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JTflaps flttd .facts. The Greeley campaign white hats are to be emphasized by Brown ribbon bands. Cincinnati has 36,000 people to the square mile ; New York but 23,000. Typhoid fever is epidemic in New York and vicinity. Sixty thousand acres of land in Florida were recently sold for $3900. Six hundred thousand sewing machines, amounting in value to $25,000,000, are aunually sold in this country. An English locomotive was lately run, experimentally, seventy-seven miles in one hour. Two tons of boys' marbles, made in Germany, recently arrived in the United States by one vessel. j Over one-third of the teachers in the German Tyrol receive less than $DO a year from their profession. It is rumored that Brick Poraeroy and Ben Butler are to fight a duel. It is feared that both are bad shots. To-day has been set apart for the decoration of the graves of the Union dead throughout the country. Ex-Governor Seymour, of New York, is said to have written a letter to Hon. S. S. Cox, endorsing Greeley. The Democrats and Liberals of Illinois will meet in separate conventions on the 26th of June. With but four exceptions, the Democratic press of Iowa endorse the nominations of the Cincinnati Convention. The Cincinnati Enquirer says of the Hon. George H. Pendleton: "We think we know his views, and we do not misrepresent him when we say he is for Mr. Greeley." Col. Scott, the President of the Pennsylvania Central, is also President of tjventyfive other railroads. His united salaries amount to $176,000 per annum. A French colony in Franklin, Ky., has established a velvet manufactory at that place, which is said to be the first one in the United States. A writer severely describes the exodus of Eden, saying: "The devil drove woman out of Paradise." Yes, yes, but he could not drive Paradise out of woman. The Committee on Appropriations has agreed to an appropriation of $160,000 for the officers and crew of the United States steamer Kearsage for sinking the Confederate steamer Alabama. Charles Sumner, in reply to an interrogatory from a member of the Republican convention of Arkansas, replies: "I wait action of the Philadelphia Convention, hoping for a nomination that will unite the Republican party, which Grant cannot do." The Republican State Convention of Arkansas assembled at Little Rock on the 22nd. A large number of delegates were present and the utmost harmony prevailed. The Conventiou declared unanimously for Greeley and Brown. One evening in company, during conversation, a geBtleraan quoted the expression that "Man proposes and God disposes." "Yes," said a maiden present, "a man proposed to me once, and I said no, and have never seen him since, so I thought somebody had disposed of him." A well to do farmer in Peabody, Massachusetts, had a daughter to die of consumption recently, and to save expense dug the grave himself; and after the funeral service at the house, placed his hoe and shovel in the hearse, and when the coffin was deposited, took his tools and filled the grave. There is a Methodist church which standson the boundary line between Ohio and Pennsylvania, in such a way that the pulpit is in the former State and the pews in the latter. A paper thereupon takes occasion to state that while the hearers are in one State the preacher is in another Stafco discoursing on the future state. The Washington correspondent of the "Raltimnre Sun savs that Mr. Greelev's letter of acceptance has been very generally discussed for the last few days in that city, and has met with a most favorable reception. Several democratic southern members who were not disposed to favor his nomination now admit that they are willing to stand by him if he will abide by his letter. The German press throughout the country has taken its position on the Cincinnati nominations with a heavy preponderance in favor of Greeley and Brown. Six republican papers favor and six oppose it, eight independent papers favor and none oppose, eighteen democratic papers favor and three oppose it. The rest of the German papers have simply refrained from taking sides on the question. A man in Leconia, New Hampshire, who was once a member of the Legislature, has been so much demoralized by his experience that he dug up the body of his son the other day to obtain the Masonic and Odd Fellows' emblems and jewelry that were hurried with him. Strauge how completely one or two sessions in the Legislature will undermine a man's character. Twenty-five or thirty years ago Rev. Charles G. Finney, now President of the Oberlin College, was carrying on a series of revival meetings in some eastern city?Boston, we think. One day a gentleman called to see him on business. Mr. Finney's daughter, perhaps five years old, answered his ring. "Is your father in?" asked the stranger. "No, replied the demure maiden. "But xiiolb- in nnnr dvinor cinnort AfntJior nan H lUy ^/VV4 J O V/MU pray for you." Regarding the statement that Jefferson Davis had announced himself as a supporter of Greeley, the Memphis Appeal, an out-andout Greeley paper, says: "Mr. Davis authorizes us to say that the story above given is wholly unfounded. He never wrote to Mr. Greeley on any subject; never made any promise in regard to the Cincinnati ticket to Greeley or any one else, and as there is no other ticket with which to compare it, could not have made the comparison as stated." Persons exhausted by brain-work ought to go to California. "A Dr. Fulkerson recently had occasion to ford in that State a stream swollen by a freshet, and found great difficulty, the fish were so thick in the water. There were salmon trout from one to three feet long, perch from ten to eighteen inches long, and a variety of suckers, all in a solid mass so dense that they crowded each other on shore, and died by thousands. Dr. Fulkerson said that one could shovel them out by the wagon load, like grain out of a bin." Judge Jere. Black has been interviewed at Washington on the political situation. He disapproves of Mr. Greeley as a candidate for Democrats, "but (he says) I'll tell you what we are going to do. The platform put forth at Cincinnati