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VOL. 24. YORKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1878. NO. 12.
JU Original ^targ.
Written for the Yorkville Enquirer.
MARIPOSA;
OR,
THE HEART OF A BALLET GIRL.
CHAPTER XIX.
Active preparations were speedily inaugurated
for the prospective journey. Helen
found great delight in selecting Posy's outht,
which she wished to have as handsome and
complete as possible, and almost every day
would go out on a shopping expedition, and return
h;>me with something new and beautiful,
until the child was bewildered by the variety
of her possessions, and Margaret declared
that "Miss Forester was a regular princess,
and must have a mine of gold to her hand."
n / 1 1 If nnf f?,.
i be raitniui aueuuaui, ucidcu, nna uuu gotteD,
but came iu for a goodly share of pres
euts. Helen seemed to feel that she could
not sufficiently prove to her how much she appreciated
the care she had taken of her sister.
Margaret was to go with them, at her own
desire. Helen had caught her privately crying
one dry, soon after the journey abroad
had been settled, and findiug that her grief
arose from the anticipation of parting with
her little charge, had immediately promised
that she should go, too.
"When will Posy be strong enough to set
off?" her uncle asked, more than once, and
Posy always answered, "Oh ! I can go auj
time, Uncle; I'm plenty strong enough." But
still it seemed as if they must wait a little
longer, until she should he a trifle less weak,
and feel belter able to exert herself. At last,
finding that she did not improve, they all concluded
that it would be wiser not to delay
any more, but trust to the journey itself to
strengthen her, and a day was definitely
fixed for their departure.
It drew rapidly near, and soon all the arrangements
were completed.
The eve of the appointed day arrived, and,
sitting together iu Posy's room, the little circle
cheerfully discussed their plans. Mr.
Dash wood had not succeeded iu finding a
suitable escort for them, and so intended making
the journey with them. It was a great
eveut for him, as he had not left home before
within forty years. Posy seemed unusually
bright and well, and was in high spirits. For
the 6rst time, she entered with enthusiasm
into Helen's cheerful anticipations, and appeared
willing to be convinced that the
change would be a benefit to her. She had,
of her own accord, exchanged her cashmere
wrapper for a close-fitting dress, and Helen
had playfully insisted on gathering up her
loose curls into a coiffure more in accordance
with the fashion, only leaving two or three of
the soft, brown tresses nestling against her
slender, white neck. And in this improved
guise, and with a color just sufficiently bright
to give a semblance of roundness to the too
cfeTicate outline of her cheek, she looked, as
Helen triumphantly declared, almost quite
well.
"Oh ! Posy, dear, just as soon as you breathe
that lovely Languedic atmosphere, and see
the blue hills, and my own Garonne, with the
sailing-boats like swans floating down the
tide, and the old brown chateau among the
trees, and dear old Madame's kind face
smiling a welcome to all of us, you'll be a
new creature, and forget all about weakness,
and short breathing, und sleepless nights, and
the other horrors that pull you back now. In
two months, Uncle, I'll wager my diamond
ring agaiust your gold spectacles, that you
wouldn't know her."
"What use would my gold specs be to you,
Chatterbox ?"
"Oh ! plenty of use. Don't you know I'm
"1-1 A i?/4 Pmqv u?p'II arn aniline
gTUWIUg UlUi nuu iu?j, ...... b~ j,
some evenings, when it's warm and pleasant,
you know, and watch the sun going down behind
the hills. And Moqsieur Victor will
take an oar, perhaps, when the wind dies
away, and say, in his serious tone: 'We must
avoid the night air, Mesdernoiselles, for it
would not do that la belle petite should
catch cold."
"You always seem to think of me, and to
expect other people to think of me, as a child,"
said Posy, looking amused.
"And so you are, my darling, compared
with rue. I am two whole years your senior,
in age, and at least twenty more in expe'
rience," said Helen, sagely.
Posy looked doubtful, but did not dispute
the point. She was quite willing to be treated
as a child, by this elder sister, who wielded
such a loving dominion over her.
They talked on until near nine o'clock, and
then Mr. Dashwood declared that if they did
not all retire at once, uobody would want to
be up in the morning in time.
"I don't feel tired this evening, as I generally
do," said Posy, as she kissed the others
good-night. "I think I am better than I
have been for months."
"Of course, you are," rejoined Helen.
"You have taken a fair start now, and are
just going to keep on improving all the time."
Posy felt strangely happy and light-hearted,
as she laid her head down ou her pillow, having
said her simple prayers, when Margaret
had put out the light and left the room. It
did seem to her like a revelation of future
joys in store for her, such as Helen had fondly
predicted, but on which she had scarcely
allowed her thoughts to dwell until now.
She hoped it would all be true, that she would
find her old strength aud buoyancy return to
her, making her life pleasant once more, and
with Helen for her companion and stay, she
could be content, away from every one else in
the world. A passionate fondness for her
sister had spruDg up in her heart, acquiring
new strength with each added day of their
intercourse. She had learned to cling, with
the trusting self-abandonment of a naturally
dependent nature, to the elder girl, who had,
from the first, taken her under her care and
guidance, as though there had been a difference
of many years between them, yet whose
perfect sympathy of heart and mind with her
own, made this difference as though it had
not existed at all. Helen was sister, mother,
protectress and confidential companion, in
one. Aud Posy, revelling in the enjoyment
of this new, sweet fellowship, wondered how
she had managed to live without it all these
past years of her eventful life.
Her last waking thought was in the shape
of a little prayer?"God bless my sister, and
make her happy all her life, and never let us
part any more !" She murmured the words
half aloud, and almost as they left her lips,
floated away into a happy dream, in which
Helen seemed to hover, like an angel, over her
head.
