Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, October 09, 1873, Image 2
?>wapsi and Jacts.
A call has been isssued for a National
Colored Convention, to be held in Washington,
I). C., on the 8th of December.
A woman and child in Anglo, New
York, have lived in a hogshead for two months,
being too poor to pay rent.
The Nashville Banner states that exPresident
Johnson's loss by the failure of the
First National Bank iu Washington leaves
him almost penniless.
To cure ear ache, put a little black
pepper in some cotton, dip it in sweet oil aud
insert it iu the ear. This is one of the quickest
remedies known.
A Memphis woman, who didn't want
to mix with common folks, hired a steamboat
at an expense of $500 to take her to a picnic
and return, and no one but herself and
the crew was allowed to go on the boat.
Mrs. Ham, of Canterbury, Mass., who
was reudered speechless by a shock of lightning
in July, 1872, has had her voice restored
by the birth of a child. This is a new way
to cure a hain.
Nebraska's laws impose fines for profane
swearing done by "any person of the
age of fourteen and upwards." Children under
fourteen may blaspheme gratuitously, as
before.
The New York Tribune, in a spirit of
kindly feeling, advises the people of the South
to stop the stealing that is going on. If the
people of the North will keep their carpetbaggers
at home, the stealing in the South
will soon stop.
The continued heavy rain3 have damaged
the cotton crop throughout the entire
lower Rio Grande valley, in Texas. Worms
have appeared on a number of plantations,
doing mnch damage. The lowlands are covered
with several inches of water, stopping the
work of gathering the crop.
Tuesday, October 14, elections will be
held in the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Iowa. Pennsylvania will choose a State
Treasurer and a Supreme Court Judge;
Ohio a Governor and other State officers,
and Iowa a Governor, other State officers
and a Legislature. In Iowa the issue is distinctly
made between the farmers' candidate
and the regular Republicans.
A Polish lady of rank, twenty-seven
years of age, and "a perfect Juno in beauty,"
was recently sentenced to a long term of imprisonment
in Berlin, for indulging in certain
acts of theft. While the prosecution was in
progress she inherited a fortune of 200,000
roubles, and her advocate now moved the
court for her release, in consideration of a
heavy bail. The court, however, refused to
accede to the request.
Apart from the direct effects of the New
York panic upon the finaucial institutions
of other cities, there are some curious consequences
of an indirect nature. The matrimonial
market is reported duller than usual,
and there is less travel on the various railroad
and steam boat lines. At the New York postoffice
it is stated that the sale of postage
stamps has fallen off upward of 82,000 a day
since the commencement of the panic, the
usual sales being S8,000 a day, while they
are now 86,000.
Extract from a Virginian's will : "I
will to my nephew, James Madison M ,
everything I may have after ray just debts
are paid, with condition that after I am buried
he is to have a marble head and foot
stone put to my grave, to be seven feet long
and four inches thick. I want the following
inscription cut on both ends of each slab:
"Henry M , born December 16, 1805;
died . He was a great turkey hunter,
and a tolerably good fiddler. He desired the
above to be placed on this slab. Peace be to
his ashes."
A fatal balloon accident occurred at Wapello,
Iowa, on 25th ultimo, to J. W. Bailey,
a professional aeronaut. The balloon was inflated
with hot air, and left the ground with
Bailey hanging by his hands to a horizontal
bar beneath. Just as it started it took fire
near the mouth, and Bailey did not apparently
notice the fire until he was too high to let
go with safety, but held on until he reached
an altitude of twelve hundred or fifteen hundred
feet, when the canvas that held the
hoop from which he was suspended burned
away and he fell, reaching the earth a quarter
of a mile from the point of starting. His
body was frightfully mangled, and his legs
were driven into the hard ground up to his
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An impromtu wedding recently occurred
in Missouri, the details of which show a
commendable desire on the part of the bride
and bridegroom to get on in the world, if
there is not that strict observance of the conventionalities
which are usually regarded as
so essential to a wedding ceremony. The
betrothed couple chanced to be guests at
a birthday party. Recorder Theis was also
present, and as soon as he saw the young couple
come in, with an eye to business, he suggested
that if any body was present who
wished to be married he was at their service.
The young couple at once took the
hint. The young mau was willing, but the
maiden was backward and would not consent.
The recorder then resorted to a little
diplomacy, aud offered to give a handsome
cook stove to any couple that he should marry
that night. The proposition delighted the
company, and others began offering presents.
One promised a nice bureau, another a spring
mattress, another a rocking chair, another a
breakfast set, another some bronzes, another
a clock, and so on until the presents amounted
in value to a handsome sum, the young
couple meanwhile blushing and hardly knowing
what to say or do. Several friends of
the young lady got around her, and told her
she would not again have such a favorable
opportunity to make start in the world, aud
just as the party was breaking up she repented,
and the wedding was had forthwith.
The company stood still, iu hats and bonnets,
while the recorder, in solemn aud impressive
manner, pronounced the happy couple man
and wife, to the instense delight aud satisfaction
of all present.
