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Straps and darts. Stonewall Jackson left one daughter, an interesting young lady, who is now at school in Charlotte, North Carolina. Each West Point cadet costs the coun- j try $8,000 by the time he is fit to take his place on the active list. Virginia has a larger proportion of her population at college than any other State in the Union. It is nowofficially announced that there j are between 11,000 and 12,000 granges in the ! country, and they number nearly 1,000,000 men. There is nothing like a good definition, as the teacher thought when he explained the meaning of "old maid," as a woman who hud been made a very long time. A Washington letter calls attention to ! the noteworthy fact that not a dollar has ever been missing from the department of the comDtroller of the currency where women i exclusively are employed as clerks. The sales of postage stamps during ; January were 7,000,000 stamps in excess of the sales iu any previous month, but do not include the stamps for government use and stamped envelopes or wrappers. That is 821Q,- ' 000, or $2,520,000 in a year. Members of J Congress had to buy a large number of them, i of course. The Richmond Enquirer says that hun- | dreds of well-to-do English families are pre- i Earing to emigrate to Virginia in the spring. ' <and has already been purchased by English- ] men iu Amelia County to the extent of ] 860,000, and settlers are well pleased to own ' their farms instead of renting land at home ( for $25 an acre. A demure citizen of Portland was walking down town one morning last week, when a stranger asked him : "Do you know where the post office is ?" "Yes," answered the Port- , lander, affably, and walked on without further ; parley. After proceeding for about ten steps | he looked back, and inquired in turn : "Why; did you want to know?" "No," replied the J victim, with great earnestness; and then, the account having been balanced, the two shook hauds gravely, and walked off toward a hotel. The Western grangers are said to have adopted a line of policy which may make candidates for political preferment, mind their p's and q's. They make it a point to embody the leading questions of the day in letters to the candidates for public office, and to the members of Congress as new questions arise, requesting definite statements of their views. The only trouble is that the candidates may blow hot before the election and very cold after it. The Illinois Legislature has attempted a novel experiment in the way of controlling operations in the grain trade of the State. Fines rangiug from ?10 to ?1000, and imErisonraeut in the county jail for a year, may e visited upon any one who sells for future delivery stock or produce which he does not own at the time. The same fate awaits any . one who gets up a "corner," or even tries to 1 do it, or agitates the market with false rumors for the purpose of speculation. This will 1 make it lively for the Chicago dealers, provided the provisions of the law can be enforced. The New York Commercial Advertiser presents a picture of the way in which nearly half the population in that city live, that would hardly seem to invite immigration to the metropolis. It confesses that the overcrowding system of tenement houses is carried to greater ex cess in New York than any other Christian city in the world, and a table of comparative statistics proves the fact. The population of the Strand, in London, numbers 307 to the square acre, and of East London, the next most crowded, 266 ; yet in New York it is 328 to the acre in one ward, 311 in another, 275 in a third and 289 in a fourth. Sometimes as many as 150 families occupy a ' single building, and all the living is done by 1 each family in rooms that are mere filthy and s stifling dens. 1 In the new banking bill, which is now ( pending before the lower house of Congress, ? there is an important provision looking to " the resumption of specie payment. It requires the Secretary of the Treasury to retire * and destroy ?2,000,000 of greeubacks on the 1 first day of every month, and issue in their s place a like amount of new notes, containing ( on their faces a promise that they shall be ] ^ _ .1 ? ? ? ? J ? * il*/\ f t/sM aP II?A ruueeilieu 1U guiu at tuc CApuouun in mu years from the date of their issue. The Secretary is also required to retain in the treasury all gold not required to meet the coin liabilities of the Government. This seems to have been inserted as a requirement of the "hard money" element. Another amendment to the bill agreed upon is a provision requiring bauks without circulation to deposit !n the treasury ?10,000 in bonds, instead of me-third of the amount of their capital, as now required. The bill will likely pass. The crusade of the Ohio women against the liquor dealers goes vigorously on. In all the Ohio villages the ladies are zealously besieging the saloon keepers with prayer meetings. They are making the rounds of the saloons daily, and at each one they present the pledge to the proprietors to quit the sale of intoxicating liquors. It is said that the roughest men find it sometimes, impossible to restrain tears as the ladies kneel on the flags in the cold or storm, and they frequently yield to their entreaties. In one place the dealers were determined to hold out. Accordingly a picket of ladies watched the saloons and immediately surrounded the doors when any man tried to enter for a drink. One of the saloon keepers has sold his stock ; to an active promoter of the crusade, and he will move West. At New Lexington, Perry county, the war is vigorously prosecuted by about one hundred ladies and one hundred oml fifYv mon Immense temn#>ranee meet ings are being held, at which one of the | speakers is an ex-colonel, who rehearses the ' story of his downward career as a drunkard, i The praying band of sisters is seventy-five , strong, and they go the rounds every day. A 11 saloon-keeper there has issued posters warning j the women not to obstruct his legitimate busi- 11 ness, but they are not at all terrified at his ' warning. In most of the villages the ladies have seven or eight leaders, each commanding a baud of twenty to forty, and divide the time 11 regularly. If the saloons will not close under ' a regular agreement, they purpose to keep a permanent guard from this time on until the people get accustom?d to do without saloons. Their success thus far has been only average,; the record showing that the consumption of! liquor has decreased two-thirds. The facts of the courtship and marriage of the late Siamese twins are