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f craps and Jacts.
Twenty-eight thousand bags of coffee
arrived at Baltimore on Thursday last from
Rio.
A Cincinnati girl of eleven has become
the mother of a full-grown child. The !
father is twelve years old.
At Lancaster, New Hampshire, on the i
2d instant, the thermometer marked twenty-}
five degrees below zero.
Rice Dulin, formerly a well known merchant
in Columbia and Charleston, died recently
at Brownsville, Tennessee. He was
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norn in AiecKienourg county, is. u.
The new postal arrangements with Canada
provide for the full prepayment of postage
on all mail matter, at the domestic rates of
the country from which sent, and the country
of destination will deliver free of charge.
The Granite and Crescent Mills, and
the Merchants' Mill, at Fall River, Massachusetts,
stopped work last week. The Weaver's
Union, of that place, has decided to send
one thousand weavers back to England.
The young man who resolved to commit
suicide because his sweetheart married an
undertaker, owes his life to the second sober
thought, that he might be furnishing his rival
a job.
Recently the local paper at Grass
Valley said : The prettiest girl in Grass Valley
doesn't carry herself straight enough when
promenading. For a week after, all the
Grass Valley girls stalked about like so
many bean poles ; and every girl said. "That
horrid paper! Ma, don't I walk straight ?"
The coinage of silver under the act
which promises resumption of specie payments
in 1879 has already actively commenced.
Last month the Philadelphia mint turned out
722,300 half dollars, 300 quarters and 550,300
dimes?in all 1,272,900 coins, not to mention
690,000 pewter five-cent pieces and 1,180,000
minute bits of copper called cents.
The tendency of improvements in
telegraphy is towards cheapness and rapidity
of transmitting messages. At a recent trial of
an instrument which quadruples the capacity
of each wire, 302 business messages, averaging
ten words each, were transmitted in ninety
minutes over a single wire, four operators
working at each end thereof. The old instrument
sent from sixty to eighty words per
minute.
Petroleum is so abundant in the Pennsylvania
oil region that the more wells a man
has the poorer he is likely to be. Wells that
would once have brought 8250,000 are slow
at 815,000 and one man at Titusville, who
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lately nan an income or uv,uuu is now naraly
worth his hat. The exceeding superabundance
of the oil renders it almost valueless,
as it has declined from $6 to 60 cents per barrel.
The statement that Mr. Johnson gave
"pledges" as to his future political action to
the squad of Republicans who voted for him,
is reduced to the fact that he assured them he
would not be governed in his action by mere
partisanship. On entering the Senate, Mr.
Johnson will find there twelve senators who
voted "yea" on the impeachment occasion?
Messrs. Anthony, Cameron, Conkling, Cragin
Edmunds, Ferry, Frelinghuysen, Howe, the
two Morrills, Morton and Sherman.
Senator elect Christiancy, of Michigan,
seems to stand upon a sound platform. In a
recent letter he says: "The manner of my
election leaves me at liberty to support or oppose
measures upon their merits, according to
my conviction of right, and with reference to
the interests of the whole country, rather than
for any partisan ends, and I propose to avail
myself of thatliberty on all proper occasions."
This is in pleasing contrast with the policy
pursued by his predecessor, Mr. Chandler.
The commissioner of internal revenue
has written to the United States district attorney
at Richmond, advising him that the pro
ceeaings against drawers 01 unstamped cnecus,
seized in the recent raid upon the banks of
that city, may be dismissed upon the defendants
paying costs. A large number of defendants
have availed themselves of the opportunity
of compromise thus afforded. The
costs in each case amount to twelve or thirteen
dollars.
The House judiciary committee have
agreed to report favorably the bill recommended
by Gen. Butler in relation to telegraph
lines. Should the bill become a law, it will
be an important one. It constitutes all telegraph
lines post-routes, and authorizes the
Postmaster-General to advertise for proposals
for the transaction of governmental business,
so far as practicable, by telegraph, under the
same limitations and with the same authority
as for the transmission of mails over postroads.
It prohibits any telegraph company
from being engaged in the collection or purchase
uf commercial or other news, prohibits
any discrimination whatever in the charges
for press or commercial news or private telegrams,
and compels telegraph companies to
forward, at the usual rates, the messages of
other companies, and no preference shall be
giveu by one company to another.
"A Boston merchant" suggests through
the New York Tribune, that General Grant
probably regrets the resignation of his military
position, aud would gladly return to it. To
meet the President's wishes, and at the same
time restore peace and prosperity to the coun?
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try, the writer proposes ttiat rresiaent vjrani
shall at once resign the Presidency with the
understanding that Congress shall create the
ofhce of Field-marshal, with a large salary for
life, and Mr. Vice-President "Wilson shall appoint
Gen. Grant to that position. If there be
anything in this?if it be an inkling in any
degree of the President's preferences?never
theless it is not to be supposed he would resign
his present post before Congress had created
the new office of field-marshal?Mr. Wilson
giving pledges, which he could not disregard,
that he would carry out the understanding.
Parties in the next Senate of the United
States will be much more evenly balanced
than is generally supposed, and it is safe to
say that had there been a half dozen more
States to elect Senators, the opposition would
have secured a clear majority in the Senate.
On the 3d of March next the terms of twentyfive
Senators will expire. Of these seventeen
are administration and eight opposition.
Twenty-two States have elected Senators, and
in three?Minnesota, Florida, and West Virginia?a
result has not yet been reached. Of
the new Senators fifteen are safely to be placed
in the opposition, and to these may be added
those whom West Virginia and Florida will
elect. This, with the sixteen opposition members
holding over, gives the anti-administration
party a total of thirty-three members,
and leaves the administration with only fortyone,
giving them the successor of Senator Ramsey
in Minnesota, and counting the vacant
seat for Louisiana in their favor.