Passengers on a Shreveport steamer,
which reached, New Orleans on the 17th, describe
the pestilence and destititution in that
town as frightful beyond all telegraphed reports.
Fully one-half of the 5,000 or 6,000
inhabitants had fled in every direction, many
of them only to die on reaching a place of apparent
refuge. The sickness was the Mexican
voinito, aud had been brought to the town
by the Trans-Atlantic Circus, a strolling company
from Vera Cruz, which had traveled
along the line of the Texas Pacific Railway,
and had left the seeds of the contagion
along their route. Two other causes, in the
opinion of the citizens, aided to intensify the
malignant and fatal character of the pestileuce,
and these were the unhealthy condition
of the town, arising from the removal of
Uio T-tod Riupr rnfY and the infected atmos
phere, caused by the stench of dead cattle
upon a sunken steamboat, the Ruby, which
lies in the river near the town. While the
circus was in Shreveport several of the members
died of the disease, and after it left others
of the company who remained also per-!
ished. So fatal is the fever that but few
who were attacked recover. Three days
is generally the longest limit of the sickness,
and many die in forty-eight hours' time. The
poorer classes were the first to suffer, but it
has now spread through all ranks of society,
and many prominent people have died. In
some cases whole families have been swept
away. The first case of vomito occurred on
August 30, when a Mrs. Stoner died ; then a
gentleman who had nursed her was prostrated
and died in his turn. Following these were
the cases of three men who came to Shreveport
from the raft in the Red River, where
they had been working. They were all three
taken sick with the vomito and died. These
deaths caused a panic, and the deaths followed
thereafter with frightful rapidity.
Tim negroes had generally escaped the pestilence,
but the quadroon element had suffer
ed. The town, with its deserted streets, wears
i a gloomy appearance, and so many have gone
away that there is barely enough left to bury
! the dead. The blacks are frightened and demoralized,
and it is difficult to hire them to
nurse the patients. As a general rule, the
! digging of the graves is performed by the old
i men of the town.
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YORKVILI.E, S. C.:
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CHESTER AND LENOIR RAILROAD.
A recent issue of the Charlotte Observer attempts
to convince the people of York county
that they are not now in a proper condition
for an extension of their railroad facilities,
and that to build the contemplated Chester
and Lenoir road, even partially by taxation,
would prove a grievous burden, not only to
the county of York, but to others who may
be called upon to aid, or are interested in the
construction of the road.
The self-assumed wisdom and importance of
some persons is well nigh past all understanding.
We believe it is the King of Dahomey,
who, after eating his dinner, causes a horn to
be sounded, which is a signal that the great
King having dined, all the rest of the world
is at liberty to go and do likewise. In the
matter of volunteering gratuitous advice
where it is neither needed nor wanted, and in
officiously advancing opinions upon a subject
in which it has not the least concern, the Observer
reminds us of the aforementioned king,
whose self-importance it successfully emulates,
even though it be done at the risk of the same
disaster which befel the frog when attempting
to assume the proportions of the ox.
The Observer admits that this road would
be valuable to the citizens of Yorkville and
Chester. Would no others be benefitted?
Would not the entire counties of York and
Chester be benefitted in greater ratio than
simply the towns mentioned ? And if Yorkville
and Chester are the natural outlets for
the productions of the Catawba valley, is it
not of equal importance to the Catawba valley
that the proposed road be built, thus affording
the people of that section increased facilities
for reaching a market ? But perhaps
the people of the Catawba valley, who, generation
after generation, have sold their productions
to South Carolina purchasers, have
committed a grave blunder in the selection of
their customers, and it was altogether wrong
to seek a market in this direction. A late issue
of the Observer intimated as much, when
it mildly suggested that "Charlotte, and not
Chester, is the proper market for the productions
of the Catawba valley." This, we opine,
is the "dead fly in the ointment" at which the
Observer is so much distressed, and furnishes
the key to its opposition to the proposed manner
of building the road, while it fully explains
the kind admonitions and disinterested
counsel which that paper so lavishly bestows.
The Observer would deprive the people of
the Catawba valley of the market of their
choice, and which naturally presents itself,
and drive them to a factitious market with all
they have to sell. If Charlotte is the natural
outlet for the Catawba valley, how thankful
should those people be to the superior wisdom
of the Observer in making the discovery, and
how deplorable will the fact appear to those
who have been so long groping in the dark!
The Observer's assertion that the County
Commissioners of York are attempting to force
people of the couuty to pay a heavy subscription
to the road against their will, is
wholly presumptuous. The Commissioners,
as well as the most ardent friends of the enterprise,
are anxious for a judicial decision in
the premises. On this point, we repeat our
own position, that if the subscription is illegal
and was made without warrant of authority,
let the act of the Commissioners be abrogated
and set aside by the Courts. We would
not in the columns of the Enquirer knowingly
endorse a wrongful or illegal official
act, however great might be the boon it would
confer. Nor, to our knowledge, does any advocateof
the proposed road,in thecounty, wish
to secure its completion by unfair or illegal
means. The Commissioners who made the
subscription, await the decision of the Courts
with no less interest than the opponents of the
measure, and none, we are assured, will abide
that decision more cheerfully than they.