thus related by j a correspondent who visited Mount Airy soon after the death of the twins : It was during one of their tours through the United States, j traveling as they did at the time in an open barouche of their own, that they visited a place called Trap Hill, in the adjoining county of Wilkes. Here they made a stay of a few days, and here it was they made the ac- j quaintance of a family named Yates, with whom they became very intimate and friend Jy, the attraction being two young luuiw, respectively named Sarah Ann Yates and Ade-! line Yates. This was in 1843. In a very short time, Eng evinced a decided liking for Miss Sarah Ann, or Miss Sally, as she was j called. A courtship followed, and, to make the story short, Eng proposed, was accepted by the damsel, and a marriage was the immediate result. Chang, though a partner of Eng < in everything else, was not a partner in his [ connubial joys and felicities, of which he was constantly reminded, and this state of single biesscdness became very irksome to him. He grew miserable and quarrelsome, and nothing could be done to please him, and this sort of companionship was quite disagreeable to the newly-wedded pair. How was it to be remedied, was the question that agitated Eng's and his wife's mina, when, suddenly, one day, with a woman's tact, a bright idea struck Mrs. Eng, and she lost no time in communicating it to j her husband. She had a panacea for all Chang's woes, and this was that he should marry her sister Adeline. Eng smiled serenely at the proposition, Chang brightened up at it; but the next question that presented itself was, "Would the young lady agree to come into the family as a wife as well as a peacemaker ?" Mrs. Eng said : "Leave all that to me; I will fix that." And sure enough she did. By her persuasive eloquence, Miss Addy was won over, and in two weeks from the date of Eng's marriage, they were two Mrs. Bunker. ?he fforMIc inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 12, 1874. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-ollice, county and State in full, and semi the amount of the subscription by draft or post-office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The postage on the Enquikkr, to any part of the United States, is five cents per quarter,or twenty cents pervear, and is payable in advance at the post oflice where the paper is received. Watch the Figures.?The dateon the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in adventee. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance IGNORANCE AND CRIME. There are some things that are indissolubly connected. The tie that binds them together is so strong, that the only possible way by which ?a dissolution can be effected is by a total destruction of one of the things which it connects. Ignorauce and crime may be mentioned as thus conuected. Never did a shadow follow a suhstauce with more certainty than crime follows in the wake of ignorance. Before ignorauce, the fair prospects of individual and national wealth fall, as the ripe grain ians oeroreHieseyiuem mcieajici, sr the trees of the forest fall before the ax of the woodman. In the van of ignorance, there may be fields waving with luxuriant harvests and homes happy in the enjoyment of peace and plenty ; in its rear there is nothing but fields overgrown with thorns and thistles, and dilapidated homes inhabited by tenants gaunt with hunger. Ignorance is both a crime aud the originator of crimes innumerable. The ignorant are, by an irreversible law of nature, doomed to juffering, to ignominy and to shame. These things fall to them as a portion, by the fixed aw that punishment follows crime, as the effect follows the cause. The crimes which are originated by ignorluce are innumerable in multitude, and hid;ous in shape and degree. They embrace all hose crimes which militate against the individual aud general good of every community, [n the black catalogue of crimes, which have .heir origiu iu ignorance, is included every spe;ies of iniquity, from the robbing of a hen oost to cutting a man's throat in the dark vatchcs of the night, and then plundering ind carrying off his valuables. Ignorance is in expensive thing. It is not simply acancer hat kills the patient, but it is worse. It is lot simply a mildew and blight which causes krirrKf nmsnprfs tn wilt and die : but it is like , Pharaoh's lean cattle?it devours aud coniuraes everything good within its reach, and, ike the horse-leech, it cries, "give, give." It jonsumes the rich productions of the earth and itill its gauntuess increases. Like an untamed ind undomesticated wild beast, it breaks over he enclosures of law aud order, and destroys, .vithout mercy, the rarest trophies of art and icience. Like a whirlwind, it never ceases to lestroy until its powers have been wholly exhausted. What arithmetic can enumerate the expense which ignorance annually indicts jpon the world ? Behold those massive struc;ures of brick and stone, whose doors aud winlows are barred with iron rails! These are some of the necessary expenses of ignorance. To protect the innocent, to secure justice and right to the weak, against the ignorant intrusions of the strong, cost, in dollars and cents, i sum equal to all the other expenses of civilization. The court expenses of the United States amount to a sutn sufficient, annually, to build a harbor at every port, that would shelter every vessel in the world. Every county in South Carolina expends sufficient, annually, in the administration of law and justice?in punishing aud restraining the ignorant?to build and mautain a school in every neigh borhood. The producing cause of all these expenses is ignorance?ignorance of law and ignorance of right and justice. The expense entailed upon the world by ignorance is not all the evils that flow from it. What countless woes are unnecessarily inflicted upon the human family by ignorance! It causes the tears of the orphan and widow to run down like rivers. It makes the heart, once happy, to be sad. It robs the world of all its sweets, and sows broadcast and with an unsparing hand, evils innumerable. It hastens to the gallows and then to the grave. It pulls down the home that protects from the storms of winter and wards off the burning suns of summer, and exposes us to the inclemency of the weather and the merciless pity of an alienated world. THE MILITARY'S THE SOUTH. In the recent testimony of Gen. McDowell, commander of the military department of the South, before the military committee of the House of Representatives, with reference to nvAnftoorl mrl tint irvn r\f tli A ormv tllftf. nffi W.y .VUM^VVU v,. W.