Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Obltaery not ice a, aad ell aettere Uterine to to the booeit of any eoo, or* regarded ai Advert leeaeate. * roc Tub aotrntratt matrtw, * 0)?nder. TVwwefafad/root Virgil, kg - P*4ngngH4." Through greet Libya* elliva Rumor goee The* who**, a mm olhyr evil aw if tor dwtm! Ah* active. Ilvoe; acquit lag etreagtb by ? motion, erowa E*?t> imU at Aral, through fmr; uow ap poars IW feat co load?her head aid clou da aha rear*. ? JBjr. aagry foda laeaaaad, 'lia said, to bar. tha Earth, At aider to the giaat eon*, gara birth. All asritt of feat, winging destruction forth. A horrid tnoaater, groat; wboaa feathers smooth, Aian; oloeplaae eyes ooneaal, forsooth Aa many tongues and ears, aad babbling ? mouth. la f loom, by nigl.t, aba flies, 'twixt earth aad sky, Kor glr?a to bdmy sleep ? restless eye: 'Poo housetop nigb, by day, aha aiu a iffOr frightens siiies great, from turrets high ? Anaoanalng frua, the propagated /fa. Oreenstile, Juno hh. FOB THE SOUTUEKJf XXTEKTBUE. t * j Taxes. Jfeisr*. Editor*?It is evident from the present assessment ot the property of the State that we are, as a Stato and a people, poor ; or else fraud and deception have been in a great measure practiced iu giving in the returns. It is ery probable that there is more troth in the latter statement than in the former, for all reflecting men know that if the property had been returned at its tiuo or any way approximating its valne, a ranch larger amount than one hundred and fifteen millions would hare been realized. In order to make up the deficiency in the amount, that all intelligent men in ? the State kuow should have reached at least two hundred millions, the State Board has iu their judgment thought proper to double the value of all lands and real estate. This may seem hard for those who have fairly and honorably made their returns at the true value; but iu all cases where wrong has been inflicted on a porty by this double valuation, it will and can easily be remedied by furnishing the State Audfhoe with the proof. In many counties in the State, it the present valuation had been trebefed It would not then have itsj fetia vnlna Tf I a ok. VnVIIVM w MW ? u I ?IV. AV Id solutely necessary ani in the interest of all taxpayora to have a fair and fnU valuation of all the property of t&e State. It is essential to the credit of the State. If the cause of so low a valnation of the property was not generally known amongst financial circles, it would certainly tend to depreciate ^the bonds of the 8tate? but the valuation of 1*67 proves to all sensible men the absurdity of tbs idea that the property is not here. Under all the circumstances, it is better than could have been expected ; for It has been tanght and preached by designing political demagogues that taxation wonld amount to confiscation. As the Cblie mind baa been prepared eo ig for high taxes, I hope it will not prove eo buthensome as it would otherwise have been ; but it ia eiaar to all who deei**e t? know, and tbe figures and facti can be furnished when eailad for, that the present Government ii not responsible for mere than halt of tba present tax. We have, be qOeatbed to us in oar extreme poverty, a debt of six millioni made by the eld oligarehy of ths Stale, and tbe prlncipel portion expended la enterprises that havs never been of any practical utility to tba State; the interest has been nogioeled, and no provision# mads for it tor three ytars past, swelling the amount of interest to be pro aided by direct taxation in tits r retool jeer to about half miik will deebtlecs be oonaidered by some that six millions is a Mi small debt for tbe State to owe, ti . which is true, contrasted with the 01 debts of other States. It soems A r impossible for so ttnall a debt to tl ' ppress the people with taxation, tr ' and when the interest post due is in t paid such a result would be impne- tl ? sible. But it is equally impossible !l t for the bonds of the State ever to pi be sold at par as long as the inter* si ' est remains unpaid tor a nninber tfi 1 of years. Mouey can only be oh- c< 1 taincd fur thein at a ruinous dis- ci , count, to be accounted for at some in future day by heavy taxation. So rc to avoid putting the evil day off Tl and bequeathing to others a still b< 1 J t-A. *1 - ft !