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ton Territory Georgia people a^^n(lerV?H|H| who recently made a costly presennoa^^^fl and the nest day went into bankruptcfl^^H It isstated that the house in which^BB Calvin lived and died, in Geneva, is now cupied by a Roman Catholic school. Bonnets for next fall and winter are to have a wide box plaited curtain or cape at tk.3 back, which will completely hide the back hair. ; ^ Somebody has written a'book entitled, "What shall my son be ?" Upon which some one eplies, "If the boy is as bad as the book, the chances are that he will be hanged." Kisses are sold at fairs in Iowa. A man pays a certain amount into the general fund, and then selects the girl or woman be desires to kiss. The Baldwin Locomotive Wofrks, in Philadelphia, are now building some narrowgauge locomotives for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. They are adapted to a track three feet in width. Lyman C. Draper, of Madison, Wisconsin, lor the past eighteen years Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Soeiety, is preparing^ life of Gen. ^umter, of this State. ^ He is at present on a visit to Bouth Carolina. HBL ?? The Democrats of Arkansas, who have no regular organization since Governor, optmTpn's martial law io 1867, have appointed committee, and propose to work vig-. order to-carry the State next year^ ? -^^^H^Hk^earcnow in the State of Massa-< mfi^Tarea. A similar ratio for the whole country would give an aggregate of more than 600,000 miles of line. A Louisiana Parish Court has decided the marriage of a white man to a colored woman to be valid uuder the civil rights bill, and that children born before the celebration of such a marriage are legitimated by the marriage. - - A Virginia editor has come to the conclusion that a man might as well undertake to hold himself at arm's length and then turn a double somersault over a meeting-house steeple, as to attempt to publish a paper that will suit everybody. It is quite as easy to accustom one's self to saving as it is to spending. Just try, youDg people, and see how good and independent a little saving will make you feel, and how much you will save also in health and character. One Mr. Jos. T. North, of Kentucky, has sued an Odd Fellow's Lodge of which he is a member, for a sick allowance of S3 a week during bis prolonged confinement in a lunatic asylum, on the ground that he was a very odd fellow all the while he was there. If a man gets into any kind of an enterprise and is successful, he will say he was smart, but his neighbors will say he was lucky; but if he does not succeed well he will say he was unfortunate, but his neighbors will say he was a fool. Ex-President Jefferson Davis recently declined an invitation to deliver an address before the Mobile Franklin Society, for the reason that his words would be abused by political opponents in the North, to injure his Southern friends. A very sensible conclusion. ?? A lady, in a philosophical mood, acked a male friend how it happened that boys got all their bad traits from their fathers. "I do not know," was the reply; "but perhaps it w#uld help us to answer if we could find out where'the girls get their blemishes from." - "Ohj" replied the fair metaphysician, "they "Tt:?-altcome from tbeir grandfathers!" yrmer nailed Watt Carr, residing Borne OhifT,* wbiin conversing with ing tke manner in which Mrr'YaJIaedigliam shot himself, it is stated, attempted to illustfate4it with a loaded pistol, ana succeeded in -" the illustration precisely as Mr. Vallandigham did. He fell instantly and died in a few hours. Paris now exhibits few traces of the recent struggle. The barricades have been leveled, new trees have been planted, and the damaged buildings are being rapidly repaired. Business has not yet been revived, the briskest trade at present being in photographs of the city and relics of the war. The streets are becoming crowded again with foreigners and returning Parisians. A fact worthy of the notice of brandy drinkers appears in the recent statement of the Internal Revenue Bureau of the amount of spirits in the country. There appears to ho in QMnr/lannA with that atatomont hilt. 100,000 gallons of brandy distilled from fruits, while there is 161,000 gallons of compounded liquors made in imitation of brandies, and sold and drunk as the real old Cognac. The Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser says that a short time ago, "Geo. W. Richardson, the Radical Solicitor of Coosa county, blindfolded, gagged and whipped two little negro girls, and threatened them with death if they should ever tell who committed the outrage. He was trying to manufacture a ku-klux outrage to serve as the basis for further persecution of Southern Democrats. But, fortunately for us, he was detected, and his design exposed by a negro." The only three cities on the globe positively known to contain over 1,000,000 inhabitants are London, Paris, and New York (including Brooklyn,) the reported population of Yedo, Pekin, and other heathen centers having been proved to be wildly exaggerated. Berlin, St. Petersburg, Naples and Vienna do not differ very widely in population, though the Prussian capital is growing-more rapidly than any of the other cities, and is probably the largest by 40,000 to 50,000. The women of Massachusetts voted the other day, on the question of allowing the sale of beer. In some of the towns young ladies attended the polling places, charged with ballots, on which was printed the firm "no," instead of the persuasive "yes." These paper Eellets they distributed to the voters, ana woeetide the young man who did not accept one and then vote it. . It were better for him that ^ he had rfever been born. There is henceforth no woman's smiles for him. He may enjoy his beer, and that is all that is left to him. The movement was a practical application of the new Victoria plan to "influence" the votes of men, and it was successful in many places. One of the most curious wills ever made was by an Englishman, at Montgaillard, in 1822, and is Jjuw-quoted in Once a Week: "It is my will that any one of my relations who shall presume to shed tears at ray funeral shall be disinherited. He, on the other hand, who laughs the most heartily shall be sole heir. I order that neither the church nor my hearse shall be hung with black cloth, 1 a. ih-i am il*A /)A<* mw kumol ikn kmiMo UUl Ulttt^ ULX bllU UttY ui illj uuimij uug xivuiov and church shall de decorated with flowers and green boughs. " Instead of tolling of bells, I will have drums, fiddles and fifes. All musicians of Montgaillard and its environs shall attend the funeral. Fifty of them shall open the procession with hunting tunes, walUes and minuets." The Holly Springs Missimppian of the 27th ultimo, contains an account of a disgraceful scene in the United States Court. There were twenty-eight persons indicted for ku-klux outrages, and were in the court room when a Colonel Lamar, who had fancied himself insulted by a United States witness, demanded his arrest and imprisonment in a very excited manner. The marshal endeavored to quiet him, when he struck that official with a chair, knocking him down. A scene of confusion ensued and the prisoners were on the point of assisting Lamar, when some United . States soldiers arrived on the scene. Judge Hill has since ordered Col. Lamar's name to be stricken from the list of practicing attorneys. It is estimated by the internal revenue J sourij^^PBRen^ffl^l^D^Nebraska, | 55 glaSR; in Iowa and District of Columbia,, 50 glasses; Washington Territory and Idaho,! 