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Jtoajrs anil |art$. . At Quincy, Illinois, a bridge is constructing across the Mississippi,, 'which will cost $2,000,000. It will be completed in about a year. The Jury Fee in the Surratt case amounts to over $1,400. The per diem $2; Jury carriage hire $730; witness fees over $20,000. Aocording to an eminent French physician, a oold in the Head can be cured by inhaling hartshorn. The inhalation should be through the nose, seven or eight times in five minutes. Hon. B. H. Hill has been elected to the Law Professorship of the University of Georgia, in place of Judge Lumnlrin, deceased. Mr. Hill is to be assisted by a distinguished iaw/er of North Georgia, Mr. W. L. Mitchell. It was told to the Empress Carlotta a few days ago that her husband was in great peril, and might lose his life. "Better that than bis honor," was the Imperial reply, during a lucid interval, from which, however, her Majesty soon relapsed into her usual state. ? Tlifl Vnrlr .Tmrmnl nf alludes to the extraordinary proclivity of the Southern Military Commanders for publishing orders, and very long ODes, and pronounces "too much ordering" the bane of any Government, and an evidence of .weakness. A few days ago, a man got out of the cars at Peoria, Illinois, with a large bag in his hand which he carried very carefully. After walking up the street a short distance, he put his bag down, untied it, and lifted out a good-sized boy. He had Nought him several miles as b&ggage and without having him checked. The extent of land under potato cultivation in France is 2,040,364 acres; in Austria it is 1,308,148 acres; in Ireland, 1,050,419 acres; in Bavaria, 649,375 acres; in Great Britain, 498,846 acres; in Belgium, 369,850acres; in Sweden, 334.000 acres; in Holland, 265j987 acres; in "WurteniDsrg, 167,948 acres; and in Denmark proper, 69,176 acres. It is said to be satisfactorily demonstrated, that every time a husband scolds his wife, he adds a wrinkle to his face. It is thought the announcement of this fact will have the most salutary effect, especially as it is understood that every time a husband smiles on his wife it will remove one of the old wrinkles. The Jews have resolved to establish a college in Philadelphia. It is however, to be open to Christians of all shades of views. It will not exact from its students any pledges, but will be devoted to giving all who please to avail themselves of its privileges a thorough acquaintance with Hebrew literature. There is good news lor tea-drinkers. A despatch from India announces that the tea markets in China have opened at prices one third lower than at the opening of last year. The tea merchants of London, who have been folding back their supplies in the hope of raising prices, have, it is ' said, received advices to realize. Capt W. T. McNelfy, commander of the steamer Pilot Boy, which plies between Charleston and Beaufort, has been tned and found guilty by a Military Commission, of a violation of Paragraph VJLLi, General Orders No. 32, in refusing to grant a first-class cabin passage to a colored woman, and has been sentenced to pay a fine of $250. An Australian newspaper states that the neighborhood of Havelock, in that country, has lately been visited, after a heavy rain, by clouds of flying ants, who have been devoured in great numbers dv the fowls. The insects, however, are not killed by the swallowing, and by eating their way ! through the guUets and crops of the fowls, have destroyed them in large numbers. i Advices from Utah indicate that an irrepres- ' able discord has broken out among the Saints, and '< that the problem of Mormonism will soon solve it- i self. A large number of anti-polygamists have left Utah, hound for Nauvoo, 111. Brigham Young is being boldly denounced by many of his followers, and the sect is becoming rapidly demor- 1 x alized. . j The New York correspondent of the Charles- < ton Courier says that a few days ago, a company , of negroes paraded through Broadway, and was saluted with jeers and laughter on all sides. The officers were all black, the men were in citizens' dress, and the whole affair was preceded by a platoon of white policemen; specially detailed for the ; protection of the sojers. The official report of the Board of Trade < shows that there were received at Chicago during , the past year, 12,000,000 bushels of wheat, 33,000,000, bushels of corn, 11,000,000 bushels of oats, 4,000,000 of rye and barley, and 2,000,000 barrels of flour; 1,341,000 hogs, and 373,000 cattle were marketed there. The lumber trade reach ed 700,000,000 feet, and 400,000,000 shingles. The Staunton Spectator savs that on Sunday, the 11th inst, at tne White Sulphur Springs in Greenbrier, West Wirginia, an Arab, one of the accomplished acrobats connected with the Circus of Dan Castello, was killed by the bite of a rattlesnake which he had bought the day before and which he was tiying to tame. He was bitten several times on the hands and arm. He died a horrible death, and before doing so, caught the snake in his hands and ate portions of it Governor Worth, of N. C., owns over 2,000 acres of land in Horry District, S. C-, which he advertises in the Raleigh Sentinel, for sale at $3 per acre. We think it will be to the advantage of large landholders, as well as to the community generally, to sell part of their lands, and we admire the course of Gov. Worth in not only offering his land for sale, but at the same time informing the publia what he will take for it?Charlotte Democrat. General Pope has issued an order which directs that Grand and Petit Jurors hereafter drawn for the trial of cases in the third Military District, must be drawn exclusively from the list of persons who have registered, and without any discrimination as to color, and that Sheriffs will require jurors to swear that they were registered, ana to specify the precincts and counties in which such registrai_* x?l 1 . * 1 l ? 1 uuu tuuit uiaue, wuicn amaaviis must De piacea on the files of the Court As exhibiting some of the practical effects of the operation of the Reconstruction Acts, the Wilmington Journal mentions a case in which three of the best citizens of New Hanover were debarred registration on the following grounds: One of them held the office of Coroner tor a few weeks about forty-five years ago; another served in a similar capacity for about the same period some twenty years sinoe; and the third remembers that about forty years ago he was a Constable of the town. __ A New York correspondent says: The talk in sporting circles is about a great walking match that has just been agreed to between George K. Goodwin, of this city, and Edward P. Western, of Portland, Maine. ~They piupowo to walk Auin Portland, Maine, to Chicago, Illinois, a distance of twelve hundred miles, in thirty consecutive days. The start is to be made from Portland on a stated day, between the 1st and 15th of October nex*. Western agreeing not to walk on Sundays, thus leaving him twenty-six days to do the work in. The match is said to be for $10,000. The