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Scraps and Jacts. Kemper Karapaign Klubs are being established in Virginia. An exchange suggests as a remedy for ' rust in cotton, to plant in a dry place and sand-paper it occasionally. At a recent masquerade at Saratoga, ] .Tnhn Pnr?hrftn nf Snnth Pftrnlina wnrp ft costume made entirely of Confederate money. I Because a man worth $60,000 took a j fancy to and married a barefooted Indiana ; girl, the rest of the Hoosier maidens prowl I around the country with mud slushing up between their toes, looking for well-dressfed strangers. The coal fields of Tennessee occupy no less than 3,840,000 acres, being 300,000 in excess of the united coal fields of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Some of the strata are known to be one hundred feet in thickness. "Who dares to spit tobacco juice on this car floor ?" savagely asked a burly passenger on the Mobile train. "I dare," quietly replied a slender youth, and he did it. "You are the chap I'm looking for," said the ruffian; "give me a chaw." A bachelor says that if you hand a lady a newspaper with paragraphs cut out of it, not a line will be read ; but every bit of interest felt in the paper by the lady will centre in finding out what the missing paragraphs contained. The Mobile Register is advised of the very successful application of arsenic as a sub- ; stitute of Paris green, in the destruction of cotton worms?the proportions in which it is used being one pound of arsenic to forty gal- ' Ions of water, well sprinkled over the plant "Yes, take her and welcome," responded an Ilinois farmer when a young man asked for his blushing daughter. "She's run away with a schoolmaster, eloped with a showman, shot a wildcat and whipped her mother, and the sooner you take her the better." A young man who was married lately in Cumberland, Md., first aggravated the officiating minister by presenting him with a a marriage fee of eighty-five cents, and then capped the climax by returning, after he had walked away a few steps, and borrowing seventy;five cents of that, on the ground that he was "a little short just then"?leaving the the clergyman ten cents for his fee. The Shah of Persia, according to the following story, has the true Oriental preference for fat women. Being shown some very ( adipose cows at the Home Farm at Windsor, 1 he asked how they were fed. Being told that I they were brought into this plump condition < by a diet of oil cake, his interest was at once j excited, and he said to his interpreter, "Ask if the oil cake is good for wives." Rowel's new American Newspaper Directory reports the existence of 400 religious \ journals in the United States. Forty-seven i of these are under the control of the Metho- l dists, the largest number in the hands of any j single denomination. The Roman Catho- ( lies have forty-one; the Baptists thirty-five ; < the Presbyterians twenty-one; the Lutherans and Reformed Germans fourteen each; the ] .Tews nine, and the Congregationalists eight, l Should a subscriber to a newspaper or ? u?U/\ hoa noi/4 Ann troor'o nnofonro } ?l iJCHUUltai) n uu iiao paiu uijv> jwai o in advance, remove within the delivery of t another place before the expiration of a year, i the posmaster should give him a receipt; the , party should then notify the publisher to send his paper to the new office where, upon presentation of the receipt, the postmaster must deliver the publication free for the re- , raainder of the term paid for. , An old farmer at Harrisburg, Pa., has , a wagon piled with lumber standing in his " shed which has stood in the same position for ^ sixty-one years. He was engaged to he mar- 1 ried and was building a home for his bride, 1 but, on his return from an expedition to buy ] lumber, found a rival had married his lady , love. He thereon made a vow that his wagon, j laden as it was with lumber, should stand just as it was for all time. The Democratic candidate for Govern- ' or of Ohio has been popularly known for the J last twenty-five years as Roaring Bill Allen. * In 1848 a great Democratic meeting was held i in Clarke County in a railroad station. The j Whigs got an engineer to run his locomotive , into one end of the station and open the whis- < tie. In this manner the voices of several orators were drowned in succession. Mr. Al- , len was then brought forward, and his voice ' was so powerful that it was heard by the mul- < titude over the whistling, although a second ( locomotive was brought in and added its pow- ( ers to the hideous clamor. . ( The Journal of Applied Chemistry says ( that the number of cans of peaches packed ( last year approximated about twelve millions, , tomatoes eighteen millions, and corn from six to eight millions. The headquarters of I peach-canning are in Maryland and Delaware, 1 more than half of the peach-packing firms i t hailing from Baltimore alone. Large quan-j \ - n . _ 1 a ... .1 a|__ a? i i tines or oysters are aiso pui up aiong tne \^nes-1 i apeake. Tomatoes come chiefly from New i j Jersey, although many are packed in Balti-1 more, New York and the Eastern States, j1 The best corn comes from Maiue, where also j( are situated the largest lobster establishments. : 1 Not in the memory of the oldest inhab- ! ? itant has there been such a rain storm, extend-! J iug over so vast an area, and of such long I ] continuance and severity, as that which has \ iiist visited the country from New York to ; j Baltimore, submerging railways, destroying property, deluging the whole land, and in- j! terrupting mail communication, trade and ^ travel. Baltimore seems to have been a seri- 1 ous sufferer from this "rising of the waters," and the papers are filled with accounts of its destructive effects in that city. All along the j coast, from New England down, reports represent the storm to have been the severest experienced for years, and bad news from sea is fearfully expected. A curious accideut occurred during a recent thunder storm at Oil City, Pa. The j lightning struck an oil tank, capable of hold- j ing 10,000 barrels of oil, but containing j about 3,000 at the time of the occurrence. I The bolt struck the top of the tank at the j edge, and run completely around the periphe- ! ry of the top, cutting