Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, September 11, 1873, Image 2
Jfaapj. audi Jfacts.
A young lady in Elyria, Ohio, is learning
the carpenter's trade.
Thus far this year England has imported
cotton from the United States to the vab*
ne of over twenty-four million pounds.
Fresh butter is said to be a cure for erysipelas,
applied to the part afflicted, without
salt.
A plaster made of fresh slack lime and
fresh tar, is said to be a sure cure for a cancer,
which, with all is roots, will come out.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has given an order to the Baldwin Locomotive
Works for one hundred and seventy-five
first-class locomotive engines.
"What," said a teacher to a pupil,
"makes you feel uncomfortable after you have
(lone wrong," "My papa's big leather strap,"
feelingly replied the boy.
On retiring from busiuess a wise old
man said to his son and successor: "Now,
my old boy, remember that common sense is
the best thing you can bring to bear on every
affair of life except love making."
Mr. Turner, a citizen of Columbia
County, Fla., has discovered that two tablespoonfuls
of spirits of turpentine in an ordinary
painted bucket of water, about three gallons,
sprinkled upon cotton where the caterpillar
is eating, is an effectual remedy.
Edward McPherson, Clerk of the
United States House of Representatives, is
represented as having expressed the opinion
that the back salary grab will revolutionize
tlvo periouxuil of tho next Congress ; that the
feeling against it in every direction is intense
and unrelenting.
During August ten thousand and thirty-five
immigrants arrived at Castle Garden,
a decrease of over four thousand as compared
with the same month last year. From January
1st to 31st August, two hundred and one
thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven arrived,
a decrease of four thousand eight hundred
and seveuty-four as compared with the
same period last year.
A new toy has just been introduced,
and will surely become very popular. It is a
wax doll in a crib, the doll being dressed ia
night clothes and a dainty lace cap. By some
mechanism, the doll baby, at certain intervals,
after being wound up in the crib, puts out
its arms and distinctly calls, "mamma." The
inventor thinks "no family should be without
one."
They have a human monstrosity in
Jacksonville which is called the alligator boy.
11 is thus described: "A boy thirteen years old,
with hands and feetshaped like an alligator's,
his backbone all on one side of his body, his
heart on the right side where the liver should
be, fifteen ribs on one side and four on the
other, the countenance of a bright, intelligent
hov and the movements those of an alligator."
It is an interesting fact that the imports
ofdrygoods at New York during the
month of August just ended have been a
million and a half less in value than in 1872,
and four millions and a quarter less than in
1871. Our total imports since the beginning
of the year are nineteen.millions less than last
year, and eleven millions less than the year
before last. We are not running in debt
abroad as fast as we were.
The Missouri farmers take to the granges
with a vim, that indicates they like the
movement passing well. The head officer of
the "Patrons" in that State says that there are
500 granges in his organization, averaging
seventy-five members each; which makes a
total membership of more than 37,000. Judging
from the present progress which the pa;rons
are making, he thinks that there will be
100,000 members enrolled before next spring.
In Arkansas the order is making fast headway.
At Gloucester, Va., the other Sunday,
at a colored church, just as the preacher had
gotten under way the gallery cracked and
?!l olll WUIUCU Viiod out ! "Elooo God, j"dg.
mcnt day done come." Then ensued a scene
at which human nature shudders. Strong
men aud weak women leaped from the gal4
lery upon the dense crowd in the middle of the
lower floor. Children fainted from the terrible
pressure. Those in the galleries leaped
from the windows so fast that they fell upon
one another, breaking legs and arms indiscriminately.
The New York Graphic announces that
its great trans-atlautic balloon, if the weather
proves favorable, would ascend from# the
Capitoline Grounds, of Brooklyn, New York,
on Wednesday afternoon, September 10.
Messrs. Wise and Donaldson, the aeronauts,
will be accompanied by a reporter of t^e
Graphic and an experienced seaman, who will
niauage the life boat attached to the balloon in
case the party have to exchange air for water.
The balloon is described as 116 feet high, 335
feet circumference, and will contain 600,000
cubic feet of gas, with a power of6,600 pounds.
The aeronauts are confident that from eighty
to one hundred hours' travel will laud them
in Europe.
The Louisville Courier Journal, in its
efforts to rid Kentucky of the presence of the
marauding bands of Ku Klux which disgrace
several remote and rugged Counties in that
State, says those desperadoes are not influenced
by political or party considerations, but
that they are practical Communists and
agrarians, confederated together for the purpose
of dispossessing property owners. "Generally
speaking," says the Journal, "the klan
is composed of the most poverty-stricken, fleabitten
set of sans-culottes to be found in the
country. Too lazy to work, too stout for appeals
to charity, too poor for a regular income
other than their labor produces, they think
by making labor scarce and sales of real and
personal estate frequent, they can finally
come into a good property without adequate
compensation. The terrorism they have excited
hath this extent, no more; save where,
here and there, some one is whipped or murdered
through motives of vengeance. Murrell's
gang were absolute gentlemen by the
side of those outlaws."
