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HOYT & CO., Proprietors. ANDERSON O. H., S. 0., THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1872. VOLUME VII.?NO. 48. From the Keowee Courier. Decision ef Judge Orr on the Tax La ir. Whitner Symmes vs. Louis Wernecke.?Com? plaint for Possession of Heal Property. This was an action to recover from the De* fendant a house and lot situate in the town of Walhalla, and described in the complaint, sold at public auction, by the County Auditor L. B. Johnson, 13th June, 1871, to satisfy taxes assessed against the Defendant, and which had not been paid, amounting to $113.91, The Plaintiff became the purchaser at the sum of $113.85, and received the proper certificate of such purchase from the County Auditor. Pos session was demanded by the Plaintiff, and Defendant refused to deliver up the>same. The assessments made by the Auditor, with penalty for non-payment, for the years 1868, 1869 and 1870, amounted to $113.91. The property as? sessed for these years, was 1200 acres of land in White Water Township, 970 acres of land in Tugalo Township, and two lots in Walhalla, one or! which is the subject matter of this suit The taxes on the two lots in town amounted to $13.65, to which add penalty $3.41, and costs $9.00, makes the sum due for taxes on the town lots, only $26.06. The Fi. Fa, was for $113.91, and it embraced not only the taxes, &c., on the town lots, but also $87.85 for the real estate owned by the Defendant in Tugalo and White Water townships. Defendant's only homestead and place of residence was on the lot sold and now sued for by Plaintiff. Before the sale the Defendant and Doyle went to the office of the Treasurer and proposed to pay all of the tax, penalty and costs on the town Jots, amounting to $26.06, as already stated; the officer declined to receive that part of the tax and release that property, and insisted that the whole tax Bhonla be paid. A few days prior to the Auditor's sale, to witj ou Saleday in June, having previously levied and advertised, the Sheriff sold both the tracts of land to satisfy Fi. Fa.'s in his office?ono tract of 600 acres for $99.00, the other of 490 acres for $80. The Sheriff, on the day of sale, announced that the purchasers of the several tracts would be liable to pay any past due taxes. The proceeds of this sale were applied to the Fi. Fa.'s in the SherifFs office against Wernecke, bnt no part thereof to the taxes past due on these lands. On the second Tuesday of June, to wit, the 13th, and eight days after the sale of real es? tate of Defendant in Tugalo Township, upon which $87.85 of the $113.91 had been assessed, the Auditor proceeded to sell the house and lot?homestead?of Defendant* to satisfy the assessments made in Tugalo and White Water Townships and the two lots in Walhalla, though Defendant, previous to sale, had ten? dered to the Treasurer the full amount of as? sessment and costs on the lot on which his homestead was situated. Tbe results were^ that all of the real estate of Defendant, not included in his homestead, was sold, and the proceeds applied in satisfac? tion of the Fi. Fa.'s against him in the Sher? iff's office, and that his homestead was sold by the Auditor to satisfy taxes, not upon that lot alone, but upon other tracts of land which Defendant owned, and upon which he had no homestead. The County Auditor, in his evidence, stated ? that the assessmcuts were made on the several tracts and lots of land in separate columns for three years; also, that he advertised for sale the town lots in Walhalla and the several tracts of land owned by Defendant Was the sale a valid one, and does the cer? tificate of purchase by the Auditor entitle the Plaintiff to immediate possession of the lot Bned for? The A. A. 1868, page 59, Sec. 108, provides, "That the County Treasurer, &c, that &c., shall offer for sale, at public auction. each tract, parcel or lot of real estate described in the advertisement aforesaid, on which the taxes, assessments and penalties charged there? on shall not have been paid, &c. * * * * And the Treasurer shall continue such sale, from day to day, until each tract, parcel or lot of real estate described in said advertisement, upon which the taxes, assessments and penal? ties shall not have been paid shall be sold or offered for sale." In Sec. 76, same Act, the County Auditor "shall proceed forthwith to determine the sums to be levied upon each tract and lot of real property," &c. .In Sec. 75. Each County Auditor shall make out lists, &c, "so arranged as that each separate parcel of real property in each town spip, other than city or village property, shall be contained in a fine or lines, opposite the names of the owners," &c, and "so that each * parcel or lot of real property in towns or cities shall be contained in one line," &c. In Sec. 61, same Act, it is made the duty of the district assessor to make out from descrip? tions furnished by the County Auditor, "a cor? rect and pertinent description of each tract and lot of real property in nis district," &c., and for that purpose may require papers, orders, surveys, &c., and "he shall, in all cases, from actual view and from the best sources of infor? mation within his reach determine, as near as practicable, the true value of each separate tract and lot of real property in his district," &c. He