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f craps and .facts. j
A busiuess way of putting it to sinners
now, is to ask if their "souls are insured." J
The preacher who originally struck this meth-:
od must have been a retired insurance agent. .
A woman at Fort Laramie has sued a
paper for saying that she murdered three
husbands, when the truth of the matter was
that only two of them died under her treat-,
ment, the third escaping with a broken rib. j
An exchange, denying the statement
that the Siamese twins were quarrelsome and j
frequently kicked each other out of bed, in- !
nocently affirms that to the contrary they ;
were always closely attached to each other.
They have dead-head suicides out West. :
At La Crosse, Wisconsin, recently, a man en- j
tered a store and enquired the price of a pistol.
While examining the weapon he slipped in a
cartridge and blew his brains out.
Several wagons containing returning
emigrants, who had lived in Texas, just long
enough to become disgusted, passed through
Holly Springs, Miss., last week, on their way |
home. Painted on the wagon covers, in large j
bold letters were the words "D?n Texas." j
~ L i'M 1 <
v^uite a seusuuuu ntui uccii wauacu iu
Episcopal circles iu Washington city by a re- |
cent sermon of the Rev. John Vaughn Lewis, |
rector of St John's Episcopal Church, which 1
was a strong argument iu favor of the Union (
of the Methodist Episcopal and the Protes- j
tant Episcopal Churches in the United States, j
Among the latest London novelties for !
the dinner table in the locomotive grog ser- |
vice, is a minature train arranged to run round |
the table. In front, the engine, with fires i
lighted, supplies hot water; its tender is
stocked with fuel of sugar ; and its wagons j
carry a freight of cigars and bottles of cut j
glass.
A seeker after happiness answered the !
following advertisement: "If you would learn j
how to make home happy, send a postage !
stamp and twenty-five cents to postoffice box j
No. ?. Cincinnati." and received the follow- I
ing answer: "If yon are as big a fool as we j
think you must be for giving us your money, j
you can make home happy by leaving it and j
going West yourself."
A merchant who should sell his sign- j
board and attempt to carry on business with- I
out one because money is scarce, would be con- j
sidered little better than insane. Those who j
stop advertising for the same reason are equal- j
ly foolish. Hoarders of money, the country !
over, are waiting to learn who will sell cheapest
those articles of comfort and necessity
which even the closest hoarder cannot do
without.
A train on the Iron Mountain railroad,
which left St. Louis, Mo., last Saturday morning,
on arriving at Gad's Hill, 120 miles below
that city, was signalled to stop, on doing which
a heavily armed band of masked men seized
the conductor, mail agent, express messenger
and others connected with the traiu, and placing
them under guard, proceeded to rob the
passengers, the mail and express cars. From
the passengers they took about 82000, and ,
from the express about 81000. The robbers
then left without offering violence to the passengers
or train men.
An inebriate, some little while back,
? rtfi m nw/1 kftnnmA tTOrtT f I?A11 KlotntriO u *
gut iui>u a wai aim u^vauiv *vij nuuv?vov/??iv
and annoying to the passengers, so much so
that it was proposed to eject him ; but a kind- '
hearted and reverend doctor, who was also a i
passenger, interposed for hira and soothed j
him into good behavior for the remainder <
of the journey. Before leaving, however, he
scowled upon the other occupants and mut- '
tered some words of contempt, but shook 1
hands warmly with the doctor, and said, '
"Good day, ray friend ; I see you know what !
it is to be drunk." ,
A bill for the compulsory education of <
the children of Illinois has passed the House. 1
Children between nine and fourteen must bo (
sent to school for three months of the year,
and six weeks of this schooling must be con- (
tinuous. Poverty cannot be pleaded as an ex- (
case for failure to comply with the law, as all i
the books necesary will be supplied by the |
State, and clothes will be given to destitute j j
children. Parents and guardians neglecting to j
obey the law will subject themselves to prosecutiou
and to fines for thirteen weeks, rising
from one dollar to five dollars for each week '
of such neglect. I <
A mniin tlio rrrmvincr indll3trip9 of t.llfi ! 1
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United States, and one thateuters largely into ! i
the foreign export trade, is that of sole and ! j
upper leather. The value of the exports of L
leather for the last year from the United j 1
States, aggregated 810,000,000, Great Britain ;1
and Germany being the largest customers. :1
The shipments of sole leather from Bostou in j'
1873, were 260,000 sides, valued at 8885,688 j
and the total value of leather exported from ,
the United States was 84,421,655. The exports
of hides to Europe last year amounted
to nearly 83,000,000. Nearly all the exports
of leather go from New York to Boston.
In view of the fact that revenue officers
in various sections of the South threaten proceedings
against parties who failed to attach
stamps to deeds and other instruments during
the war, Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has had
a full interview with the commissioner of}
internal revenue upon that subject. The
commissioner states that the government
never prosecuted where instruments issued at j1
the South during the war were unstamped, ,'
nor ^tempted to compel such stamping
now, but that official holds such deeds in- j;
valid until stamped ; nor is it required to attach
stamps according to the price paid for !
property in Confederate money, but accord- j
ing to the real value. The matter will probably
be brought before Congress.
It is contended by the friends of the j!
African republic of Liberia, that its progress j
in population, compared with some pioneer i i
settlements in America, has not been discour-;
airiner. Thev point to the fact that seventy- ',
eightyears after the settlement of Connecticut, ;
the population amounted to only 17,000. A ,
hundred and twenty years after Maine was I'
colonized her population was 10,000. Liberia,
after fifty years, has a population of 20,000
nominally Christians, and 600,000 natives,
who are being peaceably civilized and Chris-1
tianized. The whole number colonized has 1
been 14,975, exclusive of 5,722 Africans res- ||
cued from slave ships. The number of emi-,
grants since the war has been 2,987, and j i
o,000 are at present applying to go from the ,
United States.
The New York Sun, in taking strong j
ground against the increase of the United !
