Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-22


wore General Canby's uniform. Thirty-three
Modocs were engaged. When the last cou-
rier left, the troops were between the Indians
and their lava stronghold. Capt. Hasbrouck
thinks the Indians are nearly out of ammu.
milton.
Further particulars report that at sunrise
on the 9th, the Modocs fired on the picket of
the party commanded by Capt. Hasbrouck,
which, after scouting all the day previous, had
returned for water Captain Jack rode to
within one hundred yards of the camp, dis
mounted, and charged the camp, firing into
the herd and guard. The first volley stam-
peded the herd. While the troops were get
ting under arms the Modocs fired volley after
volley into the camp. (The number of killed
and wounded are reported above) Two of
the wounded are mortally hurt.
A rally was made and the charge sounded.
The Modocs were driven into the timber, leav-
ing twenty.one ponies, three pack.mules, one
dead Modoc, nineteen packs, and six dead an
imals. The Modocs retreated toward Nc
Leod's range of mountains.
Captain Hasbrouck has FIVE days rations,
but water isscarce. The scene of the fight is
seventeen miles from the Lava Beds. Rein
forcements marched all night
Captain Jack took his position on the field
in as lordly manner as if he had been a
brigadier-general. No squaws were seen dur
ing the fight, nor by the scouts on the follow.
ing night.
A San Francisco dispatch of the 18th says
the Indians were then twenty-five miles from
the scene of the last fight, and we're being
hotly pursued.
Chester and Lenoir N. G. Railroad Co.
At recent meeting of the Board Of
Directors of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow
Gauge Railroad Company, the following
named persons we're appointed Commissioners
in the several counties to receive subscriptions
to the capital stock of the said Company:
CALDWELL CoUNTY.-At Lenoir-R. R.
Wakefield, R. B. Boyle, H. H. Hamilton, J.
G. BaIlew, M. V. Moore, L. w. Gilbert. At
Patterson-N. H. Gwyn, Edmund Jones. At
Johns Riuer-D. D. Cofey, J. N. Harshaw,
c. A. Little. At Lovelady-S. G. H. Jones,
w. D. Hickman, j. S. Setter.
WATAUGA CoUNTY.-At Boon-Dr. w. B.
Councill, T.J. CoAey, W. L. Bryan.
CArAwBA CoUNTY.-A. A. Shuford, Mo.
ses league, O. G. Foard, S. M. Finger, j. W.
Michael, w. H. Williams, j. R. Gather, F.
Smith, G. A. Icard, Maj. Jos. Bost, NJ. L.
Cline.
LINCOLN CoUNTY.-Ambrose Costner, W.
H. Motz, J. G. Cobb, V. A. McBee, John G.
Justice, B. H. Sumner.
GAsToN CoUNrY.-M. D. Friday, j. D.
Moore, Jonas Huffman, Henry Setter, Uriah
Matthews, John F. Wilson, W. D. Glenn,
Charles @. Petty.
CHESTER CoUNTY.-John G. McFadden,
G. G. Macoy, S. B. Massey, David Hemphill,
l. L. Clubhouse, E. T. Atkinson, John j.
Mcclure.
YORK COUNTY. F. Adickes, Joseph
Herndon, James L. Clark, Thomas s. Je6erys,
w. H. McCorkle, Jno L. Watson, j. S. R.
Thomson, M. Strauss, Hon. A. S. Wallace,
James F. Hart, T. NJ. Dobson.
County Treasurer Allen Found Guilty.
County Treasurer Allen, charged by State
Treasurer Cardozo with being a defaulter, has
been found guilty, and sentenced by Judge
Cooke to be imprisoned in the penitentiary
two years and pay fine of $1,000. An ap-
peal has been taken in the case. The Colum-
bia Evening Herald (Which is of the same po-
litical party as Mr.. Allen) thus speaks of the
matter:
"He made direct issue upon the right of
a County Treasurer to pay his private claims
against the State out Of the public funds in
hands We could not consent to the defend
ants view of the law, because it completely
nullifed the office of State Treasurer, and
forced that high official to push matters to the
last extremity. Criminal proceedings were
taken, and Mr.. Allen has suffered. But, from
public conversation on the streets, it seems to
be the general opinion that Treasurer Allen
has established a private character in his
neighborhood hitherto beyond reproach. 1t
is alleged that he never hesitated to confess
his refusal to turn over the public moneys,
under the circumstances that he never at
tempted any concealment or flight; that un-
der, perhaps, mistaken advice, be stood by bis
notion of the functions of his Office to the
last, without any criminal purpose to defraud
the people. Ifpublic opinion is right in these
facts, we do think that the case of Treasurer
Allen presents the most reasonable field for
the exercise of that just clemency and wise
humanity with which the Constitution has in
vested the Executive of the State. The law
has been vindicated, an example set, while
the sureties to the official bond Of the defen-
dant as we'll as the valuable securities and
other funds in his possession, make proper
and full settlement possible, and any loss to
the State impossible"
Port Royal City.
"A correspondent of the Charleston
Ne,us and Courier, furnishes the following in
formation in regard to the projected city of
Port Royal, near the town of Beaufort, S. G.:
The prematurely named city of Port Royal,
located on Port Royal Island, at the conhu-
ence of Beaufort River and Battery Creek, is
regularly laid out into blocks of five hundred
feet front by two hundred feet deep, bounded
by streets running due east and west, and av-
enues in the direction of due north and south.
Each square or block contains forty lots of
twenty-five feet front and one hundred feet of
depth. AS at present surveyed there are eight
hundred and fifty blocks or thirty.four thous.
and lots. These, at an average of one hun
dred dollars each, would amount to the snug
little sum of 100000. A large proportion
of these lands are held in trust by Mr.. D. F.
Appleton, of New York, and the title to them,