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f craps and darts.
The farmers' movement of Kentucky
has begun to make demonstrations against
the high charges of physicians and lawyers.
The agent of the Cunard Steamship
Company, at New York, denies the report
that a daily steamship line to Liverpool will
he established by them.
An ingenious Kentuckian has invented
a wheelbarrow in which a man can trundle
himself home at night, if necessary, without
troubling his friends.
Dayton, Ohio, is unhappy because it
spends annually one million dollars for whisky
alone in bar-rooms, and only four hundred
and sixty-two thousand dollars for flour.
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
states that, on Saturday last, seventeen shares
of Langley stock sold at 8110 per share, cash.
This is encouraging for Southern manufactories
in the face of the unfavorable accounts
from Northern cotton factories.
The estimates for the civil establish.
i ! il i I I . , 1 *
menu or me government to De suoraucea to i
Congress this year, exceed those of last year, I
between one and a half and two millions of
dollars. This increase is caused principally
by raising a number of salaries at the last
session.
Four hundred negroes and over one
hundred whites are in arms against each other
in Colorado county, Texas. The difficulty
arose between cow boys and freedmen. At
last accouuts the negroes were marching on
the village of Eagle Lake, declaring their intention
to capture and kill all who should
resist.
A Michigan butcher takes the bones
out of his meat before selling it now. lie had
a dream the other night, in which he found
himself at the celestial gate, but confronted by
a mountain of bones, which an attendant spirit
said were what he had sold to customers, and
he must climb over them if he would enter
heaven.
"Gentleman," said an auctioneer who
was selling a piece of land, "this is the most
delightful piece of land. It is the easiest land
to cultivate ; it is, light, so very light; Mr.
Parker here will coroborate my statement;
he owns the next patch, and he will tell you
how easy it is worked: "Yes, gentlemen,"
said Mr. Parker," it is very easy to work, but
it is a plaugy sight easier to gather the crops."
TheChoctaws in the Indian Territory
haying failed to give to the colored men, formerly
their slaves, forty acres of land each,
the latter are about to visit Washington to
urge the govermcnt to compel compliance
with the treaty stipulation. Congress authorized
the payment of$300,000 to the Choctaws
on tne surrender anil apportionment ot tne
land to colored men.
"Father, was Greeley elected ?" asked
an unsophisticated twelve-year old of his Republican
sire. Starting up with astonishment,
the latter answered. "No; why do you ask
such a foolish question?" "Because," said the
boy, "you said last fall if Greeley was elected
there would be a panic, and everybody says
there is a panic now ; so I thought Greeley
must be elected."
A Washington telegram of Friday
says: "Such senators and members as are in
the city converse very freely in regard to the
condition of affairs, and most of them have
propositions to be offered as soon as Congress
meets. Upon one point there seems to be
considerable unanimity of opinion, and that
is that there must be at least some modification
of the bankrupt law, if not its absolute
repeal.
Dr. Stuart Robinson, of Louisville,
Ky., has recovered twenty-five thousand dollars
damages against the Chicago Post for
publishing that he advocated the propagation
of yellow fever through the North during the
late war by means of infected clothing. The
judgment, however, contained the stipulation
that he remit the entire amount, less six hundred
and sixty-four dollars, the receipt of
which in open court was therein also acknowledged.
A New York letter, of Friday, says:
"To-morrow promises to be an anxious day
with the working people. The reduction of
wages, determined upon by the master buil/tnra
nnac inln oflfoM onil tliia will nrnhahlv
be followed up by like reductions in most other
trades. There are no indications of any
serious resistance on the part of trades' unions,
the conviction on their parts being that it is
better to be content with reduced wages thau
to compel a general suspension of work, which
would leave them without any income whatsoever,
and that, too, at the begiuuing of winter."
A scientific writer has recently collated
a group of facts illustrative of the effect of oscillation
on powerful bodies when not frequently
broken by vibration. In crossing
large suspension bridges it is esteemed necessary
that processions should break step in ordes
to insure safety ; and it is told, in illustration,
that when the first suspension bridge
was building in Englaud, a fiddler offered to
demolish it with his fiddle. Striking-one note
after another, he evidently hit the vibrating
note or fundamental tone, and threw the
structure into extraordinary vibrations. Only
recently a bridge went down in France under
the tread of a regiment of infantry, who
neglected to break step on entering it. Three
hundred persons were drowned.
A correspondent, writing from Memphis,
says: "Some of the streets here are positively
deserted, and the echo of my footsteps
seems to make the terrible silence more apparent.
Every door and window is closed,
and the occupants of the houses have either
fallen victims to the fever, or have fled from
the city. I now and then catch a momentary
glimpse of a "Howard" hurrying away 011
some errand of mercy, but in some districts
I can walk for squares without meeting a
soul. The "Howards" are doing noble service,
and when the danger is passed, there will be
many a tale to tell of heroes and heroines
who have sacrificed their lives in the performance
of their self-imposed duties, and with
calm fortitude have gouc to their death, unheralded
by fame, their only requiem, "the
tribute of a sigh.' "
Chicago and St. Louis always differ in
opinion. Their latest difference is on the !
question of what constitutes a barrel of pork, i
Iu St. Louis they say it is oue hundred and I
ninety-six pounds, but in Chicago it is only j
one hundred and ninety pounds. The con-1
sequence is that when St. Louis buys pork ;
in Chicago, the barrels are six pounds short!
of the St. Louis standard. The St. Louis
newspapers iusinuatc that the Chicago coin- |
mission men pocket this difference in addition
to their regular commissions on purchasers,
and the St. Louis Democrat draws a
lively picture of the Chicago pork buyer;
opening each one hundred and ninety-six
pound barrel that has come in front the
country or been packed at the proper weight,
and taking out his "six-pound grist." Chicago
has yet to be heard from on this interesting
subject.
