Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f craps and farts. j< An inventor announces the discovery of j 1 a method for produciug artificial blushes. ' Massachusetts is credited with having ( two hundred thousand old maids within its i1 borders. ! j The Bowdoin College students have . beaten the faculty, and at the end of the year 1 military discipline will be dropped. The St. Louis Republican thinks Grant!. for President and Kemper for Vice-President 11 may be the Democratic nominees in 1876. j t The .London 'I'imes has a [telegraph 11 wire between London and Paris for its exclu- I ? sive use, and for which it pays 815,000 a year, j a Dispatches from all parts of the coun- j t * try state that no discrimination was made on j f Decoration Day. This has called forth the j c unqualified approval of the press. j f A Chinese description of an AraericJh j court: "One man is silent, another talks all j f the time, and twelve wise men condemn the j s man who has not said a word." j1 Crop reports from the Northwest iudi- c cate that the average acreage of wheat sown ; a is much in excess of that of last year, and j 3 that the yield promises to be quite up to the |e average. J f According to the last German army J, list, the German army number now 1,324,000 men, with 2,740 cannon. The field forces number 705,700, the field reserve forces 243,- . 540, and the garrison troops 375,700 men. Thew people of Alabama propose to j dodge mixed schools by the direct distribution c of the funds to parents, regardless of color. ? This of course woud abolish public schools, and leave the parents free to choose whatever ( private institution they please. The Reformed Presbyterian Synod, in session at Philadelphia, has adopted a series of resolutions that the constitutional recognition of Jesus Christ, the mediator between God and man, as the legislative head and ruler of nations, is the indispensable duty of nations. The reformed Presbyterians, in convention at Philadelphia, adopted a resolution that they considered the orders of Patrons of Husbandry or Grangers, prejudicial to the best interests of society, and as a lawless and n inefficient way of obtaining redress for grievances. Senator Carpenter denies that his oppo- 0 sition to the civil rights bill is based upon his c enmity to Senator Sumner when alive. Mr. t: Carpenter believes the measure unconstitu- 0 tional, and states that the bill which passed a the Senate does not contain a word of the bill q as prepared by Mr. Sumner. J] The average acreage of wheat sown in the States of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indi- 11 xi: : vr: i j tr : i. P una, luissuun, luiuuesuia auu ivtiusas, 13 iliuuij in excess of last year, and the yield per acre promises to be quite up to that of last year, o In the same States large crops of corn, oats * and barley are promised, while fruits of all ~ kinds never looked better. There have been three White House weddings since 1820. In the green room, Miss ti Maria Monroe, daughter of President Monroe, (j to Samuel L. Gouverneur, of New York. The ^ second was Miss Lizzie Tyler, daughter of President Tyler, to William Waller, of Virginia, in 1843, in the east room. The third wedding p was that of Miss Nellie Grant. ? A Presbyterian clergyman in St. Louis e: offers a reward of fifty dollars to any one who w will give the name of a Presbyterian minister, e who is a member of a Presbytery under the 15 jurisdiction of the General Assembly of the jj Presbyterian Church of the United States of jj America, who has at any time preached the C doctrine of infant damnation. ? The number of eraigrauts who left Ire- d land?being natives of tbat country?during D the first four months of the year, was 22,429. ? In the corresponding period last year the f number was 31,992, so that there is a reduc- w tion of 9,563. The total emigration from Ireland since 1st May, 1851, the date at which . the collection of the returns commenced, to 11 the 30th April, 1874, was 2,275,174 persons. w The best way to get rid of ants that we know, is to trap them with a sponge. Procure a large sponge, wash it well and press it dry, which will leave the cells quite open; then p sprinkle over and in it, as much as possible, ft some fine white sugar, and place it where the w ants do congregate. They will soon collect Q upon the sponge and enter into its cells and ( then you can cut short their career by dippine the soonee into boiiner water. S( One of the most remarkable features of e< the new Illinois law concerning married wo- CI men, is the authorization of civil suits between a husband and wife. A married woman may n do business on her own account, with the a same right and liabilities as if she were unmarried, except as to partnership business, which she cannot enter without her husband's 11 consent, unless he is idiotic or insane, has P abandoned or deserted her, or is confined in a the penitentiary. c A Methodist Episcopal Convention, ei held last week at Jackson, Michigan, took w decided action in favor of woman suffrage. ^ The late Legislature of Michigan submitted u to the people a proposition to amend the State Constitution so as to admit women to the 1 elective franchise. The convention, in view o of this, resolved that it recognized the action j o of the Legislature as a step toward a higher w and purer administration of the government of the country, and hoped the provision would g) be adopted. Nothing so vexes a physician as to be sent for in great haste and find little or nothing the matter with the patient. An eminent 1 English surgeon was once sent for a gentle- b man who had received a slight wound. On il l.tn akmIhaI 1% n/\nf 1-v 1.1 SAMttnnf Va o a!? in oroo f ' .] 