~ j, ccr said it would be unwise, at present, to make any reduction. As a reason for so thinking, he said : "There is still much opposition in the South against the general government, and it would be difficult for the civil authority to execute the laws in some portions of the South, if not for the presence of the military." This is rather a broad assertion, and one which the General should have been more particular to qualify with specifications. So far as the presence of the military in this State is concerned, it is not a matter of any concern to the people; nor is the presence of the troops regarded by our people as inimical or menacing. But it cannot be urged, at this day, with any show of foundation, that our people are hostile to the general government, or that there is the least manifestation of a disposition on their part to render necessary, armed intervention for the purpose of preserving order. A disposition for peace aud quiet pervades this State, and, we think, the entire South. The two races are harmonious in all their transactions, and the blacks are not disturbed in the full enjoyment of all the privileges and franchises accorded to them by statute. They preach and pray, they singand dance, they marry and are given in marriage, they sit in the jury box, their voice is heard on the hustings, in the forum and in the legislative halls; they constituteour militia, and, as free and independent citizens, they work when they choose to do so, in none of which rights and privileges they are disturbed. It cannot, in verity, be claimed that antagonism of the , races is a feature of the alleged opposition against the general government. And it is equally true that men of all shades of color and political sentiment enjoy their opinions and exercise the rights of free citizenship without fear or molestation. If the evasion of United States revenue laws be assigned as one of the causes rendering troops necessary in the South, it can be ! shown that the evasions or attempts at eva- i sions, making allowance for the difference in i population, are no more numerous in the j South than in the North. Such offenses are | committed in the South, it is not denied. That they are committed in the North, on a larger scale, is also an admitted fact. In the absence of previous hostilities between the sections, the same offenses against the same laws would be committed North and South. The offenses are not prompted "by hostility to the government, but more by the cupidity of the individual, as is shown by the fact that in the South, especially, a large majority of those detected in defrauding the government of revenue are identified with the political party uow in power. And such delinquents, we are happy to believe, are not so numerous nor so desperate that they cannot be brought to justice by ordinary civil process, as easily in South Carolina as in Ohio. Aside from the above considerations, our social system is in a more healthful condition than is that of the North. Our laboring population is happy and contented. There are no extensive strikes to be subdued by military surveilance. There is 110 conflict between labor and our scanty capital. There are no societies of Communists in our midst. Mobs do not parade the streets of our cities demanding bread or blood, terrorizing the people and rendering life and property insecure. But to the contrary, in this view of the case, all is peace aud quiet So it is in all the different ramifications of the subject. The South is at peace, not only with the United States Government, whose supremacy is duly and fully recognized, but also with all the world and the "rest of mankindand it is unjust, not only to our section, but to our national reputation, to attempt to make the impression that allegiance of the South to the general government can be maintained only at the point of the bayonet. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 3rd, Mr. Flanagan, of Texas, presented resolutions from colored persons in Georgia, denying the assertion of Mr. Stephens that the colored people of that State are opposed to the civil rights bill. The committee on military affairs reported adversely on the bill for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia of the United ted States, and the bill was indefinitely postponed. The bankrupt bill was theu discussed until adjournment. The House proceedings were unimportant?the army appropriation bill being the principle subject under discussion. In the Senate, on the 4th, the bankrupt bill, and the bill to equalize the national bank note circulation were discussed without action. Iu the House, the army appropriation bill was discussed?no other question of general importance being presented. In the Senate, on the 5th, the House joint resolution providing for an investigation into the affairs of the District of Columbia, was adopted. A bill to facilitate the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi river was passed. The bankrupt bill was discussed, and a proposition to limit the operations of the bill to persons owing over 83000 was rejected. In the House a bill to encourage the growth of tim . - i mi_ ber on western prairies was passeu. ine army appropriation bill was discussed until adjournment. In the Senate, on the 6th, the bankruptcy bill was resumed, and the following proceedings had: The amendment of Sherman, to fix the limit of time at ninety days in which a party dishonoring his commercial paper can be adiudgeda bankrupt, after discussion, was referred. An amendment requiring a third of the creditors to force a debtor to bankruptcy was rejected. Thurman said the clause now proposed to be amended had been subjected to the severest criticism in the committee, and alter careful consideration, one-fourth of the number of creditors and one-third of the amount of the debts had been agreed to.' Carpenter said lie came here, at the opening of the session, fully prepared to vote for a repeal of the bankrupt law, but after a thorougf! examination of the question, lie had come to the conclusion that to repeal the law would bo detrimental to debtors as a class, lie would, therefore, vote for continuing the law, and would support the amendment of the Judiciary Committee, with such others offered in the Senate as he might deem advantageous. Other amendments, reported with a view to verbal changes, were adopted as reported by the Judiciary Committeo. The committee amendments, as passed by the Senate, fix the timo at forty days* within which any banker, broker, merchant, triy dor, manufacturer or miner, who has stoppod or suspended, and not resumed payment of his commercial paper, shall not be deemed a bankrupt, and prescribe that fees, commissions, charges and allowances, excepting actual and necessury dis* -- - * - '* J 1? 