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jfepjs audi dads. Alcohol is now manufactured from ! saw-dust. Ice twenty inches thick is being taken from the Kennebec River, iu Maine. There are 40,000 Southern Methodists in Texas. Sixty-three gin-houses have been burned in Georgia since September 1st. Corn is selling in Kansas for fourteen cents a bushel and but little demand for it at that price. During the present session of Congress there have been offered no less than twentysix amendments to the constitution. Louisville boasts of a woman who can talk fourteen hundred and sixteen words a minute. An Indiana man is naming his children after the New England States. Rhode Island is the last. It weighed three pounds at birth. Twelve Indians were hung in a row in OIIHMArvflHAIIO ' IL'AaS I eutjll Lljr IUi UllVllJg uu guucpivivug beef. After having their faces washed, eleven turned out to be white men. A doctor went out for a day's sport and complained of having killed nothing. "That's j the consequence of having neglected your business," observed his wife. 1 Well posted judges estimate the tobacco crop iu Missouri, this year, at thirty thousand hogsheads. Last year it reached eighteen thousand hogsheads. Miss Sophie Barnes took a premium at a Montgomery, (Ala.) fair as "the young wo- 1 man who would make the best wife for a poor man." i Two young officers, after a mess dinner, i had very much ridiculed their General. He j sent for them and asked them if what was re- ( ported to him was true. "General," said one of them, "it is ; and we should have said much more if our wine had not failed." It is thought in Salt Lake City that Brigham Young will never pass another summer above ground. When he dies thirty-sev- i en widows will mourn his loss, and one hun- ' dred aud seveuteen children will be father- 1 less. They have compulsory education in Texas. The law requires that all persons under the age of fifteen shall attend school. A married lady in Houston, who has not yet reached the age that would entitle her to ex- ! emption, attends school regularly and carries her baby with her. The Great Eastern Circus was lately sold at Selma, Alabama. The elephant was bought for 810,000. Six bay horses.brought 83400. The den containing the lioness and cubs, 86085. The Bengal tiger and leoapards, 86000. The buffaloes 8400 each. The ring h<#ses sold at from 8500 to 81000 each. ( There will be four eclipses this year? two of the sun and two of the moon. The only one the people of this country are interested in will be a total eclipse of the moon, { visible for a few moments only, and which is predicted to come off the 12th of May, at 4:15 A. M. The other day, Jenkins announced the price of tickets, in an advertisement of his 1 coming lecture, as follows: "Tickets, 50 cents; children supplied at the same rate." During the afternoon he received orders for 1 three and a pair of twins. He is now trying 1 to buy out an orphan asylum. < In Indiana they are trying to remedy < the nuisance of the plea of insanity in crimi- i nal cases. A bill before the Legislature of that State provides that whenever an indicted | person is found not guilty by reason of his temporary insanity, the court shall send him to a lunatic asylum for a term of years proportionate to his crime. Very few people kuow that the Chief of the Cherokees is a graduate of Princeton College and a man of culture; that the Cherokee nation has a society organized on the irnuiei or mouern civilization, witn newspapers, schools, court houses and the like, or that the highest prizes for cotton were won at the St. Louis Fair by the Chickasaws. The annual production of cotton seed ! in the Valley of the Mississippi is not less than 650,000 tons, worth, at the present market price, $10,500,000. The entire cotton seed product of the South is worth, in its crude state, nearly ?24,000,000. The six cotton seed oil factories in New Orleans are producing nearly 11,000 gallons of oil per day. Could the entire crop of cotton be converted into yarns at the South, and shipped abroad in that form, it would add one hundred and fifty millions of dollars annually to the wealth of this portion of the United States. Foreign mills would adapt their machinery to working up the yarns instead of the raw cotton. If but one-quarter of the crop could be thus converted it would be a great blessing to this country, and enable numbers of women and children who are now dependent on others to support themselves. There are in the possession of the chemist of the Agricultural Department some very beautiful specimens of rock salt, which are proven by chemical analysis to be pure chloride of sodium, and are so transparent that fine print may be read through cubes more than an inch thick. They were taken from a mountain of rock salt in the region of the Colorado, in Arizona, 500 feet high and 15 miles long. The width of the stratum is not known, but it has been penetrated to a distance of three miles through a cave. Advices to the Agricultural Department state that in Alameda county, California, thousands of bushels of wheat still remain on the field where it was thrashed, there being no place to store it. Granaries and warei /? n . j a1 _. _ _i i ir nouses are iuu, ana mere are not one-nan ships enough to take the surplus away. There are needed in San Francisco bay one hundred more ship3 than there are to export grain. The high prices of labor, sacks, and freights have about discouraged the farmers, so that they are at present dfling but little toward putting in another crop. An Atlanta wife, whose patience had been sorely tried by the continued drunkenness of her husband, an employ6 of one of the railroad shops, went out on her muscle last Saturday. Before she returned she had pounded the proprietor of a whisky shop for selling her husband liquor, slightly pummelled the foreman of the railroad shop for paying her husband his earnings while in a state of intoxication, returning home in triumph with her hand in the collar of her intoxicated lord. This is certainly a more vigorous