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Scraps audi Jacts. j A Nevada postmaster has written a letter to Washington to know if he can rent i part of the office for a faro-bank. At the North, quite a number of manufactories that have stopped, have started again with a redaction of wages. The official returns show that, during the year ending June 30,1873, the number of immigrants who arrived in the United States was 459,803, compared with 404,806 for the previous year. An increase of 54,997. According to the accounting officers of the Treasury, the salaries of Government officials in Washington amount to about 81,000,000 |>er month, exclusive of day salaries. ! The distress at Patterson, New Jersey, i i > ^ *1 ,i.? I II:1S oecome so greni among me pooi mat mc mayor asks authority to call upou the Newark j militia in case of riot. The movement to iucrease the tax on j whiskey and tobacco meets but little sympathy among the more advanced statesmen in Congress. A dispatch from Bostou to the N. Y. j Times gives an encouraging report of the | New England factories, many of which are , stated to be resuming opperations, and a general improvement of trade is indicated. The Cunard steamship Abyssinia, which arrived in New York on Thursday last, brought 812,000,000 of United States six per cent, called bonds from Europe, on the way to the treasury department, at Washington, j for cancellation. At a wedding ceremony which recently ; took place in New York, the vestibule of the I church was furnished for the occasion with | mirrors, tables, chairs, brushes, powder and j hair-pins. It is now proposed to provide a a similar room for the groom and his supporters, with a tonsorial artist and a punch-master in attendance. The following conversation is reported between two bell boys at the Fifth avenue Hotel, New York: Pat asks Mike, "What's this ensnancinn ,\f tlif> himlfQ 9" "Hist. Vfi !" Mike replies, "I'll tell ye. Suppose ye have five cents." "Yis." "Leave it wid me." "Yis." "Next day ye want it, and ye ax me for it." "Yis." "I tell ye no, sir; I've used it raeself." Some of the Mississippi Grangers, in order to iuduee white men to settle in thatState, have promised to furnish every white family coining iuto their respective couuties with forty acres of land, rent free for five years. The Yicksburg Herald advocates selling instead of renting, the purchase money to be made payable in five annual installments, and is confident that the adoption of this plan by landholders would increase the population of Mississippi sixty thousand in six months. Others who own large tracts, propose to donate to actual white settlers, every alternate forty acres, which is an excellent and judicious plau for encouraging permanent colonists. The annual report of the Commissioner of internal revenue, discloses the fact that the receipts from the distillation and sale of spirituous liquors, anjount to more than one-half of the whole sum realized from the internal revenue. Hence, it is a mistaken idea to suppose that the largest property owner pays the most money for the support of the Government. The man who drinks the most liquor pays the heaviest taxes, and when you see a poor fellow lying in the gutter do not upbraid him. He is one of the pillars of the Government, and but for him aud others who drink, the national revenue would fall off more than one half. The navy yards would be closed up, and there would not be enough left to pay the iucreased salaries at Washington. A curious theory has been given of the indications of character as shown by the fingers. Those who have fingers with pointed tips are possessed of a rapid insight into things; are extra sensitive and impulsive. To this class belong the poets and artists. To the "square tips" belong scientific people; sensible, selfcontained characters, professional men. The spade-shaped tips?thick tips, with little pads of flesh on each side of the nails?are materialists, commercial, practical, with a high appreciation of all that tends to bodily ease and comfort. Each finger, no matter what the kind of hand, has also one joint?that which is nearest the palm?representing the body ; another?the middle?the mind; and the top, the soul. Each of these divisions corresponds with one of the types above given. The darkest side of hard times was disclosed in a Philadelphia court-room last week, when a man was arraigned on a charge of theft, lie pleaded the necessities of his lamuy and his want of employment. Two officers who went to his house found his wife aud five children in the most abject destitution. There was not a morsel of food in the house, and the wife and her little ones were weak from absolute starvation. The wife states that her husband was a good mechanic, a man of orderly habits, and that if he had committed a crime, it was to save his family. They had been married seven years, and during that time her husband had been uniformly kind, and had never done anything to throw a shade of suspicion upon his integrity. He was held to bail. The following explanation is given of the origin of the word "fillibuster." The river Yly, in Holland, is said to have furnished the namefiyboat, in English?in Spanish, flibote, or by softening the first syllable, filibote? to a sort of small fast sailing vessel of about one hundred tons burden, which in the seventeenth century were held in high estimation, on account of their fast sailing qualities. The buccaneers of the West Indies, who begau their depredations 011 Spanish commerce in mere row-boats, as they acquired the means of a more formidable outfit selected these craft as suited to their purpose. Hence they became known in all French as filibvstiers, and in Spanish filibusters, an appellation gradually extended in those lauguages to any kind of pirates. By a still more extended meaning, in the United States this terra has come to be applied to designate any military enterprise set on foot and prosecuted against the government of any State or country where no war exists, by mere adventures seeking to overthrow such government and destroy the domestic institutions of its people for the enrichment of the adventurers themselves. The Kansas City Journal