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ftraps and facts.
The Alabama State fair has been in- i
definitely postponed in consequence of the I
stringency of the times,
The weather in the mountain regions of j
Yirgiuia is reported to have been very cold,'
snow lying on the ground to the depth of sixteen
inches.
Superstition worked disaster in the case
of Mrs. Peru, of Delta, la., who postponed her
daughter's wedding four times in order to get
a sunshiny day. When she got such a day the
bridegroom concluded not to marry.
Upon the "outer wall" of a female college,
at Akron, Ohio, the other moruiug, was
discovered, conspiciously displayed, the sign
"Domestic Sewing Machines." Some of those
specimens of total depravity known as college
students did it.
Ink is one of the things in which mod-1
em science seems to have made very little 1
improvement. A recent analysis of the ink
found on a manuscript of the year 910, showed ;
that its composition wa3similar to that of the
ink now in general use.
At a wedding in rural New York, last
week, the groom was in his eighty-eighth year, i
and the bride nearly seventy-seven. This is |
the husband's third wife, while he is the fifth !
husband of the lady to whonrhe is now united, j
she being the mother of two children, seven
grandchildren aud five great grandchildren. I
In New York there seems to be a general
movement towards a reduction of prices
in every department of trades and industry.
Tka l.nful nrniirio^irc kavo hpiriltl In rPflllCfi
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their rates, rents have fallen between twenty
ami thirty per cent., and there has been a
marked decline in dry goods.
A justice of Guthrie County, Iowa, decided
in the case of a citizen who brought
suit against his daughter's lover for ejecting
him from his own parlor one Sunday night,
that courtiug is a uecessity and must not be
interrupted; therefore, the laws of Iowa will
hold that a parent has no legal right in a room
where courting is afoot; and so the defendaut
was discharged and the plaintiff had to pay
the costs.
The thirty or forty Chinamen who
work on Mr. Cragiu's plantation, in Terrebonne
Parish, Louisiana, a short time since
tried oue of their number who had stolen several
hundred dollars from another ofthe colony.
They found him guilty, suspended him
by the hands to the joists of the house, and
whipped him, after which they cut off both
his hands and feet and buried him alive.
The colored people on the place were afraid
to interfere. The parish authorities have the
matter in hand.
The Chicago Tribune, referring to the
election, says: "Those who think that these
simultaneous Republican defeats are the symptoms
of an off-year and not tokeus of a revolution,
had better study the returns by localities,
and they will find that the heaviest inroads
have been made in precisely those
places where the Republican party has hither^
erto been strongest?in such Counties as
Kane, Kendall and Bureau, in Illinois; such
as Scott and Henry, in Iowa; such as Douglas,
Kansas and Racine, Wisconsin, to say
nothing of the State of Massachusetts, which
is strewn with local wrecks everywhere."
A curious circumstance is mentioned in
a Canada paper ofa boy named Kingston, who
recently lost his arm by a threshing machine
at Adelaide. After the limb had been amputated
and buried, the boy complained that the
hand was cramped, causing him extreme
pain, and that if it was not disinterred
he could not recover. The limb was accordingly
disinterred, and the hand found to be
firmly shut together. During the operation
of opening the hand, the patient evinced
great agony, and afterward declared that he
felt relieved from the sensation of cramp.
* The case is a strange one, but we believe it is
ivitliniif in Annuls.
Tiie Lituemi rvepuoncans are not all
dead yet. Gen. N. P. Banks is again ascending
the political ladder from which, with
others, he fell last fall. This time he has
been elected State Seuator from the Middlesex
Distirct, in Massachusetts, over Copeland,
the regular Grant caudidate, by an
overwhelming majority. Banks has carried
every town in the district. Waltham, which
is his home, gives him 760 majority, and he
carries Copeland's towu by a small majority.
Additional interest is given to the result
from the fact that Banks was badly beaten
for Congress in the same towns last year,
and that Copeland was then his chief antagonist.
A Washington letter says: "Advices
from Texas indicate that the Conservatives
will carry the State in the election on the 2d
of December by an increased majority over
that given for Greeley last year. It is anticipated
that there may be some trouble in the
State, aud perhaps a recourse to Federal interference,
as in the case of Louisana. In
accordance with a law passed last winter,
new elections are to be held for the State
Senate in a number of districts where the parties
now filling the positions claim to have
several years yet to serve. These parties, all
of whom are Republicans, declare they will
hold on to their offices, in which event there
will be two bodies claiming to be the State
Senate. In this event, Mr. Attorney-Gen.
Williams will doubtless be applied to for an
opinion as to which is the lawful body."
The currency famine, which has proved
so disastrous to the interests of the working
people throughout the country, is not without
its compensations in part; aud among these
the principal is toe shrinkage in the prices 01
commodities generally. Those business rucu
who promptly recognize the changed condition
of affairs and comedown before they are
forced down, and let the people know what
they are about, will gain an advantage they
will not soon loose again. The great house
of Clafliu & Co., in New York, advertise to
sell their stock of dry goods?nearly six
million dollars' worth?at greatly reduced prices.
and their example will be followed by
those smaller dealers who wish to retain their
customers. This offering of bargains unlocks
hoarded money and puts it again in circulation,
and thus evcrbody is more or less bene- j
fitted.
From various quartcr3 it is admitted i
that a somewhat better prospect prevails in j
financial, business and industrial circles, j
While there has been a natural; collapse of
some extended concerns in connection with ;
railroads building far in advance of time,1
commencing with Jay Cooke's Northern !
