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Jtoaps and .facts. h Recent excavations at Ephesus have | * disclosed nearly the whole of the famous tem-;* pie of Diana. 8 Gov. Baxter, of .Arkansas, has refused . * to sign the amnesty act passed by the Legisla- J ture, and arrests for treason continue. ; The wheat crop of Virginia, now being ' ^ harvested, has had no equal in quantity since the war. " A young Georgia lady, who had been a ( great sunerer trora white swelling, recently coughed up part of one of her ribs. If there is one time more than another when a woman should be entirely alone, it is when a line full of clothes comes down in the mud. A Macon deputy-sheriff was sent out to bring Tom Collins into court, and after a day's search was the only man who couldn't appreciate the joke. It is estimated that the loss to crops in the State of Mississippi, on account of the ravages of stock running at large, is not less ] than five million dollars. Mrs. Bread, of Sullivan county, 111., " has verified the scriptural injunction, "Cast 0 your bread upon the waters," &c. She cast c her husband (Bread) into a mill pond, but ? he came back unsubdued and crusty. The Republican voters of the seven- a teenth civil district of Knox County, Tenn., [' last week, by a vote of seventy to five, sustained t the position of Senator Brownlow on the Civil Rights Bill. j ~ John Bright, the well-known member of e Parliament, said in a recent speech upon temperance, that he thought the success of the v cause depended upon puplic opinion, rather ; than on the passage of prohibitory laws. The democratic victory in Oregon grows more decisive and significant as the returns come in, and now, from all that can be gathered, the entire Democratic State and c r^an/?i?oo??ianol inlrof 10 ol n/if rt/i 1 *tt aha** an a t. VUlJglCOOiUllrti bltlVCb 10 CltV.lCU UJ UlOi uuv thousand majority. t Five children at a birth ! This was c successfully accomplished recently by Mrs. J. \ Wiuthrope, of Howard City, Michigan. Three e of the youngest are intended to wear pants, and two of them petticoats. "Great Heaveu!" exclaimed the father, on viewing this addition J to his family, "and business so dull." i General Butler's bill, which provides J that every female citizen of the United States, ( otherwise found duly qualified, shall be ad- c mitted to practice as attorney and counselor ( at law in the several Courts of the United j States, passed, to be engrossed, in the House } of Representative, on Mondays last, by a vote J of 95 to 66. Louisiana is afflicted beyond all prece- v dent. Drought is visiting those portions of a the State that are out of the reach of the i floods. So that the country presents the pain- y ful anomaly of being dried up where it has not been drowned out. It is evident that the demand for aid is most imperative and heartrending. > Seuator Brownlow, of Tennessee, has j kill L writieii usctuiiu icuci uu uieuivu jLviguio uhi, in which he reiterates the objections to it which z he meutioned in his former letter to the Col- * ored Men's Convention. He calls the sec- o tiou providing for mixed schools "an opressive s and abominable usurpation." a Among the items of the contingent ac- 0 count of the Department of Justice, are oue j, copy each of the poetical works of Burns, Moore, Scott, Milton, Byron, Hope, Tenuyson, Whittier, Longfellow, Browning, Lowell and v Bryant. The Tribune argues that these a purchases indicate a purpose to make it the 2 department of poetic justice. g The Teunessee lawyer who resorted to n the insanity dodge in behalf of his negro cli- j ent, and expatiated at some length upon the absolute idiocy of the poor fellow, met with some opposition from the darkey himself, who f exclaimed ; "You can hang me, or send me c to the penitenchry, or say I'se a rascal, but h Mister, please don't say I'se a fool again." c We have the New York Sun's assur- r ance that "no French or English woman of ti cultivation, now-a-days, wears her garters be- y low her knees. The principal vein of the leg sinks there beneath the muscle, and varicose veins, cold feet and even palpitation of 11 the heart may be brought on by a tight gar- o ter in the wrong place. When it is fastened w above the knee, all this pain and deformity e mnv he avoidedc. A Macon negro philosopher, discussing j? the relations of the races, said : "You know ? de turkey, he roost on de fence, and de goose he roost on de ground. You pull de turkey ? off de fence, and he will git up again. You crop his wings, but somehow or nudder, he's il gwine to get back on de fence. Now, you s put de goose on de fence, an he will fall off; t he don't belong dar. De turkey am de white man ; he's down now, but is gwine to get up again. De nigger is de goose; he better stay ^ whar he belongs." c A very good story is circulating in Washington at the expense of Mr. Morrill, of 0 Maine. It seems that the Senator was out for c a walk Sunday evening. In passing a lead- g ing colored church, he was so pleased with ^ the singiug that he went in. He had been seated but a few minutes, when a colored dignitary approached him, and said in substance that the church was for colored people, and c they preferred to be left undisturbed by i 1 white people during their services. Mr. Mor- a rill immediately retired. A few days before, t he had been earnestly working for the passage of the Civil Rights Bill. ' As an illustration of the admirable organization of the English post-office, a corres- 1 pondent writes to the London Times saying f that, with a view to test the powers of the l post-office clerks, he wrote a post card to a i r friend, and wrote both the contents and r address in short hand. Within three hours of posting, the gentleman to whom it was addressed received the card, the address hav- 1 ing been translated in red ink. Another 1 time he wrote a letter, and, after having sealed s the envelope, addressed it in short-hand to t himself. By return of post he received his t letter in perfect safety, the envelope had not been opened, and more still, there was no mark of any kind on the envelope except the 1 usual post-mark and the short-hand writing. 