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THE VALLEY ROUTE.
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NORTHERN Pacific GOLD
BONDS.
BANKING HOUSE OF
JAx COOK " co.

We are Offering the NORTHERN PACIFIC 7-50
GOLD BONDS at par and interest In currency.
They are issued in denominations of 800 to $1,000
COUPON, 500 to $4,000 REGISTERED, and are at
all times Interchangeable at the pleasure of the
holder without charge.
They are secured by a FIRST AND ONLY MORT
GAGE on the road It's Equipments, Earnings and
Franchises and also on Land Grant which, on the
completion Of the Road will exceed % 600 Acres to
each mile of track or 500 Acres Of Lana TO secure
each 81, 600 bond.
These bonds are at all times receivable by the
Trustees at TEN PER CENT. premium, in pay
ment for any lands purchased from the Company.
In view of the ample security upon which the
bonds based, and the rate of interest they bear
we believe there is no hrst-class Investment safer
nor more profitable b. --t-- ~--,
Holders Of United States $40 bonds, Del ware
State Bonds, Wilmington City Loan, and Bank
Stocks can new convert them into
Northern Pacific 7-3Os
Realizing an immediate profit and INCREASE
THEIR ANNUAL INCOME LARGELY.
An marketable securitea received in exchange,
without expense to the investor, at their highest
current value. ..,..-. y....r.r .I
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-03-29

Gil. 1Nl0A1 -Al.-
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-04-11

Nor THE LONGEST CAsE.-Many of the
newspapers referring to the Tichborne case,
speak of it as the longest trial on record, and
of the speech of the Attorney General in oppo-
sition to the claimant as the longest speech
As matter of history this is not correct. The
trial of Warren Hastings upon articles of
impeachment for high crimes and misde-
meauofs, before the British Parliament, was
much longer, and the address of Edmund Burke
upon presenting the articles of impeachment is
probably the longest legal argument on record.
This remarkable trial began by the presentatit n
of articles of impeachment to the House of
Commons, April 4, 1856. The answer, reply,
reoindcr, &C., consumed the time until the be-
ginning of February 1888. The trisl before
the House of Commons began February IS,
1888, and ended March II, 17sa Edmund
Burke commenced his opening speech ON the
18th day of February 17SS, and closed eleven
weeks later, on the 9TH day of May following.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-04-11

KU KLux ARRESTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA
The Columbia Phnnir states that warrants for
the arrest of two hundred citizens of Newberry
and three hundred in Laurens counties have
been issued. These wholesale arrests wear the
aspect of an official speculation. The process
we learn is simple and summary. The Mar
shall OF representative of the Federal Govern
ment goes before the United States Commits
sioner and makes some affidavit; forthwith he
receives warrant and proceeds to arrest the
suspected party, showing only the back of the
warrant. Of course the citizen makes demand
to read the warrant, and to learn what the
charges brought against him may be, and upon
whose affidavit the warrant has been issued
This is denied him. Hresistance is threatened
or attempted, the forces of the United States
are called into action. Of course there is no
remedy except in flight or surrender. The
number of these arrests must bring good
round sum into the pockets of the officials in
the way of costs, &C., to say nothing of black
mail. Grants representatives in South Caro-
lima are making "tgood thing" out of the Ku
Klux Act We suppose the process will con-
tinue so long as it proves profitable, and there
is no interference.-Augu'ta Chronicle and Sen
tinel
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General Humphrey Marshall.

