Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, February 12, 1874, Image 2
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.:
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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*
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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
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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
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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,
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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,
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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