Pacific and ending with Thomas A. Scott's I
Southern Pacific, and also a curtailment of 1
industries, some of which were dependent j
upon enterprise too greatly expanded, it is J
yet believed that the suspensions of labor have
not been so great as represented in many
quarters. It is known also that there are ;
various iustances where distribution and re-!
sumption of labor have been effected to a
more or less extent, and the same thing is
likely to be experienced iu a still further degree,
as confidence, which naturally follows
the weeding ot the unreal, geueraiiy returns
to the community. Not all the factories and i
industries have stopped by a great many, and i
the majority of those that are well managed are
in no trouble. A correspondent of the Boston
Journal gives au encouraging account of
the cottou and woolen manufactories at Lewiston,
Maine. There are in Lewiston ten cot-!
ton mills, iunning 250,000 spindles, (shortly
to be increased to 300,000,) and five woolen
mills, with twenty sets of woollen machinery. I
Thirty-five thousand bales of cotton are aunu-1
ally used. The working force of the cotton
mills is about 7,500 men and women, to
whom 86,000,000 is annually disbursed for
wages. Now all of the two hundred and fifty
thousand spindles in that city are running
as usual, with no knowledge on the part of
the managing agents, who are in almost dai- j
ly correspondence with their chiefs, that any
stoppage and curtailment is meditated. The J
woolen mills are doing nearly their usual
amount of work. The Boston Advertiser introduces
an article on the buieness outlook as !
follows: "Reports from the manufacturing'
sections of the country, particularly from pla- !
ces in New England, begin to be of a more
cheering temper. This morning there is |
news of a resumption of business in several j
instances, and of running manufactories on increased
time, and the exaggerated character
of many statements that have appeared is
daily becoming more apparent.
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THE RECENT SPANISH ATROCITY.
The caseofthe Virginius and the execution
of a number of the passengers found aboard
of her, by the Spanish authorities in Cuba, is
evoking a general feeling of excitement and
indignation throughout the entire country. It
is claimed that the vessel belongs to owners
in the Uuited States, and sails under the United
States flag; though it is charged that she
has been employed to run arms, ammunition
and men into Cuba for the insurgents. Accordingly,
the Spaniards have for some time
been endeavoring to effect her. capture, in
which they finally succeeded at a point off
the coast of Jamaica. On board the vessel
were a number of persons, mostly Cubans, who
had been identified with the Cuban revolution,
but at the time of their capture they were not
in Cuban waters, and were not engaged in attempting
to land, or in any other act of hostility
against the Spanish government. In
evervleeral respect their situation is compared
with that of Mason and Slidell, when captured
by Commodore Wilkes on board the British
steamer Trent. The vessel having thus been
taken into Santiago deCuba, four at least of
her passengers, (one account says thirty-six)
were shot; such being the manner in which
the Spanish authorities in Cuba uniformly dispose
of Cuban prisoners. The vessel is detained
as a prize of war.
There were at least two Americans on the
vessel ?the Commauder, Captain Fry, and
Gen. W. O'C. Ryan. Captain Fry was formerly
of the Confederate navy and was a successful
blockade runner to the port of Wilmington
during the late war. He was a native
of New Orleans, and after graduating at
the Naval School at Annapolis was an officer
of the Federal Navy. Upon the breaking
out of the war he tendered his services to the
Confederacy, and was commissioned as a Lieutenant.
During a part of the time he was attached
to the squadron of Admiral Buchanan.
Gen. Ryan was also an American, and was
probably in his 32nd year. He joined the
Cuban forces at the outbreak of the revolution,
organized a cavalry corps in Camaguey,
and rendered considerable service to the national
cause, his military enterprises being attended
with uninterrupted success. After being
in the field a year and a half, bad health
compelled him to leave, and he went to New
York with credentials from the Cuban Government.
He was selected to com maud several
expeditions to furnish stores to the insurgents,
with some of which he was successful,
but on one or two occasions he lost his ship
aud goods, and barely escaped with hi3 life.
He was arrested at one time for violation of
the neutrality laws, but after tedious proceedings
the prosecution was practically abandoned.
He made speeches at Cuban meetings,
and was in the confidence of the leading friends
of Cuba in New York. He resided for the
past six months at Washington; but being
sufficiently recovered for active service, he
embarked at New York on the Jamaica steamer,
intending to reach Cuba and join the patriot
array.
The vessel was built 011 the Clyde, in 1864,
as a blockade-runner between Europe aud
ports in the Southern States. She was captured
by the Federal forces at the time of
the occupation of Mobile, and in 1870, while
lying at Hoboken waiting for a purchaser,
was sold to friends of the Cuban General
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itataei t^uesaua m ixew xors; ner greau
speed and light draft (only eight feet when
loaded with 400 tons) commending her, it is
said, for the purpose of blockade running.
The vessel was fitted out, it is alleged, under
the command of one Williams, and on the
20th day of July, 1871, landed an expedition,
uuder Gen. Quesada, near Santiago de Cuba, j
iu sight of a Spanish war vessel. Her second j
successful expedition was ou the 7th of July,
also under Quesada. A short time previous
to this, it will be remembered, the Virgiuius
was blockaded at Aspinwall by Spanish war j
vessels, but was convoyed out under the protection
of Commodore Reed, of the United
States steamer Kansas, who shotted his guns
aud saw her clear, her papers having been
examined and pronounced regular, so far as
her register was concerned, by the United
States consul. The Virgiuius has not since j
that time been in an American port, and her
register as an American vessel is supposed to
be the same ; but how far she is entitled to
the protection of the United States Government,
can only be determined upon the proper
presentation of all her papers to the State and j
Treasury Department.
