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f (rap* anil darts. The Shah of Persia has three hundred and sixty children. By a recent census, the total population of Augusta, Geo., is put down at 19,891. Of this number 11,151 are whites, and 8,740 colored. For your own and your children's sake, learn to speak gently. They will remember that tone when you are under the turf. So they will remember a harsh or angry tone. Iowa farmers complain of a scarcity of laborers. Three dollars a day will not bring them help enough to attend to their crops. And yet the cities are full of idlers. A gentleman who has been attacked occasionly for twenty years with cramp colic, says two pills of gum camphor swallowed will give relief in twenty minutes. The Catholic farmers of the West are organizing granges of their own, to cooperate with the original granges. This course is taken because Catholics cannot join any secret society. A Memphis girl was married the other day, aud immediately sold her piano, bought her a sewing machine, and made her husband a suit of clothes and herself two calico dresses, and now fourteen young men are seeking the hand of her unmarried sister. England raised 16,000,000 bushels of wheat a century ago?now 100,000,000 bushels a year. How came the increase is suggested in part by the fact that since 1837, she has imported over $150,000,000, of bones as fertilizers. The postmaster-general intends, at the end of the present calendar year,to furnish to Congress a statement showing the results of the repeal of the franking privilege and its effects upon the revenue of the postoffice department. It is said that the department will be quite near self-sustaining on this account. Blind Tom, the celebrated negro prodigy, has settled near Warrentoo, Ya., on a farm which belongs to General Bethune, formerly of Columbus, Ga. Tom was a slave of the General, who brought him up and took special pains in his musical training. Tom's father is living near Columbus. Some one asked Col. Thomas C. Howard, of Georgia, the other day, if he thought a certain politician of that State would steal. "Steal!"said he; "why, by jove,if he was paralyzed and hamstrung I wouldn't trust him by himself in the middle of the desert of Sahara with the biggest anchor of the Great Eastern. Steal! I should think he would !" The length of the East River Bridge, connecting New York and Brooklyn, will be five thousand eight hundred aud sixty-two feet, of which three thousand four hundred and fifty-six feet will be suspended. This is seven times the length of Niagara Suspension Bridge. The towers will rise two hundred and sixty-eight feet above high water mark, eighteen leet higher than xrinity spire. The plates for the new fivedollar national bank note have been completed at the Bureau of Engraving and Priuting of the Treasury Department, and the work of printing the new issue will be commenced in a week or ten days, though they will not be ready for circulation for a month or six weeks. The new note will be one of the handsomest ever issued by the Government, its general appearance being far superior to the old one. It is stated that the Congressional Committee on transportation have issued a circular to the State Granges of Husbandry throughout the country, asking them to appoint delegates to meet the committee and furnish information on a subject which they are investigating, and present the views of farmers of different States in regard to defects, abuses and grievances alleged to exist under the present system of transportation. The fall importations are beginning to arrive at New York. The dry goods entries last week, showed a marked increase. The total is $2,256,767, an increase of $400,000 compared with that of the week previous. Importers and jobbers alike anticipate a brisk buisness in about a month from date. At present it may be said stagnation reigns supreme. The other merchandise imports for the week at New York, are estimated at 84,175,000?making, with the dry goods, a total of SO,421,707. The Belgian Government has recently ordered securely locked letter boxes to be placed in all the insane asylums of the country, public or private, in positions where they will be easily accessible to all the inmates. They are designed to allow complaints and suggestions to be made to the authorities in a way independent of the officers or attendants. The complaints are investigated, and if any one asserts that he is sane, he is ordered to be examined by medical experts. Joaquin Miller relates a story horrible enough to satisfy the most ardent lover of sensation horrors. It is about a mining camp in a lonley district in California, where the scurvy hroke out. They had no way of treating the afflicted ones, when one of the miners happened to remember a cure he had formerly heard called the "earth cure." So they dug six deep pits in the shadow of a huge pine, and buried the patients up to the chin, having first taken off their clothes. The earth was shoveled back, closely patted down about them, and the six heads, in the moonlight, had a ghastly look, "like men rising in resurrection to meet the judgment." The buried men, like all hard-working miners, soon dozed off into a deep, stupor-like sleep. Their companions, who were watching them, grew dozy, and crawled off to their beds and slept soundly till morning, when they went to sec how their companions were getting on. They fouud that the wolves had been down and eaten off every one of the six heads level with the ground. The movement looking toward the formation of a new State out of North Mississippi, West Tennessee and Western Kentucky is being discussed with considerable animation by the newspapers published in the section interested. A convention is to be held at Jackson on the 29th instant, when delegates are to be present from every city, town and civil district within the limits of the proposed new State. The general sentiment seenis to be in favor of the movement. The negro pressure is the cause of this movement Despairing of retting relief from the despotism under which tlicy are groaning in any other manner, the whites are about to seek it in the proposed separation. It is a thing only to be contemplated as a last resort. If such a movement once begins, it will extend beyond Mississippi. The same principle of segregation would lead to a change in the structure of the commonwealths of Alabama, Florida and Louisiana. It would result in giving up forever to the negroes the finest portions of the South, and establishing purely black commonwealths. It would be a great relief to the white people to escape from negro rule, but it is a grave problem?that of surrendering the best portion of the South to the black race. We are not yet prepared to admit that the intelligent white masses of the States referred to will not be able, finally, to surmount all difficulties, if they are wise, discreet, watchful, patient and persevering. They should not give up too soon.?Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel. The destruction of human lives in India, by wild animals, has become so appalling that at last the English Parliament is seriously debating different plans to remedy the evil. The statements made by Lord Ettric, who has spent much of his time in India, almost transcend belief, and read like romances of the jungle and wilderness. In Lower Bengal alone, no less than 13,400 persons are known to have been killed by wild beasts in the six years immediately preceding 1870, and for the entire peninsula it is estimated that 10,800 persons are killed annually. Captain Rogers, of the Bengal service, recently read a paper before the English Social Science Asso ciation, in which he stated that, in 1869, on< tigress stopped the traffic on a public roac for many weeks, and was known to hav< I i killed 127 people; and, in Nayduka, a tiger, | in 1867, 1868 and 1869, killed, respectively, twenty-seven, thirty-four and forty-seven peo[ | pie. It would attack a party and kill four or five at a time. Once it killed a father, a i mother and three children, and the week be fore it was shot it killed seven people. It is , stated there are shikarries, or hunters, whose business it is to kill these animals, and who j receive rewards for doing so, but they have no |: desire to kill off all of them and thus cut off j their source of living. The English Govj eminent now proposes to enroll a body of men I for this purpose, and to make a systematic slaughter of the tigers, wolves, panthers, leopards and hyenas, until they are exterminated. j$he Horkvirie inquirer. YORKVIJLLE, S. C.: | THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 31, 1873. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kejdin advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance JOB PRINTING. Having determined to devote more attention hereafter to job printing than we have done in the past, we would inform the public that our office is now well supplied with new type of the latest styles, and the best machinery in use; and with a choice stock of inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to execute as good work as can be done anywhere in the United States. Orders for Roll Tickets iFreielit Billheads. Bank Notices, I Labels, Bonds anil Coupons, j Law Blanks, Bill Heads, 'Law Briefs, Business Cards, ! Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, {Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads Checks, Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, Note Headings, Drafts and Notes, Programmes, Envelopes, Policies, Fire A Life Ins., Election Tickets, Shinplasters, 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. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Court of Common Pleas will conj vene at Lancaster on Monday next. ? The indebtedness of Lancaster county is reported to be 88,713.60. ? Hogs are dying rapidly in Orangeburg from cholera. ? A peculiar form of sore mouth and throat affection is prevailing to a considerable extent in Columbia. ?The proprietor of the Columbia Hotel has reduced the price of boarding from four to three dollars per day. ? The Granges of Union county have a general meeting at Union Courthouse on the 2d of August. ? District-Attorney D. T. Corbin and exGovernor Scott have gene North, to remain for several months. ? A. B. Hawn, a Tennesseean, engaged iu mercantile pursuits in Chester, died iu that town recently of consumption. . 1 1 r\pfC\ o r AA 1 ? ftince UCtODer 10/Z, o,ouo persons imve been vaccinated by the city vaccinator of Charleston. ? Professor James H. Carlisle is lecturing to the Winnsboro people upon the early history of that town. ? Daily trains are now running on the Air-line Railroad between Charlotte and Greenville. They pass at King's Mountain. ? Watermelons are so abundant in Columbia, that those weighing from twenty to forI ty pounds are dull of sale at from ten to twenty cents each. ? Letters received in Columbia, on Saturday last, announce the completion of the survey of the Chester and Cheraw Railroad to Oro, in Chesterfield county. ? Mr. J. M. Davis, of Abbeville, has in vented a fire extinguisher which uses water only, and which is said to be much more effective than any instrument of the kind yet invented. ? It is rumored that C. II. Baldwin, of Coi lumbia, is to bo appointed Assistant United j States Treasurer at Charleston, to supercede J J. D. Geddings, the incumbent. j ?Wm. McCaslan, of Long Cane section, j Abbeville county, has a well on his place 500 j feet deep. It is the only artesian well in the j State outside of Charleston. I ? In the neighborhood of Landsford, ChesI ter county, in the last three months, four per! sons have died who have each passed the allotted three score and ten years. ! ? The Chester Reporter states that the town bell is rung every night at ten o'clock to give notice that the police are about to retire for ! the night, and to notify the citizens to look ' out for themselves. | ? Mr. Wills Rogers, formerly a resident of I Yorkville, and whose death, in New York, : was recently announced, has made his appear! ance at the office of the American Newspaper Reporter, in New York, and denied the j story. ; ? Mr. W. N. Ransom, of Magnolia, Abbeville county, has seventy-three acres planted in cotton that will make a bale to the acre, and fifty-eight acres in corn that will make from sixty to one hundred bushels per acre, j ?A meeting was held at Mariou last week ; in the interest of theCherawand Little River Railroad, and was addressed by Capt. T. C. Dunn, J. T. Walsh, Esq., Col. J. H. Hudson, ' Gen. W. H. Harllee and