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Scraps anil .facts. A bold boy in Missouri bites off the heads of rattlesnakes for the trifling consideration of a dollar per snake. There is said to be a man in Lancaster, Pa., named Joseph Herr, who has not had half an hour's continuous sleep for nearly four years. An old farmer in Ohio having read that the State cleared over $7,000 by the labor of the convicts, suddenly exclaimed, "I think we had better turn our Legislature into a Penitentiary, by jingo." ?? A California theatre has adopted the plan of furnishing a room where babies can be left checked during the performance. In case any are left uncalled for, tney are sold at auction the next day. Bishop Kingsley, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is al>out to justify his right to the title of circuit preacher, by starting on an Episcopal missionary tour around the world. A young man of Memphis has appeared in St. Louis to claim the reward of $100, advertised for news of a missing girl. He married her the other day, after a successful elopement. ' Pins apples are being cultivated in the peninsula of Florida with the greatest success. They are larger than those grown in the West Indies, and fully equal to them in sweetness and flavor. More complete returns from the election in Virginia show that the Richmond journals have heretofore somewhat overestimated Gov. Walker's I majority, which will probably turn out to be from 20,000 to 23,000. A Louisville matron, whose husband snores badly, keeps a clothes pin underneath her pillow, and when Lis snoring awakes her, she adjusts the pin on his nasal organ, and then slumbers peacefully. A man in Adair County, Towa, has invented a cannon which he claims will throw a projectile fourteen miles, and has gone to Washington to get a patent. He proposes to offer it to the Government for $1,000,000. The abundance of the wheat crop in Virginia has already brought down the prices or flour in that State, and it is thought that the best quality of the staff of life will soon be sold at $5 and $6 per barrel. A boy having complained to his father that Bill had thrown the Bible at him, and hurt him on the head, the father replied: "Well you are the only member of my family on whom the Bible ever made the least impression." A parson out in Jersey, while preaching a sermon appropriate to the Fourth, spoke of the United States as bounded on the East by the rising sun, on the North by the aurora borealis, on the South by the procession of the equinoxes, and on the West by the day of judgment. ??The Baltimore Sun says: "It is a startling estimate, but one which is by many believed to be fair, that not less than one out of every three of the residentsof Mainland, as well as of other States, are suffering in various ways from the effects of intemperance." Fort Pulaski is now rebuilding, under the superintendence of the United States Engineer Corps. Thirty-five men are building up the water * ** - '--J ?i ?'"-I- ?o lofofl fmir 10-1 D&ttery, anu wueu uic xuik u luiup^w, .... inch and two 15-inch guns, it will contain the heaviest ordnance ever placed at Fort Pulaski. A Swedish woman arrived at St. Paul, Minn., June 25th, with her dead child, three years old, in her arms. It had died during the night, and all night long she had clung to the corps?, swinging the body to and fro, sobbing and moaning. She was on her way to join her husband, who came to America a year or two ago. A man in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, bought a wagon-load of boards, about luirty vears ago, and tailing to get the price he asked, determined not to lose money on tliern. Accordingly they are still for sale in his yard, having never been removed from the wagon, but team and boards are mostly rotten wood. A piece of mechanism for transferring railroad cars from one track to another without necessitating the running of the car several hundred feet backward or forward, as the case may be, and without the use of switches, has been patented within the last few days. The practical advantages of it are a saving of depot room and of time, and railroad men say that it possessessome intrinsic merit. The removal of the capital of the United States is gravely discussed by the Chicago Tribune with as much earnestness as if a bill to that effect had passed Congress, and the decision as to the new site had been referred to the people to determine at the polls. The Tribune says the choice lies between Cincinnati, Chicago, Memphis and St. Louis, and votes in favor of St. Louis, after showing the advantages and disadvantages of the several cities mentioned. The Cuban expedition (one hundred and v ' .1 l: 1 r Vnn twenty men; tnat quieuy supueu awaj uum York, on the 23doflast mouth, as quietly returned to New York on Saturday evening last in the brig A. Eldred. The men made a landing, and had a slight brush with the Spaniards, but cholera and yellow fever were prevailing so badly in the insurgent camp that all hands concluded to return home while it was yet in their power to do so. An aged Philadelphia lady, whose failing sight rendered necessary a prayer book of great size, recently called on her friends on her way to church, and upon starting again unwittingly picked up a small music box instead of the prayer book. During the sacred ceremony the old lady attempted to open her prayer book, when, to her surprise and the astonishment of the congregation, the machine struck up "Lannigan's Ball" with great clearness and force. The Boston Post says the most liberal and pratical policy is recommended to the Democratic party by those who take the deepest interest in its success. The Cincinnati Enquirer says: "It is not the time for extreme counsels to prevail, or for the selection of ultra and uncompromising men. The idea should be to lead men into the party, rather than turn them out?to look to the present and the future, and not to the past." The Philadelphia Age, the New Hampshire Patriot, the Providence (R. I.) Herald, and other influential Democratic journals, express similar sentiments. General Forrest has made arrangements to secure, within the next two months, a thousand Chinese as laborers upon a Southern railroad which lie has contracted to make. An agency has been established in St. Louis for suplying, at the shortest notice, whatever number of Chinese may be called for from any part of the country, and that agency has already ordered '>0,000. A grand enterprise for the introduction of Chinese to be employed upon the plantations of the South has been vigorously inaugurated at Memphis. Another duel between two negro women, rivals in the affections of a young man, came off the other day in Tennessee. The battle was with - * ? - ? ?a? tl. ...... bludgeons, and lastoa nrreen minutes, me ?uivivor had an arm broken, an ear bitten off, hall' her hair gone, and bruises and scratches over her entire person and face. The other girl was an}latently getting the best of the fight, having only ost two front teeth, when her adversary, immediately after her right arm was broken, grasped the club in her left hand, and with one blow broke the girl's neck. ??A joint meeting of all the trades unions of this country is soon to be called to take into consideration what measures, if any, should 'be taken by them in view of the great influx