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- r ; ~ _ Straps and J acts. ?1? A Bridgeport man, on a wager, swallowed a frog, after it had been well buttered, a few days ago. The steam power employed in this country is equal to 130,000,000* men, but that of Great Britain is superior, being equal to 400,000,000 men. The late treasurer of Butler county, Ohio, keeps a gambling saloon. It is not a matter of surprise that the cash of the county was fbtmd to De short about $100,000 one fine day. An English politician declares that the expenses of all kinds for State and national elections in the United States cost the people more than it does the British for the Queen and all the royal family! A young gentleman of Pittsfield, Mass., has recently involved himself in difficulty by stealing empty bottles from the back door of a drag store, and then carrying them round to the front door and selling them to the owner. % ?? The Wisconsin Democratic State Committee, in their call for a State convention, say their true mission is to deal with the practical questions of the day, ignoring controversies settled by the progress of events. A New York paper, a few days ago, being hard up for a sensation, started a story that Queen Victoria has. made a proposition for the marriage of the Princess Beatrice to Fred. Grant, son of the President, and that the event will take place in 1872. The county commissioners (of Hamilton county) in Cincinnati, recently paid a bill of $200 for 'arranging' their library. On examination it was found that their library consisted of seventy-five volumes of old reports and directories. A Massachusetts genius advertised his business the other day, by sending around in the rear of a circus procession, a modest one horse conveyance carrying a huge banner, incribed: "T. McCarthy is dying on West street Call and see him." The telegraphic: instrument recently used by Professer Morse in sending his xongratulatory dispatch, on the occasion of the uuveiling of the Morse statue in New York, was one of "the old instruments used on the first pnblic telegraph wire?that from Washington to Baltimore. During the high prices of cotton cafised by the war, India exported to England $750,000,000 worth of that product; but now that America is again producing great crops, the Hindoos find competition with our planters in vain, and the India merchants refuse to forward cotton to England at present prices. A nephew of B. F. Butler, M. C. from Massachusetts, who was not long ago made consul-general for Egypt, in spite of protests from a portion of the respectable press, is accused by Mr. Strong, & clergyman at Alexandria, with extorting money from his subordinates, and shamelessly violating decency in his personal conduct. Hong Kong, China, affords a singulai instance of the curiosities of taxation. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year if derived from a tax of 7 per cent, on monej won at the licensed gambling tables. The} have a daily average there of 14,631 players or one to every eight of the entire popula tion. Hartford has a peculiar character who whenever he wants a arink, throws dice with himself to decide whether or not he shall indulge. He does it fair, only he is apt to leave it an open auestion as to the number of throws which shall decide. If he gets sixes in his own favor he lets one throw decide the question, but if his luck is poor at the start he insists upon three. A Maryland paper asserts that since the establishment of a Baptist Church in their evil spirits whic^i they supposed to be removed from the baptized persons, have entered' the fish, and they will thus become possessed o: them. The Richmond Dispatch contrasts the considerate sympathy for the South which General Lee manifested by his silence, with the speeches of Mr. Davis. It says that as late as a month prior to his death, Genera] Lee declared that controversy was unavailing, and only protracts the day of national peace and harmony. The example of General Lee is one which may be followed without loss oi dignity by every Southern man. There is a little three year old girl at Horn Lake, Miss., who has gray hairs in her head, and who presents the appearance of an old woman. She possesses a wonderful memory. Without knowing a single letter in the book, she can spell correctly any word in the English language that has ever been spelled in her hearing, and even words that she never has heard before she spells phonetically, leaving out no letter that is not silent when the word is pronounced. ?? The total tobacco crop of 1870 amounted to 273,775,000 pounds, estimated to be worth $32,206,325. Virginia produced 65,000,000 pounds; Kentucky, 40,000,000; New JerBAT. lOfl.ftftO. finnnartiVnt. nnuln/wv) ft Rrtft . J , r.vuuvv? v,vvv, 000 pounds, with an average yield to the acre of 1450 pounds, which sold at an average price of 27 cents; while the average yield per acre of Virginia was only 418 pounds, and the average price but 10 cents. The product * of New York was 8,500,000 pounds, which was an average yield of 800 pounds per acre, bringing an average price of 14 cents. A telegraph line about fifteen miles long having been constructed near Shanghai, the natives supposed that the messages were carried along the wires by devils in the employ of the foreign barbarians. To this they made no objection, until a Chinaman chanced to die suddenly in a house near which stood one of the telegraph poles. It then occurred to another native genius (an amateur Coroner) * that one of the devils had come down from the wire and killed the unfortunate man; whereupon he and his compatriots proceeded to destroy the dangerous apparatus. Several changes, to go into effecton the 1st of July, have been made in the printing -? . and distributing of stamped envelopes by the Post-office Department. Hereafter special de vices and the address of correspondents will not be printed under any circumstances whatever. The printing of cards and requests across the end has been discontinued. In future they will be printed on the upper left hand corner only. Business avocations or employments will be excluded from cards and requests. The name of the writer only should be given, without any reference to his occupation. There has also been a new schedule of prices for stamped envelopes issued, which will go into effect on the first of July, whicji makes an increase of about forty cents on a package of 1000. ?? Jefferson Davis has written a letter to Col." Styles, of the Albany, Ga., News, in which he complains of the manner in which his speeches at Atlanta and Augusta have been misconstrued by the Northern press. He says he never wished, directly or incurect ly, to counsel the Southern people not to tolerate the situation. He thinks they ought to wait patiently until the returning good sense of the Northern people brings about a reversal of the more obnoxious features in the recent Congressional legislation^. He dimvAwa most oitvuglj any thing like a revival of armed resistance. There was one part of his Atlanta speech which was not reported. Before saying he did not accept the situation, Davis , asked any Northern reporters who might be present to take particular notice of his words, and he then saia he did not desire to be understood as advising anything like disloyalty to the government. The new Virginia Jury System which allows jurors to be drawn from one county to serve in another is not found to be 'altogether lovely' in its operations. A few weeks ago a Richmond court sentto Alexandria for jurors, and besides occupying them for a number of days with the trial of the case, kept" the locked tip for an unusual period in an unsi cessful attempt to force them to agree up a verdict Alexandria has retaliated in way that provokes a wail from the city Richmond. The sergeant of the corporati court of the former city made his appearan on Wednesday, armed with a requisition i twenty-four jurors, and, making a raid up the business community, returned to Alexs dria the same evening, having in charge t doaen of the leading business men of Rk mond. m^aquirci YORKVILLE. S. cT THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 181 ' Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addre .1,/moo ?ho Hmo fn whioh the subseriDtioi UkiATl ouv/no ?