Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 14, 1875, Image 2
?craps an* ,facts.
The name of the Sandwich Island King
is pronounced Calico.
The New York papers see prospects
for a better business year than that of the
departed 1874.
The statistics show that last year a
smaller number of immigrants arrived at New
York than in any year since 1862.
The United States House of Representatives
has appropriated 815,000 for repairing
Fort Moultrie.
A youthful murderer?a negro boy aged
13?was found guilty of manslaughter in the
Superior Court at Raleigh, on Friday last.
The Charlotte Observer learns that Harvey
Groner, who lived near South Point, Gaston
county, committed suicide a few days ago,
by hanging.
Arrangements are being made for the
commencement of a Masonic temple in Ral
eigh, which is to be erected on a raagnihcent
scale.
The sale of pews at Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, (Bcecher's church) recently, realized
$70,000 against $50,000 last year.
The highest p^ce paid for a pew was $550.
The merchants who begin the year by
increasing their advertisements will be the
happiest next Christmas. If you would reap
liberally, you must sow liberally.
Since the first of September last the
cotton factories at Columbus, Ga., consumed
4,160 bales of cotton, against 1,345 bales for J
same months in 1873.
A monster cheese, weighing fourteen
tons, and measuring thirteen feet in diame- j
ter and eleven in height, is to be made in ,
Ohio and exhibited at the Philadelphia cen- j
tennial.
Col. Burton X. Harrison, who wa9 private
secretary to President Davis during the
greater partof his administration, has beeu appointed
secretary of the mayor of New York
city by Mayor Wickham.
"I can't say as he went to Heaven,"
remarked a Fort Scott citizen of a deceased
townsman, "but he paid a bill of eleven years'
standing only the day before he died, and
you can judge for yourself."
The report going the rounds of the press
that Jefferson Davis is ill has no foundation
in fact. He is in as good health now as at
any time for several years, and appears on
the streets cf Memphis almost daily.
The Mississippi papers represent the ne-,
gro race to be in a worse condition than ever
before. Thousands are without supplies of
any kind, without necessary clothing, without
money and without credit, and those coining
from Georgia and Alabama are also in
a condition of great destitution.
The warden of the Oregon penitentiary
has discharged the prison doctor and detailed
one of the convicts, who is an educated
physician, to perform the duties. The warden
claims that thereby he saves 81,500 a year
to the State, and besides is sure that the
physician will always "be within reach when
needed."
A soldier of a cavalry regiment was
brought up for stealing his comrade's liquor
ration. He was an Irishman, and his defense
was unique: "I'd be sorry in dade, surr, to
be called a thief! I put the liquor in the
same bottle, and mine was at the bottom ;
and sure, I was obliged to drink his to get out
me own !"
In a drinking saloon in Cincinnati recently,
a German made a wager of 810 that
he could drink ten glasses of beer and three J
bottles of wine within a period of ten minutes.
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.tie gulped down tne stated amount 01 ueer
and then attacked the wine. As he was engaged
in forcing down his throat the last glass
of the third bottle of wine, he fell senseless to
the floor. At last accounts he was not ex- J
pected to survive.
Over sixty different nations, including
Japan, now burn American kerosene, and the
extremely small price has given such an impetus
to its adoption as an illuminator all
over the world, that it must prove highly
beueficial to the producing interest in future
years. Germany, in 1873, cousraed 52,- {
116,773 gallons, at a cost of 811,469,151; j
Belgium, 22,016,550 gallons, costing 85,127,408;
England, 82,000,000 worth, and
Ireland about 84,341,765 worth.
A correspondent has figured out for
the Philadelphia Ledger the interesting fact
that the total amount of State, county, city
and town taxes collected in the United States
in 1870 was 8280,591,000, which was almost
87 a head for the entire population. The total
amount of taxes collected in 1860 was 894,
186,000 which was about 83 a head for the
entire population. It cost, therefore, more
than twice as much to take care of a man in
his State, county and municipal relations in
1870 as it did ten years before. The net ordinary
expenditures of the federal government
in 1870 were 8164,421,000 which was 84.30 a
head for the entire population. In 1860 they
were 860,000,000, which was 81.94 a head.
The Washington Republican, Grant's
reputed organ, says: "Various rumors are
afloat regarding a change of policy on the
part of this government in its relations with
Spain. The simple truth is that while the
administration recognizes the changed condition
of affairs in that country, and the fact
that a republic no longer exists there to enlists
American sympathy, the instructions to
Minister Cushing were, from the outset, so
pointedly urgent as regards the Virginius
case that they require no alteration, even
under the present circumstances, when we are
called upon to deal with a monarchy. In
the future, however, any new development
that may arise may become the occasion of
more determined action."
Sufficient data has been obtained to
warrant the statement that the sugar yield in
Louisiana the past season was 140,000 hogsheads,
worth in round numbers 8100 a hogshead,
and 200,000 barrels of molasses, worth
824 a barrel, making a total of 828,800,000.
In the Parish of Ascension, upon sixteen acres
of ground, worked by two negroes, 72,000
pounds of white sugar and 100 barrels of molasses,
bringing 88,400, were produced. A
Scotch planter, Mr. Burnsides, working intfie
same parish lands formerly belonging to Ceil.
Wade Hampton and Senator Preston, made
5,000 hogsheads of sugar and 8,000 barrels of
molasses, yielding in all 8692,000, on an investment
of 8140,000. He worked about 500
hands.
The Petersburg (Va.) Index says: "A
very curious sale will probably be consummated
from the steps of the Court House this
morning. The Mayor has ordered that
Charles Rogers, a white man, who has no visible
means of support, shall be sold or hired
to the highest bidder for a period of sixty
days, and Rogers will be brought from jail
to-day and put upon the stand. The money
paid for his services will be devoted to his
own benefit, provided he works his time out;
but if he runs away he will get nothing. We
understand a private bid of 82 50 per month
1 1 1 **? ~ o nnti.
lias Dcen maae ior unu, uul a w.urw..
tion in public will probably run him up to a
higher figure. We do not know whether to
congratulate or condole with the man who
will get him."