1~ fKrv imrsuiut'lll.s Ol ailll IU iju lumiu i>y mo uuiwio, agents, marshals, messengers, assignees and registers, in cases of bankruptcy, shall be reduced to one-half of the allowances heretofore provided for. The Justices of the Supreme Court, who are to mako new rules and regulations in respect to this law, are empowered to consolidate the duties of register, assignee, marshal and clerk, and to reduce the cost of charges, to the end that delay and unnecessary expense may be avoided. Edtnunds otl'ered anew amendment, conferring jurisdiction in bankrupt cases upon any Circuit or District Court of the United States, which was agreed to. He also olfered an amendment dispensing with personal service of notice in all cases of claims not exceeding $f>0, and providing, in cases where the amount should be under that sum, that notice could bo given by publication in newspapers; agreed to. IIo also olfored an additional section to the bill, providing that it should bo tho duty of the marshal of each district, in tho month of July in each year, to report to the Clerk of the District Court, in tabular form, to bo prescribed by the Justices of the Supremo Court of the United States, first, the number of cases in bankruptcy in which warrants have come to his hanus; second, how many of such warrants were returned, with the fees, costs, expenses and emoluments thereof; third, total amount of all other fees, costs, expenses and emoluments earned and received by him during tho year, from or in respect to any matter in bankruptcy; fourth, a summarized statomentof such foes, costs and emoluments, exclusive of actual disbursements in bankruptcy, received or earned during the year; fifth, a summarized statement of all actual disbursements in 'such cases; also, requiring every register to re port, in like manner, tho number of voluntary and compulsory cases in bankruptcy coming before him during the vear, the amount of assets and liabilities of tho bankrupt, the amount and rato per cent, of all dividends declared, and disposition of all such cases. Every assignco is required to make similar return to tho clerk of such court in the month of August in each year, and is required to transmit to tho Attorney-General and report all cases pending and disposed of, dividends declared, disposition of cases, whether any ollieer has failed to make his report, <Vc. Any violation of this section is to be punished by dismissal from oflieo, and the party ollending to bo deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, to bo lined not more than $500 or imprisoned not exceeding one year. The section was adopted. Tliurman ottered an amendment abolishing the ollice of Register in Rankruptcy, and authorizing tho several District Courts to mako such orders, and to take such stops as may be necessary, to adjudicate and dispose of all such matters or proceedings in bankruptcy now pending before such i register; also, giving the District Courts power, ! where it may appear to bo necessary or advisable, i to appoint special Master Commissioners, to per! form any of tho duties heretofore porformcd by registers; such power to be also exercised by a I judge in chambers; no lees or compensation shall be paid to any such commissioner except such as shall be allowed by the court. Tliurman, in advocating tho adoption of his amendment, said, in three-fourths of the districts of tho United States, the judges had ample time to discharge all the duties which would devolve upon them if tho ollice of Register in Rankruptcy ! should bo abolished; and in consideration of the I complaints from all quarters of the largo amounts received by these oflicers as fees, he thought it ! a move in the right direction to abolish tho office, j Edmunds said his friend Tliurman might have i some prejudices on this subject that he was not : aware of himself, and had therefore got a little olf I the track in this case. It might bo that he would i like to see so many Republicans put out of office. Tlmrman said he didn't know the politics of u sinj gle register in the United iStates, hut from all accounts, the Democrats had got a pretty good share, j [Laughter.] Edmunds said that may he, as thero is very little of anything going on lint what the Democrats i get a share. [Renewed laughter.] The ainendj ment of the gentleman (Tlmrman) had been eonI sidered in the committee, and rejected. In the ! amendments alreadj- agreed upo'n, it had been j provided for a reduction in fees. To have the work done efficiently, under the bankrupt law, it must be paid for, and he did not think it advisable to impose this duty upon the courts. Pend! ing the discussion on Thurman's amendments to abolish the oltice of register, the Senate went into executive session. In the House, the day was devoted to the consideration of private hills. In the Senate, 011 the 9th, in discussing the bankruptcy bill, the amendment abolishing the register in bankruptcy was rejected. The amendment authorizing notaries public to take depositions in bankruptcy passed. The , amendment authorizing an assignee to bring : suits for sums less than 8500, unless the court j having charge of the case should order other- j wise, was adopted. Gordon, of Georgia, in-1 troduced a bill to ameud the internal revenue i law, which was referred to the committee on j finance. In the House a bill was introduced reducing letter postage to two cents. Among other internal improvement bills the following was introduced by Vance, of North Carolina: To incornorate branches of the con- 1 teraplated Southern Trans-Continental Railway, under the name and style of the North Carolina, South Carolina aud Georgia Exteusion Railway. It provides for the consolidation of the North Carolina Western, North Carolina, Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford, and the Spartanburg and Union Railroads; the bonds of the corupauy, at six per cent., to be endorsed by the State of North Carolina and the Treasurer of the United States. Smith, of North Carolina, introduced a bill proposing to abolish all internal revenue taxes on whisky and tobacco, and to collect an equivalent amount of income by means of increased duties on imported goods. The bill was referred to the committee on ways aod means. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Col. Cad. Jones, of Rock Hill, has become a resident of Charlotte, N. C. ? The Southern and' Atlantic Telegraph Company has established an office at Rock Hill. ? From the first of September to the first of February, nearly nine thousand bales of cotton were shipped from Rock Hill. ? Strawberries are reported as one of the luxuries in which Charlestonians are now indulging. ? On Thursday of last week, six immigrants arrived at Rock Hill, and on the next day repaired to the places in the vicinity for which they had been engaged. ? The Governor has approved a joint resolution to postpone the payments of instalments and interest due upon lands purchased of the Jand commission. ? In Fairfield couuty an organization of colored ku-klux has been formed for the suppression of polygamy. They Have whipped several colored men who were emulating Brigham Young. ? Mr. Jacob R. Frey, of Spartanburg county, killed a Chester hog on the 27th ult., of his own raising, 7 feet 9 inches loug, 7 feet in circumference, weighing 796 pounds gross, and which netted 694 pounds. The tax-payers' Convention will assemble * in Columbia on Tuesday of next week, the 17th instant. It is understood in Columbia that the legislature will not agree to appoint a day for adjourning sine die, until after the j meeting of the convention^^*"" ? Hezekiah E. Duncan, who killed Levi M. Bolick, at Winnsboro', in October last, was found guilty of manslaughter, and was sentenced to the Penitentiary by Judge T. J. ? - o .i n Wackey, at the recent terra or tne L/ircuii Court for Fairfield county. The jury were out fourteen hours. Within twelve hours after sentence, the prisoner was safely lodged in the Penitentiary. ? In regard to the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel says : "The net earnings of the road, in excess of all expenses, for December last, amounted to ?42,000. The receipts from all sources during the fiscal year, ending September 30, 1873, were ?752,31$ 33, or an increase over the preceding year of ?122,695.94. The increase in the amount of freight received at Augusta equaled ?27,788.92 over receipts for 1872; and of freight forwarded from Augusta, ?43,032.88 over 1872. Eleven miles of Fish-bar have been laid at this point Columbia-wards." ? The Spartanburg Spartan of last week, announces the death, by violence, of Gen. J. W. Miller of that county. Gen. Miller was a prominent citizen of Spartanburg, and previous to the war represented the county in the State Legislature. The Spartan furnishes the following as the circumstances attending his death . "He retired at an early hour the night before, and was found dead the next morning, lying out in his horse-lot, near his corn crib, with his feet extended over a log, on which, it is supposed, he was sitting at the time the deed was committed. His head was terribly torn to pices by a large ball entering the upper lip just below the nose, and passing through the upper part of the head. Between his feet lay a pistol, with the barrel empty, and an exploded cap on the tube. It is thought by some that he might have gone out to his crib, on hearing some one trying to hrpnk into it. and been killed by the rogue at close quarters, while others think the circumstances lead to the conclusion that he must have taken h is own life. An inquest was held over his body, but we have not heard what verdict has been given. We can scarcely believe it possible that he could have taken his own life, as he was uniformly cheerful in disposition and not given to melancholy moods." j NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? An effort to organize a Grange at Hickory Tavern, last week, failed. ? With the view of ridding the Superior Courts of petty criminal cases, a bill is before the Legislature enlarging the jurisdiction of magistrates. ? Real estate is steadily advancing in Raleigh. The population is also increasing, and ! two hundred new buildings are now in course of erection. ? The Raleigh Examiner learns that John ' Jones, a revenue officer, shot and killed Jesse ( Colverd, in Jefferson, Ashe county, recently.; No particulars are given, further than there j were mitigating circumstances in the slaying., ? The citizens of Wilmington, through ' Senator Merrimon, have petitioned Congress to make an appropriation of 8350,000 to complete the improvements at the mouth of Cape J Fear river. ? The Supreme Court refuses to grant a' new trial to J. Allen Ketchey, the noted 1 horse-thief and desperado, who was convicted j of rape, a few months ago, in the Superior Court of Rowan county. He will, therefore, j be sentenced to the extreme penalty of the law at the next term of the Court. ? Another murder was committed last week i in "Scuffletown," the rendezvous of the Low-1 ' ry ga,)g- A negro named Barney Lochlear i was shot in his own yard, about 8 o'clock on i Thursday evening. It is not known who . committed the deed. | ? The bodies of the Siamese twins have j I been taken to Philadelphia, it having been j decided that the jdos< mortem examination can ; be more satisfactorily conducted there than ; ! it could have been done with the meagre j facilities outside of a medical institution. No facts will be published until after the autopsy ; | has been concluded. | NEWS OP THE DAY. i | ? James M. Harvey, the newly-elecied Senator from Kansas, is a native of Virginia, and about forty-one years of age. He is a Republican in politics, and is represented as a man of unimpeachable integrity. ? In the Massachusetts Legislature, last Saturday, John Quincy Adams made a speech nrroMiot fho PhiInrlplntiin. pen t en 11 i :i I exhibition. A resolution instructing the congressional representatives to give it their aid jvas tabled , by a vote of 76 to 84. ? Jefferson Davis sailed from New Orleans for Europe, on the 2oth ultimo. His destination was Liverpool, having gone there, a9 it i9 said, for the benefit of his health. His disease is dropsy of the heart, and a sea-voyage was recommended by his physician. ? Caleb Cushing has instituted suit against Mrs. Gaines to recover large amouuts alleged . to be due him as fees for legal services ren- j dered that lady in her various suits to recov- j er property claimed by her in the city of New Orleans. ?Suit iias been brought by the Attorney- , General of the State of Illinois against the < Chicago and Alton railroad for a violation , of the new railroad law of that State, the spec- j ifications being that the road has charged , more than fair and reasonable compensation for the transportation ot passengers ana treignt. This is the first prosecution of the kind, and | is looked for with considerable interest. ( ? In the United States District Court at ( Baltimore, on Saturday last, Judge Giles pre- < siding, in the case of James S. Mason, Register of the First Election District of Kent county, indicted under the second section of the Act of Congress of May 31, 1870, for striking from the list of qualified voters the names of fourteen colored persons, in October last, the jury rendered a verdict of guilty, and the court imposed a fine of $500 and . costs, amounting to about $600. 