A dispatch from Washington, referring to
the matter of the capture, says:
"A blockade cannot be said to exist on the '
coast of Cuba, so that if the Virginus was
first discovered in Cuban waters, and succeed-;
ed in making her escape on the high seas, |
was overhauled by the Spanish gunboat out
side of neutral waters, then it will be for the
Spanish Government to indemnify the owners j
of the vessel for any injury they may sustain. ;
But it is the belief lure that the Virginius
has forfeited her right to sail under the j
American Hag, nud the term 'fillibuster' is
only considered at the State Department as j
an euphemism for pirate."
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Rev. \Ym. Curtis, LL. D., of Limestone ,
Springs, died recently at Walthoursville, Geo.
? William C. Davis, of the firm of Dowic,
Moise & Davis, of Charleston, is dead.
? The Governor has issued a proclamation
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giving and prayer.
? A meeting of the stockholders of the Char- (
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Coinpany
will be held in Columbia to-morrow.
! ?The Senate lias rejected the appointment j
1 of S. A. Hawkins as a trial justice for Union
county.
? Governor Mos?s has appointed J. B. Tolleson
one of the County Commissioners for :
Spartanburg county, in place of H. D. Floyd,
resigned.
? The Board of Commissioners of Election,
in the matter of the city council election in j
Charleston, has decided against the protest '
of the citizens.
? At the recent fair in Columbia, Col. J. P.
Thomas, of the North Carolina Military Institute,
entered "twelve cadets from his insti- |
tute to show what one month's effective disci- i
plineand tuition cau accomplish."
? The Phcenix says that in consequence of!
the money stringency, a considerable number
of employes have been discharged from the
shops of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad.
? The Chester Reporter of last week, says
that John C. Mackorel, of Blackstocks, was
tried recently in Winnsboro, on a charge of
receiving stolen cotton, convicted, and sentenced
to pay a fine of twelve hundred dollars.
? The November term of the Supreme Court
commences at Columbia on Tuesday next,
25th instant. The third circuit will be called
first. The first case to be heard by the court
involves the homestead question, as recently
decided by the Supreme Court of the United
States. \
? The Lantern sayk: "The depot of the
Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Kailroatl, at
Rock Hill, was entered on Saturday night of
last week, and the money-safe forced. Fortunately
the agent had locked up only some
eight dollars in fractional currency. In forcing
the safe, which was done with a sledge
hammer, the rogue must have mashed his
hand, as marks of blood were left upon the
floor. Nothing but the change was takeu."
? A large number of persons from this and
the adjoining States were in attendance on
the State Fair in Columbia last week. The
number of articles on exhibition was not so
large as on some previous occasions, yet the
display is said to have been quite creditable,
considering the financial condition of the
country and the general stagnation prevailing.
The horse-racing seems to have been
one of the most attractive features of the occasion.
? In a caucus of the Republican party, in
Columbia, one night last week, Tim Hurley
charged that Judge Moses had received 825,000
and Judge Willard 820,000 for the decision
in theMortou, Bliss & Co., mandamus
case. The correspondent of the Charleston
News and Courier says that "Chief Justices
Moses and Judge Willard have sent a letter,
through Gens. Elliott and Sraalls, demanding
a retraction of the language used by Hurley,
or the production of the evidence upon which
the charge is based. Hurley says that with a
view to comply with the request that he should
produce the evidence, he intends to publish
in a few days a card in the dailies of Charleston,
New York and Columbia, calling upon
any aud everybody who ever knew or heard
of the Supreme Court acting corruptly, to
come forward and say so."
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The Legislature assembled in Raleigh
last Monday.
? Miss Nancy Hilliard, well known as a
boarding-house keeper at unapei run, aiea
in that place on Saturday morning last.
? The Raleigh News says the proposed subscription
to the Chester and Lenoir railroad
has been voted down in Catawba county.
? In consequence of ill health, Rev. J.
Monroe Anderson has resigned his connection
with Davidson College.
? The county jail of Halifax county, was
destroyed by fire on the night of the 9th instant.
One prisoner, Bill Peele, who is supi
posed to have fired the building, was burnt
to death.
? The contract for grading the railroad
between Fayetteville and Florence, S. C., has
been given to responsible parties, ana the
road will be pushed forward as rapidly as
possible.
? The Wilmington Journal learns that
nearly all the grading on the Carolina Central
railway between Wadesboro and Charlotte, is
now completed and ready for the iron rails.
The iron is about being shipped from Philadelphia
for this extension of track, and it is
| thought the road will be completed to Charj
lotte by the 1st of next May.
? This little Grange story comes from the
I Milton Chronicle: An old farmer lying seri'
ously ill at his residence in this county, was
urged by his neighbors, who were sitting up
' with him, to call in a minister to pray for
hira. "To pray for me ! No, sir, I am an
original Granger and do not want any middle
man between me and Almighty God."
? U. S. Commissioner Eastman, who caused
the arrest of Hon. W. A. Smith, at Morganton,
some time ago, has been removed from
office by Judge Dick, who investigated the
; case at the recent term of the U. S. Circuit
Court in Asheville. The Judge was strong
| in his denunciation of Uuited States Comraissioners
traveling arouud and hunting up evi- ^
deuce in matters to be tried by them.
