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Scraps and Jacts. | It is said that one person in ten of the entire population of Virginia is a Baptist. A cow is said to have committed suicide I by drowning, at Iowa City, because a bijtcher killed her calf. A Mrs. Cox died in Savannah, a few days ago, and ^'as buried as a pauper. She: claimed to-be a daughter of Wra. Tecuraseh Sherman, of "march to the sea" notoriety. i An exchange says; ."Nothing is so j painful as to see a man over eighty intoxica-; ted." Oh yes. To see a man of any other age intoxicated is just as painful In Buenos Ayers everything is done on horseback. Even the beggars ride through the streets, knock at the doors without dis- i mourning, and wait, still mounted, to receive j charity. 11 is said that during the month of May upwards of 25,000 buffaloes were killed on the Western plains, South of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, for the sake of their hides alone, which are worth but two dollars each. The affair of Dr. Howard, an American citizen recently sentenced to penal servitude by the Spanish authorities, ha9 been satisfactorily arranged, and the Doctor's release has been ordered. The University of Oxford, England, will celebrate its thousandth anniversary this year. Popular tradition assigns Alfred the Great as its founder about the middle of the ninth century. Several children were seriously poisoned near Memphis, Tenn., the other day, by eat* ting mulberries in which locusts had deposited their eggs. Neither birds nor squirrels touch the berries, although the trees are loaded. Our exchanges, from all parts of the South, tell of the splendid crop of wheat. General Wni. Neel, of Mecklenburg, North Carolina, who has been a farmer for fifty-three years and the owner of a merchant flouring mill forty years, informs the Charlotte Southern Home that there have been some larger yields in his section, but the quality issuperirior to any he has ever known. The Milwaukie (Wisconsin) Nem has a letter from a traveling correspondent, who gives a glowing account of the Greeley strength ' * Cfofa T-Ta cn\?p mnf a lOfllntlC ill biiaii uta^i jlav o(ijo? jl iiiuu m uvmivuu Republican who had been at Beaver Dam for a few days and in response to my inquiry as to the feeling there, he said there were but three Grant men the place. One was the Postmaster, another the Assessor, and the third was a d?d fool." On and after July 1,1872, every person who sells, or offers for sale, manufactured tobacco, snuff or segars, except manufacturers of those articles, who sell only their own products, at the place of production, will be required to pay a special tax, at the rate of 85 per annum, without regard to the amount of his auuual sales. The exemption of persons whose annual sales do not exceed $100 is repealed by the new law. An importunate creditor of Selma, Ala., being exceedingly anxious to collect a debt of several months' standing, armed two of his clerks with similar bills against one and the same individual, and each one attacked his victim unsuccessfully. The offended debtor called upon the merchant for an explanation why he had been "dunned" by different men for one amount. "For the reason," replied the merchant, with the utmost nonchalcuice, "it appears to be more than one man can do to collect it!" Explanations were perfectly satisfactory, and the bill was paid. A farmer, who passed innumerable sleepless nights, immortalized himself by discovering a method of keeping babies quiet. The mode of operation is as follows: As soon as the squaller awakes, set it up, propped by a pillow, if it can not sit alone; then smear its fingers with thick molasses; then put half dozen feathers into its hands, and it will sit and pick the feathers from one hand to the other until it drops asleep. As soon as it wakes again, give it molasses and more feathers, and in place of the nerve-astounding yells, there will be silence and enjoyment unspeakable. On the 1st day of July next, according j to the new postal code, we are to have 300 new | nionev-order Dostoffices in the United States. I and arrangements are now in process for putting them in operation. This will complete the number of3,000 money-order offices in the country. The business of the money-order offices amounted last year to over $42,000,000. The increase will give ten new offices to the city of New York and one to Boston. It will bring the system in New York to precisely the London plan. It will diminish the rush at the main office, and enable people to buy or i receive money-ordera at their station postof- j fice. The fee for a money order of ten dollars j or less will be five cents; on other sums the ! charge will be as heretofore. The British navy, according to a recent official return, comprises fifty-two armor-plated ships, of which thirty-seven are built of iron and fifteen of wood. The turret vessels are twelve in number, of which eleven are built of iron and one of wood. Three iron turret ships are building. The addition of o Mtvi/M* rvloforl cKJ rva kvinrvd fkn fnfnl Utltci uicui aiUJvi'paM/u ouij;o ui tugo tug tvtui of the British navy to three hundred and fiftyeight steamers, of which two hundred and ninety-five are propelled by screws and sixtythree by paddles. There are also twenty-five steamships building, and twenty from which the machinery has been removed. On December 1st, 1871, there were in commission two hundred and thirty-two ships, of which one hundred and seventy-four were propelled by steam and fifty-eight by sails. Postmaster Jones, of New York, tells a good campaign story for Horace Greeley. Some time ago one Norton, cashier of the post office, turned out a defaulter, and the United States Government came down on his securities, among whom was Horace Greeley, responsible to the extent of about $30,000. Greeley was very restive under this obligation, and die is so mucn in rear or ueot tnat lie ac-1 tually wanted to give his check for the whole sum and get it off his mind. Finally a meeting of the endorsers was held, and Mr. Greeley put on his spectacles, took up his bond and dolefully read over the conditions. "They say I write an infernally bad hand," said