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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-08-05
Legislative.

Julyr27.-Business unimportant
in both branches.
July 2S.-Senate-The bill Gre
ating land commissioners was fa-
vorably reported, substituting for
the first section a provision that
the commission shall consist of
FIVE members, one from each con
gressional district, and the Comp
troller-General to be elected by
the Legislature for four years,
| The following salaries have been
reported by the Senate Com mittee
for the. special session :. Clerk,
$500; Assistant Clerk, 100; Read
ing Clerk, $3.50; Messenger, $3.50
Doorkeeper, $3.50; Assistant Door
keeper, $500; Pages, $50. :.
The committee reported favor
ably on the bill regulating the
keeping and disbursement of funds
by public officers. &
Montgomery gave notice Of a
bill subjecting agricultural farming
lands within cities and towns to
taxation.
Randolph gave notice of. o bill
extending the time for county Off
GERS to qualify.
In the House q joint, resolution
was adopted appropriating twenty
FIVE hundred dollars for the repair
Of the Executive mansion.
Barry gave notice of a. bill for
the repeal of the usury laws, and
to establish specific interests.
Ransier gave notice of a bill re-
pealing the act requiring bonded
officers to file their bonds within
thirty days after their election, on
a pain Of forfeiture of Office, with
the view to extend the time. Ad:
journed.
July 29-senate-Immedi ediately
after roll call, Senate repaired to
the House Of Representatives. for
the purpose ofa balloting for Chief
Justice and two Associates, after
which adjourned.
In the House the bill to lncorpo-
rate the Langley Manufacturing
Company of Edge6eld was report
ed upon favorably by the Commit
tee on Interpretations: read a Sec
ond time, and ordered to be re-
turned to the Senate.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-08-05

paESe4S VI. SIouhO 6llacuou, oaii
now be bought for a song. For
instance I am offered a lot of 13
acres fair land, with good large
dwelling, &C., for $500; another of
sacre, with house containing eight
rooms, standing on the public
square, for $780, :.
The c.. e., which cost SIS, 600 is
offered to Mr, Hillhouse for 81, 100.
Phe health Of the place cannot be
surpassed in the State. Pickens
lis but IL miles from the Railroad,
/, From Pickens to Walhalia, we
travelled over, the ridges where
the land is~poor; but are told that
the valleys are fne. l never saw
better road in any country.
Walhalla, you know, is a flourish
ing German town, and is now the
county cite Of Oconee Co. The
Keowee Courier is published here.
I am much pleased with the place,
and while I write the party are
out in. the country looking at some
Of the, best farms. We have found
so far, but few places which We are
charmed with. Thepricesoflapds
are higher here than in'Newberry.
The politics Of the people are all
right, and it is emphasically a
white mans country.
We are having rain every day,
but the high land has suffered
from dfouth. This, whenever, it
occurs, which is very. rare, does
hot effect the crop ike in our coun-
try, for the principal crop is on the
valley land which has not suffered.
Fhe wheat crop is light, owing
to the rust. A gentleman in this
town made, this year, over q
bashels TO the acre. This shows
wAa*ean~be raised, when it; is. rha-,
nured and sown, as VIZ, do ours.
, Last night 7 attended a Ta6leaur
mvQnts, given by tie Ladies' ,Edu-.
cational societysof. this place, who
are ,putting>up a fae building for
a femaleseminary. The town is.
lmprosing rapidly Numbers of
new houses are going up. The
new Court House is located back
of the Lutheran Church; and on
the 9Th Of August, so acres in lots
viii be SOLD. It isrsaid here, that
ia ten years this will be- the second
city in the State. .
We will remain. here several
days, and if we cannot be suited
inland, we Will 60 to Jackson and
Transatlantic Counties, in North
Carolina. 49, =
:, / viii write again,
o. Z #
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-08-05

COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD
The Charleston Courier makes interest
ing mention, that the line from Granite
vile to Columbia will be completed by
November next. The whole work is be-
ing pushed forward with remarkable zeal
and energy, and the bonds of the COM
pany meet with ready SALE.
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tice of the day so fixed and de-
tcrmined> upon, which day shall
then, be held and. taken to be
the time when that portion Of
this Act which requires the use
of stamps shall. have effect.
Those portions of the enact
ment not included in the above
section takeaeffect Immediately oa
its passage which, of course, was
yesterday.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-08-05

