Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Scraps aufl gMta. The best champagne in the market is said to be made out of tomatoes. North Georgia anticipates the largest wheat crop ever raised in that section. The average depth of the Atlantic ocean is three miles; that of the Pacific four. Over one hundred ladies are studying law in the United States. General Joseph E. Johnston is to be made President of the Georgia Military Institute. Horse raisers say that a few carrots r.1 r?rToJltr in a linraA will r<?nrler his pnat guvu ua;?jf w M hvaww tt-? <??- ..? ~ beautiful, sleek and glossy. Vice-President Colfax says that the ppiest days of life were when he was a prin.cT. Josh Billings says very truly, "You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so." Arizona Territory does not owe a dollar, and has $3,313 in the Treasury. The most of the counties in the Territory, it is said, are almost free from indebtedness. A Detroit wife sold the family cook stove to pay the fine and release of her husband, who had been sent to jail for brutally beating her. The cost of all the railroads in the world, according to the Richmond Enquirer, has been about $12,000,000,000, averaging $96,000 per mile. The average cost in Europe is $155,000, in this country $50,000. In Massachusetts it is said the passage of a law is contemplated prohibiting people from sneezing, without taking out a license. The Bill is a satire on the penchant of the Massachusetts Legislature for regulating everything. The town of Londonderry, N. H., holds its charter on condition of giving the Governor a peck of potatoes every year, and pays the penalty of its corporal existence regularly. It is an old custom, derived from the mother country. General S. Cooper, who resigned the Adjutant-Generalship of the United States army to join the Confederate army in our late civil war, is now living in want in Vircinia at the age of seventy years. A proposal has l>een made to raise a fund for his relief. Dispatches from Memphis state that people from below that poiat report a hail storm on Friday last, the heaviest ever known. Lumps of hail fell from the clouds nearly half a pound in weight, and thousands of birds were killed in the forests. About one lake 300 killed and crippled birds were picked up. A life-time convict in the Indiana State prison, by the name of Karver, received word that his wife had procured a divorce and was about to wed another. He was so dejected over the news, that he procured a piece of rope and hung himself in his cell, but was discovered and cut down before life was extinct. Many persons who wear reading-glasses are sorely annoyed at the difficulty of keeping them in their proper position on the nose. To all such it will be interesting to learn that a young optician of New York has devised a very ingenious expedient by which that end can be accomplished. It consists simply in rubbing the bridge of the nose with beeswax. The Jacksonville (Florida) Union gets off this religious joke on one of its colored * mi _ j Dretnren wno attempts to pray, ine goou colored deacon was praying for the recovery of a sick sister, and ended this way: "Oh ! Lord, help her. Oh! Lord, make her well. Oh! Lord, if you can't make her well, then, Oh! Lord, help her grin and bear it." The Berlin correspondent of the London Times gives an interesting sketch of the enorm ous arm am en ts of the con tinen tal powers. Germany has at her immediate disposal 1,000,000 men ; the French array will be raised to 630,000, and in 12 years will be doubled. Austria has more than 600,000 men immediately available; and in a few years the Russian army will number 1,600,000 men. The correspondent mentions, incidently, that the "entire loss of Germany in the campaign has been lately ascertained as something like 180, 000 men, rather more than one-half of whom are invalided." A man at Maiden, Mass., has been detected in sending abroad circulars offering to send a book, the price of which was only eightyfive cents, yet so multitudinous were its good qualities that a description of them would be impossible in tbe limit allowed in the circular. In rather clumsy sentences its virtues were portrayed, however, in a manner calculated to excite the curiosity of all who read the circular; the style of which was very similar to that used by the secret vendors of obscene literature. The book turned out to be a fifteen cent edition of the New Testament, so that if the man's customers were not much benefitted, the public morals were not so badly damaged as was suspected. TheScranton (Penn.) Times has an account of a great excitement among the Knights of Pythias of that place. A nice-looking person, young and genteel, came to Scranton a few months ago, giving the name of Francis Williams. He became acquainted at the boarding house with several members of the Kuights of Pythias Lodge, and finally expressed his desire to join. He was proposed, went through the usual routine, was elected, received the Page's degree, made a favorable impression, advanced to the second degree, and was duly prepared for the third or Knight's degree, but in a certain part of the work an accident disclosed to all the officers and members present that they had been initiating and giving the degrees of the order to a woman ! The members were startled and nonplussed, and for a long while silence reigned. No one knew what to do. It was finally agreed that she should be kept under supervision until the Worthy Grand Chancellor be heard from. New Yorkers have suddenly lost their appetite for veal in consequence of the discovery that a Brooklyn butcher had slaughtered a number of inoculated calves, which he intended to sell in the markets, but was prevented by the health officers. It appears that a French Dhvsician had inoculated the calves ----- l * y < # with the genuine cow pox, and in this manner had been able to get a large amount of vaccine virus, which he sold and also exported. The doctor thought the calves were just as goood, if not a little better, after being inoculated and recovering from effects. It tended to purify them." The same thing had been done in France for years, he said. The Frenchmen ate the veal, and not a