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A Word 10 Our Legislators.

Now that the Legislature is again in
session, we would respectfully call the at.
tention OF its members to one or two
points on which they can make laws that
will be benefit to the whole people.
The first il concerning our roads As
at present managed they are poor institu-
tons, aud it is at the risk OF lite or limb
that any one can drive oye- them. Our
present law, which requires every man
TO perform two days labor on the roads,
is lamentable failure 1t is impossible
to get every man to put ~ his time, aud
but few pay their cOmmItatiOn; conse-
quenty what repairing Is done, is perform
ed at the expense OF few Then, too,
there IS not more than one-fOurth the
amount Of work done th At ought % be
1t Is very clear that our present laws will
not have the effect desired We are
now, and always have been, opposed to
the plan OF requiring men to perform 30
much labor ON the roads, or furnish an
equivalent IN cash because we have al
Ways thought it unjust 10 nine cases
out of ten, It is asking one man to i'm.
prove anothers property. 1t IL not the
tenant who generally performs the labor,
nor the merchant who pays the cummu-
tauOn, that reaps the benefit Of the i'm.
proved condition OF the roads, but the
property owner Wherever a good road 4,
made, there viii You find the value of the
land greatly exceeding that where the
rOais are poor or where there is no road
at all
We 10 not iAink,ts the editor Of the Pt
Pleasant Rey,stsr says that the present
road law, compelling men To- perform
certain a mOaut Of labor each year
ou Go. rom.. without compsus g.
ton I- ul invention OF The Radical
party for the system vas established
l-ued years before the Radical party
came INTO eri-eucs. AMI long before tue
af0-e-1ij ei.lor thought of going into a
printing office
TIE seeo.I b, uie bu .iy.us gene al
Information TO ,e people passed. bg ile
Senate ati t' ~, i4-t sessions. bui which
ia. never yet been Drouzn, lp 300 us
House TLs b.I provides for tbs pub
lshinE ut tue Sheriff .ele. delinquent lsr
l.,i and other such matters ~ vii be- in
terssun. Goo the whole people 40 present
IDuccs aIe stuck up ou Size front floor Of
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The first Colored High School OF Ken
lucky, costing $4,000, was dedicated at
Louisville the other day The leading
citizens and officials participated 1t will
accommodate 600 pupils.
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county, Va d Hu,ted, London, England; s
Miley, John NiIey, C A Hill. GsiIipoli.;
L Wilkinson, 81 AIban.; n I Benedict, Scott
Station; Ira II Latin, Washington; L Prince,
Raleigh II; @ W Robinson. IrontOn.
WEDNESDAY
Stuart, W Stuart, Normal, IN; NJ
Kerr, GalliPolis; A A McPher.-n, Ripley; Je-
rome Shelton, Lincoln county: ; p Deem, Pt
Pleasant; ID Canterbury, Charleston; VI b
silkknitter; Snow Shoe, Pa; Peter Burke. Mid
dlePort; W Lewis. city; NJ Fitzgerald. Ports
mouth; Anthony Smith and wife, Tyler co; NJ
ii Grant, Pomeroy; A Bicker, Uuiontown; 5
Long, Guyandotte; Geo W Robinson, Dennis
Hines, Ironton.
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WEDNESDAY.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

