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Scraps and (facts. Meridian, Miss., is to have a "colored persons'" hotel. Three hundred cars pass over the Georgia State road every day. The record of raining catastrophes in Pennsylvania last year includes 153 men killed and 462 wounded. The Costa Rica coffee crop this year is estimated at 30,000,000 pounds. The Michigan State prison holds sixty murderers under life sentences. Georgia papers say that the farmers of that State are preparing to plant a largely in* creased average crop of cotton. The labor market in Texas is said to be over-stocked by the immense immigration from other southern States. It is said that there are at this time fifteen hundred cases of measles in Atlanta, Georgia. A preacher in Baltimore makes a daily tour through the city to solicit the privilege of marrying those who are so inclined. The room built expressly for the inauguration ball at Washington is 325 feet long, 150 feet wide and 56 feet high. A man in Indianapolis recently, before committing suicide, interviewed a reporter and dictated the particulars of his history, so that no errors might occur in his obituary notice. A Washington thief recently stole a dollar, which had been given as a subscription toward the funeral expenses of a man who had committed suicide. Uuited States Minister J. L. Orr, has safely arrived at Paris, en route to St. Petersburg, Russia, which will for some years be his home. Five huudred and thirty women in the United States are doctors, twenty-four are dentists, five lawyers and sixty-eight preachers. Western papers announce the marriage of the widow of the late General John H. Morgan to Judge Wra. H. Williamson, of Lebanon, Tennessee. A member of the Mississippi Legislature declares that until he has made money enough to pay for his farm, he will not vote for adjournment. For the past five years an Indiana woman has had three husbands residing within five miles of each other, and nobody found her out until last week. People mind their own business in that State. At the present time not a single box of -r tin is manufactured in the United States, although it is claimed that there are large deposits of this valuable metal in New Hampshire, Missouri, and the Lake Superior regions. C. E. Perkinson, a magician well known in the South by the pseudonym of "St. Maur," died in New York recently. His remains were brought to Petersburg, Va., his native | home, for interment. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens was elected to Congress from the Eighth Georgia District, on Wednesday last, vice Gen. A. S. Wright, deceased. There was no opposition and the vote was light. The sexton of a church at Reading, Pennsylvania, having found and restored to the Lancaster Bank' $129,000 stolen therefrom, has received from the officers of that institution the munificent reward of $10. A War Department order, just promulgated, provides that the payment of rent, or any allowance fcr quarters or fuel of officers' servants, is prohibited until more specific legislation shall sanction it. Sheriff Dodson, of Pope county, Arkansas, who was recently assassinated died of his wound on Saturday. The Governor of the State has issued z. proclamation offering a reward of $1000 for each of the assassins of Dodson and Harriet. A young man of slender build, remarked one dav. in a circle of friends, that he had seen icicles as large as his leg. "Your leg, the devil," remarked another young man of squatty mould, "I've seen them as large as a hoe handle." Mrs. Putnam, widow of Putnam killed by Foster on the street cars in New York city two years ago, has written to Governor Dix asking a commutation of Foster's sentence. To-morrow is the day appointed for the execution of the death sentence on Foster. Mrs. McDaniel, whose husband had in Savannah, at the close of the war, a large amount of cotton which was confiscated by the Federal Government, by the advice of friends put in her claim, and was a few days since awarded and paid the sum of $95,000, which she has carried to Atlanta. Henry Clay once accused John Randolph of being an aristocrat. In a voice whose shrill, piercing tones penetrated every ear iu the House, Randolph exclaimed: "If a man is known by the company he keeps the gentleman who just sat down is more of an aristocrat than I claim to be; for he spends most of his nights in the company of kings and queens and knaves." A Bostonian of magnificent possibilities wishes to organize a company with $12,000,000 capital to enclose a tract of seveu square miles in an immense glass structure, within which invalids may make their permanent abode, having a tropical climate with its appropriate fruits and foliage, good hotels, picturesque drives, art galleries, an opera house, and in short everything that consumptives could possibly wish for except ventilation. A curious petition for an amendment to the Constitution was recently presented in the Senate, to the effect "that hereafter and throughout all time, all persons, whether of the State or National Government, who shall recommend civil war shall register their names in a book to be kept by the Secretary of State at Washington, and that when the war breaks out they occupy the front ranks in the line until the war closes ; and that, in default of so doing, they acknowledge themselves ready and worthy of being taken out and shot at any instant that the President of the United States, or any Governor of a State shall so order and direct." The California Legislature has been tinkering with the laws that concern the domestic relations, and the most notable results are embodied in a bill, that has just passed, to establish the equality of husband and wife. This abolishes the old theory that the two are one, and goes so far in the opposite direction as to provide that either can make a contract with the other or sue the other as if thev had never been married. It also provides that marriage metamorphoses minors into adults, so far as making contracts is concerned; though it