All over the country the prospect is
ominous for a gloomy winter. It is estimated
that the flurry in Wall street will make a difference
to the whole country of over one thou- :
sand millions of dollars. Indeed, the amount i
of damage done is altogether incalculable, i
Manufacturers every whero are cutting down
their force, running on half time, or temporarily
suspending, on account of the monetary
stringency and the dullness of the trade. In
all the cities the winter is destined to be very
severe upon every class of the employed.
Many of the wholesale and retail firms are reducing
the number of their accountants, clerks
and salesmen. As usually happens, those
who can least afford to go are the first to lose
their places. The dismissed have no pros-!
pects elsewhere, and must remain iu town
without occupation, and yet the greatest desire
to work, which is one of the most deplorable
conditions of humanity. In New Yorkj
city, alone, the indications are that at least
GO,000, or 70,000 persons will be thrown out j
of employment this month, and the proportion i
to the population will be yet larger in manu- 1
facturiug towns. One-fourth of the working i
people of Newark, New Jersey, are said by the
New York Herald to be idle. Three thousaud
seamstresses are out of employment there.
In Philadelphia thirty-two thousand workmen,
it is estimated, have been discharged.
All the iron works in the country are curtailing
their number of laborers ; nearly all the
cotton and woollen mills are doing the same.
The railroads are using the smallest force
with which they can operate. Economy
and even close frugality will necessarily be
the order of the day, even in families that;
have lived in luxury, in order to make both
ends meet until better times.
Ibc inquirer.;
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"CHARLOTTE, AND NOT CHESTER," &C
The Charlotte Observer professes to be unable
to understand the true position of the
Enquirer on the subject of the Chester and
Leuoir Railroad, and charges that we are neutral,
on top of the fence and on both sides, all
at the same time. Yet it finds no difficulty in
asserting and reiterating that we favor an unlawful
means of taxation for the v6ry purpose
of building the road. In this, the Observer
is inconsistent, to say the least. If it is so
confident, as it professes to be, that we are in
favor of illegal taxation to raise money to
aid in the enterprise, surely the logical conclusion
would be that we are in favor of the
road.
But on this question, the Observer is not
inclined to be logical. It is so sinister in its
views as to see the question only as the contemplated
road is likely to affect the interests
of Charlotte. This, however, is pardonable.
With the advantages of five railroads now
centreing in that city, it is not strange that
r'Unnlnf^ pKahI/I wanf m/\ro
vnauubbu oiiuum uunv iuvi w.
Subscriptious to secure these various railroads,
by the county of Mecklenburg, to the
amount of near a half million of dollars, has
made that county the most prosperous of any
in the State, except New Hanover, which has
the priucipalseaport; and the city of Charlotte
is behind few inland cities of the South?
all owiug to the advantages of these same
railroads, secured to that town and county
mainly by taxation.
In the height of its prosperity, should Charlotte
be envious of its neighboring towns?its
future suburban villages, perhaps? We think
not. So large and prosperous ; so populous
and wealthy; with enterprising merchants,
who import cargoes direct from European
factories aud duplicate New York bills ; with
a large and increasing trade from every direction,
it would seem that her representative
daily paper could indulge a degree of magnanimity
toward the dark "corners" and lessfavored
sections of the land.
But with the possession of all these boasted
advantages, Charlotte is still covetous, and the
Observer, which we suppose represents what it
conceives to be the interests of that city, knows
of only one proper market for the productions
of the Catawba valley, and that market, as a
matter of course, is the city of Charlotte !
This, as every one knows, is the true secret
of the Observer's opposition to the Chester
and Lenoir railroad. The subscription to the
capital stock by the county of York, or the
manuer by which the charter of the road authorizes
that subscription to be made by counties
in South Carolina, and in which the Charlotte
Observer has no interest or concern whatever,
does not enter into the calculations of
that paper when it volunteers its factious opposition.
We have already shown?the proof being
the boast of the parties themselves?that
the ouestion of a subscription by York couuty
to the Air-Line road, which would have secured
that road through this county, was defeated
partially by Charlotte influence. That
city, so opponents of tho measure afterwards 1
boasted, furnished voters to enter another State
and vote against the proposition.
It can also be shown from incontrovertible j
facts that through Charlotte influence alone, !
the location of the Charlotte and Columbia
railroad was diverted from the natural route,
which would have been by way of Yorkville, '
notwithstanding this vicinity was ready and
willing to make as liberal a subscription as
did Charlotte.
And there are reasons for believing that
much of the virtuous indignation which some
t
persons affect at the subscription of York ;
county to the Chester and Lenoir railroad, is
encouraged by, if it did not originate in the
same magnanimous city of Charlotte.
With these facts before us, to continue a serious
discussion with the Observer upon a ques-:
tion in which only points of law are involved,
and which questions are now before the Courts,'
would be au absurdity.
The Observer may understand our correct
position, or it may not?we are sunsuuu umici
way. We have heretofore taken notice of its
articles, not that we attached any importance
to its utterances, but simply to correct a wrong
conception of facts as they might exist in
other minds ; and in doing so, no fair-minded
reader can say that our position is in the least
equivocal. i
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? H. H. Kimptou, the former financial
agent of the State, has returned to Columbia. I
? A. S. Richardson, colored, has assumed ,
the duties of postmaster at Chester.
? The presence of pickpockets is noted in ,
Columbia.