States army, compares the material of the
Union army during the late war with that J
of the Confederates, and 3ays : "The quality i
of the Confederate soldiers effectually dispose (
of the plea that it is necessary to keep the reg- j
ular army as a nucleus. On the Union side 11
was the entire rank and file of the old army, j
Of that force the rebels had only officers. The ,'
/ mnlr anrl filo pomnnspd nf '
VyUUlCUCiaig luua wuu m?v umw ? v. ,
raw men, and, in the first two years of the war,
volunteers. Yet what au infantry they were! '
Those of us who saw them charge in line of ,
battle never approach a Confederate cemetery ,
without taking off our hats in homage to the
devoted braves, who ever walked straight into
the jaws of death without blenching."
The Caspian Sea is said to be extreme-;
ly rich in various species of fish, the number \
of some kinds being prodigious. According
to a recent statemeut, in one single district,
15,000 sturgeon arc sometimes taken in a
day, and when the fishing is interrupted for
twenty-four hours, the waters become almost
choked by the abundance of fish, which are so
numerous as to press each other out upon the
shore. The total yield of the Caspian .Sea for
one year in fish and fish products has been
estimated at 13,000,000 pounds (about 469,430,000
averdupois) worth about $12,000,000.
A peculiar phenomenon observed, especially
among the sturgeon, is that of a kind of winter |
sleep. At the approach of cold weather, they
seek the deep portion of the rivers, and re- j
main there in a state of torpor, during which
they secrete a viscid matter, which forms a
coating over the entire body, called by the : >
fisherinau SLpelistr. Daring this period they '
appear to eat nothing, their stomachs always
being found entirely empty.
Ihc fwMk tfnqtrim.
YORKVIL.L.E, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 5, 1874.
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THE PANIC. 1
Every individual, from the bleak and bar- '
ren hills of Maine to the warm and genial '
plains of Mexico, has heard of the recent pan- .
ic. The vast multitude of the American poo- 1
pie have been more than idle spectators. 1
They have felt it. Every class in society except
one, has been pressed by it. That class (
is made up of individuals who attend to their
own business and live below their income.
What, it may be inquired, caused this tre- (
mendous panic, the effects of which are so dif- 1
ficult to be removed? The prime moving I
cause is no doubt single ; but there are many 1
operating causes. The producing cause, no '
doubt, is the notoriously corrupt condition of j
the American people. It is demonstrably 1
true that corruption makes men reckless, but 1
not brave. Gradually, but surely, they lose '
confidence in each other, and finally in them- 5
selves. They become cowards and take fright
at phantoms, and then comes a crisis?a panic. 1
We think it may be set down as a fact, that
the producing cause of our recent panic was
corruption. In a variety of ways this cor- (
ruptiou operated. Within the last two years
^ ? ? I- -- ? J - ?'! ? ! 1 11^r. F Kno Knnn
live Iiuuureu IlilllllUJd Ui jJiuj'Ciuj uao UVV1J ^
consumed by fire. This proved ruinous to ?
thousands of individuals, aud wrecked many
corporations. All this was converted into y
smoke and ashes. But what had corruption (
to do with this? We answer, that in some in- (
stances?how many no one can certainly say?
these fires were kindled by the owners of the ?
property themselves. The object was to realize
from an insurance company, full price for a c
depreciated article. j
Then there were those tremendous rail road
swindles. It is said with much show of truth, j
that the Erie affair commenced in fraud and ^
swindle, and ended in disgrace and murder.
Hie credit mobilier affair demonstrated that tl
?rey-headed statesmen were not absolutely
pure. Villainies, bold and unparalleled, r
were practiced both in the city and State of j
Mew York. We might add to all this the Q
general recklessness of bankers. The position
jeeupied by a banker is a very trying one. 'j
tie controls not only his own resources, but ^
;he money of others is in his care. The hard g
jarned pennies of the washer-woman and me- q
ilianin om rvlonort in Vile lianrls fnr an fp kppn- n
./lICAUIVsy Ul V |^IUVVU lit itIU ivt wmiw ?wv|? ^
ng. When the banker fulls, he falls like the g
lowering oak of the forest. Every individual ^
u the community sustains a shock, if not a ^
loss. One of the causes of the panic of 1837
was reckless speculation. The same cause ^
iad much to do in bringing about the panic 0
af 1873. In all sections of the country there
have been, for years, a multitude of individjals
of small means who have been attempt- a
ing to realize large gains. The motto with
such individuals is, "make or break." These t
individuals have been doing a gambling busiaess,
and in most instances they have met j,
with a gambler's fate. Last, but not least, (
amongst the many causes of the present con- (]
Jition of things, may be mentioned the un- ;
precedented extravagance of our people. a
Millions of dollars are annually expended by
the American people in extravagant dress. s
Diamonds and sumptuous dinners consume s
the income of bankers. The southern negro i
works all year to make a crop of cotton, and (1
when the crop is sold a large amount of it is 0
invested in brass jewelry, made for the sole y
purpose of meeting his pecuniary condition, q
In this way vast suras of money are squan- I a
dered, and a morbid taste and degraded mural j i
sentiment fostered. i t
The curse of the American people is dis- i;
honesty. In this originates those panics
which pass like a tidal wave over the whole
continent. The remedy and cure for such a
moral, political and monetary disease, is re* f
formation of the masses. Men must cease to
anticipate large gains from imaginary invest- ^
ments, and cease to make large investments J ^
in imaginary stocks. The masses of the peo- j ?
pie must be manly enough to attend to their i
own business, and let others' alone; and fogy j r
enough to have a decent regard for their own i *
character and the welfare of their country. ; e
PROCEEDINGS^) F CONGRESS. j,,
In the Senate, on the 27th, Mr. Morton ^
made a lengthy speech in favor of the regula-; ^
tion of railroad travel and freights by Con- j
gress. The supplementary civil rights bill ' r
was referred to the judiciary committee with j
the nnderstandiner that it is to be reported !
