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f traps and darts. Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts,1 has obtained a divorce from his wife. The Order of the Patrons of Husban- J dVy is spreading at the South. Brigham Young is credited with saying that with all his wives he cannot keep his ; buttons sewed on. Somebody mentions that Gen. Canby t and President Lincoln were both assassinated j on Good Friday. There is but one State in the Union j and one Territory free from debt?Iowa and : Colorado. The Legislature of Kentucky has passed a law prohibiting the introduction of foreign capital into that State. A New Hampshire man has the leather strap which has thrashed the family through tnree generations. The total loss suffered by the array in the Modoc war, thus far, is seventy-one killed and sixty-seven wounded. The sugar crop of Louisiana promises the best yield, by far, that has been since the memorable year of 1850. The East Indies have 5000 miles of railway in full working order, and more than 3000 in course of completion. A letter was put in the Pittsburg post office the other day, directed to Captain Jack, Lava Beds, California. There is nothing like plain English for plain speaking. Butler says Brownlow is an old fool, and Brownlow retaliates by saying that better men than Butler have been hanged. The narrow-gauge railways of the Uuited States make a total length of 325 miles. The length of the lines projected or building is about 3000 miles. The hotel at the justly-celebrated mineral springs, located in Cleveland county, North Carolina, is to be opened for the reception of visitors on the 12th of June. These waters are beneficial in a variety of complaints. The National Grange of the Patrons of XT iinknn/lntr oa! n/?tn/l Oftlrvnol Ti IVlTotf liuouauuij unvv v/vavuwa x/ n jwm Aiken to introduce the order in North Carolina, and he is to address a meeting at Charlotte, on the 11th proximo. One of Barnum's Fejee cannibals has gone to work in a livery stable, because painting his face, wearing fish bones about the neck and shivering in a shawl for twenty-eight dollars a month and board, didn't pay. Arkansas is actually and prospectively in debt $12,000,000 on account of railroads, yet the railway managers secured from the last legislature an outright grant of all the public lands of the State, 1,850,000 acres. The growing use of the English language in Japan is shown in the recent shipment of sixty copies of Webster's unabridged dictionary from Springfield, Massachusetts, to Yokohoraa. A five year old child of Mr. P. Nath, of Canada, has never uttered an articulate sound, and had been given up as hopelessly mute, until the other day, when its parents were astounded by hearing it give utterance to several well-rounded and fornr'dable oaths. An eminent physician says: "Never enter a sick room in a state of perspiration, as the moment you become cool your pores absorb. Do not approach contagious diseases with an empty stomach, nor sit between the sick and the fire, because the heat attracts the thin vapors." Two members ofthe Kansas Legislature were rather noisily drunk on a railroad train one day. When the conductor remonstrated, one of them pompously asked, "Do you not know, sir, that I am a member of the Legislature ?" The conductor quietly replied, "You've got the symptoms." A beautiful young girl was married in San Francisco last week, and at the conclusion of the marriage ceremony she turned to her husband and said: "George, kiss me, I ? ?V? 1* units* si AA?y\r\liA/1 *T? l li f kA am ujiug* j. lie iiuduauu lumpncu nnu nit request, and at that moment she fell dead on the floor. Journalism is indeed looking up in Japan. The Tycoon has started a daily paper, und as he announces that he will behead every able-bodied "Jap" who does not subscribe at once, he hopes to work up quite a list of subscribers, and make his paper "pay from the start." Native merchants who do not advertise have their property confiscated. A Califonia paper announces that Captain Jack has divided his army of fifty men into three divisious; the first, under the captain, is to capture and hold California ; the second is to sweep northward and subdue Oregon, while the third forces its way over the mountains and sage brush and devastates Nevada and Utah. The incorrigible Don Piatt, contemplating the possibility that Captain Jack will extermiuate the American people at the rate the very one-sided Modoc war is going on, throws a sop to that ferocious chief by saying that he desires it to be distinctly understood, before this thing goes any further, that Captain Jack has always been his first choice for President. An impulsive Connecticut young man sent his girl the piece of sheet music entitled, "I will meet you at the Beautiful Gate." Her father saw the piece when she opened the package, and after daubing a bucket-ful of tar over his gate, quietly remarked to his daughter, "He can wait for you if he wants to, but you won't either of you swing on that gate, if tar will keep you off." The Supreme Court of Missouri has decided that women have no right to vote under the fourteenth amendment, and that that amendment does not abridge the power of the States to limit the right of suffrage to the male inhabitants. The amendment was intended, say the Missouri judges, to compel the former slave States to give freedmen the right of suffrage, and make them equal with other citizens before the law. An Iowa clergyman was just unreason-1 able enough to want his salary, and when the church failed utterly to pay him any considerable portion of it, he sued and recovered judgment. The matter was recently made the subject of investigation by a council of inquiry, and that tribunal arrived at four solemn bndings, viz.: That the church did wrong in failing to pay the pastor his salary; that the pastor did wrong in suing the church, and that the church should apologize to the pastor, and that the pastor should apologize to the church. We shall have a striking instance of how men can adapt themselves to a change of circumstances, if there is truth in the report that the brilliant, but eccentric, Henry A. Wise, for so many years a