Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, August 07, 1873, Image 2
Scraps and ^acts. |
A Boston dairyman has been fined $200*
tor not putting enough milk in his water.
Whispered advice to young ladies, who 1
would conquer during this hot weather?keep
your powder dry.
The eleven Territories exceed by nearly
two hundred thousand square miles, the aggregate
territory of all the States of the Union.
Professor De Ahna is to sail in a bal- j
loon from Philadelphia for Europe on the
same day that Professor Wise sets out from
Boston.
The girls in a Springfield, Mass., factory |
are supplied by the proprietors with chewing
gum, in order that they may not waste lime
in talking.
At an Oregon baby show, a disappoint- j
ed mother snapped a revolver under the nose
of one of the judges, and her husband is after
the other two. ;
When a Philadelphia husband comes ,
home late his wife makes him say "Claxton, ;
Kemsen & Haftelfinger," which is the name ;
of a firm in that city. If he pronounces it
correctly, she is satisfied, and he escapes a
lecture.
A Georgia editor describing a wedding
lately, said the bride "looked a very lily, era- j
died in the golden glimmer of some evening
lake?a foam fleck, snowy, yet sun flushed, '
crowning the rippliugs of some soft Southern !
sea.
An Atlanta doctor advises persons
afraid of cholera to stand on their heads for i
one minute three times a day. He argues
lhat this arrests abdominal depression, and
would be a healthful gymuastic exercise auy
time.
V./I1C U1 LUC L'UUUlblUU3 ui |icacc ucbiicuti j
Russia and Khiva is the abolition of capital ;
punishment in the latter country. This will !
be novel for the Khivans, among whom exe- i
cutions have been almost as frequent as in
England fifty years ago. The result of the
change in the morals of that barbarous uation
will be watched with iuterest.
Mrs. General Gaines, of the famous i
lawsuit of forty-one years' duration, is sojourn- !
ing in Memphis, Tenn., the home of her hus- [
band, General E. P. Gaines. By decrees of j
the Supreme Court of the United States she
is entitled to the possession of property once
worth $20,000,000, but Durell reigns in NewOrleans,
and Mrs. Gaines is penniless.
The New York News says an application
has been made to Governor Dix, and a I
petition signed by some of the most eminent;
men in the State of New York, to grant young
Walworth a pardon. The proceedings have
been kept quiet, and Governor Dix has written
to Judge Noah Davis asking him to transmit
to hi in copies of all the testimony, letters and
records in the case.
Brigham Young's Arizona colony has
proved a disastrous failure. The colonists are
on their way home, having suffered extreme
hardships in that desert region. A party is j
now surveying from the head of the Gulf of
California iulaud toward Utah, with a viewto
fill a large basiu that will form a lake
nearly six hundred miles long, and change the
climate of all that desert country. The land
is from 100 to 300 feet below tide level on the
Gulf. The command of water is thought to
be not expensive.
There is a railroad in operation in
North Carolina that is not down on any of
> our maps; no mention has ever been made of
it in any newspaper, and even the citizens of
the town on one end of the line did not know
the building was going on until they saw the
workmen entering the town laying down '
the track. This new railroad is a tram road
and runs from Edwards' Ferry, on the Roanoke
to the enterprising little town of Scotland
Neck, in Halfax county. It was built entirely
by W. H. Smith, Esq.
It is now known that the losses by the :
isaltimore hre will not much exceed halt a 1
million dollars. The burnt district was covered
with inferior buildings, small stores,
workshops, &c., chiefly wooden, and It is
better for Baltimore perhaps that the fire took
place, as from all accounts the locality was
simply a tinder-box, which from its central ,
position, might at any time spread flame and
destruction through the whole city, aud under
favorable circumstances cause a greater disaster
than that of Boston or Chicago. The
lesson is costly, but it will pay in the end.
The manner of restraining the playful
impetuosity of Texas gentlemen while at 1
church is very graceful and picturesque. Not 1
with calm aud tepid words does a Texas
preacher rebuke an unduly gamesome flock.
No; the worthy man to whom specially we
refer, stopped his sermon, the other day, raised 1
a convenient rifle, and observed warmly in a
spirit of love, "William Dello, sit down, or 1
I'll make it painful for you." The slightly
obstreperous William immediately took this i
mild hint and sat him down to the quiet enjoyment
of his Christian privileges.
A most extraordinary statement has
made its appearance in that highly respectable
paper, the Saturday Review, to the effect
that English society is getting so over-crowded
with unmarried women that serious thoughts !
are entertained of introducing polygamy j
as a remedy for the enormous evils which
this condition of things entails. The paper j,
further asserts the enthusiasm with which the
Shah of Persia, a polygamist, has been receiv-|
( 1 by the women, is nothing less than a dis-1
* tinct expression in favor of the Persian social j
system.
? Hon. E. B. Washburne, minister of the i
Cnitcd States to the French capital, thus explains
himself upon the back pay ques- i
tion : "I was in Congress when the salary
was but three thousand dollars, and I always !
found it more than sufficient to meet my necessary
personal expenses. When it was raised ,
to live thousand dollars I thought it too much,<
and think so still; but raising it to seven
thousand live hundred dollars is nothing more
?>r Ies3 than straight stealing. Every year
that I was in Congress I laid by a portion of
my salary, and none of my constituents ever
complained that I didn't live decently."
