Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, October 01, 1874, Image 2
gtraps and Jacts.
A son of Brigham Young, of Utah, and
a negro from Mississippi, have been admitted
to the National Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Ice a quarter of an inch thick was reported
in the northern part of Maine a few
days ago.
It is said that three-fourths of the women
place the postage stamp on the left hand
corner of the envelope.
The manufacturers of the Eastern
States are combining to reduce production
until remunerative prices can be obtained.
It is asserted that 500 pounds of frogs
are consumed daily in New York. They are
caugnc cnieny in uanada.
Waynesborough, Pa., boasts of a haunted
distillery, which is just the place where one
would naturally look for spirits.
A mulatto made a speech in Columbus,
the other day, in which he claimed to be the
superior of both races, because he was the offspring
of the two.
Any girl ma\ raise a moustache by
shaving her upper lip every day for about a
month. A St. Louis girl has demonstrated
this fact, and now wishes she had not.
The Republican State Convention, at
Utica, on Wednesday of last week, unanimously
renominated Gen. John A. Dix as
the candidate of the partv for Governor of
New York.
Nothern people wonder why the South
does not stop the fiery, untamed orators.
Southern people wonder the North does not
gag Ben Butler. There are bad men and
plenty of fools, North and South.
Horace Maynard, on Wednesday of last
week, was nominated for Governor of Tennessee
by the Republican convention which
met at Chattanooga. The convention refused
to endorse the civil rights bill, yet Horace
avows zealous advocacy of it.
The following States, nineteen in num
Per, are to choose United States senators the
coming winter, viz: Vermont, Maine, Indiana,
Nebraska, West Virginia, Louisiana,
Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey.
"Our lives are spent either in doing
nothing at all, or in doiug to no purpose, or
in doing nothing that we ought to do. We
are always complaining our days are few, and
acting as though there would be no eud of
them."
At a meeting of manufacturers held at
Providence, Rhode Islaud, last week, facts
were submitted showing that the prices of
cotton fabrics are below the actual cost of
production. For this reason, most of the
New England mills will be run on short
time during the next three months.
A popular clergyman says it is interesting
to observe how many people go to the
circus "just to please the children," and very
curious to notice that sometimes it takes several
able-bodied men and motherly women to
look after one little boy or girl on such an occasion.
Hardly a year passes by without some
new use for paper being discovered, the possibilities
of that article seeming yet undeveloped.
It is now very successfully used for
making buggy boxes, baskets, belting for
machinery, boats, clothing, and household
materials, and in some branches of trade it
is rapidly superseding wood in the manufacture
of fancy articles.
The extent to which snuff-dipping is indulged
in the United Stnt.ps mnv he indeed
from the fact that one New York firm, last
year, sold 161,000 pounds of snuff, all of
which was of the kind used for dipping, besides
more than 150,000 pounds of the regular
mixture for the old-fashioned snuffers, to
say nothing of the large amounts manufactured
in the other cities.
The treasurers of the New England
cotton mills having offices in Boston, held a
meeting there on Thursday last, and resolved
that the production of the mills should be reduced
one-third, until ihe relation between
the cost of production and the value of goods
and supply and demand shall be adjusted.
This action will probably further reduce the
price of cotton.
A dispatch from Washington says that
"the Postmaster General and Secretary of the
Treasury, under whom the vast bulk of our
Federal offices in the Southern States are held,
have determined to dismiss any person holding
office against whom any charges of incapacity
or doubtful official responsibility may
be made with sufficient substantiation in the
way of facts and upon competent authority."
The tobacco growers of Virginia have
been unfortunate this season. In some of the
counties where this product has been extensively
cultivated, there will not be one-twentieth
of the usual crop secured. In other
counties the crop will seldom yield more than
one-half or one-third of the customary product,
acording to a correspondent of the Richmond
Enquirer, who has investigated two matter
very thoroughly.
They tell a queer story about the doctors
in a certain Texas town, who were all
away last summer to attend a medical convention.
They were absent about two months,
and on their return found all their patients
had recovered, the drugstores had closed, the
nurses had opened dancing schools, the cemetery
had been cut up into building lots, the
undertakers had gone to making fiddles, and
the hearse had been painted and sold as a circus
wagon.
A meeting was held at Camden on Monday
night of last week in which speeches were
made by John Chesnut and Pinckney of
Kershaw, and Johnson and Sam Lee, of
Sumter, endorsing the Independent Republican
movement. The Camden Journal, in a
report of the proceedings, says that it was
difficult to determine whether a majority of
the persons present were for or against Chamberlain.
Resolutions were adopted, however,
pledging the meeting to the support of Judge
Green.
