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Straps and farts. Two ladies were haying some words together on the roadside, when the daughter of one of them popped her head out of the door and cried: "Be qmck, mother, and call her a thief before she calls you one." The Crispin organization of shoemakers in the United States, is said to be one of the most formidable trades associations in the world. They reoently offered $1000 to four men to quit working , for a "boss" who would not recognize their demands. ?- At Terra Haute,. Indiana, there is a preacher who is a liquor gauger in the internal revenue service, and a Terre Haute paper, in reply to some objections, as to the incongruity of the arrange- , ment, thinks he must be rather a poor preacher who oould'nt be trusted to guage whiskey. It is claimed by a Florentine professor that somnambulism may be cured by simply winding a < copper wire, slender and flexible, around the leg of the patient, leaving an end long enough to touch ] the ground. The theorv is that the wire conducts , away the electricity of the body. 1 There is a man living in Northampton, Mas- ? sachusetts, within three miles of the railroad, thir- : ty-eight years of age. who has been in but four different towns in his life, has never been inside of - ?-1 ?-J Voa nnwnr olnnf in unu Tin HOP 21 rail ruitu UU, auu uiu UV.IVI WV(IV .u ?.J ? except the one in which he was born, has never < been courting and never kissed a girL 1 A ten-inch columbiad gun has been placed 1 on the spot where Generals Grant and Pemberton ] arranged the terms for the surrender ofVicksburg, i an inscription denoting the fact being engraved upon it The marble monument which was originally ; erected there had been hacked and marred by vandal relic-seekers. '* ( A divine in Georgetown, D. C.} in one of 1 his'serraons during the base ball season, used as a ] quotation the scriptural auery, "Where are the i nine?" On a repetition of the question a demure looking young gentleman, who had been nodding, suddenly roused up, and in an audible tone innocently responded, "They are playing a Washingtontuub. A girl keeper of a toll-gate in England was asked by a swell vekxspedist, who thought to chaff 1 her, how much he had to pay. "That, sir," re- < plied she, "depends upon whether you ride through 1 the gate, or whether you get off your dandy horse < and drag it through; because in that case every ] two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a horse or an ass . pays three-pence." * 1 The order of the President approving the sentenoe of the Military Commission in Texas, iust 1 promulgated, is the first approval by the President < of the action of military courts under the reoonstruc- ] tion acts. President Johnson took no action upon such proceedings, but when presented for his ap- j proval held them under advisement or returned the papers to the War Department without comment - Professions exercise a great influence on < longevity, in one thousand individuals who ar- 1 rive at the age of seventy, forty-two are priests, 1 rvnhlin anpj>tprK fn rfv are agricultural- i VidWlO V* |/UWMV w.w J v -Q ists, thirty-three are workmen, thirty-two are soldiers or military employees, twenty-one are advocates or engineers, forty-seven professors and twenty-four doctors. Those who aevote their lives to ' the prolongation of others die the soonest. i ?7? Over three handled colored persons have < recently left Southwestern Virginia for the more t Southern States. From almost every other, seo- , tion of Virginia, it is stated, that they are taking up the line of march Southward. An exchange, 1 in view of these facts, asks, how long will it be be- 1 fore the colored people cease to be a political power in Virginia. - i ?? Some gentlemen who lately bought a lot of ] unclaimed express parcels at a sale of such articles , by die Adams Express Company, have held a meeting and determined to begin legal proceedings " to recover the amounts paid tor the packages, al- * ledging that they were never sent by express, but < were packed up for swindling purposes. One gen- ' tleman paid $180 for packages which proved to j contain the merest rubbish. ( The sugar crop of the world is reported to amount to 2,800,000 tons per annum. Of this . amount the United States consumes 530,000 tons, J and Great Britain 680,003. The consumption of 1 sugar in this country is increasing annually, having < been raised to the extent of 67,000 in 1868 over ] 1867. Of the total production, Cuba has heretofore ( yielded one-third, and the Southern States produced 100,000 tons in 1868 The Knoxville Press and Herald of last ? Saturday says: Mr. James E. Renshaw, of this 1 city, has a very full list of the Confederate dead s buried in and about Knoxville. The list comprises c about three thousand names. Persons desiring in- j formation concerning lost friends, may possibly obtain important intelligence by applying to Mr. Renshaw. His list indicates places of residence as * well as names. ? The Western lands, it is stated, are rapidly I becoming exhausted from the production of one i class of crops and from the neglect to apply pro- r per manures. The journals of that region assert , that the grain-growing districts of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Minnesota, are yielding smaller crops to the acre every year, and the same facts have c i- J A?\ uuen uustirvcu 1U LUC nucai uiauitu VI vouiviuia. ? The West, as well as the Sooth, must adopt the 1 plan of rotation of crops. s It is said that after the Grand Army of the Republic had left Arlington Cemetery, on deco- r ration day, there came on a great storm of wind , and rain. The next day all was bright and fair, but a wondrous change had been wrought. The wind, more charitable than man, and more practical- f ly indiguant, had whirled the flowers off the graves I of the Federal soldiers, and heaped them upon the V neglected and insulted graves of the thirty unknown j Confederates. The English papers record a tolerably smart . mot that is attributed to Earl Clarendon, the present Foreign Minister for Great Britain. Mr. Sum- ? ner, after living into advanced age a bachelor, s married, three years since, a young widow of great ] personal attractions. Recently, the man and wife j nave, on the ground of incompatibility of temper, separated. Lord Clarendon being asked what imEression Mr. Sumner's late speech had made upon im, answered, "I have read it, sir, with much t interest, and have formed a very high opinion of? t Mrs. Sumner." t The St. Paul (Minnesota) Dispatch says: \ "We learn from a gentleman who came down from t the Chippewa agency, that a delegation of some , twenty or thirty of those Indians are on their way down to St. Paul to have a grand dog feast. They have learned that some tweuty or tnirty fine, fat t dogs are killed every day by the police, and the ( bodies buried. They think this a shocking and , awful waste of food. Dog meat is a great delicacy . with them. They propose to encamp in the park 1 near the City Hall, ana live on dog meat until the 1 harvest of canines ceases, and then return home < tat and happy." ( The Pall Mall Gazette mentions the recur- t rence of an extraordinary phenomenon recorded \ by