following from the Selma (Ala.) Times, should be a warning to all negroes, who have "land on the brain": "A certain young gentleman emissary, from Yankeedom, passed through the County of Anson, a short time since, vending tickets or certificates to the negroes, which he told them would entitle each holder to forty acres of land. rr~ u _ 1 i x- xt -i j_lc ouiu <* ltvge uuuiuer w rue negroes aiuug ins route at fifty cents each. The negroes, however, becoming assured that they had been swindled, pursued the scoundrel, overtook him, made him refund the money, with an additional fifty cents in each case, and then drew his shirt, when they proceeded to administer a severe flogging upon his tack. This done, they allowed him to go on his way rejoicing." Last week, a paragraph was going the rounds buiuuk mas me way 01 maximiiian naa Dee a aeKverea to the Prussian minister. This is denied by a despatch from Washington. The despatch says: "Official advices from Mexico, just received here, announce that the Mexican Government has refused to deliver the body of Maximilian to the Austrians. It is buried in the Cathedral, at Queretaro. It was never delivered to the Prussian Minister, nor any promise nor intimation given that it would be delivered to him, or to any one. It is generally believed, and it is said, when it is thought safe to do so, that it is the intention of the Mexican authorities to use it as a means of filling, or in some degree to replenishing, their empty treasury." ?7- The New York Tribune tells the following curious story about the "Suratt jury," which has just oome to light ' 'It is stated by one of them that from the first moment they were locked up together between the adjournments each day, they were divided in their sentiments about the prisoner, eight favoring him and four condemning. While the, arguments of the ooapsel for the defence was going on, these eight continually sneered at Judge Pierrepont and Attorney Carrington in their rooms, and when they were locked up to find a verdict, they balloted, the result being eight votes for acquittal and four for conviction. Each side tried to convince the other, but without success to either. Then one of the jurors proposed three propositions, and asked that a vote be taken on them separately. These were, first, that Lincoln was assassinated: second, that the assassination was the result of a conspiracy; and third, that Surratt was in that conspiracy. Upon the first two propositions the vote was unanimous, but upon the latter the eight favoring acquittal refused under any circumstances to vote." ?urMIe (fhnjuiw. EDITOKS: JAS. E. WILSON... JAS. F. HART. [" YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 29, 1867. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance. X.?The paper will be discontinued on the expiration of the time for which payment has been made. A Subscriber finding a (2t) cross-mark on the wrapper or margin of his paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. HOLT IN A TIGHT PLACE. On the first page of this issue, will be found the confessions of Conover, referred to last week.? They are well worthy of a perusal, as they reveal the desperate resolution of Holt, Ashley and Butler, to overthrow the President, even at the expense U1 peijUljr. Two of these gentlemen (!!!) have not troubled themselves to reply to these ruinous charges. Mr. Holt, however, has undertaken the task of disproving them, possibly acting for his associates.? His plan is to produce counter charges against Conover, which affirm that that experienced evidence-manufacturer is trying to ruin Holt's reputation. Holt has published affidavits from four or five hitherto unknown individuals, who swear with singular unanimity that Conover told them that he had fallen out with Holt ; that he therefore desired by false witnesses, to connect Holt with the Booth conspiracy and with a desire to execute Mr. Davis ; that they kindly agreed to swear whatever Conover desired, but afterwards repented j that General Roger A. Pryor, Ben Wood and General Dick Taylor were trying to procure the release of Mr. Davis, which could only be accomplished by ruining Holt ; that they! met all these gentlemen, with the exception of General Taylor, at General Pryor'slaw office in New York, that Gen. Pryor was not then ready with his affidavits for them to swear ; and several other statements. Mr. Holt is very unfortunate in his vindication. In the first place all his witnesses have, by their own confession, perjured themselves once, and when a witness swears that he has lied, it is difficult to determine what part of his evidence to believe. In the second place, Mr. Wood and Gen. Pryor, have since made oath that the testimony of Holt's witnesseS*is false in every particular, so far as it relates to them, none of the persons mentioned ever having been in General P's office or had any communication with him. The unavoidable inference is that Holt has lied again. 0T*VTftV>s VTWPffPITT. ARTTY. Now that the pomp of power has departed from bira, it appears that Stanton has no friends. The journals of his party complain loudly of the President for removing him; but they have few words of sympathy for the deposed Secretary. Seldom has an American politician so suddenly fallen from the possession of power into insignificance. * They have generally retired to private life with at least a retinue of personal friends, whose sympathy was publicly manifested towards them in the hour of defeat or ejectment from office. But Grant's compliment, on accepting his place, is about the only crumb of comfort Stanton has received. The general feeling at Washington, among friends and foes, seems to be one of relief that he is gone. Cold, over-bearing and repulsive in manner, Stanton contrived to make official intercourse a very unpleasant task to all who had business with him. His subordinates, taking their cue from their chief, endeavored to be as imperious and arrogant as possible. A civil answer to a civil question, was considered beneath the dignity of a clerk who held office under so lordly an official as Stanton. In short, the ex-Secretary is compared by a gentleman high in office, to the "big mean boy at school, who tyrannizes over the little boys, but avoids those of his own size." Since he left Washington, a change has come over the atmosphere of the War Department The under-strappers are conforming themselves to the spirit of the new Secretary, who, whatever may be thought of him as to politics or talents, is certainly a gentleman. His influence is said to be thawing out the stiffness of the little officials left by his predecessor, into something approximating to politeness, a proceeding wliich is hailed with joy by the Washington papers. The Intelligencer and the Express manifest great satisfaction at the change. Stanton has gone into the country for a change of air. The Philadelphia papers say he passed through that city to visit the White Mountains in New Hampshire. Another statement is that he has gone to Boston. A cotcmporary thinks he has