Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f craps and Jacts. A Wisconsin widow has just buried her eighth husband. The Western Union Telegraph Company last year sent 13,363,000 messages, which is only one message to every three persons. The South-Western Railroad of Georgia, has declared a dividend of S3.50 per share. Recently, in Balitmore, 1000 dogs were delivered to a glue factory, for the purpose of boiling them down into glue. Paper barrels, said to be stronger than wood, are a manufacturer's novelty at Port Byrcn, N. Y. A rural statistician reports that more people are talked to death by peddlers of lightning-rods than are killed by lightning. A number of New England furnaces have recently suspended operations, the companies not having orders enough to clear out their manufactured supply of pig iron. I : 1. /?* !. i r\ a Doit or ngntuing struck farson Brownlow's house in Knoxville the other night, but, after finding that the parson was absent, it went out by way of the cellar. At the next Georgia State Fair, a premium of $500 will be given to the bast drilled military company. Gens. D. H. Hill, Johnston, Breckenridge, Hood and Gordon have been iuvited to act as judges. Ex-Governor George W. M. Stone, of Iowa, declines to be a candidate for Congress. He says that his ten years of active political life have proved "unprofitable," and that he is convinced that "an official career is not the road to legitimate wealth." South Carolina has hitherto claimed the lead for defaulting tax collectors, but Georgia begins to loom up unpleasantly. Decatur and Houston have had their steal, and now the collector of Colquitt, Samuel C. Gregory, is announced in default for $917, State tax 1873. Fourteen thousand Jews are on the verge of starvation from the famine in Palestine, and the population are depending on outside aid for the means of existence. The WQK?*Atrc r\f XTn ??1? A! A W/1 ui j_jngi<?uu auu vjvci iiiaujr 11 av c auu* scribed SI 2,000 for temporary relief. Gen. James M. Leach, Congressman from the fifth North Carolina District, declines a renomination, because, after twentyfive years' of public service, he finds himself comparatively poor, and now desires to make provision for his family. Congress adjourned on Monday last. Only two have exceeded the length of the session?that of 1869, which adjourned June 24, and that of 1870, which closed on the 25th. The sessiou of 1872 closed May 7, that of 1873, June 13. "Hi! where did yez get them trowsers?" oL'lr Arl r? ? % T nlok m ? ? n aT a * *!? (nrvtn un ai ici1111 tiij ui a ujuu niiu iiappeueii tu be passing with a pair of remarkably short trowsers on. "I got them where they grew," was the indignant reply. "Then, by my conscience," said Paddy, "you've pulled them a year too soon!" The famine in India has attained gigantic proportions, the British government undertaking the onerous task of feeding three and a half million of destitute people. Very gloomy results are anticipated in the face of this appalling calamity, as in the stricken district there can be no crop for six months to come. Lawrence McNulty, of San Francisco, stood in the window of his boarding-house and addressed a crowd on the subject of suicide, lie spoke of the various meausof taking life, compared their certainty and the pain involved, and frequently referred to notes. Finally he took a razor from his pocket and cut his throat, bleeding to death in a few seconds. He was, of course, insane. A lady from the South has enjoyed an interview with Emerson, and writes to the Memphis Avalanche that she was delighted with the "fluting and frilling of his involuted words." The Detroit Post is surprised to hear this, as only last year the philosopher had his wnrda "pilt. hisaorl hnf U'ifll nluiri tinr/lor toofo. fully folded back, and secured with a blue ribbor." One Samuel Deaton, of Christianburg, Ohio, who had the rheumatism nineteen years, says the following is what cured him : "One quart rye whisky, one ounce wild cherry bark (root), one ounce prickley ash root, one ounce yellow dock root, one ounce spikenard root, one ounce gentian root, one ounce gutn myrrh. If one bottle does not cure you, try another. Take three drinks a day. The Marietta (Ga.) Journal says on old man in Gilmer county, who was absent a week on a visit "to his still house hid in the mountains, was found by his friends dead in his still house, with two or three rattlesnakes wrapped around his body. The men being afraid to enter, set fire to the house and burned all in one heap, making a successful ere mation of snakes, men, house and whisky." The Chinese companies of San Francisco, which are supposed to exercise a coutrol and government of the heathen population of California more effective than the authority of duly constituted law, are now collecting ali the known thieves, cut-throats and vagrants among their countrymen and shipping them back to China. Several hundred have already departed under the action of this enforced emigration scheme. The Chicago Tribune, taking up the popular cry, says: "The time is coming, we trust, when the country will look after the interests of the white people of the South as means of advancing those of the negroes. The first thing to bring about a regeneration of the South is to make property secure there. If the negroes favor such legislation as Rainey proposes, to make property cheap, they are their own enemies, and deserve to be put under guardianship." The little son of an ex-chief of police in Terre Haute, recently suggested to his father that he might produce a desirable change in their domestic arrangements, by marrying, and even went so far as to suggest the lady he would like for a step-mother. Prompt in all his movements, the ex-chief sought the lady, told her of what his son had suggested, and intimated his desire to gratify his son's wish in the matter. The lady heard with respect, then awakened her little daughter, before whom she laid the whole subject, received the daughter's consent to the arrangement, and then gave her own. The wedding took place the next day. The muzzle ordinance having gone into otlect in New York, there is great excitement among the dogs. The pouudmaster ordered all dogs to muzzle at once, and directions were given to gather in all animals which had not complied with the edict. One officer gathered in three hundred law-breaking canines during the day, but on his way to the dog-pound a mischievous boy cut the cords that bound the dogs in the cart, and in an instant the three hundred dogs started madly through the street. There were big Newfoundlands, little pet poodles, with the gaudy ribbons yet on, the snappish cur and the whining little brute who - .1 . i-. i. -c if ?