Herodotus, as having been observed in remote times by the tribes inhabiting the shores of the Caspian Sea. That huge salt lake is dotted with ' islands from which enormous quantities of naphtha ] are yearly taken. Early last month, owing to :ub- ! terranean disturbances, the naphtha wells on t'jese i niroi-fli-nroft nnrt thp infln.mn.hlp snhstjince lOiOUUO VIVAUVKVVl] MUM tuw - spread over the entire surface of the lake. It accidentally took fire, and for forty-eight hours burned furiously over a surface of many thousands < of square miles, presenting a magnificent and ter- I rifying spectacle to the inhabitants of the surrounding country, who imagined that the end of the , vrorld was at hand. The fish in the lake were en- ' tirely destroyed, and for miles around vegetation was parched and the country made like a desert j A Chicago journal offers some very sensible 1 suggestions to business men on the subject of advertising. The remarks were called forth by a letter from a subscriber, asking the address of a prominent firm doing business in that city and dealing largely in musical instruments. This firm were quite extensive advertisers, but had always advertised in what is very properly called the 'spasmodic fashion.' This manner has become much too common everywhere. Many advertisers seem to regard an occasional card of more than ordinary length and attractiveness more efficacious than a standing advertisement They forget that the only object of advertising at all is to cause names to be indelibly associated with their business. Or, if they have this end in view, their practice is inconsistent with their motives. If it be of any advantage to advertise once a month, it is certainly more advantageous to advertise weekly. The Cincinnati street railroad companies are about to adopt an ingenious plan for protecting themselves against the dishonesty of their conductors. Every conductor is to be furnished with a quantity of tickets numbered at each end, and for eveiy fare he takes he is to give the passenger the half of one of these tickets, depositing the other half in a box placed.in the car. At the end of the week a kind of drawing is to take place from the half tickets in these boxes, and the holder of the half corresponding to the one drawn is to receive from the railroad company a prise of fifty dollars. It is supposed that the chanoe of winning this prize will lead every passenger to insist both on getting his half ticket and seeing the corresponding half deposited in the box. The device may succeed, but it is doubtful. A very little legerdemain will suffice to cheat the eye of a passenger, especially when the oar is crowded, aha the companies will pay out their fifty dollars a week to no purpose. ferimllr tfsfrixer. YORKVILLE, S. C.s THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1869. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that 3ur terms for subscription, advertising and job, svork, 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 (X) cross-mark on the wrapper or margin of his paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. A NEW MAGAZINE. We have received the first number of the Typographic Journal and Advertiser, a quarterly magazine devoted to the advancement of the interest jf publishers and printers in the South, the publication of which has reoently been commenced in Charleston, by Messrs. Walker, Evans & Cogswell, [t is under the immediate control of our friend, Mr. C. Irvine Walker, a member of the firm, and 3ontains a mass of information which is interesting md useful to the wide-awake and progressive printer. As a specimen of typographical execution, it would be creditable to any establishment in America. UNCERTAIN JUDICIAL DECISIONS. It was formerly thought that, of all future events, the verdict of a petit jury was the most difficult to predict. But in these days such a verdict has bejome a matter of tolerable certainty, compared srith the decisions of their "honors" who preside iver the settlement of vexed questions, in all manner of courts, from the magistrate in his office ? the Chief Justice on the Supreme bench of the United States. The verdict of a jury can be foreeld in two guesses, as it must be either "guilty" )r "not guilty" in the criminal court, and "for the plaintiff" or "for the defendant" in the civil court A.nd when once given, the thing is at an end so far rs that jury is concerned. Very different is it with the decision of a court Vho can tell beforehand what will be decided law )r what constitutional, when there is no question but has been decided on both sides, and sometimes by the same court? And furthermore, when parties have gained a favorable decision, what assurance have they that such decision will stand, when presented to another court? There is an agreeable variety of views in judges, which forbids any suspicion of their being tied down to the opinions :>f predecessors. Most assuredly evory man of them form3 his own ideas of the law and the constitution. Even when two of them happen to lgree in a decision, they arrive at it by different routes. While it is highly creditable to the originality of jhief-justices, judges and magistrates that they expound the law, in total disregard of one another's news, serious consequences ensue. There is no standard authority to tell what is law. The only affect of a decision is temporary. It stands until die next court, but is by no meaus a precedent. The chances of its being reversed by the next udge who comes along are fully equal to the ahanoes of its being sustained. Another evil consequence of the instability of udicial decisions is that it begets a loss of respeot or the diguity of the judge primarily, and of the constitution and laws secondarily. Men pay much ess respect to a vacillating authority than they do o one that may be relied upon as fixed and consisent with itself. When decisions were precedents ind established the construction of the constitution md laws, they were reverenced as important. But linoe decisions have become so common and so contradictory, they are looked upon as matters of ittle consequence. ' In like manner, the law is reverenced in propor;ion to its fixedness and clearness of meaning. As toon as it is clouded by contradictory expositions, ceople begin to disregard it and disobey it. This s partly from selfish motives, but it is also due, in 10 small degree, to the fact that they do not know rhat the law is. For example, let us ask why here has been so much difficulty in the settlement if old debts. Is it not chiefly because there have loon mftnv irreconcilable decisions upon the va idity of specie contracts and negro debts, the homeitead exemption, &c. ? It is sometimes said the country is cursed by too nuch legislation ; but it is no less true that it has >een cursed by too many judicial decisions. FORCING EQUALITY. The miscegenators of New England have long Sught to bring about the fulfilment of their favors dream of entire social equality of races in Amerca, They have succeeded so far as to make voers of the negro race in the South. They have dso partially succeeded in making voters of the ame race at the North, though only partially. 