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Icrap* and Jarts. The officeholders of Minnesota are assessed five per cent, to fight the Farmers' ticket. There is a negro woman in Monroe, Ga., who is the mother of thirty-three living children. It is estimated that the total population ofShreveport, La., at present is 8,000, including one thousand sick and convalescing. Missouri has beeu uuder Democratic rule for two years, aud during that time the State debt has beeu reduced from $38,000,000 to $18,000,000. Ex-Gov. Wise, of Virginia, is out in a letter supporting the Republican ticket in Virginia. He states that he considers the material interests of Virginia are identified with the success of the Republican party. Rev. Mr. Carleton thinks the reason his son, the Cashier of The Uniou Trust Company, stole $500,000, was because he had been crazy since the death of his wife. Probably ? /? i . t-* ? l-C L_ HIS wire drove mm crazy ueiure sue uicu. At the election in San Francisco a few weeks ago, 26,300 votes were cast, and the city is now called upon to foot a bill of $21,303.50 election expenses, equivalent to about 81 cents per vote. The Staunton (Va.) Spectator says: "Ex-Goveuor Bonham, of South Carolina, was in the city this week, for the purpose of buying a farm near Staunton, where he proposes hereafter to reside." On Wednesday of last week, ?138,000 of cold was withdrawn from the Bank of England for shipraeut to the United States, and ?20,000 was to follow on Thursday. The opinion is expressed by leading financiers that there will be a flow of gold to the United States from England for some time to come. The American Colonization Society proposes to send another expedition to Liberia on the 1st of November of this year. The colonists will find themselves about as much at home in Africa as the descendants of the Pilgrims would if they should go back to Yorkshire. The conflict between carpet-baggers and the native colored people of the South is becoming general. At a recent meeting in Wilmington, N. C., George L. Mabson, a favorite colored leader, announces himself "in deadly opposition to adventurers who have settled amouug us." On the 17th of last month, Col. D W. Aiken, of South Carolina, addressed 17,000 persons in Janesville, Wis., on the subject of agriculture and the granges. He is one of the three members of the Executive Committee of the National Grange in the Uuited States. The Democrats of Mississippi have wisely decided not to nominate any State ticket, with the understanding that the Conservatives will unite with the Liberal Republicans in the support of Alcorn for Governor. This was ;udged to be the best policy under the circumstances, the only policy which could result in the defeat of Ames. The Secretary of the Navy has directed that a certain lieutenant, who lately returned from a three years'cruise on the steam corvette Benica, in the Asiatic squadron, be sent back to the squadron, with orders to report to the admiral commanding, who is to keep him there until his debts, amounting to several thousand dollars, are all paid. HTkln nnnonnl Koc Kooti ronrlarofi J. 1113 uuucuai pivvtvuiug uuo vvvu I vuvtv* VV4 necessary by the numerous financial delinqtieucies recently reported to the department from that quarter, and is a serious warning to other reckless debt contractors. There is a droll story of how a man lost a wager in Pueblo, Colorado. Stepping into a liquor shop he offered to bet ten to one that he could, blindfolded, tell the name of any liquor or wine in the house, or any mixture of liquors, by the taste and smell. All went well with him at first. He named all the celebrated brands correctly. Then they handed him a glass of water. He tasted, he smelt, he tasted and smelt again, and at last, completely nonplussed, he gave it up so. "Well, boys," he said, "you have got me. It seems to me as if, years ago, I struck something of that kind in the States, but it was so long I have entirely forgotten it." A dispatch from Chicago says that a very large meeting of the farmers of Irroquois, 111., was held in Gilman a few days ago. Resolutions were adopted by the meeting renouncing all former political affiliation, rebuking class legislation, favoring a revenue tariff, calling for the abolition of the national banking system, and for the assessment of railroad property for taxation at its cash value. They pledged themselves never to vote for any man who voted for the back salary or accepted any back pay, and stigmatized the action of the President by signing a bill that put $100,000 in his own pocket as an exhibition of morbid avarice unparalleled in American history. We have not mentioned, we believe, the spiteful and plucky old lady who died the other (lav in Oswego. She was a widow, and left particular orders that she should not he buried within ten miles of the sepulchre of the "old man." She also desired that her dog might he killed, lest he should visit an obnoxious neighbor. Finally, she requested that she might be buried in the finest coffin which could be had for money, and that her pale form should be wrapped in a robe of white alpaca. Her wishes have been shamefully disregarded. The ten miles were reduced to five ; the dog still lives and barks ; and the coffin was a medium cost one. There will be some tall rapping in that vicinity. Mr. P. T. Barnum announces that if a balloon does not cross the Atlantic this fall he will spend fifty thousand dollars, if necessary, in having that experiment tried as early as possible next year, provided one or more aeronauts can be found in America or Europe who will heartily make the attempt. He evidently does not intend to make the experiment with a cheap balloon, for he says: "As at present advised, I shall have the silk manufactured in China, put together and prepared under direction of scientific men in London, an experimental ascension made from the Sydenham Chrystal Palace grounds, then bring the balloon to America, and make the trans-atlantic trip from New York. I trust the public will believe that if I put my hand to the plough I shall not look back." A few years ago, at the Eglinton tournament in England, it appeared that famous knights of three and four centuries ago must have been smaller even than Englishmen of to day, for it was impossible to put on their armor. And now come vital statistics to prove that we are more hardy and longerlived than our fathers. The statistics kept j at Geneva since 1560 show that the average i term of life has been steadily lengthening. ! At