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f traps and Jatts. Square toed shoes are agaiu coming into fashion. There are fourteeu iron furnaces and foundries in Georgia. The Louisiana relief fund in Boston lias reached 844,500. The wife of E. S. Stokes, murderer of Fisk, has procured a divorce. Both houses of the Arkansas legislature have passed a bill calling a coustitucional convention on the 14th of July. There are 140 newspapers printed in Texas, of which 110 have been started since the war. In England a man who spent all his money in a dram shop, leaving his wife to starve to death, has just been convicted of manslaughter. The whole number of postal cards furnished post offices throughout the United States for the year ending on the 11th of this month, was 113,662,000. The Commissioner of Internal Reveuue M.iues lllllt tllC icucipto 11uu1 iutt'1 uui iciciiuc for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874, will reach S100,000,000 without doubt. The mayor of Cincinnati has issued orders to captains of police to prevent temperance women from praying iu the streets hereafter. Messrs. Brooks and Baxter, who have been contending for the governorship of Arkansas, are members of and pewholders in the same Methodist Church in Little Rock. A Missouri jury, in the case of a man found with ten bullets in bis head, decided that "he had been shot, or met with some bad accident in some manner not just now known." Postmaster Jones, of New York city is a defaulter to the amount of 8500,000, and the Government has commenced suit against his bondsmen. Maj.-General George Hartsuff, U. S. A., whose name is familiar to all the paroled men of the Array of Northern Virginia, died in New York last Friday. General O. O. Howard, who has been on trial for some time on charges against him in connection with his management of the Freed men's Bureau, has been acquitted on every one of the charges brought against him. George Wilson, of Adrian, Michigan, has a colt three years old that prefers tobacco to oats, and exhibits great distress if it is not supplied every day with a certain quantity of fine-cut or plug. Two eamblers. who had murdered a young Tennesseean named Elliott, after enticing him into their den and robbing him at Shreveport, Louisiana, were lynched in the court-house yard on Mouday last by the exasperated citizens. While recently in Washington, Gen. Robert Toombs, of Georgia, paid a visit of respect to President Grant. Gen. Toombs remained more than an hour, and expresses himself much pleased with the cordial manner in which he was received. The conversation was on past and present topics. A letter from West Point in reference to the graduating class, says that the colored cadet, Smith, who has been out of the newspapers for some time, "is doing very well in his studies, and will leave quite a number of his white class-mates to attend to the safe keeping of the last class members." The manufacturing business, formerly owned by the Spragues, is going on successfully under assignment to Zachariah Chaffee. All of the mills are running, and the thoussandsof workmen are made happy by employment. The cotton and woollen mills of Rhode Island are generally running on full time and with their usual number of operatives. Recently, the parents of a boy, five years of age, living in Davenport, Iowa, celebrated his birth, and drank his health in punch and other intoxicating drinks, mey left a cup of whisky, and in the morning the child arose before the parents, drank the whisky, and died in a few hours in great agony. In an address by Gen. Wilcox, at the recent annual re-union of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, at Harrisburg, Peuu., lie suggested, among other things, that an invitation be extended to the late Confederate corps (Longstreet's) which he had most frequently encountered, to come up next year and have a patriotic time of it, and to bury the hatchet together and forever. A Washington letter says: "It seems now to be understood that at the decoration ceremonies at Arlington this year a more tolerant policy will be adopted than upon former occasions, and that the graves of the Confederate soldiers will be decorated. It is understood, too, that the tone of all the exercises on the occasion will be broad and liberal toward the opinions and motives of the soldiers of the Lost Cause." A reservoir above Williamsburg, Mass.,! broke on Saturday morning last, freeing a ' large volume of water, which carried away j nearly every dwelling house in its course. One hundred and twenty lives have been lost" i twenty-six lives are known to have beeu lost, j and the damage to property, including seve-1 ral large manufacturing establishments, is I estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. ; -i- ?.J A 1 1 i ne reservior was consirucieu iweive years ago to afford a reliable supply of water for j the various factories on Mill river. The lawyers of Indianapolis are torturing their brains over an extraordinary prob- : lem. Some years ago a lady of that city was j married, and four months thereafter separated j from her husband, was divorced and remar-! ried in a month, and four months thereafter gave birth to a child by her first husband. ' Quite recently the second husband procured a divorce, and the custody of the child was awarded to him. Now comes the first husband and claims the child. Who is entitled to its possession ? There is danger of a railroad rebellion in Wisconsin. The railroad officials claim that it will be impossible for them to comply with the law passed by the last legislature, as it would compel them to operate their roads at a loss. They proposed to contest the con-1 stitutionality of the law in the courts. On the other hand, Gov. Taylor has issued a proclamation warning the railroads that the law must be enforced, and the result is that the railroad officials are threatening to haul off trains. If they should carry this threat into execution, the consequences would be serious. Dueling is now a costly luxury in Italy. A recent law fixes this tariff: A challenge $100 fiue, hostile meeting $800 fine and a year's disfranchisement, fatal duel five years' imprisonment and $1,200 fine. Seconds suffer same punishment as their principals, and the challenger is always to suffer the severest punishment. Duelists cannot evade these penalties by fighting on foreign soil, and