes it j
receivable for taxes, and orders an annual!
tax for its redemption. Theresa no discussion
of the merits of the bill, the whole time [
beiug occupied by tiresome and desperate filibustering
on the part of the pitiful minority
opposing the passage of the bill. These, seeing
the utter hopelessness of attempting to
defeat the measure to-day, exhausted every;
parliamentary trick and device to stave off a
| final vote, in the apparent hope of tiring out
I the friends of the bill. A dozen test votes
were taken on as many dilatory motions made
by the opponents of the bill, and dach vote
showed that five-sixths of the senators were in
favor of its passage. Finally a decisive vote
was reached about five P. M., and the bill
passed its second reading by a vote of twentyfour
to five ; the only senator! voting against
the bill being Corwin, colored, of Lancaster,
Jamison, colored, of Orange xirg, Jones, colored,
of Williamsburg, and Whitteraore, of
Darlington.
"The bill, as passed, repeals the fourth section
of the Blue Ridge act, and takes it out
of the power of the comptroller-general to
levy any tax for any purpose whatever, unless
expressly authorized hereafter by the statutes
to do so."
For tlit? Vorkvllle Knqulrrr.
THE KINti'S MOUNTAIN IKON WOKKS.
The reopening and working of the King's
Mountain Iron Works, and the further development
of the untold wealth now locked in
this property, is an enterprise already attracting
the attention of capitalists ; and an enterprise,
too, which with proper management,
would prove to be a safe and profitable investment.
This property is situated on Broad river,
South Carolina, immediately on the Richmond
and Atlantic Air-Line railroad, and is, perhaps,
the most valuable of the kind in the
southern country. The great variety and
the high class of its ores, so happily blended,
gave to the iron manufactured at the KiDg's
Mountain Works the excellence of quality so
universally credited to it. The superiority of
this iron to all others manufactured in the
sections that found the same markets, is attested
by every one familiar with the irons of
this country. The quality of the King's
Mountain iron was so much superior to all
others in the market, that it commanded a
higher price, with orders at all times in advance
of the productive capacity of the works;
and the suspension of operations has been a
loss seriously felt by every person requiring a
high grade of iron.
This property embraces many thousands of
acres of land, a valuable water-power, and immense
beds of ore, in such great variety as to
produce the high class of iron for which it has
ever been so famous. Thirty years working of
the mines did little more toward affecting the
rich and heavy deposits of ore than to make a
surface opening, more fully developing the extent
and magnitude of the embeded wealth,
than taxing it to supply the constant and increasing
demand for the manufactured article.
As above stated, these ore-beds lie immediately
on the railroad, to an extent of three
miles. The old works on the river are about
four miles from the railroad, and the furnace
on King's creek about three miles. The timber
for fuel, readj for use, comprises about
one-half of the wood-laud?a second growth
of from thirty to twenty years. The remaining
wood-laud will, in a few years, bear a crop
ready for the axe. The value of the iron
mines, however, is not dependent upon the
wood supply on the lands which have, up to
this time, furnished the motive power to their
value. The railroad brings into requisition
the immense bodies of wood-land on each side
of it for twenty miles, which, for quantity and
quality, adapted to the purpose in question,
cannot be excelled. This vast extend of timber
is at the command of the future iron manufacturer
at a trifling expense, and the landowner
will be well repaid to have it removed
free of cost.
The railroad gives value to the irou mines
and wood-lands, and the mines and lands will
give remunerative employment to the road.
The original manufacture of iron at these
works required in the wagoning of ores, an
average distance of three miles, and coal and
fuel five miles. The iron, when made, was
delivered by wagons a distance of from twenty
to one hundred miles and sold readily for 4J
and 5 cents per pound. By the aid of the
railroad, the ores and fuel can be collected at
a cost comparatively small, while the iron can
be readily sold at the works for 7 cents a
pound, to say nothing of the facilities the railroad
presents in seeking distant markets.
That this property will be worked extensively,
the writer has no doubt, feeling confident
that such resources, so rich in the elements
of wealth, will not be suffered to lie
much longer dormant. Y.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
FROM UNION COUNTY.
SPARTANBURG AND THE AIR LINE?LIMESTONE
SPRINGS.
The Air Line drags its slow length along.
The people in Spartanburg are growing impatient.