? I v
upon within two weeks. In the House, the *
annual post route bill, with Senate amend- j
ments, was passed. The West Virginia elec- I
tion contest was resumed and finally decided. ^
The question was as to the validity of the
slection held in August or October last. The i ?
decision was in favor of the August election, j ^
In the Senate, on the 28th, the financial de-:
bate was resumed. Mr. Bayard and Mr. Mer-,
rill both spoke in favor of specie payments j
and against the policy of the Treasury Department.
Mr. Bayard, after alluding to the
panic of September last, reviewed the finan
cial policy of the government in the past, and ^
said the time had now come when the standard r
of value should be declared by putting all
currency at the earliest practicable day on a j
gold basis. He held that the action of Sec- t
retary Richardson in reissuing the reserves
was an actual violation of law, and criticised ]
severely the action of Mr. Boutwell when j
Secretary of the Treasury, in paying at high ,
rates of premium, so much of the public
debt before it was due. In referring to Mr. >
Boutwell's assertion that we must have either 1
dishonor or increased taxation, he said that i
Mr. Boutwell had written his own epitaph as
a financier. He held that both the secreta- s
ries had violated law and should be held to j
as strict an account as the humblest citizen, i
He referred to the tendency of the people to <
look to the government for everything as
tending to centralization, and advocated a <
restoration of the State bank system. He (
did not say that we coukl return to specie
payments in two years, hut believed that in
four years, if the policy of paying a debt not
due was discontinued, enough gold would be
accumulated to meet every obligation as it |
was presented. In the House the bill to es- 1
tablish life-saving stations from Maine to '
North Carolina was passed, and the army ap- j
propriation bill was discussed at length.
In the Senate, on the 29th, Mr. Carpenter,
:)f Wisconsin, spoke at length on Louisiana
iffairs, taking the positiou that the McEnery
government was the only elected government, j
and that of Kellogg and Pinchback is a j
fraud. In the House, several of the financial j
bills heretofore alluded to were reported from j
the committee on banking and currency. ;
The army appropriation bill was debated
without definite action, and a resolution was
passed directing the committee on Washington
monument to enquire into the practicability
of completing the unfinished monument
:o Mary, the mother of Washington, at Fredericksburg,
Virginia.
The proceedings of the Senate on the 30th
were mainlv on District of Columbia affairs.
Mr. Carpenter concluded his speech on Louisiana,
in which he opposed the Hellogg government
and favored a new election. He was
replied to by Mr. Morton, who opposed any
further interference. The Senate adjourned
intil Monday. In the House, a joint resolution
providing for a special court of inquiry,
;o be appointed by the President concerning I
General 0. 0. Howard, was passed, after beng
amended so as to allow Gen. Howard the
right to challenge members of the court.
On the 31st, the House was in session for
lebate only.
In the Senate, on the 2nd instant, a resolution
was introduced directing the financial
jommittce to enquire into the expediency of
ibolishing the internal revenue office and imposing
that bureau on the treasury departnent,
which was agreed to. In the House, a
arge number of bills were introduced and referred.
A resolution to pay mail contractors
n the South for services rendered prior to the
ivar was offered by Young, of Georgia, but
'ailed. Articles of impeachment were presented
by White, of Alabama, against Judge
Ruuiood mid mfprred to the Judiciarv Com
nittee.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? A colored woman, 115 years old, died at
;he Charleston city hospital recently.
? Nearly 800 immigrants have arrived in
Charleston sitice December last, and more
ire coming daily.
? On Friday last, Hon. F. J. Moses, Sr.,
vas re elected, by the Legislature, without
>pposition, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court.
? The last term of the Court of General
sessions cost Abbeville seventeen hundred
ind seventy dollars. Before the war the
xpenses of the court used to be about one 1
mndred and fifty dollars.
? On Wednesday of last week, two hundred
ill III i^l <11110 uuivcu iu una 1 i^oiuu jiviu 0.1 u it
fork. They include one hundred Germans,
eventy-five Irishmen, aud the remainder Eu;lishincn.
!
? The Sumter Watchman lias made an esti- <
nate of the assessed value per acre of the 1
and in various counties of the State, outside <
f the incorporated towns and villages, based I
ipon the report of the Comptroller-General. ]
.^he figures are as follows: Abbeville, 84 92 f
ier acre average; Aiken, 82 83; Anderson, i
5 07; Barnwell, 83 75; Beaufort, 83 10; I
Chester, 87 34 ; Charleston, 83 27 ; Chester- 1
leld, SI 70; Colleton, 82 77 ; Clarendon, i
3 54 ; Darlington, 84 47 ; Edgefield, 84 01; 1
larion, 85 04 ; Newberry, 87 21; Spartan- '
>urg, S3 80 ; Sumter, 84 88 ; York, 84 92. s
? A white woman named Caroline Newberry,
living about five miles below the towu
f Union, was burned to death recently. She 1
/as standing with her back to the fire and a '
hild belonging to another woman in her 1
,rms when her clothes caught fire, and in a 1
ninute the flames enveloped her. Throwing
he baby 011 the bed she ran out of the house, '
iut before any assistance arrived she was so
ladly burned that she died soon afterwards. '
)n the following day the child was found J
lead in the bed where it had been thrown. (
U the coroner's inquest a sad condition of ]
.flairs was disclosed. It appears that the 1
pinthor nf flip r>hild enuld not trive her babv '
"vv,,v* w* """ " ' O v
uflioient nourishment in consequence of herelf
being almost starving, and she had gone '
n quest of food, leaving the baby in the care
if the woman who was burnt. On the return ;
if the mother the excitement in the house |
vas so great that she merely threw the clothes i
iver the child. The child laid perfectly quiet i
ill night, but on examining it in the morning
t was found to be dead. There is no doubt
hat its death was caused from want of proper
lourishment, together with a physical defect.
