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VOLUME 5?NO.-49i
Mom the Greenville Mountaineer.
Air Line Bailroad.
. Gbeenville, S. C, May 16,1870.
At a meeting of the Executive Committee
of tjie Air Line Bailroad, held this evening in
the Courl; House, the following report was re?
ceived from the Sub-Committee appointed at
'the Last meeting;
The Sub-Committee appointea at the last
meeting c f this Conmittee, and who were charg?
ed with the duty of reporting to this meeting "as
to the heiit. and most effectual means of raising
the necessary aid required from this city ana
.Countv to secure the construction of the Air
Line'EauaoacC through this State, and espe?
cially, by this city; and if both the subscrip?
tion of city and County should be made in
their "bo??s, then toxeport their opinion as to
the best and most effectual method of making
them avadable to the Company," beg leave,
respectfullvj' to
eepobt, .
' That they have given the subject such con
aeration as their limited time and their other
engagements would permit, and that whilst
they submit herewith a scheme for the accom?
plishment of the desired result, they must con?
fess" that the paramount importance of the
enterprise?its influence upon the future desti?
ny and prosperity of this city and County, and
the great importance of suggesting a scheme
at the beginning which has in it the merit and
wisdom -to work out the desired result, induces
them to appeal to the Committee and ask
them to nske any other suggestions that may
present themselves, as being wiser or more prac?
ticable, leaking to the accomplishment of the
same desiied result.
.^In the opinion of your Committee, no enter?
prise has ever been agitated in this community
since its earliest settlement of so much impor?
tance; certainly none which holds the destiny
of both city and County so completely within
its power and control. If its location should
be diverted to other localities, in consequence
of the faD ure of our people to give promptly
. such material aid as will insure its location by
this city, and to localities where the people are
exc^dingly anxious to secure it, and who
promise the material aid required, and are only
waiting for the first intimation of our failure
to step forward and secure it, then all our pride
and boast of our beautiful mountain city, Duilt
up and supported, as it has been in a great de?
gree, by admirers attracted to it by its climate,
its scenery and its society, will vanish away.as
?vapor; find we will be left to see other places
more fortunate built up and take their places
- upon the line of the contemplated new road,
with perhaps other connecting roads conver?
ging thereto, which will grow into great cities,
whilst ours must continue to decline in popu?
lation, wealth, business and other attractions.
On the other hand, if we act promptly, and
render such aid as we are able to do, then
there can be no doubt of the location of the
road by this city and its early completion. Its
influence upon the material prosperity of the
city and County, in the opinion of your Com?
mittee, cannot be measured by language or
imagined by the most sanguine.
Your city, from its present population, will
rapidly increase in numbers, and soon take its
place among the larger inland cities of the
country. Your water powers wil! be occupied
by capitalists and artisans. Your farms will
be subdivided into smaller ones, and cultivated
in the highest style of the art. Your country
will be densely populated by thrifty and in?
dustrious citizens, who will be attracted to this
country by its. climate, its wider power, its
minerals and its wonderful resources. Citizens
will come here with money and with muscle,
and bring their families with them as "actual
settlers," to link their destinies with U3 in this
country. They come to improve their fortunes
and to aid you in making tne country a better
one for them and for you; to help you make
the government a better one for all with each
year, and to aid you in improving and perfect
lngyonr system of education.
With this state of things, other railroad con?
nections will be built as necessity may require,
prompted from time to time by the common
prosperity of the country.
The information in possession of your Com?
mittee convince them that the Air Line Rail?
road will be built. A contract with responsi?
ble parties has been entered into, with all the
details arranged for that purpose. The only
contingency being the contribution of a small
portion of the money necessary to build it, by
the people along the line, and its location will
be determined, in a great degree, by the con?
tribution or aid given by the different locali?
ties.
Your Committee are of the opinion that it is
reasonable to expect from the city and County
of Greenville, in consideration of the foregoing
facts, the sum of two hundred and fifty thou?
sand dollars; and they respectfully recommend
the following scheme as, in their judgment, the
best and most practical one for raising that
sum, to wit:
The County of Greenville to subscribe $200,
000 to the capital stock of the Company, and
issue their bonds for the same amount; the
city of Greenville to subscribe $50,000, and,
also, issue their bonds for the same amount;
both to carry interest at the rate of eight per
cent, per annum, and to run for a series of
?ears, say to mature in 12, 16, 20 and 24 years,
he interest or coupons upon them to be re?
ceivable for city and County taxes. The stock
received by both the city and. County in the
Railroad Company, for the above subscription,'
to be held by a Trustee, as security for the!
bondholders, and pledged for the redemption
of the bonds at maturity. These subscriptions
to be made solely on condition that the road
be located through the corporate limits of the
cityof Greenville.