? The Senate has confirmed the appointment
of Carter Ross as jury commissioner for
Chester county.
? Dr. M. LaBorde, for many years con- (
nected with the Sou.'h Carolina College, and
more recently witn tne fttatc university, oiea
in Columbia on Thursday last.
? The Senate has confirmed the appointment
of Benjamin Michael, colored, as Audi- j
tor for Chester county, in place of J. M. Brawley,
removed.
? The Temperance Society, at Lancaster
Courthouse, have adopted resolutions highly ,
commendatory of Judge Mackey's charge to j
the grand jury upon the liquor question.
? The proprietors of the Charleston New ,
and Courier give notice that on and after the j
15th instant, the subscription price of the :
daily issue will be increased to 810 per annum,
and the tri-weekly to 85. The price of
the daily at present is 88, and the tri-weekly
84.
? Mr. A. R. Phillips, an old citizen of Columbia,
and who before the war was engaged
in the auction and commission business, was
found dead in the Park in that city, on Tues-;
day morning of last week. The Union-Her-;
assays: "It had been his habit for some,
time previous to go to the Park every morn-1
ing and there read his paper, and on yester-1
day morning was found in his accustomed
place, by the spring, dead." An inquest was
held over the body of the deceased, and the
physicians who "made a post mortem examination,
gave a certificate that death was caused
by the fatty degeneration of the heart, and
the jury so found."
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Rutherford county will soon have a cotton
factory in operation.
? The N. C. Railroad company has reduced
the number of the employes of the road, and
also reduced, ten per cent., the wages of those
retained in employment.
? Peter Staley, an old man of 71 years,
charged with the murder of Jacob Clapp in
Guilford county last spring, has been arrested
in Illinois, to which State he escaped,
and brought back for trial.
? The forty counterfeiters in jail at Asheville
nearly effected an escape last week week
by removing some of the gratings with a caseknife.
The act was detected in time to frustrate
the scheme.
? The indictment of ex-Governor Holden
for alleged offenses committed during the
Kirk war, in making the arrest of Josiah
Turner, junior, was dismissed at the recent
term of Orauge Superior Court, the Judge
ruling that the defendant was entitled to immunity
under the amnesty act passed by the
last legislature.
? In alluding to the recent arrest of counterfeiters
in North Carolina, the Greensboro
New North Slate says that the section in which
thev onerated is so full of counterfeit money
that business is almost stagnated, and that
several of the small country merchants have
been almost ruined by receiving so much of it.
? The Ralegh News says it is rumored in
that city that the lease of the North Carolina
railroad will be surrendered in a few days,
and a consolidation of that road with the
Western North Carolina and the Atlantic
and North Carolina roads is being fixed up,
with Hon. W. A. Smith as President.
? The Charlotte Observer learns that a
disastrous fire occurred in Shelby on Thursday
night last. D. W. Durham's dwelling,
next to W. P. Love's brick store, caught fire
and was burnt down. The fire communicated
from this house to McArthur's bar-room, and
from this to T. Dickson's store-house. From
Dickson's store it extended to his dwelling,
and all were consumed. A heavy rain was
falling all the time, and it is owing to this
fact alone that the main part of Shelby was
saved. The origin of the fire is not known.
? From statistics published in the Raleigh
News, it appears that North Carolina produced
last year 144,431 bales of cotton, 11,150,087
pounds of tobacco and 28,758,490 bushels
of corn. Edgecomb is the largest cotton-producing
county in the State, having reached,
last year, 18,361 bales. There are twenty
counties in the State that raise no cotton at
all. Caswell takes the lead in tobacco ; and
Lenoir produced 500,000 bushels of coru,
standing at the head of the list. Chatham
has the largest yield of wheat, showing a
[ product of 156,753 bushels.
NEWS OF"THE DAY.
? The majority of the mills at Fall River,
Mass., are working on half time.
? Thirty-five Chinese have arrived at Augusta,
Ga., having been engaged to work on
the canal. More are expected to come in a
few days.
? Conner, the type-founder of New York,
was elected sheriff of New York county, on
the Democratic ticket, by a majority of 25,000.
? Right Rev. John Early, D. D., Bishop
of the M. E. Church, South, died in Lynchburg,
Va., on the 5th instant, aged eightyeight.
? The Bridgeport, New Jersey, Board of
Education have passed a resolution denying
the admission of colored children to the public
school.
? In Newark, New Jersey, of 8000 jewellers,
6000 are now idle. The Domestic Sewing
Machine company of the same city has
discharged 223 employes.
? Au attempt was made, last week, to burn
the town of Lebanon, Penn. The town was
fired in five places, and property to the value
of $130,000 was burned.
? Gen. W. J. Hardee died at Wytheville,
Va., on the morning of the 6lh. His remains
were taken to Selma, Ala., the place of his
home, for interment.
? The President has ordered that the Modocs
be located on the Indian Territory. The
estimates for the support of the Indian bureau
amount to seven millions, an increase of two
millions.
? A Washington dispatch says the Postmaster
General is quite confident of the adop-.
tion of his postal savings bank system. He
has encouraging letters from many Congress- ^
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? Cairo, Illinois, has elected a female to the j
office of School Superintendent. There were |
two female candidates and several male can- i
didates; but the contest was between the la-'
dies?the males receiving only a few votes.
? Ten mills of various kinds, near Philadelphia,
employing 1700 hands, have suspend- j
ed entirely. Gen. Patterson's mill, employ-;
ing 500 hands, is yet ruuning full time at a 1
reduction of 15 per cent, in wages.
