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f craps and .facts. A very old gentleman in Calhoun County, 111., who feared a serenade from the hoys, was recently married privately in the woods. M iss Nellie Grant is to be married at the Presidential Mansion on the 21st instant. The expectant groom is said to be a wealthy and aristocratic Englishman. During the last ten years $20,000,000 worth of property has been destroyed, and 30,000 persons killed or injured by the use of unsafe oils. This is doing well for oils that are not professed explosives. "Why," asked a governess of her little charge, "do we prav God to give us our daily > \VU rr rlAn'f ira oqLt for f/Mir nr fiup UltttVi IT I1T VIUU U U W UCA IVi 1V/U4 V/4 41 f u days, or a week?" "We want it fresh," replied the ingenious child. The Chattanooga Times, noticing the hiriug of the Georgia penitentiary convicts, O.'JO in number, for about 87000 per annum, says that Tennessee gets 825,000 for a smaller number. South Carolina supports her convicts at a cost of 880,000 per year. A skirmish occurred between United States soldiers in Atlanta and the police of that city, Thursday night. One of the soldiers was seriously wounded. The soldiers had been breaking into houses and maltreating citizens generally, hence the difficulty. The House committee on elections has determined to report that there wa.' r.o election for Congressman at large for 1: 72 from the State of Louisiana. This ends the hope of Pinchback getting into either branch of Congress. All over West Alabama the lowlands have been submerged, and thousands or acres of cotton which had been planted were ruined. It will be too late to make a cotton crop after the waters subside, but a large corn crop will be made. Dubuque, Iowa, had a boy and girl at work in a livery stable for quite a time, who represented themselves as brothers, and who when fuuud out, stated that they were forced to assume the disguise, as the boy was unable to support his sister unaided, and he did not like to trust her away from his care. James H. Piles, the colored Chancellor of Sardis, Miss., is in jail for larceny. The lawyers who argued cases before him missed their books, aud, obtaining a search warrant, they were found in his house, with the owners' names erased, arid "J. H. Piles" substituted. He was convicted, and the Chancellor of Mississippi is still in jail. The obstiuate contest between the female crusaders of Greenville, Tennessee, aud Mrs. Ward, liquor seller of that place, continues and seems likely to be permanent. The ladies have given up singing and praying in the streets, and occupy a frame dwelling, which they rent by the year, opposite the groggery store. It was agreed on Tuesday last, at a meeting of the posts of the Grand Army of the Republic of the Department of New York, ,1 * 1 1-11 1 l!-i!- -i!-.. 1 i il.A mai mere snail oe uo uisuucuou ueiweeu me Union and Confederate graves on decoration day. Those of both Union and Confederate soldiers will be decorated. Of the latter there are many in Cypress Hill and other cemeteries around New York. ? A. F. Mardis, writiug to the New Orleans Picayune from Black river, says the country is submerged deeper than it was in 1867. Among the people there have been great privations, and in some instances suffering. He writes: "Picture to your mind the condition of our locality, when helpless widows and children are condemned to fight against starvation with two and a half ears of corn a day." The citizens of the delta of the Mississippi have issued an address to the people of the United States, showing the extent of the disaster that has befallen them and the assistance that will be necessary. In Louisiana 14,000 square miles are under water, in Mississippi 5,000 square miles, in Arkansas 7,000 square miles, and in Missouri 5,000 square miles, flooding out 142,590 people. Those issuing theaddress estimate the amount needed for relief at 840,000 per day until the inundation recedes. A Naples tax-collector was recently arrested and tried tor absconding with $200,000, and was acquitted upou the grounds that the money belonged to the people, aud as he was one of the people, he was part owner of it, and it would be absurd to punish a man for stealing what belonged to him. When a tax-collector in this country steals such an amount he goes unpunished, for the simple reason that a man with 8200,000 in his pocket is too much of a gentleman to be annoyed and fettered by legal absurdities intended for small thieves only. Since the death of Mr. Slidell, his heirs have entered suit to recover the property helonging to his estate, which had been confiscated by the United States Government. The heirs contended that the Government could deprive a disloyal subject of property only during the natural lifetime of the said disloyal subject, and the circuit court so decided. The Supreme Court decides adversely to the heirs, and confirms the action of the Government in this and all similar cases. The committee on post-offices is engaged in maturing a bill providing that ail printed matter shall be prepaid. The postage will be ascertained by weight, so that publishers can prepay in bulk. This, it is claimed, will save to the Government a large amount of postage on priuted matter, which is lost under the present system, even with a reduced rate, which is contemplated. It is also contemplated to readjust the salaries of country postmasters every year, instead of every two years, as at present. Apropos of the subject of burial, a very curious tradition is said to exist among .1 - . c Kt ?i I lie natives ui xvoyssuiiu wiiu icgmu iu mu origin of burial. They say that when Adam found the body of the murdered Abel, he carried it about upon his shoulders for twenty days, not knowing how to dispose of it. The Almighty took pity on him, and sent forth a crow, with its young on its back; and the crow flew before Adam until it came to a tract of sandy ground, in which it dug a hole with its foot, and there buried its young one. And when Adam saw this he dug a grave in the sand and buried his lost boy in it. At the close of a prayer meeting in Detroit a gold ring was discoverd in the contribution box. With tears in her eyes and the ring in her hand, the presiding officer said that nothing was more precious to a woman than her wedding ring, and she hoped the ladies would not permit the sacrifice; they must purchase the ring at a good