Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f (taps and Jfarts. A paper having had an article headed with the conundrum, "why do wives fade?'1 a cotemporarv "supposes it is because they won't wash." * The custom of wearing cadet buttons has been given up by the indignant belles al West Point, since Cadet Smith presented some of his to a lady of color. Christiansburg, Va., has a venerable turkey gobbler who has built himself a nest, and is now gravely sitting upon four apples It is presumed that his action is intended as a grave satire upon the woman's rights business A young lady in Richmond commenced i.1. . OJ J 1 i crying on me ou 01 nisi mourn, ana nas noi stopped yet. Her father says she can how] forever, but she'll get no fifty cents of him tc buy a bustle. A remarkable family lives in Dallas county, Arkausas. The father is 108 years old, the mother 108, and the two are the pa reuts of twenty-nine children?fifteen boys and fourteen girls. A correspondent recommends the following as a simple cure for colic in horses: Rub well the large veins ou the sides of the neck, and those just behind the fore shoulders, with spirits of turpentine. The Emperor and Empress of Brazil are going to spend the winter, until February, in Rome. Slavery is to be abolished in Brazil, and the instrument of abolition will be executed in Rome, and will be signed by the Pope. At Dampoor, in France, a servant girl who went to feed a pack of hounds was sel upon by the dogs and ieaten. It was the fii%1 warm meal they had eaten in a week. Il was a Dampoor way of expressing affectior for the girl. At a Sunday school in Ripon, a teachei nsked-a little boy if he knew what the ex pression "sewing tares" meant. "Courth 1 does," said he, pulling the seat of his little trowsers round in front, "there's a tear mj ma sowed ; I teared it sliding down hill." A child was born at Manchester, Vt. last week, which weighed only twenty-fouj ounces, but was perfectly formed, and hopet are entertained of its living. Its face can b< almost covered with an old iasnionea cent and a lady's finger ring can be slipped on the arm. Mr. Donaldson, of Cincinnati, has sc thoroughly domesticated a humming bird that upon going into his garden the bird will immediately alight upon a shell in his hand and 6ip the sugar water within it, no mattei how many persons may be standing around him at the time. At Heidelberg, in Germany, there if not a language, ancient or modern, without ifc competent professor to teach it to all comers A Japanese student, unable to speak a word of German, found there on hi .> arrival a teachei able to converse with him and give him lessons through the medium of his own language. The old traditions about the Car ol Jugeruaut are apparently about to be extin guished. An eye witness of the ceremonial says that the old stories are grossly exaggera ted, that no victims are crushed, and thai there is no more orgy than may be witnessed at an English country fair. The political campaign in New Jersey is opening bravely for the Democrats. A Democrat has been elected sheriff in Middle sex County by an increased majority over lasi year of over 300. The Democrats have car ried the city of New Brunswick, which lasi spring gave a Republican majority of fifty, bj 249 majority. Although there are yet men in arras against the royal authority in Cuba, the Spanish Government has decreed an Act oi universal amnesty. In the United States though not a gun has been fired against the Federal authority for six years, there is nc general pardon yet. Republican mercy is harder than Spanish hate. It is estimated that the number of hor ses in the United States is 11,000,000, or more than one horse for every four inhabitants. II linois contains the largest number of any State 1,346,320; Ohio comes next, Pennsylvania third, and Indiana fourth. In the State oi New York, which ranks fifth, there are 703, 120 horses; while Rhode Island, which con tains the smallest number, musters only 9,150. Thesecond of October is the day fixed for the commencement of the money ordei system between Great Britain and the United States. The advantages to be derived from that arrangement are great, and the rates fixed upon are not so large as to be a burden upon the poorer classes, who may have occasion to avail themselves of the accommodation?being only one dollar and twenty-five cents for a post office order of fifty dollars. A Virginia man who thinks "times change," writes to the Richmond Dispatch thus: "When a boy, I hated Horace Greeley, the originator of abolitionism, &c. When the war closed, his manly advocacy of amnesty, his going security for Jeff Davis, and his many good words and works for the South, caused me to name my hound puppy "Gree ley." To-day I would not be unwilling to see him in Grant's chair." Some queer scenes ensue in Wyoming where the women vote, serve on juries, &c. like their lords and masters. Recently six married ladies and as raanv eentlemen were impannelled upon a murder case there, anc it became necessary to lock them up all night Three of the husbands stormed and raved al the judge, and a half dozen children raadi the Courthouse ring with their cries, but th< judge was inexorable, and put them undei lock and key. In the Atlanta (Ga.) District Court on Wednesday last, five miscegenation casei were disposed of. The Judge sentenced Wm Hibbs, a white man, convicted of living wit! a negro woman, to pay a fine of 81,000, or t< be imprisoned in the County jail for the tern of six months. Martha Johnson, his para mour, to pay 8250, or three months' impris onment. Win. Harris, negro, convicted of i similar offence, was sentenced to pay 8250 or six months on the public work. Marj Harris, his white paramour, to pay 81,000, o: six months on the public works. The way to quarrel with a wife is t< wait until she is at her toilet preparatory t< going out. She will be sure to ask you if he: bonnet is straight. Remark that the lives o ? Q nine-tenths of the women are passed in think ing whether their bonnets are straight, anc wind up with the remark that you neve; knew but one woman who had common sensi about her. Wife will ask you who that was You will, with a sigh, reply: "Ah! neve: mind." Wife will ask you why you did no marry her. You say, abstractedly, "Ah! why indeed ?" The climax is reached by this time and a regular row is sure to follow. j One who has been in the business give the following valuable receipe for manufac turiug Saratoga water : Take four quarts o sour rain water and shake it well. The: take a pair of bellows and blow it full o wind. Add two ounces of black and tai pepper, four auarts of solar salt, six rusty sigi hinges, two old hammers, four gimlets, tw< old ink bottles, seven horse shoes, some mor salt, some more pepper, two yards of ol< clothes line, one old hat lining, four button holes, seven shingles, two lumps of hard coal one sheet of sand-paper, and one chair round Then blow in it through a straw until bubble rise on top. Then shake it till it looks liki boiled water. Add a little more salt and bot tie it up, and if you never drank it, it wil taste like Saratoga Springs water for all th< world. General Frank Blair has been "inter viewed" by a Herald reporter, and in replj to the inquiry