Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, October 02, 1873, Image 2
Icrap* and Jarts.
The officeholders of Minnesota are assessed
five per cent, to fight the Farmers'
ticket.
There is a negro woman in Monroe,
Ga., who is the mother of thirty-three living
children.
It is estimated that the total population
ofShreveport, La., at present is 8,000, including
one thousand sick and convalescing.
Missouri has beeu uuder Democratic
rule for two years, aud during that time the
State debt has beeu reduced from $38,000,000
to $18,000,000.
Ex-Gov. Wise, of Virginia, is out in
a letter supporting the Republican ticket in
Virginia. He states that he considers the
material interests of Virginia are identified
with the success of the Republican party.
Rev. Mr. Carleton thinks the reason
his son, the Cashier of The Uniou Trust Company,
stole $500,000, was because he had been
crazy since the death of his wife. Probably
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HIS wire drove mm crazy ueiure sue uicu.
At the election in San Francisco a
few weeks ago, 26,300 votes were cast, and
the city is now called upon to foot a bill of
$21,303.50 election expenses, equivalent to
about 81 cents per vote.
The Staunton (Va.) Spectator says:
"Ex-Goveuor Bonham, of South Carolina,
was in the city this week, for the purpose of
buying a farm near Staunton, where he proposes
hereafter to reside."
On Wednesday of last week, ?138,000
of cold was withdrawn from the Bank of England
for shipraeut to the United States, and
?20,000 was to follow on Thursday. The
opinion is expressed by leading financiers
that there will be a flow of gold to the United
States from England for some time to come.
The American Colonization Society
proposes to send another expedition to Liberia
on the 1st of November of this year.
The colonists will find themselves about as
much at home in Africa as the descendants of
the Pilgrims would if they should go back to
Yorkshire.
The conflict between carpet-baggers
and the native colored people of the South is
becoming general. At a recent meeting in
Wilmington, N. C., George L. Mabson, a
favorite colored leader, announces himself
"in deadly opposition to adventurers who
have settled amouug us."
On the 17th of last month, Col. D W.
Aiken, of South Carolina, addressed 17,000
persons in Janesville, Wis., on the subject of
agriculture and the granges. He is one of
the three members of the Executive Committee
of the National Grange in the Uuited
States.
The Democrats of Mississippi have wisely
decided not to nominate any State ticket,
with the understanding that the Conservatives
will unite with the Liberal Republicans in
the support of Alcorn for Governor. This was
;udged to be the best policy under the circumstances,
the only policy which could result
in the defeat of Ames.
The Secretary of the Navy has directed
that a certain lieutenant, who lately returned
from a three years'cruise on the steam
corvette Benica, in the Asiatic squadron, be
sent back to the squadron, with orders to report
to the admiral commanding, who is to
keep him there until his debts, amounting
to several thousand dollars, are all paid.
HTkln nnnonnl Koc Kooti ronrlarofi
J. 1113 uuucuai pivvtvuiug uuo vvvu I vuvtv* VV4
necessary by the numerous financial delinqtieucies
recently reported to the department
from that quarter, and is a serious warning to
other reckless debt contractors.
There is a droll story of how a man
lost a wager in Pueblo, Colorado. Stepping
into a liquor shop he offered to bet ten to one
that he could, blindfolded, tell the name of
any liquor or wine in the house, or any mixture
of liquors, by the taste and smell. All
went well with him at first. He named
all the celebrated brands correctly. Then
they handed him a glass of water. He tasted,
he smelt, he tasted and smelt again, and at
last, completely nonplussed, he gave it up so.
"Well, boys," he said, "you have got me. It
seems to me as if, years ago, I struck something
of that kind in the States, but it was so
long I have entirely forgotten it."
A dispatch from Chicago says that
a very large meeting of the farmers of Irroquois,
111., was held in Gilman a few days
ago. Resolutions were adopted by the meeting
renouncing all former political affiliation,
rebuking class legislation, favoring a revenue
tariff, calling for the abolition of the national
banking system, and for the assessment of
railroad property for taxation at its cash
value. They pledged themselves never to
vote for any man who voted for the back salary
or accepted any back pay, and stigmatized
the action of the President by signing
a bill that put $100,000 in his own pocket
as an exhibition of morbid avarice unparalleled
in American history.
We have not mentioned, we believe,
the spiteful and plucky old lady who died
the other (lav in Oswego. She was a widow,
and left particular orders that she should not
he buried within ten miles of the sepulchre
of the "old man." She also desired that her
dog might he killed, lest he should visit an
obnoxious neighbor. Finally, she requested
that she might be buried in the finest coffin
which could be had for money, and that her
pale form should be wrapped in a robe of
white alpaca. Her wishes have been shamefully
disregarded. The ten miles were reduced
to five ; the dog still lives and barks ;
and the coffin was a medium cost one. There
will be some tall rapping in that vicinity.
Mr. P. T. Barnum announces that if
a balloon does not cross the Atlantic this fall
he will spend fifty thousand dollars, if necessary,
in having that experiment tried as early
as possible next year, provided one or more
aeronauts can be found in America or Europe
who will heartily make the attempt. He
evidently does not intend to make the experiment
with a cheap balloon, for he says:
"As at present advised, I shall have the
silk manufactured in China, put together and
prepared under direction of scientific men in
London, an experimental ascension made
from the Sydenham Chrystal Palace grounds,
then bring the balloon to America, and make
the trans-atlantic trip from New York. I
trust the public will believe that if I put my
hand to the plough I shall not look back."
A few years ago, at the Eglinton tournament
in England, it appeared that famous
knights of three and four centuries ago
must have been smaller even than Englishmen
of to day, for it was impossible to put on
their armor. And now come vital statistics
to prove that we are more hardy and longerlived
than our fathers. The statistics kept j
at Geneva since 1560 show that the average i
term of life has been steadily lengthening. !