warfare than any of our temperance societies have introduced, and we are not so sure but vastly more effectual in certain cases. Central Park, in New York, presented a lively scene on Sunday. It is estimated that fifty thousand persons visited the Park. Ten thousand skaters were on the lakes, and five thousand sleighs dashed around the snowcovered roads, and a large number of spectators were there enjoying the sport, comfortably mufHed for the occasion. The New York papers describe the scene, not only in the Park but in Harlem lane, on the Fifth avenue and other portions of the city, as enlivening and [ brilliant as the city ever wore, notwithstand- i ing the solemn character of the day. The ! price of a team ran up as high as forty dollars,! and many were disappointed offering that' sutn. The idea of compulsory education is , entertained in some of the States. The right j to make this demand is based on the alleged 1, fact that the State is but an enlarged family, j, This was the theory of the Romans. It is needless to say that it prevailed in more an- j1 cient times. First came the family, then the tribes, then the State, then the confederation of these for mutual defence. If the govern-' ment has the right to take a man's time and 1 make a soldier of him, that the foreign rela-1 tions of the country may be preserved, it has t so much more right to protect itself against j ignorance and crime, to require of its citizens that they should bring up their children as intelligent and law-abiding members of socio ty. To do this it is necessary to educate them, to eradicate?forcibly, if necessary?the seeds of evil and crime that ignorance conceals, and to lessen the expense that the community bears in building poor-houses, jails, penitentiaries and houses of reformation. For every school house built, and for every scholar compelled to enter it, there is a prospective diminution of the taxes for the prevention of crime. m ^orhriUc inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING. JAN. 9, 1873. 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 JOB PRINTING. Having determined to devote more attention hereafter to job printing than we have done in the past, we would inform the public that our office is now well supplied with new type of the latest styles, and the best machinery in use; and with a choice stock of inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to execute as good work as can be done anywhere in the United States. Orders for Ball Tickets, I Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, j Labels, Bonds and Coupons, I Law Blanks, Bill Heads, I Law Briefs, Business Cards, i Letter Circulars,Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads Checks, Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, Note Headings, Drafts and Notes, (Programmes, Envelopes, Policies, Fire & Life Ins., Election Tickets, IShinplasters, Festival Tickets, I Wedding Cards, will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction as to quality of work, guaranteed in every instance. Particular attention given to fine work in colors. BOOK NOTICES. The following are some of the books recently published by the National Publishing ^ompany, Atlanta, Ga. "Polyglot Family Bible," "History of the Bible," "Secrets of the Convent and Confessional," and "Laws of Business." Each and all of these books are valuable in every family. The Polyglot Bible is perhaps the most complete thing of the kind that has been published. It is printed on fine white paper from large and clear type, and is embellished with over 450 fine Scripture illustrations. It contains also a complete concordance ; one hundred thousand marginal references ; history of all existing religious denominations ; tables of weights, measures and coins; a complete Bible dictionary by Wm. Smith, LL. D., together with a vast amount of other useful information condensed from reliable sources. This Polyglot Bible is a library within itself. It contains nearly 1200 pages. The Bible history needs no more to be said in its favor, than that it is from the pen of the learned William Smith, LL. D., Classical Examiner iu the University of London. It is a royal octavo volume of over 1100 pages, . 1 o i - x 1 ; i : -i 1 priuieu irora piain new type, auu is apieuuiuiy embellished with engravings. It contains, besides, a number of useful maps. The "Secrets of the Convent and Confessional" is from the pen of Mrs. Julia McNair Wright. It is designed to show the influence and workings of Papacy. It is a thrilling and fascinating narrative. Young people will read it with interest and profit. The book contain 622 pages, is well printed and highly embellished with engravings. "Laws of Business" is the title of another book published by the same company. In this book there are forms and directions for all kinds of business transactions. The work is gotten up by Theophilus Parsons, LL. D., Professor of law in Harvard University. The authority is good and the work is designed for the all States in the Union. All of the above books are sold by subscription and in no other way. They can be obtained from no one but an authorized agent. For this county, Mr. A. J. Matthews is the authorized agent. OUR DRAWBACKS. It is evident that the people of South Carolina are not in as prosperous a condition as they might be. Soil, climate and everything of this kind is favorable in South Caroliua. Especially is this true of the upper and middle sections of the State. The soil and climate of these sections are adapted to the production of, at least, abundant crops of infinite variety. Almost everything that i3 planted yields an abundant harvest in these sections of the State. Why is it, then, that there is not a greater degree of prosperity ? It cannot truthfully be said that the soil is so poor and the climate so bad that prosperity is driven away. No. This is not the reason ; but there are many causes which are apparent to auy nhservant. num. We mipht mention as one * - o ? of the causes of want of prosperity, the State government. The people are taxed, not