The tribune. (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, October 20, 1875, Image 2

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THE TRIBUNE. . 1,1 I PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, AT , * BEAOFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA BYW.M. FRENCH, |A TAPER FOR T11E PEOPLE. Independent in Politics. TERMS) One Year, ..... |1 SO Ix Month. 1 Oo ADTERTISINC RATER: r Square, first Insertion . . . 91 OO Per square, second insertion, . 1 OO Hpocl&t contracts made with yearly advertiser.. Address all communications to THE TRIBUNE BEAUFORT. B.C. A evctnm n C 6,\nAin ?a. Iffvwiu v/? cpvv>4V pajlUVUb UUUC1 v.hich specie shall Irom a considerable jvirt both of the actual money of the country and of the reserves for the payment of such proper promises as may be issued,is our platform. The variations in quantity of convertable paper currency is, that the cuncncy should fluctuate, in the same way that it would fluctuate, if it consisted solely of specie; tending to become scarce when gold is i xported and plenty when it is imported, precisely as the currency would do if it c msisted of coin only. Our paper is at ? discount now not because there is any doubt-about the solvency of tho government but because the amount of paper is in excess of its ^immediate convertaliility. But these causcB must act and leact inevitably upon each other and cause become effect. No room being left for metal to circulate, aa ostensahly convertable paper currency issued in ?xccss, must compel those who issue it to suspend payment. Honcc our views of a sound currency, are upon a solid lmsis of actual metal and Damr currencv convertible into coin on demand. In order to make our currency more valuable we must either contract our paper money or provide more extended uses lor it. This latter is the key note to some wholesome measures of financial refoim and a restitution of our depreciated paper to its nominal paits to be accomplished by fostering and restoring our agricultural interests so as to develop new uses for its employment. The Charleston New s publishes serious ch&rgcB against J. Douglas Robertson in connection with the school books recently selected for use in thi9 State. If these charges can be proved to be true it is the duty of the State board to annul any ton taaCts that uSvo utcu made, and we_nopc to aee Gov. Cha mberlain, who is on the lioard, take some steps to ascertain the truth of these reports and if found to be true to see to it that the newly selected books be refused. The Governor has enough to account for now without being mixed up in this affair. We hope Mr. Robertson can come to the front and give a satisfactory explanation ot his connection with these charges that may relieve him of the odium under which he must suffer unless he can show the charges to be false. A correspondent of the Charleston News, in Columbia, writes a? follows: Four dray loads of stationery for the use of the coming legislators were delivered at the Btatehouse this morning.. 1 t-ay for the use of the legislators, for it is well known, and openly asserted by every honest man in the Statehonse, that the Legislature as such can not properly use more than one fifth of the mass to-day received. Each load required four mules to remove it from the depot to the Statehouse. Among other packages I noticed two labelled "perfumed Office Paste l" There is a malicious rumor afloat that the mucilage for the backs of the stamps and the flaps of the envolopes was sweetened before applied; but I doubt this. There is bat one other fact of note to be mentioned in this connection, which is, that this is not all of the .supplies ordered. Borne one suggests that they propose perhaps to write up their confessions, and to tell all tbey don't know about running a State government. The supply is too small, for that purpose at least. The state Census of Charleston Connty jnst completed shows an increase of 27. 