that time the average was only twenty- j two years; it is now forty. In the fourteenth j century the average mortality in Paris was j one in sixteen; the rate has been reduced in our day toone in thirty-two. In England,, less than two centuries ago, the mortality was j one in thirty-three; now one in forty-two., The laws of life are better understood ; the | comforts of life more widely distributed, and j habits of living improved. The people of the great State of New York are, in turn, having colored school troubles, the natural results of a so-called "civil j rights bill" passed by the last Republican State Legislature. In Poughkeepsie, two colored girls having succeeded in obtaining a bench among the white scholars, many of these have left, and their parents are quite indignant and excited over their success; while in Brooklyn it is the colored people who are agitated, wanting, by virtue of the "bill," to stand upon a footing of perfect j equality with the whites for admission to any and all schools of that flourishing suburb of the great metropolis. There, however, the great majority of the whites insist upon separate schools for colored children, or a continuation of the present system. Thus, accor f . ' " " ~ (ling to the New York Herald, antagonisms on account of color are revived upon Northern soil in their worst forms. The colored people will probably have to succumb, for antagonisms in their worst forms canuot do them ' anything else but harm in Brooklyn, New ; York or elsewhere. ?he ?<rthviUe inquirer. YORKVILL.E, S. C.; | ?? THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 2, 1873. 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The suspension of Jay Cooke & Co., has I had a disastrous effect throughout the country?more marked, however, in the North | than in the West and South?and granting that the crash is now over, its effects will be felt for several weeks. An uneasy feeling will prevail, and for some time yet transactions will be limited. Several banking institutions in various States and different sections of the country, have either suspended or availed themselves of the thirty and sixty days' notice provided in their regulations, and consequently there is a tightness in the money market unknown in the South since the memorable suspensions ot 1857. As our readers are aware, the difficulties nriainated in the attemnt of Jav Cooke & Co. "" "O ? I" " ? / to carry through the bonds of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Asa matter of speculation they undertook the negotiation of the bonds of this corporation, making, at the same time, large cash advances upon them. The demand for the bonds, with which the fortunes of the house were linked, suddenly ceased, deposits j were withdrawn from their keeping, and they J were compelled to stop payment. This is the beginning of the trouble, which is now seriously affecting all branches of business, aud which is thus described by Commodore Vanderbilt, who, -siiice the crash, is reported to have said: "People undertake to do about four times as much business as they can legitimately undertake. There are a gr^at many worthless railroads started in this country, without any means to carry them through. Respectable banking houses in New York have made themselves agents for the sale of the bonds of the railroads in question, and give a kind of moral guarantee of their genuineness. The bonds soon reach Europe, and the markets of the commercial centres, from the characters of the indorsers, are soon flooded with them. These worthless roads prejudice the commercial credit of our country abroad. Building railroads from nowhere to nowhere at public expense, is not a legitimate undertaking. I might make allusion to Texas, Midland and other new railroads, but I am a friend of the iron roads, and like to see them stretching to every corner of the United States. They help todevelopour commerce and civilization, and ought to be encouraged. All I have to say is when railroads are to be built, don't victimize the public to build them. Wheu I have some money I buy railroad stock or something else, but I don't buy on credit; I pay for what I get. People who live too much on credit generally get brought up with a round turn in the long run. The Wall street averages ruin many a man there, and is like faro. Mistrust will be engendered till we, as a nation, do our business on a more solid basis and pay as we go." To the same cause the New York Sun attributes the disaster in the following paragraph : "The failures of the heavy concerns have nearly all, if not all, resulted from endorsements of new railway enterprises. The expansion of enterprise in this direction has been enormous within the past few years, more ruiles of railway haviDg been constructed in the past six years than were built altogether before the war. Nearly all of this construction has been done on credit, houses in every other respect conservative having shouldered the enterprises, relying wholly upon the sale of the railroad bonds to meet accruing obligations. Dull times must come occasionally, and such have been experienced by these houses in the past few months. Prominent firms carrying railroad enterprises have consequently been forced to shoulder their load alone, and the drains upon them for interest and cost of construction have been enormous. Shrewd operators like Dauiel Drew and Jay Gould foresaw the necessary result, and went short of stocks to a large araouut; at the same time throwing all their influence to hasten the general catastrophe. The result is that they are said to have reaped a golden harvest amid extensive disaster. Most of the smaller firms ivbipb bntrp failpd nrp mprp RfncV hrnlrprs nnrl speculators, who happened to be long of stocks and were unable to cover in time to save themselves from ruin." While a feeling of doubt and insecurity prevails at the North, and especially in New York city, where speculation in bonds, and gambling in stocks is carried on regardless of consequences, it is gratifying to kuow that in the South, where the banks restrict themselves ; to a legitimate business, no such feeling of in- j security need be felt, nor is danger gravely i apprehended. Suspensions have occurred in | Baltimore, Richmond and Petersburg?claim- j ed to be the result of hasty and ill-advised j action of depositors ; but those having sus-: pended claim assets in excess of their liabili-1 ties. A meeting of the merchants and man- J ufacturers of Richmond was held on Wednesday of last week, to