of Chinese emigrants to this country. The officers of the National Workingmen's Union have lately addressed letters to various trades unions throughout the country, calling their attention to the matter, and asking advice. Representatives of the trades union of California are now in New York and other Eastern cities, agitating their brethren against John Chinaman. All the newspaper correspondents and influential politicians who pass over the Pacific railroad certify that the road is in excellent condition. Senators, members of Congress and distinguished citizens, all unite in commending its substantial construction. These approvals should be taken with a slight grain of allowance-^-people who travel on free tickets and arc provided with free lunches would be very ungrateful to speak disparagingly of the bridge that carries them safely over. The New York Commercial Advertiser saysthe certifications are very much like those we read recommending buchu, cherry pectoral and other nostrums. The Imperialist promises to pay a good slice of the Confederate war debt when we have an Emperor. It claims that the Confederate war debt is not to be forfeited by the failure of the Confederacy any more than the United States debt is consecrated by success. The one was made payable after the permanent establishment of a Southern government. True. Rut the other was raised to perpetuate a republic which has nc toriously ceased to exist. So, if one debt is in a bad way, the other mav be equally shaky, some day or other. Roth are failures. The South did not gain her independence, and the North smashed the Republic instead of preserving it. So, Vice V Empcreur, #pd don't &eil your bonds for wall paper! A boy circus-rider performed the astonishing feat of turning twenty-five consecutive somersaults on horseback, in Louisville, the other day. A dis- i pute having arisen between him and the manager as to how many he was capable of turning, the latter promised him the horse, pad and bridle with , which he performed the act, if he turned twentyfive times. Alter being introduced into the ring, and performing a number of very difficult but i beautiful acts of horsemanship, he threw aside the whip and prepared himself for the trial. Until he | completed his tenth somersault the crowd remain- ( ed quiet, but when fourteen,{fifteen, sixteen and seventeen were called the most intense interest j was manifested, and when he had fairly accomplished his twenty-fifth somersault the applause was deafening. Immediately after his great act, < without leaving the back of his steed, which he had fairly wor., he successfully accomplished the perilous and difficult act of turning five backward ' somersaults, mak^g thirty in all. The horse and equipments are vaiUed at two thousand dollars. lie (?uquim. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 22, 1869. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms ror RUDscripuon, auveriiHing anujou, work, 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 (&) cross-mark on the wrapper or margin of his paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. CHINESE LABOR CONVENTION. A Convention of delegates from several South- . era States and California met in Memphis last ( week, to consider the Chinese labor question. Ex- j Governor Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee, was , elected President. Reports were received and j speeches made, mostly in praise of Mr. John Chi- , nanian's many good qualities. But they were not , all praise, as will be seen from the following syn- , opsis of the proceedings on the 14th. The first , speaker, Mr. Tykem Ow (we think it ought to be , "Take 'em out") does not seem to consider his | countrymen now in the western world as belonging ( to the elite of celestial society. The other speaker, j Mr. "Koop-man's shop," is regularly in the im- ( porting business, and is, of course, interested in giv- < ing a good account of his "laborers." Still he does not recommend them very highly. But we will let them speak for themselves: The attendance at the Chinese Labor Conven- i tion which met yesterday morning, was large. ] Reports were submitted from the committee favor- > ing a joint stock emigration society, with officers at the principal Southern cities; from the emigration ( committee, promising welcome and protection to I all emigrants from China and elsewhere; from the I transportation committee, stating that emigrants , can be brought to Memphis in lots of 50 and over, ( frnm tbp Papifip. States. bv rail, for $50 each, and from Hong Kong to San Francisco from $80 to ' $100, in gold. ? Tylcem Ow, a Chinaman, who has been two s years in this country, and is now residing in Louis- t iana, addressed the Convention. He stated that < of the 70,000 Chinese now in the West Indies, with many much distress prevails, because they were not selected with proper care as to effective I dock hands, laborers and artisans. Many were ' criminals who have been sent on plantations to labor 1 which they are not familiar with. Agriculturists j can easily be procured through proper agents in f the ihterior of China. In Cuba they are paid $4 per month. Farm hands are paid $18 to $20 per ( year in China, where living is so cheap that 150 3 pounds of rice cost $2. Women work in the field c in China. Only city women have small feet.? ] About one in ten are lovers of strong drink, but j comparatively few are opium-eaters. It is a luxury 1 that only rich and city people can afford to indulge , in. They are easily managed, being patient, in- 1 dustrious, docile, tractable and obedient. The f products, of China are in many ways similar to those of the Southern States, and the Chinese , would soon become successful workers of the South- ? em lands. Mr. Koopmanshoop arrived at noon and addressed the Convention. He stated that his house ' has brought 30,000 Chinese to California, where t 00,000 are now engaged as mechanics and in rail- c road works. They are paid from 90 cents to $1.10 s per day, in gold, as laborers. They can be induced to come from San Francisco here at $20 per month, but can be obtained much cheaper in Chi- G na, and under a five years' contract could be had c for $10 to $12 per month.^ He said they are not r at all reliable, unless security is exacted, and will J, take service with others, if higher wages are offer- ^ ed. The Convention adjourned till to-morrow. On the next day the Convention adjourned, but not until the Mississippi Immigration Company 1 hud been organized, with a capital of $1,000,000, to be increased to $2,000,000, if found necessary. Of this amount, $40,000 was subscribed on the spot. The business of importing Chinese may, therefore, be said to have fairly commenced.? . Where will it end ? ' This company will import directly from China, and not from California, as has been done hereto- . fore, and as the people of that State would like to | have it done hereafter. They have a Chinese population in their midst of one hundred thousand, ,, and they are so thoroughly convinced of their fitncss for Southeru farm work, that they are extremely anxious to get rid of them. This they a will not be likely to do now, as the South is going 1 to draw directly from the fountain, and not from r subordinate streams. ^ STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 1; The Executive