Frenchmen had vet been poisoned. The New York World, too, which is nothing if not scientific, endeavors to allay the terrors of the veal eaters by the information that the virus of the small pox even may be swallowed with perfect impunity. Notwithstanding these assurances, "vaccinated veal" is not likely to become a popular dish. The New York Tribune thus groups the Grant pillars in the South: "The Soutnern Governors who advocate the re-nomination of President Grant, and declare the South in danger unless re-elected, do not make an impressive showing, considered as a whole. Governor Davis of Texas is under indictment for fraudulent issue 01 election ceruncaies, ana leads the Grant wing in this State; Governor Reed of Florida, unaer impeachment for misdemeanors, protests the need of a renoraination ; Governor Clayton of Arkansas, under grievous charge of fraud, avows a strong predilection for renomination; Governor Bullock forsook his office to save himself from impeachment, and now demands renomination ; Governor Scott of South Carolina, who has ruined the finances of the State, and saved himsell from the consequences by iniquitous tampering with the Legislature, sends up a vehement endorsement of the renomination; while Governor JJolden of North Carolina, who alone faced impeachment and fell, declares the renomination of Grant essential to the welfare of the country/' A Frenchman, wfiting to a Paris paper, gives an account of his sensations while hang | ing himself, which may be of benefit to persons of a suicidal turn of mind, and who would j like to know "what the thing is like." As if j preparing to hang up his coat, he drove a | nail into the wall, and therefrom suspended ' himself by a loop cord, which he fastened about his neck, and then slowly kicked away 1 his chair. From the crown of his head to | the soles of his feet he felt a "general mixing i up of the fluids of the body." This was sucj ceeded by a flashing, dancing light before his | eyes, and then concentrated at a single focus, J and thence rippled into space in concentric j circles. His head seemed compressed in an I iron ring; needles without number seemed to j dart from the ends of his fingers and toes; then there was a terrible snapping at the nape I of his neck, and a serpent seemed to wriggle I J L: :? tj:? : UOWL1 I11B spiue. .Liia mat ocuaanuu nao um. ui pain at the throat and shoulder-blades. He had expected to wake up and find himself dead, but kind?or unkind?friends cut him down. Ibt fothviUc Chquim. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 21,1872. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers 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 CAROLINA NARROW GUAGE RAILROAD. From a communication in the Carolina Eagle we learn that a charter has been granted by the North Carolina Legislature for the above-named road, which is to begin 81 a point on the State line in the direction of Yorkville, and run thence to Dallf^, Lincolnton, Newton, Hickory Tavern aud Lenoir. The bill names J. C. Lewis, of Gaston, J. C. Cobb, of Lincolnton, O. G.Foard of Newton, and J. R. Ellis, of Hickory Tavern, and authorizes them to appoint persons to open books for subscription and appoint times for doing so. Itgivesthe county commissioners, in the several counties, power to submit questions of county subscription to the voters of their respective counties, at any time they see proper; the subscriptions not to exceed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars in any one county; 1 ???Jf ilia,, boxtq nr>t toV,?n iViftt, auu |)IC8t;ilUC3 IX IU?1V uvv < ?_? - means of ascertaining the will of the people in regard to subscription previous to the regular election in August next, that they shall do so then; and empowers them to submit srch questions repeatedly, if the sura of subscriptions does not amount to two hundred thousand dollars. This is the first intimation we have seen in print of this project; but that it is feasible there can be no doubt, and we are equally certain York county will do her part in consummating the enterprise. We shall have more to say upon the subject, when it comes up for discussion. ? ADJOURNMENT OF THE LEGISLATURE. Much to the relief of the tax-payers, the Legislature adjourned on Wednesday night of last week at 12 o'clock, not, however, before adopting a joint resolution conferring upon the presiding officers the power to call the body together at any time upon a petition of a majority of the members. The session just closed embraced about one hundred and twenty days, during which time about two hundred aud forty acts and joint resolutions were passed, three-fourths of which were acts of incorporation, and of but little public important nt n oinorlp measure has been adoDt ",,vv' "v" " ??13 i ed calculated to relieve our people of the heavy burdens under which they groan, but the purpose of the majority seems to have been to hatch up new schemes for oppression and robbery. Some of the measures adopted for this purpose were so transparent and unblushing, that a number of the members of the Radical party became appalled, and refused their support, even under the party lash, to such schemes as the "Validating Act," the "Settlement bill," and the bill to relieve the State of its liability for the Blue Ridge Railroad bonds. Although the taxes for the last year have been only recently collected, the Treasurer asserts that the State is without money, and paid the members of the Legislature and the attaches, with orders on the several County Treasurers of the State. For the next year ' X 1?.?? ?n nn nwAno/lnnf A/1 in + 1Q me Uli. ICVJ' 18 uupcwucunu m m.w outside of the license tax, footing up not less .than twenty mills on the dollar, distributed as follows: For State purposes, 8 mills; for county purposes, 3 mills; for interest on the public debt, 6 mills; Blue Ridge Railroad, 3 mills. The Columbia Union, the organ of the Republican party in this State, in noticing the adjournment of the Legislature, says: "The members now go home to their constituents, where, we trust, for the good of the State and the party, many of them will be allowed to remain. Wesley once said, that "Many a good farmer, or mechanic, had been spoiled