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I Scraps and .facts. General Butler is said to squint toward female suffrage. An Egyptian dromedary, during a race recently,'made a mile in 1:44. There are said to be 61,000 clergymen in the United States, their average pay being about :$700 a year. ?^ 2,548 bushels of cowpeas were shipped oh Fridav last from Charlotte to New Orleans. A sloop laden with railroad iron was sunk in the river about 6 miles below Wilmington on Thursday, and four persons drowned. About six thousand women have so far signed the memorial to Congress, asking that suffrage should not be extended to their sex. The grand jury of the District of Columbia-have a second time indicted C. C. Bowen, late a Congressman from this State, for bigamy. Mark Twain says of woman : She can make of home a little heaven or a little hell on less capital than any other business can be carried on. So much ice has been stored away in New England this season that the ice dealers there fear the price will be so low that they will lose heavily. An old lady, observing a sign over a tailoring establishment, bearing the inscription : "Fountain of Fashion," exclaimiJ, "Ah, that must be the place where the squirts come : ? , _ ?-The vernal equinox, or The" raoraenF when the sun's centre crosses the celestial equator, occurs March 21; but what is called the equinoctial storm is liable to happen between the loth and 27th. A printer, named Lawrence, who had been employed in a printing office in Wadesboro, N. G\, was found dead in a gulley about two miles west of that place on tne morning of the 8th instant A Richmond paper says that not less than 20,000 Southerners, many of whom took part in the war on the Rebel side, are now residing permanently in New York, and adds that nearly all of them are poor. It is said that the benevolent Mr. Greeley, on meeting the other day on Broadway a poor organ-grinding Union soldier, with only ?r?rl ama /votrn him Q nomnhlpf ATI unc auu vut aiui, gaiw uim w |/W4?jpi*w v.. deep ploughing, and recommended hiai to "go out West." An Alabama law gives the heirs of every one murdered by Ku-Klux $5,000, payable from the County Treasury ; and Mrs. B. R. Thompson and Mrs. Mary Campbell are in Court at Huntsville for $5,000 each, for murdered husbands. A good story is told of a German shoemaker in Utica, who having made a pair of boots for a gentleman of whose financial integrity he had considerable doubt, made the following reply to him when he called for the article : "Der poots ish not quite done, but der bill is made out." An Alabama paper publishes the following marriage notice which it must be admitted is somewhat stony: Married at Flintstone, by the Rev. Mr. Windstone, Mr. Nehemiah Sandstone and Miss Wilhelmina Whetstone, both of Limestone. Look out for brimstone next. The dispensers of justice in Robeson county, North Carolina, are making short work of the cases of the desperadoes of that county who have recently been captured. Oxendine and Lowery have both been tried and condemned to be hung, and, it is stated, there being no ground for appeal, the sentence will be executed without day. Kilpatrick is still blowing. In his Chicago lecture he "undertook to say that had 130,000 Yankees been shut up in Metz or Paris, they would have found a way to drive old King William, and Frederick Charles, and old Von Moltke, and Bismarck, and all their Prussians, out of France like chaff before them." To avoid misapprehension, the Jackson Clarion says it ought to be borne in mind that Judge Bramlette, who was murdered on the bench in cold blood by the negro who participated in the terrible riot at Meridian, was an appointee of Gov. Alcorn, and the murderer himself a Loyal Leaguer. A man, living in Columbia, Pa., and owning the house he lived in lately refused to bury his father who died suddenly, but turned the body over to the coroner to be buried as a pauper, signing his name to a paper which read as follows: "I hereby refuse to take charge of the corpse of my father or pay for its burial." They have a queer way of doiug things out West. Last week a train at Detroit containing a little girl about five years o\fitf to whose cloak was pinned a paper inscribed, "This girl goes to Kendallville, Indiana." No one could be found on the train who knew anything about her, and a lady en route to her home in Toledo, took the child, expressing her willingness to keep her until her friends should be heard fFom. H. E. Colton writes to the Scientific American that 550,000 bushels of peanuts are now sold annually in the city of New York. Previous to 1860 the total product of the United States did not amount to 150,000 bushels, and of this total fully five-sixths were from North Carolina. Now North Carolina produces 125,000 bushels; Virginia 300,000 bushels; Tennessee 50,000 bushels; Georgia and South Carolina, eAch, 25,000 bushels, while from Africa come about 100,000 bushels a year. Three countries in the world were unblessed with rich products, and yet they have done more for education than any other countries. Holland, with its fens and marshes, Scotland with its barren hills, and New Kngl i _.:iL :?.. i : ti *i muu, wiui iu) gmuuc ttuu icv* xuese uuee countries have been the pioneers of education, and have built up for themselves immense business founded solely on an educational basis. The last census shows New England to be the highest in proportion to number in wealth and thrift. Education has done this. As one sign of what some people are pleased to call "progress," we may mention that a member of the English Parliament is said to be about to bring in a bill to legalize marriages for a limited period : and that Mr. Moncure D. Conway has printed in London a book, in which he argues that marriages should be terminable at any time. Marriage, according to this gentlemau, is a hereditary monastic morality, "and also a grim idol about whom nearly all social superstitions are intrenched with his blood-reeking altar!" The Vindicator says: There is a substantial dwelling house (log) near Iiutherfordton, N. G\, which was of respectable middle age when George Washington's rebellion first began. It is in fair condition, and is still occupied as a dwelling house. It has a single brick chimney in the centre, with eight fire places in it. This house was the headquarters of Pat Furguson, when he camped at Gilbertown, just before his disastrous defeat at King's Mountain, Oct. 7, 1780. One of Furguson's officers was assassinated in it, and the stains of his blood still disfigure the floor. The French prisoners of war in Germany are signing their names to a petition addressed to the National Assembly at Bordeaux in which, declaring upon their honor to obey what government France shall choose, they !, demand that the government shall be the true expression of the will of the French people. They therefore request an appeal to universal suffrage, in order to decide the two ' following questions: First, monarchy or re- < public; second, the name of the monarch in j case of the monarchy being successful. This \ suggestion seems to have a leaning toward ( Bonapartism. j ( Last week, five K. K. K.'s were cap- J , tured near Sandersville, Georgia, and lodged ' in jail. Wonder of wonders, they are all ne-1j groes. Their capture was effected in this, wise : A negro had received notice that the | < Ku-Klux intended paying him a visit on a certain night, with no mild intentions. The freedman thereupon called in assistance to await the dread nocturnal visit, and when they came rushed upon the would-be robbers of the country, overpowered and arrested them, disguises and all. After having been lodged in jail, they said they were "only funnin'." ?orMlr <?ttquim. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING,MARCH16,1871. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kepi in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that aiii* tnrino tVir utihuMrinfimi u?l VPrt isilltT ill 111 iOL) work, are cash, in advance' ADJOURNMENT OF THE LEGISLATURE. The legislature adjourned sine die on Tuesday of last week, at midnight, after one hunaired and seven days' session. The Union reports that the "closing "Hours were marked by many of those little pleasantries which relieve the monotony of long, weary sessions, and the members separated with light and buoyant spirits." On the other hand, the Phiznix reports that the proceedings in the House, on the eve of adjournment, were of an unusually scandalous character. "Some of the members were intoxicated, while others appeared to be determined to create as much confusionas possible." Previous to adjournment a resolution was adopted giving to Speaker Moses 81000, in addition to the compensation allowed by law. DRAWING OF JURORS. On Friday last, the persons named below were drawn as petit jurors for the term* of the Circuit Court which commences at this place on Monday next. There was no drawing of Grand Jurors, and we have been requested by the Clerk of the Court to remind those persons who served at the last term, that they are required to be in attendance at the approaching term: J. R. Cook, T. J. Clinton, J. T. Bigham, R. E. Gettys, James \V. Fewell, James R. Harper, O. C. Beamguard, I. M. Wallace, E. A. Faris, Anthony Herndon, p. c. ; N. B. Bratton, Wm. Choat, James Cobb, Hamilton Adams, p. c.; Abner Hambright, F. H. Barber, Wm. R. Davis. E. P. Wilkenson, J. G. La them, Francis Davie, p. c.; A. Cody, Wra. M. Enloe, J. L. Adams, Andrew Biair, W. J. Cullender, John H. Crawford, S. M. Hanna, J. G. Templeton, S. D. Siraril, W. B. Daniels, Win. McG. Bailey. THE COUNTY TREASURER. We are informed by parties from Columbia, that E. M. Rose, the County Treasurer for this county, who left here under a military escort on Friday last before day light, arrived in Columbia that afternoon, and on Saturday turned up missing, without having accounted to the State Treasurer for the moneys collected by him. One statement is to the effect that he is in concealment somewhere in Columbia, and that the money has been placed in the hands of his father to be returned to the Treasury. Another is, that he has abpcondevb and that this statement is thrown out as a temporary delusion, to throw parties in search of him off the trail. The Governor has given his attention to the matter, and we doubt not will do whatever may be necessary in the premises. In the meantime, a delegation from this county waited on the Governor, and obtained a promise that reasonable time would be given for tax-payers to make payments witnout incurring the 20 per cent penalty. A new County Treasurer wULLWappointed this week, and n^iec-wiTl be given when the office is reajJjKoresume business. r THE EXCITEMENT LAST WEEK. On Wednesday of last week some excitement prevailed in town, arising from a rumor to the effect that on the day previous a collision occurred near Carmel Hill, in Chester county, between a company of Scott's negro militia of that county aud a party of whites, in which a number of each had been killed. Late in the afternoon information was received by Sheriff Glenn that a company of armed negro militia from Chester was advancing stealthily upon this place, avoiding public roads, and making their way through the woods and fields. The object of this move- i ment by the negroes being unknown, the Sher-1 iff properly summoned a posse of nine citizens and immediately went in the direction the negroes were said to be approaching, and about a half mile from the Court House met a number, consisting of sixteen privates and one "commissioned" officer. On coming up with this band, the Sheriff enquired the object of their movements and why they were marching in the direction of Yorkville; to which they replied that they wished to reach the town in order to secure protection. The Sheriff then told them to lay down their arms and they should be protected, whereupon the negroes at once placed themselves under protection of the Sheriff, who returned with them to town, and as a precautionary measure placed them in the jail during the night, a squad of U. S. soldiers acting as guard around the prison. At sun-rise next morning, the negroes were liberated by the Sheriff, when they availed themselves of the protecting care of the Captain commanding at this place, by whom they were retained four days and permitted to depart. It is proper to add that the negro officer said to the Sheriff that not a gun had been fired by his company after entering York county, nor had they been attacked or molested in any way. :?? ? ? PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. On the ,10th, the Senate was in session but a short time. Mr. Sumner re-appeared with a supplemental civil rights bill, which he pertinaciously advocated. The republican Senators in caucus agreed upon the committees to be elected for the forty-second Congress. The most important change, and one which will doubtless send a thrill of horror throughout New England, is the displacing of the great commonor, Sumner, on the foreign relations committee by Cameron, of Pennsylvania. In the House nothing of importance was done. On the 11th, the Senate was engaged most of the day in discussing the change in the ffiairmauship of the Committee on Foreign Relations. The debate was confined entirely to the Republicans, and was bitter and personil. During the debate the fact was elicited that the principal cause of the removal of Sumner was owing to the circumstance that fie refused to have social intercourse with the President and Secretary of State. At 6 i >'clock a vote was reached, which resulted in J confirming the action of the caucus in ap- i pointing and changing committees. In the ] House, the bill repealiug the tariff on salt < came up, but it was so loaded with amendment? as to kill it. Mr. Kelly finally moved i as au amendment the whole tariff bill and i demanded its reading, which will take two i days. After reading a few minutes, the ma- i jority conceded an adjournment to Monday. In the Senate on Monday the questioned t credentials of Vance, Goldthwaite, Blodgett, Hamilton and Reynolds, and also the claims 1 of Abbott, who is half disposed to contest the seat to which Vance is elected, were referred 1 to the committee on elections and privileges. 