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Jtoapjs and Jacts. The weight of one million of dollars of !o onul to ho tiro tone gVJAV* AO OU1U w wv w<i v WMwt A Boston girl has sued a good-looking mulatto for breach of promise and recovered a thousand dollars damages. The small pox is said to be spreading with alarming rapidity in New York, and is fast assuming the form of an epidemic. There are said to be five hundred miles of gas pipe underlying the streets of New York city. In three States of the South the negroes outnumber the whites by large majorities. In Mississippi the majority is 61,305, in Louisiana 2,145, and in South Carolina 126,147. Henry "Ward Beecher is said to enjoy a professional income of over thirty thousand dollars per annum, by pulpit, pen and rostrum. Mrs. Sol. Smith Russell, (Louisa Berger) is reported to have died at Jackson, Michigan, on Wednesday of last week from disease of the kidneys. A patriotic citizen boasts that "no people on earth can excel the Americans in the manly art of sitting on a bench and watching men play base ball." An honest country parson, who, in the time of great drought, was desired to pray for rain, answered: "I'll willingly do it to oblige you, but it is to no purpose while the wind is in this quarter." A movement is said to be on foot among the principal railroads to conduct, control, and manage the package express business on their roads, and thus derive the benefit of the profits on* this class of traffic themselves, instead of the express companies. A destructive fire occurred at Valdosta, Georgia, on Tuesday of last week. Among the sufferers we notice the name of Mr. J. B. Withers, formerly of Fort Mill, in York county. His stock of goods was damaged to the amount of three hundred dollars, but, fortunately, he was insured. The saloou keepers of Cleveland, Ohio, secure the photographs of men whose wives do not permit them to drink, and keep galleries of them. When a customer enters, the bar-keeper looks through his album, and sees whether or not the customer's face is good. An English writer advises young ladies to look favorably upon those engaged in agricultural pursuits, giving as a reason that their mother Eve married a gardener. He forgot to add, however, that the gardener lost his situation in consequence of the match. A worthy Scotch couple, when asked how their son had broken down so early in life, gave the following explanation: "When we began life together, we worked hard and lived upon porridge and such like, gradually adding to our comforts as our means improved, until we were able to dine off a bit of roast meat, and sometimes a boilt chickie, (chicken;) but Jack, our son, he worked backward, aud began with the chickie first." The Teutonic tailor of a Pennsylvania village having married a second wife indecently soon after the funeral of the first, the young men of the place testified their disapproval by a tin-horn serenade during the progress of the wedding feast. The vulgar fraction of a man expostulated in the following style: "I say, poys, you ought to be ashamed of yourselfs to be making all dis noise ven dare vas a funeral here so soon." Some startling figures are given respecting the ravages of the small-pox in Philadelphia. It is said that no epidemic pestilence, not even cholera, has within half a century been equally general or fatal, the bills of mortality presenting an average of more than 200 deaths a week during the autumn and winter. It has raged during a period nearly ten times as long as did cholera, and it has not yet ceased. The following is one of the best cough syrups now in use, for consumption, liver complaints and colds. Take four large onions, peel and slice them into water, boil them until nearly tender, add one single handful of flax seed, and boil a few minutes longer, then strain it. There should be one tea-cupful of juice, and after straining add one tea-cup of honey and one tea-cup of good cider vinegar. Bottle for use. An Arkansas paper says that in Lawrence county, as some persons were clearing some land, they set fire to a large oak log lying on the ground, when they noticed a rattlesnake crawling out from the log. They turned it over, when they discovered a den of seventy-two rattlesnakes, two green snakes and one king snake. Twenty-two of the rattlesnakes had from fourteen to eighteen rattles, and measured from seven to nine feet in length. A Portsmouth (N. H.) paper says that there is ajlogin that city, only six months old, that chews tobacco and will take an intoxicating drink whenever invited. In fact he will get "as drunk as a lord" as often as he has an opportunity. We can hardly believe it. That "a lord" or any other human being should get drunk and dissipate in the most insane manner is not at all to be wondered at; but that a dog or any other respectable beast should degrade himself in this way is truly deplorable, and it is very hard for us to have our good opinion of the canine race brought down by a depraved pup like this of Portsmouth. Doubtless among the advantages of being intoxicated is the power of jumping from express trains without being killed. An individual on the Boston and Albany Road indulged in that dangerous diversion lately, and lives to get drunk another day. The train was going at the rate of thirty miles an hour, and he leaped straight off at right angles with the car. The conductor notified the depot master at the next station to go back for the remains with a hand car. He found the remains in a very lively condition with only a few bruises on the face and an unbroken whisky bottle in his pocket. He seemed to think that he must have fallen somehow or other. What Washington knew about farming was worth knowing. In 1787 he had five hundred acres of oats, seven hundred acres of wheat, and as much more in corn, barley, potatoes, beans, peas, &c., and one hundred and fifty with turnips. His stock consisted of one hundred and forty horses, one hundred and twelve cows, two hundred and thirty six working oxen, heifers and steers, and five hundred sheep. He constantly employed two hundred and fifty hands, and kept twenty-four ploughs going during the whole year when the earth and the state of the weather would permit. In 1780 