has a private letter from Crockett, Texas, stating that a party of Texas desperadoes attempted to break up the performance of Robinson's Circus, at .Jacksonville, on the 23d ult., but were pre- | vented and order was restored. About 51 o'clock in the evening, however, as the circus I men were loading their animals, wagons, &c., on a car, preparatory to leaving the town, a ! large number of roughs attacked the men j with knives and pistols, and a general and I desperate fight ensued, in which three Texans , were killed and seven wounded. Robert; .Stickney, one of the performers, had his knee : dislocated ; Alleu Rose, another performer, I was shot through the hand; Charles Robinson j was knocked down with a club and shot; through the leg ; one of the hostlers was shot , through the breast, and another stabbed in j the back. As the train was leaving, it was fired on and one man was slightly wounded. Threats were made by the Texan3 that they would go to Crockett again and attack the circus, aud Robinson had to send for ammu- j tion. rnnntiflv onllorl : V>U1. IJOUjr , Ul ? llgiuia, IVKVUtlJ vuitvu on the President, and was received most cor- j dially by Gen. Grant and the members of his ; Cabinet. Col. Mosby offered his services in case of a war with Spain. The President replied that there was no immediate danger of war, but in case there should be he had per-! feet confidence in the Confederate soldiers, and j would distribute commissions equally among the officers of the Northern and Southern ar-' mies. He spoke most kindly of Stephens, and was glad that he was returned to Congress. Col. Mosby told the President that the V ir-1 ginia election was not a condemnation of his , administration, and that he was stronger than 1 ever in the State. The President agreed with I him, and was not at all dissatisfied with the result. He expressed himself gratified at the j tone of Gen. Kemper's speeches, and favored ! Mosby's policy of reconciliation between the! administration and the white people of the South. The President said that as long as he was President, the officers appointed through , Mosby's recommendations should not be molested, no matter who tried to oust them ; that hereafter he intended to appoint to office from the South the best men for the position, and that he was very much gratified at the good feeling manifested by the Virginia Conservatives towards his administration, and was ready to respond to it. mt fotnvtuc VOKKVILL.E. S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 11, 1873. 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It seems, from late intelligence, that the c i .?? : ?..,i ."spanisn question is inure uum-uit ui ijuict aim amicable solution than was supposed at the time of signing the protocol agreed upon between Mr. Fish, of this Government, and Admiral Polo, the Spanish Minister at Washington. The publication of the protocol in Cuba caused intense excitement and general indignation among the Spanish authorities and voluuteers on the island, which wa9 only quieted by a proclamation from Captain-General Jovellar, recommending the utmost calmness, and assuring the discontented minds that he would do everything possible in behalf of the interests of the province and the dignity of the Spanish nation. A manifesto was also issued by the leading members of the volunteer force, advising obedience to the authorities and expressing confidence in the acts of the Captain-General. Newspaper discussions of the situation, though violeut at first, has moderated in tone and the people are advised to await events calmly. The Cardena Casino calls the demands of the American Government opprobrious, and says that every Spaniard hearing them calmly degrades himself. The same paper defies America, and says the people ...HI ?.?Ut A TTat.nno slounutr*!) Hntprl ^\fnn >1111 X* JLXAVUUM UW|/MW*?) day, says threats were freely indulged in of burning the Virginius, at a meeting of volunteers. An insulting paper was prepared, denouncing the United States, and pledging the signers never to allow compliance with the demands. Subsequently a better feeling prevailed. The estates of eighteen American citizens have been unconditionally released. Passengers by the steamer Wilmington, from Havana, state that Americans in Havana are treated insultingly, and have no redress. They have great difficulty in getting copies of papers. The authorities do not wish to divulge what is going on in Havana, aud the transmission of Havana papers by mail has been stopped. A Washington despatch of the 5th says Captain-General Jovellar has resigned, and in explanation ofthe cause of his resignation, he says: "The delivery of the Virginius to the United States will cause frightful commotions and catastrophe throughout the island." It is also stated that the volunteers would consent to placing the Virginius in the hauds of a neutral port for arbitration, but will not let her come directly to a port of the United States. The authorities cannot count on the support of the people iu carrying out the protocol. A Key-West despatch of the 5th, says that advices have been received there that readiness by land and sea for fight, is being made in Cuba. All between the ages of 14 and 40 must be enrolled ; all traitors and libcralists pelled. The article concludes with a challenge to the American people to fight. By later advices from Washington it has j transpired that the proposition for a change j of protocol, delivering the Virginias to a neu-! tral power, did not come through Spain to the j United States Government, but was merely j an unofficial suggestion from the Cuban ofli- j cials to Admiral Polo, as a measure in the j interest of quiet on the island. This state- j ment is made upon the highest authority, and | our Government takes no notice of the indirect suggestion, as they only treat with Spain. They have no diplomatic relations with Cuba beyond consular regulations. Whatever may have been suggested hereto- j toforeas to the programme, it can now be ascoftnd tkn ViririniiiQ will Iw rlf?livorp(l to ' OW1 IVU ItUUb VliV v ..... ^ v V?V.. . -. one of our naval vessels within the next ten i days at a Cuban port, in open day, and the | surviving