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Jwaps and .facts. A Brooklyn man kicked his son to death for refusing to go for a quart of beer without money. Mexico has four insurance companies. As they pay seven cents on the dollar on loss&s, and charge two per cent, for insuriug, the Mexicans -don't patronize them extensively. Letters received, dated Alexandria, December 29, state that Egypt's cotton crop will be one hundred thousaud bales less than last year. For one million dollars cash in hand, a New Yorker agrees to tear dowu one of the pyramids, bring it to New York and set it up again. Colonel York, Poraeroy's betrayer, led a regiment of colored troops in the war. Siuce then he has been editing a newspaper in Montgomery county, Kansas. The death of Mr. Dixon, who first ascertained that oysters were eatable, is announced as having occurred at Crisfield, Md., recently. It is hinted that Senator Pomeroy will attempt to explain his alleged bribery of Col. York, by representing that he merely asked Colonel York to hold the money while he went down stairs. A portion of the wording of the indictment against Miss Susan B. Anthony, for illegal voting, charges that she "was then a person of the female sex, contrary to the form of the Statute of the United States of America, in such cases made and provided." The Senate has passed a bill removing the political disabilities from the following prominent southerners: Hon. J. W. H. Underwood, Hon. L. J. Gartrell, Hon. Alfred Iverson, Gen. Layfayette McLaws, Hon. M. J. Crawford, Hon. B. C. Yancey and General Goode Bryan. A careful estimate has been made of the area of the timber lands of Pennsylvania, and the average yield of lumber per acre, and the alarming conclusion is reached that three years' stocking, at the rate of five hundred million feet per year, would entirely exhaust all the pine lumber now standing. Francis Warden, the second partner in the New York dry goods firm of A. T. Stewart & Co., died in Paris, on the 27th ult., at the age of sixty-two years. He had managed the European business of the firm for nearly thirty years, and is reported to have died worth ten million dollars. A bill has been introduced, and a committee of the House of delegates of Virginia, have reported "a bill to protect farmers and others from embezzlement by commission merchants and others." Per contra, somebody else has introduced a bill to protect commission merchants and others who may make advances to farmers. n T* n ; vjreurge x. i^owniug, oeiia luuruu, Robert Rovisand many other prominent men of Washington, have organized, or are about doing so, a society to work in opposition to the old "Colonization Society." The object is to encourage immigration from Africa, rather than emigration to that country. Meetings are held, and the subject discussed in. all its important bearings. A New England paper relates the following : "A couple of girls put a bull-frog in a hired man's bed to see if they could not get him to talk. Daniel threw the frog out the window and never said a word. Soon after he put a half bushel of chestnut burrs in the girls' bed, and about the time he thought they would make the least shadow, Daniel went to the door and rattled it furiously, Out went the candle,and in went the girls; but they didn't stick, though the burrs did. Calling to them he begged them to be quiet, for he only wanted to know if they had seen anything of that pesky bull-frog. He'd gin tew dollars tew find it." If there is anything needed to convince the skeptical that cotton manufacturing in the South is a gold mine for those engaged in it, the report of the Eagle and Phoenix Company, of Columbus, at the annual meeting of stockholders, will be sufficient. The report states that the net earnings or profit of the S* .1 . . Aim company lor tne past year amount to sioi,406.01. The undivided profits of the company amount to $297,766.92, or twenty-four per cent, of the capital stock. According to this statement the stockholders, when the profits are finally divided, will have received back almost their entire investment. It is a wonderful record, and ought to stimulate the rapid growth of similar enterprises everywhere in the South. The United States Government has finally come to the conclusion that there does exist laws by which the "sawdust swindlers" can be reached. These pests to society have plied their nefarious calling for upward of a year in open defiance of law. Their scheme is to advertise to supply counterfeit money, and then, when the dupe was caught who was foolish enough to send his money for some of the "queer," the scoundrels sent back packages of sawdust, thus evading the law regarding counterfeit money. Assistant United States District Attorney Deuike has finally brought a fellow up for trial under the law of 1872, which makes it a penal offense "to devise schemes to defraud by opening correspondence through the United States mails." Among the bills which passed the lower House of Congress last week, was one that will sound strange to the country at this day. It was literally payment for a runaway negro during the war. While the Twenty-seventh Wisconsin regiment, Col. W. L. Utley, was in Kentucky, a young negro belonging to Chief Justice Kobertson, of that State, ran away and took refuge in the Colonel's camp, Judge Kobertson demanded his property, but Colonel Utley responded that "he didn't enlist to .-1 ? T>_1 .1 I L* cuicn uegrues. j.