to make a poor preacher." There is but little doubt in the minds of many who have witnessed the remarkable gyrations of some of the members of the General Assembly, that many a good harlequin has been spoiled to make a very poor legislator. We have this to say to the Republican party of this State: If there is not a change for the better in the next Legislatare, then God help the State. We intend, that so far as we are concerned, no effort will be spared on our part to secure this change. Let the people look to the matter at once." ? * DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN UNION. The town of Union was visited by a terrible fire, which was first discovered at 4 o'clock on Friday morning last, destroying nearly the whole of the two principal blocks of 1 "* *? _ ?i. x j : i..: DUUUlUgS Oil iViain Street, auu luvuiviug a juou of at least $40,000. By the courtesy of Mr. R. M. Stokes, editor of the Times, we are enabled to give the following particulars of the conflagration: The two large hotels, on the east side of Main street, with nearly all the furniture and effects of the occupants, were destroyed. On the west side, the corner store belonging to Col. J. L. Young, the two stores belonging to H. L. Goss, the store belonging to Mrs. Lamb, and the store belonging to A. H. Foster, with several wooden tenements in the rear ' of H. L. Goss' store, were destroyed. The Times office was in the upper story of Mrs. Lamb's building, and was entirely lost, not a type being saved. The sufferers by the calamity are Colonel 1 Young, loss of building; Wm. Eller,stock of ' goods, insured; Reuben Sims, stock of groce ries, no insurance; Gibbs & Thomson, drug-1 gists, insured; R. M. Stokes, printing material | of the Times office, no insurance; Capt. Fos' I ter, stock of goods, some of which were saved, I insured; Dr. W. C. Bennett, dental instru j ments; Gen. J. F. Gist, furniture; A. W. j Thomson & Co., loss slight; Palmer, Rogers , & McKissick, owners of the National Hotel, i and Holman Thomson, lessee, no insurance on either the buildingor the furniture, loss heavy; | James Robinson, sadler, no insurance; Dr. J. A. Moore, surgical instruments and medicines, no insurance ; R. W. Tinslcy, jeweler, loss slight; P. Malloy, dry goods and groceries, partially insured ; B. D. Culp, proprietor of Central Hotel, insured; Joseph Crawford, lessee, furniture and fixtures, loss heavy. Mr. Stokes writes that he cannot speak too highly of Capt&in French and his men ; Lieutenant McDougal and the men under his command ; and Dr. Ruger. He says : "I have never seen men work more bravely and earnestly ; and although their conduct previously had commanded the respect and esteem of our citizens, their noble behaviour on this occasion has placed us under a debt of gratitude to them that will never be forgotten. The large store of J. T. Hill & Co. was saved by a small force pump and hose which cost only fiftv rlnllnre hnildino1 caught on fire. ""V " O o and was also endangered by the heat of the burning buildings, but was saved by this cheap and efficient means. The origin of the fire is involved in mystery, public opinion being divided as to whether it was accidental or the work of an incendiary." We are pleased to learn from Mr. Stokes that he will immediately purchase materials for his office, and that he hopes to resume the publication of the Times by the 29th instant. AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY. All of our readers may not be aware of the fact that there exists in the United States a society bearing the above title. Such is the fact. The society was organized on the first of January, 1817, and incorporated March 22,1837. Who suggested the necessity of such an organization, we are not able at present to say; but if we are not mistaken, the Constitution of the Society was drawn up by the Rev. Alexander McLeod, D. I)., a distinguished divine in connection with the Reformed Presbyterian or Covenanting Church. The object of the Society is plainly stated in Article 2nd of the constitution. "The object to which its (the society's) attention is to be exclusively directed is, to promote and execute a plan for colonizing, with their own consent, in Africa, people of color residing in the United States." From the African Repository, the organ of the Colonization Society, some very interesting facts may be gleaned. We might mention the fact that the Society has settled comfortably, the Repository affirms, 13,598 persons in Liberia. Of this number 1230 were from South Carolina; 1980 from Georgia ; 1693 from North Carolina and 3,739 from Virginia. At present there are three thousand applicants. Nearly all these applicants reside in the different southern States. In the I Repository, the accredited organ of the American Colonization Society, we discover none of that bitterness of feeling toward the South which characterizes many sectional publication. In fact, from the list of officers and Directors of the Society we are forced to conclude that the Society has a solid base. Many of the first men of the continent, in point of morals and learning, are among its leading spirits. Below we append the offer that is made to those who may desire to immigrate: The American Colonization Society expects to dispatch an expedition for Liberia on the 1st of May and the 1st of November, 1872. To industrious and worthy people of color, the Society will give passage and subsistenceon the voyage?made in about forty days?and support for the first six months after landing. Single adult persons get ten acres, and families twenty-five acres of Jand. These are all gifts?never to be repaid. Tnose wishing to remove to Liberia should make application, addressed to Rev. William McLain, D. D., Financial Secretary, or to William Coppinger, Corresponding Secretary of the American Colonization Society, Washington, D. C. Liberia, the locality in which the American Colonization Society proposes to settle any colored people of the United States who may desire to remove, is situated on the western coast of Africa between upper Guinea and Senegarabia. It is about six degrees north of the equator. Monrovia is the capital. The government, which is a republic similar