4 1 EDITORIAL INKLINGS. ? The National Grange. The seventh annual session of the National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, con- ] vened in St. Louis, Mo., last week. Sixteen i hundred subordinate Granges were represent- 1 ed. It was determined to print the constitu- t tion and by-laws in all the languages spoken r in the United States. The city of Charleston ( was selected as the place of meeting next i year. ] The Columbia Daily Union. i Mr. L. CV.3S Carpenter has commenced the publication of a journal in Columbia, un der the title of the Daily Union, which he claims is but the revivification of the paper under that title which he disposed of a few months ago to the Herald, with which the title of the former paper was consolidated. Of the complications likely to grow out of these transactions, we nor the public have any concern. We can only say that the Daily Union, as issued by Mr. Carpenter, is a good, live newspaper, conducted with ability and replete with news. Besides Mr. Everson, one of the best local editors within our knowledge, Mr. Carpenter will soon have associated with him in the editorial management of the Union, Mr. Myron Fox, formerly editor of the Charleston Republican, but more recently, we believe, connected with the Washington Chronicle. The Daily Union is published at $8 per annum. Another Financial Block. On Saturday last, the Legislature received a communication from Treasurer Cardozo, conveying the astounding intelligence that the South Carolina Bank and Trust Company, with an ample sum of public.money in their keeping, had refused to houor the drafts of the State Treasurer, notwithstanding the fact that, as the Treasurer asserts, the Bank has now in its possession, of public moneys on deposit, not less than 868,000. The cause of this action by the Bank is the alleged fact that the Secretary of the Treasury refuses to recognize a bill payable for 825,000 which the Bank holds. This bill payable, unlike all others of its class, as the Treasurer allaffororl rwir ntimVlPrpd. And lCgCO, 13 UCllligi iVfcbVAWx* MW* there are no records by which its identity can be known. Hence he refuses to pay it, and as a consequence, the bank refuses to honor the Treasurer's drafts, and has even gone further and attached the public money deposited with it for safe keeping. Great consternation ensued in the Legislature on Saturday, when ^ the Treasurer communicated the above facts r to that body, and the subject was at once ' made the special order for Monday. A committee was appointed by the Senate to investigate the matter. On Monday the committee asked for further time to make a report, t which was granted. In the meantime Hardy r Solomon, Presideut of the Bank, addressed a 1 note to the Legislature, as an answer to Car- * dozo's communication of Saturday, in which I he denies the imputation that his $25,000 bill i payable is irregular, and says that the items s of his claim, when before the Legislature, * n-nro sxifnfullv ATnmined bv committees of the < two Houses, and even by Cardozo himself, * and all parties seemed satisisfied with their i correctness. k Mr. Solomon also denies the statement that | he has attached the moneys of the State in his y bank. He says he is only seeking to comply A with the instructions of the Comptroller, as to r the mode of paying checks and keeping his ? accounts, which requires the checks to be drawn against the special fund for the pay- k mentof which the fund was levied. J Honesty and Rascality.?In 1865-66 j the State Government was in the hands of the c Conservatives, and the late James L. Orr was Governor. Last year the State was controlled by the Radical Rings, and F. J. Moses, Jr., was, as he is, Governor of the State. The I expenditures of the two years, for State purposes, were as follows: 1805-'6fi 1873. , Salaries $ 78,481 83 $ 230,787 30 4 Public Printing, 17,448 86 331,045 68 ( t no,i..iohvn irvnnri?r>? 51.338 00 201.339 47 Uy^tniOKI T V J _ Schools, 5,579 4f> 30ljl01 37 1 Lunatic Asylum, 20,81)7 00 117,253 11 t DeafifeDumb Asylum 5,000 00 11,170 00 Contingent Funds, 0,092 00 75,033 75 s Sundries, 83,413 31 298,668 85 t Total, ?266,248 04 ?1,717,318 60 j ( Rascality cost the people nearly seven times | * as much as Honesty cost; and there were de- ' ( ficiencies at the end oftheyear 1873, amount- < ing to 8540,328, which made the entire cost of Ring Rascality nearly nine times as much ( as that of Conservative Honesty. In 1873 the public printing alone, or the legislative ' expenses alone, cost more than the whole ex- 1 pensesofthe Government in 1865-66. These * are official figures, and they tell the whole < story.? Charleston Nnos and Courier. i LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. W. D. Simpson, Secretary and Treasurer?Notice to Stockholders of Chester and Lenoir Nar- \ row Gauge Railroad Company. Joseph A. McLean, Judge'of Probate?Citation? j Thomas G. Culp, Applicant?Isaac Sjameer, | deceased. J. M. Morrow?Executor's Sain. Situation Wanted. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation? | Bridget O'Cnnnell, Applicant?M. O'Con- i Del I, deceased. W. II. A J. P. Ilorndon?Better than MoneyHard Subjects?Hoes?Hollow Ware?Potatoes?Shovels, Spades, An.?Baskets?Tin Ware?Wooden Ware?Pickles?Rope. S. O. Brown?Auctioneering. T. M. Dobson A Co.?Flour?Colfec Pot Stands? Not Goods at Cost?1873? Bargains?Captain Jack? Ready-Made Clothing?Irish Potatoes?Just Arrived?Now Grocery?Whisk Brushes?Mill Saws?Miles' Shoes?Sacquos and Shawls?Canned Goods?Hammers? Piceal i ly?Slates. J. Harry C'lawson?Notice of Appointment as Assignee in the matter of Alexander C. Sutton, Jesse C. Clifton, J. Madison Smarr, Jos. 0. Webber, Jas. S. McSwain, James A. Barnwell, Chelsea Robbins, John D. Smarr, Bankrupts. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Applicant? r? t_T?.Pltmhatl, \r,._ HWH 11/1 HWUlG.-7l(C;nu lutoi UIIIMMVVM Knight, Applicant. P. \V. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankrnptcy? First Meeting of Creditors?In the matter of A. Sylvanus.Wallace anil Porrin O'Dcll, Bankrupts, T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?Application for Discharge?In the matter of B. II. Bates, James A. Smith, W. J. Collins, Adam Ivy, Thomas Palmer, Bankrupts. Win. II. Doty and D. V. Walker?Mules on Time. LARGE TURNIP. Asa specimen of the product of his farm, Major Myles Smith has sent U9 a turnip weighing 5 pounds 10 ounces, and measuring 251 inches in circumference. TAX PAYERS'"CONVENTION. We have been requested to give notice that i meeting of citizens will be held at Yorkville, an Saturday next, for the purpose of selecting additional delegates to represent York county in the Tax Payers' Convention, which meets it Columbia on Tuesday next. HRHRRRS fir THE BAR. In addition to the members of the Yorkville bar, the following gentlemen of the legal fraternity are here in attendance on the Circuit Court now in session : Mr. Solicitor Brawley, Giles J. Patterson andS. P. Hamilton, Esqrs., )f Chester; and J. H. Kion and A. M. Mackey, Esqrs., of Winnsboro. IMMIGRANTS. We learn that Mr. William Sahms, who esides at Clay Hill, in this county, has se;ured the services of eight male immigrants, tnd that they are now employed on his premises. We have not been definitely informed is to the nationality of the immigrants, but suppose they are Italians. gen. irvin Mcdowell. General Irvin McDowell, commanding the Division and Department of the South, arrived in Yorkville on Friday night last, on lis annual tour of inspection. He inspected ;he troops at this place early on Saturday morning and departed on the next train. General McDowell's command embraces the of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, \rkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky. Alt RESTS. On Monday last, J. Blackburn Wilson and Robert M. Steele, citizens of this place, were irrested by Deputy Marshal Hubbard, for notation of the enforcement act, the offense iharged as having been committed in 1871. They were recognized by Commissioner Mctfanus to appear in Charleston at the April erra of the United States District Court. iVe understand from the commissioner that hese cases come under those excepted by the President, and that they will not be prosecued. REVENUE SEIZURES. Within the last few days several arrests 1 - J - *? ?l,!? aP norfioQ mve ocen rauue iu uiia viuun; ? p... jharged with evading the United States rev;nue laws by the sale of whisky on which the ax is unpaid. The persons arrested are John tnd William Love, residing near Yorkville, md three North Carolina peddlers named 3ost, Zimmerman and Watson, respectively, vho were overhauled in the county and jrought to this place for a hearing before [Jnited States Commissioner McManus. The jroperty seized consists of three wagons, seven worses and 150 gallons whisky, which is dedared forfeited, and all the parties arrested lave been committed to jail. Eli Ross Stewirt has also been arrested on a similar charge, ind released on bail. ^ THE TAX PENALTY. The Governor has approved the act recenty passed by the Legislature, providing for an ixtension of time in which taxes may be paid, vithout incurring the 20 per cent, penalty )rovided by law. The act makes it compullory on the comptroller-general and the govsrnor to extend the time, so as to conform, as learly as possible, with the old statute on the lubject, which gives about sixty days from the KaaIta oro nrv?ned. The books were I llliJU til^ V/UUBO M?V ipened in this county on the first of January, vhich will cause the time to expire about the irst of March. We are informed by the Treasurer, that near eight hundred persons in his county have not yet paid their taxes, r CLUBS?1874. Our subscription list for the new volume of he Enquirer is rapidly filling, for which >ur acknowledgements are hereby tendered, lot only to our old readers, but to a goodly lumber of new subscribers, whose names have )een entered on our books within the past few veeks. For the information of persons deliring to subscribe in clubs, we publish the lames of the following club-makers in this :ounty, by either of whom names will be eceived: f. R. Howe, R. L. Crook, 5. W. Jackson, J. H. Coltharp, J. Matthews, J. N. Roberts, VI. W. Mendenhall, Maj. Myles Smith, VV. R. Davis, J. C. Patrick, F. Lindsay, Maj. A. A. McKenzie. T. L. Clinton, Rev. J. S. Bailey, John T. Grist, J. D. Wylie, VV. J. Stephenson, J. H. Hood, 3. D. Simrill, J. I. Faris, ? t /-i n John L. Miller, Itev. d. Kj. jourge, Uol. W. B. Allison, Ed. R. Mills, ft. Clark Harris, J. P. Hunter, David J. Jackson, David T. Lessley, Simon Ferguson, J. A. M. L. Stewart, i. W. McClain. The names of other club-makers will be )ublished as they may be reported. COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. The Court of General Sessions for York :ounty, his Honor Judge Mackey, presiding, mtered regularly upon the dispatch of busiless on Tuesday morning last. The charge of ;he Court to the grand jury was brief, and prelented no points beyond the usual instructions ;o enquire into the conduct of the various ;ounty officials as regards the manner in which bey have discharged their duties as public >fficers, and to examine the condition of the :ounty buildings and report upon the same. The case of the State vs. Calvin Good, j barged with assault and battery upon the >erson of Chap. McKinna, was first tried, ind resulted in a verdict of not guilty. Mr. jood, at the time the alleged offense was :omraitted, was, in the capacity of police officer it Fort Mill, attempting to arrest McKinna, when, McKinna resisting, the officer struck him with his hilly. It was this affair that gave rise to the attempted riot by negroes at Fort Mill last July, with the facts of which, many of our readers are familiar. According to the testimony of a negro witness, all this trouble originated from a discussion on the street between the said witness and Chap. McKinna, as to which is of most henefft to the community, women or money. That question, it seems, is yet undecided, having been lost sight of by reason of the vaiious complications which the discussion originated. State vs. Adam Love, colored, malicious trespass, in forcibly seizing and taking possession of a saddle. Verdict not guilty. State vs. Lander Dixon, colored, charged with the larceny of a gun, valued at ten dollars. Verdict of guilty, and in the absence of the accused the court sealed the sentence. The case of State vs. Simon Ferguson, charged with receiving stolen goods, is set for trial as we go to press. ARKANSAS BRIGANDS. The subjoined strange but true narrative is copied from the Little Rock (Arkansas) Gazette, of a recent date. Mr. G. R. Crump, to whom the Gazette acknowledges its indebtedness for the facts, is a native of Richmond, and