The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, April 28, 1870, Image 1
An Independent Family Journal?Devoted to Politics, Literature and General Intelligence*
HOYT & CO., Proprietors. ANDERSON 0. EL, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1870. VOLUME 5?NO. 44.
Report of the President and Directors of the
' Greenville & Columbia Railroad Company.
Office G. & C. R. R. Company, )
Columbia, S. C, April 15,1870. J
2b the Stockholders of the Greenville and Golum
! bia Railroad Company:
X Gentlemen?The President and Directors
respectfully submit herewith their annual re-'
port of the condition and operations of the
roadfbr the fiscal year, ending 31st of Decem?
ber. 1869, together with the report of the Gen
?eral Superintendent, and the tables of the Au- j
siitor, Treasurer and Foreman of the Work
Shops, and other supplementary tables, which
will be useful as information, showing the
comparative business of the road as compared
With previous years.
? The gross earnings for 1869. were derived
from the following sources, as shown by Table
No. 4:
From freights_.-$274?06 89
From passage and extra........ 114,196 61
From mails.?.? 11,400 00 $400,108 50
Operating expenses, including the
? rc-buildin; of locomotives, and
the repairs and restoration of
ears as tho vrn by Table No. S.- 247,686 62
Net earnings_.-._.- $152,410 98
Amount paid for 250 tons of new T
, rail, with chairs and spikes for
szmo, laid, on Anderson branch,
after deducting amount realized
* from the sale of old iron taken
. ?up..,_._.?... 17,924 21
Net earnings, after paying all ez
- Senses for operating, netr iron.
Improvement of property, Ac.....?.......-..... $134,492 77
By reference to tables Nos. 1 and 2, this
amount is accounted for in the payment of in?
terest on bonded debt, purchase of new iron, re?
duction of bills payable, Sec.
By* reference to previous reports, and supple?
mentary tables accompanying this report, show?
ing the comparative earnings of this with pre?
vious years, it will be seen that the earnings of
1869 was in excess of 1868 by $64,559.53, and
was larger ihan for any previous year either be?
fore or since the war. The next larger amount
for any previous year, was for 1859. being$381,
601.98, but in this is included $8,000.00 for
freights on material used in the construction of
the Blue Ridge Railroad, which was, by action
?of the stockholders, taken in the stock of that
Company.
; The following will show the amount of earn?
ings of the four previous years since the war,
With the excess of last year (1869) over each,
and the per cent of gain in 1869, as compared
with each.
1869, $400,103.50; 1868, $345,453.97; excess
$54,559.53. $15.79-100 per cent. 1867, $269,787.
47;exces3$130 315.53?48.31-100 percent, 1866,
$251,931.19; excess $148,172.51?58.81-100 per
cent 1865, $254,516.86; excess $145,586.64?
57.20-100 per cent.
The net earnings are also larger than for any
previous year before or since the war, except
that of 1859.
This result is certainly gratifying, and de?
monstrates conclusively that not only the fu?
ture prospects of the road are brightening with
each year, but that the country through which it
passes is growing in resources and prosperity.
. It is known that the crop of 1869, along the
line of road, was severely injured by the
drought during the summer, which cut of the
crop nearly or quite one-half. It is believed
that, if a fall or ordinary crop had been made,
the gross earnings would have been still further
increased thereby?perhaps by fifty thousand
dollars.
The expenses of last year, as compared with
the ,yearjpreviotts> shows an increase of $31,
455.30. By reference to table No. 3, as com?
pared with the same table the year previous, it
will be seen that the amount is much more
than made up and accounted for by the in?
creased amount of timber put into the track,
bridges and .trestles during the year, the in?
creased number and wages of laborers, and the
cost of re-building and repairing locomotives
and cars. This was necessary to put the road
and rolling stock in suitable and safe condition
for the constantly increasing business, and it is
evident that the road and property liave been
largely increased in value thereby.
The number of cross-ties and stringers put
into the road in 1869, is 114,812, and in 1868,
65,262; increase^ 49,550. There were 1,021,589
feet of lumber put into the road in 1869 ; in
1868, 995,992, an excess of 125,597 feet in 1869.
The comparative expense of re-building and
repairing locomotives and cars is also conside?
rably increased. The increased business done
in 1869, as compared with the previous year,
also increased expenses. For information as to
the additional amount of work done, reference
is made to the report of the General Superin?
tendent, and the number of miles run as com?
pared with previous years.
The report of the General Superintendent is
also referred to fur detailed information as to
the increased capacity and value of the rolling
stock, as compared with the previous year ana
its present condition.
The cost of working the road, with these ad
. ditional and increased expenditures, (a consid?
erable amount of which does not properly
belong to what is usually included in current
expense account,) will compare very favorably
with, neighboring roads. The road with its two
branches is 164 miles in length. For the first
five months of the year, the Blue Ridge Rail?
road, from Anderson to Walhalla, a distance of
thirty-three miles, was worked by us under a
lease; so that the average length of the road
operated during the year was 178 miles. Upon
this whole line passenger and freight trains
Were run daily. tSundays excepted) at an aver?
age cost of $1,391.49 per mile, including all ex?
penses.
