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fci'aps and Jacts.
Brighain Young has a son at West
Point.
In numbers, the sexes are very nearly
egual in the United States ; males 19,439,565,
females 19,064,806.
General Grant's organ, the Washington
Republican, comes out in favor of paying Mrs.
General Lee for Arlington.
The Louisville Journal is early in the
field with a Presidential ticket. This is it:
Captain Jack for President, and Shack Nasty
Jim for Vice-President.
A Wisconsin Congressman is perplexed
about his back pay. He is afraid if he takes
it he will be called a thief, and if he refuses
he will be called a fool. As he is still undecided,
His friends have agreed to end his
trouble by calling him both.
Since McMahon's election to the office
of President of the French republic, representatives
of all the old dynasties are flockiua:
to Paris like buzzards to a putrid carcass.
From present indications, it will not be a thousand
years uutil Frauce will be enjoying the
luxury of another revolution.
Congress passed an act in 1868 to the
effect that iu the case of the death or inability
of the chiefjustice to discharge his duties, the
associate justice holding the commission of the
next date shall perfortn all the duties of the
chiefjustice until another is appoiuted. Under
this act Associate Justice Clifford will act as
chiefjustice until the successor of the late
Chief Justice Chase is appointed.
It will be pleasant for those women who
carry much on their heads in the way of capillary
decorations, to know that nearly all
the false hair worn in this country comes from
lunatic asylums, prisons and public hospitals.
There is much in association, and we mention
this fact not as anything new, but as a gentle
reiniuder to the _fair sex of how much they
owe to the charitable institutions of the country.
Some of Mr. Beecher's friends are not
n little uueasy over a sermon preached in Plymoth
Church, on Sunday, substantially affirming
the Uuiversalist doctrine of universal salvation,
and 9ome of the more orthodox are
discussing the propriety of formally calling
upon him to state definitely what he does believe
and what he does not believe. They say
they believe in him, and want to follow him,
but they are anxious to know just where he is
going to lead them.
The Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, in a recent
sermon to children, expressed himself in this
emphatic way as to the comparative hopelessness
of religious effort for adult believers:
"What can I do with old men and women
who have lived so long in sin that their skins
are as hard as a turtle's shell? You can't
make them feel. You might strike them with
a pitchfork, and it wouldn't go through them."
Yet there are pastors who actually preach to
this class of iron-clad sinners, in preference
to children, fifty-two Sundays in a year. Is
it not strange?
The Secretary of the Navy has received
a telegram from Annapolis, announcing that
midshipmen Young, of Mississippi; Butterfield,
of Kansas; Lockett, of Georgia; Rowan,
of West Virginia ; Munn, O'Keefe and Gridley,
of New York, have all beeu concerned in
an assault on the colored midshipman, Conyers,
by attacking him with stones. The riotous
midshipmen had all failed in their examinations,
and will be dismissed from theAcad.
emy, regardles of this offense. They are all
in close confinement. Couyers is not seriously
hurt.
On the 28th of March last, a German
confectioner, named Charles Baswildebad, disappeared
from Macon, Ga. For three or four
weeks, vain search was made for him, and his
friends finally concluded that he bad lost his
life in the swamp. The mystery of his disappearance
was fully explained on the 30th ult.,
when his body was found hanging on a pine
tree,near the top, some fifty or sixty feet from
the ground. The unfortunate man seems to
Itnvp elimhed the tree, made a noose of his
suspenders, and hanged himself to the limb,
where for two months his remaius have been
hanging.
Three hundred and seventy-one applications
for pardon have been filed in the Department
of Justice during the past twelve
months, and about oue-half of these have been
granted. One case was that of a man in
Kentucky, who said in his petition that he
distilled whisky during the late political campaign,
and used it to help elect the Republican
candidate to Congress. The Democrats
had bought up all the whisky in the county,
so that the Republicans could not get a drop.
Under these circumstances, he thought it no
crime to borrow a small still and make fifteen
gallons, all of which he used to help the party.
The organization known as the "Patrons
of Husbandry," is becoming a serious perplexity
to party leaders in the West. The number
of granges is multiplying rapidly, and the
disposition to mingle in political contests bids
fair to completely change the relations of the
old parties. An official statement of the
granges organized previous to May 10th gives
the following interesting facts: Arkansas 15,
California 8, Georgia 16, Illinois 431, Indiana
142, Iowa 1,507, Kansas 128, Michigan 24,
Minnesota 219, Mississippi 112, Missouri 245,
Nebraska 190, Ohio 47, South Carolina 118,
Tennessee 13, Vermont 22, Wisconsin 140?
making an organization in the United States
-CO or-7 ..U.U
ui 0,01 I giaugt?, nun an umuiuniship
of 2,000,000.
The New York Tribune says: Those
fiercely loyal persons who oppose as unpatriotic
all attempts to wipe out the bitter memories
of the rebellion, and bring about good
feeling between the North and the South, will
find food for meditation in some remarks of
Mr. Peter H. Clark, a colored orator in Cincinnati.
In a recent address to a mass-meeting
of men of his race he gave utterance to
these generous sentiments: "I am not vindictive
in my feelings toward the men of the rebellion.
I was an early advocate of amnesty.
I agree with the magnanimous Sumner, and
would not ask a Southerner to enlist under a
flag which bears on its folds the names of battles
in which he met with humiliation and defeat.
