The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, March 14, 1872, Image 2
ANDERSON C. H., S. C.
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 14,1872.
S&T* The Governor has appointed Messrs.
John G. Gantt, Wm. A. Glenn and C. P. Rog?
ers as Notaries Public for Anderson Connty.
The House of Representatives struck
out the enacting clause of Mr. Wilkes' bill in
relation- toselling spiriiUrous liquors to habitual
drunkards.
So .- 1 " .
J6f The Governor has appointed Mr. Ed?
ward? Fant and Capt D. L. Hall as Trial Jus?
tice* for Anderson County. The Senate has
confirmed these appointments. i
. JJ?F* An Act to incorporate the Anderson
Farmers' and Mechanics' Association has been
approved by the Governor. We expect to
publish the full text of this Act in our next
issue.
. 9Sf* The annual meeting of the Life and
Tontine Insurance Company of the South was
held in Charleston last week. Wm. McBurney,
Esq., has been re-elected President, and George
E, Boggs Secretary. We learn, that B. F. Cray
ton, Esq., of our town, was chosen one of the
Board of Trustees.
; fia?* Among the recent graduates of the
University of Maryland, School of Medicine,
we observe the name of M. C. Parker, of An?
derson, who returned home last week. Eight
of the graduating class were from South Caro?
lina^ We congratulate Dr. Porker upon his
entrance into the medical profession.
i The trade in fertilizers has been unusu?
ally active in this market, and we learn that
bur farmers are preparing to use a larger amount
this year than-ever heretofore. Messrs. B. F.
Crayton & Sons are the agents for several stan?
dard fertilizers, and we direct attention to their
lew advertisements in this issue.
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The German Sch?tzenfest, always a
gala season in Charleston, will begin on the
22nd of April and end on the 26th. Unusual
preparations are being made to render the fes?
tival attractive to visitO)s, and the railroads are
- expected to issue excursion tickets for one fare,
which will induce many persons from the coun?
try to viaite the seaboard and participate in the
festivities.
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|gr* The fearless and independent corres?
pondent of the Charleston News, not dreading
the wrath of Radical Senators, openly charged
iiOme of them With an Offer to accept a bribe,
Und thereupon Senator Hayne, saddle-colored,
moved that the privileges of the floor be denied
jig ; the aforesaid correspondent. The motion
west over, under the rules of the Senate, and
fthe'next day it was withdrawn. The^lory of
ibis proceeding is not apparent.
19* The Legislature failed to adjourn Tast
Thursday. After rescinding the concurrent
jesolutian to that effect, both Houses agreed
lipon Wednesday, 13th fust., as the proper time
to close up their arduous labors and return to
rbeir beloved constituents. But it is possible
that this action may be revoked, and yet we
Hope to announce positively next week that
the General Assembly of South Carolina has
adjourned sine die.
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[ ?St The Carlisle (Pa.) Herald records the
death, in that place, on the 26th of January
lust of Miss Phoebe Paine, after a long life of
usefulness, and a lingering illness, borne with
Christian fortitude. Miss Paine was the
daughter of an eminent physician of Portland,
Maine, and was widely known as a successful
educator of the youth of her sex. In this ca?
pacity, she resided in Anderson for a number
?f yean, connected with the Johnson Female
University. Her character and usefulness in
this community endeared her to many friends,
and her pupils, now scattered over the land,
wi ii deeply regret to learn that she has passed
away from earth. "Her last hours were full of
expressions of gratitude to her Father above
for having beep permitted to form so many I
pleasant associations on earth, and for the hope
of renewing those ties in Heaven."
; Sale of Valuable Property. j
The real estate known as the Trenholm prop?
erty, within the corporate limits of Anderson
and adjacent thereto, will be found advertised
for sale in this issue. Frazer, Trenholm & Co.
purchased this property from our citizens du?
ring the war, as an investment of Confederate
money. It embraces some of the most eligible
business locations and desirable residences in
this community, and we are glad that the op?
portunity is to be afforded to place this proper?
ty in the hands of actual residents. We regret
that the authorities did not see proper to order
the sale to take place at Anderson C. H., since j
an arrangement of thai kind would be more
agreeable to the large majority of persons de?
sirous of purchasing. But many of our citi?
zens will doubtless attend the sale, which takes
place in Charleston on the 8th of April. For
further particulars, we direct attention to the
advertisement
Death of Mr. John Hurkamp.
The Charleston papers announce the death
of Mr. John Hurkamp, an old merchant of
that city, who was well known in this commu?
nity. Mr. Hurkamp has been seriously ill for
several weekB, from a lingering disease, and
death ended his sufferings on last Thursday.