1119 ailivui lie aciJb ins oci vaut uava iu gicat (j haste to get a certain kind of plaster. The ^ patient, turning pale, said : "Sir, I hope there t is no danger." "Indeed there is," answered the surgeon, "for if the fellow doesn't run like a race-horse, the wound will be healed '1 before he can possibly get back." r A jury in Truckee, Cal., had been out a four hours when the judge sent the sheriff to i< learn whether they were going to agree. The a sheriff put an eye and then an ear to the keyhole of the room in which they were located ! for deliberation. Then he brought the judge,; 0 and together they opened the door. On the c table in the centre of the room, stood a big ' c bottle of whisky, and around it the drunken r twelve were hilariously march'ug iu single r tile. The foreman carried on his back a bass ! j, drum, upon which the man behind him was pounding. Next came a juror playing a snare ! drum, then a shrill whistle imitating a fife, F and the rest were singing. "We couldn't c agree on a verdict nohow," said the tipsy fore-! t man, in reply to the judge's reproof; "and we > didn't think'twas any hurt fur to have a social time s'long's we was a congen'l party." j The Boston Traveler says: Of the t men who were prominent in the secession contest, there have died, President Lincoln, Ad- , miral Farragut, Secretary Seward, Gen. j Thomas, Secretary Stanton, Mr. Crittenden, j * Chief Justice Taney, Gen. Lee, Chief Justice t Chase, Gen. Ewell, Secretary Smith, Bear 1 Admiral Winslow, Minister Dayton, Attor-; t ney-General Bates, John M. Mason, Charles ( Sumner, Gen. Rausseau, C. L. Vallandig- j . ham, S. A. Douglass, Rear Admiral Foote, Charles R. Ellet, Gen. Slemmer, Gen. Rod-; man, Gen. Magruder, Horace Greeley, V/m. t L. Yancey, Minister Orr.Gov. Andrew, John ! ^ Slidell, George Saunders, Gov. Brough, Gov. I, Picken3, (South Carolina.) Edmund Ruffiu, John Daniel, Howell Cobb, Gen. Meagher, ' James Buchanan, John Tyler, James L. Pet- 5 tigru, Percival Drayton, Rear Admiral Dahl- ' gren, Franklin Buchanan, Gen. Meade, Gov. s Geary, Gen. Canby, Gen. Harvey Brown, < Wm. Whitting, Secretary Rawlins and Gar- | ret Davis. With the exceptions of President , Lincoln and Gen. Canby, who were assassin- j ated, and Mr. Ruffin, who shot himself, and Gen. Meagher, who was drowned, all the per- j | sons named died natural deaths. No men- 1 tion of any one who fell in battle. i i * I The Heathen Chinee is not alone in j California in being addicted to "ways that! ire dark" in gambling. Recently, according 1 0 the San Francisco Bulletin, the Mead , Souse in that city was torn down. It was a :elebrated sporting place. On knocking away ; 1 wall three concealed wires were discovered, i in investigation of the walls of the whole louse was now commenced, and the revelaious were, indeed, of the most startling charicter. lu oue of the rooms on the upper loor was au arrangement which enabled a )layer to know exactly what his opponent | leld. Directly over the table,in the centre of J he room, was a small hole in the ceiling j hrough which the confederate watched the j ;ame. Wires ran along the ceiling to the floor, 1 md terminated in levers beneath the carpet, i ipon which the cheating gambler placed his j oot; as the wires were pulled, the number if taps telegraphed the course of action to i rnrsue. The faro room was the most ingenimsly contrived thiDg in the house. In the irst place, wires ran from the door so that a j ignal was given when it opened, and in an in- j nstaut everything was in readiness for the j Irop. This was accomplished by two levers j md a space beneath let into the floor. In a econdthe gamblers withdrew from the table, ach man of course grabbing his checks and noney, and by a motion of the levers the yawnng floor opened, and down weut the whole 'lay out." The carpet was then drawn over he spot, aud when the officers hove in sight here was nothing in the shape of gamblers'* mplemeuts to be seen. In the house there vere taken out no less than one hundred aud ifty wires, and several contrivances for sudlenly hiding gambliug implements. lite IffltktJiHr tfnquivrr. YORKVILLE, S. C.: niURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 11,1874. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name if the subscriber very plainly, give post-ollice, ounty and State in full, and send the amount of he subscription by draft or post-office money rder, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The postage on the Enquikek, to ny part of tho United States, is five cents per uarter,or twenty cents peryear, and is payable 11 advance at the post oltice where the paper is reeivcd. Watch the Figures.?'The dateon thc"address*hel" shows the time to which tlie subscription is aid. If subscribers do not wish their papers disontinued, the (late mu.it be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that ur terms for subscription, advertising and job,-ork, are cash in advance JOB PRINTING. Having determined to devote more atteniou hereafter to job printing than we have one in the past, we would inform the public fiat our office is now well supplied with new ppe of the latest styles, and the best mahinery in use; aud with a choice stock of iks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to xecute as good work as can be done anyhere in the United States. Orders for all Tickets, jFreight Billheads, ank Notices, i Labels, onds and Coupons, Law Blanks, ( ill Heads, Law Briefs, usiness Cards, \ Letter Circulars, ertiticates of Deposit, j Letter Headings, ( ortmcates 01 siock, '.wcmoranuiini iiium-aus hecks, I Note Circulars, * eposit Tickets, Note Headings, j rafts and Notes, i Programmes, nvelopes, i Policies, Fire A Life Ins., ' lection Tickets, jShinplasters, j estival Tickets, Wedding Cards, ill receive prompt attention, and satisfaction 5 to quality of work, guaranteed in every istance. Particular attention given to fine ork in colors. ! t i CIVIL RIGHTS. 1 One of the characteristics of the American ' eople seems to be to run into vague and ! >olish absurdities. This may be seen in the ' hole of our history. The foolish pretensions ' f Mrs. Hutchinson and Henry Varu, of ' 'onnecticut, and the witch trials of Massuchu- 1 itts, are examples of this tendency in our 1 .irly history. Spirit-rappings, Mormonism, I reniation and civil rights, may be put down ' s examples of later date. It is strange what * lonstrous notions enter the minds of men ; nd carry them on to desperate conclusions. ; Some thirty-five years ago, in one of the ! lost intelligent districts of South Carolina, a f lain farmer, who was generally regarded as man of good sense, proposed himself as a andidate for the legislature. In his electionering canvass, he promised the people if they 1 rould honor him with their votes and give I im aseat in the legislature, he would change I p the whole order of nature. He promised 1 bathe would make pine trees produce white 1 ak mast, and cause woolen blankets to grow 1 n forest oaks. He also promised that he J ould so far change the order of nature, that I Ddder pulling time would come in a cool : eason of the year. These are only samples f his wild vagaries. Whether he thought 1 bat he would be able to accomplish these 1 Kings or not, in the event he were chosen a 1 sgislator, we will not undertake to say ; but 1 t would seem that some of the people of his ' istrict thought so, for, although not elected, 1 n Unnf nnn aP fKn mnof /Itc + inrvm mnr> in ! it urai uiicui tut ...v" he district. 