?The proportion of city and County subscrip?
tion appears to your Committee to be about
just and proportionate, taking into considera?
tion the superior advantages the city may hope
to gain by its location. The assessed value of
real and personal property for taxable purpo?
ses, in both the city and County, is $5,024,000,
of which about $950,000 is owned within the
corporate limits of the city. In the scheme
proposed, the citizens of the city will be as?
sessed and required to pay their proportionate
share (being about one-fifth) of the interest
upon the County subscription of $200,000 ; be?
sides, they will have to pay the whole amount
of the interest on the city subscription of $50,
000 in addition.
To devise some scheme by which the money
can be realized from the sale of these bonds,
has been, to your Committee, the most difficult
question. To negotiate them in New York is
considered hardly practicable. Whilst in the
West it is the common and constant practice
to issue county and city bonds as subscriptions
to railroads, and they are readily negotiated to
capitalists in their principal cities, and even in
Wall street, New York, and are considered
good securities, commanding good rates; still,
in the South it is a new thing and an experi?
ment. The country and its resources are com?
paratively unknown, and the bonds, as a secu?
rity abroad, would hick that confidence in them,
and of the ability and good intention of the
parties to pay them and the interest upon them
as it matures, which is indispensable to their
successful and satisfactory negotiation. Then,
we must rely upon our people at home. The
interest which must naturally be felt in the en?
terprise by our own people, and their knowl?
edge of the resources of the country and the
ability and the good intention to pay the bonds
at maturity, and the interest as it matures,
should stimulate all, who are at all able to do
so, to take as many of the bonds as they may
feel able to do. In place of subscribing to the
capital stock of the Company and taking the
stock in their own names, they should sub?
scribe for and take an equal amount of the
County and city bonds. The terms of the con?
tract, as your Committee understand it, is that
the subscription is payable in two years, in
equal quarterly payments. Then, by taking
the bonds, the holder has either County or
city bonds in place of stock in the Company.
The interest upon the bonds is receivable in
payment of city and County taxes; and, be?
sides, the principal is securea by the pledge of
the stock in the Company for which they were
issued, which makes the security ample, and
the investment in the bonds a good and a safe
one; and, at the same time, the holder has
contributed an amount towards the construc?
tion of this great enterprise, equal to his in?
vestment in the bonds.
A liberal investment in th se bonds cannot
be too strongly urged upon the citizens of this
community. Their prompt action in the mat?
ter secures the construction of the road and its
location by this city; a failure to do so may
lose the opportunity of doing so forever, and
divert it to other localities.
The enhanced -value of property as a conse?
quence of railroad communication through any
community, is too well understood and appre?
ciated at this late day to require any argument
to prove its truth. A distinguished railroad
man in South Carolina said in his report to his
stockholders, a few days since, that no railroad
of fifty miles in length had ever been construc?
ted and operated for two years successfully,
that had not more than compensated the peo?
ple along its line for the cost of its construc?
tion, m the increased value of their property,
which was traceable directly to the influence of
the railroad upon it.
It is somewhat unfortunate for us, in this
particular, that the contemplated line crosses
our County at its narrowest part. If, on the
contrary, it passed north and south through
the Co?nty? it would traverse a much larger
portion of it, and pass near many more of our
citizens; and, perhaps, many more of the more
wealthy class might feel disposed to invest
more liberally in the bonds than they may oth?
erwise feel disposed to do. But your Commit?
tee are of opinion that all portions of the
County will almost all alike feel its beneficial
effects: as one portion of the County and' city
prosper, all other portions must feel and expe?
rience its effects. Your Committee have made
some rough estimate of the advantages that
those living along the contemplated line must
derive, during its construction, from material
which otherwise would be valueless to them,
such as standing timber, stone, &c, and are
satisfied it cannot fall short of ?200,000.
Your Committee would recommend co-ope?
ration and conference with other localities
along the line, and especially in the direction
of Charlotte. This conference and co-opera?
tion, it is hoped, would contribute towards har
i mony of action between the sections, and pro
' mote the general interests we all have in view.
The time has passed by when people, with
any pretensions to intelligence, thrift and en?
terprise, are content to live in any country
where they have not quick communication
with the balance of the world, by both railroad
and telegraph lines; and the best and only
means of preventing our most worthy and en?
terprising young men from leaving the country
ana going to where these advantages abound,
is to provide them as far as we can at home,
by contributing of our means and time as much
as we can to their development.