to that of the United States, was organized in 1822. In the southern part of Senegambia near Liberia, is Free Town, the capital of Sierra Leone, a British colony, established as a home for free blacks. The government of Sierra Leone is said to be in a very bad condition. STATE "iTEMS. ? Win. Brice died in Fairfield county, on the 9th instant, in his eightieth year. ? Fruit trees are in bloom at Columbia and Aiken. ? About ninety students are on the roll of the South Carolina University. ? The National Bank of Greenville has commenced operations. ? John Alexander, Esq., has been re-nominated as the Republican candidate for Mayor of Columbia. ? Eva, a daughter of Rev. John W. Kelly, of the S. C. Conference, died at Marion on the 8th instant. ? A Division of the Sons of Temperance I i?i ? A was urgamzeu ui m uiiabuu, auucmuu tuuuij, last week. ? The Lancaster Ledger reports the farmers unusually busy preparing for the next crop. ? In Marlboro' county, but two tracts of j land were sold for the non-payment of taxes for 1871. ? A Georgia paper says: "Ex-Governor Bonham, of South Carolina, is making preparations to leave his native State and move to Atlanta." ? It is rumored that in consequence of the supposed insecurity of the jail at Union, the United States prisoners confined there are to be removed to Charleston. ? Treasurer Parker and Financial Agent Kimpton, on Friday last, left Columbia for New York. The Phoenix suggests that State bonds and the validating act are the cause. ? Gen. C. L. Anderson, of Columbia, is an applicant for the office of Collector of Internal Revenue, made vacant by the appointment of R. M. Wallace, Esq., to the United States Marshalship. ? Books have been opened in Columbia for subscriptions to the capital stock of the Raleigh, Columbia and Augusta Air-Line Railroad, chartered at the recent session of the Legislature. ?John Simpson, white, an employ^ of the /~11-?rvl.innVvio on/1 Aiimietfl. Ttnilrnarl. VvIlttliUHC, vuiuiuuiu uuu , was stabbed by William Lucas, colored, in Columbia on Saturday night last) from the effects of which death ensued in a few minutes. Lucas was arrested and lodged in jail. ? R. M. Wallace, Esq., recently appointed I United States Marshal, on the 13th instant, ! filed his official bond for $20,000 in the Uni! ted States District Court. He will immediately enter upon the discharge of his official J duties. j ?The Union Times of last week announces , the arrest of the following persons in that county, charged with being ku-klux: D. F. I Mosely, S. J. Mosely, Frank Coleman, Harper Floyd, Ben. Scott, Ira Willard, white; Alfred Keenan and W. Nichols, colored. ? Jerry T. Walker, of Chester, charged with being a member of the ku-klux klan, I and who left his home during the time of the ! stampede last fall, was arrested in Columbia ' on Friday last. In default of three thousand 1 dollars bail he was committed for trial. ? The Charleston Missionary Record, which is edited by Parson Cain, says the contest for the Gubernatorial nomination "will doubtless ! be between R. K. Scott, F. J. Moses, J. L.! Orr, Reuben Tomlinson, Judge Saml. W. Mel-1 ton, Attorney-General D. H. Chamberlain, j D. T. Corbin or J. L. Neagle." ? In Columbia, on Thursday last, six million dollars of the sterling loan bonds of the State of South Carolina were canceled in the nrMPnw? nf a inint. nnmmittpp. of thfi T^eon'sla ture and a number of citizens. An act passed j at the recent session of the legislature direct- j ed the cancellation of these bonds. ? At a recent meeting of the stockholders j of the Spartanburg and Union Railroad Com- j pany, John J. Patterson was elected President, F. S. Jacobs Secretary and Treasurer, and H. G. Worthington, N. G. Parker, Hardy Solomon, C. D. Melton and Thomas Steers, Directors. ? James Wall, D. C. McLure, John Cantwell, A. P. Clement and Dillard Cantwell, i convicted at the late term of the United States Circuit Court of being ku-klux, and sentenced to three months imprisonment, have been removed from Charleston to Spartanburg, where they will serve out the remainder i of their term. Their sentences expire on the 12th of next month. ? The Columbia Carolinian says: "We deem it but an act of justice to say that during the present session there has been a minority in both branches of the Legislature, consisting of the Conservative members and a few Liberal Republicans, who have steadily and persistently sought to arrest corrupt legislation. These men are known by their re corded votes and protests. They deserve wen of the State." ? The Chester Reporter of last week, says: "The troop of Cavalry at this place moved out on Tuesday night about 11 o'clock on the Pinckney road toward Broad river. They have not returned at the time of going to press. We learn that during the night they made prisoners of Mr. T. M. Sanders, Mr. James Darby and Mr. Thomas A. Anderson, and carried them along on the expedition. We are not informed of the charges against these gentlemen." ? The Columbia Phanix, of Tuesday, says : "Mr. R. C. M. Alexander, of Chester, and Mr. Boag, of Winnsboro, appeared before ! United States Commissioner Boozer, yesterday, to answer to cha-ges of a violation of the ' revenue laws for selling tobacco in an un- ' stamped condition, and contrary to the 71st and 78th Sections of the Act of Congress, of 20th July, 1868. The former was bailed in 1 the sum of $300, to appear at the next Cirj cuit Court The hearing in the case of the I latter was continued until to-day, at 9 A. M." ; PBOCEEDINGS*OP CONGRESS. On Tuesday, the 12th, the Senate was en- ' gaged on the executive appropriation bill, and \ the amendment discontinuing the publication 1 of the laws in newspapers, which was pronounced a paying of subsidy to sickly newspapers, was voted down ; though it was pro- ! vided that the practice should not continue beyond the present Congress. A bill was passed granting lands to a Florida railroad. The proceedings in the House were not of general interest. On Wednesday, the Senate passed a bill ex- ' tending to aliens the benefit of the acts pro- j viding for the removal of causes in certain j cases from the State courts. A House bill authorizing the survey and marking the bound* ' o*i'm