-ao 1UCC13 1110 tiiL'h. U1 lUmt ?11U iJUUIUlkjr. XII utio extraordinary how they seemed to realize that a price had been placed upon their heads. Dr. Livingstone is said to have expressed the utmost comterapt for lions. "You talk about the majesty of the lion," said he, chatting one day at a party in London with Sir Edwin Landseer, "but you do not know the beast. There is is no more majesty about him in the forest than there is about that poodle. It is all poetry. Lions are arrant cowards?cowardly, sneaking beasts. You can hardly tell a lion from a donkey when you come upon him in the forest; and if you come upon a lion suddenly, his first impulse is to tuck his tail between his legs and bolt. He will spring upon you if he comes upon you unaware and can have time to crouch; but if a man has the courage to look a lion in the face, you need not even cock your rifle." Politicians will note and insert in their scrap books the following election news for this year: In Kentucky, August 3; North Carolina, August 6; Vermont, September 1; Maine, September 14; Indiana, Ohio, Iowa and Nebraska, October 13; Georgia, October 14; West Virginia, October 22; Louisiana, , November 2 ; Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, Missouri, Minnesota, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tenuessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin, November 3. Besides State ' officers and Legislatures, varying in each State, the above thirty-two States elect this year Representatives for the Forty-fourth ; Congress, which is to assemble in 1875. Next year elections to complete the Congress will ; take place in New Hampshire ; in April, Comnecticut and Rhode Island; in September, California; and in November, 1875, the State of Mississippi. jSbe tihunim. YORKVIJLLE, S. C.: | THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 25,1874. ! How to Order the Enquirer.-*-Writc the name | of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and .State in full, and send the amount of s I the subscription by draft or post-office money < j order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The postage on the Knquihkk, to 1 i any part of the United States, is fivk cunts per | quarter,or twknty cknts per year, and is payable ' in advance at the post office where the paper is re- ' eeived. t Watch the Figures.?The (lateon the "address- , label" shows the time to which the subscription is J paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers cuseontinued, the date mutt be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance JOB PRINTING. Having determined to devote more attention hereafter to job printing than we have done in the past, we would inform the public that our office is now well supplied with new type of the latest styles, and the best machinery in use; and with a choice stock of inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to execute as good work as can be done anywhere in the United States. Orders for Ball Tickets, | Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, i Labels, Bonds and Cou pons, ' Law Blanks, Bill Heads, Law Briefs, Business Cards, Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads Checks, Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, Note Headings, Drafts and Notes, Programmes, Envelopes, Policies, Firedr Life Ins., i Election Tickets, iShinplasters, Festival Tickets, Wedding Cards, l will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction 1 as to quality of work, guaranteed in every I instance. Particular attention given to fine i work in colors. 1 A NEWTARTY. Oil the 3rd aud 4th of this month, the National Christian Association, opposed to secret societies, held its annual convention at Syracuse, New York. It is said the attendance was large, and great enthusiasm manifested. A resolution was passed declaring all persons connected with secret, or oath-bound societies, * in conspiracy against all who are not connect- j ed with them. It was also decided by the Convention to institute a political party op- ( posed to secret societies. The name of the c party is to be the "American." A Convention is to be called to nominate a candidate ? for President. The two principal "planks" in j this new political platform, are opposition to secret societies and the recognition of God in the Constitution of the United States. The t negro is left out of the platform. This is the more wonderful since the "National Christian ? Association" is made up of the same material that composed the old Abolition party in its ? iucipiency. We may fairly conclude that the }] oegro is to have no part nor lot in this new party. His connection with the Union League will effectually exclude him. This new party is destined to give the country much trouble. It commences operations under more favorable circumstances than did c the Abolition party. So far as intellect is concerned, it is inferior already to none in . America. Many of the first intellects of the g Northern States and cities are members of { this party. Men of standing in both Uhurcb 5 and State have connected themselves with it ? and gone to work in earnest. The whole thing is ominous and augurs no good. The tendency evidently is to drift iDto the uniting of Church and State. The next ^ step will be that no man that is not a member of some church will be eligible to office; then r no man that is not a Christian, will be al- t lowed to vote. Ultimately, the thing will be- r come more pointed and the main "plank" iu e the platform will be that membership in a ^ requisite to citizenship in the fullest sense, j on irwlianoncahlp I 1 paitlUUliil ^UUIV/U *?t*A UV M?t This may not, at present, be the object which this new party has in view. In fact, we are willing to believe that many who are in the party would shudder at such a result; but i not designing to do a thing, often means no more than that we did not try to prevent its being accomplished. There are some men in this world who are such enthusiastic lovers of peace, that they will fight for it. Just so, there are some who are so foud of right, that in order to establish right they will unscrupulously do wrong. A snake's egg, or a young snake is not a dangerous thing; but wait until I it matures and it becomes a veneraous reptile. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS, j In the Senate, on the 16th, the House bill to authorize the issue of duplicate agricultural scrip was passed; also the House bill to legal| ize entries of public lands under the homestead laws. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, called up the bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend work on the public buildings at j i his discretion, which was passed. Mr. Conk- j ling presented numerous memorials against | taxiug sales of gold and stock. Air. West j called up the post-office appropriation bill, j The following amendments, reported by the J committee on appropriations, were agreed to: ; Authorizing the Postmaster General to des-1 ignate a fourth-class clerk to act as superiu- j tendent of free delivery in the Post Office Dc-, partmcnt, at ?2,500 per annum. Striking out j the proviso inserted by the House Unit the j "Agricultural Reports" shall pass free j through the mails. Mr. West said the bill ; I appropriated $36,341,000. The amount ap-1 j propriated for the present year was $34,419,- j ! 067. The increase was due to the great in- j crease in the mail service. The expenses had ' not, however, increased in the same ratio as i the increase of the service. Mr. Sherman , i moved an amendment providing for the prepayment of postage on all newspaper and peri- \ odical publications mailed from a known of- j fice of publication or news agency to regular j i subscriners or news agents, and prescribing the following rates: On newspapers and peri- j , odical publications four cents for each pound | or fraction thereof; provided that the rate of postage on newspapers or periodicals not ex-1 i ceeding two ouuees in weight, and circulars, I shall be uniform at one cent each; but periodi-' 3als weighing more than two ounces, shall be subjected to a postage of two cents, each, and these rates shall be prepaid b* stamps. It ' ilso authorizes newspapers to be sent free to ictual subscribers within the county where the same are printed. It also fixes the salary >f" the postmaster at New York at $8,000, and egulates the salaries of other postmasters ac- : ;ording to the business of their respective of- i ices. Mr. Ramsey offered as an amendment to the amendment, the House bill to prevent md punish straw bids. Agreed to, and the iraendment as amended was then adopted, j 3ther amendments providing for the free , transmission of public documents through the i nails were offered, pending a discussion of ,vhich the Senate went into executive session, ; md then adjourned. In the House, Mr. ; Beck reported a bill for the relief of owners md purchasers of land sold for direct taxes n the late insurrectionary States, which was massed. Mr. Tremain, from tne committee 01 jouference on the bankrupt act, submitted a eport. He said the main point of difference letween the Senate and House was, whether ;he law should be repealed or modified. The House favored the repeal of the law, and the ; senate desired simply a modification. The managers on the part of the House had failed ;o secure a repeal of the law. They had j 'ound the Semate members of the committee \ irrn, and they had either to let the old law ! itand as it is, or do the next best thing they | ;ould, and secure such a modification as j vould make the law less obnoxious. One im- " lortaut change was, that while now a failure i .o pay for fourteen days a man could be ! brown iuto bankruptcy by a single creditor, j Sow there was an extension of time to forty j lavs. This he thomrht a material imnrove- ! ?J~ -- O ^ t ucut on the present law. The next was as to I ;he power of any one creditor to throw a person into bankruptcy. Now one man to whom sloO is due can throw a person into bankruptcy. ,Ts proposed to be modified, it requir- j id the assent of one-fourth of the creditors j md one-thir<J in value. This provision was i nade to date back to the time this Congress , net in December last. The present law made 1 10 provision for a discharge from bankruptcy, j By the new bill the debtor may be discharged j when such debts are paid, or at the request of j ? ?,i:??, vr., I JliC'lKUI UI LUC tiCUItuis. v anuuo uniwi uu- i Movements on the present law were mention-1 id as reasons for accepting the report as j ameliorating the rigor of the present law. He j laid the question for the House now to decide vas not whether the bankrupt act should be epealed, but whether the present law should stand in its present form. Mr. Eldridgcsaid le had opposed the passage of the bankrupt ict, and had always favored its repeal, but he rnd signed the report, believing it the best ;hat could be done at this time. It was not what he wanted, nor what the House wanted; sut the Semite members of the corumitte were irm, and they had to take this or let the old aw stand. All they could do was to pull as nanyofthe rotten pieces out of the old law is they could. If they had done no more ban the limitation of the fees and costs to he bankrupt, it would be much gained. The :ommittee on the part of the House had done j ill they possibly could. Mr. Butler, of Mas;achusetts, argued in thesame line to show the )ill far preferable to the present law, and the mly alternative left to the House. It was mly for the House to say which it would have ?this or the old law. Mr. Ward, of Illinois, isked that the bill be printed and made the ipecial order for to-morrow morning. A vote .nirifT fotnn iKo mnMnn wnq Insfc. The renort '*"'5 1 vas then agreed to?128 to 34. In the Senate, on the 17th, after a number >f bills of a private nature had been disposed >f, the post-office appropriation bill being the in finished business of the previous day, was lalled up, the pending question being on the intendment of Mr. Frelinghuysen authorizing ill public documents to be sent through the nails without the prepayment of postage, at i rate not exceeding twenty-five cents for any me volume, and the postage to be collected it the place of delivery, and with the proviso iffered by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, and ac:epted by Mr. Frelinghuysen, that this shall illy apply to documents already ordered to >e printed at the time of the passage of