It was strange, but she had really seen her
. thus before, looking almost exactly like her
true self, even while she had no knowledge of
J her existence. Dreaming of her now, she
: seemed to clasp her by the hand, and raovo
; airily with her through infinite space. Around
l them were scattered the golden stars, and far
below they could faintly see the fields and
woods of the dim, distant earth. Presently,
a multitude of beings, in glistening white
robes, appeared advancing to meet them.
One, approaching nearer than the rest, took
her by the hand, and Helen whispered to her:
"That is our mother." She looked with minonrl
froml?lintr inv into the seraohic
glCU " " ^ C? = V. J.J ,
face, aud her mother softly whispered to her:
"Ada. come 1" At the same raomeut, Helen's
hold upou her relaxed, and she felt herself
slipping away, down, down, while everything
around her suddenly grew dark and confused.
She awoke with the sensation of an icy hand
being laid upon her heart, and, in a frightened
voice, she cried aloud for Margaret, who
slept on a couch near her bed.
Margaret rushed to her, and in a moment
more Helen, too, was aroused. Posy looked
from one to the other, her eyes resting longest
on her sister's face. She was very white, and
an unnatural light glittered in her eyes; but
she tried to smile, and pressed Helen's hand,
as the latter kissed her, with agonized tenderness,
again and again.
"It has come, dear," she faintly said. "We
won't make our journey together. I've a longer
one to make?"
"Oh ! Margaret," cried Helen, in an agony,
"can we do nothing? Can't the doctor
come ?"
Margaret shook her head. "It would be
no use," she solemnly answered. "Nothing
could do her any good now. It's the end, and
she knows it."
Posy overheard the words. "Yes, it's the
end," she whispered, "and I'm not sorry?
except for leaving you, dear Helen?ray owu
sister?"
They clasped each other close. Helen, by
a mighty effort, crushed back her swelling
grief, that in this last supreme moment, she
might still be Posy's comfort and support.
Quickly the young life was ebbing away.
Each moment her breath came more faintly
and flutteringly ; her eyes grew more rapt and
yearning in their look ; and though they were
fixed on her Bister's face, their gaze seemed to
stretch far, far away, into the unseen world.
For a little space she continued thus, while
the two figures near her, hushed and breathless,
scarcely dared to stir. Then, with a sudden
movement, she half raised herself from
her pillow, and, with an upward glance, she
cried, in a clear, joyful tone?
"Oh! mother I Oh! how beautiful! How
changed!"
In another instant, she had fallen back ou
Helen's arm. Her lips were still parted in a
smile; her eyes still fixed in their heavenward
gaze ; but the spirit which had given life and
radiance was gone. In that last moment
of her earthly existence, a glimpse had doubtless
been revealed to her of one whom, for
many years, she had loved and trusted as her
guide and stay, and who, having cherished her
with tenderest affection on earth, was permitted,
it might be, to be the first to welcome
her to the home, which, through the child's
innocent miuistry, she bad attaiued.
"She is an angel, and we mustn't wish her
back," whispered Margaret, as she reverentially
closed the beautiful eyes. Helen neither
heard nor replied. She was crushed and
stupefied by her sudden, startling loss.
*****
Some months later. Madame Preville was
sitting in her high backed red chair, with
Nanette, now grown very old, purring softly
in her lap, keeping time with the gentle click,
click, of Madame's needles as they moved
through one of Victor's woolen socks. The
clock ticked on the mantel; the fire tinkled
in the chimney. The silence was unbroken,
save by these gentle, domestic sounds. It was
all very comfortable and homelike, just as
it had been when Helen was there. But the
old lady seemed to fiud the loneliness oppressive
; for after a little while she rose, letting
puss slide, much to her indignation, to the
floor, aud moving to the fire-place, commenced
pushing about the half-consumed logs
in a restless sort of way.
"O dear ! it's very dull," she said, aloud.
"Iv'e beeu thinking so much of that child, all
this afternoon. I wonder if I shall ever see
her again ?"
The "child," of course, meant Helen, who
was constantly in her thoughts. But this
particular thought must surely have spruug
from an inspiration ; for she had scarcely given
it utterance when the parlor door opened,
and Helen herself stood before her!
ilMon enfant, won ange /" cried Madame,
| in a transport. "Aud is my prayer auswerI
ed, and hast thou come back to me once
i mnrft ?"
Yes, she had come back, as she told her
old friend, to stay with her and take care of
her for a long time ; just as long as she would
have her. Fond as she had been of her uncle,
she could not be happy or comfortable now in
his home, and he had permitted her, in return|
ing to France, to follow the dictates of her
I own heart.
There was so much to be told ; so many
! questious to be asked and replied to! Mad|
ame, touching Hcleu's mourning dress with
' an anxious look, had made, with her eyes, the
j inquiry she would not put in words, and the
story of Posy's life had to be related to her.
Helen wept as she dwelt on the circumstances
i of their re union, and the brief, happy period
. ?Ln>, tvno.i nonnltfofl t r> HUQH tnorpflipr and
j U1CJ uau uggu w ^/..Ww y
her old friend's sympathizing tears mingled
I with her owu, as the touching history was
told. "It was well that you left me to return
to your own land, if it was but for this," she
said. But with the vivacity of her nation,
she presently banished the sadness that had
' crept over them both. "Allona! this is uo
! day for tears, my love; let us turn now to a
' happier theme. Ah! I picture to myself my
j nephew's joy when he returns home and finds
| you here. He is gone to town on business,
[ but will be back at sapper-time. Helen, moil
, ' enfant, you have not left your heart in Amerj
ica, I foudly trust?"
i Helen laughed, and blushed, and told her
j she had brought it with her, quite safe and
11 sound. But the theme was rather a confusing
one, and she begau at once to talk of somei
thing else. It was with a very unusual flutter,
11 however, of the said heart, that she presently
, saw Monsieur Victor himself walk in. He
11 entered, looking as serious and calm as ever ;
but the calmness vanished, and a glow like a
burst of sunlight over a shady landscape, illumined
his face, when he saw her sitting in
her old place near his aunt's chair.
