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j^ctapsi and Jacts. | The wool crop of California last year I amounted to $23,000,000. One county in California has 150,000 acres of wheat. The Augusta (Ga.) Constitxitionuh'xt has received a bag of "Pride of Augusta" Hour, made from wheat of the crop of 1872. They have "Dolly Vardeu" chills in; Georgia. The sufferer turns all sorts of col- j ors, and is terribly humped up. Twenty head of cattle, lately shipped | from Illinois to New York, weighed over 61,000 pounds; ten of them averaged over 3,000 pounds. A reward of several thousand dollars is soon to be ottered for a woman why does not own a Dolly Varden, does not want one, and never uses the phrase. The Astor House, in New York, boasts of an old gentleman who registered his name on the books of the hotel the first day it opened, and has been there ever since, a period of nearly thirty-four years. An inebriated Democrat was dining at the Ives House, in Sedalia, Mo., the other day. "Beef, pork, mutton, veal or chicken," said the polite waiter. "I don't care a d?n," was the reply, "any thing to beat Grant." William Cullen Bryant thus freely expresses his opinion of Ben Butler: "He is a man whose word is believed nowhere where his name is known, and whose career has been such that millions of people actually believe him to-day to be a common thief." Mr. S. N. Latham, a Senator in the Virginia Legislature from Fauquier county, who has not been in his seat the past session, on account of illness, has notified the Clerk that he does not consider himself entitled to < draw his per diem, and has voluntarily relinquished about $800 that the law allows him. As an instance of the derilection of democratic congressmen, it is asserted that twenty democrats were absent from the House of Representatives on Tuesday of last week when the ku-klux bill, the social equality bill and the enforcement bill were defeated. Only oue, Cox, of Ohio, was absent with sufficient excuse; he was sick in bed. The Secretary of the Treasury has received seventy cents as conscience money from a Virginian and an ex-Confederate soldier. The writer says that after the surrender of Lee, at Appomattox, before he was paroled, he took some musket caps from boxe3 lying about, which he thinks may have been worth thirty or forty cents. He, therefore, sends seventy cents to cover the principal and interest. John Gull is the oldest convict in the Ohio penitentiary. He has been a prisoner since 1836, and has grown old and childless in the service of the State. His crime was murder. He has ceased to labor, and spends histime in walking about through the prison ; he imagines that he owns the institution, and is accumulating a vast fortune off convict labor. Every night in his cell he dreams, and imagines thathecounts money by the ton, and drinks whisky by the barrel. Miss Tennie C. Claflin now has an opportunity to gratify her military ambition, if she is not particular as to the color of her command. The "Spencer Grays," an organization of colored men, in New York, has offered her the colonelcy of a regiment of men of that race. As her sister Victoria is on the same ticket with a colored man, Tenuie will i doubtless accept, and give a satisfactory solution to the conundrum, "Will the coming female colonel ride astraddle ?" Somebody writing in the New York , Times, from Olarksville, Va., advocates a novel plan for taking the wind out of the Liberal Republican sails and carrying the South ' en masse over to Grant. It is nothing less 1 than that the Philadelphia Convention shall \ insert a plank in its platform in favor of the ( remuneration of the Southern people for the loss of their slave property. If such a proposition should be made in the Convention, what 1 a breeze it would raise! And yet stranger 1 things have happened iu this year of political < . surprises. i All sewing machine patents will expire i within a few months, or a year at the furthest. Strenuous efforts have recently been made by . those interested for an extension of the patents ( for seven years longer; but the Senate committee on patents have postponed action until ; the next session of Congress. This, it is thought, virtually defeats the efforts to pro- , cure an extension, and sewing machines will probably soon be sold at prices to place them within the reach of all. It is stated that one of the first-class machines (with plain finish) can be sold, when the monopoly is ended, for $25. A terrible tale of woman's frailty and an injured husband's revenge comes from Arkansas. A woman eloped from her home about two weeks ago. Her husband discovered her flight on returning from his work in the evening, and at once took his rifle, mounted his horse and started in pursuit He rode without food and almost without rest for nearly two days, when he overtook the fugitives. The betrayer of his family fired at him but missed. The avenger in a moment knocked him from his saddle, disdaining to kill the seducer, but reserving him for a more terrible punishment, and seizing his wife with an iron grasp, despite her prayers for mercy, gave her her false teeth which she had left behind. His work of vengeance done, the husband rode leisurely away. He has not yet been captured. The well-informed New York correspondent of the Augusta Constitutionalist says : "The points with reference to cotton, as presented in my letter of the latter part of April, which were vigorously pooh-poohed at the time?often by parties who had not purchased all they wished to?begin to producean active effect Prices have advanced three-fourths of a cent in the past two days, and there has been a sham comnetition between home and foreign buyers, which it is evident must continue for the next two months at least; and, as I wrote four weeks since, there is no reason to doubt that middling uplands will touch twenty-eight or thirty cents in this market before the 1st of August. There is not in the United States a bale more than domestic spinners need, and the competition from shippers has set in with a vigor that could hardly have been anticipated." The cares and excitements of a campaign cannot alter Mr. Greeley's settled habits, and at the welcome close of the week's work he regularly transfers his executive office from the upper room in the Astor to the rural retirement of his beloved Chappaqua farm. There, amid the