3ut they have utterly failed in getting anything ike a general acknowledgment of social equality inywhere. At the South, it is true, they have, hrough legislators of their own manufacture, made he races equal before the law. But even here hey have failed in establishing more than a fictiious equality. Every negro, as well as every vhite person, in the South, knows and feels hat the races are not socially equal in point of act, whatever local laws may say to the contrary. At the North the failure to establish social quality has been unequivocal. A few isolated ases have occurred here and there, of miscegenaing marriages between the races, and of social ntercourse kept up by the pride of opinion of cerain disciples to this doctrine. But the great mass )f Northern whites have looked upon thisattempt:d amalgamation with disgust, and, being free to ict in consequence of their numerical majority, lave defeated every effort to make the races equal it the ballot-box, much less at the fireside. Moives of anger have made them indifferent to the Demetration of this outrage on the whites of the South; but whenever it has been attempted upon themselves, they have spurned it with indignation. But the time has come when the whites of the North will soon find it to their interest to make common cause with their fellow citizens of the South. The Radical administration has undertaken to accomplish by force what it failed to do by argument It has made appointments of negroes to government offices in Washington, and requires all its employees there to subscribe to the doctrine of social equality or give up their positions. The experiment was first tried in the government printing office, by the appointment of Fred Douglas' son to a place, as type-setter. This was resisted by the printers' association, but in vain. Douglas was installed, and several hundred worthy men were forced to leave, as their self-respect would not allow them to acknowledge the equality of the races. The same rule is being enforced in the Navy and all other departments under control of Grant. It is the intention of the government to force the "lower classes" of whites to this acknowlment, through their necessities, trusting to the snpineness of the people in general for success. When this is accomplished, the next move will be to force the same pill upon the more affluent classes, with the aid of those previously degraded. The whole scheme is admirably adapted to the establishment of an imperial government, as it makes each class of whites assist in the degradation of the other, and brings both down to the level of the negro, who is by nature adapted to such a government. But will the scheme succeed ? We cannot believe it. There is too much pride of character and too much pride of nice in the American people to admit of such a result. We do not wish to be understood as entertaining any hostility to the African, when we take for granted his inferiority to the white race. No one can bring against us any act of injustice or ill-will towards a negro. We maintain it simply as a fact which is attested by the history of the world, the experienoe of our whole county, and the negro's own conscience and judgment. / ' THK WAR-CLOUD FADING AWAY. -Recent cable telegrams from England announce that Mr. Motley has begun his diplomatic labors. These do not amount to much; all he has done is to tell the Queen's ministers that the Alabama treaty was rejected because it failed to settle falJy the questions in dispute. He farther said he was instructed to negotiate a treaty just to both parties, and announced his willingness to receive and consider propositions. These propositions are not likely to come to him, as the English government made all the concessions it was willing to make, in the rejected treaty. Mr. Motley will probably have to make proposals himself. He has before him the delicate task of withdrawing Mr. Sumner's claims nTsuch a way as to make it appear teat tney were allowed by the English government The truth is he has no definite instructions. "Data," the usually accurate correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, says: "Mr. Motley is not instructed to make any proposition for the settlement of the claims, but to say that in view of the irritation of England, owing to the rejeotion of the treaty, the present is not an auspicious time to propose the re-opening of negotiations. In other words, the postponement of the question is desirable, with the hope that when the excitement shall subside, her Majesty's government will invite a reopening of negotiations. He is not authorized to announce the readiness of our government to make any proposition on that subject, nor to demand the payment of the amount of damages, national as well as individual, but to assure her Majesty's government of the sincere desire of our own to have all matters of dispute adjusted on terms honorable and satisfactory to both nations." Time is the object with Geo. Grant's administration now. They want England to cool down a little, and, for that purpose, carefully explain that Mr. Sumner's speech is not the base they occupy, although they stand by the rejection of the treaty and make a show of claiming damages for the spirit of hostility towards the United States, shewn by England during the war. The prospects for war are diminishing rapidly. Mr. Sumner's thunderblast is pretty well understood by this time, on both sides of the Atlantic. In this country his speech is looked upon as a personal bid for the Presidency, and a party nttempt to revive the declining interest of Republicans in "moral ideas." Its sentiments have been generally repudiated by the peoply of this country, only a few "choice spirits" sharing in Mr. Sumner's views. In England, the speech is regarded as mere "buncombe," and not at all representing the opinion of the American people. The sum total of effects, so far as Mr. Sumner is concerned, is a complete letting down of that gentleman's reputation. The English once regard ed him as the embodiment of American statesmanship and the oracle who expressed our sentiments. Now they find that he is but one of a thousand equally influential, and can speak only for himself. In America, also, his influence was thought second to none, and his reputation has suffered by the discovery that it is so small. He grasped the thunderbolts with great display; but the feeble effect with which he hurled, them proves that he is not the thunderer he was supposed to be. MERE-MENTION. The State Treasurer announces that the interest due on the bonds of the State of Sonth Carolina, since July 1st, 1867, will be paid on and after July 1st, at the Treasury office at Columbia. Two colored persons have been recently appointed Clerks in the Charleston post office. Dr. P. M. Wallace, editor of the Spartanburg Gazette, died in that town on the 11th instant. An insuranoe agent recently visited Kershaw county, and in one week's time received applications for policies amounting to over a quarter of a million of dollars. The Postmaster-General has recently established a post-office at Fish-Dam, Union county, and appointed Mrs. M. S. Stokes, postmistress Barnwell is said to be one of the richest counties in the State. On Saturday last, a number of boxes of peaches