Since the war, no new locomotives or cars
have been purchased. Those belonging- to the
Company at the close of the war, ./ere, in con?
sequence of continued use, without repairs, al?
most in an unserviceable condition ; many of
them were laid up, and heavy repairs had to be
made on them before they could De put on the
road; others had to be entirely rebuilt, and
large expenditures for material and labor in?
curred, \
By reference to the table of the Foreman of
the Work Shops, it will be seen that all the
locomotives have been in service for a long time,
and it- w? nnt strenge that it should have requir?
ed much time and expense to put them in con.
dition for active and efficient service, although
they are at present sufficient to do the work of
the road, by keeping them in continued ser?
vice. Still their age, long service with the ex?
tensive and reputed repairs made upon them,
admonishes us that they must, ..before a groat
while, be replaced by new ones, as well as the
number increased, to meet the anticipated in?
crease of business. The same may also be said
in reference to the passenger cars. The num?
ber of freight cars is also not sufficient to do
the present business with despatch and ease, al?
though the number has been increased by the
addition of twenty-three during the year. It is
respectfully recommended that three new loco?
motives, with firi>t and second class passenger
cars for each, be purchased and put on the road
by the time the fall business commences. Also
that at least thirty box and ten platform cars
be built by the same time. With the facilities
for building freight cars at the shop* at Helena,
|t is thought best to "build them there, rather
than buy them, as it can be done by the Com?
pany at a less cost.
The 250 tons of new iron put on the Ander?
son branch during the year, has materially im?
proved the condition of that portion of the
track. The iron removed was of the flanged
pattern, and very light; it had been in use for
a long time, and was worn out. The balance
on the branch", about four miles, together with
about ten miles below Bel ton on the main line,
is of the same kind, and is very expensive to
keep the track in condition to pass over, and
should be replaced with new T rail at the ear?
liest time the Company is in condition to do so.
There are also about forty miles of chub rail on
the road, most of which has been in use for a
long time, and is badly worn, and, like the
other, is very expensive to keep up the track,
and must be replaced in a short time. Then
there are, perhaps, twenty miles of T rail, which
from long use and injury sustained, 'by being
removed from the track and bent during the
war, requires re-rolling. The trestle bridge at
Alston, and over Broadway Creek on the An?
derson branch, both built in 1865 and 1866,
must also be rebuilt within the next few years.
The one on the Branch must either be rebuilt
or repaired during the present year. There are
some culverts that require immediate repair al?
so. With these repairs to the track and addi?
tions to the rolling stock, the road would be in
j comparatively good condition, and prepared to
do the increased business that is anticipated
with despatch; and the operating expense af?
terwards would be materially diminished.
One of the greatest difficulties we have at
i present, is the want of sufficient depot room for
storage and assorting freight. The through
depot in Columbia should be enlarged to double
its present length, with a platform and bhed in
the rear, for the protection from the weather of
fertilizers and other like freights.
The depots at Littleton, Cnappell's, Ninety
Six, New Market, Greenwood, Hodge's, Don
nald's, Beiton. Williamston and Golden Grove,
are all old ana much decayed, and are unsafe as
store houses against theft, and should each be
replaced with new depots of at least twice the
sizes of the present ones, as early as practicable.
There should also be passenger depots at Co?
lumbia, Newberry, Belton and Hodge's; and
comfortable shelters for passengers at the other
depots on the line.
By reference to table No. 4, it will be seen
that the number of passengers carried over the
road in 1869, were 53,363; in 1868, 45,214?an
increase 8,149. In 1869, there were 54,490
bales of cotton brought down the road; in
1868, 45,111, an increase of 9,379.
In consequence of the failure of the provis?
ion crop along the line of road last year, large
Quantities of grain and flour have been sent up
ae road from Columbia, since the 1st of Janu?
ary last. Heretofore it has been customary to
send trains of cars up the road loaded with
merchandize, and when at the upper end of the
line, they were re-loaded and returned with
grain ana provisions, (where they have here?
tofore been produced in sufficient quantities to
supply the demand along the line of road,) so
that the cars were loaded both going up and re?
turning ; but the recent change, by which both
merchandize and provisions were sent up the
road from Columbia, together with the unpre?
cedented quantity of fertilizers that have gone
up and the cars returning empty, has required
nearly twice the number of cars to do the same
work as heretofore; this will account for any
apparent want of promptness in delivering
freights for the past few weeks. The small de?
pot roow at stations, and the failure of con?
signees to remove their freights promptly on
arrival, have embarrassed us very much; in
many cases, the care have been compelled to re?
main in the turn-oute at the depots for several
days, for want of room to discharge them. The
quantity of fertilizers sent up from 1st of Jan?
uary to the 1st instant, is more than for the en?
tire year of 1869. This would indicate that
more than usual preparations were being made
for an increased crop the present year.
