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Jtoaps and Jarts. The estimated loss to the revenue by the fire in Chicago is four millions. The Savannah municipal election went Democratic. The Southern Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company will reach New Orleans by the 20th instant. The premium list of the Columbus, Ga., Fair, offers a premium of $75 to the young lady who does the best cooking. A new paper recently started in Louisiana nominates Mr. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, for next President Mr. Jefferson Davis, it is said, will soon take up his residence permanently in Baltimore. Another poor girl has died in Virginia from the use of tobacco, at the age of one hundred. She was an orphan. President Grant has rented seventeen stalls at the St. Louis Fair Grounds to exhibit some of the choice cattle from his farm near that city. Ihe bravest man in Tennessee lives at Shelby depot. After six months of widowhood he married his mother-in-law, who is twenty years his senior. Major Hodge, the defaulting pay-master, < has been tried and convicted, and sentenced I t/> t?n vears imnrisonment in the penitentiary | at Albany, N. V. The discovery has been made that grape leaves make a yeast in some respects superior to bops, as the bread rises sooner And has not . the peculiar taste which many object to in that made from hops. It is estimated that 150,000 acres of the beet timber in America are cut every year to supply the deraad for railway sleepers alone. In a single year the locomotives in the United States consume $56,000,000 worth of wood. Grinnell, Iowa, a village fifteen years old, with a population of 2500 to 3000 people has no bar-room. Every deed oovenants that the purchaser shall not sell intoxicating beverages, nor allow them to be sold, on the premises. Emigration from England to the United States is increasing rapidly. During the last three months for which an official report was made, the departures from Liverpool were 5000 in excess of the preceding quarter. Among these emigrants are many skilled laborers-and mechanics. Western distillers have added a new feature to their whisky, as if it were not sufficiently caustic and deadly before. Sulphuric acid is now added in such quantity that it soon eats up the inside of the barrels, and instantly blackens iron or copper. Pleasant stuff to put into a man's stomach ! An English chemist has been experimenting for the purpose of ascertaining how much of various kinds of food must be eaten in order to make one pound of flesh. He comes to the conclusion that it requires 25 pounds of milk, 100 of turnips, 50 of potatoes, 50 of carrots, 9 of oat meal, 7 of barley meal, and 3 of peas or beans. About a year ago, New England was suffering from a drouth. This year Illinois is similarly afflicted, and to such an extent that plowing is impossible. These dry seasons are, for the most part, attributable to the destruction of timber, and close observers in Illinois say that the disappearance of even the meagre amount of forest growths which some localities have known, has had a perceptible effect on the annual rain fall. In Minnesota the prairie fire hasburned through the earth in some places to the depth of five feet Fort Abercrombie narrowly escaped destruction. The fire was discovered making its way toward the fort with wonderful rapidity, and the entire garrison was ordered out, and, armed with blankets, the men fought it off, and saved the buildings hay and wood. There were 900 tons of hay and 800 or 900 cords of wood near the fort rpwiMwnee a better maintaining thai IffT first want of the South is to have a reliable, honest and exact information of her territory and population widely disseminated in Europe, and the second is the formation of companies of land proprietors to clear titles, and to procure such information, which is then to be conveyed through responsible agencies. Such an association for Virginia has been formed in Charlotte county, of that State. A Chicago letter, speaking of the cause of the great fire, shows the following ridiculous side of a serious subject. The letter says: The only house left standing on the block where the fire first broke out was the one occunied bv the old Irish woman whose lamp started the fire. On yesterday afternoon she sat on her front door step moaning bitterly because the fire had burned up her cows. She was too ignorant to understand what a calamity had overtaken the proud city of the West through her own carelessness. A Chicago merchant now in town, (says the New York Journal of Commerce,) evinces the enterprise and courage of his class by buying sugars and syrups to stock the new store which he is going to open in Chicago?his old place being now in ashes. He says in his note now before us, (continues the Journal,) "We shall strain every nerve to start again at once, and believe we can have a store built and in operation by the time we can receive these goods." This is the pluck that has built up Chicago, and will rebuild it very soon, but it is to be hoped more durable than before. Colonel Lewis W. Washington, the head of a branch of the family to which the first President belonged, died on October 1, after a brief illness of congestive fever, at his residence, near Harper's Ferry, We3t Virginia. He will be remembered as the most conspicuous of the gentlemen who were seized and held as hostages by John Brown in his famous raid on Harper's Ferry, in October, 1859. He possessed a valuable collection of relics of Washington, among others the elegant sword sent by Frederick the Great, with the inscription, "From the oldest General in the world to the greatest." A Paris correspondent remarks that several incidents of late are recorded in favor of the Emperor Napoleon. In the first place, he is no longer called "Badinguet." Again, whether from sympathy with the Empire, or merely because of the French innate spirit of opposition, the working classes are ready and willing to go into another insurrection, many of them saying that they prefer an Empire to a Government like the present For the first time since the war, also, Napoleon's portraits are beginning to be exhibited in the shop windows, and the Parisians, with their restless love of novelty, gaze at the familiar phiz as though the well-waxed moustache, beaky nose, and fishy eyes, were something entirely new to them. It is estimated that the total amount of money contributions to the sufferers by the Chicago fire thus far from cities, towns and j individuals, in this country and Europe, reaches $3,000,000. It is impossible to estimate | the value of contributions of clothing and supplies at present. The New York subscriptions exceea $500,000; Brooklyn, $125,000; Boston, $400,000; Pittsburg, $l60,000. Cities and towns all over New England are subscribing from $1,000 to $50,000. Reports from all parts of the West and South show unabated zeal on the part of the people in collecting ; money and supplies for the suffering people of Chicago, and the good work goes bravely on. Among the contributions were $10,000 from the Adams Express Company, and $5000 each from Messrs. Baring, Morgan, Rothschild, Brown, Shipley & Co., of England, the