shall note in his plat-book, separately, the value of all houses, mills and other build? ings, &c., on any tract of land, &c.; also, "the number of acres of arable or plow land, mead? ow and pasture land, and number of acres of wood and uncultivated land in each tract. In Sec. 79, same Act "When the taxes, assessment and penalties charged against any parcel or lot of real property snail not be paia on or before, &c, "a penalty of 20 per cent, thereon shall be added," &c, &c; and if not paid, "shall be collected by the sale of such real estate," &c. These provisions of the several sections of the Act or the Legislature clearly indicate and require that the assessment on real estate shall be made upon each several tract and lot of land owned by the tax payer. Under these circumstances, is the sale made by the Auditor valid, add does his certificate give the purchaser, Symmes, a good title for the land sold by the Auditor ? We think not. See 24th Maine, 283; 13th Pickering, 492; 21th Maine, 386. "The sale must be according to the parcels and descriptions contained in the list, and the other proceedings, especially, must conform to the list" In Pitkin vs. Yaw, the judgment was against 8 ten acre lots for an aggregate gum?two only, were sold and the sale was held void. 13th Illinois, 253. In Willey against Scoville, 9 ten acre lots were assessed en masse instead of severally; the sale was a several one for the tax due upon each lot, and it was held void. 9th Ohio, 43. See also Walling ford against Fisk, 24th Maine, 386. In that case tbe Court said : "The legislature were careful that, so far as it could be done, each parcel of land should be exclusively holden for tbe tax with which it was charged ; that no unnecessary inconvenience should arise from advertising and selling in gross different par? cels of estate in which different interests then exist; that ou a redemption of the title con? veyed upon such sale, each individual might obtain his own hind by the payment of the tax thereon, and the expense arising from the sale, thereby avoiding the disputes which would grow out of a claim for contribution, where one tract was burdened with the taxes upon itself and others also." 13th Pickering, 492: "JEach right number of lot or division must be advertised and separately sold at pub? lic auction." It is also held that the fact that, the several lots, tracts or parcels belong and are assessed to the same person does not dispense with the law or excuse a deviation from it. The law contemplates a sale in legal sub-divisions and will not tolerate any act which tends to create confusion in the land systems of the States and the United States, and destroy the identity of land known to the law only by metes and bounds. Shimmin against Inman, 26th Maine, 228. Where several parcels of land belonging to the same person are separately assessed, each parcel is liable for its own specific tax and no more. Donahoe vs; Richerson, 21st Mis? souri, 420. The lien created by the statute of this State is upon each tract for its own tax, and it can? not, therefore, be sold to satisfy tax due upon the others. See Hayden vs. Foster, 13th Pick? ering, 492. Where twenty-two distinct parcels of land owned by one individual and situate in the same town, were valued and taxed sepa? rately, but one of them was sold to pay the tax upon all of them; the sale was held void. In this case the Court says : "So numerous and various are the collateral, derivative and dependent interests in estates which are liable to taxation to one common owner having a general property, that it would be attended with the utmost inconvenience, and produce a great confusion of rights if the whole tax could be charged upon one estate." See also 24th Mississippi, 431. In the case of Corporation of Washington vs. Pratt, this question arose under the statute, "Whether, where several lots belonged and were assessed to one person, &c., it would be lawful to sell one of the lots to pay the taxes due upon all or each lot, would be liable only to be sold io pay the tax doe on itself?" To which Judge Johnson replied: "This ques? tion, thus stated, docs not admit of a general answer. That each lot stands encumbered with no more than its own taxes, and the lien upon each is several and distinct." In discussing the general imperfections of the tax laws and the titles made under them, Blackwell, in his treatise on tax titles, says : "As things now stand, a tax title is no title* at at all. Out of the numerous sales made under the acts of Congress between the years 1800 and 1818, not a single one has been sustained ; and not exceeding ten under tho laws of the several States, out of at least twelve hundred which have found their way to the Superior Courts of the country." The conclusion, therefore, is?1st. That the statute of this State requires each lot, parcel and tract of laud to be returned, listed and assessed separately. 2nd. That the lien for taxes attaches to each lot, parcel or tract. 3d. That the Defendant, Wernecke, on tendering to the Treasurer the tax due on lot 35, his homestead, was entitled to have had that lot or parcel discharged from all liability on the Fi. Fa. 4th. That the balance of the taxes as? sessed against him should have been collected out of the sales, or otherwise, of the lands upon which the remainder of the assessments were made. It is, therefore, adjudged that tho sale made by L. B. Johnson, Auditor, is void, and that the certificate issued by him to the Plaintiff, Whitner Symmcs, is a nullity. It is further adjudged that Complainant pay the costs of the case. JAMES L. ORR, Judge 8th Circuit. 