consider the financial crisis. The greatest interest was manifested,, and a series of resolutions was adopted with great unanimity, as follows : That the present condition of affairs in Richmond has arisen from causes aud influ- . ences external to the banking and mercantile : business thereof, and in nowise attributable to the operations of banks or merchants ; that the banks of the city are at present believed to be in a state of undoubted solvency, and that no loss can result to creditors if the banks are allowed to proceed as heretofore ; that the meeting deprecates the uneasy feeling prevailing in the city, as tending to produce a panic and run on the banks, thereby likely to cause their suspension, as well as the overthrow of all business ; that in view of the undoubted solvency of the banks, aud to prove their confidence therein, the members of the meeting pledge themselves to abstain from running on the banks, and confine themselves strictly to regular and necessary checks and drafts in the course of business, making them as light as practicable, and to continue as heretofore in making deposits ; and they i urge all persons having business with the banks to pursue a like course of confidence, thus avoiding the greatest contingencies of prostration and disaster. 1 The same sentiment pervades in all the! ' southern cities, and consequently ordinary mercantile transactions are unimpeded. The most serious drawback to the South is the fact ; that there is no market, except at nominal ! prices, for her staple crop. But as the crash | was inevitable, it could not have come at a ! more favorable time for our people?just at | the commencement of the season?when they can better afford to hold back their crop and : await a favorable change with better prices. That a reaction will soon take place there can be no possible doubt, and our advice to the farmers is to patiently await that time. While it is almost impossible, in one newspaper article, to give a detailed and succinct account of the extent of the damage and inconvenience caused by the crash, yet the following summary, made up from our exchanges, will give a general idea of how the failure of one New York house can affect the hanking interests of the entire country : THE CHARLESTON' BANKS. In Charleston, the su.?|>ension9 so far announced are those of the Loan and Trust Company, the People's Bauk of South Carolina, the People's Savings Institution, and the Planter's and Mechanic's Bank. The Citizen's Savings Bank and the Freedman's Bank each requires from depositors notice for the withdrawal of deposits, though as there has been comparatively no run on the latter institution, the cashier has paid out small amounts, using his discretion in the matter. The First National, the People's National, the Bank of Charleston and the Union Bank, all remain intact, and promptly pay out every demand made upon them. The aggregate capital of these last-named banks is ?3,100,000?perhaps three-fourths of the banking capital in the city. The News and Courier is sanguine that prudence and forbearance will enable Charleston to pass through the ordeal without severe injury. The trade of the city is represented as unusually brisk, and in many branches better than it has been at any time since the close of the war. COLUMBIA. A dispatch from Columbia to the News and Courier, dated the 27th, says there was considerable anxiety manifested among the business men of the city ob that day?much more than on any previous day?though the officers say they wjll be able to weather the storm if it be not of immoderate duration. A meeting of the Board of Trade was held with a view to take action to sustain the banks. A resolution endorsing the action of the two national banks was unanimously adopted. A resolution was also adopted as the sense of the board that, inasmuch as the cotton crop is still in the hands of the farmers as a material to command currency, there is no reasonable ground for apprehension that the financial embarrassment at the North should seriously affect the South. There is nothing like a panic, and no run upon the banks is anticipated. In his introductory remarks, the president of the board, Mr. E. Hope, stated that the only cause of the scarcity of currency in the banks was that they were carrying some four hundred thousand dollars for the State government. OTHER POINTS IN THE STATE. A dispatch from Orangeburg says the tightness in the money market is felt there and no business is doing in cotton. Exchange cannot be negotiated. There is, however, no excitement at the branch of the Citizen's Savings Bank at that place. In Chester business is generally suspended. No cotton is offered, and currency is not to be had. There seems, however, to be but little alarm among either the merchants or the farmers. There has been no run upon the National Bank at that place, although it has a large savings deposit. Owing to the impossibility to negotiate exchange, the cotton business in Sumter i3 almost entirely suspended. Very little of the staple is coming in. Price nominally 15 cents. Total shipments since the first of September 500 bales, against more than double that amount for the same time last year. In Greenville the crisis has had a depressing influence upon the cotton market, but other- j wise it has had no noticeable effect. NORTH CAROLINA. None of the banks in this State have suspended. There has been no run or unusual demand upon any of them, and business, with the exception of a depression in cotton and naval stores, has been comparatively uninterrupted. NEW YORK. The most notable suspension in New York during the last week is that of Henry Clews & Co. The run on this house was not made known to the public until about 2.30 P. M. on Tuesday, when the doors of the bank were suddenly closed in the faces of the crowd without. It is asserted that the firm paid out during the morniug nearly 81,000,000 on demand, and then went about the street with mercantile paper endeavoring to raise more funds; but his offer, or rather entreaty, to be allowed to pay two per cent a day?730 per cent a year?for advances upon good mercantile paper, were unheeded. Failing in every legitimate effort to raise money, without hope of further aid from the government, he closed his doors at 2$ o'clock. The result of the suspension of a house which had speculated so largely and been otherwise prominent could not but be depressing. The excitement was renewed and increased by this disaster, and at once there were general croakings heard as