\uueru>uu inereupuii uruugui, suit and got a judgment against Utley. The statutes of Congress step in and hold the officer harmless, but only by the assumption of the liability. Hence, the House, on Saturday, passed a bill to pay $900 for Judge Robertson's little negro. Great complaints nre current in Georgia at the scarcity of wood. The immense forests that formerly stood in this region are no longer iu existence, and the couutry is almost entirely stripped, the only growth consisting of small four-years old trees. Around Atlanta the view resembles that of a Western prairie. The pine forests of the lower shelf of Georgia, it is stated, will hold out for some time longer, but they will finally be consumed by the many saw mills now being erected along the southern coast. The dry soil of Georgia, it is predicted, v. ill, before long, be baked into rough pottery, if no trees are left to shelter the ground and attract moisture. It is, therefore, proposed that the Legislature should pass laws to protect growing trees, and also to offer inducements to plant and rear them. According io the Army Register for 1873, now being distributed by the Adjutant General, the commissioned portion of Uncle Sam's array consists of 12 general officers, 15 adjutant generals, 8 inspector generals, 10 judge advocates, 1 chief signal officer, 69 quartermasters, 26 commissaries, 163 medical officers, 54 paymasters, 103 engineers, 61 ordnance officers, 30 post chaplains, 425 cavalry officers, 274 artillery officers, 881 infantry officers, 8 professors, 293 cadets and 297 officers retired from active service, making a total of 2720. The number of enlisted men is 30,000 (on paper) with an allowance of 375 hospital stewards, 8 veterinary surgeons, 64 superintendents of national cemeteries and 158 Indian scouts, with master wagoners aud wagoners ad libitum. Of the 2132 officers on the active list only 666, or less than one-third, are graduates of West Point. The Boston Globe gives some interesting statistics of the sewing machine trade. It says: "It is estimated that the profits for the last ten years on the sewing machines manufactured in this country amount to $200,000,000, and the estimated profits in 1871, $20,000,000. In 1872 at least seven hundred thousand machines were made, and allowing that two hundred thousand of them were exported, the several companies must have re> ceived at least 825,000,000 for the five hundred thousand, $5,000,000 covering the cost of manufacturing and patent fees. It is well known that the sewing-machine patents are about to expire, and there is a formidable combination of interests at Washington to lobby their extension through Congress. There are about twenty-five sewing-machine companies in the United States, five of them I manufacturing probably three-fourths of all i the machines produced. The nominal capi; tal of these twenty-five companies is about j 820,000,000, and in addition to the profits on sales the leading ones divide a "royalty" on | the various patents used by the "tributary" i companies, as they are called." Shf f mkvitte <?u<juiw. I 1 1 I ? YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 20, 1873. Watch the Fignres.?Tiie date on the "address, label" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date mn.it 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, i Labels, Bonds and Coupons, 1 Law Blanks, Bill Heads, Law Briefs, Business Cards, ; Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, :Memorandum Billheads I Checks, Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, Note Headings, Drafts and Notes, Programmes, Envelopes, i Policies, Fire A* Life Ins., Election Tickets, Shinplasters, Festival Tickets, '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. OUR FUTURE. An n ft inr? n?fl IrnAnr voir liHlp I AC ? 1/UlUg) HV auwii ? v*^ ?*vv?v about the present and past, and far less about the future. Occasionally, however, a ray of light breaks through the darkness of the present moment, giving us some glimmerings of the future day. For the last five or six years, a cloud of gloom has been hanging over our country, and still it is dark, but not so portentous as a short time ago. The coming day discovers its approach by some streaks of light in the east. Although there are a great many persons who have but little money, aud some who have none at all, there is more money in our county to-day than has been at any previous period within the last five yeare. This is one evidence, although not absolutely infallible, of the approach of day. There is, generally, and in York county especially, more provisions than has been at this season of the year any year since the war. Stock? horses, mules aud cows?are in better condition than heretofore since the war. This is a favorable sign of the dispersion of the gloom which has been hanging over us for so long a time, aud of returning prosperity. Another favorable omen is, that our people generally seem better conteuted?not so restless and ill at ease. There may be very little poetry, but laere is a great deal of good, hard sense in the old saying that "rolling stones gather no moss." The man who is always fretting because his neighbor's coat is better than hi9 own, will not be likely to get a better coat than his neighbor, until he ceases to fret and goes to work to make a good coat. Many of the people, if not a majority of them, have ' gone manfully to work, with the full determination to better their circumstances. This, some have, to a great extent, already accomplished, and many others are in a fair way to do so. It is true that many of our people are poor; but many of us, perhaps, have been poorer than we are to-day. And perhaps none of us but have more hope than we had five years ago. There is more enterprise in the State of 1 South Carolina than has been at any time i since the war. The people are building some railroads, and talking about building others. In some sections of the State, large manufacturing establishments are going up, and the erecting of others is contemplated. Perhaps we might say that there is as much enterprise in the State of South Caroliua to-day as there ever was. Agriculture is undergoing a rapid change. The soil is better cultivated, and more manures and fertilizers are used than ever were before in the history of the State. It is true that this thing is of but recent origin ; but it increases each year with favorable results. Unite all these tilings together, and many more that might be mentioned, and we are obliged to conclude that, notwithstanding the | many grievous drawbacks with which we j have to contend, appearances begin to bright-1 en. Twenty years will produce a wonderful j change in this country. Land that to-day is scarcely saleable, may then be unpurchaseable. I rni . / u i i me present is a season oigoiuen opporiuinues. i PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 10th, the bill extend-! ing the Southern Claims Commission to 1876 J J was passed. In the House, a number of bills I were introduced and referred. The bill to j j increase the salary of the President and other officers was lost?yeas, 81; nays, 119. The Senate proceedings on the 