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Scraps and ^acts. The Germans of San Fransisco are organizing for independent action in the coming Presidential campaign. The German Democratic general committee of New York, has adopted strong res- j olutions complimentary of Schurz. Boston Corbet, the man who once enjoyed notoriety as the killer of Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, is dead. Dr. Taylor, health commissioner of Baltimore, reports that small-pox is prevailing in an epidemic form in that city, and is fearfully on the increase. Mexico obtained an independent existence in 1821, and since that time it has had thirty-five presidents and dictators. General "SVade Hampton has accepted the invitation of the Frederick (Md.) Agri cultural Society to deliver the address at tne ! exhibition in October next. Hereafter nobody is to be hung for murder in Kansas until one year after conviction, and not then unless the Governor issues a warrant for execution. A St. Louis woman, over six, feet in height, recently married a man who is but four feet nine. When she wishes to kiss him she has to.stand him on a chair. Corundum is a substance identical with sapphire and ruby, and is the hardest form of matter known, except the diamond, having a cutting power, compared with the latter, of 90 to 100. It is obtained from the mountain region of North Carolina. J. 0. O'Neal, a citizen of Robertson County, Texas, has forty-one children. The Waco Examiner says that sixteen of them served in the same Confederate company, from Henry county, Alabama. The father is living with his eighth wife. He is a carpenter by trade. He is sixty-five years old, says he will never die until the number reaches fifty; prospects good. The Shwveport (La.) Times, says : "We regret to learn from our Texas exchan ? * f Cfofq nlont. gas umi nit: pmuiciB ui wiai> iui^uv* ing more largely in cotton than they did last year. And that is one drawback to the country resulting from the high price of cotton. It prompts a large planting of the staple aud a consequent decline in price the succeeding year, with no grain in the country." At St. John's (Newfoundland,) a lover recently married a girl whom he supposed was as poor as a church mouse, and, not being a Croesus himself, love in a cottage was his only expectation. After the knot was duly tied, however, the girl informed him that she possessed ?1,000,000 sterling in her own right, and one of the handsomest residences in Canada is to be the future domicile of the happy pair. The cities of the State of New York rank as follows, as regards population: New York 926,000; Brooklyn, 396,000, Buffalo, 117,000; Albany, 70,000; Rochester, 62,000: Troy 46,000; Syracuse, 43,000; Utica, 29,000; Oswego, 21,000; Poughkeepsie, 20,000; Auburn, 17,000; New burg, 17,000; Elmira, 16,000 ; Long Island City, 15,000,; Lockport, 15,000; Hudson, 14,000; Biughamton, 14,000; Schenectady, 11,000 ; Ogdensburg, 10,000. ec -A Cnmlao of fVio W1 U1C UiUUClS atr KJl t uuiuigi uv biiv wv gining of the war, General Anderson and Lieuts. Talbot, Schnieder, Meade and Hall are dead and the following five are still living: General J. C Davis, now Colonel of the 23d infantry; General Crawford, Colonel of the 2d infantry; General Crawford, Colonel of the 2d Infantry; General Doubleday, Colonel of 2oth infantry; Colonel J. G. Foster, Lieutenant-Colonel of engineers, and General Truman, Major of artillery. In commenting upon the adjournment of the Louisiana Legislature, the New Orleans Times says: "The body called the General Assembly of Louisana terminated, last night, its career of unparalleled infamy. It would be a trite phrase to say that the history of modern times furnished no such example of the gross abuse of power, of such flagrant im- 1 morality, corruption and indecency, as has '< marked the career of this disgraceful Assembly." ] The New York Times says a curious fact has come to light, in the discovery that Jefferson Davis, late President of the Confed- ' eracy, is a pure-blooded Yankee by birth, i Persons who claim to be well informed say that he was born in old Stockbridge, Mass., in i 1808, and removed to Kentucky with his father ; when a small child. His father is said to j ? v . t , 1 3 xl have been a wheeiwrignt Dy iracie, anu me house where he lived on one side of the road, and the shop where he worked on the other side, are well remembered by living witnesses. The hog has the name of being the most stupid of animals, and yet the reputation < is far from deserved; for many instances might be mentioned where a hog showed itself , as tractable as the most intelligent of dogs. An English gamekeeper has recently broken a black sow to hunt game in the woods, and she ran in the hunt with wonderful success. She would track game, back aud stand, and point partridges, pheasants, snipes and rabbits as skilfully as a bred pointer. She would bound in response to a whistle, and would wag her head and squeal with delight on being shown a gun. Jeff. Thomson, the ex-Confederate general, is serving as surveyor-general under Warmouth. He is described as a "very queer chicken," possessing the necessary faculty of closing an eye to a cheap piece of canal or levee, and submerging his politics beneath the water level op his interest. Long, gaunt, ugly, and garrulous, Jeff, haunts the saloons, and takes the oath of allegiance (with a little sugar) as often as fellow citizens invite him. H.s stock remark is: "I change my religion every ween, iuy ^unnus cvcij u?,j aun uaj opinion every hour?and yet I can't keep up." The large clock at the English Parliament house is the largest one in the world. The four dials of this clock are each twentytwo feet in diameter. Every half minute the point of the minute-hand moves nearly seven inches. The clock will go eight and a half days, but it only strikes seven and a half, thus indicating any neglect in winding it up. The mere winding up of the striking mechanism takes two hours. The pendulum is fifteen feet long; the wheels are of cast-iron ; the hour bell is eight feet high aud nine feet in diameter, weighing nearly fifteen tons, and the hammer alone weighs more than four hundred pounds. A pious Rhode Islander has hit upon the happy thought of printing on the reverse of our national paper currency appropriate scriptural texts, such, for instance, as that concerning the impossibility of simultaneously serving God and mammon, or Paul's pertinent remark, "save those bonds." Whether these religious documents are intended, like those ordinary tracts, for gratuitous distribution among the poor, we are not informed ; but if they be merely meant to follow the natural course of exchange and revert to the Treasury Department, their new indorsement is not likely to lead to redemption, either pecuniary or psychological. The following reports of Postmasters to the Post Office Department, Washington, showing the gross receipts of the post offices named for fiscal years ending 30th of June, 1870 and 1871. are of interest. The receipts at the Pott Office in New York in 1870 were $2,328, 252; in 1871, 82,414,401. Philadelphia, 1870,8712,105; 1871,8758,072; Boston, 1870, 8675,337 ; 1871, 8703,492. Chicago, 1870, 8619,397; 1871, 8703,518. Cincinnati, 1870, 8295,770; 1871, 8210,238. St. Louis, 1870, 8283,016; 1871, 8309,453. Baltimore,! 