who would be the most availa ble candidate for the Democracy, repliet Governor Gratz Brown, of Missouri. Th< reason assigned is tnat uovernor Jtsrown is i special favorite of the Germans?would re ceive the whole Republican German vote ol the country, which vote, in addition to the Democracy, would make his election a cer tainty. General Blair also stated that Mis-. souri would vote against General Grant by a j hundred thousand majority. With Missouri, [ backed by a hundred thousand majority, and I the whole German vote, Governor Brown - J would be a sure card. He would be the first Presidential candidate west of the Mississipi pi, and he might be safely counted on to car. ry every North-western State. , The year 1871 will be memorable in ; history as the year of disasters. There have , been more collisions of steamers and railway ' trains?more breaking through of bridges? ' ' more explosions of nitro-glicerine, petroleum, [ gun cotton and powder, steam boilers, &c.? more drownings?more murders, and above ' all, more deaths by lightning than we have [ ever known to be crowded in the space of one ' short year. And the accidents have been far more destructive of life than accidents have ' heretofore been. It was told U9 by the tele graph, a tew days ago, tnat tne tieains occa1 sioned by the explosion of the steam ferry 1 boat Westfield, at the foot of Whitehall street, ' New York, some two weeks ago, were more 1 numerous than all the deaths from all the explosions that had occurred during the last two years, 1869 and 1870. The explosion of : the gas in the coal mines of Pennsylvania last > spring killed more men than had been killed , in the same way during the whole of the year before. We have recorded, within the last s two months, an account of more deaths from i the breaking through of rail road bridges , than we remember having ever heard of pre viously. And to crown all, we 9eldom pick . up an exchange that contains no account of | some disaster by lightning. -This thing is cert tainly remarkable, to say the least. t J. - 1. I (Htr f otbillr ^nipum. i - i <y YORKVILLE. S.C.: ; THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 24,1871. > Watch the Figures.?The date oh the-"address[ label" shows the time to which the Subscription is phid. If subscribers do no t w i sh their papers flis1 continued, the date must be'kepi. in advance. 1 Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that . our terms for subscription, advertising and jobj work, are cash, in advance ' JOB PRINTING. | Having determined to devote more atten tion hereafter to job printing than we have [ done in the past, we would inform the public : that our office is now well supplied with new i type of the latest styles, and the best machinery in use; and with a choice stock of ^ inks, cards, papers, Ac., we are prepared to execute as good work as can be done anywhere in the United States. Orders for l Ball Tickets, Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, Labels, i Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks, Bill Heads, Law Briefs, Business Cards, Letter Circulars, T Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings, l Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads . Checks, Note Circulars, . Deposit Tickets, Note Headings, c Drafts and Notes, Programmes, - Envelopes, Policies, Fire&Lifelns., t Election Tickets, Shlnplasters, r Festival Tickets, i Wedding Cards, will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction j as to quality of work, guaranteed in every 3 instance. Particular attention given to fine f work in colors. ; CAMP ^MEETING. > On Thursday last, the annual camp meetj ing, under the direction of the Methodist denomination, commenced at Philadelphia, four miles from Yorkville, on the line of the King's J Mountain Railroad. On Sunday last, quite | a number of persons were in attendance from | the surrounding country. While we have f heard of no considerable accessions to the . church, we are pleased to note the fact that good order prevailed, and that seed were probably sown, which in time will germinate 1 and bring forth good fruit. Among the ministers present were Rev. William Martin, of Columbia ; and Rev. T. G. Herbert, the Presiding Elder of the District. The meeting , was dissolved on Tuesday evening. ATTEMPT"iT ROBBERY. On Thursday night last, at a late hour, Mr. M. Luther Tate, who resides about six ; miles from Yorkville, on the road leading to i Armstrong's Ford, was awakened by a noise in his house. He immediately got out of bed, 1 and in his night clothing without a weapon of '""J In iKn rnnm frnm whpnCP ?VII y AlliU, |iiuuctuvu bV VUV ?VVIU >...wwvv the noise emanated. On entering the room ! he was accosted by an individual personating > a negro, who enquired in relation to the road leading to Pin Hook Factory. Mr. Tate , gave the desired information, whereupon the ? person in the room demanded of Mr. Tate to ' know where he kept his money, asserting at | the same time that he was an old slave, and wanted some of it. An altercation ensued, t which culminated in Mr. Tate being seized, ; and, in the struggle, thrown upon the floor. - Mrs. Tate, who was in an adjoining room, r hearing the noise of the scuffle, came to the rescue and called to a savage dog kept upon I the premises, whereupon Mr. Tate was released and the person who had attacked him jumped ^ up and ran away, without having accomplishj ed the object of the visit. i It is believed that the person who entered * Mr. Tate's house was a white man in disguise, as the clothing of Mr. Tate was considerably blackened during the struggle, it is supposed, j by the coloring matter with which the disguise r was effected. On Friday morning, Mr. Tate, together ) with several of his neighbors, examined the i public road in front of the house and soondisr covered the tracks of two persons leading in the direction of the North Carolina line. The j trail was followed to a creek, about a half mile r distant, at which point it left the main road g and proceeded to an obscure crossing known i. only to persons who are familiar with things r in the neighborhood. A shower of rain havt ' of fV>Ia rtninf in fhp | 111^ UUIULilCllUCU Ui bino j^vtuv ?m vm-w ' search, further investigation was abandoned. ATLAS OTTARARAT. 