<iv V4u*w ?. ?? ? A_ paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers <3 continued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood t our terms for subscription, advertising and j< work, are cash, in advance JOB PRINTING. Haviug determined to devote more att tion hereafter to job printing than we ht done in the past, we would inform the put that our office is now well supplied with n type of the latest styles, and the best v chinery in use; and with a choice stock inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared execute as good work as cad be done ai where in the United States. Orders for Ball Tickets, Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, Labels. Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks, Bill Heads, * . Law Briefs, Business Cards, Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billhe Checks, Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, Note Headings, Drafts and Notes, Programmes, Envelopes. . i Policies, Fire & Li fe Ii Election Tickets, Shinplasters, Festival Tickets, I Wedding Cards, will receive prompt attention, and satisfact i as to quality of work, guaranteed in ev instance. Particular attention given to i ' work in colors. THE FIRST COTTON BLOOM. i Mr. A. Williford, at Rock Hill, has s ' us the first cotton bloom we have heard of ' this vicinity, the present season. It came fr the plantation of Mr. J. M. Williford, t "Santuc," and made its appearance on S day last." SUMMONED TO WASHINGTON. j Mr. Joseph Herndon and Major J. r Avery, of Yorkville, have been sumraoi r to Washington to testify before the joint , vestigating committee, in relation to disl bances in this section of the State. They for Washington on Saturday morning last. [ TAX RETURNS. Maj. Enloe, the Auditor for York coui > announces by advertisement in another < 1 umn, that on the first day of July, he will 1 ready to receive returns of the personal pi , erty of tax payers in this county. Wit commendable spirit of accommodation, , Auditor has made appointments for meet ' the tax-payers at a convenient point in e f township, thus enabling thenfct^make-ti [' mm weua'vwwiiai tm pnwWbTe: , ditor informs us that by pursuing this ceu f he hopes to be able not only to accommod the people, but at the same time save i county several hundred dollars heretofore 1 cident to making the annual assessments. 1 should be remembered that the office at Yc I ville will be kept continuously open for ceiving returns, from the 1st of July to s 19th of August, inclusive. This will aff ' an opportunity to persons visitiug the tc ' on other business to make their returns, i thus kill "two birds with one stone." - WHAT* WE* NEED. V.varp man tViinlro Iio nndprsta.mla liift r trade better than those following another 1 cupation do. This ought to be the case; it is not always" so. In fact, it would be , difficult task to find men who have slung . sledge all their lives, or grown old behind i plow-handles, who do not understand wlr is that they use borax in welding cast-ste i or why they should plow deep or shall 1 j We are sorry to say it; but it is a notori ' | and a'deplorable fact, that the majority of are grossly ignorant about the plain, comm i every day affairs of life. Our ignorance 1 i turned a fat land, in many places, into I renness. We are fully aware of the fact t! most men prefer to be stigmatized as kna^ or anything else, to being called ignorai but we are also convinced that nothing 1 the truth will make men free. If no rei , mation takes place in the general mana ment of our industrial pursuits in this co try, it will require but a short time to mi this land a waste, full of wild beasts. The negro labor never can be controlled it once was. If the fields of the South are be worked, and the machine shops and i i chanical arts of the country kept alive, ; labor required to accomplish this must performed by white men. Not by Irish Germans or Chinese, or any other foreigne but by the white men, born and bred on | soil. We have no objection to individu ; from any country on^tbe face of the br< . earth coming and settling in our midst; 1 we repeat it, these individuals will do u? good unless we turn over a new leaf, or to 1 a military phrase, "change our base" t i commence operations in a different quari It is time that some of our old notions w removed. If the starch is not all taken out us it ought to be. The days of dandyism i numbered, and the time has come when ': must work, steal, or starve. In this country we need educated farm* educated mechanics and educated men to gage in all the industrial pursuits. 1 ; theory and practice heretofore of this coi 1 try has been that none heed cultivated mir i but those who contemplate following what i i called the learned professions. Preache i i -i? ?-i i ii i. i J i. aociors ana lawyers ougni, iu ue euucuw I but the laboring man needs no educatic ! If he can read a little and is able to write {name so that it can be read, this is all tl ! his occupation requires. The sooner we j ! this notion out of our heads, the better it v ! bo ?>V ua man nf nrlnoa tinn a position in society to engage iu the mecha cal arts. When this is done that odium a i foolish prejudice which prevails against t I tradesmen, will cease to exist. If ever t day comes, as a practical reality, that the j boring man is more honored than the sot locked dandy, then this will be a good a l prosperous country. It may be humiliating to the false pride | many of the young men of the present dt but the field of mechanics or agriculture p; | sents more encouraging prospects than th of medicine or law. We say nothing to d sra courage any one from engaging in either of ic- the learned professions mentioned; but the ; ou ! day is over in this country when a man can o?:live on empty titles. The credit system is on j abolished ; the negro is free and all our old ; ce | notions arc razed to the very foundation. j 'or Something must be done or the heritage be-1 on | queathed to us by our fathers will pass into ' in" j the hands of strangers. The labor that once i j supported the South never will do it again. ! *, It will become less available each successive ! year until finally worthless. The necessity i is forced upon us of doing or dying! p ? _ ! THE YORKVILLE FEMALE COLLEGE. ? } On last Friday, the Yorkville Female Col| lege closed the first session of the