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Scraps and ^acts. The snow is fully three feet deep in central New Hampshire. The Hudson is frozen over at Peekskill and loaded wagons cross on the ice. The only Republican paper in Georgia has suspended publication. London underwriters refused to insure a vessel because it was named "The Devil." At the Alabama Lunatic Asylum the inmates publish a paper called the Meteor. Lake Champlain was frozeu over last week for the first time in fifty-eight years. Thousands of young women practice at the bar in England. They are known as bar maids. A pound of energy with an ounce of talent will achieve greater results than a pound of talent and an ounce of energy. The epizootic is reported to have attacked the rabbits and other small game in the Kentucky mountains. It is stated that a general reduction of telegraph rates will be inaugurated shortly by all the companies. J Forty per cent, of the suicides in New York, last year, were Germans, yet in their native land suicide is very rare. The Georgia Senate has passed a bill to repeal the usury laws. It fixes the rate of interest only in the absence of an agreement. Four thousand dollars Confederate money were sold in Lake City, Fla., last week, at 82.50 per thousand. Josh Billings says that if he can have plenty of mackerel for breakfast he can generally manage to make the other two meals out of water. An Iowa man, who had heard complaints of the scarcity of small change, went into the manufacture of nickels. His efforts were appreciated, and he is now in jail. It is reported of a Cincinnati clergyman that he refused to commune with his congregation, because his salary was reduced to two thousand dollars a year. Eighteen cadets of the youngest class at West Point, having failed to pass the preliminary examination, are to be discharged. This uuraber of failures is larger than usual. A Chinaman, who had become snowblind while working on the Central Pacific Railway, applied at a San Francisco Police station on the 3d instant, for official permission to have himself shot. A Milwaukie lady had several hundred dollars worth of point lace clipped off her clothing by an adroit thTef while she was at church singing "Strip me of the robe of pride; clothe me in humility." A gentleman at Lancaster, Pa., has a horse that takes his children to school in the morning, returning home driverless, and at night returns for thern in the same way, rubbing his nose against the window pane to indicate his presence. A lady went out with her little girl and boy, and purchased the latter a rubber balloon, which escaped him and went up in the air. The girl, seeing tears in his eyes, said "Never mind, Neddy; when you die and go to heaven, you'll dit it." The Montgomery Advertiser learns from gentlemen just returned from Texas, that there are in that State not less than 10,000 meu who would be willing to work as day laborers on the farms of Alabama, if by so doing they could be assured of their return to that State. The military escort at the inauguration of Presideut Grant is to be a brillant display; There will be present in Washington several of the smartest volunteer regiments from the Eastern cities, four companies of regulars, a battalion of marines and the whole of the Cadets from West Point. The colored people are to have an excursion to Washington to witness the inauguration of Grant, on the^ 4th of next March. Charleston,Columbia, Wilmington and Goldsboro, are to be the starting points, and the 2d of March the time specified for taking the cars. A charitable lady of St. Louis sent one of her last vear's dresses to a destitute woman recently. She was somewhat surprised to have it returned with the: statement that it was too full behind for the present style, and hoped she would take out a breadth and change the trimming. The tempest of snow which recently swept over Minnesota and Iowa, is described by letters written from the scene, as having been unparalleled in that section. How many people perished is not positively known, but the estimates range from 250 to 738, and hundreds of cattle have also been frozen to death or buried alive in the snow. A writer in the Kansas Magazine has measured the type used in a copy of the New York Herald, and also that used in a popular volume of travels. The former was found to coutain about 960,000 ems, while the latter, a book of 591 pages, measured only 836,000 ems. In other words, the single copy of the newspaper, which sold at four cents, was equivalent to a book of 680 pages, or 89 more j pages than were contained in a volume that sold for 83.50. The New Army Register, just issued, I reports that during last year there were thir-1 ty-six resignations, ten commissions vacated j by new appointments, three commissions can- j celled, thirty-two deaths, two officers retired,; four dismissed, five cashiered, and nineteen ! honorably discharged. No officer above the grade of a captain either resigned or was dismissed, cashiered, retired, or discharged. Four of the officers who died were killed in fighting the Indians. Two Major-Generals died during the year?Meade and Halleck. The Petersburg Index believes that I Virginia is not so badly off after all. It says: "Money is more plentiful and at easier rates year by year. New industries have been established and are prospering, while those already established have advanced far beyond their former measure of profit. Not a town in our limits but is fairly prosperous, and not a county where fences have not been replaced, houses built, stock increased, farming utensils renewed, fertilizers applied and increased pro- j ft notion nvor tko <torl- yoarc of'67, '68 and I '69 realized. Reading, Penn., possesses, among its | citizens, one Professor Donaldson, who has ,! successfully made, since last August, twenty- j four ascents in his balloon in various parts of the South and West. He has been up as high j as three miles, as indicated by his barometer, I and, although many accidents have befallen [ him, he has survived them all. Having per- j formed many daring exploits above the clouds j he now