Something of a romance is connected
with the recent return to Mrs. Buckner, the
wife of General S. B. Buckner, the ex-Confederate
general of Kentucky, of a certain large
property which, when the war broke out, she
had conveyed to her brother. When General
Buckner eutered the Confederate service,
and before Mrs. Buckner joined him there,
she conveyed the property to her brother under
a deed of trust. The young man after-1
wards married, became a father and entered ;
the Union service. The question now was !
what would be done with the property. If he !
should die or be killed without making a will
reconveying to his sister the property she had
deeded to him, his child would inherit the
fortune. On the eve of the battle of Sharpsburg,
he made a will of this character, and at
the battle named was killed. General Burn- |
side, who commanded the corps in which the
young man served, knew that this will had
beeu made. He kept the secret and, after '
the war, informed General Buckner of it, J
aud the latter by his aid was enabled to re- <
cover the will. The testamentary proofs!
having been obtained, Mrs. Buckner's title j
was fully proved, and the fortune which
seemed at one time to hang upon a slender '
thread, was returned to her.
Two demure damsels, both of New i
Jersey, recently played a very sharp game on j
the officials of the Morris and Essex Railroad.!
The ladies were going to the seaside, and had
the usual amount of feminine baggage with
them ; in all, seventeen trunks. When they
showed their tickets to the baggage-master
and desired him to check their seventeen
trunks, he demurred, saying that each passenger
was allowed but one hundred pounds of
baggage, and the fifteen extra trunks
would have to be paid for. The ladies remonstrated,
but in vain, so they demanded to
know the additional charges they would have
to pay, and were informed that the extra
trunks would cost them one dollar each, j
Now it so happened that a passengers is car- j
ried over the road for eighty cents, and is I
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allowed to take one trunk. The young ladies,
remembering this, went to the ticket I
office and bought fifteen more tickets. They \
showed" these to the baggage man, and he j
checked the trunks as for fifteen passengers.
The ladies saved three dollars by the operalion,
and have fifteen tickets, worth twelve
dollars, into the bargain, for the conductor,
of course, only took up two tickets, and, as
these are good till used, the company may
be called upon any day to transport fifteen passengers
with fifteen trunks between New York
and Morristown. Now, that is what we call
a very neat operation, and is another argument
to bendded to the many already enumerated
in favor of the fituess of womeu to
vote.
inquirer.
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THE AFRICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
It may not be universally known that there
is in the United States, a society which bears
the above title. It was organized on the 1st
January, 1817, and incorporated, March 23,
1837. The organization building is at 450
Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C.
The exclusive object which the society has in
view, is to assist colored people of the United
States to colonize Africa. This society is no
sham. It has been at work for half a century,
and has, to-day, a large colony in Africa
to show as the fruits of its labors. At stated
periods, expeditions are dispatched to Liberia.
From the African Repository we learn that
oqq of those expeditions will bo sent on the
1st November, 1873. To "industrious and
worthy people of color, the society will give a
passage and subsistence on the voyage?made
in about forty days?and support for the first
six months after landing. Single adult persons
get ten acres, and families twenty-five
acres of land. These are all gifts never to be
repaid."
We do not call attention to this subject
with the design of either advising any of the
colored people to go to Liberia, nor for dissuading
any of them from going if they are
so inclined. The subject is worthy of careful
investigation both by the colored man and
the white mau of the South. A few years
will settle the question whether it is possible
for two races of people to live in the same
country and enjoy the same privileges, and
both be equally prosperous. . It is an experi
ment that, so far as we know, never was made
before. "We are not speaking of this subject
with any reference whatever to its present
political aspect. It involves principles and
consequences of far more importance than
temporary political supremacy. We do not
believe that the colored man will ever be expatriated.
We do not believe that the attempt
will ever be made to drive him from
the sunny South. The question, however, is,
can the white man and colored man live side
by side and both be prosperous ? Will the
laws of nature allow such a state of things ?
How did the experiment succeed in the case
of the red man and the white man ? History
answers the question. The condition of the
colored man in the South is by no means an
enviable one. Notwithstanding his apparent
political power, he has more difficulties to
overcome before he can be anything but a
hewer of wood and drawer of water, than any
man on the face of the civilized earth. He is
the dupe of designing and charlatan politicians,
and, with all, ignorant and miserably poor.
We do not lay these sins at his door. He
did not bring about the present state of things.
He could not help it. We sincerely pity him.
He is poor and needy, bliud and naked, and
in need of all things, and yet he thinks he is
wise and rich. When all the facts in the case
are known, this is not to be wondered at.
Every good man pities the condition of the
poor Southern negro. His destiny is in the
future, 8nd whatever it may be, it will determine
the destiny of the South, and possibly
nf the whnle United States.
IMPROVEMENT DEMANDED.
The South is emphatically an agricultural
country. By this we mean that the people of
the South are exclusively devoted to tilling
the soil. The natural facilities for manufac-;
turing and stock raising are as good in the j
South as in any other quarter of the globe; 1
but the people have been so long engaged in j
agricultural pursuits, that there is in their
minds an aversion to engaging in anything |
else. Such is the prejudice against every i
other pursuit that it is more than probable j
that no change will take place in the South ;
during the present generation. Our people
will continue to make cotton, and buy meat,
bread and clothes, as our fathers have done.
