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Jj> craps audi darts. Charles Lever, the celebrated novelis and essayist, died at Trieste, France, recently Brigham Young anuouuces that h( shan't marry any more. A Chicago lady, seventy-two years old is the mother of a baby aged ten days. On Wednesday of hist week, a cargo o two tbousaud watermelons arrived at Savau nab from Florida. A pair of twins, born in Lowndes conn ty,-Miss., the other day?a boy and girlwere named respectively Horace Greeley ant Dolly Varden. Theodore Tilton says there is is bui one employment in the world more agreeable than to edit a newspaper; and that is not t( edit one. The tules or reed vegetation of th< California swamp land has been found to yield fifty or sixty per cent, of paper pulp, equal tc that obtained from cotton. Coleridge tells us of a man who had such an overwhelming self-esteem that he was never known to speak of himself without taking off his hat. The parish surgeon of Leominster, Eng land, has been fined twenty shillings for ma king a practice of kissing his lady patients The ladies are iudignaut?at the smallness oi the fine. Josh Billings defined a "thurrer-breac bizziness man" as "wun that knos enuff about stealing, so that ther kantennybody steel from hiiu, and enuff about law so that he can dt his stealing legally." It is said that persons affected by the concussion of a stroke of lightning can be saved in most cases by reactionary remedies ; such as the rapid dashing of cold water ovei the victim, and the application of friction. For the first time since the war, the Radical Congress has unseated a Radical member and put a Democrat in his place Clark (Radical) sitting member from Tex as, has been ousted, and Giddings (Demo erat) seated in his place. Giddings wa9 fairlj elected by the people. The President has issued a proclamation directing the discontinuance of suite against all persons charged with holding office .? ? j.i i?il . it r contrary to tne i<?n section or tne - euiorct* ineut act," except as to persons who may be embraced in the exceptions named in the am nesty act recently passed. A marriage was solemnized near Ottei Tail City, Minnesota, between a man of Scan dinavian extraction who is unable to speak f word of English, and an American wo mar who is unable to speak a word in the Scandi naviau tongue. The service was performed bj a Frenchman whom neither could understand An Eastern paper has it that a pool little Sunday School scholar iu Wisconsir was deluded into learning 5720 verses of tin Bible in four weeks by a promise of a book They gave him "Hitchcock's Analysis of th< Bible." He swapped it for a three bladei knife and a peck of hiokory nuts. There has been recently established ii London, England, un "Office for Marriages,' which undertakes to provide duly qualifier matrimonial partners suitable for all appli cants. To support their statements, they pub lish in their advertisements testimonials fron various persons who have been satisfactoril} supplied with wives or husbands, by the office iu tne same manuer as the testimonials ap ponded to advertisements of patent medicines The late James Gorden Bennett, bj his will, gives the Herald establishment anr the Herald building on Broadway, aud alsr ti;e property on Fulton, Ann and Nassai streets, formerly the site of the Herald, to hL son, James Gorden Bennett. It is said tha the will also provides that young Mr. Ben uett shall not sell the Herald, aud that it shal remain in the possession of the family. Mack writes from Washington a storj of an unsophisticated gentleman from tin West, who recently dropped into the hall o the House of Representatives to see the sights Beckoning to a neatly attired citizen of Afri can descent who stood near him, and wh( modestly answered his call, he said to him "Jim, will you show me to the barber's shop I want to get shaved and have my boot blacked ?" This was a little too much foi "Jim," who was none other than one of tin honorable members from South CarolinaMr. Elliott. " 'Scuse me, sah," said Elliott "I'se no waitah; I'se a membah." The gen tleman from the West retired, deeply mor tified. The famine in Persia, which now seem to be drawing near its close has been produc tive of an amount of misery almost uuparal leled in modern times. Captain Piercon, ai Englishman, who has recently traveled ii that unhappy country, describes the last fum ine as worse than the first. On his journe; from Shiraz to Teherau he found the roai strewn with half-eaten corpses; cauuibalisn was very prevalent, and starvation had arous ed the usually peaceable inhabitants to despai aud brigandage and other crimes of violeuci were rife all along the roads. In the capita alone, out of a population of 80,000, at leas 20,000 had fallen victims to the famine an< its attendant diseases. A day or two since, Wra. Beard sen word to Gen. Cooper, United States Interna Revenue Collector for this district, that dur ing his absence some one had left a barrel o whisky at his place of business, and as it wa unstamped and he didn't wish to get into an; trouble, he hoped the General would sent down and remove it. This was enough fo the collector, and, accompanied by a deputy Gen. Cooper proceeded to Beard's store am asked to be shown "that barrel of whisky.1 Mr. Beard, with a twinkle in his eye, pointei to a fellow snoring in a corner, dead drunk and told him that was the whisky he meant as he judged from his adaptability to inebriet; that he would hold about a barrel. Gen Cooper resembles John Randolph in point o piety, and persons passing thought he hn< gone to see a lady who had disappointed hiu from his allusion to "Helen Blazes." Tha liquor wasn't gauged.?KnoxvUle Chronicle. A writer in one of the best of the north em papers gives some statistics conceruinj prominent New York journals. Aceordinj to his statement, the Tribune was begun ii 1841, with one thousand dollars, borrowet money, and its profits in 1850 amounted t sixty thousand dollars, and in 1870 to on hundred and sixty thousand dollars annually The first office of the Herald was in a cellar where its morality was as low as its surround ings. It now yields a yearly income of tw< hundred thousand dollars. The Times los! at the start, one hundred thousand dollars and now it is valued at one million, includinj its real estate. The Evening Post, after man; fluctuations, is now worth one hundred ant fifty