to insult a person for refusing a challenge is punishable by fine and imprisonment. This law shows wonderful progress among a people who have ever been "sudden and quick in quarrel." The Macon, Ga., correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal takes Colonel Lee Jordan, the largest planter in that State, as ; an example of the evils of exclusive cotton ; culture, and shows by his own admission, j that, though raising from 2,000 to 3,000 bales i every year since the war, he has not saved a dollar by the operation. Every cent realized was needed to pay hands,buy provisions and i ruu the plantation generally. The significant! and encouraging fact is added that Col. Jor- j dan has gone "back to the old plan?raising enough provision to do, and after that all the cotton he can. As an instance of the effect of heat and cold in expanding and contracting the iron of the dome of the National Capitol, it is stated that the colosal statue surmounting it inclines four and a half inches to the west in the forenoon, and the same distance to the J east in the afternoon. This fact has been i I ' ascertained by fixing a plumb line to tl statue and dropping it to the rotunda belov As the morning sun upon the east side of tl dome heated the iron and caused an expai sion ou the side of the statue, it was throw westward four and a half inches. In the afte , noon, when the sun upon the west side heate and expanded that side of the dome, tl statue inclined to the east a similar distanc Ihc fJorfcriHc tfrnqitim YORK VILIvE, S. I THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 21, 1S7< How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the nan i of the subscriber very plainly, give post-oflic i county and State in full, and send the amount1 , the subscription by draft or post-office inonr order, or enclose the money in a registered lette Postage.?The postage on the KxqriRKK, any part of the United States, is kivb cknts pi : quarter, or twknty ckxts peryear, and is pay ah , in advance at the post office where the paper is r j ceived. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addres I label" shows the time to which the subscription 1 paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers di 1 continued, the dale must be kept in advance. ! Cash.?It must be distinctly understood th ' our terms for subscription, advertising and jol | work, are cash in advance IMMIGRATION. j One of the absorbing topics of the day j immigration. It seems to be a universal! j admitted fact, that in order to restoration, tl j Southern country must have more citizen Of the tillable land in the cotton, sugar an rice growing States, scarcely one-fourth | under cultivation ; and of that portion whic j is annually planted in crops, the tillage is < I the most wretched kind. It is vaiu to attera] ! to cloak the fact that the farming interests < I this country are rapidly on the decline, an ! that large planters are all becoming involve* I The facts stare us in the face at every come j Hope is beginning to expire in many brav j hearts. The remedy for this tremendous ev i is thought to be immigration. Multitude are convinced that if we could only get th country filled up with foreign laborers, tl; j thorn and thistle would die out, and the ros ! would spring up and flourish. Whether th : is true or not, depends wholly upon the ide which we attach to the phrase, foreign laborer I If we mean by this expression, persons wh j are to become property holders and citizer ; in the higher sense of the word, then imm j grants is the only thing that we need ; but we mean by foreign laborers, a class of ind viduals whom the property holder can retai in his service, in the capacity of hireling for an indefinite number of years, the whol theory of immigration is palpable nonsensi and destined, ultimately, to prove a detrimei ! rather than a blessing to the country. Ths : man, it matters not where he hails from, nr i from whatever he has sprung, who can b j coutent to labor in the capacity of a kireliug ' for an indefinite number of years, wants sora< thing, without which he never can make good and useful citizen of any country. Ther may be some exceptions to this statement i some of the countries of the old world, but i is absolutely true in America. The foreigne who comes to America, may submit to labo iu the capacity of a hireling, for a few years but if he is any account, he will soon be a citi zeu in the sense that he has a home of hi own. A large amount of the land in th north-western States is to-day owned by jus such men, and some of the best citizens of th South are men who came to America in th capacity of ditchers, stone masons, and th like occupations. They lived economically worked hard, and in a few years they wer able to buy a small tract of land and stoc it. Now, if this is what we mean by imm: gration, and this is the kiud of immigrant that we desire and are willing to bring int this country, we desire a good thing aud ar williug to assist in doing a thing that will, i a short time, restore the country. If, howev er, we desire to bring into this country, a clas of mortals that we can stick in a mud hu and keep them there until death remove them, we will find out, when it is too late, tha we have done no good for neither the countr nor ourselves. Our misfortune to day is, tha we have too many hirelings and too few prof erty holders. We hope no one will conclude that we ar< in any sense whatever, opposed to immigni tion. We propose to encourage it in ever legitimate way. We are opposed to filling u this country with a class of citizens who ar willing to take a position more menial am degraded than that held by the hirelings tha are now in it. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 12th, Mr. Kelly, fror the committee on military affairs, reported bill to provide for the better protection of th frontier settlements of Texas from India and Mexican raiders. Mr. Logan, from th same committee, reported a bill amendator of the act to increase the pay ot soldiers c the regular array. In the House, a numbe of Senate bills were referred to appropriat coraraittees, and several bills of 110 genera importance were introduced. In the Senate, 011 the 13th, Mr. Slierraa called the substitute for the House currenc bill, and after a lengthy discussion it wen over. The House was occupied in discussiu the deficiency appropriation bill. In the Senate, ou the 14th, Mr. Pratt, froi the committee 011 pensions, submitted advers ! reports on a large number of petitions for pei 1 sions for soldiers' widows of the war of 18U ! Several private bills were passed, when th : currency bill was taken up, and after severe | amendments and one substitute were ofTere ' and rejected, the original bill wa3 passed. 