| Show ED 0 OfAL AA te life of south carolina is said to be undergoing a process of or out the process a carried on by means of taxation tnie taie total state county and municipal taxes assessed in that state amount to on the valuation of or ar nearly three per cent and the chan chad charleston eston aws news says that this valuation val vai dation as riot not a low one realand personal personal property la Js everywhere taxed at its full marl mari marlet market et value and in many parts of the state upon an assessment three or four times as great as the actual market value 11 property holders arre arri required it is iff said on ou this valuation to pay seven beven times as mu much ch as us before the war immense areas of land were advertised a few months ago for sale for unpaid taxes in one county one sixth of the entire county and in another county one tenth of the entire county was to be brought under the hammer and the sales in other countree count coun des fes were somewhat similar of the state taxes for 1868 about four per cent was all that was collected the remainder was delinquent because the owners of property would not pay the rates speaking Sp biking of this condition of things the charleston jews jewa says saye there is unrest and deep rooted discontent jn n the crowded city I 1 in the quiet country village and un under der den the rooftree root roof tree of every upright citizen of the state the heart of the people is touched their wives and childre children nare are threatened with starvation dra gra or a dependence upon public charity and the w whole boleen cause use and reason is expressed in one word taxation a taxation which is tantamount lo confiscation the people have hive endured in silence the oppression of arbitrary and unequal laws law they have been seen tho th last semblance gge of constitutional liberty I 1 meiti melting nj away and haye nott ricken down the official despots who would make a golgotha of south carolipa Caroll pa they have been insulted and trampled upon by the horde of negroes and foreign adventurers whom reconstruction pat put in authority over the stater staler and have haver corl coil contented tented themselves witti with prating dinc dine far for deliverance this people have hoped against hope and have awaited with gloomy dignity the relief which does not come their reward is that their motley legislators are encouraged to greater crimes against the public good the negroes negro espay pay fay no taxes not even the poll tax holni omitting ting from the calculation the taxes paid by the state officials who steal with one hand one hundred times as much as they pay to the state with the other we find that the white people of the state are called upon to pay in about nine months no less than which is more than siper cent upon the value of the property in the state and is fen ten ren uen times as much as the gross amount of taxation before the war THE baltimore episcopal Meth methodist odst is stirred up by what it calls the atrocious and demoniac utterances of wendell phillips phillipa but more particularly because a methodist northern journal the N Y methodist adopts his sentiments as its own it says the stories of ku klux t i eions on the strength of which congress is called upon to legis legislate iafe lafe and exterminate are infamous falsehood invented as the alleged slavery atrock atrocities of former days were f invented tp excite popular indignation and vengeance against the southern people bj 15 thus ill ili laming inflaming the popular passions they succeeded in bringing on so A asi wan war which desolated the households of the whole south reduced it to uni universal ve i asal bankruptcy and set free all its slaves and aud yet having thus ruined the south and got rid of slavery and even made voters and legislators of the slaves slav esthey th I 1 gyl are not content the they y can na longer nger ngen invent atrocious false faise falsehoods hogg hoag d about hout bout cruel treatment of the slaves and so ia they fabricate ku klux lux horrors and geek seek to blow up again to an intense heat the shouldering ing passions of the war wan W ir but be the immediate result what it if may we believe relieve the church or the nation which commits huch such oppress lona ions cannot escape the tild ultimate judie justice of high Heaven we know the south ern people better betteb than then the N Y methodist we wave have known them for many years we have bave travelled among them efte extensively s leely of lae lafe and in the presence of the searcher of all jue Jae hearts arts and in view of the of the finai final judgment we do not hesitate toray that they are innocent of til the ehl ebi charge argea s of outrage and bloodshed brought against them that while thre th re my may be evil and arid violent men mea aman them as in all com coal mun muni ties theror r e m atamas law liw abiding and patient ent and 0 thing so much as to be permitted d to I 1 live in peace and quiet we ve d do 6 not pretend that they lovd lo we medd meff men who have oppressed and porse perse persecuted cutel them and who are seeking their destruction truc tion but we know they giaveno have no idea of appealing to the sword for redress and that were they in la the place of the north they would be content with having gained the