absolutely too high, but they are taxed for comparatively nothing. If the people were taxed to develop the resources of the State, the thing would be different. At present they are taxed to fatten those who prowl around the State in her distracted condition. This is a drawback. To be truly prosperous we need a good government properly administered. Another serious drawback with which we have to contend, is the sparseness of inhabitants. Compared with many other sections of the United States, South Carolina may be regarded as a new country. The population of Massachusetts is one hundred and thirty-seven to the square mile?that of South Carolina is only twenty-three. In every natural feature, South Carolina is better adapted to'support one hundred and thirty-seven inhabitants to the square mile than Massachusetts is. The soil of South Carolina i3 richer, and the climate more genial than that of Massachusetts. The soil of Scotland, except in some valleys and along the coast, is barren, and yet the population of Scotland is more than ninetyfive to the square mile?more than four times that of South Carolina ! The population of England is more than three hundred and twenty-six to the square mile. Naturally, the soil of England is not fertile. Much of it is poor. It was once named Albion, on account of its chalk hills. In England and Scotland there is a necessity for the exercise of skill in the cultivation of the soil and for husbanding its products. In South Carolina no such necessity exists, and the consequence is that the soil is poorly cultivated and its products lavishly wasted. Necessity has proved England to be the mother of industry and invention. In England all the land is cultivated, and cultivated well. In South Carolina, only a small portion is cultivated, and that small portion but poorly cultivated. Another drawback against which we have to contend is our want of manufactories. It is distressing to think, not only of the inconveniences, but of the actual losses, to which we are subjected on account of this want. Our soil is full of rich ores ; our forests abound with choice timber, and our cotton clothes tht world; but nothing is manufactured by ourselves. Wc are poor because we will not use the means which nature has placed before us to make us rich. We are dependent because we will not use the facilities which we possess to make us independent. These two things?the sparseness of population and the want of manufactories? are sufficient of thefbselves to keep us as a comparatively poor people indefinitely. As an evidence of the existence of these and other serious drawbacks, we need only mention the low price at which land rates all it _ .1. i. _ i' r\ 1: 'Pi over me ouue 01 ooiuu viiruimu. muc 10 not a plantation in the State that will not, provided it is well cultivated, pay for itself in a few years, and pay the cultivator high wages. It is a poor acre of land that will not, if properly cultivated, bring one hundred and twenty-five pounds of liut cotton. Suppose the laborer gets two-thirds for cultivating, and the owner of the land one-third. At the present price of cotton this would he nearly nine dollars, which we suppose is more than an average price of land in the State. It is evident if there was sufficient labor to cultivate all the land, and manufactories enough to work up the raw material, the price of land would increase. There would be more made, and more of what is made would remain to enrich the State. THE EI)UCAll0 VoF THE PEOPLE. There are some subjects upon which no man could say or write anything new. The subject which we have placed at the head of this article may be regarded as belonging to this class. The changes, however, which have within the last ten years taken place in South Carolina, and in all the southern States, places the subject of education in a new light. It is to education under this new aspect of things, particularly, that we desire to call attention. Education, in its full import, has reference to the physical, mental and moral nature of man. There are few things that man can accomplish without education. He has to be educated to work, think and feel. All that nature has bestowed upon him is the aim? MA 1M 1 , IT* Uftft VtAnf AIPA/1 11 *%An piu UtiJJUUUibjr, natuic uas UCCJLUWCU upu him a muscular and nervous system, a mental organism and moral endowments. Without education, these benefices add nothing to his comfort. Hence, in the proper acceptation of the word, that individual only is fully educated whose physical, mental and moral nature is developed and strengthened. Popularly, education embraces nothing more than mental training. The man who puts his son in a shop that he may learn a mechanical trade, gives his son an education, in the event the son becomes an expert workman. The father who sends his son to a literary institution, that he may acquire a knowledge of the arts and sciences, gives his son an education, provided the sou is studious and improves his opportunities. In the latter case, the boy gets a theoretical education ; in the former, a practical. In the former case he learns without knowing anything about the philosophy; in the latter case he learns how to do certain things without being able to do them. In the one case the muscles only are educated; in the other ouly the mind. In either case the boy is only half educated, and if his moral nature is neglected he is only one third educated. It is clear that perfect development cannot exist if such a system of education prevails to any considerable extent. The change of circumstances to which we referred at the outset, is simply this. Heretofore there existed by force of cousequences, two classes of citizens. The one class received a mental education; but very little physical training. The other class was trained to use moclinnipfll nrwl norriVnlfnrnl imnlpmpnts. hilt. ? "fc>-? I J received very little mental education. The one class was traiued to do all the manual labor, and the other class was educated to do all the thinking. As things once existed, the evil consequences