does not appear that the male minor is enfranchised by matrimony. Altogether the law must be regarded as a long step toward the social chaos that the disciples of free love are inviting. It is stated that a Connecticut railroad is about to make a trial of the so-called paper : car wheels. These wheels are costly, but run j safely and easily. They have been known | some time to car builders, but their introduc-i tion into general use has been prevented by | the expense. Sheets of common straw paper : are forced into a compact mass by a pressure j of three hundred and fifty tons. The mass of | paper is turned perfectly round, and by a pressure of twenty-five tons, a hub is forced into a hole in the centre. This paper wheel,1 by a pressure of two hundred and fifty tons, ; is next forced into a steel tire with one-fourth inch bevel upon its inner circumference. Two circular plates are then bolted on to the tire to keep the paper filling in place. By this arrangement the steel tire rests upon the paper only, and partakes of its elasticity. It is | claimed that these wheels wear longer than ! those of any other description, injure the tracks j less, and run with less noise. The Daily Graphic, an evening paper to be published early in March, in New York, will be something entirely new in journalism. It will be an eight page paper, and one-half i its space will be filled with pictures, and the other half with news and advertisements. It will be photo-lithographed, and its proprietors claim that by this process a daily illustrated newspaper, giving a presentment of passing events to the eye as well as to the understanding, can b$ published at little more cost than if printed simply. By certain processes, patented by the Graphic Company, an artist's sketch can be transferred to the lithographic stone in from twenty minutes to two hours, according to the elaborateness of the drawing, that is to say, in reality, that the picture of any noteworthy event can be ready for the press as speedily as the reporter can write out the details and the compositor set them up. As to printing the impression, as yet lithographic printing by steam is not so rapid as n?Axh Kut o o!r>r?lo efnom litK Anrrfl nillP too nut J\ , UUl/ U OlUglO ObVUlu i?uuvgiMj/x>v press working a single stone is capable of producing from 1000 to 1200 impressions of the largest sized sheet per hour, and by multiplying the number of "transfers?using six or eight different stones on as many different presses?the publishers of the Daily Graphic will be able to produce from 10,000 to 15,000 copies per hour. ?he fjflrMle tfuquior. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 6,1873. 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, Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, Labels, Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks, Bill Heads, Law Briefs, Business Cards, Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads Checks, Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, Note Headings, Drafts and Notes, j Programmes, Envelopes, ;Policies, Fire?feLifeIns., Election Tickets, JShinplasters, 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. proceedingVof congress. In the Senate, on the 25th, speeches were made by several members on Louisiana affairs. The agricultural college bill was sent to the committee on conference. In the House, the Credit Mobilier business occupied the entire day. Speeches were made on the proposition to expel Brooks and Ames. Ames had his defence prepared in writing, which was read from the Speaker's desk by the Clerk. It is a lengthy and well-written paper, said to have been prepared by Caleb Cushing, and gives and elaborate history of the rise and progress of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Ames denies all corruption, declaring that his transactions were not with the secrecy that attests corrupt motives. He wound up by saying that if sacrificed, he should appeal with unfaltering confidence to history, for that vindication which it is proposed to deny him here. The debate was continued in the night. In the Senate, on the 26th, after tabling an amendment opening all the regiments of the army to the enlistment of colored men, the army appropriation bill was passed. The House bill paying southern claimants was reported without recommendation, and went on the calendar. Utah matters were discussed. In the House, the resolution expelling Brooks and Ames occupied the day. The House was thronged with eager visitors, and the debate was much more earnest and imposing than ou the day before. Brooks and Ames were present, the former looking fomewhat worsted, and the latter extremely dejected, which was increased by palor and feebleness incident to recent sickness. Mr. Beck made the first speech. He denounced the Credit Mobilier business from beginning to end, but declined to make any distinction in men, and while he thought Brooks and Ames both culpable alike, he thought other men were not guiltless. He took the ground that the House had no right to expel members for acts committed prior to their election, and referred, among other cases, to C. C. Bowen and John Morissey, who were charged with various crimes, and yet the House refused to take note of acts committed before their election. Mr. Yoorhees made an earnest defence of Brooks, whose long life of usefulness he highly eulogized. Mr. Banks made a lengthy speech, which is characterized by letter-writers as the best effort he ever made in the House. He denounced the concentration of wealth to control legislation, which, he said, though invisible, was then at that moment hearing every word that was said, and seeing every move. He supported the report of the Select Committee, and asserted that Congress must protect itself from the influence of wealthy corporations, which now permeate the atmosphere of the Capitol. At the night session Butler spoke in favor of Ames, his speech, as reported, abounding in special pleading, sharp criticism of the report, and hits at the Committee. His effort is re j_j __ xi.