power in Virginia, and one of her most effective stump orators, will announce himself an independent candidate for Governor on the Administration ticket next summer. There will be a conservative and a carpet-bag candidate on the track also, and Wise, it is said, is ambitious of getting the State in favor with the President, and thinks by taking this ground he can run in between his two opponents. Illustrating the necessity of cleanliness and keeping the pores of the skin open, it is said that if a coat of varnish or other substance impervious to moisture, be applied to the exterior of the body, death will ensue in about six hours. The experiment was once tried on a child in Florence. On the occasion of Pope Leo the Tenth's accession to the Papal chair, it was desired to have a living figure to represent the Golden Age, and so a child was gilded all over with varnish and gold i leafr The child died in a few hours. If the : fur of a rabbit or the skin of a pig be covered with a solution of India rubber in naptha, the animal ceases to breathe in a few hours. Persons who have seen from time to j time the well-known Siamese twins, or the two youn^ colored girls joined from the shoulders j to the hip, that have been exhibiting in this j country and Europe since our late civil war, j have found it difficult to refrain from disa-' greeable speculations as to what may be the ! circumstance of the one or the other of either of the pairs when the final dissolution of death shall come. There is an instance on record in the Every Day Book of Home, which shows the fate of what were known as the Biddeuden maids, born at Biddenden, England, in the year 1100, and who were joined at the hips and shoulders. They thus lived 34 years, when one of them died. The other was advised to be separated from her at once, but she answered, "As we came together, we will also go together," and was taken ill and died six hours after. Their names were Elizabeth and Mary Chalkhurst. Wit fotMle YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 22, 1873. Watch the Figures.?The datcon the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance JOB PRINTING. Having determined to devote more attention hereafter to job printing than we have done in the past, we would inform the public that our office is now well supplied with new type of the latest styles, and the best machinery in use; and with a choice stock of inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to execute as good work as can be done anywhere in the United States. Orders for Ball Tickets, Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, Labels, Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks, Bill Heads, Law Briefs, * Business Cards, Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, 1 Memorandum Billheads Checks, * (Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, 'NoteHeadings, Drafts and Notes, !Programmes, Envelopes, iPolicies, Fire&Lifelns., Election Tickets, jShinplasters, Festival Tickets, ! Wedding Cards, will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction as to quality of work, guaranteed in every instance. Particular attention given to fine work in colors. -? THE RAILROAD MEETING AT HICKORY. We publish this week full proceedings of ; the meeting at Hickory, North Carolina, on ! Wednesday of last week, of the stockholders of the Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, and the stockholders of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company. As will be seen from the proceedings, the two companies were consolidated, after which the stockholders of the respective corporations met in joint-convention. The meeting was largely attended, the proceedings harmonious, and all were enthusiastic upon the subject under discussion. Under the resolution consolidating the two companies, they will hereafter be known by the name of the "Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company." The new company, as organized, authorized the President and Board of Directors to place upon the proposed line of road a corps of engineers, and surveys will be commenced at an early day. It was also resolved to take such steps as the President aud Directors may deem most advisable to secure consolidation with the King's Mountain Railroad Company, either by purchase or otherwise, the result of which efforts shall be made to a called meeting of the stockholders for their filial determination. The meeting was addressed at length by Judge Mackey, who presented, in a forcible manner, facts and figures showing the importance of the enterprise, and the benefits to be derived from it by the people of both States. His speech was well received by those present, and if argument were at all necessary to impress upon his hearers the importance and necessity of the road, we think he succeeded admirably. To the people of this section we do not know that a more desirable route could be selected? opening, as it will, direct communication with a rich grain-growing country, and by a short line or connecting link, furnishing an outlet by the Air-Line East and West; connecting atLincolnton with the Carolina Central Railway, and furnishing an outlet in the one direction to Wilmington, N. C., and the other Westward; and at Hickory on the Western N. C. Railroad, opening another liue North and East. The town of Hickory is no further from Charleston by railroad communication, than is the town of Greenville in this State, and the proposed route will, while benefitting the entire section through which it will pass, do much toward increasing the commercial interests of our seaport city, in addition to giving the farmers and the public easy access to all portions of the country and all the important. markets. . .1 1 _Ai Wewere pleased to witness tue large aitendance at Hickory, and to observe the interest manifested by all in the enterprise. The preseut indications lead us to the conclusion that the necessary subscriptions will be made, and the work placed under contract at an early day. In another column will be found a list of commissioners appointed to open books and receive subscriptions to the capital stock of [ the company. EDUCATION AND CRIME. There