Greeley, "but they can read it plain enough when it gets on one of these things." The bodies of seven hundred and eighteen Confederate soldiers, disinterred at Gettysburg and recently brought to Richmond, were interred at Hollywood cemetery nn locf TVinrcdov amid mris!. imnrpaaivp. and solemn funeral ceremonies. The procession was two miles in length, consisting of the First Virginia Regiment of Howitzers, detachments of police, sixteen wagons, with boxes contain- j ing the dead, followed by ex-Confederate comrades, headed by General George E. Pickett, to whose division the dead belonged. Next the Society of the Southern Cross Brotherhood, and the rear was brought up by a row of carriages a mile long. The streets along the line of the procession were draped in mourning, the stores were closed, and business generally, suspended. An immense concourse of spectators lined the streets, the whole being regarded as the most imposing spectacle since the close of the war. At lenth a definite conclusion has been reached by the French and German governments in regard to the payment of the remainder of the war indemnity due by the former ] to the latter in accordance with the peace set-! tlement. By the terms of the agreement now ! entered into one of the three milliards of francs (3,000,000,000) remaining due is to be paid I by February, 1873, another milliard by the j close of the same year, and another in 1874. j When the French government shall have paid ; 500,000,000 francs of the amount the departments of Marne and Haut Marne will be, evacuated by the German troops; and when the payment of each 1,000,000,000 is complete i one-third of the German army of occupation will be withdrawn from France. The French government has already taken measures to raise the requisite amount to relieve the de-j partraents of Marne and Haut Marne at once. When Fred. Douglass made his speech to the negro convention in New Orleans, her was very severe upon the persecution he met with in traveling at the South. By this term he characterized his exclusion from hotel tables, sleeping cars, etc., seeing in it the "old links of slavery." It would now appear that many of these old liuks exist in his old home, and we are consequently justified in recommending him to wash a little of his soiled linen in that locality. A few nights since his house burned down at Rochester, New York, and we are told by a local paper that he vainly applied to ten hotels for a night's lodging, and was finally obliged to rouse the family of a personal friend to find a resting place. It would, therefore, appear that the Sooth is by no means exceptional in its ideas of caste, although he labored hard while here to instill a contrary impression. iftf farMlf inquirer. ^ YORKVIliLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 27,1872. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance THE FIFTH AVENUE CONFERENCE. . The conference of political oppouents to the present administration, which has been exciting the public miud for several days, was duly held at Mr. Lloyd's rooms in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York city, on Thursday last. The conference organized with Hon. J. D. Cox, of Ohio, as President, and Wm. Cullen Bryant and Gen. Dix as Vice-Presidents. The meeting was held with closed dobrs, some of the outsiders facetiously calling it the "air-tight conventionbut notwithstanding the adjuncts of seeresy, the opinions of the individuals an,d their pos:tions taken, the general sentiment expressed was quickly conveyed to those outside and collected by the reporters in various ways. The result of the meeting apparently is that the weight of the expressions is manifestly in favor of Greeley and Brown, though a few of those who participated in the deliberations were determinedly onnnsed to the ticket. T-v "rr Among the States represented, were Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. These States, so far as we have seen reported, when called | for an expression of opinion, responded in favor of the Greeley ticket, as also did many j of the northern States. There were, however, some dissenters, who, after the adjournment of the conference, organized a convention at the instigation of Judge Stallo, of New York. Gen. Cox addressed the meeting, endeavoring to harmonize on Greeley, after 1 which the question was debated, "Shall we nominate a ticket ?" After a long discussion, it was decided in the affirmative, when Cox publicly withdrew from the deliberations. The platform adopted by the dissenters denounces Greeley and pledges free traders to the support of their own policy under all circumstances. Wm. S. Groesbeck, of Ohio, was nominated for President, and F. L. Olmstead, of New York, for Vice-President. It is not thought that these gentlemen will recognize the action of the dissenters or in any manner throw obstacles in the way of the Cincinnati nominations. South Caroliua was represented in the conference by C. F. Blake and Arthur "VV. Sedgewick ; Georgia by Gen. B. H. Hill and Judge H. W. Hilliard; and North Carolina by D. R. Goodloe and W. A. Graham. The South Carolina "delegates" are new names, of whose identity the public would doubtless be thankful for information. The New York Herald, in commenting upon the proceedings of the first or legitimate conference, sums up the situation as developed by the results, and as shown by the already known status of opinion that Mr. Greeley will be adopted at Baltimore, and "will, with a few exceptions, be supported by the democrats, old and young, North and South, and that from the dissensions in the republican camp in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, he will be apt to give General Grant a very sharp and close contest." The Tribune, which doubtless watched the proceedings with more interest than any of the New York papers, indulges the following language: "It developed an overwhelming sentiment, even among the discontented free traders, in favor of the Cincinnati ticket as the only rallying point about which could be gathered the opposition to Gen. Grant. It drew from Senator Trumbull a weighty, compact, and unanswerable argument for Cincinnati. It brought