1870, 8256,324; 1871, $259,788. The re-1 ceipts in Chicago in the fiscal year ending | June 30th, 1867, were $464,975, by which it \ will be seen that Chicago has nearly doubled j .its business during the past four years. A remarkable story comes from Bom-1 bay, which suggests the propriety of employing monkeys as police detectives. A Madras man j making a journey took with him some money i and jewels, and a pet monkey. He was way-1 laid, robbed, murdered, and buried by a party j of assassins. The monkey witnessed the whole i affair from a tree top, as soon as the villains had departed he went to the nearest police officer's station, attracted his attention by his sighs and groans, and finally led him to the grave of his master. He then enabled the officer to recover the stolen property from the place where it had been concealed, and then went to the bazar and picked out the murderers one by one, holding them fast by the leg ^ until secured. They have confessed the crime, and are held for trial. inquirer.' ' t ~ __ " ' \ YORKVILLE, S. C.: i THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 7,1872. * \ Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers dis- j continued, the date must be kept in advance. 1 Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that 1 our terms for subscription, advertising and job- [ work, are cash, in advance | SOUTHERN EXTRAVAGANCE. I Tlin mut'oilinrp nhnrnot.pristics of fl.ll civil- ? X11C J/& V/ > uuiug VUUI?MW?WW.VV ized people are the same. The circumstances a by which they are surrounded often make them differ from each other in minor details, ^ as much as they do from savages in essential a particulars. Every nation of people has some feature by which it is distinguished. The * English, the Scotch, the Irish and the 0 Welsh, although subjects of the same consti- 0 tution, are different from each other in their ^ manners and customs, mode of life, dress and F even in their very gait. In the United States F there are three grand divisions with several minor divisions. There is a northern or eastern, a western and southern division. The , inhabitants of each of these divisions, together with all the sub-divisions, claim to be civilized G people. They have a common ancestry. Still there are northern characteristics, wes- ^ tern characteristics and southern characteris- . tics. Of the peculiar traits of character of the northern and western sections we do not propose to write; nor do we contemplate noticing all the peculiar features of southern ^ civilization. As men can improve more readily by pointing out to them their errors than ^ by lauding and extolling their virtues, our only object is to briefly call the attention of the public to the reckless extravagance which j characterizes the southern people. When we ^ say that the southern people are extravagant, j we have reference more to the wasteful man ner in which they use the natural advantages j which they enjoy, than to their indulgence in ' the luxuries of life. Every foreigner who ever visited our southern country lauded and ex- ^ tolled it as a most desirable place for a per- j manent home. Our winters are short and ^ mild; our summers, though comparatively 1 long, are not tropically hot; our climate is sa- ^ lubrious, and our soil is fertile. No country, ^ perhaps enjoys more natural advantages in the way of soil, climate and productions. Yet, few of our people are permanently wealthy. In the older of the southern States the forests have been cut down and the land literally r worn out by an extravagant mode of cultiva- r tion. In the proper sense of the word, there s' are but few improved plantations in all the ^ southern country. The houses and fences ^ are of the most temporary character. Few men ever think of building a fence that will ^ last for more than a decade of years. The South is preeminently adapted to the ^ growth of a great variety of fruits. Apples, 0 peaches, pears, plums, and grapes, together ^ with a vast multitude of other kinds of fruit, S 3ome tropical and others of the temperate zones, flourish in our country. Notwithstanding this there are but few good orchards in 2 the South. In this, as in many other things, ^ the southern people exhibit a peculiar ex- n travagance. Fruit trees are, as a general rule, but little prized. Our extravagance is n icon in nur want, nf annreciatiner the value of ^ - t k- Q ! money. Few southern men know how to save dimes until they amount to dollars. Southern men of moderate means spend money s' as freely as the lords of England. Once this n reckless extravagance could be borne; now it c can not. Things have changed and we must a change with them. All the advantages which a our country affords us must be made to contribute to our comfort and prosperity. The gifts which our soil and climate bestow upon us must be husbanded. We, since a new regime has been introduced, must learn to save Q the small change until it amounts to dollars, 1 THE LABOR REFORM NOMINATIONS. 1 As was stated in the Enquirer last week, the Labor Reform party met in national con- e vention at Columbus, Ohio, and made nomi- ? nations for the Presidential ticket. The "La- c bor Reformers," as a distinct political organization, have been attracting considerable at- s tention of late, and we observe that their re- ^ cent action is regarded with much significance ^ throughout the country. It is claimed that * the party can control 300,000 votes, and that its organization is thorough and perfect; and e that if either of the great parties take up its ^ candidates, there is scarcely a doubt of their e election, as large numbers of Labor Reform- * ers would vote a ticket which they knew would ^ stand a fair chance of success, whereas, with their heretofore distinct form of organization, ) it was hoping against hope to go to the polls 1 and casta ballot. It is also urged that neither c of the nominees can be objectionable to the 1 Democratic party?Judge Davis being a mod- < erate Republican, and Governor Parker a 1 Democrat, though both entertain the same ( views on vital questions before the country, and are firm in their opposition to the admin- \ istration of President Grant. Thi3 move- i ment, of seeming insignificance, so early in- 1 augurated in the Presidential campaign, may 1 yet become a formidable obstacle to the party 1 in power. 