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had become so great, anu tnvif W
pressions so severe, that the existence
Of white men was at stake, was there
no nobler and more manly method Of
meeting the danger than by welcom-
ing the doctrines of the most violent
advocates of social equality? Twen-
ty we'll armed, determined men could
certainly have been found in Louisi-
ana to strike one bold, daring blow
and end the danger. True enough,
such n course would have put the
State under martial law but it would,
at any rate, have taken Louisiana out
of the hands OF the scoundrels who
had placed the very existence Of her
white population al peril.
Exactly what General Beauregard
expects 10 gain by his present course
we cannot imagine, The negroes
whose votes he expects to obtain will
not place credcnce in the sincerity Of
his declarations and it will be ut
terly impossible for him to unite the
whites on any platform OF social
equality with negroes All, then,
that he can possibly effect will be the
division of the whites in crisis
which demands their complete unity.
Under the plea of necessity the
South has, for eight years past, made
concession after concession. and in re-
turn has obtained nothing but op-
preston a"d contumely. Is it likely
that the movement inaugurated by
General Beauregard an'l his allies
will produce any more ralatah!e re-
suits? If political success depends
upon concession to negro arrogance
be we'll fixed, he will find the adven-
turer more than his match. There is
not single privilege he can offer to
the negro that he carpet Dagger has
not already offered him and between
the two, the negro will trust the ad-
venturer. STOPPING, then, will not
even enable him to conquer. Not a
negro will vote his ticket, who would
not have voted it upon promise to
respect his political rights and to
protect him in their exercise. On
. the other hand, thousands of white
men, disgusted and indignant. and
feeling that the concessions offered
are humiliation to their race, will
abando9 the political field in disgust,
and thus leave Louisiana more hope
lessly in the hands of carpet-baggers
and other scoundrels than ever.
General Beauregard has not only
committed gross blunder, he has
committed crime against his race
and his people. His resolutions cannot
elevate the negro, but they can drag
white men down to Che level of ne
groes. 1t would have been better to
have re-enacted tie sceneseof the
barricades in the streets of New Or
leans, than to have given to despair
of succor that cowardly form which
abandons pride Of race, pride of birth
and devotion to principles, and by
basely surrendering everything-even
manhood-sought to retain two pitt
full gifts-pitiful when placed beside
right and liberty, little money and
few years of life. Alas we fear
that Louisiana perisbed when Lee
surrendered
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Treasurer Cardezo interviewed.

"Qui Vive," the Columbia CORES
pondent of the Charleston NcaUs, call
ed on Treasurer Cardozo, after his
return from New York, and ELECTED
from him the following statements:
have nothing to do whatever with
any speculation in State securities,
and my recent trip to New York was
purely on account of my own prlvat
affairs. I had some private matters
to look after, principally in Washing
ton, and after l had finished That, /
ran on and spent few days in New
York.
The States credit is entirely gone,
and the bonds are as fiat as can be
1t would be fools errand for myself
or any one else to go to New York to
raise money on account of the State.
l do not think there are any sales OF
our bonds at all. No one comes to
buy them, even at the loy- figures at
which they are quoted, and the hold
ers are simply keeping them in the
hope that some hing may turn up by
which they may be able to realize
something for them.
There has been no business done
between Mr.. Kimpton and myself.
1 have neither paid him nor received
from him any money atall;; and so
far as my administration is'concerned,
he has had nothing to do with the
finances of the State. He has 70
bonds of the State, or, at least, claims
to have none.
The bonds purchased on accoun. of
the sinking fund, Agricultural Col
lege scrip, and the 100000 Of the
bonds of-the Blue Ridge Railroad'
every one Of them was hypothecated
for loansmade in Parker's term, and
the whole Of the $l9l, 900 in the
bonds of the State, in which the ag-
ricultural land scrip, or rather the
proceeds from the sale of it, was In
vested, together with the $500, 900 Of
bonds purchased with the proceeds Of
the sales Of the assets of the State by
the Sinking Fund Commission, are a
total loss to the State, unless the Off
cials who illegally disposed of them
can be held personally responsible.
1 notice in the New York papers
that the January and July bonds are
quoted at Is, and the April and Oc-
tober bonds at 22@23. l have been
struv!S with this seemingly unreason-
able disparity, and l cannot account
for it, except upon. the supposition
that by January and July bonds are
really meant the conversion bonds.