from nearly every State represented in the conference unexpected developments for the Cincinnati ticket. It showed the irreconcilable opposition to Messrs. Greeley and Brown to be even smaller than the Tribune had anticipated. And finally it drew from Gen. Carl Schurz a cogent, persuasive, magnetic appeal for a 1 harmonious support of the Cincinnati nominees, the influence of which can hardly be overrated. General Schurz did not like the nominations; and he has this great title to I consideration, that, he has never pretended to | I like them. But he has never given the slight-! I est warrant for the gross misrepresentations j whereby he has been reckoned as either hostile or doubtful, and on the occasion which he ha9 himself chosen as the fittest, he proclaims his attitude in a manner as influential as it is conspicuous and frank. When he had spoken last night the conference had reached its results.Its national prestige, its political power, its I general force had declared for Greeley, and ! formally resolving to take no other steps, it j adjourned without delay, j There is still some dissatisfaction, and a few gentlemen of undoubted sincerity and indisputable capacity for keeping in a hopeless minority, talk of another meetiug this morning, and a nomination of their own. We can j only repeat our declaration of a day or two ' ago. They must go their own way, solitary i and in peace. The great majority of the gen-! I A1 ?hUa f bn nAnfnrnnnn hq xra rln i LiC&UCU miu attcuucu vug vvuivtguvv tmvv uv. > clared for Greeley and Brown. The meeting : has harmonized the discordant elements and largely conquered the discontent. Those who left Cincinnati eager for some other ticket,! left the Fifth Avenue last night resolved to ! share in the triumph of the Cincinnati candi-! dates. To-day the liberal movement is united and confident, with Lyman Trumbull and Carl Schurz at its head. And now for Baltimore !" The nomination of Mr. Groesbeck by the dissenters createes no feeling at his home in ; Cincinnati. As yet, nothing has transpired j indicating what course he will pursue, though the impression seems to prevail that if there were a good prospect at Baltimore he would j give countenance to the new movement, but! that he would not permit himself to be used in opposition to the Baltimore nomination. Olmstead declines the nomination of VicePresident SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ?On a recent visit to the North, Rev. Wm. Martin collected #l,f>00 toward the construction of the Washington-street Methodist church in Columbia. ? L. D. Mowry, Esq., of the firm of L. D. Mowry & Son, has been elected President of the Union Bank of Charleston, vice W. B. Smith, Esq, resigned. ? Anew engiue for the Air-Line Railroad, weighing twenty-eight tons, arrived at Spartanburg last week.. It is called the "Charlotte," and is to be used in laying the track in the direction of Charlotte. ? The Winnsboro' New gives currency to a rumor that Judge Thomas J. Mackey proposes to stump the State in advocacy of the repudiation of the lost issue of the State bonds. Judge Mackey was in Washington on Tues day last ? One hundred thousand dollars worth of Columbia bonds were sold in that city last week at 66J, 65J and 65. Nine thousand dollars worth were purchased by John Alexander, and ten thousand dollars by Clark Waring. ? The Laurens Railroad was sold in Columbia oh Thursday last at public auctiou, for $42,500. It was purchased by Dr. J. L. Neagle, Comptroller-General, and J. S. Wiley. It is stated that the purchasers propose to reduce the gauge of the road and put it in operation. ? The Mountaineer warns the public against a man who is prowling through Greenville county aud rifling the churches of Bibles, hymn-books, prayer-books and Sunday-school books. The Mountaineer gives no personal description of the fellow, but says he carries a double-barrel shot-gun and gives various names as he passes through the country. ? The editor of the Chester Reporter was recently at Columbia, and from the best information he could gather, comes to the conclusion that it is Governor Scott's purpose to force himself upon the radical party for renomination. The Reporter says: "It was understood that he was ,to give way to Moses, and that Moses was, in consideration thereof, to secure him the position of United states Senator. But now it seems he is afraid to trust Moses to carry out in good faith his part of the bargain, and on the principle of a bird in the hand, etc., is determined to hold on to the gubernatorial chair." ? At a mass meeting of the partisans of Judge Willard, in Charleston, on Monday evening of last -week, the following State ticket was nominated: A. J. Willard, (Associate Justice of the Supreme Court,) Governor; W. B. Nash, (colored Senator from Richland,) Lieutenant-Governor; E. J. Adams, colored preacher,) Secretary of State; F. L. Cardozo, (colored Secretary of State,) State Treasurer; R. Tomlinson, (ex-State Auditor,) Comptroller-General; C. Davis Melton, Attorney-General ; J. N. Hayne, (colored Representative from Barnwell,) Adjutant-General ; A. M. Warren, (teacher in the Avery Institute,) Superintendent of Education. ? A correspondent of the Charleston News, 'writing from Chesterfield Court House, on the 19th instant, says: "A most destructive hail storm passed a few miles North of this place on Saturday evening, 15th instant, accompanied with a tornado, prostrating almost everything in its track. The crops of corn and cotton on many farms are completely ruined, houses and fences blown down, and large numbers of poultry killed. Many of the hail stones were as large as tea-cups, and generally as large as guinea eggs. Some fine fields of cotton, just beginning to bloom, are so completely wrecked that not a green leaf can be found on them. Several eye-witnesses say that the bark was knocked off of large oak and pine trees by the hail." ? The Rock Hill Lantern of last week gives a detailed account of the search of Dr. Avery's house, at Ebenezer, on Sunday night of last week, by a body of U. S. troops, acting under the orders of the Deputy County Marshal. It seems that a report reached the military headquarters at Yorkville that Dr. Avery was at his home on a visit to his wife and children. Therefore a sergeant with a squad of soldiers was dispatched to make the capture of Dr. Avery. They reached the house between 12 o'clock and daylight, surrounded the premises, roused Mrs. Avery, demanded admittance and thoroughly searched the whole house including the bed-chamber of the lady of the house. They also searched the premises. The squad remained until an hour or more after sunrise, when the troops returned to headquarters without having accomplished the object of the visit. ? The Union Times of last week says: "We learn that a number of soldiers belonging to the garrison at this point have deserted within the past ten days. One man who had been placed in the county jail for some misconduct made a hole through the roof of the building, got out, and by jumping into a shade tree, -/ -I- L-J J ? < ?