thousand dollars a year, the Express tliir ty thousand, and the Journal of Commerc seventy thousand. Of course all this is onl; tolerably accurate guessing; but it shows th estimation in which the different papers ar held by a presumably impartial observer. Nothing has called forth such an ac knowledgment of departed greatness from th press as the death of James Gordon Bennett and the New York journals that have achiev ed success by following in the path he bea for them, have been prompt to chronicle am credit the great benefactions left behind by th dead journalist. Mr. Bennett's last hour were eminently quiet and peaceful. He kne\ what was to come, and spoke of it with res ignation, though he regretted the absence o his family. Several days before his death h< asked Archbishop McCloskey for some syra bol of the Catholic faith to wear in his las hours. "What article of devotion would yoi like ?" inquired the Archbishop. "A scapu lar of the sacred heart of Jesus," replied th sick man. The Archbishop had one with him ami he placed it around the neck of Mr. Ben nett, who clasped his hands as though ii prayer. The scapular had been blessed, am Mr. Bennett seemed to derive great consola tion from the symbol, Horace Greeley, Gen Dick, Charles O'Couor, Frederick Hudson, Dr. Hammond, Oukey Hall, James Brooks : j and Connery, present managing editor of the 11 Herald, will be pall-bearers at Jatnes Gordon Bennett's funeral, which will not take place a until his sou's return. Iu the meantime his ' i remains will be placed in a vault It is as(serted that Bennett left S200.000 in his will ' toward the completion of the new cathedral 1 in Fifth Avenue, and a uumber of liberal be' ! quests to Catholic charitable institutions. His ' i estate is estimated at five or six million of I dollars. ijSbe fothille (Smquim. I ? J YORKVILLE, S. C.: t THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 13,1872. Watch the Figures.?'The dale, on tho "addresa. label" shows the time to which the subscription is f paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must bo. kejtt in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that I our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance | THE BANKRUPT LAW AMENDED. Cougress has recently passed an amendj raent to the bankrupt law, which is of much ) interest to those who are unable to pay their debts. The amendment exempts to the bankrupt such property as the State exemption law in force in 1871 gives to iusolvent perI sons. The exemption in force in South Carolina, at the date mentioned, allowed a horae. stead of the value of one thousand dollars and personal property to the amount of five hunr dred dollars. In addition to this, the bankrupt law exempts five hundred dollars worth " of personal property. Therefore, the law, as ' it. now stands, p.xemnts nroDertv of the debtor ' to the value of two thousand dollars. 5 The effect of the law will be to give to those - who avail themselves of its provisio.ns, absolute control over the exempted property, which is * not the case under the State exemption law. In the latter case, there is only a life interest, 1 as after the death of the husband and wife, ' and the youngest child having attained its 7 majority, the property becomes subject to the . claims of creditors. r THE HABEAS CORPUS WRIT. 3 An erroneous opinion prevails to some ex. tent to the effect that if Congress fails to exi tend the power of President Grant to suspend I the writ of habeas corpus, military and other summary modes of arrest will cease. Failure ) to extend the President's power in this respect j will not affect any means of making arrests heretofore authorized. The military arm will . have the same power that it has had herei tofore. But the rights of the citizen will be J in a great measure restored. ' This writ of right is as old as English law, and was framed to protect and guard the libr erty of an individual against any and every 1 assault. It is simply a writing signed by a > Judge and directed to any person alleged to i hold another in unlawful custody, directing 3 him to bring the body of the person detained, together with the cause of detention before I the Judge. If the order is obeyed, the Judge examines into the lawfulness of the alleged r cause of arrest, and either remands the priso> ner into custody, grants him permission to f obtain bail, or orders his release, as in his opinion the circumstances of the case may "[justify. Should the party to whom the writ }; is directed refuse to obey it, the Judge can ! i proceed against him for contempt,-and punish s j him by fine and imprisonment in his discrer j tion. 3 Should any more arrests be made in this State under the enforcement act of Congress, ' in case the power to suspend the writ is with* drawn from the President, the arrested party can apply to the Judge of the United- States s Circuit Court and obtain the writ, when the case will be proceeded with in the manner - above indicated. [i a OUR CONDITION. * Much has beeu said within the last few ^ years about acceptiug the condition under a the new rigivie. It is evident that some great . changes have still to be made before facts r are accepted and treated as such. This 3 ''Sunny South" of ours has to be thoroughly 1 revolutionized. We do not even hint that it I must declare war against any political power in the universe. Many changes in the admin! isteriner of the State governments of the South j j are necessary; and will come, in time, we think, and be effected. At least, we earnestf I ly hope such will be the case. But we are not s I in a political humor at present. At best, it is P small game. ^ ' The condition which we desire to bring to r j the notice of the public may, with propriety, | : be called our industrial condition. This ap" j pellation will sufficiently distinguish it both 1 | from our political and social condition. The ! industrial condition of a country is the base > : of both its political and social condition. ^ When wesay social condition, we have no referj* ence to those lines of demarcation which ex| I ist in nature, and which cannot be crossed n with impunity. By the results of the late t. war the industrial condition of the slave lioldi ing States was as completely changed as was i-1 its political condition. Practically, as well ? as theoretically, our former slaves were made => I citizens. We can either accept this in theory