An election riot in Mexico is something
serious. It is a revolution. Such a disturb- I
since is pending in Xuevo Leon, where there
are three candidates for Governor. The citi- j
/ens of Monterey who have portable property
arc already preparing to decamp, for the first
act of a revolutionary junta is to levy a
forced loan. Last year Treviuo and Quiroga
headed the revolution in Nuevo Leon, and !
the American Consul at Monterey was put
into the common jail for refusing to pay tribute
to these brigands. The unfortunate people
of Monterey and Matamoras are compelled
to live in light marching order; with each
successive revolution they pack up and leave. !
This year it is taken for granted that at least |
one of the defeated candidates will organize
a revolt and "get even," some how, forexpen-1
SOS.
The Wilmington (N. C.) Star has seen
a curiosity in the shape of what is known as
"vegetable wool," which is thus described by
that paper: Twenty-five seed were obtained
from an Irish seaman for which the sum of S25
was paid. The seed produces one stalk, from
the top of which numerous branches put out
1 il. J !!!-- iL ~ _!
and run over me grouuu mm me vines ui iue
"May-pop" which are to be found in old fields.
These produce pods from which the wool is
obtained. In appearance it is something like
cotton, but the texture is that of the finest
wool. Some of the seeds were planted
and were found to be very prolific. Upon
being spun the thread was found to possess
the glossy appearance of the finest silk,
coupled with the elasticity of wool. The
"vegetable wool" is destined to become, at no
distant day, one of the prominent staples of
production in the South.
One of the many capital punishments
in use under the Chinese Criminal Code is
that of deprivation of sleep, which, generally
proves fatal in about ten days. Five '
fitolish young Belgians lately tried this expe
riment upon themselves with more or less disagreeable
results. They laid a wager that
they would remain awake for seven days, on
condition that they might use all possible
means of keeping otf sleep. They arranged
the employment of their time in the following
manner: The night was spent in dancing and
drinking quantities of coffee; during the day
they rode, fenced or shot at a mark, taking
coffee every half hour. One of these young
men won the wager, but lost twenty-five
pounds in weight; two fell asleep after remaining
awake one hundred and thirty hours;
one was seized with inflammation of the lungs;
the fifth was overcome by slumber while on
horseback, fell and broke his arm, and thus
ended this very unnecessary ordeal.
The Charleston News and Courier, in
/\f /vvH?\n om'nviinrr r?rncnu/'tc envi rPltn
? VA VWkVU UJ/lillllllg |'l ?.'? J w t * ? v ;
Southern cotton^mills lire working full time,
and are making money rapidly. Let the
Northern mill owners come down South, and
they can do the same. The statistics show
that yarn can be manufactured in South Carolina,
transported to the North, pay a commission
of five per cent, for selling, be sold
at the cost of northern production, and yet
yield a profit of five cents a pound. And a
certain class of colored goods can be produced
here and sold in the North at the cost
of production of similar goods there, and yet
yield a net profit of over ten cents a pound.
Again, yarns made in the Saluda factory
have been shipped to England and sold in
Manchester at a rate which left a net profit of j
four and a half cents a pouud. The saving !
in cost of material, in wages, in commissions, j
in waste, in transportation, &c., enables the I
southern mills to do a profitable business, |
while the northern mills lose money; and i
when the northern mills are doing their best,
the southern mills do still better. The moral !
of this is plain : "Bring your machinery down
South at once, ye manufacturers of New
England, for to that, or closing your doors,
ye must come at last."
?ltc f athvillc drutptim.
YORKVILLE, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 7, 1873.
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EDUCATION AND VIRTUE.
Some things are inseparably united. As an
example, we might mention ignorance and
vice. Wherever ignorance is found in any
community to a prevailing extent, there we
fiud vice in a variety of forms. The contrary
L onnnllv truo An ddnr?ntP(l nnmmnnit.v is
never a community notorious for crimes of the
darkest hue. It is iiot argued that what are
called educated men are never guilty of perpetrating
heinous crimes, and never engage
in acts which are subversive of the public
good. Men whose intellects are highly cultivated,
and whose learning is very great, are
often the perpetrators of deeds which ignorant
individuals are unable to devise, much less execute.
It is absolutely true that education and virtue
accompany each other, when it is properly
understood what is included in the word education.
Man is a compound being. lie is
not such a creature as a horse or a mule, and
to treat him as such in his education is to
make a serious and extremely dangerous mistake.
The horse or mule may be taught to
obey our commands, and to have for his master
a kind of attachment which resembles love,
and here his education must, by the restrictions
of nature, cease. Man's mind, whilst it
is, strictly speaking, a unity, still it is very
complex in its operation. This complexity is
denoted by words, thinking,feeling and willing.
It is the same mind that thinks, feels and
wills; but thinking is neither feeling nor willing.
Completely educated, we would be
taught to think, to feel, and to will. The two
former accomplished, the latter would follow
as a matter of consequence. One reason why
so many educated men so frequently violate
the law, is that their education extends no i
farther than the intellect. Their hearts are
uneducated. That delicate state of the sensibilities,
which it is within the province of education
to produce, has been wholly neglected.
All that was aimed at in their education was ;
the development of the intellect. The reason- j
ing powers were strengthened, and the iutel-1
lectual perception increased, but the heart re-1
mained hard and callous. Before mauy crimes !
can be perpetrated, the heart has to be seared
as with a hot iron. No man becomes a great j
villain at once, and no man with a properly |
trained heart, or with the feeling part of his !
mind properly educated,can be guilty of hein- j
ous crimes against the welfare of society. To ;
devise a plan by which a murder may be j
committed is within the range of almost any :
intellect, but it requires more than this to kill
a man. The murderer must have a hard and j
cruel heart.