this ict. Mr. Thurman moved a further amenduent providing that the Congressional Record | hall go free through the mails. Mr. Morril, | if Maine, moved to lay both amendments on he table. Lost?yeas 23, nays 31. After nuch further discussion, Mr. Thurman's .mendment was agreed to?yeas 28, nays 27. n? 1 l ^nn r. l lie amendment, us unii'iiucuy was tncu awu|/id?yeas 33, nays 26. Mr. Ramsey then noved an amendment that the provision of he bill requiring prepayment of postage on lewspapcrs and periodicals shall not go into fleet until January 1, 1875. Agreed to. ; Jr. Stevenson, by unanimous consent, introluced a bill to prohibit the publication of the i evised statutes of the United States in the : lewspapers at the public expense. Passed. Jr. Robertson moved an amendment provi- < ling for the entire restoration of the franking , >rivilege, which was rejected by a vote of 33 o 17. The amendment proposed by the ommittee a on ppropriations that hereafter j he postage on all mailable matter .shall be 1 (repaid was withdrawn, the amendment of| Jr. Sherman, which was adopted yesterday, ' leing a substitute for it. Mr. Stevenson i noved an amendment to the post-office bill j >roviding for the printing of 300,000 copies j >f the Agricultural report, 200,000 copies for ! < he House, 75,000 for the Senate, and 25,000 j I or the Commissioner of Agriculture, and . hat the same shall be allowed to go free j 1 hrough the mails. Rejected?yeas 27, nays 1 < !o. The post-ofHce appropriation bill have : 1 ng been considered in committee of the j 1 vhole was then reported to the Senate, the imendments made concurred in, and the bill ! I jassed. In the House, after the passage of ! everal private bills, the conference commitees on the pension bill, and the legislative, : ixecutive and judicial hill, made reports, i fhe Senate bill for the better government of j he navy was passed ; also a substitue for the j Senate bill to promote the establishment of j >ublic marine schools. ! 1 In the Senate, on the 18th, the House1 imendments to the bill to establish public j liarinc schools were concurred iu. In the * Touse, a number of private bills were intro- i luccd and referred. Butler, of Massachusetts,: i sndeavorcd to have the civil rights bill taken < rom the table and referred to the judiciary i jommittee, but objection was made, and the 1 i )ill was not taken up. 1i In the Senate, on tlie 19th, Mr. Wright jailed up the conference report on the cur- i ency bill. A lengthy discussion ensued as ,: ,0 the merits and provisions of the report, < md at 4 o'clock a vote was reached, which < esulted in concurrence by a vote of 43 to 19. i Hie Speaker sent to the Clerk's desk and had ead a letter from the Commissioner of Petitions, stating that the passage of the proposed ' i jension bill would add 32,221 soldiers to the i )ension rolls, and 16,000 widows, and the otal amount required to pay them would be 11 H5,091 ,581, fn the House, the post-office!] appropriation bill occupied the morning session. The main disagreement with the Senate bill was in regard to the payment of postage on newspapers, the House insisting that one and a half cents per pound was enough, while the Senate had fixed the rate at four cents per pound. A committee of conference on the postal bill was then ordered. The sundry civil appropriation bill was proceeded with in the Senate on the 20th, and a large number of amendments were offered and agreed to. In the House, after lengthy debate, a vote was taken on the question of concurring in the report of the committee of conference on the currency question, and the report was agreed to?yeas 221; nays 40. Efforts were made to refer the civil rights bill to the committee on the judiciary, which failing, it was then moved to put the bill on its nassnpe. which likewise failed bv a vote of i a ' ~ * 140 to 91?fourteen Republicans voting in the negative. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The wheat crop throughout the State is reported to be good. ? In Chester county, there are thirteen Granges of the Patrons of Husbandry. ? Colonel Phifer, of Newberry, has raised one hundred and ninety bushels of oats from five acres of land. ? The first peaches of the season'were sold in Charleston last week at prices ranging from 40 cents to SI per dozen. ? Judge Cooke has instructed the grand juryof Greenville to take measures to suppress blasphemy in the streets of the city. ? Twenty of the thirty-two county treasurers iu the State have settled their accounts with the comptroler-geucral. ? Mr. J. C. Ilardin, of Chester, has purchased the ofiice of the Chester Reporter, and, in connection with Mr. J. H. Buchanan, will take charge of the paper at an early day. ? The Charleston News says that the name of Col. Robert M. Wallace, the United States Marshal, is frequently mentioned iu connection with the Republican nomination for Governor. ? II. C. Shiver, Esq., the head of the largest dry goods establishment in Columbia, died in that city on Friday last. He died after a lingering illness, resulting from an attack of pneumonia. ? A colored man named Jesse Sharp, who, several years ago, emigrated from Columbia to Liberia, has sent a bag of coffee to some of his friends in Columbia. It was raised by himself. ? the Columbia Union says that old bonds of the State to the amount of about 8500,000 have been funded in new bonds, in accordance with the act passed at the last session of the General Assembly. ? At the recent election in Lancaster county, on the question of the county subscribing filOO 000 to the eanital stock of the Chester and Cheraw Railroad, the voters decided in favor of such subscription by a majority of 489 votes. ? Dr. R. H. Hope, of Rock Hill, visits five patients whose total ages amount to 412 years, being an average of 82 2-5 years for each of them. One of them at the advanced age of 77 had three chidren, all born to him at one birth. They are all living, being now several years old. ? The Anderson Intelligencer says: "Never before within the recollection of the oldest inhabitant has there been such splendid yields in the grain crops grown around town. Mr. E. W. JByrum raised on a small field of only one aud three-quarter /ores, sixty-six bushels of fine wheat. Col. J. N. Brown raised on three fourths of an acre forty-one and a half bushels of oats, which would be about fifty-five bushels to the acre." ? By the amended