round price and return it to the donor. Would the widow send up her name? While sobs resounded, the donor rose and said that it was not her wedding ring, but one that she could very well spare, and she hoped it would be accepted without further fuss. Having cried heartily, the woman now did the next most natural thing and giggled prodigiously. Kansas people are mystified over a wretched old man who was captured in the mountains of Utah, and placed iu jail at Topeka, on the supposition that he is old Bender, the father of the family of murderers who made a cemetery of their yard iu Western Kansas. Some persons who knew the man are nositive that the captive is him ; others 1 are equally certain that it is not, and meanwhile he waits in prison, rarely opening his lips to speak, and saying nothing that would be available as a clue to his identity. lie was taken in the mountains after having been tracked through the snow by the shapeless marks of the old boot legs, which he wore tied around fec-t that were too sore to permit of any other covering. From the wild regiqp where he was captured come rumors of a young man and woman hiding like wild beasts in the mountain solitudes, and they are supposed to be the son and daughter of old Bender. The mother has probably perished in the suffering and destitution the party has met in their flight from the scene of their crimes ; hut it was only the other day that a harmless old lady, a traveling missionary, was arrested for i her, and badly frightened before she could es! tablish her identity. The detectives have ! their professional reputation, as well as a i large amount of money, at stake, and they are bringing witnesses from far and near to | look at the taciturn, gray-headed man in I prison. 81* ffltMle (tftupttm'. YOKKVILLE. S. THURSDAY-MORNING, MAY I I, 1874. IIow to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name i of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and State in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post-office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The postage "on the Enquirer, to any part of the United States, is five cents per quarter, or twenty cents pervear, and is payable m advance at tiie post oince wnere me paper is received. Watch the Figures.?The (/ate on 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 4th, Mr. Washburne, the successor of Mr. Sumner, presented a memorial from colored citizens of Virginia, in favor of the civil rights bill. A resolution was adopted requesting the House to return the bill appropriating $90,000 for the relief of sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi. The bill was returned, reconsidered, amended, and agreed to, increasing the sum to $250,000, and was then referred to the committee on appropriations. The civil rights bill was again under consideration. In the House, under the usual call of States, a large number of bills were introduced and referred?among them several relating to the improvement of the currency laws. Qnnofn rw% flm ntK flin nninmitlnn nil i ill LUV? UWliUbVj VU VUV/ vni j biiu wui iui dvw wn i pensions reported a bill ameudatory of the act grauting peusions to soldiers and sailors of | the war of 1812, and restoring to the pension rolls those persons whose names were stricken | therefrom in consequence of disloyalty to the government. The committee on appropriations reported the bill for the relief of the sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi, j increasing the appropriation from ?90,000 to ! ?150,000, which gave rise to a spirited debate, resulting in the recommittal of the bill. Iu the House, the bill appropriating ?3,000,000 in aid of the Philadelphia centenuial exposition in 187G was discussed. Mr. Kelly made a speech in support of the bill, and pending a further discussion, the House took a recess, [n the evening session the Indian appropriation bill was resumed and discussed until adjournment. In the Senate, on the 6th, Mr. Sherman, of the hnance committee, reported a new currcnr>v Kill o: o cubctihifp fnr flip HnilSfi bill. It provides for free bankiug, redemption of United States notes in five per cent, gold bearing bonds, and retirement of fifty per cent, greenbacks upon the issue of national bank currency. The maximum greenback circulation to be 8382,000,000; new national bank notes to be issued to the amount of 8164,000,000, provided that for each million of such notes issued there shall be 8500,000 of greenbacks retired, until the total greenback circulation shall have been reduced to 8300,000,000. In the House, a number of unimportant bills were passed. The centennial bill occupied the attention of the House the greater part of the day and the whole of the evening session.! In the Senate, on the 7th, the committee on : appropriations reported a bill appropriating 8100,000 for the relief of the sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi, which was passed. In the House nearly the entire day was devoted to debate and consideration of the centennial bill, which finally ended in the House refusing to order the engrossing of the bill. In the Senate, on the 8th, the committee on Indian affairs reported, without amendment, the bill to enable Indians to become citizens. On the call of the calendar of general orders a number of unimportant bills were Dassed. Mr. Sherman gave notice that as soon as the Geneva award bill and the civil rights bill shall have been disposed of, he will call up the new finance bill. In the House, | the bill appropriating $100,000 for the relief of the sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi was passed. The motion to table the centennial bill was withdrawn and it was recommitted. The bill will not be brought up | again this session ; but its friends are confident | that it can be passed nest winter. The bill to i extend the provisions of the act for the collecj tion of debts due from southern railroads was ! passed. - ? THE ARKANSAS WAR. | The war in Arkansas assumed a new phase i on the 3rd instant, when, by order of Baxter, I Judges Searle and Bennett, of the Supreme Court, were arrested at the town of Argeuta, I opposite Little Rock. The judges refused to i be arrested without the proper authority, | whereupon Captain Williams made a signal | and a band of armed men entered the car ! with cocked revolvers, and Searle and Bcni net were forcibly taken from the train. The I * I supreme court was to convene in Little Rock | next day, (Monday). Judge Stephenson, also ! of the supreme court, was ou the train, but it | seems his presence was not suspected, else he, | too, would have been arrested. The affair ! created great excitement in Brooks' camp, | and had not the judges succeeded in making ; their escape next day, serious trouble would doubtless Have ensued. The motives for the arrest of the judges are explained as follows: , There is a standing appropriation of fifty i thousand dollars at the disposal of the Governor for the payment of the militia when called into active service. This statute was passed in 1868. Governor Brooks made a requisition for part of this fund. The auditor drew his warrant upon the treasurer for the ' money, who, to protect himself from any doubtful payment, refused to honor the warront wVinrpiinnn f.lm attornevs for Brooks nre ft %! ?,, " J ? 