The compulsory education Act went
into effect in New York with the new year.
It compels the attedance at some school of all
children between the ages of eight and fourteen
years, and it is the intention of the board
of education to enforce it thoroughly. Each
city ward will be divided into as many districts
as there are school-houses, and to each
-district one truant agent will be appointed,
-whose first duty it will be to ascertain accurately
the number and residence of all the
children in his district. The facts as thus ascertained
will be the basis upon which the
law will be invoked whenever parents cannot
be otherwise induced to send their children
to school. It is expected that the new law
will compel a large addition to the existing
school school accommodations and to the
farm school to which vagrant children are to
: be sent. The Act provides that not only the
! parents who allow their children to stay away
i from school, but also all persons who employ
them in any way, are liable to a fine.
Speaking of the working of the fence law,
which has been in operation for several
months in portions of Mecklenburg county,
| the Charlotte Observer says: "About half the
I townships in Mecklenburg county are now
! under township fences, and we understand
; from farmers that the system is daily growing
i in popularity ; that those who opposed the
I proposition when it was first submitted to a
I vote, are now its warm friends. The colored
! people, too, who live in the townships where
the law exists, would not now do away with
j it if they could. We heard an intelligent
j farmer say yesterday, that in his opinion, it
: would only be a short time before the whole
! county was fenced in."
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THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 14, 1875.
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CnTTTIf (MWOTTVl YEWS.
OVf XA1 VAUVAIAilA A?JhJ |?
? Judge Green, recently candidate for Governor,
is quite ill at his residence in Sumter.
? The estate of Mr. John H. Cathcart, deceased,
was sold at Winnsboro, on the 4th
instant, for $50,000.
? The American Bible Society have furnished
a set of handsome Bibles to the passenger
coaches on the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad.
? At Columbia, on sales-day, a seven-thirtieth
interest in the Saluda Factory was sold
at auction for $25,000. A one-tenth interest
was sold at the same time for $9,000.
? Mr. William Rose, who was badly hurt
in Columbia on Christmas night, by being
cut with a knife by a negro, is slowly improving.
? A recruiting office for the United States
army has been opened in Columbia for the
enlistment of whites and blacks, as soldiers.
White men are consigned to white regiments
and colored men to colored regiments. The
terra of service is five years.
? The Ledger says that the office of Judge
of Probate, and that of one of the County
Commissioners of Lancaster, will be declared
vacant by the Governor, on account of the
parties recently elected failing to give bond
as required by law.
? John Chesnut, colored, of Kershaw, form
erly a member of the legislature, died very
suddenly at his home iu that county on
Christmas night. The verdict of the jury
was that he came to his death by the excessive
use of ardent spirits.
? Mr. Charles Albrecht, a citizen of Columbia,
committed*suicide in that city on Monday
night of last week. The weapon used
was a large Colt's revolver, with which the
deceased shot himself in the right temple.
Busiuess troubles are said to have been the
cause of the deed.
? At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Central National Bank of Columbia, held recently,
John S. Preston, John B. Palmer,
W. B. Stanley, W. C. Swaffield, R. L. Bryan,
S. L. Leaphart, James E. Black, R. D. Senn,
J. C. Seeders. J. H. Rion, S. McGowan and
"* ?- o #
T. B. Jeter, were elected directors. At the
meeting of the new board of directors Gen.
John S. Preston was elected president, vice
Mr. J. B. Palmer, who declined a reelection.
? The Abbeville Medium says : "Mrs. Ann
I. Wallace, Garrard county, Kentucky, has
just made a most noble and generous donation
to Erskine college, at Due West. Time
and again has she given her wealth to the
different enterprises of her church, the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian, and this college,
and now she gives everything she has.
Her donation to Erskine will amount to fifteen
or twenty thousand dollars. The donation is
restricted by only one provision : She is to be
paid a sum sufficient for her comfortable support
during her life. At her death the whole
of her property goes to the college. Mrs.
Wallace is now eighty years of age."
LOUISIANA AFFAIRS.
On Monday of last week, there was witnessed
in New Orleans the extraordinary
scene of ejecting from their seats, by military
i D1.1. T ...u?
lorce, memoers 01 me oww .uegiainnjie nuu
had been declared duly elected, but who were
distasteful to Kellogg and his satellites.
The most succint account of the affair that
we have seen, is contained in the following
correspondence of the New York Herald:
Mr. Wiltz was elected by acclamation, by
the Conservatives, temporary chairman, who
ordered Vigers, the clerk of the old House,
to call the roll. Morrell and Lowell protested,
and some noisy filibustering followed.
Finally, Vigers abandoned his desk, and
Trezevant, of Caddo, was appointed by the
chair. A motion was then made to admit the
members claiming seats from the parishes
not acted upon by the returning board.
Carried. A motion was then made to go
into an election for speaker. After more filibustering
the motion was carried, and resulted
as follows: Wiltz 53, Hahn, 2, blank 1?
the Radicals not voting. The Senate organized
formally without holding a session. Its
president and the Governor refused to recognize
Wiltz as speaker. They claimed that
the Hall of Representatives was in the pos!
session of a mob, and not a Legislature. The
I Radicals went into caucus, with the intention
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I of organizing as a ijegisiaiure wmcu jveuugg
! and Antoine would recognize. When your
! correspondent at this time left the Statehouse
j it was filled with Radical politicians. Kellogg
j and Dibble were in close consultation with
I Gen. De Trobriand, and telegraphic correspondence
was rapidly going ou between the
Governor and Gen. Emory. The Radicals
determined not to recoguize the Wiltz House.
