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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-23
GROUND-RENTS.
How Houses are Built In PhiladeI-
phia-A Hint for Charleston.

An admirable plan of building houses, first
adopted in Philadelphia, is rapidly becoming
popular in the Northern and Western cities,
and might, we think, be followed with advan-
tage in the rebuilding Of the burnt district of
Charleston. The following, from Lippincotts
Magazine, gives an interesting explanation OF
the mode of carrying on building operations in
Philadelphia:
1t is estimated that from fifteen to TIVE nty
millions of dollars-earning an average Of six
teen per cent year-are employed in Phila-
delphia in the business of erecting honses for
sale The usual mode of procedure Is as fol-
lows: A capitalist buys three or four acres in
the outskirts of the city, has streets run
through the property, and then advances to a
mechanic about sixty per cent. OF the cost OF
building block of houses. When completed,
the owner of the fee makes deed conveying
the property to the builder, reserVing a rent
charge of so much year. The rent-charge
Is sold by the capitalist and the process begins
again. The builder retails the houses-known
as "bonus houses"-to persons oil small means,
and each being subject to a ground-rent Of
two-thirdS OF its value, more or less, the
amount to be paid by the purchaser Is small.
The greatest demand Is for houses of six 10
eight rooms, with bath, gas, hot and cold
water and Kitchen range, worth a00uC twenty
five hundred to three thousand dollars apiece.
A mechanic or clerk who can raise seven or
eight hundred dollars can buy q comfortable
little house with his money, and pay of the
ground-rent at his convenience. These
ground-rents arc peculiar TO Pennsylvania,
and. Joined with the comparative absence of
banking facilities" they have done much to
make Philadelphia a cheap and desirable place
OF residence.
Tothe above statement of the facilities af-
forded by ground-rents should be added no.
tice of al Institution comparatively new In this
country, but which has been In operation for
the past halt century in England and Scotland.
We speak of the building Association" There
are, it Is estimated, between one and two
thousand of these associations In operation In
this city, each disburslng, on an average, at
least one thousand dollars monthly. Putting
.heir number at the lowest figure, say one
thousand, we have here twelve millions of dol
lars annually invested in real estate-for that
Is the only security taken by the association
for their loans-by the worklngmen of this
city. Truly 1t is no wonder that Philadelphia
Is growing at the rate Of square mile OF
buildings annually, and that nearly every fami-
" occupies Its own house.
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Obltuarp.
BuRr.-A faithful spirit has passed her higher

BURT-A faithful spirit has passed her higher
Those who knew, In her domestic relations, the.
widow OF Governor FRANK BURT, who departed
this life on the 26th day Of February, 1870, near
Marietta Georgia. aged 63 years. can attest to the
womanly graces that surrounded her spher OF
duty. ..-IAa -r<sf2Trs
They know, though nurtured In luxury; 5and
blessed by those ties which make the full circle OF
female happiness, how nobly she bore poverty
and bereavement, and how, as the most delicate.
flowers II not unrooted, gain strength by SWAY
ing winds, she took root and blossomed in'the-
storms Of life. Yru 80 m! ,,1a5f
But, though distant from us, the Unitarian
Church, In Charleston, whose faith she graced
tribute to her memory.
The solitary reading OF the Bible brought the
strict unity Of God to her convictions, and hav-
ing received that conviction she held to 1t with
the tenaclty OF an earnest will.
Although stranger, after period OF reflection, =
she addressed Dr. Gilman, then Pastor OF the Unita-
rlan Church, at Charleston, asking advice and in
structlon. correspondence was the result, and
o bond OF sympathy formed, that was never
broken on earth, and we trust Is renewed IN
heaven.l v.,-.t att rAsn
1t was pleasant duty to him to supply her
with choice library to meet her wants In the
works Of Charming, Ware, &c, and she priced it
as one OF her greatest treasures. -S~sssa
Guided by the Spirit ef Truth, and having
earliest period In visiting Charleston to obey his
last request by commemorating his death In the
church Of her choice
It Is an easy thing "to walk to the house Of God
after nourishing the divine seed OF faith alone,
without social sympathy, requires trust aim 0st,
sublime-and such a trust was hers.
No one who saw that modest, almost shrinking
stranger, In mourning garb, receiving the sac red
elements, could have suspected the great up;
heaval OF mind and heart which, In the ae-
cusien OF country life, without religious sympathy
or theological aid at the outset, could have
brought an unpopular truth to the surface, and
then "confess It before men," .i4-,.a T.
Mrs. BURT was to the last depout follower OF
the Saviour, and we tenderly commit her to s'His
Father and our Father, to His Ged and our Cod"
G. G.
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MORE FRAUDS IN VAIL STREET.
The Women Brokers victimized.
Another fraud was made public in New Yorl
an cotnrdov in tho matter of altered cheeks