proposes, as he told the reporter of a j Reading paper, to cross the Atlantic Ocean j the ensuing summer, availing himself of the ! current of wind which, it has been ascertained,! blows from West to East, at a distance of say 1 two miles and a half above the earth. He | expects to complete the trip of 2000 miles in : ? . -i rni t__ll ! something over two aays. jrnree uuuouns : joined together, with boat, ballast, provisions, j and all the necessary requirements, and with ; a basket attached to the balloon, will consti-1 tute his aerial ship. Previous to this grand j venture, he will first make a voyage from St. j Louis to Boston. The New York Commercial Advertiser : is responsible for the following: Some months j ago, an Episcopalian clergyman who intended to pass the Sabbath in one of the out-of-theway districts of South Carolina, gave notice that he would hold divine service in a dilapi- j dated hall that had been unused since the ! breaking out of the civil war. The inhabit-1 ants of this unfrequented place were mostly : negroes, and at the appointed hour they filled the hall to overflowing. On the entrance of the clergyman, clothed in the sacred vestments ; of the church, an old darkey, sitting beside ; the door, espied him, and mistaking his call-1 ing, sung out "Ku-Klux," when the entire congregation tumbled every which way, out of the windows and through the doors, making .for the woods as fast as their legs would carry them. One old darkey woman foil headlong into an unused post hole, with her heels high in the air, but was rescued by a couple of colored deacons after a good deal of squalling and protestation that she really thought them "ongracious white niggers" were about to slaughter her. Order and a portion of the audience having returned, the services were j concluded, the clergyman preaching a very ' eloquent sermon from the text, "None but the upright shall enter." She ^torhviUf (Jritquiw. VORKVILLE. S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 30, 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, j Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, ;Labols, Bonds and Coupons, ; Law Blanks, Bill Heads, iLaw Briefs, Business Cards, i Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, j Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, j Memorandum Billheads Checks, 'Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, (Note Headings, Drafts and Notes, Programmes, Envelopes, Policies, Fired: Life Ins., Election Tickets, Sliinplasters, 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. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 21st, the credentials of Pinchback, claiming to be the duly elected Senator from Louisiana, were presented. A bill was introduced by Alcorn of Mississippi in behalf of the levees on the Mississippi ?" ?? A k!ll iroa intrndnpod hv Wrirrht. fill 1 1 V XX win u ug lubtuuuwv* vj * . thorizing the reference to the Court of Claims of the claims of book agents of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The Civil Rights bill passed, two conservative Senators voting with the majority. In the House, the Committee on Appropriations was ordered to enquire into the details of the telegraph business. The admission of Colorado was discussed the remainder of the day. In the Senate, on the 22nd, a memorial was presented from the merchants of New Orleans, asking the Government to take charge of the Mississippi levees. The bill for building war sloops passed. The bill abolishing the rank of Admiral and Vice-Admiral of the Navy was passed, and goe3 to the President. The bill abolishing the franking privilege, commencing the 1st of July next, passed. The House proceedings were unimportant. The Senate proceedings on the 23rd, were unimportant. In the .tiouse, the Ureciit luobilier Committee were instructed to investigate the Central Pacific and other railroad operations affecting members of Congress. A bill was passed relieving alcohol used for scientific purposes from tax. The appropriation Committee of the House agreed to appropriate $125,000 for public buildings in Columbia, S. C. In the Senate, on the 24th, there was a long debate over exacting money from the Pacific railroad already paid for freights. A bill was introduced authorizing a pneumatic tube from New York to Chicago. A bill for the construction of public buildings at Montgomery, Ala., was introduced. A Memorial of the National Commercial Convention, in behalf of the Atlantic and Great Western Canal, was presented and referred to a special committee on National Navigation. In the House, the report of the Election Committee that neither DeLarge nor Bowen, of South Carolina, were entitled to a seat, was adopted without a dissenting voice. The Senate was not in session on the 25th. In the House a bill was passed ordering the sale of the Custom House property at Plymouth, N. C. In the Senate, on the 27th, a bill was passed requiring National Banks to restore their capital when impaired, and in other respects amending the National currency act. In the House, bills were introduced by Mr. Beck to refund certain cotton taxes. A bill was passed declaring that the meaning of the amendment to the bankrupt law was to allow the exemption provided for by the State laws. A resolution instructing the Committee of Ways and Means to report a bill to refund the cotton tax was lost by a vote of 76 to 105. The bill abolishing the franking privilege as passed by the Senate, was passed by a vote of 143 to 48, and goes to the Presideut. The bill has not been published ; but it is said to be simple and unincumbered with provisions. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Governor Moses ha3 appointed Allan Jones, of Rock Hill, a Notary Public. ? Over 1900 people of Oconee have paid their taxes. ? J. L. Dowdle, of York, has been finally discharged from bankruptcy. ? W. S. Gregory, Esq., has been appointed postmaster at Cross Keys, Union county, vice Miss F. Sparks, resigned. ? The Reporter of last week announces the death of Dr. R. H. Jordan, one of Chester's best citizens. ? Walter Morris, of Timmonsville, claims to have killed ninety-six rice birds at one shooting of both barrels of his gun, a few days since. ? W. F. Hague, formerly private Secretary of ex-Governor Scott, was frozen to death recently, about five hundred miles west of Omaha. ? The National Bank of Anderson was opened on Wednesday of last week. Movements are on foot to establish National'Banks in Aiken, Abbeville and Camden. ? The Supreme Court has issued an order fixing Wednesday, the 7th of May, for the call of the Sixth Circuit. The term of the Court will commence on the 15th of April. ? Prof. Jas. Woodrow, editor of the Southern Presbyterian, returned to Columbia on last Thursday, after a residence in Europe for the past ten months. ? The movement in the legislature for a repeal of the lien law has been defeated for the present session, by the House striking out the enacting clause of the bill. i ?Joseph F. Price, of Union county, con ' victed last year of ku-kluxing and sentenced (to twelve months imprisonment in the Albany ; penitentiary, returned to his home last week, ' having served out his sentence. ? Hon. James L. Orr, recently appointed Minister to Russia, left Columbia on Thursday | last, en route for New York, from whence he ; will proceed to his destination. He is accom' panied by a son and daughter, j ?The Lantern gives the following as the | result of the municipal election at Rock Hill J on the 15th instant: Intendent?Col. R. M. {Sims. Wardens?R. T. May, Allen Jones, ! J. J. Hagins and Foster Wood. ? Trial Justice J. G. Mackey, died in Charleston last week at the age of forty-eight years. He was a native of that city, and a half brother of the well-known Masonic writer, I)r. Albert G. Mackey, and brother of Judge Thomas J. Mackey. ? W. J. Whipper has written a letter to the Legislature acknowledging his neglect to turn over the records of the siuking fund commission, but excusing himself by charging other acts of negligence upon ex-Governor Scott and the other commissioners. ? The Union Times announces the death, at that place, last week, of Rev. F. Bruce Davis, Rector of the Episcopal Church in Union, by being thrown from his horse. Mr. Davis was a son of the late Right Rev. Thomas F. Davis, Bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina. ? The bill before the legislature to aid and encourage manufactures and internal improvements, was amended on its reading so as to exempt manufacturers of cotton and woolen fabrics, and agricultural implements and railroads from all taxes, except two mills for school purposes. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The proposition to form several new counties in the State is now before the Legislature. ? The Raleigh News says that along the route of the North Carolina Road, the white people are making a general exodus. ? Four young brides recently met together in a parlor in Milton. They couldn't look at each other for laughing. ? Violet Sloan, colored, sentenced to Mecklenburg county jail one year for concealing the birth of her child, has been pardoned by Gov. Caldwell. ? The paper mills belonging to Robert Gray, of Winston, were entirely destroyed by fire on Saturday night of last week. The loss is ueavy, Willi no uisuiituue. ? The people of North Carolina are clamorous for a repeal of the fence laws, and desire a change similar to that proposed by Governor Moses, of this State. ? The melting of the snow in the mountains last week during the warm spell, says the Charlotte Observer} caused a tremendous freshet in Catawba river. The stream was fuller than it has been for several years. ? The Eagle, published at Hickory, has donned a new dress and changed its title to the Piedmont Press. Under the able management of Mr. John B. Hussey, the Press is a well-conducted sheet and deserves a liberal patronage. ? A bill before the Legislature to consolidate the proposed North Carolina Narrow Guage railroad with the proposed Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge railroad of South Carolina, has passed its second reading in the House of Representatives. ? David Collins, of Rutherford county, convicted in 1871 of ku-kluxing and sentenced to the Albany penitentiary for four years, has been pardoned by the President, and arrived at his home last week. David Ramseur, convicted in 1871, at Columbia, has also been pardoned, and has returned to his home in Cleveland. ? Last week four negroes were arrested and confined in the Statesville jail for the murder of a negro by the name of Redman during the Christmas holidays. It was reported at the time that the negro had frozen, and a coroner's jury rendered a verdict to that effect; but subsequent events proved that he had been murdered, which led to an investigation resulting in the arrest above stated. ? The Charlotte Observer learns that the King's Mountain gold mine has just been purchased by a company of gentlemen, most of whom are fresh from the gold fields of the Pacific slope, with large experience in mining. It is said the mine will be worked on an extensive scale. The newly-discovered process of desulphurizing the ore will be employed, by which 97 per cent, of the gold can be saved. ? Ex-Governor Vance recently published a lengthy letter, vindicating himself and friends in regard to the Senatorial contest, and insin uating that Judge Merrimon owes his election to collusion and intrigue with the Republicans. Judge Merrimon replies to Vance, and while he denies having acted with duplicity or made any dishonorable efforts to secure his election, he asserts that he is as essentially conservative to-day as when a candidate last year on the Democratic ticket for Governor, and as Senator it is his unalterable purpose to do his utmost to benefit the whole people, of all classes, conditions and colors. + WASHINGTON ITEMS. ? Washington letter writers report that the cotton tax refunding bill is killed. They say the committee having it in charge will report I against it. The adverse report, it is supposed, I will be made on the ground that the scheme is intended for the benefit of speculators, instead of the cotton producers, ? A bill to increase the currency $5,000,000 per annum