is a broad, fair, democratic platform. There is nothing passive in that. Now, if the convention that meets at Balti more finds in its wisdom that (ireeley fits the platform, we will make the best fight for him we can. I have no question, but when the canvass warms up, and men take sides as men are wont to do, that the entire Democratic party will be found striving for the right." For the first time in twelve years Congress will end this session with every State and every, congressional district represented. The Senate a few weeks since was made complete by the swearing in of Gen. Ransom, of North Carolina, and last Thursday the House rose to its full number by the admission of Mr. Rogers, a Democratic member from the same State, whose disabilities were removed by the passage of the general amnesty act. There are now 106 democratic members in a house of 243. A change of 19 members only would give them a majority. The House to be elected this fall, with the new apportionment as increased by the supplemental bill, will consist of 293 members. The Secretary of the United States Treasury recently received a letter from a well known lawyer in Philadelphia, enclosing | a check for $4,000, and saying: "One of iny : correspondents, a naturalized citizen of the United States, who returned to Europe some years ago, has directed me to pay over to the government of the United States, in an unobtrusive manner, a certain sum of money as a token of the obligations he feels under to this free and noble government, and as his mite towards the payment of the national debt. Enclosed, therefore, please find my check on the Central Bank of this city to your order, for $4,000, which I send to you as the proper recipient on behalf of the United States." forkriUc (Shtijuiw. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1872. Watch the Figures.?The dateon the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION. The convention of the straight-out-GrantRadical-anti-Greeley Republicans will assemble in Philadelphia this day week. Although nearly every State has in convention endorsed Grant, it is by no means certain that he will receive the hearty nomination after all. There are schemers in his own wing of the party, not only those of the Sumner school, j who feel their superiority of the present occupant of the White House, and maintain a respectful dignity toward the chief Executive; but also the flatterers and cajolers of the President who hang around the capital. Neither class can be relied upon, and when the trying time arrives, one will be apt to prove as faithless as the other. Sumner, who possesses the brains as well as a good portion of the mischief of the radicals, has already virtually declared against Grant, by expressing the hope that the Philadelphia convention will nominate a man that will unite the Republican party, which, he says, Grant cannot do. Mr. Sumner doesn't say emphatically that he is the man for the emergency ; but it is well known that he entertains slight hopes of receiving the nomination, for which object he has been for several months trimming his sails, by scheming for the supposed advancement of New England interests and Yankee notions generally, and securing to the negro all the bogus civil rights and privileges known in the radical apocrypha. He thus brings the two extremes of the nation, both as regards color and geographical position, together. Forney, the busiest bee in the hive, is also scheming. l"he fact that some months ago he resigned a lucrative office to which he had been appointed by Grant, was ominious at the time. Now, that he is under no restraint, but is at liberty to work in the interest of the most fortunate aspirant, and gives Grant little encouragement, the action of that wily trickster is more portentous than Grant at 6rst imagined. Quite recently Forney had a long interview with the President on the political situation. It is reported that he found Grant disposed "to look upon the nomination of Greeley as a joke, and found that he did not believe that if endorsed by the Baltimore Convention he would stand any chance of election. Grant's idea seemed to be that, in such an event, the Philadelphia nominee would get as many Democratic votes as Greeley would Republican votes. Colonel Forney replied that his Excellency was mistaken, and insisted that if Greeley was nominated at Baltimore the entire Democratic party would support him, and the contest be made a very close one. The President said his information was quite the reverse. Colonel Forney begged him not to allow himself to be so deceived." The frankness and candor thus exhibited by Forney render that individual more inexplicable than ever, though it is plain that he wishes to prepare Grant's mind for defeat at Philadelphia by impressing him with the belief that he will fail before the people in November. But be the plans of the schemers what they may, and howsoever often the political slate may be changed, it is a settled fact that Grant will not withdraw his name from the convention. He wants the nomination and expects it, and and with the preponderance of officeholders of which the convention will be composed, should he be thrown overboard, an unpleasant muss that would ensure the disintegration of the radical wing of the party would no doubt be the result. While it is conceded he can only carry the radical and office-holding element, it is not seriously presumed that Sumner nor any other man can now unite that class with the Liberals. THE AMNESTY BILL. A partial amnesty bill has at length been passed by both Houses of Congress and received the President's approval. A copy of the bill as passed will be found in another column. The number relieved by the act is estimated at 150,000 persons, who for six years have been debarred from all participation in the affairs of the government?either Federal, State, county or municipal. It will thus be seen that a large mass of active talent in the South is rendered available for political employments, though the exceptions embrace a considerable number of the most prominent men who filled public positions in the Southern States previous