present col legiate year. In the evening the young ladies I favored their friends with a cantata of exqui- j j site beauty and taste. In an artificial dell, j | tastefully arranged, sixty-eight young ladies, I [ each representing some flower, assembled to | select their queen. To the same spot "Re cluse," discontented and tired of the world repaired, and, unconscious of the presence of the flowers, sang, "Here would I rest." ? We understand that the management of ss- the musical entertainment was arranged by jP? Miss Clara V. Dargan, one of the teachers in the College, who also personified "Recluse." ^ Miss Marie W. Wardlaw, another teacher, represented the sun Jloioer. The rose was represented by Miss Annie Hughs, of Louisiana; the lily, by Miss Rosa Cooper, of Sumter; en" the dultlia, by Miss Kate Richardson, of Sum* ter; the crocus, by Miss Plume Harris, of Chester; the hollyhock, by Miss E. McClurkin, ew of Chester ; the heliotrope, by Miss Lou TinQa" dal, of Clarendon ; the mignonette, by Miss Jeauette McQueen, of Cheraw; the japunica, to by Miss Alice Perry, of Kershaw ; the violet, aJ~ by Miss Nellie Mickle, of Camden. Many other flowers were represented. The above mentioned, however, were the only ones that appeared on the stage, and, in beautiful solos, contended for the crown. In due time, and with becoming dignity, the rose (Miss Hughs) was crowned by Miss Bessie Stewart and Miss Alice Perry. Twelve little girls, as., sweet and lovely little creatures, represented the heatherbells. Nothing could exceed the |on manner in which these little girls performed efy their part. They won the admiration and ap(jne plause of all. The whole, in all its parts, reflected great credit on the young ladies, and speaks volumes in commendation of the administrative faculties of Miss Dargan. ent It is due to the audience to say that it was m the best behaved we have ever witnessed. 'om Everybody behaved well, and the whole affair, ln from beginning to end, passed off pleasantly un" and profitably. . otate items. ? The Charleston Republican recommends W. martial law for Spartanburg county. aed ? Governor Scott returned to Columbia on in- Thursday last iur- ? The Charleston papers announce the left death of Jacob Cohen, for many years a broker and commission merchant in that city. ? The Lancaster Ledger mentions that the , ravages of the potato bug is causing much coy complaint in that county. I ^ ? The telegraph line on the Greenville railroad is nearlv completed and will soon be 'op- . .. k in operation. ?The Wiunsboro' News says that the crops in Fairfield are better than they have ach ')een at any ^me s'nce war' rr- The public schools in Charleston are to ifljiwhi iii?oftAhc "flth- instant-foe want ne ..? The subject of a narrow gauge faitrJad ja^ from Edgefield to the Pine House, on the Co^ lumbia, Charlotte and Augusta Railroad, is being agitated. ? Mr. C. F. Hoist, an industrious and userk_ ful citizen of Chester, died in that town on re the 8th instant. He had been a resident of the Chester s'nce year 1844. ? Under the order of the Supreme Court, wn Judge Thomas is at Walterboro', holding the in*j regular term of the Circuit Court for Colleton couuty. ? The Reporter notices the organization of a Washingtonian temperance society at Beth>wn lehem Church, near Halselville, in Chester oc- county, a few weeks ago. but ?The several rifle clubs of Charleston no contemplate a celebration of the anniversary the of the battle of Fort Moultrie, on the 28th inthe etant. 7 ^ ?Company F, 7th United States Cavalry, el J consisting of eighty-four men, arrived at Sumow. ter, on Monday of last week, from Fort Lyon, ous Colorado Territory. 'us ?The Laurensville Herald publishes the ?n, order of the court authorizing the sale of the has Laurens railroad to the Greenville and Columbia railroad company, hat ? The Chester Reporter learns from an hires, fluential colored Radical, that Hon. A. S. at; Wallace has been sounding him on the subhut ject of supporting him for Governor at the for- general election of 1872. ge- ? At the recent term of the Circuit Court un- for Charleston county, Judge Graham stated ike that there were six hundred and forty cases on the Equity side of the Court awaiting a as hearing. s to ? A trial justice's jury at Aiken, recently ne- awarded forty-five dollars damages against the the proprietor of one of the hotels in that be place, for having shot a dog that was tresor passing on his premises, rs; ? The Charleston News mentions the fact the that one day last * week, nine lunatics were ials sent off from the hospital in that city, to the >ad State Lunatic Asylum in Columbia. The but party were all colored, and consisted of two no men and seven women. Most of them had use been in the hospital for several months, md ?The Ledger says that the Treasurer of ter. Lancaster county on Tuesday of last week, ere sold thirty-three tracts of land, for delinquent ; of taxes. The State purchased twenty-eight are tracts or parcels; private individuals, five. we There were, including all, seventy-six tracts advertised, one half of which number was setjrs, tied up before the day of sale, en- ? The Columbia Phoenix, of Saturday, 'he says: "Gov. Scott has returned to the capital, m- and brings the gratifying intelligence that arlds rangements have been perfected in New York ire for pushing rapidly forward the work on the srs, Blue Ridge Railroad. Col. Thomas Steers, j ;d; well known throughout the South as an ex-; n! perienced and thorough railroad man, will i his see to it that his portion of the contract is lat completed at the earliest moment. let ? The Union Times of last week, says : fill "Hon. Plato Durham, the energetic President rtrl gV<n1tly| f 1 yn i'1 naflgT, H.t1 H IJflpt.nirT ni-1 Alexander, the efficient engineer of that road, nd ; paid us a visit last Saturday, and held an inhe | formal meeting with the leading citizens of' he | this place, to consult upon the prospects and . la- feasibility of connecting that road with the I ip- Spartanburg and Union road at or near this ' nd town. The project was favorably considered j by our citizens." of j ? General B. F. Bates, who shot and killed iy,' Gray Hampton, in Spartanburg county, a few re-! weeks ago, has been taken before Judge Orr, iat; at Anderson Court House, and released on his is-, own recognizance in the sum of five hundred J dollars. The Spartanburg Spartan jn allu* < ding to the matter, 9ays: "The Judge ex- i pressed his condemnation of the acts of ] lawlessness which have been reported from t this county, in very decided and unmeasured \ terms. He wished that the prisoner had been 1 brought before him at Spartanburg. He ] wanted to tell our people the trouble they were 4 bringing upon themselves. Martial law with i all its attendant horrors would soon be visited i upon a community which would'nOt- }1 suaded, by gentler means, to obey the lavw-* and keep the peace." ? A few days ago, Conductor Johnston | put Mr. George N. Palmer, of the firm of : Emanuel & Co., Importers, New York city, off the regular passenger train of the Colum- j bia, Charlotte and Augusta Railroad about three miles from Columbia. The Union gives the following as the circumstances of the case: i "Mr. Paltner had Ti through ticket from Nsw4, York to Savannah. The conductor between | /*1* ?A Aa/1 nAiinAiio'fnr 1 