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frtajrs and (facts. Wisconsin has a law, just passed, which treats a drunkard as a criminal. The largest rope in the world lias been completed in Birmingham. It is about six miles long, five and a quarter inches iu circumference, and weighs over sixty tons. Illinois has 1674 post-offices, being the fourth State in the Union in that respect. The first is Pennsylvania, which has 2,893. New York is next, having 2,600 The chief business of Canton, Maine, is making toothpicks. Machines are in use, each of which makes five thousand toothpicks a minute. A New York wedding cake weighed forty pounds. It was in the form of a three story house, with sugar bride and groom coming out of the front door. The Unitarian Church in New Bed-1 ford, Mass., has voted to dispense with the bread and wine at the communion service, but will celebrate the memorial with vocal and other services as usual. Many cattle are perishing in Southwest \ Virginia for want of food. The unprecedentedly long and severe winter has consumed the forage and left nothing to carry the stock until grass. Four years ago, Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska, was "away out on the prairie," and was called "Young's Colony." Before the close of the present season it will have six rail-1 roads, and will be lighted with gas. The newspapers are publishing it as a remarkable fact that the salary of President Eliot, of Harvard College, is 84,000, while that of the chief cook of one of the Boston hotels is 84,500. If President Eliot is dissatis"ied with his salary, why the deuce doesn't he turn cook and get a better one ? A riAwmon nktroi/Jion ofofoo ?? A uiattliguiaucu VJICI mau jjiijou,It*u oiahw that small-pox originates from the excess of albuminous matter in the blood, and that this is to be prevented by the administration of common salt. The habit of children indulging over freely in sweetmeats he considers one great cause of this undue development of albumen, and coffee and tea, if highly sugared, tend also to excite it in adults. In the United States Bankruptcy Court, for the Southern District of New York, involuntary petitions in bankruptcy were filed on Tuesday last against the Yonkers and New York Fire Insurance Company, New York city; the Manhattan Insurance Company, New York city, the Excelsior Fire Insurance Company, New York city, and the Fulton Fire Insurance Company of New York city. The Secretary of the Treasury has prepared and submitted to the Committee on Ways and Means a bill abolishing the offices of Collector and Assessor of Internal Revenue, and providing for not more than fifty supervisors, who shall perform all the duties of collectors. The bill proceeds upon the assumption that all the taxes are to be removed except those collected by stamps. The London Times of Friday last, in an article on the Alabama claims controversy, says that the British government will deliver its counter-case at Geneva, on the loth instant, but will not regard this act as prejudicing the position it has taken in opposition to the American claim for indirect damages. If the United States shall not, before the tribunal is ready with its answer, have abandon ed its claims for consequential damages, then Great Britain will withdraw her ratification of the Treaty of Washington. One of the errors into which many old established business houses fall is, that there is no necessity for advertising them. Such a theory would have answered well enough half a century ago, but the day has gone by when a business man can afford to rely upon the long standing and respectability of his house. This is a progressive age. Nearly everybody reads the newspapers, and public opinion is made up by what is printed there, whether it be in the form of an editorial or an advertisement. A. T. Stewart's magnificent store in New York is perhaps as well known as any other in the country, and yet, its enterprising proprietor keeps himself continually before the people, either by direct or indirect advertisements. Stock raising in Texas is carried on to an extent hardly to be appreciated but by studying the figures. Our farmers must open their eyes pretty wide when they read of farms containing 50,000 acres and feeding as many cattle. Col. Richard King probably owns and manages the largest "stock farm" in this or any other country. He has 84,132 acres of land stocked with 65,000 cattle, 10,000 horses, 7,000 sheep and goats. For the management of these immense herds, 300 Mexicans and 1,000 saddle horses are held in constant requisition. Another ranche has 50,000 acres and as many cattle, while herds containing 30,000 head are spoken of as small herds. And so from a small beginning in 1848 the stock business now has become a magnificent industry. A correspondent of the Country Gentleman gives the following remedy for painful wounds: Take a pan or shovel, with burning coals, and sprinkle upon them brown sugar, and hold the wounded part over the*smoke. In a few minutes the pain will be allayed, and recovery proceed rapidly. In ray (#n case a rusty nail had made a bad wound in the bottom of my foot. The pain and nervous irritation were severe. This was all removed by holding it in the smoke for fifteen minutes, and I was able to resume ray reading in comfort. We have often recommended it to oth ers, with like results. .Last week one of my men had a finger-nail torn out by a pair of ice tongs. It became very painful, as was to have been expected. Held in sugar-smoke for twenty minutes, the pain ceased, and promises speedy recovery. A well informed planter writes from Middle Georgia: "Planting is very, very backward. The bulk of the corn-planting is just through with. Generally, by this time, a great deal of corn is up and growing well. But little of the cotton land is prepared, and it is doubtful when it can be?for, as I have already intimated, it is now raining, and likely to rain. If such weather is prevailing all over the cotton region, another short crop will be the inevitable result. It is too late to prepare for a large crop, and if one be planted, it will be on unbroken land, which, of course, must fall short in the yield. Add to all this the theory that only a given quantity of rain falls from one autumn to another, and that since last autumn more than half the quantity