8 In his editorial capacity, Hon; Alexander ? Stephens is laboring to prove that tbe amenda ments to tbe constitution, known as the thirf teenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, i are a fraud upon the people; are unconstitu1 tional; therefore null and void ; and that it 3 is the duty of the people to resist them. He !j announces his intention not to support the Democratic ticket for President on the t "New Departure" platform, and asserts defiantly, that he "shall never support, by s counsel or vote, either any one of the actual B! perpetrators of the great frauds attempted to j! be imposed upon the people of this country, B! in the matter of the so-called Amendments to " | the Constitution, or any one of the 'accessories _1 after the factto those most monstrous outj | rages." -1 Of the constitutionality of these amend1 merits, or the rieht of Congress to force them 31 upon the people, it is now useless to argue. [; They are fixed, stubborn tacts, however, and p I no one should be more prompt to recognize ?J and accept the situation than a prominent i Confederate who gave up the cause as early a9 in 1863. A solution of the question is easily found in comparing the difference between the natural depravity that would burn a house down, and the common sense which would be content to build a less comfortable one rather ' than stay out of doors and wrangle over the cause of the fire. The rampant attitude of Mr. Stephens, and j his defiance of the inevitable, are thus clever-1 ly satirized by the Petersburg Progress: "If the flood had occurred in the time ofj Mr. Alexander H. Stephens we verily believe | that during the thirty-ninth day's rain he would have been seen astride of the ring pole of the Atlanta Sun office holding a faded urn- i brella over his head, drawing up his diminutive legs to keep them out of the surrounding surges, and calmly inditing a ten column editorial to the people of the late Confederacy to prove that the shower was null and void, and the flood a matter to be resisted at the ballotbox ; and no doubt people would have been found in Georgia who would have stigmatized Noah's ark as a "new departure," and have hazarded both life and soul on the faded umbrella and ponderous editorial of poor little j Mr. Stephens." STATE ITEMS. ? Greenville is now in telegraphic communication with Columbia. ? The question of organizing an Agricultural Society in Chester is being discussed. ? After a lengthy suspension, the streets of Greenville are again illuminated with gas. ?-,W. G. Trenholm, of Charleston, died on the 17th yistant. * ? ! ? There are 118 Free Mason Lodges in this State, with a membership of 14,000. -?A mad dog was killed in Columbia on Sunday last; ? Much sickness is reported in Charleston, mostly of the type known as the broken bone fever. ?Mr. Samuel J. Henegan, the youngest son of the late Governor Henegan, died in Florence on the 18th instant. ? The steam mills of Mr. Henry Suber, at Martin's Depot, in Laurens county, were destroyed bj fire on Sunday night of last week. The fire was the work of an incendiary. r?The tJqJumbia; /Thion announces that the Deputy, United States Marshal at Spartanburg, has captured quite a number of ku-klux masks?some with horns upon them and some WithOUt. 4 ? The Phoenix says that work will soon be commenced on the new Federal Court House in Columbia. The building is to be three stories in height and constructed entirely of granite. ? ? The Union Times say: "Twenty-six men were discharged from Troop B, 7th U. S. Cavalry, at this place last week, their term of service having expired. Most of them have gone North, while a few have obtained employment in this State, and one re-enlisted. ? Rev. G. W. Boggs, and W. H. Scarborough died in Columbia last week. Mr. Boggs was an aged man, and for many years a zealous missionary in Hindostan and other foreign countries. Mr. Scarborough was a portrait painter. ? The Columbia Phoenix gives currency to a rumor that the Pennsylvania Central Rail road is making extensive purchases of stock in the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, and in a short time, it is intimated, will have a controlling interest. ? The. Timps mentions that a shooting affray occurred at Union Court House, on Saturday of last week, between T. J. Greer, Probate Judge, and H. T. Hughes, jailor, in, which the former was severely wounded in the side, from a double barreled shot gun, in, the hands of the latter. Hughes was immediately arrested and lodged in jail. Greer's wound, although very severe, is not considered dangerous. Whisky had much to do with it. ? The Charleston Daily News of the 21st instant, says there are $18,000 now due the principals and teachers of the public schools in the city for their services during the past six months. For $9000 of this .they have an order on the county Commissioners, to be paid out of the appropriation of $150,000, made by the Legislature last year. The remaining $9000 will be brought to the notice of the Legislature at its next session, to be acted upon by them. ? At a recent meeting of the citizens of Anderson, resolutions were adopted to the effect that the attorneys heretofore employed be instructed to proceed at once against the corporation known as the "Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway Company," for violation of the chartered rights of the people of Anderson in refusing to construct the road by that place. The Intelligencer expects that proceedings will be instituted without delay, and that a legal decision of the vexed question will be made at the earliest possible moment. ? Down in Sumter, a short time ago, a negro woman died, and was buried in rather a singular manner. She had united with a negro church, but had backslided, and was not in good standing and favor with the brethren and sisters. So, when she became ill, no one would assist her, or call in a physician, and she died, probably for want of attention. The negro paster directed that the body should be placed in thegrave head downward, and it was so done; because, as he said, she was going to the infernal regions anyhow, and that was the proper position for her. . "A correspondent of the Columbia Union, writing.from Greenville, under date of the 18th mst&nVsaya: "A few days ago, eight ku-klux were brought here from Spartanburg by Marshal Casey, attended by a file of Uni- ( ted States soldiers., Seven were white, and one was colored. I understand they are generally poor white men, who were not slave holders, and who have little or no influence in society, anchthe colored man is said to be a very trifling person. How he came in among these is the wonder. It was once supposed the ku-klux were the chivalry of the country; but these are not a specimen of that class. True bills were yesterday found against three or four, and they are to be tried to-day." ? Charleston, as we learn from the Republican, on Friday night last, was visited by one of the most remarkable rain storms known there since April, 1857. Rain commenced falling on Friday morning at 8 o'clock and continued until 10 o'clock on Saturday morning. It was accompanied by a strong northeaster, which added danger to the unpleasantness, by unroofing, in various localities, small dwellings, blowing down trees, displacing window shutters, etc. In many houses the rain insinuated itself into the pointing of chimneys, and penetrating the roofs, descended upon the floors beneath, and left from an eighth to a quarter of an inch of water upon them. Added to the rain, the tides are unusually high, and considerable damage has, we learn, been done by the flooding of cellars in low positions. ? The Union Times, of last Friday, says: " * " ?n. J 'A most diabolical outrage was commiueu 011 Saturday night last, by five unknown persons, at the house of Mr. Jas. H. Gossett, one of our most valued and amiable citizens. It appears that the parties stole noiselessly up to the house and fired one shot through the win dow in the direction of Mr. Gossett's bed, i where he was lying, the ball striking about ] six inches directly over Mr. G.'s head. They f then fired through the corner of the house, in ] the direction of the bed on which Miss Fer- j nandis was sleeping, the