were shipped to New York from Charleston. The measles are going the rounds in Charleston. "The rate of taxation in Brooklyn, this year, is four percent; in New York, two per cent. The non-tax-paying Legislature of South Carolina has put it to the unfortunate tax-payers at the rate of one hundred and fixe per cent. A negro woman in one of the southern counties of this State, recently gave birth to twins?one white and the other black. This is social equality with a vengeance. B. Odell Blanton, Esq., of Newberry, has been appointed Consul of the United States at Naples. The Union Pacific Bail Road takes passengers from Omaha to Promontory Point, 1,000 miles, in sixty hours. The fare across the continent is one hundred and sixty-five dollars. Reversible parasols, which close with the lining outside, are the newest things in this article. Cojn is selling in Texas at ten cents a bushel"' "A reward is offered by western farmers for a grasshopper trap. Texas has planted hundreds of acres of the castor bean, and is preparing to physic the whole nation. A religious paper in Kentucky i contends that Christians should not only not make 1 and sell whiskey, but should not even raise corn for that purpose. A junk-dealer on Cape Cod 1 tried to melt the lead out of the end of a bombshell the other day in his kitchen stove. He spoiled a pot of beans in the operation. Rev. Joseph Cross, D. D., formerly of the Methodist Church, but now of the Protestant Episcopal Church, has been called from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to the Rectorship of St John's, Buffalo, New York. The State Convention of the^Radical party of Texas has adopted a resolution in favor ' of enfranchising the whites now disfranchised. A negro lecturing in Georgia, asserts that Adam was a yellow inan. We know an incredulous fellow says he wasn't any such Adam thing. A Kentucky paper objects to the word "croquet" as too Frenchy, and wishes the game to be called Presbyterian billiards. Besides the thirteen railroads now centering in Chicago, seventeen others are building which will have a terminus in that city. *The New Jersey railroad is at present transporting over its line two hundred and forty tons of strawberries a day. It is said that the guano islands are nearly exhausted. In a few months these islands will be deserted, and then all the ships now engaged in the trade will make for the Guanape islands, five degrees south of the equator. A gentleman died in Chicago last week leaving life insurance policies to the amount of $150,000. There are 6,000 printing houses in the United States, of which New York State has 417. Wendell Phillips is now championli ooiion aP Tn/linnq onrl o^vioAa t.liAm fn I lUg IUV VMU0V U4 VUV AUVtlMUUj MUM MV?f ?UVW wv seek redress against the United States by tearing up the Pacific railway. There were 416 deaths, 279 births and 438 persons married in New York city last week. There were 138 deaths in Brooklyn. Wine is cheaper than milk in some parts of California. "The town of Quitman, Georgia, which was laid out in 1850, has now 2,000 inhabitants. The Florida Legislature has ratified the Fifteenth amendment. Imitation calicoes, made of paper, are sold in England. A remonstrance against the appointment of 1 'visible-admixture'' men to office, addressed to President Grant, has received 8,000 signatures in New York. "The Methodists are said to be building an average of one and a half church edifices a day. John H. Surratt, the victim of Radical oppression, has opened a general commission house at No. 80, Light St. Wharf, Baltimore. Thomas G. NichoUs, colored, baa been appointed night inspector of customs at Galveston, Texas. "There is a strong effort being made in Brazil for the emancipation of slaves. Henry J. Raymond, editor of the New York Times, died of apoplexy in that city on Thursday night last. Married men live longer than single ones. In 100 persons sixty-five marry, and more marriages oocur in June and December than in any other months of the year. One fourth of the population of the earth die before the ago of seven years, and one-half at or before the age of seventeen. In Atlanta, Georgia, there is a woman who weighs 728 pounds. Bishop Rosecrans offers to have perpetual mass said to the end of the world for all persons who shall contribute $25 for St Joseph Cathedral, Columbus, Ohio. "The yearly mortality of the globe is 333,333,333 persons. This is at the rate of 61,554 per day, 4,730 per hour, 60 per minute. Andrew Johnson visits Washington on the 25th of July. In Dardanelle, Arkansas, every family has the measles. "The handsome daughter of a wealthy merchant of "Brooklyn Heights eloped a few days ago with her father's colored coachman. Kansas City has ? WArtnm lo/^rr dAmnomKtlliof. w)lA tftlrAfl TTliflnicVlf w /VUUg PVUIUUU1MMMUVJ n ?W ~~ ? - ? ? ~a ? * drives in her night clothes. ANOTHER STRAW. Another stride towards despotism has been taken by the powers th^t be; but the country is so accustomed to acts pfarbitrary z\nd usurped power, that this occurrence, jrhich ten years ago would have been the signal for a general outbreak against the government, now excites little comment. A citizen cf Texas, James Weaver by name, was tried by a court-martial in Austin, last year, for the murder of Anthony Knowles, another citizen of the State. The court found the accused guilty and sentenced him to be hung. But in accord* anoe with the army regulations, the sentence was held in suspense and the prisoner kept in confinement, until the findings of the court were approved by the President : Gen. Grant has recently signed his approval of the findings and sentence, and ordered the execution of Weaver on Friday, the 24th of September next Here is a clear case of the suppression of civil law in time of peace, and the denial of the right of trial By jury, which is justly considered by the entire Anglo Saxon race as the main bulwark of their liberties. Wherever that race have established their institutions, the taking of human life is murder, unless the accused has been tried by a jury of his peers. Gen. Grant has not yet reached that stage of imperial majesty which orders the execution of subjects, on its own ideas of right and wrong. He had authority, such as it is, for this act. The right of the court-martial to try citizens for offences against the State, in time of peace, was contested. In due prooess of circumlocution, the question came before the Attorney-General, Mr. Hoar, who is the President's constitutional adviser on all points of law. Mr. Hoar saw no plea on which to justify the proposed execution, and was about to decide the whole proceedings of the court-martial unconstitutional But Gen. Grant has another legal adviser, his old "bottled-up" friend, Beast Butler. This individual, learning of the Attorney-General's scruples, went to him and ordered him to make the thing constitutional, or he (Butler) would bring up n Mdnltifinn oVimif J# of fVio Tiorf caoainn nf finn. I ? ICOVIUVlVli HVVUV *V ?w vuv ? ??? ?wuvi?wm v. v/wm gress. Hoar, thus pressed, produced the remark^ able opinion that the trial by military law is constitutional in Texas, because "the war has not yet ended in that State, in all respeots." In compliance with