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Scraps audi ^arts. Philadelphia is 861,000,000 in debt. Mexico now raises all the cotton needed for her own mills. Daniel Drew, the New York millionaire, is lying dangerously ill. The people of Savannah are luxuriating on fresh tomatoes, grown in the open air. New York has over 800 accidental deaths annually. For the year ending December 31,1873, it cost 81,048,800 to clean the streets of New York city. The demand for postal cards has now .1 l,.i Q Ann AAA Q AAA acitucu uuwu tu uctuccii u,vw,v/v\/ auu */,uvv,000 per month. Six divorces were granted in one day last week, in one of the courts of Washington city. Ex-President Fillmore is in a precarious condition at his home in Buffalo, N. Y., from an attack of paralysis. The National Crop Reporter estimates the supply of hogs for summer packing at fifty per cent, less than the number fattened last year for summer packing. A religious cotemporary has discovered the style of the first introduction between our first parents. He said, "Madam, I'm Adam," to which she replied, "Adam, I'm madam." Beeeher says the highest type of Christian character is the highest type of manliness, and this involves personal cleanliness, self-denial of injurious indulgencies, and a scrupulous regard for the comfort of others. The business of the Patent Office is now larger in amount than at any previous period of its history. During the past two weeks, the unprecedented number of 1,232 applications for patents have been received. Recently a little twelve-year-old daughter of Col. W. C. Jeffries, of Burkville, Va., attempted to extinguish a kerosene lamp which had been burning all night, when it exploded, killing her instantly. "Continental dam" is not profanity. When the old continental currency was redeemed, the counterfeit was stamped "dam," (damnatus.) As the genuine was no better tlmn flip rnmitprfVnt if was s.-iirl tn lw "not worth a continental dam." Th a postmortem examination of the Siamese twins seems to have conclusively established the fact that their separation during life would have resulted fatally. It is stated that the bodies of the twins will be taken over the country and exhibited for reward. An attempt was made, one day last week, to burn district school-houso No. 12, in Rochester, X. Y. Three hundred children in the upper rooms, would have been cut off from escape, except by windows, if the flames had not been timely discovered and subdued. A white woman residing on Pacific street, in San Francisco, married to a colored man, gave birth recently to twins, a boy and a girl. The boy is black as jet, but on the compensation principle, the girl is white as a lily. A woman in Worcester, Mass., whose buildings were set on fire and damaged by lightning, has recovered damages from the lightning roil company, whose agent, when fixing the rods on the building, guaranteed protection. The Staunton Vindicator learns that "the people of West Virginia are so disgusted \i-ifVi St-qfo nfTiira oronornlle tlmf if an nrrancrp ...v.. .......... v..-? .. -"fc>inent could be made without unduly burdening them with a debt, they would willingly rejoin Virginia." Senator Chandler, of Michigan, has brought suit against the Detroit Free Press for libel, claiming 8100,000 damages. The alleged libel is a special dispatch from Washington of the 20th ultimo, charging the Senator with intoxication and disgraceful conduct in the Senate chamber. Chicago divorce lawyers are so busy now that newly married couples are said to engage attorneys at their weddings, guaranteeing to give them employment within one year. St. Louis people are said to he rivaling Chicago, by promising a case under six months from the wedding day. The Baltimore Sun arid Philadelphia Age have been figuring up the cost of the Uni ted states army, P rom lobl to lobb the soldiers cost the Government 81,094,000,000, exclusive of bounties. The Modoc war cost 80,000,000. p]ach person in the United States army costs 8948 per head, men and officers. The French army costs $137.50 per head. The Utica (N. Y.) Herald says two old ladies troubled a conductor on the Central road, one protesting that she should die if the window was open, and the other protesting against shutting it, when an experienced traveler advised the conductor to settle the matter in this way: "Open the window and kill one, and then close it and kill the other, and then we shall have peace." A convention of locomotive engineers is in session at Cleveland, Ohio. The proceedings are kept secret, yet it is understood that a strike has been decided upon and the details are being arranged. It is stated there is considerable opposition to this course, and that if the non-strikers do not carry theirpoint, they will split from the Brotherhood, and form a separate organization. Those who are in favor of a strike demand an increase of wages. Speaking of law as at present violated, Ilev. T. K. Beecher says: "It is extremely difficult to commit the crime of murder in such an accurate and honest way that it shall satisfy the specifications of the statute. Unless the would-be murderer take legal counsel \ twl on rl f?ll a\i* inofrimtinna minn fol v lie will fail nine times in ten, however sincerely lie may try. Anybody can kill a man, but he cannot do it in first-degree murder style without counsel and care." A very noticeable exodus of colored people is in progress from the Eastern Gulf States across the Mississippi. The blacks are making for Texas. The New Orleans Picayune estimates that since 1870, 100,000 negroes have goue to that State, anc} 300,000 whites. It regards Texas as the safetyvalve of the South, and has no fears that the negro emigration there will exceed the white. In Alabama the departure of the blacks is consolidating a permanent Democratic power. In Mississippi and Louisana, where the blacks were more numerous than the whites in 1870, there is a steady decline in their numbers, and the white vote will soon be the largest. Georgia finds it difficult to spare this labor, although her white laboring population is on the increase. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says: "Mr. Patterson, of Pennsylvania, now sitting in the Senate as a representative from South Carolina, has stated that he intends to address the Senate shortly on South Carolina affairs, aud to pay his respects to Mr. Bayard for his arraignment of Major Merrill in connection with the ku-klux arrests and the money made out of them, if Mr. Patterson carries out his intention he will be apt, before he gets through, to have his own history ventilated in a manner which may not be very agreeable. Senator Robertson, of South Carolina, whose republicanism has never been questioned, is known as a mau of candor and firmness. He has not been at all backward in expressing his disapproval of the conduct of Major Merrill or any other army officer in accepting a douceur from the South Carolina Legislature, and if he deems it neaessary he will say as much on the floor of the Senate." The latest returns from the seat of the temperance war in Ohio afford a very ecouragiug exhibit of the actual work accomplished by the ladies in the brief period during which they have been exhorting the liquor dealers to abandon their business. The statistics are vouched for as perfectly accurate. The returns as published show that in the twenty-four towns in Ohio and Indiana in which the reformore have been at work for some weeks, there wore, when the movement began, 184 saloons I # j and twenty-six drug stores in which liquors were freely sold. Of these 10(J saloons and twenty-two drug stores arc now closed to the ! liquor traffic, and seventy-five of the former : and four drug stores continue the sale. In j eight towns every saloon is closed ; in twenty- i j one,every drugstore has ceased to sell liquors, except on a physician's prescription. In only three do any of tha druggists continue to sell without restraint. In five towns there is now hut one saloon each, where before there were j I from two to six. Of those towns where the i 1 traffic in intoxicants has been stopped entirely,! | one had fourteen saloons, two others sixteen j j each, and the rest a smaller number. In the ! larger towns and cities, to which the reform | has lately spread, no very great success has j ! yet been attained. But the women are working with courage, and some good, if not all i they hope for, will doubtless follow their labors. |?hc ?<jf!n)iUc ^wquivcv. | YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, MAR. 5, 1871. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name j of the subscriber very plainly, give post-ollico, ; county and State in full, and send the amount of j the subscription by draft or post-ollico money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The postage'on the Exqitirkk, to I any part of the United States, is five cunts per quarter, or twenty cents poryear, and is payable in advance at the post ollice where the paper is received. Watch the Figures.?Thet/u/ron the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discoirMnued, the date must bo kept in advance. Cash.?It must bo distinctly understood that our tonus tor subscription, auvenising aim joowork, are cash in advance JOB PRINTING. Having determined to devote more utten- i tion hereafter to job printing than we have J done in the past, we would inform the public that our office is now well supplied with new j type of the latest styles, and the best ma- i chinery in use; and with a choice stock of inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to execute as good work as can be done anywhere in the United States. Orders for Ball Tickets, Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, ' Labols, Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks, Bill Heads, -Law Briefs, Business Cards, ; Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads Cheeks, Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, Note Headings, | Drafts and Notes, Programmes, Envelopes, t'oiivics, r ireiv i-.no ins., Election Tickets, Shinplastcrs, Festival Tickets, Wedding Cards, will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction as to quality of work, guaranteed in every instance. Particular attention given to fine work in colors. THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE. The women's war upon saloons and drinking places where liquor is sold, inaugurated in the West, continues its advance eastward, and, as our traveling correspondent informs us, has reached South as far as Tennessee. The women engaged in the work are doing effective service in their efforts to crush the serpent that lurketh in the bowl. This warfare, however, can only be regarded as a spasmodic movement?one of temporary excitement? the effects of which will be visible no longer than the excitement lasts. So soon as the efforts of the praying women cease, a reaction will take place, saloons now closed will he reopened, and the sale of intoxicating beverages will go on as before. The only mode the women can adopt to make effective their plan of! suppressing the liquor traffic will be to keep | 4_:i.. i' ??.l ,.p | up uieir wuriare uany uum uuv cuu ui mv year to the other, which, to say the least, is a rather doubtful task. As "familiarity breeds contempt," so would the dealers soon come to look upon the efforts of the enthusiastic women as of no consequence, and as the novelty wore away their doors would reopen and old bibbers would take their accustomed potions, utterly iudifferent to the prayers and supplications of I the women on the pavement. While the ex- j citement serves as a wouder of the hour, and affords material for the daily press, we doubt if any permanent good will result from the movement. Miss Jane Swisshelm gives the following sensible views on the subject, which we need hardly commend to the women of South Carolina, whose modesty is proverbial: "To one who thinks calmly, and recognizes I man's natural guardianship of women, it is ; wonderful to see hundreds of thousands of j able-bodied men stand aside and cheer a few j 1 thousand feeble women on to such a wasting, | | hopeless physical contest. What is it all but 1 a trial of physical strength between the liquor < ' - - ... ., . . , _ 1 I . | | , dealers and their assailants, wun an uie con- j ditions in favor of the former? Who does j j not know it is hopeless ? Who does not know that the men can sit longer by the hot stove j than the women can kneel in the snow ? Who ! does not know that he must win the case when j it comes before the courts ? Who does not j j know that the law