Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, November 06, 1873, Image 2
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Of thirty thousand Americans permanently
residing in Paris, twenty-five thousand
are said to he from the South.
The announcement comes from Liverpool
that the Cunard Company are about to
establish a daily line of steamers between that
port and New York.
The knowing oues in New Orleans who
bet upon the cotton crop, are offering wagers,
with few takers, that the crop will fall under
2,750,000 bales.
It is aunounced that Mr. James Gordon
Benuett, of the New York Herald, proposes
to fit out an Arctic expedition for the discovery
of the North Pole.
Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, the editress of
Godey's Lady's Boole, i3 eighty-five years old,
and still vigorous in body and in mind. She
has been a widow ever since 1822.
In some of the Western granges, it is
said, their members are pledged not to go law
with each other, but to settle their disputes
i Tk
try ai wiuatiuu, jliiao io uvu ivij vuvvutu^tug
for the lawyers.
The Grange movement in New Englaud
seems to be most popular in Vermont. That
State has 27 granges, Massachusetts has five,
and New Hampshire four. Connecticut and
Rhode Island have none.
It is estimated that there are twenty
thousand working girls out of employment in
New York at the present time, as one of the
results of the depression of all kinds of business,
such as straw sewing, artificial flower
making, and the lighter discriptions of printing
otfice work.
It is stated that nearly all the wire is
constructed and the contract out for a new
cable between England and some point on
Long Island. The capital is ten millions of
dollars and the directory embraces promiuent
English and American capitalists.
According to a writer iu the Popular Science
Monthly, a house should be so placed that
the direct rays of the sun have free admission
into the living apartments, because the sun's
lays impart a healthy and invigorating quality
to the air, and stimulate the vitality of human
beings as they do those of plants, and without
sunlight, human beings, as well as plants,
would sicken and die. The aspect, therefore,
should be southeast.
Oil City, Penu., is probably the only
town North of the traditional Mason and
Dixon line, the Chief Magistrate of which is a
colored man. The charter of Oil City provides
that the Councilman elected by the largest
number of votes shall be the successor of
the Mayor, provided the latter dies or resigns
during the term for which he was chosen.
At tne last uu lAty election, a coiorea man
was nominated as a Councilman, and was
voted for by both parties as a joke. The
Mayor has just resigned, and the result of
this little joke has been the accession of the
colored Councilman to the Mayoralty. ?So
far, he seems to have given satisfaction.
A Paris correspondent writes: "A
man named Escapard died a few days ago,
about whom a curious history is related. In
1813 he was convicted of the murder of a
nurse in the little Republic of Andorra. It
was the first murder ever committed in that
happy valley and the grand council ordered
an estimate to be made of the expenses of
hanging the culprit, which amounted for
cords, gibbet, coffin and burial, to sixty-eight
francs and forty centimes. THe council found
they had noanthority for the expenditure, and
no one wished to get up a subscription to hang
a man. Escapard was hence conducted to
the frontier of the republic, and informed he
was at liberty 'to go and be hanged elsewhere.'
lie found his way to Paris, and lived as a
carver in metals under the name of Benoit."
They are eclipsing the government at
Chicago in putting silver coin in circulation.
The Chicago Tribune of Saturday announces
that at least one bank in that city is paying
out silver at par on checks of its depositors
in all cases where the request for silver is
made. The First National Bank of Chicago
received on Saturday from the United States
Mint at Philadelphia, the sum of thirty-two
thousand dollars in silver half dollars, this
being the first installment of coin received in
return for a shipment of eighty thousand dollars
silver bullion made by the bank to the
mint last week. Other remittances of half
dollars will be received from the mint from
time to time, and unless the currency price of
gold should go up (in other words, uuless the
gold value of greenbacks should decline
again below the gold value of silver half dol
, ,
lars) this silver will be steadily paid out on
checks at par with greenbacks. The bullion
from which it was coined was from one of the
smelting and refining works at Chicago,
which is producing about two hundred thou
sand dollars per month, all or which will be
coined for circulation.
The panic lias had the effect to bring
down prices in dry goods as well as in everything
else in New York, and A. T. Stewart
has taken the lead in marking down prices.
The Commercial Advertiser says: "This firm
has marked down first-class goods of all
kinds at astonishing low figures. Money
must be circulated. There is enough of it,
hut confidence is wanting. 'Panic prices' in
dry goods is a happy move, and will most
certainly draw the attention of the public.
Mr. Stewart, with his usual shrewdness, seems
to have anticipated the general reduction
which must come, and has marked down the
prices of stock on hand as well as upon that
laid in since the commencement of the crisis.
It was thought it would be some time before
the market would become settled again. Mr.
Stewart, while in Europe, (now returned in
excellent health, we are glad to say,) bought
large quantities of goods at low rates for cash,
and these are arriving in weekly instalments,
and are offered at rates suited to the times.
Silks which sold a few months ago atone dollar
and fifty cents are now put upon the market
at seventy-five cents, and were opened today.
This house foresaw the depression, and
put their stock in a condition to suit the times.
All goods are offered at rates far less tliau
when the financial trouble began."