allowed has come down, thus paving the way for droughts during the summer, and voila la situation." Croake.rs who fancy that this country is not advancing in prosperity, are referred to the advance sheets of the ninth census. Those dry looking columns are certainly more eloquent and conclusive on the points on which they touch than any amount of "spread eagle" oratory. In the first place, they show that the total real and personal property of the United States was 830,008,518,507 in 1870, as against $16,159,616,068 in 1860, and $7,135,780,228 in 1850. The percentage of increase in wealth during the last decade is found by calculation to have been over 86 per cent., notwithstanding the immense diversion of productive energy and the enormous destruction of property consequent upon the war. New York State, where both agri culture and commerce are greater interests than manufacturer, gained two hundred and fifty-two per cent, iu wealth during the last decade, and only seventy per cent, in the former one. The editor of the Baltimore American having been spoken of as an office holder, responds that he never did and never yfill hold an office. He dosen't care for the "honors," and having a salary equal to that of the President, he does not think the Presidency could benefit him pecuniarily. How narrowly he escaped being an office holder he shall relate himself: "We must add that we once did receive a Federal appointment?a clerkship in the General Land office. It was under the Administration of president Harrison. We were appointed to take the place of a Demoi cratic clerk, and to enter upon our duties on ' the 1st of May. .Fortunately for us, General ' Harrison died in the interim, and President | Tyler revoked the appointment. Thus we : narrowly escaped the sad fate of the young men who enter the chain gang of the Departments instead of striking out manfully for themselves. We have had a kindly regard for John Tyler ever since we discovered the magnitude of the service he has rendered us." jibe ffurMle (frttqimrr. YORKVILLE, S. C.i I THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 18,1872. I Watch the Figures.?'The date on the "addresslabel" shows the timo 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 THE LIBERAL REPUBLICANS. If we may believe the papers, the liberal Republican movement has gained considerable mAmonfnm frnm the recent declaration of sympathy by leading New York politicians. The names of prominent men, hitherto silent, in various sections of the country, are almost daily becoming connected with the movement; and it is seated that A. T. Stewart, who was selected by Grant as a member of his cabinet at the commencement of his term, is going to attend the Cincinnati convention. In Illinois the liberal idea movement is progressing rapidly, and the names to a call or a State convention to select delegates to the convention to be held in Cincinnati embrace all the prominent Republicans of the State. Great preparations are making in Cincinnati for the accommodation of delegates, as it is confidently believed the convention will be the largest political assemblage of the kind held in this country for years. What effect this convention will have upon the Presidential campaign cannot be surmised at this early day; though that there will be two candidates?Grant, the nominee of the Philadelphia convention, whose nomination by that body is a foregone conclusion, and the selection to be made in Cincinnati?there can be no doubt. The latter nomination may possibly satisfy the Democracy and thus obviate the call of a national Democratic convention. The leaders of this party will remain "passive" until the result of the liberal convention can be known, and to this end Mr. Belmonte, chairman of the national committee of the Democratic party, has issued a circular, summoning the members of the committee j to meet at his residence in New York on the 8th of May, which may indicate the purpose to designate a day and place for holding a convention of the party ; or, it may be decided?which, however, is a doubtful conjecture?to abandon 4emocratic principles for a policy of expediency, and, with the three millinn xrnfora nlnimAff hr t,hft DfimOCraCV. follow quietly wherever the liberal Republicans may lead. Returning from this view of the question to the action of prominent Republicans, the following recent declaration of Horace Greeley is not only significant, but fair and straightforward, and indicates it as his purpose not to support Grant, if he can avoid it: "First. If there shall be Democratic candidates for President and Vice-President in the field, we purpose to support the Republican ticket which seems most likely to succeed. Second. If the main issue in the canvass shall be protection against free trade, we shall (no matter as to the candidates) be found on the side of protection. Third. But if (as we hope and expect) there shall be two Republican tickets, and none other presented with any hope of success, we shall favor that one whose election will be, in our judgment, most likely to promote economy in public expenditure, purity in legislation and administration, substantial unanimity in upholding for all citizens a complete equality of rights under the law, and hasten the return of fraternal concord and mutual good-will between those who were arrayed against each other in sanguinary strife throughout our great civil war. Such is our position, and it will not be affected by the nomination of A or B, C or D, at Cincinnati, Philadelphia, or elsewhere." On Friday evening last, the largest and most enthusiastic political meeting ever held in New York city assembled in the Cooper Institute building. Not only was the meeting large in numbers, but the character of the men composing it, and the tone of the speeches, indicate the breadth and scope of the "popular movement," and the proportions it thus early promises to assume. The meeting was addressed by Senators Trumbull and Schurz, who had, as interested hearers and earnest workers in the cause of political reform, men of all parties and nationalities?"Democrats and Republicans, Germans and Americans." The New York World, the leading Democratic paper of the country, commenting upon this grand political demonstration says: "It is now certain that the Cincinnati convention will nominate a ticket, and