^ i. _c _ _i : : l garuea as me argument ui a suarp criminal lawyer, and Oakes Ames as his client. He spoke for nearly two hours and was followed by Shellabarger, in a legal argument in support of the Committee's report. Mr. Wilson also spoke in favor of the Committee's position. In the Senate, on the 27th, Louisiana affairs occupied the greater part of the day. Speeches ere made on three points?one upholding Kellogg as Governor; another in support of McEnry, and another in favor of ordering a new election. The debate was bitter. The (Senate) Credit Mobilier Committee reported resolutions expelling Senator Patterson, of New Hampshire. There was no resolution regarding Senator Harlan, and the Committee report that they have no jurisdiction over Vice-President Colfax. In the House, according to previous understanding, Judge Poland proceeded to close the debate on the resolution to expel Brooks and Ames. Before Poland commenced his speech, however, Mr. Sargent, of California, offered a resolution that inasmuch as the offences charged were committed more than four years ago, and that as serious doubts exist as to the power of Congress to punish offences committed before individuals became members, that the House only condemn theconductof Ames and Brooks. Poland then proceeded with his argument, at ; the conclusion of which the House voted on j Mr. Sargent's resolution censuring Brooks and | Ames, which was adopted. The subsequent proceedings consisted in an attempt to censure all others who have been implicated in the Credit Mobilier, which resolution was discussed during the afternoon and night, when finally the House decided otherwise, and the Committee was relieved. And thus has ended, so far as the House of Representatives is concerned, the Credit Mobilier excitement. The reputed chief offenders receive a vote of censure, while all the others, by the evidence, equally implicated in the matter of accepting bribes, (which is really the offence charged,) go unpunished. In the Senate, on the 28th, the credentials of Mr. Patterson, of South Carolina and Mr. ! Howe of Wisconsin, were presented and laid on the table. The sundry civil appropriation bill was discussed. The bill reported by the committee on elections for a new election in Louisiana was tabled, thus leaving affairs in that State in statu quo. The House, in Committee of the Whole on the legislative appro priations bill, spent the greater part of the day in a squabble over the Pacific Railroad matter, and also on an amendment reported by the Wilson committee directing the Attorney-General to bring suit for the disgorging of the Credit Mobilier plunder. The House has finished all the Senate amendments to the legislative appropriation bill. The Morrill amendment suspending judgments of the Court of Claims in cases of disloyalty was rejected without division. The salary amendment was adopted by four majority. It gives to the President 850,000 a yenr; to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 810,500; to the Justices of the Supreme Court, Cabinet officers, Vice-President, and Speaker of the House, 810,000; and to members of Congress, including those of the Forty-second Congress, 86,500 per year, but abolishes mileage, stationery, and all other allowances. The amendment withholding the cost of Government transportation from the Pacific railroads was adopted ; also, an amendment directing suit for the restitution of the Credit Mobilier extortions. The disagreeing votes have been referred to a conference committee, the House conference being Garfield, of Ohio (who is strongly opposed to the Morrill amendment) ; Butler, of Massachusetts (the manager of the salary increase); and Randall, of Pennsylvania. Congress was occupied most of the day on the 3rd with the appropriation bill. The conference committee reported in the evening, and the recommendations were agreed to. Salaries are fixed as follows: President, $25,000; Chief Justice Supreme Court, $10,500; Justices Supreme Court, Cabinet officers, VicePresident and Speaker, $10,000; Senators and members of House of Representatives, including present Congress, in lieu of mileage and all allowances, except actual individual traveling expenses, $7,500. THE PLOW. To make a good plow requires no great amount of mechanical knowledge nor of mechanical art. Notwithstanding this general statement to which, we suppose, few in a civilized land will find objection, the plow is a more correct index of progress in the arts and sciences, than most persons suppose. When we look at a plow, it is a very simple implement. There is very little complexity about its construction. Its parts are few and simple. We can examine all its parts in a moment?see all of it at a glance. Simple as it is, it is a trophy of modern civilization. It is true that the antiquity of the plow, or rather of an instrument which was called by that name, is very great. The modern plow is a recent invention. The plow of the ancieuts scarcely had one feature of the modern implement called by that name. The plow of the ancient Egyptians, Jews and Romans, must have been, from all the descriptions we have of it, a very rude implement of agriculture. It was little more than a crooked piece of wood, shod at one end with a blunt piece of iron. Such was its construction that it was hard on man and beast to have any thing to do with it.. Oxen were commonly used for drawing the plow. What we call the beam of the plow, was a long pole reaching to the yoke of the oxen and fastened directly to it. Both beam and foot were constructed from the fork of a tree?the part designed for the foot being cut off short. The handles, or rather handle, for there was only one, was a straight stick extending upward from the foot. The man that held this plow was in a continual strain and in fact in continual danger. He could not?he dare not?look back, lest he be crippled with the handle. The plow of modern half-civilized nations is not much better than was that of the ancients. A traveler, in speaking