a ! or not; in practice we are forced to accept it. 0 | The slave is made a citizen in another equale j ly important sense. He is not only free to '. I vote and hold office of honor and trust, but '> j he is free to work for himself and not for anr j other. His former master cau no longer con0 trol the labor of the negro, only so far as the j' latter sees fit to be controlled and his necessity ties require. It is clearly inconsistent to cony template our industrial condition in any other 1 light. The white man need no longer expect his fields to be cultivated by the negro as they e once were. If he expects such a thing he will g i be grievously disappointed. Heretofore the e j negro worked and the white mau superin| tended. Under the present administration of affaire this is clearly impracticable, and it is e j madness to attempt such a thing. It is hard > j to get out of old ruts, especially when they are " | deep; but our progress in many respects often j j depends upon getting out of an old road into e ( a new one. s j To come to the point at once, white men of .. I .1 o ? . l ? x. 1. rpU? ' I in6 OOULIl must gu tu wurik* jluu j'uuug men I of the former slave holding States must go to i the field and not simply superintend, but j work. The best labor in the world is when a t ! man works for himself. This may sound i j harsh. It may seem strange that our tender - handed and fair faced young men and boys e : are advised to take hold of the plow handles; '? | but hard or soft, of two evils this certainly is j the least. It is no use to dodge the question. I! The young people of the South, both male | and female, must learn to work and manage i. I for themselves. Whenever this revolution in [ the industrial condition of the South takes place, we may expect, on good grounds, prosperity ; but not before it. The reflexive influence of such a revolution would be very great upon both our social and political condi- J i tion. Drones and idlers would be degraded socially and politically, and humbugs would find very little material upon which to operate. Such a revolution would ensure a more plentiful supply of corn and decrease the demand for whisky. THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION. The National Republican Convention assembled in Philadelphia on the 6th instant to nominate candidates for President and VicePresident of the United States. This event inaugurates the second grand move in the political campaign, placing fairly in the held the opposing Republican candidates to those nominated at Cincinnati. Of course, the renomination of Grant was a foregone conclusion ; but over the Vice-Presidency there was some contention, the names most prominently before the Convention being Mr. Colfax, Senator Wilsdn of Massachusetts, ex-Governor Hawley of Connecticut, Hon James F. Wilson of Iowa, ex-Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania, and Seuator Lewis of Virginia. The permanent organization was effected by placing Hon. Thomas Settle, of North Carolina, in the chair, and appointing a VicePresideut from each State. A. J. Ransier was the honored delegate in this respect from South Carolina. On the different committees the South Carolina delegation was disposed as follows: On credentials, S. A..SwaiIs; on permanent organization, W. B. Nash; on resolutions, R. B. Elliott; on rules, T. J. Mackey; and as Secretary, H. G. Maxwell. Prominent among the other South Carolina delegates were F. J. Moses, Jun., Speaker of the House, and the man who first raised the Confederate flag over Fort Sumter after the surrender of Major Anderson; B. F. Whittemore, ex-member of Congress, and famous as a broker in cadetships; and Hon. James L. Orr, ex-Speaker of Congress, afterwards a Confederate Senator, latterly .a provisional Governor, and now a Circuit Judge. Judge Orr being called upon, made a speech, of whieh the following is a svnonsis: He took the platform, and pledged his State for the ticket. He referred to the slanders to which President Grant had been subjected, and compared his-experience in this respect with that of Washington and Jackson, and eulogized the President, whose reelection he considered a necessity. If Grant had failed as President he (the speaker) liked such failures. He claimed the administration was a succes at home and abroad, dilated at some length on the operations of ku-kluxism in South Carolina, sustained the ku-klux legislation, and claimed that the laws had been fairly and firmly executed. President Grant, he said, did not act until the Legislature of South Carolina passed resolutions calling upon him to send the fore? of the United States government to give them protection. With reference to this ku-klux law, President Grant had to execute it. It was in the statute book and he was called upon to execute it by that tribunal which had the right to call upon him. He didn't pass the law. How did it come to be passed ? Was it not in the thunders of the New York Tribune day after day and week after week, rung into the ears of Congress, demanding that they should pass some such law to give protection to them, and now when the law is passed, and has been executed in mercy and firmness, how stands my old friend Greeley ? He has turned around now and denounces Grant and the ku-klux law tor its enormities. Judge iionci, who nns discharged his duties with great fidelity there, has administered this law firmly and mercifully, and although you hear so much glamor of people being cast into prisou for their not being able to procure bail, what is the result of the trials? There have been about seven trials at the two courts?one an acquittal, one a mistrial, and five convictions. These are the results, and yet to show the extent of it, and how conclusive the proof was, this was not made up of manufactured testimony?the testimony of suborned witnesses. More than sixty of these unfortunate people who have been indicted have voluntarily come forward and pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against them. Now, when the facts come to be understood, I should suppose that so far from being an element of weakness against the President, it would be an element of strength. He closed with the prediction that Grant and his associate on the ticket to be nominated would be triumphantly elected. Mr. Orr was followed by Elliott, the colored representative from this State, who pledged the colored vote