unless some great blunder is perpetrated in the selection of candidates, that ticket will unite all the elements of opposition to Grant. The Democrats will not put obstructions in the way of a movement which seems to stand on so strong a basis, but it must nevertheless reserve final judgment uutil the present hopeful anticipations ripen into established facts." The movement against Grant is already producing a commotion in administration circles at Washington. A Washington letter of the 15th says, "the significance of the New York meeting of Friday evening, supported by such a formidable and eminent array of Republicans?men who four years ago subscribed liberally for the election of Grant, but who are now determined that nothing shall be left undone to carry the States of New York and Pennsylvania against him?excite astonishmentdn the minds of all." The country will await with interest the developments of the next few weeks. STATE ITEMS. ? Charlestonians are luxuriating on green peas. - ? -* _U:_l I?:J ? .Lexington Doasis ox a gouse wmui iuiu four perfect eggs in one day. ? Gov. Scott has appointed June Mobley, Auditor for Union county vice W. H. M. Williams, removed. ? G. W. Tuck, of Spartanburg county, has been appointed by the Governor, Trial Justice for that county. ? The Governor has appointed John J. Carrington, Sheriff of Newberry county, vice Thomas J. Paysinger, defaulter. ? The Phoenix announces the death last week ! of two old citizens of Columbia?Messrs. Jas.1 Cathcart and Rowland Keenan. ? A rumor is being circulated that Gilbert, ; Pillsbury, ex-Mayor of Charleston, is to be i put forward in the Second District, as a can- j didate for Congress. ?The annual convention of the stockhold-1 ers of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta ; Railroad, will be held at Charlotte, N. C., on Wednesday the first day of May next. ? A small boy in Columbia, a few days ago, created considerable merriment by placing himself astride of a billy goat and screaming at the top of his voice : "Here's your Free Masonry exposed." ? The Union Leagues, the civic societies and the various negro organizations of Charleston, are preparing to celebrate, on the first Wednesday of May, the passage of the fif teenth amendment. ? The Columbia XJnoin of Tuesday last j says: "About twenty colored people, mostly men, passed through Columbia yesterday on their way to Charleston to testify in the kuklux cases. They were from Charlotte, N. I C., but had previously resided in this State." ? A large number of cattle have lately died in Marion county of a kind of murrain. The disease seems to be incurable. It attacks old and young alike, and seldom fails to produce death. Already the number destroyed by this epidemic is estimated to exceed one thousand head. ? The Columbia correspondent of the Charleston News says: "Efforts are being made to haveH.W. Purvis, colored, appointed county treasurer of Richland, vice. C. H. Baldwin. There is no objection to the latter exceDt the eagerness of the demands for office by the ruling majority." ? Another of the beauties of the new State License law has been discovered. According to the State Auditor a peddler must pay the fee provided for by the law in every county in which he operates. Should a peddler go to all the counties of the State his licenses would cost him sixteen hundred dollars per annum. ? The Lancaster Ledger, says: The U. S. Assistant Marshal, on the 3d inst., captured i George Younce, W. P. Welsh, T. J. Williams and William Grier, and seized their team and wagon?loaded with whisky?and committed the parties to jail at that place, for peddling without a license and dealing in fraudulently stamped tobacco and whisky. They are said | to be old offenders. The first named subsequently escaped. mi XT /TV _ [> 1 A 1. . I ?ine union limes ui just wcck auyo. "Trial Justice McGuckin, acting Coroner, I held an inquest, yesterday morning, on the body of George Wall, a member of troop "M.," 7th U. S. Cavalry, who was found dead in front of Sarah Willard's house, in this town. The evidence introduced was conclusive that the deceased was beaten and stamped to death by a man by the name of Charles Batizig, a Sergeant of the same troop, and a verdict was rendered in accordance. Batizig has absconded, but every effort is being made to secure his arrest. We learn the'body of the deceased was dreadfully bruised." ? The Chester Reporter of Thursday last says: "During the past week the following citizens of this county were arrested by the Federal authorities, viz: William M. Robins, J. W. Gladden, Jno. W. Wilks, Jr., W. T. Dallas, Brooks Harden, Charles B. Dorset, John Conley, James A. Sanders, Sr., William Hardwick, Sr., William Barnes, Andrew Hafner, John Cook and Eli C. Smith. The three last were discharged on bail after a short detention. The others are still in confinement. S. T. Sandlin, of York county, was also arrested and committed to jail at this place. The total number of prisoners now in jail is nineteen." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? In Winston and Salem?two towns in one?with a population of 2000, there is not a single Jew. ? A destructive fire occurred in the town of Halifax on the 10th instant, burning six buildings on the principal street of the town. ? Rev. M. A.. Curtis, D. D., Rector of the Episcopal church of Hillsboro, died suddenly on the 10th instant. ? The bridge of the Air-Line railroad across Catawba river is nearly finished, and trains were to have passed over it last Saturday. ? Gov. Holden and family are expected to return to Raleigh in a short time to reside permanently. ? Farming is very backward in all parts of the State, and labor scarce in the eastern section. Wheat in the upper counties is looking fine. ? Several citizens of Forsyth county left for California last week. Over 300 emigrants have gone West from Greensboro since the first of January. ? The political disabilities of R. P. Waring, of Charlotte, have been removed. Mr. Waring was Minister to the Island of St. Thomas during Buchanan's administration. ? A woman named Seymour, who led a bad and dissipated life, was found murdered near Turnersbury, Iredell county, one day last week. Her head had been chopped nearly off with an axe. ? The Charlotte Despatch says a bar of gold weighing four pounds, and valued at $863.30, the result of one week's work at the Gold Hill mine in Rowan county, was assayed last week in the branch mint at Charlotte. ? Col. Thomas I. Grier, an aged and respected citizen of Mecklenburg died on Wednesday night of last week. He filled the position of chairman of the county court, more than fifty years ago. ? The Charlotte Southern Home says: "We have in the past week gone over a good portion of Gaston and Mecklenburg and found the farmers very backward in their Spring work. Some old men told us that they had not had so backward a season in thirty years. The wheat, nevertheless, is generally good and the winter oats left look also well, though too thin on the ground." ?The Charlotte Despatch learns that in Gaston county, on the 11th inst., during the temporary absence of Mr. Harrison Gant and his wife, their two little boys aged respectively five and seven years, found a jug of whisky and drank a large quantity; from the effect of which they were thrown into violent convulsions and died in a few hours, despite the attendance of three physicians. ? The trial of Calvin Oxendine, charged with being complicated in the murder of the late ex-Sheriff King, of Robeson county, which occurred in 1869, has just been concluded at Smithville, resulting in a verdict of acquittal. The jury was composed of 11 white men and 1 colored. The prisoner proved an alibi by three witnesses and also managed to prove a most excellent character. ? Quent Bryant, while in a state of intoxication, was shot and mortally wounded in the streets of Raleigh on Wednesday last, by J. M. Wooten, a quiet and respectable citizen, whona Bryant attacked. Wooten surrendered himself to the authorities but was discharged on the ground of self-defense. A striking incident connected with the affair is that Bryant was shot within a few feet of the spot where he shot and killed a man named Wiley Sauls, a few years ago. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate, on Tuesday the 9th, the Potomac and Baltimore railroad bill, granting a depot on Pennsylvania avenue, Washington city, was disposed of by referring to the committee on the District of Columbia, which is understood to be favorable to the passage of the bill. A number of bills from the military committee were passed, among them one providing against the enlistment of minors, and one giving $100 bounty to every volunteer who enlisted prior to July 22,1861, and was actually mustered in. In the House, a bill was introduced to prevent railroad com ! panies from making discrimination, as to freights and passengers. A bill providing for the issuance by the post office department of j one-cent postal cards was passed. In the Senate, on the 10th, the finance committee reported back the House message returning the Senate tariff bill, expressing the opinion that the Senate had the right to propose amendments to revenue bills. The matter was then referred to the committee on privileges and elections. In the House a bill to abolish the franking privilege was reported, debated and recommitted. The legislative appropriation bill was debated to adjournment. In the Senate, on the 11th, Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, presented a resolution unanimously adopted by the late constitutional convention of that State, asking Congress to remove all political disabilities from its citizens. Mr. Logan, from the committee on elections, reported the following resolution: "Resolved, That Joseph C. Abbott, not having received a majority of the votes cast by the North Carolina Legislature on the second Tuesday in November, 1870, for the office of *1?A TTnlffi/1 Gfofna !o nnf onf?fln/1 fn UClJaLUL U1 U1C Ulllb^u UiatCO) AO uub^ubivivu bu a scat in said United States Senate as such Senator." Mr. Logan said the questions at issue in this case were merely of law, and argued in favor of the resolution. When Mr. Logan concluded the resolution was informally laid over, and the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill taken up, and passed. In the House, the committee on foreign affairs reported the resolution, which was re-committed, instructing the President to demand the release of Dr. Howard, an American citizen, banished to a penal colony by theSpani9h authorities under conviction of participation in the Cuban rebellion. In the Senate, on the 12th, the bill refunding taxes paid on distilled spirits burned in bonded warehouses passed. Sawyer, from the committee on education and labor, reported a bill extending, for two years from next July, the time within which the States may comply with the provisions of the agricultural college act. Abbott's claim for a seat from North Carolina was discussed. In the House, the appropriation bill was resumed. An amendment authorizing $50,000 for the publication of the laws, passed. The Senate was not in session on the 13th, and the House, us usual, was devoted entirely to debate. Mondays proceedings were unimportant. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Beaten at His Own Game. We published last week a paragraph from the Courier, detailing the manner in which unsuspecting dealers in Charleston were put to trouble by would-be-smart detectives, who would ask for and receive empty cigar boxes, on the plea of wanting them for bird cages. But even that game can be played by two, as the following, from the Courier of the 12th, will show: "One of the parties engaged in arresting unsuspecting persons for giviug them cigar boxes with uncanceled stamps on them, was brought before the United States Commissioner yesterday, charged with violating the law as a receiver. The case against him was so clear that the Commissioner bound him over to appear at the May term of the United States Court." A New Party in Georgia. The Atlanta correspondent of the New York Herald says that a powerful effort is making in that State to bring about the formation of a new party, to be composed of the negroes and white Republicans of the South, with such old-line Whigs as may be seduced into the movement. The writer says: "A few weeks ago Ben. Hill delivered a speech in this city, in which he hinted pretty plainly at the necessity for a reorganization of parties. Immediately after a proposition was made for celebrating the anniversary of Henry Clay's birthday, which was agreed to, and it is believed that