The lease of the Blue Ridge Railroad termi?
nated on the 1st of June last, since which time
the road has been operated by that Company,
and run in connections with ours.
The dilapidated condition of the road and
rolling stock at the close of the war, besides the
damages sustained by the army, was very great?
ly injured by the freshet of January, 1865,
which, with the financial condition of the Com?
pany, have been subjects of the deepest solici?
tude to the managers of the affairs of the Com?
pany. All their energy and means at their
command have been directed to the restoration
of the former and adjustment and satisfactory
arrangement of the latter.
A short statement and history of the bonded
debt is herewith submitted.
The rood with Its outfit and real estate cost.$3,081,213 52
The Company holds stock in other Kailrood
Companies.~._ 80,495 00
Cost of road and property. $3,161,703 52
Capital stock paid in by individ?
uals and corporations.:.:..;. $1,076,414 64
Subscribed and paid in bv the
State..um:u.??~.~ 433,960 00 1,510,871 54
Leaving amount of cost of tho
road over the capital stock
paid In_._.~.? 1,651,33? 98
To provide for this difference, the Company
issuea their bonds, bearing date from January,
1852, to March, 1854, respectively?having ten
years to run?for ?800,000. And to give them
a higher market value, on the 18th of January,
1854, they executed a mortgage to secure their
payment. They subsequently issued their
bonds, bearing date July, 1855," and July, 1858,
respectively?also having ten years to run?for
$600,000i No mortgage, nor othef lien, Was
executed to secure the payment of tins latter
class of bonds.
These two sums combined, did not yet make
up the deficiency or difference between the cost
of the road and the capital stock paid in.
In 1861, when the bonds secured by mortgage
were approaching maturity, the Company ap?
plied to the Legislature for aid, and an Act was
passed authorizing the endorsement of the
guarantee of the State upon the bonds of the
Company, upon specified conditions, for ?900,
000?$100,000 of which were to b e used for
funding a floating debt for the same amount,
then due by the Company, and $800,000 for re?
tiring the mortgage debt. The Company im?
mediately commenced operations under the Act,
but the war came on and at its termination they
found only a portion of their mortgage bonds
retired, and the large portion outstanding all
past due; also a large amount of the interest
upon all classes of their debt past due and un?
paid, because the holders of the coupons had
not presented them for payment at maturity.
Their road-bed was broken, their bridges and
track destroyed, both by the war and freshet,
and their rolling stock greatly reduced, the
remnant remaining scarcely in condition for
use. In this condition, they again, in 1866, ap?
plied to the Legislature for'aid, and an Act was
passed authorizing the additional endorsement
of their bonds ana certificates of indebtedness
for $600,000?$350,000 of which were to be used
in funding interest due upon their mortgage
and guaranteed debt, and ?250,000, in retiring
their non-mortgage debt of ?600,000 with inter?
est due upon it, at the rate of one dollar of new
p^aranteed bonds for three dollars of past due
bonds surrendered.
In 1869, the Legislature also pas?ed an Act
authorizing the farther endorsement of certifi?
cates of indebtedness to the amount of $50,000,
to fund interest due on mortgage and guaran?
teed debt to July, 1868.
It will be perceived from this statement, that
the whole amount of endorsement authorized
by the several Acts of the Legislature is $1,
550,000. The Acts of 1866 and 1869, are amen?
datory of the Act of 1861, and each contain a
statutory mortgage to the State of all the prop?
erty and assets of the Company as security for
the guarantee, which, when all the bonds under
the first mortgage are retired, and the mortgage
cancelled, become the first mortgage upon all
their property and assets.
In 1867, the Company executed a second
mortgage for $1,500,000, and the bonds to be
issued under it were also to be offered to the
holders of the past due non-mortgage bonds at
par, and the holder allowed to choose between
them and State guaranteed bonds at one for
three. This became necessary because some of
the holders refused to accept the terms offered:
of exchanging for the guaranteed bonds. Bonds
under the second mortgage were also offered to
other than bond creditors of the Company, in
settlement of their claims.
It will, however, be perceived from the fol?
lowing statements, that only $54,063.68 have
been issued under it, for all purposes.
The following statement will show the ex?
changes and funding under the several Acts of
the Legislature alluded to, up to March 3lst
ult.; and the amount of original bonds and
coupons of each class still outstanding:
STA TEMENT OF BONDS AND CERTIFICA TES OF IN?
DEBTEDNESS OF THE G. d: C. R. R. COMPANY,
MARCH 31,1870.
FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS.
