Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, September 30, 1875, Image 2
Scraps antl Jarts.
Com is offered in Dalton, Georgia, at
fifty cents a bushel.
Twenty of twenty-one Germau papers
in Iowa, support the Democratic ticket.
Joe Morris, the leader of the late
Georgia riots, has been captured and will be
tried in Johnson county.
The Bank of California, which suspended
some time ago, has made arrangements for
resuming payment at an early day.
Some idea of the conjugal happiness of
the King of Holland may beobtaiued from the
fact that his wife, the Queen, can talk every
language that is spokeu in Europe.
Mrs. Tilton is living with her mother,
Mrs. Morse, in Brooklyn. Her youngest
daughter, Alice, remains with her, but Florence
has cast her lot with her father.
w limn a lew nays a serious disease
has broken out araoug the horses in the many
public and private stables throughout the
city of New York. It borders on the nature
of the famous epizootic, which two years ago
carried off so many valuable animals in all
parts of the country.
The Lynchburg (Va.) Republican reports
squirrels migrating southward in large
numbers, saying "they may be seen above
and below the city, just before nightfall, crossing
the river on their bark boats, using tails as
sails when the wind is favorable."
According to a careful estimate made
by Mr. James Caird, whom the London Times
deems high authority, there is likely soon to
be a lively demaod for Araorican wheat in
Great Britain. The decrease in the production
of wheat in Ireland-aud England since
last year has been immense, aud the amount
of wheat required from abroad, it is estimated,
will be "11,000,000 quarters," or 88,000,000
bushels. This deficiency is tremendous aud
must have a favorable effect upou American
farmers, for of course a large proportion of
the wheat needed by Great Britain aud Tro
land will be imported fruin this country.
The Columbia Union-Herald, publishes
the following item which is of interest to persons
who are liable to pay reveuue license to
the United States: "The collector of internal
r J C ... A.i
revenue lor mis uisiriei luiurius us mai ?uy
firm which pays revenue license to the United
States requires new stamps whenever the firm
changes. The "change of firm," in contemplation
of 1 iw, is whenever a partuer retires
therefrom or a new one enters, or when one
person doing business alone sells out his business
to another. Internal revenue licenses
cannot be transferred from oue person to another.
This is the decision of the authorities
at Washington."
A man died in Tennessee last week
who is supposed to be the largest man that
was ever born in that State. He was but
nineteen years of age, and, had he not been
bent by an attack of rheumatism, he would
have been nine feet high. His boots were
each eighteen inches in length, and one of his
hands was about the size of four ordinary
ones. He could sit on a chair and pick up
anything three feet from him. His head
measured about fourteen inches, and his
chest seven and a half feet in circumference.
His cofian wa3 eight aud a half feet long,
twenty-eight inches wide and two and a half
iu depth.
A Washington letter says : "Massachusetts
Republicans represent that the party in
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mat otate nas not yet recovered irom me demoralization
caused hy the defeat of last fall.
It is admitted all around that unless great
care is observed in selecting a candidate for
Governor, the present Democratic Governor
(Gaston) will be re-elected. It is said that
I)r. Loring, who approximates somewhat to
the Butler standard in the matter of demagoguiug
and wire-pulling, has laid his plans
so as to control a large party in the convention,
with every prospect of his nomination,
unless his plans can be disarranged. With
him a3 the Republican standard-bearer, the
better class of Republicans say that defeat is
certain.
A young lady of engaging personal
appearance, who arrived in Burliugton, Iowa,
receutly from Crestou, announced that she was
going to open a barber shop on North Hill.
The very next day each married womau on
North Hill surprised her husband, whose
many virtues she had long known and admired,
with a neat little present consisting of
a razor, lather brush, aud strop. And now,
as oft as a North Hill man comes home, the
wife of his bosom puts her arms around his
neck and rubs her downy cheek agaiust his
face, in all apparent innocence and affection ;
but if his cheek is smother than when he
went away from home in the morning, she
fans him with the rolling pin until he has
to wear his hat on whichever lump it will
fit best.
The President is credited with a little
inke nt. the exnense of the editorial nrofession.
The people of Vineland, N. J., have been
trying to secure the removal of Postmaster
Landis, who, it will be remembered, lodged
a bullet in editor Carruth's brain. The President,
upou hearing of the matter, asked
Jewell whether there was any irregularity in
Mr. Landis' accounts. "Not any," replied
the Postmaster General. "Is the office well
conducted ?" "No complaint on that score."
"Intemperate habits ?" "Nothing of the kind
charged." "What is the objection?" "The
petitioners say he is rather obuoxious, and a
change would be satisfactory." "Well,"
replied the President, "he doesn't appear to
have done anything but shoot an editor, and
I don't see how I can remove him for that."
Freckles, says the Herald of Health,
are not easily washed out of those who have a
florid complexion and are much in the suushine,
but the following washes are not only
harmless, but very much the best of anything
we know : Grate horse radish fine, let it stand
a few hours in buttermilk, then strain and use
the wash night and morning. Or squeeze the
juice of a lemon into half a goblet of water,
and use the same way. Most of the remedies
for freckles are poisonous and cannot be used
with safety. Freckles indicate a defect in digestion,
and consist in deposits of some carbonaceous
or fatty matter beneath the scarf skiq.
The diet should be attended to, and should be
of a nature that the bowels and kidneys will
do their duty. Daily bathing, with much
friction, should not be neglected, and the
Turkish bath should be taken occasionally,
if convenient.
Egypt, it would appear from all accounts,
is preparing for a brilliant show at our
Centennial exhibition. Over two hundred
persons will be sent over, and these will include
representatives of every department of
native life. There will be a band of genuine
Bedouins from Arabia Petroea; the representative
animalsofthecountry, includingcamels,
and dromedaries, will be exhibited; water
from the Nile and Red Sea will be brought
over in tanks, and the primitive processes
of irrigation and cultivation will be explained
and illustrated with uative agricultural implements
; the manufactures and antiquities of
the country will be fully represented; learned
scribes will exhibit the process of writing in
Arabic on parchment; merchants and husbandmen
will exhibit the products of town
and country, while the interior life will be
illustrated in detail; soldiers will display the
uniform of the Turkish army; an Arabic
band will perform the national music; and,
what will be of more interest than all to the
crowd, a troop of dancing girls will illustrate
the recreation and diversities of the harem. A
marvellous show it will be, indeed.