on Saturday and Sunday. OTHER LOCALITIES. In Montgomery, Ala., resolutions of full faith and confidence in the local banks have been adopted by the merchants. Cotton is arriving freely, but not a bale can be sold for want of currency. The business men of Atlanta have resolved to assist the banks of that city by free deposits and light drafts. J. H. James, banker, has suspended, though it is claimed his assets are double his liabilities. A dispatch from Mobile says the National Park Bank of New York will pay all checks drawn by the Mobile Savings Bank on Howes & Macey, of New York. The banks of Nashville have suspended currency payments upon checks of over two hundred dollars, which action is approved by the Board of Trade. Five National bauks have suspended in Chicago. In accordance with a resolution of the Chamber of Commerce, the banks of Savannah arc certifying checks, but are withholding currency. A dispatch from Washington gives the following list of suspensions : Wm. Fisher & j Son, of Baltimore ; Wooten, Webb & Co., of! Indianapolis; the Danville, Va., banks ; the, Planter's Bank and Commercial Bank, of Farmville, Va.; Lancaster & Co., of Rich- j mond ; Kraus & Smith, of Toledo ; the bank of Ausonia, New Hampshire, caused by a de-; falcation; Fant, Washington & Co., of Wash-! ington. TIIE LATEST. Several large factories iu New Haven, Conn.,! unable to get currency to pay their hands,' have stopped. The National and Savings banks of Har-1 ' risburg, Penn., have suspended currency payments. The banks of Canton, Illinois, have suspended. The feeling in Savannah, Ga., among bankers and merchants is reported as panicky, though the Merchants National and the Anderson banks continue to pay currency. Two bankiug houses at Chillicothe, Ohio, and Curry & Kerby, of Jefferson City, Mo., have suspended. In consequence of the money crisis, the University of Virginia at Charlottsville.has made arrangements for credits to all the students temporarily embarrassed by the same. The Tredegar Works at Richmond have discharged six hundred hands engaged in car building. The Grant locomotive works at Patterson, N. J., have discharged 175 men, and the Dan* forth works, at the same place, 100 men. The banks of Cairo, 111., have suspended currency payment. In Augusta, Ga., the banks have partially resumed payments, but the cotton market continues dull and nominal, only 52 bales being sold on Monday. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Union Times mentions having received a yam potato weighing 6J pounds. ? Dr. E. H. Edwards, of Rock Hill, will, in future be connected with > the Due West Female College as musical instructor. ? Near the railroad depot in Chester, on Saturday night last, a dwelling occupied by Mrs. McCormick, together with the kitchen and an outhouse, were destroyed by fire. ? Rowland Williamson, the engineer on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, who was so severely injured on the 17th ultimo, died on Sunday last. ? Lula Alice, aged four years nine months and twenty days, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grandison Williams, died in Chester county on the 20th ultimo. ? John Knott, Superintendent of the Graniteville factory, was found dead in a part of the building on Wednesday of last week. The cause of his death was appoplexy. ? The Equalization Board of Union, has increased the assessed value of property in that county, $627,014, as compared with the assessment upon which taxes were collected last year. ? The proprietor of the Chester Reporter offers the same for sale. No better investment for a limited amount of capital can be found in the State. An early purchaser can secure a bargain. ? In the Circuit Court at Chester, last week, Columbus Carter, colored, was convicted of the murder of George Estes, colored, in that county, on the 31st of July last. Judge Mackey sentenced him to be hung on Friday, the 21st day of November next. ? Information has been received at Columbia, that all the claims growing out of the destruction of that city during its occupation by the Federals in 1865, have been disallowed by the Claims Commission, now sitting at Newport, R. I. ? Moses Martin, a colored man, has been nominated by the Republicans of Fairfield, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Senator Ford. Mr. Calvin Brice. white. has also been nominated by persons dissatisfied with the nomination of Martin. ? The Republican says that Edward F. Stokes recently added much to his notoriety by allowing himself to be committed to the Greenville jail, by Judge Cooke, for contempt of Court. A writ of habeas corpus was sued out in Stokes' behalf, and he was taken before Judge Willard at Columbia, but his case had not been disposed of at last accounts. ? Twenty thousand dollars of State bonds were sold at auction in Columbia last week, at Hi cents on the dollar for the lot. Eighteen thousand dollars of the bonds were issued un-. der the conversion act, and the other two thousand under the act for the redemption of the bills of the Bank of the State. They were bought by D. Gambrill, broker, for some third party. ? In the case of Knox & Gill vs. The South Carolina Railroad Company, just decided by the Supreme Court, it is determined that the statute limiting the charges for the conveyance of merchandise intended that the rate should be applied to the actual number of miles of carriage?a portion of one hundred miles entitling the railroad company only to ? r>nrrAsnnnrlincr nnrtinn of the statute allow 1 O I ance. ?Two first-class locomotives have recently been completed in the shops of the South Carolina Railroad Company, at Charleston, at a cost of about two thousand dollars less than similar machines could be purchased at the North. They weigh about twenty-four tons each, and have a capacity for drawing eighteen loaded cars. They are supplied with all the latest improvements and on recent trial trips gave entire satisfaction. ? By a recent "special order" the following persons are announced as "aids-de-carap" of j Governor Moses, with the rank of Colonel: "Harry Noah, L. C. Northrop, C. J. Houstou, colored, S.B. Thompson, A. W. Curtis, colored, S. L. Hoge, L. J. Nash, H. L. Shrewsbury, colored, N. G. Parker, B. F. Whittemore, J. L. Little, J. Crews, A. J. Ransier, colored, R. M. Wallace, H. H. D. Byron, J. 0. Ladd, F. H. Carraand, colored, W. H. Berney, colored, C. C. Puffer, William Gurney, C. C. Bowen, J. C. Winnsraith, J. P. F. Camp, J. B. Cochran, J. H. Runkle, J. A. Dunbar. ? The Columbia correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier says that "the suit which was commenced several months ago, to test the constitutionality of the conversion bonds, by Messrs. Memrainger Porter, Burt, Butler and DeSaussure, on behalf of the taxpayers of the State, has not been dropped, though nothing has been published about it since the original filing of the complaiut, and the granting of the temporary injunction m I l\j icotiaui tuu uaiui urnwcio vjl hwmi collecting any tax or paying out any money in the way of interest upon the bonds. The summonses have been served upon the various defendants, aud the answers must soon be made and issue joined for trial, or else judgment will be granted as prayed for in the complaint. This is that the $7,000,000 conversion bonds be declared null and void and cancelled, and that the tax asssessors and treasur- j er of the State be forever enjoined from pay-1 ing either interest or principal of the said bonds." ? A correspondent of the Union-Herald, writing from Camden, under date of the 25th j ultimo, says: "Judge Cooke is raising wind over in this section. Yesterday he had all of t the liquor dealers up, and the plea of them all was ignorance and that they got their license from the town board, aud thought the board j responsible and not the dealers. The judge then declared his intention to go for the board, and as soon as the board got the news the intendant resigned, aud one of the wardeus also gave notice of his intention of doing the same. Our board consists of five?three whites, j (Democrats,-) and two Republicans. One of, | the whites is now lying at the point of death, j and one resigned as above, and another is on the eve of resigning; consequently we are almost without a council, and I am much afraid if Judge Cooke stays in Camden two days longer, we will be entirely without one. He has also scared our county commissioners out of two years' growth." j ? A rather singular accident recently ocj curred in Fairfield county, the particulars of : which are thus given by the Wiunsboro' I News: "A colored man, Adam, in the upper j portion of the county, was returning from the j field Saturday night on a wagon of cotton with several other hands. On the way, religI ious topics were discussed, and the whole ; crowd begau to "experience religion.'' Adam ! became especially enthused and began to i dance and sing "Glory" on top of the load. | Hir fervor was so great that he failed to use i proper precautions against accident, and in J consequence fell backward to the ground from the wagon and broke his neck." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Much damage was inflicted by the storm which swept over the Wilmington section last week. ? Mr. Pride Jones, a former citizen of Rock Hill, has been appointed conductor on the railroad between Charlotte and Statesville. ? All the persons who were sent to the Albany penitentiary from .Rutherford county for ku-kluxing, have been pardoned, except one?Owens. ? The Charlotte Observer learns that Hon. Nathaniel Boyden, of Salisbury, is lying very ill at Saltville, Va., and'that his death is looked for momentarily. ? Work on the United States Government building at Raleigh?Court House and Postoffice?has been suspended by order of the authorities at Washington. ? Reports from the eastern part of the State represent that the damage to the cotton crop by the rust, wet weather and caterpillar, is greater than was at first apprehended. ? The Wilmington Journal has seen a specimen of vegetable wool, grown on a plantation near that city. It bears a close resemblance to lambs' wool, the fibre is very fine, and will manufacture a beautiful fabric. TUa T?olnIn?V* A7/vi/io nnmnlalnQ fVinf flip JL lie ivaicigll AlVtVO wiU|/iuiug VUMU vitv cotton farmers of North Carolina are seriously injured by the financial disaster that has fallen so heavily upon the northern cities. Prices are not only depressed, but there is no demand for the staple at any price. ? The Hickory Press publishes a very interesting letter from Vienna, which says the cotton plant sent from Fayetteville, showing the bolls fully open, attracted more attention than any one thing in the exhibition. Specimens of North Carolina tobacco stood at the head of the list. ? The rice crop in the Cape Fear section is larger this year than that of any year since the war. Formerly the rice fields were very valuable?commanding from 875 to 8125 per acre?and only a lack of reliable labor prevents an extensive production of this valuable crop. ? Messrs. Suit, Marshall and Cross, of Prince George county, Maryland, having issued a challenge to the world for a run of fox hounds, the amount of wager being 8100,000, R. G. Sneed,of Granville, has responded, and professes his readiness for the contest any time between now and the 1st of January, at any place within one hundred miles of Washington city. ? The Hickory Press estimates that the surplus chicken crop of Catawba would more than pay the County and State tax for the current year. The blackberry crop of Burke would pay the Governor's salary for '73. The cabbage crop of Watauga would pay for the Public Printing. The tobacco crop of McDowell would have paid the expense of the Legislature during the Senatorial contest, while the root crop of Mitchell would have bought up the Legislature of 1868. ? Says the Raleigh News: The two young ladies who have been giving concerts for the benefit of the Oxford Orphan Asylum were very kindly treated in the West. The flattering compliments, interspersed with poetry, which some of the young editors in that section are lavishing upon them, show that the fair performers touched a chord in their hearts which vibrates above the music of the concerts. There is danger if these young ladies continue in the West much longer, that, while diminishing the hardships of the inmates of the Asylum in Oxford, they may increase the number of inmates of one of the Asylums in Raleigh. ? Some of our North Carolina exchanges are publishing as a fact, at which they seem somewhat elated, that there are seventeen cotton factories in that State. The truth is? and we charge our cotemporaries nothing for the information?there are not less than thirty-six in operation, and one or two others are in actual process of erection. One mill on Catawba river, now running 7000 spindles, is making the necessary preparation for doubling that number, and the proprietors of another mill of large capacity are preparing to increase their facilities so as to double their present