Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-15
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CASE OF DROWNING.
We learn that on Friday last two negro
men, employed on the farm Oft. M. Carothers,
named Isom Brum6eld and Sylvester Smith,
were drowned while attempting to cross a
branch of Catawba river at India Hook Mills,
near Rock Hill. The stream was swollen
twenty feet above usual water mark, and those
who were drowned, in company with another
freedman named Tom Nicholson, attempted
to cross in batteau, which was capsized.
Tom narrowly escaped drowning. The dead
bodies could not be recovered, though efforts
were made to do 80.
THE ROCK HILL MEETING.
The Lantern of last week devotes half
column in reply to short paragraph pub
lished in the ENQUIRER Of May 1st, in regard
to the meeting held at Rock Hill, several
weeks ago, in opposition to the subscription
made by the County Commissioners to the
capital stock of the Chester and Lenoir Mar
row Gauge Railroad Company. We had
stated, upon the authority of a gentleman
who was present at the meeting, that "the
assemblage embraced, by actual count, fifty
seven persons-twenty.seven whites and thir-
ty colored-a goodly number of each race
present being neither taxpayers nor voters. v
One object of the Lantern is to show that our
informant was mistaken, and that there was
greater number of white persons present
at the meeting than of colored. Very we'll.
If we had been misinformed, we cheerfully
give the Lantern an opportunity to correct
the error. We do not object either to the
number or the color of those who we're pres
ent. We fully recognize the right of the
people, without regard to trace, color or pre-
vious condition." to peacefully assemble and
consult for the public good, and to adopt
proper and legal measures to redress their
real or imaginary grievances. If the citizens
of Rock Hill are dissatisfied at the prospect
of railroad being constructed through York
county, without passing that town, they have
a perfect right to express the state of their
feelings by resolutions adopted in public
meeting, and through the public prints. This,
we think, they have most effectually done.
Nearly every line that we have read as ema.
mating from opposition to the measure,
breathes the one inevitable sentiment that
were Rock Hill to be included on the route
of the proposed road, the action Of the Coun-
ty Commissioners would meet but little oppo-
sition in that locality.
Nor, as the Lantern would insinuate, do
we cast filings" "slurs" or reproaches at the
people for exercising their inalienable right
to assemble in public meeting and declare
their grievances and make known their wrongs.
We alluded to the meagre attendance on the
meeting at Rock Hill in no unkind spirit,
and not with the view to parade the paucity of
numbers "as victory, displayed as triumph
of the Commissioners" as the Lantern un-
justly charges. Our regard for the rights Of
the citizen would preclude such course,
and it is mainly to repel this false accusation
of the Lantern that we take notice of its ar
ticle
In this question, as we would be in any
other involving the construction of a railroad
in York county, we are actuated solely by q
liberal spirit of internal Improvements. We
are uninfuenced by the sentiment of local
grievances which seems to actuate some men
in their line of conduct, and would be glad to
see dozen railroads in operation to each one
now only contemplated. We wish to see
every contemplated road pushed to early
completion, as we'll as every other enterprise
calculated to develop the resources of the
country and benefit the people. The build
ing of one road invariably leads to the con.
struction of another, and so far from the pri-
vate interest of few men in some particular
locality being impaired thereby, we contend
that all will be benefited We believe it is
to the interest of majority Of the people Of
the county Of York Indeed, the whole people
of the county-to have the Chester and L.
noir railroad built, and we may be pardoned
if we express the hope to see it completed at
an early day. But we can see no good as
likely to result to either interest from con-
troversy with our Rock Hill cotemporary.
It's opposition to the road, we opine, is not so
much from a Jealous affection for the tax
payer, or the dread results Of the "usurpa.
ton" of the County Commissioners, as from
other other interests of a purely local charac-
ter, which, in this day Of enterprise, we would
hardly expect from one of enlarged and pro-
gressive views.
As we understand from the Lantern,
is on foot to apply for an injunc'
ton restraining the action Of the County
Commissioners. This, of course, will bring
the matter before the courts, the main ques-
ton to decide being whether the Legislature
has the power to delegate to the County Com
missioners authority to make the subscription.
The opinion of the legal fraternity, so far as
we have heard an expression, is that the
charter clearly grants this authority, and in
exercising it the County Commissioners have
not transcribed their proper bounds. But if
this power has been improperly conferred, or
is not conferred at all, and the courts shall so
decide, the sooner the decision is made the
better it will be. We feel assured, that
should the decision be adverse to the action
of the Commissioners, the friends of the meas
ure will acquiesce as cheeerfully as its oppo-
nents
The PoL1T1CIANs-The Columbia Ptgniz
makes thrust at the politicians, and in the
same breath offers wholesome suggestion to