? In alluding to the counterfeiting cases on
trial in the United States Court at Asheville,
the Expositor of the 13th says: "United
States vs. J. P. Horton, Jacent Hyatt, uavm j
WoodGn, of Yancey; the bill ignored and)
defendants discharged. United States vs. H. t
C. Fdney, of Buncombe ; bill ignored and de- j
fendant discharged. United States vs. .
Freeman, of Madison county; bill ignored and
the defendant discharged. United States vs. !
Amanda Birchfield ; acquitted by a jury. The
case of the United States vs. J. S. Hyde, J. L. i
Loving, A. M. Cable and others, is on trial i
for conspiracy to pass counterfeit bills. The
case is not concluded as we go to press, but
is likely to become a tedious and important
case, involving as it does, the entire proof of
the combination to pass this counterfeit
money.
? On Thursday last the United States MarJ
shal served on David A. Jenkins, Esq., Treas- j
urer of the State of North Carolina, an in
junction granted by Judge Bond, of the Uni-'
ted States Circuit Court, restraining him from
paying any money out of the Treasury till the
26th inst., when an application for a special
injunction will be heard before Judge Bond,.
to restrain the Treasurer from paying any
money out of the Treasury until he had first
replaced the sum of 8242,000, the amount
claimed hy the holders of the special tax :
bonds, as having been used for other purposes, !
when the same had been collected by law for 1
the payment of the interest on said bonds.
This is a portion of the public debt said to .
have been created by fraud, and the payment
of it will be resisted until the matter is decided
by the highest legal tribunal in the Union.
NEWS OF*THE DAY.
? Railroad trains in Wisconsin arc already ;
beginning to be blockaded by snow drifts.
? Hogs, at St. Louis, are quoted at 3 i to 4 J 1
cents per pound, gross.
? Hon. S. S. Mallory, at one time Secretary j
of the Confederate Navy Department, died at,
Peusacola, Fla., on Sunday of last week.
? llats have attained a market value in ,
Augusta, since the importation of Chinese !
laborers.
? The planters of Louisiana have been reducing
the pay of their hands from $18 and
$20 per month to $15.
? Judge Cadwalader ha3 appointed the 26th
for the hearing of the petition to declare Jay
Cooke & Co., bankrupts.
? The immediate cause yf the death of Mrs.
Gen. Lee was paralysis. She was attended
at her death-bed by all her children.
? The Atlanta Herald reports that over
eight hundred mechanics are now out of work
in that city.
? Richmond (Augusta) factory goods have
been reduced in price. They are now quoted
as follows: Richmond factory stripes, 121 ;
Richmond factory osnaburgs, lli.
? The Arkansas Legislature stands as follows
: Senate, fifteen Republicans and eleven
Democrats ; House, twenty-seven Republicans
and fifty-five Democrats.
? The Richmond and Petersburg, the Petersburg
and Weldon, and the Richmond and
Danville, and Piedmont Air Line Railroads,
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? The committee on teachers of the public
schools of New York city, have submitted a
report in favor of the restoration of corporeal
punishment in the male schools.
? A boiler explosion occurred in New York
city on the 11th by which two passing females
on the street were instantly killed. The
parties having charge of the engine have
been held in 825,000 bail.
? Depositors in the First National Bank of
Washington will receive thirty per cent, of
their deposits. Out of 873,000 deposited by
Andrew Johnson, he has received nearly
822,000.
? From the complete election returns in
Illinois, it appears that the Farmers have
carried 51 counties, the Republicans 14, the
Democrats 18, and in 13 there were no party
issues.
? From the 20th of August to the 28th of
October, there were 734 deaths from yellow
fever in Shreveport?634 whites and 100
blacks. In Memphis the number of deaths
from yellow fever from September 14 to October
30th was 1,150.
? The discharged laborers iu Philadelphia
are clamoring for help. They have appealed
to Mayor Stokely for aid. He refers them
to the city councils. It is estimated that over
thirty thousand operatives .that r>ity nra
now deprived of employment.
T T Rrnnlra lfltA PrA9tHp.llt of the Mer
chant's National Bank of Petersburg, Va., a
suspended institution, has been arrested and
held to bail on a charge of embezzling one
hundred thousand dollars in money and credits
of the bank.
? Thejury in thecaseofGasaway B. Lamar,
of Savannah, Ga., against Charles A. Dana,
to recover one hundred thousand dollars for
illegal imprisonment in 1865, while Dana was
Assistant Secretary of War, gave a verdict
for the defendant, by instructions of the judge.
? Judge J. C. Underwood, of the United
States District Court, was assaulted in Richmond,
last week, by W. N. McVeign, the
former owner of the property in Alexandria,
purchased under the confiscation act by Underwood.
A few blows were adminstered by
McVeign, with no resistance whatever on the
part of Underwood. McVeign was recognized
to answer for the assault.
? The President is reported to have said
that in his forthcoming message, he will
again recommend legislation on Utah affairs
in order to afford relief in judicial matters
in that Territory from present embarrassment.
He also purposes to submit a plan, not yet
fully matured, rendering the currency more
flexible, and preventing it, if possible, from
being used, as recently, for gambling purposes.
