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f traps and Jacts. A hotel keeper in Danville, New York brags of one boarder who has been with hin over thirty-five years. The building of a narrow gauge rail road has been commenced near Columbus Georgia. The gauge is to be three feet. . The bark, Nehemiah Gibson, which ar rived at New York from Colombo on Thurs day last, had on board the unusual cargo o eleven elephants?reported all well. Th custom-house officers passed their trunks with out examination. Atlanta, Georgia, has a woman shoe maker. Her husband, who fell battling fo the South, left her his kit of tools as a legacy but hard times coming on she has taken th strap and the last, and is pegging out an hoc est livelihood. The Texas Gazette speaks in this styl of a politician of that State : "Should th brains of a decent white man be deposited ii the Mississippi river at St. Louis, ten drops c river water at Vicksburg would fully repre sent his intellectual capacity." A girl in Portland was reading the par able of the wise and foolish virgins when sh suddenly paused. "Well, what did they for get ?" asked the teacher, encouragingly "They forgot their kerosene," responded Mis Five-year-old. At the Convention of Kentucky Baj tists, recently in session at Louisville, an offe of $300,000 was made to remove the Baptis University from Greenville, S. C., to an eligi hie point in Kentucky, provided the othe Southern States will raise $200,000. Among recent deaths is that of Ed war B. Ketchum, whose career upon Wall steee with his subsequent trial and conviction t Sing Sing prison, upon a charge of forgery will be recollected by most of our readers a one of the most exciting topics of the day i; which it occurred. It is an exploded theory that woma dresses to please man. They dress to please o spite each other. Any girl of sense and es perience knows that it is just as easy to brea a man's heart in a two dollar muslin, neatl made up, as it is in a five hundred dollar sill costume made up by a man dress-maker. Josh Billings says: "Most enny ma . will conceed that it looks foolish to see a bo drag a heavy sled up a hill for the fleetir pleshurs of ridiu' down again ; but it appear to me the boy is a sage beside of the youn; man who works hard all the week, and drink his wages on Saturday night." The Cincinnati Gazette thinks that th great need of the country is not schools of th fine arts, but of the mechanic arts; schools t train boys and girls to earn a living. Th great educational problem is how to direc school education to the great necessity o labor. And one of the greatest labor pro! lerns is, how shall the rising generation lean the trades they must follow tor a living? The Savannah Republican contains a: account of a turnpike road steam engin< which was received in that city a few day ago, and is to be tested en the common road: as to its adaptability to work on the ordinar roads of the country. It is eight horse-pov er, weighs five tons, and is calculated to dra^ fifteen or twenty tons. It was built by th Grant Locomotive "NVorks, at Patterson, ? J., at a cost of 85000, and is the fifth of il class that has been turned out from this e: tablishraent. Mr. Beecher says of novels : "I believ in them. I think they are no more to be di allowed than any other part of literatun They can be made to serve the very best end of economy, of virtue and morality, to sa nothing of religion; but a man who feeds o nothing but these, how miserable and wretel ed he is! These are the whips and syllabub of life. They are not the bread nor the meai They are the confections of life. But ough a man to sit down and eat sugar-plums for hi ? dinner ind nnthimr. w -i ; A Colorado saloon keeper said ot i rough crowd: "I couldn't get their whisk; strong enough for them, so after trying ever; way, I at last made a mixture of poison oal and butter-nut. That fetched 'em. I calle< it the sheep herder's delight; and it was i popular drink. The first Pike I tried it oi yelled with delight; the next one took tw drinks, and turned a double somerset in th road before the house. A peddler came along and after he took several drinks of my sheej herder's delight, he went off and stole his owi pack, and hid it in the woods." ju. ?uinvan aas, iu juiviiigsioii cuuuiy Illinois, a farm eight miles square, contain ing 40,960 acres,?64 sections, govern men survey. This vast tract is sub-divided int 32 farms of 1280 acres each. Each farm ha a captain and first and second lieutenant, al under the control of a coinmauder-in-chieJ There are 15,000 acres under the plow, ove 10,000 of which are this season in com which looks supurbly. The whole of tli land was entered from the government b the present owner some twenty years since, a 81.52 per acre, and is now worth, with th improvements made upon it, at least 82,000 000. The New York Herald, in a length and exhaustive article on "Southern troubles, says: The wonder is that so few exist, an this is the best evidence that the mass of th Southern people are law-abiding. When brave and high-spirited people submit so we to, and make the best of, their humiliatin situation, we have the best guarantee of thei future good conduct and of peace. Let u be just and magnanimous. Let us have som consideration for the people of our own rac and blood, and not rush thein beneath the q norant and semi-barbarous negroes and th carpet-bag scum of the North Lewenboeck tells us of an insect see with the microscope of which 29,000,00 would equal a mite. Insects of various kinc may be seen in the cavities of a grain of sane Mould is a forest of beautiful trees, with tb branches, leaves and fruit. Butterflies ai fully feathered. Hairs are hollow tube The surface of our bodies is covered wit scales like a fish ; asingle grain of sand woul cover 150 of these scales; and yet a sea] covers 200 pores. Through these narro openings the sweat forces itself like watt through a sieve. The mites make 500 steps second. Each drop of stagnant water coi tains a world of animated beings, swimrain with as much liberty as whales in the sei Each leaf has a colony of insects grazing o it like cows in a meadow. The new law relating to railway acc dents in Germany will place the compani* in a more disadvantageous position than thi which they hold in England. The burden < proof lies entirely with the company, and is not sufficient to show that there was r culpable neglect on the part of its servants nor indeed will any other plea relieve it of i responsibility, except that of the sole culp bilityof the person injured. If a merestrai ger, not a traveler, should pass through a st tion, and a locomotive should burst and ki him, the company would be liable to the su viving family, even though it should be ab to prove that the accident arose from such peculiar combination of circumstances that i blame is attached to anybody. The act b came law June 14. R. D. Munson is a persistent Yanke a native of Williston, Vermont, who has d voted ten years to the achievement of makir a clock that is more complicatedly ingenioi than the Strasbourg