It is a strange thing that, notwithstanding j
the fact that in the cotton growing States noth-!
ing but cotton has beeu raised, still no great!
improvements have been made in the cultivation
of cotton. But little effort in this direction
seems to have been made. The effort
seems to have been to devise some mode by
which a greater number of acres could be
cultivated in cotton, but not to make the j
acres produce the greatest possible amount of
pounds. Once this theory might be endured,
but at present it is ruinous. It costs money,
and a great deal of it, too, to cultivate an
acre of laud. It is clear that the greater
amount of cotton that each acre produces, the
greater will be the profit. If one acre of land
can be so improved that it will produce as
much as two acres do at present, the income
is more than doubled. The investment is
only half and the taxes and other expenses
reduced in proportion; still the income is the
same as if double the amount of land were
cultivated. On an average, we suppose that
about four hundred pounds of seed cotton to
the acre is as much as is, at present, raised on
an acre. This is, we are convinced, not an
under estimate, it may oe an over esuraaie.
By proper cultivation and by improving
the seed, we feel safe in saying that the average
yield might be made three times as much.
The expenses would no doubt be greater for
cultivating an acre properly than it is at present
; but not as much as might be supposed.
It usually costs less to do a thiug right, than
to do it wrong or improperly. Now the
change which we think is demanded, is that
cotton be so cultivated that it be as remunerative
as possible to the cultivator. In order to
bring about this change, the theory of large
farms must be banished from the minds of
our people. Large farms are like overgrown
horses ; it takes a great deal to feed them and
theysoon wearout. We always have thought,
and still think, that there are portions of the
State of South Carolina that is excelled by no
other section on the globe. Nature has done
her part, but art has not dorte much. If cotton
were cultivated in South Carolina as grain
is cultivated in some portions of the world,
there is no telling what would be the results.
The same thing might be said about the cultivation
of corn, wheat, oats and the other
cereals. The average yield of breadstuffs
might be increased four fold. The climate of
South Carolina is better adapted to the growth
of corn than Pennsylvania. Why do we not
make as much corn per acre as is made in
Pennsylvania? The only reason that can be
assigned is that we do not properly cultivate
our corn.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The library of the South Carolina University
contains thirty thousand volumes.
? Trial Justice Mackey, at Winnsboro, is
sending delinquent road workers to jail.
? John C. Reister died in Chester, from
consumption, on Saturday last.
? Good crop reports come from all parts of
Edgefield county.
? The cotton worm has made its appearance
in some sections of Sumter county,
threatening serious damage.
? Company D, of the second artillery, heretofore
stationed at Charlotte, has been transferred
to Charleston.
? The corn crops iu the vicinity of Cheraw
are considered better than they have been for
several years.
? The Southern and Atlantic Telegraph
line has been completed from Charlotte to
Greenville.
? The Union-Herald says that the increase
of the colored population in this State since
1860, has been only one per cent.
? Daniel Ravenel, Esq., one of the most
respected and aged citizens of Charleston,
died on the 7th.
? Fourteen foxes?eleven of which were
red foxes?were captured in eight successive
mornings, in Fairfield, county, by Mr. D. R.
Feaster and two companions.
? Governor Moses has contributed one hundred
dollars toward the building of a Methodist
church in course of erection at Union
Court House.
? A movement is on foot at High Shoals,
Anderson county, for the purpose of building
a first-class cotton factory at that place, with
a capital stock of ?60,000, one-third of which
amount is already received.
? Lancaster Court House is said to be more
sickly than it has been for twenty years past.
The Ledger attributes the sickness to the fact
that cotton is planted too extensively. In
many instances the gardens in the town are
planted in cotton.
?The Williamsburg Republican is the title
of a new paper, the publication of which has
been recently commenced at Kingstree. It is
edited by S. A. Swails, the colored Senator
from Williamsburg, and is Republican in
politics.
? The Union Times says that Bud Williams,
formerly of that county, who it is alleged was
at one time a ku-klux, and was afterward appointed
a Deputy Marshal, was killed at Marshal,
Texas, a few weeks ago, while attempting
to arrest another man.
? Rev. R. C. Oliver, the Superintendent of
the "Carolina Orphan Home," at Spartanburg,
proposes to commence the publication
at that place, about the first of October, of a
weekly newspaper to be called the "Orphan's
Friend." The size of the paper is to be 22
by 30 inches, and will be published at ?2 per
annum.
? The Chester Reporter of last week mentions
that Mr. John McLerkin was found dead
in his bed on last Saturday morning, at his
late residence one mile east of Blackstocks.
The deceased was a very old man?supposed
to be eighty yearn of age?and was a pensioner
of the Government on account of his services
in the war of 1812.
? The Chester Reporter learns that Phillip
A. Eichelberger, formerly county treasurer of
Edgefield county, whose death and burial was
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but has fled to a healther climate to escape the
consequences of certain malfeasances in office
for which he had been arrested by the State
treasurer.