wooded knolls and fertile meadows, was held on Saturday last the first picnic of the campaign. The accounts show that it must have been good to be there. The picknickers numbered some i fifty, including many gentlemen of position j ana influence, together with their wives and j families. Their beaming host was untiring in | his hospitable attentions. The bubbling: spring, with its miraculous water, was levied upon copiously. A wood-chopping bout fol- j lowed, in which Mr. Greeley came out ahead i and handled his long-handled hatchet with terrible effect. The mellow horn was then wound, and, with excellent appetites, the company sat down to lunch upon lobster salad j and cold chicken, while Mr. Greeley modestly ! contented himself with Boston brown bread ! and cold water, over which uninebriating! banquent he fell into a reverie which lasted j until the importunity of his friends for autographs aroused him from dreams of an actual Arcardia and a possible Presidency. The latest authentic reports of the! growing crops of cereals in Europe are not' unfavorable. Of course even the most relia-1 * ble news of the condition of the crops, two or' three months in advance of harvest time, are 1 to be .received with all due allowances for con- j tingencies. But 90 far the reports are gener- j ally of a satisfactory character, and indicate' at least average crops. In France the grow-: ing crops are in marked contrast with the lamentable condition presented a year ago, and they are sufficiently advanced?especially rye ami wheat?to give assurances of a yield more than sufficient to meet all the demands of home consumption. From Germany the news is scarcely so favorable, as the area planted was considerably circumscribed by events growing out of the war, and by the consequent derangement of the labor market. But the crops so far are doing well and are to supercede the necessity for importations this year. From all parts of Southern Europe the reports may also be regarded as favorable. In England, Mr. H. Hains Jackson, usually regarded as an authority on grain statistics, estimates the prospects for a large crop as unusually unfavorable. What are called the forage crops, oq r?lnwfip (rrnoa atn nra lartrfi and heavv. wx.x/.. x,.., w , ? yo J 7 thus insuring adequate supplies of food for cattle.?New York Bulletin. ?be ?orbviHr (jhqrnm. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1872. Watch the Figures.?The date on 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 GRANT AND SUMNER. A political sensation was created at the capital on Friday last by the unexpected yet elaborate speech of Mr. Sumner (briefly alluded to in our congressional report) in arraignment of President Grant and his administration. The Senator obtained the floor by a parliamentary manoeuvre, which quite surprised the administration Senators, and held it for four hours, in an exhaustive and carefully prepared speech, which soon attracted well-filled galleries and crowded the Senate floor with eager privileged listeners. The speaker did not permit a single private or public act of President Grant to escape his notice, for he held it up to view in a broad glare of invective and censure, and added to the matter of the speech an earnest and vigorous force of delivery. He arraigned Grant as a gift taker, a nepotist; and a failure; declared that he spent his time with fast horses, in palace cars and loitering at the sea-side. The public acts of his administration were as fearfully assailed. He maintained that his government was a personal one; that it commanded no respect at home or abroad; that it had done nothing to commend it to the country; that its reduction of the public debt did not deserve as much credit as that of Andrew Johnson; that it was false to the colored people, and a failure so far as it had anything to do with reconstruction ; while its foreign policy, of which it had attempted to boast, was the most disgraceful muddle of the age. The above merely indicates the general tenor of his remarks, which were listened to by the "senatorial ring," as he characterized the administration Senators, with marked attention. Many of the older Senators declare that there has never been a speech in Congress, even when the warfare was made on Andrew Johnson, that equaled this for an indictment of the personal as well as the political record of a President. And delivered as it was, just an the eve of the Philadelphia Convention, it is regarded with the greater significance. Closing, he said: To the Republican party, devoted to ideas and principles, I turn now with more than ordinary solicitude. Not willingly can I see it sacrificed. Not without earnest effort against the betrayal can I suffer its ideas and principles to be lost in the personal pretensions of one man. Both the old parties are in a crisis, with this difference between the two. The democracy is dissolving; the Rermltlinnn nart.v in heincr ahsorhed. The De r-v,,w"- r?J o raocracy is falling apart, thus visibly losing its vital unity ; the Republican party is submitting to a personal influence, thus visibly losing its vital character. The Democracy is ceasing to exist. The Republican party is losing its identity. Let the process be completed, and it will be no longer that Republican party which I helped to found and have always served, but only a personal party, while instead of those ideas and principles which we have been so proud to uphold will be Presidential pretensions, and instead of Republicanism there will be nothing but Grantism. Therefore, with unspeakable interest, will the country watch the National Convention at Philadelphia. It may be an assembly (and such is my hope!) where ideas and principles are above all personal pretensions, and the unity of the party is symbolized in the candidate, or it may add another to presidential rings, being an expansion of the military ring at the Executive Mansion, the Senatorial ring in this chamber and the political ring in the custom-houses of New York and New Orleans. A national convention which is a Presidential ring cannot represent the Republican party. Much rather would I see the party to which I am dedicated under the image of a life-boat not to be sunk by wind or wave. How often ' T * - 1 J T J _ nave I saia tnis to cneer my coraruues. x uu not fear the Democratic party. Nothing from them can harm our life-boat. But I do fear