to the commencement of hostilities. Of the excluded ex-Congressmen there are thirty-nine, of whom sixteen were Senators and twenty-three members of the House of ; Representatives. Some of these are now dead, and one, Senator Benjamin, of Louisiana, has expatriated himself. Of those now living are Jefferson Davis and Albert G. Brown, of Mississippi; Wigfall and Reagan, of Texas; Crawford and Jackson, of Georgia; Chesnut, Bonham and Boyce, of South Caro Una; Smith, Vance and Uraige, ct isortn Carolina; Breckenridge, of Kentucky, and others. The list of Judical officers of the United States still d isqualified comprises only a small number, of whom maybe mentioned ex-Supreme Court Justice John A. Campbell, now practising law in New Orleans, and Judges Hallyburton and Brockenbrough, of Virginia. It is a question whether ex-U. S. Marshals or District-Attorneys are or are not embraced in this exception, and whether persons who had ceased to hold judicial positions when secession commenced, and subsequently aided ! it, are not relieved by the bill. | There were about 250 officers of the United I States army and navy who left their places to aid the Confederacy, and of these probably I not one half are alive. The law, however, is ambiguous, and the exceptions may include I all who had even been educated at West Point, I or who had resigned long before the com mencemenfc of the war. The most notable I exceptions of this class are General Samuel Cooper, Confederate Adjutant-General at t Richmond; Gens. Joseph Johnston, Beaure- b gard, Bragg, Samuel Jones, Hardee, Pember- s ton, Gustavus W. Smith, Hood, Stephen D. Lee, Lovell, D. H. Hill, B. S. Ewell, Jubal ii A. Early, G. W. Curtis Lee, now President of d Washington and Lee University; Dabney H. 3 Maury, Fitzhugh Lee; Cols. R. B. Lee, Lar- v kin, Smith, L. B. Northrop, (C. S. Commis- p sary General,) Myers (Quartermaster-Gener- a al;) and of those who left the navy, Captain 3 Semmes of the Alabama, Prof. M. F. Maury, d formerly Chief of the Washington Observato- s ^ . n 1_ ^ A ry; Li.pt. Brooke, mveuior 01 me jotookc gun, u and of the system of deep-sea soundings. y Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, Secretary v of the Interior, is the only Cabinet officer of a Buchanan now alive, who aided the Confeder- I ates. But the exceptions include all who j 1 were members of Cabinets anterior to Buchan- a an's administration, among whom are W. A. g Graham, of North Carolina, and C. M. Con- t rad, of Louisiana, who were members of the ? Cabinet under Mr. Fillmore. a As showing the invidious distinctions which j the law makes, it may be mentioned that 1 Vance, of North Carolina, and many others \ of that class?original Union men?who ^ struggled against secession until it was an ac- ? complished fact, are araougst the excluded, i while the most active promoters of the move- f ment, and many of the most violent "original ^ secessionists," are relieved. Wm. L.Yancey, t who labored more earnestly than any one in- 1 dividual to accomplish secession, would, were t he alive, be relieved by this act. Alexander c H. Stephens of Georgia, Vice-President of the 1 Southern Confederacy, is relieved ; also Gov. J Henry A. Wise of Virginia, who boasts that 1 he never asked for an Executive pardon; ( Gen. Forrest of Tennessee; Gov. Letcher of 1 Virginia, who ordered the seizure of Harper's j Ferry; Gen. Wade Hampton of South Caro- t lina; the Hon. Benjamin Hill of Georgia; s Herschel V. Johnson, who ran on the ticket ( with Stephen A. Douglas in 1860; Robert i Barnwell Rhett of South Carolina, the oldest ( secessionist of the whole South; James A. Seddon of Virginia, Confederate Secretary of i War; L. P. Walker of Alabama; Col. G. A. t Henry of Tennessee; the Hon. Allan T. Ca- j ! perton of West Virginia, Confederate Sena- 1 | tor; Lyon Chilton and Dargan of Alabama; t A. W.Garland of Arkansas; A. R. Wright i of Georgia; J. W. Moore of Kentucky; Dun- 1 | can F. Kedner and John Perkins, jr., of Lou; isiana; E. Barksdale of Mississippi; Bridgers ? of North Carolina; Henry S. Foot, M. P. Gentry, G. W. Jones and J. V. Wright of < Tennessee; Jame9 Lyons, John Goode, jr., J. t I P. Holcombe, John B. Balwin, Walter R. ? Staples, Fayette McMullin of Virginia?all 1 the foregoing being mostly members of the s Confederate Congress. Among the other i prominent Confederates relieved by the bill ? ? ? - n ov.fiflnrntnru D fi ? art: fuurira v. lutmiuiugci, v. Treasury; G. A. Trenholm, the Hon. Thos. ? H. Watts of Alabama, C. S. Attorn ey-Gener- s al; George Davis of North Carolina, ditto. All the members of the Secession Conventions * at the South are relieved, save a very few who 8 may be embraced under other heads. c This act of grace on the part of a Republi- * can majority has been a long time coming, I and was evidently granted grudgingly and re- 1 luctantly. It is one of the good fruits of the r Cincinnati convention, and if our people are 1 inclined to be thankful therefor, let them not ? forget the agency which brought about the c result. But for the Liberal Republican move- t ment, the party which enacts social equality 1 laws aud measures for depriving Southern * men of their liberties, would never have ^ granted, even so reluctantly, the pittance in c the shape of amnesty, which could have been safely given years ago. WHEAT STRAW. J One of the great difficulties with which we, c in the cotton States, have to contend, is that of procuring an adequate supply of provender for our domestic animals during the winter, * Long forage is always scarce in the spring. / It is with the greatest difficulty that many / farmers can procure a sufficient amount of this kind of food for their work animals during the spring and early summer season. This state of things will remain so long as cotton continues to be as extensively cultivated as it is at present. A little economy would very much remedy the evil. "A penny saved is always a penny made," and not un- . frequently it is many pennies made. j. In a short time tbe wheat crop will be cut. <] The idea which we desire to impress upon the minds of our readers, is simply that wheat v straw is worth