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Scraps and (facts.
Monday next is St. Patrick's day.
The Legislature of Rhode Island has j
legalised marriages between blacks and whites, j
The epizooty has brokeu out among the ;
cats in Wilmington, N. C.
Prussia proposes to substitute for the
jury system a mixed court consisting of three i
judges and four laymen.
Brigham Young recently issued invitations
to the one hundred and seventeenth j
christening in his family.
All the professions are now represented
in the Georgia Penitentiary except Congressmen.
A meteor fell northeast of Pickens a j
few days ago, making a noise like the report |
of a cannon.
Lake Michigan is completely frozen |
across at Milwaukee, where it is eighty-five i
miles wide.
An inmate of the Pennsylvania penitentiary
has occupied a solitary cell for thirtyfour
years without seeing the sun.
A young gentleman of twenty-six recently
married a lady of forty-two in Minnesota,
and now sues for a divorce because she
"chastises him."
The Houston (Texas) Union says that
more cattle have perished in that State this
winter by cold and starvation than in any
former equal duration of cold weather.
Kansas girls, in great numbers, are
signing a pledge not to marry a man who
drinks. There is a great temperance revival
going on in nearly all of the Western rStates.
Vermont?where, as is well known, no
liquor is sold?has 16,000 drunkards, 4000
habitual "hard drinkers" and 20,000 young
men just beginning to drink.
The man who returned his neighbor's
borrowed umbrella was seen, a day or two
ago, walking in company with the young lady
who passed a looking glass without taking a
peep. It is believed they are engaged.
In view of the large number of negroes
who are emigrating, Virginia planters want
the Legislature to make it a punishable offense
for foreign agents to induce the laboring classes
to leave the State.
Rev. A. J. Wifherspoon, formerly a
resident of Yorkville, is now located in New
Orleans, in charge of the mission schools established
by the brotherhood of Dr. Palmer's
church.
The Washington Star states that the
chair used at the inauguration of General
Grant, on Tuesday, was the same in which
George Washington was inaugurated as first
President of the United States.
Carefully prepared calculations show
that the whole coffee production available in
Brazil for the next nineteen months, is 12,300,000
bags, which is very far below the
needs of the world, the United States alone
consuming 100,000 bags a month.
Barnura is going to make his animals
fire-proof now. The elephant will wear a
corrugated iron overcoat, the baboons will
have Babcock extinguishers strapped to their
backs, while the camels and other animals
will be coated heavilv with fire-Droof paint.
* & *
A bricklayer in New York died recently
and left a fortune variously estimated at
from $46 to $50 to his wife. Two brothers of
the deceased, who were left out in the cold,
now propose to contest the will, and have instituted
proceedings in a New York court to
that end.
Texas letter writersstate that Dennison,
Texas, was a wilderness five months ago.
Now it has a population of forty-five hundred
; houses are going up in all directions;
its streets are one hundred feet wide; a hotel
containing one hundred rooms is nearly completed,
and there are three banks, an opera
house, and an immense freight dep6t.
It is said that a little railroad at Bayou
Sara, La., runs to Woodville on a very uncertain
ftohedule. A stranger came in the
other day and enquired how often the steam
car made trips to the country. The party interrogated
said "tri-weekly." "What do you
mean by tri-weekly ?" The answer was, "It
goes up one week and tries to come down the
next."
The United States Postoffice Department
has decided that after a letter leaves the
mailing office it passes from the control of the
writer and must be delivered to its address.
If the person to whom the letter is addressed
cannot be found, then the sender of the letter
becomes the principal party again, and the
letter must be returned to the sender either
through the dead letter office, or in accordance
with the "request," if there be one on
th5 euvelope.
The New Orleans Picayune says: "We
learn that the prospects are favorable for a
large increase in the area devoted to rice in
the State this coming season. The past year
has been so disastrous to sugar planters that,
it is said, many who have previously cultivated
cane exclusively will turn their attention
to rice. It is probable, therefore, that with a
favorable season Louisiana will produce this
year 100,000, or perhaps 125,000 barrels of
this cereal."
The Bank of Eugland covers five acres
of ground and employs nine hundred clerks.
Light is admitted through open courts, and
no mob could take the bank, therefore, without
cannon to batter the immense walls. The
clock in the centre of the bank has fifty dials
attached to it. Large cisterns are sunk in the
court, and engines, in perfect order, are always
in readiness in case of fire. The bank
was incorporated in 1694. Capital $90,000,000.
The Petersburg, (Va.) Index, of the
28th ultimo, says: "Mr. J. B. Marshall has a
sample of corn at his store, known as the
extra early field corn, raised in Botetourt
county, which has a most wonderful reputation.
It is claimed that 192 bushels of this
corn has been grown on an acre. As to this
we have only to say that it was a good deal
of corn and a very little ground; but it may
be true, and is, doubtless, a good variety. It
sells for the modest little sum of one dollar
per quart."
The Springfield (Illinois) Journal states
that about the year 1832, while Gen. Zachary
Taylor, afterward President of the United
States, was in command of the fort at Dixon's
Ferry, near where Dixon, Illinois, now stands,
Jefferson Davis, who was a Lieutenant in the
United States service at that time, and serving
under General Taylor, administered the oath
to Abraham Lincoln, then a Captain in the
volunteer militia of that State. It is also
stated, upon the same authority that General
Robert Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, was
a Lieutenant, and present at the time.