? The Southern Claims Commission will
meet in Washington about the middle of December
to report to Congress on twenty-five
hundred claims, being three or four hundred
more than last year. The amount involved
is upward of one million of dollars.
? In the ease of W. A. Brittou against i
Gen. B. F. Butler, decided last week in New
York, for the recovery of the value of two j
drafts for 815,000, seized by Butler at New ,
Orleans, Judge Woodruff gave a dccison for
Butler, holding that he was justified in making
the seizure.
? The yellow fever, which for several weeks !
has been such a scourge in Memphis, Shreveport,
and many other cities of the South and
West, has so much abated as to be no longer i
considered epidemical. Nurses are being |
discharged from duty and refugee citizens are j
noti6ed that they can return to their homes
without danger.
? Five hundred hands were discharged,
last week, from the Danforth Locomotive 1
Works at Patterson, N. J., and nearly the
entire force was discharged from the Grant Locomotive
Works in the same city. The [
Patterson manufacturers consider that there j
is little prospect of improvement during the !
winter.
? Center, one of the jurors in the Stokes j
case, has been convicted of contempt of court, i
in visiting disreputable drinking places and !
conversing about the trial during its progress. !
He was sentenced to thirty days imprisonment
and a fine of $250; and to be confined
in jail until the fine is paid. It is reported
that the grand jury has evidence that other
jurors in the same case were tampered with
during the trial.
? Discharges of workmen from the various
mills and factories in the North continue.
Last week 230 men were discharged from the
lumber yards at Greenpoint; 100 laborers
and 100 cabinet-makers were discharged at
Long Island City ; 450 men from the Brooklyn
City Works, and 300 men from the Prospect
Park improvements. The rubber comb
factory at College Point, L. I., have reduced
their time to four days per week, employing
600 men. After careful consideration, the
rail and iron manufacturers doing business iu
New England have decided to reduce the
wages of their employes ten per cent?reduction
to commence on the first of December.
A reduction of twenty per cent, time, and ten
per cent, in wages, is announced in the Sedalia
and Missouri Railroad shops.
EDITORIAL^ INKLINGS.
The Cuban Excitement.
The capture of the Virginius, an insurgent
vessel, near the coast of Jamaica, by the
Spanish vessel Tornado, is the latest Havana
excitement. All the crew were captured and
taken to Santiago, where they were tried as
pirates. The principal personages, Bernabe
Verona, Pedro Cespedes, Jesus del Sol and
Gen. Ryan, were condemned to death, and
shot on the morning of the 4th instant. The
execution took place at 6 o'clock in the morning
in the presence of the entire corps of
volunteers and the force of regular infantry
and sailors from the fleet. An immense concourse
of people also witnessed the act. The
prisoners met their death with composure.
The affair has created much excitement in
the United States. In New York a mass,
meeting of the resident Cubans was held on
Sunday, at which addresses were made, and a
resolution adopted calling for means to furnish
throughout a new expedition to the
island. The Cuban Junta announces that all
the means possible will be used to form an
expedition to set out at once to Cuba to take
revenge for the execution of the patriots seized
on the Virginius. A corps is being formed,
composed of Americans alone, to proceed to
Cuba. Already 2000 names have been put
on the roll, many of them old and well tried
soldiers. Gen. Queseda is forming another
expedition, and it is said three thousand
names are enrolled. A majority are Cubans
and exiles. The Cuban bureau is thronged
nearly all the time.
Death of Mrs. Robert ?. Lee.
Mrs. Mary Custis Lee, widow of Gen.
Robert E. Lee, died in Lexington, Va., on
Wednesday morning of last week. On Saturday
her remains were deposited by the side
of her husband's in the memorial room of the
University. Her three sons and daughter
were present, besides a large concourse of
friends, and the obsequies were very imposing.
Mrs. Lee had beeu an invalid for several
years, and the receut death of her daughter
bore heavily upon her declining strength.
She was the only daughter of G. W. P. Custis,
of Arlington, who was the youngest child
of John Parke Custis, a son of Mrs. Washington
by her first husband, and an aide-de-camp
to Gen. Washington at the siege of Yorktown.
His two youngest children, one of them the
father of Mrs. Lee, were adopted by General
Washington. G. W. P. Custis was brought
up at Mount Vernon, and remained a member
of Washington's family until the death of
Mrs. Washington, in 1802, when he went to
reside on the Arlington estate, near Washington
city, which he had inherited from his
father, and where he had erected the mansion
known as Arlington House. He was married
in early life to Miss Mary Lee Fitzhugh,
of Virginia, and left an only daughter, who
became the wife of Gen. Robert E. Lee. The
late Mrs. Lee was a lady of exemplary couduct,
and unassuming and gentle character.
She was between sixty and seventy years of
age at the time of her death.
The Recent Elections.
According to the latest returns, as received
from Virginia, that State has gone
Democratic by a large majority and an increase
of 4000 over the vote of Walker (con;
servative) four years ago. The Legislature
will be conservative by two-thirds majority.
The State of New York gives a Democratic
majority of 14,000. The city elects twelve
Democrats and six Republicans to the Assembly.
The Democratic majority in Maryland is
20,000; though the city of Baltimore alone
gives a majority of 14,410. The Senate
stands 23 Democrats and 3 Republicans; and
the House 62 Democrats and 22 Republicans.
In the 5th Congressional District of Wisconsin,
Comstock, Democrat, is elected by
200 majority. In that State the Democrats
have gained eight members in the Legislature.
In Kansas the election is close. An antimonopoly
Legislature (under the auspices of I
the Grange movement) has boen chosen, in 1
which both parties arc represented.