When the Air Line Railroad is completed, it
will be the shortest and most direct line be?
tween New York and New Orleans, and the
shortest air line that can ever be constructed
south of the Alleghanies. Greenville will be
as near New York as Columbia or Charleston,
and thirty miles nearer Atlanta than Augusta
is. The line will be shortened over the pres?
ent one by the way of Columbia at least 120
miles, which will naturally draw upon it all
the through travel between New York and
New Orleans, and points southwest.
H. P. Hammett, Chm'n.
On motion of Dr. James P. Boyce, the re?
port was received and adopted.
On motion, it was
Resolved, That the report of the Sub-Com?
mittee be published in the newspapers of the
Counties of Greenville, Sparianburg, York,
Anderson and Oconee.
W. K. Easley, Chm'n.
James P. Mooee, Sec.
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Death of J. Edgae Faenum.?We find in
the New York papers a notice of the death of
Brigadier-General J. Edgar Fa mum, which oc?
curred in that city on the 16th instant. Gen.
Farnum will be remembered by many of our
citizens as the Col. Farnum whose connection
with the Wanderer (the first and only vessel
owned in Georgia that ever brought a cargo of
slaves from Africa to her shores) caused Buch a
sensation in the country just previous to the
war. The deceased was, we believe, with Gen.
Walker, the "grey-eyed man of destiny," in the
Nicaragua expedition. He afterwards attemp?
ted to re-open the African slave trade in con?
nection with parties interested in the yacht
Wanderer. For his participation in that en?
terprise he was arrested by the United States
authorities, and with several others, citizens of
Georgia, was tried before the United States
Court, Judge Wayne presiding, for a violation
of the laws for the suppression of the African
slave trade. The excitement which grew
out of that trial, and the personal difficulty
which resulted from it, will be remembered by
many of our citizens. Col. Farnum, as he was
then called, commanded the Wanderer, and at?
tempted to escape with her to sea, while she
was held a condemned slaver by the United
States authorities. He behaved gallantly
throughout the Wanderer affair, and enlisted
the strong sympathy of the citizens of Savan?
nah, who stood by him during his trial and im?
prisonment. After his release at the opening
of the war, he returned to New York, where,
to the surprise of his Southern friends, he en?
tered the Union service as Lieutenant-Colonel
of the Fire Zouaves, commanded bv Col. Ells?
worth, who was killed in Alexandria, Virginia,
by Thos. Jackson, proprietor of the Marshall
House Hotel in that city. Gen. Farnum's life
was one of adventure. He fought through the
war against those whom he had at one time
claimed as his friends, and at the time of his
death held the rank of Brigadier-General, ac?
quired in the service of a Government whose
laws, as a slaver, he had set at defiance.?
Savannah Republican.
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? "And Satan smote Job with boils," is now
rendered: "And Satan smote Job with circum?
scribed subcutaneous inflammations, character?
ized by pointed tumors, and suppurating with
central cores."
The Views and Feeling* of Mr. Sawyer to?
wards the South.
In the United States Senate, on the 20th inst.,
in reply to a question put to him, by Mr. How?
ard, of Michigan, during the debate on the bill
to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment, Mr. Saw?
yer replied in a speech marked by dignity,
independence and foresight. He repelled the
charge that, in advocating general amnesty,
he had forgotten the war, and was actuated by
an "ardor and zeal of friendship for the late
rebels." From his standpoint, as a Republican,
these expressions are manly, liberal and con?
servative, and in this light we present them to
our readers:
In our practical relations with the masses of
white men in the States lately in rebellion, we
must look at them.as they now stand, and by
the light of present events, rather than by the
terrible glare of the fires of the great struggle
through which wc have passed. We must, in
brief, "let^by-gones be by-gones." I would
never for a'moment forget the misery caused
by the rebellion. I would never for a moment
cease to discriminate between the patriotism
which led mighty hosts to offer up their lives
to the cause of the Union and the disloyalty
which led other hosts to wage war against that
Union. Let the honors of the Republic ever
follow those brave and loyal men who saved the
nation; let our children and children's children
learn to speak the praises of the patriots who,
in the halls of legislation, on a thousand bat?
tle-fields, on river, lake and ocean, gave their
minds, their energies and their lives to the holy
cause of national integrity.
