Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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jlctaps and (facts. At Bloomington, Illinois, the liquor law is dodged by placards over the saloons? "Admittance ten cents; drinks free." They are complaiuing of cold at Virginia City, Nevada. They were obliged to kindle fires on the 30th of June. John Robinson has sued the New York and New Haven Railroad for $50,000 damaages to his circus by the wrecking of several of his cars on account of a low bridge. The United States have 5,000 telegraph statious, /o,uuu miles or line, over r.uuu operators, and transmit over 11,500,000 messages anurrtly. Two sisters have eloped from Berlin, Prussia, with a young man whom they are both in love with, and whom they both intend to marry when they reach Salt Lake, which is their destination. A New York clergyman, having forgotten his notes the other Sunday, apologized to his congregation by saying that he would have to depend upon the Lord, that morning, for what he might say, but in the afternoon he would come better prepared. The demand for opium in the United States is alarmingly on the increase. Last year the statistics of the exports from Smyrna show that of the entire amount to Europe and America, 560,000 pounds, the United States * i. oao nnn tWUtV A New Orleans despatch says that Lieuteuaut-Govemor Pinchback has been making Greeley speeches in St. James Parish, La. This is regarded as significant, as Pinchback has heretofore favored Grant. He is the leading negro politician of the Southwest Hartranft, the Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, is said to have won laurels at the scaffold of the unfortunate Mrs. Surratt. It is estimated that he will be beaten by about 40,000 majority; and this secures the old Keystone State for Greeley and Brown next fall. It is said to be a curious fact that while foxes, cranes and squirrels are abundant on the Indiana side of the Ohio River, they are never seen ou the Kentucky side; and, strange enough, the grey squirrel, to be fouud anywhere on the Kentucky side, is rarely or never seen on the Indiana shore. Since Colonel Pickett's successful speculation of "Confederate archives" to the Government, many more offers of similar documents have been made; but having burnt its fingers in the Pickett transaction, the Government has concluded to stop archiving for the present. Fourteen years ago an Indianian left his lady-love for the land of gold. During all these years the faithful pair have each written and received two letters every week, till a week or two ago, when the swain returned to r*laim Kia hrirla Thou Kotra a niln aP ftuA U(W*U? UiU VtlUV? JL liw UUVV U ^IiV Ul VVTVf thousand nine hundred and twelve love-letters to begin house-keeping with. It is said of Merrimon, the Conservative candidate for Governor of North Carolina, that he never took a drink of whisky or brandy, never used tobacco, never swore or used an oath, and knows not one card from another. He is in every respect worthy of the high office he is seeking, and will reflect credit on his native State while he is invested with the honor of her chief magistracy. The New York Herald says: "It is said Mr. Greeley, as the Democratic candidate will be an astonishing nomination. Very well; Harrison was an astonishing nomination. So was Polk, so was Taylor, so was Pierce, and so was Lincoln; but each of these men was elected. There is evidently strength in an astonishing nomination. The issues of the contest are equal. The Democrats, with Pierce, in 1852, went over and took up the Whig platform of Henry Clay, and they swept the country. The moral is obvious." In reply to inquiries made by circular letters, Mr. J. W. Rabson, chief of division, Pension Bureau, has just heard from one who is probably the oldest in the pension list of the widows of Revolutionary soldiers. The postmaster at New Matamoras, Washington couuty, Ohio, writes that Mrs. Louisa Miller, a widow of Philip, a soldier of the Revolution, was living on the 23d ultimo with Priscilla Hays, at that place ; that she will be 109 years old on the 13th of August instant, and that her sight is somewhat defective, but that her mind is good for one of her age. Somebody writes to the Cincinnati Cowimercial a pretty good story about Horace. It seems that Mr. Greeley supposed the Tribune would exDerieuce a business loss bvsuDDortin? the Cincinnati movement, but at a late meeting of the Tribune company a gain of circulation and advertising was shown. Turning to Mr. Greeley, one of the stockholders said: "Well, Mr. Greely, you have missed it this time. Yon thought, beforehand, that we would lose money. Now what do you think ?" "Well," said the old man, in his droll way, "I had no idea the Cincinnati Convention would make such a judicious nomination." A Minnesota-wood-chopper hewed down a tall tree the other day, and upon splitting up the trunk with an axe and wedge, found imbedded in the wood at the point where the trunk diverged into branches a leather bridle of antique pattern, with bit and buckles attached, and all in a remarkable state of preservation. It has been fully thirty feet from the ground, and its presence there can only be accounted for by the supposition that some passing horseman had used the crotch of the sapplingas a rest for his bridle, and, led from the place in pursuit of his straying horse, had been unable to find it again, and abandoned the bridle to be carried up and entombed by the slow growth of the tree. It is believed that the tree must have been fifty years in hiding its treasure. A California engineer predicts that in ten years the whole country will be grid-ironed with narrow gauge railroads. The cost of these roads he estimates at $8,000 per mile. Passengers can be transported on them at one cent a mile, and freight at proportionately low rates. His plan is for farmers to build them by subscription, for the purpose of conveying their products to market. He also claims that thev will nav. that wharavar thav I have been constructed they have made handsome dividends, which is not generally the case, at least with a majority of the broad gauge roads. In Sweden and Norway these roads are coming into general use; the construction of them is causing a demand for iron from England. Colorado has one of them some eight miles long. Charters have been granted for them in several States, and