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Scraps and facts. A great pear shaped spot, forty thousand miles long, is now to be observed on the sun. It is said that it can be seen without a telescope through a dark colored glass. It may be interesting to those who have seut. for counterfeit money, in answer to the numerous circulars which flood the country, to learn that a full list of the names of such is being prepared for publication. . The planters of Florida are substituting Sweedish laborers for their colored field and fhrm hands. A planter who has them in his employ says, they are the most efficient hands he ever had, and do not drink, lie or steal. The Kickapoo Indians kick both ways. Part of them live in Mexico and part in the United States, and it seems that those in the United States maraud into Mexico, and those in Mexico maraud into the United States, the two divisions doubtless sharing the profits after the manner of civilized men. A Louisville doctor came into possession, a few days ago, of a rattlesnake, and to kill it, and yet preserve its body intact, he administered chloroform, and when all signs i i i _^ oi me nau aisappearea ne put it in a jar 01 alcohol. About fifteen minutes after being J>ut in the spirits the snake showed signs of ife, and lived half an hour. Carrier pigeons, like a navy, are not to be created suddenly. They have to be trained in a very peculiar manner, and accustomed, by degrees, to fly back to thfiir homes from a distance of ten or twenty miles, then from a greater distance, and so on, till at last they find the\r way jsafelv over ^apace of one hundrtcT m lUu frHMritaf mills. \ / Wooden clothes-pins are an article of export from Massachusetts. 300,000 dozen of them have been sent from Boston to different parts of Europe within two months. Wooden pails and washboards are also exported largely. The town of Wincblridon is the headquarters of the wooden manufacture of this country. * It now appears that the leading telegraph companies in the United States made propositions to the Government last fall for the sale of their lines and franchises, and that a plan of postal telegraph service was discussed iu the Cabinet, favorably by several of the members. It is now expected that the matter will come up at the next session of Congress. The African Repository, for August, says: The American Colonization Socity will dispatch a vessel on the 1st of November next with emigrants for Liberia. Some 2,000 very respectable, enterprising, and industrious people of color have made application for passage, and urgent requests to this end continue to be received from various parts of the Union. Darwin may as well succumb; for a Carfornia Chinaman says it is a tradition of his countrymen that the world was made out of Dftnm 1/ ?/\ f? n All* A rl Q TT* Viiauo >jr xanu ivuvjauoncuug w vut .ijluulu, who labored at that great enterprise eighteen thousand years, and then died for its benefit, and that from his flesh came the fields; from his bones the rocks and mountains; from his hair and whiskers the stars; from his breath wind, and from the insects on his body the human race. A young man recently called upon the editor of a paper in an Oregon town and asked to see the file for 1869, which request was granted. While the editor stepped out a moment, he marched out with the file and used it against the owner in a libel suit for five thousand dollars damages. The plaintiff recovered six and a quarter cents, when the persecuted victim turned upon him and had him sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary for stealing books. Among the cariosities of the Irish census just published, is the paucity of Jews. The whole number in the island, thus classed by the government officials, is 258. Of these 185 are registered in the province of Lemster, sixty-three in Ulster, and only ten in Munster, TvhikvConuftught wattot nowoter t*.si?gle One. If we accept the common belief thai the presence of these peculiar people is an unerring evidence of thrift and prosperity, the showing is not all favorable for the material condition of Ireland. A new sort of speculation has developed in England, in the shape of buying and selling, policies of life insurance. Men take out these policies and sell them at auction to the highest bidder. A man in Liverpool lately bought a 815,000 policy from a man in this way, and two days after the man who sold it conveniently died, thus enabling the purchaser to acquire the amount called for. This business, we should say, might be made dangerous for the man who sells a policy on his life. Apprehensions are expressed by some northern journals that this Continent is threatened with another visitation of Asiatic cholera. The fact that the pestilence has made its appearance in Poland is considered of signifi cance, when taken in connection with the first general irruptifih of the cholera in Europe, in 1829, which first developed itself in Southern Russia. The tornadoes and floods which have distinguished this and the last season are asserted to have always preceded visitations of cholera. Some time ago, Dr. Revillont, in a paper presented to the French Academy of Medicine, asserted that lemon juice is one of the most efficacious medicines which can be applied to diptheria, and he relates that, when a dresser in the hospital, his own life was saved by this timely application. He got three dozen lemons, and gargled his throat with juice, swallowing a little at the same time, in order to act on the more deep-seated parts. The Doctor has noted numerous cases of complete success obtained by this method of treatment. Preparations are being made in Richmond for rebuilding the Spottswood hotel, destroyed by fire some time ago. A curious discovery was made by the workmen who are excavating the foundation for the new building. In digging several feet deeper than the base of the former walls, they came to an old tanyard which had been buried thirty or forty feet beneath the level of main street. Several of the vats were covered over, and in one of them was found a side of leather in a state of perfect preservation, and not less, probably, than a century old. It has excited much interest anionc the antiauarians. 0 A The navy register to July 1, 1871, just issued, shows that we have 12 first class vessels, carrying from 21 to 45 guns; 15 second class ones, carrying from 15 to 23 guns; 12 third class ones, carrying from 8 to 12 guns; 11 fourth class ones, carrying from 5 to 7 guns; 19 fifth rate ones, carrying from 1 to 16 guns or howitzers. The total number of vessels is 179; of which, 51 are iron-clads, laid up at League Island, New Orleans, Washington and other places, the Terror, of the North Atlantic fleet, being the only one in active service. 30 are tugs, doing duty at the various navy yards and stations. 36 vessels are abroad on the several foreign stations, and a large number are laid up at the navy yards throughout the country, being of no use, as the law does not permit the enlistment of a sufficient number of men to send them to sea. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton puts her faith jointly in the fourteenth amendment and Ben. Butler. According to her interpretation, the amendment says that women are "citizens," and Ben says they are "persons and if they are both citizens and persons, she thinks them entitled to the ballot. Then she comes down on the Republican party for not arising to the height of the great argument of natural and constitutional law in its dealings with the wives and daughters of the country. Even the Democrats, she thinks, are less averse to woman's rights. "Are not white women as good as niggers?" she sneeringly inquires, and as the Republican party allow; ed their colored brethren the right of suffrage", why are their white sisters thus held back ? A nigger, maimed, crippled, and not more than nine-tenths of a man at most, is permitted to execute the freeman's will, while a whole woman is denied! This, she considers a crying shame, which calls for a speedy rem- j edy. We think the points she makes are i good, and we commend them for solution to I the male lights of Radicalism. ? | YORKVILLE, S. c7: ~' THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 10,1871. Watch the Figures.?The dale on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which 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 infotm the public that our office is now well supplied with new type of the latest styles, and the best ma-l.: ? "? H.n . nfid YI?!+V? o niinina otnnlr ftf UiHLid y ill UOQ | ttUU Itil/U ur vtiviw uwvtA v* inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to ! eSfecube good work as 4&n be done anyA where in the United States. Orders for Ball Tickets, Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, Labels, Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks, Bill Heads, Law Briefs, Business Cards, Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads Checks, Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, Note Headings, Drafts and No-cs, Programmes, Envelopes, Policies, Fired-,Life Ins., Election Tickets, Shinplasters, Festival Tickets, Wedding Cards, will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction as to quality of work, guaranteed in every instance. Particular attention given to fine work in colors. shooting affair. We learn that on Saturday last, in Chester county, near Parks' Bridge, on Turkey creek, a man by the name of John Hancock was shot by John Kirkpatrick. Several shots were fired by each individual, only two of which took effect, both on the body of Hancock, and these are not regarded as mortal. We learn that whisky was largely mixed up in the affair. N bishop pierce. We are informed that Bishop Pierce, of the Methodist Church, will preach at Chester on Sunday next. In order to accommodate such of our citizens as may desire to be present on the occasion, an extra train will be run over the King's Mountain Railroad. The fare has been fixed at one dollar for the round trip. The train will leave Yorkvilleat 8 o'clock, A. M., and return in the afternoon. DEATH OF GEN. S*. D. WATSON. We have been informed that Gen. Samuel D. Watson, a native of this county, died suddenly in Brazil, from the effects of a congestive chill, on the 13th of May last. General Watson, for many years previous to 1868, was a resident of Alabama. In that year he emigrated to Brazil with his family. Gen. Watson was a brother of Mr. John L. Watson, the Treasurer of this county, and is reraera-, bored by many of the old citizeus of York. Qt'EN ^WTTOJ BOLL. ' On Monday last, our itiend. Capfc. Sajyipel G. Brown, who resides on Clark's Fork in this county, left at the Enquirer Office, an open boll of cotton, folly developed, of good size, and dry enough for picking. It was produced on his farm, and was first discovered on Saturday last, the 5th instant Persons who have given attention to such things, inform us that this boll has opened nearly a month earlier than is common in this section. . , SALES-DAY. On Monday last, quite a number of our friends from the country were in town. Although the reports in relation to the crops from nearly every section of the county are of a discouraging character, we were pleased to find but little disposition evinced to grumble at "the situation." Within the last ten days, a few neighborhoods have been favored with rain, which has to some extent revived the crops in those localities. Over the larger part of the county, however, there has been no rain for about five weeks, and the prospect, as a whole, is by no means encouraging. No 6ales were made by the Sheriff or any of the other public officers. ! ALMOST A FIRE. On Tuesday night last, the principal business part of our town barely escaped a disastrous conflagration. About nine o'clock, persons in the street detected the smell of burning cotton cloth, but for some time were unable to ascertain its location. Eventually, however, it was found to proceed from the store-room adjoining the "Lindsay building," occupied by Mrs. E. Dickenson as a Millinery establishment. After an entrance had been effected, the room was found to be filled with smoke, but no fire could be immediately discovered. After a protracted search, fire was found in a wooden box at the rear of the counter, together with the charred remains of a quantity of cotton rags and other rubbish. The fire was quickly extinguished and the impending conflagration prevented. The whole affair is involved in mystery,. TOWN - IMPROVEMENTS. During the present year the citizens of our town have manifested a commendable spirit of improvement. Several new houses have been erected, and others are in progress of erection. Mr. James Jefferys and Mr. J. TJ. Zurcher, who were burned out last fall, have built on the former sites, houses every way mors useful and comfortable than their former dwellings. Several persons have enlarged and repaired?reconstructed and remodeled their dwellings, rebuilt their fences, and tastefully repainted the whole, so that York begins to look like a new and live town. The carpenter's hammer is heard fVom every quarter, and the painter is seen busy with his brush in several sections of the town. We have seen many country towns in our time; we have seen some of these recently, and we are glad to say York has fewer dilapidated shanties and unpainted houses than any town in this State or any other that we have seen recently. We are sorry that we cannot say that York has large and well conducted machine shops and manufacturing establishments. These J we have not. We have schools and colleges and churches; but lack manufacturing establishments. This much we will venture to say. If some man of good moral character and business habits will come here and engage in manufacturing, he will find a pleasant home and as much encouragement as a business man will desire. Such individual can make his own selection as to what he will manufacture. He may put up a cabinet shop, tin shop, or foundry, or any thing he wishes, that will convert raw material into a form ; that it can be used. The field is opeu and it, is wide. No one need be afraid that York j will rot down. There is two much paint on | the houses for that. A man of good mechanical skill can amass