In an interview with the reporter of a
New York paper, Carl Schurz says that business
is dull all over the world, in England and
Germany especially so, while France seems to
him at present the most prosperous of European
countries; that is, ordinary business is
more active there than elsewhere. The cause
of existing depressions of business everywhere
is more general than is commonly supposed,
and though fluctuations of currency and
use of paper money have bad much to do
with it, yet the telegraph, itself beneficent
though it be in the long run, has caused much
of the difficulties under which the world is
i now laboring. The first effect of the telei
graph bringing information instantaneously
from the most remote points was to cause
active speculation; prices at once went up
beyond their legitimate standard, and now
; that the reaction has set in, business becomes
| dull. The condition of the tea-growing dis|
tricts in China and Japan, of the vineyards
1 of France and Germany, of the cotton in the
I Southern States, &c., is too well known everyI
where to permit of activity in business, the
| world growing so small as to be in knowledge
of conditions in nearly every town, while
the means of transportation are not bettered
j in proportion.
?he forfcviUc <?tt<pnm.
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THE CALAMITY IS TEXAS.
By recent advices we learn that the late
storm in Texas was far more disastrous in its
effects than at first reported. Besides im
mense damage to shipping on the gulf, lives
and property on land were lost to an alarming
extent.
At Indianola the light-houses, wharves,
and nearly every house, were swept away, and
from one hundred to one hundred and fifty
lives were lost. A steamer, returning to Galveston
from Indianola, reports that at the latter
town no place could be found to land her
cargo. The same vessel reports loss of life
and suffering to be terrible. Dead bodieB
were strewn for twenty miles along the beach,
and over one hundred had been found and
buried up to the time the steamer left.
A dispatch from Houston says that only five
houses are left at Matagorda, though no lives
were lost. Fifteen families, living on Matagorda
peninsula, are supposed to have perished.
The losses of the planters are estimated at
two-thirds of the crop. The picking is backward,
and the sugar-cane is levelled. The tide
rose twelve to fourteen feet. It could be seen
coming forward in a wave six feet deep on
laQd hitherto untouched. Unly two or three
housesare left in Velasco and Quintara. The
people saved nothing. One hundred and fifty
people lived at Quintara, and fifty at Velasco.
The open cotton is all blown out over
a large area.
The town of Velasco was entirely swept
away. The storm or cyclone appears to have
taken in its course a belt of country, some
forty miles in width, trom the north ot tjalveston
Island, and extending to the north of
Houston. The hurricane swept over this entire
section of the coast, to the west of Indianola,
into the Gulf. Galveston was to the
south of the more severe storm.
The following letter from Iudianola gives a
vivid description of the extent and ravages of
the storm :
"On Wednesday, 15th, the winds were from
the eastward, veering to the north. On
Thursday, A. M., they became more steady,
increasing to a gale. The water was then
waist deep, and every man, woman and child
were seeking a place of safety. It blew fear
fully, and the situation was awful. Screams
from the women and children could be heard
in every direction. The water ws six feet
deep on the streets, and about two o'clock
Friday, A. M., the wind veered to the northwest,
and the waves then became chopped.
Houses were washed away or tumbled to
pieces. The wind, toward morning, began to
lull a little, and the water was getting lower.
The wind veered to the north and then came
hope, and daylight began to break. Then
did we behold the awful destruction around,
and thanked our God that we had been saved,
and that our perilous condition was as nothing
compared with the sufferings of our neighbors
and citizens. Along the bay broad daylight
revealed a scene that was terrible to behold.
The town could not be recognized as
the Iudianola of the day previous. Ruiu, total
ruin, was everywhere. The people were
seen walkingand jumping over one gully and
another; neighbors met neighbors and told
of the troubles and tribulation of the previous
night. Death aud destruction were all around
us. Houses were crushed to the ground and
others were swayed round and leaning over.
The wind was dying and the water disappearing
from places in the streets. Those that
could, rallied to learn the news. Bodies of
men, women and children were found in all
directions. The police and guards were organized
and the search was made for missing
relatives and friends. How many have lost
their lives in this fearful storm it is impossible
to learn. Up to this time sixty or seventy
bodies have been found and buried. Women
were found and men also who had floated off
on doors, or anything they could get hold of.
: Some were beneath the roofs and carried away
i long distances. The escape of so many of our
| citizens is almost marvelous. The search for
I bodies is still going on, and the number of
J human beings drowned will never be known,
| as there was a large number of strangers in
j town. We estimate the number of lives lost
; at one hundred and fifty. H. J. Huck lost
! everything but his house. Eighteen bodies
| were found yesterday, and the search will he
I continued until all of the dead are deposited
| in their last resting place. You cannot imagine
the extent of the disaster, and nothing
short of its full details will give a proper
kuowledge of it. A number of persons were
out on rafts for hours, but in many cases were
I not saved. Wm. Taylor, on trial for the Sut,
tou murder, was let out of jail to prevent his
1 L? A ? ? ? ? -V* A /lo Kin AO/in A 11 tKo
I ueiug uruwueu, auu uiauc mo uovi*pt. i*u wiv
! churches in the town are swept away, but the
I Court House is safe. Capt. Sam Brown and
: two of his family were saved ; they took j
, refuge in the lighthouse and were thereby
saved. Brown is now the only surviving
i pilot at the Pass. Great destitution prevail,
j and the Victoria people, hearing of it, nobly
I sent us assistance at once."