Committee of the South Caroli- e na Agricultural and Mechanical Society held a r meeting in Columbia on the 13th. Col. D. Wyatt I Aiken, Secretary, furnishes the Phivnlc with a rc- t port of the proceedings, the substance of which f we annex: c It was resolved that the Secretary be authorized t to issue, by the first of August, a premium list I amounting to $4,000, this amount to be increased I to$G,O00, should the financial subscriptions warrant it. It was also resolved that the chairman of the s Executive Committee appoint three citizens as a 1 Committee to collect all the necessary information I as to the cost and methods of introducing Chinese 1 labor into the State, and report at the next meet- t ing of the Society. Messrs. W. M. Lawton, Win. t Wallace, and M. L. Bonhara were appointed to ? constitute this Committee. c H. Pinckney Walker, British Consul at Charles- 1 ton, placed in the hands of the Executive Com- ? mittee a copy of the programme issued by the Sec- ( retaries to the "Wqrkingmen's International Ex- t hihifion." to be held at London in 1870. The ob- ] joct of the communication is to call attention to 1 the approaching exhibition, by forming local com- i mittees in the cities and towns of the State, and 1 to make arrangements for the transmission of ar- 1 tides to the exhibition from this country. It was resolved that the details of the local organizations t invited by the projectors of the exhibition, be re- c ferred to the Society at its meeting in November c next. j The Committee appointed to visit the Sorghum j Works of Dr. W. P. Passmore, at Greenville, c made a report. They say: "For the purpose of ? refining sorghum syrups, your committee are satis- ] fied that the Southern process is the best of which i they have any knowledge; and if sugar can be i successfully manufactured from the sorghum cane, then the cultivation of the cane, and the manufacture of sugar by this process, will prove highly remunerative to the Southern planter. Even should t it be found impracticable to manufacture sugar i from sorghum, still this process will be highly val- ( uable for the purpose of refining syrups. From < the information before your committee, they have i no hesitation in recommending the Southern pro- 1 cess for refining syrups to the favorable considera- 1 tion of the planters of the State." I The Committee were informed that the city S council of Columbia will furnish the grounds and ( necessary buildings for the first annual fair, and j proceeded to elect the orator for the occasion. 1 Their choice fell upon one whom the Southern i l>eople have always delighted to honor, Gen. John 1 C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky. They could not i have selected one more acceptable to the people of ! South Carolina. A speech from him will be one ] of the main attractions to draw a large attendance < at tiits fair. < We rejoice to see that the Agricultural and Me- i chanical Society of South Carolina is a live institution. The fact that it is prepared to offer so large a premium list at its first meeting is ample proof of its vitality. Why cannot York wheel into line with her sister counties, in support of an institution of such acknowledged utility as this ? Despite our signal failure to awaken interest in it last spring, we cannot refrain from bringing up the subject now. Many persons have, since that time, expressed regret that no society was organized then. To such it will, of course, be sufficient merely to hint that it is not too late yet. Next week will be Court week, and many farmers will be in town. Their time will not be entirely occupied by business and if there is really any desire to get up such a thing, it will not be hard to accomplish. If there is no such desire, further words are useless. But the State fair will be held in November, and auxiliary societies should be started pretty soon, if at all, to be in good working order by that time. DIRECT LAND TAX. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says there is "some talk of enforcing the direct land tax in the South." For a proper understanding of this subject, it is necessary to recall its history, which is as follows: In 1862, Congress passed an act, levying a direct United States tax on land, amounting to $20,000,000, to aid in carrying on the war. The Northern States paid their share of this tax at the time; but the Southern States, not being exactly under the control of the United States government just then, did not respond with their quota, which amounted to $0,000,000. When the war was over, one cf the first measures enforced in the South was the collection of this tax. About half of it had been collected, mostly by the sale of lands for taxes, when President Johnson asked Congress to suspend the collection for the time being, on account of the poverty of the South and the ruinous consequences which would ensue, if the tax tvas then enforced. Congress complied with the request, and passed an act sftspending the collection for a certain number of years, how many we io not now remember. But the time granted, has it is said passed, and the South will probably be jailed on at an early day to pay the balance still lue, about $3,000,000. THE PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRACY. The Democratic State Convention of Pennsylvalia met at Harrisburg on the 14th,- and nominated Hon. Asa Packer for Governor on the second balot. The platform adopted declares that the ratifijation of the fifteenth amendment should go before :he people; that the negro should not have the jallot; that the finances need reform; that'labor eforms should be encouraged; that the whole reinstruction policy tends to destroy republican government and establish tyranny; that our soldiers ihnnld rint be foreotten: that our sympathies should be given to nations struggling for liberty: hat our system of taxation is burdensome, and should be done away with. One of the strong points in this platform is opjosition to the fifteenth amendment and negro suff age. That amendment was ratified by a Radical egislature, in opposition to the known will of the >eople, and contrary to the prohibition of negro suffrage by the constitution of Pennsylvania. This ixpressly limits suffrage to "white male freemen," ret the fifteenth amendment was ratified without changing the constitution. At the same time, the Eladical party admitted that the amendment would rave hecn defeated, if referred to the people. iVith these facts in their favor, the Democracy of Pennsylvania ought to make a clean sweep of the ield in October. With respect to the nominee, the Baltimore Sun says: "When quite a youth, he served severil years in a tannery, in Connecticut, and subsejuently removing to Pennsylvania, apprenticed limself to a carpenter. Having served out his ime, he bought a small farm on the upper waters if the Susquehanna. This he soon disposed of, ind then engaged in several important railroad tnd coal mining enterprises, and by his tact and inergy soon amassed a great fortune, estimated at iver $15,000,000. In 1865 he made a handsome eturn for his wealth by founding at South Bethehera, Pennsylvania, the Lehigh University, for he establishment of which he donated a m'agnifient park, sixty acres in extent, and a round half Dillion of dollars in money." + ^ ? THE FRENCH CABLE. The