Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-07-01

- In connection with Southern recuperatlon,
the Philadelphia american Dc Gazette says:
"A Frenchman at Natchitoches, La, intends to
raise poppies this year on several acres OF ground,
and to make opium. He says that an acre of pop
pies will make fifty pounds Of OPIUM worth fifteen
to twenty dollars pound. His crop would amout
to six hundred and ninety dollars an acre by this
estimate from which the cost of cultivation is to
be subtracted. Ten acres would accordingly crop
about seven thousand dollars gross
The Knoxville (Tenn. Press is our authority for
saying that farmer there has for some time grown
his own tea, and that he is preparing, and his
neighbors are engaged to make serious matter OF
the culture during the current year. Good tea has
been perfected in New York and Pennsylvania,
and for long time in South Carolina The cli-
mate of our Middle and Southern States is analag-
GUS to that Of China and Japan, with long sum-
mers and temperate winters.
A True Figure of Life.
- In preaching the funeral of Hon. Henry j.
Raymond, late editor of the New York Times,
Henry Ward Beecher concluded as follows:
"And now, tomorrow, and next week, bis name
will be familiar, and many of us will cherish it so
long as We live But this great laundering city
is like an ocean; and as when one falling over
board gives one outcry, and the flying spray for a
moment disturbs the sea, and then is whemed,
and all the roughness is smoothed down, and the
ocean is no more full than before, and the. great
water rolls over him, so the great multitude will
forget him and pass on. You that are so import
ant to. day may be insignificant tomorrow: You
who are taking hold of the very spindles Of life TO-
day. will drop them from your fingers, and the
great waves will roll over your head. O, that God
may grant to all such sense OF our weakness and
responsibility, that we may so improve life that
when we lay it down we may take it up again be.
yond the grave, and begin noble manhood, where
death comes no more, and where there is immor'
tality and blessedness.
The State Taxes.
| "A number of the citizens of Marion County
recently addressed communication to Governor
Scott, in regard to the State Board of Equaliza'
ton having increased the valuation Of real estate
in that County. Governor Scott referred the
communication to Auditor Tomlinson for reply.
We take the following extract from the Auditor
reply:
II fail to see that the board has placed an Tex.
aggerated" estimate upon the value OF the proper
ty of your county.
l can very readily understand, however, that
this increase will bear hardly upon individuals
whose property was properly assessed in the tirst
instance. If the people Of your county, with the
assessors and County Board of Equalizati had
all done their duty the necessity for the action OF
the State Board would not have existed. :,
| You ask that new valuation may be ordered.
There is no authority under the law for such an
order. The only remedy is for individuals who
feel aggrieved to send through the County Audi.
tor statement showing the value oftheir proper,
ty-such statement to be supported by afhdavits,
This statement should give a full description OF
the property such as the number Of acres OF arabic,
meadow or wood lands, as the case may be, togeth-
er with description Of the improvements The
County Auditor should consider the application
favorably or unfavorably, and recommend such an
abatement as he thinks just. I will then, to the
best of my ability, act in the matter and you may
be sure that will be glad to make an abatement
in the assessment, wherever it is demanded by JUS
tice.
1 am, very respectfully,
Your obedent servant,
REUBEN ToMLlNsoN,
State Auditor.
Buffers Last Financial Operation.
| Gen. Buffers experience in New Orleans
has been great benefit to him in his subsequent
practice of law. The Rochester IN. W Chrona.
Gle tells the following, in. illustration:
'The directors of Boston bank, having their
suspicious aroused notified their cashier that an
examination Of the books and cash iu his posses.
sion must be had The cashier went to Butler and
stated his case He had misappropriated funds
of the bank to the amount of s50, 900. He asked
whether he had not better own up, restore what
he could, and let his bondsnen make up the deficit.
Butler, after some consideration, directed him to
attend the meeting of the directors, deny that
there was anything wrong and, if they desired, to
surrender the keys and go home, leaving them in
possession He did as directed, gave up the keys
and the directors, upon examining the books and
cash in the vaults found deficit, as they antici-
pated, of S5O,OO0 They notified the cashier and
his bondsmen, who in due time appeared, accompa:
MED by Butler, who acting as spokesman, inquired
what the matter was. The directors informed him
of the facts, and offered to compromise the matter
by the return of the missing funds. General But:
Ter cooly replied that his client had surrendered
the keys to them, and that the deficit, if any, oc-
CURED after the directors were in possession. The
directors now began to see the dilemma in which
they were placed and sent for lawyer, only to find
that they had made false step; that they had nc
proper evidence Of the amount Of cash in the bank
when surrendered by the cashier, and that in ta-
king possession they had lost their only remedy.
AS it would not do to let the stockholders know
how they had been overreached, the directors had
to 90 to work and make up the loss out Of their
own pockets. They gave their defaulting cashier
the certificate of character which he demanded,
and he went to work in another bank in the same
city few weeks afterward.'
Gen. Breckenridge and the sold Flag.'
The St. Paul, Minnesota, Pioneer, of the
18th ultimo, tells the following story, which may
be true but the incident described is rather too
theatrical for Gen. Breckenridge to have done:
General John c. Breckenridge and Ex-Governor
Beriah Magofhn, of Kentucky left this city yes
terday morning on the Superior railroad, propos-
ing to 90 by stage from the terminus to Superior
City Arriving at Wyoming, they found the stage
broken down, the weather wet and disagreeable,
the roads bad, &c. and they returned to this city,
leaving for the same destination via the river and
railroads to Green Bay and Marquette, and so up
the lake. They will return by stage and railroad
to St. Paul.
The excursion party of the Minnesota First was
on board the same train, returning from White
Bear the scene of their festivities yesterday Gen.
eral Breckenridge descended from the platform as
the regiment was forming, exchanged common
place sautations with a few acquaintance, and
then turned to look at the veterans. They unfurl-
ed their old flag, and the band struck up the in
spring strains of "Hail Columbia" The ex-C Con-
federate chieftan listened moment to the glorious
music watched the banner as its folds spread out
to the breeze, then reverenty raised his hat from
his head, waved it toward the Stars and Stripes,
and exclaimed, THAT is the old flag, after all !;
thank God for it'll" This was in quiet corner,
away from the crowd, without ostentation, or at
tracing the notice of more than or two observ-