An English expedition is now being fitted
out preparatory to the search for the
exact location of Mount Sinai, which has for
a long time remained a mystery to the human
race. l)r. Beke, the English geographer and
Absynian explorer, has lately advanced some
views decidedly new in regard to this mount,
which may be pronounced the originating
ground of all legal and civil codes that have
followed, that sor^e farther investigation may
be desirable, if intelligently conducted. He
thinks that it was a volcano situated near the
Arabian Desert, and in this connection he believes
the Israelites passed through the Gulf
<if A rol>io ami nnt thrnncrli thflf. nf SllP7 in
their escape froru bondage. The Biblical
phraseology "of a pillar of cloud by day and
a pillar of fire by night," which directed them
in their journcyings, corresponds with the descriptions
of volcanoes which Oriental historians
and travellers have given since. An African
of the Somali country, who witnessed
the eruption of a volcano on the Abyssiuian
coast in 1801, said that the craters "smoke
in the day time and at night give light like
a lamp." The "thunders of Sinai" can be
accounted for in the same way. There is a
considerable plausibility iu this view, and it
is not unlikely a partially correct oue. If so
it helps rather than hurts the statements of
the Bible by giving them a natural and scientific
basis. Some of the theologians may find
their stock of miracles reduced by this solution,
but where we are governed so largely by
natural laws, it is useless to go outside of them,
when they are competent to explain all seeming
mysteries.
A Hawaii correspondent of the New
York Tribune has visited the leper asylum of
the Sandwich Islands, and gives some interesting
particulars of the dreadful disease
with which the natives are plagued. By a law
of the kingdom every one suspected of leprosy
is sent to the island of Molokai to be forever
secluded. His wife, upon application to
; the proper court, is granted a decree of absolute
divorce, and may marry again ; his estate
is administered upon as though he were
j dead. He is incapable of suing or being
j sued, and his dealings with the world thereI
after are through or with the board of health,
j Until the accession of the present king, lepers
1 were commonly kept in the houses of their
1 families. Now, however, the law demanding
the seclusion of lepers is rigidly enforced.
i There are at this time eight hundred and four
: persons, lepers, in the settlement. Since Jan1
uary, 1865, when the first leper was sent there,
: eleven hundred and eighty have been received,
! and of this number three hundred and seveui
ty-three have died. The proportion of wo|
men to men is small, while there are about
fifty leper children between the ages of six
and thirteen. Lepers are sterile, and no
| children have been born at the asylum.
When a leper is sent to Molokai the government
provides him a house, and he receives
an abundance of food,clothing and other comforts.
There are two churches in the settle,
ment, one protestant and one Catholic, togeth'
er with stores, a post-office and other public
I institutions. Very few sad faces are to be
j seen, and mirth, laughter, and ready service
! and pleasant looks are to be seen all around.
jllte ?0tMIc fljttquim.
YORKVILLE, S. C.:
! THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 6. 1873,
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"CHARLOTTE, AND NOT CHESTER," AC.
Day after day, in its several issues of last
week, the Charlotte Observer discharged its
broadsides, firing promiscuously, first at the
Chester aud Lenoir Railroad and then at the
1 Yorkville Enquirer. The Observer is dogj
matical and categorical, and, withal, quite
; choleric and phlegmatic?a trifle noisy, too,
and slightly bombastic, with abortive attempts
at wit.
Beginning at the beginning, and in order to
progress progressively, we will first note the
issue of Wednesday. In this, the Observer
takes the position that the Commissioners of
York are attempting to force the people of the
county to pay a tax for the construction of
the road, without their consent and against
their will. In proof of this position the Observer
quotes a sentence from Judge Mackey's
speech in Yorkville on the 7th of April, and
the further fact that four meetings have been
held in the county, protesting against the action
of the Commissioners.
As the Observer correctly charges, the
proprietor of the Enquirer was present at
the meeting and acted as secretary. We
l heard the speech of Judge Mackey, and he
said more upon the subject of the manner of
making a subscription than the Observer seems
disposed to quote from our published report.
Nor were the utterances of Judge Mackey
mandatory upon either the Commissioners or
the people, as the Observer intimates. The
Judge would hardly be so "presumptuous."
His remark about the election, should one be
held, was in a purely subjunctive sense; for
he had previously declared that "The County
Commissioners have the power to subscribe to
this stock. In addition to an act of the Assembly,
in such case made and provided, the charter
of this company gives the County Commissioners
of each county, through which the road passes,
authority to subscribe as much as they may think
properThis was distinctly stated by the
speaker, and the fact that the charter contained
such a provisiou was clearly announced.
The action of the meeting could not be predicated
upon any supposed future course of the
Commissioners, and the resolution offered by
Mr. Thomson?whom we take to be a friend of
the enterprise?could not well have been in any
other shape. Without consulting the Commissioners
as to what they intended to do, the
resolution so read as to express the sentiment
of the meeting to be in favor of the road,
and asking for an opportunity to vote upon
the question of subscription. There was nothiug
else for the meeting to do.
As secretary of the meeting, when we waited
upon the Commissioners to give them
formal notice of the action taken, and they informed
us that, as by the provision of the
charter they felt themselves authorized to
make a subscription without ordering an
election, we did not, in an editorial or any
other capacity, deem it incumbent upon ourself
to protest against the action, supposing,
as we do yet believe, that they were acting
i under authority granted them by the Gene;
ral Assembly of the State. As well might
; we have protested against a unanimous vote
: of the people, whose privilege to vote would
| have been derived from the same source that
conferred the power upon the County Com:
missioners. If we have failed to condemn
the action of the Commissioners, it is only
! because we do not think they have usurped
j authority, but have acted in accordance with
; the power vested in them by the charter. We
| pursued precisely the same course that we
should have done, had the people of the
| couuty voted unanimously for the subscrip!
tion. Upon the supposition that the Commis,
sioners were fully authorized to make the
! subscription, and in so doing were only comj
plying with the provisions of the charter, we
' deemed the act as binding as if it had been
j by a vote of the people, granting that the
! charter authorized such an election, which,
however, we do not admit. Had the subscription
been rejected by the Commissioners, we
should have had no more condemnation for
them in pursuing that course than we should
; have had for the people, had they rejected
the subscription at the ballot-box. Either
act we place upon the same footiug.