We may safely infer that the existence of i
crime i? a sure index of a defective state of!
education. We may also infer that the surest, \
as well as the quickest aud cheapest way to
banish crime, is by thoroughly educating the :
masses of the people. Vice is not only a dangerous
thing, but it is also an exceedingly ex- j
pensive thing. It cost in dollars and cents
far more to punish the violators of the law !
than it does to educate the children. In what
are called civilized lands, jails, court houses, j
and places of punishment, cost the people
more than all their institutions of learning.
This cost is mainly incurred by the uneducated.
It is only occasionally that we hear of
a high-toned gentleman being sent to jail for
some crime, or sent to the penitentiary to
atone for some flagrant misdemeanor. The
mass of those who are sent to these places are
poor, ignorant creatures, with hearts destitute
of tender feeling.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
! ? Recently a cotton field, in Suiuter county,
was completely destroyed by lightning.
? H. L. McGowan, formerly Solicitor for
the Union Circuit, died at Cresar's Head on
the 28th ultimo.
| ?The treasury of Marion county has a
balance of 830G9 ou hand, after paying all
its current expenses.
? The report from the cotton crop in the
Pedee scctien is good. The corn crop is said
to be very indilferent.
; ? Dr. E. H. Edwards, i*f Rock Hill, is to
take charge of the boarding-house connected
: with the Female College at Due West.
I ?Joseph P. Police, a machinist in the Slate
j Road shops in Atlanta, has fallen heir to
852,000, left him by a rich old uncle, who
died recently in Charleston.
? On Saturday, the lauigley euttou mills
shipped a consignment of domestics from Augusta,
Ga., to San Francisco direct, via the
Great Atlantic Coast Line route.
? G'hupMcIvinna, the ringleader of the Fort
Mill rioters, is a Lancaster darkey, whom the
Ledger thinks is a fugitive from justice.
Chap has been a prominent politician since
he took up his abode in York.
? Two young ladies of Orangeburg county
have twenty acres of fiuely growing cotton,
which they have cleared of grass with their
own labor, assisted by a flock of geese. The
crop promises to turn out about twelve bales.
? In Orangeburg, last week, Henry Honick,
a German, and a hard working, worthy man,
died on Friday of last week from sun-stroke.
Last Sunday, a colored man in the employ of
Major Briggman, died from the effects of overheating
and the drinking of too much water.
? John R. McQuage, who was committed
to jail in Marlboro county for the killing of
R. J. Breeden in July, 1871, and who escaped
in September following, was captured in Ma
rion county on Thursday last, und recommitted
to jail.
? The Marlboro Times says: "Cotton is
growing very rapidly, and the prospect is
much better than it was some weeks ago.
With favorable seasons from this time forward,
a very fair cotton crop will be made in Marlboro."
? On Monday afternoon of last week, Mr.
J. S. Bell, living near Lyuch's Creek, in the
southwestern part of Darlington county, was
instantly killed by lightning in his yard. He
leaves a wife and seven children to mourn
their loss.
? Two negroes, Columbus Carter and Green
Estes, on the plantation of Tom Saunders, in
Chester county, quarrelled on Friday last
about some watermelons, which Carter accused
Estis of stealing. From words they came to
blows, and Estes was stabbed to death. Carter
was arrested and is now in Chester jail.
? Judge Moher has just refused a writ of
mandamus to compel the commissioners of
Colleton county to pay claims contracted prior
to November 1, 1872, out of the last tax
levy. The position taken was that the fiscal
year for a county begins at the same time as
that of the State.
? Dorn's Gold Mine, in Abbeville county,
has been leased from its owner, Cyrus H. Mc^
' v n /-ii.* I If Da?IV
V>OrmiCK, 01 V>niCUgo, uy i'xeaaia. x emu t*
Cothran, who intend to commence mining operations
at an early day. They will work
the mine on a scientific plan, and it is thought
that a little labor will develop a richer deposit
than has yet been discovered.
? At the conference at Cokesbury, last week,
the matter of preachers using tobacco was discussed
as unbecoming, and calculated to do
harm to the rising generation by the influence
of a bad example. One of the members soon
quashed proceedings by requesting the brethren
to hand over their tobacco to him. Strange
to say, not another word was said about tobacco.
? The Union Times of the 1st instant says :
"We are pleased to state that the Female
School at Limestone Spriugs, will shortly be
opened under the auspices of Mr. Chas. Petty,
of this county. Mr. Petty was once a Professor
of the Spartanburg Female College, and
is highly spoken of as a competent and efficient
teacher. From our own knowledge we
can say he is a high-toned pure gentleman,
and we think is the very man to make the Female
School a great success."
? Two officers from Georgia, on a requisition
from the Governor of that State, arrested
a young man in Laurens, county, on Friday
of last week, charged with the crime of murder,
alleged to have been committed in DoIvalb
county in the year 18G6. The accused
is named Wiley Smith, a man of good character
and respectably counected. His father
was murdered in Georgia several years ago,
some time after which the supposed murderer
was killed, and susnicion attaching to young
Smith, lie has been arrested to answer to the
charge.
XORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Walter F. Leak, Esq., has recently completed
the erection of a paper mill at Rockiugham,
Richmond county. *
? Redding Statou, fell dead off the step3 of
the store of Baucura & Bros, at the tax gathering
at Olive Branch, Union county, the
29th ultimo.
? Rev. J. C. Williams, pastor of Hopewell
Presbyterian Church, Mecklenburg county,
who was sometime since stricken with paralysis
in the pulpit is recovering.