But, Mr. President, the question on which I
was speaking is a question of how to deal with
a great practical subject of statesmanship; how
we shall best reincorporate into practical and
harmonious relations with the Federal Govern?
ment the masses of the white men of the South;
how soonest we shall make them enter into
and share our own faith in the beneficence
of this government; how soonest to weaken
the strength of their attachment to a "lost
cause;" how, in the most complete way, to im?
bue them with a conviction that the United
States is their country as well as ours, and that
to it they must look as their chief object of
loyalty rather than to the section whose cause
was lost
On this question it is my misfortune to differ
with my distinguished friend from Michigan as
to what is the true policy. On this question I
do not seek a guide for my steps in the bitter?
ness, the acrimony, the hatreds begotten by
the rebellion. No Senator on this floor has
less cause to be personally favorable to rebels,
as such, than myself I come here by no rebel
support The vote of no man who took part
in the rebellion was cast for me. Though for
more than eleven years a citizen of South Car?
olina, there have never been open to me the
doors of a dozen men who were implicated in
the rebellion. No bribe or social favor among
men who were rebels has ever tempted me to
show the "ardor and zeal of friendship" for the
enemies of my country. But as a Senator
from South Carolina, when I allow personal
considerations of this character to control or
determine my conduct, I shall have forgotten
the principles which have governed my life.
I am unfortunate in having made the im?
pression upon the mind of the Senator from
Michigan that I took the position against the
test oath, and against the continuance of the
disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth amend?
ment from "the ardor and zeal of my friend?
ship for the late rebels." I have carefully read
the remarks I made on the subject, and I am
at a loss to see what sentence, what line, what
word contained therein indicates any such mo?
tive. I am a friend, I trust, to all the people
of the State which has honored me with a seat
in this body; but, Mr. President, I am not a
friend to them as "rebels" or "late rebels." I
am a friend to them, as I would do the offices
of true friendship; and I rejoice that when I
take the position of an advocate of the repeal
of the test oath I am acting as a friend to the
whole people of my State, because I am open?
ing up a way of strengthening the Republican
party, and acting also as a friend to the loyal
Seople of the country by doing something to
estroy the wall of partition which has so long
existed between the hearts of Northern and
Southern men.
And permit me to add that I see no logical
connection between the removal of disabilities
and the return of Jefferson Davis or Robert
Toombs to their old places of honor and trust
in this government. If the public sentiment
of Mississippi or Georgia is so thoroughly dis?
loyal as to render the election of men like
these probable, then our reconstruction is a
failure, and time only will relieve us from the
evils legislation has sought in vain to cure.
But if, as I believe, the vast majority of the
people of those States care little for Jefferson
Davis or Robert Toombs, or any other rebel
leader, except as they are compelled to think of
them as under the ban of ineligibility to public
office, when you remove from them the badge of
distinction which they wear and parade they
will sink into that insignificance which is the
common fate of the defeated leaders of a lost
cause.
But, Mr. President, however necessary it may
be thought to except from a bill of relief from
political disabilities such marked cases as those
of Davis, Lee, Toombs and others, certainly it
is not wise or necessary to shut out from all
opportunity for participation in national affairs
the great number of those who are affected by
the provisions of the Fourteenth amendment
and of the Test oath.
Suicide.?Our citizens were startled on
Monday evening last by the announcement
that Mr. Edwin L. Levin had commitied sui?
cide at Mrs. Gewinner's Hotel, in this place,
by shooting himself through the head with a
pistol. Mr. Levin was in his store as usual
until about half-past two o'clock, attending
to his business. He walked from his store
down the street to the hotel, and spoke to
several persons there, and immediately walked
into a passage way in the rear part of the
house, where he engaged in some conversa?
tion with a lady friend, during which time
he drew a small pocket pistol and said he was
going to shoot himself, at the same time ma?
king the attempt to put the pistol to his
head. The lady jerked his hands down and
begged him to "desist, and eudeavored to give
the alarm; but this, we arc informed, excited
him still more, and he unloosed the hold of
his friend and shot himself before she could
reach the adjoining room. The ball entered
the forehead centrally, passing directly through
the brain and lodging in the back part of the
head, killing him almost instantly.
Mr. Levin was a young merchant of our
village, and wa3 much esteemed for his staunch
and correct principles and general good de?
meanor as a citizen. He had just returned
the night before from a short visit a few
miles from the village, and appeared to be in
his usual spirits, exhibiting no indication of
any mental derangement. He was slightly
under the influence of liquor at the time he
committed the fatal act, but was, apparently,
perfectly rational. What induced him to de?
stroy himself is a mystery to every one.?
Kingstrtt Star.
How Congress makes Radical Members.
