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fcraps and Jafts. Beecher has given $1,000 to the University of Virginia. The owner of the house where General Lee surrendered has just received a fat appointment under the government. A despatch from Long Branch, dated Monday last, says President Grant is seriously sick from diarrhoea. The debt of New York city has increased $12,000,000 since the "reform" party came into power. The Atlanta Sun has been merged into the Atlanta Constitution. Hon. A. H. Stephens becomes corresponding editor of the Constitution. An old woman of Liverpool, Ohio, | "didn't want 'em to take any trouble after she j was dead; but, if it was just the same, she'd j like to be buried with her spectacles on." Henry Stephenson, a banker in Columbus, Ga., has been declared an inebriate by a board, and his wife entrusted with the management of the property. The seconds in the Mordecai-McCarty | duel at Richmond, have beeu admitted to bail in a bond of 85000 each to appear before the grand jury on the 7th of July. Advices from Louisiana represent the crops as very grassy. The continuous rains have prevented farm work, and, unless fair weather prevails soon, great damage will be done. The postmaster general has determined to issue an order directing that all postal cards which cannot be delivered to the person addressed, shall be immediately returned to the writer, without charge. A father, in consoling his daughter who had lost her husband, said: "I don't wonder you grieve for him, my child; you will never find his equal." "I don't know as I can," responded the sobbing widow, "but I'll do my best!" The father went home comforted. The St Louis Republican chronicles the fact of the arrival in St Louis of the first through car from Port Royal, S. C., via the Port Royal Railway, completed to Augusta, Ga., and the Greene Line and St Louis and Iron Mountain Railway. The car was freighted with barreled turpentine, and has returned to Port Royal loaded with corn. Fresh ripe fruit is generally commended by physicians as healthy, but we would advise every one to be exceedingly cautious about the quality and quantity they indulge in at the present time. The physicians of both Nashville and Memphis attribute over nine-tenths of the cases of cholera reported as the immediate result of injudiciously indulging in orrp^n and sfnlp vpcrfibihlfi*. The "India rubber bustle" is again heard from. This time it was a Brooklyn young lady, who was thrown from her carriage coming down the hill from Prospect Park. She made ninety-seven and a half bounces in all, and was finally rescued by a hook and ladder company from the top of a telegraph pole, where she had stuck in attempting to ; complete the ninety-eighth bounce. The London correspondent of the New > York Graphic says that there is something in j the rumor that Mr. James Gordon Bennett is j about to start a daily journal in London, to be the Herald of that old fogy city. The story is that Mr. Fitzjames Stephens, "the most powerful journalistic writer in England," is to be the editor, with a salary of ?5,000 a year, and that the expenditure for news and telegrams is to be on a scale to astonish John Bull. A prominent Teunessee Republican politician reports ex-President Johnson as sloshing around with an eye on the United States Senatorsbip, and having poor prospects for that, unless he can make an alliance with the Republicans, which the same gentleman i says the ex-President is now trying to arrange. A special friend of Mr. Johnson says the plan is to make him Governor first and next Senalor, both of which he regards as quite easy to be fixed. A London letter says: "It should gratify many of his old friends in America to know that the Hon. J. P. Benjamin, erst of the "Lost Cause," is rapidly building up a fame and fortune here. His practice at the bar j now amounts to more than ?5000 a year, and j his reputation as a barrister is second to but j f k A MMAaf 11 rtk ffl fko tM?/>r<000!An a *ti y icn UA UIC gicab iiguio vi uic ^ivi^ociuiii In society he is much sought after, and there is good reason to believe that should he still have any ambition to re-enter political life, the path is quite open to him." The New York Sun thinks that the doings of the Southern Claims Commission will hear investigation.- A number of Georgia negroes are said to have put in claims for cabins, calling them residences, worth $3,000 apiece. Notwithstanding the fact that under the laws j of Georgia, before the war, a negro could not hold property, these claimants are now asking Uncle Sam to reimburse them for their cabins, sets of marble-tob furniture, mules, cattle, <fcc., one county alone presenting claims of this character amounting to $1,500,000. The Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator re- ] cords the following incident as having re- | ceutly occurred in that place: "A lot of little j Christians caught a little Jew boy at the corner of Watt and Champion streets, a few even-1 ings since, tied him to a post and piled around him a lot of tinder wood, and were about to ignite it, when they were discovered by some j men and the little Jew rescued. The only I reason assigned for their action and intention i by the Christian urchins was that the Jews ; had cruci/jed Christ." An idea of the strength of the Patrons of Husbandry may be gathered from the report of the National Grange, which gives the number of Granges in each State as follows: Arkansas, 15; California, 8; Georgia, 16 ; Illinois, 431; Indiana, 142; Iowa, 1507; Kansas. 128 : Michigan. 24: Minnesota. 