Outside the door of the Statehouse there was
a large delegation of Conservative sergeantsI
at-arms to prevent the egress of members. It
I was the intention of Wiltz to hold the House
i in continuous session all day and night. The
I crowd about the building was not so large as
1 in the morning, but exceedingly gooddiu!
mored. McEnery's headquarters were crowI
ded with leading Conservatives, all of whom
appeared jubilant and confident and convinced
! that they acted strictly within the pale of the
law.
INVASION OF THE STATEHOUSE,
At a quarter past three o'clock, p. m., the
United States military moved up in front of
the Statehouse, completely surrounding it,
when Gen. De Trobriand entered and proceeded
to the House with a military order, unseating
Speaker Wiltz and the five members
j claimed to have been irregularly seated.
Wiltz immediately corresponded with McEnery,
and, upon the recommendation of the latter,
was about withdrawing with all the Con:
8ervative members. The military order was
: presumed to have been issued by Sheridan in
' response to an application irora Kellogg for
; armed Federal assistance. The excitemeut
' grew intense, but was not violent.
m'enery's afterthought.
McEnery afterward advised Wiltz to remain
in the chair until ejected, and he consequently
peremptorily refused to obey Gen. De
! Trobriand, who appeared on the floor, backed
| by about thirty men. About four o'clock
| lie Trobriand, who had retired momentarily,
j then entered with Gen. Campbell, who point!
ed out the five members to be ejected, each of
i whom, after making a protest, was^ marched
J out between two United States soldiers,
j Without these the political complexion of the
I T-Tr. iiex> cfoiulo HIVv.tmn fn tortv-niiie
Conservatives. Wiltz made a manly speech,
denying the right of United States troops to
eject him, and declared that it could only be
done by bodily or armed force. Wiltz was
finally ejected by the troops, and all the Conservative
members withdrew. Speeches were
made to the people from the Conservative
headquarters by Wiltz, Marr and Ogden, who
advised them to return to their homes and preserve
peace. The Conservative members met
in caucus at seven o'clock, p. m.
THE EJECTMENT SCENE.
From three o'clock, p. 111., to forty-five minutes
past three, the scene in the House was a
comparatively quiet one. At that hour,
when Gen. De Trobriand entered in company
with an aid, aud, walkiug up to the speaker's
desk, informed him that he had two documents
he wished to have read to the House,
excitement ruu high. Vigers, the clerk, being
prevented, the aid proceeded to read them.
One was an order on the clerk of the House
to have the five recently elected members
pointed out to him, and the other officially
addressed to himself and signed by Governor
Kellogg, was to the following purport:
"An illegal assembly of men having taken
possession of the hall of the House of Representatives,
and the police being unable to remove
them, I respectfully request you to remove
therefrom all persons not entitled to re
main."
Gen. De Trobriaud then said: "I must
nosv request members herein indicated to retire.
My orders from Gen. Emory are to
comply with all requests made and instructions
given by Gov. Kellogg.
Speaker Wiltz then rose and said he desired
to state that the House of Representatives of
the State of Louisiana had been duly organized,
aud wished to know whether Gen. Emory
was aware of that fact.
Gen. DeTrobriand answered that he didn't
know whether Gen. Emory was aware of it or
not.
The speaker then asked whether it was his
intention to remove from the body gentlemen
who had been seated in it since its organization.
Gen. De Trobriand answered that he was
not there to decide the legality of the action of
auy member, but only to obey orders, and
hoped that his presence alone would prove
sufficient to enforce them. To this statement
speaker Wiltz replied as follows : "While I
am speaker of this House I am obliged to you
for your consideration in coming here alone,
and while I respect you as a gentleman and a
soldier. vet I cannot instruct its members to
leave the hall. You must use force to compel
them."
Gen. De Trobriand, responding that he
would make a show of force, immediately retired
and shortly returned with a file of fifteen
United States soldiers, who were halted
in the rear of the hall. He then advanced
and ordered Vigers to call the roll. Vigers
endeavored to take possession of the clerk's
desk, but was prevented, the speaker warning
him not to do it.
NOISY MEMBERS
encouraged him with shouts, but the speaker
was firm, and Vigers proceeded to call the
roll in frout of the desk. Against this the
speaker protested, aud required Gen. De Trobriand
to state to the House explicitly that he
had sufficient force to secure the calling of
the roll. At the conclusion of this ceremony
Vigers was requested by the General to point
out the members to be ejected. Not being
able to comply, Gen. Campbell was summoned
and proceeded to designate them. As he did
so each individual in turn was taken in custo
dy by two soldiers, and alter making a tormai
protest was marched out of the Legislative
hall. When Thomas Vaughn, of Caddo,
A SILVER-HEADED OLD MAN,
was accosted by Gen. De Trobriand and his
guards, he rose very slowly to his feet and
said in most solemn and impressive terms:
"A general of the United States army has
placed his hand upon my shoulder and commanded
me to leave the floor of this House.
As a member of this body, duly elected by
the people of Caddo Parish, aud as an American
citizen, believing that the rights of
Americau freemen are not yet all dead, I desire
to enter my solemn protest against this
outrage." He was then marched out by his
captors amid the profound silence of the late
so noisy Assembly. Almost entirely similar
scenes were enacted in the case of Jefferys,
Luckett and Stafford, of Rapides ; Dunn, of
Grant, and Kelley, of Winn, who severally entered
their protests and were marched out
amid the indignant hisses of all assembled.
After their ejectment Gen. Campbell approached
Gen. De Trobriand and asked him
to request Speaker Wiltz to allow Vigers to
take his seat. Upon the request being made,
the speaker refused to recognize Vigers in any
capacity, and stated that Campbell, not beiug
a member of the House, had no right to speak
upon its floor. Campbell expostulated and
explained, whereupon De Trobriaud interceded,
aud informed Mr. Wiltz that he must
obey orders.