303 colored and onlv 5.786 wnUm ai moo I the U. 8. Census of 1870. The vote of the county is 25.085 of which whites number 7.898. against 17.680 colored. The proportion of colored children to white id nearly 4 to one. The former numbering 19.811 and the latter only 5.958.' In the city of Charleston alone the increase of colored has been 5.889 while that of the whites have only been 1.779. ^ hat an alarming exhibit of the future political complexion should the aggregate per cent continue to augment in the rame proportion. Good sense ia not shown to any re. tnarkable extent in Georgia educational nflairs. The whole appropriation made last year for the rapport of the public schools intended to cdneatc the school population of 400,000 was or.ly $260,000; w hile the appropriation for the support of insane, blind, and deaf and dumb peraosa-in ail about 700-amounted to fcl32,5?5, a sum farther increased by the interest on the cost of the buildings eiccted for the as. ' * ? m I1 lie result of tlie election in Iowa on rucsday was scarcely less a surprise than 1 the result it) Ohio. The financial question did not come prominently to the { front. Both parties were committed to \ specie resumption, and the Siato has j gone liepublioau by about thirty-five thousand. The Cincinnati Enquirer says the g:eeiJjack doctrine didn't do that. The grand jury of the United States Circuit Court at Richmond Va., presented Albert P. Lathrop, a carpet-bag j State Senator, on the charge of embezzling the funds of the government, entrusted to him as a collector of the Third Virginia District. The defalcation, it is alleged, will amount to $500. George Eldridge, a deputy collector for Lathrop. waB presented by the grand jury at the I same time ns a party to the embezzlement. Pinto C. Pludd, a colored ex-trcasurcr of Darlington county, who was convicted at the recent term of the court of failing to make the monthly returns required by law, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of fifty dollars. "The best treasurer Beaufort county ever had" was in the habit of reminding people that he would make reports when he pleased, and he refused several times to report but nobody thought of prosecuting him. But then he was treasurer of Beaufort county and not Darlingtcm. WnrTE LAnon SotrTiiWAnr>.-The Mobile (Ala.) Iiegittrr is authority for the statement that "the negro does not produce half the cotton which he pioduced before the wai," and credits white labor with the production ot a large portion of the crop. Besides the actual production of wealth flowing from it, the moral effect mu6t be incalculable also, and by example the coloted laborer will be improved as a necessity. The condition of affairs in Mississippi can be imagined when such Republicans as Senator Pease and District Attoincy Wells join in the denunciation of Ames and his administration. His aim has been to build up a personal party that would elect him to the United States Senate, and to this end be has not only pardoned felons out of the penitentiary to ran for the Legislature, and procured the selection of other notorious criminals as candidates, but he has likewise used his utmost exertions to instigate a war of races* But the decent negroes of his own party have become disgusted, and are deserting liirn in crowds. The Rev. J. E. Johnson, an influential colored Methodist clergyman of Jackson, has recently published a letter advising the colored peopl c to cut loose from their leagues and join with the whito men in redeeming the State from th? wnoilfr Mr. Stanley has beeu hoard from in his far wanderings in Africa. He has found tribes of negroes hitherto unknown, and reached the region of the g eat lakes with a serious loss of men. Of the three hundred men composing his escort one hundred and twenty-five have died and been killed in battle with the natives. Iu a three days' fight Willi the Watura tribes be lost twenty-one men, killing thirty-five of the enemy. The narrative of his progress seven hundred and