1 i PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. , In the Senate, on the 27th, the consideration of the resolution of Mr. Sumner in relation to the sale of arms to France was resumed, and in the course of the discussion ! ] which followed, Mr. Scliurz reiterated his J < views previously expressed, and also criticised : 1 the corruptions of the general order system, j i The House agreed to the Senate amendments I to the bill for the construction of a bridge 1 over the Missouri at St. Josephs. The con- ] sideration of the deficiency appropriation bill;1 occupied the remainder of the day. | < r ai? o OQfVi Tvr- T .Aoron c1i k. ( 1X1 Hit/ OtJlJUlCj ULi L11C Al/bllj i'Ai iJVguii oui/~ raitted a majority report adverse to, and Mr.1 Carpenter submitted a minority report in fa- I vor of Abbott's claim to the North Carolina Senatorship. Three thousand copies of both ] reports were ordered. The question involved < is, whether votes cast for an ineligible candi-: 1 date are blank. An unsuccessful effort was j made to secure a vote on the sale of arms in- ' < restigation. The discussion was continued mtil adjournment. In the House, the same juestion was introduced, but it went over unler objection. A resolution was offered dedaring that the President should open nejotiations looking to the withdrawal of the :laim for consequential damages from the American case. Several objections being nade, the resolution was withdrawn. The >ill extending the time for the completion of he road connecting Lakes St. Croix and Su )erior, occupied the balance of the day, with 10 result. In the Senate, on the 1st, the Chairman of he Committee on Finance stated that he was nstructed by the committee to state that vhatever change might be made in the tea ind coffee tariff, it would not take effect be'ore the first of July. The bill renewing the ild contract with the proprietors of the Globe, or publishing the debates, passed. The Vicepresident declining to appoint the Arras Investigating Committee, Cameron moved that t consist of Hamlin, Carpenter, Sherman, sawyer, Logan, Stevenson and Harlan. An imendment to substitute Schurz for Sherman vas made, when the matter went over. The ippropriation bill was resumed. The amendnent abolishing the Branch Mint at Charotte, N. C., failed. Scott reported an amendnent to the Southern Pacific Railroad bills. n the House, the St. Croix railroad occulied nearly all day. A petition was presentd from merchants of New York and Boston .sking for a uniform tobacco tax. The proceedings of either House, on the Ind, are void of interest. There were only Km it. n Hn7i>n members nresent in the House. ? r House proceedings on the 4th unimportant, n the Senate, Sherman, from the committee n finance, reiterated that no changes will ccur in the tariff on tea and coffee before Tilly. The committee on public buildings re?orted in favor of appropriating SI00,000 for mblic buildings at Raleigh, N. C. STATE ITEMS. ? But fourteen parcels of land are adverised for sale in Chester for delinquent taxes. ? Both Houses of the Legislature of this itate have agreed to adjourn to-day. ? John Graham, a citizen of Camden, aged 01 years, died last week. He was a soldier a the war of 1812. ? Two hundred and fifty new buildings - ere erected in Columbia during the past ear. ? Nineteen thousand seven hundred and inety-one acres oflandwereto be sold in Jreenville on Tuesday last for taxes. ? The Reporter says that in the last fortight, ninety shares of the capital stock of lie National Bank of Chester have changed ands at one hundred and two dollars per bare. ? Our former townsman, Major Richard lare, who now resides at Chester, has inveni i* i i _* 1 L 3d a dinner duckcc wmcn tie prupuses tu uuvc atented. ? In a paragrnph copied from the Times ist week, the statement wa9 made that Judge lackey would preside at the term of the Ciruit Court which commenced at Union on Ionday last. This it appears is an error, as be term of Judge Thomas has not yet expired, ud he is now holding Court at Union. ? Two persons were killed on the Spartanurg and Uniou Railroad last week by being un over. One, a negro man employed on the oad, who lay down on the track and went to ieep. The other, a soldier by the name of ]dwin Waring belonging to Troop M of the th Cavalry. The soldier was standing on be platform of the passenger car and losing is balance fell under the wheels. ? The Columbia Union says that on Saturay last, General Stolbrand, Superintendent f the State Penitentiary, discharged about a ozen mechanics, and twenty-eight of the uard. It is stated as a reason for this action hat no money could be got by him to pay bem the necessary wages for their labor. The uard was reduced to the lowest possible limit y which a semblance of security of the prisoers confined there could be had. ? R. M. Wallace, Esq., Collector of Interal Revenue, has been nominated by the 'resident as United States Marshal vice Maj. j. E. Johnson, incumbent. The Washingon National Republican says that Maj. Johnon has tendered his resignation but it has ot yet been accepted. Johnson makes some omplaint in regard to military interfence, in political way, with his duties as Marshal, nd demands an investigation of the matter. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A foundry and machine shop will soon be ompleted and in operation at Shelby. ? The Democrat says that twelve car loads f iron have been received at that place, to ie laid on the W. C. and R. Railroad, beween Cherryville and Shelby. ? A. L. Price, for thirty years one of the ditors of the Wilmington Journal, and one f the most respected citizens of that city, lied on Sunday of last week, aged 56 years. ? One of the principal buildings of Davidon College was found to be on fire last Frilay morning. By the timely discovery the Ire was extinguished before much damage lad been done. ? The question as to the power of the General Asseraely to tax the Wilmington and kVeldon railroad, when its charter expressly xempts it from taxation, has been decided >y the Supreme Court of the United States in avor of the railroad. ? The official report shows that during the 'ear next preceding the 1st of November ast, there were confined in the penitentiary 589 convicts, of whom 86 were white males; I was a white female; 286 colored males; 16 :olored females; and 1 Indian. Of the num)er, 4 had liberal educations, and only 59 ;ould read and write. ? The Wilmington Journal says that a man ,vho emigrated some years ago from Brunswick county to the far West, lately returned to lis old home, and found that his wife, believing aim dead, had married another man, by whom she had one child. As the first husoand had accumulated a fortune during hie absence, he had no difficulty in regaining the person and the affections of his wife. WASHINGTON ITEMS. ? Ex-Gov. W. W. Holden, of North Carolina, who has for some time been one of the editors of the Washington Chronicle, has retired from that position. In leaving the newspaper, however, he is at the pains to state :hat it is from no want of ardor in the republican cause, and from no indisposition to support the administration of General Grant, whose re-election to a second term Mr. Hollen regards as equally important with that of Seorge Washington and Abraham Lincoln, [t is stated that Holden will go as minister n Pprn ? The nomination of Justice Davis for the presidency, by the labor reform convention, continues to be seriously discussed by memDers of both political parties at the capital; ind so far from there being any attempt to liscredit and belittle it among even adminis I ! tration republicans, several republican 8ena-1 ' tors and members declare that the ticket is not only a most respectable one, but that it! 1 will become popular as the campaign progress- g es. It is admitted in both parties that if all j the elements of opposition to Grant are uni-1 j ted on this ticket, or one kindred to it, his re-' V 1 M election is placed in a close, sharp contest. " But little is said or cared for platforms. They H are regarded now as wordy generalities, in' which the republicans have been singularly G indifferent, as in the case of amnesty, which they recommended in their national convention of 1868, but which remains unfulfilled this day. V EDITORIAL INKLINGS. 1 The Alabama Claims. n A summary of the claims agaiust Great Britain for losses by the Confederate cruisers, which were filed by the American commissioners to the Geneva conference, foots up, as 12 the losses claimed to have been sustained by the n operations of eleven vessels, 817,900,633.47. S And for losses for increased war premiums, rc 81,120,795.15. These items embrace the "di- T rect claims" only. The indirect clams include " losses sustained by the sale of 774,000 tons to y( foreign owners?figures estimated at 815,000,- T 000?and, finally, the "consequential dam- 111 ages," by the prolongation of the war, owing to the moral and other aid extended by Eng-1 land to the Confederates daring its continu- oi ance. Democratic Cat Policy. > A Washington correspondent of the / New York Tribune gives his idea of the DemV te ocratic policy during the present ill-feeling p: among the Republican, as follows: w "The Democratic party is as noiseless as a vi cat'in pursuit of her prey, while the agita- 0j tions of their adversaries are in progress. If they were all shod in sheep-skin shoes, with ^ the wool turned outward, they could not e: move more quietly. "But they are preparing w for the final spring with as determined an in- oi tent as ever. They will encourage the g-owth tc of a third party, torn from the Republican m organizations, to the last moment, and then a( they will meet and nominate a candidate of ^ their own, and, showing a moderate platform and a conservative candidate, will invite the ei disaffected from every cave of Adullara in the ni land." ra Are Republics Ungrateful 1 Colonel Forney has published a remarkable account of the manner in which General w Grant was first nominated for President. He, p as editor of the Chronicle, had been requested y in 1867, to write an exhaustive article favor- p, ing such nomination, which he did, producing a a five column article, which was submitted to ^ ? tt v i a. ta. i.. /""i lienerai itawnns. Jtiawiius cook ic to ueuer- jfl al Grant and stayed quite a long time. When u, he returned, he said : aj "General Grant is quite pleased with your statement of his political record, and surprised , that he 'proves to be so good a republican.' J Upon this hint, I printed. When Rawlins came back from General Grant with the edi- si torial, he told us with great emphasis, 'Gener- hi al Grant does not want to be President. He p] thinks the Republican party may need him, r and he believes as their candidate he can be ^ elected and re-elected. But,' said Rawlins, 'what is to become of him after his second w presidential term? What, indeed, during his cl administration ? He is receiving from seven- je teen to twenty thousand dollars a year as gen- hi eral of the armies of the republic, a life sala- p, ry. To go into the Presidency at twenty-five thousand a year for eight years is perhaps to gain more fame, but what is to become of him at the end of his presidency ? He is not a ja politician. He does not aspire to the place. ,, Eight years from the 4th of March, 1869, he will be about fifty-six years old. Of course, v he must spend his salary as President. England with her Wellington, her Nelson and her pi other heroes on land and sea, has never hesi- re tated to enrich and ennoble them through all 0i their posterity. Such a policy is in accordance with the character of the English government, , but in our country the man who fights for and saves the republic would be a beggar if w he depended upon political office; and mark it, if Grant takes anything from the rich, tl whose vast fortunes he has saved, after he is tl President, he will be accused as the willing recipient ot guts." So, it would seem that when Grant made the sacrifice of giving the country the benefit of his talents for four years, it was with the ^ implied understanding that he should have an opportunity to serve a second term. Sure- ^ ly, the republic is not ungrateful. And while all parties are not, perhaps, fully appreciative * of his services, it would be too bad to turn ,. ei him out to starve. ^ Davis and Parker. Already have biographical sketches of QJ these candidates for President and Vice-President appeared in the papers, from which we j extract the following particulars: "Judge Davis was born in Cecil county, a< Md., on March 9,1815. He graduated at tr Kenyon College, Ohio, in 1832, and subse- P' quently studied law in Massachusetts, and also at the law school of New Haven, ConD. tc Removing to Illinois in 1835, he was admitted jj( to the bar, and soon after settled at Blooming- (jj ton, in the practice of his profession. He was at one time a conservative Henry Clay Whig. P' In 1844 he was elected to the State Legisla- P( ture, in 1847 served as a member of tbe State a< Constitutional Convention of that year, and pi in 1848 was elected Judge of the eighth judicial district of the State. In 1855, and uj again in 1861, he was re-elected to this posi- .j. tion. He had long been an intimate and personal friend of Mr. Lincoln, and as a delegate a< to the Chicago Convention of 1860 had a T large share in securing his nomination for the a< presidency. The two had been thrown much pi together by the practice of their profession in p a thinly populated country, and the intimacy ^ hetween them was of the closest and most con- ? fidential character. ' Just as Judge Davis was entering upon his ^ third terra as circuit judge in Illinois, he was a; in 1862, appointed by Mr. Lincoln to the po- cl sition of associate judge of the Supreme Court w of the United States, which position he still S1 holds. Mr. Lincoln also appointed him his executor, and the estate of the President was wound up by Judge Davis. At the time of the latter's appointment to the Supreme Bench, a he was an avowed Republican, but of late j years his tendencies have been decidedly conservative, and there was considerable talk of ? his being an available candidate for the Pres- " idency on the Democratic ticket. His course ^ on the legal tender cases, however?he voted h , with the majority in May of last year, holding e ( the legal-tender act to be constitutional?has j, served to estrange hirn from the Democracy, I although he has frequently been mentioned ? during the past few months as a possible Republican candidate who would receive the sup- tl port of the"passivepolicy" Democrats against t< General Grant. Judge Davis is a man of tl . large fortune, and personally is above re- n proach. But he has never been regarded as a jurist of commanding ability. II Joel Parker, the nominee for Vice-Presi-1 f. _e< -vr t ; li : dent, is tlie present governor 01 new oersey, i elected last fall by six thousand majority, and i a life-long Democrat. He has not indicated ri whether he will accept the nomination for n Vice-President, though he is expected to an- 0 . nounce his acceptance of the nomination by a . speech at a ratification meeting to be held in New York next week. Neither of these can- a didates has hitherto been identified with the , tl distinctive labor oaganization. During the it war of secession Governor Parker was popu-1 g| larly known as the "War Governor." # j w i fiSF" Although Georgia was settled half a a ( century earlier than Ohio, the population of ; the latter to the square mile is more than three , o1 i times as great as that of the former. I c< LOCAL ITEMS, si u NEW .ADVERTISEMENTS. fl ,. II. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriffs Salos. j . B. Hall, Judge of Probate?Citation?Mrs. Nancy J. Wylie, Applicant?John J. Wylie, ; e deceased. w . II. Fayssoux, Agent?Hides Wanted, fittkowski & Rlntels' Card?Read It. n . B. Hall, Judge of Probate?Citation?James . Poag, Applicant?John Barnes, deceased. III Glenn, S. Y. C.?Judgoof Probate's Sales, p L M. Law, President?Notico to persons indebted to the King's Mountain Railroad. P en. Wade Hampton, Vice-President?Carolina Life Insurance Company. RETURN OF COL. MERRILL. Colonel Lewis Merrill, who was ordered to ^ Washington for consultation several weeks y 50, returned to this place on Thursday after- 2 * - * 1 ii il !_ _ oon last and is again in command or tnis j lilitary post. J MOKE SNOW. ^ The first spring month of this year signal- y ;ed itself by a general bender on the first l ight of its existence, and treated the "Sunny I; outh" to a genuine snow-storm, equal, al- I lost to the snow storms of colder latitudes. J he average depth in this locality was 6i ^ iches?the deepest known here for many ? ears, and the fifth fall of snow we have had. j he past winter has been unusually severe in I 11 sections of the continent, particularly in s< le north-western States, where snow has falin to a greater depth and remained longer i the ground, than has ever been known by le oldest settlers in that region. ^ ' THE EXECUTION TO-MORROW. V To-morrow, unless the Governor shall inirvene with his commuting or pardoning n rerogative, the fullest sentence of the law ill be executed on Peter Culp, a negro, con- y icted at the last term of the Circuit Court J F the murder of his wife in May last In J issing sentence, the Judge directed that the S tecution shall be at the "usual place," from ^ hich we infer that one of the fields in the ? jtskirts of the town will be selected. It is ^ > be regretted that no provision has been ade in this State for such scenes to be en- ? ited more privately, as is the case in most of G le other States. The demoralizing influ- ^ ices of a public execution are fearful, and ^ Dt correctly estimated by the people gene.11.. my. THE MILITARY PRISONERS. No arrests have been made within the past ^ eek. On Monday last, Sam Stewart and j rank Fewell, negroes, were released. On p Wednesday night of last week, twelve of the ol risonere, including the above negroes, made ni feeble attempt to effect their escape, by atching their opportunity to lock up the j11 ilor in a cell which he had entered, and also y locking the doors of the cells containing m ll the other prisoners who were confined fr lerein. On reaching the door at the head of a] le stairs, however, after giving it a few c< nocks, they desisted and quietly returned in- ^ de the door leading to the cells. It is, per- c< ups, proper to say, that none of the other q risoners sympathized in the movement, and ft mdered such assistance as was in their power i prevent the attempted outbreak. Those ei ho attempted to escape have been placed in 03 oser confinement than they had been subcted to previously; though all the others *ve the same privileges extended to them as fc revious to the occurrence. ol SALES-DAY. On Monday last?sales-day for March?a rnro nnmW nf nersnns were in town from le