gone up Salt River. It is possible that all three of these reports may be correct; the last is certainly true, and we venture the opinion that he will probably remain permanently at the head waters of the classic stream. The speed with which he traveled towards Salt river, is ominous of a lasting stay. His fall was so sudden and so hop'less, that he must have felt as Buckingham did, when Richard HI, according to Sbakspeare, said: "Off with his head? So much for Buckingham." AGRICULTURAL NEWS. The rain storms of the 15th and 16th instants was one of the most general that has occured this year, extending along the Stafe?7m~rhe Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, from Maine to Louisiana. The heaviest rains were in Virginia and Maryland. In Baltimore, the mills and factories were much damaged and the trains on the railroads were stopped by the floods. At Washington, nearly six inches of rain fell. A number of bridges were swept away Dy tne smaller streams, in tne neignnornooa of Richmond and Petersburg. Railroad accidents have been caused in some sections by the washing away of embankments. We have not seen any accounts of injuries to the crops, caused by this rain; but it is very possible that some damage has been done. The prospects for a large cotton crop are much less encouraging than they were three weeks ago. Within that time various insect enemies of the cotton plant have made their appearance, principally in the Gulf States. The recent wet season has been favorable to the increase of these insects, which are doing much damage in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi. Florida and the low country of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina have also suffered to some extent. Our exchanges are full of unfavorable accounts; but we incline to the belief that most of these are, as usual, exaggerated. Cotton picking has commenced in earnest, 'in Florida and probably in the most Southern portions of the Gulf States. In the neighborhood of Tallahassee, it is said, an ordinary picker can easily gather one hundred pounds a day. Georgia and Alabama are now expected to be the largest Dro ducers of cotton this year. According to the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, the stock of Cotton on hand, in quantity and quality, "has never touched so low a point at this season of the year, in this country." The present stock, that paper estimates at "only eighty-eight thousand bales, against seven hundred and fifty thousand bales at this time last year." A correspondent of the Country Ge)itleman, writing from Somerville, West Tenn. under date Aug. 1st, says: "There is a prospect of the corn crop being excellent, but the cotton crop will fail at least one half. It bloomed ten days later than the average time, and is only half the size it should be. The rains prevented the farmers from keepthe crop clean." The Montgomery (Ala) Advertiser learns that the caterpillar worm is destroying the cotton plantations in various parts of that State, especially in Lowndes county, where several plantations have been literally riddled. Several expedients Live been resorted to, for the checking of devastations by the worm, but with only-a partial success. The crops on the Altamaha river, in Georgia, have been severely injured by a recent freshet The accounts of the corn crop oontinue to be, almost without exception, very favorable. The indications are that the crops of this year will be the largest ever made in the South. The Wilmington (N C) Journal says: "It affords us much pleasure in being able to state, ujwn the authority of a gentleman who has, within the last ten days, traveled through Dublin, Wayne, Wilson, Edgecombe, Sampson, Nash and Cumlierland counties, that the corn crops look remarkably nmmi'oinir and the amount of lands planted is ex tensive. From present appearances, an abundant crop of corn wiH be made. The cotton crop is not as promising as could be desired." The Mark Lane Express, which is the besii of English authorities as to foreign crops, gives a generally unfavorable account of the crop prospects in England and on the continent The New Jersey peach crop is estimated at 2(?0,000 baskets of 20 quarts each. England imports ten thousand tons of Belgian fruit yearly?mostly apples and pears. On the 22d instant, thirty-four vessels, at San Francisoo, were loading with wheat for England POLITICAL NEWS. ?The National Intelligencer says that some months since the President, for purposes of economy, and in consistence with law and the polity of the government, ordered the mustering out from the service of all volunteer officers on duty in the 1 country. Their places were to be filled by regular officers. It is now found that the order has not been obeyed. Many of the former officers are still retained, whose principal business, practically, has been of late to circulate Radical electioneering d ocuments, establish negro leagues, and perform various other duties of a partisan political character. 1 The correction of the evil will soon be enforced. ? The political classification of the newly elected 1 Legislature of Kentucky is as follows: Senate 25 Democrats, Radicals 9; third party 4. House, 85 Democrats, 11 Radicals; third party 4. 1 ?The members of the Conservative press of 1 Georgia met in Convention at Macon, on Friday, 1 23d instant. The object of the meeting is'to take 1 some action in reference to Gen. Pope's recent or- 1 der, which forbids official advertising in Conseivu- J tive newspapers. They hope to induce Pope to rescind this order, or failing in this, procure its ab- 1 rogation trom Gen. Grant, Pope's superior offi- cer. ? It is positively stated that H. S. Fitch, Uni- 1 ted States District Attorney, will, at the next term < of the United States Court for Georgia, prosecute 1 for peijury eight Southern loyalists, who, it is al- > leged, have taken the test oath contraiy to law and i I facts. i ? A Washington correspondent of the N. Y. < Times says that "a bill is being prepared by prom- 1 inent loyal men of the South to enforce the pres- 1 ent confiscation laws and to modify them so as to re- 1 survey all of the seceded States in the same man- I ner as the public lands are surveyed, and to giant 1 preemption rights to Union soldiers. Three hun- i dred millions of dollars of the proceeds arising from I the sales are to be used in reimbursing loyal men 1 for property destroyed and confiscated by the (Ionfederate Government, and the balance will be set 1 aside for paying pensions to disabled Union sol- 1 diers. The bill provides that after the survey is ( made the land shall be offered for sale to the freed- men and discharged Union soldiers at the rate of . $1.25 per acre, payable in twenty years, at an in- < terest of six per cent, per annum. Other parties : to be allowed to purchase at twenty-five per cent., j cash, and equal annual instalments for three years, , at six per cent, interest. The last section provides that disloyal persons shall be allowed to retain property to the amount of $5,000, provided