Of all the dreary places, says Colonel
Curtis, deliver me from the farm houses which
so many call home. Bars for a front gate,
chickens wallowing before the door, pig pens !
olW/iu7i?icr the Vimise in the rear scra^pv trees
v4wv " '"b wmv ?v " "ooj :
never cared for, or no trees at all, no cheering j
shrubs, no neatness, no trimness. And yet a !
lawn and trees and neat walks and a pleasant j
face don't cost a great deal. They can be se-1
cured little by little, at odd times, and the !
expense hardly felt. And if the time comes 1
when it is best to sell the farm, fifty dollars j
so invested will often bring back $500.
Foster, the car-hook murderer, under;
sentence of death in New York city, has been \
granted a respite by the Governor of the State.j
It is thought his sentence will be commuted !
to imprisonment for life. This action is based
upon several papers which have been submit- j
ted to Governor Dix, the first being a lengthy j
letter from the prisoner's father, claiming:
there wa3 not sufficient motive to give rise to
a premeditated design to murder Putnam, and :
pleads his son's former good character, &c.,!
as a reason for exercising clemency in his
case. The second is a letter from the prisoner's
wife, being a simple, touching plea for
mercy. Letters and affidavits then follow
from seven of the jurors before whom Foster ,
was tried. A long opinion follows by ex-Attorney
General Evarts, supporting the view '
that murder being unpremeditated is reduced j
to some grade of manslaughter; also, opinions j
of Judge Davis, ex-Comraissiouer Leonard j
Barlow, Rev. Dr. Tyng, and numerous letters j
from citizens.
New Hampshire holds the first spring
election this year, and the candidates for j
Governor are Ezekiel A. Straw, Republican, j
and James A. Weston, Democrat. The election
was held on March 11. The next election
will be held in Rhode Island, April 2d, and
the third in Connecticut, April 7th. In the
latter State Henry P. Haven, Republican,
and Chas. B. Ingersoll, Democrat, have been
nominated for Governor. Both in New
Hampshire and Connecticut members of Con- j
gress are to be chosen at these elections, the j
former having three and the latter four members.
At the Presidential election the major- !
ities for Grant were, in New Hampshire, 5744;
Rhode Island, 8536, and Connecticut, 4758.
At the Goveruor's elections in these States, in
the spring of last year, the Republicans carried
New Hamnshire bv 2167. Rhode Island
1065, and Connecticut by 2001.
iite ?orMle inquirer.
YORKVILLE, S. C.t
THURSDAY MORNING,MARCH 13,1873.
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PRUDENCE.
To wend our way comfortably through this
world two things are absolutely necessary.
These two things are simply prudence and
common sense.. Some persons, no doubt, think
that many other things are of more importance
than either prudence or common sense,
or of both together. A little reflection, however,
will, we are satisfled, convince any one
that prudence is of itself an inexhaustible
source not only of comfort, but also of individual
and national wealth. It happens often
in the lives of some men, and sometimes in the
lives of all men, that the only weapon of defence
which they have is prudeuce. We have
the highest authority for saying that "a soft
answer turnethaway wrath ; but angry words
. . n .. Ai . >| 1
stir up 8trite." .an ancient pnnospner ui no
mean reputation, once remarked that he bad
often beensorry that he had spoken, but never
that he had kept silence. Such is the experience
of every reflecting man. As a rule,
our tongues get us into more difficulties than
all the other members of our bodies combined.
The man that has perfect control over his own
tongue, has capital sufficient to take him
through this wor'd comfortably, and to the
grave in peace.
At present, there is no ordinary amount of
prudence necessary on the part of our people.
Recently, we have passed through scenes that
were any thing else than pleasant. Some of our
people have suffered grievously, and all of us
have in some way or other suffered much.
Many are suffering yet, and in all human
probability will be subjected to suffering for
sometime to come. With many, the suffering
of the present is only reflexive or indirect,
and with all, we cherish the hope that a better
day is not far distant. There is no disguising
the fact that the recent difficulties
which have taken place betweeu the government
of the United States and certain sections
of the Southern State3 with reference to the
ku-klux, have engendered a state of feeling
that is by no means desirable. The passions
of the human soul have been stirred, and the
fires of hate kindled. On the part of the government,
at present, there seems to be a disposition
to show some mercy. A number of
persons have been pardoned and permitted to
return to their homes. What the government
will do in the case of those still incarcerated,
and in the case of those whose trials are still
pending, we have no means of knowing. We
hope that mercy may be prominent in all the
acts of the government respecting these individuals.
In view of all the circumstances by
which we aresurrouuded, it does seem that, as
a people, we should all be prudent in words
and actious. At present, in this section, the
utmost quiet prevails?no disturbance of any
kind whatever having recently occurred.
Every individual is accorded all the rights
that the laws of the land grant him. This,
surely, is all that any one could ask. We
trust that our people will continue thus to
act, and that the good sense of those in authority
will treat us accordingly. Whatever
course the government of the United States
may pursue respecting us, we must be prudent.
We are powerless. We must put a bridle
on our tongues and act with great caution.
We can say nothing that will in the least better
our condition; hence, on our part it is an
evidence of wisdom to keep silent. We can
do nothing in the way of resistance that will
ameliorate our condition, even if resistance
were justifiable; hence, the only safe and prudent
course for us is to attend to our own business
and let everv body else do the same. A
relapse is often more dangerous and harder to
control than the first attack. If there are
amongst us any individuals who conceive that
they are able to sway the masses, let such individuals
counsel the multitude to be prudent.
A poor prudent man once, we read, saved a
city, whilst many a nation has been ruined by
recklessness.
FATAL BLUNDERS.