a quarrelsome pilot, unused to the sea, but pretentious in command, who occupies himself in loading aboard his own unserviceable relations and persoual patrons, while he drives away the experienced seamen who know the craft and her voyage. Here is a peril which no life-boat can stand. Meanwhile I wait the determination of the National Convention, where are delegates from ray own much-honored Commonwealth, with whom I rejoice to act. Not without anxiety do I wait; but with the earnest hope that the convention will bring the Republican party into ancient harmony, saving it especially from the suicidal folly of an issue on the personal pretensions of one man. PROCEEDINGS*OF CONGRESS. On Tudesday, the 28th, the Senate agreed to the House resolution to adjourn on Monday the 3rd of June. In the House, a motion to suspend the rules and take up the Senate bill authorizing the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, at his discretion, until the 4th of March next, was rejected by a vote of 94 yeas to 108 nays. Two-thirds being required to suspend the rules, the necessary majority was not obtained. The Senate civil rights bill or social equality bill was likewise Inst, hv ft vnt.fi nf vfias 113. navs 83. two-thirds v**w ""?/ "" " " J ' ' ?/ ' not voting in the affirmative. A motion to suspend the rules and take up the Senate bill to amend the enforcement act, providing for the appointment by federal authority of supervisors of elections, &c., in order to bring before the House a substitute which had been agreed upon by a majority of the judiciary committee, was also rejected?yeas 115, nays 87. In the Senate, on the 29th, the supplementary apportionment bill was passed. The army appropriation bill was agreed to, except as to the section for erecting public buildings at Fort Leavenworth. The tax and tariff bill were amended by placing the tax on chewing and smoking tobacco at 24 cents per pound, and repealing the stamp duty on friction matches. In the House, Butler, from the committee on the insurrectionary States, reported Senate bill to amend the enforcement act, when the opponents of the measure interposed dilatory motions, until a vote to adjourn prevailed, by a vote of yeas 102, nays 85. In the Senate, on the 30th, the habeas corpus or ku-klux bill, the civil rights or social equality bill, and the supplementary enforcement or election supervision bill, all recently passed by the Senate, but overslaughed in the House, were reported as new bills by the committee on Southern outrages. An amendi ment to the tax bill to discontinue anv inter nal revenue district when the receipts shall fall below the expenses, was voted down. House proceedings unimportant. In the Senate, on the 31st, Mr. Sumner made a motion to indefinitely postpone the sundry civil appropriation bill, for the purpose of making his speech on the French arms report, which he characterized as a white-washing one, the committee having been improperly appointed, &c. He then proceeded to arraign the President in the most bitter terms, referring to him as passing his time in palace cars, with fast horses and in seaside loiterings. He denounced him for appointing relatives to office, &c. The House concurred in all the Senate amendments to the tariff, except those relating to spirits and tobacco, and a conference committee was ordered. A resolution to go to the Speaker's table with the understanding that the ku-klux and civil rights bill would be excluded from action, was defeated by yeas 102 to nays 93. The Senate bill to amend the act of 31st May, 1870, to enforce the rights of citizens to vote was left on the Speaker's table, the vote on its passage being yeas 101, to nays 95?less than two-thirds in the affirmative. In the Senate on June 1st, the entire day was consumed in political debate. Logan made a general defense of the administration. In the House, the western and southern members voted for a uniform tax of sixteen cents on tobacco. A compromise on twenty cents is considered probable. Both Houses agreed to prolong the session to Monday, June 10th, with the understanding that no business will be done during the Philadelphia convention. In the Senate, oh the 3rd, Carpenter and Logan occupied the day in political speeches. The proceedings of the House are unimportant. The conference committee on tobacco tax have agreed to a uniform tax of twenty cents per pound, and to abolish bonded warehouses with six months to remove stores now held. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The new Episcopal Church at Rock Hill, is being rapidly pushed to completion. ? A daily hack line has been established between Newberry and Laurens. ? Lancaster county was favored with fine rains last week. ? Last week, Governor Scott pardoned four convicts out of the penitentiary. ? The first decree of divorce ever granted in this Stat^ was recently made at Sumter. ? Governor Scott has appointed Benjamin F. Bates, of Spartanburg, a Trial Justice, vice Wofford removed. ? Mr. Samuel Bryce, a son of Robt. Bryce, formerly of Columbia, died suddenly in Spartanburg on Wednesday of last week. ? A branch of the Citizens' Savings Bank, of Columbia, has been established at Union C. H. andE. R. Wallace appointed Assistant Cashier. ? Large quantities of iron and timber are passing over the Spartanburg and Union Railroad for the use of the Air-Line Railroad in the vicinity of Spartanburg Court House. ? The Masonic Lodge at Winnsboro' has resolved to make an annual contribution of twenty-five dollars to the Palmetto Orphans' Home, recently established in Columbia by Rev. Tilmau R. Gaines. ? The Aiken Tribune is authorized to say that the State Radical Convention, for the nomination of a State ticket and other business, will not be called until the latter part of August or early in September. ? The Ledger says that in order to enable Judge Thomas to attend the Philadelphia Convention, he has postponed the sitting of the Circuit Court for Lancaster county, until the third Monday of June, instant. ? In the District Court at Charleston last week, an order was issued directing the removal of Elijah Ross Sepaugh, convicted of conspiracy and murder under the ku-klux act, from the jail in Charleston to the jail in \r _. i_ *ii _ i orxvuie. ? Allen Parr, one of the prisoners convicted at the last term of the United States District Court, for illicit distilling