a fortune by making blue bluckets before the tdwn will become as dilapidated as some places that think they are in a very flourishing condition. COL. PLATO DURHAM'S TESTIMONY. In to-day's paper we publish from the Washington Chronicle of the 4th instant, what purports to be the testimony of Col. Plato Durham, of Shelby, N. C., given before the sub-outrage committee at Washington last week. The Chronicle is a radical paper of the extremest character, and we are of the opinion that the report of the testimony should be regarded with suspicion. The fact becomes more palpable every day that the com Cv>?i.MAru\ /\f UinitW WW) UlIglUttLCU UUli 1UI LUC puipuac \?1 subserving the public good, but as a medium for supplying material out of which to manufacture political Capital. This being the case, we have but little doubt that Col. Durham's testimony has been perverted and misrepresented, to a degree that it will be difficult for him to recognize the report of it as published in the Chronicle. ^ ' THE GREAT PEDESTRIAN TRAVELER. Col. Deiyiahle>, the great pedestrian traveler favored ouroffiokyrith a vifflt oiTMonday \ mornihg last - </oK?$eMaW6f^R wwative -ofLoudon county, Virginia, but was educated in Europe. He returned to this country just previous to the opening of the war, and when the conflict began, he immediately raised a company of infantry and tendered his services to the Confederate government. His subsequent life has been one bordering on romance. Having received eight wounds in the Confederate service, by which he was almost paralyzed, he went to Paris at the close of our struggle, hop'ng to obtain medical relief; but after exhausting all the ordinary modes and deriving no benefit from them, by advice of the members of the faculty of the University of France, he undertook walking to obtain relief. He has since that time?November, 1865?walked not less than 17,000 miles, having traversed Spain, Italy, Austria, southern France. Ac., bv which time his health was nearly restored, though he had contracted an insatiable passion for traveling, and having been over the enticing portions of Europe, he returned to America, landing at Vera Cruz in February, 1867. Since that-time, he has made a circuit of the United States; and aside from the results sought for physically, his mind has been well stored with practical information obtained by his contact with the operations of the laws of the social and moral world, as they manifest themselves among the various populations. The Colonel remained in our town but a few hours, when he resumed his ceaseless journey. 4 4 ? SUCCESS IX WE. Whenever it is said that an individual has succeeded in life, all that is generally meant is that such an one has amassed a fortune. This manifests a very vague and undefined notion of things. As a general thing, the man who commences life poor and unknown, and by hard labor and honest economy, accumulates a large amount of wealth, has succeeded in life, and is a blessing to his neigh-, borhood and to bis country. There are, however, niarfy instances/4WJdividuali; who have' gained immense riclr ^Bho never did their country tjQy good. f?[gold and silver in J fchett^pcrisession were epo more real advantage to society than :w&n they lay imbedded in the rock, or buried in the earth. There are many men who are called rich who never in any way, whatever, added to the national wealth, or to the amelioration of the ills of life. " They never built a house, or assisted in constructing a rail road, nor have they projected any other public or private good. Why do not men say that the humble and obscure mechanic who builds a mill, which saves the time and money of his neighbors, has succeeded ? Surelyvsuch a man is as much of a benefactor as the banker. In this, as in every thing else, men seem to act hastily and inconsiderately. That man can only be said to have succeeded in life who has made others hannv hv contributing to their physical and ?rtrj -J o * ? mental comfort. The man who prepares a primer to assist little children in learning to read, is more of a benefactor than the man who fills his drawers with gold which is designed to lie there until taken out and counted by his administrator. Of the former, it may be said he succeeded in life; df the latter all that can be said is that he stored away gold! THE CROPS. It is now evident that the crops in York county and, in fact, in many of the upper and middle sections of the State, will be light. Not so light as on some former occasions. In 1845, the drought was more extensive and much more severe. In 1866, the drought was equally as severe and perhaps nearly as general. Now the question which comes up for a practical solution is, what must, or ought we to do in view of all the facts? Some, no doubt, will sit down in a state bordering on despair, and groan over the prospect Of this class we^think, at least we hope, there are few. Those farmers who have worked their crops well have no regrets. They have done their duty and this was all that they could do, and it was all that was required of them. Complaining will do no good. What then will be ! to our advantage 7 We answer in few words, j that making proper arrangements to meet tne emergenoy. before it comes, will be of great advantage to us as individuals, and to the country at large. The great desideratum with the farmers now is to know how stock is to be fed next year. The corn crop will not meet the emergency, and the cotton crop will not enable farmers to buy corn to the extent that their necessity will require. It seems that it would be eminently proper in farmers to store away in their barns all the forage, such as hay, fodder and shucks that they possibly can. With an abundance of long forage, stock can be sustained on very little grain, especially such as are not required to do heavy work. The next thing that should be done, we think, is that every farmer prepare a small parcel of ground and sow it in some kind of grain?oats or wheat?that will mature soon and enable him to commence feeding his work stock upon it at an early period next summer. Usually, such a patch of grain can be used safely by the last of May or first of June. Oats should be sown all over those dry sections as largely I as possible. The condition of the domestic an- j imals determine, very accurately, . lie amount of the harvest. No man, however great his skill and industry, can make a heavy crop with poor, half fed horses or mules. No man ought to try it. Every man of prudent forethought will make every arrangement in his power to have his work animals well fed. The last thing that we would suggest that the crisis may be met and gone-through.safely, is for everybody, black and white, to*gtrtU work. It is hard to feed idlers. The laboring man can always feed himself. If every man will do his duty, we have no apprehensions but we will get through without great difficulty, and it will delight us to talk over these things in coming years. "THE NARROW GUA61E." ^ We have received a pamphlet bearing the above title, being a report of the chief engineer of the Blue Ridge railroad, from whieh we infer that the directors