All of the latter have interest paya-
BILE in January and July. But all
Jautary and July bonds are not con-
version bonds; for there are, I know,
the first 100000 of land commission
bonds, the bonds issued for funding
the bills of the Bank OF the State,
an,l oeli,ans Como nthere of the new
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in general be crossed with rough tres
ties or timber cribs. Hewing the
timber would cost about 5000 per
mile. In wooded country, where
timber can be obtained along the Line
of the road, where no large bridges
are required, and no rock to be ex
cavated, the cost of such a wooden
railroad should be covered by from
$500 to $1,000 dollars per MILE. de-
pending upon the amount of earth
work.
CARS.
The cars proposed for such wooden
railroads are simple frames placed on
wheels, without springs, and covered
with a floor OF plank, The wheels
are of wood, built up of pieces cut
from two-inch planks Ill the form Of
secular sectors, about eight inches at
the wide end. Four thicknesses of
plank will build a wheel with tread
of eight inches. corresponding with
the face of the rail. A cast iron hub
is inserted in the centre, through
which an iron axle passes, and a cast
iron fange is bolted on the inside.
The timber should lie of hard wood,
we'll seasoned, the sectors laid 50 as
to break Joint and well bolted. Di-
arneter of wheels about thirty inches.
Such cars, il used with horses, will
cost about $40 to $50, or about one
third the pr.ce of a farm wagon.
They will carry three tons,. and can
be made by any rough hand who can
use carpenters tools. If designed
for use with locomotives in trains,
iraw-bars and springs must be used,
and the cost per car increased.
MOTIVE POWER.
Horse or mule power can be used /;
but if the tonnage is considerable,
it will be preferable to adopt light
en- sine of six or seven tons, with wide
driving wheels, covered with vulcan
lied r1 bier tire. Such engines can
be manufactured at the Baldwin Lo-
comotiye Works for about $4,000
Passengers could be carried on the
proposed roads with such engines at
speed of ten or twelve miles an
hour, which would make great i'm
provement on the stage coach.
Such roads would rot out long be-
fore thew would wear out, and the
answer to the objecti IN that they are
not durable is simply that they will
last lust as long as the cross-ties on
an ordinary railroad, and it will cost
less to renew them. Post oak ties in
the South last from ten to fourteen
wears. The cost Of transportation bv
wagons, for a distance of twenty-five
miles. without return load, is fifty
cents per 100 lbs, or $40 per ton Of
Assuming the tractive power on
such a wooden road, for the purposes
of an approximation, to be double
that of an ordinary railroad, or 90
lbs. per ton, the angle of friction
would be forty-eight feet to the mile.
And a horse exerting power Of $50
lbs, at 81 miles per hour, or four
horses 900 lbs, would haul on grade
of IA feet to the mile one-fourth Of
the gross load on a level, or n tons
giving 6 tons of net load. As trip
Of twenty-five e miles, returning empty,
could be made in two days, assuming
a team to be worth SIS day, the cost
of the round trip would be $40 or
ST &c per ton, as against $40 per ton
4 bv wagon transportation; and this
too on Grades OF $50 feet to the mile
nearlyGtolls for use of road not be-
mo included in, either case.
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Bealregard Follows LongSlreet
From the Atlanta Herald.


3 Not without the deepest possible
regret, do we find published in the
Nashville papers note from General
Beauregard, in which he avows him
self the father of the amalgamation
resolutions. He says that they had
become a necessity: that it was a
question of existence with them.
We cannot understand the necessi-
ty that impels white Southern men
to make such startling concessions
to an inferior race, as those proposed
by General Beauregard and his ad-
herents. Does the General mean to
tell lis that the existence of white
Louisiana depends upon what his
resolutions call the "unifcation OF
the races Is their existence depen-
dent upon the sweeping away in one
blow OF every barrier that four cen
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-07-31

| GVuiiV iVi VIio ', ..ii. u .-iU..~. .li ...c
Treasury, for, to speak in round num-
bers, l am called upon to pay 81, 2,500,-
900 OF claims against the State with
but a little over half that amount in
the Treasury to do it with. Here are
the itemized appropriations for the
current fiscal year:
General appropriation bill, $685.
s7e; Henry Ware g. Son, $4,000
claimsunder Governors proclamation,
$4,000; lands in Darlington, $4,000;
building State Orphan Asylum, $780,
900; Legislative expenses, 1872 and
1913, $4,000; permanent printing,
lS'l and 1872, S250,000; publishing
Acts, $1,000; legislative expenses,
1870, 1871 and 1872, $25 900; legis,
lative expenses, 1872 and 1878. $685.