219 : Mississippi, 112; Missouri, 245; Nebraska,: 190; Ohio, 47; South Carolina, 118; Teunes-1 see, 13 ; Vermont, 22; Wisconsin, 140?ma- j king an organization in the United States of1 3377 Granges, with an aggregate membership i of over 2,000,000. j The State Department has protnulga- j ted for the information of all concerned, the i Act of Congress to prevent cruelty to animals i while transported by railroads or other means of transportation in the United States. The : Act does not take effect till October 1, after i which all railroad companies are prohibited j from keeping animals in continuous confine- j inent for more than twenty-eight hours with-! out unloading for five hours and properly feed- j ing and watering. If they are supplied ou j the cars with food and water this provision does not apply. The United States courts! have jurisdiction in case of violation of the law, and fines not to exceed $500 are provided for each case. An honest old Pennsylvania farmer had a tree on his premises he wanted cut down, but being weak in the back, and having a dull axe, he hit upon the following plan. Knowing the passion among his neighbors for coon-hunting, he made a coon's foot out of a potato, and proceeded to imprint numerous tracks to and up the tree. When all ready, he informed his neighbors that the tree must be filled with coons, pointing to the external evidence made with his potato foot. The bait took, and in a short time half a dozen fellows, with sharp axes, were chopping at the base of the tree, each taking their regular turn. The party also brought dogs and shot guns, and were in ecstacies over the anticipated haul of fat coous. The tree finally fell, but nary coon was seen to "drap." Henry Ward Beecher has added another mountain to his already superabundant notoriety by a recent sermon, in which he preached Universalism substantially,and took the ground that the Scriptures do not afford support for the belief that after this life the soul takes an unconscious vacation, awaiting a final ingathering of all in the spiritual sphere; and that there was no man who had the slightest particle of good in him, but who might find a standing place in heaven, though by a sort of a specific gravity the more or | less good would fiud different places in that i future world. He said: "I don't believe a ' soul is going to be thrust away by that hand j that was pierced. I don't believe that love i which was shown in Christ is going to throw | away one soul with a germ of good in it. And j ' so I hope?I hope." YORKVILLE, S. C.: ! THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 26, 1873. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish thei r papers discontinued, the date miutt 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 atten; tion 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 maI chinery in use; and with a choice stock of inks, cards, papers, <tc., we are prepared to execute as good work as can be done anywhere in the United States. Orders for Ball Tickets, jFreight Billheads, Bank Notices, j Labels, Bonds and Coupons, , Law Blanks, Bill Heads, | Law Briefs, Business Cards, i Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, i Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, |Memoraudum Billheads Checks, 'Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, Note Headings, Drafts and Notes, Programmes*, Envelopes, (Policies, Fire A Life Ins., Election Tickets, Shinplaste/s, 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. ECONOMY. The Southern people must chauge their mode of doing business. Every event which transpires, and all the circumstances by which we are surrounded, are calculated to impress this upon our minds. We cannot do as we once did ; and we cannot, as a people, long live as we are now living. The wear and tear, and almost wholesale waste, which is going on amougst us will, in a short time, reduce us to beggary. We must coraraeuce a system of saving. Annually, there is wasted, by the Southern people, enough, if it was properly husbanded, to make the South rich in a fewyears. This wasteful practice embraces everything, from the soil we cultivate to the food we eat, and the clothing with which we cover ourselves. We are sorry to say it, but in this particular the Southern people resemble uncivilized tribes. With a large number of our people, the motto seems to be to destroy and waste. The forest is wantonly cut down and the soil recklessly cultivated, and the final result, which is soon reached, is gullies and glades. Horses, mules, cows, sheep and hogs, are treated in a way that the inference would be, did we not know otherwise, that the owner was making a desperate effort to exterminate these domestic animals. There is one word that is not in the vocabulary of our Southern people. That word is the monosyllable, care! Rich and poor, black and white, seem to have no idea of saving anything. Those who are reputed rich, expend, in useless extravagances and reckless wastes, all their gross incomes; and those who are poor imagine that unless .1 .1 .1 ,_:n u? ,i:, rr mey ape me nun iiiujr nui uc ui?giuucu, jli a rich man gets a new coat, his poor neighbor thinks that he is compelled to do the same thing. Broadcloth coats and silk dress in our country, are no indexes of the financial condition of the wearers. The manners and customs of our people in this respect must be changed, and that very soon. We are poor. There is nothing gained by attempting to conceal this fact. Fully one half of the present citizens of the Southern country are poor. They have nothing but their labor upon which to depend. They are not only poor, but they are fearfully ignorant and thriftless. For this they are not culpable, but the fact is not removed by this. Of the remaining portion of citizens, a very large number, whilst they are not absolutely poor, are relatively so. They are possessed of a small amount of property without the physical or mental capabilities necessary to make it profitable. For this they are not to be censured. They were educated to be gentlemen of leisure, and to waste and spend ; not to make and save. These are not very palatable statements, but they are nevertheless truths which we should look fairly in the face. All that the Smith floods flint it nmv hppnme nrnsnernns and powerful, is the introduction and practice of a wise and honorable system of economy. Without this we do not see how we can ever rise from our present poverty stricken condition. The gross income of some of our Southern people is fabulous when compared with that of others of the same financial standing in other sections of the world; but the expenses of the Southern people are enormous. Hence, it often happens that those individuals whose gross income is great, have nothing that they can call their own after expenses are paid. A proper system of economy, if we are not greatly mistaken, would remedy this state of things. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Several cases of hydrophobia are reported at Cheraw. I ?Mr. James S. Chambers died in Columbia on Sunday last. [ ? There is general complaint throughout ; the State of bowel disease. | ? The crops of wheat and corn ip Greenville county are reported as fine and promi; sing well. ? The Ledger says that dysentery is prevailing to a considerable extent in Lancaster county. ? Dr. F. S. Lewie, formerly a member of the Legislature from Lexington, died in that county ou Friday last from small pox. ? A young man in Orangeburg, one day last week, was bitten by a garter snake from the effect of which he died next day. ? Camden has had a case of small pox. It was carried there by a colored woman from Charleston. ? For the year, ending June 1st, 2890 bales of cotton were shipped from Blackstocks, Fairfield county. ' ? Mr. S. G. Caughman, the traveling agent, will deliver a lecture at Rock Hill on the 2d of July, and one at Yorkville on the 4th, in aid of the Palmetto Orphan Home. ? The Randolph Riflemen of Charleston, ] having been invited to visit Boston on the Fourth of July, are trying to raise the money j needed for the trip. I ? Dr. Peter Wylie, a sou of Dr. Richard Wylie, died at Lancaster Court House, on the 13th instant For a number of years the deceased has been almost entirely helpless, caused by a severe attack of cerebro-spinal meningetis. ? On the 15th instant, an atrocious murder was committed in Union county, on the person of Green Giles, a colored man, employed on Col. A. G. Rice's plantation, by another colored man, named Charner Rice, who shot his victim dead in a quarrel. ? The county Auditors, who met in Convention at Columbia, last week, decided that "a dog not worth 6vc dollars is not worth taxing." Five dollars, therefore, may hereafter be regarded as the lowest value which will be put on?a dog listed for taxation. ? Three men were killed and eight wounded by the explosion of the boiler of a steam engine, near Frog Level, in Newberry county, on Friday last. The boiler was attached to the steam thresher of Messrs. Brown & Schumpert, which, at the time of the accident, was at work on the premises of Mrs. Fellers. ? Elias Burnett, of Spartanburg county, convicted of ku-kluxiug, has been pardoned after serving thirteen of the eighteen months imprisonment to which he was sentenced. The pardon of William Mclntyre, of the same county, has been recommended, and it is probable that he will be released in a short time. ? The Sumter Watchman says : "There resides in the Lynchburg section of our county a man, now eighty years of age, who never swore an oath, never was drunk, never had a law suit, never took a dose of strong medicine, and was never confined to his bed three days at a time, and does not wear glasses to read, and is still iu good health, active and strong." ? The depots for the Air-Line Railroad at Spartanburg and Charlotteare completed, and the one at Greenville will be finished in about a month. The road is in running order between Charlotte and Greenville, and it is confidently predicted that the entire line between Charlotte and Atlanta, will be completed by the first of August. ?The iron on the Air-Line Railroad has been put down the entire distance from Greenville to the intersection of the road with the Blue Ridge Railroad, and cars can now run there, were it not for two breaks?one on Seneca River, the bridge over that stream not having yet been built, and a trestle over a branch immediately this side of Seneca. ? The Camden Journal says: "One Dr. Holinau, of New York, has been advertising for agents to sell his Homcepathetic Specifics and Jewelry. An enterprising young citizen wishing to turn an honest penny, and altogether unsuspicious of "ways that are dark" sent on the required $5 and received by express, C. 0. D., with a bill of $95 which he paid, a neat parcel containing old newspapers" ? The Chester Reporter of last week says: "On Monday last the schedule of the passenger train on the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad was changed so that now passengers going South leave here at twenty-four minutes after six A. M., and passengers going North leave here at eleven minutes after twelve P. M. The night trains have been discontinued altogether. The running time has been considerably shortened ; the time between Charlotte and Augusta being reduced to nine hours and forty minutes, which makes an average of twenty miles an hour including all stoppages. The freight trains, all of which run in the day time, have passenger coaches attached ; their time is not so fast." ? "Qui Vive," the Columbia correspondent of the Charleston News telegraphs to that paper as follows, under date of the 22nd instant : "A rumor is afloat that the decision of the Supreme Court in the Morton, Bliss & Co. boud case has been prepared. It has not been possible to trace the report to any definite source, but it comes through creditable channels. It is stated that the opinion will order a mandamus, the chief justice dissenting. E. P. Willard is said to have fixed the thing up before the suit was brought. The report further states that Comptroller-General Hoge will at once give notice of a levy of four mills on the dollar to pay the interest on the five classes of bonds enumerated in the petition of Morton, Bliss & Co., aggregating $3,40tj,000. The collection of the tax, however, will not be enforced immediately." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Mrs. Addie Paul, wife of Gaston Paul, of Charlotte, died on Sunday morning last. ? Gen. Wade Hampton has accepted the invitation to address the Fair of the Carolinas, to be held at Charlotte in November next. ? The .Demoeranearns that Judge Moore will hold a special Court for Mecklenburg, beginning on the third Monday of July. ? Robert London and Calvin D. Cowles, cadets from North Carolina, are among the graduating class this year at West Point. ? The wheat crop, now harvesting, is represented as being better in most sections of the State than usual. ? Upward of three hundred cases have been filed in the bankmptcy court, of the Greens- J boro district since the 1st of January last. ? The experiment of cotton planting has been tried on a more extensive scale than ever In nnnnftr TKp IffAflTfl UC1U1C Hi IVUtU&liViu wvuuw^. Aitv ??W?. w reports the crop as quite promising. ? The Western Vindicator, published at Newton, Catawba county, says a plumbago or black lead mine, worked in that county by Mr. Tewksbery, with all necessary machinery for purifying it, is turning out a ton or more per day of the pure article. ? The Fayeteville Arsenal property was recently sold by the United States government, and brought $4,575 at public sale. The buildings were burnt by