Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, August 21, 1873, Image 2
f> traps audi Jacts.
The cottage of William Penn, in Philadelphia,
is used as a beer saloon.
An envelope of flannel and newspapers
will prevent ice from melting in the warmest
of weather.
From some portions of Arkansas come
reports of excellent crops ; in others, corn and i
cotton have been seriously affected by drouth.
A New York auctioneer recently advertised
for sale "one fine tapir, sixteen prime
monkeys, assorted sizes, and two moose deer,
seized for violation of the revenue laws."
The editor of a Nevada newspaper !
gives notice that hereafter he cannot be j
bribed with a five cent cigar to write a five !
dollar puff.
One of the Siamese twins was recently i
summoned to serve on a jury in JNorth Carolina.
Chang would not go, and Eng was !
fined S25 for non-attendance.
A snake with eves in its tail as well as
in its head, and also a horny appendage, like
the spur of a rooster, has been discovered in
Tennessee.
The saloon-keepers of Sabinaw City
(Mich.) have resolved that they will sell no
liquor, wine or beer to married men without a
permit from their wives.
It is said that Colonel R. Barnwell
Rhett still edits the New Orleans Picayune,
but the locality of his editorial rooms is not
generally known, least of all by the authorities.
A Western parson delicately began a
funeral discourse by alluding to the fact that
he had officiated at the hanging of the father
of the deceased.
All the newspapers, with oue exception.
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in Western Kentucky, oppose the project of
forming a new State out of portions of Tennessee,
Kentucky and Mississippi. The proj'ect
in that section is considered visionary.
The Free Methodists of New York refuse
membership to persons who use tobacco
or liquor in any form, or who are members of
secret societies. They also prohibit the use of
jewelry and of gay, flashy dress.
Southerners are being swindled by letters
professed to be issued by the Mercantile
Prize Association of New York, informing
them of their success in drawing valuable
prizes, which will be forwarded on receipt of
the amount specified in the letter.
A machine for forging horse shoe nails
has been lately invented and is now in operation
at the Bristol Iron Works at Oswego, N.
Y. It will make from twelve to fifteen nails
per minute, requires no attendance except to
put in a coil of nail rod every ten hours.
Anarchy and crime are reported as on
the increase in certain sections of Kansas,
and many of the best men are reported to
have declared that the only safety of the
State lies in a strong central territorial form
of Government under the protection of the
United States.
"Why do they call the people that live
in some of the South Sea Islands cannibals ?"
asked an old man of a sailor. "Because they
live on other people," answered the sailor.
"Then," said the old man, pensively, "my
sons-in-law must be cannibals, for they live on
me."
The genuine tea plant is growing profusely
over all the suburbs of the city of
Jacksonville, in Florida, and presents auite a
thriving appearence every where it is found.
Many of the inhabitants of that city use no
other tea in their families. They pluck and
dry what they require for their own use, and
say it is equal to any black tea offered for
sale at the grocery stores.
Gen. Alferd Iverson, late of the Confederate
States army, the captor of Stoneman,
has obtained letters patent for a machine
for the manufacture of ice which is intended
for introduction nnto every household. It is
about the size of an ice cream freezer, and is
so constructed that it will freeze water into
solid blocks of ice in ten or fifteen minutes.
One of these machines will cost $20 or $25,
after theobtaining of which the round expense 1
, of making all the ice a family would use in a 1
year would not, perhaps, sum up $2 gross.
A San Francisco milliner recently hit
upon a novel expedient to advertise her store. ,
She had among her assistants one remarkably
handsome young woman, and having attired
this damsel in the choisest garments of the
establishment, placed her in the window of
the store. The girl stood in a reclining attitude
perfectly still, and very soon an immense
crowd of people had assembled to see the
beautiful milliner's sign. The crowd soon
grew to a perfect mob, quite blockading the
street until the curtains were lowered and the
living model relieved from her position.
A recent visitor among the Indians in
Florida gives an account of a marriage ceremony
which he witnessed : "The company was
composed of the whole tribe, all of whom
were dressed in their best finery. A circle
was formed, the bride moved to the centre,
holding in her hand an ear of corn. Then
the bride groom advanced alongside of her,
with a deer's leg in his hand. The mutual
exchange comprises the whole ceromouy.
After the ceromony the whole company ad
vanced aud feasted on bear meat and honey
for two days and nights."
A colored man of Wilmington, N. C.,
by the name of Sandy Johnson, has a tame
coon which follows him about the streets like
a dog. The Journal says that he is not only
a civilized, but an educated coon, as he understands
an order, and does whatever his master
tells him. They sit down and eat their meals
together, the coon imitating his master, not
only in taking up a piece of bread in his paw
and biting it, but in lifting a cup of water to
his mouth and drinking as naturally as anybody.
The animal is christened Bill Johnson,
and his master, Sandy Johnson, calls him
"Brother Bill."
The last reports on the subject of immigration,
show that the number of immigrants
who have arived in the United States,
from the time of the establishment of the Government
to the close of the year 1872, to have
been as follows: Previous to 1820, estimated,
150,000; from 1821 to 1830, 152,820; from ;
1831 to 1840, 599,125; from 1841 to 1850, \
1,713,251; from 1851 to 1860, 2,597,214; j
from 1861 to 1870, 2,491,209; during the
year 1871, 367,789; during the year 1872, j
438,040 ; making a grand total of 8,620,452. j
The indications thus far are that the arrivals i
during the current year will fully equal j
those of last year, the foreign born population ;
of the country being thereby increased by
nearly 500,000, souls.