off the head of every | bolt that fastened the top to the side. The | top was raised about two feet by the concus-: sion, and the oil took fire, sending the im mense body of flame high in the air. In an instant the top fell back to its position, instantly smothering the fire inside. The oil burned off the outside of the tank, and no further damage was done. The cover was not two inches out of its original position after its fall. An extremely aged colored person, who was twenty-five years of age when the revolutionary war began, is living near Milan, (iibson County, Tennessee, in a condition of good health which is truly remarKabie. lhis old negro, Fortune Snow by name, is said by 1 Dr. A. A. Davidson, of Mayfield, Kentucky, < who went to see him in June of last year, to ! s be nearly 124 years old. He was born in South Carolina, aud was owned by a Captain Snow, who fought, accompanied by Fortune, under General Francis Marion, in 1 the war of the revolution. He has had < thirteen children, the oldest of whom were he I living, would be over 100 years old, and the ' < youngest of whom is fifty-three. He also \ lias a grand-son who is sixty-five years old. | Old Snow reads his Bible without glasses, j and hunts and shoots squirrels and birds; ' hears well, and declares that he was neversick ' in his life, and never took a dose of medicine. 11 Many persons go to see him, and with all [ visitors he talks fluently and sensibly. In | height, he is about five feet six inches ; in : ( weight, about 115 pounds, and he isundoubt- j edly the oldest man on the continent. The New York Evening Post sees danger in the use of Paris green by planters on a large scale. It says : "There is nothing new j in the use of poison wherewith to destroy in-1 sects, but it is used generally with great cau-' tion and very sparingly. Never before, that, we know of, have Paris green and arsenic been scattered by the pound over whole fields, hundreds of acres at a time ; but such, it is ; confidently asserted, is the means of exterrai-! nating the cotton worm and caterpillar, to i which the planters are resorting with great success, xhe method of application is to sprinkle flour, with which the poison is mixed, tied up in a bag, over the growing plants, j Of course it kills the worm, and so wide-spread I an application inevitably suggests whether it' may not kill a great deal besides of animated j nature?of beasts, perhaps of men. On this point we have no information, but we hear that so great was the demand for the poisons, that Paris green has risen in price in this city, within a few weeks, from twenty-five to twenty-eight cents a pound to forty to forty-five cents, and that arsenic, which was worth a few dayssince three and a half cents, is- now selling at from six to seven cents. The in 3reased cleraana comes irora tne cotton pmuiatious." YoRKVILLE, S. C.: rHURSDAY MORNINgTAUG. 28, 1S73. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name >f the subscriber very plainly, give post-oflice, tounty and Stato in full, and semi the amount of he subscription by draft or post-oflice money >rder, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The postage on tlie Enquirer, to iny part of the United States, is five cents per juarter, or twenty cents per year, and is payable n advance at tho post oflice where the paper is revived. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addressabel" shows the time to which the subscription is )aid. If subscribers do not wish their papors dissontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that >ur terms for subscription, advertising and jobvork, are cash, in advance JOB PRINTING. Haviug determined to devote more atten;ion hereafter to job printing than we have lone in the past, we would inform the public -hat our office is no.v well supplied with new ;ype of the latest styles, and the best majhinery iu use; aud with a choice stock of nks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to execute as good work as can be done anyvhere in the United States. Orders for Ball Tickets, I Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, Labels, Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks, Bill Heads, Law Briefs, Business Cards, Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, ' Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, 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, yill receive prompt attention, and satisfaction is to quality of work, guaranteed in every nstance. Particular attention given to fine ,vork in colors. THE TIDE OF IMMIGRATION. America is like a great gulf or ocean, into which the population of the whole civilized world is constantly pouring. One hundred fears ago the inhabitants of this country regarded England as the mother country. This .vas the case with respect to the majority of -he people at that time. It is not true to-day. Every nation of any note is represented in America. Annually, thousandsemigratefrom ;he different nations or Europe to tne nortnern *nd northwestern sections of the new world. A.t present, as it was when the Scotch, Irish, English and French first settled iu South Carolina, all seem to agree and harmonize vith the utmost facility. What will be the 5nal result of this commingling of different nationalities, no one can certainly predict. There are some consequences which we may ,vith some degree of certainty expect. If here is any thing in the manners and customs )f the people of this country which may be called American, this will eventually be changed. When the thirteen colonies were >rganized, the prevailing type of American civilization was English, and the language of camp and court was English. The English 'eature of the manners and customs of the neople of America has been so blended with he manners and customs of other nations, hat there is now, perhaps, as much difference netween the manners and customs of the \merican people and the English, as there is netween the English and French. The original type has been obscured by a multitude of >thers. The effect of so many different diaectsupon the English language has been very jreat. This any one can discover by comnaring American periodicals with those of England. The letters and words are the same, nut the dialect is uot. The change in our iterature in the future will be more rapid and nore thorough than it has been in the past, [n some of our large cities, individuals may ive for years and not be able to speak one ,vord of English, and yet experience no great nconvenience. The same is true of some seciions of the country. The settlers speak their vernacular tongue and they teach it to their children. nrL.i_.Tii i? a.. ..n: i ........ .i,? >> ntu Will OC LUC UllllllULC CIIWI upun I/I1C English by bringing so many languages and lialects into close and continual contact with t, no one can tell. We may safely say it will :>e very great. It is more than probable that n the course of a few decades, there will be sections of country in America that will not. jse the English language at all. America, n the course of a comparatively short time, may present, so far as its language is concernid, such a spectacle as is presented by some portious of continental Europe, each province using a language in many features peculiar to itself. Iu fact, it is not improbable that should things go on as they have commenced, that new dialect may be formed in America taking the English as a base. This was the case in the Roman Empire, which may be regarded as the prototype of American institutions. All the different dialects of con:inental Europe are either, directly or indirectly, in part or in whole, derived" from the ild Latin language. It is not impossible that something similar may take place in America. This may seem a visionary notion, but we think different. All the impediments to immigration have been removed by the abolition | if African slavery, and the probability is that, the tide will be increased. The next ten years ivill increase the population of America more 1 than any previous ten, and the increase will continue until the vast and unmeasured terri-' tories of the United States are settled. These territories cannot be populated by American | born citizens in the next two hundred years, j We may safely conclude that they will be thickly settled in less time than that. The only way will be by immigrants. It is more ' than probable that in less than fifty years, if peace continues on the American continent, a very large number of the inhabitants of Asia will cross'the Pacific and take up their permanent abode in our country. It is scarcely possible that these, and all the immigrants from Europe, will throw away their mother tongue and adopt the English ; and even if they do this, it is impossible that they should ever be able either to speak or write pure Addison English. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Spartanburg has been placed in telegraphic communication with Charlotte. ? The picking of cotton has beeu commenced in Fairfield county. ? A colored debating society has been organized in the towu of Bratichville. i,% j ? Rev. Thomas Sinyth, D. D., died in Char-1 leston on Wednesday of last week. ? The Governor has removed from office Trial-Justice Charles iNlcUukin, of Union county. ? F. H. Elmore, Esq., aged about thirtyseven years, died in Columbia on Saturday last, from diptheria. ? Governor Perry had his arm dislocated recently while endeavering to control a fiery horse. ? It is stated that every township in Chester county has levied an extra tax for school purposes. ? A man seventy-two years old married a young girl of sixteen, at Branchville, a few days ago. ? Arrangments are nearly completed for the establishment, in Winusboro, of a first class seminary for young ladies. ? Governor Moses has presented pulpit and altar furniture to Spann's Church, in Edgefield county. ? Thos. Cauthen, of Lancaster, was robbed of $110 in Charlotte, on Tuesday night of last week. ? The Governor has removed Trial Justice Owens of Laurens, for "conduct unbecoming an officer." ? Ex-United States Marshal Louis E. Johnson, was carried to Charleston on the 18th, by officer Hicks, acting as agent of his sureties. ? A regularly organized band of outlaws and highway robbers are operating in the lower part of Richland county. ? On last Thursday, at Columbia, $25,000 of Blue Ridge scrip was sold for four hundred and fifty dollars. ? On Monday the last rail was laid on the Air-Line Railroad, near Seneca river, Pickens county, and the road is now complete from Atlanta to Charlotte. ? A lady in Orangeburg has raised a cotton stalk measuring six feet and sevfen inches in height, and having two hundred and thirtyfive bolls. ? A public sale of town lots at Seneca City, on the Air-Line Railroad, took place last week. The prices raged from thirty dollars to two hundred dollars. ? A bale of new cotton, classed as middling, which was raised in Edgefield county, was sold in Augusta, on Thursday last at 17-1 cents. ? Nearly all the county auditors have made their returns to the comptroller-general, and most of them report a considerable increase in the returns of taxable property. ? Jonathan N. McElwee, of York county, was in Lancaster last week, and proposes to furnish the Ledger with a communication on the subject of railroads. ? Laurens county has voted $400,000 to the Laurens and Asheville Railroad, and now a public meeting is called "to authorize proceedings in court to set aside aud perpetually enjoin the subscription." ? The Lancaster Ledger of last week says that the whole line of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad has been permanently located, and that the engineer will, in a short time, complete his estimates of the cost of the grading and the building of bridges. ? The Phoenix says: "A gentleman just from New York, states that he saw a contract, made with Nowell & Sorell, of that city, to furnish fancy glass paperweights for the members of the General Assembly, containing their monograms, and to cost the nice little sum of eight dollars each." ? Greenville county refused to aid the Laurens and Asheville Railroad, by issuing county bonds, by a vote of about 270. Greenville city voted in favor by about 300 majority. Over $70,000 however, were raised in one day in the city by private subscription for the purpose of furthering the enterprise. ? From a dispatch received in Augusta on Saturday, the Chronicle and Sentinel learns that the Graniteville operatives held a