for five years is before CoDgress, and was to have been taken up by the Banki ing and Currency Committee on Tuesday. ! Some of the members of the committee are in ! favor of ameuding the bill by attaching to it ! provisions for free banking, which will prob| ably kill the original bill, j ?Mr. Sherman's bill, providing for free banking, to take effect from July next, and the resumption of specie payment in January 1 next, meets with considerable favor in both ; Houses of Congress. It is regarded as the | only feasible mode of reaching specie payi ments. ! ? A Washington dispatch says that Elliott, ! colored member of Congress from the 3rd j I South Carolina District, has arrived in Wash-1 : ington in good mental and physical health. | It is also reported that Elliott says "he has J abandoned all interest in the late Senatorial fight, and intends letting the Senate decide on i Patterson's qualifications without his assis- j ' tance." ? Petitions from various cities, asking the removal of the tax on deposits in savings; banks, will be presented in the Senate in a few > days. This tax is asked to be taken off on : the ground that it is a tax on the industrial' : interests and labor of the country, and, inasmuch as the income tax has been abolished, ' i the poor classes claim equal justice with the ' rich. j ?The two claimants for the Louisiana senatorship have presented! their certificates,! which were referred to the Committee on Elections. The antecedents of Pinchback are 1 i well known. His contestant, General W. L. i I 1 McMillan, elected by the Warm nth Logisla turc, is a Russian, and served in the Union army as Colonel of a regiment of Ohio volun! teers. Since the termination of the war,he j has been engaged in cotton planting, j ? The Senate Committee on Elections and Privileges have commenced the investigation : of Louisiana affairs. The investigation is open and public, its scope being?first, as to j the Presidential Electors ; second, regarding the legality of the election; third, whether a J-legal government exists in Louisiana. One ' person on each side will be allowed to make 1 suggestions and cross question witnesses, hut j the committee will not hear arguments, j ?Senator Sawyer, from South Carolina, j has presented in the Senate the presentment . of the grand jury of the United States District Court lor the Western District of South Carolina, representing that there is no penitentiary within the limits of this State for the confinement of prisoners of the United States, and asking for the erection of such a building at Greenville, and also for the erection of a building for a United States court house at that place, and moved the reference of this document to the committee on nublic build ings and grounds. The motion was agreed to. ? To secure the more efficient working of the registered letter system, the Post-master General has designated an entirely new office, which has already been filled by a new appointment. Everything in connection with the system of registered letters comes under the charge of this officer, and as more attention will be paid to registered letter affairs, the consequence will be a more perfect arrangement. A9 it is now, a missing letter that has been registered, can only be traced to the office in which it disappeared. It is hoped, under the new arrangement, that a registered letter can be traced through every step of its transmission, when the Government would be safe in assuming all responsibility and reliability for its contents. EDITORIAL^INKLINGS. The Georgia Senatorsliip. The contest for Senator from Georgia resulted in the election of Gen. J. B. Gordon, whose competitors were A. H. Stephens and B. PI. Hill. The prospect is quite favorable, however, for Mr. Stephens to represent the Augusta District in Congress, in place of Gen. Wright, member elect, who died a few weeks ago. At a meeting held in Atlanta on Wednesday after the election for Senator, it wa9 determined to request Mr. Stephens to become a candidate for Representative, each of the candidates declaring in his favor, and all of them uniting in making the request, thus leaving the field unobstructed. Mr. Stephens, it is understood, has consented to serve if elected. Crime in New York. Murders accumulate in New York. Two more have occurred within a fortnight. Two young men quarreled in regard to a supposed insult which one thought he had received from the other, which resulted in the fatal shooting of one of the parties. And later, a reckless and drunken driver shot a man off his horse in a crowded street in a dispute about the right of way! Surely, a few wholesome examples ought to be made in a commuuity where there is so little regard for human life. The newspapers are urging the rigid pun ishment of crime as the only remedy. The Supreme Court of New York has rejected the appeal of Foster, the car-hook murderer, for a new trial, and he has been sentenced to be hung on the 7th of March. The belief prevails that Stokes will also pay the penalty of his crime; and it would seem that he is of the same opinion too, he having transferred his property to his mother. New Postal Measures. It is in contemplation to reduce the rates of letter postage to two cents for each half ounce, instead of three cents, as the law now stands, and to require the prepayment of all newspaper postage, whether the papers be transient or regularly mailed to bona fide I subscribers. The former measure is generally approved ; but the practicability of prepaying newspaper postage is seriously doubted, to say nothing of the inconvenience it would cause, especially with dailies and weeklies of j large circulation. It is not believed that the ! prepayment of nepspaper postage would add I materially to the revenue of the Department, while it is further claimed that if the postmasters were more particular to enforce existing regulations, no matter would go through the mails unpaid. The large deficiency in revenue of the Post-office Department is attributable largely to the mail-car service, and the non-paying character of the extended ser, vice in the southern States. I The