is not on her side? Who I : does not know that they have no more right j | to encumber a side-walk with a prayer-meet- i ! iug tent than with a pig-pen ? Who does not | I know that they have no more right to enter a ; ; man's house without his consent, or to hinder j | his lawful business by crowding his door-step, j ' than he has to put up a bar iu the parlor of j J any one of them ? Who does know that these women are reenacting the part of the ; J old sheep who knocked his own brains out J butting a swinging mallet ? The thing seems | ; at every stroke to give way, but returns with I : a rebouud to strike the striker, while the men , who encourage the onslaught are like the boy | who hung up the mallet for the sheep to butt i | at." PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. I 1 In the Senate, on the 24lh, a number of i memorials were presented and referred. One , of these memorials asks that the 12th of Feb; ruary, the birth-day of Abraham Lincoln, be ! set apart as a national holiday. Debate on i the financial question occupied the remainder ! of the day. In the House, the only matter of importance under diseussiou was the bill to revive the franking privilege, which was debated until the time allotted for its considcra-1 i tion had expired. In the Senate, on the 25th, the bill to provide for the appointment of a commission to ' investigate the alcoholic liquor traffic was discussed without action. The bill for the equalization ofthe national banking circulation was debated until adjournment. In the House, j the bill to revive the franking privilege, was, after a week's debate, brought to a vote. First came a motion to lay it on the table, and that was defeated by a majority of 18. Then came a substitute to restore the franking privilege, 1 pure and simple, but only fifty members had the courage to vote for that, while two hundred voted against it. Then came the final vote, aud it was amusing to see the ncrvous! nessof the members about it, many who wished ! the bill to pass not wishing to appear on the ; yea and nay list so voting; and so the result j was the rejection of the bill by one majority againstit?130 to 1.11. It will probably bo revived by a motion to reconsider. Some thirty Democrats voted for the bill. In the Senate, on the 26th, several petitions were presented and referred. Mr. Merri non, from the committee on post offices, reported a bill prescribing a new form of oath for the , Postmaster General and for post-masters. The bill to make an appropriation for the proposed centennial exhibition at Philadelphia was lost I by a vote of 23 to 28. In the House, the bill in relation to the franking privilege was again \ taken up, and after an extended debate, dur- j ing. which several amendments were offered and rejected, the bill was defeated by a vote : 129 to 131. In the Senate, on the 27th, the bill for the j appointment of a commission to investigate i the alcoholic liquor trafic was considered, and an amendment adopted appropriating 810,000 , for the expenses of the commission. The ceo- j tennial appropriation bill was then taken up i and discussed without final action. The | House was engaged on private bills. On the 28th, the Senate was not in session, j In the House a petition of citizens of New , Voi k and New Haven was presented, asking ; for a survey of Palestine on the east side of | the river Jordan, after which the civil rights j bill ivns discussed. and a sneech made in favor ! ' * | of the bill to establish an educational fund, ! when the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 2nd instant, Mr. Al- : corn presented the petition of the Mississippi , cotton planters, asking that the cotton tax be I refunded. The centennial bill was discussed, j Mr. West introduced a bill to abolish the Southern Claims Commission and give to the : court of claims jurisdiction of all claims ! against the United States, brought by loyal j persons for property, &c., used or destroyed j during the war. In the House, a number of I . I bills was introduced and referred. A new i franking bill was introduced, which provides j that during any session of Congress, and for ! thirty days prior and subsequent thereto, all written and printed matter sent to members, and all similar matter, and such other things as have been ordered by either House for distribution, shall go free of postage. It also provides for free exchanges between publishers and for the free delivery of newspapers through the mails iu the counties whereiu published. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Small-pox has again made its appearance iu Camden, through the medium of a colored visitor from Charleston. ? E. H. Abcll, of Chester,. proposes to erect a steam saw mill at Whitaker's station on the Air-Line Railroad. ? Twenty-four German immigrants arrived in Abbeville, last week, and were provided with homes. ? Rev. John Bachman, the eminent Lutheran divine, died in Charleston, on the 24th ultimo, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. ? There are at present about two hundred convicts in the penitentiary, only one of whom is a female. ? The income of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad during the month of January, was about 884,000, being larger than in any month of its pa-t history. ? The Air-Line Railroad is said to be in trouble, on account of the non-paymcut of interest on the bonds and the threat of the bondholders to enforce their mortgage. ? In Columbia last week, at auction, $2,000 Laurens Railroad coupons sold at 40c ; 314,500 Blue Ridge coupons at 40c, and 812,000 Blue Ridge bonds at 39c. ? A weekly mail line has been established between Rock Hill and Lancaster Court House. A. L. Watts, of Lancaster, is the contractor. ? S. C. Millet, formerly Superintendent of J the Port Royal Railroad, died at the Wheeler House in Columbia, of typhoid fever last week. ? The Chester Reporter says that Judge Mackoy celebrated the anniversary of Washington's birth day by a lavish display of United States Hags and the repeated firing of salutes. ? Mr. John G. Steele, who resides near Rock Ilill, came near losing his house last week by the breaking of a kerosene lamp. The oil caught fire but was fortunately smothered with a shawl. ? Jaines Warnioth, a harness maker by trade, and formerly a resident