Sherman's troops when they went through that town during the latter part of the war. ? The case of Lee Dunlap, a negro, for the murder of Gleason, in Charlotte, over four years ago, has been dismissed from the United States Circuit Court for want of jurisdiction, and referred to the State Courts. An appeal was taken to the United States Supreme Court. ? Rev. C. W. Warren, pastor of the Fifthstreet Methodist church, in Wilmington, fled that city the other day, having been charged with obtaining valuable letters from the postoffice by misrepresentation. He is of plausiKln orl^lroco orwl a flnpnh sneaker. and came from Massachusetts to Wilmington only a few mouths ago. ? The cotton and woolen mill of the Messrs. Fries, of Salem, is run by steam, and has been in successful operation for thirty years. One hundred hands are employed. The products are 3000 yards of woolen goods and 2500 yards cotton sheeting per week, which fiud ready sale in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. ? The homestead law is still in dispute in North Carolina. Notwithstanding the decision of the United States Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of the State, through Judge Reid, declared in an opinion rendered last week, that the homestead- law of the State holds good against old debts?debts contracted before the law was adopted. Thus the question is again put under contest and discussion. NEWS OF THE DAY. ! ? Under instructions of the court, the jury, in the case of Susan B. Authony, indicted for voting in violation of the law, returned a verdict of guilty. ? The San Francisco Bulletin publishes crop reports from sixty-nine interior counties of California. The prospects are very encouraging. In all places nearly an average yield is promised. ? In Brenhara county, Texas, the daily rains for the past month have nearly ruined the crops. A great portion of the land in cultivation has been abandoned in consequence of the grass and weeds. ? Cholera is still prevailing in Nashville, Tenn. Forty-eight deaths occurred there on Friday, and on Saturday the number was seventy-eight. Several cases of choleratic diarrhoea have occurred in Washington. There were fourteen deaths in Memphis on the same day and three in Cincinnati. ? An outlaw named Hogan, arrested at Owensville, Kentucky, last week, gives the news of eighty men composing a band of robbers, who have been operating from Pendleton county, Ohio, through Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina. ? The announcement that Ben. Butler is preparing actively for a fight for the Massachusetts Governorship this fall, creates a lively feeling in Washington political circles. It is said Butler will have the support of the President, and will wage a bitter war upon his political enemies in hife own party ranks. ? A meeting of North Carolina special tax bond-holders was held in New York on the 18th, to listen to the opinion of Hon. Reverdy Johnson. He believed the bonds were binding upon the State, and that holders can enforce the collection of interest through the United States Courts. On the strength of this opinion sundry suits will be brought at an early day. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Modoc War. Commissioner Meacham has submitted to the Indian Bureau his report of the recent military operations against the Modoc Indians. He says that during the war the Modocs killed and wounded three soldiers for pwopc TCftrrinr in thpir fnrpp nt. t.imps nnmhpr ing not more than sixty-five, and that during the first three days fight, this band not only held out against 800 troops, armed with every appliance of modern warfare, but kept a passage open for retreat, which even the Warm Spring Indian scouts could not close. Meacham's idea of the best policy for the future is, that all tribal lines be abolished ; that the Indians be made amenable to the laws, and be placed on the same footing with other murderers. In pursuance of this recommendation, the President and Secretary of the Interior have uuder consideration and will probably adopt, as a means of settling the Modoc question, the entire breaking up of the tribe, bringing all belonging to it east of the mountains, and distributing them by families among other tribes and nations. None of the tribe will be informed as to where the rest have gone, and the object will be to separate them widely, care being taken that families are not divided. Means will be taken, if this plan is carried out, to have a knowledge of the punishment inflicted well circulated among all Indians, and it is believed it will exert a most salutary influence, and especially cause chiefs and those who hold positions among Indians to raantain peace, lest their tribes be broken up in the same manner. Louisiana's New Departure. A series of resolutions has been adopted by a committee of citizens in New Orleans, embracing men of both races, which, even at this late day in the history of reconstruction, may be regarded aB a bold movement, and one which will take the country by surprise. The resolutious declare that in view of the dire extremity of the political and material interests of the State, and the unnatural division amoner the people, the participants of | the meeting would dedicate themselves to the unification of the people of the State, of every race, color and religion; advocate the enjoyj raent of every political and civil right by every citizen, of every race, holding as equal the right to enter places of public amusement, resort, and conveyance, upon terms of absolute equality ; the right of colored stockholders in banks, <?c., to representation in the directories thereof; the right of all races to enter the public schools or State institutions of education ; recommend proprietors of industrial establishments to make no distinction of races in the employment of mechanics ; encourage colored citizens in the country to become proprietors; urge large land owners to break up their lands into small farms, in order that colored men and immigrants may become practical farmers; encourage the removal of prejudice against the colored race; deprecate all measures of violence; advocate equal distribution of offices of trust and emolument in the State, "not because of the offices themselves, but simply as another earnest and proof upon our part that the union we desire is an equal union and not a conjunction brought about for the sole benefit of one or the