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fctiips and Jacts. I. Augusta, Ga., boasts of a ninety-two j pound water-melon. A paper in Chinese has appeared at j San Francisco. The population of the German Empire is now set down at 41,090,846 inhabitants. It costs just about one thousand dol- ' lars to make a trip around the world. Three thousand acres of cotton have! been planted in California this year, and the crop looks very well. Hon. F. A. Sawyer, it is said, will be sent upon a second class European mission? j I probably to Vienna. Congressman Rainev denies that he : was expelled from a hotel in Suffok, Ya.?in : fact, that he ever was in that city The way they muzzle dogs in most of i the Western towns is by placing the muzzle ! behind the ear and pulling the trigger. It is said the new converts at Bald Mountain have gone back to card-playing since the volcano proved a failure, The colored people of the South, it is thought, will lose about S3,500,000 by the collapse of the Freedmen's Savings Bank. A five hundred dollar property qualification is now spoken of in Connecticut as one of the conditions on which women shall r be allowed to vote. It is only thirty years since the first electric telegraph line was established, and at r this time there are more than 1,000,000 miles 1 of telegraph wires in use. ( An Iowa judge has decided that it is more of a sin to steal a horse than to elope ]' with another man's wife, because there are i 8,000,000, women in the United States and t ouly 3,000,000 horses. j One long Braucli hotel has a patent r bowling alley that sets up its own pins and c has no need of boys. Another intends to f obtain an alley that will knock down its own \ pins and save the players a needless exertion. It is not uucommon iu giving advice to newlv-married vountr ladies, who marrv Door t young men, to allude to the fact that Eve married a gardener; hut they don't say anything about the gardener losing his situation on account of that match. One sad result of the panic is that several have felt constrained, by way of economy, " to give up their church pews. If business don't pick up soon, we fear some of our citizeus will be obliged to sell one or two of their bull dogs. The Supreme Court of Iowa has confirmed a verdict of S3,000 agaiust a saloonkeeper of Clinton, iu that State, for selling liquor to a drunkard. The complainant was the wife of the unfortunate, who could not restrain his appetite for strong drink. An Idaho school teacher has introduced a new feature iu his school. When one of the girls misses a word, the boy who spells it , has permission to kiss her. As a result the , girls are fast becoming poor spellers, while the boys are improving. In China and Japan tea fanciers consider that the older the tree is the better its product. The shrubs which supply the high dignitaries of both countries with their favorite beverages are said to be all the way | from four hundred to five hundred years old. 1 The Richmond newspapers contain dis- ' couraging accounts of the prospects of this 1 year's tobacco crop in that .State. The yield 1 will be small and not of very good quality. | In some sections uot one-fourth of last year's j crop will be raised. ( A Sunday-school teacher was giving a j lesson on Ruth. She wanted to bring out the kindness of Boaz in commanding the reapers ' to drop larger haudfuls of wheat. "jNow, ' children," she said, "Boaz did another nice ? thing for Ruth ; can you tell me what it was ?" J "Married hqr/'said oue of the boys. Two million acres of corn have been planted this year in excess of last year's acreage. The increase is six per cent, of the whole crop. It is largest in the South in per * ventage, and in the West in acres. The con- ^ dition of the crop is good in the West, and ? elsewhere variable. These facts are furnish- ( od by the Department of Agriculture at ( Washington. t The Grangers' movement against the railroads in some of the Western States has proved a kind of boomerang to their industries. An agent who went to Europe to 1 negotiate a loan found money plentiful there, t but owing to the legislation of the past winter t upon railroad matters, brought about by the ? itdluence of the Grangers, his mission was a , fruitless one, while the same parties were willing to float the bonds of the Eastern roads, j The Loudon Daily Telegraph an- nounces that arrangements have been concluded between the proprietors of that paper and Mr. Bennett, proprietor of the New York Her- ( aid, under which an expedition will at once be < dispatched to Africa, with the objects of in- j vestigating and reporting upon the haunts of | slave traders, of pursuing the fulfilment of the < magnificent discoveries of the great explorer, I)r. Livingstone, and of completing the solu- ' tiou if possible, of the remaining problems of 1 Central African geography. < The deatft of ex-Congressman Jas. W. 1 Gazley, of Cincinnati, at the age of ninety, is : announced. He was elected a member of | the Eighteenth Congress in 1823, defeating j General Harrison. He lost his popularity, , however, by moving to reduce the appropriation to remunerate Lafayette from 8200,000 : and a township of land to 8100,000. This ' was his first important vote, and it decided 1 his political fate. When he came before the i people for reelection he was defeated by a small majority, and he has since taken very : little part in public affairs. Edward Lange was convicted in New | York, last October, of stealing empty canvas j mail bags, or rather applying the bags to his !1 private use after receiving them from the j 1 post-office for the purpose of delivering in ' them papers to be mailed. On conviction he j < was sentenced by Judge Benedict to pay a fine j | of 8200 and be imprisoned oue year, but was j < subsequently resentenced to imprisonment | alone, the first sentence being contrary to I statute. The second sentence was declared j1 invalid by the Supreme Court, and Lange < was discharged. He has now begun suit i I against Judge Benedict for false imprison- i ment, claiming 800,000 damages and his , costs. ( At the Washington and Lee Universi-1. ?