of such an imperfect system of education were not so evident, nor were the evil consequences so great as they are at present. Then there were checks and balances which do not now obtain. It is evident, we think, that the prosperity of our country depends upon the thorough education of the masses. Not only so, but the prosperity of our civilization depends upon the same thing. In fact, if majorities rule, we can scarcely be called a civilized people. The majority of our citizens have muscular training but no mental education; a majority of the minority have mental but no muscular training. It does seem that with such citizens, or rather with citizens so educated, the resources of our country never can be fully developed. The rule in political economy, is simply this: What legitimately advances the interest of one member of a community, advances the interest of every member; and what is detrimental to one member of a community is injurious to the whole community. We might then make the comprehensive statement that since a thorough education is of great advantage to single individuals, the thorough education of the masses would be an incalculable blessing to the whole country. This subject might be carried to an almost indefinite length, and grave deductions might be made, which affect alike the present and future of our country. All we aim at, however, is to be suggestive. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Col. James Overton Lewis, of Pickens county, died last week. J ?Gen. D. B. Sackett, Inspector-General of j the United States Army, is in Columbia. | ?The Legislature reassembled on Tuesday ; last. j ?The National Bank of Chester has de! clared a semi-annual dividend of six per cent., i payable on and after Monday last. ! ? The State Grange of the Patrons of Hus1 bandrv. will convene in Columbia on Wed ; nesday next, the 15th instant, i ? In every part of the State, the people are ' paying their taxes promptly and with less 1 grumbling than usual. { ?Judge T. J. Mackey has purchased a I house in Winnsboro, and proposes to make that town his home after next April, i ? Capt. Thos. H. Wade, one of Columbia's i oldest citizens, died in that city on Saturday ' last at the age of 77 years. I ?Congressman R. B. Elliott and James D. Tradewell, Esq., have formed a law-partnership in Columbia. ? E.Cannon, the postmaster at Spartanburg has runaway. It is rumored that he has been appropriating money belonging to the government. j ? Governor Moses has pardoned Thomas II. Doyle, of Spartanburg, convicted at the fall term of the Court for said county, and sentenced to imprisonment for two years in the South Carolina Penitentiary. : ?Col. A. B. Springs, of York county, has sent forty-four dollars to the Columbia Or- j phan Home, which he has recently collected in his immediate neighborhood. ? Superintendent Stolbrand has organized a school in the State Penitentiary. About j two hours each day are devoted by the con-: victs to study and recitations. ' ? The County Commissioners of Union havj iug refused to approve the official bond of j George E. Tuxbcrry, County Treasurer, it has been approved by the Attorney-General, j ? Mr. B. W. Everson, who has for upwards ' i of two years, acted as "chief of staff" and ; "local" of the Columbia Union, has severed his connection with that paper. He is sue- j ceeded by Mr. B. F. Jackson. i r\ . /~i n1.. I I ? j. ne counsel 01 uapuiin ueurgu nipper, j | charged with killing Capt. John Caldwell, in j j Columbia, some time ago, have given notice j that when the case is called for trial, applica- j | tion will be made for a change of venue on ! j the ground that he cannot have an impartial' ! trial in Columbia: It is thought the trial will be had in Edgefield. ? Robert S. Hughes, of Wilmington, N. C., a wire tender in the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company, was recently found dead on the line of the Wilmington, Augusta and Columbia Railroad. Coroner Jackson, of Marion, held an inquest over the remains, and the verdict of the jury was that the deceased was murdered by some person or persons unknown. ? The Columbia Union of Monday says: "Marshal Wallace reports that the stories in circulation concerning the failing health of the ku-klux prisoners confined at Albany Peuitentiary are not true in the least. All those from this State enjoy excellent health. Those sentenced at the recent term of court reached their destination after a tempestuous voyage on the James Adger." ? The Chester Reporter of last week says that at the approaching term of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for that county, Judge Mackey will dispose of all the cases in the Sessions, and of such cases in the Common Pleas as do not require the intervention of a jury ; and that no cases on the pivil rhIp f>f the ennrt. rennirincr a itirv will he w. - 1" D J J taken up unless by consent of the counsel on both sides. ? The South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (colored) will convene in Greenville, January loth. Bishop E. R. Ames will preside. The South Carolina Railroad will sell tickets to go and return for one fare from the 12th to the 15th instant. The Greenville Railroad will return all free who pay full fare in going. The Charlotte & Columbia and Spartanburg and Union Railroads will pass the members and delegates at half fare. ' + NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A little daughter of John Phifer, of Cleveland county, was accidentally killed while playing at school one day last week. ? Messrs. Seagle & Smith, practical printers, propose to issue a paper in Lincolnton, at an early day, bearing the title of the States Union. ? The State Treasurer, on Friday last, paid to William Wilson, of Robeson county, the man who killed Andrew Strong, the sum of 85000, the reward offered by the State for his capture or death. ? It is rumored that a gentleman named Jay, a member of the Society of Friends, is to be appointed by Gov. Caldwell, Superintendent of Public Instruction, vice Rev. Jas. Reid, deceased, Superintendent