Great Western Railway and the Grand Trunk Rail-1 way of Canada. Vice-President Colfax has found himself sufficiently recruited to perpetrate a long article in the columns of the Independent, in which he handles the subjects of retrenchment, subsidies, amnesty, civil service, the tariff, Ac., with hts usual glibness. He recognizes the popular demand that railroad land grants should cease, and the homestead principle re- i main inviolate. He takes up the cudgel in favor of universal amnesty, and instead of a bulky bill, relieving thousands of individuals by name, which "fell by its own weight," he favors a bill relieving the great mass of the Southern people from all constitutional disabilities. Touching civil service reform, Mr. Colfax advances a peg beyond the recent party enactment, and hopes that postmasters may eventually be nominated by the people interested. He advises the next Congress to reduce taxation sixty to eighty millions, and after a long labyrinth of introductory remark, counsels the levying of duties "for revenue and not for prohibition," the making free of hundreds of articles from which little revenue is received, and the lightening of duties on or rendering free raw materials not produced in this country. The article is carefully prepared, and its advanced positions tempt one to believe that its eminent author is election~V>imcolP in onifp <if Viia pplft CCliUg (I llbiav IVi Ul&XJOVW) * 11 U|??vv V* -w brated retirement from politics. ihf fsrMlr (ttfrawr. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 19, 1871. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription if paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood thai our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance ?~ JOB PBINTim . 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The arrival in Yorkville of Hon. A. T Akerman, Attorney-General of the Unite< States, and Hon. D. T. Corbin, Attorney General of the State, on Tuesday afternoon was duly announced in the Enquirer of las week. These officials, upon arriving here proceeded immediately to the headquarters o Colonel Merrill, commandant of this post where they were in conference for several days and we presume the result of their delibera tions is the proclamation issued by Presiden Grant on the 12th instant. In connection with these proceedings, an< in view of the fact that since Thursday, thre additional companies of troops?two of cav airy and one of infantry?have arrived hen 1 "dated October 10th, to the New York Ttmei may not be uninteresting: "The public will reioice to learn that th< Government is taking the entire kuklux or ganization of the South literally by the throat A movement of the most important characte: was initiated six weeks ago, the details o which have been arranged with the utmost se cresy, and the results of which are now beinj developed in a rapid and even startling man ner. There is news to-day of an utter pani< among the whole organization in the State o South Carolina. It will be remembered tha at the last Cabinet meeting, held early in Sep tember, the report went out extensively tha it was then agreed that nothing short of t proclamation of martial law would meet tin requirements of the situation. These dispatch es alone maintained that such a proclamatioi would not be issued, and that was just the de cision the Cabinet arrived at. Important in formation was laid before the President ai that meeting, to the effect that it was possibh tnrough the civil arm, to lay hands on the leaders of the gang in every southern State and annihilate it utterly. The facts were considered and a plan agreed upon which ii now being carried into execution. The de tails of the movement are not proper to be made public, but the results are beginning tc come to light, despite the efforts of the kukluj press agents to suppress them. It is sufficieni to say that the Government agents inside the klans themselves have placed it in possessior of the whole paraphernalia, insignia, and tc a great extent the names of the leaders of the order, whose ramifications and purposes ex tended far beyond the belief of most people North or South." This dispatch was soon followed by the President's proclamation, which is in the fol lowing words: Whereas unlawful combinations and con spiracies have long existed, and do still exist in the State of South Carolina, for the purpose of depriving certain portions and classes oi the people of that State of the rights, privi leges, and immunities, and protection named in the Constitution of the United States, and secured by the act of Congress approved April the twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, entitled "An Act to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment of J,he Constitution of the United States to wit, in the counties of Spartanburg, York, Union, Chester, Laurens, Newberry, Fairfield, Lancaster, and Chesterfield?such combinations and conspiracies do so obstruct and hinder the execution of the laws of said State and of the United States as to deprive the people aforesaid of the rights, privileges, immunities, and protection aforesaid, and do oppose and obstruct the laws of the United States and their due execution, and impede and obstruct the due course of justice under the same ; And whereas the constituted authorities of said State are unable to protect people aforesaid in such rights within the said counties; And whereas the combinations and conspiracies aforesaid, within the counties aforesaid, are organized and armed, and are so numerous and powerful as to be able to defy the constituted authorities of said State and of the United States within the said State, and by reason of said causes the conviction of such offenders and the preservation of the public peace and safety have become impracticable in said counties; Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States of America, do hereby command all persons composing the unlawful combinations and conspiracies aforesaid to disperse and to retire peaceably to their homes within five days of the date hereof, and to deliver either to the marshal of the United States for the District of South Carolina, or to any of his deputies, or to any military officer of the United States within said counties, all arms, ammunition, uniforms, disguises and other means and implements used, Kept, possessed or controlled by them, for carrying out the unlawful purposes for which the combinations and conspiracies are organized. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Doneatthe city of Washington, this twelfth ! day of October, in the year of our Lord one j ! thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and j of the independence of the United States of, ' America the ninety-sixth. U. S. GRANT. By the President: Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State. j Since the promulgation of the President's 1 proclamation, which is supposed to be the precursor of a declaration of martial law in . this section of the State, a feeling of insecurity pervades among many, and as a result of the apprehensions engendered, we learn that a number ?f persons have left the town and county. We hear of no arrests of citizens Kowincp ob vot hppn made. It is stated that a j * ~b ? J , private soldier of one of the infantry corapa- j nies stationed here has been placed under ar-! rest, and is now in jail, charged with advising j or counseling a citizen of the town to leave, i THE RECENT ELECTIONS. The result in Ohio, according to the latest estimates, gives the Senate 18 Democrats and 17 Republicans ; and the House 47 Democrats and 56 Republicans. The Republican majority throughout the State is about 18,000. ? , ^Pennsylvania is conceded to the Republi. cans, though returns are not sufficiently complete to give majorities. The Legislature will probably stand: Senate, 18 Republicans, 15 Democrats; House, 59 Republicans and 41 : Democrats. J Iowa has gone Republican by about 45, 000 majority, with important losses in the t Legislature. In Texas, the net majorities, as far as heard . from are as follows: First district, eight counties, Herndon's (Democrat) majority, 1,507 ; second district, Connor (Democrat) reelected > by about 15,000 majority; third district, fif^ teen counties, Giddings's (Democrat) majori\ ty 622; fourth district, twenty-nine counties, Hancock's (Democrat) majority, 3,640. The ? aggregate Democratic majority in the State 3 is estimated at 40,000. Trouble seems to be apprehended in the State. The counties of Limestone, Bell and Grimes have been deKv tliA Governor under martial law, uj vmv ? and assessed $50,000 for "bad behavior." The vote of these counties will be thrown out, which will give the State senatorship to theRes publican candidate. One hundred and twenty-five negro iailitia have arrived at Grosbeck, and business is reported entirely suspended ? there. All the roads leading to the place are guarded, and none are allowed to pass in or i out. Twenty-five citizens have been arrested f and placed under bonds for their appearance b before Judge Oliver. In the Legislature, a discussion of the Governor's action in proclaiming martial law, en, sued in the House on Saturday. A resoluj tion to sustain the Governor was opposed by many leading Republicans. Plutnly, Radical, from Galveston county, bitterly opposing ^ it,'said: "I shall vote against the Governor's proclamation of martial law, because I think it is -illegal. I will not be deterred from the expression of my opinion against the procla' mation by the cry of having gone to the De' mocracy. I shall vote against it, because I t am a Republican, and regard the proclamation as destructive to party, subversive of the ^ Constitution and the liberties of the people. e The Governor has made a mistake. I will , not be compelled, under party Itwbuig, to endorse and ratify the error. My county has Wivta years taTnow.' flie>Increase* is causal by enforcing just such illegal and ire regular declarations of martial law as we are . now considering." r STATE ITEMS. f ? The telesraDh line to Abbeville is com - pleted. I ? The Union says that Governor Scott and * Comptroller-General Neagle left Columbia ? for Washington on Friday night last. t ?At the recent terra of the Circuit Court . of Orangeburg, the County Commissioners t for that county were convicted of malfeasance 1 in office. 2 ?The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, has been completed to Columbia. The first passenger train passed over the road . on Wednesday of last week, t ? The South Carolina Railroad Company j has reduced the rates of freight on cotton be5 tween Columbia and Charleston, to 35 cents ? per hundred pounds. ' ? The trial of cases, in which negro property was the consideration, progresses in the ; Sumter court under the decision of the Su> preme Court of the State?Judge Orr's adc verse course to the contrary notwithstanding, k ? Two United States soldiers and an illicit ^ distiller broke out of Spartanburg jail last ) week. One soldier was caught. The others > have escaped. The alarm was given by a - prisoner who is charged with ku-kluxism. J ? The Union limes of last week says there is a perfect reign of terror in Spartanburg 5 county, and nearly all business, except that pertaining to the United States Marshal's office, is at a stand-still. Numbers of persons have left the county from fear of arrest. ' ? Judge Orr has grab ted permission for the ? institution of proceedings against the Air-Line i Railroad Company in South Carolina to for[ feit their charter for various reasons, but I principally for their persistent refusal to lo! cate their road to some point on the Savan' nah River by Anderson Courthouse. ! ?The Banner of the South and Planter's Journal, published at Augusta. Ga.. is bow .1 publishing a full Roster of Jenkins' and , Bratton's Brigade, composed of the 1st, S. C. Volunteers, 2nd S. C. Rifles, 5th S. C. Volunteers, 6th S. C. Volunteers, and Palmetto Sharp Shooters. Terms, 83. ? The Spartan of last week, says that up to the 10th instant, ten men had been arrested as ku-klux and lodged in the jail at Spartanburg, five of whom were subsequently releas1 ed. The statement "that numbers of the j 'mystic-clan' are surrendering themselves and . | being lodged in jail, is contradicted. All i who are in jail were arrested." ? NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The General Assembly will meet on the third Monday of November. ? A serious fight occurred between two negroes at a corn-shucking in Orange county last week. One of them had voted the Democratic ticket, and was attacked for his course, and severely stabbed in the fight which resulted from the quarrel. ? The completion of the railroad between Salem and Greensboro is at last assured. The road-bed has been finished several months, I and ready for the iron, which the Richmond and Danville road agrees to lay, taking a mortgage on the road therefor. ? The Greensboro Patriot says: "A remarkable number of deaths have occurred in this vicinity within the last two weeks amounting to between fifteen and twenty. The number is unprecedented in this locality, which is one of the healthiest in the State." ? The Salem Press says: A friend informs us that a difficulty occurred at Mocksville during Davie Court, between Mr. W. B. March, and a man named Call, in which the; latter, who had been quite abusive, was severely cut in the shoulders and across the breast I ? The United States troops have been with- j drawn from Robeson county. They are unable to effect the object of their mission?the capture of the Lowery gang. "Would it not be well for the President to issue a proclamation commanding Lowery and his adherent* to bring up their guns and accoutrements and desist from further transgressions of the law ? ? The Charlotte Democrat learns that a com-' pany of U. S. cavalry has been sent to Cleveland county, and that arrests are "fetill being made iu that county and Rutherford of per^ sons who are charged with belonging to the; ku*klux organization. The Democrat further aavfl: "We have been informed that hun ?J - - - dreds of young men are leaving some of the I counties on the other side of the Catawba river^ for fear of being arrested." ? H. A. Suow, of Greensboro, cautions Mas-; ters of Masonic Lodges against an impostor by the name of Keele, claiming to hail from Whitesburg Lodge, No. 295, Letcher county, Kentucky. The said Keele solicits charity, and leads a profligate life with the donations" he receives. E. H. White, W. M., of Phalanx Lodge in Charlotte, publishes a similar warning in regard to the impostor. f , ? The Goldsboro Messenger says that a cdnlpany of U. S. troops arrived at that town froii Robeson county, on Tuesday of lastjfc?ek?