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f>waps and Jacts. j At the recent exercises of the State Normal Schools, in Salem, Mass., a mother and daughter were in the graduating class together. About a thousand acres were this sea- > son planted in cotton in Fresno County, California. The experiment is regarded as sue- j cessful, the bolls being large and the fibre j equal in quality to the best sea island. The discovery is said to have been j made that it is unnecessary to groove a rifle barrel the whole of its length, but that a few [ inches of grooving near the muzzel will give j the ballet all the needful spin. A fashionable dry goods establishment ! in Paris is said to hare introduced a billiard saloon into his apartments, where gentleman beguile themselves while their wives and 1 daughters are shopping. It is stated that fifteen out of every i forty-one who have died in Connecticut in the past five years were drunkards. Rather a land of unsteady than of steady habits, one might judge, unless "steady drinks" be referred to. The postoffice department find that j there is an average weekly balance of about i twenty thousand dollars, or one million dollars ' per annum, due Great Britian on account of j the payment of money orders issued in the | United States in favor of British subjects. Postal cards have proved so popular in this country that during the first five months of their use more than sixty-five millions have been issued. When Congress authorized the issue, it was expected that ono hundred millions of these cards would be used the first year. A papyrus manuscript, found in an Egyptian tomb, is said to have been translated by a German scholar, who pronounces it to be an address of Ramesses III to all the nations of the earth, detailing minutely all the causes which led to the exodus of the Jews from the land of the Pharaohs. The New. York barbers are said to have been heavy lossers by the panic, because the men who had money at stake became quite imlfferent about appearances, and those who had none to lose would not shave, that people might suppose their minds were troubled about their losses. There are now in operation in the United States fifteen narrow gauge railroads, with a total of seven hundred miles of track. The twenty roads in course of construction will increase the number of miles to one thousand nine hundred aud fifty. The average cost of narrow gauge roads, with the rolling stock complete, is ?10,000 per mile. The Washington Chronicle mentions a report that Hon. Alexander H. Stepheus, llerschel V. Johnson, and one or two other prominent Southern politicians, will start a new daily paper in that city on or about the 1st of December next. It is understood that it will advocate the refunding of the cottou tax. and be "indenendent" in nolitics. A grange of Patrons of Husbandry in Boston, composed of grain and commission merchants, having been ordered to disband by the grand master of the national grange, on the ground that it was not a farmer's grange, has refused, and threatens to carry the matter before the national grange. The Boston grange retains its books and initiates members upon the pass words and grips of the order. Ben Dunn, a freedman living in Alabama, offers a premium of ten dollars in gold to any one of his race who will have on the fair grounds in his district as young a wife with as many children as he will then and there exhibit. The unsuccessful competitor is to pay for the fair ticket and dinner of the successful party. Ben's wife is only twentysix years of age, was married to him in 186*3, and is the mother of twelve children, having four pairs oftwius, Ben will give satisfactory proof or certificates, and will require the same from his competitor. At a meeting of the geutleman interested in the building of a new railroad from Chicago to Charleston, S. C., held in Chicago last week, the following officers were elected : Governor Magoffin, of Kentucky, president; Cyrus II. McCormick, of Chicago; James N. Sims, of Indiana ; J. H. Johnson, A. G. Wilson, of Tennessee; Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina ; Gen. J. W. Harrison, of South Carolina, and Mr Erwin, of Georgia, vice-presidents; Maj. N. J Veil, of Illinois, secretary. The road is to be known as the Chicago and South Atlantic railway. A correspondent of the Bangor (Maine) Democrat thus speaks of the hay crop of that State: The hay crop of Maine this year is worth as much in the Boston and New York markets as the cotton crop of Georgia. Our hay crop is not less than 1,600,000 tons. It sells to day in Boston at ?30 a ton. That would amount to ?48,000,000. A princely sum truly ! The cotton crop of Georgia this year is estimated at 600,000 bales of 400 pounds each. This, at 20 cents a pound, would bring in the Boston market ?48,000,000. Hereafter the hay crop of Maine will he with us as important a staple as the cotton crop is to the Southern States. A New York paper publishes the re- : port of Heer Haas, who was sent over to this i I T~> 1 country oy a company or liernn capitalists to inspect the Northern Pacific Railroad, and examine into its merits as an investment. The paper has never before been published in the country. Herr Haas is unfavorable j in his views to the company ; is decidedly of! the opinion that for many years after the completion the road would fail to pay interest on its capital; that its lands could by no means sell as rapidly as anticipated ; that the through traffic in competition with San Francisco would be confined to tea and silk almost , entirely, and would be small, and that it would be a road merely of magnificent future possibilities. Judge Barrett, of New York city, has! rendered nugatory