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Scraps and Jfacts. One hundred million postal cards have been issued since the 1st of last May. Colorado, which had not a mile of railroad less than five years ago, has now ten liues, having a total length of 678 miles. The amount of appropriation asked for by the Postmaster General for the next fiscal year, for the general post-office service, including the mail contracts and post-office supplies, is over six million dollars. Washington advices say that the President has been extensively interviewed for the purpose of ascertaining his intention in regard to the finance bill, but to no purpose. The matter is to be discussed in Cabinet meeting. Reports from all sections of Virginia convey the intelligence that the recent frosts have plaved sad havoc with the fruit crop and early vegetables. In the neighborhood of Norfolk alone, soon half million dollars were lost by the damage to the trucking farms. The inspiring sunshine of the season has touched the heart of an Indianapolis girl, who concludes a love-letter thus: "The ring is round, the dish is square, and we'll be married the next State fair. The bell shall ring, the drum shall play, and we'll go dancing all the way. Answer soon. Mary." Many colored men all over the State of Virginia, are very anxious to try the experiment of serving ou juries, and in Prince William they have held a meeting and appointed a committee to memorialize Judge Nicol, of the county court, to grant them that privilege. The House committee on appropriations had post office officials before them again on Friday in relation to the post office appropriation bill. The committee have decided to hear arguments in relation to the postal telegraph, and have notified the Post-master General aud the president of the Western Union Telegraph Company to be present. An exchange notes the rumor that Donati, the great astronomer, died from excitement consequent upon discovering that the earth is approaching the sun so rapidly that in ten years it will be drawn into the sun and shriveled up. The paragraphist then adds that decidedly American comment: "This will be discouraging news to the insurance companies." The Black Hills of Dakota, in the Sioux reservation, are covered with magnificent pine timber, upon which covetous eyes have been already set. It will be surprising, therefore, if we do not ere long hear of Indiau wolves muddying the streams in that quarter. TUa MAttAMnmAnf Uno wnAl PA/1 O Qf T.AIllO O V_ x lie g\j vei u menu uao leiuovvi u kjh, va ploring and lumbering expedition leave to go upon the territory. A woman in Halifax, N. S., had a very vivid dream about six months ago that she had suddenly died. Since that time she has remained firmly convinced that she is dead, notwithstanding the efforts of her friends to convince her to the contrary. She passes her time in bed, and during brief intervals of reason eats sparingly, when she relapses into a motionless and seemingly lifeless condition. "How much better it would have been to have shaken hands and allow it was all a mistake," said a Detroit judge. "Then the lion and the lamb would have lain dowu together, and white-robed peace would have fanned you with her wings and elevated you with her smiles of approbation. But, no; you went to clawing and biting and rolling in the mud, and here you are. It's $5 apiece." In 1805 there was but one man in this country who could make drawings for cotton machinery. His name was Ogden, and he was abducted from Liverpool to Providence, R. I., in those days a great offense. When it was discovered in Manchester his wife and children were turned out of employment, and came on the parish, but were soon sent to America. The internal revenue receipts are coming up to their usual standard. Seventy-six million dollars have been collected thus far tliis near onfl ?3 9ft1 11? ?rp thp repaints fnr the present month. The indications are that the present month's revenue will greatly exceed those of a corresponding period last year, and demonstrates the fact that the temperance crusade has not had the effect desired by its advocates. Of late the internal revenue officers have shown great energy in bringing to grief parties engaged in the evasion of the internal revenue laws, and many seizures of distilleries and tobacco manufactories have been made in various sections of the country. On Tuesday the Commissioner was notified of the seizure of a tobacco factory and two lots of tobacco in Tennessee, two distilleries in Utah, and three of the largest distilleries in New Orleans. The new horse disease which was prevalent in New York stables, has attacked the horses of the Brooklyn car lines, and of the animals as many as two hundred are laid up with the disorder. The disease is known as pinke and farcy, and occasions a swelling of the legs of the animal, a running of the eyes and a stiffness of the joints.' There is no specific cause of the disease ascribed. It is not 11 :J 1 T. generally uuusiuuieu iniui. at uucj uul mst, as a general thing, more than three or four days, and although apparently painful to the animal, is not dangerous. The crusading women of Philadelphia report that during the past six months they have held 127 meetings; 1,546 drunkards signed the pledge ; seventy-one saloon keepers have pledged themselves to quit the business; eighty-three bar tenders have signed the pledge not to drink again ; ninety proprietors have been visited and prayed with ; 242 persons have professed to be converted and have joined church, twenty-two members of church who own places where liquors are sold have pledged themselves not to renew their leases. St. Louis has a new reason for gratification. It ranks eleventh in population among the great cities of the civilized world, while in point of health it is fourth. Zurich, Geneva, and San Francisco are the only large cities that can show a lower average annual rate of mortality. In Zurich 16 per annum in every 1,000 inhabitants is the rate; in Geneva, 1& in every 1,000; in San Francisco, 19 in every 1.000 ; in St. Louis, 20 in every 1,000. Chicago, t>*ys the Democrat, with her lake winds, soui meat, hot corn, doctored barley, and defective sewer system, kills off her people at the rate ov 30 per annum in every 1,000. ? General Johnston's book is being extensively commented upon by the Southern press. The opinion most generally expressed is that the book will be a valuable guide to the student in tracing and determining the causes which led to the complete loss of the Mississippi to the Confederacy by the fall of Vicksburg. The