^| encamped there until next evening, when they departed for Fort Macon. While encamped in Goldsboro, a squad of them made a raid upon a grogshop kept by colored men. Here they stole one or more bottles of the "ardent" and "decamped." One of the sable proprietors gave chase and dispatched three pistol shots after them, but without effect. ?Five colored men entered a saloon in Wilmington one day last week and demanded drinks, which were refused them, upon which they swore out a warrant and had the proprietors of the saloon arrested for a violation of the civil rights bill. The case coming before the U. S. Commissioner McQuigg, after a full hearing, the defendants were discharged, the Commissioner taking the ground that the complainants could not purchase without 3 contract to that effect, and that it was impossible to compel any person to dispose of any property without his consent. It was further decided that the defendants and any othei persons have the right to decline to sell any Qt-fJnlo nf Tkorannal nronertv. In fact that viv?w v* 1 r .. they can refuse to sell to a white man, and the white man would have no remedy. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A. Williford, Rock Hill, So. Ca.-Selling off at Cost. . Francis Johnson and Madison Simrll?Ho! For Liberia. J. B. Withers?Notice. M. Jones, Agent?Miracles of Enterprise, Brem, Brown <fe Co., Charlotte, N. C.?Wholesale Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Hardware and Cutlery, <fec. > Samuel B. Hall, Judge of Probate?Notice to the Heirs-at-law of Patsey Craig, deceased. E. Dickenson, Agent?New Goods. W. L. Grier, Secretary?I. O. 0. F. John T. Grist?Mourning Note Paper?Pateni Blotting Pads. ? EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Insurance Companies. The Chicago calamity failed to produce the panic in financial circles that would nafr urally be expected to result from so great a disaster; and even the insurance companies. nearly all of which had large risks itt.thl city, claim to be able to meet all their liatdlr ties, which, in the aggregate, amount to 000.000. On examination, we find thuge coqt parries uumg promag la this sectiorrran^fj to be sound and able to pay their liabTniiei without impairing their strength. Tho rates of insurance will, however, advance, and con* panies will, in the future, be more cautiout than heretofore in taking risks. Movements of the Ku*Klux Committee. The sub-committee on ku-klux, Senator Pratt, chairman, after sitting eight days ill session in Huntsville, Alabama, adjourned on Saturday evening, to go by way of Chattanooga to Montgomery, where they will remain two or three days, and then go to Demopolis, Marengo county, Ala., where they will remain for perhaps a week. They have examined forty-two witnesses at Huntsville? including several of the principal public men on the Democratic side, who regarded the county as peaceful; on the other side, many persons, including negroes, testified to acts o( violence. Connubial Rights in Georgia. In Georgia recently a white man and a colored woman, who had been married under a license duly issued by the Ordinary, were in a State court convicted of adultery and sentenced to imprisonment, on the ground that marriages between the white and black races are forbidden by a State statute, and are therefore illegal and void. They sued out a writ of habeas corpus, and had their case taken before Judge Erskine of the United States District Court, claiming that the law under which they had been convicted was in contravention of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment, which provides that no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of any citizen of the United States. Judge Erskine decided that the validity of the statute in question had not been affected by the adoption of the amendment, and that the pretended marriage of the parties was illegal, and their conviction just and proper under the laws. According to this decision, the marriage of a white man to a black woman is neither a privilege nor a right. The Great Prairie Fire. ?r4! Later accounts from the prairie fire in Wisconsin confirm the previous accounts in regard to the extent of the devastation of thft. flames ; and from the counties of Saint Clair and Huron, the accounts are indeed distressing. All that portion of the State east of Saginaw Bay and north of a point forty miles above Port Huron has been swept. A number of persons perished. Five villages are en tirely destroyed; two partially, and others are threatened. There were large stores destroyed. A steamer sent to their relief, from Port Huron, has returned with forty, several of whom are badly burned. All telegraph offices along the shore have been burned. R. B. Hubbard, at Huron City, shot all his fine horses and cattle, to prevent their perishing by fire. A light rain fell on Monday, and abated the fires. Professor Charles Scott, of Hope College, perished ; also, a minister, whose name has not been ascertained. The larger portion of the city of Manister has been burned. It is situated on the east coast of Lake Michigan and contains four thousand inhabitants, and is the greatest lumber town in the State. Governor Fairchild telegraphs under date of the 14th, that the appalling calamity has not been exaggerated. Over 3,000 men, women and children are now destitute. The loss of life has been very great; not less than 500 persons have been burned at Pishtego and vicinity, and 300 on the eastern shore. Scores of men, women and children are now in temporary hospitals, burned and maimed. Martial Law in the South. The "Washington Chronicle of Saturday has the following, which we publish for what it is worth: "A protracted session of the Cabinet was held yesterday. All the members except Attorney-General Akerman were present, who was represented by Solicitor-General Bristow. The members were reticent as to the subjects of consideration in the Cabinet, but it was inferred that martial law will be proclaimed in South Carolina, and probably in Georgia and Alabama, unless those who have been committing outrages there show a perfect willingness to comply with the provisions of civil law 4n the future. It is understood that the Secretary of War has already issued orders concentrating the military in disorganized sections of the States named above, and that inside of ten days, should a refractory spirit be shown by the people, thousands will be put under arrest by the military and held for trial. Chicago. The following brief sketch in relation 'to Chicago, possesses interest at this time: h Chicago is situated on Lake Michigan, at the mouth of Chicago river. The river affords the only good harbor on the west side of the lake near its southern extremity, and to this fact the city owed its original importance. The name is of Indian origin, and is mentioned by the French Jesuit Missionary ij^larquette, who first visited