and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, died in the county jail at Union, on Thursday night last. Mr. Parr was about sixty-two years old. ? Four boys, between the ages of nine and twelve years, were drowned in a mill pond in Pickens county last week, into which they had gone for the purpose of bathing. A colored man, observing clothing on the bank, gave the alarm, and upon draining the pond the four bodies were found. ? A number of the counties in the State have held meetings and appointed delegates to the State Democratic Convention, which meets in Columbia on the 11th instant. The indications are that the delegates which may be sent to Baltimore will be instructed to oppose any Democratic nomination by that body. ? William B. Crosby, indicted for the murder of James Shannon, colored, in January, 1871, was put upon his trial before Judge Thomas, in Chester, last week, and acquitted. Upon being discharged from the custody of the State authorities he was immediately arrested and committed by a U. S. Deputy Marshal, on a charge of ku-kluxing. ? The Charleston Republican has changed proprietors, and dropped the names of Grant and Scott, and hoisted the names of Greeley and Brown, as candidates for President and Vice-President, at the head of its columns. It will hereafter be published in the interest of the Liberal Republican party. J. Evans Britton & Co., are the present proprietors. ?The Chester Reporter says that John Lee, a colored deputy marshal, has expressed his determination to handcuff and tie white men that he may have occasion to arrest hereafter. This threat was made by Lee in consequence of William M. Kerr, of York county, having arrested a negro cnarged witn stealing a mule and taking him to Chester tied with a rope, as a precaution against escape. ? Two suits, intended to test the validity of proceedings thus far under the license act passed at the last session of the General Assembly, have been commenced in the Circuit Court for Charleston county, and will probably come up for trial at the June terra. The first suit is brought by Mr. L. D. Dessaussure, as broker and auctioneer. The other is that of the Pacific Guano Company. ? Prominent colored men about Charleston have addressed Justice A. J. Willard, asking him if he would be a candidate for Governor j d at the next election. A reply has been re- ii ceived embracing an acceptance. The main plank in the platform is a "fair" distribution c of offices among the colored men. It is hint- tl ed that the Rev. E. J. Adams will be on the a ticket for the Lieutenantship; Col. M.R. De- fi lauy for Secretary of State. ? State Auditor Gary states that proceed- el ings have been commenced in court to test c; the question as to whether the State is bound G to receive revenue bond scrip in payment of n past due taxes, and directs treasurers not to "< receive it until a decision is reached. On the other hand, Attorney-General Chamberlain C has given an unqualified opinion that County v Treasurers throughout the State are com- p pelled by law to receive revenue bond scrip S in payment of all taxes and dues to the State, b except special tax levied to pay the public debt. a] ? The Columbia Union, of Tuesday, says: 8| "Special Deputy Collector of Internal Reve- w nue James Maloney, last week made a very v successful raid through the county of Spar- ^ tanburg, and succeeded in capturing a num- ^ ber of stills, a considerable quantity of whisky, and destroying a large amount of mash. jc Altogether, one hundred tierces of mash were q destroyed, and eight hundred gallons of illicit t, whisky destroyed. Mr. Maloney also seized b about four hundred and fifty pounds of man- a ufactuifed tobacco that had been restamped j{ and hid away in feigned innocence. The owner of the same took to his heels, but in the \ illicit distillery business several of the opera- f, tors were bagged." b ? The Union ville Timet of last week says: fi "We are informed that the arrests in this c county under the Ku-Klux and Enforcement n Acts have been upon the wholesale and indis- t| criminate order since our last issue. It is reported that about sixty fell under the mandate f in about three days. Most of them have been 3 released nn hail. We -have not atteraDted to fi obtain the Dames, but we have not heard that f, any prominent citizen is among them. A d marshal and squad of soldiers were camped i for two days in the neighborhood of Mr. Asa ( Smith's plantation, watching for Mr. Smith g and others, but returned without making the j arrests they wished. Mnuy have "come in" and confessed to belonging to the ku-klux. We learn that a general "puking" has been n going on in the Commissioner's office the past e week. Nearly every yoyng man in the upper part of the county has either been arrested or i driven from the county, and the "night riders" v are now paying their nightly visits to the ^ lower and other portions." 1, NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. 0 ? The Cleveland Banner learns that on the ^ 15th ultimo, a young lady fell dead in Mt. Zion church, Lincoln county, while attending ? religious devotions. ? A farmer in Guilford county realized from n an imported ram 14 pounds of wool worth 60 ^ cents per pound. For mutton the sheep would ^ sell for $10 in the market. h ? The Directors of the Wilmington and n Weldon railroad have agreed to lease that ^ road to the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta railroad company for a term of ninety- e nine years. ? On Thursday last the passenger train of " the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta rail- v road ran off the track near Grice's Station, a smashing two cars and severely, though not n fatally, wounding several of the passengers. ? Robt. Revels, formerly a citizen of Cleve- f1 land county, but who has, for some time lived J( "? TTrtiAn AAiinft. S IT"" wna r/inanflir nprpatpd h IU U UIUU LUUU l/J | k-/? V.J & v-vviivij ? wvwv, and lodged in Cleveland county jail, charged ^ with being one of a party who robbed Daniel re Hicks, of Cleveland county, in 1870. ? The Roanoke News says a boy in Weldon, has made fifteen hundred dollars clear in four years peddling oranges and peanuts on the ^ trains running into that town, and had but p forty cents to start on ; and he has attended 11 school every day besides. That boy deserves ? to get along in the world. h ? During the