unarioiie hiju uiiuiiium ucu^h&u wuj>u>-u ..? i Columbia and Augusta, giving him conduct-: or's check over his road to Augusta. Mr. P; t j stopped ov^ at Columbia, and presented the ! conductor's check, when called upon for fare, | which was refused by Conductor Johnston, i who declined any terms but payment of fare." j Palmer returned to Columbia and lodged*a ' complaint with a Trial Justice for assault and I battery, which led to the arrest of the conductor next day, and His being bound -over for a trial in a bond of five hurylred dollafti ^ WASHINGTON ITEMS. " 'h * ' , f'.tv ,, The Chronicle of Thursday last says that Major L. E. Johnson, United States marshal for South Carolina, is in the city clearing up some charges preferred against him by political opponents. He has been entirely successful, we are informed, and will retain his posi- i tion. 1 Bowen, the much-married ex-Congressinan j from South Carolina, has been sentenced to } two years imprisonment in the penitentiary j and to pay a fine of two hundred -and fifty dollars. Presidential clemency is to be. im-i voked in his behalf. A dispatch from Washington to the New York papers is as follows : "Mrs. King-Bowcn j is already at work procuring influence to se! cure her husband's pardon ; and though Bowj en's career has been a long series of law| breaking, culminating with his service in the rebel army, public sentimentis in favor pardon on account of Mrs. King, whose first j husband was killed in the rebel army at the j battle of Secessionville." The Ku-Klux Committee on Thursday last examined the United States District Attcuy^si and the ex-Auditor of South Carolina. Jyuie testimony of these gentlemen was unfavorable to the success of the Ku-Klux investigation, inasmuch as it gave a very satisfactory j account of the condition o? social affairs in j that State. One day last week, A. S. Lakcn, of Alabama, formerly of New York, testified before the Ku-Klux Committee for four hours. He gives a terrible picture of affairs in the'past^ and says'affairs in Alabama are as bad as j ever. Among his narratives, are those of two I presiding elders, driven from their work; two| ministers whipped ; another fired at and required to leave his circuit; one traveling minj ister killed, and two local ministers murdered.^ ! Laken, jiimself, was shot at in his own house j and also on the highway, and had been othi erwisf maltreated?all this since 1868. M The I Republican members of the Committee say^ :1-T flVfu'aJ Cg&gjry i^J^^^nter^is^L I hand, Governor Lindsay, of ATaBaraa, wM j is in Washington, under a summons frctot th^ j Ku-Klux Committee, utterly denounces the testimony of Rev. A. S. Laken, whom he characterizes as a sneak and a liar, and a' stirrer-up of strife. One proof of the falsity, of Lakeu's statement is that he still lives in the locality of which he speaks. Governor Lindsay represents Alabama as thoroughly quiet and peaceful. Large numbers of witnesses are in Washington, from North and South Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama, and a few from othcv States. It having been developed in the proI gress of the examination that certain citizens j of different-sections were Ku-Klflx, the comi mittee has determined to probe the matter j fully by. summoning several who are ; cioned of being members to appear and tesj % NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? ?< n n. ,_J ' ? Koasting ears are selling at nnyrjeww I per dozen in Wilmington. ? John Schenck, colored, of Charlotte, has 1 been appointed Mail agent on the A. T. & O. j Railroad. ~ V* 7 ? Joseph W. Holden, late Speaker of-thjp North Carolina House of Representatives, has located at Omaha, Nebraska. ?The Goldsboro Neivs nominates ex-Go v. W. W. Holden for next Vice President of the United States. j ?The Statesville Avierican reports thet the wheat harvest has commenced in thai section, and that the prospect for a fine yield is very good. The corn crop is doing^isoil^ and oats are improving. ? A negro, named Gus Byers, who committed a rape in Charlotte, N. C., a few weeks I ago, on a negro baby, aged fifteen months, ! was arrested on the North Carolina Railroad, j on Monday night. It was with difficultjsJJmt ' he was prevented being lynched by the color| ed men present. . . I. 1 ? An address to the people of North Caiwi lina appears in the Raleigh fyn/trtV, by W. 11. Battle, B. F. Moore, j V. Strong, L. H. Rogers, and other men re- j j cognized as conservative leaders, which ie in j avowed response to one put forth not long a?o 1 by Gov. Caldwell, in which that functionary lamented a lawlessness which he asserted prevailed in a number of localities, and threaten-1 , ed the people that if it was not put down hfi_j j would call for troops to put it down. "Thfe' present address reminds the people that the ! lawless bands are confined to a very few ItF j j calities and have no political affiliation what-' j ever. But the conservative party is held re! oponsible for all violence of this sort 1 signers call, therefore, upon all good men of the State to assist the officers of the law in | j ferreting out secret offenders, in bringing them 1 ( to punishment, and establishing order and lay everywhere. Especially are all illicit orgavi- ^ zans denounced. r f ?The Raleigh Sentinel says that in obedi- . ence to the invitation of_Gfiyeim?e--Caldwell, { n rmnihri "f cliVirmTpTfiTirfl gentlemcir-CTtVtfio-A btate, including all the judges of the Supreme 1 Court and United States Distriot judge t Brooks, met the Governor in consultation at } Raleigh a few days ago, as to the proper cdfcqf x to be pursued with regard to the recent dfe- j turbances in Rutlrerford county. Of tlis j meeting the Sentinel says: "Judge Reade wis ? for vigorous, summary action. He wanted a * court of Oyer and Terminer at once called to 4 put upon trial all suspected persons, and tlis * failing he was for calling on the President fir a military aid. Judge Merrimon, Hon. B. J. ? Moore and others advocated a vigorous ai? i rigid enforcement of the law. The counsel p of Judge Reade was not taken, and it was finally resolved, as the sense of the majority preSent, that a Judge of the Superior Court; to act as a peace officer, and to be accompa- j nied by the Attorney-General and the Solicitor of Judge Logan's district, be at once appointed to proceed to Rutherford ton to investigate the matter under, consideration and to commit such parties as evidence can be found against?to be tried by a Court of Oyer and j Terminer to be immediately afterwards pro-'j rffod for." ? On Sunday night of last week, disguised men to the number of fifty or more, visited Rutherfordton. The Raleigh Telegram, says: j "They came mounted, but left their horses on the outskirts of the village, and marched in on foOt. They proceeded to the office of the j Star?a Radical newspaper?which^they immjediately demolished, breaking the press, caSes'and stands, and scattering the type and other fixtures in every direction. They then deliberately proceeded to the residence of Mr. Justice, the representative from the county of Rutherford to the Legislature. According to the statement which he has furnished the State authorities, the first intimation ne nau of their presence, was when they had approached his bed side, having forced the door open with an axe and rushed into his