charter of the town of Anderson, the plan of cumulative voting will ...l.tntu/l of flic novf m ii n ifintll plpohnn. Ul^ UUUjJltU Ul kllV UV44V iuuu>v>|/?. J which will take place in that town on the second Monday in August. The system will, therefore, on that day be subjected to a practical test for the first time in the history of South Carolina. As the Conservatives have a large majority of votes in the town, the result will be to give the colored minority a fair representation in the muncipal council. NORTH CAROLINA JTEWS. ? The wheat and the fruit crops in the Greensboro section are reported as unusually promising. ? The sale of the Western North Carolina railroad, advertised to have taken place on Wednesday of last week, has been postponed to the 17th of August. ? The town commissioners of Newton, Ca* 1 J ? tawba county, nave oraerea an election on the question of making a $10,00D subscription to the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad. The election will be held on the 27th instant. ? Judge Tourgee, who was elected to the position seven years ago, announces himself an independent Republican candidate for reelection to the ofiice of Judge of the Superior Courts of the Greensboro Circuit. Hon. John Kerr is the nominee of the Democratic party for the same ofiice. ? The suit of Alfred Self and others, enjoining the funds in the State Treasurer's hands ami asking that they be applied to the payment of interest on what is known as the "fraudulent special tax bonds," was dismissed in the U. S. Circuit Court at Raleigh last week. ? Blalock and Collins, one white and the other black, convicted of murder and sentenced to he hanged in Johnson county on Friday last, have had their sentence commuted to imprisonment for life. The murderers committed the deed disguised in female attire, aud the trial was reported as "the first ku-klux case tried in the State courts." ? An excursion train on the Carolina Central railway \va3 wrecked on Wednesday of last week, four miles east of Lilesville, in Anson county, caused by the washing out of a culvert, which the engineer failed to discover until he had ran into it, the engine going down, with four cars after it. Four persons?among them John Galvin, the engineer?were killed, and several seriously wounded. ? The suit known as the Swazey case, has just been terminated in the United States Circuit Court at Raleigh. Swazey and others, holders of bonds of the North Carolina Railroad, brought suit to recover back interest clue on said bonds, and in default of payment of the interest, praying that execution might issue against the stock of the road owned by the .State, which is two thirds in amount and value. Chief Justice Waite rendered the decision that the stock of the State can be sold for the payment of the interest due on the bonds, but postponed the sale until the first of April, 1875, so as to give the State the opportunity of providing for the payment of interest due. ? The Hickory Press gives full particulars of a horrible murder perpetrated in Buncombe county on the 7th instant. A gentleman named Steiuberger, from Kansas, prospecting the mineral resources of Western Carolina, had employed a young wagoner named Cun ningham, to carry his baggage from Old Fort ' to Asheville, and it 9eems that in a secluded : spot Cunningham killed Mr. Stienberger for i the purpose of robbery. The dead body was ; found a few days afterward, and an inquest resulted in fixing the crime upon Cuuningharu, who is from Shufordsville, Henderson [ county. He is only seventeen years of age, and respectably connected. The accused was ; arrested after he had been to Greenville, S. ! C., where he purchased a stock of goods, and 1 he is now in the Asheville jail. NEWS OVTHE DAY. i ?The women suffragists in Massachusetts | are preparing for a grand demonstration on the 4th of July. j ? Thirty ex-members of the Union and the j Confederate armies have united in a call to ; celebrate the coming 4th of July at Deuver. Ol-.l. XT! ? L. - 1 1 YT_ IT..11 i. i ? VymrH. JLivaua, wnu luuiucicu iui. nuiucii, in Illinois, was taken from the jail iu CarrollJ ton, Sunday morning, by a mob of disguised men, and hanged. ? The meteorological record of Friday last ! showed that Wilmington, N. G., and Augusj ta, Ga., were the two hottest places in the i United States on that day. ? The wheat crop of Texas has matured, and the yield will be as high as forty bushels jjer acre. The corn, cotton and sugar crops j promise to be excellent. 1 ? The river and harbor appropriation bill, | as agreed upon in Congress, gives 8200,000 j for the improvement of Cape Fear river, and j $100,000 for the improvement of the harbor ' of Charleston. ? The New York Times publishes a communication from Congressman Cain, denying the charges lately made against him, in a letter from Charleston, printed in that journal, and alledging that the party upon whose authority the statements were made was prompted by malice. ? TTniiv nnp.fliinl nf the State of Louisiana I ?J ~ j is still under water from one to two feet deep, and from 70,000 to 80,000 people are now in a destitute condition, much sickness already prevails, and unless the people obtain relief, suffering during the summer months will be almost beyond precedent. ? It would seem to be more or less significant that the Indiunapolis Journal, Mr. Morton's home paper, should be found echoing the suggestion of the New York Times that Congress may have rather overdone the "reconstruction" business, and that it is about time perhaps for this interference with Southern States to stop. ? Gen. H. P. Bee, a uative of South Carolina, is now a resident of the State of Durango, Mexico, where he has a fine cotton plantation with nrosneets of making this season a X I u good crop. Gen. Bee resided in Texas for many years before the war. He was a brother of Gen. Barnard E. Bee, who was killed at the first Manassas. ? The Pacific Jockey Club of San Francisco has determined to offer a purse of $25,000 for a running race of four miles, and repeat, open to all horses in the world. The race is to come off at the new track, near the Central Park, on November 7, next. The first horse is to receive $13,000, the second $5,000, the third $4,000, and the fourth $3,000. Three-year-olds 104, five-year-olds 100, and six-year-olds and over 114. All horses from east of the Rocky mountains are to be allowed $1,000 