Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, May 23, 1872, Image 2
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
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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.
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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
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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 ,
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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
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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