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Straps and <f arts. The gross product of manufactures in the United States last year was 84,000,000,000. A monument to the memory of old John Brown is to be erected at Harper's Ferry. It is said that three out of every seven natives of Vermont emigrate to other States. A colored man in Indiana has been arrested for having two white wives. Bad cooking on the part of a wife has been held by a Texas judge as sufficient grouud for a divorce. It is asserted tnat in .Boston, no house valued at $20,000 has been totally destroyed by fire for forty-eight years. A Methodist preacher has been sentenced to "bread and water" for eleven days, in Sweden, for endeavoring to gain proselytes to his denomination. The Southern trains into Memphis are detained every trip by the immense numbers of caterpillars blocking up the tracks. The devastations have been fearful. Human nature is the same everywhere. It is remarked in New York that horse-car conductors on six cent lines refuse to affiliate with their five cent brothers. For real business ingenuity commend us to California. The proprietor of a San Jose pleasure garden draws crowds by offering a prize to the person with the longest nose. An English law compels a married woman, if she has money or the means of making it, and her lord has none, to support him, be he ever so worthless, that the expense of his keeping may not come upon the parish. A census has just been taken of the members of Brigham Young's family, which returns him sixty-eight children, of whom forty are females. His wives numbered thirty-two. A recent report shows that during the Franco-Prussian war, the number of the German army at one time reached 1,350,877 men, of whom 936,915 were actively engaged in the field. H. W. Hendricks, United States deputy marshal forSouth Carolina, has been indicted at Atlanta, Georgia, in the Superior Court for that county, for fraudulently altering a bench warrant. He was arrested and required to give four thousand dollars bail. The Atlanta Sun learns from the Stewand of the Kimball House, that that hotel consumes thirty tons of ice per month, which is at the rate of 2000 pounds per day. About 600 pounds of this amount is used in the dining room, 400 in the bar room, and the remainder in the rooms of the guests. In Washington a day or two ago a case was called up in court, and one of the counsel proceeded to arrange his books and papers for argument, but was interrupted by the announcement that "the court would rather decide in his favor than listen to his argument." The court thereupon made the necessary order. At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Company, held at their office recently, at No. 51 New Street, New York city, J. R. Crenshaw, Esq., was elected permanent President of the Company. The stock of the Company was very fully represented, and the transactions since the company was established are of the most satisfactory nature. Mr. Crenshaw :? _ *: ~ c t> i j tr? is a citizen ui rucamonu, v lrgima. A hotel to cost $20,000,000 is proposed in Chicago. It will be constructed entirely of iron, ten stories in height, and will cover four entire blocks?with grand arches over the intervening streets. Bazaars are to occupy the 6rst story, and elevators at every corner. It is intended that the rates will be from $10 to $1 per diem, according to the story, so that people of limited means, as well as those possessing wealth, can be accommodated in elegant style. A special dispatch from New York to the Cincinnati Gazette, of the date of the 12th instant, says it is reported that Horace Greeley has received a letter from Hon. Jefferson Davis, congratulating him on his nomination, and proposing to support the Cincinnati ticket. Mr. Davis says that he does not expect the South will have justice in his life time, but he thinks it will have a better prospect for obtainiug it under the Cincinnati ticket than any other, and consequently will give it his support. Mr. Elliott has his wife here, a very handsome, stylish woman, with little negro blood in her veins, hardly enough to distinguish her from our own race. One day, she entered the diplomatic gallery, where there were several wives of Congressmen, and a flut-1 ter was tne consequence. ??ome left, and others informed the gentlemanly usher that he must never again subject them to the crushing indignity. Those who made the most fuss about it were the wives of the most Radical Congressmen.? Washington Letter. The average weight of cotton bales, put up in different countries, during the past ten years, is given as follows: American cotton bales average 438 pounds; Egyptian cotton bales average 495 pounds ; East India cotton bales average 386 pounds; Turkish cotton bales average382 pounds; West India cotton bales average 213 pounds; Brazilian cotton bales average 165 pounds. The average American crop is 3,000,000 bales; the average Egyptian crop is 300,000 bales; total crop of India is 1,550,000 bales; total crop of Turkey is 200,000 bales; total crop of West India is 150,000 bales, and the total Brazilian crop is 800,000 bales. A touching incident is reported from Chattanooga. An utter stranger called on a respectable farmer, last week, and asked him if his house had not been robbed during the war. The farmer replied that it had. "I," said the stranger, "was one of the marauding party that did it. I took a silver locket." "That locket," said the farmer, bursting into tears, "had been worn by ray dear,dead child." "Here it is," replied the stranger, visibly affected ; "I am rich ; let me make restitution ; here are $20 for your little son." He gave the farmer a $50 bill and received $30 in change. He then wruug the farmer's hand warmly and left. The farmer his since dried his tears and loaded his shot gun. The $50 bill was bad. Just now the politicians are figuring up the electoral vote, both as bearing on the presidential election and on the action of the forthcoming Democratic convention. The following is the new apportionment on which such speculations are based: Alabama 9, Arkansas 6, California 6, Connecticut 6, Delaware, 3, Florida 3, Georgia 11, Illinois 21, Indiana 14, Iowa 11, Kansas5, Kentucky 12, Louisiana 7, Maine 7, Maryland 8, Massachusetts 13, Michigan 12, Minnesota 