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W f/ P V r 0 Scraps and Jarts. A school girl's conundrum is: What State is round on both ends and high in the middle ? Ohio. The total amount of currency lost or worn out while in circulation will exceed $6,500,000, or 15 per cent of the whole issue. Mayor Hall, of New York, has written the President objecting to Bowen's pardon until tta alleged falsification of the record is cleared up. The Texas Pacific Railway is to be 1,315 miles in length. For 250 miles the road will be an air-line; and in a stretch of 815 miles there will be but six bridges. It is a curious fact, demonstrated by the recent untish census, that the population 01 Ireland is actually less than the number of Irish who are now in the United States. Henry Harris, a negro, was convicted ^ at the last term of the Marion county (Arkansas) Circuit Court, of the murder of John B. Crockett, a grand-son of the renowu&l David Crockett. Henry Ward Beecher says: "It will scarcely be denied that men are superior to women, as men; and that women are immeasurably superior to men, as women; while both of them together are more than a match for either of them separately." The Little Rock, Arkansas Gazette, in its crop report, has cheering news from the " counties of-^ulaski, Hempstead, Woodruff, Se bftstian, uross, uuacmta, ana uonway, as to cotton and corn, and estimate the acreage at but one third less than last year. A gentleman in New York city advertised the other day for an assistant book-keeper, salary $800 per annujn. Three days afterward he Wtcl received about seven hundred applications for the situation. ' i The people in New York every night spend fifty thousand dollars for amusements, and every night fifty thousand people in New York go to bed hungry and starving, provided they have got an apology for a bed. A young man wants to know what business he had better go into that will enable him to occupy a high position in society. Let him try the roofing business; in that trade a smart man will soon get to the top of the ladder. A boy, being asked if he had a mother, said he didn't know, as he hadn't been home since morning, and when he left his lather and mother were quarreling with odds in favor of his father, as he had the hatchet in his hand. It seems that the cotton interests of * Brazil are on the decline. While the exports of this staple from Rio Janeiro in 1868 amounted to 113,465 bales, they were in 1869 only 45,005 bales?an enormous falling off? which was further reduced in 1870, when the exports from that port were only 17,910 bales. At one of the "labor conventions" held in Washington during the strike, a contractor m?Hp ft RTipech fivnnHrinor hia honrora to "work in the interest of ha^nony and peace." Whereupon an able-bodied striker sprang to his feet with the exclamation. "Yes, sah! dat's what we want; hominy and peas! but who can get it wid a dollar an' a half a day?" Anambitious glazier in New York has spent three months trying to get a contract to put one pane of glass in the new court house. He says if he could get such a contract on the usual terms, it would make him independently rich. The man who painted the lightnine rod has erected a brown stone mansion on the profits of the job. "A Western menagerie company recently purchased in Africa a baby elephant, 47 inches high, and had him shipped by steamer to New York and thence by express to headquarters. On the way the propensity for mischief showed itself in the animal. He broke open the mail-bags, abstracted a letter therefrom, broke it open and took out a draft for over $3,000, destroyed the letter and envelope, . and when discovered by the keeper ^iad . the * draft safe in hi9 trunk, it not even being torn. The training of women in the duties of domestic economy is attracting great attention in England, and an institution is to be established under the patronage of the Earl of Shaftesbury and other distinguished philanthropists, for the purpose of teaching the art of housekeeping. Lessons In cookery and baking bread are to be given, and lectures are to be delivered on food, cooking, housekeeping, the laws of health, and other subjects of importance. A Washington letter of Monday says: "By direction of the President, to-day, an order was sent to the Attorney-General canceling the suspension of Johnson, Marshal of South Carolina, annulling the appointment of Wallace, and re-appointing Johnson. This ends the warfare over the Marshalship, which has been going on for some time between the r? o 10 a o ? a! vjuv. qcuil nuu oeuaiur oawyer lacuuus 01 me Republican party, and the latter are glorifying on account of their success."?Charleston New. - A Paris oertespondent tells this story: A boy of thirteen, found fighting, was taken to be shot. He took a silver watch from his pocket and cried out: "Captain, do let me take this first to a friend across the street; I borrowed it." "Oh! you scamp!" said the officer, "I understand?you want to run off." "My word of honor, I will come back again," said the boy, and the Captain, seeing it was a child, was only too glad to be rid of him. In ten minutes the boy came back and took his stand with his face to the wall. "Here I am, fire!" Does Roman history tell us anything braver? The Captain boxed the little hero's ears and ordered him never to show his face there again. They could not fire on him. The following curious facts are stated by the Cincinnati Enquirer: The anniversary of the battle of Banker Hill?the 17th of June? was an eventful one to Vallandigham. Had the horoscope of fate cast its influence upon his belief, he certainly would have regarded this day with superstition and apprehension. It was on the 17th of June, 1863, that he ran the blockade from the South and encountered the dangers of exile, the sea and death. On the 17th of June, 1864, a year to a day exactly, he reached his old home and made a speech in Dayton, then laboring under an apprehension of renewed military arrest. On the 17th r.r.Tn,?o 1?71 rlinr) a victim fn an nnlnnkv accident from his own hand. It so happened that it was seven years after his return, and in a year in which the figure seven so prominently appears to mark the date." The Washington Chronicle of the 27tb says: "In a letter from England to J. Edwin Mason, Esq., a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity of this District, it is announced that by the direction of Earl de Gray and Ripon, who is first officer of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of England, the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of this District has been recognized and a fraternal correspondence commenced. This is the first Grand Chapter in America with which the Grand Chapter of England has ever entered into fraternal correspondence. "It is a fact not generally known that the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of England is composed of the nobility only. Three or four persons, howev er, were knighted on purpose that they might be admitted to the Grand Chapter, because of their advanced position in