of the plow in use in the region of country about Soroco, South America, thus describes it: "The plow is little known and less used, and at its best estate is but the crotch of a tree forming with the trunk both handle, beam and point, the latter being shod with an iron band terminating in a sharp point. The ground is scratched and the sod somewhat loosened, but with little idea of making a straight line?'furrow'?I can't say." It would be no difficult task to prove that the plow marks the progress of the peaceful arts, for it is possible for a nation to be great in war and at the same time be destitute of all the arts which contribute to man's comfort. Such was the case with the aucient Scythians, and comparatively true of the Carthagenians and Romans. The dIow is eraDhaticallv the * i * badge of modern civilization, and the implement of all others which denotes progress in the arts of peace. The plow indicates more surely the high and exalted position which England, Araericaand Germauy hold amongst the nations of the earth than the glittering armor of her soldiers, or their frowning artillery. "By the plow we thrive," and by the plow we know that our growth is healthy and vigorous. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A bale of cotton weighing 916 pounds was sold last week in Spartauburg. ? The Port Royal Railroad is finished through to Augusta. ? It is rumored that Senator Sawyer will be a member of President Grant's new Cabinet. ? Mr. J. M. Crockett, one of the oldest citizens of Lancaster, died in that county on the 20th ultimo. ? It is proposed to establish cotton factories | in Sumter, Greenville, Anderson, Newberry and Lexington. j ?One day last week, a large and beautiful ; engine and a train of cars for the Air-Line 1 railroad, passed over the Greenville railroad, i ? Win. Mabry was found dead in bed, at ! the residence of his brother in Jonesville, 1 Union county, last week. ; ?The Senate confirmed the appointment of James T. Jeter, as a trial justice for Union ; county, and H. G. Gaffuey for Spartanburg. | ?Large numbers of colored persons are ; emigrating from the counties of Laurens, j Union and Newberry, either to Mississippi or Arkansas. I ?L. I. Woolf, an ex-trial justice, who was recently convicted in Charleston of the killing of Perrin, and scuteuced to five years' imprisonment in the penitentiary, is now an inmate of that institution. ? Messrs. John Wilson, W. C. Keith, T. Q, Donaldson, Thomaq C. Dunn, W. E. Holcombe and G. W. Duvall, Conservative Senators, filed their protest against the bill to appropriate $35,000 to pay the ku-klux hunters. ? Postmaster Wilder, of Columbia, has resigned his position as Alderman of one of the wards of that city, in consequence of the order forbidding United States officials from holding more than one office. ? Thirty foreign emigrants are said to be on their way from New York to Columbia, under an engagement to work in a stave and shingle factory recently established in Richland county. ? Just previous to adiournment, the Legis lature elected Macon B. Allen, colored, Judge of the Inferior Court of Charleston, vice Judge Lee, colored, deceased. Allen was the "bolters' " candidate for Secretary of State at the last election. ? The Columbia Herald says there will be a meeting of the incorporators of the Chester and Cheraw Railroad at Lancaster on the 15th of April, after which it is probable that a consolidation will be effected, under the name, style and firm of the Little River, Cheraw and Chester Railroad Company. ? Trains are now running upon the AirLine Railroad from Charlotte to thirteen miles west of Spartanburg. The road is nearly all graded, and as soon as the bridges can be built the track will be laid from several points at the same time, viz: From Spartanburg west, from Greenville east and west, from the Blue Ridge Railroad east and west, and from Gainesville, Georgia, this way. It is expected that the road will be completed in June. ? A circular letter was issued last Saturday, by Comptroller-General Hoge, to each of the county auditors, requiring them to instruct the county treasurers to proceed at once to issue executions for the unpaid taxes of 1872? 73. with the addition of the twentv ner cent. ? -, _ -- y r ? penalty imposed by law. The county treasurers will thus be required to make a speedy collection of all unpaid taxes by distress or otherwise, the personalty of the tax payer being required to be first exhausted before proceeding against his real estate. The publication of the lists of delinquent taxes is to be commenced on April 15th, and the sales of real estate for unpaid taxes are fixed for May 5th. ? The Columbia Evening Herald of Saturday last, says: "Senator Dunn goes to Chester to-night for the purpose of starting the "ball in motion" for the Chester and Cheraw Railroad. It is stated that this road will be commenced immediately. It is an important link in the proposed seaboard route, connecting with the Little River and Cheraw Road, thence on the Chester and Lenoir route up through York county, striking the Western North Carolina, near Hickory Tavern, thence on to Eastern Tennessee, ultimately striking the Knoxville and East Tennessee Road, and thereby opening to the seaboard some of the richest and most productive portions of the country in the United States." ? The Charleston News furnishes the following information in regard to Macon B. Allen, recently elected Judge of the Inferior Court of Charleston : "Macon B. Allen, the newly elected Judge of the Inferior Court, is fiftyfive years old, and a native of the State of Indiana. He is a colored man of light complexion, aud is said to have Scotch blood in his veins. He commenced life as a school teacher, but shortly giving up that vocation, he removed to New England, where he studied law in the office of the Hon. Samuel Fessenden, at Portland, Me., and is said to have been the first colored man in the United States to gain admission to the practice of ! law. He practiced for many years in Boston, Mass., which place he left for South Carolina in 1868. He is a respectable colored man of temperate habits and courteous bearing." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Legislature adjourned last Monday. ? It is rumored that ex-Governor Holden is to be appointed post-master at Raleigh. ? "Commercial Hall," the high-sounding title of a Greensboro gin-mill, was closed out at auction last week. Temperance revival the cause. ? The Hickory Tavern Press reports that United States Marshals were in that place last week, and made several arrests. From the statement of the Press we infer the arrests were made under the enforcement act. ? The Charlotte Observer says a number of farmers in that section report that the epizootic has returned and attacked their stock with increased virulence. Several cases have proved fatal to horses and mules. ? A heavy land-slide occurred last week on the Western N. C. Railroad, between I Hickory and Salisbury, which seriously affects travel on that road, and it will be some time before the track is cleared. ? The Patrot says the three leading nurserymen of Guilford county sold, the past season, 200,000 fruit trees?principally in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The liberal plantiDg of fruit trees in the South is [ noted as an indication of advancement. ? The Supreme Court sustains Mr. Mclver in holding over as Superintendent of Public Instruction. Mclver, who was elected by the people four years ago, refused to vacate the office for an appointee of the Governor, the Superintendent-elect having died before he was qualified. ? J. G. Hester, of Raleigh, famous as an unscrupulous government detective, has been nominated by the President for the position of Consul to Santiago. The North Carolina papers rejoice to learn that Hester will accept. The further he goes the more they will be pleased. ? The sale of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad, under the decree of foreclosure granted at the late term of the | Superior Court of New Hanover county, will take place in Wilmington on the 10th of April. It it understood that the bondholders will buy it, when it is expected it will be speedily completed. ? The Legislature, through a committee ^ A - J ? Urto flin UppOlLILtJU 1UI LUUk purpuac, lias i^oviuuvu uiu contract for building the penitentiary, by agreeiug to pay the contractors the sum of 835,000?the contractors to cease work and release the State from further liability on | their account. The convict labor will be j applied to works of internal improvement. ? The Charlotte Observer says, at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Fair of I the Carolinas, in Charlotte, Thomas L. Vail I was elected Treasurer, vice J. C. Burroughs, I resigned. The following is a list of the agents of the Association in South Carolina: York, Joseph A. McLean, S. E. White, Allen Jones, i W. H. McCorkle; Lancaster?John Foster, J. B. Erwin; Spartanburg?W. F. Smith, ; Edward Bobo, S. C. Means ; Chester?Julius I Mills, J. L. Harris, W. S. Gregg. The AsI sociation is in debt about $13,000. X.OCAX. AFFAIRS. ! . NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. i R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.-SherilT's Sales. I Wilson <ft Black, Charlotte, N. C.?Wilson's Liver Remedy. ! A. H. White and L. S. White, Administrators ? Application for Discharge. A. F. Lindsay, Lowrysville?New Store. W. H. A J. P. Herndon?1Tan-Bark?Heed Potatoes?Our Tin?Sifters?Quory?Tubs? Oil?Ilams. Carroll, Clark A Co.?Great Bargains?Remember?Flour?Dried. Beef?Umbrellas?Dry Goods?Glass?Iloes?Little Expenses?Potatoes?Roasted Coffee?Yarn?The Value of a Dollar. R. II. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Judge of Probate's Sale. James F. Hart, Plaintiff's Attorney?To Khoda Ferguson, Green Ferguson and William P. Broach, Defendants. T. M. Dobson A Co.?Delinquent Men?Fluting Irons?Crockery?Bolts?Gun WaddingFool Adz?Wrought Nails?Handles?Mucilage?Chisels?Bed Castors?Hat RacksSquares?Rim Locks?Try Squares?Flesh j Forks?Candle Snuffers?Glue Pots?Pow- | der and Fuse?Spool Thread?15 Boxes Tobacco?Steel. John C. Kuykendal?Breast Pin Lost. W. H. H. Houston & Co., Charlotte?Fresh Arrivals. SALES-DAY. On Monday last, a large number of persons were in town from the country. So far as we could learn there were no official sales. CONFIRMATIONS. Previous to adjournment, the Senate confirmed the appointment of J. L. Watson as County Treasurer for York, and John Martin as a Trial Justice. PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. Our thanks are tendered to Hon. A. S. Wallace, member of Congress from this Congressional District, for a number of valuable public documents. MORE KU-KLUX PARDONED. A Washington dispatch of the 1st instant says that Miles Carrol, Miles McCullough, Henry Warlick and James A. Saunders, kuklux prisoners confined in the Albany penitentiary, have been pardoned by the President. I The three first-named are from York county, and Saunders is from Chester. . ARREST OF BILL GARRISON. This notorious individual, who fled from this county more than a year ago, in consequence of his connection with the robbery of Douglas' store, is now in the jail at this place. He was arrested, in Chester county about ten days ago, under a bench warrant issued at the time his confederates were tried and convicted. THE CIRCUIT COURT. On Monday last, the grand and petit jurors summoned for the March term of the Circuit Court for this county, attended at the Court House. The Clerk of the Court called the roll of jurors and dismissed the petit jurors from further atteudance, and the grand jurors until the first Monday of April. ADMITTED TO BAIL. H. Middleton Moore, who has been confined in the jail at this place since last November, charged with complicity in the Roundtree murder, was admitted to bail by Commissioner Wilkes on Tuesday last, in a bond of $5000, giving as sureties Thomas Whitesidea and Calvin Whisonant. RELIEVED. Col. Lewis Merrill, who has been in command of this post for about two years, has been