11th were j unimportant. The House was engaged on ! the appropriations bill. On the 12th both Houses were engaged in ! counting the electoral vote for President and j Vice-President. In the Senate, on the 13th, the naval appropriation bill was considered. An appropriation of $3,200,000 was made for the con; struction of steam war vessels. The bill rej storing pensions to soldiers was so amended as to include those who participated in the rebellion. House proceedings unimportant. Iu the Senate, on the 14th, a message was received from the President, recommending special legislation for Utah, so as to make | the courts more efficient and active. The naval appropriation bill was taken up, and J amendments adopted which will carry the j bill back to the House. In the House, Mr. Wood, of New York, asked unanimous consent to introduce resolutions of sympathy with j Spain in her efforts to establish a republic.! ; Mr. Willard, of Ohio, objected. Sundry ap' propriation bills were resumed, and thirty thousand dollars were appropriated for signal arid life-saving stations on the coast. The bill distributing the Geneva award was discussed. In the Senate, on the loth, Mr. Cole, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the post-office appropriation bill with amendments ; among which are the following: Prohibiting the transmission by mail of any free matter whatever, not excepting newspaper exchanges; requiring all persons receiving their mails by carriers to provide proper boxes or other receptacles at their dwellings or offices; authorizing the employment of one additional special agent to detect persons engaged in sending obscene matter through the mails; striking out the provision requiring railroad companies to make contracts for postal-car service as a condition of receiving increased pay, and regulating the pay in proportion to the length of car required and the services performed. In the House, Mr. Willard, of Vermont, asked unanimous consent to offer a joint resolution congratulating the people of Spain upon the establishment of a republican form of government in that country. \f?. UnnL-i! r\f \f< ? nhippfAil nil t.hfi ground that it was only a proposition to approve of slavery in the colonies of Spain. The Geneva distribution bill was passed with , interest on claims from date of awar.d. In the Senate, on the 17th, Sawyer, from the Committee on Education and Labor, reported, without amendment, a bill appropriating 88000 to the Leland University at New Orleans, and 85000 to the Augusta (Georgia) Institute, to be expended in the erection of school buildings for l'reedinen. Mr. Pool, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported, without amendment, the House bill declaring it to have been the true intent and meaning of the act of June 8, 1872, amendatory to the baukrupt law, that the exemptions allowed the bankrupt by said amendatory act should be the amount allowed by the Constitution and laws of each State respectively as existing in the year 1871, and that such exemptions be valid against debts contracted before the adoption and passage of such State Constitution and laws, as well as afterwards, and against liens by decree of any State Court, notwithstanding any decision since rendered. In the House, Mr. Maynard, of Tennessee, moved to suspend the rules and pass a resolution devoting evening sessions on Wednesday and Thursday to debate upon the bill to refund a certain tax collected on raw cotton. Rejected : yeas, 93 ; nays, 83. Other House proceedings unimportant. + SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Four hundred persons, mostly colored, have been vaccinated in Greenville. ? The Governor has appointed W. A. Walker, of Chester, a Notary Public. ? About three hundred recruits for the eighteenth regiment of infantry, arrived in Columbia on Saturday last. ? W. E. Earle, of Greenville, has been ad_-.-i._ji ,l? a?_ milieu iu ptttenue m tuc uuucu umiw supreme Court at Washington. ? The Council of Greenville has purchased a lot to be tendered to the United States Government for a Postoffice and Court House. ?The Mansion House in Greenville was sold last week at public outcry, and purchased by J. W. Gray for $26,000. ? There are now about 60 employes engaged in building the new United States Postoffice and Court House in Columbia, tfnd the work is being pushed ahead rapidly. ? The Senate has confirmed the appointment of A. S. Richardson as Jury Commissioner for. Chester county, vice H. J. Pride, removed. ? Elias Simmons, convicted at Spartanburg before Judge Orr in the March term, 1870, of mule stealing, and sentenced to five years' imprisonment, has beeu pardoned. ? The Charleston News is in favor of the United States troops remaining in South Carolina, for the reasou that their presence is calculated to maintain quiet and good order. ? L. I. Woolf, an ex-trial justice of Charleston, was tried in that city last week for the killing of H. L. Perrin, some time ago. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. ? Dr. Boseman, the Chairman of the raedinrtl nAmmi'ffaQi'ii +1*& T-Trmcn r\? T?anroQOnf Q fr!VP<2 U(U tuiuiuibtggiu tliv AXVUOV V/A xvv|/ivgvuvMVM VW) has reported favorably on a bill to require all persons in the State to be vaccinated. ? Judge Bond, in chambers, at Baltimore, has declined to review the decision of Judge Bryan, refusing the petition of bankruptcy filed by certain creditors against the Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company. ? The Governor has approved "An act to punish any person or persons who shall sell or convey any real property, etc., on which a lien of any kind may exist, without giving notice of such lien to the purchaser;" and "An act to incorporate the village of Fort Mill, in the county of York." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Bird Biggerstaff, a ku-klux prisoner, has been pardoned, and has returned to his home in Rutherford county. ? The Charlotte Observer learns that the firm of Messrs. J. Schenck & Son have purchased a site in Cleveland county, and will soon erect a cotton factory on it. ? The United States branch mint at Charlotte will be continued. Both Houses of Congress have agreed to an appropriation for this purpose. ? Jonathan Harris, a worthy citizen of j Guilford, who had formerly represented his j county in the Legislature, was accidentally i killed one day last week by being crushed : under a heavily loaded wagon. ? The railroad between Greensboro and j Salem is completed to Kernersviue, to wnicn place trains run regularly. It is the intention to complete the road to Salem during the month of March. ? A personal difficulty occurred on the floor of the Senate last Thursday. While discussing the school bill, Mr. Love, of Jackson, pronounced a statement of Mr. Cowles, of Yadkin, to be a lie, whereupon Cowles struck Love a blow on the face. Other parties then interfered and separated the combattants. ? In Murfreesboro, on Saturday night last, G. W. Thompson was killed in an affray with Charles Adkins. Thompson, who kept a bar-room, went to Adkins' bar-room and threatened to whip a negro for drumming for Adkins. An altercation ensued between the white men, which resulted in the killing of Thompson. Adkins surrendered himself to the sheriff of the county. ? On Saturday afternoon last, we learn from the Observer, an affray occurred at a grog-shop a mile north-west of Charlotte in which a negro by the name of Newton Wilfong, formerly of Gaston county, was stabbed and instantly killed by a white man named Joseph Baker. Baker lived two miles from the scene of the homicide and was arrested soon after committing the deed. After a preliminary examination he was committed to jail. ? Currency having been given for the second time to the rumor that Col. C. C. Tew, of the 2nd N. C. regiment, is a prisoner at Dry Tortugas, the Secretary of War, in answer to | application for information upon the subject, ; says that no such person has ever been in conI finement at Dry Tortugas, and further, that the archives of the war, on file in Washington, ! show that Col. Tew was killed in the battle of Sharpsburg. WASHINGTON ITEMS. | ?The Supervisor of Internal Revenue protests against the removal of the troops from Georgia and South Carolina, giving as his .reason therefor that they are necessary for en- i : forcing the collection of revenue. ? Washington letter writers are making speculations concerning the forthcoming inau- ! gural address of President Grant. It is be- j lieved that its tone toward the South will be very friendly, and intimations are freely made j that the next Administration will be very conservative. ? Secretary Boutwell, feeling confident of his election to the United States Senate, to succeed Vice-President Wilson, has tendered 1 t.:_ .?: ? tt: : | Ills I USI^UIU 1UIJ. XJ IS redI?JiittMuu waa IV lime I taken effect on the 15th instant; but at the,1 request of the President he will occupy his present position as a member of the Cabinet . until the 4th of March. ? Some important movements of troops will j soon be ordered by the war department, the | effect of which will be to take from the States j of Kentucy, North and South Carolina, Ala- j bama and Tennessee, the greater portion of; ; the United States military forces stationed in i these States, and to locate them at other j points where the interests of the government i may require their presence. ? In alluding to the recent pardons of kuklux, a Washington letter of late date says "it is believed nearly all the ku-klux prisoners will be pardoned within a very short time, and particularly those of the more ignorant class. The government will, however, prosecute all new instances of ku-klux persecutions, and, should additional cases arise, the executive department of justice will disregard all appeals for mercy." ? Speaking of the application for the pardon of Samuel G. Brown, the Washington Chronicle, (administration organ) has the following paragraph : "The Attorney General declines to issue a pardon to Samuel G. Brown, who is in the penitentiary under a five years' sentence as a ku-klux, because Brown moved in good society, was in fact a .leader, well posted, and of good education. His friends nrn rnnt-inor nnrnnaf. pflfiirta in bis hohftlf." b ? The most ingeniously drawn land-grant bill which has been introduced in Congress for some time is that of Senator Alcorn, of Mississippi. In a long series of whereases it is set forth that large tracts of land in northwestern Alabama are of no account to anybody, and winds up with a resolve that the Government give all this domain for little or nothing to the Elyton, Corinth, and Tennessee River railroad. It is supposed to be very valuable after the Government gives it away. - Correspondence of the Charleston Courier. FROM COLUMBIA. Columbia, February 11,1873. A little incident happened in the House of Representatives this morning, which, in a measure, broke in upon the monotony of the regular daily work of that illustrious body, and for a time threatened to create a riot of no trifling character. It happened iu this wise: The Committee on engrossed bills had reported as correctly engrossed, and ready for a third reading, a bill to make appropriations to meet the expeuses incurred under the proclamation of the Governor, commonly known as the ku-klux swindle?the bill to pay the rewards offered for the ku-klux. Among the most strenuous of the opposers of this bill was Representative Hamilton, of Beaufort? the same member who in December last attacked the Rev. W. M. Thomas, member from Colleton. Hamilton, it seems, had given notice of his intention to amend the bill on its third reading, and accordingly made an effort to do so. Rnf hv ro??nn nf thp ennfnsinn that existed "J ? at the time, the bill was hurried through, very much after the style usual on occasions when it is desired to hurry a bill through the House without letting anybody know anything about it. The Speaker, probably seeing that the supporters of the bill had an overwhelming majority, and desiring to hurry up the business of the House, didn't stop in the routine, but put the question very much in this style: "As many as are in favor of the bill passing say aye; opposed no. Ayes have it. Bill received three several readings in this House, and drdered to be sent to the Senate." This excited the wrath of the member from Beaufort, in whose system the bump of corabativeness seems to be very largely developed, and he arose to a privilege question. Of late the members of the House have resorted to a fashion of arising to a privilege question on the most trivial provocation, and