( tSoISA Os'J..
Negro Violence Threatened m
Union District-The Whites
Refer the Matter to Gov.
+ Scott -. -,
A committee Of the citizens Of
the town of Unionville, consisting :,
Of :Dr.:W. G. Bennett, RI A. Nc
Knight, John Rodgers and Alick
Macbeth, freedman, have been
here on visit to Gov. Scott, in
behalf Of law and order. We
| learn that the committee repre-
'sented an outrageous state Of af-
fairs in their District and that
information received by the Coy
ernor, from the negroes them
selves, goes to establish the state
ments Of the committee. 1t ap-
pears that on Saturday, sthe> 25th
inst, about 1900 negroes assem-
| bled on the plantation of Mr.
George Hill, contrary to the wish
es and remonstrances of this gen.
! tleman. This is about IA miles from
Union Court House. About 500
were armed, and were organized =,
as a military body, under, leaders.
claiming military titles. They
were also provided with ammuni-
ton. The most violent and in
fammatory harangues were made,
and threats against the whites
were freely INDUCED in. .
John Bates, Freedman, was
called "MJor of Battalion" and
read what he claimed were "Gen,.
eral Orders," from Gov. Scott.
These orders invited, the negroes
to organize, and promised arms
and music for them at an early
day, and encouraged preparations
Of q military character on the
part of the negroes. This man.
had visited Gov. Scott a few days
before, and he read these "orders"
as The orders of the Governor.
This man, John Bates, went on
to say that they were to meet in:
Union village, on the following
Saturday, the 1st of August, and
he formerly ordered his forces to-
assemble at that time and place. .,
The committee further, stated
that they had been informed, and
believed that the main object was
to rescue from the Jail a freedman
there confined for a grave offence
The whites of Union feel able
to- take care of themselves: but
they desire the peace Of the COM,
munity; desire the law topreyaiii
and hence they submit the facts
of the case for the action Of the
Governor. =,
We do not know if Governor.
Scott has taken the proper meas;
ures to put a stop to the violence
that the deluded negroes contem-
| plate. But we do know that mill
itary organizations among the
negroes are prohibited by the,
laws, and that, if a collision;
should occur, a heavy responsible
ity will rest upon Governor Scott
The white people Of Union have
done their duty and shown their
dispositions to commit the subject
to the hands of the proper author
ity. They have acted wisely and
promptly to preserve the peace.
IColunabia Phenir.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-08-05

A Philadelphia paper says. "a nice
young lady Of this city wasted dish of
strawberries and cream, o few evenings
ago, by throwing it at her fathers head,
because be would not promise to take
'her to Europe this summer"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-24

AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY "A gentle
man in town has received letters-patent for
an article which, if it does oil that is
claimed for it, is destined to produce an en-
tire revolution in the fishing and provision
business. The article in question is solu-
BILE in water, something similar to salt, and
has the peculiar property of keeping fish,
meat, poultry, &C., perfectly fresh for any
length of time. 1t is almost entirely devoid
Of smell or taste, and scientific men who
have examined the article pronounce it q
success, and wonder why some one did not
discover its remarkable properties before.
We have seen cod which have been in
this solution seven weeks, and the flesh
was as hard and the general appear
ance Of the fish equally as fresh and
good as if just taken from the water. A
porgie which had been in soak ten weeks
and paddock four weeks presented the
same remarkable appearance. These fish
were cut in our presence, and the flesh was
as solid and as good as any fresh fish that
may be found in any market. If this dis
covery should prove as expected, salt and
ice-large items of expense in preserving
provisions will be superseded, and poultry,
meat, and fish can be carried to every part
of the world in fresh state. Sailors will
no longer complain of "salt HORSE" and
scurvy will be among the things that were.
1t is not very expensive, and does not con-
tain anything deleterious, and as soon as
practicable will be introduced to the pub
lic.-Gloucester advertiser.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-24