at this festive gathering an attempt will be made in the direction indicated. Ben Hill, it is true, denied that he had any desire to become the father of a new party, and also declared that the country was not virtuous enough for a revival of the Whig party. Mr. Hill, however, is a man upon whose political declarations nobody can place implicit reliance, and he is believed to be the head and front of the reported movement." Aimost a runic. In Charleston on the 11th, there was almost a repetition of the Richmond Court House disaster, by the United States Court House, in which the ku-klux trials are progressing, showing signs of falling in, on account of the crowded condition of the courtroom. The Richmond accident was caused by over-excitement of the populace in regard to their municipal election, and the panic in Charleston originated from the laudable ambition of her colored citizens to see a sureenough up-country ku-klux on his trial?contingencies, it seems, that our old-time builders did not take into consideration when constructing tho respective houses. Speaking of the fright, the Courier says: The ku-klux trials, which are in progress at the United States Court House, Meetingstreet, have been attracting large crowds of colored attendants. As soon as the hour approaches for the commencement of proceedings, in they go, pell mell, taking every available inch of sitting and standing room. Yesterday the crowd was so great that the ceiling over the Marshal's office cracked in several places, and showed signs of falling in. The Marshal immediately informed Judge Bond of the danger, when the crowd was considerably thinned out by his orders, and only a sufficient number of observers allowed to remain to occupy comfortably the seats. The floor was braced up and will be better secured to-day. National Colored Convention. A national convention of colored men assembled in New Orleans on the 10th instant, thirty-nine delegates from various States presenting themselves at the appointed time, which number was subsequently augmented by the addition of fifteen more. The assembly was called to order by Lieutenant-Governor Ransier, of this State, who read the call for the meeting. The New York Herald correspondent reports that Ransier then made a speech, social equality being the principal, if not the only theme of his effort, which closed with the assurance so common with all politicians that the eyes of the entire country were upon them. At the conclusion of Ransier's speech, Lieutenant-Governor Pinchback was conducted to the chair as temporary presiding officer, Fred Douglass who had not yet arrived, having been elected President. Of the northern States, Ohio, Massachu setts and Pennsylvania were represented. A resolution was passed condemning the Cincinnati convention, and another was introduced repudiating the acts of the labor convention < which nominated Judge Davis for the Presidency. A resolution complimentary to Charles Sumner was passed by acclamation, and several speeches were made eulogizing his political course. The following telegram from J. M. Langston, one of the leading men of his race, dated Washington, D. C., was read, and it will give some insight as to the objects of the convention: "Let our demand be legal equality. This will be seconded by the passage of the civil rights bill, and Congress will not adiourn without its Dassaee. It will prob V * w A ' ably be done next week," A platform of resolutions was adopted, of which the following is a summary: The preamble regrets the necessity which called into existence a Colored Convention, and is grateful for past triumphs in behalf of equal rights, and submits resolutions to the American people. First, gives thanks for emancipation and citizenship. Second, pledges nnswerviug devotion to support the nominees of the Philadelphia Convention. Third, endorses President Grant, and thanks him for recognizing men without regard to race or color in making appointments. Fourth, prays , that the colored Republicans of States where there are no Federal positions given to colored men, may no longer be ignored. Fifth, acknowledges overwhelming indebtedness for the services of Charles Sumner. Sixth, praises the action of Vice-President Colifax, in delivering the casting vote in favor of the supplementary civil rights bill. Seventh, appeals for protection in civil rights in public places and upon public conveyances. Eighth, condemns Republicans who voted against the civil , rights bill, and pledges that they will vote for successors to them whenever they have the power. MERE-MENTION. It is estimated that there are over 30,000 canary birds brought to this country every year. An Indianapolis creditor served papers upon the widow of his debtor while the funeral was in progress. The peach season is six weeks behind time in Georgia. In England 3500 new books are said to have appeared last year. Women are now admitted to fifty American colleges. Rev. Lymah Whiting refused to permit one of his church members in Janesville, Wisconsin, to be buried from the church because he was a Free Mason. The small-pox is increasing in New York. The number of cases last week was 110; deaths 33. Dr. Wood hull, the former husband of Victoria C. Woodhull, died in New York last week. The Astor Library in New York has 141,000 volumes. A despatch from Rome dated the 9th instant, says that Mount Vesuvius is in a state of violent eruption. A column of flame shoots several hundred feet above the crater, and stones and ashes, and cinders fall in dense showers around the summit. The young men's republican party of New York city, opposed to the re-nomination of Grant, have organized fifteen clubs, and will organize as many more. They do not express their preference for any candidate as yet. The New York democratic State central committee have issued a call for a convention at Rochester on the '15th of May, to appoint delegates to the democratic national convention. General Frank Cheatam announ ces himself a candidate for Governor of Tennessee, subject to the Democratic State Convention. This is the last year of the income tax. It is said the only steamploughing apparatus in successful operation in the United States is on a Louisiana plantation. The.wheat crop of California for the present season is estimated at 30,000,000 bushels, and the barley crop at 12,000,000 bushels. 