other party to that union." These resolutions are signed by ten prominent citizens who constitute the committee, of which General Beauregard is chairman. The effect which | this action will produce in Washington can hardly be surmised at present. It is said that Attorney-General Williams declines to ex press an opinion, as there may' be an ulterior object in the movement which only official intelligence will develop. He thinks, however, the people of Louisiana had better attend to business, and for the present leave politics alone. Learn a Trade. This is more sensible advice than Horace Greeley's stereotyped admonition to "Go West," and upon the subject the Newberry Age well remarks: "We see every day young men in quest of j situations. Now, why do not these young ! men go and learn a trade? The hosts of 1 young men over the land who are out of emI ployraent, out of money, not fitted for any i particular business, constitutes a powerful ar! gument that they should learn a trade, i Hence the reason why we have so many nonI producers. We are sure it is not disgraceful , to learn a trade. The best men that evei i lived have been mechanics. If fathers and | mothers would apprentice their children as ! they should do, in many cases, society would i have fewer idlers and a better class of citizens. I Who would not rather be a skillful mechanic than a poor incompetent business man ? A I trade is, and can be, no disgrace. It is a for: tunc within itself." "Getting a Start" in Texas. "H. V. R," a correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, has recently visited Texas, and furnishes that paper with an interesting letter in regard to things in that State and the Red River country of Louisiana. Texas ; being regarded by many of our people as the place where fortunes are to be quickly and easily acquired, we make the subjoined extract from the letter: "Upon our boat, coming down, were several from Texas, on their way to the eastern South ern States, which they had left on a wild hunt for fortune and not fonnd it. One middle-aged man from Greenville, South Carolina, had in charge a younger | brother whose mind was deranged. He told me his story: j "My brother went to Texas six months ago, very much against the wishes of his folks. But he said South Carolina was such a hard State for a young man to get a start in that he would i try Texas. He is very religious, haviug joini ed the church when a child. He went to Marshall, Texas. There they keep the barrooms open on Sunday, and 'cut up' the same as any other day. They are clever people, but mighty rough. Seeing so much wicked' ness, so different from what it is in our country, worked on him so that he lost his mind, ; and I fear never will get straight again." i Another young man's experience was someI what different He had gone to Texas from I Mississippi with a companion. They proposed j to make an immediate fortune trading in vast ! herds of cattle. When they arrived in Texas they had even one thousand dollars in gold. With so large a capital to begin with they had no idea but what they would soon become rich in the cattle business, and return home covered with gold dust and honor. But the nl or\o aP man nftnn rvn nnnfMPT in ToTflfl VI UiVU V1VVU gv WUVIMft^ u ? v***>w> These hopeful young men were taken sick in the interior on account of bad water. Their board cost them forty dollars a month iu gold each. They only escaped a doctor's bill because there were no doctors. When well they continued on their journey west, looking for "cheap cattle." They did not fiud them till they got nearly to New Mexico. Then they thought it would be a big thing to drive their cattle to southern California. They "drove" a few days, became discouraged at slow progress, and sold out to another drover, losing just two hundred dollars. They got tired of cattle, returned to the eastern part of the State, and went into the sheep business. They took a drove of sheep to Jefferson, and could notsell them at a smaller loss than one hundred dollars. As it would take some time to make a fortune at these figures, they concluded to drive their sheep to Kansas. They succeeded in losing near two hundred and fifty dollars. They returned to Texas, still looking for a good place to grow up with the country, and paying good round board bills all the time. They intended to commence in the cattle and sheep business, but board bills ate up their capital so fast they took the tail end of it and bought tickets for home, wiser but poorer men." The Attorney.General's Opinion. In Columbia last week, the several County Auditors of the State met in Convention, for the purpose of consulting and interchanging views in regard to the laws regulating the assessment of property. The Convention was addressed by several of the State officers, and among others by Attorney-General Melton, who took occasion to refer to the fact that he was frequently applied to by various officers for his opinion on "vexed questions." Inasmuch as the impression very general prevails that it is the duty of the Attorney-General to decide all questions which may arise with officere while in the discharge of their duties, and that the opinion of the Attorney-General is final in such cases, we make the following extract for the purpose of disabusing the public mind of that idea: "Coming into tlie office of attorney-general, through the amiability of his predecessor he had been informed of many of the customs at once, one of which was that officers from all grades of service were in the habit of applying direct to the attorney-general for opinions upon this and that subject, and that they had evidently conceived it to be the duty of the attorney-general to give a decision in all such cases to any officer who may apply. It would be amusing, he said, to look over some of the many communications he received from day to day from trial justices, treasurers, auditors and knots of people here and there who gather together to discuss some point in which they have a fancy or have really been wronged ; a kind of an idea that he was the judge of the community. He begged to say that he was no such thing. He was the law officer of the State to conduct such litigation on the part of the State as might be required of him ; but no citizen had the right to call upon him for an official opinion in the manner he had recited. Those who had the right to demand his official opinion were the