Amount issued doe in 1862,1863 and 1864.8800,000 00
Amount exchanged for State guar?
anteed bonds.t?. $538,000 00
Amount outstanding. 262,000 00 800,000 00
Of the amount outstanding the In?
terest bas been funded and paid
upon....~. 229,000 00
Amount reported, but not arranged, 10,500 00
Amount not reported. 22,500 00 262,000 00
NON-MORTGAGE UO"DS.
Amount issued due in 1865 A 1868? 600,000 00
Amount exchanged, at par and re?
duction.?. 839,500 00
Amount outstanding. 260,500 00 600,000 00
BONDS UNDER FIRST GUARANTEE OF
THE STATE.
Amount endorsed due in 1881,1832
and 1883......_ 700,000 00
Amount issued..-.?.... 688,000 00
Amount in bands of Treasurer. 12,000 00 700,000 00
BONDS UNDER SECOND GUARANTEE
OF THE STATE.
Amount issued due Jan. 1,. 1888. 118,500 00
CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS
GUARANTEED.
Amount due 1st of Janunary,' 1888,
issued for funding interest on first
mortgage and guaranteed bonds
to 1st ol July, 1868,and arranging
tho non-mortgage bonds ana in?
terest._. 429.293 30
BONDS AND CERTIFICATED UNDEB
SECOND MORTGAGE.
Bonds issued due Jan. 1,1888. 46,000 00
Certificates do. do. 8,063 68 54,063 68
AM Ol" NT OF STATE GUARANTEE OF
ABOVE BONDS AND CERTIFICATES.
Bonds issued under first guarantee.. 700,000 00
Bonds issued under 2nd guarantee 118,500 00
Certificates issu'd under guarantees. 429,293 30 1,247,793 30
OUTSTANDING COUPONS.
Number of coupons of first mort
Sgc bonds outstanding, 214, $17.
eocb..8,745 00
Number of coupons of nqn-mort*
gage bonds outstanding, 3,804,
$17.50 each._~ 60,570 00
Number of coupons of guaranteed
bonds outstanding, 457, $17.50
each._.~ 7,997 50
Outstanding bonds, "Confederate
States" caption, not surrendered in
exchange for new guaranteed bonds,
viz:
Bonds falling due 1st July, 1881- 56
? " " u 1882. 22
? ? ? '< 1883. 22 100
In the bands of Treasurer, due July 1,1883. 24
The exchange of these latter bonds does not
increase the debt of the Company, or the State
guaranty.
The following statement will show the entire
bonded debt on the 31st of March ult., as it ap?
pears upon the Bond Registers of the Compa?
ny:
First mortgage bonds outstanding._$2G2,000 00
Non-mortgage bonds outstanding. 260,500 00
Guaranteed bonds due in 1881,1882 and 1883. 688,000 00
Guaranteed bonds dne in 1888.-. 118,600 00
Certificates of indebtedness, guaranteed, duo in
1888. 429,293 30
Bonds and certificates issued under second mort?
gage.- 64,063 68
Coupons of first mortgage bonds outstanding? 8,745 00
" non- ? ? ? 66,570 00
" guaranteed " " 7,097 60
" 2d mortgage bonds and certificate?... 9,461 15
Total...,...i.:.;;v.;-;.:-...;$1^00,130 68
This is subject to a reduction of % on tho non
mortgage bonds and coupons, say. 218,046 66
Whole amount of bonded debt when adjust ed...$I,6S2,0S3 97
The following bonds and coupons have not
been reported to the Company, for either the
payment of interest or adjustment of any kind,
and as the Company has advertised for them
for three or four years, and the Courts for about
two years, the presumption is that most of j
them are lost or destroyed, and will never be
presented as a claim against the Company, to
wit:
First Mortgage Bonds.$22,500 00
Non-Mortgage Bonds.umum. 260,500 00
Guaranteed Bonds. 60,000 00
Coupons from First Mortgage Bonds. 3,745 00
Coupons from Non-Mortgage Bonds. 66,570 00
Coupons from Guaranteed Bonds. 7,997 60
$411,312 50
All the interest upon the entire mortgage
and guaranteed debt that has been presented
has been funded up to the 1st July, 1868, and
from that to the present time paid in cash.
The suit in the Court of Equity for the fore?
closure of the mortgage bonds, commenced in
1867, by certain holders of the first mortgage
bonds, as well as all suits growing out of it,
were dismissed by the Court last summer, on
motion of the complainants, and the whole
matter satisfactorily adjusted.
There were also two suits at law commenced
against the Company, brought on non-mortgage
bonds past due. One of the parties has dis?
continued the suit, and surrendered the bonds,
and exchanged them for State guaranteea
bonds, at one for three; and the other has ex?
pressed a desire to do so, and presume will, in
a few days. Then there will be no suit, either
in equity or at law, against the Company on
bond account.