Kpfroppn t.he tprritnrv nf thfi United ? J ? _? States and the British possessions from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, 1 and appropriating $50,000 for that purpose, ! was passed. In the House, a bill was passed ' preventing the enlistment of minora in the 1 military service. In the Senate, on Thursday, the judicial ' appropriation bill was amended by fixing the ' salaries of district judges and judges of the . court of claims at $5000 per annum, and the J foremen of printing and binding in the govi ernment printing office at $2100. The bill ' then passed. The tariff bill was read a sec- j ond time. In the House, a bill was passed to reimburse Kansas $337,054.38 expended in 1 raising troops during the war. The Senate, on Friday, after hearing a personal explanation from Mr. Trumbull, adjourned until Monday. The proceedings of the House were unimportant In the Senate, on Monday, a resolution of inquiry, regarding Senatorial interference in appointments and removals, was adopted. In the House the supplemental civil rights bill was taken up, but postponed to Monday, the 25th. ! NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A Raleigh sportsman boasts of having 1 shot 258 robins in one day. ? A couple of inmates of the county jail of Wilmington were married a short time since. ? Work is soon to be commenced on the Masonic Temple at Raleigh. All the Lodges in the State contribute to its erection. ? Burwell Brown, a native of Wake coun ty, died a few days since at the advanced age of 105 years. ? The Southern Home learns that United States officials have recently made five seizures of illicit distilleries in Gaston county. ? The U. S. troops recently stationed in Rutherford and Cleveland counties, have been removed to Charlotte. ? A man in Anson county has found that the practice of selling cotton and hiring negroes to steal it back for him is attended with some danger of the law. ? A gang of counterfeiters, captured near Charlotte a week or too ago, with $5000 of spurious currency in their possession, have been committed to the Wake county jail. ? Five prisoners escaped from the Raleigh jail on Friday morning la3t, two of whom were of the counterfeiters recently arrested near Charlotte. ? The Democrats of Gaston county will hold a meeting in Dallas on the first Monday of April for the purpose of appointing delegates to the Democratic State convention to be held in Greensboro. ? There are now two Boards of Directors for each, the Penitentiary and the Deaf and 1 4 1 i J ? ^ UumD Asylum?one appoiniea oy me uuv ernor and the other by the Legislature, and a bitter wrangle will ensue in consequence. ? Major Hotchkiss, the railroad man, who inaugurated the excursion of northern editors through the South last summer, is now making arrangements for a similar excursion of southern editors to the North, to take place in June. ? In the Raleigh U. S. internal revenue j collection, district, there are 88 tobacco fac-1 tories in successful operation, and two whisky j distilleries, which, during the month of Feb-1 ruary, converted 1375 bushels of grain into ' 3345 gallons of whisky. ? The establishing of a tobacco warehouse , is an enterprise recently inaugurated in! Greensboro, which bids fair of success. Although in operation only two weeks, several thousand pounds of tobacco have found a market there, and a new stimulus has been 4 given the farmers of that section to bestow more attention to the cultivation of the weed. ^ ? While the company of U. S. soldiers, j heretofore stationed at Rutherfordton, were j crossing a bridge over the south fork of Ca- J1 tawba river, on their way to a new camp, j i one of the horses became unmanageable and jy jumped off the bridge into the stream, throw-, i ing hia rider off. The horse reached the 1 shore, but the soldier, weighted down with his 1 < accoutrements, was drowned. 1 ? Republican county conventions generally t declare in favor of Hon. Thomas Settle, of y Rockingham, as the candidate of that party i for Governor. Mr. Settle had been a life- \ long Democrat, served in the Confederate army, and was one of the largest slave holders in middle Carolina; but at the close of the war he "accepted the situation" and has ever since acted with the Republican party. J ? A correspondent of the New York Heraid, determined in his purpose to inter-j view the Lowrey gang, reached Scuffleton in safety, and is held by the Lowrey band as a prisoner. They permitted him to forward a message to bis wife on Saturday, which was telegraphed by the conductor on the W., C. and R. Railroad. Stephen Lowrey also telegraphed to the Herald that its correspondent was captured, but would not be hurt WASHINGTON ITEMS. ? General Longstreet has resigned the office of Surveyor of the port of New Orleans, on account of his disapproval of the administration policy in Louisiana. ? A memorial to the President and Congress, signed by more than five hundred apostate Mormon and Gentile ladies, against the admission of Utah as a State, has been forwarded to Washington. ?Ex-Attorney-General Stanberry has had j an interview with the present Attorney-General on the question of testing the constitu- j tionality of the Enforcement or Ku-Klux Act before the Supreme Court. He has pre- * pared a brief for that purpose in an appealed case from the United States District Court of South Carolina. ? It would seem that the Government claims i the whole of the road between Greensboro f and Richmond, instead of only that portion 1 nrmn<win? Orficnahoro and Danville, and t known as the Piedmont road, which was built during the war. Suit has been entered in the United States Circuit Court at Richmond, by direction of the Attorney-General, to foreclose the mortgage executed by the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, during the war, to the Confederate States, to secure $1,000,000, which, it is claimed, has reverted to the United States. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Massachusetts Philanthropy. A novel instance of compulsory philanthropy has come to light in Boston. The superintendent of the Institution for the Blind, In that city, has been in the habit of plunging the boys every morning, as soon as they arose from bed, into an ice-cold bath.