- ? " j?rger utui lunii we nave inucrii- m d, the appropriation for the pros- L ent year was made mncli larger m than it would have been other- w wisa. By an examination of the 01 County Auditor's books, it will be w seen that the taxable property of th this County will not exceed three fi< and a half millions, another strong p< evidence of onr poverty and ina- gi bility to pay high taxes for Conn- nj ty purposes. Tlio amount of taxes tr for Cownty purposes will very tna- al terially depend upon the amount cc of business that is carried to the n< Court of Sessions in the form ot cc State cases. By tlie present ar- 01 rnngemcnt, it is made the duty of ni all interested in tax-paying to he g< peaceable nnd law abiding citi- pi sens ; and all are so interested, it matters not whether he owns a dollar's worth of taxable property Al or not?if he is is consumer lie paj*s indirectly all taxes. The merchant may complain of high dt taxes as a trick of trade; bnt if so his customer did not pay the tax St nnd a profit on all articles he pur- hi chased of him he would find many to if not all business houses closed, te Now it is generally the case that C the property holder makes the greatest noise over tax paving, te when the whole truth is he is on- ec lv the ftcrcnt of the noor labor incr oj man. lie charges np tlic amount y< on every article of ealo or barter at that it purchased from iiitn. This I] principle was thoroughly tested is! during the late war. The taxes w so continued to increase until it tu seemed at a casual glance that all hi business would be forced to close; et but the whole secret was, that 110 p< factory, no busiuoss man, paid any th tax whatever. When tax was in- w creased it only gave another op- m portnnity for ti e speculator to in- w crease the prices ot all necessaries, and the sequel proves that all tax- R cs levied by the Confederate Gov- ui eminent wero paid by the soldiers fii and soldiers* families. The prin- A ' ciple is tbc same in times of peace or as in times of war. The poor la^ ri boring man in times of pence, who a: works for waires and is comDelled th to purchase from others the neces- ? snries of life, pay much the larg w est portion ot oil taxes. 80 the ar idea that a poor man is not direct- ar ly interested in tax paying is an N absurdity. Work it and twist it w as yon will, tho capitalist will Y make the poor laboring man in U some way pay his tax. All this a< blow and twaddle by capitalists w about high taxes is a perfect farce ; sc the poor laboring man, the con- tc snmcr, ie the one that has the w right to criticise and complain of e< high taxes if any one has; but l? strange to say that this class, the tl actual sufferers, seldom mnrmnr hi it the tobacconists and whisky y< dealers will sell tobacco and whis- w ky at sncb a prico that the con- e: (turner ie not forced to pay the tax. w Then he has the rig: t to elaim that In he has paid tax. If manufacturers ai will reduce their price to a reason- ti able percentage and pay their own hi tax on all manufactured articles, li then we will admit that they pay . a .1.,. *. _:n" uia nirw , 11 nit? iniuivi win wiwu ^ , to charge iii) tax on every ponnd gj i of meat and every bushel of corn te sold to a laborer, then we will ad- e( ; mit that ho alao bear* the burthen fr r of the Government: but until thie q . change it made we defy success- r, 5 fall contradiction in assuming that e1 , the poor laboring man ana con* b< i enmer pays all expenses of the ^ , Government. The points I wish ti t to urge are that all, ricli and poor, c< t are directly interested In taxes, M i the expenses of the Government, n i and tliat County taxes may be ma- b r terially diminished by the feasible * quiet, law abiding disposition of \ all olasses. By a careful examine- Jj tion of all the recent Acts of the I Legislature, it willi b* found that w < i e g le principal portion of the ohjecons to them are not to the Act*, r the spirit and intentions of the eta, but to the source whence ley come. It was frequently retarked by intelligent gentlemen i the State, during the sitting ot ie Constitutional Convention, ist if the Constitution was as are and as perfect in every re>ect as they could desire it to he, iat thoy would vote aga nst it, msidcring the source whence it une; ana very many intelligent en did so without knowing or inding a word of its contents.? i Ins spirit is too often manifested y intelligent men, in sneaking ut ie different Acts ot tne present Mn?lfttnr if ia imnnrnl I IT a/I. Itted that prejudice combined i?h intelligence is more danger- I is to the public welfare than hen ara<>ciatcd with ignorance; le truth of which has been veri- < id in the sad experience of the >ople of this State. But it is i atifying to know that intelligent ! en are beginning to realize the no condition. If the laws, and 1 other nets of public interest, nild be judged, unbiased by prop bee and party passions, with nnrnon sense and justice from io stand |H>int, soon we won Id be litcd as a peoplo for the general >od of all, and thus secure the , rosnerity of the State. J B. IJ. t the White House ? Untimely 1 Deaths. The telegraph announced, a few < iys ago. that while Andrew John- J n, late President of the United i ntes, was at Athens, Alabama, on < s way to Pulaski, where ho was i make a speech, be received inUigeuce of the death ol bis son, ul. Robert Johnson. Andrew Johnson always exliihi d the tendera-t affection l<?r this >n, on whom he had bestowed an ccclient education, llo was a >ung man of superior abilities < id remorkablv oleasant manners. < e lmd been a member of the leg- ] Inturc of Tennessee, and the up I ard path to usefulness and dis- < action lay open and easy before in. One only besetting sin for- < rer blighted all liis bl ight i>ios- 1 jets; be had an uncoutroliable 1 irst for strong drink. The last e heard of hi in previous to the ^ws of his death, he m as some- < here in an inebriate asylum. i The announcement of Colonel < obert Johnson*# decease carries i i back to the White House In the ' rst days of Andrew Johnson's dininistration. Robert was then le of his father's private 6ecretaes. Col. W. A. Browning was < lother. Browning was one of 1 ie handsomest men in the world -tall, muscular, finely formed, < ith an open, pleasing counten* < ?>o aurt a ivuiin1?Tiiiii aa id a skin as fine as Ireland or ' nntnckct gives to the fairest of I omen, lie had graduated at ' alo College, and was a fine b*lU \ ttres scholar, and a man of many i icoinplislunents. He had been < ith Mr. Johnson in Tennessee for ' ivernl years, and went with him > the Volute House. But his stay as of short duration. He receiv1 the appointment of secretary of gation to Mexioo. lie never left te country, however. The same shit which has now carried off rong Johnson did its tatul work ith him more speedily. lie was (treinely popular, and the idol of otnen. Yet we have seen hiin irn from the loveliest of smiles id from the gayest scenes of tes < rity,and quietly remark : M My eart is broken?1 have no wish to ! ve." Mr. Browning was married hen qnite young to a beautiful 1 irl, who lived but a short time at ir her marriage, lie never seem1 to recover, in any degree, oin the shock of her death, n the contrary, tho pain of eepaition seemed constantly to deep- < n and grow more poignant in his i eart. I he last time we met him as in Washington, only a short me before his death. In the >nrse of a brief conversation he lid ; 441 have just parted with the tost beautiful woman in America; ut my heart is buried in my ife's grave and I want to die." Soon afterward, he shnt himself p in s room, and deliberately (WiwlMtkey nntil it killed hiin. At thio beginning of the time of1 bich we speak, another inmate of the White House was Preston King. How jolly he looked and < felt?and how his hearty langh i shook his gte&t, hoary sides ? King, though a mild-mannered ! inan, and a lawyer by education, i had i?een an athlete aid a fighter 1 in his young days, and was always a bit of a dandy, weighing, wo should say, npward of an i eighth of a ton. lie nsed to re- I cuive nt the White Ilouse, arrayed i in whito pnntg and vest, and wear- j ing something like tho ohl-fashioned pump shoe*, highly polished? I bucIi as Prospor M. Wetmore used i to weni' when he called on Sccre- I tary ol State Murcy. i As we have said. Mr. King felt i rorv inllv tlAir 1 I o tt'SO tKn Phac * V? J J* ' -J ?"V?? AAV nwo * I IV A VOidont's other self, and hud things < his own way. lie considered that t he had been snubbed and badly 1 treated by the Seward men, in tho ! election of Morgan to supersede him, when ho had served only one term in the Senate; but now he he was greater than Seward ; for was he not almost as good as President, while Seward was only Sec retary of State 1 Alas I that very elevation to power was the cause of Mr. King's awful and untimely death. IT is influence?his ascendancy?at the White House wus le't to be alto gcthor too great by the jealous and envious politicians dith whose pur noses it interfered. They cunning ly contrived to banish hiin to hon r>rrtble exile, by making him col lector of tho port of New York, an i>fftce for which he had neither taste nor adaptation. Its perplexing, complicated, and harassing duties ? and, we have always thought, the discovery of the trick which ha?l been practiced upon hitn?preyed upon his mind, until his reason tottered and yielded. With tho cunning of a determined madman, he stole away from the friendly keeper who undertook to watch him ; and having jairchnsed a lorize bnir of shot, he tied it Fccarely to liis neck, then took I passage on a ferry boat, and sprang t bom its deck into the North Riv- < t?r. Several months afterward, his c body rose to 'lie surface, and float- 1 I'd a?hore, where it was discover- t id and recognized ; and it was tak- t en to his home at Ogdensburg, and j buried. - t The good old man, who was I steward at the White House then, e una whose face was so familiar to f so many?he too is dead. He was I followed to his grave by sincere i