meeting, Friday, and passed a resolution deciding to resume work on the four weeks plan of payment. Mr. H. H. Hickman, the president of the company, agreed to this, and the strike is, therefore, ended. The operatives, in future, will be paid every four weeks, in place of every two weeks, as has heretofore been the custom. ? Mr. Thomas Wells, the bridge keeper at Cheraw, was brutally murdered on Tuesday of last week. A correspondent of the Charleston Neios, says: "Some person passed the house in which Wells lived at 12 o'clock, on the day of the murder, and spoke to him. At 2 o'clock, he was found dead. The body was lying on the floor in a pool of blood, the skull literally crushed to atoms. The pockets of the dead man were rifled, which would seem to iudicate that he had been murdered and then robbed. No arrest3 have been made." ? The Chester Reporter of last week, mentions the following deaths in that county: On Monday, 18th instant, Miss Betsy Mor row, daughter or uavia Morrow, deceased ; on the sarae day, Hugh Omelveney, aged eighty-one years; on the 19th instant, Minnie, a daughter of S. J. Murphy, aged three years; near Landsford, on the 15th instant, a daughter of W. L. Edwards, aged about three years; at Lowrysville, on the 18th instant, Lowry Neely, aged nearly two years ; at Roddytown, on the 15th, Gregg Cherry, Sr., aged about eighty years. ? The Columbia correspondent of the Charleston Neivs, writing under date of the 18th instant, says: "In the Supreme Court, to-day, a decision was filed in the cases of the State vs. the South Carolina Railroad, the Northeastern Railroad, Chapeau <fc HefFron and others, all of which arose under the State license law, and were argued on appeal from the Charleston Circuit at the last term of the Supreme Court. The court grants the motion in arrest of judgment, but, as I am informed, the decision does not touch upon the validity of the license act further than to pronounce that provision of it unconstitutional which taxes railroads according to their limrrf.h." ' ? o? ? The Edgefield Advertiser says: "In passing through Graniteville on our Augusta ! jaunt, we discovered that the strike was still j obstinately kept up, neither party showing j any si^g of yielding. Saw many operatives' enjoying their forced vacation very merrily. We fear it will prove an unhappy one to them in the long run. The strikers hold meetings twice a day, at which, thus far, they fortify themselves in demanding fortnightly payment. In the meantime all parties, the ! operatives, the merchants, the company, the whole community, are sustaining ruinous loss- j es. The machinery of the factory is said to be rusting fearfully. This strike has lasted ! since the 9th instant. Such a state of things ! has been almost unheard of in the South. Of! the employes of the factory there are upwards of seven hundred. We fear this matter will prove calamitous to Graniteville." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Jim Dial, the alleged murderer of Floyd i Oxendine, of Robeson county, has evaded ar- ! "Aflf Ktifr Unn ovnwaoan/1 a rlnai rO f/\ Qll rron/lor : I toij UUl 1I(H tA|^l waotu a uvguw WU om? VMV?V* | himself to the authorities. ? J. Allen Ritchie, a noted horse-thief of Rowan county, and an escaped convict from j the State penitentiary, was tried last week at \ Salisbury for the crime of rape, and convicted. | ? A traveler signing himself Eugene Vau- j dorn, Texas, has been doing the hotel keep-! ers at Charlotte. He is pronounced a decided dead beat by the Charlotte papers. ? On Sunday afternoon of last week the! wheat stacks of Patrick Simpson, living in Rockingham county, were struck by lightning and his entire crop?some 200 bushels?consumed. ? The Newton Vindicator, of Monday, says "that .lie people of Caldwell will vote on the question of subscribing 8100,000 to the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, on the last Thursday in September, and that there is no doubt about the favorable result." ? Rowan county voted down the proposed subscription to the Yadkin and Cheraw Railroad. The vote stood 506 for, and 902 against. The Watchman is very severe on the county commissioners for the manner in which they submitted tne question. ? A Mr. Coffee, of Watauga county, was recently bitten by a rattlesnake, and cured by eating of a weed known as "snake master," which grows wild in the mountainous part of the State, and is an infallible remedy for snake bites. ? Excessive rains in the middle portion of the State have greatly damaged the growing corn crop. Many fine fields of bottom land in Davidson county were not merely overflowed by the rains of last week, but the tallest stalks were submerged, and the growth on thousands of acres completely hidden from view. ? The Vindicator says: "Dr. Davega spent a day in Newton last week. He has dismissed all doubts, if he ever had any, as to the success of the Narrow Gauge. The surveyors are now engaged in locating the road, and have arrived in the vicinity of Dallas with no cut or fill more than 11 feet. The Road is to be located, the Doctor informs us, through to Lenoir without delay." ? On Sunday, the 10th instaut, about three miles from the town of Rutherfordton, Mr. Nash Goode and family were returning from church, Mr. Goode's sister and two children were riding one horse, and Mr. Goode and wife and a Mr. Taylor were walking. A sudden wind blew down an old tree which fell upon the party, killing Miss Goode, one of the children and the horse, and broke the collar bone of the other child. Miss Goode was not killed instantly, but surgical aid could do her no good. The second child will recover. NEWS OF THE DAY. ? Governor Davis has been re-nominated by the Texas Republicans. ? Two cases of yellow fever are reported at Norfolk, Va. ? Mr. Louis E. Grouse, of Auerusta. has written on the back of a postal card, 3,016 legible words. ? ^? ? California elects a Legislature on the 3d of September, Maine elects a Governor, Legislature, etc., on the 8th. ? In Waco, Texas, good ponies are selling at prices ranging from ten dollars to twentyfive dollars. ? The number of Farmers' Granges now is said to be five thousand one hundred and forty-seven. ? Judge Thomas A. R. Nelson, late