VII hEASIKEK UFFICE,
Huntington, W. w., Oct. 20, 1873.
The city assessment list Of taxes for general
purP"se'' will be in my hands for payment, at
my Office. from November | to November So
1873, inclusive.
All taxes not paid or before November
5Oth, will he turned over to the Marshal for
collection, who will add FIVE per cent and cost.
for collection.
oct2it6 JOHN II. OBEY, Treasurer.
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Corner Of Ninth street aud Second Ave
nue., during the week ending Thursday
morning, October %, 1873:
THURSDAY.
Mrs J C Power. Miss Molne Eilmy. wash
ington; Mrs Beam, Mrs Mollie Beam, W II
Graham. Charleston; Ben Bornhoim. A = Good
Ashlandi Little, Catlettsburg; Il Ilarri..
Conn; Geo Wilhelm, X Morton, Vim Hetren.
Cincinnati; Holmes, ) p Bulmcrt. Ports
mouth; II Scott and wife, ! Gallcn. Y G; l.
G Tony, Thomas Brucu, Mary VI Jordan. Nj.
Chapman, John llillcy, Richmond. Ind; e "
Cmmuck, Indiana: VI " Vcnubic. A C saw.
yer. W Taylor, W ! Barksdnle. Virginia: r
Huntington, Champlanc. Miss; j scott.
GnIlpoli.; W j Oakcs. .tr Julia No 2;JL
Frrrell, city; WIN wallaud. r o G.. Chc- a o K
Il; Mrs Bland, Coyinston; 'as Hcrn. Green
Bottom: Geo Ilinohcf Darlington. ; " Boyd.
Wheeling.
FRIDAY.
Tho. yiney, j II Giyen.. Burlington. Ind. e.
u Carroll, p Kennedy, Frank Enslow. city.
VIM Arnutt, New York: J Out-ait. Lancaster.
4 u Lichenor, Lebanon. %. r o Crawford.
Mullishu, Cincinnati, j % Dollar. ParE.r..
burg. J. Trcutsr. Guyaudotte; John Price and
vie, Barboursvillc. : K Hall, ~ymmc. Creek
John >hcuor, Perry -hcrrcr. PcJtuua. q p..
ris Kanswhn. W Il Holmc. Portsmouth, "
% Burke. ln. J. sis.on, Frederick .bure. Dr
ID Damron, Ca-.yiIl.. 70 Errr9.e Cairo. A
e. Cooper. Galur.Hs. l. Schmidt Milton. ~su
Bankiu,hip, Wayne co; e Badavn, vs. SIC.
atrrpr..-
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LIST OF LETTERS

Remaining in the Huntington posi-ofiice.
Oct 2i, 1873, which, if not called for in
80 days will be sent to the dead letter office:
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Corner OF Ninth street aud Second Ave-
nue., during the week ending Thursday
morning, October %, 1873:
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-11-20

itary operations.
Lee had made his works at Petersburg i'm
pregnable to assault, and had movable col.
umn of his army within two days march OF
the Federal capital. He had made a campaign
unexampled in the history of defensive war
fare.
Colonel veuable concluded his noble ad-
dress as follows:
"My comrades, feel that I have given but a
feeble picture of this grand period in the his
tory of this time of trial of our beloved South
"a history which is great gift of God, and
which we must hand down as a holy heritage
to our children, not to teach them to cherish
spirit of bitterness or love for war, but to
show them that their fathers bore themselves
worthily in the strife, when to do battle be-
came sacred duty. Heroic history is the
living soul of a nations renown. When the
traveller in Switzerland beholds the monument
to the thirteen hundred brave mountaineers
who met the overwhelming hosts of their proud
invaders, and as he reads in their epitaph: !:
who fell unconquered, but wearied with
victory, giving their souls to God and their
bodies to their enemy or when he visits the
places sacred to the myth of William Tell,
transplanted by pious, patriotic friends from
the sages of another people, to inspire the
youth of that mountain land with a hatred of
tyrants and love of heroic deeds-or when
he contempates that wonderful monument by
Thurwaldsen, on the shores of Lake Lucerne,
in commemoraton of the fidelity in death of
the Swiss Guard of Louis XVI-a colossal
lion, cut out of the living rock, pierced by
fatal javelin, and yet in death protecting the
lily of France with his paw-he asks himself
how many men of the nations of the world
have been inspired with love of freedom by
the monuments and heroic stories of little
Switzerland?
"Comrades, we need not weave any fable
borrowed from Scandinavian lore into the woof
of our history to inspire our youth with adml-
ration of glorious deeds in freedoms battles
done. In the true history of this army of
Northern Virginia, which laid down its arms
not conquered, but wearad with victory, you
have record of deeds of valor, OF unseltlsh
conservation to duty, and faithfulness in death
which will teach our sons and our sons sons
how to die for liberty. Let us see to it that it
shall be transmitted to them"
Colonel Venable's very interesting address
was received with frequent bursts OF applause
from the audience; and yet during the whole
of it the decorum observed was emarkable.
His touching illusions to the past services OF
the gallant Army of Northern Virginia drew
forth tear from nearly every eye, and when
he eloquently recited the heroic deeds OF the
faithful sons of the South his words were gree
ted with enthusiastic applause. Now and then
humorous incident of the campaign-the
last sixty days of the war-as recited by Colo
mel Venable, excited the risbilities of the au-
dience, and the next moment he carried his
hearers through some of the most solemn and
impressive scenes of those last days of battle,
and their laughter was then almost turned into
sobbing.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-11-20
Another Radical Outrage.