Col. W. S. Mullins. ; ? The Union Times, says: "It is said that the proprietor of the Glenn Springs hotel does not take a newspaper, nor keep a cow, aud plows his land with a 'little red bull.' That must be a delightful summer retreat. No | news, no milk, and only a 'little red bull' for a horse!" ? Secoud-lieutenant M. Frank Gallagher, I who was recently tried before a general court martial at Columbia for killing John McAneely, a discharged soldier, in Spartanburg, 1 on the 2nd of May last, has been dismissed the service and the sentence has been approved by the President. The civil authorities will take cognizance of the murder, the army trial being only on the charge of conduct unj becoming an officer and a gentleman. "i it* _p or.il. j ? JLfte oeauiorc nepuoiican ui me m says: "The fact is no longer to be disguised that the caterpillar is upon us. Already we hear of their being on John's, Wadmalaw, ^ St. Helena and Paris Islands, aud we have no doubt that they are to be found on all the : | Islands and in every cotton field on the coast. ', Coming thus early, with the crop backward, ' j they will be likely to destroy the whole ol 1 the cotton crop on the sea islands if the weather should be wet and cool." 3 ? The Aiken Journal of the 25th states thai 1! a case of some interest was tried in that towr > I on the 19th instant. It was an action in , which Wilcox, Gibbs & Co. sued the South Carolina Railroad for the value of Bix bags of guano, which they alleged was lost through the negligence of the road. The important ' question was, when did the responsibility of , the railroad cease ? The jury decided that if the consignee failed to remove it in a reasonable time after being notified of its arrival, it remained at the depot at the assignee's risk. The decision was in favor of the defendant. ? The people of Camden are excited on the subject of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad, which they fear will cut off a considerable portion of the trade of that town. A corres1 pondent in the last number of the Camden Journal thinks that a ra'lroad from that place to Chester will avoid this evil. The route would not exceed fifty miles, is on the right bank of the Waterec and Catawba rivers to the mouth of Rocky creek at Rocky Mount, thence up Rocky Creek to Chester. It would develop a fine section of country. ? The Chester Reporter of last week says: "A change of schedule ou the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad went into operation on last Saturday, by which, time is given to passengers goiug South to get breakfast at the Nicholson Hotel iu this town. We are glad on Mrs. Nicholson's account that the change has been made, and the traveling public has great reason to congratulate itself on the arrangement, as there is no eating house from Maine to Texas, nor from New York to San Francisco, where the weary wayfarer can more surely and more satisfactorily refresh himself." ? The Rock Hill Lantern of Saturday last, says: "On Tuesday evening last,in this town, two men by the name of Steele and Gordon, become engaged in a quarrel. Abusive language was made use of by both parties. Gordon used improper language about Steele's wife, when Steele "went for him" with a pocket knife. The throat was the place of attack, and had the knife penetrated an eighth of an inch deeper, a funeral would have been the consequence. Drs. Edwards and Johnston sewed up the wound and Gordon went his way rejoicing. Steele gave security for his appearance before the Trial Justice and went home." T?I - TJ 1 C 1??4 o?tro . ? j. ne vnesier JLXcjjvrivr ui just ?CCR oajo. "A meeting of the tax-payers of Baton Ronge Towsnhip was held on Saturday last at the store of Mr. H. C. Brawley, at Carinel Hill, for the purpose of levying a tax for school purposes. The meeting was largely attended by white men, but only a few of the negroes of the township were present. After discussion it was resolved to levy a tax of fifteen hundred dollars?to be collected on the taxable polls in the township, instead of by an assessment on the taxable property, as is usually the case. The trustees were empowered to use the fund so raised for educational purposes as to their judgments might seem best. The Board of Trustees of Baton Rouge township is composed of Mr. H. C. Brawley, Columbus Crauford and Alexander Robins?the two last are colored." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? S. W. Craig, a worthy citizen of Gaston county, died at South Point on the 20th in stant. ? Warren Kirkpatrick, charged with burning the barn of A. G. Raid, of Mecklenburg county, has been acquitted. ? The engineers of the Fayetteville and Florence railroad arc rapidly surveying and locating the line of the proposed road. ? The Hickory Press says that Messrs. Ellis & Shuford will soon erect a cotton factory on the Catawba river near that town. ? Hob. Daniel W. Yoorhees, of Indiana, has accepted the invitation to deliver the annual address before the State Agricultural Society at the approaching Fair. ? The interest on the State debt, including that on special tax bonds, will, on the 1st of October next, the close of the fiscal year, amount to the enormous sum of $8,038,904.15. ? A farmer in Halifax countyhas one thousand acres of low land in clover. An acre will yield a ton, which is worth $30. After a good stand of clover is obtained, it requires but little or no labor. ? A white man, named Penuer, killed a negro at Oliver's, in Gaston county, on Friday of last week. Penner attempted to escape, but was pursued and captured in Charlotte. ? The Fair of the Carolinas, to be held in Charlotte, will begin on the 25th of November and continue for five days. The Observer says great preparations are being made to have it the best and most attractive fair that has yet been held in Charlotte. ? The musical genius of Jackson Massey, a blind boy of Gaston county, is attracting considerable attention. He is only ten years of age, and the skill with which he performs on the piano is said to be remarkable. From the Observer we learn that he gave two successful concerts in Charlotte last week. ? The annual meeting of the stockholders of the North-Western North Carolina Railroad Company was held in Greensboro on the 24th. The road is completed to Salem. Col. A. S. Buford was elected President, and