- - - ? o - I | ty, Lexington, Va., says the Savannah Adver- i tiser, a student is each day detailed to watch , * beside the tomb of General Lee. Every mor-; niug one of the students is posted at the tomb i in the memorial room of the chapel, built; i under the supervision of Lee. He is styled a i : "watcher," and his duty is to remain there j during the day and receive visitors, showing j ( them the proper courtesy and attention. As ' there are nearly three hundred and fifty stu- j < dents, no one is on duty more than once a I year. Thus, the entire Southern people, < through their representatives in the Universi- , ty, are watching at the tomb of Lee, and j their sons improved in manner and bearing by the sacred duty they perform, and their miuds and hearts benefitted by thoughts of the I noble dead. i In addition to the political changes . which have taken place recently, by which ] Legislatures in differents States had become j Democratic which had for a long time been ( Republican, it appears also that the list of the governors of the thirty-seveu States of the ' Union has been turned about considerably. In 1870 four years ago, there were but six j 1 Democratic governors in office, viz: Haight,! i of Caifornia; Saulsbury, of Delaware ; Steven- j | son, of Kentucky ; Bowie, of Maryland ; Kan- i, dolph, of New Jersey, and Hoffman, of New ' York. Those were the days when it was , sneeringly said that the Democratic party was "dead." To-day there are seventeen Demo- ! cratic governors, not counting Booth, of Cali foriiia, and Baxter, of Arkansas who may be classed among the opponents of the regular Republican organization. The Democratic officials are Ingersoll, of Connecticut; Ponder, of Delaware ; Smith, of Georgia ; Hendricks, of Indiana ; Leslie of Kentucky ; Groome, of Maryland ; Woodson, of Missouri; Bradley, of Nevada ; Weston, of New Hampshire; Parker, of New Jersey; Allen, of Ohio ; Grover, of Oregon ; Brown, of Tennessee; Coke, of Texas; Kemper, of Virginia ; Jacob, of West Virginia ; and Naylor, of Wisconsin. In 1870 the list stood six Opposition to thirty-one Republican}?. In 1874 it stands nineteen Opposition to seventeen Republicans, excluding Kellogg, of Louisiana, who was not elected governor, and who exercises power now only by the protection of bayonets. ?otkvillc tfrnquiw. YORKVILLE, S. C.: rHURSDAY MORNING,"'JULY 30. 1874. 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Having determined to devote more atteniou 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 mashinery in use; and with a choice stock of nks, cards, papers, &c., Ave are prepared to ixecute as good work as can be done any-, vhere in the United States. Orders for lall Tickets, 1 Freight Billheads, tank Notices, Labels, loads and Coupons, Law Blanks, Ji 11 Heads, 'Law Briefs, 'business Cards, Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads 'hecks, Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, Note Headings, Drafts and Notes, Programmes, Envelopes, Policies, Fire&Lifelns., Election Tickets, Shinplasters, Festival Tickets, (Wedding Cards, villreceive prompt attention, and satisfaction is to quality of work, guaranteed in every nstance. Particular attention given to fine vork in colors. OUR COUNTRY. The place a man is bora is his uative coun,ry. It may be ruled over by a tyrant. Still t is his country. It may oppress him and ceephimin poverty. Still it is his native and. To it he is bound by a thousand ties, tts history is full of interest, and awakens a feasant recollection of the past. The Lapauder, removed to a tropical clime, dreams >f icebergs. Green Erin, though sad and forsaken, is ever loved aud cherished by the ixiled Irishraau. Scotland is a "wee bit" of and, but its rugged mountains and rocky hills lever cease to be loved and admired by the Scotchman abroad. The American has a country, and in many espects it is the greatest country on which lie sun shines. It is washed on the east by lie Atlantic and on the west by the Pacific, it extends from near the equator to the region of perpetual snow. It is the boast of >ld England that the sun never sets upon her lominions, and her morning drum is heard ound the world. This is true; but England's louiinions are scattered over the world like so uany islands in the ocean. Ours is a solid nnss of three million six hundred and twelve housand square miles, with a population of hirty nine millions. Four hundred years igo the territory known as North America ,vas unknown to the world. On the 18th of tVpril, 1512, Ponce de Leon lauded on the Peninsula now known as the State of Florida. This is only three hundred and sixty-two I'ears ago. No perruauent settlement, howiver, was effected for many years after this late. On the 23rd of May, 1606, the first permanent settlement of the New World, by ;he English, was effected at Jamestown, in the state of Virginia. In 1620, the State of Mas- j achusetts was settled at Plymouth. Charles:on, the chief city of the State of South Car- j diua, was founded in the year 1672. From this period may be dated the settlement of South Carolina. It is only two hundred and fifty-four years since the first permanent English settlement was commenced in the United States. Only two hundred and two years since the State of South Carolina was an unbroken forest from mountain to seaboard. It will be recollected that the country has passed through a multitude of calamities. Aside from the difficulties that attended the clearI ing of the forest and putting it in proper condition for cultivation, there have been many grievous wars. From the first settlement of the country up to the Revolutionary period, the inhabitants were almost continually at war with the aborigines. Then came the Revolutionary war; then the war of 1812; then the Mexican war, and lastly the war of the 1 States. By these several wars united, more j than half a million of men were killed and , millions of property destroyed. At one time j or other, all the chief cities were laid in ashes j by an invading foe. In spite of all these dis-, istrous' events, the United States has grown I ... and flourished?often, iu spite of herself. To- j day she stands, in point of wealth, amongst' the first nations of the earth, and in point of j enterprise, the first. In the whole world, there are estimated j to be one hundred and twenty-seven thousand | and five hundred miles of railroad. Of this j number, more