in consequence the business of the House has been very materially retarded. After stating his .privilege question the Speaker ruled it no privilege question at all, and requested the member who was every moment showing signs of fight, to take his seat. Hamilton, however, who had evidently read in the columns of the Courier, the novel manner adopted by the Honorable June Mobley, under similar circumstances at the State Convention in last August, was not to be put down, and seizing one of the immense cut glass inkstands, that adorn the desks of the members, began forthwith to sling the ink around, and to commence an indiscriminate sounding with it upon the desk. These bellicose demonstrations had the effect of causing a hasty retreat on the part of the members in the immediate vicinity, and Mr. Hamilton was left master of the held, until the arrival of the Sergennt-at-Arms, to whose counsels of peace, he finally lent an ear and resumed his seat. But the affair did not end here. These outbreaks have been so frequent of late, that the members began to open their eyes to the fact, that they were decidedly "in for a dig," aud a motion was forthwith made to expel the refractory member from Beaufort. Upon this the honorable Samuel Green, a youthful member, from Beaufort, who is known among his more intimate confreres as Sammy Greene, and who votes for Patterson and makes speeches on all possible occasions, arose and made a very sensible speech. He called the attention of the House to the uni ruly behavior of its members, and to the curious fact that although there were a large number of white men and Democrats in the House, as yet the only disrespect that had been shewn to the Speaker was shewn by men of his own color. The Speaker, who was a : colored man, had always been treated with | proper respect and decorum by the white ! members of the House, and it was only by colored men that his authority was defied. ! He admired the bravery, &c., of his colleague, i Mr. Hamilton, but he desired to state right here, iu this honorable body, in the language i of Shakspeare, "I would rather have a man ; ! to go right up to the mouth of a cannon, [ : knowing that he was going to be killed, than 1 ! to have him go up not having an idea that j he was going to be killed." I Without stopping to explain the book and page wherein this apt and beautiful quotation was to be found, Mr. Greene went on to urge upon the House that their duty was to i put down the brakes right here. This idea j was further urged by Dr. Boseman and Rep- j ; resentative Boston, and so successfully urged , < that the House adopted a resolution expelling ! the member for the balance of the session.' i In consequence of which Beaufort will be j deprived of one of her representatives for the j remainder of the present session, and "Peace 1 will once more reign in Warsaw." LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. John C. Kuykendal?Draw the Inference?Poulterer's Friend?Drugs?A Cheap VirtuePatent Medicines?Simmon's Hepatic Compound?Life i'or the Hair?Gowland's Lotion. VV. H. <fc J. P. Horndon?Fertilizers?LeatherDried Fruit?Tin Ware?Language?Our System?Old Times?Our Stock. T. M. Dobson & Co.?Sundries?Puggy Umbrellas? Bnggv Whips?Sad Irons?Potatoes? Quilt Lining?Fertilizers?Ink?MatchesNew Calico?Crockery?Flour?Chisels and Augers?Now Orleans Molasses?Tobacco ami Snuff?Stewart's Stoves?Table SaltWell Chains. J. F. Wallace, C. C. C. Pis.?Notice to Creditors. INFANTRY RECRUITS. On Monday evening last, eighteen recruits reached this place for Company C, 18th Regiment, commanded by Captain John Christopher. As yet, we have heard no intimation that this company, which has been stationed here for the past two years, will be removed. COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. The trade in commercial fertilizers in this couuty, since the opening of the season, has been unusually brisk, and the agents at York VlliC ill U ICt'ClVlli^ VjjUItC i* UUUiUUl VI VlUblO. Messrs. JelTerys & Metts, the ageuts for the Navassa, Stono and Etiwan, have already sold over one hundred tons. Agents for other companies have also sold large quantities. THE "SHERER BOYS" AT HOME. On Monday evening last, the "four Sherer boys," who were sentenced to the Albany penitentiary as alleged ku-klux, and recently pardoned by the President, reached this place, en route for their homes in this county. We learn that Hayes Mitchell, Eli Ross Stewart and William Lowry, who have also been pardoned, were released from the penitentiary on Monday last. DEATH OF AN "IRISH PEDDLER." Franklin Gillespie, an Irish peddler, who for several years past has been plying his vocation in this State and North Carolina, died in this place on Saturday night last. The circu mstances attending his death were deemed such as to render a coroner's inquest necessary, which was had by coroner John R. Wallace, on Monday, and resulted in a verdict that the deceased came to his death from the intemperate use of ardent spirits. THE CIRCUIT COURT. A bill is now pending in the Legislature proposing to change the time for the sitting of the Circuit Court for York county, from the fi.of H/nn/lniT nf Morflli fn tha firflf. MniirlftV ftf U.Ot iUUliu.,; .w J ? April. Through a dispatch received from Columbia a few days ago, we learn that it is quite probable that the change will be made, and as a result, no Court will be held in this county until the first Monday of April. While it is probable that the jurors drawn on last Saturday will not be required to serve, it is necessary that they attend at the time mentioned in the summons. "GOING WEST." Troop K, of the 7th Cavalry, which has been stationed at this place since the 27th of March, 1871, received marching orders last week, and the first of next month is fixed for its departure. The whole of the seventh regiment has been ordered to Dakota territory. The company at this place will go by railroad to Memphis, Tenn., and from thence by steamer to Fort Randall. Between three and four weeks will be required to make the trip. Fort Randall is situated on the Missouri river, in Dakota territory, about one hundred and fifty miles northwest of Sioux City, Iowa. It is rumored that the objei. jf sending these troops to Dakota territory at this time, is to protect the surveyors of the Northern