In Massachusetts Washburn's plurality is
12,000. The Democrats have eleven Seuators
and sixty Assemblymen.
The Legislature of New Jersey has a majority
of twelve Republicans on joint ballot.
The latest from Minnesota iudicates the
election of Davis, Republican, by five to eight
thousand. The Farmers elect a State Treasurer.
In Illinois the Farmers carry fifteen, the J
Republicans ten and the Democrats two of
twenty-seven counties from which full returns
have been received.
From Mississippi nothing is officially
known, the returns coming iu very slowly;
but is it generally believed that Ames (Massachusetts
Republican) has carried the State
by 15,000 against Alcorn (native Republi-'
can.) I
LOCAL AFFAIRS, j
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
J. Hurry Clawson?Assignee's Sale of Land?In
Bankruptcy?In the matter of Thomas Palmer,
Samuel Anderson, A. Tern pie ton
Black, Stephen P. Sutton.
Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?CitationJames
L. Williamson, R. E. Guthrie, Applicants?Sylvan
us W. Williamson, deceased.
John C. Kuvkendal?Elixir lodo Bromide Calcium?Parker's
Buchu?Ferreted Wine of !
Wild Cherry?Himrod's Cure for Asthma? j
Leibig's Extract Meat?Drugs.
W. II. it J. P. Herndon?Fresh Arrivals?Oh! ;
Jimmy?Still Moving?Buckwheat?Ask? j
Pleasure?Ginger Preserves Raisins.
T. M. Dolwon <fc Co?Cigars?Canned Fruits?
Buggy Whips?Opera Flannels?Bellows? j
Iron?Steelyards?Still they Come?Cash? j
Returned Home?Calicoes?Blankets?Coffee
Mills?Bleached Sheeting?Baskets? I
Bed Pans?Leather?Tinware.
M. Strauss ifc Son?On Consignment?Reduced j
rfc-s T ?... .....1 CM./xau T ?_
rrifct?V/WlK'il i/mv?uwuui nuu kjiiinw?ija- i
dies' Hats?Men's Wear?Homespun, Calicoes,
Ac?Blankets.
B. F. Rawlinson?Flour, Meal and Bacon.
DEATHS.
Mr. John B. McConnell, who resided near
McConnellsville, in this county, died from
pneumonia on Saturday last, in the 62d year
of his age.
Mr. John W. Beard, a native and former
citizen ofYorkville, died of yellow fever, in
Calvert, Texas, on the 29th ultimo, in the
36th year of his age.
ARMED AND* EQUIPPED.
We are pleased to announce that the corps
of cadets of King's Mountain Military School,
at this place, have recently been equipped
with cadet muskets of the most approved pattern,
together with all the necessary accoutrements.
The guns arrived on Saturday
last, were issued to the cadets on Monday,
and are now being used in the regular drill
of the school. They are quite an acquisition
to the institution, and wo congratulate the
principal, officers and cadets, upon the arrival
of what has so long been a desideratum.
We have before taken occasion to lay before
the public some of the claims of King's
Mountain Military School, and therefore
deem it needless to add anything at this time.
As a military college of high grade, under the
management of a faculty whose ability and
experience insure success, it is entitien to a
place among the first educational institutions
in the South.
THE YORKV1LLE FEMALE COLLEGE.
At a meeting of Bethel Presbytery, held in
the Presbyterian Church at this place, on last
Tuesday evening, the prospects of the College
were freely discussed. The Board of Trustees
reported, in substance, that the plan of
relieving the College of its indebtedness by a
sale of scholarships had proved unsuccessful;
and recommended that Presbytery encourage
the formation of a stock company, to which
should be conveyed the property of the College,
upon such company assuming its liabilities.
After some discussion, it was determined,
with great unanimity, that upon the formation
of a stock company of individuals representing
not less than sixty shares, at one hundred
dollars per share, Presbytery would, upon
such company assuming the debt, resign its
control over the College. It further authorized
the Trustees to convey the same, whenever
such company is organized with the requisite
capital; the College, however, to remain
under Presbyterian influence.
The actual amount necessary to be raised,
to extinguish the debt and purchase the
building, grounds and personal property, will
be about $5,500. Encouraging assurances of
the success of the scheme were given, and it
is to be hoped that the patrons of the institution
will not forget that something more than
mere paper resolves are necessary to restore
it to its former vigor and usefulness.
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.
Since our last report, the following trans
fers of real estate in this county have been
recorded by the County Auditor:
Charlotte A. Rutland Jo John Henry Toole.
Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration, 8140.
Miss Eulalia James to Willis Norman. Lot
in Yorkville. Consideration, 885.
D. S. Russell to David L. Black. Twentynine
acres of land in York township. Consideration,
8500.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff of York county, to
Mary E. Sandifer. A tract of 180 acres in
Bethesda township, formerly belonging to
estate of Phillip Sandifer. Consideration,
8288.
The same land transferred by Mary E.
Sandifer to James Poag. Consideration, 8500.
Abner Hambright to D. R. Hambright.
Seventy-eight acres of land in Cherokee township.
Consideration, 858.
Abner Hambright to D. R. Hambright. A
tract of 110 acres of land in Cherokee township.
Consideration, 8220.
T. G. Erwin and Mary E. Erwin to J. P.
Hunter. Lot in Fort Mill. Consideration,
840.
COUNTY STATISTICS.