of this road have it in contemplation to adopt the narrow guage. The object of the report seems to be to give all the information that can be obtained up^ the subject; and in hi3 effort, we think the engineer, Col. J. P. Low, has been succcssW; He does not make the report as "the plea of an advocate of the new system, but rathef the result of the search of an enquirer.'L-J^he facts are ably and clearly presented, and Ae result is such as to convince all who/may ribd the report that the subject is worthy the serious consideration of the people of the and especially those who have at heart early completion and successful operation bf this great enterprise. Col. Low's investigations of thfs subject clearly demonstrate that all the early .prejudices against the narrow guage,system been successfully overcome l^y forty r^J experience in Europe, and that the perience has demonstrated thev fact wjHHp of wid^^oa^s^ha^b^en wastedyon^uil^^? proportioned to the duties they had to pesfoon. He estimalfiqs the probable cost of completing the Blue Ridge railroad aud furnishing it with rolling stock, for the five feet guage, $7,540,000; to which must be added, for retiring the old debt and paying the floating debt, $800,000. Toward this sura of $8, 340,000 will be realized from the four millions endorsed bonds, say, $3,200,000; leaving a cash capital, to be raised, of $5,140,000. The adoption of the three feet guage, he estimates, would result in a saving on construction and equipment equal to $3,140,000, leaving to be raised by cash subscription to preferred stock only $2,000,000,. It is also estimated that the reduced working cost for the same amount of trafic will allow the narrow guage to**jiay seven per cent, on the investment, while on the wider guage only three per cent, couldvbe realized. The discussion leads Col. Low to the conclusions?First. That the three feet guage will answer all the requirements of the prospective traffic of the road. Second. That the " . x ?Ml l- - i ?? saving in nrst cost win ue iuiucubc, duvu^u in fact, to place the completion of tbe-^rdbtd within reach, by raising $2,000,000 of additional capita], while it seems impracticable to obtain the large sum necessary for a five feet line. Third. That being built, the narrow guage will be much more economical in working, the expense being only 52 i, instead of 70 per cent, of the gross receipts. These conclusions, so far as they relate to the requirements and expense of railroads, are alike applicable to every road in the southern States. And while all practical men will agree with Col. Low, that the narrow guage system presents the most feasible plan for the construction of the Blue Ridge road, it is also clear that the public?stockholders and individuals?would be benefitted, wfere all our roads now in operation to adopt the narrow guage; as, quoting from the pkraplfat JjgJjjre us: "Every inch added to the &dt^i a guage, beyond what is jabsolutely^^MH por the traffic, odds to tie costs ; tion, Increases the proportion of increases the cost of working, and^tBByequence, increases the tariffs to the public, ai?d by so much, reduces the useful effect of the railway." STATE ITEMS. ? Greenville county is having a series of revivals. ? Work has been commenced on the new Masonic Temple in Charleston. ? A fire in Charleston on Friday morning destroyed Mr. W. S. Bissell's hardware atore and another building adjoining it. ? The money order office at Sumter has been in operation just one year, during which time about $50,000 have been tran^mttedthrough it without loss. ? The News mentions that Mr. Washington Mason, while cleaning up some bottom laud in Fairfield county, a short time ago, assisted by his laborers, killed one hundred and ninety-one moccasin snakes in two days. TU.. 7V+Vinf fTto rocnlt ftf t.hfi 1I1G J.1OW0 OUJO MIUV uuv &vwM4tr V* cent election in Charleston has given every department of business in that city a fresh impulse, in anticipation of the expectedLjera of public order confidence and prosperity. ? W. A. Peden and W. Holmes Hardin, Conservatives, were elected County Commissioners of Chester, at the recent elecfSSfo. The vote stood Peden, 995; F.rdin, 92?; Chambers, 623; Moffat, 204 ; Drennan, 103 ; Wise, 105; Blake, 563. ? The Pluxnix announces the death on the 2nd instant, at the Lunatic Asylum in Columbia, of William B. Carlisle, Esq. Mr. Carlisle was at one time editor of a newspaper published in Columbia, known as the graph, and subsequently associate editor-of the Charleston Courier. "! ? At the recent election in Union county for two County Commissioners, Matthew S. Lynn and James W. Vinson, Conservatives, were elected. The vote stood, Lynn, 901; Vinson, 805; McKissick, 701; Comer, Gibbs, 404; Fant, 360; .Briggs, 125; 76 ; White,' 48; Bishop, 45; HunterTMjfr? ? Noah Metts was arrested and lodfcJs^* Newberry jail last week, on the charge dr murdering Mr. Foster White, of that county. White was a quiet and peaceable citizen, and was shot from without while sitting in his house. Subsequent to his arrest, Metts confessed himself guilty of the deed. ?' ? A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Air-Line Railroad was held in Columbia last week for the purpose of locating the road between Gainesville, Georgia, and G reenville, S. C. The indications are that the location ?211 (fiwo miloa ahitfTA Pan. Will uc vuju icujiyiuc, vuru *#*?**< hwwtw + dleton) and not nearer than seventeen mile of Anderson Court House. ? Near Youngesville, in Fairfield county, last week, on the plantation of Mr. Watt Brice, an inquest was held over the body of a negro child, aged two years, which is supposed to have been whipped to death by its father. The child was so much decomposed that the jury of inquest were unable to agree upon a verdict. No arrest was made. ? The Charleston Courier mentions the examination of a book in that city recently, which has attained the venerable age of 375 years. It was printed in the year 1496, only about fifty years after the invention of the art of printing. Its typography is beautifhlr its paper almost as strong as linen, and it js bound in thick boards, covered with vellum. ? The Reporter in mentioning the presence of the sub-outrage committee at Chester, says: "Van Trump is a fine looking large man. Scott is a decent looking small man ; and j t Stevenson is a mean looking, slim man. They i I all expressed themselves as glad that their 1 dirty work was over, and rejoiced that they . were able to turn their faces Northward once more." ? . ^ THE CHARLESTON ELECTION. r * J The municipal election in Charleston, which took place on the 2nd instant, was one * of the most exciting ever known in that city. ? The opposing parties were the citizen's party, embracingthe mass of the white voters, with such colored voters as they could draw to s tlfeir support, andthe Republican party, con- ( sisting of the bnlk.Ojf the colored voters with j . 4, small proportion-of Whites.* Gilbert Pillsbury, the present incumbent, and Gen. John ^ a *rr >_ !