The greatest suffering prevails at Galveston
among the poorer classes, and many of the
wealthier class are in distress. The people at
the eastern portion of the city have been
washed out of their houses, their clothing lost,
i and provisions destroyed. The suffering at
other towns in the course of the storm is equally
great.
In reply to an application for Government
aid, as in the Alabama case, the Secretary of
War says that Texas does not come within
the scope of country provided for by law, in
consequence of which the sufferers will have
: to rely upon private contributions.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. i
? Three negro prisoners escaped from Dallas i
ail last week. 1
? A young son of H. M. Rhyne, living near t
Dallas, Gaston county, was killed a few days c
tgo by being drawn into a molasses mill. f
? Henry Walser, one of the best citizens of e
Davidson, and who, previous to the war, rep- J
esented his county for several years in the
jleneral Assembly, died last week. t
? A young man named Leviticus Alfin, has
)een committed to jail by a United States t
Commissioner in Wilmington, on the charge 1
>f breaking into and robbiug the post-office c
it Magnolia. f
? William Thomas, a noted character in (
Watauga county, was killed by Wilburn i
swift during a difficulty. Thomas shot Swift i
n the hand, when the latter drew a knife and
;ut his enemy's throat.
? The Carolina Railway has been comple- ?
ed to Shelby. It has now a continuous track jf
>f 240 miles, making it the longest railroad [ j
n the State and connecting the principal sea- j ]
jort with the western counties. i \
? John W. Cheek, a merchant of Durham,! i
ind a good citizen, while laboring under de- 1
ireasion of spirits occasioned by long and jj
Last fall, after the removal of County
Treasurer Neagle, Cardozo stated to Mr. Sol- 1
onion that Neaglc's accounts were backward, (
aud a settlement was to be forced. He sug- t
gested to Solomon that he purchase a large (
amount of consolidation bonds held by Nea- (
gle, and which would necessarily he offered
at a sacrifice. Solomou not having the money
wherewith to purchase, the following plan 1
was suggested by the treasurer aud adopted : f
The former was to buy these bonds of Neagle '
and place the cash to his credit in the bank. 1
Neagle was then to give Cardozo a check on 1
the Bank and Trust Company, which was to (
be deposited to the State's credit, aud no (
money thus be drawn out. Last January .
these bouds?purchased of Neagle by Solo- (
moil?had advanced in value to fifty cents, j
at which figure they were sold, and 80,(JOG
profit realized. Half of this sum was pressed
upon Cardozo by Mr. Solomon as his share ; 1
but in acknowledgement of several favors rendered
the treasurer by Solomon, the former {
insisted on relinquishing all claims to the
profits. In the meantime, however, Cardozo
was trying hard to have the State deposits 1
removed from Solomon's Bank without his 1
knowledge, and in this fact, on discovering it, {
Mr. Solomon readily saw the reason for the c
treasurer's disinterested generosity. In his f
defense against impeachment, Mr. Cardozo <
used overy effort to bicuk down llie ba.uk, and
CfnfA Alfi/lo mmAtrnrl TIioqo ilonnQ. ^
Iiavc lilU Utatc 1U1JUO IVUiUTVU. i uvou UV|JVU
its, amounting at that time to $187,000, were *
soon after reduced to $100,000. Mr. .Solomon 1
called on Governor Chamberlain, and urged s
the necessity for his bank holding at least i
$200,000, and was referred to Mr. Dunn and J
the treasurer. The latter, on being sought., ^
received Mr. Solomon quite cordially?this <
i r? rr cin/?o f ho A i co nr rnnfl h 1 P H
UCUJg IIICII 11IOI lU^VlUg OIUVV bliVUigugiWMviv
relations existed between them. In the course
of conversation Cardozo, referring to the
Neagle bonds transaction, detailed the expenses
incident to his defense on the impeachmeut
trial. He said that the State deposits
in Solomon's Bank would be increased, as
desired, to 8200,000, and asked that Mr. Solmon
would transfer to him his interest in the (
Union-Herald, which transfer, Cardozo said, I
would make everything square between them
This was done in April last, during which r
month the deposits were increased, after J
which Mr. Solomon signed the transfer.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. !
? The real and personal property of Rich- -|
land county is assessed at 87,324,340.
? The town of Sumter is to have a street j
railway, which is intended to transport freight. ;
? The residence of A. L. Solomon, of Co- 1
lumbia, was accidentally destroyed by fire on '
Wednesday night of last week. Loss 84,000. "
? Ex-Governor Scott is said to be stumping ]
Ohio for Allen, the Democratic candidate for |
Governor of that State. i
? Since the first of September, about fifteen <
hundred bales of cotton have been shipped {
from Newberry. !
? Mrs. Clemson, the last surviving child of i
John C. Calhoun, died at Fort Hill, near '
Pendleton, ou Wednesday of last week. ;
? According to the recent census, the town $
of Spartanburg hus a population of 3,488. (
Of this number 2,533 are whites, and 1,158 j
blacks. ,
? The Columbia papers of Saturday an- {
nouuce the serious illness of C. D. Melton, i
Esq. He has had several severe hemorrhages ]
from the lungs. (
? Col. Martin R. Delany, who was a candi- !
date for lieutenant-governor on the Green
ticket at the last election, is writing a history (
of the African race. t
? A tremendous storm passed over the Heal- c
iug Springs, Barnwell county, last Saturday t
week. Among other damages, the roofs of t
three houses on Mr. Blume's plantation were 1
: carried away. t
! ? The population of the town of Orange- c
burg is as follows: Whites?males, 388 ; fe- (
I males, 381. Total whites, 769. Colored?