than fifty-one thousand are in ! the United States. The cities of the United ! states rival in wealth and population the cities if the old world. London was a city niue- j toon hundred vears atro. The island on i which New York to-day stands, was covered J with wild vines in the year 1613, only two j hundred and sixty years ago. In the whole ; world, there are only eight cities that have a J greater population than New York. These i ire London, in England ; Paris, in France;: Berlin, in Germany ; Constantinople, in Tur- , key; Calcutta, in India; Pekin and Canton,! in China; and Yeddo, in Japan. All of! these are several hundred years older than j New York. When we look seriously at the growth of i the United States, it strikes us with wonder j md astonishment. There is nothing like it in , the history of the past. We may say it is all sham. Be it so ; but it is the grandest sham the world ever saw. But it is not all sham. The man who thinks there is nothing real about the United States, is terribly mistaken. That its laws are unchangeable, and its insti j tutions founded upon a rock, is not claimed, j It may, like Rome, its great autetype, fall with its own weight, but when it falls it will I shake the nations of the earth from centre to 1 circumference. THE BEECH ER-TILTOX SCANDAL. The Beecher-Tilton scandal has been again ; revived, and for the past month has afforded an unusually savory dish for the gossips and ' 8candal-mongers,uotonly of Plymouth church, but the affair has assumed national propor1 tions, and is to day the principal topic all over ; the land. This is but natural, when it is rei membered that the accused occupies the fore: most position of any pulpit orator in Ameri; ca, and excepting, perhaps, Spurgeon, of any divine in the world. Mr. Beecher is a man of I commanding abilities, a public speaker of al i most matchless eloquence and power, and has ! wielded influence wherever the English language is read; and his fall, if fall he may, I will do great harm to morals, manners and j religion throughout the land, j The case, in brief, is simply a charge of ; adultery with the wife of Theodore Tilton. The charge has been mysteriously and covertly made heretofore; but third parties have | interceded and managed to keep it smothered, Mr. Beccher, all the while maintaining what ! he and his friends were pleased to call a digniGed silence. Mr. Tilton, however, from some cause, revived the charges a few weeks ago, and Mr. Beecher promptly asked a committee of investigation, consisting of members of his church, to be appointed for the purpose of sifting the matter to the bottom. That committee is now at work. Tilton has made his statement, verified by his oath, charging criminal intimacy between Mrs. Tilton and Mr. Beecher, in support of which he adduces extracts of letters from his wife, her written confession and other epistolary documents, besides other evidences, which he says came under his own observation. Mr. Beccher has made a brief statement, in which he sweepingly denies every charge which Tilton prefers against him and Mrs. Tilton. He says that when complications arose between Mr. and Mrs. Tilton, several years ago, he hastily advised separation as the easiest solution of the trouble, which counsel he afterward regretted, and for which he apologized to Tilton, and it is this apology, which was made in writing, that Mr. Tilton distorts into an apology for a criminal offense against the sanctity of the marriage tie?a crime, the contemplation of which never entered his mind. Me. Beecher promises a more extended statement, which he says he will make after the committee shall have concluded their investigation. Mrs. Tilton has also made a lengthy written statement, which has been placed in the hands of the committee. She denies solemnly and emphatically the charges laid upon her by her husband, and asserts that he has perverted extracts from her letters, and that other statements he publishes purporting to have been made by her in writing, or to which she signed her name, were extorted from her when on a bed of sickness. She alleges that Tilton has ever been envious of Beecher's fame, and has for years made the threat that "the God of battles was in him," and he would crush Beeeher if he had to sacrifice everything, even to character, wife and children, to accomplish the purpose. Altogether the case is an ugly one; but the sentiment of the northern press, which is most directly interested, is decidedly against Tilton, and the charitable construction of insanity is placed upon his acts. As the matter stands, however, itis simply a question of veracity between the accuser and the accused, on which public opinion will ever continue divided. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The crops in Chester county are reported to be in fine condition. ? A number of German immigrants arrived in Newberry last week. ? It is claimed that Greenville has a population of 5,000, and oue dog to each inhabitant. ? A handsome marble monument is about to be erected over the grave of Iiou. D. L. Wardlaw in Abbeville. ? The Union-Herald says that Patrick T. Murray is reported to be a candidate for the legislature from York county. f1A?,.?AMtAnn 1 rtn r?rl ?rl a fna aro m n 1 fi nl V1 n or y.j ...b in the third district. Messrs. Purvis, Moses, Hoge, Jillson and Crews are in the field. ? William McGuinnis, an old and respected citizen of Columbia, died in that city on Saturday last. ? The Union Times reports lice and rust on cotton in almost every township in that county* r ? The Abbeville Medium says: Davis, the illicit distiller who was recently killed, buried three thousand dollars in gold" and the secret of its place died with him. ? Lawsou D. Melton, a son of AttorneyGeneral Melton, has been appointed to a cadetship in the naval academy at Annapolis, Maryland. ? They have a novel way of evading the license law in Williamsburg county. The dealer sells a cake for five or ten cents and throws in the drink. ? A soda water apparatus, used in the establishment of Mr. Hoffman, in Columbia, exploded one day last week, seriously injuring Mr. Wehner, the superintendent. ? ? Ilorry County voted on the 12th instant, by a majority of forty, to subscribe $65,000 i . t n _ r\i i t to tne capital