The Rev. Dr. Newman, formerly chaplain
of the United States Senate, is a man of
wonderful experiences. He writes from the
classic East that he has visited the veritable
Garden of Eden ; that he has had his hands
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Oil lilt: jj'riuiui; lion which siuuus> at uic uuui
of the den that Dauiel was cast into ; that he
will bring back a brick from the Tower of
Babel, and that he has been among the ruins
of Belshazzar'3 palace. If he had only added ;
that he had seen the handwriting on the wall
the record would have been complete.
They have a parliamentary proceeding j
down in Florida that beats anything in Congress.
At a late Radical District Convention
in that State, two nominees, Martin and Furman,
contended for the President's chair.
Martin got in first, but he had to rise to put a
motion, and then Purraan slipped in behiud
him and seated himself iu the chair. Martin
understood parliamentary rules better than
that; so he took Purman by the collar and j
the seat of his breeches and landed him ;
sprawling on the floor. And thus "de pint
ob order" was decided in favor of Martiu.
In the government of Pleskau, in Russia,
a letter was circulated which reported |
that the government intended to send 5,000 of I
the prettiest girls of the country to Africa to j
be married to negroes. There was a panic,:
and the girls made haste to marry any one
who would have them, and there were any
number of marriages. One brandy dealer
made a small fortune out of it, for at Russian
weddings they must have brandy. Now the j
authorities have discovered that this merchant
started the story, and they are not yet done !
with him.
The Goveruor of Mississippi is from
Massachusetts; the Lieutenant Governor is a
negro from another State; the Superintendent
of Education is a negro now on trial for felony.
In Claiborne county the Sheriff can
neither read nor write; the negro Coroner is
under indictment for burglary; the negro
County Treasurer cannot add up a column of
figures;the Hoard of Supervisors have 110
' real estate interests in the county; and most!
| of the magistrates are negroes, many, many ;
! of whom cannot read, and of course cannot '
j even comprehend the laws they pretend to ad-1
I minister.
I The Speech of William H. Trescott, !
! a candidate for congress from the third dis- j
| trict of South Carolina gives some good advice 1
! to his followers of the conservative party.
; He tells them in very plain terms that the j
! situation must be accepted ; that not only must I
! they be unwilling to abridge the rights of the j
colored citizen before the law, they must con- :
vince the country of that unwillingness, while
endeavoring to win the confidence of the colored
people and teach them to be good citizens, j
He admits the difficulties of the task, but
urges it as the only prospect of political success.
If advice like this had been taken
| long ago, South Carolina would have not
been in its present impoverished condition.
But it is not too late, and the prospect of improvement
when this advice is followed will
not be far distant.?N. Y. Tribune.
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POLITICS.
In the early history of the world, the inhabitants
mostly settled in cities. For this there
were various reasons. At first, children settled
around their parents. This continued
until the number of families became very
great. In order to protect themselves from
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tfie invasion or similar settlements, tney remained
in this city organization. The government
of these cities become a matter of
great importance. Men of talent and learning
devoted their whole time to the subject.
From this circumstance modern nations have
borrowed the word "Politics," which literally
means managing a city ; but is now used to
denote the science of government.
In our country, at the present time, it is
very difficult to decide what the word politics
does mean. Every man, woman and child is
a politician. The beardless boy talks politics
at the corner of the streets, in the cars and
at the gay party. Gray-headed sires talk
politics around the fireside to their children,
and at church on the Sabbath day. Men of
reputed learning and men of no letters at all,
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seem iu ue enuajij' vciscu m mc ov-itu^c ui
government. The thing is simply ridiculous.
Pother the science of government is so simple
as to be easily comprehended by the most ignorant,
or a large number of our people are
stultifying themselves in the eyes of the world.
A learned physician once said that it seemed
to be a passion with the Americans to have a
professional character in every family. If
the family had a boy who was moral, he was
educated for a preacher ; if he was very smart
and not moral, he was educated for the law ;
but if neither a preacher nor a lawyer could
be made out of him he was put to reading
medicine. It seems that just now everybody
is wanting some office, and the office that any
and everybody can fill Is that of legislative.
The world has recently, and iu some mysterious
way, made great advances in this respect.
Men feel themselves competent to make laws,
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WHO nave UW lues Ui nuat kiic nuiuiun lutuiio.
This reminds us of a young chap who took
charge of an agricultural paper. His first
editorial was to the effect that turnips should
be pulled off the trees and not shaken down,
lest the fall might bruise them. An old farmer
was passing by his office shortly after the
paper was published. He stepped in and inquired
if he were the editor of the paper.
The young chap said he was, and very politely
inquired what he could do for hiin.
"Nothing," said the farmer, "I only called to
ask if you wrote that editorial 011 the gathering
of turnips." "I did," was the response,
with a feeling of pride that something great
1 had been done. The next week the same editorial
was repeated with the addition that
thousands of bushels of turnips were annually
destroyed by shaking them off the trees.