The St. Louis Republican enters a vigorous
protest against the prejudice which exists
in society against "old maids," and places it
among the popular and pernicious delusions
which seem to have gained a firmer foothold
iu our country than any where else. A distinguished
authority has declared that marriage
is honorable, but why, it is asked, should
celibacy be any more dishonorable in one |
sex than in the other? A man may live in {
single-blessedness to the end of the chapter,
and nobody thinks the less of him for it. If
he bears the proper character and is socially |
disposed, he is a welcome guest in ever circle
long after he has swung beyond the latitude
of the forties. If he is a good talker, the
choicest damsels of the season will tete-a-tete
with him ; if he is a good dancer his arm will |
not be considered out of place when around j
the waist of the belle of the ball-room?in i
short, the oldest of old bachelors, providing j
he is reputable and not a bore, may have all |
the attention and all the pleasure society can i
afford. The fact is, that in this country old '
maidhood is only a mild form of social out- j
lawry, and there are not many women honestj
and brave enough to deliberately accept it as
their lot. Elsewhere?and notably in Eng-1
land?no such condition of things exists. I
"Maiden ladies" are far more abundant there
than here, and they receive quite as much attention
as their younger sisters. They are
never considered de trop in any society; they
are not treated as if they had committed
some grave offense against the peace and dignity
of the community. Will we ever imitate
the example of our English cousins in
this respect?
ihr IJorfeviUe inquirer.
~lfORKVILL,E, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 11, 1875.
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For manufacturing purposes, water is the
cheapest power iu the world. Circumstances
may be such that in particular cases, this
may not be absolutely true. In extreme latitudes
water is liable to freeze, and, consequently,
may not be available for a large period
of the winter months. Again, a water-fall
may be inaccessible, or nearly so, or very inconveniently
located, and in consequence of
this fact be more expensive than some other
motive power. The only other motive powers
in use, to any great extent, in this region, are
horse-power and steam. By the terra "horsepower,"
we include mules and oxen. The
latter are not available for this purpose on account
of their slowness (to any considerable
extent) hence, by "horse-power" we may
simply include horses and mules. Now the
question to which we desire to call public attention,
is "which is the cheaper for the ordinary
manufacturing purposes, horse-power or
steam ?" In this country there is little manufacturing
done, except the ginning of cotton
and thrashing wheat. The question may then
be put in this way, "which is the cheaper power
with which to gin the cotton crop and
thrash the wheat, horses or steam ?" Let us
make the calculation. In York county there
are annually produced about seven thousand
bales of cotton. It would take four horses or
mules about two thousand eight hundred days
to gin seven thousand bales of cotton. The
gross profits would be, allowing the one fourteenth
for ginning, two hundred bales. It
would require at least three hands to do the
work. The time consumed would be nearly
nine years. During that time at least three
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animals at one hundred dollars each, and the
food they would consume at seventy-five dollarseach,
annually, we have to subtract twenty-one
hundred dollars from the gross gain.
The hire of the hands would amount to at
least twenty-seven hundred dollars. From
the gross income of two hundred bales of cotton
we would have to subtract four thousand
five hundred dollars.
Now what would it cost to gin the same
cotton with steam ? An engine, capable of
giuuing as much cotton as eight horses, would
cost less than twelve hundred dollars. The
number of hands requisite to manage a gin,
run by steam, would be the same as that required
to attend a gin run by horses or mules.
The only difference in the expense, in this respect,
would be the wood. The saving would
be, that the gin, run by steam, would do the
?ame work, with the same hands, in one half
the time. Properly kept, an engine worth
twelve hundred dollars, would wear out five
thousand dollars' worth of horses. A similar
calculation could easily be made for the
thrashing of wheat. The wear and tear of
thrashing wheat with horse power is even
greater than in ginning cotton. It may be
?nid that everv farmer i9 not able to DUrchase
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a steam engine. This is true, and it is also
true that less than one half of the farmers
are unable to Jteep four horses. Only a few
farmers have gin-houses. They hire the ginning
of their cotton and the thrashing of their
wheat. Let those farmers who gin cotton
and thrash wheat for their neighbors, think
about this subject.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate, on the 3rd, a resolution was
adopted calliug upon the President for all the
information he possesses in relation to Arkansas
affairs not previously communicated to the
Senate. The Secretary of the Treasury communicated
a tabular statement of cotton seizures
made by government officers, which was
referred to the committee on claims. In the
House, Butler's motion to reconsider the vote
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to the judiciary committee was agreed to.
Mr. Butler then gave notice that he would
allow debate, and that time should be equally
divided between the advocates and opponents
of the bill. Butler then led off, and was frequently
questioned in pertinent style, many
personalities being indulged in by him, but
which he repudiated when he was called to
account for them. At one time during his
speech, a personal collision seemed imminent.
Butler was understood to characterize a majority
of the Southern people as horse-thieves
and murderers. McLean, of Texas, retorted,
"You are the only murderer on the floor; you
killed a man in New Orleans." Butler replied
that "if he was a murderer because he hanged
a man in New Orleans he gloried in it; the
trouble with the country now was that he had
not hung more of them." The excitement
had now become so great that it was with difficulty
that order was obtained. After Butler
had concluded, Mr. Finck, of Ohio, followed
in an argument against the constitutionality
of the bill. At 5 P. M. the House
took a recess until 7.30 P. M. During the
evening session speeches were made on the
adoption of the bill, by Storm, of Pennsylvania,
Wheathead, of Virginia, and Cain and
Rainey, of South Carolina.
In the Senate, on the 4th, the House bill
for the relief of the sufferers by grasshoppers
was passed. The bill for the relief of Mrs.
Octavia LeVert and her children was considered,
with a view to get a test vote of
the Senate on the class of claims to which it
belongs?that of Southern claims growing out
of the war. Mr. Conkling opposed the consideration,
because if such claims were passed
the President would veto them, and the consideration
was laid over. In the House, the
discussion of the civil rights bill was resumed.
Speeches were made in opposition by Messrs.