I would build the monuments which
mark our battle-fields with the South of wood,
that, when they have fallen into decay, the
memory of the strife may decay with them."
America has lately extracted the joke
out of the old saw about "carrying coals to
Newcastle" by shipping sundry cargoes to
England, to some purpose. It is now given
us to realize that America can afford similar
relief to the English iron market, and if the
opportunity is well employed there will eventually
be but little if any need for high tariffs
to beat competition. Manufacturers at Wolverhampton,
situated in the heart of the Midland
mining district of England, and famous
for its iron smelting and manufacturing works,
are importing iron, we are told by a cable
dispatch, from the United States. This action
of the Wolverhampton iron men is in
consequence ot tne exnormtaut rates at wmcn
thenative production is held. It is significant
of the cosmopolitan spirit of English enterprise,
and also of stimulated development on
the part of American capitalists.
The Beecher scandal is stirring the society
of Brooklyn and New York to its very
depths. Louds calls are made upon Mr.
Beecher to explain. Public sentiment seems
to demand it, as the names of some of the
most prominent ladies in his congregation are
involved. Few will not regret the fact if it is
true. It is not often that the public is called
upon to witness the agonies of such a spirit and
the degradation of such a mind. It is to be
hoped that the eloquent orator may explain
the mystery that now envelopes and darkens
his character. Society may well tremble at
the prospect of driving such an intellect to
despair; but if it must come, let it come at
once. Mr. Beecher cannot longer remain silent
The report is current in New York that
Beecher never preaches in Plymouth Church
without there being at least twenty of his mistresses
in the congregation?members of his
flock. And to one of these, a name is openly
given. She is Elizabeth Tiltou, the wife of
Rev. Theodore Tilton, a celebrated editor, '
i literary man and new-fangled notion disciple?
; and a bosom friend of Beecher. The lady is |
beautiful, pious and intensely cultivated. According
to the new school of Woodhull and
j Tilton, this sort of thing is all right. But,
i nevertheless, Mr. Tilton takes it badly?so
I much so that when he found out the tricks his :
! wifeand old Beecher were playing, he behaved
j dreadfully?abused the pious lady to such a
' degree that she miscarried of a child?Beech- j
i er's. The child being buried, he repaired to j
| the grave at night, armed with the wedding,
ring which he had torn from his wife's finger, j
: cast the ring upon the grave, stamped it iu,!
. and was otherwise very unruly. And then '
made a covenant with Beecher to look upon
it all as a beautiful and God-ordained thing,
and to live with him in holy brotherly love.
And so it goes. And so far has it gone, that
Beecher is at last obliged to speak. And now
the whole thing is to be sifted and aired.
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SOUTHERN CHARACTERISTICS.
In many important particulars there is no
section of the continent of America inhabited
by a people similar to that section which is
denominated the South. There are in the
Southern States only two classes of citizens?
Caucasians and Africans. Amongst the different
individuals which compose each of
these classes, there is a harmony that does
not exist in any other section of America, and,
in fact, in no other portion of the world. The
white inhabitants of the Southern States are
all, or nearly so, the desceudants of the ScotchIrish
families which first settled the older of
the States. The other individuals, who claim
different nationalities, are nevertheless similar
in their religious and political sentiments.
The overwhelming majority of the white people
of the South are, and always have been,
protestants; aud by whatever name their political
creed may be called, the white people
of the South never have been divided upon
political principles, however much they sometimes
may have differed, and still differ,
as to the practical applications of those principles.
There are religious denominations of
Christians in the South, but no sceptical isms.
Infidelity in its more refined and insidious
forms never has had an existence in the Southern
country. Scientific vagaries make but
slow progress amongst our people. In a religious
point of view our people are very indifferent
and careless, but they are neither scoffers
nor scientific unbelievers. In the Southern
States there are about nine million of white
people, all similar in occupation, and conge
nial in habits, and honiogenious in religious
and political sentiments. These nine million
of the human family come as near loving the
same things and hating the same things as any
other nine million of people on the globe.
The colored people are about four million.
With regard to this class of citizens it may be
said with the greatest regard to truth that
they are a unit. No subject, either political
or religious, divides them.
This feature of things as they actually exist
in the South present' a theme worthy of consideration
by the philosopher. All the disturbances
which have recently taken place in
the South have had their origin in an effort
to break up that harmony which has existed
amongst our people for more than one hundred
years. This harmony will ultimately be
broken up, and in time, the South will be like
the rest of the world. The old laud marks
will all be removed and the social, political
and religious aspect of things be entirely
changed. This change will, in time, develop j
the natural resources of the Southern soil;
but whether it will be attended with good in
every other respect, is a matter which time
only can determine. There is, it is admitted,
much of what may be called old fogyism
about the Southern people, but of all the isms
in the wide world, fogyism is the least hurtful
to society.
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Grceu corn has made its appearance in j
Charleston.
? George McWitlierspoou, Esq., has been I
appointed United States Commmissioner for |
Lancaster county.
? Joseph Taylor, colored, has been elected
an alderman of the city of Columbia, vice C.1
: M. "Wilder resigned.
I ? Republican newspapers arc to be cstab- i
j lished in Anderson, Edgefield and Union !
! counties.
' ? A colored woman suddenly dropped dead
while hoeing in a field in the lower part of,
j Union this week.