Pacific railroad against the attacks of hostile Indians. DRAWING OF JURORS. On Saturday last the Board of Jury Commissioners drew the grand jurors for the present year, and the petit jurors for the March term of the Circuit Court. The grand jury is composed ot seven wnites ana eleven blacks; the petit jury of thirteen whites and twenty-three blacks. The following is the list: grand jurors. Writes.?Jesse J. Faris, James M. Biggers, John H. Crawford, Samuel Belliew, Josiah H. Coltharp, James P. Hutchinson, J. F. Carothers. Blacks.?Chambers Riddle, Anthony Anderson, Jesse Jackson, Samuel Woody, Arazi Haney, Allen Bratton, Tony Flannigan, Prince Holmes, Jesse Minnett, Perry Witherspoon, Amos Holmes. petit jurors. Whites.?G. R. Turner, J. Ed. Jefferys. W. A. Barron, Hugh Gelston, John H. Caten, W. R. Hays, James Kimbrell, Calvin Whisonant, Thomas Harper, Zimri Carroll, D. M. Campbell, W. G. Dowdle, James H. Gladden. Blacks.?Edson Moore, Nelson Thomasson, Littleton Avery, John Moore, Jack M'Luney, George Byers, Alfred Meacham, Tillman Long, Travis Gist, Abrara Smith, George Harris, Minor Hanna, Thomas Berry, Joshua Moore, Jack Campbell, Watson Garner, Isom Evans, Augustus Briant, Henry Steele, Andrew Barron, Mat Douglas, John Long, Jesse Adams. Correspondence or the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FR0M~LOUISVILLE. Louisville, Ky., February 13,1873. I left Nashville yesterday afternoon at two o'clock, and arrived here at eleven. The distance is one hundred and eighty-five miles, and the route is the Louisville and Nashville road. This is the largest railroad corporation in the South. They started out in a small way some fifteen years ago, but have stretched out their long fingers and longer purse, and gobbled everything right and left. They own the line direct to Memphis, to the southwest, aud eastwardly they own and operate a line to within a hundred miles of Knoxville. This they intend to extend, and some of these days you need not be surprised to see them coming down on you in South Carolina. They have an eye in that direction, and will leave no stone unturned to establish communication with Charleston, by way of Knoxville. The undertaking is a big one, but they delight iu big undertakings. This last year they acquired a line direct to Montgomery, Alabama, by building the incompleted line from Decatur to Montgomery, and leasing the Nashville and Decatur road for thirty years. So they are at present opefciting a line direct to Montgomery, called the Louisville and Nashville and Great Southern road. Louisville has beaten Cincinnati out ofj time in the railroad business. She has built two or three roads while Cincinnati has been talking about building one. Cincinnati is desirous of getting through to Chattanooga, as she has been for about forty years, but is no nearer throueh now than when she first began, in j the language of the song. She has surveyed j enough routes to reach to the moon, and her ! orators have expended enough wind to send a steamship across the Atlantic; but the road is not built?the first shovel of dirt has not! been lifted. The truth is, Cincinnati is getting slow in i her old age, and if she don't stir around at a j little more lively rate, Louisville will walk { ahead. The cities are rivals, and as jealous of one another as two village belles. Louis- j ville never sees anything good about Cincinnati, and Cincinnati is quite sure Louisville ; is a second rate pea-nut town. If pea-nuts j have made Louisville as brisk and lively as she is, I would advise Cincinnati to go into : the pea-nut business also. There is something! j about pea nuts as an article of commerce that ! seems to have a happy effect. I see no reason why Louisville and Cincinnati should be so jealous of one another, as their interests are, for the most part, identical, j The thing for them to be afraid of is St. Louis, j and not one another. While they are cutting and quarreling and giving sly digs, and talking about pea-nuts and lager beer, and the : amount they respectively consume, St. Louis is gobbling up the southern trade. While i the two dogs fight she goes for the bone, to use a happy comparison that fits commerce as j well as certain cases in politics. St. Louis is j extending her trade all over the South, and j even in your own South Carolina she is get! ting much patronage that formerly went to j Cincinnati. The population of Louisville, at the last | census, was a trifle over one hundred thou | sand. Before the census was taken it was reckoned at one hundred aud fifty thousand, and it might have been a good thing for the property-holders of the city if it had never been taken at all. To take out fifty thousand people from a city at one fell swoop, is not a happy circumstance for corner lotspeculators. But Louisville was not alone in this matter. Every city had to come down from their high horses?down from the seventh heaven of expectancy to the dead level of actuality. The winter has been a hard one here, and seriously interrupted all kinds of business. The cold has been intense for this latitude, and many a poor South Carolinian who goes shivering through the city on his way West, wishes he had remained in his sunny home, and borne the evils that oppressed him there, rather than to fly to others that he knew not of. Of course, it is not as cold here as it is farther north, but it is cold enough to make a man's knees shake together like a pair of bones in the hands of a negro minstrel, when the wind has a fair sweep. As I write I look out of the northern window and see the icegorged Ohio, with chunks in it as large as tsnnn tufa in Vnftllillo Vooi- tlio /ipntro a bvnu ium lu a vinvinvi xiv>?? vuv vvu? v m channel is opened, and through it the smaller pieces grind along, knocking up against the larger pieces and making-dismal noises. It looks as though if the whole thing should take a notion to go at the iron bridge below, it might be in danger. By-the-way, the bridge is as fine a specimen of iron frame work as I ever saw. It is all iron but the piers, and is over a mile long. At a distance it looks rather slender for heavy trains. A story is told of a member of the Legislature | who got out of the cars in the middle of it, saying that the "d?d thing was too thin." It does look rather thin, that's a fact. There