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Scraps and Jfacts. Miuister Orr's successor, Mr. Jewell, expects to leave for St. Petersburg early in June. Ex-Governor Wise, of Virginia, has declined to run for Governor of that State on either the Republican or Conservative ticket. The horse malady has reappeared in the cities of New York and Brooklyn, and it is feared that the disease will again become general. The treasury department has decided to immediately reduce the outstanding legal tender circulation to two hundred aud fifty-six million dollars, being the amount authorized by law. Two babies were recently sent by express from Portland, Oregon, to Kalama, Wyoming. Their mother had died up in the valley, and the father wished them sent to his friends, but could not go himself to take them. A girl of twelve years and a boy of fourteen are about to be married in Galveston. The bridegroom must go to school one year yet, and the bride three years, under the compulsory education law of Texas. The Lynchburg, Va., Press says the amount of tobacco now coining to that market is almost fabulous. At no period since the war has so large an amount been brought to the city for sale, and notwithstanding the enormous quantities offered, prices are well maintained. The Marion, Ala., Commonwealth says:. "Judged by the rule that he is a successful agriculturist who knows how to make 'two blades of grass grow where one grew before,' the negroes are the finest farmers in the world, for under their skillful culture it is no uncommon thing to see a dozen blades grow where one grew before." The minority principle, or cumulative voting, as it is otherwise termed, in judicial elections has been incorporated in a provision of the Constitution by the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, by a vote of forty-two to thirty-seven. The object of this provision is to enable a minority to elect a portion of the judges. Theshowraeu of Vicksburg, Mississippi, undertook to exclude the colored citizens from their exhibitions by issuing cards of invitation, upon which was the number of the seat they would be entitled to, and instructions as to what would be expected from them in the way of pay for the privilege. It wouldn't work, however, as it was decided that any one tendering the money for a seat was entitled to the same. "Mr. Speaker," exclaimed a member of the Arkansas Legislature, "my colleague tantita mo voifK q Hociro fr\r fsimo T ennrn tKp imputation, sir. Fame, sir! What is fame? It is a shaved pig with a greased tail, which slips through the hands of thousands, and then is accidentally caught by some fellow ( that happens to hold on to it. I let this greased tailed quadruped go by me without an effort to clutch it, sir." The people of California having become tired of Chinese immigration, are taking practical steps for its suppression. Hereafter Chinese sentenced to the county jail of San Francisco are to be deprived of their pig-tails, and a tax of $15 a quarter will be levied on Chinese laundryraen. The removal of dead bodies to China will also be prohibited. Already have representatives of Chinese companies telegraphed to Hong Kong advising Chinamen not to come to California. In the States of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, the Irish population outnumbers the Germans. The aggregate population of the former is 1,169,624, and of the latter 557,765. In Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin, the Germans number 787,692 and the Irish 358,626. There is a greater fecundity among the German-Americans. There is a greater preponderance of Germans in the agricultural States, where many of them are rapidly becoming wealthy land-holders. Official information received at the War Department from General Custar, at Fort Randal, Dakota Territory, indicates that there is every prospect of extensive Indian hostilities. The young Indian warriors are leaving the reservations and joining the hostile Sioux on the Upper Missouri, who are expected to bring 5,000 warriors into the field. An attack has been made on one of the forts on the Northern Pacific Railroad, and the situation is deemed critical. It is.supposed that an adIT.! 1 \ Ml C _ 1 1 x_ <i moil til nuraoer 01 iroops win oe oruereu 10 the locality where the conflict is anticipated. The Albany Law Journal says: "Human nature cannot help waxing liberal where the expense of getting married is concerned. Some men rush iuto all sorts of extravagances. A Massachusetts bridegroom is receiving complimentary notices from the press for the handsome style in which he treated the minister. "How much am I to pay for tying this knot?" he enquired, in a tone that betrayed no disposition to shirk any lawful responsibility. "0, I don't know. The law allows us a dollar and twenty-five cents." "It does ! Well, here is seventy-five more ; that makes two dollars for you, I feel jes' like giving a little somethin' extra." A Swede, whose real name is unknown, but who, under the alias of John R.Johnson, was recently tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged for the murder of his landlady, Mrs. Hess, in Meriden, Conn., does not care to have another trial, though his counsel have succeeded in securing one for him. He is an educated and intelligent man, and formerly, according to his own statement, was a lieutenant in the Swedish array. He believes that a second trial would be of no use to him ; he had rather die than go to prison for life, and utterly objects to entering the plea of insanity, as, though extremely nervous, he does not believe himself to be insaue. He has evidently "lost his grip" on life. From reliable data it is ascertained that the total amount of cotton seized by the civil and military officers of the United States, : l a i J ~i vuimiig uiiuci mc utruu ui uuptuieu auu numidoned property, was 166,000 bales. Of this 10,000 bales were released and balance sold, gross proceeds being 843,000,000. Of this the secretary of the treasury refunded claimants 86,000,000, expenses S9,000,000, miscellaneous 82,000,000, leaving as net proceeds 826,000,000. Suit