StOCK 01 me v^neraw mm uaue River Railroad. ? The Greenville and Columbia Railroad is said to be carrying more passengers than any other road in the South. The road is rapidly improving, and is to-day in a better condition than it has been in for years. ? The Attorney-General has appealed from the recent decision of Judo Graham as to the receivability of the bills of the Bank of the State for taxes, and the case will be argued before the Supreme Court. ? A meeting will be held iu Chester on next iYlouuay lor tne purpose or carrying out me recommendations of' the Tax-payers Convention, in organizing Tax Unions in Chester county. ? Maj. M. R. Dchuiy has announced himself a candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of the State, on the ground that it is time that a pure black man should hold some executive office. ? A correspondent of the Greenville News proposes Gen. J. B. Kershaw, of Camden, as a candidate for Congress from the Fourth Congressional district, embracing the counties of Greenville, Spartanburg, Union, York, Lancaster, Fairfield, Chester and Kershaw. ? The city council of Greenville have resolved to subscribe the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars in bonds to the Greenville and French Broad Railroad, to be paid when the work shall be commenced from Greenville towards Asheville, and as the work progresses. ? City Registrar Lebby reports that there were fiifty-one deaths in Charleston during the week ending on Sunday last, viz : Twelve white children, fifteen colored adults, ' and twenty-four colored children. Not a sin-! gle white adult, male or female, died during the week. i ? The Abbeville l\m is responsible for the following : "At Due West, some time ago, a ; couple of young gentlemen, who desired to ! dress up occasionally, but still had an eye to j economy, bought a fine beaver hat in partneri ship, and agreed to wear the same alternately. Everything was "lovely" for awhile, but ! finally the young men quarreled, and the one i who had possession of the hat sold his half- ( I interest to a highly perfumed darkey, without i consulting his partner. At the last accounts, j the darkey was wearing the hat." i ? Smith, the colored cadet recently dismiss- 1 ed from West Point, reached his home in Co- j iluiubia last week. A correspondent of a; ; northern paper says : "Smith has been perse- J i cnted from the time he entered the academy ; ; i he has been dropped a class; and last week his papers of dismissal were received from Washington. Altogether, he has had a hard : road to travel while at West Point. Though j j he has written letters to his friends, and is , ; quite sanguine about returning, and finally i I graduating, the professors and cadets say | there is not the slightest chance. Said a proj fessor to a friend, the other day: "It will be | a long time before any one belonging to the i colored race can graduate at West Point." ; ? This is the way they compromise cases in ,' j Marlboro county. A colored tran was charged i with an attempt to commit a nameless crime, j There was some talk of taking out a warrant ( I for him, but it was finally decided not to do | so upou his agreement to undergo a sentence i | to be imposed by a court of arbitration conI sistiug of his own color. This court sentenced j him to receive twenty-five lashes with a twisted 1 i switch upon the bare bare, the whipping to | be laid on by his mother. The prisoner ac- 1 j quiesced in the sentence, and the old lady ; commenced to lay it ou, mildly at first, but, ' warming up rapidly to her work, she laid it ou with a will. At this the prisoner was dis- 1 posed to recant, but it was too late. The full twenty-five lashes were administered, and he i was told to go and sin no more. ? The Charlotte Observer says that on Fri- i day night of last week a small colony of select English, Scotch and German people, in i charge of the Agent, Mr. Gaines, were lodged i at the Central Hotel, in that city, and are to be settled along the Air-Lane itaiiroad, in the upper part of South Carolina. They represent about forty persons in all, and their wives aud childreu will come on as soon as these locate. They are men of some means and mostly mechanics. A number of public spirited gentlemen made their acquaintance and encouraged them by friendly greeting. | We learn that a much larger colony is getting ready to follow these in a few weeks. Mr. Gaines, we are informed, has been invited to visit various places at the North and address the working people on the advantages of the South, which he proposed to do on his return to New York. i NEWS OF THE DAY. ? The rainy season on the Pacific coast has never been kuown to be so severe as it is this year. ? Miss Rose Poe, the last surviving sister of the late Edgar Allen Poe, died in Baltimore last week, aged eighty-eight. ? James Denning, charged with embezzling six thousand dollars from the Atlanta, Georgia, post-office, was arrested at St. Louis, Mo., last week, and has been returned to Atlanta. ? G. E. Smith, who erected for the late Prof. Morse, the first line of telegraph poles I in this country, between Washington and Bal tirnore, in 1844, died recently at his residence in Newfield, Maine, at an advanced age. ? The Secretary of War has ordered that the army pursue and punish Indians guilty of committing depredations, even if the Indians have to be pursued into their reservations. ? On Thursday a terrible water-spout burst in the mountains near Eureka, Nevada, sweeping through the town, killing twenty persons, and causing great destruction to property. ? Reports from all parts of Minnesota, show that the grasshoppers have destroyed a million and a half bushels of wheat in that i I OMte, aild It is pruuauie a u;m uiuiiuu uuauels more will yet be destroyed. ? It is stated that the distinguished Confederate General to whom the President will tender the Russian mission, is Gen. Maney, of Tennessee, who led the 1st Tennessee regiment to the field, and whose service during the war was chiefly in West Virginia. ? Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, has been visited by an unprecedented fall of rain, flooding the houses, and causing great destruction to life and property. Sixteen dead bodies have been recovered, and it is supposed that not less than fifty lives were lost. ? For some time past the numbers of people leaving America for Europe have outnumbered the immigrants arriving on our shores. This is attributed to the dullness of the times, and the great inducements offered by steam-1 * 1 - - C 1 J A I ship companies in ine way 01 reuuceu raita from this side. ? A dispatch from El Ilito creek, New Mexico, says that twenty-one persons?six Americans and fifteen Mexicans?have been ' killed by the Indians between Fort Bascom and Ilatton Mountains up to the 17th of July. A company of the 8th Cavalry has been ordered form Fort Union to the scene of the outrages. ? A dangerous counterfeit five dollar note liawug appeared upon the Trader's National j Bank of Chicago, the Treasury Department \ offers one-half per cent, premium for all gen-1 uine notes of that bauk, with the view of dri-1 ving from circulation all bills of that denom-1 i ination issued by the bank, and thus thwart- ; ing the counterfeiters. | ? An attempt was made on Thursday even- j ' ing, by a mob of negroes, at Austin, Miss., to !: I lynch George Ii. Smith, who a few days ago 1 | killed a negro; and but for the prompt action j j of the sheriff, who agreed to put Smith in j ! jail, he would have been hung. Since then, ,; the negroes have been guarding the jail; but | the authorities, feariug they may renew the attempt to lynch Smith, have asked for troops to protect the jail. ? Official despatches from Custar's expedi- j; tion say the command is in excellent con- < dition. Plenty of good grazing and water j ' has been found on the route. No Indians :1 were seen, except a small party two or three ! I days ago. The correspondence upon Indian i ; matters between the Interior and War De- < ! partraents and Generals Sherman and Sheri- i ! dan shows that perfect "harmony exists in all i j official quarters relative to the subject of deal- j i ; ing with hostile Indians. j ? Professor Donaldson, accon-panied by ] I several representatives of the press, made a I balloon ascension from Barnum's Hippo-' i drome in New York last Thursday afternoon, j 1 At 5 o'clock next morning they landed at ] Germantown near Hudson, 104 miles from i New ^ork, from which place they again as- j * cendcd to a high altitude. At 11.30 next 11 morning the aeronauts passed Saratoga, 13 miles north of New York, sailing in a nofth erly direction. The balloon came down eigfc miles north of Saratoga, at 6 o'clock Satui day evening. ? The Governor of Mississippi, on the pr( text that party feeling in Vicksburg is ver high on account of the election to take plac on the 4th of August, telegraphed to Presiden Grant for troops, to be sent to that city Prominent citizens of Vicksburg, includin the Mayor and Po3t-niaster, protest agains the movement, and the matter is held unde advisement by the Executive and War D( partraeuts. The origin of the difficulty seem to be that the Governor wishes the militar organizations in the city to return their arm to the State until after the election. Thi: the white companies are willing to do; bu the blacks refuse to be disarmed. The Vicki burg Times of the 26th says there is 110 fui ther apprehension of trouble, and no need fo troops. The Adjutant General of the Dc partment of the South, writing to the Wa Department, expresses the opion that Govei nor Davis will not be able to make out ; case sufficient to warrant the interference o the Federal authorities. ? ? NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The health of Chief Justice Pearson, 'o the Supreme Court, which has been bad fo some time, is improving. ? An escaped convict from the penitentiar was shot and killed near Raleigh on Tuesda; of last week. ? A rattlesnake with twenty-two rattles and measuring four feet ten inches long, wa recently killed in Graham county. ? There are at present only four ex-Govei nors of North Carolina living: Ex-Governor \V. A. Graham, David S. Reid, \V. W. Hoi den and Zeb. B. Yauce. ? The Charlotte Observer announces tha Col. Hoke, the independent candidate, ha withdrawn from the judicial contest in tha district. ? The Second Presbyterian Church of Chai lotte. now in course of erection, is designer to be a beautiful structure of a new style c architecture. ? The Charlotte Home learns that a sever storm occurred last week in the Steel creel section of that county. A house and bari were blown down. ? The Charlotte Southern Hov\e report .1 1 l .i?. ?? ? ?n crops uiruugnuui lijui bcuuuli as unusuau good where they have been worked. Som farmers say that they never had better pros pects. ? Gen. John B. Gordon having declined t deliver the annual address before the nex State Fair, owing to his inability to attenc1 Congressman Lamar, of Mississippi, has beei invited to deliver the same. ? A negro named John Allen Blake wa hanged in Raleigh last Friday for the crim of rape. Only thirty-two days elapsed be tween the commission of the deed and th execution of the culprit, the law taking it regular course. ? Sidney G. Miller, who built the Wash ington and Ohio railroad to Leesburg, ha just commenced work on a contract to buili a road from Norfolk to Elizabeth City, N. C The road is to be completed within a yeai and is one of the fruits of immigration. ? The Raleigh News learns that on las Thursday while two young men?James Fai rell and Frank Gunter?were turkey huntiu in Chatham county, Farrel, mistaking Gut ter (whom he indistinctly discerned throug the hushes for a turkey,) fired and shot hir dead through the brain. ? A letter in the Charlotte Observer state that on the 19th instant, Thomas Gladde killed Thomas Rippey in a drunken brawl a a low grog-shop three miles from Shelbj Gladden, who is not yet 21 years of age, wa arrested on the same day. He has served two years' terra in the penitentiary on a charg of robbing the mail, and was released about year ago. ? The Charleston News and Courier say that on Sunday of last week the body of white man, considerably decomposed, wa found near the six-mile house. From paper on his person, his name was found to be Johi T-Tn .olrma "M/-irtk Pfirnlinn in senreh of em ployraent. His body bore do evidences o violence, aud no clew could be gained as t the cause of his death. ? The Wilmington Star says that on Thurs day last, during a severe thunder storm a Magnolia, Duplin county, the lightning strucl a tree within ten feet of the store door of Mi H. E. Newberry, of that place, killing in stantly a young man by the name of Danie Glissou, who was passing at the time, tearinj into shreds his hat and shoes, and setting fir to his clothing. His skin was literally cookei from head to foot. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Important to Medical Miiuenis. The Trustees of the Louisville Medica College, (Louisville, Ky.,) appreciating th impoverished condition of the whole country have determined to grant a Beneficiary Schol arship to any young man, who, sufficient); educated to study medicine and of good char acter, is unable to pay for his education. T secure this valuable aid, application, with i full statement of the facts, should be mad without delay to Dr. E. S. Gaillard, Dean Louisville, Ky. Hie Cotton Trade. A despatch from New York, unde date of the 25th instant, says: The market for cotton on the spot has con tinued excessively dull throughout the entir ? 1 ?1 1- O.? weeK, ana vuiues miuw u luituoi ouuunugu o one-eighth cent. There is very little iuclina tion to purchase other than for immediat necessities, as the accounts of the new croj are exceedingly favorable, aud probabl; prices will be lower. Liverpool has bee: very dull, which may be attributed to tb same cause. For forward delivery there ha been at times a wide fluctuation and a varia ble tone to the market. Every little new from the growing crops is at once picked uj by the brokers, who gather about the rinj and "bull" and "bear" the market, as ma; be to their interest. The early months, par ticularly, rule weak, which can be ac counted for in the large stock on hand, aud ai absence of demand. The total sales of th week have reached 91,812 bales, of whicl 88,500 were for forward delivery ; 3,312 bale on spot, including 1,001 for export; 2,067 fo spinning, and 244 for speculation, llic New Postal Law. ? nAot.A^no Kill noccnr] Viv t.hft -L HO |JUOb-UlllWW Uttij |/uwwvm wj v..v session of Congress, makes the followinj ehauges in the postal laws : On anrl after the first of January, 1875 newspapers and periodicals mailed from th office of publication must be paid in advance by weight, at the following rates: Issued week [y and oftener, 2 cents for each pound or frac tion of a pound ; and those papers issued lea frequently than once a week at the rate o three cents a pound or fraction thereof. Thi papers shall be weighed in bulk, and paid b; attaching to the package a special adhesive stamp, prepared for the purpose, or in othe manner, as the Postmaster-General may direct 2 Oue copy of each newspaper to actual subscrii j bers to go free in the county where they are it | printeil in whole or in part. j r- j The new law makes a uniformity in all other ; | matter than letters, newspapers, and periods' j icals, limiting packages to four pounds, at the y ! rate of one cent for each two ounces, e i The salaries of first, second and third-class t offices are fixed on a new basis, according to J. the receipts of the respective ofHees. Post- j g 1 masters of the fourth class are to be paid by it a commission on the receipts, and the full rer j ceipts of post office box rents. !- Crops iu the West. 8 | The Memphis Committeon Information Y and Statistics of the Cotton Exchange make s a report derived from 84 responses from West! Tennessee, 82 from North Mississippi, 84 from ! t j Arkansas, north of the Arkansas river, and ; >- 15 from Alabama, of an average date of July I 15, as follows: Of 265 responses, 108 reported ] r favorable weather since 15th ultimo ; 157 re- { !* port too dry, aud 1 too wet; 171 report more j r favorable weather to date than for correspond-1 v iug date of last year ; 22 per cent, of the crop a planted has been abandoned from drought and overflow; 42 per cent, of the crop was planted early. Of the early planting 170 report better stands than last year, aud 95 report not so good. Of the late plantiug 165 * report better stands and 100 not so good. r Of the early planting 206 report the crop well forward and boiled. Of the late planting P 140 report favorably. On labor 166 report Y the labor working well and 100 moderately well to bad. Of the early planting 141 report *' a better conditional crop than last year, 52 as 9 well, and 53 not so good. Of the late planting 102 report better, 74 as well, and 90 not so good. .Responses as to the general condi8 tion of the crop indicate that it has been bettercultivated than for years, but that it is suffering materially from drought, and antici* pate danger from frost upon so late a crop, with 8 slight indications of rust and blight. 29 per cent of the crop planted did not come up before June 1; 192 per cent, was planted after the 30th. 86 responses report good corn crops, ^ 88 fair, 99 inferior. 141 report good wheat ^ crops, 81 moderate poor. 57 report good oat crops, 174 moderate poor. Grasses generally e are poor, owing to the drought. [j Republican Executive Committee. D At a meeting of the Executive Com~ P Donnkli/m r* nortv knM in C\r\m Ill 1LLCC 111 LUC licpuun^wu f/c*A \jj y uviu iu vw 8 lumbia on Tuesday of last week, the following y orders snd rules for the organization of the e party machinery were promulgated : !" Notice is hereby given that a State Nominating Convention of the Union Republican o party of South Carolina will he held at Cot lumbia on Tuesday, the 8th September, 1874, | at 12 o'clock, m., iu the State House, for the purpose of nominating candidates of the Union Republican party for the offices of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, to be voted for 9 at a general election to be held on the 3d day e of November, 1874. !- The convention will also select a State Exe ecutive Committee, chairman of each county 8 and a chairman of each Congressional District, and will transact such other business as may be deemed necessary. The convention will be composed of 124 s delegates, apportioned among the several d counties iu accordance with the ratio of rep* J, resentation in the House of Representatives . of this State, viz: Abbeville, 5; Aiken, 4; Anderson, 3; Barnwell, 4; Beaufort, 7 ; Charleston, 18 ; Chester, 3; Chesterfield, 2 ; daren't don, 2; Colleton, 5 ; Darlington, 4; Edgefield, > 5: Fairfield. 