? Judge Wardlaw, who had been in feeble
: health for several mouths, died at Abbeville
J Court House on Sunday last.
i ? The Nicholson Hotel, at Chester Court j
House, has been sold to Mr. John J. McLure
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\ for two thousand three hundred dollars.
I ?The County Commissioners of Lancaster
have ordered an additional levy of one mill i
| to be applied specially to repairiug the public
buildings in that county,
j ? The School Commissioner of Union, gives
notice to the free school teachers of that
county, that he is now prepared to pay them
"some money" on their accounts,
i ?The Working Christian says that the
, President has pardoned Rev. J. S. Ezell, con- j
victed of ku-kluxisra and sentenced to imprisonment
in the Albany penitentiary, "Dr. J. I
I
B. Simmons, one of the secretaries of the
Home Mission Society, visited Mr. Ezell, obtained
the facts, brought his case before the
President in person, and obtained a pardon."
? Colonel J. 0. Hudnut has been elected
Chief Engineer of the Laurens and Asheville
Railroad Company, and will at once commence
the survey of the route between the
terminal points.
? The jail of Sumter county was destroyed
one day last week by fire. The jailor
barely had time, after the fire was discovered,
to release the prisoners before the roof fell in.
There was an insurance on the building of
82000. The origin of the fire is attributed
to an incendiary.
? At the recent term of the Circuit Court
of Anderson county, Judge Carpenter held
that buggies are not exempt from levy and
sale by the operation of the homestead law,
even though the personal property of the
owner amount to less than five hundred dollars.
? During a storm in Lancaster county last
week the lightning struck a tree upon the
plantation of Mr. J. B. Erwin, under which a
Mr. Knight and his two sons, having in
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charge six mules, had sought sneiter. doiu
men and beasts were prostrated to the ground
by the stroke. One of the mules was killed.
? At the last term of the court in Union
county, Judge M. Moses heard and decided a
question in regard to priority of liens, that a
contract between laborers and employers was
a lien prior to liens for advauces made or for
rental of the land. In the case in point the
contract of the laborers was an unwritten
contract, but was sustained and held to be
good as above.
? The Sumter News learns that the Government
has instituted suit in the United States
Court against Judge Montgomery Moses, late
Collector of Internal Revenue, for the recovery
of nearly fifty thousand dollars, which it
isalledged be embezzled. The initial writs
are said to be in the hands of the U. S. Marshal,
for service upon the late Collector and
his sureties, and that Major Corbin has been
retained by the Government, to aid the prosecution,
for plaintiff.
? In the reply of Comptroller-General Hoge,
made by Attorney-General Melton, filed in
the Morton, Bliss & Co., mandamus case, he
charges: "That a 'correct registry' of all the
bonds of the State which 'exhibits the number
and amount thereof' has not been kept at
the State treasury ; that the said registry does
not exhibit the number and amount of all the
bonds which were redeemed by the substitution
of other bonds, known as 'conversion
bonds;' that the said registry does not exhibit
the number aud amount of such redeemed
bonds as were afterwards reissued, and are
now outstanding without authority of law ;
that the dutv of examining such registry does
not devolve upon him, and cannot be enforced
by mandamus ; and that if it were his duty to
make such inquiry, it would not furnish the
requisite data for the performance of the duty
demanded."
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NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? A lady aged 96 years, died of measles in
Guilford county on the 29th ultimo.
? The sentence of the two negro burglars
condemned to be hanged in Ruleigh last Friday,
was commuted by the Governor to imprisonment
in the penitentiary for life.
? The Greensboro Patriot reports a genuine
case of black vomit in that town recently.
The victim was a negro child who had eaten
a box of Mason's best blacking. An emetic
relieved the sufferer.
? Preliminary surveys of the narrow-gauge
railroad between Salem and Mt. Airy have
been made. The President of the road gives
a glowing account of the prospect of its early
completion.
? A fire occurred in Charlotte on Thursday
night last destroying two wooden buildings
near the jail?one a grocery store and the
other occupied by Mr. McNinch, marble cutter.
The jail building was considered in dan
ger at one time and the shrieking of the inmates
is said to have been piteous in the extreme.
? Rev. N. F. Reid, of the N. C. Conference
M. E. Church, and who was the ablest and
most distinguished divine of that denomination
in the State, died in Weutworth on Friday
morning last, in the forty-sixth year of
his age. At the time of his death, he was
Presiding Elder of the Greensboro district,
and President of the Board of Trustees of
Greensboro Female College.
? The United States Circuit Court, Judge
Brooks presiding, is in session at Raleigh.
The only matter of general public interest
was a motion by counsel to continue the kuklux
cases. The reason given was that a
large number of the defendants had made no
preparation for trial, having been misled by
the proceedings in the Western district. The
court decided that each defendant must make
affidavit of all facts constituting his grounds
of continuance.
? A scene occurred in Stokes Superior Court
last week. W. D. McGill had been prosecuted
for chastising a negro who insulted him?
the chastisement having been inflicted in the
court-room, in presence of the Judge, whither
the negro fled, hoping to escape the wrath of
McGill. McGill was fined 8100 for contempt
of Court, and on an indictment for assault in
the same case was fined $50. This occurred
a year ago; but on Tuesday of the recent
terra, McGill approached the stand occupied
by Judge Cloud, and, in a low but audible
tone said : "If you were not an old man
I'd pull your nose, you d?d old scoundrel!"
