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f traps and Jacts. ; It is said that oDly two hundred of the ^ six thousand words of the Bible are now in a any sense obsolete. a A Kansas judge believes a man and ^ his wife to be one. He has decided they are v both entitled to admission to "shows" on a 0 ticket which says "admit one." The catch of shad iu Albermarle Souud, N. C., is said to be fifty per cent, greater this jj season than for many years before. The jj herring catch is also heavy. The leading Republican members of the s( national House of Representatives are of the j, opinion, it is said, that the session can be finish- . ed by the first of June, while the senators in- < cline to think it will last to the first of July. ( A California letter says that this year _ there will be produced there 12,000,000 gallous of wine, 2,000,000 pounds of grapes for table use, and 250,000 pounds of raisins, besides the brandy. A man living on a farm in Alabama was ordered by the Ku-Klux to leave, but instead of so doing he remained and shot a.* i i j IL tnree 01 tnem. nis neignoors expresseu meir gratification by electing hira County Clerk. An "interviewer" tried his hand on General John C. Breckeuridge recently, ar.d after several vain attemps to draw him out ^ on political questions, asked, "What yo you _ think about Alexander H. Stephens ?" "I think he is in very bad health," was the 0 smiling answer, and the interview ceased. c< Alice Mason Sumner, the divorced wife 0 of the late Senator, has filed a petition in a Boston Court, asking that her name may be al changed to that of Alice Mason, for the rea- [J son that "she had been divorced from her late c< husband, who has since deceased, and desires to resume her maiden name." ^ No more truthful sentence was ever C( penned by man than the following, written 01 by Chancellor Kent: "The parent who sends w his son into the world uneducated defrauds i the community of a lawful citizen and bequeaths to it a nuisance." These words should be written in letters of gold over the entrance . of every school in the land. 1 They have a judge in Florida who was c arrested and put into the calaboose for drunk- " onnfinomonf lio onripftvnrpfl ! t) ^ItUVOC* IV KHV IU VVUUUVUiVUV) **v VM^vwr f w? w*? ? to issue a writ of habeas corpus, requiriug the cl Sheriff of Manatee county to seize his body ii and bring it before himself, in order that he e; might iuquire into the legality of said con- y finement. It was a brilliant idea, but it wouldn't work. K Texarkaua, Texas, claims the distinc- B tion of being the "Enchanted Village of the Jj Lone Star State." It is about seventy-five q days old, and was built in the midst of a C dense forest. It now numbers over two thousand inhabitants, and there are two hundred j-, buildings going up. It contains a general e ticket office, two railroads, two express com- * panies, two telegraph lines, and forty saloons. The Rochester Express is responsible NV for this: "A married man, hearing that the ai eating of certain kinds of animal food would ir aid the same tissues of the human body, as, for w iustauce, calves' brains would nourish the eater's brains, or beefs liver the eater's liver, immediately gave strict orders at his family market that no more tongue of any kind be ^ sold to his wife or mother-in-law. j The professors and authorities of Cor- ? nell University are composed of Jews, Episco- . palians, Unitarians, and all the leading forms of faith known to the creeds. The chief bene- P factors of the institution have been Cougrega- a tionalists, Methodists, Episcopalians, Qua- ci kers, Baptists and one Free Thinker. Strange a to say, among this apparent discord of relig- p ous belief, there has never existed other than the most perfect harmony. Mr. John Fishback, proprietor of the Indianapolis Sentinel, wagered one hundred dollars with a young lady niece that she P couldn't "hold her tongue" for a week. The v young lady very unexpectedly "took him up," h and unless she speaks within the next two ci hours (it is now 4 o'clock P. M.) Mr. Fish- S( back will have the one hundred dollars to pay. . During the week he has escorted her to the opera, and although he has done his best to & get her to speak, and hired other members of 11 the family to "trap" her, yet she has resisted all their efforts. On Thursday last the jour- ti ualist offered to compromise the matter, and C( give her fifty dollars, but the proposition was Q, scornfully rejected. r< Railroad laws have been passed by 111- ^ inois, Iowa and Wisconsin. It remains to be . seen whether they will relieve the farmer. It is said that some of the principal roads in Wis- sr cousin have determined to disregard the law, P1 which goes into effect on the 1st of next month, no This will bring on a fight. The way it will S be done is thus given : If a ticket agent re- ^ fusing to accept the fare fixed by law is ar* J " + /iIaoa f mlr nf ^ 1CSICU ULHI pUUIJlJCU, Will V/1VOC bUV bivnv,b office in which he isstationed; and if a freight 81 agent is prosecuted, they will close the freight ai office. The trains will run by the stations at it which the offense is given without stopping, nc aud leave the people, who are dissatisfied with n their rates, without any railroad facilities at jt all. It is probable that a similar policy will ! be adopted by the other roads in the same J ^ State, and it is easy to see that such a course 1 will create a more bitter feeling than has yet ; ti shown itself in the war which has already ' tl waged hotly in the West between the grangers i J, and the railroads. c, The Modocs, who recently played a ' p leading part in our history, have been almost j * forgotten by the people, but not by the ubiqui- j tous "interviewer." One of the fraternity has j a taken the trouble to follow the tribe to their j new home in the Quapaw reservation, Indian 1 Territory, and he now describes what he saw i during his visit. The war seems to have com-1 p pletely cowed them, and they are apparently j }| resigned to their lot, such as it is. Scarfaced j j, Charley and Bogus Charley, the first and sec- ! ond chiefs of this tribal remnant, are still in j ^ authority, but they no longer bear their for- n mer haughtiness. The males pass their time ; c .J o??ALinr? oIlAAfi no TOltll tllO Ka\V I V 111 UMIJMlig, OlUv/aiug, ouvvviug nnu v<*w wv? . and arrow, playing ball, etc., evidently resol-! p ved to bestow no thought upon the