The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1881-01-26

with the white man, cn Joys, may be
maintained, and that the spirit of your
movement may extend until it Shall
have spread over tho whole State.
With these views hastily pcnncd, |
have the honor to remain, dear sir,
yours, very respectfully,
NJ. i. O'CoSNEn.
PLAYI;D our MINES.
The Comstock Mt Present Suffering from an
Attnck of the Assessment NIalaty-The
whole Line Dcmoralized.
From the San Francisco Car.
The managers Of those Comstock
mines which have called on the stock
holders during the week TO furnish
more coin to keep the lode and the
stock boards running, certainly :ic-
serve some credit for not lcvving the
assessments before the HOLIDAYS. SO
that the shareholders could have Il
chance to buy a Christmas present or
two, and have as good Il. time us posi-
bic. But the holidays arc now past !;
the Alta and Hale IL Norcross move
ments have gone the way of all booms; :;
bullion is scarce on thc Comstock {;
shafts must be sunk. crosscuts made,
employees paid, and the general cx-
pcnses met; and rs there is no money
TO do it within the Comst0ck il must
come from outside of the Comstock,
and so the stockholders of Alta. Sierra
Nevada, Utah, Yellow jacket and
Savage, are cOolly requested 10 walk
up TO tho captains Office and settle.
For Keeping the ball rolling, Alta de-
mands fifty cents per share, or S5l,-
OOO; Sierra Nevada 81, or 100000; :;
Ctah 50. or $4,000; Yellow jacket
81, or $l20,0OO, and Savage 75c., or
.Sl, 900. Total, S39S, ,00O-a very COM
Portable little New Years gift for the
mines mentioned. How long this
assessment nightmare is going to
weigh. down the stock market is =
problem which it is 10 use attempting
to solve. The levels continue to get
lower down under ground, and it was
only several years ago that the people
of the Pacific coast were told that
when the deep levels were attained
ore bodies would be struck here and
there and almost everywhere, that
shareholders would make money on
their stocks. and that everybody would
be happy. We'll, the levels arc lower
than they were a few years ago, drills
have honcycombcd the lode, and have
ransackcd every corner; but no extern
sivc ore bodies have been found, very
few stOckholtlcr have made money, =,
thousands have lost their all, and
everybody is not happy by any means.
The onl y. definite result attained dur
ing these years is the crop Of assess
mcns, which is abundant, and prom
iscs to continue bountcouS for some
time yet. But perhaps the slow"
levels have not yet been reached.
MIR. STrrnENs.-NIr Stephens looks
well and talks heartily. lie follows
the proceedings closely. John Gra-
ham, Of Atlanta. has Just come on to
be his secretary, and finds myriads of
letters to answer. Everybody Y writes
to Mr.. Stephens and he answers every
letter. After he comes from the
House, about four every afternoon, he
eats dinner, and then in the twilight
settles down for his game of whist,
which he plays with as much glcc
as skill. lie is really proud Of hi,
excellence in In" gam. But hc meyer
gets into ii - deeply ,lml; ~ .orgcts 70
watch the hands on his little French
clock aS they sl"wk whirl to nine -
and then he rolls his chair out Of the
parlor an,s l., soon in bed asleep. Next
morning ne is up early and chcrrtullv
begins the days work. Ills sad, pa
tirml face never wears irowm. and
when ii lights with smile is intense
~ interesting. Truly, it seems that
;flliction has refined his soul to thc
pure gold Of continual gladness, and
that from his "woc he has wrought the
wondrous cloqueucc" Of life which
will be remembered rs long as Amcri-
can history is read.
The colorcd men Of Tennessee de-
mand share Of official patronage OF
the administration, and have forward
cd q committee to Mentor. The re-
sponsc Of General Garfield to the
Southern committee, headed by Elliott,
of South Carolina, is significant in this
connection. Said the prcsidcnt-clcct /:
"rhis is not the time nor the place for
me to indicate anything as TO what |
shall have to say and do by and by in
an official way. But this ! must say !:
| noted as peculiarly significant one
sentence in the remarks Of General
Elliott to the effect that the majority
Of citizens. as he alleges, in some por-
tions of the South, are oppressed by
the minority. If This be SO, why is it
so? Because a trained man is two or
three men in one, in comparison with
an unframed man, and outside of
politics, that suggestion is full, cram
full, Of significance that the way to
make the majority always powerful
over the minority is to make its MEM
bcrs as trained and intelligent as tho
minority itself. That brings up tho
equality of citizenship, and no law can
confer and maintain in the long run Il
thing that is not upheld with q rca-
sonabc degree of culture and intclli-
gcncc. Legislation ought TO do all it
can. Some Scotch poet said, or put
in the mouth of some prophet to say,
that the time would come
When Bcrtram's right and Bortrams might
Shall meet on Elcngowan's height,
And it was when the might and the
right of a people meet that maioritics
are never oppressed by minorities."
Tho Thames and the Mississippi
have overilowcd their banks.
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