is not much going on in Kentucky now, except a terribly wordy var between one I Senator Webb, and the editor of the Courier! Journal. The unhappiness is something about the Kentucky Lottery Library Association or whatever the name of the thing is, which sells tickets to greenhorns, gets their money and returns them blanks. Not always | blanks to be sure, but so near it that a man stands five times more chances to die than he' does to draw a prize. Webb has been pitching into the lottery, and Watterson holds up for it, and consequently a war of words of gigantic dimensions. The Courier-Journal is the leading paper of the State if not of the South. You have no doubt often heard of Henry Watterson, the editor. In the last few years he has risen to the front rank of journalists. He is a Tennesseean, and came from the mountains, being a son of Harvey Watterson, many years a member of Congress from that State. In person, he is very small, weighing not over a hundred and ten pounds. Unfortunately, he has lost the sight from one eye, and the other is so defective that he has to hold it within two inches of the paper when he reads or writes. Yet, he accomplishes a vast amount of work?enough to make strong men of good eye-sight ashamed of themselves. He is fully as blind as Prescott, the historian; and how he labors under the disadvantage, and accomplishes so much, is a wonder to his friends. Mr. Watterson has enemies in this State by the thousand, and the most active of them started the Daily Ledger to break him down, but succeeded in doing nothing beyond the sinking of sixty thousand dollars. The Ledger is now an evening paper, and the CourierJournal is master of the situation. Nemo. Cincinnati, February 17, 1873. I left Louisville at 4 o'clock Saturday and came to this city over the short line road. This is the shortest distance attainable between the two cities, a pretty straight course on the south bank of the river having reduced it to one hundred and seven miles. The fast trains make it in four hours. The grand new bridge having been completed at this point, trains run from the south direct into the city, which is a great advantage over the old "arrangement." Formerly the traveler had to "dump out" in Covington and cross the suspension bridge in an omnibus, which was not the most pleasant trip imaginable. There are now two bridges spanning the river here ; a suspension bridge for street traffic and wagon travel, and the other a massive railroad bridge, constructed of iron, and resting upon granite piers. It is sufficiently high for steamboats to pass under. Over this the trains from the south roll into the little Miami depot, making close connection north and east. Verily, we live in a fast age. Some people think we are living too fast, and will get through the world sooner than necessary. But, after all, we cheat Time out of nothing. We talk boastingly of annihilating time and space, but we do no such thing. We do not now, and never can, cheat Nature out of anything. She will have her dues, and after we have run our little round, whether by railroad or on foot, it matters not which, she brings us up suddenly at some grave yard. All our roads end there, dear friend, diverge and branch about however much they may now?they end there. He is wisest who every day lives as .v i . i J n l _ A ^ For A. H. Colquit 5 For Willis B. Machen 1 The President's Southern Toar. A Washington letter says that the Presdent will probably be absent several weeks on his southern tour, and expects to spend one or two days in each of the cities of Richmond, Raleigh, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, and ^ New Orleans. He will extend his trip probably to Memphis, and will revisit Jackson, Tenn., which was his headquarters in 1862, when he was in command of the army of the tnougn ioe ena 01 ms journey was just a little way beyond. When I was here in November, I remember to have written the Enquirer about the progress and effects of the "old epizoo," as the horse disease is playfully called. Well, it is all done now, and a man can ride about at his ease in a street car for five cents, in an omnibus for fifty cents, and in a hack for from seventy-five cents to a dollar and a half. No more is the weary traveler compelled to carry his heavy carpet-bag along the stony streets, like pack mules in war times, a laughing stock for all the loafers and income idlers on the corners, but he places himself behind the useful dumb-brute, just well of the epizoo, and rolls to his hotel. The winter has been severe here, as everywhere, and business has suffered in consequence. It has been the dullest winter in business circles since the war. This is accounted for in various ways, but the cold weather and horse disease are principally given as reasons. It certainly has not been on account of scarcity of money, for money is abundant. It can be borrowed here on real estate at seven and eight per cent., and often for six. To you in South Carolina, where money is scarce, this will be considered very reasonable. But the city is exceedingly wealthy. There is perhaps more real wealth here than at either St. Louis or Chicago. There are a dozen men in this city who are worth over two millions each, and several j dozen who are comfortably close to a million. Then of the hundred thousand dollar chaps ; there is a regiment or more. The manufacturing enterprises here served in great part to bring this here and keep it here. Cincinnati is the third most important manufacturing city in the United States. Ohio, too, is a very wealthy State, containing perhaps a dozen cities of large manufacturing interests. Say what you may in the South about the Empire of Emperor Cotton, there is no denying but what a manufacturing and agricultural country will outstrip?far outstrip?a section devoted entirely to agriculture. Somewhere I saw it laid down that a purely agricultural country is always poor, and to one who has traveled much in the South, it looks as though the proposition was correct. So fast as the gathered crop yields cash it is sent 1 out of the country to buy manufactured goods; j the soil year after year becomes poorer, and | the farmer poor with it. At the end of his j laborious life he has nothing left but some ! worn-out cotton lands which cannot be sold | for enough