WILTZ STILL DECLINING TO SURRENDER,
he ordered up the troops from the rear and
the work was accomplished. Vigers dashed
into his seat, and Speaker Wiltz, gazing upon
the scene in silent indignation, stepped slowly
dow/i from his desk in a most impressive manner,
and with a voice broken with emotion delivered
the following remarks:
WII.TZ's LAST PROTEST.
"Iii the name of the people of the United
States, and in the name of tny bleeding State,
and in the name of the God of Justice, I again
enter my solemn protest against this invasion
of our hall by the soldiers of the United States
with drawn bayonets and loaded muskets.
We have seen our brother members violently
seized by force of arms and torn from us in
j spite of our solemn protest. We have seen a
I force of soldiers march up the aisles of the
i Hall of Representatives of Louisiana. I make
| protest against this in the name of a once free
I people, in the name of a once free State, in the
1 name of the Union. I enter my solemn proI
test. This chair of the only speaker of the
; House of Louisiana is surrounded by United
j States troops. The officers of the House are
! prisoners in their hands. I solemnly declare
! that Louisiana has ceased to be a so vereign
i Stale: that it has no longer a Republican
j government, and I call upon the representa1
tives of the State to retire with me before this
! show of arms."
1 The Democratic representatives, headed by
Speaker Wiltz, then marched out of the hall
j and Statehouse, both of which were closed as
i soon as the last Democratic representative
went out. They went to 71 St. Louis street,
followed by a large crowd, who cheered them
on their way. Speaker Wiltz was loudly
1 called on, when he came out and addressed
the crowd in the following words; "We
have attempted and succeeded in organising
\ the House of Representatives. I was elected
1 speaker, and after a permanent organization,
notwithstanding the interference of the police,
we have had proceedings until a few minutes
ago, when the United States soldiers forcibly
i expelled about eight or ten of our duly seated
j members. We then retired and left, and
come to our people to tell them what has been
i done." Other speakers, Messrs. Marr, Ellis,
1 &c\,followed, counseling onler, and asked the
1 crowd to retire.
During the progress of the concluding
events, Mr. Lowell, one of the Radical ean;
didates for speaker, pronounced his protest
i against the employment of United States
I troops, and said he had been elected by civil
| authority and did not wish to be seated by
I military authority.
Immediately after the demonstration of the
military, Governor MeEnery addressed the
following protest to President Grant:
I New Orleans, January 5.?To his Ex|
cellency U. S. Grant, President of the United
States: In the name of liberty and all lovers
of liberty throughout the United States, I do
I most solemnly protest against the acts of the
i military forces of the United States on yesterday,
in the occupation of the Statehouse ; in
the forcible ejection bv troops of members
of the Legislature, and the elected Speaker
of the House, and the subsequent organization
of the House by direct and forcible
intervention of the military. I affirm, before
the whole American people, that the action on
the part of the military in this city yesterday
is subversive of the republican institutions of
this free country. John McEnery.
On the same day Geu. Sheridan addressed
the following dispatch to the Secretary of
War:
I think the terrroism now existing in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Arkansas could be entirely
removed and confidence and fair dealing
established by the arrest and trial of the
ring-leaders of the armed White Leaguers. If
Congress would pass a bill declaring them
bauditti they could be tried by military commission.
This banditti, who murdered men
here on the 14th of hist September, also more
recently at Vicksburg, Mississippi, should, in
justice to law and order and peace and prosperity
of this southern part of the country, be
punished. It is possible that if the President
would issue a proclamation declaring them
banditti that no further action need be taken,
except that which would devolve upon me.
P. H. Sheridan,
Lieut. General United States Army.
The action of the military in dispersing the
Legislature of a sovereign State, coupled with
the above proposition by a Lieu tenant-General
of the United States Army has raised a
storm of indignation throughout the Union,
and the conduct is denounced alike in all
sections and by all parties, notwithstanding
i n . . t * .1 _ ? ? A. - C 01 ! J l A . _ r
tiie iaci inai me acus 01 onenuau nave ine uificial
sanction of the President and the Secretary
of War. It is understood that at a meeting
of the Cabinet on the day following the
scenes enacted in New Orleans, it was agreed
that all vestige of opposition to the Kellogg
government must be utterly and forever
crushed out. This is simply construed to
mean that as a last resort to retain political
supremacy, the Republican party will re'inaugurate
and pursue the same policy toward
the Southern States that characterized the
presidential campaign of 1868. In support of
this view the Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun says:
The key-uote is still to be the cry of kuklux,
of White Leagues, and of murders and
outrages. Notwithstanding that the people
in the lastelectious spewed these stories out of
their mouths, the attempt will be made to revive
them with ten fold vigor. Mr. Morton
talked of nothing but blood to-day. Mr.
Conkling cried blood and murder, and Mr.
Edmunds shrieked ku-klux, assassiu and
White Leagues. Mr. Logan conjured up a
new rebellion more powerful than that of
1861. If all the murders had been committed
in Louisiana, as Senator Morton declares,
there would scarcely be a vestige of the republican
party left in the State, and yet he
claims with the same breath that it is in a
majority of thirty thousand. Incredible as it
may seem, there can be no doubt that it is
now the deliberate purpose of the radical
Senators to engage all their powers, physical
and mental, in the effort to revive all the old
animosities of the past, to incite anew the fast
dying out bitterness of the North toward the
South, in the forlorn hope of fastening their
yoke on the necks of the people for auother
presidential term. To accomplish this these
are the men who will stop at nothing. Drunk
with sixteen years of unrestrained and undi
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vuiecl power, they are maaaenea at tne prospect
before them. A prostrate and bound
Louisiana can excite no sympathy in 'their
breasts. Sooner than give up the control of
the government they would applaud the President
should he lay his hand on the throat of
every other State of the South as he has on
the throat of Louisiana.