the new statue of the State j wheh was iutended to open all theatres, ho-1 tels, &c., to negroes. His decision puts an ' end to the foolish law. Three negroes sued ; Lester Wallack for having refused to allow J them seats in his theatre. In order to recov-; or, they charged that he so refused because of' their color or race. Wallack filed an answer averring that he excluded them for other reasons. Judge Barrett has ruled that he is not obliged to verify his answer?that is to swear to it?because no man ought to be com- i polled to criminate himself under oath. Since j, Wallack affirms that the negroes were excluded for other reasons, it will be next to impossible for the negroes to prove that he ex-; eluded them on account of their color. Theatre and hotel proprietors can always find (1 good reasons, and will not assign an uulaw- i1 fill one. So goes the law. The Paris market is regularly supplied with Amercan oysters in the shell from the i! Chespeake Bay. The importation of oysters from Norfolk commenced a couple of years ago, and it has been so successful that two new corapauies have been formed to carry on a large export trade in this article of food. Artificial beds for their reception have been ; prepared on the Normandy coast, and a nura-j her of vessels have been especially constructed r? flirt f / ] rt rtrt rrt Kminr* cnoorl Q n rl lornfft f ATI - IKJL Hit tiaUC) tUlliUIUIli^ 0|7ttu UUU iUlgu VVU age capacity. Large oyster parks for their planting have also been constructed at Le Carnisle, in the Atlantic Ocean, for the storing of these shipments on their arrival in Fiance. Some of the earlier arrivals are already in the Paris market, and command a price far in advance of that obtained for the French oyster, which has greatly deteriorated of late years, and the beds are showing unmistakable signs of exhaustion. A private letter, written by a Memphis gentleman, gives a more thrilling and sick- j ening picture of pestilential horrors in that city than comes to the knowledge of people through the public dispatches. In fact, he says the Memphis papers have failed to re-. cord the fearful extent of suffering because 1 they feared that business might consequently be driven away Nevertheless, it has been driveu away, and that is the most trifling of evil consequences. Whole families have been carried off by the yellow fever, and their corpses lie unhurried in houses with no one to attend to them. The poor people especially suffer terribly, and when taken, generally live ! but a short time, though rich and poor are now afflicted alike. The undertakers are not able to bury them, and the dead bodies are j carried off in wagons, sometimes as many as I nine in one cart. Even the prisoners at the station-houses are sent out under a guard ! of policemen to lay out the dead and put them in their coffins, a worse punishment perhaps than their sentences provided. The Sisters of Charity and members of various benevolent societies who first afforded relief are now beginning to be afflicted to a considerable extent, and the contributions from outside are not commensurate with the people's extremity where sixty-five or seventy deaths are daily reported, and doubtless more take j place. If there was ever an appeal in this country in behalf of humanity, this is one, and a prompt response is the duty of every , city and town. $Itc Uurimlle (frnquivcr. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 23, 1873. llow to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and State in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post-office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. 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Specimen copies of tho ENQUIRER will lie sent to any address on application. Address all letters to Ja. M. Proprietor. Yorkville, S. C. THE RAILROAD QUESTION, AGAIN. The Daily Charlotte Observer, in its tardy reply to our article on the subject of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, fails to meet a single point at issue, but devotes two of its 1 ample columns to a tumid effort, conveying . neither wit nor argument. At this we are not; a little surprised. We confidently itnag-! ined that a mind capable of originating the wonderful and happy conception that "Charlotte, and not Chester, is the proper market for the productions of the Catawba valley," would, when occasion offered, startle the world with other and more curious revelations. But we are sadly disappointed. The Observer fails to rise above the dignity of Mother Goose ; and no little inc a/*ta tlmf rmipV) nn t.hp warmth of the sun are indefatigable in their activity, so did the Observer bluster and buzz in the greasy sunshine of its own good humor, until the very elements of its activity were consumed before it could reach the points involved in the subject under discussion. Since the Observer has so utterly failed to unfold auy new facts, we are at a loss as to whether a discussion with it can be profitably conducted. True, it does intimate that we made use of a very trite comparison, which we don't deny. We did not look so much at the triteness as at what we happily conceived to be the appropriateness; and when we already perceive that the mind which gave such cheering evidence of expansiveness, has so suddenly collapsed and can furnish nothing in addition to the one grand idea that "Charlotte, and not Chester, is the proper market for the productions of the Catawba valley," we are content to let it pass. But comparisons, however pat and proper, are sometimes "odious," which fact we recognize when the Observer intimates that the king of Dahomey is an African and a cousin of Frank Edwards, Colored County Commissioner of York. We