was authorized to take immediate steps to extend the road through the Yadkin valley to Tennessee. ? The Milton Chronicle says a threshing machine belonging to Sidney Lea, of Caswell county, exploded on Saturday last, while running at a rapid rate, and knocked down eight men, two of whom were wounded, it is thought, mortally. The teeth of the cylinder were sent through the roof of the barn with great violence. ? One uight last week a drunken negro named Lamb was committed to the Robeson county jail in Lumberton, for disorderly conduct on the streets, and next morning was found dead. Upon the examination of the other prisoners, it was ascertained that Lamb was murdered by his room-mate, a white man named Baxter. No cause is assigned for the deed. ? On Saturday of last week, while John Ewing and his son John, who were engaged in digging a well near Charlotte, were preparing to make a blast at a depth of 38 feet below the surface, a premature explosion took place, hurling the men, with thousands of fragments of rock, from the bottom of the well into the air above. Both men were seriously injured. ? Speaking of the survey of the proposed Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge railroad, the Hickory I'ress says: "The distance from Yorkville to Lenoir by dirt road is 821 miles. The first line surveyed by Col. Gardner for the narrow gauge road makes the distance 82 mi I ps?sitvimr J mile. The line now beine i surveyed will shorten the distance three or : four miles or more. We understand Colonel Gardner says that for several miles between , the Catawba river and Lenoir the cross ties ? can be laid without any grading. I)r. Dave* ! ga estimates the cost of buildiug and equipping the road at 87000 per mile. The pros; pects of this road grow brighter every day. i There i3 manifestly a change of sentiment in i its favor." NEWS OF THE DAY. ? Au inceudiary fire in Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday morning, destroyed property to the amount of 8150,000. ? It may be interesting to know that a cloth, saturated with chloroform, applied to the wound, is a sure cure for snake bite. ? Dispatches from central and eastern Texas give favorable accounts of the growing crops. In Mississippi and Louisiana the crop is reported as doing well. From Arkansas the reports are also encouraging. ? A gang of disguised robbers threw a train off the track of the Chicago and Rock Islaud Pacific railroad on the night of the 21st, near Adair, and robbed the express safe. The AwmlnAAw Kn f ?*o I n tiro a 1* i 11 nA Ui wue ii urn nuo i\ai<wv?* ? The value of flour and wheat shipments from California to the eastern States and foreign ports for the year ending June 20th, was $19,250,000. The value at the end ol the wheat crop last year was $25,000,000. ? A. T. Stewart, the New York dry goods merchant, is on a visit to Europe. Before leaving, he made his will. The value of his real estate alone foots up to the extraordinary sura of one hundred millions. ? The Postmaster General has awarded the contract for a mail between Charleston and Havana, via Key West. The contractors will establish a line of steamers between these points. ? Late advices from Massachusetts represent that the anti-Butler portion of the Republican party is formidable, and his prospects of either receiving the nomination or being elected are growing weaker. ? The New York World says : "Henry A. Wise, who hung John Brown, has written another letter declaring himself a Republican aud endorsing Grant." And the man under whom Wirz was a subordinate is an appointee of Grant. So we go. ? A farmer living near Mount Vernon, Kentucky, attempted to wreck a train on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad last Saturday, giving as his reason therefor that sparks from the engine had burned his fence. He was arrested and put in jail. ? The New Orleans Picayune, which, at the beginning of the movement, favored the unification scheme, now pronounces it a failure, ascribing the failure to the universal allegiance of the colored people to the Republican party. The opposition to the present State government is more demoralized and weaker than ever before. ? At a farmers' meeting in Kansas, the other day, the following preamble and resolution were adopted in reference to the Congressional "back pay grab "Whereas, D. P. Lowe, our Congressman, supported the bill; Resolved, That we demand that he resign his seat in Congress, and that his place be filled by an honest man instead of a thief." ? On Monday morning last, an engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad losing control of his engine on a down-grade, forty-five miles west of Cumberland, his train dashed away at a speed of forty miles an hour. It struck a freight train and demolished twenty cars loaded with cotton, corn and tobacco, scattering the coutents of the cars all over the track. The engineer and two passengers were killed, and several others were seriously wpunded. ? It is a remarkable fact that while outside of the United States there are about sixty thousand miles of railroad in the entire world, there are in the United States alone nearly seventy thousand miles. If anything could illustrate the magnificent extent of the American Republic and the vast strides it is making toward a complete development of its domain, this fact would seem to do it. The earnings of the railroads in five States alone, were last year $260,000,000. ? The speculation in cotton in New York has had the undesirable effect of bringing that article in considerable quantities back from England to enable speculators to meet their engagements. The steamship City of Chester, of the Inman line, that arrived at New York on Sunday last, brought some 350 bales American cotton from Liverpool. It is understood that the cotton was imported for some party in the "short interest," and is to be delivered on July contracts. About 1,500 bales, in addition to the above, are about leaving England for New York. Tiie Chester and Lenoir Railroad.? A. H. Davega, Esq., President of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, reached home on Tuesday morning, aud brings with him the most cheering accounts of the prospects of the enterprise over which he presides. The survey was completed to Lenoir more than ten days ago, and