has been brought in the Court of Claims for 92,000 bales, of which there have been rejected or dismissed claims for 25,000 bales. This leaves as yet unclaimed 89,000 bales. Judgments have been rendered in the Court of Claims for 85,000,000, leaving a balance still in the treasury on account of cotton seizures of 821,000,000. A correspondent says: "I caused two advertisements to be inserted in the papers for a house-keeper ; one was for a lady who should not only be competent for such an office, but qualified also for a companion, and be a woman of education and elegant manners; the other required nothing of this; it only required as a sine qua non that the applicant should be ugly. In answer to the former advertisement I was overwhelmed with letters from so many accomplished, elegant ladies, that I congratulate both the present age and my country on possessing so much female excel'ence. But (would you believe it ?) to the latter I received not a single reply; and I have since, more than once, inserted the same advertisement with exactly the same success." The trouble we have had with the Modocs brings to mind a plan for settling the Indian question which a frontiersman once imparted : "If I wuz the Gover'ment," said he, "I'd buy lots of barrels of whisky, aud lots o' big knives, and I'd put 'era out somewhar in the West, and invite every devilish redskin in the hull land to what they call a conference. After they'd got thar I'd knock in the head o' the barrels, and scatter the knives all loose, so they'd be handy. Then I'd go away and leave the Indians to themselves. Of course they'd go for the whisky and knives, and before sun down tliar wouldn't be more than one redskin left, and then I'd go and knock his brains out afore be could do any more damage. That, sir, is the only real way to settle the Indian question. I've been among 'era an' I know. Plenty of whisky an' long knives '11 fix 'em out, an' nothing else will." ______ fotMle inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.i . THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 5, 1873. | Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date mvM he 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, j Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, Labels, Bonds and Coupons, 1 Law Blanks, r?:n iT .w Din nuoun, "??? 4JI IVIO, Business Cards, j Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, , Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads Checks, Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, (Note Headings, Drafts and Notes, j Programmes, Envelopes, (Policies, Fired* 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. THE COLORED MILITIA. The lovers of peace and order throughout the State, will regret to learn that steps are being taken in various sections to organize colored militia companies. So preposterous does the measure seem, that when first we heard such a movement was on foot, we were loth to believe it, and only credited the story as an idle, sensational rumor. But our doubts, we regret to say, were unfounded, and while companies have already been organized in some localities, we learn that the effort is making to form a company in Yorkville. We deprecate this movement, and hope our colored citizens will reflect before taking a step which cannot confer the least possible benefit upon them, either as a class or individually, while it may possibly involve them in trouble, to the detriment of both races'^ and cause a repetition of the troubles of only two years ago, from which this immediate section has not yet recovered. Surely, neither the whites nor the blacks desire a recurrence of those troublous times. We do not speak menacingly. We are only advising what we believe for the good of all. Let us profit by past experience. Any of our colored citizens, upon the least reflection, cannot but see what will be the effect of arming and organizing their j own race to the exclusion of the whites. The j result will be just as direful in the future as it has been in the past. Here, all is now peaceful and tranquil. Never were the whites and blacks in this section moving along more amicably together, and it behooves all of either race, for the welfare of both, to do nothing to mar the present good feeling. The colored people cannot urge means of self protection as a reason for this step, for no citizens were ever more fully in the enjoyment of their rights than the blacks of South Carolina to-day; and we feel fully assured that it is not the wish or desire of any white man to molest them in the proper exercise of those privileges. As to the whites themselves, even though the opportunity were given, they do not, as a body, wish to be organized into militia, for the simple reason that there is no necessity for such organization of either race. Our country is virtually at peace with all the world, and if trouble were apprehended, the tram poosingot a lew detached militia companies over the country could effect nothing in maintaining the military prestige of the Government. We fear that scheming politicians, working for their own promotion and aggrandizement, are at the head of this unfortunate j movement, and we warn the colored men I to beware of the dangerous trap to which it will surely lead them. WHAT WILL I BE? One of the most important steps in the history of every young man is the choice of an avocation. Most young men reflect upon this subject for a long time, and after all, in many instances, the gravest blunders are made. Persons often engage in callings for which they are by nature wholly incapacitated. The result J is individual failure, and they pass through j life miserable drones in society. Sometimes j it is said that such and such a boy will make a raau that will succeed in any department of : life. In some rare instances this may be true; j but such cases must be regarded as exceptions I to the general rulo. Almost any boy of ordi| nary endowments can succeed, if he will try, iu ; some particular calling; but it will be found I that few men ever learn to do two things well. | One thing at a time is