passengers and crew be transported j to a United States ship at Santiago de Cuba, ; in an equally open manner. The vessels to perform these services will soon be designated by the Secretary of the Navy. This was the I condition of affairs on Monday night, which ; has served to inspire a hope of continued peace with Spain, in order that the United States may continue to give their moral support to j the Castellar Government, in its efforts to es- j tablish a republic. Admiral Polo has lately received a communication from Captain-General Jovellar, in which there is no reference to the subject of hi3 alleged resignation. Sickles has teudered his resignation as: American Minister; but no significance attaches to this action, which is the result of a I disagreement between that official and Secretary Fish, which had its commencement on the occasion of the correspondence attending the Houard case, when, as in the present com- j plications, Secretary Fish ignored Sickles and dealt directly with the Spanish Minister. It is said, however, in diplomatic circles at Washington, that the good offices of the British Minister accomplished a settlement, and now, as Mr. Fish proposes further concessions, Sickles feels it his duty to resign. TT* *- 4 * ? til i ?-* lrtnsf ofln/vf f 1m 1113 resigusuiuil YVIU 1IUL ill LI1V 1UIOU Iiuvuv buv relations of our Government with that of Spain. No late communications with the Spanish Government have passed through his hands, and none would, should he remain in Madrid. The Cubans continue clamorous in regard to the mode of surrendering the Virginius, and demand that the vessel be delivered at some Spanish or Porto Ricau port, there to await arbitration. The charge that Castelar panders to American sentiment is said to produce much dissatisfaction, which, it is thought, will culminate in a cabinet crisis. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. ! ] Iu the House, on the 3d, Mr. Storm, of 1 Pennsylvania, gave notice of a bill repealing i so much of the postal act as prohibits the free transmission of weekly papers in the ' counties where published. Mr. Smith, from j 1 Shreveport, was seated. The peculiarity of J i his case lies in the fact that he bears creden- ( tials from Govcuor Kellogg, while the other I members admitted to seats from Louisiana, I t ?i e rri,rt,.a ?..,Q i U Jill UI UUUllllilld UUUI JL iUUllUilLU. i 11UIV/ U uo bat a short executive session of the Senate,! I and the proceedings were unimportant. i In the Senate, on the 4th, Mr. Boreman, of j West Virginia, introduced a bill to complete j ( a water line from the Ohio to the James River. I t Stevenson introduced a bill removing politi- j J cal disabilities. The Secretary of War was ' i ordered to communicate the facts regarding j 1 the sale of the Harper's Ferry property. A r. bill for the redemption of the loan of 1858 l was passed. A new committee, called Com- i mittee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, f was ordered to be appointed. The credentials of McMillan and Pinchbach were re- i ferred, upon motion of Morton, to the Cora- I mittee on Privileges and Elections. In the t House, there was sharp sparring over the < salary committee. Party lines are complete- ! ly broken in this contest. Among the bills i introduced, is one by Morey, of Louisiana, 1 and Field, of Michigan, abolishing all pay 1 and allowances to members; another, by i Beck, abolishing allowances for the President's household expenses. The salary com- i mittee can report at any time. "That is not i true," was heard several times during debate. < .A mong the bills introduced are the following : i Repealing the bankruptcy law ; repealing the I iron-clad oath ; payment of half the revenue j tariff in legal tenders ; removal of all four- < teenth amendment disabilities ; recognition of j Cuban belligerency. j In the Senate, on the 5th, the nomination 1 of Judge Williams as Chief Justice, was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. In the House, a number of bills were introduced ; one abolishing the tax on tobacco, snuff and ' cigars; providing for letter carriers for cities of 10,000; to complete the James River and Kanawah Canal; by Loughridge, of Iowa, a ; bill which passed the Senate, redeeming the loan of 1858. After quite a sharp discussion, as to whether it should be paid in gold or le- ! gal tenders, the Democrats arguing for legal J tenders, it was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. It was put on its passage j by Mr. Dawes, who argued they should be paid J in the currency of the world. Rainey offered , a resolution abolishing the Committee on Freedmen's Affairs. Referred to the Co ram ittee on Rules. 1 In the Seuate, on the 8th, a large number of bills were introduced, all however, of a pri- ' vate or local character, and of no general in- ' terest. In the House a number of bills were ^ introduced, among them one for the payment of French spoliations; refunding the proceeds j of cotton illegally seized ; to reimburse pen- ' sioners dropped during the war. Mr. May nard. of Tennessee, from the Committee on Rules, reported a bill removing all disabili- 1 ties imposed and remaining on any person by 1 the third section of the fourteenth article of { the amendments to the Constitution, and substituting for the iron-clad oath the modified 1 oath now administered to persons from whom 1 disabilities have been removed. Lawrence, ' of Ohio, asked whether, under that law, Jefferson Davis might not obtain a seat in either ^ House. G. F. Hoar inquired whether the J Committee on Rules had a right to report such an Act of general legislation. The Speaker doubted very much whether that I committee had a right to report it, except un- c dera call. Hoar said he would not insist on s the point. Butler, of Massachusetts, said that ? he would. Maynard moved to suspend the rules and to receive and pass the bill. In re- -I ply to Lawrence's question, he said that the 1 late President of the Southern Confederacy 1 might as well, as the Vice-Presideut, have a t seat in either House, provided the people 1 should think proper to send him. Butler, of Massachusetts, said he would not object to the c bill if it had been examined by