20th May, 1872. In Favor of a Short Campaign-.?The Columbia Union talks sensibly about political conventions and a short campaign in the fol? lowing manner: We hear it rumored that in several counties cf the State many of the aspirants for office are exceedingly auxious to nold the county conventions for the nomination of county offi? cers and members of the Legislature, early the coming month. This, it seems to us, is noth? ing less than political madness. It is the height of absurdity to talk about a political campaign extending through five months of the year. As we have already said in relation to this matter, six weeks are amply sufficient to dis? cuss every political question which can possi? bly arise. And besides, the poor people who are compelled to labor for their daily bread can ill afford to spare the time to attend polit? ical meetings, when they should be at work attending to their crops. Every day taken from their labor in attending such meetings is just so much ready cash taken from their pock? ets, not overburdened with the needful. In our judgment not a single convention to nomi? nate county and legislative officers should be held until after the State Convention has met and made the nominations for State officers. After this has been done, there is then ample time to hold congressional and county conven? tions. Long campaigns demoralize and de? range the whole labor system of the State, and entail upon the poorer classes, the ones who can least afford it, a loss of thousands of dol? lars in the aggregate, with no corresponding benefit to any one save the office seeker. We earnestly entreat the Republicans throughout the State to lend their efforts toward putting off these conventions until the latest possible moment. The State Convention should not be called before the last of August, and county conventions not sooner than the first or second week in September. North Carolina Invention.?Dr. D. II. Murphy, of Wilmington, N. C, has patented a new implement, which is a combination of the harrow, chopper and plow, and intended for the cultivation of cotton and Indian corn. The choppers are constructed on the revolving lan, are three in number, and are attached to riving wheels. When the harrow is in opera? tion, or other necessity requires it, the choppers can be easily dropped out. In working it, ei? ther one or two horses can be used as may be found most practicable. ? The latest invention comes from Dela? ware. A man down there, having heard that the earth revolves at the rate of 1,000 miles an hour, has arranged a plan of going up in a bal? loon and remaining stationary while the earth is permitted to slide away beneath. He thinks that by this means he can reach California in a couple of hours merely by shooting up from Wilmington in a balloon, and then dropping down again as soon as the Rocky Mountains aro observed to go past. He has the whole thing arranged now in perfect order?the bal? loon, and the place to start from and so forth? so that the scheme cannot possibly fail, and all he wants to make things complete is something to tie the balloon to, in order to hold it still while up in the air. ? Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please, The Republican Party of South Carolina. A day last month was celebrated in Beaufort as the anniversary of the formation of the Re? publican party in this County. Anniversaries always suggest a retrospect. Let us glance at the promises and anticipations of four years ago, and then look to see how they have been fulfilled. The young party of 1868 resolved upon a vigorous campaign against the abuses fostered by the pro-slavery spirit which had so long ruled the State. It determined upon an honest, economical but liberal government of the people by the people. Education was to be encouraged; the children of those kept in ig? norance for the conservation of slavery were now to be furnished with free schools; every encouragement was tobe extended to those de? siring to own land; taxation was to be equal? ized and all thij people were to bear its t)ur dens; integrity, morality and competency were to be the qualifications for office; all distinc? tions of class and color were to be swept away ; l the moral, material and politicai standing of the people was to be elevated by freedom and equal rights. In fact a political millenium was looked for, and South Carolina was to ex? change her bad eminence, as the hot-bed of treason and slavery, for one of loyalty, good government and prosperity. How have these expectations been realized ? How have these promises been made good? Are the people educated ? Let our schools closed for half the year and languishing for means the other half, answer. Are the people elevated to a higher moral plane ? Let our thousand grog shops be taken as an evidence of moral purity. Have integrity and capability beeu the qualifications most sought after in filling offices ? Let the state of our finances be the reply. Have our rulers redeemed %hc State from violence ? Let martial law and United States