all that any man can do well. In the choice of an avocation, calling or profession for lite, the hrst thing to he con-1 | suited is the natural capabilities and tastes. It is useless for a boy to engage in any thing, as an avocation for life, for which he is inca-1 pacitated by nature. To say that a boy has not the proper endowments to make a skillful mechanic, is far from saying that he is idiotic. Some boys have no mechanical talents, and yet they have very high endowments in some other direction. It often happens that men of great skill in agriculture are unable to make the commonest aud most simple agricultural implements. It is useless to say that after a boy makes his choice of a profession, i he can then, by close attention, make a skillful performer. As well might wo expect a boy with some natural defect about his hearing, to make himself, by study and application, askillfiil'musician, or a boy with some defect in his vision, to become a skillful painter, as for a boy of defective mechanical endowments to make a good machinist. The same is true with respect to every other avocation. Nature must go before and bestow the capabilities, and art follow after and cultivate them. Another very important thing to be consulted in the choice of a profession, is the tastes and inclinations of the individual. These give indications of the capabilities. The tastes of a boy may be vindicated, and I the inclinations biased ; but when the tastes 1 and inclinations are uncontrolled by surround-1 ing circumstances, they give certain indicaj tiuus of what the natural endowments are. If a boy has a taste for farming, and an ; inclination to engage in it, in nine cases out j of every ten, such a boy will make a respectable tiller of the soil. Put such a boy to a mechanical trade, and when his head is gray, and his cheeks furrowed with age, he will be | nothing but a poor, miserable cobbler. Dui ring the whole of his life he will row against j the current. The reverse is also true. Put a I boy to the plow, whose tastes and inclinaj tions are naturally directed toward mechani. cal pursuits, and he will never be noted in his | neighborhood for anything but buying corn and being the owner of poor stock. The same general principle applies with respect to what are called the learned professions. Parents sometimes, in violation of the tastes mwl innlinntinne nf their anna determine t.O j " " "? " make them lawyers, physicians or preachers. They judge that such and such a one of their sons will make a lawyer, that another will j make a physician, and that another will make a preacher. Much money has been expended in this mechanical way of making lawyers, [ physicians and preachers, and the usefulness of many men ruined for life. If parents | would prudently direct the natural tastes and inclinations of their sous, and not attempt to make out of them something for which nature never assigned them, there would be a greater number of skillful mechanics, of successful planters, and an infinitely less number of cobblers and professional drones. Before a young man engages in any avocation, heshould be sure that he has the natural endowments which will enable him to engage with success in that avocation. No extraneous circumstances should induce him to go against the natural curreut. Having made a wise choice of au avocation, let him make it a poiut to stick to it. "Rolling stones never gather moss," is an old but very pertinent proverb. The man who tries to be jack of all trades and professions, always fails to nmctop qiiv nno r?f tVipm T.pf-. t.hfi shoemaker "*V stick to his last, was the wise instruction of the painter. One thing at a time, and only one thing all the time, is certainly the safest policy. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Aiken is soon to be designated as a money . order office. I ? It is stated that a reduction in the freight tariff on the South Carolina Carolina Railroad is to be made at an early day. ?Colonel Lewis Merrill, formerly in command of the post of Yorkville, left Columbia on Mondayjast for the North. ? A special term of the Uuited States Court, Judge Bond presiding, is in session at Charleston. ? A colored boy, aged about eleven years, was recently tried in Newberry on the charge of murder, and convicted of manslaughter. ? There has been no court held in Laurens county this year, in consequence of a blunder by the jury commissioner. ? Governor Moses has appointed Col. B. G. Yocura, of Chester, an honorary commissioner to the Vienna exposition. mi 1 l-.i r> ri T7* ? un inursaay nisi, xvev. v. viuuucslci was installed as pastor of the Presbyterian church at Winnsboro. ? Congressman Rainey has purchased a lot in Marion aud proposes to erect a residence there and make that place his home. ? Reports from Newberry and Abbeville state that large stands of cotton have been planted, and the crops are geuerally looking good. ? Dennis T. Crosby, of Chester, died at his home near Crosbyville, on the 25th ultimo. He was a soldier in the late war, and lost a leg at the attack on Fort Harrison in 1864. ? The Auditors of the various counties of the State are to meet in Columbia on the 18th instant for the purpose of equalizing the assessments and suggesting a more uniform tax act. ? The liquor sellers of Newberry are said to be considerably exercised over the action of the grand jury in finding true bills against quite a number of retailers who have failed to conform to the requirements of the law in conducting their business. ? The Columbia Union learns that a violent hail storm passed over Lexington on Tlinrsrlnv Inst dnintr much damage. Trees -""""""V *' D o were stripped of their leaves, wheat fields beaten flat to the earth, windows broken and the roads badly damaged. Much of the cotton will have to be replanted. ? Judge Mackey has issued a mandamus to the treasurer of Fairfield county to pay over the amount (S2160) of taxes which was collected for the support of the widows and orphans of the ku-klux victims to the school commissioner, to be applied to school purposes as provided by statute, no claimants having