the corps has reached as far as Lincolnton in surveying another line back to Yorkville. As soon as this is concluded the final survey for the location of the road will begin. The route surveyed on the way to Lenoir is said to be not only entirely practicable, but a most eligible one for the construction of a railroad at very small cost. There are no heavy grades on the whole route, with the exception of the two last miles entering Lenoir, and these are not such as to occasion any serious difficulty; and it is said that there are a good many miles that will require no grading at all to prepare them for the track. The statement that the route surveyed ma^es the distance longer than it is by the wagon road, is pronounced by President Davega to be entirely erroneous. The distance from Yorkville to Lenoir is eighty miles both by the survey and by the dirt road. Catawba and Caldwell counties vote in August on the question of subscribing ?100,000 each, to the capital stock of the road. In Caldwell, the people are all of one mind on the question and the subscription i_. ?j- _i 4 .t ? ,j: win oc imiue uiiuusl wiuiuuu u uiggcui/mg vote. In Catawba there has been considerable opposition to the county subscription, but it has greatly abated of late, and there is very little doubt entertained of the proposition being favorably voted upon by the people.? Chester Reporter, 24th inst. Relative to Fruit Distilleries.?Commissioner Douglass has just issued a circular to collectors instructing them that, before fruit distillers of their respective districts commence operations for the season, they are requested to comply with instructions being forwarded. Among other things it is ordered that the I bond of each distiller must be approved on or | before the day of commencing work, and un! der no circumstances should any distiller be j allowed to commence before such approval. The true survey of each distillery must be made and delivered to the distiller on or be! fore the day of commencing operations. ! Where a distiller wishes to run on an old sur| vey, collectors will notify the commissioner of ; the fact, together with the date of such surj vey. In case of a change in the ownership of the distillery, when the distiller wishes to I continue operations under the capacity as surveyed before the change, the collector will forward to the internal revenue bureau his expense of the survey upon which the former owner operated said distillery. As soon as ? * % . 1 1 Ml /* the correct date can he ontainea, ne win ior| ward also notice showing the date of his apI proval of each distiller's bond in his district, together with a copy of survey registered on form 26 and notice on form 274. I They will instruct distillers to make their monthly reports on form 15 promptly and j with care, showing the time operated each day , correctly ; also the quantity and character of ! materials used, &c\ LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. T. M. Dobson <fe Co.?Bargains! Bargains!! Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient. John G. Steele, Executor?Application for Discharge. j B. D. Townsond, President and Superintendent? Cheraw and Darlington Railroad. A. F. McDonnell?Fair Warning. W. B. Gulick, Columbia, S. C.?New National , Rank. James L. Strain, Etta Jane, Union county, S. ('.? ! Phonographic Short-Hand. ! Win. Gorman, Proprietor?Columbia Hotel. PARDONS RECOMMENDED. By a late Washington despatch we learn i , that pardon has betn recommended in the | cases of Felix Dover, Stephen Spann and I William Scruggs, convicted of kukluxing. i i The first named is from this county; the others from Spartanburg. I SENT TO THE PENITENTIARY. On Monday morning last, the Sheriff of; i York county forwarded to the penitentiary, j Wes. Thomasson, negro, convicted of assault! and battery and sentenced for one year ; and I Perry Douglas, negro, convicted of larceny, and sentenced for three months. Pending the i consideration of a peti ion for the pardon of | George Welsh, convicted of manslaughter and I senteuced for two years, the State authorities have ordered the Sheriff to detain him in the jail at this place until further orders. PERSONAL. Dr. R. G. Redd, who has beeu acting as Post Surgeon with the troops at this place for something more than a year, has been relieved, and will proceed to Washington in a few days. The geutleraanly deportment and unassuming manners of Dr. Redd, have won for him many friends in our community, and we are pleased to learn that there is a probability of his permanently locating iu Yorkville and engaging iu the practice of his profession. Assistant Surgeon W. H. King, U. S. A., the successor of Dr. Redd, has already arrived at this post. THE CIRCUIT COURT. The recent special term of the Circuit Court adjourned on Friday evening last, after transacting a great deal of busines: and ridding the docket of many suits which had been pending for several years. Judge Mackey is prompt in the discharge of the duties of presiding officer of the Court, and as we have had occasion to remark heretofore, discharges his duties in a manner satisfactory to counsel and clients. At the time of closing our last report, the suit of F. M. Walker, surviving Administrator, vs. Mijamin R. Smith and others, brought on a note given for the purchase of a slave in - December, 1862, was progressing. The case was decided in favor of the defendants. Motion was made for a new trial, which was granted. Besides several cases disposed of on action in debt, the following are of more general interest: Reuben Dulin vs. L. Lineberger & Co., involving a claim for cotton sold defendants. .Quit nao KrAiirrtif tn rfionwpr the value of eicrhf. JUI K H ug Uivuguv WV t VVVf V* VMW * M?uv V* bales at 31 cents per pouud. The verdict of the jury was for but 17 cents, the price at the time payment was tendered. F. M. Galbraith vs. Stowe & Martin. For hire of slave in 1865. Judgment for plaintiff for the sum of 8115 and interest from January 1st, 1866. Perry & Co., of Albany, N. Y., vs. J. W. Neal. Suit for claim of 8172. Judgment for 88.55. Lieut F. F. Whitehead vs. Wra. Gorman, proprietor of Columbia Hotel. Suit brought to recover value of a valise and contents lost at the said hotel. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for 8141.50. Charlotte R. and B. J. Cureton, Executors, vs. A. E. Hutchison. Suit brought to recover the rental money for lease of the Howie or Stockton gold mine in Uuioii county, N. C. This was a long and tedious case, occupying near a day and a half in the hearing. Judgment in favor of plaintiffs for 84,481.64. The motion to grant a new trial to S. B. Hall, convicted for official misconduct, was overruled, and he was sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for twelve months and to pay a 6ne of one thousand dollars. Counsel for defendant gave notice of appeal to the Supreme Court. Up to the time of adjourument, Judge Mackey had not announced his decision in the railroad injunction case. RIOT AT FORT MILL. For several days rumors have been iu circulation to the effect that a party of negroes had been making threats and demonstrations of a serious character against the citizens of Fort Mill; but as the various reports were conflicting, we were unable last week to pro cure a correct version of the affair. The gang were committed to the county jail on Sunday evening last; and we learn that the difficulty originated on Saturday the 19th instant, in an attempt by the policeman of Fort Mill to arrest a negro named Chap. McKinna, who was drunk and disorderly. McKinna resisted the policeman and evaded arrest, but not without receiving several blows from the policeman's club. This so exasperated the negro that after leaving the village, he organized a band of ten comrades, who, armed with axes, picks and perhaps a few guns, returned to the vicinity of the town, and on Monday "went into camp," notifying the citizens and the authorities that they intended to have revenge for the treatment their leader, Chap. McKinna, had received on the Saturday previous. There being no acting trial justice in that township, application was made to C. J. Pride, trial justice at Rock Hill, for a warrant, which was granted and placed in the hands of a negro named Francis Davie, to serve. The negro constable was accompanied by M. I L. Owens, one of the members of the Legislature from this county, and in due course of time they returned from their mission with the statement that they had seen the negroes, who had dispersed, promising to create no further disturbance. This course proving unsatisfactory to the citizens of Fort Mill, and, as we understand, the threats being continued, on Thursday last the fucts were communica- j ted to Sheriff Glenn and also to Justice Pride,! | who was in this place attending Court. Judge j Afonlrmr liti/J alon loomed nf tVlP ftflfrtir. flnd he j A?i.uvavj IKIVI WlOV AVMtuwwt v? ...w j directed the trial justice to return at once j , and command his constable to make the ar-1 J rests as ordered in the warrant; to bring the I offenders up for trial; and if, after iuvestiga! tion, the magistrate should deem the offense : j of a nature to justify further proceedings, to j j bind the guilty parties over to Court. Ac I cordingly, the arrests were again ordered to , be made, and on Saturday last the case was fully investigated by trial justice Pride, who bound the rioters over to Court, aud in dei # ' j fault of bail, as above stated, they were committed to the jail in this place on Sunday last. The names of the offenders are Chap.! j McKinna, Luu McKinna, Jim Crockett, Anthony Springs, Lewis Webb, Isaac Robinson, j Eli Roddy, Allison Faulkner, Chas. Watson, I Hiram Roddy and Jack Hutchinson. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Fire in Baltimore. A little after 10 o'clock on Friday last, a disastrous fire broke out in the planing mill of Joseph Thomas & Co., on the south-side of Clay street, between Liberty and Park streets, and raged with great fury until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, before it was possible to check or get under control the devouring flames. Eight blocks of fine buildings were burned. The loss is estimated at 8800,000. Notwithstanding the intensity of the flames and the natural excitement incident thereto, no panic prevailed, and it is not believed a single life was lost. The insurance agents estimate their loss at from 8500,000 to 8600,000 which they claim will not affect the solvency of any companies having risks in the burnt district. mi. - ir? VI -n il. me mi-mu.Y i rusecntiuus. A Washington dispatch of the 24th conveys the following information as to the kuklux prosecutions now pending in this State, and the chances for pardon of those who have been convicted and sentenced: A delegation of prominent officials from South Carolina, consisting of Hon. W. D. Porter, Gen. J. B. Kershaw, R. M. Sims and S. A. Durham, accompanied by Assistant Secretary Sawyer, of the Treasury, waited upon Attorney-General Williams, requesting that all proceedings in that State with reference to the outrages of the ku-klux klan besuspended, and urging the pardons of those already confined in the Albany penitentiary. They represent that as an organization the klan has ceased to exist iu the State: and that a len ient policy on the part of the Government will tend to restore peace and order. Attorney-General Williams informed them that it was the policy of the Government to prosecute only aggravated eases?orders having already been given to that effect; and that as soon as the President was fully satisfied that peaceable citizens would be protected in their property and life, a general suspension of the prosecutions would be desirable. lie also informed the delegation that many kuklux prisoners had been pardoned, and pardons would be issued to the others ; the most aggravated cases being detained until the last. The delegation was much pleased with the encouragement given by the Attorney-General. The delegation will visit Long Branch, and have an interview with President Grant. The delegation, after reachiugLong Branch, had an interview with the President, who said he was in favor of pursuing a very liberal policy towards all convicts, except those guilty of violent crimes; and those charged and probably gnilty of similar crimes. It is understood the President will address a letter of instructions immediately to Attorney-General Williams in pursuance of this understanding. The Statesville Railroad War. A decidedly new phase was given the controversy pending between the old and the newly-elected board of directors