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fcraps and Jatts.
In Texas ice costs five cents a pound
and beef costs three cents.
Jefferson Davis is on a visit to New
York in the interest of the insurance company
he represents.
The late Jesse R. Grant bequeathed his
entire estate, about ?75,000, to his three daughters.
He left; nothing to the President.
It is rumored that Whitelaw Re:d,
managing editor of the New York Tribune, is
to marry Miss Ida Greeley.
Music by a brass band is announced as
one of the attractions of a church at the fashionable
watering place of Newport.
The steamer, City of Washington, was
wrecked on the coast of Nova Scotia ou the
9th. There were 509 passengers, besides the
crew, on board, all of whom were saved.
The number of the primary schools in
Germany is said to be 60,000, and the number
of pupils in them 6,000,000, between the ages
of six and fourteen.
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il I1IUIUC1CI t*l? JLU^l lUiail) A'JLlsTO* f Moavu
to be hung on the Fourth of July, and the
judge kindly consented, as it would help along
the proposed celebration.
A wicked man in Davenport, being on
his death-bed, wished to consult some proper
persou regarding his future state, and his
friend sent a fire insurance agent to him.
It is stated on high chemical authority
that the last gill of milk drawn from a cow is j
sixteen times richer in cream' than the first j
portion yielded.
The coroner's jury at New Orleans in
the case of the late Judge Cooley, the victim J
of the recent duel, returns a verdict of murder
against the surviving participants in the
fatal affair.
Father Ryan, the Southern poet, and
editor of the Catholic Messenger at New Orleans,
enters an earnest protest against the action
of General Beauregard in the formation
of the new compromise party in that State.
Several young girls in Athens, Ga.,
made themselves sick swallowing hearts-ease
flowers, under the delusion that whenever they
swallowed one of the flowers whole, and then
wished, the wish would be gratified.
An industrious individual, who has
made the study a science, says that boardinghouse
chicken soup can be made by hanging
up a hen in the sun, so that her shadow shall
fall in a pot of salt water. On cloudy days,
however, the soup is liable to be weak.
Hon. Jefferson Davis has been chosen
by the First Mississippi Rifles to serve as their
representative at the convention of the survivors
of the Mexican war of 1847, which is to
be held in Washington, January 15, 1874.
Mr. Davis commanded this regiment in the
Mexican war.
Patrick Henry once called Gov. Giles,
of Virginia, a "bob-tailed politician." Giles
dcmauded an explanation. Henry responded :
"I do not recollect having called you a 'bobtailed
politician' at any time, but think it
probable I have. Not recollecting the time
or occasion, I cannot say what I did mean ;
but if you will tell me what you think I
meant, I will say whether you are correct or
not." Giles subsided.
The ministers came last week to pray
for Paul Carroll, of Jamestowu, Ky., who is
in the last stage of consumption, and having
lived a wicked life sent for them. But when
they opened prayer, Mrs. Carroll remarked,
with tearful eyes, that she couldn't stand it,
this dividing up a family by praying; all the
balance of the Carrolls that had died had
gone to h?1. No man ought to be separated
from his kin.
Preparations to priut the new national
bank currency authorized by Congress have
already been commenced. Work upon the
plates will be commenced next week, and five,
ten and twenty dollars notes will be first issued.
It will probably occupy three months to
complete the plates and print and number the
notes, as a sufficient quantity of these denominations
will be placed in circulation before
commencing woik upon any other.
At Nashville the Robertson Association,
which hasdoneso much for the relief of the sick
has declared that "as the cholera has disappeared
from Nashville the mission of the association
has been fulfilled." Its members are urged
to resume their avocations in order to create
otwl fnrnicK nmnlAvmonf frtr tho nPP
dy. Six physicians,engaged by the county to
attend cholera patients, have been dismissed,
as no longer required, and the mayor is about
to discharge the city physicians employed for
that purpose.
lu every car on the Connecticut Iiiver
Railroad there is a box overhead, at one end
of which is contained the name of the next
station, which it is the duty of the brakemen to
change as they leave the stations. And it
goes further; it states where they connect with
other roads. As the change is made a bell
strikes twice, which attracts the attention of
the passengers, so that the box always exhibits
the name of the next station, and so on.
Thus passengers always know the name of tne
stopping place, and also if it connects with
any other railroad.
Wheeling, Virginia, has a boy who is
one of the greatest curiosities of the age. He
is half white and half black, not in the mulatto
and miscegenation sense, but the lower
half of his body is whiter than white folks
usually are, while the upper portion is as
black as mid-night. His mother is a coalblack
negress. He is but three years old,
and has already made money out of his peculiarities.
There is a round patch, about three
inches in diameter, of perfectly beautiful hair
on the top of his head, which is surrounded
by little kinky negro wool.
A telegram to the New York World
states that under the treaty made between
Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon the Great, in
view of outrages then recentlv practiced upon
Arcadians by New Englanders and the British,
it was specifically agreed that the inhabitants
of Louisiana (whither the Acardians
lied) should never be deprived of freedom of
person, property or religion. This third section
of the treaty was written by Napoleon
himself, and it is now proposed, in view of
frightful wrongs to which the people of Louisiana
are subjected, because of the domination
of thieves and savage blacks, to assert rights
defined under this treaty, and invoke the intervention
of France.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial states that there are
now in the United States, 63,514 miles of rail-1
way mail service, that being an increase of
5,603 miles since the same period last year.