The past week has been prolific of sui-!
cides, homicides and casualties. We note a j
few. Thomas Woodson, a son of Governor !
Woodson, of Missouri, shot and killed Wil-1
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nam JLSarJOW, 111 a comneiu near jreruivui
Station, Iowa. R. T. Dunn, U. S. Deputy
Marshal at Corinth, Mississippi, was shot
through a window while in bed and killed.
John C'urtin shot a man named Johnson in
San Francisco. Henry A. Player shot and
killed George Smith in Costa county, California.
The murdered bodies of John Wentz
and his wife were discovered in a cellar in
New York. Oscar Mills, an assistant engineer
in the United States Navy, was acci-!
dentally shot and killed in Pennsylvania, by j
Sidney Major, who fired at a hawk. Lair-1
dum Tintelerate, a German cigar dealer, com-1
mitted suicide in Jersey City. Mrs. Wer- J
temberg, of Detroit, Michigan, was poisoned
by a son-in-law, who wanted her property.
Melvin Duff, who had married the daughter
of a Mr. Miller in Saint Louis, againt the
wish of Miller, quarreled with his father-in-1
law and ended the dispute by killing him. j
John Bowen, while carrying a child down a
flight of stairs in New York, fell, and both i
were killed. In Brooklyn Peter Gray beat i
his father and left him lying on the sidewalk ;
insensible. William Clark, a merchant at j
Cowles Station, Ga., was shot and killed by !
a man who had an old grudge against him.
An Indian shield is a rare curiosity.
The red warrior prefers, like the modern sol- i
dier, to fight with limbs unencumbered. It is
probable that shields and spears were at one
time in common use among the Western
Indians, as among uncivilized uations of other
quarters of the globe. The introduction of
powder and ball has, however, made the
shield comparatively useless. They are still
occasionally to be met with though not as
common as when Catlin sketched with unequalled
fidelity the manners and customs of
Dakota tribes. Among the Southwestern
Indians, more particularly the Coraanches,
i shields are in general use, being efficient to
fend off theMexican spear. The editor of the
Byrnn (Texas) Appeal describes one taken
in a fight in March last. The shield was an
exact circle, eighteen inches in diameter.
The body wasa3 stiff and unyielding as a board
and five times as tough. It was made of the
thick hide of the buffalo's neck, thorougly
dried, and almost as impenetrable as iron.
On one side it was decorated with fancy belting
and strings for use and ornament; the
other had a covering of fancy buckskin, stained
with different colors, ornamented with
beautiful feathers, the tail of a civet cat, and
a young woman's scalp.
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OUR CONDITION AND DUTY.
To any one who has observed the way things
have been drifting for the last six years, it is
evident that the southern country will never
be able to compete successfully with the other
sections of the Union, until a complete and
thorough change is effected. The elements of
recuperation iu the soil and climate of the
southern section are abundant; but until they
are properly applied and a change brought
about, all the natural advantages we possess
will avail us but little. It seems to be useless
to tell our people again, that they are a common
prey to all sections of the country. This
has been done over and over, and yet no one
3eems to be impressed with the fact. No one
seems to be doing anything to rescue the country
from a system of slavery, galling and oppressive.
Our planters seem to be insensible
of the fact that the majority of them are toiling,
year after year, to feed and enrich northern
manufacturers and speculators. White
aud black are kept in a state but little better
than slavery by these monopolies. Amongst
these, there is coucert of action. Everything
is done by rings ; but amongst the southern
people there is no concert of action. Our
mental energies are expended in concocting
little and belittling political schemes, aud
our pecuniary resources are wasted in putting
these schemes in operation, whilst others are
enjoying the fruits of our labor. Year after
year the proceeds of the cotton crop makes
its way out of the South into the large cities
of the North and West. These sections are
growing rich, while the South is barely living.
The declaration is constantly made that there
never was such a time to make money at the
South as the present. This is true. Money is
made easily at the South, but it is impossible
to keep it. It all goe3 for calico and muslin,
shoes aud stockings, coats and pants, vests
aud shirts, plows and hoes, spades and axes.
In one word, we have to buy everything, from
the bed we sleep on to the nails which fasten
down the lid 011 the coffin in which we are
buried. We may talk about independence,
but it is all nonsense. The sun does not shine
on a more dependent people than those of the
South. If any individual takes umbrage at
this assertion let him reflect for a moment, before
he gives vent to his wrath. Let him be
sure that the clothing he wears arm the toon
he eats are home production.
It does seem that this deplorable state of
things might be remedied. Surely, with the
vast natural resources which the southern
people possess, they might control something.
If a change was effected which would enable
our people to retain the proceeds of one cotton
crop in our midst, it would place the
South amongst the moneyed nations of the
world. Dollars would be counted by the
hundreds of millions. If a plan was adopted
which would secure to the South one half of
the clear gains from the cotton crop, the
amount would be more than doubled. Land,
in the South, instead of being fabulously
cheap, would be fabulously dear. A system
of improvement.would be inaugurated which
would soon place the South amongst the j
most advanced nations of the earth. To effect
this change, nothing more is requisite ;
than the permanent establishment of manu-1
factories to work up the raw material. This j
is not selfish. It is morally right, and it is,;
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iu a pecuniary puiut vn view, uui uuty. mv
establishment of manufactories would not decrease
the amount of cotton produced. On J
the contrary, it would have a tendency to in- j
crease it very greatly.