45 glasses; Connecticut, Colorado and Wyoming Territory, 41 glasses; Indiana and Utah, 38 glasses; Oregon, 35; Louisiana, 83; Rhode Island, 29; Kansas, 27 ; Kentucky, 26; West Virginia, 16; Dalaware, 15; Arizona, 14; Dakota, 7; Texas, 4; Tennessee, Virginia and Maine, 3; Georgia and Vermont, 2 .; 8. Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and North Carolina, 1 each. Ibr fotMle fspm. I YORKVI|jLE, C.: 'YHPRSPAT^IQMNG, JULY 13,1871. j ( Wntcbrthe Figures.?'The date on the "address- ~ label" shows the time ttoghich the subscription Is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date 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 we have done in the past, we would inform 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 Briefs, Business Cards. Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, j Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads Checks, 'Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, Note Headings, Drafts and Notes, ] Programmes, Envelopes, Policies, FireLife Ins., Election Tickets, 'Shinplasters, Festival Tickets, Wedding Cards, will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction as to aualitv of work, 'guaranteed in every 4 ?r ' w instance. Particular attention given to fine work in colors. FIRE AT BRATTONSVILLE. On Monday morning last, the threshinghouse, together with the machinery and a quantity of provender, belonging to John S. Bratton, Esq., ten miles South of Yorkville, was destroyed by fire. No clue has been obtained as to the origin of the fire, yet it is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. We have no information as to the value of the property destroyed. "THE SOUTHEBNGABDENEB." We have received from the publisher a neat little handbook, handsomely printed, and profusely illustrated, bearing thje following title: "The Southern Gardener, or Shoyct and Simple Directions for the culture of'Vegetables ' RaveheT, C. Published by' Walker, Evans & Cogswell, Charleston." Tjke arrangement .tffethe work is admirable, hnd its value as a Southern farmer's vade mecum far i beyond the price, which is only 50 cents. A few copies are on sale at the Enquirer Office. j ? ? HOMICIDE NEAR ROCK HILL. ! Ou Wednesday of last week, a difficulty occured at the residence of Jack Springs, near Rock Hill in this county, between Jack J Springs, Willis Hutchinson and his mother, Silla Hutchinson?all colored?in relation to the chastisement of a niece of Willis Hutchinson by Jack Springs, who had the niece 1 employed as a nurse. The parties engaged , in a quarrel, the result of which was that Jack Springs was fatally stabbed in several places, from the effects of which he died in about.half an hour. A coroner's inquest was held over the body of Springs by R. L. Crook, 1 Trial Justice, acting as Coroner, and a verdict was rendered charging Willis Hutchinson and his mother as principal and accessory to the killing of Jack Springs. The accused have been lodged in jail to await their trial. CORONER'S INQUEST. On Friday last, near Blairsville, in this county, Coroner Fayssoux held an inquest on the body of a new born infant, a child of a negro woman by the name of Ellen Hood. ' Tho Avidftnpfl hefore the iurv elicited the fact 1 j ?? - ?* *v"' ? ^ V 1 that the child was bom in the absence of any | person other than the mother, and that it had died for the want of necessary care and attention. After the birth and death of the child, 1 the mother buried it without acquainting any 1 person of the fact, until after she had been interrogated on the subject. A physician who 1 examined the child after it had been exhumed, J testified that no violence had been used in ' order to produce death, but that its decease J1 wa3 the result of unnatural neglect. The jury j1 j rendered a verdict in accordance with these j i facts. We learn that conduct similar to the j j above on the part of negro women, is by no [ means uncommon. . RESTING LAND. ! ] The phrase "resting land" is highly figura- i tive and we have reason to believe that it is < not generally understood. Many persons < think that sowing a field down in wheat or s oats or some other kind of small grain is rest- ] ing it. Others think that turning stock upon I , it and permitting them to graze it closely for 1 a year or two accomplishes the same end. A little reflection will prove to any one that i neither of these processes will secure the de- f sired end. The object designed to be attained 3 by resting land, is to impart to it new vigor ] or to restore that fertility which has been ex- i hausted by the winds, rains, droughts and a ] series of crops. A rotation of crops is beneti-11 cial to land, in that it is not so draining upon 1 the soil, as the same crops year after year, but ] strictly speaking it i3 not resting the soil. < Lands that need rest are those in which the < vegetable matter has been exhausted. Such 1 lands are sad. They will neither bear a long 1 wet spell nor a long drought. The richest J I lands, and those which remunerate most amp- i ly the cultivator, are those which are made up < of decayed vegetable matter. Such lands are ( I capable of resisting the excesses of both wet c and drought. This being the case, the sensi- 1 j ble way to rest land is to permit it to grow up c | with any kind of vegetable production, and f \ in the fall of theyear turn the vegetable mat- r : ter under with a large plow. If the wheat 1 and oats fields were not pastured, but permit-1 r ted to grow up in grass until frost and then j t plowed deeply and let remain during next! e 11 again, ! could be i. That covered, a during raws the i i in ..the' ws them it rich if rass and )fi which they grew. One reason why cotton exhausts land so much is that it is year after year deprived of all vegetable matter except the leaves and stalks of the cotton. Corn takes more from the soil perhaps than cotton; but in a corn field more vegetable matter is left than in a cotton field. The best way to rest land is to fence it up, ditch it properly and keep all stock off it. THE BOYS OF OUR COUNTRY. The future prosperity of this country mainly depends upon the character and habits of the young men and boys. It is almost certain that the majority of men in the South * ~ tviAMi/li'nn ~~ rvP lifo llOVOr WHO IlUVtJ pUBBCU IUC IUCI1UIUU Ul mu, u> iv. will feel perfectly easy under the existing state of things, The regime which has been inaugurated is so entirely different from that to which they have been accustomed all the past part -of their lives, that they will, during the whole of the remainder, feel as if away from home. Everything will appear strange, and middle aged mjeu and old men