morrow, j u Steamboat Frank has become literary in his j tastes, and is actually making some progress in j , learning to read. But the squaws f.ta less re- I couciled to the change. The eyt3 of Princess i c Mary filled with tears when the name of Cap- (ti tain Jack was mentioned, while the widow of j t the departed chief still blackens her face and j p lives in seclusion. The land receives little at- j e tention from the tribe, though fences have ; c been put up in several parts of it. The New Orleans Times tells us: "The j * condition of planters in portions of the over-!, fiowed territory of this State is heart-rending in the extreme. Thousands have not only j c been driven from their homes, but lost every- t thing which they possessed. Theirfeuces are n swept away; their cattle are destroyed ; their ! a crop prospects are blighted, and they are left j without the means of subsistence. This is es- j neciallv the case in the valley of the Ouachita, 1 where "bad crops last year, none this year, and a every movable thing swept away by the flood,! t leave the people utterly desolate." From the 1 u accounts of the flood we gather that the Mis-! sissippi has already reached seven inches 1 f above the highest point of the inundation of! 1871, and the r:se is greater than has been a known for half a century. The river is f swollen by tremendous floods coming from its ? tributaries, which have made miles of crev- t asses in its banks, and poured immense vol-'t umes of Vater into the swamps, whose over- ^ flow, swelling the lower river, has engulfed a vast extent of territory. The quantity of 1 water in the swamp reservoirs is already so I large that even should there be a falling river j t above Memphis, the flood will be maintained c for several weeks, so that there appears to be ; ^ need of immediate efforts to meet the appall-1 g ing emergency. The crevasses extend for j many miles along the banks of the river, ten thousand square miles of the State being al- j ready submerged, and the levees, in various J t places now threatened, are in great danger of! t idding enormously to the destruction already ccasioued. The utmost efforts are required ; o keep the embankments yet secure from eing broken down and to close the breaches .lready made iu the levees in Baton Rouge ,nd other places, both above and below New )rleans. The lower part of the latter city ?as at the latest accounts iu imminent danger f an inundation, the water having found its /ay over the levee in some places. A train * f dirt cars, used in connection with a large irrce of laborers, has been employed in throw ng up an embankment in one quarter, which as the effect of completely blockading the ailroad, and in various parts of the country 1 tearaers can now run where steam cars were rtely used. ?hc UorkviUr (Jhtquim'. ; ~ ' I rORKVlLLE. S. C.i 'JIURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 30,1874. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name f the subscriber very plainly, give post-olfice, aunty and State in full, and send the amount of io subscription by draft or post-office money rdor, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The postage on the Exqvirkr, to ay part of the United States, is five cunts per ifarter,or twenty cents per vear, and is payable i 1 advance at the post oflice where the paper is rejived. 1 Watch the Figures.?The dafcon the "address- | ibel" shows the time to which the subscription is aid. If subscribers do not wish their papers dismantled, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that lit terms for subscription, advertising and jobork, are cash in advance JOB PRINTING. i Having determined to devote more atten- < on hereafter to job printing than we have j one in the past, we would inform the public j lat our office is now well supplied with new j ,-pe of the latest styles, and the best ma- | liinery in use; and with a choice stock of iks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to . Kccute as good work as can be done any- , here in the United States. Orders for all Tickets, ! Freight Billheads, , auk Notices, |Labels, onds and Coupons, I Law Blanks, I ill Heads, j Law Briefs, usiness Cards, i uetier circulars, ertificatosof Deposit, -Letter Heading, ] ertitlcates of Stock, Memorandum billheads hecks, jNote Circulars, 1 >eposit Tickets, \ Note Headings, rafts and Notes, j Programmes, Invelopes, j Policies, FireA Life Ins., ' ilection Tickets, Shinplastcrs, ( ostival Tickets, Wedding Cards, ill receive prompt attention, and satisfaction 5 to quality of work, guaranteed in every istance. Particular attention given to fine ^ ork in colors. ? ? ? CREMATION VERSUS INHUMATION. I The subject of cremation, or the burning of ead bodies, instead of giving them burial, 1 as been recently agitated in some portions of ' lurope ; and, as usual with all such absurdi- ' es originating over the water, the proposed 1 ractice has already found several professed * dvocates in the United States?chiefly in the ' ities of the North. In New York, at least, 1 cremation society has been formed, and ap- < lication made to the State Assembly for an 1 et of incorporation. Iu Boston, Philadelphia 1 nd other cities, the question is exciting some 1 ttention ; but New York, which is now hap- > ily without a great criminal sensation, is deoting all her energies to the question of the ( our, and, it must be confessed that should it 1 iuse the Gothamites to turn their thoughts ' jriously for one time to the subject of a fu- 1 ire existence, it win not oe witnout some j ood results, even though their bodies should ( ever be sacrificed at the funeral pyre. 1 The principal argument in favor of erema- 4 on as against the ordiuary mode of burial, ( Dines from over-crowded cities and districts 1 f Europe, where, it is urged, the necessary t )om for sepulture cannot be readily obtained, [ence, the necessity of reducing the dead ody to ashes, which can be preserved in a ? nailer and less expensive vessel than u utent metalic burial case. But this argu- ? ieut will hardly have force iu the United t tates for several generations to come, while < iucIi can be urged against the proposed iriovation. In a business point of view the inlrance journals are already taking ground gainst cremation. They very clearly see that ? would utterly destroy the means of deterlining disputed identification. In the whole { mgeof medical jurisprudeuee, and especially i its