AGAssIz AND THE GLACIERs.-Professo
Agassiz said some interesting things con-
corning his pet glacial theory at the Am
herst agricultural meeting last week. He
declared that all the materials on which ag
ricultural processes depend are decomposed
rocks, not so much rocks that undcrlie the
soil, but those on the surface and brought
from considerable distances and ground to
powder by the rasp of the glacier. Ice,
all over the continent, is the agent that
has ground out more soil than all other
agencies together. The penetration Of
water into rocks, frost, running water,
and baking suns, have done something, but
the glacier more. In a former age the
whole United States was covered with
ice several thousand feet thick, and this
ice, moving from north to south by the
attraction of tropical warmth, or press
ing weight of ice and snow behind, ground
the rocks over which it passed into the paste
we call the soil. These masses of ice can be
tracked as surely as game is tracked by the
hunter. He had made study of them in
this country as fur south as Alabama, but
had observed the same phenomenon par
ticularly in Italy, where, among the Alps,
glaciers are now in progress. The stones
and rocks ground and polished by the gla-
ciers can easily be distinguished from those
scratched by running water. The angular
boulders found in meadows, and the terraces
on our rivers not now reached by water, can
be accounted for only in this way. He
urged new survey of the surface geology
of the State as help to understanding its
constituent elements, and paid high tri-
butte to the memory of the late President
Hitchcock.
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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
GREAT FIRE IN LYNCHBURe.
The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Shops
Destroyed-One Man Killed and Offers
Iv,red-Great Loss of Property, DEC.
Special telegram to the 7 I.patch.

speclal telegram to the! iSpatch.
LYNCHBURG, VA, December %, 1868.
Early this morning fire broke out in the
Virginia and Tennessee railroad shops, in
this city, and as the wind was high, those
buildings were entirely destroyed, and the
neighboring buildings placed in imminent
danger by the flames. The latter, however,
were saved by the great exertions Of the
fremen. The shops contained a good deal
Of valuable property belonging to the rail
road company, besides costly machinery,
all of which is either burned or rendered
entirely useless by the effects Of the fire.
The loss is varioualy estimated at from one
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars
to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The property was insured for about fifty
thousand dollars, the policies being divided
between twelve different companies.
Sometime after the fire the walls Of the
workshops fell to the ground, and several
men were buried beneath the ruins. George
Gamble, chief coppersmith, was instantly
killed, and several others were seriously
but it is hoped not fatally injured.
The origin Of the fire has not yet been
ascertained. n
The following we're the companies which
lost by the fire: London, Liverpool, and
Globe, England, $4,000; Richmond Bank
ing Insurance Company, Richmond, sl,666 !;
Washington Company, of Baltimore At
lantic, Brooklyn, N. Y; and Putnam, of
Hartford, Conn.,, collectively lost sl3,5OO
Home, of New Haven; Security, of New
York city; and the Merchants and Me-
chanics' National, Maryland, United States
and Franklin, of Baltimore, lost collectively
Sl2,l66. MEDICUs.
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s,rcrr PAYMENTs.-The Augusta (Ga.

s,rc1g PAYMENTs.-The Augusta (Ga.)
,,,no,;cIe has a plan Of it's own to effect
return to specie payments, which it states
- q The The South can in thirty days, if her
..,Ir will it, force a resumption Of specie
prr,pnts or crush out the entire national
I"nr currency. If the cotton-plsnters will
vow VOW now determine to take nothing for
.ho;r cotton but gold the Government will
- forced to make its currency equal 20
Va ar It must submit to the modification
Il seeing its notes rapidly diminish in
value.
"Ordinary prudence-the same which
-,-,,atcs the common business Of life
snSns now to require that the people Of
,bs South should use the power which
residence has placed in their hands to re-
,,ror somewhat OF the losses entailed upon
,bem hv the avarice and yindictivencss Of
The North. The whole country wants q
sonnd currency. The South, and the South
olore. can give it. Let the cotton planters
in,prmine to sell their cotton only for gold,
o15 at once gold leaps from bank vaults
ana Walls brokers' boxes and rushes
10 the point where the cotton waits to re-
rcive ii. The southern planters can and
ought to require good currency. No cur
rency is good except gold or convertible
paper money. Even now, and for some
fine past, there has been no money in cir
culation in Texas except gold. Why is
this' Simply because the Texas cotton
Planters refuse to sell their crop for any
Thing except gold"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-24

MURDERER Convicted LIFE
INSURANCE CAsE-PIcKPocKETs LYNCHED.
Memphis, December 22.-James God win
has been pronounced guilty of murder in
the first degree for killing policeman last
Christmas.
In the United States circuit court, the
case Of Mrs. Catharine Bailey Us. The St.
Louis Mutual Life Insurance Company
where the action was brought to recover
$4,000 on her husbands life, which the de-
PENDANTS declined to pay on the ground that
the deceased had failed to pay the premium
for three quarters, and that his son, at the
instance of his friends and the physician,
called at the Office and paid the premiums
while his father was on his death bed, repre-
senting that he was in usual health; that
therefore the contract was null-the court
held that the company could not hold to the
contract if the party lived, and repudiate
if he died; and the jury found for the
plaintiff.
Last night, at Carroll station, on the Mo-
bile and Ohio railroad, near Humboldt, two
pickpockets, who had been infesting the
road, were caught in the act, and were taken
by the passengers and citizens and hung to
q tree,
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COMMERCIAL.
Corn and Flour Exchange.