Alluding to the four meetings which have
j protested against the action of the Couuty
Commissioners,siugularly euough the Observer
fails to inform its readers that three of the
meetings were held by people living immediately
on and enjoying the advantages of railroad
liuos?Fort Mill and Rock Ilill, on the
|
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
and Black's Station on the Air-Line?while
, the fourth, held at Coates' Tavern, was by
those living contiguous to the former road,
and deriving from it the same advantages as
the people of Rock Hill. But we deny that
these four meetings express the full sense and
feeling of the whole people of the county,
j According to the last election returns there
i are, in the county 3772 voters. Of these,
there are atCoates' Tavern, 113; Fort Mill,
308; Boydton, (the Black's Station section)
j 165; and Rock Hill, 785?making a total of
1371 voters at those places. Granting that
there is unanimity of feeling with all these
voters, which is a doubtful proposition, there
are still 2401 voters in the county who have
failed to enter a protest. Even in the matter
i ofindignation meetings, upon which the Obseiner
so confidently relies, it will be seen that
so far as the action of the people is concerned?
and that is the criterion established by the
Observer?there is in thecouutya majority of
2401 voters who do not protest against the
subscription, and consequently, by their silence
endorse it.
None of the meetings have ever expressed
aught against the road. With the participants,
as with the Observer, it would doubtless
be a "good thing," but for the "principle"
involved in the manner of making the subscription.
Well, we admit that the people
should sacredly guard their rights, and we
charge no sinister motives; but it is a singular
circumstance that the stickling for "principle"
in this particular instance is confined exclusively
to sections immediately on lines of railroad,
and is echoed only by the Observer,
which claims that "Charlotte, and not Chester,
is the proper market for the productions of
the Catawba valley."
We have thus noticed a few of the Observer's
objections, and in order to meet further statements
made by that paper, will refer to the
subject again.
THE FINANCIAL PANIC.
Notwithstanding the many assurances we
have had from financiers at the money centres,
and many of the influential papers of the
country, that the worst features of the pauic
had long since been over, we fear that from
present indications the worst has not yet been
realized. The strongest and wealthiest firms
of the country are failing and reported to be
failing; mills, factories and workshops are
closing, or working on short time and at reduced
wages; and all transactions are conducted
with a caution which plainly indicates
a want of confidence, if not a degree of mistrust.
This is not a healthy sign, nor is it the
part of wisdom to disguise the truth. It has
already been seen that one heavy failure in
New York has affected every branch of business
and iudustry throughout the entire coun
try; and as failures of wealthy firms and suspension
of work in extensive factories continue,
so must the consequent stringency caused
thereby be felt by all classes. Our own section
is exclusively an agricultural country;
but the low price and slight demand for our
staple production is already working serious
inconvenience, if not hardship. If our farmers
had full granaries the case would be different.
Then their surplus of cotton would
be as so much gold ; but, unfortunately, cotton
is not a healthy article of diet, and much of
the present crop, we fear, will have to be sacrificed
to purchase food for man and beast.
The cause and cure of the impending evil we
do not attempt to argue here. We deem it
only necessary to point out the facts and give
our opinion as based upon events transpiring
daily. With all the facts before us, to lull
ourselves into faucied security is not the part
of wisdom, while it behooves all to look the
danger squarely in the face and take precautions
against the worst. Even could public
confidence be restored to-day, and business at
once resume its wonted channels, the evil already
done would cause hard times through
the entire winter.
mm wivts
There arc in York county, in round uumbers,
twenty-four thousand inhabitants.
Twelve thousand of this number are females,
one-third of the remainder children. The females,
only in a few isolated cases, do not labor
in tin field. The children, from age, are
incapacitated for such labor. Of the remaining
eight thousand, two hundred and fifty are
engaged in merchandizing, mechanics and the
learned professions. How many gentlemen
of leisure there are, it is difficult to say. Perhaps
there are a thousand who have no visible
means of making a livelihood. This leaves
six thousand seven hundred and fifty to support
the whole.
In York county there are, in round numbers,
four hundred thousand acres of land.
One hundred thousand acres are cultivated,
and the remaining three hundred thousand
acres are not in a state of actual cultivation.
The fourth of the land in the county is practically
valueless. From it no income what
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ever is received, ana me oniy use me owners
make of it is that it is so much dead capital
upon which they are called upon annually to
pay a tax.
In York county there is water power sufficient
to manufacture at least twenty thousand
bales of cotton. This is more than three
times as much cotton as is annually produced
iu the county.
There are several mines of iron ore, at least
one copper mine, and in several places gold
is found. There are several quarries of fine
building stone. In view of the above stated
facts, it is easy to say what our wants are.
We need twenty thousand more good industrious
farmers to bring into cultivation the
three hundred thousand acres of land that is
at present lying idle. We need at least enough
of machinery and a sufficient number of men
| to manufacture six thousand bales of cotton?
j the number of bales annually produced in the
j county. We need a sufficient number of
I miners to develop the mineral resources of the
J county. Last, but not least amongst our
pressing wants, we want to swap a thousand
idlers for five hundred good laboring men and
i women.
? ?
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
: ? The debt of Kershaw county, is 814,013.
i ? An attempt will be made to secure an appropriatiou
from Congress to build a navy
? ? n Pnvf T? AVQ 1
JillU at 1 Ulb lvuj Ui.
, ? The Reporter of last week mentions the
death of Leroy J. Stroud, who resided six
miles below Chester.
? II. L. Goss has been elected Intendant of
the town of Union, to supply the vacancy ocI
casioned by the death of W. C. Harris.
