The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-04-25

IL Is suggested that tho cincoling ue
done In public. 1t will satisfy every.
body. Some accident may happen, aud
| the coupons already received may Gud
their way into the market again. Let
the Council look to this ut once.
CAUTION.
| SPAETANDCEG AND AsuEyILLE RAIL.
ROAD. Last week has been an evcntful
week in the affairs OF the Spurtanbu-p
and Ashoville Railroad aud conucct,pp
| roads.
On the 10th instant, IL meeting of the
directors o! the Spar.anburg aud Ashe-
vile Railroad was held in Charleston,
and arrangements made, says the
Charleston Nc,rS nnd Courier, for The
speedy prosecution of the SURVEYS Of
| the road.
On the same day, (the 10Th Instant
at II meeting of the stockholders uf the
North Carolinn Railroad, held at Sails
bury, n. O., majority of the stockhold.
ers of said company voted in fuvor of
accepting tho amendment of the charter
OF sal company, provided for by u re.
cent Act Of The North Carolun Legislu-
tnre, known US the Consolidation Act.
This action consolidates the North Caro-.
linu Road and the Western Extension
lioad into one company, thereby vir-
tn"ily putting the property Of the State
III the shape Of railroads ut the disposal
OF the consolidated company, for the
purpose of completing the Western E1-
tension from Old Fort to Ashevillc, uni
thence TO Paint Rock, on the Tennessee
line, which fills one link in our line Of
connection with the Tsnnessee roads.
Ga the 18th instant, the corporators
aud stockholders of the French Broad
Railroad met at Hendersonvil!e, N. c.,
and organized the company under the
provisions of their charter, which covers
that portion of the Spartanburg and
Ashevilie Road from Asheyille to the
South Carolina line.
| Now oil the links Of unbuilt roads be-.
tween Spartanburg and Paint Rock are
covered by charters, with organized
companies, ready to go to work with en-
conraging prospects. Our young friend,
McAewn Johnstone, Jr., the only rep
resentativo from Spartanburg who has
returned as yet from Hendersonvi!le,
Informs ns that Rev. j. l.. Kennedy was
elected President of the French Broad
Railroad Company: that County sub.
scriptions of 100000 from Bunoombe
County and 100000 from Henderson
County had been voted by said Coun-
ties, besides liberal subscri ptions by in
dividuals. Carolina Spartan.
BINDING WHITE CHILDREN TO Ne
GRoEs.-The Hillsboro Recorder, of the
I'D. has the following: eve learn from
MIR. Mills, the enthusiastic friend of the
orphan, thnt his contact with these un-
fortunates has developed the horrid fact
that many white children in this State
have either been bound out TO negroes,
or are serving them in menial capaci-
ty. He thinks that in Charlotte alone
thirty or forty instances of this kind
may be found. One case Of peculiar
horror ho discovered there-that of a
white woman. the widow of o Confede.
rate soldier. employed as O cook in ne.
gro family, and her daughter, child OF
ten years, acting as scullion. Mr.. Mills
obtained possession of the latter, and
took it to Oxford, but such was its
ragged condition, that until he was
aided by benevolent Jew with sup.
ply OF clothing, she was unfit to be
placed on the cars"
IN a NUr-SHELL.-The Arkansas i'm.
broglio stands about thus: Brooks was
J elected, but Baxter was counted in
} by fraud. The fraudulent election OF
Baxter was submitted to, and the more
SO because he Iylerized his party and
refused to connive at their nefarious
schemes. Confounded aud diagusted al
this unexpected honesty, the rogues
who supported him went over to Brooks
and made a test case before the Su-
preme Court The court decided.it had
no jurisdiction, as tho Legislature had
canvassed the returns. Brooks, forti-
fed, by snap judgment, when nli the
justices bnt one were absent, got pos.
session of the Executive Office by VIC.
lence. The election of Baxter was
illegal; but he is honest. Brooks was
elected fairly, but the rogues are at his
back.
It is calculated that if the body OF
each of the 160.6 persons who died in