! males 348; females, 382. Total colored, 730. r
Total white and colored, 1,497. i
? Tlionnrmliitirm nft.hpt.mvn nf Winnsboro 1
i . - ? - ,
is as follows: Whites?males, 200 ; females, t
! 302. Total whites, 602. Colored?males, e
362; females, 439. Total colored, 801. To- 8
tal white and colored, 1,403. s
? There arc 302 convicts in the South Car- i r
olina penitentiary, of whom twenty-five are c
whites, and three are females. At least 90 ?
per ceut. of the whole number of criminals c
| are under thirty years of age, 10 per ceut. ;
of these again being boys under twenty years, j e
? "One of the handsome black horses that 1
has been so often admired when attached to t
Col. Child's carriage, died yesterday morning t
i of lockjaw, says the Columbia Union-Herald, j
The horse was well the previous evening, and f
was found in a dying condition by the coach- 1
man as stated. It will be hard to match ?
! him." A friend, on reading the foregoing, J
! says that bleeding is a certain cure for lock-1
jaw in horses. When the animal is ascer-; I
; tained to be suffering with the complaint, i
bleed him freely until relaxation of the mus- c
cles ensues, or if necessary, until he falls r s
from prostration, when a sure cure will be t
I effected. I t
:ontinued sickness, committed suicide on ~
Wednesday of last week.
? + ? 9
MERE-MENTION.
Fourteen iuches of snow fell at Quebec on
Friday last. The leather business of the
Jutted states repro^ata a working capital of
570,000,000. There are 1,700,000 Baptists
in the United States, and only 200,000 in
Sew England. Virginia alone has as many
is Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and
Massachusetts put together. One-fourth
>f the total valuation of the real estate of
Sew York City is under mortgage. The
greatest depth of the Pacific Ocean, as found
>y the British ship Challenger, was about
ive miles. British Columbia will send a
lae-nole 140 feet long, composed of a single r
ree, to the Ceutenuial. Parson Brown- y
ow says that he is seventy years old, and (
,hat he attributes his longevity to the fact that {
le never voted the democratic ticket. At- }
oruey-Geueral Pierrepont has received tele- ]
>rams from persons of both political parties in {
Mississippi, approving of his letter to Gover- r
lor Ames. Vice-President Wilson, who
ins been solicited to permit his name to be r
lsed as the Republican candidate for Governor (
)f Massachusetts, decliues the honor. The ,
irst frost of the seasou is reported at Omaha \
>n Monday night of last week. West- [
>rvelt, tried at Philadelphia as an accomplice [
n the abduction of Charlie Ross, was con- t
rioted. Full returns of the California ^
ilection give Governor Irwin, Democrat, 61,- j
>25; Phelps, Republican, 30,922; Bidwell, 9
Independent, 29,360. Spotted Tail states t
lis price for the Black Hills at six millions *
>f dollars, a suit of clothes for each of his Iulians,
and a guaranteed annuity for eighty
rears. He pathetically Bays that "when 1
iighty years have passed away there will be
to Indians."
emtorialTsklings. t
The Cotton Crop of 1874-75. c
The annual report of the cotton crop, c
is prepared by the editors of the New York ^
Financial Chronicle, has been published. In
he elaboration of its details, it is fully up to t
he previous able statements which have been 9
jublished by the same parties, and which have t
:aused them to be esteemed of t he highest au- r
hority in reference to the Southern staple,
rhey make the total crop 3,832,991 bales, |
igainst 3,827,845 bales as calculated by the ^
National Cotton Exchange; the difference
jeing only 5,146 bales. The Chronicle's
itateraent of the crop is as follows:
lEt'KIPTN KOIt YKAK ENDING KEPTEMHKR 1, 1875. .
Ltouisiana, 993,775 1
Alabama, 320,822 r
South Carolina, 4:58,S!i7
leorgia, (503,246 ?
rex as, 368,283
Florida, 10,982 J
S'orth Carolina, 101,715
JStvrir,!.. 41K I 14
N'ew York, 158,22s
loston, 39,6G(>
Philadelphia 32,101
ialtimore, 8,132
Portland, 3,1-18
Total receipts at shipping ports, 3,497,lf>9
>verlaudto manufacturers, 205,339
Manufactured South 130,483
Total crop, 3,832,991
rhe Corn Crop of the United States.
The September report of the Department
of Agriculture gives the following cheerng
condition of the corn crop throughout the
United States:
Could it be thoroughly ripened its aggregate
would exceed any previous crop, and the
field per acre would be one of the best, notwithstanding
the losses by the overflow of
jottoms and saturation of heavy flat soils,
such losses proving less than the usual damages
by drought and insects. While the rains
iiave greatly benefitted the crop on dryer and
ligher soils, nearly everywhere corn is later in
maturing from one to two weeks. The genial
high condition is still maintained, the
iverage being one per cent, higher than in
August. The State averages are: Maine, '
105; New Hampshire, 100; Vermont, 98;
Massachusetts, 100; Connecticut, 108; New
Vork, 99; New Jersey, 111; Pennsylvania,
108 ; Delaware, 100 ; Maryland, 10G ; Virginia,
112; North Carolina, 104 ; South Car)lina,
87 ; Georgia, 90; Florida, 83 ; Alabama,
111 ; Mississippi, 116; Louisiana, 85;
Texas, 89 ; Arkansas, 103; Tennessee, 114;
Vest Virginia, 107 ; Kentucky, 103 ; Ohio,
)7 ; Michigan, 101 ; Indiana, 88 ; Illinois, 95;
Wisconsin, 60; Minnesota, 72; Iowa, 92;
Missouri, 111 ; Kansas, 109; Nebraska, 93;
Jalifornia, 95 ; Oregon, 100.
forth Carolina Convention.
In the North Carolina Constitutional
Jonvention, ordinances have passed their
hird and final reading reducing the number
>f Superior Coort Judges from twelve to
line; changing the time of the convening of
he Legislature to Wednesday after the first
Monday in January each year; empowering
he Legislature to establish intermediate
sourts, or courts inferior to the Superior r
Jourts.