For this and similar language the Judge ordered
McGill to jail for thirty days, to pay a
fine of 8250, and give bond in the sura of
S1000 for his future good Denavior. uq ine
way to the jail McGill escaped from the
Sheriff, mounted his horse and rode slowly
out of town, brandishing a pistol, the fear of
which prevented pursuit. The Judge then
had a bill brought against the Sheriff for allowing
the escape of the prisoner.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
? Since Saturday thirteen thousand immigrants
have arrived at New York.
? The Government will establish a telegraph
line from Salisbury, N. C., to the signal j
station on Mount Mitchell.
? James Coe, the defaulting Bank Cashier
of Boston, is iudicted for twenty-four forgeries,
and his bail aggregates half a million
dollars.
? M.T.Walworth, well known as the author
of several works of fiction, was shot in
New York city by his son on the 3rd instant.
Family difficulties the cause.
? Joseph T. Curry, the self-styled new Elijah !
and prophet Yahveh, who was found guilty of
fornication and adultery, and sentenced to five
years imprisonment in Appling, Ga., has broke
jail and escaped North.
? The Governor of Oregon requests that
those of Captain Jack's band, recently surrendered,
who are under indictment for murder
in that State, be turned over to the civil
authorities for trial and puishraent.
? The excitement in Nashville, Tennessee,
' about the presence of cholera in that city, is
J increasing. Several deaths have been reporti
ed on the authority of the best physicians,
! though their opinion is divided as to whether
or not it is in epidemic form.
[ ? TheSuprerae Court of Arkansas have rendered
their decision in the case of the conspiracy
to overthrow Gov. Baxter, of Arkansas,
i and install Lieut-Gov. Smith in his stead, af- j
: firming Baxter's claim to the seat. This was j
a fight between two radical officials.
| ? The seconds of the recent duel in Rich-1
| mond are still incarcerated in the city jail, J
they being confined upon a charge which
does not admit of bail. The principal, Mc- ]
Carty, is still suffering from his wound, and ;
he has not yet been pronounced out of dan-1
ger by hia physicians.
? Dispatches received in Houston, Texas, j
from various sections of the State, say the late j
frequent and heavy rains have completely J
flooded the country, causing great damage to i
the growing corn and cotton crops. Many
parts of the State have also been visited by
the most severe hail storms ever known there,
entirely destroying the growing crops.
? Despatches from San Francisco dated the
9th, report a massacre of Modoc prisoners,
who, in charge of a small number of men,
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were uu tuc way tu ucu. i/avio a tic
raassucre is supposed to have been perpetrated
by citizens of Oregon. Several of the Indians
were shot, and the whites having thein in
charge barely escaped with their lives.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Cholera in Memphis.
For the past fortnight, a disease has
prevailed in Memphis, Tenn., which, at first,
the physicians pronounced cholera morbus or
malarial fever. A few days ago, however,
the physicians severally agreed that it was
cholera, some classing it as sporadic, and others
as Asiatic. Thus far its ravages have
been confined chiefly to negroes and other laboring
persons. The doctors say the disease,
if promptly attended to, yields readily to
treatment.
Governor Orr's Remains.
The remains of Governor Orr are expected
to arrive in New York some time
during the present week, by the same vessel in
which he sailed on his voyage to the Russian
Capital to assume the duties of United States
Minister. Great preparations are being made
in New York city for paying proper honors
to the deceased. Besides very general attendance
of the Masonic fraternity, of which
! Governor Orr was a past grand master in this
State, arrangements are being made for milix
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laiy uuu uiviu uiajjiajr uii mc ouiciuu uuunoiuu.
Besides several regiments of the New York
State militia, and the United States troops
stationed in the vicinity, military organizations
from Washington and other places are
expected to be present. When the body leaves
New York city it will come by steamer to
Charleston, and thence to Columbia, at each
of which cities preparations are making for
its proper reception. The final interment
will take place in Anderson, with Masonic
honors.
Suspension of the "South Carolinian."
The proprietors, in the subjoined card,
issued a few days ago, announce the suspension
of the Columbia South Carolinian :
"The undersigned are reluctantly compelled
to announce that they are no longer able to
continue the publication of this journal.
With the hope and determination of establishing
an independent organ to represent the
sentiments and advocate the interests of the
true and faithful citizens of the State, we
have exhausted every means of our own ; and
now that we can do no more, are forced to
relinquish the enterprise.
Many of our subscribers have paid considerably
in advance, and we regret exceedingly
our inability to supply their paper. But we
trust that they will bear in mind that while
they are thus perhaps losing a few dollars, we
have exhausted thousands in our efforts to
build up the paper.
The enterprise may be shortly revived under
new business aupices, but upon the same
political line, and under the editorial charge
of Messrs. J. P. Thomas and W. H. McCaw.
Thomas & LaMotte."
Tiic Blue Ridge Railroad.
The creditors of this corporation met
in Columbia last Friday, before Register Carpenter,
for the purpose of putting the road in
bankruptcy and proving their claims. Har
rison, Mackay, Lowe and others who have
become notorious in consequence of their connection
with the road were present, and there
was a lively contest between the factions represented?the
one by Mr. Corbin and the
other by Mr. Trescot, over the appointment
of assignees. Trescot appeared for Harrison,
Mackay and others, who wished to stop the
proceedings in bankruptcy, and put the road
into the hands of trustees to be appointed by
themselves. Fve hundred thousand dollars
worth of claims were proved, divided between
twenty-three claimants. A considerable number
of claims were rejected, among them orders
for the Blue Ridge scrip, aggregating
two hundred and three thousand dollars.