5, Mississippi 8, Missouri 15, Nebraska 3, Nevada 3, New Hampshire 4, New Jersey 9, New York, 34, North Carolina 10, Ohio 23, Oregon 3, Pennsylvania 18, Rhode Island 4, South Carolina 7, Tennessee 11, Texas 8, Vermont 4, Virginia 11, West Virginia 5, Wisconsin 10, total 357. Necessary to a choice, 179. An ingenious but over-conceited man undertook to mend a tin tea-kettle the other night. He had seen tinkers do the same thing, and he knew he could do it too. In probing about the bottom of the kettle for weak places he found one where he least expected it, and ran the brad-awl clear through his finger. Whereupon he howled with anguish and dropped the Kettle on the head of his infant son. lying prone on the floor at his feet chewing a rubber rattle. The infant's head was badly cut, and, in the excitement which followed, another young child managed to tip over the solder and catch about a spoonful in his little shoe, and added his lusty yells to the family chorus. The unhappy man tied up his finger, put sticking plaster on the baby's head, plastered ointment on the baby's foot, and left the tea-kettle at the tin shop on his j way to the doctor's. The United States Supreme Court has given a decision which is intended to define the American doctrine as to the relations of Church and State. The case before the court was that of a Presbyterian Church in Louis- o ville which had become divided through old 1 troubles relating to. slavery and the civfl war. ^ After various proceedings before the establish- B ed tribunals of the church?the Presbytery, , the Synod and the General Assembly?the dispute was taken into the courts ; first into ^ the State Courts of Kentucky, and afterward to the United States Circuit Court; the decis- u ions in the State Courts being all in favor of | one party, and in the United States Court of the other. Finally, the case was brought be- ? fore the Supreme Court of the United States, y which decided, substantially, that no court has power to interfere with the action of the z General Assembly, which is the supreme judi- I catory of the Presbyterian Church. Its de- n cisions, whether right or wrong, must be ac- jj cepted as final in all church matters, and civil f tribunals have not the authority even to inquire whether, under the constitution of the n church, the Assembly has jurisdiction over r: cases brought before it, or whether its action k is in conformity to the rules and precedents of J, the church. From this it would appear that in any church the decision of the ecclesiastical ^ judicatory which is recognized as of the highest authority, cannot be over-ruled by any d civil court. U forMle inquirer. J ? w YORKVILLE, S. C.; ?Q THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1872. * c Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is r 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 li "TAKING THE ENQUIRER." This is a proceeding to which we have no I objection, when it is done in a legitimate man- ^ ner?that is, when a person taking it is a subscriber and has paid for the paper. For such g persons we entertain sentiments of profound f respect; they have given conclusive evidence f that they are sensible people. But there is another way of "taking the Enquirer" for v which we have an utter aversion, and our f subscribers will join us in the opinion, as g some of them have complained of it very much within the past few months. Some ^ persons are in the habit of getting the papers j of subscribers and keeping them until they y have read them, when, if convenient, they are sent to the owners. In some cases, the pa- 8 pers never reach the subscribers at all, being e kept bv the oolite individuals who "take" & ar * n them from the places where they are sent. There is but one term in the English lan- G guage that properly describes such a transac- & tion ; but as that may sound too rough to persons who do it from thoughtlessness or carelessness, we will not call it stealing, but simply say, that the papers might as well be stolen ! e Now we desire that persons who have paid for c the Enquirer, shall get it, and that regular- jjj ly. It belongs to them; no one has a right to it till they have read it, and then ouly with the expressed consent of the owner. The 81 taking of our subscribers' papers is a wrong 0 against them and a serious injury to us, as c subscribers do not like to take a paper that a reachos them irregularly. ^ It is our earnest hope that this practice will be stopped at once; nor do we wish to be forced t to allude to it again. If any one likes to read t the paper it is an easy matter to get it in the regular and honorable manner, by subscri- t bing. If it is worth reading, regularly, it is ? certainly worth paying for; nor is the price so great as to break any one. The truth is, c every person who desires to keep posted in the c passing events of the country should pay for c the information and not steal it from his neigh- i bor. As an economical measure it is to his I interest lo take his county paper and pay for it. The advertisements alone, if regularly ii read, will save him enough in his purchases, c to more than pay the subscription price. At a any rate, it is rather small in any man to de- i pend upon sponging, borrowing or pilfering C for the news he ought to pay for. Reader, what do you think about it? c t PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate, on Tuesday the 14th, the bill to amend the enforcement act, providing for j the appointment of federal supervisors at c each voting precinct, was passed. An amendment that the appointment of the supervisors shall be made in writing, and on the written j recommendation of not less than two voters of the precinct, was rejected. Also, an amend- j* ment providing that no supervisor or deputy * marshal appointed under this act shall have ? power to call out or direct any part of the " military or naval forces of the United States, was rejected. An amendment was adopted which provides that no person shall be ap- ^ pointed supervisor for a precinct of which he c is not a duly qualified voter, or a deputy mar- ^ shal without being a qualified voter in the ^ district wherein he resides. The bill was then passed?yeas 36, nays 17. The bill extend- ^ iDg the time during which the President may ^ suspend the writ of habeas