room. They beat and maltreated him, and carried him'to the outskirts of the village in his night clothes, in the midst of a rain storm, and afterihreateninghis life and making hira prorate fo~c?ase operations against the Conservativepartyand the Convention, finally released him/- They failed to arrest Mr. Logan, the junior editor of the Star, who was in the house when they arrested Mr. Justice, but escaped through the window. Carpenter, the senior editor, is at present in Washington, having been summoned to testify before the Ku-Klux Committee of Congress. Mr. Justice is not seriously injilred, though he was severely .treated. Owing to the darkness of the night, we learn Mr. J. was unable to identify any of thf.lawless gang." EDITORIAL* INKLINGS. Death of John S. Ryan, Esq. The Charleston papers announce the death from paralysis, on Friday morning last, after an illness of about one week, of John S. Ryan, in the sixtieth year of his age. Ryan was well kuown to the citizens of Yorkville, drum his connection with the affairs of the King's Mountain Railroad Company for the past fifteen years. The Tax-Payers' Convention. The Committee appointed at the late ^Pta-Payere' Convention, to report on the | condition of the State now and since the war, will meet in Camden on {he 12th of July. The Committee are: Hon. Messrs. Aldrich, of Barnwell; Burt, of Abbeville; Porter, of nn Tin flap i v/uivrieaujii , iTiuutiuig, v* vmivuuvu , ! of Columbia. Any citizen who may desire to 1 communicate information to the Committee, and all are requested to aid, will please direct to the Chairman, Camden, S. C., care of Col. Wm. M. Shannon. I Good Farming. A correspondent of the Union Times 'fUrnishes that paper with the following in relation to the products of a "one-horse" farm, under the management of Mr. Lander Turner, near the mouth of Fair Forest on Tyger rfver in that county: | "With one horse he cultivated One acre in j potatoes, nineteen in corn, and twenty-three i and a half in cotton, from which he gathered [seveuty-five bushels potatoes, two hundred -of corn, liven ty-tltree.Jbaga of ; 445, 436, 446, 437, 448, 470, 452, 411, 453, i-467, 507,381, 472,460, 474, 454, 448, 515, i 489, making a total of 10,615 lbs.?equivalent j to twenty-six and one-quarter bags of 400 lbs. i each?netting him $1,328.01. Besides this he i reaped from H acres "five bushels of wheat \ ana fifteen of oats. His laborers, including ! board, cost him $250; iron and blacksmithing $25; incidentals $25. Total expense, $300, leaving him a net income of $1,028.00 on his cotton?the grain all going to replace what was used in making the crop. He used no commercial fertilizer, but does notcondemn the use of such manure, as he had no experience with them. He planted the Dickson improved seed, and works the "go-long" plow." Arrest of a Post Master. One day last week, J. M. Wilder, assistant Postmaster at St. Stephen's Depot, S. C., rtfas arrested on a charge of robbing the mails. A reporter of the Charleston Courier "interviewed" Col. John Frey, the detective who caused the arrest, and was furnished by him "with the following particulars: "Some time ago a draft for $447.50 was mailed by S. Younts, of Pineville, N. C., to Harvey & Co., of Baltimore?a draft for thirty days. The Baltimore firm, however, desiring a sicht draft, returned it to Younts. But on the return, it was sent to St. Stephens', which waB formerly known as Pineville, instead of to Pineville, N. C., where Younts lived. Now, Wilder, who is a shrewd rogue, finding that the latter was not addressed to his postoffice, thought he would not be held responsible for it, and at once opened it. Finding the draft, his cupidity was tempted, and he set about to devise some means of getting the money. He finally wrote to Harvey & Co., enquiring about some groceries, with the intention of getting hold of their signature. Failing to get a letter in reply, he forged another sight draft, with Younts' name, and sent it to B. R. Smith, of Boston, the endorser of the original draft, for signature. It was at this juncture that the affair was brought to my notice. I immediately set a trap for Wilder but he was too cunning for me. I wrote a series of bogus letters, signed "John Terror," to the various Postoffice officials at Stephens, in order to get samples of their handwriting. In reply to 7gy letter. Wilder wrote an answer, but made 37 J. Pierson sign it. Recognizing the handwriting, I came here and arrested Pierson. I soon became satisfied that he was not guilty, and subsequently arrested Wilder. At first he denied bis guilty; "but I had laid the trap so completely that he finally gave in. H$ at first said he" only intended it as a joke, but when I showed him how I had cornered him he gave in, and exclaimed: "What a big fool I am. I never thought I would come to this 1" Wilder has been committed to await his trial. Greeley and the "Carpet.Baggers." Upon the recent return of Horace Gree ley to New York, from his visit to Texas, he was given a public reception by his political allies. He made a speech, of course, in which he recounted what he saw and heard, and in ; the progress of his remarks, done up the "carpet-bag" fraternity in the following graphic jtyle: ; j Well, gentlemen, the thieving carpet-bag- , ;ers are a mournful fact; they do exist there, ind I have seen them. [Laughter.] They 1 wo-?aUowa who crawled down South in the ;rack of onr armies, geueiolly ? very safe dis- t ance in the rear; some of them on sutlers' ( vagons; some bearing cotton permits; some of j hem looking sharply to see what may turn lp; and they remain there. They at once 1 ngratiated themselves with them blacks, sim- * )le, credulous, ignorant men, very glad to wel- i iome and-to follow any whites who professed c o be the champions of their rights. Some of 41 hese got elected Senators, other Representa- t ives, some Sheriffs, some Judges, and so on. Lnd there they stand, right in the public eye, tealingand plundering, many of them with y >oth arms around negroes, and their hands a n their rear pockets, seeing if they cannot f tick a palty dollar out of them ; and the pub- s lie looks at them, does not regard the honest 1 Northeri men, but calls every "carpet-bag- < ger" a thief, which is not the truth by a good ( deal. But these fellows?many of them long- j faced, and with eyes rolled up, are greatly con-1 cerned for the education of the blacks, and ' for the salvation of their souls. [Great laugh-; ter.] "Let us pray," they say. But they ; spell pray with an "e," and, thus spelled, they obey the apostolic injunction to "pray without ceasingi" < Fellow-citizens, the time has been and still < is, when it was perilous to be known as a Republican or an Abolitionist in the South, but it never called theblush of shame to any man's cheek to be so called,until these thievingcarpet-baggers went there! [Applause.] They got into, the Legislature; they went to issuing State bonds; they pretended to use them in aid of railroads and other improvements. But the improvements were not made, and the bonds stuck in the issuers' pockets. [Laughter.] That is the pity of it. "Well," some say, "you have just such thieves at the North." Yes, we do?too many of them ! [Applause.] But the South was already impoverished?was bankrupt?without thrift, almost without food; and these fellows