Bankrupt Act. The passing of a bill by the House of T> 1 4-Usv Dnnlrwimt 10 XT? I I\epresUIILllllvea iu ic|jc<w uic a->uuniuf>i. n>n j took the people by surprise. The question was promptly called and put; no discussion was allowed, and without a moment's consideration the vote was taken and the resolution passed by a decisive majority. But notwithstanding the precipitate haste of the House, it is not thought that the Senate will agree to I it. Since the act passed in the House numerous petitions have been sent from various parts of the country against the repeal, and but one in favor of the measure, which was from the merchants of New York. So far from, repealing the act, it would be better for the country to enact a permanant bankrupt law, so that the creditor should know what laws are to affect the debtor at the time he contracts the debt. Such a law as this would equally protect the creditor and debtor, and would be a national blessing,' while temporary enactments for the relief of debtors who contracted their obligations in the absence of such laws are generally harmful in their effects, and tend to the diminution of confidence bctweeu man and man. Marine Disaster. A terrible marine disaster occurred on the night of the 23rd, in the English channel offDungess Light House. The London emigrant ship, Northfleet, which sailed from London several days previous to the disaster, i bound to Australia, with four hundred and j twelve passengers, was run into by an un-1 known vessel and sunk. Only ninety-seven persons on board the ill-fated vessel are known to have been saved?all the others having been drowned. No attention was paid by the steamship to the emigrant vessel after the collision, aud she proceeded on her course, leaving the sufferers to their fate. The collision caused a frightful panic on board the emigrant ship. The passengers who were asleep rushed from their berths to ! every portion of the ship where they thought j they might be safe, and utterly refused to obey the orders of the captain. That officer, | as a last resort to enforce obedience to his j command, was compelled to fire upon the ! terror-stricken people. One of them was ! wounded. It is believed that if the passen-1 ger3 had obeyed the orders of the captain ! more of them would have been saved. A sunken vessel has been discovered near the scene of the calamity, which tends to the belief that the colliding vessel was also sunk, thus increasing the horror. . LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. C. L. Anderson, Colloctor 3d District, South Carolina?United States Internal Revenue. . James Anderson, General Superintendent?Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. I Carroll, Clark A Co.?Get Your Money BackPearl Grist?Molasses?Hams?Tron?Hollow Ware?Dippers?Leather?Chains?Cotton Cards?Buckets?Tubs?Crockery. T. M. Dobson A Co.?Remember Our Thread? Wheelbarrow Wheels?Sole Leather?Steel for Plows?Axes?Why Is It?Ilorso and Mule Shoes?Iron?Knobs?Bed ScrewsHammers?Buggy Umbrellas?Overcoats? Oil Cloth?Yarn?Shirting?Furs?February 1st?Shoes and Boots?Froes?Our Dress Goods?Well Buckets?Salem Jeans?Razor Strops ?Squares?Marking Gauges. W. B. Metts, Assistant Casliier?The Yorkvillo Branch of the Citizen's Savings Bank of South Carolina. Sergeant it McCauley, Proprietors, Greensboro, N. C.?The North Carolina Foundry, Machine and Agricultural Works. Thos. S. Neely?Red Bull Strayed. M. Strauss & Son?A Costly Whistle?Credit. W. IT. it J. P. Herndon?Axes?You KnowSpring? Sharpen?Andirons* G. W. Chalk, Charlotte, N. C.?Bfiying and Selling Flour, Corn, Ac. Win. Whvto, Administrator?Application for Dis UUUI^Ui John L. Watson, County Treasurer?State and County Taxes. GARDEN SEEDS. Our thanks are hereby tendered to Hon. A. S. Wallace, for a package of valuable garden seeds from the Department of Agriculture. We doubt not that any of Mr. Wallace's constituents who want seeds, will be supplied upon making the application. RETURNED. A detachment of Troop K, of the 7th C'avarly, which has been stationed at Chester for some time past, under the command of Lieut. Godfrey, returned to this place last week. The post at Chester has been discontinued. There are now two companies stationed here; Company C, of the 18th Infantry, under command of Capt. John Christopher, and Troop K, of the 7th Cavalry, under command of Capt. Owen Hale. CIIROMO FRAMES. For the convenience of those of our subscribers who desire frames for the Enquirer chromo, we have made arrangements to procure the same, made of solid walnut with gilt lining, which we will furnish, delivered at this office, with glass, &c., complete, for 81.50?the bare cost. Those who may desire the frames will please hand in their names and the amount at an early day, as the frames can be furnished at the above price only by making a large order. KU-KLUX PARDONS. The President has pardoned George Sylvester Wright, from this county, sentenced to the Albany penitentiary for a violation of the enforcement law. Galbraith Ham bright, pardoned several weeks aero, has returned to his home in this county. A recent Washington despatch to the New York Herald says : "The President will, in a few days, pardon twelve or fourteen ku-klux prisoners confined at Albany. The favored ones are those who appear to have been induced to join the order without knowing the real object of the klan." THE CITIZEN'S SAVINGS BANK. The attention of our readers is directed to the advertisement of the Yorkville branch of the Citizen's Savings Bank. This institution commenced operations here on the 1st of October, 1869, since which time its transactions aggregate $2,970,583, or within a small fraction of three millions of dollars. During the month of last December the deposits amounted to $78,289; and for January, up to and including the 25th, nearly $57,000. Since its establishment, the bank has promptly met all demands which depositors have made upon it, and its affairs have been conducted in such a manner that it is constantly growing in public confidence. THE STATE AND COUNTY TAXES. Treasurer Watson having filled his appointments throughout the county for the collection of State and county taxes, returned to Yorkville on Monday last and opened his office. Since his return, the office has been crowded to such an extent by persons, awaiting an opportunity to pay their taxes, as to render necessary the keeping open the office, on one occasion at least, until after midnight. Up to yesterday morning about 2700 persons had paid their taxes, leaving more than one-third of those in the county who are liable, to pay yet. By reference to advertisement in another column, it will be seen that Tuesday next is the day appointed for closing the books. TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE. The following transfers of real estate in York county, have been reported to the County Auditor since the 20th instant: P. B. Darwin, trustee, to H. C. Conner. A tract of 228 acres of land in York township, formerly occupied by T. & ?