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Jtoajrs and ^acts. Almost every city in Italy is infected with the small pox. Brooklyn had seventy-six cases of small pox last week. Richmond, Virginia, shipped 90,000 barrels of flour to Brazil last year. ??More than two-thirds of the convicts in the Tennessee penitentiary are negroes. In Newport, Kentucky, swearing on the streets costs a dollar an oath. Many East Tennesseeans, principally young men, are emigrating to Texas. Doctors' bills in the United States amount to $100,000,000 annually. Quacks ditto, $25,000,000. John S.Mosby, the great guerrilla, has been appointed and confirmed brigadier general of the Maryland militia. Uncle Sam issued last year almost five hundred millions of postage stamps. Who says we are not a letter-writing people ? The President's father, Jesse R Grant, has tendered his resignation as postmaster at Covington, Ky. Published statistics show that ninety thousand emigrants left Germany last year, nearly all going to the United States. There are stores in New York where glass eyes can be purchased imitating those of animals, from tne elephant down to the mouse. Charles B. Young, a printer in the Richmond Dispatch office, is reported to have drawn a prize of $10,000 in the South Carolina Land and Immigration Society lottery. A writer, describing the exodus from Eden, says, "The devil drove women out of Paradise, but he could not drive Paradise out of women." Although Georgia was settled half a century earlier than Ohio, the population of the latter to the square mile is more than three times as great as that of the former. Oysters having become so dear in France, snail3 are used instead, irom w,uw to 70,000 beiug consumed daily in Paris, at a cost of from ten to fifteen cents a dozen. A little girl in Ithaca, just before she died, exclaimed : "Papa, take hold of my hand and help me across." Her father had died two months before. Did she see him? There is a young girl in Virginia who wears four bullets made into the form of a Maltese cross, which were extracted from the bodies of her father and brother, who were killed in the siege of Richmond. A man arriving home at a late hour a little the worse for too much supper, hatless and coatless, was asked by his indignant spouse, "Where's your hat and coat?" "Sent 'era, my dear, (hie,) to the Chicago sufferers." One-half of the town of Monticello, Drew county, Arkansas, was destroyed by fire last week. A few days before the fire, a terrific storm passed over the same town, destroying two churches and several other buildings and unroofing the court house. Professor Agassiz has written a letter to Professor B. Price, Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, in which he tells of a fish that has a fin like a hand, walks instead of swims, and builds its nest in the drifting gulf-weed. The Court of Sessions' grand jury in New York has so far unearthed frauds on the city treasury to the amount of $15,000,000, and has asked for further time. If it had been $15,000, the rogues who stole it would have been in prison. The sum of $5,236 has been subscribed for the erection of a suitable memorial at the Virginia Military Institute, in honor of Lieutenant General T. J. Jackson, who for nearly fourteen years held the chair of natural and experimental philosophy and artillery tactics in the institution. Some old Confederates, says the Mobile Register, who visited the St. Charles, in New Orleans, the other night, to see "Richelieu," were told that the principal actor was Forrest; but they could not be sold?they said that they had served under Forrest, and knew better. The newspaper is to the people what a sign-board is to the traveler. The paper tells who is in business and where to trade, and the sign-board tells the name of the place and direction. Then, if you want people to buy of you, tell them through the paper where you stay and what you have. Washington advices state that there is a very decided difference of opinion among Southern Republicans in regard to the propriety of pushing Senator Sumner's civil rights bill at the present time. With such conflicting opinions it is extremely doubtful whether the civil rights bill becomes a law this session. Mrs. Partington entered the office of the Probate Judge (called "Civilian,") and inquired in her blandest tone: "Are you the civil villian ?" "Do you wish to insult me, niadam?" said the Judge. "Yes," replied the airaable old lady; "ray brother died detested, and left three infidel children, and I'm to be their executioner; so I want to insult the civil villian about it." Among the "remarkable events" of 1871 will be recorded the production of the biggest gun ever manufactured in England. It is called the Woolwich Infant, and throws seven hundred pounds at a single discharge, and wheu we consider that this is thrown in one mass, instead of being distributed among twenty balls, we may form some notion of the effects obtained. WUaii f U a riftunrtn a ia r\n iJ m lieu tuu \jici <iiau uuicujuitj 10 |jaiu France will have the largest national debt of any country in the world, amounting in round numbers to $4,500,o00,000, or more than double the present amount of the public debt of the United States. An idea of this unprecedented national burden may be formed when we state that it represents a sum equal to one hundred and twenty-five dollars per head of the entire population of France. A Connecticut clergyman recently announced from the pulpit that he had heard a man say that he had read the Bible through in sixty hours. Determined to ascertain whether the individual told the truth, he eet about it himself, and read the whole of it aloud to his wife in fifty-nine hours and something over thirty minutes. He read sometimes an hour and sometimes two hours a day, keeping the exact time, with the result indicated. A prominent railroad official informs the Augusta Chronicle that the number of families, emigrants, chiefly from North and South Carolina, passing through Augusta during the first fifteen days of this year, exceeded six hundred. About two-thirds of this number were en route for Arkansas and Texas, the remainder settling in Georgia. Included in this number are eighty negroes from the single County of York, in S. Carolina, who, following the fortunes of three white families, were removing to Texas. California has been literally deluged with rain, the fall at certain points exceeding four feet. When the immense body of snow melts in the sDrinp it seems more than Drob able that the country east of the mountains will be swept by freshets, and this especially as to the Valley of the Missouri. No large basins or marsh grounds exist in that region as reservoirs for surplus waters. The whole mass drains away at once, with nothing to retain or obstruct it. Hence it is always