of Yorkville, while in a state of intoxication, froze to death, week before last, in the vicinity of Lewis' Turn Out, on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. ? Robert Stewart, who was convicted of rape in Lancaster, at the April term, and i sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary, has been pardoned by the Governor, upon the recommendation of the Judge and Solicitor of the Circuit. ? The rule established in the Eighth Circuit by Judge James L. Orr, by which the juries gave only half the amount of old debts, has been reversed by his Honor Judge Cook, and at the last term of the court several verdicts were obtained for the whole amount of old debts. ? Superintendent Jillson reports to the Legislature that the amount of outstanding and unpaid school claims for the fiscal year ending October 31,1871, is 875,000, and for the year ^ ' ri 1 m-rt i^nAft tOS ,1 ending UCtoDer 01, 10/z, is 9400,10o, auu lur I the your ending October 31, 1873, is $22,071, making a grand total of 8306,256. ? The Columbia Union-Herald is "credibly informed that one of the delegates from Charleston, who spoke loudest at the late Convention of Tax-payers of the hardships poor taxpayers sulFer, has never been known to make a return since the war closed, nor has paid a single dollar taxes except in the way of re demption, and that 011 remarkably easy ' terms." ? The Rock Hill Grange of last week says: "We are glad to be able to correct the im-! pression that Col. Jones has made Charlotte ! his home. He has not forsaken his adopted j State and we hope never will. Capt. Iredell I Jones, who for several years merchandised in our town, and who was so intimately con- j Ducted with its early history, has entered one | of the largo grocery houses of Charlotte.' While we arc sorry to lose our young and ; energetic friend, we are glad to know that he still considers this his home and has not relinquished his citizenship." ? Attorney-General Melton has written a letter to the President of the Senate in which he urges the appropriation of $'25,000 for the employment of additional counsel, when necessary, to represent the interest of the .State. Three separate suits of importance have been ordered by the General Assembly to be instituted, viz: one to recover the $80,000 of the .Sinking Fund unaccounted for by Financial Agent Kimpton ; one to recover the Agricultural Land Scrip, valued at $150,000, from the same officer, and one to compel a general settlement with Kimpton. Besides this litigation, the Attorney-General is assured that two suits will be commenced against the State during the year?one involving more 1 than one million and the other over five mil-1 lion dollars. These last named suits proba- j hiy have some connection with the Bint Ridge Scrip, or the Morton, Bliss it Co., bonds, or both. ? Mr. Alfred M. Lowry, of Chesterfield lias introduced, in the House of Representatives, a bill to amend the election law. It constitutes the County Commissioners, the Clerk of the Court and the Sheriff, in each county, a board of commissioners who shall, thirty days before the election, appoint managers of election for each township and precinct, two of which managers shall be from "each political party." The polls shall be open from 7 A. M. to 5 1'. M., and the votes shall be counted in public immediately after the closing of the polls. Separate boxes shall be kent: one for the voles foi ~~ ? - - - I - t ? county officers, and the other for the votes f'oi State ami Federal officers. Notice of the time and place ofelcetion shall be given twenty days in advance. A majority of the commissioners shall he sufficient to appoint man agers, who may fill vacancies. The compensation of the commissioners and managers shall be two dollars a day, and any neglect ol duty shall he punished by fine and imprisonment. ? The Union Times of Friday last says; "We regret to learn that a destructive fire occurred near Etta Jane post-office, on Broad River, in this county, about 10 o'clock, on Friday night last, which destroyed the larg dwelling house lately owned by Elenzer Par ker, and which he had just sold to Mr. C. C Roberts. Mr. Parker aud his family were still living in the house, and had retired foi the night, when a bright light was noticed and the crackling of burning wood overhead aroused Mr. P., who discovered that the upper part of the house was in a blaze. Rushing up stairs he broke open the door of the room in which his daughter was sleeping. The two ran down stairs as quick as possible and just as they reached the lower room the ceiling of the room they had just left fell in, making a very narrow escape from being burnt to death. Mr. Roberts was also sleeping in the house, and upon the alarm gatliprcd n? hn sunnosed. all his clothes and bur ried out, but lie afterwards found that he had left his pantaloons in the house, in which was SI50 in cash. Only one or two trilling articles of furniture were saved, and scarcely any of the clothing." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The question of building a cotton factory is now agitating the citizens of Statesville. ? Miss Nannie Bunker, daughter of the late Chang, died near Mount Airy, from consumption, on the 17th ultimo. ? Dr. Devaga, President of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, was to have let out contracts, on Monday last for the grading of the road on the North Carolina end of the line. ? The Legislature elected Josiah Turner as State printer, and Governor Caldwell persisted in exercising the authority of appointing Win. M. Brown to the same position. The matter went before the Supreme Court for adjudication, and that tribunal has just decided in favor of Mr. Turner. ? The slayers of Steve Lowrey have received from the State treasurer 85000, the reward offered for his capture, dead or alive. The manner in which the outlaw was killed?his slayers being in ambush, and firing without a word of warning?does not seem to elicit much commendation. ? On application by counsel for the prosecution, Judge Mitchell granted a rehearing of the case of Elliott, the slayer of Neal, in Statesville, on the 18th ultimo. The case was heard again by Judge Mitchell on the 22nd, when, after hearing the evidence adduced on that occasion, the Judge decided that the case was not a