applications to life insurance, the Balti- ' lore Underwriter says it knows of no more ( nportant element than that relative to identy. Destroy the means of identification 1 irough the stature, the teeth, the sex, the 1 air, cicatrices, fractures, deformities, or peuliaritics, and what will be left for the com- * anies in every swindling case that may oc- ' ur except to pay to the conspirators the mount of their claim ? THE CURRENCY VETO. We publish in another column the salient 1 . ?L n ? ?? . oints 01 rresiuem Vjrniui a message iiisuj.ij.uuv- i 3g the currency bill recently passed by both ouses of Congress. As will be seen from the i roceediugs of Congress, the friends of the . leasure are somewhat undecided as to what < ourse they will pursue, and by parliameutay tactics, consideration of the veto has been i ostponed. It is certain that the question is i ot dead. But unlike the many bills which 1 'ere passed by a strict party vote over Presi- . ent Johnson's vetoes, this question is not i onfined to party, and it is probable that other actics will be resorted to by the friends of < he measure in preference to attempting to ass it over the President's veto, which, how- < ver, would require a two-thirds vote in the < lenate?a majority that could hardly be obained. It is stated that the advocates of inflation i iave determined to issue a circular to the I ountry, giving, in the most captivating style, < heir plan of making money plentiful, thereby i aaking the question the principle issue in the < pproaching congressional elections, should ( io action be had in the meantime. Of the Northern States, the inflationists claim to be < ,ble to carry Pennsylvania, while they tninK 1 he States of the South and the West area ( init in favor of more currency. Prominent Radical leaders, among them, j' Jen. Butler and Cameron, of Pennsylvania, j1 ,s well as a majority of the representatives I rora that State, are zealous advocates of in- ' lation, and Butler is reported to have said j hat the President shall have another oppor- i unity to pass upon a bill of similar characer to that which he has just vetoed. It is a j i >art of the wily politician's plan to attach the ! irovisions of the vetoed bill as an amendment 1 o an appropriation bill, which, should it be j! lone, would compel the President either to j < reto an important appropriation bill or to 1 < ign one containing a clause for inflation of j he currency. } i On the other hand, those opposed to infla-! < ion, or the "hard money party," as they style ! < hemselves, are busily engaged in their efforts .! to counteract the schemes of the inflationists, t and should the question come before the peo- ( pie at the approaching State elections, the i best speakers will be secured to address the i voters in every State of the Union. r ? ^ t PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. j j In the Senate, on the 20th, the committee t on the judiciary reported adversely on the i, bill for the relief of purchasers of land in the r insurrectionary States. The committee on I ^ privileges and elections submitted a report; ( adverse to the memorial of F. W. Sykes, of! Alabama, claiming the seat now occupied by ' ? Mr. Spencer. The Louisiana election bill ; t was taken up, and debate thereon continued ! s until adjournment. In the House, a largej( number of bills wa9 introduced and referred, |c among which was one by Mr. Beck to increase 1 g the tax on national bank circulation. A bill ! a for the better protection of the Texas fron- i tier from Indian depredations, by connecting j the military posts by telegraph, and appro- ? printing $100,000 therefor, was passed. A j bill was passed removing the political disa- c bilities of Gen. Geo. E. Pickett, of Virginia. I j On motion, the President was requested to J a send to the House all correspondence relative ! c to affairs in Arkansas. t In the Senate, on the 21st, a bill was passed c for the relief of persons suffering by the over- ^ flow of the lower Mississippi river, the opera- | Lions of the act not to extend Jater than the j first of September, 1874. The Louisville and j Portland canal bill was taken up, discussed 1 and amended, and sent to the House for concurrence. Mr. Fivlinghuysen gave notice ^ that as soon as the canal bill was disposed of, he would call up the civil rights bill. The c House was devoted mainly to the consideration of Maryland and District of Columbia 8 affairs. In the Senate, on the 22nd, a message was 0 received from President Grant, returning the e Senate currency bill, with his reasons agaiust it. A discussion arose as to the time to go f into a consideration of the veto message ; but j1 the matter was finally dropped without a time being fixed. A bill was introduced to enable 11 Indians to become citizens of the United 8 States. The Louisiana election bill was then I taken up, discussed and laid over. In the House, unanimous consent was asked to in- v troduce a bill relieving the political disabili- s Lies of Raphael Sernmes ; but objection being v made, it went over. The legislative appro- ^ priation bill was taken up, discussed and * imcnded, pending which the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 23rd, a bill was in- c troduced reducing the tax on the circulation v >f State banks to an amount no greater than 1 that paid by the national banks. Mr. Davis, )f West Virginia, gave notice that at an early lay he would move to take up the bill hereLofore reported to withdraw $25,000,000 of ( banking circulation from the East, to be apportioned among the West and South. The rr Louisiana election bill was then taken up, ^ rod discussed without action. In the House, 1 \r- Un/il. nf I'nnhinkv /-ifTurorl 11 rPSfdIIf.ion ? L'A I Ui AXUlbUvnj) vuv* vu ? . vwv - _ jailing upon the Secretary of the Treasury to ' nform the House how much of the $54,000,- c )00 banking currency authorized to be issued ' ;o States has not been applied for. The bill r ;o carry into effect the fourteenth amendment ^ ,o the Constitution, concerning citizenship, ivas discussed and went over. The House ;hen went into consideration of the legislative ^ appropriation bill, which was continued until r adjournment. In the Senate, on the 24th, a bill was intro- v iuced to prohibit national banks from loan- j ng money on money as security. Several c jills affecting only District of Columbia affairs md private interests were introduced. The g Louisiana bill was discussed, and the select j jommittee on transportion made their report. f [n the House, the Speaker presented a mes;age from the President transmitting copies fl >fall correspondence in relation to the recent e roubles in Arkansas. Other proceedings of he House were of no importance. v On the 25th, the Senate was not in session, j rhe House was occupied with the legislative ippropriation bill. t On the 27th the Senate eulogized Sumner; 0 md in the House nothing was done beyond Q he introduction of the usual flood of bills ^ ntrodueed every Monday. 