*/! suieiy reuuueu ht/iu aim uuuunuquicked"to parts unknown to those who particularly wish to know. Another, while on his way to jail, by a quick "flank movement," broke from the guard, when a ball from a ! "Spencer" struck him on the shoulder and arrested his flight. The guard, supposing him disabled for active duty, left him lying on the ground, "weltering in his blood," and sought a conveyance to remove him to where he could receive surgical treatment. On their return, however, no sign of him, save that of a few drops of blood, could be seen." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A special term of Mecklenburg Superior Court has been ordered by Gov. Caldwell, to meet the first Monday in August, for the trial of civil cases only. ? John T. Schenck, the colored mail agent who was arrested in Statesville last week for receiving stolen tobacco has succeeded in giving bail in a bond of $500, Charles Alexander, of Charlotte, being his surety. ? R. P. Dick has received the appointment of Judge, and V. S. Lusk that of prosecuting attorney, for the Western Judicial District, j established by recent act of Congress. John ; W. Payne, of Greensboro, is to be clerk of the i Court. ? The alleged ku-klux of Cleveland county, i who had been bound to appear for trial at Raleigh, have renewed their bonds for appear- j ance at the Circuit Court of the new District, ! which will meet in statesviue on tne tnira Monday in October. ? Canadian capitalists have bought land in Bladen county, and intend locating a colony there. They have bought the "Clem Wright" j tract of 9000 acres for $30,000, and want1 more fine lands for farming, timber and man-1 ufacturing puposes. ? The Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad being unable to pay the interest on its mortgaged debt, the bond-holders 1 have commenced proceedings to foreclose the J mortgage. The holders of these bonds are I northern capitalists, and they give assurances i that if the road shall pass into their, hands, ; they will at once complete it the entire length of the original survey. ? Gov. Caldwell has commuted the death penalty in the case of Kelly Luck, of Ran- i dolph county, to imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. Luck is convicted of the mur- \ der of his wife; but it has been shown that he is of unsound mind. ? A fire broke out at 2 o'clock on Sunday . night last in the drug store of Porter & Eckel at Greensboro, burning that building, the Court House, a law office north, and a row of offices west of the Court House, the Farmer's. Bank, and the Southern Hotel. Loss fully $50,000. No insurance, except on Porter's i ; ,i r? ar;r;on arug store, WIIIUI was insuicu iul v'Jw . The Court House was the finest county building in the State. The records of the Court were saved. Origin of the fire unknown. - POLITICAL ITEMS. ? There are six German newspapers in Michigan, and five of them are for Greeley and Brown. ? Campaign documents by the million are being sent out from Washington, and quite a rivalry exists, even amongst the committee clerks, as to which can send the largest number. ? Voorhees, of Indiana, in private conversation, has declared his intention to abide the action of the Baltimore Convention, which means, of course, that he will support Greeley after all. ? The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, writing on Sunday says: "Mr. Sumner is in Washington, and will continue here until July. He is almost daily called on by colored people from the South, anxious to know what side he intends to take in the Presidential campaign. Mr. Sumner assures them that he will in no event support Grant, but he does not go so far as to say that he will favor Greeley and Brown. ? The Hon. B. H. Hill addressed a crowded audience at Atlanta, on Friday night, the 14th instant. The speech was made in the interest of Mr. Greeley, and occupied two hours in the delivery. The Hon. Robert Toombs was present, and was called for, and, notwithstanding the speech he had delivered the night previous, so antagonistic to Greeley, arose and responded as follows: "You have heard one of the most eloquent, one of the grandest addresses that you will ever hear in favor of Mr. Greeley. He is entitled to the thanks of this country. Go home and consider it It was clear, eloquent and impressive. I am against Greeley, but at the same time you have got the best of the case on his side, and I call for three cheers for Mr. Hill I" ? Among the prominent Democrats already chosen to the Baltimore Convention are the following: Senators Bayard and Davis, of West Virginia; ex-Senators Doolittle and Clingman, of North Carolina; Gov. Hoffman, of New New York; ex-Governors Saulsbury, of Delaware; Vance, of North Carolina; Porter and Aiken, of South Carolina; Dewey, of Wisconsin; Generals Franklin, Shields and Cass; Congressmen Barnum, Biggs, Kandall, Acker, Qets, Spear, Cox, Potter and Williams; Editors Green, of the Boston Post; Burr, of the Hartford Times; Hyde, of the St. Louis Republican; Barr, of the Pittsburg Post; Simons, of the Charleston Courier; and Cassidy, of the Albany Argus; Araasa Sprague, the cotton king of Rhode Island ; D. M. Barringer, ex-minister to Spain, and Henry C. Murphy, ex-minister to the Netherlands. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. A Remedy for Dysentery. An old man, who has known hundreds of cases of dysentery cured by it, furnishes the Atlanta Constitution with the following remedy: A spoon-ful or two of pure, raw wheat flour, thinned w ith water so it can be easily drank. Three or four doses, taken at intervals of ten or twelve hours, will cure any case not absolutely chronic; and from what I have witnessed. I feel sure it is one of the best reme dies in the world for chronic diseases. To make the dose palatable for children, it can be sweetened and flavored with some drops not acid.. Pardoned Confederates. J. M. Brodhead, Second Comptroller of the Treasury, has just rendered a decision involving the rights of pardoned Confederates under the late decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. The decision is called forth by a claim from a pardoned Confederate for supplies furnished in 1862. The Comptroller does not admit that construction of the decision which makes a pardon restore a Confederate to the full right of recovering confiscated property. But waiving all such questions he declines to consider such cases until, first, Congress shall have made a specific appropriation ; or, second, shall have' repealed or modified the joint resolution of March 2, 1867, forbidding any officer of the Government to pay any claim of the character presented. The New Postal Rates. The post office department furnishes the following reply to the postmaster of New York in regard to the new postal ratas : frt irnnr talnirrnm nf thp 1 9t.h infit.. licicinug kV J v.... ? > I would say that the following are the rates to be charged on third-class printed matter. On all pamphlets, occasional publications, transient newspapers, magazines, handbills, posters, unsealed circulars, prospectuses, book mauuscripts, proof sheets, corrected proofs, flexible patterns, sample cards, phonographic paper, letter envelopes, postal envelopes and wrappers, cards, plaiu and ornamental paper, photographic representationsofdiflerent types, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots and scions, at a postage of one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof on packages to one address, to be prepaid by stamps. On all books, other than those printed by order of Congress, postage at two cents for each two ounces or fraction thereof, limited to four pounds in weight. On samples of merchandise, ores, metals and mineralogical specimens, two cents for each two ounces or fraction thereof, limited to twelve ouuees in weight, The Liability of Stockholders in Banks. In Charleston, a few days ago, Judge Graham, of the Circuit Court, delivered an elnhnrate nniriinn in three cases involving the I liability of the stockholders of the Farmers' and Exchange Bank, under its charter. This opinion, as printed by tbe Courier, covers the following poiuts with regard to the Farmers' and Exchange Bank, and all other banks in South Carolina, which acted under the same or a similar charter : 1. That the acts of the Legislature do impose a# individual liability on the stockholders of the bank. 2. That this liability is confined to those who owned shares in the bank on the 29th November, 1860, when it suspended specie payments, or who had held such shares at any time within twelve months previous to that j date. 3. That this liability is alone for such bills i of the bank as were actually in issue on the ! 29th November, 1860, the date of its suspen- j sion and refusal to pay its notes in current! coin, and therefore of its failure. 4 That there is no individual liability on the part of the stockholders for any bills is-j Bued after the 29th of November, 1860, the j date upon which the bank failed to pay its I notes, according to their legal obligations, in current coin. 5. That those whof dealt with the bank while in a state of suspension, did so at their ; peril, and are not within the mischief against I which the law intended to provide, by fixing individual liability upon the corporators. 6. That the burden of proof is upon the holder of the bill, to show that it was issued aud put in circulation by the bank prior to the 29th November, 1860. / Agriculture in New England. The New York Express publishes an interesting article on the agricultural resources AT ^ TV* 1 J / L!A ii ..U oi new Jiingianu, irom which n wuuiu nppcui that that section is not so highly favored after all, and the people wouM do well to heed some of the gratuitous agricultural information which they are so constantly thrusting upon the owners of the "barren fields" in the ! southern States. Of the agricultural pro-1 ductions of the New England States the Express says: Of the six States east of the Hudson river, Vermont is the nearest to raising its own bread?producing 454,000 bushels of wheat iu 1869, or a bushel and a peck to each inhabitant. Taking the army rations of 22 ounces of flour per day as a basis for computing the consumption of bread, it follows, Vermont raises bread enough to supply the people of that State thirty-seven days. To make up the deficiency they are obliged to purchase 3,836,000 bushels per annum. Maine produces 278,000 bushels, sufficient to last 11 days, and purchases 8,500,000 bushels. New Hampshire produces 193,000 bushels?little more than a half bushel to each inhabitant, or ten days' supply?and purchases 4,260,000 bushels. Connecticut makes a poorer show, producing 38,000 bushels?a supply of bread for two days?and purchasing 7,618,000 bushels. Massachusetts raised only 34,000 bushels, or just bread enough for breakfast and dinner, but not for supper! The purchase was 20,300,000 bushels of wheat. Rhode Island raised 784 bushels of wheat in 1869, and purchases 3,000,000. The six New England States together purchase from forty to fifty million bushels of wheat, and quite as much of other grains, or in round numbers 100,000,000 bushels of grain. The Cotton Crop. The following is a brief synopsis of the statement of area and condition of the present cotton crop, which will appear in the June report of the Department of Agriculture: An increase in the cotton area is reported in every State. A very small proportion of county returns show a decrease of acreage. Planting