each, and horses from Europe $1,500 e?.r!h. ? Last year we opened our eyes and mouth? to marvel over the immensity of the California wlfeat crop, and this year we are still further astounded by the information that the crop of 1878 will be more than doubled. The area under cultivation is upward of 2,000,000 acres?300,000 acres more than last year, and the yield is extraordinarily fine. The total crop is estimated at a minimum figure of 35,000,000 bushels, leaving 25,000,000 bushels for export?uearly twice the greatest amount that California has ever furnished for exportation, more than all the rest of the United States exported last year, and twice as much as Russia exported from her great grain districts on the Danube. California's gold yield is a mere trifle compared with this golden shower of grain. EDITORIALINKLINGP The Bread and Cotton Crops. The reported condition of the grain crop in the Western States is highly encouraging. The good harvest of last year encouraged the farmers to plant more extensively than on any previous occasion ; and the crops, already vigorous and far advanced, give promise of a rich and abundant harvest. The faronnnwlinm <-> all ancnnntH. are in excel LlIC/lOj aOVUIUtug fcvr M'* MVvw?w..; lent spirits, and the merchants are making ready for a season of prosperity, which it is expected will be unsurpassed by any former year. The prospects in many of the Southern States is also good, both as to the cotton and grain crops. The yield of wheat in many sections of the South has been good and the area planted in this crop this year was much larger than the year previous. Upon an average, some 10 per cent, less cotton has been planted this year than last, but generally a good stand has been obtained and the seasons are quite favorable. Hydrophobia. The death, in New York, last week, of Mr. Francis F. Butler, the great dog fancier, from hydrophobia, is somewhat remarkable, and serves to confirm the positions heretofore advanced by the medical fraternity, and adding stronger proof in confutation of the theory that hydrophobia exists only in the imagination of the person affected. Mr. Butler was : an author of some celebrity, and had given j special attention to the diseases of dogs. ! Some six weeks ago he was administering a ! dose of salts to a dog, when he was bitten on , the thumb. The animal was not supposed to be mad, and no special attention was paid to j the wouud. On Tuesday he was seized with | the usual paroxysms attendant on hydropho! bia and died. ; Some years ago he wrote a letter in which he announced as the result of his long observation and experience that "persons who go into spasms of terror at sight of water do so, not from an inoculated disease by the tooth of a rabid member of the canine race, but from ! the workings of fear, imagining a poiscn in the veins which has no existence in fact." ' He further said, "that persons, even if actu| ally afflicted with the malady, which he con' sidered exceedingly rare, if it existed at all, I could be certainly cured by simple applica! tions of caustic and salt bathing." Notwithstanding his firm adherence to the ! doctrine, he was compelled to succumb to the i irresistible force of the malady, and died a 1 victim to a disease he had spent his life in demonstrating did not exist, i The Currency Bill. I The President having signed the cur, rency bill as it passed both Houses of Congress, it is now a law, and in conformity with its provisions, the Comptroller of the Curren-J ! ey will receive applications for the organization of national banks in all the "Western and j | Southern States. Applications may be made | , by letter, giving the names of not less than I five share-holders of the proposed organiza; tiou, which should be accorapauied with the ; endorsement of the Senator or Representative : of the District where the hank is to be located, j giving satisfactory information in reference to , j the character aud means of applicants. Applications will be considered immediately upon their receipt, amkif approved, the necessa; ry forms for the organization of the uew j banks will he aL once transmitted. Under , the now apportionment, all Western and | i Southern States, with the exception of Colo- j rado, Montana and Wyoming, will be entitled I to circulation. The Slate of Indiana will be entitled to about $2,800,000; Ohio, to about ' $6,000,000; Nebraska about $300,000. The other Western aud Southern States will be j ! entitled to much larger amounts. A number i j of banks have already been authorized to j j commence business. | Civil Kignts ana rrce scuoois. ! In the Republican convention of Robe! son county, N. C., held last week and com-! posed ofa majority of negroes?the committee { on resolutions consisting of two white men and ( four colored?the following resolutions touching co-education of the races, were reported and adopted. It would seem that the Republicans of either color in Robeson county do not have much faith in the civil rights bill: "That in the public schools maintained by the State, we are opposed, unalterably, to the commingling of the white and colored races in the same. That iu the question of education, as in all other questions affecting the different races, the Republican party holds the doctrine of equal rights, without commingling of races, which secures to the children of the colored man a course of educatioual training in the public schools devoted to his race equal to that which the children of the white man enjoy in the school devoted to his. Equality of training and educational advantages, in quantity and quality, but always separate schools. "That we earnestly deprecate and deeply deplore the attempts that are being made to establish in our country a different arrangement for the education of the races by the ."5[ate, as terming iu uesuujr uun icunu uu|<uo sible a system of public schools in North Carolina in which both races can receive the benefits of an education, besides endangering feelings of hostility and hatred between the races that inay culminate iu civil disorder and bloodshed." From the New York Bulletin, June 11. THE COTTON ACREAGE OF 1874. The department of agriculture has issued its usual June statement of estimates of the acreage of land planted iu cotton for the current year. The estimates are stated in percentages of the area planted last year, and therefore, in order to reach a definite result, we have to take the estimated acreage of last year, and, from the percentages given in the department * - i 1 orr i report, deduce tneesumaieu acreage iur io<<?. This we lmve doue in the following table : Percentage Acreage of 1873 Acreage 1873. in 1874. 