600; current printing, $4,000; fit
ting up Heuse Of Representatives,
500, 600; total, $l,727,476.
The total represents the appropria-
tions merely for the current fiscal
year. Besides this, there was def
cheney arising from the nonpayment
of the actual appropriations OF. last
year, amounting to SG9l,396. The
aggregate, therefore, of the appro-
priations which l was called upon to
pay was within a fraction OF $780,
900, or, in other words, $l,727,476
and S69l 1896. To raise this amount
tax of Twelve mills was levied,
which any one can see is totally mad
equate upon taxable basis of $780,
0O0,000. which is an extreme figure
to be relied upon as the property of
the State rs at present assessed. My
receipts have been, so far, as follows:
Received from N. G. Parker, ex-
Treasurer, $l94; received from taxes,
81 COG, 1858; received from licenses,
$l1 ,S09.6S; received from fees Of Of
flee Secretary OF State, $6,040 SO; re-
ceived from fees of office Comptroller
General $3.50; received from re.
fund OF over-payment, $6,lS2. l6; re-
ceived from Charleston joint Stock
Company, $4,000; received from sale
OF books and materials, $45.l5; total
receipts, S1,636,927.lS.
Of the amount stated as received
from taxes. 81 596. 442Sl are from
the taxes of this year, the balance,
about $4,000, came from the delin-
quent taxes of preceding years.
There will be a large deficiency,
then, for the General Assembly to
provide for next year. If you take
into consideration last years defcien-
cy, still unpaid, and this years de-
fciency, the aggregate will be about
$S00,000, or the difference in my re-
ceipts, in round numbers, 81 100000,
and the appropriations Of this year
and Of last years deficiencies, $2,-
100000.
1 haven't the figures precisely, but
about $780, 900 have been paid Of last
years deficiencies.
I have paid the printing and other
clarms, for which appropriations were
made this year, though the services
were performed last, out of the def
cheney tax, as 1 conceived it proper
to do. These claims amounted to
something like'S400,000, and conse-
quently the deficiency for this yesr
will be 100000 instead OF $SO0,00O
and there will sbe about 100000 .ot
the old deficiency still remaining. Il
was robbing Peter to pay Paul, but
OF course, it is all the same to the
State. asA. -sl
I have paid 1.-the salaries, 1 think
up to the end Of the second quarter
the Both April. i have paid the Lu
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: Brevities and Levities.


&se- A Utica paper says that some
wretch sent postal card written in Latin,
and it took the post office clerks more
than an hour to find dictionary, and
now they do not know whether the card
was dry goods bill or an invitation to a
wedding.
|. ~ Abominations at seaside hotels:
Matches that won't light, soap that won't
wash, towels that correspond in size.to
napkins, flies in soup, sand in water
pitcher; and looking-glasses fearfully
and wonderfully made.'
~ One of the late boys while reading
chapter of Genesis, paused to ask his
mother whether the boys in the olden
time used to do their sumson the ground.
It was discovered that he had been read
ing the passage, and the sons OF men
multiplied upon the face of the earth.r
ycAs- "WHY do men marry?" Quinapa-
ius saith: .'Some men marry for dim
Piles, some ears, some noses; the contest,
however, generally lies between the eyes
and the hair. The mouth is occasionally
married; the chin not so often.''
:ass'== " You Abe Linkum, tell Ben
Butler to bring Lysses Grant in out ub
dat sun dis mint, or I'll tar you to deth.
Dat child might get sun stroke for all
you mean Frogtown niggers 'ud keer."
@5- The only safeguard against cholera:
is announced by an Atlanta, Georgia.
doctor. 1t is to stand on your head for
a minute three times day. He says'it
arrests abdominal denression.
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ilILiu...----,
0, ,,i1oe-44-ovorc~n nos'

pi1,'o'
To pay running expenses and IL
per cent. on capital will require an
income of only $4,000 per annum
To cover operating expenses, without
interest on capital or equipment
about $4,000.