In the debate which is now to take place
the radical Senators will be found repeating
with more vehemence than ever the wildest
and most diabolical slanders on the Southern
people. If they can once fix in the minds of
the people of the North that the South, as a
section, does not accept the recent constitutional
amendments, and that the success of
the democratic party means the overthrow of
those amendments, then they will be content.
It was almost universally thought after the
elections that the third term business was dead.
From what has transpired in the last week or
two the country may be assured that it is not
dead, and that the President dreams of it as
fondly as ever. Just before the recess the
President was in conversation with a member
of Congress. The third terra subject was alluded
to by the member. The President significantly
remarked, "No one knows what the
White Leaguers will do in the next two years."
From the circumstances, and from the manner
of the President, the only inference to be
drawn was that the country would be in great
danger from the White Leaguers, and that he
was the only one that could save it. This
iroblin crv of White Leaguers was echoed on
the floor of the Senate to-day, on th? radical
side. The White Leaguers, they say, are organized
throughout the entire South, they are
armed to the teeth and number hundreds of
thousands; they intend to renew the war for
the destruction of the Union, and the man
who broke the back of the slaveholders' rebellion
is the only man who can stem the new
rebellion. This is the new third terra program
me.
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Extension of time for payment of Taxes.
; The Columbia Union-Herald gives no|
tice that the time in which taxes may be paid,
without incurring the 20 per cent, penalty,
will be extended to the 30th of January, instant.
In regard to the matter, the Unioni
Herald says :
"We are requested by the governor to state
i that the only power now possessed by any ex:
ecutive officer of the State to postpone the
: time when the penalty for non-payment of
I taxes will attach, is the power conferred on
1 the comptrollor-general by section 139, page
| 778, act* of 1873-74, as follows : "That whenever
the general assembly shall fail to make
; the annual levy of taxes, or the collection of
| the same be in any way delayed, it shall be
: the duty of the comptroller-general to notiry
I each county treasurer that the penalty for
I non-payment shall not attach until after the
expiration of sixty days from the date of his
public announcement of his readiness to colj
led the said taxes."
"Inasmuch as the collection did not begin
i in any county till the 30th of November, the
time will be extended till the 30th of January.
In some other counties, where special
i causes of delay in commencing the collection
have existed, the time will be correspondingly
extended.
1 The people are'by law entitled to sixty days'
time from the coipmenccmenf of the collection
before they are subjected to the penalty
for non-payment. The comptroller-general
will issue the proper orders in ample time to
reach all the county treasurers. The question
of any further extensions than those above
named rests exclusively with the general as'
sembly, and not with any executive officer."
! LOCAL AFFAIRS. \
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?First
Meeting?In the Matter of
Jo!.n Mayes, Bankrupt.
| Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?
J. F. Wallace, Applicant?Mrs. Caroline
Lowry, deceased.
' JefFerys & Metts, Agents?Navassa Guano,
j John Bratton and Belle M. McCaw, Executors?
Valuable Town Property for Sale.
Trial Justice's Blanks?Agricultural Lions, Ac.
Yorkville Female Institute.
Kennedy, Latimer A Hemphill?The Grent Cotton
Grower?Groceries.
T. M. Dobson A Co.?Listen at Dobson's PricesPrints?Stoves?Guano?Dry
Goods?Bellows?Miles'
Shoes?Bargains.
M. Strauss A Son?Quite Important.
Clark Brothers?New Firm?Flour?No Dead j
Heads?Bacon and Lard?Cream Cheese?
Coffee?Sugar?Canned Goods?ShovelsAxes?Nails,
i W. II. A J. P. Iierndon?Guano.
] A. J. Matthews?Note Lost.
F. Ifapperlield?York Marble Yard,
H. F. Adickos?Table Cutlery?Plaid Linseys?
Dress Goods?Blankets.
TI1E WEATHER.
I The present winter has been remarkable
i for mildness, and the first really cold weather
j we have had, visited us on Saturday night,
[since which time the temperature has been
exceedingly cold,.accompanied with ice, rain
and sleet.
TOWN ELECTION.
The municipal election, last Monday, was
very quiet, there being no local question before
the citizens, aud but one ticket presented,
consisting of the old Board, viz: W. H. Mc.- (
Corkle, lutcndant; J. R. Schorb, Joseph
Herndon, Robert Wright and Edward Wheel* j
er, Wardens.
DR. CLOPTON. |
Dr. Clopton will remain in town a few days, i
during which time those desiring the benefit 1
of his professional services, can consult him.
We have no hesitancy in assuring the public 1
that Dr. Clopton is a skillful practitioner ,
and a gentleman of undoubted integrity, j
and that those who may submit to his treat- I
raent of the diseases which he makes a spe- '
cialty, will derive great benefit. '
CHESTER MUNICIPAL ELECTION. (
Since the date of our Chester letter, we i
learn that the municipal election was carried s
by the Republicans by a large majority. '
mi . tn 1 ?._j t... i\.r?: n
Hie omuenf eieeieu uie?juueiment, vj. i
W. Melton ; Wardens?J. J. McLure, C. C. |
Macoy, John Lee aud Harrison Bailey. J.
J. McLure, though run by the Republicans,
is a Conservative, and the two last-named
Wardens are colored.
COMMUTATION *OF SENTENCE.
On the petition of Nelson Clawson, convicted
of murder at the last term of the Circuit
Court for York county and sentenced to be
hanged on the 15th instant, (to morrow) Governor
Chamberlain has commuted the sentence
to imprisonment at hard labor for life in
the State penitentiary. The petition of the
prisoner was signed by a number of the members
of the Yorkville bar, including I. D.