0 SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. r ? The colored militia of Orangeburg are! , jiving up their arms by order of the Governor. ? A shoe-peg factory will be put in operation tt Newberry in a short time. ? Candidates for legislative honors in Rich- ^ and, have commenced the canvass in that :ounty. ? Two young white boys, of Charleston, lave been sentenced to one year in the penientiary, for highway robbery. ! ^ ? Since the first of January last, a firm in j ^ jlreeuville has sold two hundred and seventy- j ^ ive thousand pounds of bacon. ? Mr. Louis A. Godey, of Godey's Lady's | j Book, passed through Columbia on Friday j ast, en route for Florida. j y ? Rev. Mr. Jaeger, an Israelite, at Green- j Q srillc, was recently ordained as a Baptist! Ttinister. | j ? Rev. Tilman R. Gaines contemplates re-1i; moving the publication office of the Working \ t Man, from Columbia to Greenwood, in Abbe-1 ], ville county. j t ? The Republicans ol' Charleston are just! aow busily engaged in discussing the chances , af gubernatorial aspirants. Those most spo-1 ken of are ex-Attorney General Chamberlain, j Attorney-General Melton, ex-Governor Scott, i j and Dr. J. L. Neagle. j j ? By a recent decision of the Supreme Court ^ af this State, in the case of Burge & Co., vs.; Willis, it has been decided that the Court of ^ Common Pleas has concurrent jurisdiction in ; civil cases cognizable before Justices of the' Peace or other inferior courts. i ? The Union-Herald gives currency to a rumor that Mr. A. A. Gilbert, the editor of i the Sumter Watchman, is a prominent candi-1 j, Jate for Congress from the first district; and Mod. H. C. Corwin, Senator from Newberry | j. county, is an aspirant for Congressional hon- j. Drs from the third district. ! ? The United States Circuit Court in ; Charleston has awarded S3,250 damages to the assignees of the Blue Ridge Railroad 1 Company, agaiust the Atlanta and Richmond t Air-Line Railroad Company, for obstructing the track of the former company at Sencca rj City. s *? ~ -r 1 /? 1 * 1_ ? The .Lancaster laager or last wcck says ; "Judge Mackey is spoken of by some of the Republicans as their choice for Reprcsenta- 1 tive from this Congressional District. From I what we can learn it is very probable that! v the Judge will receive the nomination of the a Republican convention ; and in the event that i he does not, it is quite likely that his Repub- a lican supporters will run him as an indepen- a dent candidate; in which event he will re- d ceive the support of the Democratic party." t ? One of our State exchanges is responsible 1 for the following: As a train was coming t down a steep grade on the Air-Line Road a o day or two ago, at the rate of thirty miles an : hour, the engineer discovered a calf on the 2 .rack. He did not see it thrown off' upon j lither side, and thought it might have caught , n the cowcatcher, and went forward to look or it, but did not fiud it there. After run- j ling seventy-five miles from the spot where he animal struck, while oiling up, he found j t lying snugly on the frame of the forward j rucks of the locomotive, somewhat covered , vith dirt, but entirely uninjured in other j cspects. The escape was put into the bag- j jage car and brought on, as a trophy of luck ! >ver accident. ? The annual meeting of the Graniteville j Manufacturing Company was held on Thurs- : lay of last week. The reports of the officers ; how that the net earnings of the year, inclu- j ling dividends paid, aggregate over 22 per j sent, of the capital employed. The sum of >350,000 has been transferred from the "profit ind loss account," and placed at the credit of 'commercial capital account," to remain as a lermanent fund for the management of the ; inaucial affairs of the company. This com- j >any employs 560 hands, and has in operation 53,600 spindles. The property is daily cu-! lancing in value. The stock is in demand,! md hut very little on the market. Twenty- j >ne shares sold by the company, the day of he meeting, brought $173 per share. It is j >ne of the most flourishing institutions of the mid iu ine union. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The wheat crop in the western counties of he State is represented as promising well. ? Three illicit distilleries were destroyed iu jiaston county last week. ? The post-office at Hickory Grove, Gaston lounty, has been discontinued. ? The widow of the late Governor Worth is eriously ill at her home in Asheboro. ? All the property of the "Fair of the Carinas"?a Charlotte institution?is advertisd to be sold at auction. ? Joseph W. Holden has once more risen to he surface?this time as the Republican uorunee for mayor of Raleigh. ? Two tobacco barns of Richard Gentry, lear Madisou, Rockingham county, were dctroyed by fire a few days ago. Some 5000 tounds of tobacco was burned. ? A fire occurred at Company Shops last reek, by which McAlister's store house and tock of goods and several thousand dollars rorth of other property was destroyed. The ire originated in McAlister's store from sponaneous combustion of oiled rags. ? Bryan Oxendine, who is a brother-in-law if the late Henry Berry Lowery, shot his rife a few days ago, and she is not expected o recover. Jim Dial, another of the same ;ang, was recently fired at from an ambush, md severely wounded. Dial was tried, but icquitted, ouly a few weeks ago, for the rnurler of Floyd Oxendine. ? Reports of the continued and increased umblings of Bald mountain are confirmed. rile sliocks of Friday were more severe than hose of last February, over which such widepreud alarm existed. The Asheville Exposior says : "Many of the newspapers have treatid this disturbance as a myth and humbug; >ut the recent tremendous movement of the nountain has assumed a character too serious or ridicule." SEWS OVTHE DAY. ? Boston has contributed 820,000 in aid of he sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi iver. ? At a meeting of the Maryland and Delaware peach-growers, -ecently held at Dover, t was estimated that the peach crop of the two itates, this year, will reach 2,425,000 baskets. ? Hon. A. H. Stephens has arrived in Au;usta, having been compelled to leave Washngton for a short respite on account of his eeble health. ? A Georgia paper says: "Kvery village nu borough in the State is projecting the rection of factories of various kiuds. We icver knew a period in the history of Georgia when so much money was put into manufacuring business as at present." A rlianatoli frnm T^PW OrlpJlllS to the RoS " "'"t"*1"'" on Louisiana relief committee, in answer to ne sent by the committee asking for details f the distress by the floods in Louisiana, says he number of people in that State partially r totally ruined cannot be less than 25,000, aany of whom are in absolute want of food. ? In one of the Boston Courts, on the 24th, Alexander Ellis, colored, recovered 8100 from he Narragansett Steamship Company for efusing him a seat at dinner in the diningoora of one of their boats. At a previous rial the plaintiff was awarded 8400, but the erdict was set aside on a question of law. ? An unusual storm prevailed iu several ections of the North last Monday. In the icinity of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., snow drifted aur feet deep in railroad cuts, delaying the rains ; and in Vermont buildings were blown [own by the gale, and snow drifted ten feet leep. The gale was severe as far south as )ela<vare. ? In a late speech in New Orleans, Pinch? ?h.a. />/\lama/1 tliof tliq maccm KICK IU IU 1113 lUlVlCU uiuu bitu ium^vu >f the North viewed many of their actions irith alarm, and that the signs of the times inlicated that it would be only by a judicious ise of their privileges of freemen in the selecion of the next legislature, that they could lope to regain their just place in the estimaion of their fellow-men. ? A dispatch from Monroe, Louisiana, says t is impossible to give any idea of the extent if the overflow there. The water is higher han ever known before. Exit from the town 3 afforded only by boat or by swimming. Tully one thousaud people have not provisions or three days, nor money to buy with, and tock of every description, gathered in the own, are starving. ? Information from Mobile dated the 20th ays, in relation to planting interests: The vater is so high that no planting can be done n the valley of the Yazoo. The weather tolay is clear, and the river is falling percepti>ly. If the fall continues a moderate crop vill be made. The crop in the hills has also >een greatly retarded by the continuous rains, >ut if the present weather continues an average :rop will be made. ? The Haxhall flouring mills of Richmond, Virginia, were destroyed by fire on Tuesday light of last week. They were the most exensive mills of the kind in the United States, ? 1" !!!. __ J ^ 11 J md wore valued at a nair minion uuuura. i The insurance on the property aggregates I 1160,000. The mills will be rebuilt. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. lie Arkansas War. The Arkansas muddle, the origin of j ehich we gave last week, does not seem to : .pproach satisfactory solution, notwithstandug both parties to the contest had at one time .greed to have the legislature convened and ! ibide the decision of that body. Baxter, the leposed Governor, has issued his proclamaion convening the legislature, and seems wiliug to observe the compact, while Brooks, he Pretender to the crown of Arkansas, is pposed to the arrangement. A dispatch from Little Ilock, dated the !Gth, says neither party has dismissed any of their forces. Federal troops are stationed in various parts of the city, and at the intersection of Louisiana and Second streets they have two pieces of artillery. Baxter's force has been increased by one or two companies. A St. Louis dispatch says a considerable quantity of muskets, small arms and ammunition has been shipped from there to Little Rock, said to be for Brooks. Baxter telegraphs to President Grant on the 27th, that he has not declared martial law outside of Pulaski county, and that nothing has been done on his part to prevent a peaceable settlement by the legislature. He says he only wants to protect himself until that is done. It is claimed that Baxter has the support of a majority of the tax-payers and property holders of the State. The Wheat Crop. The Department of Agriculture has received very full information concerning the . P ?1 A. 1.1 i. 1 I L appearance 01 wneai uirouguoui me country. The returns cover a large proportion of the winter wheat area of each State. The winter has been extremely favorable iu all sections. No previous season has been more generally so since the inauguration of the crop reports. California alone will yield 40,000,000 bushels. In the South the growth is luxuriant, and everywhere the promise is remarkable. The Tax-Payers' Delegation. A A Washington dispatch of the 24th, to the Charleston News and Courier says : "The House sub-judiciary committee held a brief consultation to-day on South Carolina matters and postponed final action until next Monday. The subject of the tax-payers' memorial excites the grave consideration of the sub-committee, who will report in conformity with the magnitude of the interests deemed to be involved. The influence wrought by the arguments of the tax-payers is felt in government circles outside of the judiciary committee, and is daily growing more potential, as is evidenced by the gravity with which the subject is being considered. It is noticeable that the disposition to sift the complaints of the memorialists aud the answers of the State officials very closely, accumulates force every time the subject comes up for consideration, though the solution remains involved in apparently impenetrable obscurity. The honest sympathy, aud, so far as possible, the cooperation of all right-thinking people in author1 U? ?.,lo (1-1Q Ity Iltrrc, 3CCIUS tu UC gUlllg UUb uniaiuo iiiiv oppressed victims of misrule, not only in South Carolina, but in other sections of the South. ^ YETO OF THE SENATE FINANCE HILL. On Wednesday of last week, the President transmitted to the Senate his message, returning without his approval, the finance bill which originated in that body and recently passed by both Houses of Congress, authorizing the increase of the United States