He was a native of Hanover, and emigrated to
this country in 1830. After sojourning for a
year in New York, he removed to Charleston
and engaged the grocery business. His es?
tablishment, at the corner of King and Broad
streets, was recognized as one of the landmarks
of the city, where he had won an enviable rep?
utation for strict integrity and business hab?
its, besides amassing considerable property.
Daring the war, Mr. Hurkamp brought his
family to Anderson, and identified himself with
this community by purchasing a residence,
which has since availed him as a summer re?
treat from the cares of business in his old age.
His kindly disposition gained him many friends
in our midst, who will cherish his memory with
sincere and unaffected regard, lie died iu the
sixty-third year of his age.
The Validating Act.
Among the most remarkable pieces of legis?
lation, ostensibly concocted by the remarkable
Legislature now in session, none will compare
with the bill to validate all issues of bonds
heretofore made in the uame of the State of
South Carolina. As we understand the sub?
ject, this bill proposes to make good and lawful
the entire amount of bonds heretofore issued,
and estimated as nearly $16,000,000. This is
done without reference to the legality of issues
made within the past three or four years, and
in regard to which the gravest doubts exist in
the minds, not only of the tax-payers of South
Carolina, but dealers in bonds elsewhere; and
it has been openly charged by Radical mem?
bers of the present Legislature that there has
been an over-issue of bonds to the extent of
$6,000,000 or more. In the face of these doubts
and charges, it is now attempted to stamp the
seal of efficacy and legitimacy upon every bond
so issued, and thus deprive the Courts from
settling a question which properly belongs to
their jurisdiction. We put aside the question
of fraudulent issues, for the sake of argument,
and would seriously object to the passage of
such a measure on the ground that the author?
ities of this State have issued more bonds than
is contemplated by the several Acts of the
General Assembly, although the written opin?
ion of Attorney General Chamberlain was their
justification for such issue. That is to say, we
are aware that the Financial Board defend
their action in the premises by declaring that
it was the opinion of the Attorney General, in
contemplation of the Acts under which the
Board caused the several issues of bonds to be
made, that they had a legal right to issue a
sufficient number of bonds to realize the amount
of money specified in the Acts aforesaid. Un?
der these circumstances, then, as it was a judi?
cial question, and properly belonging to the
Courts for adjudication, there was no occasion
for an Act to endorse the action of the Finan?
cial Board, but that rathe * it was imperatively
necessary to bring the question before a Court
of competent jurisdiction, when the Attorney
General and the Financial Board might have
been declared to be right, or else their action
pronounced wrong. We think it clear that
Attorney General Chamberlain is responsible
for the action of the Financial Board, so far as
bonds were issued in the manner above indica?
ted. His astuteness and ability ought to have
prevented hasty and ill-considered legislation,
in the first place, and his keen perception ought
to have foreseen the evil results of such opin?
ions as the Financial Board has indicated were
given them, and upon which they predicated
their action, and added millions to the public
debt. The open, fair and honest view of the
subject is, that the Attorney General, foreseeing
the effect and legitimate results of his opinion
that the Legislature authorized ttfie raising of
so much money, and not the issuing of so many
bonds, was in duty bound to protect the highest
interests of the State by advising against any
further issue, until this careless legislation
might be perfected and tbe consequent evils
averted. We repeat that this is the plain, hon?
est view; and although it may be alleged that
, Mr. Chamberlain is liable to err, being merely
human after all, we think it will hardly be said
that he was not cognizant of the disastrous
effect' upon our State finances when he gave the
Financial Board to understand that the law
did not limit their issue of bonds, and they
were only restricted by the number required to
to make up the specified sum in dollars. It
was too great a temptation to the Financial
Board, of which he was a member likewise, and
it would have been well if he had reflected that
the others were do less human than himself.?
It cannot be doubted that the responsibility for
the action of the Financial Board belongs to
Mr. Chamberlain alone, for the other members
openly confess to an implicit reliance upon his
guidance aud opinions.