The only question to be decided is, is the
establishing of manufactories practical ? In
other words, can the thing be done ? We
believe it can. A compauy of men can be j
formed that are able to furnish all the funds
required. Such companies can be organized
in various sections of the South. By such J
companies, we candidly believe, large profits
could be made, and the general good greatly
advauced.
Sometimes, we feel convinced that the South
will be extensively engaged in manufacturing,
but the southern people may let the period
of their engagiug iu it pass, and others may
engage in it and make themselves still richer
I at our expense.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Nine daily passenger trains regularly
depart from and arrive in Columbia.
? Several of our State exchanges note the
fact of having seen open bolls of cotton.
? Governor Moses has appointed Joseph
Clark a Trial Justice for Lancaster county.
? One of Judge Mackey's children died at
Chester on Sunday last.
? Laurens has voted in favor of a county
subscription of $400,000 to the Laurens and
Asheville Railroad, by a majority of 691,
? An amateur gardner at Blackville has
raised a cabbage which weighs ten pounds
and six ounces.
? Col. B. G. Yocum, Sheriff of Chester, has
returned from a visit to Canada and the
Northern States.
? William Mishaw, colored, of Columbia,
has been appointed a route agent on the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad.
? Three bales of cotton were sold in Spartanburg
last week, the aggregate weight of
which was 2,100 pounds.
?The session of the Circuit Court for Lancaster
county, which was to have convened
on Monday of hist week, has been postponed
by Judge Mackey until the 20th of October.
? The Chester Reporter of last week mentions
that th'e militia company at that place
has been furnished with arms by the Governor.
? Captain Martin M. Wolfe, formerly conductor
on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad, has resigned his position on
that road and accepted a similar position on \
the Air-Line road.
. ? Judge Thad. C. Andrews, the regular
Republican nominee and proprietor of the
Union-Herald, has been elected Senator from
Orangeburg, over Benjamin Byas, colored, a
bolter, by a large majority.
? The death of Senator Ford has already
created a stir among the politicians of Fairfield
county, and an active campaign for his
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place was going ou ueiurt; me uuuy ux wie
dead Senator was put beneath the earth.
? Greenville has produced three cotton
stalks which carry off the palm. They had
280, 257 and 325 bolls respectively. The
cotton was raised by Mr. G. W. King, of
Chick Springs Township.
? A daughter of Mr. Joseph Rataree died
in Fairfield county, recently, from a disease
somewhat similar to the yellow fever; black
vomit being one of the symptoms. A second
daughter was ill with the same disease.
? The Graniteville operatives, with the exception
of forty or fifty, have struck in consequence
of the superintendent having decided
on monthly instead of serai-monthly payments.
The Superintendent has decided not
to accede to the demands of the strikers.
? The Lancaster Ledger of last week, says:
"Within the last two weeks, three attempts
have been made to burn the Court House at
this place. In each instance the fire died out
of itself before doing any considerable damage.
The building is now guarded at night
by watchmen. The supposition is, that the
person who made the attempts wishes to destroy
the records in the clerk's office."
? The Working Man, a weekly paper heretofore
published by Rev. Til man R. Gaines
in Columbia, has been consolidated with The
South, a large eight-page weekly, devoted exclusively
to the interests of the Southern
States, and issued from New York city. Mr.
Gaines, the proprietor of the Working Man,
becomes one of the managers of The South,
and will establish at once a branch office in
Columbia, from which The South will be sent
out weekly to the patrons of the Working
Man.
? John Heart, Esq., who was well known
in former years, as connected with the Charleston
Mercury, died lately on board the
steamship Charleston, on her passage from
Charleston to New York. During the war,
Mr. Heart served as special agent of the Confederate
Post Office Department. Since 1865,
he has been engaged in journalism in Memphis
; was Private Secretary to Gov. Scott, in
Columbia, and more recently, has been an
employ^ of the Government Printing Office,
at Washington.
? Rock Hill, says the Lantern, now has in
full operation, and all doing a thriving business,
eleven dry goods stores, one drug store,
and another in contemplation; one jewelry
store, four bar-rooms and restaurants, one confectionery,
one furniture store, one boot and
shoe shop, a barbershop, one hotel, and two
private boarding houses ; one livery and sale
stable, one carriage and .buggy manufactory
and numerous other little industries which
will in time become of great importance. Her
merchants are all business men?energetic,
honest and accommodating?and to them
principally is the place indebted for its prosperity.
It is blessed with three churches, the
pulpits of which are filled by intelligent and
christian gentlemen, and who are listened to
by attentive and interesting audiences. And
Rock Hill does not hide her light under a
bushel, for the Lantern sheds its rays over
valley, hill and mountain and keeps the road
to prosperity continuallaly illuminated.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The fence law was rejected in every county
where voted on.
? A large black eagle was killed near
Raleigh on Monday.
? Gaston county reports good seasons and
good crops of cotton and corn.
? A negro named Hardy Jones was hung
in Newborn on the 8th instant for the crime
of murder committed in February, 1872.
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? 1 lie vnariuue i/uscrrcr/ icuina turn, iuok
has taken hold of cotton in some parts of that
county.
? Work has been commenced on the western
division of the Carolina Central railway, between
Buffalo and Shelby.
? John J. Snider recently died in the Iredell
poor house at the advanced age of 106
years.
? The list of premiums of the ensuing State
Fair has been issued. The list embraces $10,000
in premiums.