the opinion of this mere tool, Grant signed the approval of this military murder, and in doing so proved himself a servant of Butler's. The "bottle-imp" has uncorked himself, and has put his late master in the bottle from which be has emerged. Is it not a hopeful augury for the oountry, when B. F. Butler is its real lord, and the constitution is made to endorse his conduct? ? +i EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Pure Blood or None* A society composed of the "First Colored Families of Virginia" have passed a resolution that its members will vote for no man who is not a pure negro or a pure white man. The resolution is aimed at Harris, the Radical candidate for Register, who is a mulatto, and, as the resolvers say, was opposed to the admission of "contrabands" to Washington during the war. The F. C. F. V. believe in unmixed lineage?Sbem, Ham, or Japhct, it makes little odds which, so the blood is "pure." Romance and Fidelity. A correspondent of the Charleston Courier says a marriage took place in Greenville between two persons who were engaged in Ireland nearly forty years ago. The lady came to this country and the gentleman was in the British army twentyone years, having been all over the world in that time. Last month be traveled more than two thousand miles to claim his promised bride, and, finding her still his own true love, married her. We wonder if the lady had any offers during her laggard lover's protracted absence. Grand Army of the Republic. This organization is said to be losing caste rapidly, chiefly on account of the malicious spirit displayed in forbidding the deooration of Confederate soldiers' graves. This was too mean to be popular with the majority of the Northern people. Another cause of its unpopularity is the effort to secure the control of all the government patronage. This effort combined against it the two otherwise hostile legions of office-holders and office-seekers. The "Grand Army" is doomed, when these numerous and hard working rivals unite to destroy it A Miller "Milled." The Charleston Neios says a street fight oc curred in that city on Wednesday of last week, between Magistrate Mackey and his nephew, A. B. Miller. The latter had been a member of the grand jury, which had occasion to examine into the official conduct of his respected uncle. They met, and Mr. Mackey took occasion to express his low opinion of the grand jury. Miller took offence, and demanded explanation, which his uncle was kind enough to give him with a cane. He "laid on Mackey Duffy" so vigorously as to be arrested on a charge of assault and battery. Negro Eligibility to Office in Georgia. On the 15th instant, the Supreme Court of Georgia decided that negroes are eligible to hold office in thatState. Two of the judges, Joe Brown and McCoy, pronounoed negroes eligible, and one, Warner, dissented, declaring that as the negro was neither allowed to hold office under the common law nor by statute since he was made a citizen, he still is and will be ineligible, until he is expressly authorized to hold office. It is rumored that Gov. Bulloch, fortified by this decision, will soon call an extra session of the Legislature, in order to rein state the colored members who were expeueu last winter. Revenue Seizure of Account Books. Supervisor Perry, of the District of North and South Carolina, sometime ago seized the books of the North Carolina Railroad Company, for tho purpose of obtaining information concerning shipments of merchandise. The Company resisted the seizure; but the Supervisor procured an attachment and got possession of the books. The case was tried in Raleigh reoently, before the U. S. Circuit Court, which decided in favor of the Supervisor. It follows, therefore, that a revenue officer has a right to seize and examine books of shipment of goods subject to internal revenue tax. That is, he will have this right until some other judge reverses this decision. Statute of Limitations. A decision of great importance to official debtors of the United States was given in the District Court at Charleston last week. Chief Justice Chase tried the case of the government versus a U. S. Marshal and his sureties on bond. The marshal was in office prior to and at the commencement of the war, and he took part in the war, espousing the cause of the Confederates. The suit was commenced against the marshal six years after he vacated his office. The statute of limitations provides that such actions shall be brought within six years. The Court holds that the statute runs against the government, notwithstanding the rebellion, and judgment is rendered for defendant Railroad Companies Must Furnish Seats. The Supreme Court of New York has decided that railroad companies must find seats for passengers, or pay damages for any injuries sustained by passengers who cannot find seats. In the case before the court, the plaintiff sued to recover damages for negligence that caused the death of his father. The deceased was knocked off the platform and killed, and the railroad company contended that it was not responsible, standing on the platform being a violation of the company's printed rules. But it was proved that the deceased had gone through all the cars in search of a seat and found none. The court gave judgment for plaintiff, affirming the decision of the court below. Seward Predicts a Smash. ??Wm. H. Seward, the great "sixty day" prophet of Lincoln, has gone to Alaska to spend some time there. Before his departure, the old spirit of prophecy descended upon him, and, the New York Sun reports him as saying "very explicitly, that within a year there would be a breakup of President Grant's administration, which he pronounced the weakest administration the country has ever had; and he assigned as one reason for going away that he wished to be as far off as possible when the break-up takes place." Mr. Seward's reputation as a prophetic genius is not very high; but he seems to have faith in his own predictions, as he is getting out of the way of the threatened smash. Execntion of a Negro Murderer. Gyrus Coachman, colored, was hung at Darlington last week, for the murder of Robert P. Suggs, a merchant of Florence, committed last January. The prisoner confidently expected a rescue by the Union League; but though great excitement prevailed among the negroes in the neighborhood, no attempt was made to take him from the clutches of the law. The Sheriff and most of the officials who took part in the execution wfere negroes. jJ ' Before his death, Coachman confessed that Sim l?.TTona oh/] fHiorlio ffnttfl fnfltrm toi'fnoouPQ fnr fVip iJTHUO HUU VUMI1IV JL.JkVfl V ^UVgtV Tl AVUVWWU AU4 VMV State against Coachman, and who, as deputy sheriffs, arrested him) organized the party that killed Suggs and robbed his store. As soon as the confession was made, Governor Scott was telegraphed to for instructions. He ordered the negroes to be arrested at once. In accordance with these orders, Evans and Howe were arrested by a constable and taken to Darlington jail. It is thought there is sufficient evidence to hang both of them. Brownlow Repenting. Ex-Governor Brownlow has fairly astounded the people of Tennessee, by coming out in favor of a universal enfranchisement