productions. The fact of the proposed enlargement of these two mills would indicate a satisfactory degree of prosperity; but the further fact, of which we have been assured, that these investments pay not less than 20, and in a few instances, 25 per cent, on the capital stock, would certainly seem to be proof conclusive that the southern capiI talists could make no better use of their money than to employ it in extending and increasing this important branch of industry. THE COMING LECTURE. Editor Enquirer:?I notice that Mr. S. E. Caughman, Agent of the Palmetto Orphan Home, is to deliver a lecture in the Associate Reformed Church at Yorkville, on the evening of Tuesday, 7th October. I take this occasion to state that from my personal knowledge, Mr. Caughmau represents one of the most humane and promising institutions in the State. Such au asylum for our orphans was badly needed ; and it has justly won the favor of the people. It is fortunately in the hands of some of the best men in the State. It is entirely unsectarian in its nature and operations. Dr. J. W. Parker, President and Superintendent, is known all over the State as competent in every way for the important trust committed to him. He is, indeed, a father to those helpless children now at the Home. It is truly pleasant to see the Doctor, after one of his visits to the Home, his eyes sparkle with cheerfulness and he looks young again. There are now children in the Orphan Home from York, Chester, Lancaster, Kershaw, Richland, Barnwell, Newberry and Union ; and applications are steadily coming in. The Matron is now assisted by a lady who taught for several years in the Charleston Orphan Home; and the children are making fine progress in their studies. Mr. Caughman is an earnest friend of the orphan, and no doubt the people of Yorkville will be well entertained by attending his lecture next Tuesday evening. A Columbian. LOCAL AFFAIRS, j NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation? ' William Caldwell, Applicant?Galbraith Caldwell, deceased. J. M. Elliott, Winnsboro, S. C.?Cotton Saw Gins. . T. M. Dobson A Co.?Panic! Panic!!?Cash, Cash, , Cash?Cotton, Cotton, Cotton. , W. H. A J. P. Horndon?we are the Boys?Not Buying?Cigars?Cheese to Arrive?Money Tight? Kveryljody in Trouble?Belting? Everything?Cotton Down. E. II. Wallace? For Sale. ; Kennedy, Latimer A Hemphill?Kerosene Oil? Mackerel. T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?Iti Bankruptcy?Application for Discharge?In the Matter of L. L. Packard, D. W. Moore, B. IL Bates. AGRICULTURAL ADDRESS. On Saturday next, at the Court House in Yorkville, Col. W. B. Wilson will deliver an agricultural address. The members of the several Granges of Patrons of Husbandry in in this county, and the public generally are , invited to attend. SUDDEN*DEATH. Mrs Moore, wife of Dr. Alexander L. [ Moore, died near this town, from paralysis, on 1 Monday morning last, after a short illness. THE CIRCUIT COURT. The Circuit Court for this county will commence its sitting at this place on Monday next. We understand that there are fifty-four cases on docket No. 1, or cases which are docketed for trial by a jury; but that probably quite a number of these will be disposed of without the intervention of a jury. MURDER OF J. W. CHEEK. Information has reached us of the foul murder of Mr. J. W. Cheek, a respectable and worthy citizen of this county, who resided six miles east of Yorkville. It seems that the murder was committed on Friday afternoon last, about eight miles from Dallas, on the road leading to Shelby. Mr. Cheek had left his home on the Monday previous, with a two-horse wagon, on a trading expedition to North Carolina, accompanied by a hired man calling himself Allen Owens, formerly from that State, but who had been in Mr. Cheek's employment about one mouth. On Friday, Mr. Cheek's wagon was seen to pass a house about three-fourths of a mile from where his dead body was subsequently found. When the wagon passed this house, Mr. Cheek was observed to be somewhat under the influence of liquor. In a x _r it. i r\ snort wnne auer passing ine uuuse, v/weus returned to it, bringing the wagon with him, and stating that he had left Mr. Cheek at a point up the road in company with some other wagoners, and that he would be all right? meaning that he would be sober?by the next day. Owens remained at the house that night, and next morning borrowed a saddle, which he put on one of the horses and rode off, saying he would return in a short while. After his departure, suspicion becoming aroused at his prolonged absence, and perhaps other suspicious circumstances, an investigation was made by the man at whose house he had stopped. Mr Cheek's hat and boots were found in the wagon stained with blood, and the clothing which Owens had worn as the wagon first passed the house was found spattered with blood in Mr. Cheek's trunk, it having evidently been exchanged for some of the murdered man's apparel. This confirmed suspicions of foul play, and led to an extended search, resulting in the discovery of the dead body, three-fourths of a mile distant, concealed in the woods about fifty yards from the road, having a pistol wound in the side, and a rope drawn tightly around the neck. Robbery was the incentive to the deed. Mr. Cheek's body was brought home for interment on Monday, and pursuit has been made for Owens. BURIAL OF COL. McAFEE. Col. L. M. McAfee, who died in this place on Tuesday evening of last week, was buried with Masonic honors by Philanthropic Lodge, No. 78, of Yorkville, on Thu. sday morning last. The remains of the deceased brother were escorted to the Methodist Church by members of the Lodge and a concourse of citizens, and preceding the impressive Masonic rites of burial, the following funeral discourse was pronounced by Rev. H. R. Dickson, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, which by request of the Lodge, has been furnished us for publication: "But man ilieth and woatrtli away; yea, man glvetii up the ghoat, and tvlicre In he ?" Job 14: 10. Every note of the ancient patriarch's doleful dirge is familiar to our ears, and iinds its sad echo in our sorrowing hearts. It utters the lament of man's mournful mind through all the ages over the desolations of death and the devastations of the grave. With what a pathetic pertinency does the dismal strain come home to ourselves. Not a week ago, while the sympathy of nature was expressed in weeping skies, we gathered about the early grave of the gentle and amiable maiden ; and to-day, under sombre clouds, we are engaged in the obsequies of one, who though comparatively a stranger in our society, is well known to us as the gallant soldier, and the honored and useful citizen, worn down to death in the prime of manhood by the resistless ravages of insidious disease. In whatever shape the Great Destroyer comes? wliAflior with the swoon of sudden doom, or in tlio torturingdelay of gradual app.oach?bis work is terrible and agonizing. What mortal of us may refuse to be serious in the presence of the ruin he has wrought, any more than he can hesitate to offer tenderest sympathy to those his desolating stroke has called more immediately and acutely to grieve? I shall make no apology, as a minister of religion, for taking advantage of this affecting and melancholy scene, wi en your minds are solemn and yo lr sympathies tende.