? Governor Moses has appointed J. W.
; Talley a trial justice for Uuion county, vice
William Jofferies removed.
I ?The sitting of the Supreme Court commenced
iu Columbia on Wednesday of last
week.
! ?Sheriff B. G. Yocum, of Chester, was recently
married in New York, to Miss Emilie
F. Evans of that city.
? The valuation of the real estate in Columbia
is S3,745,870; personal property $2,1162,808.
? Benjamin F. Michael, colored, has been
, appointed County Auditor for Chester, in
place of J. M. Brawley, removed,
i ? E. W. Everson, Esq., formerly one of the
editors of the Union-Herald, has been elected
librarian of the South Carolina Uuivcrsity.
.* ?The Union Times reports that the kuklux
cases which were docketed in the Circuit
Court of Spartanburg county for trial,
' have been dismissed.
I ? The grand jury of Marion have presented
twenty-eight persons in that county for re-!
tailing liquors contrary to law. The har j
rooms in the town of Marion have all been J
closed.
? Senator Cain, of Edgefield ; Rcpresenta- j
tive Boston, of Newberry; Representative
Simpkins, of Edgefield, all colored, and Senator
Mclntyre, white, of Colleton, have entered
the law school of the University of South !
Carolina. So says the Union-Herald.
? President Bridgersof the Wilmington and
Augusta railroad, and of the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta railroad, offers, if the j
town of Edgefield and the country interested, j
j will give him thirty thousand dollars, he will j
: place Edgefield in railroad communicatiou j
j with the outside world.
| ?The time for the meeting of the State.
| Baptist Convention has been changed from i
the Thursday before the fourth Sunday in
November, to the Thursday before the fifth ;
Sunday in November. Columbia is the place
of meeting. Arrangements have been made ,
with the various railroad companies leading
to Columbia, to pass delegates for one fare.
? At a meeting of the trustees of the Uni- j
versity of South Carolina, last week, Dr.
Richard T. Greener was elected to the chair !
of Mental and Moral Philosophy, made vacant
by the resignation of Professor LaBorde.
Professor Greener is a northern man. Dr. R.
Vamphill, of Marion, was elected to fill the
vacancy in the chair of Modern Languages,
made vacant by the resignation of Professor j
Faber.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The difficulty between the Southern Express
and the Western North Carolina Railroad
has been adjusted, and the Express will
again carry freights over the road.
? Wilmington now has direct trade with
Liverpool. Eleven vessels are engaged in
the trade, with prospects of an increase in the
number.
? The Greensboro Patriot says that Deputy
Marshal Bosher, last week, captured $75,000
in counterfeit $2.50 gold pieces from a dealer
in the metal in Chatham county.
? An official statement shows the indebtedness
of North Carolina to be $38,018,969.85,
nearly thirty millions of which have been contracted
since the close of the war.
? A daily mail has been established on the
railroad between Greensboro and salera. The
horse mail between those places, as also the
mail route between High Point and Salem,
will be discontinued.
? An election will be held on next Thursday,
the 13th instant, in Catawba county, on
the question of a county subscription of fifty
thousand dollars to the capital stock of the
Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad.
? Robert C. Miller, of Caldwell county,
died in the luuatic asylum at Raleigh last
week. He at one time represented Burke
and Caldwell counties, in the Legislature, and
was a prominent man of his section. Financial
embarrassments led to the derangement
his mind two years ago.
? Captain Morrison, a conductor on the
Carolina Central railway, while riding on the
road in a crank-car a few nights ago, collided
with another and was so seriously injured that
the physicians say the only chance to save his
life is by the amputation of both legs. This
he refuses to have done, and they can only
make him comfortable and await the result.
? During the session of the Federal Court
at Statesville last week, says the Hickory
Press, Judge Dick stated from the bench that
he had received information, from sources entirely
reliable, that not less than fifty illicit
distilleries were then in operation in Gaston
county, and that United States Commissioners
and Deputy Marshals were iuterested in a |
number of them.
? At a preliminary examination before a
United States Commissioner in Greensboro
on the 30th ultimo, Jos. Gray, W. R. Blackwelder,
and Edward and Daniel Like, arrested
at Concord on the charge of counterfeiting,
were required to give bail in $5000 each.
In default of bail Blackwelder was committed
to jail. Bryant, arrested in Charlotte, was
also committed to jail in default of bail. P.
C. Black, of Rockingham county, previously
bailed, was reexamined and discharged.
NEWS OF*THE DAY.
? Twenty thousand working girls have been
ousted from different factories in New York
city.
? Ten thousand hands employed in the different
print works around Poughkeepsie, N.
Y., have been discharged.
? The business part of the town of Americus,
Georgia, was burnt one night last week.
Loss over $100,000.
? Two men froze to death near Kidder,
forty miles east of St. Joseph, Mo., on Monday
night of last week.
? Phelps, the defaulting cashier of the New
York State treasury, nas neen commuted to
jail in default of $15,000 bail.
? Theodore Tilton has been expelled from
the Plymouth church for refusing to testify
in the Beecher scandal.
? Advices from Fort Richardson, Texas,
report that the Indians in that region are
very hostile and threatening. Murders have
been committed, and an entire family butchered.
Settlere are fleeing to save their lives.
? The trial of Stokes, the murderer of Fisk,
has at length been concluded. The jury returned
a verdict of manslaughter in the third
degree, and he was sentenced to the extreme
penalty of the law?four years' imprisonment
at hard labor in the penitentiary.
? Collections of internal revenue the past
month show a falling off of two and a half
millions as compared with the month previous.
The commissioner of revenue will delay preparing
a report until the full effect of the
panic is developed.