1 : pared a mandamus against the treasurer asking that he be compelled to pay the money. | To the mandamus the treasurer responds that ' the presiding officer of the Senate, to whom the election returns were made, had declared Baxter Governor of the State, and submits that Brooks had no authority to draw upon the fund. To this a replication was prepared setting up the judgment of the circuit c^wrt in favor of Brooks for the office of Governor and his installation into office thereunder. To this replication a demurrer was prepared to the effect that the circuit court was without jurisdiction to render judgment. The question presented by the pleadings would necessarily have determined who was the legal i' Governor. To prevent this determination by i' the court, Judges Bennett and Searle were arrested. A Washington dispatch of the fith, says that on that day Senator Clayton and several H other parties from Arkansas representing the If Brooks interest, had an interview with the IT President. The President has been urgently G< besought by friends of both parties in Arkan- 1 sas to interfere, but so far he states that he lu sees no reason why he should take any action , lu in addition to his standing order to the com-, "I raandant of the Little Rock arsenal to pre- in< vent so far as possible the shedding of blood. : toi The Brooks party say that the escape of, th thecaptured judges allows the Supreme Court ! ta of the State to meet, and that they are certain tei that its decision will be adverse to Baxter, j dr This decision, they say, will settle the matter j he effectually. The friends of Baxter are also : bu in the receipt of numerous telegrams. They lie deny that any decision of the Supreme Court atl can be binding, as the constitution of the ; T1 State recpiires the attendance of all the mem- , an bers of the court. liu Since the date of the above dispatch, fight- j ing has been reported, in which a number on each side were killed and wounded. The 1 , tei President has addressed a telegram to each of j . the claimants, proposing a mode of settlement, j _ He suggests that the members of the legisla- |. ture now at Little Rock adjourn for a rea- j gjc sonable time?say ten days?to enable Brooks j ^ io call to the body his supposed adherents, so i that there maybe a full assembly, as any i ^ hasty action of only a portion of the legisla- J ^ ture will not be satisfactory to the people. J They are both advised to dismiss their forces, | and military protection will be given the leg- ! islature to enable the members to arrive at a conclusion freely and without pressure or in- ; fluence. The intended action of either Brooks | Ser or Baxter is not as yet known. I ? ' SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. | wil ? The Governor has appointed Unfits Lan- j Ui caster, of Spartanburg, a notary public. ' las ? Tax unions are being formed in Fairfield j ye; and Marion. i | ? Statistics show that 25,000 gallons of wine [ po j were manufactured in this State last year. j rot ? The Trial Justices are strictly enforcing j rot the new liquor law in Camden. : Ce ? Judge Glover, who was recently appoint- tin ed County Treasurer of Orangeburg, has taken charge of the office. in ? A cat in Charleston has given birth to a is i litter of kittens, not one of which had any str sign of a tail. rot ? Niles G. Parker, ex-Slate Treasurer, and its C. P. Pelham, jr., have recently been admit- 01 ted to practice law at the bar of this State iu all Circuit and Probate Courts. ha ? A correspondent of the Reporter com- res plains of the frequent loss of money sent dri through the mails by citi/.cns of Chester an< county. to ? The Union and Spartanburg railroad me has recently been supplied with four engines, and in a short time daily trains will be run elc over the road. th< ? Many of the colored people in Williams- rej burg county have paid up in full and received ed titles for the laud they purchased from the Sh laud commissioner. pr< ? The Columbia Union-Herald gives cur- it i rency to a report that Mr. J. P. F. Camp, of ser Spartanburg, is a prominent candidate for dei Congressional honors from the Fourth Dis- tin trict. tin ? R. D. Montgomery, formerly of Lancas- ter, has recovered $25,000 from the Missis- in^ sippi Central railroad, for damages sustained cm by the loss of his wife and child by accident "E on the road. ph I ? It is said by persons who have traveled col much, that faster time is made on the Air- die Line Railroad, between Charlotte and Atlan- a ta, than on any other road in the Southern ha States. so ? Tim ^nrnnr-stnno of n monument to the et Con federate dead was laid in Sumter on the no 6th, with appropriate ceremonies. Gen. J. an B. Kershaw presided and delivered a masterly inj address. I ? The City Council of Greenville has had Tli I forwarded to Hon. A. S. Wallace, at WashI ington, the title to a lot of land in Greenville, I on which it is proposed to erect a court house Cal | and post-office. | ? llev. James Thornwell, a son of the late ' 1 ! Dr. Thornwell, has been called to the Pres- _? ; t ? t h\ | bytcrian church of Ninety-Six, in Abbeville j county, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the Pei I resignation of Rev. W. F. Pearson. rei j ?Three coffins have recently been discov- . * ! ered near the old Star Fort, at Ninety-Six. tl? I The evidences were that they contained the *va ; remains of the soldiers of the British garri- ? ! son, buried some ninety-four years ago. The c i planks composing the coffins were in a re- se!j ' markablc state