Another fraud was made public in New York
on Saturday in the matter Of altered checks.
On the 18th instant, says the Post, Woodruff,
Claflln & Co. (the firm of women brokers
recently started in Broad street) deposited at
the Fourth National Bank, where they
kent an account, what purported to be a
certified check for $4366 So. drawn by Park &
1iford on the Greenwich Bank. The Fourth
National Bank on the next day sent the check
through the clearinghouse to the Greenwich
Bank. AS an extra precaution, however, mes
senger was sent by the Fourth National to the
Greenwich to ascertain If there was no mis-
take about the check, and the teller of the lat
ter pronounced the check and certitication
rood. Later the Greenwich Bank discovered
that the check was not good, and that it had
been raised from $40 to the amount above
given. The Greenwich Bank will be the
losers, provided Woodruff. Clahin 4 Co. can
show that they were innocent holders of the
check. In addition to the above there has
been discovered a frauduIent eneck OF inc
amount of $4,000 on the New York County
Bank. drawn BY Park & Tilford to the order Of
woodruff, Clafiin & Co. 1t is stated that the
check was certified by the said bank, but that
the certilcation was afterwards cancelled.
The Express says: -
"Madames Woodruff, Clahin & Co. claim
that they are innocent lambs, brought to the
slaughter by the adroit forgers who have been
operating extensively in Wall street for some
time past. They scout the idea of any other
connection than that of victims In this affair.
Their explanation Is to the effect that an ind-
yidual, some days since, entered their Office
and introduced himself as representative Of
the firm of Park & Tilford, and that lie stated
his firm was desIrous of assisting them in their
efforts to succeed In business, and that Park d
Tilfordwould in future buy oil their gold through
Woodruff, Cahln & Co. Their story further
runs, that he ordered some gold which they
bought from Utley & Doughcrty, and he gave
them q certified check on the Greenwich Bank,
which turns out to be an altered one. Upon In
ouiry at the office of Messrs. Utley & Dougherty,
we found that Woodruff, Claflin & Co., on Thurs
day. bought $3.50 gold, which amounted to
s4ST6 IS currency. In payment for this gold
the female brokers rendered the altered certl-
fed check of Park & Tilford on the Greenwich
Bank, but they did not like q Icertlfed check
on the Greenwich Bank, as that institution Is
too far from Wall street for Hlsiness man to
send TO for information In regard 10 the genu-
inencss of checks, and therefore declined TO
accent this check, notwithstanding the fact
that it was rendered by the handsome female
broker of Broad street. The gold was finally
paid for by check Of Woodruff, Clafln Co.,
on the Fourth National Bank, which was GER
tilted regularly by the bank before the gold
was delivered. Further developments in re-
gurd to this affair are awaited with much in
fnrpst -
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GOLD IND PRICES.

The New York Tribune remarks that the
general trade of New York has steadily i'm
proved since the price Of gold has becom G
more steady. Among buyers, 1t says, there Is
considerable comparison of the present price
and those ruling before the war; few articles S
are selling as cheaply as at that time, and
some even cheaper, considering the price o
raw material and the increased rates of duty.
The following is record OF the comparatiVe e
prices OF staple dry goods in January, 1861,
and ut present The Tribune says:
Itmust be remembered, however. that the
cost of labor, the cost OF building factories anG
Constructing machinery, the rates Of duty and
the prices OF raw materials are very much
greater now than in 1861, and that much time
must pass before these items of cost can be
made to correspond with those OF ante-war
times. even with gold at par and specie pay
,noptc resumed
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The country istiiled with enthusiasm over
these recent successes. The dry season is
passing away, and the time is at hand when
the Spaniards must remain inactive, while we
can operate everywhere and in new fields to
advantage We hold the interior lines. The
people are one in the sentiment of freedom
The Spaaards have no power beyond the
shadow of their bayonets, and hold only the
ground they stand on. The end Is near, and
this suffering and bleeding country will soon be
free.
The recent landings Of our friends Cisneros
and others on our coast have h:ought us many
needful things; and our active friends In your
country, we trust, may not allow their energy
to flag In aiding us by moral force and powder
and ball. Willing arms and hands enough we
have; weapons we need.
General Jordan is greatly indignant at the
Spanish falsehood that he offered to surrender,
and holds General De Rodas responsible for the
calumny. Colonel Ryan is with us, and his
friends, and those Of Peters, Johnson, Warren,
and other Americans here, will be glad to know
they are in excellent health.
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IErom the New York Times.l