of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, died at Knoxville, from cholera, on Friday last, after an illness of two days. ? Rev. Gardner Spring, pastor of the Fifth avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, died in that city on Monday of last week, in the eighty-ninth year of his age. ? Ex-President Johnson, it is stated, is again a candidate for governor of Tennessee, aud has aspirations for the United States Senate. ? The question of taxing church property is now widely discussed. Ohio loses $470,000 in taxes yearly because $25,554,725 of church property is exempt from taxation. ? The Supreme Court of New Hampshire has just decided at Concord that railroad companies have no right to grant to any party or parties exclusive privilege to carry express matter over their lines. ? The New York Times is authority for the statement that the next Congress will be asked to assume the entire State indebtedness of the Southern States, and that Northern Congressmen of prominence have already promised their support to the measure. ? Mr. Hoe, of New York, has just perfected a printing press in England, which is the most complete thing of the kind ever constructed. One of the jpresses is already at work in a London newspaper office, and ten are to be built at once for the Daily Telegraph, The press feeds itself, only takes two men and a oun if on/1 nrinto 99 rtrtfl Knmn1ofi> nPTOQ U\JJ \AJ * Uil IV) ttUVt M?)VVV WW^ivvw .. w papers per hour. 4? A few days ago, $2,000,000 in gold coin arrived at the sub-treasury in New York from California. It wasrforwarded by Adams Express Company from the sub-treasury in San Francisco. The weight of this coin was about four tons. It was packed in twelve strong iron chests, each about two feet and a half in length by sixteen inches in breadth and depth. ? The Treasury Department has just issued an order which, it is thought, will considerably affect the gold market. The mint at Philadelphia is instructed to run its full capacity in coining gold and silver alone. The same order has been telegraphed to the mint directors at Carson City and San Francisco, with the injunction that the force may be worked extra hours. The monthly addition to the new coin of the country will be $3,000,000 throughout the year. ? The colored Republicans of Ohio are dissatisfied with their share in the honors of the party, and have issued a call for a convention, in which they recite their grievances. They say that a sufficiently comprehensive civil rights bill does not exist; that they do not receive, as they ought, the same treatment as ! white men from public institutions and common carriers : that the right of voting ought to carry with it the right of being voted for. These and many other things they intend to discuss at the proposed convention. ? A bale of cotton was sold in Covingtou, Ga., recently, for fifteen cents a pound, which was picked, ginned and packed in the fall of 1863. The rope and bagging was of Confederate manufacture and presented a novel appearance. The owner had been offered forty-1 two cents per pound for ten bales of cotton of the same crop in 1865, and held it with the expectation of getting fifty cents. One by one the bales \jere sold at prices much lower than the first offer, until on Monday, the last one was hauled from the old shed and let go at fifteen cents. The staple was beautiful and time only increased its snowy whiteness. At forty-two cents the ten bales of cotton would have brought 82,000. ? A fatal duel between two Chinamen,! which recently occurred in Lincoln county, ! Arkansas, has brought to light a family his- I! tory as full of sanguinary romance as the j chronicles of an Italian duchy. Enmity had j for years existed between two families of Can - j \r j iU. Aii.AM l ton, ^nina, one nameu x ung unu me uwiei { Camm. The Camms took part in a rebellion, which was subdued, and the head of the Camm family, after s? ne preliminary torturing, was stored away for execution. He made his escape, murdered Yung, and at once committed suicide. One survivor of each family drifted to Lincoln county, Arkansas. In a conversation about home they discovered each other's identity. Revolvers were the weapons. They embraced, and fired. Camm fell dead, and Yung is awaiting trial in the jail at Jefferson. ? The proceedings of the military comrais- I sion, before which the Modoc prisouers were arraigned, have just been made public. It appears that Captain Jack, Schonchin, Black Jim, Boston Charley, Barncho, alias One-Eyed , Jim, and Stotuck, alias Cook, were put upon , trial, charged with murder, in violation of f the laws of war, and assault with intent to kill, in violation of the laws of war. The prisoners were found guilty on all the charges and specifications, and sentenced to be hanged by the neck until they be dead, at such time j and place as the proper authority shall direct, , two-thirds of the members of the commission agreeing therein. The President has appro- ^ ved the sentence and ordered the prisoners | to be executed on the 3d day of October, 1873. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enqnirer. LETTER FROM GREENSBORO. < Greensboro, N. C., Aug. 25th, 1873. 1 No inland town in the State of North Caro- i lina has made more rapid progress in material 1 prosperity, since the close of the war, than has f the beautiful and thriving place from which i I write. From a small and unpretending village, Greensboro has, within the last few < years, sprung, as if by magic, to almost city ] proportions, and contains numerous, buildings 1 and commands a trade of which many towns < in more favored sections of the Union might ' pardonably boast. The cause of this prosperity?the main- ' spring of the numerous shops filled with whir- < ring machinery, and the busy merchants dis- ( posing of their wares to purchasers from far 1 and near?is due, more than anything else, to the advantages derived from the possession of railroad facilities. Here is the junction of 1 the Richmond and Danville railroad; and a 1 new road, completed within the past few weeks, 1 connecting with the ancient town of Salem, in ' addition to the North Carolina Central road, contribute in no small degree to the advance- ' raent and prosperity of the place. The facil- 