Blount of Georgia, Sener of Virginia, Stanard
of Missouri, Chittenden of New York, White ;
j and Cold well of Alabama, Eldredge of Wis-;
I cousin, Brown of Kentucky, and others, and
in favor of it by Messrs. Hoar of Massachusetts
and Cain of South Carolina. During
Mr. Brown's speech, he said if he "were to describe
everything pusillanimous in war, iuhu-1
man in peace, forbidden in morals, and infamous
in politics, he would call it Butlerism,"
whereupon, after a lengthy and excited debate
on resolutions?one to censure the speaker,
and the other to expel him from the House
for gross violation of the rules and privileges?
the resolution of censure was adopted by a
strict party vote. Mr. Brown was then
marched to the bar in charge of the sergeantat-arms,
and received the censure with coolness
aud composure. The committee on naval
affairs reported on the charges against
Mr. Stowell, of Virginia, who was alleged to
have sold*a cadetship, exonerating that gentleman
of the charge.
The Senate was not in session on the 5th,
having adjourned as a mark of respect to the
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memory ui oeuuior ouc&iiiguaiu, ui vjuuumucut,
whose death occurred on the previous
day. In the House, the consideration of the
civil rights bill was resumed. Quite a number
of the members participated in the discussion,
the debate being closed by Butler, in
one of his characteristic speeches. An amendment
to strike out the school clause was
agreed to by yeas 148, nays 48. A motion
to substitute the text of the Senate bill for the
House bill was rejected by yeas 113, nays
148. The preamble, which is a resolution in
the platform of the last National Democratic
Convention, was agreed to by yeas 219, nays
I 23. The bill was then passed by 153 yeas to
| 98 nays?eleven republicans voting against
it. We print, iu another column, the full
' text of the bill as it passed the House. The
bill goes to the Senate for action by that
body.
In the Senate, on the 6th, the civil rights
bill was read the first time, Mr. Davis objecting
to its second reading. The committee on
pensions reported favorably on a bill restoring
to the pension rolls the names of survivors of
the war of 1812, which had been strickeu
therefrom on account of participating in the
rebellion. In the House, majority and miA
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mitted and ordered to be printed.
In the Senate, on the 8th, a message was
received from the President, accompanied with
all the documents in his possession relating to
Arkansas affairs. In his message, the President
declares for, and sympathises with Brooks,
whom, hesays, was lawfully elected Governor
of that State, but that he has been unlawfully
deprived of the possession of the office since
1872. A number of bills, reported by the Committee
on Patents, were passed ; but one to extend
the patent for a trimming attachment for
sewing machines, used only in the manufacture
of boots and shoes, was rejected by a vote
of 23 nays to 13 yeas. Several Senators declared
their opposition to extending any sewiug
machine patent. Morton, from the committee
on privileges and elections, made a report
recognizing Kellogg as Governor of Louisiana,
aud declaring Pinchback entitled to
the seat as U. S. Senator from that State from
March 4, 1873. Mr. Hamilton of Maryland,
on the same committee, gave notice that there
would be a minority report upon the same
question. In the House, Crossland, of Kentucky,
iutroduced a bi'l for a tax of 2* per
cent, on incomes exceeding $2000. A motion
to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution
declaring against the election of a President
for a third term was lost.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The Governor has appointed J. S. R.
Thomson, of Spartanburg, a notary public.
? John McGaughriu, better known as
"Johnny the Pumper," died at Chester on the
27th ultimo, aged 67 years.
? One hundred and fifty recruits have been
ordered to the 18th Infantry, stationed at Columbia.
? Joe, a young son of Mr. W. E. Rose, of
Columbia, shot himself through the hand,
while playing with a pistol, one day last week.
? Capt. J. H. Sawyer, on Tuesday of last
week, was elected Cashier of the Central National
Bank in Columbia.
? At Lancaster, last week, the contractors
commenced work on the Cheraw and Chester
Narrow Gauge Railroad.
? Governor Chamberlain has appointed D.
D. Goius, J. L. Strain, John D. Long, James
T. Jeter and A. R. Aughtry, trial justices for
Union county, and removed Jerry Talley,
trial justice of the same county.
? Capt. Ogden's company of the 18th Infantry,
at the request of Governor Chamber!
lain, has been sent from Columbia to Edge
field. It is understood that in Edgefield the
militia are quietly giving up their arms, and
the rifle clubs are disbanding.
? A white man in Abbeville was married
to a white womau, on the 30th December,
1874, and on the 2d January, 1875, (three
days afterward,) he was again married to a
black woman. He has been tried and convicted,
and sent to the penitentiary for five
years.
? The chairman of the county commissioners
of Laurens county has been convicted of
KaKitnul Hpnnlrpnnp<39 anrl another has failed
| to qualify. The Governor will issue a procj
laraation ordering an election to fill the va!
cancies.
j ?The Union-Herald says : "The grand jury
j of Charleston county, on Wednesday, brought
j in eight true bills against Dawson and Riori
dan, proprietors of the News and Courier, for
I libel, in defaming the characters of C. C.
Boweu, P. C. Gregorie, B. H. Hoyt and H. C.
Worthiugton. At the same time that the indictments
against Capt. Dawson and Mr. Riordan
were issued, bills were given out against
E. W. M. Mackey, the Congressman elect
from that district, for defaming the character
I of C. C. Bowen, and for assault and battery.
; The grand jury in the case of libel returned
! no bill, and in the case of assault and battery
true bill. Mr. Mackey anticipated the issuing
of a bench warrant, and stated to the court
that as he confessed having committed the
assault, and, uuder like circumstances, would
commit it again, and wishing to save the
county all possible expense of a trial, be pleaded
guilty, aud entered into bond to appear in
: court on sentence day."
, ? The Union-Herald of Tuesday says!:
I "Judge Mackey adjourned his court at Lancaster
on last Saturday, at midnight. T. S.
Riddle (white republican), chairman of the
board of county commissioners, was convicted
of habitual drunkenness, under the act of
1829?the first conviction for such cause ever
had in this State, as we are informed. J. C.
Secrest, probate judge (democrat), was also
indicted for habitual drunkenness, but avoided
a trial by instantly resigning his office; whereupon
the judge ordered the clerk of the court |
to take immediate possession and control of |
the office, pursuant to law. John B. Cousart,
late county treasurer, was likewise indicted
; for an alleged embezzlement of the county
funds in 1870 ; but a nol. pros, was entered in
his case, on his confessing judgment with his
sureties for 31,000 and costs, upon which execution
at once issued, and the county will be
secured against all loss, as his property is
ample to cover the defalcation. John E.