1 | provides for free banking, releases the reserve ; on circulation, except the five per cent., whic is to be deposited in the treasury for the pui ! poses of redemption in United States note: ' and requires reserves on deposit to be kej by each bank in its owu vaults; a part c which reserve shall be one-fourth part of th coin received by it as interest on the bond held as security by the United States Treasi ry, to prepare for specie payments. The bii requires tne retirement or greenoacss cqua in amount to twenty-five per cent, of the ne1 national bank currency issued ; the rctireracr to begiu within thirty days after the amour of 81,000,000 of the national bank currenc has been issued. The maximum amount c the United States notes is fixed at 8382,000 000, and the retirement shall be in reductio of that amount until it be reduced to S300 000. The redemption section of the bill pre vides that on and after July, 1878, the greet backs, whenever presented in sums of 81,00( or any multiple thereof, may be redeemed i coin, or bonds bearing 41 per cent, intercs in coiu, at the option of the Government; an it shall be compulsory on the Secretary of th Treasury to re-issue the notes exchanged fc bonds. In the House, a bill to amend th le charter of the Freed men's Saving and Tru v- Company was reported and passed. The d ie ficiency appropriation l)ill was amended ; committee of the whole., and afterwan r. | passed. J j In the Senate, on the 15th, petitions we ie presented from citizens of Mississippi askii e. ( the Government to take charge of the leve< - I Notice was given that on Monday Mr. Fi 1 I linghuysen would ask the Senate to resun * j the consideration of the civil rights bill, ai - I dispose of it before taking up any other met j ure. Mr. Gordon introduced a bill to remo the disabilities of John Forsyth, of Alabam The House proceedings were unimportant. Ou the 16th, the Senate was not in sessio In the House, the diplomatic .appropriate and post-office appropriation bills were und discussion. The former, after various fmeu - ments, was passed. In the Senate, on Monday, a bill was intr |# duced to provide for the appointiueut, by tl - Secretary of War, of a commission of thr ie army and two civil engineer*, to jnvestiga ^j. and report a permanent plan for the reclam y tion of the alluvial basin of the Mississip ."jj river, subject to inundation. The Seua Br agreed to reopen the mint at New Orleans, be conducted hereafter as a mint, subject the restrictions of the coinage act of 1873. ] ** the House, Mr. Hayes, of Alabama, succee s- ed in having the House pass his resolutio ftt authorizing the President to issue rations ai b- clothing to the inundated destitute of tl _ Tombigbee, Warrior and Alabama rivei The resolution now goes to the Senate. 1S SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ^ ? The county treasurer of Lancaster has 10 sued near four hundred tax executions. /-> \r i :_i i T"v ^ ? IjrOV. mioses nas apptmiieu u. u. uumj; trial justice for Union count v. IS " . ?Gov. Moses lias appointed M. L. Owci ^ of York, a notary public. ? Monroe C. Long, of Union county, li p been appointed by the Governor as coron ^ for that county, vice John Tinsley, decease I ?The grand jury of Fairfield county ha' refused to grant "tavern license" to any liqu dealers in that county. ., ?The County treasurer of Greenville a vertised to be sold on Monday last, 13,9^ . acres of land for non-payment of taxes. ? The German immigrants who have st tied at Lowndesville, in Abbeville couut j will give a grand ball during the prese ? mouth. ia ? Mr. Cyrus H. Baldwin, recently appoir ' ed assistant United States treasurer at Cha iO leston, took possession of the office on Mondf of last week. if ?The sale of the Blue Ridge Railroa j. which was to have taken place in Charlestc n last week under a decree in bankruptcy, hi s been postponed until the 22d of October, ne.N le ? In the vicinity of Greenwood, and oth e, sections of Abbeville county, the cattle a it grievously affected with the bloody murra it and are rapidly dying. In every case tl >t disease has proved fatal. ie ? Robert Smalls and W. J. Whipper, r Beaufort, both colored, have announce 5> ' ' themselves as candidates for Congress fro a the fifth District, embracing the counties e Colleton, Barnwell, Beaufort, Edgefield at n Aiken. it ?The grand jury of Kershaw county r r ports the system of education in the county r complete failure, and the school commission' ; wholly incompetent for his office. Persoi i- uneducated and of disreputable characte is they say, have been employed as teachers, e ? A number of planters in Greenville, Ke it shaw, Sumter, Oconee and Abbeville countie e have contributed seven thousand acres i e land to be divided into farms of fifty and 01 e hundred acres, to be given in fee simple I r, such immigrants as are able to build ther e selves a home and purchase for themselv k farm implements, &c. ' ? The Columbia Union says that the "narui s of first lieutenant Joseph K. Hyer and secon 0 lieutenant Chas. B. Hinton, of the eighteen! e U. S. Infantry, stationed at Columbia, hai 11 j been sent to the Senate tor promotion?u former as captain, vice John Christopher, wl iS i committed suicide at Yorkville a few da; t ago, and the latter as first lieutenant, vh 's Hyer, promoted. Both of these officers ai now attached to Captain Keeler's company y ?The Columbia correspondent of the Net and Courier says that claims against Mosi j have been greatly depreciated in consequem ! of the effort to throw him into bankruptc; j It is thought by many that the whole thing l*: an effort on his own part under cover, an y | that his object is to get rid of his debts c P terms rendered favorable by this proceedioj e I It is thought that he must have a deal ( money hid somewhere. 