Well! they soon got to talking together,
and after a while everything seemed to be
going on just it had done in the olden time.
But there was a very palpable difference felt,
though not expressed, by them all. Helen
had somehow lost her self-possession, and Vicj
tor, in some unaccountable way, had thrown
off his former reserve, and had become vivacious,
gay, even brilliant. He uttered witty
little bon mots, and made himself the life
and spirit of the party, while his eyes, throughout
the conversation, seemed scarcely ever to
1 -"?'i fA tnk ink t kon tcaro A rQ ton
I IjUIL ilCICU O IBUU, tU ITliltU IUWJ nviv ??** ?
by an irresistible fascinatiou. As to Madame
Preville, she could have wept in the fullness
of her joy. She looked from one to the other
of the two young people, and told herself
sagely that everything was coming round
right at last.
And everything did come round right, according
to her desires, after a time. Victor,
taking Helen's return as an encouragement
to his long-stifled hopes, did not long delay
iu making the venture to which he had not
trusted himself before; and Helen, having
found that her truest happiuess would be ensured
by marrying him, accepted his offer,
siruply and without coquetry, at once. Their
courtship would no doubt have been more interesting,
had there been a spice of uncertainty
about it, in regard to its result. But
Helen was no flirt, and when Victor, in his
appeal, told her of bis patient waiting,
through all these years, not only of their separation,
but dating even farther back, she
thought his fidelity and self-abnegation quite
worthy of a prompt reward.
Mrs. Dash wood's anger, when she heard of
her niece's engagement, was unbounded, and
very openly expressed in the domestic circle.
She could not forgive Allan for the part he
j had played?not in regard to Posy, for on her
; she did not bestow a thought, except so far as
J her having been an obstacle in the way of the
i fulfillment of her schemes?but for his folly
. !- - A. I ? ? AAM/la ftA AO fo wiln
Ill 11UI Having JJlttyeu UIO uoino ou ao LU TI ill
the heiress as his prize. Fortunately, her
wrath did not, in the least, affect the happiness
of Helen and Victor, who, after they
were married, continued to live at the chateau,
which they regarded, and still regard,
as their permanent home. About a year
after this event, Allan somewhat consoled his
mother for his past failure in duty, by wooing
and winning a young widow, the owner of a
fortune large enough not to be despised,
though scarcely comparable with the one she
had coveted for hiin. Whether it was a love
match or not, no one cau decide. The pa;r
lead a gay life, and seem sufficiently well
enough satis6ed with each other. But Allan
has a heart and a conscience still left, aud it
may not unreasonably be surmised that, not!
withstanding his apparent insousiance, and his
| eagerness in his pursuit of the pleasures of
f the world, his thoughts still turn occasionally
to that episode in his life, of which, the only
| trace that remains, is one green spot in Laurel
Hill cemetery, where the cross on Lone Mountain
looks silently down ou Posy's quiet grave.
THE END.
ihe fpegistattw.
THE PUBLIC DEBT QUESTION.
THE COMPROMISE BILL IN THE BOUSE.
THE PLAN OF SETTLEMENT.
Protest against the Passage of the Bill.
In the House on Tuesday, 12th instant, the
special order?Mr. Hood's resolution?came
up as unfinished business. A motion was
: made to strike out the third section of the
! bill. Mr. Simonton offered an amendment,
i which he proposed, in place of all and so
! much of the origiual resolution as followed
| the enacting clause. His substitute is as folj
lows:
"Section 1. That a special Court, to be
j known as the Court of Claims, be, and the
j same is hereby, established, to consist of three
j of the Circuit Judges of this State now in
I commission, who shall be selected by the
I joint vote of the General Assembly, any two
j of whom shall constitute a quorum; which
i said Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and
determine any case or cases made up, or
brought to test the validity of any of the consolidated
bonds, coupons and certificates of
i stock, or of any of the various classes of them
mentioned in the said report of the Bond
! Commission, as resting on vouchers not issued
i iu accordance with law, and authorized to be
I consolidated by the act of the General Assembly,
approved December 22,1873, entitled
'An act to reduce the volume of the public
debt and provide for the payment of the
same,' and also as not issued in accordance
; with law, and further designated and describ1
ed in Schedule 6 of the said report.
| "Sec. 2. That there shall be the same right
' of appeal in every respect from the said spe'
cial Court to the Superme Court of this State,
i as now exists from the Circuit Cour. to the
I Supreme Court, to be iu accordance with and
! be governed by the same rules and regulations
now existing in appeals from the said
Circuit Courts to the Supreme Court, with a
rieht of anDeal. bv writ of error or otherwise,
I O ? I ' ? (
i as provided by law, to the Supreme Cuurt of
! the Uoited State?.
"Sec. 3. That the pleadings and practice
in the cases made, and suits brought in said
special Court, shall conform to and be governed
by the same laws, rules and regulations
i governing the Circuit Courts of this State.
"Sec. 4. That the said special Courts shall
j have the same right to enter judgment, issue
execution, punish for contempt and enforce
its mandates, as is now possessed by the Circuit
Courts of this State.
"Sec. 5. That the clerk of the court of
| Richland county, and the sheriff of the said
county, shall be the clerk and the sheriff of
j the said special court.