-, to urge upon your intelligent consideration, my brothers, a few plain and practical reflections suggested by the text. For whatever offices the servant of revealed truth may render at such a time, it is manifest that these can in no wise affect the dead. His discourse must contemplate the admonition and consolation of the living. "Jfan dieth." This is predicable of each descendant of Him, whose original transgression "brought death into the world and all our woe." Concerning two only of all the race has any different record been composed. And what is it to die? Reason tells us that our nature is dual?body and spirit. The Scriptures, the fountain of infallible instruction, takeit for granted and perpetually imply it. God formed man's "body out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into it a living souL" Jesus Christ bids us "fear notthem which kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul." "At death," says the Royal Preacher, "the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit unto God who gave it." Upon both parts of our nature, the material and immaterial, a mighty change passes at once in ilie moment of dying. The soul is severed from its mortal tenement. That spiritual being, whose affections we were used to refer to the material heart, whose thoughts and fancies we attributed to the material brain, is now exist- ; ing apart from and independent of heart and ( brain. The human soul is a mystery; invisible beforo death?invisible noiv. We never knew how it lived in the body, while we could not doubt the fact it dwelt thero; and now that it is gone, we cannot tell how its departure was taken. Upon the more familiar body, the more palpable, the more affecting change has been wrought. The heart is there, but it beats no longer; the eye, but it sees no more; and the best loved voice with its 1 softest and tenderest tones, cannot reach the "dull i l\nnrintj ita uilnnt". mill. VJUlll cui Ul UUIUI. Lruvtlj UV^IU^ *V-J wxw.v . ?...., and in process of time a little dust scarcely dis- 1 tinguisliable froit the common clay of earth, is , all that is left to show where sleeps in the sepulchre, what was once an active, honored human 1 frame, but what is now of the "clods of tho val- , Icy." Spring's daisies cluster over the spot, moss covers the marble, earth has mingled with earth, I and dust has returned to dust. How tremendous , the question, "If a man die, shall he live again?" "Man givcth up the ghost, and where is ho?" It . is a personal, a practical, inquiry. Isubmittoyou that as concerns the .soul within us?the spirit that 1 reasons and plans and loves atid hopes and fears? 1 it is an instinctive judgment of our nature, that i death does not suspend it* unresting activity. 1 There is no mortality, no inert slumber, possible | to tho soul. In the crisis of the crucifixion, Jesus addressed the spirit of the dying malefactor, who 1 sought salvation at his hands: "To-day, thou j shalt be with me in Paradise!" Dying Stephen , prayed, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit!" "The beggar died," but yet is active and conscious in the bosom of the patriarch. Tho rich man makes his pathetic appeal in conscious agony in Hell, un- < to tho Father of the Faithful, while his brethren j were still living in the flesh. The Apostle Paul declares that "to be at homo in the body is to be I absent from the Lord." He had, therefore, a de- < sire "to depart and be with Christ." Into the two distinct states, the infinitely different places of Heaven and Hell, which the Scriptures mention and describe, all human souls in dying, in the "giving up the ghost," do immediately pass. But how shall it be as regards the material body when once it dies? Shall it ever be reanimated? And to this inquiry, nothing but the revealed truth of God can give positivo and intelligible response. Nature isdumb, and philosophy is dumb. Reason, indeed, may insist that, as through the numerous vicissitudes in form and material olements, through which between birth and death bodies pass, they yet remain the same identifiable frames, none may philosophically deny what the Scriptures distinctly teach, that in spite of all the ruin of tho grave, the body of the resurrection shall bo in the same sense and to the same degree one with the body of death, as the body of death is one with the body of birth. But He who is the Truth, has pronounced the explicit statement that "the hour is coming when all that are in the graves shall hear tho voice of the Son of God and shall come forth." It is the declaration of Him who created us, and by whose authority the life of the body is summoned away along with the departing spirit. To die, then, is not to terminate forever our exist- ^ ence as creatures of the living God. And unto whom, therefore, does it become dwellers in the region of the shadow of death, denizens of a globe all honey-combed with graves, to be habitually and confidingly looking ? Surely unto that Blessed One, who has abolished death, and brought life Am/I immAvtalltfr M liffhf Hiu nr/wnal vVhflrfl death makes desolation, "lie can make life and victory. He is the absolute mastor of the "King of terrors." By taking away a believer's sin, He extracts the sting of death; and whether the monster come suddenly or slow, he is harmless to horrify or hurt the dying disciple. He makes a happy heaven sure, and to go and dwell with Jesus is, by his triumphant grace, esteemed to be "far better" than to abide in this world of toil and tribulation and tears! And to the sensitive hearts that death's hard doom so sorely lacerates, it is the almighty, gracious voice of "Jesus only," which can bring substantial comfort. To the