? The Shelby Banner says: "We were reliably
informed a few days ago that Mr. David
Reed, of Union county, S. C., cut his name
on a terrapin's back 48 years ago and turned
it loose, and found the same terrapin alive one
day last week, not more than a hundred and
fifty yards from where he turned it loose
after cutting his name, the letters being as
legible as when first cut.
? The Wilmington, N. C., Journal, of the
4th instant, says: "A friend, who has just returned
from South Carolina, informs us that
the cotton prospects in Marion, Williamsburg,
Darlington and Sumter counties are really discouraging.
The rust and the worm have both
been at work, and the farmers are now engaged
in picking out the open cotton as fast
as possible. The yield will prove very different
from that promised a few weeks ago."
? The Winnsboro News says: "Rev. Mr.
Richardson, who carried a colored opera
troupe through the North, last spring, has for
some time recently been training another at
Ridge way. They have given one or two concerts,
and persons who heard them have been
much pleased. Mr. Richardson leaves for
his Northern tour this morning. One of the
peculiar features of this opera will be the rendition
of the real old "camp meeting melodies"
fouud only in the South among the colored
people."
? The Chester Reporter of last week says:
"Dr. A. H. Davega, President of the Chester
and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, returned
home on Sunday morning last from a trip of
several weeks duration in North Carolina, i
He visited Dallas, Lincoln, Newton and Hickory
Tavern, saw and conversed with men from :
all the counties along the line of the road,!
and is enthusiastic over the prospects of the |
sure completion of his road. The private subscription
is increasing rapidly?in fact much
more is being subscribed than the most ardent
friends of the measure dared to hope for.
Colonel Gardner has completed the final survey
to Dallas, and informs Dr. Davega that
he has never in all his experience run a line
so adapted by nature for a railroad us the
one located from Yorkville to Dallas. There !
is no embankment nor excavation on the !
whole line exceeding eleven ieec in neigm ur
depth, and for six miles on one stretch it is so
level that absolutely no grading whatever
will be required. The estimate is that the
subscriptions to the capital stock already made
are enough to grade the road from Yorkville
to Lenoir. If this is so there is no doubt of
the final consummation of this great and important
work."
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NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The Grand Lodge of Good Templars met
in Greensboro on Tuesday last.
? Charlotte is completely encircled by railroads.
One can ride round the whole town
011 a hand car.
? Mr. Fred W. Waddy, Assistant Auditor
of the Air-Line Railroad, died at Charlotte
last week.
? The Raleigh News says that O. H. Smith,
of that city, has invented a cotton picking
machine which has given entire satisfaction so
far as it has been tested.
? The Greensboro Female College, destroyed
by fire during the war, has been rebuilt,
and was opened with a full faculty last week
for the reception of pupils.
?Caldwell, Catawba, Lincoln and Gaston
counties vote on the 9th of October on the
question of taxation to build the Chester and
Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad.
? The Fayetteville Eagle says that contracts
are called for to build the railroad which will
connect that town with Florence, S. C. It is
thought that $125,000 will be sufficient to
grade the track and furnish the cross-ties ready
for the iron.
? John Ellwood, an English miner of Rutherford
county, died a few days ago. He had,
but a short while before his death, gained a
suit in the English Court by which he would
have come into the possession of $300,000,
which sum, however, will go to his heirs.
? A railroad, connecting Greensboro with
Cheraw, S. C., is projected. The proposed
road would prove an important connection,
and it is understood that it can be built with
private capital if the people of the various
counties it is to traverse will render the desired
aid to the company proposing to embark
in the enterprise.
? Hon. D. M. Barringer died at the Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs, Va., on the 1st
instant. Mr. Barringer had held several imnnrtAnt
nuhlic nositions. He was Minister to
I i- r
Spain under Buchanau's administration, and
at the time of his death was chairman of the
democratic executive committee of North
Carolina.
? At the recent special terra of Mecklenburg
Superior Court, which was in session six
weeks, one hundred and thirty cases were decided,
leaving yet on the docket one hundred
and fifty cases. Of those decided apeals were
taken in thirty. The Democrat, from which
we gather the above facts, advises suitors to
compromise.
? In regard to a recent meeting held at
Asheville, in the interest of the Spartanburg
and Asheville Railroad, the Spartanburg
Spartan says: "The meeting passed unanimously
resolutions to submit the proposition
of voting a subscription of $200,000 to the
people of Buncombe county at an early day ;
this, too, after those present had subscribed
$35,000. The delegates from Marshall county
promised individual subscriptions to the
amount of $25,000 and a coanty subscription
of $50,000. The meeting was a very enthusiastic
one, aud no one seemed to doubt the
fact that the subscription of $200,000 would
be ratified by a popular vote of the county.
Asheville is fully alive to the importance of
the measure, and is willing to do her full
share. Henderson county has already subscribed
$100,000 to this road.
An mvv-rt Tii ir
fltns u* int iiAit
? During the past season 307,091 watermelons
were shipped from Augusta, Geo.
? Minnesota estimates that she will have a
surplus of 30,000,000 bushels of wheat for exportation
this year.
? There are 4,000 slaves at Quiloa, East
Africa, offered at from half a dollar to three
dollars each without finding a purchaser.