will never ibe able perfectly to adapt themselves to thia peculiar state of things. This adaptation must be made by the young men and boys of the country. We do not mean that the young men and boys of our country must adapt themselves to the political corruption and social pollution which exist in our land. We hope that the noble sons of the South will never assimilate themselves to these things. A change, however, has to be made in the labor and educational system of the South, and the sooner it is done the better. What was once practical, is now utterly impractical. What was once possible, is now hopelessly impossible. Once it was the practice for a man of moderate means to raise his sons up, if not in idleness, in what was verging closely to idleness. At ftiin in imnractical. Once. VOUng t"*~ - ~ JT w men went to school and studied, or pretended to study, with no particular object in view. Many even studied profession who never contemplated making any practical use of these professions. Under the present regime, such a mode of procedure is simply impossible. In many aspects the South is a new country. The manners and customs are in some respects the same as formerly; in others they are not, nor never can be the same. The moral tone and character of the people need not change, but the manner of conducting our temporal affairs must change. This change the old men cannot make. It mnst, therefore, be made by the young men and boys. The political aspect of the South is gloomy, but the present state of things will not exist always. It will work its own ruin in some way or other. Providence will bring about a better political state of things. So soon as this change takes place, this will be a most desirable land. Unless we are greatly mistaken the present affords a good opportunity for young men of energy and economy to lay the foundation of, wealth and usefulness in the future. Proper-^ ty of all kinds is cheap, and the nrodneff pfl property will not always be as it is now, fiatj ly worthless. Newer did poor young men] have a better opportunity to secure for them-1 selves a home. Those who are wise will be wise for themselves. We think we see a bright future for the South. The evidence that is most encouraging is in the character and conduct of the boys. We occupy a stand point which we think enables us to judge of this thing with some degree of accuracy. We are hopeful. The omens are propitious. Mauy of the "Young America" notions which once constituted the prevailing characteristics of boys are abandoned. The pride of purse is not so general as it once was. Boys have ceased, or at [east measurably so, to boast of what their fathers are worth, and are beginning to try what they themselves can do. These, we 1 * i in in k, are luvuruuic signs.- mcio u uu u?uger of the ship sinking so long as the boys will not give her up. Boys of good moral character, of sober and industrious habits? it matters not how poor they are?will make their mark some day. A good moral character and industrious habits are worth more to a boy than to be a son of a prince. A boy with his coat off and hard at work, however menial the labor, is doing more honorto his race than a titled prince whose occupation is to eat and sleep. Bowditch blacked the boots for a club of rich students Edinburgh college. Their names are lost amongst the rubbish; his is bright and untarnished as day. j No land can long be poor, or long trampled upon by the heel of the tyrant, which is full of boys that are willing to work?work hard and spend economically their earnings. No boy will ever come to shame who chooses such a course; whilst those boys who are waiting for some fortunate event to turn up will, in the majority of cases, turn out to be worthless creatures, and many of them will end their 3ays in the penitentiary, jail or poor-house. WASHINGTON ITEMS. The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer says it is estimated that each ku-klux witness costs the country about two mndred and fifty dollars, and many of them much more, so that the temptation to visit the capital at the public cost is sufficient for waniering carpet-baggers, vicious negroes, or low .? 1 /? .1 _ii._l scalawags, who form the staple 01 tnose canea tiere on the Radical side from the South. Dver thirty thousand dollars have thus far been expended.* Judge R. B. Carpenter, of Charleston, was 5ve hours before the ku-klux committee. He said there had been ku-klux outrages in various parts of the State?not, however, originating from hostility to the Federal Government, but the natural outbreak of men who bad no redress throughout the forms and administration of the law. The Government of the State is defective in capacity in all its departments and venal; it had increased the 3ebt $11,000,000, without constructing a mile )f railroad, a foot of canal, or a school-house. When a candidate for Governor last year, he visited every county in the State, but never leard a man utter a word against the Fede al Government. The opposition was to the jorrupt and mal-administration of the State 3overnraent. Members of the Loyal League jommitted outrages, such as murders and )urning gin-houses, before there were ku-klux irganizations. The people submitted quietly 'or two years, until they found they had no edress through elections or forms of law. | [he ku-klux was composed of men of high j espectability, organized for redress and pro-' ection. Judge Carpenter, however, did not ndorse the organization. He testified that j the collection of $4,000,000, levied this year, will bankrupt one-third of the 8tate. J. M. Justice, of Rutherford county, North ji ! Carolina, examined by the "outrage" commit- j tee, testified that some five weeks ago disguised ; men came to his house, took him out of bed,;1 whipped him terribly with clubs and pistol^, tookhira to the woods and threatened him with death. He promised not to go ^Washington to testify regarding the outrageajfreviously committed in his neighborhood. He was confined to his bed three weeks from hia * hurts. Justice believed these not mere neighborhood quarrels. He firmly believed in tlra existence of the ku-klux in North Carolina. arrtrrv ITTWCI ' V! U OJLAAU AiJDUUt , u J ? Orders have been issued from the Adju- . tant General's office recalling the arms issued to the militia of Kershaw county. ? M. S. Lynn and John P. McKiwkk, have been nominated as candidates for Qntusfcl ty Commissioners in Union. : ? The Columbia Union says that Qoyer^. nor Scott has appointed C. J. Pride, of Uock Hill, Jury Commissioner for York couuty. ?General Wade Hampton is on a vis}t to Columbia. He usually resides on his plantation in. Mississippi. ? On Saturday last, in Columbia, CoJtJ. P. Thomas was examined; w admitted to practice law in the Circuitiuidj1 Probate Courts of this State. , ? A party of disguised men visited ?UieJ plantation^ Thomas B. Wadlington, j^ew~ > berry county, on t^e 3rd imfcvtt, negro named Daniel Meadow? ? An exchange says that one hundred jmd nineteen persons are already in the field as candidates for County Commissioners of Orangeburg county. ? Governor Scott has