elect. ? T. M. Vestal, who was a member of the Legislature of 1868 from Yadkin county, froze to death the night before Christmas. He was found leaning against a tree, and life extinct. ? Rev. Brantly York was presented with a rmlrl morlnl hv tVin atndpnts of RiifHn-Badper 6~.v. ... "J D ? Institute, on the occasion of his leaving; that school to take the chair of logic and rhetoric at Riltherford College. ? A boiler explosion occurred in the spoke and handle factory at Charlotte on Tuesday afternoon of last week, from the effects of which four persons who were scalded have since died, and two others were seriously injured. As is too frequently the case in the southern States, the engine was in charge of a negro who did not understand the proper management of it. ? In noticing the fact that the first house ever erected iu Charlotte?it having been built nearly one huudred years ago?has just been torn down, the Observer says: Only nine buildings are now standing in Charlotte which were erected previous to 1825, and only eight families are now living in the same houses iu which they dwelt in 1840. Out of the population which inhabited the town in 1840, only 36 are now residing there. ? John S. Means, junior, was arrested in Charlotte ou Saturday of last week, charged with killing a negro named Frank Kerr. The Observer gives the following particulars of the affair: "It seems from the evidence in this case that Mr. Means and the negro met on the Bealties' Ford road, about 5} miles from Charlotte last Tuesday, when they became involved in difficulty, over a gun which the negro carried, Mr. Means being on horseback and the negro in a wagon. Mr. Means attempted to wrench the gun from the negro's hands, when, after a short scuffle, he released his hold and the negro losing his balance fell out of the wagon, one of the wheels passing over his body. He lived about six hours after the fall. Mr. Means then rode on to town, not knowing that the negro was dead until he was arrested Saturday, as before stated. There seems to be no doubt that the death of the negro was the result of an unfortunate accident, and hence an examination before a Magistrate was not deemed necessary." A Sharper in Fairfield. A correspondent of the Charleston Neivs, writing from Fairfield, gives the following account of the manner in which several planters along the line of the Spartani burg and Union railroad were recently vic: timized by a sharper, who, they thought, ! was paying a fine price for their cotton. . Their experience will doubtless prove a warni ing to others. The correspondent says: We ; have lately had some of the arts of a regular Down-East sharper practiced upon us by a ; fellow styling himself Brooks. He first made ! | very liberal offers for all cotton along the t line of the Spartanburg and Union Railroad, ! and had a good many bales delivered at the j ; different depots. On Saturday, 21st ult., he ! | passed down the road, telling the parties ofj ; whom he had purchased the cotton that he ; 1 did not have money enough to pay for it, but j would return on the Monday following to ; settle with them, and to save them all trouble aud responsibility they must leave the j cotton in the depot, and allow him to take a railroad receipt for it, which they unwarily , ' did. After waiting impatiently for a week, J they found, to their great disgust that the rascal had drawn money on his receipts in j I Columbia, and put out for parts unknown. | LOCAL AFFAIRS. I , i i NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 'j J Carroll, Clark A Co.?The Tycoon Proclamation? i ( When I Sell my Cotton. T. M. Dobson <ft Co.?Remember February lat? i 25 per cent?Umbrellas?At Cost?Pistols? Over-Coats?Cheese?Just Arrived?Great' Reduction in Prices?Shawls?Blankets?50 :1 Cents per Dozen?Ready-Made Clothing? j Claw Hammers?Bellows?No Goods Taken ; " Back?Orders?Table Covers. 11 W. II. it J. P. Herndon?Many Thanks?Super- i Phosphate?Molasses?Hard ware-Buck- j wheat Flour?Ley?Starch?Leather. j < W. I. Olawson, Register?In Bankruptcy?Ex- I ( Parto B. T. Wheeler and A. E. Hutchinson, j1 In Re. R. M. Kerr A W. L. Roach. j i R. II. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sales. < Jeffervs Metts, Agents?Fertilizers. 0. A. king?To School Trustees. ; < McLtire ?fe McLuro, Plaintiff's Attorneys?To ' ( Obediah M. Cornwell, Defendant. II. S. Kimbrell, Administrator?Application for ' , Discharge. : J. B. Stokes, Administrator?Notice to Creditors j and Debtors. . B. T. Wheeler?Notice. i PARDONED. ( A rl'nrt.. ?-*-? \\f naU I n/vh\tt An U13JJUIUI1 I1UIU TI IUIIIIIgl>l.ill| KUKVU U11 ( Saturday last, says that the President has 1 pardoned David Ramseur and Galbraith ( Hambright, convicted of ku-klux offences. Hambright belongs to York county and Ramseur to Cleveland county, N. C. UODEY'S LADY'S BOOK. This is the oldest and the best Lady's Mag- I azine published, and a word of special com- 1 mendation in its favor would be quite super- ' fluous. The Book enters upon the forty-third year of its publication with the January ' number. The rates at which we club the Lady's Book and the Enquirer can be seen i in our prospectus on the fourth page. All i subscribers to the Lady's Book will receive a chromo premium. PERSONAL. We were pleased to receive a call yesterday from Mr. J. Newton Lewis, formerly of this place, but who is now in business as general commission merchant in Baltimore. Mr. Lewis is well known for his integrity and the upright character of his transactions, and we have no hesitation in recommending his house, (Lewis & Snow,) to all who may need the services of a commission merchant in Baltimore. Before returning to Baltimore, Mr. Lewis will pay his respects to the business men in various sections of the State. NEWSPAPER CHANGE. The Rock Hill Lantern has passed into the editorial charge of Col. C'adwallader Jones, who, in the last issue salutes his readers as follows: We assume to-day the editorial management of the Lantern, and will endeavor to make it an instructive and interesting paper i to our readers. There will