Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, March 06, 1873, Image 2
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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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. !
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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,