appointed Jau$s.I. Villepigue, of Camden, Auditor for Kershaw county. The Journal pronounces the appointment satisfactory to a majority of the citizens of the county. ? Last week, the Supreme Court rendered a decision in a case which came up fiprflfl' Charleston, in which it was decided thatoills I of the Bank of the State are not receivable in the payment of taxes. ? The telegraph line on the GreeUVtHeRailroad has been completed from Coliynbia to Cokesbury, in Abbeville oounty. ItTs expected that the entire line from Col?rabttt~to Greenville, will be finished within a mouth. ? Tiie Governor has made requisition upon the Governor of Georgia for Owen Lr*W. Smith, one of the parties said to have heen engaged in the recent shooting of Mr. Red, in Barnwell county. j ? Mr. John J. Hemphill has been appojntCoroner of Chester county, instead of Auditor, as was erroneously stated in our issu4 of last week. x Mr. James M. Brawley jgjtbe Auditor of Chester county. > ^ ? The Camden Journal ventilate^, uncase in which one of the county Commissioners of Kershaw drew an order for one dql}ftr to relieve a transient pauper, and then charged the county three dollars for thr*^vice. | * ? A son of Jesse Neil was drowned in Sterling's mill pond, near Hopewell cburchJo1 Chester county, on Monday afternoon of last week. He was bathing in company with several others when the fatal occurrence took ? Owing to defects in the jury Court will be held in Fairfield coumv^^H March, 1872. The opinion prevails yu&m&i'the mWng~of tbe)&H ? Joseph M. Wilder reC&S^Hirresd^SF a charge of robbing the mail at Pineville, oiw the North-Eastern Railroad, was last WUek arraigned for trial at Charleston, andr%aving pleaded guilty, was sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail of GHgeibaton^ ? The Beaufort Republican say^V^jJlL Robertson, the County School Commiwwue*, was arrested Monday last upon an affidavit made by Wra. Elliott, Esq., for forgery. He was examined before H. G. Judd, United Stetes Onmmiasioner. and subseauentlv held to bail. ? A public meeting was held in the lower portion of Greenville county on the 10th ultimo for the purpose of taking preliminary action toward forming a new county from portions of Greenville, Anderson, Abbeville .and Laurens. It is intended to locate-, the new Court House at Honea Path, on the Greenville and Columbia Railroad. ? A correspondent of the Spartanburg Spartan, writing from the mountains in tlie upper part of this State, says: "The community here have just concluded the most ample harvest that they had for years. Corn is worth fifty or sixty cents, and very little prospect of being higher. I have a few hundred bushels on hand, and the only consolation I have is, that 'it is a good thing in a family.' We have fine prospects for corn, fruit, &c.,r' ? The conservatives of Charleston, have nominated General John A. Wagener, as a candidate for Mayor of that city. He is a prominent German citizen and has been identified with Charleston for many years. "He was a Colonel of artillery in the Confederate service, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1865 and of the Legislated of 1866, and Commissioner of Immigration. The< election takes place in August. Appearances indicate that the Republicans will nominate j Pillsbury, the present incumbent. ? The Columbia JJnion of Tuesday last i says: "From a gentleman from Spartanburg, we learn that the sub ku-klux committee has [examined up to this date-some-til ? f witnesses, and that the testimony in regard to outrages in that county is complete, and that ! witnesses by the score could be examined to ] verify testimony already adduced, did tirtfc ] permit. Five members of the ku-klux" have been arrested on warrants, issued by Unitetj States Commissioner S. T. Poinier, Esq., and two of them have been bound over to appear ' i r%t _ r ? a _A n *11^ ' 1 at tne united states ^uurt, at ureeuvjue, next month. The others have not yet had ' their examination, but the evidence against ! them is conclusive. We also learn that the 'i greatest excitement prevails throughout the . county regarding the investigation." s ? Last week an account was publishad-ef >< an outrage committed in Barnwell county by < a band of negro ku-klux. On the day pre-r * ceding the occurrence, the Sheriff attempted, ' to arrest the scoundrels, but they refused to . give themselves up and defied the representa-'1 ] tives of the law. On another day, however, < they promised to go to Aiken and abide the j result of a*judicial investigation. The Au- 1 gusta Chronicle of Monday states that ihey 1 had failed to comply with their promibe, and j still held their position, armed as before. The j affair was reported to Gov. Scott, and it is j stated that he has ordered a company of cdk* 1 ored militia to the spot, with orders to cap- i ture the insurgents. When arrested, they J will be indicted and tried under the provisions of the ku-klux bill. ; ] ?The Laurensville Herald records a bru- < tal outrage which was committed by a band i of negroes on the 30th ultimo, at the residence of Mr. Harrison Scott, in the western part of; 1 f _ V that county, while Mr. Scott was absent from I home. The following are the particulars fur- ' nished by themerald: "About 1 o'clock on j the night mentioned, a band of negroes, supposed to be some ten or twelve in number,! came to bis premises, and first made an at-, taok upon the store-room, in which a little boy j was sleeping. The little fellow, becoming frightened ran out, and was fired upon, but fortunately escaped without injury. They th&fthadfe an attack upon the dwelling house, in which \bey found Mrs. Scott, her two childien and her mother. Her mother fled from the house, and was fired upon without effect. Entering, ihey demanded money of Mrs. Smtt, or information as to the place in which 1l miiiii Ironf Mm Hpntl fofiiaincr tpll tflflV proceeded to search the room, breaking in pfeces a splendid bureau and smashing things generally, amid oaths and all manner of foul language. Failing in their search, they rettfftied'fb Mrs.