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Jtoaps and Jarts. Atlanta, Ga., has a house where only male children have been bormfor twenty years. A darkey who witnessed the explosion of a bombshell for the first time, exclaimed, "See dar! hell hab laid an egg." The young cotton crop of Alabama is represented to have suffered much from frost last week. It is said that in Scotland one man in every thousand goes to college; in Germany the proportion is one for every 2,600 ; in England it is one for every 5,800. An Iowa farmer, Mr. George Wells, of Grandy county, raise^, last year, 39,000 bushels of wheat, 65,000 bushels of corn and 12 000 bushels of barlev. Thelasi. story is that Napoleon did not die at Chiselhurst, but that another body was substituted, and the Emperor is now in France in disguise. Fools will believe it. The report of a wedding in Kentucky concludes in this wise: "The bride was far from being handsome, but her father threw in a span of horses and seven mules, and the bridegroom was satisfied." Dr. Wm. H. McGuffey, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Virginia, and widely known as the editor of McGuffey's series of spellers and readers, died on Sunday of last week. An Indiana man is naming his children after the New England States. He now has Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, with a flattering prospect of Connecticut. It is reported that the reason given by President Grant for his refusal to visit this section after it had been announced that he would do so, was beqpuse of the preparations made everywhere to receive him. The political doctors say that the Democratic party can only live by giving up its traditions, and the Republican party by expelling its corruptions. But the question is, what would be left of the one without its traditions, or of the other without its corruptions? A ?. ? ? ?IA? J? UmamItAM ifo on. A UUVeiljr 1U uiauuj uog ujauc iko pearance in San Francisco market and promises to be used by the consumers of that article. It is stated that from eight to ten pounds of dried figs will make a gallon of brandy, which can be sold for $1.30 per gallon. Seven thousand Yankee clocks were recently shipped to Japan, and now every darmio in the country than can raise the stamps wears one of these neat and reliable, but not gaudy, time pieces, strapped on his breast, aud when the clock strikes he draws a larger crowd around him than a monkey at a circus. It is estimated that Maine has now six thousand manufactories, giving employment to over forty thousand persons, the aggregate products amounting to over eighty million dollars. Since 1850 the State has more than trebled the number of her manufacturing establishments. The most novel accident on record lately, is one happening from a kick by a hog at Durham's Corner, Bureau County, 111. Mr. Durham was putting a hog in a wagon, when it kicked him in the eye, filling it with the broken glass of his spectacles. The hog was dropped so suddenly as to break its back. The publishers of the Maysville Bulletin have instituted suit against the telegraphic editor ofthe Cincinnati Commercial for infringing upon their patented invention of the phrase, "winter lingers in the lap of spring." Damages placed at $1,000,000. The Bulletin foola nf rArnvprintr the entire amount. A wonderful piece of sewing machine work is on exhibition at Norwich, Connecticut, consisting of a number of articles connected by a thread. There is a piece of cigar box, two thicknesses of sole leather, a piece of lead an eighth of an inch thick, nine thicknesses of beaver cloth, eight thicknesses of cotton goods, and a piece of tissue paper. All the work was done without change of stitch, needle, thread or tension, and the stitch was as perfect in the tissue paper as in the lead. Senator Brownlow speaks thus frankly concerning his attitude on the salary grab : "I took the increased compensation cheerfully and without hesitation, not because of poverty (though I am not rich,) but because the increase provided for is just and right in itself. I could have dodged the vote, as members of both Houses of Congress did, and more easily than others, for it was late at night when it was taken, and, in the condition of my health, I was not expected to be in my seat, but I preferred being on record in favor ofit, though I knew there were enough to pass the bill without my vote." A Pittsburg firm?Messrs. Rogers & Burchfield?claim to have discovered a process by which they can make the famous Russian sheet iron. The latter is made in Siberia by a secret process which no other nation has hitherto been able to obtain. The British Government has offered 50,000 pounds for its discovery, but even the stimulus of that large sum has failed to achieve the result. American enterprise and ingenuity have accomplished it, and Pittsburg, it is said, can now furnish all common markets with Russiau sheet iron at even lower prices than the Russians themselves. The process has been patented. A number of restless Massachusetts women are about to petition the Legislature to allow plural marriages in that staid old com1 ? rryt /V iL. -i. mouweaitn. iney reier 10 uie iaci mat me census shows a large excess of women over ineD, and in view of the further fact that a large proportion of the men are idle, vicious, and incompetent to be the heads of households, they deem it manifestly unjust to restrict to one wife those husbands who are abundantly able to provide for a large family. They think when a really capable man is found, as many women ought to attach themselves to him as he can conveniently endure. This is not Woodhullish or free-love, but simple Mormouism, without the religion, and we have the assurance that the^>etition is signed by educated women, some of whose family names are conspicuous in the history of New England. What are we coming to??Albany Journal. Did you ever see a man fish around in the bottom of a tub of water for a piece of soap ? At the first he simply reaches down upon it to pick it right up, and is very much surprised to find that he hasn't got it. Then he approaches it more cautiously, puts his hand over it, and then comes down noiselessly until he gets every finger about it, and then squeezes it tight, and?misses it. He looks at it a moment before making another effort, and