It must be gratifying to both bond and stock?
holders to know, that in consequence of the
increased business and consequent prosperity of
the road,* the prompt payment of interest, as it
matures, and the confidence felt by capitalists
and the community, that the Company will be
able to satisfactorily arrange the small balance
of their past due bonded debt, that the market
value of their bonds has advanced within the
last two years at least three hundred per cent.,
and that they now command nearly as high a
price as the first class securities in the State.
This result has no doubt been hastened by
the prospect of the various connections soon to
bo made from the upper end of the line, some
of which are now being built, and others soon
to bo commenced.
When completed, the Greenville and Colum?
bia Railroad must and will form the trunk line
within this State from the Capitol to the North?
western States, bringing into the State the rich
products of that vast and rich section, and in?
viting commercial intercourse with its people.
The various railroad lines now projected in
the North-western part of thiB State must also
greatly facilitate the development of the re
sources of that section?agricultural, manufac?
turing and mineral?and Build up a local busi?
ness therefrom for all the roads passing through
it beyond the most sanguine expectations.
The officers and employees in the several de?
partments have discharged their respective du?
ties with fidelity, and with an apparent desire
to promote the prosperity of the Company, and
are commended to your confidence and respect.
H. P. HAMMETT, President.
The Actual Condition of the South, as Seeu by
a Brooklynile.
7b the Editor of t/te Brooklyn Eagle: Having
spent the winter in a somewhat extended tour
through the Southern Atlantic States to the
Gulf, visiting almost every section on the sea?
board to the mountains; and having enjoyed
many facilities for learning the views and sen?
timents of all classes and parties in regard to
their present and progressive condition, and
seen a vast amount of undeveloped wealth, I
submit the following statement, aa the result of
some of my observations, for the information of
those who feel any interest in that section.
And first, in regard to the people. The blacks,
who are the most valuable laborers in the world,
when treated right, and especially for field ser?
vice, at some crops in that climate?after hav?
ing been cruelly tempted, imposed upon, and
used, by loyal demagogues?are fast learning
who arc their true friends, and finding their
true position. The intelligent and influential
classes, who pay the taxes for the support of
the government, although excluded from par?
ticipation in its management, approve and cor?
dially support every honest scheme for educa?
ting and improving the moral and physical con?
dition of their colored fellow-citizens. They
also cordially welcome every new-comer, from
whatever land or section, or calling of industry
?except the "political carpet-bag speculators,"
whom they as heartily despise. As in every
other section, there are outlaws and outrages, but
all the whiskey and fire arms?^which many of
the younger and more ignorant citizens of both
colors avail themselves of "since freedom came"
?there are fewer brawls and less danger to life
or property in all the Southern States than
there is in any of our larger Northern cities.
True, there has been a good deal of petty thiev?
ing of pigs, chickens, &c, but the stories of the
Ku Klux outrages are all manufactured or col?
ored up for political and speculative purposes,
and they have had their effect. Thousands of
Northern and Western men, who have had the
courage to trust their lives in that section, have
made investments and are engaging in enter?
prises that will demonstrate the fact that the
South offers greater inducements for the far?
mer, the manufacturer and the mechanic than
any other portion of the world.
The invalid and those predisposed to certain
hereditary diseases can find in the humid and
temperate air of the seaboard, or in the bracing
atmosphere of the hilly and mountain region,
the climate best adapted to his case. The ag?
riculturist can find every variety of soil and can
grow everything that can be produced in any
other part of our country, besides several other
staples that will grow no where else. And for
the manufacturing of many staples produced
there is no section of this country or in the
world that possesses such immense natural ad?
vantages of unfailing and easily controlled wa?
ter power, in a genial, healthy climate, sur?
rounded with the raw material of cotton, tim?
ber, iron ore, and valuable minerals of all kinds
?good and cheap farming, where every lus?
cious fruit can be cultivated, and now grows
almost spontaneously where the tea plant, mad?
der, indigo, and rich products of other coun?
tries will flourish.
While there arc unoccupied lands, unproduc?
tive mill sites, mines, &c, to be had at the South
(all cheap now), sufficient to support a thriving
multitude many times greater than the popula?
tion of our whole country, it would seem that
these facts only require to be known to encour?
age thousands of our enterprising citizens to
avail themselves of the opportunity to better
their own condition, and at the same time con?
tribute towards rendering that portion of our
country what hature has designed it for?an
earthly paradise. H. W. R.
A Voice of Wabning.?The Seymour, Ind.,
Times (Radical) says: We would respectfully
suggest to the leaders of the Republican party
that they are crowding the "colored person" a
little too fast for his own good. Negro suffrage
is a bitter pill for at least one-half of the men
who have hitherto voted the Republican ticket.
Hence time'should have been given them be?
fore another and a worse dose was exhibited.
This crowding of the negroes into office while
there are whites quite as deserving and as well
qualified won't win in the long run. It will
reduce the negro to a worse condition than he
occupied in a state of slavery, if that were
possible. It will sooner or later lead to his
extermination. Politicians and fanatical idiots
who cannot read the signs of the times may
elevate the negro to the United States Senate
and to the platform of conventions; but they
can't find indorsement at the polls for such dis?
gusting conduct, and they will find it out when
too late.