General Assembly or either or both branches of it, but not an individual member of that body, the Governor, the treas[ urer, the secretary of State, comptroller-general and superintendent of education, the executive officers of the State, and he had made it a uniform practice to deny others except in cases of extreme necessity. First, it was not his duty to give to others his opinion on demand, and, secondly, it was worth no more than his opinion as a lawyer, if he did give it, there being no official sanction for it. He would now venture to give one opinion, how ever, and that was that the hoard or county auditors was under the direct control of the comptroller-general, who has the law interpreted to him whenever he requests it, and whatever he lays down is assumed to be the law, and you will act under it. The comptroller-general has the right to demand the opinion of the attorney-general, and he undertook to say that ninety-nine out of every one hundred cases referred to the attorneygeneral could be at once answered by the comptroller-general, and the opinion of that j officer must be considered by the county auditors as their guide. He knew the auditors did not mean any disrespect in thus ignoring the right department to which their inquiries should be made, but it was possible that it could be so regarded. It is your duty to communicate with him ; with you I have no official relations. The same rule applies to the county treasurers and regarding the management of the schools and all the various agencies of the State. To all these I am officially a stranger, except to those who have them directly in charge. The attorney-general closed by saying that he would be obliged if the several auditors would speak of this at their various places of business, that parties might thus be saved the trouble of sending to him communications, to which, at most, he could only give a formal reply." Cnlnnul VnoKr TntarvlAwari. WlUUtl XUVOWJ 1.UVVI f IV ff VM? The famous Confederate cavalry officer, who so astonished the country by his support of Grant in the last Presidential canvass, has recently been interviewed by a reporter of the Richmond Dispatch. The Colonel evidently has influence with the administration, and has never yet failed to secure any appointment that he has asked. These favors, he says, are mainly confined to men who served in his comnftnd, and he has never yet asked the appointment of a radical to office. In this connection, he says : "I have recommended men who voted for General Grant last year, and now sustain his administration from | the same standpoint that I do. I have also j recommended men who voted for Greeley, but who now agree with me that it is for the interest of the people of Virginia to stop the war on Grant's administration and cultivate friendly relations with it. By this use of Federal patronage, I have made Gen. Grant ; more friends in Virginia than all the Radical | politicians in the State would have made him in a hundred years. The fact is that the judicial use that has been made of the patron1 age has already produced a revolution in public sentiment towards the administration in my portion of the State. Nearly every man I meet now applies to me to get him an office from Gen. Grant." j The Colonel says he has never represented himself to the President as a Republican, nor | in any way identified himself with the radical party in Virginia that f *'* sea to support ! the administration. The Republican party of the North is altogether a different thing ! from the radical party of Virginia. He ar! gues further? | "When our people last year made reconI ciliation their motto in the campaign, I : thought that if reconciliation had any signifi: cance it must mean an alliance between the | Republican party of the North aud the white people of the South, by which the white people of the South could get the shelter and ; protection of the Federal Government. I | have urged our people, and do now urge them, j to form such an alliance. If they were to do that, they would be relieved of the crew of carpet-baggers now controlling the negroes of the South through the influence of Federal patronage. If reconciliation was a good thing last year, it is a good thing this year; and as they certainly failed to get reconciliation through Greeley, I think now they ought to try to get it through Grant. There will never be any real peace and repose for southern society until we take this course." The Colonel, giving his reasons for opposition to the Conservative party of Virginia, assigns the following: "I am opposed to the Conservative party in the State, because by its war upon the Administration, it throws all the Federal patronage and the Federal influence against the true people of Virginia; and thus keeps alive .and affords sustenance to the radical party of negroes and carpet-baggers. I thiuk it is wrong, too, in its policy of arraying white men against negroes, for it turns the negroes over to the control of the worst element in the State. In this way about one-third of the counties in the State of Virginia, where ne groes have local majorities, are under their dominion, and will be kept so as long as this policy prevails. But if the Conservative party would reverse its policy the Radical party would be disbanded." As a reason for not accepting office himself, Colonel Mosby says it would impair the moral influence of his position; that he had been trying to act as a mediator between the Virginia people and the National government, which he could not successfully do, if holdiug an office. To the question of the probability of a third Presidential term for Grant, Colonel Mosby made the following significant reply: "I have never had any conversation with General Grant with reference to his reelection for a third term, but am perfectly free to say that if be makes as good a President as I believe he will, and is a candidate for reelection, I have no doubt I shall support him. And I not only think that, but I think, too, that four years from now General Grant will be the candidate of the whole southern people for President. But whether he desires a reelection or not I do not know." ^ , Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. NOTES OF TRAVEL. Greenvillb, 8. C., June 20,1873. I thought, in transitu, of dropping a note of travel to the Enquirer, which may be of interest to many of your readers. I reached this place by the Air-Line