_.i. r* i. C A. vvagener, a prominent, uermau, were respectively the republican and citizen's candi- ( ' -dates. The election resulted in giving a majority of 777 for Gen. Wagener, and the citi- * zeu's aldermanic ticket is elected by a large . majority. The Republican ticket was defeat- 1 ted throughout, with the exception of three ! school commissioners, one of whom was run s on both tickets. . ' Although efforts were frequently made throughout the day to incite a riot, which, it * is charged, the police and city authorities , I morally if not openly sustained, but one disi .iurbance oif a serious nature occurred, which j ' resulted in the killing of a negro named Ba- 1 laam Grant. The News gives the following * - account of the affair: a bolored man fraa 1 lyers of both partiessurrounded him, aolidl^^r his vote. At this, Grant became incensed^ < and began denouncing the rallyers of the cit- j izens' party for attempting to secure a colored l vote. Not content with verbal denunciations, . he raised a heavy club, which he carried in his hand, and began laying about him on the heads of every white man whom he could ( reach. At this time, Sergeant Malony and 1 one private were stationed at the polling j place, the other soldiers being at either end ( of the street. Grant was ordered by Sergeant , Malony and Roundsman Ring to desist, and the order not being obeyed, they started to arrest him. Grant tried to run, and made 1 his way as well as he could through the < ? ' 1 > 1? i- 1.1 J ?f 1 crowd, until ne nau got neariy to me euu ui j , the street, when a soldier discharged his mus- i ket and he fell, shot through the abdomen j ? and mortally wounded. A scene of the wild- j est excitement ensued. The colored men . : swarmed about the soldiers and swore that they would have revenge. The few soldiers J kept the excited crowd at bay as well as they 1 could, while the police remained passive spec- ] tators. Meantime a message had been sent ] to the Citadel, and one company of the 3rd j i Artillery soon appeared upon-the scene, armed with muskets, and commenced to disperse the mob, which was effected without difficulty, ( and order maintained during the remainder of the day. , NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? By a private letter from Rutherfordton, < f The Southern Home learns that some fifty per- < sons are still confined in the*jail of Ruther- < ford county, on charges of ku-kluxing, &c. i ? The North Carolinians who fell in the ' battle of Gettysburg are to be disinterred and i their remains removed to the "Confederate 1 Cemetery," near Raleigh. The number so far i ascertained is 84. 1 ? Lieutenant Simpson, of the Uuited States s army, arrived at Lumberton, Robeson coun- i ty, on the 3rd instant, with a detachment of j fifteen men from Company I, 4th United < States artillery. Their mission is involved in I j mystery.,. The Lieutenant says they will re- < _ main but a few days, and he is not at libejrty t tio make kriowh the object of their visit. > ^Cl . ? Dr. Dipriel Smitlj, a prominent citizen jl Vf Robeson 3ounty, was waylaid and shot on | Thursday night last, while on his way from ^ Floral College, where he had been to see a ^ patient. His recovery is doubtful. It is sup- g posed he was shot by some of the Lowrey t gang, as he was a witness against some of them i who are implicated in the murder of sheriff t King. t ? The Raleigh Era says: Mr. Josiah Gil- * bert, of this city, with a friend, left town on ( Thursday morning to engage in the sport of t fishing?on their return, late in the afternoon, j and when within a short distance of the capi- f tol square?opposite the residence of Rev. \ Dr. Mason?Mr. Gilbert fell suddenly dead, j For several days previous, Mr. G. had been ( ' oomplaining of feeling unwell, and as areme- ( dy, had been taking blue mass freely. He g was in the water for a considerable time, while j fishing, and, the . day being very warm, it is ] possible hiB death was the result of too'lavish f bathing. * f ? A heavy lawsuit has just been decided g in Granville county. Rufus Bobbitt had in- ] sured the stock of tobacco in his factory, sit- ] uated near Wilson, in the Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Company, for the sum 1 of $20,000. The insurance was made through ( Mr. P. F. Pescud, of Raleigh, in July 1869. j On the 19th of November following, the fac- < tory and contents were burnt. The company g * refused to pay, alleging fraud and deception, j Mr. Bobbitt sued the company, and after a j two days trial, the jury found a verdict in t favoir of Bobbitt, for $20,000, with interest t from the date of the fire, 19th of November, g 1869. An app'eal was taken to the Supreme ] Court. } '' ? It was announced in our columns last g week that John F. Pickerell, a broker of New t York, had been arrested on a charge of con-11 spiracy, and on demand of Governor Caldwell f surrendered to the authorities of North Caro- ^ lina, hy the Governor of New York; and ( tha^ on failure to give bail in the sum of x eading^ ^ad" ^eeu committed to jail. Sub- f ?i?""l v succeed 'n bringing the f#se c "oSior^fudge Rodman, of the Supreme Court 's I bench, on a writ of habeas corpus. The case $ was heard in Newbern, on the 4th aud 5th instant; and after a hearing, the prosecutors j agreed to enter a nolle prosequi, and submit ( all questions of account to arbitration, provi- ( ded Pickerell would not sue them for dama- c ' "ges. This was accepted by Pickerell and all <] the parties returned to Wilmington. ] ? In the year 1869, a large flouring mill, ] near the town of Henderson, was destroyed by ? fire, and in the spring of 1870, the town of t IJenderson was almost entirely laid in ashes, c The origin of these two fires have remained a r mystery since: human skill having failed to 1 discover the perpetrator of the crime, until it ? was decided to send after Robert B. Craddock, t a detective of Richmond, Va., who arrived at Henderson on Friday of last week, unknown t and unsuspected. Craddock matured his e plans, and they worked well. On the follow- c ing Monday, he found out that one Sampson p Hawkins, colored, knew something about both \ fires?and that Sampson had just left for o Clarksville, Va. Without revealing his mis- c sion, Craddock followed, and Monday evening, he overtook Sampson Hawkins, in Clarks- a ville, and arrested him ; Sampson confessed I that he did burn the barn and the mill?told ti how much he got for each job; and that he I .might have assisted in the burning of the town 0 of Henderson, but declined, through fear? a that A. H. Davis, one of the guard at the n Penitentiary, and another man, now dead, 1 planned, plotted and fired Henderson?that hey were the same men who employed him to turn the mill. Davis was also arrested and leld to bail WASHINGTON ITEMS. A ripple of excitement was produced in Washington on the 1st instant, by the unherilded and' unexpected arrival there of the | President; but the excitement had not reach-* id the culminating point before he was away igain, having departed the-next morning for lis humble cottage by the' sea. Returns to August ,3^1871} show 168 grain ind 9 molasses distilleries in operation, pro:, lucing 155,151 gallons of spirits daily. August 1,1870, there were 180 gtfcin and 10 