? Torn Scott has returned from Europe,
and confirms the report of his having effected
a loan of $10,000,000 for the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. He likewise perfected
arrangements for continuing work on the
Texas and Pacific Railroad.
? The failures of Hoyt, Sprague & Co., of
New York, and the firm of A. & W. Sprague,
of Providence, Rhode Island, are reported.
The restoration of confidence supposed to
have been previously going on, has received
a check by these events which had been quite
unlooked for.
? Cotton mills in Massachusetts, to the nurn!
ber of thirty-seven, have determined, from and j
! after Tuesday last, to run only four days of j
j each week, and but eight hours per day. j
j These mills employ fourteen thousand opera- j
[ tives, and when in full operation their month-1
ly pay-rolls amounting to $450,000.
| ? Five hundred and twenty cases of at-.
: tempts to defraud the United States Treasury
i have been disposed of during the current
{year, and $94,000 recovered. Of this sum
| $41,000 was in cases of colored soldiers. The
! number of accounts adjusted in the auditor's
' office was 48,000, involving the sum of $49,-!
looo.ooo.
' ?A dispatch from Richmond, Indiana,'
dated the 30th ultimo, says a fight with small j
j arras and a six pounder cannon, was then
' progressing in that county, over the location i
of the county-seat and possession of the county
records. By act of the Legislature the
location of the county-seat was changed from
Richmond to Economy.
? In the U. S. Court at Richmond, Va.f
Judge Bond has decided that suits in bank-| <
ruptcy must be governed by the laws existing !
when the proceedings commenced. This de-1
feats, in many instances, the large exemptions j
allowed by the State laws and recent amend- 1
ments to the bankrupt act, as only those ex- |
emptionsare allowed that were in force at the '
time the petition was filed.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Knquirer. ;
LETTER FROM VIRGINIA.
Richmond, Va., Oct. 30. |'
the campaign.
I presume you know that the Old Dominion
is now nutated hv a camnaiirn which is
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peculiar and interesting. No such campaign I
was ever fought within her borders. It is not \
a contest between parties, so much as between
races. The whites call themselves Conservatives,
and the blacks sail under the Republican
flag, of course, for they would not be at home
under any other. In the Conservative or
white party there are no blacks?not one.
There are no inducements held out to the negroes
to join the opposition in Virginia, as in
other Southern States. They are not wanted,
they are not invited ; let them alone, say the
whites, we are strong enough without them ;
let Ephraim remain joined to his idols. And
Ephraim remains. There seems to be cordial
agreement all along the line in this matter ;
the whites do not want the negroes in their
party, and the negroes don't want to go.
While there are no negroes in the white
party there are several thousand whites in the
black party?enough, you know, to assume the
general management, and gobble all the offices.
I suppose the number of whites in the
black party to be between five and seven '
thousand. There are always enough at least
to swoop down on the offices and appropriate
them. For instance, they have the whole 1
State ticket. The empty honors of the party
only go to the negroes. They are expected to '
vote early and often; but when it comes to
parceling out the spoils they must stand back 1
on account of "prejudice." A negro was called
upon to preside at the State convention which I
nominated Hughes, but not one was mentioned
in connection with a place on the ticket.
THE CANDIDATES.
t> t?nr tt.._i? il. r>..j: i
XVODeri >V . XlUgllUS, W1C IViluiutll vnnuiuatc,
is an able man, but his record is as crooked ;
as a pumpkin vine running over a brush-heap.
At one time and another of his natural life he
has been on every side of every question.
During the war he was an editor on the
Examiner, a fiercely rebel sheet?the fiercest,
perhaps, within the limits of the Confederacy.
Mr. Hughes' opinion of the negro seems to
have undergone a change within the past few
years. Hughes vs. Hughes makes interesting
readingjust now. When editor of the Examiner
he said : "The unfitness of the negro
race for the enjoyment of freedom and their
incapacity for the task of self-government,
was exhibited in the experience of the British
West Indies and the bloody example of Hayti.
Incapable of providing for their own welfare
and sustenance when left to themselves, far
less of contributing to the general prosperity ;
ignorant, savage, sensual; needing protection,
guidance, instruction, control, authority ;
knowing nothing of freedom, and capable only
of abusing it."
That was the opinion of Hughes in 1863 ;
now let us hear from him in 1873. At Lynchburg
the other day '?* ~aid: "Study the character
of the laboring population all over the
world, and where can a laboring class anywhere
be found so exemplary in their conduct,
or so elevated in their morale, all things considered.
as the necro DODulation of Virginia."
Certainly, when we quote Hughes on Hughes,
we are led to confusion. Although this and
other items from the record are harped from
a thousand stumps, it makes little difference
to the negroes. They care nothing for a record
over twenty-four hours old.
Mr. Hughes is a Virginian by birth. He
did not spring from any of the first families,
and his life is among the thousands of illustrations
that "honor and fame from no condition
rise."
He bears the reputation of being a fighting
man, and this little peculiarity of his?resenting
insult at the sword's point?is about to
get him into an unhappy controversy. In
1869 he fought a duel with Wra. Cameron,
growing out of a political quarrel. Col. John
Clarkson acted as his friend and second. In
1870, Col. Clarkson himself had an unpleasantness
with the editor of a Bristol paper.
He called upon Hughes to be his friend in
the matter. Hughes carried "notes" between
the parties, and now it is charged that one of
the notes was a challenge, consequently Mr.
Hughes is disqualified from holding office under
the constitution. This is a false charge,
however, for the affair occurred on the borders
of Tennessee, over the line, and none of
the notes carried were challenges. Mr.
Hughes was trying to make peace among the
bloods, and succeeded. That is all.