of preservation. ? The Abbeville Medium is responsible for J ^ the following: "A colored man who has some . an | political aspirations,tells us that when he goes to the legislature he will have a law passed making it right for a negro to steal from a | white man. lie thinks this privilege should | i be given to the colored people on account of | their long service in slavery." ' ^ ! ?It is a serious matter to hire a farm la; borer who is under contract to another party, ! provided the second employer is notified of ^ | the previous contract. A case of this kind ^ : was recently tried at Abbeville before Judge j Cooke, in which the first employer prosecuted j . ! the second employer of the laborer, and ob-! tained judgment for $500 damages. ? The Carolina Savings Bank, chartered! , at the recent session of the Legislature, was an 1 organized in Charleston on the 29th ultimo. The following are the officers: Geo. W. W il- j thi | liams, president; Joseph II. Robertson, vice- cai ; president; William E. Breese, cashier. Di- ha rectors?Geo. W. Williams, Joseph R. Rob-j ' ertson, Edward C. Williams, James Bridge, j r ' Jr., Frank E. Taylor, Robert S. Cathcart, ' ^ ' i 1 t r* j r.awaru j. u;i^. ies | ? A dispatch from Charleston says that on wa Friday last, a petition was filed in the United wo States Court that day for the in voluntary bank-1 wc ! ruptcy of Franklin J. Moses, Jr., Governor: of South Carolina, and an injunction was granted restraining the'Sheriff of Richland ' 0' county from seizing and selling his effects , until the further order of the Court. The i 8^a debts of the Governor, in excess of his assets, are currently stated to be over $250,000. ? The Union-Herald says the question of Th the validity of the Blue Ridge scrip may be . tested soon in the United States Court. A coi certain amount of the "swag" will be offered rc< in payment of taxes?refused of course; and sui , when the authorities proceed to sell the road,' be an injuction will probably issue, and the we whole question of the right of a State to im- tin pair the obligation of a contract will be ven- co' tilated even up to the Supreme Court. ! tin i ?The Columbia Union-Herald publishes erl Hip fnllnwinrr as an incomplete list of the VMV O A candidates for Governor of this State: "Hon. en F. J. Moses, Jr., Hon. D. H. Chamberlain, ^e< Hon. It. Iv. Scott, Hon. S. W. Melton, Hon. ^ S. J. Lee, Hon. R. II. Cleaves, Hon. T. J. W( Mackey, Hon. T. H. Cooke, Hon. J. A. Rowley, Hon. Simeon Corley, Hon. II. G. Worth- ?c! j ington, Hon. F. A. Sawyer, Hon. C. C. Bowen, Hon. A. J. Ilansier, Hon. J. II. Rainey, Hon. George I. Cunningham, Hon. John an Winsmith, Hon. J. T. Green, Hon. II. E. ru ayne, Hon. T. C. Dunn, Hon. S. L. Hoge, on. T. J. Robertson, United States Senator, on. J. J. Wright, Hon. A. J. Willard, moral R. B. Elliott. - Col. Thomas Davis, an old citizen of Combia, died last Saturday in a lunatic asym at Philadelphia. The Pluenix says: le accumulated a handsome fortune by his rlustry and skill as an artisan and contracr. After retiring from active business of is sort, he purchased a valuable river plantion on the Congarec, aud engaged in cxisive improvements of tile manufacture and ainage, stock rearing, &c. Since the war withdrew his attention from planting and lilt the Columbia hotel. The troubles which had sustained and the losses he had met ected his spirits and impaired his judgment, le mental infirmity at last became chronic d fixed, and his friends removed him to a spital ibr the insane. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. - Hon. A. M. Wuddell has heeu noinina1 for reelection to Congress from the \Vilngton district. -The widow of ex-Governor Worth died Ashoboro, on the 4th instant, aged sixty;ht years. Her remains were taken to ileigh for burial. - A little sou of Mr. Glass, residing near eensboro, was burned to death last week, die playing in a field where his father was ruing brush. - The Charlotte Fair Grounds were sold at blic auction last week, and were bought by \ Joseph Graham for $11,700. The Obver says it is designed to convert the junds into a race-course. - C. A. Hayne, colored mail agent, charged th robbing the mail, pleaded guilty in the 1 ited States District Court at Wilmington it Saturday, and was sentenced to four ars iu the penitentiary. - The Virginia legislature refuses to grant wer to the Richmond and Danville Railid Company to change the gauge of that id to conform with the gauge of the N. C. ntral, which roads are now conducted under ^ .r. ^.1 f 5 same luuuugciLiciiu - The Raleigh Sentinel, which sees a ghost every bush, has just discovered that "there now a deliberate plan on the part of Wall eet men, backed by certain bond and railid manipulators, to rob North Carolina of railroad property, frotu Morehead City to d Fort." - A man in Mecklenburg county claims to ve cured himself of consumption, after iching the last stages of the disease, by nking freely of the fresh blood of lambs d goats. Should it not cause the patients hanker too much after grass, the experimt is worthy of general trial. - Joseph W. Holden, republican, has been cted Mayor of Raleigh. A majority of 3 aldermen elected on the same ticket are jublicans ; though all the candidates elect are committed to the prohibition ticket, ould the newly-elected board fulfill their )mises in regard to closing the bar-rooms, is thought the legislature will hereafter asnble in some other town. The liquoriilers, however, have determined to contest 3 case, having been advised by legal counsel it the election was illegal. -The Greensboro Patriot gives the followj items respecting the great Southern Cir5, which lately exhibited in that town : Labbits and boquets were among the troies the circus gals carried from town. A lored man from Salem, on his way to Inula, lent his money, amounting to $40, to confidence man at the circus and didn't vc enough left to pay his fare to Indiana, he went back home. A white man's pockwas picked of $43. The ring-master would t play elephant for the clown, botli got mad d had a large sized row over it in the dressj room." EDITORIAL INKLINGS, c Civil Rights Bill. ? Republican Senators have had several .icuses recently on the subject of the civil ;hts bill bequeathed to the country by Mr. rnner. At the latest meeting of the adcates of the civil rights measure, held on iday, there was a long discussion of the riHinir nivil rights bill, with _ihe view