corpus was called * up, but went over as unfinished business. The ^ House spent the day in committee of the whole on the tariff bill. 11 In the Senate, on the 15th, a bill was passed C to provide crutches for all disabled soldiers g and sailors. The bill to suspend the time for suspending the writ of habeas corpus in the 8( discretion of the President was postponed, f In the House, the tariff bill was discussed, t< and received various amendments. The re- e port of the conference committee on the defi- f ciency appropriation bill was adopted. The i< report strikes out the Morrill amendment, h which made loyalty a test of the right to recover from the United States for cotton ille- h gaily seized. The Senate recedes from this ^ amendment and the conferees agree to an I amendment authorizing the payment to claim- 8' ants of the net proceeds of cotton unlawfully t; seized by United States officers after June a 30th, 1865. The money is to be paid without C interest. The amendment is not to affect * causes pending in the court of claims, nor is n any claim to be recognized unless filed within u six months after the passage of this act. The ^ sum of $20,000 is appropriated to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to take prelimina- J ry action with regard to the claims. ti In the Senp.te, on the 16th, a report from S the conference committee on the naval ap- ti propriation bill was concurred in. In the S House, the tariff bill, to which several amend- o ments were made, occupied most of the day. u Butler offered a resolution that Congress ad- p journ on the 3d of June next to November n next, stating that his object was to continue C in force the act authorizing the President to c suspend the habeas corpus, which now expires b by limitation when this Congress shall ad- y journ sine die. The House by a vote of yeas si 64, nays 165, refused to second Mr. Butler's tl demand for the previous question, and then, b n motion of Mr. Dawes, by a vote of yeas 42, nays 57, adopted a resolution to adjourn ine die on Monday, June 3d. An evening < sssion was held, during which a number of ills were passed, principally of western in- j 3rest. i In the Senate, on the 17th, Mr. Scott called p the bill extending the time to March 4, t 873 in which the President may, at his dis- 1 retion, suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Ir. Scott, in support of the bill, said that "the i istitution and spread of the ku-klux orgaui- < -*? <? n?? \r n T?n RllUIl waauue tu UCU3, xi . u. l uuwimm ty UV, 5. Gordon, both delegates to the democratic * ational convention inl868. The organization i icluded nearly the entire white population, i rom the highest to the lowest. It had comlitted 525 homicides and 2909 other out- 1 ages. The report of the minority on the ku- < lux investigation meant a repudiation of the < ite Constitutional amendments. If the powr to suspend the habeas corpus is kept in the 1 ands of the President, its existence will ren- ? er its exercise unnecessary. Mr. Pratt said be army could not be put to a more nobler se than putting down this organization." 'urther consideration of the bill was then < ostponed till Monday at noon. The house 1 ?as engaged the whole of the day on the iriff bill. Much merriment was occasioned 1 y a proposition to place white hats and coats ' n the free list. On a vive voce vote, and 1 raid great laughter, the democratic side 1 uite generally voted "aye," and the republians "no." 1 In the Senate, on the 20th, the extension 1 f the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus ' ccupied the entire day without result, and ' r'as continued in night session. In the louse, the tariff bill passed and goes to the | ienate. The House agreed to the Senate 1 esolution for final adjournment May 29th. 1 SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Governor Scott has removed H. C. Braw- 1 ey as a Trial Justice for Chester county. ? The stockholders of the Air Line Rail 1 load will meet in Spartanburg on the first Vednesday in June. 1 ? The School Commissioner of Fairfield ;ives notice that he is compelled to close the ree schools in that county for the want of iinds. ? Gen. Kershaw has written a letter in phich he advises against sending delegates rom this State to the Democratic Convention ;t Baltimore. ? An attempt at Georgetown to set fire to he store of Mr. F. W. Arnhalter was made ast week. A kitchen on the premises of Mr. V. S. Croft was also burned. ? The Columbia correspondent of the News ays that leading Republicans and the souudst of the members of the Legislature are doog all they can to prevent an extra session. ? A party of boys went in bathing in I Imith's Branch, near Columbia, last week, nd four of tbem died in a few days thereafter pith symptoms of meningetis. ? Hon. Alfred Huger, an old and highly steemed citizen of Charleston, died in that ity on Wednesday of last week. He was ostmaster of Charleston from the time of 'resident Jackson till 1865. ? The Laurens Railroad is advertised to be old at public sale, at Columbia, on the 20th f June next. At a previous sale it was purhased by the Greenville Railroad Company, nd is now to be resold at the risk of the orraer purchaser. ? Mr. George E. Windsor, Route Agent on he Charlotte Railroad, recently arrested on he charge of violating the Enforcement Act, ias been admitted to bail in the sum of 83000 o appear at the August terra of the United States Circuit Court. ? Hon. A. P. Aldrich, of Barnwell, who aay be classed as a radical Democrat, has re:ently written a letter in which he opposes the neeting of the Democratic Convention, and irges the democracy to support Greeley and Irown. ? The Columbia TJnion argues that the Legslature, having regularly adjourned without lay, has no legal and constitutional power to assemble before the regular time of meeting n November next, except under a call of the governor of the State. ? Attorney-General Chamberlain has reonsidered a former opinion relative to the ax on clergymen, and now concludes that 'ministers or clergymen are not liable to a lisense tax under the recent law." This opinon has been officially communicated to the state Auditor. ? The Democratic Central Executive Corauittee of South Carolina, of which Gen. Wade iampton is Chairman, have issued a call for Convention