raoasses distilleries running, producing 156,598 gallons. While this shows a decrease of 13 listilleries, there are but 1,447 gallons^ decease in the daily production. The press having called attention to the jreat injustice that was done to pensioners of 1- ' 10m .1 .lie wurui 101^, uuu esjwciaujr uiuoc iwiutug n the South, by the order of the Commissionjr of Pensions requiring proof of loyalty, and t having been shown that such proof could lot well be made in the manner pointed out ay the circular, the Commissioner has issued i subsequent order, which embraces the list if officials before whom proof can be made. The last circular requires the certificate of an ifficer of the United States court, a United States commissioner, an assessor, assistant assessor, collector, deputy collector, or supervisor of internal revenue, or postmaster, showing toythe satisfaction of the pension office fcillii i jtoeaBPnJfcbn Wijfc Wlty of TclaimanLare of unuoubted character^and entitled t^mll faith and credit. Still, with ill this, tlffe order is burdeusome and unjust, ind cannot fail to tend to great embarrassment to these old soldiers. The oontractore for the marble work on the justora Jbouse at Charleston, S. C., were notiSed on Saturday by Secretary Boutwell to resume work upon that building. This portion if work upon the building was suspended on iccount of the war. The sub-ku-klux Committee has adjourned to the 20th of September. Lieutenant Picket, commanding the troops in Pontotoc and Monroe counties, Mississippi, has been examined. He testifies that a ku-klux organization existed in five of the northern counties Bordering on Alabama, to which counties he believed the organization was confined in 1 rp)? lri. Vln-r LYilgSlStiippi. J. Lit? purpuac UX UIWU au-ttiUA was to intimidate colored voters and drive northern men from their section. Within his knowledge they had murdered nine negroes in Monroe county in the four months he was stationed there., He believed that the presence af the troop^had a good effect. EDITORIAL INKLINGS, rhe Election In North Carolina. On Thursday last the people of North Carolina voted on the question of calling a convention to amend the present constitution af the State. The indications are that the movement was defeated by a small majority. The vote is very close, Guilford county giving i majority of only 4 in favor dr the convention, and Mecklenburg' 'a" ib^fority of 53 igainst it. In most of the other counties beard from the majorities either way are imall. Counties which voted against the measure generally elected conservative delegates, and in many instances republican caniidates are behind their vote at the last election, which indicates that the question of jailing a convention was not confined to party, md that the people were governed, in voting, ay their own views as to Tim expediency of ^ler^^^ons. ^ The recent boiler explosion in New ifork city has brought forth several theories is to the causes producing such accidents, ind among them one of importance to every aerson having control of an engine. Dr. Fentz, an experienced chemist, who has devoid considerable time to the study of the probible cause of steam boiler explosions, has liscovered, he thinks, that the smallest quanity of oil introduced into a boiler while steam s generating, will cause an explosion, and he aelieves that many explosions have occurred hrough the carelessness of persons oiling the nachinery, in allowing some of the oil to be:ome mixed with the water before being introduced into the boiler. Dr. Jentz will ihortly invite some experts and others to witless a practical illustration of his discovery. 3e states that some common soda mixed with ;he water will prevent explosion from the ibove cause, as the soda turns the oil into loap, and thereby renders it perfectly harmess. ' . Horace Greeley In Virginia. Horace Greeley was in Alexandria, Virginia, one day last week, and by invitation lelivered an address in the Methodist church n that town. Greeley always succeeds in asonishing his southern hearers by the expresiion of more moderate views than they would laturally be led to expect from the father of he republican party. On this occasion he bought it desirable to have a respite of polices this year in anticipation of the grave isiuCs that would have to be met next year. [Reconstruction had been thought slow, but it lad been fast enough. Had all been agreed, tix years under military rule would have been letter, because of the imposition of light axes. There would have been no parties, no 'ury, and no creation of debt. Southern men vere not prepared to go into the Union at mce from the war. Efforts to disfranchise legroes ought not to be made. He warmly avored "the new departure," saying foreignire could Act be disfranchised twenty years igo. itate Elections. On Monday last an elections was held n Kenutucky for State officers, inoluding the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Attorneygeneral, Auditor, Treasurer, Superintendent tf Public Instruction and Register of Lands, [be candidates for Governor were Preston H. Leslie, Democrat, and Gen. John M. Harlan, Republican, and they have been stumping the Jtate in company, since the meeting of the wo conventions which nominated them. A - ? mi _ J.i.J m j lispatch Irom JLOuisvme, uaieu uu luraun^, eports large Republican gains, yet it is hardy probable that the Democrats will lose the itate, as the latter carried the last election ?y 33,203 majority. On the same day?Monday last?an elecion was held in Montana Territory for a Delgate to the forty-second Congress. The Demcratic candidate is E. W. Toole, and the Retublican candidate is E. W. Clargett. The rote at the lost election was as follows: Demcratic, 5,605; Republican, 3,745; Dertoratic majority, 1,800. On the first Tuesday in September Vermont nd California will elect a Governor and legislature. Maine will hold a general elecion on the second Monday of the same month, Text come the October elections in the States f Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa? 11 voting on the second Tuesday of that lonth. 