Auditor Enloe having completed the tax
duplicates of York county for 1873, we are
enabled to obtain the following statistical information,
giving the amounts and values of
the various subjects of taxation, in the county,
as reported to his office :
Aggregate personal property, exclusive
of railroads, $1,637,775
Aggregate of real estate, 3,090,509
Total, $4,728,284
These figures show an increase in the aggregate
valuation of personal property over
the year 1872, of 8147,206, exclusive of railroads
; and 873,556 in the aggregate value
of real estate. According to the previous
valuations of railroad property, the different
railroads in the county aggregate a valution
of 8390,000, which added to the other valuations,
makes a total of $5,118,284.
The following is the valuation of real and
personal property, as returned from the different
townships:
Townships. Real Estate. Personal. Total.
Bethel $257,273 8145,877 $403,150
Bethesda, 318,798 129,553 478,355
Broad River 238,344 87,097 326,041
Bullock's Creek 311,076 191,638 502,714
Catawba 382,747 246,993 639,740
Cherokee, 182,202 80,952 263,154
Ebenezcr, 226,497 95,861 322,358
Fort Mill 280,018 142,5S6 422.604
Kings's Mountain,... 195,679 110,830 306,509
York, 667,875 384,676 1,052,551
Telegraph and Insurance
Companies, 21,112
$3,090,509$1,637,775 $4,728,284 j
The following table exhibits the different;
items of personal property and the value i
thereof:
Subject. Number. Value. |
Horses, 2460 $181,973 ,
Mules, 2772 220,593 !
Cattle 10451 123,907
Hogs, 14,395 35,817 ,
Sheep, 7291 7,407
Boers 3628 18,579 j
Watches, 002 19,563 i
Pianos, 93 10,132
Carriages and Buggies, 102(3 43,510
Merchandize, 214,03(3 1
Material consumed by manufacturers 0,823 i
Value of Machinery tools, ?tc 50,9(38 I
Money, 108,157
Credits, 1(34,017 1
Stock in incorporated companies out of
the State, (3,390;
Bonds of incorporations, 73,544
Leases, 9,097
All other property, 340,262
Of land cultivated and uncultivated the
returns show the following figures : j
Acres in cultivation, 109,408
Acres in meadow and pasture, 160
Acres uncultivated and in wood, 3(31,294 j
Total number of acres, 470,862
For jhc Yorkvllle Enquirer.
CHARLOTTE AS A MARKET.
Gaston, N. C., Nov. 6th, 1873. >
Mr. Editor:?The discussion between the '
Yorkville Enquirer and the Charlotte Ob- 1
server, on the subject of the Chester and Lenoir j
Railroad, reminded me somewhat vividly of !
the line of the Mantuan bard :
"Mantua, vae niUerae ninilum victim Creinonea,"
which, as I have not a copy of Dryden's
translation of Virgil at hand, and not being
a poet myself, I will render in simple prose:
Unhappy Gaston ! entirely too near the "prop-1
er market of the Catawba valley."
I will not occupy much of your valuable
space in ray effort to demonstrate to you that
the disadvantages resulting from this vicinity
are participated and felt, not only by Gastonians,
but by every farmer whose location, or
evil genius, compels him to make Charlotte a
market for his produce.
That city, for many years, has enjoyed peculiar
advantages. Asa railroad centre of
considerable importance, and surrounded on
all sides by a country rich in every product,
it would seem that she was originally intended
to rise far above the level of ordinary
country towns. But if nature or art had any
fliirh intention from the beeinniner. the citi
zens of the "proper market" have effectually
frustrated its fulfillment. The consequence is
that many who have been so far favored by
fortune as to be located within an hour or
two's ride of "the market," would gladly exchange
their situation for one less fortunate
in the neighborhood of some thriving village
along the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad. And why? Because we know
that the market facilities and advantages of
Charlotte are entirely imaginary, and that the
city has utterly failed to fulfill its destiny, if
it was ever intended to become the commercial
centre of that large and fertile district
known as the Catawba valley. It requires no
special effort of understanding to perceive
that Charlotte, although older than the Declaration
of Independence, and possessing all the
advantages above mentioned, is neither a consumer
of produce nor a distributing centre to
any great extent. Her highest ambition is to
become a commercial go-between, or sort of
commission merchant, between two classes?
consumers and producers?residing respectively
North and South. This is the very lowest
distinction of a market in the true sense of
the word, and when the relations of these two
sections become more intimate, they can exchange
all their produce without even heeding
the existence of Charlotte, and with increased
profit to both. The truth is, that
while other cities at the South are every day
rising in importance, Charlotte is losing
ground. This, too, in the face of the fact that
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from her, she communicates with an immense
extent of country. Some of these roads, instead
of being a source of wealth to Charlotte,
will, in the course of time, through her supineness
and inactivity, divert most of her trade to
other sections ; and this is well understood by
many of her own citizens. Let any right
thinking man take the matter under consideration
and he will readily perceive, that unless
such roads as the Chester and Lenoir are built,
Atlanta, and not Charlotte, will eventually
become the market of that vast grain-growing
section lying near the Air-Line Railroad, and
that the entire cotton-growing section of South
Carolina will be severed from its natural feeder
and granary.
Let us examine the claims of Charlotte as
a cotton market. As she originally occupied
the position ouly of shipping and commission
merchant in that staple, her trade is becoming
more insignificant in proportion as the relations
between the producer and manufacturer
become closer. Since the war the practice is
every year increasing among farmers to dispose
of their cotton at the nearest village
along some line of railroad, or to ship it directly
to the manufacturer. By adopting
either method they do as well as they would
in Charlotte, and besides, they avoid much
trouble, annoyance and palaver.