? On Tuesday of last week two little boys,
whose names are not given, fell off a wagon
near Greensboro and were killed.
? Miss Minnie Eddins, of Yorkville, was!
one of the principal performers iu a concert j
given at Greensboro last week in aid of the .
Oxford Orphan Asylum.
? A new mail route from Greeusboro to
Joncsboro, the present terminus of the Fayetteville
railroad is projected and meets the
favor of Col. Long, special mail agent for the
State.
? D. A. Johnson, a house painter formerly
of Charlotte, fell from the scaffolding of a
bnnsp whieh he was naintinc at Durham, last
week, and was seriously, though not fatally
injured.
I ? The first bale of cotton ever raised in Alamance
county is reported by the Greensboro
| State as having been picked, ginned and
| packed week before last, and sold in Graham
at 18 cents per pound.
? Floyd Oxendine, a peaceable colored man
of Robeson county, was shot on Monday of |
last week while going to his field. The jury I
of inquest returned a verdict that according
to the evidence he was shot by one John Dial
? The Charlotte Observer reports a figh
; that occurred in that town the other day be
i tween Hugh L. Peters, a U. S. Revenue offi
' ci^and P. L. Jordan. Peters was knockec
j down with a chair and badly beaten on thi
face.
! ? The Rutherford Record learns that R. A
Shotwell, who was sentenced to six years ir
the Albany penitentiary has been pardoned bj
the President. There is now remaining in tin
Albany penitentiary but one prisoner convict
ed as a ku-klux in North Carolina?Amoi
Owens?and the Cleveland Banner has reasor
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few weeks.
? It is believed that the fate of Col. C. C
Tew, of the 1st N. C. Regiment, has at las!
been discovered. Capt. J. B. Bean, of thf
15th Regiment U. S. A., has in his possessiot
a silver cup, the inscription upon which show:
that it was presented to Col. Tew. The Cap
tain states that he procured it from a soldiei
who took it from the saddle of Col. Tew't
horse at the battle of Sharpsburg. The sol
dier says Col. Tew was buried on the field
near the spot where he fell.
NEWS OF^THE DAY.
? The election in Kentucky on the 4th resulted
largely in favor of the Democrats.
? Gen. Barriuger, of North Carolina, is al
White Sulphur Springs, Va., seriously ill.
? Texas papers say that a full crop of cotton
will be made in the northern portion oi
that State.
? Twenty-one women aud girls, while gathering
berries near Scran ton, Pa., sought refuge
in a shanty from a storm. Two were killed
by lightning and seven seriously shocked.
? Ben. Butler has written a lengthy letter
defending the Congressional salary grab, to
which Congressman Hoar, of Massachusetts,
has written a denunciatory reply.
? General Sheridan reports to Washington
that a serious battle was recently fought in
the south-west part of Nebraska between the
Pawnee and Sioux Indians, in which the
Pawnees were defeated with heavy loss.
? The Maine Democratic State Conven
tion, last week adopted resolutions identically
the same as those of the recent Ohio Convention,
the gist of which we published at the
time.
? A heavy rain storm. prevailed last week
in various States north of "Virginia. At
Philadelphia the rainfall exceeded seven
inches. Railroad travel was impeded and
much damage done to property.
? The investigation of the burning of the
steamboat Wawasset shows that the origin
of the fire is unknown. Officers and crew are
reported as having performed their duties,
and are exonerated from blame. The deaths
by the disaster reach eighty-four.
? The farmers of Champaign county, Illinois,
have put their theories and co-operative
plans into practice, having obtained license
from the State to act in a corporate capacity.
They have clubbed together, and have just
sent nineteen car loads of corn to market on
their own account, and by this operation they
expect to save $500. They intend to forward
their whole crop in this way. A large convention
was held recently by the farmers in
Champaign, and an independent ticket nominated.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Cheraw and Chester Railroad.
The Union-Herald says : "On the 13th
a well attended meeting waa held in the town
hall at Cheraw, in the interest of the Cheraw
and Chester Railroad. Ways and means for
furthering the prospects of the road were discussed
by Mr. J. A. Hasseltine, President of
the road. State Senator T. C. Dunn, President
of the Little River and Cheraw Road, B.
D. Townsend, President of the Cheraw and
Darlington Road, State Senator G. W. Duvall,
Representative M. J. Hough and others,
each in turn showing the advantages of a connecting
line with the Atlantic coast line, de1
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veioping me resources ui tue euuuties uiuug
the several lines, reductions of freights, etc.
Resolutions were passed calling a meeting of
the citizens of the county on the 3rd of September,
for the purpose of applying to the
county commissioners to take steps to submit
the matter of a liberal county subscription to
a vote of the people, and requiring the municipal
authorities of Cheraw to call a meeting
of the citizens, with the view of a subscription
by that town."
Railroad Meeting at Abbeville.
A railroad convention met in Abbeville
on Wednesday of last week, in which delegates
were present from eight counties of South
Carolina?viz: Oconee, Pickens, Anderson,
Abbeville, Edgefield, Aiken, Barnwell and
Beaufort, and representatives were also in attendance
from Greenville, Tennessee, and
from North Carolina.
Gen. McGowan, of Abbeville, was called to
the chair. He*stated the object of the meeting
to be the connection by railroad of Chicago,
Illinois and theSouth Atlantic seaboard.