fills up the interval with a few remarks. The third attempt is a sort of serai-circle described with a great deal of sagacity, but is a failure. Other remarks follow. Then he makes a succession of dives and slops the water over his clothes, and drenches the carpet, and catches hold of the soap several times, and lets go of it again, and screams at the top of his voice, and finally, in perfect despair, sits on the floor and actually howls.?Danbury News. The English papers are commenting on the unexampled emigration this spring from Liverpool and other points. The number of steamers leaving the Mersey for the United States and Canada, putting aside those which ? -^ ^? TIT?i am/] oahfli onr] ban lur me TYeai luuiea auu iuc ovutu Huu west coast of South America, is daily increasing, whilst the number of emigrants arriving in Liverpool en route for the United States is enormous; in fact, the lodging-house keepers find it almost impossible to accommodate these "birds of passage" during their short stay in Liverpool. The emigrants come from all parts of the world. They are Germans, Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, French, English and Irish. These latter are fewer than usual, the stream of emigration from Ireland now ^oing by way of Queenstown, Londonderry and Belfast. The Scotch emigration is light, while the English is constantly increasing. The emigrants this year to the United States will be of a better class than ever before. The fifteenth amendment is being tried in a very practical shape at Newhurg, in this State. The Board of education in that inter esting village on the Hudson have come to th< conclusion that there is no use in maintaining a school especially for colored children. They therefore, promulgate the decree that "al children of the proper school age be admittec to the schools of the city "without regard t< race, color or previous condition of servitude.' This is a phase of the civil rights bill whicl is likely to create general dissatisfaction anc trouble. Very many white pupils will b< found who will strongly object to personal as sociation in school with colored children, anc the entire educational system may receive i serious check in consequence. Separati schoolsfor white and colored pupils, it is ar gued, will be found necessary to promote t harmonious working of the system. It wil be interesting to watch the result of this at temDt to brinff together into one school al children, "without regard to race, color oi previous condition of servitude." The tria of the experiment will, undoubtedly, not b< conBned alone to the good people of Newburj on the Hudson.?New York Herald. iif ^aquifer, YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1873 Watch the Figures.?The date on the "address label" shows the time to which the subscription ii paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers dis continued, the date muit be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood tha our terms for subscription, advertising and job work, are cash, in advance JOB PRINTING. Having determined to devote more atten tion hereafter to job printing than we hav< done in the past, we would inform the publi< that our office is now well supplied with nev type of the latest styles, and the best ma chinery in use; and with a choice stock o: inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared t( execute as good work as can be done any where in the United States. Orders for Ball Tickets, Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, Labels, Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks, Bill Heads, Law Briefs, Business Cards, Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billhead! Checks, Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, Note Headings, Drafts and Notes, I Programmes, Envelopes, | Policies, Fire<fc Life Ins. Election Tickets, 'Shinplasters, Festival Tickets, I Wedding Cards, will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction as to quality of work, guaranteed in every instance. Particular attention given to fine work in colors. LOUISIANAAFFAIRS. The poliitical situation in Louisiana seems to be growing more desperate each day. Fighting between Kellogg's State forces and the citizens is reported from various sections of the State. A dispatch of the 7th from New Iberia says that a skirmish ensued at St. Martinsville the day before, in which three of the Kelloggites were killed, and a number wounded. The news from St. Martin's and other parishes creates much excitement in New Orleans. It is understood that a movement is on foot to seize police stations in the city by the citizens while the policemen are in the interior. The complications are increasing. The registers claim that they are daily gaining strength, while the Kelloggites aver that all opposition i9 disappearing. Telegrams were received in Washington on the 8th instant, from Kellogg, addressed to the President, giving details, as viewed by the Kellogg faction, of affairs in Louisiana. A consultation was immediately held at the War Department, there being present Gen. Sherman, Acting Secretary of War Robeson, Attorney-General Williams, and Senator West, of Louisiana. The subject discussed was the condition of affairs in Louisiana. It was decided to instruct General Emory that he should call for whatever troops that were necessary to enforce the laws and preserve the public peace. But that officer will not otherwise interfere, except in assisting the proper authorities in carrying out the processes of the Courts. Gen. Sherman also addressed the following dispatch to Kellogg on the 8th instant : "The President directs me to say to you that he deprecates an aggressive policy, and that the United States authorities are not to be used except in an emergency. .The officer in command of the Department in which Louisiana is included has been sent full instructions in regard to the course the President desires him to pursue. You will, therefore, take no action which would require the sanction of the President, without orders from these headquarters." United States Marshal Packard, under date of the 8th instant, makes the following report to Attorney-General Williams : "I received orders for the arrest of DeBlanc and ten other leaders of the insurrectionary organization at St. Martin's, and the accused