The Rev. Mr. Spake introduced an ordimnce
disqualifying persons of certain religous
beliefs from holding office. Ordinances
lave also been introduced exempting from
axation for a term of years manufacturing
istablishments employed in manufacturing
irticles from home productions; and to retrain
any Legislature from levying (axes or
naking any arrangement to settle the public ,
lebt unless the creditors of the State will |
igree to a certain compromise, say 25 cents j
in the dollar. j
The ordinance to remove the disabilities of j
sx Governor Holden, who was impeached in ' j
1871, was refused by a vote of 53 to 56, on j e
he ground, by those voting negatively, that! t
he oath of the members of the convention, j *
described by the Legislature, restricted them | J
rom legislative action. An ordinance will,!
lowever, be passed giving the Legislature, j.
general pardoning powers. r
lassacliusetts Democratic Convention. f
The Democratic State Convention of j
ifassachusetts, met in Worcester on the 22nd F
ri
ustant. Edward Avery was made permanent jj
ihairman. In the course of his address, he j
s
aid the varied accounts of the annual auumnal
outrages at the South no longer divert c
he attention of the people from the incapac- j
i THE FAILURE OF SOLOMON'S BANK.
I
We published last week the correspond- j
1 ence, which up to that time, had passed be- j
tween F. L. Cardozo, State Treasurer, and
Hon. T. C. Duun, receiver of Hardy Solo-! ]
I mon's suspended bank. The first of this ' ?
epistolary controversy gave signs of acrimonious
feeling on the part of the writers, and ]
subsequent correspondence has brought them , i
into a mere personal quarrel in which the . (
j public cau have no interest, and by which no !
one can be enlightened. ; 1
Cardozo seems to stand in the attitude of a (
; personal enemy to Solomon and charges j c
i Duun with being Solomon's personal friend, !f
; which precludes him from making a fair and |
honest statement of the condition of the bank, 1
| and asks permission to have access to the books '
! of the concern for the purpose of making a per- j i
I sonal examination. Dunn refuses to comply <
i with this request, and from this point the State
Treasurer and Comptroller Dunn indulge in t
; hurling tirades of abuse at each other? c
j termed by some persons, "dirt-throwing," in j i
; which accomplishment, we regret to perceive, j I
: hnth officials disDlav remarkable nroficiency. I
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In the meantime, however, Receiver Dunn ?
publishes a statement of the assets and lia- }
bilities of the bank, which is far from satis- c
factory to the State Treasurer, who with a 1
terrible array of figures and mathematical
propositions, proceeds to annihilate the mod|
est statement of the receiver, which occupies j
| but about twenty lines, u.11 told. TLo cou- ^
! troversy having reached this point without a <
ray of light being thrown out to the tax-payers
as to what amount of the deficit, if aBy,
may possibly be recovered, Mr. Hardy Soloomon,
President of the bank, enters the i
fight, and explains what was the "pecuniary"
and "valuable consideration," rendered by i
j the State Treasurer for Solomon's interest
in the Union-Herald newspaper. Receiver t
Dunn charges that Treasurer Cardozo re- i
ceived from Mr. Solomon a transfer in his i
share of the Union-Herald without paying ,
him any pecuniary consideration whatever; 1
while the Treasurer retorts by saying that t
while the stock of the paper was worthless, j
he was "willing to assume additional expense t
to rid the paper of the influence of the President
of the South Carolina Bank and Trust j
Company." Mr. Solomon relates the trans- t
actiou, in substance, as follows:
ty, mismanagement and corruption of those I
n power. Men begin to discover that the 1
>lood is artificial and the agony manufacured,
and are ready to administer the affairs 1
>f the government like their own private af- i
airs. Nominations?Wra. Gaston, the pres- (
int incumbent, for Governor, and William F. i
3artlett for Lieutenant-Governor. 11
On the financial question, the third resoluion
of the platform is as follows:
"In the interests of public morals, the naion's
credit and the common welfare, we opwseany
further issue by the government of a
:urrency incontrovertible with gold, the
vorld's recognized measure of value; and we
avor a speedy return to specie payments as
issential to the revival of the commerce, busness
and credit of tho country, and to the
velfareof the laboriug masses."
The platform concludes as follows :
"We take an honest pride in the cordial
ind enthusiastic approval by the people of
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im wnuie country, uu me uiu ui uuuc, iviu, i
if the policy of reconciliation, peace and
raternity, advocated by the Democratic and
Liberal Republican parties in 1872. We
velcome with especial satisfaction the assuance
that that policy will be inaugurated by
he administration to be placed in power in
[876."
itonewalPs Statue.
Foley's statue of Gen. Stonewall Jack- 1
on, presented to Virginia by the Hon. Beresord
Hope, Member of Parliament, and other
^Dglitb gentlemen, arrived in Richmond on
Wednesday last, and was formally received
he next day by Governor" Kemper. The
>eople turned out en masse to witness the releption,
the streets presenting a holiday apjearance.
At 3.30 p. ra., the First Regiment
if Virginia Volunteers, the Veterans of the
Did First Virginia Regiment and the Rich- I
nond Howitzers, proceeded to the wharf of
he Powhattan Steamboat Company, where
he case containing the statue awaited trans)ortation
to the Capitol. It had been placed
ipon a wagon, and was covered with the flags
>f Great Britain and Virginia. Long ropes
vere attached to the wagon, and at the word
>f command, the Veterans of the Old First,
ogether with a large number of citizens, took
lold, and with a portion of the preseut hirst
Regiment at the head of the column, took up
he line of march, the reraaiuder of the Reginent
and Howitzera bringing up the rear.
Upon reaching theCupitol square, the wag>
was drawn to the foot of the steps of the
Capitol, where Col. Bradley T. Johnson, comnandant
of the First Regiment, formally deivered
the statue to Governor Kemper in a
jrief speech, referring in feeling terms to the
ime, twelve years ago, when he commanded
he funeral escort of the true and gallant sollier,
who was now being honored by the peo>le
of Great Britain. Governor Kemper reponded,
receiving the statue in the name of
he people of Virginia, thanking the soldiers
ind citizens for the spontaneous honor which
tad been done to as true a hero as ever trod '
he earth. In doing this they had done much
ilso, to testify the gratitude of Virginians to
he noble friends on the other side of the
vorld, who had sent this great tribute of adniration
and sympathy, from the Old World
o the New. Governor Kemper, in the name
>f Virginia, took possession of the gift, reviving
it not more as a great sculptor's work
>f art, than a work of Euglish affection for
Virginia and her immortal son.