Massachusetts is the only New England State
in which there are 1,000 miles of railway service,
that State having nearly 1,700 miles.
Delaware has 248 miles, while of the other
middle States, New York has 4,726 miles;
New Jersey, 1,184 miles, and Pennsylvania, i
3,670 miles. Of the Southern States, Arkan?
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500 miles ; while in the others, there are from
1,000 to 2,000 miles. Illinois has the largest
railway mail service, 6,526 miles ; Ohio next,
3,877 miles ; New York, third ; Pennsylvania,
fourth ; and Missouri, fifth. In the latter
State, there are 3,340 miles.
A Washington letter states that the
Hon. J. K. Luttrell, Congressman elect from
the third California District, writes to Commissioner
Smith, of the Indian Bureau, an account
of his recent visit to the scene of the
Modoc war, and says he has been able to arrive
at only one conclusion in reference to it,
namely, that it was caused by the wrongful
acts of bad white men. He was informed, on
what seemed to him reliable authority, that
the Modocs were compelled to slaughter their
horses for food on the Klamath reservation,
and having exhausted this means of subsistence,
were compelled, by hunger, to seek the
fishing and hunting grounds on their old reservation
on Lost River. Mr. Luttrell urges
an investigation of the causes of the Modoc
war, and regrets to say that never was there a
time since the organization of the Government
wlu-n there was so much corruption and swin
dling?not only against the Government and
! the people, but against the Indians?as is toi
day being practiced on the Indian reservations
! on the Pacific coast.
j The Indian tribes of the Uuited States,
' who are gathered upon reservations, have de-;
voted to their exclusive use, in various local- j
ities, nearly 138,000,000 of acres of land. j
The tracts are generally choice territory, se- j
lected by thelndians themselves, and especial- i
ly adapted for hunting, on which, outside of
the Indian Territory, the tribes chiefly subsist,
i The Creeks, Cherokees, Chickasaws, Chocj
taws and other tribes of that Territory, howI
ever, are good fanners, and their lauds are
j valuable as agricultural regions. The extent
of these reservations may be imagined when
it is known that there are about 460 acres for
every man, woman and child living upon
them. The great majority of the Indians are
at peace with the whites, and all the troubles
on the frontier usually occur with a small
fraction of the 300,000 aborigines who are living
within the limits of the United States.
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CIVILIZATION.
The states or conditions in which we find
the human family, present a fruitful theme to
the moral philosopher, to the statesman, and
to the political economist. Man exists in conditions
below the beasts of the field, in many
respects; in other instances, he is only on an
equality with the beasts, and in other instances
still, we find him elevated far above every
creature which has a home upon this earth.
The spread of civilization over the globe
seems to be from the East to the West. In
this general direction, the tide seems to have
been rolling for centuries.
At the commencement of the Christian
era, the Romans were the most civilized people
on the globe. By them, Great Britain, together
with all the German States, were conquered
or overrun ; and in process of time,
these conquered tribes imbibed the manners
and customs of the Romans, and adopted
their language, in part or in whole. For several
hundred years Great Britain remained in
a semi-savage state. By slow degrees, the barbarous
manners and customs of the ancient
Britains were laid aside. Persecutions drove
many of them to the necessity of seeking a
home in which they could live in peace and
quiet. They selected America. Two hundred
and fifty years ago, the territory designated
by the name of the United States, was
an unbroken forest, inhabited by wild and uncivilized
savages. The first emigrants, from
necessity, landed upon the eastern shore.
The tide of civilization continued to roll on
until it reached the eastern shore of the Pacific.
The disposition to go West seems to be
almost instinctive. Annually, thousands from
the densely populated States and crowded
cities of the East, make their way to America.
In many sections of America, the manners
and customs, as well as the language of
the people, are European in all their prevailing
plmrnMpristins The tide nf emicrration is
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stopped only by the placid bosom of the broad
Pacific. In time, no doubt, the Pacific will
be crossed as the Atlantic was, and mighty
changes will be produced npon the eastern
continent by the inhabitants of the western.
It is a noticeable feature of civilization that
its object seems to be to reduce barbarism to
subjection. It is not very particular how this
is effected. Persuasion is sometimes used; but
more frequently the sword. The first emigrants
to America used but little persuasion
to ameliorate the savage Indians. In almost
every instance the appeal was made to the
sword. For the last two hundred and fifty
years the effort has been to exterminate the
aboriginal inhabitants of America, and the
effort has been successful. The same thing
was done by the Romans. The tribes which
Julius Ciesar found in Great Britain were, in
time, almost entirely exterminated by the Romans.
Not only did the Romans pursue this
exterminating method, but the Israelites did
the same thing toward the Cananites. This
may seem strange, but facts are facts.
In the development of the arts of civiliza- j
tion, it is rather a remarkable feature that the 1
fine arts were brought to a high state of per-!
fection while the useful arts were scarcely l
known. In music, noetrv and naintinsr, the i
ancient Greeks and Roraaus surpass any mod- j
em nations. In their palmiest days they were '
defective in the useful arts. Implements of i
agriculture, which a boy can now construct,-)
i were too much for the mighty intellects of an-!