time-piece, and vast! more serviceable. It runs eight days, and tl dial marks the second, minute, hour, and da of the week, month and year; a thermomeh rests against the pendulum, giving the stai of temperature; the ball of the pendului contains a miniature time-piece, which deriv< its motive power solely from its vibrating p sition, and keeps accurate time; with th there is a delightful musical apparatus, whic plays an air at the end of each hour, and it (piously precontrived so as to play only sacre .times on Sunday, beginning and ending wit , the "Doxology." On national holidays, the ' airs are diversified patriotically, with "Yanr I kee Doodle," etc. This wonderful time-piece }, presents a black walnut front ten feet high, 3 I twenty inches wide and ten deep, and is em1 bellished with profuse scroll work and national designs. ' ihe ?0tfeviUe ftttfrim. I- : :~jkHWlffwSy'u YORKVILLE, S. C.: I; THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 20,1871. Q j ?? f | Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is s 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 jobe work, are cash, in advance JOB PRINTING. 8 Having determined to devote more attention hereafter to job printing than we have h done in the past, we would inform the public t that our office is now well supplied with new j type of the latest styles, and the best mar j chinery in use; and with a choice stock of I inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to d i execute as good work as can be done anyt, where in the United States^ Orders for 0 Ball Tickets, Freight Billheads, r, Bank Notices, Labels, a Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks, Bill Heads, Law Briefs, Q Business Cards, Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads Q Checks, Note Circulars, r Deposit Tickets, Note Headings, Drafts and Notes, ; Programmes, 1 Envelopes, ; Policies, FireA Life Ins., K Election Tickets, jSliinplasters, y Festival Tickets, I Wedding Cards, h will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction as to quality of work, guaranteed in every n instance. Particular attention given to fine ^ work in colors. s personalT ? Colonel I. G. McKissick, who at the last 8 election was the candidate of the "Reform" party for Congress in this District, was in e Yorkville last week. He is visiting the sev0 eral counties with the view of procuring suffie cient testimony to enable him to contest the it seat held by Hon. A. S. Wallace. His ground ^ of contest is that he was defeated by fraudulent means. We have not learned what progress he has made in securing testimony to sustain the contest, but judge that he is on a , bootless expedition, as the frauds practiced at s the last election were so carefully covered up, 3, that it will be next to impossible to get any? ? i ?1 n y tiling tangiDie upon wnicn 10 miugu utie. (v GOING T(TLIBERIA. e We learn that a large number of negroes? comprising sixty or eighty familes?in the s vicinity of Clay Hill, in the north-east part 3" of this county, have determined to emigrate to Liberia, and are now making their ar? raugements to embark in the vessel of the 3 Colonization Society, which will sail from Is Charleston or Baltimore early in November y next. Rev. Elias Hill and June Moore, (two n colored men of this county) are at the head l* of the movement, and it is the intention of the emigrants to locate in that part of Libej ria known as the North Carolina Colony. s These emigrants are to be received at Rock V ' XI'1 uu iU1U1J||Cu imnapmuhiuii ny a j Liberia by the Colonization Society. AVe uny derstand that several hundred other negroes Y in this county are making preparations to j follow in the vessel which sails next May. 3 a INCENDIARY CAUGHT. ^ On Thursday last, Jack Brooks, alias James e Jackson Brooks, a negro aged about twenty years, in the employ of John S. Bratton, Esq., p was arrested and lodged in jail at this place, a under a warrant issued by Trial Justice W. B. Williams, on the charge of burning the '? threshing house, etc., of Mr. Bratton, men" tiou of which was made in last week's issue 1 of the Enquirer. s The information which led to the arrest was ] furnished by negroes employed on the plantaf. tion, who immediately after the occurrence of r the fire, went to work for the purpose of fer '? reting out the criminal. The unusual conduct e of Brooks rendered him an object of suspi^ cion, and upon being directly charged with e the burning, made a confession of his guilt }. I From all that can be learned, Brooks had no | confederates, and the act has no political sigy nificance whatever, as was apprehended by many persons. The negroes who engaged in ^ the efforts to discover the incendiary, without e regard to the motives which may have actuII ated them, are entitled to the highest praise. +. P STATE ITEMS, ir 8 ? Aiken is to have a fruit-canning estabe lishment. :e ? Work has been commenced upon a new V Methodist brick church in Chester. e ? Efforts are being made to organize a National Bank at Anderson, with a capital stock J of $60,000. |g ? Watermelons are more abundant in Co] lumbia and Augusta, than they have been for ie several years past. e ?John H. Galloway has tendered his res' signation as coroner of Union county, and the resignation has been accepted by the I Governor. w ?Colonel Myers, of the 7th Cavalry, stair tioned at Spartanburg, died on the 11th ina staut, at that place, after a short illness. He i- had been in the army for forty years. & ? A lodge of colored Good Templars, was a* organized last week at Columbia under the 'U ~~o" name of "Palmetto Lodge, No. 4." A Rastrom, Esq., of Charleston, State Deputy, offi33 ciated. it ? The iron on the railroad between Sumter af and Columbia is being rapidly put down. Arrangements are in progress for continuing the road to Augusta, which will give a con^ tinuous line from "Wilmington to the latter a_ point. a- ?Narrow gauge railroads, it is thought, a- will soon be introduced into this State. It is 11 in contemplation to run a line of that kind r" from Newberry to Laurens; another line is e also proposed across Lexington county, con10 necting the Greenville and Augusta Railroads, q. | via. Lexington Court House. ?The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta e, | Railroad Company gives notice that at the e- j State Fair, full freight will be charged on all 'g j stock, merchandise, etc., sent to the Fair, but J will refund the charge on the return of the ^ : freight?thus conveying the freight designed for >Y ! the Fair free of charge both ways. ;r j ? The Reporter says that John C. Reistei te i forwarded last week his resignation of the ofm | fice of Clerk of the Court for Chester county, 33 i and the same was accepted by Governor Scott. ?" | Under the law, as it stands, the duty of filling | the vacancy thereby created devolves upon js! Judge Thomas. id j ? The Lancaster Ledger says that violent ;h i storms of wind and rain, accompanied with a little hail, visited sorae portions af that coun-1 ' ty on Sunday evening last. The hail did no j serious damage, though the