light thrown on the operations in Northern Georgia, the struggle befoie Atlanta and Sherman's march to the coast, excites a lively interest, and brings to the surface many things in connection with the management of that campaign which has heretofore been known only to those who were behiud the scenes. It is conceded that while there are many passages in the book to be regretted, it is one of deep interest and well and lucidly written. A Florida correspondent says: "I wonder if a description wouTd serve an artist as a model for a sketch of a style of equipage much in a favor in Florida. Imagine a small, short cart, perched high on two wheels, drawn by a cow?than which the 'lean kine' in Pharaoh's dream were never leaner?so miserable that all hair stands up the wrong way, (the representative cow has generally lost one horn and the most of her tail,) and then curled up on the floor of the cart an old colored woman, extremely dilapidated as to costume, smoking the stump of a pipe, and one or two younger women in front, with a man, whose attire is more picturesque than serviceable, sitting on the shafts driving. This conveyance, animal and all, appears to be peculiar to Florida; certainly I have never seen anything like it elsewhere, and it would be quite as striking in ... ^ ! a picture as the group of gipsies that paiuters are so foud of." The Globe of St. Louis publishes a letter from Mouut Vernon, 111., which gives some account of a new kind of crusading by ladies in that town. On Friday last Mrs. S. S. Wilson, accompanied by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Thomas Watson, went to the drug store i of E. M. Shepherd and deraauded to see the : prescription on which her husband is in the ! habit of obtaining liquor at that establish| meut. Mr. Shepherd being absent the clerk | refused the demand, but advised her to see Dr. | Porter and have him revoke the prescrip, tion. Mrs. Wilson, regarding this as a mere i attempt at evasion, told the clerk that if he i did not give up the prescription she would blow his brains out, at the same time presenting a pistol at his head and appearing to be in great excitement. A parley ensued, and finally Mrs. Wilson was induced to call ou Dr. Porter, where, with her pistol drawn, she obtained a speedy revocation of the prescription. The ladies then proceeded to Shepherd's saloon and Dr. Johnson's drug store, and with weapons presented gave them their orders, after which they went home, much to the relief of all doctors and saloon keepers of the town. IJorMlc (?itqnim. YORKVILLE, S.C.: THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 23,1874. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-ollice, county and State in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post-offieo money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The postage on the Enquirer, to any part of the United States, is five cents per quarter,or twenty cents peryoar, and is payable in advance at the post office where the paper is received. Watch the Figures.?The da/con the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 13th, Mr. Anthony, from the committee on printing, made a report with an accompanying bill on the subject of complaints made by the employing printers of Washington in reference to the management of the Government Printing Office. Mr. Carpenter gave notice that he should move to take up the Louisiana bill. The usual flood of bills and resolutions for reference only were introduced in the House and referred to appropriate committees. On motion of Mr. Packer, from the committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, the rules were suspended and a bill for the free transmission through the mails of newspaper exchanges, and also in counties where published, was adopted. A joint resolution was then offered by Mr. Hays authorizing the Commissioner of A 1 tii ro fn eond froo tbmiiorb fhr> mnils fill ngllVUIUUiV ?V "vv to" ?? seeds, cuttings, and plants to any citizen of the United States. He moved to suspend the rules and pass it, but two-thirds not voting in the affirmative the joint resolution was lost. In the Senate, on the 14th, Mr. Flanagan presented the petition of C. D. Anderson, of Texas, asking the removal of his legal and political disabilities. Mr. Frelinghuysen, from the committee on judiciary, reported back with amendments the Sumner civil rights bill. Mr. Carpenter called up his Louisiana bill, which was considered and debated by Messrs. Carpenter, Sherman, Frelinghuysen and West. The only important act of the House was to pass the currency bill. It being the bill which originated in the House, it goes to the Senate, in which body, it is predicted, the bill will not pass without several amendments. One objectionable feature of the bill, as it passed the House, is that it provides for unlimited expausion without any effective means of redemption in gold or its equivalent. In the Senate, on the 15th, the House currency bill was announced and referred. The Louisiana election bill was discussed, when nPfot. on ovonntiiTo coccinn n rl innrn iuc ucllotcj a A lit i u14 va^vulil w uvwtfivuj ??v*j vm* ? ed. In the House, Mr. Bland, of Missouri, offered a concurrent resolution that the mileage system be abolished, and that the national capital be removed to some more central location to be hereafter determined. Objection was made to the resolution, but Mr. Bland insisted that he should offer it at some future time. The legislative appropriation bill was then discussed until adjournment. In the Senate, on the 16th, Mr. Frelinghuysen gave notice that on the following Thursday he would move to take up the civil rights bill. Mr. Carpenter introduced a resolution proposing to recognize Cuba as one of the independent nations of the earth, and that the United States will observe neutrality between the contending parties. The Louisiana bill was next taken up and debated until adjournment. In the House Mr. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, reported a bill appropriating three millions of dollars for the centennial exposition. The House then went into committee of the whole on the legislative appropriation bill. An amendment was adopted repealing the law by which the public printer is elected by the Senate, and providing that hereafter he shall be appointed by the Presideut by and with the consent of the Senate. The amendment to reduce the President's salary from ?50,000 to ?25,000 occasioned considerable debate. Those favoring the proposal did so on the ground that the former increase was unconstitutional. When a question was taken on the amendment but twenty-eight members voted in the affirmative. In the Senate, on the 17th, Mr. Scott presented a memorial from citizens of Philadelphia, asking a repeal of certain provisions of the tariff act. The Louisville and Portland Canal bill and the Louisiana question were discussed at length, when the Senate went into executive session and adjourned until Monday. In the House, Mr. Morey, from the committee on the Mississippi levees reported a bill to provide for a commission to report, after enquiry, upon the best plan for the permanent improvement of the levees. Mr. Morey also introduced a bill authorizing the President to give assistance to the sufferers by the recent inundation of the Mississippi river and its tributaries. A number of private bills were reported from various committees and at the end of the morning hour the House proceeded to the consideration of District of Columbia affairs. In the House, on the 18th, Mr. Hyues had j read a resolution from Little Iiock in regard | to the seizure of the telegraph lines in that ! city, but the Speaker decided it not in order, ; and it was withdrawn. A joint resolution authorizing the President to render assistance to the sufferers by the inundation of the Mississippi river was reported back from the committee on military affairs and passed. The legislative appropriation bill was considered until adjournment. SOUTH CAROLINA bEWS. c ? Governor Moses has appointed James H. p Goss county commissioner of Union county. t< ? There are about thirty-one candidates for d ! the three positions of policemen in Winnsboro. i ? There are twenty-one inmates in the poor C house at Spartanburg. b i ? Pat Paul, a well-digger, was killed at S j Union Court House, on Friday night last, by a man named E. Voiselle. Whisky. e< ; ? On Monday week last a fine mule, be- ii ; longing to Mr. W. A. MeCormick, of Union, I w ! was struck and instantly killed by lightning, ei | ?Judge Mackey granted an injuction res- o: , training the sheriff of Laucaster from selling ; ?he poor house and lauds appurtenant, which tl ' were advertised for sale under execution. di ? Ex-Governor Scott has presented a me- n I morial to Congress through Senator Patter- p ' son in vindication of his administration as . p i Governor of the State. J tl ! ?On Thursday night last some one entered, J j through one of the windows, the Darlington tl ! po9t office, but the rogue or rogues, did not | u: | get more than a dollar or two. I lc ' ? James Walker stabbed and killed Hiram J ti 1 Cochran at Anderson on the 8th instant, j y< | Walker was arrested next day. Both parties j ct ! to the affray are negroes. ei j ? The Winnsboro News announces the death tl | of Judge Rutland, in that town, on the 17th, i at the age of sixty years. His remains were tl taken to Lancaster for interment. I C ? A meeting of the directors of the Spar- w tauburg and Asheville Railroad was held iu ai Charleston on the lGth, and arrangements a] marla a cnon/lv 11mypen t inn rif f.hf> SlirVfiVS I 111 of the road. j II ? The Wiunsboro Neivs says: Mr. Nelson ci is getting ready his bond as county treasurer, b; Mr. Copes refuses to give up his Auditor's office, and will make a fight over it. "To the si victor belong the spoils." bi ? The Abbeville Medium of last week re- bi ports the most destructive storm known in w that county for many years. Great destruc- C tion resulted to forest timber, fences and ti bridges were washed away, and several houses di were blown down. w ? The Columbia Union-Herald of Saturday n< says: "The city was visited Thursday evening cl by one of the most terrific thunderbolts that has fallen in "these parts for several years. It g( struck in the neighborhood of the Columbia Hotel, and scared a considerable number of ^ men not accustomed to heaveulv visitors." to ? William Poole, of Laurens county, died ^ Thursday, from injuries received in a run off. ,j, Mr. Poole went to Honea Path on Wednes- ^ day, with a two-horse wagon, for a load of guauo, and, while returning home, was thrown .jj from the wagon and run over. Mr. Poole ^ was about forty years old, a man of wealth, aud a citizen of some prominence. ? J. H. Davis, a car-builder employed by the Greenville Railroad Company, attempted ,, on Thursday evening last, at Morrow's Turn. __ .1 . /-? I.... /-i_i jP, A r? out, on uie onanuue, uuiumum uo au^usio railroad, to jump on the train while in mo- q tion, but missed his footing and fell on the track. The cars passed over him, cutting off both legs. The unfortunate man was taken to Columbia, where he died next day. g( ? The Camden Journal says: "It is gratify- \ ing to state that, notwithstanding the crisis I 1 through which we have just passed, the planters of Kershaw county are up and doing, and the indications are, if the seasons should prove favorable, that, at the close of the year, they tl will find themselves in a much more prosper- es ous condition. From what we can learn, not a( so much laud will be planted in cotton, but a( considerably more in corn, oats and other artides that will support animal life." ? A "Republican" in the Winusboro News ! nominates Senator Thomas J. Robertsou for J1, the gubernatorial chair in the next election, and advises the good men of both parties to ^ uuite in his support. "Senator Robertson," says Republican, "is an honest, upright gen- C( tleman, zealous official, economical calculator, 01 and the best financier of the South, and will, 01 until otrnnfr Cnnorrpsaiuiml influence, elevate 01 """ ""?fa ?fa his unhappy State from its preseut slough of infamy, leave her permanently fixed to an in- ai corruptible fortress of respectability, crowned with Liberty, Independence and Victory !" ^ NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. jL ? Freshets and high water are spoken of all n, over the Staie. Much damage has been done to crops, property, etc. s ? The Associated Reformed Presbyteriau c| denomination of Charlotte are building a 0j church edifice in which to worship. p] ? The Shelby Banner says that the dwelling p, house of Mr. George Doggett, of Cleveland Sl county, was destroyed by fire on Monday, the a| 6th instant. p( ? Little Johnnie Taylor, of Oxford, refused to drink sugar in his coffee during the lenten ai season, but he saved it all, and is going to sell ? it, so as to contribute to the missionary fund. 0, That child is too ripe for this earth. fr ? A letter of last Friday to the Raleigh g| News says that the disturbances in the neigh- r{1 borhood of Bald mountaiu, which were thought a, to be quieted, have been again heard, more In violently than heretofore. m ? Ex-Governor Henry T. Clark died at his residence in Tarboro on Tuesday of last week. As Speaker of the Senate he succeeded to the in Governorship of the State on the death of ai Governor Ellis in 1861. p ? The case of the United States vs. James p, G. Blount, John T. Dewese and others, charg- to ed with defrauding the Cherokee Indians, was (|( continued from the recent term of the Circuit 0| Court at Greensboro to the fall term at Ashe- te ville. ... P1 ? In the case of Hiram Sibley and Henry ei Clews against the Western N. C. Railroad p Company, pending in the United States Cir- a( cuit Court at Greensboro, Judge Dick has vj signed a decree ordering the railroad, the ^ rolling stock and franchises to be sold at pub- ^ lie auction on forty days' notice, to satisfy a tj. mortgage of 61,200,000. m ? The refusal of the legislature to allow a 1 g( change of gauge of the North Carolina rail-! road has induced President Buford to apply ! (j( Irnrinio fnr nprmiasinn t.n I i j IU 111C IC^lOiatUIV Ui T | p, alter the gauge of the Richmond and Dan- j Sj. ville road to that of the North Carolina. This j U] would give the result desired, which is to w avoid changing cars or breaking bulk between ' ^ Richmond and Charlotte. ? The stockholders of the North Carolina ^ railroad met in Salisbury on the 16th for the \ jg ' purpose of considering the consolidating act | I of the last legislature, by which the Western, ' ^ j the Atlantic and the North Carolina roads ;' j | are placed in oue corporation. Considerable j ; excitement prevailed in the meeting. The i ' consolidation amendment was adopted by a ^ ' majority of 998. j NEWS OF THE DAY. b : ? Heavy freshets on Cumberland, Tennes- p see, Stone and Duck rivers are reported, with s( the consequent destruction to property. The e: j water-courses in Tennessee are said to be b , higher than at any time sine 1847. I Sf ? The printers of Titusville, Penu., struck sc for increase of wages, when the proprietors of ft j the Daily Courier prosecuted the typography j tl I cal union of Titusville for conspiracy. The sr use was tried on the lGth, and twelve of the ; rinters were sentenced to imprisonment for ; iventy-lbur hours and to pay a fine of forty ollars. ? Two employes of Robinson's Circus, at lincinnati, Ohio, while loading cages on oard a barge at the foot of Fifth street, ou unday, fell into the river and were drowned. ? The remains of the world-reuowned and acentric evangelist, Lorenzo Dow, rtfio died i Washington about forty-two years ago, ere recently disintered forreburial in anothr part of the city. There was but little left f the body and clothing. ? Accounts from Memphis represent that le planters throughout that section are very espondeut in consequence of the excessive , tins and high water rendering planting iin- | ossible. As yet, but few have been able to i low and furrow for corn or cotton, with lit ' I e prospect of improvement in the weather. 1 ? The Mayor of New Orleans telegraphs to j ie Mayor of New York, that owing to the j novo tvirvlort nwor(li\u) rof'tVio \tiaiieai nni 3 n (1 its 1 >wer branches, many families are ruined and I ireatened with starvation, and that it is beDnd tlie means of those who have escaped the ilamity to give adequate relief to the sufFer s. He asks assistance for the victims of lis two-fold visitation of Hood and famine. ? A dispatch from Key West, Florida, says lat Mr. Dockery, the American arrested in uba for communicating with the insurgents, as couvicted and sentenced to death. There c no advices as yet as to the result of the ppeal to Captain General Concha for comlutation of the sentence. Telegrams from [avana heretofore announcing Dockery's mdemnatiou have evidently been suppressed y the authorities. ? An attempt was made to defraud an inirance company in New York last week, by urying a coffin supposed to contain the Ddy of a young woman on whose life there as a policy which would revert to one Dr. rhling on her death. On the Doctor's cerficate a burial permit was obtained ; but in ue time it was discovered that the coffin that as buried contained only a few bricks, and Dt a dead woman. The guilty parties, inuding the undertaker, have been arrested. EDITORIAL INKLINGS, limner's Successor. Wm. B. Washburn has been elected to te Uuited States Seuate from Massachusetts ' fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of [r. Sumner. He was elected on the thirtyiird ballot, receiving 152 votes. Mr. Washjrn was born in Winchendon, Mass., Januar 31, 1830. He graduated at Yale College i 1844, and subsequently engaged iu the .isiness of manufacturing. In 1850 he was State Senator, and in 1854 a representative i i the Legislature of Massachusetts. He was ibsequently president of the Greenfield, tfass.) bank. In 1862 he was elected a Repisentative to the Thirty-eighth Congress, and as reelected to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth ongresses. His latest political success prior > that which he now enjoys was his election i the governorship of Massachusetts, in the imination for which office by the republican tate convention he defeated General Butler. ax-Payers' Memorial. Gen. Kershaw, who was a member of le committee appointed to lay before Confess the memorial of the Tax-payers' convenon, has given the Camden Journal an interring account of his mission. That paper ids: "Iu his judgment much good has been jcoraplished. Though Congress may not ctend the relief for which we pray, he is conlent that a committee of investigation will 3 appointed, whose duty it will be to invesgate the causes of our complaints, and thus iy open to prosecution in our courts of justice /- * '* 1 1 J lany State aud county omcers wno nave useu leir uffices for the furtherance of their own )rruj>t purposes. And even should Congress at do this, nothing has been lost. On the ;her hand, much has been gained. The loral effect which the agitation of the subject ill have upon the public mind will be seen id felt in the coming elections, throughout le North and West." lie Civil Rights BiHT The civil rights bill reported by the idiciary committee as a substitute for Suraer's bill, does not differ in its features from le original bill introduced by the Massachuftts senator, although the form has been ranged. It gives to all persons the privileges f inns, public conveyances, theatres, aud other laces of amusement, common schools and ublic institutions of learning or benevolence, lpported in whole or in part by general taxdon, and of cemeteries so supported. The malty for denial of any of these privileges is le payment of 8-500 to the person