it in 1673. The town was first laid out in 1830, and organized in 1833, when it contained only twenty-eight votes. In four years, the population increased *4,000. The rapid progress of Chicago since TO37 is probably unparalleled in the growth jwcities. As early as 1854, it was announced Mfflf&t Chicago was the largest primary grain dep6r in -the world. In all departments ~ of trade, it ranked among the first cities of the Union. The colossal fortunes amassed by raanv of its citizens were freely expended in building up the city in a style of unsurpassed magnificence and grandeur. Chicago rated as the fifth city in the Union, according to the census of 1870. The population, as ascertained by the marshals, was reported to be 298,977, but it was claimed to be several thousand more. The Robeson Outlaws. The Radical negro ku-klux, Henrj ; Berry Lowrey, of Robeson county, N. C. seems to be harder to overcome by Federal au thority than Brigham Young in his strong hold ofMormouism. It is reported that a few days since, Lowrey passed down Lumber Riv . er in a batteau within full view of a squad ol twenty-three "boys in blue," who fired upor him. He simply "squatted" in the bottom oi , his boat, careening it over so as to constitute ^ an amateur breast-work to protect him fron their bullets, and "paddled" about his busi ; ness." The Wilmington Journal of a recent date has the following in regard to the Robesor outlaws: "The war is at an end. The campaign ir ' Robeson county has been abandoned, anc Henry Berry Lowrey, the hero of Scuffletown remains boss of the situation. The forces sen; there by the Governor have not fulfilled th< i expectations formed of them, and the peoph i of Robeson are to be again left to the pitiles , mercy of the savages. The troops stationed there have all beei withdrawn, they having arrived in this city . via the Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruther fordton railroad. Thev comprise detachment from companies G ana K, 4th United State Artillery. The former are to rejoin their com mand at Smithville, and the latter leave fo i Goldsboro. White men are arrested by th hundred, but it is impossible to secure a dozei mulatto outlaws." ,, .Ike President's Proclamation. , In regard to the proclamation of th .Spfoudent, the Washington correspondent c fRie"Baltimore Sun writes as follows. The ic Sanation that the carpet-baggers and office PCSdera generally in the South are to be^ep d in order, as well as the "ku-klux" is amusing j to say the least The correspondent write I under date of the 13th : ? It is learned that the Presidential procla raation under the ku-klux act means mor ' than its surface would indicate. It is nov . known positively that for more than six week past, or even since the Ku-Klux Committer ^ of Congress returned from the South, the ad ministration has had under consideration i 3 policy to be enforced not only against the so i called ku-klux organizations, but in the ad . ministration of Federal civil affairs in thi South. There was no substantial different* of opinion among the President and the Cab 1 inet and the leading Republicans who favoret this new order of things, except as to the tim< when it shall be enforced, and that account! i for the delay until after the October elections The proclamation is, therefore, but the fore runner of martial law and the suspension o: the writ of habeas corpus. iX prULUlilCUL liiCIUUCl U1 biiu uuvyiuiuvui and also leading Republicans declare to-daj that the arrangements of the civil and mill tary for wholesale arrests of members of the 1 ku-klux klan had been perfected, and'thaf the country would be surprised, if the proclamation were not heeded, by the arrest of wellknown southern men. Inasmuch as it if avered that outrages in the South are pro voked by corruption of office-holders and th? plunder of the people, it is the intention oi the President to warfare against all corrupt Federal officials, and to invite the cooperation of all good Republicans for the displacement of bad State officials. This is to go hand-inland with the enforcement of the ku-klus law until it is stated "there is a lasting peace . ii the South." Intensely Radical. In the canvass now progressing in Virginia, the question of repudiation comes in for a share of discussion; and it is at least amusing to read the theories and arguments advanced by some of the supporters of repudiation. The following circular is published in the Staunton Spectator by Ahithophel Smith, a candidate for the House of Delegates. The fact that it is published seriously and in good faith, renders it the more ab? 1 "I respectfully announce myself a candidate for the Legisltaure?say the House of Dele, J?tes. As to my political principles, I presume it don't matter whether I am Conservative or Radical, and I shall say nothing on that subject. The only question of interest now-a-days is repudiation, and upon that I am right. I see that some of the candidates in Rockingham are for repudiating the State debt. So far so good. A candidate in Highland goes for repudiating all debts, public and private, contracted before April 10th, 1865. That is a step further in the right diTection. But neither the Rockingham lawyer nor the Highland doctor has quite come up to the mark yet. They are on the way, however, and I hail them as fellow-workers. My doctrine is repudiate all debts, and divide out the property. Here is my neighbor Major Jones, who owns five hundred acres of good land, worth $25,000, who don't want to pay his debts (amounting to $500) and grumbles heavily about the taxes. Well, now, is it Virrlif on/1 fair tVinl nftiorhhor .Tones shall be relieved of his debts and taxes and hold on to all his land ? I say it ain't; because when the law relieves one it ought to relive all. I have no debts to be abolished, and I want a little farm badly. If elected, I promise to 1 carry out my principles?universal repudiation down to the latest possible moment, (none of your 10th of April, 1865) an equal division of property, and an even start for us all. There are of course no constitutional difficulties in the way. The people who hold property to any amount worth sjpeaking of, are a small minority, and if all the other sort vote for me I shall certainly be elected. Those like me, who owe no debts and hold no property, don't care a straw about repudiation or taxes unless in the new shuffle we can come in for something." Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer, g] FROM UNION COUNTY. * OUR POLITICAL 8ITUATION?PRICES OF LAND, 8TOCK, AC. fj So far as we know, our county has not been a visited by the United States constables with k the usual squad of cavalry. They came to Limestone Springs a few days ago, with a fc bundle of warrants, but made very few ar- ? rests?perhaps but one, and that Saul A. 8 Camp, Esq., about sixty years old. He gave t bond for $300, and went home. Said squad 8 broke down doors, broke into provision j houses, and helped' themselves generally. \ The soldiers were not to .blame; but the mean ^ natives who always lead and direct them on J such occasions. They pervert the ends of j law and justice very much, when they become ( guilty of acts equally as lawless as anything f the so-called ku-klux ever did. The great- t eat evil is that many of our best young men < are leaving the State rather than submit to a 1 trial where witnesses are hired and the jury * packed. We trust there is enough moderation and good sense amongst our citizens of . all colors and political creed, to settle down ; and live t uietly and peaceably. The govern- j raent at Washington will give us no help, for < agitation and violence is what they wish and work for. There is no hope in our present State government, for the corrupt and base and dishonest in power do not desire the country to subside into a normal condition. , The only hope is in the good sense of the people. , Several tracts of land have recen tly changed bands in our*vicinity at fair prices. An upland tract well worn and thin, was sold for I $10 per acre: This was the highest. The 1 John Goudelock homestead, about 500 acres, was sold by the Probate Judge for $3.00 per ! acre. This place was very much worn, with little woodland on it This is a little higher than it was a year ago for land of the same , quality. Some corn has been sold at 90 cents from [ the heap. Oats 75 to $1.00. Cotton seed 121 to 15 cents.. Hogs gross, 6 to 61. Milk r cows $15 to $25.00 Horses and mules have OOPIf 1? ttln in nriee for the la8t year. | m \juaugvu * vi j ... j ? r p A good young animal will be sure to bring a , good price. P. f THE GREAT FIRE IN CHICAGO. As our readers were apprized in last week's 1 issue of the Enquirer, the city of Chicago has been visited by the direst calamity from fire that has ever occurred in any city of the United States. Men of wealth have been I made poor, and poor men have been deprived of shelter for themselves and their families, J and these unfortunate people are numbered by thousands. Such a scene of desolation t and woe, from such a cause, has never before i been witnessed on the American continent; * nor, indeed has it many counterparts in all 3 the history of the world. We collate from the various reports the following connected narrative, giving the . origin and progress of the fire and its incis dents, which will be read with melancholy s interest: Late on Sunday evening, the 8th instant, a r boy went into a stable on De Koven street, 8 near the river, on the west side, to milk a II cow, carrying with him a kerosene lamp. This was kicked over by the cow, and the burning fluid scattered among the straw. e This -was the beginning of the great fire. A single extinguisher on tiie ground, or active work by the police in tearing down a few shanties, would have prevented the spreading pf the flflnftfiT?btt* fffrp ' for, and when they arrived, the firemen, stupefied by their exertions at the first fire on s Saturday night, worked slowly and clumsily. Their efforts were unavailing. The wind . blew a gale from the southwest. 0 Rapidly the flames shot from house to v house, and from board-yard to board-yard, B having meanwhile crossed the river north of e Twelfth street to the south side, and made for the brick and stone business blocks, the railj road freight dep6ts and manufacturing es. tablishments. The full extent of the danger was now realized for the first time. > g The Fire Department, already tired oujf 3 worked like heroes, and the Mayor and tlfe * city government, that had supinely rest j now began to exert themselves, but the ?p, portunity had been lost. l 3 THE LOST OPPORTUNITY. 1 The time when thorough organization coui^i - have blown up the buildings or prepared for f an emergency was neglected, ana it was now a fight for life, t The wind, blowing a stiff gale, had possesr sion of the flames, and the beautiful build. ings, Chicago's glory, lay before them. Har5 rison, Van Buren, Adams, Monroe and Madt ison streets, were soon reached, the interven ing blocks from the river to Dearborn street . on the east being consumed. Three-quarters ; of a mile of brick blocks were consumed as if - by magic. ! UNCON8CIOU8 VICTIMS, f It being Sunday, proprietere and employes ; were at home, utterly unconscious of what was i taking place. Those who saw the flames < thought it was the remains of Saturday night's - fire, and having confidence in the fire depart: ment, were unconcerned ; but between 11 and ! 12 o'clock a rumor got abroad that the fire was in the business part of the city. Then the people commenced moving. Horses were brought into requisition to take proprietors and others to the scene of conflagration. ' What a scene met their gaze! The Board of 1 Trade, Court House, Western Union Tele1 graph and Associated Press office, and hundreds of other buildings were all in flames. The air was filled with live coals, which were hurled from north to east, a besom of destruction. Fire engines were powerless for saving. All the men could do was to blow up buildings; but this availed but little. The Times. Tribune. Pvst, livpuOiwwt, JUw ~ nal and other newspaper offices; Western News Company, and several other prominent buildings, all were soon in ashes. QUICK DESTRUCTION. Tf coomprl thftf im flftnnpr had the flame struck a wall than it went directly through, and a very few minutes sufficed to destroy the most elaborately-built structures. The walls melted, and the very bricks were consumed. The wooden pavements took fire, making a continuous sheet of flame two miles long by one mile wide. No human being could possibly survive many minutes. Block j after block fell, and red-hot coals shot higher , and higher, and spread further and further, , until the north side was a vast sheet of flame from river to lake. At one time it so hem- , med the people that it was expected thousands must perish. The Sherman, Tremont, and other hotels were emptied of their guests. , A REMARKABLE SIGHT was presented in the hurrying throngs, with ] trunks, sacks or bags on their shoulders, flee- ? ing amid the flames for their lives. Those j who could, made for the surrounding bridges, ? and others got next to the lake shore ana to | the south. I THE FIRE RAGING ON TUESDAY. ] At 1 o'clock Tuesday morning, the fire was j 1 still raging in all its relentless fury, and there 1 seeraea but little hope for the ill-fated city. ] Block after block, street after street, and district after district, succumbed to the devour-! ] j ing monster. Five hundred lives are said to ' 1 I have been sacrificed in this fiery lake, and ? I hundreds of valuable animals perished in the t I flames. The wind, which during the dav, -1 had blown a moderate gale from the south- 1 ward and eastward, driving the fire into and 2 through the heart of the Dusiness portion of the city, suddenly shifted to the northward, and drove the destructive element back upon T ae southern district, which, it was thought, \ rould be spared. All hopes at ouce fled, and 1 iie suffering ones gave themselves up to de- c pair. In the dark, and with the crackling ames above and around them, the houseless t nd terror-stricken people dropped on their nees and t PKAYED TO GOD o stay the scourge. The prayer was answer- 1 d. At 3 o'clock, the huge clouds of rolling moke from the ruins gathered in the heav- 1 ns, and gaining moisture from contact with he cold air above, descended in refreshing ] howers. The progress of the flames was apjarently checked. But human ingenuity ' vas brought to boar likewise. Gen. Sheridan vith a large force of sappers and miners un- 1 lertook the task of fighting the fire-god. He )lew up and demolished whole blocks of buildngs, and laid waste entire streets in the path )f the flames. To add to the horrors, wnich it this time must have been indescribable, seven or eight fiends were caught in the act )f plying the torch. They were either sumnarily hanged or shot, as was most convenimt MORE DISHEARTENING NEWS. * " * *-?