of the Democratic party to be teld in Columbia, on Tuesday, the 11th day f next month. The object of the Convention j 3 to take some action in regard to sending lelegates to the Baltimore Convention. ? During the months of January, February, j jT 1 1 A ! - J? xl_ ! OT 1 OO narcn uuu April ui mis year, 01,100 iuub ui ommercial fertilizers were shipped from Charleston. The shipments were made as j ollows: By the South Carolina Railroad, 28,- ( 58 tons; by the North-Eastern Railroad, j 866 tons; by the Charleston and Savannah ] tailroad, 1601 tons; by water, 2358 tons. ] n 1871, for the same period, the amount was 0.487 tons; in 1870, it reached 44,485 tons. ? Mr. H. C. Powell, Agent, proposes to com- I lence the publication of a weekly paper in i Columbia to be called the "Masonic Messen- 1 er." It is to be devoted to Masonry, and 1 it is proposed to make the paper one of per- 1 onal and general interest to the craft, devoed solely to the pure purposes of it, and in- ; ended to be a medium through which work- 1 re mays perfect themselves as well as to perect interchange of thoughts regarding histor- i eal facts, etc., etc." The subscription price 1 as been fixed at $2 per annum. I ? The Columbia Phcenix of Saturday 18th ustant, says: "W. A. Bailey, E. H. Hines, 1 1. L. Cooper, Henry Hines, J. H. Cooper, j I. O. Dukes, H. R. Flanigan, Banks Jami- ] on and Henning Watts, from Fairfield coun- < y, charged with a violation of the ku-klux ( ct, had their several hearings before the 1 Commissioner yesterday. After hearing the ritnesses on part of the prosecution, the Comlissioner decided that their cases neither came nder the ku-klux or enforcement acts, and he prisoners were discharged." ? In a circular issued on Monday last by R. Jillson, State Superintendent ofEducaion, and addressed to the several County kjhool Commissioners, he says: "Representaions having been made to this office by the Itate Treasurer, to the effect that my orders n him, in favor of the several county treasrere in the State, payable from the State apropriation of $300,000 for the support and laintenance of free common schools, ending )ctober 31st, 1872, will not be paid until the ollection of the next general taxes shall have een made, I deem it expedient to advise ou to close, at once, all the free common chools under your supervision, except in hose school districts which have unexpended 1 alances of school funds on hand." I I NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. | n ? The Greeley hat is all the rage at Wei- t Ion. ? A man named Luck killed his wife near h \sheboro on Weduesdy of last week by knock- A ng her in the head with a mattock. z ? The invincible and irrepressible Lowrey c *ang were visible at Moss Neck Station lasfc; I Friday. n ? Hon. Thomas Settle is the Republican ' d lominee for Congress from the Greensboro : b district. ? The Southern Baptist Convention, in ses- 11 lion last week at Raleigh, adjourned to meet A n Mobile on the second Monday of May p lext. v ? Judge Merrimon has entered fully upon t! ;he gubernatorial canvass. He will first deliv- t sr speeches in the Cape Fear and Albermarle a wintrv. C ? The Mecklenburg county convention nora- d inated Capt. R. P. Waring for the Senate, c ind J. E. Brown and Watson Reid for the House of Representatives. ii ? The U. S. Circuit Court is to convene in a Raleigh next month. There are 969 defen- n lants in crimipal cases bound over for trial at I the approaching term. a ? Deputy Marshal Hugh Peters, of Char- e lotte, "captured" and took to that town on t Saturday last a distillery and fixtures, together fi with three hundred gallons of corn whisky, v the property of John Forbis, of Gaston county. i< ? A man in Granville county suffering with v i cancer, rubbed strichnine on the affected c part, by the advice of a physician, in conse- c juence of which he died, the poison rapidly f! spreading over his whole system. ( ? A negro woman named Eliza Davidson p was arrested in Charlotte, on a charge of hav- it ing murdered her child. She implicates a b negro named Ned Caldwell as accessary to c the act. p ? John W. Neal, a man about 65 years of p age, and partially deaf, while walking on the t track of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruth- a erford railroad,near McCord's Stcre, six miles v from Charlotte, on Tuesday of last week, was \ 3truck by a passing train and instantly killed, c ?Stephen Worth, formerly the body servant of Gov. Worth, died a few days since in t Rnlpiah Rtfirihen was a hiorhlv esteemed col- i ored man, and to such an extent was he always i indulged by his master that he was popularly c known as "the man that Jonathan Worth be- ^ longed to." "! ? Major Wm. A. Smith, recently President t of the N. C. railroad, received the nomination t of the Republicans of the 4th, or Raleigh e Congressional district, in the convention at i Franklinton last week. Jim Harris and John t H. Williamson, both colored, were selected f as delegates to represent the District in the 1 Philadelphia Republican Convention. a ? AmoDg the delegates to the Southern ( Baptist Convention at Raleigh, was the Rev. f Thomas Dawson, of South Carolina, who was 1 the oldest minister in that body. He is nine- t ty years of age ; an Englishman by birth; was c a private in the 14th regiment of English t troops, and fought through the battle of Wa- 1 terloo under Wellington. He was a mission- f ary to the Cherokee nation 53 years ago. t + *1 POLITICAL ITEMS. ( ? Five hundred telegrams of congratula- ] tion is the pleasant budget received daily by Mr. Greeley. ? Andrew Johnson proposes to be a candi- S date for the Governorship of Tennessee on the Greeley platform. ? The Democratic press of North Carolina * is almost unanimous for Greeley and Brown, ^ and opposed to the Baltimore Convention 1 making nominations. ? General Grant is making concessions to ^ public opinion. He has turned out brother- * in-law Casey from the Collectorship at New ] Orleans. I ? Ex-Senator William Allen, of Ohio, the i democratic Nestor of that State, pronounces 1 in favor of the endorsement of the liberal ( ticket by the Baltimore convention. ? A resolution endorsing the nomination of j Greeley and Brown was adopted by the Ten- j nessee Democratic Convention by a vote of < 721 to 132. I ? "There is no mistake about it," says the f New York Herald, editorially, "the majority ! of our exchanges, Democratic and otherwise, ( go for Greeley and Brown." 