either a flood or a drought over all the great plains. The Chronicle says: The House Committee on Elections have nearly prepared a report in the contested case of Bowen vs. DeLarge, of South Carolina. It seems probable that the report will be in favor of Bowen, on the ground of the informality and irregularity of the election of De Large, but it is doubtful if Bowen gets the seat; objection is likely to be made to him on the ground of his having been convicted and sentenced for a criminal offense, which will debar him from admission to the House. The Richmond Dispatch is not very enthusiastic over the productions of Virginia,! which have diminished every year since the ' war. It asserts that the production of tobacco in the James River Valley has dimished onehalf. As to wheat the diminution is still greater?the production for five years since the war being as one to four what it was for the five peeking the war. The last crop j was almost an entire failure, aud the receipts fell off one-half, so that the Richmond millers i had to purchase wheat at the North. Cattle, sheep, horses, hogs and poultry have also diminished in a greater ratio than the leading staples. & Ifcf fotMle inquirer. TORKVILLE. S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 25, 1872. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addressloV>rkl>? oliAwa tKa fimo fn U'hinVi fho ciihunrint.inn is X01704 OUUTTO MIV VtlilV W ft UAV4* VMV wvtk/vju. paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance ;diyersity of labor. National prosperity depends on many things. The main elements, however, are to be found in the character of the inhabitants and in the manner they are engaged. In order that a country may prosper, it must have a dense population. The soil of a country may be rich and its climate salubrious; its mineral resources may be inexhaustible, and its agricultural and manufacturing advantages unrivaled, still without men in sufficient numbers to develop these, the country must remain little better than an uncultivated waste. Again, the character of the population of a country has much to do with its prosperity. Many portions of Africa are rich in the resources of the soil and densely populated; but the inhabitants are savages, and the country, notwithstanding all its natural advantages, is an howling waste. That the natural resources of a country may be fully developed, it must have a dense population, not of savages, but of industrious, intelligent and thrifty inhabitants, and these traits of character must be properly directed. Diversity of labor is absolutely necessary in order to secure the highest degree of national nmaruiiiifTr Ro ^iooraitw nf Inhnr WA Hn nnt ~a~* J Vkk* v?uavj VA i* -V MV, mean that each individual citizen must engage in a multitude of employments. The doctrine which we advocate is not that every inhabitant of a country must become a "jack of all trades." Such a course would result in simply making every man a cobbler, and effectually prevent anything like excellence in any department of life. What we mean is this. In order that national prosperity may be attained, there must be a class of men, sufficient in number, whose sole business it will be to develop the agricultural resources of the country. This class must do nothing but till the ground. There must be another class engaged solely in developing the mineral resources of the country; another class employed in utilizing the manufacturing advantages of the country. In one word, there must be a class of laborers for every resource that the country possesses, and each class must confine itself to its own avocation. Such a system of diversified labor must commend itself to every thinking man. It has advantages which attend no other system. One advantage that we mention is this. The whole resources of a country are made to contribute to the prosperity of the inhabitants. On the supposition that the mineral and agricultural resources of a country are equal, if only the agricultural are developed, the inhabitants are only half as prosperous as they would be were both the agri * * <*li l 1 cultural and mineral resources iuny developed. Suppose again that a tract of country, naturally possessing great agricultural resources, is also well adapted in many portions to stock raising; in other localities it is rich in mineral resources; in other places it is possessed of superior manufacturing advantages. Suppose now that the inhabitants are too few to develop all these resources of-wealth and national prosperity which they possess, or that they ignore all the advantages of their situation but one, they might as well be in a country where but this single advantage exists. It is easy for any one to carry this idea out and see what the legitimate results are. Wherever there is a gold mine it ought to be worked ; wherever there is a mill-seat, the welfare of the country demands that a mill, adapted to the capacity of the stream and wants of the community be erected; whereever there is a plat of ground that is well adapted to corn, it should be planted in corn; and where the land is best adapted to cotton, it should be planted in cotton. By such a ' ? i i i 1. course, nature ana art wouia assise eacn other. Another advantage which such a system of labor affords, is that it develops the intellectual skill of the laborers. This is no small advantage when it is fully understood. Practice makes perfect in every department of life. The man who devotes his undivided attention to any one thing, will make far greater intellectual attainments, than if he would devote his thoughts to several things. One thing is as much as any man can do well. The man who is jack of all trades is universally master of none. To be able fully to understand anything, it is necessary that the mind be concentrated upon it. The man who devotes his undivided attention to agriculture, will learn a great deal about the the chemistry of the soil without knowing the technicalities of that science. He will learn when to plant and how to work the various crops that grow on the farm. In other words, he will become an educated planter. Not educated out of books, but by experience and observation. Not only is the intellect educated by such a system of labor, but the muscles of the body are strengthened and adapted to the particular kind of labor in which the individual is engaged. This is a practical truth of great importance. Some avocations, as for example, the millright and blacksmith, require great muscular strength; others re* - 1? n : ; quire not so mucn sirengm as musuumi uwi| bility. In some trades strength is the main I thing; in others, muscular skill. The man I who slings the hammer for two hours in the ! day would unfit himself for performing skill; fuly the delicate work of a watchmaker. The simple truth is, this