railroad, which, as your readers are aware, is a new road. It is well built, and has on it many fine structures?among them the Pacolet bridge, which is 115 feet high, and cost, I am told, $50,000; and the Tyger bridge, fif-. oon m!Ina PnAm soontvi) 1A tuKinK la Q9 f/oef UVVli i-LlllVO 1IUUI VAtUVUVUlV} TVUiVU IB V M ?VV V high, spans 750 feet, and cost $40,000. The country from King's Mountain to Greenville is almost a desolate waste. Wheat is poor. A good farmer on Buffalo told me that the crop would not exceed, while it might probably fall short, of half the usual yield. Corn is worth in the Greenville market 90 cents per bushel. But to return to the town. This is the first time I have had the pleasure of seeing this attractive little place?I say little, though, after a!', it is of a large pattern, and when it is grown up will be quite large?the corporate limits embracing a plat of two miles in diameter. The Air-Line depot is a mile from the nearest house of entertainment, located to ! the north of the town. Reedy river runs through the centre of the corporate limits, dividing the business portion of the town, j In the possession of educational facilities the town is most fortunate. The University has about 100 pupils, and the Female College about the same number. From the cupola of the University building many fine views can be obtained of surrounding objects. Facing north-east, in the distance, is seen the fine residence of a Mr. Thompson, who, before the disasters of the war, was one of Greenville county's wealthiest citizens. To the north is seen a range of mountains, four miles distant, with a fine hotel on one of the elevations. But the vision widens on turning north-west and west. In these directions the oldi Blue Ridge piles up in majesty, away in the far-off mellow distance, presenting a landscape grand and magnificent to behold. This section possesses all the advantages to be derived from superior water-power, which is being utilized by enterprise and industry. A J iL. Cam. as your realigns are aware, rue jjojjwdl ucujinary here is about being removed to Kentucky. Dr. J. P. Boyce, connected with the institution, is now in that State looking after the future interests of the school. Rev. Dr. Meynardie, well known in Yorkville, has charge of the Methodist Church at this place, and I suppose is doing a good work. To-morrow I shall go to Due West, for the purpose of attending commencement exercises, and from that place may write again. E. E. B. THE RAILROAD FEYEB. Colonel Cannon, of Spartanburg, has been speaking in North Carolina in aid of the Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad, in which project the people of that State appear to be laudably interested. At the close of his remarks in Asheville one day last week, the following was adopted by a large meeting of the citizens of that place and the surrounding country, viz: "Resolved, That as citizens of North Carolina, we are gratified to know that the citizens of South Carolina are desirous of connecting themselves with us, and that we will do all in our power to connect ourselves with them by the nearest and most practicable route." A large meeting was held on the 20th at the court house in .Walhalla,.at which were committees from other townships, to take into consideration the propriety of aiding in the survey of a line running from these points to Petersburg, Georgia, via Townville and Andcrsonville. A meeting of the citizens of the Fork, Anderson county, was held at Townville, on the 7th, in the interest of the Chicago and Augusta Railroad, which resolved that the asso- j I /\y\nnA/if AT K HTOO f IU1 ill J I VltkllUII luriucu IAJ tuuiictl UH> Jkiumunv?? ?>? I the south Atlantic sea coast by a short line ! railroad from Chicago, 111., to Angusta, Ga., j was the cheapest and roost practicable, and to form an organization to have a survey made | between Wallalla and Seneca City, 8. C., and ! Petersburg, Ga., crossing the Tugaloo river at ' its junction with the Seneca, and going down I the valley of that river, appointing committees ' for the purpose of soliciting subscriptions. i i An interesting meeting was held at Tumbling Shoals, Greenville county, about the same date, in the interest of the Laurens and 1 1 Asheville Road, which resolved that the route by Greenville city was the most practicable, and that the most feasible plan for building the road is by issuing county bonds, payable in twenty years, the funds so raised to be first applied to constructing the road within the j county. I A meeting was held in Henderson, N. C., which was addressed by H. T. Farmer, Esq., a director of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad, and which adopted resolutions of determination to have communication with South Carolina by railroad, and will be satisfied with nothing less, advocating a subscription of $100,000 by that county, and requesting the corporators of the Greenville and French Broad Road to open books for subscription immediately, and, as soon as the required amount is subscribed, to organize said company and proceed to locate the road.? Columbia Union-Herald. Miniola.?Among the cheering signs of prosperity in our State is the progress made in the enterprise of the Little River and Cheraw Railroad, and the Cheraw and Chester Railroad. Senator Dunn, from Horry, who has been the moving spirit in this business, deserves great credit for the vigor and perseverence with which he has labored to bring this public enterprise to a successful accomplishment. Some seven or eight years ago, immediately after the close of the war, Senator Dunn settled at Little River, where a village had already been located, and which is directly on the sea-coast, some thirty miles above Wilmington. Acquainted with the manufacturing interest of the North and West, the situation at Little River struck him as peculiarly adapted to the establishment of a manufacturing town. We hope one of these days to visit the locality and give to the public a coronsJ ova nf vrioar aT fka rv??rvn aaoa/I /\mn UUU tAUV/b lltTI Ui tug uopvocu bUTVU W1 Miniola, which is an Indian name, meaning "running water," like Minnehaha, "laughing water," Minnesota, "still water," and other pretty names of that character. Miniola, running water, seems to be a particularly appropriate name for a manufacturing town. This town will have a beautiful harbor, with a bar of nine or ten feet of water, and with a