of D O ' -w ulering it acceptable to all the members of j majority by agreeing upon some modificans of its provisions. No dednite conclusion s reached, but it is believed thatactiou will taken at another caucus to provide for such anges iu the bill us will clearly admit of jarate schools being provided for white and lored children, and also for separate accorajdations by inn-keepers, proprietors of the es, Ac., on condition that equal advantages } secured for all classess. v. Kemper and the Colored Kace. ? The colored members of the legislature Virginia, including leading colored citiis of Richmond and other portions of the ite, called on Governor Kemper after the journracut of the legislature, and were jrteously received. After a brief congratitory address from one of the members of 3 delegation, the Governor replied at conerable length, prefacing his remarks, by rinp he was trying to do his duty accord O j to the constitution and laws with iraparlity. He then gave some excellent advice his colored visitors, in which he said : "Education and intelligence and character d property are no free gifts. They must worked for. The government can't make is experiment a success. Other people n't make you worthy of liberty. You now ve a fair chance, and in the future you will measured by what you do for yourselves. >u can never succeed except by .making up ur minds now and for all time to lead lives sobriety, honesty, industry, frugality, coury, by practicing the Christian virtues to,rds all men, by doing unto others as you uld that others should do unto you, if you re in their place and they in yours." These sentiments arc worthy the attention the colored people of the South generally, lly by industrious and virtuous habits can jy elevate their race, aud only by each race tnding up for the interests of the other and both, can the happiness aud welfare of all promoted. c Submerged West. ? The latest intelligence from the West nvcys the gratifying information that the :ent overllow of the rivers is subsiding to 2I1 an extent as to admit of more planting ing done than could have been hoped for a ek ago. There is much suffering among 2 people, however, and negro laborers are usidcrably demoralized?not on aceount of e unparalleled damage inflicted upon proply, and the gloomy prospect before the peo3; but simply because they think the Govnment is going to take them under its proving hand and feed them the remainder of e year. Hence they are not disposed to >rk. A Memphis dispatch of the 8th says: "The rise in the St. Francis river, which t in a few days since, has overflowed the nks, aud in two or three places plantations ider cultivation have been drowned out. lere is but little destitution in this valley, d planters are hopeful of the water soon lining off, and of their being able to renew j planting. This rise has broken the levee in : j several places near the mouth of the river, in : eluding Jefferson's and St. Clair's, near Island j No. 63, and threatens several other levees at j Helena and Friar's point. The White river i is inside its banks down to Augusta, and be] low there. Planters are yet hopeful of beiug able to make crops. On the lower Arkansas the water is off all the plantations except Rawling's, and the planters are at work." ' A Georgia Senator on Civil Rights. ! On Thursday, while the civil rights. bill was under discussion in the United States i j Senate, Mr. Norwood, of Georgia, indulged in j the following serio-comico strain, which carJ ries with it some potent arguments against the ; pet measure of the ultra republicans. In the course of his remarks he said: i "When the morning stars first sang togeth- ; j er it would have been worth some dollars to i i the republican party to have been present, for ; had it been present it never would have con- ; . sented to the creation of mau unless all were | made eijual and upon the same footing. He .1 i-.i -i i .I. i ! men cumuiemeu ui some j en gill uii me jegis- j } latiou of the republican party in Congress in i : reference to the negro. He said that less than j I ten years ago four millions of slaves were^ ; made free, a year later they were invested , with civil rights, next they were given the i ballot, aud next were made rulers of men, and I | after that made citizens. History furnished ! ' no such parallel. i "In forty years of the 600,000 Israelites j who went from Egypt into the wilderness but ; two were found competent to be rulers, ali though they were instructed by the Creator | himself. But the republican party had made j 600,000 rulers iu a few minutes. He charged I that the republican party was entirely insin| cere in its professions for the welfare of the negro, and all that it had done was to catch the negro vote. The negro was now beginning , to see the hollowness of their professions, and 1 this bill was a last sop to be thrown to him. ] He denied that the democratic party opposed 1 this bill on account of prejudice. The democrats were not actuated by any more preju dice than the republicans, and in their social f relations the democrats treated the colored people as well as the republicans. He then 1 insisted that the bill did and would inevitably ' force social equality, aud that the attempt to i enforce it would result in bloodshed. He pre- i dieted that disaster would come upon the j party which passed such a bill." Arkansas and the Cabinet. ( . Tho nr?tinn nf tbo Prf>aul#>iU in lirm-in. . terference with the Arkansas contestants is j ascribed to different motives by the papers of the respective parties. We presume he is dis- , posed to adopt the same policy by which he was governed in the contest that was attempted to besprung recently in the State of Texas, and allow the people of Arkansas to settle ! their local difficulties among themselves as best they can, on whom the responsibility will fall. The Federal arm has been used so far, only to preveut a collision of arras between 1 the adherents of the contending claimants ; but from a Washington dispatch of last Friday, it is probable that the Executive will yet interfere and end the dispute by a proclamation which must be regarded as final. The dispatch gives the following as the phase of the question when last discussed in cabinet ' meeting: "The cabinet was in session ror neany two ] hours, during which the Arkansas question was under consideration. It was expected that the general government would have made some