wind was de-. | structive to the heavy-loaded fruit trees in j the Waxhaws and along the course of the | storm. j# ?The Charleston News relates the following : "About 5 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, as a party of boys were bathing at the floodgate near the offices of the Savannah and ! Charleston Railroad, one of their number, a j colored boy about twelve years of age, named 1 James Smith, got beyond his depth, aud was j I unable to stem the current and swim back, j i He was about to drown, and had sunk twice ; ! when his companions raised their voices for | j help. Mr. S. W. Fisher, the treasurer of the company, was attracted hy their cries, and, running to the spot, saw in a moment what had happened. Without waiting to get rid | of any encumbrances but his watch, he plung- j ed into the water, and succeeded in catching j the drowning bov under the water, after he I had gone down for the third time. The boy, I as we stated above, was black, and his rescuer was white." ? Some of the Charleston people are just now employing a part of their time in capturing a few of the sharks which infest that harbor. The News of Saturday last says: "Yesterday morning a party of gentlemen procured the carcass Qf a dead horse, and, following it down the harbor with the ebb tide, succeeded in capturing two sharks of enormous dimensions, just off Fort Sumter. The monsters were towed up to North Atlantic dock, and were speedily hoisted upon the wharf The larger one measured twelve feet and one inch from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail, and weighed five hundred and eighty pounds. The other measured eleven feet four inches, and weighed five hundred and sixty pounds. These are two of the largest marine monsters which have been captured lately, and one of them is the largest thst has been taken here since the war. His mouth is a serrated cavern, armed with several rows of sharp saw teeth, aud the look from his eyes is anything but inviting. He had about twenty-five pounds of horse flesh between his jaws, which added not a little to the beauty ? ? mi i. J? 5 J ot His appearance, inese iwo luuiviuuuis, just introduced to the city of Charleston, are said to belong to the common species of ground sharks." ? The following in relation to the doings of the Sub-Outrage Committee at Spartanburg, is from the Columbia Union: "From a gentleman of Spartanburg, we learn something of the work, which has been laborious, of the Sub-Committee on Southern Outrages at that place. Evidence in about three hundred cases of outrages has been taken, consisting of all grades of horror and cruelty. Many cases have been before the committee where backs that had been lacerated, and other bodily injuries received from the hands of the ku-xlux have spoken louder than words of the sufferings of the loyal people of that portion of the country. Scores of witnesses, and persons who had received injury in one way or another have been turned away, as the mass of evidence adduced is undeniable and horrible, and tells the tale known before to many, but through fear remaining untold. In view of threats, which have been freely made, to commence again the ku-klux work when the committee adjourns, the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Scott, has plainly indicated the consequences of any such course, as the county would surely be placed und?r . miirtinl low'in fact, enough is now known tr~Wflrrflnt qii/>JVO V-^ ble to give the county one more trial." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Capt. R. A. Shotwell, a lawyer, and formerly editor of a democratic paper in Rutherfordton, has been committed to the jail in that place on a charge of ku-kluxing. ? George Sinclair, who represented himself as agent for an imaginary theatrical troupe, was committed to jail in Wilmington ' ? i l .1... /?.! Jast week tor obtaining ooara unaer mise pretenses. ? The executive committee of the State Agricultural Society have fixed upon Tuesday the 17th of October as the day for the opening of the next fair, which will continue four days. ? Henderson Young, the negro convicted at the last term of Mecklenburg Superior Court of the murder of Edward Smith, of that county, was hung in Charlotte on Friday last. ? Edward Cantwell, famous as the man who wore the first secession badge seen in Raleigh, and who, since the organization of the present State government, has been a radical office holder, was conspicuous at a radical mass meeting held at Weldon last week. ?At the Baptist Educational Convention which convened in Richmond last week, North Carolina was represented by Dr. Pritchard, of Raleigh, Rev. N. Bowen, of Hendersonville, Rev. P. H. Fontaine, of Wake Forest, Professors Simmons, Mills, Taylor and W. B. Royall. ? The annual meeting of the stockholders of the North Carolina Railroad took place in Greensboro on the 13th instant. The only account we have seen of the proceedings is in the Raleigh Sentinel. That paper charges that certain stockholders had conspired to prevent a meeting by refusing t^ give in their stock ; and as a quorum could not be obtained, the meeting adjourned, to meet on the 20th of September next. ? F. N. Strudwick, of Hillsboro, having been summoned to appear before the ku-klux committee at Washington, and failed to appear, was treated as an absconding witness, anfl a second summons was served on him by | a United States Deputy Marshal at his home in Hillsboro. Mr. Strudwick has published a card stating that it was not his intention to evade an examination. He has also telegraphed to the committee that at present he is too ill to return to Washington. ? It is stated that forty or fifty persons i have surrendered to the civil authorities of Rutherford county, and confessed the part they acted in the recent disguise outrages in that county. Some have been committed to i jail, while others have fled to avoid arrest. A U. S. Deputy Marshal with a detachment of j the 7th cavalry, has been operating in that j county. He reports that he has been engaged | in arresting illicit distillers, and parties en-! I gaged in committing outrages. Ten distille. ries were destroyed, besides a large quantity i' of whisky. . | ? A Wilmington dispatch, dated the 17th, ; j says that on that morning the Robeson despe11 radoes, Lowrey and his gang of outlaws, way {laid and killed Daniel Murdock McLean, a I prominent citizen, and Hugh McLean, his ! brother, a youth only thirteen years old. They | also wounded Archibald McCollum. These , | parties were riding along the public road in a buggy, and were fired on from a thicket in ; the woods. A fearful state of terror exists i among the women and children in Robeson county. The Sheriff has a posse of one hun; dred and fifty in the field, but their efforts , thus far are utterly fruitless. ? The western division of the North Caro- J lina railroad company has brought a suit in : the Supreme Court of New York against S. | W. Perkins, to recover $800,000 on an.accepted order. The suit grew out of issuing $4,000,000 of the bonds of the State to Gi W. Swepson, who