3: Geortretown. 3: Greenville. g 4; Horry, 2 ; Kershaw, 3 ; Lancaster, 2; Laurelis, 4 ; Lexington, 2 ; Marion, 4 ; Marlboro, ^ 2; Newberry, 3 ; Oconee, 2; Orangeburg, 5 ; Pickens, 1 ; Richland, 4; Spartanburg, 4; D Sumter, 4; Union, 3; Williamsburg, 3; York, 4. !3 For the purpose of selecting delegates to n the State Convention, the Chairman of each ,t couuty will issue a call for a County Conventiou in accordance with the rules adopted by ^ the last State Convention for the government of the Union Republican party. (See paraa graphs 5, 6, 7 and 10 of said rules hereunto e attached.) a Delegates from the various counties composing the several Congressional Districts will g also be elected by said county conventions at the same time and place that delegates are elected to the State Nominating Convention. a The Conventions of the several Congressional 8 Districts will be held at such time an.d place n as may be designated by the Chairman of i- such District, to be selected by the State Con,f vention. 0 EXTRACTS FROM RULES. 5th. The County Chairman shall give at least ten days' notice of the County Convent tion, by advertising at least once a week in one or more newspapers published in the 1 county, or, if there be none such, then in the ' one having the largest circulation in the - county, and also by any such additional means - * *- n. L _1 11 1 he may deem requisite, oucn nonce snaii ? state the time and place>of meeting, and the ? purpose of such conventions. , 6th. The County Chairman, in his call for the County Convention, shall state the time and place of the precinct meetings for the election of delegates to the County Convention. At all such meetings the Precinct Chairman shall call the meeting to order, and tempora1 rily preside. e 7th. The County Conventions shall consist of not less than thirty-two delegates nor more ' than one hundred, and the County Chairinau shall fix the number of delegates from each Y precinct, to the County Convention, in pro* portion to the number of voters at each preo cinct, according to the returns of the latest a, election ; except the county of Charleston. e 10th. Delegates to the Congressional District and Judicial Circuit Conventions shall ' be elected at the same time and place that delegates are elected to the State Nominating Convention. And theCounty Chairman shall r give due notice of this in his call for the County Convention. REFORM. G I J The citizens of this State may be divided, I i politically, into three classes; the radical re- j " publicans, who swear by their party, right or j ? wrong ; the old democratic leaders and their : ^ followers, who still cling to tne ueaa issues 01 j ^ the war ; and the moderate men of both parties, who are willing to accept the situation, j c and abide by the lessons of the war; and with i 9 each one of these classes, the cry is?reform, j '* And to each one of these classes the word j 8 | bears a different meaning. To the first it; ? j means, words, not deeds. To the second the 9 ; complete expulsion of the party now in power,} ^ | and the resumption by them of the govern- j ' j ment. To the last, it means, an honest gov-, ' ernment, irrespective of party. And this last j . is the only reform that can be successfully car- j I ried out, as must be evident to any one who j 8 j gives the matter serious thought. r But if reform is to be effected at all, it must i j be at the forthcoming elections. If a failure ' then, the next chauce will be too late. The ' ! citizens win, ere men, nave suijk. mw? a uuu-1 t dition of hopeless apathy, quietly yielding g themselves a prey to their spoilers, or they j | will seek armed redress. I I The task is no easy one. It is hedged i ' around with innumerable difficulties. Tried ; before, it has signally failed. And the only , !' way to make a success of the present attempt * is, for the people diligently to search out the i s- causes of failure, and carefully to guard I 3 against their repetition, f The principal causes of failure, we think are, 0 first, the want of due care in the selection of candidates.* Second, ?lack of hearty coope- j ^ ration on the part of the white citizens of the e . State. Third, a want of proper organization.' r j Of these three, the choice of suitable candi- J ;.! dates is perhaps the most important, and the I most difficult. He must not only be an honest man, but also one whom both parties can trust. Whatever be his other qualifications, these two are essential. Without the one, his election would prove of no avail; without the other, he could not be elected. The white citizens of the State, at least, all of them who sincerely desire reform, should come forward to the front, and give their aid and influence to the movement. The complaint that a large number of voters stay at home 011 election days should be no longer heard. If, when the fight takes place they are not at their posts, what wonder if the cause they pretend to favor should be defeated. Not only should all vote, but it would be well if some of the more moderate men would attend the primary meetings of the colored voters, and take the occasion to talk to them plainly about the state of affairs. As it now stands, tnose wno, at neari oppose reiunu, o?u luaic their statements uncontradicted. To insure cooperation the party of reform should be thoroughly organized. We have seen and felt the result of a complete organization in the hands of skillful and unscrupulous leaders; let us ascertain if effects as good as these are bad, can not be procured from a perfect organization under the control of those who wish to save the land we love.?Fairfield News. / RATIONALE 0?VAX UNIONS. / * f Hon. Armistead Burt addressed the citizens of Cokesbury on the 16th inst., upon the subject of Tax Unions. The purpose and scope of these organizations were well presented in his terse and concise way. 