? Rev. Burwell Temple, one of the oldest
divines in the State, died recently at his home
near Raleigh. He wa3 a Primitive Baptist,
and f jr. thirty years editor of the organ of that
church, published at his house.
? The Charlotte Observer regrets to learn
that the reopening of the Charlotte Military
Institute, under the control of Colonel J. P.
Thomas, of South Caroliua, is likely to be
abandoned.
? In consequence of fast-failing health, Sir.
James H. Smith has severed his connection
with the Lincoln Progress. The paper will be
conducted by Mr. Seaglc as sole editor and
proprietor.
? To-day the people of the State vote on the
proposition to amend the constitution in various
particulars. The proposed amendments
are not of a partisan nature, and have evoked
very little discussion among the newspapers
and politicians.
? "Put down your umbrellas! You'll scare
this engine off the track !" screamed the engineer
on the North-Western North Carolina
road, to a crowd of people who had gathered
to see the first train of cars come in. They
were all lowered at once. The Milton Chronicle
relates the story.
? The injunction granted by Judge Logan,
some time ago, restraining the sale of the Wilmington,
Charlotte & Rutherford Railroad,
has been declared an error by the Supreme
Court, and the whole proceedings dismissed.
It will be remembered that the road was sold
notwithstanding the injunction, and then
! Judge Logan had certain persons arrested
, for contempt; but his proceedings in that
| respect are annulled by the late decision.
? The disgraceful squabble over the Atlani
tic, Tennessee and Ohio railroad, has culmiI
nated in stopping the trains on the road, none
h:iving passed over it for the past week. Col.
Johnston has possession of one end of the
j road, (at Statesville) and Mr. McDowell has
j possession at the Charlotte end. A "bush
court," as our North Carolina friends term
J the tribunal, composed of a trial justice and
jury, improvised at Statesville for the emer:
gencv, decided the whole matter, a few days
i ago, in favor of the Johnston party; but Mci
Dowell holds on, despite the terrible majesty
! of the Court, and in the meantime the beli
ligerent Presidents "so-called" keep up a war
| of words through the Observer, which is no
doubt quite edifying to their respective adhc- j
rents.
j ? The Newton Vindicator of Monday says: i
I Sunday night will long be remembered in
; this pert of the country in consequence of the
immense full of rain, and the continuous flushes
of lightning. The storm seems to have)
been very general, and ancounts come from j
different directions of damage done b/lightning.
In Morgan ton a woman aged 60 was
killed. In this place Dr. Abernathy's wellhouse
was stricken, but without serious results. '
Different persons estimate the fall of rain, '
that night, at eight inches ! This is almost
incredible, for three inches is considered very
heavy, but the opinion is formed from the
quantity of water caught in outstanding vessels.
The rise in the streams was remarkably
rapid, and very great, and much damage done
to crops, fencing, &c.
NEWS OFVHE DAY.
| ?The railroad from Marshall to Dallas,
Texas?190 miles?has just been completed.
? Vice-President Wilson is said to be recovering
from his illness. *
? Three deaths from cholera are reported
us having occurred at Ringgold, Georgia,
last Friday.
? A fire in Boston, on the 1st instant, destroyed
property to the amount of near half
a million of dollars.
? The State Grange of Kansas has passed
rusuiuUUUS u cpi eutt uug uic pi uujincu^ v
to horse racing at State and county fairs.
? The Charlotte Observer says that a regular
daily mail will be established on the AirLine
railroad at an early day.
? It is stated as a fact that there are more
youths in the South receiving a military education
at this time than there are in the North.
? Col. It. Barnwell Rhett is in Huntsville,
Ala., the guest of his friend, ex-Senator C. C.
Clay.
? Fire in Singers' sewing machine buildings,
Chicago, Sunday night involves a loss of
$100,000.
? A fire in Portland, Maiue, on the 2nd instant,
destroyed property to the value of 81,500,000.
The loss is, in proportion, greater
than by the Boston or Chicago fires.
? Gen. Sidney Sherman, the last cavalry
commander of San Jacinto, died in Galveston,
Texas, on Friday night, and was buried
with military honors.
? A dispatch from Gov. Kellogg to Attorney-General
Williams says they collected in
June from the city of New Orleans alone one
million one hundred thousand dollars.
? The cotton caterpillar has made its appearance
in the section of Jackson, Mississippi.
The crop is several weeks later than
usual, and the presence of the worm earlier.
? All the claims presented to the Southern
Claims Commission at Washington have been
numbered aud registered. They number 22,295
and their aggregate amouutsums up $56,000,000.
? Twenty employes of the Pittsburg and
Chicago railroad have been arrested, charged
with stealing freight from the trains. A large
amount of property was found in their possession.
? The cholera is in Carmie, Illinois, where
fourteen deaths occurred last week; aud in
Jouesboro, Tennessee, the citizens are panicstricken,
fourteen deaths having occurred
there on Friday last.
Til ?I i ,.c V
? 1 lie Wlllier WllUUt U1UJJ Ul nuuaao auu
Missouri has been very large aud excellent in
quality. Minnesota will yield 6,000,000 bushels,
and Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin, will
equal last year's crop.
? The fanners of California are inclined to
hold the new crop of wheat for higher prices.
Ouly nine ships with wheat cleared San Francisco
last week, against fourteen the same
time last year.