submarine telegraph cable between France :nd America has been successfully laid as far as he island of St. Pierre, which is one of three small 3lands beloning to France, and lying south of Newfoundland. The cable was spliced to the hore end, on the 14th instant, and the operators mmediately opened communication with Brest, he European terminus of the cable. The first nessage sent was one which the Emperor Louis fapoleon had given, sealed, to the commander of he Great Eastern, to be forwarded over the wires s soon as the cable was finished across the Atlanic, in order that he might thus judge of the manler in which the wires work There is yet a distance of 722 miles, from St. ^ierre to Plymouth harbor, Massachusetts, to be aid. When completed, this cable will be about ight thousand miles in length, one thousand niles longer than the English cable. It is said to >e a better cable for the transmission of message han its older rival, the insulation being more perect and the central wire larger. Although it is ailed the French cable, because its European terninus is in France and under the control of the French government, it is the property of a British >rivate corporation, chartered by the Emperor. But just at this point the enterprise meets with i serious obstacle, in not having the sanction of the Jnitcd States government, although it has that of Massachusetts. Mr. Hoar, the Attorney-General, las given it as his opinion that without the sancion of the general government, the authority granted by a State legislature is null and void. In iccordance with this opinion, Mr. Fish, Secretary )f State, has addressed a circular letter to the dipomatic representatives of France and England, tnd the Governor of Massachusetts, claiming for Congress the sole right to authorize a landing of he cable. He insists upon a submission of these mrties to this right, but not with any desire to linder or defeat the enterprise. Indeed, he states t as his opinion that permission to land will readily :>e granted by Congress. In this emergency, the egislature of Massachusetts have adopted a "cute" Yankee dodge. Without disputing the right of he general government to control telegraphic or * O *1 I )ther communication witn ioreign countries, mey bartered a company to run out a line beyond the urisdiction of the United States, where it can be ipliced with the line from France. Whether such i union will be constitutional, or Congress will insist on reconstruction, remains to be seen. But as Massachusetts is beyond all question one of the nost loyal of all the loyal States, her "little dodge" nay pass muster. MERE-MENTION. The publication of the Washington National Inclltgencer, which was suspended several weeks tgo, is to be resumed. The Radical press if Virginia call colored men 'niggers' since the dection. The Louisiana planters propose ;o let the negroes attend the Conventions and lire Chinamen to work. The fires in the United States during tho month of June, in which :he loss was $20,000 and upwards, amounted to 51,960,000. Western Texas has exported a luartcr of a million head of cattle this year. A gentleman in Illinois owns a cow which lately gave jirth to a calf weighing 118 pounds *Therail oads of the United States earned $400,000,000 ast year. Mrs. Sherbut, aged 102 years, died it her residence, in the lower part of Spartanburg District, on the 2fth ultitpo. !"A Georgia paper says the heat has been so intense there for ten lays past that the thermometers fail to indicate the legree?the mercury pushes the top off and rises lbove the figures. A Frenchman has pur chased five thousand acres of swamp in Tennnessee, and proposes raising frogs for the Memphis market. The largest crop_ of coton marketed in 1 this country was 1859-00, and was 4,675,770 bales, averaging 450 pounds each. Five hundred million lead pencils are used yearly. An en- ( tire jury of Smiths was recently impanneled in Sheffield, England. A colored woman named Polly Garland wjte so badly burned by the explosion of a kerosene lamp, in Lynchburg, Va., on Sunday night, that she died in a few hours. Twenty-three States have adopted the Fifteenth amendment. Four more are required to make it a part of the constitution. Colonel John W. Forney aspires to be elected United States Senator from North Carok'na. He has recently purchased a large tract of land there. The St. Louis artesian well which has been in process of boring for ten years past, will soon have reached a depth of four thousand feet. New York has 10,000 thieves, exclusive of city officials. In Cuba there are 600,000 blacks, free and slaves, nearly all of whom favor independence. A shipment of California watermelons has just been shipped to New York. -? EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Ramie Handkerchiefs. The Wilmington (N. C.) Star has been shown several handkerchiefs made, in New Orleans, from the Ramie plant They are of a tex- | ture finer than silks and sell at one dollar each. Pickpockets at Gettysburg. The Gettysburg (Pa.) Compiler says the , late celebration of the battle anniversary was turned to good account by the pocket-picking fraternity. It gives a formidable list of missing pocket-books, which took an eternal farewell of their owners on that occasion. The thieves were so adroit that in no instance was any one of them detected. This was rather heavy on the sufferers, who ought to have been spared on such an occasion. ( If the thieves were truly loyal, like most of their ; brethren, they should not have levied a tax on < loyal demonstrations, especially when made in hon- j or of a "gelorious Union victory," so-called. The 1 victims will doubtless have a feeling appreciation of I the heavy Union losses at Gettysburg, when they ( hear Ahem alluded to in future celebrations. i International Convention, Y. M. C. A. ( . j The Young Men's Christian Association held ( an international convention at Portland, Maine, last week. On the 14th, eight hundred delegates had arrived and reported themselves. From the 5 reports received by the Convention, it appears that there are 6G9 associations in this country, 347 of which are represented in the convention. Many of these own the buildings which they use. The paying members of 271 associations are reported to be nearly 50,000, and the total membership of all classes is supposed to be 90,000. The finances are in a flourishing condition, one association, that of New York City, being now engaged in erecting a building which is to cost $500,000, three-fifths of which they have already raised. It was resolved to publish a history of the Young Men's Christian Association, and one of the religious societies of young men in connection with it. Riot at Edisto. The Charleston Courier of last Saturday, says that a serious riot occurred at Edisto a day or two previous. It was caused by the arrest of a negro for assault and battery. Some three hundred negroes assembled and took Mr. Christy, the magistrate who made the arrest, from his house. He was finally released, and no blood had been spilt at last accounts; but the negroes were rioting and threatening that no more arrests shall be made on the Island. It is thought that bloodshed was prevented solely by the escape of the negro arrested. Where Is Gov. Scott, with his big talk about preserving order and putting down resistance to the