1 ? The New York World now wants the < Democratic Convention to nominate ex-Sena- ( tor Hendricks, of Indiana, for President, with i Judge Church, of New York, for Vice-Presi- J dent * ? The Democratic Central Committee of Greene county, 111., held a meeting recently and unanimously endorsed the Cincinnati ? nominations. This county gave Seymour t over 15,000 in 1868. 1 ? The reelection of Mr. Ferry to the United States Senate by the combined votes of the { Democrats and Greeley men of the Legisla- J ture of Connecticut, is considered the first grand triumph of the "new movement." Mr. ? Ferry is a Republican of the Greeley school. 1 ? The Republicans of twenty-six States have ' held their conventions for the election of del- , egates to the regular convention of the party at Philadelphia. Of these, twenty-three States have instructed their delegates to vote for the c nomination of General Grant. \ ? The St. Louis Republican says: "If the l Baltimore Convention is to nominate some- i body in opposition to Greeley, it ought to v nominate Grant The President is the rep- ^ raonn+a+iTra nf ninP.tanfhq ftf t.hfi OnDOSition tO , LWbUVUIUTV U4 UAM w ?v? va Greeley, and ought, by ftll fairness, to be its nominee. ? The Danville (Va.) Times says: "A few pears ago, if any one had told us we ought to vote for Greeley, we should have felt insulted. Now, we shall vote for him with a great deal uf satisfaction, as long as the prospect of his beating Grant is the least encouraging. The times change, and we change with them." ? In view of his unexpected nomination for the Presidency, Mr. Greeley has withdrawn from the conduct of the Tribune, and will henceforth, until further notice, exercise no t control or supervision over its columns. The editorial management of the Tribune devolves upon J. Whitelaw Reid. ? A large meeting of the most prominent and substantial citizens of Petersbug, Va., representing all classes and occupations, was held on the 14th, in which resolutions were unanimously adopted endorsing the nomination of Greeley and Brown, and earnestly deprecating any nomination by the Baltiraure i am ^ UUUYCUWUU. I ?The Independent says: "It is a noticeable ( sircumstance that Senator Sumner, however t much he may be opposed to General Grant, I is not among the Liberal Republicans who c went up to Cincinnati. He has as yet said ^ nothing and done nothing, so far as the public s know, which commits him to the support of e the Greeley ticket." 8 ? A Washington correspondent of the Cin- 8 jinnati Commenced says that conversations * with the leading Democrats in the House show 1 that out of the one hundred and five members ? belonging to that party, not more than twenty- t five are iu favor of the Baltimore Convention g aaking a nomination, or against the ratificaion of the nomination of Greeley and Brown. ? The Greeley and Brown headquarters ave been established at the St. Marc Hotel, Vashington, until the Congressional organiation for the campaign is perfected. All ommunications may be addressed to John j ). Defrees, at the above place. A list of ames are requested. Documents, speeches, ic., will be furnished from these headquarers to all parts of the country. ? The Brooklyn Eagle, edited by Mr. R. Cinseller, who was the President of the New fork Democratic Convention, says in his pa>er, that the preponderance of sentiment in faor of Greeley of course found expression in he selection of delegates to Baltimore. Of hose delegates, sixty-eight in number, none re understood to be opposed to the Liberal andidates. and quite two-thirds of them are lirectly and earnestly, what is said to be "unonditionally," in favor of them. ? Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana' made a speech n the House of Representatives on the 12th, gainst the endorsement of the Cincinnati lorainations by the Baltimore Convention, le disclaimed speaking for any but himself, nd arraigned Mr. Greeley's political record, specially of the last ten years, to show that here was not one single feature, save that avoring amnesty, which was in consonance rith the policy maintained by the Deraocrat3 party. He alluded to the protective tariff iews, to Mr. Greeley's record on the confisation acts, to federal election laws, the reonstruction acts, the ku-klux laws, rfnd in act to the complete endorsement which the Cincinnati candidate has made of every aspect which the radical party had enforced as ts policy towards the South. While Grant iad enforced bad laws in obedience to his ath, Greeley had proposed and urged their (assage. He charged him with being res>onsible for secession by advising the South o depart in peace, and then turning around md demanding a vigorous prosecution of the rar. His single act in bailing Jeff. Davis vas too narrow a plank for a party to stand >n. ? An active supporter of the nominees of he Cincinnati Convention has been canvassng among prominent Democrats in Washngton to find out the probability of its enl omonf Kir tKo Tfntinniil ("Yin mention. The Hon. James Brooks, of New fork, who has been an active participant in he politics of the country for more than thiry years, and has a coolness of judgment that intitles his opinions to great respect, says that n his opinion Mr. Greeley will receive in he Democratic National Convention threeourths of the New England delegates, all of tfew York, the greater part of New Jersey md Pennsylvania, several delegates from )hio aud Indiana, all of Illinois and Michigan, a part of Wisconsin, all of Minnesota, 'owa, Nebraska, Oregon, California, Kenucky and Tennessee, and all the South, efc:ept a portion of Georgia, making more than hree-fourths of the convention. He expects lorace to be warmly opposed by delegates rom Ohio, Indiana and Georgia, but by genlemen whose views are generally extreme. There may be, he thinks, a rupture in the invention, but its influence will only make Mr. Greeley stronger among the Republicans. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Storm in Columbia. At 11 o'clock on Wednesday night of ast week, a severe thunder storm passed over Columbia, doing considerable damage to trees, 'ences and houses, A telegram in the Charles;on News gives the following particulars : "The roof of one house was blown off, and ell on Clifford Cooper, who was in bed at the ;ime, inflicting injuries that will probably jrove fatal. Some houses had twenty or hirty lights broken by branches and trees jeing blown against them. A providential visitation occurred at the State House. About brty-five feet in length and most of the width )f the roof of the west wing was blown away ind the heavy timbers, boards and debris vent through into the hall of the House of Representatives, causing a complete ruin of Kiantn nr mApa /loulra OQ manv rVlftlPS llTlH f.hfi t n V JJ \tj VI UIVl V UVUttUj MVI VMW.aw| v. jorgeous carpet. The seats formerly occupied }y Mobley, Byas, McDaniel, Jamison, and leveral others of the noisy members, were jompletely destroyed, and those brilliant ights of the Legislature could not have escaped death had they been in their seats at ;he time. The damage is estimated, at from sight to twelve thousand dollars. The Southern and Atlantic Telegraph office was also risited by lightning, wbich melted a number >f the wires, which, however, were repaired nstantly." fYill Grant Withdraw? This is a question seriously asked by lome, and it has even been asserted that one housand men of the Republican party have iffered to give one thousand dollars each to jrrant, if he will withdraw from the contest. Vn answer seems to come through the Washngton Republican by the announcement?official, it is presumed, as it is said the article vas seen and approved by the President before t was putin print?that the rumors in circulaion as to the contemplated withdrawal of jrrant from the field "have not a shadow of oundation." That papers also adds: There was a time when President Grant rould have gladly withdrawn, but the course if his opponents in the party and in the press, >y their unjust and venomous attacks upon lis Administration and upon himself, has put t entirely out of the question. General Grant rill seek a renomination and a reelection rom the party and the country, and his friends - > .t. 1_ _:n lave no iear mac me peupie win viuuiuaro iim from the aspersions that have been cast ipon him during the last eighteen months by i set of disappointed office-seekers and ambiious Presidential aspirants. He has no more dea of retiring than he had of abandoning he seige of Vicksburg; of retreating in the iVilderness, or of turning his face northward rom the Capital of the Confederacy until it vas in the possession of the loyal armies of the Jnion. tor Governor and Lt. Governor. The Era, a Republican paper?one side if which is printed at Spartanburg, and the ither side elsewhere?has nominated Judge Tames L. Orr for Governor of this State, and Dr. B. A. Bosemon, colored, of Charleston, or Lieutenant-Governor. The antecedents ?f Judge Orr are well known to the people of he State, and as a candidate for Governor, at he next election, would probably be more aceptable than any other person whose name tas been mentioned in connection with the >osition. In relation to its nominee for Lieuenant-Governor, the Era says: Dr. B. A. Bosemon is a colored man, and iavitig been one of the Representatives of Charleston county in the State Legislature for he last two terms, furnishes the bright exam>le of a man standing in the very midst of :orruption tor four consecutive years wunouc )ver being even suspected of yielding to its inluences. The journal of the House of Repentatives will show that he has voted against )very ridiculous, absurd and extreme measure, ind against every measure in which money is upposed to have been used, that has been >rought before that body since he became a nember. Dr. Bosemon possesses a brilliant intellect md an accomplished education, and speaks he English language with a propriety, elegance and fluency which we have never heard surpassed by any one. His fine personal appearance, his refined and gentlemanly bearing, his strong native endowments, his high mental culture, his sound moral principles, and his liberal and enlightened political views will recommend him to the highest considera- j tion and respect of all good and intelligent I men everywhere, and brings us to the conclu-1 sion that he is the noblest representative of! his race that we have ever seen. The Alabama Claims. The following is the President's message ' on the indirect damage question sent to the U. S. Senate last week: m. jl a /it. Oi_j? . T . j j10 uie oencue oj ine unaea svuce.-?jl h?hd- j rait herewith the correspondence recently ta- j ken place respecting the divisions of opinion | which have arisen between this government and that of Great Britain with regard to the powers of the tribunal of arbitration created under the treaty signed at Washington May 8,1871. I respectfully invite the attention of the Senate to the proposed article submitted by the British government with the object of removing the differences which seem to threaten the prosecution of the arbitration, and request an expression by the Senate of their disposition in regard to advising and consenting to the formal adoption of an article such as is proposed by the British government. The Senate is aware that the consultation with that body in advance of entering into agreements with foreign States has many precedents. In the early days of the republic, Gen. Washington repeatedly asked their advice upon pending questions with such powers. The most important precedent is that of the Oregon boundary treaty, in 1846. The importance of the results hanging upon t^e present state of the treaty with Great Britain leads me to follow these former precedents, and to desire the counsel of the Senate in advance of agreeing to the proposition of Great Britain. U. S. Grant. Washington, May 13,1872. The new article proposed to the treaty provides a rule for the settlement in principle of the ordinary duties and liabilities of neutrals by submitting to the Geneva arbitrators, in a supplemental treaty, a mutual agreement, applying to the present and all future case3, that neither nation shall be held liable for consequential or indirect damages. The New York Democratic Convention. The New York Democratic State Convention assembled in Rochester on the 15th instant. A resolution was offered to appoint a committee to appoint two delegates from each