This distinguished gentleman died at Louis
vile, on the 2Sth of March, of pneumonia.
General Marshall was native of Kentucky,
of the same family which has contributed sew
eral very eminent personages to our history.
He was blood relation of the great Chief
Justice John Marshall, and several of his an
cestors were prominent in the public affairs of
Kentucky. General Humphrey Marshall was
educated for the military profession, and, grad
uating at West Point, served several years in
the army as lieutenant.
Ambition and high intellectual epdowments,
however, drew him to the bar and to political
life; so, abandoning the military, he adopted
the profession of law, and rose rapidly to dis
tinction and large practice in his native
State. His intellect was equal to any demand,
placed him among the foremost of the great
lawyers of Kentucky. Law and politics are
inseparable in Kentucky, and Col. Marshall
was drawn into that maelstrom of so many able
lawyers at an early age. In the party strug-
giles in that State he became leader, espous-
ing at first the Wing and afterward the Ameri-
can parties, by which he was elected to the
Legislature, to the State Convention, and final
ly to Congress. Previous, however, to his ap-
pearance in Congress, he had served in the
Mexican war, as Colonel of fine regiment of
mounted rifemen, who did good service at Bu-
ena Vista and elsewhere. In the National
House of Representatives there we're few abler
debaters or more skillful parliamentarians than
Col. Marshall. While in Congress he received
the appointment of Minister to China and re-
sided for some time in tnat country, with whose
history, government institutions and character,
he acquired familiarity which has been at
tained by very few. To his profouad study
and research, our Government owes almost all
the information which has been collected and
preserved in our State papers relative to this
peculiar people. On his return from China,
Colonel Marshall resumed his old position as
representative of the Louisville District in Con-
gress, and held it almost down to the breaking
out of the war; When that occurred, he iden-
tilted himself with the cause of the South, was
appointed a Brigadier General, and served sev-
eral years in Virginia and Kentucky.
At the end of the war Colonel Marshall re-
sumed the practice Of his profession, which he
prosecuted for few months in this city, but
finally removed to his old arena, Louisville,
where he was actively engaged at the bar at
the time of his death.
There were few abler men in the West than
Humphrey Marshall. His mind was remarka-
bly acute and capacious, and his ability as a
clear, vigorous, logical writer and speaker was
equalled by few. His immense physical frame
served to make more impressive the great ac-
tivity and brilliancy of his intellectual facul-
ties. Withal, be was gentleman of great am
liability of heart and and geniality of manners
and habits. His decease will be deeply mourn
ed by the whole people of Kentucky, to whom
he was always true and devoted son.-N 0.
Picayune.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-04-11

A FALsEHooD ExPosED.-We make the
following extract from the proceedings of Con-
gress on the End inst, in which the libellous
accusation against Gems. Hampton, Kershaw
and Butler, made some time ago by Senator
Edmunds of Vermont, has been fully exposed
and refuted:
In the Senate Mr.. Robertson submitted let
ter addressed to himself and Mr. Sawyer, from
Generals Wade Hampton, Kershaw and NJ. c.
Butler, of South Carolina, denying that they
were connected with the Ku Klux organization,
or ever had been. Sanator Blair remarked that
the Senator from Vermont, Mr. Edmunds, had
in the same debate, and at the same time that
these gentlemen were referred to, charged that
the counsel employed to defend the prisoners
in South Carolina, the Hon. Reverdy Johnson
and the Hon. Henry Stanbery, had become dis
gusted with the crimes which we're proved
against their clients, and had abandoned the
case. He then sent to the desk to be read let
ter Of date February 18th, 1872, addressed by MIR.
Johnson to General Wade Hampton. In the
letter. Mr.. johnson refers to the statement of
Mr.. Edmunds, which he says is utterly incor-
rect and unfounded. So far from having aban-
doned the case, he says that Mr.. Stanbery and
himself remained at Columbia until their mis-
sion was consumpated. He also says that
there was neither the slightest testimony nor
suspicion to connect the three gentlemen to
whom allusion was made as having any con-
Germ with the XII Klux movement, and he is
satisfied that Mr.. Edmunds, whom he knows
would not consciously do an injustice had been
egregiously wronged. Edmunds said that COM
mon report had said that Messrs. johnson and
Stanbery had abandoned the case, and he be-
lieved it then, and, with all due Difference, he
believed it now Concerning his statement as
to the three persons alluded to, he had been
credibly informed that evidence to criminate
them was in the possession of the officers of the
government and would be produced at the
proper time. Senator Blair said he was salts
fled that there was no such evidence, and that
these gentlemen had come to Washington de-
Edmunds said that he only repeated what he
had been informed, and that if the gentlemen
could prove their innocence he would be very
glad of it.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-04-11

A NEW CU1T1vAroR.-Mr. ]. R. Minter, of
Unionville, has patented an improvement in
cultivators which promises to be of great i'm i'm
portance to farmers and planters. 1t consists
attached to suitable stock, and adjustable by
means nlea Of a very simple arrangement of slots
and bolts. The central piece is small shovel
plough, attached to the standard the side
pieces are winged scrapers, fastened to slotted
bars; the whole being calculated to stir the
entire space between the rows at one passage,
the adjustment rendering it capable of being
adapted to rows of different width; but the
crowhing excellence of this new implement
as claimed by the inventor, lies in its use as
scraper at the first working Of cotton; For
this purpose, the central plough is taken of
and the two side scrapers made to straddle the
row, cutting as close to the plants as Is desired
cleaning the whole bed at one movement, and
leaving little work for the hoe, thus making an
immense saving of labor.
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Death Of Prof. Morse, the Father Of the
Telegraph.

