Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-18

1t was issued by the Appletons. Well, now
. see how the contingent fund figured in tn
= transaction. First there comes an item a
follows:
"Preparing maps and plates for report OF
Turkish and Russian campaigns in 1877 ant
1878, $780,"
This was paid to Julius Bien. And to in
7 demnify the publishers against loss there ap
I pears:
t "Six hundred copies of Greene's Russian
: campaign, and binding the same, 81 1,27S.3O.'
r And this was paid to D. Appleton & Co
: What the military establishment wanted will
. six hundred copies of the book is not stated
The book business did not stop here. Maj
H. L. Abbott of the engineers, also printed {
"Report on Siege Artillery in Campaigns
against Richmond" and as he was presuma
bly, stuck, the purchase was made directly
from him of one hundred copies, at cost o.
$210. Ma
Another small item Of reckless extrava
gance was the projected purchase of the Boyl
ston House, Charleston. sc. Of course, the
title had to be examined, and lawyer named
L. j. Barbot, did the work, and was paid s1OO
Two weeks thereafter another examination
was ordered, and L. C. Northrop, the United
States district attorney, and former membe,
of the Chamberlain party, got the opportuni
ty, and as profit thereon pocketed $3.50. Any
lawyer would have done the work willingly
for $50.
Travelling expenses also came out OF this
fund. McCrary, when secretary of war, went
to Boston at cost to the Government of $685..
95 He went to Fort Leavenworth at q cost
of S14l.55. When Ramsey came in he ran
over to New York and charged up $5431.
Within month he went to West Point at a
cost of S3470. The travelling expenses Of
Crosby, the chief clerk, for the year amounted
to $187.80. Here, too, repairs to the mail
wagon for the year cost $2S9.50, while for
soap, blacking and busters 1890 we're spent
five cross over to the department Of JUS
tice, the same state of affairs is found. The
stationery for this Office, with its few EN-.
ployees, cost $1,501.l0; furniture S7l2 SO
while for repairs alone there was charged
S614. The carriage was repaired to the
amount of $137 and the harness and repairs
$3.50. Car tickets here cost S139.50. A pref
ty instance of extravaganza is in the serving
Of the Evening Star of this city. Of course
it appears after the closing of the depart.
ments, and could just as easily be served from
the Office at the regular rates Of forty.four
cents month but no, the job, must be given
to stationer at cost of seventy FIVE cents.
The State department does likewise This
Office pays $500 year for washing towels.
Ice costs $629.39; gas with the Office closed
at o'clock, 1892. Stationery issued to
the amount of $4,11539. Car tickets $125.
The inevitable Christmas overcoat for the
driver, at Government expense, $40. The
carriage repairs cost $1S3.1O, and the harness
repairs $l37.90
Secretary Evarts also came in with bills
for his travelling expenses First, his trip to
New York cost $96, and the second where
to is not stated, but it was the constantly re-
curing "puhlic business" $174.99.
Such is the general drift of all contingent
fund expenditures. How corrective is to
be applied is not yet known.
THE NEW SOUTH.
The era of political quiet and industrial
prosperity that has daxped brightly upon the
Southern States is one Of the most encoura
ging signs of these bright times. Twenty
years ago the South was in the beginning Of
destructive war, which it might easily have
averted. Ten years ago it was still PROSTATE
from the disastrous results of that deadly con.
Aict. To-day the signs are unmistakable that
it has entered upon high road Of material
progress, which has only to be followed to
lead to measure of prosperity and happiness
that would have seemed Utopii ian in the days
Of slavery.
The new census returns show that in the
past ten years there has been in the Southern
States social and economic awakening which
promises to be general and lasting. The
marked increase of population that has taken
place, has been attended with a most encour-
aging improvement in the condition of the
people. New towns have sprung up and old
ones have grown in strength and prosperity.
Schools, libraries and newspapers have multi.
piled and illiteracy has diminished. Facto.
ries have increased in capacity and number,
railroads have been huilt iD every direction,
and seaports and other commercial centres
have become buster than ever before. Du-
ring the past three or four years Western
grain has been seeking foreign markets by
way of Mississippi river in such rapidly in
creasing quantities as to cause no little alarm
in certain Northern quarters. The tide OF
Southern prosperity that has already set in
must find new tributary when the compile
tion of the railroad and telegraph systems
now in progress or contemplation shall open
Mexico to American Enterprise.
With this promising advance in the COM
mercial and industrial welfare of the South is
now seen change in its political condition
that is hardly less encouraging. As long as
partisan dominated all other interests, poll.
tics was the bane of the South. This was
conspicuously the case in the years immedi-
ately following the war. To-day economical
are made greater than partisan considerations.
Political quiet has taken the place of politi-
cal turmoil, and industrial activity has follow
ed industrial stagnation. Men are coming
into public life who were boys when the rebel.
lion ragged, and were unborn when the fierce
political battles preceding it were fought.
They are not anxious to fight out the party
feuds of their fathers. They have no desire
to be eternally warning over the dead issues of
the past. They have had enough State rights
controversy, enough war, enough reconstruc.
ton, and enough of the "bloody shirt" busi-
ness They see more money, more success,
and more prosperity in trade and industry
than in politics. The younger members who
come to Washington are more interested in
the industrial and commercial welfare of their
country, and the social and educational ad-
vancement of the people, than in partisan
strife, which can only defeat these good ends
Such, at least, is the plain tendency, if not
- e.