and was re- r ported from a committee. Maynard said it r was the unanimous report of the committee, a The bill was then passed by a vote of 141 to 29. ? SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Abbeville Republican is the name of t a new Radical paper just started at Abbeville. ? It is stated that the Great Eastern Circus relieved the people of Spartanburg of nine thousand dollars. ^ ? George Feaster, convicted of rape in ^ Newberry, has been sentenced to fifty years 9 in the penitentiary. ? Gen. W. L. T. Prince, a prominent law- * yer of Chcraw, has taken up his residence in ( Baltimore. i ? James II. Smith, formerly one of the pro- : prietors of the Charlotte Observer, and more a recently of the Lincoln Progress, died in t Winnsboro, last week, from consumption. j. ? Jones, of Georgetown, a member of the t House, has given notice that he will introduce "a bill to protect husbands when their wives leave theru." 1 ? Rev. T. K. Gaines has gone to New York, where he will give his particular attention to filling all orders for immigrants that may be made by the people of the State. ? Elias Crosby, colored, while hunting last week in the neighborhood of Iialseville, in Chester county, accidcntly shot himself. The wound resulted in his death in a few hours. ? The Columbia Union-Herald says that within three weeks, thirty councils of the Independent Order of the United Brethren?a secret political society?have been organized in York county. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Amos Owens, the last of the North Carolina ku-klux in the Albany penitentiary, has been pardoned. ? L. P. Sadler, formerly of Yorkville, has leased the Simonton House, at Statesville, and presents his claims to the traveling public. ? Gen. Ilufus Barriuger, of Charlotte, declines the appointment of Solicitor for the 9th judicial district, vice Hon. W. P. Bynura,! ..hama/\4a/1 I r\ Cm r\MArv-? r\ T?irl?n [HUiiiutcu uu|;iuiuv; u ? A bill lias been introduced in the Legis- j( luture to allow the corporate authorities of ' Hickory to issue bonds in aid of the Chester ' and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad. ? The Charlotte fair was not a success. From all sources we learn that swindles and 1 gambling contrivances monopolized the fair j ] grounds to the disgust of all decent people. 1 ? Gov. Caldwell has issued his proclamation announcing that the proposed alterations and J amendments of the constitution of the State have been approved and ratified by the people, I. and are now a part of the constitution. , ? The U. S. Circuit Court at Raleigh de- i cides that the special tax bonds are constitu-1 1 tional, but refuses to grant the injunction j' restraining the treasurer from paying out any '1 funds until the interest fund on the said .! bonds is paid. i j ? The Charlotte Observer states that the I ] name of King's Mountain post-office on the' j Air-Lino Railroad has been changed to King's | i Mountain Station ; Crowder's Mountain lias , t jeen changed to Wooten's Station ; and a j T lew office has been established at Gastonia. i ^ rhese offices are all in Gaston county. ? The bill for the consolidation of the At- j( antic, the Central and the Western Kail- a roads?thus placing a continuous line from n die mountains to the seaboard in one corporadon and under one management?has passed t die Senate, and will doubtless pass the House s without serious opposition. The bill provides S 'or the early completion of the unfinished road t ?rom Old Fort to the Tennessee line. 1 ? As the result of a dispute about the propir ownership of a church building between J die Free Will and the Missionary Baptists in " liobeson county, John II. Iioges, was struck ? i blow on the head by Alva Britt, mashing p lis skull and killing him almost instantly. h Die murderer and an alleged accomplice t lamed Freeman, escaped. The church build- b nc had heen hurnt a few weeks previous to g o A M ;he altercation. c ? Gen. Alfred Dockcry died at his residence 3 n Richmond county on the 3rd instant, at | c :he advanced age of 76 years. Previous to p die war he was one of the representative men ! c )f the State. He had been in public life since a 1822, having served with distinction in the a State Legislature and in Congress. In 1852 j; le was the candidate of the old Whig party j ? for Governor, and was defeated by Gov. Bragg a u a very close contest by ouly 2085 majority. s ? The Charlotte Observer learns that in 1 a | Statesvillc, 011 Tuesday of last week, a negro : r named Simon Bittings shot and killed anoth- 1 f jr negro named John Austin. Bittiugs was 1 attempting to arrrest Austin on a charge of< s theft. Superior Court being in session, after ' p 1 hearing of the case and an examination of! t witnesses before a jury, Bittings was found j c guilty of manslaughter and fined twenty dol- j t lars, upon the payment of which he was re- 11 leased. i, NEWS OF THE DAV. 0 ? A severe storm occurred 011 the 4th and 0 s 5th, and was general throughout the States of Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. t ? J. C. Underwood, Judge of the Federal District Court of Virginia, died suddenly in Washington, last Monday, of apoplexy. ? The Washington Star quotes a rumor that a movement is on foot to oust Senator j, Patterson, of South Carolina. ? Returns of the Texas election are being ^ reported slowly. The Democrats claim a ma- j ority of 40,000. t ? Cornwall & Co., cotton brokers of New c VTork, failed last Saturday ; but it is not be- j Sieved that any serious embarrassment will j result from it. a ? The reports of the department of agricul- q ;ure for November and December make the 0 ;obacco crop six per cent, less in yield than f( last year. h ? The Democrats have carried the raunici- q )al election in Mobile, Alabama, by about 500 majority. The Republican majority last g fear was 2000. ii ? A mass meeting of all the unemployed t, vorkmen in New York, is called to take ^ ilace to-day to devise measures for relieving f, .heir needs. 1, mi- i : iqoi i:r?