the hunts ( of such property do not exceed one of the legal sub-divivisions of 1G0 acres." ? The President has made the following changes j in the military pro-consulships: Sheridan goes to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to take command of the Department of the Missouri. Hancock takes commaud of the Department of the Cumberland, Headquarters Louisville, Kv.? , Thomas takes charge of District No. 5, lately vacated bv Sheridan, with orders to execute all orders he may find in force there, unless authorized by the General of the army to annul, alter or modify them. ? The official returns of the Kentucky election show that Helm beats the Radical candidate 56,000, third party 74,000; and his majority over both is 43,000. MERE-MENTION. Answer to Enigma of last week, "Butler's Cavalry Division." Sixty clerks, half of them females, have been discharged from the Treasury Department, for want of work. Emperor Louis Napoleon's Imperial stud consists of 278 thorough-bred horses. Four men were 3wept over the falls of Niagara, about two weeks ago.? They were two ferry-men, and two passengers, whose names are unknown. Mrs. Jefferson Davis is now at Richmond, as the guest of Hon. James Lyons, at whose house she will remain in stria I. seclusion. durintr her stav. A Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine has decided that a marriage between a negro and a white person was illegal and void. The Conservatives have given Kentucky Helm. Brownlow has given Tennessee all but the last letter. Gen. George W. L. Bickley, of "Knights of the Golden Circle" notoriety, died in Baltimore recently, at the age of 32. IIu was a native uf Virginia.' * * **"An nmusing item in the Louisville census is 30,000 cats of the Thomas gender. Water sells in a dry part of Australia, for five dollars a half pint Immigrants continue to come to this country, notwithstanding its lamentable political condition, and its heavv taxation, at the rate of one thousand ver day. Railroads in this country are being built at the rate of one thousand miles per annum. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Gen. Sickles Protests. Gen. Sickles has procured from Gen. Grant a suspension of the Executive Order which restrains him from interfering with the process of the Supreme Court. He asked and obtained this suspension, that he might submit his argument in favor of giving him an authority higher than that of the Supreme Court The argument will not reach us in time for publication this week; but we will give it, in full or in substance, next week. We have only space enough now to congratulate our readers on the fact that the General is compelled to defend his orders by argument, and not as theretofore by a corporal and a file of men. General Pope as a Logician. The Commander of District No. 3 has aspi rations to shine as a letter-writer. Having witnessed the success of Mr. Hill a" I x-Governors ' Perry and Johnson in this line of business, he has assumed the quill to smash these experienced writers. As might have been expected, his production is wonderful. It is a lengthy and coni used collection of muddy arguments, and unconnected questions and illogical answers. The Chronicle d? Sentinel has already dissected this remarkable letter and exposed its absurdities in a style so scientific that it reminds us of skinning eels. For this manly and fearless refutal of General Pope's slanders, insinuations and prejudices, the Chronicle & Sentinel deserves the gratitude of the vrhole South. We do not publish the answer, because we have no desire to inflict upon our readers the cloudy letter of the hero of Manassas. But in order to show how utterly unqualified he is to ex? press an opinion, we give them one of his profound questions, whichhe answers unfavorably* lb our people. He says: "Have the sluggishness of mind and body, and the tendency to assail by violence the right of opinion and discussion, engendered by habits acquired during the existence of slavery and the system'of politics in the Sduth, unfitted the people for such self-government as is implied by free speech, free press, and the fullest peaceable discussion of all public questions?" Another Reason for Registering. General Pope has kindly provided the white people of his District a new and forcible reason for registering, by requiring that all jurors must be taken from the lists of registered voters. As this District is liable at any time to a similar restriction of civil rights to registered citizens only, it is highly important that our people should endeavor to secure as large a list as possible, of oompetent jurors. Voting may not be considered a high privilege by everybody; so long as it was the only privilege conferred by registration, some may have hought it but a small thing to neglect this duty. But it surely requires no argument to point out its importance now. If the white people choose to hold back in lofty indifference after learning this fact, they have none but themselves to blame, when they see the jury box filled by negroes, to the exclusion of whites. We bring this argument forward for the consideration of those who, having failed to register now, will have another chance in S<?nfAm}v>r. Freedmen's Saving and Trust Company. This is an institution which has its principal office in Washington, and branch offices in the larger cities of the South. The cashier of the Charleston branch furnishes the Neics with some interesting particulars of its operations during the month of July. That month is usually the dullest business month ot the year ; yet the freedmen of Charleston deposited $37,517 in July. As this a- 1 mount represents what they have saved, it is a 1 cheering proof that the freedmen of Charleston are 1 prospering, and, what is still better, are learning to economise. Not to spend money is the great 1 lesson that they, and most of the whites, too, need tQ learn. Until our people have schooled themselved to do without unnecessary luxuries and follies, and to accumulate something for unforeseen expenses, they can never become independent? The freedmen, in particular, should devote their energies to saving up enough to secure themselves 1 homes, instead of wandering shiftlessly from place 1 to place, waiting for a distribution among them of t other people's property. Such a division can ne/^ er be made, and if it were, their ill-gotten possessions would glide out of their hands in a very short time. Their only chance to acquire property is by i the exercise of honest industry and self-denying economy. We hope the Freedmen's Saving and Trust Company will soon become a flourishing institution. An Imprisoned Genius. The New York penitentiary, at Auburn, is the residence of a real genins, who has by some unfortunate combination of circumstances been kept out of Congress. But talent for rascality is uot always appreciated, even in an age when the making of the laws is entrusted to the most conspicuous rascals of the land. The difficulty in this jase is that the convict has too much talent Had he possessed less