1,458 persons were arrested by the police of New York last week. Prof. J.J. Chisolm, M. D., of Maryland University, says that no good comes of the practice of submerging the eye in cold water once a day. There are 142 German newspapers published in the United States. 4 ? Scott's Ku-Klux.?We give below the officers of the new organization known as the United Brotherhood, which has taken th^' place of its diabolical counterpart, the Unioe League. As we said before, the League Was not exacting enough in its exclusion of all but Radicals of the deepest dye: Supreme Grand Councillor, P. R. Rivers, colored, Edgefield: First Vice-Grand Councillor, June Mobley, colored, Union; Second . Vice-Grand Councillor, D. Harris, colored, Columbia; Grand Treasurer, Dr. J. L. Neagle, white, Columbia; Grand Recording and Corresponding Secretary, George A Richmond, white; District Officers?E. W. M. Mackey, white, Charleston; George F. Mclntyre, white, Colleton ; F. J, Moses, Jr., white, Sumter; H. J. Maxwell, colored, Marlboro; W. B. Nash, colored, Richland ; T. J. Mackey, white, Chester; H. C. Corwin, white, Newberry; Jerry Hollinshead, white, Abbeville; P. P. Hedges, colored, Charleston; C. D. Hayne, colored, Barnwell; W. H. Jones, Jr., colored, Georgetown ; R. J. Donaldson, white, Chesterfield ; R. K. Scott, the Governor, Columbia; R. B. Elliott, colored, Columbia; ^ 1 T TT XT J__ tios. urews, wnne, -L/aurens; xx. jveuijeuy, colored, Abbeville. Twelve are members of the Legislature, and the others hold State and other offices. Scott's acquaintance seems to be nearly entirely with the colored men, who fail to see that the organization is gotten up to enslave their minds and make them keep ahead of the lash like driven cattle.? Charleston Courier. A Model Officer.?While so much is said inside the State and out of it, about incompetent and dishonest Radical office hold- j era in South Carolina, it is well to note the existence of.men who do honor their positions, and who, by their efficiency, reflect honor upon the appointing powe Puch a man is found in David Hemphill, County Treasurer of Chester. He, on Friday last, made his set- j tlement for the taxes of 1871 with the State Auditor, and a very favorable one it was for j the State. He collected the entire tax, State and County, except 835, and this without the sale of a single piece of property for either of his two years. The amount collected in 1870 was nearly 859,000, and in 1871 it was up- j wards of 850,000. In his settlement for 1870 , it was found that he had overpaid the State about 8900, thus proving that he had com- , plied with unusual promptness with the regu- ( lations requiring him to turn over the taxes as fast as collected. As a County Treasurer, , Hemphill is a success. Pass him round.? Co- , lumbia Union. j ? ? Detective Pinkerton's Last Case.?Th e . well known and vigilant moral guardian, Al1 1 --- Ad /miiiaITITT lan jriDJterioiJ, apita uui uaooo ?a ^uiviuj and as correctly as the sharpest of the lynx- , eyed fraternity, of which he is the acknowledged head and king. He is as keen at detecting true merit as he is criminality, and he has now made a strong point, professionally, in the case of the Herring Safe. Eight of Pinkerton's safes went into the fiery ordeal at Chicago, but only two came out, and these two were Herring's ; the other six (not Herring's) were burned to ashes; therefore, Pinkerton may well say: "I shall in future use none but herring's safes." New York Day-Book. Memphis has one clergyman, four doc! tors and thirteen gamblers to every thousand of its population. ? S&* A lady of Rochester, Minn., has obtained a patent for a fan, to be attached to a sewing machine. IjOCAL ITEMS, j NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 Adiokes A Black?Dress Goods. T. M. Dobson A Co.?On Credit?Embroider}'? i Shoe Polish?Well Chains?Traps?SlipKrs?Cotton ad es?Ribbons and Flowers? st Year-Carpet Bags-Kid Gloves-Suits ' lor Ladies?Linen?Trunks?Ready-Made | Clothing?Lawns?Ladies' Hats?Chignons and Switches?Dress Goods?Something . New?Shoes. 1 W. B. Williams?Administrator's Notice. f Jeflerys A Metts?Assignees' Notice to the Cred- ( ltors of Thos. Davies, Bankrupt. W. B. Wilson, Plaintiff's Attorney?Notice to Calvin N. Workman, Defendant. l E. T. Carson?Strayed or Stolen. ( TV TT-11 T?J -J nu.i:.. TLTSlf/vri D# null, JUUgO U1 riUUttlC?VlUttlUH?iUUivii H. Currence, Applicant?James D. P. Cur- ' rence, deceased. R. M. Roark?Shawl Lost. < W. W. McElwee?Estray Cow. W. B. Williams, Administrator?Notico to persons having Furniture Ac., in the Shop of 1 A. Stilwell. j W. B. Wilson, Plaintiff's Attorney?Notice to R. B. W. Farris and others, defendants. . 1 THE MILITARY PRISONERS. 1 On Thursday morning last, the following , prisoners were transferred from this place to J Charleston: W. L. Spencer, Pinckney Cald- ( well, W. H. White and George Wright. The following have been recently arrested, and were lodged in jail on Saturday afternoon: i John W. Gaffney, Spartanburg; Marion Har ris, Union; Jerome P. Moss, Daniel Dover, J. B. Fulton, York ; and Ed. A. Turner and P. W. Randall, of Cleveland county, N. C. There are now twelve prisoners, arrested by , the military, in confinement here. j MOOD TEMPLARS. On Saturday last our young friend, George ; TT AIT o?:~i T???? :?T)?*u , xi. u x?eury, opwmi xreputjr, uiontutcu uctu- j el Lodge, No. 12, Independent Order of Good ' Templars. This new lodge is located in the neighborhood of Bethel, and from the character of the persons composing the officers, the probability is that it will accomplish much good. The following is a list of the officers elected for the current term : W. I. Stowe, IF C. 2!; Miss M. E. Craig, IF V. 21; Dr. A. H. McKenzie, W. 8; Miss M. R. Craig, IF. A. 8.; R. L. Simmons, IF. C.; J. S. McKenzie, IF 21; S. C. Pegram, IF F. 8.: W. R. Stanton, IF M.; W. W. Davis, IK D. M.; C. A. Leecraft, IF I. O.; W. N. Wallace, IF 0. 