practice not only increases j our knowledge, but also increases our bodily 1 capabilities. By a division of labor which 1 assigns every individual to a particular trade ! or calling, two advantages are gained. The | work is better done, and more is done in the : same length of time than can be accomplished , by any other system. The shoe-maker who ! devotes his attention wholly to his trade, will j make better shoes and more shoes in any ! given length of time, than the man who makes shoes half his time and works on a ' farm the other half. This subject might be pursued to almost j any length. All we propose at present is to suggest what we believe to be the interest of the people of South Carolina. In many sections of the State, we are favorably situated for engaging in agriculture, grazing, manufacturing and mining. We mean that nature has bestowed upon us many choice blessings. Our duty and our interest is plain. All we need to make South Carolina a great country is a good government properly administered, an intelligent and industrious population. ? "THE LANTERN." 11T. 1 .1 vv e welcome among our excuuugea we Lantern, the first number of which was issued at Rock Hill ou Tuesday last. The Lantern is gotten up in very creditable style, the mechanical execution being good, while the editor displays taste, talent and writing ability of a high order. As foreshadowing the course which the Jjantem will pursue, in his graceful salutatory, the editor says: "I shall endeavor to make a paper which will commend itself to the confidence, good will and patronage of a generous and patriotic people; and it shall be my high aim^ while furnishing the news mm cuiiiuienwu^ uicruupun, w mtuiutre sound political doctrines, to encourage honest industry, to developethe resources of the country, to foster the arts and sciences, and to aid in tne good work of diffusing knowledge among the people and promoting the moral and intellectual elevation of niankina. "Aiming to make the Lantern a family journal rather than a mere political sheet, it shall hold an independent course in politics; at all times, however, and under all circumstances, upholding and defending the Rights of the People?steadfastly, persistently, unswervingly. It shall never join in the mad outcry of extremists of any party, nor follow the lead of selfish politicians. It will worship at the shrine of no idol erected in a party temple, nor shall it ever bend the knee to the Baal of Power. "The Lantern will always be found in the ranks of that party which has Religion, Imw, and Liberty inscribed upon its banners ; which is laboring to secure an honest administration of the government, for the people, and not for the benefit of the rulers; and which is not in sympathy with the bond thieves, land swindlers, revenue knaves and custom house rogues, who are robbing the nation in a manner unheard of, undreampt of before, since the world began. An advocate of law and order, justice, honesty and humanity, it shall oppose Radicalism, Grantism, Leagueism and KnKluxism, in all their various and multiform phases. "Personally, and in my editorial capacity, I condemn Ku-Kluxism. because, I believe it to be wrong, morally and politically. And I deplore the madness and folly of those of our people, who during the great excitements and exasperations of last winter, yielded to their passions and sought redress of their grievous and almost intolerable wrongs, by committing acts of lawlessness and violence. It was a horrible remedy for terrible evils. It ought not to have been done. But the provocations which the white people of South Carolina were subjected to at the hands of the negro and carpet-bag rulers of the State, were great,? such as 110 people under the sun would have borne nofiAnfltr tiAiYiafKinn* miiof 1\a r?afn tViA pUblUIIbiJ kJV/illVHUlUg U1UOV MV |/M>uviavvt ?w *uw spiritof communities that were goaded well-nigh to desperation by thegrossestand most aggravated acts of injustice and misrule. But, for all this, Ku-Kluimn was wrong, and cannot be justified; bnt it has its palliations which every fair-minded observer must admit, and which every impartial judge, 3nd every unprejudiced jury, would regard in a Court of Law." Nothing speaks more favorable of the intelligence, enterprise and prosperity of a community than a liberal support of the local press ; and in extending the right hand of fellowship to this new candidate for public favor, we wish it the most abundant success. stateTtems. ? The Board of Trustees propose to re-open the Columbia Female College. ? An attempt to put the Spartanburg and Union Railroad into bankruptcy has failed. ? The proprietor of the Columbia TJnion announces that he has severed his connection with the Carolina Printing Company. ? The Senate has confirmed the appointment of C. L. Jones as Trial Justice for Lancaster county. ? Mr. J. E. Wylie, post-master at Chester, was the holder of a ticket in the South Carolina Land and Immigration Scheme, which drew a prize of one hundred dollars. ^ " ? i . .1 r? 4 J ? Un Monday last tne senate connriueu the appointment as Trial Justices for Union county, of Golden Foster vice J. W. E. Youug removed; and A. A. Hararaett vice B. F. Rawls removed. ? The Union Times of last week says: "All the prisoners arrested in this county by United States Marshals, and who have been so long confined in jail in Columbia have been transferred to this place, and are now confined in the Court House under charge of the Sheriff. ? Governor Scott has caused an order to be issued, disarming the rifle clubs of Charleston. The Charleston Courier suggests that the Governor wants the arms to put them into the hands of the ku-klux conspirators he is now organizing in defiance of law, under the deceptive title of the "United Brotherhood." ? Just after the adjournment of the Legislature on Friday last, Williams, a colored policeman of Columbia, pitched into Byas, a member of the Legislature from Orangebarg, and thrashed him soundly with a horse-whip. It is said that Byas had used insulting language to the wife of Williams. ? The Reporter of last week says: "The National Bank of Chester held its annual meeting of stockholders on Tuesday of last week. No change was made in the board of directors, nor in the officers of the institution. The officers are John J. McLure, President, John L. Harris, Cashier, and D. Leckie, Assistant Cashier. The affairs of the bank are in a most satisfactory condition." ? At a meeting ot the lirand Liodge 01 I. 0. 