? Twenty-two Chinese females, brought to
San Francisco from Hong Kong, were sold at
auction immediately after their arrival, on
the 30th ultimo. The young girls brought
as high as $450 each, aud the middle-aged
and old women from $100 to 200 each.
? The Menonites, a religious sect of Prussia,
whose tenets forbid military service, have determined
to emimgrate to America, to escape
conscription. They number 40,000, and will
settle along the line of the Northern Pacific
railroad.
? Near Cumberland, Md., on the 1st, a
freight train ran into a gravel train, killing
one and hurting three; and on the same day,
nearTitusville, Pa.,a freight and oil train collided,
killing three person. Fifteen cars were
burned, with the bodies of the persons killed.
? It is stated that unofficial advices have
been received at the war department that the
court has found all the Modoc Indians on
trial guilty of murder, and ordered all of
them to be shot. General Davis is said to be
only waiting the endorsement of the verdict
to carry out the sentence.
? At Sing Sing prison on Monday, while a
transfer of prisoners was being made, the notorious
Wes Allen unlocked the door of his
cell, and armed with a large knife, defied any
. L I.!? ?,? nltnmnt I
OllC 10 upproucu mm. ucu uw uio.b>^^v
was made to arrest him, he pointed at a can
j containing nitro-glycerine, and threatened to
; blow it up if he was interfered with. The
! warden deeming discretion the better part of j
! valor, left him alone in possession of the deadJ
ly instrument.
| According to statistics derived from the
archives of the Indian bureau, it appears that
i there are three hundred thousand Indians remaining
within the limits of the United States,
! (exclusive of 70,000 in the new Territory of |
Alaska,) who, upon the important question of j
subsistence, may be divided into self-support-1
' ing tribes, 130,000; partly supported by the >
| government, 84,000; eutirely supported by !
the government, 31,000; living by hunting!
and marauding, 55,000. In Mexico there are !
4,000,000 of Indians, in Central America j
1,500,000, in South America their number is '
j probably not far from 7,000,000, who are i
mostly civilized and converted to Christianity.
, In the scale of civilization the little remnant
; of our own Indians is thus classified : Civilized,
97,000, semi-civilized 125,000, wholly
savage 78,000. There are one or two lessons
here, in learning which the philosophical stu- j
dent of history does not need to have assist-' j
ance. It is seen that in the Anglo American |
1 part of the continent there was 110 amalgarua- J
tion, and civilization is healthy, progressive, |
strong; in the Spanish American part, on
I the contrary, where conquest was followed by
amalgamation, the decrease of the native
j tribes is not so great, but social and political
! chaos reign.
LOCAL AFFAIRS. ;
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
:
, II. K. Roborts, Chairman Board of County Commissioners?Notieo
to Overseers of Roads.
W. B. Allison, Clerk, pro torn.?Annual Meeting
of Board of County Commissioners.
Andrew Etters, Administrator?Notice to Daniel
T. Etters.
M. H. Currenee, Administrator?Application for
Discharge.
It. H. Glenn, S. Y. 0.?Sheriff's Sales,
Conner, Ilobbs <fc Dobson?Body-Maker Wanted.
J. A. Carroll?Administrator's Sale.
Wheeler <fcC'rowell?Dixie Cotton Press.
T. S. Jellerys, Secretary?Masonic Meeting.
RETURNED TO HIS OLD HOME.
We are pleased to see again in our town
Jonathan B. Williams, Esq., who in May of
last year, removed to Arkansas. Like thousands
of others, he does not find the West the
El Dorado pictured by imaginative minds,
and he has returned to make his permanent
home in his native State.
TIIE COLUMBIA DAILY SUN.
We have received the first number of a
new paper published at the Capital, bearing
the above title. The Sun will be issued every
morning, and mailed to subscribers at 85.00
per annum, or 82.50 for six months. The
sheet does not bear the name of either editor
or publisher.
BAILED OUT OF JAIL.
Chap McKinna and his crowd of associates,
imprisoned over a week ago, on a charge of
riotous conduct at Fort Mill, were granted
bail by Trial Justice James K. Wagoner, on
Monday evening last. A bond in the sura of
one hundred dollars each was required, Nel- 1
son Davies and Hanibal White becoming the
sureties.
FINE SPECIMENS.
Mr. Alexander Stewart, of this county, has
favored us with a specimen from his orchard,
in the shape of a large apple of the "horse" 1
variety, which he assures us is the smallest
one he could find on either of four trees. It
is truly a fine specimen. i
Mrs. C. J. Robertson, of this place, has sent
us a potato, the product of her garden, which
weighs 17 ounces.
TIIE RAILROAD SURVEY.
' On Wednesday afternoon of last week, the
euros of engineers enpatred in surveying the
I o O O ? w
route of the proposed railroad from Chester
to Lenoir returned to this place, having made
a survey from this point to Lenoir and back.
On Tuesday last, they commenced, from this
place, the third and final survey, which will
be made through to Lenoir and definitely locate
the route.
SALES-DAY.
Monday last being regular sales-day, a
goodly number of people, from various sections
of the county, were in attendance. All
concur in giving good reports of the present
prospects of the growing crop of cotton. The
corn crop is not represented as promising. It
was planted late, and much of it?in the low
lands?was drowned out by the excessive rains
which fell soon after the planting season
closed. It is doubtful if the county makes
more than half as much corn as will be required
to take the people through until the
next half crop shall be planted and gathered.
The Sheriff made but 0110 sale?Jacob
Blair's interest iu a house and lot on Madison
street, which was bought by W. B. Williams,
Esq., for $10.00.
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.