recent term of Halifax Stipe- " rior court, Judge Moore sentenced a criminal a to be hanged on Thursday the 27th instant. c He selected that day of the week because a Christ was crucified on Friday, and he is unwilling to bring the blood of a criminal in ^ juxtaposition with that of our Saviour. w ? A contract has been entered into with the ^ Southern Railway Security Company for the early completion of the Western N. C. Railroad, which extends from Salisbury via Ashe- \ ville to Cumberland Gap. When the road is finished, Wilmington and Charleston will be within twenty-four hours of Cincinnati. y ? Capt. Wishart, who was killed by the a Lowrey gang a few weeks ago, was insured for a $2000, which amount has been paid to his g< widow. Stephen Lowrey openly boasts in the a presence of Wishart's friends that he com- a raitted the murder, and exhibits a pistol ta- u ken from the dead body, yet no one attempts j to avenge the death of one who sacrificed his life for the welfare of the community. j ? Nat Caldwell, a negro convicted of child J ,?na muruur 111 meutviciiuuig kjupciiui vuuib, nao sentenced to be hanged on the 26th of July. 1c Eliza Davidson mother of the murdered 0 child, was also convicted as being accessory, j| and seutenced to be hanged on the 16th of . August. At the same term Newton V. Chan- ^ dler, white, convicted of rape, was sentenced Q to be hanged on the 9th of August. This C case was removed from Lincoln county, where x the offense was committed. ? The Charlotte Despatch says that assistant tl Assessor McAlpine, aided by Mr. Peters, re- h turned last evening from a raid up in Gaston b couuty, bringing with them five stills aud fix- p tures and two barrels of whisky; seized for a the violation of the revenue laws. The stills and fixtures belonged to the following parties: n One to A. Rhyne, one to J. Davis near Dal- a las, one to Ben Hoffman, (colored,) one to F. w Massey and one to an unknown party. This ifc is the largest seizure ever made by the revenue officers on any one trip in this district, b As a "whisky smeller" Deputy Marshal Pe- b ters was always a-success. S POLITICAL ITEMS. ? The majority of the delegates elected to the Democratic State Convention at Austin, ? Texas, are in favor of Greeley and Brown. ? One trader in New York lately sold 275,000 Greeley badges, and only 8,450 of Grant, ^ in three days. ? In rural New York, they are getting up "wood choppers' clubs," with white hat uni- ? form, in the Greeley interest. ^ ? Conservative victories are reported in all parts of Virginia. Grant has no friends in that (<Pi.Aor1 onrt Ttiif.t.pr" hriomdft. I kJlttie cave bUV jliiwu nuu ?"V. ?--Q-" j I and the camp followers. ? Jefferson Davis's bail bond, with the ' ^ names of the signers, has been lithographed j by a Richmond house and will be used as a ! i fll campaign document South. ? The woman suffrage party, having de- " nounced Mr. Greeley and his platform, have , appointed a committee of seven ladies to at- 88 tend the Philadelphia Convention. ^ ? The Albany Argua, the central organ of al the New York Democracy, is for the adoption hi of the Cincinnati ticket at Baltimore. No fii oubt the New York delegation will beunantious in that way. ? Henry 8. Foote announces himself as a andidate for Congress from Tennessee, for be State at large. He declares for Greeley nd Brown. Well may they say, "save us ora our friends.-' ? Senator Ferry, of Connecticut, newly lected by a coalition of the Liberal Republics and Democrats, says the election of Mr. rreeley would be a "mere midsummer madess," and he expresses his determination to continue in the old Republican track." ? The Charleston New says that the South 'arolina delegation to the Philadelphia Conention, boast ' hat they are about to put a lank in the platform which will sweep the outh to a man for Grant." It will certainly e a wonderful plank. ? The speech of Congressman Voorhees gainst Greeley was widely circulated by the jpporters of Grant. The contest by the two ings of the Republican party for Democratic otea is lively and interesting. So the Demcrats are not the monsters that the Republim fancy painted them, after all. ?To elect Greeley will give us a Democrat; administration, says a Radical; to elect rreeley will continue the Radical administra*ation, says a Democrat. Others think it est to elect Greeley to see what kind of an dtniniatration he will give us, feeling we can >se nothing by a change. ?A Washington dispatch to the New York Vorld says: "A private letter received here om Horace Greeley within four or five days y a Republican member of the House and a iend of twenty years' standing, states most learly that if a straight-out nomination is jade at Baltimore, he will withdraw from be field." ? The Democratic State Convention of 'enusylvania assembled at Reading on the Oth ultimo and made nominations for a full Itate ticket. Mr. Buckalew was nominated 3r Governor. No reference was had in the eliberations of the convention to national 3pic8, or in relation to the nominations for he Presidency, though four Senatorial deleates at large were selected to attend the Baltimore convention. ? The Chicago Tribune says the campaign i fast drifting beyond the control of the party lanagers on all sides. It widens and deepns like a crevasse in the Mississippi. Yesjrday ten men might have stopped it; now 0,000 could not. It will overwhelm the conentions that meet to oppose. And it will ear onward into the Presidential chair the irgest-hearted, kindest-souled and most demcratic of American statesmen, Horace Greedy. ? General Roger A. Pryor, a Confederate eneral during our late war, and a resident of lew York since, asserts-that August Bellont's opposition to the ratification of the Jincinnati nominations grows out of the fact bat Mr. Belmont belongs to the ''Syndicate," as large dealings with the Treasury Bepart?anf ia <->n tl-in |um+ /Arton/Molt With t.hfl It/UV) IO VU UUW WWW J * *.. idministration, and secretly wants such aeon at Baltimore as will secure Grant's relection. ? A Washington telegram says: "The Greesy headquarters here are in receipt of adices of the most encouraging character from 11 parts of the country. Col. Allen, chairian of the Indiana Liberal committee, writes lat if Greeley is nominated at Baltimore, ndiana will give him twenty thousand ma>rity. He bqses this estimate on what he ears from different portions of the State, rovernor Alcorn and one of the Mississippi lehibers of the House are out for Greeley. ? The careful Washington correspondent of le Baltimore Sun writes on Wednesday last: Hon. James C. Robinson, of Illinois, received lis morning a letter from Hon. George H. 