6.; R. H. Adams, R. H. S.; J. H. Adams, L. JET. 8. CITIZEN SHOT'BY SOLDIERS. On Saturday last, a squad of soldiers under command of Lieut. Benner<of this post, and accompanied by Deputy Marshal Duncan, while on the Union county side of Broad river, shot and killed a man named Minor Paris, for whose arrest, we are informed, a bench warrant had been issued by the Judges of the U. S. Circuit Court. The following are the circumstances attending the shooting, as we learn them from Marion Harris, who was in company with Paris at the time of the occurrence, and who is now a military prisoner in the jail at this place. Harris says that himself and Paris were approaching the river, when they were halted. Harris surrendered himself, but fans declined to do so, and attempted to make bis es- < cape by jumping into a batteau and floating ' down the river. After rowing a distance of 25 yards, again being commanded to halt, and failing to do so, orders were given by a noncommissioned officer to fire?Lieut. Benner 1 and Marshal Duncan not being present?and a pistol was discharged at Paris, who contin- 1 ued his effort to escape. Command was again given to fire, and six guns had been discharged, when Paris, at a distance of 300 yards from the firing party, fell over in the boat wounded. A short time after the shooting, Lieut. 1 Benner and ,Marshal Duncan?who were at 1 the house of Mr. Lathan, a few hundred yards ! distant?arrived at the scene of the occurrence, , and a boat being procured, the wounded man i was removed to the bank of the river. An examination disclosed the fact that a ball had entered the abdomen and penetrated the kidneys, from the effects of which Pari? has since died. Capt. Christopher, who is now in command at this post, is engaged in investigating j the whole affair. < / THE EXITED STATES COORT. > In the United States Circuit Court yester- 1 day, held by Judge Bryan, the actual prepations for the trial of the Ku-KIux cases were * begun in earnest. Judge Bryan delivered a charge to the grand jury bearing directly up- 1 on the conspiracy cases, and a number of cases 1 were presented for the action of the grand jury, who then retired, and up to a late hour ' last evening had not returned. Inbis charge, Judge Bryan read the first, sixth and seventh : sections of the Enforcement Act, and accompanied them with comments and explanation ! as to their bearings. He showed under which ; paragraphs of the law the indictments were drawn, and explained the extent of the penaltv prescribed for each offense. He defined a conspiracy as being the act of two or more persons combined together to do an unlawful thing, or to do a thing by unlawful means. ! He said that the testimony of one member of ' a conspiracy was admissible against the rest, 1 and that the confession by one member of the ' purposes and acts of the conspiracy applied to j all the members. He said he would not touch upon the constitutionality of the law, as that . question was not raised; but he had never ' doubted the right of the United States to protect its citizens in the right of suffrage. J The statute provided a penalty for murder, ! but the iury, before presenting an indictment 1 for murder, must find the presence of malice, ( and that the murder was committed feloni- ( ously and maliciously. The question of the 1 right of this court to decide upon the charge ' of murder, was, however, waived, as that question was now before the United States ? Supreme Court for settlement. C. E. Fowler, confined on charges of viola- J ting the Enforcement Act, was released on his 1 own recognizance in 8500 to appear for trial at the November term of the court. "Writs of scire facias were ordered to be is- ? ssued against W. M. English and his sureties ' in default of his appearance for trial, and r made returnable on the fourth Monday in : April.?Charleston News, 9tA. j Judge Bond arrived in the city yesterday morning and at the opening of the United c States District Court was on the Bench, pre- k siding, with his Honor Judge Bryan. Upon the opening of the Court, a number 1 of indictments found by the Grand Jury were J taken up and disposed of as follows: Walker Dawson, Walter P. Anthony and Joseph Lackey, of York, indicted for conspir ftujr agaiuoii x.uuo? x?uuuuucvj cb uiij nvtv ma raigned and plead guilty. Upon the discontinuance of so much of the indictment as charged murder, Mr. Ramsay, of York, pleaded guilty on the same condition. McDonald Thompson, of Union, against whom the Grand Jury returned a true bill for conspiracy and murder, upon arraignment ' plead guilty to the first count and not guilty as to the second. He was examined at some length by Judge Bond as to his connection with the Ku-Klux Kian. He stated that he bad been on two raids. On the first occasion there were thirty or forty persons in the party, who had been summoned to attend by a man from Jonesville, who brought intelligence that in effort was to be made by the friends of the negro prisoners confined in Union jail to release them, and that the people who were guarding die jail were worn out with watching. Noth- s ing was done by the party that night except j riding to the jail and returning from it The o lext raid that he stated he had been on was t ;he one in which the negroes had been taken t jut of the jail and hung. He said that they c went to the jail, took the prisoners out, led f them to an old field and hung them upon the limbs of the trees. He supposed there were ten or twelve persons killed that night, but lie denied any active participation in the killing. Galbraith Hambright, of York, indicted for conspiracy, was arraigned and plead guilty, and was ordered to be brought into Court. John Roger, of Union, nnder indictment for conspiracy and murder, was bailed in the lum of $10,000, to attend Court from day tolav .Tnrv hrnncrht in true bills 1 lie V-4 I UUu w M? J p igainst Charles Sims and Gidney Long, alias aideon Long, of Union, conspiracy and murler?two indictments. Mr. 8. P. Hamilton requested from the eourt an order in the cases of William Hardtrick, Butler Hardwick and others, charged cvith conspiracy, that the District Attorney furnish hira, as counsel for the accused, a list >f the witnesses on the part of the government to be used on the trial, but the order was refused by Judge Bond. There being no cases r6ady for trial, the juries, both grand and petit, were discharged antil to-day, at 10 A. M., to which time the eourt adjourned.?Charleston Courier, lltA. At 10 o'clock this morning the United States Court resumed the trial of the Ku- ' Klux cases. The Court room was paeked cvith an audience composed almost entirely of colored people, who evinced the deepest interest in the proceedings. Judges Bond and Bryan