of the South for Grant. After the various speakers had subsided, the permanent officers were reported, and Judge Settle, who was a gallant officer in the Confederate army, on being presented, delivered himself as follows : Gentlemen of the Convention: I thank you for the distinction of presiding over the deliberations of the greatest party in the greatest power on earth, and I accept it not so much on any personal attribute to myself, but as the right hand of fellowship extended from our magnanimous sisters of the North to the erring, wayward, punished, regenerated, patriotic sisters of the South. We have high duties to perform. We have assembled to name the man who shall administer the laws of the great Republic for the next four years. But our duties are plain. I We should be recreant to every trust, and fail to respond to the vibrations of every patriotic heart, if we do not with one voice name the soldier and patriot, U. S. Grant, for the next Presidency. We of the South recognize and demand him as a necessity. We know that it is a necessity; necessary for the law and order of that portion of the country. It is a necessity to the freedom of all men. It is not proper that I should detain you with extended remarks this eveuing. I | shall, therefore, assume the duties you have j imposed upon me, and shall be very glad of j the opportunity to address you at greater length later in the session, and when our labors shall have closed. The motion to adjourn until 10 o'clock next day was then put and carried. On reassembling, the Convention, without waiting for the committee on resolutions, proceeded to go through the formality of making the nomination for President, by nominating Grant. The nomination was by acclamation and unanimous. rni l lP '.Ll il i_.1 i_l _ J.lie piauorm coniimiLee wieu repuricu me i resolutions, eighteeii in number, which are i substantially as follows: They speak of the great courage and the duties performed by the Republican party by suppressing the rebellion, emancipating the slaves, enforcing the laws, developing the internal resources of the country, encouraging and promoting emancipation, collecting the revenue, and reducing the national debt, and express the belief that the country will not entrust the Government to any party or combination composed chiefly of those who have resisted every step of this beneficial progress. They hold that the recent amendments to the constitution must be sustained and carried out; that honorable peace with foreign nations should be maintained ; that the civil service should be reformed ; that no further grants of public land should be made to corporations; that the revenue should be such as to furnish a moderate balance to be applied to a reduction of the public debt; that revenue, except such as is raised from tobacco and spirits, should be raised by duties on imports, which duties should be adjusted so as to aid in securing remunerative wages to the laborer, and promoting the industries, prosperity and growth of the whole country ; that the future bounty of the. government should be extended to the soldiers and sailors of the late war ; that the American doctrine of naturalization should be maintained ; that the franking privilege should be abolished and postage reduced ; that the relations of labor and capital should be recognized and protected ; that ibe public credit must be preserved, and that specie payments should be resumed ; the claim for woman suffrageabould be treated with respectful consideration ; the amnesty action of Congress is approved; also, its anti-ku-klux legislation ; the rights reserved to the States must be respected ; finally, confidence is expressed in the modest patriotism, earnest purposes, sound judgment and practical wisdom of U. S. Grant. After adopting the platform, Wilson of Massachusetts, and Colfax were put in nomination for the vice-Presidency, the vote resulting in favor of Wilson, when the convention adjourned sine die. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. On Tuesday the 4th, the tariff* bill was agreed to by both Houses as reported from the committee of conference. The reductions made by the bill, including tea and coffee on the free list, amount to about $53,000,000. The House passed a bill reported by the committee on military affairs, directing the Secretary of War to distribute arms and military equipments under the provisions of the act of 1808 and the various acts amendatory thereto. In the Senate on the 5th, the House amendments to the bill providing for the redemption and sale of lands held by the United States under the several acts levying direct taxes, were concurred in. The sundry civil appropriation bill was resiimed, and the proposition to strike out the 6th section, appropriating Afi.m Artn . - i ? _l_: il O^iiUjVw iu puy uiisei/ncu uiuuiib ui suutucru mail Contractors prior to May Si, 1861, was considered at lehgth without action. After receiving, the report of the committee on enrolled bills announcing the due enrollment of the tariff bill, and after the bill received the signature of the Speaker, the House adjourned until Friday. In the Senate, on the Gth, there were several factious amendments to the clause of the appropriation bill giving ?250,000 to pay the unsettled claims of southern mail contractors, when the bill went over until Friday. Mr. Sumner read a letter from a citizen of Chicago coroboratiug some of the statements the Senator had made in his speech on the incompetency of Grant. The river and harbor bill passed andgoes to the House for concurrence. It appropriates 810,000 for the improvement of Roanoke river; 8100,000 for Cape Fear river, in North Carolina; and 840,000 for improving Charleston harbor. In the Senate, on the 7th, the amendments to the House substitute for the bill providiug for the redemption and sale of land sold for direct taxes, were concurred in, and the bill goes to the President. In the House, the Senate bill to declare and enforce the civil rights of citizens in the United States was taken up, when Poland moved an amendrafiit fixing the greatest penalty at one thousand dollars. The House refused to pass the bill under a suspension of the rules. Poland then modified his amendment so as to fix the pen alty of a violation of the law at one hundred dollars. The House again voted yeas 83, nays 73. The question was decided in the negative, a two-thirds vote