But the Legislature, in its wisdom, attempts
to set things right by enacting a bill of the
purport above mentioned. It is conceived that
this will make good all previous issues of bonds,
whether or not any of the bonds were wrong?
fully or fraudulently issued. It is modestly
styled "a bill relating to the bonds of the State
of South Carolina." In the House, on Wednes?
day night last, this bill was taken up from the
table, where it had been conveniently placed,
we suppose, to await an opportune moment for
its consideration, which would be only long
enough prior to the adjournment to effect its
passage through both Houses. Mr. Dennis, of
upholstery fame, immediately called tbe pre?
vious question on the entire bill, and the call
was sustained, thereby preventing any discus?
sion of its merits or exposure of the infamous
intentions of its authors. Enough members
had doubtless been secured, in the usual man?
ner, to insure the speedy run of the gauntlet it
was destined to encounter. A gallant minority,
including many Republican members, made
such resistance to the measure as it was possi?
ble under the operation of the previous ques?
tion, and called the yeas and nays upon every
section. But their efforts were futile, as might
be supposed, except that they placed on record
their votes against the bill, and in the end
manfully protested against this new and crown?
ing iniquity. The very manner adopted by its
friends, in cutting off all debate and silencing
opposition to the extent of their ability, plain?
ly demonstrates the character of this legisla?
tion. We might look to the Senate, as a con?
servative body, to defeat this measure, were it
not that the past record of that body augurs
unfavorably in this respect, and we are confi?
dent that the" friends of the Validating Act
would never have risked the bill, unless they
were sure of its passage. We conclude our
! comments by attaching the earnest protest of a
portion of the minority of the House of Rep?
resentatives, in which the impropriety and im?
policy of this legislation is so plainly set forth
that ho who runs may read. This protest was
drawn by Mr. Wilkes, of Anderson :
Upon passing the Bill relating to the bonds
of the State of South Carolina to its third
reading, we vote "No" upon every Sect; >n and
line, for the following reasons:
Under this Bill a tax of six mills, in addi?
tion to all other taxes, must be levied to pay
the interest on the amount of .State debt as re?
ported by the Treasurer. This will swell the
total tax levied upon the people to twenty
mills, exclusive of the tax levied under the li?
cense law and stamp Bill, which can, and we
fear will, be passed by the same instrumentali?
ties that secured the passage of this Bill. This
tax amounting, in the aggregate, to twenty-nine
mills, which our people cannot pay, and which
cannot be necessary for any legitimate purposes
of an honest government. Besides, it the '
btocks and bonds heretofore issued, the total'
amount of which is an unknown quantity, were
issued in conformity to, and by the authority
of, laws already passed, then they are already
legal, and need no further law to validate them.
If they were not issued by authority of law,
then they should not be made legal by the pas?
sage of this Bill. A demand for a Bill to de?
clare the bonds and stocks already issued legal
is a clear confession thafc all of then are not
legal, which is further confirmed by the provi?
sions of the Bill, which exonerates the officers
who issued them from all legal responsibility
for any violation of law and good faith of which
they may have been guilty. Hence we solemn?
ly protest, in the name of the people, against
the passage of a Bill which we hold to be un?
necessary, unjust and burdensome, and to the
people we will appeal directly. -:
Signed by W. D. Wilkes, J. E. Hagood, John
C. Sellers, L. Williams, S. S. Crittenden, G. W.
Taylor, T. R. Bass, Joel Allen, F. A. Miles, 0.
M. Doyle, J. L. Shanklin, John Wilson, J. L.
Wofford, D. R. Duncan, R. M. Smith, J. E.
Dusenbury, B. G. Yocum, A. P. Holmes.
As an evidence of the means employed to
effect the passage of this measure, we give an
extract from the Columbia correspondence of
the Charleston Courier, in which the circum?
stances are fully detailed, as follows:
"Of all the swindles that are chargeable to
the Legislature of 1871-72, the crowning act
of iufamy was perpetrated last night, in the
passage of the Bill known as the Validating
Bill. As was very truly remarked by one of
the gentry who delight in the name of lobbvist,
and whose avocation consists in the purchas?
ing of legislative votes for a pecuniary consid?
eration?'there are decent swindles and there
are down right thefts,'- which being translated
into the vernacular, means that this is the
highest and most unblushing fraud that was
ever perpetrated
"In order to secure its passage, it was found
necessary to lay out a certain amount of hard
cash. The members could not, of course, see
its merits until the merits aforesaid were pro?
duced, and hence the Bill lay on the calendar
for nearly six weeks. During all this time tbe
engineers of the measure took advantage of the
opportunities, and laid their schemes. The
South Carolina Legislator is somewhat eleva?
ted in his own eyes, and; several parties held
out for high figures. One member, who is en?
dowed with an unlimited amount of cheek and
as little brain, asked as high as $10,000 for his
vote and-influence, and the others, taking the
cue, put corresponding figures upon their votes.
These figures the Bill men were not willing to
give, and consequently there was a stand
off.
"But the money market became tight, and
the Bill men, biding their time until the favor?
able moment arrived, renewed their offers, and
tbe bargain was closed at prices ranging from
$200 to $1,000?the latter figure, I am told, be?
ing the highest price paid."
mt 9 ?
Judge Graham.