soldiers, the keepers of peace, tell the story. Have the burdens of taxation been equalized? Ask the merchants who are paying licenses to State, County and Town. Undoubtedly the Republican party has been a God-send to individuals. Some who never earned a dollar by honest labor have been lifted to high places and now roll in wealth. Some whose impudence and reckless folly should at once have consigned them to merited contempt have seized upon the stations of statesmen. Utterly without shame, devoid of any ability save cunning, destitute of personal or political principle, they have thus prostituted the no? blest political organization of any age. Who have been the greatest sufferers from this dis? regard of promises, this neglect of sacred du? ties, this wilful perversion of the designs of the people? It is not the merchant, whose en? terprise has been dampened; it is not the ban? ker, whose just expectations of the profitable employment of capital have been thwarted; it is not the great planter, whose lands have be? come a burden to nim. No I None of these are 1 truly the greatest sufferers. To find these, we j must seek the cabins of the poor; in the freed man's hut, where he almost longs for the flesh pots of Egypt; in the children growing up in ignorance; in the youth corrupted by the li? cense and excess born of political chicanery, will be seen the true victims of the mismanage? ment and shortcomings of our party. . But there is reserved a yet more serious evil to be borne chiefly by the same class. It will be found in the loss of confidence on the part of the great body of the people of the United States in the capacity and willingness of the colored race to select suitable rulers and pro? duce a commendable local government. That confidence was born of earnest desire. At one time it seemed that the very life of the country depended upon the virtue and fidelity of the colored man, and the experiment of universal suffrage seemed to be the only panacea for our ? many ills. The feeling that this experiment has failed is spreading with such rapidity that unless checked soon by a change in the course J of our party in the South, it will create a reac? tion fatal to the rights and privileges of the f colored race. The enemies of that race arc alert to take this tide of feeling at its flood. For years they liave been apparently inert and hopeless. This is only a part of their game. They have watched with intensest glee the ful? fillment of the. r predictions of the bad results to spriug from negro suffrage. They willingly bear their present ills, nay, gladly bear them, though ostentatiously grumbling; for, in every act of fraud, every waste of means, every in? crease of debt, every job of extravagance and knavery, they see the weapons with which to overturn all that has been secured to the eman? cipated race.?Beaufort Republican. Cotton Adulteration.?We learn from private and public sources that serious com Shunts are made in the English manufacturing istricts of the adulteration and false packing of American cotton. The evil is increasing to quite a considerable extent, and is by no means limited to isolated cases, such as would warrant tho favorable interpretation of accidental in? voicing or careless handling. A letter from a "choked cotton spinner" affords a fair illustra- j tion of the evils complained of. "Lust week I bought cotton showing no sand in sample ; on arrival at the mill the outside?, of the bales were found equal to sample, and passed. To my astonishraont the loss in first process was 11 per cent., where it should have been 5 per cent.; and on inquiry of the mix? ers I found that the interior of the bales had been so dusty and sandy that they could with difficulty remain in the room while mixing. Cannot our Manchester Chamber of Commerce take the subject up, or say the Liverpool Asso? ciation of Cotton Brokers ? The above case is no isolated one. This week, in a delivery of cotton, I found half the bales in a similar state, but being wiser this time, sent them back to Liverpool." We direct public attention to this subject in the earnest hope that it may lead to a prompt correction of the evils complained of. Our leading brokers and the Cotton Association should investigate it, and take such action as may tend to fasten the responsibility for unfair dealing on the guilty parties. It takes only a few such cases of dishonest sampling to fix a stigma on the general reputation of American merchants that is wholly undeserved. Apart from all consideration of the morality of trans? actions of this kind, it is to be observed that nothing can be more damaging in a pecuniary sense. The consumers promptly detect the imposition, and in their future purchases they make deductions to cover all risks of losses by adulteration, and in this way iunoccnt dealers may be forced to suffer for the guilty. Some years ago, similar complaints relative to the [>acking of East India cotton?which arose, mwever, from ignorance in handling and pre Earation, rather than from intentions of dis onesty?forced down the price of the staple, and thus led to a correction of the practice. It is to be hoped that in this case it will be sufficient to direct the attention of the cotton interests to the subject in order to secure a prompt redress.?New York Bulletin. ? A California obituary: "Thedeceased