day an ami d would ouid not seek nord nort lesire estre to exterminate their en emles enemies irei ye dlo deo southern u cauin thern methodists that we are belonging to a p people pie who have been wronged oppressor opp oppressed resso d outraged to the last degree would be shocked and as christians and human beings revolt and shudder at such a proposition in regard to the northern people no matter though they might rebel zebel against the government as long as their fathers nethers did against great britain as that universal extermination of the south which in a certain contingency the N Y methodist approves IF one can believe the accounts which appear in the republican press of the country the southern states are ard just now over overrun run by secret societies of various kinds whose only object is the intimidation bud and murder of their political opponents accounts of outrages of various kind including horrible and cold bl blooded 0 oded murders are frequent in our eastern exchanges I 1 which if a quarter of them be true reveal a terri terri bie ble state of society in the states lately in rebellion against the government A late number of the macon oa ga telegraph geig telegram graph ph and messenger contains a bloodcurdling blood curdling account of the murder of a mr mt the only reason assigned e for r the e cr crime me being e ng a difference rence renee in n political political oli faith the unfortunate mau man being a republican the method by which mr r is said to have been put puit to death reads more like indian savagery than anything else and it is almost impossible to believe that there is any foundation for it in fact and especially that white men were e the perpetrators but the messenger says that it gleaned the facts from such a reliable source as to place their truth beyond question mr had the reputation of being a quiet inoffensive worthy citizen about a year before his death he received au anonymous warning that his life was in danger and that he had better remove from that locality t y he took no particular notice of t this his bis and ad as time passed on without anything happening to him to indicate that there was as any foundation for it it had bad ceased to cause the least ampre hension about 8 on the evening of the murder ten men masked and mounted rode up to house and asked to see him alleging urgent business as a pretext for coming so late in the evening he did not suspect anything wrong but his wife was alarmed and endeavored to prevent him going to see them he however would not be dissuaded and went to the door As soon as he open opened edit it he was seized a pitch plaster placed over his mouth his arms bound and he hd was thrown into a light spring edg wagon on wh en the whole party drove off in a hurry i rry in 16 a short time they reached a swamp where they alighted and made for a sort of island in the centre of it upon reaching which they unbound their prisoner and stripped him naked when each of his captors gave him hinic fifty lashes with a cowhide that had been steeped in brine before they got gob through the unfortunate hagenian nian man was insensible ano ami steeped in lix 9 gore 1 this part of the pro gramme finished I the band of wretches clayed flayed their victim and then burned his body A NOVEL noven branch of industry is now being established at the cape of good HoDe hop south bouth africa this is ostrich farming g which is made profitable by the 8 sale bale of the a long white weite fea feathers theis which grow in tha th wings they being worth from one hun hundred dred and fifty to f 6 two hundred aundre dollars per pound pounds Tie tle bird s areke pOn enclosures surrounded by y low lo 10 W stone walls abid they are ane easily managed their thoin eggsware eggs bre are hatched batched wilh wilb the heat from oil lamps one onu birdin good plumage is worth from eighty to a hundred dollars the la jha crosse leader is tr T the following not long since while some of 0 the river riven boats were taking on bome some 11 live e a toek took among the lot was oil ezray egray mule that refused to walk the staging the mate shouted out to a roustabout twist his tail and hell come A coro coroners neris nerys jury have just rendered a verdict that the man came to his death eath d by obeying orders THE course eddrie of events in tho the circles of the country indicates that the influence of of the dominant party is Valli waning Dg and that the power of the democratic party la Is on tho tha advance the republicans are becoming alive to the danger of the position and ak aft the time draws near for the nomination of another president they will undoubtedly make desperate des efforts to regain every particle of lost prestige and to perpetuate the dominance of their party the missouri Be publican republican bf of the ath instant has a leader headed war with england in which the course which the tha republicans will probably pursue is marked out nay the writer asserts that the pro gramme has been resolved upon for some time past at washington being however one of the principle organs of the democracy the statements of our contemporary the lican iloan ought perhaps to be received with a degree of caution however feasible and probable they ey may appear the writer of the article says seeing that almost certain failure