The following transfers of real ^estate in
York county have been reported to the Auditor
since the 24th ultimo:
Z. D. Boyd to W. F. Boyd. A tract of
105 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration
81200.
J. L. Guy to S. R. Moore. A tract.of 170
acres in Bullock's Creek township. Consideration
$1100.
Thomas L. Johnson to J. C. Poag. A
tract of land in Catawba township. Consideration
$175. i
J. P. Creighton to J. C. Poag. A tract of
23 acres in Catawba township. Lonsicieration
$23.
J. P. Creighton to W. A. Barber. A tract
of 74 acres in Catawba township. Consider- |
ation $74.
Calvin Whisonnnt to J. P. and Sue J.
Hambright. A tract of 215 acres in Broad
River township. Consideration $800.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to Stephen Kearney.
A tract of 197 acres in Catawba township.
Consideration $583.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Piedmont Air-Line. 1
This is the designation of an important
line of railway, extending from Richmond to
Atlanta, Ga., a distance of 548 miles. It
embraces the Richmond and Danville Rail- i
road, 140 miles ; the Piedmont railroad, from
Danville to Greensboro, 49 miles; a portion
of the North Carolina railroad, from Greensboro
to Charlotte intersecting, 92 miles; and
the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line, from
Charlotte to Atlanta, 266 miles. The latter ,
road is in progress of construction. The last
rail will be laid some time in August, and
the road opened for business in September, in
season for the cotton crop, which i3 unusually
promising.
In addition to the trunk Hue just described, ,
there are two branches nearly completed, viz:
the Roanoke Valley railroad, from Keysville, 1
on the Richmond and Danville railroad, to
Clarkesville, at the confluence of the Dan
and Staunton rivers, 31 miles; and the
Northwestern North Carolina railroad, from |
Greensboro to Salens, 29 miles. The line
traverses what is known as the Piedmont
region of Virginia, North and South Carolina,
aud Georgia, and it is one of the most
desirable and attractive agricultural and
mineral regions in the United States.
The Political World.
The People's Convention at Columbus,
Ohio, on the 31st ultimo, nominated Isaac !
Collins, Democrat, for Governor; A. S. Piatt,
Liberal, for Lieu tenant-Governor, and generally
a mixed ticket. The first resolution of the
platform declares against any caucus or convention
that fails to present fit candidates for
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office, ns it is tne nign privilege us ncu ? mo
bounden duty of all good citizens to withhold 1
their votes from unfit candidates, and, regardless
of party affiliations, to support the best
men presented for official position. The reso- 1
lution declares that duties on imports, as long i
as such duties are necessary, should be imposed i
for the purpose of revenue ouly, and not for i
the purpose of benefiting private individuals '
or companies, or favoring any particular 1
branch of industry at the expense of the whole
people. ,
The State Republican Convention of Virginia,
at Lynchburg, on the same day, nominated
for Governor, R. W. Hughes; for Lieu- ;
tenant-Governor, C. P. Rarasdell; and for
Attorney-General, David Fultz. Mr. Hughes :
is a citizen of Richmond, and is the editor of,
a Republican paper published in that city.
In Massachusetts, Gen. Butler is the Grant'
candidate for the nomination for Governor,
and will probably get it.
S. S. Cox and Richard Schell are the prominent
names connected with the nomination
I for Congress in the place of Mr. Brooks, de|
ceased, from the city of New York. Cox is
the favorite of the Tamany wing, while Schell
[ has the Wall street influence in his favor.
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A people's party has been formed in Aroostook
county, Maine. The object is to elevate
to power only upright men, and the resolutions
"condemn the national administration
and Congress for violation of solemn pledges,
for corruption, for disregard for the rights of
the people, for failure to secure the promised
civil service reform, and for the Credit Mobilier
and salary-grab frauds." Aroostook
county is one of the finest agricultural sections
in the United States, and the movement there
is probably in sympathy with that of the western
farmers.
Mr. Grocsbcek's Views.
Hon. W. S. Groesbeck, of Ohio, in de-;
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calling 10 nave nis mime uruugiiL uenne ine ( recent
Convention of that State, wrote a letter, i
which has been published, in which he expresses
the hope that the time is near when J
all present and former Democrats and alldis- :
satisfied Republicans shall be cordially united j
uudcr a single organization. He then refers
to a letter written by hiin last May, in which j
he urges the formation of a new party of the I
above mentioned elements to be called the
Liberal Democracy.
He urges a closer and firmer union of all
opposed to the preseut administration. He
believes the historical Democratic organization
is spoiled. Blundering constantly during
the past ten years, and shattered by many defeats,
it surrendered finally at the last Presidential
election. It has no longer strength
for victory. It will be wise to lay aside the
old organization and enter the new one, which s
should accept the results of the war so as to 1
command the confidence of the people. <
There should be no exclusiveness about the (
new organization. It should be the joint work
of Democrats and Republicans, and both
should be equally at home in it; neither should ,
be the guest of the other. r
In relation to the principles of the new or- (
gauizalion Mr. Groesbeck says uothing short
r\P u'n r r>a n nni?n norrrrv anffrnorft in nop dllV I ^
It will endure as long as general suffrage, although
he thinks it was granted the negroes
too soon.
The new organization should oppose all
forms of monopolies, as monopolies are an
outrage and au offense against the people. It
should oppose centralization, and should advocate
home government in all local affairs.
The question of free trade should be one of
the cardinal doctrines of the organization, as
a prohibitory tariff is a plain contradiction to
the character of our government, and is a barbarism
as a commercial policy. He urges
the doctrine of strict construction of the Constitution
as a certain preventive of misgovernments.