are some subjects that should be constantly kept before the public mind. Their intrinsic importance and their reflexive influence upon society, in all its phases, merit for j them great prominence. Amongst this class of subjects may be mentioned the education j of the masses. There is a tendency amongst j the masses of mankind, in all countries and at all times, to lapse back into barbarism. By far the greater number of individuals, in j every community, regard anything more than j a primary education as of no value whatever. [ Their views with regard to the whole subject j are narrow and contracted, and practically,' in a high degree detrimental to the best interests of society. By a great multitude of persons iu what are, by common consent, regarded as civilized and enlightened countries, education is regarded in the light of a simple ornament which may, under certain circumstances. be converted into something that is of present utility. It is true that education may ' be regarded as an ornament, but in a far different sense than that which the masses at- ( tach to the word ornament. Education is hot a gaudy trinket, whose only utility is to produce a glare. It is the ornament which dis-! tinguishes the civilized man from the savage.! Whenever the education of the masses is con-1 templated, there is one thing that should be j kept steadily in view. It is this. The more j extensively and the more thoroughly the masses of society are educated, the fewer in number, and the less aggravated will be the character of the crimes perpetrated. It is not denied that men who are highly educated, sometimes are guilty of desperate i acts; but the history of crime shows conclu- < sively that the pests of society are found ] amongst the uneducated. Of the thousands i of cases of petit larceny, illegal traffic, and all similar offences against the peace and pro- I gress of society, the overwhelming majority ? are perpetrated by the uneducated. It would ] create a sensation over a whole State if it < were announced that a man of thorough edu- i cation was to be tried for stealing chickens ! ? Education puts men beyond the reach of i some crimes. It raises them above the perpe- i tration of low and mean acts. Let any one I go to a court house, during "court week," and I look upon the persons who are arraigned for i what are called low and degraded offenses i against society, and he will be convinced i that education is a preventive against crime. 1 Jails and penitentiaries muke the same revela- 1 - - i ? /> l l tion. Men ot rennea eaucation ieei auove < doing the most of those things for which persons most frequently are sent to jail or the penitentiary. Hence, these places) are filled with the unfortunate sons and daughters of ignorance. Ignorance and crime are inseparable. The ignorant man is always liable to violate the laws of society. Ignorance is a costly thing. It costs more to punish ignorant criminals than it would to educate them. Education removes the producing cause of crime, but punishing criminals does not. SOUTH CAROLINA'S FUTURE. It is evident to any one who is conversant with the passing events of the day, that a great change in the condition of things in South Carolina, will soon take place. We might safely say that a new state of things has already been inaugurated. Planters are engaged in developing the resources of the soil in a manner and with an energy unknown in the previous history of the State. We think it may safely be said that more land has been manured the present year than was Aver manured in anv one single vear since the v" "" ?J o " y settlement of the State. This single circumstance indicates a new state of things. This is the way England has been made what it is. It is the way that many of the best farming sections in the world have been made rich. England is naturally a poor country ; but by continuous manuring, it has been made rich and exceedingly productive. It may, with eminent propriety, be said that a large portion of the finest and most remunerative farming lands in America have been made so by ma.nures. The same system has been inaugurated in South Carolina, and we may confidently expect the same results in some sections of 1 this State. Another indication of change for the better, is that the people of the State are fully convinced that various manufacturing establishments ought to be erected in different sections < of the State. In some instances a beginning i has already been made to develop the manufacturing resources of the State. In other < places, vigorous efforts are making to erect ] manufacturing establishments which will con- ' vert the raw material, produced in the State, into a serviceable form. Men are in earnest 1 about these things. It is already intimated : that various manufacturing companies in the North are becoming uneasy about this thing. ' It may safely be said that a spirit of pro- 1 gress has been infused into our people. It is true that but little has as yet been done; but 1 enough has been accomplished to show the general direction to which things are tending. The age of old fogyisrn is, we are disposed to J think, drawing to an end, and a brighter day 1 is soon to visit the State of South Carolina. Twenty years of progress, such as has taken place since the war, will place South Caroli- ' na in the front rank among her sister States. ' .? ? ?. i SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. i ? Anderson is to have a 30,000 spindle cot- i ton factory to be run by steam. 1 ? The Greenville and Columbia Railroad, i it is said, is negotiating for new iron. i ? The aggregate collections of the Treasurer of Abbeville county foot up $127,096.57. ? At a sale of securieties in Augusta, last ] week, Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 1 Railroad bonds, brought 83*. I ? A number of Hollanders have recently < arrived in Laurens county, who design buy- I ing land and making a permanent settlement. . ? Winnsboro wants a fire engine. Two i thousand dollars have been subscribed to- < ward the purchase of one. i ? Large numbers of the colored militia on I the sea islands are leaving their companies in i consequence of the rumor that they are to be sent to fight the Modocs. ? The Orangeburg county commissioners 1 have been sentenced to fifty dollars fine or one 1 month in jail each, for failing to keep in re- : pair the public bridges. 