bailable one, and rescinded his former decision. Elliott was remanded to jail to awaL trial at the June term of the court. ? A special election in Caldwell county has been authorized by act of the last legislature, to vote on the question of a county subscription to the Chester and Lenoir railroad. The question has already been voted upon in that county, and decided affirmatively Dy a smau majority ; hut this special election, according to section 1 of the act, seems to be for the purpose of "testing" the question. The act before us docs not annul the former election, nor are there any penalties attached for a failure to vote. ? The action of August Belmont & Co., brought iu the Superior Court of Wake county, against the State Auditor, to compel the payment of back interest 011 certain bonds held by the complainants, was dismissed by Judge Watts upon, the ground that suit should have been commenced in term time aud not in chambers. The merits of the claim were not discussed. New proceedings will be commenced. The amount of tax asked to be collected to meet this interest is about $2 on the 8100 worth of property. ? The Legislature, at the recent session, passed an act that justices of the peace shall have final jurisdiction of a large number oi actions which heretofore occupied nearly all the time of the Superior courts. The following misdemeanors will hereafter come within the jurisdiction of justices of the peace: Unlawful fences ; fornication and adultery ; hunting by fire light; malicious injury to property; asskult, where no intent to kill is shown, aud no deadly weapons were used ; failing tc work on public roads; hunting 011 the Sabbath ; entering upon lands when forbidden ; neglect of husband to provide for hi3 family ; and vagrancy. The act also provides that all cases now pending in the Superior courts for the above offenses be transferred to the justices' courts. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Charters and Incorporations. The Governor has approved the general incorporation Act passed at the present session of the Legislature. By its provisions charters for churches, cemeteries, fire, hook and ladder and military companies, Masonic and other lodges, charitable, religious, labor, agricultural, manufacturing, industrial, 01 similar societies or companies, shall be granted by the Clerk of the courts upon application to that official. If within ten days fifty persons object in writing, the Clerk may refuse, if he considers the objections sufficient, the Judge of the Circuit having power to decide. If he refuse, then the General Assembly may be appealed to. Thirty days public notice is to bo given by the parties applying for the charter in one of the newspapers of'the county. The Act classifies the charters. Class one comprises all labor, agricultural, manu factoring, industrial, mining and companies or associations of like nature; class two, churches, etc., class three, charitable and religious institutions, Free Masons and such kind of societies. In jockey and other sporting clubs the amount of property is not to exceed $50,000. When no objections are presented, the Clerk of the Court is obliged to fill out the blank charter, and is allowed a fee of $3 therefor, except for churches, for which the charter fee is fixed at $1. In case thnOeneral Assembly grants any charter, the ! corporators shall pay to the Secretary of , State for certificates of incorporation. All charters now existing in the Slate can be re- i , , newed under these provisions when they shall J have expired. ; The S. C. Governorship. s The Washington correspondent of the i New York Herald telegraphs to that paper as 1 , follows in regard to the South Carolina Gov- \ , ernorship: -j I "The memorial of the tax-payers of South ^ ? Carolina will be presented to Congress and ' j the President this week. The colored people ,j I of the State have combined to make Congress-1 , man Elliott their candidate for Governor, j . The white citizens, without regard to party, i' ask Senator Robertson, to secure the support j of the administration on their side, to accept ' the gubernatorial nomination. It is said that t 'Congressman Elliott boasis that if he can get ,] control of the State, he will "lurn the cradle I of the slave-holders' rebellion into the asylum of the slaves," thereby making the State uu-i inhabitable for whites and the ciysium of the ; negro. The contest promises to be exceeding-} j i lv bitter, ami some are predicting another ir - ' ?... m ; c f repressive conflict?tins tune, ot races. t Amendment to the Constitution. Mr. Cochran, representative from An- ' . deraon county, lias introduced a joint resolu- J . j tion in the House proposing an amendment jc I to the Constitution in reference to the amount I ? i i j l1 i ; of the annual levy of taxes for State purposes, j , It proposes to add the following proviso to j J . j the end of section three, article nine of the j , State Constitution : , ; Provided, that the annual levies for the fol. | lowing purposes shall heat the following rates, . i to wit: for school purposes not icss than two J | mills; for expenses of public printing not more j ' j than a half mill; for legislative expenses not j ' i more than one and a (piarter mills; and when; j ever it shall happen that such ordinary ex- ' , ! peases of the State for anv year siiall exceed e j the income of the State for such year, the s ' j General Assembly shall provide for levying ( ' | a tax for the ensuing year sufhciciit, with other g : J sources of income, to pay the deficiency. > The question of the amendment is to be ^ ' submitted to the people at the next general election. The resolution, however, has been ' introduced so late in the session that it will " j scarcely go through both branches in lime to ' | become a law. ? !; The Postal System. ' ' j It is understood that tlie .Senate com- 0 I mittee on appropriations will propose several ' i important changes in the post otiiee adminis- 1 ! tration, which were intimated in part by Sen- 0 .! ator Morrill, of Maine, in the debate which 8 T t took place on the 23rd of January, pending . j the consideration of the post-route bill. In that . j debate Mr. Morrill alluded to the fact that the Postmaster-General estimates that the J | earnings of the department will be some 829,- a 