- :? *1?* And then came a aespatcn Baying tum mo 6re was still rapidly spreading, and again the hearts, of the people fell; and finally telegraphic communication was entirely suspended, which was not resumed until 3 o'clock, Lm., when a despatch w&s sent to Saint uis announcing that a heavy rain storm having set in, the fire had at last been extinguished. SLEEPING IN THE WOODS. A .lame camp has. been formed outside tne c7fr, and teqts are being supplied to some, ofctf thousands of people are sleeping on the ground. In the western district, women and children throng the streets, and are cooking their food at small fires built along the curbstones. At least ten thousand wealthy business men are, by the result of the conflagration, left penniless. HANGING INCENDIARIES. Fifteen hundred citizens were sworn jn on Tuesday night as an extra police force, and the Secretary of war authorized Glen. Sheridan to employ all available troops for guard, and issued an order for one hundred thousand rations. Five hundred soldiers are on duty. This precaution was necessary, for, as remarkable as it may seem, there were fiends who still sought to extend the disaster. Two men caught in the act of firing houses on the west side, were arrested and hung immediately to lamp-posts?one on Twelfth street, near the river, and the other three miles away, on Clayburne avenue, riorth side. This summary action served to check' the thieves and murderers. PROVIDING FOR THE HOMELESS. Water for drinking and household use is secured from the lake and parks, and for hore es from the river. There are a tnousana people camped about the artesian well, four miles out, and perhaps as many more at the lake, upon Fullerton and Victor avenues, near the prairie. The people are being fed in the remaining churches, school-houses, in sheds, and by the roadside. It was cold and chilly Tuesday morning, causing great suffering. FRIGHTFUL SCENES. Thousands of persons and horses inextricably commingled ; poor people of all colors and shades, and of every nationality, from Europe, China, and Africa, mad with excitement, struggled with each other to get awav. Hundreds were trampled under foot Men and women were loaded with bundles and their household goods, to whose skirits were clinging tender infants, half dressed and barefooted, all seeking a place of safety. Hours afterward these might have been seen in vacant lots or on the streets far out in the suburbs, stretched in the dust Those are the suffering lambs whom Christ now calls on the rich world to feed and clothe. Qod help them if the heart of ipaa shall vow .obdurate 1 Oqjrof the mo8t$itftd aiglitf WM tfrat of a yAcfleCrany C^^^wert toe," Ac. There were hundreds of others likewise distracted, and made desperate by whisky or beer, which from excess of thirst they drank in absence of water in great quantities, who snread themselves in everv direction, a terror to all they met It is fearful to think of the loss of life. It is conjectured, with good cause, that nearly five hundred persons nave .been burnt to death. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION GONE. All the books and papers of the Historical Society, including the original copy of the famous Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln's, for which the Society paid $25,000, were destroyed. It is feared that a large number of children, inmates of the Catholic Orphan Society on State street, were also burned, as many of them are missing. On Chicago avenue a father rushed up stairs, bearing three children away, when he was overtaken by the flames and perished with them. The mother was afterward seen on the street on the northwest side a raving maniac. In the same neighborhood a family of five persons yerished. The list of such fatalities is very Ion# and can only be fully verified after the smoke shall have cleared away. There are Hundreds of families on that side who savfd no clothing, but barely their lives. DETERMINATION IP REBUILD. A special meeting of t*e Legislature is to be held to provide raeaf for aiding the business men and providing employment for the poor. Fears are ento"^^0^ that the desperate distress of so ms>y will create squads of pillagers, and thathfe will not be safe. To relieve these Ge>* Sheridan is telegraphing for more troops /hd special police forces are being organize/by the citizens. The only effectual reme# ia to find employment for the thousands would work if they could. A meeting ofthe business men has already been held, and s spirit was manifested at once to set to worl to rebuild the city and restore business. &E EXTENT OF THE FIRE. j Chica/o covered twenty-one square miles, of whicl three were destroyed, leaving eigh- : toon touched. One-seventh of the city is \ all tn? was destroyed, u. iuere?y me territory ? be looTed at; but the proportion in value of j property destroyed is l*rger. , WHAT BEMAINS. { I late telegram conveys the following information as to whit now remains of the city, s aid its future p'ospects. The larger share a of the homes of Chicago, her best and choicest residence an( manufacturing sections, re- o nain, and a va* area of her best and most ii fharacteristie bsiness. The residence sections of Waba* avenue and Michigan ave- n me that have'een visited were by no means n ;he choicest i that character, for they had jegun to pc^ess a mixed quality. On a tl arge extent>f Michigan avenue not a new fi; residence of he best class had been built in ave years. to the north side, the residence bi portion iD^ed was of a choice character, of but manyf the buildings were of the old;ime class in Set it own, therefore, that Chicago still lives. Ir bomes, her industrial enterprises, Q ire 8titfarg?ly intact Very few of her m large irJufacturing establishments were de- of itroyed The loss falls on her public institutions, ir larger buildings, her centres of an trade1(* finance, and upon an army of the eri |oweJia88 of tenants and bank and mercantile d>loy&. With these losses, many fine foi bom h&ve g?ne> hut this is all. Enough pe reiiJ8 to build anew upon. j jmerous outlying blocks and many ex- inj 3ol edifices of the better class in the more bu by occupied Wabash avenue and Michi- j j.avenue, below Twelfth street, have been by jl'ed. Among these is certainly the noble , st Baptist Churcb, on Wabash, Harmon- iug rt, and the Michigan avenue Hotel, on drc corner of Michigan avenue and Congress j et. 2,5 LOSS IN PROVISIONS. ]0st 'he following tables give the amount and strc ralue of stocks of provisions in store on the st of October, by which the aggregate loss tan be very nearly determined : Flour, 20,360 barrels, at 87 per barrel; toal value, $142,520. Pork, 16,460 barrels, at $13 