decision in response to the many applications therefor from representatives of the contending factions in this case, but no conclusions have been reached as yet. The decision of the Supreme Court favoring the Brooks side of the case, in such direct contradiction to its previous decision that the legislature had exclusive control of the question, has the effect to augment the difficulties under which the general government rests in arriving at a solution of the vexed questiou. This new phase of the matter was talked of at some length in the cabinet session, and the reversal of the former opinion of the Supreme Court of the State occasioned some surprise. No member of the cabinet has made a definite and positive expression of opinion on the subject. All the papers that have been presented in the case were read. There may be some decision soon, but there is no certainty of it, as the attorneys of the different parties are coutinually sending telegrams and presenting new points and arguments that they are anxious to have considered. A cabinet officer said this afternoon, (Friday,) that the government was heartily tired of the controversy. When its decision is made a proclamation will be issued, which all will understand must settle the case." A County Treasurer in Trouble. At flip repenttprm of the Cirnuit Court for Fairfield county, H. A. Smith, the Treas- 1 urer of that county, charged with being a defaulter to the amount of $18,000, was convicted and sentenced by Judge Mackey to be imprisoned one year in the penitentiary and 1 to pay a fine of two thousand dollars. In re- 1 lation to the trial, the Columbia Union says: 1 "Yesterday, the first day of the May term ! of court, found Attorney-General Melton and J Mr. Fillebrowne, assistant to Comptroller-Gen- 1 eral Hoge, promptly on hand at Wiunsboro, I and, when court was opened by his Honor ] Judge Mackey, at 10 A. M., the grand jury ( was polled, and the bill banded them against Mr. Smith, charging him with malfeasance in ' office, in that he had failed to comply with the provisions of the law requiring county 1 treasurers to report to the State treasurer once I each month, and to turn over all State mon- ] eys in their hands. After a few minutes' ab- , sence, the grand jury returned with a true bill, the prisoner was brought in, and a motion made for continuing, when the sparring between Attorney-General Meiton and the 1 counsel for the accused?Colonel Rion?be- 1 gan. The attorney-general had a wily and j able opponent in the person of Colonel Rion, j but he was equal to the occasion. He made , j one of the most telliug arguments of his life, fairly sweeping every vestige of opposition away. The prisoner was then asked to plead, 1 ! and immediately pleaded guilty. After Col- ' onel Kion, his counsel, had asked that the i mercy of the court be extended to the prison- j er, Judge Mackey, in an impressive manner, j addressed the prisoner as he only can do, and . j closed by imposing the lightest penalty, viz.: . i one year in the State peuitentiary and the j heaviest fine, of $2,000. The whole case, from 1 i the time the bill was presented for the action s , of the grand jury until the sentence of the ac- j j cused, only occupied the short space of one j \ hour and three-quarters. |, "The action is purely a criminal one, and j j i does not estop from civil proceedings against! ! Smith's bondsmen for the amount of the de- j falcation. What Smith did with the money ; ! for which he i9 in default no one kuows but11 | himself. This trial will probably serve to ; 1 ; open the eyes of other derelict officials who |, ! assume to think that because they are Repub- I I licans no notice should be taken of their [J j shortcomings. In this assumption they may ( j be mistaken, if this trial is to be taken as a !1 criterion." j < Governor Moses has already come to the J1 , rescue, and commuted the sentence of Smith j i ' from imprisonment in the penitentiary to im-'' i prisonnient in the jail of Fairfield county, i j It is freely charged that tjovernor Moses re- 1 ; ceived a portion of the money which Smith . < i spirited away, and that at an early day he will i j reward Smith with an unconditional pardon.! j tfciT The act of Congress changing the time f ' of holding tho election of Congressmen in all | j the States and Territories of the United States ( ; to the first Monday in November, does not go ; : into effect until 1876. All Congressional j elections this year will occur at the times j I formerly established by the several States. ! i LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Dr. Jolm May, Agent? Drugs, Medicines, Ac.. Allen A Burlier, Agon Us, Iiook Hill?The Drown Cotton (Jin. J. H. Clawson?In Bankruptcy?Notice of Appointment as Assignee?In the Matter of A. Svlvanus Wallace, Bankrupt. W. II. Wigg, Coin in 1 tin, S. ('.?Plants by Mail. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Notice to the legal heirs and representatives of Daniel (iuinn, deceased. Tilman K. Uaijies?Select Immigration. DEATH OF It. LEWIS THOMSON. We regret to learn that R. Lewis Thomson, a promising young man of Spartanburg, formerly a cadet in King's Mountain Military ( School, and brothet of J.S. R. Thomson, Esq., died in Baltimore, on Monday night last, of fever. REV. MR. LATH AN. This gentleman has been confined to his j bed for the past week with a serious affection of the throat; but we are happy to learn that | his health is improving, and he hopes soon to j be out again. In consequence of his illness, j Mr. Lathan will be unable to occupy his pul-1 pit in this place next Sunday. CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER'S REMAINS. The remains of Captain Christopher, having ^nAri A?wki?ln.A/1 *imufl onnf A*/\nd fKlfl TllfiPA Kv CUi UOUilCU, ?1 cic a^UH A*vy**J vtiiu ? ?J express to his father in Philadelphia, on Friday last, a brother of the deceased having come here for the purpose of attending* to their removal. The body was escorted from the residence to the depot by the company which he had commanded, and was followed by a large number of the citizens of the town. DR. GIRARD. Dr. A. C. Girard, who, for several months has been on duty as Army Surgeon at this post, having been ordered by the SurgeonGeneral to report for duty at the Military Academy at West Point, left Yorkville last Tuesday for his new field of labor. By his uniformly Christian and geutlemanly deportment, no less than his eminent