being in arras and with a strong force, I deemed it best to at once execute the process to prevent the further effusion of blood. I therefore made a requisition upon General Emory for a military posse of forty men and two officers, which were promptly furnished. PJiiof Dpnnlv \fnrshnl DeKlvne left with the posse, arriving at Brashear City yesterday noon, by rail. The regular line of boats of the Price Line and Tupper, carrying the United States mails to St. Martin, were withdrawn before the arrival ofDeputy Marshal DeKlyne, and laid up at Franklin, and the proprietors refuse the use of the boats. There is no other water transportation available there, but may be supplied in a short time through Gen. Emory. Gen. Badger, commanding the State militia, has been at St. Martin's five days whither he repaired to install the local officers. This parish was returned Kepublican by both the Lynch and Wharton boards. Skirmishing has been going on, and some have been wounded on both sides. The latest news is that Badger is holding the town and protecting the Court in session, but does not go out to attack DeBlauc's force, encamped twc miles out, 200 strong, and they, in turn, it is believed, are not strong enough to safely at tack Badger, in town. The arrival of tin Deputy Marshal with his posse will end the contest." On receipt of the above despatch from Packard, Gen. Sherman telegraphed to Gen j---._ii._j 1 Vn,i J^mory, commauumg uiBuepaumcui, au ncn Orleans, that if in his judgment more troop? are needed in Louisiana, to make his call cleai and specific, and the War Department will en deavor to furnish them. The citizen soldiers are commanded by Col Alcibiades De Blanc, who was in nearly eve ry battle in Virginia, serving first as Captain and subsequently as Colonel of the Eighth Louisiana regiment. Advices to the 10th represent that De Blanc has disappeared from before St. Martinsville Three more companies of Federal troops have arrived at Brashear City. It is said thai Kellogg has decided not to make a constitu tional application to the President for assis tance in upholding his government. The fol lowing is the latest order issued to Gen. Erao ry. It is dated Washington, May 10, and - signed by G. M. Robeson, Acting Secretary 2 of War: ? "If the United States Marshal finds it nec? essary in the execution of his process to-take J possession of boats or other means of trans' portation and asks assistance from you or di j rects the troops which are already ordered as part of his posse to assist him in such seizure } for that purpose, all necessary assistance will * be given him in taking of, possession holding 3 and using the same." j LATE8T. ^ The following Washington dispatch of 2 Monday, to tiie New York Tribune, gives the - latest information regarding the situation in 1 Louisiana: ^ "During the past few days a member of the ' Cabinet has said that President Grant has become thoroughly in earnest in regard to r 1 --- i i . i .1 Vflp 1 ; Louisiana uttairs, una tnat unless tne uimcuities in that State were brought to a close, 1 that he had returned with the full determina' tion of taking some decisive action. His adhesion to Kellogg's assumption is more raark ed than*ever, and he will go to any length and authority to sustain it. ' j "On Saturday evening the President had a : J long consultation with General Sherman, Ati torney General Williams and Secretary Robe: son, at which the New Orleans trouble was j thoroughly discussed, and high-handed meas! ures were suggested, to which, the President ! attentively listened, and which will probably be carried out before the close of the present week. The administration is unable to understand why Mr. Kellogg docs not make at : once a requisition for Federal troops, as it is claimed that he has a perfect right to do in the absence of the Legislature, to maintain peace and assist the civil authorities in adrain! istering the laws. It is said that he is the ~ proper judge to determine whether there is a , condition of society requiring the interference - of the arruy, and that any aid he might ret quire would be promptly furnished, so far as . the President is concerned. It is not the President's intention to take any energetic ac: tion until this requisition is made by Kellogg, and it is hoped he will make the demand with. out further delay. As soon as the requisition , is made, the President will issue a proclama, tion, in most positive language, admonishing ' the citizens of Louisiana to peace, deposing ' the McEnry government and proclaiming " Kellpgg's as the lawful government, and anf nouncing his intention, as the Executive, to > sustain Kellogg with the whole military force . of the country, if necessary. "This proclamation is to be accompanied with the order to send all available troops to report to General Emory, at New Orleans. The proclamation will be in such language that it will be susceptible of no doubtful meaning, aud it will convey as plain as words i can, the determination of the President as above set forth. The action proposed, it is i said, meets the hearty approval of the Attor, ! ney General." - SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. 1 ? The fruit crop of Newberry county was not materially injured by the late frost. ? The first cherries of the season have appeared in Newberry. ? Governor Moses has appointed James L. i Strain a Trial Justice for Union county. ; ? Four of the nine clerks employed in the Charleston post office are colored, s ? The publication of the Charleston Con rier, as an evening paper, has been suspended. ? Blackberries have appeared in Charles! ton. ? Dr. John H. Honour, a highly respected ' citizen of Charleston, died on the 5th instant, after a lingering illness. ? It is stated that since 1867 not a witness or iurv warrant has been paid at the county %j w ? treasury of Lancaster couuty, and that it is impossible to get couuty bills paid. ? James M. Allen, county treasurer of Greenville, has been indicted by the grand jury of that county, for malfeasance in office. There are four different iudictments. ? The Lancaster Ledger mentions that all the bar-rooms in that town have been closed. The Ledger consoles the thirsty with the remark that the closing is only temporary. ? Captain Walter N. Gibson, formerly of Anderson county, is the editor