The intelligence of the death of Prof. Sam
uel +. B. Morse, which occurred in New York
on the End of April, was not unexpected to the
country, as he had been lying for days in o
critical condition. The annexed brief sketch
of his life and services is copied from the
Charleston Neacs:
Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse, whose peaceful
death after long and honored life flashed in
an instant from his bedside to the remotest
parts of a sympathizing world by the agency
of his own immortal invention, was born in
Charlestown, Mass, April q, 1871, and couse'
ouently lacked but few days of being eighty
one years old In his early manhood he was
an artist of repute, and in 1918 his colossal
picture of "The Dying Hercules" and his plas-
ter model of the same subject, received the prize
in the Royal Academy of England. Fifty
years ago he practiced his profession in our
own city, and he removed hence to New York
City in 1922, where, among other works of art,
he executed a full length portrait of General
LAFAYETTE, then on visit to this country 1t
was in 1882, while returning from visit to
Europe, that he conceived the idea of convey
ing verbal messages from distant points by
means of an electric current, and, by laborious
study and careful and prolonged experiment,
he finally invented the present system of the
electric telegraph which has wrought such won
derful results in the history of the world. In
1910. Professor Morse perfected his patent at
Washington, and in 1874 the first line of tele-
graph in the United States between Baltimore
and Washington was completed. He lived to
see moro ample ful6lment Of his immortal
conception than he could possibly have real
lied, and he died full of yeaas and of honor.
His has been the lot, rare among inventors, of
witnessing the full triumph of his genius, and
of receiving the hearty plaudits and the sub
stantial rewards of grateful world. On his
eightieth birthday, April u, 1871, a beautiful
bronze statue of Professor Morse, by Mr.. Byron
NJ. Pickett, was unveiled in Central Park, New
York, in the presence of the representatives of
the telegrapLic fraternity of New York, by
whom it was presented tc the city, and of a
large concourse of people, who will not readily
forget the imposing ceremonies of the occasion
and the venerable appearance of the honored
inventor. His last public appearance in New
York was at the unveiling Of DeGroat's statue
of Franklin, in Printing House Square, to
which he was attracted to pay his tribute to the
memory of the philosopher who first caught
from the clouds the lightning flash which he
himself had chained to the chariot wheels of
commerce and intelligence.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-04-11

A TRIAL FOR WITcHcRAFT-A trial for
witcheraft under the old Mosaic law has hardly
been heard of in this country since the days
when divers old crones and grannies were put
to death by the Pilgrim Fathers on that hill
lust outside of Salem, Massachusetts, where the
goats and children Of Irish laborers now dis
port; but those good old times have come
again ia Louisville, Kentucky, in the case of a
lady summoned for trial before Presbyterian
session in that city. The lady in question, it
seems, has avowed a belief in modern Spirit
ualisr, and for this the session cites her to ap-
pear, stating her crime to be violations of the
first, second and third commandments. No re-
spouse having been made to this citation, the
session serves a formal notice that if accused
does not appear at certain set time an advo-
cate would be assigned her by the body and
trial be proceeded with as if she had appeared
and denied the charge. To this the lady re-
spends she will appear at the time set if she
may have the benefit of counsel, but otherwise
will deem the affair sham trial and refuse to
have anything to do with it. Whether the ses-
sion will permit of counsel does pot appear
but it is quite likely such will be the case, and
an interesting trial may be thus expected
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-04-11

4 DISCOVERY ABOUT CoRN.-In this think
ing and obseryant age, new ideas and discov-
cries are constantly being made known, many
Of which, if true, are never after heard OF,
while others pass into the treasury of estab-
Iished fact, when their merit has been proven;
We have Just met with the following paragraph
in an exchange:
"An intelligent and reliable farmer, who has
for many years been making experiments with
corn, has discovered an Importance and value
in replanted corn which is quite novel and wor-
thy of publication. We have always thought
replanted corn was of little consequence; he
replants whether it is needed or motor rather
he plants two or three weeks after crops are
planted, about every fifteenth row each way.
lie says if the weather becomes dry during the
filling time, the silk and tassel both become dry
and dead. In this condition, if it should be-
come seasonable, the silk revives and renews,
but the tassel does not recover. Thus, for want
of pollen, the new silk is unable to fill the
Office for which it was designated. The pollen
from the replanted corn is then ready to supply
the silk, and the filling is completed. He says
nearly all the abortive ears, so common in the
corn crop, is caused by the want of pollen, and
that he has known ears to double their size in
the second filing" ..,-......-.........,
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The People and the New Taxes,