1 ? Judge Mackey is credited with the follo\ ing in sentencing a man at the recent term < i the Circuit Court at Winnsboro, who ha n been convicted of burglary: "You ha\ _ I beeu found guilty of au offense for which yo e might be sent to the Penitentiary for thirt Q ' years. The court will sentence you, howeve e to only one year. If you are convicted agai ? j you will be sentenced to twenty years ; if (*j third time, to thirty years. If you arc coi _ | victed a fourth time, you will then have b c ! come eligible to a seat in the legislature." [1 ?The Columbia Union is responsible for tl following conundrums: "Is there another Sta ? in the Union where members of the legislate y j do nothing from one year's end to anothi it i but attend to their legislative duties? Is g not time that men were elected to office wl ! have some other means of living than fro u the office which they are elected to fill ? Whi e hinders a member of the General AssembI j. or a county commissioner, or a school cor I missioner, from engaging in some other er e ployment at least eight months in the yeai L1 Echo answers what ?" d ?The Columbia Union says: "A mov ,'t raent is on foot to unite the good men of a ;s parties upon a common platform in favor h the selection of competeut, honest men for a r- county offices. Inasmuch as these offices at 3, or ought to be non-political, there is no reasc >t why the best men, those who have the intercs >f of the whole people at heart, should not 1 e elected to fill them. The country has lis la enoufrh nublic officials who have no otlu o & i- business to engage their attention than pol II tics. The movement ought to receive tl tl countenance of all good ineu." iv ?The Columbia Union-Herald says that it the court of General Sessions for Richlar it county, on Monday last, the grand jury r y turned the indictments against John H. Br ?f! an, John J. Goodwin and Uriah Portee, e: 1 County Commissioners for Richland count; n for official misconduct, and the indictmen against Ellis M. Weston, Wm. M. Playne ai )- Uriah Portee, the present Board of Commi i- sioners for Richland county, for official mi ), conduct. Bench warrants were ordered to 1 u issued for the arrest of the above name >t parties. d ' ? A dispatch to the Charleston News ar e Courier of last Monday says that in the ci r cuit court of Orangeburg, on that day, "tl ft grand jury brought in a true bill on the ii st dietment of the State vs. J. R. Humbert, coun- 1 e- ty treasurer, and Franklin J. Muses, Jr., for in breach of trust and grand larceny, with fraudds ; ulent iuteut. The indictment charges Moses with having counselled and advised Humbert, j re ! the defaulting treasurer, to use six thousand ig ! dollars of the State taxes to pay his (Moses's) private debts." A motion for a bench war- , e-; rant against Governor Moses is under considie eration by the court, though it is not known j id what proceedings may be instituted against is- ( him, as no precedent seems to exist in this or ve any of the other States of the Union. a. i NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. n<; ? A number of men in Mitchell county jn ; have recently been arrested on the charge of er : passing counterfeit money. | ? David Schenck, Esq., of Liueolnton, has received the nomination of the Democratic 0. party for the oflice of circuit judge of the j |ie Charlotte circuit. Qe ?The Governor has respited John Allen te Ivetchey, now under sentence of death in a. Salisbury jail for rape, until Thursday the pi 18th of Juue. te ; ?The Lincoln Progress learns that the t0 ! United States Attorney General has ordered t0 | a discontinuance of all ku-klux cases pending [u j in Cleveland county, where no capital felony j. j was committed by the accused, n i ? At Gaston Superior Court, the case of R. II, I * )fj A. Owens, for the murder of .John W. Cheek, |ie i of York county, S. C., was removed to Linrg> ; coin county, the prisoner making affidavit | that he could not procure a fair trial iu Gas-1 ; ton. Dick Jackson, colored, convicted of as| sault with intent to commit a rape, was senis ' tenced to seven years in the penitentiary. ? The republican nominating convention a iu the second congressional district nominated John Hyman, colored, his competitor for the is, nomination being the preseut representative, Chas. It. Thomas. Ilyman is State Senator as from Warren county. He was formerly a er slave, and was owned by a man in Alabama, d. who, previous to the war, bought him in Norve folk, Va. or NEWS OF THE DAY. il- ?Extensive forest fires have been raging in >2 ! the northern part of Erie county, New York, ! destroying saw mills, barns, dwellings, and i timber, valued at over 8100,000. j ? Vasques,the California bandit, for whose [lt j arrest $15,000 reward was offered, has been captured, and is in jail at Los Angeles. He ij. is the most noted robber on the Pacific coast, r. and was the terror of the State. ? In the Massachusetts Senate, the resolution providing for an amendment to the conj stitution to secure the elective franchise and n right to hold office to women, was rerusea a [lg third reading by 14 yeas to 19 nays. t ? Hon. David Mellish, member of Congress from the ninth district of New York, having become a maniac on the financial question, is pronounced hopelessly insane, and has been placed in a lunatic asylum. ? Reports from Georgia represent the cot ton crop as severely injured by the freshets ^ and the cold weather. Unfavorable reports m come from all sections of the State, and it is . estimated that the crop is damaged at least i(j 20 per cent. ? President Grant has finally consented to General Sherman's long entertained desire to have the headquarters of the army removed from Washington to Saint Louis, and the transfer will be made about the first of next month. f ? Besides the skirmishing which took place between the forces of Brooks and Baxter, in r" which a number were killed on each side, nul8', merous murders and outrages are reported throughout Arkansas, as a result of the disie I graceful conflict. ii- LETTER FROM GENERAL NO YES, OF OHIO, es Cincinnati, Ohio, May 5,1874. Hon. T. J. Mackey, Judge of the Sixth Circuit PS of South Carolina, Chester, S. C. ,d Dear Sir: In the Cincinnati Commercial of a recent Hate, is copied a letter addressed 7e by you to Colonel Black, United States Army, commanding post, Columbia, South Carolina, ie which states that the remains of two United 10 States soldiers had been exhumed from their \'S neglected burial place by the roadside, and e removed to the National Cemetery at Florre ence, in your State, where they finally