of the Nuhou, a semi-weekly journal, published at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. ? Lieut. Gallagher, who killed a soldier at Spartanburg last week, has been taken before Judge Carpenter in Columbia on a writ of habeas corpus, and admitted to bail in the sum of 86000. ? The Chester Reporter has information that Lancaster county has already subscribed 890,000 to the Cheraw and Chester Railroad, and that hardly a good start has been made in the way of subscriptions. ? A stone-cutter, named Dennis Coleman, while intoxicated, sat down on the railroad track, near Summit, S. C., and was so seriously injured by a passing train, that his life is despaired of. ? The well-known paper mills at Bath, S. C., have been purchased by Messrs. Barrett, Land^ & Co., of Augusta, Ga. They expect to enlarge their field of operations, and also reduce the price of paper. ? Philip A. Eichelberger, ex-County Treasurer of Edgefield, against whom legal proceedings had been instituted by Treasurer Cardozo, for embezzlement of public funds, died n .1 i__i n i.i i_ : i Oil o unci ay last iroui uu uiuick. ui erysipelas. ? By a private letter we learn that on Saturday night last James Mackerall, of Black Stocks, was run over by a train of cars and instantly killed. He was on his way home from the post-office, and it is supposed he sat down on the track and went to sleep. ? The Union Times says: "Solicitor Fleming caused quite a sensation in town last Monday, by visiting the bar-rooms, and where he found one that had not the accommodations J for travelers demanded by the Tupper law . ordered it to be closed." ? Moses Cannon, for whose arrest the Governor had offered a reward of two hundred ! dollars, was apprehended while cutting cross 1 ties about six miles from Kingstree last week. The crime charged against Cannon is the murder of his father-in-law, in Darlington L county. i ? At the Orangeburg court, Judge Graham presiding, last week, there was done cousider; j able business. Peter Fair, for the crime of [ j rape, was sentenced to ten years in the State 1 j Penitentiary, and George W. Sturgeon was ,; sentenced to two years to the same institution !: for forgery. | ?James Bruce, of Abbeville County, has i i in his possession a 81 coin, the first money his . I graud-father ever made. Ilia grand-father ' | was bom in 1777, died when he was seventyi! seven years old, had seventy-seven direct des ' nnmlaiita nn;l liU ftsfat.fi. at his death, was valued at 877,000. I ?Major Franz Melchers, the senior editor . and proprietor of the Charleston Zeitung, has J succeeded in perfecting arrangements with , the Inman line of European steamships i whereby immigrants can be brought hither ^ at the rate of forty-four dollars each, direct ! from either Hamburg or Bremen. . i ? Eleven of the emigrants wHo went to ! Newberry last week to locate, have again i ; left for the West. They say they were gross- J ly deceived by their own countrymen living in Newberry, who declared to them all sorts I of impossible stories in relation to the climate,! J fertility of the soil, &c. 11 ? A large and enthusiastic meeting of the I | corporators of the Laurens and Asheville ' Railroad was held in Greenville on the 9th instant. The sura of $100,000?the amount i required by the charter to authorize the organization of the company?was subscribed, and a full board of officers elected. A meeting of the Directors will be held at Greenville on the 28th, when arrangements will be made J for an immediate survey of the route. ? The Edgefield Advertiser says that at the j races in Memphis recently, Colonel Bacon's I Frank Hampton was the winner in two ira-! portant contests?a two mile single dash on Thursday, and a two mile heat on Friday. : A fortnight before, the same horse won a I brilliant race in New Orleans. He and Ned j Brace will run in Nashville next week, and j so thence to Saratoga or Chicago. ? The Columbia Herald of Friday last, I says: "Mr. D. Hemphill, treasurer, and Mr. J. M. Brawley, auditor, of Chester county, were at the comptroller-general's office today, making their settlements. Chester, this time, can claim the honor of being the banner county, the first to show a clean sheet, nulla bona taxes, excepted only. In that county, of $54,000 State taxes over $53,000 have been collected." ? Rev. N. Talley, the oldest member of the South Carolina Conference?being in bis eightieth year?died at his residence in Columbia on Saturday morning last. The Herald says his life has been one of constant usefulness, and he has been long identified with all the important movements of his country. On Sunday he preached at the earnest solicitations of friends, and commenced immediately thereafter to fail in strength, and continued in a gradual decline until Saturday morning, when death relieved him of his sufferings. ? Capt. George Tupperwas tried before the Court of Sessions in Columbia last week, for the murder of Capt. John D. Caldwell, in that city, on the 21st day of last September. The trial continued for three days and resulted in a verdict of manslaughter. The counsel for the prisoner immediately after the verdict was rendered, gave notice of a motion for a new trial. Saturday next was fixed as the time for hearing the argument on'the motion, and the prisoner was remanded to the custody of the Sheriff. ? The Columbia Phoenix says auother cotton factory is to be started in Anderson county. The ground has already been broken for the foundation, and considerable portions of the machinery, of the latest and most improved kind, have been received and are being put in readiness for the building. The location is five miles from the Pendleton Factory, and the water power is ample to drive 30,000 spindles through the entire year. It is an individual enterprise ; the President of the Pendleton Manufacturing Company, William Perry, Esq., is the man who has undertaken it. ? Says the Anderson Intelligencer: "Our jail has been without an occupant for six weeks ; the bar-rooms nre closed indefinitely; the taxes are all paid, and it is reported that there is to be no more of that sort of thing; the county officers are out of business, and their occupations, like Othello's, are almost rrrtno ftio oditnrs arp nut nf mnnev. and anx > ? j i iously awaiting remittances from tardy subscribers ; the