We fear our planters are about to adopt a
suicidal policy. At present the country is
slowly, but surely, approaching a state of
prosperity. Our people are in a better condition
to make a crop during this year than
they have been in at least six years. This
favorable prospect has been brought about,
not by legislative enactments, but by the peculiar
character of the crops which wer?
produced last year. For a number of years
previous to 1872, provisions of all kinds were
generally scarce and consequently dear.
Without any concert of actiou, our farmers,
each one for himself, set about iu the fall of
1871, to remedy this evil. A larger amount
of small grain than was usual was sown. In '
the spring of 1872 the same idea was promi- [
nent in the minds of the planting communi- j
ty, and a greater amount of land and a better !
quality of land was planted in corn than I
usual. The seasons were fair, the yield good,;
and the natural consequence is, that provis- j
ions are, at least, comparatively plenty.
Mules and horses are in good work condition, j
and the prospects for the future, so far as
agriculture is concerned, are decidedly en- J
couraging, provided the same policy is carried
out which was adopted last year; but we fear
our people have flew the track already. Last
fall but little wheat and oats were sown?less '
than was sown the previous year, and such !
was the state of the weather during the I
I
months of January and February, that no '
plowing could bo done, and hence no oats will ;
be sown in the spring. The only hope for 1
our county, at present, is the corn crop of)
the present year.
The blunder which we fear our people are ;
about to make, is that they will plant all the j
good land in cotton, and nothing but small
patches of old and exhausted land in corn.!
There is abundance of evidence that such a |
course is contemplated. Our people are on ;
the eve of going crazy about cotton. It is
very difficult for our planters to learn that
cotton is not king, but that corn bread and
bacon are king. To save the cotinty from an
impending crisis, we would advise that a large
acreage of the best and most productive lands
be planted in corn. It matters not how heavy
the cotton crop may be, nor how remunerative
the price, it will be hard times always,
and in every county, when provisions for man
and beast are scarce. Our farmers have now,
generally, plenty of corn in their cribs ; but
they should remember that they will not have
plenty by the middle of August. Notwithstanding
the abundant crop of last year, corn
will be exhausted before fall. Should the
crop of the present year be a failure, we will
have hard times, sure enough, during 1874.
We are not advocating the planting of all
corn. All that we insist upon is, that preparations
be made to keep up the abundant
supply of corn, and then whatever cotton is
produced will be a clear gain. It is no use
to say that corn can be bought cheaper than
it can be raised. This theory has been tried
sufficiently to prove that it is heterodox. A
bushel of corn raised at home is equivalent to
at'least a bushel and a half of bought corn.
As a rule, corn buyers never get rich. They
have plenty of money during the fall aud
winter, and none during the spring and sum
Jilts*
We can, in this county, without any great
effort, raise enough of provisions of all kinds
to do us. Why not do it? The reason that
we arc almost always scarce, is because of the
mistaken notion which our people have, that
it is cheaper to raise all cotton and buy the
corn. In our humble judgment, unless a large
amount of corn is planted this spring, and
carefully and properly worked during the
coming summer, we will plunge head foremost
into the greatest strait that has befallen
us in ten years.
PROCEEDIXGS*OF CONGRESS.
The forty-second Congress adjourned on
Tuesday, the 4th instant. The proceedings
in the Senate were mainly marked by the
valedictory address of Vice-President Colfax,
and the address of Mr. Wilson, Vice-President
elect, on assuming the duties of the presiding
officer of the Senate. After the retiring
Vice-President had administered the
oath of office to the Vice-President elect, he
announced that the time for the expiration
of the forty-second Congress had arrived, and
declared the Senate of the United States adjourned
sine die. Vice-President Wilson then
called the Senate of the forty-third Congress
to order, and announced his readiness to administer
the oath of office to new Senators.
The names of the Senators elect were then
called, and a number came forward and were
sworn in?those from the Southern States being
Messrs. Merrimon, of North Carolina;
Patterson, of South Carolina; Gordon, of
Georgia; Conover, of Florida; and John R.
Dennis, of Maryland. No claimant appeared
from Louisiana. Bogy, of Missouri, over
whose election some controversy had arisen,
and Ingalls, of Kansas, Pomeroy'e successor,
were also sworn in. After the oath of office
had been administered to the new members
the Senate adjourned until Thursday.
The measures mentioned below are the most
imnnrtnnt that were nassed during the sea
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sion:
Bill reducing the officers and expenses of
the internal revenue, abolishing the office of
assessor and retaining three hundred collectors
only.
Bill to extend the time during which States
may take advantage of the act donating public
lands for the benefit of colleges.
Bill to abolish the grades of admiral and
vice admiral in the navy.
Bill amending the bankrupt law allowing
exemptions in accordance with the constitutions
of the respective States.
Bill to abolish the franking privilege.
Bill appropriating $113,500 to defray the
expenses of the American and British Claims
Commission.
Bill to authorize the construction of eight
new vessels of war.
Bill to revise, consolidate, and amend the
pension laws.
Bill to amend the postal code.
Bill putting colored soldiers on the same
footing with whites iu matters relating to pensions.
'Bill to authorize the construction of ten
new ships of war.
Bill to prosecute in the courts of the United
States fraudulent holders of the moneys,
bonds, or stocks of the Union Pacific railroad.
Bill to complete the revision of the statutes
of the United States, and for a report of the
same to Congress in December next.
Resolution congratulating the people of
Spain on the establishment of a republic.
Resolutions of the House to impeach Judge
Delahay, of Kansas, and order of the Senate
acceptiug notice of the same.
Regular appropriation bills. In addition
to the usual appropriations for public service,
a bill was also passed increasing the salaries
of the President, Vice-President, members of
Congress and sundry other civil officers.