'he Luxury of Banking. The New Albany, Indiana Ledger gives currency to the following refreshing financial transaction, which we copy for the benefit of business men who are" willing to borrow capital at a ruinous rate of interest: A man in neod of funds to go into business S applied at one of the banks a few days ago, to borrow $5,O00?for a term of five years. ThejMUik, as is usual, discounted his note for $5,00d? at 10 per cent., giviug the borrower $2,500, less 25 cents for a stamp. This was not as heavy a gouge as is said to havcf occurred many years ago, when a man desired to borrow $10,000 for teu years. He gavie his note fbr that amount, but as the interest in advance for tern years at 10 per cent, absorbed thepriucipaf, he; was informed, after the note had passed over the counter, that there was nothing to discount, and the fellow had the satisfaction - of paying the $10,000 when the note became doe, all for the fun of doing a banking business. Johnson and Grant. - ' r A reporter of the New York Tribune has recently interviewed ex-President Andy Johnson. The latter expressed his opinion of Gem Grant after the following fashion: "Grant is wanting in integrity, Wanting in intelligence, and wanting in the will to promote the good of the country. The little fellow is selfish and avaricious beyond bounds. His cupidity knows no limit. He is no statesman and no soldier. He never displayed any generalship. He marched at the head?no, not at the head, but in the rear?of an immense column of men that would have accomplished the same results if he bad been in the moon. Grant was a mere unimportant incident He never showed a spark ofgeniua. What inspiring remark did he ever make, that cbeered<hi3 SoldieiB aqdhelp^^^m a danger, like Napofeon to give courage to his troops? He newt-1 showed a single trait of generalship. He had no sympathy with his men ; he never visited the hospitals or showed any feeling for the suffering wounded. He was utterly remorseless. He was no leader. He baa no plans and no strategy. I repeat, that for any good he did in putting down the rebellion he might as well have been in the moon." The Results of Perseverance. As showing the fruits of. wall-directed energy, we copy from an exchange the following paragraph. The same results could be attained in any section of the South, if the people would go to work with the determina tion to accomplish something: Twenty years ago a Mr. Daniel Pratt, a native of Connecticut, left his native State and went to Alabama in search of his fortune. He came to Autauga county, settled there, near McNeill's Mills, and a short time afterwards opened a shop in the basement of his house. After a time, finding that he got along well, he purchased about two thousand acres of land in the vicinity, and also built a shop for the manufacture of cotton-gins, which he had long made the obiect of his study and upon which he had made various improvements. A little village had meanwhile sprung up around his settlement, which was known as Prattville, and when, in 1857, Mr. Pratt obtained a valuable patent: for an improvement 9n;the old-feshioued cotton-gin, he erected a three-story brick manufactory, 150 by 300 feet, driven by steata.-power, from which a large number of gins are sent out ev-< ery year. Prattville now has an extensive hrori foundry, three large and profitable cotton factories, several wagon factories, a sash and blind factory, and quite a number of goodsized flour mills, all of which establishments are run by steam; and from an humble settlement it has become the county seat of Autauga county and a prosperous manufacturing city, with more than two thousand inhabitants. MERE-MENTION. A man on trial for murder in Alabama went to sleep in "the court room. '"It is estimated that the conf crop ofvJowa this year will amount to 100,000,000 bushels. "**/L Costs $235;000 a year to jprint the Patent Office Reports." California estimates its crop of castor oil at 30,000 gallons. -"In Boston they call foundling hospitals asylums for anonymous infants, and in Chicago they style them institutions for babies born on the European plan." If you want to eat just such a pudding as your mother made when you were a boy, you must somehow revive a boy's appetite and palate. ";v?-.There are only 3,064 spoken languages/"*""-Whole herds of cattle near Council Bluffs, Iowa, are becoming totally blind,-and no cause can be assigned for the calamity. "Gen. John B. Gordon will probably be the candidate of the Democratic party for next Govbrnor of Georgia. Of 263,000 gallons of brandy in the country, only 100,000 gkllons are made from fruits, the rest being compounded from various spirits.'* There are-in New Haven 374 manufacturing establishments, in which was invested a capital amounting to nearly $10,000,000. One of the worst gambling dens in Omaha, is owned and conducted by a woman."""*"A Pennsylvania, bigamess said she did it because the young^ man wanted a home, and she?she wanted the young man.*"* There were 225,000,000 paper collars "wilted" in this country last year." The Commissioner of Patents has refused an extension of the patent of Nicholas & Bly for artificial legs. The guns captured from the Paris insurgents foot up 403,691; cannon, 2,107." The Norfolk Virginian understands that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has secured the charter for a road from Petersburg, to Greensboro', N. C. The climate of Louisiana is said to be three degrees colder than it was fifteen years ago. It is said that more persons were killed at the late riot in New York than was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill."* The New York Star would like to "put the last twenty days for rain against any preceeding twenty days since the flood."'" *A bale of new cotton has been received at Savannah froifr-Plorida. ?The 1 first bale of new cotton was received and sold in Augusta, Ga., on Monday last, for thirty cents per pound. An exchange says: The insanity of ex-King George, of Hanover, who believes he is dead, is almost as amusingly absurd as that of A. H.Stevens, who thinks he is alive. THE STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY We are indebted to the courtesy of Col. A. B. Springs, of this county, for a copy of the premium list of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society, for the third annual fair, to be held at Columbia, beginning on Monday, the 6th of November, and closing on the evening of Saturday, the 11th. The following is the programme for the week, which will prove of general interest to our readers : Monday.?The Secretary's office will be opened at 3 a. m., and entries received until 5 p. m., when the books will positively be closed. No entries received from citizeps of Columbia and its vicinity after ten o'clock this day. Tuesday.?Gates open at 9 o'clock, a. m. From ten till twelve ai* exhibition in the arena of all the cattle under the direction of the Superintendent. From twelve till two a di* play of all .the horses, beginning with those led by the halter, and closing with saddle, single and matched harness horses, as directed by the Superintendent. At three, the contest for the speed premium of $50 for the fastest trotting and pacing, mile heats; to be followed by a race for the speed premium of $100, single dash of two miles. Wednesday?Gates open at 9 o'clock, a. ra. From ten till twelve a brilliant musical contest between the Brass Bands of the State. From twelve till four a grand tournament, under the supervision of Col. A. C. Haskell, of Columbia, to whom letters should be addressed for information as to details. Knights from all sections of the Union respectfully invited. ; ; Thursday.?Gates open at 9 o'clock, a. ra. The forenoon will be devoted to the examination, in the arena, by the committee, of all cattle; succeeded by a display of the halter led horses and mules,.its directed by the Superintendent. At thin Hrnmwit,*r>n the dfeeisions will be made andj^e ribbons tied. At three the contest for speed premium of $50 for the fastest trotting, mile a ash; to be followed by a race for the speed premium of $100, mile heats. Friday.?Gates open at 9 o'clock, a. m. From ten till'eleven