This gentleman has been the victim of a
strange proceeding. Recently, in the case of
Redding vs. South Caroli na Railroad, the ver?
dict of the jury in Judge Graham's Court was
not satisfactory to certain Radicals, and straight?
way there went up a howl to the Legislature
against the Judge. It appears that E. B. Sea
brook, Solicitor of the Firet Circuit, and editor
I of the Charleston Republican, informed Jervey,
Davis and other members of the Legislature
that Judge Graham had been guilty of mal?
feasance and corruption in office, in the case
above specified, and induced these members to
introduce resolutions in the House of Repre?
sentatives looking to action against the Judge.
These resolutions were finally referred to the
Judiciary Committee, with power to send for
persons and papers, when Judge Graham and
other officers of the Court, together with a
number of witnesses, were summoned before
the Committee. The report of the Committee
shows that Mr. Seabrook, upon being called
upon to testify concerning the grave allega?
tions, completely exonerated Judge trraham
from the charges submitted by Mr. Jervey, and
which formed the basis of the investigation.
Under these circumstances, the Committee
could do no less than report to the House that
they had been called upon to investigate sim?
ply nothing, and that the whole thing was a
farce. The report, which was ably drawn by
the Chairman, W. D. Wilkes, Esq., has been
adopted by the House of Representatives, and
thus Judge Graham has been fully vindicated
in every respect.
The part taken by Mr. Seabrook, however,
does not relieve that gentleman so satisfacto?
rily. As members of the House, Jervey and
Davis have reiterated their declarations that
Seabrook gave them the precise information
which was contained in the charges aforesaid,
and that ho testified falsely before the Com?
mittee in denying their allegations to this
effect. These members were quite severe upon
the Solicitor, and denounced him in the most
unequivocal terms. The feud between them
will doubtless be carried into the local politics
of Charleston, all of the parties concerned be?
ing Radical office-seekers and aspirants.
Minerals of Upper South Carolina.
To the Editor of the Anderson Intelligencer:
Supposing that a communication of this kind
would be of some interest to our scientific
friends, I submit with pleasure the following
particulars in reference to the mineral resour?
ces of our State. I am lully aware that publi?
cations of this nature are by many considered
tedious,-but when the important matter leads
to the development and new discovery of such
minerals as have recently come under my ob?
servation, I feel confident that at least some
few of our fellow-beings will be interested, if
only to exclaim, "Yes I I often imagined that
we possessed mineral wealth ;" and it is there?
fore, that I feel compelled to make known, for
the community at large, the great importance
of these rich minerals, which have heretofore
been considered of such little value.
Corundum I have found in inexhaustible
quantities, which alone is a mineral of immense
vaiue, it being principally used for .manufac?
turing spindle pivots, etc., for watches. The
Garnet, another valuable and important pre
| cious stone, I have also discovered in large beds
j and have succeeded in finding even the vein
itself. Most of the crystalized specimens are
Rhombon-dodekahaedens.
Gold is plentiful, as you probably have known
for some time, and if properly managed, can
be easily and very advantageously worked.
Magnetic Iron Ore of tiuperior quality also
abounds in rich veins, and which will eventu?
ally prove of the greatest value to our State as
a means of manufacturing Bessemer steel and
steel-rails.
I might mention many other minerals, such
as Mica, Copper, Manganesic, Lead, Serpentine,
Asbestos, etc., but not wishing to make my
letter too tedious, I will postpone for a later
day. Should any of our friends, who are in ;
favor of progress, development and civilization, i
be desirous of further information, 1 will be j
pleased to furnish them with more satisfactory '
details. A. C. L. 1
Our Washington Correspondence.
Washington, March 9, 1S72.
Senators Howe, Conkling, Edmunds and
Frelinghuy9on took occasion yesterday to make
civil service reform the pretext for beslobbering
Gen. Grant all over with fulsome praise. They
thought, no doubt, that after all the printers'
ink that has blackened him of late that a thick
coat of whitewash was necessary and they gave
him four different layers. The Administration,
through its henchmen in the Senate, has de?
clared against civil service reform. Nothing
will be done with the question this session, as
the Radicals rather like the present condition
of thing.?.
the japs.
The President will give a grand dinner to
the Japanese Embassy Wednesday next at the
White House. It i3 said that the Japs think
Mr. DeLong, our minister to Japan, a humbug.
DeLong contends that the Japs are high strong
and don't like Ihe common folks, with whom
they are brought into contact, to "come betwixt
the wind and their nobility," and that when
they go to Europe and rub only against purple
and fine linen, tbey will, in classic phrase, "go
back on" the American rusticusses, each one of
whom is a sovereign born, but of which fact
the poor Japs arc ignorant, and they will make
valuable treaties with Royalty and leave us out
in the cold. Now, from this statement of the
effervescent DeLong, I am very much inclined
to agree with the Japs, that he is an arrant
humbug.
apropos.