? It is announced as a settled fact that Andy
Johnson will stump Tennessee in his own
behalf this fall as a candidate for Governor.
? A Louisiana paper states that the inscription
"for sale" or "for rent" is posted on more
than 6,000 houses and stores in New Orleans.
? A panic prevails at Galveston, Austin
and Houston, Texas, in consequence of the
prevalence of yellow fever.
?The bids for fixing the headstones on 250,000
Federal soldiers' graves have been opened.
The lowest bid is $900,000.
? It is rumored that ex-Governor Foote, of
I Mississippi, will soon be appointed by the
President to an important foreign mission in
South America.
? Judge Richard Coke, of Waco, has been
nominated as the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Texas; and Hon. R. B. Hubbard
for Lieutenant Governor.
? The nett gains of the Tallahassee Manufacturing
Company, of Alabama, for 1872,
were $123,381, or something over nineteen
and a half per cent, on the capital stock.
?"Beau" Hickman, who for many years
has been known in Washington as a sponge
and "dead beat," died in that city on the 1st
instant.
? The Atlanta Constitution notes the statement
by a prominent railroad man, on good
authority, that the Southern Security Company
have sold the Air Line Railroad to the
Richmond and Danville Road.
? It is stated that the. Air-Line Railroad,
recently completed between Charlotte and Atlanta,
has cost near 88,000,000, or an average
'of 830,000 per mile. Particular sections of
| the road have cost full 890,000 per mile.
I ?A recent published statement shows a re'
duction of the public debt for three years, from
; July 1,1870, to July 1,1873, of 8250,000,000.
| The net reduction the past fiscal year has,
i however, been only 843,667,530.
I ? General Butler is prosecuting his cam- j
. paign in Massachusetts for gubernatorial j
honors with varying fortunes in different parts
of the State. He showed himself unexpected,
ly strong in the larger cities, but he is not
! doing so well in the country.
! ? The Augusta Chronicle, of Tuesday, says:;
"The caterpillars appear to be playing sad
| havoc in the cotton fields of this vicinity. In
two fields about two miles from the city,
where the cotton was green and flourishing
last Sunday, nearly every leaf had disap
peared yesterday, myriads of catterpillars
having passed over them in the twenty-four i
hours. The fields literally presented the ap- j
pearance of having been swept by fire."
? The very striking difference between the 1
receipts of cotton last year and the present at
New Orleans, is stated as follows in the Times, |
of the 30th August: "There have been further
rereints of 62 bales of new cron this week, j
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making the total to date 71 bales, including '
one from Texas, against 1,641 bales last year, I
including 210 from Texas. The crop accouuts i
have been much more discouraging, and
caused a pretty general reduction of estimates."
? The cholera is still raging to an alarming
extent in several of the Western States. In
Fayette, Mo., out of a population of" six hundred,
fifty have died. AtOakaville, Illinois,
twenty-three persons died in twelve hours, including
five persons out of one family. Patients
die within fifteen minutes after being attacked
and turn black immediately after death.
AtMillersberg, Ky., eighteen deaths, besides
twenty new cases, were reported in twentyfour
hours.
? The reports from the Virginia canvass indicate
a full vote and an overwhelming Conservative
triumph. General indignation is
felt at the insolent attempt of the Administration
to control the politics of the State and
organize there another Louisiana. The feeling
and the activity of the canvass will probably
secure a majority larger than Governor
Walker's in 1869, for Kemper, the Conservative
candidate. Col. Mosby says that Keranor
tha fVm<M?rvnt.ivft ticket will be elected
by from 20,000 to 30,000. It is said that if
the Conservatives carry the Legislature, there
will be a general concurrence in favor of returning
the Hon. R. M. T. Hunter to the
United States Senate.
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Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
New Salem, N. C., Sept. 8,1373.
Your correspondent has drifted to the ancient
village of New Salem, settled some fifty
or sixty years ago by members of the Society
of Friends or "Quakers," a religious sect
whose creed was originated in England, by
George Fox, during the seventeenth century.
The mode of worship of this peculiar denomination
of Christians, the existence of which
is not even known in many sections of the
United States, is very simple.
"Silent" meetings are regularly held on two
days of each week?First-day or Sunday, and
Fifth-day or Thursday. On these days, at 11
o'clock, they assemble at the house of worship
and silently commune with the Holy
Spirit for one hour, when the Elders, who
occupy the pulpit, "shake hands" with each
other, which is a signal for the brethren to
disperse. The meeting houses are built in the
simplest style of architecture, and no matter
how large or how small may be the building,
or how many or how few the members of tbe
congregation, the house is divided by a partition
into two apartments, one for the male
members and the other for the females. The
sexes worship in separate rooms, and females
preach the same as the males. Preaching,
however, does not occur often, and never at
stated periods, or by regular appointment, as
with other denominations. Their exponents
of the gospel claim to sp^ak only when moved
by the Spirit of the Holy Ghost, and consequently
much pulpit banging is avoided.
During Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly
meetings, preaching is generally expected. At
one of these assemblages the utmost silence
may prevail for more than an hour; and
though there may be three or four ministers
present, all occupying the pulpit together, no
previous arrangement has been made as to
which one shall preach. But should one be
"moved by the Spirit," he rises, and without
the usual preliminaries of singing and prayer,
or without even announcing a text, proceeds
in simple, but chaste, language to expound the
Scriptures according to the tenets of the
church. These discourses being delivered in
an earnest manner, are eloquent in their very
simplicity, and they seldom fail of being instructive
and impressive.
By those not familiar with the facts, Quakers
are regarded as being uncouth in their
manners, rude and illiterate. The very reverse
is the truth. They are the only people
who strictly speak the vernacular language
correctly, and they are behind none in sustaining
institutions of learning. They are
unostentatious, discarding titles, even omitting
"Sir" and "Madam" in all discourse; and
though their garb is of simple pattern, being
of the same style as that in vogue when the
church was founded, yet those who have
the means, wear as fiue and costly apparel as
is worn by any other people. I have seen
many Quaker maidens modestly and neatly
attired in costly fabrics, but without wire-work
and bird-cage attachments or other ringtumpopadiddleboodle
ornamentation, who could
cast a love-dart in the most winsome manner,
and arouse the tender passion in the most ob
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lUSe Heart. iiiis art, iiuvvevci, lauuc ui iuc tudowments
of the sex, which poor man's weakness
has only tended to cultivate, and against
which no church regulations, however strict,
can erect a barrier. But the Quakers do not
object to love-making?only it must be confined
to those of their faith. As regeneration
is deemed unnecessary?the children of Quaker
parentage being considered as born free
from carnal affections?so is it regarded as
sinful to marry "out of the church." After
the betrothal the marriage ban is read to the
congregation of which the lovers are members,
and in one month afterward the marriage is
consummated in the church, each candidate
repeating the vows aloud, and signing a written
agreement that henceforth and forever
they will divide their joys and sorrows, and
together pull through this weary life in the
silken traces of matrimony.
Lawsuits are unknown among the members?all
differences arising among them being
settled in the church; for which purpose
the monthly meetings are set apart?and
their poor are never taxed to the county.
As may be readily inferred, the Quakers are
men of peace, which to some extent accounts
for the name of this village?the word Salem
signifying "peace." The town of Salem, forty
miles north, had been previously settled by
Moravians from Germany, another peaceablydisposed
people, but who on many occasions
make a considerable noise with trumpets,
gongs and drums. A town without a trumpe- j
tor would hv them be considered as seriouslv I
deficient, even for ordinary purposes ; while
for important events?such as the advent of
Easter morn?a band of sonorous brass instruments
is regarded as an adjunct indispensable
to good government and correct municipal
regulations.
Not so with the Quakers, who neither dance
nor sing; and hence they named their place
New Salem, which, by a liberal construction? :
taking the definition, "different from the j
former"?may be regarded as implying a
better and more perfect peace than that of i
their noisy neighbors in Forsythe county.
The number of Quakers in the South has
been greatly depleted by removal to the:
Western States Year by year they have
migrated from North Carolina, Virginia and
Maryland, until now they number compara- j
tively few in these States.
This county, Randolph, has a population
17,551, and in stock-raising and the leading (
agricultural productions, excepting cotton
and tobacco, ranks in the fourth class; while
in the manufacture of cotton goods it is ahead
of any other county in the State. On Deep
river, within a space of fifteen miles, there
are five extensive cotton mills in active operation,
all of which are represented as doing
a prosperous business.
It is claimed that North Carolina is the pio
neer of the southern States in the raanutacture
of cotton goods, and that the spirit of
manufacturing in this State had its inception
in Randolph county. About the year 1825,
efforts were made by Benjamin Elliott, the
owner of a water-power in this county, at the
place now known as Cedar Falls, (where at
this time there is in operation an extensive
factory,) to form a company for the manufacture
of cotton goods. Mr. Elliott, however,
failed in his scheme, though his agitation of
the subject awakened an interest in other sections
of the State, aud by the year 1829 two
cotton factories were in operation?one in
Lincoln county, and the other in Greensboro.
Encouraged by the success of these mills, Mr.
Elliott made a small beginning on his property,
and though he has long since passed
away, the establishment which he founded has
steadily grown and increased until it now
ranks with the most extensive mills in the
State. There are now in this State, according
to the best information I can obtain, thirty-six
mills in operation, and one in process of erection,
all of which are owned and controlled by
home capital.
I have just returned from a visit to the
mills of the Randleman Manufacturing Company,
one mile from this village. This establishment
employs one hundred operatives, and
has in operation 1524 spiudles and 75 looms,
only 12 of which are run on white goods, the
leading productions of this mill being cottonade
of different patterns for men's wear, linseys,
stripes, plaids, bed ticking and apron
checks. These goods are all of standard
on/4 fin^ roa^w.oolo flnn.tVlJrfl ftf tho
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productions are sold in Augusta, Ga., one-fifth
in New York city, and the remainder find a
market in this State. Such i9 the demand for
the goods that the mill is fully 100 bales behind
the orders now on hand.
