Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-12-11

Tor money pald on account OF SUCH state, TO
be applied, first, to pay the current interest /;
second, to pay the back interest," third, to
provide sinking fund for the redemption of
the bonds. The President is to appoint FIVE
commissioners to carry out the provisions Of
the bill, and tile States are to adopt constitu-
tional amendments accepting all the provis-
ions of the bill, and declaring that no increase
Of the debt of the States shall be made, with
out the consent of Congress, until the bonds
shall be entirely paid
Correspondence of the YOrkviilc Enquirer.
LETTER FROM WEST VIRGINIA..
CHARLEsTowN, w. Va, Dec 18th.
RICHMOND TO cHARLEsrowN.
Richmond is the capital of the Old Virgin
ia, and Charlestown the capital of the New.
Virginia, you remember, was split in two
halves in 1863, and the section west Of the
Allegheny mountains is now State, under
the name of West Virginia. Charlestown. the
capital, is on the bank of Kanawha river,
three hundred and seventy-fve miles west of
Richmond The completion Of the Chesapeake
and Ohio road puts them in direct connection.
This road was completed last spring, and is
one of the greatest works of the age. 1t cost
forty millions of dollars, some of it running as
high as two hundred thousand dollars mile.
There are twenty-seven tunnels on the route.
I came from Richmond here in two days,
stopping day at Covington en- route Gov
ington is curious old place, and | intended
to have given the ENQUIRER letter from
there, but did not. am particular to write
from here, however, as you have never had a
letter from West Virginia, that remember Of
cuARLEsTowN.
Charlestown is a pleasant little city, and re-
minds me, in many ways, of Yorkville. The
last census gave the young capital ola ten-year
old State three thousand population. Some
of her citizens are now so sangune as to claim
six thousand, an increase of thirty-three per
cent. year; but this figure looks wild, when
we remember that three per cent. a year is
the average the country over. But let the
happy Charlestonians founder around in
fancy as much as they choose, the census Of
1880 will bring them, together with the in
habtants of all other ambitious towns, point
blank up against the stone wall of fact, so to
speak, and show the margin between fancy
and reality. The census taker is a more cruel
fellow to have around than the tax gatherer,
for we know what to expect from the latter,
while the former clips our wingsin unexpected
places.
I dropped in among the lawmakers, the
other day, to see how they make laws for this
great State. They had resolution up con-
demning the grabbers in Congress. The
Legislators can't understand how it is that
they have to serve for three dollars day,
while Congressman vote themselves sixty-6ve
dollars day, which is the average pay they
get for the time they are in Washington. 1t
is fact that some of the Congressman can't
earn sixty-6ve dollars month while at home,
and it is not thought proper that they should
run their hands elbow-deep into the treasury,
simply because they have the power.
All the Representatives from this little
State in Congress have dirtied their hands and
blackened their hearts with the salary steal,
and it is right that the Legislature should
smite them, hip and thigh, and that an indig-
nant people should kick them out Of public
life forever. Judging from what I hear-and
the people of the mountains speak in no un-
certain tones-this is just what will be done.
The men who have disgraced themselves and
the positions to which they were chosen de-
serve the contempt they have invited. | was
the other day, to see a paper speak
of a notorious West Virginia salary grabber
as a man Of "fne business capacity" No
doubt of it. A man who can put his arm
into the treasury and take that to which he
has no more moral right than pickpocket,
certainly demonstrates striking "capacity"
in his peculiar line, although many men in
lower walks of life find themselves in the pen
itentiary for about fifteen years for demon
strating "capacity" in the same style of
business.
MINERAL MATTERS.
There are mountains of coal stacked up all
about Charleston. This valley is perhaps the
richest mineral section in the United States.
Coal is dug and delivered on the river here
at cost ofthree and one-half cents bushel.
You in Yorkvile, will no doubt consider this
rather cheap fuel, and so it is No where in
the country, so far as my knowledge extends,
can the earth be made to yield its black dia-
monds at so small cost. Millions of bushels
are shipped annually down the river to Gin
cinnati and below. New Orleans receives
great portion of its supply from this far off
country. MEMO.
KINGS MOUNTAIN MILITARY SCHOOL,
Lieut.. John S. Reynolds, Instructor Of Histo-
ry and Bellies Lettres in this institution, is in
town, where he will remain for few days.
He proposes visiting the princip pal points in
the State in the interest of the institution with
which he is connected, and will be pleased to
furnish any information that may be desired
it. This school has been so long
and favorably known that it needs no enco-
miums from u.s. We will, however, state that
the curriculum has been extended so as to
make it military college of high grade.
The instructors are gentlemen ofacknowledged
ability, and thoroughly proficient in the de-
partments over which they preside. The
school is now equipped with arms Of the most
approved pattern.-Fa~feh News.