' tiquity. The rapid and permanent progress !
of civilization during the last century, has J
! been effected by the discovery and application
of steam. With truth, it may be said that
| steam has revolutionized the world. It is
only in its infancy. What it will yet do no ;
one can tell. At present, a voyage is made ,
between London aud New York in less time,
with as little risk, and at far less expense,
than a journey was made by our fathers be- j
tween places only a few hundred miles apart.'
j It is also worthy of notice that while civilization
removes many evils, it introduces
many. Civilized nations arc not so healthy as
savages. The North American Indians were
subject to only three or four diseases. The
great multitude of them, who were not killed
in war, died of old age. Amongst civilized
nations, only a small number die of old age.
The manner of life amongst civilized nations
preys upon the nervous system, and death on!
tors from a thousand avenues.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? A secoud case of small pox is reported in
Camden.
? A. O. Norris, Esq., late Probate Judge of
Anderson county, is dead.
? The taxable property of Abbeville county
aggregates 84,787,665.42.
? W. J. Whipper, colored, has been appointed
Treasurer of Barnwell county.
? The Charleston News estimates that there
arc at least twenty-five lawyers engaged in suits
pending against the Blue Ridge Railroad.
? The Comptroller-General has forbideu
the County Treasurer of Lancaster to levy
the special tax of one mill for public buildings,
as it would be unlawful.
? The petitions of Hillcriah MeCall and
Thomas Palmer, of York couuty, for voluntary
bankruptcy, have been referred to Register
Clawson for adjudication.
? Capt. L. M. Coxetter died in Charleston
last week. He has long been well known in
connection with the line of steamboats between
that city and Florida.
? The county commissioners of Greenville
have appointed Wednesday, 20th of August,
as the time for the people to vot? on the subscription
of stock to the Laurens and Ashevillc
railroad.
? At a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees
of the South Carolina University, Henry
J. Fox, D. D., was elected professor in place
of Dr. LaBorde, retired, who was afterward
elected in the place of Dr. Reynolds, retired.
? M. O'Conuell, Esq., one of the Trial Justices
of York county, died suddenly at his
home near Fort Mills, on Wednesday of last
week. He was buried in Columbia on Friday
last.
? Messrs. T. B. Milford and T. A. Sullivan,
propose to commence the publication of a
weekly Republican newspaper at Abbeville
Court House, about the first of September, to
be called the True American.
? In Pickens county chickens are worth 10
cents each, butter 15 cents per pound, Irish
potatoes 50 cents per bushel, beef 8 to 10
cents per pound, mutton 8 to 10 cents, ducks
20 to 25 cents each, and vegetables can be
had for the asking.
. ? T. M. Wilkes, United States Commissioner,
formerly on duty at Yorkville, sailed for
Europe in the steamer Baltic, from New
York, on the 6th instant. He was accompanied
by L. Cas3 Carpenter, formerly editor
of the Columbia Union, and Niles G. Parker,
ex-Treasurer of South Carolina.
? The Citadel Academy building in Charleston,
which since the war has been in possession
of the United States authorities, is shortly
to be relinquished to the control of the State.
It is stated that it is proposed to use the buildings
in connection with the establishment of
a colored military school for the training of
officers for the National Guard, otherwise
known as the colored troops of the State.
? Near Cross Anchor, in Union county, on
Thursday night last, the dwelling house and
kitchen of Mr. Milliard Hill, together with
the contents of each, including nearly his entire
wheat crop, was destroyed by fire. The
loss is put down at about $1000, and the fire
is supposed to have originated from the carelessness
of a child, who was sent up stairs with
a caudle, to get some extra bed clothing.
? The Phoenix mentions as a singular coincidence,
that, since reconstruction, Orangeburg
has lost three Senators?Randolph,
Green and Jamison. The colored miuister,
in his funeral sermon over Senator Jamison,
referred to it as a "mysterious doom that
hung like a cloud charged with darkness and
death over the seat which Orangeburg held
in the Senate of the State."
? The Lancaster Ledger of Thursday last
says: "The Surveyors of the Cheraw and
Chester Rail Road reached this place on
Thursday evening last. We learn that the
depot will he situated iu the corporate limits
of the town, near the old muster field. The
greater part of Friday and Saturday was
spent by the Surveyor in riding over the
grounds between this and the steam-mill. It
is stated that between this place and Chester
not a cut will have to be made over seventeen
feet deep."
? For several days past there have been
many irregularities in the management of the
mail service on the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta railroad, which we hope have been
remedied by the prompt removal of the derelict
official?a negro named Fuller. To the Charlotte
(N. C.) Observer is due the praise. That
paper called the attention of the authorities
to the matter, whereupon Thomas B. Long,
special Agent Post-office Department, after
investigating the case, promptly discharged
Fuller, and says that every effort will be made
to secure promptness and efficiency on the
part of all his subordinates.
? The members of one of the Granges in
Newberry county have made a practical illustration
of the principles of their order.
The wife of Mr. A. M. Riser, belonging to
the Liberty Hall Grange, had been sick for
over five months, and things had become
sadly out of joint in her household. The
lady members of the Grange heard of the
situation of affairs, and like true Sisters of
Charity, they visited the house, and putting
their fair shoulders to the wheel, soon had
everything in apple-pie order, thus making
the hearts of the whole household to rejoice.
They literally played "move house," (that is
with all the movables,) swept, dusted, scoured,
scrubbed and scalded, until there was no
more for their hands to do.
? Messrs. C. G. Merarainger, W. D. Porter,
A. Burt, and Butler & DeSaussure, as counsel,
representing a number of the tax payers
of this State, have succeeded in procuriug a
temporary injunction from Judge Carpenter,
restraining the Comptroller-General from
taking any measures for collecting any tax
or giving notice for the collection of any tax
for the purpose of paying the principal or interest
on the bonded debt, until the further
orders of the Court. The injunction also
restrains the State Treasurer from paying any
part of the principal or interest on the bonds,
due or to become due. The grounds of the
complaint are that a large portion of the
bonded debt is fraudulent.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Oue hundred hands are now employed at
the Ore Knob copper mine in Ashe county.
Large quantities of ore of superior quality
are being raised daily.
? There is now employed in constructing
the Carolina Railway a force of 2300 hands,
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till wonting uu IIic UIVIOIUU UCI*>CCU M autoboro
and Charlotte.
? Professor J. D. Miiller, formerly connected
with the Yorkville Female College, has
been elected Professor of Music in the Asheville
Female College.
? The Hickory Press says, that on Saturday
of last week, thirty-eight inches of rain
fell in that place, accompanied by a furious
storm, which inflicted great damage to property
and the growing crops in that vicinity.
? The Charlotte Observer regrets to learn
that Mr. M. A. Upchurch, who is visiting his
friends in Raleigh, is dangerously ill of typhoid
fever. Mr. Upchurch is well known
in Yorkville, having formerly been telegraph
operator at this place, which position he fills
in Charlotte.
? In Person, Caswell and Orange counties,
many farmers who have formerly raised tobacco
extensively, have abandoned that crop,
and the past season planted cotton exclusively,
thinking it the most profitable.
? A furious storm passed over a portion of
Raudolph county, in the vicinity of New
Salem, on the 4th instant. The wind broke
down and uprooted trees, and hail,of unusual
size, fell in abundance.
? A car load of rags belonging to Wm, <fc
R. Tiddy, caught on fire by spontaneous combustion,
at Lincolnton on Tuesday of last
week, and destroyed both rags and car. The
rags were worth $500. So says the Lincoln
Progress.
? A colored boy, at Smyrna, in Carteret
county, went out into the field to work with
his hoe, and failed to return to his dinner at
the usual hour. He was sent after, and
when found was dead, with a rattlesnake
coiled around his body, the snake still biting
him.
? The Masters of the various Granges of
the Patrons of Husbandry met in Raleigh
on the 9th and organized a State Grange.
William S. Battle, of Edgecomb, was made
President. The meeting was well attended
and harmonious. A State Educational Convention,
in which all parts of the State were
represented, was also held on the same day.
? The property and franchises of the Cape
Fear and Deep River Navigation Company,
on which the State has expended 8750,000,
were sold at public auction by the sheriff of
Chatham county on the 7th and 8th instant.
The property brought 825,200, of which
amount 81200 goes to the treasury of the
State.
? The stockholders of the North Carolina
railroad held their annual meeting in Salisbury
on the 11th. T. M. Holt was reelected
President. After passing a resolution revoking
all free passes heretofore given ex-Presidents
of the road and their farailes and all
other persons except Calvin Graves, (whose
casting vote as Speaker secured the charter
of the road,) there being no other business
on hand, the meeting adjourned.
? The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio railroad
took place in Statesville on Thurday last.
The meeting was an exceedingly stormy one,
in consequence of the ventilation of the acts
of Col. Wra. Johnston, the late President.
R. I. McDowell, Esq., was elected President.
Speaking of the debates in the meeting, the
Charlotte Observer says: "The most uncivil
language was used in the debate; and the
speakers handled each other with gloves off.
The discussion will be long remembered as
oue of the hottest, most angry and disgraceful
that ever occurred in the history of North
Carolina Railroad meetings, and for the
honor of our people and the credit of our
State, we hope a like scene will never again
be witnessed in this country."
NEWS OF THE DAY.
? Curly Head Jack, a prominent warrior of
the Cottonwood faction, who was under arrest
with the Modoc Indians, committed suicide
by shooting himself a few days ago.
? Crop reports from Arkansas and north
Mississippi are encouraging. Reports from
Alabama are conflicting. The appearance
of the caterpillar is reported in several sections.
? Stokes, Simmons and King, the New
York murderers, will, it is supposed, escape
the death penalty through the new law requiring
proof of deliberate intent to kill for
conviction of murder in the first degree.
? Half a mile of the Missouri Pacific railroad
track, near Kickapoo, Kansas, dropped
into the Missouri river on the 9th, and sank
out of sight. The water where the track was
situated is now forty feet deep.
? Memphis dates to the 14th report that
the health of the city was never better than
now. There are a few cases of sporadic cholera,
which excite no apprehension, and many
of the citizens who left during the prevalence
of the cholera have returned.
? Our traveling correspondent gives a truthful
yet fearful account of the ravages of the
cholera in Tennessee towns and cities. From
his letter, however, as well as telegraphic
oMiipi-oa \vp are hnnefnl that the scourfre has
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spent its fury and is abating.
? A Hebrew conference, comprising fifteen
congregations from the West and South, convened
in Cincinnati lust week, for the purpose
of taking steps toward establishing a Hebrew
theological institution. Over two hundred
delegates were in attendance, and resolutions
endorsing the project were unanimously passed.