11 This involved, of course, a kuowledge of short- t hand not only by the sorting clerks, but also ' r by the letter-carrier. | c At the ceremony of presenting diplomas ! 7 to the successful cadets of the Naval Acade-! my, on the 30th of last month, Rev. Mr.; Kown, one of the Board of Visitors, delivered 1 sin address which made quite asensatiou, and ; ? is one of the many signs of the times demon-' ? strative of amazing changes in public opinion ! ] at the North. After complimenting Adrai-1 < rals Porter and Worden, as shining exaraplers . for the naval cadet, Mr. Kown, in the pres- j \ ence of a most brilliant assemblage, declared 1 he should be untrue to every soldierly and Christian instinct if he did not pause to hon-! or the memory of a brave and daring oppo-! nent, of the Confederate navy, the lately de- j < ceased Captain Franklin Buchanan, a native ? of Maryland, who founded the United States ! j Naval Academy, in 1845, and who com- j manded the Confederate ram Merriraac in the action with the United States monitor, ( commanded by Rear-Admiral Worden." I Mormonism has received a severe blow ( in the passage of the House bill relating to c Utah affairs. This bill is simply an attempt: i to exclude Mormons or polygamistsfrom juries i j; and from all administration of civil or criminal law in the Territory of Utah. Heretofore it has been impossible to procure convictions f for the alleged crime of polygamy in Utah, 1 so long as men who practiced it were in the 1 jury-box. The statute against a plurality of i wives has been inoperative. The bill which j passed the House last Tuesday by a vote of j one hundred and fifty-five to fifty-nine is a bold stroke at the whole system. It virtually denudes the Mormon of several of the chief y rights of citizenship. It is a heroic remedy ( for an obstinate disease. The Mormon dele- c rxte made an earnest plea against what he 'onsidered an act of Congressional tyranny. Hie bill now goes to the Senate, where it is hought to have a clear majority in its favor; ind it is well known that the President desires tn opportanity to sign it. The Mormons hope hey will be able to annul the force of the law vhich is now preparing for them ; they believe hey can establish its unconstitutionality to he satisfaction of the United States Supreme ^ourt. ?he ?0*Mle (Shtquitrr. 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Having determined to devote more attenion hereafter to job printing than we have lone in the past, we would inform the public hat our office is now well supplied with new ype of the latest styles, and the best maihinery in use; and with a choice stock of nks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to ixecute as good work as can be done anyvhere in the United States. Orders for Sail Tickets, j Freight Billheads, tank Notices, Labels, tonds and Coupons, 1 Law Blanks, till Heads, Law Briefs, -tikoncqs ChtiIs. Letter Circulars. Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, 'Memorandum Billheads Checks, Note Circulars, )eposit Tickets, Note Headings, drafts and Notes, Programmes, Envelopes, Policies, FireJir Life Ins., election Tickets, 'Shin pi asters, festival Tickets, i Wedding Cards, vill receive prompt attention, and satisfaction is to quality of work, guaranteed in every nstance. Particular attention given to fine vork in colors. WHY IS ITi When southern men visit the North or ^orth-West, they are ravished with thegranleur of the scenery?not so much with the latural, as with the artificial. The southern armer, who has been accustomed to a little me-horse town, with a few family grocery tores, three or four dry goods establishments, i drug'store, a barber shop, and a printing tffice, every thirty miles, is struck with aston shment, when he sees, within only a few niles of each other, thriving towns. Either ye have been deceiving ourselves, or we have i better country, naturally, than either the sTorth and North-West sections of the United itates. As a farming country, ours is, in oany respects, superior to any section in America. It is admitted that our lands are lot so rich as many other sections, but we tossess other advantages which more than ounterbalance this. Our climate and our atitude make our country the rival of the elebrated Vale of Cashmere. Here we can aise corn, wheat, rye, oats, barley, peas, potaaes, beans, together with hay and stock. Ve can raise everything that can be raised iu ither the North or North-West, and a great jany things that cannot be raised ia either f these sections. Our country is, on the rhole, better watered and more healthy than ither the North or North-West. These are icts?stubborn, incontrovertible facts. Why > it that this favored country is so far behind hose sections less favored ? Many reasons i t itr, i i.i. _ i x ^4. an De assigneu. we nave uie ieusu eueigeti population on which the sun shines, unless t be some barbarous tribes. To prove this tatement, the fact may be raeutioned that in he North-West, a hand will work forty acres a corn, together with a garden and potato iatch, which often contains five acres. The orn will yield from forty to sixty bushels o the acre. Just think, for one moment, of ne hand making two thousand bushels of orn. How long would it take an ordinary iouth Carolina hand to gather two thousand aishels of corn ? Experience and observaion both respond?at least six months. Another reason that may be assigned for iur being behiud, is, we are notoriously thriftess. Laziness and prodigality go together ;s mother and daughter. Of the whole popilation of the South, not more than one-fourth iretend to work regularly, and of this oneourth not more than one-half work hard. Hie country is supported by the labor of a few. The majority spend their time in idleless and prodigality. Very little effort is nade to effect anything that will be permalent in its character. Fences are built as nere temporary enclosures ; houses are erected or the purpose of affording a shelter for a ew years only. The value of land, only in orae few localities, has not increased a farhing during the last fifty years. In fact, on he whole, it has decreased. This is not the :ase in the North and North-West. The >rice of land in those sections are fabulously ligh. If the intrinsic