he slaughtered one hundred and fifty hogs for the use of his own family, and provisions for his negroes. A piece of sharp practice on the part of the directors and officers of an insurance company of Hartford, has recently been brought to light. It seems that these officers borrowed from 810,000 to 820,000 each of the fund of their company, giving as security therefor, their individual notes and mortgage on their homestead. After the fire at Chicago they went to that city, represented their company as insolvent, bought up claims against it (it is said for twenty-five cents on the dollar,) and then endeavored to use these claims at their face value in payment of their notes held by the company, and were only prevented from doing so by the receiver, who shut down on the little game.?Springfield Republican. The Legislature of South Carolina, (says the New York Sun) has adjourned after a session of four months, during which the public plunderers, headed by Governor Scott, have continued their audacious robberies of the people, apparently as indifferent to the force of public opinion which has found utterance in all parts of the Union in reference to ? 1 - oAnPonnonnnc their crimes, as 10 uie miliums V/UUO^/NjUVUVUk, to the State of their reckless and corrupt proceedings. Within the last year $8,000,000 has been added to the public debt, twice as much as was incurred in eighty years before the war, and that too while three times the amount ol I money was being collected by taxation tha i was formerly required to pay the expenses o Government for an equal length of time ! This Legislature has enacted that bonds whicl were fraudulently issued shall be held valid I and has given the State officers authority t j go on and issue and convert bonds withou i limit in the/uture. There can be but one re j suit of such legislation, and that is repudio tinri Mnnv wlin nnw lnnk with eouanimit' upon the oppressions which the people ofSouti i Carolina are compelled to endure may com to view the matter in a different light whei they feel in their own pockets the effects of th ! reckless and criminal course of the carpet-baj | robbers. Ihc furMl* <&nqite I YORKVILLE, S. C.: ! THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 4,1872 Watch the Figures.?The date on the "address label" shows the time to which the subscription i paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers dis continued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood tha our terms for subscription, advertising and job work, are cash, in advance SOURCES OF INCOME. The resources of the upper and middle sec tions of the State of South Carolina are nearl; infinite. Only a few of these resources hav been developed. In fact, none of them hav been fully developed. The main source of in come in South Carolina is agriculture, am this, good judges tell us, is by no means prac ticed as it should be. There are source which if properly managed would prove a lucrative as that of agriculture. The lurabe trade might be carried on in the upper part c the State with profit. The timber of this sec tion is good. It is strong, and it is durable Most of the wagon and carriage timber a present is shipped to us from other States. Ii some instances, at least, our plow-stocks ar brought to us and every farmer plows with : pair of hames, the timber of which grew ii some distant State, and which was manufac tured in a shop not in the State. This is i condition of things for which there is not th least necessity. We are fully convinced tha there is as good plow and hame timber ii York county as there is in Maine. The for ests of the western portion of York county ar covered with as good wagon and carriage tim ber as can be shipped here from any quarter certainly much better than any that is ship ped here at present. There must be a vas amount of money expended every year in th simple article of hames. Thousands of thes things are bought every season. The price range from twenty-five cents to one dollar "NJqqrlir oil nft'Kom nrfl mRTinfftotnred from th< most ordinary timber and made simply to sell The same is true respecting wagon, carriagi and buggy hubs. Visit any carriage facton in the county and you will see a pile of hubs a pile of spokes and a pile of rims. Ask th< proprietor where he got this material and h< will tell you, "from the North." In one sens< he is not to blame for this, and in anothei sense he is to blame. As a citizen he, in com mon with all other citizens, is to blame, be cause these materials are not provided for hin from our own forests. As a manufacturer hi is not to blame for sending to the North foi these things, because he could not get then elsewhere. We are convinced that money could bi made by establishing in Yorkville a raanufac tory of agricultural implements. The forest1 of our own county could furnish all the lum her. To all parties such an establishmen would be profitable. It would give a mar ketable value to our forest pines, oaks anc poplars. Occasionally, now, men cut up somi of these trees into carriage lumber and realizi a handsome profit. A few days ago a gentleman told us tha he made out of one moderate sized poplar trei thirty dollars, and retained a considerable por tion of the tree for his own use. This showi what might be done. There are thousands o acres of forest land in York county the tim ber on which is worth five hundred times thi present marketable value of the land. A1 V?af nnnMOOnf fn rri\TO fhocp lutlds find th< l/lit* LI AO UWVVCWUi J WV t v viiww timber upon them a marketable value equa to their intrinsic worth, is the establishraen of manufactories. There is another thing which should not bi overlooked. The timber of our county ii well adapted to ornamental purposes. Ou: common rail timber makes the nicest funituri in the world. A set of chairs made out o common oak fence rails skillfully turned ant properly varnished, are unrivaled so far a beauty is concerned. The painter's brush cai make no imitation like them. A set of furni ture made out of our common forest oak woult grace the parlor of Queen Victoria. Then are fortunes in the old fields and forests o York county. Who will get them ? STATE ITEMS. ? The Union Times denies a report in circu lation that another attempt has been made t< burn that town. ? Meningetis prevails to a considerable ex tent in Newberry county, and a number o colored persons have died from its effects. ? Since the first of January last betweei seven and eight hundred tons of comraercia fertilizers have been sold at Greenville. ? The Ledger announces the death, on th< 20th ultimo, of R. C. Potts, Esq., of Lancas ter county. ? A Lodge of the Knights of Pythias organized in Columbia last Friday evening 1 " -'1 - !