rest. ? These pious offices to the dead were rendered by a number of ex-Confederate soldiers of cs Lancaster. Honors worthy of being paid to es departed heroes were shown by citizens of :e your State to the foemen who had fallen upon their soil, even in the presence of sad monujg ments which the wrath of war had reared in , ; their midst. One of these dead soldiers was a member ,n | of the 27th Ohio Volunteers?a regiment be? longing to the brigade with which I had the honor to serve while in the military service. On behalf of that regiment and brigade, for myself, personally, and on behalf of all the ^ citizens of this State, I thank you and your comrades for the generous act which your letter records. e I cannot express to you how deeply I have u been touched by the noble spirit which iy prompted you and your friends thus to honor r those so lately your foes, and it comes home ' to me the more, since one was a private soldier, who fought under my own eyes, and a whose last resting place might have remained 3" forever unknown, except for the respect he A 1 - ? ?- ?- ?11? ??/\cl of ifAlif I anria lias SO BlgUilJlJ' ICUCIVCUOl juUb iiuiiuo, The bitterness of the late unhappy war, ,e while the war lasted,was a frenzy that unseatte ed reason ; but, now that hostilities have ceased, let us hope that peace returned is not re merely a cessation from strife upon the bat2r tie-field, but the beginning of an era that will it bring again its thoroughly humanizing influ10 ences to the hearts and minds of men. I am m j fully persuaded that those men who actually j contended in arms against each other, when | they laid down with honor the weapons they | had wielded with valor, were prepared to put Q" I aside, and did put aside, every feeling that u-1 caused them to look upon their antogonists ? j with enmity. Brave men, who have crossed j their steels in the fury of passion, when the e_! fury had passed, could recognize the virtues .. j of those they fought, and could well underi stand that to prolong hate until it reached 1 vindictiveness was a uarrowness of spirit, peril j taining only to ignoble souls. Too much mise, I ery has already fallen upon our common coun,n try during the last twelve years, and no one, tg ; least of all a soldier, should desire to keep ' alive the feelings which have occasioned it; t ^ i ratknr is i t t.hft dutv of everv citizen, however | , | 1 ll>?vi - J J , ^ LU | liumble his sphere, to exert his energies to- j Br ' wards healing the wounds which have been j li- i so fearfully made. ic : It is my belief that the tenderness you have ! j thus shown to our Northern dead will prove i . j itself to be one of those victories for which ! 111 peace is more renowned than war. The sen-1 l(' timent which that tenderness has expressed e- j will be felt throughout the Union?will find : y- an echo iu every heart that beats with the x- pulse of true manhood or responds to the best i ' instincts of humanity, j* j Thousands in our Northern States whose . sons are sleeping upon the plains of the South j will remember this act of kindness with the j s* deepest gratitude, knowing that the ashes of; 8-; their beloved rest among a people who are | ie generously able to forget the ascerbity of civil !(1 strife, while they are noble enough to treat1 | the dead of their former foes with the same , respect which they show to their own. 1 | Again thanking you and the friends to r": whom I feel under so great obligation, I am, j very respectfully, your obedient servant, n-1 Edward F. No via. j LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. W. 0. Simpson, Treasurer?Railroad Notice. J. H. Clawson?In Bankruptcy?Notice of Ap pointment as Assignee?In the matterof J N. McCall, Bankrupt. Chas. M. Sliefl", Baltimore, Md.?Steiflf Grand Square and Upright Pianos. W. H. A J. P. Herndon?Meat?Yarn?Smokers roeeries?Hoes. T. C. Dunliip, Agent?To tlic Ladies?Cham be Suits?Provision Safes?Hat Hack?Cook ing Stoves?Bureaux?Chairs?MattressesKepairing. John 0. Kuykeiulal?Old Gloves made New?7 Ounces?Confidential Announcement? Le the Afflicted Read?No Physician?War ranted Good?Russian Hair Dye. Dr. John May, Agent?Good News, The "Oh Doctor" Will Save Your Money and Pro long Your Life. Win. G. Patterson?Patterson's Mineral Spring> DEATH OF AN'oLl? CITIZEN. Mr TTillarioli nno /if llip iil/lee men of this vicinity, and a respected citizen ; died on Sunday night last, at his resident* 1 2d miles west of town, at the advanced age o eighty-one years. APPOINTED TO A CADETSHIP. ! Win. H. White, son of J. Hannibal White | State Seuator from this county, has been ap ! pointed to a cadetship in the Military Acade : my at West Point, by Congressman Cain, rep j resentative of the State at large. KEV. E. J. MEYNAKDIE. We were pleased to receive a call on Mon I day last from the eminent and distinguishee | divine, Dr. E. J. Meynardie, of the S. Carolin | M. E. Conference, who was here in attendanc on the meeting of the quarterly conference On this occasion, Dr. Meynardie preached a Philadelphia Church on Sunday morning 1 .t ; j.I! j __ _ui~ j: ana ID me evening uenvereu an nme uiauuura I in the Methodist Church at this place. Di Meynardie now resides at Rich Hill in Ches tercounty; and his numerous friends will b pleased to learn that his health, which ha been delicate for some time past, is rapidl; improving in the quiet and retirement of hi country home. MUSICAL CONCERT. The musical concert at the Female Insti tute, on Friday evening last, was attended b; a number of the patrons and friends of the in stitution, and afforded a pleasant digressioi from the monotony of business life. It wa merely an impromptu exhibition, arrange! by the accomplished instructor in music Miss Sue Lowry, for the two-fold object o affording the patrons of the institution an op portunity of observing what progress had beei made by the young ladies in this department attheendofa half session ; as it also fulfille< a principle of successful instruction, by inci ting a spirit of emulation among the pupil for creditable performance. In both partic ulars we regarded it as a pleasaht success The pupils in instrumental music, numbering some thirteen young Misses, each perforrae( a number of exercises at the piano, with ran skill, ease and confidence, for so short a train ing in the divine art. Musical experts spok< in high praise of the performance; and th< admirable time observed