legaltender and the national bank note circulation to an aggregate of $800,000,000. The message contains the following arguments against the measure: Practically it is a question whether the measure under discussion would give an additional dollar to the redeemable paper currency of the country or not, and whether, by requiring three-fourths of the reserves to be retained by the banks, and prohibiting interest to be received on the balance, it might not prove a contraction. But the fact cannot be concealed that, theoretically, the bill iucreases the paper circulation $100,000,000, less only the amount of reserves restrained from circulation by the provision of the secoud section. The measure has beeu supported on the theory that it would give increased circulation. It io a fnir inforonpo thprpfnrp. if. in nrun tice, the measure should fail to create the abundance of circulation expected of it, the friends of the measure, particularly those out of Congress, would clamor for such inflation as would give the expected relief. The theory, in ray belief, is a departure from the true principles of finance, national iuterest, national obligation to creditors, congressional promises, party pledges on the part of both political parties, and of personal views aud promises made by me in every annual message sent to Congress and in each inaugural address. A declaration contained in the act of June 30, 1864, created an obligation that the total amount of United States notes issued, or to be issued, should never exceed four hundred millions of dollars. The amount in actual circulation was actually reduced to three hundred aud fifty-six millions of dollars, at which point Congress passed the act of February 4, 1868, suspending the further reduction of the currency. The forty-four millions have ever been regarded as a reserve to be used only in case of emergency, such as has occurred on several occasions, aud must occur when from any cause revenues suddenly fall below expenditures, and such a reserve is necessary because the fractional currency, amounting to fifty millions, is redeemable m legal tenders on call. It may be said that such a return of fractional currency for redemption is impossible. But let steps be taken for return to a specie basis, and it will be'found that silver will take the place of fractional currency as rapidly as it can be supplied, and when the premium on gold reaches a sufficiently low point, with the amount of United States notes to be issued permanently fixed within proper limits, and the treasury strengthened as to be able to redeem them in coin ou demand, it will then be safe to inaugurate a system of free banking with such provisions as to make compulsory redemption of the circulating notes of the banks in coin or in United States notes, themselves redeemable and made equivalent to coin. As a measure preparatory to free banking, or for placing the government in a condition to redeem its notes in coin at the earliest practicable moment, the revenues of the country should be increased so as to pay current expenses, provide for the sinking fund required by law, and also a surplus to be retained in the treasury in gold. I am not a believer in any artificial method of making paper money equal to coin when the coin is not owned or held ready to redeem the promises to pay, for paper money is nothing more than promises to pay, and is valuable exactly in proportion to the amount of coin that it can be converted into. While coin is not used as a circulating medium, or the currency of the country is not convertible into it at par, it becomes au article of commerce as much as any other product. The surplus will seek a foreign market, as will any other surplus. The balance of trade has nothing to do with the question. Duties on imports being required in coin creates a limited demand for gold. About enough to satisfy that demand remains in the country. To increase this supply I see no way open but by the government hoarding through the means above given, and possibly by requiring the national banks to aid. It is claimed by the advocates of the measure herewith returned that there is an unequal distribution of the banking capital of the country. I was disposed to give great weight to this view of the question at first, but on reflection it will be remembered that there still remains four millions of dollars of authorized bank note circulation asssigtied to States having less than their quota not yet taken. In addition to this, the States having less than their quota of bank circulation have the option of twenty-five millions more, to be taken from those States having more than their proportion. When this is all taken up, or when specie payments are fully restored, or are in rapid process of restoration, will be the time to consider the question of more "currency." BST A law court in Iowa has fined a farmer twenty dollars, because he made his son turn a grindstone sixteen consecutive hours, for going home with an old maid from a singing school. | LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. T. C. Dunlap, Agent?Furniture, Furniture. T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In bankruptcy?First Meeting of Creditors?In the Matter of Elijah Landlord, James N. MeCall, S. M. Peggand Cynthia J. Roberts. J. II. Clawson?Notice of Appointment as Assignee?In Bankruptcy?In the Matter of Ira Hardin, Henry E. MoFadden. ; A. II. Davega, President?Railroad Meeting. I Croat Southern Circus, Menagerie, Aviary, Ac. Carroll, Clark A Co.?Ladies'Shoes?Flour?Umbrellas?Yarn?Bacon?No Credit?Summer Cassimeres?Low Prices?Bleached Sheeting?New Goods?White Goods?Ladies' Hats. M. Strauss A Son?Ten Cents?Fifteen Cents? Twenty Cents?Twenty-Five Cents?Fifty Cents?Seventy-Five Cents. i W. II. it J. P. Herndon?Hoes?Canned Goods? Tobacco?Blados?Breadstuff's. T. M. Dobson it Co.?Black Alpaca?Moustache Cups?Yokes?Dress Shields?Pistols?Shoe Polish?No Goods Taken Back?Black Neapolitan Hats?Ladies' Scarfs?Trimmed Hats?Gents' Lisle Shirts?Bed Ticking? Ladies' Undervests?Spool Silk?RcadyMade Clothing?Combs?Hair BrushesGoggles?Oil ? Ain't it Pretty?Pretty Dress Goods?Pants Goods. j W. I). Simpson, Treasurer?To the Stockholders of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad?Railroad Notice. j J. H. Clawson?Assignee's Sale?In the Matter of Ira Hardin, Bankrupt. I I. L. Guuhouse A Co.?Great Excitement in Chester. Brem, Brown A Co., Charlotte, N. C.?9n0,000 