the sciences." The Patent Office records show that from 1850 to 1860, nearly ninety-eight pei cent, of applicants for patents for agricultural implements were from the North, and slightly over two per cent, from the South. Since the emancipation of the slaves, the planters in the South have been obliged to make use of machinery to cultivate the soil, but it was found upon trial that very few of the agricultural implements used in the North we*? perfectly adapted to culture in the South; thus acorn planter could not be used for dropping cotton seed, and cultivators could not be employed in destroying the weeds between the rows of the cotton bushes. The in genious mechanics and planters in the South, it is stated, then making a virtue of necessity, set about inventing agricultural machines suited to the cultivation of the crops of that region, and the records of the Patent Office during the last two years, it is reported, exhibit a most gratifying result, showing that the applications for patents for agricultural implements from the former slave States have risen from two per cent to about thirty per cent of i^l the cases filed. The yield of the cotton uncfer the improved methods of culture, it is stated, is greater than was ever before known. * Ik #tnpiiw. YORKV1LLE, S. C.i . | THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1871. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the dale must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance JOB PRINTING. Having determined to devote more attention hereafter to job printing than have done in the pasf, we wo#ldinform the public that our office is now well supplied with new type of the latest styles, and the best machinery in use; and with a choice stock of inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to execute as good work as can be done anywhere in the United States. Orders for Ball Tickets, Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, Labels, Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks, . Bill Heads, Law Briefe, Business Cards, Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads Checks, iNote Circulars, Deposit Tickets, INote Headings, Drafts and Notes, j Programmes, Envelopes. (Policies, Fire&Lifelns., Election Tickets, Shinplasters, Festival Tickets, i Wedding Cards, will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction as to quality of work, guaranteed in every instance. Particular attention given to fine work in colors. OUR SERIAL STORIES^^ With this week we conclude tftnpii Miration of "The Lost Diamond," which we are pleased to know has given very general satisfaction to our readers. Next week we will commence another story, entitled "Broken Cisterns." A LARGE TOMATO. Miss Minnie Rawlinson has sent us a huge tomato, the product of the garden attached to "Rawlinson's" Hotel. We do not know the name of the variety, but for the want of another, will call it the "Brobidnadag." The weight of the specimen before us is one pound and two ounces. ? SUDDEN DEATH. Mr. John Cashion, who was a native of Virginia, but for the last thirty-five years a resident of Yorkville, was found dead in his bed on Friday morning last. He had been unwell for several months, but was on the street the day previous to his death. Thus, one by one, the old residents of our town are rapidly passing away?two having died within a month papt. \ DEATH OF ANOTHER OLD CITIZEN. Mr. Morrison Whitaker, another old citizen, who resided about five miles North of Yorkville, died on Sunday night last. He had attained the advanced age of eighty-eight years, and will be remembered by the larger number of people who have resided in Yorkville for the last half century. His wife, who is quite aged, survives him. + ^ + A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. We learn that a serious accident occurred to Lieutenant Aspinwall, the Adjutant at this Post, on Saturday afternoon last. He was riding on horseback in the suburbs of town, and appearances indicating an approaching storm, he increased the speed of his horse in order to reach his quarters in time to escape the threatened wetting. In essaying to turn a corner, the horse fell and caught the leg of Lieutenant Aspinwall under him, breaking both bones between the ankle and knee. COMMITTED TO JAIL. Daniel Neal, a negro in the employ of a Contractor on the Air Line Railroad, near Harmony in this county, was lodged in the j jail at this place, on Saturday last, on a charge ! of rape. The victim of the brute's passion is j a little girl aged about eleven years, a daughJ terofMr. Willis White, residing in the above | neighborhood. We are informed that Neal is originally from McDowell county, N. C., and has heretofore been charged with similar offences. ' " .'V . ? ? RETURNED. i Mr. Joseph Herndon, who was several weeks ago summoned to Washington to give (testimony before the "Outrage Committee," ! returned to his home in this place on Monday evening last. He informs us that he was subjected to a rigid examination, in relation to what the Committee characterized as the "murders" committed in this county during the last winter and spring, the supposed cause for these "murderg," etc. When Mr. Hern' don left Washington, Maj. Avery, who was J summoned at the same time that Mr. Herndon [ was, had not been examined by the Committee. THE "CAROLINA BANNER." We have received the first number of a new i paper with the above title, the publication of i which has been commenced at Shelby, N. C. " It is under the control of Mr. D. Neill, who j announces in his salutatory that he is not without experience in the tortuous paths of ; journalism. He purposes to give his aid in j promoting the "success of democratic and con[ servative principles throughout the land," J and amongst other things to advocate the 5 building of a railroad from Yorkville to Shel| by. The Banner presents a neat appearance [ and is published at $2 per annum. . . THE CHOPS. ; From nearly every section of the county, i we hear the most encouraging reports in relation to the growing crops of cotton and corn. Should no disaster befall the corn crop, the yield will be larger than it has been in many | years. While not so large an area has been planted in cotton, the crop has generally been | well worked, and the present indications for a , fine yield, is altogether promising. The wheat , crop, which is now being threshed, is quite "'light and considerably below that of last year. The oat crop has been seriously injured by rust, and is much below the crop of last season, in point of quality and quantity. ; Commercial fertilizers have not been used in j this county, to so great an extent as last year. NOT WORN OUT. ; It is common with a great many persws km i publish, in every way that they can and with I all the force that they are able, that this coun-; ' try is worn out This has been the case for j 1 at least half a century. Our fathers taught j this to us, and we, at least many of us, are I teaching it to our children. To hear some | men talk, one would conclude that South ! Carolina is nothing but a waste?wild