country, nearly every section of the coun- r? r being represented. A considerable quan- ct ty of land was sold at public outcry, but at 01 rices in nearly every instance, far below the j sal value. The Sheriff, however, sold but ]? ie parcel of land under execution, a tract mtaining two hundred acres, belonging to c< ie estate of William Boggs, deceased, which tl as purchased by Miss Mary Boggs, for $180. P: Under the orders of the Judge of Probate, ie Sheriff sold for partition, etc., the lands in sis county belonging to the estates of W. D. g ussell, deceased, Jesse Spencer, deceased, q1 id Samuel Steele, deceased, as follows : W. D. Russell Land.?One hundred and p fty acres on Sugar Creek, purchased by J. ^ . Russell, at $1.51 per acre. ^ Jesse Spencer Lands.?The "black jack" act, one hundred and seventy-five acres, ft urchased by Dr. J. H. Witherspoon at 55 mts per acre. Lot in Rock Hill, containing w ght-tenths of an acre, purchased by Dr. T. E i. Johnston for $85. j* Samuel Steele Lands.?Fifty acres, situated ^ a Tool's Fork, purchased by W. S. Moore, t( 186 ner acre. Fiftv-six acres, adjoining the ft " i t/ * V w ?bove, purchased by J. N. Steele at $8 per ;re. Reversionary interest in the homestead d act, embracing two hundred and ten acres, k urchased by J. N. Steele for 8100. t( Dr. Calvin P. Sandifer, surviving Execu>r, sold two tracts of land on Fishing Creek, f? slonging to the estate of Charles Mcllwain, ir sceased, as follows: One hundred acres, w urchased by "William Thomasson at 83.60 n sr acre. One hundred and ninety-nine }res, purchased by F. H. Brown at 83.40 ^ 2r acre. j.c Col. W. B. Wilson, attorney for the Exectors, sold four parcels of laud belonging to ai le estate of R. G. McCaw, deceased, all situ- ai ted within two miles of the Court House. st he following is a report of the sales: Fifty 2res, purchased by J. A. Ratchford at 813 er acre?half woodland and half "old field." 'ifty-one acres, purchased by J. A. Ratch- g, >rd at 812 per acre?half woodland and half si old field." Fifty acres, purchased by James a Tason, at 810.25 per acre?half woodland d half "old field." Forty-nine acres, pur- re based by W. B. Steele, at 811 per acre?all " oodland. Two other tracts advertised for ^ lie were withdrawn. b AWARD OF PREMIUMS. F< Monday last was the day appointed for warding premiums to club-makers for the gi Inquirer; and as will be seen from the list c ppended, the successful competitors are a lessrs. A. F. Lindsay, J. R. Howe and Maj. a liles Smith. Many others have sent us P andsorae lists, and the success of all, consid- . ring the disturbed condition of the territory t( l which their operations were confined, is a ratifying beyond our most sanguine expecta- o ons, and, we think, clearly evinces two facts? n bat our county is composed of a reading, inilligent and discerning people, fully alive to ai be importance of a properly-conducted jour? ^ al in their midst; and, despite tne Harass* o lent they have withstood and the pecuniary rabarrassment as a consequence thereof, are o: beral in their support of the Enquirer. ^ 'or their patronage, and to those who have fc eturned us clubs, one and all, we return our ^ lost heartfelt thanks, and assure them that fa ur labors in the future shall be as unremitng as they have been in the past to furnish n entertaining and readable paper. With ci le resources at our command, and the most1 tl nproved printing machinery propelled by | ;eara, we do not think we arrogate too much | 8( hen we claim at least a partial success in the j a ccomplishment of our object. Aside from the club-list, which, as most of' ur readers know, is made up,-with but few ex-1 C options, in York county, our circulation out-1 fr ;de the county, and in other States is large; >day thari it has ever been, and the man] attering assurances which we receive fron istant readers, embracing names in almos very State of the Union, verifies the opinioi hich we have long entertained, that if i ewspaper has merit it will be liberally sua lined at home and abroad, even if it does no ossea9 the advantages of a metropolitai oint of publication. The following is a list of the club-makers riili ftio niimhfir nf names returned bv each A. F. Lindsay, 153 ; J. R. Howe, 62; Maj L Smith, 45; W. L. Grist, 43; Col. W. B lIHsou, 31; Rev. J. S. Bailey, 29; C. L Wallace, 27; Wm. Strong, 24; J. E. Craig 3; W. S. Gregory, 23; James P. Lee, 23 ames Pearson, 22 ; S. W. Jackson, 21; A . Harrison, 21; George L. Patterson, 20; E !. Rogers, 20; James P. Jackson, 20; Majo l. A. McKenzie, 19 ; Charles Petty, 17 ; H Vhisonant, 15 ; J. D. Wylie, 15; J. A. Hill 5 ; R. L. Crook, 12; W. J. Stephenson, 12 ra Hardin, 12; W. 0. Youngblood, 14; G j. McNeel, 13; E. M. Berry, 13; R. W Phitesides, 11; J. H. Hood, 11; R. A. Black 1; John Cairnes, 11; 8. S. Smith, 11; J I. Huffstetler, 9; J. N. Roberts, 9; W. M Inloe, 8; G. L. Riddle, 6; H. C. Harris, 5 . A. Brown, 4; Alfred S. Wallace, 7 ; Dr '. A. Hill, 5; W. J. Jackson, 5; H. J. Alii >n, 4. Total, 881. DRAWING OF PETIT JURORS. On Monday last, the petit jurors were draw] >r the ensuing term of the Circuit Court fo 'ork county, which commences its sitting oi le third Monday of this month. The jurj composed of twenty-one whites and fifteei egroes. The following ia the list: Whiles.?J. R. Bolevn, L. P. Blankenship V. A. Barnett, S. L. Adams, Wm. Choat ohn D. Cornwell, W. G. Reid, Capt. Jame ackson, R. H. Fullwood, J. H. Dickson amuel Anderson, B. H. Massey, Thomas P Phisonant, J. F. Carothers, D. D. A. Belk W. "Workman, William E. Campbell, fi >. Stowe, J. Ed. Jefferys, James J. Moore, J U Bigger. Negroes.?Jacob Hiney, Andy Mills, Do lird, Ned Lindsay, Donald Beasley, Wad* ruy, Nathan Springs, John H. Ellis, Ab* hoat, Frank Edwarde, Tom Hart, Lewi liles, James Brian, Henry Massey, Ison ^oddy. SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. Tuesday, February 27, 1879. In the Senate, a bill to relieve the Stat* f all liability for the guarantee of the bond* f the Blue Ridge Railroad Company bj roviding for the securing and destructioi f the same, was passed by a vote of ayes 21 ays, 5. A message was received from the Gcrver or announcing that he had approved the fol iwing acts: An act to provide for the speedj pportionment of the State appropriations lade for the support and maintenance of th< ee common schools; an act to authorize liens to hold property; an act to require th< >unty commissioners to remove imbeciles ora the Lunatic Asylum to their respectivs juntv Door houses. A kouse concurrent resolution