/. Dickson. Consideration, $1350. Alfred McMuIlan to G. B. Collins. A tract of 67 acres of land in Catawba township. Consideration, $280. S. E. White to Henry Massey. Lot at Fort Mill. Consideration, $150. S. E. White to A. B. Bradford. Two lots at Fort Mill. Consideration, $75 each. Isabella Steele to J. N. Roberts. A tract of 18 acres of land in York township. Consideration, $50. COUNTERFEIT MONEY. We were shown at the Citizen's Savings Bank, in this place, a few days ago, a counterfeit fifty dollar legal tender note, which had been recently paid to a citizen of this county by one of the banks at Charlotte, N. C. A large number of these notes are said to be circulating in this State and North Carolina, and we deem it necessary to mention the fact, in order to put the unwary on their guard against them. The note is tolerably well executed ; but its spuriousness can be readily detected on examination. The ink used in printing both the face and the back is much lighter in depth of color than on the genuine. The paper is harsh and stiff, whiter than the genuine, and does not contain the veins or streaks which on the genuine paper are woven in finrimr thn nroeess of manufacture. The streaks can be readily seen by holding the bill to the light. In the genuine note of the same denomination and series, there is a small mark or "flourish" between the words "series of " and "1869" near the "50" in the left hand corner. In the counterfeit this "flourish" or mark is absent. There are other means of detecting the worthlessness of the bill, but the above tests are sufficient. The Bond Scrip Law.?The Columbia ' correspondent of the Charleston News, writing ; on Friday last, says: "The Senate was occupied from one o'clock j to five o'clock this evening in a debate upon ! the bill to repeal the fourth section of the: Blue Ridge Act of March 2,1872, which sec- j tion pledges the credit of the State for the payment of the Blue Ridge scrip, makes it j receivable for taxes, and orders an annual! tax for its redemption. Theresa no discussion of the merits of the bill, the whole time [ beiug occupied by tiresome and desperate filibustering on the part of the pitiful minority opposing the passage of the bill. These, seeing the utter hopelessness of attempting to defeat the measure to-day, exhausted every; parliamentary trick and device to stave off a | final vote, in the apparent hope of tiring out I the friends of the bill. A dozen test votes were taken on as many dilatory motions made by the opponents of the bill, and dach vote showed that five-sixths of the senators were in favor of its passage. Finally a decisive vote was reached about five P. M., and the bill passed its second reading by a vote of twentyfour to five ; the only senator! voting against the bill being Corwin, colored, of Lancaster, Jamison, colored, of Orange xirg, Jones, colored, of Williamsburg, and Whitteraore, of Darlington. "The bill, as passed, repeals the fourth section of the Blue Ridge act, and takes it out of the power of the comptroller-general to levy any tax for any purpose whatever, unless expressly authorized hereafter by the statutes to do so." For tlit? Vorkvllle Knqulrrr. THE KINti'S MOUNTAIN IKON WOKKS. The reopening and working of the King's Mountain Iron Works, and the further development of the untold wealth now locked in this property, is an enterprise already attracting the attention of capitalists ; and an enterprise, too, which with proper management, would prove to be a safe and profitable investment. This property is situated on Broad river, South Carolina, immediately on the Richmond and Atlantic Air-Line railroad, and is, perhaps, the most valuable of the kind in the southern country. The great variety and the high class of its ores, so happily blended, gave to the iron manufactured at the KiDg's Mountain Works the excellence of quality so universally credited to it. The superiority of this iron to all others manufactured in the sections that found the same markets, is attested by every one familiar with the irons of this country. The quality of the King's Mountain iron was so much superior to all others in the market, that it commanded a higher price, with orders at all times in advance of the productive capacity of the works; and the suspension of operations has been a loss seriously felt by every person requiring a high grade of iron. This property embraces many thousands of acres of land, a valuable water-power, and immense beds of ore, in such great variety as to produce the high class of iron for which it has ever been so famous. Thirty years working of the mines did little more toward affecting the rich and heavy deposits of ore than to make a surface opening, more fully developing the extent and magnitude of the embeded wealth, than taxing it to supply the constant and increasing demand for the manufactured article. As above stated, these ore-beds lie immediately on the railroad, to an extent of three miles. The old works on the river are about four miles from the railroad, and the furnace on King's creek about three miles. The timber for fuel, readj for use, comprises about one-half of the wood-laud?a second growth of from thirty to twenty years. The remaining wood-laud will, in a few years, bear