a contest inthe arena between the saddle horses. From eleven till two the same between single and- double harness horses. At this contest the committees will tie the ribbons. At three the contest for the speed premium of $50 for the fastest trotting, half mile heats, best three in be fol lowed by a race for the apafld"pw?mfii m nf $kt mile dash. Saturday.?Gates open at 9 o'clock, a. m. At len o'clock auction sales of live stock. At 12 m. the premium* will be awarded from the Executive Stand, at the conclusion of which the Fair will close. Each morning of the week, from, nine till ten o'clock, will be devoted by the respective committees to plowing matches,?and tests of ^ all kinds of implements; Sufficient motive power, grain, seed cotton and logs will be furnished by. the Society to prove the mills, gins and other machines, Plowmen are ex-' pected to the Confederate^dead. . ! ? THE THOMPSON HOAD STEALER. One of the editors of the Augusta Constitutionalist has recently, witnessed the working of a road steamer, which is employed, in hauling stocks for a saw mill, on the line of the Central railroad, between Augusta and Savannah. The account says: "The Thompson road steamer has'a circular vertical boiler and smoke stack identical with the fire steamers, but only three wheels, one in front, in the centre, 3 feet diameter, and one on each side at the rear mid, 5 feet in diameter, all with gutta percha tires 15 inches wide by 5 inches thick, covered with steel plates four inches wide and a half inch thick, held in their places, about one and a half inches apart, by steel joints on either side, that permit their movin^like an endless chain. This steamer was built at the Grant Mechanic Works, Patterson, New Jersey,,for the Central Railroad Company, who. desired to test their adaptability for the common xpads in our State, and, we are informed, is now the . uonly>one in this section of the conntry. It is + of eight-horse power, ten-inch stroke of piston, and has a water tank of three hundred gal-: Ions capacity, which would be a sufficient supply for rnnningthe steamer eight or ten miles. The power is not applied by crank directly to the driving wheels, as with railroad locomotives, but through a combination of cog wheels' that are geared so it may be run with 'either six or sixteen strokes to one revilntionfof tbe driving wheels. It requires two men to work it?one as guide and one as engineer. Evpry preliminary being arrapged for the tes^ the road steamer, with two heavy Four wheeled log trucks attached, started over the Comtnpn, sandy, undulating road for a load of logs, two miles diBtant, ana moved along with app<u&t" ease at a speed of three to four miles per hour, until it come to a seam, of deep gapdi where , it stalled, the supply of steam being exhausted. A delay of fifteen minutes ensued in order ' . to generate a supply of steam, when it moyed , . forward again. Arriving at the plaee where *7 the logs were to be loaded, the steamer and. two tracks were wheeled in a short curife wittf as much ease and precision aS an or#*; ' darr six horse team and wagon ooold -lie 7turflad in. Three pine stocks, wetihing fh theaggrega j about 8000 pounds, loaded on ohe of the trucks, and "Koadster" returned to the mill haying to ,'JiaTt twice for ^ want of steam. The trial demonstrated beyotfd doubt the * 7 feasibility and practicability df- steamers for * turnpike roads so faras relates to thaquestion of "traction." The "bite"..of the wheels of the steamer tested on Thursday was so effect- ' . ual that not the least slip or slide was perceptible under the severest strain. "The ail- * " ure of the steamer as to supplying asuffibiency of steam was solely owing tOthe defects of construction and not to the principle?: Upon' ^ * which the patent was granted. : ' tii . On prepared and graded; roads, for heavy / *' work, at a slow rate of speed, we think tiie * road steamer will prove all that 'is"claimed for it There riiust be, as for railroads, convenient wood and water stations, especially for water.But for ordinary work, to he used on different and common roads in; different , directiops, we do not think the invention of ? practieapvJlIue. /j^uv UVV1T1) AW TJTK RimnAiaJ /we have not seen latelys stronger state- V ment of the case of the people es.theRadi cals than is contained in-the following article from the last issue of the New: York Herald: "Ku-klux Outrages and Negro-Mobs in the South.?The very virtuois Eadicals of the Congressional committee: who?are pretending to investigate the alleged ku-kju* outrages in the South, are ready, if appears, to report a stupendous budget of horrbra. >' They are already issuing semi-official stAUr* ments to that effect True, they have not badmuch time to investigate the matter, butparty and political necessity urges an early/ thrilling report against those villainous, incurable white 'secesh' of the South and in favor of the poor negroes. This is evident from the hasty action of the committee of the Republioan party in Washington, which has already put in circulation a campaign document, which is a digest of the pretended facts brought to light by the Congressional investigating committee, and has requested the Republican newspapers to serve their cause by publishing the document in full. We see^. then, what a 1 farce, and, at the same time, what a gross fan*'" Beition upon the country, this Radioal kn- ux report of the Congressional committee is likely to be. But is:it not playing with fire ? Is not such a one-sided inflammatory report made for party purposes calculated to . do much harm ? Will it not. make the negroes, who are already in the ascendant in some parts of the South, and who are committing most diabolical acts, more presumptuous and disorderly ? Who has not heard of the atroci' - ' J In PlialliMin oniintn t!6S 01 a oanu ux uc^iuvo 111 vuuvu?mu * **r~t tcj | and adjoining counties in North Carolina? And yesterday. we reported a fearful, bloody, and drunken riot, by a body of five thousand blacks, at the Republican Convention in Goldsboro', in the same State. Of course these horrors will scarcely be noticed by any Radical Congressional committee* because they are perpetrated by the 'poor negroes'?by the allies and supporters of tne Radical party. It is the pretended white ku-klux that is made the bugbear to alarm Northern voters and to give the Administration a chance to exercise a military despotism in the South. The Radical carpet-bag and scalawag public mep? and among them was a Congressman by tjie name of Tnoraas?and Stanley, the president of a railroad, seem to have been the abettors of the riotous negroes at Goldsboro'. Well may we despair of- peace in the South while the party in power makes misrepresentations of the state of things in the South for political objects, while it gives $11 its support and sympathy to the negroes and endeavors to crush the native white people of that section." Is not every word of the above true? Apd does not every intelligent Northern man know that the purposes of the Radical party are ^ jqst what they are here declared tpbe? The fact that the Herald speaks as it does shows