in the execution o several difficult pieces, reflected equal credi upon pupils and instructor. The friends o the institute may feel assured that this de partraenti8 under the care of an accomplishe< and persevering mistress of the art. Miss Lula Lowry sang, with splendid ef feet, from Donizetti, and "Tempest of tin Heart," from II Trovaiore, by Verdi. Professor Hubbard, the indefatigable prin cipal, with the accomplished corps of assis tants under his charge, is doing a brave worl in the cause of education in our midst, am deserves?as he will no doubt receive?thi well done of the community. DELINQUENT LAND SALES. On Monday last the County Treasurer ex posed to public sale the several tracts of lane in the county, on which the tax assessment! for the past year had not been paid, in com pliance with the law. Several of the tract advertised, were not put up for sale, the taxei thereon having been paid since the publica tion of the Treasurer's advertisement. Tin sale resulted as follows : T. F. Clinton's land, 300 acres, for want o a bidder, was forfeited to the State. Lands of Thomas Estes, deceased?49 acrei sold : bought by W. B. Byers for $7.72. Methodist Parsonage at Rock Hill?one half interest in the lot aud building sold bought by J. L. Watson for $18.43. Lands of Robert H. Nesbitt?29 acres sold bought by Hon. A. S. Wallace for $26.70. Lands of Drayton A. Wylie?24 acres sold ; bought by H. K. Roberts for $7.40. Lands of Virginia Moore?22 acres sold bought by R. H. Glenn for $3.20. Lands of Robert Merritt, deceased?4? acres sold ; bought by W. B. Williams foi $27.91. Lands of Britton Boleyn, deceased?10C acres sold ; bought by G. R. Boleyn at $f7.23 Lands of Thomas Kervin?5} acres sold; bought by John W. Dobson for $-5.30. Lands of Solomon Quinn?161 acres sold ; bought by John W. Dobson for $10.54. Lands of Allen Withers?6 acres sold; bought by John R. Farris for $7.04. Lands of S. B. Hall, trustee?29 acres sold bought by M. M. Watson for $7.37. Lands of John J. Jones, deceased?69 acres sold ; bought by W. J. Stephenson for $20.98 Lands of James M. Cook?65 acres sold ; bought by Dr. T. B. Whitesides at $8.45. TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE. Since our last report, the following trans' fers of real estate in this county have beer recorded by the County Auditor: J. F. Carothers to Wm. Wallace. Tracl of 256 acres in Ebenezer township. Consid eration $1350. J. R. Cook to Thomas W. Campbell. Tracl of 68 acres in Bethel township. Consideration $600. A. P. Campbell to E. A. Falls. Tract oi 43 acres in King's Mountaiu township. Consideration $86. J. II. Clawson, Assignee of A. C. Sutton, tc L. M. Grist. Lot in Yorkville. Consideration $71.50. A. F. Love to James Clarke. Tract of 19 acres in King's Mountain township. Consideration $100. S. E. White to Stevens & Cureton. Lot in Fort Mill. Consideration $50. E. D. Thompson to John T. Thompson. Tract of 85 acres in Bethel township. Con sideration 81000. R. B. Hart.iess to L. B. Sherer. Tract oi 30 acres iu York township. Consideration 8210. E. D." Thompson to A. M. Thompson, Tract of 104 acres in Bethel township. Consideration 8900. W. B. Byers and \V. S. Moore to David S, Rawls. Tract of 111 acres in Bethesda township. Consideration 8384. Same to same ; 81 acres in same township. Consideration 8384. Richard Hare to John H. Adams. Lot in Yorkville. Consideration 8450. John H. Adams to L. Alexander. Lot in Yorkville. Consideration 81700. M. A. Pool to J. H. Fayssoux. Lot in Yorkville. Consideration 830. W. and M. Wesson to E. H. Ahell. Tract of 120 acres in Cherokee towuship. Consul eration 8550. j M. L. Randall to E. H. Abell. Tract of . 78 acres in Cherokee township. Cousidera. i tiou 8375. i i Elizabeth Alcorn and others to J. Nichols. I Tract of 64 acres in York township. ConsidI eral ion 8300. r amaauBBai I | EDITORIAL INKLINGS. _ I The Crop Prospect. it Speaking of the prospects of the grow ing crops in the Southern States, the Waahi ington Chronicle says with the exception of * those which have been devastated by floods, i. the crops promise to be abundant for this season. The wheat crop in the border States t was never better, and there is at present no indication of rust or weevil. The corn crop e is the most promising that has been seen for ,f years, and the area planted has infringed '? '? I 1 M A- J A.J i. aL. greany on me grounus nuneno uevoieu 10 me tobacco plant. From the rice-growing regions of the Carniiuas, and from the wheat-growing '' regions of North Carolina and Virginia, the same news cornea up. "We have planted more than ever this season, and the crops h look splendid. If we meet with no misfortune we shall have a plentiful harvest." The sugar crop on the banks of the Mississippi i- must necessarily be a failure, and the planters 1 will do well to provide means for the propaa gatiou of a crop for the next year, and even e this will be a difficult matter unless the hand >. of the general government shall be stretched t forth to aid them. The Senate Currency Bill. e A synopsis of the currency bill, as adopted by the Senate, will be found in our surni mary of the proceedings of Congress. The e effects of the bill, should it become a law, may s thus he briefly summed up: y It will require the reserves on deposit to be s kept by the banks of different parts of the country in their own vaults, instead of sending them to New York, to be loaned for speculative purposes in Wall street, and provides i- that a part of these reserves shall be constitu y ted of one-fourth part of the coin received as interest on the bonds held by the Government a as security. These provisions may serve to strengthen the banks at home, and perhaps tend to keep up a better distribution of the * currency; the volume of which, however, it ? seems inevitable, must be increased. Thus, f there is to be more or less of inflation under it. The provision releasing the banks from 3 the maintenance of a reserve on their deposits, except five per cent, deposited in the treasury '' for the purposes of redemption, is a liberal one for those institutions. The Flood in the South.West. 8 According to the appeal recently addressed to the people of the United States in ' behalf of the sufferers by the overflow of the * Mississippi and tributary streams, the flood has covered an area equal to that of a large 5 State. One hundred and forty thousand people have been driven out by the waters, and 3 possess no supplies of any kind whatever. 