_ ? ine ursi snow smoe ioui ieu m vjuuiuilia on the 4th instant. It is very general .hroughout the State, and floods are appretended. ? There was a heavy southwest gale at ' Buffalo, X. Y., on Friday, and the water was ligher than it has been for twenty years, j The lower parts of the city were flooded. ? There is considerable excitement in Mem- vv this over the discovery that forty thousand t] lollars in county warrants have been ab- ^ tracted from the safe of the county Trustee p iftcr having been paid but not cancelled. | j ? Mr. Stephens called on the President last ^ Thursday. On account of the difficulty with ^ dr. Stephens in ascending the stairs, the ^resident met him in the reception room of he ground floor, where the two gentlemen lad a cordial interview. f( ? The Spanish Republic has been declared w lefinitely established. By order of the Mad- p id government the royal insignia will be re- , noved from the flags and standards of the iriny. This will prove a heavy blow and :reat discouragement to the cause of the Car. ?T ists and Alphonsists. , ? The Brooklyn Navy Yard officials report j t . .1 /-i i i?. i i.?. *7nr\n L nat tne LfOVerimieni nos uuugiu i \j\j\j iaiuoui | :oal, a portion of which has already been forvarded to Key West. Work in the various ^ lavy yards is being pushed with vigor, and )rovisions are coming in. The sloop-of-war, ? Macedonian, is fitting at Norfolk as a store .hip. ? ? In consequence of orders from Washingon reducing the wages of the employes at the . jovernment granite quarries near Richmond, ^a., there was a suspension of work on the 3d g nstant, which, however, was afterwards re- ^ lumed, and will be continued until a comrait,ce of the workmen confer with the WashingSI ou authorities, the result of which will deternine their final action. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. 111 rhe Bankrupt Act. j c Senator Coukling's bill, amendatory of ^ he Bankruptcy Act, provides for the repeal- " ng of the third paragraph of the thirty-third S( cction of said Act, and for adding to the a brty-third section a requirement, that in all 0 :ases of baukruptcy now pending, whether an a idjudication of baukruptcy has been had or ^ lot, io all future case8 of bankruptcy, whether 11 icfore or after the adjudication, whenever an ^ igreetucnt for settlement or compromise is iresented, to which a majority in number, 11 vhose claims amount to 8250 and upwards, |f md two thirds in value of the creditors shall 11 lave assented in writing, it shall be the duty sl if the court to decree that such agreement ^ hall be binding upon all the creditors, and ,o order the estate wound up in accordance herewith. n Scott's bill, supplementary to the Bank- r' uptcy Act, provides that in case a bankrupt C iroposes to settle with his creditors in full or a in a per centage, and four-fifths of the cred- ^ tors assent to the proposed arrangement, the ri ;ourt may confirm the same, and annul the j t' lecree of bankruptcy, provided it shall ap-1 c; iear that the interests of the creditors will be n promoted thereby. j a Immigration to South Carolina. | c Captain Franz Melchers, of Charleston, j ? publishes a card, offering his services in the Cl vay of procuring immigration into this State, | n which he says : j ? "The Rev. Mr. Robert Neumann, mission- ' r lry of Castle Garden, New York, having come ! tc ;o the South, under the direction of the com- j ? nissioners of immigration of New York, for tl die purpose of seeking a new field for the ira-1 w migrants arriving daily, is desirous of placing j ft i few hundred families in South Carolina, j c< Under the auspices of the German Society of a Charleston, the undersigned, therefore, calls ! n ipon the planters, farmers and others who tl iesire to have some of these laborers, to write ir mmediately and designate what kind of la- T sorers they wish?whole families or single la- a borers, Germans or Italians, craftsmen or p farm laborers. Planters who have land for j sc sale at low prices, or who desire to give a por-1 a ion of their land free to immigrants, will also lease state it, as a portion of the immigrants iave money enough to start a farm, if they ;et the land gratis or on a long credit. An pportunity presents itself here to draw the oiig desired immigrants to our State, and if ,11 act promptly, several thousand good men nay come here." Mr. Melchers is ready to devote his time to ; he purpose of securing immigrants and deires the cooperation of the citizens of the Itate. Communications should be addressed o him at Charleston, S. C. 'lie Debts of the South. The bill introduced in the House of lepresentatives by Mr. Morey, of Louisiana, to strengthen the credit ot the reconstructed itates, and to afford them financial relief," irovides for the issue of United States bonds a exchange for State bonds on the basis of he exchange of a United States four percent, innd for a State seven per cent. bond. The mount of the State bonds to be takeu in cxhange to be those issued prior to December 1st, 1873, provided the amount does not ex- j eed ten per cent, of the assessed value of the iroperty of the States for the year 1873. In ; ase the debt of any State exceeds that i mount it shall first be reduced within that | mount. At the end of five years from the I ssue of the bonds by the United States, the : itates shall begin to pay eight per cent, per I nnum of the amount of the bonds issued for j uch State indebtedness by the United States, j nd shall so continue to do until the amount cceived shall reimburse the United States or money paid on account of such State, to ie applied, first, to pay the current interest; econd, to pay the back interest; third, to irovide a sinking fund for the redemption of he bonds. The Presdent is to appoint five omraissioners to carry out the provisions of he bill, and the States are to adopt constituional amendments accepting all the provisins of the bill, and declaring that uo increase f the debt of the States shall be made, without the consent of Congress, until the bonds hall be entirely paid. Correspondence of the YorkviUc Eoq.iirer. LETTER FROM WEST VIRGINIA. f!wanr vcitfurv W Va. Dpp. 4th. RICHMOND TO CHARLESTOWN. Richmond is the capital of the Old Virgina, and Charlestown the capital of the New. Virginia, you remember, was split in two alves in 1863, and the section west of the Uleghany mountains is now a State, under