C. P. Rarasdell, the Republican candidate
for Lieutenant-Governor, is a gentleman of
means from Pennsylvania. He is of the class
of carpet-baggers of which Virginia stands
greatly in need, and if he chooses to run for
Lieutenant-Governor and gets beaten, it is
nobody's business but his own. He did not
come to Virginia as an office-seeker, and is a
worthy man and useful citizen. ,
David Fulty, for Attorney-General, is an i
old and able lawyer of Augusta county. 1
Taken altogether, the Radical ticket has [
strong points and weak points. It is about
as good, however, as the Republicans could
have put forward. i
The Conservative candidates are all strong
t t v * ?_ n
Q1CD. <J UUJtta U. iveill|jei, 1UI uuvciuui) noo
a brave and popular Confederate soldier. He
is a good speaker and talks to the "boys" in a
manner that will be apt to bring them all out '
on election day.
For Lieutenant-Governor, they have Rob- '
ert E. Withers, of Wythe county. He, too,
was a Confederate soldier, and is a man of i
great popularity.
Robert T. Daniel, for Attorney-General,
completes the ticket. !
All these meij are able, popular and good .
speakers. The Conservatives could hardly ; j
have hit upon a better ticket.
And now as to the prospect ahead. Grant i
carried the State by two thousand over Gree-! '<
ley, which would seem to give the Radicals a :
peg upon which to hang great hopes ; but it j
should be remembered that at that very elec- (
tion the Conservatives elected their candidates (
for Congress by an aggregate majority of,
fourteen thousand. At the same time there ]
were thirty thousand who did not vote. These 1
"reserves" held the balance of power, and the
great bulk of them are Conservatives.
So it would appear, at the present writing,!1
as though the Conservative ticket would tri- i,
umph by a majority of between fifteen and
twenty thousand. j :
The Radicals are working like beavers,' f
and claim to be confident, but the tide is j
against them. Nemo. Ii
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.-SherifF's Sales.
Thomas Whitesides, Administrator-Application
for Discharge.
T. S. JefFerys, Secretary?Masonic Meeting.
Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient.
J. S. R. Thomson and T. S. JotFerys?Assignees'
Sale?In Bankruptcy? In the Matter of i
Thomas C. Henry, Bankrupt.
R. A. Caldwell, Agent for Legatees?Land at !
Auction.
T. W. Cluwson, Deputy Messenger?In Bank- j
ruptey? First Meeting of Creditors?In the
Matter of A. M. Poden.
W. L. Grist, Agent?The Home Shuttle Sewing
Machine.
VV. H. A J. P. Herndon?Cheese?Ginger Preserves?Raisins?Our
Grocery?Save Your
Money?Hams?Baskets?Fish?DippersWooden
Ware.
?r . r 1- _ _ * it UVv.vinofoa/1
rauirv ."V. litnJt'II, p. U, A[i|'IH ililWUlul uwii.vritwi, J
T. M. Dobson Co.?Removal?Cotton?Beautiful
HaLs?Alpatsus?Fine Family Flour?At- j
tention Smokers?Spanish Float.
Thos. L. Vail, Secretary?Fair of the Carolinas.
TRIAL JUSTICE APPOINTED.
Governor Moses has appointed Patrick T. I
Murray as a trial justice for this county, in
place of M. O'Connell, deceased. Mr. Murray
resides near Fort Mill.
BETHEL PRESBYTERY.
An adjourned meeting of Bethel Presby- j
tery will' be held at Yorkville, on Tuesday 1
next, lltli instant, at 7 p. m. The business
is urgent and a full attendance is desired.
SALES-DAY.
On Monday last there was but one piece
of property sold. The Judge of Probate sold
the reversionary interest of Mrs. Sarah P.
Jones, in a tract of land located near Rock
Hill. It wns bid off by Col. Cadwallader
Jones at $1000.
CHESTER AND LENOIR RAILROAD.
Dr. A. H. Davega, Presideutof the Chester
and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company,
paid our town a flying visit on Monday
afternoon last. From him we learn that the
prospects of the road are brightening every
day. The Engineers are now engaged in permanently
locating the route from Lenoir in
the direction of Hickory Station. The route
selected will cross the Western Extension a
mile and a half from Hickory Station. The
estimates, so far as made and reported by the
Chief Engineer, are highly favorable to a
speedy construction of the road at comparatively
small figures. According to the EnErineer's
estimates, the cost of grading and
trestle work for the entire distance between
Yorkville and Dallas will not exceed $42,000.
We understand from the President that it is
his intention to give out contracts for the
grading of the read, commencing at Lenoir
and at the terminus of the King's Mountain
Road in this town, at an early day, and the
work will be pushed through as rapidly as
circumstances will permit
COLORED METHODIST CONFERENCE.
The South Carolina Annual Conference of
the African Methodist Episcopal (Zion)
Church, assembled in Yorkville, on the 29th
of October, Bishop J. W. Hood, of Raleigh,
N. C., presiding. Elder J. C. Clinton, of
Lancaster, and Elder B. Burton, of Newberry,
were elected secretaries.
In delivering his opening address, the Bishop
said:
The wheels of Time have brought us to the close
of another conference year. The lal>ors, trials
and afflictions, together with the successes, consolations
and joys, of another year are past. We
rejoice that while diseases have been abroad in
tho land, and the King of Terrors has gone forth
triumphantly upon his pale horse, yet we are all
here alive this day?our ranks unbroken. Now
that we are met to engage in the business which
claims our attention, I trust we have all met with
only one object in view?the glory of God. The
salvation ol souls, and the upbuilding of God's
church is the great work which claims the constant
effort of the gospel minister. Other men
have other callings, but the minister's calling is
to build up Zion.