Her right to the title of a market for grain
has no better foundation. Unfortunately, of
late, many farmers have been necessitated to
purchase corn. Did it ever occur to any of
these crputlemen to inauire whv it was that in
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Charlotte, with very few exceptions, they could
obtain none but western corn shipped from
Baltimore? The reason is simply this?Charlotte
is not a fixed market even for corn. Although
surrounded by a fertile grain-growing
country, almost all demands upon her are supplied
by Northern cities that are markets, and
no North Carolina farmer will take his corn
thither, unless compelled by dire necessity,
with the gloomy prospect before him of hawking
it about town for an indefinite period to
find a purchaser, selling it at a ridiculously
low price, or hauling it back home. Another
peculiar characteristic of the "market" is that
the merchants there buy and sell on commission
to a large extent, much to the detriment
of all classes who deal with them, as is always
the result in such cases. In other respects,
her claims are equally equivocal. While the
railroads leading thither are flanked with
timber of finest growth, the citizens have to
complain ofa scarcity of that article?because
there is no market. The chances for obtaining
good country bacon, beef, eggs, butter or
poultry, are in like manner precarious?because
there is no fixed market, and farmers
dare not ship without previous agreement.
They have in Charlotte a Board of Trade?
such as it is. The study of this Board would
seem to place obstructions in the way of trade,
instead of facilitating it. Another commentary
upon the peculiar spirit of trade which
animates the merchants of the "market," is
the notice which was published some time ago
concerning the bidding on cotton, whereby
competition was almost entirely destroyed,
and which made their operations look like
anything but the transactions of real merchants.
They look with a jealous eye upon
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upon "the king" himself. That there are ,
smart merchants, "in their way," in Charlotte, j
cannot be denied ; but for broad views and !
liberal-minded intelligence they are, to say
the least, not remarkable. Witness their I
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preference to lose the advantages of having
the railroad shops of the various Hues which
connect there in their midst, rather than incur
the expense of supplying them with the necessary
amount of water. In fact, they have
neither the energy nor the enterprise to make i
their city a market, and the consequence is ,
that Charlotte, with all its advantages, instead
of being one of the first cities in the South, is,
to say the least, the antiquated concern we
find her.
In conclusion, we beg the good people of j1
York to redouble their efforts to promote this \
new enterprise, and Gaston will cooperate with j
the rest. We do not wish to present any;i
longer the anomalous and paradoxical spectacle
of living poor in the midst of plenty fori
want of a good market. Communication and
exchange of produce will prove mutually ben-,
eficial to the two sections, and the benefits to be
derived from the new road will amply repay 1
the expense of construction. Stncerus. i:
SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
Tuesday, November 4.
In the Senate, Mr. Wliittemore introduced
a bill relating to certain bonds of tbo
State of South Carolina, illegally issued. The
following is the substance of the bill:
"Whereas, the debt of the State of South Carolina
has been,in violation of law, largely increased ;
ami, whereas, certain bondsof the State have been
illegally issued, and by the assumed authority of
the llnancial board of the State hypothecated for
loans, and forfeited for the no-payment of said
loans at maturity; and whereas the General Assembly
has been convened in extra session for
the consideration and adjustment of the entire
debt of the State, therefore l>e it enacted, Ac. Section
1 of the bill provides that "all that part of the
bonded debt oftne State of South Carolina which,
as has been alleged, was hypothecated for security
for loans by the order of the financial board,
and forfeited and sold because of the maturity of
said loans?the amount of which has never been
ascertained?the State did not redeem the said
bonds known as conversion bonds, which were
authorized by an act of the General Assembly,
entitled an act for tlnTconversion of State securities,
approved March 23d, 1809, but which were
not issued in accordance with the provisions of
said act in exchange for other outstanding bonds
or stocks of the State, and of which no record of
exchange can be found in the office of the State
treasurer, amounting in the aggregate to $5,965,000,
bo and the same is herein declared to be in ex
istence witliout warrant of law, and no provision
shall be made by the General Assembly of this
State for the payment of the principal or interest
of any portion of the said bonds, until the holders
thereofshall have established the validity of said
bonds and the obligations of the State there under."
The Columbia correspondent of the Charleston
News and Courier, in regard to this matter,
says:
"This is another strike at the conversion bonds,
or the fraudulent portion of them, and I am convinced
that if the General Assembly can compass
the question at all and arrive at any definite determination
in regard to the settlement of the
debt, that this class of securities wiil be entirely
ignored and repudiated. They will also, if they
do anything, scale very heavily all the other
classes of bonds."
The bill to make drunkenness in certain
public officers a public offense, was ordered to
be engrossed for a third reading.
In the House, a majority of the members
were present, and the time was used, before
the House was called to order, in discussing,
in groups, the situation of affairs, as viewed
under the recent decision of the United States
Supreme Court declaring that bills of the
Bank of the State shall be received in the
payment of taxes.
Mr. Minort introduced a bill to provide for
the sale of lands purchased by the State, and
to make titles to actual settlers; also, offered
a joint resolution proposing an amendment to
the constitution of the State of South Carolina.
The amendment is to make all the State
officers elective for two years.
The House, on motion of Mr. Crews, resolved
itself into a committee of the whole on
the bills of the Bank of the State, find the
mover was called to the chair. The following
telegraphic synopsis of the decision was read:
"Washington, Nov. 3.?The United States
Supreme Court to-day decided in the case.of the
State of South Carolina ex rcL Wagner against
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of the State, involving the question of the validity
of the issues of the Bank of the State during the
war. The charter of the bank, framed in 1812,
provided that its issues should be receivable for
taxes, but the county treasurer now refuses to
receivothem, on the ground that they were issued
in aid of the rebellion, and were, therefore, no
tender. The court below sustained the objection,
and the judgment was for the treasurer. On a former
argument ot the case in this court, that Judgment
was affirmed, but, upon areargument had
at this term, there is a ohange of opinion, and the
judgment is now reversed?the same iudge writing
the opinion?the court holding tnat, as the
faith of the State was pledged for these bills, the
holders were entitled to rely upon that credit and
to its protection. The credit or the State could not
be withdrawn, without an open and clear declaration
to that effect, and such a declaration was not
made until 1868, by the repeal of the charter,
which was too late to render the bills no tender in
the present ease. One other case was decided by
the decision in this. Justice Hunt delivered the
opinion. Justice Bradley dissented."