He urges also that the new movement
be so conducted as give the strongest assurances
that it works reforms and not place.
He closes by saying he would be glad to see
the democracy move out of the old organization
with a new one, saying it will not succeed
until it does ; but whether it does or not he
shall remain with the democracy.
The Free Schools.
For the purpose of correcting a misstatement
made in an extensively published
paragraph in connection with the free schools
of this State and the Peabody fund, J. K.
Jillson, State Superintendent of Education,
has published a letter, from which we make
the following extracts, as setting forth the
condition and prospects of the school system
in this State:
Number of school districts in the State.... 402
Number of school houses 1,870
Scholastic population 200,376
Number of free common schools 1,919
Number of pupilsattending the free common
schools 76,322
Number of toaebers employed in the free
common schools 2,185
Avorago salaries of male teachers per
month $32 55
Average salaries of female teachers per
month $31 25
Avcrago length of school term in months 5
SCHOOL REVENUES.
State school appropriation (a) $300,000 00
Local or school district taxes 75,393 36
Poll tax 36,553 00
Total $411,956 35
(o.) It is true that not one dollar of the State
school appropriation of 8300,000 for the fiscal
year ending October31st, 1872, was disbursed
from the State treasury until after the close
of the school year, and the fiscal year as well,
there being at the close of the said fiscal year,
large deficiencies in all the State appropriations.
Since the commencement of the current
fiscal year the State treasurer has paid
out, on account of this appropriation, the sum
of 884,539.46. I trust that the General Assembly
will, at its coming session, give early
attention to the matter of making ample provisions
for the full payment of the aforesaid s
appropriations. }
SCHOOL .EXPENDITURES,
Salaries of teachers $268,091 G7
Building of school houses... 11,505 50
Rent of school houses 2,854 13
Total $282,451 30
The foregoing is not a complete exhibit of
3chool expenditures, five counties having made [
no returns, and the returns from several other
counties being incomplete.
I am encouraged to believe that there has t
been a marked and visible improvement in p
our free common schools during the present e
school year. I feel confident that the next i
annual report of this office will show an in- i
crease in the number and efficiency of our ]
schools, a larger school attendance and an ad- 1
vancement in the grade of teachers employed, t
The average school term for this year will f
not be as long as desired, but, as a general s
rule, our teachers have been, and will be, more c
promptly paid than heretofore. In many t
sections the people have evinced a growing s
and active interest in common educatiou, by r
assembling in school district meetings and c
voluntarily imposing upon themselves local j
taxes for the support of free common schools, t
The General Assembly of this State, at its I
last session, appropriated $300,000 for the t
support of frea common schools for the fiscal ?
year ending October 31st, 1873. c
The State treasurer has already paid over, c
on account of his appropriation, the sura of i s
$257,466.97, and hopes to be able to pay the
appropriation in full before the close of the s
current fiscal year. s
The Ku-KIux Prosecutions. e
Alluding to the action of the Govern- J
raent in ordering the discontinuance of the t
pending prosecutions under the enforcement j
act, the Charleston Nevis and Courier says: I c
It is not pretended to be said that the peaee, j s
in public matters, which reigns in South Car- j t
olina was a bait to secure a pardon, or a miti-j c
gation of punishment, for persons accused of j I
ku-kluxism. The State is at peace because t
the public rights of the freedman, as secured ! I
to him by the Constitution of the State and t
of the United States, are frankly acknowl- . (
edged by all classes of citizens. In elections i p
the effort is, not to prevent the negro from ' s
voting, but to persuade him to vote a partic-1 s
ular way. In like manner we do not pretend : c
to say that to the clemency of President Grant J p
will be due the coutinuance of friendly public I r
relations between the whites and blacks, v
Those relations would have been cultivated as r
a matter of self-interest and self-protection,11
irrespective of the result of the petition pre- j t
sented by Messrs. Porter, Kershaw and Sims, i
The value of the action of President Grant p
lies in a different direction. It is grateful to p
us, because it is an indication that the car of t
the President is open to the appeals of Southern
men who now obey the laws as faithfully c
as, during the war, they served the South. It s
is highly esteemed by us because it encourages 1
the feeling that General Grant is President 1
of the whole country, of South as well as >
North, and is not swayed by prejudice or' e
vindictiveness in considering requests which ' 1
;an be granted consistently with his ideas of
public duty. In a strictly material sense,
noreover, the discontinuance of 'the ku-klux
prosecutions will have a marked effect upon
he South. At one time the stampede from
he upper counties of South Carolina caused
urge tracts of valuable land to be adandoned,
md left hundreds of women and children dependent
on private charity. There has been tome
improvement of late, but the President's
mler will bring peace of mind to thousands,
md, in that way, will encourage and help
,hose who are working hardest to give new
lealth and strength to the State. The action
)f the President does him honor, and time
viil show that his conduct, in the ku-klux
natter, was as wise as it is generous and just.
Hie Bauk of the State.
In thesuitofDabney,Morgan&Co.,vs.
he President and Directors of the Bank of
;he State of South Carolina, for account, inunction
and relief, on motion of the Attoriey-General
of the State, the following order
wis granted in chambers, last week, by Judge
jrraham:
That William J. Gayer, Esq., referee and
eceiver in this cause, do, on or before the 1st
lay of December next, file, in the office of
;he clerk of this court, under oath, a just and
;rue inventory of the real and personal estate
lomraitted to his care as referee and receiver
n this cause?exhibiting clearly and fully :
1. What portion of the real and personal
istate turned over to him by Wra. C. Courtley,
Esq., the former receiver, remains unlold,
or unchanged as to its character or conlition?stating
particularly each item thereof.