well known there as a gentleman of undoubted veracity. The account reads like one of the olden time stories of the deeds of Dick Turpin and Claude Duval. The Gazette says: From Mr. G. R. Crump, a representative of the wholesale tobacco and cigar bouse of Edmunds, Pettigrew & Co., of Memphis, who arrived from Hot Springs last night, and who was on Thursday's stage going to the springs at the time of the robbery referred to in Friday's Gazette, we learn the particulars of the affair. There was one stage and two li^ht road wagons or ambulances, the stage being in front and the other two vehicles immediately in the rear. At the Gaines place, five miles this side of Hot Springs, the stages were stopped to water the stock." While watering, five men rode up, coming from toward Hot Springs, and passed on by. Each man wore a heavy, blue army over-coat, but neither of them was masked. Nothing was thought of the matter and the vehicles moved on. After going about half a mile, the men who bad passed them at the Gaines place, rode up from behind, and the first thing that Mr. Crump, who was m the front stage, neara, was an order to the driver to stop" or his head would be blown off. The stage was stopped, aud on throwing up the curtain, he saw a pistol pointed at him and others in the stage, telling them to get out quick, accompanied by an oath. They got out, and as they did so, were ordered to throw up their hands. Three men were in front of them with cocked pistols and another with a shot-gun, while on the other side of the stage was still another? all pointing their weapons towards the passengers and the driver. After getting the passengers out, they made them form in a kind of circle, so that all of them could be covered by pistols and guns. The leader then "went through" each passenger, taking all the watches, jewelry and money that could conveniently be found that were of special value. From ex-Governor Burbank, of Dacota, they obtained $340 in money, a diamond pin and gold watch. A gentleman named Taylor, from Lowell, Massachusetts, went up for $650 in money. A passenger from Syracuse, New York, gave up his last nickel, $160. Mr. Johnny Dietrich, our boot and shoe merchant, lost $5 in money and a fine gold watch. He had $50 besides this in the watch pocket of bis pants that they did not find. Mr. Charley Moore, of the ice-house, gave up $70 in money and his silver watch, but they returned tbe latter, siatiDg mai iney did not want any silver watches. A Mr. Peoples, who resides near Hot Springs, lost 820. Three countrymen lost about $15. The express package, containing about 8450, was also taken. Mr. Ciuraphadhis watch and about 840 to $50 in money gobbled. After getting through with the passengers, they tore open several mail sacks in search of registered letters, but did not get any. While the main party was engaged in this work another took out the best horse in the coach, saddled him, rode up and down the road about fifty yards two or three times, and remarked that "he would do." After this, the "Captain" went to each passenger in turn and questioned him as to where he was froth, and inquired if there were any Southern men along. Mr. Crump spoke up, as did one or two others, that there were Southern men. They then asked if there were any one who served in the Confederate array daring the war. Mr. Crump answered that he did. They questioned him as to what command. [Third Richmond Howitzers,] and remarking that he looked like an honest fellow, one who was telling the truth, handed him back his watch ana money, saying they did not want to rob Confederate soldiers; that the Northern men had driven them into outlawry, and they intended to make them pay for it. Coming to Mr. Taylor, of Lowell, 1 * T II they askecl where he was rrom. "ol juouis, he responded. The "Captain" eyed him closely. "Yes, and you are a newspaper reporter for the St. Louis Democrat, the vilest paper in the West. Go to Hot Springs and send the Democrat a telegram about this affair, and give them my compliments." - Governor Burbank asked them to return his papers, saying they could be of no benefit to them. The "Captain" squatted down on his knees and commenced examining them. Turning round to his followers, he said: "Boys, I believe he is a detective?shoot him 1" and forthwith he was covered with three pistols. "Stop," said the chief, looking further, "I guess it's all right," and handed the Governor his papers. Coming to the gentleman from Syracuse, N. Y., who was going to the springs for his health, he asked them to give him back five dollars, so that he could telegraph home. Eyeing him closely, the chief responded that if he had no friends of money, he had better go and die?that he would be little loss any way. The fellow with the shot-gun kept pointing it at the St. Louis Democrat man, as they termed him, making such cheerful remarks as these: "I'll bet I can shoot his hat off without touching a hair ofhis head." All of them seemed to be jolly fellows, and enjoyed the fun very much. None of the passengers were armed, and as Mr. Crump expressed it, "They had the drop on them." One nasseneer with rheumatism, so badly af flicted that he could not get out of the coach, they did not touch, refusing to take anything he had. The affair occurred about half-past 9 o'clock Thursday eveniog, on the main road to Hot Springs. . From the talk of the captain, it is thought they are from Missouri. They took breakfast on the road between Malvern and Hot Springs, Friday, and from the deecription, it is thought the chief is a celebrated Missouri brigand, (whose name we now forget,) who has been outlawed by the authorities of that State, and for whom there is a standing reward of $10,000. It may be the same party who rode into Cape Girardeau last spring, about 9 o'clock in the morning, and deliberately walked into a bank, pulled a pistol on the cashier, and robbed the institution of several thousand dollars, and then deliberately rode out of town, before the people knew what was going on. I hey were so heavily armed that Mr. Crump described them as - walking armories. Jfmaacial aitb Ctrmimrrial. YORKVILLE, February 11.?The cotton market is active with an advance of half a oent since our last report. We quote extremes at 9 to 13i. Flour, $4.75 to $5.25; Corn, 85 to 90; Meal, 90 to 95; Oats, 80 to 85; Peas, 85 to 90; Sweet Potatoes, 85 to$l; Irish Potatoes, $1 to $1.10; Dried Apples, $1.75 to $2; Dried Peaches, $2 to $2.50. NEW YORK, February 9.-Cotton dull at 16 to 103. Futures closed steady. Sales 24,500 bales as follows: February 15 3-16 to 15}; March 15 17-32