was President of the company i at the time, and M. S. Littlefield. It iwJ-fi leged that the bonds are in New York, clover $1,000,000 of the proceeds of bo^ht ] bonds of some Florida railroad -wmpifcy, I which were afterwards consolidated ; and flat the Florida Legislature offered State bondiin exchange for the first mortgage bonds of he consolidated company. These Florida bflhlrV were sent here to Hopkins & Co., for sale.. Ihe State of North Carolina afterwards appoint^ | a commission to examine into what had beet j flnno u?ith thp hnmls of the North Carolim ; Railroad Company, and it is alleged that'll- j der a threat of criminal prosecution, Swepsta | & Littlefield gave an order for $800,000 f| ; favor of the North Carolina railroad, and (A fered to furnish iron for 53 miles of thatroadii. This order Hopkins & Co. accepted, but af-| terwards declined to pay; whereupon Sydney1 W. Hopkins was arrested and placed under $300,000 bail. ? For several days past the Sheriff oir Robeson county has been making strenuous eft forts to arrest the freebooters of that county,' known as the "Lowrey gang," and on -Tuesday afternoon of last week a fearful bufcclfery ] was perpetrated by Henry Berry Lowrey and a band of negro outlaws. The Sheri^^^M having in charge Lowrey's wife and several f others, whp have been aiding and abettiufej outlaws, was ambuscaded near Buis' Store, on the Wilmington, Charlotte <fe Rutherford j railroad, and of the posse Hector Archibald Brown and Hector McNeille were killed, and D. McCormick, B. Barnes, and James Lowrey wounded. The fight resbhed itself into a regular battle, which lasted until the outlaws were pursued far into a swamp. Pop Oxendine was captured, and is now in jail at Wilmington, and the citizens of Robeson are determined to capture or exterminate the last one of the gang. All the members of this band are negroes and mulattoes pying a barren tract of country, known as "Scuffletown," and when compelled to work for a subsistence, engage in hewing timber, for exportation, at which they are experts. Henry Berry Lowrey has sent a message tor the authorities at Lumberton, informing them that if the wives of the outlaws are pot released, they will make reprisals by the capture of white women, and fill the county with slaughter aud blood. WASHINGTON ITEMS* ^ As the Presidential pardon of Bowen could not effect his relation to Mrs. fettigrew King Bowen, and as the jury by their verdictdeclared that she was not his wife, there is some comment over the fact that the third Mrs. Bowen announces her purpose to live with him. The southern mail contracts are subject to the order of the Postmaster-General, dated April 4th, 1866, directing that certain railroads indebted to the Government for railroad materials purchased by them, and all orders recognizing accounts due said companies for transporting the mails, shall be specially referred to the Auditor to be placed ta the credit of the quartermaster's department. The United States army comprises at th^ present time about 30,000 men, divided into forty regiments, of which ten are cavalry^M^ mTfitary:,pos^, and includes ' 227 coim!^ sioned officers. The highest salary paid to an officer, that of Gen. Sherman, is $13,500;^ the lowest, paid to second lieutenants," is $1400 a year. The Quartermaster's Department buys annually about 2,000,000 busSels of corn and oats, 125,000 cords of wood, 30,- ] 000 tons of coal, and moves 100,000 tons of army stores. There are 25,000 horses, mules, and oxen in the army; some of the array wagon routes require 800 miles of hauling in a straight line. The Military Academy at West Point costs $220,000 a year; bes'des this institution, there is a school of artillery at Fort Monroe, and a torpedo school at Willet's Point, N. Y. On the 12th of June 113,266 soldiers' widows were on the rolls of the United States Pension Office. The Patriot mentions that a delegation from the South who recently called upon King Grant at Long Branch, returned to Washington very much disgusted. His Majesty, it seems, refused to see them, but gave them to understand that his house at Long Branch was a private residence, and that for official business they must take their chances of catching him in Washington. The delegation, it is understood, came from an impoverished portion of the South, and had no presents to offer. Nor was there any money in their mission. The Attorney-General instructs di&trict attorneys to make extraordinary exertion in the execution of the ku-klux bill. Whenever they hear of outrages they shall procure warrants from the Federal commissioners, arrest parties accused, and have them bound over or committed until the ensuing terra of the Federal Court. Virgil S. Lusk has been appointed special assistant district attorney to prosecute the ku-klux law in North Carolina, with Federal troops at his call. He is instructed to open his office in Raleigh, put himself in communication with the United States riomniiasioners and marshals and local State authorities in all sections of the State, and to receive reports from them of any ku-klux outrages committed ; to have warrants lSfnflJdiately issued for the apprehension of the offenders and witnesses, and to hold immediate examinations of the cases before the United States Commissioners, with a view of commiting or binding the parties for their appearance at court; to search up and collate ^hp evidence for the United States in each case, and to take such other steps as may be necessary to secure the conviction of the offenders. This appointment, it is said, meets the full approbation of District Attorney Starbuck, of North Carolina. No more applications for soldiers' discharges will be entertained, as the army is now reduced to 30,000. President Grant, it is stated, will remain at Long Branch until the 15th of August, when Tip will pro to California, without even return " "? O -- ing to Washington, unless an emergency requires it. It has been decided by the Postmaster-General to advertise again for proposals for carrying the mails in all the Southern States, except Tennessee and. Kentucky, for the fiscal year just commenced. This action is reirtfetfed necessary on account of the refusal of many of those persons to whom contracts had been awarded to accept the awards, basing their refusal on the assertion that they had fixed the amount of compensation at too low a figure. An ex-Confederate Captain, named Taliafero, planting near Macon, Miss., has been examined as a witness by the ku-klux committee. He testified that fifteen persons had been killed and many whipped in that vicinity withj the past year. There is an organized ' I band of ku-klux in that county. Taliaferro i atteijled several meetings, though he never i took the required oath; the supposition of i thoa present being that he was initiated by ; the-'aptain of the band, who can swear in a ' menber; his friends and neighbors all belong-1 ing to the band. Taliaferro gave the com-! mittee the details of the organization, signs, grips, etc. He once went on a raid with the band, and was present when