In response to loud calls from the immense
hrong present, Mayor Kelley also made a
ttrrinrr onfloph Thp fnAR WRS thpn nlanpd in
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he basement of the Capitol, where it will renain
until the pedestal being prepared in the
Capitol square is ready. The statue will be
mveiled in the latter part of October, during
lie State fair week.
iovernor Ames' Appeal lor Troops.
Having published last week the telegram
of Attorney-General Pierrepont to Govsrnor
Ames, demanding his grounds for callng
on the general Government for aid to sup>re88
the alleged disorders in Mississippi, we
jive below the Governor's reply :
Jackson, Miss., September 11.
Attorney-General Pierrepont, Washington:
The necesssity which called forth my dispatch
of the 8th instant to the President, still
sxists. Your questions of yesterday, repeated
o-day, ask for information which I gladly
jive. The violence is incident to the politi:al
contest preceding the pending election.
Unfortunately the question of race, which has
)een prominent in the South since the war, has
issuraed a magnified importance at this time
u certain localities. In fact, the race feeling
sso intense, that protection for the colored
ieople by white organizations is despaired of.
A political contest made on the "white line"
brbids it. The history of the colored people
iince reconstruction, and its b^aring on the
situation at this time, and a detailed statenent
of the troubles here, cannot be condensed
n a telegram. This State has been opposed
o organizing a militia of colored meu. It
ias been believed by them that it would develop
a war of races, which would extend berond
the borders of this State. The orgaoi;ation
of whites alone, where the issue is one
>frace, would be equally ineffectual. The
nost complete protection would be found in
he strict non-interference of the whites. Conradictious
will be numerous, and so they
vere last December; but the reports of the
Congressional committee proved the correctiess
of ray assertions. I am aware of the reuctance
of the people of the country to naional
interference iu State affairs, though if
here be no violation of the law there can be
io interference. Permit me to express the ,
lope that the odium of such interference shall
lot attach to President Grant or the Repub- (
ican party. As the Governor of the State, I
nade a demand which cannot well be refused,
liet the odium in all its magnitude descend
ipon me. I caunot escape the conscientious |
lischarge of ray duty toward a class of Araer- i
can citizens whose only offense consists in |
heir color, and whom I am powerless to pro- i
ect. Adelbkrt Ames. j
Governor Ames ha3 ordered out a number
>f the State militia, on the pretext of sup- <
iressing violence and insurrection ; but Chief ?
lustice Peyton, (Republican) has granted an 1
njuuction restraining the Auditor from pay- |
ng money to support them, which will doubtess
cause a speedy disbanding of the troops. ,
The Chief Justice holds that mustering the i
nilitia in a time of profound peace is creating t
i standing array of State troops in violation '
if the Constitution.
'resident Grant's Hopes and Plans.
After a hasty trip from Long Branch (
o his farm in Missouri, President Grant and ,
lis family have returned to Washington. A <
orrespoudent of the Boston IVanscript, re- <
dewing the President's hopes and plans, gives '
he following information regarding his views
if the issues of the next campaign, with a
breshadowing of the prominent features of (
he forthcoming message : I
There is good authority for saying that i
^resident Grant is well pleased with the prea- 1
int. nnlitical outlook. For the Dast few davs i
he President has abandoned the reticence for ^
rhich he is usually remarkable, and has not
lesitated to express his views of current events !
reely among his friends. |
Under all circumstances, President Grant
iclieves the people will be compelled to recoglize
the Democratic party as the party of in- j
lution and repudiation, and the Republican j
>arty as the friend of resumption and of the
(reservation of the uational honor and credit,
rhe issue of next year's campaign, says the
'resident, is already made, and has been cho-;
en by the Democracy. I
In his message to Congress, when a Demo- i
ratic House of Representatives will have the
(rivilege of considering his recommendations, I <
be will set forth as strongly as he possibly ean,
the depressed and suffering condition of the
business and commerce of the nation, and will
direct attention to the necessity of taking
measures to establish the currency on a sound
basis by preparing for resumption under the i
existing law in 1879, to which he will say we j
alone can look for a restoration of confidence
and credit and a revival of trade.
He will enlarge upon the necessity of increasing
the national revenues as preliminary
to resumption. He will to that end recommend
the restoration of the duty on tea and
coffee, by the abolition of which the government
has lost some 820,000,000 to $25,000,000
a year without any benefit to the consumer,
the taxation of all articles of foreign manufacture,
and probably the abolition of the
entire free list.
In addition the President will probably suggest
such an amendment of the legal-tender
act as will require the payment of all internal
revenue dues in gold, as a further provision
for resumption. The President will make it
clear in his message to Congress that he intends
to practically carry out the duty imposed
upon the Government by the resumption
act, by proceeding to contract the present
greenback issue to the limit allowed by the
law. Upon this point, more than any other,
he relies for the support of the moneyed interests
of the country in the Republican presidential
convention.
The Currency Question in New York.
A grand mass meeting of the working
men of New York city was held at Cooper
Institute last Thursday night, at which there
were present on the platform a number of
ttie capitalists-of ttoe-etty," among'tnem ttir
wealthy philanthropist, Peter Cooper. Letters
were read from Wendell Phillips, Geo.
Butler, Hon. W. D. Kelley and others. The
meeting was presided over by Hon. Richard
Schell and the following resolutions were
adopted:
Resolved, That the contraction of the currency
heretofore made, and the further contraction
proposed, with a view to the forced
resumption of specie paymeuts, has already
brought disaster to the business of the country
and threatens general bankruptcy. We
demand that this policy be abandoned, and
that the volume of currency be made and
kept equal to the wants of trade, leaving the
restoration of legal tenders to a par with gold
to be brought about by promoting the industries
of the people, and not by destroying
them, and that we favor the payment of at
least half of the customs in legal tenders.