? The "shrinkage" in prices continues, especially
in the large cities, and in the line of
luxuries. Iu New York city almost every line
of goods or article of consumption is marked
down from ten to fifty per cent. For the first
time in many years the shops on the "dollar
side" of Broadway offer five cent cigars lor
sale; and this is an illustration of the way
the hard times are operating in all kinds of
trade.
? The ghost of Mrs. Surratt will not down.
Ex-President Johnson has just published a
lengthy letter in answer to Judge Holt's allegations
that Mr. Johnson disregarded the
recommendations of a majority of the court
for commutation iu Mrs. Surratt's case. Mr.
Johnson says he never saw the recommendation
; on the contrary, Judge Holt argued
that the question ought not to be considered,
and urged the early execution. Mr. Johnson
complains that Holt withheld the allegations
intended to damage him until the witnesses
were dead.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Tax Levy.
The Columbia correspondent of the
Charleston News and Courier, furnishes the
following as the substance of the bill, introduced
in the House of Representatives on
Friday last, "to raise supplies for the fiscal
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yunr UUIUIIIUIUIUg jLI U YClllUV/i 10 vf 1WIV.
"The aggregate is sixteen mills : seven for
general State purposes, four for deficiencies
of last year, two for public schools, aud three
for county purposes. The bill makes it a felony
for any State officer to collect any tax
other than that named in the bill. There is
nothing said about the interest on the public {
debt. The tax is to be paid in gold, silver, |
United States currency, national bank notes,
or bills receivable. There is no mention of j
the certificates of indebtedness or bills of the '
Bank of the State."
The State Bank Bills.
The Columbia Union-Herald has re-,
ceived a copy of the decision of the Supreme |
Court of the United States in relation to the
bills of the Bank of the State. The following
is the concluding paragraph, which contains
the decree or mandate of the Court in the
premises: j
"Upon the whole case, we are clear that the !
judgment must be reversed, and a mandamus I
issued to the collector directing him to receive
inpayment of the relator's taxes the bills offered
by him."
The Union-Herald says: "These cases practically
involve only about eleven thousand
dollars iu amount, and, inasmuch as the decision
turned in reality upon the questionable
verdict of a jury in Charleston, that the bills
involved were not issued in aid of the rebellion,'
it remains for others holding bills of the Bank
of the State to undergo similar ordeals before
the juries of the country."
A Speck of War.
The action of the Spanish authorities
in Cuba, by executing the death sentence on '
a number of the crew and passengers of the
Virgin ins, some of whom were American citi
zens, will lead to serious complications with
the United States Government, which, from j
present indications, may result in a declaration
of war with Spain and the recognition of
Cuban independence.
A lengthy Cabinet meeting was held immediately
after the reception of the news in j
Washington, and after the adjournment of j
the meeting, the Secretary of the Navy re- j
paired to the navy department and first had j
a long conference with the chief of the bureau '
of construction and repairs, as to fitting out for j
sea several vessels now laid up; and then with j
the chief of the bureau of equipment and re-;
cruiting relative to furnishing such vessels ,
with a complement of men, stores, &c. A |
large number of telegrams between the Sec- [
retary and commandants of the several navyyards
passed during the day, and affairs about
the department were conducted with secrecy ;
though it has since developed that a number
of vessels that were in a state of readiness
have been ordered to Cuban waters and several
others have been ordered to sail as soon
as the necessary preparations can be made.
The following despatch from Washington,
under date of the 14th instant, foreshadows,
to some extent the probable future action of
the United States Government:
While the President cannot declare war, he
is determined to place the naval service of the
country in such a state of efficiency that it
may be ready for immediate use should the
present war cloud assume such dimensions as
to determine Congress upon making a formal
declaration. Should a rupture occur between
the two governments, it will be the policy of
the United States to land a sufficient force of
men on the Island of Cuba,, which can easily
be done under the protection of our irou-clads
and other vessels of war. It has been mentioned
by a prominent Cabinet officer that
teu thousand men would in all probability be
in excess of the number of troops required to
establish, beyond auy chance of failure, the
authority of the United States in Cuba. This
was not stated as an ofhcial declaration, but
as an incident of a conversation upon the absorbing
topic. Members of the Cabinet do not
hesitate to express their personal views as to
their full endorsement of the general desire
for a full reparation of the outrages upou our
citizens and insults to our dag, but as to the
absolute intentions of the government not one
who has been approached considers himself at
liberty to speak. Greater unanimity never
characterized a cabinet session. Upon the rumors
of additional outrages by the execution
of every man on board the Virginius, the
Cabinet shared the feeling of the community
in general, and every member gave some expression
of his feelings. Rear admiral Scott,
the present commandant of the North Atlantic
squadron, is regarded as in every way fit
for the important trust. The President, while
he will guard to the utmost extreme the rights
of American citizens, and defend the policy
which has been determined upon, will also
make earnest recommendations to Congress in
his forthcoming: message. In October, 1872,
Secretary Fish, in writing to Gen. Sickles,
complaining of the regulations for the proceedings
concerning sequestered property in
Cuba and the embargo or confiscation of property
belonging to citizens of the United States
on that island, instructed him to present the
grievances of which this goverument so justly
complained to the Spanish Government in a
way which, without giving offence, will leave
a conviction that the United States are in
earnest in the expression of their views that
they expect redress, and that, if it should not
soon be afforded, Spain must not be surprised
to find, as the inevitable result of the delay, a
marked change in the feeling and in the temper
of the people and of the Government of
the United States. This change and temper
are now fully developed, consequent upon the
additional grievances attending the seizure of
the Virginius, and the executions which so
swiftly followed.