The Trescot faction claimed to stand as eighteen
to five, in the number of creditors, and
to have a large majority in amount of indebtedness.
The meeting was in session from
11 o'clock to 6 p. m., when it adjourned until
next day, and at the adjourned meeting J. P.
Southern and J. P. Lowe were elected assignees.
This settles the matter as to the bankruptcy
of the Blue Ridge Railroad company, and it
is said by the parties interested that the road
will be sold at as early a day as possible, to
some moneyed and reliable railroad capitalists,
with a view to its early completion.
The Modoc Captives.
Since the surrender of Captain Jack
and his band, numbering 128 persons inclusive
nf women nnrt children. much sneculation
has been indulged as to what disposition should
be made of the warriors?many of whom are
charged with grave offenses against the laws
of the State of Oregon, committed previous to
the outbreak. The telegraph informs us that
Gen. Davis determined upon a summary execution
of Captain Jack, Scar-faced Charley,
Schonchin and others, and after having completed
all the arrangements, he received orders
from Washington to delay the execution
until further advised.
Attorney-General Williams has written a
lengthy opinion upon the usages and customs
of war, and closes with the suggestion that a
military commission may be appointed to try j
such of the Indians now in custody as are
charged with offenses against the regular laws
of war; and that, if upon such trial, any are
1 found guilty, they may be subjected to such
1 punishment as those laws require or justify.
| It is probable, therefore, that the captives
will be tried by a military commission, and i
those who may be found guilty of having violated
the laws and usages of war, as well as
others who are charged with capital crime
committed previous to open hostilities with
the United States troops, will be executed in
the manner prescribed by military regulations.
I The military commission for the trial of the
Modocs, under the decision of the AttorneyI
General, will be designated by Gen. Sehofield.
! Those of the captives not liable to trial before
the military commission, will be sent to other
reservations by the military authorities. In
an*interview with Gen. Davis, Captain Jack
says be was incited to his recent exploits by
Allen David, chief of the Klamaths. He also
denied killing Gen. Canby, and laid the blame
on his boys. Sconschiu tells the same story.
The Bond Case.
The reply of Morton, Bliss & Co., to
the return of Comptroller Huge in the bond
case, was file 1 in Columbia on the 4th. The
Charleston Jem and Courier gives the following
summary of the reply :
The relators deny most of the material alle- i
gations of the respondent, and confess and
avoid others. The ten causes set forth in the
return are replied to seriatim. The validation
act is pleaded as a waiver of all irregularity
in the original issue or hypothecation
of the bonds. As to the fraud about the issue
of the seven million of bonds, the relators
claim that it is immaterial, as to their case,
no proof being given, or direct allegation
made, that the bonds upon which their suit is
based ars of the fraudulent class. They
maintain, in brief, that they hold good and
valid bonds; that the State has expressly contracted
to pay the interest annually; has authorized
the levy in the very acts creating the
bonds ; that it is clearly the ministerial duty
of the comptroller to give notice of the rate
per centum necessary, aud that as he has neglected
to do so for the current fiscal year, and
refused to do so for the next, the court must
compel him by mandamus.
The relators join with the respondent in the
effort to prevent an investigation by the court
-.1- _ /? it . J.Li 1 a. A'.CP
into me couuiuon 01 me ueut, uul uu uiuerent
grounds. They maintain that the registration
ordered by the General Assembly, before
any payment of interest shall be made,
is unconstitutional, as impairing the obligation
of contracts.
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Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM LOUISIANA.
Shreveport La, June 5th, 1873.
Here is your travel-tired Nemo, in the uttermost
north western parish of the tempesttossed
State of Louisiana. I came here from
Texas by way of the great Southern. Pacific
Railroad, now in course of construction.
Shreveport is the eastern terminus of this
road, and from this point it stretches away
toward the Pacific coast. About one hundred
and fifty miles of the road is completed, and
the work is now going on with tremendous energy.
Over six thousand laborers are eraployed,
and construction is carried ahead at
four different points on the road. It is the
greatest work of this decade. Within four
years, unless all the signs fail, the Southern
Pacific will be an accomplished fact. It is
needed to play its part in the destiny of this
growing country. It will supply a want?fill
a vaccuura. The traveler can then jouruey
from the Atlantic to the Pacific by rail at any
season of the year without fear that he will
be blockaded by snow or pinched by cold.
Thomas A. Scott, the railroad king of Pennsylvania,
is President and chief controller of
the Southern Pacific company. He was here
just one year ago looking over the field, preparatory
to a vigorous opening of the campaign
along the whole line. He told the citizens
of Shreveport in the very room I now
write, that the Southern racihc was the great
work of his life?the crowning jewel in his
cap. He said he was determined the work
should go through forthwith, and by his glowing
picturings of the future, he so worked up
the enthusiasm of the Shreveport citizens that
they presented the company with two hundred
thousand dollars worth of river front, as a
slight token of their good will.
The Southern Pacific company is perhaps
the strongest in the Union. They are backed
by enough money to build a road to the moon,
if the intervening space would hold up crossties.
They have a heavy land grant from
Texas, and one from theUnited States, amounting
in all to near thirty-five millions acres of
land, or a tract about twice the size of the entire
State of South Carolina, if my memory
as to the dimensions of your State serves me
right.