A debate ensued, the following report of
which we copy from the Columbia correspondence
of the Charleston Newt and Courier:
"Mr. Hurley said that if the decision meant
anything, it meant that the treasurer should be
compelled to receive in payment of the taxes levied
by the State,these bills of the Bank of the State,
and if this were so, the government must inevitably
break down and the Republican party as
surely go to the wall. It was very difficult, he
admitted, to suggest any means of avoiding the
catastrophe, but he felt sure that some plan might
be devised the General Assembly would act
with prudence and good judgment. In Tim's
judgment, however, the question was one in
which the Republican a^rty was chiefly concerned.
If there were a funeral it would be one of the
Republican party, and he did not propose to have
the Democrats come in and gloat over the approaching
dissolution. He hoped, therefore, that
a strict party caucus would be held and there that
it would be*determined what they shpuld do to
be saved. There is no knowing, said Hurley,
how many of the bills of the Bank of the State
may be now outstanding; In all probability there
were at least $2,000,000 altogether, including those
issued before and those during the war. The billholders,
according to Hurley, have no rights
which the Republican party is bound to respect;
the life of the latter is in jeopardy, and must be
saved at all hazards.
Bowley, colored, of Georgetown, who is the
chairman of the ways and means, had also something
to say. He felt that the State was in a very
critical condition, and that it was necessary that
something be done, and that right early. It might
be true that the Supreme Court of the United
States was the supreme power of the land, and he
was a law-abiding man, but this was a question
which affected the verv heart and life-blood of the
Republican party, ana he was willing to take any
step, however extraordinary, to save the party.
He thinks the Democracy are at the bottom of tne
whole matter, and would counsel universal repudiation
of all kinds of debts of the State, if thereby
thev could escape the clutches of the Democracy.
In his judgment, the Supreme Court of the United
States is a humbug, and all institutions by
means of which the control of affairs is lodged in
the hands of a few men, and the legislative body
deprived of all actual power, are contrary to the
genius of a free Republican government. There
must be some way for the representatives of the
sovereign people to avoid the dictation of a mere
court, and be was for seeking some mode of relief
however unheard of or unconstitutional it might
be. Why, said Bowley, if we levy a tax of twenty
mills and realize as much as $2,500,000 the bills
of the bank must consume it all, and our schools
will be stopped, our convicts in the Penitentiary
and lunatics in the Asylum turned loose upon the
community; and we will have no courts or judges
to administer the laws or enforce peace and order.
Ho was very indignant at the interference of
courts with the action of the Legislature, and
thinks matters have come to a pretty pass when
the General Assembly can find nothing but iniiinef
inns An all aides from tile courts to imDCde
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its way.
Sperry, colored, of Georgetown, introduced a
resolution that a joint committee be appointed to
investigate the matter, and find out just liow many
of the bills of the State were out; for, in his judgment,
unless something of that sort be done.there
was no telling how many of the bills might be issued
now, after the decision bad been published.
J. D. Boston, colored, of Newberry, saw no
good in the resolution of Sperry. The question
with him was not so much the number of the bills
out, but what was to be done to save the party,
even though only a million dollars of the bills j
were on the market. He was overpowered with
despondency when he reflected upon the dangers M
of the situation. Here, says he, we have already V
a floating debt, a bonded debt and a high rate of
taxation, which would tax the skill of the ablest 1
financiers to grapple with, and here comes the 8u- 1
preme Court of the nation and kills the last hope 1
of the Republican party. He felt that the decis- 1
ion was a dagger's thrust at the Republican party,
and did not Delieve that it would ever have been
rendered but for the fact that the colored people
had entire control of the State, and their enemies
wanted to put tbem down. Paris Simkins, colored,
of Edgefield, Artson, of Charleston, and
others also spoke pretty much in the same tone.
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Artson liurouuceu ? reawmuuii uu? hwj iiguivi
the decision as a 'direct blow at the State government,'
and that the levy of all taxes be suspended
for the next year, and the treasurer be authorized
to issue certificates of indebtedness to
carry on the various institutions.
Wednesday, November 5.
In the Senate, the concurrent resolution
requiring the committee on ways and means
of the House of Representatives and the committee
of finance of the Senate to report the
amount of outstanding bills of the Bank of
the State of South Carolina, was laid on the
table.
Mr. Cardozo, from the committee on engrossed
bills, reported as duly and correctly
engrossed, and ready for a third reading, a
bill to punish persons for the removal or secreting
of personal property levied on by the
sheriff" or other officers.
Mr. Andrews introduced the following concurrent
resolution:
Whereas, the recent decision of the United
States Supreme Court in the matter of the bills of
the Bank of the State is calculated to work a disastrous
financial ruin, unless the same can be delayed
in its operation, or averted ; therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives
concurring, that, in accordance with said
decision, the said bills of the Bank of the State be,
and they are hereby, declared a legal tender for
any taxes that may be due the State; and the
State and county treasurers are hereby required to
receive the same therefor, but none other than the
genuine bills; and that, in order to ascertain