At that time the average was only twenty- j
two years; it is now forty. In the fourteenth j
century the average mortality in Paris was j
one in sixteen; the rate has been reduced
in our day toone in thirty-two. In England,,
less than two centuries ago, the mortality was j
one in thirty-three; now one in forty-two.,
The laws of life are better understood ; the |
comforts of life more widely distributed, and j
habits of living improved.
The people of the great State of New
York are, in turn, having colored school
troubles, the natural results of a so-called "civil j
rights bill" passed by the last Republican
State Legislature. In Poughkeepsie, two
colored girls having succeeded in obtaining a
bench among the white scholars, many of
these have left, and their parents are quite
indignant and excited over their success;
while in Brooklyn it is the colored people
who are agitated, wanting, by virtue of the
"bill," to stand upon a footing of perfect j
equality with the whites for admission to any
and all schools of that flourishing suburb of
the great metropolis. There, however, the
great majority of the whites insist upon separate
schools for colored children, or a continuation
of the present system. Thus, accor
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(ling to the New York Herald, antagonisms on
account of color are revived upon Northern
soil in their worst forms. The colored people
will probably have to succumb, for antagonisms
in their worst forms canuot do them
' anything else but harm in Brooklyn, New
; York or elsewhere.
?he ?<rthviUe inquirer.
YORKVILL.E, S. C.;
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THE FINANCIAL CRISIS.
The suspension of Jay Cooke & Co., has
I had a disastrous effect throughout the country?more
marked, however, in the North
| than in the West and South?and granting
that the crash is now over, its effects will be
felt for several weeks. An uneasy feeling
will prevail, and for some time yet transactions
will be limited. Several banking institutions
in various States and different sections
of the country, have either suspended or availed
themselves of the thirty and sixty days' notice
provided in their regulations, and consequently
there is a tightness in the money market
unknown in the South since the memorable
suspensions ot 1857.
As our readers are aware, the difficulties
nriainated in the attemnt of Jav Cooke & Co.
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to carry through the bonds of the Northern
Pacific Railroad. Asa matter of speculation
they undertook the negotiation of the bonds
of this corporation, making, at the same time,
large cash advances upon them. The demand
for the bonds, with which the fortunes of the
house were linked, suddenly ceased, deposits
j were withdrawn from their keeping, and they
J were compelled to stop payment. This is the
beginning of the trouble, which is now seriously
affecting all branches of business, aud
which is thus described by Commodore Vanderbilt,
who, -siiice the crash, is reported to
have said:
"People undertake to do about four times
as much business as they can legitimately undertake.
There are a gr^at many worthless
railroads started in this country, without any
means to carry them through. Respectable
banking houses in New York have made themselves
agents for the sale of the bonds of the
railroads in question, and give a kind of moral
guarantee of their genuineness. The bonds
soon reach Europe, and the markets of the
commercial centres, from the characters of
the indorsers, are soon flooded with them.
These worthless roads prejudice the commercial
credit of our country abroad. Building
railroads from nowhere to nowhere at public
expense, is not a legitimate undertaking. I
might make allusion to Texas, Midland and
other new railroads, but I am a friend of the
iron roads, and like to see them stretching to
every corner of the United States. They help
todevelopour commerce and civilization, and
ought to be encouraged. All I have to say
is when railroads are to be built, don't victimize
the public to build them. Wheu I have
some money I buy railroad stock or something
else, but I don't buy on credit; I pay
for what I get. People who live too much on
credit generally get brought up with a round
turn in the long run. The Wall street averages
ruin many a man there, and is like faro.
Mistrust will be engendered till we, as a nation,
do our business on a more solid basis and
pay as we go."
To the same cause the New York Sun attributes
the disaster in the following paragraph
:
"The failures of the heavy concerns have
nearly all, if not all, resulted from endorsements
of new railway enterprises. The expansion
of enterprise in this direction has been
enormous within the past few years, more
ruiles of railway haviDg been constructed in
the past six years than were built altogether
before the war. Nearly all of this construction
has been done on credit, houses in every
other respect conservative having shouldered
the enterprises, relying wholly upon the sale
of the railroad bonds to meet accruing obligations.
Dull times must come occasionally,
and such have been experienced by these
houses in the past few months. Prominent
firms carrying railroad enterprises have consequently
been forced to shoulder their load
alone, and the drains upon them for interest
and cost of construction have been enormous.
Shrewd operators like Dauiel Drew and Jay
Gould foresaw the necessary result, and went
short of stocks to a large araouut; at the same
time throwing all their influence to hasten the
general catastrophe. The result is that they
are said to have reaped a golden harvest amid
extensive disaster. Most of the smaller firms
ivbipb bntrp failpd nrp mprp RfncV hrnlrprs nnrl
speculators, who happened to be long of stocks
and were unable to cover in time to save
themselves from ruin."
While a feeling of doubt and insecurity
prevails at the North, and especially in New
York city, where speculation in bonds, and
gambling in stocks is carried on regardless of
consequences, it is gratifying to kuow that in
the South, where the banks restrict themselves ;
to a legitimate business, no such feeling of in- j
security need be felt, nor is danger gravely i
apprehended. Suspensions have occurred in |
Baltimore, Richmond and Petersburg?claim- j
ed to be the result of hasty and ill-advised j
action of depositors ; but those having sus-:
pended claim assets in excess of their liabili-1
ties. A meeting of the merchants and man- J
ufacturers of Richmond was held on Wednesday
of last week, to consider the financial
crisis. The greatest interest was manifested,,
and a series of resolutions was adopted with
great unanimity, as follows :
That the present condition of affairs in
Richmond has arisen from causes aud influ- .
ences external to the banking and mercantile :
business thereof, and in nowise attributable to
the operations of banks or merchants ; that
the banks of the city are at present believed
to be in a state of undoubted solvency, and
that no loss can result to creditors if the
banks are allowed to proceed as heretofore ;
that the meeting deprecates the uneasy feeling
prevailing in the city, as tending to produce
a panic and run on the banks, thereby
likely to cause their suspension, as well as the
overthrow of all business ; that in view of the
undoubted solvency of the banks, aud to
prove their confidence therein, the members
of the meeting pledge themselves to abstain
from running on the banks, and confine themselves
strictly to regular and necessary checks
and drafts in the course of business, making
them as light as practicable, and to continue
as heretofore in making deposits ; and they i
urge all persons having business with the
banks to pursue a like course of confidence,
thus avoiding the greatest contingencies of
prostration and disaster.