000,000, and that there will be a deficiency of I S7,000,000 and odd, making over 836,000,000. I . Not a dollar of this amount goes through the 1 treasury of the United States, or is subjected j1 j to its audit or control. This department, e . therefore, was independent of the treasury, a . j If the department is to be kept within its rea- s | sonable bounds, so that it will not break itself v . down, this kind of legislation must be arrested, i A recent Washington letter says : o The committee will propose an amendment } to the laws so as to provide that after the 30th v of June, 1874, conveyance in the mails of t samples of merchandise, packages of clothing, s seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, samples of i metals, ores and minerological specimens, and , bound books shall cease, and all laws authorizing such conveyance shall be repealed. The a * reason for proposing such repeal is that the mails arc lumbered with, among other things, bee hives, with live bees in them, fed with 1 honey and sheltered by glass; boots and shoes, L i groceries, and other incongruous articles, v i which are sent through the mails under the t provision that everything except some dan* \ gorous liquids can be sunt through the mails ^ j if not weighing over four pounds. These ar- f ' tides, bulky and weighty, (ill up the postal 1 mail cars, and are carried by our present sys- 3 1 torn like the letter, which must go as rapidly 1 ; as possible, and to see to their immediate dis- I trilnition ; and the effect is that all the accom- c , modations which the Postmaster General can t get upon the postal car system are not suffi* ' cient for the adequate and rapid and satisfactory distribution of the matter which ought to ! pass through the mails alone. The railroad 1 . companies are now paid by weight for the ex- 1 act amount they carry; and it is therefore a . contended that if the mails shall he relieved \ I from the carrying of merchandise there will | be a considerable saving to the government. ' I The effort of the appropriation committee will * I be to make the Postoffiee Department a medi- \ | um of simply transmitting intelligence. In j 1 this connection some if not a majority of the }, ( members of the committee are in favor of abol- 'j ishing the postal car system and of repealing j, the clause providing for the free delivery of letters; the latter on the ground that large s 1 sums are thus spent for the benefit of the res- 11 idents of a few cities, while the people at large ;! are taxed to pay for it. It is estimated that ? ! such changes would well-nigh cover the , amount specified as deficiencies. , Suspensions and Failures. j, I The statement of bankruptcies and faili ' ures for the past year has just been published. It is considerably in excess of the usual aver- ^ age. The chief losses of the panic, after the j, great monetary firms are disposed of, have ? fallen upon the great manufacturing and labor-employing interests, whose inability to . j meet notes and to pay current wages, even j I with ample means, I d to such wide-spread g . | sufferings. The following is a table of the . ! failures in the United States for the past few c . | years, as compiled from the circular of Dun ^ ! & Co., who are considered reliable authority : (| In 1870 there were 3,551 failures, amountj ing to ?88,242,000. In 1871 2,915 failures, ? involving?85,252,000. In 18 7 2 4,0(59 failures, v : involving SI21,056,000. In 1873 5,183 fail- p I i ures, amounting to the immense sum of $228, ; , 4yy,UUU, almost inree limes greater umu me i total of 1870, ar j ?107,433,000 greater than , ; the total of 1872. Of this increase in liabili- a i tie3 New Yuri; city is chargeable with $71,- ^ I 000,000, showing that throughout the balance 1 ! of the country the increase in liabilities is only t ! $36,000,000, which, it is assumed, is not an t I : excessive amount as compared with that of ^ ' previous years. The failures of the South are ' j divided as follows: Alabama, $1,337,000; ? 1 Florida, $258,000; Georgia, $2,113,000, with 11 J sixty-seven failures ; Kentucky, $2,287,000; ( i} Louisiana, $2,831,000; Mississippi, $900,000 ; j ? I North Carolina, S672,000; South Carolina, 1 I $1,927,000; Tennessee, $1,636,000; Texas, m $1,751,000; Virginia and West Virginia, i * $2,188,000. At the North, New York city j, II leads with 644 failures, involving$92,535,000. j ' Pennsylvania follows with 576 failures at I ^ ,; $31,455,000. # j 3 > Messrs. Dun & Co., in commenting upon i 7 the failures of 1873,say in their circular, that! I "even admitting that the events of the year! 1 t ju3t closed are not merely as discouraging as 1 : might have been anticipated, there is a lesson 1 . in its history that needs to be pondered by ev- c i cry business man?that when the financial A . skies seem least overcast, danger is at hand." 1 i We doubt if ever the trade of the country seemed more prosperous than during the first t: ten days of September last. The promise of S an abundant crop had been fulfilled, prices at g . home and abroad for the products of the soil q were good, and numerous enterprises, calcula- si ted to develop the material wealth of the 11 1 country, were contemplated or seemed to be ti approaching successful development, only to be brought to a sudden termination by the a failure of a few large houses, sweeping with tl : them, in their fall, thousands of others. I 11 LOG All AFFAIRS. N E W ADVERTIS E M E N IS. t. II. Glenn, S. V. (!.?SheritFs Sales, iii'klin it Hall, near Clay Hill?Physicians and Surgeon*. V. I). .Simpson, Secretary and Treasurer--Railroad Notice?To the StoekliolderH of tlio ! Chester and Lenoir Railroad Company. \ M. 1).ilison it Co,? Red Fluff?-Our Millinery Store?Grocery. V. 11. ?V .1. 1'. Herndon-Kisli?That Guano has ('onie?