of the States Mi- __ * T j r?i -d~:i Vine, ur AimuLiu, iciiucsaec turn uuiu J.vanroad, on Tuesday of last week, by the new President taking possession of the road in a somewhat novel manner. The Charlotte Observer of Wednesday gives the following particulars : A meeting of the McDowell Board was held in this city on Monday. At that meeting Col. S. A. Sharpe of Statesville and Capt. S. B. Alexander of Charlotte, two of the Directors, were authorized to ask for possession of the road, and if they were refused, to take possession of it. Col. Johnston was not in the city, and Capt. Alexander made application to Mr. J. J. Gormley, the Superintendent, for the road. Mr. Gormley stated that he had no right to turn over the road, as he had received express instructions from Col. Johnston to hold on to it. The train left for Statesville that afternoon just as usual. Col. Sharpe was on board, as were also an extra conductor and an engineer. Yesterday morning when Mr. J. A. C. Gruber, the regular eugineer, went to his engine, preparatory to running out, he found a strange man in the cab. When Capt Hand, the regular conductor came, he found his occupation gone, and a man there ready to take his place. Col. Sharpe soon arrived, and asked for possession of the train. Capt. Hand surrendered it very gracefully, under protest, however. Col. Sharpe then told Mr. Gruber that he had an engineer there to take charge of the engine, but if he (Gruber) recoguized the authority of "the powers that be," he could continue in his present position. Mr. Gruber "recognized," and ran the engine into Charlotte as usual. Tkn nf a lotor /Ia fo cava A UW V/VOWJ VW VI U ll?Wi VIMMV UM^U "Mr. McDowell is now in full possession of the road and having it run under his direction. The new administration do not propose making any changes in the general operations of the rcaa. In a conversation with us on yesterday, Mr. McDowell alluded to a rumor which has gained some currency, that he is under the influence of the Southern Security Company, and that through the influence of that company he was elected to the presidency of the road. He stigmatized the report as false in every particular, and authorized us to say for him that he is not governed in his actions or feelings by any man or combination of men, and that any report to that effect is without foundation in fact. He says he proposes to manage the road in the interest of the stockholders?those who built it, and for the good of Statesville and Charlotte, Iredell and Mecklenburg, aud not in the interest of any individual, ring or combination. Mr. McDowell's simple word is an ample guarantee of good faith among gentlemen to whom he is known." The Crop Prospect. On our first page, this week, we present a complete summary of the condition of the cotton crop throughout the Cotton States, which purports to have been made up from reliable and trustworthy sources. The following information, collated from different sources of later date, shows the general condition of the grain and cotton crops in this State, Flor- j ida, Georgia and Alabama : Latest reports from Florida state that the crops are generally two weeks behind last season. Three weeks ago the heavy rains throughout the State caused much grass, but the planters were overcoming it, when the rain began again last week, doing great damage. The caterpillars have made their appearance throughout middle and west Florida, but have as yet done little harm. The next two weeks will determine the extent of the injury from this source. Experiments made with Paris green as a caterpillar destroyer, have proved highly successful. The corn crop is reported good in Alabama. Cotton is looking much better than four or five weeks ago, and if storms do not interfere ! the crop in the State will be larger than last j year. The worms have made their appear-; ance much earlier than usual, and are reported ! on every plantation. They have done little j damage, and the mischief, if any, will come from the third crop worms, which are expect-; ed three weeks hence. Cotton is three weeks later than last year, and the indications are, all things considered, that the yield will not be so great. The corn crop is bad on low lands in consequence of early heavy rains, which drowned the grains. Uplands will produce an average crop in Georgia. Cotton reports are conflicting for southwestern Georgia. They indicate, though, a good crop. The weed is small but healthy and well iruiiea. me crop is uuuui us euny in this section as last year. Middle and eastern Georgia crops are a good deal later, but much better than some time since, and au average yield may be expected. Parts of eastern Georgia have suffered severely from drought, but no general damage is sustained. For the past few days heavy rains have been general throughout the State, and still seem to prevail, which may improve the crops. Though it is now impossible to ascertain to , what extent the caterpillar has existed, about an average crop will be secured, and no serious damage is expected from this quarter. The corn crop is generally reported tine, and the other cereals have turned out well. A good deal of cotton has been abandoned on account of the grass. But few reports come from South Carolina, i The heavy aud continuous rains in the early summer have caused an abandonment of cotton on some lands, though not to anv consid erable extent. The crops are backward here, as in Alabama, but later accounts are more encouraging, and an average crop will perhaps ! be made. Corrmpondeiice of the New* and Courier. ! TREASURER CARDOZO INTERVIEWED. Columbia, July 22. Treasurer Cardozo and Comptroller Hoge returned from New York on Saturday last. As there have been various speculations in' dulged in as to the object of their visit, and a pretty general suspiciou that it was connected ' in some way with the movement of the bondholders to force the payment of the interest upon their bonds, through the Supreme Court, I concluded yesterday afternoon that it might be well worth my while to call upon the treasurer and see what he had to say upon the subject of his trip to New York, and also to get his side of the question as to the exhaustion of the funds in the treasury, about which there have been very grave complaints. With this object in view, I betook