appeared. ? The Spartanburg Spartan says: "Gaffney's, near Limestone Springs, is destined at no distant day, to be a village of considerable trade and importance. The trains now stop here for dinner both going and coming from Charlotte, and although there is yet no hotel, Dr. Gaffuey manages to serve up a very good dinner for passengers and railroad officials." ? A statement is made in some of the State papers, upon the authority of a correspondent, that ex-Treasurer Allen, of Greenville, has in his possession, in addition to the sum j due the State, nearly ten thousand dollars in cash, belonging to Greenville county, and [ that he publicly stated, both before and during his trial, that if he were convicted the county would "never get one cent of it." ? The Columbia Union-Herald mentions a painful operation, which was performed by Doctors Darby, Talley and Taylor, upon a gentleman at one of the hotels in that city, who had bef n taken suddenly ill the night before, caused by the intestines becoming knotted in such manner, that the stomach had to be cut open to put matters to rights. The entire recovery of the patient is regarded probable. ? The Sumter News, of last week, says: "A very important decision was made in the Common Pleas for Sumter county at the late term, in the case of Kirby vs. Woods. The matter came up under a rule against the sheriff, on motion of plaintiff, and the argument was heard on the motion to make the rule absolute, ' (i. c.) requiring the sheriff to sell in October ! next, defendant's homestead. The Judge, (Hon. T. J. Green,) granted the motion, and signed the order to that effect; thus ruling in accordance with the decision of the United States Supreme Court, that the Homestead I law is no defence or protection against debts contracted prior to the passage of such Act. There remains, therefore, no protection for such debtors, except iu the provisions of the Bankrupt laws of the United States." j ? A correspondent of the Abbeville Medium, writing of a lecture at Cokesbury, to promote the cause of temperance, says: "We have an efficient co-laborer in the judge of the eighth circuit, Hon. T. H. Cooke, whose very first utterances from the bench were in rebuke of the evasious of the law, and of the unrestrained indulgence in intoxicating drink through ! out his circuit. The beneficial effects of this j judicial warning, and the rebukes of his Honj or, are evidenced by the closing of grog shops j throughout his circuit. All honor is due to [ i the judge for his rigid enforcement of a law j J which has been hitherto wholly disregarded j | in its application to an evil which is a more ' fruitful source of crime than all others comj biued. Should his example be imitated in i ! everyjudicial circuit in the State in enforcing even the present meagre restrictions in their true spirit, South Carolina would witness the inauguration of an era of prosperity and a ces- j sation of crime which would cause joy through-; out her borders." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. | ?Gen. Wade Hampton will be invited to ! deliver the address at the Charlotte Fair next | I fall. ? Two negroes, who were to have been hung j in Raleigh last Friday, for the crime of bur- i glary, have been respited by the Governor until the 6t'n instant. nr c? *r_T\: ;.i _.i:?? T.? ! ? w. o. luci^iariuiu, euuui ui mc ajuiu-| berton Robesonian, was drowned in Lumber j river, near Luraberton, on Friday evening, I while bathing. His body was not recovered. | ? A severe storm of wind and rain passed over Asheboro, in Randolph county, last week, uprooting trees and damaging property to a considerable extent. ? The principal of a colored school in Raleigh is drilling a number of his pupils in the rudiments of negro minstrelsy, to fit them for a starring tour through the Northern States. ? The Charlotte Observer learns that a shooting scrape occurred in Lincolnton on Wednesday of last week, between Dr. J. A. Woodcock and P. A. Summy. Six shots were fired, only one of which took effect, Mr. Suraray receiving a slight wound in the arm. The merchants of Charlotte gave an entertainment on Thursday last in commemoration of the completion of the Air-Line Railroad to Greenville, S. C. . A large number of invited guests were present from South Carolina, and the affair passed of pleasantly. ? At the recent term of Mecklenburg Superior Court, Baker, white, was convicted of the murder of a negro named Wilfong and sentenced to be hung on the 27th instant; and Moore, colored, for the crime of murder committed only two weeks before, was sentenced to be hung on the 11th of July. Appeals in both cases were taken to the Supreme Court. ? Nothwithstanding Judge Tourgee's recent decision in the Orange Court, that moneys on deposit are not .subject to taxation, the State Treasurer instructs County Commissioners to levy and collect the tax on such effects, regardless of the opinion of Judge Tourgee. The Treasurer is sustained in his instructions by the Attorney-Geueral. ? Judge Dick, of the United States Dis . i i l i trict uourt nas issued orders in several cases where the parties had gone into bankruptcy, restraining sheriffs from selling lands set apart as homesteads under the retroactive homestead laws of the State. He also announced that he will restrain sheriffs from selling the homestead lands to satisfy old debts in cases where *the debtor goes into bankruptcy. NEWS OVTHE DAY. ? The business portion of Yaiden, Miss., was destroyed by fire last week. ? The horse malady is making its appearance again in many sections of the West and North. ? Ex-Senator Poraeroy, of Kansas gives notice that he will be a candidate for Caldwell's vacant seat in the United States Senate, and will at once inaugurate his campaign. ? Gov. McEnry has issued an address to the people of Louisiana, advising them to acquiesce in .the Kellogg government until Congress assembles in December. ? Some alarm is felt at the appearance of cholera in New Orleans. The towns and cities on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers are busily making preparations to resist its