did incidentally institute a comparison between the aforesaid king and the editor of the Observer, and we now beg pardon of Frank Edwards, Colored r\ * r\ ; ? ? a. <<! V/Oumy commissioner, ior me irieveicut comparison with his distinguished kinsman. So much for side issues and irrelevant points. "We have not denied the Observer the right to be "concerned" about matters in its own State, nor do we essay to "manage this enterprise of two States to the exclusion of the citizens of one of them." This arrogation is exercised only by the Observer in officiously interposing with the affairs of York county. And while the mental vision of the Observer remains so obscured as to only discern that "Charlotte, aud not Chester, is the proper market for the productions of the Catawba valley," we fear that its reason is blinded by prejudice, which vitiates all the good advice and fatherly protection so generously extended to our people. Iu our issue of the 9th we proved conclusively that there is no unanimity of opposition in York county to the subscription, which the Observer attempts to controvert only by the feeble rejoinder?"Certainly, unanimity of hos ility in York District cannot be charged, when three Commissioners, (one of them a NEGRO.I have nut their hands to the subscrip tiou, and the editor of the Enquirer becomes its fearless advocate!" While we think it can be shown that there are others who favor the subscription, we would also correct the false impression that the Observer wilfully attempts to convey, when it charges that we are the fearless advocate of what it is pleased to term an act of oppression. Wo have never felt called upon to become the "fearless advocate" of the Commissioners?First, because the charter clearly grants them authority to make the subscription, and in so doing they did not invoke our advocacy; and Secondly, the matter having gone to the Courts for adjudication, there was no necessity for a newspaper discussion in the premises. We are an advocate of the road. We favor n liberal system of improvements; but as we said in our issue of the 9th, to which the Observer pretends to reply, "If the subscription is illegal, and was made without warrant of authority, let the act of the Commissioners be abrogated and set aside by the Courts. We would not, in the columns of the Enquirer, knowingly endorse a wrongful or illegal official act, however great might be the boon it would confer." If the Observer was so anxious to quote from the Enquirer, why did it not produce our own language and give our true position on the question? As to the Observer's fustian about our failure to remonstrate against the County Commissioners making a subscription, and our willingness to "abide the decision of a partisan Judge, a radical of the deepest dye," we have only to say, so far as the "partisan Judge" is concerned, there was none other to render a decision ; nor are we responsible for his political opinions. We are not aware, however, that partisan or political feeling enters into the Question. The board of Com - _ 4 missiouers that "unanimously put their hands to the subscription" represent both political parties, while voters throughout the county, of either party, are not opposed to the subscription. Among the names of those who enjoined the Commissioners are there no "radicals"?no negroes? Were the plaintiffs to the suit actuated by political bias ? Does the whole question depend, at last, upon political feeling ; and must the people be deprived of a "good thing" simply because it has advocates in both parties? Or shall the scheme fail because it does not meet the approval of the Charlotte Observerf We did not "remonstrate" against the Commissioners for the reason that under the charter of the company, the County Comraissioner? are the "proper authorities" of the county, and by the provisions of the charter, through them only, could a legal county subscription be made. Had the question of subscription been submitted to the voters of the county, and had every man in the county voted for the subscription, it would have been invalid, for the very reason that the charter docs not authorize the subscription to be made in that manner. If it be said that the action of the Chester and Lenoir charter, under which the subscription was made, is similar to the law authorizing a subscription by couuties in South Carolina 111 aid of the Air- j Line road, and that an election was deemed j necessary in that instance, we reply that we are informed the officers of the Air-Line road did not regard the election in Spartanburg, . Greenville and other counties as authorizing . the subscription, and they declined to receive j the bonds of those counties until the following : act, approved March 7, 1871, was passed by the Legislature of South Carolina : "Be it enacted, Ac., That the County Com mis- | sioncrs of the counties of Spartanburg, Greenville, Pickens and Oconee, and the proper authorities of tlus several cities and towns in those counties . having subscribed, or proposing subscription to the capital stock of the Atlanta and Richmond Air J Line Railway Company, bo empowered, as soon as the said Railway Company shall have complied ' with the terms of subscription of any one of the ; aliovo mentioned counties, cities or towns, and said subscription shall have been accepted bysaid | Company, then the County Commissioners of, such county, or the proper authority of such city ! or town, are authorized and required to havo I levied and collected, from year to year, on all j taxable property in such county, city or town, a I sum of nionev sufficient to meet the interest accruing on such IkuhIh as may be issued to meet such subscription to the capital stock of the said Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railway Cnin?any, and to provide further payment of such oncls as they may fall due." Were our cotemporary capable of grasping an idea beyond his own presumptuous assertion that "Charlotte, and not Chester, is the j proper market for the productions of the Ca-; tawba valley," we incline to believe that the ! action of the Air-Line Company, coupled j with the above act of the Legislature, would 1 satisfy him as to the correctness of our posi- j tion, and the falsity of his own. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The State Fair commences at Columbia j on Tuesday, 11th of November. ? The present indebtedness of Union coun-1 ty is $12,127.22. ? Joseph Luckey, from South Carolina, sentenced to eight years in the Albany Penitentiary, for ku-kluxism, has been pardoned. ? There is a letter in the Charleston post J office, held for postage, addressed to C. S. j Patrick, Yorkville, S. C. ? Rev. C. Bruce Walker, librarian and j treasurer of the State University, has resigned j the nnsitinn. ? A number of Canadians are prospecting around Greenville with the view of locating permanently. ? The Edgefield Advertiser denies the rumor that ex-Governor Bonham intends to remove from the State and settle in Staunton, Virginia. ? The Columbia Union-Herald is informed that Mr. C. P. Pelham, Jr., has announced himself a Republican, and also as a candidate for the position of librarian to the University. ? There are two vacancies in the Legislature from Charleston. The News says there are not less thar six aspirants for the two vacancies. ? Walter Jones, colored, a clerk in the State Treasury department, has passed a satisfactory examination at the State University, and been enrolled as a member of the law school. ? A movement is on 'foot to organize a church of strangers in Columbia, similar to that presided over by Dr. Deems in New York. ? The bootblacks of Charleston have held a, convention and resolved that they prefer five cents, in cash, for a "shine," rather than to give credit for ten cents. ? LaFayette I. Wolfe, a radical trial justice, of Charleston, who was sometime ago sentenced to the penitentiary for the murder of Perrin, has escaped from that institution and is now at large. ? The Barnwell Sentinel hears of four acres of land in Barnwell, planted in the "Bancroft" cotton seed, which has already turned out something over four five hundred and fifty pound bales of cotton. ? Six hundred acres of marsh land at Paris Island, in Port Royal harbor, belonging to the State, were sold by the Comptroller-General for twenty-five cents an acre. Ex-Senator Frank Arnim, of Edgefield, was the purchaser. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Bears are said to be more numerous aud destructive in the eastern part of the State than ever before known. ? Capt. R. A. Shotwell has entered upon his duties as associate editor of the Southern Home. ? The planing mill of Jonas Rudisill in Charlotte was destroyed by fire on Thursday morning last. Loss about 87000. ? Rev. Dr. R. Hett Chapman, of Charlotte, lms inherited a large fortune by tho doath of a northern relative. ? Larkin N. Gilbert, a merchant of Lenoir, Caldwell county, died suddenly on the 15th. Hp. was attacked with a pain in the ear, and died in a few minutes afterward. ? The fourth attempt to wreck the trains on the Salem and Greensboro railroad was raado in the neighborhood of Friendship a few nights ago, by placing obstructions on the track. ? The Newberne Times says the aeronaut of the Great Eastern Circus met with a serious accident at Kinston. The balloon, in descending, and when about one huudred feet from the ground, burst and came down with a crash. The man was seriously injured. ? The Statesville American commends the action of Caldwell county in voting a subscription of 860,000 to the Chester and Lenoir Railroad. And yet Statesville could claim to be the "proper market for the productions of the Catawba valley" with as much consistency as the "city" of Charlotte. ? The survivors of the Mexican war in North Carolina?some two hundred in number?have formed an association, the object being to procure a peusion from the U. S. Government. The next meeting of the association will be held at Asheville, on the 4th of July. ? At. Sliplhv court Inst week the case of the ! State vs. Leander Jolly created much interest. Jolly was an officer of the United States and had arrested one Noble Surratt, during the late ku-klux unpleasantness, without a warrant. The jury found the defendant guilty, and the penalty imposed was payment of costs. ? The Greensboro Patriot speaks in complimentary terms of the conduct of Solicitor Lusk during the recent term of the Federal Court in that place, he having shown a generous disposition toward those who were unfortunate enough to get into the clutches of the law, and not praying judgment in a single instance. ? The Lincoln Progress of Saturday last, says : "From a private letter we learn that a ! man answering the description of Owens, who ' killed J. W. Cheek, as described in the last l Progress, has been upon Upper Creek, Burke county, and said he was dodging the revenue j officers. He was riding a good horse, and has j now gone over the mountains toward Mitchel." ? The Raleigh News learns that G. J. Green, of Alamance, has effected arrangements with the Hope Cotton Mills, of Patter-1 son, N. J., for the removal of all their cotton ' machinery to Hickory, Catawba county. The : erection of the necessary buildings will com-1 mence at once, and the company hope to have ! their machinery in operation within a year. I ? Saturday last was the sixth and closing ' day of the State Fair. The Raleigh