and I dreary. Many persons seem to be deeply im! pressed with the idea that South Carolina, all things considered, is the poorest country on the face of the broad earth 1 The longing of their souls seem to be to get to some "new country" where hard times do not exist and peace and plenty reign perpetually. Now, we are not so foolish as to think that South Carolina is the best place on earth ; nor, on*' the other h&nd, do we believe it is the worst place; and even if we did believe it, we have too much respect for the soil that gave us birth, to stigmatize it as poor and vile and worthless! But to the point in question. Is it a fact that South Carolina is worn out? What does worn out mean ? As generally used, when speaking of South Carolina, reference is made to the soil. Now is the soil of South Carolina worn outer is it not ? We have no hesitancy in admitting that much of the arable soil of the State has been .badly abused in cultivatjn^it Large ami valuable forests have been .cut down, and the timber literally wasted. Neither do we deny the fact that much of the hilly country .of the State is f&ctsj Wtajfte liie a^rtljb, without near or successful contradiction, that South Carolina is not worn out, and, with proper cultivation, 1 it will never be so. The recuperative powers of the soil of South Carolina are wonderful. It takes but a few years for a field, which has been abused by improper cultivation, to restore itself when thrown out. The old field pine springs up and grows luxuriantly in the gullies which were first marked out by the plow. These pines fall down and rot, and so enrich the soil that weeds of all kinds, and the blackberry briar spring up and grow, and in a very few years the land is made productive. There is scarcely a field in the upper portion of the State that would not make itself rich in twenty years if it were simply ceased to be cultivated and hill-side ditches run so as to prevent washing. If what is known in this country as old fields were fenced up, and stock kept off them for ten years, and the pines that would in that length of ? ? .1? i ? J j ume grow up on mem ue out uuivu auu permitted to lie on the ground until they would rot, the most of such fields would^jpve as fertile as when first cultivated. ^Hrly all the stock South Carolina raises livero these old fields. Most of these old fields are now, at this season of the year, covered with native grasses, which vie with the pastures of the Shenandoah valley. There, it must be understood, the very best lands are devoted to pastures. Here, it is the old fields. Notwithstanding this, our cattle always get fat in summer. We admit they generally get poor in winter but the soil is not to blame for it. If the rioh lands'of Kentucky and Virginia were plowed up and put in cotton as ours are, their cows would be poor in winter as well as ours. Those persons who are continually com-j plaining about the poverty and worn oat condition of the lands of the State of South Carolina, should be informed that all the poor; land in the world is not in South Carolina, j Neither does she embracein her bg^^Jl the < jworn out. lands." There are asjM Mpllies^ and as deep ones, too, in somejfl^M^new countries" as are in South that1, "new country" oftenraeajjjl fik where there are no schools, m^8 life. There are few countries in which so many of the comforts and luxuries of life are so easily procured as in the middle and upper sections of the State of South Carolina. The climate is charmingand the soil is productive, j Water, pure and sparkling, gushes from the j hills, and no deadly malarias infest the atmosphere. All that we need is that the soil be properly cultivated and its resources econom ically husbanded. "There is life in the old land yet!" WASHINGTON ITEMS. Owing to the reduction of taxation made last July, the internal revenue receipts for the fiscal year ending last week will fall about thirty millions below the receipts for the last fiscal year, but will still exceed the estimate for this fiscal year. A letter in the Baltimore Sun says that "whatever may be appearances on the surface, it is not at all likely that Gen. Grant will be renominated by the Republicans. The delegation in the National Convention from the State of New York will doubtless exercise a controlling influence in that body, and it is not probable that that delegation will be for General Grant. On the contrary, those who know best conjecture that no matter whether it be the Greeley and Fenton wing or that of Conkling or Murphy, in either case it will not ultimately be for Grant. It is much more likely, in the latter event, to be for Seward,' or some new man." J. L. Neagle, Comptroller General of South Carolina, and L. C. Carpenter, editor of the Columbia Union, were in Washington on Friday last Neagle was on his way to New York on business relating to the July interest on the State bonds. He says the interest will be promptly paid. Carpenter reported an im. proved conditjqp of affairs South Cgr^lina. The Secretary of the Treasury has decided to refund the cotton tax paid on the bagging and ropes used on cotton bales. The comptroller of the currency places no credit in the statement that many millions of counterfeit national bank notes are in existence, and expresses the opinion that the recent estimate purporting to have been made by experts, to the effect that $10,000,000 are in circulation, is an absurdity. The reports originated with interested parties who wish to obtain the job of re-printing a new issue of banknotes. A person writes from Virginia to the Secre' tary of the Interior, stating that he has the discharge of a soldier whom he put into the i service as his substitute, and desires to know if he will be allowed a pension on the discharge. On Wednesday of last week, Gen. N. B. Forrest was before the outrage Committee for four hours. He denied knowledge of any secret armed organization since 1868, and ini sisted that the section of the South where he lived was peaceable and quiet, and that he worked white and colored laborers on his railroad without any trouble. The committee endeavored to force him to admit that he was at the head of a Ku-Klux organization in : 1868. He explained that some of his friends had organized to protect themselves from the marauding of Gov. Brownlow's militia at that time, and that was all. Treasurer Spinner is expected home August first. His mission to Europe thus far has been an utter failure. Not a dollar of the new loiin liidlwsen^irpn in Europ< and the. sgJbsp^l^Qns have abo*t ceased it this No general instructions are now co^Lpplated in regard to the ku-klux act. Ajtiflcase of every other law, the proper officeife*W^*pected and required to enforce itr&JTj^uld any extraordinary state of affaire aij? c*li-' ing for direct interference by the j?f|fcentf the fact will be brought before hha jpy en-, thentic form fpr his action. The Democrats of the Ku-Klux (^mjjttee, have summoned from Georgia, N. L. '^fier, and Judge Hiram Warner of Atlanta^Hon. Thos. Hardeman, of Macon; Gen. Simonton and ex-Mayor Anderson, ofijSynnnah; Peter W. Alexander, of CoJj(?bus; Gen. A. K. Wright, of Augusta. ? President Grant has pardoned bigamous ex-Gmgressman from'"8ep^Hpir9^ lina. ^mSnSn: ? 