relieved of the command of the troops, and ordered to report to Attorney General Williams for service in connection with the pending ku-klux trials. Capt. John Christopher, of the 18th Infantry, is now in command of this post. BACK NUMBERS. In answer to frequent applications for back numbers of the Enquirer, issued since the first of January last, we have to say that we are unable to furnish them. The entire edition is exhausted, and for the present we will commence new subscriptions with the number of the paper containing our new story? "Florimond ; or, Divorce or No Divorce." MOKE COLD WEATHER. From present indications the spring season will be quite backward in this latitude. We have, as yet, had but few pleasant, genial days this year. Saturday last was cold, blustery and snowy, ending with rain. A great deal of rain fell on Sunday, too; though in the afternoon it cleared away, since which time we have had bright days, but intensely cold for this section. The ground is frozen, the wind keen and cutting, and altogether it is very disagreeable to those usually accus tomeci to a wanner lemperuiuie m, wu dcbsuu of the year. The farmers complain of the backwardness of the season, as seriously delaying preparations for planting. UNFORTUNATE OCCURRENCE. ! On Tuesday of last week an unfortunate affair took place on the plantation of Mr. J. T. Lowry, about five miles south of town. It seems that Mr. Lowry's son, Montague, a lad of about 15 years of age, who was in possession of a small pocket pistol, had proposed to exchange pistols with Wylie Graham, a freedman living on his father's farm, and while in the act of examining their weapons, Montague's, which was in his own hands at the time, was accidentally discharged, the ball penetrating Graham's breast, from the effects of which he died in a few minutes. At an inquest before Coroner J. R. Wallace, held soon after the occurrence, the verdict of the jury was in accordance with the above facts? viz: "that the said Wylie Graham did die from a wound in the breast by a ball from a pistol, while in the hands of Montague J. Lowry, which, was a mere accident, and no intention on the part of the said Montague J. Lowry to hurt or kill." TPiVSPERS OF REAL ESTATE. J The following transfers of real estate in York county, have been reported to the County Auditor since the 25th ultimo: , E. M. Law, Executor " T. A. Latta, deceased, to Ann C. Latta. House and lot in Yorkville. Consideration, $350. The same to same. House and lot in Yorkville. Consideration, $1000. The same to John A. Latta. A tract of 80 acres of land in York township. Consideration, $1200. The same to W. M. Latta and others. House and lot in Yorkville. Consideration, $7,000. The same to Ann J. Wilson. House and lot in Yorkville. Consideration, $3500. W. J. & V. A. Faris to W. J. Neely. TJndived interest in a tract of 200 acres of land in Ebenezer township, formerly belonging to the estate of J. M. Neely. Consideration, $175. W. J. Neely to J. A. M. L. Stewart. A tract of 100 acres of land in Ebenezer township. Consideration, $700. I G. M. Moore to Air Line Railroad Company. A tract of 12 acres of land in Cherokee township. 4 R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C. to John L. Watson. House and lot in Yorkville, formerly belonging to the estate of Alfred Stilwell, deceased. Consideration, $300. R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C. to Joseph N. Steele. A tract of 277 acres of land in Bethesda 1 township, formerly belonging to the estate of I Sam'l Steele, deceased. Consideration $f>78. N. C. & R. L. Boyd to Zirari Carroll. A ! tract of 49 acres of land in Bethel township. Consideration, $300. S. D. Paris to W. J. Faris, jr. A tract of' 100 acres of land in Ebenezer township. Con- j sideration, $200. J. H. Cathcart to S. D. Carothers. Ten acres of land and one third interest in the mills of J. F. Carothers & Co., located in Ebenezer township. Consideration $2,200. S. D. Faris to J. I. Fans. A tract of 150 acres of land in Ebenezer township. Consideration $200. Martha Spencer to Anderson Hall. One acre of land in Catawba township. Consideration $50. A. H. Barnett to John Dulin. A tract of 78 acres of land in Bethel township. Consideration $171. AWARD OF'PREMIUMS. Monday last being the day appointed for awarding premiums to club-inakers for the Enquirer, the lists were closed at 1 o'clock, when it was ascertained that A. F. Lindsay was entitled to the first premium ; J. R. Howe to the second ; Maj. Myles Smith to the third; and S. W. Jackson to the fourth?these gentlemen having respectively furnished the four largest lists. As will be seen from the subjoined statement, others did well; and it is but proper to say that many persons furnished lists who were not competitors for the premiums offered. They are, however, equally entitled to our thanks ; and to one and all we make our acknowledgements. We are not prone to indulge in self-gratulation; yet we feel that we may be excused if we allude to the fact that the Enquirer is in a prosperous condition, and when we say that our circulation in York County alone is over one thousand, we feel that it is a compliment as justly due to the intelligence and liberality of our own county people, as to any achievement v.e might claim in our efforts to place before thorn an acceptable publication. Below we i ? _* /? -1..1 1 J J 1J append a use 01 ciuos as reiurueu, uuu wuuiu inform those entitled to the premiums that they ,\re ready for delivery at any time: A. F. Lindsay, 109; Jos. R. Howe, 66; Maj. M. Smith, 57 ; 8. W. Jackson, 43; Rev. J. S. Baiiy, 37 ; W. L. Grist, 36; Col. W. B. Allison, 24: J. P. Hunter, 24; M. \V. Mendonball, 24; D. T. Lessley, 22; Samuel S. Smith, 21; A. H. Barnett, 21; J. L. Barron, 20; Andrew Stewart, 20 ; G. L. McNeel, 18 ; Char^o Petty, 18; J. H. Coltharp, 16; R. L. Crook, 15; D. J. Jackson, 15; Ira Hardin, 14; T. M. Carothers, 14; Maj. A. A. McKenzie, 13; W. S. Gregory, 13; J. H. Hood, 12; E. M. Berry, 12; J. D. Wylie, 12; H. C. Harris, 14; T. K. Bates, 