he no change in 1 the principles of this journal. To promote the general welfare shall be our highest aim ; in contributing to this object we shaii never play the role of the partisan, but will support all measures, from whatever quarter they may come, tending to this end. BANKRUPTCY SALES. On Friday last Messrs. Thomson & Jefferys, Assignees, sold at public auction the following property in Rock Hill belonging to the estate i of Kerr & Roach, bankrupts : Dwelling house and lot, $2625; the Duff store-house lot, $1920; the office lot, $800; all of which was bought by A. E. Hutchinson. A tract of land, containing 143 J acres, sold for $15.25 per acre; and another tract containing 21J acres, brought $32.56 per acre, Mrs. Ann White being the purchaser. On Monday last, the assignees sold in Yorkville the interest of the same bankrupts in the Lowry tract of land near this place, which was bought by J. T. Lowry for $200 ; and the "Porter house and lot," which was bought by A. E. Hutchinson, for $198. i MASONIC OFFICERS. The following brethren have been installed as officers of Philanthropic Lodge, No. 78, A. F. M., at Yorkville, and Rock Hill Lodge No. Ill, at Rock Hill, for the present Masonic year: Philanthropic Lodge, No. 78.?J. S. R. Thomson, )V. M.; J. C. Kuykendal, S. W.; Dr. W. M. Walker, J. W; J. F. Wallace, S. D.; Col. W. B. Allison, J. D.; P. B. Darwin, Treasurer; Thomas. S. Jefferys, Secreta- , ry; A. Cody, Tiler. Rock Hill Lodge, No. 111.?A. E. Hutchinson, W. M.; S. M. Fewell, S. W; D. C. Williams, J. W.; J. C. H. Duff, Treasurer; D. D. Moore, Secretary; A. H. White, S. D.; S. A. Fewell, J. D.; K. W. Workman and James F. Reid, Stewards; 8. G. Keistler, Ti ler. TRANSFERS OF'REAL ESTATE. The following transfers of real estate have been reported to the County Auditor since the 2nd instant: E. M. Law, trustee, to J. W. P. Hope. A tract of 40 acres of land in York township. Consideration $550. John D. Craig to Robert R. McCorkle. A tract of 97 acres of land in York township. Consideration $970. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to Miss Ann E. Wylie. A tract of 322 acres of land in Bethesda township. Consideration $40. H. H. "Watson to Wra. M. McCarter. A tract of 46 acres of land in King's Mountain township. Consideration $125. J. B. Moore to H. L. Cashion. A tract of 509 acres of land in Cherokee township, j Consideration $65. Ann White, et al. to Intendent and Wardens of Rock Hill. A lot of 6 acres of land for cemetery. Consideration $150. KING'S MOUNTAIN MILITARY SCHOOL. With the opening of the term of 1873, on the 1st of February, this institution enters upon its eighth annual session since the war. We deem it hot improper at this time, to call the attention of our readers and the public generally to some of the advantages which it possesses. In the present condition of our State, that system of education is best which is most practical, and which most thoroughly and most speedily prepares our youth for the active duties of life. Such a system should combine such portions of a higher academic course as are calculated to expand the intellectual faculties, and generate a taste for letters, with those studies which will be of practical and immediate value to the student when he leaves the halls of learning to climb, perhaps unaided, the rugged steeps of real life. HPUrt tiTA olamonfa oKaro ftllllflpfl t.n flffi 111C inu WbUIVUVO WU^ f V Ml Mwvva mT ? ? happily and successfully blended in the system of instruction and discipline adopted at the institution whose claims we are now presenting. Its object, as stated in he circular, is i "to afford a sound business education, and a thorough preparation for colleges and universities, under a system of discipline calcu- ' lated to instill a high sense of duty, and hab- i its of punctuality and orderand if these ends are attained, the principal of the school and j i his able assistants will have much cause for i: pride and self-congratulation. After a close 1 examination of the course of study, we feel fully assured that it is admirably adapted for i the great object in view. Starting the stu- 1 dent in the rudimental branches, it carries i him by easy, yet perceptibly progressive, ad- j vances through many of the higher depart- i ments of education. The course of instruc- j j tion, arranged in five annual classes, may be 1 said to consist of as many distinct cycles, all 11 having a common relatiou and dependence, pet so independent as to constitute each a complete course of itself, and to enable the 2adet, without causing a break in the pursuit of any of his studies, to leave the school and enter an institution of a higher grade, such as the State University, the Washington and Lee University, or the Virginia Military Institute. The recent extension of the course, by the addition of oue annual class, raises the standard of the school considerably, and presents every facility for obtaining an education essentially collegiate, while the preparatory feature remuins iutact. An able instructor of German will soon be added to the faculty, which will still further increase the advantages of the course of study. The discipline of the school, we believe from what we know of its workings, to be well calculated to accomplish the end for which it is designed, namely, "the development of habits of neatness, promptness and systematic study." This last is a most important consideration in every system of education. It was once said by a teacher of long experience and distinguished talent, that the main object of a young person's education is, not so much to study, as to learn hoxo to study, the actual study not commencing till he eDters upon the active duties and responsibilities of life. In this there is much truth, and that plan of instruction is most desirable which is best calculated to attain the great object in view. At the King's Mountain Military School, the cadet is constantly taught the advantage and the necessity of systematic arrangement in all that is required of him, whether intellectual labor or the performance of any other