1874. Texas, 1,180,227 102 1,203,831 Louisiana, 957,528 80 700,022 Mississippi, 1,710,202 88 1.503,050 Alabama, 1,488,205 80 1,270,933 Florida, 145,130 91 132,073 Georgia 1,471,811 00 1,324,029 South Carolina, 013,707 01 558,473 North Carolina 524,953 80 458,308 Tennessee, 635,30? 92 584,537 Arkansas, 857,240 . 80 702,951 All others 200,158 78 209,039 Total 0,843,723 8,785,756 Decrease, 1,057,007 Per cent, decrease on 1873, 10.74 In the case of every State, except Texas, there is a material decrease, compared with last year, in the area planted. The total estimated acreage last year was 9,843,723 ; while this year, as shown in the above statement, the returns of the agricultural departmeut indicate 8,785,756 acres, or 1,057,967 acres has than iu 1873. All other things, being equal, this decline of 10.74 per cent, in the area planted would imply a correspondingly smaller crop than last year, or, to be more explicit, a reduction of about 450,000 bales compared with the crop of 1873. But we cannot be by any means certain that all the conditions affecting the outturn will be equal to those of last year. The conditions of weather, labor, state of soil, insects, &c., are all at present undetermined, and we have, therefore, no means of judging how far the yield will correspond to the reduction in the acreage. The agricultural report gives estimates as to the condition of the crop in June the estimates being expressed by regarding 100 as representing a normal or fair condition, while the figures show the approximation to that standard. The following are the estimates for each State, compared with the like returns of condition for June, 1873: June. 1871. June, 1873. Dill'erences. Texas, 90 80 Inc. 4 Louisiana, 70 04 Dec. 24 Mississippi 78 02 Dec. 14 Alabama, 82 OS Dec. 11 Florida, 00 102 Dec. 12 Georgia, 80 04 Dec. 14 South Carolina, 81 88 Dec. 7 North Carolina, 80 85 Inc. 4 Tennessee, 85 00 Dec. 5 Arkansas, 00 92 Dec. 2 This comparison makes a very unfavorable showing for the present condition of the crop, the cause of which is thus well explained in the report: "The season has been remarkable for heavy and frequeut rains duriug the month of April throughout the cotton States. In some sections the aggregate rainfall reported exceeds sixteen inches. All the rivers, creeks, and spring branches even, overflowed their banks, destroyed the plants, and prevented germination in newly planted lauds. In the more southern belt replanting was general, botli iu bottoms aud uplands. From the first week in May to its close drought was almost universal. The soil was packed and afterward baked by the sun, retarding cultivation and preventing growth. The stand is, therefore, very poor, many plants not having made their appearance on the first wf June. Since the last of May light showers have been general, and the prospects are much improved. Fields are much cleaner than at this date last year, and can easily be kept free from weeds. With favorable weather rapid improvement is certain, and a fair comparison with July is quite probable at the next report." The following comparison of acreage planted with the actual crop, each year since 1869, shows that the correspondence between the yield and the area planted is by no means uniform : Acreage. Crop in Dales. 1JS74 0,ltotl<nj . 1873 9,843,723 *4,200,0()0 1872 8,807,7)57 3,930,508 1871 7,811,090 2,974,351 1870 8,885,845 4,352,317 ' Estimated. In 1870, when we had a crop of 4,350,000 i bales, the acreage was only about 100,000 acres ! above that of this year; and last year's crop about 150,000 ba!c3 less thau that of 1870, although about 100,000 acres more was planted < than in the latter year. In 1872, with 80,000 acres more planted than this year, the crop was 3,930,000 bales. The average area planted I for the last four years has been 8,852,130 . acres ; and the average crop for the same pc riod 2,864,294 bales; the acreage is conse- j | quently about 67,000 acres below the lateav-; ! erage; and, therefore, if the law of average \ j could be relied upon as governing the crop, we j ! might anticipate a yield of about 3,330,000 j i | bales. ! Judge Mackey and Sheriff Yocum.? The following is taken from the Winusboro j : News: An interesting correspondence has taken ! place betweeH Judge T. J. Mackey and Sher- j iff Yocum, of Chester. Sheriff Yocum wrote ; to Judge Mackey that he could get 110 money I from theCouuty Commissioners, aud that he | had strained his private credit in supplying j prisoners with food ; that there were two prisoners confined. He called his Honor's attention to the fact. Judge Mackey replied that he regretted the embarrassment of the Sheriff, but if there were no funds in the treasury he was without a remedy by summary process. He suggested that a lien be given on the crop of the county farm by the Commissioners. The Commissioners had officially informed Judge Mackey that Mr. Yocum presented an account for $355, and refused to take $200 in part payment. The County Treasurer also certified that he had already paid the Sheriff $2,342.25, nearly one-fifth of the whole tax for couuty purposes, and more thau double the amount ever drawn before in one year; this, too, in face of the fact that in January there was not a prisoner in jail or a criminal case on docket. The Judge, however, authorized the removal of one prisoner to York jail, and the release of the other, who was within five days of her time of release, unless the justice would provide for her. Sheriff Yocum replied, denying that he had been offered 8200, and claimed that the same influences which had so long kept him out of his money were still at work. He claims that he has receipts for more than the bills he presented to the Commissioners. He claims to have served more State papers in a year, than had been served before in twenty. He also claims that there have been more prisoners in Chester jail this last year than in any two years previous since reconstruction. We do not know what will be the upshot of the matter. NORTHERN OPINION. Some of our Republican friends think they sufficiently answered us when the) ask what remedy we have to propose for the present robbery and misgovernmeut in South Carolina. We do not deem ourselves bound to find i? i-.