now awaits the san ban domingo annexation scheme the republican party to insure the reelection of president grant and the continued exclusion from power of the democracy will call upon the country to go to war with great britain in hope of effecting the annexation to the U S of ahe the british north american provinces war at the present juncture between the united states stites and great britain is not BO so very improbable especially if the points now at issue between the two governments by aggravated twisted and harang harangued aed upon epou by demagogues for they are numerous and serious and though a joint high commission composed of representatives of the two powers is in bession session at washington for the purpose of adjusting those differences amicably it is asserted that the prospect of success is by no means meering Mt flattering ering bring the dispatches this morning announce that about a deadlock has nn n tha the ran juan affair a matter which it la ig admitted is of trifling importance but upon which neither party seems disposed to recede from the position tion it has assumed if an affair of such trifling import as the divi division sion bion of a worthless little island cause a locking of horns such a contingency gen cy is far more likey aikey likely to arise when the alabama claims fenian raids into Cana canada dathe the Fisheri egand esaud other weighty and important questions come under consideration for it la is about certain that the united states will insist upon having the fisheries and alabama questions settled according to their views while it is just as probable that cousin john may be equally determined in relation to the fenian raids the policy of the present administration in fe lation to the fisheries question is said to have been pretty clearly shadowed foreshadowed fore in the advice of general butler a leading man of the win can ain party and one of president grants firmest friends and sup supporters given in a speech to the new Egland england fishermen namely to arm and resist all at tempts of the canadian authorities to prevent them fishing in canadian waters and should the canadians continue their policy of overhauling arrest ing and confiscating g american fisheries the popular mind will be so aroused and excited on the subject that a casus emus belli between the two nations will probably be made out of this alone but should this matter be amicably amicably Y adjusted there really is very little probability babi lity that some other points at issue will be for as a set off to the alabama claims the british government it is said intends to press a bill for damage done in canada by the Fenian sand for the destruction of property belonging to british subjects during the war of the rebellion which will amount to as ds much or more than the alabama claims should this course be pursued by great britain in the present temper of the american people by no means amicable the of great britain on the alabama affair war would be the only of the questions at issue that would be resorted to such a move the writer in the bc B says has been at already ready resolved upon n by the republican party as the most licely means weans of regaining their waning prestige and power it is la well known that among the irish population in this country the feeling of bate against great britain ia is intense and ady any blow aimed at her would be sure to be immensely popular with that class the tho irish voters of ot the country are an important and nuro nui i and they are now to a considerable rable rabie extent democratic but if it the republicans succeed in effecting a decla decia declaration fillon of w war ar ag against england it might materially influence their vote at the next election the writer in the be republican publican baya saya this is counted on with certainty and in addition to this he says it is also confidently expected that a war with england would be popular in the southern states public sentiment there being very strong against that country because of the non acceptance by england of napoleons invitation to lecog nize the confederacy they attributed the collapse and failure of the scheme these causes would without doubt influence the parties referred to to a avery very great extent in favor of war with britain there is also a weakness among the people of the united states for the enlargement of the national domain and any say prospect of wresting from their hereditary foes the british their possessions on this continent would be welcomed by large masses of the people however justifiable may be the roso rose rese ament felt by the thia irish americans the southerners or of the people of the the north for wrongs and injuries they may have each sustained at the bands of the british government and however popular in this country a declaration of war with england might be it is horrible to think that a design is entertained to involve two such powerful nations in the expense and horrors of a conflict merely to answer the ends of politicians and that appeals to the passions of the people are to be made by demagogues to ensure the success of a plan in which such wholesale butchery is involved it is to be hoped for the interests of humanity and civilization that the gramme 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