he name of West Virgiuia. Charlestown, the apital, is on the bank of Kanawha river, hree hundred and seventy-five miles west of tichmoud. The completion of the Chesapeake nd Ohio road puts them in direct connection, 'his road was completed last spring, and is ne of the greatest works of the age. It cost jrty millions of dollars, some of it running as igh as two hundred thousand dollars a mile, 'here are twenty-seven tunnels on the route. T frnm Richmond here in two davs. topping a day at Covington en route. Gov* igton is a curious old place, and I intended 0 have given the Enquirer a letter from liere, but did not. I am particular to write roin here, however, as you have never had a jtter from West Virginia, that I remember of. ciiarlestown. Charlestown is a pleasant little city, and relinds me, in many ways, of Yorkville. The ist census gave the young capital of a ten-year Id State three thousand population. Some f her citizens are uow so sanguine as to claim x thousand, an increase of thirty-three per ent. a year ; but this figure looks wild, when e remember that three per cent, a year is le average the country over. But let the appy Charlestonians flounder around in mcy as much as they choose, the census of 880 will bring them, together with the inabitants of all other ambitious towns, point lank up agaiust the stone wall of fact, so to leak, and show the margin between fancy i nd reality. The census taker is a more cruel dlow to have around than the tax gatherer, < jr we know what to expect from the latter, , hile the former clip3 our wings in unexpected laces. the legislature and other matters. 1 dropped in among the law-makers, the llier day, to see how they make laws for this . reat State. They had a resolution up con- ( emuing the grabbers in Congress. The jegislators can't understand how it is that 1 ley have to serve for three dollars a day, 'bile Congressmen vote themselves sixty-five n _ j _ ?i -i a. *1.^.. ouars a uay, wmcn 13 mo uveiuge jjajr mojr et for the time they are in Washington. It 1 a fact that some of the Congressmen can't 1 aru sixty-five dollars a month while at home, 1 nd it is not thought proper that they should un their hands elbow-deep into the treasury, mply because they have the power. All the Representatives from this little ' tate in Congress have dirtied their hands and ' lackeued their hearts with the salary steal, nd it is right that the Legislature should mite thera, hip and thigh, and that an indigant people should kick them out of public , feforever. Judging from what I hear?and : le people of the mouutains speak in no uuertain tones?this is just what will be done. < 'he men who have disgraced themselves and I :ie positions to which they were choseu dejrve the contempt they have invited. I was 1 mused, the other day, to see a paper speak 1 f a notorious West Virginia salary grabber s a man of "fine business capacity." No ^ oubtofit. A man who can put his arm ito the treasury and take that to which he as no more moral right than a pickpocket, ertainly demonstrates a striking "capacity" 1 his peculiar line, although many men in >wcr walks of life find themselves in the pen- ' entiary for about fifteen years for deraon;rating a "capacity" in the same style of i uoi mineral matters. 1 There are mountains of coal stacked up all 1 bout Charleston. This valley is perhaps the J ichest mineral section in the United States. !oal is dug and delivered on the river here t a cost ofthrce auff one-half cents a bushel. 1 "ou in Yorkville, will no doubt consider this ather cheap fuel, and so it is. No where in ' le country, so far as ray knowledge extends, } an the earth be made to yield its black dia- ( londs at so small a cost. Millions of bushels i re shipped annually down the river to Cin- < innati and below. New Orleaus receives a ] reat portion of its supply from this far off 1 ountry. Nemo. j King's Mountain Military School.? 1 aeut. John S. Reynolds, Instructor of Histo- ! y and Belles Lettres in this institution, is in 1 >wn, where he will remain for a few days. ( le proposes visiting the principal points in ie State in the interest of the institution with j ' hich he is connected, and will be pleased to 1 irnish any information that may be desired ? oncerning it. This school has been so long r nd favorably known that it needs no encoliumsfromus. We will, however, state that j ie curriculum has been extended so as to ( lake it a military college of a high grade. . 'he instructors are gentlemen of acknowledged bility, and thoroughly proficient in the de- ( artments over which they preside. The ( jhool is now equipped with arms of the most 1 pproved pattern.?Fairfield News. LOCAL AFFAIRS, j NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation? j Mrs. JO. II. MeConnoll, Applicant?John Ii. | MeConnell, deceased. It. II. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sales?Judge of! Probate's Sales. A. W. McAfee and others?Town Lots and Lands at Auction, belonging to the estate of Geo. I \V. Williams, deceased, at Auction. John (J. Saville, Agent?Notice. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation? J. A. Carroll, Applicant?John II. Clark, deceased. John T. Lowi v?Notice. Conner, Hobbs ifc Dobson?Carriages and Buggies?Repairing?Cotton. T. M. Dobson it Co.?Alpacas?Calicoes?CigarsTin-Ware?Powder, Shot and Caps?Sugar and Coffee?Dress Goods?Remember?Salem Jeans?Lining Silk?I Fats and Iionnets, Ready-Made Shirts?Cup Linen?Overcoats. It. II. Masse v. Guardian?Anolieation for Lbs charge. CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS. Our thanks are hereby tendered to Hon. A. 8. Wallace for copies of the Daily Congressional Record, and other valuable public documents. DR. LINDLEV. All who are afflicted with caucer, scrofula, epilepsy, rheumatism, neuralgia, lung disease, or any long standing or obscure disease, should call and see Dr. Liudley, at Rawlinson's hotel, on the 16th instant. He will stop for one day ?"ly. ______ FOUND DEAD. We learn that David Sexton, a white man aered about twentv-two vears. was found dead on Sunday last, near the road leading from Ebeuezer to Rock Hill, and within a short distance of the residence ofMrs. .Sturgis. We have not been able to