RICHMOND, December %, 1868.
OFFERINGS.
Hheat.-White, SIG bushels. Red, 1872 bush
els.
colored. "a bushels new. Mixed, $50 bushels
new. Yellow, 476 bushels new.
Odts.-S42 bushels.
Rye.-l24 bushels.
MedL.-36 bushels.
SALES.
Uhe1t-White 200 bushels very good at
20 So; AZ bushels good at $3.50 "a bushels me-
dunn at 81. 20 43 bushels common at 81. 10; 81
bushels inferior 1T Sl.S5; "a bushels damaged
ut l.s5; Is bushels inferior on private terms
90 bushels very inferior at 81 55-total, 442
bushels. Red, SO bushels screenings at Sl.25;
Is bushels screenings at Sl-total, 81 bushels.
Corn White, $50 bushels prime new on pri-
yate terms; 302 bushels good new on private
terms; 23S bushels very good new ut Sc. LOIS
bushels damp new 1T SEC. IS bushels good new
bushels. Straw colored, "a bushels fair at soc.
Yellow, 90 bushels very good at SAC. Mixed,
40 bushels very good at &c.. 900 bushels good
ut Sic. 90 bushels fair at soc. !; -l46 bushels
damp at SOc.-total, 42S bushels.
Oats.-lS bushels prime at &c. IA bushels
good at Goo. l6 bushels damaged at 55c.-total,
As bushels.
Rye-2o bushels good at $135.
MedL.-White country, unbolted, SO oushels
at Soc.
RE-ExHIBITED.
Hhent.-White, 206 bushels Red, 81 bushels.
C5rn-White, 45o bushels. Yellow, 26 BUSH
els. Mixed, l22 bushels.
Outs.-466 bushels.
REMARKS.
Offerings of wheat about the same il guam
tity rs on the preceding day; prices I'M
changed with one half remaining over unsold.
Offerings Of corn, 4, l40 bushels; market rather
inactive and prices to &c. lower. Oats dull
of sale, without change in price. Offerings of
rye quite small, and demand very light.
Prices to-day, rs compared with those Of
same date last year, were:
Dec. %, 1867. Dec. %, 1865.
Wheat. white, very good $3.50 $2.35
Wheat, red, very good ..... 2.4o
Corn, white, very good, new l.l6 IS
Corn yellow very good new lj ST
Oats 70 SO
Rye prime. 1879 good, l.35
In Baltimore on Tuesday receipts of wheat
were 5000 bushels; market dull and prices
heavy; sales of white at 81 go to $40; prime
red, 1925; medium red, 81. 10 to 30 Is; inferior
red, 80 to Sl.75 Receipts of corn, 200
bushels white and 10, 800 bushels yellow mar
llet again lower; sales of prime white ut Soc,
and OF lower grades ut So 50, So, and SAC. /;
damp, 10 to 7Sc. prime yellow, 90 to 92c. /;
good yellow, Sic. damp yellow, SO to slc.-all
new. Oats, 90 to CSC, measure; but 1000
bushels out of $500 bushels sold. Sales of
1000 bushels rye on private terms, and loo
bushels at Sl.jO
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-24