1 In the House a vast number of bills were in- 1 troduced, most of them old ones. The bill placing salt on the free list passed, 145 to 46; ? ??.! 1 1 1 also Dill to place coai, lea uuu uunee uu tuo free list were passed under a suspension of the rules, and take effect upon their becoming acts. A joint resolution passed the House to adjourn on Wednesday, the 15th?(yesterday.) ? ? FRANCE. According to the latest despatches the red republicans propose to form a new republic with Victor Hugo as President, with such leaders as Garibaldi, Blanc, Rochefort, etc., in the cabinet. But there is little substantial basis for the realization of the hopes of the agitators. The present government, besides making a firm stand against popular demonstrations Has authorized tiny ouapouoioa of several troublesome newspapers, and issued a decree prohibiting the publication of any new political journal. The condition of the Bank of France is encouraging. Notwithstanding its loans to the government, its credit has not suffered, and its notes are taken at 7 / "AID TO THE KU-KLUX." r The Columbia Union, of Saturday, publishes the article which appeared in the Enquirer last week with regard to the recent raid on Rose's hotel, as well as the article under the caption of "Ku-Klux Manifesto." In commenting on the articles in question, the Union takes occasion to charge us with giving "aid and countenance to the enemy,", by not saying "a word in condemnation of such high-handed proceedings," and thus giving a "tacit endorsement to the bloody and high-handed outrages which have occurred in that vicinity." The Union having, with unparalleled egotism, assumed the position of Censor-General to the newspaper press of South Carolina, and entered its solemn "protest" against our conduct, we have determined to repent of the sin in sackcloth and ashes, and in the future give no further "aid and countenance to the enemy." Inasmuch as the Union man, according to the Phoenix, is a stranger in our midst?and evinces a disposition to "protest" against ' things in general, we are inclined to furnish him with material for "protesting" to his heart's content. For instance, last summer, one of the leading lights of the political party which the Union represents, in a speech at this place, made the assertion in the presence of a large crowd of ignorant negroes, that his party would continue to rule the State, even if "it was necessary to strew the ground so thickly with the ashes of the burnt buildings, that vegetation would "not sprout." Was this giving "aid to the Ku-Klux ?" Was this giving "aid and countenance to the enemy ?" Will the Union allow such a "tacit endorsement of high-handed proceedings" to go without its protest ? The party to which the Union belongs armed one race with guns bought by money wrung ; from the other race, and furnished ball-cartridges with which to carry out the ends of the party. Was this giving "aid to the Ku-Klux?" Was this giving "aid and countenance to the enemy ?" Is the Union ready with "our protest?" : The Legislature, controlled by the party with which the Union is connected, enacted an election law in order that the result of the election might be, "heads I win?tails you lose!" Was this giving "aid to the KuKlux?" Was this giving "aid and countenance to the enemy ?" What about "our protest" in this case ? ; The party which the Union represents has recently squandered two hundred thousand dollars more or the people a money man was necessary, in the payment of the expenses of the Legislature, and was only prevented by the Governor, from "appropriating" near one hundred thousand dollars more. Is this giving "aid to the Ku-Klux?" Is this giving "aid and countenance to the enemy ?" Is the Union prepared with "our protest," or is this thing all right, because "it is done in other States ?" 1 York county has recently been assessed to pay a tax, for State aud county purposes, I amounting to about sixty-two thousand dol- : j lars. To collect this tax it requires an ex- i penditure of about four thousand dollars, i when all the work necessary in the premises i could be done by competent men for less than i fifteen hundred dollars. Is not this "aid to i the Ku-Klux?" Is not this giving "aid and < comfort to the enemy?" Is "our protest" necessary in this case ? I Within the past three months there have I been burned in this county not less than a i dozen buildings, which, our people believe, < was done at the instigation of some of the J leaders of the party which the Union repre- < sents. To say that the burning was done in i every instance in retaliation for alleged "outrages" is sheer nonsense; as in one case, the vie- s tims were two maiden ladies who, we are sat- 1 isfied, were in no way connected with the so- ( called "Ku-Klux." Is this giving "aid to the ] Ku-Klux?" Is this giving "aid and comfort i to the enemy ?" Here appears to be a very ( good place for "our protest."- 1 The militia have, neretoiore, ucen in me habit of traversing various sections of this ? county, singly and in squads, with loaded t guns, which were fired at random, to the ter- 1 ror of peaceable citizens, and making threats 1 that they would kill the whites of all ages and r conditions, and burn while there was a stick 1 of timber to make a fire! Is this giving "aid i to the Ku-Klux?" On the other hand, negroes in this county 1 have been whipped, shot and hung. Does e the Union enter "our protest" against all c "high-handed proceedings, whether committed ? by the adherents of one party or the other; or f does it give a "tacit endorsement" on the one f side "without our protest," and thereby give T "aid to the Ku-Klux ?" t Whether the Union condems all lawlessness i or not, we do. We condemn lawlessness be- s cause we believe it is antagonistic to the best c interest of the whole people. We condemn it i because it is wrong. We condemn it wheth- i er it emanates from the adherents of the i Union's party or any other party. Nearly i all the lawlessness and violence in this county t has been the direct result of the acts and c teachings of the Radical party. While we t have been, especially for the past three 1; months, using our best efforts to avert the t troubles which are upon us, the dominant par- p ty has been giving "aid to the Ku-Klux" by h squandering the hard earnings of hone?t people, and goading them to desperation by enormous taxation and continued misrule. Whether the Union will regard this article as affording "aid and comfort to the enewy>" (?) we cannot venture an opinion, but anxiously await the decision of our egotistical and "protesting" censor. *""-*)flfcL wfr- PUBLIC MEETING. ' At a meeting of the citizens held at the Court House in Yorkville, on Monday last, 13th instant, on motion of Col. W. B. Wilson, Dr. J. R. Bratton was called to the chair, and James Mason requested to act as Secretary. The chairman stated to the meeting that it was well known that the peace of this com-, raunity had been seriously disturbed by repeated acts of lawlessness and violence, and that the object of this meeting was^ to recommend such measures as would hereafter prevent such acts, and upon the adoption of which, it was hoped peace, order and security would be restored to society. mi 1 - i?J_J L: 1.? ?,:*u ine Ciiuirmuii uunciuueu uu iciuamc ?mi the statement that the meeting was ready to proceed to business, whereupon Col. Wl B. Wilson submitted the followingpreambleiand resolutions: rWhereas, the public peace in YorlT"county has been disturbed and the lives qf citizens imperiled by acts of violence and lawlessness; and whereas, we feel assured that cijHpiHgn be enforced In our county, ^nd^th^PBJrmaff* ner of grievances should be adjusted by the law, and that the best interests and? security of society will be promoted by an immediate cessation of all acts of lawlessness and violence :. Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, the public welfare, the agricultural aud all other interests of society imperatively demand that the peace should be preserved and all further disturbances and acts of lawlessness at once cease. -v. Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to use every exertion to insure the protection of life, liberty and property, and to restore law and order. Resolved, That we respectfully request that all law-abiding citizens?white andoojoted?in every Township in York countjfunite fn efforts to this end, and that public meetings be held in each Township for said purpose, in time to report the proceedings thereof in the next week's issue of the Yorkville Enquirer; and that said meetings appoint delegates?white and colored?to attend a general meeting, at Yorkville, on the 25th of March, instant. Resolved, That the proceedings ofthis meeting be published in the Yorkville Enqui RER. The preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted, whereupon the meeting ad- ' journed. J. R. BRATTON, M. D., Chairman. Jamks Mason, Secretary. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. " j E. C. MeLure, Mortgagee?Public Sale of Printing Office. J. W. Carroll?Flowers that Never Die. I R. K. Scott, Governor?Proclamation. T.M. Dobson <t Co.?Just Arrived?V^ell Wheels and Buckets?Cotton Cards?Buggy Whips Pistols?Yarn?Northern Potatoes?Spring Hats?Figs?Lard in Cans?Fur Sets?Shot Guns?Bacon?Hair Cloth. W. B. Metts?The Navassa Ammoniated Soluble Phosphate. S. B. Hall, Judge of Probate?Citation?Stephen P. Sutton, Applicant?Stephen Bullock Pettus, Deceased. T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?In the Matter of W. B. Daniels. Bracelet Lost. Withers <fe Stilwell?Another Arrival. > ? * STATE ITEMS. ? The Governor has appointed J. M. Elford, a Trial Justice for Spartari^lrgjfMumfy. j ? W. F. Williams has been appomflftl and^ confirmed as Auditor of Union countyT ? Dr. J. Wistar Vance, of Cokesbury, has been elected Chief Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medical College of Atlanta, Ga. ? E. L. Deane has been appointed and confirmed as State Auditor vice Reuben Tomlinson, resigned. ? Capt James U. Adams, a prominent citizen of Richland, died*at his residence in that county on the 8th instant ? The Union says there are quite a number of members of the Legislature still remaining in Columbia, "awaiting a settling down of the elements in the up-country." ? The dwelling house of Robert West, an aged and respected citizen of Spartanburg county, about two miles from Glenn Springs, was destroyed by fire on Thursday night, the 23d ultimo. His wife, a lady about seventy years of age, was also burned up. ? A letter published in the Union from Fairfield, indicates that "Ku-Klux" operations are commencing in that county. One night last week two members of a negro militia company were attacked in their-houses. One was severely and the other mortally wounded. ? The Columbia Union says that by the act passed at the recent session of the Legislature, amendatory of the act for the assessment and taxation of property, it is made obligatory upon property holders to make their "returns to the County Auditor's office on or before a fixed date. Township assessors have been j dispensed with. ?The Union, of Monday last, furnishes the information that three companies of U. S. troops arrived at Columbia on Saturday evening last and were immediately sent to the upjountry?one company to Chester, one to Rock Hill, and one to Spartanburg. The 3ompanies at Yorkville and Chester are to eturn to Columbia. ? A dispatch to the Charleston Neica states that an engine attached to the night rain on the Charlotte Railroad, wa^jinpled m Wednesday night of last weekj^^^fefr* Sill, by stakes driven between the tracks, by inknown parties. The Phoenix says that one )f the rascals that perpetrated the act has jeen arrested. ?According to the Columbia Phoenix, an iffair of honor came near occurring in Cheser on Saturday, between Messrs. Simon Jacojy and Jos. Luchs. Mr. Luchs was the chalenged party. Weapons?Winchester rifles, rhe usual preliminaries had been arranged, )ut fight was prevented by the town authorties. ? The report of Land Commissioner DeLarge to the Legislature show that the presmt commissioner has purchased 34,589 acres )f land, for which he paid $173,506, or an iverage of about five dollars per acre. The ormer commissioner purchased 64,488 acres, or which there were paid $373,823. Comnissioner Delarge does not relish the idea of >eing made to shoulder the whole responsibilty for the deeds or misdeeds of the comraisiion. He insists that he is, in feet, only a :lerk to the advisory board. In closing his eport he washes his hands of all responsibilty for the doings of the board in the followng tart sentences: "It will be seen that I have lever been in possession of the bonds, as conem plated in the act, and that I am conse[uently in no wise responsible for any disposiion that may have been made of them. The ands I have purchased have been paid for hrough orders on the State Treasurer, approved by the chairman of the advisory >oard." i ; - it-?? EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Dr. Connaughton. We learn that during the past week theroonis bf TV. Connaughton hA*e been frequently crowded with the afflicted of this and adjoining counties, who have visited the Doctor for raedichl consultation and advice. Dr. Connaughton will remain here for a while longer, but in order to meet the demands ! made upon him from a distance, will visit Chester^ on the 57th insfani;, where he can be found at the Shannon House until the 31st, when he will return to Yorkville for a short while longer. A Jndge Killed in Court. There was a riot at Meridian, Miss., on the 7th instant, during which Judge Bram1-41 .i"> p:?.. n A i icite, ui tuc v/itj \juurt nuu ciynt ui icu ucgroes were killed, and a number of whites and negroes wounded. It seems that a fire occurred on Saturday night, destroying seventy-five thousand dollars worth of property. Lofton, a negro, was arrested as the incendiary, and was being trijtfj before Judge Bramlette, when