1 ities thus presented for Communication with all parts of the country invite capital and industry which are flowing in, I venture to say, more rapidly than to any other town in Western Carolina. i Besides the shops and manufacturing establishments of various kinds now in operation and contemplated, the agricultural interest is making the same rapid advancement, this county having added materially to its farming : population from northern and northwestern < Slates of the Union, and also from Canada. These people come hither for a more genial 1 clime than that of the bleak section they leave, in addition to which important consideration, > they find fertile lands, good water, a health- , ful and pleasant climate and hospitable treatment from the native population. Emigration is not only invited, but the people manifest their appreciation of foreign industrv by the more substantial manner of offering inducements and making earnest efforts ^? ?? -1 nnuj*. *? /iaiimaa AM* ror procuring 11. jlius is iuc nuc tuuioc mi all sections of the South to pursue, which is being verified wherever put in practice. To the reflecting mind, under the new order of things, at least, it is quite useless to present facts and figures in support of the assertion. In the ante-bellum days this was not an extensive slave-holding section, and to this fact I am inclined to attribute the faith which the people here have in white labor on the farm. I know the opinion prevails in various sections of the South that white labor is unsuited to the farm, and that a regiment of blacks is necessary for the production of a small crop; while many persons are so incredulous as to believe that white men cannot endure the fatigue and physical exertion incident to agricultural pursuits. But the facts prove otherwise. < The doctrine is not only fallacious, but will prove fatal to all land-owners who continue to be misled and deceived by it Not that I am objecting to negro labor, or entertain the least. , prejudice against such occupation by that i class of our fellow citizens, do I present this view of the case, but simply to show that there i is ample room on the idle and unoccupied lands of the South for the former slaves as < well as for thousands of whites, who, could ] they be induced to settle amongst us, would i sextuple the wealth of the land, fill up the waste places and make us the most prosperous people in the world. But I have wandered so far from my original subject, that I must defer until another day, and take a new start. Vidocq. Gen. R. E. Lee.?A writer in the Rich- 1 mond Enquirer, Gen. Dabney H. Maury, cor- 1 rects several errors that have appeared recently in the reviews of English magazines of i "Cooke's Life of Lee," and a review in the , cii J J ~? -..lintn in ftio SWi'rthiimh Wfl OICITIUUTU/ U1 ilLJ tvi AAA VUV II V j | extract the following, which we regard as au- j thentic, in regard to the forces employed by j Lee and Grant in the great battles from Spot-! sylvania to Richmond : j i "It is well established by the Federal re- b cords that the losses of Grant between his first i ( collision with Lee's array and the defeat which i ? he sustained at Cold Harbor, amounted to ! 125,000 men. Swinton and other careful his- j1 torians so state it. # The Edinburgh reviewer j 1 places the total losses of the army of the Po- j i tomac at a much lower figure. While he j states the numbers of the army of Northern | < Virginia at 70,000 effectives, we know that Gen. Lee did not have 50,000 men on any one battle-field during the campaign. "Again, the army of Grant at the Appo- j1 raattox is stated in the Review at 150,000? that of Lee at 40,000. Whereas Gen. Lee j i himself assured the writer of this that on the j' 2d of April, 1865, his whole force of all arms! amounted to only 32,000 men, while Grant stated to General Lee that on the same date j j his effective force of arms numbered no less than 220,000 men. i I "Gen. Lee further stated to me that when he ; surrendered at Appomattox on the 9th of i April, after seven days of hard marching, j fighting and starvation, he had only about j ( 8,000 effectives left to bear the battle-flags for j the last time of the grandest array whioh ever ' yet has upheld a righteous cause, and illustra- j ted the manhood of a noble race." I j LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. D. F. Fleming A Co., Charleston?3000 Cases ol Roots and Shoes for Fall Trade. John C. Kuykendal?Call?Extract. Adickes A Black?Going! Going!! Going!!!? Boots and Shoes?Summer Goods?ReadyMade Clothing?Dress Goods?Hats and Caps?Books and Stationery?HardwareCigars, Ac. \V. II. H. Houston A Co., Charlotte, N. C.?Fall and Winter Trade. B. F. Rawlinson?Fair Warning. ** ' ^ Tw% 1". W. UlHWHOn, ueuilty OTWBOIiuci III iwnn ruptcv?First Meeting of Creditors in the Matter of C. F. Hinsoii, W. J. Collins. Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient. T. S. Jeft'erys, Secretary?Ma.soi.-o Meeting. M. A. Faris?Public Sale. J. I. Bonner?Due West Female College, W. II. <fc J. Ilerndon?Motion?Flour?CollarsBacon?Yarn?Ginger Preserves?Miscellaneous. Kennedy, Latimer <k Hemphill?New Store neai tlio Depot. G. R. Rutchl'ord, Administrator?Application foi Discharge. J. P. Wallace, C. C.C. Pls.-Notice to the Creditors of Itov. Archibald Whyte, deceased. postal" cards. A small supply of postal cards have been received at the post office iu this place. pardon recommended. A dispatch from Washington, dated on the 19th instant, says that the Attorney-General has recommended the pardon of Lafayette Hood, of this county, undergoing sentence, at the Albany penitentiary, as a ku-klux. new store. By reference to our advertising columns, it will be seen that Messrs. Kennedy, Latimei & Hemphill, have commenced business neai the Railroad depot, aud are ready to receive 3. share of the public patronage. fine fruit. The finest peaches we have seen this season, were left with us a few days ago by Mr, L E. Floyd, of the New Centre neighborhood, in this county. In the lot were several varie ties, including the "eating gold," the "white Indian," and the "black Indian." We are pleased to learn that much more attention is being given to fruit culture throughout the 20unty than has been the case