- Many physicians protested ; but as the society for the protection of dumb animals did not recognize the case as being properly under its jurisdiction, the worthy superintendent persisted in bis humane method of sanitary treatment, so much to the inconvenience of the pupils that some have ran away, others cried all night in anticipation of the morning's ordeal, and one bung himself, while all who remaiifed in the institution begged the trustees to change the system. But the scientific superintendent had bis own way, and every morning the poor 8 little sightless creatures were tortured to carry 8 DUt a theory. The superintendent never took c these baths, nor did any of the teachers. 8 Finally the mother of a blind boy rebelled. * 3he went to the papers and to the Legisla- 1 ture, and she made it altogether too hot for 4 it-- U ?Utlin inafilnfinn nlin ViftVfi ' UI1C UU1 uanauo ui 1110 iuouvunuui mwi? consented to graduate the water, but duck the boys, whether willing or not. Illuminating Oils. The dangers attending the use of the many illuminating oils before the public, under the most plausible and insinuating names; have been made manifest by a recent report of the New York fire department, in which it is shown that more than thirty deaths and one hundred and fifty fires occurred in that city during the past year from the use of coal oil which failed to come up to the legal standard of non-explosiveness. Had all this mischief been wrought in one single accident, the community would have stood aghast, and prompt redress would have been demanded at law. But it is refreshing to know that steps are being taken to prevent the sale of these dangerous oils. Over two hundred dealers in New York, were arrested last week, and summarily fined for dealing in adulterated oils. The loss of life and property everywhere by the use of explosive oils is one of the evils of the day. An important percentage of the premium paid on insurance is due to this cause, and thus the important question is brought home to the personal interests of those who do not themselves use illuminating oils, or who are careful to procure only standard qualities. The vending of dangerous and explosive oil is a serious offense, and . should be dealt with accordingly. 1 Death of a Jnror. The unusual occurrence of a juror dying during the pendency of the cause which he was engaged in trying, occurred in New York last week, the deceased being one of the jury on the trial of Mayor Hall. Mayor Hall is charged with malfeasance in office, and with being guilty of gross neglect in allowing the Tammany ring to carry on their system of fraud and rascality with the knowledge and under the protection of the municipal authorities. For the past two weeks the trial has been going on ; but the death of this juror will necessitate a rehearing of the whole case; and notwithstanding the large amount of testimony that has been introduced, all the -1 witnesses will have to be reexamined, and everything commenced anew. This is regarded as one of the most remarkable cases ever j before an American tribunal, and the ablest legal talent is engaged for the prosecution 1 and defense. A startling feature in the trial ( is the fact that Andrew Garvey, who received 1 such an enormous sum for plastering the new Court House of New York county, has unex- j pectedly appeared before the court and turnfid State's evidence, and confirming the charges made against the Tamany ring, though not specially criminating Mayor Hall, , whose offense seems to be in signing warrants I on the city treasurer for money, without fully ? and properly investigating the validity of the 1 claims. ! 46?" A Grand mass meeting of Gentiles was ' held at Salt Lake on last Sunday to protest to i Congress against the admission of Utah as a i State. It was resolved that two ladies be sent as a committee to Washington to work i against the scheme by revealing the inner life < of the Mormons, their policy, and designs. : Also that Mormons should not go to the polls i at the election on the constitution, as the mass ,< of the population being aliens or non-voters, i they would swamp the legal vote, and that i the fight should be made in Congress. I Correspondence of the Yorkrille Enquirer. PROM UNION COUNTY. THE SITUATION?JAME8 L. ORR FOR GOVERNOR. The Legislature has at last adjourned. The aw-makers will disperse, and enter at once on ;he duties of the summer campaign. They will leave Columbia well drilled, and armed md equipped as the Ring directs. The folowing are a few considerations that demand iarnest thought from every honest citizen of ;he State. Scott's Ring is stronger to-day ;han it was when the Legislature met in November. It has been reinforced by money ind united by secret political machinery which ;he party knows so well how to use. The nanagers are clear-headed politicians, whose ihrewdness is only equaled by their unscrupuOU8 knavery.. The party has a large majori;y, which leaves but little hope for the old Democrats to elect a single man to any State )ffice. Then the question is, shall we have Ring rule for the next two years; or, is there my hope of deliverance from the carpet-bag -ule that has cursed the State so utterly ? We are sometimes sanguine enough to think hat if we could elect an honest man with )rains, Governor at the next election, then the >eginning of the end of our political troubles vould be at hand. A man is required who inderstands and sympathises with the old secession citizens of the State, and who at the tame time acknowledges all the rights and jrivileges of the colored people; a man, who s capable of risiDg above the partisan, and icting in good faith toward every one; in fine, he man now needed U> control the affairs of State is James L. Orr. He can do more to conciliate the radicals in both parties than any nan in the State. If our financial condition s not hopeless, he could do more to restore the credit of the State than a thousand carpetjaggere. His election would gratify more roters of both colors than any other person. Te would be the Governor of the whole >eople. P. For the Yorkville Enquirer. THE POLITICAL SITUATION. Amid the existing