twen ty miles into the intonor of Africa is intensely interesting. On Fiiday afternoon the British bark M. Wood from Sydney C. B. grounded on Pumpkin Hill Shoal. This is the veiy channel upon which dredging has been attempted and at which Professor Mallifert has been operating upon for the last year. The pilotB have evidently been misled by false reports that have been given of the success of the undertaking which proves to be futile. Charleston had better content herself with a coastwise trade and not try to compete with Port Royal in having vessels of heavy draught to attempt an entrance over her bars. ij ? Tins Jacksonville. Florida, pipers are calling for more hotels at that city, stating that the prospect, of a arrest nuuilier of visitors the coming winter is very marked, and that last season, entirely too many people were obliged to sleep in hotel corridors and other unseemly places. The city of Jacksonville becomes one vast boarding house from the first of NovemJ ber to the first of May. There is a gentleman working in Charleston as a carpenter, says the Satannah New t, that, when the war commenced, was the owner of three hundred slaves and one of the largest plantations in Beaufort county. Emmsipation lost him in bis negro property, and tax collectors sold bis plantation. Withont money, and only friends ? 1 had off as himself, he sought work as a carjxmter, which trade he had learned as a pastime when ho was young aod wealthy, and by industry has succeeded in supporting his family. Clb.vrkd Octobar Oth. Br. Brig. Florence Baynon. m a6tcr for Newcastle, England, with 484 tons phosphate rock from Coosaw mines. An Wnwl" ? ....... .oai wupvrauve couon manu facturiag company in Spartanburg, lias hucceeded in interesting tl?? Fall nver, Mass., cotton operatives in the subject of emigrating South to such an ex tent that a colony is Iwing organized to settle near Spartanburg, a hem good farm lands enn be bought at from $4 to $50 perj acre, and the country prt rents very superior advantages to Jfaaanchustt* laborers. Gov. (jtramhbrlain'a Bad Luck.-Is it I not strange that soma unlucky accident ; befals every financial board, upon which j Gc v. .Chamberlain is placed t We are all j acquainted with his misfortunes before be became governor. Since his elevation to this high dignity, he has met with another piece of bad luck. His was the casting vote which placed the deposit in Solomon's bank. And when the bank fails he pleads ignorance of its condition, expresses sorrow that he was a victim of misplaced confidence, and demands that the public excuse him. And thus far for some reason hus escaped all blame. Now if the assertions of the treasurer be true Gov. Chamberlain is as culpable as Comptroller Dunn. If an investigation of the condition of the bank was demanded by Cardozo before the deposit was made, it was tjie bounden duty of the Governor to vote for this resolution, and to institute the most searching scrutiny. He owed this to the people, and he owed it to himself; for he had discovered in his past career that even a mistake in a public official is an offence. The only defence the governor can make is to deny the warning of the treasurer. lie has declared that ho knew nothing of the ^instability of the bank and this declaration was accepted, before the appearance of Cardozo'sletter. This letter demands a further response from the Governor. We have always taken the position that as long as Mr. Chamberlain makes a good Governor bis past record should be held in abeyance. But when we see I heavy losses to the State occurring, now, through the negligence or venality of the financial board, of which Governor Chamberlain is a member, similar to those that disgraced the State in the dqjpB when Attorney-General Chamberlain was a member of,the board, we must say that forbenrance ceases to be a virtue and we must require of the Governor the same explanation as is demanded fro m the other members.