_ 4/U me oraer is sirauar in its purpuaus iu m> Odd Fellows. ? The Aiken Journal boasts of a lady ii Barnwell county one hundred and two year ' of age, who a few months ago spun threa< enough to weave sixty yards of cloth. ? The Reporter of last week says that al . the prisoners confined in the jail at that plac have been discharged on bail except Baxte Creely, Mattison Good and Miles Howell. ? A narrow-gauge railroad is being buil between Cheraw, S. C., and Salisbury, N. C The gauge is three feet, and it is expectei that twenty-four miles of the line will be com pleted and in operation by the first day o next September. ? The Question as to "who is the oldes 1 - Free Mason ?" is attracting some attention ii this State at present. Charleston, so far, ap pears to be ahead. Mr. T. W. Johnson, o that city, according to the Courier, dates hi ? interest in the mystic order back to 1817 , when he joined St. Andrew's Lodge, No. 1( ? The United States Marshal, R. M. Wal 1 lace, Esq., has made arrangements with th 1 various railroad companies of the State t ' pass persons needed as witnesses, &c., in th United States Court, on certificates of tram portation furnished by the Marshal. Thes certificates are printed in blank and filled uj t! with the names of the persons whose presence ! 'f is required. j' [ | ? The Columbia Carolinian of Saturday 11 I j last says: "For the past two days Judge Mel^ ! ton has had before him, at Chambers, the im- 1 t portant case of Harvey Terry, vs. the Stock- ] i- holders of the Commercial Bank. This case 1 ?"1 ftnn/1 in. i >~ | 111 YUlVCJ) UIC SUIU Ul UIIU IU1 biivi ill j y j volves the liabilities of the stockholders of the i ^ ! bank for all the bills out, amounting to near- 1 ? ly 8200,000. As this is a test case, and one i e that concerns so many of our citizens, it ex- 1 y cites no little interest. Judge Melton reserves his decision. The case will no doubt be car5 ried up to the Appeal Court. ? At the recent term of the Circuit Court * for Spartanburg county, John W. VandeVer, : Z. W. Vandever and James H. Vandever, a ' father and two sons, were convicted of con- , spiring and combining against the rights of General Bates, a citizen of that county, and ' were sentenced by Judge Moses, the two form- , er to two years imprisonment, and the last, on account of his youth, to six months in the common jail of the county. The indictment . - was under the Act of the Legislature, and it ' was prosecuted by the Solicitor of the Cir, cuit, Homer L. McGowan, Esq., to conviction by a jury composed of eleven white men, be~ fore a native Judge of South Carolina, s ? The following is the apportionment of the ' State appropriation of 8300,000 for the sup- , it port and maintenance of free common schools for the fiscal year commencing November 1, : 1871: Abbeville, 811,862.70; Anderson, 89,- 1 862.20; Barnwell, 813,084.80; Beaufort, 815,: 511.00; Charleston, 839,273.80; Chester, 88,v 156.70: Chesterfield. 85.345.00: Clarendon, e $6,575.80; Colleton, $12,209.60; Darlington, 1 e $11,292.30; Edgefield, $15,260.00; Fairfield, i- $6,953.10; Georgetown, $6,968.50; Greencl ville, $10,050.70; Horry, $4,453.60; Kershaw, $5,290.40; Lancaster, $4,795.80 ; Laus rens, $9,163.70; Lexington, $5,906.40; Mars ion, $9,133.30; Marlboro', $5,048.70; Newr berry, $8,036.50; Oconee, $4,824.70 ;Orange f burg, $12,264.50; Pickens, $4,534.10; Rich> land, $8,229.60 ; Spartanburg, $10,864.70; J. Sumter, $10,860.10; Union, $8,060.70; Wilt liamsburg, $7,284.80; York, $9,792.20. n ?The Spartan of last week publishes the e following in relation to the arrests and rea leases by the military, in Spartanburg, since a the 16th ultimo:- "Now in jail?Burnett !- Russell, Pinckney George, James Kimbrell, 1 a Bruno Hunter, Elias Burnett, Wm. Owens, e Thos. Service, Wm. Moore, Marion Britton, t John Mull, Jake Waters, Jerry McArthur a and Wm. Hamerton. Of the above named, Britton and Mull are from North Carolina, e and are charged with peddling without license. - The following persons have been arrested and ; released on bond : Crayton Pope, David H. , >* Lipscomb, Simpson Kirby, H. T. Ferguson, t Wm. Waters, Franklin Oglesby, John Chape man, Edward Cooley, John P. Fowler, Jones e W. Foster, Geo. Epton, J. W. Harris, News ton Tillotson, Audy Jones, Zade Coan, Ne' ville Holcomb, Major Lee Linder and W. P. e Linder. Samuel Littlejohn, Sr., George W. . Kirby and James D. Kirby have been released 3 unconditionally. t ?Mr. J. R. Minter, of Unionville, says , '? the Rural Carolinian, for April, has patented . 5 an improvement in cultivators which promi3 ses to be of great value to our farmers gene- , 3 rally, and especially to the cotton planter. , r It consists essentially of three working parts * or ploughs attached to a suitable stock, and ' adjustable by means of a very simple arrange1 mnnf r\f olrtfo on/1 Knlta Tim npntrftl nippp is llit/iilf VI OlV/bC UUU MVitMi AUV v> <? |,.wvv 3 a small shovel plough attached to the standr ard ; the side pieces are winged scrapers, fas1 tened to slotted bars; the whole being calculated to stir the entire space between the rows 3 at one passage, the adjustment rendering it capable of being adapted to rows of different , 5 width ; but the crowning excellence of this new implement, (if it works as claimed by the ( k inventor, which we see no reason to doubt,) * lies in its use as a scraper at the first working * of cotton. For this purpose the central 3 plough is taken off, and the two side scrapers 3 made to straddle the row, cutting as close to the plants as is desired, cleaning the whole ^ bed at one movement, and leaving little work 3 for the hoe, thus making an immense saving of labor. 3 f NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. - ? One of the nursery-men near Greensboro ; 2 sold 20,000 fruit trees this season. 