Who are the oppressed tax-payers, against
whose will the tax is levied, and for whom the
Observer has such deep commiseration ? The
total assessments of the real estate of York
county amount to S3,090,509. Of this amount
the assessment in the town of Yorkville, on
real estate alone, is $306,767, or a sum equal
to one-tenth of the real estate assessments of
the entire county. The assessment in the
i township, including the town (only on real
estate) is $694,819, or more than one-fifth of
all the assessments of the county. From none
of those who are called upon to pay more
than one-fifth of the taxes of the county have
we ever heard a single word about oppression;
and besides the aggregate amount, the town!
ship includes some of the largest individual
j tax-payers in thecounty. We are unable, at
! this time, to procure the assessments on per
' sonal property; but could we obtain the acj
curate figures the showing would be still more
I favorable for this township.
Besides York, the proposed road will run
j through Bethesda and Bethel townships. Added
to the assessments of York, we have in
the three townships an assessment of $1,275,:
446?an amount considerably more than onethird
of the total assessments of the entire
county. From neither of these townships,
paying more than one-third of the taxes of the
county, have wc heard the cry of oppression
and tyranny, so distressing to the Observer,
and we feel warranted in believing that but
little, if any opposition comes from that source.
In other sections of the county there are uurabers
of heavy tax-payers whom we know to
favor the subscription. Hence it cannot be
truthfully charged that the veovle of the coun
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ty are opposed to the subscription, or that
there is unanimity of hostility to it.
The Observer further says that if the question
of subscription was submitted to the people,
it is almost certain that it would be voted
down. Upon what grounds the Observer founds
this conclusion we do not know. No doubt it
takes the vote on the Air-Line road asa preceding
example. The vote in this county, was, by
a small majority, declared to be against the
subscription ; but the manner in which the
majority was obtained has been regarded with
some dubiousness. The vote, as returned from
some precincts, was larger than ever polled by
them before or since ; and the boast was afterwards
made by those who opposed the measure,
that the magnanimous city of Charlotte
furnished a goodly number of the votes which
killed the subscription. What foundation
this boast has in fact we cannot speak advisedly
; but if it is true, we think we can detect a
"dead fly" in the Observer's precious ointment
more potent, even, than its disinterested condolence
with the people on account of "oppressive
taxation." But if taxation for internal
improvemeuts is "oppressive" in one locality,
why is not so in another? No argument
is necessary to prove that a liberal system
of railroads enhances the value of real
estate wherever adopted; and if argument
were required, we could cite the county of
Mecklenburg, of which Charlotte is the county-seat.
That place has no natural advantages
superior to any other inland town of
this State or of North Carolina. Yet by an
enlightened policy of internal improvements,
Charlotte is regarded as one of the most prosperous
towns in the South, while the value of
real estate in the county of Mecklenburg has
doubled within the past eight years. And
Mecklenburg county has, since 1868, issued
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of building railroads. We hear of no "oppression"
from that county; but to the contrary
all is prosperity. Must York county be
deprived the benefit of railroad facilities, and
all the advantages to accrue therefrom, simply
because the Charlotte Observer, in the plenitude
of its superior sagacity, has suddenly
discovered that "Charlotte, and not Chester,
is the proper market for the productions of the
Catawba valley ?"
The object of the Observers article is obvious.
It was written with the view to influence
the elections on the question of subscription
in the counties ofNorth Carolina, through
which it is proposed to build the road, and
thus defeat the project, in order that the productions
of the Catawba valley may yet be
diverted to the Charlotte market, regardless
of the interests of the producers of that section
or the wants of purchasers in other localities.
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? J.S.Clark has been appointed a trial
justice for Union county.
?The price of a retail liquor license in Anderson
is six hundred dollars.
? Rev. Griffin C. Johnson, colored, ex-member
of the Legislature from Laurens, died in
that county on the 1st instant.
? The machinery for the Piedmont factory,
near Greenville, has been purchased, and is
expected to arrive from the North shortly.
? There is complaint in the couutry adjacent
to Columbia of too little work and too
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nuicn mimia uruuug.
? The total expenses of running the Abbeville
county government, last year, were $42,524
80. The debt of the county is $40,179.23.
? Kirkland L. Gunn, of York county, who
figured as one of the principal witnesses in
the ku-klux trials, has been appointed to a
position in the Charleston Custom House.
? Mr. John Kershaw has sold his interest
in the Camden Journal to Messrs. W. D. Trantham
and J. T. Hay. Gen. J. B. Kershaw,
who has been the editor of the Journal for
some time, has severed his connection with it.
? The suspension of the Laurens Branch of
the Citizen's Savings bank is announced. The
Herald says that "the bank is perfectly solvent
and the suspension will only be temporary."
? Col. T. B. Jeter, the superintendent of
the Spartanburg and Union Railroad has resigned.
Upon retiring, the employes of the
road presented him with a handsome saddle
and bridle.
? Senator Patterson arrived in Columbia
from the North last week. The Union-Herald
says it is understood that he will remain
in Columbia until the opening of the next
session of Congress.