aggrieved, id a fine of not less than 8500 nor more than 1,000, or imprisonment from thirty days to le year. No citizen shall be disqualified om service as a grand or petit juror in any Late or United States Court on account of tee, color, or previous condition of servitude, id any person excluding or failing to sura - - till _ J i on a citizen tor sucn cause snau ne nnea not ore than 85,000. ingress and Finance. The committee appointed at a recent eeting of the leading bankers, merchants id capitalists of New York city called on resident Grant last Friday and presented a etition signed by 2,500 persons, asking him i veto the Seuate finance bill. Two of the legation made speeches, in which they spoke ? the bill as being disastrous to the best invests of the country and as opposed to the ledges of the President and the uat:on for an irly resumption of specie payments. The resident, in reply, did not indicate what his ition would be; he said all had their various iews, and he had no doubt if he lived in ew York, lie would think with the commit- j e, that the whole world ought to think as! ley did. He had never given any measure iore attention than he had this one of the suate bill. His views were already known ; 3 had been opposed to inflation, without resmption, and was in favor of redeeming the ledges heretofore made for a resumption of )ecie payments. The committee retired in ucertainty as to what the President's course I ill be on the bill. j cportcd Arrest of the Benders. The reported arrest of old Bender, the [ansas murderer, is a subject of intense grat . /? iL ication throughout that section 01 me euuu-1 y which was the scene of his terrible crimes, j ome weeks since an old man emerged from j le AVahsatch Mountains in Utah, and he ! as at once recognized as the long-sought-for j lurderer. His photograph was sent to the ! overnor of Kansas, and it has since been : iturned, with statements from Senator York, I rother of Bender's last victim, and other j ersons, all agreeing that the photograph re- j irnbled the murderer. So intense was the j scitement in the vicinity that the jailor! rought him twice out of prison in order to ' itisfy the crowds of people who wanted to ' ;e him. The officers will shortly bring up ora the South a young man who answers to | le description of young Bender. A woman,! lid to be Catharine Bender, came into the 1 southern settlements, some months since, a most naked. After obtaining food an clothing she disappeared, aud it is thougl the whole of the family have been in tli mountains all winter, and have been drive out by starvation. The story of assassinatio that is brought out by the capture is one c the most horrible on record. No tale froi the Freuch capital, not even the Traupma atrocity, has equal power to horrify with tli narrative that came from Kansas last May a family of murderous people living fc months over the secreted bodies of victim The capture of Bender insures that he wi be punished for his enormous crimes, au protects the people of some new locality froi a repetition of tbera. Newspapers and Postage. tin 1 .1 tt . _ e> n 1^1? wnne ine mouse 01 ivepresemauvt seems to be drifting toward a restoration c the franking privilege?having gone so fai last week, as to pass by a two-third vote th bill of the committee on post offices and pof roads for the free circulation of newspaper es changes and for the free circulation of papei in the counties where published?the Posi master General has since sent a communis tion to the same committee, advocating th passage of' a law to compel the prepay men of postage on all newspapers. In support c this proposition he adduces the following ir teresting statistics, prepared by his third a; sistant: Taking the newspaper circulation shown b the last census, and assuming that ten pe cent, of the daily and sixty per cent, of th weekly newspapers go through the mails, iti shown that the receipts from postage on new! papers during the fiscal year of 1869-7 should have been $2,305,511, whereas th actual receipts from newspapers and all othe printed matter were only $835,728. Calculating the annual increase in newspti per circulation to have been 151 per ceui there were during the past year 5871 newsps noro miklialtarl in fhp TTilifpH Sif.ftfps. with ft I , _ aggregate circulation of 1,508,548,250 copiei of which 501,889,165 copies were sent throug the mails. The receipts for postage on ther should have been $2,616,789, instead of whic there was received only $1,072,998, showing loss of $1,543,791, or li times the amoun collected. During the fiscal year of 1869-7 there was collected $14,994,802 for postage o letters, which were in total bulk equal to 14 car loads, whereas the newspapers aggregate bulk of 2824 carloads, and returned togethe with other printed matter, a postal revenue c only $835,729. In Great Britain, during th same time, there were 1450 newspapers put lished, with au aggregate circulation of 350 000,000 copies, of which 99,000,000 wer transmitted by mail and yielded a postal rev enue of $900,000. ? THE SOUTH CAROLINA MEMORIALISTS # A final hearing of the representations c the tax-payers' committee and of the counte memorialists was had on the 15th, before th sub-judiciary committee of the House of Rej resentatives. The Charleston New and Coi rier contains the following summary of th speeches of Secretary Cardozo and Hon. Thcw Y. Simons: The final argument on behalf of the countei memorialists was made by F. L. Cardozt State treasurer, who went over the questio of taxation, saying that not only the hasi: but the system under the reconstructed Stat Government is new and strange to the taj payers of the State, though a basis and a sy; tern farnilar throughout the Northern an Western States. He denied that the taxatio is unequal or unjust, and argued to show tha the rate of tax since the war is less than it i in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Califoi nia, Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana Nevada and North Carolina ; that the entir levy for State purposes is only eight and on( half mills to the acre for the past six years He proceeded to show that the entire cost pe capita for governing the State is less than i a number of the States, and gave from th census of 1870 figures showing that the cos per capita in Arkansas is 81 96 ; California 84 53; Connecticut, 83 48 ; Kansas, 82 22 Louisiana, 83 67; Maine, 82 15; Maryland 82 30; Massachusetts, 85 08; Nebraska 82 13; Nevada, 87 02 ; New Hampshire, 83 Rhode Island, 82 25; Virgiuia, 82 32, and ii South Carolina ouly 81 87; and that the en tire cost per capita for carrying on the Stat for the six years between July, 1868, and Oc tober, 1874, was only 82 30 per annum. H held that under the circumstances the taxs tion in South Carolina is not so excessive a to be complained of, but that, on the contrar) is reasonable. He referred to the charges c the taxpayers about the extent of the publi debt of the State, denying that it could b equitably stated at over ten millions, and gav figures designed to show that only one millio three hundred thousand of the debt was parti attributed to the new State government. H said the Legislature had decided that six mi! lions of the debt is illegal, and have refuse to pay either interest or principal, aud cor tended that of the remaining ten millions fiv millions had been funded before the war, am three millions seven hundred thousand of th remaining five millions was a floating deb left by the old, and funded by the new, Stat government. In response to questions by M.