a crop ready for the axe. The value of the iron mines, however, is not dependent upon the wood supply on the lands which have, up to this time, furnished the motive power to their value. The railroad brings into requisition the immense bodies of wood-land on each side of it for twenty miles, which, for quantity and quality, adapted to the purpose in question, cannot be excelled. This vast extend of timber is at the command of the future iron manufacturer at a trifling expense, and the landowner will be well repaid to have it removed free of cost. The railroad gives value to the irou mines and wood-lands, and the mines and lands will give remunerative employment to the road. The original manufacture of iron at these works required in the wagoning of ores, an average distance of three miles, and coal and fuel five miles. The iron, when made, was delivered by wagons a distance of from twenty to one hundred miles and sold readily for 4J and 5 cents per pound. By the aid of the railroad, the ores and fuel can be collected at a cost comparatively small, while the iron can be readily sold at the works for 7 cents a pound, to say nothing of the facilities the railroad presents in seeking distant markets. That this property will be worked extensively, the writer has no doubt, feeling confident that such resources, so rich in the elements of wealth, will not be suffered to lie much longer dormant. Y. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. FROM UNION COUNTY. SPARTANBURG AND THE AIR LINE?LIMESTONE SPRINGS. The Air Line drags its slow length along. The people in Spartanburg are growing impatient. They think the Pennsylvania Central a slow company. They have been ready and waiting ever so long, and still the road has not been finished to their place. Consequently, they fret and quarrel and the Air Line moves on in its own way. The iron is laid from Charlotte to Thickety, four miles west from Limestone Springs. The bridge over that stream is to be erected, and then they have to build a trestle over Little Thickety, and lay the track to Pacolet, about nine miles, before the road is complete to Spartanburg. The sanguine say this will be about the middle of February. The old farmers say about the first of April. The Spartanburg folks promise themselves great things upon the completion of this road. WVinr. toJU onnn <*rrvOT tft Hl7.fi. find haVfi Axivj nu? wvuu vw wholesale stores, and mayors, and public libraries, and the best of everything that is going. And then they must have a road from their place to Augusta, and from their place to Asheville, and so there will be no end to their greatness. This same impatient town is hard at work, however. Their schools are prosperous. Their stores are the best possible, without the completion of the Air Line. New houses are springing up, here and there, and the old ones undergoing repairs. Limestone Springs is undergoing some changes. The property, formerly belonging to Dr. Wm. Curtis, has recently been sold. Some of these same Spartanburg folks are the purchasers. A company bought one-half of this property about two years ago, and lately they purchased the greater portion of the other half. They, as soon as practicable, will develop the lime and marble resources of the 1 place. The Air Line passes within a mile of the quarries, and the depot will not be farther off than two miles, if so far. Consequently ; these products can be delivered at the road in " great abundance and at reduced rates. They i also contemplate starting a female high school i in the old Seminary. This was once the most 1 popular school in the State. The place is remarkably healthy?the house well suited for a school; and while it is quite accessible, it is , a retired, quiet country place?the very place for a female school. P. < ? I | The Board of Commissioners of Cleveland county, N. C. have requested the railroad 1 agent to demand an obligation from the pur- I chasers, under the proposed foreclosure, com- I pelling them to complete the W., C. & R. R. I R. to Shelby; and if they refuse to so obligate ' themselves, to take steps to prevent, if possi- i ble, the foreclosure of the mortgage and sale < of the road. THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. Tuesday, January 21. In the Senate, the unfavorable reports of the respective committees on a bill to abolish the office of county Auditor, and a bill to make the offices of county Treasurers elective, were adopted. The following bills were laid on the table : A bill to prevent State and county officers from holding more than one office; a bill to require Trial Justices to give bond and to otherwise define their duties ; a bill to set apart a fund for the payment of jurors and witnesses in State cases; a bill to abolish the office of county Auditor. The enacting clause of a bill to require owners or lessees of lands to remove fallen trees from the highways, adjoining their lands, was stricken out. The report of the Committee on Education on a bill concerning school funds, was taken up and received its second reading and was ordered to be engrossed. Tv Tirr TT\fr finolirana infrn/ltino/1 a bill to regulate the deposits of State, county and other funds. The bill provides that "the public funds, in the various counties in the State, shall be deposited in certain banks, to be designated by tlie State Financial Board, to consist of the Governor, Comptroller-General, Treasurer, Attorney-General and Judges of the Circuit Courts, of the respective Circuits. Such banks are required to purchase bonds or stocks, other than their own, to the amount of 80 per cent, of the amount so deposited with them, and to deposit said bonds with the Comptroller-General, who shall publish weekly statements of such bonds. No moneys so deposited shall be drawn from the hank except upon a check signed by a majority of the County Commissioners, and the clerk, countersigned by the Treasurer of the county. "The bill also provides that it shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to deposit all State funds by him received, in the bank or banks designated by the Board, which moneys shall be