1 ? The completion of the Air-Line Rail- ( road to Greenville, has reduced the price of 1 lime in that place from one dollar to fifty cents per bushel. 1 ? DuPre & Smith, of Abbeville Courthouse, have a side of bacon in their establishment that weighs 109* pounds. The hog 1 was raised at Lowudesville, in Abbeville 1 county. 1 ? At the recent General Conference of the Southern Baptist Church, held at Mobile, it was resolved to remove the Furman Theolog- 1 ical Seminary from Greenville, S. C., to Lou- 1 isville, Ivy., as soon as that State raises an endowment of $300,000. ? The question whether vehicles of pleasure, such as carriages, <t*c., be exempt from levy j and sale by the homestead act in cases where the personal property of debtors is under five hundred dollars, will be passed upon by Judge Cooke at the next sitting of the court for Anderson county. , ? On Weduesday of last week, in Colum- , bia, four youths presented themselves before ; the board at the competitive examination, to , contest for the naval and cadet appointments , to be recomended by Congressman Cain for the ( State at Large. The successful candidates proved to be Thos. Sims, a son of Col. R. M j Sims, of Rock Hill, as the appointee to West Poiut, and S. E. Thomson, colored, of Rich-' j laud, to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. , ? A man named Long, of Union county, ] who fled the State for fear of being arrested j as a ku-klux, returned a short time since to < his home, and one of his first acts after his i return was to kill, in a brutal manner, a man i named Nero Ezell. The Corner was prompt-, I ly notified, and his return was in accordance . i with the above. The act is seriously con- i demued by the law abiding citizens, both i white and black, and by the Union Times, < from which paper we get the above facts. ? Charleston has a population of nearly 50,000 souls, the raaturer population of which ! I is divided professionally something after this ' i manner: There arc 282 grocers, 154 coramis- j1 sion merchants, 73 dry goods merchants, 92 < lawyers, 72 doctors, 64 keepers of bar-rooms,11 62 shoe-makers, 61 factors, 61 fruit dealers, | < 45 confectioners, 37 bakers, 31 apothecaries, i 29 auctioneers, 25 barbers, 23 blacksmiths, i 24 builders, 22 clothiers, 27 grain merchants 1 and 16 grist mills, 25 jewelers, 24 junk shops, i 20 millinery stores, 32 tobacco and cigar lealers, 20 wood cutters, and 9 coal dealers, 13 music terchere, and about 300 raiscellaieous trades. ? In Charleston, on Sunday morning last, a ire broke out in the range of buildings oppolite the Pavilion Hotel, known as the Barrett1 Block. The fire originated in the lamp store j if J. P. Brown, and Bpeedily extended to the ldjoining buildings. The following is the result : Stock of J. P. Brown, valued at $8,000 ind insured for $2,000; stock of T. Campbell, iron ware, valued at $3,000, insured for $1,)00; stock of C. D. Frank, shoe and leather findings, insured for $5,000, and John Comings, insured for $1,000. The Garrick Dramatic Club lost all of their furniture and fixings, valued at $800, and no insurance. The block was valued at $20,000 and was insured for $8,000, which will doubtless cover the damage. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Wm. Randolph Hill, son of Gen. D. H. Hill, haviug been appointed to a cadetship in the United States Military Academy, has gone to West Point. ? The Newton Vindicator says that Catawba river was higher last week than it has been for many years. Mills were swept off, farms ruined, and much of the growing crops destroyed. ? A convention of the editors of the various papers in the State was held in Goldsboro last week, the object being to organize the profession into an association, which will hereafter meet regularly every year. ? Rev. A. F. Dickson has resigned the pastoral charge of the First Presbyterian church in Wilmington, over which he has presided for the past year. Mr. Dickson is a native of South Carolina. ? A large number of Cherokee Indians were in attendance at the Court in Statesville last week, suit having been instituted by them against United States disbursing agents, who, - * 1 /? * 3 M% _ T 1 t it is alleged, nave aetrauaea tne maiaus uui of large amounts of money. ? Trains on the Carolina Central Railway are now running from Wilmington to within two miles of Wadesboro. The new management advertise for contractors to complete the road between Wadesboro and Charlotte by the 1st of January next. NEWS OVTHE DAY. ? Judge Pierrepont, of New York, has been tendered the mission to St. Petersburg, vice Hon. J. L. Orr, deceased. It is said he will accept. ? The Democrats carried . the municipal election at Norristown, New Jersey last week, for the first time since the incorporation of the city. ? James A. Coe, cashier of a Boston Bank, has been detected in. "irregularities" to the amount of $200,000. He was bailed in the 3ii m of $40,000. . ? The Supreme Court of Appeals has granted a writ of error in the case of Stokes, and it will come up for a new hearing on the 26th instant. ? William Archer, a mail agent, has been arrested, charged with robbing the mails of registered letters between Brunswick and Macon, Georgia. Archer was formerly a mail agent on the route between Richmond and Greensboro. ? A railroad convention in the interest of an air-line from Chicago to the Atlantic via Augusta, Ga., was held in the latter city last week. The convention resolved that such a line is absolutely required by the increase of travel and freight. ? A duel, originating from a few lines of verse published in the Richmond Enquirer several months ago, was fought near Richmond last week, between John B. Mordecai and Page McCarty. The former received a mortal wound from which he died on Thursday, and the latter was also wounded, but not fatally. Under the duelling law of Virginia, the survivor will be arraigned for murder, and the seconds as accessories. ? A conference of members of Congress was held in