weeping, desolate widow, the consoler of man's lonely sufferer says, "Weep not. You believe in the God of the widow; believe also in me,"?the brother born for human adversity. To the unprotected orphan he speaks, "In my Father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you." Saith my Father, "I will be a Father to the fatherless, and ye shall be my sons and daughters." "I will give my angels charge concerning Ci, to keep you in all your ways." They shall r you upward in their strong hands, and camp carefully afiout your midnight slumbers. Unto ^ Him who is the "Resurrection and the life, the comforter of Bethany, the Saviour of the world," I entreat you all, fellow mortals, fellow sinners, fellow sufferers, direct the eye of faith and hope. Though "mail aieth and wasteth away," and the removal from our immediate converse and com inunion of the gifted, loving spirits, with whom our aftectionsin life were so closely bound up, makes dreadful, irreparable ruin of our earthly joys; yet Jems lives. His gospel sets a night lamp amid the shadows of the valley of death, and sows inspiring gladness in hearts and homes where He is trusted and adored. "Them that sleep in Him" a faithful God "will bring with Him," to the coronation of the King's Son. While to the surviving mourner, He gives "the oil of joy," and to the heavy heart the "garment of praise;" so that with faltering speech we are still ennabled to sing? "0, happy dead, in Thee that sleep! While o'er their mouldering dust wo weep, O, Faithful Saviour who shall come That dust to ransom from the tomb! While Thy unerring Word imparts So rich a cordial to our hearts, Through tears our triumphs shall be shown Though round their graves and near our own." editoriaiTixklings. Tlie Clieraw and Chester Railroad. Mr. George W. Earle, the Chief Engineer of the Cheraw and Chester Narrow Gauge Railroad, has completed the preliminary survey of the projected line and submitted a report to the president and directors of the road. The length of the road is 89} miles, and the cost per mile, including rolling stock, etc., is estimated at $10,084. The following is a summary of the expenses : Cost of grading from Chester to Catawba River, * $ 64,340 Cost of Catawba River Bridge, 33,000 Cost of grading from Catawba River to Lancaster Court House, 24,644 Cost of grading from Lancaster C. H. to Lynche's Creek, 45,025 Cost of grading from Lynche's Creek to Cheraw, 103,901 891 miles Superstructure, 30 lb. rail. 498,193 Depots, Turn-outs, Tu rn-tables, Tanks, &c. 14,972 Equipment, 79,800 Engineering, office expenses and contingencies,..!!! !. 36,125 $900,000 Cost of grading per mile, $ 3044 Cost of road complete 10,084 A resolution was adopted, instructing the chief-engineer to commence the "location survey" between Chester and Lancaster, and directing the President to put the grading under contract, between these points, with all ^ convenient despatch. The President was instructed to collect from the cash subscribers, '6'6i per cent, upon the shares on the 1st of November, 1st of January and the 1st of March ; and a resolution was adopted requesting the County Commissioners of Chester, Lancaster and Chesterheld, to submit to the voters of their respective counties, a connty subscription of one hundred thousand dollars. Trial of Gideon Long. Gideon Long, charged with the murder of a negro named Zero Ezell, near Jonesville, on the 9th of May last, by cutting his throat, was tried at Union Court House last week and acquitted. The Union Times in renortintr the trial, savs : - "i o ' ?y ~ It will be remembered that the difficulty between Mr. Long and Ezell grew out of some slanderous remarks made by the latter against the father of Mr. Long. Long went into the cabin where Ezell was, and as he did not know him enquired if he was there. Ezell was either pointed out to him or acknowledged he was the man. Long told him that he had heard that he had abused his father, and said, "if I was sure you said it I would slap your face." Ezell asked who told him he said it Mr. Long refused to give his informant's name. Upon this Ezell very insolently said, "I did say it now?slap and be d?d. Long then slapped his face,and Ezell, immediately went to a bed, and, as Long thought, got some weapon, and then turned toward Long again. At this long took up a piece of bark or a small box and struck at him but did not hit him. Some colored men in the room held Long Ail TT1_.11 A _-A A A l 1 1 1 uuui rjZKH weiii. um, aiicr no uau uccu gone about five minutes, Long told the other men that he would go home. On his way home, aud but a short distance from the cabin Long saw the shadow of a man standing at the corner of a fence?it was moon-light?with a club raised as if to strike him, and he dodged, but was knocked down; he rose quickly and saw his assailant with a knife drawn. Long drew his knife? an ordinary pocket knife?and thrust it in his assailant, and then they both clinched? the left arm of each around the other's body. In the scuffle Long found his assailant was ^ cutting him in the shoulder and side, evidently intended to kill him, and he then cut Ezell's throat. This testimony was corroborated in every important point. Long showed the wounds that the deceased had inflicted on him. Others testified to seeing the blood flow from Long's wound immediately after the fray. It did not appear that Long had a weapon of any kind, except his pocket knife, and all the witnesses agreed in stating that he did not act as if he wished to do Ezell any bodily injury." For the Yorkville Enquirer. TEMPERANCE MEETING. The Sons of Temperance celebrated the anniversary of their organization, at Armenia Camp-ground, in Chester county, on Thursday, 25th September. The occasion was one of the most interesting of the kind ever witnessed in that county. William Sanders, a young lawyer lately admitted to practice, was the chosen orator of the day. His address was carefully prepared and well delivered. After this address, the large crowd gathered it the long table and partook of one of the Ernest and most abundant dinners it has ever oeen our pleasure to attend. After dinner the people returned to the stand and were iddressed by Mr. Timothy Lipsey, a veteran In flip nonuo r?f tf?mriprftnr>p fnllmvwl hv R.PV. " ? r j rilman R. Gaines, of Columbia. It was gratifying to see the evidences of a lecided reformation in the temperance cause in that neighborhood. The young people, both male and female, the middle-aged and i the old, are l>eing enlisted in the good work. Progress.