It is a matter of regret that so many of the mem
bors of this Conference feel called upon to engage
in some secular employment?such as conducting
the business of large farms, and the filling of offfces
which are purely socularand political. Christ
called his apostles away from these things. Peter
and Andrew were fishing, which employment
they were bidden to leave and engago in catching
men?James and John were mending their nets,
but at Christ's command, they left them with
their father in the boat and followed Him. Levi
was employed as a revenue officer, but hearing
the voice of Jesus, he left this lucrative employment
and engaged in gathering revenue for heaven's
treasury. Speaking of the total surrender
they made, Peter said?"Behold, we have forsaken
all and followed thee." And in answer to
the question?"What shall we have therefor?"
Jesus assured him that they who forsake all and
follow him shall "receive an hundred fold and
inherit eternal life."
The Bishop concluded by invoking the Great
Head of the Church to preside over and bless the
deliberations of the Conference.
At the conclusion of the address the committee
on credentials reported. Fifty-five
members passed examination and seven were
withheld for further consideration.
Twelve candidates were presented to be received
on trial. The discipline questions were
propounded, to which they gave very satisfactory
answers. The Bishop addressed the candidates
at length upon the importance of
studying to make themselves workmen approved.
SECOND DAY.
The only business of importance transacted
on the second day was the report made by the
committee on education. The report recommends
the appointment of an agent to raise
funds to aid in the establishment of a college
in Fayetteville, N. C., which was received,
and a resolution to that effect adopted.
TIIIRD DAY.
Rev. A. W. Walker, of the M. E. Church,
South, was introduced to the Conference and
delivered a short address, which was well received.
Rev. Chas. E. Butler, of the M. E.
Church, North, was also introduced to the
Conference, and made a few remarks. Mrs.
Newton, with a number of her pupils, also
visited the Conference, and gave a very interesting
exhibition of the progress and proficiency
of her pupils, who gave evidence of
careful and thorough training. The Conference
was also visited by the Benevolent Sons
and daughters ofZion, a benevolent organization,
which was addressed by the Bishop.
The remainder of the day was devoted to
matters pertaining to the statistics of the Conference,
which numbers 85 churches, with a
membership of 5594.
FOURTH DAY.
The fourth day of the session was occupied j
Ill mt! Hearing Ul Itty aeicgatca oo tu mo wudition
and wants of the various churches. At
3 o'clock, p. m., a short sermon was delivered,
and five ministers were set apart to fill the
office of deacon.
On motion, a vote of thanks was tendered j
to the people of Yorkville generally for the
hospitable manner in which they treated members
of the Conference during their attendance
upon its deliberations.
A vote of thanks was also returned to the !
pastor and officers of the M. E. Church, I
South, for the kindly tender of their pul- j
pit ou the Sabbath ; and a similar vote of
thanks to the officers of the Baptist Church, i
and the officers of the M. E. Church, North.
A vote of thanks was also returned to the
President and Directors of the King's Mountain
Railroad, and the General Ticket Agent
af the C. C. and Augusta railroad, for favors
and courtesies received at their hands.
The Conference then adjourned, Monday,
p. m., to meet in Chester on the fourth Wed-1
nesday of October, 1874.
A PrOINTM KNTS.
Laxcastkr District.?Isom C. Clinton, P. E.
Zion Hill, Kengly's Stand and Dry Branch?
IV. M. Belton,
Rives' Stand, Beaver Creek and Cedar Creek? j
W. Johnson. |
Ebenezer, Pleasant Grove and Pleasant Hill?
E. Edwards. I
Mount Carmel and Camp Creek?Jackson
rhompson.
Darlington and Kershaw Mission?J. Alexanler
and A. Allen. 1
Mount Calvary, Salem ami Mount Moriah?W.
Thompson.
I Lancaster and David's Stand?Richard Allen.
Waxiiaw District?Robert Wilson, P. E.
Fort Mill, Spring Hill and India Hook Mission?
E. Lindsey.
White Oak, Steel Hill and Zion?Nero Croekett.
Hickory Grove and Rock?Roliert McLean.
North Corner, Mount Nebo and George's HillDavid
Cousart.
Cheraw Mission?Thomas McKinnoy.
Rock Hill District?Joseph Price, P. E.
Rock Hill, Foundation and Tanyard?J. Price.
Crook's Stand, Chestnut Grove and Red Oak?
F. Davie.
Mount Zion and Union Church?C. Dunlap.
Rich Hill District?P. Jackson, P. E.
Gold Mine and Shiloh? P. Jackson.
Mount Moriah, Mount Nelio and Ararat?M.
Weaver.
Fairfield District?Alfred Moore. P. E.
Jackson Creek, C'ockerell's and Brushy Fork?
J. H.Jackson.
Camp Welfare, Gladden's Grove and King's
Highway?J. C. Jackson.
Kossville, Reckhamville and Lowel's?James
Hemphill.
Spring Hill and Gethsemane?Thomas Cohen.
Protestant Mary?Thomas Walker.
Fish Dam, Hopewell and Mount Pisgah?S. J.
Sterling.
Cirv?TPB nwrnrrr T> .T Walker. P. E.
Chester Station?D. J. Walker.
Brown's Chapel, Zion Chapel and New Hope?
Klihu Featherston.
MeKeown's, Old Zion and Mount Calvary?E.
Walls.
Chestnut Grove, Pleasant Grove and Smith's
Turnout?M. Jones.
York District?C. A. King, P. E.
Yorkvilleand White Hill?J. A. Jackson.
Pineville, Indian Hook and Centre?J. L. Jones.
Providence, Unity and Wilson's?Alex. Harris.