Tyler (ne^ro) rose in the courtroom, and shot Judge Bramlette through the head, killing him instantly. A general melee ensued. Tyler and Loften were killed instantly. J. Aaron Moore, negro, a prominent politician, and member of the ~Mississippi Legislature, was also a prisoner as an accessory to the burning. He was shot; it is supposed mortally. On the next night there was -another fire destroying the church and other buildings. A meeting of the citizens was held, and a safety committee to co-operate with the sheriff in preserving order, was appointed. At the latest accounts all was quiet. Sturgess, the Mayor, who is reported to have been a fomenter of strife in Meridian for a long while, was, on his own motion, given a safe conduct to the cars the day after the riot, on a pledge to return to his home in Connecticut never to return. The Holden Impeachment. This trial is still progressing, having reached the thirty-ninth day. The witnesses examined in behalf of the respondent mainly ii .1 ii ' i a r_ i _-f . _ if prove mat in ine county 01 Alamance mere | existed at one time an organization known as the White Brotherhood, but that it was disbanded soon after the act prohibiting the wearing of disguises was passed, which law was enacted over two years ago. The number composing the organization in Alamance is variously estimated at from 200 to 1000. Witnesses are conflicting in their statements in regard to the obligations of members.? While Boyd stated that he took an oath, at the time of joining the order, to swear, if necessary, in behalf of the members, or if on a jnry, to render false verdicts, etc., another witness, Patterson, who was known as chief commander, testified that he initiated Boyd, and no such oath was dministered. Witnesses are likewise discrepent as to the objects of the organization. Some understood it to be for one purpose, and some for another. The only incident yet occurring to relieve the monotony of the trial took, place on Friday. A costume was exhibited to a witness, who recognized it as a Ku-Klux disguise. The witness was required to put it on, which, consisting of a white gown reaching near the ankles, a visor made of white cloth, fitting closely over the head and face, a long snout for a nose, glaring eyes, rapacious-looking mouth, and six bristling horns, standing fiercely erect, the tips ornamented with defiant red, presented a scene well calculated to terrify even a high court of impeachment, to say nothing of thq fright it would bo l^koly to , give an unsuspecting darkey should it come upon him unexpectedly. "Southern Outrages." The committee on "Southern Outrages" have reported. In summing up, they report that the Ku-Klux does exist, is composed of members of the Democratic or Conservative party, has a political purpose, and has sought to carry it out by murders, whipping, intimidation and violence against its opponents. The minority report, signed by Messrs. t>I ... j T* j ;i_ I i.i i A .Diair ana .oayuru, ia quite jeugiuy. Alter reviewing the Btate of affairs in North Carolina under Gov. Holden's administration, they conclude by saying: "Holden and his official supporters have failed to maintain themselves by any means, foul as well as fair?in their State. They have appealed to popular elections, and have been rejected with something near to unanimity by every tax-payer in the State, and now Congress is asked to step in and force North Carolina down again under the feet of her radical masters, and we fear that Congress will attempt to do this unwise and wicked thing. "Will the people of the North (free as yet) see this thing done and sustain its promoters ? We hope not! We pray not! When will the men now in power learn the truth of what the great statesman of our century said so wisely and well when similar attempts were made to govern British India ? "It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to leani moderation from the ill success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all men thinking highly of the method dictated by their nature attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient vigor. Then they redouble the efforts of their impotent cruelty, which producing, as they must produce, new disappointments, they, now irritated against the objects of their rapacity, and their vague fury and malice (implacable because unprovoked,) recruiting and reinforcing their avarice?their vices are no longer human. From cruel men they are transformed into savage beasts, with no other ^ves-. tiges of reason left but what serves to furfcW'1 the incentives and refinements of ferocious subtlety for purposes of which beasts are incapable, and at which fiends would blush." -governor Scott and the Ku-Klnx. Below is a paragraph which was telegraphed on Tuesday of last week from Washington to the New York Tribune. The statement which it contains to the effect that in consequence of the railroad track having been torn up, the United States troops sent to Yorkville were "obliged to march by the road," is untrue. The troops arrived here on Monday by the cars: Governor Scott has called upon the President for United States troops to suppress outrages in the counties of Union and York, in South Carolina, where he reports that men are murdered or driven from their homes nightly, because of t^eir political opinion. Governor Scott informs the President that there *is no sufficiently armed and equipped militia to give the needed protection, and that if he did have at his disposal a competent militia force, there are no funds in the State treasury to transport and subsist them. He says that it is not just or reasonable in the government to expect him, with the limited military resources of the State, to successfully meet in the field the trained soldiers who held the United . States at bay for four years, and often achieved signal triumphs over its best armies; and that to expect this of him is to imitate the Egyptian system, with a most grievous im? provement, requiring the making of bricks with neither straw nor clay. He states that < the Ku-Klux, that were formerly thought to i be a mere political ghoul, a bloody spectre, i conjured up for party purposes, is now a ter- , riblefact, an armed organization, thoroughly equipped, having its field, staff nnd line offi- 1 cers, and established lines of communication. 1 He says that if Congress will pass an act ^ guaranteeing the State a full reimbursement s for moneys expended in suppressing domestic violence, South Carolina can then obtain the necessary credit to mobilize her militia, and sustain them in the field, Nothing but a per-, manent garrison in the disaffected sections will give the protection to the mop who are threatened with murder or exile, solely because of their fidelity to the principles of free government. As an evidence of the condition.of a flairs in South Carolina, the facts are stated, that, on last Monday, a company of United States troops, that left Columbia tor York, had the railroad torn up in their front by a body of armed men, and were obliged to march by the road. On Friday last.the Republican members of the Legislature, now sitting, paid men to picket the road leading from the Capital, because of well grounded fears of a Ku-Klux raid upon that body. ? Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester C. H., March 15, 1871. From the state of excitement and commotion in which evervthinc was here last week, we have returned to our normal condition of peace and quiet. How long to remain so, your correspondent, not being of the school of prophets, does not undertake to say. To go fully into a detailed account of all the local causes which led to the culmination of last week's shooting and bloodshed, would far exceed the limits your kindness allows me. Suffice it to say, that the whole occurrence is but the legitimate fruit of the seed sown/Iast fall by Gov. Scott and his despicable tools in this county, Wimbush, Yocum, Saunders, Humphries, Riester, Ac. The western side of Chester county is its main cotton growing region, and is divided up, for the most part, into large plantations worked by large gangs of negroes. It is a well known fact that negroes are more ignorant, vicious and debased where they are gathered thus into large gangs, than where they are sub-divided into Bmaller parties, and are brought more immediately into contact with the white race. Carmel Hill, the point from which Capt. Jim "Woods' company hails, is about the centre of this system of large plantations. Last fall a militia company was organized there during the canvass for Governor, and duly supplied by Gov. Scott and Adjutant General Moses with a full equipment of those breech loading muskets, with full supply of ammunition, iq. which the latter is supposed to have made so handsome, and so dishonest, a speculation. Since the organization of the said company, the conduct of the negroes in that section has been insulting and bullying in the extreme, while forbearance, in tbe hope tbat some bow or otner tne condition of things would be bettered, has marked the action of the white people. Three or four weeks ago, tinder the pretext. that they were about to bejittacked by the Ku-Klux, and with open threats of their readiness and desire to exterminate that mysterious organization, the members of" this company began to picket the highways and byways, and in many instances stopped and turned back unarmed white men who were moving about the county on legitimate business. On Saturday night, the 4th instant, as three gentlemen were returning together about ten o'clock from an evening party at the house of Mr. David Seely, they were suddenly fired upon from the corner of a fence, and one of them, Mr. James Darby, a young man of the most quiet and inoffensive character, so badly shot as to be made a cripple for life, if indeed, he is not mortally wounded. The negroes claim that on the same night, at a late hour, the house of "Capt. Woods" was, attacked by tho Ku Klux, and that they drove them off, followed them, and succeeded in killing one horse. This yonr correspon-' dent believes, from the best information he can get, to be false. On Sunday morning the militia company turned out underarms, and continued through the whole day to march and countermarch upon the public highway, behaving in the most boisterous and indecent manner, and indulging in the most violent threats. On Sunday night- they claim that the house of their Captain was again attacked by a larger force of Ku-Elux, and that they again succeeded in repulsing them. Of the truth of this your correspondent has no evidence, and his respect for the valor of the Klan (provided always that there is such a thing) forces him to discredit it, unless, indeed, the attacking party consisted of the gang of negroes who went about on the same night, and in the same ! AAmmiffln/v flf VQ. UCIgUUUlUUUU) WVUJUilllUUg UV|I1VUHUVUU H> I M rious places. In that case there may have been an attack and repulse as stated, all preconcerted among themselves. This gang of negroes went to the house of Mrs. Atkinson, an unprotected widow of the highest respectability, demanded all the arms on the premises, found an old rifle, which they took out and broke, and were guilty of other acta of outrage and violence. On Monday morning the militia compahy, about eighty men in ranks, started at an early hour to march on this town, and at the same time runners were sent through the country to notify the negroes on the plantations that the flght had begun, that the militia company at the Court House was ready to help, and that large reinforcements were coming from Newberry and Union. They reached here about nine o'clock, marched into the corporate limits, stacked arms, placed sentinels on the street leading toward Union, and refused to allow peaceable and unarmed citizens $o pass. The Sheriff of the county, TOS^hotified of their presence, went to them, told then their assemblage was an unlawful one, and ordered them to disperse. They professed that they had no unlawful or evil purpose in view; that they had left their homes because they could not stay there in peace and safety; and that they had come here to seek peace and protection. Riester, their Major and fViend, professed the same thing. How much truth there was, either in their statements or his, can easily be determined by the account furnished to the Union by the said Riester. This account says, "the memHera of romnanv of militia come to the Major of 'the regiment, in the town of Cheater, for more ammunition, which he gave them." After considerable parlying and negotiating with them on the part of the civil authorities, they finally agreed to go off and disperse at four o'clock in the afternoon. At that hour they did move off in the direction of Carmel Hill, and It was at once thought that the disturbance was at an end. Soon afterward, however, it was discovered that their pretended going was all a trick; that they had retired about a mile from town and concealed themselves in the woods till dark, and had then marched round the town to the Methodist church (colored) on the York road, in which they had secreted themselves. The citizens of the town promptly turned out and placed themselves at the disposal of the civil authorities. It was determined by j the latter, in view of the condition of affairs and the responsibility resting upon them, to ! 3onfine their action to guarding the town through the night, and to await for daylight , to develope the situation. Dispatches were < jent to Rock Hill and to Winnsboro that the ] negroes seemed bent on bringing on a collision. On the half past ten train, twelve men ; came from Rock Hill, and at once reported j to the Intendant of the town, stating thafj they were here for the purpose of assisting the civil authorities. About one o'clock Tuesday morning, a detachment composed of six or eight men, out on guard duty, met near the depot a colored man armed with oue of the rifles of the militia; he was asked if it vtas loaded, and replied that' "it was none of their d-?d business." One of the detachment approached him, when he stepped back and levelled his gun. He was fired at with a pistol, but not struck, and immediately a volley was fired from a point up the railroad opposite to the house of Riester. This firing was kept up for some time, a good many of the balls from the negroes' rifles striking Nicholson's Hotel, one of them going into Mr. Nicholson's room and hitting the wall dangerously near to him. As soon as this disturbance occurred between the town euard and Riester's body guard?