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THE SOUNDS OF INDUSTRY.

THE SOUNDS OF INDUSTRY.
7 love the banging hammer,
The whicring of the plane,
The crashing Of the busy saw,
The creaking of the crane;
The ringing of the anvil,
The grating of the drill,
The chattering of the turning-latha,
The whirling of the mill
The buzzing Of the spindle,
The rattling Of the loom,
The putting Of the engine,
And the fans continuous boom;
The clipping of the tailor's shears,
The driving of the awl-
The sounds Of busy labor,
Hove. love them all.
love the ploughman's whistle,
The reaper's cheerful song,
The drover's oft repeated shout,
Ashe spurs his stock along;
The hustle Of the market-man,
AS he hies him through the town;
The halo from the tree top,
As the ripened fruit comes down;
The busy sound of threshers,
As they clean the ripened grain,
And the husker's joke, mirth and glee,
Meath the moonlight on the plain;
The kind voice Of the dairyman,
The shepherds gentle call
The sounds of active industry,
Hove, I love them all.
For they tell my longing spirit
Of the earnestness of life;
How much Of all its happiness
Comes out of toll and strife.
Not the toll and strife that fainteth,
And murmnreth all the way;
Not the toll and strife that groaneth
Beneath tyrants sway;
But the toll and strife that springeth
From free and willing heart
A strife which ever bringeth
To the striver all his part.
o! there's good in labor,
If we labor but Alright,
That gives vigor to the daytime,
And sweeter sleep at night;
A good that bringeth pleasure
Even to the toiling hours;
For duty cheers the spirit,
And the dew revives the flowers.
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RIFLES.

1. That it was the intent of the Governors
proclamation that persons should be induced,
by the reward offered, to cause the apprehen'
sion of the guilty parties and to procure and
furnish to the court the proof whereby to
convict
2. That in all cases where parties have been
convicted it is assumed that the proof was
sufficient to convict. That in all cases where
parties were used as witnesses, themselves
shown by confession or otherwise to be con-
spirators, it is assumed that there was in their
cases proof sufficient to convict; and that, in
all cases where parties have been arrested, and
are now under Indictment, it is assumed that
there was prima .tacie proof to convict.
shows that he was the party who furnished
the proof to convict, it is assumed, in the abb
sence of proof to the contrary, that he was
also the party who caused or procured the ar.
rest.
4. That mere proof by claimant that he
made the arrest, as a deputy marshal, Is not
sufficient to entitle the claimant to the reward,
without proof that such claimant was the party
who caused or procured the warrant Of arrest
to be issued and who furnished the proof to
convict
(Elliott and Dunbar dissenting.)
5. That in all cases where claimant bases
his claim upon the mere fact Of the arrest,
and such a claimant was deputy marshal, it
is assumed, in the absence Of proof to the con-
trary, that he merely executed the warrant
as required by law, and that he was not the
oorkr -, tha ovoou}ion
6. That in no case will the reward be ap-
portioned between two or more claimants ex.
cept when it shall appear that the ac:s of the
several claimants, considered together, make
a complete case of moving the prosecution
and furnishing proof to convict.
7. That the awards shall be made:
l. For parties convicted.
2. For accomplices who were used as wit
nesses for the prosecution.
8. For parties who are under Indictment,
or, if not under indictment, when proof is ex.
hibited by confession or otherwise sufficient to
convict,
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seIisfellameons &eadiua.
KU.KLUx PROCLAMATION REWARDS.

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION APPOINTED BY
THE GOVERNOR TO EXAMINE CLAIMS AND
MAKE THE AWARDS.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
COLUMBIA, March 25, 1873.
To Messrs. C. D. Melton, j. D. Pope, r. B.
Elliott, D. Fl. Chamberlain and James A.
Dunbar, Attorneysat-Lav, Columbia, s. c.
GENTLEMEN: Under the recent act Of the
General Assembly to make an appropriation
to pay certain rewards offered by the procla-
nation of Governor Scott, dated July %,
1871, 1 am required to pass upon the validity
and legal suficiency of the several claims pre-
sented desire to place these claims in your
hands for examination, and to have a report
from you as to which, if any, of these claims
come up to the requirements Of the act in
question.
By such report from you, or majority of
you, propose to be guided in making the
awards. Ienclose you copy Of an official
opinion given by the acting encouragement.
l desire report at the earliest practical mo-
ment. Very respectfully, &C.,
(Signed,) F. J. MOSES, JR.,
Governor of South Carolina.
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very considerably. Then, unless you can get
neiphhorhnods close tnpetler. where they can