1 The same sentiment pervades in all the!
' southern cities, and consequently ordinary
mercantile transactions are unimpeded. The
most serious drawback to the South is the fact
; that there is no market, except at nominal
! prices, for her staple crop. But as the crash
| was inevitable, it could not have come at a
! more favorable time for our people?just at
| the commencement of the season?when they
can better afford to hold back their crop and
: await a favorable change with better prices.
That a reaction will soon take place there can
be no possible doubt, and our advice to the
farmers is to patiently await that time.
While it is almost impossible, in one newspaper
article, to give a detailed and succinct
account of the extent of the damage and inconvenience
caused by the crash, yet the following
summary, made up from our exchanges,
will give a general idea of how the failure
of one New York house can affect the hanking
interests of the entire country :
THE CHARLESTON' BANKS.
In Charleston, the su.?|>ension9 so far announced
are those of the Loan and Trust
Company, the People's Bauk of South Carolina,
the People's Savings Institution, and the
Planter's and Mechanic's Bank. The Citizen's
Savings Bank and the Freedman's Bank
each requires from depositors notice for the
withdrawal of deposits, though as there has
been comparatively no run on the latter institution,
the cashier has paid out small amounts,
using his discretion in the matter. The First
National, the People's National, the Bank of
Charleston and the Union Bank, all remain
intact, and promptly pay out every demand
made upon them. The aggregate capital of
these last-named banks is ?3,100,000?perhaps
three-fourths of the banking capital in
the city. The News and Courier is sanguine
that prudence and forbearance will enable
Charleston to pass through the ordeal without
severe injury. The trade of the city is represented
as unusually brisk, and in many
branches better than it has been at any time
since the close of the war.
COLUMBIA.
A dispatch from Columbia to the News and
Courier, dated the 27th, says there was considerable
anxiety manifested among the business
men of the city ob that day?much more
than on any previous day?though the officers
say they wjll be able to weather the storm if
it be not of immoderate duration. A meeting
of the Board of Trade was held with a
view to take action to sustain the banks. A
resolution endorsing the action of the two national
banks was unanimously adopted. A
resolution was also adopted as the sense of the
board that, inasmuch as the cotton crop is
still in the hands of the farmers as a material
to command currency, there is no reasonable
ground for apprehension that the financial
embarrassment at the North should seriously
affect the South. There is nothing like a
panic, and no run upon the banks is anticipated.
In his introductory remarks, the president
of the board, Mr. E. Hope, stated that
the only cause of the scarcity of currency in
the banks was that they were carrying some
four hundred thousand dollars for the State
government.
OTHER POINTS IN THE STATE.
A dispatch from Orangeburg says the tightness
in the money market is felt there and no
business is doing in cotton. Exchange cannot
be negotiated. There is, however, no excitement
at the branch of the Citizen's Savings
Bank at that place.
In Chester business is generally suspended.
No cotton is offered, and currency is not to
be had. There seems, however, to be but little
alarm among either the merchants or the
farmers. There has been no run upon the
National Bank at that place, although it has
a large savings deposit.
Owing to the impossibility to negotiate exchange,
the cotton business in Sumter i3 almost
entirely suspended. Very little of the staple
is coming in. Price nominally 15 cents. Total
shipments since the first of September 500
bales, against more than double that amount
for the same time last year.
In Greenville the crisis has had a depressing
influence upon the cotton market, but other- j
wise it has had no noticeable effect.
NORTH CAROLINA.
None of the banks in this State have suspended.
There has been no run or unusual
demand upon any of them, and business, with
the exception of a depression in cotton and
naval stores, has been comparatively uninterrupted.
NEW YORK.
The most notable suspension in New York
during the last week is that of Henry Clews
& Co. The run on this house was not made
known to the public until about 2.30 P. M.
on Tuesday, when the doors of the bank were
suddenly closed in the faces of the crowd
without. It is asserted that the firm paid out
during the morniug nearly 81,000,000 on demand,
and then went about the street with
mercantile paper endeavoring to raise more
funds; but his offer, or rather entreaty, to be
allowed to pay two per cent a day?730 per
cent a year?for advances upon good mercantile
paper, were unheeded. Failing in every
legitimate effort to raise money, without hope
of further aid from the government, he closed
his doors at 2$ o'clock. The result of the suspension
of a house which had speculated so
largely and been otherwise prominent could
not but be depressing. The excitement was
renewed and increased by this disaster, and at
once there were general croakings heard as on
Saturday and Sunday.
OTHER LOCALITIES.
In Montgomery, Ala., resolutions of full
faith and confidence in the local banks have
been adopted by the merchants. Cotton is
arriving freely, but not a bale can be sold for
want of currency.
The business men of Atlanta have resolved
to assist the banks of that city by free deposits
and light drafts. J. H. James, banker,
has suspended, though it is claimed his assets
are double his liabilities.
A dispatch from Mobile says the National
Park Bank of New York will pay all checks
drawn by the Mobile Savings Bank on Howes
& Macey, of New York.
The banks of Nashville have suspended
currency payments upon checks of over two
hundred dollars, which action is approved by
the Board of Trade.