political chaos in this State, there are, strange as it may seem, but 'ew suggestions emanating from any quarter, laving in view the amelioration of our now ,ruly deplorable condition. It is easy enough to paint in ugly colors the nanifold evils of Radical misrule?far easier ,han to suggest a remedy for them. The greater portion of the State press content hemselves with loud denunciations of the lominant party, devoting but little labor to he highly important and proportionately dificult task of ascertaining and applying a emedy for our present embarrassments. There have appeared, however, first in the tVmnsboro' New, and afterwards in the Coumbia Phaniz, articles setting forth the proiriety of taking some immediate action; and his, think the writers in these journals,should >e initiated and carried out mainly by the roung men of the State. This idea, novel as it is and far-fetched as t may seem to many, is worth a consideraion for the present and a fair test in the fuure. For many years past, age and expeience in State affairs have been accounted inlispensable to success in the political world. 3ut times have changed?vastly, terribly shanged?and we must change with them. There is one thing essential in any efforts nade to effect a change for the better in our iresent condition, and that is an acceptance, ull and in good faith, of all the laws enacted ince the war, as inevitable results of the war, md as acts of government is in all their parts le facto and de jure. This suggestion may eem superfluous at this late day; but to those vho have already pursued the course above j :* ??uu mViiln nnnn miUCU lb 10 ICWUUBUH] cuuugll) nuuu ujn/u hose who tenaciously cling to old ideas it ?nnot be too strongly impressed. This, natirally enough, is a somewhat difficult task to he older men of our State, and since it must >e done, we must look for laborers in a class >f men hampered by no such difficulty. This ilass is readily and naturally found in the roung men of the Slate. Arriving at maturity, many of them, during the time when all he great changes in our political system have >ccurred, they are better prepared than those rider to accept and fully realize these changes. To this element, anomalous as it may seem, ve must look for escape from our present roubles. Humiliating as it may appear to hose who have heretofore led the State in evsry movement, the time has come when they nust withdraw from the theatre of political ife and leave their parts to be played by hose younger, fresher, and more keenly alive o the stern necessities of the hour than themelves. If there is one thing against which, nore than against any other, the Radicals iave directed their constant attacks, it is the rid regime and those connected with it Howiver unjust these attacks, they will continue, ind if there can be put in the field an elenent not open to them, we may reasonably lope for partial success now, and something )etter hereafter. Manifestly this element can >e found among the young men of the State, j md among them ouly. An all-important task in the work of politcal reform, is a union of the whites with the jonservative blacks; and this, too, can best be nade through the agency of the young men. rhe prejudices of the blacks against their ormer masters have been greatly augmented Yrnatnak nnoala r\f fKn no 1 a an J J IUC AUAViOU a|/|AX?iQ V* vuv awiuivmih I uv nuch so, indeed, as to render it now almost Impossible to remove them. Against the foung men there is but little of this opposi;ion, and hence they may more easily convince the blacks of their sincerity, and more easily obtain their cooperation. It is not my object to suggest a full line of policy for the approaching or any subsequent campaign, but merely to offer a few general iuggestions, leaving the disoussion of the subect in its details to other and abler pens. The views contained in the foregoing may be summed up as follows: 1. We must accept fully and in good faith all existing laws. 2. We must unite with the conservative blacks and moderate Republicans in an effort to secure a good government 3. These can be and should be done by the young men. The first and second of these propositions seem self-evident: the third is novel indeed, but reasonable at once and practical. QUIVI8. Cotton Futures.?Cotton speculators are almost universally adopting the plan of "futures," that is, taking the chances on the rise ar fall of quotations one, two, three or more months in the future. This plan has the advantages over actual purchase to speculators, in that it is free from risk of loss oy fire or weight, baa no expenses of storage or drayage, and requires but a small margin. It often is mere betting on one's judgment, or guess as to whether cotton will rule higher or lower in any named month. The usual margin required is five dollars per bale, but arrange* meats can be made for a larger or smaller sum, the margin to be the full amount of the risk in any event, or the privilege reserved of adding to the amount and holding to the contract should prices vary sufficient to absorb the first five dollars per hale. If a planter ! should agree to sell his crop, deliverable in j November, at eighteen cents, and the price | should fall much below that figure, he would | make the amount of margin put up by the j buyer, less brokers' commission, but no more, i In the large majority of transactions for future delivery it is not expected that cotton | will be delivered or received. But in New York the cotton speculator's board or ring, : similar to the gold board, have a rule that cotton must be delivered or received, as the case may be, when so demanded by the other party, and a failure to comply forfeits the erivileges of the board. This rule of the oard offers, at times, the bulls or bears chances to corner the market. We are informed * " ' ' + QUA that tbe transactions iui 1UIU1U VWWU (lie now enormous in the aggregate, and if they should continue to increase in the future as they have for the past year, it will not be a very long time before five to ten times the number of bales actually produced will be fictitiously sold and bought in New York. Whether this speculating on futures will affect the bonafiaes ale of cotton advantageously or the reverse, is a question on which there is a wide difference of opinion. There are those who contend tbat it will insure a steadier market and prove greatly to the benefit of producer and spinner. Others argue that the market will be subject to the manipulation of the bulls or bears, who each labor to "corner" the other, and, consequently, quotations will always be uncertain.?Augusta Constitutionalist. ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. Tbe following are the captions of Acts and Joint Resolutions, passed at the recent session of the Legislature, which possess general interest to the public. The whole list embraces about two hundred and forty acts and joint resolutions, but the larger portion are acts of ^ incorportation and those possessing only a private or luoax interest; An act to make appropriation for the payment of the per diem and mileage of the members of the General Assembly, and the salaries of the subordinate officers, and other expenses incidental thereto. An act to more effectually provide for the recording of all conveyances of real estate. An act to regulate the granting of divorces. An act to empower the Judges of the Probate Court in their respective counties to issue executions. An act to regulate the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers in the State of South Carolina. An act to repeal an act to establish a Bureau of Agricultural Statistics for the encouragement of industrial enterprise, and to invite capital to South Carolina, for the development of the resources of the State. An act to make appropriation for the payment of the per diem of the members of the General Assembly, and the salaries of the subordinate officers and other expenses incidental thereto. (No. 2.) An act to repeal the act to provide for the appointment of a Land Commissioner and to define his powers and duties. An act to authorize clerks of Courts of Common Pleas, to take testimony in certain cases. An act to provide the manner for obtaining the right of way where lands are surrounded by other lands. An act to provide for the speedy apportionment of State appropriations made for the support and maintenance of free common schools. An act to require me couuiy uuluuiiooiuucio to remove imbeciles from the Lunatic Asylum to their respective county poor houses. An act to make appropriations for the payment of the per diem of the members of the General Assembly, and the salaries of the subordinate officers and other expenses incidental thereto. (No. 3.) An act to grant, renew and amend the charter of the village of Rock Hill, in the county of York. Joint resolution to relieve the County Treasurer of York county,- E. M. Rose, and his bondsmen. An act to provide for the appointment of an inspector of phosphates, and to declare his duties. An act to charter the Raleigh, Columbia and Augusta Air Line Railroad Company. Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State. An act to incorporate the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Ancient York Masons of the State, and the subordinate Lodges under their jurisdiction. An act to amend an act to secure advances for agricultural purposes. An act to amend an act providing for general elections, and the manner of conducting the same. An act to prevent certain officers from buying, discounting or shaving teachers' pay certificates, or other orders on school funds, or jurors' certificates. An act to incorporate the Traction Steam Engine Company, of the city of Columbia. An act for the better protection of useful animals. An act to empower fathers to legitimatize certain children by last will and testament Joint resolution to authorize the payment ofcommisioners and managers of elections at special elections during the year 1871. An act to amend an act providing for the assessment and taxation of property, passed September 15,1868, and all acts amendatory thereto. An act to repeal an act to create a debt of the State of South Carolina, to be known as the sterling funded debt, the same or proceeds thereof to be exclusively used in exchange for or in payment of the existing public debt of said State. An act to amend an act for the better protection of migratory fish. An act to abolish the office of State Auditor and confer the duties of his office upon the Comptroller-General. Joint resolution authorizing the county school commissioner of Union county to approve certain claims of teachers. An act to charter the Union Saving Bank,' of Columbia. An ?/*f fn innnrnnratA tVifl PpAnlp?' Sawinors Institution. An act to supply the deficiency in the appropriation for the support and maintenance of free common schools for the fiscal year ending October 31, 1871. An act to regulate the pay of the members of the General Assembly. An act to amend an act to provide for the construction and repair of public highways. An act to amend the law in relation to the license and -registration of pharmaceutists, apothecaries and druggists, and to regulate the vending of drugs and poisons. An act for the relief of the widows and orphans of persons killed because of their political opinions. An act to regulate the issuing of checks to laborers upon plantations or elsewhere. Joint resolution authorizing and directing the State Auditor and county commissioners to levy certain taxes. An act to make appropriations and raise supplies for the fiscal year commencing November 1,1871. An act to reduce all acts and parts of acts to determine and perpetuate the homestead into one act, and to amend the same. An act relating to the Financial Agent of the State of South Carolina, in the citv of New York. An act to provide for a general license law. Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution of the State. An act to incorporate the Grand Division of Sons of Temperance. An act to repeal a joint resolution authorising the Governor to purchase two tbopsand stands of arms, of the most approved pattern, with the usual complements of ammunition, An act to relieve the State of South Caroli na of all liability for the guarantee of the bonds of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company, by providing fbr the securing and destruction of tne same.