'endletou, in which strong ground is taken 1 favor of the endorsement of Greeley at laltimore. Mr7 Pendleton says that it is opeless to attempt a party nomination, and lat the choice has to be made between Grant nd Greeley. He also says that only two lasses are opposed to Greeley's endorsement, nd that they are, first, those who are too lolish to see that it is the only chance for a Jture good government; and second, those ho desire the re-election of Grant. This itter places at rest all dispute as to the posion of the great Ohio leader." editorial^inklings. pothecaries and Druggists. By order of the Medical Faculty of the Jniversity of South Carolina, Rev. C. Bruce Valker, Secretary, gives notice that the exmination of pharmaceutists, apothecaries nd druggists, under a law passed at the last laoinn nf the T,PoriBlftt.nrf>. will he commenced t Columbia, on Wednesday, the 12th instant, nd continue on each succeeding Wednesday ntil further notice, he Philadelphia ConTention. A special dispatch to the Columbia Jnion, from Philadelphia, dated on Monday ist, says: "Grant will be nominated on the first bal>t, and probably by acclamation. Hawley, f Connecticut, is looming up as the candidate >r Vice-Presidency. The contest seems to e between Colfax and Wilson, with the odds 1 favor of the former. The South Carolina elegates are expected to-night. LieutenantGovernor Ransier and Sheriff Mackey, of lharleston, are now here." he Blue Ridge R. R. in New York. A dispatch from New York, dated on le 29th ultimo, says: "A New York firm as brought suit in the Supreme Court, on ehalf of some of the stockholders of the Blue Lidge Railroad Company of South Carolina, gainst the president and executive commitle of the road. The offense charged is the lisappropriation of the funds of the company, nd the complaint alleges that in accordance ith a bill passed by the South Carolina Leglature last March, four hundred thousand ollars of bonds of the company, guaranteed y the State, were exchanged for revenue ond scrip, which was to be receivable by the tate for taxes. The complaint further al:ges that the president of the road, Mr. John . Patterson, obtained possession of $1,800,000 f this scrip, and obtaining loans upon a poron of it, divided the money and scrip among is personal friends and members of the South arolina Legislative. The complaint also al>crp? that th? treasurer of the State of South arolina received $50,000. Judge Ingram ranted an order to show cause why an inmction should not be issued, and a receiver ppointed. The question was argued before udge Leonard to-day whether the courts of lis State have jurisdiction in the matter, as le plaintiffs are non-residents. The decision as reserved." icath of James Gordon Bennett. James Gordon Bennett, the founder ad proprietor of the New York Herald., died i that city on Sunday morning last. The lerald, in announcing Mr. Bennett's death, lys: "Five years ago Mr. Bennett entirely withrew from the active management of the Herri, but although in feeble frame his general ealth had been remarkably good, while his ae intellect remained unimpaired and his in terest in the events of the day continued unabated up to the moment of his fatal illness. About half past one o'clock last Saturday afternoon Mr. Bennfett suffered a slight convulsive attack, accompanied by epileptic symptoms, but not sufficiently marked or violent to excite apprehension of immediate danger. At half past one o'clock last Sunday morning the attack was repeated with greater severity, and from that time the end became evident, alalthoug the constant attendance of Doctors Corcorane, Hammond and Lusk, ensured the exhaustion of all within reach of human efforts to avert the fatal result. On Tuesday last, at the request of Mr. Bennett, Archbishop McCloskev visited his bedside and administered to him the sacraments of the church. When the last hour arrived he sank to sleep in death calmly and peacefully, and his soul passed away without struggling. Mr. Bennett was in the 77th year of his age." Dr. Livingstone still a Mystery. Doctor Livingstone, the great African explorer, not having been heard from for many months, the manager of the New York Herald, actuated perhaps, more by the spirit of gaining notoriety for himself and his newspaper, than by any real good which might be accomplished, fitted out a vessel and with a regular correspondent named Stanley on board, despatched it with the view of finding and relieving the distinguished traveler who was so wantonly neglected by his own countrymen. The expedition sailed, and in due course of time the cable announced tidings from Mr. Stanley, to the effect that he had * ' TA T . 1 ; .1 I L:? iouna ur. Jjiviugsione aim reuuercu mui such relief as was necessary. The announcement was received with some credence in this country, while on the other side of the water the stoic Englishman is decidedly incredulous. At the meeting of the London Geographical Society, on the 13th, the question of Livingstone's discovery was freely discussed, Sir Henry Rawlinson taking a quaint and original view of the Herald's expedition. Sir Henry remarked that "it had been generally inferred from the intelligence that Mr. Stanley (the correspondent in question) had discovered and relieved Dr. Livingstone; but if there had been any discovery and relief, it was Dr. Livingstone who had discovered and relieved Mr. Stanley." This, it will be perceived, puts the matter in an entirely different light. The fact is that there have been two theories regarding the relation of this correspondent to the missing explorer; first, that there was no correspondent at all; second, that there was a correspondent from whose purcuit Dr. Livingstone was making all haste possible. And now comes Rawlinson to confuse this already muddled affair with the suggestion that the doctor discovered the correspondent?a fact which would seem to indicate that it was Mr. Stanley, after all, who was evading Dr. Livingstone, whose superior tactics, however, enabled him to overtake the fleeing journalist. THE GROWING CROPS. SOUTH CAROLINA. The Abbeville Medium