presided, and after the juries had been eaWed over the business of the Court was be?un. The Government was represented by fVn-kin Mr fifnne and W_ E. Earle. LUajUl Wl WIU) I'A.i -WfV-v, ? - In the case of Julius Howe, of York, the District Attorney announced that he was ready to proceed. Major Hart, of counsel for the defense, stated that the defendant was not able to bring his witnesses and invoked the assistance of the Court. The case was accordingly postponed until Monday next, and subpoenas issued for the witnesses. Elijah Hardin and Felix Dover, of York county, indicted for conspiracy in April, 1871, were arraigned and plead guilty, and were ordered to be taken into custody. Julius Howe, of York, was next brought into Court, and arraigned on an indictment Tor conspiracy against William Wilson, in February 1871. The defendant plead guilty, and was remanded for sentence. Walker Moore was arraigned upon the charge of conspiracy against Thomas Boundtree, and of murder, and pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy, the murder count having been withdrawn. A writ of sei. fa. was ordered to be issued against H. F. Ferguson, who was under indictment, and had been bailed. The writ was made returnable on the 22d. The District Attorney announced that all cases that he had prepared for trial this morning had concluded to plead guilty, and that he was therefore not ready to proceed. In the cases of the United States vs. David Gist etal., a subpoena was ordered to be issued for Margaret Foster and Mary ^Foster, material witnesses for the defense. The Grand Jury returned several true bills in revenue cases and the Court then adjourned until 10 o'clock to-day.?Charleston Cornier, 12th. The United States Circuit Court was opened mAtmi'rtn of for* rv'ol/vot Jtl/lffAfl K) bv>i ua; uiviuuig u? wu v v<wo| ad and Bryan presiding. The juries having been called over, the morning 8 business was entered into. Major J. B. Steadman submitted a petition in behalf of H. T. Hughes and Hemy Grady, of Union, asking the Court to send for material witnesses for the defense, which was granted. The Court, on motion of the District Attorney, assigned Mr. J. E. Burke as counsel for Lafayette Hood, Allison Hayes and Pinckney Caldwell, of York. After some conference, Allison Hayes indicted for conspiracy against Brutus Good and others, signified his intention, through his counsel, of pleading guilty. He was accordingly arraigned before the jury, plead guilty, and a verdict was rendered in accordance therewith. A similar course was taken in the case of Lafayette Hood, under a similar indictment Pinckney Caldwell, was arraigned for conspiracy against Jas. B. Porter aqd Edward Eowe White, and having pleaded guilty, a verdict of guilty was rendered. The same prisoner was arraigned on an indictment for conspiracy, against Jim Williams, and also for murder. He plead guilty to the conspiracy counts of the indictment and not gnilty to the murder count The jury returned a verdict, in accordance with this plea, guilty cf conspiracy, and not guilty of murder. The case of Edw. Lowry was postponed until to-day, at the request of the defendant's counsel. v An order was made directing the Marshal to bring the following prisoners from Yorkville jail to Charleston jail: W. T. Lowry, A J. Martin, J. T. Howe, Wm. Fulton, W. P. Anthony, R. W. Moore, D. Ramseur, W. J. Trent 8. J. Randall, j. H. Lackey, R. H. Moss, Wm. Ramsay, C. Ramsay, R'R. 8e paugh, Walter Dawson, Henry M. Moore. An order was also issued authorizing the United States Marshal to purchase twenty-five blankets for the prisoners. The grand jury returned a true bill against Joseph Fowler, Marcus Fowler, Alfred X. Martin and others, for conspiracy. 'The District Attorney then announced that he had no other cases ready for trial, and the Court proceeded to the consideration of a revenue violation case. . . .f . Before the adjournment of the Court, His Honor Judge Bond took occasion to allude to the disgraceful and cowardly assault that tiad been made upon the prisoners on Tbure3ay by a negro rabble, which he denounced n strong terms. He ordered the Marshal to jause the arrest of any person who should be jaught in the act, and stated that if there was lot sufficient strength in the ranks of the offi:ers of the Court, he would call upon the United States soldiers for assistance. He laid that he would continue to arrest all such listurbers of the peace until he filled the ails, and that he would see that they were prosecuted to the utuwpt extent of the law. The District Attorney also stated that he vould take especial pains to bring to justice my person who should make any demonstraion whatever against the prisoners. In the case of the United States vs. W. J. [rent, charged with violatipn of the Revenue aw, the defendent was sentenced to pay a ine of $500, and to be imprisoned six mouths. ?Charleston Courier, 13tk instant Charleston, April 15.?In the United states Court, the evidence heard in the case >f William Lowry, charged with conspiracy, inder the Enforcement Act, will probably go o the jury to-night. Miles McCulloch, of fork, plead guilty of conspiracy. ACTS OF THE sftf LEGISLAJHHBT AN ACT ro amend the Law in relation to the License and Rflcistration of Pharmaceutists. Aoothfloaries and Druggists, and to regulate 'tlie vending of Drugs ana Poisons. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and louse of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assmbly, and by the authority of the same; rhat from and after tin massage of this Act, the Ifedical Faculty of the University of South Carolina, shall possess and exercise ail the >owers heretofore given and now possessed by he Faculty of the Medical College of Charleson, in respect to the examination and license if pharmaceutists, apothecaries and druggists: Provided, That this Section be construed as n no wise diminishing the powers of the Faculy last named; but as giving to the Faculty first tamed the same powers, and also imposing hereon the duty and obligation to exercise ach powers upon due application. Sec. 2. That any pharmaceutist, apothecary >r druggist who carries on and conducts the msiness of such occupation in this State, after he expiration of six months from the passage f this act, must have a license therefor rem one of the above named bodies. And ?