Saint Louis last week, the principal object being to consider the completion of the James River and Kanawha Canal. A resolution was passed to the effect that this --.i nVinriaViosl aphomp nf ?fjl ftll quiet. DejBlanc has written a letter to vjuv. McEnry, detailing his reasons for surrendering. He claims that he could have successfully contended with Badger's force, but having accomplished his object in the determinaation not to assent to the validity of the Kellogg government by yielding to the Metropolitan police, he resolved not to be brought into collision with the United States military, and thus be made liable to the charge of high treason against the United States. He further says that the resisters never thought of interfering with the rights of the colored citizens, and that they were willing to recognize all radical officers elected, if they would recognize McEnry as Governor. The Modoc War. A dispatch from San Francisco, dated the 13th, says that Capt. Hasbrouck's scouting party was attacked by the Modocs and were completely surprised. Four soldiers and Dne Warm Spring Indian were killed, and six soldiers and one Warm Spring Indian wounded. Capt. Hasbrouck rallied his men ind charged the Modocs, when the latter scattered through the woods. Several volleys were fired among them, but it is not known whether any Modocs were hurt. The troops captured twenty-five horses. Captain Jack wore General Canby's uniform. Thirty-three Modocs were engaged. When the last courier left, the troops were between the Indians and their lava stronghold. Capt. Hasbrouck thinks the Indians are nearly out of ammunition. Further particulars report that at sunrise on the 8th, the Modocs fired on the picket of the party commanded by Capt. Hasbrouck, which, after scouting all the day previous, had returned for water. Captain Jack rode to within one hundred yards of the camp, dismounted, and charged the camp, firing into the herd and guard. The first volley stampeded the herd. While the troops were getting under arms the Modocs fired volley after volley into the camp. (The number of killed and wounded are reported above) Two of the wounded are mortally hurt. A rally was made and the charge sounded. The Modocs were driven into the timber, leaving twenty-one ponies, three pack-mules, one dpAfi Mndnn. ninatefin nacks. and six dead an imals. The Modocs retreated toward McLeod's range of mountains. Captain Hasbrouck has five days' rations, but water is scarce. The scene of the fight is seventeen miles from the Lava Beds. Reinforcements marched all night. Captain Jack took his position on the field in as lordly a manner as if he had been a brigadier-general. No squaws were seen during the fight, nor by the scouts on the following night. A San Francisco dispatch of the 14th says the Indians were then twenty-five miles from the scene of the last fight, and were being hotly pursued. Chester and Lenoir N. 6. Railroad Co. At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, the following named persons were appointed Commissioners in the several counties to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of the said Company : Caldwell County.?At Lenoir?R. R. Wakefield, R. B. Bogle, H. H. Hamilton, J. G. Ballew, M. V. Moore, L. W. Gilbert. At Patterson?N. H. Gwyn, Edmund Jones. At John's River?D. D. Coffey, J. N. Harehaw, C. A. Little. At Lovelady?S. G. H. Jones, W. D. Hickman, J. S. Setzer. Watauga County.?At Boon?Dr. W. B. Councill.T. J. Coffey, W. L. Bryan. Catawba County.?A. A. Shuford, Moses Teague, 0. G. Foard, 8. M. Finger, J. W. * i i ttr T-r ttTMl*. T Tfc n I jyiicnaei, vy. n. Williams, ?j. rv. uauner, r. Smith, G. A. Icard, Maj. Jos. Bost, M. L. Cline. Lincoln County?Ambrose Costner, W. H. Motz, J. C. Cobb, V. A. McBee, John G. Justice, B. H. Sumner. Gaston County.?M. D. Friday, J. D. Moore, Jonas Huffman, Henry Setzer, Uriah Matthews, John F. Wilson, W. D. Glenn, Charles Q. Petty. Chester County,?John C. McFadden, C. C. Macoy, S. B. Massey, David Hemphill, I. L. Gunhouse, E. T. Atkinson, John J. McLure. York County.?H. F. Adickes, Joseph Herndon, James L. Clark, Thomas S. Jefferys, W. H. McCorkle, Jno. L. Watson, J. S. R. Thomson, M. Strauss, Hon. A. S. Wallace, James F. Hart, T. M. Dobson. County Treasurer Allen Found Guilty. County Treasurer Allen, charged by State Treasurer Cardozo with being a defaulter, has been found guilty, and sentenced by Judge Cooke to be imprisoned in the penitentiary two years and pay a fine of $1,000. An appeal has been taken in the case. The Columbia Evening Herald (which is of the same political party as Mr. Allen) thus speaks of the matter: "He made a direct issue upon the right of a County Treasurer to pay his private claims against the State out of the public funds in hands. We could not consent to the defendant's view of the law, because it completely nullified the office of State Treasurer, and forced that high official to push matters to the last extremity. Criminal proceedings were taken, and Mr. Allen has suffered. But, from public conversation on the streets, it seems to be the general opinion that Treasurer Allen has established a private character in his neighborhood hitherto beyond reproach. It is alleged that he never hesitated to confess his refusal to turn over the public moneys, under the circumstances; that he never attempted any concealment or flight; that un eiJLUipilSG l/l VIIUII?UV? uv..vU.v w. thor, George Washington?connecting the Atlantic with the Mississippi Valley, was worthy of the prompt and profound consideration of the State of Virginia in surrendering her interest, $12,000,000, in this improvement to the people of the whole country to insure them cheap rates of transportation by a water line to the Atlantic coast. ? The Arkansas Governorship is again in a muddle. A dispatch from Arkansas states that Governor Baxter remains in the capitol night and day with a force of men on duty fully armed to protect him against the threatened raid of the friends of Lieutenant Governor Smith to oust Baxter and place Smith in the gubernatorial chair. The opposers of Governor Baxter have as yet made no move toward taking forcible possession of the building or any part of