being required, and the Senate bill lies on the table. The House next took up the Senate bill extending the suspension of the privileges of the writ oi habeas corpus until after the next session ol Congress; but instead of two-thirds in favor, there were only 50 in the affirmative and 88 in the negative. The bill also remains on the Speaker's table. The amendment to the appropriation bill paying southern mail contractors was lost. In the Senate, on the 8th, the sundry appropriation bill, with ninety-two amendments, was passed. Among the amendments is Kellogg's supplemental force bill, which extends the Federal election regulations now applying to cities of twenty thousand inhabitants, to all voting precincts. Mr. Sumner moved as an amendment his civil rights bill ; but the chairman, Mr. Pomeroy, moved it out of order. In the House, the appropriation bill, transmitted from the Senate as it had just passed that body, met with bitter opposition in consequence of having appended to it Kellogg's supplemental force bill. A resolution was offered, declaring that the action of the Seuate in putting on this amendment was in violation of the Constitution of the United States, and requesting the Clerk of* the House to return the bill to the Senate with the request that they rescind their action on the enforcement act amendment. This motion was defeated, and finally the bill was referred to a committee of conference, which agreed to strike out the supplemental force amendment. The session adjourned on Monday, the last hours being spent in getting through several miscellaneous matters, nrincinallv lor the ben '4 X J efit of clerks and employes. The force bill amending the act approved February 18th, 1871, was finally passed, which, in its perfected shape we will endeavor to place before our readers next week. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Confederate-General John B. Hood was in Charleston last week. ? James D. Trad well, Esq., of Columbia, is a prominent candidate for the Solicitorship of the fifth?Judge Melton's- -circuit. ? Rev. Tilinan R. Gaines is in New York soliciting favors for the Orphan Home recently established by him in Columbia. ? Mr. Thomas B. Boyd?formerly of Yorkville?will deliver the second Annual Address before the Orangeburg Survivors' Association. ? Geo. W. Sturgeon, State Senator elect from Orangeburg, has been committed to jail on a charge of forging an order for 8137 on the county Treasury. ? The Bath paper mills near Graniteville, have brought suit against the Langley Mills for 850,000 on account of damages alleged to have been suffered by the paper mills, by the breaking of the Langley mill dam, last summer. ? The Charleston Nexos of Friday last, says: "R. T. Riggins, convicted under the Ku-Klux act and now undergoing sentence in the Charleston jail, being too ill to be removed to Albany N. Y., as directed by the order of the Secretary of the Interior, the Marshal was directed by an order of the court, with the consent of the district attorney, to retain the said prisoner in Charleston Jail until his physical condition should warrant such removal." ? From the Chester Reporter of last week, we gather the following items: Mr. James Leckie, a son of David Leckie, died suddenly in Chester on Saturday of last week. J. Means Sanders, confined in the Chester jail on the charge of ku-kluxing, has been admitted to bail. There is but one prisoner in the Chester jail?Heuderson Crawford, charged with horse stealing. But one tract of land was sold in Chester for delinquent taxes. Ike Castles was recently convicted at Chester and sent to the penitentiary. He ! was taken down on Thursday, but returned on Friday fully pardoned by Gov. Scott." V." John Lee, a United States Deputy Marshal, denfeflpthafr-he' threatened to handcuff anyj one whom he might arrest. I ?During last week, so far as heard from, : Governor Scott pardoned forty-two convicts ' out of the penitentiary. Two reasons are assigned by the Union for this course. One is that the larger portion of the convicts had | nearly"served out their sentences; the other,' i to relieve in some measure the pecuniary embarrassments under which the institution is laboring. If a third reason is wanted, it might be mentioned that the election comes off next fall. . ? The following named Ku Klux prisoners, whose sentences vary from one to ten : years, were sent from Charleston to the i Albany, New York, Penitentiary, on Saturday last, in charge of United States Marshal R. M. Wallace, viz: Leander Spencer, Wm. Smith, Pinckney Caldwell, Julius Howe, i LaFayette Hood, Felix Dover, Walker , Moore, Joseph Leckie, John C. Robinson, i Wm. Lowry, W. M. Fulton, Charles Barnett, Benjamin Strickland, Wm. D. Barnes, Gilbraith Hambright, Elijah Harden, Miles McCullongh, Walker Dawson, Allison Hayes, James Sanders, Wm. Ramsay, David Ramseur, Walter P.' Anthony, and George S. ' bright. " . POLITICAL ITEMS. ? The Wilmington Star thinks Mr. Greeley can stand Mr. Voorhees if General Grant can stand Sumner. ? General Longstreet has "gone back" on Grant and is out in a letter in favor of Horace Greeley. ? The Texas Democratic Convention adopted resolutions requesting the Baltimore Convention to make no nomination. ? Mr. G. M. Arnold, a prominent colored Republican of North Carolina, states that he does not know a man of his. race of any note 1 who will go for Greeley. ? William H, Sewardi has pronounced himself earnestly in favor of the reelection of President Grant. ? Of one hundred and seven members of the Illinois Legislature, only two are for Greeley.; ( Z vl..: ' tt--?T*rh? ?~ ? ncury u iisuu wud. uuiuiuuku iui i iw President on the Grant ticket on the first ballot The vote stood Wilson 384?, Colfax 3211?the balance scattering. ? In Louisiana, Warmouth, who. leads the Greeley interest there, has been nominated for Governor, with Pinchback for LieutenantGovernor, which virtually places the State in the possession of the. Greeley party. ? The Louisville Courier-Journal answers the Democratic conundrum, "What ought the Baltimore Convention to do?" with the re' mark that "before proceeding regularly to business it ought to adjourn." , ? Governor Palmer, of Illinois, puts the I case plainly. In a speech the other day, he said that Democrats must vote for Greeley. ; "I won't!" shouted a voice from the crowd. 1 "Very well, then," said the Governor, "vote 1 for Grant." 