\ Eldridgf Cardozo said the question of the six million repudiated by the Legislature is one that th courts will have to decide, and admitted tha he thought the courts would not sustain th act of the Legislature in deciding that the; are an illegal indebtedness. He also admitted in response to other interrogatories by Mi Eldridge, that the new State government hai accumulated a floating debt of four millions and confessed that the debt of the State, sup posing all the funded indebtedness is legal, i about twenty millions. He exemplified th financial calibre of the State authorities b, stating that six millions of the bonded deb was hypothecated in New York to raise fund to carry on th > State, and that, inasmuch a the money so raised was only forty per cenl of the face value of the bonds pledged, th Legislature have it in contemplation t make the holders of those bonds (long sine forfeited) exchange them, two for one, for ne\ bonds, thereby reducing the volume by orn half. I do not pretend to say what the sut committee thought of this financiering schemt but there is no sort of question that it woul< be good for the State, provided the holder of the bonds so sought to be attenuated wouh be consenting parties to the transaction. Ml Caadozo closed by laying the entire blame c the present condition of the State upon th Democrats, who, he said, refused point blanl to help the Republicans to make the new cor stitution, or to take any part in the recoc structed State government. He "perorated by calling upon the taxpayers to sympathiz wmi ana aia tne non-iaxpayiug majority n reforming the abuses complaiued of, am which, he admitted, exist, but are as mucl chargeable to the Democrats as to the R? publicans. Hon. Thomas Y. Simons, in behalf of th memorialists, then closed for them in an argi1 ment of upwards of half an hour in length He adverted briefly to the action of the Tax payers' Convention of South Carolina, to th causes which had led to its organization, am disclaiming for the convention that it was as sembled for any partisan purpose whatevei or to effect any political object, then proceed ed to set out with some elaboration the man wrongs, frauds and outrages which have bee committed under the name of law aud rcpub lican government against the defenseless tax payers of the State, wrongs which he repre sented, would not be tolerated in any of th free Commonwealths of the North, and t ameliorate which the sufferers now invoke the sacred right of petition, that the Ainer: can Congress, the Executive of the natio and the people of the whole country migh ]- have their attention drawn to the subject, and their moral influence and discountenance be j given to stay the hand of the spoiler. He I represented the condition of affairs in the e j State as having reached n crisis where not n only ruin and bankruptcy threatens, but the n , very existence of free government is without >f I recognition. Referring to the question of rea l construction he set forth how groundless is the n statement of the counter memorialists, that 1 they appealed in vain to the intelligent and # i property-owuing whites of the State to help ?' them form the new government. Those people ,r had been deprived by Congress of the privis. j lege of participation. They were under disa11 | bilities. They were denied all voice and aud jdience, and the effect of this state of things I was to instill into the minds of the enfranj chised freedmen that the property-holders were under the ban of the government itself, and were entitled confidence neither at home or >8 at the footstool of the nation. He disclaimed ,f any sentiment of reproach in alluding to these r matters of history, and said they had been ' adverted to to repel the allegation that the e memorialists, and those they represent, de11 clined to participate in the work of recon> structing the State, and to dispose of the ap s peal to political prejudice resorted to by the v. pniinter-memorifllists. SuDnosinsr their alle # T~ " ~ * * w f t. gation true, it was no argument in favor of spoliation and plunder under the form of law. It was sufficient, however, to say that the leading men of the State were under political disabilities by the reconstruction acts, and that i- no invitation was extended to them to partici3 pate. Referring briefly to the main causes of complaint in the memorial, he showed that the representations of the other side were y based only upon the taxation for State purr poses, omitting the separate county tax levies, e and also in cases of cities, the municipal levies, 8 all of which swelled the assessment to over ~ twelve times what it was before the war. He showed, also, that the assessment the State ase sessors placed the large area of unproductive laud in the State, in many instances, at five times its market value. Such lands were taxed l~ alike with the producing areas. He quoted from correspondence by leading Republicans, L" and from editorials in leading Republican paD pers in the North, showing that the condition ' of the taxpayers of South Carolina is such as to excite in the minds of the writers the grail* vest apprehensions as to the effect of the unfortunate facts upon the character of the Re^ "iiKlinon tiomo ond llm ICO 1 fa PO nf fllA /"fill fit t"V PUU..V.OU UO...U ouu V..V W.O.V. J. ? In this particular connection he quoted at some leuth from speeches of ex-Attorney-Genj? eral Chamberlain and District Attorney Cor ; bin. He showed by the history of the legislation under the new State, that the State offi? cers have been governed by no law in the expenditure of money, but that they have squane dered it