(Published last week.)
Special appropriation bills to pay the
awards of the Southern Claims Commission,
and to carry out the provisions of the Treaty
of Washington in relation to fisheries.
The Senate, in extra session on the 6th, occupied
the eutire day discussing the question
of admitting Spencer, Republican, of
Alabama, the Senatorship trom tliat state neing
also claimed by Sykes, Democrat. The
question remained undecided at the hour of
adjournment.
On the 7th, the Senate ratified the treaty
with Mexico for the continuance of the Mexican
Mixed Commission for the adjustment of
claims. The action of the Mexican government
is yet required. Spencer was sworn in
as Senator from Alabama. Mr. West pre- j
sented the credentials of General McMillan, j
elected Senator from Louisiana by the Mc- j
Enry Legislature. Ordered to be printed, j
The Senate then went into executive sessiou. j
On the 8th, considerable debate was devo-j
ted to determining the order of business for j
the present extra session of the Senate, and j
it was finally agreed to take up and dispose
of the report of the Select Committee on the j
charges affecting Senators Caldwell and
Clayton, and the report of Morrill, of Maine,
from the Select Commits on the evidence
reported from the House of Representatives
affecting certain Senators regarding Credit
Mobilier transactions.
? By an act of the Legislature, at its recent1
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session, the road law was amenaea so as 10 in-.
elude all persons within the ages of eighteen
and fifty-five years, as liable to work on the :
roads, and no one is now exempt. Uuder the
old law, only those between 18 and 45 years
were liable, and school teachers, ministers, &c.,!
were exempt. I
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The next regular term of the Lancaster
Court will begiu on the 3rd Monday in April.
? During the present season, nearly one
thousand tons of commercial fertilizers have
been sold at Greepvillo.
? The survivors of the old Richland Vol- j
unteer Rifle Company are about to organize
a rifle club in Columbia.
? Several companies, of the Seventh Cavalry,
with their horses, were shipped from Columbia
for the West, on Monday night last, j
? A report is in circulation at Washington I
to the effect that ex-Senator F. A. Sawyer
may be appointed postmaster-general.
? Congress has passed a bill making an appropriation
to pay the persons who took the i
census in this State in 1860. No proof of
loyalty is required.
? A colored school in operation at Green-;
ville, numbers 230 pupils. There'is an aver- j
age daily attendance of 190 pupils. Eight
teachers are employed.
? It is reported that some of the infantry
in this State will be mounted to act as cavalry,
the departure of the seventh regiment j
having taken all the cavalry from the State. |
? John Lee, colored, of Chester, has been
appointed by the Governor, Colonel of the
fourteenth regiment of National State Guards
of South Carolina.
? Five thousand dollars' Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad first mortgage
bonds were sold in Charleston last week, at
80-1 cents on the dollar.
? Jacob Bell, Esq., an old and respected
citizen of Columbia, died in that city on Saturday
last. For a number of years he held
! the position of Ordinary of Richland county.
? A shooting affray occurred in Laurens on
sales-day, between Dr. Nathan Henry and
James H. Irby, Esq. Severnl shots were
fired and nobody hurt.
? The Newberry Age says that a white man
by the name of Moore wa9 badly beaten by
disguised persons in Laurens county, a few
days ago.
? Mrs. Melissa Secrest, widow of Colonel
Andrew J. Secrest, died in Chester on the
27th ultimo, and Mrs. Catharine G. Brice,
wife of Charles S. Brice, Esq., on the 2nd
instant.
? The Sumter News of last week says that
five colored persons?one adult and four
children?have, within a short time, fallen
victims to a disease, having the appearance,
and presenting the identical symptoms of the
epizootic, with which all the horses in the
country have been affected. It is stated that
all who saw the cases, believe it to have been
I the same disease.
? Gen. J. B. Kershaw has assumed editorial
control of the Camden Journal. In his salutatory,
he says: "Recognizing fully the
vast changes of policy incident to the revolutions
through which we have passed, and admitting
the axiom that accomplished revolutions
become laws, we shall not contend
against the inevitable, or struggle for the introduction
into questions of the day of truths
which, however valued as sacred vindications
of our past, have ceased to exist as practical
issues."
? The Charleston News, of Saturday, 3ays:
"It was reported in Columbia, a few days
ago, that the act repealing the section of the
act authorizing the issue of the Blue Ridge
scrip, and compelling its receipt for taxes,
had not been presented to Gov. Moses for his
approval. The chairman of the Senate committee
on enrolled bills, whose duty it is to
I present such bills to the Governor, is Senator
Maxwell, who was, we believe, an opponent
of the repeal of the Blue Ridge act. Will he
be so good as to inform the public what has
become of the act in question ?"
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Ex-Governor W. W. Holden has been
appointed Postmaster at Raleigh.
| ? A solid piece of gold, worth 8800, is said
to be the latest product of the Gaston Gold
j Mining Company, of Gaston county.
I ?It is said that 130,000 children are in
North Carolina totally unprovided for, and
without any educational advantages.
? The Southern Home reports eight deaths,
as occurriug within ten days, of meningitis, in
the neighborhood of Wright's Ferry, in Mecklenburg
county.
? Two cotton factories are iu successful operation
near Fayetteville, and two more will
soon be completed. They will consume 4000
bales of cotton a year.
? Before adjourning, the Legislature passed
an amnesty bill, iu reference to ku-klux and
similar outrages, but so shorn of its original
features as to affect very few persons.
? Col. R. M. Douglas, Grant's Private Secretary
during his first term, having resigned
that position, has been appointed Marshal of
the Western District of North Carolina.