i
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ]
? There are 1190 miles of railroad now in i
iperation in the State. '
? The business men of Wilmington are ta:ing
step3 to establish a cotton factory in
hat city, with a capital of 8100,000. Four (
;entlcmen have subscribed 810,000 each. (
? The Messrs. Murray, of Alamance, who ]
ecently sustained the loss by fire of the Big |
Talls Cotton Mills, intend rebuilding at an i
arly day. j
? The wife of Joseph Fleming, of Yadkin, j
ecently gave birth to four living infants? j
wo boys and two girls. They all died within
wo or three days from their birth. j
? One M. C. Dixon, of Greensboro, was 1
ecently arrested in Pittsburg, Peun. He ]
.i - ?.i-_
fiys me couciuct ui tue umumis ui mab \
vas for blackmailing purposes, and threatens j
o institute proceedings for false imprison ,
nent. i
? Two Republican papers, both edited by i
lorthern men, published in Newberne, char- j
.cterize as groundless and uncalled-for, the ,
tatcment made by Senator Edmonds, of Vernont,
in the United States Senate, that the 1
ilizens of that place and of the South gener- 1
,lly, are discourteous to northern men resi- j
ling among them. (
? ? ? SEWS
OF THE DAY. j
? A destructive fire, destroying property to <
he amount of half a million dollars, occur- '
cd in Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday last.
? The Legislature of Texas has elected S. j
3. Maxey for United States Senator from !!
hat State.
? The committee on federal relations in the J
? 1 - - J. i
\Iassachusetts Senate nave maue a repuri,
hat the resolution censuring Senator Sumner, j
mssed in 1872, should be rescinded.
? A boy twelve years of age committed j
suicide in New York a few days ago because
lis mother desired him to engage in the busi-1
less of selling newspapers.
? W. I). Trotter, of Drew county, Arkan- \
>as, ex-member of the Legislature, fell from J
i wagon, not long since, which passed over i
ind instantly killed him. He was a native
if Person county, N. C.
? A despatch from Saint Paul, Minnesota,
Jated last Saturday, states that twenty men, [
mgaged in chopping wood near Fort Pice, I
Dacota Territory, were murdered by Sioux
Indians early in the, week.
? A circular to employes has been issued,
announcing that the Southern Security Company
has turned over its interest in the Richmond
and Danville, and the North Carolina
Central, and the Charlotte and Atlanta AirLine
railroads, to the Pennsylvania Central.
? A new battery gun, invented by Col. J.
P. Taylor, of Tennessee, and just completed
at Colt's armory, in Hartford, Conn., has been
publicly and successfully tested. It fires
four hundred and fifty fusiladc, or seven hundred
volley shots a minute, and will concentrate
shots at one centre or spread then) over
twenty-two feet at a distance of five hundred
yards.
? Edward Lunge, of New York, whose occupation
was to pack ami direct a publication
for the mail, has been convicted and senten- '
ced to one year's imprisonment for converting
mail-bags to his own use. The accused had j
cut up and otherwise destroyed the Dags;
though the court was of opinion that a post- j
master is unauthorized to loan hags to those
unconnected with the postal department.
EDITORIAL* INKLINGS.
Attorney General's Report.
We acknowledge the receipt of a pain- ;
phlet copy of the report of Hon. Samuel W. i
Melton, Attorney General of South Carolina,;
to the General Assembly, at the regular ses-1
sion of 1873-74, embracing the cases argued,
tried or conducted by the Attorney General
in the Supreme Court and Circuit Courts during
the past year.
Judge Carpenter's Impeachment.
In the proceedings of the legislature as !
published last week, mention was made of the
appointment of a committee in the House, to :
investigate certain charges against Judge
Carpeuter, of the fifth Circuit, for having
discharged an incompetent jury in Kershaw
county. The Committee submitted the fol-,
lowing report to the House on Friday last:
"The committee appointed to investigate j
the charges against Judge R. B. Carpenter,
beg leave to make the following report: Judge J
Carpenter appeared before the committee, and :
upon being interrogated by the chairman, re
plied as follows: That he discharged the jury |
because they were incompetent, and that his j
act was a judicial act, and that the Legisla- '
ture of South Carolina had no jurisdiction in
the premises. The above are the facts of the
case, and your committee submit them without
comment, leaviug to the House to judge .
their weight, importance and legality."
The report was adopted and the committee
discharged.
The Siamese Twins.
On the first page of this issue will be
found a succinct and interesting account of
the famous twins, whose death recently occurred
at their home near Mount Airy, N. C.
All accounts agree in representing that the
neighbors of the twius having turned them
to much profit in their life time, exhibit an
equally rapacious disposition, now that they
are dead. This accounts for the celerity with
which the embalming process was conducted?
everything necessary for this purpose being
furnished at the shortest possible notice.
Dr. Joseph Hollingsworth has completed
nich arrangements with Dr. Pancoast, of the
Jefferson (Philadelphia) Medical College, and
other leading scientific men, that the corpses
of Chang and Eng become the property of
that institution. Of course, a big price was
paid for them, but the exact sum cannot be
iscertained. Dr. Pancoast and a number of
scientific men have gone to Mount Airy for
the purpose of making an autopsy ; though
the Doctor gives assurances that notwithstanding
the post mortem examination that may be
made, the structures of Chang and Eng will
be so preserved that they can remain as a j
study for science.
Die Bankrupt Law.
The additional amendments recommended
by the Senate judiciary committee to
the bankruptcy bill relate mostly to matters
cf detail involved in the proposed amendments
which we published a few weeks ago.
The following, however, are uew and important
:
First?An amendment providing that, in
cases of voluntary bankruptcy, no discharge
shall be granted to a debtor whose assets shall
not be equal to thirty-three per centum of the
claims proved against his estate, upon which
be shall be liable as principal debtor, without
the assent of his creditors, iu number and
value as prescribed by existing- law. This
repeals the provision which now requires fifty
per centum of such assets.
Second?An amendment providing that in
computing the number of creditors who shall
join in a petition to have a debtor adjudged
bankrupt, creditors whose respective debts do
not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars shall
not be reckoned as part of the requisite proportion
of one-fourth of all the creditors.
