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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,