1 ? Five prisoners confined in the Ruther- J 2 fordton jail, on charges of ku-kluxing, made 1 1 their escape on Thursday night last. t ? Jno, McAdoo, an old merchant of Greens- | boro, and well known in South Carolina, 1 2 died on Wednesday of last week. ' s ? Reports from the cotton-raising sections ] r of the State indicate that there will be much . b less corn planted this year than last. f ?A colored woman in Wilmington, says 1 1 the Star, recently gave birth to a child with i s two well-developed horns, one on each side of 1 the head. ] - ?The internal revenue derived from the ] 1 tobacco manufactured in the fourth collection i 2 district during the year 1871 amounts to i f $358,080.52. 1 ? The Intelligencer is a new paper soon to i D6 issued at Qiaiesvuie, HI uie imeresus ui me Conservative party, by Messrs. Wright & ? Jones. 3 ? Zebedee Kersey, a well-to-do man, aged i about 50 years, while in a state of mental ab- i * beration, hanged himself at his house near I f High Point on Tuesday of last week. I ? One of the newspapers in Greensboro 1 l having removed to a new office, the opposi- i 1 tion sheet modestly hints that no more lye < will be used in the building vacated. .? e ?Two fine residences?one in Guilford and i - the other in Rockingham?were destroyed by fire last week, the fires in both cases arising 3 from defective stove-pipes. < ' ? It has been recently discovered that the ' e convicts in the penitentiary at Raleigh have ' been digging a tunnel by which to effect their ( 1 escape. 1 3 ?An exchange publishes the statement that < i Dr. Robert Rudasill, of Lincoln county, has ' just been notified of a legacy of $9,000,000 J 1 awaiting him in Germany. < e ?Willie Brown, son of John L. Brown, i r Esq., of Charlotte, while hunting, on Thurs- 1 day last, in company with several other boys, i t was accidentally shot with his own gun, and i J. died the next evening from the effects of the i 3 wound. 1 i- ? The political campaign was earnestly i f opened by Governor Vance, at Statesville on ( Tuesday last, on which occasion he is said to i it have made a grand effort A stenographer < q was present to report the speech, which is to ] h be circulated as a campaign document. > f ? A Wilmington man who wished to econos mize his time, by hastening the fire he was ; j r, kindling, poured kerosene oil on the wood i ). from a can. He produced a quick fire, though j1 [-1 the can exploded, and in addition to a rent j! e in his trousers, the man himself was seriously ] o injured. ] e ? The stockholders of the proprosed rail- (< i- J road, which is already graded, between < e ! Greensboro and Salem, have entered into a < p ' contract with the Richmond and Danville I < I Railroad company for the completion of the work, and it is promised to be finished before j the first of January. ?The difficulty existing in consequence of the refusal of the Governor to recognize the legislative boards of the Lunatic Asylum and the Penitentiary is in a fair way to be adjustsd. The Governor recommends to the board ippointed by himself to pay over to the legislative board the funds in their hands, ft is probable, however, that the case will go before the courts. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. On Tuesday, the 27th, the House bill to reDeal the duty on tea and coffee was taken A ?r up. Amendments were offered and disposed jf by rejecting the motion to repeal the duty 3n coal and salt. The free list of the pending tariff bill was adopted, and the second aection, reducing the tariff 10 per cent, on woven fabrics, and manufactures of steel and iron was adopted. In the House, ihe committee of conference on the bill providing for the transfer of causes from the State to the Federal courts was concurred in. Mr. Hoopsr, from the committee on banking, reported that the public interest demands a change in the comptroller of the currency. On Wednesday, the Senate appropriated ?5000 for the expenses of the committee investigating the sale of arms to the French. The bill to repeal the duty on tea and coffee was then taken up, and the general tariff amendments which were adopted the day previous in committee of the whole were agreed to. An amendment to put salt on the free list was debated until adjournment. The session of the House was consumed in filibustering over a bill to locate the depot of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad on Pennsylvania avenue, Washington city. In the Senate on Thursday, the Chicago relief bill, with the House amendment exempting lumber from the operation of the law, was finally passed. The interminable bill to repeal the duty on tea and coffee was again taken up, and the free list of the tariff bill was added. The second section of the tariff bill, reducing by ten per cent, the duties on manufactures of iron and steel and certain textiles was concurred in, striking out such manufactures of silk as are now subject to a duty of ten per cent, ad valorem. The third section of the tariff bill was then added, and finally the first section was added, providing for free tea and coffee, to take effect on the 1st of July, 1872. After some further amendments the bill was passed. The proceedings of the House were unimportant. Both Houses adjourned until Monday. 