It is possible that both parties will strive for
the negro vote. We predict that this foolish
policy of elevating negroes to office and of
catering to them for their votes, will result in
the formation of what will be termed "The
White Man's Part}'," which will be strong
enough to carry the next Presidential election,
if wisdom in the selection of candidates Is ob?
served, and there is not too much rebel Democ?
racy mixed up with it. Such a movement is
imminent, ana if made will break up the Re?
publican party, which Would be a deplorable
event for the country. Let us secure the negro
in his right to the ballot, but for the salvation
of our party?for the welfare of our country?
for the good of the negro?let us dissuade him
from seeking or accepting office*
Cheerful People.?God bless the cheerful
pcopl^-^-man, woman or child, old or young, il?
literate or educated, hnncfeome or (homely.
Over and above every other social trait stands
cheerfulness. What the sun is to nature?what
God is to the stricken heart which knows how
to lean upon Him?arc cheerful persons in the
house and by the wayside. They go unobtru?
sively, unconsciously about their silent mission,
brightening up Hociety around them with the
happiness beaming from their faces.. We love
to Bit near them ; we love the nature of their
eye, the tone of their voice. Little children
find them out, 0! so quickly ! amid the densest
crowd, and, passing by the knitted brow and
compressed lip, glide near, and laying a confi?
ding little hand on their knee, lift their clear
young eyes to those loVing facos.
? The Philadelphia reporter of the dresses
at ball, Who wrote that "Miss Bloodgood wore a
double shirt, neatly trimmed with satin ribbon,"
Is dodging the girl's brother, who wants to
knbw how he found out. The reporter now
says he tried to write "skirt," ana thinks he
mast have been drunk, which is very likely.
? A little cotton batting, wet witn 6weet oil
and laudanum, put in the ear, will enre ear?
ache in the beginning of it. 1
The Policy of Attacking Radicalism:foBetiiiii
A correspondent of the Chester Reporitf,
whom we take to be a distinguished citizen of
the State, albeit a man young in years, ex?
presses the following sensible views upon the
policy suggested by us last week:
I fully concur, Messrs. Editors, in the view
which you present, as to the proper course to
be pursued in the next election, by those who
are opposed to the present State Government.
Each District must take care of itself, accord?
ing to its means and exigencies, and the pecu?
liar circumstances of its condition. We must
attack Radicalism in detail, and do so with as
little noise as possible. A single mall must be
the unit of organization, and each District, each
community, and if practicable, each num,
should lay earnest seige to some radical strong?
hold and carry it, by approaches, by assault,
by ruse de guerre, or by purchase; but it must
be carried and occupied, either as masters of the
field, or e& joint tenants with the enemy.
We have had enough of Platforms. The
Press Convention adopted a very good one. It
is simply a recognition in terms of an esta b?
lished fact, of a foregone conclusion. It is
fruitless to enquire by what means it was estab?
lished. There is no reason why any sensible,
practical white man may not adopt it, and if
the colored people require anything more, why
it would simply be an announcement on their
part, that no concessions from the whites would
satisfy them.
Coalitions should be formed wherever they
are practicable. For instance, in Chester, if
you are entitled to four representatives, and the
races are nearly equal, propose to divide the
ticket; that is, each party run two candidates,
or a compromise ticket If either race prepon?
derate, let it preponderate proportionally on
the ticket. This will give us at least a respec?
table minority, which could make itself felt in
the legislation of the country. This arrange?
ment is certainly fair, and will afford the ne-*
groes that opportunity for harmony and peace
with the whites which they say they desire.
It will enable them to elect natives for their
representatives, committed to a liberal and ac?
ceptable policy; and will avoid the excitement,
anxiety and ill-blood incident to a contested
canvas3? which is so injurious to the material
prosperity of the country.
Adopt this policy throughout the State, each
District and each community for itself, wherev?
er it is practicable, and my word for it, R. K.
Scott will be disappointed in his hopes, for an
opportunity to issue his Winchester Rifles, and
there will be no occasion for the cry of "suave
quipeut" of the Phatnix.
Our people, white and black, require repose.
The material interest of the whole State is lan= j
guishing from too much excitement.
The wisdom and policy of the Convention
proposed for June may be well questioned.
Will it not eventuate iu cementing, instead of
disintegrating the Radical "party for the elec?
tion ? Will any respectable number of colored
men attend it? Doubtful. Will not the Rad?
ical demagogues raise the cry of "Rebel De?
mocracy" in disguise ? Almost certainly. Will
not the credulous, benighted negroes believe it ?