was generally retarded by a protracted season of drouth, and fields that were planted late occasioned some trouble in obtaining perfect stands; but the recent rains and renewed efforts in re-planting have finally secured stands of average completeness. The percentage of increase in area, last year's crop being the basis of comparison, is as follows: North Carolina, 16 ; South Carolina, 9; Georgia, 12; Florida, 10; Alabama, 11; Mississippi, 10; Louisiana, 11; Texas, 18; Arkansas, 16 ; Tennessee, 12. The average increase throughout the cotton States will approximate thirteen per cent Texas has naturally made the largest relative increase, not only having enjoyed a favorable season for planting, but also, during the past year, having received accessions of immigrants who are cotton-planters. The condition of the plant throughout the cotton section is very nearly a full average. Separating the Atlantic from the more Western States, the former stand a little below an average; the latter are fully up to the standard of fair condition. The drought which {>revailed in April and the first of May deayed growth, and cold nights in the more northern belt had a further retarding effect, but the abundant rains and genial temperature which followed have wonderfully invigorated and advanced the crop. The following figures represent the cultivation of cotton in the several States, 100 standing for an average : North Carolina, 96; South Carolina, 92; Georgia, 96; Florida, 95; Alabama, 105; Mississippi, 100; Louisiana, 104; Texas, 100; Arkansas, 98; Tennessee, 101. Stamps Abolished and Retained. The thirty-sixth section of the revenue law passed at the close of the last session of Congress abolishes the use of revenue stamps on many instruments and papers heretofore required to be stamped. The abolition goes into effect on and after the 1st day of October, 1872. The following is a careful epitome of the instruments on which stamps are to be abolished: Contracts for insurance against accidental injuries. Affidavits. All agreements or contracts or renewals of the same. Appraisements, of value or damage, or for any other purpose. , Assignments, of a lease, mortgage, policy of insurance, or anything else. Bills of exchange, foreign, inland, letters of credit, or anything of that kind now taxed by stamps. ? * ... TT_!i.J I Bills of lading, ana receipts, in me umieu States, or for anywhere else. Bills of sale, of any kind. Bonds of indemnification, of any kind. Bond, administrator or guardian, or anything that has the name of bond in it, and now taxed by stamps. Brokers' notes. Certificates of measurement of anything. Certificates of stock, profits, damage, deposit or any other kind of certificates now taxed by stamp. Charter, or its renewal, or a charter-party of any kind. All contracts or agreements. . Conveyance, or any part of the work of conveying. Endorsement of any negotiable or not negotiable instrument. Entry, for consumption, warehousing or withdrawl. Gaugers' returns. Insurance policies, contracts, tickets, renewals, (See. (life, marine, iuland and fire.) Lease. All through the lease list is abolished. Legal documents. Writ or other process, confession of judgment, cognovit, appeals, warrants, <fec., letters of administration, testamentary, &c. Manifest at Custom House, or any where else, or for any purpose. Mortgage, of any kind. Passage tickets to any place in the world. Pawners' checks. Power of attorney for any purpose. Probate of will, of any kind. Promissory note for anything. Protest of any kind. Quit claim deed. Receipt. Now generally exempt, and if included in present law in any case, will be hereafter exempt. Sheriff's return. Trust deed. Warehouse receipt. Warrant of attorney. Weigher's return, of any character. RETAINED. The tax of 2 cents on checks, drafts and orders, is all of schedule B that is retained. No provision is made for the redemption of stamps on hand at the date referred to, and > consequently they will be worthless to those i hfltrincr fhftm in nnsspjwion. Democratic State Conventions. Within the past few days Democratic Conventions have been held in various States for the purpose of selecting delegates to the : Baltimore Convention, and, as will be seen, 1 nearly all these Conventions have expressed a preference for the Cincinnati platform. The Kentucky Convention reaffirms the' principles of recent State Conventions?urges :; a union of all elements against Grant, and ^ instructs its delegates to vote as a unit. j The Nebraska Convention adopted resolu- i tions unanimously endorsing the Cincinnati platform, and delegates to Baltimore were instructed to vote as a unit for Greeley and Brown. Entire harmony prevailed, and the Convention adjourned amidst great enthusiasm. The Minesota Convention unanimously adopted the following resolutions: Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention that the platform adopted at Cincinnati, and explained by Horace Greeley in bis lottop r\f upponfuncp A*nrf?ifiP9 t.he true Dem ocratic idea upon every living political issue of the day, and that we therefore heartily endorse the same, and the candidates by that convention nomiuated. Resolved, That the delegates selected by this convention to attend the Democratic Convention at Baltimore are hereby distinctly instructed to vote for and use all honorable j endeavors to confirm the nominees of the i Cincinnati Convention for President and Vice President of the United States. A resolution was adopted looking to a conference between the Democratic and Liberal Republican State Central Committees, with the view to securing the uuited action of all elements opposed to the present administration in the coming election: The Democratic delegates of Connecticut to the Baltimore Convention met in New Haven on the 20th, and though pledged to no candidates, the unanimous expression of the delegates was in favor of Greeley and Brown. The California State Convention which met in San Francisco on the 19th, adopted resolutions endorsing the Cincinnati platform, and recommending that the delegates to Baltimore take such action as may secure the cooperation of all parties opposed to Grant's reelection, but leaving them uninstructed as to whom they should support. The Maine Democratic Convention assembled in Bangor on the 18th. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted : jResolved, That the principles enunciated by the Cincinnati Convention, taken in connection with the letter of Horace Greeley accepting the nomination, constitute a platform on which all the elements in opposition to the present corrupt administration of the present corrupt administration of the Federal Government can stand, and .we hereby adopt as the platform of the Democracy of Maine, the propositions in Mn Greeley's letter of acceptance. Resolved, That we believe the great reforms for which patriotic men of all parties are now laboring can be best obtained by supporting as candidate for our next President, Horace Greeley, and we recommend our delegates to vote for the Cincinnati candidates. The Liberal Republican State Convention of New Jersey met in Newark on the 20th. Rpflnlnt.inns wore adonted endorsing the Cin cinnati platform and candidates, and askjng the cooperation of other parties opposed to the present administration. A State executive committee was appointed, and other business transacted. The Alabama Democratic Convention adjourned on the 21st. It declined to elect electors, leaving It to the Congressional districts after the Baltimore Convention. Resolutions were adopted by a large majority, decla;dng that in the opinion of this Convention, under existing circumstances, the National Democratic Convention ought not to make nominations in opposition to the nominations recently made at Cincinnati, but this resolution is not intended to instruct the delegates to be sent to Baltimore. The Democratic State Convention of Arkansas also adjourned on the 21st. Resolutions were adopted instructing the delegates to Baltimore to endorse Greeley and Brown, endorsing the Cincinnati platform, and declaring against the nomination of a Democratic State ticket, but favoring a coalition with the Liberal Republicans. The Liberal Republican Convention was in session at the same time, and adopted resolutions referring to the State Executive Committee, and the work of putting an electoral ticket in the field. Indian Troubles in Texas.?Judge Hubbell, General Agent of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad arrived at St. Louis on the 18th instant from a business tour in Texas, and inCnvmotinn tLat hofnrA 1 Pflvtnor fihpr UiUUgUD JUIVIUJUWVU wr%s?Vr*V avwiaM^j raan, Texas, an array officer arrived there from Fort Richmond, Jack county, and reported that a body of Indians, variously estimated at from 3,000 to 10,000, had made an incursion into Texas, and were over-running Young, Jack, Denton and Parker counties, and that the settlers were filled with consternation and alarm. The Indians said they were going to Huutsville, to liberate Santanta and Big Tree, who are confined in the State prison there. It was reported that all the Indians on the Fort Sill reservation had left, and gone on the war-path. Already two fights had occurred, near Weatherford, in which four whites were wounded and two Iudians killed. Two Indians were captured, and lodged in "Weatherford jail. The commanding officer of Fort Richardson is said to have gone to Austin, to consult with General Auger, regarding the invasion, and the latter is reported to have telegraphed for two more regiments of cavalry, to report immediately at the points threatened by the raiders. Judge Hubbell says there is no doubt in the minds of well-informed Texans that a big Indian war is at hand. Many settlers are leaving their homes. It is believed that the Kiowas were the leaders of the raid, assisted by the Apaches and others. There was no quorum at Ockmulgee Council, up to last Thursday, and none of the wild tribes from Fort Sill had yet come to participate in the deliberations. The crops in Northern and Western Texas are very fine. ? ? Shortening the Charlotte, Columbia tvn afmttqta T?.att/road.?We have been informed that the management of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad has under advisement the prospect of shortening the road ten miles. This project looks to the building of a line as nearly direct as possible from the neighborhood of the Pine House to Augusta, the road to cross the Savannah River at the upper portion of the city. This, of course, will necessitate the construction of a new bridge, and in case it is definitely decided to carry out the project, an effort, which will probably be successful, will be made to sell the bridge now used to the South Carolina Railroad Company. The building of the new line to that point mentioned will not only shorten the route ten miles, but result in greatly lessening the expenses of the road. The annual expenditure required for keeping in operation each mile of railway is said to be about 83,000. Besides this, every seven or eight years new iron has to be laid at a cost of about $8,000 per mile. By shortening the line ten miles, therefore, $30,000 per annum will be saved in running expenses, and about $80,000 at intervals of seven or eight years for relaying of track. The present line makes a detour from this place to Pine House, while the route proposed will be almost direct.?Augusta Constitutionalist. #^4 How to Quit Tobacco.?Hearth and Home says the best thing to hold in the mouth is a mouth full of cold water, renewed every few minutes. It will take away the craving for tobacco quicker than anything else and is wholly unobjectionable. A pine stick is the best of anything to chew, but the objection to that, and to anything that is chewed, is that it over exercises and weakens the salivary glands. In quitting the use of tobacco, quit at once and do not attempt to leave off gradually. LOCAL ITEMS. r NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. M. Strauss <fc Son.?Great inducements to cash - - buyers. - --Dr. Alfred Craven.?Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist. Carolina Life Insurance Company. . , i t . i {>...! THE MILITARY PRISONERS. . There have been no recent arrests. On the 22nd, Wm. E. Gwynn was released on bond. OUR AGENTS CHARLESTONr ^ The advertising agency of Messrs. Walker, Evans <fe Cogswell, represented by RbswellT. Logan, Esq., is the only authorized agency of this paper in Charleston. , K. M. MILITARY SCHOOL? '-j ! The first session of the King's Moulaiii Military School closed on yesterday, and . a small number of the Cadets left this morning for their homes on a short Airlough. The second session will commence on the firtt day of July. DEATH OF A SOLDIER* Patrick Walsh, a private of Company "C," 18th Infantry, died suddenly in this place on Friday night last A post mortem examination 'developed the fact that his death resulted from ulceration of the bowels. He was buried in the town cemetery on Saturday afternoon last with military honors. Col. D. WVATT AIKEN, j. . The following note from Col. D. Wyait Aiken, of Abbeville, fully explains itself: Coke8Bury, June 20, 1872. Dear Sir .-?Possibly you are aware that I am now canvassing the 3tate in behalf of Agriculture _ generally, but esp< -ially for the benefit of the State Agricultural Society, the Rural Carolinian, and the Patrons of Husbandry. I respectfully ask that yon inform your readers?male and female?that I hope to be able to entertain, edify and benefit them, if they will give me an audience, at Rock Hill on Thursday, the 11th of Jnly, at 10 A. M.; and at Yorkville, the following morning, at the same hour. Your ob't. serv't., 1: D. Wtatt Aiken. ! FINE MUSIC. The splendid band attached to the 18th Regiment of United States Infantry, arrived in Yorkville last week. The band embraced twenty-one musicians, and during its stay here, our citizens had the opportunity of listening to music, of a much better grade than they have been accustomed to for some time. On Monday morning last, the band departed for Chester, where it will remain until Saturday next, and then return to Columbia. We hope that our town may be again favored with a similar visit i5 ATTEMPT TO BREAK JAIL. I::,,; * On the night of the 20th, the Sheriff dipcovered an attempt upon the part of some of the prisoners to escape confinement, which, but for the titqely discovery, would have proved successful. The attempt was made by sawing a bole in the flooring, thrppgh which they could,descend to the second floor, when, there would be nothing to prevent an eaay egress. The implement used for sawing was a "case" knife. Those engaged in the attempt were three ku-klux prisoners and two Begro State prisoners, one of whom was Gibson, the Fort Mill murderer. ., cotton blooms. During the past week, fall-blown cotton blooms have appeared in various sections of York county, and several have been received at the Enquirer office. ' The first that we saw came from the plantation of Mh A. N. McNinch, in the vicinity of McCoonellsviJJle, and was left with us on Wednesday afternoon of last week. The next was brought Up by Mr. Leroy Crook on Thursday last, and was plucked from one of his fields in Santuc, 4 below Rock Hill, on the previous day. As to who is ahead in the race for cotton bloom honors, we are unable to decide. CADET GEORGE D. WALLACE. We were pleased to greet at the Enquirer office, on Tuesday last, our young friend, Cadet George D. Wallace, who graduated with distinction at the recent Commencement of the West Point Military Academy. He ranks No. 9 in a class of fifty-seven graduates, and being a native of this county, we take especial pride in referring to the high stand he has maintained throughout the four years' course. As is customary after graduation, Cadet Wallace has been granted "leave of absence," until the first of October next, when he will be assigned to duty in the regular army as a second lieutenant COURT MARTIAL. A general court martial has been in session here for several weeks, engaged in the investigation of charges of various grades preferred against soldiers stationed at this place and at TUrt PahiiI 10 as fnllntva VliCOl/Cl 1UC W/Ul b 10 ?v?*vnw t Capt. John Christopher, Co. C, 18th Infantry, President; Lieut John Aspinwall, Troqp K, 7th Cavalry, Judge Advocate; Assistant Surgeon J. R. Gibson, U. S. A.; Capt. Owen Hale, Troop K, 7th Cavalry; Lieut F. F. Whitehead, Co. C, 18th Infantry; Lieut J. F. Weston, Troop L, 7th Cavalry ; and Lieut H. H. Benner, Co. C, 18th Infantry. DESERTION OF SOLDIERS. The paymaster made his periodical visit to this place on Monday last, and paid off the troops stationed at this post. Upon each recurrence of this event, some of the soldiers desert and leave for parts unknown. During the past week, seven members of the Seventh Cavalry have observed the usual custom and left the service of "Uncle Sam"?five from Troop L, and two from Troop EL The following are the names: John Hackett, Peter Plumb, Joseph Brown, William Spencer and Michael Johnson, of Troop L, and Edward ^ Cardogan aud James Ryan, of Troop K. John Stokes, of the same Troop, also deserted several days before the paymaster arrived. rcKciunAL. Hon. A. S. Wallace, member of Congress for this Congressional District, arrived at his home in this county, on Saturday afternoon last. Since the adjournment of Congress, he has been on a visit to New'York, West Point, and other places in the northern States. General Sturgis, the Colonel of the Seventh Cavalry, arrived at this place on Monday of last week, on a visit to the officers and soldiers of his command stationed here. He departed for Columbia on Wednesday morning. We notice the presence in town this week of three of our former citizens, Messrs. John B. Erwin and Joseph R. Witherspoon, and Dr. S. Edward Bratton. The two former reside in Lancaster, and the latter at Charlotte, N. C. J. G. Hester, who belongs to North Carolina, and is quite notorious as a detective, arrived here on Monday afternoon last His notoriety has been greatly increased in this section in consequence of his connection with the recent kidnapping of Dr. J. R. Bratton, in Canada. Our much-esteemed fellow-townsman, I. D. Witherspoon, Esq., has been confined to his residence for several weeks from a complication of diseases. We are pleased to learn, however, that his condition is gradually im- ^ proving, and hopes are entertained that with in a reasonable time he will be able to attend to his usual vocation. ^ General John D. Kennedy, of Camden, -