skill as a physician?which latter qualification was tested in private practice during his leisure time, in a number of difficult cases, and with the most gratifying results of success?Dr. Girard won the esteem and the confidence of all classes of our citizens, and takes with him their best wishes for his future prosperity and happiness. Dr. Girard is succeeded at this post by Acting Assistant Surgeon Reese B. Berky, ordered from the post at Chattanooga,'Tenn. IMMIGRANTS. On Monday evening last, Rev. Mr. Gaines arrived at this Dlace. briuurine with him four immigrants?two farm laborers and a machinist and his wife. The laborers secured employment without difficulty; one with Mr. Hemdon, of this place, and the other with Major McKenzie, of the county. The machinist, Mr. Thomas Cross, is au Englishman, and has come with his family to settle here and make this place his home. He proposes to open a smith shop at an early day, and in addition to ordinary smith work will also be prepared to do anything in that line of business, including the repairing of all kinds of machinery. Artizans of his class will always 5nd a hearty welcome here. As an immigration agent, Mr. Gaines is doing a good work, if but slowly, in peopling our State with industrious citizens. He has settled a good many in various parts of this county; and we learn that since he commenced the business, he has brought not less than a thousaud immigrants to the State. TJUE CIRCUS. Punctually to appointment, the Great Southern Circus, Colossal Hippodrome and City of Teuts, arrived here last Sunday evening, and before 12 o'clock, Sunday night, had everything in readiness for the grand exhibition to take place next day, by the only champion performers in the world. And most fortunate was it for the management that their appointment at this place fell on Monday last; for not only was the day the most pleasant and propitious that could have been desired, which circumstance alone would have induced a considerable attendance of people; but a vast number of men?"family men," as the jolly clown would sing?had, by the merest and most singular chance, promised their wives at least a month ago to come to town on that day, and, eveu if the circus was here, why defer the long-promised visit to another time? Of course, it would not'be right to disregard the promise made to wife and children bo long ago; and besides, any subsequent L ? ?1-4 III I f h Kllfll nflDO llllie IIJlgUL OCIIUUSljr lutciicic nun uuowus pursuits and agricultural operations?so sedulously do our people look forward to avert disaster! And theu our Yorkville juveniles? 30 frank and so honest and so innocent of guile! They never disguise their sentiments on the circus question ; but the wouderful ceISrity with which their stern papas relaxed the reins of family government and consented to gratify the children just for one time?to humor this, a childish whim?was all that the most capricious pet of the family could delire. Consequently, every "family man" in town and country being so happily in the mood to contribute to the enjoyment of their households, there was a large attendance of people at the "city of tents," and quite a hardest of greenbacks was reaped by the soapman, who gave a valuable cash prize with evjry cake he sold; the insinuating candy-man, with his traditional and inevitable ice-cold emonade; the voluble and irrepressible sideihow man, with curiosities from all parts of ;he world, not even omitting a band of origilal Modoc Indians; the "flying trapeze;" oc ?asional confidence and swindling games, played upon the verdant, all of which were iept in full blast from early in the morning antil the commencement ofJjhe big show?the jreat attraction of the day. And so indus;riously did all these men ply their avocations, ;hat long before the momentous hour for the jig show had arrived, many of their dupes ind victims?most notably the colored citizens present?were without the means of gratifying the long-cherished wish that had filled their waking thoughts by day and their slumbering dreams by night, as the hardjarned pennies which were hoarded to procure die acme of bliss, slowly accumulated. But financiering is the same, in principle, whether on a large or small scale ; and though the unfortunates were inflationists in principle?recent events having more strongly impressed them with the doctrine?yet no mode ! jf legislation presented itself, in this new emergency, by which their depleted exchequers could be replenished and their favorite ! financial dogma put into practice. So the 1 improvident and unfortunate were forced j to content themselves, as best they could, by I remaining on the outside, iu sad and som-! bre contemplation of what might have been,; and taking consolation from the stirring strains of the music within, or studying the t [jorgeousness of the paintings which lined the streets of the magnificent "city of tents," I speaking in language more unmistakable than the most flaming letters, of the wonderful at J a! 1 tractions mey auveruseu. Thus the day passed, and late into the night. A.nd so the next day was another community 1 nflicted, and the next and the next. Day I I after dity are these demoralizing exhibitions traveling over the country, the men connected with them not only defrauding and swindling the unwary, whom they inveigle into some of the thousand snares by which they lure their victims ; but what is far worse, leaving behind ! a moral blight, the pernicious effects of which are hardly effaced, before another of the same j description arrives, to inflict a repetition of the baleful effects of its predecessor. We oppose high and oppressive taxation as a rule; i but if all circus institutions were so taxed as to amount to prohibiting them from the State, we cannot but think the effect would be salutary upon all classes; as, in the end, all classes und all branches of industry are more or less affected by their presence. CARD FROM M. L. OWENS, Esq. Mr. Editor:?By the presentment of the grand jury, at the late session of the court held in Yorkville, I am named as a defaulter as agent of the Catawba Indians. I will acknowledge that I was not aware that I had to make ray report to the Clerk of the Court, *' * /?