gather any particulars in regard to the matter, further than that Sexton was intoxicated when he left Rock Hill on the previous evening. MASONIC ELECTION. At the last regular communication of Philanthropic Lodge, No. 78., A. F. M., the following brethren were elected officers for the ensuing year: J. S. R. Thomson, IF M.; Dr. W. M. Walker, S. IF; G. H. O'Leary, J. IF.; P. B. Darwin, Treasurer; T. S. Jefferys, Secretary; A. Cody, Tiler. The officers will be installed at the Lodge AM f h A Inofn nl A ruuiu, uu jl' I luujr ui?ULj tuc ^vtu lugvuuvi ax collation will be served. All members of the craft are invited to attend. GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK. The January number of this, the best of the ladies' monthly Magazines, has been received. Godey is always in advance of his competitors. While all the previous attractions of the Book will be retained, a new feature for 1874 will be the introduction of elegant chrorao illustrations, something never before attempted by any other magazine. These chromos can be taken from the Book and framed. In addition, every subscriber, whether in a club or singly, will receive a beautiful premium chromo entitled "True to Nature." These are certainly strong inducements, to say nothing of the colored fashion plates, tinted engravings, choice literature, useful recipes, and the many other attractions with which the Book is always replete. The price of the Lady's Book is $3.00 a year, or it will be clubbed with the Enquirer one year for 85.25. THE TROPIC COOKING STOVE. The popularity of the Tropic Cooking Stove continues undiminished, despite the Bnancial embarrassments of the country. We are pleased to note this fact, because the "Tropic" deserves the unusual success with which it has met. It is not, as many might be led to suppose, a new and untried article, but one of the best of the standard stoves, the right to manufacture which has been secured by the enterprising Greensboro founders. Speaking of this stove, the last Greensboro Patriot says : "Sergeant & McCauley's stoves, manufactured here, are achieving a splendid reputation, and the consequence is a steady call for them. It is a capital stove and sells for about a third less than similar stoves of northern make. So much for home manufactures. This stove received the diploma at the State Fair." Satisfied as we are, from actual experience, that this stove possesses more merits than is claimed for it, we cheerfully recommend it to the public, and for the accommodation and convenience of those desiring to purchase, the proprietor of the Enquirer will receive and forward orders, guaranteeing satisfaction in every instance. 4? THE NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD. A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company was held at Chester on Thursday last. Members of the Board were present from Caldwell and Catawba counties, North Carolina, and from Chester aud York. The chief engineer haviug completed the survey and location, submitted his report, which was received as information, and the following resolution adopted : Resolved, That the location of the road as reported by the Engineer, be adopted ; passing from Yorkville to Dallas, and from Dallas, by Vestal's Ford, and up the ridge between Hoyle's Creek and the South Fork to Lincolnton ; from Lincolnton, by the ridge route, to Newton; from Newton, by the way of Hickory Station, to Catawba river, half mile above the bridge on the present public road ; and from thence to Lenoir as located. The following are the estimates of the cost af the grading, bridges, trestle and masonry, between Yorkville and Lenoir: i Botween Yorkville and Dallas, 25 miles,$36,095 " Dallas and Lincolnton, 15 miles, 54,500 u Lincolnton and Newton, 14 miles, 38,413 " Newton A Catawba river, 13 miles, 18,695 " Catawba river and Lenoir, 16 miles, 46,107 Bridgo over the Catawba river, 30,000 Total cost of grading, masonry, trestles and bridging, $224,410 The distance between Yorkville and Lenoir is a fraction more than 83 miles, and the average cost of the entire line, including grading, trestles, bridging and masonry, is $2650 per mile. The average cost between York-1 ville and Dallas is only $1402 per mile. The following resolutions were introduced I md unanimously adopted : Resolved, That the President be, and is hereby, instructed to let out contracts for grading, i trestle work aud masonry, between Yorkville and the Air-Line Railroad, and if he should [, ieem it advisable, between the Air-Line road ' and the town of Dallas ; also, that he let out j, contracts for grading, trestlework and masonry, between Lenoir and the Catawba river, including the bridge over said river. Resolved, That the President be aud is ( hereby authorized to call for the payment of j instalments of five per centum on each share j )f stock, at such times as iu his judgment the I, nterests of the road may require ; not often;r, however, than once a month. j, Resolved, That the President be hereby au- , horized to put the remainder of the road un- i. ler contract, so soon as the subscriptions of!] itock to the company will justify the com- | nencemeut of the work. Mr. James Mason, of Yorkville, who at a j; previous meeting of the Board had been , ilectcd Secretary and Treasurer of the Com-'( )any, tendered his resignation, which was ac- * :epted. Mr. W. D. Simpson, of Chester, was sleeted Secretary and Treasurer to supply the j vacancy. j j We deem it proper iu this connection to: < mention the reason which induced the resignation of Mr. Mason. Whon he was elected, it was upon the condition that he would make his residence at Chester, where he would be in constant personal communication with the President. Circumstances at present existing prevented him from complying with this condition, and he, therefore, determined to tender his resignation. TKANSFEKS OF HEAL ESTATE. Since our last report, the following transfers of real estate in this county have been recorded by the County Auditor: R. W. Workman to Thomas Long. Twenty-four acres of land in Catawba township. Consideration 855. C- I A T1 _ 1 : Tk oaruuei a. vjieuu iu xjpuiu.uu jl/. iuui?pson. Thirty-one acres of land in Bethel township. Consideration $277. \V. B. Wilson to W. B.Wilson,jr. A tract of 196 acres of land in Bethesda town- 9^1 ship. Deed of gift. Mrs. Eliza J. Steele to J. M. Ivy. Twentythree acres of land in Catawba township. ^ Consideration $135. G. M. Moore to E. H. Abell. A lot at Black's Station, on the Air-Line Railroad. Consideration $50. M. W. Russell to A. D. Holler. Lot at Rock Hill. Consideration $485. R. H. Mitchell to D. H. & R. M. Carroll. Two hundred acres of land in Bullock's Creek township. Consideration $340. Neely Smith to B. F. Hardin. Four hundred acres in Bethesda township. Consideration $2000. Dr. A. I. Barron to W. B. Steele. Three hundred acres of land in York township. Consideration $3000. J. P. Hutchinson to Samuel A. Brown. Eighty acres of land in Bethel township. Consideration $600. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff of York county, to Mrs. Jane E. Kerr. Lot in Yorkville. Con sideration $40. Dr. Thomas L. Johnson to J. V. McFadden. Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration $500. Mary E. and John F. Scoggins to James W. Isom. Fifty-four acres of land in Bethesda township. Consideration $217. SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. Tuesday, December 2. The proceedings in neither house present anything of general public interest. Wednesday, December 3. In the Senate, Mr. Jeter introduced a resolution requesting the Governor to send into the Senate the name of a person to fill the office of treasurer of Union county, representing a vacancy as existing there, to the detriment of public affairs. The resolution was adopted and a copy ordered to be sent to the Governor. Mr. Hope offered a resolution to restore the operation of the law requiring applicants for incorporations to give three months' notice. The bill to raise supplies for the fiscal year commencing November 1, 1873, and to alter and amend the law in relation to the collection of taxes, was referred to the committee on finance. The resolution requesting the senators and representatives in Congress from this State to aid in securing the establishment of a navy yard at Port Royal, was agreed to. The bill to prevent unjust discrimination by railroad companies in their charges for transportation of passengers and freight was discussed at length upon the merit of an amendment to the effect that the terms of the bill should not apply to through freights from terminal points within or beyond the ouue, ana giving agents tne rignt to issue excursion aud commutation tickets at special rates. On motion of Mr. Whitteraore the bill was recommitted to the committee on railroads. In the House, Mr. Nix introduced a resolution requesting the elerk of the House to report the names of attaches. After endeavors to postpoue and to strike out the resolving clause, upon which the ayes and noes were called, the resolution was agreed to by a vote of?ayes 60, noes 24. Mr. Lowry introduced a resolution, that was indefinitely postponed, requiring the comptroller-general and State treasurer to report the number, names, places of residence, rate of compensation, and in what particular kind of work their clerks are engaged. Mr. Lowry introduced a concurrent resolution for adjourning sine die January 15,1874, which was, after debate, made the special order for that day. Mr. Sperry introduced a bill to repeal the act incorporating the Citizens' Savings Bank of South Carolina. Referred to the committee on banks. Thursday, Dec. 4. In the Senate, Mr. Maxwell, from the committee on enrolled acts, reported as ready for ratification, an act to amend the Revised Statutes, relating to the bonds of county treasurers. Mr. White introduced a bill to designate the places for the collection of taxes in York county. Mr. Hayne introduced a concurrent resolu uou requesting tne uoiupironer-geuerai tu iuforoi the General Assembly, the amount of assessment on the taxable property of the State, real and personal, which was after debate withdrawn. The bill to make appropriations to pay the claims of the Citizens' Savings Bank, and the Central National Bank, of Columbia, against the State, was ordered for a third reading. In the House, Mr. Lilley introduced a bill to authorize and require the county commissioners of Chester to build a bridge across Rocky Creek, which was referred. The clerk reported thirty-three attaches, eight committee clerks and twenty-five others. Friday, Dec. 5. In the Senate, Mr. Dunu rose to a question of Drivileere. and sent to the desk and had read the following extract from the Charleston News and Courier, of Thursday, December 4, 1873: "There was a long fight on the bill to prevent unjust discrimination by railroad corporations in the charges for the transportation of passengers and freight over their respective roads within the State. This is meant as a blackmailing movement against the South Carolina Railroad." Mr. Dunn then introduced the following resolution: Resolved, That the reporter of the Charleston News and Courier, signing himself Qui Vive , and who is understood to be Mr. \V. v H. McCaw, in the paragraph written by him and published in the News and Courier of the 4th instant, asserting that the introduction of the "bill to prevent unjust discrimination by railroad companies" was intended as a blackmailing operation has greatly insulted this body, and that the said reporter be debarred Kin A LUC ptl VUC^C ui o> OVUK uv wuw iv|;utwi a wuuivi m in this hall until the outrage be atoned for by \ a written apology, publicly read and spread ^ upon the journal. On motion of Mr. Andrews the resolution svas amended by the addition of the following words : "And that the clerk of the Senate be prohibited from allowing said reporter, W. If. McCaw, to take notes from the minutes of this body, until said insult is atoned for. The resolution was agreed to by a vote of 25 to 1. In the House, the Committee on county )ffices reported favorably on a bill to provide for the election of county treasurers and county auditors and unfavorably on the following: i A bill to establish and regulate business hours 4 for State and county officers; a bill to prevent the attorney-general from approving bonds of county treasurers; bill to require the county