But, if there be no creditors whose debts exceed
said sum of two hundred and fifty dollars,
or if the requisite number of creditors
holding debts exceeding two hundred and fifty
dollars fail to sign the petition, the creditors
having debts of a les3 amount shall be reckoned
for the purposes.
The Contempt Case.
It will be remembered that several
weeks ago, Judge Carpenter of the fifth Circuit,
by an order, suspended Mr. Youmans
and several other lawyers of Columbia, from
practicing their profession in the circuit and
probate courts of this State, on the ground
that they had treated his court with contempt
in advising the Citizens' Savings Bank to go
into bankruptcy, after proceedings against it
had been commenced in his court.
Welearnfrom the Union-Herald, that dur- j
ing the sitting of the Court at Wiunsboro, j
last week, a case was called for trial, iu which j
Mr. Youmans had been retained as one of the j
counsel. Col. J. H. Kion, who was also em- J
ployed in the case, called to the attention of j
Judge Mackey the position which Mr. You- j
mans occupied, and stated that Judge Carpen- j
ter had consented to modify his order so far I
is to permit Mr. Youmans to appear in the |
case on hand.
In reply to this, "Judge Mackey observed
that he, as presiding judge, would not exer-;
cise any of his prerogatives permissively, es- j
pecially when the assumed power to permit, I
might, if recognized as binding through the !
comity that should regulate the relations of j
courts, be extended so far as to paralyze the |
court itself, by placing all its counselors un-1
;ler interdict and dooming them to perpetual j
silence. lie also stated that he regarded the !
'permission' itself as offensive, for it implied j
that, while the counselor in question was
deemed unworthy to practice in the courts of
the fifth circuit, lie might very properly appear
in the courts of the sixth circuit.
"The order of my learned brother, the judge
of the fifth circuit, invades the jurisdiction of
the presiding judge of this court by assuming
to silence one of its officers, a counselor of the
courts of law of the State, and prohibiting him
from appearing and pleading in any of the circuit
or probate courts. It also indirectly assaults
the jurisdiction of the District Court of
the United States, as it in effect requires the
dismissal of proceedings in a cause therein
pending as a condi-precedent for the revocation
of the said order of suspension. In this
the said order is violativo of the constitution
and laws of the Uuited States, expounded by
the Supreme Court of the United States in
cases hereinbefore cited, and, therefore, ought
not to be obeyed.
"For each and all of the reasons emimera-'
ted, and with due respect to the just authority
of my learned brother, his Honor the judge of
the fifth circuit, when acting within his constitutional
and lawful jurisdiction, it is 'Ordered,
That Leroy F. Youmans, Esq., be heard
i without question, and in his own right, as a
counsellor at law in all the courts of common
pleas and general sessions, and in the probate
courts of the sixth judicial circuit.' "
The Tax-Payers' Convention.
Many plans of relief are proposed for
the action of the approachiug tax-payers'
convention ; and while others are planning
work for that body, the editor of the Port
Royal Commercial, who claims to be an "honest
Republican," submits, in the columns of j
his paper, the following, which we publish for
what it is worth :
The effect of a cold or inefficient conven- I
tion will be to give renewed confidence to the
cunning rogues who divide the revenue of the .
State among themselves. Those who are now
members of the convention ought to he cut- j
ting out the work to be done. Of the first j
importance is a plan of organization. We j
suggest something like the following : Let the
convention resolve itself into a league ; let its
members be authorized to form subordinate
leagues in their respective counties, any thirty
tax payers on real estate to constitute a sub-1
ordinate league. The basis of the leagues |
should be a pledge to be signed by every j
member solemnly pledging himself not to pay ,
any State tax until he has been released from i
the promise by the central league; and fur-!
ther, that he will not buy any property sold (
for taxes at a tax sale, and that he will use
all lawful means to convince those not members
that it is inexpedient for them to pay
taxes or buy at tax sales. All this should be
done openly. iNo oaths, grips, signs or passwords.
Each man should be made to feel
that he is engaged in a patriotic effort to free
himself and his State from a horde of despicaple
tyrauts. It should be made so universal ;
that it would be dishonorable and shameful j
not to have taken the pledge. If even onehalf
of the real estate owners of the State ;
could be brought to sign such a pledge as that
it would be enough. The moral influence
would do the work with the rest. There
would be no rush to pay taxes, even among
the inert, the cowardly and the unfriendly.
For even the man who has gained a fortune
by stealing in Columbia does not like to pay i
taxes any better than the honest toiler. When |
the treasurer advertised the delinquent list, I
instead of embracing, as it now does, only the j
widow, the orphau, the embarrassed, the ignorant
and the careless, it would show every '
real estate owner in the country. When the
day of sale comes let all be present. The
most shameless appointee of a shameless administration
would quail before such an assemblage,
and the heartless speculator who
should feel inclined to buy property at that
sale would come to the conclusion that the
climate was unsuitable to his constitution.
The delinquent land would probably be bid
in by the .State, and 110 taxes could be again
assessed upon it. In the face of such a determined
people, the robbers would "fold their
tents like the Arabs, and as silently steal
away." Unless some plan of the kind is
adopted to prevent the annual filling of the
coffers in Columbia, no reform is possible. As
long as two millions a year are sent there by
the taxpayers to be divided, the same parties
will be 011 hand to take it. County and municipal
taxes might be paid. The proper expenditure
of these can be watched, and in a
great measure controlled, and the contiuance
of the functions of local government is necessary
to secure our comfort and the good order
of the community. But the State Government
is simply a nuisance. It would be a blessing
if it ceused.
An Old Political Feud Revived.
The recent publications by H. S. Foote,
some of which affect Jefferson Davis, have added
fresh material to their wrathful feelings
which originated twenty years ago, when they
were both political opponents in the State of
Mississippi. The following correspondence
forms the climax of their quarrel, the note of
Mr. Davis having first appeared in the Wash
ington Capital of Sunday, and being a private
letter written to a friend in November last.
letter from mr. davis.
Dear Sir:?Yours of the 20th instant has
been this day received. I have not seen any
of the articles which you inform nie H. S.