-Fairfield Herald. Charles Nordhoff closing his Georgia letter says: "The difficulty in Georgia is that black and white Republican ond rteqjperatic demagogues unite in maintaining the color line iu politics. The bad democrat docs not object, for it enables him to control the State. The bad" republican likes it, for it makes him a martyr and gives him what he longs for?a federal office?or at least the excuse for de manding one. Governor Smith spoke wisely when he said to me that only whe.n the color line wns broken could the politics of the State be settled, anrt this would bring absolute security to the ne gro. There is no doubt, too, that the Civil Rights bill and the Force bill, and all the other offorts to maintain in the South a spurious republican party, have only tended to band the white voters together in a more and more inflexible opposition to the federal administration and to band the ignorant blacks together and subject them to the rule of demagogues, leaving the moderate men of both sides without their just voice or influence.'' Southern papers are busily quoting the speeches of Wendell Phillips and Hen Butler to prove that the northern mechanics and laliorers are now nothing but half starved white slaves. The southern people will not be any more fooled when the demagogues of the north tell such silly lies than tliey are when the southern demagogues prate of 4idowntrodden and oppressed people."-Union Herald. Sale in Bankruptcy Assigned Ent. Manldin Owens & Co* HANKltUPTS. By Frederick W. Wagener, Assignee* ON THURSDAY, fist. OCTOBER, 1875, WILL be soldatPUBLIC AUCTION, at Hoover's Station on the Port Royal Rail Road, commoncin<: at 13 O'clock m., the following property of the assigned Estate of Maaldln Owens a Co., Bankrupts; viz: 35 Males; 3 Oxen: 13 Timber cart*; 4 Wagona: 39 Setts of Harness: 10 Saddles; 3 Setts of Blacksmith's Tools. ALSO 1 Steam Engine, Boiler, Saw Mill and fixtures, at Hoover's. 1 Steam Engine, bnrned and Injnrcd; at Hoovers 1 Steam Engine, Boiler, Saw Mill and fixture* at Altman'a ALSO 1366 Anus 'op Lam> on Mill and Tenant's Branches, Beanfott County: more or leas. 1080 Acs as or Lakd near Mauldin'a Station; more or less. TERMS?For the personal property, Cash. For the real property, one-half [H] cash, and the balance upon a credit of one year, aoenred by bond and mortgage of tho purchasers: purchasers paying for papers. F. W. Waoekik, sen 39-4t. Assignee. BLYTHEWOOD FEMALE SEMINARY. 1*1118 INSTITUTE. LOCATE* SEVENTEEN I mllM North of Colombia, near the Charlotte. Columbia, and Angasta Railroad, in a comma nlry noted for health and morality, will commence ita ucxt Scaaion Septkvbeb Oth, 1073, and cloac Jnne 10th, 1870, The Trnateea cxpreaa their ttnqnaliflod eonddancc In the ability and judgement which In the peat, have prcalded over the deatinioa of this Inatltnliou, and which In the fntnra will eontinae i to direct and control Ita iutcreeta, and do moat heartily recommend It to the anpport and patronage of all who i.ealrn (rood training and wnbatnntinl and liberal education for their danghtera. For partlcnlara. addrera either the Principal, DB.8. W. BOOIcbart, DOKO, 8. C., Or tho Secretary of the Board of Trnateea. Itcv. 1. W. M El LICIT* VP. DOKO 8. C JAMES E. BOYCE, Wholesale aai Retail Grocer. LIQUOR DEALER. UA Y MT., Beaufort, S. C. , In store from New York, 15 Barrels Fleckers 8. It. Flock, 3 and 6 pounds. 50 Boxes No. 1 Scaled Herring*. 10 Boxes J. 9. Waters Laundry Starcii. 10 " Philip Clark's XXXX Soap 10 <?mc8 of assorted Canned goods, at tanic pricks. 2 Barrels of tbc celebrated Boston GINGER ALE, A delicious summer beverage. 4 Barrels Bass & Co. and E. O. Hibbcrts , E <5c IRTIEIR,, at $2.25 a dozen. 