3 Most of the lands will be unfit for crops and ^ too late for cultivation this year. The ques^ tioD is how these one hundred and forty thous f aatl people are to be subsisted and transported, sheltered, housed, and supplied with uten^ sils for household uses, and implements for farming and planting for the next four months, " and may be much longer? New Orleans pa0 pers estimate the districts and people flooded as follows : Louisiana, 14,000 square miles under wafer, 75,100 people, mostly sugar and * cotton producers; Mississippi, 5,000 square c miles submerged, 29,500 people; Arkansas, * 7,000 square miles, 31,400 people; Missouri, 0 6,000 square miles, 8,000 people. Many of these items, especially from Arkansas and Missouri, are probably far too small One - hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred 1 people is considered an estimate entirely with3 in bounds of the number of people embraced - in this vast affliction. Such a population will 3 consume, in provisions alone, 825,000 worth 3 per day; their clothing, shelter, and medical - attendance, will add nearly half as much; 3 their transportation to shelter and places where they can go to work and cultivate the f soil, together with supplies of utensils and implements, will add another 810,000, making . nnn r.of 3 ULl ilggjegULe U1 UVCl flU,VVV pti uuj t,uuu ha9 to be supplied to avoid or arrest the fara ine. ; The Arkansas Governorship. The question of the troubles in Arkan; sas, arising from the claims of Baxter and Brooks, having been referred by the President 3 to Attorney-Geueral Williams, that official has given his opinion. He says it would be ; disastrous to allow the proceedings by which Brooks obtained possession of the office to be > drawn into precedent, as there is uot a State in the Union in which they would not produce conflict, and probably bloodshed. He further ) says they cannot be upheld or justified upon . any ground, and in his opinion, Baxter should ; be recognized as the lawful Executive of the State of Arkansas. In accordance with this ; opinion, on Friday last, the President issued the following proclamation, which is to be re; garded as a final disposition of the question : Whereas certain turbulent and disorderly . persons, pretending that Elisha Baxter, the present Executive of Arkansas, was not elected, have combined together, with force and ! arms, to resist his authority as such Execu tive, and the other authorities of the said ; State; and whereas said Elisha Baxter has been declared duly elected by the General Assembly of said State, as provided in the Constitution thereof, and has for a long period . hopn fivprcisintr the functions of said office. i into which he was inducted according to the Constitution and laws of said State, and ought, [. by its citizens, to be considered as the lawful Executive thereof; and whereas it is provided in the Constitution of the United States that the United States shall protect every State in t the Union, on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive, when the Legislature cannot be conveued, against domestic vio: lence; and whereas said Eiisha Baxter, under section 4 of Article IV of the Constitution of the United States, and the laws passed in pursuance thereof, has heretofore made ap-1 1 plication to me to protect said State and the J citizens thereof against domestic violence; and whereas the General Assembly of the j State, convened in extra session, at the capital thereof, ob the 11th instant, pursuant to a call made by said Eiisha Baxter, and both Houses thereof have passed a joint resolution, 1 also, applying to me to protect the State against domestic violence; and whereas it is provided j in the laws of the United States, in all cases j . of insurrection in any State, that it shall be | lawful for the President of the United States, j . on application of the Legislature of such State, j I or of the Executive, when the JLegisIature I cannot be convened, to employ such part of | the land and naval forces as shall be judged I , i necessary for the purpose of suppressing such j . insurrection, or causing the laws to be duly i j executed ; and whereas it is required that,i j wheu it may be necessary, in the judgment of. ' i the President, to use the military force for the ' j purpose aforesaid, he shall forthwith, by pro* ! ! clamation, command such insurgents to dis* II perse and retire peaceably to their respective 1 ! houses within a limited time : i j Now, therefore, I, U. S. Graut, President I of the United States, do hereby make proclaj raation, and command all turbulent ana disor-' 1 j derly persons to disperse and retire peaceably ; to their respective abodes, within ten days ' i from this date; and hereafter to submit them-1 selves to the lawful authority of said Execu- j tive, and the other constituted authorities of said State; and I invoke the aid and codpei ration of nil good citizens to uphold the law and preserve the public pence, i A dispatch from Little Rock says the Prosi ident's proclamation is most gratifying to all I classes of the people. The streets of the city J are thronged, stores are reopening aud busiI ness reviving. Negotiations are progressing favorably for a peaceful dispersing of the men recently in arms; and while Baxter has issued ; a congratulatory address to his adherents, he ; is likewise receiving the congratulations of the people. RAILROAD** MEETING. ; ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE CHESTER AND LENOIR NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD COMPANY. Theanuual meeting of the stockholders of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, was held at Dallas, North Carolina, Wednesday, May 13th, 1874. On motion, Colonel L. A. Masou, of Dallas, was called to the Chair, and W. D. Simpson and John C. McFadden, of Chester, were appointed Secretaries. The Chairman appointed G. D. Heath and S. B. Massey, of Chester, and Dr. G. W. Michael, of Newton, a committee to examine and verify proxies. The committee reported seventy-nine shares of stock represented in person, and 2,649 shares of stock represented by proxy. Total, 2,728 shares. Nearly all the stock being represented, the Chairman declared the meeting duly constituted and ready for business. The officers' reports being called for, the President read his report as follows, which was received: President's OfficeC. & L. N. G. R. R. Co., Chester, 8. C., May 11th, 1874. 