(composed of a detachment of Capt. John Lee's company of militia,)?the Carmei Hill company, secreted in the Church, about half a mile distant, moved down to Riester's house and formed in and around the turn table of the King's Mountain Railroad. The citizens (white) were at once under arms, and coiild in a very brief space have given the militia some ideas in maneuvering and attacking that their officers haven't yet taught them. With great forbearance, however, and with an earnest desire not to shed the blood of a single one of these miserable dupes of such knaves as Riester and others in higher stations, the civil authorities again determined to defer any action whatever till morning. About sun-up the body of white men moved to the depot, and there they found the negroes drawn up in line of battle, their centre and main force extended in the turn table, and their wings entrenched about fifty feet on each side. The iforesaid colored folks were immediately advised to "git" After some little "standing upon the oder of their going," they .agreed to "go at once." As they professed to be afraid to return in the direction of Carmei Hill unarmed, they were permitted to move off with their guns, under the agreement (as your correspondent is informed) that they hereto march out five miles and there disband and disperse. They thus secured the object of their coming to town; that is, they got a fresh supply of ammunition, and were ready for the skirmish of Wednesday morning. Treacherous, as by nature they are, instead of disbanding upon reaching a point five miles from town, they moved on and took up a very strong position at New Hope Church, and sent runners oub to bring in rations and reinforcements. On Wednesday morning as some gentleme^ from Union, together with some from this county who had joined them after they crossed the river, were coming to this town, they were suddenly and without any warning whatever, fired upon by this band of outlaws concealed behind the trees and rocks near the said church. The result of this fire was that John W. Waters was shot in the knee, and has since had to have his leg amputated. The whites at once returned the fire ; and after a brisk skirmish of a few minutes the militia turned aud fled in every direction. The largest band, nineteen in number, took tho direction of Yorkville, for the purpose we suppose of seeking the protection of the garrison there. We learn that the Sheriff of your county promptly turned out and arrested the whole gang, bf this, fliough; and all the particulars connected therewith, your local is better informed'than we are. The number of negroes killed in the skirmish and pursuit has not been definitely ascertained by your correspondent That there are some new made graves in the western side of the county, and that the buzzards have been observed circling around and about in a very inquisitive and mysterious manner, he thinks there can be no doubt With this skirmish ended open hostilities. On Tuesday night, while the wind was at its highest, the store of Mr. P. Nail, situated in the centre of whkt is left of the business part of the town, was set fire to, and if it had escaped discovery ten minutes longer, the people of this town would to-day be houseless and homeless. On last night an attempt .was made to fire the private residence of Mr! A. H. Davega, the Intendant of the town; the incendiary was pursued and shot at by some of the guard j on duty, and fired back at them in return; but he succeeded in escaping to the woods, i On Tuesday morning last, after the threatened collision at his house was over, Riester | sent and asked the fourteen gentlemen who had come np from Winnsboro, and whose number his cowardly fear or intuitive fondness for lying magnified into fifty, if he would j be safe in going on the cars with them. Upi on his being answered that they had no purpose to harm a hair of his head, he proceeded on the cars to Columbia. On Wednesday evening he returned with a company of U. S. Infrantry; but on Thursday morning left again. Whether his last departure was occasioned by a conviction on his part that the climate of Chester was not "good for his wholesome," or whether he was needed in Columbia to do the necessary lying for the Radical party, so as to make for the administration at Washington, your correspondent does not undertake to determine. No matter which was the motive, the contingent fund of some of the head thieves will have to support him while, he plays the heavy role of martyr. The garrison here was reinforced during the week by other companies of the 18th Infantry, and now the eternal and infernal rattle of the kettle drum is scaring away all the birds from around town. The voice of the turtle is no longer heard in the land. On Saturday afternoon one Capt. Kennedy of the State militia arrived here from Columbia, with orders from Gov. Scott to collect all the arms from the militia in this county. He is now employed at the work. A reporter of the New York Herald arrived here on yesterday morning to write up the occurrences of the past week. I suppose the true history of all that has happened will not be known till his imagination has had time to play around the subject The Chester Reporter office is to be sold for cash to the highest bidder on the first Mon day in April Except that ot tne hinquibek, there is not a country office in the State as : well equipped as the Reporter office. Chester presents as fine affield as there is in the State ' for the establishment of a first class weekly. : % x. ! 2"" ' * PRESENT SCARCITY OF MONEY. j We all complain of the scarcity of money, \ but few pause to consider where the money < goes. If we persistently send it abroad we I will forever be straightened, and yet we annu- i ally pay to Northern Insurance Companies 1 sums that are fabulous. * I No business since the war has been so profit- i ib' j as that of the Northern Life Insurance i Companies. The large towns and little vil- j J lages of the South were placarded with the 11 tempting offers, and general, special and traveling agents took our lives and our means as coolly as if the war had not ended. What the Yankee "bummer" had spared, the Yankee Company gathered, and the credulous South poured its hard earnings into Northern coffers, as if we still believed thera in their wisdom, and confided in their honesty. The premiums we pay are invested in Northern securities, increase Northern commerce, and pay Northern taxes. Are we so lightly taxed.that we can afford to bear the burdens of our Northern brethren ? A single. Northern Company paid last year for rent, salaries, and taxes, Ac., $400,000, and their name is Legion. Nor are we disposed to forget or forgive the manner in which Southern policy-holders were treated by Northern companies. / ~~ When the war broke out they were stricken ' from the list; and when the war was over j they were told they could be reinstated, if they would pay up and establish to the satisn. il.i *1 1 1 muLiuu ui tuc vuiupiijr mat tucjr nau uuvcr borne arms, nor aided the rebellion. A Southern holder was to be admitted to his rights 1 only on proof that he had been a traitor to his ' State. h We give a copy of the oath required by a New York Company now doing a large business in this State, and throughout the South: State op ,) fl.fl , County op , j I, , of State of , formerly insured m Insurance Company^ und^r policy No.?, being duly sworn, do depose and say, that I hare not been connected with the Army and Navy of the so-called Confederate States, and have not actively participated in ' the late rebellion against the United State*?? Government Sworn befcre me/ this ?