10 Barrels assorted Sugars. Anb a choice assortment of Liquors and Cigars. J AS. E. BOYCE. WHOLESALE and RETAIL GROCER Dealer in Ales, Vines, Liquors, Seers, and > TOBA.OOO. NOTIONS, DRY GOODS, boots and ffnoKS Knnes MAIS LAND, BEAUFORT COUNTY. Goods sold at Beaufort prices. nich.8-lyr. Richard P. Rundle, S~niPriNQ And COMMISSION MERCHANT, Port Royal, S. C. Cotton. Haral Stores, Lumber, &caden* fob tub NEW YORK 3t PORT ROYAL STEAMSHIP LINE MisBimum Jb Dominion, Webt India Jt Pacitio. and LivsnrooL Jt Oaltbbton Steamship Companies to Liverpool. JJALON D. 8. MEATS, iO., *C. Choice Smoked and Pry SIDES, Shoulders and Bclltee, S. C. Hams, Breakfart Bacon Stripe, Lard, Ch'Tsie. Batter, Machcrcl, Beef Tongues, Floor. Molaam-a, Sugar, Ac. F. Bltih's celebrated (Cincinnati) Smoked Ham Saueagc. Also, No. 3 llEATS of diilcrent qualify, on band and for sale by P TKK MACqUEEN", eb-17tf. Vendue Range. COLUMBIA HOTEL COLUMI1IA. W. C'. AVm. Gorman Proprietor. E. M. Cologne, Assistant. Jan.l3-lyr. Magnolia Passenger Route. 1'OIIT ROYAI^ RAIIjROAD. Auousta Qa. jui.t 19th. 1878 TnE FOLLOWING PASSENGER SCHEDULE will be oi>eratcd on and after this date: GOING SOUTH?TRAIN No. 1. Leave Augusta 6.00 a. m. Arrive at Yeraassee 1.00 p. m. Leave Ycmaarec 1 30 p. m. Arrive at Port Royal $.35 p. m. Arrive at Savannah 4.45 p. ra. Arrive at Charleston 4.15 p. m. GOING NORTH?TRAIN No. ?. Leave Charleston.... S.lOa in. Leave Savannah.... 9.05 a.m.' Leave Port Royal 9.45 a. m. Arrive at Yemasaco 11.50 a. m. Leave Ycmasaec 1.00 p.m. Arrive at Augusta 6.45 p. m. Through Tickets sold and Baggages checked to ait principal pointa. Passeng ora from AuKustA and atations between Augusta and Yemasaee, can only make connection through to gavatnnah by taking Train No. 1, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Pridati. To Charleston daily connection la made aa herettoforo. Paaaangers from Port Royal and stations bewcei Port Royal and Yemaeaee make dally connection io Charleston and Savannah. R. Q. Fleming, T. S. Day ant. Superintendent. General Passenger Agent. AMERICAN UNDERWRITER'S : Association, or ritiiudoiphiu. lfead Office of So. Ca. Agency, No. 1 It road Street. CHARLKMTON. CAPITAL, "$200,000. I I will rcrcive applications for Inanrance in this ^ reliable Company, on all inaorablo property. Thia Company Is not in connoction with th Board of Underwriters, and will take risks at rea? . sonahle ratca. JT. Am.*, Sub Agent. A. M. Lkx, General Agent, I Charleston, S. C. ls& ARK. Lboot ' AND SHOE MAKER, Particular Attention given to Flrat Claaa Work. A perfect lit and Mtlafaetlon gnarantco . * H1I01> oppoaite Waterboase and Bicker's Cotton House. Bean fort, 8. C. Mrcta ? Bounty and Claim Agent. I Wn associated myself with a prominent Irm la Washington for the purpose of securing Bountteo and reunions For colored solaler*, md prosecutiog Claims for Losses Dorlng the wsr, and all other claims against the United State Gorornmcnt. Beanfor*. 8. C.. Feb- f4, cbM-ljrr SHEPARD D. GILBERT^ * NOTA11Y PUBLIC. Attention given to Marine Protests. OKFICK In the club bouse. Jan.6-67. lay! Hay!' OUST DEi A.1ST3D, 4 ?> Bales Prime Eastern HAY Fob Sale Cheap, S. M. WALLACE, mch.17-tf Beaufort, 8. C. MANSION HODSE PORT ROYAL. S. C. SITUATED AT THE TERMINUS OF TH? Port Royal Railroad, where connection la made with the fan railing. Art eliae steamers MonrooaiRT and RyKT?mx*. tailing to New York every Friday. Round trip from Augusta $90. This is an entirely new and elegantly famished house. Situation unsurpassed, surrounded with magnificent lire oaks, commanding a splendid prospect of the surrounding country, the Deanfor and Port Royal Rivers, and offers unusual attrac tionato travelers or to parties who desire Board or to spend a fow days near the salt water. Tabic supplied with everything the market affords. Fresh milk, butter, llrh, vegetables and rrults In their season. Best of Cooks and Attendants. Terms liberal. C. E. WAmnzN. jnllt-tf Propnetor. PRATT'S ASTRAL OIL Al??olutely 8AFH Perfectly OtlorlcHH Alwats VnIfohm. Ilj.uxin atimo Qualitim Superior to Gas, Burns lu any lamp without danger of exploding or taking Arc. Manufacturered expressly to displace the use of highly Volatile and dangerous OILS. ITS SAFETY under KVHHY poaaible TEST, and ita perfect burning qualities are proved