Flint Hill Circuit?Isaac Apostle.
Spartanburo District.?H. Clinton, P. E.
Spartanburg and Union?H. Clinton.
Littlefield, Mulberry, Hickory Stand and Cross
Anchor?C. Stephens.
Bcatty's Stanu and Rocky Creek?Tilman Erwin.
Goudelock's, Say Place and St. Luke?P. Green.
Maybinton District?A. G. Smith, P. E.
Maybinton, Blackjack and Hollen's Head?A.
G. Smith.
Monticello and Littleton?Nathan Rice.
Ridgewav, Horse Branch and Richland Mission?A.
W. Russell.
Nkwberry District?B. Burton, P. E.
Cedar Grove, Mount Prospect and Tucker's
Stand?B. Burton and P. English.
Columbia Mission?Amos Perkins.
Charleston Mission?P. Aiken.
Christ Church?James King.
KING'S MOUNTAIN MILITARY SCHOOL.
Yorkville, S. C., November 4, 1873.
To the Editor of the Yorkville Enquirer:?
With Judge Mackey's permission, I beg that
you will publish in your columns the following
letter received from him in reply to my
request that he would give his opinion on the
intent and bearing of the Militia Law of the
State, as to the use of arms and military discipline
in the organization and government
of schools.
Very respectfully, your ob't servant,
A. COWARD.
Chester, S. C., November 1, 1873.
Col. A. Coward, Principal King's Mountain
Military School, Yorkville,S. C.:
Sir:?I am in receipt of your favor of the 29th
ultimo, imforming me that you have made
arrangements to procure the necessary arms
and equipments for the corps of cadets under
your command; but that you desire that I
will advise you whether the use of guns, <fec.,
"for school purposes," would render you liable
to prosecution under the militia law of the
State?
In reply, I would inform you that the
arming and drilling of your corpe of cadets,
as a part of the curriculum of your military
school, will not render you liable to prosecution
under the militia law of the State. The
prohibitions of section 14, chapter 15, of the
General Statutes, to which your question
doubtless relates, were designed to inhibit the
formation of volunteer military organizations,
and thus to promote the embodying of the
arms bearing population into the "National
Guard of the State of South Carolina."
Such beiog the reason of the law, it follows
that your proposed action would not infringe
it, for it specially exempts from military
duty, "professors, teachers, and students in
colleges," and "academies." (Ibid sec. 4.)
I would observe further, that nothing less
than the plain and express words of the statute
would warrant a court in holding that
the General Assembly intended to deny to
the youth of the State, the privilege of
military tuition, and the physical discipline
incident thereto. In a country like ours,
whose free institutions must find their ultimate
defence in the martial prowess of the
patriotic citizen, it is sound public policy to
promote the establishment of military schools,
where the American youth, while receiving
instruction in polite letters, and in the arts
which adorn and elevate society in peace, may
be trained in the science of arms, to maintain
the honor, and advance the glory of the Republic
in war.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
T. J. Mackey, Circuit Judge.
SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
Monday, October 27.
In the Senate, Mr. Owens offered a concurrent
resolution that the committee of ways
and means of the House be requested to prepare,
as soon as possible, an appropriation bill
tn moot- tVia pvnpnqM r?f thft nirrenfc vfiftr.
A joint resolution directing the attorneygeneral
to protect the interests of the State,
in the case of fraudulent land purchases or
conveyances, was referred to the committee
on the judiciary.
In the House, Mr. Hurley introduced a
concurrent resolution to require the financial
agent to make a report of his transactions.
After debate the resolution was adopted.
Tuesday, October 28.
In the Senate, the concurrent resolutions
from the House requesting the attorney-general
to call upon Mr Kimpton, late financial
agent of the State, to furnish certain reports,
and that he take such measures to get them
as may be in his judgment best, was adopted.
Mr. Whitteraore, from the judiciary committee,
reported favorably on a joint resolution
authorizing and directing the comptroller-general
to reconvey certain lands forfeited
for the non-payment of taxes to the State.
The committee appointed to wait upon the
secretary of State, relative to certain acts?
whether they had been signed?reported that
the same were in the hands of the Governor,
he holding that he had the right to keep them ?
until the next regular session, under his construction
of the constitution. The acts embrace
the following: An act to prevent State
and county officers from holding more than
one office: an act to make clerks of courts
ex officio trial justices for certain purposes;
an act to alter and amend the Code of rrocedure,
beiug title 5, part 3, of the General
Statutes, relating to the drawing of jurors.
Mr. Mclntyre offered a resolution, which
was adopted, that whereas it appears, by the
report of a special committee appointed to
wait upon the secretary of State to ascertain
the whereabouts of certain acts, ratified on
the 26th of February, 1873, and whereas they
are reported to be in the hands of the Governor,
who claims, under the constitution, the
right to retain them until the regular session
of the General Assembly, therefore, be it resolved,
that the attorney-general be respectfully
requested to furnish the Senate with his
opinion thereon, at as early a day as practicable.
The concurrent resolution to request the
committee on ways aud means of the House
of Representatives to prepare a tax bill to
meet appropriations for the fiscal year commencing
November 1, 1873, was referred to
the committee on finance.
The unfavorable report of the committee on
a bill to authorize and require the county
commissioners of Newberry and Union counties
to build a bridge across the Tyger river,
at or near Gordon's ferry, was adopted.
The unfavorable report of the committee on
a joint resolution to authorize and direct the
county commissioners of York to open a road
in said county, was adopted.
In the House, a resolution to meet and
adjourn at pleasure, was tabled.
The resolution offered for the purpose of
cancelling the remaining amount of bills receivable,
authorized to be issued by the act of