was a talented man of romantic nature. He placed the but of his gun in the fire while he looked down the muzzle and departed beuco spontane? ously." Lieu. John B. Gordon calls a Radical Sena j tor to Account. The following pungent letter from Gen. John B. Gordon has been addressed to the Hon. John Scott, United States Senator from Penn? sylvania : New York, May 20. Sir: My attention has been called to some remarks made by you in the United States Sen? ate on Friday, the 17th inst., in which you allege that "General J. B. Gordon, of Georgia, was among the organizers and earliest leaders" of the Ku Kiux. Not satisfied with tho prompt denial by two of your brother Senators, you sought, in furth? erance of the political object which is apparent throughout your remarks, still to impress the idea that "General Gordon refused to tell all he knew upon the subject," and you affect to believe that I had concealed facts within my knowledge for dishonest purposes. It is not for me to contrast my motives, my honor or integrity with yours, but your persis? tent reiteration in your place in the council chamber of the nation of a statement already stamped as a falsehood demands some notice from me. You cannot be ignorant of the fact that I distinctly stated in my testimony that I knew nothing of any such order as "Ku Klux," save what I have seen in the newspapers; that I had belonged to an organization of gentlemen, the nature of which was that of police for the preservation of the peace in the disorganized state of our society; that there was no politi? cal idea in it; that it had never within my knowledge called a meeting of its members; that I had never seen or heard of a disguise in Georgia except those worn by two captured robbers, who were members of and fit repre? sentatives of your own political party as it ex? ists in many portions of the South, and these two, I believe, are now in the Georgia Peniten? tiary. This is my impression as stated in my testimony before" the 'investigating committee in Washington. If your vision, sir, had not been distorted by prejudice, which I respectfully submit is un? worthy the high position you hold as a repre? sentative of a great nation, you would have seen upon your Southern tour what every hon? orable Northern mau who goes amongst us sees, viz., that whatever crimes have been com? mitted in the South are the direct outgrowth of the wrongs perpetrated by the infamous State governments you have set up over us. I challenge your denial of the followiug facts: Whatever apprehensions were felt at the cessation of the war for the peace of society and the safety of citizens, in consequence of the overthrow of our local governments, the . disbanding of an array suddenly made paupers, and the emancipation of a whole race of slaves, these apprehensions were all soon allayed. The kindliest relations existed between the two races; peace and an observance of law were everywhere found. And never, sir, until your carpet-bag governments, through the fears and cupidity of the poor deluded negro, had embittered him against us, and by his aid and yours had robbed our treasuries, plundered our corporations, blighted our agriculture, blasted our hopes, and hung debt like a mill-stone about our necks?never until then, and until the administration of law became a mockery and political subserviency a passport to Exec? utive clemency for crime, was the peace in the South ever broken or ill will engendered be? tween the races. And it is this diabolism you would continue in the South. Like the tormentor in the Span? ish bull-fights, you continually fling the bloody flag in the face of the negro, and goad the white man to desperation with the bayonet, that the inevitable conflict may furnish the ex? cuse for the perpetuation of your despotism. I pray that the American people may rebuke this spirit in the coming elections, and let the reign of constitutional government be once more inaugurated. But be that as it may, I shall pot permit you by my silence to bolster up the fortunes of a political party by thus dragging my name into notoriety, without asking you to carry also the responsibility of the wilful falsehood you have perpetrated in the effort. I am, sir, very re? spectful! yours, J. B. Gordon, of Georgia. Swallowing Gkeeley.?The following is from a speech by Major Wm. E. Nelson, at the Decatur, Illinois, Democratic mass meeting: It is" truly refreshing to note the late growth of respect of Grant partisans for the Demo ' cratic party as a party. It amounts almost to veneration. Their solicitude for its interests is getting to be immense. They kindly propose its course of action for it. They say to us, "Now is the time for the Democrats! If ever you had a chance, now is the timel You ought to ruu a straight ticket, by all means 1" They ask us, *'Are you Democrats going to let a faction, a few sore-heads?calling themselves Liberal Republicans?swallow the Democratic party?" Now, gentlemen, I want to answer that ques? tion by putting one or two to my interrogator. I want to ask nim : "Did you ever see a sardine swallow a whale ?" If he says he did, then I want him to describe the process, and tell where the sardine began on the whale when he commenced swallowing; whether, like a man, he commenced at the head, or slipped arounu and commenced at the tail ? And, when he has