Five National bauks have suspended in
Chicago.
In accordance with a resolution of the
Chamber of Commerce, the banks of Savannah
arc certifying checks, but are withholding
currency.
A dispatch from Washington gives the following
list of suspensions : Wm. Fisher & j
Son, of Baltimore ; Wooten, Webb & Co., of!
Indianapolis; the Danville, Va., banks ; the,
Planter's Bank and Commercial Bank, of
Farmville, Va.; Lancaster & Co., of Rich- j
mond ; Kraus & Smith, of Toledo ; the bank
of Ausonia, New Hampshire, caused by a de-;
falcation; Fant, Washington & Co., of Wash-!
ington.
TIIE LATEST.
Several large factories iu New Haven, Conn.,!
unable to get currency to pay their hands,'
have stopped.
The National and Savings banks of Har-1
' risburg, Penn., have suspended currency payments.
The banks of Canton, Illinois, have suspended.
The feeling in Savannah, Ga., among bankers
and merchants is reported as panicky,
though the Merchants National and the Anderson
banks continue to pay currency.
Two bankiug houses at Chillicothe, Ohio,
and Curry & Kerby, of Jefferson City, Mo.,
have suspended.
In consequence of the money crisis, the University
of Virginia at Charlottsville.has made
arrangements for credits to all the students
temporarily embarrassed by the same.
The Tredegar Works at Richmond have
discharged six hundred hands engaged in car
building.
The Grant locomotive works at Patterson,
N. J., have discharged 175 men, and the Dan*
forth works, at the same place, 100 men.
The banks of Cairo, 111., have suspended
currency payment.
In Augusta, Ga., the banks have partially
resumed payments, but the cotton market continues
dull and nominal, only 52 bales being
sold on Monday.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The Union Times mentions having received
a yam potato weighing 6J pounds.
? Dr. E. H. Edwards, of Rock Hill, will,
in future be connected with > the Due West
Female College as musical instructor.
? Near the railroad depot in Chester, on
Saturday night last, a dwelling occupied by
Mrs. McCormick, together with the kitchen
and an outhouse, were destroyed by fire.
? Rowland Williamson, the engineer on the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
who was so severely injured on the 17th ultimo,
died on Sunday last.
? Lula Alice, aged four years nine months
and twenty days, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Grandison Williams, died in Chester
county on the 20th ultimo.
? John Knott, Superintendent of the Graniteville
factory, was found dead in a part of
the building on Wednesday of last week.
The cause of his death was appoplexy.
? The Equalization Board of Union, has
increased the assessed value of property in
that county, $627,014, as compared with the
assessment upon which taxes were collected
last year.
? The proprietor of the Chester Reporter offers
the same for sale. No better investment
for a limited amount of capital can be found
in the State. An early purchaser can secure
a bargain.
? In the Circuit Court at Chester, last
week, Columbus Carter, colored, was convicted
of the murder of George Estes, colored,
in that county, on the 31st of July last.
Judge Mackey sentenced him to be hung on
Friday, the 21st day of November next.
? Information has been received at Columbia,
that all the claims growing out of the
destruction of that city during its occupation
by the Federals in 1865, have been disallowed
by the Claims Commission, now sitting at
Newport, R. I.
? Moses Martin, a colored man, has been
nominated by the Republicans of Fairfield,
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Senator Ford. Mr. Calvin Brice. white.
has also been nominated by persons dissatisfied
with the nomination of Martin.
? The Republican says that Edward F.
Stokes recently added much to his notoriety
by allowing himself to be committed to the
Greenville jail, by Judge Cooke, for contempt
of Court. A writ of habeas corpus was sued
out in Stokes' behalf, and he was taken before
Judge Willard at Columbia, but his case
had not been disposed of at last accounts.
? Twenty thousand dollars of State bonds
were sold at auction in Columbia last week, at
Hi cents on the dollar for the lot. Eighteen
thousand dollars of the bonds were issued un-.
der the conversion act, and the other two
thousand under the act for the redemption of
the bills of the Bank of the State. They
were bought by D. Gambrill, broker, for some
third party.
? In the case of Knox & Gill vs. The South
Carolina Railroad Company, just decided by
the Supreme Court, it is determined that the
statute limiting the charges for the conveyance
of merchandise intended that the rate
should be applied to the actual number of
miles of carriage?a portion of one hundred
miles entitling the railroad company only to
? r>nrrAsnnnrlincr nnrtinn of the statute allow
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ance.
?Two first-class locomotives have recently
been completed in the shops of the South Carolina
Railroad Company, at Charleston, at a
cost of about two thousand dollars less than
similar machines could be purchased at the
North. They weigh about twenty-four tons
each, and have a capacity for drawing eighteen
loaded cars. They are supplied with all the
latest improvements and on recent trial trips
gave entire satisfaction.
? By a recent "special order" the following
persons are announced as "aids-de-carap" of
j Governor Moses, with the rank of Colonel:
"Harry Noah, L. C. Northrop, C. J. Houstou,
colored, S.B. Thompson, A. W. Curtis, colored,
S. L. Hoge, L. J. Nash, H. L. Shrewsbury,
colored, N. G. Parker, B. F. Whittemore,
J. L. Little, J. Crews, A. J. Ransier,
colored, R. M. Wallace, H. H. D. Byron, J.
0. Ladd, F. H. Carraand, colored, W. H.
Berney, colored, C. C. Puffer, William Gurney,
C. C. Bowen, J. C. Winnsraith, J. P. F.
Camp, J. B. Cochran, J. H. Runkle, J. A.
Dunbar.