From the polite and accommodating manager,
Mr. Randleman, I learn that during the
month of July there was manufactured by
this mill 57,300 yards of goods, requiring
17,796 pounds of cotton, the labor costing,
in the spinning-room, $431.56; in the weaving
room, $785.53; and in the dye-house,
including fire-wood, $450. A large number
of the operatives are females, who earn good
wages. In the weaving-room, work is done
by the piece, or yard, and the average earnings
of the weavers is $18 per month, though
an expert weaver can earn more.
The establishments in this county labor
under the disadvantage of having no railroad
facilities nearer than the N. C. Central road,
which is 18 miles from the Randleman mills;
26 from Cedar Falls; 28 from Franklinville
and Island Ford, and 30 from Columbia.
Excepting the goods sold at the door, the remainder
is hauled in wagons to the railroad
for shipment. Despite this inconvenience, all
these mills are doing a prosperous business;
and previous to the completion of the railroad,
it was found profitable to haul goods for shipment
North and West to Fayetteville, a distance
of 90 miles from the Randleman establishment.
The larger number of the mills in this State
are more fortunately situated as regards facilities
for transportation, and consequently
their profits are proportionately greater; but
as aL evidence that the Randolph mills are
profitable to the stockholders, Mr. Randleman
assured me that only the lack of house room
nMirniiio liiin fmm incrcnainor tlia mflptlinPI-V
to double the present capacity, and I am informed
that some of the other mills, already
extensive, but working altogether on white
goods, contemplate increasing the productive
capacity at an early day.
With all the disadvantages under which
these mills labor, both as to receiving the raw
material?not being located in a cotton region?and
shipping the manufactured article,
why cannot similar establishments be made
still more profitable to the proprietors, if located
in the heart of a fine cotton-growing
section, with all the advantages of rapid and
cheap transportation ? Vidocq.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM PENNSYLVANIA.
Meadville, Pa., Sept. 4,1873.
Meadville is a large and growing town on
the Atlantic and Great Western Broad Gauge
route, some three hundred miles from Cincinnati,
and five hundred from New York. It
is comparatively a new place, being a creature
of the remarkable railroad development
of the past decade.
Pennsylvania is a thrifty State, and I sometimes
think it will outstrip all the others in
wealth before the close of this century. From
what we gather from the last census report,
and adding the same ratio of increase since,
we find that the real and personal property in
Pennsylvania to-day is worth four thousand
millions of dollars ! This is a sum greater
than the mind can comprehend; an aggregate
of wealth at once significant and startling. If
we look for causes for this wonderful growth,
we find them to be, first, great natural resources
; second, their development by the continuous
labor of the industrious population.
Much of the great wealth in Pennsylvania
to-day is due to the hardy foreigners who have
taken up their abode within her borders.
There are over a million foreigners, and their
descendants, in Pennsylvania, and the value of
their labor in the development of the resources
of the State cannot be estimated.
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South. The presence of a hundred thousand
industrious German emigrants in South Carolina
would be worth to you untold millions.
A DELIGHTFUL SUMMER.
This has been one of the coldest summers
ever experienced by the oldest inhabitants.
There are many counties in this State where
there has been a frost every month, yet not of
sufficient severity to effect growing crops. At
this writing the thermometer marks 75?, which
indicates more than usual warmth. 84? is the
highest I have seen it this summer in this
State, and that only for a day. One day it was
82? ; but save these it has been below 80? all |
the season. In the large cities it has of course
been much warmer; but when you are convenient
to rural breezes and forest shade, there
has not been a day this summer, in this lati
tude, unpleasantly warm.
In consequence of the cool weather the summer
resorts have not been as well patronized
this summer as last. But the tide of Euro*
pean travel has been largely augmented. This
is rather foolish than otherwise. We have
such a splendid country, so large, so broad, so
ample, that the most discontented spirit can
find a climate to suit him and plenty to see.
The natives of a land like ours cut ridiculous
figures sailing over the great deep to find something
to see.
It is estimated that the Americans now in
Europe will spend fifteen millions of dollars
in foreign lands this season. The question
comes up in the thoughtful mind, had we not
better contemplate out own scenery and
keep our money at home ? Nemo.
SCALING THE DEBT.
The correspondent the Charleston News
and Courier, writing from Columbia, says:
The excitement produced by the unfavorable
and unexpected decision in the bond case,
which was never so great as the grave interests
involved would appear to demand, has almost
entirely subsided. Our people are not to be
aroused from the lethargic indifference to
public affairs which has settled upon them,
even by the danger of largely increased taxation.
Besides, there is a very general impression
that the tax will not be levied any way;
that the Republican party cannot afford to enforce
it, and that something will be done by
the Legislature to prevent it before the time
for collection arrives. I have talked with a
great many Republicans upon the subject, and
with some of the State officials, and they are
unanimously of the opinion that no tax will
be levied to pay interest until the debt shall
have been arranged upon some basis consistent
with the pledges of the party made last
year in relation thereto.
Tt. is regarded now as a fixed fact that the
General Assembly is to be convened in extra
session on the 21st of October. This I learn
from members of the administration. The
chief object of the extra session is to make an
arrangement of the debt, and determine the
expenditures for the next fiscal year before
the 15th day of November, on or before which
day the notice of the rate per centum to be
levied has to be given by the comptroller-general
to the various county auditors. An effort,
I learn, is certainly to be made to scale
the debt, and the scheme will be strongly urged
by the Governor in his message.