- Scott, dragged her from her bel by the hair of her head, fired pistols artund her pereon, and finally presented them ather bosom Htnd swore that she must either tell or die. She was still firm. They then carried her daughter through the same ordeal, with like result Seizing upon a little son, they held him up by the hair of the head and sgprore if he (jid not tell them where they could 3fcd the money they would cut his throat from ear to ear. In his fright the child referred them to a trunk, where they found and took some $800 in gold and silver?mostly told. All tlwvas done amid the mo9t horMkQ?th&?nd abusive language. A^ier. this jthe ball? returued1 to the store-foodi, t&ere thej obtained some $20 more, and were only pretexted from sacking fcby the gathering of the neighbors, who had been awakened by the firing and the shouting to the distance of a mile or more. The proper affidavit was mad* before Trial Justice Lark, who issued a warrant and has already arrested and lodged in jail at this place three of the guilty party? Squife Jackson, Charles Clardy and George -Aniii.. The Trial Justice and his officer are A --A -^ nn/1 in n akn?f ID not pursuit Ul lue utucia, uiiU) in i? ouu? time, expects to have the entire bands of outlaws under the power of the law." , NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? There are five negroes :jn Charlotte jail charjpd with murder. * ? Colored senator, Andrew Jackson Jones, of North Carolina, has sued a gambling house in New York, for five thousand dollars lost I ' . ' i ! at cams. ? The annual meeting of the Stockholders of the North Carolina Railroad will be held at Greensboro' to-day. It is understood that a proposition to lease the road from that place to Charlotte, will be submitted and discussed. ? Mr. French, of New Hanover, and Mr. Tomlinson, of Randolph, having resigned their seats in the Legislature, Governor Caldwell has ordered elections on the first Thursday in August to fill Ihe vacancies. ? The Hillsborough Recorder says: "John Long, the confessed Ku-Klux and mean betrayer and informer on his Klan, is now, we understand, in Washington City at work in a tfHcfc-yard." ? A white man, by the nameofJokn Stancell, wad murdered at Cero Goroof Columbus county, N. C., on Wednesday night of last vweek?the head beinghearly severed from the kbody. JPKe murde^ec* a negro, has been ar| la tough story: "A man bame^JMI who fled^to thfj syampe durinjrthe late war to avoid th^draft-j Tias^heen latefy dtw^Vered livhi^a life in a den and settlement of. his own in a dense'thicket near the bank of the river. When firet discovered he fled to his hiding place, and upon being pursued he showed fight, but finally surrendered, and insisted ttnon refusing to go into the array. Upon being informed that the war was ended about six years ago, he concluded to abandon his hiding place and return to the old plantation, where he found many changes since the commencement of the' Rebellion. His only clothing was made from, the skins of coons and other animals which b#had captured during the time, having seen no One with whom to converse during about eight years. He has nearly lost the control of language, except a few profane words. His father and mother have both died during the paqt year." EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The North Carolina Disturbances. The Washington Chronicle?a radical paper?of a recent date, publishes the following in relation to the disturbances which have occurred in the Western part of North Carolina : "At the recent term of the United States Circuit Court, just adjourned at Raleigh, ,N. C., twenty-one true bills of indictment were found against Awenty-one bands of ku-klux, altogether embracing over one hundred individuals. Forty-eight have already been arretted and confined in jail. The United States Marshal, with- a company of United States cavalry, is now engaged in making the arrests of others in the counties of Rutherford, McDowell and Cleveland. The ku-klux are cotting in and giving themselves up by the score, delivering their disguises, making long confessions, and promising to be better men in the future, and telling all they know on others, implicating, it is said, some of the most prominent politicians in their sections. One camp commander and his whole camp came in in one squad and surrendered themselves." Bowen's Pardon. ??The following document has been published as the pardon of C. C. Bowen, the bigUflftus 'ei-Cougressman: Washington, July 8.?Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, to all whom it may concern?these presents shall come greeting : Whereas, on the 13th day of June, 1871, in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding a criminal term, one C. C. Bowen was convicted of bigamy, and senteneed to be imprisoned for two years, and to pay $250 fine; and whereas, it is represented that he was innocent of any violation of the law; that he acted in good faith, believing his former wife to be dead, and it appears that he rendered good service to the cause of the Union during the rebellion and since its termination, and has endeavored to lead an honest rod upright life; and for these reasons, eleven )f the jurors who found the verdict against him, rod many other citizens of the highest considetion and weight, urge his pardon ; and United States Attorney Fisher would be gratified by the exercise of Executive clemencv. Now. therefore, be it known that I, U. S. Grant, President of the United States of America, in jonsideration of the premises, divers other ?ood and sufficient reasons me thereunto moving, do hereby grant to the said C. C. Bowen i full and unconditional pardon. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my lame, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this first day of July, A. D. 1871, and of he independence of the United States the linety-fifth. U. S. GRANT. Sons of Temperance. Ed. Emerick Sell, the Grand Worthy Patriarch of the Grand Division of the Sons j >f Temperance of South Carolina, has issued j he subjoined circular: It must be apparent to everjr observer j hat intemperance prevails to an alarming ex- j lectin this State; that the war and the troubles ' since, have driven thoueauds of our' people of good habits before, to seek relieffrom their ! misfortunes in intoxicating beverages, and it is to be feared that dissipation iSj~even now, on the increase in our beloved State. ' Before the war, the temperance cause was popular in South'Carolina. In almost every ) county there- were-nourishing -Divisions of j. the Sons of Temperance, and it is believed , that many'of these, in a state of suspension ! for the last ten years, will embrace the present opportunity to revive the order and resume the good work.. Several flourishing divisions in different localities s?nt representatives to Charleston recently, and the Grand Division of South Carolina has been fully reorganized. .. . pa The form of application for charter will be furnished, and should be signed by at least eight good apd true men, knd returned to the office of T. J. Lamotte, Grand Scribe, Columbia, South Caroliua, which will have prompt attention, as will also orders for Rituals, and all necessary supplies incident to the organization of new divisions. It is recommended that at least $12 be sent with every application, to pay for these supplies, including the charter. . An invitation id cordially extended to an i who formerly belonged to the Order, to return and assist in the work of reconstruction; to ! the members of all the churches in the; State, and to all others disposed to make some sacrifices for the good of themselves and th'6ir country. v'It is believed that the circumstances are favorable for the prompt restoration ?of our Order to its former high position in the.State, aniHhatit will prove powerfully instrumental in restoring to the P^Jnjetto State the prosperity and happiness of jbraier- times. i Kn-Kluxlngln Illinois. A man by the naifte of Mera, at Watsaka, Illinois, on Wednesday of last week, was taken from tfi# jail at 'that place and hung by the citizens. He was charged with the inhuman ^ct of whipping one of his own children to death. The;citizens, to