The United States own no public laud in
Texas, although this is contrary to the general
belief. Texas never was a territory of the
United States, but came in as a "sovereign
State," and owns her lands in her own name.
The amount of State lands in Texas I believe
is about fifty millions of acres, so she can afford
to give a few millions to the great roads
that are to assist in her development. She
gives the Southern Pacific about ten millions
of acres, while the United States give them
about twenty-five millions.
The road so far as built is good, and does a
fine business. The labor employed in construction
is mostly colored. They receive one
dollar and seventy-five cents a day, which is
good wages for a black man. If he will let
whisky alone and keep out of bad company,
he can soon save enough to buy a small farm
in that great State of cheap farms.
I have been led into saying this much about
the Southern Pacific as it is a matter of vital
importance to all the people, and especially
those of the Southern States. And comparatively
little is known of it. Until visiting upper
Texas and this section, I confess I knew
nothing of the Southern Pacific, its route, aims
and progress. Before we realize it, reader,
the iron horse will be careering over the southern
plains, bringing southern California and
South Carolina within six days of each other.
I have to close this letter without saying
much of Shreveport where I now am, but in
a future communication hope to elaborate a
little on this quaint Red river town.
Nemo.
Build the Railroads.?The railroad interests
of the up-country arc progressing in a
way most gratifying to the people of the entire
State. The Chester atd Lenoir and
the Chester and Cheraw railroads are both
fixed facts. The counties of Chester and
York, under act of the Legislature, have subscribed
8100,000 each to the former road,
while the enthusiasm in Lancaster and adjoining
counties on the success of the latter
enterprise is among the most cheering signs
.p i.:
ui me times.
The large trade which these roads will
open up with the western counties of North
Carolina, and with the whole up-country section,
which has been so long closed to the
railroad advantages of the rest of the State,
will increase at once the value of all kinds of
real estate, as well as enhance the marketable
value of all kinds of produce.
The people of the up country are live and
energetic, going to work to build up their
material interests, and making their waste
places "bloom and blossom as a rose." This
is the kind of spirit which, more than anything
else, has built up the great West, and
every dollar spent in railroad improvements
and manufacturing interests is well and wisely
spent. We congratulate that thriving section
on taking hold of such important business
matters in such a resolute way, because in
such affairs politics are forgotten, and Republican
and Democrat can shake hands over the
bloody chasm.
Let the railroads be built, and let the newspapers
of the State do all they can to back i
up this vigorous, practical spirit, so much ]
needed all over the whole State. All hail!
the up country railroads.? Union-Herald.
A new paper under the auspices of the
Baptists, is to be started at Orangeburg, S. C.
The Rev. Messrs. Durham and Norris are to
be its editors.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
T. M. Dobson A Co.?Don't Ask for Credit?Sundries?Fish?Brass-Bound
Buckets?High
on Credit?Groceries?Remember?Whisk
Brushes?Corsets?Shirting?Shoe LacesBuggy
Umbrellas?Just Arrived?Ladies'
Hose?Bustles.
J. Harry Clawson?Noticeof Appointmentas Assignee?
In Bankruptcy?In the Matter of
A. T. Black. Henry J. Culp, Samuel Anderson,
Miles Johnson, Stephen P. Sutton,
Uriah J. C'ulp, James A. Smith, Bankrupts.
T. S. Jefferys, Secretary?Masonic Meeting.
W. L. Grist, Agent?Conundrum.
E. W. Faucette, Principal?Finley High School.
J. J. A J. C. Miller?Corn Mills.
J. A. Corry, Principal?Male School.
J. R. Schorb A Son?Now is the Time.
R. J. Withers?Fair Warning.
Joseph Horndon- -Herndon's Mill.
J. B. Tate A D. A. A. Watson, Executors?Application
for Discbarge.
J. Ed. Jeflforys?Repairing of Machinery.
Sylva Smith?Runaway.
PERSONAL.
T. M. Wilkes, Esq., United States Commissioner,
returned to this place on Monday
evening last.
THE RAILRO'AD SURVEY.
We learn that the engineer corps of the
Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad
Compauy, will commence the survey of the
line at Yorkville. this morning. It was in
tended to have commenced at Chester on yesterday;
but the authorities of the King's
Mountain Ruilroad Company having made
proposals for consolidation which the new
Company could entertain, it has been determined
to commence the survey at Yorkville
and continue the line through to Lenoir.
PIC-.MC AT MULLOCK'S CREEK.
From a correspondent we learn that many
of the residents of Bullock's Creek township
gave a pic-uic at th? bridge over that stream
on Friday last. Invitations were extended
far and near, and a large number participated
in the festivities. It is represented as having
been a pleasant affair. Mirth and music prevailed,
and the holiday was enjoyed by all?
the old folk engaging in the amusements with
a zest equal to that displayed by the lads and
lassies.
SENT TO'ALBANY.
On Tuesday morning last, John Wallace,
H. Middleton Moore and Robert Riggins, of
this county, under the charge of Marshal R.
M. Wallace, left Charleston, en route for the
Albany penitentiary. At the late term of
the United States Circuit Court in Charleston,
Wallace was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment
and Moore to two years, on the charge
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oi Ku-Kiuxiiig. xvuuert xugguis, mure iuuu uue
year ago, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment
on a similar charge ; but since the
sentence was pronounced has been confined,
first in the jail at Charleston, and subsequently
in the jail of York county.