that th< reneral Assembly do adjourn sine die or larch 7th, was adopted. In the House, a Dill to provide for a gen al license law was taken up, and a motioi iade to postpone the consideration of th< irae until to-morrow, caused debate as U urryiug through with such an importan latter. The bill was made the special ordei ir Wednesday at 1 P. M. A bill legalizing certain marriages, and foi ;her purposes, was passed to a third reading Wednesday, February 28,1872. In the Senate, a bill to provide for gene il and special elections, and the manner o >nducting the same, was made the specia *der for 1. p. ra. Thursday. A bill for the relief of the widows and or bans of people killed by the ku-klux, wa jferred to the Judiciary Committee. A House bill conferring upon the count} )ramissioner8 certain powers in relation t< le license and sale of spirituous liquors wa assed to a third reading. In the House, Mr. Frost, from the Com littee on Education, reported a bill to pro ide for the establishment of a school in th< tate Penitentiary, which was ordered to li< rer. The Committee on Ways and Means re orted a joint resolution authorizing the Stab .uditor to levy a tax of eight mills on th< ollar for State purposes, and the Count] .uditors a tax of three mills on the dollai >r county purposes, which was ordered t< e over. Mr. C. D. Hayne introduced a resolutioi hich was adopted, that the Clerk of th< [ouse be authorized to prepare a manuscrip (urual of each session of the General Assem ly, to be deposited in the office of the Secre -fOi.l. . iL. nn?l iry UI OUtlU , UIC CUILipcuoauun ui cam nun ) be the same as allowed to clerks of court >r copying. A Senate bill to repeal an act to create i ebt of the State of South Carolina, to b nown as the sterling funded debt, was passe< ) a third reading. A bill to provide for a general license lav as put upon its second reading. Debat >llowed on amendments, when Mr. Hunte: loved to lay the whole matter on the table hich was agreed to by a vote of yeas, 64 ays, 16. Joint resolution authorizing the school com lissioner of Union couuty to approve certaii laims of teachers, was passed and orderec > be sent to the Senate. A bill to regulate the use of scales, weight iid measures within the State, was taken up id after debate, the enacting clause wai ricken out. Thursday, February 29, 1872. In the Senate, Mr. Wimbush introduced resolution, which was adopted, that tb< ergeant-at-arras be instructed to prohibii nokine in the Senate chamber at all time nd under all circumstances. Mr. Whittemore, from the Judiciary Com littee, reported unfavorably on a bill to reg late the issuing of checks by planters tp em Ioyees, as in the opinion of the committee, il 'ould not meet the objects intended, and was esides, unconstitutional. A substitute wai sported. Ordered to lie over. A bill to provide for general and specia lections, and the manner of conducting th< * * J.i >? J _ A?ir inie, was largely amenaea anu me nut hanged, so as to make it a bill to amend ai ct providing for general and special elections nd the manner of conducting the same, anc assed to a third reading. In the House, the following joint resolu on was introduced, proposing an amendmen ) the Constitution of the State, prohibitinj n increase of the public debt without a voti f the people, to be submitted to them at th< ext general election: "To the end that the public debt may not here Pter be increased, without the due consideratioi rid free consent of the people of the State, tin eneral Assembly is hereby forbidden to creatay further dent or obligation, either by the loai f the credit of the State, by guarantee, endorse lent or otherwise, except for the purpose o leetingits existing obligations, or in and for thi rdinary and current business of the State, with ut first submitting the creation of any such nev ebt, guarantee, endorsement or loan of its credi > the people of the State at a general State elec on; and unless two-thirds of the qualified voter r the State vote on the question who shall be ii ivorofa further debt, guarantee, endorsement o >an of its credit, none such shall bo created o lade." On a bill to protect travelers on railway ura thorn wan a loner Hi.aAiin.ainn rnsnltincr ii le whole matter being laid on the table. A bill to provide for the estabHshmeqt qf i ihool in the State Penitentiary was taken uj nd passed to a third reading. Frjpav, March 1,1872. In the Senate, Mr. Whittemore, from thi omraittee on Engrossed Bills, reported th< illowing: A bill conferring upon count) r I commissioners certain powers in relation to f the liceuse and sale of intoxicating liquors ; 1 a bill authorizing and requiring county treas^ urers to receive jurors' and witnesses' tickets for taxes; a bill to amend the act providing 1 for general elections and the manner of con1 ducting the same. In the House, a bill compelling represent tatives to reside in the county from which they j were elected, was read a second time and ordered to be engrossed. At the evening session, the tax bill was '? taken up. In relation to it the Union says: "The tax bill was taken up at a quarter to eievI en, and debate immediately followed on an amend' ment to make the tax ten mills instead of eight. ' This was voted down, and an effort made to make *" ^ 1 ^to \f r Dvoa i. it nine inniH* i^unug ? uuioj uci/?w * **? moved to strike out tbe enacting clause, which '* motion was indefinitely postponed. A motion to > postpone until to-morrow was lost, as also a mo.. tion to adjourn. And after this much fillibuster; ing was indulged in, pointing very significantly toward a certain other bill at the time of the der bate. The resolution traveled through the vari. ous motions to mako it the special order for a stated time, until it came around to the Chairman J of the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. Hur? ley being second on that Committee, tbe chairman being absent, spoke against the measure, stating that there was not power enough to bring the money out of the pockets of the people, under the resolution as it is now prepared. Saturday, March 2, 1872. ? In the Senate, Mr. Whitteraore, from the Committee on tbe Judiciary, reported unfa" vorablv on a bill to provide for the pensioning of widows of persons killed by ku-klux. A bill conferring upon the county Commissioners certain powers in relation to the li3 cense and sale of intoxicating liquors, was r passed and ordered to be enrolled for ratifica2 tion. j A bill to amend an act providing for the 1 general elections and the manner of conducting the same, was passed and sent to the House for concurrence in Senate amendment. '? The Governur sent in a message vetoing tbe ? bill to relieve the State from liability on ac8 count of the guarantee of the Blue Ridge >> Railroad bonds. The bill was taken up and passed over the veto by a vote of 22 to 6.' ;? The following is the vote: Ayes?Allen, Arnim, Barber, Bieman, Beck. man, Clinton, Duncan, Gaillard, Hays, Hayne, Hollinshead, Johnstone, Leslie, Maxwell, Mclntyre, Nash, Owens, Rose, Smalls, Swails, Wbit1 temore, Wimbush. > Nays?Cardozo, Dickson, Duvall, Holcombe, B Montjgomery and Wilson. In the House, a message was received , from the Governor vetoing the Blue Ridge 1 t*_?i j l:ii tl. i.:ii rvauroau uiu. jluc um v?ao j/ooocu wet tuv veto by a vote of ayes, 84 ; nays, 18. A bill to provide for a general license law was taken from the table, largely amended and ordered to be engrossed. 