News 1 says that it has not only been an unprecedcu- j ted success, but that it has so far out-rivalled \ all of its predecessors, in every respect, that no comparison can be instituted between them. I The only regret was that the speaker for the occasion, Hon. Daniel Voorhees, of Indiana, failed to keep his engagements, in consequence of misconnections of trains. His place, however, was ably filled by Senator Ransom. ? The Newberue Times says that at the afternoon performance of the Great Eastern circus, in Kiuston, on Monday of last week,: "a woman with her child went in to see the menagerie, when the attendant present threatened to throw the child into the lions den, at the same time seizing it; the child became badly scared and in a few minutes died. The outrageous conduct of some of these circus people, towards citizens of our city, as well as in other localities visited, is such as to de-1 serve the severest condemnation." NEWS OF THE DAY. p ? Horatio Seymour has beeu nominated a i s candidate for the First Assembly District by '1 the Democrats of Oneida county, N. Y. I c ? Miss Agnes Lee, daughter of Gen. R. E. | j, Lee. died suddenly at her home in Lexinsrton. ( ' J # O ' V Va., on Tuesday of last week. ii ? George Bird, Grinnell A Co., of New t York, have been declared bankrupts. Their r assets are twelve millions and their liabilities ^ twenty millions. j ? In the process of initiation in the Kappa v Alpha Society of the students at Ithica, N. p Y., the candidate, a young man named h Leggett, fell off the "cliff," and was killed. 8 ? The Brule Sioux and Ponica Indians are 1 fighting each other. According to a dispatch * from Yankton, in a battle on the 15th, twenty warriors were killed. , J ^ ? The Boston Manufacturer's Board of e Trade of Fall River hav> voted to recommend ^ a suspension of all the i. .ds for two days in each week and to run only eight hours a day, ^ during the other four days, for the present. ? The prosecution in the Stokes trial closed a their case on Friday, reserving the right to b call further witnesses if uecessary. At this t< point some of the counsel for the defense be- 1 coming too unwell to proceed with the trial, ? the court adjourned. ? J. C. Cloud, an oarsman, who started from ^ Philadelphia, some three months since to row j to New Orleans by canals and rivers, was found dead, last week, after haviug nearly e reached the point of his destination. His diary shows that he had suttered with chins, j ? On yesterday a general convention of ' North-western farmers assembled in Chicago, comprising delegates from all the granges, farmers' clubs and other societies in that sec- ^ tion. The subject for discussion is the "pre- r vailing overcharges for transportation." 1 ? Some time ago, Charlotte Gilbert, colored, f brought suit agaiust the New York and r Charleston Steamship Company to recover ? $10,000 damages for being excluded from the p state-room on one of their steamers on account r of color. The Supreme Court of New York, 1 on appeal, has awarded her seventy-five dol- 8 lars damages. ? MERE-MENTION. 1 It is said that there is a disposition among c fashionable ladies in New York to discard corsets. The New York Postoffice is to e be kept open all night for the delivery of let- I ters from the box department. The s President has proclaimed November 27 as S Thanksgiving Day. France lost 200,000 horses during the Prussian war. The 1: Graphic aeronauts took up a basket of chara- h pagne with them. Hence their mistaking s Connecticut for Europe. It is stated that- t in New York city, a day or two ago, a gentle- t man offered a hundred silver dollars in a place a of public resort for ninety-eight dollars in v greenbacks. He didn't get them. In a consequence of the money panic, the number of ii employes in the northern manufactories has d been greatly reduced. The Augusta, Ga., n Exchange has conformed its cotton classifica- r tion to the New York rule. Heretofore it cor- li responded with the Liverpool style. The ri- t tual and manual of the Order of the Patrons of n Husbandry is to be translated into German, and li German granges are to be established in Ger- p man settlements. The yellow fever has r no terror for book agents. Two of that class s arrived at Shreveport the other day and be- ( gau to canvass among the nurses for subscrip- v tions to a comic book. S ^ I - ? ? I* ?> * rtnllinn aolnnn n A 111 W Ul i.Ti.UJIll.'Outu, uu iiijjcn 11a, keepers to pay ten dollars aunually to the i< support of the State Inebriate Asylum, has p yielded $12,000 this year. The deaths n from cholera in Hungary, up to September i 1, this year, were 104,000. Non-native is the polite substitute for carpet-bagger in t the Virginia campaign. By rigorous en- t forcement of the liquor law, Boston has man- ]; aged to reduce the number of its bar-rooms to t a little over two thousand. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. a 8 The Yellow Fever. p A dispatch from Louisville, Ky.f says c although there have been several yellow fever a deaths in that city, they were every one im- b ported from Memphis and Shreveport. Thou- J sands of refugees from those cities have taken ^ refuge in Louisville, and some of them brought c the seeds of the disease with them. s T? ATo,.,, Ala tkoro were* fwn vpllnw h Jill iUUlllgUUJVIJ^a.iWM viiviv Ifvaw !