lawyers are languishing and briefless ; in fact, with the exception of our go-ahead merchants and the doctors, everything and everybody have reached positive stagnation. Happy Anderson! Thrice-happy people, whose lives are not disturbed by vexatious cares and bustling scenes of activity, as the warm weather approaches." ? In the District Court at Charleston, Judge Bryan presiding, the following business was transacted on the 9th : In re the Blue Ridge Railroad. Petition for involuntary bankruptcy. On motion of Magrath & Lowndes, ordered that the election of assignee be postponed until the 23d instant, at 11 A. M. Ex parte L. L. Packard. Petition for voluntary bankruptcy. Referred to Register Clawson. Ex parte J. H. Clawson, in re W. T. Sealy. Petition for sale. Referred to Register Clawson. On the 10th, the case of the United States against W. H. Kell was called ; indictment conspiracy. On motion of the District Attorney the defendant was allowed to give his own recognizance in the sum of five hundred dollars, for his appearance at November term. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? General Clingman will deliver the next annual address to the public at Davidson College on the 25th of June. ? The Southern Home says the farmers of Mecklenburg were seriously injured by the freshets and washing rains of last week. Fences were carried off, and ploughed land washed into gullies. ? The Rutherford Record learns that Wm. Martin, of Cleveland county, was killed one day last week by a broken limb from a falling tree which he had cut down. The limb struck his head and fractured his skull from which he died in a few hours. ? The Charlotte Obeserver learns that in Catawba county, on Tuesday of last week, Isaiah Miller was killed by Adolphus Stuart. The parties met at a log rolling, and an old feud that had.existed between them was revived, ending as above stated. Stewart at once fled, and has not been captured. ? The Southern Home learns that a severe atnrm nnsgprl nvpr Shelhv on WednesdaV of 1 ? J ? V last week. Much alarm and excitement were caused. The storm spent its fury on the outskirts of the town, and fortunately no lives were lost. One or two small houses were unroofed aud much damage was done to fruit and shade trees. ? All the streams in the western part of the State were higher last week than they have been known for years. A correspondent of the Raleigh News says that on the 8th, the Catawba, at Morgauton, was twenty-one feet above common water, and still rising. West of Morganton the damage to the Western railroad is very great, and it will probably be two weeks before the trains can run over the road. The bridge over Catawba river, two miles from Morganton, was swept away. ? The Charlotte Democrat, (whose editor is one of the Directors,) says a meeting of the Directors of the new stockholders in the Car- , olina Central Railway Company?formerly the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad?was held in New York last week. The object of the meeting was to perfect the organization of the new company, which is composed of Baltimore and New York capitalists. The President was authorized by the Board of Directors to make contracts immediately for the completion of the road between 1 Goldsboro and Charlotte by the 1st of January. Tt is the intention of the company to put ou a line of steamers between New York j and Wilmington, and extend the road to the Tennessee line, and open communication with : the great West, and in that way make their | investment yield the largest returns. ? Lee Dunlap, a negro who killed a white man named Gleason, in Charlotte, over four j years ago, was indicted for murder in the Mecklenburg Superior Court, convicted and I sentenced to be hanged. The Supreme Court! of this State, upon appeal, granted him a new trial, pending which he made affidavit that he could not get justice in the State Courts on account of his color, etcetera. His case was transferred to the Circuit Court of the United States, at Raleigh, when Mr. Starbuck, for the United States, moved that the case be remanded to the State Courts. The Court refused the motion, and the United" States appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. That Court has recently dismissed the appeal on the ground that it was prema-turely taken, appeals only lying to that Court frnm final in Herman fa in nriminftl rftaos Thfi I Raleigh News learns that the case will be tried ! at the June terra of the Circuit Court. ? The Raleigh Sentinel says that Governor j Caldwell has received a notification from the Sheriff of Marion county^, 8. C., that the murderer and escaped convict, John A. Owens, held in that county on some trivial charge would be released in a few days. The matter of the extradition of this criminal is in the hands of Attorney General Hargrove, but Mr. Neathery, the Governor's Private Secretary, has telegraphed the authorities in South Carolina to hold on to the prisoner pending the negotiations for him. The law of the United States requires that in such cases as this the parties are to be detained six months and if not then demanded they are to be released." We further condense from the Sentinel : Owens some four months ago murdered n matt noma/] WifUara in fiaafrvn nnnntv TTo a ujaa uaujuu it iiuvia iu vmouvu wuuvj ? axv was tried, convicted and sentenced; but the death sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life, and Owens escaped from the Penitentiary after serving two years. NEWS oVTHE DAY. ? The State Department at Washington has advices that the body of Minister Orr will be sent home. ? Five car-loads of infantry passed through St. Louis on the 7th, en route for the Modoc war. ? It is stated that the President will not make an appointment of a successor to Cl.ief Justice Chase until next winter. He desires confirmation by the Senate before his appointee shall be seated. ? The Superior Court of New York city denies a new trial to Stokes, and affirms the judgment of the lower Court. He received the news of the decision with indifference, remarking, "My case will now go to the Court of Appeals." He says he does not want or expect a communication from Governor Dix if the Court of Appeals decides against him. ? The New Orleans Picayune says advices from the sugar districts of Louisiana, represent the