0. F., in Charleston, on Friday last, the following officers were elected: A. J. Mims, M. W. G. M; T. Steen, R. W. D. G. M; I. Sulzbacker, R. W. G. W.; R. James, R. W. G. Secretary; Jas. Silcox, R. W. G. T.; J, A. Elkin, R. W. G. C.; R. Lebby, Sr., R. W. G. R.; A. G. Magrath, Jr., W. G. M.; J. D. Meyer, W. G. C.; E. Huguelet, W. G. S. The next meeting will be held at Columbia. ? At a meeting last week, the following named persons resigned their positions as Directors of the Blue Ridge Railroad: J. S. Cothran, M. C. Butler, M. W. Gary, J. B. Palmer and W. B. Gulick ; and the following were elected in their places: G. W. Waterman, J. M. Allen, Thomas Steers, C. D. Melton and H. C. Worthington. Col. J. B. Patterson, Vice-President of the Greenville Railroad was elected President in place of Col. Cothran. ? A destructive fire occurred at Abbeville Court House on Friday morning last, which entirely consumed the Court House, the Marshal House, the stores of J. Knox, Trowbridge & Co., Troegar & Bequest, and Kapshan & Sklarlz ; also, liquor establishments of L. H. Russel, Christian & Wilson, J. Knox and Lee Russell. Together with all the smaller buildings on the two squares occupied by freedraen. Loss about $75,000. Insurance about $10,000, or $12,000. Clerk, Sheriff and Probate Judge lost many valuable papers. ? The Supreme Court adjourned on Friday last. The following order was made previous to adjournment: "It is ordered, That at the April term of this court, commencing on the .1 . i m 3 t> A ?:l L V.a tmra i uesaay 01 apm ucai, luc wud? uu , several circuits shall be called in the following order, and the time to be allowed to the hearing of causes from each circuit shall be to the day fixed for the commencement of the next, except as to the Seventh Circuit, which shall be allowed three days: Second Circuit, j Tuesday, April 16 ; Eighth, Thursday, April j 18; Fifth, Tuesday, April 23; Third, Friday, I April 26; First, Tuesday, April 30; Sixth,! Tuesday, May 7 ; Fourth, Monday, May 13 ; Seventh, Wednesday, May 15." ? The Columbia Phoenix, thus discourses in relation to T. J. Mackey, who has been elected Judge of the 6th Circuit: "Mr. T. J. Mackey is also a new Judge. He assumes serious responsibilities. There are many who distrust him. He is capable of good as well as bad action. He is a Carolinian. He has intellect. He is about to start on a new career. We shall not pre-judge him on this career. It is in his power to assume now a new and high role, and to pursue it steadily. In the past, he has done much that we utterly condemn. We suggest to him that, resolving to move hereafter in the groove of a virtuous and consistent career, he cause the public to forgive the past in the excellence of hie future. In good faith we charge thee, Thomas Jefferson Mackey, to fling away unworthy ambition, and, by study and conduct, seek to be the fair and upright Judge." PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. On the 16th several petitions were presented in the Senate asking a constitutional amendment excluding persons addicted to liquor from Federal offices. A House bill was reported repealing the duty on coal and salt, with the request that it be printed and re-committed. In the House a committee to investigate Louisiana affairs was announced. The committee consists of Messrs. Schofield, Smith, of New York, McCrary, Archer and Marshall. A bill was passed remitting the duties on materials imported for the rebuilding of Chicago. A bill was also passed appropriating $100,000 for a survey of the boundary line between the TTnit/vl fifflfpfland British nrnvinoes. from the Lake of the "Woods to the Rocky Mountains, which, it is asserted, adds to the United States important territory now occupied by Brittish settlers. On the 17th, the Senate was engaged most of the day on Sumner's supplementary civil rights bill as an amendment to the amnesty bill, to which Mr. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, objected that under it a railroad company could not run separate ladies' cars, nor an innkeeper exclude persons of an immoral character or afflicted with a loathsome disease. White persons could even take possession of colored people's churches. He thought this interference was carrying the centralizing process of government too far. In the House a bill was passed fixing the time for the commencement of pensions at the date of discharge or death, and extending the time for application for the same until January 1, 1874. The Legislative, executive and judiciary appropriation bill was reported, aggregating $17,000,000. On the 18th, in the Senate, the judiciary committee reported adversely on the request of female suffragists to be heard at the bar of the Senate. A bill was introduced allowing women to hold office and vote in the territories of the United States on the same conditions as men. Referred. In the House several bills granting pensions were passed. Objection was made to the introduction of a bill to remove the political disabilities of Herschel V. Johnson and Jackson Brown, of Georgia. On the 19th, the Senate was not in session. In the House, a bill was presented reimbursing Texas for disbursements for the frontier defense. No other business of importance was transacted. Neither House was in session on Saturday. On Monday, in the Senate, a number of petitions were presented. The postal telegraph bill was reported. Blair offered a preamble and resolution directing the President to open negotiations with Spain for the purchase of Cuba, which went over. Amnesty was resumed and a rambling debate followed. The disposition seems to be to force the subject to an early issue. In the House bills were introduced for a better regulation of quarantine in the southern States, and one appropriating $200,000 for the completion of the Washington Monument. A resolution removing the political disabilities of Herschel V. Johnson and other Georgians, was passed by a two-thirds vote. After much acrimonious debate, a resolution was finally passed providing to defray the expenses of the Louisiana investigating committee. EDITORIALHJKLINGS. From Rock Hill. We take the following paragraphs from the Rock Hill Lantern of last week: Ten thousand and three hundred bales of cotton were shipped from Rock Hill to Northman \f orlrofo/turinor tho nnffnn uphp r?f 1K70?1 btu mtUBVWUM..M6 -VVV...V- . w -, beginning on the let of September, 1870 and ending on the 31st of August 1871. At an election held on Monday, 15th instant, for Intendant and Wardens of Rock Hill, Mr. Iredell Jones was re-elected Intendant for the year 1872, and Messrs. A. H. White, J. C. H. Duff, C. S. Rutland and David Gordon, were chosen Wardens of the town. Col. William Litle, of Rock Hill, went to bed one night last week, leaving his door unlocked. During the night, some arrant knave entered the room, took the contents of the Colonel's purse?amounting to $50, and made off, carrying the door key with him. An impression seems to prevail that the Lantern was started in opposition to the Yorkville Enquirer. This is entirely erroneous. The enterprise was originally suggested to us bv some of the leading merchants