lawlessly, wastefully, and criraiually. Referring to the promises made by the more '* thoughtful of the leading State officers of ree form, Mr. Simons showed that they were made but to the ear; that the fatal experiences of the past six years has shown this, and that , they have no power now to delude. True reform consisted in (taxation alone for honest purposes of government, an honest and ecor nomical expenditure of the public moneys, e and the protection of the rights of property, in the existence of a Republican Government lm in fact. The return to right and justice would be the end of conspiracy ; would result in the e termination of the rule of the rapacious spoil' ers, aud render further spoliation of an oppressed people impossible. Knowing aud r. feeling this to be so, the counter-memorialists come up here with the cry of Peccavi on their n lips, and beseech Congress not to interfere, but to sanction, by non-action, the enormous e and incessant outrages which, under power of a combined Ring, the very existence of South 3. Carolina, as well as the welfare of every secj tion of the Union, is imperilled. n In conclusion, Mr. Simons said : "We ap1 ^ * iL x 1_ it peal to uongress now, Decause me?e is uoi omy Is a failure to protect property within its limits, r. but acouspiracy for its ruin and practical cont fiscation, and which effectually prevents any e other remedy or redress. All that we now >. ask is a committee of investigation, whereby the true situation of affairs in South Carolina r may be made known to the whole country ; u and it may be ascertained whether this come bination and conspiracy, equally fatal, alit though under the forms of law, does exist, _ and then that the remedy commensurate with . the evil may be applied. To this, as Ameri[' can citizens, we are certainly entitled. We t invoke the aid of Congress because there is no . other power which those in authority over us a' will recognize or heed. We invoke this aid because the Ring in South Carolina delude e their misguided followers, and profess to have .. a charter for their misrule under the sanction e of Congress, the executive aud the administration at Washington. We invoke the honest a and moral sentiment of every section of this r broad land. We can, God willing, do no less. ,f We have exhausted every effort within the c limits of peaceful agencies at home, we now e make an honest and confident appeal to you. e Whatever be the result, we feel that we have q fulfilled one of those great duties which are tr suDerior to life itself, and which, while com e mending our course and ourselves to the judg[. ment of all honest men and lovers of true j liberty, will stand us acquitted before God, our consciences and posterity." e What action the judiciary committee will d take is a matter of mere conjecture. In any e event the matter will doubtless be made the ll subject of Congressional discussion. The opposition to the movement is strong in Washing, tou, and the counter memorialists are said to g be well organized. The information and ime pressiuns are not of a nature, however, to t inspire the memorialists with much hope. ^ e y The Arkansas Affair.?The Little Rock 1, imbroglio still receives a large share of official *. attention. The position of the Government d in the premises is unchanged from that indi), cated in the telegrams of the Attorney Gen> eral to the contesting Governors, and the 8 instructions of the War Department, that the e Federal troops are not to interfere unless the y public peace is endangered or the rights of >t tho Government outraged. Information was s conveyed to the President yesterday that Baxs ter had seized the telegraph lines, thereby t. preventing their use by the other parties, e This of course would be an unwarrantable ciro cumstance that might call for the action of e the General Government, v Telegraphic dispatches show that the post 4-- 4 ^^ ia Ka/iAmin/v nOfPAHQ r m&SLCr Ul LllO OCUt Ul noi io u^wunug uvi IUUUJ )- and is undecided as to which faction he is to >, deliver the official mails of the State, and he d has accordingly communicated with Post8 master General Creswell, who, following a i precedent, has instructed him to deliver mail r. matter addressed either to Baxter or Brooks, f whether directed to them as Governor of Are kansas or not, to the party whose name appears k in the direction, while letters or documents i- addressed to the "Governor of Arkansas" i- are to be held until further instructions. A " day or two will probably bring forth some soe lution of the troubles in the unhappy region n of Little Rock, and in the face of all advices d from there, it is not too much to imagiue that b the bayonets of Federal soldiers may become ) necessary to subdue the war fever that continues to rage among the adherents of the dispu? - - . s-il f injl e j ting parties.? Washington (jnrontcie, 10in. |. 4??+ i. Muscular Force in the Country.?According to the Department of Agriculture the e amount of muscular force now available for d agriculture labor is relatively if not actually j- diminishing, and bears a smaller ratio to the work expected of it than formerly. We are I- i told that every year it becomes a more costly y I element of production. There is a good deal n j of muscular force lying inert at the street i- i corners and other localities of our large cities, ; a very considerable part of which is absorbed i- from the rural districts, where it is more e needed. If the farmers, however, are losing o ground in one direction the results of the cod operative feature among them in the West i- for the purchase of agricultural implements q show that in purchasing they have thus far it made a great saving. : LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEIV ADVERTISEMENTS. 1, T. C. Dun lap, Agent?Repairing? Bedsteads?Bureaux?Chamber Sets?Withstands, Ac.? Cooking Stoves?Walnut Chamber Suit? Rocking Cliairs?Mattresses?Spring Beds. T. M. Dobson A Co.?And Still They Come?Oh ! My?Oh ! How Lovely?Plaits?Veils and Veiling?Right this way, Gentlemen?Well Chains?Bleached Shirting?Razors?Picks, Pocket K nives?'Trunks?Cartridges?Powder and Shot?Wrought Nails?Hammers? Fish?Hoes?Planes?Salem Jeans?Straw Hats?Hivingsville Shirting?Saw Handles. W. B. it J. B. Williams Administrators' Sale. M. Strauss ASon?Trunks and Carpet Bags?Our Stock?Ladies' Hats?Lawns, Organdies, i Ac.?Dress Goods?Pique. J. S. R. Thomson and T. S. JetFerys?Assignees' Sale?In Bankruptcy?In the Matter of James McElwee, Bankrupt, i Kennedy, Latimer A Hemphill?New GoodsDross Goods?For Gents' Wear?Groceries. ! John B. Hubbard, Deputy U. S. Marshal?Internal Revenue Sales. I J. Ed. Jelferys, Secretary?Mackey Chapter No. 16, R.