a few lines have been commenced. The system of involuntary contributions forced upon subordinates in Government offices, which the pious Senator Buckingham tries to justify by comparing it to the religious offerings made for church purposes, is being pushed to extremes under the exigencies of the present campaign. Already two requisitions have been made on the department clerks for the expenses of the North Carolina election, and the victims are beginning to enquire among themselves how much salary they will have left, if the extortion continues at the same rate, after contributing for Indiana, Maine and Pennsylvania. They fear that by the time the November contest approaches they will be drained dry and will have exhausted their credit so that the government will be obliged to fill their places with new men who will be able and willing to contribute freely in the hope of compensating themselves for present outlay through future operations. The mode of levying these contributions, according to the Washington Patriot, is to head the list for each class with the name of some well-known clerk, against which is placed the amount per head assessed against that class, after which the paper is presented to the clerks in succession. They all deem it prudent to respond to the call. Andrew Strong and Stephen Lowrey, theonly surviving members of the Robeson county outlaws, express their determination to kill all who were engaged in the shooting of Tom Lowrey last week. There were five young men in the party who waylaid the outlaw, who was shot on the public road near his own j house while on his way to a political meeting, 1 and was armed with a Spencer rifle. Lowrey's | funeral was attended by all the denizens of j the Scuffletown section, many of whom were armed, they having surmised that an effort would be made to rescue the body. The latest intelligence from these desperadoes conveys the information that on Monday they were seen lurking near Back Swamp Church, where there was a large assemblage of persons to near a political discussion, out uu attempt ; was made to capture them. A company of U. S. troops is in Robeson county, ostensibly | to cooperate with the civil authorities in capturing the outlaws, but no attempt to effect that object has yet been made. The Star learns that the soldiers are on very intimate terras with Strong and Lowrey, eating, drinking and carousing with them. lb* ffutMle (frtujuim. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 1, 1872. Watch the Figures.?1The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is i naiH Tf anhanrihoMi iln nnf wiali thfiirnftDftrs dis X?x continued, 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 DROUGHTS. The greatest draw-back to the farmers of South Carolina, in fact to the farmers of all the Southern States, is long and parching dry spells. With proper cultivation and a small quantity of manure, our poorest lands will yield immense crops of grain of almost any kind, provided we have no drought. It takes a drought of but a few weeks in July and August to cut off the corn crop. Two facts are true. First, droughts are more common at present than they were in the early settling of this country; and second, droughts have a more injurious effect upon crops now than they once had. It is easy, on philosophical principles, to account for both these facts. In reality, they are but one fact. The one is simply a result of the other. They stand connected with each other in the relation of cause and effect Many reasons may be assigned for the decrease in the fall of rain. The main reason, we conceive, however, to be, because the forests have been cut down. The effects of forests upon the atmosphere are two fold. They fill the air with dampness, and again this dampness, when it is condensed into clouds, is attracted by the forests. The roots of trees run deep down into the grouud and absorb the moisture that is contained in it at a considerable depth below the surface. This moisture, much of it at least, is evaporated by the leaves and thus the air is loaded with water. The amount of water that is drawn up from the stratas of the earth lower down than the roots of ordinary cultivated plants penetrate, is enormous. This water, if not rlfonrr. nr\ bxr +bp rftnfa r>f frAPfl would crrfldlial ly make its way into creeks and rivers and ultimately into the ocean. All nature is a kind of work-shop. The waste material and refuse matter of one part is taken up and used by another part, and thus there is a continual round of aperation. When the laws of nature are not transgressed, nothing grows old and there is no scarcity of any thing. Our fathers, when they cut down the noble forests which once decorated our hills, inflicted upon us, their children and grandchildren, a curse grievious to be borne. If let alone, nature would in time restore things as they were once. Our old fields would in a few years grow up and restore, in a great measure, the fertility to our soil which it once possessed. Cutting down the forests has two other effects, both of which result in decreasing the amount of rain. Dry and parching winds are unimpeded in their progress, and the result is that they carry off the moisture which is in the atmosphere. Another result i3 that small streams of water have in many instances been entirely annihilated, except during the winter months. This has decreased the volume of water in the creeks and rivers, and consequently decreased the attractive force for the clouds and the amount of water evaporated from the surface of the earth in our particular section. In view of all the facts, it is suicidal to cut down any more forest trees. There is in South Carolina enough of cleared land, if properly cultivated with such seasons as once were in the State, to support ten times the number of inhabitants that are now in the State. All the old scarred hills should be sown in grass so that their bald faces might be shielded from the summer's sun. In the ?i ?-t- x i? it ~ meantime, crops wnicn mature earner iu me season should be cultivated. Such crops cost less to produce them, and consequently are more profitable. They are more certain. Wheat and oats, when sown at the proper season, are more certain crops than corn. We have high authority for saying that rebels inhabit parched lands. Those who scar and mutilate the face of the earth are rebels against the natural laws of the universe and need not expect to escape with impunity. The exclusive cultivation of cotton will reduce any people to poverty, and convert a well watered land into a parched desert. It is simply a matter of time. The result is sure, a foretaste of which we experience nearly every season. ? ? CONFEDERATE ARCHIVES. The story was given out from Washington some days ago that one Colonel Pickett, of Virginia, had sold to the United States government for the snug sum of 875,000 in nice, bright and crisp greenbacks, a lot of archives of the Confederacy, which would be of great service in preventing disloyal claimants from securing compensation for losses sustained in various ways during the war. The archives have been duly delivered, consisting of four trunks of musty papers, which, it is alleged, were brought over from Canada, where they had been secreted for several years. The papers are now in the Treasury Department, and are undergoing an examination, and those which can possibly have any bearing on the Presidential campaign will be issued by the Republican press as "campaign documents." Under startling captions and sensational display lines, the Washington Chronicle publishes a lengthy letter purporting to have been written as an official report from Jacob Thompson to J. P. Benjamin. The letter is dated "Toronto, C. W., December, 3,1864," and according to the published copy, shows that Thompson was the regularly authorized agent of the Confederacy, both for the purpose of procuring the burning of New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Cincinnati, and for organizing a counter revolution at the North. For these purposes Thompson and his associates, Clay, Holcombe and Saunders, were supplied with one million dollars in gold, and in furtherance of their schemes they were in communication with residents at the North, and met some of them personally at Niagara. The St. Albans raid and the attempt to free the Confederate prisoners at Johnson's island were some of the results. A writer in the New York Herald, who claims to have been familiar with Thompson's operations in Canada as a secret agent of the Confederacy, denies the truth of the allegations which this published letter makes, and asserts that Thompson's conduct throughout Kic nnorofinno in flnntt/lrt umQ Anlv Rlipfl ft.Q Ifi "M ... -> J ? recognized in the articles of war. Touching this transaction, Col. Pickett himself says: "There is but one paper the perusal of which gave me any pain?the report of Hon. Jacob Thompson on the operations on the Canadian frontier, the existence of which was unknown to me, until the government officer found it. Aud what was this document? Colonel Pickett says that the publication of his (Thompson's) report will probably cause him and Jefferson Davis and J. P. Benjamin to feel uncomfortable for a little while; 'but as I expect to go to neither of them when I die, my sympathy shall not be of a heartrending character.' And he begs further to say, 'as one still faithful to the lost cause, I that I wholly repudiate the policy of attempting to burn Northern cities during the war, especially democratic cities, and that I always indignantly denied the allegation until I saw Thompson's report. So let these three worthies wince, not the noble people whose cause they butchered.'" The New York Herald treats the alleged "report" of Thompson rather lightly in the following paragraph: "The precious document in question, then, is 'Jacob Thompson's official report on the attempts and designs of those mysterious incendiaries, with their black carpet bags and phosphoric combustibles, to burn New York | and other Northern cities during the war.' These interesting archives, Colonel Pickett thinks, are historically and financially valuable, inasmuch as they may save money to the government by defeating the claims of parties for damages claiming to have been 'trooly loil' in the war, but 'who thjew up their caps for Jefferson Davis,' and shouted 'death to the Yankees.' The colonel himself does not pretend to have been 'trooly loil,' and has no favors to ask of the party in power, but desires its overthrow, and yet be neglects to state the disposition of that snug little sum of seventy-five thousand dollars obtained for those aforesaid archives. We suppose it is all right; we dare say it is nobody's business, and yet people will be inquisitive in these little transactions where good money is given for the old papers of an exploded institution." ? MERE-MENTION. On the fourth page of this issue may be found a full report of the trial of I. B. Cornwall, convicted of kidnapping Dr. J. Rufus Bratton, of Yorkville. The report is copied from a Canada paper. The only colored office holder in Connecticut is a letter-carrier at New Haven. A man in Richmond, Virginia, has worn the same pair of linen trousers forty-nine summers. They have been in style seven times. Fifty millions of paper collars and cuffs are made annually in Troy, N. Y.,and seventeen thousand people are employed in doing it. The first lot of new cotton arrived in New York last week from Texas. It classed as low middling and wassold at auction for 431 cents per lb. A Mrs. Ballou, of Saranac, Michigan, weighs 678 pounds. The blacks and mulattoes of Jacksonville, Florida, have declared war with each other. The mulattoes have organized a society to which the highly colored are not admitted. Nine Long Branch races have been won by horses from Scott county, Kentucky. The New York Herald having found Dr. Livingstone will soon start an expedition to fix the disputed location of the Garden of Eden. It is estimated that the pea-nut crop of Middle Tennessee will this year reach 11,000,000 bushels. A Georgia gold miner picked a $60,000 diamond out of his claim, the other day. A Florida jailor was recently made to endure thirty days of his own accommodations because by his negligence several prisoners escaped. The Mr. Post recently drowned at Cape May was not the stenographer, but an unknown man of the same name. There are 96,942 scholars in the public schools of New York. ? ? SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ?Patrick H. Flanigan, an old citizen of Columbia, died in that city on Saturday last. ? A meeting of the Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance was held in Chester last week. ? Gov. James L. Orr declines to accept the challenge of Capt. Wm. D. Evins "to a public discussion, at Anderson, on the issues of the present political campaign." ?The Sumter News gives currency to a rumor that one hundred and fifty citizens of Sumter and Clarendon are to be arrested at an early day, by the United States Deputy Marshal, for violation of the enforcement act. ? Mr. Wm. McGarity, while recently attending a Sunday School celebration, about thirteen miles from Chester Court House, was kicked by a horse and so seriously injured that he died almost instantly. ? John A. Boswell, late postmaster at Camden, was arrested at that place last Friday, on a charge of embezzling money received from money orders. After examination before Commissioner Boozer, in Columbia, he was admitted to bail in the sura of $2,000. ? The Southern Home contradicts the statement that Col. Wra. Johnston has resigned the presidency of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad; and the same paper also says the report that the company contemplates straightening the track via Edgefield is also without foundation. ? A trial was in progress in Charleston a few days ago involving the ownership of a cow. The case had been previously tried in Summerville, Walterboro and Beaufort. The costs have already amounted to over seven hundred dollars?the value of the cow is about fifteen dollars. At last accounts the Charleston jury had not agreed on a verdict. ? At a meeting held in Union last week, June S. Mobley, S. Knuckles and George S. tnAwa onr?A?nfori Paginal flolorvofoo fn 1 IIAUU1J lTtiU U^J^uiuuvu xvuutvut uviugMvvo vv the State nominating Convention. The delegates are reported to be in favor of Puffer for Congress. The Times mentions that the colored people are much dissatisfied with the selection. ? The Charleston Courier says that a leading "Republican has in preparation and will shortly issue a pamphlet showing up the rascalities practiced in carrying through sundry bills in the Legislature. The parts the different State officials took in the matter will be detailed, and their names given; also, what bribes and amounts were used to make successful sundry iniquitous measures. The author expressed himself as heartily sick and disgusted at the rascality that has been going on, and is determined to expose it." ?The Phoenix, of Tuesday, says : "Joseph Crosby, Dennis Crosby and Abraham Stinson, j the latter colored, of Chester, charged with a violation of the Enforcement Act, were before Commissioner Boozer, on Monday, for a preliminary hearing. After hearing the evi dence of several witnesses, the prisoners were discharged upon their owu recognizance, to appear before the Coramissioner, on Tuesday, at 10 o'clock, for a further hearing. The prisoners are represented by S. P. Hamilton, Esq. Immediately after the adjournment of the court, Dennis Crosby was arrested upon a charge of murder, and will be taken to Ches ter, by order of Major Brown, commandant of that post." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Several colored speakers from the North are stumping the State in behalf of Greeley and conservatism. ? The Raleigh News says that Ex-Governor Holden has been appointed a mail agent in North Carolina. ? The kitchen and an outhouse of W. W. Mundy, of Catawba county, were recent burned?the result of carelessness. ? The Raleigh Sentinel learns that a detatchment of U. S. cavalry has been sent from that city in the direction of Chatham and Moore counties. ? The Charlotte Observer says it is rumored that Gen. D. H.Hill and Gen. John C. Breckenridge contemplate reviving the old Military Institute at Charlotte. ? Already one hundred and fifty names of colored voters have been challenged in one township in Wake county for improper registration. -4? attempt was made on last Friday night to assassinate M. W. Churchill, the city iMAAflMMAM A ^ T^aIaIApU mlltt A U A *T1 A ft rvAAOirtA* treasurer ui lvuicigu, nunc uc nao jjaooiug near the'capitol building. Robbery is supposed to have been the object. ? Twenty-five thousand words were sent over the telegraph lines from Greensboro last Saturday night, reporting Carl Schurz's speech to different newspapers who had special reporters present. ? The Democratic papers profess to be alarmed at the large numbers of negroes who, it is alleged, are entering that State from the border counties of Virginia and South Carolina, for the purpose of voting the radical ticket in the election to-day. ? J. H. Thompson, well known as the proprietor of a foundry and manufactory of agricultural implements at Tyro, Davidson countj^died suddenly a few days since, while on his way to the Springs in the western part of the State. ? Jack Reid, a colored man, was run over by a train of cars near Greensboro one day last week and killed. He was endeavoring to get his pet dog off the track, and in the laudable attempt to save the life of the valuable canine he lost his own. The dog escaped. ? At the last term of the Federal Court held at Raleigh there were over fourteen hundred indictments against persons charged with kukluxing, and only six of the cases were tried. The Raleigh Sentinel argues that the charges are left hanging over the accused as a warning that they must vote the radical ticket, or be punished after the elections. ? Hon. A. H. Arrington died at his residence in Nash county on the 20th ultimo, in the 62nd year of his age. He was one of the most distinguished citizens of the State. At an early age he was elected to the United States Congress, and in all- the conspicuous positions to which he was subsequently chosen, he was true to his principles, pledges and his honest convictions. ? Nat Caldwell, a negro, who was to have been hanged in Charlotte last Friday, has been respited by the Governor until the 30th of August. The condemned has confessed to the crime of which he was convicted, (the murder -of-a ncgrxrctiitd,) and the respite is to admit of his appearing as a witness against other parties implicated in the same crime. ? The Patriot says a man by the name of T. S. Johnson, a harness maker, said to be from Stokes or Surry county, left Greensboro by rail last Wednesday, leaving his wife in a dying condition?she only living a few hours after he left. She was Kinajy carea ior ana decently buried by the neighbors. The degraded wretch who would thus leave a fond wife, deserves a felon's cell. ? Fred Douglass made a political speech in Raleigh on Friday night last. He is described by the News as being of a bright mulatto color, with bushy gray hair. His features are intelligent and well marked and he is apparently 65 or 70 years of age. His speech was in the interest of the Republican party, but its general tone and temper were excellent, and seemed to be acceptable to both the white." and colored men present. ? Gov. Harriman, of New Hampshire, was advertised to speak to the citizens of Charlotte on the night of the 24th. The Southern Home says the advertisement was so written as to convey the impression that the speaker was a Democrat, but on learning the coutrary after ! he commenced speaking, some of the boys | present improperly interrupted the speaker by shouting for Greeley. "While this was going on the platform gave way and fell, which made the fun boil over. The Harriman party then telegraphed North that he had met with personal violence in attempting to speak in Charlotte. The story is contradicted by the Mayor of the town. ? The Democratic mass meeting at Char^ - 11 J... mfla In yrm] xr n ffnn/lorl Q Q I0U6 On IViOIluay lttoi/ woo MI/kvumvu) MW the Observer informs us. Speeches were made by Governor Walker, of Virginia, Hon. Carl Schurz, of Missouri, and ex-Gov. Graham, of N. C. While Mr. Schurz was speaking the alarm of fire was given, and it was found that the Richards building, a wooden house on the corner of the public square, was in flames. The building has not. been occupied for some time, it having been undergoing repairs, and the origin of the fire is therefore a mystery. The fire was extinguished after burning away the roof. Frank Ross, one of the firemen, was badly, though not dangerously hurt, by being run over by the fire engine. POLITICAL ITEMS. . ? Senator Thurman thinks that Greeley will receive two hundred electoral votes without counting those of Ohio. ? The Hon. Reverdy Johnson is out in a strong letter in which he advocates the election of Mr. Greeley. ? A "German Republican" writes to the New York Tribune that Grant will not receive five hundred German votes in Philadelphia. ? Presidential betting in Wall street, New York, is reported at two to one on Greeley. Some bets were also made at 100 on Horace to 75 on Ulysses. Liberal stock is rapidly rising in that great financial centre. ? There was a Radical Republican rally at the Cnnner Institute. New York, on the 23rd ultimo. There were 230 Vice-Presidents and 51 Secretaries. Roscoe Conkling was the only speaker, and his address occupies eighteen columns in the New York Times. ? Senator Wilson said in his recent speech in North Carolina: "Give us a victory here and we will carry twenty-seven of these States. I confess it fairly, if you Republicans will give us a victory here, that there will be no more fighting. We will canter over the field. But if you allow a Democratic victory you will put a burden on our shoulders which will make us stagger. We may stand defeat, but it will cost us months of labor and toil to recover, and it will also afford a substantial evidence that there is dissatisfaction with the Administration." ? The Tribune publishes a letter addressed by C. T. Carpenter to P. B. Rogers, in which Carpenter retracts the sentiments in his affidavits that Horace Greeley had written in favor of paying pensions to Confederate soldiers. ? The Democratic Georgia State Convention met last week and renominated Governor TUa T^a?v?Arttinfn on/1 T.tVvoral rnntlKll | tJIII 1 l/l 1. J. lie 1/Ciuuwiau3 auu me iv|/uvm cans fused and agreed to support the Greeley and Brown ticket for President. ? In 1868 the Democratic candidate for President was taken from the State of New York and the Vice-President from Missouri. The nominees this year come from the same States, and were both supporters of Grant in 1868. ? A Tennesseean on the way to Baltimore, who had been a large slave-holder, was approached by an anti-Greeley man, who reminded him of his previous wealth, and said: "Greeley did more than any other man to free your slaves," when he replied, "That is the very reason why I want him to try his hand at freeing the Southern white man." ? Mr. Greeley writes to John Harris, a colored man of Texas, in response for an expression of sentiment as to the negro question, "that he believes in equal rights for all men, no matter of what color, as the true interest of every class and Bectlon, and the only "basis of true nationalitv and lasting peace." ? Besides a vigorous letter of Mr. Wallace Tappan, resigning his position on the Grant State committee of New York, the Tribune publishes letters from ex-Congressmen Charles Hughes and Burt Van Horn, repudiating the renomination of Grant. Mr. Tappan has been long an active and zealous Republican in New York, and is the third member of the State committee who has resigned since the renomination of Grant. ? Blanton Duncan, Brick Pomeroy, Mr. Bayard, of New Jersey, Mr. Van Allen, of New York, and other leaders of the straightout Democratic movement, held a private conference in New York on Friday to institute an organization throughout the United States. They report enthusiastic responses from all quarters to the call for the 3rd of September Louisville Convention, and say that full delegates from all States will be in attendance. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Bine Ridge Swindle. In Columbia last week, Judge Willard announced his decision in the Blue Ridge scrip case. The decision is very lengthy, and entirely satisfactory to the plaintiffs. The act of assembly under which the scrip was issued is pronounced null and void, as contravening the clause of the Constitution of the United States Drohibitincr the States from issuing bills O w of credit; and the injunction heretofore granted against the receipt of the scrip for taxes and the issuing of it is sustained, and remains of full force. The amount saved the State is something over two million dollars. The opinion of Judge Willard concludes as follows : "Considering the act in its entire aspect, as well as its integral parts, it is clear that the Legislature intended that the scrip should circulate as money, and that for this reason the provisions of the act authorizing the issue of scrip are in conflict with the prohibitions of the Constitution of the United genfcoo aa to-tlve etmeeioa of billa of orodit-bvStates. The act being unconstitutional, it is void. So far as it contemplates the issue of revenue bond scrip it is unimportant, therefore, to inquire whether the scrip that was actually issued was conformable to, and authorized by, the act. The injunction heretofore issued must be continued until the final hearing and determination of the action." Bankrupt Exemptions in Virginia. By a recent decision of Judge Rives of the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, bankrupts who took the benefits of the act previous to the recent amendment of June 8, 1872, are entitled to the exemptions allowed by said amendment, which incorporated the Virginia homestead as an integral part of said act. Stripped of verbiage, Judge Rives' decree in the case before him is as follows: This cause on this day to be heard on the petition of said bankrupt, to have lurtner exemption made him under the act of June 8, 1872, and was argued by counsel. On consideration whereof, the court being of opinion that the increased exemption made by said act is made by the express terms of the fourteenth section of the bankrupt act of March 2,1867, "to operate as a limitation upon the conveyance of the property of the bankrupt to his assignees," doth adjudge, order, and decree that, notwithstanding the said act of Congress is subsequent to the adjudications in bankruptcy in this case, the petitioner, so long as the assets or effects are undistributed, or the proceeds thereof under the control of the court, is eutitled to the benefit of this additional exemption, and should be now allowed the same, which is ordered accordingly. Secretary Bontwcll at Greensboro. Boutwell's recent speech at Greensboro, N. C., which was not an extemporaneous effort, but deliberately read by the speaker from a printed copy, (it having been put in type for the N. Y. Times before the Secretary left his post in Washington,) although delivered before a concourse of not exceeding two hundred persons, one-half of whom were negroes, is attracting considerable attention at the North, and provoking comments not at all flattering to the distinguished speaker. That portion of the speech most severely criticised, and which, indeed, is truly reprehensible, is contained in the following extract Said Mr. Boutwell: "We are advised to clasp hands across the bloody chasm made by the war. I protest against this advice. Clasp hands across the bloody chasm is the old and dangerous advice of the Democratic party. Instead of destroying the causes of differences between us, they attempt to conceal them. Instead of removing general evils, which are the fruitful sources of public calamities, they shut their eyes to the evil and deny the danger. This is the old criminal conservatism of the Democratic party, and it is none the less criminal now that it is uttered in behalf of that party by a new voice." This is an effort to excite the worst passions I of an ignorant and violent people; to array I I ncminst race, and to Dersuade the neerroes i * **" ~ "~? ? w A" u | that the white Democrats of the South are their mortal enemies. Mr. Boutwell would "fill up the chasm"?not clasp hands over it. If we may judge by his language, he would open afresh the wounds made by the war, at a time when the country is at peace, and thwart the efforts of the best men of both sections in their labors of effecting a permanent and lasting reconciliation. Commenting upon this speech of the Radical Secretary of the United States Treasury, the New York Herald assumes that President Grant can have no sympathy with the policy advocated by him. It reviews Grant's record, and points to it as an evidence that the President, when left to himself, has been in favor of conciliation and peace with the South. The Herald then calls upon Grant to recall Boutwell from his stump-speaking pilgrimage, and adds: "The people are already weary of ku-klux laws and proscriptive test oaths, and the sentiment of the North demands a more liberal and just treatment of the white citizens of the i South. Can we expect any such policy from those who strive to stir up strife between the races in the southern States, and who instill into the mind of the ignorant negro the idea that his former master is his deadly and unyielding enemy? We warn General Grant and Secretary Boutwell that such a policy is full of danger and trouble in the future, for it cannot fail to bring forth bitter fruit for any administration. It must inevitably lead to disturbances of the peace, if not to more serious evils; and in the train of these must come more military usurpation, more coercive legislation, more of that course of oppression and injustice towards the southern States which has already been pursued too long, and which, we insist, must and shall cease, whatever administration may be in power. The people of the North will no longer suffer this unconstitutional treatment of States within the Union or tolerate the acts that lead to its continuance. They know that the South would be peaceful if left to itself, and they will not allow its peace to be disturbed by the selfish intrigues of narrow-minded politicians. They do not intend that the fair southern States shall be the Ireland of the American republic." Why the South is for Greeley. Should the question be asked why the South supports Greeley, a satisfactory answer can probably be found in tbe fact that on bis return from his southern tour a year ago, he made a speech at the Lincoln Club Room, in New York, in which he is reported to have used the following just, rough and characteristic words: "I allude," said he, "to what are known as the thieving carpet-baggers. [Applause.] The thieving carpet-baggers are a mournful fact; they do exist there, and I have seen them. They are fellows who crawled down South in the track of our armies?generally at a very safe distance in the rear?some of them on sutlers' waerons: some bearing cotton permits; some of them looking sharply to see what might turn lip; and they remain there. They at once ingratiated themselves with the blacks, simple, credulous ignorant men, very glad to welcome and to follow any whites who professed to be the champions of their rights. Some of them got elected Senators, others Representatives, some Sheriffs, some Judges, and so on. And there they stand, right in the public eye, stealing and plundering, many of them with both arms around negroes, and their hands in their rear pockets, seeing if they cannot pick a paltry dollar out of them. But these fellows?many of them long-faced, and with eyes rolled up?are greatly concerned for the education oftne blacks, and for the salvation of their souls. [Great laughter.] 'Let us pray,' they say; but they spell pray with an 'e;' thus spelled, they obey the Apostolic injunction to 'pray without ceasing.' * * They got into the Legislatures; they went to issuing State bonds; they pretended to use them in aid of railroads and other improvements. But the improvements were not made, and the bonds stuck in the issuers' pockets. That is the pity of it. * * What the Southern people see of us are these thieves, who represent the North to their jaundiced vision, and representing it, they disgrace. They are the greatest obstacle to the triumph and permanent ascendency of Republican principles at the South, and as such I denounce them." [Applause.] Sooth Carolina Prisoners in Albany. Rev. C. E. Chichester, a traveling correspondent of the Charleston Courier, has recently been at Albany, New York. While there he visited the penitentiary and writes as follows about the South Carolina prisoners : " "In the" "afternoon remembering the fact that there were confined within the gloomy walls of the State prison here, a large number of ray fellow-citizens, many of whom are suffering unjust punishment for crimes never committed, I determined, if possible, to visit them and learn what their true condition is. Calling at the door of the keeper's residence, I was very cordially received by the gentleman in charge?Captain Pillsbury, a name not very agreeable in Charleston. I found him a perfect gentleman, ready and willing to give all information upon the subject. He kindly permitted me to have interviews with several of the prisoners, and if time had permitted, I would have talked with each one of them. From old Squire Brown of Yorkville, I learned that the health of all the South Carolina prisoners was excellent, excepting one, who was in the hospital with pneumonia. They are provided with every comfort which the rules of the prison will permit, and are all treated with kindness by those who have the charge of them. Their food is ample and of a good quality; their cells are comfortable, and their work, which is the manufacturing of shoes, is easy and pleasant. Captain Pills bury, also spoke to me in the highest terms of all the prisoners, and says he has never had a more quiet orderly set of men in the institution, and that from the first day of their entrance to the present time, not one of them has been reprimanded, punishment being unthought of in their cases. They are all strongly in hopes of receiving pardons after the Presidential election, as they think if the present administration continues, they can then afford to release them, as they will have fully accomplished the work for which the Enforcement Act was passed, i. e. the reelection of Grant, and if Greeley is elected he will see that inuocent men shall no longer be incarcerated in prisons, for crimes which they have never committed. In any event, therefore, they look to be home again after the 4th of next March. May their hopes be fully realized." Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. FROM UNION COUNTY. THE CROFS?THE CAMPAIGN. The grass campaign is nearly over in our sectiou of country. The farmers generally came off victors, but in several instances the work was not pushed late enough, and grassy fields are the result now, and light crops in the fall will be probable. As a general thing corn promises better than it has since the war closed, and cotton is as good as the land and cultivation it has had will make it. The political fever has not broken out here yet At our county town the symptoms indicia fkaf if is in an inriniant stata and oraner "" "-T O ally diffused. It being contagious we will not escape, although we claim to be away off here in one corner, and almost out of reach of any place whatever. It is well for our country that nominating conventions have postponed meeting until work time is over. With the present organization and machinery of parties, four weeks is long enough for a campaign. It would save much time and money and provisions wasted in barb^ues, if the time corild be shortened. There is no earthly use for our laboring people, who never expect to hold an office, to get up an undue and artificial excitement, and tramp from meeting to meeting to hear the speeches and eat the barbacued meat. That does not strengthen a people. Such training may make stronger partisans and more bitter and uncompromising foes, but it will not make kinder neighbors and better citizens. Stump oratory and electioneering palaver are not going to enlighten our people much; quite otherwise will it act For the last four yeiirs that has been tried somewhat, and the rusult has been misguided union leagues, ku klux, ! house and barn burning, whippings and mur-1 ders, and above all that, a bankrupt and disgraced State. Such is our past and such is our condition to-day. It would seem that the old Grecian is needed with lighted candle in daytime to hunt us up a man. That is the great need of our State at this time. It would be an omen of a better future if some one would rise up and grasp, in a manly and sensible way, the great questions that have so shattered our social and political institutions. Abuse of individuals and abuse of parties there has been enough. We want a man now who is fearless and independent enough to mount the highest stump he can find and tell us all in what things we have erred?one who with words of kindness and conciliation would tell the colored citizen wherein he has been % lacking in duty, and how he should act in the future?one who could point out to the old slaveholder his past and present errors, who could show us a manly way out of the kuklux troubles?in fine, one who could put us on the right track of a permanent reconstruction. P. LETTER FROM HORACE GREELEY. The following is Mr. Greeley's letter formally accepting the Baltimore nomination, in reply to the letter of the committee appointed to notify him thereof: New Yobk, July 18,1872. Gentlemen: Upon mature deliberation, it seems fit that I should give to your letter of the 10th instant some further and fuller response than the hasty, unpremeditated words in which I acknowledged and accepted your nomination at our meeting on the 12tn instant. That your