of "rebels.'' He thinks it "mischievous and ridiculous for the Republicans of Tennessee to continue the restrictive policy, when the party everywhere else opposes it. He, however, winds up by renewing his allegiance to the Republican party and cursing the Democracy. The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, which destroys most of the j>ower of the disfranchising clauses in the State constitution, be says, has caused him to change his views. This is all nonsense. The old sinner has been reflecting upon the villainous record he has prepared for the recording angel, and has come to the very rational conclusion that the devil will get him sure, unless he gives some sign of repentance. Well, while the lamp boldsout to burn, &c., there may be hope even for Brownlow. But if he does escape the clutches of his old ally, the "gentleman in black," his Satanic Majesty will have some reason to consider himself defrauded of a piece of property to which he has held titles for many years. North Carolina Lawyers in Trouble. Not long since a protest, signed by 108 leading lawyers of North Carolina, was presented to the Supreme Court of that State, in Raleigh, < against "the open participation in the strife of political contests by the judges of the State." No names were mentioned; but the Court took great offence at the protest, their honors probably feeling themselves not guiltless in the matter. Chief Justice Pearson decided, on the 8th instant, the protest to be a contempt of court, and ordered the signers to be disabled from hereafter appearing as counsellors or attorneys in the court, unless they severally appeared on the 15th and showed cause to the con trary. The court greatly increased its business by this order. On the appointed day the offenders were on hand, each with an array of counsel from their brethren who had not signed the obnoxious document. The case of B. F. Moore, Esq., came up first. Mr. Moore was represented by Judges Battle, Fowle, Person, and Barnes and W. H. N. Smith, Esq., all of whom made speeches. The court stated that they would give a decision on a subsequent day. That decision has not been given yet; but the Raleigh Sentinel says that a discharge of the rule, without a dissenting voice, is expected. The judges have succeeded in raising quite a tempest in a teapot, and this is about all they have done. The last mail brings the news that the Court decision was to excuse the signers of the protest, but not to acquit them. In other words the offenders are granted permission to practice before their honors, not as a right but as a favor. The Year of Jubilee Has Come. So says the city of Boston. A great peace jubilee was held there last week, but with no definite ooject, so far as we can discover. It certainly cannot have been to celebrate the beginning of a universal peace; for half the world is either at war, or trying to get into it. The holy community of Massachusetts itself, has just been trying to kick up a big fight with England, through its favorite son, Mr. Sumner. Be this as it may, Bos ton had a big demonstration. Music and prayer were the prominent features. Twelve thousand musicians and singers, headed by Ole Bull, produced harmony of sweet sounds, if not of hearts. The music took a wide range, including opera gems, anthems, hymns and loyal airs. According to one account, which is perhaps apocryphal, the jubilee was opened with prayer by 4,000 preachers. Whether these gentlemen fired by file, or offered their oblations in a concentrated volley, is not stated; but as most of them had probably done good service as "bloodhounds of Zion" in baying treed rebels, it is not unlikely that the whole pack opened in concert. The Jubilee was honored by the presence of many distinguished advocates of peace, prominent among whom were Generals Grant and Sherman and Admiral Farragut. But the most peaceful demonstration of the occasion was made by Gen. B. F. Butler, who paraded the Massachusetts State Guard for the President's inspection. This was in admirable taste ; for if there is any soldier of the war whose hands are unstained by the blood of foes slaughtered in battle, it is Gen. Butler. We don't allude to the military executions and judicial murders for which bo is liable; for these are but the consequences of any peace of which Butler is the presiding genius. Velocipeding in the Air. The San Francisco (Cal.) Herald, of May 16th, says: "At the Mechanics' Pavilion yesterday, Paul Martinette accomplished one of the most perilous feats ever attempted at a public exhibition in this city, by riding a velocipede backward and forward on a single wire the whole length of that mammoth building. The wire was stretched from the front entrance of the pavilion to the old picture-gallery at the back, a distance of 200 feet In the centre of the fountain was placed an upright post to hold up the sag of the wire, so that the velocipede had to pass over a rather steep inclination to get oyer this post. Martiiiette, on the first velocipede ever used in the pavilion, run the machine at a smart pace to the top of the post, and remained there several seconds, when he started down the incline on the other side, and balanced the velocipede at the lowest level on the wire, and then came the whole distance back to the starting place without turning himself or the machine. When it is taken into consideration that the wire, less than half an inch thick, was suspended twenty feet from the floor, and a stumble would probably have been fatal, some idea of the peril of the feat may be formed. It was performed with as much ease as if the velocipede had been on the floor. A Decision on Negro Debts. The Charlotte Democrat, of the 22nd inst, says: . ... "We learn that Judge Chase, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who is: now presiding at the District Court for North Carooaomrtn loof TVOoIr fVlft t. 11IJU IU O^OOil/U Ub IVOltigUj VIVVIUVU 1WV ?vv? VIIWV all notes for the purchase or hire of negroes made since January, 1863, (the date_of President Lincoln's Emacipation Proclamation,) are null and void." Prolific Oats. " < Y- '. The Columbus (Georgia) Enquirer says: "Mr. C. A. Peabody has left in our office aclua* terofwhathe calls 'another of his hnmbogK It is a apeoimen of a new description of oats, the seed of which he procured from Vermont, and which, is said to have been introduced into this county from Sweden?one grain having been found in a package of peas procured by the Agricultural Bureau. There ore in this cluster fourteen or fifteen stalks, about five feet in heighkand of stems enormously large, and all from a single grain. The heads have not yet made their ap? pearance, the stalk being in the stage called "the boot." It is therefore reasonable to suppose that the stalks have as yet attained not much exceeding half their height The color is remarkably good, and the growth evidently vigorous. Mr. Peabody has a field of ten acres sown broadcast, besides some patches sown in the drill and hills. He used 200 pounds of Pacific Guano to the acre, and sowed about the 20th of February. He counts on a yield of one hundred bushels of seed oats to the acre, if no disaster overtakes the crop. It is said that these oats have produced even much more per acre at the North. The blades are from half an inch to a full inch in breadth, and over a foot in length. The variety is certainly a wonderful one, ana promises to be very valuable." Duel Between Virginians. A duel was fought in the .vicinity of Norfolk, Virginia, but within the limits of North Carolina, oq the 13th instant The belligerents were Capt. W. E. Cameron, editor of the Petersburg Jiulex and R. W. Hughes, a correspondent of the Richmond State Journal. The casus belli was an article in the Index, denouncing Hughes, who demanded such satisfaction as is to be obtained from an exchange of bullets. The duel is thus described by the Richmond Dispatch: ., ?nu.? .?' i. ?