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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
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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
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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.
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YORKVIliLE, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 27,1872.
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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.
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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-!
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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,
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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.
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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 :
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
M. Strauss <fc Son.?Great inducements to cash
- - buyers. - --Dr.
Alfred Craven.?Surgeon and Mechanical
Dentist.
Carolina Life Insurance Company. . ,
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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,
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