11; Rev. J. C. Burge, 11; W. J. Stephenson, 11; J. R. Hogue, 10; Simon Ferguson, 10; J. D. F. Duncan, 10; H. T. Bruce, 10; T. A. Douglas, 10; J. N. Roberts, 9; R. A. Black, 8; J. A. Brown, 8; G. S. Riddle, 8; A. Sylvanus Wallace, 6; R. W. _Whitesides,_6; Whitesides & Marion, 6; J. E. Craig, 5; Dr. L. A. Hill, 5. Total, 854. WASHINGTON ITEMS. ? James Banks and Charles Howard, two Alabama ku-klux imprisoned at Albany, have been pardoned by the President ? The Committee of Conference have agreed to extend the time of the Southern Claims Commission four years. They have 20,000 unheard claims before them. ? It is stated that if Congress gets through with all legitimate business, the President will yet take his southern tour, as the Executive session of the Senate will only last about one week. ? Congress has almost entirely ignored the Credit Mobilier business, and it is understood that no action will be taken in the case of Senator Patterson, of New Hampshire, whose expulsion was recommended by Morrill's committee. ? The report on Senator Poraeroy, of Kansas, exonerates him from the charge of bribery. The evidence in the investigation leads to the conclusion that Pomeroy was the victim of a conspiracy. The seven thousand dollars given to York was placed in his hands to deliver to J. Q. Page and others, of Independence, to assist in starting a National bank, Poraeroy having borrowed 85000 of the same for that purpose. Page has brought suit vr i /* .1 _ / xl against I one ior tne recovery 01 me muuey ; and the Kansas Legislature lias impeached York for conduct unbecoming a member. EDITORIAL^INKLINGS. Alabama Matters. In the Supreme Court, at Montgomery, on Monday last, two of the Justices decided that the late Court House Legislature was a legal body. Justice SufFold delivered a dissenting opinion, based on the ground that the only legal Legislature was based on the plan proposed by Attorney-General Williams. "Who Burnt Columbia V9 We are indebted to Messrs. Walker, Evans & Cogswell, Charleston, for a copy of a pamphlet, containing, together with extracts from depositions for claimants, the testimony of Generals Sherman and Howard before the mixed commission on British and American claims, in Washington, D. C. Persons desiring a copy can secure one by forwarding fifty cents to the publishers. We make the following extract from the preface: "The principal object of the publication is to disseminate widely throughout the South the statements of those Federal officers, that the facts may be drawn out and testimony found to completely rebut the statements out out by the United States Attorneys, and tnus to vindicate the Southern people." Louisiana Matters. Congress, up to the present writing, is slow to act upon the President's urgent recommendation, communicated in a special message, to legislate Louisiana out of the labyrinth into which the politicians and officeseekers have plunged the State. The President wishes to be relieved of all responsibility in the matter,* while apparently, Congress does not wish to assume the risk of "lifting the veil" in this particular case?something more being required than a mere vote of censure. With the view of hastening matters, Governor McEnry, by the advice, and with the authority of the Legislature acting under his auspices, has issued a proclamation calling out the mi litia, for the purpose, as ostensibly given, of reinstating the Judges of the third, fourth seventh and eighth district courts, deposed by the Pinchback faction. This will doubtless hasten matters to a crisis, though a collision of arms is not apprehended. By the latest intelligence we learn the Senate rejected the House bill providing for a new election (which was really theonly correctsolution to the difficulty.) It is now understood that the Government will support the Kellogg or Pinchback party, and any attempt to overthrow it by the McEnry wing will be resisted by the Federal troops on the ground of preserving peace. Wheat In California. It has been said that the wheat crop of California is worth more to that State than its gold. A six months review of the wheat trade of that State shows a crop, sold and unsold, valued at $24,000,000, and it is estimated that the next crop, will yield 40,000,000 bushels. The San Francisco Chronicle has an exhaustive article on this product, claiming that California is the prospective granary of nations. That paper says : "England to-day looks to the Pacific coast as Rome of old did to Africa. The masses of the imperial city were fed by the husbandmen of Egypt and Africa Propria, and so the masses of the cities of Britain, if not of Europe, it is claimed, will for the future be fed mainly from the shores of the Pacific. The increase of the wheat trade of California is one of the remarkable features ot the history or that State. It was not always known that its golden riches were to be sought above the soil rather than below it, and the fact is not even yet recognized as it ought to be. California began exporting wheat only seventeen years ago. In 1859-60 it exported about as much as is now sent to Great Britain in a single week, and the largest quantity exported in any harvest year prior to the present was in 1869-70, the total quantity being less by 300,000 centals than it has been during the last half year. Immense profits are realized from the trade. One firm, for instance, have purchased nearly three:fourths of all exported, valued at 89,000,000, and must have netted an immense fortune. Others have been proportionate lucky. It is estimated that at the present time 380 vessels are engaged in the California wheat trade, so that now, and for the balance of this year, the Pacific, through seventy, and the Atlantic through ninety degrees of latitude, will be covered with this fleet, which will thus be spread, at about half a day's sail from each other, over a distance equal to one-half the circumference of the globe." The Mnrder of Stephens. All newspaper readers are familiar with the murder of John W. Stephens, of Caswell county, North