*!._ Lf'.L until tlie presentment or me jury was puunsued, but have since done so. But all persons interested, can find receipts for all moneys that came into my hands, and vouchers to show how the same was disbursed, in the Comptroller's office in Columbia. And for public information and justice to myself, I will state that I have only received since April 1873, $650, and surely I am not more accountable than the State itself for the full Indian appropriation. M. L. Owens, Agent. mere-Vextio>'. There are 1,200 rooms in the United States Hotel, Saratoga. It is estimated that the Patrons of Husbaudry, by cooperative purchases, last year saved nearly six million dollars. Husbands and wives, in Illinois, under the new law, may bring civil , suits against each other. A Mississippi man has actually petitioned the legislature for leave to hang himself. Reason?Fourteen widows are trying to marry hira. It is estimated that there are 40,000 commercial travelers in the United States. Thurlow Weed says $250 is the average price of an Albany legislator's vote. The demand for railroad iron is so light that the principal mills in Ohio, Iudiaua and Kentucky are idle, and have not a single order to fill. The gross receipts of the British railways have been more than doubled in 14 years. Po^ * i i / dered nitre is recoramenaea ior removing freckles. Apply with a rag moistened with glycerine. Placards on the St. Louis street cars declare that "This car can't wait for ladies to kiss good-bye." Over one thousand persons witnessed an execution in Nashville, Tenu., last Friday. Steerage passengers are now carried from Liverpool to New York for $15. California has twenty feet of snow and fresh strawberries. The Czar of Russia has abolished imprisonment for debt."^ The St. Louis Republican tells us that the strongest glass will sustain two thousand pounds to the square inch. It has also been known to twist a man's leg so that he couldn't walk. t' m ii n mi v Divrnci i niir i T inL J ilA" U i\ 1 LAiT iiirUillii f In the House of Representatives, ou the 6th iustaut, Mr. Eldridge, from the judiciary committee, submitted the following minority report on the condition of affairs in South Carolina : It is impossible to turn a deaf ear to the supplicating wail of the three hundred thousand oppressed and despoiled citizens of that once prosperous and happy State, praying only that inquiry be made into their alleged wrongs. They cannot find in the reproaches of the conduct of the memorialists in the past any reason or justification for refusing the hearing they now request. Their fidelity to the constitution and laws is now unquestioned, and their plea is made in respectful terms. The report then recites briefly and pointedly the list of grievances complained of, and predicates from them that the charges of the memorialists are true. The minority says:' "We are aware of the doubts and difficulties in pointing out the precise clause of the constitution authorizing intervention; but that protection in all things is essential to good government no one denies. It should never be lost sight of that for the condition of things now existing in South Carolina the Federal Government is primarily responsible. Blink at it, look upon it as we may, horrible as the work of its hands may now appear, Congress set up and established the state of things that makes the commonwealth of South Carolina the foul stigma it now is in our system. We do not argue the right to interfere on that ground at this time, but we submit that we subject our governmental theories to the contempt of the world and of all intelligent men in that we are all powerful to inaugurate and establish the pandemonium now existing there, and the very moment it is done are utterly powerless to interfere with it at all, or to save the property of the people from the spoilsman. Nor can we forbear the suggestion that if this appeal were on behalf of 300,000 negroes instead of three hundred thousand white Southerners of our own race and blood, such are the sympathies of the majority, as heretofore exhibited, that they would find, right or wrong, some relief. The petitioners would not have been coldly and flippantly turned away. It is a matter of the greatest delicacy for the Federal Government to interfere for the protection of a State from oppression and misrule. It is conceded that it ought not to be doue for trivial causes. But it is not a light or trivial cause that three hundred thousand Deonle. the nroDertv hnld l A , - I I J ers of a great State, are being stripped and despoiled by usurpation and fraud. That there ought to be power and authority adequate in such emergency to sare, all lovers of honest and good government will admit, and it is a fundamental defect in our system if there be not. In view of the thoughtful wisdom of the authors of our constitution, are we prepared to render the judgment that our constitution of government is so fatally and irreparably defective ? The complaint of the memorialists is that the rulers of the people have usurped the power to tax property-owners, not for legislative purposes, not to support the government of the State, but for the purpose of impoverishing the taxpayers and enriching themselves; for the purpose of taxing the white people to the level of the negro, and, under the pretence of the taxing power, are endeavoring to distribute the property of owners amongst those who have none. Is not fV* 1 a on nonmnhnn K*v 1 / ? ??? ~C CuiA i?kilo c*u uouij/nuuu vjj ifiic luicis ui tut: omit; against which the constitutional guarantee was intended to guard and protect? It is not a mere abuse of the taxing power, but an utter perversion of that power from all the leggitimate objects of taxation. Can it be a republican form of government where this is done ? The main object of government is the protection of the property of the citizen, and of the citizen in the enjoyment of his property." The report quotes from Hamilton, Calhoun and other authorities as to the constitutional guarantee, and concludes as follows: "In view of the whole case, we cannot hesitate to recommend the appointment of a committee of both houses of Congress, with power and authority to go into the State of South Carolina, and fully inquire and investigate into the condition of the State, and into the charges and complaints of the memorialists. To do less we feel that we should violate or neglect the most solemn and imperative duty. The cry of that outraged and helpless people has reached our hearts as well as our understandings. That once prosperous and beautiful State is 011 the verge of ruin. She is indeed