*i M J. lie iwu uieu auwu upuujiuft cavu utuci VTUU their weapons in hand, each one displaying a cool ness remarkable for so critical a moment Hie words of the second could be heard: "Gentlemen, are you ready ? Fire!'' Scarcely had his lips uttered the last word, when the report of a pistol drowned the sound of the next It was Cameron who fired. He has missed his man, who in a second or two afterwards fires his pistoL Cameron wheels half way round and exclaims, "I am shot, but I am here to give-satisfaction." He walks a few steps and is laid upon the ground by his surgeon for examination. He was found to. have been wounded in the left breast, the ball passing' about two inches below bis heart, and aronnd the body for seviral inched. The woUnd was not considered serious. We havetwo reports concerning Cameronball?-one to'the effect that it whizzed by Hughes left ear, another that it passed above his head. This, .hojrever, is immaterial. Again, there is some difference of statement as to what"followed. One report has it that Hughes exclaimed, llI am satisfied" " Another one, which agrees with the official statement, is that Hughes, being asked if be was satisfied, replied, "I demand another fire." Hie physicians having declared Mr. Cameron not able to continue the duel, another fire was not deemed necessary." A. Bummer's Explanation.' A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, evidently an ex-bummer, writes as follows in reference to the three boxes of spoils which have been so long in Washington, and which. he says were captured (perhaps he means stolen) in the neighborhood of Camden, S. C.: "Upon the approach of Sherman's army upon Camden, the citizens of the village collected tneir jewelry, silver and plated ware, and deposited the same in the safes of the Bank of Camden. The safes were loaded in wagons, and the owners thereof sought safety for their-treasure in flight;-but the foragers?enterprising fellows, who were air ways about a day's march in advance of the army? came upon them not far from the Catawba River, and compelled a surrender. The captors were composed of two detachments; one from the Third Brigade, First Division, Twentieth Army Corps, and the other from the Fourteenth Army Corps. It we* the usual custom of the foragers to confiscate and divide captured property, but as some disagreement sprung up as to the proper division, neither party feeling disposed to surrender their acquired banking privileges, it, was decided to deliver the safes unopened tojth^ Provost Marshal of the Army of Georgia, yflfiie safes were opened by that officer and found to contain gold ana silver, Confederate bonds and notes, and tne diamonds, silverware and jewelry of citizens. By order of General Sherman the mules and wagons were appropriated for the ui^ of the army, and the other property was boxed up and n 1 T . .1 - Tir - T\ l i. .x TT7..L:_-i rorwaraea to tae war x/epan>aieiji.tu> wanomawn, upon the arrival of the army at Goldsboro', North Carolina. You are certainly mistaken in your statement in saying that as the foragers and 'hammers' came up to the bridge they were halted and thoroughly searched, and the articles fonnd upon them boxed up and sent to Washington. No order was ever issued to search the 'bummers,' It wonld have required all the army wagons connected with Sherman's army to have hauled the plunder collected in one day by the 'bummers,' and abandoned the next. Nor was this property, as a general thing, taken from the dwellings of the inhabitants, but it was found in the fields or the swamps, where it had been concealed by the owners. Property thus captured was brought into camp at nighty andafter being exhibited, was, in very many instances, abandoned. If the people on the line of march had remained at home and treated our soldiers with common civility, very few such depredations would have been committed. In Soutn Carolina it was a very common thing for chivalrous ladies to call our soldiers vandals and Northern hirelings. Of course, neither officers nor soldiers felt very solioitous concerning the safety of their worldly effects. Twentieth Army Corps. The Greenville and Columbia Railroad.? The Columbia Phoenix states upon authority, that the suit in the Court of Equity, which has been pending for more than two years past, against the Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company, by certain holders of their first mortgage bonds, has been settled, and that the suit will be withdrawn at the present term of the court. The parties who have come forward and settled with the company, and consented to the withdrawal of the suit; are, na xra nrfl infnrmpd Thomas .T RnhfirtfiOn. John Caldwell, Robert N. Lewis, Thomas 0. ^errin, executor, and Charles Smith, of the original complainants in the bill, besides others who entered the suit as parties complainant after the suit had been commenced. The Phoenix also adds that the July interest upon their first mortgage and guaranteed bonds will be promptly paid at maturity. The King's Mountain Military School.? It is with pleasure we call attention to the advertisement or this sterling institution. ' Colonel Asbury Coward, the principal and proprietor, wae a most gallant and efficient officer during the late war, and as an instructor he has no superior and few equals. The school, located in Yorkville, in this State, is in a healthy section of country. Parents and guardians desiring a thorough mental, moral, physical and military training for sons ana wards, should send them to this school. Charleston Newt. The Wilmington and Manchester Railroad.?Judge Carpenter, upon the application of the President and Directors of the Bank of the State of South Carolina, hasnqjoined M. K. Jessup, trustee, from making sale of the property of this Railroad, and has enjoined the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad Company from delivering to any person the property now in tho use ana charge of the company. Upon giving ten days' notice, a motion may be made for the dissolution of the injunction. LOCAL ITEMS. a i m hew advertisements. Kuykendal <fe Tomlinson? Drug* and Medicines, "Scotch Snuff, Khft-it-in Liniment, Essence Coffee, LUU'b Hair Renews, Be&zihe, Atiit line, Low'* KMer-Plower Soap; rv ? ,* v HenrySparnick?Circular. " ^ M. Jones, Agent?Mechanical Wonders. Col. A. Coward?Cook. Wanted. E. <t G. D. Hope, Columbia?Money Wanted. ^ Ice Cream. > T. W. Clawson, Deputy ' Meseenger?In Bank- MB ruptcy?Applications for Dlaoharge-tj? ttte ' Matter of David K. Thomas