heretofore. DEATHS. Miss Gena Jeflferys, the eldest daughter ol Dapt. Thomas S. Jeflferys, died in this place, from consumption, on Tuesday evening last, after a protracted illness, in the 23d year of ber age. The funeral services will take place it the Methodist Church to-day, (Thursday) it 10 o'clock, A. M. Advices from Raleigh, N. C., announce the 3eath of Mr. Mark A. Upchurch, at that place, on Sunday morning last, from inflamation of the bladder, after au illness of about two months. Mr. Upchurch, for several months, was the operator of the Southern and Atlantic Telgraph Company at this place, and by his gentlemanly deportment and accommodating disposition, won the respect and esteem of those with whom he came in contact. Mr. John A. Miller, the eldest son of the late W. Dixon Miller, died in this county, from consumption, at the residence of his uncle, Mr. A. F. McConnell, on Saturday morning last. The deceased had been in feeble health for a number of years. Dr. James J. Williams, a brother of the late George W. Williams, Esq., and many years ago a resident-of Yorkville, died at his home in Union county, N. C., on the 14th instant Mr. T. M. Love, aged fifty-nine years seven months and four days, died at his residence in this county, on the 18th instant, from congestion of the heart. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. PROM LIMESTONE SPRINGS. The Air-Line has thrown a little new life and energy into this community. Business oi every kind is looking up. The depdt has fi' nally been located about one-fourth of a mile east from Gaffney's cross roads. The lumbei for its erection has been delivered, and a good depot will soon be built Commissioners have just finished the laying off of lots suitable foi business houses and residences. These lot will soon be sold at public outcry, when al] desirous of locating near the depot will have an opportunity of securing ground to build on. Cotton buyers and dealers in plantatior supplies would do well to examine this locali ty and its surroundings. Several thousand bales of cotton will be brought to this market and farmers generally buy where they sell It will give North Carolina a good flour and bacon market, for the cotton country below will purchase these supplies in large quanti ties. We do not know a better location foi straight-forward, practical business men tc Bettle. In a mile and a quarter of,the depot at Limestone Springs, Mr. James A. Corry it successfully conducting his male school. The owners of the property known as the Semina ry and surroundings are having some substantial improvements doner They feel confident that they can make this one of the most at tractive places in the upper part of the State, They will have a female school opened there early next year, which is intended to be a permanent institution. First class teachers and thorough work will secure a good'school. Corn crops in this neighborhood are very good. Old corn is now selling at 60 centsdemand light. Cotton looking very well. It has been raining too much lately for the lattei nron. 4" Mr. Nathan Littlejohn/an esteemed citizen, died near this place on the 21st instant. He had lived beyond his allotted three score and ten. C. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM BUFFALO. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 21,1873. THE CITY ANI^!OUNTRY. Ask the average reader of the Enquirer as to the size of Buffalo, and he would be apt rather to underestimate than over-estimate. This great State is so spotted with large cities, that many of them which are first class do do not have the credit away from home which is their due. Buffalo, which was a scattering village in 1812, and that year burned by the British, now contains a population of one hundred and twenty-five thousand. The surrounding country is almost perfectly flat, and has, owing to a thorough course of cultivation, become rich. Originally, the soil was not very good, but the New Englanders and their descendants who settled this section, are famous as good farmers, and brought up the country wonderfully. The average price for farming lands fifteen and twenty miles out from the city, is now about one hundred dollars an acre. In this county, Erie, there are millions and millions of pounds of cheese .made each year. The business has grown immensely since the war. Cheese is shipped from here direct to Europe. The price at the factories this year is about twelve cents a pound. It requires a gallon of milk to make a pound of cheese, so you will observe that the profit to the farmer cannot be immense. But the dairy farms grow richer and richer each season, as great care is taken to return to the land, in the shape of manure, as much as is taken from it. The farms in this section are not large?of tener below one hundred acres than above, ' In traveling through the townships you will ! find great uniformity in the wealth of the population. Few of the farmers are worth over [ forty thousand dollars, and few under five ; thousand. Wealth among this class of popu. j lation is so very much more evenly distribuI ted than in the South, as to bring itself to the | notice of such as have had opportunities for 1 visiting both sections. So far as my observai tion goes, the Northern system of small farms |; and thorough cultivation is much superior to the Southern style of large plantations and poor cultivation. These clean, handsome, thoroughly cultivated sixty acre farms, are what make a country prosperous. NIAGARA. Buffalo is less than twenty-five miles from the great water-fall of the world?Niagara. One dollar will take you there and return; I speak of railroad fare alone. There are trains every hour, each way, and a never ceasing tide of travel. 