COUNTY TREASURER'S SETTLEMENT.
Last week, Johu L. Watson, Esq., the
Treasurer of York county, made a final settlement
with the Comptroller-General, and
satisfactorily accounted.for the amounts charged
to him on the tax duplicate. In no county
of the State have the people paid their taxes
more closely and promptly. The total amount
assessed against the county for State and
county purposes, was $79,403.10, of which
$78,271.72 was collected and paid into the
State and county treasuries, leaving a deficit
of $1141.38, which is accounted for as follows:
State tax abated by the Comp.-General,...$ 406 07
County tax abated 124 44
Land forfeited to the State, 12 45
Land forfeited to the county, 2 19
State nulla bona, 173 70
County nulla bona, 53 53
Nulla bona polls 116 00
Polls abated, 28 00
Poll tax turned over to County Commissioners
for collection, 227 00
$1141 38
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.
The following transfers of real estate in
York county, have been reported to the Auditor
since the 3rd instant:
Rebecca J. Holmes and others, to Mary E.
McCarter. Forty-two acres of land in York
township. Consideration 842.
J. S. Cureton to William Smith. One hundred
and sixty acres of land in Catawba township.
Consideration $900.
Margaret Holmes to David Anderson. Fifteen
acres in King's Mountain township.
Consideration $45.
B. H. Massey to B. F. Massey. One hundred
and fifty acres of land in Fort Mill
township. Consideration $1500.
R. P. Smith to J. J. Smith. House and
lot in Yorkville. Consideration $1100.
Annie J. Wilson to ?'. Jlapperneia. LiOi
of 2i acres in Yorkville, adjoining the coach
factory lot of Conner, Hobbs & Dobson. Consideration
$400.
POSTAL REGULATIONS.
For the information of our readers, we publish
this week a full synopsis of the rates of
postage and the general rules which will go
into effect on the first day of next month.
An erroneous opinion prevails among many
persons that a publisher must prepay, at the
office of mailing, the postage on all papers he
sends to regular subscribers. The regulations
do not require this. On and after the first
day of July all free matter is excluded from
the mails, which simply means the abolishing
of the frankling privilege, and that after that
date newspapers will not be delivered free of
postage to exchanges, or to subscribers in the
county where published. After the first of
July all subscribers to newspapers, no matter
where the papers are published, as well as editors
receiving exchanges, will be required to
pay postage on the same, and it is made the
duty of postmasters to collect the postage
quarterly in advance. We make this statement
in order that there may be no misapprehension
on the part of our subscribers or postmasters
respecting postage on the Enquirer.
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jllie puaiage uii it win uut uc pic^aiu ujr uo,
and our county subscribers receiving the Enquirer
by mail will have to pay postage on
it, the same as on any weekly paper published
in another county or State, viz.: five cents per
quarter.
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freak of lightning.
On Thursday afternoon last, during the
prevalence of a thunder shower, the residence
of Mr. Joseph Herndon, of this place, was
struck by lightning, and considerable damage
done to the building. The lightning first
struck a chimney on the north end of the
house, completely demolishing it from top to
the coping, when it glanced to the house, near
a window of the second story, on the east side
of the chimney. The window was shattered;
the blinds torn off and thrown in the yard ;
the weather-boarding from the point opposite
the coping of the chimney to the top of the
house torn off, some of which was hurled into
the street, a distance of twenty-five yards; the
timbers to which the weather-boarding was
nailed were splintered ; the mantel-piece in
the room was torn to pieces, and a fragment?
a atrip six feet in length?driven lengthwise
through the opposite wall. The lightning
passed in a straight line through this room to
the south room opposite, shattering another
window, tearing off several pieces of the
weather-boarding and shivering the timbers,
though not to such an extent as on the part
first struck. To one of the chimneys on the
south end of the house is a lightning-rod,
! which seems to have attracted the electricity.
[Thechimney was slightly cracked in one or
two places, und one of the foundation stones?
a large rock?was thrown from its position,
while immediately under the base of the rod
the earth was torn up, as if it had been dug.
The furniture in the rooms on the second
floor, as also in the room on the first floor
under the one first struck, was scattered in the
utmost confusion, and many articles broken.
Mr. Herndon's two daughters were in the
south room on the first floor immediately
under the room through which the current
passed out, and, miraculous as it may seem,
were unhurt?not even receiving a shock.
The damage to the building and furniture
will probably reach five hundred dollars.
From the Hickory (N. C.) Prw?.
RAILROAD MEETING AT LENOIR.
A large number of the citizens of Caldwell
county assembled in the Court House at Lenoir
on Tuesday the 27th of May, 1873. On
motion of H. C. Hamilton, McCaleb Cofley
was called to the chair and E. W. Faucette
and W. F. Avery requested to act as Secretaries.
At the request of the Chairman, Ed. Jones,
Tr afotprl lh#t fho nJiiopf nf tVm mcafinor una
the furtherance of the scheme to build a narrow
gauge railroad from Chester, S. C., to
Lenoir, N. C.
Maj. G. W. F. Harper then made some
statements in regard to the organization of
the Company, the amount of stock subscribed,
the proceedings of the late meeting at Hickory,
the proposed survey, &c.
Rev. W. M. Robey, President of Davenport
Female College, was called for, and respon- -?
ded in an able, amusing and instructive speech.