went there robbing and swindling when there was very little to steal, and taking the last ten-cent shinplaster of}' the dead men's eyes. They were recognized by the late aristocracy not merely as thieves but as enemies. Says Byron's Greek minstrel: "A tyrant?but our masters then Were still at least our countrymen." # ? MERE-MENTION. It is said that the New York Tribune has lately employed five Ku-Klux editors to write up "Southern Outrages." On the first of July four hundred new postal money ordbr offices will be established, making the total number near three thousand. The assessors, of Atlanta report the value of real estate in that city at 812,531,648. Since the adjournment of Congress, reports of KuKlux outrages in the South have nearly entirely ceased. The firm of Claffiin & Woodhull, the female brokers, have sued Henry Ward Beecherand the Christian Union for libel. Damages estimated at a quarter million of dollars. Commodore Josiah Tatnall, who was formerly an officer in the Uuited States Navy, and more recently of the .Confederate Navy, died at Savannah, Ga., on the 14th instant, aged 76. The Legislature of Pennsylvania has passed an Act extending the system of cumulative voting to all the town council or municipal elections throughout the State." The reduction of the United States debt during April was 86,124,053.13, and since March 1,1869, $204,754,413.09. A number of persons were fatally poisoned in Mississippi recently from eating mulberries in which locusts had deposited eggs. Texas has 3,800,000 cattl? and 152,000,000 acres of pasture. The overflow at New Orleans has almost entirely disappeared. London bird fanciers do a thriving business in painting sparrows and selling them as canary birds. There are between ten and twelve thousand colored voters in Pennsylvania. There^re fifteen thousand colored voters in Ohio. At theFourth of July celebration in New York Gen. McClellan is to be orator, Tr.br> Robhoo fthfi Peninn no auu iui? uviui ? -?? / i*et. A remarkable letter, written by Horace Greeley, has come to light in Kansas, in which the philosopher treats with favorable consideration a proposition to pension the widows and orphans of "Confederate soldiers. Twelve hundred bushels of new wheat sold in Petersburg, Va., on Thursday of last week, at $2 per bushel.*'" Horace what he tno^s^aWi't the is said that Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, is to testify before the Ku-Klux Committee. It is announced that Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, has bought an interest in the Atlanta Sun, and will hereafter control its political course.* * Cases of sun-stroke are daily reported in the newspapers of New York and Philadelphia. 4 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. M. Jones, Agent?A $25.00 Machin#. "Immigrant," WoodJawn, N. C.?Three Hundred Acres of Land Wanted. T. M. Dobson & Co.?Baltimore Flour?CandyLemons?Summer Coats?Fruit Jars?Paper Collars?Gauze Shirts?Bacon?Salt? Champion Shoe?Saws?Shot Guns?Cloth Gaiters?Shoes?Trunks?Meal Sieves?Tin Ware?Looking Glasses?Pot-Ware?Sugar and Coffee?Concentrated Ley?Read This? Sheet Iron?Buggy Whips. John G. Enloe, County Auditor?Tax Returns. J. H. Adams?Notice to Creditors. _ 1 ? ? For the YorkviJle Enquirer. UNION COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. I FREE SCHOOLS?TEACHERS' ASSOCIATIONS. It is a law that there shall be a public meeting in each school district the last Saturday in June, at 12 ra. Townships are now known as school districts. It is important that these meetings be well attended, and that all questions connected with the public school system be discussed and understood by the people. The new law is better than the old in several respects. It is optional with the voters of -b All1* A ?*MAA SAIIAAIQ Calll Uioiritt wnctuci tucy nave nee auuwio or not If they refuse to raise a school tax, the commissioner is ordered to hold back all State appropriations from the district thus refusing. The term of the schools can be regulated by the commissioner. He can shorten or lengthen this according to funds on hand. Teachers can get their pay from the county treasurer on a pay certificate made out by the trustees and approved by the commissioner. The trustees have entire charge of the schools. They are to employ the teachers, visit the schools, receive monthly reports, and order the pay. Teachers are getting certificates according to the examination they^ stand. This is perhaps wrong. Their pay should depend on the quantity and value of work done. They should understand that it requires more than a certificate as to attainments to draw the public money. It seems that the trustees have the power and right of cutting down or raising a teacher's pay according to circumstances. These officers are not now elected, but appointed by the commissioner. They should be good men, and such as understand something about schools. The people should take hold of this matter' in earnest. It is best for us take up the public school system and work it out in the best way possible. Much is now needed. Too j many children are growing up in ignorance, j [n this county not more than one fourth of i them are at school. York is, perhaps, not 1 better off. This is a bad state of affairs, and ( will lead to a worse. Here we would suggest to the teachers that _ hey get up societies or associations for mu- i ,ual improvement. In Spartanburg they t lave such an association Last year they f vere delighted with their meeting. Thlai jn*r 1 hey look forward to a more profitable and t nteresting time, lhe grave professors of alleges might learn something from some \ 'old field" school master if they would get s ip such a meeting. What say the teachers c if York? It can be done if a few teachers v rill get together and mark out the work and ? ppoint some pleasant place in the county a or their meeting. They can assign certain p ubjects to certain teachers, so that they may c be somewhat prepared. Such an association would add much to the educational interests of the countv. P.. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. FROM CLEVELAND SPRINGS. Cleveland Springs, N. C., v - - ~ - June 19th, 1871. Mr. Editor:?In compliance with your request, I jot down the items of news which I came across at this point But first let me tell you that, as yet, there is little of interest to the news-monger. The gay throngs which sometimes assemble here are still at their quiet homes, or are conning over arithmetic and algebra. So far, with a few exceptions, those who have assembled here are such unfortunate dyspeptics as myself. Poor .fellows who have become broken down with hard work, hard living or something else; and have come here to try the invigorating life-giving influences of the sulphur or iron.. Of these, there are some dozen. None of them have been here long,?most of them but a few days. I have conversed, so far, with very few. One, however, told me that he had rapidly jmprovi t ; ?l XT* L.J 1 1 ea since nis nrrivtu. ucuhu uccu xicic uui two weeks and t'elt almost as well as he ever did. If we all report as rapid progress, the reputation of the "Cleveland Mineral" will soon be established .upon a solid foundation. The gentlemanly proprietor, Mr. Blackwood, (as yet I have met but one of the proprietors) seems intent uj>pn the comfort of his guests and