3 Monday, March 4; 1872. j In the Senate, the proceedings present . nothing of special public interest. ' In the House, a message was received from the Governor stating that he had approved a joint resolution to relieve the late County Treasurer of York, E. M. Rose, and 7 his bondsmen ; and an act to grant, renew and 1 amend the charter of the village of Rock ; Hill. J THE COTTON OUTLOOK. 3 english views op consumption and the 3 course of prices. s Under date of January 31, Messrs. Smith, I" Edwards & Co., of Liverpool, write: The Manchester market during the past month has responded far more freely to the " advance in cotton than could have been exi pected. At the end of December it was de) cidedly dull, but as soon as our market was t fairly started it joined in the race, and quite r as sanguine a tone sprang up there as here. Very heavy contracts were given out for yarn , about the middle of the month, at prices equal to the advance in cotton, and since then the activity has been well sustained, and yarn generally has.gained for the month as much as the raw material. Cloth has followed " much more slowly, still a considerable busi[ ness has been done in it as well, and no stocks of any magnitude have beeu allowed tto accumulate ; but the position of manufacturers is very bad. In the great Eastern depart3 nentthfi margin now existing between cotton and cloth, and still more between yarn and 7 cloth, is simply ruinous. So long as prices 3 keep advancing the pinch is not felt, as pro3 ducers are selling cloth made out of material purchased at a cheaper price, but when a falling market occurs, and cloth made out of " dear cotton has to be forced off, it is easy to 3 see that disasters must follow. J We believe that the present strength of Manchester is in a great degree delusive, the business doing is highly speculative, and based 3 upon the opinion that a cotton famine is in 3 store for us, which will curtail production and 7 so enable the present high-priced cloth to be r moved off in foreign markets before the col3 lapse occurs. We expect a different feeling will prevail when it is found that no curtail1 ment of production need be expected, because 3 there is cotton enough to keep every spindle in Europe running full time throughout the year. While it is also realized that the contracts now entered into cannot be fairly closed L by the sale of the goods abroad until the pros3 pects of the next American crop are affecting the markets of the world, we expect a great 1 change from the present buoyant tone of 3 Manchester. The home trade continues to be * its chief support; it is still very active and sound, in consequence ol the prosperity 01 the F country, but the news from the East is anyB thing but encouraging. A feeble response has r taken place in India and China to the great > rise here, but prices keep quite below our level, ' and large stocks exist in all the great Eastern markets. The position of fine spinners keeps " very good, and, therefore, we consider Egyp| tian cotton in a strong position. * Attention has been specially called of late to the great consumption of cotton, and the * continued large deliveries to the trade have ? given rise to very extreme ideas of the con3 suraing capacity of the country. Certainly the buying of the trade for the last two or three months has been astonishingly large. For twelve weeks their takings from this port I have averaged 78,000 bales per week. Of 3 this business it must be remembered that an t unusually large proportion consists of small 3 Brazil bales, say 16,000 bales per week ; allowing for that, howeyer, we believe that * spinners have added to their stocks in that time 150,000 bales, and as they wprp wpjl * stocked before, they probably hold no\y a? t large a quantity of cotton as they ever di4 iq > the Jiistory of the trade. 3 The actual consumption at the present time we would put at about 64,000 bales per week, 1 equal in bulk to 60,000 bales of the average 3 weight of last year. The consumption of the 3 Kingdom in 1871 was estimated at 60,000 1 bales per week, of 388 pounds weight. We ? put the increase of machine power for the 1 year over last at five per cent, and were cotton equally cheap we would expect a similar ' increase of consumption, but it is well known t that many spinners are raising their counts 5 of yarn considerably. This process always 2 takes place when cotton is dear, and has a 3 more important effect than is generally known in limiting consumption. We do not believe that the actual use of cotton will be greater a this year than last, if the present scale of prie ces contiues. At periods of inflation like ) present the rate of consumption is always e$: j aggerated, and when the subsequent reaction 3! somes, the trade holds off so long that opinion - j veers round in a surprising manner. We be[ lieve that our spinners hardly ever held a -1 greater stake in cotton than they do now, for 3 j they own a large proportion of the amount J afloat and on shipboard, and their views are r correspondingly sanguine, previous experi\ ence has oftep shown that this is a dangerous J basis for the market to rest upon, and conclui sions as to consumption made at such a time ! are often fallacious. An agitation is now go\ j }pg op arpong the operatives to re<l?ce fh? ) I time of labor to fifty-four hours per week | at j present they work rather under sixty. Should I this succeed, it will materially reduce con| sumption. e | Tfie prospects of our market at present are 3: viewed by the public almost entirely through r! the medium of the American crop. Public