1 ?The Philadelphia Press concedes that the ' Democratic nominations in Pennsylvania are 1 strong, and Colonel Forney writes that "it is > folly, worse than folly, to suppose the Repub* lican ticket can be elected as it stands." He > calls for the retiring of the objectionable can! didates, and urges that it is not yet too late ' to secure victory by bringing forward good : men. The fact is that the Pennsylvania elec' tion will have so much sigiuficance as a straw > that the Republicans cannot well afford to 1 throw away chances by running objectionable 1 candidates. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Gov. Caldwell is confined to his bed by . sickness at his home in Raleigh. ? A little boy was bitten by a rattlesnake in Stokes countv a few days ago, and died i from the effects in a few hours. - ?The annual meeting of the stockholders i of the North Carolina railroad will be held i in Raleigh on the 11th of July, i ? The colored people of Rutherford propose to hold a convention and nominate people of their own color for the county offices. ; ? Gen. Robert B. Vance is the Democratic i nominee for Congress from the Asheville dis. trict. Hon. J. C. Harper is the present in! cum bent. i ? A destructive fire occurred in Roxboro on , Sunday, by which a hotel, store, cabinet shop and saddler's shop were destroyed. The work , of an incendiary. ? J. M. Justice, of Rutherfordton, who just j one year ago was the victim of a ku-klux outrage, is to assist Solicitor Starbuck in the approaching ku-klux trials at Raleigh. , ? The only persons in North Carolina now banned are Hons. W. A. Graham, Z. B. , Vance, Burton Craige, W. N. H. Smith and Gens. D. H. Hill and Robert Ransom. ? The delegates from the Wilmington Congressional district to the Baltimore Convention are said to be in favor of endorsing the nominations of the Cincinnati Convention. ? Samuel Helton, who was a lieutenant in Kirk's regiment two years ago, has been committed to the penitentiary from Yancey counA * 'Afnolin/y o Vinr* I iy9 CUUVlUbCU Ul M. ?avrg. i ? Robert Revels, confined in the jail at Shelby, has confessed that he was engaged in the robbery of Daniel Hicks in 1870, and implicates Rufus Starnes, Thomas Williams and Newton Hopper as accomplices. ? Col. J. 0. Hudnut, the Superintendent of the Southern Security Railway Combination, and having charge of the work of constructing the Air-Line, has removed his headquarters from Charlotte to Greenville, S. C. ? The Raleigh News says the only supply of Bibles ever brought to Nash county, was 8141 worth donated by the American Bible Society in 1866. Of these all but three have been sold or given away. ? A white man by the name of William Champion was arrested in Chatham county one day last week, on the charge of attempting to pass a $50 counterfeit bill. In default of bail he was committed to jail in Raleigh. ? The Democratic convention of the third Congressional District assembled in Wilmington on the 5th. A. M. Waddell, the present incumbent, was nominated by acclamation. H. B. Short and Col. E. A. Hall were chosen d AlnA.i?inn ? I* DnlfimAMA OATI TTOnf lAn UClC^IltCQ tu tliC ?jai tlliiUl Kj vuuv^uuvu* ? Up to our latest advices the U. S. Circuit Court now in session at Raleigh had not reached any of the ku-klux cases. The terra, so far, has beeu devoted to offenders of the internal revenue laws. There are nine colored men on the grand jury. A large number of cases have been transferred to the western circuit. ? The Democratic congressional convention of the Fourth, or Raleigh district, nominated Hon. Sion H. Rogers for reelection. Henry A. London, jun., of Chatham, was selected for Presidential elector, and Hon. D. M. Bar| ringer, of Wake and John U. Kirkland, of Orange, were chosen as delegates to the Baltimore Convention. ? The bill dividing North Carolina into two judicial districts having passed Congress, the J terras of the District Court will hereafter be .held in Greensboro, Statesville and Asheville twice a year; at Greensboro on the first Monday in dtyril and October; at Statesville on the third Monday in April and October; and in Asheville on the first Monday in May and November. ? Luck, who killed his wife near Asheboro a few weeks ago, was convicted at the recent terra of Randolph Superior Court, and sentenced to" he hanged on {he ~ll*th of next" month. Should the sentence of the court be carried out, this will be the first judicial exe i *-i? _i? uumuu tuai naa ever lukcu pmuc in tue euuuty, although it is one of the oldest in the State. ? Capt. W. H. Trezevant, a citizen of Charlotte, and formerly a conductor on the Charj lotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad, was arrested in Charlotte on Tuesday of last week, by a Deputy U. S. Marshal from this State. The warrant for his arrest was issued by Commissioner Boozer, of Columbia, and charges conspiracy in violation of the enforcement act, connecting him with the Chester riot which occurred or. the day that he passed up the road as conductor of the train. A preliminary examination before Commissioner Boozer had not concluded at our latest advices from Columbia. ? Andrew Strong appeared at Eureka, on the Wilmington, Charlotte & Rutherford railroad late Saturday evening. He was alone and no attempt was made to interfere with him. This is the first time that one of the outlaws has been seen on the line of the road in about ten days. A correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch, writing from that section of the State suspects from his observations, that the true reason why these outlaws are not captured, is the secret pride which the majority of the people feel in their achievements and acts of atrocity. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Reviving the War Spirit. ? Mr. George A. Stuart, of Philadelphia, - - - ? * . . * r concluding bis note of congratulation to mrs. Grant on the nomination of her husband, uses the following language: "May God bless him and preserve his valuable life till every vestige of rebellion is crushed out." This, and similar sentiments beiug extensively uttered of late by the administration press, pro* voke the following sensible comments from the Baltimore/S'wn: .... "If such is to be the key-note of the presidential campaign, it discloses a spirit and purpose to be greatly deplored. Surely the better instincts of the American people revolt at the idea of reviving the war spirit now, seven years after the war has terminated, and raking its embers for sparks to fire the Northern heart. What "vestige of rebellion"', is left, except the ruined survivors of the Confederate struggle, to all except a few of whom Congress has just granted amnesty, ,and though grudgingly, perhaps, ?et showing that it no longer would hold them to be rebels. The Convention itself claimed for the republican party that "it suppressed a gigantic rebellion." Then let republicans be consistent and talk no further of the nonsense of crushing out the "vestiges of rebelllion." If there were nothing better than that to conduct the campaign on, it would be more honest to retire from the field." ; Reform Needed in Philadelphia. Had Mr. Sumner visited the Philadelphia Convention, he would doubtless have witnessed a sight not only calculated to arouse the most latent sentiments of his innate love of the negro, but to cause him to hasten to the Capitol and prepare another amendment to his amended civil rights bill. In order to add eclat to the Grant Convention, Col. James Forney, son of J. W. Forney, had been for weeks getting up a "Grant Guard" to parade the streets and contribute its mite of enthusiasm for the occasion. The majority of those who enrolled their names were negroes, and these, Col. Forney organized separately and apart from the whites, refusing to permit them to march with the white companies, while the white members were also obstinate in their refusal of the intermixture. The result was, that the "Guard" was formed into two divisions?one white and one black?and paraded on separate streets; :! ' "' !i ' ' Thus it is with all radical pretensions of love for the negro. Their practice does not accord with their profession or theory. Not for the respect they have for the negro, nor from principles of right or justice, do they force terms of equality with them upon the white people of the South, but simply as a supposed means of punishing "rebels" by offering our white people the insult and humiliation. To accomplish this end, they propose measures and enact laws, which in their own Stated they do not regard. Murder will Out. Wm. Davenport and Harvin Vaudiver were recently convicted at Anderson Court House, of the murder of a Mr. Meeks in that county, in the year 1865. A letter published in the Colombia Phoenix gives the following as the facts under which the murder Was brought to light: "It appears that in clearing up a piece of bottom land, a pair of pants were found in a hollow log, containing spots of blood. The pants were passed round till they finally were recoguized by a lady to be a pair of pauts she had made for a negro man, six or seven years ago, by the name of Brock. Brock, hearing of this fact, became so uneasy that he at length thought it best to divulge all the facts relating to the murder of Meeks. His statement is that Davenport, Vandiver and Breazeale, with himself, were at Breazeale's mill, late one evening, and were expecting Meeks to come to or pass by the mill that evening; and that a little after sundown Meeks was seen at a well, not far from the mill; that Davenport took a gun from the mill and shot Meeks, who fell forward on his face, but on going to him he was found not to be dead, and after a little time was able to get up and clamber over a j fence near by?evidently trying to make his escape. Breazeale ordered the negro (Brock) , to take the gun and finish him ; this the negro refused to do. Breazeale then took the gun j and followed Meeks, and struck him across , the back of the neck, which knocked him , down, after which he soon expired. From ( this testimony Davenport and Vandiver were convicted of murder in the first degree, and , are condemned to be hanged on the 17th of j January, 1873. The negro got off by being , State's evidence. Breazeale has not yet been , arrested, he having been in Texas for several ( years. Davenport and Vandiver have taken ( an appeal for a new hearing." , The Tax Bill. I The tax bill as finally agreed to by the I conference committee makes the following j provisions: | It places spirits at a consolidated tax of \ seventy cents a proof gallon, and the rectifiers' , stamp is reduced from twenty-five to ten cents . a barrel, the act going into effect on the 1st of r August. On all wines,'liquors or compounds known or denominated as wine, and made in imitation of sparkling wine or champagne, J and on all liquors not made from grape, cur- J rants, rhubarb or berries grown in the United | i States, but produced by being rectified or j j mixed with distilled spirits, or by the infusion ! j of any matter in spirits to be sold as wine or . a substitute for wine, a tax of ten cents per 1 bottle or package, containing more than one ^ pint and not more tljan one quart, and at the < same rate for any larger quantity of such mer- ( chandise, however the same may be put up, or whirtever may-be the package. The uniform tufc of twenty cents on tobacco takes-places on t%first of July. All tobacco and snuff now stored in any export bonded warehouse shall, on and after that date, within six months after the passage q? this- .act,- be withdrawn from such warehouse upon payment of the tax, or for export under the regulations of the commissioners of internal revenue now in foroe,concerning*' Withdrawals of tobacco and auuff - from bonded wi hiImhbmi and any looacco or snun remajuiug ui auj yw port bonded warehouse for period i of Jinhre than six mouths after tHe passage of this act shall be forefeited to the United States, and IB be sold or disposed of for the benefit of the same,, in such manner as shall be prescyijjed B by tbecomraissionerof internal ieviaue, urii * der the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. On and after the 1st of October, 1872, all the taxes imposed by stamp, under and by virtue of schedule B, of section 170, of j act of June 30th, 1864, except only the* tax M of two cents on bank checks, drafts or orders, shall be repealed, as also thestamp on friotion matches, to take effect August 1st. The legal instruments released from the necessity of being stamped are as follows: Agreements, bills of excbauge or promissory notes, bills of ladiug, bills of sale, bonds of every description, certificates of profits, certificates of damage, certificates of deposit,'certificates of 'ally description, charter parties, contracts for sale of property of any kind, conveyances, entries