mourners, among whom were the i President nnd his family. When we recall all these, and we think of Old Abe, and of his i darling little son W illie, who yield- i cu u|? mo fuuii^ cpu u jii Hint* house?and wc see the great crowd Burging in and out of the grand receptions of the new powers that be?we pause for a moment to wonder whether the living who are there to-day ever think of those who were there in all the power and pride of state so short a time ago, and who mav now be flitting as unsubstantial shadows among thetn !?N. Y. Ledger. - - I) ATH OF \Vm. It. IIuRTT, EsQ. ? The Columbia PhoBnix, of Saturday, announces the decease, in that city on Friday, of \Vin. It. Huntt, Esq. Mr. lluntt was for many vears employed as clerk in the office of the Secretary of State, and by his admirable business qualities so recommended himself to the Legislature of South Carolina that he was elected first to the office of Snrveyor-General, and afterwards to that of Secretary of < State. During the period of fif- f teen years in which he was engag t ed in the State Department, he also filled the post of Deputy Comp troilorUeneral. Mr. Muntt had ' acquired in his term of service a < large and varied experience. He died a victim to consumption, at the f age of thirty-five. The State has 1 sustained in his death the loss of a 1 good and valuable citizen. 1 ?T ( Bbowwlow publishes a letter in favor of nnivereal suffrage. He 1 says for the Republicans of Ten 1 nessee to continue the restrictive 1 policy when the party everywhere ' else onposes it, is mischievous and ridioulou*. ( A Gfffeaeo paper advises Spragne, if ho wants a rich wife, 1 to pay the- verdiet and marry Atnaadal ' !! a i i . mr. Tn* New Orleans Time* makes the following very signiEcent remm ks in relation to the very able document on Southern luanufac turing by Col. J. B. Palmer, presented to the Memphis and New Orleans Commercial Conventions, by our delegate Dr. ?. H. IleiniUh. We hope the suggeetione will be acted npon, and that we ehall see looming up in onr midst a thon?nnd spindles, spinning to the tnnc jive ns this way our daily broad, llie trne interest of the South is to manufacture her raw material into an element of increased value, to the commercial world, thereby tecuring its own labor and dispell >ui? no uivoning (it fl<'iEir<? 44 According to the able report of 2ol. John B. Palmer, of Sonth Carolina, wbid) was ordered to bo irinted with the proceedings of the ast Commercial Convention, recently held in this city, the Southern manufacturers can now make t arn cheaper than those North by }c. upon each pound of manufac;ured cotton. Yarns can be manufactured and delivered in Europe [it 4 Jc. cheaper than the cotton can be exported and manufactured in Liverpool or elsewhere. These statements are supported by figures, and minute statistics as to ho price of wood, labor, cotton, ind by actual showing of books in iifferent factories. A if ordinary crop of cotton is worth to the South $225,000,000. tVero this cotton crop, however, manufactured into 3'arns, it would give the South $150,000,000 more of reveille. As the matter now stands, he South has ouly 199,772 spin* iles, where the North has 5,848,177. Wero the whole crop manufactured here it would pay to the laborers, chiefly women and children, $36,000,000. It would pn^ibis sum to tho class that arc ordl uarilv non-producers. 4 The foregoing statistics are inJorecd by F. Cogin, Superintendent of the Augusta factory, and hat they deserve consideration here can be no dmibt. The contusion they lead to is that yarn mm pies should bo^ent immediatey to Europe to ascertain, by poeiivc experiment, and in authoritaive form, what the precise margin of difference in prices is. If, tfter consultation with the manuactnrere, dealers and others, reading in Europe, these statistics ire verified, as they doubtless will >e, an impetus will be given to nnnufactures which they could deive from no other source." Tna City of Worms isono of the nost interesting places in Germany connected with the history >f Lutheranism. The great Protestant Congress which assembled here on Monday appears to have seen thoroughly imbued with the ipirit of Luther, and took the same itnnd against the Pope (Pius IX) A'hich the great heretic himself ook against the Pope (Leo X) rhen, 848 rears ago, he appeared ^efore the ?)iet ot Worms, and in he brilliant presence of the Em>eror, the princes and nobles, the church dignitaries, and a great concourse of spectators. As the ipostleo! the Reformation, Luther U that time boldly challenged the authority of the Pope. 80 now, after the lapse of centuries, his followers met to renew the challenge, and uphold thespiritnal independence which Luther then asserted at the peril of his life, Hie magnificent monument of Lit:her