"Sec. 6. That the said special court shall
j conveue in the city of Columbia on the first
j Monday in May next, and shall hold its sesi
sions at such times as the said court shall deI
termine, with full power to adjourn from time
to time, as to said court may seeiu proper.
"Sec. 7. That in the case of the death,
resignation or inability, from any cause, to
i serve on said court of any one or more of the
| judges selected as aforesaid, the Governor of
i the State, upon the recommendation of the
court, shall appoint, from among the other
Circuit Judge3 in commission, one or more
I judges in lieu and stead of the judge or
judges that have so died, resigued or been disabled
to serve.
"Sec. 8. That this State shall be repre1
sented in the said special Court by the attorney-general
and two associate counsel, learned
in the laws, to be selected by the joint vote
1 of the General Assembly ; and in the prepara
lion, conduct and management of the said 11
I cases and suits made, brought or defended,' f
i or any of them, and hi determining the pro j
priety and cond uct of appeals from any of the i t
! decisions, decrees or orders of the said Court, j t
the opinion of the attorney-general and his i
said associates, or a majority of them, shall ! i
control. j c
j "Sec. 9. That the attorney-general and his t
said associates, with the consent of the credit- t
! ors of this State, or so many of them as s
shall be necessary, may make up a case or i s
| cases, to be heard and determined in said I c
. Court, in which, if practicable, the State : v
shall be defendant, to test the validity of j c
; the said Consolidated bonds and coupons: ?
i and certificates of stock mentioned in said t
1 Schedule 6, bringing before the Court the j t
| various classes of vouchers, which, it is alleged !
j iii the report of the said Uommission, impair \ c
j the validity of the said consolidated bonds, j 8
; coupons and certificates of stock, or any of {
them. e
"Sec. 10. That there shall be levied for the t
current fiscal year, a tax sufficient to pay the t
coupons and interest orders maturing on the j
outstanding Consolidation bonds and certifi- c
cates of stock, c uring the said fiscal year. a
"Sec. 11. That the coupons and interest t
orders on the Consolidation bonds and certificates
of stock, mentioned in Schedule 5 of the h
said report, be paid by the State treasurer on c
presentation?those for the last fiscal year, out
of the money now in the treasury for that e
purpose ; and those for the current fiscal year, b
out of the proceeds of the tax to be levied for
that purpose, when so levied and collected. d
"Sec. 12. Thit the coupons and interest o
orders oo any of the several classes of Con- o
solidation bonds or certificates of stock men- t
tinned in said Schedule 6, shall be paid out of i]
the proceeds of the taxes for the last and the v<
current fiscal years, respectively, whenever e
there shall be a final adjudication as to the a
validity of the >iaid several classes of bonds t
and certificates of stock in favor of said bonds
and certificates of stock in the manner here- v
inbefore provided, and noue other. t
"Sec. 13. That the State treasurer is hereby j,
authorized and required to receive from the t]
holders, willing to surrender tne same, an oui- a
standing bonds and certificates of stock of v
the State, issued prior to January 1,1866, and j,
of coupons on said bonds and interest orders
upon the interest on said certificates of stock, ?
and shall thereupon, in exchange therefor and t|
in lieu thereof, issue to said holders other
coupon bonds and certificates of stock at fifty
per centum of the face value thereof, and in
all other respects as is provided for in the Act ?
of the General Assembly, approved 22d De- Z
ceraber, 1873, entitled 'An Act to reduce the c
volume of the public debt and provide for *
the payment of the same:' Provided, that the privilege
of the holders of said bonds, certificates
of stock, coupons and interest orders to
surrender the same and receive other bonds ;
and certificates of stock in exchange therefor j(
and in lieu thereof, shall cease and determine (]
on the first day of November, 1878. c
"Sec. 14. That all persons holding bonds t(
or coupons of bonds, certificates of stock or j
interest orders thereon, issued by the State ^
since the first day of January, 1866, before ^
they can be entitled to the beuefits of the Act
of the General Assembly, approved December
22, 1873, entitled 'An Act to reduce the vol- e
ume of the public debt and provide for the
payment of the same,' shall present the same
for-examination before the person or penooe -g
appointed to examine the debts, liabilities
and unfunded debt of the State, and for such ^
of said bonds, coupons, certificates of stock, a
interest orders, or any of them not belonging
to any class reported by said commission as
invalid, as the person or persons so examining a
the same shall direct, the State Treasurer
shall issue Consolidation bonds or certificates ^
of stock at the rate and in the mode provided
in said act.
"Sec. 15. That the bonds and certificates
of stock and exchange and transfer certificates
of stock mentioned in said report as 'issued
by F. L. Cardozo, as State treasurer, the same
being signed by D. H. Chamberlain, as Governor,
aud countersigued by Thomas C. Dunn,
as comptroller-gcneaal, after the terms ot these
officials bad expired,' araountiug in the whole
lo fifty-four thousand six hundred dollars,
($54,600) be, and the same are hereby declared
to be in all respects as if the same had been
issued before the expiration of the said terms
of office of said officials, and the validity
thereof shall be determined in the same man- w
ner as is hereinbefore provided for determining
the validity of the bonds and cerii6cates a
of stocks mentioned in Schedule 6 of said re- ~
port. "
"Sec. 16. That all of the unfunded debts *
and liabilities of the State, accruing before the "
Orst day of November, 1876, including herein
the bills of the Bank of the State, and so
much of the funded debt as is known as the 1
'little bonanza,' be settled, after proper proof
and examination, in such mode as this Gener- ?'
al Assembly shall determine, at the rate of J!
fifty per centum, payable in coupon bonds, ''
bearing interest at the rate of six per centum ?
per annum, payable semi annually?the prin- *
cipal payable in ten years?in full satisfaction
of said demands, except that advances c
made in money, t upplies and labor for the lu- a,
natic Asylum, Djaf and Dumb Asylum and 11
the State Penitentiary, shall be paid in the n
amount actually found to be due, after proof ?
and proper examination thereof, the said pay- 11
ments to be made in coupon bonds, of like 8
character to those hereinbefore mentioned for 81
the full amount allowed after said exaraina- u
tion : Provided, That in all cases in which
the amount allowed shall be less than one P
thousand dollars, the sum shall be paid in e,
cash."