Witherspoon, solicitor pro tern., the county officers
and several prominent citizens, aud had
the endorsement of his Honor T. J. Mackey,
presiding Judge. This is the first reversal of
the sentence of a court Governor Chamber- |
lain has made, and in granting the prayer of |
the petitioner, his Excellency says : ]
"The defendant in this case, Nelson Claw- I
son, has been tried and convicted in due I
course of lav/ of murder, aud has been sen- I
tenced in accordance with law to be hanged
on the 15th day of Jaouary, 1875. A peti- '
tion has been presented to me for a commuta- I
tion of the seuteuce pronounced to that of ira- 1
prisonmentfor life.
"I have read the testimony elicited upon (
the trial, as transmitted to me by the presi- '
ding judge, aud 1 am unable to discover any
error in the verdict rendered by the jury, and
certainly none in the sentence pronounced 1
by the court. I must, therefore, conclude 1
that ray action, if favorable to the defendant, 1
must rest upon the strength of the petition I
on/t runsmiQ fliprpin united. These rea- '
sons are vague, aud not altogether consonant '
with each other, aud I should have great difficulty
in selecting any specific reasons from ,
among those presented as the reason upon
which I could rest my action.
"I do find, however, that his honor, the pre- 1
siding judge, the solicitor pro tempore, the '
sheriff, and other officers of the court, raauy, 1
if not all, of the members of the bar at York- I
ville, as well as other prominent citizens of i
York county, have joined in the petition for ,
commutation. I cannotsuppose that all these
gentlemen have lost sight of the demands of
the law, or the interests of the community of 1
which they are members. I feel obliged to 1
believe that those who have thus endorsed i
the defendant's petition are moved thereto by i
motives and reasons which still give due
weight to the proper enforcement of the criminal
law of our State. I do, therefore, grant
the prayer of the petitioner, and commute the
sentence of death pronounced upon Nelson
Clawson to imprisonment at hard labor for
life in the State penitentiary."
THE CIRCUIT COURT.
The January term of the Circuit Court for
York county, convened on Tuesday morning,
his Honor T. J. Mackey, presiding.
Upon opening the Court, his Honor charged
the graud jury specifically as to their power '
and duty in finding bills?instructing them 1
not to try any case laid before them, but that (
they must simply decide whether there is ,
i?1 1 * Qfofo in nil f _
prOUilLMtJ cause lu nauaui, tuo .m ~ ting
the accused upon trial. If the grand 1
jury, in order to find a bill, considers the ques- 1
tion of the prisoner's absolute guilt, every
man put upon trial would stand under the I
shadow of a judgment previously rendered ]
against him by the grand jury. !
The jury were charged to investigate the :
administration of all the public officefs of the
county, and to hold them to a rigid accountability,
as such officers are trustees for the 1
people. i
His Honor specially charged the jury to
see that the couuty jail is in proper condition j
as a place of custody for persons accused, and
toascertaiu whether proper beds and bedding
have been supplied to prisoners. The Coun- 1
ty Commissioners are charged by law with the I
duty of supplying prisoners in the jail with i
beds, and in addition, with two blankets du- j
ring the winter season. And these articles ,
the prisoners must have before the setting of ,
the sun this evening, even though the County
Commissioners surrender their own beds to
the prisoners in jail, if necessary, as it is much
more proper and humane that County Com- i
missioners, who are at large in this cold weather,
should go without beds, than that the pris- (
oners locked up in jail, should suffer for want <
of proper bedding. i
The grand jury were also required to ex- <
amine the poor house and ascertain whether i
the poor are properly fed, sheltered and <
clothed and provided with good medical at- j
tendance. i
His Honor next desired to invite the atten-1 i
^ ~ J 1 mnnrtanoo nf I I
iioo or me grauu jury lu uk ? ,
their memorializing the Legislature to repeal i
the fence law now in force, and thus lift from I
the people a great burden, which is prevent- i
ing their advance in general prosperity, and
: which amounts to a tax of at least three per .
; cent, per annum, upon the capital invested iu '
the agricultural enterprises in this section.
! 'The pepple of York county, as shown by reliable
statistics," pay $19 for the necessary fen-!
cing to keep out of their fields cattle of the 1
. value of 81- j
! If an acre of laud is in the form of a
( perfect square, it can be fenced more economically
than if in any other shape. Let us see
what it would cost to fence such an acre toj
day in York county. It will require 920
{ mils, allowing 23 pannels to the side of the 1
lot, each pannel being three yards in length
and consuming ten rails. If the land-holder ]
owns the timber and hires a laborer to split
the rails, he must pay 50 cents per day and
find the laborer in food. An ordinary labor3r
will split 100 rails per day ; would require? >
say nine days?to split the required number I
of rails. But the laborer must he fed, and I
hired laborers are celebrated for their enormous
appetites. So that the cost of food will
be at least 30 cents per day, making $2.70
in addition, or a total cost of $7.20 for the :
rails. If the owner builds the fence himself,
it will require two days to build it, at 50 cents !
per day, for labor, making an aggregate of
58.20 for fencing a single acre.
If, however, the owner has no timber lands, ;
and therefore purchases the rails, he pays !
52.00 per hundred, or $18.00 for the total
number required for fencing an acre, exclusive
of the cost of hauling, which acre of arable
laud can be purchased in this county for
53.00.
'Plwi t li/inn ?f ainolini-otiiKf lh(> Pfliwli- I
1 iic ^ICAb IH/|/V Hi Uiiiviiytuiiiw^ v*?v VWMM. .
Lion of the poorer classes can best be realized |
by increasing the facilities of their becoming J
owners of land. Yet, our laws declare to the j
poor man, as well as to the rich, you may buy j
ten acres of land with your $30, yet you cannot
cultivate it to produce bread for your
family until you expend from $50 to $100 to
fence out your neighbor's cow, worth about
B15; and your rights of property in the soil
are subordinated to your, neighbor's right to
permit his cattle to roam over the entire country.