several negroes were whipped. No prosecution has or could be instituted in that county, as nobody dare prosecute. Taliaferro was a witness before j the grand jury, at Oxford, Miss., and by his testimony several members of the'ku-klux were indicted. Tne revised census tables show the population of States and organized territories as fol lows: Whites, 83,681,680; Colored, 4,87y,3Z3; i Indian, 25,723; Chinese, 63,196; Japanese, 65. Total, 38,549,987. An important decision has been made by the United States Supreme Court, which is, that the limitation laws oftheSouthern States were suspended for the full period between he proclamation of blockade of the Southern >orts of April 19th, 1861, and the proclamation of restoration of Federal authority of August 20th, 1866. The effect of this decision will be to re-open the courts of the SouthBrii" States to ante-war claims of Northern Creditors,* and to give vitality to obligations which have been barred by limitation under tiiKritberto ruling of State courts. The principle will apply equally to Federal and State courts. I, > EDlTORlAiTlNKLINfiS. IA Knotty Question. One of the oddest questions ever submitted to lawyers is now puzzling the legal '.fraternity of Hartford, Conn. It seems that fc'faan who recently died tl^ere left a widow, fehildless, but expecting shortly to become a toother. By his will he provided that if the I expected child should prove to be a boy, twothirds of the property should go to him, and ne-third to the widowed mother. If, however, the child proved to be a girl, only onethird of the estate was to go to her, and twothirds to the mother. The result, of course, was awaited with an interest even greater than that usually bestowed upon such events. _?he result is the widow has become the mother of twins?a boy and girl. Festive Kn-Klux. A story is going the rounds that two festive Floridians were fined $100 each for shooting at a canary bird, the cage of which hung in the window of a private residence in Savannah. The facts are even so; but the Savannah Republican strips the story of any enormity it might otherwise possess, by stating that the amiable young gentlemen are not Floridians, but respectable citizens of N. York and Boston?the aristocratic sons of shoddy. The report thus sent forth may suit their notions, but not suit the ideas of the law-loving people of Savannah. One of the festive young gentlemen mentioned above is the nephew of Henry Ward Beecher, and the other one of an equally distinguished Northern family. Comfort for Little Men. A foreign correspondent writes that "itis-a curious study for physiologists to observe with what inequality nature deals out her materials in the manufacture of heroes. The Sjnajority of great reformers are remarkably ^j^Amen.- Louis Blaqc is a diminutive figaaigeTowm middle height, and Vermeesch?the terrible Veermeesch?Peere Duchense, was often mistaken for a girl in boy's clothes. It is wonderful to reflect that but a short while ago Veermeesch was the leader of fashion in Par is?never wearing the same gloves twice, picking his way over the asphalte in the daintiest of Riel boots, and never deigning to appear even at the officeof his journal before his hair had been duly curled and annointed by the hairdresser." .A Financiering Darkey. Recently an express car was robbed by a party of negroes in Alabama, and the manner in which the spoils were divided by the robbers shows in the case of one of them a sad instance of the depravity of the times, as well as misdirected intelligence. None of the gang could read ; but after the safe was tgpken open, Alfred Crosby tore off the ends of some of the packages, and soon discovered that the largest contained the smallest bills, and consequently the least money. Therefore, in making the division, Alfred proposed that two small packages should count as one large one, to which the others readily assented; and he then took care to take his part in the small packages, thus getting a double share of the booty. Alfred's friends insist that he has eminent qualifications for an office-holder. International Money Order System. The necessary documents of a convention establishing an exchange of postal money orders between the United States and England have been received at "Washington, and having been executed on the part of England, now await the signature of the Presicfcni and Postmaster General. The arrangement is to go into effect on the first of October. Each order is limited to ten pounds when issued in England, and fifty dollars when issued in the United States. The superintendent of the money order system, who concluded this convention, has gone to Berlin I tq effect similar arrangements between the fUnlfKrStates and Germany. So well does the system of postal money orders work, that we are not surprised at the government enlarging upon it, by establishing an international system with foreign countries; though it is a matter of surprise that the- facilities which it affords are withheld from so large a number of towns in the -United States. Bowen's Pardon. The fact of the President of the United States exercising the authority to grant a pardon to Bowen, convicted of an offence against the laws of a State, and of which the United States takes no cognizance, is beginning to attract attention in States further north than the doorine of State-rights had been supposed to have an advocate. A writer in the New York Tribune argues that the President has BOUthe power of pardoning Bowen, for the reason that the District of Columbia has a territorial constitution, under which the Governor is vested with the power of pardoning common criminals sentenced by the courts of th3 District. Bigamy is a common crime, and in no way an offence against the United States ; and so this writer maintains that the Preiident could have no legal authority to pardon in this case. j Bit the President having pardoned the J biganist, his troubles do not end with his reI leasefrom the State prison. He is not the j husbtnd of Mrs. King, his third wife, nor can ! I he be until the death of, or his divorce from I ! his first wife. This he will probably be unable j | to piDCure without her consent, and should he ( I cone ude to re-marry Mrs. King, he will again ! be liable to indictmeut for bigamy; and as ! they were not lawfully wedded, should they continue to live together as man and wife they j may both be prosecuted for a different crime? ! he for adultery, and she for fornication. Money-Order Offices. ? ?The Washington Chronicle of Saturday ; last, announces that on the 31st of July, the 1 Postmaster-General will put the following ! new money-order offices in operation in South : and North Carolina: South Carolina?Abbeville Court House, ' Abbeville county ; Yorkville, York county, ' and Spartanburg Court House, Spartanburg county. North Carolina?High Point, Guilford county; Kinston, Lenoir county; Lincolnton,: Lincoln county ; Rutherfordton, Rutherford | county; Rocky Mount, Edgecomb county;! Enfield. Halifax countv: Williamstown, Mar tin county, and Wilson, Wilson county. These