The previous question on the adoption of "
the substitute having been called by Mr. Siinonton,
the vote resulted : Yeas fifty-eight, S
nays thirty-one. So the amendment was a
adopted. ^
The title of the joint resolution being then A
changed to "a joint resolution providing a f
mode of ascertaining the debt of the State ^
and of liquidating ike same," the vote was on P
passing it to its third reading, and resulted, S
yeas 56, nays 36. P
The following is the vote in detail:
Yeas?Messrs. Aldrich, E. S. Allen, W. S. Al- P
len, Anderson, Asbill, Bamberg, Bates, Bissell, t
Blakeney, Blue, W. K. Bradley, Byers, Callison,
Coit, Compfon, Cooper, Edens, D. W. Erwin, J. 8
I B. Erwin, Gaillard, Guignard, Hacker, Han, na;
mer, Harper, R. R. Hemphill, Hood. Jell'eries, 0
I Jennings, Johnstone, Jones, B. K. Kin loch, Leap- a
1 hart, Maree, Memminger, McKewn, McRea, j(
| Melchers, Moore, Orr, Petty, Pope, Redfearn,
j Rhett, Rogers, Shaw, Simonton, Simpson, Sloan, v
i Vandiver, Watts, Westberry, Westmoreland,
! WofJ'ord, Woodward, Youmans.?56.
Navs.?Alexander, Andrews. Austin, Boston,
I Bridges, Caldwell, Coleman, Curtis, Dargan, E.
i H. Dibble, Samuel Dibble, Evans, Ficken, Feri
riter, Forrest, Gantt, Green, Haskell, R. H. Hum:
bert, Johust<>n, P. K. Kinloch, Lownian, Martin,
I Miller, Milton, Morgan, Muller, Parler, Peter|
son, Reed, Reedish, Robinson, Scott, Smith,
Wells, Wines?30.
Absent or not voting: Messrs. D. F.Bradley, J
Brice, Brown, Bryan, Buist, Cain, Connor, Cuinmings,
Davis, Deal, Donnald, Eckhard, Gaither,
Gray, Hamilton, J. J. Hemphill, liolmas, J. B. f
Humbert, Hough, Massoj , Myers, O'Neill, Palm- ^
er, Peake, Rountree, Rutledge, Sawyer, Shand,
Verncr, White?30. |
Mr. S. Dibble asked leave to have spread
on the Journal the reasons which had induced c
himself and others to vote "No" on the pas- ?
sage of the joint resolution. This protest is 1
as foliows:
r
the protest. t
In the House of Representatives, ) c
Columbia, S. C., March 12, 1878. j . t
To the Honorable the Speaker and Members of t
the House of Representatives of the State of t
South Carolina: i
Gentlemen?In accordance with Article t
Section 26, of the Constitution, we dissent
rora and protest against the passage of "A
oiot resolution providing a mode of asceraining
the debt of the State, and of liquida- j
ing and settling the same."
1. Because in our opinion every bona fide
lolder, for value, of a bond or coupon of the j
.onsolidated debt of the State, is entitled to
>e paid according to the terms of the con-1
ract set forth in the bonds and coupons afore- .
aid ; whereas, under the said joint resolution,;
i part of the said consolidated debt is de-j
dared to be valid, and is ordered to be paid, j
vhilst another part thereof is declared to be !
>f doubtful validity, and is referred to a le- j
;al tribunal without reference, in either case,!
o the honesty and bona fides of the holders |
liororkf
2. Because, among those declared to be of,
loubtful validity, there are a number of bonds j
iud coupons, which are not only in the hands
>f bona fide holders, but which were issued in
izchange for old bonds and stocks of indispuable
validity, as appears from the records of
he State treasurer, prior to 1868 ; and it apyears
to us unjust to refer these bonds and
loupons to the courts, whilst the other bonds
md coupons, having no better vouchers, are
o be paid without any question.
3. Because, in our opinion, the State is,in
lonor bound to recognize the right of innoent
holders of these bonds and coupons, who
lave purchased thesame, trusting to the pledgs
made in behalf of the State, in the hour of
ler dire extremity and peril.
4. Because, if any part of the consolidated
lebt is to be referred to the courts, it is, in our
pinion, an unnecessary expense to the people
f the State to create a special tribumil for
he decision of questions which can be decided
the courts as now constituted, especially
rhen grave doubts must arise as to the powrs
of the General Assembly to establish such
tribunal, in view of the provisons of Aricle
IV, Section 1, of the Constitution.
5. Because, in our opinion, it is inconsistent
rith a due regard to the faith and credit of
he State to repudiate one-half of the floating
adebtedness, after a defence of the interest of
he State, by able and distinguished counsel,
nd after the amount of each claim, and the
aliditv thereof, shall have been determined
n a special tribunal of our own creation.
And we respectfully request that the foreoing
reasons be spread upon the Journal of
his House. S. Dibble,
John F. Ficken,
Jno. C. Haskell,
L. E. Parler.
tfUstclhmcous
IMPORTANT FACTS AND FIGURES.