71 [ : ? John J. Hemphill, Esq., has UHfc'api pointed Auditor of Chester county. y - The capital stock of the Peoples National Bank, of Charleston, has been imposed to one million dollars. ' .? The Camden Journal says that Ajtnu-J sually heavy crop of corn will be-ma&this season in Kershaw county. ? A company of the 7th Cavaliy^flferetofore stationed at Chester, has been oiSd to Rutherford ton, N. C. ? Dr. William lipoids, for a practioner of dejj^Ktrv/KColuumMMBB ? Gen. E. M. Law, of Yorkvi^P^^B liver the opening address before the agricultural fair, which will begin at Darlingfbn on the fourth of October next. *T"~' ? The Chester Reporter states that die increase of capital advertised for by ? National Bank of Chester, has been nearre subscribed?only $13,000 being now lasjmg to make up the amount desired?$100,000, ' ? The Orangeburg News says: Thi condition of the crops from all portions 4f our county is good, and not in many yeartJ^p the prospect for an abundant yield been sa flattering. ? An Irishman named Peter Mc?wnr, was run over and killed at on Wednesday of last week, by the doin^Jssen ger train. The train passed over MKTi his legs above the knee, crashing them tg. jSeces. He was intoxicated. * ^.; ? The Reporter says that during a -thander storm at Chester, on Friday evening of last week, the window frame at the telegraph office, through which the wires pass, waslet on fire by lightning, but was extinguished] in a few moments without any damage beingdone. No person was inside the office at thetijie. ? The Charleston Courier tells about a four-legged duck which was recentlyji^phed out in that city. Three of the legs are on one side of the sternum, and the fourth standing single and alone opposite. fobgMQt use all of the limbs, but toddles alon^on the nearest one, occasionally tipping on the foremost. , NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? There were nineteen marri&ge|jltffnsfb issued in Wake county during the raoijh^of June. . ?The Bank of Staiesville has been organized with Sam'l McD. Tate as Preside^ and R. F. Simonton, Caahieiy, "Tp ?Governor CaldwJphas appointed I special term of the Supmir Court for Mcflgra? Major M. M. Wilson^Andl-eW "Vpde^, and R. P, Bernhardt, of Catawba cwinty, have been arrested and takeh to Raleigh, charged with whipping Andrew L. Ranipour. ? The Post-Master General has ordered It mail-service six times a weeek on the Atlantic & Tennessee Railroad, between Charlotte and Statesville. f SPfc? ? Mr. W. Beaumont Clarkson having leased the buildings of the North Carolina Military Institute at Charlotte, purposes to open it as a military school for day pupiband boarders, on the first Monday in Sejie?|ber, next. ^ffSLa ? The Charlotte Observer announces the sudden death on "Wednesday of last weq^ of Rev. Dr. G. Wilson McPhail, President of Davidson College. The commencement exercises and awarding of diplomas, whicfy Were to have taken place at the time have, in consequence of the above sad event, been necessarily suspended. ?The Shelby Banner says that thirtjunine persons recently arrested in Rutherfordton county, and taken to Raleigh charged with complicity in "ku-klux" operations, will be released im mediately. A bond of $80,000 has been given by the citizens of ClevelandUmd Rutherfordton for the appearance of^tfre accused persons at Raleigh in Septera1?er*xt. ? The Hillsboro Recorder says: "A ne$?o man, who has been a wandering idiot frqm a blow received on the skull while a servant in the Confederate army, was, the otheaJQay, subjected to a difficult operation at theHknds of a skillful surgeon. His first glean}-of intelligence, after the result of the operation, was, as he opened his eyes and sakfT^We were at Manassas yesterday. Where are we now ?'" * . ?The Shelby Banner says that the 15am of Mr. James Witheroe was consumed by^fire on Saturday night The barn contained a large quantity of wheat, and two large WMons. The fire was known to be the work the barn. A torch ni#fuund n$ar en, which it is supposeJNfcasJiis intenftge^to burn also, but was frighteuea off before hewiucceeded in applying the torch. There wm no male person on the place at the time; Mr. Withroe being in Shelby, and hie two sons were among those that were arrested.ih Rutherford last week charged with being implicated in ku-klux outrages. < . . v . 31EBE.MESTI01T. . ' Ireland, between 1861 and heajost about 400,000 population." ;^l*br^(as I860, to 68,287. " The whoie popuh2|fef the State is now 2,665,002. A child Was born in Ohio the other day with its righHBnf and hand perfectly black, while the remainder of its body was strangely white." The census of New York shows the population of New York city to be 942,282. ;Hoq. A. H. Stephens' health is improving. He now weighs 79 pounds?his weight six months jigo being only 70 pounds. Eight huudred assistant assessors of internal revenue, Ufl^er the consolidation of districts, have been;.removed since last October. The.number of homoepathic physicians in the TTtifrpd States has increased from 100 in 1844 to 5000 now. The receipts of cotton at Memphis up to Friday last, were five hundredth/pro* and bales, the largest ever kuown iniHtlt season. Dispatches from Kansas report unpreee-1 dentedly early and prolific crops. Gen.' n R. E. Lee's famous gray horse, "Traveler,"' h died recently, at Lexington, Virginia, of lock- * jaw. He had ran a nail in his foot Re- ^ construction in Arkansas has reduced the tax- jj able property of the State one-half and mul- 0 tiplied its taxes by three. Rags to the tl Value of $350,000 are annually shipped from a New, Orleans. The Louisville Courier- * Journal says "if Grant pardons Boweu, the virtuous Shd the good will never pardon the President"''"Corner loafing," with the use of abusive, indecent or insulting language, whether addressed to any person passing upon j f any highway, to any other person, or to no * person in particular, has been made a statutory offence in Connecticut, punishable by a fine 1 not exceeding seven dollars. The Polo- B tWiYarl frnm "New York for the Artie re- ' gions on Thursday last It is said that'4 one of the Siamese.Twins is lying at the point! { of death. The other is in good health. In ( anticipation of death, arrangements are made j for the immediate separation of the living < from the dead brother. The Chicago i papers classify births, marriages, betrothals, < bigamies, elopements, divorces, deaths, mur- ] ders, executions and suicides, as "vital statistics." At a Long Branch hotel they fire | a cannon as a signal for dinner. f EDITORIAL INKLINGS. \ The Sub-Outrage Committee, art^^cott and Stevenson, republicans, and j democrat, a sub-committee ap- < certain portions of South ?nd ] to take testimony and inquire outrages in those States, Columbia on Saturday last. It is understood that the Committee will first take testimony in Columbia, after which they will proceed to Spartanburg or Greenville, and "thence to North Carolina. Death of Andrew Jackson Donelson. The death is announced at Memphis, on the 26th ultimo, at the age of seventy-two years, of Andrew Jackson Donelson, the adopted son of ex-President Jackson, and during the two terms of his administration, his private Secretary. He graduated as second in a class of eighteen at West Point in 1822. TT? Olioiww fVAffiiira fn thp Tlflnuhlic of uc wod vn?ig? > -- -? r?Texas in 1844, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, to Prussia in 1846, and to the Federal Government of Germany in 1848. On his return home he sucoeeded Frank Blair, Sr., as editor of the Washington Union, and was the candidate for Vioe President on the Fillmore ticket in 1866. Daring the past ten years he has lived in retirement on his plantation near Australia, Miss. The Coming Elections. The first election this year takes place in Kentncky in August, and although there is no doubt of the triumph of the democratic ticket for Governor and the Legislature, the canvass is a most animated one, and on the part of the democracy seems to be a contest for the size of the majority, which, it is believed, will ex- . ceed thirty thousand. The next election is in Oregon, in the same month, where advices indicate a democratic triumph, the same as last year. California a!s& votes fordovemor ' and three Congressmen in August, and there is yet as no reason to doubt the re-election of Gov. Haight, the democratic candidate, and the election of two out of the three oongressmen.. Both parties, however, rater the? canvass on the^ wubd side of a local issue of op$ positkm^fartW State subsidies to railroad?^ . which will render the contest somewhat closes After the Angust elections, there will be none ' , till October, wbenJbejjr w*%take place m i ^ im, yi^nsiniSncT; other" States. Driving dull care Away. ??Judge Sam Melton, who firet ?w the light of day ip Yorkville, within fl stone's throw of the Enquires office, has recently been holdbg Court at Edgefield CourtHouse. Wherever he goes, he is winning golden opinions, not only for his dignity and ability on the bench, but for bis pleasing manners and high social quailties when his judicial gown is laid aside. The Edgefield Advertiser of a late date, after giving an account of the proceedings of the Court at that place, tells 4ibout a social gathering at which "Sam"? this is our name for him?was the central hgure. The Advertiser says : "But apropos of Judge Melton, he is a gifted and versatile man. He has a fine voice and a fervent love of music. Without any Italian art, he sings both sentimental and humorous songs in most admirable taste and spirit, accompanying himself at the piano with perfect'ease. Our gallant young friend, Capt O. N. Butler, gave him a supper during his sojourn here, at which a dozen or so right gay old boys, ranging from 25 to 60, had a decidedly fine time, and were very handsomely entertained. Imagine Chancellor Carroll reciting "Tam O'Shanter," and Gov. Bonharn singing "Fly Not Yet"?both with genuine appreciation of Burns. It was calculated to take one back to better and more genteel xlays." Crops in Lancaster. ?- The Ledger of last week, with regard to the crops in that county, says: "Many of our planters say they have never had a better prospect for a good crop of both corn and cotton, than the present. This is gratifying intelligence, and with cotton at a remunerative price, will do much to relieve the oppressed farmers of the country in their operations for another year. We made a brief visit one day last week to the plantation of Mr. J. B. Erwin, a few miles from town ; if our other planters can favorably compare with what we sa\y there, then we may safely say that the present crop will surpass any t raised in Lancaster county since 1860. Mr. ? hnr foi^Lflcresin a body that, with seasbnabl^Prdwere, will produce a hale per acre. ^Hj^corn crop is also fine and challenges comparison. From nearly every section m the county accounts reach us of good seasons and bright prospects. May our hopes be fully realized." Manassas as it is Now. A correspondent of the Washington Chronicle has recently visited Manassas, Va., and as many of our readers were familiar with the place during the "late unpleasantness," the result of his observations will be read with some interest. The correspondent says: "Probably no section of the South suffered more during the rebellion than the broad tableau of land lying between tide-water'and the Bull Run mountains, and between the Potomac and Rhappahannock rivers, of which Manassas is at once the summit and the natural center. It was. the great parade-ground where, for four years, two of the mightiest armies of Christendom exhibited their prowess to an astonished world. Here the armies of the "Potomac" and of "Northern Virginia" i drilled, ate, slept, marched, and fought, as at : regular intervals they shouted "On to Rich- ; mond!" or "On to Washington!" Here was ; also the field of operations. The past decade . has witnessed the almost total destruction of all species of property, excepting barely the J terra firma; and likewise the restoration of 1 the financial condition of the country in some f jections to a prosperity unknown before the war. Manassas is at least three times the vil- { lage it was in ante-bellum days. It is built up ( in the midst of the fortifications of General "Beauregard, and commands a view of the two ! battle-fields of Bull Run, which' lie from five ' to seven miles to the north. The fields are 1 I still visited by travelers, and each of therp are i r r larked by rough monuments. The "stone | ouse," the "Jim Robinson house," and the j ilia at Groveton, about which the tide/of attle ebbed and flowed, are still standing, 'he Union dead have been removed to Arington, while .the Confederate dead rest in a I emetery adjoining the two fields. Relics of he struggle are still to be found, especially fter a rain-storm has washed the soil from bove them.- Manassas is the center of a arge Northern emigration and is increasing apidily in size and population. ixeCntive Pardons. i It seems that Governor Bullock, of Georgia, has a "fellow feeling" in his bosom or the criminals in that State which have teen sentenced to the penitentiary; and has ised the pardoning power as indiscriminately is. "our Governor." The Atlanta Constituiah furnishes the following information on bd subject: "The Governor has acted on 426 applica-. ions for pardon since August 22, 1868. Of ,hese, 321 cases, involving 446 offenders, were jardoned, 72 applications were refused, and *" .- J >i A!. id punisnments corarauiea. At llii? uuc ivu ipplicatioos for pardons are before the Governor. The following is the classification: Murder, pardoned, 48; murder, commuted, 18; simple larceny, pardoned, 76; other larjeny, 14; assault to murder, 20; burglary in the night, 18; burglary in the day, 15; mandaughter, 14 j assault, 20; assault to rape, Si homicide, IV eheating and swindling, 3; rta^bing, 3; horse stealing, 7; bigamy, 6;l forg^.y, 4; penury, 3; robbery, 8 ; fornication and adultery, 7; seduction, 1; incestuous adultery, 1; arson, 5 ; misdemeanor, 9; bastardy, 1; rape, 1; compounding felony, 1. The ot%er cases ma^ifg the 346 arq min^r offences. % >. '/.'v. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. R. H. Glenn, S. Y. D.-Sherlff's Sales. Duff & Davis?Cotton Tax. M. Jones, Agent?Babel?But For Letters?Orb of Light. Conner, Hobbs & Dobson?Buggies. T. M. Dobson ?fc Co.?"Buy?Money?The Place? Graniteville Sheeting?Stowe's Yarn?Fruit Jars?Something New?Felloe Saws?Our Grocery?Wanted?Kettles?Meal BagsBells?Buggy Umbrellas?Looking Glasses?You Bet?Meal Sieves?Remember? Everything?r must Go. Carroll, Clark <k Co.?Look Out?Not to be Undersold?The Time?Coittonades and LinenSave Your Fruit?Muslin?White GoodsShirting?Shoes?Sundries. Dr. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters. J. F. Workman, Administrator?Application for Discharge. John T. Grist?Stationery, <fcc. RevxR. Burwell <fcjSon?Charlotte Female In-: Statute. Key Lost. Miss Rosamond Carncross?Dancing School. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. FROM CLEVELAND SPRINGS. , Cleveland Mineral Springs, Tnii.Ot 15)71 A U UUC 4dKJy JIV AHK Mr. Editor I attempted in my last iff ter to convey to a person who had never been here, some idea of the main features of the place; I did not, however, allude to what is, apart from the water, the principal attraction of the place. I mean the grounds. These are not in a high state of improvement, but possess many points of native beauty. There are not a few things which the lover of art might suggest in order to complete the tout emdnhle of the picture. But, in spite of the absence of art the grounds about Cleveland are quite attractive.' Rock, hill and dale; bright sparkling shreams dancing in . the Sunlight; the green carpeting of grass and clover; the dark Bhade of the lofty trees inviting yon to repose and meditation, all make op a scene upon which the poete eye "might love to ... linger. Visitors still continue to come in. Almost Itey day brings us someafelition to our comYesterday there wtce three arrivals. To-day another has joined ug. So far we have as qbertof health. We all, perhaps, need, at this season, an occasional" relaxationthe! mind from close business or study, otherwise we could not bear up against the enervating'influence of the IdnHot summer which is upon us. : f To-day our grounds have been visited by what might appear to be a pic-nic party. This, at least, was the first idea that their appearance suggested to my mind; The absence, however, of the feminine element and the business-like air whioh the party wore, caused me, upon a nearer inspection, to change my mind. Still, the question was, for what had they come. It could not be a fish-dinner excursion, for there were no fish here. As I passed up to my room I heard some one whisper the mysterious word, Ku-Klux. But this did not satisfy my mind. Whatever epithet they may bear, they certainly seem to be a company of very respectable country gentleman?stout veomanrv and "reverend seigj mors." If their object be the consideratiop^f the affaire of government, let us hoiurtbat they have the fear of God and the tjme welfare of the country before their eyeythat they be not greedy politicians, office-seekers, nor "stirere up of strife" but men, high-minded men, who know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, yet who are willing to sink all animosHjtand lay aside-all prejudice in the one great object, of promoting the public weal. Bear it in mind however, Mr. Editor, I am no politician. I would remember, too, that I have not been asked by you to write upon "the affairs of the nation," but to give you "the news items" about Cleveland. Viator. For the Yorkville Enquirer. UNION COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. spartanburg and its colleges. The week now closing has been one of rejoicing at Spartanburg. The friends of the colleges and education crowding there from all quarters gave the place a city appearance. Bishop Wightman opened the commencment exercise* by a sermon -on Sunday. This^ms said to <be worthy of the man and worthy of the church which he so well represents. In appearance he has grown but little older in the last twelve year^. His labors are arduous, his vineyard extending from Maryland by' way of Texas, to Oregon. He is always at work. His friends trust that many years of usefulness will be spared to him. The Junior declamation took place Tuesday. The class acquitted thjraselves with much credit. Tuesday evening vlhere was a concert at the Female College. Much taste was shown in the selection of the pieces, and much skill combined with thorough instruction, in the performance of them. The Spartanburg Female College in the hands of private gentlemen is a success. Wendesday, Gen. John S. Preston delivered the annual address before the literary societies. His subject?"the religion of the Bible, the basis of civil liberty." ne used nis manuscript, which was thought to detract somewhat from his delivery, but he showed himself a Preston throughout. He presided at the annual debate of the Preston society. In a little speech or two to the boys he is said to bave made his finest efforts; in fact, he was thought to be<?qual to his great brother on j such occasions. A. A. Gilbert of the Sumter Watchman presided over the Calhouns. He showed that an editor was fit for something lutside of the sanctum. He presided with lignity and grace, and his address to the members of the society was fall of good counsel, ind delivered with much force and earnestjess?the groundwork of all eloquence. W " Wednesday, the graduating class entertain- i s ed a very large audience. The speaking was t equal to anywe have-heard on such occasipns. ! J The President, Dr. Shipp, imnpunced that cer- i tain members of the class had'not missed a ! J single college duty through the whole course, j and that nearly every one of the fifteen had : < been present at every recitation during the ] past year. The prospects of the institution are getting < brighter every year. The ability of the fac- ( ulty alone is enough to insure success. ' Spartanburg is looking up. The Air Lane ] hands are grading almost in the centre of the , town. Strangers are looking out for lots. ] They have two banks in operation. The bu- ' nf Ao nl?na am * onoUtim unrip I UlUXJ UI^U VI VMV J/M.VV waw .. awake. 