saving. As an article of food ^ for horses and mules, well saved, wheat straw t is certainly not much inferior to our ordinary c fodder. It possesses some valuable properties which corn blades or shucks, or even sheaf j oats, raised by us, do not possess. A horse ( fed on good and well saved wheat straw, will r always have a good coat. His skin will be c loose and his hair rich and glossy. Remem- c ber, we do not say that a horse or mule can live and work when no other food is supplied l it but wheat straw. Grain, of some kind, ' must be given to all animals that work, other- t wise they will be poor, it matters not with f what kind of long forage they may be fed. ^ One of the important offices of any and all kinds of long forage, such as corn blades, hay, t shucks or wheat straw, is a stimulus of disten- ? sion. In plain language, long forage fills t up the stomach of the animal and stimulates t the digestive organs. In feeding all animals, t strict reference must be had to this law of 1 nature. Every animal, in order to thrive and do well, must have its stomach properly filled f with food. Horses and mules in our country r get the great amount of their nutriment from e corn, yet every man who has any experience \ in feeding these animals is aware that horses \ and mules will not do well on corn alone. g In fact, corn alone, without any kind of long forage, will, in a much shorter time than most ( persons suppose, kill stock of the class referred e to. I Whilst then, we have no extravagant ideas c of the value of wheat straw, we advise our t farmers to save it carefully. Get your wheat { threshed before the straw is injured by the weather, and put the straw into your barns c and you will find, during the coming winter, c that you have saved several dollars. Wheat c straw, besides being useful as an article of t food for stock, may be made to subserve a 1 valuable end in tbe saving of hay or fodder, e The most delightful hay may be cured in c this way: Cut your grass when it is dry? that is not wet by either rain or dew. Haul f it to your barn as soon as it is cut. Spread a c layer of wheat straw and then a layer of grass 3 and so on as long as you have grass and wheat I straw. The only precaution necessary to be ^ taken is that the grass be cut when it is not c wet with rain or dew. The same process is ) equally successful in saving corn blades?our a common fodder. There is no danger that the grass will spoil. Make the layers of straw C and hay the same thickness and you will have d no black hay or rotten fodder. Try it, every- a body! f PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate on Tuesday the 21st, the bill o suspend the habeas corpus was further delated. In the House, the Senate subsidies to undry mail steamship lines were rejected. In the Senate, on the 22nd, the bill extendng the time when the President may in his iscretion suspend the habeas corpus till i darch 4,1873, was debated until a late hour, ! dien the bill was put upon its passage, and ' iassed?yeas 28, naye 15, Senators Robertson ! nd Sawyer, of South Carolina, voting yea. ! dr. Sumner's supplemental civil rights bill,! livested of the clauses relating to cemeteries, chools and juries, was offered, and after a lebate of over three hours, it was passed? pjis 97 ri.ivs 14. Mr Sumner wm ahsent i phen the civil rights bill was acted on, and .fterwards expressed great indignation at its >eing shorn of some of its important features. rhis,*he gave as his reason for voting against mnesty. The House general amnesty bill, ;ranting amnesty with certain exceptions, was aken up and passed?yeas 38, nays 2?Nye and Sumner. The Senate then, at 10 o'clock, A. M., ifter a session of nearly twenty-four hours, adourned to 3 P. M. On reassembling at this lour, the supplemental apportionment bill pas debated without action, and several private bills were pissed. In the House, the speaker caused to be read the endorsement nade in the Senate on the amnesty bill, certiying that the bill had passed that body by a rote of two-thirds of the members. He said hat he was under the impression that by the anguage of the third section of the 14th aricle of the amendment, the bill did not retire the President's signature, and for that eason had caused the endorsement of the Senate to be read to the House. The Clerk, lowever, informed him that all the bills of this ;lass heretofore passed had been sent to the President, and he would therefore follow the -1.L1* L.J T_ - ?" jreceuent esiaunsueu. xn consequeuue ui his decision of the Speaker, the motion to leat Mr. Rogers of the fourth North Carolina listrict was rejected. The House then went nto committee of the whole on the sundry sivil appropriation bill. - On the 23rd, after some unimportaut busiless, the Senate, at 12, M., went into execu;iVe session, and remained therein until adournment. . In the House, a message having )een received from the Executive that the imnesty bill had been signed, S. H. Rogers nember elect from the fourth N. C. district, leretofore disqualified, was sworn in. The proceedings of either House on the 24th ire of no importance. On the 25th, the Senate had a twelve hours' jxecutive' session over the Alabama claims reaty. It is regarded as a political measure, ind all the machinery of the government is jrought to bear to secure the adoption of the lupplemental article (published in the Enquirer two weeks ago.) It is reported that the Senate advised the President to negotiate the lupplemental treaty substantially as demandid by England. The House was not in lession. In the Senate, on the 27th, the bill reported or the payment of Kentucky war claims was idopted. The discussion of the tariff bill leveloped the fact that the Senate was deermined to hold back action on the appropriation bills, thus compelling the House to >rolong the session. In the House, Dawes noved the adoption of a concurrent resoluion extending this session till Monday, June Id, at twelve o'clock. He said he had no loubt that unless the session was extended here would be an extra session of Congress, o which there would be no limitation. He >elieved that the Senate would get through vith its business by Monday next. The reaction was adopted by 133 to 24. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Phoenix mentions that his Honor ludge Orr sports a white hat. ? Governor Scott has re-appointed R. L Jimons and R. L. Crook, Trial Justices for fork, county. ? Messrs. Racier, Maxwell, Nash aud dackey, Republican delegates from South Carolina, have departed for the Philadelphia Convention. ?The Beaufort Times, heretofore printed in Charleston and issued at Beaufort, is now >rinted at Beaufort. W. J. Whipper is anlounced as proprietor and Mrs. F. A. Whip>er as editress. ? The night train over the Charlotte, Colirubia and Augusta Railroad, now makes the rip between Columbia and Augusta in three lours and fifteen minutes, including stops, [he distance is eighty-five miles. ?Hon. W. D. Porter, of Charleston, has vritten a letter in favor of sending delegates o the Baltimore Convention with instructions o oppose the nomination of a Democratic andidate. ? The probability of an extra session of the egislature grows less every day. LieutenantGovernor Ransier, Tim Hurley, J. B. Denlis and a number of other prominent Radi lals, as well as all the Democratic members, ippose it. ? Allen Pride, colored, arrested in Colum>ia recently on the charge of violating the 'enforcement act" at Chester, in April, 1871, las been admitted to bail in the sum of $2000 or his appearance at the August term of the Jnited States Court. ?A tremendous storm passed over Charleson, on Saturday afternoon, and extended to Sullivan's Island. Chimneys were upset, mildings demolished, boats swamped, trees iprooted and other damage done, but, fortulately, no lives were lost. One man was ifted into the air and carried several feet. ? In certain sections of Chester county, eforts are being made by white men to get up nilitia companies and have them armed and iquipped by the Governor. This course is rery properly condemned by the Reporter vhich pertinently says : "Let us have no more ;uns ; let us have peace." ? The Dean of the Faculty of the Medical College of Charleston gives notice that the sxaminalion of druggists and apothecaries, mder the new license law, has been comraen:ed. Persons affected by the law have until he 13th of September next in which to pre>are themselves and apply for examination. ? Jesse C. Beatty, of Union county, was relently arrested in Edgefield. In the former :ounty, in the fall of 1869, he murdered his (verseer, Tony Huff) by discharging the conents of a double-barrel shot gun into his back, tilling him instantly. The prisoner acknowldges his guilt. Previous to his arrest he had nly returned to the State about ten days. ? a mrmo nrronrt onfl rietit iurors drawn .ll.LUUU? *..W x- j or the August terra of the United States Cir-: :uit Court, we notice the names of J. W. A.! Jartness and Chapman McKinney, of York ; 5eter Agurs and George Jackson, of Chester; iV. F. Swarenger and D. W. Felts, of Lanaster; Charles Green and Lewis Collins, of iVinnsboro ; Du Pree Salzburg, of Union ; ,nd James Shores, of Spartanburg. ? A despatch to the Charleston News from Columbia furnishes the following items, under I late of Thursday last: "Ex-Governor Orr ! nd General "Wade Hampton had a long conerence to-day Candidates for the next Legislature are as thick as blackberries. Upholsterry Dennis, now member from Charleston, will run in Richland county, and it is said that L. Cass Carpenter, editor of the Union, will also be a candidate in Richland The Mackey faction, who came to Columbia intent upon the removal of County Treasurer Gurney, are said to have met with a cold reception. It is said that there has been an open rupture between the Governor and Judge T. J. Mackey, and the latter is now in the field for the gubernatorial nomination." ? The Chester Reporter of last week, says: "On Sunday John McCullough and Allen i /? -n 11 t > i_ v i_ a? raras, rrora duiiock s v^reea, lors. cuuiujr, were brought to jail at this place. The former of these was discharged on Monday?the only charge against him being that he had carried some letters to men who are avoiding arrest; and the Enforcement Act, with all its india rubber qualities, not being able to stretch wide enough to cover this charge. He says that he had his horse saddled, and begged to be allowed to ride, but by the wanton inhumanity of those in charge of him he was forced to make the eighteen miles to the jail on foot. When turned out on Monday he could scarcely put his feet to the ground. Comment on such unnecessary cruelty as this is not needed. Allen Parks is still in jail." - ? ? NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? iur. vjueiiejr, a ucpucTY ui una. Greeley, lives ten miles from Goldsboro. ? An eagle was killed in Sampson county last week, which measured six feet and three inches from tip to tip of his wings. ? Dr. Ellis, of the Hickory Tavern Eagle, has been nominated for the Senate from Lincoln and Catawba counties. ? Intelligence from the cotton planting section of the State indicates a good prospect, and the planters are hopeful. ? R. J. Hitt, a fugitive from South Carolina, charged with grand larceny, has been arrested in Transylvania county, and is detained for a requisition from Gov. Scott. ! ?W. M. Robbins, of Rowan county, has been nominated for Congress from the Salisbury district by the Democratic convention held at Wilkesboro. ? The Twentieth of May, the anniversay of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, was appropriately celebrated in Charlotte and at Alexandriana. ? Gen. J. B. Gordon, of Georgia, will deliver the Annual Oration before thp two Literary Societies at Davidson College, on the 26th of next June, during commencement week. ? The Sparkling Catawba Springs property, was seld at auction in Newton on the 22d inst., for $10,070?