told me how it was done, then I want to ask him if the sardine, after it had swallowed the whale, didn't have a good deal of whale in it?if it didn't, in fact, look a good deal like a whale itself? They ask us again: "Can you Democrats swallow Grceley?" I confess I am somewhat out of practice in this swallowing business. I haven't swallowed anything that tasted like a President of the United States for nearly twen? ty-four years. I remember that, in 1848, I managed to get down a Major General of the United States army and a horse; he was a white horse, too?they called him "Old Whitie." Having been so unaccustomed to tho thing, I arti not altogether confident of my swallowing capacity, and don't want to say now that I can swallow Urcclcy, nor do I want to say that, with a liberal shore of Democratic encourage? ment and assistance, I could not, November next, swallow an old editor and something white?Bay an old white hat. ? A sculptor was engaged to carve a monu? ment and select an epitaph for a deceased man? ufacturer of fireworks. He saw this inscription on the tombstone of a celebrated musician, "He has gone to the place where only his har? mony can be exceeded," and thinking it was a very neat thing adapted it to his purpose by changing one word, aud carved on the monu? ment: "He has gone to the place where only his own fireworks can be exceeded." ? The Joliet (111.) Republican has the fol? lowing at the head of its column of reading notices: "Some men are born mean ; some men achieve meanness; aud some have meanness thrust upon them. The first class take their county paper without the intention to pay for it; the second class take it a year for nothing and then refuse to take it out of the post office; and the third class won't subscribe for it be? cause generous neighbors loan them copies." 1 From the Associate Reformed Presbyterian. Anderson and Concord. Mr. Editor: We Lave just returned from a visit to Concord, in Anderson County. It is our first visit to that part of the country. Ac? companied by one of our senior theologues, Mr. J. B. Muse, we set out on Friday afternoon on the up-train of the Greenville Railroad, and after a few hours of moderate traveling, we landed at the village of Anderson, where we were met by J. B. Watson, a merchant in the village, Mr. Robert Stevenson, an Elder in Concord church, and Robert Moorehead, who would be styled by some writers, "a committee of reception." . We were favorably impressed with the ap? pearance of the village. It has its usual quota of churches?an Episcopalian, a Methodist, a Baptist and a Presbyterian, of the latter of which Eev. Mr. Frierson is the pastor. An? derson has a lively trade, and does a brisk, and, we presume, a remunerative business in cotton, dry goods, grain and groceries. It buys and ships more cotton than any other station or market on the Greenville Railroad above Co? lumbia, excepting Newberry, and of course gives a good price, there being fifteen cotton merchants. Twenty-five per cent, of the corn, flour, 'dry goods, groceries and fertilizers are sold over in Hart, and in the adjacent counties in Georgia, and thus Anderson comes in com? petition with Athens for the trade of those in? termediate counties. Among the several indications of enterprise with the citizens, we noticed near the depot the erection of a large tannery, which, judging from the start it makes, promises to be a supe? rior structure. Here the Greenville Road proper terminates, and the Blue Ridge to Wal? halla begins. It effects its passage through the village by a deep cut, spanned Dy bridges at points where it intersects the streets. There is quite a number of attractive resi? dences in this place, high and airy, and sur? rounded by decorated grounds ana tasty en? closures. The late Judge Whitner resided here, and Hon. J. D. Ashmore, once a member of Congress. Judge Orr resides here. But we are digressing. Furnished with a conveyance, we repaired to the house of Robert Moorehead, three miles north of Anderson, and within a few hundred yards of Concord church, where our Presbyte rial appointments made it necessary for us to be, ana remained there long enough (two nights and a parr, of two days) to satisfy us that our host possesses the elements of a Chris? tian gentleman. We also availed ourselves of the opportunity of enjoying the hospitality of Mr. Stevenson, ihe Elder, on Saturday after? noon. We were surprised to learn that Concord is one of the oldest churches of our order. That congregation was organized some seventy-five years ago, having for its first minister the Rev. Peter McMullen, and afterwards the Rev. Ir? vine, the Rev. J. C. Chalmers, and the Rev. Wm. L. Pressly. There was at one time a con? siderable membership, but at present the num? ber is quite reduced. Emigration accounts for it, in part. There is a remnant yet who are not ashamed of. their testimony. Their house of worship stands in the midst of a forest of majestic oaks. Such was the desire of the peo? ple for preaching, that nothing short of two sermons on Saturday, and two on Sabbath, in addition to the dispensation of the Lord's Sup? per, would satisfy them. They gave good heed to the words that were spoken. The house was filled on Sabbath with attentive, orderly hear? ers, but not crowded, in consequence of the neighboring churches having preaching