If we are to judge of the future by the past,
they will, most assuredly. The Radical party
is too formidable in numbers and organization
to be be attacked en masse. As I have before
remarked, it must be done in detail. Make a
breach at every vulnerable point, and before
we are aware of it, disintegration will follow;
If we are to have a Convention, byailmeans,
let it be deferred until after the Radical party
have had theirs, and announced their platform.
They cannot well go further than the Press
Convention Resolutions. We may then follow
with them?nominate conservative men for
State officers, assail their corruption, selfish?
ness, extravagance and recklessness merciless?
ly, fiercely, unrelentingly and unceasingly.
This would be my programme for the approach?
ing canvass.
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Hanging a Man for Comf?Rt.?The Aiis*
tin (Texas) Journal relates the following: In
1837 or 1838 the county of-had just been
organized, and the firat District Court was held
in a small room that had been used for a gro?
cery. It was the f?ll term, a severe Norther
was blowing, and there was no fireplace or
stove in the room. A desperado Was bfi trial
for one out of many murders he had commit?
ted, and the Judge and jury were impatient to
end the case. The county was sparsely settled,
and consequently poor to make adequate
arrangements for the comfort of prisoners,' 80j
when the jury brought in the verdict of guilty,
the Judge, in pronouncing sentence upon the
culprit, said: Bob Jones, you have had a fair
trial; you have been found guilty, and the court
adjudges that you be hanged by the neck until
you be dead; but as the county Is just organiz?
ed, and affords no convenience to lodge a pris?
oner with any degree of comfort?there being
no suitable building nor bedding, not even
blankets, the court do her'e'by, in consideration
of his personal comfort, order that the prisoner
be taken to the nearest tree and there hanged
until he be dead, and may the Lord have mercy
on his soul." The Sheriff then borrowed a la?
riat from a bvstander, put it over the culprit's
neck, and led him out to a tree a few feet-from
the court house, threw1 it over a limb, and sus?
pended the prisoner till life was extinct
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A Sensible Vlew.?Boston sentiment,
whether political, social or theologic, rarely
commends itself to oui' approval. Bat the fol?
lowing remarks of the Boston Advertiser, a
thoroughly Republican journal, contains, sound
sense; and while they appeal peculiarly to one
class of Southern voters, they are oi general
interest to the country :
Furthermore, we ho pe that the vote of the
blacks will consolidated in favor of no party
and of no section. There is great danger to the
republic from this massing of votes on the line
of nationality. We hear too much of the Irish
vote, the German vote, and now we are to have
the negro vote. In the case of some of thepeo*
pie which seek our shores there is unfortunately
too much truth in the expression. We protest
in advance against extending the mischievous
classification to the enfranchised blacks. It
ought to be understood that voters cast their
ballots not as Irishman, or German, or French?
men, or negroes, but as Americans. Suffrage is
not conferred in virtue of birthright but in vir?
tue of citizenship. We earnestly hope that
each negro will vote according to his individ?
ual convictions, and not according to {he de?
mands of race or soction.
? One of the Washington papers, having in?
discreetly spoken of Revels as a "public func?
tionary," it is said that the fiery, untamed Mis
sissippian immediately sent the editor a note
demanding an apology, and that when the mes?
senger returned with an explanation, he found
Revels with four navy repeaters buckled around
him and a'couple of Arkansas toothpicks stick?
ing out of the' tons of his boots, swearing that
he would "show the-Yankee scoundrel that
he couldn't blackguard a Southern gentleman
with impunity."
? Spirit of ammonia, inhaled, is good for
head-ache, and to help the breathing; In bad
colds.
Letter from Chief Justice Cba*?.
tvers al s?ffbjme and universal AH
" i irj?BTT.
The following letter was addressed to tile
colored citizens of Cincinnati by Chief Justice
Chase, in answer to tsn invitation to be present
at their celebration of the ratifies tion of the
Fifteenth Amendment:
Washington, Bf arch 80,1870.-.
Gentlemen: Accept my thanks in the invi?
tation you have tendered me, in behalf of the
colored" people of Cincinnati, to attend their
celebration of the ratification .of the fifteenth
amendment. My duties here will not permit
me to be present, except by good will and good
wishes.
( Almost a quarter of a century has passed
since some 01 you, probably, heard me declare,
on the 6th of May, 1845, in an assembly com?
posed chiefly of the people whom you now
represent, that all legal distinctions between
individuals of the same community founded on
any such circumstances as color, origin, and the
like, are hostile to the genius of our ii jsti tut ions,
and incompatible with the true theor/ of Amer?
ican liberty; "that true democracy makes no
inquiry about the color of the skin, or the
place of nativity, or any other similar circum?
stance of condition; and that the es elusion of
the colored people as a body from the elective
franchise is incompatible with true democratic
principles."
I congratulate you on the fact that these
principles, not then avowed by me fa: the first
time, nor ever since abandoned or compromised,
have been at length incorporated into the Con*
stitution and made part of the supreme law of
the land.