Cousart, late deputy county treasurer, was
indicted for forging orders on the county
trpsury to the amount of 3200, in 1869; but
on his paying into court the sum of 3300 and
costs, a uol. pros, was entered also in his case."
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? One Greensboro merchant has bought
40,000 rabbit skins this season.
? Mr. John Fruitt, an aged and worthy citizen
of Randolph county, fell dead while
working in his field one day last week.
? The duty of filling the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Mayor Holden, of Raleigh,
devolves upou the city commissiouers, and as
yet they have been unable to agree.
? A negro named Lee Robinson, a prisoner
in the Charlotte jail, while attempting to
make his escape, last Thursday, was shot and
killed by the jailor.
? A bill has been introduced in the Legislature
to incorporate the Norfolk, Roxboro
and Greensboro railroad, the proposed route
of which, with other lines now completed from
Greensboro, will make almost an air-line route
from Norfolk to Atlanta, Georgia.
? Capt. James Iredell Waddell, of Hillsboro,
who comraauded the Confederate gun-boat
Shenandoah, has recently received the appointment
as commander of one of the Pacific mail
steamers plying between San Francisco and
the ports of China and Japan.
? The Wilmington Star amnounces that
the large cotton factory now being erected in
that city is rapidly approaching completion.
It will be a first-class factory in all its appointments
and upon a very extensive scale.
Amongst the shareholders is a prominent
capitalist of Boston, Mass., who has invested
$10,000 in the enterprise. This is only one
of a number of instances recently cited where
Northern capital has sought investment in
Southern enterprises.
? The company now having control of the
Carolina Central railroad, which was originallv
chartered from Wilmington to Ruther
ford ton, do not contemplate carrying the road
in the direction of Rutherfordton farther than
Shelby, and as the county of Rutherfordton
has paid $112,000 on her subscription to the
road, and as at least one-half of the road from
Shelby to Rutherfordton has been graded,
the people of that county are much aggrieved,
and ask legislation compelling the company
to finish the road as originally designed.
SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
The bill to prohibit shows, etc., from performing
in the State without a license will
probably become a law. It provides that
they shall get a license from the clerk of the
court, for which they shall pay $100 per day
for each and every day they shall exhibit, for
gain?the money to go into the county funds
for the use of said county, and they are still
liable to be taxed by city and town corporations.
A joint resolution has been introduced, proposing
an amendment to the State constitution
relative to justices of the peace and constables.
The amendment proposed is to strike
out Sectious 21, 22, 23 and 24, of Article IV,
which refer to the election of justices of the
peace aud constables, and inserting a section
providing for the election of a county judge
for each county of the State, to hold office for
two years, and to have original jurisdiction in
cases of bastardy, and in all matters of con
tract and actions for the recovery of fines and
forfeitures when the amount does not exceed
one hundreddaUaj^r^M 1Af_nenal offenses
less than felony, punishable by Hues omj.
The judges are also given the powers of committing
magistrates. The amendment also
provides for the election of a suitable number
of constables in each county to hold office for
two years. The amendment proposes, in short,
to substitute for the trial justice system a
county judge in each county.
The Governor has approved the Act providing
for the special appropriation of revenues
derived from liquor licenses.
The Committee on Finance, of the Senate,
reported favorably on a bill authorizing County
Commissioners of York to levy a special
tax, annually, of not exceeding one-aad-one
half mills, for the purpose of retiring the
bonds issued in aid of the Chester aud Lenoir
Narrow Gauge Railroad Company.
A bill has been introduced in the Senate for
the relief of sureties on official bonds. It
provides "that whenever any of the sureties
of any officer elected or appointed to any
county office shall, in writing, notifying the
county commissioners or other officer whose
duty it is to approve the bond of such officer,
that they desire to be relieved from their
"suretyship," it shall be the duty of the said
county commissioners or other officer to require
the said officer to execute a new bond
with security, which, when approved, shall
be as valid as the original bond, and the sureties
on the prior bond shall be released from
responsibility for all acts or defaults of such
officer committed subsequent to the approval
of such new bond. The officer shall then forthwith
execute a new bond with securities within
thirty days after having been required to
do so by the county commissioners, and upon
failure to do so, he shall be removed by the
Governor.
The appropriation bill was read in the
House a third time, passed and sent to the
Senate. As the bill now stands, it goes to the
Senate with the appropriations about 8150,000
in excess of the revenue to be derived under
the special tax levy.
A bill to incoporate Gaffhey City passed
the Senate. A bill to provide pay for jurors
at coroners' inquests, was rejected by the
House.
The Senate laid on the table a concurrent
resolution from the House, proposing to adjourn
on the 19th of February, and struck
out the resolving clause of a bill to repeal the
Act repealing the usury laws of this State.
A resolution was adopted in the House that
no bill or joint resolution should be considered
after the 8th instant.
Senator White introduced a resolution,
which was agreed to, that the State Treasurer
be requested to inform the Senate of the
amouut of money received by him from the
Land Commission, and disposition made of
same.
The Senate Committee to investigate certain
charges against T. C. Audrews, Senator from
Orangeburg,submitted a majority and minority
report. The majority report recommended
the expulsion of Andrews, and the minority
report, censure. Both reports were made
the special order for Wednesday, 10th instant.
In regard to the charges, the Union-Herald
says : "The point of the evidence, as well as
we could learn, against Senator Andrews, is
his own confession that he dealt in county paper,
shariug the commission with the county
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law, it violates the moral relations of the office.
This, it is said, is the way the matter
stands."
The Committee on incorporations, of the
Senate, reported favorably on a bill to incorporate
the Rock Hill Building and Loan Association.
Both houses have agreed to meet in joint
assembly on Friday, 12th instant, for the purpose
of electing a judge for the third circuit
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Judge Green.
Senator White presented a petition of Jas.