inroads by adopting thorough sanitary measures. ? Col. De Blanc and others, who had been arrested for being in armed resistance to the Kellogg Government, were tried before a United States Commissioner, in New Orleans, on Monday of last week, and no evidence appearing to sustain the charge, they were released. ? The appointment of G. W. Matsell as superintendent of police in New York city has taken the Gotharaites by surprise. He was, for many years, a member of the police force, and when he retired in 1857, was chief of police. He is well known all over the country as editor of the Police Gazelle. It is not doubted but that he will make an efficient officer. ? An official letter from Post Fort Clark, dated May 20th, says, alluding to Col. McKenzie's operations against the Kickapoos, and Lipans, on Mexican soil, the march of over one hundred miles, the fight, the destruction of two villages and the return to camp with the captured stock and prisoners, were accomplished between noon on the 7th, and day-light of the 9th?forty-one hours? with a loss to Col. McKenzie of only three men wounded, one, it is supposed, mortally. EDITORIAL^INKLINGS. Another Great Fire in Boston. Another great fire has visited Boston, and consumed a number of the noblest structures in that city. About half-past eight o'clock on Friday morning a fire broke out in the furniture warehouse of Haley & Co., and before the alarm could be given, the ; immense buildiDg was wrapped in flames. It ' being impossible to check the fire, the build| ing, with its contents, was soon in ashes. Other buildings soon caught and the flames spread with alarming rapidity. The fire continued to rage until the afternoon, when it was subdued, but not until many millions of dollars worth of property was destroyed. Obsequies of Minister Orr. A letter from St. Petersburg, dated May the 8th, gives the following interesting particulars of the death of Minister Orr, and the sad and impressive sight at the obsequies over his remains: "The diplomatic career of Governor Orr came to a painful end before it was fairly be! gun. It is not quite two months since he arrived at St. Petersburg, and presented his cre! dentials to the Emperor. He was suffering at the time from a severe cold, contracted during | the Atlantic passage, and about a week after j his formal installation in his new office he was i forced to take his bed. From that day he did | not leave his apartments. Cold settled on his I j lungs, and afterward passed to his liver, so ! that his blood became seriously affected. No ! \ serious result was apprehended, however, and ' on Friday, four days before he died, his friends i thought he was slowly yetsteadily improving; ! but on Monday last the sad change came, and , he died quite suddenly at 2 o'clock. The funeral services were celebrated to-day . at the chapel of the English-American Socie-1 I ty. There was no discourse, and the pastor ! simply read the impressive ritual of the Church of England, and closed with a short I prayer. The gloomy little chapel was by no I means full. There were some dozen ladies,: English and American, half a dozen Amerij can gentlemen in black, and thirty or forty I diplomats in their brilliant, yet sombre Court costumes. The Austrian Ambassador was there and the Ministers of Brazil, Italy and Greece, and the attaches of other legations, as well as of the foreign office. Mr. J. L. Orr, Jr., the solitary family mourner, stood side by side with General Porautz, the Consul, who wore the familiar uniform of a Brigadier-General of the American army. The scene was indescribably sad. After the rector had finished the service, the diplomatists walked around the coffin and dropped each upon it a little sand. The civiliaus present did the same." The Bond Case. On Friday last, Comptroller Hoge made his return in the State bond case to the petition of Morton, Bliss & Co., for a mandamus, in which he gives a number of reasons why the mandamus should not begrauted, and declares at least seven millions of the bonds to be fraudulent. The paper was filed by Attorney-General Melton, and is considered a remarkably well-drawn paper. The reasons assigned why the mandamus should not be granted are briefly as follows : Because the authority to fix the rate of taxation rests with the Legislature, the comptroller having only to give notice to the county auditors of the rate fixed by the Legislature, and the Legislature has not fixed any rate. Because, if the respondent had the authority to fix the rate of taxation to pay the interest upon the debt, he could not do so, not having the requisite data to determine the actual amouutof funds outstanding. Because, so far as concerns the current fiscal year, the respondent has already given notice of the rate of levy, and has no authority to give a second notice. Because, as concerns the levy for the ensuing fiscal year, any demand upon the respondent, before the fifteenth of November next, is premature and cannot be granted. Because the court could not enforce the payment of the money, if a levy were made, there being no appropriation by the Legislature, and consequently the judgment of the court, in favor of the petitioners, would be void and nugatory. Because a registration of all the bonds of the State has been ordered to be made by the Legislature before any interest shall be paid, and the respondent alleges that the bonds of Morton, Bliss & Co., have not been registered. Because the bonds in question were not put upon the market according to the requirements of law. Because a large portion of the bonds have been redeemed by conversion, and re-issued without warrant of law. Because the act authorizing the issue of bonds for the relief of the treasury is unconstitutional, null and void, not having been passed by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature, and not levying a tax annually to pay the in terest as the constitution requires. Becauso the debt against the Stale has never been ascertained by any court, and therefore no judgment to pay can be made. Because the court cannot order the respondent to give notice