THE SPANISJTSLAUGHTER.
FURTHER DETAILS.
A Havana despatch of the 12th says that
on the 7th instant, the captain and thirty-six
of the crew of the steamer Virginius were executed
at Santiago de Cuba, and that on the
next day twelve more of the Cuban volunteers
on the same vessel were shot. Commenting
upon these acts, the Voice of Cuba, a Havana
paper, says editorially:
"We are as humane as anybody?more so
than many who are ostentatious with professions
of philanthropy?but we canuot do less
than approve of the energy displayed toward
all rebels, and particularly toward those
whom the fillibustering steamer Virginius
brought to make more bloody war in Cuba.
The court martial for the trial of those captured
on the Virgiuius is still iu session, working
with all possible despatch. Amongst the
crew and disguised as firemen, were Ignacio,
Alfero, Rosa, Arce, Varona, C'astellanos,
Pineda, Mola, Coitel and other persons of importance.
Captain Fry was manifestly aware
of the object of the expedition and the nature
of the cargo which he was tempted to take
charge of by large sums of money offered him,
thinking that there were 99 chances in 100 of
his landing in safety. It is thought that this
will be the final effort of the insurrectionists.
The captain and crew were shot by a squad 01
marines in the public square. Twelve of the
insurgents were shot in front of the slaughter
house wall."
The Constancia, another Havana journal, in
the interest of the Spanish authorities, says :
"No matter how much our country has fallen
in the last five years, the Spauish people have
not become degraded to such an exteut, as to
be frightened by those who might have to pay
dear for their temerity and iusoleuce, in the
event of intervention."
The affair has created great excitement in
England, and the British Government has
instructed its Consuls at Havana and Santigo
de Cuba to watch the proceedings against the
/mroitrna ,\f Hio Vipnrininq. as if. is rennrted that
one of them is a subject of Great Britain.
The Loudon journals comment at length upon
the executions, and all of them express the
hope that the action of the Spanish Government
will be avenged by the United States.
The London Times says if England is called
upon to act, in consequence of the execution !
of any of her own subjects, there is no reason j
why she should not acknowledge the indepen- j
dence of Cuba?especially if the act would I
check such outrages. It recommends the
adoption of that line of policy by the United
States. Other English journals concur in the
opinion that Spain is powerless to enforce |
reparation, and that the United States may t
possibly be compelled to interfere, even though !
reluctant to do so.
The London News says : "The execution of >
the Virginius captives has virtually decided
the fate of the island." In that city the
Spanish loan has reached the lowest figures in
the stock market.
Tn New York the Tammany Ilall Commit
tee on Organization, in the course of its pro- J tl
ceedings, on Friday, adopted a resolution de- t(
manding of the Government a careful inves- ^
tigation of the butchery of American citizens ?
in Cuba, and a prompt vindication of the t|
American flag, and the honor of humanity. " n
The New York Times takes the ground that '
Spain being unable to control Cuba, the Uni-1
ted States must take control there. The Post, i
speaking of the second execution, says: P
"The feeling of our citizens was raised to j P
fever heat by the execution of the four Cuban j tt
leaders. It will now rise to the. boiling pitch, j r'
Cuba and her friends will hereafter need uei-1.
ther money nor men. Have these butchers j-11
no fear of the indignation of the civilized j 'J
world? The report makes the blood cold." j u
A large indignation meeting was held in ^
New York on Monday. Wra.Cullen Bryant n
presided, and Banks, Beecher, Wilson, Sum- v
ner, and Allen, Governor elect of Ohio, were r
prominent speakers. ?
In New Orleans the feeling is equally in- j"
tense. On the 9th, an enthusiastic meeting
was held in that city, in whicli the Surveyor ^
of the Port and other prominent Federal offi- ti
cials participated. Resolutions were adopted t'
condemning the barbarity of the Spaniards, t
and calling upon the Federal Government to
recognize the Cubans as belligerents, and de- r
mand an indemnity and apology for the re- J]
cent outrages on American citizens. p
In St. Louis a meeting was called, in 1'
which it was recommended that the President ^
shall suspend, for sixty or ninety. daysu the jj
neutrality laws, so that the indignation of the
people can have full vent.
A dispatch from Augusta, Ga., says the details
of the butchery of Captain Fry and the f
crew of the Virginius excites intense indigna- 8
tion among the people in that section against r
the Spanish power in Cuba.
A late Washington dispatch says the Navy ^
Department is very active, and will soon have 8
a powerful fleet in the Cuban waters; not for [
active hostilities, but to protect American e
olilnnlnr, nnrl nvAMWA t.IlA Volunteers: tbUS ^
0?T1,...6 ?u.. x,.w -~raiding
Spain to restrain, them.
LATEST.
Official confirmation was received at Wash* j
ington on Monday night of the execution of $
fifty-seven more of the Virginius prisoners, on
the 12th instant, of whom seventeen were *
British subjects. The British legation is in
receipt of the same intelligence. J
President Grant and Secretary Fish were c
closeted for an hour, on Monday, the occasion ?
being an explanation by the Secretary of the 1
present state of the correspondence with the
Spanish Government, which, the President '
subsequently said "it would now be improper *
to make public, because there were diplomatic
usages and courtesy, which it was necessary f
to observe pending the controversy; but in \
due time the result would be announced, i
This Government had thus far acted on such ?
facts as had reached it, and was now engaged
in collecting from all available sources further
information concerning the capture of t
the Virginius and the particulars attending
the revolting executions which followed that 1
event. It was desirable that all information I
should be of such a character as would leave (
no doubt whatever as to its reliability. The
propriety of this course was too evident to re- (
quire an explanation, the Government being |
careful in what is now doing and what it may |
hereafter do, to act upon'facts, and not upon
assumptions and unconfirmed reports. It was '
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tain our position."
SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
Monday, November 10.
In the Senate, the bill to repeal an act to
provide for the issue of bills receivable in payment
of indebtedness to the State, to the
amount of $500,000, was ordered to be engrossed
for a third reading.
Mr. Hope introduced the following resolution,
which was ordered to lie over :
Whereas, upon trial it is found that the
public free schools acts are in many respects
complicated, impracticable and attended with
too much expense in carrying out their many
details, be it
Resolved, That the committee on education
be directed to thoroughly review the free
school acts, and amend the same by bill or
otherwise. (
The concurrent resolution to investigate the
affairs of the Bank of the State was indefinitely
postponed.
In the House, Mr. Myers introduced a t
bill to divide the State into five congressional ^
districts.
The Senate resolution asking the comptroller-general
to report upon the amount of property
upon which taxes are to be levied was i
concurred in.
The enacting clause was stricken out of a 8
bill to regulate the liability of hotel keepers ; 8
also of a bill to regulate the salary and fees of (
the trial justices in the town of Chester. 1
Tuesday, November 11. j
In tiie Senate, a resolution from the j
House was concurred in aud returned to the r
latter body, requesting the comptroller-gener- ^
al to inform the General Assembly of the
amount of the taxable property, real and per- j
sonal, of the State, as shown by the recent as- c
sessment, and upon which the taxes of the fis- ^
cal year ending November, 1874, are to be
levied and collected. ^
The committee on the judiciary reported c
amendments to the concurrent resolution, re- ^
questing the opinion of the attorney-general
relative to the construction of the constitution, *
as to whether the members of the General As- .
sembly are entitled to receive auy pay outside
of the regular salary, by recommending the ?
passage of a concurrent resolution that each t
member shall receive a per diem of six dol- ^
lars, and the further sum of twenty cents per t
mile for the extra session. '
Mr. Swails introduced a bill to provide for
the establishment of an official newspaper for
the State, and for the publication of all mat- *|
ters required by law to be made public in and
for the State and the counties thereof, and for
the record of the same. Ordered to lie over. j(
The resolution relating to revision and f
amendment of an act to establish and main- g
tain a system of free schools was referred to n
its appropriate committee. g
Mr. Lee introduced a bill to provide for j
the election of Treasurers and Auditors of the
several counties of the State. p
In the House, Mr. J. F. Greene, from the r
committee on privileges and elections, repor- a
ted back a bill (favorable) to prevent officers r
from holding over after their successors have c
been duly elected and qualified. Ordered to h
lie over for a second reading. j j]
A bill to amend section 3 of an act to re-j jj
peal the usury laws of this State, approved De- i n
cember 8, 1866, being section 7, of chapter t
55, of title 12, of the General Statutes, was I f(
taken up, and, on motion of Mr. Mackey, the j a
enacting clause of the bill was stricken out. 1 tj
A joint resolution to allow David M. Hem- ri
mingway to redeem certain forfeited lauds in 11]
York county, was ordered to be engrossed for r
a third readiug. } t|
A resolution to adjourn sine die on Friday, p
after a motion to lay the same ou the table 0
was lost, was withdrawn, and a motion to meet j
Wednesday, at 10 a. m., was adopted. I n
Wednesday, November 12. 1 a
In tiie Senate, the proceedings present' tl
nothing of special public interest. j d
In the House, Mr. S. B. Thompson intro- tl
duced a bill to amend au act to regulate fees
of probatejudges, clerks of courts, trial justices
and other officers therein mentioned. Refer- j o:
red to the committee on the judiciary. j A
Mr. Rico introduced a bill to provide fori a
le election of justices of the peace. Referred
) the committee on the judiciary. Also, a
ill to repeal section 13, of chapter 28, title 7,
f the General Statutes, and to prevent the
ttorney-general from approving bonds of
lie county treasurers. Referred to the comlittee
on county offices and officers.
Thursday, November 13.
Is the Senate, a bill to repeal an act to
rovide for the issue of bills receivable in
aymeut of indebtedness to the State to the
mount of five hundred thousand dollars, was
ead a third time and sent to the House.
Mr. Dunn introduced a bill to prevent uu
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j their charges for passengers and freights
ver their respective roads within this State.
Mr. Nash introduced a concurrent resolution
hat, whereas, the stringency of the money
larket has caused a great depression in the
alue of the products of the soil of this State,
endering it an impossibility for citizens who
re under obligations to the State to pay the
istalments due for land purchased from the
and commission, be it
Resolved, That the secretary of State be
irected not to press the collection of dues to
he State, arising from the sale of lands under
he provisions of the land commissioner, for
he present year.
In the House, the consideration of a bill to
educe the volume of the public debt, and
irovide for the payraeut of the same, being
infinished business of November 12, was postloued
until a bill to prevent officers from
iolding over after their successors have been
luly elected and qualified, was ordered to be
ngrossed, when the former was taken up and
liscusscd till the hour of adjournment.
