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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.
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thus insuring adequate supplies of food for
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YORKVILLE, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1872.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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(
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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
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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
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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 !
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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 ??.?
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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*