They think the Pennsylvania Central
a slow company. They have been ready
and waiting ever so long, and still the road
has not been finished to their place. Consequently,
they fret and quarrel and the Air
Line moves on in its own way.
The iron is laid from Charlotte to Thickety,
four miles west from Limestone Springs. The
bridge over that stream is to be erected, and
then they have to build a trestle over Little
Thickety, and lay the track to Pacolet, about
nine miles, before the road is complete to
Spartanburg. The sanguine say this will be
about the middle of February. The old
farmers say about the first of April.
The Spartanburg folks promise themselves
great things upon the completion of this road.
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wholesale stores, and mayors, and public libraries,
and the best of everything that is
going. And then they must have a road from
their place to Augusta, and from their place
to Asheville, and so there will be no end to
their greatness. This same impatient town is
hard at work, however. Their schools are
prosperous. Their stores are the best possible,
without the completion of the Air Line.
New houses are springing up, here and there,
and the old ones undergoing repairs.
Limestone Springs is undergoing some
changes. The property, formerly belonging to
Dr. Wm. Curtis, has recently been sold. Some
of these same Spartanburg folks are the purchasers.
A company bought one-half of this
property about two years ago, and lately
they purchased the greater portion of the
other half. They, as soon as practicable, will
develop the lime and marble resources of the 1
place. The Air Line passes within a mile of
the quarries, and the depot will not be farther
off than two miles, if so far. Consequently ;
these products can be delivered at the road in "
great abundance and at reduced rates. They i
also contemplate starting a female high school i
in the old Seminary. This was once the most 1
popular school in the State. The place is remarkably
healthy?the house well suited for a
school; and while it is quite accessible, it is ,
a retired, quiet country place?the very place
for a female school. P. <
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The Board of Commissioners of Cleveland
county, N. C. have requested the railroad 1
agent to demand an obligation from the pur- I
chasers, under the proposed foreclosure, com- I
pelling them to complete the W., C. & R. R. I
R. to Shelby; and if they refuse to so obligate '
themselves, to take steps to prevent, if possi- i
ble, the foreclosure of the mortgage and sale <
of the road.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
Tuesday, January 21.
In the Senate, the unfavorable reports of
the respective committees on a bill to abolish
the office of county Auditor, and a bill to
make the offices of county Treasurers elective,
were adopted.
The following bills were laid on the table :
A bill to prevent State and county officers from
holding more than one office; a bill to require
Trial Justices to give bond and to otherwise
define their duties ; a bill to set apart a fund
for the payment of jurors and witnesses in
State cases; a bill to abolish the office of
county Auditor.
The enacting clause of a bill to require
owners or lessees of lands to remove fallen trees
from the highways, adjoining their lands, was
stricken out.
The report of the Committee on Education
on a bill concerning school funds, was taken
up and received its second reading and was
ordered to be engrossed.
Tv Tirr TT\fr finolirana infrn/ltino/1 a
bill to regulate the deposits of State, county
and other funds.
The bill provides that "the public funds, in
the various counties in the State, shall be deposited
in certain banks, to be designated by
tlie State Financial Board, to consist of the
Governor, Comptroller-General, Treasurer,
Attorney-General and Judges of the Circuit
Courts, of the respective Circuits. Such
banks are required to purchase bonds or
stocks, other than their own, to the amount of
80 per cent, of the amount so deposited with
them, and to deposit said bonds with the
Comptroller-General, who shall publish weekly
statements of such bonds. No moneys so
deposited shall be drawn from the hank except
upon a check signed by a majority of
the County Commissioners, and the clerk,
countersigned by the Treasurer of the county.
"The bill also provides that it shall be the
duty of the State Treasurer to deposit all
State funds by him received, in the bank or
banks designated by the Board, which moneys
shall be drawn by a check of the State
Treasurer, countersigned by the Governor.
The Treasurer is to publish monthly statements
of all moneys received and paid out by him.
The amount of interest to be allowed on all
deposits shall not be less than at the rate of
6 per cent. The banks in which the deposits
are to be made, shall execute a bond to the
State in the penal sura of $100,000 for the
faithful performance of the trust, said bond to
be approved by a majority of the Justices of
the Supreme Court."
Mr. Thomas introduced a bill to establish
a new judicial and election county, to be composed
of portions of Charleston and Colleton,
and to he known as Dorchester county. Read
and referred.