4 4 EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Connecticut Election. The Connecticut State election took place on Tuesday last. From indications so far received the vote was light. The Republicans claim superior organization, afcd on this fact they have based their hopes of success. The Democrats are likewise sanguine of success, if their full strength was polled. It is not thought that the Labor-Reformers, whose strength in the State is estimated at 2000, could materially affect the result, as that element is about equally drawn- from the Democratic and Republican parties. The total vote of the State will reach about 90,000. rhe Cincinnati Convention. The committee of arrangements for the May Convention, which is to meet in Cincinnati, have issued a circular inviting voters, without distinction of party, to join in susfninino constitution as it is and in secu ring civil service reform, a tariff for revenue only, general amnesty for past political offenses and local self-government. It says, further, that while the objects of the Liberal Republican and Revenue Reform organizations are in the main the same, the latter organization has the special object of gathering together all parties who are in favor of the principle. A. Case of Mistaken Identity. Some days ago a drover named Archer, of Noble county, Ohio, was swindled out of 82250 in Wheeling, Virginia, by some sharpers who followed him to that place from Baltimore, and after consummating their scheme took the first train for New York. The facta were telegraphed to Cumberland, when the police arrested two men and lodged them in the station house. Wednesday night the arrested parties were brought to Wheeling, and on examination they proved to be General Thomas Francis Burke and A. E. Costello, great labor protection speakers, who had been by mistake arrested for swindlers. They were at once discharged from custody, and will prosecute the parties who arrested them. Affairs in Mormondom. The latest intelligence from Utah conveys the information that an immense meeting of citizens opposed to the admission of Utah as a State was held in Salt Lake City on last Thursday. Hundreds of women were present and Mormons were denounced and repudiated. The speeches were designed to show how Mormon allegiance to the church is beyond all consideration for general government and public sentiment, and that every ;a Knnnd hv snlnmn nat.li to avencre LUV/liUVU AO l/uuuu ?j o_ Joe Smith and oppose the authority of the United States. Great enthusiasm prevailed, and a memorial to Congress against the admission of Utah was adopted. All the Gentiles and many of the Mormons are signing the memorial and many thousand signatures will be obtained. The Gentile newspapers ire agitating the question of the possibility }f a civil war in Utah as the result of admis- , jion, but the Mormons deny and ridicule th/ idea. / The Election of Postmasters. / A bill has been introduced in th/House Df Representatives, by Mr. Handley/ of Alabama, authorizing the election of postmasters by the people, which requires the FostmasterGreneral to lay off post-office districts on or before September 1, 1872, and an election held an the first Tuesday in October following, at which qualified voters may vote, and the person receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected, and shall, upon giving bond and otherwise complying with existing laws, be commissioned as postmaster, to hold office for two years, or until his successor is elected and qualified. The bill further provides that in case of a vacancy the Fostmaster-General may appoint to fill such vacancy, ordering an alection within sixty days, and giving ten days' notice thereof. In case of the creation ~ _ i i of a new office tbe same course snau ue pu?-1 sued as in case of a vacancy. The bill was ' referred to the Committe on Civil Service. The Purposes of the Democracy. A Washington dispatch says that August Belmont, chairman of the National Democratic Committee, reached Washington on Thursday morning, and had an informal political caucus, at which were present about j forty of the principal politicians of both houses. The question of holding a national j convention was fully and freely discussed by j Casserly, Frank Blair, Stockton, Bayard and i others. The feeling was unmistakable against; calling a convention at this time, or indica-l ting any positive policy until after the action j of the Cincinnati Convention is known. Any I coalition with the Republicans, it was admitted, must be made on the question of strength , only ; there must be no surrender of Demo-; cratic principles. It was advised that no i Democrats participate in the Cincinnati Con-! vention. There was less disposition to indorse 1 Judge Davis than was expected. The names ; of Senator Trumbull and Charles Francis | Adams were discussed, and also those of Gen. ! Logan and Gratz Brown. The Rock Hill Academy. At a recent meeting of citizens of Rock Hill and vicinity the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that the present Rock Hill Academy ought to be used as a female academy; and that to this end a committee of five be appointed to confer with the trustees, and report to an adjourned meeting as to the feasibility of this suggestion. Resolved, That the educational wants of Rock Hill require the establishment of a male academy; and that a committee of five be appointed to solicit subscriptions for said purpose, and report at an adjourned meeting to be appointed by the chairman. The committee appointed under these resolutions consists of Messrs. J. M. Ivy, F. H. Barber, Iredell Jones, R. H. McCosh and R. M. Sims. The State License Law. At a meting of citizens, held in Charleston on Wednesday of last week, the following preamble and resolutions were adopted : "Whereas, eminent counsel concur in the opinion that the license law, recently passed by the State Legislature, is unconstitutional, and that it may be effectively resisted by a general refusal to comply with its requirements; therefore, te it Resolved, That an adjourned meeting be called for Saturday next, the 30th instant, at 12 o'clock M., at the hall of the Bank of Charleston, and that the Secretary be requested to invite, through the newspapers, ail persons and corporations who are affected by the "license act, with the view of taking legal proceedings to test the validity of the act" The persons embraced in this invitation include members of the bar, salaried officers of corporations, (including clergymen and clerks,) wholesale and retail dealers, factors, brokers, apothecaries, hotel, saloon and livery stable keepers, bankers, phosphate, mining and manufacturing companies. Memorial to the late Win. Gilmore Simms. At a meeting of friends and admirers of the late Wm. Gilmore Simms, held in Charleston a few days ago, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That committees be appointed by the chairman of this meeting, at his leisure, for the city and State at large, who shall be charged with the duty of procuring plans for a suitable monument to be erected over the remains of William Gilmore Simms, at Magnolia Cemetery, and of raising the means