? Reports from all points in Illinois and
Iowa show that while the recent severe rain
storms have considerably damaged the wheat
crop, particularly in localities where it was
just ready to harvest, there will be fully an
average crop. Corn is also promising for a
full average crop.
? The women of Remington, Indiana, made
a raid on the liquor shops of that place last
week. They emptied all the intoxicating
liquors contained in one, and proceeded to
destroy the stock of the other, when the proprietor
compromised by consenting to sell no
more liquor, and to leave the place within
thirty days.
? The proprietor of an opera house in Albany,
N. Y., was placed on trial last Friday
for violation of the civil rights bill, he having
refused admission of a family of mulattoes to
the dress circle, and ordering them to take
seats in the gallery, where there was a place
provided for them. The jury being unable
to agree, were discharged. They stood ten
for acquittal and two for conviction.
? Dr. Cullen, one of the surgeons in the
Mordecai-McCarty duel, refused to testify before
the grand jury at Richmond last week,
on the ground that he might criminate himself.
The Judge decided that he must answer
the questions propounded by the jury or be
held for contempt. A suspension of sentence
was obtained in order to appeal to the Supreme
Court. The grand jury, with the evidence
before them, found true bills of indict1
ment against the four seconds for the wilful
and malicious murder of Mordecai.
Why the South Remains Poor.?The
! great problem of political economy for us of
j the South is to combine the producing and the
manufacturing interests. Sectionalism has
almost, heen nnr ruin?we do not cherish it.
J We wish to see the people North and South
I prospering, but we can see no prosperity for
; the South until we learn to produce our food,
mnnufactute our staples and give employment
to our mechanics. We want factories of every
kind, but these factories must have patro'
uage, and, like charity, this patronage must
begin at home. We remain poor, because we
must have everything from the North. We
; plough our crops with Northern-made plows,
hitch our teams with Northern-made harness,
: cut our wood with Northern-made axes, dress
our lumber with Northern-made planes, drive
our Northern nails with a Northern-made
hammer, and paint our houses with a North|
ern-made brush dipped in Northern paint.
I In short, we are rocked in Northern-made
cradles, wrapped in Northern-made swaddling
clothes, suck our paps made of Northern-made
corn starch, through a Northern-made nipple,
from a Northern bottle. We are educated
from Northern-made books, are poisoned with
Northern physic, and being gently laid in a
Northern coffin, our minister clothed in Northern-made
clothes, takes our funeral text from j
a Northern-made Bible, and loving hands in
Northern-made gloves lower us by means of a
Northern-made rope into a Southern grave,
and our last resting-place is marked by a
tomb-stone quarried, dressed and carved at
j the North. This policy is not the true one.
' We must manufacture and patronize home
j institutions. Then, and not until then, can
: we expect to be independent of the Northern
i States.?Agricultural Journal.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS,
i Trial of the Modoc Warriors.
j The military commission for the trial
j of the Modoc Indians under charge of mur-1
, uci, met at I'uit lYiaiuatu uu tut. uw, uuu
: proceeded at once with a hearing of the case, i
Captain Jack, Schonchin, Boston Charley,
Black Jim, Slotuck and Brancho, are the
names of those implicated in the Canby massacre.
The charges against them are murder,
in violation of the laws of war. The specifications
repeat the facts, which have substantially
been published heretofore. Three witnesses
were examined?Riddle, his Indian
squaw Toby, and L. D. Dyar. Toby swears
positively that Captain Jack shot General
Canby; Schonchin, Mr. Meacham; Boston
Charley, Dr. Thomas; and that Hooker Jim
tried to kill L. D. Dyar; also, that Brancho
knocked her down with his gun and tried to
take her horse. The testimony of Riddle
corroborates his wife's evidence.
The Case of Walworth.
Walworth, the New York parricide,
has been sent to Sing Sing Peniteutiary. He
was manacled, and received the same treatment
of nine other convicts who were sent to the
penitentiary at the same time. His mother
was on the same train, and took final leave of
him at the prison. He kept up his spirits and
freely conversed with the lookers-on. When
he received his striped suit, he jokingly remarked
that he looked as if he had got a
base-ball suit on. It is said he will be put in
the shoe shop, and when he learns sufficient
of the business, will be made chief clerk in
that department.
The prompt trial, conviction and sentence
of Walworth, and the farther fact of the
sentence being executed without delay, strikes
terror among the murderers now awaiting
trial in New York city. This is the first case
of murder that has been tried in the city
courts, under the new laws regulating the degrees
of murder in that State; and either the
efficiency of the law, or the manner iu which
Judge Davis administers it, is well calculated
to alarm the guilty. The jury in the Walworth
trial at first stood eight for murder in
the first degree, one for murder in the second
degree and three for acquittal. It is stated
that his counsel advise against the risk of a
second trial, and only hope for his pardon i
after a few years' imprisonment.
Murder in Charleston.
The murder of Charles H. West, a quiet
and inoffensive young man in Charleston, has
created a great deal of excitement and feeling
in that city. The murderers, James A. Duffus
and B. L. Duffus, are brothers, who as well
as their victim, are young men?mere youths,
in fact. The circumstances, as reported in
the News and Courier, are substantially to
the effect that on the evening of the 4th instant
young West was in a billiard saloon as
spectator to a game of billiards. While sitting
in the saloon he was approached by the
Duffus brothers, when one of them charged
him with having remarked at some previous
time that he, (Duffus) "looked like a negro,"
and slapped West in the face. West arose,
and apparently wishing to avert a collision,
went to another part of the room. James A.