? The Columbia correspondent of the
Charleston News and Courier says that "the
suit which was commenced several months
ago, to test the constitutionality of the conversion
bonds, by Messrs. Memrainger Porter,
Burt, Butler and DeSaussure, on behalf of
the taxpayers of the State, has not been dropped,
though nothing has been published about
it since the original filing of the complaiut,
and the granting of the temporary injunction
m I
l\j icotiaui tuu uaiui urnwcio vjl hwmi
collecting any tax or paying out any money
in the way of interest upon the bonds. The
summonses have been served upon the various
defendants, aud the answers must soon be
made and issue joined for trial, or else judgment
will be granted as prayed for in the complaint.
This is that the $7,000,000 conversion
bonds be declared null and void and cancelled,
and that the tax asssessors and treasur- j
er of the State be forever enjoined from pay-1
ing either interest or principal of the said
bonds."
? A correspondent of the Union-Herald,
writing from Camden, under date of the 25th j
ultimo, says: "Judge Cooke is raising wind
over in this section. Yesterday he had all of t
the liquor dealers up, and the plea of them all
was ignorance and that they got their license
from the town board, aud thought the board j
responsible and not the dealers. The judge
then declared his intention to go for the board,
and as soon as the board got the news the intendant
resigned, aud one of the wardeus also
gave notice of his intention of doing the same.
Our board consists of five?three whites, j
(Democrats,-) and two Republicans. One of,
| the whites is now lying at the point of death, j
and one resigned as above, and another is on
the eve of resigning; consequently we are almost
without a council, and I am much afraid
if Judge Cooke stays in Camden two days
longer, we will be entirely without one. He
has also scared our county commissioners out
of two years' growth."
j ? A rather singular accident recently ocj
curred in Fairfield county, the particulars of
: which are thus given by the Wiunsboro'
I News: "A colored man, Adam, in the upper
j portion of the county, was returning from the
j field Saturday night on a wagon of cotton
with several other hands. On the way, religI
ious topics were discussed, and the whole
; crowd begau to "experience religion.'' Adam
! became especially enthused and began to
i dance and sing "Glory" on top of the load.
| Hir fervor was so great that he failed to use
i proper precautions against accident, and in
J consequence fell backward to the ground from
the wagon and broke his neck."
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Much damage was inflicted by the storm
which swept over the Wilmington section
last week.
? Mr. Pride Jones, a former citizen of Rock
Hill, has been appointed conductor on the
railroad between Charlotte and Statesville.
? All the persons who were sent to the Albany
penitentiary from .Rutherford county
for ku-kluxing, have been pardoned, except
one?Owens.
? The Charlotte Observer learns that Hon.
Nathaniel Boyden, of Salisbury, is lying very
ill at Saltville, Va., and'that his death is
looked for momentarily.
? Work on the United States Government
building at Raleigh?Court House and Postoffice?has
been suspended by order of the
authorities at Washington.
? Reports from the eastern part of the State
represent that the damage to the cotton crop
by the rust, wet weather and caterpillar, is
greater than was at first apprehended.
? The Wilmington Journal has seen a specimen
of vegetable wool, grown on a plantation
near that city. It bears a close resemblance
to lambs' wool, the fibre is very fine,
and will manufacture a beautiful fabric.
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cotton farmers of North Carolina are seriously
injured by the financial disaster that has
fallen so heavily upon the northern cities.
Prices are not only depressed, but there is no
demand for the staple at any price.
? The Hickory Press publishes a very interesting
letter from Vienna, which says the
cotton plant sent from Fayetteville, showing
the bolls fully open, attracted more attention
than any one thing in the exhibition. Specimens
of North Carolina tobacco stood at the
head of the list.
? The rice crop in the Cape Fear section is
larger this year than that of any year since
the war. Formerly the rice fields were very
valuable?commanding from 875 to 8125 per
acre?and only a lack of reliable labor prevents
an extensive production of this valuable
crop.
? Messrs. Suit, Marshall and Cross, of
Prince George county, Maryland, having issued
a challenge to the world for a run of fox
hounds, the amount of wager being 8100,000,
R. G. Sneed,of Granville, has responded, and
professes his readiness for the contest any
time between now and the 1st of January, at
any place within one hundred miles of Washington
city.
? The Hickory Press estimates that the
surplus chicken crop of Catawba would more
than pay the County and State tax for the
current year. The blackberry crop of Burke
would pay the Governor's salary for '73. The
cabbage crop of Watauga would pay for the
Public Printing. The tobacco crop of McDowell
would have paid the expense of the
Legislature during the Senatorial contest,
while the root crop of Mitchell would have
bought up the Legislature of 1868.
? Says the Raleigh News: The two young
ladies who have been giving concerts for the
benefit of the Oxford Orphan Asylum were
very kindly treated in the West. The flattering
compliments, interspersed with poetry,
which some of the young editors in that section
are lavishing upon them, show that the
fair performers touched a chord in their
hearts which vibrates above the music of the
concerts. There is danger if these young
ladies continue in the West much longer, that,
while diminishing the hardships of the inmates
of the Asylum in Oxford, they may
increase the number of inmates of one of the
Asylums in Raleigh.
? Some of our North Carolina exchanges
are publishing as a fact, at which they seem
somewhat elated, that there are seventeen
cotton factories in that State. The truth is?
and we charge our cotemporaries nothing for
the information?there are not less than thirty-six
in operation, and one or two others are
in actual process of erection. One mill on
Catawba river, now running 7000 spindles, is
making the necessary preparation for doubling
that number, and the proprietors of another
mill of large capacity are preparing to
increase their facilities so as to double their
present productions. The fact of the proposed
enlargement of these two mills would indicate
a satisfactory degree of prosperity;
but the further fact, of which we have been
assured, that these investments pay not less
than 20, and in a few instances, 25 per cent,
on the capital stock, would certainly seem to
be proof conclusive that the southern capiI
talists could make no better use of their
money than to employ it in extending and
increasing this important branch of industry.
THE COMING LECTURE.
Editor Enquirer:?I notice that Mr. S. E.