Friday, November 14.
In the Senate, the concurrent resolution
rom the House that the General Assembly
tdjourn on Wednesday next, tine die, was
nade the special order for 1 p. tn., next Tueslay.
:<
A bill relating to the payment of moneys
>y county treasurers to the State treasurer;
md a bill to prevent certain officers from
iolding over, after other officers have been
ilected, were laid over for further consideraion.
Mr. Jervey introduced a bill to repudiate
he $450,000 of bonds issued under an Act
mtitled "An Act to authorize a loan to pay
ntereston the public debt," approved August
16, 1868.
The report of the committee on the judiciay,
on bill to amend sections 14,21 and 35, of
he act to regulate the manner of drawing
uries, approved March 10, 1871, being secions
17 and 24 of chapter 111, and section 3
if chapter 139, of the General Statutes, was
idopted, and the bill was passed to a third
eading.
The favorable report of the finance comnittee
on a bill relating to certain bonds of
he State, illegally issued, was next taken up,
ind ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
The resolution, by Mr. Corwin, to adjourn
Tom Friday, November 14, to Monday, November
17, at 7 p. m., was called up, and on
ts passage the yeas and nays were called, remlting
as follows: Ayes 19; nays 6.
The concurrent resolution (by Mr. Mclntyre)
;o adjourn this extra session sine die Thurelay,
November 20, 1875, was laid on the
;able.
The bill to prevent unjust discrimination
}y railroad corporations in their charges for
;he transportation of passengers and freight
)ver their respective roads within this State,
tvas referred to the committee on railroads.
A bill to authorize and empower F. D.
Glreen to erect and maintain gates across certain
roads in Lancaster county, was referred
to the committee on incorporations.
In the House, Mr. Cain introduced a bill
to provide for the election of county treasurers
and county auditors at each general election.
A bill to reduce the volume of the public
debt, and provide for the payment of the same,
was read the second time, amended, and oriered
to be engrossed.
A bill to require all institutions doing busiaess
in lending money and receiving deposits,
ander charters granted by the State, to pubish
quarterly statements of their business and
loudition, was read the second time.
A bill to repeal an Act to provide for the
ssue of bills receivable in payment of indebtiess
to the State, to the amount of five hunIred
thousand dollars, was read the second
;ime.
A bill to declare that all outstanding bills of
;he Bank of the State, issued subsequent to the
20th December, 1860, were issued and used
n aid of the rebellion, was postponed until
he regular session.
At 1 p. ra., the House adjourned until Monlay
next, at 7 p. m.
THE LAND *SCRIP.
The Union-Herald gives the following as
he tesult of the conference of the Legislative
Committee with State Financial Agent Kimp;on:
The committee appointed by the General
Assembly to confer with the financial agent,
n regard to the 9ale of the agricultural land
icrip, and the investment of the proceeds of
itich sale, performed that duty yesterday, by
sailing upon H. H. Kimpton, Esq., at his
ooras at the Wheeler House. The salient
joints, given as the result of the committee's
nvestigations, which will be made public in a
ew days, we understand, are as follows, viz:
in October, 1870, according to the report
nade to the Comptroller-General at that time,
>135,500 was realized from the sale of such
crip. By order oTthe Board, this amount, it
s testified, was invested in 8101,800 of the
iouth Carolina bonds, and, we learn, of that
lass whose validity has never been called in
[uestion. These bonds were purchased, it is
urther stated, directly from the State; the
state realizing all the advantages from this
ale nud exchange, viz: 8130,500. About a
-ear aud a half after this purchase?during
he great striugency in the money market, at
hat time, and after the State had failed to
lay its interest, and consequently a rapid deline
following in the price of bonds?to save
he forced sale of about 82,000,000 of bonds,
leld as collateral, and which would have enailed
a heavy loss to the State, the financial
gent raised 857,540 on the agricultural land
crip bonds, as collateral, under authority of u
n Act authorizing him to pledge any bonds
he State may have, that were in the possesion
of the agent, as collaterals. Thi3 857,540
ras paid, it was stated, on account of State
oans above referred to, and thus saved the
arced sale of the 82,000,000 of bonds. The
Itate, therefore, it would seem from this testilony,
has realized 8130,500, and also the 857,40,
amounting to 8188,040 in the aggregate,
t is, therefore evident that the State has only
o return the 857,540, and interest at seven
ercent. to accomplish the release of the agicultural
scrip bonds. In addition to the
bove, we are informed that there has been
eturned totheState treasury, 811,000 of the
oupons, and on January 1, 1874, there will
ave accrued 829,670 interest due, for which
he coupons are now upon those bonds ; nearly
alf the sura required to effect their relinquishient.
From the statements of Mr. Kimpton bejre
the committee, it appeared that he had,
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11 mrougll me vnriuus nuiuiuga auu UIUJUUI*
ies attending finances and the raising of
loncy for the State, been fully impressed with
lie sacredness of this class of the State secuities,
and not until the State was pressed by
:ie extreraest emergency did he think ofhyothecating
them in any manner, and then
nly to save the large amount referred to.
In connection with the foregoing brief syopsisof
his explanation, he also testified that
e only charged seven per cent, for advances
lade upou these bonds, while the expenses of
le loans, according to bis testimony, induing
the rates during the late panic, were
iree times that amount.
Boy* A large meeting of the working people
f Philadelphia male and female, was held on
fonday. It was stated that 40,000 people
re unemployed in that city.
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