BLIND Tom OUTDoNE.-We listened the
other evening to musical wonder that
eclipses Blind Tom. The wonder that We
refer to is negro girl, raised in Kinds
county and, as pianist, she certainly
excels anything that we have listened to-.
This girl, Emma, is about eighteen years
old, is as black as the ace Of spades, and
does not know single note and cannot
spell the simplest word. She was house
servant, and as such was permitted to play
upon the piano. She can play any piece,
however difficult it may be, after hearing it
played and her accuracy and delicacy OF
touch is really something very remarkable.
For the past two years she has been en-
ployed as field hand, and has had no OPP
portunity of playing or listening to others
play. Her performance on the piano is
astonishing, as well for accuracy, delicacy
of touch, and brilliancy of execution. She
can play anything she has ever heard with
marvellous facility, and seems never to
weary of the instrument.
We understand that it is in contemplation
to give our citizens an opportunity of hear
ing this musical wonder, and that after
ward she will make tour through the
United States and Europe.-pichs6urg
Times, December IA.
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A CoLDBLoopED MURDER AT MAIDEN.
Boston, December 22.-Ons Of the most
cold-blooded and detesto . murders we
have been called on to chru icle for long
time was committed this morning, the VIC
tim being Mr.. David Faulkner, night
policeman of Maiden, much-respected
citizen. Two strangers uspicious- looking
men-were observed to be lurking around
the depot of the Boston and Maine railroad
after the last train had departed. The depot
was closed, as usual, and all remained quiet
until half-past this morning, when officer
Faulkner, in the course of his patrol, passed
up Pleasant street toward the depot, when
he saw two men, supposed to be the two
seen on the previous night, near the shed
opposite the depot building on the other
side of the track. He at once accosted them,
asking them what they wanted there. In
stead of replying, one of them Immediately
drew pistol, and firing, shot Mr.. Faulk-
ner through the heart, killing him instantly,
when the two turned and ran of in the di-
rection of Medford.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-24

John STUART MILL IN THE HOUSE OF
CoMMoNs.-A writer in the Economist makes
these sensible remarks and gives this pen
portrait of the philosopher in Parliament:
Mr.. Mills singular character, which fits
him for some rarer tasks, units him Tor
public. He has written many books OF
peculiar opinions, Astounding In excep-
tional conclusions, filled with difficult argu-
ment. He has power of writing such
books which no living Englishman can
equal; more than any other man, ne mas
style at once logical and characteristic nc
can write you out subject IN plain way,
and yet when you come to notice 1t you feel
that no other man could have done 1t IN that
vay. But such powers are thrown away IN
Parliament. Mr.. Mil has not the magma
ton of an illustrator, nor the physique OF
q" gladiator" He cannot drive ideas as MIR.
Lowe can drive them. He is more shrill
when most excited, and least impressive
when he is most earnest.
Parliament understands the singularity
Of his conclusions, but does not understand
the exquisite and rare acuteness OF his
arguments. A constituency understands
his best points still less, and feels his oddi-
ties-largely the effect Of long, secluded
life-much more. A return of the puzzles
Mr.. Mill has given to the Westminster
householder would be very curious and in
structiye if it could be obtained. lie was
elected as a sort of unknown deity" and
now that he is known he is rejected. we
hone he will refuse Greenwich and every
other constituency. The world will gain
much if he does, and if we do not mistake
he will be far happier. 1t was pitiable to
see the pale-worn face of our most prac,,
ticed philosopher listening heedfully and
without break to bungler after bungler and
blnnderer after blunderer. Mr.. Mill sat as
riridly as the speaker sits, only that he eat
through committees Of the House too. One
great book will be worth centuries of such
wretchedaess.
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the scenethat ensned undesirable. Inthe
relative the supposed widow recognized her
husband. Wife the second went into hyste-
rics; wife the first was pale but calm. She
talked like preacher, and to the point.
She told him he had acted shabbily, and
even ventured to call him villain, biga-
mist, and other epithets not exactly par
taking the description of endearments.
He didn't attempt to deny them. She WIGS,
perhaps, quite correct, but he begged she
would think of the exposure. She would
do this. The five years' desertion entitled
her to divorce. A handsome cum was put
at her disposal, and the once Borrowing
but now incensed wife took her departure,
leaving the gallant Captain sadly contem-
plating the unlucky contretemps.-Ne,o Or
leans Picayune.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-24

LACE CoTToN.-A variety of cotton, says
o southern journal, called lace cotton, is
being introduced in some parts of Texas,
and is likely to be extensively raised. 1t
is to be superior to any other variety for
poor soil or uplands, having a strong, healthy
growth, and yielding heavily. Its strength
is equal to strain of seven and half
pounds to each thread, while similar
thread of the best American cotton will lift
only five pounds. Those who have examined
it say that it resembles Egyptian cotton,
which is worth in England quarter more
than American. Good results are antici-
pated from cultivation of this variety Of
cotton. If it is successful, it may quite
generally supersede the poorer qualities
and largely increase the income of the
southern planter.