There is, no doubt, even among our most In
telliucnt business men, an impression spread.
inr that this country Is an exception to one
great law of political economy-that ls, that
TOld Is TIL. standard of value. The cause oil
this distrust of science In practical matters oi
business. is that man Of business must al.
WAYS look at The probable prices OF the few
weeks or months Just before him. and they are
sometimes affected by exceptional or local
causes, and not by general laws. He loses
thus tic habit Ofjudging from principles, and
confines himself to facts, and is usually all the
more successful from 1t. But, ior that very
reason, the ordinary business man Is often the
poorest of all authorities on any general meas.
ire of finance which must be based on broad
principles.
Tie financial history Of the last ten years
will be hereafter one OF the most valuable con-
tribulions to economical science. and Will, We
are persuaded, only demonstrate more clearly
its great laws But it has yet to be written.
In the meantime We CAN only reler 10 facts and
figures as they present themselves Ill Tile daily
Journals. These show how remarkably the
price of many articles have followed the ap-
prcciation or depreciation of the currency. In
December 1864, gold was at 222; in the begin
ming of March, 1870, it was lis, or a fall of
about one-half. Most OF the great staples have
fallen nearly in proportion. Thus coal is down
abont one-hall, from Sl2 to 81; sugar, from 30
cents TO l3 cents; -four of the best Western
brands, from SIG 10 ss, and even lower; pork,
from s37 to 500; molasses, from 81 IS to co
cents; WOOL from 30 cents to 4S cents, and cot
ton even lower, from 81 20 to % cents. Other
articles, however, are still held up by dealers,
but must eventually yield. Thus butter,
cheese, eggs, apples. potatoes and mutton
have fallen, perhaps one-thrd or less, and beet
has scarcely fallen at all, owing to its scar
city.
In the retail trade it is still harder for the
consumers to force reduction of prices,
partly because wages and rents still hold their
gold rate, and compel dealers to keep up
prices. Beef is perhaps cents a pound
cheaper; steaks about the same: mutton from
4 to 10 cents less; chickens and turkeys are
higher; fish a little less; potatoes 81 cheaper
the barrel; apples SO cents less; coffee some
Is cents, and brown sugar l3 cents cheaper
crushed sugar II cents, and rice cents less.
The general tall in the retail provision market
is about one-ffth, against one-half in the gold
market since 1854.
There is o large margin yet for decline
which consumers must soon experience. A
little combination among consumers must
speedily briag down prices and more fully il
listrae the principle that ''gold is the standard
of value
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THE VAR IN RICHMOND.

RICHMOND, March 81.
The city is quiet tonight. Ellyson's police
are in. possession OF the city. Chahoon's force
of forty men are still in their station-house,
around which large crowd of blacks have
been gathered all day. Governor Walker has
sent reply to General Canby's letter, in which
the Governor quotes all the acts Of Congress
on the subject to show that general Candy had
no shadow Of authority for interfering in
municipal affairs unless called on by the Legis-
lature or State authorities, nor has he any all-
thorit7 under the orders issued by the Prcsi-
dent or Secretary of War. He says it is clear
from letter written by General Candy to Cha
hoon, on the 18th instant, that he (Canby) had
determined to protect Chahoon in exercising
the functions of an Office which, under the
laws of the State, he did not and could not
hold.
Governor Walker says, that as chief execu-
tive of the State he will see It's laws faithfully
performed, and when he finds the power OF
the State inadeaute, he will call in the aid Of
the United States. He contends that in mu-
nicipal difference in New York, neither Gener-
al Candy or any other military officer would
have interfered, nor should it be done in Vir-
ginia, State that stands on the same footing
in the Union with any other. An appended
letter from Mayor Ellyson, states that General
Candy, on the night of the 18th instant, said
he would get Chahoon's friends to advise him
to withdraw his men from the station-house,
and Eryson should discharge his special police
and take possession. The next day General
Candy himself took possession.
LATER.
A dense crowd of blacks, which have been
standing all day around Cahoon's headquart-
ers at the third station-house, so blocked up
the streets that Mayor Ellyson determined to
clear them At IL o'clock he sent force, who
proceeded to clear Jefferson street, when they
were fired upon by the negroes, and Richard
Bush, special policeman, was instantly Kill
ed. and ,Saptain VIM. Knox wounded. The
Ellyson police then fired upon the crowd, and
after short fight drove off the negroes, who
carried their wounded and dead, if there were
any, with them. The police succeeded in
clearing the streets, and at this time (mid-
right) all:s quiet. Bush's body was brought
to the City Hall.
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ns-A GRAND EPOCH IN SCIENCE