laws? He has said that no government is entitled to respect, unless it can enforce its laws. Also that South Carolina shall not sink to such a contemptible condition while under his auspices. The Governor is an expert at blowing his own trumpet. Can't he blow it loud enough to be heard on Edisto ? Railrond Convention in Columbia. A meeting of the Presidents and Superintendents of various railroads in the Southern States was held in Columbia last week. Col. Wm. Johnston, President of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, was called to the chair. The object of the meeting was stated to be to arrange a schedule to meet the various 'opposing lines from New Orleans and Mobile to points North, and, as far as possible, to harmonize their conflicting interests. Committees were appointed to arrange schedules, to. determine upon passenger rates, to frame resolutions relative to the Pacific Railroad and to protect growers and shippers of vegetables from Southern ports to Northern markets against fraud. j Owing to the absence of representatives from c roads between Montgomery and Mobile, no sched- 1 ule could be agreed upon. The other objects in f view were all more or less accomplished. A report } on passenger rates was adopted. Also resolutions J favorable to reduced rates for immigrants and land ] buyers. Two hundred copies of the official pro- s ceedings were ordered to be printed, for distribu- s tion among the roads represented. j Higher Law Philanthropy. Wendell Phillips is pleading the cause of I outlaws, murderers and other desperate villains, i by advocating the abolition of capital punishment * He favors the plan of turning all such rascals loose upon society, after confining them awhile and sub- t jecting them to "the best moral influences." It ] is remarkable how the "moral idea" apostles syra- i pathize with the very worst classes of criminals. These are the stuff" of which said apostles make j saints and martyrs. Wendell is not opposed to J the shedding of blood per se. On the contrary, he ' was lately hoping and praying that the Indians J would tear up the Pacific Railroad and destroy the ( trains, possessing at the same time a full knowl- e edge of the Indian's amiable weakness for fresh ) scalps. And no man called more loudly for the 1 execution of a few leading rebels. It is only when (l some notorious villain has been tried by a jury and , found worthy of death, that his scruples are ex- t cited. Then it is that a fellow-feeling makes him ( wondrous kind. 1 So far from dispensing with the gallows, it is the l. growing conviction of thinking men that it ought , to be put into more general use. At any rate, it ( ought to be preserved until Phillips is dead by 1 some other means. If the inciters to bloodshed 1 and murder were held responsible by the law for ' what their influence has done, Wendell would long ! ago have adorned the gallows-tree. Few living t men have causad the shedding of more innocent t blood than he, and yet he has been subjected to what he calls "the best moral influence" all his , life. j A Sc^ne in the Array and Navy Society. ( General Frank P. Blair lately undertook to } elicit some demonstration of respect for Confede- y rate soldiers, from the "Array and Navy Society." ( This Society held a re-union banquet at Long < Branch last week, which was attended by many l prominent Union officers of the late war. Gen. j Sheridan had made a short speech in praise of the | Union volunteers, when Gen. Blair was called out. ? What success his well-meant effort met with, may ] be seen from the following report of the scene, , published in the New York papers: j Major General Blair said he would say a word for a people who had not yet had a voico raised in i their behalf. "I will speak of a people who were I once our enemies, and I know that when I speak 1 of them before soldiers I speak before those who i will heartily respond. Those against whom we 1 contended, whom we aspersed as rebels, and whom < we triumphed over as well. They were a great and 1 generous people ; thev were worthy the steel of ' our best. We have heard here of Farragut and < Sheridan, but we shall yet hear of Iycc and Stone- < wall Jackson. [Hisses and cries, and great confu- 1 sion.J Who is it dissents? [Numbers of voices, i 'We dissent' 'I dissent.' 'Think of Anderson- i ville and Libby Prison.'] It would be little merit u for us to have triumphed over a mean enemy. [The v speaker was again interrupted by a storm <>t' his- o ses.J I speak of them as our late adversaries, f [Cries of Traitor.'l Are there no voices to be v raised for them ? [Cries of'Yes,' and 'No,' great I confusion and cries of 'Traitor.']" s Admiral Farragut here decided that to introduce c anything which interrupted the harmony was out t of order. t Plowing up Coin. " The Fort Smith (Ark.) Herald gives the j. following account of how Mr. John Vann, of that s vicinity, struck a streak of good luck: u "It appears that Mr. Vann was plowing in his- 'j field, and his plow struck something, and stopped his mule. Supposing it to be a root, he struck . the mule with his lash, and it gave a sudden pull, 1 when up came five old Spanish dollars. Mr. vann c went to the spot where the coin appeared, and on v examination, found a keg full of coin. The staves t of the keg were rotten, but the dollars were as t sound a9 when coined at the Spanish mint. On c digging up the keg he found it contained live thou- k sand dollars, all in old Spanish dollars of the date 1 of about 1806, and American half-dollars of old date. 1 The keg must have been buried twenty or thirty e years ago. Since the finding of this uionev, the e whole field has been dug up in search of hidden j. treasure." For the encouragement of others, we will add ^ that money can be plowed up in York, if proper perseverance is used, though not in such large quantities. It must be confessed, however, that v the prospect is rather discouraging in these dry s times. Nevertheless it cannot be denied that many ii a dollar has been plowed up in our old fields, in ^ times past, and what has been done can be done * igain. v Death of Rev. R. K. Porter. fl The Augusta Chronicle, has the following, b tvhich will be read with regret by many of our read- Jj 3rs, to whom the deceased was well and most fav- ' jrably known: d "We are pained to learn, from viir Atlanta ex- a changes, of the death of the Rev. Rufus K. Porter, e Pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church of that b nty. The Reverend Mr. Porter was, we believe, " i native of South Carolina, but resided many years h n this city ^and county. During the war he was \ :he Chaplain of Cobb's Legion, and was with k R R. R. Cobb at the time of his death on the field g )f Fredericksburg. In all the relations and under n ill the vicissitudes of life, he had the happy power y )f making all around him happy, winning tne af- c fectionate regard of all who knew him." d The Floods in Texas. g A Galveston telegram, of the 13th instant, j" lays: tl "The Colorado River is higher than ever known, tl ;he water having risen forty-seven feeteight inches, jut is now falling slowly. The whole valley is en- {] irely under water, and the crops destroyed. The fi ailroad between Altriton and Columbus has been 01 vashed away for several hundred yards. A num- C1 jer of persons were drowned