genuine brains and more brass, 1 he would probably have been an Ashtey, a Brown- i low, or a Butler. As it is, he is only a convict; though it must be confessed that he is a far more useful member of society even there, than many i i proud outsider who would perhaps look upon ' him with scorn. A writer who has lately visited 1 this man's "stately mansion," says: "v-"One of the convicts, more practiced than many of his fellows, and who was looked upon for some time after his incarceration as hardly compos men- : tis, has invented and made a superior sewing ma- ' ihine entirely different from any used in the outer 1 n .i worm, upon WU1UU lilU uuouu tiuiuiug 10 U1UU&I? . Near by a knittiug machine of his make is turning : out stockings for the prisoners at a rate which made the laaies stare with astonishment as they . passed by it. He has also made a gun worth $125, and is now at work making locks of his own invention, for the new cells." Frog Hunting* The taste for frog-meat is growing steadily ) and rapidly, in America. Chicago consumes one ; hundred thousand frogs yearly, Buffalo, N. Y., several thousand daily, and other lake cities are becoming equally fond of the interesting animal, [n view of these facts, the Home Journal laments the unsportsmanlike style in which the monarch of the pond is captured. It says: "Frogs are now killed in an unscientific manner, by men in old clothes and big boots, who stalk through the sloughs, cudgel in hand, and 'when they see a head, nit it' The nearest approach to sport is what may be called night hunting. Ked pieces of cloth are thrown into the water, and illuminated by the light of a 'bull's eye.' The inquisitive frogs come up to look at the strangelybrilliant object, nibble it, entangle their teeth in its threads, and are drawn out by the sportsman, victims to undue curiosity. But they are i already learning wisdom by experience and growing shy of man, so that wc may promise ourselves an increase of sport in a few years. Pools are now stocked with frogs, as streams are with trout, and soon we may have laws for the protection or that game, frog preserves, frogging excursions, frog ways in our marshes, and all the rules and regulations for the scientific capture of the reptiles. * 1/OUging lue juiijuui uaid Massachusetts has a law strictly prescribing the sale of liquor, and the police are very vigilant in enforcing it But the proverbial ingenuity of Bostonians is often too much for the guardians of the law. They, like the less cunning races of mankind, are fond of the spirituous fluids; but they are far more successful in procuring it under adverse circumstances. The Boston Traveler says: A gentleman who knows, states that he has seen barrels of flour, apparently taken from stores, which, in reality, were casks of liquor, with enough flour placed at the top and DOttom of the barrel inside to give it that appearance when moved, one cask being firmlv wedged in each flour barrel. Great care is manifested in giving the orders to teamsters: "Call at and get barrels of flour," but after the goods are loaded, if not prepaid, the driver is sometimes astonished to find that he is not transporting flour, but rum or whiskey. Sewing machine cases, boot and shoe boxes, and dry goods cases, are also called into requisition by the dealers, and it is asserted that the cellars of some diy goods stores are leased for the purpose of concealing liauois, the same being carried back and forth in tne large square cases generally used by dry goods dealers, so that the liquor might be loaded before the eyes of an officer without excitiug his suspicions. A few da^s since, an expressman received an order to call for a box of ourrants. While carrying across the city, the box was rather roughly used, and a colored liquor oosed from the cracks between the boards. The odor that arose from the box was similar to that of Madeira wine, although the driver delivered the box as one containing currants; and received pay accordingly. In one instance, it is said, a barrel of whiskey was concealed in a molasses hogshead, and hay and stones packed around it to make up the usual weight of a hogshead of molassess, ana it was then f o lrlin rlpnlq in flip iirdpnf. nn t.Vift DV/UV W ? &IWV1) n?v ? -"v ?. v? sly, probably keeping a small amount only in his store, and secreting the rest in his or some friendly neighbor's house. Verdict of a Negro Jury. A North Carolina paper publishes the following lucid verdict, which was the result of the deliberations of a coroner's jury, composed of twelve "men and brethren," who were summoned together to hold an inquest over the body of a deceased "man and brother," at Newbern: "We, de undersigned, being a koroner's juray to set on de body of de uiggur Sambo, now ded an' gone afore us, hab been settin' on de said niggur aforesaid, and he did on de night of de fusteenth of July oome to def by fallin' off a boat, what was lyin' in de inlet, into de said inlet whar we find hu wan subsequently drowned, and afterwards washed on de rocks whar we 'spore he was froze to deff" LOCAL ITEMS. HEW ADVBBTIBEiaarrS. James Pagan, Agent, Chester, S. C.?Universal Cotton Gin and Condenser. Armstrong, Cator & Co., Baltimore, Md.?Fall and Winter Importation, 1807. New Furniture 1?Cheap!?At Davidson's Furniture Store, Charlotte, N.- C. S. E. Stratton, Columbia?Highest Prices Paid for Wool, Hides and Beeswax. F. Elder?Improved Clothes Washer. W. B. Williams?Revenue Taxes. W. B. Williams?Sale of Land for Revenue Taxes. Nelson Datrtes?House-Painting, Ac. Dr. John May?Partner Wanted. T. M. Dobson <fc Co.?Coffee. 44 44 44 ?Bacon. 44 44 44 ?Caps and Shot. 44 44 44 ?Shoes. 44 44 44 ?Molasses. 44 44 44 ?Soda. 44 44 44 ? Blind Bridles. 44 44 44 ?Parlor Matches. 44 44 44 ?Indigo. Public Speaking on the 6th of September. ijaneys varieties. THE CROPS, Oar farmers have now reached a stage in their fanning operations, from which they can calculate with tolerable certainty upon the growing crops. The general opinion seems to be that a sufficiency of grain for home consumption will be gathered. The cotton prospects are good. The plants are small and late, but well filled with fruit, which a late fall will help to mature. HEAVY PALL OP BAIN. A portion of this District was visited on Monday afternoon, by a fall of rain of almost unprecedented violence. The "oldest inhabitant" of this town does not remember to have seen its like. The rain was of brief duration, but did considerable damage to the bottom corn notwithstanding. The smallei streams in the District, in the vicinities where the rain was heaviest, flooded the low lands adjaeent A HEW WASHING MACHINE. Mr. F. Elder, of Chester District, is exhibiting in our town, a Washing Machine, invented by himself and recently patented. He claims for it many advantages over others in use; and we think his claims to superiority are well founded. At a trial of one of these machines, we 'saw a hatch of dirty clothes put into the concern, and after a few vigorous strokes of the lever, were brought out through the wringer in a much