? A meeting of merchants and planters was
held in Columbia on Friday last, the object
being to form a general organization for the
purpose of shipping cotton direct to Europe,
instead of to the cities North. The matter
was favorably considered, and further action
will doubtless be taken.
? The Chester Reporter of last week, mentions
the following deaths in that county:
In the town, James Holden, only son of Jas.
H. Crawford, aged nearly six years ; and from
diptheria, Annie, daughter of George A. Al
j bright, aged four years two months and six
J days. In the county, near Landsford, the
I youngest child of W. P. and Martha N. Fer1
guson, aged three years.
? The Chester Reporter of last week furnishes
the following: "During the argument
of one of the learned counsel of this bar on
| last Friday afternoon, the Presiding Judge
j discovered that Reuben Stroud, a colored
j member of the jury, was taking a little of
i "ua ure's sweet restorer, balmy sleep." He
| ordered a bailiff to awaken him, and proceed'
ded to impose upon him a fine of one dollar.
( His Honor stated to him that the fine was
i made small because his nap was taken during
the argument, saying that he would have
. fiued him at least twenty-five dollars if he
had gone to sleep while the testimony was being
taken."
j ?The Chester Reporter of last week, says:
"On Monday last the railroad agent at this
place received imperative orders from A.
' Pope, Esq., General Freight Agent of the
Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta, and Charlotte,
Columbia & Augusta Railroads, whose
headquarters are at Wilmington, North Caro!
lina, not to receive any cotton for shipment
1 to the North, unless the same was to be shipI
ped either by the Atlantic Coast Line or the
j Inland Air Line. The first of these lines is 1
by the way of Columbia, Wilmington and
j Weldon to Portsmouth ; the latter is via Char- J
; lotte, Goldsboro and Weldon to the same
! point. In obedience to this order, which was '
positive and unqualified, the agent refused to
give receipts for cotton that was placed upon ,
the platform to be forwarded by other routes." j
The effect of the order is to prevent the shipment
of cotton to Charleston.
? The Union-Herald says: "The enterprise
and progress of the colored people in certain
sections of the State are being manifested in
practical ways. They are getting houses of
their own, accumulating property and educating
their children. They are also taking an
i interest in those agencies by which the most
prosperous sections of the country have been
advanced. For instance, in Abbeville they
have organized an agricultural society, purchased
grounds and are going to hold a fair.
The Abbeville Medium says: "The colored
agricultural society is negotiating the purchase
of a tract of land situated on Carlisle's
branch, about one mile from the city, upon
which they intend erecting a comfortable house
and stalls, for the exhibition of "specimens of
progress among the colored race." The ground
will be enclosed, and a race track and every
convenience of a fair ground will be established."
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? A woolen factory is proposed in Asheville,
and subscriptions of atook are being made for
that purpose.
? The Federal Court, Judge Dick presiding,
commenced its sittings in Greensboro
on Monday last.
? Capt. Nat. Atkinson, of Buncombe county,
will have on exhibition one hundred varieties
of apples at the State fair.
? The black lead mines near Raleigh, successfully
worked during the war, are to be
reopened and operated by a company of northern
capitalists.
? The village of Milton has voted a subscription
of 810,000 to the proposed railroad
from that place to Sutherlin's Mill on Dan
river.
? Governor Caldwell has appointed a special
terra of Guilford Superior Court, to convene
on the 8th of December, for the trial of
both civil and criminal cases. Judge Henry
will preside.
? The Sycamore Falls Mill property, on
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purchased by G. W. Swepson, who intends to
erect a cotton factory on the premises at an
early day.
? The Charlotte Observer learns that the
widow of the late Dr. Joseph Ross, of that
county, an aged lady, while laboring under a
temporary fit of insanity, committed suicide
by drowning herself on Friday morning last.
? Hon. A. M. Waddell, of Wilmington,
by a research among old documents and papers,
has collate4 facts going to prove that
the Cape Fear section was settled by Irish
voyagers 500 years before the discovery of
America by Columbus.
? The North Carolina veterans of the Mexican
war are to have a re-union iu Raleigh
on the 15th instant. A permanent organization
will be effected, and delegates elected to
the National Convention which is to meet in
Washington next January for the purpose of
making efforts to secure a pension.
? The three counties of Guilford, Randolph
and Davidson, have reported for the year
ending June 30th, 1873,297 public schools,
in which 12,757 pupils were instructed. A
Teachers' Institute of four weeks was held in
each of these counties last summer, in which
from thirty-seven to one hundred teachers
were instructed.
? A railroad meeting at Troy, Montgomery
county, on the 24th ultimo, in the interest
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Cheraw, is reported as a success. Speeches
were made by D. F. Caldwell, Col. Dockery
and others, and resolutions adopted evincing
a disposition of the people to take hold of thtf
work in earnest.
? David Collins, white, and Alexander
Blalock and Jacob Hood, colored, were tried
in the Superior Court of Johnson county last
week for the murder of Allen Jones, of color.