of a levy for the interest upon only a part of the debt. Because there were at least seven million one hundred and ninety-one thousand dollars of fraudulent bonds upon the market, and the court should not grant the writ of mandamus until it is ascertained what portion of the debt is valid. Because the Legislature has already provided a mode, that of registration, for determining the debt, and therefore thecourthasno right to interfere. Because by the constitution the Legislature only has power to contract a public debt and to provide for its payment, and the court is without authority, directly or indirectly, in the matter. The Modoc War. From the following late telegrams, it would seem that the Modoc war is virtually ended, all the warriors of that tribe, except Captain Jack and two others, having surrendered or been captured. The following are the full particulars: A dispatch from San Francisco, dated the 1st, says that on Thursday morning General Davis ordered the cavalry and artillery and the Warm Spring Indians, under the command of Gen. Greene, to proceed from Baylis' camp to Applegate's Ranche and Clear Lake. Bogus Charley, Steamboat Frank, Shack Nasty Jim and Hooker Jim accompanied the expedition to Captain Jack's hiding place. The Modocs were perfectly loyal; they led the expedition to Captain Jack's haunt without the slightest protestation. Within a mile of the stronghold, Captain Jackson came across a number of Modoc pickets. He drove them back into Captain Jack's camp, the fleeing Modocs yelling in their native language as they retreated : "Run quick ; soldiers coming." Captain Jackson deployed skirmishers and also deployed part of the troops in a position to cut off the Modoc retreat Before either party fired a shot, the Modocs cried out: "We surrender; we no fight; we make a peace talk." Before the Modocs ceased asking for a peace talk the well known figure of Boston Charley, the murderer of Dr. Thomas, came in view. He was immediately covered by a dozen rifles, but offered to surrender and was allowed to come into camp. He threw his rifle away and shook hands with the Warm Spring Indians. Boston Charley was interviewed and reported that several of Captain Jack's best warriors were anxious to leave him. Charley volunteered to act as commissioner for their surrender. He then started for the Modoc camp. Captain Hasbrock's command, which should have joined Captain Jackson, two hours before, came up aud met Charley going to the Modoc camp. They, being unaware of his surrender or of his mission to the other Modocs, captured him and thus made him prisoner for the second time. Charley, however, was afterwards released and sent to the Modocs, who had fled before he reached the camp. Charley thereupon returned and reported the Modocs' flight. Had Captain Hasbrock formed the expected connection, all the Modocs would have been killed or captured. The Modocs who escaped actually slipped from Captain Jackson's grasp. Captain Jack retreated through a narrow canon. The troops and Warm Spring Indians were ordered to follow the retreating Modocs. The track led over Grandin ridge and through a narrow cafion, and was exceedingly difficult to follow. The Warm Spring Indians led, followed by Company K, first Cavalry. When the troops were marching along the crest of the blufi) four shots were suddenly fired at the soldiers. Before the fire could be returned, Scar Faced Charley, with 3 warriors, rushed to the front, crying: "We surrender." Soon after five more surrendered. Dr. Caboniss, one of the surgeons, went to the)Modocs' camp and commenced peace negotiations. All the Modocs, including Captain Jack, agreed to surrender. Caboniss remained all night in the Modoc camp, and, during the night, Captain Jack, with two warriors, decamped. The band of the Modocs, including old Schonchin, surrendered. A dispatch from Yreka, dated the 2nd, states that a courier has arrived from the lava beds with the intelligence that Captain Jack, the fugitive Modoc chief, surrendered on Sunday afternoon. Re-interment of Remains of Southern Soldiers.?Thursday was a mournful day in Richmond, Va. The memory of the lost, blunted by time, was revived on that day, by the arrival of 333 Southern soldiert, who had never surrendered, but laid down J their lives in a cause they believed to be just,' on the heights at Gettysburg. They were not1 met with music and orations and waving of, handkerchiefs, but a solemn cortege of their ! surviving comrades, with muffled drum and i arms reversed, followed their mouldered re- j mains through crowded streets, silent as death,! where only the quivering lip and brimful eye was the tribute to their memory. All along the line of march, stores were closed, and business in the city was generally suspended, to enable the citizens to participate in the re- | interment of the dead at Gettysburg Hill, in Hollywood Cemetery, so sacred to Virginians. After the bodies were deposited in the vaults prepared for their reception, the Richmond Howitzers fired a salute, aud the assemblage j quietly dispersed. For (lie Yorkville Enquirer. BETHEL PRESBYTERY. This body adjourned its regular Spring sessions, at Pleasant Grove Church, Chester county, April 5th, to meet in Purity Church, Chester C. H., the 27th ultimo. The meeting was 1 a full and earnest one. Six young men of unusual promise, students of the present senior class in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, were examined upon their literary, scientiBc and theological ormrse. wore heard sermons and DODular lec- i tures, beside presenting Latin theses, and ex- j egetical exercises in Greek. These several parts of trial were unanimously approved, and | Messrs. R. Miller, J. Spratt, L. McCormick,' R. Perry, J. G. Hall and C. R. Hemphill! were licensed as probationers for the gospel ministry. Mr. T. D. Latimer, a member of the Yorkville Church, was received as a candidate for the ministry under the care of Presbytery. Mr. Latimer has spent a year in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, New Jersey. He is a native of this county, and a young man whose diligent