\ A.-. M.\ I W. H. it J. P. Ilerndon?Guano. | Fine Piano for Raflle. , 0 BOARD OF OFFICERS. By order of Capt. Christopher, commandant of the post at Yorkville, Assistant Surgeon Girard and Lieutenant Whitehead have ; been appointed a board to investigate and '| report in full as to the conduct and manage j ment of the detachment of troops commanded by Lieutenant Benner, and reported by the grand jury of York as having forcibly entered the residence of Mrs. Mooney. The ? board met yesterday for the purpose of com! mencing the investigation. THE CASE OF WALKER SMITH. Walker Smith, charged with the murder of John Sanders, alias John Robertson, was arrested last Thursday by Sheriff Glenn on a bench warrant issued by Judge Mackey, and committed to the jail in this place. On Friday night Judge Mackey came here for the purpose of in vestjgatiug the matter, and after hearing the evidence adduced before him, decided that the case was not bailable, and remanded the accused to jail to await his trial, at the next July terra, for murder. RAPE OF A WHITE CHILD. We learn that on Wednesday afternoon of last week, near Petty's Bridge, in Gaston county, N. C., a little white girl, only nine years of age, daughter of J. D. Torr3nc.e, was brutally ravished by a negro named Dick Jackson, formerly a slave of D. F. Jackson, of this county. The cries of the child atA J ?a*Lam L.li A Jl/J M A* MAHaIi fltA irauieu iier luuiuei, uuteno uiu nut icnuu mo scene until the brute had accomplished his fiendish purpose. A warrant has been issued for his arrest, and every effort will be made to secure his capture. UNITED STATES 'ciRCUIT COUHT. In the United States Circuit Court, in session at Charleston, the following criminal cases were disposed of: W. R. Murphy, for retailing liquor without special license; pleaded guilty, aud was sentenced to three months' " imprisonment and to pay a fine of $200. Alfred Walker, for fraudulent removal of distilled spirits; found guilty and fined $200, and sentenced to three months'imprisonment. Obediah Parker, Mellville Mooney, Alfred Paris and Wm. R. Love, for violation of the internal revenue laws, were each fined $200 and imprisoned three months. Thomas Mullinax and John Martin pleaded guilty of illicit dis tilling and were sentenced to a nne or $zw each, and three months' imprisonment in the Yorkville jail. All of the above prisoners, except W. E. Love, were brought here on Monday evening by Marshal Wallace, and turned over to Sheriff Glenn. Love jumped from the train while it was standing at Wheeler's Mill, 2J miles from town, and made his escape. By an order of the Court, John Alexander, of Uniou county, charged with illicit distilling, is transferred from the jail at Charleston to the Yorkville jail, to await his trial at the August term of the Court in Greenville. FEUD IN ARKANSAS. Advices from Arkansas show an unpleasant condition of affairs in that State. Two swcr ? Governors are in office?Brooks and Baxtei, the former having forcibly ejected the late incumbent, Baxter, who has established his headquarters at St. John's College, and threatens to pain nossession of his office bv 0 t force of arras. The history of the case is thus given: Joseph Brooks, who claims to have been elected Governor in 1872, took the oath of office about eleven o'clock last Wednesday morning before Chief Justice McClure, and within five minutes from that time took forcible possession of the Governor's office and ejected Governor Baxter by force. About one year ago Brooks commenced a suit in the Circuit Court of Pulaski county for the office of Governor, and about the same time the attorney-general commenced a suit against Gov. Baxter by quo warranto in the Supreme Court. The latter court rendered a verdict that the courts of the State had no power over a contested election for the office of Governor, and it was generally regarded that the matter was settled so far as the courts were concerned. The Legislature in 1873 opened the returns and declared Baxter elected. Nothing more was thought of the matter particularly until a few days ago, when the attorneys of Governor Baxter desired that the case in the Circuit Court be taken up on a demurrer, with the object of disposing of the same. An understanding was then had that the demurrer should be submitted and argued next week. On Monday, during the absence of Judges English and Corapton and the attorneys of Governor Baxter, Mr. Whipper, the attorney of Brooks, arose and stated that it had been agreed Detween niraseii ana tne counsel ot Governor Baxter that the demurrer to the jurisdiction of the court should be submitted. This, although in the absence of Gov. Baxter's attorneys, was thought nothing of at the time, but Wednesday morning, about 11 o'clock, when there were but few persons in the courtroom, and neither of the governor's counsel present, Judge Whytock announced his decision, overruling the demurrer, and none of Baxter's counsel being preseut to answer or move for an appeal, a judgment of ouster was issued and the writ placed in the hands of the sheriff. In five minutes from that time an armed band, headed by Brooks, were in the governor's office demanding possession. The governor declined, whereupon forcible possession was taken, and guards "placed at all entrances to the office. In the meantime, Gen. Catterson, who claimed to act as Brooks's adjutant-general, broke in the door of the armory, iii the same building, and took possession of about one hundred stand of arras, Adjutant Gen. Strong, of Gov. Baxter's staff, refusing to give up the keys, although surrounded by armed'men. Gov. Baxter refused to be ejec tea except oy lorce, when some of Brooks's # men took bold of him and led him out. Since that time, Brooks has had possession of the Statehouse. Gov. Baxter has established his headquarters at St. John's College. On the following day, Baxter issued the following proclamation declaring martial law in Pulaski county: Whereas an armed rebellion exists in the | county of Pulaski agaiust the State governj ment, and it becomes necessary to employ all ! the force at my disposal to suppress; there, fore, by the authority vested in me by law, I ' hereby proclaim the existence of martial law ! within said county, and command all persons I capable of military duty to assist in the putting down of said rebellion. During the time that martial law shall thus prevail every infringement of the rights of peaceable and welldisposed persons will be severely punished, by whomsoever it may be committed. The ut