below Columbus, and h \ltriton was six feet under water, and a number >f dead bodies were seen flaoting past there. The = vater cut off Donovant's and other plantations ( it Eagle Lake. At Lagrange the water was four _ eet in the public square, ana it is rumored that ~ Bastrop and. Webberville were washed away, and _ nany lives lost. The latter town is situated on ower land than Lagrange. The Brazos is very _ lieh still," ^ A The Air-Line Railroad^ A meeting of the citizens of Hart County, ^ jeorgia, was held a few days since to consider :he propriety of subscribing to the stock of the projected Air-Line Rail Road from Atlanta to jr Charlotte. The following resolutions were passed: v Resolved That Hart county subscribe, through j he proper channel, the sum of $75,000 stock in T ;he Air-Line Railroad, on condition that Road is . ocated within half a mile of the Public Square of he Town of Hartwell. b Resolved That the Ordinary of said county be b; equested to give notice and order an election at aj in early a day as practicable, for all the legal voers of said county to ratify or reject said proposed , tubscription, by writing the same on their tickets " it said election, to be held on the 2d day of Au- ft ;ust next Resolved. That we recommend that should the w :ounty ratify said proposed subscription, the Or- , iinary of said county be authorized to issue county ponds sufficient to raise money to meet the installnents on said subscription as may be called for by w he said railroad company; and that said Ordinary h >e authorized to issue bonds in addition to the q iubscription, sufficient to pay the interest on said subscription bonds, as it may fall due for three , rears from the 1st day day of January, 1870. 01 Death in the Pulpit. . The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution gives the fol- . owing account of the death, on the 4th instant, of 3 [lev. John Long, of Thomasville, N. C., who had pegun preaching to a large congregation in a ? Vlethodist church at Atlanta, of which Rev. Mr. . Kimball is Pastor: , "He had continued some ten minutes, when he , luddenly stopped, and with a livid face and gasp- ^ ng utterance asked Mr. Kimball if anything ap- L peared to be the matter with him. He sat down f n an easy position, folding his hands and throwing lis head back on the sofa in a reclining manner. Perceiving his illness and at the same time observ- r( ng that he was quiet, Mr. Kimball arose and con- ai sluded the sermon, all the time thinking that Mr. \ Lion? was better, from his quiescence. As he endid his8ernion, he turned to speak to Mr. Long and bund that he was speechless. It was an anoplec- w ic stroke, from which he never recoverea. He c< lied Monday morning about five o'clock. Mr. al [jong was a gentleman of about fifty-eight years of g! tge, of irreproachable character and high christian tj itanding. He had been in the city but a week or wo, and contemplated making his residence here. 01 [lis family are still in Carolina, and have yet to earn the terrible intelligence. Mr. Long was S juried this morning with due solemnities. Mason- ly c honors were paid to him.'' c< 1. C. University. a] "Corsair," the Columbia correspondent of tl he Charleston News, writing under date of the is 3th instant, furnishes the following information n regard to theS. C. University: C The Board of Trustees of the University of S. ai Carolina held a meetingyesterday, pursuant toadournment three weeks ago. A good deal of rou- r? :ine business, such as receiving andconsideringre- A ports of committees, was attended to; but the ^ uain item of business was the election of Major D j. Davis Melton to the Chair of Law. In this ci slection we have indicated the policy intended to- pi vards the University, namely: to continue it in ts present style. In the election of Major Melton .r ;o the chair of law?a man who stands high in the :ommunity, who is eminent in his profession, and 01 vhose uiind is characterized in a high degree by hose qualities of severe logic and system that are ie lemanded in such a position?his election indicates he purpose of keeping the tone of the institution ^ it its maximum. The election gives universal satsfaction, and it is understood that Major Melton rt rvill accept the position. The bursarship was givm to James Davis, a respectable negro of Colum- tl pia. As the bursary system of boarding has been tl practically abolished (by the students choosing to fc poard elsewhere) since last October, the only du:ies remaining for Bursar Davis are those of "sher- r ff," which have been performed by a negro ever since the college was founded. 'a \nother J.etter from A. II.* Stephens. Since Mr. Stephens' controversy with Judge ? Nicholas,'on the cause of the present national evils, ? pe has received a number of letters on the same n subject from prominent gentlemen at the North. V 3omc of his replies have been published, perhaps *1 vithout his consent. We publish an extract from p /..i IT.- l:_ :J.- .u. ^ MIC 01 incse replies, which gives ins iucii ui we situation, in a nutshell. From this extract it will t( De seen that Mr. Stephens, like most of, the probfindest thinkers in the country, has little hope of ai :he preservation of constitutional liberty. Mr. a Stephens may be mistaken in his fears; it is to be hoped he is. But as he has no superior in judging p jf the future, his opinions are entitled to great res- Ir pect: t "The cause of all these late troubles in our land, fi ind of all those gross usurpations you'speak of, is cl ihe departure of the Government from the primary p laws of its existence. The only practical living o Issue before the people of this country now, is one ai between federal republicanism and imperialism? o institutional liberty and monarchy. There is no t( middle ground; no half way house between them, fhe people must choose between them and take a 3ne or the other side of this question. The one a carries with it State sovereignty and constitutional C liberty?the other carries with it consolidation and tl iespotism. There is no hope for this country but ai in a thorough repudiation of the whole principles 11 ipon which the late war was inaugurated and paged against the Southern States. The veiy idea f maintaining a Union of States by force is percctly paradoxical and absurd. These are my iews briefly and frankly, as well as earnestly given, know and feel perfectly assured that in their oundness and correctness lies the only hope of onstitutional liberty on this continent. Whether he people will be able or disposed to understand he truth and appreciate it in time to secure theinelves from impending ruin or not, I do not know, am exceedingly apprehensive that they will not, iut that they will go on in their delusion about aring the Union and putting down the rebellion intil their doom is sealed. The National Camp Meeting. This meeting is still ip full blast at Round jake, N. Y., with an increasing attendance. A orrespondent of the N. Y. Tribune says there pcre, when he wrote, 700 tents pitched there, 1,350 earns having entered the gate that day and 2,000 earns being hitched outside the enclosure. Bishop iimpson preached an able sermon to a congregaion of several thousand persons, on Sunday, the 1th instant But the Tribune man was more harmed with the discourses of the female speakrs, of whom there were many. After describing lis emotions while listening to the pathetic eloluence of a sweet sister from Pawtucket, R. I.. le says: "In my rambles around the camp I encountered , middle-aged lady, who had just button-holed a rild looking young blood from Troy. How she corched that poor young man with her burning nvectives against, pride and.tobacco and Sabbathireakine. A little beyond this earnest speaker ras gathered a knot of folks, intently listening to he sharp words of another female preacher. She ras mounted upon a wagon, and her untidy cap (uttered and flapped in the breeze like the tatered banner of some veteran regiment returning rom the war in a storm. 