(Vitlee. \ S. Jotlerys, Secretary?Masonic Meeting. j V. II. MeCorkle, James F. Hart, H. F. Adiekes, F.xeentivo Committee ? Yorkville Female I Institute. '. Ilarrv Ciawson -Assignee's Sales?In the mat- j ter of A. (J. Sutton anil John D. Smarr, I llaiikrnpts. ed'erys A Melts?A flood Investment. . PARDON OF ELIJAH HARDEN. A despatch from Washington announces hat the President has pardoned Elijah liar- j leii, of this county, sentenced to the Albany lenitentiary on the charge of ku-kluxing. CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS. Our thanks are hereby tendered to lion. V. S. Wallace, for a package of seeds, Concessional documents, and a copy each day of he Conyresxional Record. TIIE YORK COUNTY BONDS. Attention is directed to the advertisement if Messrs. JofFerya & Metts, in another column, iffering for sale the bonds of York county, ssued in aid of the Chester and Lenoir Xnrow Gauge Railroad Company. Persons who lave funds to invest should consider the inlucemcnts offered. DEATH OF COL. It. M. KERR. Our community was pained, on Thursday ast, at the announcement which reached here >y telegraph, that our former townsman, Col. i. M. Kerr, died on the previous evening at Concord, N. C., after a brief illness caused by xposure in inclement weather, while in puruit of a horse that had been stolen from him. 3ol. Kerr had been in business in this place iuce the close of the war, until about two 'ears ago, when he returned to Rock Hill, he place of his former home. TIIE LATE \V. H. McCAW. Our readers will remember that the Taxpayers' Convention adopted resolutions reommending contributions in aid of the fatni v of Mr. W. H. MeCaw, who are left iu a lestitute condition. Col. R. M. Sims, one of he delegates from this county, has appointed dessrs. I. D. Witherspoon, John S. Reynolds ,nd Charles E. Spencer a committee to obtain ubscriptious at this place, and by these genlemen any contributions will be most grate'ully received. YOKKVILLE FEMALE INSTITUTE. We are pleased to be able to announce that rrangements have been made to reopen the female Institute at this place under favora>le auspices for the future success of the school. Che property has passed into the hands of a oint-stock company, whose intention it is to stablish an institution for female education if high merit, and which shall be entirely unectarian in management and discipline. As vill be seen by reference to the advertisement n another column, the first session will open in Monday next, under the control of Prof. iV. H. Hubbard, late of Louisville, Kentucky, t'ho comes highly recommended as a Chrisian gentleman, a fine scholar and an apt eacher. SUBSCRIPTION INS VALL >1ENT8. On Friday last, a number of wheelbarrows ,nd shovels, belonging to one of the contract' o D irs for the grading on the Chester and Leloir Narrow Gauge Railroad, arrived at the lepot in this place. It is understood that the vork of grading will be commenced within he next fortnight, and the work pushed forward as rapidly as possible. In order that he Company may promptly meet its engagenents with the contractors, Mr. W. D. Simpon, the Treasurer, gives notice in our adver* ising columns, that he will be at llawlinson's Intel on next Thursday, for the purpose of reviving the installments on the subscriptions to he capital stock which have already been :allcd for. The enterprise is now well under vay, and with the hearty cooperation of all incrested, the completion of the road to the Mr-Line Road by the first day of next Jauu.ry, can be calculated upon with certainty. SALES-DAY. Monday Inst, sales-day for March, brought o town a considerable number of people from 'arious sections of the county. We hear but ittle said, as yet, regarding the prospective igricuitural operations of our farming friends, fhere seems to be complaint of a lack oflalor in some localities, aud it is already a ettled fact that commercial fertilizers will lot be so extensively used this season as last. Und 'r orders of the Judge of Probate, the Sheriff sold the following tracts of land for lartition: B. Fuller lands?A tract of 250 acres, (ought by W. D. Russell at $16.75 per acre. Joseph Poag's lands?One tract of 325 cres, sold at 50 cents per acre; another of 125 acres, at $1.60 per acre. Both tracts ought by Thomas Barber. Jesse K. Armstrong lands?Mill tract, 57 cres, bought by G. F. Ford and L. K. Armtrong, at 813 per acre. Another tract of Q3 nnre>v hnncrht bv Wm. E. C'amDbell at 12.50 per acre. J. Harry Ciawson, Assignee, sold the S. P. iutton land, 91 acres, which was purchased >y Mary Epps at ?1.50 per acre. J. M. Morrow, Executor, sold the J. D. lorrow land, lying near Hickory Grove, diich was bought by J. M. Morrow at ?3.50 ler acre. cluhs for this year. Monday last being the day designated for warding premiums to club-makers for the inquirer, on comparison of the respective ists, it was found that J. R. Howe was entiled to the first premium ; John T. Grist to he second premium ; and John L. Miller to he third premium. The total number of lames as returned by the various club-makers 3 as follows: J. R. Howe, 139; John T. )rist, 117; Jno. L. Miller, 106; Maj. M. - - - - . i n < fir n rv imith, 5U ; A. I1, ijinasay, di ; >v. rv. 4; M. W. Meudeohall, 28; A. J. Matthews, 1; S. W. Jackson, 12; T. L. Clinton, 39; iV. J. Stephenson, 10; S. D. Simril, 17; R. j. Crook, 13 ; J. E. Craig, 6 ; J. H. Coltharp, 2; J.N. Roberts, 15; J. C. Patrick, 14; Jaj. A. A. McKenzie, 12; W. J. Jackson, ; J. D. Wylie, 12; J. H. Hood, 5; J. I. ^aris, 22; Rev. J. C. Burge, 17; Col. W. B. Ulison, 9; H. C. Harris, 10; A. H. Mulholtind, 12; J. P. Hunter, 7; David J. Jackson, 3; D. T. Lessley, 23; Simon Ferguson, 14 ; lharles Petty, 4 ; J. A. M. L. Stewart, 8; A. V. McLaiu, 8; Rev. J. S. Baily, 16; A. T. Sruce, 8. These names, with those from various secions of the State, and nearly every other Itate of the Union, not included in club-lists, ive to the Enquirer a circulation for 1874 uite flattering to the proprietor, whose contant aim shall be to reuder the paper a still lore welcome and attractive visitor in the fuiire than it has been in the past. In returning thanks to our friends, one and < 11, for the interest taken in the circulation of lie Enquirer, we deem it but proper to relark that many of tlio clubs above reported, were iidI formed it) competition for the premiums offered, but from other considerations, which render the action more highly appreciated by us. Those entitled to premiums of magazine- or other publications in accordance with our published proposition can have the same ordered tit uny time, by signifying their choice. TKANSFKKS OF HEAL ESTATE. Since our last report, the following transfers of real estate in this county have been recorded by the County Auditor: George \V. Cunsler to F. H. Brown. Onethird interest in 348 acres of land in Bethesda township. Consideration 8800. Thomas L. Johnston to Sarah J. Gibson. Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration 8400. Robert M. Sims to Richard A. Springs. Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration 8500. James Douglas to H. F. Adickes and others, Trustees. Yorkville Female Institute property. Consideration 85000. R. Patterson to N. Af. Sandifer. A tract of 112 acres of land in Bethesda township. Consideration 8560. Archibald Hood to James S. Gourley. A tract of 140 acres of land in Bullock's Creek township. Consideration &UUU. John J. Dunlop to E. M. Shannon. A tract of 111 acres of land in Bethesda township. Consideration $447. H. K. McSwain to J. L. Bechtler. Four acres of land in Cherokee township. Consideration $12. Abram Harden to D. R. Hanibright. Eighteen acres of land in Cherokee township. Consideration $162. William Hays to Scott Ragsdale. Six acres of land in Cherokee township. Consideration $50. Thomas Whitesides to Osceola Whitesides. Twenty-two acres of land in Cherokee township. Consideration $105. Thomas L. Johnson to Sarah M. Boyd. Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration $175. J. Harry Clawson, Assignee of S. P. Sutton, Bankrupt, to J. N. Eppes. A tract of 90 acres of land in Fort Mill township. W. A. Aikir.- aud others, to Mary E. Clinton. A tract of 80 acres of land in Bethesda township. W. A. Aikius and others to John L. McGarity. Eighty acres of land in Bethesda township. Mary E. Clinton to W. A. Aikins. Forty acres of land in Bethesda township. Correspondence 01 me xoritviiie Luiiuutr, THE WHISKY WAR IN TENNESSEE. Chattanooga, Teun., Feb. 26. The ladies have begun the temperance crusade in this State?the crusade that has made such a sensation and been so effective in suppressing the trafic in Ohio. The crusade opened in Greenville?a town of a thousand inhabitants, on the Virginia road, above here? and has been raging with quiet fury since. The ladies there are a determined set of females, and can pray as long and sing as loud, as any in Ohio or elsewhere. Now, Greenville is the home of Andrew Johnson, and many people are deeply exercised in their minds as to what that great man may have to say about it. Up to this writing, he has not been interviewed, and we do not know whether he thinks the women's movement could stand, if measured by the square aud compass ofthe constitution, or not. That is the measure A.J. applies to everything, and if it is found wanting, down it goes?in his estimation. While we have no word from A. J. on this great and important questiou, it is reasonable to suppose that he cannot find anything in the constitution of the United States giving ladies the right to sing and pray in front of a free man's shop, and is therefore opposed to it. Besides, Andy likes a toddy himself sometimes ; and, while he often takes sugar in it, he might object to prayer or song. If interviewed on the subject, he would no doubt say that all these things are good in their places, but that they did not go well together, wheu all tuken at a single dose. When the women's crusade began, there were three saloons in Greenville, one of which has been swept away by the power of prayer. This was Ross's, and, although he held out manfully for a time, he finally caved in and sent his fiery fluid down to Knoxville. This caused great rejoicing in Greenville, and the remnant of his erotr-shop was accompanied to the dep6t with 'thanksgiving and joy. The dribs of liquor from this fragment of a grocery will be given a warm welcome at Knoxville, where the old soakers are fortifyiug their insides against the coming tempest of prayer ; for it is no secret that the fair ladies contemplate a ruid there. Two saloons in Greenville?those of Goss & Campbell and Mrs. Ward?hold out against the praying enemy, (how strange that sounds!) and manifest no disposition to surrender. They are each closely besieged, from the early hours of morning until far into the night. The old soakers cannot get their usual "eyeopener," nor mid-day horn, and are very sorrowful in consequence. They are sorrowful, because they are sober. It is a novelty not pleasant. If, perchance, they slip into one of the remaining grop-shops by the back way? sneaking through a slyly open door, like a thief in the night?they are met at the very bar by the prayiug ladies. The glass is filled, but no sooner does the toper-slave essay to raise it to his parched lips, than a gentle hand tn Id it rt An UIp n r rtt nnrl Vt A i a o olr n/1 in o f Ana ia laiu upuu ilia ai iu, auu uc 10 aoaui iu u iuucj and with tears Satan could not resist, to pass the beverage by. What a position is this for a soaker of forty years standing! In front of him?within his very gfasp?is the innocent looking butdeath-deaiing fluid his morbid insides crave with a craving no man knows, except topers, and resting on his half-uplifted arm is a fair woraau's hand, and in her eyes, tears, while from her sweet lips come the words, "don't! don't! for God's sake, don't J" Surely, the man who can resist this, and swallow the liquor, must have a cast-iron stomach, steel nerves, a hard heart, blunted sensibilities, and feet that already take hold on hell. The popular sentiment in Greenville is altogether on the side of the ladies. The ministers are for them, the lawyers are for them, and the merchants are for them. The saloonists have tried to get the lawyers to apply for writs of injunction, but not one of them will touch the case. ? 1. Ka MAvMoutinra ooIaamo n nd 1 lie UIU1CS gu tU W1C iciuaimujj oatuwuo auu remain until dark. There are two parties of them?one at Mrs. Ward's, and one at Goss & Campbell's. When it rains they are provided with umbrellas, aod in front of Mrs. Ward's they have a temporary structure built to shield them from the weather. Here they remain all day-long, singing, praying and reading the Scriptures. Every passer-by is surrounded and asked to sign the pledge. With twenty or more fair ladies arouud hira at once, all pleading their prettiest, and showing now and then a tear?how can a fellow help signing ? A man who would rudely push by and insolently refuse to sign, would deserve to have all the whisky he wants for the next fifteen years. At the end of that time he would not want any more. Mrs. Ward's saloon is at the end of the