very considerably. Then, unless you can get
neig ghborhoods close together, where they can
assist and console each other, build themselves
a church and school, Ghese two being the first
things German neighborhood wantsO and
when their work is done, visit each other
unless these things are done, your enterprise,
laudable as it is, will fail. I pray God you
will succeed. We have q few men in this
State who know how the thing is to be done,
and if they have the management of it, the
thing can be done and if once started in Ger.
tain localities, other settlements would soon
follow. The State would soon be settled from
sea to mountain ; and then we or our chill
dren would see, indeed, land where milk
and honey flow, the grape on many hillside,
hops, tobacco, barley, and every thing that
can be dreampt of.
This I wrote in the spur Of the moment,
after reading your article, without once stop
ping, just as the thoughts came to me. 1t is
to be private to you. Should you find any
hint contained herein worthy of~enlarging
upon, and then be Of benefit to immigration,
I shall be very happy. Please pardon, and
believe me a real well-wisher to your under.
taking.
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Balance of fund, -,

A copy of the rules adopted by the commits
sion for their government in making the above
awards is hereunto attached.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
(Sigued,) JOSEPH DANIEL POPE,
ROBERT B. ELLIOTT,
D. H. CHAMBERLAIN,
G. D. MELTON,
JAMES A. DUNBAR.
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@, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1873