1 am sorry that I missed he best part of this lady's discourse. There's aany a woman fair as she, whose nouns and verbs o more agree, but I doubt much whether there re a score in the whole land who can give more arnest expression to their thoughts than this same rave old disciple. "Shame on you," said she, 'shame on you, young woman with that brazeq eadgear and that ungodly hump on your back ! Vliere's the uiodesty your mother teached you to erry through life with you? [Here a very pretty irl vanished into the wood. J There's a full-grown ian chawing a nasty, filthy weed that the pigs rouldn't tetch. Next to godliness, young man, is leanliness. Ef I didn't love the human race as I o, bless God/ I'd like to git down from this wagin and sicked your tobaeker chcwers with your asty mouthfnl." And so on, one by one the old , idy took up the ten commandments and handled be infractors thereof with rough hands. She was iie plainest talker I ever had the pleasure of hearig?for to me it was a real pleasure to listen to be spontaneous outburst of an honest woman's eelings; but when she got about three-quarters f the way down the list of the decalogue she beime about as-broad as she was long, and forced er female hearers to beat a hasty retreat" /OLUMBIACONTRIBUTORIAl; BY -X. WOOD DAVIDSON. . : I COLUMBIA, 80UTH OABOLINA, 20TH JULY, 1869. 1 Il 'he University. The election of Major C. Davis Melton to the !hair of Law in the University of South Carolina, ives us a distinct indication of the policy intendi to be pursued by the Board of Trustees. They itend to keep it up in its present form. Major lelton is just the man for the place?able, thorugh, experienced and acceptable to all parties, he Board adjourned in order to confer with a dis- j nguished chemist and physicist of Charleston, efore offering him the Chair of Physics, vacated | y Dr. John LeConte last spring. This gentleman , [so will be acceptable to all parties; and then the | )rps of professors will be well-nigh complete, and , le exercises will open on the first of October, with ivorable auspices. The choice of Jim Davis, a negro, as Bursar, ill not operate against the University; because 1 le students can board wherever they please, and 1 ley have for the last session pleased to board else- 1 here than at the Bursary. The former Bursar 1 as not had a student to board with him since last Ictober. So that the students themselves have 1 radically dispensed with a Bursary, and the oc- 1 upation of the house by Jim Davis will not inter- ' ire with the Campus at all. As to the other du- ' es of this negro, they are such as have been most- ' r performed by a negro for fifty years. The friends of the institution accordingly may ilculatc upon the continuance of the University J i all its three departments?Academic, Law, and ' ledicine?and we hope for a fair if not full atten- ( ance. The election of Major Melton has already ( ecided some of the resident students to take the iaw course next October. or the Summer. t Our weather-fagged folks are beginning to cast i )und for a retreat to escape the suns of August f nd September. Some are looking towards the i "irginia Springs; but these are but one or two. 1 Some are already in Walhalla?a place blessed 1 ith the best and purelt air and water upon the ? wtinent. Friend Bieman is reported to be full J [ready. We spent a month there in 1868, ard < ained thirty pounds, which speaks volumes for f le salubrity of that Teutonic little semi-mountain- ' as retreat. 1 Some are looking to the Sparkling Catawba 4 pnngs? W hite and i5iue ouipnnr, ana aiso una- < beate?in the mountainous district of Catawba i junty, North Carolina. The terms are moderate t ad the scenery unequalled in attractions; while ? ic promise of an attractive gathering this season s said to be unusually fine. Some have already made arrangements to go to * leaveland Springs?White and Red Sulphur, ' ad Chalybeate?formerly called Wilson's Springs, i Cleaveland county; just below the mountain 1 mgc. The terms here are about the same as at 1 atawba, and the society a good deal the same. ] oth these places have afforded some wonderful ' ires; and both are rapidly gaining favor with our ' eople. Some aro inquiring about Caesar's Head; but 1 le hotel has not been announced as open yet. It 1 ight to be. Mr. Ilagood is neglecting an oppor inity of establishing a desirable resort for sum- < ler. Friend Swardal, of Greenville, is ready in the 3st style for his numerous friends, who are al- i sady beginning to drop in upon him. Glenn's Springs are sometimes mentioned, but ley do not advertise; and we hear but little about lat place, which enjoys a capital old reputation ; ir its medicinal virtues. Nobody talks of Saratoga, Newport, Rockaway, t ong Branch er any of those Northern resorts of 1 ishion and flirtation. c ? ? 1 Hon. T. J. Robinson, U. S. Senator from t outh Carolina.?The Hon. T. J. Robinson, s United States Senator from South Carolina, en t prtlifrtimin atfawinn^ nnlln/i lmafor^otr an isft'r iyj uaiuui uta, uvluuiju1 vauuu jfloiciuaj wu ? IT. N. Marsh, Esq., Walnut Hills, and they spent ie day in visiting the objects of interest in Cinnnati and its suburbs, Avondale Spring, Grove emetery, Clifton, &c. In the city they visited ( ie Commercial Hospital and other places of in- g ;rest which distinguish the Queen City. In the evening, in the company of Mr. Marsh t nd Dr. E. W. Wheeler, Mr. Robinson made his j ppearance before the residence of Mr. Marsh, t na after a pleasing serenade by Menter's celebrated { and, the Senator made a few well-timed and ap- ( ropriate remarks, inviting all who wished to ( ligrate to the most beautiful portion of our noble , Inion to come to South Carolina, where they could ] nd cheap and good lands, and a fine, healthy | limate. He cordially _ invited persons of both ( olitical parties, promising them perfect freedom , f speech and opinion. He urged them to come ] nd investigate the political and financial condition f the country, promising thepa they had nothing ) fear, for they would be hospitably welcomed. < After the Senator's speech, which was warmly ! pplauded, the party were invited to partake of an I bundant supply of native wine, sHll and sparkling 1 'atawba, champagne, sherry, &c. After which i ie Senator was escorted to the Burnett House, < nd took the 7 A. M. train to-day for Washington, i >. C.?Cincinnati Times, July 7. LOCAL ITEMS. HEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Allison <fc Bratton?Zingari Bitters?Liver Invigorator?Cattle Powders?Foutz' MixtureGreat Tonic of the Age?Bitters?Wine of Wild Cherry. J. E. Grist?School Books. W. G. Herrington, Executor of B. D. RowellApplication for