The amount of business that would
pay operating expenses only, without
dividends, on an ordinary iron road
would pay operating expenses and 4
dividend Of 40 per cent. upon the
wooden railway and the business
that would pay 10 per cent. upon the
iron road would pay l42 per cent
upon the woo,len road. To pay 10
per cent. upou the wooden road would
require IL business at the prices stated
OF $500 passengers and 1000 tons
freight.
The capacity Of a wooden railway
with single engine Of Z tons and
grades Of $50 feet to the mile would
be: adhesion Of engine, 5000 lbs.
traction on level 20 lbs per ton; load
on level lG0 tons; on grade OF l5l
feet, 40 tons; requiring at 5 tons tc
a car, II cars, or II cars exclusive ol
weight Of engine. The net load car
ried would be about 2S tons.
A days trip each way for 800 days
would give an annual capacity ol
l6,SOO tons. II the trade should be
all one way, only half this amount
carried and no passengers, 81 per ton
for 25 miles, or 10 cents per 100 lbs.
would pay running expenses on such
a road, and II per cents. dividends
while an iron road could not be op-
Grated at all with ordinary equip
.ment, inasmuch as the income would
not pay running expenses.
The cases are numerous where such
roads would perfectly meet the wants
of the public in developing the re-
sources If sparsely settled localities,
and serving as valuable feeders to
trunk lines. The estimate for ca
pacity has been made for n single en-
CINE Of 6 to I tons. II the wei ght
o. or number or engines be increased,
the capacity would be increased pro-
portionally. The ultimate capacity
with increased equipment would far
exceed the requirements of any To-
cality where such roads would be
employed.
The question is often asked: What
is the limit Of grade that ctn be EN-.
ployed on such wooden railroad
The answer is, grade affects only the
load which given power can trans.
port, and is Independent of the road
itself, gravity being retarding force
due to inclination solely. At the
same time it is true that the more
perfect the construction Of the road
bed and the machinery, the more
rapidly does grade reduce the trac:
tive power. On we'll constructed
railroad 8 lbs. per ton will move q
train, and grade of 20 feet to the
mile will more than double the re.
quired traction for a given load. And
every additional 20 feet would re
quire additional power equal to the
resistance of the train upon level
On wooden railroad, assuming trac
ton ais 90 lbs. per ton, it would re-
quire grade of nearly 80 feet PEI
mile to double the power, or with
given power to reduce the load one
half. On q grade of $50 feet to th'
mile a team Of four horses could hau
five tons.
The adhesion Of locomotives on or
dinary railroads does not exceed one
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JEFF. DAVIS AND HIS CoLoRED
FR1ENps.-The st. Louis Christian
Advocate says: During the late
visit of the Hon. Jefferson Davis to
this city, while he was being called
on by crowds of respectable citizens,
and receiving manifestations of re-
spect from hundreds of the most
prominent and worthy ladies and
gentlemen Of the city, there occurred
little episode of very pleasing
character. One night during his
stay at the Planters House he was
serenaded by some colored people
who were formerly his slaves. After
their dulcet strains had ceased, Mr..
Davis called them into his room;
where, after cordial greetings on both
sides and alittle chat about old times,
he made each a handsome present.
At another time during his stay he
was called oneby an .,old aunty, who
had been. the nurse of his eldest
| child. The affection that she ex.
slaves manifested for their former
master and the interest which b
manifested for them and their ifutnr
! welfare were really affecting. " Il Ils.t I
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Young Paddy McShane, sure no
lad could be bolder, coaxed Biddy
McShae to be sharing his lot, and Pat
had a lively young pig on his shoul-
der, and she on her head bore big
.iron pot. From the town just at
nightfall, as home they were walking,
through dark, lonely thicket their
winding path lay; Biddy sat down
the pot. stopped her laughing and
talking. Paddy turned round, and
asked her The cause Of the delay.
"Oh," says she, I'm afraid you'll
be acting uncivil; I'll not go alone
through he thicket wild you; :or
Paddy avick, you're as wild as he
divil;; you'll be kissing and squazlng
me, that's what you'll dol" !" But
the pig" replied Pat, "that I've lug
ged so securely, if loose, back totown
like the divil he'd trot.'' "Och, Pad
dy," says she, as she glanced up de-
murely, couldn't yes put the pug
under the pot?"