Wortli of Goods to be sold at Auction Prices for Cash. IION. A. S. WALLACE. i Hon. A. S. Wallace, representative in congress from this district, made a hasty visit on private business to his home in this county last week. He will return to Washington at an early day. ARRESTED. We learn that the negro Dick Jackson, who is accused of ravishing a little white girl in Gaston county, N. C., an account of which we gave last week, has been arrested and lodged in the jail at Dallas to await the action of the grand jury. REVENUE SALE. On Tuesday last, Deputy Marshal Hubbard . sold at auction a quantity of whisky and brandy, two horses and other articles condemned to the use of the United States, the owners thereof having been charged with violating the revenue laws. The liquors brought from 81.90 to 82.00 per gallon. THE CIRCUS. The great Southern Circus and Menagerie i3 advertised to exhibit in Yorkville on Monday the 11th of May, aud will give two performances, afternoon and evening. We have assurances that it is a first-class exhibition in every respect; and besides the representations of the managers, the press, in every town the show has appeared this season, speaks of it in the highest terms of praise. THE CASE OF LIEUT. RENNEIt. The board of officers appointed to investi ? < * j : * T * nate me cnarges preierreu agttnisu juicuicuoui Benner as to his conduct, while in command of a detachment of troops in support of the revenue officials in this county last month, has closed its labors, and the evidence taken in the investigation has been forwarded to the Commanding General. The finding of the board has not been promulgated. DEADLY ASSAULT. On Saturday night last, Adam Youngblood, a somewhat notorious old negro, was assaulted and struck two severe blows on the head, one of which fractured the skull. His wounds are of a very serious character, from which it is doubtful if he recovers. Circumstances point to a soldier and two citizens as being implicated in the assault. By order of Captain Christopher the suspected soldier has been placed under arrest. ??? STAMMERING. Dr. Lane, who makes the cure of stammering a specialty, is now on a visit to Yorkville, and has rooms at^Rawlinson's Hotel. Since his brief stay in this place he has effected several cure3 that are truly remarkable, among them, Miss Sallie Rawliuson, who was an inveterate stammerer, and whose impediment to anAor>lt hv Dr Lane's treatment, has been en "I" "J , tirely removed. She now speaks without the least difficulty. Other persons in this vicinity have been under the treatrnentof Dr. Lane, with the most gratifying results. He guarantees a cure in every instance. His terms are reasonable, and those who are unable to pay he proposes to treat gratuitously. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. Since the first of the present month, there has been in this section almost a continual fall of rain?there having been but two or three clear and pleasant days during the time, until Sunday last, which was a bright, genial day, as were Monday and Tuesday. On Tuesday night, however, it rained again, and yesterday was damp, chilly and disagreeable. The earth is literally saturated with water. As a consequence of the unpropitious weather farm work is greaty retarded. But little corn has been planted, and previous to the present week no cotton had been put into the ground. As one of the results of the unprecedented rain and the general backwardness of the spring, we learn that the bees throughout the county are dying from starvation. The wheat and oi'nna aro at this time nrnmisinff. and a ? *" w* "rw ? - r =' large yield of both is anticipated. From what we can learn, fruit has been somewhat damaged by the unfavorable weather, though it is hoped not seriously injured. TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE. Since our last report, the following transfers of real estate in this county have been recorded by the County Auditor: R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, and A. M. Jackson junior, to John W. Smith. Tract of 152 acres in York township. Consideration 81131. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to Allen and Iredell Jones. Tract of 335 acees in Catawba township. Consideration 81852. Joseph Spencer to Anderson Hall. Tract of 18 acres in Catawba township. Consideration $250. Eliza J. Steele to Ann White. Tract of 19 acres in Catawba township. Consideration 8468. R. A. Walker to J. B. Garrison. Tract of 50 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration 8700. B. E. Feemster to James W. Good. Tract of 53 acres in Bullock's Creek township. Consideration 8700. R. A. Patrick to John M. Sherrer. Tract of 158 acres in Bullock's Creek township. Consideration fc^UUU. Mary S. E. Barron and A. A. Barron, executors, to David W. Barron. Tract of 151 acres in Bethel township. Consideration 81100. T. G. Erwin to William Gibson. Lot in Fort Mill. Consideration 8250. W. J. Duffie to D. T. Lesslie. Tract of 209 acres in Catawba township. Consideration 81254. The State of South Carolina to Warren White. Tract of 40 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration 8200. J. P. Hutchinson to S. D. Carothers. Tract of 20 acres in Ebenezer township. Consideration 8500. R. M. Simtns to Wm. Perry. Tract of 120 acres in Catawba township. Consideration 81200. J. S. R. Thomson and T. S. JefTerys, As signees of J. McEIwee, to B. R. Miller, lract of 206 acres in Bethel township. [ Ann White to Eliza Steele. One acre in i Catawba township. Consideration 875. ! S. M. Johnston to G. W. Cansler. Tract j of 3 acres in Ebcnezer township. (,'onsidera* | tion 815. I Zeniri Young to J. 0. Giles. Tract of 45 | acres in Catawba township. Consideration 8178. j Jefferson Williams to Martha Williams. ' One-half acre in York township. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to James W. Fewell. Gilbert Shaw land?299 acres, in Bethel township. Consideration 8210. A. Williford to Thomas Lee. Tract of 152 acres in Catawba township. Consideration 82200. W. I. Clawson to W. B. Steele. Tract of 43 acres in York township. Consideration 81290. Same to same. One-half acre in York township. Consideration 815. J. M. Lowry to J. R. Cook. Tract of 508 acres in Bethel township. Consideration 82807. J. R. Cook to D. T. Partlow. Tract of 55 acres in Bethel township. Consideration 8250. J. B. Jackson to J. J. L.Gill. Tract of 113 ni?ncl1;n rVmflirlerjit.inn 8282. at'l CS 1U vv ? Ijgui|i? vwt.v.