at custom-house, insurance policies, leases, manifests, mortgages, passage tickets, powers of attorney for any purpose, probates of wills, protests of notes and protests of marine losses, and certificates of stocks. This repeal of the stamp tax goes into effect on and after Qcto-' ber 1st, 1872. ! tMtyaM A Sensation in Congress. An interesting Scene wliich transpired in the House of Representatives on Friday, is thus described by a Washington letter: '* ' ' "When a Senate bill entitled an act fot the relief of Sarah S. Stafford was taken up, an old lady who had All day long occupied a seat in the ladies' gallery, rose from her seat and showed such signs of emotion that a doorkeeper was obliged to stand by her side to keep her quiet while the bill arid the report upon the case Were being read.' The lady was Miss Sarah S. Stafford, who is seventy^ one years of age and resides at Trenton, New Jersey. She petitioned for payment of the services of her father, Lieut. James Bayard Stafford, an officer of the navy of the revolution. He was a volunteer officer .on the Bon Homme Richard, and was severely wounded in an engagement with a British cruiser.'1'As ho was a volunteer'officer his name was not on the rolls and his daughter could receive no pay for thAt service. 'Hje had previously .performed important diplomatic service without pay. Miss Stafford first presented her claim 25 years years ago. A bill for 'her relief would pass one house and then another, but concurrent action could never be obtained. A few days ago the bill passed the Senate and was sent to the House, where it was taken up to-day, as above stated, and; unanimously passed. r ^ ,, . . . , j,. ' Miss Stafford could not at first'realize her success, until Mr. Buffinton, Mr.. Hill and other gentlemen, by a wave of the band'teassured her, whereupon the old lady waved her hankerchief in acknowledgment The members could not. resist this demonstration, and they responded, by loud applause and clapping of hands. Miss Stafford could' qoutain herself no longer, And fulling Upon' her knees in the gallery she offered up a fervent prayer of thankfulness and gratitude. She was so much excited that she could only move with assistance, and one of the doorkeepers led her to a committee room, where she was enabled to compose herself. The bill now only requires t]ie President's signature to become a law. The amount of money the petitioner will receive is $8,000, and she savs it is a perfect godsend to her, as unless the bill had passed she would have been compelled to go to the poorhouse. She was visited iu the committee room by several members of Congress, who congratulated her on her good fortune." An Ex-Confederate on the Klu-Klux Trials. Commenting upon the fact that there are over fifteen hundred defendants and witnesses under the klu-klux law before the present terra of the U. S. Federal Court at Raleigh, the Charlotte Despatch uses the following language: The majority of the papers of the State will doubtless assail the Court at Raleigh' from the first to the last day of its sitting, and instead of confining themselves to legitimate criticism, and calmly reviewing the situation, their intemperate conduct will have only the effect to inflame the passions of the instruments of the law, who are but men, and instead of doing the legitimate work of the press?correcting evil?augment the evil already upon us and throw every possible obstruction in the way of a correct solution of our difficulties, giving to the public sentiment of the country the appearance of encouraging lawlessness and disorder, rebelling against, defying and insulting the authorities constituted over us. The writer of the above paragraph is a life-long Democrat and was a soldier in the Confederate army; and the temperate views to which he gives expression will be properly responded to by men of judgment and discretion. Blatant and meaningless abase of the powers that he can only result in harm to those who are unfortunately in the hands of the law. The Despatch also makes the following observations: But the knowledge that the Ku-klux can neither be defended nor justified, bring^lso the reflection that their clans are broken up and their influence destroyed. To-day, *i 1?xt?..l n i:?? lliruugiiuut nuiui v-?alunuu auu vuv do roan walks in fear or dread of these. Before the stroDg arm of the law they have disappeared from the face of the earth, and they live only in the memory of their victims and upon the records of the courts. Nothing can excuse crime, nor should criminals go un? whipt of justice, but in a matter of this kind, where disorder has prevailed to such an extent, whole communities are laid under suspicion, and the net of the law entangles all within its meshes?the innocent as well as the guilty. Therefore, seeing that the law has accompished its first great end?the restoration of peace and good order?it becomes this Sovereign, in her majesty, to deal leniently with the offender and make his punishment contingent upon his future conduct. It should be taken into consideration by the ministers of the law, that ordinnry facilities are not afforded the accused to prove themselves innocent, by reason of the sitting of the courts in places remote from the localities in which the accused reside and the offenses are alleged to have been committed. Again, the testimony, in the main, upon which convictions turn, is at best indirect, vague and loubtful, from the very nature and the circumstances of the whole matter, and it is therefore impossible that justice should be evenly and equitably meted out. The mistake, therefore, that the government is in danger nf malnncr is that iiut.iAp. sbnll nnf k*? done in the premises, and the weight of the law falling upon the innocent alike with the guilty, the first great object of government? ;he protection of the citiien?is lost at the cutset, and courts of justice become, mere engines of persecution and oppression. riie Philadelphia Nominations. For the nomination of Grant by the Philadelphia Convention every body was prepared, while not a few expected the defeat of Dolfax; though Wilson, doubtless, would not lave received the nomination had it not been or Mr. Sumner's recent speech in the Senate, n denunciation of the President. A man Tom Sumner's own State was selected as a lounterpoise to his lengthy indictment of jrant. Of Graut's career and his ability as