remaining claims undetermined. Upon this
principle our awards were as follows:
James Canton, six cases, ,OO ,10O
Colonel w. H. Brown, eight cases, ,..."...... ,6OO
Major Lewis Merrill twenty cases, 1000
Total amount, - &, 800
Leaving balance of 800 of the fund undis-
turbed. This occurs from the fact that the
award to the commission was an uneven mum.
Der, and we could not make an award for half
a case. The sum total of our work is, there
fore, expressed as follows:
Award to commission, ,......""............". 2,5oO
Second award, ,.... o,ooo
Total, , ..'.''''S54'Soo
Total fund. ...... $35, 900
Amount awarded S4,OO
Balance of fund .......". 500
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nar The most extensive stock grazer in Tex
as, is Samuel w. Allen, who lives at Calves.
ton, and carries on an immense "ranche,"
forty miles north of there, shipping bis cattle
to Galveston, and thence to New Orleans and
New York. He owns 100000 head of long
horns, and his freight bills over the railroad
during the month of March were $31 900
while on the steamer line they amounted to
$3S0,000.
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DEcE1v1NG CH1LDREN.-Never deceive a
child if you once do, he will never believe
you again; and mischief will be done that
years will not repair. Some silly mothers
promise their children anything and every.
thing "to make them good" (Heaven save
the mark y never meaning for one moment
to fulfill their promise; indeed, in some in.
stances, it would be utterly impossible for
them to do so! Now, all this is the quintes-
sence of folly! Be cautious, then, in making
promises to your child; but having once
promised, perform it to the very letter, for a
child is observing and remembering. Let
your child in after life be able to say cal
though the world has oft, my mother has
never deceived mer' Verify, truthful
mother is blessing to her child!
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AN AGRICULTURAL CoNvENTIoN.-An ma
tional convention Of farmers was recently held
at indianapolis, Indiana, under the auspices
of the Patrons of Husbandry, an organiza'
ton that is assuming proportions and inAu.
ence. This organization is secret, and took
its rise in the Northwest, two or three years
ago. 1t is composed of real farmers, and in
the first instance they associated themselves
to achieve two purposes, one to escape the
middle-men, and this they seek to do by ap-
pointing agents, who act for them in the ci-
ties and towns, and by concentrating their
whole patronage on few tradesmen, with
whom they make special contracts, buying
their dry goods of one, their groceries of anoth.
er, their hardware of third, and 30 on the
other object is to cheaper the freights to mar.
ket These are taking ideas with farmers ev.
erywhere. Middle-men abound in all the
States, and combinations among railroad com.
panies have made freights universally high.
For these reasons, there has been no difficulty
in enlisting farmers in all the States, though
chiefly, as yet, in the West and South, in the
ranks of the Patrons of Husbandry. The
resolutions adopted by the convention were
more conciliatory toward railroads, aud SEEM
ed inclined to wait the issue of the contest in
Illinois. The Secretary, making his third an.
nual report, said that there were 10000 socie-
ties in the Union, two.thirds of which had
been organized in the past six months. Coun.
ting an average Of forty members to a society,
this gives muster roll of 100000 farmers,
who may be considered united for the protec-
ton of their interests as class. New socie.
ties are being formed spd reported weekly,
and within few months, probably by the be-
ginning of winter, the organization BY coun-
ties and States will be well in progress in from
one.third to one-half the States Of the Union.
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The SIZE OF THE ARK.-1nfdels have OBJ
iected to the size of the ark have asserted
that is absurd to suppose that ever there
could be vessel constructed large enough to
hold all the creatures which must have been
placed in it, with sufficient food, it may be,
for six or twelve months-water for fish, corn
for the four-footed animals, seed for birds,
and so on. Now we will take the dimensions
of the ark from the records of Moses, and cal
culate them on the lowest possible scale.
There are two definitions given to cubit; one
that is 18 inches, or foot and half, and the
other that is 20 inches. We will take it only
at the lowest. Moses states that the ark was
300 cubits long this would make it 45O feet
long, or about the length of st. PauPs cathe-
dral, London. The breadth he states to be
so cubits; we haveit 75 feet in breadth. He
states it to be 80 cubits high; so that was 45
feet high. In other words, it was as long as
St. Pauls Cathedral, nearly as broad, and
half as high. The tonnage of the ark, accor'
ding to the computation of modern carpenters,
must have been $4,000 tons. The largest
size English ship, (ofa size altogether unim.
aginable to those who have never seen it, is
$500 tons burden; so the ark must have been
equal to 26 first.rate ships of war, and if arm.
ed as such ships are, it would have contained
beyond $4,000 men, and provisions for them
18 months. Button has asserted that all four
footed animals may be reduced to 250 pairs,
and the birds to still smaller number. On
calculating, therefore, we shall find that the
ark would have held more than five times the
required quantity of food to maintain them
twelve months.
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WOMEN WHO ARE LATE-It is related of
a distinguished lawyer, who observed that his
wife always delayed ten or twelve minutes be-
fore she came down to dinner, being 10th to
lose so much precious time daily, he commenc-
ed the composition of work, which he pros
ecuted only while he was thus Kept waiting.
The result was at the end of fifteen years,
book in three volumes quarto, which has met
with large sale, and is much esteemed. "An
Old Bachelor" quotes this little story, and
proceeds to analyze the disposition which
leads to annoying delays: It appears to me
that it is woman's chief study to be late. The
trial of mans patience is with them matter
of the incest calculation. 1t is not that for
mere sport they like to see how long an un-
fortunate husband will wait, great.coated and
hated, while they are adjusting their bonnet
strings /, it is not that they take wicked
pleasure in causing the poor mans dinner to
cool and spoil, before they will consider them.
selves ready to come down and partake of it;
it is not for these reasons that they keep the
robuster sex dangling. 1t is only for the
purpose of trying their consequence with the
hapless lords of creation. 1t would be most
unwomanish to be ready to go out exactly at
the same moment with ones husband. He
would not know he had wife, if she were to
study his convenience so far. As for the
trouble which sisters and daughters inaict, it
is all one thing. The creatures are only try
ing on brother or father the powers which
they are ultimately to exercise in full vigor
/. on husband. The "natur of the critter" is
to give trouble to mankind, and it matters
little on what kind of relative the instinct
nnnrafps IL
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-05-13
Centaur Imminent.