exnecte soon to increase the attractiveness of the placO. Weflj l have" finished for this time. More anofi. VIATOR ! ^ t I THE PARIS INSURRECTION. A Paris correspondent of the London Times, who entered Belleville just after its occupation by the Versailles troops, thus describes the shocking scenes which met his gaze there: The wide thoroughfare up to the Place du Trone was occupied by solaiers of the Line, who washed their powder-stained hands in the running gutter, or slept the sleep of exhaustion on the bare stones. Of tfie recumbent figures it was difficult for a moment to distinguish the living from the dead. At the barricade, which stretches across the end of the Boulevard Voltaire, a heap of dead were lying, and further on along the road there was a group of seven bodies, one upon the other, some of them quite old men, who had evidently been shot down in an attempt at precipitate retreat. A woman was wailing over one of them, entreating the passers-by to help in its removal, "for," she said, "it is my husband, of the 44th battalion. Yonder is his shop, over the way. If I can only transport it thither I will give him a decent bunah" No one heeded her, for soldiers occupied the place, and they are so infuriated against the Insurgent National Guards that it is dangerous to busy one's self in their affairs. At the corner of the Place Voltaire rose another barricade, formed of bales of rags, some of which had burst through their covering, and had been used to conceal the faces of the Bead, and beyond this is the steep and nerrqw mad that leads past La Boquette to the cemetery ol Pom la f!hfliaA At this nnint a horrible Hicrhl presented itself. Upwards of eighty ideally piled upon each other, a man of arms aiid leg! and distorted faces, while the roads and'gut ter literally flowed with blood. These-met had been taken with arras in their hands, anc had been placed against the wall and ex ecu ted. Sentinels, posted at intervals, kept bacl the crowd, but I, as a surgeon, was aflowec to pass; and inside the walla of La Roqueto I heard a'series of some hundred rifle shots followed by the tear of a mitrailleuse, anc was informed by an officer standing by thai justice was doing her work. Hie large furni ture vans stood at the prison gate; one hac already received its ghastly load, the otbei was being rapidly filled. 'aJcKd alffc sight of corpses. It is too familiar. They fi< about the streets m the quarters where hare fighting has gone on, almost at every corner sometimes in hideously contorted ^attitudes and with ghastly, gaping wounds, only hah hidden by the scrap of cloth, or may be a bit of bough which some .passer-hy has thrown over them. But yesterday the heaps of dead lying about Belleville were enough to shock the most callous; - It is probable that the number of execution was due to the fact that long after the street fighting was over the insurgents kept on firing from the windows of the nouses, abd killed a greatmany of the troops. The soldiers were, in consequence, so exasperated that one of the officers begged myself and my friends not to remain near them, as he could not be answerable for their treatment of anybody whom they found Wandering about that locality, and who might not be ablo to give'an account of himself perfectly satisfactory to them. We wer^not very loth to act upon the. advice, for we wen the only two strangers about, and we found ourselves unpleasantly placed between two fires. Belleville being ready to tear ns to pieces as Versailles, and Versailles to shoot us as rebel citizens of Belleville. A more uninviting set" of people than scowled at us as we passed from window and doorway I have not often seen? the wotnen worse than the men. Most of them had the halfscared, haif-savage look of a wild beast cooped up in a cage, who, when he hears the crack of the keeper s whip, scarcely knows whether to fight or crouch away. The still reeking corpses of their neighbors and friends, and the volleys which told that another execution was going on, tamed most of them. But some had the courage still to breathe fire and slaughter, and to declare that when night came on a fresh and more terrible vengeance would be wreaked on the troops. I fear that, notwithstanding the rigor?to use no harsher word?with which the rebellion is being stamped out, it will be long before Paris is sale from incendiaries and assassins prowling about in the dark or poisoning in open day; ' One sight in Belleville was especially ghastly and horrible. A local cafe chantant had been turned into an ambulance, and as the wounded died they had to be carried into the theatre attached to it and throw upon the ground, just in front of the stage. It was evident that nobody had before either the time or the will to attend them, though as we came men. were beginning to cart them oft, taking^ them up on their shoulders as a butcher might carry a dead pig, and pitching them into the cart Sotne were already putnfying and poisoning the air. All this was going on amid the scattered drinking tables and chairs, the tawdry finery, and dingy drapery and paint-bedaubed walls of a cafe chantant, with cosy little arbors close by, in which, the dead men had probably often sat drinking and laughing with their sweet-hearts and wives, applauding the gailydressed women on the stage in front of them. It was a horribly painful proof of the bitter feeling of the troops against the people of Belleville that we were warned not to remain in t.fiA nnnVttilnnno TVifi snlHiflrs lnnkfid Unon anybody who tended wounded men as sympathizing with them, and deserving the same fate. Indeed, we were told that in Belleville no wounded man on the ground was allowed to live. That he was wounded was considerjd proof that he deserved death. Important to Dealers in Real Estate. it the last'session of the Legislature an Act vas passed entitled "An Act to further amend ui Act entitled 'An Act Providing tor the Assessment and Taxation of Property," and n that Act we find the following paragraph, o wbick we would call the particular attenion of parties purchasing lands j Amend Section 90 by adding: nAnd prodded, further, That each County Auditor hall keep a record of all sales of. convey antes of real property made in his county, in rhich he shall enter, in columns, the names f the purchaser and' toller, the quality of and conveyed, the location and price of the ame, and therefrom correct the county duplicates annually; and for the purpose of arrying nut this provision, the Clerks of Courts and Registers of Mesne Conveyance of each county are hereby required to have the endorsement of the county Auditor on each and every deed of conveyance for real property, that the same is on record in his office, before the same can be placed on record in the offices of said Clerks of Courts or-Registers of Mesn.e "Conveyances, a?d the said county Auditor shall be entitled to coHect a fee of twenty-five cents, for his own juae, for ! making such eiltry and endorsement.