a8-A GRAND EPOCH IN SCIENCE.
From the time when, in 1884, DR.. RUGGE discov-.
cred "CarbolIc Acid" and Its extraordinary medi-.
cal effects nothing in the history Of Medicine has.
equaled 1t. Largely used by the French physi--
clans in treatment Of consumptive and scrofu-
lous diseases, it was introduced by the Court Ply
sician of Berlin, MAX ERNST HENRY, into Prus-
sia, and from thence to the United States. No
thing else Of the present day can equal HEN,
RY's SOLUTION OR CARBOLIO CONSTITUTION
RENoyAToR. Patients get better aJ1er only one
dose has been taken, and we cordially recommend.
1t to the public.-TEditor. ."Argusn jan17 Tyr
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TFRoX THE ASSOCIATED PREss.]
WASHINGTON, March %.

WASHINGTON, March %.
The Sutro Tunnel is up in the House.
The Reconstruction Committee heard Per-
kins, Speaker of the Tennessee Legislature
No action. The Tennesseeans will have a
further hearing on Thursday.
The Foreign Relations Committee agreed
unanimously to report adversely on the Den
mark treaty for the acquisition Of st. Ihomas'
In the Supreme Court, in the case OF Benla-
min F. Flanders VS.. John P. Tweed, in one Oh
the Louisiana cotton cases, the Judgment OF
the lower court was reversed, and the case re-
manded back for new trial.
LATER.
The Committee on Foreign Relations in the
House agreed to report resolution OF neu-
trality between Spain and Cuba, and repeating
the neutrality act Of 1918.
Associate Justice Strong will be assigned to
Grier's district; Bradley will be assigned to the
fifth district, comprising Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
The Foreign Relations Committee, in addi-
ton to action adverse to San Domingo and St.
Thomas, agreed to set their faces against any
further acquisition of territory.
Revenue to-day one hundred and sixty-nine
thousand.
Tbe Naval Committee, by vote Of seven to
three, favor selling the Brooklyn Navy Yard
property.
Spain has eighty-nine vessels, six hundred
guns, and thirteen thousand seamen in Cuban
waters.
In the House there was no action on the
Sutro Tunnel
The Elections Committee reported in favor
of Booker, in Booker VS.. Tucker, from Viz
glnia.
The Utah Polygamy bill was resumed and
discussed to adjournment
In the Senate, Summers bill to strengthen
the legal reserves and promote specie payment
was indefinitely postponed.
johnson introduced a bill to divide Virginia
into two judicial districts.
The Judiciary Committee reported Ames as
ineligible which was discussed to adjourn
ment.
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The funeral of Captain Williams, Of the
Oneida, took place at Yokohama on the 8th OF
February. The ceremonies were very impos-
ing. Minister DeLong and LieutenantCom-
mander Mullen were the chief mourners. The
French, Prussian and English ministers, the
admiral of the English navy, and the military
and naval officers of various nationalitles, the
consular stall, and large concourse of civil.
ians were in attendance.
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5perial' Notlres.

w SPECIAL NoTICE.-BOoKs FOR
Subscription to the Stock Of the ENTERPRISE
RAILROAD COMPANY Of Charleston viii be-
opened on and after THIS DAY, the 23d instant, at
the ofice Of Messrs. wHIPPER, ELLIOTT Al
LEN, No. o1 Broad street, where the undersgnedA
may be found daily between the'hSuts Of "a. n.
and 2 Pm. WIN. MCKINEAY, 3i.
| rncb23 ws2mths ~ Treasurer NJ /.
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ARMED RESISTANCE TO LAWN TIR-
GINI1.
FORTRESS MONROE, March %