Discharge. J. M. Rolierts, Administrator of R. Y. RussellApplication for Discharge. Joseph Wvlie?Administrator's Notice. ^ Ivy, Roach <fc Jones, Rock Hill?Dissolution. m LOCAL INTELLIQEHOE. fl Our friends throughout the county will confer a fl special favor on us and the readers of the Enqui rer, by informing us of any matters of general in- j terest which may transpire in their respective | neighborhoods. Furnish the facts in each case as briefly as possible, and we will put the information in a shape suitable for publication. The names of persons givirig us information must accompany their communications; not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith on the part of the writer and for own private use. VEEY BETBESHINO. To step into the York Drug Store, these hot days, and drink a glass of ice-cold Soda Water, fi aL. O.J- "n M ? n irom me rngia ooua rountain onnat institution. Reader, if you don't believe this, go and try the experiment for yourself. FIFE 0HI0H8. Our friend, Mr. Martin Swann, brought us last week a dozen of the largest and finest onions we ever saw, raised from the black seed. They would have measured more than half a peck. Mr. S. sowed the seed last October, and thinned them out A to a stand in the Spring, though he says they will A do just as well if transplanted. His plan is to use hen house manure, or any rich earth, and keep the soil well pulverized. A Senator Sawyer has favored us with five ponderous volumes of the Congressional Globe, containing the debates in full of the Fortieth Congress, and a supplement containing the official proceedings of the Impeachment Trial. The first time we have three or four years of leisure, we will certainly read them through. In the mean time, we tender our thanks to Senator Sawyer for his kindness in sending them to us. Although not exactly light reading, they are valuable as books of reference. v GOOD FLOUB. Mr. W. J. Kidd, of Bulloch's Creek, has favored us with a specimen of excellent flour from his mill, situated near Bulloch's Creek Church and known as the "Good Mill." This flour was not mode from picked or choice wheat, but from the ordinary toll gathered from all sorts of wheat, good, bad and indifferent. A mill which can turn out superior flour from such grain oertainly deserves the epithet of "good." It is entitled to this distinction on another accounj; for, being situated on a large stream, it is seldom stopped for want of j water. ' M baptist oohtehtiok. 1 We are requested to announce that the Dele- m ?ates to the Baptist Convention will arrive in town, i io-day (Wednesday) and to-morrow. This even- " ing a special train will bring up a part of them. The Convention will be organized on Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, and will continue in session M ibout four days. The public are cordially invited to atte'nd its deliberations. On next Sabbath several of the churches in town, Beersheba, six miles west, and Union, four miles north, will be supplied with preachers of the Convention, services, in all cases, beginning at the isual hour. raooraa off the pee oeht. Those of our readers who think the addition of, seventy-five per cent to their assessment, under orders from the Board of Equalization, unjust have a remedy, if they choose to use it Applications made to the State Auditor, through the county Auditor, will be received, and if the applicant can make it appear to the satisfaction of these officers that his property was returned at its full value, the additional assessment will be taken off. But unless this condition is shown to exist, it will of jouree be useless to apply to Columbia for a release from the 75 per cent increase of valuation. Parties here have tried this plan and have succeed- ^ ?d in getting off, with various degrees of success. M Some had all their additional tax removed, and M )thers part of it, each case being decided on its ^ >wn supposed merits. ^ hot ahd dey. ^ Another week has passed away without bringing ihose refreshing rains which the suffering crops . leed so much. A few very light showers have ] alien in various parts of .the county, but none, so 'ar as we have been able to learn, heavy enough to ay the dust. The last three or four evenings have )rought collections of clouds, with some thunder ' md lightning and considerable wind, but no rain. Anxiety about the crops is beginning to prevail xtensively. The corn crop has certainly been a ; jood deal shortened by the droc ht. Cotton has iot yet been injured to any great extent, and looks is if it might stand it awhile longer. Gardens and xuck patches are pretty thoroughly used up. The veather is intensely hot, with a prevalence of varm, dry winds, which are anything but exhilara;ing. In illustration of the excessive heat, we jive the following facts, obtained from reliable tources: A lady utilized the sun, by putting her yeast in i he garden to rise, and succeeded in making a fine, J ight loaf. Another lady, having heard of this ixperiment, put her yeast in an open place, but leglected to cover it. The result was, a crust about lalf an inch thick was baked on top of the yeast, \ But the most remarkable use made of the caloric, vas by a hen. She had been setting, as she bought, long enough, and deserted her nest with ler little brood, leaving a few eggs behind. Of ;hese, two were hatched out by the sun three days ifterwards, and one not until a week afterwards, rhe most surprising part of the thing is that the thickens were not baked. 46T" The following circular has been issued to the iheriffs of the various counties throughout the State: Executive Department, ) Land Commissioner's Office, [ Columbia, S. C., July 13, 1869. ] To the Sheriff of County: Sir:?You are hereby requested to report to , his office all lands in your county purchased by he State at tax sales, date of purchase, by whom ^ xxupied, under what authority the party holds M jossession, whether under cultivation or not, and J vhat disposition should be made of all such, lands o secure the greatest benefit to the State. A full J8 ind early report, together with your recommendaion and suggestions, and a statement of your exjenses incurred, will oblige, very respectfully, C. P. LESLIE, Land Commissioner. ^ The Excessive Modesty of a Scalawag jOVERNOR.?The Richmond Whig, of July 7, * ays: Governor Holden's paper, the Standard, has he credit of making the first nominations for the iext Presidential election. The following is his icket: For President, U. S. Grant, of Illinois;' / 'or Vice-President, Wm. W. Holden, of Norths f Carolina. The modesty and moderation of his jovernorehip, in not assigning himself the first slace on the ticket, excite universal admiration. Holden has fairly won the palm of self-denial in :hi? self-seeking age. His disinterestedness is all ;he more glaring, from the fact that he offered a reward during the war for the assassination of President Lincoln. Crying?Probably most persons have experi-, jnced the effect of tears in relieving great sorrow. It is even curious how the feelings are allayed by their free indulgence in groans and sighs. Then let parents and friends snow more indulgence to noisy bursts of grief,?on the part of children as i well as of older persons,?and regard the eyes and | the mouth as the safety valves through which na- j ture discharges her surplus steam. A