? The State Treasurer has paid James McQueen,
who killed the Robeson outlaw, Boss
Strong, 86000, the reward offered by the State
for his murder or capture.
? By decision of the Supreme Court Thursday,
the Western North Carolina Railruad
passes into the hands of Maj. W. H. Howerton
as its legal President, and he will take immediate
steps to get possession.
? Mr. Onderdonk, receiver of the Wilmingi
l T~?._ it f* 3 T>^!1 J
ton, unariotte ana ivutneriora rwmruuu company,
had his pocket picked of $100,000 in
bonds and other securities of that institution,
while attending the inauguration ceremonies
in Washington on the 4th instant.
? The demand for the cane fibre manufactured
at Wilmington is constantly increasing.
As an article of commerce it promises to become
a considerable item. A paper mill in
Fredericksburg, Va., consumes thirty bales of
the fibre per day.
? Governor Caldwell has issued a warrant
directing the delivery, to the South Carolina
authorities, of Montgomery Bishop, who is
charged with having committed murder near
Spartanburg, S. C. Bishop was arrested in
Haywood county, N. C., last January.
? The Supreme Court has affirmed the judgment
of the Court below in the case of two
negroes of Wake county, convicted of the
crime of burglary, who appealed to the former
tribunal. They will be re-sentenced to be
hanged at the next term of Wake Superior
Court.
? On Monday the State Treasurer paid the
contractors for building the penitentiary $35,000,
the sum agreed upon in the compromise by
which they suspend work and release the State ,
from further liability on their account. Said
to be the be3t bargain the State has made
since reconstruction.
? A'man from one of the western counties,
says the Raleigh News, had his portrait pain-.
ted by a celebrated painter in that city some
time ago, under the supposition tltat he was
procuring a cheap photograph. He was overwhelmingly
surprised when the artist deman-,
dcd two hundred and fifty dollars for his picture.
? The Hickory Press publishes an order,
from S. T. Carrow, U. S. Marshal, directed to ;
Deputy Marshal Pearson, of Catawba county,:
instructing him to execute no capiases or!
snbpamns in cases wherein the defendants are;
charged with ku-kluxing; and also notifying
him that witnesses summoned on such processes
for next Court need not attend.
??*An industries negro informs the Salem
Press that he started with 814.50 just after
the surrender, and now owns a good farm, almost
paid for, besides having on hand a crop
of 2,500 pounds of good tobacco. All this
had been done by himself with the assistance
of his wife and a son about twelve years old,
and a horse. Besides, he had raised enough
corn, wheat, potatoes, and hogs for his own
use and to spare. Why don't more go and I
do likewise, instead of lying about the towns?
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
? General F. T. Dent, one of the President's j
numerous brothers-in-law, who has been connected.
with the Executive' Mansion for the
past four years, has severed his connection
there and resumed com maud of the 5th artil-1
lery.
? The amount of money appropriated by
the last session of Congress will slightly exceed
8180,000,000. This includes the estimates
of the various Government Departments
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1864, and
appropriations of a miscellaneous character.
? Members of Congress have been excited
over the withholding of their extra pay which
they voted themselves?some85000 each. The
Comptroller has finally quieted them by deciding
that there is no trenchant objection to
paying them. The extra back pay will re- .
quire one and a half million of dollars.
? The postage bill as passed by Congress,
has not yet been published, nor is it definitely
known what its provisions are. Washington
letter writers, who claim to know, say that
the new law cuts off absolutely the whole free
list, newspaper exchanges nnd all, requiring
papers, great and small, daily and weekly, to
prepay the postage on every paper that is
mailed. Ample time is given to make the
necessary preparation for the change.
? Senator Bayard, of Delaware, has introduced
a resolution of inquiry as to whether
any officer the army stationed in South
Carolina has received payment from the State
Legislature for services performed in the line
of his duty, or has been admitted to practice
at the bar of the State for his own emolument
while receiving pay as an army officer. This
resolution is aimed at Major Lewis Merrill,
who for the past-two years has had command
of the military stationed at Yorkville. The
resolution went over as unfinished business,
but will doubtless be acted upon as soon as
the next Congress assembles. !
? The Southern Republican Press Association,
L. Cass Carpenter presideut, is in Washton.
with the view of urffincr the President to
place in his Cabinet a representative man
from the South. Thursday evening this association
held a caucus for the purpose of determining
whom they should recommend to
the President for this important place. Resolutions
were drawn favoring both ex-Senator
Pool and Settle, of North Carolina, but both
were voted down, and it was finally developed
that ex-Seoator Sawyer, of South Carolina,
was the choice of the majority. On Saturday
the Association had a second interview with
the President, who was formally requested
not to forget the South in any changes be
might make, and a careful consideration of
the matter was assured by the Executive.
The Chester and Cheraw Railroad.?
The Chester Reporter of last week says : "Senator
Dunn arrived here on Saturday afternoon
last, and on the same evening had a
conference with Major G. W. Melton, President
of the King's Mountain railroad, A. H.
Davega, Esq., President of the Carolina Narrow
Guage railroad, and John McLure, Esq.,
President of the National Bank of Chester,
and others of the leading business men of the
community. The immediate object of his
visit was to start the 'ball in motion' for the
Chester and Cheraw railroad. Senator Dunn
is the President of the Little River and Cheraw
railroad, at the terminus of which, on the
Atlantic coast there is said to be an harbor
equal in all respects to that of Charleston. I
This road is to be built with the narrow guage;
so also is the road from this point to Cheraw.