The subjoined statements, showing in a vaiety
of forms, the rapid increase arising from
jterest (rent or usury being very nearly syonymous
terms) charged for the use of acumulated
wealth?which we take from a lecure
delivered some time ago in Association
lall, New York, by Wallace P. Groom, on
he "Currency Needs of Commerce"?con*
ain much "food for thought" for all classes,
Id or young, man or woman, employer or
mployed ; for interest affects the price of
very commodity in the most vital manner.
Many carelessly infer that the increase of
loney at six per cent, is just turice as rapid as
rthree per cent.; but in reality the increase
5 vastly more rapid than this. In one huared
years, at six per ceut., the increase on
ny given sum is about eighteen times as much
8 at three per cent.
If one dollar be invested and the interest
dded to the principal annually, at the rates
amed, we shall have the following result as
1- ? 1 ? ^ U nn J maJ *taa *a
e HCCUIDUIHUUU U1 uuc uuuuicu Jicam .
ine Dollar, 100 years, at 1 per cent. ?1 j
2 44 7i
44 44 24 44 1U
" 44 3 44 19i
44 34 44 311
44 44 4 44 504
44 44 44 44 814
44 44 5 44 1314
44 44 6 44 340
4 44 7 44 808
44 4 4 8 44 2, 203
44 4 4 9 44 5,54 3
44 44 1 0 44 13, 809
44 44 1 2 44 84 ,675
44 44 1 5 44 1,174,405
44 44 18 44 15,145,007
44 44 24 44 2,551,799,404
There are probably few, however familiar
rith the subject of the rapid increase of espial
put at interest, who would not be startled
t the statement that the cost of the outfit of
!hristopher Columbus, in his first voyage of
i8Covery, put at interest at six per cent.,
rould, by this time, have amounted to more
\an the entire money value of this continent,
)gelher with the accumulations from the indus y
of all who have lived upon it. If any doubt
bis, let them reckon the amount, estimating
be entire outfit to have cost only the small ,
am of five thousand dollars, and reroemberig
that money doubles, at six per cent., iu a
ttle less than twelve years?or accurately, in
leven years, ten months and twenty-one days.
Lllowing it to double every twelve years, this
ve thousand dollars at interest at six per
ent. since 1492, it will be found, would have
mounted to $17,895,700,000,000; which, esimatiug
the population of the entire contient
of America, (North and South) to be
ighty-five millions, or seventeen million faraies
(averaging five members each), would
ive more than a million dollars as the possssion
of every one of these. The interest
pon a million dollars at six per cent, is sixty
bousand dollars, which would now be the
rincely annual income of each of these sevuteen
million families from the accumulaions
up to this time, upon so small a sum as
bat named for the outfit of the discoverer.
In Hildreth's "History of the United
itates," it is stated that Manhattan Island?
fterward called New Amsterdam, now the
lity of New York?was bought by the uutcn
rom the Indians, forBixty guilders, or tweny-four
dollars ($24), and this only about two
lundred and fifty years ago. And yet, if the
lurchasers could have securely placed that
24 where it would have added to the priuci>al
annually, interest at the rate of 7 per
ent., the accumulation would exceed the
iresent market value of all the real estate of
be city and county of New York.
Again, if a man, at the age of twenty-five,
hould commence business with a capital of
e hundred thousaud dollars, and could, by
ny possibility, add thereto interest at our
2gal rate of 7 per cent, annually, the result
rould be (in round numbers) as follows:
Age. Capital.
25 ?100,000
3.5 200,000
45 WO,COO
55 800,000
65 1,600,000
75 3,200,000
85 6,400,000
Now, the growth of national wealth is ony
about 3J per cent, per annum, notwith
landing the assertion of those who have j
>laced it much higher, through comparing old j
valuations with the new, (which have been j
;reatly increased,) instead of taking as the
)asis of their calculation, as they should have
lone, the actual nnmber of horses, cattle, hogs,
heep, etc., etc., at the different periods. It
s plain, therefore, that the great mistake most
nen make is in attempting to use borrowed
noney at an immensely high rent, ordinarily
ermed interest, which, by the use of gold as
mrrency, is often forced still higher. While
he growth of the national wealth remains at
he present rate, the average man, who atempts
to pay even 7 per cent, for all the captal
he can got, should not expect to avoid
mukruptcy as the result.
A LOTTERY OF DEATH.
In the early part of the year 1863, General
Burnside, who was in command of the
Federal forces in Kentucky, apprehended two
Confederate captaiQ3, whom, upon investiga-1
tion, he adjudged to be spies, and executed
them by hanging. The Confederate Government,
when it came to a knowledge of this
execution, averred that the two captains who
had thus been summarily executed by General
Burnside, were not spies, and resolved
upon measures of retaliation, by hanging two
Federal officers of equal rank. Shortly after
tbis, C aptain Samuel McKee, of the Fourteenth
Kentucky (Federal) Cavalry, was
captured and confined in Libby prison, and
the Confederates refused to parole him for
exchange, announcing that they would hang
him, as an offset to one of the spies bung by
Burnside. Subsequently, a large number of
Federal officers were captured at Rome, Ga.,
v **? ? , it mi 11
ana vviucnesier, va. inese were an confined
in Libby prison, Richmond, Va. After
the Confederates had obtained possession of
all these officers, there was an order issued by
General Winder, Provost Marshal of the
Confederacy, that all the Federal captains
then prisoners of war, should draw lots to ascertain
which two of the whole number
should be executed, by way of retaliation, for
the Kentucky spies.
On the morning of the 6th of July, 1863,
the three hundred officers in Libby became
almost jubilant over the news that a flag-oftruce
boat had arrived at City Point, for the
purpDse of conveying the Federal prisoners
to Annapolis. This good news was soon followed
by an order for all the captains in the
prison to report in one of the lower rooms.