and resolute pursuit of knowledge, in the face of many difficulties, has won him many admirers and friends. Rev. James Douglass was compelled, because of feeble health, to return to the Presbytery, the Yorkville Female College, over which he has presided acceptably for three years. Rev. T. W. Erwin, Col. R. M. Sims, Col. I. D. VVitherspoon, Mr. S. Rufus Moore, Dr. J. F. Lindsay, and Maj. J. F. Hart, were elected Trustees of the College. A Commissioner was sent to Harmony Presbytery, meeting in adjourned session at Winnsboro on the 28th ultimo, with an overture from Bethel Presbytery, proposing an equal controlling interest in the College, on the part of Harmony Presbytery. The overture was most cordially entertained by Harmony; but owing to the fact that Presbytery was not a full one, it was thought best to postpone positive acceptance of the overture until the regular Fall Sessions of Harmony. All encouragement was pledged to the Agent of the College, (Rev. R. E. Cooper) who bad been appointed to sell scholarships and solicit donations within the bounds of Harmony, toward relieving the College of some financial embarrassments from wbich it has not been free since the disasters of the war. The scheme of selling scholarships at $100 each, which gives to a holder of one the privilege of entering a pupil on half tuition for four years, is deemed by the most sagacious friends of this honored institution, an eminently happy one. Rev. L. W. Curtis, a member of Presbytery, now resident in the State of New York, in shattered health, was also appointed an Agent to sell scholarships and solicit donations for the College. Agents in each church under the oversight of this Presbytery, were also appointed for the same purpose. The determination of the Presbytery to relax nothing of the enthusiasm wbich characterized its action in the matter at this meeting, until a school for the daughters of the land, second to none in her borders, shall have been equipped, unfettered, and with every appliance for thorough education, was unmistakable. The friends of education may be assured that the Presbytery is in dead earnest about it. The Committees of Sustentation and Education were consolidated, with Rev. J. Lowrie Wilson as Chairman, under the name of the Executive Committee of the Presbytery. This Committee will meet for business on tbe second Tuesday of each calendar month. The young men licensed at this meeting were allotted fields of labor in our bounds during the summer vacation of the Seminary at Columbia. This meeting of Presbytery will be long re-1 membered by those who were so fortunate as to attend upon its sessions, as one of peculiar harmony and earnestness and enjoyment The cordial and elegant hospitality of the lively church which entertained the Presbytery was all that was to be expected of the noble people of Chester, and will be held in grateful aud enduring regard by those who were honored by it The kindness and courtesy of citizens, irrespective of denominational connections, won the hearts of the Presbytery, and will be spoken of in our homes for years to come, as illustrative of that spirit of Jesus, with which God has so signally baptized that community. R. ? ? For the Yorkville Enquirer. THE CHARLOTTE CELEBRATION. York County, June 2, 1873. Editor of the Enquirer : The completion of the Air-Line Railroad to Greenville was the occasion of a jubilee in Charlotte, N. C., on Thursday last, the merchants of the latter city having determined to celebrate the event by appropriate festivities, to which a general invitation was extended to the people all along the line of road. About 3 o'clock, P. M., the train, consisting of near a dozen cars laden with invited guests, reached the depot, and was met by the Charlotte Brass Band, the marshals and citizens, when all were formed in line and ? ? J - ??>?in 4A A ?\w marcueu llllU lllO Ultjr w a aoauu jjic^aigu xvi the occasion. Gov. Vance delivered a welcome address in his usual felicitous style, which was responded to by Messrs. James Birnie, of Greenville ; D. R. Duncan, of Spartanburg; and Thomas Farrow, of Atlanta, Georgia. At the conclusion of the addresses, Govenor Vance read the programme which would be observed, and after again welcoming the visitors to the hospitality of the city, the vast assemblage dispersed to enjoy themselves in various ways until the dinner hour, which was fixed at 1\ o'clock. The tables, ample to seat four hundred persons at once, were spread in Oates' Hall, and everything was provided in the most sumptuous manner. Substantial and delicacies were supplied in abundance, and wit and wine flowed freely round the festive board. Regular toasts were announced and happily responded to, and the time was most agreeably passed until 10 o'clock, when the crowd began to disperse? some to their quarters and others to the Cen' tral Hotel, to participate in the ball, which [ was the crowning feature of the occasion, and continued until the wee small hours of morniQg The affair was a success in every respect, and all enjoyed themselves to the utmost. The celebration will long be remembered by all who were present. Railroad enthusiasm ran high, and I heard the action of our County Commissioners, in reference to the NarrowGauge project, highly commended. Let us wake up on the subject. Let us have greater railroad facilities, which will develop our resources, increase our wealth and add to our general prosperity. A Guest. ?ay Subscriptions have been received to the amount of $10,683 for the Greeley statue fund. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. W. H. <fc J. P. Herndon?1Tea?Wooden WareTinware?We are (ienerouH?Pipes?Tobacco?O, Ye Sports?Breakfast Strips?Ginger Preserves?Cott'ee. M. Strauss <k Son?Wo Do J We Do Not. Conuer, Hobbs & Dobson?The Yorkville Coach Factory. A. H. Davega, President Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company?Notice to Stockholders. John C. Kuykendal?Simmon's Hepatic Compound?1st of June?A Splendid StockPure and Sweet?Sapajo?Golden Medical Discovery?DeBing's Pile Remedy. W. G. Patterson?Patterson's Mineral Springs. Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient. R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sales. Cornelius A. King?School Notice. J. Harry Clawson?Notice of Appointment as Assignee in the Matter of William T. Sealy, and L. L. Packard, Bankrupts. SALE OF MINING PROPERTY. On Tuesday last, the Sheriff sold, on the premises, at the suit of John Smith vs. the South Carolina Gold Mining Company, a boiler and pump, steam stamping7 mill and other personal property, belonging to the said Mining Company?the whole of which was bought by John Smith for the sum of $547.25. 84i.ns.niv There were very few persons in town from the country on Monday?the farmers being unusually busy with their crops. The sheriff sold two tracts of land, as follows: The Sandifer tract, sold under fi.fcL; bought by R. Patterson & Co., for $1382. The Kearney tract, sold to foreclose mortgage ; bought by Stephen Kearney, for $585. HAIL AND RAIN STORM. On the 24th ultimo a severe storm of hail and rain occurred in the Bullock's creek section of this county. Great damage was done to the growing crops, both on bottom and uplands, rendering it necessary for manpr farmers to replant much of their crops for the third time?having replanted twice previously on account of damage inflicted by frost ASSESSMENT ON STOCK. By reference to advertisement of A. H. Davega, President, it will be seen that the first installment of five dollars on each share of stock in the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, is called for on or before the 10th of July, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of surveys, <fcc. The proprietor of the Enquirer has been designated to receive the same at Yorkville, and can be found at his office at any time for that purpose. NEGROES DROWNED. Several days ago two negro men were drowned near Love's Ford on Broad river, while fishing in a battet u, There were three in company, and it seems that one of them having caught an eel, attempted to kill it by stamping on it as it lay in the bottom of the boat. This sprung a leak in the boat and it commenced filling with water. Two of the negroes, who were good swimmers, jumped from the boat and attempted to swim ashore, but were drowned. Of these, one was named George Wood. The Drmes of the other negroes we could not learn. The one who saved himself could not swim, but wag saved by clinging to the boat until assistance reached him. SURVEY OF THE C. & L. N. G. RAILROAD. Col. Fleming Gardner has been elected chief engineer of the Chester and Lenoir NarrowGauge Railroad. He arrived at Chester on Monday last, and will, we learn, commence the survey of the line, at Chester, on Wednesday of next week. The Committee appointed to confer with the King's Mountain Railroad Company, as to terms of purchase or consolidation with that company, had an interview with Maj. G. W. Melton, President of the road? on Saturday last; and from the result of that interview, we feel warranted in the conclusion that no satisfactory arrangement can be perfected with the King's Mountain road. It is probable, therefore, that should the road be built, it will be constructed entirely new from the beginning to the terminal point TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE. The following transfers of real estate in York county, have been reported to the Auditor since the 22nd ultimo: S. A. Kell to Cureton, Massey & Co. Lot in Fort Mill. Consideration $75. B. Fuller to Wra. F. Boyd. Lot of three acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration $34.00. B. Fuller to S. Richardson. Lot of two acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration $150.00. D. T. Partlow to Dr. T. W. Campbell. Tract of 105 acres in Bethel township. Consideration $300. John S. Neely to B. Fuller. Tract of 96 acres in Fprt Mill township. Consideration $990. Jane Neely to Wylie, Davie and others, trustees. Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration $50.00. Rev. Wm. Banks to J. W. White. Tract of 42 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration $1260. R. W. Shaw to Ann C. Thoraasson. Tract of 57 acres in Bethel township. Consideration $250. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to Robert Patterson. The Green Sandifer land?425 acres, in Be- t thesda township. Consideration $1380. ARRE8T OF 8AMUEL B. HALL. We learn from the Charleston Nem that Samuel B. Hall, ex-Probate Judge of this county, was arrested in Charleston on Wednesday evening of last week, on nine warrants issued by R. L. Crook, Trial Justice of York county, charging him with embezzlement and official misconduct. The affidavits accompanying the warrants set forth that S. B. Hall, being Probate Judge of York county, while filling that office, received certain sums of money from the sale of sundry estates, for which he failed to account The affidavits are as follows, each affidavit being accompanied by a separate warrant: 1 st. Affidavit of R. L. Lindsay. Amount alledged to be embezzled, $240. 2d. Affidavit of Robert Coonrod. Amount alleged to be embezzled, $269.36. 3d. Affidavit of E. J. Montgomery. Amount alleged to be embezzled, $142. 4th. Affidavit of Henderson Martin. Amount alleged to be embezzled, $168.96. 5th. Affidavit of J. M. Steele. Amouut -11 J I 1 1?J 01K/4 CC anegeu w u? eiuucKzieu, 9i.uv.vu. 6th. Affidavit of W. D. Parke. Amount alleged to be embezzled, $73.50. 7th. Affidavit of Jas. A. Erwin. Amount alleged to be embezzled, $788.76. 8th. Affidavit of M. V. Darwin. Amount alleged to be embezzled, $171.42. 9th. Affidavit of Thoa. McGill. Amount alleged to be embezzled, $388. In default of bail, Hall was committed to jail in Charleston on the evening of his arrest, and subsequently brought to this place by Deputy SherifMohn B. Hubbard, and committed to the York county jail on Sunday evening last. Hall publishes a letter in the Columbia Phoenix of Sunday in which he says: "On last Wednesday, in Charleston, I was arrested on a warrant from Trial Justice R. L. Crook, of Rock Hill, sent to one Judge Levy, a Trial Justice in Charleston. On arriving at Levy's office I employed Mr. Sim