in them. As Concord has always been associated with Generostee, and as their members are in? terested in each others sacramental ordinances, we noticed that several Generostee people were in attendance on the occasion, at the distance of some 17 miles from their homes. Of these, we take the liberty of mentioning Mr. McCon nell, the well known elder of that congrega? tion. At the conclusion of the services on Sabbath afternoon, we took our leave, with the convic? tion that the ordinances ought to be dispensed to this people as often as practicable. Agreeably to promise, we spent Sabbath night with Mr. J. B. Watson and his family, who seem to possess the art of entertaining their friends and making them feel at home. He and his family are located in comfortable quarters near the public square, and in an in? teresting part of the town. Accompanied by our host to the depot on Monday morning, we took our departure at 7 o'clock on the down train. And th us endeth our first visit to An? derson and Concord. J. B. The South as a Manufacturing Power. ?It is not often, that John W. Forney has any? thing good to say of the South, cither present or prospective; hence the followiug view of our future under the influence of combined production and manufacture of the great sta? ple, cotton, may be regarded as candid as it is true. He says in the Philadelphia Press, and we desire to call to it special attention : Hitherto, it is said that less than one-fifteenth of the cotton crop has been worked up in the Southern factories. Yet water power and coal abound in the cotton districts and if the prop? er effort were made skilled labor and capital could be obtained there as easily as elsewhere, and by thus brinning the factory and the plan? tation together a lArge item in the cost of trans portation is saved. The time is coming when one-third, if not one-half, the cotton of the South will be made iuto yarns, at least, in that section, and, when it does come, what has been the poorest portion of the country will become the richest. Stim? ulated by the greatly increased home market for food," grain farming and grazing will then 1 be no less profitable than cotton growing.? Thus there will be a practical diversity of in? dustries with its resulting prosperity, and there will be no longer an excuse for exhausting and abandoning to a worse than their primitive wildness wnole tracts of land. Let but the Southern people generally be stirred by this industrial awakening, eschewing the rancors of politics, except to see that neith? er demagogues nor carpet-bag adventurers mis? represent them, and a glorious future awaits ?an era of wealth, business activity, peace and good feeling, which shall consign to a perpetual oblivion the distraction, desolation and bitter hatred which resulted from the war. ? When Philip Henry, the father of the commentator on tue Bible, sought the hand of the only daughter of Mr. Matthew in marriage, an objection was made by her father, who ad? mitted that he was a gentleman, a scholar, and an excellent preacher ; but he was a stranger, "and they did not even know where he came from." "True," said the daughter, who had well weighed the excellent qualities and graces of the stranger, "but I know where he is goiDg, and I should like to go with him." And they walked life's pilgrimage together. ? "Prisoner, why did you follow this man and beat and kick him so shamefully?" *'I am sorry, your honor; I was a little drunk, and thought it was my wifo^ , I From the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel. Mr. Toorllees, Speech?Injustice to Greeley. Many persons in the South seem to believe that Mr. Voorhees' statement as to the partici? pation of General Grant in regard to the Ku Klux bill is in accordance with the facts of the case. Mr. Voorhees, in his late speech, said: "I am told that this Administration has been cruel to the South. Sir, it has simply executed the laws which the Cincinnati nominee asked this Congrest. to enact. That is the simple difference between them. The one is an exec? utive officer, bound by his oath to execute the laws of his country. He has merely executed bad laws which another man, who had no oath on his conscience, demanded." We are greatly surprised that a politician of Mr. Voorhees' standing and experience could have been betrayed into so great an error. The truth is, if Mr. Greeley ever asked for the pas? sage of the law aud advocated its passage, it was not until after Gen. Grant had sent a spe? cial message to Congress, statiug that from in? formation in his possession "? state of affairs existed in the South which rendered life and property insecure, and the carrying of the mails and the collection of the revenue dan ferous." Mr. Greeley believed Gen. Grant to e an honest, truthful man. In this, we con? fess, he made a great mistake. Gen. Grant was in a situation to be well and truthfully in? formed as to the condition of Southern affairs, and as he had stated in an important official communication that life and property were un? safe in the South, we suppose that Mr. Greeley gave him credit for honesty and sincerity in making that most solemn charge against the people of the South. We do not pretend to justify Mr. Greeley for his alleged support of the Ku Klux bill. Our conviction is, that a great wrong was done, not only to the