M. Lowry, of York county, praying such action
as will secure to him final payment of the
balance of purchase money, with interest
thereon, on lands sold by him to the land commissioner,
which was referred to the committee
on finance.
LOCAL AFFAIRS, j*
j Ji
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ft
i M. Strauss it Son?Selling Oti" Regardless of Cost. ; V
| John C. Kuykendal?Land reth's Garden Seeds? ; J,
Drugs?Dye Colors?Sewing Machine OilNo
more Statements. I ij
W. H. <fc J. P. Herndon?Cotton?Flour?Sugar j(
and Coffee. j
! T. N. Bennett, Chester, S. C.?Maker and Repair- j,
erof Guns and Pistols.
J. R. Schorb, Clerk and Treasurer of Town Couneil?Delinquent
Taxpayers. iV.
R. H. Glenn, S. V. C.?Sheriffs Sales. rp
VV. F. Garvin?House and Lot for Sale. ^
T. M. Dobson it Co.?Potatoes?Garden Seeds? y
Wanted?For Sale?Guano Reduced?Gro- q
ceries?Calicoes. rp
C. G. Parish, Agent?Flour?Potatoes?Molasses, j
Dry Goods?Groceries. y
Yorkville Furniture Store?Bedsteads?Chairs? j(
Mattresses?Bureaux. j
L. M. Grist?Blacksmith Tools. j
C. 15. Spencer?Assignee's Sale. jj
J. H. Clawson, Assignee?In Bankruptcy?3rd j(
General Meeting of Creditors? In the Mat- j
terofA. T. Black.?NoticetoCreditors hold- jj
ing Liens?In the Matter of Chelsea Rob- V
bins and others, Bankrupts. p
Joseph a. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation? ^
A. W. Parks, Applicant?J. P. Hunter, de- g
ceased. y
Isom Lawrence?Straj' Horse y
TRIAL JUSTICES FOR YORK. J
Governor Chamberlain has appointed John j'
Martin, Hugh K. Roberts, J. J. L. Gill and v
R. L. Simmons, trial justices for York county, j
UNION COUNTY ITEMS. y
A correspondent, writing from Union coun- j;
ty, informs U3that a colored man named Hen- J
ry Moorehead, was drowned on the 29th ulti- v
mo, while attempting to row across the pond g
at Thomson's mill, on Thickety creek. He a
ventured too near the dam and was swept j
over. I.
A few days previous, the house of Mrs. N. p
A. Davidson, near Etta Jane, was burnt, to- J
gether with all her furniture, bedding, <fcc.
ACCIDENT TO A MILLER.
On Monday morning of last week, while
M. \V. Abernathy, the miller at the Palmetto
Mills, near Clay Hill, in this county, was en- 0{
gaged in oiling a portion of the machinery, ^
his left hand was caught between two cog- tj
wheels and so badly crushed as to render am- g
putation necessary. The mutilated limb was t|
taken off below the elbow, the operation be- a,
iug successfully performed by Doctors Camp- p
bell, Miller and Hall, and the patient is in a j(
fair way of recovery. w
THE DELINQUENT TAXES. tl
The hnnkn of the Countv Treasurer show m
that there has been paid into his office as p;
State and county taxes the suns of $78,1512. ti
Since the books were closed, the Auditor has 0|
made up his duplicates of delinquents in the sc
couuty, which, exclusive of assessments on e)
railroad property, foot up the sura of $1433.95.
The taxable property of the county is as jr
follows: ai
Real and personal, $4,740,630
C. C. ik A. Railroad, '200,000 w
Chester and Lenoir Railroad, 42,000 tj
Air-Line Railroad, 68,000 rp
Total, $5,050,630 jt
The following exhibit shows the amount of
delinquency, and on what account, in each
township, exclusive of the 20 per cent, pen- ^
alty: "
State. County. K. K. <fe R. R.
Bethel, 42.94 12.38 8.75 w
Bethesda 60.31 17.40 11.60 tr
Broad River, 66.93 19.30 12.87
Bullock's Creek. 58.22 16.70 11.19 1*
Catawba 156.30 45.08 29.85
Cherokee 148.72 42.90 28.60
Ebenezer, 43.95 12.67 7.45 8(
Fort Mill 69.23 19.97 13.31 h
King's Mount'n, 59.37 17.12 11.41
York 270.91 78.16 52.10 11
p
$954.74 $286.93 $192.28 si
Add State, 954.74 n
Add County, 286.93 "
Aggregating, $1,433.95 .
As a matter of interest, we append below a
list of tax-payers in the county whose respect- ^
ive taxable property amounts to $5000 or
over: p
BETHEL TOWNSHIP. *
L. K. Armstrong $ 5,424 g
B. P. Briggs, 8,462 f
John C. II. Duff, 11,788
W. A. Graham, 14,126
Maj. A. A. McKenzie, 5,350 n
John Nichols, 7,060
D. T. Pegram, agent, oJ.*so ?
George L. Riddle, 9,110 r
M. L. Tate, deceased, 5,328 j]
John M.Tate, 7,796 j
James L. Wright, 26,871
BETHESDA TOWNSHIP. 0
John J. Ashe, Sen., 5,513 f<
Misses Mary J. and Louisa Ashe, 5,024 j,
W. Bolivar Byers, 6,717
Thomas Bratton, 5,553 0
John S. Bratton, 23,370 a
E. N. Crawford, 5,473 ?,
S. G. Hemphill, 17,833 >
Robert M. Lindsay, 13,625
P. W. Lindsay, Sen., 5,237 C
Dr. R. L. Love 5,841 t]
Moore <fc Hemphill, 5,500 .
John M. Mooro, o,-?o -
John B. McConnell, deceased, 5,678 tl
VVrn. S. Moore 8,125 d
B. P. Rawlinson, 7,970
YVm. A. Steele, 5,911 "
George J. Steele, 11,541 tl
broai) river township.
Dr. R. T. Allison, 8,345 a
E. G. Bvers, 15,613 ?
William* F. Dye, 11,200 .