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wil regret q -. - 49, ~ .6i
i'll brutal manner last week, Dat was
not killed"
3las. An English shopkecper has, for
his virtues obtained the name of Little
rascal" a stranger asked him why this
!appellation had been given to him? ITO
distinguish me from the rest Of my trade"
quoth he, "who are all great rascals."
ao- Half a pound Of shot judiciously
administered to sympathetic cats, at this
season of the year, will bear fruit in
increased hours OF slumbcr throughout
the summer and have Il tendency to
prevent q corner III the chicken market.
ES- Never go to sleep in an auction
room a man lately nodding i'll one
found himself charged with half the
goods sold during the evening.
rs,' a Baptist clergyman out West un-
dertook to baptize his wife at all unsea-
sonable hour. He kept her head under
water too long, and now he has to Ire
hung to dry in consequence.
~ There are some unreconstructed
females in the western part OF the State,
rs the following from the Newton Nndi-
Gator proves: "An old lady selling eggs
last week asked, as is usual, Whats the
nsws?" 1.-The latest" said the Obliging
clerk, "is that the Yankees have got the
Modocs.'' Good" said she, striking
the counter with her knuckles. 81 hope
the last one will die with it,
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the fount of bitterness may yield
sweet waters, and He whose willing
hand is ever ready to aidSas will re-
ward our humble endeavers, and ev-
cry good deed will be as bread cast
upon the waters to return after
many days. if not to us, TO those we
love ~
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From the Greenville Republican. /.
Wooden Railroads.

To develop the resoprces Of "a
country, facilities for transportation
are indispensable. Ironsere. could be
mined and lumber manufsctured'only
to a very limited extent if wagon
transportation for any considerable
distance over common roads were
necessary to reach market Where
the business is sufficiently extensive
to warrant it, and the capital can be
secured, railroads, either narrow or
ordinary gauge, will afford the best
facilities. But there aremany locali-
ties in which ordinary railroads are
impracticable, not fromphysical, but
from financial dificultiesin the way
of their construction. With a limited
capital and sparse population, rail
roads can not be built, even in local..
ties highly favored iM natural re-
sources for operationss Of quarrying,
mining, and heavy manufacturing.
In such cases substitute for The
wagon road, less expensive than the
railroad, becomes desideratum.
This substitute has Been proposed
in a new style of wooden railroad,
costing but little more to construct
than an ordinary wagon road, yet,
afording transportation at less than
one-iit6 the cost by wagon, and less
also than the ordinary cost by rail,
where interest on capital invested is
considered. This road differs essen
TALLY from the ordinary tram-road,
which consisted of sawed rails about
three inches wide, laidson cross-ties,
and used with narrow tread iron
wheeled cars. Such roads. although
some improvement on the common
wagon road with its mud holes and
deep ruts, have given very unsatis-
factory results. The differences ex-
tend to the track, cars, and motive
power.
TRACK
The track is formed Of heavy logs,
hewed on the upper side to the width
of eight inches, and on the inside at
right angles, sufficiently deep to form
straight edge for theaange. These
logs are buried so that the top, or rail
surface, is almost level with the road
surface, resting on stout sills at the
ends and middle, to5which they are
secured by wedged tree nails. The
rails therefore are solidly bedded,
and not liable to warp OF twist. Twen-
iv feet wnnl,' -'scc5r ~. - en-; 'e7g5A
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ns- The rage for the "ie" termination
to girls names has come to disastrous
conclusion in one Oregon family. A far
mer named AXE christened his eldest
girl Belle. She had some cards printed
in the "ie'' fashion, and-well, after look
ing at the result, she concluded Belle
was pretty enough for her, and burned
them.
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This is a moderate estimate Of
the cost of operating an ordinary
railroad, with a minimum equipment,
for one year, including repairs, re-
newals and 10 per cent. on capital,
and amounts to about $4,000 per
mile. If one-third of this income
should be derived from passengers
and two-thirds from freight, carried
at 6 cents perspassenger and 10 cents
per ton per mile. the number Of pas
sengers carried the 25 miles would
he l6,1S0 and the number of tons
10000; this amount Of business would
pay 10 per cent. on capital invested.
To cover running expenses and pay
nothing on capital, would require a
business of 6,14o passengers and y
$50 tons-yielding a revenue of ST.
$50.
A wooden railway for the accom-
notation of an equal business would
require the following estimate: