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gtwp and (facts. A Kansas man has been driven insane by the low price of corn. In Paris the ladies -have quite discarded the use of hoop skirts. Mr. Greeley expects to visit Charlotte, N. C., during the October Fair. Chicago has a dog which unties horses hitched to posts, theu jumps into the buggy and barks until the thing starts. A man at Canneltou, Indiana, has been granted a divorce from his wife because she wan't as plump as she made herself appear. An old blast which had been put in a rock at Lexington, Ky., twenty-one years ago, recently exploded and killed two men working near. Presbyterian ministers appear to be a very long-lived race. Seventy-four of them have died during the past year, and the average of sixty-three was nearly sixty-five years. The board of health of New Orleans publishes a card showing that there has not been a case of yellow fever in that city this season. An exchange says : Stagnant wells may be purified and sweetened, by suspending a bag of charcoal with a stone in the bottom of the bag, to sink it in the water. Neckties made of leather, with gilt buckles, are said to have been proposed as the fashionable novelty for gentleman's wear the corning winter. Some one, on being offered one of these, exclaimed: "Is thy servant a dog?" The People's Bank of Nashville, Tennessee, has suspended, aud has been placed in the hands of G. Thurston, trustee. The ultimate available assets are set down as $24,000 more than the liabilities, which are given at $90,000. A snake with ten rattles bit a negro woman while plowing in the field in Macon couuty, Ala. When discovered, the woman was dead, her body lying upon the snake, whose fangs were fastened securely to her breast. Some one asked the daughter of a New Yorker, who was about to marry his fourth wife, who was going to perform the ceremony. She replied, "I don't know, but I presume that it will be Dr. Spring. He generally marries father." The celebrated "Beau Hickman," who formerly lived in luxury by assessments levied on verdant Congressmen, and who constituted himself "the glass of fashion and mould of form," now has to find boarding with a negro family in a back alley in Washington. An amateur sportsman of Baltimore, recently fired into what he supposed to be a gray squirrel, but which was a hornet's nest. The inmates in turn fired into him, and after beating a retreat to his lodgings, it was three weeks before he could get his countenance through the doorway. A company has been formed in ban Francisco to supply steam to small factories and workshops by means of pipes laid under the roads, the same as gas and water. The steam is to be supplied from an immense central boiler, and it is thought that steam power may in this way be supplied at a mere nominal cost to consumers. The longest bridge in the world is said to be on the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad, over the Tensas and Mobile Rivers. It is fifteen miles in length, and has ten draws, one for each navigable channel. The bridge itself is of wood, but the supports are iron cylinders. The structure cost one million five hundred thousand dollars, and has been three years in course of construction. Hod. Alexander H. Stephens, or Georgia, has addressed a letter to the President deploring in this enlightened age the retention at Albany of the ku-klux prisoners. He gives his opinion on thesubject at great length ; and believing the punishment already suffered is sufficient for past offenses, he earnestly entreats the President to extend Executive clemency to those heretofore recommended for pardon. Rev. Dr. B. M. Palmer, of New Orleans, who is now engaged in preparing the memoirs of the late Rev. Dr. James H. Thornwell?to be published in connection with his works now issuing from the press?earnestly requests all persons having in their possession letters from his pen, or any other papers illustrating his career, to forward the same immediately to his address at New Orleaus, La. All such papers will be preserved with care, and will be returned to those who may desire to retain them as memorials of past friendship. Don Piatt, writing from, the White Sulphur Springs to the Washington Capital, says : The parternal author of the belle here, it is said, the other day, shortly after his return to the springs, was approached by a youth who requested a few minutes' conversation in private, and began: "I was requested to see you, sir, by your lovely daughter. Our attachment?" "Young man," interrupted the parent briskly, "I don't know what that girl of mine is about. You are the fourth gentleman who has approached me this morning on that subject. I have given my consent to the others, and give it to you. God bless you." Napoleon, Arkansas, always was a lively place. On the 15th ult., there was a Grant convention in Napoleon, embracing 500 negroes and six whites. The successful nomiuee for the legislature, in the course of his speech accepting the nomination, said he has known Greeley a long time, and for many years of his life Greeley was in the negro trade aud was noted for his severity with the whip. He brought forward an old darkey who swore "dat massa Greeley bad popped it to him many a time afore breakfus and tuk de hide off ebberv time." and closed his moving testimo uy with, "Golly, how old Boss Greeley did whip dis nigger." The New York correspondent of the Augusta Constitutionalist writes: "There has been, of late, a decided improvement in the political situation. The froth with which the political campaign was inaugurated has blown off, and there is a settling down to hard work which begins to tell. The discontent among Democrats is rapidly disappearing, and there is little inclination to follow the LouisvilleJ movement. That will do more good than hurt to Greeley; it will increase and confirm i his Republican support, and divert fully as j many Democrats from Grant as from him. The big game of brag, which the Grantites have been playing in the last month, has led some of them into making very foolish bets, oiwl tkno atimnlnfpH activity ninonc such friends of Greeley as needed personal incentive." A letter has been received at the Republican headquarters, in Washington, from Senator Sawyer, of South Carolina, who heads a bolt from the recent Convention at Colum biaand the Moses ticket there nominated, justifying this independent movement against the ring influences which now control in that locality. The Senator says that the bolters have great strength throughout the State inside the Republican party, and united with the opposition stand a good chance for beating the Moses ticket. Both the warring factions are looking to Washington for help, but the President does not seem anxious to commit himself to either. The Reformers claim his influence because of the outrageous character of the regulars, while the latter set up that the administration has no nusiness to interfere with a local struggle, especially on the side of those who dissent from the regular party nominations. London is spoken of as the largest city in the world ; as covering one hundred ana twenty-two square miles of ground, as being ten miles in length, and over six in breadth, and as containing nearly four million of inhabitants. Still we have no adequate conception of its vastness. We must resort to comparison to comprehend it. The four millions of inhabitants of London, then, exceed the combined population of New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, St. Louis,Chicago, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Boston, New Orleans, San Fran ' cisco and Buffalo. To feed this multitude requires, among other items, five million four hundred thousand bkrrels of flour, and three j million four hundred thousand animals?bullock, sheep, calves and hogs?for the London markets, irrespective of immense quantities of game and fish. It is almost a nation in itself, this wonderful, gigantic, overgrown giant of a city. (the UothviUc (gruqutw. ' " " ' YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 12,1872. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance OATS rs. CORN. One, and not the least, difficulty with which farmers in this section have to contend, is the producing for their domestic animals, a suffii ciency of good nutritive food. Since the first | settlement of the upper and middle sectious of I the State of South Carolina, the main food of i all the domestic animals has been corn. Every j thing on the plantation depends on the corn I crib. The blade3 of the corn stalk and the j shuck that covers the ear, form the great bulk j of the long forage. It is not asserted by planters that corn and fodder is the best or cheapest food for cows or horses. In fact very little is known in this country about any other kind of food for stock. It is admitted that a few oats have always been sown on every plantation; but, unfortunately, only a few, and these, as a rule, on the poorest land. Generally speaking, oats have been sown in this country for no other purpose than to meet an emergency. By the time that oats usually ripen in this latitude, the multitude of our planters are out of horse feed. To meet this critical condition of thiners. a few acres of Door 0 , * land are usually sown in oats. The point which we have in our mind, and j which we desire to bring before the public, is i the cheapness of oats as a food for stock. They are cheaper than corn. Because, in the first place, one acre of land will, one year with another, make twice as many bushels of oats as it will bushels of corn. As food for horses, two bushels of oats are fully equal to one bushel of corn. No one will deny that oats areas wholesome food for stock as corn. The cost of producing two bushels of oats is not j near so great as the cost of producing one bushel of corn. In fact, we do not think that | it is more than one-tenth as great. The sowing of oats does not cost more than the preparation of ti e ground to plant it in corn. The harvesting of oats will not cost as much as pulling the fodder. The truth is, the harvesting of five acres of oats will not cost as much as pulling and curing one acre of fodder. All the expense of cultivating the corn crop is extra cost and trouble. So far as the uncertainty of the two crops is concerned, there is no difference ; or if there is any, the oat crop is the more certain. Another fact. The wear and x rA!? i-_ J _.i : ???? leur ui me muu Hiien suwu 111 uais is nut ucai so great as when planted in corn. Some one will say that an oat crop exhausts land very much. This is not the case. Any crop will exhaust the land some; but there are many reasons why corn or cotton are more exhaustive than any kind of small grain. The land is longer exposed to the burning rays of the sun where corn is cultivated than where oats is grown upon it. The reason that an oats and wheat field are made poor in this country, is because it is pastured to death. As this is the proper season to sow oats, we hope our planters will think of this subject. > ? THE COTTON PROSPECT, The cotton crop throughout the entire cot| ton-growing section will fall far below the j yield predicted a few weeks ago. In Alabama, i in addition to the heavy freshet of one month j ago, which damaged the crop in that State to i the extent of millions, the caterpillars have i appeared and stripped the fields. Some fields ! are said to be so overrun, that the worm can | be ladled up in the furrows by the handfulls. [ The estimated crop is ten per cent, below the ! yield of last year. But little complaint of the j caterpillar reaches us from North Carolina; but rust and blight have materially damaged I the crop in that State. From Mississippi the I complaint of blight and rust is universal, and I the prospects are gloomy. Information from j Arkansas is even less encouraging. In the j section of Indian Bay, 110 rain having fallen j there for seven weeks, the crop will not yield j more than a third of the usual average, while i in other portions of the State not more than a 1 half crop will be made. Advices from GeorI gia and Florida indicate an increase of the caterpillars and a consequent falling off of : the crop. The reports from different sections of our own State are equally discouraging. The 1 Sumter News reports that the veritable army worm has made its appearance in several | neighborhoods, and has attacked the cotton crop with its usual destructive energy. Fortunately, the crop is well advanced, otherwise the plant would suffer a much heavier disaster. In Abbeville the rust has made its appearance, and the caterpillars are also doing much damage. The corn crop was also injured in Abbeville county by the recent heavy freshet. The Orangeburg Times says the : cotton crop in that county will fall greatly be- j 1/%?r? Amu-no onfi^innforl n mrmfh nr siv , I IVJVf I'll V/ U^UIVO UUWIV*|/MVVV? auv.. V? w* w... . weeks ago. In some sections of the county | | the cotton has borne no new fruit since the ! . 1 1 20th of August. In the vicinity of Charles- | i ton the caterpillar is reported as devastating ; the fields, in many of which the plant is still 1 green and covered with young forms and blosI soms. In some sections of this county, we | learn the worm has appeared, and from the I counties of Anderson and Laurens its work | is reported as very destructive. HON. B. F. PERRY FOR CONGRESS. I On Mondav evening last, delegates met in i Columbia for the purpose of nominating a | Democratic candidate for Congress for the i fourth Congressional District. S. P. Hamil| ton, of Chester, a member of the State Execuj tive Committee, called the meeting to order, ! and Col. James H. Rion, of Winnsboro, was t elected temporary chairman. The following j persons were enrolled as delegates : ! Fairfield?J. H. Rion, T. W. Woodward, : T. Ross Robertson; Chester?N. R. Eaves, S. : P. Hamilton; Laurens?T. B. Crews; Pick| ens?T. W. Folger; Spartanburg?D. R. Dun-1 > can, Samuel Miller; Union?A. R. Aughtry,1 | R. M. Stokes; Greenville?W. Beatty, W. L. Maulden ; York?Col. F. W. McMaster sta- \ ted that Gen. M. C. Butler and himself had 1 been authorized to represent York in the con-: vention. A permanent organization was effected by! the election of N. R. Eaves, Esq., of Chester, as President, and R. M. Stokes, Esq., of Union, as Secretary. Upon motion, each county was allowed as many votes as it had representatives in the lower House of the Legislature. Nominations were next declared in order. The following gentlemen were put in nomination : B. F. Perry, of Greenville; I. G. McKissick, of Union ; W. D. Simpson, of Laurens ; J. H. Evins, of Spartanburg; E. P. Jones, of Greenville. Upon motion, it was agreed that a vote of two-thirds of the delegates be necessary to a choice. After two unsuccessful ballots, the third resulted as follows : Perry, 20 ; McKissick, 3. The name of Col. McKissick was then withdrawn, and Hon. B. F. Perry was declared unanimously elected. Upon motion of Colonel Jas. H. Rion, it was resolved, that the delegates from each county make arragements to send up a petition to the United States Judge of the Dis - " . n : tricL ior me appointment or supervisors uj election, as provided for by the Act of Congress. The Convention then, after a vote of thanks to the Chairman for the able and courteous manner in which he had presided over their deliberations, adjourned sine die. ^ THE LOUISVILLE CONVENTION. The Convention of the "Straight-Out" Democracy, headed by Blanton Duncan, met in the Common Pleas Court room, in the Court House of Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday the 3rd instant. The Convention was called to order by Col. Duncan, and after a prayer for concord and peace, and freedom from sectional jealousies throughout the land, the chairman addressed the body, saying, in substance, that they had been derisively characterized as bolters, mercenaries, Ac., by those who have sought an alliance with the Radical party. The present movement in which he and his friends were engaged, was prompted by high and noble motives. It was done to vindicate the truth, and to protest against offered reward for political treason to one who had occupied a life time in the bitterest ani raatlversion against those whose support he now sought. We want no hydra-headed platform, which can be construed according to the wishes of the reader, for we have clear and undoubted theories, which have but one interpretation whether expounded in the North or in the South. It is a laborious work to attempt the reorganization of a party and to create its necessary machinery, and for the past two ra' hs every thought of his brain, and every ~*ergy of his mind and body, had been directed to the accomplishment of that object; and now, weary as he was in mind and body, there was an absolute sensation of relief that he could terminate his self-imposed duties and abdicate his functions as chairman. At the close of the speech, Col. Duncan introduced Levi S. Chatfield, of New York, as temporary Chairman. Upon taking the chair, Mr. Chatfield delivered a brief address, in which he said he had learned his political creed in the school of Jackson, Madison and Jefferson, and he had never seen the time | when he desired to abandon it for any heresy. ' As long as the Democratic party was true to its principles, the people of the United States were true to the party. It lost its power when their tendency to centralization got control. He had no doubt that if the party had not been sold out at Baltimore it would have surely triumphed in the approaching contest. He denied that their delegates had any right to transfer him or his hearers to the Republican party or Greeley, and they had assembled to see if they could correct that transaction. He was a Democrat and would always be one, and if he was the last remaining man there he would wrap the old Hag around turn and lay himself down to die therein. Mr. Spaulding, of New York, then preseuted a sealed letter from Charles O'Conor. It was hauded to the Chairman and read. The letter is very lengthy, sympathising with the movement, and reiterating the doctrines which have characterized the party since its inauguration. The letter was referred to the committee on platform. A committee on credentials was appointed, and a committee on permanent organization, to consist of one from each State, was ordered. To this twenty-four States responded. A recess was taken to half-past 4, and when the Convention reassembled, permanent organization was effected by selecting Jame3 Lyons, of Virginia, as permanent chairman, with one Vice-President from each State represented. Mr. Lyons, when conducted to the chair, ridiculed the Greeley party as the "Dolly Varden" party. A committee on resolutions was appointed, and the Convention adjourned until next day. On the second day of the proceedings the committee on resolutions reported the following platform, based upon the doctrines set forth in O'Conor's letter: "Whereas the frequent recurrence to first principles,ond eternal vigilance against abuses are the wisest provisions for liberty, which is the source of progress, and fidelity to our constitutional system is the only protection for either; therefore Resolved, That the original basis of our whole political structure is the consent in every part thereof of the people of each State voluntarily created, their State and States voluntarily formed union, and each State provided j by its written constitution for everything, as a j | State should do for the protection of life, lib- j erty, and property within, and each State 1 [jointly with others, provide a federal union j for inter-State relations. Resolved, That all governmental powers, whether State or Federal, are trust powers, ! coming from the people of each State, and j that they are limited to the written letter of | the Constitution and the laws passed in pur-1 suance of it; which powers must be exercised [ in the utmost good faith, the Constitution it- ! self providing in what manner they may be altered or amended. Resolved, That the interest of labor and j capital should not be permitted to conflict, ! but should be harmonized by judicious legis-! lation, and while such conflicts continue, la- ' bor, which is the parent of wealth, is entitled ; IU pttl UIliUUIIL uuncmtittuvu. Resolved, That we proclaim to the world that principle is to be preferred to power; that the Democratic party is held together by co- j hesion to the time-honored principles which j ; they will never surrender in exchange for all1 : the offices which presidents can confer. The i ' pangs of the minorities are doubtless excruciaI ting, but we welcome eternal minority under j | the banner inscribed with our principles rath-, ! erthan an almighty and everlasting majority i ; purchased by their abandonment. Resolved, That, having been betrayed at! Baltimore into a false creed and false leader- j ship by the Convention there held, we repudi- j : ate both, and appeal to the people to approve ! ? i n . ?i _ 11 . l , our platform ana to rany to tne pons ana sup: port the true platform and candidates who j I embody it." ; O'Couor was then nominated for President by acclamation, and John Quincy Adams for | Vice-President. j O'C'onor, upon being notified of his nomi- j nation, replied by telegraph that he could not ! accept, in consequence of which the Louisiana j delegation withdrew in disgust, and the Con-1 vention adjourned without nominating any | one in O'Conor's stead. It is also understood I that Adams refuses the nomination, or de-1 clines to become a candidate on account of j the defection of O'C'onor. I SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. " ? A correspondent of the Columbia Carolinian nominates J. H. Carlisle, Esq., of Spartanburg, as a candidate for Governor. ? Rev. A. L. Smith, for twenty-five years an itinerant and local preacher of the Metho- j dist Church, died at Spartanburg ou the 25th ultimo. ? June S. Mobley, of Union, requests the ! Times to say that the report that he had re- j quested the Governor to send four hundred j stand ot arms to that county, is talse. ? The stone work for the Air-Line Railroad bridge over Pacolet, in Spartanburg county, will be finished in a few days. The bridge will be 130 feet high. ? A National Bank has been organized at Union Court House. William Munro is President; Thomas B. Jeter, Vice-President; and E. R. Wallace, Cashier. It will be known as the "Merchants and Planter's Bank of Union." ? The Conservatives of Lexington and Marion counties have made full nominations for county and legislative positions. John C. Hope has been nominated for State Senator in Lexington, and W. S. Mullins, in Marion. Both were members of the Legislature previous to reconstruction. ? On Sunday niglu last Jack Brooks, of Abbeville, and William Smalls, of Charleston, escaped from the penitentiary at Columbia. Brooks made good his escape; but Smalls was shot by the guard and killed while swimming the river. ? The Rock Hill Lantern says that a motion is pending in the United States Court to vacate the bond required of Dr. J. Rufus Bratton after he was brought from Canada; and that the British government will take no steps in the matter, unless the United States government refuses to vacate the bond. ? The Columbia Union gives currency to a rumor that Mr. Myrou Fox, formerly of the New York Tribune, later of the Charleston Republican, and later still engaged on the Washington Chronic-le, is to again take charge of the Charleston Republican and publish it in the interest of the Tomlinson party. ? A fire occurred in the printing establishment of Messrs. Walker, Evans & Cogswell, in Charleston, on Thursday night last, by which it was damaged to the extent of fifteen thousand dollars. The loss, we are pleased to learn, is covered by insurance. The origin of the fire is involved in mystery. ? We learn from the Reporter that S. P. Hamilton, Esq., of Chester, as the attorney for Henry Toole, colored, of Rock Hill, has brought suit against Major Lewis Merrill Commandant of the United States forces at Yorkville, for false imprisonment. Toole lays his damages at five thousand dollars for fortytwo days' imprisonment. ? Track laying on the Air-Line Railroad has been completed from Spartanburg to Pacolet river, and for about seven miles also in the direction of Greenville. From Charlotte to Broad river the track laying will be completed this week. It is thought the road will ho onmnloforl hofwoon Pliflrlfttlfl Knart.fin ? burg within the next two months. ? C. C. Bowen, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the True Republican party ofSouth Carolina, has issued a circular requesting the several County Chairmen to take the necessary steps for the election of Delegates to Conventions in the respective counties, for the purpose of nominating candidates for members of the General Assembly and county offices. ? Dr. Elisor, the Superintendent of the State Lunatic Asylum, has again been compelled to call upon private Individuals fur help in order to prevent the patients in the institution from starving. Mr. Ed. Hope, a grocery merchant, of Columbia, has agreed to furnish necessary provisions for one month. In the meantime, Dr. Eusor proposes to visit Charleston and make an appeal to the banks of that city to furnish him with sufficient funds to keep the poor inmates of the asylum from starvation, until the fall taxes come in, aud the Legislature makes another appropriation. ? The Chester Reporter referring to the recent meeting at Chester between the Radical "Regulars" and "Bolters" remarks: "To sum it all up, the result of the argument is about the same as that of two school boys quarreling ; one says "you're a liar;" the other says "you're another;" and there it ends. In this case one says, "your man's a thiefthe other says, "your man's a bigger thief," and there it ends; except that disinterested listeners are forced to the conclusion that both sides are telling the truth. At the conclusion of Elliott's speech, Judge Mackey put it to the vote of the negroes whether they would sustain the Regulars or the Bolters. All that voted went for the Regulars; whereupon there was much and great rejoicing." ? The Chester Reporter says : "On Sunday, the 2oth ultimo, Pilgrim Church, on the western side of the county, was the scene of a riot aud tumult disgraceful to the congregation, and exceedingly annoying to the surrounding country. This is an African church, presided over and ministered unto by Rev. Sancho Sanders, one of the sable legislators of the i State. On this occasion, as we are informed, one Raymond Wright, colored, presented himself at the altar asking to be taken into membership with the church. In putting him through the preliminary examination as to his fitness for a seat among the faithful, it leaked out that he had always voted the Democratic ticket, and that he had not repented of this sin. The order was given at once for him to be cast out as an unclean thing, and, in pursuance thereof, he was marched out of the church and out of the yard. Some how or I other a collision then occurred between the ! police, detailed by the Itev. Sancho, and a portion of the congregation, and soon the fight became general, men, women and children participating, and continuing the riot during the greater portion of the day." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Gov. Caldwell is 011 a visit to his family in Morganton. ? Josiah Turner, of the Raleigh Sentinel, is spoken of for the U. S. Senate as successor to John Pool. ? D. Wyatt Aiken, of South Carolina, will1 deii-"?r the annual address before the fair of the Carolinas in Charlotte next month. ? Col. Wm. L. Scott, a prominent lawyer of Greensboro, died at his residence in that place on Sunday of last week. ? Work on the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad is rapidly progressing, j In two weeks the trains will be running to Buffalo, 3* miles from Shelby. ? The hanging of Eliza Davidson for being accessory to the murder of her child did not take place in Charlotte on Friday last, she having been granted a new trial by the ttu-, prerae Court. ? Iredell county produced a tomato vine I this season which extends over an area of ground sixty feet in circumference. More j than 2000 tomatoes have been gathered from i the vine, and many more will yet ripen before J frost. ?The official vote for Governor has been i made up, showing Caldwell's majority to be 1945. In the Legislature the Democrats will have a majority of 14 on joint ballot. The Democrats also elect five Congressmen out of eight. ? It is said the two remaining outlaws of Robeson county are endeavoring to effect their escape from the State, as they are now not exactly as safe as formerly?a half dozen vigilant and determined young men being constantly on the look-out for them. POLITICAL ITEMS. ?There are 112 Greeley and Brown clubs in the twentv-one Assembly districts of New York. ? Elections occur next Monday in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska and the District of Columbia. ? The Vermont State election, which took place last week, resulted in a majority of 25,000 for the Republicans. The State election in Maine occurred on Monday last ? Governor Jacob, of West Virginia, who has been claimed as an anti-Greeley Democrat, it is understood, will write a letter in a few days in which ho will declare in favor of the election of Greeley and Brown. ? The Boston Herald remarks that "there are really but two parties in the present crisis of the country; those who wish to shake hands across the bloody chasm and those who are determined to continue shaking their fists at each other." ? The Hon. M. P. O'Connor, who has been urgently requested to take part in the Liberal canvass in the Eastern States, left Charlesmi i 1 *11 1 1.1 ton Thursday evening, ana win prooaoiy apeak in Boston and New York in the course of the next week. ? Judge Mackey says that in case Grant refuses to accede to the demands of the Regular Republicans for the removal ef certain U. S. officials in this State, seven electoral votes will be tendered Mr. Greeley from South Carolina. ? Governor Jewell says that the Greeley defection in Connecticut i3 like the ignis fatuus?you chase it up, aud it disappears. It is like the stories of ague?none here, but they have it in the next town. The only deserters are ex-office holders and unappreciated office seekers. ? The Liberal and Democratic State Conventions of New York were in session in Syracuse, last week. A committee of conference between the two parties was appointed, and the proceedings were harmonious. Each party is represented on the ticket, the Liberals having the Lieutenant Governor and Prison Inspector, and the Democrats the balance of the ticket. Francis Kiernnn is the nominee for Governor. ?. ? 4 CARD FROM MR. TOMLINSON. Charleston, S. C., September 8. To the Editors of the News : Gentlemen :?On returning to the city today, my attention is called to your editorials of Friday and of yesterday, in which you refer to charges made by F. L. Cardozo and S. W. Melton against me with reference to my alleged connection with the passage of the phosphate bill; and, looking upon at least one of these gentlemen as having some character for veracity left, you may properly demand that I shall meet the charges. I had already been informed, in a private letter from Mr. Corbin, of the statements made by Mr. Cardozo and Mr. Melton, at Yorkville, and was awaiting an opportunity to notice them publicly. By your kindly interference, I have that opportunity. I have not yet read Mr. Melton's speech "delivered in Charleston, but understand from others that the statement made in that speech is substantially the same as that made at Yorkville. Mr. Cardozo is represented as saying at V/\t*lrvtiIIa {<Afp Tnmlinortn iu nn Koffni* fhnn Moses, so far as corruption goes; for if Moses did issue fraudulent pay certificates, Mr. Tomlinson told me himself that he helped to buy up the Senate to pass the phosphate bill over the Governor's veto. He told me this at the time, and I have no doubt he told me the truth." I cau only say that this statement