There is no pain which the Centaur Liniment
will not relieve, no swelling it will not subdue,
and no lameness which it will not cure This is
strong language, but it is true. Where the parts
are not gone, its effects are marvellous. It has
produced more cures of rheumatism, neuralgia
lockjaw. palsy, sprains, swellings caked- breasts
scalds, burns, salt-rheum, ear-ache, &C., upon
the human frame, and of strains, SPAWN CALLS
Sc, upon animals in one year than have all 9TH
er pretended remedies since the world began
1t is a counter-irritant, an all-healing pain re-
lever Cripples throw away their crutches the
lame walk, poisonous bites are rendered harm
less, and the wounded are healed without scar
It'll no humbug Therecipei is published around
each bottle It is selling IS article ever before
sold and it sells because it does just what it pre-
tends to do. Those who now suffer from rheu-
matsm, pain or swelling, deserve to suffer if
they will not use Centaur Liniment More than
1000 certificates Of remarkable cures, including
frozen limbs, chronic rheumatism, govt, run
ming tumors, &C., have been received. We will
send circular containing certificates, the reci-
pc, &c, gratis, to any one requesting it. One
bottle of the yellow wrapper Centaur Lniment
sweenied horses and mules, or for screw worm
in sheep. Stock-owners, this liniment is worth
your attention. No family should be without
Centaur Liniment. Price SOC bottle, large bot
ties $1.O0. j. B. ROSE s. Co.,
53 Broadway. New York
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of the increase in the number of schools and the
loss of the dog tax. But the Supervisors were
inexorable, and refused to levy more than ten
cents on the hundred dollars, for county and
districts together, or five cents for EACH Conse-
quently we shall have less money next year than
we have now, and this year it was so insufficient
that many of the schools were compelled to close
before the expiration of their terms
There remains, however, greater reason even
han the above why the maximum county and
district tax should be raised. 1t is this: The
county of Augusta paid last year into the State
Treasury school tax of about SIG 400. During
the same year she received for school purposes,
~, 600 70. DeductIng from the latter, S408.28
| as our share of the literary fund, leaves a bal
ance Of $8, 200-jjust half of the amount paid in.
Now if this be the condition of things when the
State tax Is at the minimum of one mill, it is ca
sy to see that If we expected to receive SIG, 400
from the State treasury, we would have to pay
at least $32, 800, or double the amount we expec-
ted to get back The constitution makes it OBJ
ligatory on the Legislature to provide for the
gradual equal and full introduction" CT the
school system by the year 1876 or as much ear
lier as practicable" 1t must be evident t, there
FORE to every one that it is our interest in pc
cuniary point of view to have the State tax as
low possible, and the county and district taxes
as high as necessary to keep the schools in sue
cessful operation.
Very many of our best citizens are opposed on
principle to free schools But you would not
cripple even an enemy as that system is now
crippled for want of meney. In kindness we
sometimes kill wounded animal. This thing
you cannot kill. believe that with sufficient
means public schools can be made better than
| private ones. You kaoao that they can be made
| better than they are. Give us then funds enough
| to effect this very desirable object. Other con
siderations might be adduced showing the i'm
portance of leVying q greater county and dis
| trict school tax, but want of space forbds en-
| larging upon or even mentioning them at pre-
sent. Hoping that the arguments advanced will
suffice to convince any one, close with the ex-
| hortation-see to it that the men for whom you
vote represent your sentiments on this important
| subject j. E GUY,
Go Sunt g
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STAND BY YOUR CoLoRs

