Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, June 18, 1874, Image 2
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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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