You are not required to lock up your
jmoke-house to keep your neighbor out of it,
but you must lock up your fkrm to keep bis
cow out of that.
This system, it will be seen, is peculiarly oppressive
to the small capitalists, whose money
is consumed in building a fence, when it
might be applied to building a more comfortable
cabin and the purchase of agricultural
implements. When the fence is built, he cannot
ensure it from destruction by fire, and the
very next camper-out will probably burn a
number of the rails and open the farm to invasion
by roving stock; and campers-out usnally
select the fences of the poorest farmer
in the neighborhood. Moreover, if a fence is
broken through by stock aud the crop destroyed,
it would be almost impossible for the owner
to recover a judgment in his favor in the
courts, as there are so few lawful fences in this
county. For practical purposes a lawful fence
may be defined as "a fence horse-high, bullstrong
and pig-tight," aud who has such a
fence in York ?
In addition, Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,
by reason of the fencing, the public roads have
been reduced to tne condition 01 mere guuera
ar ditches, instead of being safe avenues of
travel, as the fences shield them from the wind
ind the sun, and prevent them from being
thoroughly dried until a long period after a
rain; aud as the earth blown from the fields
collects along the line of the fence, the water
falls from the slopes, thus created, into the
road below, and there it remains until removed
by a dispensation of Providence, or by
the action of some exceptional board of County
Commissioners.
The objection to a repeal of the fence law
s that a poor man, owning a few head of cattle,
and being obliged to fence them in, will
nave to part with them at any price that he
jau get?having no pasture lauds on which to
keep them. This objection is a potent one,
and must be met practically in order to se;ure
a repeal of the fence law. The only way
to meet it is for the land-owners to guarantee
that they will furnish enclosed pastures at a
low charge?say twenty-five cents per month?
for each head of stock, and that they will supply
a sufficient quantity of pasture lands,
gratis, for the stock of their laborers. These
pastures can be easily enclosed with a small
portion of the rails taken from the farms.
It is certain that if we, from the rapid consumption
of timber in this country, for the
purposes of cooking, fencing, aud the building
of houses and railways, do not dispense
with fences, our children aud our grand children
must, as the timber will certainly be entirely
exhausted.
For the reasons mentioned, I therefore advise
the grand jury that they should at least
recommend, through the Senator and the Representatives
from this county, that the General
Assembly pass a bill to submit to the peonlft
of York countv. at an earlv day, whether
the present law shall be repealed, aud stock
shall be fenced in instead of being fenced out.
At the conclusion of his Honor's charge, a
number of witnesses were sent before the
?rand jury, and the State docket was taken
up. The cases in which Deputy U. S. Marshal
Hubbard is defendant, were continued
un account of absence of the defendant, it
having been shown to the satisfaction of the
Dourt that he was prevented from attending
this term in consequence of official duties
which he had been charged to execute. A
number of cases of assault and battery were
disposed of. Joe Leech, Dallas Rawlinson
and Manuel Hill, charged with the larceny of
a bale of cotton, were arraigned. A not. pros.
was entered as to Hill. The other defendants
were convicted aud sentenced to the
penitentiary?Rawlinson for twelve months,
and Leech for five months.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The General Assembly.
The General Assembly reconvened on
Tuesday fast, alter a snort recess ror tne
Christmas holidays. We learn by telegraph
that after the two houses assembled, the Governor
addressed a lengthy message to the
body, which is pronounced an able document,
conservative in toue, and abounding in wise
and wholesome suggestions aud recommendations.
Congressional Proceedings.
Since the reassembling of Congress on
the 5th instant, almost the entire time of both
houses has been occupied debating questions
that have grown out of the recent occurrences
in Louisiana. The usurpation of Sheridan
has been strongly condemned on the floor of
Congress by Cox, Thurman, Gordon, Bayard
and others, while Republican members sustain
and endorse his action.
Sherman on Louisiana.
The interest in the Louisiana question
continues to increase, and the views of distinguished
statesmen and soldiers are being rapidly
elicited. Among those who have been
interviewed, is Gen. W. T. Sherman, commander
in chief of the army, with whom a
reporter for the St. Louis Republican had a
couversation on the 6th instant, in that city.
From the publication of the interview we
gather the following points:
Gen. Sherman expressed his views on the
condition of affairs in Louisiana without reserve,
declaring that Congress would soou be
compelled to take some actiou which would
compose the difficulties as far as practicable
at present. He regarded Gen. Emory, who j
commands the department of the gulf, as a 1
good man, an excelleut officer of the old j
school, but perhaps a little timid in iuterfer- j
ing in the affairs of the State. Gen. Sheri
Jan, he said, is a kind-hearted, nonie-rainciea i
man, accessible to any who may have a suit!
to urge. But he is a soldier also, and does |
not hesitate to do his duty. If he thought it j
necessary, and believed it a matter of duty, j
the city of New Orleaus would be no more regarded
than an Indian village. He would j
not hesitate to level it. The military could
only obey orders. He thought the President,
having once recognised the Kellogg government,
had made up his mind ?o sustain it uri-1
til declared by Congress or the Supreme
Court of the United States to be illegal, j
There is a great problem lying back of all
these troubles. The making of laws taxing
the people, by a party that pays little or no
taxds, is a subject which needs to be handled
with great delicacy.
Gen. Sherman was cjuite fervent in his expression
of a hope that a solution of the whole
trouble would be arrived at without bloodshed.
He is opposed to wur. In times of war the
law is silent. He desires peace above all
thiugs. In answer to a question whether he
thought the people of Louisiana still cherished
sentiments of hostility to the government
of the United States, anil opposition to the
enforcement of the laws of Congress, he said
he supposed their feeliugs were not kind toward
the federal government; but he knew
the people of Louisiana well; had lived among
them for many years. He didn't believe
they would fight the government, or offer the
least resistance to the enforcement of the
laws by the civil officers of the government.
The people of Louisiana believed that they
had a right to govern themselves, and they
doubtless believe that the present State government
is not oneof their own establishment,
and they would fight it at every opportunity.
The people would not resist the government
of the United States. They never had done
so. There has been no firing upon United
States soldiers; no resistance to United States
officers, neither civil nor military, and there
would be none, as he believed. But he
thought they would fight Kellogg's militia,
his police and constables, and all the forces
he could raise, if permitted to do so by the
military forces of the government. He declined
to express his individual opinion as to
the character of Kellogg's government. He
knew the people themselves to be oppressed,
and were greatly dissatisfied with his government.
But he declined to say that he be?
-.
lieved it to be tbe wi9est poucj 10 aucuxm ?,ua?,
government, or indeed to express any opinion
as to the policy which has been pursued by
the government toward Louisiana.
Correspondence of tbe Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, Jauuary 11, 1875.
The January term of the Court of Common
Pleas and General Sessions for this county
began on Monday last. The juries were organized
by the appointment of G. A. Drennan
as foreman of the grand jury, George Keenan
foreman of petit jury No. 1, and Alexander
Pendigrass, colored, foreman of petit, No. 2.
Judge T.J. Mackey delivered a very good and
sensible chargeto thegrand jury. He poured
out a full measure of condemnation upon
the public school system, as practiced in this
county, during the past year. In referring to
the ignorance and incompetency of the retir
iag school trustees, he said he had been informed
that they were in the habit of going
through their school districts, taking the number
of the children attending the public
schools, on tally sticks. As an illustration of
the improper use of the public funds by the
school trustees, Judge Mackey stated that of
the 88000 appropriated for public school purposes
for Chester county, 85000 was spent in
the single township of Chester. The Judge
also paid his respects, in uncomplimentary
terms, to the late trial justices of the county.
Their disposition to fill their pockets at the
expense of the public was enlarged upon; but
his Honor inspired the drooping spirits of
his hearers with hope, by the declaration that
the days of plundering were past and gone,
and that in the future the public affairs of the
county and State would be admiuistered with
honesty and economy. Your correspondent
proposes to keep the readers of the Enquirer
well informed, at least in regard to the
affairs of this county, so that at the close of
the present year they will be able to form
their own opinions respecting the dependence
to be placed in Radical promises. If any
rascalities are perpetrated by public officials,
they will, without fear or favor, be exposed to
the full light of day.
In his charge, Judge Mackey referred
to the removal of Solicitor Brawley to
Charlestou, and instructed the grand jury to '
investigate the matter and find out if the circuit
is at the present time without a Solicitor.
If such be the case, so to report, and, furthermore,
to ask the Legislature to make immediate
provision for the election of another Solicitor
for the sixth judicial circuit. I have
beeu informed that Mr. S. J. Couch, a practitioner
at this bar, and one of our members
of the Legislature, is an aspirant for the position.
Judge Mackey, in closing his charge to
the grand jury, alluded to the determination
of the new administration to effect a thorough
and complete reform in the management of
public affairs. Let us all hope that this soulcheering
promise will meet with an abundant
realization.
The hour for the sale of property by the
Sheriff having arrived, the Judge adjourned
the Court until three o'clock in the afternoon.
The Court reassembled at the appointed
hour, when the case of the State vs. Edward
Vaudiver, colored, for stealing a cow, was
called, and the trial proceeded with. The
jury found the defendant guilty.
The Court iuet at the usual hour, Tuesday
morning, and proceeded to the trial of the case
of the State vs. Mary Dale, charged with an
assault and battery upon Mary Fair, both colored.
Though the case was an insignificant
one, yet the entire morning was spent in the
trial and decision of the same. Mr. S. J.
Couch succeeded in securing a verdict of acquittal
for the defendant.
The Judge charged the grand jury in the
afternoon upon the necessity of repealing
the fence law. He showed the expense and
folly of fencing in a whole plantation to
avoid the depredations of stray cattle. According
to the Judge's calculation, eighteen
dollars is required to fence in an acre of land,
when the rails have to be bought?counting
230 rails for aside, at 82 per hundred. The
jury were instructed to recommend, in their
report, the enactment by the Legislature of a
stock law. After the delivery of his second
charge to the grand jury by the presiding
Judge, an unimportant assault and battery
naaa mjoo trior! of wKir?K? T will nnt further
mention. The time of the Court was consumed
Wednesday morning in the trial of the
case of the State vs John McNeal and Betty
Dennis, both colored, charged with an assault
and battery upon Samuel McKeown, white.
The State was represented by Mr. J. J.
Hemphill, acting Solicitor, and the defendants
by General W. A. Walker. The State
established the fact of the taking by John
McNeal of a gun, by violence, from the hands
ofSamuel McKeown ; but the counsel for defendant
established, or endeavored to establish,
that this was done by reason of self-de?
fense. The jury, as it was composed of both
elements, after deliberating for some time
upon the case, failed to agree upon a verdict.
Wednesday afternoon the Court was engaged
in the trial of the case of the State vs. Cynthia
Walter, colored, charged with larceny. The
offense consisted in stealing under-garments
of a nameless character from Mary Ann
Davie, colored. The defendant was a woman,
with a young child about two months old.
The jury rendered a verdict of guilty, and the
Court sentenced the unfortunate woman to an
imprisonment of two weeks in the county jail.
On Thursday morning the time of the Court
was spent in the trial of the case of the State
vs. James Robinson, charged with an assault
and battery with intent to kill, upon R ph
Abel, colored. The jury found a verdict in
favor of the defendant. In the afternoon,
another assault and battery case was tried,
the parties involved being of the colored per