drawn by a check of the State Treasurer, countersigned by the Governor. The Treasurer is to publish monthly statements of all moneys received and paid out by him. The amount of interest to be allowed on all deposits shall not be less than at the rate of 6 per cent. The banks in which the deposits are to be made, shall execute a bond to the State in the penal sura of $100,000 for the faithful performance of the trust, said bond to be approved by a majority of the Justices of the Supreme Court." Mr. Thomas introduced a bill to establish a new judicial and election county, to be composed of portions of Charleston and Colleton, and to he known as Dorchester county. Read and referred. The enacting clause was stricken out of a bill to lay out and establish a new road in Union county, and a bill to repeal the lien law. A bill to punish any person or persons, who shall sell aud convey auy real or personal property on which a lien of any kind may exist, without giving notice of the same to the purchaser or purchasers, was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. A joint resolution to refund to A. Williford certain excessive taxes paid by him, was ordered to be en crossed. Mr. M. S. Miller introduced a bill to provide for the registry of births, deaths and marriages, which is in substance as follows : "That the parent or parents of every child that shall hereafter be born in this State shall register the birth of such child in the office of the Clerk of the Court in the county where the birth takes place within sixty days after that event, under a penalty of a fine of 825 and imprisonment for five or thirty days. It is made the duty of the head of every family in the State to register within sixty days every death that shall occur in his or her family, under a like penalty. Section 3 provides that every man who shall be married in the State, must register the important event within sixty days, under a similar penalty. The Clerk's fees are fixed at 81 for each marriage, and the person registering his marriage must produce a certificate thereof from the minister or Trial Justice performing the ceremony. The Act is to take effect on and after July 31, 1873. Wednesday, January 22. In the Senate, a communication was received announcing that the resolving clause of a joint resolution to allow ex-Judge Thomas five hundred dollars extra compensation, had been stricken out by the House. Mr. White introduced a bill to require School Commissioners to establish night schools at each county seat in this State. The bill provides "that the school commissioners of the several counties in this State be and the same are hereby required to cause to be opened at the county seat of their respective counties a nirrVif a/>hn/\l flnr tlia inofriinfirvn f\P tVinaa roVin Ul^UV WV/UWWi 1U4 VUW V* UVWVU Vi bliWV 1IUV are unable to attend the day schools, and to make such rules and regulations for the goveminent oftnesame and for providing teachers as in their judgment may most effectually accomplish the object of this act." Mr. Jervey introduced a bill to incoporate the Pharmaceutical Association of South Caroliua. After giving the names of the incorporators, the bill provides that "the association shall elect annually four members, who with two other persons to be appointed by the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, shall constitute a board of pharmaceutical examiners for the city of Charleston, to hold office for the term of one year. A similar board is proposed for the city of Columbia, to consist of four members of the association and two other persons to be appointed by the medical faculty of the University. These boards are to meet once in every three months, and remain in session until all applicants for licenses, who have previously made application to the secretary of the association, shall have been examined. The remainder of the bill, which is very voluminous, contains a variety of regulations for the examining and licensing of druggists, pharmaceutists and apothecaries, all of whom doing business in this State are required to come before one of these examining boards. exceDtthose"who have p * x ? already been licensed under the provisions of the act of last winter. The fee for examination and license is fixed at $10, one-half of which is to go to the Pharmaceutical Association, and one-half to the Medical College, if the examination be made in Charleston, and to the State University if made in Columbia. Regular graduates in medicine or pharmacy of schools that are on the ad eundem of the University of South Carolina, are not to be required to undergo an examination, but they are required to come before the examining boards and receive a license upon furnishing satisfactory evidence of his graduation and upon payment of a license fee of $5, to be divided in the same way as the examination fees. The penalty for carrying on the business of druggists, <ftc., without a license is a fine not exceeding $500, or imprisonment not exceeding six months." Mr. Whittemore introduced a bill to make Clerks of the Court ex-officio Trial Justices. I'he bill provides "that clerks of the (Jourt of Common Pleas and General Sessions be and they are hereby authorized to exercise the jurisdiction of trial justices in their respective counties for all purposes, except the trial of 3mall and mean causes, civil and criminal," it not being specified what class of small litigations are to be regarded as "mean." The report of the Committee on Education, en a bill relating to the reduction of the salary jf School Commissioners, was made the special order for February 1st. The bill to provide for the more effectual collection of the poll tax was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. In the House, Mr. Warley introdued a bill to fix the price of tavern licenses, for re* *? tailing spirituous liquors. The bill provides that "from and after its passage, the price of tavern licenses in the several counties of the State, outside of the incorporated cities, towns ind villages, shall be 840 per annum, payable quarterly." Mr. Rico, ofUnion, introduced the follow