value of the lands in he different sections be estimated by the noney value of the products, one acre in the south is worth, on an average, two at the *sorth or North-West. We venture the assertion that if the popuation of the South was taken to the North, md the population of the North brought j south, ihe South would soon be what the j North is, aud the North what the South is. j This may be a humiliating declaration, but if j t will arouse a spirit of emulation, our object! s accomplished. j PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 9th. the committee of. jonference on the army appropriation bill, ! lubmitted their report, which was concurred ' n. Mr. C'onkliug presented a memorial of! Sew York publishers praying that the rate | )f postage on newspapers be fixed at one cent )er pound, and on other printed matter at two :ents per pound. Mr. Hitchcock, from the :ommittee on Territories, reported the House )ill for the admission of New Mexico as a state. In the House, after the introduction >f a few unimportant bills, and the reception >f minority and majority reports in regard to lie printing of the Congressional Record, the Louisiana election case was taken up, and ifter debate, the majority report of the comnit'.ee, which declares that the evidence before them is not sufficient to entitle either jom sstant (Pinchback or Sheridan) to a seat, vas v'.dopted. Mr. Robinson, of Illinois, adIressei the House upon the general situation if the country,"charging the large increase of' debt, public and private; the deplorable con- i dition of the South, the overpowering iuflu- j ence of monopolies, and the depression of j every industrial interest upon the manage-1 ment of the Republican party. He attacked : the financial policy of the party and the national banking system as altogether in the interest of capital and against labor, and said, ' with exemption from all kinds of taxation, ' this nation was paying a higher rate of inter- j est than any civilized nation on the face of i the globe. He advocated the retirement of the natioual bank notes, and the substitution | of four hundred millions of greenbacks in their stead, thus effecting au annual saving of j over twenty millions. lie denounced the protective policy of the Republican party, and j asserted that it exacted a four-fold higher: rate than free trade and direct taxation would j demand, and imposed it in undue proportion upon the laboring classes. Rapier, colored, of Alabama, addressed the House on the -:-:i -:-u. i.:ii ur :.i ClVU-riglllS UUK ill' Mliu tuc UlllJ U1I|MIUVIIable sin in this land seemed to be that men were colored. All that he and his race demanded was equal rights with white men. Of these, he contended, they were now denied by ! State authority, in spite of the thirteenth and j fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States. In the course of his remarks he alluded to Mr. Stephens, of Geor-1 gia, as a Rip Van Winkle who had not yet learned the issues of the war. After alluding to the course of Mr. Stephens and others with regard to the negro, he said nothing but a full recognition of his manhood would ever satisfy him. He had no compromises to make on this subject. .Either he was a man or not a man. If a man, he was entitled to all the privileges that attached to manhood. If not a man, he was not entitled to a vote, and had no right to represent any constituency on this floor. He had respect for certain prejudices as expressed by white men toward the negro on the subject of civil rights. Ransier, of South Carolina, followed. Alluding to the remarks of Mr. Lamar, made the day before, that the colored men had all their rights, he denied it, and asked for the passage of the civil rights bill at the hands of Gen. Grant ftnd the Renubliean nartv. He also disputed k- . K V * the statement made that intelligent colored people did not want the civil rights bill, and when Mr. Butler, of Tennessee, made that assertion he misrepresented his constituents. In the Senate, on the 10th, a resolution to pay Sykes, defeated contestant from Alabama, the salary of a Senator for nearly a year, was taken up and discussed at length, and finally went over. In the House, a large number of bills were reported adversely upon, and referred to the committee of the whole. The bill in relation to the abatement and repayment of taxes on distilled spirits in bond, destroyed by casualty, was passed. The conference committee's report on the army appropriation bill was concurred in. In the Senate, on the 11th, the House bill to admit free of duty articles intended for the International Exhibition of 1876, was passed. The proposition to pay Sykes, the late con testing Senator from Alabama, was again discussed. The conference report on the currency bill was called up and discussed at length, but without action. In the House, Mr. Donnan made a personal explanation in refutation of certain charges made against the public printer. Senate amendments to a large number of House pension and relief bills were concurred in. The House then went into committee of the whole on the sundry civil appropriation bill. In the Senate, on the 12th, a number of bills and memorials were presented, when i the unfinished business, being the conference report on the currency bill, was taken up, and i after remarks had been made by various members, the report of the committee was adopted by a vote of 32 to 23. Mr. Ramsay, from the committee on post-offices, reported a bill amendatory of the act to revise, consolidate and amend the statutes of the United , States relating to the post-office department fixing and prescribing the method for adjusting the salaries of post-masters. The postoffice appropriation bill was next called up, when the Senate went into executive session ' 1 T .1 TT C TT _ 1 _ I and then adjourned, in the House, ^ur. naie, from the committee on appropriations, reported a bill appropriating $500,000 for the relief of the sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi river and its tributaries, which passed. The remainder of the session was devoted to discussing civil service reform, and the civil service appropriation bill. In the Senate, on the 13th, a large number ' of bills, mostly of a private nature, were passed, and in consequence of a message from 1 the House, announcing its disagreement to the conference report on the currency bill, a new committee of conference was ordered. In the House, on motion of Mr. Dawes, similar action was taken respecting the currency conference committee, and by a vote of 195 to 48, a new committee was ordered from that ; body. The House then resolved itself into committee of the whole and resumed consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill. In the Senate, on the 15th, the judiciary committee reported a substitute for the House bill regulating the removal of causes from State Courts to the Circuit Courts of the : United States. The provisions of the bill elicited a lengthy debate, when after several amendments had been agreed to, it was passed. In the House, the sundry civil appropriation bill was passed. An amendment to the bill abolishes the civil service commissions, and requires the heads of executive departments to make appointments on the ground of honesty, efficiency and fidelity, and ; to apportion them among the several Con- j gressional districts, preference to be given to j soldiers and sailors and their female relatives. j SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Cotton blooms have appeared in Orange- j burg county. ? Corn is selling at one dollar and forty ? o ------- ? cents per bushel in Sumter. ? Six indictments have been found against the County Commissioners of Edgefield. ? James L. Orr, son of the late ex-Gover-' nor Orr, is nominated as a candidate for the \ Legislature from Anderson county. ? The Governor has removed B. F. Bates : as a trial justice for Spartanburg, and appointed W. B. Steadman in his stead. ? It is rumored in Columbia that the Legis- i lature will be convened in extra session at an early day. ? Twenty-four young ladies will graduate [ at the Columbia Female College the present session. j ? The ladies of Marion have organized a calico club, the members of which arc pledged to wear nothing but calico dresses. ? There are but three persons in jail at Camden, and the county is so completely plundered that they are kept on half rations of bread. ? The Reporter says that the prisoners confined in Chester jail are on the eve of being ! turned loose for the want of money to provide for their support. i! ? The Union-Herald says that in a recent ; interview with a reporter of the New York Times, Moses distinctly and emphatically declared he would be a candidate for the nomination of Governor at the next convention. ? On Tuesday of last week, J. H. Quash, colored, the clerk of the court for Aiken county, was arrested on the charge of being a defaulter as post-master at Aiken, while in charge of the office two years ago. ? The Southern Home learns that on the 11th instant, the dwelling-house of Ira Hardin, at Black's Station, on the Air-Line Kailroad, was fired by an incendiary and burned to the ground. ? Governor Moses has pardoned Ciesar Cove, one of the thieving County Commissioners of Barnwell, recently sentenced to the penitentiary. Cove remained in the penitentiary but one week. ? The grand jury of Georgetown county, consisting of fifteen colored and three white men, have presented the County Commissioners of that county for irregularities, malfeasance and defalcation in office, which is set m f/m r]iffnwnnf r? r-\ nn Ifio.ihnna Tlio 1U1 III 111 UCtl UlUtltllt C|)ttlllVii?bivug, JI uv clerk of the court was presented for irregularities in his office, and as being utterly unfit and incompetent to discharge the duties of the office. ? Judge Mackey, having been informed that ex-Treasurer Smith, of Fairfield, who was sentenced to jail for one year, on account of official misconduct, had been granted unusual license by Sheriff Duvall, has ordered that all privileges beyond the usual jail regulations, be at once suspended; and that the Sheriff show cause at the next term of the Court of General Sessions, why he should not be indicted for the illegal license alleged to have been granted. ? Judge Graham'Lhas filed his decision upon the question whether Governor Moses is subject to indictment and trial by ordering a criminal process previous to impeachment by the Legislature. He holds that the action of Moses, as charged in the indictment, was in truth an official action. If it was misconduct or a crime, it was still official misconduct, or a crime committed by him as Governor. It is, therefore, ordered, that the indictment for larceny as to Franklin J. Moses, Jr., be quashed, and the case as to him be stricken from the docket. ? The Columbia Union-Herald is responsible for the following: "The friends of Mr. Walter Jones, the young, handsome and ac complished financier and uity .treasurer, win be pleased to learn that he has succeeded in negotiating the purchase of Mr. B. F. Jackson's elegant trotting buggy. Mr. Jones is ouly one month in office, and enterprise and success like his should be encouraged by all rae .ns. Of course the tax-payers will grumble; but who cares about tax-payers? If they feel aggrieved, let them convene and memorialize. Above all things, the carriage business should not be allowed to languish, nor treasurers allowed to walk?except it be into the affections of a grateful constituency." ? The city registrar of Charleston furnishes the latest evidence of the decadence of the race for which Congress would jeopardize the liberties of the white people and the peace of the country. He shows that the rate of mortality among the colored population is twice as great as t-moung white inhabitants. The number of deaths in that city from May 1, 1873, to May 1, 1874, was 1,555. The population of Charleston is some 50,000, of whom about 24,000 are whites and 26,000 are blacks. The deaths among the whites were 485 in number, and among the blacks 1,070. This gives a mortality rate of a little over two per cent, for the white, and more than four and one-tenth per cent, for the colored population. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? North Civrolina ranks third among the manufacturing States of the South. ? A special terra of the United States District Court, Judge Dick to preside, will be hekfat Hendersonville in August. ? It is contemplated, at an early day, to place on the N. C. Railroad a daily train to run from Raleigh to Salem, leaving Raleigh in the morning and returning in the evening. ? The Democratic Congressional Convention of the Salisbury district have nominated Maj. Wra. M. Robbius, the present incum /? *1 1 J ? - A _ A. bent, tor reelection irorn tnat aistricc. ? The Southern Home says that on the 7th instant, a son of Mr. Norwood, of Castanea, Lincoln county, was handling a pistol, when it weut off, instantly killing his sister, Mrs. Cole. ? David Martin, a twelve-year-old boy, convicted of murder and who was to have been hanged in Wilmington to-morrow, has been respited by Governor Caldwell until the 20th of August. ? Ou Tuesday of last week, a lad named Wra. Newman> about twelve years of age, living in Lenoir county, attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. He inflicted a severe wound, which may prove fatal. ? Virinr C Rarriimer has been desienat ed by the United States authorities and confirmed by the Khedive of Egypt, as the Judge on behalf of this Goveranment under the new style of courts to be established in Egypt, which exempts from jurisdiction of the local tribunals all cases arising among Christians of different nationalities residing in the Ottoman dominions. ? The Republican Congressional Conven-1 tion for the fourth, or Raleigh district, nomi- I nated J. H. Headen, of Chatham. Major Win. A. Smith, the present representative, did not have a showing in the convention. J His vote against the civil rights bill is thought to have killed him with his party. Joseph J. 1 Davis, of Franklin, is the Democratic candidate in the same district. ? The Raleigh Sentinel gives the following as the origin of a civil rights suit now pending in the Federal Court at Raleigh : A. J. J. Hamilton, negro, has sued the Cape 1 <-, on^ .bear ana treopies otearn nuai v^uujyaujr, laid his damages at ten thousand dollars. The suit is in the Federal Court. His negroship was located between the water closet and the ladies' cabin, and was requested to move; fiually the captain of the boat ordered him. lie obeyed the order and now brings his suit for $10,000 damages. No man, white or black, we are told, was allowed to occupy the j position the negro claimed. - ? NEWS OF THE DAY. ? A severe thunder storm passed over: New York city, Tuesday night of last week, extending as far as Patterson, New Jersey. In New York several persons were struck, aud in Patterson a number of houses were injured, i ? A negro, who after escaping from the jail at Culpeper C. H., Virginia, murdered a young farmer for his clothes and a few dollars in cash, was hanged last Friday, in the presence of a large crowd, most of whom were of his own color. ? At the annual meeting of the Alumni Association of West Point Military Academy,! last week, a resolution was adopted, inviting all graduates of the academy, both North and South, to join in the anniversary dinner next year. ? A dispatch from Prescott, Arizona, states that on 21st of May Lieutenant King's command attacked a band of Apache Indians camped on Mesa river, near Diamond Butte, and killed nine of them, and that eighty-four Apaches, with three chiefs, had surrendered I at Camp Verde. ? In Salt Lake City, on the 11th, a Uuit- j ed States soldier, from Camp Douglas, was 1 arrested for disorderly conduct. General [ I Morrow demanded the surrender of the sol- i dier to be tried by the military authorities. . The surrender was refused, when by order of Gen. Morrow, a captain with a detachment of; cavalry, broke open the jail and released the , mnn ujtin ia in ennfinprriAnt at. t.hp. military ! post. It is stated that the action of Gen. ! Morrow meets the approval of the Judge AdJ vocate General of the Army, and also of the j Secretary of War. | EDITORIAL INKLINGS. | The Cotton Crop. j The Statistician of the Department of | Agriculture publishes a report of the cotton ! crop, from which it appears that the total j acreage in the several cotton-growing States ' is ten per cent, less than the area planted last | year. The condition of the crop is represented by the following figures, 100 being a normal or fair condition : North Carolina, 89; South Carolina, 81; Georgia, 80; Florida, 90; Alabama, 82; Mississippi, 78 ; Louisiana, 70; Texas, 90; Arkansas, 90; Tennessee, 85. The report of the c( .idition in June, 1873, is more favorable in evjry State, except North Carolina and Texas, the record stauding as follows: North Carolina, 85 ; South Carolina, 88 ; Georgia, 94; Florida, 102 ; Alabama, 93; Mississippi, 92; Louisiana, 94; Texas, 86; Arkansas, 92; Tennessee, 90. The season has been remarkable for heavy and frequent rains during the month of April throughout the cotton States. In some sectious the aggregate rain fall reported exceeds sixteen inches. In the more Southern belt, re-planting was general, both on bottoms an uplauds. From the first week in May to its close, the drought was almost universal. The stand is, at present, very sorry, many plants not having made their appearance on the first of June. With favorable weather, rapid improvement is certain, and a fair comparison with July quite probable at next report. Excitement in Petersburg. The municipal government of Petersburg, Va., has been under Republican control ever since the close of the war, until the recent election, when the Democrats were successful. It does not appear, from any statement we have seen that the new government " * 1 P of the city is oppressive to any ciass or citizens, or that life and property are endangered by the new order of things ; yet for the protection of certain United States officials, whose lives are alleged to be in danger, Representatives Piatt and Stowall called on the President last Friday, and requested that troops be forwarded to the city immediately. On hearing this the remainder of the Virgiuia delegation, with the exception of Thomas, united in a request to the President that he would not order soldiers to Petersburg, as they believed under the marshal and district attorney, the laws of the country would be enforced, and if any one had committed an offense he would be