A committee having been appointed to propose
business for the convention, two reports
were submitted. The first, by the Chairman,
Hon. J. P. Reid, of Anderson, proposed, after
crossing the Blue Ridge, to run the road by
way of Walhalla, Pendleton, Anderson, Abbeville
and Dorn's Mine, thence to Augusta
by the proposed Greenwood and Augusta
Road, or via Edgefield and Aiken to Allendale,
on the Port Royal Railroad, the route
below Dorn's Mine to be determined by the
material aid offered by the two points. The
other report advocated substantially the same
route, but leaving Augusta out entirely. The
first report was ably sustained by Hon. J. P.
Reid in behalf of the up-country delegations,
and strenuously opposed by Edgefield, A:,cen,
Barnwell and Beaufort.
Major W. T. Gary, of Edgefield, offered an
amendment to the second report, that the road
run by Edgefield and Aiken, thence to Augusta
by the most practicable route, which,
with the report, was adopted.
"Oar Duty in the Future."
The Newberry Herald (Conservative)
has a long and pungent article upon the duty
of the Conservative party in this State. The
Herald urges the people to draw instruction
from the lessons of the past. It says :
"The lessons that we derive to-day from the
events of the last few years is this, that it is
our duty, and that we can thus do more service
to the State, to abstain from all participation
in politics, and devote our best efforts
to increasing our material wealth, developing
the resources of the State, and adding to our
intellectual and moral resources by the cultivation
of art and science and religion. There
is a masterly inactivity which husbands its resources,
bides its time and waits with the patience
that God uses in His dealings with the
world, for that moment when the clock of
doom shall strike. Then the inactivity becomes
an activity which is irresistible. Such
a future is before us if we are worthy. It is
in our power to succeed with a lasting success
if we keep steadily before our eyes that goal,
to which the path of industry and virtue always
tends. But if, after all, it should turn
out that by his course of "masterly" inactivity
we should never he able to rescue the State
I from the hands of the 9poiler, you may then
. i be 9iire of one thing, that, the State having
t! died as to all true life, the last semblance of
! power will be taken from it, and the State .
! Government will cease to exist. This end ,
" [ can only be prevented by our probity and in1
I dustry, by increasing our wealth and prosper- :
51 ity, by a stern and unflinching devotion to ;
I correct principle."
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culation. The following is a description of
. the new note:
11 It will be about a quarter of an inch shorter
3! than that now in circulation, and a quarter
i | of an inch wider. Its dimensions beiug three
3; and three-quarter inches long, by two inches
I wide. On the face of the note, left hand side,
is a vignette head of Samuel Dexter, who was
Secretary of the Treasury in 1801, and a
J former Governor of the State of Massachusetts.
* On the right of the note is a section of geora1
etrical lathe work, with the words "fifty cents"
in white letters, engraved across the face.
The "story" or lettering on the note is the same
as on the present issue, with the exception of
. the words "receivable for all United States
stamps," at the bottom of the old note which
. are omitted on the new one.
The seal is printed in the centre of the face,
and is enclosed in cycloidal work, a new fea1
ture upon fractional currency. The back of
* the note which will be printed in New York
will be in green. It is made up of geometrical
. lathe work and scrolls. On the right hand
, corner the word cents, found on the old note,
is omitted, and the numeral 50, takes the
place. The date of the passage of the act authorizing
the issue is omitted from the face of
' the new notes, and put upon the back. On
i the left hand side of the back there is an open
space to show the fibre in the paper, and it
will not be shown on the face as much as on
the old note.
The State Bond Cases.
, Regarding the probability of a tax levy
being ordered by the Supreme Court to meet g
.i , a .i . . n 11 _ 1 J i .
tne payment 01 tnac portion or tne Donaea t
debt alleged to be fraudulent, the Columbia j
correspondent of the Charleston News and
Courier learns from what he deems a reliable f
source that "the chief Justice has expressed ^
the opinion that the court has never contem- j
plated the idea of ordering the tax levy; cer- j
tainly not without an investigation into the
amount and validity of the outstanding bonds, c
and that it was not probable that the decision
would be filed for some time. The court, it
is said, has never adjourned since April term,
but has only taken a recess; therefore the
sixty days, within which they are required to
file their decision, have not yet commenced to i
run." 8
Upon the same subject the News and Cou- t
rier remarks editorially : t
"Chief Justice Moses has been credited, g
from the first, with a fixed repugnance to any
action which might saddle upon the people .
the payment of a fraudulent debt; Justice
Willard is supposed to be equally firm in his 1
couviction that the tax-levy, demanded by the f
New York speculators, should be granted; I
Justice Wright is uncertain. It seems reason- s
able, therefore, to suppose that the decision ]
will be postponed for some time. Indeed, it r
is quite likely that the court will keep the
matter under advisement until the meeting of I
the General Assembly, which body may en- 1
deavorby summary legislation upon the debt
question to relieve the court from embarrass- \
ment. The people would prefer to see the jwhole
matter of the debt investigated by authority
of the Supreme Court of the State. q
Such an investigation will, by hook or by
crook, be had. It is a pity that it cannot be- f
gin at once." h
Origin of the Song "Dixie's Land." v
Prof. L. Von Meyerhoff, a musician of e
extensive reputation, gives the following account
of the true origin of the favorite south- e
ern song "Dixie": n
t i~T ? ? A tn'nU A rt n.Ail n w.rtAtlf lllnoiAfl V\ 11 f t
? UU IJUL >VJ5U tu spun n pict/tjr uiuoiuuj uuu
the real truth is, that 'Dixie' is known among
all great composers in Germany, as an indig- e
enous northern refrain. It was, seventy-five li
years ago, one of the every-day allusions of ^
the New York boys in all their out-door s
sports. And no one ever heard of Dixie's .