Resolved, That we demand the abolition of
the present national banks, and the establishment
instead of a system of free banks of
discount and deposit, under such regulations
as the States may respectively prescribe, and
no paper currency except such as may be issued
directly by and upon the faith of the
General Government.
Resolved, That we send cheer and sympathy
to the great Democratic party of the
West, and that we hail their success as the
triumph of the people over a mouopoly, which
threatens the safety of the country.
Resolved, That we recommend that the
electors throughout the State of New York
assemble in their various districts and form
legal-tender clubs, in conformity with the
resolutions adopted by this meeting, to give
strength to the great Democratic party in
Ohio and Pennsylvania in the approaching
canvass.
Resolved, That the policy already initiated,
of abolishing legal-tenders, and giving the
national hanks power to furnish all the currency,
will increase a power already a dangerous
monopoly, and the enormous burdens
now oppressing the people; and that we oppose
this policy, and demand that all the naI
/*Innnlo*lAM Kn nrAmtitlv onrl nor.
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raanently retired, and legal-tenders issued in
their place.
Resolved, That the public interest demands
that the government should cease to distrust
its own currency, and should make its legaltenders
receivable for all public dues, except
where respect for the obligations of contracts
rem) ires.
The chairman stated that this was the first
of a series of mass meetings to be held under
the auspices of the Legal-tender Club, and
the meeting adjourned. The audience was
mostly composed of laboring men, and filled
the immense hall.
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Correspondence or the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, September 27, 1875.
The Court continued its sessions at this
place throughout the week. Correspondence
of last week closed with a statement of the
principal points of Judge Mackey's charge to
the grand jury, and a reference to the case of
the State vs. Carter Ross, charged with an
assault and battery, with intent to kill.
The defeudantwas found guilty of an assault,
and sentenced by the Judge to five minutes'
imprisonment in the county jail.
This case was followed by that of the State
vs. Newton McClintock and Arazi Vance,
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OOIQ coioreu, eimrgeu wilu assault auu uattcry.
The State was represented by A. M.
Mackey, Esq., and the defendants by Gen.
W. A. Walker. Felix Pendleton, colored,
the prosecuting witness, charged Arazi Vance
with throwing at him a flask, which struck
him in the eye, knockiug it out. His testimony
was corroborated by other witnesses.
Newton McClintock was accused of aiding
and abetting in this cruel work. The case
was too plain to admit of any verdict by the
jury save that of "guilty."
After the conclusion of this case, the Judge
delivered a special charge to the grand jury
in reference to certain stores in the eastern
portion of the county that were reported to
be engaged in the business of buying stolen
cotton at night. The Judge stated that numerous
complaints had been made to him concerning
these stores. The grand jury were
instructed to investigate this matter, and if
they found, after due examination, that there
were stores in the county doing the nefarious
business charged against them, to present
them as nuisances and the keepers of the
same as charged with an offense, for which
they should be tried, and if found guilty, punished
according to the enormity of their crime.
The Court met at the usual hour on Tuesday
morning, when the trial of the case of the
State vs. David Kelly, colored, charged with
stealing a horse, ensued. The defendant
swore that in accordance with the custom of
the neighborhood, he had ridden the horse
away from the plantation of Dr. Forte, who
was the prosecuting witness, but had no inten-1
tion of stealing the horse. The Judge directed
thejurytofind in favor of the defendant,
which was accordingly done.
The case of the State vs. Isaac Castles, colared,
charged with the intimidation of voters
at the recent election for sheriff, was then
jailed for trial. Thedefendautwas represented
S. J. Couch, Esq. The testimony in the
:ase was of a very conflicting character, the
evidence of the defendant and his witnesses
being diametrically opposite to that of the
witnesses for the State. Isaac Babcock, colared,
swore that at the time of his taking the
aath preliminary to voting, the defendant remarked
that "he ought to have his d?ra
;hroat cut for voting the Walker ticket." He j
ilso swore to his leaving the voting precinct I
for fear of receiving bodily harm. The testi- i
mony of Garland Smith tended to the impli-1
jation of Castles in the intimidation scheme.;
But the testimony of the defendant was a com-;
plete denial of the allegations of the State's
witnesses. And the defendant's testimony
was conflrmed by the evidence of other wit-'
aesses. The Judge alluded, in his charge to'
;hejury, to the fight in 1870 between the!
whites and the negroes at Carmel Hill, where !
Oastles was alleged to have intimidated vo;er8,
and stated in emphatic terms that that!
was one place where the liberty of the ballot
box must be maintained. The jury, in consequence
of the conflicting and unsatisfactory
aharacter of the testimony, gave the defendant
the benefit of the doubt in rendering a verdict j
jf"not guilty." I
The Judge then passed sentence upon
Amzi Vance and Newton McClintock, who
had been found guilty of the charge of assault
and battery?the former, to an imprisonment
of twelve months iu the State penitentiary
; the latter, to an imprisonment of
six months in the sames place. Saul Anderson,
colored, who had pleaded guilty to the
committing of a rape upon a child in Landsford
township, received his sentence, which
was imprisonment for life in the State penitentiary.
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On NVeduesday, upon the assembling of
the Court, the trial of the State ??. Dublin I.
Walker, Benjamin Michael, Henry Blake,
and Julius Stephenson, charged with forming
a conspiracy to defraud the county, began
and continued throughout the entire day. A.