>..? j fever deaths on the 16th, and one on the 18th. t In Shreveport there were six deaths on the 0 16th. ? In Memphis there were fifteen deaths on ^ the 16thj; thirty on the 17th, and thirty-one on jj the 18th. n Journalistic Courtesy. h The Rock Hill Lantern publishes the P reply of the Charlotte Observer to our article on the subject of the Chester and Lenoir a Railroad, (in the Enquirer of the 9th,) with ^ the graceful addendum that the publication is ti made without "comment." We certainly a have no complaint to make of what the Lan- tl tern sees fit to publish ; but the "high regard n for the proprieties of polite journalism" thus g displayed is the more manifest when we remember tbat the Lantern failed to publish our article to which the Observer replies. This is a degree of magnanimity somewhat c unusual in the amenities of editorial life. The Burning #of Colnmbia. From a recent Washington dispatch, it ^ would appear that the controversy about the burning of Columbia has received a seeming , formal termination by the British American Mixed Commission. This controversy grew . out of claims for cotton destroyed in the burn- " ing of Columbia, which claims were based up- ' on the assumption that the city was burned 0 by the Federal soldiers, acting under the authority of the Federal commanders. The vast mass of testimony taken on that subject ^ was before the commission, and after giving it careful attention, every one of those claims v was disallowed. The total amount claimed Cl was between 86,000,000 and 87,000,000. Government Finances. 01 A semi official statement of the finances a of the Government concludes with the state- j51 ment that. there is no aoDrehension that Con gress will impose additional taxes to supply j v supposed or actual additional deficiencies in the receipts, but rather restrict the appropriations to economical limits and commence no jf 8' new works that may not be actually needed, j The Washington Star, however, says, "the ! appropriations which Congress will be asked | to make at the coming session, including the 1 u estimates for the next fiscal year and very n large deficiencies for the present year, there n is reason to believe, will be greatly in excess jj' of the appropriation for any year since the beginning of President Grant's administration." c< The Case of Edward F. Stokes. Several weeks ago, the notorious Ed- i fc ward F. Stokes was committed to the jail of, 13 Greenville county for contempt of Court. | r< The Greenville Republican gives the following ( lj as the circumstances attending the matter: | "A statute of this State provides that if the ' sheriff can not make the money on an execu- P: tion in his office, and the plaintiff in the exe- & cution believes that the judgment debtor has e: iroperty, hut of such a character that the j heriffcannot levy on it and make the money, hen he can bring the defendant in the execu-1 ion before the Court on supplementary pro- j eedings and compel him to answer conceruog his property. Upon being brought into /ourt, Mr. Stokes flatly refused to be exaraned. Judge Cooke committed him to jail, as he law required him to do, and as his self- j espect required him to do. "Subsequently, Stokes sued out a writ of i abeaa corpus before Judge Willard, Associate , ustice of the Supreme Court, and was by ' irtue thereof carried to Columbia. After a iatient and protracted hearing, Judge Wil- , ard discharged the writ and remanded Mr. itokes to Greenville jail, there to remain unil he be discharged by due course of law.'' troken National Banks. To the inquiry of a subscriber, the New fork Journal of Commerce gives the following ! xplanation why the notes of closing National : ianks command a premium : j Tlin Wntinnnl lmnlr r>nrronr?v ?iitlinri7pd hv i ~ "J - J aw being all issued, no new bank can be stared, so as to obtain notes for itself, without iringing in and surrendering for cancellation n equal amount previously issued to someody else. We have heard that as high as en per cent, has been paid by speculators for he bills of a defunct national bank. These re then brought to the Comptroller of the Currency, who will cancel them and reissue u equal amount to the new concern in whose 1 lehalf they were surrendered." niportant Invention. Fenton G. Foster, who lives near Raligh, N. C., who has been working for sever,1 years on a type-setting machine, in a pubished card inviting the aid of a capitalist, ays his machine is now perfected, and he laims for it the following merits: 1. It can be built for less than one hundred lollars. 2. It is very simple. 3. It is as duable as an ordinary card press. 4. It is not iable to deraugement. 5. It will set one ont of type as readily as another, the same nachine setting any font required. 6. It will et capital and lower case, both Roman and talic, and small caps, without additional teys and without change or parts, or the opeator changing his seat. 7. It will quad, ead or double-lead, at pleasure. 8. It will et any length of line required. 9. It will pace as readily as set type. 10. It will set 1000 ems per hour, by actual experiment. .1. It will set a galley full or column with>ut requiring the stick to be emptied. Such a machine as the above is representd to be will effect a greater revolution in the irinting business than did the application of team to the presses. Itate Elections. On Tuesday of last week elections were ield in the six States of Indiana, Ohio, Neiraska, Oregon, Pennsylvania and New Jerey. In Indiana only Judges and Prosecuors were elected for some of the judicial disricts. Ohio and Iowa voted for Governors ,nd State Legislatures. The other States ote for State and county officers. In Ohio ,nd Iowa the contest has been animated owng to the new organization known as the Inlependent party, which favors the farmers' movement, their slogan being opposition to ailroad monopolies. In Iowa, which has leretofore had a heavy Republican majority, he Democrats and anti-monopolists have a majority in the lower branches of the Legisature. The Republican State Committee relort a loss in sixty-six counties of over 35,000 aajority. The counties heard from are all ^ .