| We do not believe in sustaining an enterprise
simply because it is Virginian and Southern,
but when it presents with these inducements,
intrinsic merits equal to- if not superior, to those
! of foreign companies we think it our duty to
stand by our colors and do all in our power to
| aid our own people. The Piedmont & Airing
ton Life Insurance Company comes under the
latter head. 1t now stands far ahead of all
Companies of the same age, is equal to all, and
superior to many older ones in economy of man
agement extent of business liberal dealing and
a resolute determination to show the world that
Southern talent and enterprise can successfully
manage the most vast and intricate questions of
finance, arising in the business it carries on.
When the N Northern press and people acknowl-
edge the success of this great Virginia enter
prise and rank the work of our 'boys who wore
the gray" second to none of their own Compa-
MES of many years growth when it has passed
the rigid and pref udiced scrutiny of the North
ern State Boards of Insurance, when it has lived
down even malicious criticism, which was per-
sistently poured upon it, by the simple process
of proving its falsty and meanness, by honora-
BILE management and such records of prosperity
as its last annual statement presents, think it
but due to it that all Virginians should stand by
Company which is an honor to its management
and to the State.
The Philadelphia Underwater, speaking Of its
last report, says: 1.-THE business of the Compa-
nv in 1872 shows decided advance in several
particulars The premium income has reached
the handsome sum of ST., 100, 600 and the policies
issued numbered 2644, insuring SIS, 800, 654.-
There was distributed among polcy-holders for
death claims dividends, &C., more than 5000, 600,
and quite creditahle addition was still made to
the Cos assets as the result of the years trans
actions" The comparatively low ratio of ex-
pense strikes the Undera0riter remarkable, the
salary expenditure being only $l6,509 for 1872,
a sum so small as to show the agents are doing an
amount Of successful work out of all proportion
to the United amount of compensation.
In conclusion, the Uaaderaoa tier says: Upon
the whole, we must express the deliberate opinion
that the Piedmont & Arlington combines in. its
financial condition, its honorable record, and its
accomplished official management, those essen
tails of security which fully entitle it to entire
confidence, and the Company dererves the pop
ularity it has attained"
The Upderaoriter is the leading authority upon
Insurance in the United States, and its opinion
fully justifes our people in sustaining Compa-
ny so creditable to Virginia and the South.
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Election of Supervisors.
STANTON. VA. Ma

STANTON, VA, May 8, 1873
To the Voters Of augusta County:
You will be called upon to elect on the
fourth Thursday in May, members Of the Board
of Supervisors for the ensuing year. The Leg
islature, winter before last took away from the
people the power to vote a tax for school purpo-
ses, and required the county school board to ap-
ply to the Board of Supervisors for the funds
necessary to carry on the schools-leaving it OPP
tona with the latter to give the sum asked for,
or q reduced amount.
While deprecating the necessity which COM
pels US to introduce school matters into politics.
the action of the Legislature referred to, leaves
us no other course, if we would make the public
schools success, which we are IN duty bound
to DO We must, therefore, and do now appeal
tc the people generally, to require every candi-
date for the Office of supervisor to declare dis
tinctly his views upon the school question. Do
not allow yourselves to be deceived by trusting
to any one who is non-commlttal en- this subject.
If the majority or mass OF you are opposed to
raising county and district taxes for school pur-
poses, then elect men of the same opinion and
relieve district boards from the unreasonable de-
mand that they shall supply teachers when they
have not funds to pay them.
But will give few reasons why these taxes
should be levied to the maximum allowed by
law: The State Constitution provides that the
proceeds of the capitation tax of ST.. per head
shall be devoted to the support of free Schools
together with the Interest on the literary fund
and the proceeds of tax not less than one mill
and not exceeding five mills on the dollar of re-
al and personal property. 1t also st the same
time authorizes the counties and school districts
to raise additional sums not exceeding tax of 5
mills on the dollar in any one year.
In accordance with these provisions the Legs-
lature wisely limited the State tax to the mini
mum Of one mill on the dollar. At its session
of'71-2 it allowed the Supervisors of each coun-
ty to levy dog tax and a tax on property, not
exceeding in the aggregate (of county and dis
trict taxes) one and one-halt mills on the dollar.
During the last session the dog tax was abolish
ed, but the maximum of county and district tax
on property was raised to two mills. The coun-
ty school Board posed of men little more
interested personally in schools and as much in
terested as the present Board OF Supervisors in
low taxes) in December last. requested the lat
ter to levy county and district school tax of u
cents each, on the hundred dollars. The dog
tax having been abolished, it was considered
that the above per cent would raise less than
enough for school purposes, especially in view