FORTRESS MONROE, March %.
Another attempt was made to place the own
ers of the Celry Smith farm into posses
sion, which failed, by the sheriff OF
Elizabeth City County, with posse of fifty
men, who found some two hundred armed male
and female negroes-fre or six shots passed
close by the sheriff. The posse reached Hamp-
ton in safety. The sheriff has called on the
Governor for assistance.
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The Bishop Of Barbadocs died on Saturday
at his home, in western England.
King William. of Prussia, on Friday received
the eldest son Of the late Hon. Mr. Burlingame.
olivier is a candidate for the Academy OF
Franco.
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TAMRS CONNER'S SONS
UNITED STATES TYPE AND ELECTR0T1PE
FOUNDRY AND PRINTERS WAREHOUSE,
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CORNER READ AND DUANE STREETS,
VIEW YORK. ali, 80.

large Stock OF ENGLISH AND GERMAN :
FACES both Pain and Ornamental, kept on
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manufactured from the metal known as -Jnner's :.
ITneouaLed Hard Type Metal. Every article ne =
cesssry for perfect Printing once furnished.
fan29 stuth6mos*
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WASHINGTON.
UHTgERSIL AMNESTY FOLLOWS
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.
GOVERNOR SCOTT AT THE CAPITAL
A DODGE TO SAVE wuITTEMORE.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEws.]

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEWs.J
WASHINGTON, March y.
Governor Scott, of South Carolina, arrived
here to-day. The object of his visit has not
transpired. 1t is reported as coming from him
that he will not issue writ of election to I'LL
the vacancy caused by the resignation OIL
Whittemore.
To-day the President informed several South
era men that as soon as the Texas Dill was
passed, he would send a special message TO
Congress favoring universal amnesty as ut
ting close of reconstruction.
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Charles H. wynne, a well known citizen
of Richmond, Virginia, and for some time after
the war publisher of the Times newspaper in
that city, died on Friday night, aged 81 years.
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@r TO PRINTERS.-F YeU WANT
NEWS, BOOK, CAP, DEan and MEDIUM PAPERS,.
Bill Heads, Statements Cards, Card Board, Print.
ing Material, Binding, Ruling and Cutting, go to
EDWARD PERRY, No. 15s Meeting street, oppo-.
site Charleston Hotel, Charleston, sc.
dec14 6mOS ~
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Gg LIEBIG'S COMPANY'S EXTRACT
OF MEAT secures great economy and sonveni-
ence In housekeeping, and excellence in cooking.
None genuine without the signature OF Baron.
LIEBIG, the inventor, and Of MAX PETTENK0F-
FER, delegate.
J. MILHAU'S SONS, No. 1873 Broadway.
mch1s ftu1mo New York.
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earth, not content with its fishes and clans,
sent out trees to rob us. Giant ferns and all
Imaginable shapes and forms of plants grew in
rank luXuriance, and as soon as they had got
all the carbon they wanted. the earth shook
Its back and laid them away for coal. This
was all very well, ifit had not gone on, for it
gave men a show, and when there was just
enough carbon 10 the air to let him live, he
ayailed himself the opportunity and lived. But
the thing is being carried too far. it should
be stopped now; but, unfortunately, the fishes
have the best Of us. II the worst comes to the
worst We must set fire to our coal mines and
release the carbon there stored, for as Profes-
sor Wurtz says: "Geologically speaking, the
end is near" Let man do his best to ward 1t
off; let him build his BIrninghams, his Pitts
burgs and his Sheff1elds, and thus endeavor to
by so doing he is only partially and tempo
rarily winding up the machine only to see 1t
run down again. Nothing better could be said
In conclusion than in the Professors own
words:
Into the ocean depths this precious constit-
uent of the air Is continually undergoing
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4ID FOR THE SOUTH PACIFIC
RAILROAD.

JEFFERSON City, No., March %.
The Governor signed one million worth of
bonds forkhe South Pacific Railroad, the pro-
ceeds to remain in the State Treasury, 10 be
used as required.