necessary for the purpose, and that the committee report to an adjourned meeting of this body, to be called by the chairman. In accordance with the above, the chairman, Hon. Alfred Huger, appointed the commitees for the several counties in the State, among which we find the names of Col. A. Coward and L. M. Grist, of Yorkville; E. C. McLure ' * *> /ni ? T /"*i and James ragan, 01 unesier; sx. o. urage and R. M. Stokes, of Union; J. B. Witherspoon and D. J. Carter, of Lancaster; James H. Rion and James R. Aiken, of Fairfield ; J. H. Carlisle and J. H. Evins, of Spartanburg. The Proposed New Tariff Bill. The Baltimore Sun gives the following summary of the more important features of the tariff bill passed by the Senate on Thursday last, and sent to the House : "A total reduction of taxation amounting to fifty-five millions of dollars; the abolition of the income tax so as to prevent the collection of the tax now demanded; the abolition of the internal taxes on illuminating gas, those imposed by section 100 of the act of June 30,1864, (except that on banks and banking, which is retained,) and all stamp taxes except those on distilled spirits, fermented liquors, and snuff, tobacco and cigars. The duties on coffee and tea hereby repealed are three cents and fifteen cents per pound respectively. The duty on bituminous coal is fixed at fifty cents per ton, (reduced from $1.25 per ton.) An amendment to reduce the duty on steel rails, which now enhances their cost $3000 per mile, in order to reduce the expense of bringing the coal to market, was voted down. The duty on salt in bulk and rock salt, 9 cents per hundred weight, (reduced from 18 cents,) and in bags or packages 12 cents per hundred weight, (reduced from 24 cents,) on hides, 5 per cent, ad valorem, (reduced from 10 per cent.) Decision on the Ku-Klnx Cases. A special despatch to the Cha rleston News, dated Washington, Monday March 25, says: mi _ i _ _ __ _ /? xl_ _ C* ine decision OI me oupreine vajuil uu uie motion of Messrs. Johnson and Stanbery, for write of habeas corpus and certiorari, in the case of T. Jefferson Greer, one of the convicted South Carolina Ku-Klux, was delivered today. The court decided to grant the motion, and ordered the writs to issue, making them returnable on the 8th of April, and setting the case for argument on the 12th of that month. The decision of the court was something of a surprise to the counsel for the Government, who confidently expected a denial of the motion. It is stated that every effort will be made, on the part of the Government, to defeat the presentation of the question upon its merits when it comes up for argument. There is great dread of the result of an inquiry, before the Supreme Court, into the constitutionality of the Enforcement or Ku-Klux law, and every opportunity will be seized of evadingthat issue. There is, also, a marked dispositiolNn official circles to avoid any examination ofl, tbe^5r'oceedings of the Circuit Court in the "Ku-Klux cases. An interesting discussion is anticipated when the next move shall be made. The Lowreys. The New York Herald prints letters from a correspondent, who says that he has spent some days with the Lowrey outlaws of Robeson county, North Carolina. One of these letters gives the following accoiint of the death of Henry Berry Lowrey, the leader of the gang: Between February 13 and 16, in company with Boss Strong, Henry Berry Lowrey was ranging the country in the neighborhood of Moss Neck, in search of some persons whom he had been informed were hunting him. ?? J-- ??*Va ImioKao q nnn?lxr.m XDCJ U1BUUVCICU ill liic uudum u uv?f aj ujmv?v "blind," (a place of concealment or ambush made by intertwining the branches of the thickly grown bushes.) It was not then occupied, and Henry Berry, believing it had been recently made by one of his pursuers, who would shortly return to it, ensconced himself in it, while Boss made a bJipd fpr himself a short distance off, covering the road. But a few minutes after they had placed themselves in their respective positions the report of a gun was heard from Henry's hiding place, and when Boss, who waited to hear a word from his chief or an answering shot from an enemy, cautiously approached the spot, Henry Berry Lowrey lay on his back, with one barrel of his shot-gun discharged, and his nose, forehead and the whole front of his head blown off. The broken ramrod and the missing wiper showed he had been trying to draw a load from his gun. Boss. drew the body into a thicket and notified his companions, who straightway buried him. Regarding the probable death of Lowrey, the Wilmington Star has the following: By the Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruther ford Rail Road, yesterday afternoon,.we have to chronicle the arrival in our midst of A. B. Henderson, the captive correspondent of the New York Herald, who has at last succeeded j ] in effecting hie escape from the outlaws and is ^ now winding his flight northward, to "pour out > the vials of his wrath" in the columns of the j s great "thunderer." Henderson, upon his ar- j rival here, kept very close to his hotel and ' j was exceedingly reticent in regard to events in Scuffletown. He had a double-barrel gun in his possession and his appearance indicated that he had seen some rough experience in the woods and swamps of Robeson. He left I on the 5:45 train for the North. Passengers ] on the Charlotte road report that, whatever may be said to the contrary, there is a settled conviction among the people of Robeson tbat Henry Berry Lowrey and Boss Strong are t both dead. It is further stated that a physi- \ cian who practices among the denizens of ? Scuffletown and who is pretty well posted in j the affairs of the outlaws, says that he saw the dead body of the noted outlaw chief after he ? had accidently shot himself. A further confirmation of this fact is had in the statement of Henderson, which was made to a gentleman j on the train yesterday, that the childreu of Henry Berry Lowrey, three in number, had 1 been apportioned among his relatives; Patrick ( Lowrey, a brother of the outlaw, taking the t oldest, and his mother the two youngest. Ste- ? phen Lowrey and Andrew Strong accompa- ( nied Henderson to Moss Neck, and told him at