me to the Statehouse, and, when there, sought the office of the treasurer. Fortunately I found Mr. Cardozo in. and disencairfid. and. fitatincr to him , 0"0 '? ? ?? o w"' that I desired to see hini alone for a short while, he very politely invited me into his private office, the sanctum sanctorum of the treasury, which is in rear of the room where the books and records are kept, and where the ordinary business of the office is transacted. WHY THE TREASURER. WENT TO NEW YORK. Mr. Cardozo, I said, after taking a chair, I have called to "interview" you a little if you have no objections, upon some matters of public interest Cardozo. Well, sir, I amatyourservice. I am glad of every opportunity to give the people of the State information as to the transactions of my office, in which I know they very naturally feel a very grave interest, and for which, accofdingl}', I feel a very grave responsibility. Correspondent In the first place I would be glad to know if your recent visit to New York was upon business connected with your office, and if so, what business? You are aware I presume that your departure to New York has been the cause of some comment, such as that you are connected with the speculation in the bonds, &c. Cardozo. Yes, I have noticed such a report in some of the letters to the News and Courier from this place. But there is no truth in it. I have nothing whatever to do with any speculation in State securities, aud my recent trip to New York was purely on account of my own private affairs. I had some private matters to look after, principally in Washington, and after I had finished that I ran on and spent a few days in New York. NO MARKET FOR 8TATE BONDS. Correspondent. Is there anything doing in our State bonds in New York? Cardozo. Nothing whatever, as far as I could learn. The State's credit is entirely gone, and the bonds are as flat as they can be. As you remarked in one of your recent letters it would be a fool's errand for myself or any one else to go to New York to raise money on account of the State. I do not think there are any sales of our bonds at all. No one comes to buy them even at the low figures at which they are quoted, and the holders are simply keeping them in the hope that something may turn up by which they may be able to realize something for them. NO CONNECTION WITH KIMPTON. Correspondent. What is Kimpton doing as financial agent of the State ? Have you any dealings with him ? Cardozo. There has been no busiuess done between Mr. Kimpton and myself. I have neither paid him nor received from him any money at all; and so far as my administration is concerned, he has had nothing to do with the finances of the State. He has no bonds of the State, or at least claims to have none. ANOTHER BIG STEAL. Correspondent What has he done with the bonds purchased on account of the jinking fund, the agricultural college scrip, and the six hundred thousand dollars of the bonds of the Blue Ridge Railroad, which he held for the State ? Cardozo. My information is that every one of them was hypothecated for loans made in Parker's term, and the whole of the one hundred and ninety-one thousand dollars in the hnmls nf the StAtc. in which the ucrieultural w ^ ? ? o ? land scrip, or rather the proceeds from the sale of it, was invested, together with the two hundred thousand dollars of bonds purchased with the proceeds of the sales of the assets of the State by the sinking fund commission are a total loss to the Stnte, unless the officials who illegally disposed of them can be held personally responsible. THE BOGUS CONVERSION BONDS. Correspondent. You say there is nothing doing iu our State bonds in New York. Can you explain to me how it is that there is such disparity between the value of the January and July and the April and October bonds? I notice in the New York papers that the January and July bonds are quoted at 15, and the April and October bonds at 22 and 23. Cardozo. I have been struck with this seemingly unreasonable disparity myself, and I cannot account for it except upon the supposition that by January and July bonds are really meant the conversion bonds. All of the latter have interest payable in January and July. But all January and July bonds are not conversion bonds; for there are, I know, the first $200,000 of land commission bonds, the bonds issued for funding the bills of the Bank of the State, and perhaps some others of the new bonds, the interest of which is also payable in January and July. Correspondent. Speaking of these conversion bonds, what do you think of the suit of the taxpayers to have them declared void and cancelled ? Cardozo. As to whether the effort to relieve the State of thtm will succeed or not, of course I cannot presume to say. But I certainly hope that it will succeed, and shall watch the progress of the suit with great interest, and gladly give what aid I can to its successful prosecution. You kuow, said the treasurer, blandly smiling, that I consider myself to be to a great extent the originator of the suit If you examine the complaint of the taxpayers you will observe that it is founded almost entirely upon the facts brought first to public notice by myselt in a letter published by me last year, in which, I think, I showed very conclusively that at least six million dollars of the conversion bonds were issued without authority of law. TIIE WAY THE MONEY GOES. Correspondent. Well, Mr. Cardozo, there is another matter about which I would be glad to have some explanation from you. There has been a great deal of grumbling because of a want of money in the treasury. Can you tell me why it is that you have no money to defray the current expenses of the government ? Cardozo. I shall be exceedingly glad to talk with you upon the subject and to have you publish what I say. I know there have been a great many complaints, and a great many misrepresentations too, made about my i failure to pay claims presented here. When : you came in I was engaged in collecting data for the very purpose of publishing a letter in some of the papers explaining why it is that our funds are exhausted. If you will publish ! what I say it will save me the trouble of writing a letter myself, and I will feel very much j obliged to you. I am anxious, and shall alI ways be, to lay before the people every trans