Mr. Robey after stating that he was accustomed
to appear before the public but not in the
capacity of a secular speaker, convinced the
audience that he was quite at home in his new
field. He said if there was not some change
in the railway system of this State, that North
Carolina would soon be seven hundred miles
long and three-fourths of a mile wide; that
all the wealth was concentrating aloug the
line of the railroads, and a town twenty miles
from a railroad was in the backwoods. No
road running east can be of any benefit to
our section. What was wanted was a cross
railroad; that South Carolina was the natural
market for all we had to sell. * Hyde county
in this State made corn enough to supply
all Eastern North Carolina, while 8outh Carolina
wanted our corn, as they turned their
attention almost exclusively to the culture of
cotton.
The W. N. C. R. R. had been an eating
cancer to our tax-payers?giving nothing in
return. Beef sells in Chester from 10 to 12
cents, while in Lenoir it is worth only 4 and
8 cents. Corn in Chester 81.10, in Lenoir
40 and 50 cents, and no market for it at that
price.
Watauga and Caldwell had built up Hickory
Tavern?made her what she is. She had
no self-sustaining trade without them. The
people of that town have had a chill ever
since the subject of onr narrow gauge railroad
has been talked of. They are shaking because
we .wish to have a little of the money ourselves
that is going; they wanted it all and are unwilling
to divide. Quoted from Judge Mackey
that "the world was made up of two classes,
the skinners and the skinned." He thought
the people of Caldwell should have a little
skin and it made no difference whose skin it
was.
Col. Armfield, of States ville, was called out
and said it had never come within the scope
of his duty to investigate railroad matters.
Alluded to the geographical fact that if North
Carolina, with Roanoke Island as a pivot,
wereswitched round, Cherokee county would
knock Boston into the ocean.
He had no sympathy with that spirit which
would have every railroad stop at one's
own town. They want you to plod their
muddy roads through sleet and snow and sell
your produce at low prices so they can make
a big profit off it. Towns away from the line
of railroad are so lifeless that a tin box has to
be tied to a strange dog's tail to get up an excitement.
If Hickory Tavern or any other
town opposes your road because it does not
stop at the right place, get an ox team and
move it to the stopping place. It was impossible
to drive trade from its natural channel,
either by legislation or otherwise. South Carolina
was our natural market Wagons from
our mountains paid no attention to a railroad
running east, they would drive over twenty of
such to get to South Carolina.
South Carolina wants all you have to eat,
and more too; they propose to clothe the
world and they want somebody to feed them.
They get nothing to eat, as it is, but what
Charlotte refuses. The beef that Charlotte
can't "chaw" is sent to Chester and Yorkville,
and what Charlotte wont eat is monstrous bad.
Ed. Jones, Jr., in response to calls, made
some interesting statements in regard to the
practical working of the narrow gauge rail
roads in Wales, and their advantages over
the broad gauge roads. Alluded to the
vast expenditures of this State to build rail
roads all to no purpose. Spoke of the increased
prices that would result from the
building of this road?that Chester prices
would be brought to Lenoir.
The difference in the prices of vegetables,
lumber, <fcc. Potatoes selling in Chester for
82.50 per bushel, and common pine lumber
at. 895 ftrt nor thousand feat. Raid a South
Carolinian told him he paid 16J eta for beef
once and had to send it to the tanyard as it
had never been skinned. Corn is worth thirty-six
cents more in Chester than here. With
this road the freight would be six cents and
we would put the other thirty in our pockets.
Dr. Beall made an impressive effort in favor
of this movement (Just here the Secretaries
were interrupted and cannot give his
speech as full as they would like.) Dr. B.
showed the great advantage a railroad would
be to our agricultural interests.
H. C. Hamilton, Major G. W. F. Harper
and Ed. Jones, Jr., made several statements
of facts, the latter giving notice that there
would be a railroad meeting at this place on
the 24th of June, at which place and time
many friends of the enterprise from Chester,
Yorkville and elsewhere would be present
M'CALEB COFFEY, Chairman.
E. W. Faucette, ) o ^ W.
F. Avery, j Secretaries.
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From the New York 8un.
BUTTER FROM BEEF SUET.
A company has been organized in this city
with a capital of $500,000 for the manufacture
of butter. It is claimed that the butter
is genuine, the means of producing it being
alone artificial: in other words, the discoverer
affirms that the article is not merely butyrous,
but in every respect the complete and perfect
thing, as agreeable, nutritious and usatrie as
the best Orange county butter. A gentleman
of recognized ability as a chemist is the fortunate
introducer of this new wonder. Several
persons of wealth have bought stock, and in a
week or two the manufacture will be conducted
on a very large scale. The office of the
Oleo-Margarine Manufacturing Company, as
the corporation is called, is at 40 Broadway,
and their manufactory in Forty-fifth street.
Arrangements have been made, and very soon
the market will be fully supplied with the new
product. At present the demand for the article
is so great that it is beyond the capacity
of the company to supply it. The profits are
expected to be over 100 per cent
HOW THE HUTTER IS MADE.
In the first place, agents are employed to
visit the slaughter-houses, and to buy up all
the beef fat usually called suet. This suet is
carted to the butter factory and cleansed.
Then it is put into ordinary meat choppers
and minced fine. It is afterwards placed in
a boiler with as much water in bulk as itself.
A steam pipe is introduced among the particles
of the suet, and they are melted. The
refuse, or membrane, goes to the bottom of the
water; the oily substance floats and is removed.
This latter consists of butter matter and