Land being other than Manhattan Island until
recently, when it has. been erroneously sup- 31
posed to refer to the South from its connection v
with pathetic negro allegory. When slavery
existed in New York, one "Dixy" owned a tl
large tract of land on Manhattan Island and g
a large number of slaves. The increase of
the slaves, and the increase of the abolition
sentiment caused an emigration of the slaves ll
to more thorough and secure slave sections; a
and the negroes who were thus sent off (many n
being born there) naturally looked back to
their old homes, where they had lived in s
clover, with feelings of regret, as they could D
not imagine any place like 'Dixy's.' n
"Thence, it became synonymous with an
ideal locality, combining ease, comfort, and c
material happiness of every description. In t
those days negro singing and minstrelsy were t!
in their infancy, and any subjects that could y
be wrought into a ballad were eagerly picked
up. This jwas the case with 'Dixie.' It rj
originated in New York, and assumed the
proportions of a song there. In its travels it
has been enlarged, and has 'gathered moss.' *
It has picked up a 'note' here and there. A ^
'chorus'has been added to it; and, from an ii
indistinct 'chant' of two or three notes, it D
has become an elaborate melody. But the
fact that it is not a Southern song 'cannot be j3
rubbed out.' The fallacy is so popular to
the contrary, that I have tnu3 been at pains to a
state the real origin of it." a
Superstition of Georgia Negroes. ?
Rev. I. S. K. Legare, of South (Jaroli- u
na, a Missionary of the American Sunday- 1
school Union, describes the following scene in
Georgia, which he witnessed. He says of the c
negroes who live in the malarial parts of that
State: t
They now carry on their religious worship 3
by themselves, aloof from the white people, c
and the greatest part of their services consists j1
in singing and sometimes in running round
in a kind of dance, with clapping of hands
and loud acclamations. They are exceedingly
fond of singing and all kinds of music, and
they do indeed sing very feelingly, and some- r
times very thrillingly. But they are really in c
need of plain and sensible teaching in the sim- t
pie truths and principles of our blessed gospel.
Let me tell you what I witnessed on Sun- c
day afternoon at a place where I had heard t
that great numbers of them were accustomed a
to collect for religious exercises, and where I j p
called to arrange, if practicable, for organizing rr
a Sunday school among them. Coming sud-11
denly upon them I witnessed a scene that f
i grieved me to my heart. A large crowd of
them were dancing in a circle round a young j t
woman dressed in the oddest and most flaring j v
colors, in the most fantastic style, having on j c
; her head a red striped bandana handkerchief: I
set up like a turban, only the four corners ' e
stood out like towers of horns. As they i e
i danced round her, an old man, who seemed to 11:
I I xl. J T n ffAwmo 1 no r
IUfcJ ineir lUUUCi) auu nuu x anci naiu i^uiuv/u , j
claimed to be a conjurer, would step up be-1 f
: hind and touch the statuary maid and then ; s
start back with a mournful lament, when the ! 1:
j crowd would clap their hands and cry aloud, j d
1 During this excitement, the woman would 1
i! whoop and yell, jumping and running round ! ?
i until exhausted, and falling down in a state I ]
, of torpor. : t
I stopped them and told them that God was c
i not honored by such worship. I learn that
this fetish worship is quite common among f
i some of them. [
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
???
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Alexander Glass, Administrator?Application for
Discharge,
riios. 8. Neely?Fair Warning.
Darr it Osteon, Sumter, S. C.?The True Southron.
S. M. Scott?Executor's Notice.
John G. Enloo, Auditor?The Tax on Cotton,
r. S. Jetferys, Intendant?Town Ordinance.
PERSONAL.
Captain John C. B. Smith, the Assistant
0'nshier of 'the Citizen's Savings Bank, in
n i 1 ?- _ __ _
ooiummu, 19 on a visit 10 luravijie.
THE RAILROAD SURVEY.
On Tuesday last, the Surveyors of the Chester
and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, who
ire now engaged in locating the permanent
line, had reached a point in the vicinity of
Drowder's Creek, about thirteen miles distant
from Yorkville. We have not been able to
;et any defiuite particulars in regard to the
route selected, further than that the survey
ias demonstrated that the road can be built
it a comparatively small cost.
THE TAX ON COTTON.
The attention of tax payers, who were in
possession of cotton on the first of July last,
s directed to the advertisement of the Audi;or,
iu another column of to-day's paper. He
ias been furnished with the names of a number
of persons who are alleged to be delinquent
11 their returns, and he proposes to investigate
ill such cases. Persons who, though ignorant
if the requirements of the law, have failed to
nake proper returns, will be afforded an opportunity
of correcting the omission.
ABUNDANCE OF RAIN.
For the past eight or ten days this irameliate
section has been visited by several heavy
ains, amounting almost to storms. A heavy
ain on Sunday afternoon at this place and
extending several miles in a north-east direc,ion,
was accompanied by heavy wind, thuni
Jii-L..!.. TI . . j
ier uuu Jiguuuiig. xne e&ieui> ui unmagc miicted
iu the country we have been unable to
iscertain, though we learn much of the corn
vas blown flat to the ground, trees broken and
encing demolished. In this place lightning
truck in the yard of Mr. Fayssoux's residence,
)ut fortunately no damage was done, further
,han the shattering of a tree near the house.