Caughman, Agent of the Palmetto Orphan
Home, is to deliver a lecture in the Associate
Reformed Church at Yorkville, on the evening
of Tuesday, 7th October. I take this occasion
to state that from my personal knowledge,
Mr. Caughmau represents one of the
most humane and promising institutions in
the State. Such au asylum for our orphans
was badly needed ; and it has justly won the
favor of the people. It is fortunately in the
hands of some of the best men in the State.
It is entirely unsectarian in its nature and
operations. Dr. J. W. Parker, President and
Superintendent, is known all over the State
as competent in every way for the important
trust committed to him. He is, indeed, a father
to those helpless children now at the Home.
It is truly pleasant to see the Doctor, after
one of his visits to the Home, his eyes sparkle
with cheerfulness and he looks young again.
There are now children in the Orphan
Home from York, Chester, Lancaster, Kershaw,
Richland, Barnwell, Newberry and
Union ; and applications are steadily coming
in.
The Matron is now assisted by a lady who
taught for several years in the Charleston Orphan
Home; and the children are making
fine progress in their studies.
Mr. Caughman is an earnest friend of the
orphan, and no doubt the people of Yorkville
will be well entertained by attending his lecture
next Tuesday evening. A Columbian.
LOCAL AFFAIRS, j
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation? '
William Caldwell, Applicant?Galbraith
Caldwell, deceased.
J. M. Elliott, Winnsboro, S. C.?Cotton Saw Gins. .
T. M. Dobson A Co.?Panic! Panic!!?Cash, Cash, ,
Cash?Cotton, Cotton, Cotton.
, W. H. A J. P. Horndon?we are the Boys?Not
Buying?Cigars?Cheese to Arrive?Money
Tight? Kveryljody in Trouble?Belting?
Everything?Cotton Down.
E. II. Wallace? For Sale.
; Kennedy, Latimer A Hemphill?Kerosene Oil?
Mackerel.
T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?Iti Bankruptcy?Application
for Discharge?In the
Matter of L. L. Packard, D. W. Moore, B.
IL Bates.
AGRICULTURAL ADDRESS.
On Saturday next, at the Court House in
Yorkville, Col. W. B. Wilson will deliver an
agricultural address. The members of the
several Granges of Patrons of Husbandry in
in this county, and the public generally are
, invited to attend.
SUDDEN*DEATH.
Mrs Moore, wife of Dr. Alexander L.
[ Moore, died near this town, from paralysis, on
1 Monday morning last, after a short illness.
THE CIRCUIT COURT.
The Circuit Court for this county will commence
its sitting at this place on Monday next.
We understand that there are fifty-four cases
on docket No. 1, or cases which are docketed
for trial by a jury; but that probably quite a
number of these will be disposed of without
the intervention of a jury.
MURDER OF J. W. CHEEK.
Information has reached us of the foul murder
of Mr. J. W. Cheek, a respectable and worthy
citizen of this county, who resided six
miles east of Yorkville.
It seems that the murder was committed on
Friday afternoon last, about eight miles from
Dallas, on the road leading to Shelby. Mr.
Cheek had left his home on the Monday previous,
with a two-horse wagon, on a trading
expedition to North Carolina, accompanied
by a hired man calling himself Allen Owens,
formerly from that State, but who had been
in Mr. Cheek's employment about one
mouth. On Friday, Mr. Cheek's wagon was
seen to pass a house about three-fourths of a
mile from where his dead body was subsequently
found. When the wagon passed this
house, Mr. Cheek was observed to be somewhat
under the influence of liquor. In a
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snort wnne auer passing ine uuuse, v/weus returned
to it, bringing the wagon with him,
and stating that he had left Mr. Cheek at a
point up the road in company with some other
wagoners, and that he would be all right?
meaning that he would be sober?by the next
day. Owens remained at the house that
night, and next morning borrowed a saddle,
which he put on one of the horses and rode
off, saying he would return in a short while.
After his departure, suspicion becoming
aroused at his prolonged absence, and perhaps
other suspicious circumstances, an investigation
was made by the man at whose house he
had stopped. Mr Cheek's hat and boots
were found in the wagon stained with blood,
and the clothing which Owens had worn as
the wagon first passed the house was found
spattered with blood in Mr. Cheek's trunk, it
having evidently been exchanged for some of
the murdered man's apparel. This confirmed
suspicions of foul play, and led to an extended
search, resulting in the discovery of the dead
body, three-fourths of a mile distant, concealed
in the woods about fifty yards from the road,
having a pistol wound in the side, and a rope
drawn tightly around the neck. Robbery
was the incentive to the deed. Mr. Cheek's
body was brought home for interment on
Monday, and pursuit has been made for Owens.
BURIAL OF COL. McAFEE.
Col. L. M. McAfee, who died in this place
on Tuesday evening of last week, was buried
with Masonic honors by Philanthropic Lodge,
No. 78, of Yorkville, on Thu. sday morning
last. The remains of the deceased brother
were escorted to the Methodist Church by
members of the Lodge and a concourse of citizens,
and preceding the impressive Masonic
rites of burial, the following funeral discourse
was pronounced by Rev. H. R. Dickson, Pastor
of the Presbyterian Church, which by request
of the Lodge, has been furnished us for
publication:
"But man ilieth and woatrtli away; yea, man glvetii up the
ghoat, and tvlicre In he ?" Job 14: 10.
Every note of the ancient patriarch's doleful
dirge is familiar to our ears, and iinds its sad echo
in our sorrowing hearts. It utters the lament of
man's mournful mind through all the ages over
the desolations of death and the devastations of
the grave. With what a pathetic pertinency does
the dismal strain come home to ourselves. Not a
week ago, while the sympathy of nature was expressed
in weeping skies, we gathered about the
early grave of the gentle and amiable maiden ; and
to-day, under sombre clouds, we are engaged in
the obsequies of one, who though comparatively
a stranger in our society, is well known to us as
the gallant soldier, and the honored and useful
citizen, worn down to death in the prime of manhood
by the resistless ravages of insidious disease.