of Rock Hill?men who conceived the design of establishing a weekly newspaper at this place some time ago; and it was through their kindly encouragement and assistance that we were enabled to establish the Lantern. Far from our entertaining any spirit of opposition toward theYorkville Enquirer, we are happy to state that the pleasantest terms of friendship exist between its able editor and ourself. t .1 m ,1 juegwi iciiuer i/euiaiuu* By a recent decision of a majority of the Supreme Court, the constitutionality of the legal-tender act has been affirmed, and , overrules a previous decision of the Court so j far as the legal-tender acts of Congress ap-1 ply to contracts made before their enactment. In reading the opinion of the majority of the Court, Justice Strong said: "The debts which have been contracted since February 25,1862, are by far the greatest portion of the indebtedness of the country. They were contracted in view of the Acts of Congress declaring Treasury notes a legal-tender, and in reliance upon that declaration ; and legal-tender notes have become the universal measure of values. If now the decision of the Court establishes that these obligations can be discharged only by gold coin, and that, contrary to the expectations of all parties to contracts, legal-tender notes are j rendered unavailable, the Government has j become an instrument of the grossest injustice, j all debtors are loaded with an obligation it j was never contemplated they should assume; j a large per centage is added to every debt, and such must become the demand tor gold to satisfy contracts that ruinous sacrifices, | general distress and bankruptcy may be expected. These consequences are too obvious \ to admit of question, and there is no well- j founded distinction to be made between the constitutional validity of an act of Congress declaring Treasr ry notes a legal-tender for the payment of debts contracted after its passage and that of an act making them a legal tender for the discharge of all debts, as well those incurred before as those made after its ^ enactment." i j LOCAL ITEMS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. R. Schorb <6 Son?Just Think of It. J. H. Adams?The Old Established House Presents for 1872. J. B. Stokes, Administrator?Estate Sale. T. b. JefTerys and James Mason, Assignees?In Bankruptcy?In the Matter of Allen Robertson?Sale of Claim for Dower, <fcc. J. S. R. Thomson and T. S. JefTerys?Appointed Assignees of Robert Eakin, Bankrupt. S. B. Hall, Judge of Probate?Citation?John Falls, Applicant?Isabella Falls, deceased. Nancy H. Smith, Administratrix?Notice. Joseph Herndon?Tan-Bark Wanted. J. F. Wallace, C. C. Pis.?Notico to the Creditors of David Roddey, deceased. Carroll, Clark <feCo.?Dry Goods and GroceriesCash?Hats?Shoes?Hardware?Clothing? Tin-Ware?Files?Domestic?Iron. ri/\ CltiAnf f^otin Uunrl. I li 1U? 1/UU3UX1 UL VU. Oliun VW7U 14UIIU Bellows?1Thrace Chains?Heady-Made Clothing?Dress Goods?Rat Traps?Just Arrived?Prints?Traveling Bags?Playing Cards?Plow Steel?Valises?Don't ForgetBleaehed Goods?Buck Gauntlets?Gent'f Hats?Powder?Ladies' Hats. W. B. Metts, Cashier?The Yorkville Branch ol the Citizens' Savings Bank of South Carolina. John C. Kuykendal?Fresh Garden Seed?Clovei Seed, ike.?Catawba Grape Pills?Coal OilDrugs, Ac.?The Last Notice. J. W. Carroll?Nothing too strange to Happen. PERSONAL. Maj. Lewis Merrill, the United States Conr raandant at this post, departed for Washing ton on Monday last. It is understood that h( will be absent about twenty days. The post i? now under the command of Capt. Owen Haih of the 7th Cavalry. CORONER'S INQUEST. An inquest was held at Fort Mills, in thi.< county, on Saturday last, by Trial Justice it .1 - -/ TT Hi WLIi. u'lionneii, over me oouy oi xi. iu. tt ime who was found dead at his residence. Th< jury rendered a verdict that "the deceased came to his death by the visitation of God." BACK NUMBERS. In consequence of the demand by new sub* scribere for back numbers of the Enquirer the entire edition has been exhausted. Here after we will be under the necessity of com mencing subscriptions with the number of the paper printed the week in which names an received. THE YORK PRISONERS. We learn by a private despatch received at this place, that Mr. Samuel G. Brown anc the other prisoners who were in Columbis from York county, and sentenced at the re cent terra of the United States Court for nol less than one year for violation of the "En forcement Act," were sent on Tuesday morn ing last to Albany, New York, for imprison ment. It is understood that they were senl via Wilmington, N. C. CITIZEN'S SAVINGS BANK. Attention is directed to the advertisemenl of the branch of the C: Saving Bank, ol South Carolina located at this place. A fail interest is allowed on deposits, while at th( same time the money deposited can he ootainec whenever it is wanted. Excellent facilities are also afforded for procuring exchange on all prominent points in the United States anc Europe. The banking office is opposite the store of Mr. J. H. Adams. DRAWING OF JURORS. On Monday last, the Board of Jury Cora missioners, consisting of the Jury Commission er, County Auditor and Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, met at the Court House, and in the presence of the Sherif and Clerk, drew the Grand Jury to serve dur ing the year 1872, and the Petit Jury tc serve at the extra term of the Circuit Court which meets on the first Monday of nexl month. The Grand Jury is composed of nine whites and nine negroes, and the Petit Jury ol ! twenty one whites and fifteen negroes. The names drawn are as follows: Grand Jurors.?Milton Russell, Isom Brum field, Hardy Cook, Daniel Hetherington, W. N. Jackson, Samuel Wylie, Jesse Hamilton, H. C. Harris, Henderson Whisonant Samuel L. Davidson, W. M. Enloe, J. P Wingate, Jonas Jones, W. L. Robertson, H D. Duncan, Miles Edwards, Curry Adams Erwin Barron. Petit Jurors?John J. Ash, D. J. Glenn, Sr.. Gineo Crawford. D. J. Good, Thornton Wright, George Ironworks, Ben. Galloway Samuel D. Faris, D. T.Lesslev, Robert Black Samuel Hood, Wm. Blair, Dawson Adams John L. Roberts, Amos C. Biggerer N. G Bradford, Thad Long, J. R. Westbrook, R A. Caldwell, Isaac Jamieson, Simon Agurs John W. Jones, A. B. Springs, Wm. Burris Wm. Howell, 8. H. J. Alexander, John A McCullough, Robert Cairnes, Peter Ross, A K. Smith, Ralph Berry, W. E. Adams, John Martin, Governor Fewell, Henry Crawford, Solomon Spratt. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. [ ? North Carolina paid $30,000,000 for whisky last year. ? Sidney Cook, of Burke county, was shot and killed dead on the night of the 15th inst ? The contractors have suspended work on the penitentiary for the present ?Ex-Governor Bragg died at his residence in Raleigh on Sunday morning last ? Both Houses of the Legislature have adopted a resolution to adjourn on the 31sl instant ?The dwelling house and kitchen of A. C Whiflnant of Cleaveland countv were destroy ed by accidental fire last week. ? Rowan boasts of a man who averages twenty-five fights in a year, and gets whipped every time. ? A proposed survey of the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina is advocated by the Governors of those States. ?A special term of the Superior Court ol Mecklenburg county, for the trial of civil cases, will commence in Charlotte on Monday next. ? Jonathan Dobbins, aged 84 years, died in Rutherford county on the 4th instant. He was a brother of Rev. Drury Dobbins, so well known in this section years ago. ? Rev. R. L. Abernethy proposes to publish a paper at Rutherford College, to be called ; the Western Methodist. The paper is to be I issued twice per month at $1.00 per year. ? Hon. Thomas Settle, U. S. Minister to Peru, has returned to his home in Rockingham county, on a visit. He is spoken of as the probable candidate of the Republican party for Governor at the next election. ? The Deputy Marshals and soldiers continue to make arrests of alleged ku-klux in Cleveland county. Much complaint is made of the bad conduct of the soldiers stationed in Shelby. ? The Charlotte Democrat learns that Col. R. M. Oates and J. J. Blackwood, Esq., will remove from that city to Greenville, S. C. They will be connected with the new National Bank proposed to be established in Greenville. ? One of the spoke and handle factories in Greensboro makes 40,000 spokes per month, and works fifty cords of wood into handles during the same period. The products of these factories, two of which are in operation in Greensboro, are shipped North and to Europe. ? Some enterprising men have been imposing upon the people of Statesville by soliciting contributions for a family, who, as they represented had but recently been burnt out ol house and home. Contributions were freely bestowed, and the men took their leave. It 1 was afterwards learned that no house had been burnod, and that the men were impostors, f ? According to the last census, the populaI tion of North Carolina is made up of six hun! dred and seventy thousand and four hundred and seventy whites ; three hundred and nine; ty-one thousand and sixty-five blacks; and I j twelve hundred and forty-one Indians. The j voting population is two hundred and fourI teen thousand and one huudred and forty-two. ! ? The Asheville Cfttzen says: A bill is be, fore Congress asking a grant of 2,000,000 1 acres of the public lands, worth $4,000,000, . to build a railroad from Spartanburg, S. C., to Asheville, from Rutherfordton to Asheville, from Old Port to Asheville. from Wolf Creek. ; Tenn., to Asheville, and from Asheville to ! Dalton, Ga., or Cleveland, Tenn. The friends 1 of the bill in Washington are assured of its r passage during the present Congress. ? SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. Monday, January 15,1872. In the Senate, Mr. Cardozo introduced a concurrent resolution, which after reciting that it is evident that further legislation is . necessary to effectually suppress humiliating distinctions on account of color, which are made in places of public entertainment, and on public conveyances, instructs the Senators 3 and Representatives in Congress, from this < State to give their full and undivided support to the passage of Sumner's Supplemental Civil Rights Bill, as a measure of justice and propriety. 5 Mr. Whittemore introduced a resolution i which was adopted, that the Republican Print, ing Company furnish to each member of the 3 Senate twenty-five copies, in pamphlet form, I of the official report of the ku-klux trials, m pAlnmkia I ctcu pi J lu yviuiui/iM* A bill to repeal an act to provide for the appointment of a Land Commissioner, and to . define his powers and duties, was passed, after debate, to a third reading, with an amend' ment that the books and papers be turned over to the office of the Secretary of State. A bill to fix the pay of members of the 5 General Assembly was referred fo the comi raittee on the Judiciary. It makes the pay of members five dollars per day while in actual session, and twelve cents per mile for traveling expenses, going and returning; The ' present rate of compensation is six dollars I per diem and twenty cents per mile, i A bill to amend an act entitled an act to . establish and maintain a system of free comt raon schools for the State, was referred to the committee on education. It is proposed to amend the school law so as to include, in the ' distribution of the school funds, such counties as may have failed to collect their share of t the tax, and to entitle every school district in the State, which shall have one or more schools in actual operation, to participation in the appropriations for school purposes, t A joint resolution authorizing the employF ment of legal counsel for the prosecution of r persons engaged in land swindles was, with , certain amendments, ordered to be engrossed . for a third readiner. bv a vote of 17 to 4. In the House,"the Committee on Public 5 Lands reported favorably on a bill to abolish L the office of Land Commissioner and devolve I the duties on the Secretary of State, with > amendment Mr. Wallace introduced a bill to regulate scales, weights and measures throughout the State. It provides that in every city, town - or village, there shall be appointed or elected, a Commissioner of scales, weights and meas? ures, to see that they are conformable to the i standard as laid down for the regulation of j. the same, and issue certificates for the use of all scales, weights and measures. The fees of the Commissioners are to be regulated by the > various Town Councils by which they are , elected. t 5 Tuesday, January 16,1872, ? In the Senate, a bill to regulate the > granting of license to retail spirituous liquors was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. By this bill the County Commissioners 1 of the various counties are prohibited from 1 granting licenses to retail spritiuous liquors to any person or persons, except the keepers ' of taverns, duly licensed by law. A bill to prevent certain officers from deal' ing in certain securities or evidences of debt ' was referred to the Committee on Finance. It is intended to prevent certain officers from 1 buying, discounting or shaving Teacher's Pay 1 Certificates or other orders on School funds, ' declares it unlawful for any County Auditor, ' Treasurer, School Commissioner or School ' Trustee, to shave, or in any way be interested ' in the buying or shaving of such certificates. ' The offense is made a misdemeanor, under a ' penalty of a fine of not less than $500 or more t than $2,000 and imprisonment in the discre' tion of the Court. Mr. Whitteraore introduced a bill provi' ding that the State