says: Our farmers do not give a very flattering account of their crop prospects, Most every part of our country is suffering for want of rain, aud the season is very backward. There is a very poor stand of cotton in some neighborhoods, and unless we soon have rain, the crops will be short. The Sumter News reports a heavy hailstorm in the fork of Black river on Thursday last, and after the cloud had passed over and the rain subsided, hail stones as large as a guinea egg could be shoveled up by the wagon load. The Newberry Herald says: "Since our last issue, showers of rain have fallen in various localities of our county. Although the crops are not doing well, with favoring seasons henceforth and a late fall, lostgrouud may be recovered." The Barnwell Sentinel says: "We traveled last week through a large portion of country, and were pleased to see the crops of corn and cotton looking well. The recent rains have extended pretty generally over the State, and prospects for a good yield were never more favorable." The Marlboro* Times says: "The weather has been variable for some days past Some showers have fallen, and one or two mornings have been quite cool. The crops are looking well. Grass is growing rapidly, and if not well attended to will soon give trouble." The Chester Reporter says: "The drought which has retarded the growth of the crops was brought to an end on Saturday night last by an abundant fall of rain. It came too late to be of any very great benefit to the crops of small grain. These are generally very unpromising. Cotton and corn are both now doing well." The Chester .correspondent of the Charleston News says: The area of cotton in that county is about the same as in 1871, ? .It# A though the prospect ot a yieia is not so goou as at this time last year. Wheat is promising, and oats inferior. A correspondent of the same paper writing from Anderson, reports the area of that county in cotton greater than last year by twenty per cent.; stands bad, in consequence of which some have ploughed up and replanted. The prospect of a fair yield to last year is not tlattering. Less corn is planted than was last year, and by no means a full crop of wheat. The heads of wheat are short, but what grain is made will be good. The oat crop, except the fall sowing, will be cut off on all uplands, unless we have rain in a few days. In Darlington labor is reported as doing well. The stand of cotton is bad, and the corn prospect is not so good as at this time last year. More small grain was planted this year than last, and is fifty per cent, better. In Lancaster county there is about ten per cent, increase in the area of cotton planted over last year. The prospect of a yield depends entirely upon the season from now out, but the prospect now is not good. Ten per cent, more grain has been planted than was planted in 1871, and it generally promises as well as last year. In Marion county cotton appears to be growing finely since the recent rains, but as t is at least two weeks behind the season, it will require a fall season correspondingly late to make a full crop. The yield of grain crops will not be good. The increase of the turpentine business has seriously interfered with the planting interests by withdrawing the best class of labor from the farms. The Union Times says a fine rain fell a few miles above that place on Saturday night of last week, which left the ground too wet to plough for three days. At this point and along the liue of the railroad some miles below, the rain was very light and the crops are suffering. We, however, are inclined to believe that the cotton, generally, throughout the county looks quite promising, but backward. Wheat promises well. Oats almost a failure in manv nlaces. and the best are infe rior. The condition of the crops in Lexington county is spoken of quite favorably. OTHER STATES. Reports from the cotton-planting section of North Carolina represent the prospect favorably as compared with last year. The indications of a good grain crop are promising, and wheat is generally better than it has been for several years. Reports from Alabama give the same state of weather all over the State?a wet spring followed by a drought of six weeks, which prevented about one-fifth of the crop from coming up. There is now a general complaint of want of rain, but the cotton that was up from the 3rd to the 15th of May was in a remarkable favorably condition. Mississippi reports an increase in the acreage of cotton varying from ten to thirty per cent., the average in the whole State being fully fifteen per cent, larger than last year. The average in corn is about the same. Reports from various seotions of Georgia represent the cotton prospect in that State as ' very good, the general complaint being the backwardness of the season. Cotton is unusually promising in Florida, j Corn is not so promising for want of rain, j Oranges are doing well, and there will be a heavier fruit crop than has been gathered in a great many years. A MEMORABLE SCENE. Though seven years have passed away, the best description of the scene of the bailing, of Jefferson Davis by Mr. Greeley has just been given by George Alfred Townsend to the Chicago Tribune. He represents the Cincinnati nominee at that time as really cutting the Gordian knot when the country was deliberating whether to commit an act which wouw oe repented ever, afterward, by hanging Davis oi\ keeping him a prisoner as Queen Elizabeth did Mary Stuart, "Horace Greeley took the public mind off Davis and became in turn the best abused man in America. He played < mercy and magnanimity, and closed up the war withouthout shedding a life to stain the victory of freedom." We quote from Mr. Townsend's letter: 1 Monday morning the United States granite building was the town rendezvous. It stood at the foot of tbe State capitol hill, where the Davis government ruled with brief but tremendous energy, and where all departments quarrelled, and old Jeff, himself showed all the weakness and strength of a destructionist. In this court-room presided a very forbiddinglooking judge, by name Underwood?a man apparently stunted and bleached by wrongs and fears^ but, for all I know, a consistent and persistent man?born in the North, wedded to a slaveholder's daughter for whom he was t tutor, and now very ambitious and uncharitable-to bis beaten neighbors. The charge this man had