The way in which the House has cheated the
Louisiana members out of their seats is in the
best vein ot Radical piety. In the fall of 1868
the Democrats of Lousiana put the best foot
foremost, cultivated the man and brother with
barbecues, filled him with free whiskey, clapp?
ed a ballot in his hand and voted him straight
through; whereby it happened that the State
went for Seymour by 15,000 majority, and a full
delegation of five Democratic Representatives
was elected. Foreseeing, from the pleasant
manner in which the man and brother took to
the barbecuing administered unto him, how the
thing was like to go, some of the Radical wire
workers telegraphed on to "Washington, just
prior to the election, for instructions. The
word came, "outrages ;"but, stuffed full of roast
pig and good whiskey, the negro was if anything
more gentle than a lamb and as little inclined
to fight as a she-dove. "Outrages," then, being
out of the question, again the word went
forth unto Washington for instructions, and in
response there came an order to keep the blacks
away from the polls, the design being to plead
"rebel terrorism" as the cause. This met in?
different success. Where the barbecues had
been plentiful and the whiskey floated free,
there, disregarding the voice of the charmer,
the black man voted for the Democracy; and
only in such places as had not been perfumed
With the aroma of shoat and bourbon did the
staying-away plan prevail. As a consequence,
though the Democrats carried every district, an
exceedingly full vote was polled in some and
only a moderote vote in others. To turn all
the Democrats out, therefore, on the plea of
"rebel terrorism" having kept the negroes from
voting, was out of the question, since in most
of the districts the returns showed that they
had voted, and voted Democratic almost en
masse. In despair at this state of affairs, the
reconstructed State authorities nibbled off a
thousand votes here and a thousand votes there;
but, even this not materially changing the
sweeping Democratic majorities, it was found
necessary finally to give them certificates of
election ; and, as the electoral vote of Louisiana
was soon after counted for the Democratic can?
didate for the Presidency, it was thought that
settled the question for Congressmen too, and
that Louisiana Would reap the advantage of her
assiduous barbecuing of the man and brother
by a full Democratic delegation in the House.
Congress, however, was equal to the exigen?
cy, and as soon as it met last year opened the
play that has just in these few days past reach?
ed the grand transformation scene. Objection
was made to the Louisiana members and their
credentials referred to the Committee on Elec?
tions, which committee took a comfortable nap
of some months thereupon and then waked up
and referred them to a sub-committee, and then
all haud3 went to sleep again. Then, after an
immense amount of prodding, the sub-commit?
tee waked up and reported to the committee
proper, and the committee proper "took testi?
mony." This necessitating a pleasure trip to
New Orleans, and pleasure not being a thing
that admits haste2 some more months passed.
Then came up tins terrible Georgia to set ev?
erything at loose ends; and, what with passing
a condition precedent one day and taking it
back the next, and a due time spent in hope?
less muddlement at the case upon the merits,
something over a year was gotten rid of, ana
then, not being able to do anything else, the
committee reported in three cases. In the first
of these it appeared one Hunt, a Democrat, re?
ceived 19,340 votes, and one Sheldon, a Radi?
cal, 8,493, or iust 10,847 less. To admit that a
Radical could be thus badly beaten was to ad?
mit that reconstruction was a failure, and the
committee could not do this. Neither could
the House, and accordingly voted Hunt out and
Sheldon in by 114 to 51. In the second case
McCra.nie, a Democrat, received 13,710 votes;
Morey, a Radical. 3,424; and Kennedy, another
Radical, 8,076?the Democrat again receiving
more than 10,000 majority over either of his
competitors, or 7,216 over both. This was, the
committee thought, a worse case even than the
I other, and had there been but one Radical con
[ testant he would infalliby have been put in and
I the Democrat out, but there being two it seem?
ed right to turn them all out, and so the House
ordered?102 to 52. A third case still remained,
that of the renowned Sypher. He had within
653 votes of a majority?after throwing out
9,638 votes for his opponent?and, with a fine
contempt for such a mere bagatelle, the com?
mittee recommended him in. The House ac?
cordingly began to put him in, but, repenting
as he was coming in put him out before he could
clinch the thing by saying "s'elp me," and de?
clared in this case also that no election had
been held. But two cases yet remain, in one of
which the Democratic candidate had 7,500 and
in the other 8,900 majority; but, as there is a
great deal of 'testimony" yet to be taken, and
the committee is now fast asleep and the sub?
committee off looking after its re-election, it is
not likely that there will be any final action in
the premises until the close of the Forty-first
Congress puts case, report, candidates, ana com?
mittee all alike out of date.
So that, whereas Louisiana "accepted" re?
construction and elected five Democratic mem?
bers by 42,000 majority, all the representation
she has in return is one Radical member whom
his opponent beat by 8,000 votes. It takes ge?
nius to work the figures around to such results;
and were Congress but to exhibit an equal
ability in polishing off the taxes there would be
new reason to admire the shrewdness of its
tricks.?N. Y. World.
Meat More Profitable than Cotton.?
The Winnsboro' News, in an editorial display?
ing sound wisdom and good practical sense,
says:
Commissioner Wells, in his last magnificent
report, proves by statistics that the number of
sheep in the United States has decreased 25
Ser cent, within a few years, being less by mil
ons than in 1860, while the number of sheep
eating men has increased by millions. Recent
investigations prove that this same alarming
decrease has also taken place in the number
of cattle and hogs in the United States. The
consumption of meat is far in excess of its
production. With our immense immigration
continuing, the demand for meat, for years to
come, is obliged to exceed the possibility of
an adequate supply. Every consideration of
interest, therefor^ should urge our land own?
ers to pay immediate and continued attention
to the raising of stock. Thomas Jefferson
was a great stock raiser, as well as a great
farmer, and the inventor of the modern plough.
He with great shrewdness, employed shep?
herds and herdsmen to attend to his stock,
exclusive of all other business. It will always
pay to do so. Why do our planters not im
Eort shepherds and herdsmen from Scotland ?
ret them not dream of making as much .by
cotton as by stock raising, for several years;
for the high price of meat is not accidental,
but due to an excess of demand over supply,
that promises to outlast, by a long time, the
temporary scarcity of cotton.
? It is a common mistake to account those
things necessary which are superfluous, and to
depend upon fortune for the felicity of life
which arises only from virtue.
Cotton Manufactures at the South.
It is said by those who have investigated the
subject, that from $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 can
be saved to the South yearly from manufactu?
ring yarns and goods near where the cotton is
frown. It is claimed that yarns can be spun
ere much eheaper than in England. Those
who have given the subject careful attention
and study declare that yarns can be made
cheaper in the South by five cents per pound
than in the North, and that "yarns made in the
South can be sold in Europe four and a half
cents cheaper per pound -than yarns made in
Europe of exported American cotton. If this
statement is correct it warrants the establish?
ment of yarn factories in all parts of the South.
A spinning mill that would employ eighty-sev?
en operators and consume 887 bales of cotton
yearly, would cost not more than $50,000, and
at Northern prices the estimated profit on the
sales of its annual yarn product would be $17.
000. These are Southern estimates, and al?
though somewhat exaggerated, perhaps, as it is
naturally supposed they would be, it cannot be
denied that the business can be made largely
profitable, even allowing a liberal margin for
contingent expenses not included in the gene?
ral estimates; and the encouragement offered
is* sufficient to warrant the belief that cotton
spinning will soon become one of the most im?
portant manufacturing industries of the South.
The demonstrated success of all the cotton fac?
tories now in operation in the ISouthern States,
has greatly encouraged the small capitalists of
the more prosperous sections in their desire to
engage in sucn enterprises. In Georgia and
Mississippi the cotton mills are in a prosperous
condition, and a ready market for all goods
they can turn out; ana the leading papers in
those States urge the formation of new compa?
nies and the erection of more mills. " Why
should not the South manufacture its own cot?
ton crop ?" is the question constantly kept be?
fore the people. It is not proposed that the
South should convert all its lint into yarn, but
the manufacture of even a small portion of it
would be found largely profitable. The South
has neither the capital nor the trained manu?
facturing skill of the New England States, and
cannot compete with them in the manufacture
of cotton cloth; but neither very much capital
nor very much skill are needed for the ' manu?
facture of yarns, or of the coarser grades of
cloth for which a ready home market may be
found.
A report was made to the Agricultural and
Immigration Convention recently held at
Charleston, which embraces careful estimates
showing the comparative cost of manufacturing
cotton at the North and at the South. These
estimates, the report states, show that yarns
can be made at the South, sent to the North,
?ay a commission of five per cent for selling,
e sold at the cost of Northern production, and
I yield a profit of ten cents per pound. In
[ April, 1869, the Saluda Factory of South Caro
lina, to test the value of their yarns in the
I English market, sent 6ome packages of their
No. 20 yarn to Manchester, where they sold for
16 pence per pound, equal at the then price of
gold, to 43J cents in currency. The total cost
of the yarns, including freight;, commissions
and other charges, was 39} cenfei per pound, so
that the profit to the manufacturers was 4*
cents per pound, or about 11 per cent. That
Southern manufacturers should thus success?
fully compete with the British in their own
markets, while Northern manufacturers de?
mand protection against British competition, is
a fact which teaches its own lessons. There
are factories for making plain goods at Augus?
ta, Ga.. and Graniteville, S. C, and others at
Columbus and Alamance for making colored
goods. All these establishments were operated
profitably at a time when the depression of
trade caused the working of the Northern mills
to result in loss. A Northern manufacturer,
writing on the condition of his interests to a
friend, said:
"While I have only met expenses in the
North in running twenty frames?about 3,000
spindles?the returns I have from sixteen
frames of the same machinery in Georgia for
the last six months have been $15,000 clear
profit. Our company has determined to sell
out their machinery. The South enjoys the
advantage of not less than twenty per cent,
over the North in manufacturing."
The writer of this letter is now manufactu?
ring at the South. The constantly increasing
demand for cotton fabrics in the world creates
an increasing demand for cotton mills, and in?
telligent men in the Southern States perceive
the importance of diverting a share of the ad?
ditional manufacturing facilities to their re?
gion, where labor is cheap, fuel abundant, the
climate mild and the raw material right at
the doors. Commissioner Wells showed, in
his last report, that even pig iron is made
cheaper in the South than in the North, East
or West; that while the cost of making it is
$27 98 at Pittsburg and $25 at Carondelet, it is
only $22 60 at Nashville, and only $19 on the
Nashville and Chattanooga railroad. These
figures, together with the resultof the test made
by the Saluda factory, prove that fabrics of
such Southern materials as cotton, wool, wood
and iron can be made ten to twenty per cent,
cheaper in the Southern States than in the
North. All that the South needs is capital and
skilled labor, and these it will surety have in
time.?St. Louis Republican.
? The President has issued a proclamation,
setting forth that it has come to his knowledge
that sundry illegal military enterprises and ex?
peditions are on foot within the United States,
with a view to carry on the same against the
people and district of Canada, within the do?
minions of Queen Victoria, with whom the
United States are at peace. The President,
therefore, admonishes all good citizens of the
United States, and all persons within the ju?
risdiction of the same, against aiding, counte?
nancing, abetting, or taking part in such un?
lawful proceedings, and warns all persons that,
by committing such illegal acts, they forfeit all
rights to the protection of this Government, or
to its interference in their behalf to rescue
them from the consequences of their own act.
He enjoins all officers of the United States to
employ all lawful authority and power to pre?
vent and defeat the afonaaid unlawful proceed?
ings, and to arrest and bring to justice all per?
sons who may be engaged therein.
? A civil engineer of Edinburg, Scotland,
has invented a steam engine or locomotive for
common roads that has proved t& capital suc?
cess. A number of them of different sizes, and
of ten, six and three horse power, have been in
use on the common, poor, crooked roads in
Scotland, and do an immense amount of heavy
work, with admirable facility. Thick rubber
tires are used on the wheels, thus preventing
all concussion, and insuring the durability of
the engine. This important invention is be?
lieved to make it possible to advantageously in?
troduce steam ploughing into this country.
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? The Springfield Republican speaks of an
agent sent to collect funds for a college who, on
reporting after he came back, an extess of ex?
penses over subscriptions, added: "But-, gentle?
men, I have found great encouragement to
pray." I
Extraobmnary Night Session.?-The
United States Senate remained in session all
night on Friday 20th inst. The^orrespondent
of the New York Wi>rrW'gavBatho.ailnexed:ao
count of the proceedings on this extraordinary
occasion:
The night session of the Senate which ended
at 7 o'clock Saturday morning in the passage
of the bill to enforce the fifteenth and four?
teenth amendments, was in many,;respectB the
most extraoro^ary of the. season. The Senate
was frequently without a quorum. ? and one of the
votes was so evidently taken without a quorum
that Mr. Thurman aptly illustrated the decis?
ion of the presiding officer that there was a
Suorum with the story of Richard Brinsley
heridan and Charles James Fox, who entered
the House of Commons late one night, arm in
arm. Said Charley to Dick: "By all that is
blue, I can't see the Speaker; say, Dick, can
you ?" "See the Speaker," said Dick"why,
I swear it is true, for I see the Speaker. By
Jove, I see two." The gallant and persistent
fight made by the Democrats/especially by Mr.