7b the Stockholders of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gouge Railroad Company: Gentlemen?1 hereby respectfully submit for your consideration, a report of the transactions of your Board of Directors for the past year, and also a statement of the present condition of your company. At the meeting of the stockholders at Hickory Tavern, May 14th, 1873, after the* consolidation was effected with "The Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company," a resolution was passed directing the Board of Direc 1 1 - i- -1 tors, without unnecessary oeiay, 10 piace a corps of engineers upon the liue of the proposed railroad. In compliance with this resolution, your Board tendered the charge of the work to Col. F. Gardner as chief engineer, who accepted and organized a party and commenced the surveys from Yorkville, about the 15th of June, 1873, and completed the final surveys and location in November, reporting a line of cheap construction from Yorkville, by Dallas, Lincoluton, Newton, Hickory Tavern to Leuoir; a distance of a fraction over eighty-three miles. The location reported by the engineer was approved and adopted by your Board. At the same meeting of the stockholders, a resolution was passed authorizing and instructing your Board to take such measures as they might deem advisable to effect a consolidation between your company and the King's Mountain Railroad Company, by purchase or otherwise. To carry into effect this resolution, at a meeting of the Board of Directors held on the same day, Messrs. John L. Agure, L. M. Grist and myself were appointed a committee to confer and negotiate with the President of the King's Mountain Railroad Company, Major G. W. Melton, for the purchase of the King's Mountain Rail Railroad, or the cousolidation of that .company with the Chester aud Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company. This committee reported to the meeting of the stockholders held at Newton, Catawba county, North Carolina, that in the discharge of the duty required of them, they had a conference with Major Melton, who was willing to sell his iuterest in the King's Mountain Railroad, consisting of 1105 shares of the capital stock, and also a mortgage which he held upon it?and proposed to take for both stock and mortgage, the sura of 885,000? that of this sura he would require 815,000 in caBh, and would take in part payment 825,000 of the Chester County Bonds, and would give a reasonable time upon the remainder of the amount. He also informed the committee that the King's Mountain Railroad Company had at least 85,000 cash on hand over and above all its liabilities, excepting, of course, the mortgage for 825,000 which he held. Upon the consideration of this report, it was resolved, by a vote of the stockholders, that the President and Directors be authorized to accept, in their discretion, the proposition of Major Melton, and the purchase was subsequently made by them, the terms and conditions of which are fully set forth in a copy of the agreement filed in the Treasurer's office of this company. It is proper, however, to state that instead of 85,000 cash assets on hand, as reported by Major Melton to the committee, there was, at the time of transfer, 88,004.90. At this meeting of the stockholders, a resolution was adopted giving full power to the President and Board of Directors to do any and everything necessary to be done to effect the consolidation of the two companies. After due notice given, a meeting of the stockholders of each company was held?that of the King's Mountain Railroad Company at Yorkville, on the 26th of March, 1874, and that of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company at Chester on the Sd of April, 1874?at which several meetings resolutions were adopted authorizing the consolidation of the two several companies into one corporate body, to be known by the name of "The Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company." The terms of this consolidation are fully set forth iu "Articles of Consolidation," filed in the office of the Treasurer of your Company, the main feature of which only it is necessary to state, viz: That two of the shares in the King's Mountain Railroad Company are given in exchange for one in the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company. The act of the Legislature, authorizing the consolidation of the two companies, provides that any stockholder who objects to the consolidation or transfer of his stock, must enter his protest within thirty days from the ratification of the act of consolidation ; otherwise he will be considered as consenting thereto. As the thirty days have now expired, and no protest has been made, the whole of the stocjc of the King's Mountain Railroad Company may now be considered as merged into this company. I would suggest, however, to the holders of certificates of stock in the King's Mountain Railroad Company, the propriety of presenting their certificates to the Treasurer and liooino thorn nanpplloil nnrl new /->ort i tno v^?vv..v- VV?l?.MVUVCO issued. At a meeting of the Board of Directors held at Chester on the 4th of December, 1873, at which the report of the-Engineer was presented and the location recommended by him adopted, the President was instructed by an order of the Board to put the line from Yorkville to the "Air Line Railway," and also the portion of the line from the Catawba river to Lenoir, under contract. It was not thought advisable to do so until a decision was had of the case pending in the Supreme Court of the State of South Carolina, in which the validity of the issue of the bonds of the county of York wasiu question. This decision was not rendered until the 22d day of January, 1874. Shortly thereafter contracts were entered into by J. A. Deal and J. F. Smyer for the earth work between Yorkville and the Air Line Railway, who have their forces now engaged upon it. The trestle work, over the same line, has been let to J. E. Fry, who has made a commencement. These contracts were all taken at the estimate of the Engineer and a very fair percentage agreed to be taken in stock of the company. Contracts have also been entered into for nearly, or quite one-half the grading and trestle work between the Catawba river and the town of Lenoir. These