Connecting at this point with the Chester and
Lenoir Narrow Guage road, it will give an
unbroken line from the coast of South Carolina
to the mountain region of North Carolina,
and will make Chester the grand centre
of the narrow guage system of the South. It
will be remembered that by the terras of the
charter of the Chester and Cheraw railroad,
subscriptions to the capital stock of said
company may be made in lands, labor or material.
Lancaster county is thoroughly aroused
to the importance of this scheme, and a
number of her leading men have pledged her
to a subscription of seventy-five thousand
acres of land. This will be sufficient almost
to build the road from the Catawba river to
Lynch's creek. Chester will carry it to the
Catawba river; and we are induced to believe
j that Chesterfield will do her share in furnishI
ing means to construct the road from Lynch's
creek to Cheraw. The entire length of the
road would not exceed sixty-five miles, and,
from our knowledge of the topography of the
country, we believe, that, with the exception
^ ? J - A T L L
of a few miles at uatawDa river aua at uynuu s
I creek, the grading would be a matter of comparatively
very small cost. A meeting of the
corporators named in the charter is to be held
at Lancaster Court House on the 15th of
April, for the purpose of taking the necessary
t steps to open the books of subscription and
get the project fairly under way.
The road of which Senator Dunn is President
connects at Little river with the Norfolk
and Charleston Coast Line road, a narrow
guage road that has recently been chartered,
and for the construction of which the contracts
are now being let out. This project is
now in the hands of northern capitalists who
have a plenty of money and to spare, and who
will be glad to advance to the Chester and
Cheraw, and to the Cheraw and Little River
roads, upon the bonds of the said roads, any
amounts that may be needed, over and above
the subscriptions, to ensure their completion."
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Trouble in the up Country.?President
Grant has pardoned, with a generous hand,
many of those who were convicted of ku-klux
outrages. It was his evident purpose, and
the anxious hope of the State administration,
that clemency should be extended as far as
the circumstances would allow. It was hoped
that the peace was assured, and that the good
sense of the people would supply the place of
the troops. The cavalry have been accordingly
withdrawn ; but the recent news from
the up country?from Laurens and from one
or two other counties, wc are informed?leads
us to suppose that the troubles have been renewed.
We can assure the people of this
much, in the kindliest spirit?that the pardons
of those who still remain will be retarded, and j
other troops, more determined ancL numerous, \
be supplied to uphold the civil authority aud |
protect the lives of the men who are brave j
enough to assert the freedom or private no- i
litical opinion. This thing is wrong. No !
sober, honest man, be he Democrat or Republican,
can sustain it. Every man is known,
and, for the peace of the State and the secu- i
rity of business, we ask the good people of i
the State to crush this fatal spirit. It will be j
stamped out sooner or later, and we ask the j
influential men to stop it before it is too late, j
The Federal military will support the State
civil authority, and that vigorously and speed-!
ily.? Columbia Daily Herald. .
HOT Ten persons were lately baptized at
Brodhead, \Vfis., in a hole cut in ice two feet
thick when the thermometer was ten degrees
below zero.
LOCAL AFFAIRS. !
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
R. E. Portor, Agent for heirs?Notice to persons
having claims against the estate of Daniel
Quinn, decoascd.
Wanted?Lieber'a Geological Survey of South
i Carolina.
Wt L. Orist?Subscriptions.
I Wm, B. Burden, Cashier?Bank of Charleston,
i Henry R. Dickson?Lost, This Day.
t John R. Hogue?Notice.
Jolin C. K uvkendal?Onion Sets?110,000?Simmons'
Liver Regulator?Drugs, Drugs?
HelmbohVa Bncnu?Wine or Tar?Pure
Blood, Pure Flesh.
W. II. it J. P. Herndon?Wooden Ware?TanBark?Plow
Steel?Hollow Ware?SyrupHoes?Wheat
Bran.
T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?First
meeting in the Matter of A.
Tumpleton Black, Baukrupt.
R. II. Glenn, S. Y. C".?Sheriff's Sales.
THE YOKKVILLE POST OFFICE.
Mr. John R. Wallace lias been appointed
Postmaster at Yorkville, vice Mrs. E. E. Alexander,
removed. <
[ SPARTANBURG AND UNION RAILROAD. 1
Our tlmnks are due to Thomas B. Jeter, 1
I Esq., Presideut of the Spartanburg and Union 1
Railroad Company, for an annual pass over
| that road for the current year.
GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS.
A note from Hon. A. S.'Wallace iuforms us
that the present supply of garden and field
seeds, at the Department of Agriculture, is
exhausted. This anuouncemeDt is made for
the information of persons who have applied
to him for seeds.
DEATHS.
Mr. William M. Gordon, who resided in
the neighborhood of Bethesda church, in this
county, died on Saturday, 8th instant. Capt. i
William Lawson Brown, who resided about
three miles north of Yorkville, died on the
same day, after an illness of less than two
days. Since the 27th ultimo, Mr. J. Highland
Crawford, who resides in the neighborhood of
Philadelphia Church, has lost three children
from diptheria. The children were aged respectively
about two, four and six years.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Additional Compensation Bill.
The Washington Chronicle, the administration
organ, speaking of the acts of the
late Congress, refers in the following manner
to the bill increasing the compensation of
members:
"The greatest mistake committed during
the late session is that passing a bill giving to
each member five thousand dollars additional
compensation. Party lines were obliterated
in this proceeding. The members whose labors
closed with this session had no fear of a
popular verdict before their eyes. They, with
some exceptions, rallied to the support of this
act. There were those who believed that the
compensation of members should be equalized
by the repeal of the iniquitous mileage arrangement,
and who were not unwilling to ;
provide for such an increase as would.result
trom this equalization and the cutting off of
allowances for stationery, newspapers, Ac.