-w-? John Starnes to H. P. Hopper. Tract ot 24 acres in Cherokee township. Consideration 874. i [Communicated.] CARD FROM P. J. O'CONNELL, ESQ. Mr. Editor:?The presentment of the grand jury of York county, where it treats of my relations with the Catawba Indians, wrongs me deeply. Please allow me the space of a few lines to set myself right before the public. Contrary to the laws of God and the laws of the land, I have been represented by the jury as drawing the Indians' money and failing to disburse the same or account for it. This, too, on a mere presumption that the appropriations were all drawn by me, when the contrary is the case. But why do a citizen such an injustice by presuming anything, when they had the records to refer to and from which they quoted ? Every dollar of the Indian appriation drawn by me as Agent is accounted for in my annual reports to the Comptroller General. The receipts are to be found in his office, numbered, itemized, signed and witnessed, and at my last report the Indians were still in my debt. The Comptroller required me to report directly to him and furnish him with my vouchers. Will the grand jury please examine these reports and vouchers and do me the simple act of justice of reporting the result of their investigation ? P. J. O'CONNELL. ? ? Dr. ALFRED C. GIRARD. It is with a feeling of sincere and paiuful regret for themselves, but of hearty congratulation to Dr. Alfred C. Girard, the Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A., at this Post, that our people have heard of his recent assignment (unsolicited) to what we understand is deemed one of the most desirable and honorable, if not the most honorable post in the medical department of the Army, West Point; and that he will leave our community at an early day. We speak the profound and unanimous sentiment of all among us who have had the opportunity of knowing this accomplished Christian gentleman and physician, in saying that we contemplate his removal from us as a public misfortune. He will beaf with him to his Northern home the kindest appreciation and best wishes for his future health and hap piness of very many true friends in this Carolina village and vicinity. R. financial anlt Commercial. [Yorkville quotation* reported by Juincs II. Fayaioux.] YORKVILLE, April29.?Wo have no change to report in the cotton market this week. We quote extremes at 94 to 15 cents, with but limited sales. Flour, $4.75 to ?5; Corn, ?1.05 to $1.10; Meal, $1.05 to $1.15; Oats, 75 cents; Peas, $1.05 to $1.12i. CHARLOTTE. N. C., April 27.?Cotton.?The market closed lirin on Saturday at 10 for best grades, and 11 to 14J for lower grades. Flour, $4.25 to $4.40 per sack ; Corn, 85 to 90c. NEW YORK, April 27.-Cotton dull. Sales 447 bales at 173 to 184. Futures closed steady, as follows: April, 17 to 17 1-32; May, 17 3-32 to 174 ; June, 174 to 17 17-32; July, 17 15-16 to 17 31-32 ; August, 18 3-16 to 184. CHARLESTON, April 27.?Cotton quiet and firm?middling, 164; low middling, 164 ; good ordinary, 153. Comparative Cotton Statement. NEW YORK, April 24.?The following is the comparative cotton statement for the week ending to-day: 1874. 1873. Receipts at all ports for the week 32,224 46,663 Receipts for the year to date, 3,524,141 3,201,607 Exports for the week 64,670 65,229 Total Exports to date 2,297,111 2,015,732 Stock at all United States ports....465,085 454,846 Stock at interior towns 73,575 84,630 Stock at Liverpool, 787,000 692,000 American afioat for Greet Britain.256,000 226,000 Financial. NEW YORK, April 27.?Gold 13 to 134. Sptral ftoticis. Time is Money. The old fashioned manner of building houses, and waiting for months for the sashes, doors and blinds to season, is obsolete. A live enterprising man who reads the newspapers, and keeps posted about matters and things, will make an estimate of what is required in the house he is about to erect, send to Charleston, S. C., to the Builders' Emporium, and have all his Doors, Sashes, and Blinds ready to go in place when the weatherboardings are put on. Messrs. I. H. Hall A Co., the Proprietors, have the most extensive stock of Building Materials and Ornamental House Work, including White Pine, and Fancy Lumber, Marble and Marbleized Slate Mantels, Asbestos Roofing Felt, <fec. Send for price lists and circulars. April 2 14 lm _____ 1074. PAIN-KILLER, THE GREAT FAMILY MEDICINE OF THE AGE. TAKEN INTERNALLY, IT CURES Dysentery, Cholera, Diarrhea, Cramp and Pain in the Stomach, Bowel Complaints, Painters' Colic, Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Sore Throat, Sudden Colds, Coughs, Ac., Ac., Ac. USED EXTERNALLY, IT CURES Bolls, Felons, Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Scalds, Old Sores, Spraius, Toothache, Pain in the race, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Frosted Feet, Ac., Ac. PAIN-KILLER, after a thorough trial by innumerable living witnesses, has proved itself THE MEDICINE OF THE AGE. It is an internal and external remedy. One positive proof of the efficacy is, that its sales have constantly increased, and whollv upon its own merits. The effect of the Pain-Killer upon the patient when taken internally, in case of Cold, Cough, Bowel Complaint, Cholera, Dysentery, and other affiictions of the system, has been truly wonderful, and has won for it a name j among medical preparations that can never be j forgotten. Its success in removing pain, as an i external remedy, in cases of Burns, Bruises, I Sores, Sprains, Cuts, Stings of Insects, and other causes of suffering, has secured for it such a host of testimony, as an infallible remedy, that it will bo handed down to posterity as one of the greatest medical discoveries of the nineteenth century. The Pain-Killer derives much of its popularity from the simplicity attending its use, which givas it a peculiar value in a family. The various diseases which may be reached by it,and in their incipient stages eradicated, are among those which are peculiarly fatal if suffered to run ; but the curative magic of this preparation at once disarms them of their terrors. In all respects it fullills the conditions of a popular medicine. Be sure you call for and get tile genuine PainKiller, as many worthless nostrums are attornpted to be sold on the great reputation of this valuable medicine. Directions accompany each bottlo. Price 25 cents, 50 cents and 81.00 per bottle. Sold bv all Medicine Dealers. ' April 2 * 14 lm