Assembly district, ana lour irom me State at large to the national convention at Baltimore, and that the delegation be instruct ted to vote as a unit, which was laid on the table. There was much discussion on a resolution that a committee be appointed to select delegates to Baltimore. A substitute that delegates be appointed by the convention itself was voted down, and the original resolution adopted; in conformity with which a committee of fourteen was appointed to select delegates. Clarkson N. Potter, from the committee on resolutions, made a report He said the committee had given the subject the most careful and thorough consideration. The resolutions are as follows: First That we recognize the changes in the nature and constitution of the government which have taken place, and, without reopening the questions of the past, are ready now to co-operate with those?whatever their previous party affiliations?who favor limited and localized government, who seek to restrain the exercise by Congress of absolute and general powers, to prevent its entering upon private legislation, to restrain the growth of vast corporations, and to work permanent civilservice reform. Second. That the recent declaration of political principles by the convention of Cincinnati is evidence of the progress of public opinion toward sound ana wholesome views of government. We believe that all patriotic citizens may unite upon that platform for the purpose of restoring an honest administration of national affairs and enforcing the obligations of the constitution, and our delegates to Baltimore are instructed to take the course beet calculated to secure the triumph of these principles, and the selection of any candidate representing them who shall meet the approval of the democracy in national convention assembled. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. PROM UNION COUNTY. CPOP PROSPECTS. The northern half of our county has had good rains. In the Gilkey and Thickety region nearly two inches fell during four days. This wet the ground thoroughly. As one approaches Union Court House he will find the rains lighter, and partial. In the neighborhood of the village, and south and west of it, they have had but little. Farmers are more hopeful where rain has fallen. A good stand of cotton will be up by the 25th inst. There will be no lack of grass about the same time. Corn is small but generally clean, and in growing condition. Wheat rather low, heads short, but they are filling finely, and the promised yield is fair. The fall sowing of oats low, but well headed. The spring sowing small. About the usual acreage of cotton planted. Laborers, both white and black, generally working well. Cincinnati and Philadelphia conventions ' _1 ?AX*?? ? h ? ?A fnAiikldil AIII? form ana piauurms uavo nut jct uuuuku uu> imu. operations. It is to be hoped that we may be able to steer clear of undue excitement and foolish wrangling, and more foolish stump-oratory, during the present campaign. The farmer has other business. His campaign is against grass and weeds. The end to be attained is a support for the family, and a few bales of cotton. League meetings, barbecues and stump-oratdry will not give this. It is every reading man's duty to study out from the papers of the day the various questions that are shaking our republic to the very centre. In a quiet thoughtful way he should decide for himself. If he be a worthy citizen he will do this, and it will not interfere with his daily toil. It becomes our portion of the State to make the strongest effort for a good crop, and to avoid, at the same time, the excitement and bad feeling and harsh expressions incident to these presidential campaigns. P. + License Tax?Ministers.?From information received in an interview, May 6, with the Attorney-General of South Carolina, Hon. D. H. Chamberlain, we feel authorized to say 1 - 1'? ?-?-~i ?a ? jn a list/ana/* 10 ine miuiswirs, inatauuuuutiui is mo w^uav, tax law, in its application to the ministry, particularly the itinerant, that they may rest quiet until fiirther and timely notice. We are persuaded that a fuller acquaintance with the peculiar relations of ministers to their charges?relations which it is hardly possible for the Attorney-General sufficiently to have known in all their differences and bearings? will make it consistent and clear that, excepting, possibly a few peculiar cases, the ministers of the Gospel, assucb, do not come within the purview of the license tax law, and that if the intention of those who framed and those who enacted the law can be ascertained, it will be found that the imposing of a license tax on the ministers of the Gospel was not in their thoughts, though the wording is not as explicit as it should have been. The multiplicity of the public business, and the obscurity in the wording of the law, we would, on our own responsibility, mention as an excuse for any opinion of the AttorneyGeneral, previously expressed, and as subjecting the ministers of the Gospel as such, to a license tax.?Christian Neighbor. LOCAL ITEMS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Conner, Hobbs & Dobson?Have you anything to Trade ??Repairing?Greenbacks?Produce. T. M. Dobson &Co.?And Still They Come?Buggy Umbrellas?Summer Balmorals?Live Store?More?Buggy Whips?In the Best Humor?Miles' Shoes?Cheap Goods. ThoB. S. Neely?Notice. M. Strauss <fc Son?Facts not to be Disputed. John C. Kuykendal?Spring Time?Liver Regulator?Queen's Delight?Money?Hostetter's Bitters. John G. Enloe, Countv Auditor?Delinquent Land Sales?Forfeited Land Sales, w w?rt Tntendant?Notice?Town Tax Notice. THE MILITARY PRI8ONER8. There have been no recent arrests. On the 16th, P. W. Randall and Saml Randall were released on bond; on the 17th, E. A. Turner; and on the 20th, M. B. Leecbr, J. W. Pursely and J. L. Pursely, leaving eleven yet in confinement. FINE RAINS. Refreshing showers fell in this section on Friday night and Saturday last?the first rains we have had since the 11th ultimo. A great deal of complaint prevails about the backwardness of crops. Much cotton that was planted failed to come up, and in addition to the effects of the dry weather, the cut worm has injured corn to some extent. The recent rains will, however, be quite beneficial to cotton and corb, while they fell in a most opportune