This would have been eminently proper. Had i
the pay of members of the next Congress
been raised to six thousand dollars, without
the allowances named, the popular verdict
would have been one of approval. As it is,
we anticipate a sweeping censure. The chief
argument for an increase of pay?the expen- '<
siveness of living in Washington and conforming
to its customs?is justly deemed fal- i
lacious; for if we are falling into extravagant
habits here, aud departing from republican
simplicity and frugality, we are under iraperirrotwina
tr\ ?ni>ranf tko kakif kv nnn. I
ntt lb uuiiguviwug uv vut i vw vitv mmw?v J *"'?
conformity, even if it be necessary to form
social combinations for that purpose."
The Bankrupt Act.
The following is the amendment to the
bankrupt law, passed by the last Congress,
which allows exemptions of homesteads in 1
accordance with the exemptions allowed by
the Constitutions of the respective States:
That it was the true intent and meaning of
an Act approved June 8th, 1872, entitled "An
act to amend an act entitled an act to establish
a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout
the United States, approved March 2d,
1867," that the exemptions allowed the bankrupt
by the said amendatory act should, and
it is hereby enacted that they shall, be the
amount allowed by the Constitution and laws 1
of each State, respectively, as existing in the <
year 1871 ; and that such exemptions be valid ,
against debts contracted before the adoption
and passage of such State Constitution and
laws, as well as those contracted after the
same, and against any judgment or decree of 1
any State, any decision of any such court
rendered since the adoption and passage of i
such Constitution and laws to the contrary ,
notwithstanding.
This declaratory amendment is now a law.
It will be remembered that the bankrupt law
passed in 1867 gave an exemption of $500
and the State exemptions as existing by the
laws in force in the various States in 1864.
This was found to work very harshly upon the i
southern people, whose State Constitutions, .'
formed before the war, and in force in 1864,
' exempted but a pittance, while in the North
and West the State exemptions amounted to
several thousand dollars. The facts giving
rise to the amendment, which also explain its j
object and meaniug, are editorially explained
by the Washington Chronicle as follows <
"Hon. John F. Lewis, of Virginia, intro- 1
| duced a bill in the Senate in the early part of j
[ 1872, which afterward, through the able and
I energetic manner in which he pushed it, be- 1
came a law, saving to the bankrupt of Vir- 1
ginia and several other southern States 82000 1
and upward. This law was then declared 1
constitutional by the ablest lawyers in tne '
country, but the Court of Appeals in Virginia,
and Judge Alexander Rives, United States
District Judge, declared it unconstitutional.
At the commencement of this session of Congress
Senator Lewis and several members of
the House of Representatives introduced bills
into both houses of Congress declaratory of
Lewis' bill of 1872. A bill introduced by
Mr. Critcher was the first gotten up, and
passed the House on motion of Mr. Piatt.
When the bill was sent to the Senate, Senator
Lewis labored incessantly upon the Judiciary
Committee until he secured a favorable report
from the committee and the passage of
the bill."
The Poll Tax.
The following is the full text of the act ]
passed at the recent session of the Legislature
"to enforce the payment of the poll tax]
Section 1. Be it enacted by the House of j
Representatives of the State of South Carolina, ,
now met and sitting in General Assembly, and
by authority of the same, That there shall be .
assessed on all taxable polls in the State, an
annual tax of one dollar on each poll, the pro- (
ceeds of which shall be applied to educational 1
purposes; and if any person shall refuse or i
neglect to pay said tax be%re the expiration (
of the time fixed for the payment of all taxes, j
the County Treasurer shall, within twenty
days thereafter, furnish a list of all delinquent
polls to the County Commissioners of the 1
county; where the person so taxed, and de- 1
linquent, have no property to be distrained 1
for the payment of said poll tax, as author- t
ized in the act providing for the assessment ,
and taxation ot property, approveu oepiem-1
ber 15, 1868, the person or persons so delin- j'
quent, shall be subject to a penalty double ;
the amount of their poll tax, and on failing j t
to pay the same, when notified of the fact, j (
within ten days after such notice, such person .
or persons shall be required to work on the i
highways or roads in their respective counties,''
as the County Commissioners may direct, not! !
exceeding three days. j i
See. 2. That the said County Commission- j i
ers shall, after receiving the delinquent polls' 11
list, summon such delinquents to appear at! I
their office, and then and there give thera the
opportunity to pay the double tax, and on
failing to do so, such delinquents shall be required
to work upon the highways and roads
of their respective counties, as the County
Commissioners may direct; and if said delinquents,
beiug personally warned by the said
Commissioners, or by written notice served at
their place of residence, shall refuse or neglect,
having had ten days' notice, to attend by
themselves, or substitutes equally able to perform
said duties as themselves, or to pay the
double k . in lieu of said duties, or having
attended themselves, shall refuse to conform
to the requirements of this act, or obey the
directions of the County Commissioners, they
?hnll he deemed cuiltv of a misdemeanor, and
du conviction thereof, be imprisoned for the
same, in a county jail, for a term of not less
than ten days. 'J '4:
Brooks and Elliott.
On the question of censuring Mr. Brooks,
of New York, for alleged transactions in She
Credit Mobilier, Elliott and Rainey, the colored
members from South Carolina, voted
against the motion. This action was more
notable from the fact that Mr. Brooks is a
Democrat. The Washington Chronicle reports
the following incident which transpired
in the House immediately after Rainey and
Elliott had recorded their votes:
"As soon as the vote on the question of censuring
Mr. Brooks was announced from the
chair, Mr. Brooks rose from his seat and approached
Mr. Rainey's and Mr. Elliott's seats.