to pay funeral expenses. But, j suppose he had lived within easy range of a I manufacturing city of fifteen or twenty thou| sand inhabitants. How different would have been the case! Then he would have found a ready cash market for all varieties of produce, | his farm would have improved from year to i year, and the whole country been blessed. {Individual prosperity always makes a commuI nity prosperous. Wherever you find a raan, ufacturing city with good soil around it, there vou will find wealth. You will find it in the city and in the adjacent country. Suppose '1 there were factories in Yorkville of different descriptions sufficient to turn out even two millions dollars worth of manufactured goods every year, which, being shipped, would return so much money, would you not aH, for a radius of fifty miles around, be benefited? But it is useless to write about that which every one knows, who is capable of giving the subject a moment's reflection. Cincinnati is a vast manufacturing city, and hence her wealth. It is accumulated wealth, and will remain. There must be as much wealth in this county as in the whole State of South Carolina, although sixty years ago where Cincinnati stands was little less than a howling wilderness. Cincinnati has some of the finest churches, picture galleries and private residences I ever saw. It is not only a city of wealth, but of taste and culture also. The old fellows who have got rich and retired seem inclined to spend the remainder of their days in ease, and so they beautify their homes to the highest point of modern excellence. In Clifton and * on Walnut Hills are the most magnificent private residences to be fouud this side of the Alleghany mountains. But enough of this for the present. Half a hundred things strike me as of interest in this connection, but I have not time to put them down now. Nemo. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Bankrupt Act. The telegraph having quite recently reported that "the President had approved the bankrupt act as amended so as to grant exemptions in accordance with the exemption laws of the different States," many persons may be deceived thereby. The report is erroneous. The amended bill approved by the President, applies only to certain insurance companies in Boston whose losses by the fire of last fall would have forced them into bankruptcy but for the relief afforded by this amendment. We presume the companies . thus relieved are local, and doing business mainly in Boston. The provisions of the bill, or the names of the companies for whose benefit it was passed, have never been published, to our knowledge. The Case of Stokes. The motion for a stay of proceedings in the case of Stokes, the murderer of Fisk, having been argued before Judge Davis, this official granted the stay. It is said that the action of the Judge in doing so causes considerable comment. The text of Judge Davis' decision says that the exceptions were of such grave importance, and there being doubt as to the correctness of one portion of the charge to the jury, it became his duty to give the prisoner an opportunity to present them to a higher court. The case will now go to a full bench for a hearing, which will probably involve a delay of two months. In this case, the bench will also test the constitutionality-of the jury law as it now exists in the State of New York. Mexican Affairs. Revolutions and unceasing agitation seem to suit the temper of the restless and volatile Mexicans. The latest outbreak is reported from Tepic, one of the principal towns. The insurgents are led by Losada, who, in his political manifesto, proposes to establish a government similar to the Paris Commune. His army has invaded several portions of Jalisco and Guadalajara. In a severe battle on the 28th ultimo, Losada claims to have defeated Corona, compelling him to retreat into Guadalajara. General Flores, however, telegraphs to the contrary, saying that Losada was whipped and a thousand men killed and wounded. Private telegrams, concede the victory to Losada. Col. Altomisons defeated a portion of Losada's force. Corona is ex gectiug reinforcements, and another engagement is imminent. Hon. Horatio Seymour. The Charleston News mentions that Hon. Horatio Seymour, of New York, was in that city last week. While there he was the guest of Col. Richard Lathers, at whose resi- ^ dence he was visited by a number of the citizens. The News says: "Governor Seymour was very frank and outspoken in his expressions of opinion, and did not hesitate to say that, in his judgment, a better day was coming for the South. It seemed plain to him that the dominant party?whether from inclination or interest, he could not say?were moderating their tone, and showing a desire to knit anew the bonds between the sections; and he regarded the approaching tour of President Grant through the South, as well as the stand taken by General B. F. Butler, in the matter of the southern pensioners, as additional indications that a change of feeling was working, and that a change of policy would speedily follow." The Electoral Vote. The vote of the Electoral Colleges was counted before Congress in joint convention on the 12th instant. The vote of Arkansas was thrown out by reason of non-concnrrence between the Houses. Objections were raised as to irregularity iu the returns and a conflict in the count, and the Senate, by a small majority, sustained the objections. By a concurrent vote between the two Houses, Louisiana was thrown out; and three of the Georgia votes for Mr. Greeley were rejected because of nonconcurrence between the Senate and the House. The Senate voted to count; but the House, by a small majority, voted not to count them, on the ground that Mr. Greeley being dead, a vote for him was not in accordance with the intent of the Constitution. The total number of electoral votes was 366, of which 349 were cast for President and 352 for Vice President. The vote for President was as follows: For U. S. Grant .286 For B. Gratz Brown 18 For Thomas A. Hendricks 42 For T. J. Jenkins 2 For David Davis 1 The vote for Vice-President was as follows: For Henry Wilson 286 For B. Gratz Brown 47 For N. P. Bauks.... 1 For George W. Julian 5 For John M. Palmer 3 For Thomas E. Bramlette 3 For W. S. 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