of the duties imposed upon him. The discipline, though efficient, is by no means severe; the penalties being rather the deprivation of privileges than the infliction of actual punishment. By means of monthly reports and similar expedients, the influence of parents is happily brought to the aid of the teachers' authority, the two going far to bring about that esprit de corps which is so fruitful of good, both to the institution at large and to the individuals composing it. Ofthe faculty we need not say much; enough, that they are all gentlemen of native ability and high attainments in their respective departments, having made them each a specialty. The school is unsurpassed for healthfulness of location and agreeable surroundings, while the moral atmosphere is equally good. Yorkville is easy of approach from all points in the State, and the recently established telegraph line affords ready communication in all directions. We trust that the institution, whose just merits we have thus attempted to show, will always command a bounteous share of the public patronage. SALES DAY. Monday last being sales-day, a large number of Dersons was attracted to town?the at ! tendance being larger than on any previous 3ales-day for several months. By virtue of an order from the Judge of Probate, the Sheriff sold the tract of land of Isis Bates, deceased, for partition, which brought the following prices: Tract No. 1, 49 acres, bought by Henry Duncan, for 8600; tract No. .2, 94 acres, bought by Henry McFadden, for 8410; tract No. 3, 87 acres, and tract No. 4, 60J acres, bought by James Nelson, for 8535 and 8530 respectively. The Sheriff sold under execution the following tracts of land: One tract levied on as the property of Su3auah Gaston, bought by Elias Inman, for 8150. William Clinton's interest in a tract of land, bought by W. I. C'lawson, for 851. E. M. Kirkpatrick's interest (being twothirds) in the grist mill and tract of land situated on Catawba river, known as the"Schooley and Harris Mill," bought by J. W. Harris, for 81025. Dr. A. P. Wylie's interest in a tract of land containing 322 acres on the York and Chester boundary line, bought by Miss Ann E. Wylie at a nominal bid of 840. POLITICAL ITEMS. ? A formal letter of Secretary Boutwell announcing himself as a candidate for the U. S. Senate, to succeed Mr. Sumner, from Massachusetts, has just been published. The letter is addressed by name to several members of the Legislature, and is direct to the point? expressing perfect willingness to accept the position. ? The Washington Chronicle says ij is con templated by the President to issue an order about the 4th of March, prohibiting Federal officers from filling State offices and interfering officiously in State elections. The acceptance of a candidacy for a State office, or the holding of such office, (especially a position in the Legislature of a State,) will be deemed by him a cause for removal from Federal office. ? It is twenty-one years since the constitution of Indiana was adopted. It forbids negroes or mulattoes to enter the State, and prescribes a punishment for any one who employs them or gives them any inducement to remain in the State. Its terms prevent the passage of any adequate election or registration laws, and under its provisions the Judges of the State are becoming the mere creatures of party. To remedy these evils a constitutional convention is asked. ? One of the first matters to come before the Senate will be the House resolution averse to the erasure of mention of battles of the late war from the regimental colors. It is known that Mr. Sumner has spent considerable time and research in preparing an elaborate address on the whole subject involved, and although he has not intimated to any one what he shall do, it is extremely probable that he will not consent to forego the opportunity of what he regards as a vindication of his position before the country, particularly after the formal condemnation of his course by the Legislature of his own State. Mr. Sumner introduced a similar resolution in the Senate in the year 1862, while the war was raging. ? The next House of Representatives, so far as chosen, is composed as follows: Republicans, 191; Democrats, 94. The full House will consist of 292 members; a two-thirds vote will require 195 members, and the Kepublicans, by obtaining four of the seven members from Connecticut and New Hampshire, at their elections in the spring, will secure it. There will be seven colored members?Walls, of Florida; Lynch, of Mississippi; Rainey, Ransier, Cain and Elliott, of South Carolina, and Rapier, of Alabama. One democratic member, General Ambrose R. Wright, of Georgia, has died since the election. ? The evidence in the case of Senator Patterson, of South Carolina, on the charge of bribery, has been, it is stated, put in shape, and is being printed for use, if necessary, at Washington. It is rumored that Congressman Elliott will push proceedings for investigation there. Several influential papers of the North seem to regard Patterson's election as a fishy transaction. The Washington Chronicle, the organ of the administration, lias never expressed satisfaction at the result, j and the Cincinnati Commercial hopes that the ' Senate will vindicate its own character by exI posing that of Patterson. It wants the charge j of bribery thoroughly examined. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. I The Situation in Louisiana. Our latest advices from New Orleans are to Sunday last Much excitement had prevailed in the city for the past few days, but no violence had occurred. Gen. Emory has placed his troops at various points in the * city for the purpose of preserving the peace. He has been instructed by the President not to interfere with a peaceable meeting of the \\T .L T ?:il yy anuutu JLrcgiaiatui c, aim niaiicio n m uu held in abeyance until a judicial investigation can be had. Congress. Congress reassembled on Monday. In the House several bills were presented and referred. A motion to commence suit against the Credit Mobilier for five and three-eighths millions failed for want of a full quorum vote, notwithstanding a quorum was present. A message from the President vetoing a bill to remit the duties on spirits desfroyed in bond was presented, read and laid on the table. In the Senate, Sherman offered a resolution instructing the committee on privileges and elections to enquire into the contest in Louisiana and Arkansas as to the result of the late election, which was laid over to next day. The Mnrderer of Fisk Convicted. The second trial of Stokes, the murderer of James Fisk, in New York, has ended , in the conviction of the prisoner. After notice by counsel of an exception to the Judge's rulings, Stokes was asked if he bad any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. In reply, Stokes said that he had not intentionally violated any law, and that the testimony on which he was convicted was manufactured. Judere Boardman. then in a feeline address. in which he alluded to the prisoner's youth and social surroundings, sentenced the prisoner to be hanged on Friday the 28th of February next Crime in New York. The Tribune makes up a ghastly record of crime and casualty in the city of New York during the year 1872. There were 57 homicides, or more than one a week; 735 accidental deaths, and 206 bodies found floating in the rivers and harbor. The number of homicides exceeds that of 1871 by 15, and the list of suicides is also larger, including 32 more names than were on the record of the previous year. The deaths from accidental causes have fallen off largely, though there were no Westfleld explosions or similar catastrophes. The bodies of 122 infants were found in the streets and rivers. Notwithstanding the prevalence of crime in the city, the Tribune is painfully silent on the subject of hemp. A Female Martyr. Miss Susan B. Anthony has chosen to make a martyr of herself for the benefit of woman suffrage, and has gone to jail, rather than give bail in a prosecution for illegal voting at the last election in Rochester, N. Y. Miss Susan is a plucky female, and knows exactly what she is about She is suffering for a great principle, and though she could easily have given any amount of bail for her appearance to answer for the offence, yet that would not have been in her style, as being entirely too lame and devoid of sufficient ex citeraent to give eclat to the occasion, the can now indite flaming epistles from the dreary abode of a dungeon, and say to the country, behold your boasted liberty and equal rights! The ignorant slaves are enfranchised, but lovely woman is imprisoned for daring to exercise the right of a freeman. If she fails thus to excite enthusiasm aud fire the female heart, then we think the sex less susceptible than they are generally accredited. Cariosity of Crime. Four men, all of them whites, are to be executed at Burnet, Texas, on the 15th instant, for the crime of murder. They are all sentenced for the murder of a man named Benjamin McKeever, and their case, taken in all its details, is one of the most interesting in the annals of criminal trials. Their names are Benjamin Shelby, Arthur Shelby, Ball Woods, and William Smith, and the evidence against them, though conclusive, was entirely circumstantial. McKeever was shot from his horse at night near the residence of the Shelby's, his throat then out, and his body carried on horseback three miles and thrown into a cave. A large rock was placed on the bloody 8pot where his throat was cut, but this precaution, instead of concealing the crime, led to the arrest of the criminals. The keen eye of a frontiersman saw that the rock had been recently placed there; so it was removed, and indications of blood found. A closer search resulted in the further finding of a paper-wadding that had been fired from a shot-gun. On examining a gun of Benjamin Shelby's, paper-wadding was likewise found in it, and yet another wadding that had been evidently fired from a shot-gun like the first was found under Shelby's doorstep. * In his house was found a copy of the Chimney Comer, and by comparison it was ascertained that the three pieces of gun-wadding had been obtained from that paper. There were several other circumstances pointing strongly to the accused men as the murderers; therefore the jury that tried them did not hesitate to find them guilty of murder in the first degree. The verdict is generally approved by the citizens of Burnet county, and the latest advices from there indicate that there will probably be no interference by superior courts or the Governor to prevent the decreed quadruple execution. The National Railroad Scheme. Mr. Shellabarger, of Ohio, chairman of the House Committee on Commerce, has recently written an elaborate letter taking advanced ground in favor of Government supervision over the railroads of the country. Mr. Shellabarger announces his intention to press to a vote his bill regulating the tariff rates of railways, and there seems to be no doubt whatever that he will have powerful support in both Houses. On this subject the Wash i i ^ ii r? a lngton correspondent 01 me Daiumore oun says: "It is admitted in Washington, that if the ! principle is settled that the railways of the j country shall come under the control of Con; gress, not only will their tariff rates be regu\ lated, but that the minutiae of their whole in' terior arrangements will be dictated from this 1 city. The cry from the West for cheap trans! portation is almost universal among both press and people, and the efforts from that section ; to induce congressional interference do not j seem to be marked by any dividing line of ! politics. The onerous exactions of some of | the great trunk lines of railway whose headSuarters are in the East has, unfortunately, one much to reconcile constitutional misgivings on this point. It has been conhdently I asserted for at least two years past that a majority of the Senate was prepared to claim the i constitutional power of Congress to regulate j railroads, and it is not so very certain that thorn is not a majority in the House. In one