- c?.... a remedy?our nrs; uuiv is iu ouuicos tnc uudeuiablo facts. If evidence of great fraud and wrong-doing is presented to us, we should not be justified in suppressing it, siutply because we do not see at that precise moment how the evil is to be corrected. In reality, however, the remedy in this case is tolerably simple. Moses and his gang call themselves Republicans, and Moses is working for a reelection. The first thing to be done is to make these meu understand that the Republican party cannot and will not be responsible for their misdeeds. They have shown themselves unworthy of the support of the pavty whose name they have abused. They must all he turned out of office, and it should be understood at once that the re-election of Moses would be denounced as a great scandal by the entire Republican party. We cannot find that there is anything to be said in this man's favor. He does not seem able to disprove any of the accusations which we and others have made against him. There are two sides to most questions, but to this there does not apppear to be more than one. Some of our Republican friends say: "Well, leave the Democrats to expose Moses." We have already repelled that base suggestion, and need not waste any more words upon it. The Re publican party has always tried to redress the wrongs which are perpetrated in its name, and it is too sagacious to follow the example of the Democrats, who tried to uphold Tweed & Co. long after their robberies were exposed. We are glad to find that all the able Republican journals?such as the Buffalo Commercial, the Albany Evening Journal, and others?are heartily in favor of reforming these abuses. We do not look at the question in a party light?if we did, we might point out that it is highly desirable to get rid of these scandals before we are called upon to enter into the next Presidential contest. Let us go into that fight with clean hands. But our appeals are based upon higher considerations?we ask for justice for a community nnw litp.rallv under the tule of a horde of thieves. We hope no one will tell us that South Carolina deserves to be robbed as part of her "war punishment." It is rather late in the day for that pitiless sort of talk, and besides, there is no reason to believe that Moses & Co. are inflicting punishment on the heads pf the guilty. Moses himself boasts of having hauled down the United States flag from Fort Sumter, so that if rebels are be punished, we do not see why he should escape. It is not, however, desirable to keep any State in this Union in a permanent condition of beggary and ruin. That would not help any part of the country. And if punishment is to be insisted on, let it be punishment by legal means. We must once more plainly tell the Republicans of South Carolina that the whole country expects them to get rid of Moses and all his crew, and to establish a government which is not based on organized pillage, and which will, therefore, not be a disgrace to the nation.?New York Times. Civil Rights in a Barber Shop.?A Chattanooga letter to the Cincinnati Commer cial says: That was a good reply which a colored barber in this city gave to a delegation of colored men who called upon him for the purpose of claiming the right to be shaved "the same as a white man." "Sir," said the spokesman of the delegation, "we demand the right to be shaved here." "It can't be done," answered the colored barber. Then the spokesman came down with a pertinent thrust, saying, "Ain't our money as good as anybody's ?" And tin colored barber answered thus: "Yes, just as good, but there is not enough of it." That covered the case exactly. It was an answer worthy of a philosopher. The darkey's money is as good as anybody's to the barber, but there is not enough of it to compensate him for the loss of his white custom. The barber, in telling me this circumstance, said: "I am a colored man, and have to work for a living, and the minute I commenced shaving darkeys that minute every one of my white customers would leave me. The biggest Radical in town would quit me just like the Democrats. It's eontrary to the nature of a white man to want to mix that way with the negroes ; and, what's more, they dn it Yon can't aet a white man in this town to shave in a shop where negroes are shaved. I wouldn't either, if I was thera, and I'm not goiug to break up my business to accommodate a few swell-head niggers who want to put on all the style of white men." Now, when colored men will not admit their colored brethren to the enjoyment of equal rights in the barber-shop, how are we to expect white men to do it ? Reconciliation.?It has been proposed at West Point, says the Baltimore Gazette, to have a grand reunion of the graduates of the Academy, Federal and ex-Confederate, next June. A resolution has been passed to that effect. The proposition emanated from Professor Davies, of Portland, in his address to the Alumni of the institution. He made the appeal as a means of healing the wounds left by the war; as he phrases it, "that from the sunny memories of many joys common to them all, and from the grave of all painful recollections, never to bedisturbed by thought, by word, or by deed, there may spring up a closer brotherhood, a purer patriotism, and a more abiding love of country." It is believed that all, or nearly all, the Alumni, North and South, are cordially in favor of the project. More thau this, President Grant is reported not only heartily assenting to it, but it is intimated that he will be present in person on the occasion to assist at the celebration. The Confederate Records.?The House of Representatives at Washington city has amended thesundry civil appropriation bill so as to provide for the publication of all official records of the late war, including the Confederate archives. The new section reads as follows : "To enable the Secretary of War to begin the publication of the rebellion, both of Union and Confederate armies, the sum of 815,000; and the Secretary of War is hereby directed to have copied for the public printer all reports, letters, telegrams and general orders not hitherto copied or printed, and properly arrange the same in chronological order." The amendment was unanimously adopted, and is favered by all, thus far. Senator Logan advocates it in the Senate.