1 But around about the falls is a den of thieves. Of all the systematic swindling in the United States, they carry it on at Niagara ! to perfection. You are robbed at every turn, I at every corner and by every body who has ' anything to do with the falls. ; And now a new swindle has been invented for the fleecing of travelers. A high tight board fence is being built around the falls on t the America side so that you cannot see the . falls at all uuless upon payment of a "gate fee" . of twenty cents! This grandest work of na, ture has been made to serve the greed of man, until you cannot even look at it without paying ! These men act as though they had a fee simple title to it from the Almighty, and could admit or repel the people at pleasure. I would not care two cents if the falls should ' "flat out" some night and run away into erraceful ranids. leaviner the hackmen and t o A ' O [ swindlers of all sorts without an occupation. | .Of course it would be sad to have the grand falls destro/fed, but we could stand the destruction to see the thieves scattered who have fastened themselves upon it. By keeping away from Niagara and New York city, a man can travel in the North and provide himself with all necessary comforts at a fair price. Hotel charges are moderate, oflener below three dollars a day than above. Railroad rates average about two and a half cents a mile, and is often even less on through tickets. A word as to the weather. So far this has been a delightfully cool summer. As I write, the mercury marks 68 degrees, which is a luxury you would appreciate?if you were where it was. Nemo. DIABOLICAL MURDER. A short time ago, Willie Garter, a little son of one of the engineers on the Wilmington ancl Weldon Railroad, was found dead under one of the bridges on that road, in the vicinity of Wilmington, N. C. The coroner's inquest has developed the fact that the murder was committed by several little negro boys, and that the crime was instigated by the step-mother of the deceased lad. From one of the Wilmington papers, we quote the following: On Saturday afternoon, the Coroner's jury, ! . .v '.i ,i n i! .. . . j m *ir i togetner wun ine solicitor ana snerin, naving ' in charge the negro boy, David Martin, pro1 ceeded to the scene of the murder. The place is encumbered with a thick undergrowth, i The water is almost black, and a dense foliage > encumbers it banks. The path to the spot . crosses an ancient mill site, covered with thick undergrowth, where but one person can pass at a time. At the spot there is an opening through the bushes, shelving downwards some ' eight or ten feet. A tall pine towers np from the very edge of the water at the foot of the ) path. Beyond, the creek stretches for about p fifty feet, flowing in a sluggish current, the bottom gradually shelving down from the bank until it attains a depth of some fifteen ' feet. On the right hand is the trestle work of the railroad, where the body was found, a I distance of some eighty yards. Standing near 5 this pine, the boy described the tragedy. Com. ing down by the railroad, he says, one of the boys stopped and sharpened the blade of his knife on the iron of the track, little Willie 1 walking ahead with the other boys. As they 5 approached the side of the creek winding along I through this path, the same boy cut a short, i heavy sapling. The other boys picked up . rocks and bricks, a great many of which are I scattered over the ground. Arriving at the spot, Willie and Jimmie stripped off and got ' in the creek. The other two staid on the shore. When Willie got tired, he cameashore, I upon which they threw his clothes into the creek. Willie went in again after them, after some little altercation succeeded in clambering up the bank, and had spread them out on the bushes to dry, when he was struok over the head with the stick several times, also on the shoulder. Addled by the blows, he staggered to the brink and then Jimmie pushed him in. The other boy, Billy* filled Willie's ^ breeches legs with stones, and the boys threw these legs around Willie's neck as he was struggling near the bank. The weight of the stones carried him down. The boys sat there on the bank watching some fifteen minutes, till the bubbles ceased to rise, and they knew he was dead. Then they took him by the shoulders and dragged him by the hands upon the bank and turned him on his back. One of the boys, fastening his foot around a sap-' ling on the water's edge, reached down and with his knife multilated the corps, wrapping the separated flesh in a piece of paper and putting it in his pocket They then took the 1 body, and, carrying it as far out as they could wade, they pushed it into the stream. They then attached the child's clothing to the | breeches legs and flung them out opposite the tree as far as they could and sank them there. When Willie was first struck on the head, David says Willie said, "I'll go home and tell my ma." One of the boys said, "You ma got us to do it." David says he sat down at the head of the bottom close by, where a large tree had been cut down-and lies, while these things were going on. The coroner's jury rendered a verdict "that the deceased, Willie Carter, came to his death at the hands of Elijah Martin, David Martin, Jimraie Anderson and Billy Merrick, through inducements held out by Elizabeth Carter." FIGHT WITH THE INDIANS. Mussel Shell River, August 18, via Ft. Benton, Montana, August 23.?The abundant preparations which the Yellowstone expedition made for the reception of the Indians has been fully justified. August 4, General Custer, with Bloody Knife and a squadron of the seventh cavalry, had been detailed by General Stanley to go on several miles in advance of the wagons and look up a road. Having gone about ten miles ahead, they halted, and picketed their horses in the woods ! by a river, to wait for the train. ; Two hours afterward, six Indians appeared ! on the plain and made demonstrations toward : +V.O Mmn A HiamrmnteH line nf skirmishers I was thrown out and horses saddled. The | Indians were easily driven off, but proved a decoy of a large party in the neighboring woods, waiting in ambush for the cavalry, i Finding the ruse failed, the Indians, to the , > number of 300, boldly rode out and advanced on the grove occupied by the cavalry. General Custer had only one squadron of ' eighty men, under command of Captain May1; ber. The men again dismounted and formed ' a skirmish line. . The Indians also dismounti ed, formed a line in a serai-circle around the ; 1 cavalry, who had the river at their backs. , Rapid firing was kept up at a distance of 400 ! yards. Geueral Custer deferred charging, hoping the main command would soon come ' up and assist in capturing the Indians. ,! After three hours' fight, his ammunition gave