This following so close upon the news of the
arrival of the flag-of-truce boat, was regarded
as still more encouraging. The prisoners
concluded that the captains were ordered
down for the purpose of being paroled, preparatory
to being conveyed to the boat, and
that other officers would soon follow. The
officers who had been left were in a state of
suspense when all the captains returned except
two?but not in the same high spirits in
which they had left; but, on the contrary, in
the deepest gloom. They had been forced to
draw in a lottery in which the prize was
death. Two of their number had drawn this
prize. These v/ere Captains Henry W.Sawyer,
of the First New Jersey Cavalry, and
John D. Flinn, of the Fifty-first Indiana Infantrv.
When the captains had reached the room
designated, the commandant of the prison informed
them that he had a very painful duty
to perform; that he had been ordered that
all captains should draw lots to ascertain
which two of them should be hung, by way
of retaliation for the spies hung by General
Burnside. After he had written the name of
each on a small slip of paper and deposited
it in a box, he then informed them that tbey
could select one of their own number to
draw two names from the box, and that the
two thus drawn would suffer death by hanging.
After consultation, they concluded that
the lots should be drawn by Rev. Mr. Brown,
the venerable Chaplain of the Fifth Maryland
Infantry, who was accordingly sent for,
and consented to perform the solemn work,
and the result was, Captains Sawyer and Flinn
drew the prize of death. After this, all the
captains, save Sawyer and Flinn, were returned
to their former quarters. The latter
"were"escorted to ueneral >Y luaer'a headquar- "
ters, where sentence of death, by hanging, was
formally passed upon them, to take place at
some time and place to be named by President
Davis. They were returned to the prison
and confined in the cells for several days,
but after a time they were permitted to remain
with the other officers during the day,
but fastened in cells during the night.
The authorities of the Federal Governmeut,
upon learning of the condemnation of
Sawyer and Flinn, and believing the condemnation
to be groundless, immediately ordered
General Fitzhugh Lee and Captain Winder,
son of General Winder, who were then Confederate
prisoners in the hands of the Federals,
into close confinement, and informed the
Confederate authorities that if Sawyer and
Flinn were executed, Lee and Winder would
suffer in the same manner. When the Confederate
authorities learned this, they modified
their treatment of Sawyer and Flinn, and
placed them on the same footing with other
Federal prisoners. After this, but little was
ever heard of the matter. The day of execution
was never named by the Confederate
President. Sawyer and Flinn were paroled 1
with others, and sent to Annapolis by flag-oftruce
boat on the 14th of March, 1864.?
Gen. Robert S. Northcott, in Philadelphia
Times.
THE MYSTERY OF MAKING LOAF BREAD.
"Loaf bread," once said an experienced
house-keeper to us, "interferes with the salvation
of more house-keepers than any other one '
thing in the world." This was probably an 1
extravagant statement, yet to the country
house-wife who cannot turn to a convenient bakery,
the duty of bread-making is too often a
heavy cross?a sort of hit or miss experiment. 1
Heavy, sour bread is far more general than 1
the opposite, and this is trying to both the digestions
aud to the tempers of the family who
eat it. Yet there is no reason for this. There 1
is a philosophy of bread-making, as of every- 1
thing else, and certain causes accompii'ih certain
results. Therefore, we are glad to be 1
able to give a recipe from a practical housekeeper,
whose bread never fails: To make
two quarts of bread or roll, take four or five
nice, large Irish potatoes, peel and cut them 1
up, and put them to boil in just enough water
to cover them. When done, mash smooth in 1
the same water, and when cool, not cold, add a
half teacupful of yeast, or if you use compressed
yeast, the sixth part of a cake dissolved in
tepid water, a dessert spoonful of sugar, a little
salt, a tablespoonful of lard, and a pint of
flour. Mix together lightly. This should be
very soft and quite sticky. Set by in a covered
vessel in a warm place to rise. In two or
three hours, it will be risen, and should look
almost like yeast, full of bubbles. Now work
in the rest of your two quarts of flour, and, if
necessary, add a little cold water. The dough
should be rather soft, and need not be kneaded
more than half an hour. Set to rise in a i
moderately warm place for four hours, or
thereabouts. It can be baked now if wanted
at once; but if not, take a spoon and push the
dough down from the top and sides of the vessel
containing it, and let it rise again. The
oftener the bread rises, the lighter it will be?
three times is, however, sufficient. After it
rises the last time, takeitoutof the vessel and
knead it with your hands until it is smooth.
If too soft, add a little more flour. For rolls,
roll out and cut as if for biscuit. If you prefer
doubled rolls, give each a touch with the
rolling-pin to make it oblong, and then double
it over. The baking pan must be greased, and
the rolls must not touch each other. Set down
to rise?this will take half or three-quarters
of an hour. Then put in the oven and bake
as you would biscuit. Unless the oven is hot,
the rolls will spread and the crust be hard.
Education.?Accustom a child, as soon as
he can speak, to narrate his little experiences,
his chapter of accidents, his griefs, his fears,
his hopes; to communicate what he has noticed
in the world without, and what he feels
struggling in the world within. Anxious to
have something to narrate, he will be induced
to give attention to objects around him, and
what is passing in the sphere of his observation,
and to observe and note events will become
one of his first pleasures; and this is
the ground-work of the thoughtful character.