which stands in the City of Worms is s leas worthy commenttration of his character than the Congress which has just been held :o re assert his principles. m n # .1 a A _ A in* L/onieueraie monument at Dynthiana, Kentucky, is sail) to be juite a work of art. It is twentywo feet in height, and rests on a zranito pedestal. On the north tide, in bias relief, are the emblematic palmetto brauch and laurel iprig. above a group of guns, iwords, drums and standards.? Die monument is surmounted with s Confederate beneath the bids of which are discloeed the dars and bars. The monnment was made in Italy, and cost $2,250. Small women are noticeable for Lbe greatness of their sighs. Pot too belles together, they rarely chime. A favorite box with the ladies ?^Band-box. - - ???E Are We Co vino to Imttot alisut? I be Now York Round Table discusses the question?" ArO we drifting into Imperialism!**?in this strain : M In plain moth, the age of sensuality, of unchecked corruption, of dense, gross ignorance is coining down on us like night. A free press should have given more notes of warning than it has; but the press dislikes, in a free country, to print unpalatable truth, even whon it discerns such truth, and the inurilftlil I llfit m-nfnaa 'I" J .? - ...wv Viwu 1W 1W3 UU" votion to principle" aro notoriously the ones whose articles betray the most laborious solicitude to catch the applause and flatter tffa prejudice of the greatest nnmbor/ Meanwhile, at what are called our M groat centres," course brutes, who ought to be digging railways or drawing hand carts, lay down the law for the whole community, and by dint of vast wealth amassed under circumstances impossible in any. other civilized country, do"', grade the social tone and spread in eVdry direction an nnbridled rage for pleasures of the ecnscs. Intellectual elevation ' r ambition is scoflfe 1 at, and those who strive to dictate a taste for better things are either hated or despised. Nothing is thought of hht the delighta of the table, of fine clothes, of showy dwellings and equipages? in a word, of physical raptures of every description. If there is at present anything else?whether in the pulpit, in theatre, or in literature?the pill must be gftlod 60 as to appear "sensational." All this is so widely admitted, so shamefully notorious, that its recital is trite enough ; we repeat it merely in elucidation of the subject under discussion. It is impossible,- wheft people think all things of their nodies and nothing of their minds. that either a Democratic or any other pnro form of government can long bo maintained. Unless a great change cornea over American people, it will not be maintained by themselves. They are rushing toward the precipice at railway speed, and the driitfersal corruption that good men deplore, is the prelu lo of a decomposition which is certain fate." ? Tn* New Ttorlc Tri&une says " Our Qbvernment must be republican or despotic, and that a rnlo based on the proscription_cf a full third of file adult males?this third comprising two thirds of the property, with a very large share ot the natural ability, experience and intelligence, wllieh are presumed to fit men tor a responsible participation in politics?is questionably republican. It may ao?nay, it must?in the immediate presence of a formidable rebellion; it cannot be maintained indefinitely after that rebellion has thrown down A?C....I r? ii iis ni uib. v/ur ouuuicru i\cpuuncans are qnite freer irr tellingus what they must have, and how iinpossible it ia they should live under rebel rule ; we tell them, iti turlri;that it is impossibe that we stioald' perpetuate a rule over tfie Sotitb, in which the people of the South,- or any considerable share of tBetn, are denied a voiee. If we should attempt to do itj-we should simply sacrifice our ascendanOV in the North, and they can judge wheie this would leave the liepublicnns of the South. We can do and dare much here for eqnal hdrhari rights. We are a shorn Sampson whenever we shall undertake to argue and insist that a part of the Southern people ought to lie disfranchised and powerless evermore. We know that we can maintain no snch position, and vto ftfd' nowise inclined to attempt it1." . y.v.y A foor man c*me to a minister and begged to be nn married.-'? The minister afl&nred him that it was out of the question, and nrged him to pnt away the notion of anything so absurd. The roan insisted that the marriage conld not hold good, for the wifo was worse than t e devil. The minister demurred, saying that was qnite irtnpoeeible. "No,'* said the poor man, ** the Bible telle ye, that if ye resist the devil, he flees from ye ; but if ye resist her,- she flees at ye." ... The essay on man?a wot*art's attempt to marry him. Tub bread of idleness has been discovered. It is lotting.