The eternal fitness of things or good man?
agement was displayed in the galivaut of the
great excursionist, Ulysses, to Philadelphia, on
Thursday, to attend the marriage of Edmund
Biddle to the daughter of Tony Drexel, the
rich banker of that city, as he was just in time
to be present at the banquet given to his newest
purchase and fast friend, John W. Forney, on
Thursday evening at the Academy of Music.?
The political jockeys who have Grant in train?
ing for the Presidential race next fall, tried to
restrain him from going to Philadelphia, bnt
he kicked over the traces, and was anything
but kind and gentle under the attempt to curb
him. His backers and trainers think he has
considerable mule in his composition. It is
said that when he goes to the Quaker City to
see ye ancient mariner, Borie, or some other
wealthy fossil, he prefers to sit with his legs
under their mahogany, to hand-shaking with
the vulgar herd, and in consequence he is
losing votes among the hard-fisted Radicals,
who think one man as good as another, even if
he is not a blarsted aristocrat, of the Union
League school. Grant is such a vulgar fellow,
I am astonished that the refined and cultivated
associate with him; but I suppose the glamour
of the position he occupies makes his failings
and faults seem virtues. Alas, poor human
nature 1
haven't got time.
It will be remembered that a short time since
Hon, J. B. Beck, of Kentucky, after three years
of opposition from the Radicals in Congress,
succeeded in having a resolution passed re?
quiring the Secretary of War to furnish infor?
mation regarding the sale of arms, ammunition
and war material since June 30,1865, by whom
sold, to whom sold, the prices paid, disposition
of proceeds, &c. The Secretary says that to do
so will take from one to nine months time to
complete the work, and will cost about !?32,000.
If Congress will make the necessary appropria?
tion to employ extra clerical force, he will try
to comply with the terms of the resolution.?
Should Congress agree to make such appropri?
ation, it will take some time under nine months
to do the work, just time enough to tide over
the Presidential election. Mr. Beck knows
that there are several screws loose, which, for
the political health of the Radical party, it is
not desirable to have tightened just now, and
hence the practical application of the trite but
homely saying, that "there arc more ways of
killing a dog besides choking him with butter."
The frauds and robberies more than hinted at
in the War Department may be brought to light
before the Presidential election in 1876.
sale of asms.
The testimony of General Belknap, Secretary
of War, and General Dyer, Chief of Ordinance,
before the packed Senate investigating commit?
tee, prove that arms and ammunition were de?
livered to agents after the Department had
been informed that they were buying them for
France. So universal has been public censure
of the dirty, small dodge of packing the com?
mittee that out of very shame they have invited
Carl Schurz to be present and examine wit?
nesses. "The Mess" may escape being made a
party to a big job in the sale of the arms,
which I doubt, but one thing certain, we, as a
nation, will be made to occupy the very unen?
viable position of howling over the outrage
which John Bull committed on us by permit?
ting private individuals to fit out vessels to
prey on our commerce during "our late unpleas?
antness," and w"hilc howling over his naughty
behavior our Government v as selling arms, in
clear violation of the neutrality laws, to France
to be used against Prussia, and with a duplicity
truly Radical the Administracion slangwhang
ers were blubbering tears over the sorrows of
the Fadcrland or exulting over her victories. I
fancy when the acts of this administration are
pleaded before the Geneva Conference as pallia?
tion or justification of her course in the Ala?
bama case by England, there will be a few cuss
words uttered by our commissioners about "the
mess."
A Deseuved Tribute.?The Wilmington
Journal pays the annexed handsome compli?
ment to the Hon. J. B. Beck, of Kentucky,
which wc take pleasure in endorsing as fully
deserved:
There is no man in Congress from either sec?
tion who has endeared himself so much to the
good people of the entire South as has Mr.
Beck. His Congressional career has been
marked by ability, dignity, devotion to the
Constitution and the Union, which makes him
a worthy successor of that great Kentuckian,
Henry Clay, whose old district he so worthily
represents. There has been no step in the
Congressional policy of reconstruction against
which he has not lifted up his voice and en?
tered his protest. He has fought with signal
ability and boldness every move made by the
dominant party to humiliate and punish the
South. His report in behalf of the minority
of the Committee upon the alleged disorders in
the South is one of the ablest, as it is one of
the boldest, vindications of our people and
section against the charges preferred by the
President and his minions for party purposes.
Democratic Taxation.