cleaner condition than washer-women sometimes return them. Mr. Elder is stopping, temporarily, at "Rose's Hotel," and will be pleased to exhibit his invention to all who will do him the favor to call aod witness its operations. We rather like the thing ourselves. Read Mr. Elder's advertisement in anotherjjgJjunn. REPUBLICAN MEETING. On Wednesday evening of last week, one J. W. Randolph, and A. W. Handy, (colored) visited this town as "envoys" of the Republican party; charged, we suppose, with the duty of illustrating to our people the pricely blessings of Republicanism. After some delay, on account of a heavy fall ? *1 11 1 D xl 1 J or ram, a oonsiaeraDie nurnoer in me euiuieu people of this town, and some of the white citizens, assembled at the Zion Church, to hear what they had to say. Each of the speakers occupied an hour and a half, in discussing Republicanism vs. Democracy. This paper not being represented, editorially, at the meeting, we are unable to give anything like a synopsis of these harangues. We learn from those who were present, that their temper was intensely Republican?anti-Democratic? anti-Qait and Perry, and anti everything and everybody?white, black or mulatto?who could not swallow the Republican platform, joist, pillar and plank. As rhetorical exerciser, we hear these speeches spoken of favorably; and if correctly informed in this particular, we commend them to the study of oratorical aspirants, here and elsewhere. ?REGISTRATION IN YORK DISTRICT. ^ We are" indebted to members of the Boards of Registration in this District, for the returns given below. The books have been closed, for Ihe present, at Yorkville, McConnellsville, Blairsville, Bethany, Boydton, Fort Mill and Rock Hill. The return from Clay Hill embraces two days, and Wylie's Store, one day. The following i9 the result up to this time: White. Black. Yorkville, 369 337 McConnellsville, 104 204 Blairsville, 121 165 Clay Hill, 69 137 Bethany. 100 44 Boydton, >. 194 <90 Wylie's Store, 54 116 Fort Mill, ; 144 171 R/v.1- Hill 205 316 1360 1580 Majority for Blacks, 220 Our correspondent, "Osceola," writes us from Clay Hill, under date of the 27th instant, as follows: Messrs. Editors : After completing Registration at McConnellsville, of which place I see you published the result of the first two days in your last issue, the Board of the 1st Precinct repaired to Blairsville, where, as usual, they remained in session during the space of three aays. The result of the last day at McConnellsville, was blacks, 65 ; whites 44; making a total of 317 for the three days. The blacks, at that paloe, stand nearly two to one to the whites. At Blairsville, the result was more favorable. Ninety-three blacks and 35 whites, were registered during the first day: 54 blacks and 51 whites, during the second, and 18 blacks and 35 whites during the third. From this, you see that the black majority at that place is only 44, and as a considerable number of whites in that section have not yet registered, even this small majority may be greatly reduced on the second round. Owing to the very unfavorable state of the "weather, but few individuals of either color were registered here on the first day. The whole number amounted to 98. Of these, 54 were blacks and 44 were whites. Much against their custom, the blacks mustered out a large force on the second day, while the number of whites was comparatively smalL Eighty-three of the former were registered, and only 25 of the latter, leaving a majority of G8 in favor of the blacks. It is not expected that there will be much business done to-morrow, and it would be difficult to foretell which side will take the lead. The weather has been very bad in this section for the last few days. The roads have been in a horrid condition for traveling, and those of a nervous disDOsition must certainly feel "ticklish" while crossing the rickety bridges over some of the creeks. It rained nearly all day on Monday, and Jupiter Pluvius tried to do his very best on the evening of that day. Since then, we are informed, the Catawba has risen very fast; in some cases overflowing the river bottoms and causing some damage to the corn. The crops in this neighborhood are generally good. The cotton crop is the best, but there is a general complaint on the part of farmers on account of the unusual growth of the plant, which keeps it from speaaing, and whicn they have in vain endeavored to arrest It will be no small matter to save a sufficient quantity of fodder unless the weather changes, but as there is already some prospects of a change, we may hope that our farmers will not be backward in this particular. Osceola. THE UNITED 8TATE8 COUBT. In the Greenville papers of last week, we find a report of the proceedings of the Uuited States ? . i _i rrn _ x?.ii Uourt now in session at mat piace. x ne iouowing paragraphs are of interest to local readers: Wm. C. Beatty was, on motion of 6. W. Williams, admitted to practice in the Courts of the United States, for the District of South Carolina. Ei parte, Daniel F. Neely?Petition for Voluntary Bankruptcy. The petition, &c., were filed, and on motion of Gr. W. Williams, the same were referred to W. I. Clawson, Register in Bankruptcy. In rc., Daniel Williams?Petition of Creditors for adjudication of Bankruptcy; W. B. Wilson foi Creditors?G. W. Williams for Bankrupt Upon filing proof sustaining the allegations of petitioners, it was ordered that Daniel Williams appear at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be holden at ColumohMM] the 26th of November, 1867, and show cause whv the prayer of the Petitioners should not be granted. In the matter of Thomas Davies, a petition waf filed by creditors, praying that Thomas Davies be adjudged a Bankrupt, and an order be issued requiring said Davies to appear at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be holden at Columbia, on the 26th daj of November, 1867. CHESTER CONTBIBirrOBIAl. BY WM. H. BBAWLKY. >, - y. . >CHESTER, 8. C., AtfGUST 27, 1887. THE DE8I0I Of this column is to supply to the Chester subscribers of the " Yorkville Enquirer," all items of District news, which may be of interest to the community. RATH AID 00TT0I. . We have had two or three days of continuous rain. The cotton is likely to be injured. PUBLIC 8PEAEKQ. Rev. B. F. Randolph, (colored) made a speech in the public square, on last Wednesday night? We knew nothing of it, and did not attend, but hiwe understood that it was Conservative in tone. DAionra school Mr. J. H. Bailey, whose corps dramatique amused us several evenings last week, has opened a dancing school. We wish him success, but fear that our people are too poor and blue, to care much for dancing. 