delivered to tbe grand jury, a few ^ days before, was a strong instance of merely 11 tantilizing declamation, bad in spirit, mean in language and without the tone or intent of justice in it. The grand jury was composed of whites and blacks?the usual intelligent jury existing in a half-guilty dependence between the judge and the foreman. John Minor Botts Was on the jury?a big-bellied, hale fellow, farmer politician, two-thirds demagogue, and. one- < third obstinacy, with the varnish and veneer of eloquence over all; a talker by profession, who boasted that he had never read a book since boyhood, but lived on newspapers and other8timulants. He is dead, and carved his page on the history of the country. What contrary and heroic things inen do for many years to get that page! The light was fair in the court-room, and, in due time, Jeff. Davis entered. He wore common clothes, looked weak-eyed, was not an important-looking man, and seemed to me not worth so much hating and fuss. He had been very unnopular in Richmond, but the people naturally felt that he was now vicariously on trial for them, and they loyally stood by him. There are people, I know, who want the Southern people to behave as Bancroft Davis expected England to behave?like weeping flunkeys, running Over at th< eyes aud lips with apologies. Our fellow-man is mi swindler. When he carries his musket four years barefooted to keep up the interests and save the necks of politicians, be is slow to cry on order. Colossal infants like Senator Pratt, of Indiana, may go on to this day hating the South for its want of mean contrition. This sort of man nature meant to be an old maid, and write treatises on the bringing up of children. What does he know about men aud our nature, big as he is ? I saw there Charles O'Conor, of New York, who was afterwahls to be so potential and independent in prosecuting the Tammany Ring, and thus insensibly beading the fraternal revolution ; General Imboden, who was to write a very beautiful letter to the Cincinnati Convention in Horace Greeley's favor; and, I think, Frank Sternes, a fellow-Verraonter with Greeley by birth, who was to bear Imboden's letter to Cincinnati. Lastly, I saw . Horace Greeley himself enter the court-room, and become the focus of observation. Mr. Greeley I had never spoken with up to that day. He was a large, fleshy, markedlooking man, with a smooth, healthy face, in which the colors were brighter than men usually keep. He had a deep, benvolent forehead, and wore, I think, a suit of black broadcloth. He seldom wears a white coat at any time, although caricature so represents him, and his hat in his hand was the same quality and shape he has always carried since?a broad-rimmed felt, soft and line, and sensible and dressy enough for any person. He wus dressedas well as anybody in Richmond. He looked to me like a man originally shy and bashful, and incurably retiring by native wish, and who, therefore, came forward on public occasions from propulsion rather than from nniATTmAnl- X-Tia omlla a f onnk t rv> An nf nvkl. Clijwjf iUCUb* XX|Q OUIllOj ?b OUVU 1*1111^9 Ui VAUI bition, is that of a good-humored boy who would much rather go to play hi the yard than exhibit before company; and it occurred to me there that, for worldly uses, a man might have such a thing as too exuberant health and temperance. He spoke to few, and then always by request; and he was, to a great extent, the reigning influence in that presence. Underwood, the judge, with whom lay the option of taking bail, paid much more respect to Horace Greeley's intentions than to Mr. Davis. After the bond was signed, Mr. Greeley stepped back toward a column or pillar where he had first stood, Mr. Davis rose from his chair with a smile of respect, and reached out his hand, bowing like one under deep obligation, and fully accepting the act in its benevolent spirit Mr. Greeley took the hand, without speaking, so far as I could see, and the action lasted only a portion of ^a moment The two have never had communication since. Mr. Voorhees says that Mr. Greeley's act was meddlesome impertinence. A public man who could stigmatize a large and painstaking act of kindness like that, in such terras has a querulous and provincial nature, and a generous age wastes time upon him. What meddlesome impertinence was not Mr. Voorhees guilty of duriug the war?prolonging it by his example, adding stupidity to the inevitable, and assuming that the whole epic tragedy revolved about himself. To save his seat in Congress, and remember some old grudge, personal only to him, this long haired egotist would recommend personal government till doomsday, and load the carpet-bag hanging round the neck of the South. That impertinent act of Horace Greeley, brave as it was, 1 1 1.. J_: L! ^ xl_ _ ? - 1 i* .1 uuu uearijr uriveu una irom me neaa oi ine Tribune. After the crowd left the court-room, Mr. Greeley proceeded directly to his hotel, in the company of Mr. Botis, and, introducing myself, the former said: "Why, Gath, why haven't you introduced yourself to me before ? Come, walk down the street." That night the Richmond newspaper folks gave us all a supper, and Mr. Greeley presided. He gave a toast in cold water that the enmities of the past be buried, and we lay our hands and hearts to the peace of the future. We all, Greeley excepted, drank a great deal of champagne, and young MacFarland, editor of Forney's Washington Chroni' cle, (a paper now defunct, I believe, killed by a Bohemian named Fox, by Holden, the North Carolina outlaw, and by Morris, a renegade 4 preacher,) toasted Jeff Davis, for which the small-minded and timid Forney afterward cut off McFarland's head. As nearly as I can remember my speech, it was to the effect that the provost marshal and the man in buttons had had his day; that the best way to spoil the American volunteer was to make him believe that nobody else had ever served his country from the noblest motives; and that, fnr himaolf lnn? 0*1 ??.? ? ?VUg ?*U dl 111 J V/UI ICO|WUUCU|I, I had seen a great deal of meanness, jealousy, intrigue and several penitentiary offenses committed in the army, and hailed its disbandment and the opening of the prison doors to them that were bound. Little did we know the fury that was gath- ^ eringin the North for Horace Greeley. The New York Times, never truly in earnest except when it gets the Tribune foul, had it*