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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.
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YORKVILLE. S. cT
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 181
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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!
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_ ! 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
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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."
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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. _
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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
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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.