We regret to be compelled to chronicle an
other most inexcusable outrage in this county,
perpetrated under the pretence of legal au-
thority. Or rather, we regret that we can do
nothing more than chronicle it.
Employed on the farm Of Mr.. John A. Ma
rion, a few miles east of this place, is re-
spectacle young white man, named Henry
Farrell, aged about twenty-five years. He was
summoned to work on the public highway last
summer; but forgot the matter and neglected
to appear when summond. On last Monday
Isom Grier, negro constable, went to the
plantation of Mr.. Marion, with warrant is
sued by Ben Micheal, a negro Trial Justice.
The constable found Mr.. Ferrell employed at
the gin house of Mr.. Marion, and arrested
him. Mr.. Ferrell desired to 60 to the dwelling
house to get his coat, he being in his shirt
sleeves, and for the purpose of letting Mrs.
Marion, the only other white person on the
plantation at the time, know where he was
going to. This privilege was refused him by
the negro constable, and, upon his insisting
upon going to the house the said constable
called to his assistance some other negro men
who were at work about the gin house, seized
the uouag man, ovcrpowersd him, and tied him
hard and fast. He was brought to town,
thrown in Jail, and on Tuesday was carried
before Michael and squeezed to the extent OF
ten dollars and ninety-tive cents. he was only
defaulter for one days work on the roads.
These are the facts as furnished to US by MIR.
John A. Marion than whom there is no more
respectable nor truthful man in Chester Coun-
ty.
1t is our deliberate conviction, and has been
so for some time, that it is the settled purpose
of certain Radical officials to goad the white
people of this section of country into taking
the law into their own hands and resenting the
indignities that are continually being heaped
upon them under the pretended forms of law.
We believe that this purpose had its inception
in high quarters, and that the carrying of it
out is instigated in high quarters with the view
of advancing the political fortunes of the in
stigators. 1t is matter of history that the
organization of the K. K. K. was instigated
and helped forward by the Scott administration,
and no one, we suppose, would for moment
deny that the Moses administration is no whit
the inferior of its predecessor in all species OF
rascality aud robbery. With this conviction
upon our minds all that we can advise our
white brethren to do is to grin and bear for the
present. We believe that there is God above
us who loves justice and truth and hates false
hood and oppression, and that in His own good
time our present rulers, all of them, negroes,
carpet -baggers and scalawags, will be seen
calling upon the rocks and the hills to hide
them from the fury of an outraged and long
suffering people.-Mester Reporter.
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The Claim of the South Carolina Bank and
Trust Company.

The correspondent Of the Charleston Neacs
and Courier furnishes synopsis of the minori-
ty report submitted by Messrs. John R. Coch-
ran, of Anderson, and r. M. Smith, of Spar
tanburg upon the claim of the South Carolina
Bank and Trust Company for S125,O0o, upon
which majority of the committee Of ways
and means reported favorably. The gentlemen
named give good and sufficient reasons for
their action, which is commendable and praise
worthy:
John R. Cochran and R. NJ Smith, two
members of the committee on ways and means,
have submitted minority report on the bill to
make an appropriation to pay the claims of the
South Carolina Bank and Trust Company
against the State OF South Carolina, which the
majority of the committee recommended. They
report adversely to the bill for the following
reasons: First, because there was no evidence
to show that the State is indebted to the claim
ants in the amount stated. Second, because
the bank failed to produce the certificates of
Indebtedness upon which they based their
claim. Third, because the wording of the bill
is obscure, and does not show how much prin-
cipal and how much interest is claimed
Fourth, because they were unable to ascertain
from the bill what was meant by the other
"eyijences of Indebtedness" upon which the
claim was based. Fifth, because the bill pre-
cludes the State Treasurer from making an in
vestigation into the legality or ilegality of the
claims. Sixth, because the bill requires the
Treasurer to make distinction in favor of
their claims against all other claims. Seventh,
because the passage of the bill would be giving
an unfair and unjust preference to powerful
aud wealthy corporation, when it is we'll
known fact that the salaries of school-teachers,
school commissioners, judges of the courts,
county auditors, State officers, clerks Of the
different departments of State, and many MEM
bers of the Legislature remain unpaid for
months, and in many instances for years. They
also state that the bill is in direct conflict with
Section 8, Article 9, of the Constitution of the
State which provides as follows: "The General
Assembly shall provide for an annual tax suf-
ficient to defray the estimated expenses of the
State for each year, and, whenever it shall
happen that such ordinary expenses of the
State for any year shall exceed the income of
the State for such year, the General Assembly
shall provide for levying tax for the ensuing
year sufficient, with other sources of income,
to pay the deficiency of the preceding year, to-
gether with the estimated expenses OF the en-
suing year."
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The Indian and the Negro.