1 oofvStioi. We have been told that the freedmon contemplate having a meeting at one of their churches, near town, to nominate candidates for the Convention. We presume the nominees wQl be colored, as they are partial to that shade just now. One , of the colored preachers, however, that we heard , the other day, was very*liberal in his views. He , called upon everybody?white and black, saints and ainnora rifb and ruvtr?tn "fflt On the Union ; 'publican platform, and all go to glory together." PEBJUBY, Three freedmen, charged with peijury in having : taken the "Registration Oath"?they having previously been convicted of felony?were brought ' down from York the other day and lodged in jail, > to await the action of the military authorities. Registers should be careful to explain this oath to the freedmen, as most of them take it in utter ignorance of what it is, and in blissful unoonscioBSness of the penalties to which they subject themselves if they swear falsely. Under some circumstances it would be hard if those penalties should be inflicted. REGI8TBATI0S. We have been unable to obtain any full returns of Registration at the precincts in the country.? At'all the places from which we have heard, there affWage^black majorities. The Registers are now on their second circuit. The last days for the town will be the 14th, 16th and 17th of September. We cannot urge, too strongly, upon our citizens, the duty of registering. Our efforts may, at first, be unavailing to stem the torrent which is sweeping over us; we may not be able to control or direct it; proud heads may be laid low?but, after a time, when brute force shall have spent itself?they will rise, and the intellect and worth of the country will assert themselves, and j will, in the end triumph, or all hiatoiy is a lie 1? Let no false pride or unreasoning obstinacy prevent men from registering, and let them not forget that the time, within which this can be done, is limited. OBOPS IB TEXAS. We are informed by a gentleman just from that State, that the cotton crop is almost entirely destroyed in Texas by the army worm. We are sorry to learn that our friend and former fellow citizen, Mr. A. Q. Dunnovant, has lost a splendid crop by . its devastations. The corn crop, our informant tell us, is fine. vAfter all, though the profits of agriculture are < "not veiy great in our old State, the risks are not so ' great either. Nature is full of complications.? Where she gives with one hand, she takee away with the other. We gape with wonder and envy at stories of unimaginable cotton fields, and sigh that all good things are for others. When, straightway, comes the army-worm or locust, or some other similar nuisance, and restores our equanimity and satisfies us with our lot The "monal" of which reflection is, that we should stay where we are, cultivate friendly relations with the freedmen, and be contented if we can't be rich! u / / . TIE PBEEDMEH'S BU&BAU. Lieut DeForest is the officer in charge of this "Institution" at Chester. We have had some intercourse with him, professionally, and have invariably found him courteous and just The principles upon which this Bureau was founded, and which, in the eyes of Congress, justifies its existence, is that the white men are not disposed to treat the freedmen jcstly, and that they need that kind of protection which State Laws do not give. While we believe this assumption to be, in the main, an error ; unfortunately, circumstances too often seem to warrant it. Just at this time, (and last year at this season, similar complaints arose), many of the cases which ask the interposition of the military authority, arise from the charges of the freedmen, kthat their employers wish to get rid of them, and disnme them from their plantations. &*** V'.. It, at least, gives rise to unpleasant suspicions when an employer, whose hands are hired for a part of the crop, wishes to dispense with their servinoa rifiar tW the ernn is made, nnon some charge of insubordination, idleness, &c. There are no words too strong with which to stigmatize such conduct; and we doubt not that any case of the kind, properly authenticated, would meet, in our own courts, with the punishment deserved, and that exemplary damages would be awarded. The frequency of these complaints would lead one to believe that some of them are true. If so, nothing can be more mean or more dishonest; nothing more dishonorable than to take advantage of the poor and ignorant Besides contravening that sublime maxim of Christian Ethics?"to do unto others as we would that they should do unto us,"?such oonduct is in the highest degree impolitic, and will induce most disastrous results. Laborers will be thrown upon the community at o fiimo when nn wnrV in to he obtained, and will become, necessarily, either beggars, loafers, or thieves, and worse than all, that confidence in the truth, justice and honesty of the white race, which is so essential and desirable to be impressed upon 1 the colored people, is destroyed; and no professions of friendliness will restore it Every right-thinking citizen will approve of the interposition of any authority which will punish attempts to defraud the freedmen of their rights; but officers of the Bureau should guard against listening, too readily, to complaints which are made, but too willingly, against the white mam The colored people are in a state of great agitation. They have been much excited lately by political discussions; recollections of past wrongs bave embittered them, and a feeling of hostility to the white people, unknown till now, has been dei veloped in them. Under these circumstances, it will not be strange if cases of insubordination occur which it is the duty of this Bureau to repress ?that uniust demands will be made, and fal?e ac cusations, which should be heard with caution and acted upon with deliberation. We have confidence that Lieut DeForest, in i discharging the delicate duties of his office, will be actuated by a conscientious desire to deal fiurly and > equitably between the two races, and we trust that he will believe that, as a general rule, the white man is disposed to act justly toward the blac^ i man. iiJjg" * ' Telegraphic Feat.?A gentleman residing at Newport & L, sent a message at noon on Mon| day, the 1st instant to Alexandria^., Figypt and | received an answer at the same office the following . day at 1 o'dock-P. M., being tweatydivebours in P transmission both ways?a (jisfeuaoej to and fro, of not less than fourteen thousand miles. COLUMBIA CONTRIBUTORIAL BT JAS. "WOOD DAVIDSON. ' COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAIOLIJA, 28TH AUQUBT, 1887. Registration* r . The work of registration goes on from day to day with nothing worthy of note. The negroes keep ahead, we believe, thus far, in all the wsnjp. The first few "days at each precinct, the negroes crowd out everything. .v .. .. Magical. , , Messrs. Pnffie A Chapman, Bookseller* of Columbia, have pat npon our table a piece of new instrumental music. It is called theuFaU cf the Waltzes; and isfirm*the musie press ftf Oliver Ditson&Co., Boston. The music is simple, and easily learned.** The price is 60 cents*. Political sad Personal. One Thompson, notorious for his part in the bar-room fracas here some weeks ago, a traveling Tankee correspondent of the New York Timer, writing from Charleston, after his sojourn of a week in Columbia, gives personal sketches of several of our prominent politicians. Among the individuals mentioned is your former townsman, now promi nent at the bar in this city:? * "Col. Melton, of Columbia, takes this view.? He says: 1. The South shuffled to play a square fe-ame. 2. 