by lta continued use in over 500,000 Families! While no accldeut directly, or Indirectly baa ever occurred from burning, storing, or handling It. The many imitations and counterfeit* of the ASTRAL OIL that have been thrown unaucccMfolly%n the market is fui ther Proof of its Superior MeritTHE ANT11AE Raa now a World-wide reputation aa the SAFEST and BEST. The Insurance Comnanies and Fire nnm missionors THKOrGHOCT THB COCTtTUT Recommend Pratt'* ASTRAL OH. A* the best Safeguard whon Lamps are used. For Sale In Beaufort, at the Store of nor.?5-lyr. W. M F NCH. Thomas R. Harris. MAXUFACTURKH OF ALL KINDS OF Biscuit and Crackers. 110. 113, 114 & lie Berk man St. Between water Pearl Street*, Branch, 34G Washington St., / . Bet. Franklin and Harrison St*. ^ \orit. Fretwell & Nichols, TKTTJCiT T*d A T n VV aUiiLOALL PAPER, Paper Bags, Twine, Inks <5tc. 1 ao nay Street, SAVANNAH, OA. BEAUFORT MACHINE SHOP. Haying opened a Shop here, I am prepared with the latest IMPROVED TOOLS to Build and repair all kinds of MACHINERY, both Wood and Iron. Particular attention given to Designing and Pattern Making For New Work. ATI? A if ni nr? ? a ? ? u > nun rirn 8Ud r"l Constantly on hand At Kortbem Prices. Common Sizes of Iron Nuts AND STEEL. Personal attention given to 8ETTING and CONSTRUCTING STRAM BOU.KR FURNACKII FOR SAVING FUEL. Shop next to Post Office J. A. Whitman, Mechanical Engineer. $ / J C.RICHMOND. Trial Jnctioe. All Voiinew Intrusted to him will rcct-irc<aro fill and prompt attention OFFICE LAW BUaLDINQ. R. P. BARRY, WHOLKHALK and RETAIL DEALER IN Dry Cool, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS AND CAPS, NOTIONS, &c. dec2 54. W. Hi CALVERT TIM CMITU I 111 O If 11 I III DEALER IN * JAPANNED PLANISHED nnd PLAJN TIN WARE, Camstantly on hand a full Stock of Heating, Cooking and Box STOVES and PIPE. Particular attention given to putting on nnd re pairing Tin Hoofs, Lenders nnd Gutters. Tens CasL Hcrpmg for a continuance of the patronage hero ofore bestowed on mc, I will warrant all work to be done in the most worktnacllke manner nor 13-16. Steffens & Werner, Wholesale Grocers? PROVISION DEALERS, Cor. Eait Buy & Vendue Itauge, CHARLESTON, S. C. 22-48 PORT ROYAL Saw & Planing Mill BEAPFORT, 8. C. D. C. WILSON & CO., *ANUTAOTTJRHR8 or AND DEALER* IN Yellow Pine TWer and Laader AND Cypress HIiIiikIon, also 'Guilders and Contractors Plaster, Lathes, Allkindaof JOB SAWING promptly done. Fluorine & Csiliai Board always on baud Ordcra fur Lumber and limber bylthe ca;*o promptly flllod. Lumber delivered in Buy part of the Town free of charge. Terms Cash D. C. WILSON a CO. IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL Implements. Dow Law Cotton Planters, without Coverer, $1G: with Coverer, $lli. West's Guano Distributors, the most simple and popular, price $5.60. Tho M Farmers Friend " Ploughs, all rises. The 1 lab test draft Plough made. Cannot l? choked. Highly endorsed by all who have used them. Rotary Harrow, Thomas' Smoothing Harrows, 'King of the South" t orn Mills. Collins' 8tccl Ploughs, Sweeps and Agricultural Steels of all Styles and Sines. Also, a large assortment of other Agrlcnltnra Implements. J. E. ADGER & CO., Importers of Hardware, Bar Iron. Steel, Ac. Charleston, S.C, J7 A. TORRENT, General Stevedore, Port Royal S. C. BEAUFORT & SAVANNAH STEAMBOAT LINE TUB 8TKAMKR O- 3^r. PETTIT, Will make weekly trips between the nbove named points as follows: Leave Bonnfort Wednesday mornings at 9 O'cloak, and returning, leave at 10 A. M. Friday Savannah Stopping cnch way at SEABROOK'8 LANDING, SPANISH WBLLS nnd BLUFFT JN" For Frctzht rr Passage aoplv on board. Bonnty and Claims Agency. c Being assoelntcd with a lawyer In Washington whoae energy and promptness In proseentlng the Claims are well known, and attending closely to the business myself; all persona who have any el alms against tlieU. 8. Government srs Invited to bring them to me at my OPW In the Bennett II ?;ise. R-jy 8f 2 Oeanfort 8<>. Cj. ion'N'r . P-Mtona,