The policy of the Federal Government
towards the Indians is, to say the least of it,
a contradictory one. At one time it would
seem that Indians have some rights that the
Government is bound to respect, and other
times it does not seem so. In the year 1866,
Congress agreed to give the Choctaw Indians
$500, 900 for the strip OF country known as the
LEASED District" provided the Choctaws would
within two years adopt into the nation and
make citizens of about 5000 negroes, formerly
their slaves, and give to each individual negro
forty acres of land. But neither the money
promised nor the adoption of the Howard
Amendment declaring all persons born in the
United States to be citizens of the State where
in they reside, could prevail upon the Choc-
taws to disregard their rights of property and
their prejudices of race If not OF color, so far
rs to admit their negro slaves to the rights of
citizenship. And, if we are correctly informed,
the Indians in the everglades of Florida also
continue to this day to disregard the Constitu-
tona provision in regard to Involuntary SER
vitude.
The time allowed by Congress for the Choc-
taws to accept the benefits" of its legislation
in their behalf has long ago passed without
action having been taken, but from council to
council the Government has extended the
time.
The question now arises what vii! the Gov
ernment do in the premises? The Government
that can hang Captain Jack by a Military
Commission would seem to have ample power
to meet any emergency.
But as the Richmond Dispatch says "this bit
of history has another phase that is interest
ing We see that Congress has offered to buy
the consent of the Choctaws to the enfran-
chisement of the negro as voter and equal.
Yet no such consideration was shown to the
white man of the South. He was not asked
anything but the reconstruction measures
gave the negro directly all that the Choctaws
are asked to give him. Nay, all that they were
offered (SSOO,OOC) to give him. except the forty
acres of land.
"This is we'll worth the attention of the ma
ton The negro is superior to the white man,
and the Indian also, in the estimation of Con-
gress. Think on it,
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A Washington letter says:

- A Washington letter says; "Advices
from Texas indicate that the Conservatives
will carry the State in the election on the End
of December by an increased majority over
that given for Greeley last year. 1t is antici
pated that there may be some trouble in the
State and perhaps recourse to Federal inter-
ference, as in the case of Louisiana. In ac-
cordance with law passed last winter, new
elections are to be held for the State Senate in
number of districts where the parties now
filling the positions claim to have several years
yet to serve. These parties, all of whom are
Republicans, declare they will hold on to their
offices, in which event there will be two bodies
claiming to be the State Senate. In this event,
Mr.. Attorney General Williams will doubtless
be applied to for an opinion as to which is the
the lawful body"
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"A suit is about to be brought in Indiana
to test the question whether the statute forbid
ding persons with visible mixture of negro
blood S to marry whites is or is not in conflict
with the civil rights law and recent constitu-
tional amendments. The suit is in behalf of
Edward Brown, of Indianapolis, convicted last
spring of marrying white woman, and SEN
fenced to FIVE years in the penitentiary. The
result will be looked for with interest, as there
are several other States in which a similar law
exists, and some in which it is enforced.
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One of the wittiest, as we'll as one of

One of the wittiest, as we'll as one of the
most brilliant men Pennsylvania has produced
was the late Geo. W. Barton, of Philadelphia,
who once occupied seat on the bench. Try
ing case before a Judge who was chiefly re-
markable for obtuseness, he took occasion to
say that he had often seen great ass in judi
cial G robes. "You speak from experience, I
suppose" was the angry retort. "Not at ALL"
replied Judge Barton, II am speaking directly
from observation"
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: "Tom q word with you." "Be quick,