Many, no doubt, would have been glad, as I
should have been, if the great work consummated
by the ratification of the fifteenth amendment
could have been accomplished by tlie States
through amendments of State Constitutions
and through appropriate State legislation; but
the delays and uncertainties, prejudical to every
interest, inseparable from that mode of pro?
ceeding seemed to necessitate the course actual?
ly adopted. Nor does the amendment impair
the real rights of any State. It haves the
whole regulation of suffrage to the wt ble peo?
ple of each State, suhjedt only, to the funda?
mental laWj that the right of no citize i to vote
shall be denied of abridged on account of color,
race, or previous condition of servitude. It is
to be hoped that each State Will so cor form its
constitution and laWs to this fundamental law
that no occasion may be given to legisiiation bjr
Congress.
But the best vindication of the wisdoift ^
found in the conduct of that large clots of tiu
izens whom you represent On the ociasicn if)
which I have referred, I ventured to nay that
"the best way to insure the peaceful dwelling
together of the 'different races is the cordial
reciprocation of benefits, not the mutual inflic?
tion of injuries;" and I cannot now pve you
better counsel than I offered then i ''Go for?
ward, having perfect faith in your n lahhocd
and in God's providence, adding to your faith,
virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to
knowledge, patience; and to patience, temper?
ance ; and to temperance, brotherly, kindness;
and to brotherly kindness, charity."'
Why not signalize your rejoicing in the
rights secured under the fifteenth amendment,
by urging upon Congress the prompt ,-emoval
of all political disabilities imposes upon our
fellow-citizens by the fourteenth amendment?
so that, through universal suffrage and univer^
sal amnesty, peace, good will and prosperity
may be established throughout our country. '
Every good man must rejoice in the progress
which the colored citizens of the United States
have in?de in education, in religious culture,
and in the general improvement of their condi
don. Every good man must earnestly desire
their continued and accelerated progres i in the
same direction. All public and all private in?
terests will be promoted, by it, and it will insure^
at no distant day, cordial recognition cf their
rights even from those of their feUownitizens
who have most earnestly opposed them.
NO man can now be found who. wotdd re?
store slavery; a few years hence, if the colored
men are wise, it will be impossible tr. find a
man who will avow himself in favor defying
or abridging their right to vote. ?:
Very respectfully yours,
B; P: CHiSE:
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How MAttBf.tw abe MAite^Tne eriief pt?eS
of the manufacture of'''marbles," those little'
peices of stone which contribute so largely to
the employment of "Young America;" .m at
Oberstein, on the Nahe, in (&rm?ny, where'
there are large agate nulls and quarries, the
refuse of which is carefully turned to good
paying account by being made into the small
balls employed, by experts to knuckle with,
which are mostly sent to the American market.
The substance used, in Saxony is a hard oalca=
rious stone, which is first broken into blocks',
nearly square, by blows with a hammeri These
are thrown by the one hundred of two hundred
into a small sorf of mill, which is form id of
a fiat, stationary slab of stone, with a" number
of concentric furrows upon its' ffcee; A block
of oak, of other hard wood, Of the same diam?
etric size; is placed over, the stones and partly
resting upon them. The small block of. wood
is kept revolving while wdter flows upon the
stone slab. In about fifteen minutes the stones
are turned to spheres, and then, being fit for
sale, are henceforth called ''marbles." -One
establishment, containing only three of these
mills, will-turn out fully sixty thousand "mar?
bles" in each week. Agates are made into
"marbles" at Oberstein by first clipping the
pieces neatly round with a hammer, handled
by a skilful workman, and then wearing down
the edges upon the surface of a large grind-'
atone; -
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A Note for. Sunday Reading.?The edl-'
tor of a vigorous journal, says that m any able
and good ministers destroy their usefulness by
thd tediou'sness of their services. Their pulpit
prayers, instead of being from two to five nan*
utcs long, sometimes are fr?iri ten1 to thirty*
The sermons are prefaced by longititrOtr?ctioili,
and branch out into divisions nnd subdivisions,
reminding ofie Of the beast with seven heads
and ten horns. The suggestion may possibly
be worthy of note in this section.
? "To the parent whose son dies in infancy^'1
says the Louisville Courier-Journal, "Hhere
must be something peculiarly soothing in tire
thought that no matter what may be the-?to of
the child in the next world, it can sever be?
come a member of a base-bail club- in this."
? A woman in Missouri hung, herself because
her husband went to California. Next week a
dozen more started, but then? wives wouldn't
hang worth a cent, and the poor disconsolate
devils have all returned: broken-hearted.
? A female lecturer said": "Get married;,
young men, and be quick about it. Don't wait
for the millennium, for the girls to become an>
gels. Yo Aii look well beside an angel, wouldh' t
you, you brutes ?"' ^
? A Chinese cigar-maker, at San Francisco-,
has gone to the insane asylum, through trying
to keep the run of internal revenue decisione
regSrdmg cigar stamps.