1 As a people, we always have a hobby, "his we ride until a total break down is the 1 esult. Fortunately, these hobbies are geuer- ' lly of no higher character than simply fool- ' ih and impractical theories. Sometimes they 1 ssume a more dangerous aspect. Cremation an effect the world very little either for good ;' r evil; but the civil rights hobby may be j' arricd to an extent that would deluge the j ouutry in anarchy and confusion. Civil' ights, means to grant to all citizens equal , ights. To this no one ought to object. There j > no objectionable feature about it. The law i hould grant equal rights, and afford equal i irivileges to all citizens. When, however, j ivil rights and social rights are confounded, | he thing becomes absolutely dangerous, j iVhen this is done, an attempt is made to | >leud things that God has created separate md distinct, and it is always daugerous to at- j pmnt to unite what nature has made distinct, i md to separate thiugs by nature united.1 l,aw makers have their province. Beyond his they dare not, with impunity, go. They nay decree that an ox is a horse, or that a lorse is a man ; but their decree will not nake the thing so, and any attempt to carry >ut such a decree in practice, would be at- j ended with the most monstrous results. There are thousands of things in society ,hat law and law-givers have nothing to do vith. Wheu they undertake, either to pro-1 /ide for their perpetuation or to change their | present mode of existence, they stultify them- i selves in the eyes of sensible people. The i egitimate province of legislators is circumscribed. There are many things that they cannot do, and which they should not under- j ;ake to do. The arm of the law is strong j ivhen exercised within its proper sphere ; but1 ,vhen not it becomes palsied. An attempt to lo too much, generally results in doing nothng. This is the danger respecting the civil ights questiou. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 2nd, the bill to pi vide for the sale of extra copies of public d< uraents and for the distribution of the regul official editions thereof, was called up, a; some verbal amendments recommended the joint committee on printing were adopti The bill was then laid over. Resolutions voring the eight hour law were laid befc the Senate by the President pro ton. T committee on military affairs reported adven ly on the bill allowing army officers to we certain emblems indicative of honors conferr upon them. The Indian appropriation b was tuken up, and after several amendmei were made, was agreed to. Mr. Ilatus gave notice that he would shortly call up t postal telegraph bill. In the House, ^ Poland, from the judiciary committee, repo ed a bill in relation to courts and judici officers in the Territory of V tab, which, aft considerable discussion, was passed. In the Senate, on the 3rd, a preamble ai resolutions of workingnien of California wc presented, favoring the eight-hour law. T committee on judiciary reported a substiiti for the House bill amending the charter the Freedmeu's Savings and Trust Conipar which was passed. In the House, the coi mittee on elections in the contested electi case of Thomas M. Gunter against Willin W. Willshire, from the third district of A kausas, reported in favor of Mr. Gunter. In the Senate, on the 4th, a large numb of pension hills were reported and passe The political disabilities of Fitzhugh Local Van R. Morgan, of Virginia, were passed, the House, a conference committee was ord< ed on the bill in relation to the Freedtnei Savings Bank. A conference committee i port recommending concurrence in the St ate amendment relative to the distribution the Congressional Record was reported a adopted. The Senate amendments to t Military Academy appropriation bill wc concuired in and the bill passed, when t House resumed consideration of the bill j the improvement of the mouth of the Miss sippi river. At the evening session, Mr. W sou and Mr. Butler, of Tennessee, address the house on the subject of the civil rigt bill. In the Seuate, on the 5th, a bill for the ] lief of settlers on lands in Minnesota was pa ed. Bills were passed for the removal of t political disabilities of J. J. Guthrie, of Nor Carolina, and to create an additional Jai district iu Colorado. Mr. West, from t committee on appropriations, reported \vi amendments the post-office appropriation bi and stated that he would call it up on Mo day. The request of the House for a coi mittee of conference on the army appropri tion bill was agreed to and the committee a pointed. In the House, the bill for the ii provement of the mouth of the Mississip river was discussed at length and ordered a third reading. The House then went iu committee of the whole on the private cale dar, and a large number of private bills we agreed to and ordered to be reported. The Senate was not in Session 011 the 6t In the House, the bill removing the politic disabilities ofFitzhugh Lee was passed. M Parker, from the committee 011 post-offic and post-roads, reported a bill to amend tl statutes relating to mail coutracts, its prov: ions intended to prevent what are known straw bids, which was passed. Mr. Cob from the same committee reported a bill pr scribing the method for adjustiug the salari )f post-masters, which was passed. It fix the salary of the postmaster at New York i 56,000. All other postmasters are divide into four classes. The first class embrac those whose salaries are between S3,000 an 54,000; the second class those between ?2,0( ind 83,000; the third class those betwei 51,000 and ?2,000, and the fourth class a aelow ?1,000. The first, second, and tliii classes are to be appointed by the Preside!) ind those of the fourth class by the Postnia ;er General. The salaries of all are to 1 paid in even sums of oue hundred dollar md the actual receipts and revenues of tl jffice are made the basis of compensatio Salaries are to be adjusted ouce in two yeai Duplicate accounts are to be made out slioi ing the entire operations of the office, ilso changes the method of cancellation so i to keep a more accurate accout. The siime committee reported a bill to pr vide for the prepayment of postage on prinU matter and for other