the number of one thousand, including -men, women and childrep, participated in the act At the Coroner's inquest,, aver the body of the lynched man?if he can be called a man?the following testimony was elicited: Mary Mera, mother of the child, testified as follows: My husband, Martin Mera, whipped my son Martin,aged ten years, two weeks ago Tuesday night My babe was bom that day and I did not see the whipping?it was done in another room. I heard the -blows and heard the child beg for mercy. The child went to bed about 10 o'clock. The next morning the child came to my bed-room, followed by his father, who was whipping him very hard, with a black snake horse-whip. The child dodged around the room, to avoid the blows, and begged for mercy; the child was completely naked?his father having compelled him to strip himself ; his face was swollen from the whipping he had received the night, before. His father whippied him very ' *>" nv GPtnary miniltaa ! at last he Win. Dunovant, JCagle Lake, Texas. Miss A. C. McPheetere, Yorkvilie, S. C. Miss F. t\ MePfteettto, Yorkvtlfc, S. 0; W. H. Mo' Pheeters, Yorkvilie, S. C. Geo. H. O'Leary, Yorkvilie, S. C. Miss Fannie Witherspoon, Yorkvilie, S. C. . Paul B. Means, Concord, N. C. D. F. Canon, Concord, N. C. David Means, Concord, N. C. Miss Otts, Charlotte, N. C. E. Nathan, Charlotte, N. C. Edwih W. Kerr, Charlotte, N. C. W. B.: Nesbit, Charlotte, N. C. Rev. W. R. Atkinson, Charlotte C. H., Va. N. S. Ogburn, Monroe, N. C. Rev. S. M. Richardson, Sumter, S. C. Miss Kate Richardson, Sumter, S. C. D. McD. Richardson, Sumter, S. C. Miss Rosa Cooper, Sumter, S. C. Miss Maggie Moore, Richmond, Va. Pierre Bacot and wife, Wionsboro, S. C. Yesterday wehad a refreshing rain,and this morning everything looks considerably re ViV^U. , The party to which I referred in my last, turned out to be a number of persons* who had come over from Shelby and the adjoining county, for the purpose of giving bonds for some of the neighbors who had been arrested and carried to Raleigh as engaged in ku-klux outrages. VIATOR. Wilmington, Ohar. & Rutherford, R. R., . . July 8,1871. I took my final adieu of Cleveland Mineral Springs this morning. Visitors continue to come in. A large portion of the patronage of the Springs is from South Carolina. Quite a number of the guests, during my stay there, have been from Yorkville. On the whole, my stay there has been an agreeable one. I; think I can recommend its cool, healthful | waters to all who may wish to seek a summer retreat. Shbhld I return, you will hear from me again. ' Viator. ?* ?? For the Yorkvllle Enquirer. TRUSTEES'" MEETING. A meeting of the Trustees of 'the Free Schools of-York County was held at the Court House in Yorkville, on Monday, 10th instant. Dr. A. P. Campbell was called to the Chair and A. Springs Withers appointed Clerk. By the request of thq Chairman, Col. W. C. Beatty explained the object of the meeting. The following trustees were present at the meeting as representatives: ?/ <jTownship No. 1, W. W. Gaffney, No. 2; A. P. Campbell; No. 3, J. L. Adams, "and A. A. McKenzie; No. 5> R. L. Qrook and A. E, Hutchinson ; No. 6,1. M Wallace and J. P. Moore; No. 7, Peter Garrison;No. 8^ A. F. Love; No. 9, S. G. Brown and John Martin Rev. R. A. Ross, as a voluntary member ol the meeting, offered the following resolution which, on motion, was adopted: Resolved, That it is the sense of this meet that nothing can be done effectually in the waj of inaugurating the pnblic school system aimec at bv our Legislature, until the connty is re districted. On motion, a resolution wits adopted in structing the County School Comntissiofteri to confer with the State Saperin&ftdent o Education, and ascertain whether teacher regularly employed as Free School teachers are entitled to receive compensation froo pay scholars, outsidd of the amount allowe< bylaw. - ' W. W. GaflbCy offered; th6 following redo lution, which was adopted U Resolved, That Teachers, in order to ifeceiv pay in their grade, must have at least one fourth of their scholars in the branches em braced in their certificate. On motion, it was Resolved, That the pre ceedings of the meeting be published in th Yorxville Enquirer. The great object of the meeting being, t obtain more knowledge of the educational syt tern, and that the different Boards of Trustee might understand each other, many question were asked and answered; doubts and diffl culties, removed; and a general understand ing obtained. The result among the trustee seemed to be, a common determination to g efficiently to work, and promote, as fin* as il them lay, the educational interests of th County. * * ^ On motion the meeting -adjourned. A. P. CAMPBELL, Chairman. A. 8. Withies, Clerk. ?rrri : mr-.. . i ; m NEjr ADYEKTI8EJIENTS. M. Jones, Agent-rDIvislohs of the Subject. Adickes & Black?Superior Clothing?Bivlngt ville mars. ,< .4.. - ;/ M. Jones, Deputy Collector?United States Intel nal Revenue Collector's Sale. W. B. Wilson, Attorney for Executors?Notice t Persons indebted to the estate of Col. R. G McCaw, deceased. T, M. Dobson A Co.?Cotton Tax. ~ *> m?1. m 1?a n IWm Qutiai r. r, Moaie, vuancuwju, ?. v,?^w?o, ?~-v Blinds, Ac. J. W. Carroll?For Everybody?Ladies Rea This?$10 Equal to $16. Mill Seat For Sale. - . ' % , T. W. Clawaon, Deputy Messenger?In Bant ruptcy?Applications tor Discharge?In th . Matter of M. L. Siflford, T. C. Beckham. R. H. Glenn?Sheriff's Sales. J. S. R. Thomson?Corn at fl. Boarding and Day School by the Misses Man gault. i JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. Some short time ago, Mr. J. T. Trezevan editor of the Augusta (Arkansas) Bulletii wrqte a letter tofiom, John Quincy Adam of Massachusetts, upon political matters, <a ^pressing, among other things, the apprehensic ; -that, as he puts it, "with Grant's vast patrol Nge, most unscnrplfloudy rfsed, he won] not yield the - Presidential chair, even if d ; feated before the people -in mjji; and Ahi - ^ir JRepublic, like its predecessors of old, j so rapRity-drifting into the channels of go: Tuption, that the people, in despair, may loo to one military leader arthe only means Of si ving theth rrom the utter ranrinreatenefl t another." This was the general soope of 11 letter) to which the fcJldwing is a reply i Quincy, Mass., June 5,1871. Dear Sir:?I cannot pass over, silently, letter which gratifies me as much as your which I received to-day; and,yet, I feel sh of speaking to you or any citizen of the "sul j ect States, f dislike to earn "the retort, "01 it is very easy to preach; but, suffer as w have; and then tell *us how you feel, and w will listen." .J do try to take H home to mj selfand I dp not donbt that, in similar cii cum^ances, I should be today an "unrepei tant rebels?sore, angry, beaten and defiant And, itith me, it Wbma doubtless have bee: afrifhasbeeh with yon, that "the tender mei cies ofreconstruction had been harder to bea than all the horrors of invasive war." should have been galled by misgovernment robbed by imported knavery of the pittanc which the war had spared, exasperated b; wilful and persistent misrepresentation, am cruelly condemned