"Mr. Elliott was standing a little in rear of
his seat, and was surrounded by a dozen or
more persons, when Mr. Brooks approached
and extending his hand, and grasping the
hand of Mr. Elliott in a cordial manner, sdfid
substantially: ' '* - !> +
" 'Mr. Elliott, from the bottom of my heart,
I thank you for the vote you have just now
recorded. For years past I.; have been the
opponent of your race. I appreciate highly
the fact that in this, the hour of my adversity,
when I am deserted by men of my own rac?,
whom I have stood by m the past, yoti and Mr.
Rainey have ignored all prejudiced and
have acted justly. I desire to assure you
that in the future I shall by my humblq voice
and influence, be as ready to protect and vindicate
the rights and aid the advancement of
your race as I shall my own."
"Mr. Elliott replied: 'Sir, I thank yon
heartily for this assurance of your good will .
toward me and mine. Mine was no easy task,
but I thank God that He gave me the fortitude
necessary to overcome those feelings of
prejudice to which you have alluded. I did
for you, sir, what I would under like circumstances
have done for any one else. Under
the solemn obligations of my oath as a Representative
I looked not upou you as a political
opponent, but as an American Representative,
who had a right to demand judgment
itm/ln/1 11 rt An ill a liim Ati/I Ar?i /Inn AA T ?t rti O/l
iuuuucu upuii me iam ouu cviucutu x vv/i^u
against the resolution, because, in my humble
judgment, you were clearly entitled to such a
vote at my hands. I again thank yon for
your expressions of good will.'"
The Louisiana Troubles.
A serious collision occurred in New Orleans
on the 6th, between the militia of Governor
McEnry, and the city police. There
was five minutes of sharp musketry, when the
police unlimbered a cannon and fired three
shots down Chartres street. One mian was
killed and several wounded. At the appearance
of the cannon the militia retreated, but
were being reinforced, when a staff officer of
General Emory appeared on the scene, to
whom the commander of the militia surrendered.
The surrender was made in obedience
to an order from General Shernian to General
Emory, directing him to prevent any violent
interference with the State government of
Louisiana.
The police force, adherents of the Kellogg
wing, armed as infantry, then proceeded to
Odd Fellows' Hall where the McEnry Legislature
have heretofore met, and took possession
of the building. The Speaker of the
House, and other members of the Legislature,
who were in the hall at the time, were arrested
and taken to the police station.
A correspondence next ensued between Governor
McEnry and General Emory, which
shows that the mastery of the situation rests
with the Federal forces. In reply to an enquiry
from Governor McEnry, addressed to
General Emory, whether or not the action of
the Metropolitan police force in the seizure of
the Odd Fellows Hall, and the armed prevention
by said force of the assembling of the Leg
islature of this State in the said Hall meets
with his (Emory's) countenance and approval,
and whetber or not tne united states iorces
under his command will snpport this armed
occupation of that building, General Emory
replied that the seizure of the Hall was without
his knowledge, and made without conference
with him. General Emory then proceeds:
"In regard to any expression of opinion as
to the act, having no authority in the premises,
I must respectfully decline to make any
reply. In answer to that part of your letter
which asks whether my command will support
the armed occupation of that building, I have
the honor to enclose to you a copy of a telegram
received last night, from which yon will
see that it is made my duty to prevent any
violent interference with theState government
of Louisiana, previous instructions having
directed me to recognize the Government of
the State of Louisiana to be that represented
by the Hon. William P. Kellogg. If the act
referred to by you in your letter is the act of
Governor Kellogg, or of the Government of
the State of Louisiana, represented by him,
and any violence is used to interfere with this
act, I shall most assuredly consider it niy
duty, under ray instructions, to use the whole
force of the United States at my disposal to
prevent such violent interference." .
All accounts agree in placing the blame of
the riot on the McEnry militia, who precipitated
the movement, thongh Governor McEnry
disavows having ordered or sanctioned the
demonstration against the police.
About fifty citizens and militia who participated
in the affray have been arrested,
charged with violating the act of Congress,
passed April 20,1871, and section 2 of an act
to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth
imendment They were taken before a Uni;ed
States Commissioner and released on $1000
bail each.
The latest intelligence represents affairs as
jerfectly quiet in New Orleans. Governor
McEnry lias issued a manifesto in which he
reviews the causes of the present difficulties,
md severely denounces the United States
Government for establishing the Kellogg gov
irnment, and stigmatizes tbe statement that
;he people of Louisiana voluntarily submit
ind acquiesce in the usurpation, as a stupenlous
falsehood. The McEnry government,
n asserting their rights, appeal to their brethren
in other States for sympathy, and call on
;he people of Louisiana to maintain their diglity
and manhood, and to unite with them in
irm opposition, not to the United States, but
x> any and every act of the Kellogg governnent.
The manifesto is signed by McEnry
ind the legislative committee.
The United States Senators.?The Senate
of the United Stales of the forty-third
Congress convened Tuesday, at Washington.
Henry WiLon, of Massachusetts, whose term
is Vice-President began on that day, presides,
rhe oldest Senator is Simon Cameron, born in
1799, and the two youngest, Dr. Dorsey, born
iu 1841, and Dr. Conover, 1840. Mr. Cameron
is the only Senator over seventy years of
jge. Forty-six of the Senators are lawyers ;
five are interested in railroads; four are far