2. What portion of said estate so as aforelaid,
or in any other manner, received by
lim has been sold or disposed of?stating the
late, terms and conditions of such sale or
lisposition and under what authority.
3. What changes of investments have been
nade, the reason and consideration thereof,
md under what authority?iucluding changes.
if anv. in the securities taken as collater
ils for investments, loans or deposits, and unler
what authority.
4. What amounts have been received by
lira as cash, or otherwise, as interest, rents,
irofits or income?when, from whom and from
vhat source derived.
5. What amount of interest, profits, rents
ir other income is due and unpaid?when due,
jy whom and on what account.
6. The total amount of cash received?from
ill sources?showing each item and whether
lerived from sales, rents, interest, dividends or
>therwise.
7. The total amount of cash expended or
laid out by him, to whom, or what account,
md by what authority.
8. The total amount of cash loaned out, invested
or deposited?to whom loaned, how invested
or with whom deposited?when, upon
ivhat terms, how secured and by what authorty
he made such loan, investment or deposit.
9. The total amount of cash on hand at the
late of the filing of such inventory and report?where
deposited and to whose credit.
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THE KU-KLUX.
OFFICIAL DECLARATION OFTHEOOVERNMENT.
The following correspondence in reference
;o the pending ku-klux prosecutions in South
Carolina has recently passed between Attoriey-General
Williams and the committee who
mited Waqhinortnn Inst month for the nurnose
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)f interceding in behalf of those under indictment,
as well as for those now undergoing
sentence. It will be seen that the efforts of
;he committee have not been entirely unavailng;
and the lenient disposition which the
jovemment seems disposed to exercise, will,
we feel sure, prove gratifying to all classes of
)ur citizens. So far as York county is con:erned,
never were our people in the enjoyment
of better order and more profound quiet
,han at the present time, as, in fact, is the
:asc all over the State; and we have no hesiancy
in asserting that the confidence thus re>osed
in our people by the Government will
lot be misplaced. The following is the corespondence
alluded to:
Washington, July 30,1873.
ETon. George H. Williams, Attorney-General.
Sir: After our conference with you we
iroceeded to Long Branch, and were prompty
accorded an interview with General Grant,
vhich was in all respects cordial and satisfacory.
The President expressed views of cleraincy
similar to those previously expressed by
rou, and said he would address you a note
lefiuing the present policy of the Government
n relation to prosecutions under the Enforcement
Act We beg to renew the suggestions
dready made that the purposes of the Govsrnment
in the premises be made public, so
hat all concerned, particularly the refugees,
nay have authentic information from proper
ifficial source, by which they may be able to
;ovem themselves. Such official announce
nent will, in our opinion, produce a great
euse of relief. We are, with great respect,
rour obedient servants.
(Signed) W. D. PORTER,
J. B. KERSHAW,
W. R. M. SIMS.
Department of Justice,
Washington, July 31, 1873.
To Messrs. Porter, Kershaw and Sims, Washington,
D. C.
Gents: Your letter of yesterday, intended
o elicit from me a public expression of the
>olicy of the Government in relation to prosicutions
and prisoners under Enforcement
V.cts, is received. I have to say in answer, as
ndicated in his conversation with you, the
President has communicated to me what I
lave heretofore understood to be his wish,
hat the persons accused and convicted of offenses
under said Acts should be treated with
is much leniency as possible, without prejulice
to the ends for which they were prosecued.
It must, however, be distinctly undertood,
that this action by the Government is
lot prompted by any doubt as to the necessity
>r validity of said Acts, or the necessity and
ustice of the convictions already had under
hem to prevent and punish high crimes, but
>y the belief that the ku-klux klans have,
hrough said convictions, been almost if not
iltogether broken up, and that those who were
:oncerned or sympathized with them have
:ome to see the folly, wickedness and danger of
uch organizations.
You have been pleased to say to me, and
imilar assurances have been given by others
eeking the same object, that executive clemincy
at this time on ku-klux cases would tend
o remove many cases of uneasiness and irriation
now existing, and conduce generally to
he public peace and tranquility. The pro)osed
action is taken in reference to such
:ases, with the full expectation that these as
urances will be verified. You are informed
hat the prosecutions now pending in the
:ourts for violation of enforcement acta will
>e suspended or discontinued, and iustructions
o that effect have already been given several
District Attorneys, but there may be excepional
cases of great aggravation where the
Government will insist upon conviction and
mnishment. There are, however, but few of
uch cases now within my knowledge. Perons
who have absented themselves on acount
of their complicity, or supposed cora>licity,
in ku-klux offenses, are at liberty to
eturn, and unless their crimes bring them
vithin the above exceptional cases, they will
lot be prosecuted. Many of those sentenced
o imprisonment for such offenses have already
>een pardoned, and the cases of others are
inder consideration, and will probably be dis>osed
of in like manner, keeping in view the
>roper relation between their punishment and
he nature of their guilt.
To avoid any misconstruction of these proicedings,
perhaps it is necessary for me to
ay, that all conspiracies and outrages in vioation
of said acts, heretofore committed, will
nrnaorMitnd wit.li iill nossible euerev and
rigor, and it is to be understood that the Govirument
does not intend to abandon said Acts,
nit to induce, if possible, a willing obedience