-Dr. E. 0. Elliott, the original proprietor, being the purchaser. ? J. M. Leach, present incumbent, was nominated by acclamation by the Democratic convention at Greensboro on Wednesday of last week, for Congress from that district. TT;? nnnftnonf in TTrm TKina ftpf.tlp XJLIO U|/|A/UWUV MWiti ?? ?. ? A drunken soldier imagined a citizen of Charlotte to be a ku-klux and attempted to arrest him the other day. The soldier was knocked down, and afterwards marched to camp. ? The young men of Charlotte propose to raise a volunteer military company. The Adjutant General of the State has promised to commission the officers when elected and to arm and equip the company. ? Among the "humorous incidents of an amusing nature" that occurred in Charlotte on the 20th, the Observer records the knocking down of a policemen by two drunken rowdies. ? The Democratic district convention of the Charlotte Congressional district met in that town on the 23rd, and nominated for Congress Thomas S. Ashe, of Anson county. P. B. Meanes and Z. B. Vance were chosen delegates to the Baltimore convention. ? At the recent term of Chatham Superior Court, Judge Tourgee sentenced Rev. Samuel Perkins and Rev. Essex Harris, radical preachers, to the penitentiary for ten years. They are important witnesses against the kuklux. ?The United States authorities in Raleigh have rented and prepared a house in which to confine ku-klux prisoners that will be there at the June term of the Circuit Court, the jail being too small to accommodate them. There are over 1100 defendants bound over for trial at the approaching term. ? The Wilmington Journal says that Andrew Strong and Stephen Lowrey make frequent visits to Moss Neck, and that they often get so drunk while there that their friends have to carry them off home. And yet, even under these circumstances, no one appears to claim the rewards offered for them. ? On Tuesday afternoon of last week, while ' i' i 1 A. some men were unloading lumoer irum me cars on the Air-Line railroad at South Fork, about twelve miles from Charlotte, the platform on which the timber was placed gave way and fell, causing the instantaneous death of Thomas Mayes, and seriously wounding four others. Mr. Mayes' home was at Thomasville, and he intended returning there the latter part of the week in which he was killed. ? The Charlotte Observer of the 22nd says: "On Saturday last, in the lower edge of this county, Jacob Helms, white, and Joe Rogers, colored, got into an affray when Rogers struck Helms on the head with a large stick, inflicting, it is thought, a mortal wound. Rogers has been brought to the city and confined in jail. Also on the same day, in another part of the county, James Thompson and Marcus D. L. Biggers, both white, had an affray when Thompson cut Biggers with a knife, from the effects of which it is thought that he will die." POLITICAL ITEMS. ? The temperance societies in the North are resolving themselves into Greeley clubs. ? The Democrats of Massachusetts are electing Greeley delegates to Congressional conventions. ? Terre Haute, the home of Vorhees, was carried by the Republicans in the last election. ? Judge Mason, of Iowa, says that one-half of the Republicans of that State will vote for Greeley, and that, if nominated at Baltimore, all the Democrats will support him. ?The Democratic press of Pennsylvania is o 1 ?v*npf linnnimniifilu nnnnaorl fhft PndnrSft M1LUUOU UUUU11UVUB1J W|/|/vwvw ?v ?- ? ment of Mr. Greeley by the Baltimore Convention. ?The tenth Massachusetts Democratic District Convention has ratified the Cincinnati platform, and elected Greeley delegates to the Baltimore Convention. ? The Mobile Register (Democratic) gives copious extracts from papers in Alabama and Mississippi showing the prevalence of an earnest feeling in those sections of the South in favor of the Cincinnati nominations. ? Baltimore is a favorite as a place for holding national nominating conventions, having had thirteen, Philadelphia four, Chicago three, Cincinnati two, Harrisburg, Buffalo, New York, Charleston, Columbus, one each. LOCAL ITEMS, c . P NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. a Adickes <fe Black?Without Regard to Coat. 0 T. W. Clawson, Deputy Marshal?In Bankrupt- o cy?Application for Discharge?In the Mat- _ ter of Ciiarlea Catlicart. T. M. Dobson <fe Co.?Just Arrived?Orders?30 a Days?Marseilles Quilts. c: Col. A. Coward, Principal and Proprietor?King's ^ Mountain Military School. E. Dickinson, Agent?Millinery and Fancy Goods. 0 ? * fi OUR AGENTS IN CHARLESTON. d The advertising agency of Messrs. Walker, <J( Evans & Cogswell, represented by Roswell T. 01 Logan, Esq., is the only authorized agency of Cl this paper in Charleston. a REFUNDING LICENSE. A Auditor Enloe informs us that under the ^ recent decision of the Attorney-General, those c clergymen in this county who have paid a li- o cense, will have the same refunded by apply- c ing to Treasurer Watson. ? THE MILITARY PRISONERS. j] Since the 22nd instant Jonathan Moore, R. b L. Harmon, Jerome P. Moss, W. D. Parker a and W. H. White have been released from fi imprisonment on bond. On the 24th John o E. Carroll, of this county, was rearrested and t! committed to jail. There are now seven pris- t: oners in the jail. 1 NEW ENTERPRISE. Mr. J. A. Hogue, living three miles east of ( town, has inaugurated a new, and for this cli- F mate certainly a novel enterprise, in the way a of saving ice. Last winter he packed away a c large quantity, which is clear, clean and cold, o though not altogether as thick as that frozen g in a colder latitude. This is another step o toward a varied industry, which we commend, v Mr. Hogue proposes to deliver ice to our cit- ii izens at intervals during the heated term, at ii five cents per pound. o c BOND PAID. ? It will be remembered that Dr. Edward T. Avopit nf tbia miintT. while on trial before o the United States Court in Columbia last a winter, on a charge of violating the "enforce- o ment act," departed from the Court before the c conclusion of the trial. Previous to the com- ? Q mencement of the trial he had been admitted to bail in a bond of three thousand dollars, t with Capt. J. Thomas Lowry of this county, t as surety. Shortly after ihe departure of c Avery, the Court ordered the bond to be de- 1 clared forfeited, and for several weeks past ? property belonging to Messrs. Avery and ^ Lowry has been advertised to be sold on the t first Monday of next month, with a view to c making the amount of