it. An armed guard of new militia is on duty. All of the officers of the old militia have been mustered out, and their places filled by men more in sympathy with the opinions of Governor Baxter. The action of prominent Republicans opposed to Governor Baxter provokes considerable speculation. EDITORIAL^INKLINGS. Louisiana Affairs. Col. DeBlanc, who had command of a number of citizens, armed for the purpose of resisting the Kellogg government, has surrendered to Gen. Badger, of the United States Army. Badger advanced upon DeBlanc, when the latter surrendered. He and his subordinates were paroled, but they have since been taken to New Orleans, and will have a hearing before a United States Commissioner. The localities in which disturb I 3 ?n?, .Qnnrfo/1 tr? hp. I der, perhaps mistaken advice, he stood by his | notion of the functions of his office to the last, without any criminal purpose to defraud the people. If public opinion is right in these facts, we do think that the case of Treasurer Allen presents the most reasonable field for the exercise of that just clemency and wise humanity with which the Constitution has invested the Executive of the State. The law has been vindicated, an example set, while the sureties to the official bond of the defendant, as well as the valuable securities and other funds in his possession, make a proper and full settlement possible, and any loss to the State impossible." Port Royal City. A correspondent of the Charleston New and Courier, furnishes the following information in regard to the projected city of Port Royal, near the town of Beaufort, S. C.: The prematurely named city of Port Royal, located on Port Royal Island, at the confluence of Beaufort River and Battery Creek, is regularly laid out into blocks of five hundred feet front by two hundred feet deep, bounded by streets running due east and west, and avenues in the direction of due north and south. Each square or block contains forty lots of twenty-five feet front and one hundred feet of depth. As at present surveyed there are eight hundred and fifty blocks or thirty-four thousand lots. These, at an average of one hundred dollars each, would amount to the Bnug little sum of $3,400,000. A large proportion of these lands are held in trust by Mr. D. F. Appleton, of New York, and the title to them, in addition to the United States title, has been secured by the purchase and foreclosure of a mortgage of the heirs of the Rev. Wm. Elliott. The harbor ol Tort ?toyai is ranxea among the first-class harbors of the United States, those of New York and Providence not excepted. Its greatest advantage is that vessels of any draft and tonnage may gain entrance to its dock without the aid of a pilot. About three hundred feet in length of the dock has already been completed, and on it is being erected a freight depot of considerable dimensions, which is now almost completed. Between the depot and the end of the pier a switch has been laid, so that freight may be discharged direct from the cars into the vessels. The permanent residents of Port Royal proper, at a rough guess, would not exceed twenty-five. About one hundred and fifty railroad hands are employed within the incorporation, who give custom to three stores. About'a dozen buildings, ranging from the small cabin to a dwelling of seven rooms, have now been built, and there are in course of erection six others, the largest of which is a building, whose lower story is to be used as a warehouse, and the upper one as the printing office of a newspaper to be called the Port Royal Commercial, which will be the Beaufort Republican under a new name. Owing to its great facilities for receiving and discharging freight, the much shorter distance from all points south of the Ohio river than to New York, the average distance from Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville, Memphis, Montgomery and Louisville to Port Royal, being but half of that to New York, and the consequent saving of freight rates in the ratio of one to two, the harbor of Port Royal is no doubt destined to become the outlet of the great staples of a vast extent of country. LOCAL AFFAIRS, j NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation? I S. A. Kell, Applicant?James Thorn, de- J ceased. i M. Strauss ?fe Son?Dry Goods, Dry Goods?Shoes and Hats?Ready-Made Clothing. W. H. <fc J. P. Herndon?Cheap? Lemons?Breakfast Strips?Canned Goods?Crackers. Perry Davis ?fe Son?Good Words for the PainKiller. R. C. Thomson, Administrator?Notice to persons indebted to Dr. Wm. P. Thomson, deceased. W. B. Metts, Assignee?In Bankruptcy?Second General Meeting of Creditors in the Matter of Robert Whitesides. GONE TO BALTIMORE. Our townsman, Mr. James A. Watson, formerly a Professor in King's Mountain Military School, has accepted a position as teacher in the Bryant, Stratton and Sadler Business College of Baltimore, whither he started on Tuesday last. Mr. Watson is a thorough scholar and an efficient teacher, and will, we feel assured, prove quite an acquisition to the institution with which he has connected himself. FATAL RENCOUNTER. On Sunday last four soldiers of Company C, 18th Infantry, viz.: Wm. Gallagher, Patrick Brady, Thomas Quinton and George Welch, were on a drunken spree, which in the afternoon terminated in the stabbing of Quinton by Welch, from the effects of which he died about 10 o'clock next morning. The authorities having been notified of the affair, Trial Justice W. B. Williams, acting as Coroner, empanelled a jury of inquest composed of the following persons: P. B. Darwin, foreman ; S. Sadler, J. R. Kennedy, S. A. McElwee, J. D. Colcock, J. P. Herndon, J. W. Dobson, J. S. Lewis, Charles Bessaur, F. W. Burt, Albert Tate and Anthony Newton. Gallagher aud Brady, companions of the two who became involved in the difficulty, were examined, but they stated that they were so drunk at the time the fight occurred, that they did not remember anything about it. David S. Russell, proprietor of the liquor shop, said that Gallagher, Brady, Quinton and Welch all weut to his shop, about ten o'clock in the forenoon, and asked for whisky, which was refused; but finally to get rid of their importunities he gave