crop as very promising. It isestimated that the growing crop will yield 125,000 hogsheads. In the same State a larger acreage has been put under rice than ever before, the estimated yield, with an average season, being 125,000 barrels, clean. ? An attempt was made to assassinate Gov. Kellogg on Tuesday evening of last week, as he was entering his carriage on one of the streets of New Orleans. A pistol shot was fired at him, the ball just missing his neck. An excited crowd was around the carriage at the time, and it is not known who fired the pistol. ? Incessant rains in Virginia during the past week have swollen many of the streams in that State to such an extent as to cause much damage to property. There were freshets on the James, Rivanna, Dan and Rappahannock. Dan river was higher than has been known for ten years, and the damage to property in Danville and vicinity amounts to 650,000. ? We learn from the Yankton (Dakota) Press that on the evening of the 24th ultimo, the citizens of that city gave a reception ball to the officers of the Seventh United States Cavalry, which is represented as having been a pleasant affair. The regiment was to have moved from Yankton on the 12th instant to the Northern Pacific Railroad, which work they are to protect from the incursions of the Indians. ? The body of William York, brother of Senator York, of Kansas, was recently found buried under suspicions circumstances, close to the house of a family named Bender, near Parsons, Kansas, which led to an investigation. York had been murdered, and in Bender's cellar eight dead bodies were found, including a child not more than eighteen months old. All the bodies, except the child, have been identified. They had all been killed by a blow on the back of the head, and their throats cut. Great excitement prevails. The Benders have escaped, but no efforts will be i .- .a.., ii..:. spareu IU eueui IUCII?IICOL. # ? The Late Minister Orr. From a lengthy eulogistic notice iu the Anderson Gazette, published at the home of the late Hon. James L. Orr, we extract the following: "We cannot describe the solemnity and deep-seated sorrow manifested by our citizens as the news flitted rapidly from one to another, and from house to house. Old men bowed their heads and wept, and the companions and friends of his earlier and raaturer years were shaken with grief beyond measure. He was our fellow-townsman, whom all delighted to honor, and whose return was fondly anticipated, since he had so recently expressed the warmest attachment for his cherished .home, and expected to end his days in peace here in our midst when the cares and responsibilities of public station were fulfilled in the near future. The sad calamity, coming withont the slightest warning of his dangerous illness, stunned the whole community, and with one accord the stores and places of business were closed, men gathered in groups or sought their homes, while the bells mournfully tolled the requiem of our honored and beloved friend, until the parting day was gone in sombreness and silence! Fit emblems were these of the overshadowing grief suddenly appearing in our town, now mournfully regretting the loss of her favorite son. As a private citizen, retaining the personal regard and confidence of his neighbors under all circumstances, Judge Orr was too highly appreciated in this community for the most ultra difference of political opinion to estrange him from the hearts of our people." Mr. Orr's Successor.?A Washington ? "TI* V .1 ..At- -/* If.. A iL ~ rlispatcn says: "ine aeam 01 mr. wrr, mo United States Minister to Russia, creates a vacancy which may help to relieve the President of some embarrassment. It has for some time been his wish to give a foreign appointment to ex-Representative John A. Bingham, of Ohio, and the mission to Japan would be perfectly satisfactory to that gentleman. But the Senators from the Pacific coast have protested vehemently against this appointment being taken away from thAt section, and as it was the only one that was likely to be at President's disposal, Mr. Bingham has for several months been kept in a 6tate of uncertainty and hope deferred which was not very pleasant. Mr. Orr had scarcely had time to get warm in his place before his death. It is thought here now by many that Mr. Bingham will receive this appointment, and that either ex-Senator Cole or ex-Senator Nye will get the mission to Japan. It was stated,! though upon what authority is not known, | that two colored politicians intend to apply j to the President for Mr. Orr's place. Any quantity of politicians and place hunters have been lying in wait for the President for the last day or two." LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. T. \V. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?First Meeting of Creditors?In the Matter of L. L. Packard. J. A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citution?Martha C. Hemphill, Applicant?John A.Hemphill, deceased. Found. Mrs. Cornolia Craven?New Confectionery. James E. Hagood, Clerk of District Court?In Bankruptcy?Application for DischargeIn the Matter of William Malone. JohnC. Kuvkendal?Cod Liver Oil?Special Notice?Elixirs?Fluid Extracts?Drugs. W. II. A J. P. Herndon?Something True?Our Sweeps?Cheap Groceries?Wuo?LoveBacon?Molasses and Syrups. T. M. Dob.son A Co.?Grist?Alpaca?SundriesWhite Piques?Hoes?Dress Goods?TeasUmbrellas?Feather Dusters?Crockery? Ready-Made Clothing?Just So?JelliesFlesh Towels?Russia Crash?Hat RacksTea Kettles?Well Buckets?Tea Bells?An Iron Safe?Lace Curtains?Ladies' Hose for 25 Cents?Real Lace?Baskets. CASE OF DROWNING. We learn that on Friday last two negro men, employed on the farm of T. M. Carothere, named Isom Brurafield and Sylvester Smith, were drowned while attempting to cross a branch of Catawba river at India Hook Mills, near Rock Hill. The stream was swollen twenty feet above usual water mark, and those who were drowned, in company with another freedman named Tom Nicholson, attempted to cross in a batteau, which was capsized. Tom narrowly escaped drowning. The dead bodies could not be recovered, though efforts were made to do so. THE ROCK HILL MEETING. The Lantern of last week devotes a half column in reply to a short paragraph published in the Enquirer of May 1st, in regard to the meeting held at Rock Hill, several