Mrs. Caroline Kennedy, 6,600
Joseph W. Leech, 8,315 d
J. N. McElwee, Sen., 22,392 u
John Smith, 22,090
Mijamin R. Smith, 5,478 Cl
Thomas M. Whitesides, 7,905 g
T. B. Whitesides, 6,056 0
Calvin Whisonant, * 8,080 ,
John B. Whitesides, 13,474 p'
bullock's creek township. il
Wm. Burris, 10,571 v
Hugh Burris, 8,388 rr
Dennis Crosby, 9,496
S. L. Davidson, 8,039 u
Samuel Blair, Sen., 5,720 n
E. N. Davidson, 5,118 j(
Samuel Feemster, 5,204 0
James L. Guy, 12,209 h
W. K. Hamilton, 6,311 u
" * '? j -j 7 oai t
James neuienugiuii, ubwmuu, ? .
Andrew Hafner, 6,612
Mrs. M. G. Hemphill, 6,567 a
Eliaslnman, 5,513 e
Thomas Lominack and James Shannon,... 5,569 ^
William Lynn, 5,089
G. L. McNeil, 9,633
John R. Patrick, 9,000 q
J. R. Patrick, agent, 5,218 "
Wm. Sims Pratt,* 5,162
William Robinson, 5,002
Win. J. Rainey, 15,423 ri
J. A. Sanders, Sen., 5,956 gi
H. H. Thomson, 6,328 .
Richard C. Thompson, 12,422 u
CATAWBA TOWNSHIP. p
Allen Barber, 15,500
F. H. Barber, 15,404 _
Dr. G. A. Blake, 6,700 *
John S. Cureton, 7,580 ^
William Cowan, 8,776 ri
A. E. Hutchinson, 17,252 _
John C. Hoke, 5,004
J. M. Ivy, 8,610 a
J. M. Ivy <fe Co., 18,000 tl
Dr. Thomas L. Johnson, 10,000 c
John R. London, 14,000
Wm. M. Little, 5,531 11
J. Lawrence Moore, 5,114 r
Jonathan N. McElwee, Jun , 7,630 j,
W. L. Roddey, 31,603
James A. Sturgis, 5,940 ?
Thomas Spencer, 5,288
R. A. Springs, deceased, 44,760 f(
Mrs. Ann White, 37,740
Alexander Williford 16,757
Daniel Williams, o,u.:>* a
J. M. Williford 7,976 g
J. J. Watson, deceased, 7,400
cherokee township.
King's Mountain Iron Company, 13,200 a
John B. Mintz, 8,232 a
John Moore, 5,286 ^
ebenkzer township. n
Dr. E. T. Avery 14,937
F. H. Brown 25,690 c
Archibald Barron, 5,364
Dr. W. B. Fewell, 11,552 a
Alexander Fewell, 10,150 ,
Richard Gillespie, deceased, 6,602 2.
Iredell & Allen Jones, 10,321 r
Joseph Miller, 9,952 ji
Joseph Miller, deceased, 6,682
! Thomas S. Neely, 9,774 0
; J. W. Rawlinson, 8,796 a
I John L. Watson, 6,782 j|
fort mill township. j]
, John W. Ardrey, 5,455 fl
B. II. Massey, 6,603 i
! P. T. Murray 5,006 , t<
Thomas D. Spratt, 6,835 i y
! A. B.Springs, 37,569 ; l
' David II. White, 18,500
! S. E. White 19,076 > O
1 J. M. White, 15,588 *
i J. W. White, 5,410 ..
L. S. White 6,232
Thomas B. Withers, 6,180
king's mountain township. w
: John O. Crawford, 6,926
i David F. Jackson, 6,195 J
. B. Jackson, 5,174
7illiam McGill, deceased, 8,228
olm Med ill, 9,842
Irs. E. A. Neely, 7,564
William Gates, 5,789 i
, Randolph Wallace, 5,017 ,
YORK TOWNSHIP.
[. F. Adickes, 32,916
ohn II. Adams, 18,924
olin W. Avery, 8,531 '
ames Brian, 11,327 I
r. A. I. Barron, 5,529 '
[rs. Iva J. Battle, 5,000 j
had. L. Carroll, 5,810 \
. W. Clawson, 5,350 j
arroll, Clark & Co , 31,450 '
7m. I. Clawson, 22,952
ol. A. Coward 9,595
. M. Dobson ?fe Co., 18,265
.M. Grist, 10,607
r? Uo.i.;u 10.952
[jseph^Herndon,..! 9,259
nines F. Hart, 6,685
. W. P. Hope, 6,560
imes Jefferys, 5,410
ohn A. Latta, 5,850
, F. and R. M. Lindsay, 7,000
imes M. Lowry, 13,813
ohn T. Lowry, 10,642
J., M. M. and F. C. Latta, 10,684
ol. R. G. McCaw, deceased, 18,516
, Rnfus Moore and Brothers, 28,586
7. B. Metis, 8,487
[iss Jane E. Massev, 8,001
7. H. McCorkle, 5,145
oseph R. Moss, 5,903
, A. Ratchford 5,0115
7. E. Rose 7,000
[. Strauss, 5,645
asperStowe. 6,500
[rs. Isabella Steele, 22,184
7. B. Steele 10,810
ames Stuart, 9,988
7. Waddy Thomson, 9,408
. S. R. Thomson, 13,588
7. B. Wilson, 16,052
7. B. Wilson, trustee, 7,019
T. Wheeler, 23,566
.. S. Wallace, 13,419
, D. Witherspoon, deceased, 6,655
, D. Witherspoon, 5,025
D. Witherspoon, trustee, 7,810
7. B. Williams 5,495
J. Withers, 7,009
oseph F. Wallace, 5,000
Irs. Ann E. Wright, 7,112
EDITORIAL INKLINGS,
he President and Southern Affairs.
