Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-04-23
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southern settlements, some months since, al
most naked. After obtaining food and
clothing she disappeared, and it is thought
the whole of the family have been in the
mountains all winter, and have been driven
out by starvation. The story of assassination
that is brought out by the capture is one Of
the most horrible on record. No tale from
the French capital, not even the Traupman
atrocty, has equal power to horrify with the
narrative that came from Kansas last May
family of murderous people living fol
months over the secreted bodies Of victims
The capture of Bender insures that he will
be punished for his enormous crimes, and
protects the people of some new locality from
repetition Of them.
Newspapers and Postage.
- While the House of Representatives
seems to be drifting toward restoration Of
the franking privilege-having gone so fur,
last week, as to pass by a two.third vote the
bill of the committee on post Offices and post
roads for the free circulation of newspaper ex-
changes and for the free circulation of papers
in the counties where published Post.
master General has since sent communica.
ton to the same committee, advocating the
passage of a law to compel the prepayment
of postage on all newspapers. In support Of
this proposition he adduces the following in
teresting statistics, prepared by his third as
sistant:
Taking the newspaper circulation shown by
the last census, and assuming that ten per
cent of the daily and sixty per cent. of the
weekly newspapers 60 through the mails, it is
shown that the receipts from postage on news
papers during the fiscal year of lS6S-7O
should have been S2,305,511 whereas the
actual receipts from newspapers and all other
printed matter were only sS35,72S.
Calculating the annual increase in newspa-
per circulation to have been 154 per cent.
there were during the past year 5S71 newspa-
pers published in the United States, with an
aggregate circulation of 1908, ,54S,25O copies,
of which sol 1889, 165 copies were sent through
the mails. The receipts for postage on them
should have been $685. 789, instead of which
there was received only 81 ,072, 1898, showing a
loss of S1,543,791, or II times the amount
collected. During the fiscal year of 1869-7O
there was collected $14,994,802 for postage on
letters, which were in total bulk equal to 14O
car loads, whereas the newspapers aggregated
bulk of 1924 car loads and returned together
with other printed matter, apostal revenue OF
only 1885, ,729. In Great Britain, during the
same time, there were 1850 newspapers pub.
lished, with an aggregate circulation of $780,
100000 copies, of which 99,000,000 we're
transmitted by mail and yielded postal rev.
enue of 100000.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA MEMORIALIsTs.
7 A final hearing of the representations OF
the taxpayers committee and Of the counter
memorialists was had on the 18th, before the
ub.judiciary committee of the House Of Rep
resentatives. The Charleston Ne,Os and Cou-
rier contains the following summary of the
speeches of Secretary Cardozo and Hon. Thos.
Y. Simons:
The final argument on behalf Of the counter
memoralists was made by F. L. Cardozo,
State treasurer, who went over the question
of taxation, saying that not only the basis,
but the system under the reconstructed State
Government is new and strange to the tax
payers of the State, though basis and sys'
tenn familiar throughout the Northern and
Western States. He denied that the taxation
is unequal or unjust, and argued to show that
the rate of tax since the war is less than it is
in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Califor-
mia, Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana,
Nevada and North Carolina that the entire
levy for State purposes is only eight and one
half mills to the acre for the past six years.
He proceeded to show that the entire cost per
capita for governing the State is less than in
number Of the States, and gave from the
census of 1870 figures showing that the cost
per capita in Arkansas is 81 SO; California,
81 So; Connecticut, SO 4S; Kansas, 50 %
Louisiana, So CT Maine, 50 Is; Maryland,
50 30; Massachusetts, So o.; Nebraska,
50 13; Nevada, 81 OF; New Hampshire, So
Rhode Island, 50 25; Virginia, 81 30, and in
South Carolina only 81 81; and that the en-
tire cost per capita for carrying en- the State
for the six years between July, 1868, and o.
tober, 1874, was only 50 80 per amman. He
held that under the circumstances the taxa
ton in South Carolina is not so excessive as
to be complained of, but that, on the contrary,
is reasonable. He referred to the charges of
the taxpayers about the extent Of the public
debt of the State, denying that it could be
equitably stated at over ten millions, and gave
figures designed to show that only one million
three hundred thousand of the debt was partly
attributed to the new State government He
said the Legislature had decided that six mil.
lions of the debt is illegal, and have refused
to pay either interest or principal, and con-
tended that of the remaining ten millions five
millions had been funded before the war, and
three millions seven hundred thousand of the
remaining FIVE millions was a floating debt
left by the old, and funded by the new, State
government.
In response to questions by NJ. Eldridge,
Cardozo said the question Of the six millions
repudiated by the Legislature is one that the
courts will have to decide, and admitted that
he thought the courts would not sustain the
act of the Legislature in deciding that they
are an illegal Indebtedness. He also admitted,
in response to other interrogatories by Mr..
Eldridge, that the new State government had
accumulated floating debt of four millions,
and confessed that the debt of the State, sup
posing all the funded Indebtedness is legal, is
about twenty millions. He exempli6ed the
financial calibre of the State authorities by
stating that six millions of the bonded debt
was hypothecated in New York to raise funds
to carry on tn, State, and that, inasmuch as
the money so raised was only forty per cent.
of the face value of the bonds pledged, the
Legislature have it in contemplation to