"Tom, word with YOU" "Be quick,
then. for I'm in hurry" "What did you
give your horse the other day?" "a pint of
furpentine." John hurries home, and admins
tiers the same dose to favorite charger, who,
strange to say, drops off defunct within an
hour. His opinion of his friend TOMS veteri-
nary ability is somewhat staggered. He met
him the next day. "Well, Tom" "Well,
John, what is it?" 81 gave my horse pint of
turpentine, and it killed him as dead as Julius
Cesar" $50 it did mine."
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-"Where shall put this paper so as to be
sure of seeing it tomorrow inquired Mary
Jane of her brother Charles. Son the looking
glass" was her brothers reply.
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A New Orleans juryman was asked by
the Judge if he ever read the papers. He re-
piled eyes, your honor; but if you'll let
me off this time, I'll never do so any more"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-11-26

EARTHQUAKE.-It is asserted, and
the fact is vouched for by several re-
liable citizens, that this portion OF the
moral vineyard was visited by a shock
of earthquake about nine O'Clock on
Saturday night. We are free to say
that. although we were around about
that time. we didn't get any Of that
shock. However, the shock is said to
have been fair attempt, and build
lngs were made to tremble. Quite a
number of our citizens displayed unu-
sual energy in throwing themselves
into their clothes and getting ont into
the street. We shall probably get
more of them SOON, and we feel con-
cerned for the owners of brick houses,
when they do come.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-11-26

Big STOCK. Having just received
two packs of blank cards tall colors,
from one of the first importing houses
of Cow Bay, together with a pound
and half of new type, we call the at
tention of the business men Of this
city to the fact. and urge them to seize
upon the opportunity to rush in, bald
beaded or otherwise, to our job office,
aud order their bills, posters, cards,
blanks, letter-heads bill-heads, etc,
executed at once. "A hint to the suf-
ficient is wise"
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ordinance No. 22.

Relating to the right of way of the Albany
and Santiam Water Ditch.
Be il oyuiai,ud by the Common Council Of H.
Cayof Aibdny'
been filed by the Albany and Santiam
Water Ditch or Canal Company with the
CITY Recorder of this city, praying for the
grant of the right of way for Water Ditch
through the City of Albany on certain
streets, to-wit:
Beginning at the sonth end of Vine
street, and running thence north on said
Vine street to the Calipooia Creek, also
tl,e intersection of said Vine street and
Eighth street, and run thence east on
Eighth street to the intersection of said
Eighth and Lafayette street, and to turn
AT the said intersection of said Eighth
street and said Lafayette street and run
thence on said Lafayette street to the Will
lamette river.
And whereas said petition appears to he
signed BY each and all owners ofreal estate
on each Side of the said streets on which it
is proposed to be located, and whereas the
introduction of said wafer ditch into and
through the city is believed 10 be OF great
importance and. value to the properly OF
the CITY: therefore the right OF way for
said water ditch through the city of Al
banv be, and the same Is. hereby granted
TO the said Albany and Santiam Water
Ditch or Canal Company rs follows, and
npon the conditions hereinafter specified
forever:
Sec. .. That the right Of way for said
water ditch granted, as in section one pro-
yided, shall be located as follows: Begin.
ming Ill the south end of Vine street and
running thence north on said Vine street
IN the center thereof TO the Calipooia
creek. and also the main trunk thereof TO
turn nj the intersection of Vine and Eighth
streets, keeping In the center, and run
thence east on Eighth street IN the center
thereof 10 the intersection OF Eighth ana
LAFAYETTE streets, and turning In the. CEN
ter Of the street and run thence north on
said Lafayette street to the willamette
river. AZ.
Sec. 8. That the said water ditch at the
nlaee eeofbcginning, at henorthend OF Vine
street. NJ fine intersection of Vine and
Eighth streets, may not exceed forty laOl
feei IN width at the top or surface Of the
Tround. and from the said intersection OF
Eiyhth and Vine streets to the WiliametIe
river. IL may be not exceeding thirty-slx
IA, ftet in width at the top or surface OF
the ground, and that from the said inter
Section @ al Vine and Eighth streets 10 the
CalinooIa creek it may be mot exceeding
fhirtv.three feet IN width at the top or
surface of the ground, ataByand Ell places
for tho extent or lcngth thereof may % ~