Thurman and Mr. Casserly, was With no hope
of defeating the bill as a whole, but, as an?
nounced by Mr. Thurman at the outset, for the
reasonable purpose of securing a debate upon
it, which would shear it of some of its most
objectionable features and render it at least
consistent, Every effort failing to secure a
Sostponement of the vote till Saturday or Mon
< ay, they relinquished the struggle ,only when
it was entirely hopeless. The yeas and nays
were called eleven times during,the "right. In
the intervals most of the Senators we're'either
absent or asleep. Fifty-one Senators voted, on*
the final passage of the bilL Twenty-one were
absent during the whole night. Just preceding
the last vote Mr. Thurman said: "Mr. Presi?
dent, I think I hazard nothing In saying that
there is not one Senator in this chamber who
knows what this,bill now is. I see Senators
here who have gone to their homes and-had a
comfortable rest, whil'e others of us have sat
up through the weary hours of the night "I
see other Senators here'who have quietly'slept
on sofas while amendment after amendment
has been made to this. bilL and only aroused
from their slumbers when there was a division
of the Senate, or when their presence was'ne?
cessary in order to make a quorum. Now, the
result is that after the sun has risen this bill is
before, this Senate without one Senator knowing
what it is, and it is here, as the Senator from
Oregon properly characterized it, 'a conglome?
ration of incongruities' and contradictions.'
That is.what it is. Now, Mr.. President, for
the credit of the Senate, for the welfare "of the
country, I do ask that this bill may be commit
t?d to the Committee on the Judiciary, that it
may come out in some respectable shape." .Mr.
Casserly followed in -similar strain. They
might as well have appealed to a drove of stub?
born oxen. The Judiciary Committee had had
enough of this bill. It was then read a third
time and passed by a party vote?43 to 8.
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Political Dts a BiLiTiES.-~The Washing?
ton correspondent of the New York' World
writes as follows: .
Applications for the removal* of political dis?
abilities continue to be received in large num?
bers. In the Senate they are referred to. the
Special Committee on that subject, and in the
House to the Committee on Reconstruction.
Some of the petitioners'admit that they made
a great mistake in taking part against the Uni?
ted States in the late war; but- if Congress
will forgive them they will try to make amends,
and do all in their power to advance the honor
and interests of the country. Others ask the
favor without promising to act better in the
future. Not a few complain that under the
amendment to the Constitution they are de?
barred from holding office under the United
States, and, although they have no official po?
sition in view, they do not like to remain un?
der the ban. Constables, justices of the peace,,
and such like officers, say they were in place
when the rebellion broke out, and continued
therein without interruption. Their hearts
were not in the war, but they yielded to cir?
cumstances they could not control. Therefore
it seems hard that they should come under the
prohibitory clause.
Letters are written to members of Congress,
indorsed by well-known Union men, asking for
the removal of political disabilities. Among:
the petitions presented yesterday was one from
John Anderson, of Rutherford County, N.'C.
who, at the peril of his life, concealed! and fed
Union soldiers as they escaped from Southern
prisons. Mr. Anderson, of his own mere mo?
tion, desires that certain of his neighbors may
be relieved of their political disabilities. Some
of those neighbors; when he was driven from
his home, and was an exile, although they were
engaged in the rebellion themselves,, took him
beneath their roofs and kindly fed and con?
cealed him. He desires now, as a return for
their kindness, that their disabilities be re?
moved.
False Education?Class distinctions in
American society, defined by the amount of
money possessed by individuals, have of bite
formed a feature of comment by the press of
the country in discussing the subject of false
education. Sons and daughters are brought
up with extravagant tastes, false notions of
respectability, and without proper preparation
for filling useful and remunerative places in a
work-a-day world. Fathers are overworked^
and overburdened with care and anxiety to.
maintain their families in luxurious idleness,
and a style which does not permit any prepa-.
ration for the future, By-and-by the over-,
task**!, premature broken man dies*, or meets
with reverses which he has net energy left to
rise above. Then comes the collapse. The.
false position vanishes when poverty appears.
From helpless, ignoble dependence on the hus?
band and father, in aflluence or its simulation,
the family are reduced to a wretched depen?
dence on the cold charity .of a world which
cares not a fig for their antecedents, and really
values them only according to their market
value as workers.
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Table Talk.?You will find that a great
deal of character is imparted and received at
the table. Parents too often forget this; and
therefore instead of swallowing your food in
sullen silence, instead of brooding over your
business, instead of severely talking about
others, let the conversation be genial, kind, so?
cial and cheering. Don't bring disagreeable
things to the table in your conversation any
more than you would in your dishes. Forthis
reason, too, the more good company you have
at your table the better for your children.?
Every conversation with children at your table
is an educator of the family. Hence the intel?
ligence and the refinement and the appropriate
behavior of a family which is given to hospi?
tality. Never feel that intelligent visitors can
be anything but a blessing to you and you;-*..
How few nave fully gotten hold of the fact
that company and conversation at the table are
no small part of education J
? Why cannot a deaf man be .legally. con?
demned for murder? Because the law says,
a man cannot be rondemWd without a bms
ing.