punished. Ordering soldiers there at this time, they said, would injure their State and do no earthly good to any one. The President declined to interfere in the matter. Subsequently Judge Harris called on the President to protest, in the name of the people, against military interference in Virginia, and to assure him that as good order prevailed in Petersburg as any city in the Union. The President was absent, and the Judge proceeded to the Attorney-General's office, where he received assurances that troops would not be sent to Virginia. The Atorney-General also | addressed the following telegram to the United I States Marshal at Petersburg: You are instructed to take the necessary steps to protect the property of the United States from injury, and the officers of the Government in Petersburg from any violent inteference with them in the performance of their official duty; and to that end, if you think proper, you may summon a posse of the citizens to aid you; but if these men are found inadequate for the purpose, you will be furnished, upon a call by you upon me, with troops from Fortress Monroe. It is desirable not to use troops, if possible. War Clond In Europe. In France, political affairs are approachJ ing a crisis. It seems to be a demonstrated fact that a republic cannot be established in that country. The factions of the Corps Legislatiff are distinguished by the appellations of the Right Centre and the Left Centre. The Left Centre is made up of Republicans who like their house, but do not want always to ride on the peak ; they desire a good government and care comparatively little for the Republican "idea" and doctrinaire fancies. The Right Centre are Monarchists who do not believe in divine right, nor in any particular man, but prefer the notion of a permanent i executive to that of an elective one, and be I lieve that some men are better than others. All hopes of a combination of the two parties, | or of even the conservative element of the two, are crushed by the recent action cf the Deputies of the Left Centre, who have declared for a definite republic, which, of course, the other side will not accept. As a consequence, Paris is in a tumultuous condition and several riots have occurred, which are alleged to have been precipitated by the Bonapartists in order to bring about a dissolution of the Assembly, which would give the Bonapart faction an opportunity to appeal to the country through a plebiscite, or direct vote of the people. Regarding the prospect of a general war throughout Europe a recent issue of the LonI don Times contains the following significant article: | "Affairs have come to such a pass that the burden of raaintainiug the armies which all * r* . 1 the nations have prepared ror me commg war is too great long to be endured. But still -i the armies are constantly increased. The process of turning citizens into soldiers, i goes on all over Europe without any apparent limit. The German army is more than | half as large again as it was fifteen years ! ago, but still is not large enough to suit Bis-1; raarck and Moltke. France, Austria, Italy, | Russia, Belgium, aud Sweden is each follow- { ing Germany's example, and are increasing : their armies. Each is afraid of all the others, J and Europe is returning to the traditions of: an earlier age, when every free man was a sol-1 dier, and the pursuits of industry were wholly j subordinated to the claims of military ser- j j vice. Each nation says it is arming only j for defense?but some of them have already armies for defense more numerous than any j i offensive army that cau be brought against; i them. Germany has a total army of 1,261,-, 000 men, and this is very nearly twice as large ' as the entire offensive army of European and j Asiatic Russia, and falls very little short of | the combined offensive forces of France and j Austria and Italy. The French army again, .3 much larger than the army with which Germany could make the attack. Nor is Italy less well defended against all possible i assailants. Within.the last fifteen years she j has almost doubled her standing army, and has increased the available offensive part of it, in an even larger proportion. She has now 605,200 soldiers with whom she can defend herself, 322,000 with whom she can attack her neighbors. If we measure her de-, fensive forces agaiust the offensive forces of j any other nation whatever, we shall find that, they do not fall far short of auy, and that J they are considerably in excess of most. The j very pretence of reason thus altogether disap- ( pears, and the jealousies and suspicions of the : nations of Europe with regard to each other's | future movements are shown clearly to be as j baseless as they are ruinous." England, for every one thousand of her population, maintains only three soldiers for offensive purposes; Italy and Belgium maintain twelve; France and Austria fifteen ; and Germany twenty-one. It is in vain for Germany to pretend that she wishes only to de- j fend herself?she means mischief, aud the | gun which will be the signal of the uext great war, will be fired by her. IComniuniuatud.] IN MEMORIAM. Died, in Yorkville, June 9th, Herschel, a former slave of the Avery family, in about the 62nd year ofhis age, and at the time of his death, in the employ of Dr. James M. Lowry. The devotion and fidelity of this man to his former mistress and her children were remarkable ami touching. The results of emancipation never, in the slightest degree, interfered with his allegiance and affection. Sober, industrious, obliging, humble, respectful and polite to every body, the regard and kindly feelings of this entire community were drawn out very strongly toward him. For many years the attentive and efficient Sexton of the Episcopal Church here, his removal will be much felt by the congregation and those who, more or less frequently, attended the services. His health has been declining for several months, but all that devoted nursing could do (for the family regarded him more as a friend) was without avail. tribute of respect. Monday, June 13th, 1874. At a meeting of the vestry of the "Church of the Good Shepherd" held this evening, the following resolutions mere unanimously adopted : Resolved. That the Yestry have learned with deep regret of the death of Herschel Avery, their late Sexton, and deplore his loss, as of one who was always faithful in the discharge, of his duties, and deserving of their full confidence. Resolved, That a page in our Minute Book be inscribed to his memory. Resolved, That these resolutions be publish eci id tne i OKK.viL.Lt, JNO. C. KUYKENDAL, Secretary of the Vestry. From the Now York Tribune. TWO WAYS OFIOOKING AT IT. On Monday, two members of Congress from Mississippi made rather remarkable speeches on the condition of political affairs in the South. Both men are persons of some note, as the representatives of the two great classes into which Southern society has always been divided ; and in both speeches we find matter, not only for immediate iuterest, but for careful thought. Mr. L. Q. C. Lamar in old times was a typical planter and fire-eater. He left Congress to take a seat in the Conventiou which voted Mississippi out of the Union. He was a colonel in the Confederate army. He was a diplomatic envoy from the Confederacy to Russia. He is a man of culture and a professor in the University of Mississippi. No one could be better qualified to speak for the class which ruled the South before the war, and which still embraces nearly aH the education and social refinement of that unfortunate region. It is only a few weeks since Mr. Lamar won the respect of the whole country by his noble tribute to the memory of Charles Sumner; he deserves no less honor for his address on Monday, in which he reiterated those sentiments of union and brotherhood which, in spite of the bloody past and the cruel oppressions of the present, do unquestionably animate the Southern white population. Mr. Lamar confessed not only that the Lost Cause was lost beyond all hope of recovery, but that the war had utterly overthrown the principles upon which it was founded. Secession, hereafter, was not merely impracticable and ? ? n i__ ?_ xi j unwise, dui it was iaise m meory, auu repugnant to the well settled principles of the American Government. Slavery was not merely destroyed, but it was acknowledged on all hands to be a gigantic wrong which the South would not restore if it had the power. And with the downfall of slavery the South recognized the full personal and political rights of the freedmen, and the sacred force of the constitutional amendments enacted to secure their privileges. But Mr. Lamar spoke with honest indignation of the outrageous abuse of the Federal power in the reconstructed States (the contested election case of Sheridan against Pinchback being the subject of debate,) and warned his Republican hearers that "no party could endure the infamy and disgrace that had been brought upon the American name by those grotesque caricatures of the government." All which was strictly true and most proper to be said. On the same day Mr. Lynch, of Mississippi, made a speech in the Republican caucus, where the faithful were discussing the prosnects of the oartv for the next campaign, and r , * <r # t . considering what principles it should profess during the canvass, or whether it was prudent to profess any at all. Mr. Lynch is a young negro, boru in slavery. He was entirely without education until the Union armies at Natchez made him a contraband. Then he picked up a little schooling, and after the war was made a justice of the peace under the carpet-bag government of Gen. Ames. From one office to another he worked his way along until he got to Congress. He seems to be a type of the shrewd, glib, active, ambitious colored men in whom Northern adventurers find their aptest allies and instruments in the manipulation ofthe Southern satrapies. We know nothing discreditable to him personally, but there can be no question of the class to which he belongs. Mr. Lynch spoke of the civil rights bill, and he was of course not well pleased at the manner in which the I House had treated it; but he assured the caucus of the strict party fidelity of the colored I people. There was to be no reconciliation ! between them and their old masters. They J would not believe that slavery was beyond ' revival. They would not trust to Southern j white men witli their liberties. They cared j comparatively little for honesty in office? ' this at least was the general drift of his ad-} dress?they could pardon fraud, corruption,, licentiousness,any thing mean or disgraceful, to an orthordox Republican politician ; and they would sooner vote for a thief like Moses than i an upright gentlemau like Lamar. These are ! the conclusions logically to be drawn from j the remarks of Mr. Lynch, as we collate them | from the renorts of the various papers ; and it j will be seen that they are equivalent to a j notice to the party that it may nominate any rascal they please, and the Southern negroes will swallow him. These two speeches are the platforms of the two contrasted forces between which the future of the South remains to be decided? oue caring little for party and everything for a pure and honest government; the other valuing party above everything and official integrity not at all. We need not ask which j offers the country the fairest prospect of peace and prosperity. But ask the Northern Republicans if they have no moral duty to fulfill toward their ignorant colored wards, and if it will not be their fault if Republicanism in the reconstructed States becomes merely a synonyrae for fraud and embezzlement ? 1 LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. R. A. Ross?Executor's Sale. T. M. Dobson tt Co.?Great Reduction?Window Shades?Ladies' Hats?Only $1?Sea Island Shirting?Oil Cloth?Spool Cotton?10 Cents Per Yard?Grain Cradles?Ground CoffeeMeal Bags?Ready-Made Clothing?Glue Pots?Low-Quartered Shoes?SteelyardsKettles?Chain her Sets?Chambry?Chewing Tobacco?Well Chains?Trunks?Grass ; Scythes. W. H. ?t J. P. Ilerndon?Miscellaneous?Topic? , Tobacco?Come?He that Works?Luminaries. T. C. Dunlap, Agent? Brockets?Centre TablesRocking Chal rs?S u i ts?Lounge?Teapoy? Bureaux?Pictures?Carriages?Repairing. J. H. Clawson, Assignee?In Bankruptcy?Notice to the Lien Creditors of J. N. McCall, Bankrupt. John G. Enloe, Auditor York county?Tax Returns for 1874. T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?Application for Discharge?In the Matter of J. M. Sinarr, J. Leory Sutton, Bankrupts. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?CitationRichard Ingram, Applicant?Jane Ingram, deceased. C. A. King, School Commissioner?Notice to Teachers. Thomas Ballard?Barber Shop. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. | On Tuesday morning, while private Nulton, | of the garrison here, was handling his musket, it was accidentally discharged, shooting off the second finger of his left hand. i?ciiMrn rnMHivn. Captain J. K. Hyer, who succeeds to the command of Company C, 18th Infantry, stationed at tliis place, vice Captain Christopher, deceased, arrived here last Saturday evening, and next day assumed command. A REMARKABLE CASE. Mr. John Smith, who lives near Hickory Grove, in this county, was in Charlotte a few days ago, and as a result of a conversation with him, the Observer relates that "before the war he owned 120 negroes, and up to this dav those negroes are liviuc with and work J Q, G ing for him, not one having left after the surrender. They express themselves as satisfied, and say they don't want to live anywhe~e else. This state of things is creditable to the good sense of the negroes, and shows that Mr. Smith is a kind and good master." FINE RAIN. On Tuesday afternoon a fine rain fell at this place. It is the first "season" we have had since the crop was planted, and will be exceedingly beneficial in giving the plant a start. Crop prospects are almost invariably represented as "gloomy ;" but planters with whom we have conversed, tell us cotton is more promising now than it was at this time last year. The crop is not so large as last year, and consequently it is better tilled, while there seems to be no scarcity of labor, as has been a cause of complaint in previous years. THE BROWN GIN. It is necessary that our cotton planting friends should be supplied with the best cotton ginning machinery, in order to enhance the value of their crops. The Brown Gin is advertised in another column, and its manufacturers claim for it superior merits?ginning very fast, running light, and turning out a superior sample. Messrs. Allen & Barber, Rock Hill, are the agents for this vicinity, to whom refereuce is made for further particulars. A gin may be seen at their store at all times. THE NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD. Dr. Davega, the President, and Edward Thomas, the Superintendent of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, returned home last week from their trip to the North to procure rolling 'stock' for the road. We learn that arrangements were made for the delivery to the company of two engines, two passenger coaches, two box cars and two fiat cars. The coaches, cars and one engine, are to be delivered within thirty days. The other engine, which is in course of construction, is to be delivered so soon as.it can be completed. It is understood that immediately on the arrival of the new stock, the road between this place and<Chester will be changed to the three feet gauge. WIND AND RAIN STORM. A correspondent, writing from Etta Jane, in the northern part of Union county, informs us that on Wednesday of last week, that section was visited by a heavy storm of wind and rain, with hail, which did considerable damage to buildings, fences and timber. Several buildings were blown down, among them ^ the gin house of R. G. Davidson, and the grocery store of A. J. Love, on Colonel Davidson's premises. Other buildings were unroofed and otherwise injured. The storm followed the course of Broad river. The growing crops sustained little or no damage hy the storm. Our correspondent says the crops in that section look promising, considering the backward season and the recent dry weather. TEACHERS' INSTITUTE. On Thursday last, pursuant to a call of the County School Commissioner, a number of the teachers of public schools in York county ? t-l-J - ? TTnnaa TMimnflA &?JS6UlUltU 111 LUC VUUlb 1AUUOO lUt bUU |/ui|/vwv of organizing a Teachers' Institute. The object of the meeting was explained by Colonel W. C. Beatty, who, at the conclusion of his remarks, introduced the Hon. J. K. Jillson, State Superintendent of Education, wHo ad-dressed the meeting at length on the subject under consideration. After the conclusion of Mr. Jillson's address, a permanent organization was effected by calling W. J. Stephenson to the chair and appointing A. S. Withers secretary. Preliminary steps were then taken to organize the Institute, by the enrolling of names as members, and appointing a committee of five to draft a constitution and bylaws for the government of the organization The committee consists of S. A. Bell, W. D. n r> T \i M/.P QQ .Too VyttlU [J, XV. JU. lUibCl, uaiugo m. u mu. M. Mendenhall. Ten teachers, to wit: S. A. Bell, W. D. Camp, R. A. Porter, J. M. Plexico, James McRae, W. H. Clark, George C. Goore, James M. Mendenhall, W. H. Camp and Jane Dixon, enrolled their names, and after the appointment of the above committee, the meeting adjourned until the 11th of July next. BLATCHLEY'S PUMP. Nothing adds more to the convenience and economy of domestic arrangements than a good, serviceable and reliable pump, in lieu of the cumbersome windlass generally in use, which, after all, is but little improvement on the old pole and sweep style of raising water, and but little better adapted to the changed condition of affairs, now that our wives and 1 * x 3 il _ A1 aaugnters ana tne young men s sweeiuearuj have to do much of the work about the house. It is incumbent upon the head of every family to provide labor-saving implements as far as possible for the convenience and comfort of those of the household whose "work is never done." No better article in subservience to this purpose can be procured than Blatchley's Cucumber-wood Pump. We have had one in use for several weeks, and are well pleased with it in every particular. It is cheap, durable, economical, and possesses every advantage claimed by the manufacturer. Being made of wood, and of a peculiar kind selected for the purpose, it does not impair the taste of the water. Messrs. Jefferys & Metts have