Footc had written in abuse of me, nor have I
had any desire to read whatever he might
write.
In the year 1851 I published hiin as constitutionally
a liar, and his subsequent career
only served to confirm me in that judgment.
Since that date, therefore, I have taken no
heed of the utterances of said Footc. (
His flattery, when he was seeking political
preferment in the Confederacy, ami his abuse
when, faithless to his trust as a representative
in the Congress of the Confederate States, while
he was preparing for his subsequent desertion
to their enemy, were alike disregarded by me.
You are at liberty to use this as you think
proper. I remain, respectfully and truly,
yours, Jefferson Davis.
belligerent card from mr. foote.
In reply to the above, Mr. Foote published
the following card in the Chronicle of Monday:
As a portion of the community may possibly
expect from me some notice of the insulting
and grossly aspersive letter over the signature
of Jefferson Davis, which yesterday morning I
made its appearance in the columns of the
Capital, though the glaring mendacity of all
the allegations of fact contained therein might <
well justify me in treating the letter itself and
its infamous author with cool and passionless
contempt, yet, for certain reasons, not difficult, i1
I imagine, to be divined, I have thought [
proper to take a somewhat different course. I
I shall uot now go into a detail of past oc- 1
curences with a view of my own vindication, i
It is not possible for the ruiued and disgraced ]
champion of disunion to say aught of me, or
of my public career, which could in the least
degree disturb my equanimity. He has cherished
an undying hatred for me ever since his
own presumptuous arrogance, on a very noted 1
occasion, compelled me to slap his jaws in this
city in the winter of 1847-48. The hostility ,
thus engendered was afterward much height- | (
ened by my defeat of his treasonable aspira- j
tions to the office of Governor of Mississippi i'
as a secession candidate in 1851. My constant j1
and unyielding opposition to him and his ne- j
farious schemes in Richmond during the war ; 1
of the rebellion, for three years, was not at all \ j
calculated to assuage his enmity. My free, .
but unanswered, and I venture to say unan-!!
swerable, expositions last summer 01 nis mue- j
cent ami seditious attempts to keep alive in j1
the bosoms of his countrymen feelings of irri- ]
tation and alienation, which ought never to 11
have been brought into existence, have doubt-1 (
less much inflamed the malignity which was j ]
slumbering in the recesses of a heart capable j
<5f all mischief. I rejoice to know that the:
blighting curse of Mr. Davis' commendation :'
it never can now be my ill fortune to incur. 1
But I bid this mighty man of Gath, who writes i
so blustrously for publication in the newspa- ]
pers, that I do not live in absolute couceal- [
ment; my whereabouts may be easily found by ,
him or his idolizing Confederates. Pie knows,
as thousands of others know, that for full j
twenty years I have stood ready to accord to '
him such satisfaction as he might deem neces
sary to his deeply-wounded honor ; and that, i
whatever general views I may entertain touch- j
ing the propriety of settling such issues as ! j
have arisen between him and myself in the .
mode referred to, yet that, irom special ueicrerice
to him, I shall he altogether induced to 1
make his an exceptional case. The habitual
calumniator of honed and patriotic men has no 1
right to skulk behind the hypocritical pretenses I
of extreme piety. II. IS. Foote. j
? ? ' (
The Indian Commissioners who believe
in the peace policy, in a late report, say that,
excepting the Modoc war, there has been 1
pence since 1868, and in the Modoc case they
say the peace policy is not responsible. i
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
T. S. Jeffervx, Secretary?Masonic Meeting.
A. Ij. Wallace, K xeeiitor-Application for Discharge.
H. F. Adickes?Ladles' Dress Shawls?Calicoes?
Sheeting?For Cents' Wear?Hoots and
Shoes?Clothing.
John C. Kuykenda! - Attention Smokers?Only
7"??Drugs, Drugs.
W. II. A J. 1'. Ilerndon ?Here is your Mules?
February?Provisions?Only Fight Dollars
Cash ? Potatoes?Hominy?Coming?Flour
and Meal.
T. M. Dohson ?ft Co.?Shawls?Clothing?Flour?
Tobacco?Hats?Millinery Hoods?Ivigle
Hnano?Molasses?Dress Hoods?Flannel?
We Deliver our Hoods?Over Shoes?Now
Is the Time?Dobson is Waiting?Shoes.
Carroll, Clark ?V Co.?Cash Store?Dress Hoods?
Blankets?Carpet Bags?Planes?Flour?
Crockery?Iron, Ac.?Leather?Groceries.
C. A. A F. H. Youngblood, Administrators?Application
for Discharge.
R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sales?Judge of
Probate's Sales.
Kennedy, Latimer & Hemphill?Clocks?Harden
Seeds?Potatoes.
J. Harry Clawson?Assignee's Sale.
T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bnnkruptey?First
Meeting of Creditors?In tlie
matter of W. A. Townes, Bankrupt.
Meeting of King's Mountain Itnil Road Company.
Liberal Terms!?Wilcox, Gibbs it Co.
THE CIRCUIT COURT.
The Circuit Court for York county, will
Ilo oSttiiinii nt Vnrlf uillo nn \f<llld>lV
U'MIJ lilCllUC tin OibblllgO Ub i ut n i ii iv ^ mii
next.
RAILROAD MEETING.
In another column will be found an advertisement
calling for a meeting of the stockholders
of the King's Mountain Railroad
Company, to be held at this place on Friday
of next week.
LUSUS NATUR.K.
We learn that Mr. John McGarity, living
six miles south of this place, owns a sow which
has four young pigs, three of them having on
each of their fore legs two perfectly formed
feet. As is unusual in similar freaks of nature,
the pigs are healthy and bid fair to become
thrifty porkers.
THE CITIZENS' SAVINGS BANK.
Wc learn from the Columbia Phoenix of
Saturday last, that Judge Bryan, of the United
States District Court, has confirmed the
action of the Committee of Creditors of the
Citizens' Saving Bank, held on the 14th of
January, in appointing Dr. John Fisher as
trustee, who in connection with a committee
of creditors, will control the affairs of the
Bank for the present. A meeting of the
Committee of Creditors is called for on the
11th of February, instant.