* j death or m YALLAjrmsirn!. The telegraph announces the death of-C^ment L. Vafiandighara, of Ohio, at Lebanon, Ohio, on Saturday morning last, nnder remarkable circumstances. He WM, employe to defend McGehan, charged with the tnurddv of Myers, and on Friday evening *epne?plain-\ ingto Gdy. Mc?urney how Myfeiroight have shot himself, in doing which he used a pistol which was loaded, he thinking it empty, aud it was discharged, shooting a ball into the right side of bisttbdomen, from which hedifed Saturday morning. " - Mr. Vallandigbam was, we suppose, about fifty years old, and was, w# believe, a native of Ohio, in which.State he married his wife, who was the youngest sister of the very distinguished lawyer J. V. L. McMahon, who difealast week. ' ? Mr. Vallandigham was a man of very' fine abilities, and was one of the best and boldest orators in theland. He belonged to the decided State-rights school of Northern Democrats. He was bitterly, opposed to the war, and refused, as a member of Congress, to vote money for its 'prosecution. He defined his position to the House of Representatives on the 14th of January, 1863. On May 4$h he -was arrested tor's sharp comment he made in a public speech upon a general ojjder issued by General Burnside, and was taken to Cincinnati, where be was tried by court-martial, and on the 7th of May convicted of entertain ing "sympathies with those in arms against the Government," and sentenced to Fort Warren. President Linooln changed the sentence to one sending him across the line9 . into the Confederacy. Mr. Vallandigham was taken in charge by- the Confederate military commander of the* distant he entered, and sent to this city, where he got a pass to leave the Confederacy through the blockade-running lines at Charleston to the West Indies, whence he rnade his way to Canada, where he remained until the war was ended. He however was not silent, but sent at several times across the border into the United States some philippics against the Government A lawyer of much distinction, he was a ' shrewd and bold politician, and stood amongst ' the first debaters of the Federal Cdngress. Since the war he had been of the order railed i "Impracticables" and "Bourbons," until rei centlv, when he gave in his adhesion to the platform cutting loose from the issues of the war and adopting a general line pf policy and i principles looking to the restoration of nation al harmony and the physical development r and welfare of the nation through the administration of wise and capable citizens. l Under the impression that Mr. Vallandig1 bain was not popular, and that the best way , to prejudice the North against the platform I was to stamp it with his name, it was so de% Bounced, we may say, by leading Republican i journals, when indeed the platform was nothjtng more nor lees than the Virginia "new f movement" of 1868. Like a large class of - public men he was so involved in the eomplii cations of the war that his efficiency and in I Haenee in a public sense were seriously im paired, and we doubt whether he ever could : have exerted a power in the political arena at 1 all. correspondent with his very brilliant tal3 ents. , Mr. VallancGgham was a gentleman of un1 stained private character, high honor, and t marked geniality and sociability. His death - will oocasion very sincere grief amongst a I large circle of friends and admirers, extending r far beyond his own. State.?Richmond 'Dia' patch, l&A {^ j-?-f THE c3Soi CHOP. I'Anirm 5 r Wabhikoton, Jane 15.?'Use Department I of Agriculture hasjre^ivedreturns from near, ly three hundred counties, representing the , most productive districts of each of the. cotton f States, and .showing the comparative average t and the condition of the crop on the first of i June. A diminution in the area planted in " [ cotton appears in every State except Florida. The most careful analysis of the returns, with due regard in making averages to the extent of cotton production in the respective counties, gives the following per centage of reduction in comparison with last year; Virginia, . i 30 per cent; North Carolina, 14; South Carolina, 13*; Georgia, 12; Alabama,-13; Mississippi, 16; Louisiana, 8; Texas, 14; Arkan Jus, 16;.Tennessee; 12. These State averages are reduced to a general avenue. The assumed acreage of the respecfive States being ; arf element in the calculation, will place the redaction of die cotton crop of 1871; as compared with that of <1670, between 14 and 15 per cent, equivalent to nearly a million and i a third of acres. This would leave- between seven and,^ half aqd eight miliums of acres as the present area in cotton. The average yield has not in former years exceeded 150 ' pounds per acre; that for 1870 was more than 200 pounds. The condition of the growing plant is below an average ia nearly every State. Hie spring has been unusually wet an&oold* retarding the growth, causing many of the-plante to turn yellow nod die, and obstructing thie cultivation to a large extent Replanting has refilled the vacant spaces of imperfect stands. The weather has recently been more favorable, and it is not impossible that an average condition may be obtained by the commencement of the picking season. The condition of cotton in J ilv of 1869. a year favored with an abundant yield, was only a little better than the showing for this time of the presentyear. Whflethe pipspect is filiflhtly unpromising, there is nothing in it of a decisive character. The percentage below an average condition is respectively as follows : North Carolina 10 per cent., Sonth Carolina, 8; Georgia, 18; Alabama, 17; Mississippi, 16; Louiriana, 10; Texas, 7; Arkansas, 17; Tennessee, 10. In Florida the condition is 3 per cent, above an average. An official estimate of the ultimate result so early, in the season would, he an absurdity. ^ The influence of future rains, floods^froets and insect enemies cannot be calogttted in advance; but in view of the extremely favorable circu instances affecting thei?rop last year, there cannot be expected in tfte present year, upon a reduced area, a crop fexoeeding three and a half millions of bales. / An early froet or the prevalence of insectsAor a very unpropitous season, might reduce ajie yield to three millions, and a still further reduction is possible in the union or severity of ^yeral of these causes of failure. ' li . V' ' ? <* > . > ; it?- ^ The Late Commodore Tatnall.?Com- N modore Josiah Tatnall, whose death at Savannah, Ga., on the 14th instant, has been announced, Was a native of that State, and was actively employed in the United States navy from 1812, when he entered asa midshipman, until 1861, when he left it, with the rank of captain, to join the fortunes of the Southern Confederacy. His principal service under the former government was during the Mexican war, when, as commander or the Spitfire, he participated in the attacks on Tampico, Panuco and Vera Cruz. Daring the latter period of his United StaEas service, he was flag-officer. pf the Fast India squadron. His nrst service in the Southern Con- A federacy was as commander of a fleet of gun boats for tho do&uoo o? river. In 1862 he relieved Commodore Franklin Bach- | anan in command of the celebrated iron-clad * ram Merrimac or Virginia. On th? capture of Norfolk, on May 10th, 1862, by General Wool, the Merrimac, which had been stationed at Craney Island, for the purpose of pro- ^ tecting Norfolk and of guarding the mouth np tLa Tomoa nVor tuna Klnnm On Viv Tatnall V4 bUO ** * v* j IT MU WIVfl U M|/ MJ after foiling in hie efforts to carry that powerful vessel over the bar and into the James river. He was not actively employed daring the remainder of the war.