purposes, which w; passed. The bill provides that on all new papers and periodical publications maih from a known office of publication or ne\ agency, and addressed to regular subscribe 3r news agents, postage shall be charged the following rates, viz: On newspapers ai periodical publications issued weekly, or mo frequently than once a week, one cent ar five mills for each pound and fraction therec nnd rm fhnse issued Ipss freOUeiltlv tliail ooi i week, three cents for each pound or fra tion thereof. Upon the receipt of such new papers or periodicals at the office of mailin they shall be weighed in bulk, and posta; paid thereon by a special adhesive stara Newspapers sent to subscribers in the coun of publication shall go free. The Postraast General may prescribe by regulation an a fidavit in form to be taken by each publishi of a newspaper or news agent who distribut the newspapers, stating that he will not ser or knowingly permit to be sent through tl mails any copy or copies of a newspap or periodical publication, except to reguli subscribers or news agent or as an exchang without prepayment of postage at the ra of one cent for each two ounces or fra tioual part thereof. Any publisher or ne\ agent refusing to take such affidavit, shall 1 deeme'd guilty of a misdemeanor, and on co viction shall be fined not exceeding ?1,00 Any person who shall knowingly and wilful mail any matter without the payment postage, or procure the same to be done, < any postmaster who shall knowingly pern; auy matter to be mailed without the pr payment of postage, they shall be deenn guilty of a misdemeanor, and on convictic shall be fined not less than $100 nor mo than ?1,000, or imprisonment not cxceedii three years, or both, in the discretion of tl court. On the 8th, the Senate was engaged in d: cussing proposed internal revenue reguhitioi In the House, the bill admitting Colora< passed?170 to 65. Smith, of Louisiana, i troduced a bill to restore school and oth funds takei\ from that State and covered in the treasury. The bill to pay ?200,000,01 more in bounties, failed to get a two-tbi majority, and was thus defeated for the s< siou. Five hours was then giveu to a disci siouofthe Louisiana contested election ca of Pinchback and Sheridan. The house i fused to suspend the rules to take up the Se ate civil rights bill, which action is regard as fatal to the passage of the bill during t present session. ? Fourteen-inch mortars have recently be< placed in battery at the rear of Fort Moi trie, on Sullivan's Island, near Charleston. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ro. ?Chickeu cholera prevails to a very great 3C. extent in Marlboro' county. ar ' ?The grand jury of Newberry county have ad raised the license lee to $500. by ?A fatal disease is killing all the hogs and id. chickens in Laurens county. fa- ? The grand jury of Lexington county have ire fixed the liquor license at $50. he I ?Corn, at Lancaster Court House, eom30 mauds 81.70 cents per bushel. ar ' ? Col. R. W. Seymour, of Charleston, has ed b"en appointed an aide-de-camp to Governor ill Moses, with the rank of Colonel. its ? The grand jury of Anderson county have ev presented J. J. Gilmer, a trial justice of that he county, for malpractice in office. [r. i ?Of 11,770 acres of land in Clarendon rt- ; county, forfeited to the State for taxes, over ial . half of it is the property of F. J. Moses, Jr. er ! ? Cucumbers are being used in CliarLston | as a boiled vegetable, and are said to equal it ml not excel the summer squash in delicacy. ire ! ? On the 1st instant two daily trains were he | commenced on the Spartanburg and Union ite J Railroad, connecting with the Greenville and of | Columbia and Air-Line Railroads. iy, ?It is asserted by knowing Republicans in- that Gov. Moses will be a candidate in the on next gubernatorial canvass, whether regularly im nominated or not. lT- ?At the recent election in Lancaster, it ^ i i . / / ill was Uecidca, Dy a majority 01 nve nunurea, icr to issue county bonds iu aid of the Chester id. and Chcraw Narrow Gauge Railroad, ud ?Two brothers, twins, nine years old, sons In of Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Carlton, were drowned jr- in Thompson's mill pond, near Spartanburg, j's while bathing, on Thursday last, re- ?Mr. J. R. Allen, of the firm of Allen & :u- Barber, at Rock Hill, who has been seriously of ill for several weeks, we learn from the nd Grange, is now convalescent, he ?The County Commissioners of Lancaster ire have determiued to grant no licenses for the he sale of spirituous liquors in that county. It :'or is understood that the town council of Lanis caster will pursue a similar course, il- ? The Abbeville Medium says that a white ed man in that county is accused of being the its father of a pure negro baby. The Medium man wants to know if this freak of nature is re- a result of the civil rights bill. S3- ?The Kingstree Star is authority for the he statement that Williamsburg county is af th flicted with fifteeu candidates for the legisland ture, and seventy-five for the office of county he commissioner. th ?The citizens of Rock Hill have perfected 11. arrangements for nrocurine a fire en trine: and n- the town authorities are sinking a cistern for in- the purpose of getting the necessary supply ia- of water. P* ? Between the 1st of September, 1873, and the 1st of May, 1874, thirty-two thousand and P1 forty-six tons of commercial fertilizers were shipped over the South Carolina Railroad. t0 During the same period the previous season n* there were 42,574 tons, re ? rpjie Columbia Union gives the following as the Congressional slate which has been fixed up iu Charleston: J. H. Rainey for Congress, from the 1st district; E. \Y. M. r- Mackey, 2d district; R. H. Cain, 3d district; es T. J. Mackey, 4th district, and W. J. Whip:,e per, 5th district. IS" ?Anderson Rinehart, colored, formerly as employed on King's Mountain Railroad, was convicted at Chester last week of stealing e" cotton and sentenced to one year in the penies tentiary. Subsequentlythe Governor comes muted the sentence to imprisonment in Chester county jail, and reduced the term to six months. es ?George E. Tupper, who killed Caldwell 'd in Columbia something more thau a year ago, W and was tried and convicted of manslaughter 5,1 and sentenced by Judge Carpenter to five 111 years 111 the Penitentiary, which was lmmeui"d ately commuted to a service for the same period in the county jail, was pardoned by s" Governor Moses