*1 1 T trong jl?eraocratic ana grange localities. jiu )hio the Democrats carry the Legislature, ?hich ensures the election of a Democratic Senator. They also claim the Governor by a aajority of some 800. The entire State ticket 3 claimed by the Democrats, except the Suireine Judge and Comptroller, and sixteen lajority in the Legislature on joint ballot, 'he Death of Mr. W. C. Harris. The Union Times of last week furnishes he following as the circumstances attending he death of Mr. W. C. Harris, of Union vilage, the occurrence of which was noticed in he last issue of the Enquirer: "From what we can learn of the cause, it ppears that the train had stalled on a very teep grade and the engineer was making eforts by backing and starting again, to overome it, when Mr. Harris rose from his seat nd attempted to cross the platform into the >ack car. Just as he opened the door the lumpers of the cars were close together and ie made a step, at the same time reached out lis hands to catch the railing of the other ar, when the engine suddenly started and eparated the platforms so far that he missed is step and grasp and fell through. The rain, it is supposed, backed and went forward nee or twice after he fell, and as often passed ver him. A brakeman discovered him at ast, jumped from the car and pulled him out rom between the front and back wheels, but " i ? 1 .1 a i !!_ 1 _ lie was extinct, ana ne my tne most nornuie wangled corps ever seen. From the waist to lis toes every bone was broken and large lieces of flesh were picked up on the track. The accident occurred near Wright's station, nd strange to tell, the Conductor of the train, Mr. Long, left the body just where the rakeman had pulled it to, on the side of the rack, with the head down the embankment nd the feet up towards the track. No furher notice was taken of the body and it regained there for hours. At Gastonia, six 1 liles beyond, the Conductor instructed the i ection Master to "go and see about it." i lie Cotton Crop. I The average condition of the cotton rop in the first week of this month, as com- > ared with October reports of 1871 and 1872, < iands as much higher than that of the former i ear, as it falls below the record of the latter. I 'he standard crop being a good normal growth, iie yearly losses from worms or other casual- I ,es almost always reduce the record below < 00, and the present reduction usually occurs i l September. The average this year has . illen off from 89 to 781 since the first week . f September; a larger reduction than usually 1 ccurs. The general average in October, 1 871, was 76 ; it was 82 in October of last i ear. The area was one-eighth greater in 1 872, and the autumn more favorable for de- i elopment and picking, and the result an in- i rease of about 1,000,000 bales. The area of < le present year was increased about ten per 1 snt., but a portion of the enlargement was ] bandoned, and the October status of the i rop is materially reduced. The season must < e of average length and comparatively fa- i orable for picking to insure a crop equal to < lat of last year. 1 The State averages are as follows: Vir- i inia 90; North Carolina 88 ; South Carolina i 0; Georgia 82; Florida 76; Alabama 78; < " To.aa fin A rbnnsns 88 : Tenn- t JUUJ3KIL1U> Ul/ | xvamu vv | a*. , ssce 90; Missouri 90. Worms have contin- ] ed their ravages, and made advances upon 1 e\v territory in Arkansas and North Caroli- ( a. Several counties in the latter State re- 1 ort the presence of the caterpillar for the < rsttime. A disastrous storm destroyed much f )tton in Florida and in adjacent States on i le 29th of September. Much stained cot- j in is reported in the seaboard States. There i general complaint that the plants are al- i :ady bare of leaves, and picking will be com- t leted at an early date. In some counties of < le Gulf States it is claimed that there will l e an average crop, notwithstanding the cater- J illarand boll worm ; while in other counties j loss of one-third of the crop from worms is f fpected. c LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. Harry Clav.son?Notice of appointment as Assignee?In Bankruptcy?In the Matter of Thomas Palmer, Hillariah MeCall, Olwdiah Sarratt, Mattliew Merritt, Thomas Whitesides, Bankrupts. M. Strauss tfc Son?Look. T. W. Olawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?First Meeting of Creditors?In the Matter of James II. Hemphill, Jeremiah Moss, Hamilton Wilson, Charles Bird and Wm. M. Sims. W. II. A J. P. Herndon?We Have Coffee, ?fce. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Prol>ate?CitationJames J. Shaw, Applicant?James D. Craig, deceased. Tarrant's Effervescent Seltzer Aperient. Joseph A. McLean, Judgo of Probate?CitationRev. J. S. Bailey, Applicant?James Bailey, deceased. B. F. Rawlinson?Ladies' Dress Goods. Mrs. C. D. McLean?Music Lessons. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation ? Joseph F. Wallace, Applicant?Robert Merritt, deceased. J. Harry Clawson, Assignee?In BankruptcyNotice to Lion Creditors?In the Matter of A. T. Black, Bankrupt. T. M. Dobson A Co.?Cigars?Boots and ShoesBalmorals?Furs?Hoop Skirts?BasketsShawls?Ready-Made Clothing?Old Hats and TlnnnAtt:?Tjiilina?Millinerv?TTmhrol. las?Coffee Mills?Guns?Blankets?Looking Glasses?Oil Cloth?Cotton?Coffee and Sugar?Why?Crockery?Pocket Cutlery? N uts ?? AGRICULTURAL?THE GRANGES. On Saturday last, a goodly number of the citizens of the town and county, including several ladies, assembled in the Court House for the purpose of hearing addresses on the subject of agriculture and the granges, which had been previously appointed for Col. \V. B. Wilson, of Yorkville, and Major Julius Mills, Deputy Master of Chester county. The occasion was enlivened with strains of music by the colored brass band. The speakers were introduced by Col. A. Coward, Master of York Grange. Col. Wilson said the duty of delivering an address had been assigned him by York Grange, and he regretted that other engagements had prevented him from giving the subject that attention which its importance demanded. After alluding to the condition of agriculture in the South, and the importance of that interest to our own section, as well as the country at large, he next adverted to the farmers' organization, known as granges. The organization has no political features, but is established for the protection of the agricultural interest. The cooperative system has been adopted by nearly all classes of tradesmen and mechanics, to their benefit, and strange to say, until recently, the farmers of the country had neglected to avail themselves of the advantages of such a union. Already, however, the organization numbers thousands, banded together for their mutual protection against the operation of rings and monopolists. The movement is not confined to section, and under the system of free labor now pervading the entire land, there is no danger to be apprehended from sectional conflict or jealousy, but to the contrary, the association will be harmonious in its operations North, South, East and West. The importance of the laws of chemistry, as applied to farming; the advantages of deep plowing; the rotation of crops; hill-side ditching ; subsoiling; surface culture, at the proper stage of the crop, and similar subjects of practical importance to the farmer, were ably and fully discussed. The speaker urged the importance of cultivating small farms; or, in other words, that the planter should not undertake to cultivate more land than he can work thoroughly and well. If, by thorough culture and systematic farming, the same re salts can be attained on twenty acres, with one mule and two hands, that by an indifferent and negligent process would be accomplished on forty acres, with two mules and four hands, he argued that it is manifestly to the farmer's advantage to avoid the extra expense of one mule and two hands. The true policy of our farmers is to do less work and do it well. The test of the successful farmer is not alone in the quantity of his crops for a given year, but how, in addition to his productions, he improves his land. By a proper and judicious system of culture, besides the value of his crops, his profits will also increase in the enhanced value of his land, which is a matter of no less importance than good prices for his products. Besides the growth of cotton, our soil and climate are admirably adapted to the cultivation of all the cereals and other crops entering into man's wants or necessities: and all that is needed to make York county a blooming garden, is a liberal and systematic mode of farming. This, in addition to the advantages we now possess, in timber and water, and present and prospective facilities for transportation, would make York county the most desirable section in the State. Col. Wilson closed by again alluding to the advantages the farmers would derive from the grange or cooperative movement, paying a glowing and eloquent tribute to the noble profession of agriculture, a mere synopsis of which would but do the speaker injustice. Major Mills was next introduced. His remarks were confined exclusively to a defense of the granges and argument showing the necessity of such an organization. Agriculture, manufactures and commerce compose the three great classes of society, which should be maintained without a confliction of interWT! iL il*n AHA rtAl^U AM A^ 4-VtSV AMfl ?U)| VV HUUUt LUC UUC UCIlllCl U1 tuc UltUOAO could exist. The Patrons of Husbandry are not in conflict with either class. They claim that, as an organization, it is a necessity, brought about by influences antagonistic to the farmer. It is estimated that the average earning of each person engaged in farming at the South i3 thirty dollars, while at the North and West the average is forty dollars. [n the production of cotton, rice and sugarf" the South takes the lead; while it may be safely asserted that the grass crop of the South is equal to that of the North. But the handling of southern products while reaching a market?requiring large sums as commissions and profits to middle men?consumes the productions of our labor, and is the cause of the farmer saving so little. It is a matter of selfpreservation that the farmers should organize societies for their mutual protection. In doing so, the Patrons of Husbandry do not make war on any other class. They are met )n every hand by rings and other troubles which cooperation only can overcome. But n thus protecting themselves they make no ,var upon the merchant. When the mer;haut buys a bale of cotton he deducts from Attn nnnnrla r\f TOPlorVlf fnr nn fln. MTU IV UTV |/v/uuv?0 v* Vi.w -W MV wrent reason than because it is the custom. While a reasonable deduction on account of V lust or water would not be objected to, does le observe the same rules in weighing arti- t :le3 which he sells to the farmer? Bacon, "or instance, bought in the West, green and noist, with a certain weight marked on each )iece, is brought here by the merchant, losing n weight every time it is handled ; it remains n a dry ware-room, where the weight coninues to diminish, but the loss is not acsounted for when sold to the farmer. If it is 'ight to make the deduction in one case, it is jroper to make it in the other; and if it is ust and right to deduct two or five pounds rora the weight of a bale of cotton when purihasing it from the farmer, it is equally right