parting not to come back there any more. + For the Yorkville Enquirer. J A FEW THOUGHTS ON WHAT TO DO 1 AND WHAT NOT TO DO. ! Mr. Editor:?A few weeks ago I read a j communication in the Enquibeb over the , signature of "Quivis." "Quivis" is right 1 If the State expects to be relieved from the evils which so much oppress her, she must' look chiefly to her young men to accomplish j it. The life-long habits and opinions of the ( old do not fit them for grappling with the great changes which have taken place, and the buoyant spirit and sanguine temper of f youth must be the principal agents in achieving whatever is to be achieved in redeeming ( the State. And what must our- young men do ? It would be difficult, indeed, to give a panacea for all our ills, and advise as to all the details of our duties. A simple cOmmon-sense view 1 of the question will enable us, however, to ' say how our political salvation is not to be J achieved. It is not to be done by an indiscriminate abuse of our political opponents. Bad as are ^ our rulers in South Carolina?and Heaven ( knows they are bad enough?there are still some amongst them who are opposed to the wide-spread corruption and misrule, and who ^ have manifested, by their acts, a desire to relieve the State from the evils which press so ^ hard upon her. Such men as these should ^ not be forced into active opposition to us. ^ Their hands should be strengthened and upheld by those whose interest it is to have a good government. Tolerance of opinion is one thing we must learn. A man's political proclivities may incline him to one or the other of the great political parties which com- 1 pose the mass of the Nation's voters. We ' have no riuht to auarrel with him for the * 0 - ? 2 choice he has made. If, as an officer, he has been a knave and a thief, we should show up his knavery and thefts unsparingly. The world will see it and pass judgment upon it, and we must await with patience that great public opinion, which, sooner or later, will crush out the villainy. If our political enemy is capable and honest, we should be fair enough to admit it, charitable enough to attribute to him proper motives, and patriotic enough to encourage him in his course of well doing. It will do us no good to follow blindly any adviser. Our young men must learn the lesson of self-reliance. No man's word should be held as law. Free thought and free discussion should be practised more than they have been. An undue deference must no longer be given to the opinions of a few wouldbe leaders amongst us. We should not hesitate to express what we believe to be the truth because it will clash with some oldtimed fogy notions; and when we sincerely believe a certain course to be right, we should go ahead and act, regardless of clamor and prejudice. A little more of this spirit might < havp saved us much trouble. 1 Our escape from our present condition can ' not be brought about by a resuscitation of 1 ?j i J < by-gone issues, or Dy stirring ana Keepiug alive the fiery passions which were engendered 1 by the late war. The last tribunal to which a people can resort decided against us. Secession and State sovereignty were buried at Appomattox. We should accept the situation fairly and honestly. The Union stands unbroken, and with a stronger prospect ofperpetuity than ever before. The Constitution of the United States, with all its amendments, is the basis of the laws under which we are to live, and which are to govern us and our children and our children's children. It is both our interest and duty to forget the bitter animosities'of the past, and to use our endeavors to make better and more prosperous the government of which we are a part, and under which we are henceforth to live. We can gain nothing by granting, grudgingly, any of the privileges to which the negro is entitled by law. Those privileges are his and they will remain his. Without first obtaining the confidence of the negro, we need not expect his vote, and without his vote we are powerless to effect reform in South Caroli, na. When he is satisfied that none of his newly acquired rights are in danger, and has a guaranty that such will remain the case, he will inevitably vote with us. His interests ? and ours will be so interwoven that outside in- ? ? fluence cannot estrange him, and his confidence can be gained?but only by deserving it Confidence is a plant of slow growth, and j it is only by persistently adhering to a policy which will ensure him his privileges and rights, j that we can ever expect to gain him to our r qJ/Io TTo mnqf iihp fhfi ballot box lonff enoUffh * W*V*V>? AAV M?MWV wmm-- - ? - - - C3 ' O I; and freely enough to rivet the assurance on himself as well as others that he will enjoy it j forever. . Another great step in obtaining that confi- u dence is by education. His education is of benefit to us as well as to hira. Ignorance is r nearly allied to crime. Educate the negro 1 and we make him a better citizen and a better neighbor. Every encouragement and assist- c ance we give to enlighten hira, reacts for our benefit. Make hira more intelligent, and that j much the less danger is there of his blindly \ following the counsels of the demagogue, i, This matter of educating the negro is an ira- ? portant one?one amongst the most important ^ for our future of any that demands our atten- ? tion. We should attend to it because it is to t our interest. We should do it because it is T right in itself?it is a duty. And generally, ( we must think less of the past and more of c the present. We must discharge what be 8 believe to be the duties of the hour, no matter 0 how antagonistic they may be to the old tra- j ditions, opinions and policies of the past, and ; keep a good heart of hope for better things to t come. CITIZEN. | j IjOCAL items, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. it. H. Glenn?Sheriff's Sale. rV. M. Walker?Dental Notice?Mule Wanted. Samuel S. Smith, Administrator?Application for Discharge. J. C. Sloan & Co.?$1,000,000 Northern Capital to Loan. Tames Mason, Agent?Railroad Notice. ?. B. Darwin and J. A. Chamberlain, ExecutorsApplication for Discharge. PERSONAL. Ronntor W. E. Rose visited Yorkville on Saturday last. He returned to Columbia on Monday. FIRE NEAR BLAIRSV1LLE. On last Friday night the kitchen, together vith all its contents, of the Rev. R. A. Ross, ;en miles south-west of this place, was conmraed by fire. The fire is supposed to have )een communicated to the building by the itove-pipe. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. A recent change of schedule on the Charottc, Columbia und Augusta Railroad, has endered necessary a corresponding change >n the King's Mountain Railroad. Hereafer the train will leave Yorkville at half-past lis o'clock in the morning, and return at six >'clock in the afternoon. IMPORTANT LAWS. In to-day's paper may be found several imlortant laws passed at the recent session of -he Legislature. Read them carefully, espe?An tn amend an Act Droviding siailj i JlU AJbVV ?v >? ?? 4 _ 'or the assessment and taxation of property, . passed September 15, 1868, and Acts amendatory thereto." EASTER MEETING. At the regular annual meeting of the congregation of "The Church of the Good Shepherd" (Episcopal) the following officers were sleeted to serve for the ensuing year: Wardens?A. Coward and W. B. Wilson. Vestrymen?J. S. R. Thomson, W. B. Metts and R. J. Latta. Delegates to Diocesan Convention.?A. Coward, W. B. Wilson, R. J. Latta and W. B. Metts. THE MILITARY PRISONERS. Of the prisoners confined here, J. M. Kirk patrick and J. B. Kirkpatrick were discharged Dn bail last Saturday, leaving twenty yet in jail. We can obtain no information as to whether any of these prisoners will be sent to ' to -?tmi? nf ;m_ unariescon. 0. O. iUiner, miuoo kiiu vi >w prisonment expired on the 28th ultimo, was discharged on that day. We have been requested by prisoners to return their thanks to Mrs. J. M. Rawlinson for i bountiful supply of delicacies recently sent to them by her; and also to correct an erroneous impression which prevails, to the effect that the prison regulations prohibit such attentions. Ladies and others, whether relatives or not, are allowed to visit the prisoners, ind the officer in charge will be found to be courteous and obliging to all such visitors. FARMING OPERATIONS. The unpropitious weather of the past few weeks and the backwardness of the spring leason, have tended greatly to retard agricultural operations in this section. In conversation with planters from different sections of the county who have been in town this week, we learn that a start has been made at corn planting, and in some localities much of the srop has been pitched. The action of the unusual quantity of snow which fell the past winter will have a beneficial effect upon the ioil, and notwithstanding the late date at which active work has been commeneed, no fears need be entertained on this account Fruit trees are just beginning to bloom?a month later than usual, from which circumstance, by escaping the blights of early frost, in abundant fruit crop may reasonably be expected next summer. Though rather early to come to satisfactory conclusions regarding wheat and oats, these crops at this time are promising. Fertilizers have been bought in large quantities, which is all well enough, perhaps, even if the farmer makes as much manure as his barn-yard facilities will allow; ind we may reasonably expect to learn that a full area of ground has been planted in cotton. SALES-DAY. Owing to the favorable weather for planting jperations, but few persons were in town from the country on Monday last?sales-day for April. The few who were present were composed principally of persons whose business jngagements rendered their presence impera-. tively necessary. The Sheriff sold three parcels of real estate under execution, which in each case brought a price below the real value. A tract of land smbracing sixty acres, situated partly within the corporate limits of the town, belonging to the estate of J. Bolton Smith, deceased, was purchased by Dr. W. M. Walker for $450. A house and lot, situated on the outskirts of town, belonging to the estate of Alfred Stilwell, deceased, was purchased by S. B. Hall, Esq., for $300. The reversionary nterest in the homestead of James A. Smith, situated in "Santuc," was purchased by A. K. Smith for $60. The Sheriff sold, under the orders of the Fudge of Probate, a house and lot at Fort Hill, belonging to the estate of H. M. White, leceased, which was purchased by John L. JToung for $262. He also sold nine town lots, )elonging to the estate of J. Bolton Smith, leceased, as follows: Lot No. 1, two acres, to 5. B. Hall for $50; lot No. 2, two acres, to J. 3. R. Thomson, for $45; lot No. 8, seven ncres, o J. S. R. Thomson, for $96; lot No. 4, two teres, to R. Lathan, for $34; lot No, 5, two teres, to S. B. Hall, for $50; lot No. 6, two teres, to S. B. Hall for $41; lot No. 7, two teres, to R. Lathan, for $32; lot No. 8, two teres, to John L. Watson, for $31; lot No. 9, wo acres, to R. J. Withers, for $31. Ibout Newspapers. The Richmond Christian Advocate pubishes the following interesting article on tewspapers and the business of publishing hem, which, while it but repeats the experiince of thousands of publishers, will no doubt >e surprising to many readers who think the trinting of a newspaper is a royal road. The 1 clvocate says: There are two great troubles about a news>aper?one grows out of the effort to make it ive; the other, out of the effort to please iverybody. The first trouble may be over:ome, the second never. Every newspaper nan in thevworld has an ideal, as he calls t?perhaps he means an idol?and is always rying to reach it, and never does, which is r6ry strange. Some people believe that there 3 a fortune in every newspaper in the whole rorld, from Nova Zerobla to Victoria Land. Dhese people are very honest, very sincere ind very innocent in this belief. If they had o try the harness on and work in it awhile, hey would soon sing another tune. Note ?hat follows: The Christian Standard, of Cincinnati, states that although its aflairs are conducted with the strictest economy, and its ubscribere number 12,000, it has thus far :ost $20,000 more than its income. It says hat the Advance, of Chicago, with a still arger subscription list, sunk about $75,000 n four years, and had not become self-susaining when the late fire occurred; that the interior, in less than two years, has used up