on Thursday last. Je ? The trial of James Reid, one of the county s' commissioners of Chester, indicted by the ie grand jury of that county for breach of trust n" and grand larceny, has been postponed until s' the next term of the Couit. The case of kV" Madison Peudergrass, another of the corarais^ sioners, charged with embezzling county funds, RS was also continued until the next meeting of the Court. ?" ? The mandamus case to compel the State Treasurer to issue certificates of indebtedness as in accordance with the Act of the Legislature, s" came up before the Supreme Court on Thurs;(1 day last for a hearing. Owing to the illness vs of Attorney-General Melton, the Court ders cided to continue the case until the 15th inat stunt, when the return to the writ will be ,(1 heard, and the argument on the 19th. re ?In the United States District Court at Charleston, last week, in the case of the Blue /? > > Ridge Railroad Company, Daniel Horlbeck, ce Esq., the clerk of the court, was authorized c* to negotiate a loan of $35,119 at one and a s" half per cent, interest per month, to pay fees, costs, expenses, compensation and commissions =e of the assignees, trustees, attorneys, solicitors, P* petitioning creditors and officers of the court, ^ due up to May 30, 1874. e^r ? Rev. Thos. G. Herbert, presiding elder, writes to the Southern Christian Advocate as 'r follows : "Rev. J. H. C. McKinney, member of the South Carolina Conference, was called j before a committee of investigation, May 1, ie J 1S74, under a charge of gross immorality. er The charge was sustaiued, and he has been ar suspended from *11 the privileges of the e* church. After the investigation was over, te (though he bitterly denied the charge before c" I and duriug the investigation,) he sent me a vs | full written confession, accompaiued with his Je j credentials." n*! - 0- j A Great Change.?A great change is ly , evidently passing over the North. In advoof | eating that no distinction be made in decorator i ing with flowers the graves of Federal or . ! Confederate soldiers, as the anuual custom j now is, the Boston Advertiser pays a high c*! compliment to the bravery of the men who | fought for the South, and even goes so far as >n ; to admit that they fought "for a principle re j which they held dear, and for which they jg | were willing to sacrifice their lives." It delie sires that the animosities excited by the war should now cease, and calls upon the blue ; and the gray "to unite in paying common ls" honors to the heroic dead of both armies." ls* The Boston Globe, in lauguage still more comio plimcutary to the South, says : n- j "It is because of the bravery shown by our er < Southern brethren in the war that our victot0 : ries have such lustre, and it would be as unjq ; just to deny the siucerity of the great body of , ! our opponents as to impugn their courage. r They fought for what they believed to be the 3S*; right. * * * The people of this country, 1 North or South, cauuot afford to keep up the ,se spirit of antagonism or distrust which iuvid e.! ious distinctions in the decoration of the ,u_ graves of their soldiers would naturally exj cite. If we are to have a genuine Union? one of hearts as well as of hands?we must 'ie cultivate the amenities and perpetuate the ' lesson of the devotion illustrated on both sides of the great contest as the best means of inen suring the devotion to those great principles il-' of constitutional liberty which were there enI forced." | LOCAL AFFAIRS, j ; ? NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. , J. Van Lindley, Proprietor?Poinana Hill Nurseries, Greensboro, N. C. J. S. R. Thomson and T. S. Jefferys, Assignees? In Bankruptcy?Dividend Meeting?In the Matter of Jauies Mclilwee, Bankrupt. T. W. Chiwson, Deputy Messenger?In Bank- , ruptcy?Applications for Discharge ? In the Matter of (J. H. Mabry, J. G. Mabry, B. T. Wood, A. E. Smith, Jautes A. Barnwell, ; Bankrupts. J. E(l. Jetterys, Secretary?Mackey Chapter, No. 15, R.\ A.\ M.\ Loftin B. Sherer?Cattle and Sheep. 1 T. M. Dobson <t Co.?Halloo, Neighbor?Reduced > Prices?The House Fly?Now is the Time? For Sale?Do not Spit on the Floor?Nice Cottonades?Shoes?Lace Sacques?FursGroceries?Crockery?Bargains?The Place, i J. Van Lindley, Proprietor?Pontana Hill Nurseries, Greensboro, N. C. Dr. John May, Agent?The Yorkvillo Loan and Building Association is ready to lend Money j ; on Real Estate. John C. Kuykendal?Highland Remedy?White j Lead?Do Read This?Marsden'w Syrup? i Just Out?Stick a Pin Here. M\ .Strunss <fc Snn?Trunks?Jaconet Muslins? Cambric?Swiss Muslin?Lawn?Nainsook Muslin?Piques?Percales?I.allies' Dress (looils?Ribbons?Irish Linen. L. It. Sherer?Strayed. i TEACHER'S INSTITUTE. | Hon. J. K. Jillson, State Superintendent of Education, is expected in Yorkville to-day for ' the purpose of addressing the teachers, who have been requested by the County School j Commissioner to meet for the purpose of orj ganizing a Teachers' Institute. ! m THE WEATHER. i Since our last issue, we learn that rain has ; , fallen in various sections of the county, which ! has had the effect to give vegetation a start in 1 growth, and has been especially favorable to ; the oat crop, which, more than auy other, had i suffered from the excessive drought. Cotton | is not promising?being, this late in the season, ' but little more than out of the ground?and in this immediate vicinity is still suffering for want of rain. CANADIAN IMMIGRANTS. We received a call the other day from Dr. , j Cross, of Uttawa, Canada, who represents that i he is prospecting for a body of Canadian ira! migrants?men of means, who desire to locate in the South. Dr. Cross expresses himself as , well pleased with our soil and climate. From , our exchanges we learn that he has visited ; Raleigh, Charlotte and Chester, for the pur| pose of examining lands and ascertaining the ; inducements offered by the respective sections ! for immigration. PERILOUS FEAT. * j The feat of attaching a lightning rod to the steeple of the Presbyterian church in this place attracted quite a crowd to the spot on Thursday and Friday last. The ascension of the steeple was first made by George Philips, a , soldier of the garrison here and an old sailor, who reached the top of the spire, ft height of 150 feet, by means of spikes driven in the timbers of the structure, which served as steps. The rod was then put in place by Mr. Snider, the contractor, assisted by Mr-. Philips nnd John T. Grist. DEATH OF A CADET. Cadet David Perrin Anderson, of King's 1 Mountain Military School, died on Wed lies* i .i n l . . /? 