charge striking about 1 a foot above her head. Miss Fernandis irame- ' diately jumped out of bed, obtained a pistol, ] threw open the door and seeing one of the assaulting party running, gave chase around the house, fired at hira, but, it is fearecl, with- . out effect. On examining the premises it was Hisenvererl that there were five in the cartaiL: one on a mule, one on horseback and three on ' foot. One foot track was undoubtedly that of a negro, barefooted, and measured eleven inches ; another track was about the si2e of an ordinary No. 7 boot. The reason fiy^such an attack upon Mr. Gossett is involve^ in great mystery. He is one of the most peaceable, honorable and pure Christian gentlemen in the laud, and has never had the least difficulty with any one, nor does he entertain the , slightest animosity toward any man. He is, however, an unflinching Democrat, but modest and courteous in expressing his political opinions, and never intrudes those opinions upon any one unnecessarily. In fact, he is a good citizen and kind neighbor in.every re=. spect. v " NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ' ? John Jackson is confined in StokesJabnty jail, for counterfeiting nicke^jj^Bftt ^ ? The Charlotte Democrat say^f^S^J not been a good shower of rain in that loxM for nine weeks. v ? Governor Caldwell refuses to grant a requisition to have ex-Governor Holden returned to this State, application having been made recently by Hon. Josiah Turner. - ? Near two hundred cases were disposed of by Judge Moore at the recent special term of the Court for Mecklenburg county. Some of the suits were entered fifteen years agp. ? Nearly all the U. S. troops sent, from Raleigh to various sections of the State on the eve of the recent election, have returned to their quarters. ? The people of Nash county are raising money to purchase a road steamer to run from Castalia, in that county, to a point on Che Wilmington and Weldon railroad. ? The Charlotte Observer learns that a cargo of iron forthe Air-Line railroad has anrived at Portsmouth, Va., and that the-toork of laying the track will be commenced^ Charlotte in about two weeks. ' 1 4 iii ? The majority against calling a convention so far as ascertained, leaving but three counties to hear from, is 9623. A larger jrote, ' 'AVi 11 1 il _ il.. -1 i! >? Dy iywas ponea man iu me eiuuuuu twr Attorney-General last year. . , ? Mrs. Sigman, wife of Logan Sigman, of Catawba county, gave birth, on the 1st instant, to three children?two boys and a girl. They aggregate 17 J pounds, and are fine and healthy. ? Two colored men, in tlfe service ofF. S. Green, of Statesville, while chasing a hog out of a field, ran against each other -"with such velocity as to cause the death of one of them from the effect of the concussion. ? The steamer R. E. Lee exploded her boiler near Fayetteville on Thursday last Three colored boat hands were killed .and three wounded ; and the captain was seriously, if not fatally injured. ? A part of the colony which settled at Warm Springs has seceded and bought landr near Old Fort, in McDowell county, **ere_ kthey will locate. iThEy promise to build jfp V ' flourishing town. , ?It is said that the workmen engaged in the construction of the new Petersburg track, on the South side of the Roanoke, are daily turning over a large number of human bones, from five to fifteen feet below the ground? the last relics of the Indians that but a few years ago, as it were, were wont to roam at liberty through that section. ? It is thought that ex-Governor Holden will return to Raleigh in a few days. He has absented himself to prevent the various persons he caused to be arrested from sueing him until the statute would bar their action. That time, according to the construction of the law-givers of the State, has arrived; and" the ex-Governor is expected to return to his native heath at an early day. ? The troubles in Robeson county continue to give the Wilmington papers a topio. -The latest report is, that since the disbandmentof the militia, Captain F. M. Wishart has been . i . - r\ l 1 i.l_ - 4. I commissioned as i/oiouei ui uu oaui icgiiucut, and is directed to raise fifty men by voluntary enlistment, who will be aided by a company of United States troops, which force, it i? thought, can operate effectively against the outlaws of Scuffletown. MERE^MENTION. It is reported that Hon. R. B. Carpenter has gone to Pennsylvania to assist in stumpping that State for the Democrats in the fall campaign for State officers. During a rain and hail storm in Richmond last week, . \ ' the thermometer which had been ranging all day in the nineties, fell twenty-one degrees in fifteen minutes. The expenditures of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30,1871, amounted to $292,000,000. A man in Davenport, Iowa, offers, through-the columns of a local paper, to give $50 to any man who will elope with his wife. Red silk parasols are said to be coming into fashion. During the last war the Geritens _ appropriated ten thousand railway cars from France. Mexican newspapers^jeffiscussing the annexation of Mexico to ree pnP ted States. An express train between Plymouth and London makes the distance, 194 miles, in four and a quarter hours, including fifteen minutes' stoppage. This is probably the fastest traveling in the world. " A few years ago Ireland had a population of ten millions. According to the last census there nATO nnlu Vi n If that number of Deonle in I aic uvn vuij mm** A A ( the Green Isle. The same falling off in population is found in several of the agricultural counties of England and Wales. The arrival of the cotton worm is chronicled in Louisiana. A New York tobacconist claims to have a pipe that once belonged to Theodore, King of Abyssinia. A convocation of all the Evangelical denominations of the world, under the name of the "Evangelical Alliance," and corresponding with Protestantism the same as the Ecumenical Counsel to the church of Rome, is to be held in New York in 1873. The next seirion of the National Sunday School Convention will be held at Indianapolis, Indiana, on April 17,18, and 19,1872'. There is a project on foot, in Georgia, to build a railroad from Calhoun, Georgia, to Morgaiton, N. C. The route of this road will be, wesuppose, north of the Blue Ridge. The | number of new national banks created during the fiscal year ended June 30 is 141. The total number created since 1863, when the first one was organized, is 1,839. The Oglethorpe University of Georgia has recently ] conferred the degree of L. L. D., on Hon. ( John A. Inglis, formerly one of the Chancel- 1 lore ofSouth Carolina. Mr. A. T. Stewart i never once sat for a portrait or photograph.; Nothing will induce him to do so; and a per-1 ional request from the Hon. John Bright was politely, but firmly refused. An old ne- j ?ro woman, near Richmond, Virginia, is the veritable "oldest inhabitant" She says she j 'cooked for de man what dugged de Jeems j River." WASHINGTON ITEMS. All colored recruits have been ordered to 1 New Orleans to reinforce the Ninth Cavalry. The Solicitor of the Treasury is rapidly Jisposing of the cases of defaulting collectors of internal revenue. In a majority of these oases a compromise with the Government is effected, more especially