them some, and they left. In the afternoon they returned for the third time, considerably under the influence of liquor, Quinton he thought, being the ?V? n M now^n Tkaw mn nfn/l UJTUlll&CBIs llidu vi l/lio |/ai yj xucj naui^u more liquor, which witness finally consented to give tbera if they would promise to return to their quarters. After taking their drinks, Welch refused to leave. Quinton approached him in a friendly manner and asked him to leave, whereupon he struck Quinton a blow with his fist. Quinton returned the blow; they were then separated ; Welch afterward broke from those who were holding him and rushed at Quinton and stabbed him twice with a small pocket-knife. Witness saw the wounds inflicted. Quinton had no weapon. In the m6l?e Welch received a slight cut in the arm, which, witness thinks, was done by the knife in his own hands. J. B. Porter, a citizen, who was present at the occurrence, was next examined. His testimony was substantially the same as Russell's. Dr. $edd, Surgeon of the Post, was next called. Was summoned to see deceased on Sunday evening. Found him under the influence of liquor and wounded by two stabs. Expressed the opinion from the first that the wounds would prove fatal. 'Next morning found deceased collapsing from internal hemorrhage, and about ten o'clock he died. After the jury of inquest was empanelled made an autopsy, assisted by Drs. Charles Mackin and J. H. Clawson. Found two wounds, one three or four inches deep, the knife passing through the walls of the abdomen, wounding the small bowels in three places. A quantity of blood had accumulated in the abdominal cavity, caused from a wound in the omentum which divided some small blood vessels. There was also quite a quantity of fecal matter in flip tihrlnminftl naritv. which had escaDed through the wouDds in the bowels, producing inflammation of the bowels, and causing the death of the said Thomas Quinton. Drs. Mackin and Clawson corroborated the opinion of Dr. Redd. The examination of witnesses here closed. I The jury returned a verdict in substance that the deceased on the 19th of May, 1873, died from the effects of a wound in the abdomen, feloniously inflicted with a pocket-knife in the hands of George Welch a private soldier of Company C, 18th Infantry, on the evening of the 18th instant. Welch had been previously placed in the jail, and after the inquest the acting Coroner issued a warrant for his arrest, and he was formally turned over to the civil authorities. Welch is a new recruit, having been enlisted [ in Louisville, Kentucky, a few months ago. His victim had been in the service several years, and was with the company when they fiast came to this place. TRANSFERS OF'KEAL ESTATE. The following transfers of real estate in York county, have been reported to the Auditor since the 7th instant: S. Alexander, assignee of Cad. Rives, bankrupt, to Smith & Melton. A tract of 425 acres of land in Catawba township. Consid eration, $2y70. B. T. Wheeler to L. R. Williams. Three hundred and thirteen acres of land in York township, located six miles from Yorkville on the road leading to Charlotte, and known as the "red house" tract. Consideration, $2100. H. C. Thomasson to James B. Tbomasson. Two hundred acres of land in York township. Consideration, $500. Thomas B. Withers to Robert Burns. Thirty-six acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration, $180. R. E. Guthrie to C. K. Williams and P. W. Lindsay. A tract of 183 acres in Bethesda township. Consideration, $1000. S. J. Guthrie to C. K. Williams and P. W. Lindsay. A tract of 170 acres in Bethesda township. Consideration, 81000. W. E. Ardry to John W. Ardry. A tract of 288 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration, $2500. W. G. Reid and others to Peter S. Crawford. A tract of 149 acres in Bethesda township. Consideration, 8716. Eliza Jane Green to Cad. Edkins. Fifty acres in Catawba township. Consideration, $300. Eliza Jane Green to Benjamin Cureton. Fifty acres in Catawba township. Consideration, $300. Eliza Jane Green to Green Edkins. Fifty acres in Catawba township. Consideration, 8300. ; Eliza Jane Green to Nicholas Jackson. ( Fifty acres in Catawba township. Consideration, $300. Eliza Jane Green to Robert Farris. Fifty acres in Catawba township. Consideration, $300. Francis Johnston to D. R. & E. M. Neely. A tract of 109 acres of land in Catawba township. Consideration, $610. R. M. Steele to G. E. Carroll. A tract of 85 acres in York township. Consideration, , $474. Eliza J. Steele to Marks & Co. Ten acres of land iu Catawba township. Consideration, 860. R. P. Workman to R. L. Crook. Twentyfive acres of land in Catawba township. Consideration, 8630. RAILROAD" CONVENTIONS. CONVENTION OF THE CAROLINA NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD COMPANY. At eleven o'clock, A. M., on the 14th inst., the stockholders of the Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company met in the town of Hickory, on the Western North Carolina Railroad, and were organized for business by calling David Schenck, Esq., of Lincolnton, to the chair, and requesting L. P. Erwin and L. M. Grist to aot as Secretaries. On motion of M. L. McCorkle, Esq., of Catawba, a committee of two, consisting of M. L. McCorkle and John L. Agurs, of Chester, was appointed to verify proxies. The com mittee reported 166 shares represented in person knd by proxy, which being a majority of the stock subscribed, the meeting was declared duly constituted. M. L. McCorkle, of Catawba, introduced the following preamble and resolutions: Whereas, In the judgment of the stockholders of the Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, in Convention assembled, it is manifestly for the interest of said corporation to consolidate with the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, a corporation chartered by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, for the construction of a narrow gauge railroad from the town of Chester, in the said State of South Carolina, to the line of North Carolina, in the direction of the town of Dallas, in the State of North Carolina, he it, therefore, * Resolved, That the capital stock of the Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company be consolidated with the capital stock of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, and that the corporation formed A by the consolidation of the two said Compa- I nies, shall be known as "The Chester and Le- " noir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company." Resolved, That the basis of consolidation of the two corporations shall be that of perfect equality in the value of the shares of their capital stock, and that the subscribers to the capital stock of the Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad company shall receive certificates of stock in the consolidated Company, when they shall have paid up their subscriptions. Resolved, That all the obligations mentioned in the Carolina Narrow* Gauge charter as to the points indicated on the line, to wit: Dallas, Lincolnton, Newton, Hickory Tavern and Lenoir, shall be binding on the new company, formed by the consolidation, and that Baid road shall be located by or through each of the above points. These resolutions were unanimously adopted. On motion the Convention adjourned sine die. CONVENTION OF THE CHE8TEB AND LENOIR NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD COMPANY. The stockholders of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad met in convention in the town of Hickory on the 14th of May, 1873, and_were organized by calling Maj. (i. w. t\ Harper, or uaiawen,. io ine chair, and requesting L. P. Erwin and L. M. Grist to act as Secretaries. There being a large crowd in attendance from Catawba and adjoining counties, the regular business of the convention was deferred in order to hear an address from Qpn. T. J. Mackey on the advantages to be secured by the building of the road from Lenoir to Chester, and the practicability of its construction. Judge Mackey was introduced to the audience in a very felicitous manner by D. Schenck, Esq., of Lincolnton, and for one hour and a half held the undivided attention of the people assembled, with a clear, forcible and practical address, showing that the road coula be built, and that in its completion, the prosperity both of Western North Carolina and of upper South Carolina, would be advanced in an almost illimitable degree. After the conclusion of Judge Mackey's address, and on motion of E. C. McLure, of Chester, a committee of three was appointed to verify proxies. The committee, consisting of E. C. McLure, of Chester, H. C. Hamilton and E. W. Jones, of Caldwell, reported 2526 shares of stock represented in person and by proxy. This being a majority of all the stock subscribed, the convention was declared duly organized to transact business. C. C. Macoy, Esq., of Chester, offered the following preamble and resolutions: "Whereas, The stockholders of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, in general convention assembled, are satisfied that the objects of their organization can be best secured by a consolidation of their franchises and privileges with those of the Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, a corporation chartered by the General Assembly of North Carolina for the construction 1 iL. x A? of a narrow gauge rauroaa irom me wwu ui Lenoir in said State of North Carolina to the line of the State of South Carolina in the direction of the town of Yorkville; be it, therefore, ';'1 Resolved, That the capital , stock of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company be consolidated ' with that of the Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, and that the new company created by such consolidation shall be known as the "Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company." Resolved, That the basis of consolidation of the two corporations shall be that of perfect equality in the value of the shares of their capital stock, and that the subscribers to the capital stock of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, shall receive certificates of stock in the consolidated Company, when they shall have paid up their subscriptions. There being no further business, on motion of E. W. Jones, of Caldwell, the convention adjourned sine die. JOINT CONVENTION. Immediately after she adjournment of the Convention of the stockholders of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company the stockholders of that road and of the Car- ^ olina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, met in joint Convention and were organized for business by calling Maj. G. W. F. Harper to the chair, and appointing L. P. Erwin and L. M. Grist, Secretaries. On motion, a committee, consisting of H. C. Hamilton, of Caldwell, D. Schenck, of Lincolnton, and E. C. McLure, of Chester, was appointed to verify proxies. The Committee reported 2692 shares, amounting to 8269,200, represented in person and by proxy. On motion, a committee, consisting of one from each of the counties through which the proposed road is to pass, was appointed to prepare resolutions in reference to the consolidation of the two companies. The committee consisted of D. Schenck, of Lincoln, E. C. McLure, of Chester, 8. M. Finger, of Catawba, Dr. J. F. Smyer, of Gaston, E. Jones, of Caldwell and I. D. Witherspoon, of York, and submitted the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : IVhereas, The Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company has, by a series of resolutions, expressed its desire to consolidate s&id Company with the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company ; and whereas, the said Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company has, also, by resolution, expressed a like desire for said consolidation; Therefore, be it resolved, in the joint meeting of the stockholders of the aforesaid companies, that they be, and are hereby consolidated under the name of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Rail Road Company. That said consolidated company recognize the obligations and conditions of their respective charters as binding upon it and governing its action. On motion of B. G. Yocum, a committee of six was appointed to nominate a President and Board of Directors, and to report ByLaws for the government of the Company.