1 _ . . . TI! _ ! 11 I day, me oci msianr, or aysemcry. xns winess was a very short one, commencing only the Saturday previous to the day of his death, ] and his general health up to that time had < been excellent. The remains were taken to ' Spartanburg, by his parents, attended by a i special guard of honor, consisting of Lieut, i Reynolds and Sergt. Tison, of the Corps of ] Cadets, and were there interred in the family < burying-ground. I Cadet Anderson was a young man of many i sterling qualities, both of mind and heart, i and his death leaves a painful void in the < large circle of friends aud kindred, who now deeply deplore his untimely end. He was in the nineteenth year of his age, And there < 1 u.r? i i:r? t...i seemeu neiure nun u lung me ui iiupj/iucco and usefulness. ' This sad event falls with peculiar weight 1 upon the officers and cadets of the School, as 1 it is the first death that has occurred in the 1 iustitution in many years ; and, indeed, it is the first instance in which a Cadet has died at 1 the School during the academic session. The health of the Cadets, during the present year, 1 has been remarkably good, there having been ^ but few cases of sickness, and these not of a ' serious nature. 1 I THE NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD. < The contractors for the grading and earthwork of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, are progressing rapidly and satisfactorily with the work. By a letter just " received from Dallas, we learn that Messrs. Hoffman & Co., who have contracted to ^ grade from that town to the Air-Line road, j have put on an adequate force, aud are workiug with a vim. The same letter informs us that much enthusiasm has been awakened in Gaston county since work has actually com- ^ I menced on the road. Besides the interest ^ taken by the whites, the colored people are alive to its importance. Several of them j have taken stock, and adayhas been appointed for all the men living contiguous to the 1 line, to contribute one day's work to Hoffman j <fc Cos contract. The grading which was coraraeuced at this point under the contract of ' i Messrs. Deal and Bonner is also going on * i rapidly, as is the con tract of Dr. Srnyre, which ( j with Hoffman & Go's contract, includes all * the line from this place to Dallas, N. C. We J may safely predict that the first ten miles of ( the grading from Yorkville will be completed ' and ready for the cross-ties by the first of * August, aud it is not unreasonable to suppose ] I that other sections of the line under contract 1 t will progress at the same rate. Mr. Frey, 1 i contractor for the bridging and trestle-work 1 I between this place and Dallas, is now work- ? I ing with a force at Allison creek, six miles j from town. | Dr. Davega, President, aud Edward Thorn- j? as, Superintendent of the road, have gone j ^ i North for the purpose of visiting shops and [ ! manufacturing establishments, with the view j s ; of effecting arrangements for procuring iron, jr ' ' 1 If x--l. Tt D..~? 11 locomotives ana roiling siuua. ?l ia iue x ica-1 i ident's earnest desire?and he will make eve-; * j ry effort to accomplish that end?to have the j11 ; trains running from Chester to the Air-Line 1 road by the first of January, 1875. * The county bonds iu aid of the road, which 1 i are acknowledged to be a safe investment, we 1 ! perceive, are selling, though, as yet, no effort * has been made to put them on the market outI side of the respective counties by which they r \ arc issued. The Chester Reporter of last week * ; says : jj "The treasurer of the Chester and Lenoir 11 Narrow Gauge Railroad Company sold, last: j | week, to one citizen, $1500 of Chester county J ^ bonds at eighty per centum of their face value.! f A short time previous he sold to auother par- { ty, at the same rate, six huudrcd dollars of { Chester county, and three hundred dollars of! York county bonds. The moneyed raenofjj this community are beginning to realize the , fact that these county bonds are a very safe ^ ; and remunerative investment." j x ! Tiie War on the Thieves.?The Grand j r , Jury of Clarendon County, "after due exam- j c iuation and strict investigation, have found : t official misconduct, habitual negligence, cor- j r ruption, fraud and malfeasance in office to (3 i have prevailed to such an extent on the part I r of the officials of that county," that they felt d constrained to present them. The three Com-: ti missioners are accordingly presented in sis ; ft counts for defrauding the County out of a sum ; tl of money aggregating ?7,476. Along with fc the Commissioners are presented Y. N. But- tl ler and J. T. L. Thames, on a charge of lar- t< ceny and fraud, for having bribed the Com- j 1 missioners to sigu warrants on the County ; p Treasury iu their favor, without having rendered any service whatever. The present A Commissioners and their predecessors are o both included iu the presentment. Their j if names are Moses M. Beubow, Titus Mellett, o W. P. McKnight and Syfax Melton. The ( a last named was a member of the last General j ft Assembly. j p The grand jury of Williamsburg county j S have presented William Scott, Robt. T. Scott j tl and Ambrose Tisdale, county commissioners, j tl for official misconduct in making contracts ! a with themselves and drawing drafts in favor tl of themselves, based on such contracts. They tl also present Phillip Heller, County Treasurer, j ii for paying out county funds without sufficieat j p orders, uud W. W. Ward, the Sheriff of the ; li county, for fraud and corruption in office, to ; ci wit: For perjury and for offering bribes to I C "certain executive and judicial officers with j w intent to influence their acts and decisions in ri the discharge of their official duties." editoriaiTinklixgs. The New Secretary of the Treasury. tl General Bristow was sworn into office c< as Secretary of the Tieasury on Thursday ft last, the oath of office being administered to him by Chief Justice Cartter of the Supreme b Court of the District of Columbia. Soon af- tc ter, Secretary Bristow went to the Treasury tl and entered upon the discharge of his official b duties. V, Secretary Bristow is a native of Kentucky, and when nominated for the position was re- ol siding in Louisville, where he began the w practice of the law at the close of the war, ci having previously been a resident of