climate similar to Wilmington or any of our other seaboard towns. A canal only four miles long will connect the Waccamaw river with Little river, and Miniola and open up all that splendid timber country.through which that river passes. The canal, we understand, will also have a natural fall of some sixteen feet, yielding a water power of at least five thousand horse power, capable of running several large manufactories. The Little River and Cheraw Railroad and the Cheraw and Chester Railroad will connect this town with several of the richest and most flourishing counties of the State, and will lay down at the doors of the various manufactories any amount or character of raw material which our State can furnish. Cotton manufactories, rice mills, furniture manufactories, manufactories for agricultural implements, and for anything in which wood of any description would largely enter, would find abundant material and market and soon make this little seaport town the rival of its sisters along the coast. Besides, the Atlantic and Seaboard Railroad, which, it is said, will surely be built, will run directly through Miniola, with a depot there, so that freight, say from Chester, could go right through to New York by rail without breaking bulk, or by steamer from Miniola. We understand tjbat there will be no trouble, as soon as the roads are built, in inducing Northern and Western capitalists to establish factories and import skilled labor. There is already great enthusiasm all through the up country on the Bubject of these railroads and nearly three quarters of a million in lands and money have been subscribed. From what we can see of the inside working of this scheme, it seems to be a distinguished success, and one of those enterprises which this State needs above all others. With a good climate, a good harbor and bar, a five thousand horse power canal, with communication by water and rail North, East, South and West, with a fine undeveloped back coun. J _.VL _ c L i??:? wy, auu wnu a ircau, viguruuo pjjjuiatiuui under the impulse of new ideas and new enterprises, we cannot see why the town of Miniola might not, before very many years, become an ornament to the State.?Columbia Union-Herald. , Statements Concerning the Arlington Estate by Mrs. Lee.?The National Republican publishes an interview with Mrs. Lee, from which the following facts relative to the Arlington estate appear: George Washington Parke Custis dying in 1857, gave his daughter, Mrs. Lee, by his will, the entire Arlington estate; and Gen. Lee, though executor, never participated in any manner in its ownership or control. There was 1,100 acres in the estate, which, at the time of the Government occupation, was worth about $200 per acre, and has since greatly risen in value. At the time of its nominal purchase by the Government at $26,800, there were several of Mrs. Lee's friends ready to make the purchase for her, or pay the taxes, but they were not allowed to do either. It is stated that there is high legal authority connected with the Government for doubting the validity of the Government title. Mrs. Lee does not desire to have the estate restored, since its becoming a national cemetery, but does expect a reasonable remuneration. Gen. Lee's will, probated at Lexington, bequeaths only personal estate, and makes no mention of real estate, as he owned none. The Arlington was sold under the direct tax Act of June, 1862, as amended by the Act of February 6,1863. It was further provided in the will of Mr. Custis that his slaves should be free after the expiration of five years. The period of manumission came on in 1863, in the height of the war, when Gen. Lee, as executor of the will, summoned those slaves together at a point within his lines, and gave them their papers and free passes through the Confederate lines to go whither thev would. The Arlington estate was assessed in 1860 at $34,100, and in the nnininn /if OAmiu^anf indrroa araa anrfK #W\m V/?S1 U tvu Wi WU4 |A>WU V jWU^VW KMW ffV* VM MWM* $40,000 to $50,000. The land would now bring over $100,000. It is believed that this is the only case where the Government has failed to makecompenfation for land set apart for a national cemetery. ? The Acbeage in Cotton.?The Financial Chronicle, in its issue of June 14,1873, publishes a statement of the acreage devoted to cotton in the South during the present year. It is carefully made up from information derived from its correspondents in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, .Georgia, South and North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas. While all such reports are only'approximative, and the results of the growth depend at last largely on the weather, they possess considerable value in assisting the calculations of those who are trying to forecast the results of the crop, and when put forth by good authority, possess much interest for the merchant and statistician. The Chronicle makes the increase in 1873, as compared with 1872, amount to 11 per cent., in which Texas shows a gain of 14 per cent., Louisiana 12, Mississippi 11, Alabama 12, Florida 8, Georgia 7, South Carolina 4, North Carolina 10, Tennessee 11, Arkansas 13, all others 6 per cent The total acreage is put down at 9,802,815, against n anm cerr ?_ 1 onft D 011 COC 1 tlTI ] 0,00/,ool id 10I6, ifOAifV&u iu iou, auu 8,885.545 in 1870. ? Remarkable Telegraphic Feat.?The following story is told of Capt J. H. Hills, a Vermont telegraph operator, who, being recently on a snow-bound train where severe suffering was anticipated, without speedy relief, cut the telegraphic wires, took their ends into a car where they could be sufficiently warmed to be handled, and by sticking the ends together was able to "call" the operator at one of the principal stations on the road. He sent the following message: "Trouble. Answer slowly. I am working without an instrument ; I will receive your answer through my tongue." Captain II. received the answers by putting one end of the wire ^bove and the other under his tongue, and letting the electric current pass through it, which he was able to read by the succession of sharp and somewhat painful electrical shocks. His success was perfect, and he not only sent and received messages for the conductor, hut for several of the passengers. The ouly ill consequences of the exploit was the total loss of taste which Captain H. suffered for several days afterward.?R. C. Advocate.