8be staked all to win or Joee. . - . 3. She lost, ud therefore is entitled to nothing. The principles of our Magna Chart* he applies to men, irrespective of race or former condition.? The theory or slavery assumed that negroes were not men, henoe this principle was not necessarily applicable to them: *. that the inalienable right of man is to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He does not think that the rebels committed treason in the spirit of that crime, but that they staked all their political rights, and after a hard, bloody fight, lost Hence he believes fuQy in the Sumner-Stevens Territorial theory, and says Congress has the right to create any form of government it chooses over the rebel States, and that every former believer in State sovereignty, to be consistent, can take no other view. The Goionells one of South Caroliiia's ablest lawyers * one of her most chivalrous gentlemen," and has a heart deep, proportionate to the comprehensiveness of his Phonography. We frequently mention this suhjeot, because we believe it is one worthy the public attention; especially that of young men. It is the best system, of short-hand ; and is so easily learned, even without a teacher, that all enterprising students ought to learn it It will save an immense deal of labor and time 'to any student, lawyer, editor, preacher, teacher, or any other man who has to take notes ml m'tfl Ant nnun fmm MmimnlifMl msittrialfL Had we, personally, known it on entering college, it wonld have saved us something like (we estimate) three years of work up to the present time. We have devoted several months of careful attention to the matter of deciding which is the .best book to study Phonography in; and the result of our study is that Munson's Complete Phonographor is dearly the best. We have carefully examined both Pitman'* and Graham's systems (so called) but find both dearly inferior to Munsou, which is the shortest to leara and the best when learned. There is a small book on Munson's system, called Haney's Handbook of Phonography, which costs only twenty-five cents, and which presents the system very nearly complete?gives enough to occupy a month's stndy,"giving an hour a day to it And with this experiment the student will see entirely through the work that is before him: and.will be ready for Munson's Complete Phonographer, which he will have to get before he perfects the study. The Phonographer will cost $2.25. This is all the book that is really indispen- ' sable, and will do to commence on just as well as the Hand Book mentioned above. Daffie A Chapman have the Complete Phonographer if Colombia. - Literary. Alec Forbes of Hioufglen, i novel, by George Mac Donald, M. A., author of Annals of a Quiet Familyj and some other novels, is the last number of Harper's library of Select Novels?No. 29A? It is a story of Scotch life, fall cf Scotch brogue, and deals mainly in the simpler dements of rustic life in the interior. The tale, ofcourse, is a tale of ^ love?the love of a simple pair who loved on through many trials and years, and came out all rigfrt^t last There is much of Scotch cunning and 8uspiciousn&s in it; and the amount of Gaelic talk (such as Sir Walter Scott delighted in) is greater than we remember in any novel in the English langu. ge. The scene shifts from rural haunts, to the hails 01 > medical ooDege, and thence again to other cities; but it is all Sootoh, very Scotch.? The sweet, violet-like Annie Anderson, is a study, perhaps not-equal to Jennie Deans, but certainly one to touch the heart and claim the admiration of those who appreciate the sublimity of simple and invincible faith. Messrs. Dnffie and Chapman, in . Columbia, have the novel for sale. The prioe'is ' 75 cents. # The great novelty in the literary world, however, is the expected appearance this week of the first number of 2he Broadway?the great international, London-and-New-York monthly magazine, that proposes to nave engaged tne great Drains or Dotn hemispheres as contributors. The proprietors say of their magazine and its style: "We shall endea- . vor to be sociable without being frivolous, and, if we occasionally aim at being instructive, we shall . not scrupulously avoid being indigestible.. Poli- . tics we shall eschew." That is, it proposes to be ' entertaining, recreative, and Kghti It is to sell at 25 cents a number; and the subscription price is $3. It will be in the Columbia book-market, and we shah notice it further upon receipt of it . ? ? | i For the Yorfcrllto Enquirer, MASOHICDOINGS AT HOCK HILT.. Mr. Editor .?There are few occasions now that prompt me to harness the web of thought, and ply the ink-dipped shuttle, which, at this day, is ponderous as a weaver's beam. But with brooding thoughts on "peace and prosperity" to fellow " man, how to use the day, the palms itch for the office of executioner, and to hang iUxe picture of the occasion in the gallery of this ancient templ&^flBk r> m:- t? n_ ~rm i t v.j x. i/iui jL/awrciiy, ui uuoricsuiu, uau me uqjHpp offered him by the Masons, to give a public address to them ou yesterday. About half past 10 o'clock, A M., they issued from their hall in line, and proceeding to the grove opposite, were met By the Ladies of Temperance, who united in procession, waving, a chaste Lttle banner of their own, decked with roses,.as emblems of the virtues of union.? The order being given to them (?) by M^jor Dunlop, as marshall, to close up, they marched together in august procession to the Methodist Church, which was entered in inverted order. A prayer by Bev. Mr. Kerr, and an ode by the choristers of the Lodge, preceded the speech of Dr. Dannelly. A rapid and contracted synopsis, only, will be attempted, of a speech replete with Biblical knowledge iupart, and clothed in refined and soul movinir filonnftnne. He first impressed them with the true interest of the occasion as solely Masonic, and having himself completed the "circle of perfection," one felt, that being stored with the full knowledge of the orientals, he was master of the occasion. He then occupied his hearers with an elaborate train of sacred history, illustrating the demands for good, through succeeding epochs, down to the erection of the Temple to the God of Israel. Then Masons, as builders of the Temple, took form as an Order, and from it, through all the mutations of time, de1 scended to us. In discoursing upon the general purposes of Masonry as at enmity with the vices of man, selfishness came in for its foil share of chas tisement, and in most beautiful style, with a ninetail scorpion, he lashed it around the world In strains of Parnassian flight, he seemed to invoko the inspirations of'all the muses. With burning words from the fire of the soul, the Doctor gave bigotry a timikr treatment, interspersed from his laboratory of wit and humor. He invited all de