The rate of taxation in North Carolina for
the coming year is less than four mills on the
dollar, or 38J cents on every huudrcd dollars'
worth of property. This tax is levied by a
Legislature overwhelmingly Democratic, and
is in striking contrast with the Ilepublcan ad?
ministration of affairs in South Carolina.
$3$* It is reported that a young lady not a
thousand miles away, having inadvertently
dropped her thimble, requested a young gentle?
man near by to give her "that diminutive ar
gental cone, convex on its summit, and semi
perforated with symmetrical indentations."?
The young gentleman fainted.
? Capt. W. E. Karle, has been appointed
Assistant United States District Attorney by
the President. t
ITEMS-EDITORIAL AND OTHERWISE.
? Mr. James R. Heise, a well known citizen
of Columbia, died last week.
? R. M. Wallace, Esq., has been confirmed
as United States Marshal for South Carolina.
? Horace Grceley receives a salary of $15
000 per annum as editor of the New York Tri?
bune.
? Hon. Daniel W. Voorhecs declines to be
a candidate for Governor of Indiana at the next
election.
? ? Louis Napoleon has cleared $320,000 by a
recent sale of property owned by him in New
York city.
? Hon. Carey W. Styles, formerly of Edge
field, has been elected to the Georgia Senate
from the Tenth District.
[ ? The Governor has appointed Dr. Otto A.
Moses as Inspector of Phosphates, under a re?
cent act of the Legislature.
? Gen. Phillip Drayton Cook, of Fairfield,
died recently in that.county. He was a mem?
ber of the Legislature during the war.
? The Newberry Herald is shortly to be is?
sued as a daily or tri-weekly, to meet the ne?
cessities of increasing business in that thriving
town.
? Mr. Henry Sparnick, editor of the Aiken
Tribune, has been suggested as a proper person
to represent the new couuty of Aiken in the
State Senate.
? General Wade Hampton has accepted the
invitation of the Frederick (Md.) Agricultural
Society to deliver the address at the exhibition
in October next.
? Ex-Gov. Holden has retired from the
Washington Chronicle, and has been offered
the appointment of Minister to Peru, but de?
clines the proffered honor.
? It is reported that the ex-Prince Imperial
of France will visit the United States next sum?
mer. He is now sixteen years of age, and is
said to speak five languages fluently.
? The Columbia Fhomix regrets to state that
emigration from South Carolina still continues.
Nearly every train from the up-country brings
quite a number of families, destined for the
West.
? Mr. Timothy Hurley, having turned to
good account his six dollars a day and mileage
lor the Legislative session of 1871-72, is going
to build thirty-two new cottages on Arsenal
Hill, Columbia.
? A number of Liberal Republicans in Ten?
nessee, headed by ex-Senator Fowler, have is?
sued an address urging the representation of
that State in the Cincinnati Liberal Republi?
can Convention.
? The New York Sun says: "Scott's gang
of plunderers in South Carolina have passed
resolutions iu favor of Grant's rcnomination.
Lowrey's gang in North Carolina have not yet
taken formal action on the subject."
? Mrs. A. H. Brown, of Steel Creek, N. C,
has been cured of consumption by the use of
Kerosene oil. She took ten drops every night
before going to bed, in three tablespoonsful of
water, using a pure article of Kerosene.
? An analysis of the Comptroller General's
report, which has been recently published,
shows that the amount of bonds and stocks
outstanding on the 31st of October, 1871, was
$16,171,374, against $9,865,904 reported one
year previous.
? Marcus Erwin, who owns all the Saluda
River at Erwin'a Mills, proposes in the Abbe?
ville Medium to make clear titles to the Lau
rens side, with fifteen acres of land, to any
manufacturing company which will come and
improve the water-power.
? The State Works at Greenville were pur?
chased at public outcry on salcday last by
Alex. McBee, Esq., for $2,825. It is under?
stood that the City Council will take the prop?
erty at the sum named, as Mr. McBee has of?
fered to relinquish the bid.
? Incendiary fires are of frequent occur?
rence in the city of Greenville. The mania is
confined to burning stables, as no less than four
have been recently destroyed by fire within the
corporate limits. A white man was arrested
last Thursday night under suspicious circum?
stances, immediately after one of the fires oc?
curred.
? Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut,
has been elected President of the Centennial
Commission, appointed to make arrangements
for the great celebration in Philadelphia on
the 4th of July, 1876. Hon. James L. Orr is
a member of the Executive Committee, although
it is stated that he cannot or will not qualify as
Commissioner.
? The Washington correspondent of the
Atlanta Constitution calls attention to the fact
that the Senate bill that was passed through
the House last week, upon motion of Gen.