will make the number of money-order offices in South Carolina, fifteen ; and in North Carolina thirty-five. Core for Fever and Ague. The editor of an exchange who has been afflicted with fever and ague, and having been cured by a simple remedy, is so overjoyed at the result that he made the matter the subject of a leading editorial. We givfe our readers the benefit of the remedy. If it does not cure, it will not kill. Here it is: "We wish to give a very simple remedy for fever and ague, and wish to emphasize it by saying that it has, to our knowledge, proved very efficacious. It is simply common salt. A teaspoonful takeh in water, and a teaspoonful deposited inside each stocking, next the foot, just as the chtll is coming on. That's all there is of it; but knowing that it has been very efficacious in 'breaking' a chill and perfecting a cure, we put it in our editorial columns, where no humbug remedy shall ever find a place, if we know it." The Cotton Crop. The official returns for July, at the Bureau of Agriculture in Washington City of the condition of the cotton crop do not materially change the prospects reported last month. No estimates can be authoritatively made thus early in the season; though information furnished by the returns is sufficient to lead to the following conclusions: v.... ? in i " wiin a reaucuon 01 i?7 per vein., ? icmtively low condition, and a season as long as that of 1870, there should be gathered a crop of 3,200,000 bales, or about as large as that of 1869; with a season of average length, 2,900,000 bales; and with an early frost and a very unfavorable season for picking, 2,700,000. The prevalence of insects, with other unpropitious circumstances, would probably reduce the crop to 2,500,000 bales; and a steady improvement of the plant for sixty days, with the longest and most favorable picking season, might carry the aggregate up to 3,500,000 bales. This is represented as a fair statement oi the range of probabilities, based on the most extensive and reliable data, and uninfluenced by buyers and speculators. The Soldiers of 1812. The regulations of the Commissioner oi Pensions in regard to the surviving soldiers in the Southern States of the war of 1812, will cause a great deal of red-tape and circumlocutory work, and prove a source of much vexatious delay to those veterans, who are as deserving of the gratitude and bounty of theii country as are those of the "loyal" States, tc whom the regulations do not apply. The Commissioner says : "In view of the express requirements of the act of February 14,1871, granting pensions tc the survivors of the War of 1812, proof oi -loyalty will, in aU cas^ube carefiilly exanr witnesses testify to the foyalty of a claimant, their own loyalty must be shown by the certificate of an officer of the United States Court, a United States Commissioner, or an officer of the Internal Revenue Bureau, setting forth that, after careful investigation, he is convinced the witnesses at no time during the late rebellion against the authority of the United States, adhered to the cause of the enemies of the Government, giving them aid and comfort, or exercised the functions of anj office whatever, under any authority, or pre tended authority, in hostility to the Unitec States." The Yankee Factory Girls. Southern emigration societies and oth ers who are desirous of introducing Northeri help into the South, have now a splendid op portunity, and especially inviting should it tx to bachelors, who can no longer have a valic excuse for their state of single wretchedness In one of the factories in Maine, recently, th< proprietors reduced the wages, whereupor there was a general determination among the girls employed therein to strike; and, as they were obliged to give a month's notice beftm quitting work, they had meanwhile issued ? circular to the world at large, in which is th( following interesting paragraph: "We are now working out our notice?car turn our hands to most anything?don't like to be idle?but determined not to work foi nothing where folks can afford to pay. Who wants help ? We can make bonnets, dresses, puddings, pies, knit, roast, stew and fry; make butter and cheese; milk cows, feed chickens, hoe corn, sweep out the kitchen, put the parlor to rights, make beds, split wood, kindle fires, wash and iron, besides Deing remarkably fond of babies; in fact can do anything the most accomplished housewife is capable of doing, not forgetting the scoldings on Mondays and Saturdays; for specimens of spirit will refer you to our overseer. Speak quick. Black eyes, fair foreheads, clustering locks, beautiful as Hebe; can sing like a seraph and smile most bewitchingly; any elderly gentleman in want of a good housekeeper, or a nice young man in want of a wife?willing to sustain either character; in fact, we are in the market. Who bids ? Going, going, gone ! Who's the lucky man ? MERE-MENTION. Wire-glass bird cages are the latest novel ties. Gen. Kilpatrick is announced as a Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey. The first narrow gauge engine built in America, was shipped last week from Philadelphia, for Pike's Peak. Four George Washingtons, six Andrew Jacksons, five Henry Clays and two Jas. K. Polks, all negroes, reside at present in the Louisana Penitentiary. A Chicago youth receives from his lady-love three letters daily, averaging twelve pages each. He thinks of starting a paper mill. Newark, New Jersey, manufactured $5,500,000 worth of patent leather last year. They have a school director in New York, who, in repeating the resignation of one of the young lady teachers, said "she had decided to engage in domestic relations." King Kamehameha V, of the Sandwich Islands, had his boots made in New York. He wears nines. General ! Butler has announced himself as a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. Tad Lincoln, son of the late President Lincoln* died of dropsy on Monday last Civil Rights Case.?On the affidavit of Mr. W. A. Havne, a warrant was issued yesterday by Trial Justice T. J. Mackey, for the arrest of J. Lombardo, the Market street barber, for refusing to shave Mr. Hayne, on accout of color. Mr. Lombardo was brought before Justice Mackey and bound over in $1,000 to answer the charge of violating the civil rights law at the next term of the United States District Court.? Charleston Republican. I Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROjf LICK CREEK. Mr. Editor: The wheel of fortune, in its precarious revolutions, has dropped me down ' on the hanks of "Lick Creek." There is, however, nothing remarkableabout the creek or the surrounding country, save the fadt; that there is but one copy of your excellent I paper received at our office. I do not think, however, that it can be said of this place much longer, for as much as you editors somer,nor.ol at it vuo Vin vp hppn lnaninc our tlliJCO VjUMl 1 Vi WW ?W| ??w MMtw www 0 paper around for some time, and hope soon to be able to seed you a good club as the result. Being unknown to you, we scarcely hope to find a vacant corner in the Enquirer, more especially