M. Mackey, Esq., appeared for the State, and
Gen. W. A. Walker and S. J. Couch, Esq.
for the defendants. Ex Congressman Elliott,
of Columbia, was expected to be one of the
defendants' lawyers, but a telegraphic dispatch
was received from him on Tuesday,
stating his inability to be present. The parties
charged with conspiring to defraud the
county were the late public school commissioner
of this county and the public sehool
trustees of Chester township, and the ray in
which their embezzling propensities were directed,
was the issuing of a fraudulent school
certificate while in office. Julius Stevenson,
one of the defendants, turned Slate's evidence,
and a nolle prosequi was entered in his
case. Besides endeavoring to establish by
testimony, that Benjamin Michael, io whose
favor the alleged fraudulent certificate was
drawn, had never rendered the service to the
county called for by the sum stated in the
were directed toward showing by the evidence
of the late treasurer of the county, David
Hemphill, Esq., and the present school
commissioner, F. B.. Loyd, Esq., the fraud
connected witn tne scnooi certincate in queetion.
The counsel for the defense endeavor*
ed to establish, by rebutting testimony, that
Benjamin Michael had rendered service for
the amount claimed in the certificate, and
that the alleged fraudulent certificate wag a
copy of a school certificate issued in favor of
Benjamin Michael in 1871, and upon which
he had never drawn the money, for the reason
i of his having lost or misplaced the same.
After arguments from the Solicitor, and the
attorneys for the defense, and the delivery of
a strong, vigorous charge from the Judge,
which carried no comfort to the souls of the
defendants, the jury retired to consult over
their verdict. The jury, composed of one
white man and eleven colored men, spent all
the night in the jury-room, and announced
their agreement upon a verdict at six o'clock
Thursday morning. The verdict was guilty,
with the recommendation of the defendants
to the mercy of the Court. Considerable importance
attaches to this case from the fact
that the defendants were prominent and influential
colored politicians ; one of them,
Dublin I. Walker, representing, at the present
time, this county in the State Senate.
I suppose, in consequence of his conviction
of the crime of misapplication of the public
! funds, he will be deprived of his seat in that
honorable body, which will occasion the elec|
tion of another Senator from this county.
The case that resulted so unfortuuately for the
defendants, was splendidly managed by the
representative of the State; indeed, I am exceedingly
doubtful if the case could have
been conducted with more skill had it been
in the hands of the learned Judge, himself,
who presided upon the bench at the time of
the trial.
The State business having been concluded,
the trial of civil cases was begun on Thursday.
The cases on that day and Friday were
not such as to merit any special mention.
Saturday was consumed in the trial of the
case of the Chester aud Lenoir Railroad
Company vs. the Presideut aud Directors of
the late King's Mountain Railroad Company.
The object of the suit is to recover 81,500, with
interest, which the plaintiffs a J lego to have
been, or should have been, in the hands of the
defendants at the time of the transfer of the
assets of the King's Mountain Railroad Company,
and which has never been turued over
into the hands of the Directors of the Chester
and Lenoir Railroad Company. The defendants
admit that the amount claimed by the
plaintiffs was in their hands at the time of, or
immediately previous to the transfer, but allege
that it was disposed of as the Directors
nf TTintr'a Mnnnfain Railroad ComDanv
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ordered, viz.: by the declaration of a dividend
and the distribution of the pro rata
portion among the stockholders. The plaintiffs
deny the truth of the allegation of the
disposition of the amount claimed, in accordance
with the order of the Directors of said
Company. The plaintiffs are represented by
Major S. P. Hamilton and C. S. Brice, Esq.,
of this place, and the defendants by Colonel
J. H. Rion, of Winnsboro. The case was not
concluded on Saturday, and is now progressing
toward a conclusion, which will probably
be reached this afternoon or tonight.
Upon the assembling of the Conrt this
morning, a very large audience was present
to hear the sentence of the presiding Judge
upon Dublin I. Walker and Henry Blake,
who had been tried and found guilty of issuiug
a fraudulent school certificate. Benjamin
Michael, who was charged and convicted
of the same crime, and who mysteriously disappeared
on the evening before the day of the
trial, will be sentenced at another time if he
is ever caught. Judge Mackey expressed his
"profound sorrow" in imposing sentence upon
oue who had been so highly honored by the
people as the prisoner, Dublin I. Walker.
Yet the verdict, he stated, was just; having
been found against him by eleven men of bis
own race, and one true man of the white race.
The Judge informed the prisoner of the fact
that twenty-two additional fraudulent school
certificates issued by him had been found by
the grand jury, and that if he was tried upon
each one, be would spend the remainder of
his days in prison. The prisoner was told
that, judging from the school certificates that
had been issued, there ought to have been one
hundred teachers in the county in 1871, when
in fact there were only thirty. The abuse by
him of the high trust that had been confided
to him, was dwelt upon for a time, when hit
Honor proceeded to impose the sentence,
which was, inasmuch as the jury recommended
mercy, one year in the State penitentiary.
Henry Blake then received his sentence,
which was three months in the State penitentiary.
Judge Mackey directed the jailor not
to place handcuffs on Dublin I. Walkerwhen
taking him to Columbia, as he had already
been sufficiently degraded.
Five prisoners leave this place to-day for
the penitentiary. They are all colored. The
lamentations of their friends, who were at the
depot in force to say farewell, were quite die
tressing. v^ui.
Chester, Sept 28.
The Railroad case did uot reach an end
yesterday as was expected. The morning
was spent in closing the testimony for the defense;
the afternoon and a portion of the
evening were devoted to the speeches of Mai.
S. P. Hamilton, and Col. J. H. Rion. C. S.
Brice, Esq., occupied the attention of the
Court a considerable time this morning, in
behalf of the plaintiffs. Upon the conclusion
of his argument, the presiding Judge delivered
his charge, when the case was given over
into the hands of the jury. Their verdict
was in favor of the plaintiffs for the full
amount?the amount claimed with interest?
about 81,800. The jury, in finding their verdict,
eliminated the element of fraud; charging
the defendants simply with exercising
powers that were not properly theirs.
The Court will probably continue in session
until Thursday or Friday.
Captain John Witherspoon, a young lawyer
of ability from Rock Hill, is in attendance
upon the Court to-day. He is thinking
of forming a partnership in the law with one
of our Chester attorneys. He has my best
wishes for his success and happiness in any
alliance he may now or hereafter make?legal,
matrimonial or otherwise. Qui.