The plan recommended, it is said, will be
the one mentioned in one of my previous letters
as being most strongly favored by Patterson.
This is, that the whole debt, $16,000,000
or with accrued interest, say $18,000,000,
must be scaled proportionately to the present
value of the different classes of bonds. To
explain, I will assume for instance that there
is now outstanding $6,000,000 of the unquestionably
valid debt quoted in New York at
32i i scaling this at double the present value
which would be 65 cents, we would have a
new debt of $3,900,000 in place of the old of
$6,000,000. Taking the balance of the debt,
about 812,000,000 at an average of 17i as
its present value, and doubling it so as to
make 85, we would have a new debt of $4,200,000;
thus making a total new debt of
about $8,000,000.
The attorney-general says that I misrepresented
him when writing upon this subject
before, in stating that he favored an indiscriminate
scale of fifty per cent. He claims to
be an advocate, and I believe one of the originators,
of the proportional plan. "Honest
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flocking of the political vultares at his house
yesterday. Rumor has it that the gathering
was for the' purpose of taking counsel upon
this very question of the State debt. I am
told by some of the old Blue Ridge party
that the dear departed scrip is to be resurrected
and placed along with the rest of the
doubtful debt in the new scaling process. It
is said, too, that all the floating debt, warrants,
certificates, and all existing claims
against the State, are to be put in the pool, so
that when the scaling is finished, the Republican
party is to commence with a clean sheet
to inaugurate all sorts of economy and reform
in the management of the State's finances
hereafter. Qui Vive.
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The Colored Element and the Granges.
The question of color is about to annoy the
Patrons of Husbandry. The colored element,
heretofore, has not been known to the order.
The constitution ignores politics and religion,
but says nothing about color. Should the requisite
number of colored people apply for a
charter, it would be issued ; but whether the
State granges would permit a colored Master
to affiliate, is a question of local jurisdiction
entirely. In the South, where the order is
flourishing, no application has been received
for a charter for a grange composed of colored
people; but in Arkansas and Missouri the impending
crisis is at hand. The order now
numbers upwards of 6,000 granges, having
increased over 800 during the month of Au~
gust. From this time untif December, it is
expected the increase will not fall short of
1,000 per month. In Pennsylvania, a State
grange will be organized on the 16th of September.
It has taken root in Massachusetts,
and promises to spread rapidly in the other
New England States. Virginia and Kentucky
appear to he neutral ground, there being but
three granges in the former and one in the
latter State. The clerical force at headquarters
has been increased. All the dements of
a lively political campaign enter into the business
of the order. Cartoons illustrating the
farmer's position with monopolists are being
prepared for general circulation, songs with
words adapted to the object of the orders are
being printed in New York by thousands, and
a book called "Songs of the Grange" cannot
he printed fast enough to fill the orders. The
packages sent out from Washington have the
following pasted on them, "Compound extract
of hay seed, an excellent mental invigorator,
warranted to cure itching for office," political
trickery, and sure to remove unfaithful servants
from office." Connecticut, Delaware,
Florida, Maine, Mandand, Nevada and Kbode
Island are the only States where a grange has
not been established. New York has at present
only nine granges.
Revenue Decision.?The following special
order was issued from the internal revenue
bureau on the 8th inst: "Collectors are
instructed to see that each deputy collector in
charge of a division is furnished with a book
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containing a recoru, maue up iruw um uujub
alphabetical list, of the names of all persons
in his division who have paid special taxes
for this fiscal year, including those who paid
such taxes to the collector or to any of his
deputies, and each deputy should be required
to keep the record in his book so complete
that it can be depended upon as a guide in
determining what persons in his division have
paid such taxes. Requisitions for books of
alphabetical list of special tax payers should
include a sufficient number to supply the
home office and such deputies as are in charge
of divisions. The commissioner of internal
revenue decides that regular liquor or tobacco
dealers, holding a special tax stamp as such,
may cease their ordinary place of business for
the time being, and, on registry of the facts
with the collector of the district, may do business
under said stamp at one stand in the
fair grounds situated in said district without
payment of additional tax, but before opening
again their regular place of business should
make a new registry with the collector of the
district."
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Anecdote of the Late Beau Hickman.
In his younger days he frequently went to
New York, and sometimes to Norfolk, Baltimore
and Richmond, where he would remain
a few weeks, invariably "beating" the landlords
out of their bills. Once he went to New
York with an acquaintance, an old sporting
man, and both put up at the first hotel in the
city. Beau was, as usual, splendidly gotten
up, and nine days elapsed before his bill was
presented. When it was, Beau took it to his
friend and said, "What am I to do.? I have
not got a red." "Take this one thousand
dollar bill, said his acquaintance, and offer to
pay your bill." Bean did so, and the clerk
seeing him in possession of so large a sum said,
"We can't change that; never mind, Mr.
Hickman, we can wait until you get the change
just as well as not." It is almost unnecessary
to say that while the clerk was waiting for the
change Beau beat his way back to his old
stamping ground in Washington.
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