Duffus then approached him and fired a pis
tol, the ball penetrating West's head, from 1
the effects of which wound he died an hour i
after. So sudden was the occurrence that the
bystanders were completely taken by surprise,
and the DufFus youths walked away, as though
nothing of serious consequence had taken
place. They were arrested, however, the same
night of the murder, having gone to their residence
and retired to bed. Their family had
not learned of the murder until the officers
went to make the arrest. After being taken
to the guard-house, the prisoners betrayed no
apparent emotion whatever, even after they
had been informed of young West's death.
They were perfectly calm, and to all appearance,
did not realize the magnitude of the
crime which they had committed. Both of
them are young men, just upon the threshold
of life, and they scarcely seem to realize the
fact that by their rash act they have hurried
a fellow-being into eternity, and plunged their
own family into distress and grief. They will
remain in jail until the next sitting of the
Court of General Sessions, which occurs on
the first Monday in October next.
As a sequel to the unfortunate affair, the
mother of the victim died of grief five days
after the murder was committed.
The Code of Honor.
In an article on libel suits and duelling,
the New Orleans Herald sums up the arguI
ments aeainst such course of defense in the
following forcible paragraph, which would
transfer the mode of redress for injury from
the physical to the moral arena:
"If you are right and innocent, and can so
demonstrate, your defamer will be held to a |
severer judgment than any verdict for mone-;
tary damages. Defend yourself not only with
facts, but with the proofs of your innocence to
be found in your life and character, as known !
of men. A man of pure life and conversa- j
tion can never be affected by mere epithets
and defamatory scandals. It is not worth
living, if you cannot live down such things.
If you cannot do these; if you cannot, by
adequate proofs, exculpate yourself from imputations
and charges made against you ; or,
by your uniform conduct and life, silence j
such assaults, it is pretty certain you never i
can accomplish such results by shooting or j
being shot in a duello, or obtaining a verdict!
of damages in a suit for libel."
Sunstroke.
"Writing upon the subject of this and
- - - - ^ t .1 f% i
! kindred complaints, Dr. woous gives tne 101lowing
information, which is worth remember!
ing during the summer months:
"Sweating is nature's great refrigerative ,
measure, and to keep this up large quantities
j of water should be drunk, not too cold, but
i without stint?quarts, if the thirst crave it.
Keep sweating, and you are probably not in
! immediate danger, but when, on a July or
August-day, a man's head begins to throb and
the surface grows dry and hot, whilst unwonted
restlessness and lassitude come on, as he
values his life let him leave his work, however
: imperative, and take at once a cold bath.;
; There should in this disease be no waiting for
the doctor. The remedy is so simple, the i
death so imminent, that the good Samaritan
passing by should save his brother. The
| good Samaritan must, however, have a cool
i head to be useful. Not every man that falls
unconscious on a hot day has sunstroke.
There is fortunately one criterion so easy of
application that any one can use it. Go at
once to the fallen man, open his shirt bosom
I and lay the hand upon his chest; if the skin j
is cool you may rest assured that whatever
may be the trouble, it is not suustroke. If, on
the contrary, the skin be burning hot, the case
is certainly sunstroke, and no time should be
lost. The patient must be carried to the nearest
pump or hydrant, stripped to his waist, and
bucketful after bucketful of cold water be
dashed over him until consciousness begins to
return or the intense heat of the surface decidedly
abates."
Railroad Affairs in <*roeiivillc.
A correspondent of the Charleston
Courier and News, writing from Greenville,
under date of the 8th instant, in relation .to
the proposed Laurens and Asheville Railroad,
says:
"A large and enthusiastic meeting was held
here yesterday in the court house, called by
the county commissioners, to consider the propriety
of a subscription by the county of $150,000
to the new Laurens and Asheville Railroad.
Colonel Krwin Jones was called to
the chair, and T. F. Ferguson, Esq., acted as
secretary. There were many speakers, among
them Judge Cooke, our new circuit judge.
The nieetiiier was very protracted, very divi
ded, boisterous, and at times uncontrollable.
Two or three of the first gentlemen of our
county actually became engaged in fisticuffs,
and we never have had as rowdy and disgraceful
a meeting before or since the war. The
sheriffbad to come forward to quell the noise.
Many capitalists and intelligent men contend
that it will be a waste of money to subscribe
8150,000 to build a road which will cost 84,000,000
; that it will be another Blue Ridge
failure, and that however desirable, it is impracticable
to build it with our resources. The
other side, "the Progressives," say "nothing
venture, nothing have;" that, if we do not
build this, Spartanburg or the old Blue Ridge
will open a path to the teeming West, and
that we will be distanced in the race to be an
Atlanta or Chicago ; that, if we start it, capitalists,
Northern capitalists?the Southern
Security Company, for instance?will come to
our help, and finish it for us. This is dealing
in "futures" truly; but you know much of
that business is going on, and, although hazardous,
is sometimes successful. If we can get
the road, it is argued, Greenville will rise,
double its population in a few years, and be
among the largest of the cities of the State.
The question is to be put to a vote in a few
weeks, and there will be great efforts made on
both sides; but, as capitalists are few and
the "Progressives" many, it is probable the
latter will carry it, and we shall start the
road."