time for the oat crop. THE SENTENCED KU-KLUX. a nrivate letter we learn that twenty-six ? r of the persons recently sentenced at Charleston for violations of the "enforcement act," will be removed to the penitentiary at Albany, New York, about the first of June. They will go by steamer to New York, under charge of Marshal Wallace. It is understood that all of the prisoners from this county will be sent to Albany except Seapaugb, who was not sentenced in consequence of a motion for an arrest of judgment in his case. TAX SALES. In another column of to-day's issue will be found two advertisements from Auditor Enloe, offering for sale on the first Monday of June, next, sundry parcels of land in this county, in consequence of the non-payment of the taxes thereon. The whole of each tract of land advertised as "forfeited," will be sold to the highest bidder. Those tracts advertised as "delinquent," will be sold to the lowest bidder; or in other words, the purchaser will be the person who will take the least quantity of any particular parcel and pay the taxes and charges that have accrued on it In each case the purchaser will get a sound title, and the present owner is deprived of the privilege of redemption except upon such terms as the purchaser may be willing to propose. In short, the land becomes the property of the purchaser to all intents and purposes. Par ties interested who desire to retain their property, can only do so by paying the costs and charges on it before the day of sale. CHARTER OF THE CAROLINA. NARROW GAUGE RAIL ROAD. . Section 1.?The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That a company may be formed with a capital stock not exceeding two millions of dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, to be called and known as the "Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company," for the purpose of constructing a nartow gauge railroad from a point in the line dividing the States of North and South Carolina, in the direction of Yorkville, South Carolina, over the most practicable route, to the town of Dallas, in the county ? of Gaston, thence to the town of Lincolnton, in the county of Lincoln, thence to the town of Newton, in the county of Catawba, thence to the town of Hickory Tavern, in the same county, thence to the town of Lenoir, in the county of Caldwell, and such company whea formed as hereinafter directed, shaft have power to receive, possess, own and transfer real and personal property and estate to have a common seal, and to pass such bylaws, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, as may be necessary to carry out the objects of the corporation; shall be capable | in law of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, and shall have and enjoy all the rights of other corporate bodies tinder the Laws of this State, and have the exclusive right to transfer and carry persons, produce, merchandise and mineral on and along such railroad, at such prices as they may fix. Sec. 2. That for the purpose of creating the capital stock of such company, J. G. Lewis, Joseph C. Cobb, 0. G. Foard, and James R. Ellis, or any three of them, are hereby appointed commissioners, whose duly it shall be as soon after the passage of this as may be, to appoint such commissioners to open books of suDscnption at sucn places ana ai sucn wmes as to them shall seem best, and under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe; such subscriptions, or any part thereof may be received payable in money, land, labor or material necessary in the construction of said road, bonds, stocks or other valuable credits, in such manner and on such terms or shall be agreed between said company and such subscribers. Sec. 3. That whenever the sum of ten thousand dollars shall have been subscribed to the capital stock of said company, it shall be the duty of the commissioners above named, any three of them to act, to call a general meeting of the stockholders, aftergiving such notice as to them shall seem sufficient, and at such times and places as they shall determine; and at all general meetings of caid stockholders, not less than a majority of all the stock subscribed shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and said stockholders when so met in general meeting, shall have power, and it shall be- their duty to elect a President and four directors for 6aid company, whose term of office shall be for one year, and until others are chosen. In the election of President and directors, and in enacting such laws as may be necessary, the stockholders may be entitled to vote as follows, viz: one vote for each share owned not exceeding five; one vote for every two shares above five and not above ten; one vote for every four shares above ten and not above twenty; one vote for every ten shares above twenty and not aoove nity; one vote ior every mty snares above fifty and not above five hundred; and one additional vote for every one hundred shares above five hundred; no fraction shall be counted making less than half a vote. Sec. 4. That it shall be the doty of said stockholders at their first general meeting to prescribe the manner and time in which payment of stocks on the subscription. books alial! no monp Sec. 5. That it shall be the duty of the president and directore of said company, to appoint a treasurer, who shall remain in office such length of time as the company in their by-laws shall determine; the president and directors shall have a general direction and management of the affairs of said company, and snail appoint some suitable persop as engineer, whose duty it shall be :to make the necessary surveys for the location of said railroad, and furnish the president and directors with reports of said surveys and estimates of cost; said directors shall have power to fill anv vacancv that m&v nnnnr in their i Board until their next meeting, and in the j absence of the president may elect one for the I time; they shall also appoint a secretary, I whose duty it shall be to keep a fair and cor- 1 rect record of -the proceedings of said board, m and all of the proceedings of the stockholders in general meetings, in a book to be provided for that purpose. ? Sec. 6. Hiat the President or board of directors shall at least once a year make a full report on the state of the company, and its