Treasurer be directed to ' issue no more bonds or stocks of the State of South Carolina, authorized by any Act passed ? "1 1 QCQ /vf Ann /llflOQ BIUUC IJCpiCUiUCL lOlj lUUUj \jl auj v/ioooj ivi any purpose, to any person or persons whatso' ever. The bill was referred to the Finance Committee. ; The resolution requesting the Congress of , the United States to pass the supplementary . civil rights bill introduced by Hon. Charles Sumner was agreed to and sent to the House of Representatives for concurrence. ! A bill requiring county commissioners to remove imbeciles from the lunatic asylum to s the poor houses was referred to the Committee ; on Charitable Institutions. The preamble recites that experience has established the fact that imbeciles should not be confined in the same building with the insane, and that the insane, who require special treatment, have frequently to be refused admission into the ) Asylum for want of room, and the bill, thereI fore, requires the various county commissioners to immediately remove their imbeciles , from the State Lunatic Asylum and take care of them in their respective poor-houses. In the House, the entire session was consumed in the consideration of the special mes sage of the Governor, and the repdrt of the 1 special joint committee appointed to investi gate the books, &c., of the financial agent and treasurer. In relation to the day's proceedI ings, the Charleston News says: "Mr. Bowen made a four hours' speech, in the 1 course of which he went from one misdeed to ; another, charging fraud after fraud with such minuteness of detail as seemed to leave no doubt of their correctness, and covering the Executive of , this State, if one-naif of the charges be true, with a load of infamy from which, in the eyes of any intelligent or honest man, be can hardly hope to i clear himself. At the conclusion of his speech, Mr. Bowen retained the floor on a question of privilege. He , i said that the Governor had, in his special message, attacked him personally and by name, speaking ' of his "moral nakedness," <fec., and he wanted to I say something in reply to that. He asked why it was.ifheweresobada man as the Governor said, , 1 that the Governor had repeatedly sent to him just after his election to the Assembly, and begged him to go to see him at the Executive Mansion, i ' He had gone there, he said, at the repeated and earnest invitation ofthe Governor, and there Scott had offered, if he would withdraw from the fight ' i against him. to support him (Bowen) for the next i Governor of the State, and to back that support with all the power, all the influence and all the patronage he could command. He had refused 1 the offer because he could not consent to help him cover up his swindles, and he cited the speaker of ( the House, who had been present and heard the conversation, in proof of what he stated. Speak- 1 ing of "moral nakedness," he said that he would i show how a certain young lady, a schoolmistress j in Walhalla, who had been persuaded to come down here by the wife of this very Governor Scott, ] had been staying for one night under the roof of i the Executive mansion, and how, when no one ( else was in the house, her room had been entered by Governor Scott and? 1 mi-1 ? J ? A^AMm tnfn??i?nnflAtia 4 jLTJitJ ruiaeu a pui iuui ou;i ui v? liuviiuuuuuoi The chair was oocupied by Lee, of Edgefield, dur- , ' ing the temporary absence of the speaker, and he was kept busy alternately commanding silence and ruling upon points of order raised by the excited adherents of the Governor. Byas objected to this invasion of the Governor's private history as unparliamentary and unbecoming, and the tern- 1 porary chairman sustained that yiew of the case. 1 Bowen didn't like that, and made some remark about officers of the House shirking their duty, ' which brought the speaker back to his desk, to , the evident relief of Lee. Then Jamison, Jones, l Mobley and a half dozen others raised points of i order, all of them amounting, when straightened into Ehiglish, to the proposition that Bowen had i no business to attack Scott's private character. The speaker overruled the point. He said the member's language might be unbecoming, and lie l>olieved it was, but he know of no law of parliamentary usage that forbade a member to attack the public or private record of any officer, so long aa he was not a member of the House. He said that perhaps to-morrow the boot might be on the other leg, and then some members would see the justice of a ruling by which he refused to rob a member of the House of his rightto criticise an officer. This stilled the storm for alittle while, and Bowon continued. There were, ho said, men in the penitentiary serving long terms of years for doing that which Governor Scott bad that night done to that poor woman under the roof of the Gubernatorial mansion, and this was the man who talked of "moral nakedness." He had written that woman a threatening letter, and it was that letter shown by her to some sympathizing'friendsjin Charleston, which had furnished proof against him, and had shown that even the Gubernatorial mansion furnished no protection for the virtue of a woman. Here Byas again arose, and in the most excited manner called Bowen to account. He didn't want to hear about the virtue of a woman, he didn't know what that had to do with impeachment, and he threatened Bowen with expulsion and all manner of terrible things if he didn't stop. Mr. Bowen replied that he cared nothing for his threats, then, turning to the speaker, he continued that he cared nothing for the threats of any man whose vote you could purchase any day for a five dollar bill. This shot quite upset the little man from Orangeburg, and, allowing his passion to get the better of his prudence, he rose to a question of privilege, and began to bluster out a denial. The speaker asked him how he made the member's remark apply to him. which caused a general laugh at the expense of Byas, and he gradually subsided. Bowen remarked that he had been bothered by that man about as long as he meant to be, and advised him not to put tne coat on if it didn't fit. He then said that if time permitted he would proceed to show the ten or a dozen victims of the same crime that the Governor had committed on that poor young lady from Walhaila. He would like to trace his wanderings and his crimes from Columbia to Washington, where the books of Wil? " ? ^ * ^ lard's Hotel woum snow mm a? lu^iaicicu mui a. notorious woman from Philadelphia, and to New York, and expose his visits to No. 112 West 26th street, a house that had become so notorious through his patronage that it was known as the Palmetto House. This brought a dozen more of the Governor's Hessians to their feet with all sortsof interruptions. The speaker repeated his former ruling, ana By as appealed from