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Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
THE CHOLERA.
Chattanooga, July 9th, 1873.
Twenty-seven coffins in one clay! Does
that startle you, reader? Yet this little city
is so scourged with that dread disease, Asiatic
cholera, that the undertakers sent out twentyseven
coffins last Thursday. Friday, there
were fifteen deaths; Saturday, twelve; Sunday,
sixteen ; Monday, fifteen ; Tuesday, ten ;
and several new cases to-day, up to this writing.
This fearful death-rate has sent a chill
through every heart. Business is pretty well
suspended. Fully half the population have
left the city, and most of the remaining half
would if they could. Among the lamented
dead is JohnC. Gallaspie, one of the wealthiest
and best-known citizens.
Men die in four, five and six hours after
being taken. This is the main reason why
the disease is so dreaded. People have a
horror of the King of Terrors at best, and
when he comes with such sudden tread he is
doubly terrible. There is no time to prepare
for death as regards the future state; no time
to arrange one's business, or hardjy to bid
one's family adieu. Death from cholera is so
sudden and so terrible that men often forsake
their dearest friends who are taken with it, intent
only on saving their own lives.
At the Read House here, last week, the
colored dish-washer was taken at four o'clock,
and died shortly after dark. That night about
half the servants left in fright. Often men
who have faced tempests of ball and bullets
upon a hundred hard-fought fields, will run
like sheep when the Asiatic cholera appears.
Bad as the disease has been here, it was
even worse in Gallatin. There six per cent,
of the population died in a month ! Gallatin
is in Sumner county, thirty miles north of
Nashville, on the Louisville road. It is a
place of some three thousand inhabitants.
The surrouuding country, for fifty miles, is
hich, rolling, well drained and healthy. In
the town, nor near it, there are no stagnant
pools nor sluggish streams. 1 should judge it
to be fully as healthy a place, in this respect,
as Yorkville.
But the cholera traveled from Nashville to
Gallatin on the wings of the morning. Half
the people fled, leaving less than fifteen hundred
in town. Yet of these fifteen hundred,
one hundred and two have died ! And this
fearful death-rate iu a country town, always
regarded as healthy. Is it not strange ? Who
will account for it?
Among the country people about Gallatin
there is a panic. They come to town not at
all. When the towns-people go to the country
for supplies, bacon for instance, the countryman
hangs a piece on the gate-post and retires
while the purchaser takes it and leaves
the money. But despite all precaution, the
scourge has spread into the country between
Gallatin and Nashville, and taken off many,
although raging with much less violence than
in the centres of population.
At JNashville the disease is slowly subsiding,
the daily death-rate varying from five to
twelve. The scattered citizens are returning,
and every train goes in full. The danger is
that those who remained through it all, living
on hard hara and dry bread, will, with the
decline of the disease, go into vegetables with
such vim as to raise the death-rate again.
This is not the Nashville view, I know; they
are all in a high state of hope there; but
stranger things have happened. The deaths
in Nashville, in June, were about five per
cent of the population in the city. This is a
very unhealthy exhibit.
At Memphis the disease has about exhausted
itself. It was not half as bad there as in
Nashville. Indeed, it will take Asia itself to
show anything equal to the death-rate in
Nashville in June. With the population reduced
to twelve thousand by flight, there were
near seven hundred deaths !
During the run of the plague, it has been
noted that cistern water is a preventive. In
rinUnliii Ti.v f.miiltr ncinrr nictprn TORtpr AYAlll
uauatiuj ii\/ lutuiij umug w*ww?? ? v?
sivcly, has been attacked. In Edgefield, just
across the river from Nashville, where cistern
water only is used, there has not been a death,
except such as took it in Nashville. There is
something in this worth thinking about.
It is also noticed that in. the large German
population of this city, not one of that nationality
has been stricken. Is it because they
drink lager beer? Nemo.
Eald Heads.?Women are never bald,
that is, with a round, white, shiny top, like
men, because they never wear close hats or
caps, and men never lose hair below where the
hat touches the head, not if they have been
bald for fifty years. It is the close hat or cap
that does the mischief. The heat and moisture
thus retained upon the scalp weaken and
finally destroy the hair glands. The remedy
is sufficiently obvious. It is to wear a perfectly
ventilated hat, and wash the top of the
head frequently with cold water, rubbing it
hard with the flats of your hands. Every
one of the hair dyes is poisonous and should
he shunned.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
I L. M. Grist?Fire Wood Wanted.
I D. McNeill Turner?Proclaim it from Dan to
Beersheba.
i Thomson and Jeffervs, Assignees?In Bankruptcy?Dividend
Meeting in the Matter of Kerr
A Roach, Bankrupts.
Tarrant's Effervescent Seltzer Aperient.
; W. II. A J. P. Ilcrndon?Candles and Soap?Molasses?Rice?Put
Ware?Sundries?Crackers-Tin
Ware?Cotlee?Sugar?Bacon, Ac.
Mrs. C. Craven?Foreign and Domestic Confectionery.
John W. Simpson, President Board of Trustees?
Laurcnsviile Female College.
T. S. Jetferys, Secretary?Masonic Meeting.
CHANGE OF LOCATION.