where it is known to the Government that the accused are so situ ated that it would be futile to institute proceedings against them for the recovery of the amount due. Ou the 16th of March last the late Commissioner Pleasonton decided that any writing, whether called a receipt or otherwise, which contains a contract to continue in force any policy of insurance which has not expired, is exempt from stamp duty. Commissioner Douglass, on the 16th instant, in a letter to Collector Ames, of Providence, R. I., reverses this decision, and holds that any written contract, made in the form of a receipt or otherwise, which renews or continues a policy, requires the same stamp as the original policy, whether the renewal receipt is given before the expiration of the policy or after. * It is estimated that the stamp tax referred to yielded the Government about half a million of dollars per annum, which was, of course, lost under the decision of March 16th. The revenue from this source is restored by the present decision. The captain of an English vessel at Darien, Georgia, recently had occasion to punish four insubordinate sailors by confining them in the hold. The imprisoned men, through a lawyer, obtained a writ of habeas corpus from a negro magistrate, who released them. The matter has been made a subject of diplomatic negotiations between the British Minister and the State Department, the captain having complained to his Government of a breach of international law. The Secreflhy of War, in response to the communication of Governor Potts, of Montana, addressed to the Interior Department, asking for troops to protect the settlers in the Gallatin vallev. in that State, from Indian depredations, has addressed a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, declining to furnish the troops, assigning as a reason, that Indian raids over a particular section are rarely repeated. The Treasury Department has issued a statement of net receipts and expenditures by warrants for the fiscal year ending June 30tb, showing that the actual redemption of the prinoipal of the public debt for the year was $132,139,576.09. The usual monthly debt statements for the same period foot up a reduction of $94,327,764.84. The difference between these these two statements is because of the fact that the monthly statement being a balance sheet, takes cash and accrued interest into account, which are considered outstanding liabilities. Four hundred and thirty-four pension certificates were issued last week to soldiers who served in the war of 1812. The following estimate has been made in the statistical bureau of the number of gallons of liquor consumed in the United States during the year ending 31st of June last: Whisky 60,000,0600 gallons; imported spirits, 2,500,000 gallons; imported wine, 10,700,000 gallons; ale, beer, <&c., 6,500,000 barrels ; which with the value of native brandies and wines valued at $31,500,000 amount in the aggregate to $600,000,000. There are 146,000 licensed retailers in the United States, who pay for licenses $3,650,000- The importation of opium prepared for smoking during the year, was 315,121 pounds, of the value of $1,926,915. The Agricultural Department will not make another crop report until September. Returns received since the report for July indicate a more favorable crop of cotton and corn. A letter from Arkansas says although the acreage is less than last year, the yield for the present year will be equally as large, and so of some other States. + ? FOREIGN NEWS. The meeting of the Emperors and their advisors at Gastein is generally conceded as a pledge of peace. The French pretend to be indifferent to the meeting, and prognosticate an alliance between France and Germany. Difficulties have arisen at Berlin in respect to the evacuation of the four Departments of France still held by the Germans. The French government has in consequence refused to admit Alsatian produce to French markets until after the German troops leave the soil of France. : The election committee to whom was referred the proposition to prolong Thiers' term as President for three years oppose it by nine to six. The Assembly rejected a proposition to draft a new constitution. Bullion in the bank of France has increased 11,500,000 francs. It has been decided that the seat of the French government will remain at Versailles, though certain of the government offices will be removed to Paris. In the Assembly the committee on the army bill made a report, recommending its passage. The bill, as returned to theUhamJpn makes military service compulsory ; allows no one the right to procure substitutes; prohibits soldiers from voting in political elections, and dissolves the National Guards throughout the country. The German troops are withdrawing ftpra the neighborhood of the fortifications north and east of Paris. ? ? ? "A NEGLECTED DUTY." Under this heading, onr cotemporary of the Winnsboro' News, pens the article which we append. The News makes an important suggestion. It suggests to the Survivors' Association an enterprise than which none more useful and noble could command its energies. The News says: "The United States Government pays out $21,000,000 as pensions to the widows and or- j * * ? 1* 1_M1 - J ? 4.1^ I pnans 01 uie soiaiers &umu ur ujaug un uic Federal side daring the late civil war. Those who .died on the Confederate side lost their lives after serving without pay for two years and their families, by the edict of emancipation?the most sweeping measure of confiscation upon the records of history?have been reduced to poverty. What a contrast! And who will justify the ways of Providence when it is so indubitably certain that the soldiers of the South fought for their faith, and the mercenaries of the North for their money. The Survivors' Association has been projected to preserve the truth of history as to the character of the Southern troops, but has not as yet reached that number of members it ought to have reached, nor exhibited that enthusiasm which the cause demands. It has struck us that if a religious and charitable feature be engrafted upon it, some practicable scheme of benevolence that will reach the bosoms of men and enlist their sympathy, the Association would immediately begin to grow rapidly, < and soon would number over 10,000 active 1 members, contributing their dollar annually, 1 and reading with interest the details of all its i proceedings. f "To attempt to pension the widows and or- ' phans of the Confederate dead, without the 1 aid of taxation and the instrumentality of ' the Government, would be absurd. What, < then, cau be done? We believe that a sue- 1 cessful effort could be made to educate some j of the children locally, where they are, in the i (unerent counties, ana aiso to eaucate some i thirty or forty of them at some central school, such as Colonel Coward's, and to educate three or four of the most deserving at the Virginia University. To make this effort seems to us demanded by gratitude and by justice, and we are rejoiced to know that it is in contemplation by several of our generals to call the attention of the Survivors' Association to this subject at the November meeting in Columbia. ? new advertisements. D. A. Williams, Judge of Probate Lancaster