STORY OF SITTING BULL
Various speculations have been indulged
in as to his identity?different theories formed
as to his nationality and creed, and, although
each differs from the other in point of fact,
they all unite on the common ground of his
intelligence and education. Last summer,
two letters were received from him at the
War Department, and during the morning
a messenger was sent for a Catholic missionary
who bad spent many years among the savages,
requesting him to come to the War Department
without dely. He went, and the letters
of Sitting Bull were submitted to him for
translation. One of them, he says, was written
in purest Latin, and the other in faulty
Canadian French. The contents of the letters
he did not divulge. Later the story has
come from the West?Ohio, possibly, as all
good things now-a-days seem to come irom
there?to this effect:
Twenty years ago Bishop became very
much interested in two little Indian boys who
were brought to him, their mother having
died soon after being taken prisoner. He
welcomed them to his heart and home, and
grew daily more and more interested in them.
Several years passed, during which he laid for
tbem the fonndation for a theological education
; then he took them to Rome to be prepared
for the priesthood. They were very
apt, very bright, very pious, and, as far as human
sight could see, promised to be invaluable
as missionaries .imong their kind. They
were priested, and came home to their friend.
A week after their arrival, and one morning
after they had celebrated what is known as
the "mass," they disappeared, and from that
time to the present, no trace has been found of
these Indian ecclesiastics with whom the Latin
letter is now connected, thus adding another
to the speculations indulged in as to who
is "Sitting Bull." The same seems to be paradoxical,
since he is always "going" and never
"sitting." It will be remembered that he
treated the Commfciioners, who went on that
av/>nrainn laat. anm riflr tn "nnw-wow" with
his "Indianship," with supreme contempt,
and concluded the interview by telling them
to go to a warm place, the exact locality of
which theologians are at present actively engaged
in discussing.? Cincinnati Enquirer.
?
The Wealth of our Presidents.?Gen.
Grant's long absence in Europe has called
attention to his pecuniary resources, and to
the wealth of the presidents who have preceded
him. General Grant suffered a good
many losses within the latter part of his administration,
but has income enough, probably,
to live moderately without annoyance.
His children who are married are able to take
care of themselves, and the younger boys are
certainly bright enough to do it. But this \
was not true of all the presidents. Jefferson
died rather poor. Congress purchased his
library at a very extravagant price, and
without that, it is said, he would have found
it very difficult, in the last years of his life,
to have subsisted. Madison saved considerable
money out of his salary, and died quite
rich. Congress gave his widow 830,000 for
his manuscript. James Monroe probably
died poorer than any other President. He
had absolutely nothing, and was buried
through the charity of his friends. John
Quincy Adams was always thrifty and prudent,
and left quite a fortune. His heirs own
considerable property in Washington to-day.
kept bis eye open for the main chance, and
pinched pennies very closely. He spent
scarcely anything for politics. Daniel Webster.
although never president, spent a sum
of money which would have been equal to a
large fortune, the result of his professional
labors and of his political work. He left a
little estate to bis children, amounting to perhaps
$20,000, while he owed his friends more
than a quarter of a million. Henry Clay,
who was never rich enough to entertain very
much in Washington, managed his affairs
very prudently, and left an estate estimated
at about $100,000. Polk, always economical
in office, saved $50,000 out of his term, and
left to bis heirs $150,000. John Tyler was
a most thrifty person in the presidential office.
When he entered upon it be was bankrupt,
and he saved money in it, married a
rich widow and died rich. Zachary Taylor
left perhaps $200,000. Millard Filmore was
wealthy, and left his heirs a considerable sum.
Ex-President Pierce died, leaving an estate
worth not over $50,000. Buchanan left but
a moderate fortune. Hayes is rich, and is
saving money on a $50,000 salary.? W<uh~
ington Letter.
? <
What to Teach the Boys.?A philosopher
has said that true education for boys is
to "teach them what they ought to know
when they become men."
What is it they ought to know, then ?
First.?To ba true?to be genuine? No
education is worth anything that does not include
this. A man had better not know how
to read?he had better never learn a letter in
the alphabet, and be true and genuine in his
intention and action, rather than, being learned
jp all sciences and in all languages, to be
at the same time false in heart and counterfeit
in life. Above all things, teach the boys
that truth is more than riches, more than
culture, more than any earthly power or position.
Second.?To be Dure in thought. language
and life?pure in mind and in body. An impure
man, young or old, poisoning the society
where he moves, with smutty stories and impure
examples, is a moral ulcer, a plague
spot, a leper who ought to be treated as were
the lepers of old, who were banished from
society and compelled to cry unclean, as a
warning to save others from the pestilence.
Third.?To be unselfish. To care for the
feelings and comfort of others. To be polite.
To be just in all dealings with others.
To be generous, noble and manly. This will
include a genuine reverence for the aged and
things sacred.
Fourth.?To be self-reliant, and self-helpful,
even from early childhood. To be industrious
always, and self-supporting at the
earliest proper age. Teach them that all
honest work is honorable, and that an idle,
useless life of dependence on others is disgraceful.
When a boy has learned these four things?
when he has made these ideas a part of his
being?however young he may be, however
poor, or however rich, he has learned some of
the most important things he ought to know
when he becomes a man. With these four
properly mastered, it will be easy to find all
the rest.?Home Arts.
A Curious Custom.?It was the custom
in Babylon, five hundred years before the
Christian era, to have an annual auction of
the unmarried ladies. In every year, on a
certain stated day, each district assembled all
its virgins of marriageable age. The most
beautiful were put up first, and the man who
paid the most gained possession of her. The
second in personal charms followed her, and
so on, that the bidders might gratify them
selves with handsome wives, according to the
length of their purses. There may yet remain
in Babylon some for whom no money
was offered, but the provident Babylonians
managed that. When all the comely ones
are sold, the crier orders the most deformed
one to stand up, and after demanding who
will marry her for a small sum, she is adjudged
to him who is satisfied with the least;
and in this manner the money raised from the
sale of the handsome, serves as a portion for
those who are either of disagreeable looks, or
that have any other imperfection,