1 The teachers of the county are looking for- , ward with much interest to the meeting of 'their asBOciattiort; - They are doing good. We , woirijl urge York again to consider the teach- ; er's association question. It will be both i agreeable and improving. P. A WAR CLOUD. Late despatches announce that a war cloud appears to be rising between Prussia, and England. England owns a small island situated in the North Sea, known as Heligoland, the possession of which is coveted by Prussia. England, is unwilling to sell or relinquish her claims to it. A Berlin despatch furnishes the following particulars in relation to the correspondence between the two powers on the subject: '/ * : "PWiice BismArk addressed moots to Count Berasterff, the German representative in London, informing him that tne Imperial German Government desired to acquire: Heligoland, and empowering him to make propositions to the British Government for the purchase of the island. ' [{ ; Earl Granville replied in the same manner, saying that England will not part with Heligoland, and that the British Government could entertain to proposition looking to the cesrion of that island. XJoon this Prince Bismarck again addressed the British Government through Count Bernstorff, declaring that the acquisition of Heligoland was necessary for the protection of the German coast, reciting as an instance the facilities for coaling and immunity from attack which the French fleet enjoyed at Heligoland, by which it wai enabled to blockade Hamburg and paralyze the commerce Of the German coast He looked upon Heligoland, on account of its close proximity, as Gorman ter ritory, and its possession by any foreign pow1 er as a standing menace to Germany. Earl Granville again replied that England was only bound to consider her own interests; that the wish of the German Government to acquire Heligoland did not constitute; her rignt to it, as the island had never been under German rule. The controversy now rests atUns stage." \ ' A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette? an English paper?gives the following description of Heligoland: "It is a tall, red hill/rising'straight out of the waters, with a sand bank on one side. On the sand, and part of the way op the hill, ia the town,or rather village. It was inhabited, in former times, by pilots and wreckers, but now they. have degenerated into lodging house-keepers. Heligoland is the Margaii,of Hamburg. Thither stream the cituenfrof that rich city to gamble atktaget-noir,(at least, they tSairhea I was there,Y and to: enjoy sea bathing. ..There ia a regular season in the summer months, and sometimes many passengers that are brought in the steamer are obliged to sleep on board, and to go back again?the island being mil! Every house probably takes in lodgers'; but then there are not many houses. The bathers resort to a neighboring sand bank, a sister island, which , the Gdvernjer^it trill b? remembered, Jbome. time ago stored with rabbits, which began eating up the grass that held the rand bank* together, so that the Hefigolauders became furious, and talked of shaking off the British yoke. HoweVer, the rabbits wWe all shot, and the islandera were pacified, and nothing more was said of their old Frisian Constitution. Their language ia German, but they detest that nation more even than they do ourselves. They are not English, though they are English subjects: they are not German though they speak German. They are Heligolanders, the noblest of created beings; all foreigners, are which, in their homelv dialect, means dirt The top of theisland hill is flat, and, as well as I can remember, about the size of the Green Park. There is a well-known story of a man from the far West?and therefore accustomed to see land on a Urge scale? - w - - . * r wwft _ 1 wbo paid a visit to JMigiana. yyneu asaeu how he enjoyed himself, he replied, very much, only he never went oat at night for fear of falling off. In Heligoland th^'^really a dapiiw of such an accidenthappeningN^any who, from the force of habit, should continue to walk too long in any one direction.'\ From the Columbia Phanlx, 4tb loot. THE SUB-COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION. The Congressional sub-committee, consisting of Senator Scott and Representatives Stevenson^ and Van Tramp, commenced, on yesterday, their investigations in this city. Politically classified, Messrs. Scott and Stevenson are Radicals, and Judge Van Tramp, Democrat Outside of party, we hope that all are fair, impartial committee-men, whose intention it is to do equal and exact justice in the cflurse of their examinations. We shall not, in advance, conclude otherwise. We hope that this committee will take a comprehensive view of the whole field before them. If they discover that acts of violence have been committed in this State, and that men have, in certain cases, taken the law into their own hands, let them enquire into the causes which produced these deplorable results. We hope that in pursuit of outlaws in the community, they will not lose sight of the outlaws in the State Government In their efforts to put their hands upon "the mysterious kuklux," let them not shut their eves to 'the official thieves and plunderers, wno, at the capital and inlffe Counties, have given rise to wl ever of disorder has occurred m this State. The Washington Patriot says: "The sdb-committee of investigation now sitting here, suddenly decided to send three of their number to North and South Carolina, although there is no more reason for going there tnan to other parts of the South, which r . S i_ it_ have been misrepresented in we same way. This movement was instigated by Mr. Pool, of North Carolina, and ex-Gov. Holden, who may be regarded as the two men, of all others, who have been most active in villifying the character of the State, whose good name they dishonor as natives, and most vindictive in persecuting their political opponents. In fact, the committee has, in tne conduct of this investigation, been little else than the instrument of personal malice and partisan vengeance. Pool and Holden were both violent Confederates, and the latter, through his paper, was one of the most blatant advocates of secession for twenty years. He adhered to it daring the war, until success of the Union army began to be certain, and then, with Pool and other traders, he . turned his coat, and they all shouted as loudly for the Union as they had before done in its denunciation. Ah goon as President Lincoln's proclamation i appeared, Pool wrote to his agent ordering all his negroes to be sold. That precious document still exists, as a proof of his affection ! for a race which he now courts with the lowest arts of d isgusting flattery. "We advise our mendsin North and South . Carolina to be prepared for the coming of ; this committee, consisting of Senator Scott, Mr. Stevenson,' and Mr. Van Trump. 