In whatever shape the Great Destroyer comes?
wliAflior with the swoon of sudden doom, or in
tlio torturingdelay of gradual app.oach?bis work
is terrible and agonizing. What mortal of us may
refuse to be serious in the presence of the ruin he
has wrought, any more than he can hesitate to offer
tenderest sympathy to those his desolating
stroke has called more immediately and acutely
to grieve?
I shall make no apology, as a minister of religion,
for taking advantage of this affecting and
melancholy scene, wi en your minds are solemn
and yo lr sympathies tende.-, to urge upon your
intelligent consideration, my brothers, a few plain
and practical reflections suggested by the text.
For whatever offices the servant of revealed truth
may render at such a time, it is manifest that these
can in no wise affect the dead. His discourse
must contemplate the admonition and consolation
of the living.
"Jfan dieth." This is predicable of each descendant
of Him, whose original transgression
"brought death into the world and all our woe."
Concerning two only of all the race has any different
record been composed. And what is it to die?
Reason tells us that our nature is dual?body and
spirit. The Scriptures, the fountain of infallible
instruction, takeit for granted and perpetually imply
it. God formed man's "body out of the dust
of the ground, and breathed into it a living souL"
Jesus Christ bids us "fear notthem which kill the
body, and are not able to kill the soul." "At
death," says the Royal Preacher, "the dust returns
to the earth as it was, and the spirit unto
God who gave it." Upon both parts of our nature,
the material and immaterial, a mighty change
passes at once in ilie moment of dying. The soul
is severed from its mortal tenement. That spiritual
being, whose affections we were used to refer
to the material heart, whose thoughts and fancies
we attributed to the material brain, is now exist- ;
ing apart from and independent of heart and (
brain. The human soul is a mystery; invisible
beforo death?invisible noiv. We never knew
how it lived in the body, while we could not doubt
the fact it dwelt thero; and now that it is gone, we
cannot tell how its departure was taken. Upon
the more familiar body, the more palpable, the
more affecting change has been wrought. The
heart is there, but it beats no longer; the eye, but
it sees no more; and the best loved voice with its 1
softest and tenderest tones, cannot reach the "dull i
l\nnrintj ita uilnnt". mill.
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and in process of time a little dust scarcely dis- 1
tinguisliable froit the common clay of earth, is ,
all that is left to show where sleeps in the sepulchre,
what was once an active, honored human 1
frame, but what is now of the "clods of tho val- ,
Icy." Spring's daisies cluster over the spot, moss
covers the marble, earth has mingled with earth, I
and dust has returned to dust. How tremendous ,
the question, "If a man die, shall he live again?"
"Man givcth up the ghost, and where is ho?" It .
is a personal, a practical, inquiry. Isubmittoyou
that as concerns the .soul within us?the spirit that 1
reasons and plans and loves atid hopes and fears? 1
it is an instinctive judgment of our nature, that i
death does not suspend it* unresting activity. 1
There is no mortality, no inert slumber, possible |
to tho soul. In the crisis of the crucifixion, Jesus
addressed the spirit of the dying malefactor, who 1
sought salvation at his hands: "To-day, thou j
shalt be with me in Paradise!" Dying Stephen ,
prayed, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit!" "The
beggar died," but yet is active and conscious in
the bosom of the patriarch. Tho rich man makes
his pathetic appeal in conscious agony in Hell, un- <
to tho Father of the Faithful, while his brethren j
were still living in the flesh. The Apostle Paul
declares that "to be at homo in the body is to be I
absent from the Lord." He had, therefore, a de- <
sire "to depart and be with Christ." Into the two
distinct states, the infinitely different places of
Heaven and Hell, which the Scriptures mention
and describe, all human souls in dying, in the
"giving up the ghost," do immediately pass. But
how shall it be as regards the material body when
once it dies? Shall it ever be reanimated? And
to this inquiry, nothing but the revealed truth of
God can give positivo and intelligible response.
Nature isdumb, and philosophy is dumb. Reason,
indeed, may insist that, as through the numerous
vicissitudes in form and material olements,
through which between birth and death bodies
pass, they yet remain the same identifiable frames,
none may philosophically deny what the Scriptures
distinctly teach, that in spite of all the ruin
of tho grave, the body of the resurrection shall bo
in the same sense and to the same degree one with
the body of death, as the body of death is one with
the body of birth. But He who is the Truth, has
pronounced the explicit statement that "the hour
is coming when all that are in the graves shall
hear tho voice of the Son of God and shall come
forth." It is the declaration of Him who created
us, and by whose authority the life of the body is
summoned away along with the departing spirit.
To die, then, is not to terminate forever our exist- ^
ence as creatures of the living God. And unto
whom, therefore, does it become dwellers in the
region of the shadow of death, denizens of a globe
all honey-combed with graves, to be habitually
and confidingly looking ? Surely unto that Blessed
One, who has abolished death, and brought life
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death makes desolation, "lie can make life and
victory. He is the absolute mastor of the "King
of terrors." By taking away a believer's sin, He
extracts the sting of death; and whether the monster
come suddenly or slow, he is harmless to
horrify or hurt the dying disciple. He makes a
happy heaven sure, and to go and dwell with
Jesus is, by his triumphant grace, esteemed to be
"far better" than to abide in this world of toil and
tribulation and tears! And to the sensitive hearts
that death's hard doom so sorely lacerates, it is the
almighty, gracious voice of "Jesus only," which
can bring substantial comfort. To the weeping,
desolate widow, the consoler of man's lonely
sufferer says, "Weep not. You believe in the
God of the widow; believe also in me,"?the
brother born for human adversity. To the unprotected
orphan he speaks, "In my Father's house
are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for
you." Saith my Father, "I will be a Father to
the fatherless, and ye shall be my sons and daughters."