The enacting clause was stricken out of a
bill to lay out and establish a new road in
Union county, and a bill to repeal the lien
law.
A bill to punish any person or persons, who
shall sell aud convey auy real or personal
property on which a lien of any kind may exist,
without giving notice of the same to the
purchaser or purchasers, was ordered to be
engrossed for a third reading.
A joint resolution to refund to A. Williford
certain excessive taxes paid by him, was ordered
to be en crossed.
Mr. M. S. Miller introduced a bill to provide
for the registry of births, deaths and
marriages, which is in substance as follows :
"That the parent or parents of every child
that shall hereafter be born in this State shall
register the birth of such child in the office of
the Clerk of the Court in the county where
the birth takes place within sixty days after
that event, under a penalty of a fine of 825
and imprisonment for five or thirty days. It
is made the duty of the head of every family
in the State to register within sixty days every
death that shall occur in his or her family,
under a like penalty. Section 3 provides that
every man who shall be married in the State,
must register the important event within sixty
days, under a similar penalty. The Clerk's
fees are fixed at 81 for each marriage, and
the person registering his marriage must produce
a certificate thereof from the minister or
Trial Justice performing the ceremony. The
Act is to take effect on and after July 31,
1873.
Wednesday, January 22.
In the Senate, a communication was received
announcing that the resolving clause
of a joint resolution to allow ex-Judge Thomas
five hundred dollars extra compensation,
had been stricken out by the House.
Mr. White introduced a bill to require School
Commissioners to establish night schools at
each county seat in this State. The bill provides
"that the school commissioners of the
several counties in this State be and the same
are hereby required to cause to be opened at
the county seat of their respective counties a
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are unable to attend the day schools, and to
make such rules and regulations for the goveminent
oftnesame and for providing teachers
as in their judgment may most effectually
accomplish the object of this act."
Mr. Jervey introduced a bill to incoporate
the Pharmaceutical Association of South Caroliua.
After giving the names of the incorporators,
the bill provides that "the association
shall elect annually four members, who
with two other persons to be appointed by the
Medical College of the State of South Carolina,
shall constitute a board of pharmaceutical
examiners for the city of Charleston, to hold
office for the term of one year. A similar
board is proposed for the city of Columbia, to
consist of four members of the association and
two other persons to be appointed by the
medical faculty of the University. These
boards are to meet once in every three months,
and remain in session until all applicants for
licenses, who have previously made application
to the secretary of the association, shall
have been examined. The remainder of the
bill, which is very voluminous, contains a variety
of regulations for the examining and licensing
of druggists, pharmaceutists and
apothecaries, all of whom doing business in
this State are required to come before one of
these examining boards. exceDtthose"who have
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already been licensed under the provisions of
the act of last winter. The fee for examination
and license is fixed at $10, one-half of
which is to go to the Pharmaceutical Association,
and one-half to the Medical College, if
the examination be made in Charleston, and
to the State University if made in Columbia.
Regular graduates in medicine or pharmacy
of schools that are on the ad eundem of
the University of South Carolina, are not to
be required to undergo an examination, but
they are required to come before the examining
boards and receive a license upon furnishing
satisfactory evidence of his graduation and
upon payment of a license fee of $5, to be divided
in the same way as the examination fees.
The penalty for carrying on the business of
druggists, <ftc., without a license is a fine not
exceeding $500, or imprisonment not exceeding
six months."
Mr. Whittemore introduced a bill to make
Clerks of the Court ex-officio Trial Justices.
I'he bill provides "that clerks of the (Jourt of
Common Pleas and General Sessions be and
they are hereby authorized to exercise the
jurisdiction of trial justices in their respective
counties for all purposes, except the trial of
3mall and mean causes, civil and criminal," it
not being specified what class of small litigations
are to be regarded as "mean."
The report of the Committee on Education,
en a bill relating to the reduction of the salary
jf School Commissioners, was made the special
order for February 1st.
The bill to provide for the more effectual
collection of the poll tax was ordered to be
engrossed for a third reading.
In the House, Mr. Warley introdued a
bill to fix the price of tavern licenses, for re* *?
tailing spirituous liquors. The bill provides
that "from and after its passage, the price of
tavern licenses in the several counties of the
State, outside of the incorporated cities, towns
ind villages, shall be 840 per annum, payable
quarterly."
Mr. Rico, ofUnion, introduced the follow