MI AGO WIZAKD.
The Miaco Wizard and Ventriloquist has
been performing in this town during the present
week. Besides magic and legerdemain,
which include the various feats of the "black
art," and which are performed in a clever and
dexterous manner, the Wizard is supported
by comic singers and Ethiopian delineators,
whose comicalities and burlesques are well
rendered and mirth provoking, while the
comic Marionettes never fail to fill the children
with ecstasies of delight. Not the least
attraction of the exhibition is a panorama of
Bible Scenes, accompanied by an interesting
lecture. The entertainment of the Miaco
Troupe is quite creditable, and we have no
hesitancy in commending their exhibitions to
the public.
IMMIGRANTS.
On Monday eveniug last a party of immigrants
arrived at this place, consisting of a
man and wife and four children, and one man
whose family is in Europe. They did not
come under the auspices of any agency or society,
but on their own responsibility ; and we
are pleased to be able to announce that the
next day after their arrival they made satisfactory
arrangements for remaining?the man
with his family securing a house in which to
live, and the other being employed by Mr.
Herndon at twelve dollars per month. These
immigrants are from the western part of Austria,
are farmers by profession, and those living
here who speak their language represent
them as being intelligent people, fully conversant
with the duties of farm life. This is the
first arrival of immigrants at this place, and
we hope they may be so well pleased with
their new home as to induce more of their
countrymen to come and settle among us.
PERSONAL.
We were pleased to receive a visit, on Friday
morning last from Mr. Win. Laidler, so
long and favorably known as one of the proprietors
of the Charleston Courier. Mr. Laidler
is traveling in this section on business connected
with closing the affairs of that paper.
Mr. Charles B. Grist, brother of the proprietor
of the Enquirer, paid his old home
a flying visit last Friday evening, after an
absence of near fourteen years, during which
time he has rambled all over the United
States and the greater part of Europe and
South America. Though so long absent from
his native home, he has not been unmindful
of old friends and early associations, having,
in the interval, communicated many interesting
letters to these columns. He is now engaged
as the advance agent of the San Francisco
Minstrel Troupe, and on Monday morning
departed for Savannah, Georgia, his engagements
not permitting a longer stay.
Among the pleasant incidents of his brief
visit, aside from the reunion with kindred
and friends, he was the recipient of a serenade
on Saturday night by a number of select per
formers, led by the incomparable Withers,
which compliment was highly appreciated.
SALES.DAY.
Monday last?sales-day for February?was
the most inclement day of the season ; but notwithstanding
this fact, there was a very good
attendance of people from various sections of
the county. Under the orders of the Judge
of Probate, the Sheriff sold, for partition, etc.,
the following mentioned real estate:
Of the estate of G. YV. Williams, deceased,
the homestead?purchased by YV. B. YVilliams
it 82000; lot No. 2, two and one-tenth acres?
purchased by F. Christman at 864 ; lot No.
3, two acres?purchased by YV. B. YVilliams
it 840 ; lot No. 4, three-fourths of one acre?
purchased by J. Hannibal Baatty at 8200;
forty-two acres of land near Yorkville?purchased
by YV. B. Steele at 812.75 per acre ;
lot No. 6, three-fourths of one acre, embracing
bouses at present occupied by Dr. Jackson
D Dait/1 niirnliUQOfl Kv fr H O'fiPftrV
1UU JLI. J. ?J\JJ VI |yuivima^v? wj v. **. v ?j
it $1600; lot No. 7, three-fourths of oue acre
and vacant, adjoining the one last mentioned?
purchased by F. Christman at $1010.
Aaron Whisonant Land.?Tract No. 2, 69
icres?purchased by L. McSwain at $2.50
per acre ; tract No. 3, 65 acres?purchased
by H. K. Roberts at $2.75 per acre ; tract
No. 4, 69 acres?purchased by Luke Weston
at $3 per acre.
S. L. lieid's Land.?Tract No. 1,160 acres?
purchased by W. J. Reid at $1 per acre;
tract No. 2, 39 acres?purchased by the same j
at $2 per acre.
U. 11. Simril Lands? purchased by S. D.'
Simril at the following prices : Tract No. 3, i
58 acres, $5 per acre; tract No. 4, 116 acres,
34.50 per acre; tract No. 5, 40 acres, $5 per I
acre.
The following sales in bankruptcy were also J
made : By V. J. Tobias, Assignee of Cohen, i
Hanckle & Co.?The J. P. Duulap tract, 585 j
acres?purchased by John Dulin at $2.05 per I
acre; the McFadden tract, 872 acres?bought
for Hey ward, at 81 per acre; the \V. S. Dun.
lap tract, 98 acres?bought by \V. I. Clawscn
at 81 -05 per acre.
By T. S. JefTerys, Assignee?The James D.
; Johnson laud, 74 acres?purchased by James
A. Withers at 81.60 per acre.
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.
Since our last report, the following transj
fers of real estate in this county have beeu
i recorded by the County Auditor:
Win. B. Steele to John Chambers. A tract
of 434 acres of land iu Ebeuezer township.
Consideration, $3472.
W. B. Steele to Thomas S. Neely. A tract
of 439 acres in Ebenezer township. Consideration
$3528.
i li. H. Glenn, SherifF, to R. M. Sims. Lot
' in Rock Hill. Consideration $305.
| R. L. Carson to James H. Wallace. Twen|
ty-eight acres of land in York township. Consideration
$120.
Thomas C. Williams and others to H. F.
| Adickes. A tract of 248 acres of land in
j Bethesda township. Consideration $750.
j Wm. A. Barber to James M. Williford. A
tract of 220 acres of land in Catawba township.
Consideration $3300.
N. B. Craig to W. P. Draffin. A tract of
172 acres in Catawba township. Consideration
$2100.