"I will give my angels charge concerning
Ci, to keep you in all your ways." They shall
r you upward in their strong hands, and camp
carefully afiout your midnight slumbers. Unto ^
Him who is the "Resurrection and the life, the
comforter of Bethany, the Saviour of the world,"
I entreat you all, fellow mortals, fellow sinners,
fellow sufferers, direct the eye of faith and hope.
Though "mail aieth and wasteth away," and the
removal from our immediate converse and com
inunion of the gifted, loving spirits, with whom our
aftectionsin life were so closely bound up, makes
dreadful, irreparable ruin of our earthly joys; yet
Jems lives. His gospel sets a night lamp amid
the shadows of the valley of death, and sows inspiring
gladness in hearts and homes where He
is trusted and adored. "Them that sleep in Him"
a faithful God "will bring with Him," to the coronation
of the King's Son. While to the surviving
mourner, He gives "the oil of joy," and to the
heavy heart the "garment of praise;" so that with
faltering speech we are still ennabled to sing?
"0, happy dead, in Thee that sleep!
While o'er their mouldering dust wo weep,
O, Faithful Saviour who shall come
That dust to ransom from the tomb!
While Thy unerring Word imparts
So rich a cordial to our hearts,
Through tears our triumphs shall be shown
Though round their graves and near our own."
editoriaiTixklings.
Tlie Clieraw and Chester Railroad.
Mr. George W. Earle, the Chief Engineer
of the Cheraw and Chester Narrow
Gauge Railroad, has completed the preliminary
survey of the projected line and submitted
a report to the president and directors of
the road. The length of the road is 89}
miles, and the cost per mile, including rolling
stock, etc., is estimated at $10,084. The following
is a summary of the expenses :
Cost of grading from Chester to Catawba
River, * $ 64,340
Cost of Catawba River Bridge, 33,000
Cost of grading from Catawba River to
Lancaster Court House, 24,644
Cost of grading from Lancaster C. H. to
Lynche's Creek, 45,025
Cost of grading from Lynche's Creek to
Cheraw, 103,901
891 miles Superstructure, 30 lb. rail. 498,193
Depots, Turn-outs, Tu rn-tables, Tanks, &c. 14,972
Equipment, 79,800
Engineering, office expenses and contingencies,..!!!
!. 36,125
$900,000
Cost of grading per mile, $ 3044
Cost of road complete 10,084
A resolution was adopted, instructing the
chief-engineer to commence the "location survey"
between Chester and Lancaster, and directing
the President to put the grading under
contract, between these points, with all ^
convenient despatch.
The President was instructed to collect
from the cash subscribers, '6'6i per cent, upon
the shares on the 1st of November, 1st of
January and the 1st of March ; and a resolution
was adopted requesting the County Commissioners
of Chester, Lancaster and Chesterheld,
to submit to the voters of their respective
counties, a connty subscription of one
hundred thousand dollars.
Trial of Gideon Long.
Gideon Long, charged with the murder
of a negro named Zero Ezell, near Jonesville,
on the 9th of May last, by cutting his
throat, was tried at Union Court House last
week and acquitted. The Union Times in
renortintr the trial, savs :
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It will be remembered that the difficulty between
Mr. Long and Ezell grew out of some
slanderous remarks made by the latter against
the father of Mr. Long. Long went into the
cabin where Ezell was, and as he did not
know him enquired if he was there. Ezell
was either pointed out to him or acknowledged
he was the man. Long told him that
he had heard that he had abused his father,
and said, "if I was sure you said it I would
slap your face." Ezell asked who told him
he said it Mr. Long refused to give his informant's
name. Upon this Ezell very insolently
said, "I did say it now?slap and be
d?d. Long then slapped his face,and Ezell,
immediately went to a bed, and, as Long
thought, got some weapon, and then turned
toward Long again. At this long took up a
piece of bark or a small box and struck at
him but did not hit him.
Some colored men in the room held Long
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gone about five minutes, Long told the other
men that he would go home.
On his way home, aud but a short distance
from the cabin Long saw the shadow of a
man standing at the corner of a fence?it
was moon-light?with a club raised as if to
strike him, and he dodged, but was knocked
down; he rose quickly and saw his assailant
with a knife drawn. Long drew his knife?
an ordinary pocket knife?and thrust it in
his assailant, and then they both clinched?
the left arm of each around the other's body.
In the scuffle Long found his assailant was ^
cutting him in the shoulder and side, evidently
intended to kill him, and he then cut Ezell's
throat. This testimony was corroborated in
every important point. Long showed the
wounds that the deceased had inflicted on
him. Others testified to seeing the blood flow
from Long's wound immediately after the
fray. It did not appear that Long had a
weapon of any kind, except his pocket knife,
and all the witnesses agreed in stating that he
did not act as if he wished to do Ezell any
bodily injury."
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
TEMPERANCE MEETING.
The Sons of Temperance celebrated the
anniversary of their organization, at Armenia
Camp-ground, in Chester county, on Thursday,
25th September. The occasion was one
of the most interesting of the kind ever witnessed
in that county. William Sanders, a
young lawyer lately admitted to practice, was
the chosen orator of the day. His address
was carefully prepared and well delivered.
After this address, the large crowd gathered
it the long table and partook of one of the
Ernest and most abundant dinners it has ever
oeen our pleasure to attend. After dinner
the people returned to the stand and were
iddressed by Mr. Timothy Lipsey, a veteran
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rilman R. Gaines, of Columbia.
It was gratifying to see the evidences of a
lecided reformation in the temperance cause
in that neighborhood. The young people,
both male and female, the middle-aged and i
the old, are l>eing enlisted in the good work.
Progress.