It was alleged in the trial that the principal,
Collins, was in negotiations with one Parish
for the purchase of an ox which Collins had
concealed, and the deceased knowing that it
was an undue advantage taken of Parish by
j Collins, informed Parish where the ox was
hidden. This, it was charged, led to the perj
petration of the murder, in which Blalock
I and Hood were accessories. The trial, a full
report of which is furnished by the Raleigh
Newa, excited great interest. Collins and
! Blalock were convicted and sentenced to be
hanged on the 15th of November. Hood was
acquitted. An appeal was granted the condemned
men. This is the same case which
has been telegraphed to the press as the "first
ku-klux trial before a State court."
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NEWS OF THE DAY..
? It is said that the yellow fever is raging
at Marshall, Texas.
? Twenty-one deaths from yellow fever occurred
in Memphis on Saturday.
? The Curnraings Car Company, Jersey
City, has suspended, owing to large amounts
due from railroads which cannot be collected.
? The President has requested the Secretary
of War to direct the Commissary General
to send 10,000 rations to Memphis, Tenn., for
the yellow fever sufferers.
? The financial situation in Chicago is improving.
The receipts of currency are heavy,
and there is a much firmer feeling in the
grain market with an advancing tendency in
prices.
? The yellow fever excitement in Montgomery,
Alabama, has abated. Five cases
had appeared, but they are convalescing, and
those who fled the city are returning to their
business.
? An application made by the State authorities
of Oregon for the custody of the Indians
indicted by the grand jury, and now held as
prisoners by the military authorities, has been
refused by the officer in command.
? The Treasury Department is paying persons
who were employed in taking the United
States census in 1860, but who were deprived
| of their money by the breaking out of the
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war. Already so/.uuu nave ueeu pmu 10
such employes in sums ranging from $50 to
$200.
? In Philadelphia, on the 1st instant, before
Judge Cadwallader of the U. S. Circuit
Court, the order granted upon the petition of
Edward Wilson against Jay Cooke & Co., to
show why they should not be adjudicated
bankrupts, was continued for one week, at;
the request of the debtors, and by the consent;
of the petitioners.
? The second attempt to cross the Atlantic J
ocean by the Graphic balloon was made on j
Monday morning last. The telegraph re- j
ports that the ascension was successful; the
balloon taking a due easterly course. It had
as occupants, Professor Donaldson, aeronaut;
G. W. Lunt, boatman ; and Alfred Ford,
journalist.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Extra Session of the Legislature.
The Columbia Union-Herald of Tuea- i
day announces that there will be an extra ;
session of the Legislature called on the 21st j
instant. The following is the paragraph conveying
the information :
"We are authorized by his Excellency the .
Governor to state that the extra session of the I
General Assembly will be called for the 21st |
instant. His proclamation to that effect will :
appear iu a few days, but this announcement;
is made now in order that the members may !
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imve iuii ami umpm uuuuc iu auuugc iui
their departure to the capital."
The Fiuancial Crisis.
The excitement attending the monetary
excitement has about subsided, and business |
seems to be gradually resuming its wonted
channels, though it will doubtless be many
months before an easy feeling of confidence
and security can be fully restored. The stock
and gold gamblers of the money centres were
the first to experience inconveuience, and
many of them, no doubt, sustained heavy
losses as the result of reckless and illegitimate
speculation ; but, as is most generally the
case, the brunt of the shock will fall upon the
laboring and industrial class, from the eifects
of which they canuot so easily recover.
The Cedar Springs Asyliun.
The following is the substance of a letter
addressed by the Superintendent of Education,^
the Superintendent of the Deaf, Dumb
and Blind Asylum, at Cedar Springs, near
Spartanburg Court House:
"The following points relative to the admission
of colored pupils into the institution
will be strictly and rigidly insisted upon:
Colored pupils must not only be admitted into
the institution on application, but an earnest
and faithful effort must be made to induce
such pupils to apply for admission. Such
pupils, when admitted, must be domiciled *in
tVio Qomo hniMinrr mnaf ftt. tliA Sfimp t.ahlfl.
must be taught in the same class-rooms and
by the same teachers, and must receive the
same attention, care and consideration as
white pupils."
All of the officials and teachers of the institution
have resigned, and it is now closed.
We understand that the resignations were
made in consequence of the unwillingness on
the part of the superintendent and teachers
to comply with the requirements of the Superintendent
of Education.
Charleston City Election.
The city election in Charleston, last
week resulted in favor of Cunningham, radical
candidate, over Gen. Wagener, Democrat,
by a majority of 1295. The New and Courier
gives a lengthy account of the manner in
which the election was conducted, characterising
it as a one-sided process and the greatest
burlesque upon the right of popular representation
since the advent of freedom.
The News and Courier charges that the
people were kept in profound ignorance of the
whereabouts of the polling precincts until after
the polls had been opened; that the polls
were clandestinely opened before day-light,
and that the radical voters were compelled to
use lanterns to light them on the way ; and
that at the precincts in the outskirts of the
city the most shameless ballot-box stuffing
was resorted to; while adopted white citizens
who had voted in Charleston for the past twenty
years were required to produce their papers,
of the average colored voter no questions
were asked ; negroes from the adjacent islands
were brought in by the boat-load, and, as the
New charges, voted early and often. The
conservative voters have entered a protest,
which was plansd in the hands of the chairman
of the board of commissioners of elections
before any official publication of the result of
j the electiou had been made.