On the afternoon following, a steady rain
ell here for more than an hour, and we learn
hat a few miles north of town the rain fell
n torrents, and the wind and lightning were
errific.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM "PENNSYLVANIA.
McKean County, Pa., Aug. 14, 1873.
In this, and the Ave adjoining counties, there
ire the flnest tracts of hemlock timber in the
Jnited States. Hemlock is a quality of tira>er
that you do not have in South Carolina,
o far as I have observed, although you would
>e better off* if you did have it, in lieu of much
hat you have. Hemlock grows tall and
traight, with thick, coarse bark, and the bulk
>f limbs near the top. At a distance it looks
ike pine, and, indeed, is a speeies of coarse
>ine. The bark is valuable for tanning pur)oses,
being worth six or eight dollars a cord,
lemlock lumber is used in all rough work,
uch as barns, stables, sidewalks and bridges.
1/ately it is more worked into houses than
ormerly, owing to the growing scarcity of
>ine. It is now worth about ten dollars a
housaud.
I have been in nearly every State of the
Jnion, but I never saw a finer timber pros>ect
than right here in North-western Pennylvania.
The forests of hemlock are grand.
?he trees are so straight, so tall, so graceful in
heir motion before the wind, so noble. They
aspire one, aud puny man feels insignificant
fhen buried in the dark recesses of these forsts.
I am not sure but that these extensive forsts
have something to do with cooling the ataosphere.
To-day is one of the warmest of
he season, but the mercury marks only 76.
hear people complaining of the heat, but I
nter no complaint myself. Every breath is a
uxury. The cool breezes playing with the
all hemlocks come to one's lungs laden with
weetness and perfume. The reader should
ear in mind that this is the most northern
ection of Pennsylvania, and, owing to its eleation
and forests, the coolest.
But if thepeople do have delicious summers,
hey pay for them roundly in winter. The
reat law ofcompensation governs in this as in
ther matters. We are, none of us, allowed
i plant ourselves down on an acre of ground
nd call it paradise. Something will be the
latter with it.
The traveler, in journeying through Pennylvania,
is struck with the rapid advancelent
of the people in material prosperity.
?hey are growing richer rapidly. The last
ensus throws light on this subject, showing
hat Pennsylvania jumps ahead in wealth at
he rate of about sixty millions of dollars a
ear.
The Pennsylvanians are workers, not idlers,
'he majority of the men of the State put in
en hours of each day in digging wealth from
he soil, and hence the rapid accumulation.
Vealth can be created in no other way. Gold
a its first analysis is sweat. The man who
aakes two blades of grass grow where one
;rew before, is, after all, the greatest benefacor.
We are so apt to lose sight of this?so
pt to look down upon the humble producer
nd up to the aristocratic, but useless consumr.
I mean the consumer who does not proluce
anything. The negro who raises from
he soil a bale of cotton is more useful to the
oraraunity and the world than the income
dler who fares sumptuously every day aud
ounts the idle hours as they pass.
I have no patience with the raaudling senimpnf
whioh frowns unon the useful, and
miles upon the useless. Let us measure a
nan according to his works, and if he does
lot work we will not measure him at all, for
ie is not worth it. Nemo.
THE COTTON CROP.
Reports from the following States have been
eceived by the New Orleans Cotton Exhange,
which show the condition of the crop
o the 10th of August:
Mississippi.?Letters received from forty
lounties. The weather has been less favoraile
than last year. The rain caused the
.bandonment of some lands. The plant is retorted
well formed and boiled. A few corespondents
report damage from caterpillar,
leports in regard to the area planted indicate
ally as large if not better than last year.
Louisiana.?The condition of the crops in
his State is about an average, but picking
vill be fully two weeks later than last season,
omraencing about the 10th of September,
rifty letters were received from thirty parishs.
The majority of our reports complain of
xcessive rains, and represent the weather as !
laving been less favorable than last year. The
>lant is generally represented as being well
ruited, though we have some complaints of,
bedding. The worms are reported, but they
lave done little or no damage. The area un-'
ler culture is estimated to be about equal to !
ast season. Most of our correspondents give
September 1 as the time that picking will'
>robahlv commence, or sav two weeks later I
han last year. The general condition of the :
rop is represented as being good.
Texas.?Fifty-one letters were received
rora forty-two counties. Most of our corres- j
indents complain of too much rain, though I
I the season will compare favorably with last
; year. The great majority represeut the plant
[ well formed and boiled. A few counties only
j report damage from the army worms, though
their appearance is generally spoken of
throughout the State. The area under culture
at this date shows a marked increase
over last year. The condition is represented
: as good, though backward, and picking will
j not begin until September 1; say three weeks
later than last year.
Arkansas.?Forty-nine letters have been
received from thirty-three counties. The
j weather is reported dry and rather more faI
vorable than last year. The plant, though
small, is well formed and boiled; the same
area is under cultivation as last year. Picking
will not be general before September 20.
'pl- : ti
: lnt: cuuuiwuii is a loir average uxie. xiiere ^
I are no reports of worms.
| Tennessee.?Thirty-five reports have been
received from twenty-five counties. The majority
of reports are favorable in regard to
the weather, as compared with last year, and
represent that the plant is well formed and
boiled. The area under cultivation shows a
marked increase over last season. No worms
are reported, except in one county. The
condition of the crops is decidedly promising.
Picking will commence about the middle of
September.