A Special dispatch from Washington
iys that on Thursday the President spent an
our in his room at the capitol in consultaon
with leading radical Senators on the
outhern situation. He was more earnest
lan on yesterday in urging congressional
ction on this subject. He intimates very
ositively his disinclination to shoulder any
>nger the entire responsibility of dealing
ith present and prospective complications in
lat section. He considers that recent inforlation
which he has received from various
arts of the South renders immediate legislann
imnerative. In the event of disturbances
fany kind, after the adjournment, he wishes
>rae law of Congress broad and distinct
jough for his guidance in any emergency,
[e considers that there are evidences of comtg
trouble in other States than Arkansas
nd Louisiana. With Congress absent, and
ith no specific legislation, he thinks his posion
will be one of increased embarrassment,
he recognition of the Kellogg government
i Louisiana, or any special governmental
rg&nization in Arkansas, is no longer the
uestion in his mind. He desires some action
y Congress more general in its scope, which
ill cover all possible contingencies. The
ishes of the President on this subject have
luch weight with Senators, and, as stated
ist night, the caucus will be again brought
ito requisition in the hope of agreeing to
)me legislation which will be satisfactory to
im and command sufficient support to insure
a passage. As soon as this can be accouilished
it is understood that the majority will
t it out and leave debate to the minority,
low in the Pennsylvania Legislature.
The opinion prevailing in some minds
lat scenes of turbulence and violence are
Dnfined to legislative bodies composed of
Southern banditti" may possihly he disahn?d
by the following dispatch from Harrisburg,
'ennsylvania, giving the particulars of a disraceful
scene which occurred in the Legislate
of that State one day last week :
"Mr. Talley, Democrat of Delaware county,
lade a motion to refer the petition of oit !?<??>
(Lm.vuoki ojtjr, uuuiesting the seat of D.
\ Rosenrailler, a Republican, as member of
lie Legislature, to the Committee on the Juiciary.
The Republicans raised the point of
rder that the petition was not properly bejre
the House, that body not having been
3gally organized when the petition was origially
introduced. Speaker Patterson decided
gainst the Republicans, when an appeal was
aken, and his decision was sustained by a
irge majority. Wolf, Republican, of Union
ounty, then raised the further point of order
bat it required two-thirds of those present to
ike up the petition under the suspension of
be rules. The Speaker rendered an adverse
ecision, and entertained a motion to adjourn,
dien Wolf sprang to his feet, and insisted
bat he had a right to be heard on his point.
"The Speaker declared him out of order,
s no appeal had been taken from his decision,
nd a motion to adjourn was not debatable,
fr Wnlf inaiotpH that hfi WftS not out of OT
er, when the Speaker commanded him to
ike his seat, and, Wolf refusing to obey, he
ailed into requisition the services of the Sereant-at-Arras,
who proceeded to execute the
rder of the Chair. The Republicans hissed
hie proceeding and the Democrats applauded
Wolf continued yelling at the top of his
oice until the Sergeant-at-Arms seized him.
'he hall of the House presented a scene of inescribable
confusion, and the Republican
lerabers rushed to the defense of their col;ague
and wrested him from the hands of the
ergeant-at-Arms. In the midst of the comlotion,
the Speaker adiourned the House.
)uring the melee, pistols were drawn, and for
time it was feared that a general riot would
nsue."
Railroad Affairs.
The meeting held in Columbia on the
rd instant to consider the question of the
jase of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
ailroad by the South Carolina railroad, reulted
unfavorably to the project. The Unm-Herald
gives the following account of the
roceedings of the meeting:
The committee of the Charlotte, Columbia
nd Augusta railroad, appointed to confer
rith the authorities of the South Carolina
ailroad relative to the proposal of the last
arned road to lease the Charlotte, Columbia
nd Augusta railroad, held their meeting at
he Wheeler house on the 3rd instant. The
outh Carolina company submitted a proposal
o lease the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
oad for a terra of years?ten or twenty?pay3g
therefor as a dividend to the stock-holdrs
two per cent, on the capital stock for the
rst year, three per cent, for the second year,
3iir per cent, for the third year, and thereaf3r
an annual dividend of four per cent., with
n addition of one-half of the net profits ; the
outh Carolina Railroad Company, in the
leantirae, to pay the interest on the bonded
nd floating debt of the Charlotte, Columbia
nd Augusta Railroad Company, and obligaing
itaelf to return the said road and its equiplonfo
evnir?tir>n nf the lease in as pood
",w v?r..? 0
ondition in every respect as when received. I
The committee of the Charlotte, Columbia
nd Augusta Railroad Company consisted of I
Vra. H. Brawley, Esq., Chairman, Col. J. H. !
lion, Col. John B. Palmer, B. F. Newcomer, j
Jsq., of Baltimore, and B. D. Townsend, Esq., j
fSociety Hill. The committee refused to;
pprove of the proposal. It is understood j
hat Mr. Brawley was the only member of :
lie committee who was in favor of the lease,
nd it is a matter of fact that those opposed
j the lease are supposed to represent the
iews of the Southern Security Company, that
as a controlling interest in the road, and also
pposed to any lease which would interfere
nth their other lines of transportation.
The Old Man Bowen."
Almost every merchant in the South
'ho was in business twenty-five or thirty
ears ago, will remember the silk and dry '
goods house of Henry C. Boweu, of New
York. Bowen's house had a good trade, exclusively
from the South ; but during the auti-slavery
crusade he identified himself with
the abolitionists, and so conspicuous did he
make himself in this regard that his Southern
customers deserted him in a body, and, as a
consequence, he failed in business. His next
venture was in the publishing business, and
he commenced the publication of the Independent,
which, besides being the most ultra
anti-slavery paper in the North, has all along
been the organ of Plymouth Church. It was
this same Bowen who said he possessed the
power to drive Beecher from Brooklyn within
twelve hours. This and similar aspersions ^
against Mr. Beecher ultimately led to the great scandal
suit now progressing in Brooklyn. Re- ^
garding Bowen's complications with the case,
a New York correspondent of the Chicago '
Tribune writes the following:
' Last night I met one of the numerous Bow- i
ens entangled in the complications of this case. 1
It was one of the sous of the Bowen whom, at* \
ter literally building Plymouth church, its j
more devoted worshippers propose to offer up
as a burnt-offering and a smoke-offering on its A
crumbling altar. The Tilton faction had subpoenaed
"Old Man Bowen," as we call him,
but, for some reason, he will be denied the opportunity
of exposing to the world all the
dreadful history which is compressed within
his scraggy bosom. There is no doubt that
he hates both Beecher and Tilton with a magnificent
hatred, being held back from the firing
of their unctious pyre by an inspiration
which must steam up from satanic furnaces
He has an undiscoverable motive for his terrible
speechlessness. In his long, thin head
is hidden the key to other Eleusinian mysteries
than that which twelve meu are risking their
sanity to solve in the city court. He stands >
at the door of a charnel-house, with his cadaverous
finger on his lips, and upon his tongue
the icy silence of the grave. More confidences,
more secrets,have been shoveled into that
human sepulchre than could the breast of any
other living creature contain. He is a grave- J
stone under which are the dead of many tragedies,
but upon whose face there is not a single
epitaph. On the last day, when the earth
shall vomit forth its corpses and the sea give
up its dead, then Henry C. Bowen will have
to yield the ghastly tenants of his brain. He
is Beecher's gaunt Nemesis, dogging him mutely
within the constant shadow of Death ; sit
ting face to face with him, and looking into
his eyes every Sunday ; sharing the sacramental
elements with him in the holy communion
; and knowing his secrets with a knowledge
possible only to his victim and their God.