Hopkins- d ville. Soon after his removal to Louisville he was appointed district attorney for Ken- p tucky. A few years ago the President called d him to Washington to fill the position of So- b licitor General. He was the first incumbent a of this office, which was created by the law p under which the Attorney General's office te was reorganized as the Department of Justice. Towards the close of 1872 he resigned ft his office, for the purpose of accepting a very tl lucrative position connected with the South- d em Pacific railroad, which he yet holds. The S duties of this position required him to pass ft much of his time in Washington. The Pres- fe ident had been reluctant lo accept nis resigna- is tion, and on December 3, 1873, sent bis fo name to the Senate for the position of Attor- tl ney General, at the same time that Attorney h Genera! Williams was nominated for the chief e< justiceship. When it became necessary to w withdraw the latter nomination, because of T the opposition to its confirmation, Mr. Bris- m tow's name was also, on January 8th last, withdrawn. Mr. Bristow is regarded as a man of ability and integrity. The nomina- ^ tion of General Bristow is generally regarded as the best cabinet appointment yet made by President Grant. Hie Army Reduction Bill. The bill for reducing the array, which passed the House last week, makes a reduc* r? Lion in the army of five regiments of infantry, er r.f nr..... 1 ..it t\t\a r\f arfilloru Tho J 41C KJl UU ?OU J j uuu uiiv v? m* v??? v? j *mv ^ number of men is fixed at 25,000. Officers may resign with a year's pay. A board is ip provided to weed out incompetent and ineffi fient officers. The grade of regimental adju- ^ tant, quartermaster, and company wagoner w ire abolished. One major is abolished in each ^ regiment of cavalry and artillery. The aids nf General of the Array reduced from 6 to 3; Adjutant General's Department reduced from y( 16 to 7 permanent officers, with 8 detailed g jfficers. Inspector General's Department, reduced from 8 to 5, with privilege of 4 de- g tailed officers. .Bureau of Military Justice, reduced from 9 to 5. Quartermaster's Office, j, from 57 to 40, with a detail of 10 men addi- ^ tional. Subsistence Department, from 25 to 17, with a detail of 6 additional. Medical Department, increased in regular officers from 155 to 209. Contract surgeons, diminished ^ from 173 to 75. Pay Department, reduced from 47 to 34. Ordnance Department is re luced from 57 to 43, with 16 additional detailed officers. Provision is made for paying the array by drafts on the Treasurer. The Secretary of War can use his discretion to or- tr ler payments in currency, as heretofore, when- si jver it works a hardship. Officers are to be ^ ielected for details on staffs by a board to VI iubject appointments to a competitive ex- tj. iruination. They are to serve on the staff, ^ when detailed, four years, with an additional m four years in any other branch of staff, if P ietailed. ki The officers who have been detailed to do ^ luty as professors in colleges are hereafter w ;o be permitted to do that duty as upon 0f eave of absence. As vacancies occur no w! appointment shall be made until the num- es jer is reduced to the regular number, and re ifter that the promotions are to go on as va;ancies shall occur. The principal opposi ;ion to the bill was to that part of it which ^ provided for payments by draft; the reason g? jiven was, that soldiers would be shaved in lisposing of the drafts. The reason for put- R ;ing this provision in was founded upon ex- wi serience of payment made to the Pension N Office, by which sixty pension agents pay u' 238,000 pensioners four times a year, at an j^? ixpense to the Government of $470,000, while it takes forty-six paymasters to pay fsi 20,000 troops six times a year, assisted by as p? nany clerks, at an expense of $350,000. The 111 )ayment of pensioners costing Jess tlian 82 J^. i head; the payment of soldiers and officers 1 :ost over 812 a Jiead. The bill, us reported )y the committee, was passed without a single co imendment. if Hie Flood la the South-West. H Hon. Henry G. Crowell, of Boston, sa vho recently vistcd New Orleans as a com- f nissioner for the purpose of astertaiuiug what an lse was being made of the fund contributed H >y the citizens of Boston, and what further be issistance, if any, was necessary to alleviate ot' he necessities of the sufferers, has returned ^ lome and made a report of his observations. cq ^fter describing in terms of high praise the a nethod adopted for the distribution of the uude, Mr Crowell says : The inundation, calamity iu extent aDd na uiuous consequence,is one of the greatest that; tic las occurred from tire, storm, or Hood on this , th joutinent during the current century. To sat-: ioi sfy myself of the nature of the great inunda- an ion I went, to Brashears, eighty miles west of; ev ^ew Orleans, the last twenty-three miles ' ne hrough an unbroken Hood, varying in depth R< rom three to six feet, which pours from dis-' an ant crevasses on the Mississippi, and devas- is ates an immense region. ex I also went up the Mississippi about two th lundred miles to Port Hudson, in order to th vitness the passage of the vast volume of be vater rushing through several crevasses, an rarving in width from 500 to 1,000 feet, and He u depth from 7 to 12 feet, roaring like a cata- su act, having swept away every obstacle iu its th :ourse until it spread itself like a vast fan over pr he neighboring country. What I saw gave it ne a realizing sense of the magnitude and i de lestructiveness of the great flood, and of the In easons why the suffering, destitution, and ' D( anger caused by it continued for so long a me. It is estimated by persons who are imiliar with previous floods in that State jat from four to six weeks must elapse be>re the water will subside sufficiently from le larger portions of the overflowed district ) enable the people to plant, and from 90 to 20 days must expire before they can raise roduce enough to sustain life. Unless the further aid appealed for by the layorof New Orleans is afforded there must f necessity be a terrible amount of suffering, not starvation. I regret that the people f the more wealthy and prosperous cities nd towns, churches and associations of the forth have not better knowledge of the imoverished condition of that portion of the outh, and the great danger and suffering of ? * nffllnfnd nnnnlo fnp T am rnllfiHflllt if 12&b ailiibl^U AV4 A VVMMWVM* iey did they would at once send to them bundant aid. From the great relief which le large donation of the citizens has given le sufferers, aud their prompt action, it has, 1 my opinion, done more to conciliate the oposition of the South thau anything which as transpired since the. war. Praises of our itizeus are upon every lip, not only in New rleans, but in various cities and towns at hich I stopped ou my way out and on my 3turn. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Charlotte Observer is informed that le raining property at Gold Hill, in Rowan Dunty, has been sold to a northern company >r the sum of 8800,000. ? The town of Winston came near being urnt last week. A practical joker satura:d a dog with kerosene and set it on fire, and ic dog communicated the flame to several uildings. An excited multitude hunted in aiu for the author of the outrage. ? In the case contested by the liquor dealers f Raleigh, claiming that the recent election hich decided in favor of prohibition in the ity was illegally held, Judge Watts has renered his decision, continuing the injunction, hich is a victory for the liquor dealers. The rohibitionists have taken an appeal from his ecision, and another hearing of the case is to e had. The liquor sellers are safe for several tonths at least, wfth a prospect of a peretual continuance of their business uumoles;d. ? The Durham Tobacco Plant is responsible >r the following: "Mary Baldwin, who lives iree miles from Durham, gave birth, a few ays since, to twins that rival the celebrated iamese. The children were fully developed i every part, bodies, arras, hands, legs and ;et, except there was only one head, but two ices with fully developed features, the head, earing a face on either side. One was dead le other living, when born. It is thought ad it not been for a fright the mother receiv^ ? Vv2.il. i iU/\ aUM/] M/\n J, cuusiug pieuiatuic uiiiu, mat mc uiiiuicu ould have lived and perhaps been raised, his is one of the most remarkable freaks of ature, ever known." NEWS oVTHE DAY." ? The House committee on appropriations as, by a vote of six to five, rejected the propiition to make an appropriation for the paytent of southern mail contractors for arrearjes due at the commencement of the war. ? A riot occurred last Friday, in Pulaski >unty, Kentucky, between citizens and railed men?the result, as is stated, of a drunk1 quarrel. One man was shot and killed by le local Methodi0' preacher. ? Mr. Sawyer, assistant Secretary of the reasury under Richardson, tendered his Testation upon the nomination of Mr. Bristow i be Richardson's successor. Mr. Sawyer ill be remembered as a former Senator in le U. S. Congress from South CoroKoa. ? Affairs in Arkansas remain quiet. The jecial committee raised by Congress to inestigate the political complications of the tate, have agreed to meet for that purpose i Little Rock, though no time has yet been sed for meeting. ? Senator Carpenter occupies the chair of le president of the Senate, pro tem, which ice-President Wilson has been compelled > vacate on account of ill health. The imression is general that the Vice-President ill never again he able to preside over the jliberations of the Senate. Correspondence of the News and Courier. FROM NEW YORK. New York, May 30. The signs of the reaction against the exeme Radical policy which has prevailed nee the war are very abundant on all sides, he revolution in Connecticut and the ection of a "Copperhead" of the most adinced school to represent New England in le Senate, the opposition of several Repubcan senators to the passage of the suppleental civil rights bill, the decision of the resident against his political friends in Aransas, the passage in the House by a large ajority of the bill excluding jurors in the nited States Courts who cannot read and rite the English language, are all examples 'this general tendency to undo the follies hich have grown out of the unlimited power :ercised by the Republican party. But the cent editorial articles in the new york times, i the political situation, are the most marked atures of this changing public sentiment, ver since the Tribune ceased to be the orin of the Republican party, the Times has sen the vehicle of all that was most rabid in adicalism aud exacting and merciless toard the South. Flushed with the victory of overaber 1872, the Times would never have tered such sounds as it has during the ist week. It has actually patted Senator ofnn on the haolt. and declared that his ate rightsism (which borders on seceasionm) cannot be put down with howls of "Copirhead," "Bourbon," but if answered at all ust be by argument. It goes still further; questions the wisdom of the civil rights 11. It thinks that negro social equality is pugnant to the white people of the North, id that if it should be decreed by law it uld never be enforced. A few years ago, these sentiments had been avowed by a emocratic paper, the Times would have as* " * ? i - ?i *. i A ilea it nerceiy. mat it avows tnera ltsen iw is an unerring indication that the flood Radical ideas has reached its highest point id is receding. How far it will recede eaven only knows. But when a reaction gins it sometimes carries the world to the ber extreme. Dr. Van Evrie, the editor of e Day Book, is a firm believer that the iuth will return to its social and political ndition of before the war. He holds, with good deal of vehemence, that as soon as the artheru Radical pressure is taken off THE NEGRO WILL FALL BACK turally into his old relation of subordina>n to the superior race. The carpet-bag ieves, no longer protected by force of opiua in the North, will take their flight from long the people they have plundered, and ... il. XT .L .I -f iL. uu ai me norm me ueieuuera 01 iue unitary and violence which have characterized spublican rule will be extremely unpopular id iu danger of the lamp-post. The doctor an extreme man, and is inclined to take an treme view of things, and his predictions, erefore, will fall short of realization; i it at the Republican party is on the eve of iug swept out of power is not improbable, d that the South will resume its former intence in the Union will naturally follow ch an event. The opposition developing in e North to the civil rights bill is likely to event its passage by the House, but if is passed, and is not vetoed by the Presint, it will be repealed by the next Congress. view of the improved prospects of the smocracy, there is some pipe-laying going