'They are in no way political in aim or object, and there is no reason why every good and honest man ip the State, white and black, should not join them and make them strong to dictate "the reduction of taxation and the honest appropriation and expenditure of the public funds." We have the opportunity now to unite in resisting the systematic pillage to which we have been subjected for years, and it will be our own fault if we do not, by requiring it to observe a just limit, bring the niockerv of government - 1 ... - " ?T. 1 which oppresses us 10 lerius. >y e commeuu to the acceptance of our citizens the sober, well-considered words of Mr. Burt upon this subject. "The occasion," he said? "la one of the most vital importance to the country, and of deep interest to all. Every honest man, white or colored, has an individual interest in the organization of Tax Unions. Those who are dishonest aud prefer theft have no business here. Those who believe in political power to oppress the poor, that they may fatten on the spoils of office, are not wanted here. Every honest man must enter his remonstrance in language not to be misunderstood. These Tax Unions are the legitimate offspring of the Tax-Payers' Convention which assembled in Columbia some time ago. He commended to all what was said aud done by that body, composed of men of high respectability and tax-payers. Some had been disposed to deride and ridicule the action of that convention at the time, but I do not suppose that any who read the signs of the times will doubt that tremendous consequences were the result of that meeting. "The great evils complained of by the press, these Tax Unions seek to correct and reform. Is there any man outside of an asylum in favor of high taxes, unless he received a good part himself? The amount yearly paid for taxes you know, and yet it has been 9aid that it is not higher than in other States. This is untrue. Although it may appear so, * still the false assessments of property more than double the taxes. A poor woman who paid $3 tax in 1871, paid for the same in 1872 818. How is the equalization of taxes by the County Boards done? They simply take the average, by adding the highest and lowest assessments together, and then strike an average, without any regard as to the value of the land. The taxes are monatroua. In only nineteen of the thirty-two counties in South Carolina, 146 square miles of land have been sold for State and county taxes, ancl 537 snnnro niilpa nf land havp h#*>n iorfeitad to the State at tax sales during the current year. Can one, in view of this fact, be so blind as not to see his fate in the future? Is there any one who docs not find the burthen increasing every year, and that the people are poorer than at any time since the war? I know, with regret, that our people have withdrawn from public affairs. I see but few in attendance at public meetings or at our county courts that were formerly sure to be present. It is said they are at home, working hard to make money. This is a blind policy and will * surely fail in the end. If taxation increases, the lands wearing out, want and destitution willsurely overtake the agricultural element, because they can't bear the taxation. We must do something to arrest this state of things. The man who is willing to submit to it is not worthy the name of freeman; he ought to be a slave to some^despot, and slave he will surely be. *To make an effort to avert such calamity is to form these Tax Unions. The people in the up-country have not moved in this matter as they should do, and I trust the oue formed here to-day will set the ball rolling until each county is fully organized. "These Tax Unions are not exclusively for white men, but all who desire to enjoy the proceeds of their labor under an honest government. Colored men ought, by all means, to join. I intend to observe how many carpetbaggers will join. How many Southern men _.l n...?anf r.o rtTT in nAtoni* WUU 11UTV act null tug ^icccut |jai tj iu j/vnv? will join ? I affirm that' no office-holder in South Carolina will join. Why not ? Because they desire high taxes levied to pay their salaries and to put the stealings in their pockets. The colored people are not to be deprived of what they have. The government of South Carolina will be administered under the constitution of 1868 ; hence there is no party contest for this year. The contest will be for men?nothing else; and through men as instruments these reforms must be made. It is a fact that the tax-payers are in a minority, but then they have the intelligence and property. They have a duty to perform in helping, so far as they can, in introducing a decent government for South Carolina. How will they do it? We must stir the flagging spirits of some, and tone down that of others to a sense of their duty. We are to choose between expedients?between evils. To a hungry man, a half loaf is better than no bread. We cannot suppose that candidates will be nominated at our dictation, but the majority will select. I, therefore, advise quiet, organize Tax Unions, (it is a reproach for a tax-payer not to be a member,) and be silent until nominations are made, it is probable the Democrats will not make nominations this year; the Radicals will. If they nominate better men'than those in office, our duty is to vote for tbem ; otherwise, we would not choose as sensible men. If we could do better by waiting, I would not soil my hands with a Radical ballot. Take 110 part until the nominations are made?then act. The Radical party in South Carolina are as incapable of reform or honesty as a rotten mackerel. It is a putrid corpse that can't be galvanized into a semblance of life/^ _ Hydrophobia and Intemperance.?A man died in New York last week whose death v was credited to hydrophobia; but a careful post-mortem examination, along with a review of all the symptoms preceding his death, established the conclusion that there was no hydrophobia in the case, except in so far as an aversion to water may be called by that name. In other words, it was a clear case of delerium tremens; and this leads us to men tion a singular fact, that while in regard to the small proportion, say fifty or one hundred deaths from hydrophobia in ajpillion of people yearly, we are terribly exercised, yet the great proportion of fifty or one hundred thousand deaths from the effects of alcoholic liquors goes by unnoticed.? Chronicle. S&* The Greenville Enterprise makes a point. It shows that Governor Moses, having failed to report to the General Assembly the pardons granted by him and the reasons therfor, is guilty of a neglect of duty, for which he can, and should be, impeached.