to hopeless impotence fb the imputed guilt of cowardly crimes I abhoi red. I should have been condemned, too, t hold my personal liberty at the nod of a mer cenary carpet-bagger or the whim of a milita ry satrap. I say that I fear I should hav< been an "irreconcilable." In such a case 1 think I should be julky, but I know I shoul< be silly if I yielded to the feeling, for whenc* must my relief come if my last estate is not U become worse than the first? Is there a max outside an asylum who thinks by such a coursi the "lost cause" can he regained ? By whom then ? If by the North, believe me that thi experiment of secession has' satisfied us thai no cause is worth a civil war. That war haj confirmed, beyond a shadow of a turning, tin destiny which decreed that there shall be bui one confederated people of the North Ameri can Union. No. Rebellious I might be but weak enough to await the resurrection ol secession I do not think I could be. You anc I and your friends and neighbors and min< are of one blood; we were once "fellow-citi zeus;" and the old-time kindness must lingei yet in spots. -Our fathers were "brethren,' and they must count for something. The whole political problem. of the future turne upon the answer to the question, "Shall we live together as friends or enemies f' Now, the rrhoia iniorr.?j Dolicv of the present administration says wan Reconstrucucm mt?u> war, and the ku-klux bill declared war. Thif Union is now held together by foroe. Certainly, if this is to be permanent, it would have parted at first. If the struggle to cast ont slavery overthrew the constitution, what chance is there for a "free" government, if the North is to rule the South ? South Carolina is to-day the most shameless parody on republican institutions since the Republican Rome bestrode all the nations of the ancient world, put the sword to their throats, stripped them bare, and then lacked words to laud the loveliness of liberty. You cannot be subject, and we be long free. The untrammelled exercise of local self-government by the people of the States is the salt which preserves our system. Take that away and cur frame of polity will rapidly rot into despotism. Therefore, it is, that, not as a partisan, but wholly as a fellow-citizen, I trust that all the good citizens of the seceded States will frankly-and honestly accept the revolutionary changes which have been forced upon the> constitution, and with them, cheerfully adopt the new relations of amity and political and civil equality toward the emancipated class which tnese changes involve. And, therefore, I am glad when I see the noble spirit of your letter pervading the Southern people as it does, despite the malignity of a partisan press, while the sterling sense of Mr. Vallandigham has reformed the Northern Democracy. And it matters not what man may be chosen to lead us, so long as his heart is large enough to hold his whole country; his soul brave enough to embrace a Confederate as a brother, and his uaiu ivi yyu v? umwu ? , ? stopped and told the child to put on his shirt. He made an effort to do so and failed. His father repeated the order, when the boy said: "I can't see?I can't see I" You can't see it!" responded his father. "No, father, I can't see you?I can't see you?I feel like dying." The father then rubbed the boy With Spirits, and forced some down his throat The child raised his hands, moved his lips and expired. Mera then took the body and put it under the bed, where the sick mother was lying, and it remained there until evening, when he buried it. Sarah Mera, daughter of the murderer, aged fourteen, testified that her father often whipped her brother very severely with a . horse whin. Tuaedsylwo weeks, ago he j broughTrav bTSnrerTn, and ?tt<ntiat Tie had , not worked, and whipped nnri knocked hire down twice, father continued toTwhip him, and said he would whip him till he could not J stand up; ^hat h# would wmp the Bfif otit of r111"*?(hrpfi times he woold say this, and hrnthfirmiiihr jlli inliiiiiU fullm _ "FhIIi er, don't whip me any more. "Ohldonjf whip me any more." I liked him. Brothswent to bed about ten o'clock. He said he did not know why father whipped him so; he never told stories onlv when father made him. JFather woold say if he didn^t own up that he had done so and so, he woold whip him ; and, to avoid it, brother would own to things that he never did. Wednesday I cot ud and got breakfast ready. Father rose when breakfast was ready, and brother got up, hut felt bo badly he went back to bed. Father made him get up and go oUt and feed the stock, and when he came'back father whipped him, and sent him to the field. He "went for him and brought him, and made. him<:take off his clothes, and then whipped bim, and then picked him up and laia him. on the stove. The stoVe was hot enough to heat, fui iron. I was baking biscuiti' Father put .him oh the stove twice, brother pleading' all the while, "Father, don't burn me." Hescreamed very load ,* and the stain stuck to the stove. His skin came off his back and his feet, and stuck to the stove. It smelled so $at I opened the door and father immediately Bhut it ^Vhile brother was pleading, father said he would burn him till he worked. I have seen father strike mother with his fists many times. He knocked brother down several times with the but end of the whip. I never saw by brother after he went into my mother's room. Correspondence of the Yorkvilie Enquirer. FROM CLEVELAND SPRINGS. Cleveland Springs, July 7th, 1871. Mr. Editor: I do not know how I can make my letter more interesting to your readers than by furnishing you with a register of our visitors. This, to persons who may be turning their longing eyes toward this quiet retreat, would undoubtedly be an item of interest. Nothing, unless it be the character of the water, or the bill of fare, could be of more importance. The latter I have already given you. \ , . ; v platform wide enough for every American izen to stand upon. To compass this something of sacrifice is required of us all much of self-control is demanded of the South. You and all I hear assure me that the attempt^H will be made; and if made honestly and in^H earnest, cannot.fail. Again thanking you for^H your letter, I am, very respectfully, your obe- B9 - dient servant, J.~Q--ADAMS, ^Hj To J. T. Teezevant, Esq., Augusta, Ark.