the decision of the chair. The House, however, sustained the speaker by seventy-two to twelve, and Bowen resumed. He said heoould tell about another woman in New YorkPauline Mark ham he believed her name was?to whom the Governor had given diamonds worth seven hundred and fifty dollars, but Pauline said it wasn't enough. Mr. Bowen continued with these exposures at some length, the members sitting with their brogans elevated on Ingersoll-Dennis's furniture, smoking their pipes and cigars, and drinking in the salacious details of these revelations with apparent eagerness, until at five o'clock the House atyournea till noon to-morrow. Wednesday, January 17,18^2. In the Senate, Mr. Whittemore from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported favorably on a bill to abolish the salaries of the Solicitors of the Circuit Courts of the State, and to reduce the fees of the same. Unfavorably on a bill to authorize Clerks of Courts to perform all the duties heretofore performed by Commissioners in Equity. Favorably on a bill to regulate the granting of divorces; and a bill to empower fathers to legitimize certain children by last will and testament. The latter bill provides that the white father of children by black or colored mothers, formerly slaves, shall be authorized to so far legitimatize, by his last will and testament, such children an enahle t.hem to inherit the same as those born in wedlock, provided that such father has not been married before or since. Mr. Wimbush introduced a bill to charter, in this State, the Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Railroad Company. This is a bill to charter in this State the Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Rail Road Company of North Carolina, which enacts that the Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Rail Road Company, a corporation created by the laws of the State of North Carolina, is hereby created a body corporate in this State by the same name, with power to construct through this State a rail road with one or more tracks, from any point on the State line where the road may enter the State, to such point on the dividing line between this State and Georgia near the city of Augusta, as the Company may select The location of the rail road to be made on such route as the Board of Directors of the Company, after proper surveys, may direct, and they are also authorized to construct branch roads from the main track to any other points or places in the State. Said branches not to exceed 100 miles. The Act also authorizes any incorporated city or town or village which may be interested in the construction of the rail road or its branches to subscribe to the capital stock of the Company. A joint resolution authorizing the employment of legal counsel for the prosecution of persons engaged in land swindles, after debate, failed to receive a two-thirds vote. In the House, a bill to incorporate the Grand Council of the Independent Order of United Brethren of South Carolina, after an animated debate, was passed and ordered to the Senate. In relation to this concern and its purposes, the Columbia correspondent of the Charleston Courier savs : "Sometime ago there was introduced in the House a Bill to "incorporate the Grand Council of the Independent Order of United Brethren of South Carolina." The preamble of this Bill is as follows: Whereas, the farmer, mechanic and laborer have but little or no opportunity by reason of their daily vocation to avail themselves of the benefits derived from the free school system, and wishing, through a charitable and benevolent organization to furnish a source for the general dilfusion of knowledge to that class of our citizens above alluded to; therefore, etc. This apparently innocent document was referred to the Committee on Religious and Charitable Institutions. of which Mr. J. E. Hagood is the chairman, witn an innocence that was natural. The Committee were misled by the specious preamble and submitted a favorable report under the impression that the order was what the preamble purported it to be. But an enterprising Republican who bad a keener adaptability for nosing out these things, has just ascertained that this United Brethren, is nothing more nor less than a kind of independent ku-klux organization outside the Union League, composed of sworn adherents to the Governor, and having for its object the matter was found outlby a prominent State official, who is not in the ring, and who attended a meeting of the concern. Prince Rivers, a sable representative from Edgefield, is the Grand Chief of this dusky ku-klux, and none but sworn friends of Gov. Scott are to be admitted to its conclaves There is a chance for Maior Merrill. Mr. Corbin and Judge Bond?a veritable conspiracy of the worst order, and the strong arm of the Government, which has been stretched over this land of ours for the past six months, will find more work if it is in earnest. The only way in which Governor Scott and hisku-klux can avoid indictment is to pledge the order to the support of Grant. It is stated that the new ku-klux will be armed with State arms and paid ont of "moneys not otherwise appropriated.'' The report of the joint investigating committee's report was laid on the table by a vote of 53 to 18. Thursday, January 18,1872. In the Senate, a bill was received from the House and ordered for a second reading authorizing probate judges to perform certain duties heretofore performed by commissioners in equity, as defined on the 1st day of January, A. D., 1869. The Committee on Railroads reported a bill to charter the Cheraw and Lancaster Railroad Company, with amendments. Ordered to lie over. Mr. Arnim gave notice of a bill to amend the act to provide for holding of elections in this State. In the House, Mr. Lee, from the Committee on county offices and officers, reported favorably a bill.to provide for the election of county treasurers and auditors. Also, a bill [unfavorably) to regulate the salaries of school commissioners of the various counties of the State, and a joint resolution (unfavorably) to regulate and fix the salaries of the county commissioners of the various counties, and for f\fKoi* YMivnACOQ on/1 o Kill fiin^ofrAfO Ww\ 4-rv WH1VI ^/Ul WUU ( Vl4i J W abolish the offices of State and county auditors, county assessors and county treasurers, and for other purposes. Ordered to lie over for a second reading. Mr. Holmes introduced a bill to provide for the election of justices of the peace, and to define their jurisdiction. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. . Mr. A? L. Singleton introduced a bill to make jury certificates preferred claims on the several county treasurers. Referred to tho Committee on Ways and Means. At 1 P. M., the hour for the meeting of the joint Assembly, for the purpose of electing the i