The Charleston Net0s, in noticing the failure
of an effort to test the constitutionality of the
License Act recently passed by the Legislature,
makes virtual admission that there is no hope
to be expected from any further efforts to op-
pose the -onerous burdens put upon the people
through the medium of the Courts. It's COM
ments upon this failure will be found interest
ing:
The virtual collapse of the popular move
ment in opposition to the license law is terribly
disheartening, for the reason that it is an une-
qulvocal indication that the classes whom tax
alton most seriously affects have come to the
conclusion that it is cheaper, after ALL to COM
ply with the provisions of an odious law than to
encounter the unpleasant hazards of Indictment
and prosecution.
1t is the opinion of counsel of high position
that the license law is as unconstitutional as it
Is undoubtedly oppressive. An Charleston
seemed ready to stand in the breach, and to
take the chances of fine and imprisonment.
But, as soon as it was known that the prosecu-
ting officers fatty refused to suspend proceed
ings, the opinion found frank and general ex-
preston that resistance was useless, and that
the payment of the license fees could not safely
be postponed. Even before the meeting of
Monday adjourned a number of persons had
already taken out their licenses, some of them
paying the whole annual tax in one lump, in
stead of the first quarterly instalment, which
would have satisfied the legislative require
ments. Everybody felt that the law was
monstrous injustice but the majority were no
doubt honestly convinced that they could bet
ter afford to pay license fees amounting, for the
whole State, to million of dollars than to run
the gauntlet Of the courts. The meeting cons
tented itself with formally advising the people
to contest the law, leaving it with each indi-
vidual to decide for himself how this should be
done. And here, unless we are sadly mistaken,
ends the first serious effort to foil the State Gov
ernment in its set purpose of forcing from the
people, this year, the enormous sum required
to meet both its old debts and current expen-
ses. =.
1t is useless to shut our eyes to the plain
significance of this admission. The meaning
of it is that the taxpayers, in their disorgan-
lied condition, despair of successfully oppos-
ing the stringent and unequal fscallaws of The
State. They will find it hard in the extreme
to comply with the demands of the tax-gather
er; but, until there is more unanimity of sem
timent and determination than has so far been
manifested, the people must pay, and pay
quickly, every dollar of tax levied upon them.
And the greater their distress, and the more
painful their privations, the stronger will be
the motive for bending every energy to the
great work of securing reformation of the
government of the State. This alone can give
the people complete relief; and, failing an ap-
peal to the courts, it is, also, the speedest rem
edy within the reach of the taxpayers.
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hay while the sun shines ?"


But after all, we must depend chiefly on
ourselves. We must do all the work we can
and wait for better auspices. Labor from the
Celestial Empire is not here, nor acclimated,
nor acquainted with our modes OF culture.
Hands from Europe are hardly coming in sui
ficient numbers to make any apprecIable dlf-
ference on our farms. The blacks are here
turning up their native soil, and making some
thing for man and beast. But the most OF the
women who can get other places are not will
ling to 20 to the field. Many of the men las
already remarked are engaged on other works.
The demand for labor, therefore, increases on
the supply. The cry for help, like the garru-
lous tongue of politician, never stops.
sWhat shall we do7" is asked at every turn IN
life. "Shall my fields lie idle when cotton Is
worth twenty cents pound 2"
Not all of them, we hope. Ii you wall 60 70
work Yourself YOU can make handsome sup
port. Push up your lazy neighbor to the same
task by the force of example, and you will do
him good. Be instrumental in bringing the
Young loafer out of the village saloon-in re-
lieving him Of his fine kids and cane-in put
ting his hands to the plough and hoe in grace
full turn, and you will deserve the highest hon
ors. There are plenty of these dandy loaters
of fine cloth and empty purses to make won
derful difference in the farming interest OF the
country if the right men were only in the right
places. But how these wiseacres are ever to
be put in the very place nature intended for
them is the most important question we have
asked. Would that some one could answer 1t
while their presence on the plantation ls so
much needed. How fine would they look with
hardened hands, tanned faces, and dusty
.cIothesI Never did they look so grand on
promenade, at dining, in ballroom, nor
anywhere. in life.
Almost every one who is getting very scan
ty allowance in some other business would do
we'll to go to farming. This class is too numer-
GUS for detail at present. We cannot specify
without taking heavier risk than we are vii,
ting to do on the instant. Some of US would
fall into this class in less time than we are
writing this article. But let us go if it will
benefit all parties. The wonder is that we 40
not elbow each other off more frequently than
we do. Why not scatter out from close retreats,
enter the broad domains of nature, and see the
fruits of the earth yield their increase? How
much better for our health, our families, and
the whole countryf Streams OF agricultural
wealth would run through this happy land in
every direction. Every old field, and every
desert rock, would be redeemed by the hand OF
culture, bloom with fresh beauty, and groan
under its fructiferous burden.-7he Field and
Factory.