South, where the act was to be ex? ecuted, but to the cause of constitutional gov? ernment throughout the land, and that no ne? cessity would justify the enactment and en? forcement of such a law. But we simply say that Greeley's offense iu this matter was not so great as Grant's. The latter had taken a solemn oath to support the Constitution of the United States, and violated that oath in asking for the passage of the act and in enforcing it after it had been passed by a subservient Con? gress. Grant's official position enabled him to know that no necessity for the restraints and penalties of such a law was required, even if it was constitutional. Greeley only endorsed the statements of Grant, who he believed was tell? ing the truth. But we should not have referred to this mat? ter at all but for the fact that improper use was being made of Mr. Voorhees' erroneous state? ment. To show that we are right in thus char? acterizing Mr. Voorhees' attack ou Greeley, we publish the full text of Grant's special Ku Klux message, that our readers may judge for themselves whether Grant "merely executed the Ku Klux bill because by his oath of office he was compelled to do so:" To tlie Senate and House of Representatives: A condition of affairs now exists in some of the States of the Union rendering life and proper? ty insecure, and the carrying of the mails and the collection of the revenue dangerous. The proof that such a condition of affairs exists in some localities is now before the Senate. That the power to correct these evils is beyond the control of the State authorities, I dp not doubt. That the power of the Executive of the United States, acting within the limits of existing laws, is not clear. Therefore, I urgently recommend such legislation as in the judgment of Congrest shall effectually secure life, liberty and proper? ty in all parts of the United States. It may be expedient to provide that such law as shall be passed in pursuance of this recommendation shall expire at the end of the next session of Congress. There is no other subject on which I would recommend legislation during the present session. U. S. GnAOT. Washington, D. C, March 23,1871. Advice to Young Men. A word to young men on the cultivation of moral principles is never out of place. AU young men need line upon line and precept upon precept They do not sufficiently value the golden excellencies of moral principles. Young farmers, mechanics, professional men, all feel that a thorough acquaintance with their calling is the one thing needful to their suc? cess.. They think if they know enough, know1 all about their business and its relation to the world, little else is needed to carry them brave? ly onward. How mistaken I This is well?1 this is necessary. They must have knowledge, must know all about what they propose to do. They cannot be too well informed on all im? portant subjects; cannot be too eager in the pursuit of all useful knowledge. But they must, above all this, have a real love for moral principle?must love honesty, generosity, pu? rity, rectitude ; must feel that nothing can be weighed in the balance against a good charac? ter, nothing can pay for a moral blemish, nothing can compensate for a feeble perception of right. They must have a hearty dread of everything wrong, must eschew evil as a poison, a serpent with deadly stings. They must feel that integrity is as essential in a man of busi? ness as in a minister of the gospel. They ought to know that moral excellence is the best stock in trade that a young man can in? vest It pays the best per cent, brings the largest dividends ; is the best insurance against failure; outlives misfortune and makes a man friends, staunch and firm when banks fail, stocks run down and common credit is far be? low par. To be mean, trickish, deceitful, un? principled, untrustworthy, is to lack the best essential of success in business, in social posi? tion, in personal worth, in all respects. The man who will violate any moral principle, is scarcely to be trusted in anything, without considerable discount The young man who wavers, truckles, prevaricates, deceives, gives way to temptation, falters in duty, will always be regarded with jealousy. Tho way is to live square up to the mark of right, to stand on moral principle as the only platform. In my youth, I knew a few staunch young men, whom nothing could seduce, who loved virtue for its own sake. In all respects they were patterns of moral excellence. They have all met with the best of success in life. Wherever they have settled they have become centres of large circles of influence and action. The world has <?iven them honor, position, and some of them fame. I knew many who were unprincipled, base corrupt Some a little?some very much so. They have all failed. Not one has risen to stay up. They have floundered and fluttered, and some for a little while have seemed to be successful, but in the end they have all come down. Some have got rich, but the world de? spises them. Some nave a name, but it is tar? nished with the blood of innocence. An odor follows them. So it is the world over. Invio? lable moral principle is tbe beat stock in trade. Let every man cultivate moral power. Let him struggle to resist every temptation, and grow to be brave and strong in the possession and practice of every virtue.?(blman's Rural World,