is a bold, unblushing and unqualified falsehood. Will you tell me how I am to prove that Mr. Cardozo tells an untruth when he makes this statement? He might wi *' - much propriety, say that I had tried to bribe him to murder somebody ; one assertion would be just as reasonable and as true as the other. But if he repeats these assertions until the crack of doom, I do not see how I am to prove their untruth. I can only place my assertions and character against his, and let the public decide for themselves. I may say, however, that in his speech at Yorkville, previous to making the above statement, Mr. Cardozo said of me that "I had been his friend for some years, and was an honest and upright man." Mr. C. may think that uprightness of ^harftntpr is eonsistent with a weakness for bribing Senators. I do not. Mr. Melton is represented as saying at Yorkville that he had been told, (and would give his authority if Mr. Tomlinson asked for it,) that he (Tomlinson) had borrowed the money, or endorsed a note at the bank, to get the money which was used for the purpose of passing the phosphate bill through. This is substantially the same statement as that made by him in his Charleston speech. In reply, I have to say that there is absolutely not the shadow of truth in the statement. I am bound to believe, even against some reasons for lack of faith in his perfect veracity, that in this instance Mr. Melton thinks he has foundation for his charge, and I will be only too glad to have his authority for the assertion he has seen fit to make. Of course you do not ask me now to prove that somebody did not tell Mr. Melton that I had done the thing charged, although the language of your editorial of Friday would seem to imply that it was my duty so to do. I respectfully submit that there is no parallel between the charges made against myself and those made against Mr. Moses. It is judicially proven that there have been fraudulent issues of pay certificates?see the affidavit of Treasurer Parker in answer to Judge Willard's order, in which it is shown that 8441,000 of pay certificates, for 1872, had been redeemed at the Treasury, and that for $399,000 the Treasurer's notes had been given, to say nothing of the large amount not yet taken care 01 oy me Treasurer?and yet you seem to place the charge of Smith, Jones or Brown that I have stolen a horse or robbed a bank, in the same category with these charges which are of judicial record. In your desire to hold the scales even between the two Radical factions, I fear you lean a little to the other side. In conclusion, allow me to say, that my connection with the phosphate bill was just this: I voted for it, because I thought it for the interest of Charleston and of the State to do so. I urged the Governor not to veto it, for the same reason, and for other reasons not personal to myself, and I have as yet Been no reason to regret my action. For my stock in j the company, whicn is not 840,000, nor any- j thing near that amount, I have paid precisely what every stockholder in the company has paid, including in the list some of the most honorable business men in Charleston. Some of the wildest and most absurd things have been said with reference to the grant under | which the company with which I am connect- j ed and others associated with us are acting. | "Without betraying business matters which do j nnf-. rnnrem the nuhlic. nermit me to sav. that up to this time, the only parties that have reaped any benefit from that grant are the State of South Carolina and the hundreds of mechanics and laboring men employed by these companies. I am, very respectfully, I your obedient servant, I Reuben Tomlinson. i LOCAL AFFAIRS. * t ~ f \ NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 S. G. Hemphill, Executor?Application for Dis- ! charge. John C. Kuykendal?For One Dollar?Induce- . Ments?Put Off the Old Man?To the Farm: era?Cod Liver Oil?India Cholagogue. J. Newton Lewis?General Commission Merchant ! James A. Erwin and Mary E. McElwee, Administrators?Application for Discharge. B. F. Briggs?Candidate for Senator. 1 W. E. Rose, Proprietor?Rose's Hotel, Columbia, ! South Carolina. 1 J. R. Schorb <fc Son?A Sensible Man's Logic? More Logic?Our Partnership with "Old I Sol." . ( T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bank- < ropl'T?Application for Discharge?In the i Maimer of E. C. Cunningham, Bankrupt. 1 G. W. Melton, Presidentr?Extra Train. < R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sales?Judge of!, x xuimw n naicn, R. J. Foster?Candidate for Probate Judge. T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?First Meeting of Creditors?In the \ Matter of Charles Barkesdale, Bankrupt. A. J. Seagle and J. N. Craig, Executors?"Oak Lawn" for Sale. ADMITTED TO WEST POINT. | We are pleased to learn that our young i townsman, H. Fred. Adickes, appointed to the West Point Military Academy from the Fourth Congressional District, successfully pnsscd the preliminary examination, and has been admitted as a cadet. EXTRA TRAIN. By reference to advertisement, it will be seen that on Sunday next an extra train will be run over the King's Mountain Railroad between Yorkville and Philadelphia station. The train will be run for the accommodation of such persons as desire to attend the campmeeting at Philadelphia church, which will be in progress there at that time. The fare for the round trip is fixed at twenty-five cents. 1 lib auijivixun^uuri In another column of to-day's paper will be found a communication over the nom de plume of "York," in regard to the Solicitorship of the Sixth Judicial Circuit. We regret that any disposition should be manifested to run a candidate in opposition to Mr. Brawley, the present incumbent, as he is a faithful and efficient officer, and in the discharge of his official duties has secured the approbation of a majority of both races and both political parties. The office of Solicitor is one that should be, as far as practicable, removed from the influence of party politics; and inasmuch as the Republican party has recognized the feet, and nominated Mr. Brawley for reelection, we hope he may be reelected without opposition from any quarter. ROCK HILL ITEMS. From the Lantern of last week we gather the following items in regard to things about Rock Hill: J. M. Ivy & Co., have received a shipment of fifty tons of cotton ties Mr. John G. Steele is actively engaged in enrolling the names of persons who favor the organization of a Division of the Sons of Temperance. Cotton caterpillars have appeared on the farm of Mr. John G. Steele. Rock Hill is improving. Mr. F. H. Barber has erected a handsome residence on the lot adjoining his store. The parsonage of the Methodist Church has received a coat of paint. A new barber shop has been erected on the lot adjoining the parsonage. Mr. Gordon, the "hotel man" has put up a new sign-board. Mr. W. L. Roddy has erected a large aud convenient warehouse, is building a new wooden store-house, and contemplates building a brick store-house. The platform of the railroad depot has been considerably enlarged, to accommodate the expected cotton trade this fall. John R. London, Esq., has completed a handsome residence, and Capt. Eugene Hutchison is enlarging and improving his house. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enqnirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, Sept. 9,1872. Last Saturday was a big day in Chester. By the "powers that be," and by those that would be if they could, it had been set apart for the purpose of nominating the county officers for Chester. At an early hour in the day delegates from all sections of the county commenced assembling and forming themselves in little squads. The whole number of delegates was about fifty, of whom only three or four were white. Judge Mackey was chosen Chairman. The Tiwloo Jo o rmnrhtv m?n in Chpsfpr. Hft is U UUgV ig M lll'gMHJ HiMM mm? , the acknowledged leader of his party. The only man who dares to dispute his authority or oppose him in any of his views of policy is a certain B. G. Yocum. The Judge and Yocura are a unit on every thing except local affairs. They sometimes abuse each other most violently, but when together seem to be "hale fellows well met." It would be impossible to give any thing like a description of the scenes which were enacted in the Court House, where the Convention met. To say that it was disorderly would be no description at all. It was degrading in the extreme. Monkeys could not have behaved more'disorderly. Judge Mackey seemed to enjoy the whole thing nugely. The nominations resulted as follows : For Sheriff, B. G. Yocura; Clerk of the Court, C. C. McCoy; Judge of Probate, John Dickey; School Commissioner, Rev. Dublin Walker; Legislature, John Lilley, Prince Young and Charles Simms; Coroner, Julius Stephenson; County Commissioners, James Reid, Madison Pendergrass and Burrill Hemphill. The only white men nominated for office are Yocum, McCoy, Dickey and Reid. It is reported that every body is not satisfied, and that another Convention will be called at an early day. Hugo. 1 + Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. < LETTER FROM COLUMBIA. Columbia, S. C., Sept. 9th, 1872. Nothing of startling interest has occurred , at the capital since the execution of the two negro murderers, Harris and Lucas ; my let- j ter describing which I am sorry did not reach you in time for the last issue of the Enquirer. < The Bolters and the "Regular Rogues" promise us an entertainment at an early day, 1 in the way of a joint political discussion, such < as you had in Yorkville a short while ago, ! only upon a much larger scale. The Bolters, 1 or Orrites, have some strength among the ne- ! groes of this county; but not a great deal as < yet. The negroes as a general thing?I mean . the rank and file?seem really anxious to have < a reformation in the government, and to place i men in office of better character and capacity < than the corrupt miscreants who have ruled < and ruined the State for the past four years. ( They have made an utter failure, however, so 1 far, in their nominations. The old leaders I have, in some way, by hook or by crook, | managed still to control their conventions ; and though some changes have indeed been I i made, there is no guaranty that they are for t the better. The segments have been shifted < around now and then ; but it is virtually the ? same old Ring. I am speaking now of our county nominations. 1 . t* _m t- . As tor the nominations ior ouue uiucera uj i the regular Republican convention, the uni- ( versal opinion here among whites is, that they , s are actually worse than ever before. Moses t is undoubtedly a far inferior man to Scott, j vile wretch though the latter be. The rest of s the ticket is no improvement upon the old. i Judge Melton, who is to take Chamberlain's t place, was indeed looked upon, until recently, i as among the best of the Radicals in the ( State; but the fact that he sought and accept- < ed a position upon the Moses ticket has great- 1 ly shaken the faith of the people in him. 1 Scott and his Financial Board have swindled i the State out of millions by the issue of illegal 1 and fraudulent State bonds; but to Moses particularly, and his thievish associates in the General Assembly, is mainly due the immense profligacy in the expenditure of the public money, the excessive rate of taxation and the suffering which has been inflicted upon the Lunatic Asylum, the Penitentiary, the public Schools, &c. Here is just the difference between Scott and Moses. The former would steal, and steal his millions, too; but he would do it in a financial way. He will issue illegal bonds*get jobbing schemes through the Legislature, zheat the State in the operations of the Land Commission, and in any other mode of that kind which might offer itself. But Scott has. certainly manifested a purpose to sustain the government and to make it somewhat respectable and successful in its legitimate spheres. He would not interfere with the public institutions or divert from or rob them of the appropriations necessary for their support. Moses, on the contrary, is utterly dissolute and unreliable in every way; and if he is elected Governor, as now seems to be probable, scarcely a dollar of the enormous taxes wrenched from the pockets of our impoverished and helpless people will ever find its way to the proper and necessary support of the government. He is not only unscrupulous in the means he uses to get money, but is an unconscionable spendthrift in the use of it. Scott pays his own debts and his private credit is good. Moses pays none of his debts, no matter how much money he may have, and every unwary wretch who has credited him to any extent, has to whistle for his money. He is on the books of numbers of merchants in this city for large amounts. None of them o frnm Mm and nnw Via anil Id titU gVU ?