The Cotton Crop.
I Regarding the last cotton crop, the
| Commercial and, Financial Chronicle of New
York city has compiled the following statis!
tics, to prove that free labor is more effective
in the production of cotton than slave labor.
On the question of the one kind of labor as
against the other, argument at this day is
quite unnecessary. An increase in the production
is admitted ; but the circumstance is
not attributable to the character of the labor.
The Chronicle only looks at results without
considering the means employed. The acreage
under cultivation and the laboring force
have each diminished as compared with previous
years, and the only true solution of the
question is the fact that more attention is giv
en to the cultivation of the soil, and a better
system of tillage is employed. The results,
however, are none the less gratifying. The
Chronicle says:
"The crop of 1872 foots up 3,930,500 bales
of the average weight of 464 pounds each.
Thiscrop has been surpassed only three times,
j viz: in 1870, in 1859, and in 1856, leaving out
the year 1861, of which we have no statistics.
It thus appears that of the four crops known
to have exceeded 3,900,000 bales, two have
been made since the war. Again we find
that the average crop of the six years 1855, to
1860, inclusive, was 3,800,000 bales, while the
average of the three years, 1870 to 1872, inclusive,
is 3,750,000 bales. The crops of 1853
and 1856, were each less than three million
bales. These figures we submit, amply demonstrate
that free labor is quite as effective
as slave labor in the production of cotton. As
the capital of the South increases?and it is
certainly increasing rapidly?we shall probably
have to record a series of cotton crops far
surpassing in bulk those of the ante-war period."
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
Pittsboro, N. C., Oct. 4,1872.
After a silence of more than a fortnight,
your correspondent again has his lines of communication
open, with supplies and baggage
perfectly secure. Leaving the Randleman
Cotton Mills and traveling on a line with
Deep river, the "solitary horseman," if his
animal is sure of foot, may get along tolerably
well; but riding in a vehicle is altogether
a different kind of exercise. The road, parallel
with the rivfer as far as Columbia, is
m UmaIfah V*i! 1 it oanfinn on/1 ia anv.
biuuugil O UltmcU) 1J111J avv/lliwii, UUU ?w ~.:j
thing else than smooth. The aboriginal name
of the river is Sapponah, and I am inclined to
think the translators committed a grave mistake
if they intended that word, rendered into
English, to imply Deep. Rough is evidently
the correct signification, and were any of the
Caraway or Uwharie Indian lexicographers
alive and present, I think they would sustain
me in this opinion.
The ruggedness of surface, however, affords
a great many water-falls of sufficient descent
to propel an uulimited amount of machinery,
and I am told there are not less than twenty
good "8ites"yet unoccupied, at different points
J on the river between the five factories now in
operation. A visit to the Randleman Mills
has already been described. To enter into
details as regards the other cotton factories on
the river would be unnecessary. They differ
from the Randleman only in thostyle of goods
manufactured. That mill runs almost exclusively
on colored goods, while the others confine
themselves to white fabrics. Plaids and
stripes, in addition to extensive appliances for
dyeing, also require a better class of machinery
in the spinning room, while the looms for
figured goods are altogether different from
those used in weaving plain work ; and being
more complicated in their construction, are
proportionately more expensive. The profits
on figured goods, however, are greater and
the demand for them equally good as for
white; yet, notwithstanding these facts, there
are but two establishments in the State making
them.
A novelty at the Franklinville Mills is a
machine for weaving grain sacks. The sack
is woven seamless, and the capacity of the
loom is four hundred three-bushel sacks per
day. They are shipped direct to New York,
where they readily sell for $33 per hundred,
which price afTords a remunerative profit to
the manufacturer. So great is the demand
for this one article that the New York factor
asks for consignments of not less than six
thousand a week. So with the goods made at
nil thn rliffprnnf. mills in the State. There is
a foreign market eager for all, and more, than
can be produced. Neighboring factories in
the South are not rivals with each other. If
there is a spirit of rivalry in the business, it is
the mills of the North with which our own
are successfully contesting.
The fact is being demonstrated every day
that cotton goods of southern manufacture
can he laid down in New York at a lower
price than the same grade of goods can be
placed in the market from a New England
mill. Every advantage is in favor of the
South. There is no freight, or comparatively
none, on the raw material from the producer's
hands to the manufacturer, while it costs
not less thau $10 or 812 to trausport a bale
of cottou from the district in which it is grown
and return it in the shape of manufactured
goods. This item added to the southern manufacturer's
profit, at New England prices for
goods, is a clear gain to that extent over the
profits of northern mills; and then all other
essential expenses are lower, including the
wages of skilled and ordinary operatives. It
may be safe to assume that if the mills of
New England realize a profit of 12 or 15 per
cent, on the capital invested, that the southern
mills can, on their capital stock, earn a
profit, of 20 or 25 per cent. Argument would
seem unnecessary as to the proper channel in
which southern capital should flow. The
true road to southern prosperity and independence
lies in the building of factories to consume
the raw material which grows so bountifully
throughout our favored land ; and if
our capitalists would more generally follow
that road, they would hod in it safe and permanent
investment, redounding not only to
their individual prosperity, but to the thrift,
welfare and importance of their own section.