the bond. By a des- 1 patch, however, from the United States Mar- t shal, we now learn that Capt. Lowry has paid y the bond and the property has been withdrawn 1 from sale. j THE NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD. We are gratified to learn that our North s Carolina friends, who at the last session of the , Legislature of that State, secured a charter , for building a narrow gauge railroad from ( Lenoir to the South Carolina line in the direction of Yorkville, have commenced to move earnestly in the matter. On Monday last a meeting of the Commissioners named in <the charter was held at Newton, and preliminary * steps were taken for getting the proposed 8 scheme under way. We have not yet been ^ furnished with a copy of the proceedings, but I ? ' t> m nn i T L f learn tnat Messrs. Jt>. i. yyneeier, uusepu * Herndon and Col. W. H. McCorkle, of York- t ville, would be selected as Commissioners to 8 secure stock subscriptions in York county. * Commissioners were also to be appointed for e the counties of Caldwell, Catawba, Lincoln I and Gaston, in North Carolina, and for Ches- ^ ter county in this State. 8 So soon as ten thousand dollars of the cap- 1 ital stock are subscribed, the company will be ' organized by the election of a President and c four Directors; after which an engineer will 1 be appointed and the necessary surveys com- ^ menced at as early a day as practicable. t The completion of the proposed road will c afford a good market for the surplus products of the counties of North Carolina through 8 which it will pass, and will be the means of supplying grain to our cotton raisers at a less price than they can afford to grow it, thus proving immensely beneficial to both sections. 1 Those persons with whom we have conversed e on the subject, express no doubt as to the ability of the sections interested to build the * proposed road and have it in operation at a ( comparatively early date. It is regarded as entirely practicable for York and Chester to t provide for the line between Chester and the a North Carolina line; and we suppose the c people of North Carolina, interested in the j; matter, would regard it as a slander to even j suppose that they cannot build their end of } the road. Let's all be up and doing, and ? with "a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull t altogether," the Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad will be an accomplished fact. 1 mmmmt rnmnniir. nvvTTVCS. ? JL1/X JL UJULAJU AiiaM&AiviM* jThe Amnesty Bill. a The following is the general amnesty e bill as it passed the Senate on the 22nd, and li which, having received the President's signature, is now a law: J! Be it enacted by the Senate and House of ' Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each House concurring therein,) That all political ? disabilities imposed by the third section of the ^ fourteenth article of amendment of the Con- . stitution of the United States are hereby re- a moved from all persons whomsoever, except . Senators and Representatives of the Thirty- j sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses, officers in the judicial, military, and naval service of the United States, heads of Departments, and foreign ministers of the United States. Strikes among Mechanics. ? For several weeks past strikes have been n prevailing in many of the northern cities if among the mechanics of different branches of 0 industry. This being the busy season with a most trades, it is, for obvious reasons, chosen ^ as the most opportune time for the employes ^ to succeed in their demands. For several I days carpenter's work and brick-laying were a at a standstill in New York, and no sooner ^ had the bosses acceded to the demands of an increase of wages, than the men demanded c that eight hours should constitute a day's work, the rates of pay to remain unchanged. s< The mechanics have formed organizations si known as Eight-Hour Leagues, by which I means they hope to effect their purpose; and, to some extent, the employing contractors j have yielded ; more, perhaps, with a view to n complete their work in hand than from a ne- a cessity of being permanently controlled by h the clamors of discontented men. Labor, ti like any other marketable commodity, will w regulate its prices and command its worth, * the spasmodic efforts of discontented men to ** secure a day's wages for four-fifths of a day's g work to the contrary notwithstanding; and the sooner they learn this fact, the better will C it be for all concerned. h The Civil Rights Bill. i] The following is a copy of the civil ? rights bill as passed by the Senate on the 22nd: ? Be it enacted, Ac., That whoever being a o corporation or natural person and owner, or in e harge of any public inn, or of any place of ublicamusementor entertainment, for which license from any legal authority is required, r of any line of stage coaches, railroad, or ther means of public carriage of passengers r freight, shall make any distinction as to dmission or accommodation therein of any itizen of the United States because of race, olor, or previous condition of servitude, shall n conviction thereof be fined not less than ve hundred nor more than five thousand ollare for each offense, and the person or orporation so offending shall be liable to the itizens thereby injured in damages to be reDvered in an action of debt. Sec. 2. That the offenses under this act and ctions to recover damages may be prosecuted efore any territorial, district, or circuit court f the United States having jurisdiction of rimes at the place where the offense was harged to have been committed, with a right f appeal, or to have a writ of error in any ase to the Supreme Court of the United tates. This bill is now on the Speaker's table in he House. There are some fifty or sixty ills in order already ahead of it, and as it takes two-thirds vote of the House to take a bill rom the Speaker's table out of the regular rder, there is no possible show for its passage his session, as it cannot be reached by the ime of adjournment 'he Enforcement Act in Maryland. On Friday last, in the U. S. District 'ourt at Baltimore, Judges