Carolipa, which occurred in June, 1870, and which, from the mysterious manner of its committal, and being among the first of the ku-klux outrages perpetrated in that State, created quite a sensai? .1 I A a 1 1 -vr 1. M _ A 3 uoq mrougnoui tne country., jnoiwiinsianaing the mystery which for so long a time enveloped this affair, it would seem the adage that "murder will out" is again verified, and that by the confession of one of the murderers, the names of all who were engaged in the crime have been revealed. In the State Legislature, last week, pending a discussion of the bill granting amnesty to all persons in the State who had committed crime in the name of any political or secret organisation, Mr. Bowman, who opposed the bill, in the course of his speech, referred to the Stephens outrage, and made the following statement, which, it is said, fell in the House like a clap of thunder. He recited the incidents of the affair as follows: "A public Democratic meeting was in progress in the Court House at Yancejrville, the county-seat of Caswell; a prominent Democrat of Caswell approached Stephens with a smile, and asked him to go down stall's with him. Stephens assented, and they went into a room formerly occupied by the clerk of the court of equity; as soon as they entered the room the door was locked; there were in thq room eight white men and one negro. Stephens was surprised to find the-room full of men, and was struck with horror when a rope, fixed as a lasso, was thrown over his neck from behind, and be was told by the spokesman of the ku-klux crowd that he most renounce his Republican principles, leave the country or die. Stephens said he could not give up his Republican principles; that he believed they were right, and that the Republic would prosper if they were carried out; that he could not leave the county and State, because all his were there; that the colored people looked upon him as a leader; that they depended on him, and he could not desert them. Stephens was then told that, he must die. He then asked to be allowed to take a last look from the window of the office, at his home and any of his family that might be in view. The request was granted, and when Stephens stepped to the window he Deheld bis two little children playing in front of his house. He was then thrown down on a table, two of the ku-klux holding his arms. The rope was ordered to be drawn tighter, and the negro was ordered to get a bucket to catch the blood. This done, one of the crowd severed the jugular vein, the negro caught the blood in the bucket, and Stephens was dead. His body was laid an a pile of wood in the room, and the murderers went upstairs and took part in the meeting." Mr. Bowman was asked if he made this statement of his own knowledge. He replied that he was in possession of the sworn evidence of one of the parties who was present and assisted at the murder; that the statement was made and sworn to before an officer authorized to administer oaths and issue warrants of arrest. The Rewards for Catching Kn-Klux. By authority of Governor Moses, the following official opinion, given to him by James A. Dunbar, acting Attorney-General, fr\ oimo ovioinrv ftlO nfAclit* 1u ic^aiu tu v/iuiuig mliomg uuviv* ?uv raation of the Governor of the State, dated July 28,1871," is published in the Columbia papers "for the information of all whom it may concern." The proclamation promulgating the opinion, is dated February 28, 1873.: Dear Sir : Replying to your communication of the 27th instant, I have the honor to say that I have carefully examined the act to which you refer, entitled "An act to make an appropriation to pay claims arising under the proclamation of the Governor of the State, dated July 28, 1871," approved February 26, 1873. . The act requires on the part of claimants that they shall submit to and file their claims with the Governor. This presumes the filing with their claims the evidence of their validity. It further makes it the duty of the Governor to "examine said claims and determine whether they are properly embraced within the terms of said proclamation." He is, therefore,the sole officer to judicially decide whether the claims submitted are "valid claims under the terms of the said proclamation." The remainder of the act simply defines the routine by which the money shall be drawn in pay ment of such claims as he shall determine to be of the kind specified. What are valid claims properly embraced within the terms of said proclamation, must be determined by an examination of the terms of the proclamation itself. The purpose of the proclamation was evidently to secure the breaking up of the kuklux organization, and the bringing to punishment of its members, as may be at once seen from the language used, namely: "In orAfka nflt-hno fa tkooo miir^nvo o'rirl UCi tuat bllO wai IIM ku mwiuviu ?uv? outrages may be apprehended and appropriately punished." To this end a reward is offered "for the apprehension and delivery of any and every person in any jail of this State, with proof to convict them of having aided or participated in any or either of these acts of violence and murder, or of having in disguise threatened the life of any one within the State." The above quoted language admits of no doubt in regard to its requirements in order to establish a valid claim thereunder. There must be first, the apprehension and delivery of the person charged with the crime, in some jail of this State; and second, the furnishing of "proof to convict" the same. Each and all of these requirements must be united, in order to entitle any oue to be paid under the present act. It is an error to suppose that there must be in each case an actual conviction before the reward can be claimed, for the requirement of the proclamation is not "conviction," but "proof to convict." It is equally an error to suppose that the simple arrest of a party, charged with the crime in question, or his arrest and delivery in a jail, is sufficient, for the third requisite must also be present, namely,