after the announcement that "we are only an old field school teacherbut you may not know how disreputable, in the I eyes of some, it is to be an old "old field teach| er." Considering ourself one of the "impori tants," and our vocation an honorable one, we go on "conquering" young America. A teacher occasionally has to encounter rough cases, such as the following: Mr. Smith was delighted one Monday morning to see a new scholar walk in and accosted him with? "come here young man and let's see how far you're advanced. Do you know your letters ? "Oh! yes." "Well what is that?" "A B C D E?" "Hold on; say a." ?T.I ? ? "OUllii?on J a. "Well, what is that?" "Don't know, sir." "What does it look like ?" "Looks like an ox yoke." "That's b." "That's b." "Well, what's that?" "Don't know." "What do I.do when I look at you?" " 'Fraid to say, you might lick me: say you won't, I'll tell you." "Well, I won't; now what is it?" "You squint." "That's c." "That's c." "WhaTs thatf" "Don't know." "Thai'8 d for dunce, like yourself" "That's d for dunce, like yourself." Mr. Smith?pretty blue?"John, you can 1 take your seat 'till you learn manners." "Got nobody to learn me, sir." We have never met just such a case, but have seen enough to convince us of the sad 1 neglect prevalent in the country. This neglect has and ever will show its fruits in socie1 ty. Much of the fault lies with the parents; 1 but more of it is to be charged to our present ? free school system, which pays so badly that ! competent teachers will not accept the em' ployment, and a great many who will not labor, accept. There are also very few country school rooms fit for the business, they be* ing small log cabins, entirely inadequate to ' the purpose. But to another subjeot. This has been called one of the dark corn[ ers of South Carolina; but it is not so dark as one might suppose. We have very good ( society and the people are law abiding; there being no such thing as ku-klux or anything ( of the kind. We have had fine seasons and , the crops, which at first did not look so well, are growing. ELEBA. : ' From the Chetter Reporter. [ COL. JOHNSTON'S REPLY TO M. L JESUP. - published a few weeks_agfij^ circular rlrOm ??rmijl' tv, Vpw ? i fleeting very seriously upon Colonel William ' Johnston, President of the Charlot|e, Colum.bia and* Augusta Railroad Company. The ' following is the reply of Colonel Johnston to j the same. As an act of justice to Colonel ; Johnston, we take great pleasure in laying it 5 before our readers: ! Office of C., C. and A. R. R. Co. At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railj road Company, held on the 27th day of June, 1871, the following members being present, viz: Messrs. A. B. Springs, James H. Rion, W. L. Robertson, John Pisher, Giles J. Pat terson, Edward Hope, 8. D. Heard, J. J. Mci Lure, J. B. Palmer, F. W. McMaster, R. . Barringer, John J. Cohen, and Colonel J. B. , Palmer being in the chair, the following resoI lution was unanimously adopted and directed to be published: Resolved, That the Board of Directors, after 3 careful and deliberate consideration of the t request of President William Johnston, made > at our last meeting, for an investigation into r the charge made through M. K. Jesup, of New i York, and after consultation with many dis' creet gentlemen not connected with this com1 pany, are of opinion that the charge does not 1 merit an investigation, and that an investigation could not satisfy any one not already sati isfied as to the falsity of the charges, i The reasons for the conclusion reached by the Board are, briefly, these : i The letter of Charles L. Frost, Director of , the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad Comi pany, to the stockholders, dated New'York, , December 23, 1868, and the letter of John S. Kennedy, former partner of Morris K. Jesup, , dated New York, March 25th, 1869, together Tooiirk'a TOrnnorful rlpftlincs with the Co TV lUU UV?U|/ y iiavMg?v>. ? ? ? lumbia and Augusta Railroad Company, , place Mr. Jesup's character in such a light as to destroy the force of any charge made by ' him and denied by a gentleman. The fact that Mr. Jesup has allowed near three years to elapse, during a portion of i which time his relations with Mr. Johnston have been very unfriendly, without making the charge, creates a strong presumption against its truth. The books of our company afford no corroboration whatever of the charge. The stockholders, at their annual meeting, by a vote of a very large majority, considering the stock represented by the respective voters, have pronounced the charge unworthy of investigation. The stockholders, by an enormous stock vote, re-elected Mr. Johnston, with the charge pending, thereby giving a most conclusive evidence of their disbelief of the truth of the charge. And, finally, the difficulty of disproving a charge of this nature, referring to a transaction alleged to have taken place near three years ago, and in the city of New York, appears to be insuperable, however false the charge may be. For these reasons, the Board of Directors think Mr. Johnston may place a well established reputation for hvnor and honesty in the scale ap-ainat anv charge made by Mr. Jesup. ?o - 0 w The foregoing resolution is a true copy of the proceedings of the Board of Directors had at the meeting held this day. (Signed) JOHN FISHER, Secretary of the Board of Directors. Charlotte, N. C., June 27,1871. Charlotte, N. C., July 3,1871. To the Stockholders of the Charlotte, Columbia j and Augusta Railroad Company: i You no doubt have received the printed i circular of Mr. M. K. Jesup, of New York, j (under the style of M. K. Jesup & Co.,) and 1 many of you have seen the manuscript letters , on the same subject circulated by Mr. Manson, j former Treasurer of the company. It is due, to you as well as to myself that I, append the following statement of facts to the j resolution adopted by the Board of Directors:; In the year 1867,1 contracted with Mr. J., S. Kennedy, a member of the firm of M. K.: Jesup & Co., of NewYork city, for the future j delivery of 2,800 tons of rails for the Colum-1 )ia and Augusta Railroad Company, amountng, with interest at maturity of the note, to >ver $260,000. Mr. Kennedy delivered 800 ;ons of said railsfrom New York. Mr. Jesup ,vas then in England, and furnished the balmce from Wales. For the payment of this debt, $400,000 of the bonds of the company were pledged as jollateral security. At the maturity of the Bret notes, an extension was given by paying one per cent, per month until $130,000 had , matured, when payment was demanded. They J were then authorized to sell $200,000 of the bonds held as collateral at not less than seventy-five cents on the dollar. The sale was effected by Mr. Jesup; and this and all njy subsequent transactions with them were through him, Mr. Kennedy having, sometime previously, retired from the firm and being then in Europe. In the settlement, $130,000 of the proceeds of the bonds -were retained by Mr. Jesup on the notes then due; also $5000 for commissions, making $135,000. The balance of $15,000 realized from the sale was all that ever came into my hands. For this sum, I accounted to the company. Mr. Jesup delivered the notes of the company, for the sum of $130,000, with statement of commissions refninn/1 vaiuwi Id the settlement, Mr. Jcgup claimed at first five per cent, as commissions for introducing A and selling the bonds. This I refused to low. After some time and altercation, he o^^^H fered to reduce nis claim to two and one-halH^H per cent, and in this persisted, alleging tha^^^J other railroad Presidents had allowed a higl^HH er rate. The company still owing him a largl^QE debt, and he still holding $200,000 of its bonds ^ as collateral therefor, and learning from James Robb, Esq., a gentleman of high personal atjd financial character, that two and one-half per cent, was fair for introducing and selling new ; bonds, I yielded to his demand as the b^t settlement to be had. I subsequently sdtd $200,000 of the company's bonds at par, and paid Mr. Jesup all that was due them. Mr. Jesup, in his letter to Mr. Manson, says they charged two and one-half per cent, by my "direction," then, by "his [my] requirement, returned," Ac. In his printed circular, he says: "We paid to him 'our check drawn to bearer."' These contradictory statements do not bear the semblance of truth or of a business transaction. No receipt or voucher for the disbursement is produced as evidence of the truth of the assertion. Mr. Jesup, or any of his friends, or any ont lse, could have collected such a check as well as I could. The statement appears to have been framed so as to render the charge incapable of disproof, while no proof, except """i in nffomsl aa avi^An/H) ftf thfl LLIV/X %J OOUVi UlUUj to VUVM W* MV V ? ??VMWW w* allegation. Has the clerk or treasurer of any copartnership the right to disburse the copartnership funds without taking a receipt or voucher for the same; or will a copartner even do it ? No business man could entertain such an idea;and such statements, contradictory in themselves, are absurd as business transactions. The statement of Mr. Jesup, sent to Mr. Man son, copied from his firm books, showing that he only charged himself with $2^00 to his firm, when he admits he received $6,000 commissions, is only evidence of the manner in which he accounted to his copartners for hisprofits. Having conceded his demands of two and one-half per centum commission, and he bavins all the bonds and funds in his own hands, I bad no power, by "requirement' or otherwise, to appropriate or make him "refund" that which belonged to him or his firm. In this he speaks as a very innocent and pure child under my absolute control. He had to surrender to my "requirements" the one-half of his "not unusual charge" of commissions. This explanation may satisfy some persons, but thoee who know Mr. Jesup and his exacting charges and rules of business, in New York, will doubt its truth. No one ever knew him to transact business for only one half the "not unusual rate" of charges for his services. "?utterly denying tun iniirf ui Mr. jmups statement, it is apparent that I had no control over that which was his and in his fripearion. If any wrong or injury was done to the Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company, it must have been by a combination between him and myself, he being a stockholder, as he states, in the company. According to his own statements it couldf not have been otherwise. He was, then, particem eriminis, a willing coadjutor in the alleged fraud, and comes before the public with all the discredit which he endeavors to throw upon me. He seems, however, perfectly willing to bear his share of the disgrace, provided he can involve me with him. After the Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company, in June, 1869, settled its important litigation with the South Carolina Railroad Company, having left with' Messrs. Jesup & Co., on special deposit, $100,000 of its bonds wholly unencumbered, I drew on them for $75,000 of the bonds to pay the South Carolina Railroad Company. The draft was refused payment After an unsatisfactory correspondence with Mr. Jesup, and no sufficient reason given for the dishonor of the company's draft, I went to New York and demanded from Mr. Jesup the reason for the refusal to pay. He replied: "You gave us no notice of the draft" 1 replied: "None was necessary, as the bonds were on special deposit, and your course is dishonorable," &c. "He replied: "Mr. Johnston, I will not argue the question with you," and left his office. The only solution I could give of his conduct in this matter was that he, without authority, had wrongfully pledged those bonds to sustain his private credit. In July, 1867, the firm of M. K. Jesup & Co. was dissolved, Mr. J. S. Kennedy withdrawing on account of unsatisfactory relations with Mr. Jesup, as shown by his published card. The 2,000 tons of rails, purchased by Mr. Jesup himself in England, and laid on the road in 1868, having proved a fraud upon the company, Jesup & Co. were addressed twice to make reparation for the injury to the company. To these letters, no reply was made. Suit was then instituted by Messrs. Ward, Jones & Whitehead, solicitors for the company, to recover damage for the cheat in the | rails, against M. K. Jesup <fe Co. This suit is still pending, notwithstanding Mr. Jesup says it was dismissed. Since Mr. Kennedy withdrew from the copartnership of Messrs. M. K. Jesup & Co., I have bought rails from him for the Statesville Railroad ; but I have ^ made no contract nor entered into any new business with Mr. Jesup. It is untrue that I bought rails from Messrs. Jesup & Co., up to February, 1870. as he states. Since he dishonored the coopany's draft for the bends, and since I had the unfriendly interview with him, I have no: spoken to him; but by letter demanded reparation, as stated, for fraud in the rails sold by him. That Mr. Jessap might be able to get up an ex 'parte, certificate or affidavit in New York is very probaMe. But that he should have told his story in two different ways about the commissions, first signing the communication as M. K. Jetup and then as M. K. Jesup & Co., more tlan three years after the dissolution of the firm, with deep-seated malice against me for contesting the rights of the company, hsulting him, and even deferring payment vhen his notes fell due, as he says, and he a aockholder. too. he must have been a very M)ses to have kept his secret about commissions for more than two years, and until he b&* been informed that a combination had beerformed to supplant me as President. Then tie wonderful revelation is made througba recently removed Treasurer; and Mr. Je#p undertakes to render me as odious as he acknowledges himself to be by his own discred table and untruthful statement, hoping that ht may escape the exposure of his own acts. Hewho knows me could not believe tbat I woulcpufc myself in the power of such a man as M> Jesup, and then pursue the company's right against him as I have done. Te publisheu cards in relation to Mr. Jesf and his malpractices, by Mr. Charles