* UV/1IWI 11V1U M1M4J mmm aaw*f > ? not buy as much as a box of paper collars here without the cash. There is only one comfort in his prospective election, and that is that the government _ can not possibly be kept up with him at the helm ; that a general crash will follow, and that in the reestablish ment of things, some arrangements may be made by which the responsible citizens of the State may secure a voice in the management of their local affairs. The prevalent opinion here is that the Bolters stand but little chance of success in the State. Moses has, at this time certainly, a very large majority of the negroes on his side, and there seems to be but little hope that the white people will give Tomlinson anything like an undivided support The Moeesites are making some very damning charges of corruption against him, and though but little confidence can be placed in any statements they make, yet if Tomlinson should be unable to clear his skirts entirely, a large number of whites will feel no interest in his election and not turn out to the polls. The Bolters have probably enough negro votes in conjunction with the full assistance of the whites, to elect their Candida's. Between fifteen and twenty thousand negroes, with the fifty thousand whites would make a safe majority. Bowen can carry twelve or thirteen thousand negroes in Charleston county; Whipper. three or four thousand in Beaufort; Orr several thousand in the up-country, and there will be a scattering negro vote in their favor in other portions of the State. Nothing has been done yet, of any account, toward organizing a Greeley movement in the State; but I have reason to know that a call will be issued in a few days for a Liberal Republican State convention to nominate electors. There is but little prospect of a brisk canvass, unless the October State elections in the North should indicate unmistakably that Greeley is to be the next President, in which case there is ground for hope that even South Carolina may be carried for the philosopher. The Conservatives of the 4th Congressional District meet here to-day to nominate a candidate in opposition to Hon. A. S. Wallace. There are no indications at present of who the caudidate will be. The name of B. F. Perry, of Greenville, has been suggested; but it is to be hoped that he will be sent to the State Senate from Greenville, for which place he has been nominated and in which he would, doubtless, be able to render more valuable service to the State, than as a member of Con- ? r. gross, even if he could be elected to the latter position, which, at best, is doubtful. Hal. Correspondence or the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM TENNESSEE. Nashville, Sept. 6, 1872. a three-cornered fight. Tennessee politics is beco'ming decidedly interesting. The movements upon the political chess-board may not be fully understood at a distance, but I feel quite sure that the readers of the Enquirer will be kept tolerably well posted. This is the third or fourth letter I have written to you from this interesting camp ground, and have thought each one would be the last, as I contemplated moving headquarters to another State, but have delayed from week to week as the complex situation became gradually unfolded. Most of the interest here is now centered in the JohnsonCheatham-Maynard campaign. Greeley and Grant are both in danger of being lost sight of in the uproar occasioned by the independent candidacy of ex-President Johnson. The Greeley party is so split about this, and each wing so violently for or against Andy, that they would give the State to Grant in order to carry it for one or the other of their favorites if it could be done in no other way. The bitterness between the Johnson party and the Cheatham party is greater than between the ? respective hosts of Grant and Greeley. This may seem strauge to outside ears, and you of South Carolina may say that the Tennesseeans are lacking in sense or patriotism, or both ; but such as are here will verify its truth. The campaign between Greeley and Grant is comparatively tame to what it is between Cheatham and Johnson. As between Greeley and Grant, there is no occasion for excessively violent feelings either way. The Democrats will #vote for Greeley because he is the Baltimore nominee and a better man than Grant; and the Radicals will vote for Grant because he is the party candidate. There is no great amount of enthusiasm upon either side. The Grant men concede the State to Greeley, and the Greeley men know they will get it, so there is not much to make a fuss about. Indeed, the Presidential campaign in Tennessee has been dull from the first. The meetings of the res pective parties have not been nmrvejs in size or in enthusiasm. It could not be otherwise when the November result is so easily read in everybody's face. Such was the lax condition of the Presidential campaign when Andrew Johnson came Jown from his mountain home and began stirring up the animals. It was known that he aspired to a seat in Congress from the State at large, and when Mr. Cheatham's eonvention nominated Mr. Cheatham, and A.ndy announced himself as an independent candidate, there was a commotion broader ind deeper than anything the ridiculously one-sided Presidential campaign had brought ought. Since the mammoth demonstration on the public square in favor of Johnson, and ;he announcement of his intentions to stump ;he State, there has been no more dullness in rennessee politics. There are now three parties in the State? ;he Johnson party, the Cheatham party, and ;he Radical party. The fight will be a three nnn mifli f Via nKnnnaa WPV mllr*Vl in ;ui lici cu uiic umii biiv v"**uvw ?? j mMwm Johnson's favor. The Radical State convention met here on :he day before yesterday. Their action has lot been as oil on the troubled waters. Rath;r has it been as a fierce north-easter upon a lea already lashed to fury and foam by con;rary winds. The Radicals had a great oplortunity to have gained something by the iplit in the enemy's ranks; but with their isual stubborn stupidity they neglected to ake advantage of it Had they possessed as nuch statesmanship in their councils as is orlinarily found in a board of common school iirectors, or a bench of justices of the peace, ;hey would have made no nominations, but eft the enemy free to tear themselves to pieces vithout outside embarrassment By doing ;his they could have gained at least a dozen