County?Notice to Defendants. J. W. Carroll?Warm Times?Dry Times?Money Owners?The Farmer's Friend. T. M. Dobsrn *, Co.?Buggy Whips?Strayed? Shot Guns?Pocket Knives?Gate HingesNorthern Seed Oats?Flour?Sugar?Lemons?Candy?Concentrated Ley?Tin-Ware ?Coffee?Dry Goods?Leather?Tim 25th? Safety-Fuse?Shoes?Meal Sieves?Hardware?Fruit Jars. John T.Grist?Official Envelopes?Candy?Slates and Pencils. editorial* inklings. A Daughter of Samuel Chase. The last surviving child of a signer' of the Declaration of Independence, Mrs. Mary Chase Barney, waa stricken with paralysis in the right side one day last week. She has been confined to her bed for the past eighteen months from the effects of a paralytic stroke. This venerable lady, now in her eighty-eighth year, is a daughter of Samuel Chase, of Maryland, a judge of the Supreme Court, and a signer of the Declaration df Independence, and is the last surviving child of any of the signers. It is a strange coincidence that the lAst surviving signer, Charles Carroll of Carrol Iton, should have been of Maryland, and now t.he last surviving child of anv sinner is of Maryland. It is, also, a fact that the last surviving widow of any signer was of Maryland, who was Mrs. Hannah K. Chase, widow of Samuel Chase. She died in 1848. Chicken Cholera. ?? It has been discovered that Perry Davis' pain-killer is a sure cure for chickeh cholera. A gentleman communicates to the Augusta Chronicle that a fine rooster belonging to him was apparently in the last ptages of the disease when he commenced administering the prescription. Fifteen drops of the pain killer, diluted with an equal qiiantjty of waiter, was given to the fowl, and the dose repeated at intervals of two hours?four times during the day. The next morning Chanticleer wac as well as ever. Another fowl, a hen, which was at first thought to be dead?so far gone was it?was treated the same way and entirely recovered. The gentleman warrants a cure in every instance where the patient is not entirely dead. The remOdy is worth trying by poultry raisers. It is also stated that Plumb's cholera medicine is a certain remedy for the disease. These cures seem to establish very conclusively that the same medicines which cure human beings will also cure chickens. Ku.Klnx in North Carolina. A man who writes himself "M. H. Berry, revenue agent, late Captain U. S. array," gives the Washington Chronicle a detailed account of his adventures with North Carolina ^Ku-Klufc. The valiant late^Captata had all along believed the ku-klux but a myth, until the 10th instant, when Mr. Wiley, Collector of internal revenue for the 6th District, North Carolina, two deputies and himself, proceeded to Gaston county, where they had information there was an illicit distillery. They found, says the late captain, on the premises of one Mr. Thornburger several barrels of whisky concealed in his outhouses and in his bedrooms. The liquor was seized and removed to the railroad depot at Cherry ville, and stored in the warehouse of Mr. Summitt. About 1 o'clock a. m., at night, about fifty or sixty men surrounded the house, masked with false faces, armed with shotguns, rifles, and pistols, broke open the store (where the liquor was stored) and took it away. They then inquired where those d?d Yankee revenue officers were. They swore they were going to have them out and kill the last one of them. Prep1 * ^ - i i. - 1? "1-1 A aration was maue 10 nguu me &u-iuua tu mo bitter end; but luckily just at this moment the ladies and children in the house became excited and commenced screaming, and to this fortuitous circumstance, without further explanation, the captain attributes the escape of the entire ku-klux party. The captain has had many thrilling adventures in his day, but he thinks this last one, with the North Carolina ku-klux, the most remarkable of any. Another Bigamons Bowen Barbecue. The irrepressible Bowen is still engaged in the laudable undertaking of ingratiating himself into the good graces of the colored population of the sea-coast. We last week published an extensive account of an entertainment he gave the negroes on Edisto island ; and now we have the particulars, by the Charleston papers, of another feast, under his atuspices, spread before his dusky constituents of Goose Creek Parish. It seems that on this occasion the lighter aliments of root beer and ginger cake were displaced by viands more alluring to the appetites of the hungry trenchermen?the great feature of the occasion being the roasting of a large ox. The demoustratiou, as we learn from the News, "took place in a shady grove near Whaley's Church, and was attended <y over five thousand people. There were men, women and children, who came from all parts of the Parish, all of whom appeared anxious to see their "leader," as they styled Bowen, and to hear him impart words of cheer and conj fort to them once more, Tijey came on teams, the oddest and strangest looking we ever beheld before. Some had horses yoked to country wagons, others came mounted on mujes, and others, with a patience truly remarkable, drove their families on ox carts, while hundreds footed it many miles to the rendezvous. As the crowds came into the grove they were hailed with congratulations from their friends who had arrived before them, and then the next move would be to find Mr. Bowen and shake him by the hand. This was kept up till about noon, when the speeches commenced, and was participated in by Bowen, George W, Clark, J. G. Mackey, Davis, and others. The attendants did not return to the city until a late hour in the evening. The usual resolutions?thanking the President for pardoning Bowen?were passed." The Kentucky Elections. The Lexington Press, in commenting ; upon the recent election in Kentucky, says the result may be summed up as follows: ' "Leslie has received the largest vote ever i polled for a candidate for any office in Kentucky ; his majority cannot be less and will < probably exceed 40,000; we have carried ev- 1 ery Congressional District by handsome ma- I jorities, and maintain our accustomed su- j < premacy in both branches of the Legislature. < Of the thirteen Senators elected, the Radicals J have but one. Out of seventy Representa-: tives officially reported, they elect only four, and the seats of at least two of these will be successfully contested. Their entire strength will not exceed ten in the House and two iu the Senate. And these are the results of what the northern newspapers are pleased to j call the brilliant canvass of General Harlan, j Sedulously concealing the fact that 40,000 ne-! groes have been invested with the franchise since the last general election, the impression J is sought to be created that the increase in j Harlan's vote indicates a revolution in public j sentiment and an immense stride toward the i principles of the Radical party." A. Northern Rebel's Will. The will of Daniel Cornell, a citizen of Guilford, Chenango county, New York, who died in the fall of 1869, at the age of 79 years, contains the following curious clause: "Fifth: Believing that the natural conseauences of action based upon or dictated by je political breed or belief approved of or advocated by my daughters, Cornelia A. Wood and Ruby Houck, have been and are to largely increase