^H THE REAL STORY OF THE KU-KLUX. H Mr. Copeiand, the intelligent and fair-rain-1 j ded correspondent of the New York Journal Commerce, has a letter in that paper, in which he gives his evidence as to the existence and character of the ku-klux in the Southern States. The Journal says editorially, by way of comment w thfr latter trjjrr . Besides bang one ?f the most complete accounts of that mysterious organization that we have ever read# it has the higher merit, we believe, of abeolute.impartiadity. A north erner journeying southward is apt to be swayf ed by intense prejudices when he approaches , this ticklish subject If he is a bitter Radi-^H cal, he talks with Radicals only, believes all^H he hears, and imagines ka-kluxes for himself^H r in ever stirring bush by moonlight If he is^H I an extremist of the opposite party, he affiliates . with ultra men of his own political school, who are greatly tempted to understate or ex-^H tenuate or even pooh-pooh at the lawsless^H deeds ascribed to the mystic crew. M s. Our representative at the South, acting un-BB f der explicit directions from this office, purges^H s himselffrora all bias, erases"from his memory i, so far as any man can, the (prided , state? a meats of Congressional reports, arid proceed^H I to investigate, independently aanmpsrtiatty^H from all available sources ony&ce snofc^th? exact status of the value wanting in all^^^^y-nll, the expo^^B e sitions of this theme which have hitherto a pi h peared. The conclusions that he reache<^H i- may be briefly put downtime: Florida has n<B ku-klux organization, but is cursed' with hefl ?- share df outlaws-like every State in theUnflH e ion. No ku-klux band nri>^ existt taftMHp ^ ia. Alabama is equally 'free from theoj p w I But in portions of North and South.- CaMtaBL u there are gangs of prowlers,- who someHKHJj rob and murder. Their numbers are 6 and their maraudings confined to limite^H^^ 8 tricte. Owning horses, and having the jHH| 1* plete discipline and bond of secrecy WhichaT-^H 1- ways obtain among banditti tb? world over, a and living in a sparsely settled country, they ^Bj 0 fly from this point to that with the speed of H a the wind,, detection, arrest mad conviction, and Hj can keep a hundred miles square in a constant H 8 ferment Like stage' soldiers, who run behind W the scenes from one wing-to another, and then march past the foot-lights in endless proces-^H won, these ku-kluxs impress the casual ohser^H ver as a vast army; where, all told, they are^H but a handful, and if corraled, could be cap-^| tured by a company or two of regular troops. Bat there's the rub. Their game is not to^B be caught?and twenty regiments of soldiers, - mounted, might not be successful in bagging fl them. That they will disappear as suddenly ? as they sprung into notoriety, we have no^J '* doubt?but their extinction will come from H| the clearing up and improvement of the 8outh>^| *' politically and socially. As fever and aguejM d vanishes before drainage and culture, so tbe^B ku-klux distemper will quiet the Southern body politic as the Southern people are re-1 ie admitted to their rights and resume all theH functions of self-government. The k^-klux H are not a political cabal; although they pro- Hj i- fees to sympathize withjthe, conservatives. H This illusion they keenMi@y dottflning their H outrages mostly to negirolrand northern or H southern Radicals. But the conservatives, H t, without exception, so far as our correspondent H ?, can ascertain, repudiate these Bedouins, and b, wish fornotbing better than their extermina t- don. When the conservatives regain power H n at the South,, they will make short work with i* the &lae pretenders who Occasionally steal H d and murder in their respectable name. The e- list of cases presented in the letter makpfia H vL startlmg^xhibit of erime; but so wowTa fl is half dozen atrocities culled from t^e police B k State. This should be remettUered in read-H i- ingthem; nor shbuTiTttie TjsdrrJyH io note.^B J wmle execrating such m^nigliTOrroTS, that^B ie some ofithe feeling against negroes and carpet-baggers, thus terribly exemplified at the South, arises frpm the mugovernmeht and op a pression inflicted upon that section by the S( latter andtheir accomplices. Where rhTera y are demoralized, some of the rnled Will inevi). tably be so, too. The nuisance of carpet-bagJf gere breeds the nuisiance of ku-klnx klan. e The death of one will be fatal to the other e also. I THE NEW CANCER CURE, i- No discovery id the medical world could be t. received with greater rejoicing?a cure for a consumption/ perhaps, excepted?than the < new cancer remedy^for while cancers are r lose frequently met with than consumption, I they present a certain, lingering death in its i, most awful form, and they are hereditary. It e is not surprising then that the announcement j of a cure should call out innumerable applii cations for the cundurango. The steamer r Ocean Queen, which arrived at this port from <- Aspinwall on Saturday, brought intelligence a that a large supply of the plant may be expected in the Aspinwall steamers due here on - the 1st and 15th of August, a About three months ago the State Depart- , [ ment at Washington received a few pounds of xJ 1 the cundurango -from the Government 3 Ecuador, through the Minister to this country ) with, a communication describing it Butlitl tie importance was attached to the matter at 3 first, and it might have been neglected alto, gether, had not Dr. Bliss been given a small i quantity of the plant fay the Ecuadorian Mint ister, who happened to be under his care. a Thnnorh aliflntical ah tn its virtues, he hecari i to pse it in his practice, and obtained such surt prising results that the limited supply of .the - remedy In Washington ' was soon divided ; among eager applicants. About fifteen cases f of cancer have Deen treated with it in this t country, and in all its use has been attended i by a wonderful improvement of. the patient, though the necessarily small doses given have r been insufficient to produce its lull effects. ' Mrs. Matthews, the Vlce-PresSent i Colfax, has been nearly cured of a canoer which i it was feared would end her life within the i year, although she had taken leas than fivtf ; ounces of the cundurango what the supply gave out. The wife of George C. Gorham, r *v >, ?"fand a l&dy in Utica. i to whom some of we remedy wassent ny 5ec retary Fish, are among the other sufferers i whom a few ounces have nearly cured.' 'The ; mode of administering the plant is very dm. , pie, it being merely steeped in boiling vster, t and the infusion taken internally. As the news of the discovery gained emulation, a great number of applications forte remedy were sent to Wawingfem iron a), parts of the country, 20 or 3() leder8 a diy \. being received by Dr. Bliss, and an tfoal I number bv the State Deiiartment flhnv persons, refusing to believe that the suply was exhausted, went themselves to Waslngton from distant joints, m the fruitless fort to obtain the precious drug. Dr. Bliss, ben convinced that the cundurango was a sptific for cancer, sent an order for 500 pounds fit " ' to a business house in Guayaquil. He ton ? learned, however, that, as it was not an arble of commerce, it was impossible to obtain inordinary commercial methods. He therelre dispatched his partner, Dr. Keene, as an agut . to procure a supply. To facilitate his missio, - , Dr. Keene was given an official character, \y i an appointment as bearer of dispatches to the *f Government of Ecuador, and was supplied with letters of recommendation by President i Grant, Mr. Colfex, Mr, Fish, and other prominent persons. He writes that the task of obtaining the cundurango is more difficult tb&n was expect-. ed. The roads to the Loja district are rough and unfrequented, the rainy season is not yet over, the streams ate swollen, and dangerous to cross, and the Indians ate disposed to throw