The site of the post office heretofore known
as Harmony, iu this county, has been changed
| to Black's Station, on the Air-Line Railroad,
| and the post < ffice will hereafter be known by
j the latter nam \
THE RAILROAD SURVEY.
By a private letter from Lenoir, N. C., we
learn that the surveyors of the Chester and
Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, reached that
place on Saturday last. It is understood that
another line will be immediately surveyed
from Lenoir to this place.
PERSONAL.
We received a call on Tuesday from Mr.
A. M. Manigault, jr., who is visiting the upper
counties of this State, in the interest of the
well-known stationery and printing house of
Messrs. Walker, Evans & Cogswell, of
Charleston.
Among the attorneys in attendance on the
Circuit Court now in session, we notice the
presence of C. Davis Melton, Esq., of Columbia
; Col. James H. Rion, of Winnsboro;
John P. Gage, Esq., of Rock Hill; Solicitor
W. H. Brawley and Maj. S. P. Hamilton, of
Chester; and R. E. Allison and William A.
Moore, Esqs., of Laucaster.
?
MAIL ROUTE RE-OPENED.
Through the exertions of Hon. Alexander
S. Wallace, the member of Congress for this
Congressional District, the mail route between
Yorkville and Charlotte has been reopened,
and post masters appointed for the post offices
along the line. Mr. William Sahms has been
appointed post master at Clay Hill; Miss
Sarah E. Erwin, at Randlesburg; and Mr.S.
Watson Reid, at Steel Creek, the latter office
having heretofore been known as White Hall.
The contract for carrying the mail has been
awarded to Mr. Miles Johnson, of Yorkville,
at $270 per annum, and the service ordered to
commence on the first day of next August.
1UL LilVVUil VUUIil*
The Court of Common Pleas and General
Sessions?His Honor T. J. Mackey presiding?convened
in adjourned term at 11
o'clock, A. M., on Monday. All the members
of the grand and petit juries were present.
Upon the organization of the Court, His Honor
addressed the grand jury, saying that he
deemed it unnecessary to give them further
instructions at this period of the session than
was given at the commencement of the term,
there being no special matter on which to instruct
them. He would remark, however,
that he deemed it proper to call to their attention
the fact that in York county a company
of militia had been organized, their services
tendered to the State authorities, and
accepted. Arras have been, or will be issued
to this company of militia, and in view of
these facts?the company being composed of
colored citizens?fears were entertained by
one class of people?quiet, law-abiding and
good citizens?that the organization of this
militia company will tend to violence and
disorder. The views of this class of worthy
citizens should be properly and duly considered
by those who administer the law. Another
class say that should such a company
of militia be organized, they will take the offensive
and dissolve the organization by force.
It is proper that the Court should notice this
condition of affairs in York county, and bring
to the attention of the grand jury the admonitions
of one class who fear disorder and violence,
and the threats of the other class who
desire to incite disorder and violence.
The militia are a part of the governmental
organization of the State, which the Legislature
even cannot remit, for it is established by
ths fundamental law. Under the Constitution,
the General Assembly have enacted
laws rendering all able-bodied men between
the a^ - of eighteen and forty-five years liable
to military duty. Tho laws prescribe fines
for failure to enroll, and make all needed regulations
for the government and organization
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Ui LUC Uillltia* J.U CUiUlCiU^ LUC ittYY, LUC OU~
thorities and State officials have no discretion.
But having observed the repugnance of the
whites to enroll themselves in the militia, the
authorities have not attempted to enforce the
law with rigor. This repugnance was gener- ,
ally conceded to be from the fact that the negroes
were liable to this duty as well as the
whites. This, in the opinion of His Honor,
was a groundless reason, and he cited the case
of white companies in Charleston and elsewhere,
composed of the best citizens, who had
fought through the late war, and were veterans
in arms, who did not object to the organization
of colored militia. In Charleston there
are ten volunteer companies composed of
whites, and fifteen militia companies composed
of colored citizens ; and so far from any collision
having occurred between them, their relations
were amicable and friendly.
Why should thecolored citizen, armed and
organized pursuant to law, and in the peaceful
exercise of his rights as a civic soldier, be
regarded by the white South Carolinian as a
hostile clement ? When ourstrong and brave
men were in the front, the negro was the faithful
sentinel guarding our defenceless homes,
and toiling submissively to feed our wives and
children. He did not strike for vengeance
then, and he purposes no violence or wrong
now. Indeed, when the hour of our disaster,
and his triumph came, he often stood forth to
soften the rage of the victor agaiust his vanquished
master.
It is the duty of the presiding Judge to as
sure all that there will be no violence. The
company is armed under the law, and while
obeying the law and observing its requirements,
they will be protected by the law. Offenders
will be punished. No authority is
delegated to the militia, simply because of
j their organization as such, to violate the laws,
I aud should they do so, they will certainly be
! punished and made to feel that their trans!
gression is greater and the punishment more
; deserved than if the offenses were committed
merely as citizens.
The men who make threats against the company
are not dangerous, and fortunately they
| have but few representatives in York county.
The large majority of the people of the coun;
ty are law-abiding citizens ; but for the benefit
of those who make threats, it is but proper
to say that the slightest attempt at violence
will be attended and followed with commensurate
punishment. No aid will be called
from the United States government. The
State authorities alone are able and determined
to protect the militia organizations,
and already has the machinery been perfected
* to attain this end. His Honor further denied
i that it is the purpose of the State authorities