Convention saw fit to accord its highest honor to one who had been prominently and pointedly opposed to your party in the earnest and sometimes angry controversies of the last forty years, is essentially noteworthy. That many of you desired that the Liberal Republicans should present another candidate for President and would have more rapidly united with us in the support of Adams or Trumbull, Davis or Brown, is well known. I owe my adoption at Baltimore wholly to the fact that I had already been nominated at Cincinnati, and that a concentration of forces upon any new man bad proved impracticable. Gratified as I am at your concurrence in tho flinninnati nnmination, and oartain as I am that you would not have thus concurred had you not deemed me upright and capable, I found nothing in the circumstance calculated to inflame vanity or nourish self-conceit. But that your Convention saw fit to reaffirm the Cincinnati platform, is to me a source of the profoundest satisfaction. That body was constrained to take this step by no party necessity, real or supposed. It might have accepted the candidates of the Liberal Republicans upon grounds entirely its own, or it " might have presented thpm as the first Whig Convention did Harrison and Tyler, without adopting any platform whatever. That it chose to plant itself deliberately, by a vote nearly unanimous, upon the fullest and clearest enunciation of principles which are at once incontestibly Republican and emphatically Democratic, gives trustworthy assurance that a new and more auspicious era is dawning upon our long-distracted country. Some of tne best years and best efforts of my life were devoted to a struggle against chattel slavery?a struggle none the less earnest and arduous because respect for constitutional objections constrained me to act for the most part on the defensive in resistance to the diffusion, rather than in direct efforts fcr the extinction, of human bondage. Throughout most of these years ray vision was uncheered, ray exertions were rarely animated, by even so much as a hope that I should live to see ray country peopled by freemen alone. The affirmance by your Convention of the Cincinnati platform is a most conclusive proof that not merely is slavery abolished, but that its spirit is extinct; that despite the protests of a respectable but isoht* ted few, there remains among us no party and no formidible interest which regrets the over throw or desires the reestablishment of human boudage, whether in letter or in spirit I am thereby justified in my hope and trust that the first century of American Independence will not close befo?-e the grand- elemental truths upon which its rightfulness was based by Jefferson and the Continental Congress of '76, will no longer he regarded as glittering generalities, but will have become the universally accepted and honored foundations of our political fabric. I demand the prompt application of those principles to our existing condition. Having done what I could for the complete emancipation of the blacks, I now insist on the full enfranchisement of all my white countrymen. Let none say that the ban has just been removed from all but a few hundred elderly gentlemen to whom eligibility to office can be of little consequence. My view contemplates not the hundreds proscribed, but the millions who are denied the right to be ruled and represented by men of their own unfettered choice. Proscription were absurd if these did not wish to elect the very men whom they are forbidden to choose. I have a profound regard for the people of that part of New England wherein I was born?in whose common schools I was taught. I rank no people above them in intelligence, capacity and moral worth; but while they do many things well, and some admirably, there is one thing they cannot safely and wisely undertake, and that is the selection for States remote from and unlike their own, of the persons by whom these States shall be represented in Congress. If they could do this to good purpose, then republican institutions are unfit, and aristocracy the only true political system. Yet what have we recently witnessed? Z. B. Vance, the unquestioned choice of a large maioritv of the Dresent Legislature of North Carolina, a majority backed by a majority of the people who voted at its election, refused a seat in the Federal Senate to which he was chosen, and the Legislature thus constrained to choose another in his place or leave the State unrepresented for years. The votes of New England thus deprived North Carolina of the Senator of .her choice, and compelled her to send another in his stead?another who in our late contest, was like Vance, a rebel, and a fighting rebel, but had not served in Congress before the war as Vance had, though the latter remained faith* ful to the Union till after the close of his terra. I protest against the disfranchisement of a State, presumptively of a number of States, on ground so narrow and technical as this. The fact that the same Senate which refused his seat proceeded to remove his disabilities after that seat had been filled by another, only serves to place in a stronger light the indignity to North Carolina, ana the ar X ?- - t Ditrary, capricious lyraauy wuivu uu/wku iu I thank you, gentlemen, that my name is to be conspicuously associated with yours in a determined effort to render amnesty complete and universal in spirit as well as in letter. Even defeat in such a case would leave no sting, while triumph would rank with those victories which no blood reddens, and which evoke no tears but those of gratitude and joy. ; Gentlemen, your platform, which is also mine, assures me that Democracy is not henceforth to stand for one thing1 and Republicanism for another; but these terms are to mean in politics as they have always meant in the dictionary, substantially one and the same thing?eaual rights, regardless of creed, or clime, or color. I hail this as a genuine new departure from outworn feuds and meaningless contentions in the direction of progress and reform. Whether I shall be found worthy to bear the standard of the great Liberal movement which the American people have inaugurated is to be determined not by words, but deeds? with me if I steadily advance: over me, if I falter. Its grand array moves on to achieve tor our country her glorious beneficent destiny. I remain, gentlemen, yours, HORACE GREELEY. I A