Julius Mills to J. H. Kidd. A tract of 179
acres in Bethesda township. Consideration
$1088.
Jane Brown and others to M. S. Parrot.
A tract of 106 acres in King's Mountain
township. Consideration $318.
Heirs of G. W. Williams, deceased, to Isabella
Steele. Eleven acres of land in Yorkville.
Consideration $456.
flly Request.]
THE PUBLIC PRINTING.
To the Honorable the House of Representatives:
The undersigned respectfully beg leave to
submit the following:
First. That by the rules of their respective
Houses, as well as by an Act approved January
23, 1871, they are charged with the
prompt and accurate execution of the public
printing.
F'icond. That circumstances over which
they had no control rendered it imperatively
necessary for them to obtain an interest iu,
and finally take sole charge of, a printing establishment,
for the purpose of carrying on
successfully the work ordered by the General
Assembly.
Third. That in view of the nature of the
work, the supreme importance of its accurate
execution and prompt delivery, they are compelled
to employ the very best workmen.
Fourth. That the question of color has never
been raised, and no colored printer ever
having applied for a position or employment
in the establishment, no necessity existed for
making a test case as to whether a colored
printer can be admitted into the membership
of the Typographical Union of this city.
Fifth. That the contract has been faithfully
observed and the work well and faithfully executed,
under the most difficult circumstances.
Sixth. That they are not responsible for the
amount of printing ordered, nor its cost, particularly
the latter, owing to the peculiar uncertainties
of payments from the State Treasury,
the frequent necessity to negotiate claims
at less than half their face value, and the high
rate of interest charged (sometimes from five
to ten per cent, per month) for small accommodations,
and other causes which we deem it
unnecessary to bring to the attention of your
honorable body.
Seventh. That they believe, in order to show
the injustice of the complaints and statements
made relative to appropriations for printing,
it is simply necessary to call your attention
to a communication from the Republican
Printing Company to the General Assembly,
made to your honorable body, showing the
amount of work outside of the legislative
printing ordered by the General Assembly
at the sessions of 1870-71, 1871-72, to wit:
1. Five volumes of the Statutes of the State,
viz: Volumes X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV.
2. Thirty-five hundred copies of the Revised
AM ^IaaamaI AA
ur vjrcuc&ai uwiiutw.
3. Five thousand copies Ku-Klux Trials.
4. Five thousand copies (extra) Reports of
Special Joint Investigating Committee.
5. Two volumes Supreme Court Decisions.
6. One thousand extra copies of Reports
and Resolutions of the General Assembly of
1871-72.
7. Various books and documents ordered
by the Executive Departments.
That communication, in conclusion, makes
the following statement:
"On the adjournment of the last General Assembly,
they were advised by the late State Treasurer
(lion. N. G. Parker) to close the establishment,
as there were no funds in the Treasury to pay
printing bills, and not likely to be; but the printers
did not accept nor act upon this advice, and
have continued the work, believing that the representatives
of the people will make provision for
the payment of their claims."
Eighth. That subsequently a "Joint Resolution
to make appropriation for expenses of printing
ordered by the General Assembly during the regular
sessions of 1870-71, 1872-73," was introduced,
appropriating the sum of two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars for payment of the claims of the
Republican Printing Company, and seventy-five
thousand dollars for claims of the various newspapers.
That this Resolution was referred to the
Committee on Printing, who reported it back,
with a recommendation "that the Resolution do
passthat it was afterwards referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means of your honorable
bodv. who. after "a most careful and laborious in
vestigatioii of the account#, vouchers. <ftc., and
the Acts under which the work was ordered," reported
back the Resolution, with the samerecommendation
as that of the Committee on Printing,
to wit: "that the Resolution do pass." The Committee
also say in their report, "that they have
good reason to believe that the Printing Company
has been obliged to raise money at high rates of
interestin order to carry on the work in question,
through the failure of the State to meet its engagements
with the Company. It would seem, therefore,
that a case is thus made for the exercise of a
sense of justice towards said creditor. In this aspect
of the case, the Committee respectfully repeat
their recommendation that the Joint Resolution ""
do pass.
(' Signod) "J. A. BOWLEY, Ch'm.,
"J. D. BOSTON,
"And others."
Ninth. That the appropriation of two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars was mostly for
the work hereinbefore mentioned, and was almost
wholly absorbed in the payment of the
then existing debts of the Company; and that
from the further sum of one hundred thousand
dollars appropriated for the current and permanent
printing of the session of 1872-73, not
one dollar may be said to have been received
by the Company, until the issue of certificates
of indebtedness authorized at the extra session,
and which alone enabled the Company
to tide over the recent money panic, without
interruption to the printing and business of
the General Assembly.
Tenth. That with reference to the appropriations
made at the extra session for the report
on immigration, the decisions of the Supreme
Court and tax duplicates, we beg leave
to ask your attention to the following extract
from the report of the Senate Committee on
Printing:
"SKNATK COMVITTW Pnnuu
"Columbia, S. C., October 30th, 1873.
"The Committee on Printing of the Senate, to
whom was referred a bill to make appropriation
for the payment of the expenses of printing, have
hail the same under careful consideration, and beg
leave to report:
"That the work ordered by concurrent resolution
of the General Assembly at its last session is
of the highest importance to the State, notonlv for
the information it affords the immigrant, but as
furnishing a valuable record and history. The
Committee examined specimens of a portion of
the work now in progress, and, after a patient
hearing of the Clerks of the two Houses as to the
time, labor and expense involved, believe the appropriation
asked tor this purpose to be just and
reasonable.
"In regard to the appropriation for the payment
of the printing of the Supreme Court Decisions,
the Committee, on reference to Chapter 104, (page
495,) Revised Statutes, And that, while the Comptroller
General is authorized to draw his warrants
for the publication of these decisions, no appropriations
have been made for payment of the warrants,
thereby rendering further legislative action
necessary to authorize the Treasurer to pay for the
work.
"With reference to the last item of appropriation
asked for by the bill, the Committee find that in