taxation, it is my will that the amount of taxes paid by me since 1861, and to be hereafter paid previous to my decease by me, together with the succession or other revenue tax or taxes to be paid from or on account of'property now or hereafter owned by me, be considered as having been paid for and on account of my said daughters, Cornelia A. Wood and Ruby Houck, and it is my yill and. J hereby direct that .they receive Nothing from my estate, either real or personal." This clause disinherits the two daughters named, on account of their republican proclivities, iri consequence of which the will has been contested, and the case is now on trial. The claim is that Cornell labored under a political delusion equivalent to a monomania, i Horse-racing At Fairs. A correspondent of the Maine Farmer gives his opinion of horse-racing at fairs. ml -? ! j \ mere is auuiiu seuoe iu 111s iciumu. ngucultural interests, so fa r from being promoted, are actually discouraged by this feature, of late years so common at the industrial exhibitions of the country, and we. are pleased to see agricultural writers beginning to. denounce the practice, ijextto a tournament, we know of nothing more absurd than a horse-race: "Our Fairs and battle Shows are fast dwindling to jockey clubs and horse-racings. Trialsof speed introduced to "draw the crowd," are occupying &r too prominent a feature of our State and County. Fairs. They have the tendency to drive out that better class who attend tor information and observation of the purely agricultural. Our leading brops, were it not for the sbecial legislation tnat raises the premium on wheat, are almost ignored. Such enormous sums as one, two and even three dollars being the leading premiums on potatoes, garden vegetables and all the various grains excepting wheat Premiums or rather firizes for trotting, range from five to. fifty dolars, and often much mora Breeding mares, stallions and draught horses must be content with being far more useful and with a very trifling sum in the shape of apremiom. Speed, cruelty, gambling and a large train of evils that attend, is held up and encouraged, and bears away the lion's share. And this by a Society that professes to have for its object the advancement of agricultural interests, and encouragement of the mechanic arts!?that pretender to lie a cattle show /" A Tough Mule Story. The followibg tough mule story comes all the way from Oregon. While the deportment of the mule, under the trying circumstances, is graphically described, the truth of which we doubt.not, the feelings of its unfortunate owner can only be imagined : Shere is a man out ip Oregon who hps ^ e. 'A few days ago he was driving the, animal across the prairie, when it suddenly stopped. The man left his wagon and attempted to induce that mule to move on, but without success. He beat it, he coaxed it, he threatened it, and he cursed it, but it refused to budge. He tied fire-crackers to its tail and exploded them, but the mule merely turned its head in a languid sort of way, examined the fire-works, and calmly winked at the man. Then the man thought perhaps the mule had forgotten something and wanted to go back, so he tried to turn him around ; but the mule expressed a firm determination not to go home. The man became desperate,, and thought he would build a fire under the mule; but as fast as he would kindle it, the mule, standing firm upon three legs, reached over with its other lee and kicked the flames out Then he tore his hair and swore?the man did? and he rushed to the wagon and got twelve pounds of gunpowder, and he dug a hole under that mule and built a mine. Then he covered up the charge and laid a slow-match, and stood off a little piece while he lit it. There was a rumble, a roar, then a terrific ex1 __ 1 !J iLt j..?? piosion ; aim, auiiu luc ciuuu ui uuot auu upheaved rocks, the mule was observed to fling its hinds legs in the air, and to support itself upon its fore feet in that position until the blast was over, when it quickly assumed its old attitude, and a gentle smile passed over its features as it.perceived its master lying down groaning, and cursing the day on which he was born. It was of no use. The man went home. " Rutherford County. The Banner, published at Shelby, gives the following dark picture of the present state of affairs in Rutherford county, North Carolina : Logan, Scoggins & Co., successors to Holden, Kirk & Co., continue their despotic rule in Rutherford. ; Their reign of terror has no precedent in this county. Their partisan malice knows no bounds. Helpless women and children, the aged and infirm, as well as the strong and athletic, are the objects and victims of their hatred and tyranny. Every one who refuses to bow the knee to this petty despotism and swear allegiance to its rulers, is spotted for persecution. Honest citizens dare not speak their honest political sentiments. To be politically opposed to these petty tyrants, is a passport to the black hole, the Rutherfordton jail, in which the best people of the country are, while we write, crowded almost to suffocation, begging even for water, like famished children.: The young men of the country, who are as innocent of crime as a new born babe, are - .1 1 -.I. ?ii ii i leaving tor otner parts, rawer uiau aiumim to the oppression of these people. Deputy Marshals, or fiends in human shape, ride through the country and persuade every vicious negro who has been chastised for his crimes (rape, barn-burning &c.,) to appear before the ignorant and illiterate Commissioner, and make affidavit that certain parties are guilty1. These Marshals are insulting and terrifying women and children, breaking open houses, firing upon people for whom they have no warrants, by mistake as they say, and carrying off to this black hole without warrant, the most respectable citizeps. Parties accused are pot allowed to show their innocence before the ignorant Commissioner who sits as Judge iu this role of persecution * but they are held to bail or committed, upon the testimony of the most vicious and ignorant vagabonds, although their innocence can be established by the testimony of a dozen good people. Working on Sunday* An interesting case, because of its peculiar features, has just been decided in one of the New York city Courts. ".rink," the j correspondent of the Charleston Courier, fur- j nishes the following particulars: In one of our streets is a Methodist Church | or Chapel, where do congregate a goodly nura-j ber of devout worshippers. In close continuity to the Church is an establishment, one of a thousand in the city, for the manufacture j of clothing. This house is presided over by | an Israelite named Koyofski, who religiously ceases work on Saturday, and attends to his duties and devotions at the Synagogue. But on the return of the Christian SaDbath morn he resumes his labors, having faithfully fulfilled his duties to his God on the preceding day. As the Methodists then offer up their nravers and thankspivinp. the sound of their i j ??a ?o' voices are oftentimes nearly drowned by the clattering of the sewing machines of the industrious Koyofski. A Committee of the congregation waited upon this gentleman and requested him to desist from?what they considered