per barrel; toal value, $21,850. Prime mess pork, 2,000 barrels, at $11 per jarrel; total value, $22,000. Lard, 8,970 tierces, at $30 a tierce; total (ralue, $270,070. Bacon, 4,590,000 pounds, at 9i cents per oound : total value. $43,560. Wheat, 1,463,418" bushels, at $1.20 per bushel; total value, $1,756,101.60. Cora, 868,253 bushels at 46 cents per bushel ; total value, $398,396.38. Oats, 749,240 bushels, at 30 cents per bushel ; total value, $224,771. Rye, 86,319 bushels, at 65 J cents per bushel ; total value, $56,150.50$. Barley, 686,255 bushels, at 68$ cents per bushel; total value, $401,659.13. According to the above list the total value of the stocks in store at Chicago on the 1st instant was $3,528,809.61. LATER AND MINOR ITEMS. There has been no renewal of fires and nothing has occurred to disturb the city. The relief committees are thoroughly organized and doing all in their power tor the aid of the sufferers. The abundance of provisions, and the fact of their being distributed gratuitously, bas had the effect to demoralize many laboring men, and some of them refuse to work for less than one dollar per hour. The bankers of the city have held a meeting in .which they resolved to open for business as soon as possible, and to pay immediate installments to not more1 than fifteen per oenU in the case of any individual bank, and will continue to pay additional installments as fast as assets are made available, until the entire liabilities are liquidated, it being an advantage to the community to reserve a portion of their cash assets to furnish accommodations to surviving commercial interests. Returns of the Census office show that the population of the six wards wholly burned over in Chicago is 92,893. Three other wards, with an aggregate populasion of 60,000, were U A TU? u,mwAa aouut uue-iuuu UUIUW UVCI. xuo nwiuo burned entirely were the Fiitt, Second, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth. The First and Second Wtards comprised the prinoipal heavy business stores, the Sixteenth and Seventeenth the immense iron manufacturing establishments, and the Seventeenth to the Twentieth were almost wholly given up to residences. Ninety dead bodies have been recovered from the rivers, and quite a number died from exposure. The loss of life cannot be estimated, though large numbers are known to have been burnt ana crushed by falling walls. The total loss of grain is definitely ascertained to be 1,600,000 bushels. Over 5,000,000 bushels are now in store, and the dealers in groceries, grain and provisions announce that they will not take advantage of the situation, but continue to sell goods at the old prices. _ ' THE RIOT U PHILADELPHIA. On Tuesday of last week?the day of the election in Pennsylvania?a serious riot occurred in Philadelphia. Four or five men were killed, of whom two were colored, and twenty-five wounded, five of the wounded being colored men. Three brigades of militia were ordered to the scene of the trouble; and a lieutenant of police was arrested and held to bail for obstructing the polls. The trouble first commenced between the white and colored men at Eigth and Fifxwater streets. The crowd, drawn together by the report of a fight, numbered nearly 1,000. A shower of paving stones was fired, and the fight began in earnest Pistols were used, i and a number of men armed with bright new I muskets ohafged and fired into the crowd. I The .battle continued aa4h#pewed op J '! Vj a W ' ' L. 1 .1, t During the fight in Lom bard street, i men armed with muskets came out ?f.? ? I ley just below Seventh street, and ^frrrl I upon a squad of police, who were baekedby 1 a nost 01 snirt-eieevea supporters, tod beaten back, retreated to a tavern,tak&r up their position at second-story windofii/jriatn this position they fired a volley, which fMa returned with spirit, and for ten minntef'tea neighborhood reverberated with the iaptete ti firea-rms, while missiles, paving stonpfc and bricks whistled through the air. , v ^ Chief of Police Mulholland did IlV 'bttst fl with his small force to quell the disturbance. B He did not succeed, however, until over a fl score of persons had been wounded, and, as fl reported, four killed. Half a dozen men were fl shot in Lombard street, and carried off by fl their friends. Chief Mulholland restored or* fl der after taking the ringleaders of both parties H into custody. The riot is attributable to the IB ill-treatment of the colored voters at Eighth B and Tidewater streets and more or less at all fl the polls in the Fourth and Fifth Wards. B Ana it is also alleged that the riot was caused B by drunken negro boys insulting ladies and B killing a negro who voted the Democratic B ticket P In one of the wards a lady attempted tote* sert her rights, by offering her vote, tea. hay* ing previously registered. She was tedaajtenied by her counsel, Mr. Kilgore. spectorof the election informed her (teal: Jm was instructed not to receive her vote^ After a long argument, the lady proceededj^ijte court of common pleas and made appHoa&m to the bench for a mandamus. The Judge refused to hear the argument, saying that he had no power to issue the writ J GREAT FIRES OFIkODERN TIKES. The recent devastation by fire of Chicago recalls the conflagrations now passed intjU Mi* tory, and suggests many comparison* Ism* don has several times been devastaied by tea flames. This was the case in 893, 1077* and 1089, but the most memorable conflastelte commenced on September 2,1666, qna after tinued four days and nights. Beginnntef.lb Pudding lane, Monument yard, ana eudfate te, Pie corner. Ailtapiir street, it reduced to steel fully fivo-sizths of the houses within the itettk' The ruins covered 336 acres, and inflhteed 13,200 dwelling-houses, ninety churches, and nany public buildings. But the city was remilt in four years. Norfolk, Virginia, was destroyed by fire ind cannon January 1,1776. Property to the .mount of $1,500,000 was destroyed. Soon after New York passed into the hands f the British, September 20,1776, 500 buildags were consumed by fire. In 1811, December 26, the theatre at Rich iond was burned, in which the Governor and lany leading citizens perished. Six hundred warehouses, and property to le amount of $20,000,000, were destroyed by re in New York, December 16,1835. April 27,1838, in Charleston, S. C., 1,158 wildings were consumed, covering 145 acres 'ground. V"T:, April 10,1845, in Pittsburg, 1,000.build-'1 gswere destroyed by fire. Loss, $6,000,000;1 * Fifteen hundred buildings were bufa$d in uebec May 28,1845, and in less tbaa * onthafterward 1,300 more; in all twcKbWs the city. ? t July 1?, 1845, in New York city, 802 aim d dwellings and $6,000,000 worth ty were consumed. ; June 12, 1846, the whole town of New-' indland was destroyed by fire, and 6,000 reons rendered homeless. September 9,1848, in Albany, 600 buildjs, besides steamboats, piers, Ac., 24 acres rned over; loss, 83,000,000. 3t. Louis lost 15 blocks and 23 steamboats fire, May 17,1849. July 9, 1850, in Philadelphia, 350 buildis were lost by fire, 25 persons burned, 9 >wned, 120 wounded. Loss, $1,500,000. [n San Francisco, May 3d to 5th, 1851, 00 buildings were burned. Many lives ;,and $3,500,000 worth of property dejyed.