Young, aud which relieved the disabilities of
over 3,000 persons iu Georgia and other South?
ern States, must again pass the first named
body before becoming a law, as it was original?
ly passed by that body during the last Con?
gress.
? The Japanese Embassy, embracing dis?
tinguished persons from the Empire of Japan,
has arrived in Washington and received a for?
mal presentation to President Grant, who wel?
comed them in a speech of considerable length.
The Japanese visit the United States on a tour
of observation, and express anxiety to learn of
our civilization and life. They were snow
bound for several weeks in coming from San
Francisco over the Pacific Railroad.
HYMENEAL.
MARRIED, on Wednesday evening, at the
residoneo of Alex. Oliver, Esq., by Rev. Ed?
ward It. Miles, CoL J. TOWNES ROBINSON,
of Abbeville, and Miss EUGENIA A. MIL?
LER, of Lowndesville.
SEED OATS.
FOR sale by
W. H. NARDIN & CO.
March 14, 1872 36 1
BUGGY FOR SALE.
FOR salo, a good new Buggy, cheap for the
cash. Call at once.
M. HELDMANN.
March 14, 1872 36 2
Public Lecture.
PROF. D. S. McFARLAND proposes to
Lecture in tho Court House on FRIDAY
Evening next, March 15th, at 7 o'clock. Sub
jectr-"MUSIC." The public generally and the
ladies eapcdully are invited to attend.
March 14, 1872 36 !?
Administrator's Sale.
IWILL offer at public! oi:tery, at Anderson
Court House, on Saleday in April next, tho
Choses in Action belonging to the Estate of
John Hix, deeeasod. Terms cash.
JAMES WEBB, Adm'r.
March 11, 1872 36 2
NOTICE.
THE Corporators of the "Suite Savings and
Insurance Bank of Anderson, S. C," to
wit: James L. Orr, Josse W. Nortis, O. H. P.
Fant, 1). M. Watson, William Perry, Jacob
Burriss, W. S. Sharpo, B. F. Crayton, John
Martin, John R. Cochran, John B.Sitton, F. E.
Harrison, W. B. Watson, B. D. Dean, John
Wilson and J. W. Harrison, aro requested to
meet at Anderson Court Houso on Friday, 22nd
instant, at 10 o'clock, a. m.
March 14, 1872 38 2
NOTICE.
HAVING gave notice -during tho month of
January to all persons liable to make
Returns in tlie Judge of Probate's Office, and
but few having complied therewith, I hereby
give notice that if Returns aro not made by
those in default very soon, they may look out.
for tho Sheriff, who charges for lust vinits in
such cases. I wish to do my duty and comply
with the law. Then, come up, if you wish to
save cost, and do vours. What I sav I mean.
A. (>. NO RUTS.
Judge of Probate.
March 14, 1*72 36 3
THE MARKETS.
Anderson-, March 13, 1872.
Sales of cotton for the week ending to-day
89 bales. Prices this afternoon range from 20
to 20i.
Bacon, 10 to 12J; Corn, 1.00 ; Peas, 1.00 to
1.10; Flour, 810 to ?12.
What Dyspepsia may End In.
Indigestion is not dangerous, say the faculty.
Perhaps not in itself, while it remains mere in?
digestion ; but look at the consequences to
which it may load, and often does lead when it
becomes a chronic disease. A spark of firo is
a small thing. A pressure of?the foot will put
it out; a breath will extinguish it. Yet it may
fire a powder mill, or kindle a flame that will
consume a city. In like manner indigestion
may produce gastritis, cancer of the stomach,
congestion of the bowels, apoplexy, liver dis?
ease, and many other dangerous maladies. Is
it not wise, then, to check it in the germ?
Nothing is more clearly and indisputably es?
tablished than that Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
will eradicate dyspepsia in all its stages. The
true policy, however, is to extinguish it in tho
first stages with this wholesome, powerful and
infallible tonic and alterative. It is easier to
quench a spark than a flame, and it is easier to
cure dyspepsia v*hen it is first developed, than
when it has maae headway by neglect, and be?
come complicated with other'ailments. There
is not the shadow of a doubt that the Bitters
are as directly antagonistic to dyspepsia as wa?
ter is to lire. There are thousands of cases on
record proving this fact. The remedy is safe
and agreeable. All the liquors of commerce
prescribed as stimulants leave a sting behind.
But the sting is taken out of the spirituous ba?
sis of this great remedy by vegetable medica?
tion, and, moreover, the stimulant thus medir
cated is of exceptional puritv. Of all tonics
taken as safeguards or remedies for fever and
ague, bilious remittents, and other epidemics,
it it the only one that can uniformly be depen?
ded on.