weeks ago, in opposition to the subscription made by the County Commissioners to the capital stock of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company. We had stated, upon the authority of a gentleman who was present at the meeting, that "the assemblage embraced, by actual count, fiftyseven persons?twenty-seven whites and thirty colored?a goodly number of each race present being neither tax-payers nor voters.'' One object of the Lantern is to show that our informant was mistaken, and that there was a greater number of white persons present at the meeting than of colored. Very well. If we had been misinformed, we cheerfully trive the Lantern an ODDortunitv to correct O ? I r y the error. We do not object either to the number or the color of those who were present. We fully recognize the right of the people, without regard to "race, color or previous condition," to peacefully assemble and consult for the public good, and to adopt proper and legal measures to redress their real or imaginary grievances. If the citizens of Rock Hill are dissatisfied at the prospect of a railroad being constructed through York county, without passing that town, they have a perfect right to express the state of their feelings by resolutions adopted in public meeting, and through the public prints. This, we think, they have most effectually done. Nearly every line that we have read as emanating from opposition to the measure, breathes the one inevitable sentiment that were Rock Hill to be included on the route of the proposed road, the action of the County Commissioners would meet but little opposition in that locality. Nor, as the Lantern would insinuate, do we cast "flings," "slurs" or reproaches at the people for exercising their inalienable right to assemble in public meeting and declare their grievances and make known their wrongs. We alluded to the meagre attendance on the meeting at Rock Hill in no unkind spirit, and not with the view to parade the paucity of numbers "as a victory, displayed as a triumph of the Commissioners," as the Lantern unjustly charges. Our regard for the rights of the citizen would preclude such a course, and it is mainly to repel this false accusation of the Lantern that we take notice of its article. In this question, as we would be in any other involving the construction of a railroad in York county, we are actuated solely by a liberal spirit of internal improvements. We are uninfluenced by the sentiment of local grievances which seems to actuate some men in their line of conduct, and would be glad to see a dozen railroads in operation to each one now only contemplated. We wish to see every contemplated road pushed to early completion, as well as every other enterprise calculated to develop the resources of the country and benefit the people. The building of one road invariably leads to the construction of another, and so far from the private interest of a few men in some particular locality being impaired thereby, we contend that all will be benefitted. We believe it is to the interest of a majority of the people of the county of York?indeed, the whole people of the county?to have the Chester and Lenoir railroad built, and we may be pardoned if we express the hope to see it completed at an early day. But we can see no good as likely to result to either interest from a controversy with our Rock Hill cotemporary. Its opposition to the road, we opine, is not so much from a zealous affection for the taxpayer, or the dread results of the "usurpation" of the County Commissioners, as from other other interests of a purely local character, which, in this day of enterprise, we would hardly expect from one of enlarged and progressive views. As we understand from the Lantern, a movement is on foot to apply for an injunction restraining the action of the County Commissioners. This, of course, will bring the matter before the courts, the main question to decide being whether the Legislature has the Dower to delegate to the County Com missioners authority to make the subscription. The opinion of the legal fraternity, so far as we have heard an expression, is that the charter clearly grants this authority, and in exercising it the County Commissioners have not transcended their proper bounds. But if this power has been improperly conferred, or is not conferred at all, and the courts shall so decide, the suoner the decision is made the better it will be. We feel assured, that should the decision be adverse to the action of the Commissioners, the friends of the measure will acquiesce as cheeerfully as its opponents. The Politicians.?The Columbia Phoenix makes a thrust at the politicians, and in the same breath offers a wholesome suggestion to the people as follows : "For several years the whole strategy of Northern politicians, Republican and Democratic, has been to keep the South in hot water, for the purpose of influencing the popular mind at the North. And in the South the common run of Democratic politicians have been stupid enough, and the common run of carpet-bag politicians have been unscrupulous enough, to do the ut most for making that strategy a complete success in the particular of perpetual hot water, diversified with frequent ooilings over and occasional steam explosions. Is it not time for sober aud reflecting people, North and South, to take this water temperature business out of the control of political knaves on the one hand, and of political imbeciles on the other, aud adjust it, according to common sense, to their own satisfaction, and the good of the country?" EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Wofford College. We return our thanks to the managers for an invitation to the Annual Celebration | of Wotfbrd College on the 23ril of Juue. ' Latest front the Lava Beds. On the 7th instant, according to latest advices, the Modocs captured a quartermaster's train of three wagons, eleven mules and three horses. Three soldiers were wounded. d 1 It is thought that Capt. Jack has evacuated V j the Lava Beds. All the available horses will 1 be employed by the troops in huuting the m Modocs. A guerilla system of warfare will be inaugurated, which will doubtless last all^^H the summer. Stephens on Grant. Alex. H. Stephens, member of Congress eledt gives evidence of the good showing he intends for President