Those unfamiliar with the facts are no
doubt deterred from giving this subject serious
attention, under the supposition that vast
capital and a retinue of ingenious artisans
are Decessary to a successful conduct of the
business. As to the amount of capital, of
course that would depend upon the extent of
the establishment erected. It may be great
or small. Either of the five mills which I
have visited, was originally built?though
previous to the war?at a cost not exceeding
840,000, in which sum is also included the
cost of neat tenement-houses for operatives
and their families. Exclusive of tenement
buildings, 850,000 would now build and equip
a complete cotton factory with a capacity of
2000 yards per day. This machinery would
do a business that would yield a net profit of
at least 8225 per week, or 811,000 per year.
With larger capital the profits would be in
greater ratio.
As to the operative force, the company
would require an agent or manager. In the
same way that all fiduciaries are chosen, of
course he would be selected with reference
to his competency as a man of business quali
fications and financial skill; for upon fits
management, more than all things else, would
success depend. A foreman each for the
spinning and weaving departments would be
necessary, while a greater part of the labor in
operating the machinery can be performed
by boys and girls. It will thus be seen that
the difficulties in the way of operating a factory
are not so great as at first would appear.
It is a noticeable fact that almost any community
can furnish a score of men competent
to discharge the duties of a bank president,
or an editor, even ; and certainly, while such
talent is plentiful there can be no lack of men
with sufficient ability to conduct the finances
of a cotton mill. As to skilled labor, we have
within our own borders plenty of mechanics,
trained to the business. A factory has just
been completed in this county, on Haw river,
and was inaugurated yesterday with a barbecue
and public speaking. The proprietors
are mechanics, and much of the labor of erecting
the buildings was performed by themselves.
Such industry and perseverance will
tell.
The town from which I write is the countyseat
of Chatham. To reach this place we diverge
somewhat from Deep river, though the
road doesn't improve. An old inhabitant told
me the other day, in the most serious manner,
that he didn't think the roads had been
worked much since the war. As in extenuation
thereof, he said during that period the
people sorter got out of the way of working
the roads and had never took to it again.
In ray peregrinations I notice that the New
York Day Book circulates extensively in certain
neighborhoods, and in those neighborhoods
are invariably found innumerable packs
of worthless hounds and curs. I do not say
that the dogs and that paper are inseparably
connected, but the fact is the same nevertheless.
The Day Book is read, first because it
is cheap, and secondly because it is so independent,
and so disinterested in its wholesome
teachings. The dogs are kept solely for ornament,
as they certainly cannot be useful;
and besides, they are more easily maintained
than sheep or hogs. The happy owner of a
smart hound knows that the animal can make
a living off his more unfortunate neighbor.
So deeply is the instinct of self-preservation
planted in these dogs that they improve every
opportunity for stealing a lunch. Not long
since, a good lady, in anticipation of a visit
from one of the canine tribe, cleared the remains
of the eveniner meal from the table,
andsatdowu in the adjoining room in fancied
security; but behold her astonishment when
the dog punctually entered, bounded upon
the table, and seeing only the lighted candle,
voraciously seized it and made hasty tracks I
in the direction of the straw-stack, which was '
right fornence the barn, and the barn was near I
all the other buildings! The alarm of fire j
was sounded, and a general hue and cry pre-!
vailed. But the excitement was quite unnec- j
essary. The dog had swallowed the caudle?
light and all?and by a strategic movement
returned to the house, and in nosing about j
stuck his head in a pot of boiling coffee, in
turn becoming more highly excited than his
wrathful pursuers. At least that is the way '
the lady of the house accounted for the dog's 1
loss of his eyes by virtue of a hot shower-!
bath.
In the good old days Chatham county produced
largely of cotton and tobacco. The
people were large slave-holders and they dis-1
posed their labor in the manner best calcula
ted to yield large returns for the time being,
regardless of the future. Horse-racing and
cock-fighting were the accomplishments of the
generation just passed away, and the consequence
is thousands of acres of once fertile
lands are now in old fields and gullies. But
Chatham is yet rich in productive lauds and
an industrious population, besides having the
richest iron and coal deposits south of Pennsylvania.
Want of adequate transportation
is the only obstacle to the development of this
vast treasure. Vidocq.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROMMISSISSIPPI.
AfpDrnnv \fiaa fW. 9 1873.
I do not notice a grand rueh of the negroes
to the support of the Alcorn ticket Negroes
are like sheep?they go in gangs, and the
gaug does not set towards Alcorn. Now and
then a squad start out toward him, but when
they see that the whole flock does not come
they pause, turn around, and go back, just as
you have observed sheep do a hundred times.
The negro vote of Mississippi cannot be split.