When Beecher looks down from his platform
? - . l.i 1 e ? I? . _1 .
idio mat sepuicnrui mue, wuai puautuuio mo
they which swell up in spectral procession
from Bowen's eyes. Bowen knows. Beecber
knows.
Some great bond unites Beecherand Bowen.
What. that bond may be the keenest intelligence,
the most persistent search, have failed !
to discover. Bowen has publicly said that he J
can, when he likes, drive Beecher out of
Brooklyn. How did he achieve that tremendous
influence? Why has he desisted from
applying it?
Bowen has more than once opened his jaws,
and let a mephitic story escape from the vault
of which they are the portals. The Plymouth
party insist that they must be false, because
Bowen, in the famous Tripartite Covenant,
withdrew all that he had ever alleged against
Beecher?though, indeed, after the signature
of that document, he was only silent and
never the apologist of his pastor.
But Bowen's son tore that strange covenant
into a thousand strips when he told me last
night that his father absolutely, and with anger,
refused to sign the paper when Beecher's
agents laid it before him. Every art fice was
employed to induce a cancellation of bis tes- ?
timony ; but Bowen remained obdurate. At
laflt, HoWIOtt R Olfl/lio, 1;;- aij auu trusted
friend, personally implored him to sign it, reminding
him of the fact that when Bowen ^
was once on the verge of utter and final bankruptcy
he had stepped forward and carried
him over the chasm. Bowen at thp ??? ?*"
hi8 prnft"""3 t4*",'Uut,e' pledged himself to
Claflm with the solemnity of a Hebrew; and
wan nn thp rpdpmntion of that Dledtfe. bv
?r ??~ ^ ~ I ' " A O ' ?r
the subscription of his signature to the Tripartite
Agreement, that Claflin at last insisted.
Bowen redeemed his pledge, and signed
the covenant.
Tilton signed the same extraordinary compact
to save his wife and children from the
awful exposure which culminated in the current
trial.
What may be the precise value of an agreement
thus conceived and brought forth is a
problem which I leave to be solved by the
undoubted financial genius of Plymouth
Church.
THE CiyilT EIGHTS BILL.
The civil rights bill, after a long and bitter
strueerle. was finally disposed of in the House I
of Representatives on Friday last, the final
ballotting having been preceeded by an exciting
debate in the presence of an immense assemblage.
The first vote ws.8 on an amendment
offered by Kellogg, of Connecticut, to
strike out of the House bill the provision relating
to schools, and that was carried by a
large majority, but without the yeas and nays.
The next vote was on the motion of Cessna, of
Pennsylvania, to substitute the Senate bill for
the House bill, and that was defeated. The
bill was then passed?yeas 162; nays 100.
The next vote was on attaching, as a preamble
to the bill, a clause of the Democratic National
platform of 1872, affirming the equality
of all men before the law. That was adopted?yeas
219; nays 23?the nays being all
Southern Democrats, with one Northern Renublican.
CChittenden, of New York.) The ^
I ' > - ^
bill now now goes to the Senate for action, as
an original House bill, having no relation
whatever to the bill passed by the Senate. It ?
is thought the bill will either be defeated in ,
the Senate, or that it will be suffered by that 4
body to go over as unfinished business. The
following is the full text of the bill as passed
by the House, omitting the preamble:
That all persons within the jurisdiction of
the United States shall be entitled to the full
and equal enjoyment of the accommodations,
advantages, facilities and privileges of inns,
public conveyances on land or water, theatres
and other places of public amusement, subject
only to the conditions and limitations established
by law and applicable alike to citizens
of every raceand color, regardless of any
previous coudition of servitude. That any
person who shall violate the foregoing section,
by denying to any citizen, except for reasons
by law applicable to citizens of every race
and color, and regardless of any previous condition
of servitude, the full enjoyments of any
of the accommodatious, advantages, facilities
or privileges in said section enumerated, or
by aiding or inciting such denial, shall, for
every such offense, forfeit and pay the sura of
8500 to the persou aggrieved thereby, to be
recovered in an action of debt, with full costs ;
and shall also, for every such offense be
rloomorl nnilfir nf a miarlomdonnr ftnd HOOD
ucguivu gum>J VI u iuiouvii?vw?v.| ?
conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than
8500, nor more than 81,000, or shall be imprisoned
not less than thirty days, nor more
than one year; Provided, "That all persons
may elect "to sue for the penalty aforesaid, or
to proceed under their rights at common law,
and by State statutes; and having so elected,
to proceed in the one mode or the other, their
right to proceed in the other jurisdiction shall
be barred ; but this proviso shall not apply
to criminal proceedings, either under this Act
or the criminal law of any State : And provided
further, That a judgment for the penalty
in favor of the party aggrieved, or a judgment
upon an indictment, shall be a bar to either ^
prosecution respectively.
Sec. 3. That the District and Circuit Courts
of the United States shall have, exclusive of