Grant by complaining that the press discusses the man and not his policy ; but in a President, who by virtue of his office is a coordinate branch of the Government, it is not easy to separate the man from his policy. In reply it is well said Gen. Grant was not under any legal obligation to install the Kellogg government in Louisiana, and yet he did this; nor was he legally bouud to proclaim martial law in South Carolina, and a yet he proclaimed it. We see him to-day I lending Federal troops to the Kellogg usurpation in Louisiana, to oppress and subjugate white men there, in arms to defend their families and their property, against bands of insurrectionary negroes. So of the President's Civil Service policy. There can be no escape from the conclusion that the President is reSDonsible for the character of his annnintmenta. nor any doubt that what he promised?with ample power to make good his pledges?he has failed to perform. The President is a man of strong will, and in matters relating to himself he knows how to have his own way. Death of Chief Jnstlee Chase. This distinguished man, who has been in public life for many years died in Washington City on Tuesday evening of last week. The immediate cause of his death was a stroke of paralysis, which attacked him early the day before; about a year ago, however, he had several strokes, from the effects of which he. verrecovered. His age was sixty-five? having been born in Cornish, New Hampshire, January, 1808. At an early age he removed to Ohio, but afterwards returned to the Granite State, and graduated in Dartmouth College, in 1826. He shortly afterwards took up his abode in Washington City, where he practiced law; but afterwards returned to Ohio, his adopted State, where he has since resided. He was elected to the . United States Senate in 1849, and at the close V of the term filled the Ohio gubernatorial chair H for two terms. He was made Secretary of V the Treasury, upon Mr. Lincoln's election to V the Presidency?a position which, it is said, 1 he filled with great ability. On the death of Chief Justice Taney, in 1864, he was nominated to the highest judicial office of the COUntrv _ nq Chief .Tnstiee r?f the TTnite/t fttotea hv President Lincoln. This office he filled with great dignity, learning and fidelity until his death. Brigham Young on the Modoc War. Brigham Young has been recently interviewed on the subject of the Modoc war, and he freely gave his views of the Indian question. He said that in 1847 he settled in Utah with one hundred and forty souls, and for thousands of miles around them the land was infested with hostile Indians. He gained their friendship by acting honorably with them and never stooping to deception. When he made a promise he kept it He had no doubt that the hostility of the Indians had been augmented by the robberies committed by unscrupulous agents of the Government; . that they had lost all faith in the honor and integrity of the Government officers, and that the'Modocs did to the commissioners just what they thought was being endeavored to be done to them. He thought that peace should be made at any cost, or the entire West would be embroiled in general Indian war. When the correspondent asked Mr. Young whether he endorsed President Grant's Indian policy, he replied: "I endorse the policy so far as it corrects abuses and tends to a lasting peace and to the civilization of the Indians." He also said that the Indian war would destroy all commerce and immigration between Missouri and the Pacific coast, and retard the settlement of the country for twenty years, which would in itself be a great calamity. Scientific Plans for Conqnering the Modocs. It is amusing to read the different modes for conducting a military campaign and pushing a war to successful termination, as recommended and strongly urged by men who have A never received military training, and who, while they are lavish with their gratuitous advice, take particular pains never to put it in practice themselves. A correspondent of the New York World suggests that if a line or series of calcium lights were drawn around the Modoc camp it would help to the extermination of its occupants. It would, he thinks, prevent their escape by night, and forbid them from stealing out of their camp for water. It is also suggested that a company of men in bullet-proof armor could track them fearlessly to their lairs and exterminate them. This latter suggestion seems not without weight Bullet-proof armor is made in France, and though adapted to only a few of the emergencies of modern warfare, the Modoc campaign is precisely one which it is adapted to. i ? If the Indians had artillery the armor would . A of course he useless; but their most powerful 1 weapons are rifles, and the balls of the most i powerful of them flatten harmlessly upon these i impregnable habergeons of cork, chain-mail, J and gutta-percha. Edmond About relates that one of the African kings of the Gold coast imported a number of these suits of armor, in whose invulnerability he possessed such con- | fldence that he arrayed his ministry therein, i grouped them artistically at a short distance, and then trained upon them a twenty-fourpounder heavily loaded with grape. It M??/llAnn MKAnf 1AM ik A 4 AMI** AM A ? AMAM UCCU1COO KJ IliCUtlUU tuat UlilJ UUC UUgCA, ears, and a pillow-easeful of wool was left of^^B the entire cabinet, and the sovereign is still conducting in the civil courts of France a suit for damages against the manufacturers. Death of Oakes Ames. As we announced last week, Oakes ** Ames died of paralysis on the night of the 8th instant. He was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and went with his father to Easton when a boy, and a few years later learned the trade of shovel making at a forge. The old shop where first he worked still stands as a reminder of the past. Business increased after a while until Mr. Ames,.the architect of his own fortunes, achieved a national reputation. In all his business wanderings, however, he has never lost sight of the town of his adoption. An academy building there, and one of the finest in the State, was constructed through the donation of $43,000 by the Ames family, and there are other and permanent improvements which are the work of his enterprise and public spirit. It is stated that he