Bond and Giles iresiding, George W. Murdoch, of Baltimore, registration officer under the State law, was onvicted of a violation of the second section f the congressional enforcemennt act, in not ;iving the same and equal opportunity to colred voters, &c. The motion for a new trial 7&a overruled, and Judge Bond, while not m posing the punishment of imprisonment, mposed the lowest fine permitted by the act f Congress, $500, which with the costs will aake $800. Commenting upon this case, he Baltimore Sun says: While according to the Judge whatever redit may be due for imposing the least penalty he could under the law, we can conceive f no law more unjust and oppressive, espe- * ially in view of the fact that we have an imlartial State law providing for all cases where itizens may feel themselves aggrieved in re;ard to registration or voting, and in view of he further fact, also, that in a State or disrict where there should happen to be no colired voters, the federal law is practically a mllity. The least cost to which one may be iablein holding the registration office in this Jtate, through any misjudgment or inadverence, or possibly by actual compliance with he State law under which he is appointed, is stimated at $800, according to federal law. the policy is to promote harmony betweeu he white and colored races, this is a queer ?ay to do it As the colored men seem to be nostly on one side so far in the political divisions, only the members of one party are iable to be punished. It was proved that Hr. Murdoch was a good citizen, and careful md scrupulous in the performance of his dales. Perhaps the federal government would letter take charge of the whole thing, and un the elections itself, without interference >n the part of the people. For the YorkvllJe Enquirer. LIGHTS BUBmG~LOW.?LOOK OUT! Are church people, like State people, going o fall into dark ways because the times ire hard and money scarce and fugitive? .-II! 1- - J 1.1 .U...1 ? me gossips are railing uau uues auuut wu* ;regational meanness. One, abont a people hat took little children's missionary money 0 buy communion wine; and another about 1 church that has the habit of letting the reasurer of the congregation shoulder every ixpense of keeping up services?except the reacher's salary?sexton's wages, lights, fuel, tc. These gossips tell some Munchausen tories sometimes. Nobody is fooled by them. But let us watch carefully against cloudy rays getting into our churches, or Satan will ireep in in the foggy day. My old uncle told ae that John Jacob As tor gave a treat once, >ut had no wine. So his poor librarian, for he honor of the thing, provided some. The ild miser was irate till he found out that he [id not have to pay for it Then he drank ome. Y. N. N. LETTER FROM HON! B. F. PERRY. Greenville, S. C., May 22,1872. Hon. Simeon Fair?My Dear Sir: Your etter was received this morning, asking an xpression of my views in regard to the course o be pursued in South Carolina, as to the loraination of Horace Greeley for President, nd the sending of delegates to the Baltimore convention. In my opinion, the election of Greeley is he only hope we have of reforming the State jid National Governments, and restoring the ountry to peace and prosperity. It would e suicidal folly for the Democratic party to hink of making a separate nomination for 'resident I will go farther, and say it would >e criminal to the South, and stamp the party rith a want of patriotism, and a narrow, con racteJ selfishness utterly disgraceful. If the Democratic party will now unite with he Liberal Republicans, our success and vieory are beyona a doubt in the Presidential lection. The military tyrant will be hurled rom his throne, civil government restored, ,nd the republic saved. There is no differnee between Democrats and Liberal Bepubicans, standing on the Cincinnati platform. ?hey have the same great and patriotic objects q view?to restore republican principles and he rights of the States, to purge the Governaent, State and Federal, of its corruption, xtravagance and roguery, to give peace and irosperity to the &mthern States. Why, hen, should we not unite heartily and corially with such friends and allies? In fact, he Democratic party stands pledged in honor nd good faith to endorse the Cincinnati nomaation. It was so understood by the Liberal tepublicans, from the expressions everywhere f the Democratic papers, before they met in Convention. Horace Greeley is an honest man, and has 11 his life been governed by principle. He as great ability, and will administer the govlent on sound Republican principles. The jsues on which he so boldly and persistently pposed the South are dead and buried. His ntecedents, therefore, have nothing to do rith the present contest Should we not, berefore, exert all our influence in securing is nomination by the Baltimore Convention ? think it proper that this Convention should leet for the purpose of uniting the party on Ireeley and Brown, and showing the world b&i. thev are willin? to sacrifice all nenum&l onsiderations and all party honors and agrandizement for the good of their country. The Democratic Convention, which is to asamble in Columbia on the 11th of Jme, hould, by all means, send delegates to the Baltimore Convention. The vote of South Jarolina may, perchance, influence the nomiation and endorsement of Greeley and Irown. It would at least show our willingess to cooperate with the friends of reform, nd accept as allies all who are disposed to elp us in our oppression and ruined condiion. Not to send delegates to Baltimore, rould be unwise, unkind and supercilious, t would be a reproach to the State, under listing circumstances, and weaken the symathy of our friends everywhere?North, outh, East and West. Unless the honest Republicans of South larolina, white and black, will take up Gree5y, there is no hope of his getting the vote of be State. It would be the basest ingratitude, n the part of the colored people, not to suport Greeley, who has done more to set them ree than any other man in America. Thirty r forty years he has fought manfully for their mancipation and right of suffrage. The cor