Ham Carter, an influential but windy politician
of color, came out for Alcorn the day of
the nomination, and now he says he don't
know who he is for, which is equivalent to
saying that he is for "Ames.
The solid column of negroes cannot be broken
into. If Alcorn gets any at all, he gets
the whole concern. Divided they will not be.
It is lamentable that this is true; for a large,
overshadowing, indivisible black party is not
good for any State.
The Alcorn men point with satisfaction to
several counties where the negroes are "split
up" as between Ames and Alcorn ; but I do
not imagine that the split is so deep but what
it will be healed before election.
To be sure the Alcorn ticket contains the
names of two negro men for important offices;
but the bait is not likely to take. It has
been tried before. A Democratic hook cannot
be baited with a negro so but what its
original shape will appear and the purpose be
known. A nigger can see a nigger in the
wood-pile as well as a white man.
The Democracy are so anxious to beat
Ames that they are willing to lay their principles
on the shelf, so far as they may be said
to have any, in order to accomplish it To
pacify the negroes they disband the Democratic
party and support Alcorn, a chief Radical.
In this way they hope to win black votes
enough to accomplish the object, although
they will not likely succeed for reasons before
given.
The anxiety to beat Ames amounts to a
passion among the whites. They endorse
Grant, subscribe to Republican principles,
hob-nob with the negroes?anything to defeat
Ben Butler's son-in-law.
It was gravely proposed, before the disaffection
of Alcorn, to put an entirely black
ticket in the field against Ames, and try to
beat him in that way. The ticket was to be
as black as a tar-backet, from top to bottom.
It was thought that such a gorgeous and glittering
mark would call off the negroes from
Ames; but I doubt it. That man has such a
hold upon their affections that he is a fixture
in Mississippi politics so long as be chooses to
be. Having been Provisional Governor, and
elected to the Senate for six years, and knowing
the antipathy of the white people and taxpayers
to him, it would be the part of good
taste in General Ames to at least get through
with one office before he clutches for another.
But we must not look for a display of good
loale iu a luau who complacently votes five
thousand dollars of other people's money into
his pocket Such men will bear watching,
whether in Mississippi or Massachusetts.
Alcorn is as deep in the mud as Ames is in
the mire, he having also given his vote and
influence in furtherance of the great stea1.
The condition of Mississippi is sad, iudeed,
when she is so bound hand and foot and at
the mercy of rascality and ignorance that her
most available candidates for gubernatorial
honors are two back pay grabbers.
The Attorney-General has come out in an
opinion about a mile long, in which he decides
that there can be no constitutional election
held this year. It seems that the constitution
says one thing and the statutes
another. The law-making tinkers have fooled
with them so much that it would take a Philadelphia
lawyer to unravel the knot You may
laugh that the discovery that no legal election
can be held this year was not made until both
tickets were in the field ; but such is the melanoholv
fact. Of course Gov. Powers and
J ?
the other powers that be, are glad that there
is a possibility of staving off the election another
year, for it gives them twelve months more
of place; but the people are aroused, they
want an election and will be apt to have it
whether it is legal or not. Afterward the
Courts can decide these matters. At present
it would appear that no attention will be paid
to the Attorney-General's opinion, and the
campaign will go on.
It is already very lively. Every day Ames
and Alcorn are on the stump in different portions
of the State, talking to the dear people
about the evils that will pile in upon us if the
other is elected. I understand that they have
agreed upon a joint canvass, and will lock
horns together after this week.
Ames is no match for Alcorn, and will be
a badly used up man before he gets through
with it. The little general is an orator of the
Sunday.-School order?he can say his piece
very well when not interrupted ; but when it
comes to answers, rejoinders and sir-rejoinders,
charges, counter-charges and repartee, and all
that sort of thing, Ames will be as mushy as
clay in tbe bands ot the robust iJiississippian.
He will be placed on the defensive and have
to defend his ticket, which is a hard job. His
ticket is mean. It is not respectable. Gibbs,
candidate for Auditor of public accounts, is a
bad egg. Ames himself has charged him with
being a thief, and now he must defend him !
The candidate for Lieutenant-governor is a
negro named Davis, who was formerly a barber
in Memphis. He was a good barber, but
that is no sign that he will make a good Governor,
for Governor he will be if the Ames
ticket prevails, as Ames' term in the Senate
doesnot expire until 1875. All the judiciary
are to be appointed within the next four years,
and the likelihood that a Memphis barber
may have it to do is not a pleasant picture for
the Misssissippians to contemplate. They call
lustily for the shades of all their great men to
protect them; but I fail to see what good the
shades of dead men can do when there is twenty-five
thousand negw^fnajority, all alive and
healthy.
Another negro on the Ames ticket is T. W.
Cardoza. He is charged with once having
been an inmate of the Sing-Sing penitentiary ;
but from the known composition of much of
the Radical party in Mississippi, there is nothing
in this to make a fuss about. Besides, the
Radicals deny that auy of their ticket was
ever in the penitentiary, although the general
opinion is that a good deal of it ought to
be. Nemo.
?
? The track of the North Carolina Central
railway has heen.completod to Wadesboro.