?r. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., solo
proprietor of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, has
for over three years offered through nearly ev?
ery newspaper in the United States, a stand ing
reward of $500 for a case of Catarrh in the head
which he cannot cure. That he has treated
thousands of cases and had no claims presented
for the reward, from any one who lias made.*
thorough use of his means of cure,- is strong
and conclusive evidence that he possesses sure
means of curing this loathsome disease. Thw
Catarrh Remedy is sold by all druggists,'Or
sent by mail on rociept of sixty cents.
Progress of the Revolution.
A new light dawned upon the world with the
introduction of Plantation* Bitters twelve
years ago. Drastic purgation went out?resto?
ration and renovation came in. The eyes of
the people were opened to the great fact that
the way to cure disease is to strengthen and
support its victims, not to place them at its
mercy by depriving them of the little strength
they havo. It soon became evident that as a
means of infusing vitality into the feeble sys?
tem, regulating the secretions, curing indiges?
tion, and reforming a bilious habit of body;, no
medicinal preparation then known was at all
comparable to the new restorative. Since then
hundreds of.attempts have been made to .rival
the Bitters. They have all failed, and the
Grand Revolution in medical treatment,
which was commenced in 1860, is still in pro?
gress. Nothing can stop it, for it is founded on
the principle, now universally acknowledged,
that physical vigor is the most formidable an?
tagonist of all human ailments, and experience
has shown that Plantation Bitters is a peer?
less invigorant, as well as the best possible sale
guard against epidemic diseases.
Make Home Attractive.?Nothing adds
more to the handsome appearance of a house
outside, and to its cheerfulness inside, than
good clear window glass, and bright-colored
ornamental glass at the sides and over the tops
of tho doors. The first lets in all the bright
warm light of the sun, while tho latter admits
the light at tho same time that it shuts off the
view of prying eyes. The host French and
American glass, both plain and ornamental, as
well as doors, sashes, blinds, balusters, newels,
mantels, &c., are to be had of Sir. P. P. Toale,
No. 20 Hayne street, Charleston, S. C.
BIO.OO,
T71ROM this timo until further notice, I will
JO insert a full Uppor or Lower Set of Arti?
ficial Teeth for tho sum of TEN DOLLARS,
that cannot be excelled for beauty and excel?
lence of adaptation. Persons who would de-?
siro to be benefitted by this liberal reduction of
prices should call early. These are my oflice
prices.
Dr. J. W. GURLEY,
Anderson C. H. "
March 14, 1872 36
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SPRING TRADE
CROQUET.
Complete sots at 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88 to $20
a set. r
FISHING TACKLE.
Rods, Hooks, Lines and Baskets.
BASE BALLS.
All the Loading kinds at Reduced Prices.
GUNS.
Double and Single Barrel Guns.
PISTOLS.
The Popular and approved kinds.
AMMUNITION.
Of every description.
N. B.?All of our Croquet, excepting the $3
set, have Bradley's Patent Sockets for the Brid?
ges, a great addition.
Dealers in Sportmen's Goods and others in?
terested, should send for our Price List of
Jointed Fishing Rods, tho best and cheapest
Goods in the Market.
P0ULTNEY, TRIMBLE & CO.,
200 W. Baltimore Street,
BALTIMORE. MD.
March 14, 1S72 40 ly
3,000 lbs. Pure White Lead,
PAINTS, of all colors, dry and in oil, 1 and
2 pound cans; Damar, Copal, Japan, Fur?
niture, Spirit and Coach Varnish; Boiled and
Raw Linseed Oil and Turpentine; Machine,
Tannen*and Train Oil; Kerosine and Pratt's
Astral Oil?pure; Glass, Putty, Glaziers' Points
and Putty Knives. For sale by
POPE it SIIARPE.
March 14, 1872_31_? '
Fresh Arrival by Steamer.
R<fc G. A. WRIGHT S Gold Medal Pcr
. l'umery and Soaps, in new and beauti?
ful stylos. For sale by
POPK ? SHARPE.
March 14, 1872 81
Hair Restoratives.
HALL'S Hair Restorative; Lyon's Kathai
ron; Mrs. Sarah A. Chevalier's Lifo of
the Hair; Burnett's Cocoaine; Ayers' Hair
Vigor; Chalfant's Coco Cream ; Mrs'. S. A. Al?
len's Zylobalsamum; Magnolia Balm. For
sale by *
POPE ? SHARPE.
March 14, 1872 30
Spanish Float Indigo,
IT'xtracts of Logwood, Aniline Dyes, all col?
li ors ; Madder, Concrns, Arc. For s.ilr> bv
POPJ3 & SHARPE.
March 22,1S72