Alabama.?We have thirty-two letters
from thirty counties. Most of our correspondents
represent the weather as having been
propitious and rather more favorable than
last season. The plant is unanimously represented
as fruiting remarkably well by appearance.
The array worm is reported in seventeen
counties, but no damage has been done
thus far, except in the county of Marengo.
The area under cultivation is about equal or
possibly a better average than last year.
Picking will be general in this State by tbe .-M
beginning of September?say about a week
later than last year. The indication is generally
represented as good and promising.
North Carolina.?Sixty-one letters received
from forty-five counties. The weather
has been more propitious than last year?in
fact, is all that could be desired, and the plant
is rpnrpsented as wflll fnrmad nnrl hnllcxl "Wn
report of worms. The area under cultivation
is larger than last year, and the condition is
unanimously reported as promising. The
picking will not be general before September
15, against September 1 last year.
South Carolina.?Twenty-two counties
send in thirty-two reports. The weather has
been generally seasonable, as much so as that
of last year, causing the plant to grow finely
and to boll well. The average snows some
increase over last season. Neither boll or
army worm is reported in any instance.
Picking will probably be commenced in the
early part of September. The general condi- (
tion is good.
Georgia.?Ninety-seven letters have been. M
received from seventy-eight counties. The
weather has been generally favorable for the
growth of the plant, and the improvement noticed
in our last report has been continued?
allowing planters to some extent to regain the
delay experienced in the spring. The season
is reported as comparing favorably with last
year, with very few exceptions. The plant,
though small, is represented as fruiting remarkably
well. The army worm has made
its appearance in seventeen counties, but in
only limited force, and no damage has been
done. The area under cultivation exceeds
that of last year. The general condition of
the crop is reported as being flattering. Only
seven of the letters show complaint, while all
others represent the crop as good, very good
and excellent. Picking will be general on
September 1, against the 25th, last year.
Florida.?From this State, we have received
but three answers to our inquiries.
They complain of perpetual rains, though re
porting the plant well formed and boiled, and
the condition of the crop is equal to last year's.
Caterpillars made their appearance through*
out this State, without, however, causing damage.
In regard to the average, views differ
from no increase, compared with last season,
to four and five per cent. more. Picking will 4
commence same time as last year?from the
15th to the 20th of August.
THE OJOPS.
Union County.?The crops in this county
have very much improved in appearance lately,
but we regret to state that the rust has appeared
on the cotton in many sections. We
have had many good rains, and the cotton
plant is very full of bolls, but there are many
dangers yet to overcome, before we can be
sure of the crop. Corn has improved materially
the past month, but we do not think
that more than half a crop can possibly be
made.?Times.
Fairfield County.?It is safe to say that
the corn crop has proved at least a partial
failure, and in some localities a total failure.
The causes that have contributed to produce
the disastrous result are manifold. In bottom
lands, where corn was planted early, continuous
rains in the latter part of the spring
checked its growth, and greatly retarded its
reaching a healthy status. When it had recovered
from the check thus received dry
seasons ensued, and the hot rays of the sun
soon parched up the stalk previously rendered **
rank by an excess of moisture. Where corn
was planted late it was seriously injured by a
long drought in the latter part of July. That
which was put in the ground very early on
uplands, where it has been well cultivated,
will yield a very fair crop, generally speaking,
though it has turned out very badly, and
many of our farmers assert that they never
intend to attempt its cultivation again, believing
that it is to their interest to play the role
of slave to "KingCotton" almost exclusively,
even though they have to buy their bread
hundreds of miles away.
The prospects for a good yield of cotton are
by no means flattering, though it will average
better than corn. I think that this year's
yield in this county will fall short of the yield
of last year fully one-fourth, and may possibly
reach one-third. Where cotton has been
ii i i *111 i
well wonted an average crop win do maae,
but in some sections whole fields were thrown
out several weeks ago on account of an abundance
of grass, which the laborers could not
control. In other localities it has only been
half worked and consequently will turn out
poorly. In some portions of this county no
rain has fallen for over eight weeks past, and
of course the crops have suffered a great deal,
and unless they get rain in a few days will be
completely cut off.?Correspondence Charleston
News.
Lexington County.?The cotton crop in
this county, judging from its present condition,
will be fully up to last year's. The
average is about the same. The season was
too wet iu the spring, in consequence of which
guanos leached out, and their efficacy, to a
considerable extent, has been impaired ; yet
for the past eight weeks rains have been so
seasonable that the crop is an an excellent
one. The corn crop is also a good one.?Cor.
Charleston News.
The Pickens Sentinel says: "Many say that
they have never known cotton as full of fruit
as it is this year, and if no disaster befalls it,
there will be a larger yield than ever known
in this county."
Charleston County.?A dispatch from
Charleston says that the heavy rains on the
coast for the past few days threaten serious
injury to the cotton crop.
The Kingstree Star reports that the crops
in Williamsburg county have improved wonderfully
during the past month.
The Carolina New Era says that the crops
in Spartanburg county are fine and promise
remunerative results.
The Davie's Will Case.?The first week
of the session of the United States District
Court, now sitting at Greenville, was almost
entirely occupied by the case of W. R. Davie
vs. James B. Heyward, ct al. The case involves
very large interests and some very nice
points of law, and was argued by Messrs. E.
McCrady, Jr., Henry Trescot and C. Richard- -4
son Miles for the plaintiff, and Messrs. W. D.
Porter and S. P. Hamilton for defendants.
The suit arose under the construction of