ahaJ&mea" D. SlberL, ,,.p ^ LOCAL IHTELLIGEHOE. * j Our friends throughout .thebounty will confer a special favor on us and the readers of the Enquirer, hy informing us of any matters of general interest which may transpire in their respective neighborhoods. Furnish the facts in each case as briefly as possible, and we will put the infbril&0on in a shape suitable for publication. The names of persons giving us information must accompany their communications-; not fer publication, but as an evidence of good fhithonthe part of the wtiter and for own nrivate nse: ". v HSW Q0LD1C?E. We learn, that Messrs. Sohlegelmilcb, the proprietors, hare commenced operations to re-opeb the Smith Gold Mine, on Broad river. Three stafipe have been erected, aq<T the prospects *for,agood yield of gold are very promising. - "y * EICUBSIOH TEIP, / The President of the K3ng1s Mountain Railroad informs us that on to-morrow (Thursday) morning persons desiring to do so can make (he trip from Yorkville to Augusta and return,.for $6.50. An excursion train is to run over the Columbia -and i Augusta railroad to-morrow, returning to Columbia the next day, and the first mentioned arrangement is in connection with this: Passengers ta?- 4 ing advantage of.this redaction of fare will return to Yorkville on Saturday evening, and may spend the intervening time in Columbia or- Augusta, -as it suits them. v t ' ' - -v- ' <s TEB "WOEmrO *The firet number of this paper has.been issued a week sooner than the time appointed! It 4s we} filled with- interesting- matte*; both original amf selected,, aod is a credit to the .denominhtion in whose interest It is published. - It wih doubtless be sustained by them as-it deserves, and also receive* liberal support from' the' pt^bgenattily; for' it "has commenced itfi existenho as a fimclaas paper, and there is every, reason to expect that this character will be sustained. We congratulate its enterprising editor on his suooessful debut into the journalistic corps of our State. . . -~Persons desiring specimen oopies of the Working Christian can get them hy application to Rev. T.' R. Gaines, one door. South of the EttQUlBCLofihw, or by letter to lorjmue r. u. .. COMMEHOEJCEHT BALL . ^ v We acknowledge the receipt of ao invitation to attend the "Commencement Bail" of the University of South Carolina, which will be given on next Tuesday evening, the 29th. instant It would i afford us much pleasure to participate in the feetivities of the occasion; for though, our dancing days are over, we have ndt forgotten how to ^use { those admirable instrumente-rthe knife and fork. Bnt other engagement-will prevent oar attendaooe, much to onr regret - ; J " It is not. unlikely, however, that we wiM .enjoy a social entertainment of onr own, on the evening in question. We are .blessed with certain juvenile, friends who delight in vooal mama during the still hours of night, and they may ooooludeto-favor us with a "bawl" on the evening of the 29tkinstAnt If such should be.the case, our..Columbia friends may count us present iq spirit if not in person. OOTTOI CATERPILLABS. We regret to lea^n that genuine cotton caterpillars have been found on the plantation of Mgior James G. Lowry, in Chester, just beyond the York line. This is the first appearance of these formidable insects in this section, of whieh we have heard, and we sincerely hope it wfll be. the last It will not he amiss, however, for planters to take some precautionary measures against the danger. Ijt was stated in some, of onr exchanges that a few oowpeas, planted with cotton, or one or two. rows planted around each field, will prevent the caterpillar from doing serious injury. This statement J may not be Jxue; but the experiment will cost little, * pan do no harm and may do mnch good. It is therefore worth tiying, especially as it will be easy to scatter a,' few peas along the rows whe^ the stand of cotton is poor. .... Since the above was in type., a specimen caterpillar has been shown us, which. Is-one of several found on the plantation pf J. Leander. Parish, two miles from town. We fear specimens are not goiog/to be uncommon.. ,. VELQ0IPEDI8TI0A L A RTAWOLOQY. A real live velocipedist having arrived in town with a supply of bicycles, a school of instruction in the noble art of circnmgyrating has been opened. Quite a number of young men hive taken advantage-of this opportunity to supple their joints and increase the muscular development of their nether extremities. Our streets are every evening enK vened by bicyctriar races, or rather processions; for 1 the aipateqr vekxnptedists have not acquired suffi- j cient ease in the manipulation of their steeds to J indulge in a bona fide race. They only represent two of the classes into which velocipedists are divided, to wit, the ''timid toddlers"*and the "wary wabblers," though we have no doubt'they will soon develop into the "go it graeefuls." But for the-present, safety?not speed, is-the maun object in view. ' The riders follow one toother with ah the grim solemnity of a En Klux Elan, except that their horses are somewhat given to making abrupt wheels to one tide.No doubt there is a great deal of amusement in riding a velocipede. We came to the conclusion, however, after watching the vigorous exertions of the riders and observing how they sweat, that plowing is light work compared toit But for young men who have prejudices against plows and hoes, the velocipede is a very good substitute for bringing out their surplus grease. ' : THE YOBKVULE FEMALE OOLLE8B. - jf The commencement exercises of this popular^ and now flourishing Institution, took place last week, and gave great pleasure to all who wen- present. We were highly gratified to observe the unusual degree of interest manifested on theofccasion'by this community and by the large -number of strangers from abroad. It was fully equal to that die? i ?i . 1 e . ,n n a. aa. piayea m ine paimiesi aays or tne UJiiege neiore the war, and gave convincing evidence of the permanent re-establishment of the Institution. On Wednesday evening the baccalanre&te Ser- A mon was delivered at the Presbyterian Church, by ^ the Rev. W. E. Boggs, of Columbia. Of this appropriate, chaste, and eloquent effort there could be but one opinion expressed, and that is, that it wan eminently worthy of -the occasion and of the theme selected. Using the words of our Saviour's reply to Martha's complaint against her Sister, the gifted speaker forcibly developed the beauty and the power of the Christian woman'B character, and eloquently .urged his youthful hearers to imitate it by choosing that better part which shall not be taken from them. On Thursday evening a Concert was given at the College Hall by the young ladies, under the direction of Miss Emma Manigault Notwithstanding the exceedingly inclement weather, the hall Was crowded with the young and the old of both sexes. Owing to the noise in the hall, only a few persons could hear the single pieces; but judging from the rendering of the choruses and quartettes, which reflected the highest credit upon the musical taste and doll of both teacher and pupils, the favored ones near the stage must have enjoyed a delightful treat A I During the interval between the two parts of w