sacrtligious?work, but this he indignantly refused to do unless he was recompensed for the money value of the lost time. The frugal Christians refused to pay him auy money, and as a consequence he proceeded with his work. On Sunday last nis place was visited by the police, who attempted to arrest Koyofski on a charge preferred of disturbing divine worship. The officers were repulsed at first, but finally succeeded in securing his arrest, and he was taken before a magistrate when he gave bail to appear for trial. When the case came up it was urged that the case did not come within the pale of the law, as the alleged transgressor was a Jew, and observed another day for religious worship. The judge, however, decided against him, and ruled that the law recognized no sect, and that if any disturbed his worship on Saturday he had the same right as did his prosecutors to seek redress at the hands of the law. A fine was the penalty, but judgment was susruan/lnrl ontVt (ha ininn/>(inn fhaf fnr a SMVinH ^VilUVVI) nivu UUW lujMuywvu WUffVy IVft mm uwvuv. offence, it would be imposed, and, as the case now stands, if there be seven different religious j sects worshipping in the city, on each of the ' seven different days all business will' be virtually suspended. -"o . tCROPS IV SOUTH CAROLINA. Lexington.?From a gentleman of Lexington, the Colombia Union learns that the crops in that county have gained rapidly since tne recent showers, and a better yield 'than Was expected two weeks since, is promised. Aftiridn.?Fh)ta the most authentic'sources we learn that the corii crop. of. Marion county will be ten per cent less than that of last year, while cotton will jiejd scarcely half of what was anticipated six-or eight weeks ago.?Marion Star. j" . ' . .. . Fairfield.?The Winhsboro* $ew s&ya; A fine shower of rain fell-at'lhiB plaice1 widf vicinity on Sunday night last Other sections 'of the'county have been similarly favored. 1 The drought,.upon the whole, continues, and there is not the least doubt but that the crops are cut short, one half, It is distressingly sad to look upon the large fields of corn and cotton, which promised so * much, six weeks ago, and now withered and parched. ;'nv" Union.?The melancholy news cpmes to ns from nearly s 11 parts of our county, that-the continued dry weather.has so materially injured the cotton and corn crops, that pot more than one-third of an average,crop of; either can now be made.?Union Times.' . .i. Newberry?The crop prospects are not so bad in Newberry, especially in those sections of the county where' rain has been more abundant. Abbeville.?During the past week we have had partial rains, but it is still quite dry generally. The crops have suffered very much . . i t. i in some seciioDS irom arougnvaiia nave ueen materially cut short?Abbeville Press and Banner. ? , Marlborough.?Good judges sity that, under the most favorable circumstances, the cotton crop of this year, in Marlboro, will not be more than half of that of last It is estimated that in this section two-thirds of a com crop will be made.?Marlboro' Times. : Anderson.?The condition of the crops in Anderson county has been somewhat improved by recent rains. Lancaster?With but 'a small exception, the drought still continues throughout the 'county. Good rains have &Uen m some neighborhoods, but even these have been too late to do much good to the corn abcTcotton crops. Under no circumstances can more than a half crop of cotton be realized; and corn is so badly.damaged that no correct estimate can be made.?Lancaster Ledger. The Charleston News thus summarizes the condition of the crops in the State: 1. With the most favorable seasons, the cotton crop of this year will be at least thirty per cent, less than that of last year?the estimates range from twenty-five to fifty per cent, according to locality,. , 2. With unfavorable seasons, the crop will not exceed ene half of the crop of last vear. Upon this point our estimates agree. 3. The crop of the present year will cost at least twenty-five yer cent, less than the crop last year. The estimates range from ten per cent, to thirty-three per cent. 4 The crop of breadstuff's, although there was a large increase in area, will not be larger than is required for the wants of the State, and in some localities, there-will be a deficiency. ' : ; This is the substance of all the letters and private advices received by us during the past two weeks, but it must not be forgotten that heavy rains or high winds would seriously diminish the yield of cotton and reduce the crop of the staple below our lowest figures. Prom tie Marion Star. : < THE SCHOOL TAX. That we may not be misunderstood, we will say just here, that we believe in the wisdom of educating the poor?that we are advocates of a well directed system of free Schools. But while our people are burdened wit? taxes, we shall not remain silent and see additional taxes wrung from them by a Legislature, that tramples' the Constitution under foot, and through its ignorance enacts laws oppressive to our citizens and totally at variance with that instrument, which the members swear to protect and defend. ./I The inhabitants of the various School Districts in this county have held meetings and levied additional tax varying from one-half to one mill on the dollar of all taxable property; and one School District has gone so far as to levy an additional poll tax of one dol lar on each poll, all of which, as we propose to show, is unconstitutional, and. can not.be collected, This is done in accordance with an act or rather a threat of the Legislature, to deprive the poor children of the county of the benefit of tne State appropriation, in the event this tax is not levied and collected. In Section 51 of "An act to amend an act entitled an act to establish and maintain a | system of Free Common Schools for the State ; of South Carolina," "The inhabitants qualii fied to vote at a school meeting, lawfully assembled, shall have power: "4th. To raise by tax, in addition to the amount apportioned by the State to their use, such furthersums of money as they may deem proper for the support of the publjc schools, saia sum not to be more than th|%e dollars for every child in the District between the ages of six and sixteen." This section simply gives the inhabitants the power to raise this tax, if in their better judgment it is necessaxy; but it is not compulsory. They need not levy one cent nnder this section. And we are of the opinion that every meeting of the different School Districts which nave met and levied a tax is premature, for the inhabitants could not have been informed how much they were entitled to from the State appropriation, and therefore they could not know whether that was sufficient to carry on the schools or not, But in Section 29 of the same Act, we find a Legislative threat, in the following language : "And if the inhabitants of any School District, at their annual meeting, shall fail to provide for the raising of such tax, then the County School Commissioner of the county in which such District is situated, shall be required to withhold from the said District that nart nf t.lifl State annronriation derived from The revenue of the State, and to apportion and distribute the same to the other districts