The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-03-20
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Emigration to tsarsas.

Kansas, of the other part:
jesse DrDruhl agrees to contribute one
h"nsand dollars to Il fund of twenty thou
and dollars, to be raised 10y citizens of
hichland District, or of any other part of
the State OF South Carolina for the pur-
pose OF organizing, arminy and transport
ing to the Territory of Kansas, II company
ot one hundred men, and provling for
their subsistence after their arrival there :
or to contribute in the Sara proportion to
whatever smaller fund may be raised for
the same purpose, allowing two hundred,
dollars for the expenditure on each emf
grnnt.
And he agrees to undertake the charge
and direction of the said company Of cmi-
grants, I" furnisli them from the fund So to
be ralSr'l, with proper arms and defray
their expenses on the journey, and to pro.
vide Tor their Subsistence for twelve months
trom the day of leaving Columbia, should
The said fund he sufficient therefor or 9th
erwsc, for such length of time rs the said
fund may afford the means.
And the undersigned persons. desiring
to einlgrate in company with the said Jesse
De3rHhl and under his caae, agree to place
themselves under his command, us their
leader and captain, and strictly to obey
hi'n rs such {: and to remain uil,icr his di-
rcctun and command for twelve months
from the day Of leaving Columbia, if from
the fund alnvc mcntiuned he should he
able to provide for ihri, subsistence So lunw;
or otherwise for such length of time as he
MAY hc able to provide for their subsistence.
And they agree and solcmnly bind them
selves, during the period for which they
have SO placed themselves under his com
mand, to rcm"ir. in sucl, part of the Ter
rit"ry of kt,.;:l as he may designate. and
never to absent themselves to Il greater dis
tancc from him than VIII allow them to b.
summoned by him, and to assemble IN
a body within twenty four hours after
he may iss''r his summons. |, is under
stood that their clothing is to he rrov.c,.
hy themselves. And they .lo further agree
and bind thieves srvc,ally, to the ia,Ihfrl
d'sci'arc OF the obligations hereby assumed,
under the following penalties. that is to Sav,
II any one Of them shall violate his agree
'nrnt, he shall forfeit and restore to tn.
Said Jesse Dc!}ruhl the arms witt! whirl,
ne may have been furnished, and for the
purpose OF repairing the loss occlsi"ned
hy INN to the eniTr;int fund above men
toned, he shall forfeit and 10y proper legal
Instrument convey to- the said Jesse De-
Brnhl, sixty acres of land. should he have
acquired land in the Territory nf Kansas.
or otherwise pay into his hands the sum of
sevcntv-iivc dollars
i}ut in ease. of the .ithful fuIlilmcnt bv
the undersigned of the obligations under
taken hy them, they are to retain us their
own property the arms f!.rni>h'" to them
by the sai'l jesse Dcl;ruhI; and he i
faithfully to stand by them, and to the
best of his ability to aid. protect anil de-
end them, freely rendering his services ana!
exp"n'ilng his time in the common cause.
In witness whereof, the said Jesse DcBrulIi
and the parties Of the SECOND part. have.
hcreunto set THEN hands and affixed their
seals.
Signe l'y Jesse De'sruhl and other ci,i-
EenS of the District and State
Washington, MarcA lo.-The "hiIl re-
during the duty on imports" Of whicl, AN
I"kins has been given in she papers, has
been prepared by the Sr,iltc committee :,p-
pointed three years since t" investigate all
frauds upon the rrvcnu. of the United
States. They discovered that many irnpor-
tcrs cvaded the present taril charging the
smplc cost Of the unfinished macrial,
while III fact the original cost WAS almost
always doubled by adding the dyriny,
printing, packing, labelling boxing, trans
portation to the coast, shipping charges,
freight, insurance, and similar items. By
the new bill the original cost must he stated,
with eacl' supplementary item, and The
vigiant eye of NJ. Guthrie has supcrin-
tended the pl'r;,seol"gy of the act, SD as to
have no loop holes for evasion.
The new hill, which is to go into effect
on the SOL, Of June, 1857. is much sim
pier than the present complicated tariff of
1916, which has schedules ut 100, 40, 30
%, Is, 10, and per cent, besides the free
list. ln the proposed tariff there is scllc,l-
"e with II duty af so per cent, ad
s'lorem, comprising nothing except liquors
and ""r'lials schedule B, with Il duty of
30 per cent, "d "iorem anI schedule G.
containing articles exempt from duty,
among whcl, is wool and many other arti-
c:eS Of raw material tor manufactures. All
other uncnuncrated articles, sugar among
the rest, are to pay Il duty Of 20 per cent,
al mioren,.
= Secretary Guthrie is now having sta,isti-
cal tables prepared. showing what the
revenue will be under this new taril.-BaL-
tiaore SIN.
Diplomatic Observation-Disclosures was
received hy the last steamer from Europe,
of a misunderstanding between Col. jackson,
our Minister resident at Vienna, and the
Austrian Government. A correspondent
says:
"Thc misunderstanding has been caused
by the arrest and imprisonment Of an
American citizen named Spear, who after
-. .ssxsa Wpnths close confinement, during
which IsS asAs not permitted to comnuni-
cate in any way with even his minister or
consul, was tried on 3lst of March, 1854,
bv a secret and unknown tribunal, convict
e;l of treason, and sentenced to ten years
labor in irons in the trenches at Thcrsien-
stndt in Bohemia. Mr.. Jackson. on the 4th