< day of ?, 1869. There is no mystery in life insurance. Its principles and rules are well settled and easily understood. The best form hi which it can be conducted is the strictly mutual plan, in which no capital is required, but in whatever form conducted, whether proprietary or strictly, mutual, or on the mixed basis?partly capital, partly mutual. The great desideratum is faithful, honest administration, and we believe in Southern companies with Southern men. Of their ability and honesty we may judge, and in it we can fully confide. We know 1 who they are?what their lives have been. In a word, we know whom we trust; and in Northern companies we do not. Organize Southern companies and keep our money at home, and we have at least one { remedy for the scarcity. Southerner. 1 ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. The following is a list of the Acts of the General Assembly, passed at toe recent session ( which are of general or local interest to our readers: " ' 4 An act to provide for the publication of J the acts, reports, resolutions, journals and j other papers of the General Assembly. _ " .An act to regulate the appointment, juriswbp and duties of Notaries Public. d^kct to repeal so much of the act . of 1839 BHpfhibits the Clerks of the Courts of the : State from acting as attorneys or solicitors in the courts of the State. > >1 on ' ; ; An ad to .authorize Circuit Judges to hold "M courts,in other circuits than their own... j An act to incorporate the Rock Hill Hook and Ladder Company. 4 An act to incorporate the Champion Hook , and Ladder Company of Chester. I An act to incorporate the Savings, Build- J ing and Loan Association of South Carolina. ^ An act to provide for the protection of persons, property and the public peace. J An act to supply the deficiency in the appropriation for the support and maintenance * of free schools for 1870. > I An act to charter the town of Yorkville. / Joint resolution to provide for the publican " tion of the decisions of the Supreme Court, during the years 1868,1869 ana 1870. 1 An act to protect the right.'* of parents, and \ J to prevent the procuring and carrying from the State persons under the age of 21 years An abt to require the ^State Treasurer to pay county treasurers their apportionment of the State school fund belonging to their re- 1 spectiye counties, and for other purposes. ^ < Joint resolution directing that funds known as Canby school funds, remaining in the hands of county treasurers, be appropriated to the free school fund. Joint resolution to provide for the payment * of mileage certificates of members of the State Board of Education of the State of Sooth , \ Carolina. ~ j Joint resolution authorizing and directing a. hi... j n a_ n : : ' 1 uie ouiue .rvuuiuji nuu wuuiy vuuiuubdiuucib to levy 'certain taxes. A An act td provide a salary for the office of the Lieutenar ^Governor of this State. An act supplementary to an act entitled j "an act to authorize administrators, executors and other fiduciaries to sell certain evidences of indebtedness at jwblic sale, and to comprotnise in certain cases."';' An act to rfenew and extta# irfb act to pro- i vide a mode by which'to perpetuate testimo- 4 " ny in relation to deeds, wills, choses in action, and other papers destroyed or lost during the recent war. ? An act to regulate the right of traverse. } An act to recharter Moore's Ferry, under I the name of Dinkin's Ferry, over the Cataw- 1 ba River. j An act to renew and amend the charter of ? the town df Spartanburg, -mn .. 1 An act ceding the jurisdiction of the State I of8outh Carolina to the United States of " J America over such lands as inay be acquired fl for public purposes by the said United States - * J of America. M An act to protect the interest of the State, j whenever payment of interest now due remains unpaid, on bonds issued by auy railroad company, and wherever the guarantee of the ^ State is endorsed. | An act to make appropriation and raise supplies for the year commencing November 1,1870. ' An act to create a debt of the State of South Carolina, to be known as the sterling funded debt, the same, or the proceeds thereof, to be exclusively used in exchange for, or in payment of, the exiting public debt of the | State. 1 An act to amend an act to establish and _ 1 maintain a system of free common schools. "1 An act to promote the consolidation of the - - J Columbia and Greenville Railroad Company __ " S and the Blue Ridge Railroad Company Joint resolution making appropriation of X $47,000 for the completion of the State Luna tic Asylum, and for other purposes. | a n ta enable iudcrment debtors to sell J their real and personal property, and to con- S firm sales already made, in conformity with conditions therein specified. I A SHARP DODGE THWARTED. J The following is Gov. Scott's message veto- ' J ing the bill appropriating this sum of $265,000 Jfl for Legislative expenses: ^ STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ) ] Executive Department, > i Columbia, March 7,1871. ) J To the Honorable the Senate of South Carolina: 1 Gentlemen : I return to your honorable . body, without my approval, an Act appro- I !>riating $265,000 for Legislative expenses, I or the following reasons, to*wit: I First, I regard the expenditure of the mon- I ey already appropriated during this session, M and the sum included in this bill, amounting . fl in the aggregate to $400,000, as simply enor- B mous for one session of the Legislature. It H is beyond the comprehension of any one how _ the General Assembly could legitimately ex- - S pend one-half of that amount of money. I . cannot refrain from . expressing the opinion fl that' there must hav/ been some secret agency H in fixing the sum UtAbat amount, as a num- S ber of the members, both of the House and j Senate, have expressed their surprise at finding the appropriation changed from $125,000, M is it was believed to have passed, to that of fl &265.000. 1 regret the necessity of returning the Act, without my approval, on the last day