4 They i will leave .Washington to-morrow evening, < and have doubtless prepared, through the 1 connivance of Pool, Holden, and men of the . same stripe, a class of ready-made witnesses, 1 ? ? uch as have been produced here. Let them ^ / >e met everywhere by the best citizens, and v | vith a calm but decided insistance upon the j airest and fullest investigation." fEFFERSON DAVIS TND GENERAL LEE. The Richmond Dispatch, contrasting the j :ourse of ex-President Davis and General J Lee, says: I "General Lee left us unharmed by a word 1 >r an act of lfis. Mr. Davis, in the midst of 1 mrdfcfeat, prostration, - and helplessness, lifts j ;he arm of defiance, and proclaims the war not ended. In this the North calls him our I leader, and thus he inflicts upon us a deep 1 wrong and great injury. Mr. Davis should A bave kept his lips soiled, as did General Lee. 1 He has no richL hearing the relation he does ] to the Southern people, to put in danger their M peace and welfare by expressing his individ- ^ ual opinions about the sensitive topics that * were at the bottom of the war. General Lee * viewed the situation in a military sense. He I considered his. countrymen of the South and J Himself' as captives mid prisoners. His high sense of honor and personal dignity would not permit him to rati at those wno held him in custody. He truly considered that unmanly and peevish. To indulge the language of exasperation or the wail of lamentation was ' equally abhorrent to his ideas of true map- i hood. He therefore bore himself like a man ' with a conscience void of offence, knowing that he was at the mercy of his captors, and submitting himself to their power. Nothing gave General Lee so much concern as the A haste with which the press and public men at ^ the South rushed into the political canvass, y deluded by the ignis fatuas set up by Presi- 4 dent Johnson after his infamous $20,'000 #m- 4 nesty proclamation. He did not think it wise 2 and justly feared, that ing in the South, it would exasperate those ^ who held us at their mercy, land increase the j severity of the sufferings of his own people. 1 He-was not anxious for himself. As late as I a month previous to his death he held to his f opinions on this point . t * ? .? " Prom the Southern Hook. :i ANOTHER OUTRAGE. .Dallas, Gaston Co., June 29, 1871. On Wednesday, the 14th inst, this commu- , mty was startled by another^of those horrid , outrages that has become so common here of late. Bill Sohenck, a colored shoemaker of ' ^ this place, went to the house of Mr. Aaron Rwdisill, living near here, (a quiet, harmless and inoffensive old gentleman,) and after some conversation went out of the house. Mr. Eudisill at the same time started to feed his stock, and on returning he found Schenck on the porch, minus his pants. Sohenck then .proceeded to divest himself of his shirt?that operation being completed, he was in pvria nohtraUbus. He then went into the house ' and went to bed: he having previously lain down with, his clothes on. In the meantime, the wife,' daughter and grand-daughter of Mr. 4 R were going over to his daughters house, a ~ quarter of a mile distant After Sohenck had lain upon the bed a few minutes^ .he got .-up, and metfing; Mr. R near the door, knocked him down and abased him considerably, bruising his face and cutting his lips. He . then started in pursuit of the women, and [ having overtaken them, knocked Mrs. R " down, and then ran capering off in the field lite* madman MraRgotupandbad proceeded a abort distance, wheq; ha again. posed not do so if the would go beck borne, which she consented to do. He then pushed or knocked tim daughter down and attempted to commit a rape upon her. Mr. Lineberger and his two sons, who live near by, hear rag tne screaap pt tne women, crane w mw rescue. The boyB arriving firet, orderedhw j&g? them t^k Vfwn hp pillle* away | from him raid made at the other one, who \ knocked him down with an ape. He short time, recovered tod Started .to Mr. Lineberger, coming up, in tte meantime fired at Itoq with, h? gnu, butmissed him. They then gave chase, and soon overhauled hita, brought him to town (still node;) when he was' committed to jail. Next morning, Dr. Abernatliy was sent for, and upon examining Mm. R, found six teeth had been knocked loose and the lower jawbone broken. He extracted five?three from , the lower ja# coming out together with a piece of toe jaw-bone attached. Her month _ \ was otherwise badly injured. She is still snf- "j fering. There were plentiful signs of blood where Mri R. w&s knocked down. Mr. B. and his with rare bath, old. people and very frail, and are as harmless, inoffensive people as are in the county. The outrage was committed without any provocation whatever; neither of the praties having auy ill-will toward the other. The only thing that can be urged in extenuation is, that Schenck had boon drinking for sometime, eating bnt little, and on that day was supposed to have had no liquor, and was laboring under a fit of mental aberration. When sober, he is civil and courteous This cannot be called a ku-klux outrage, as all the parties, except the magistrate, are Radicals, and some of. tnern members of the League. Keen-O! ABOUT LIGHTNING. ' The season of thunder storms being upon us, it may be well to quiet toe fears of the M many nervous persona who dread, death by lightning and are ^consequently in, agony while a storm is in progress. We owe much of this fear to the lightning itself* in another form. Before toe trays of the telegraph, men and beasts were stunned and killed without our knowledge, but now the telegraph tells of a thousand accidents by flood and field oftehich we formerly heard nothing. Hence it appears that more people are killed by lightning than ever before. It is not ap in met, only in appearance. Electro-magnetism has made toe whole United States, ' one neighborhood, so for as violent deaths and remarkable accidents are concerned, and lightning seems to be more dangerous than heretofore because of toe wider range of our infi^uMfon* Allow '? ? ? J? Aa ^onoifv. nf ail 1*3 ueuig uiauo wt mo iwot?w>ou v. population,.the chaDces are much the same? about one. in a million?thatany particular? individual will be struck bv lightning. But supposing the individual is struck, what tkeaf . The question may be answered by two statements to which we are indebted to modern science i-Firet, hard as it may be to realize the fact, it is nevertheless a act, perfectly well established that, before we can even see the flash, the lightning has struck?its work is done and over. We appear to see the flash in its zigzag pathway down the skies at each exact instant of its actual progress, but the bolt has reached the earth, before we are conscious of its beginning. > ,r Second, it takes time to perceive and 'to feel. A barefoot boy sticks a thorn in his Heel. He thinks he knows more about his suffering than anybody else. He is mistaken. He feel* more, buthe knows leas. ..He does not know that before be can feel at all, the sensation produced by the thorn must travel from bis heel to his head and from his head back to his heel again. All this requires time. Further, every thought, every emotion, every sensation causes a certain rearrangement of the atoms in the nerves and in the brain. Quick as this rearrangement is, it consumes time. Now suppose an injury so violent, a shock so great that this rearrangement cannot take place. The nerve cannot transmit the sensation, the brain cannot take cognizance of it?there ts no feeling whatsoever. Well, the rapidity of sensation and of thought have been measured; so has the velocity of lightning; and lightning is just about one million times swifter than sensation. Helmholtz has determined the velocity of nprvnna tranamirfrion and finds it to be not quite one hundred feet in a second, -or less than one-tenth of the velocity of sound in air. * A. whale fifty feet long, wounded in the tail, would not be conscious of the injury till half * M. .