The farmer called again and remarked, "I sec ]
you repeat your advice about the gathering
of turnips." "Yes," said the editor, "I have
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no doubt those two eaicoriais win save me ;
country a large sum of money." "No doubt
of it at all," said the farmer. This brought j
the young chap to his feet. He just spread;
himself on turnips in particular, and every- j
thing else in general. The old farmer listened j
patiently until he got through and then he j
arose to leave. Just as he was taking his :
leave of the young editor, he asked him if he j
knew that turnips grew in the ground and not;
ou trees. The green editor had been making
a fool of himself to the merriment of all sen-!
sible men. Just so it is with a multitude of
our would-be legislators. They are exposing
their ignorance, not, however, to the merriment
of the country, but to its ruiu.
The mania for politics has robbed the country
of some good men. It is a pity but something
would convince our people that they
are not all born statesmen. It would be an
' evidence that people were returning to their
senses. At present, there are two things that
every one feels perfectly able to do?go to the
legislature and teach school. This indicates
one of two things. Either we are a very in-!
telligent people, or a set of great fools.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Diptheria prevails to an alarming extent
in some portions of Newberry county.
? County Commissioners are now required j
by law to give a bond for two thousand dol-;
lars.
? There are fifty school-houses, attended by !
809 white and 1,758 colored children, in Dar-1
lington county.
? Mouteith Caine, of Union county, has I
passed the examination and been admitted to
the West Point Military Academy.
? B. F. Bates has been appointed a trial ,
justice for Spartanburg county, in place of B. j
II. Stediuan, removed.
? The Governor has accepted the resigna- j
tion of R. J. Hagans, County Commissioner '
of Lancaster.
? Humbert, late County Treasurer of Orangeburg,
is in jail again on the complaint of j
the County Commissioners. His returns of!
the public funds are said to be 89,000 short. J
? The .State Survivors' Association has j
awarded a scholarship in the King's Moun- j
tain Military Academy to Julian Bland, of j
Charleston.
? The Orangeburg News states authoritatively
that Solicitor Buttz will prosecute the
indictment against Governor Moses at the
January term of the Orangeburg Court.
? The aggregate assessment in Sumter
county, has been reduced, by the Board of
Equalization, one-third below what it was
last year.
? Gov. Moses has appointed Jim Depo, a
turbulent colored man of Santuc township,
one of the election commissioners of Union
county, in place of H. H. D. Byron, removed.
? The examination of candidates for the
State scholarships, will be held at the University
in Columbia to-day. The institution
opens on Monday next. AH departments are
free of charge.
? The Tax Union Convention will meet at
Columbia on Thursday next, the 8th of October,
to "consider the necessity of making
nominations for State officers at the approachelection."
? Judge Maekey has ordered the grand
jury of Fairfield county to assemble at Winnsboro
to-day, for the purpose of investigating
the alleged negro-plot to murder the whites
in the Bricc settlement on Saturday, the 12th
A?!
uinmo.
? Mr. F. L. McKeuzie, a son of Jolin McKenzie,
the well-known confectioner, was
found dead in the suburbs of Columbia on
Wednesday morning of last week, with a pistol
ball through his brain and a revolver lying
across his body. The Union-Herald says:
"The body was first discovered by a little colored
boy, about 6 o'clock. It was lying on
the side of a bank, about ten feet from the
road, a hundred yards from the old Confederate
powder factory, about a mile from town.
The boy called to a colored man, named Ben
Sightler, who, upon approaching the body,
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deceased. The dog refused to let him touch
the body. Even after the jury arrived, the
dog repelled every one until Mr. McKenzie,
the father, came, whom he sprang to meet
with evident joy, but soon returned to his
dead master. The body was quite stiff when
found, and had evidently been dead some
hours." The jury of inquest rendered a verdict
that "the deceased carne to his death
from a pistol shot wound through the right
temple, evidently inflicted by his own hand."
STATE POLITICAL ITEMS.
? On Thursday last, at Florence, Hon. J.
H. Rainey was re-nominated as the Republican
candidate for Congress from the first Congressional
District.
? Meetings of conservatives have beeu held
in Greenville, Charleston, Darlington, Marlboro,
Sumter and Colleton, and the nomination
of Judge Green warmly advocated.
? The Winnsboro News makes the statement
that Judge Mackey has said that he will
stump the District in the interest of General
Kershaw, should lie be nominated as a candidate
for Congress.
? A convention of the Independent Repub
licans will be held in Charleston on Friday
next, 2d instant, for the purpose of nominating
candidates in opposition to Chamberlain
and Cleaves.
? The convention to nominate a conservative
candidate for Congress for the fourth
Congressional District, will meet in Columbia
on next Wednesday. It is probable that
Gen. Kershaw will be the nominee.
? In Greenville, the Conservatives have
nominated S. S. Crittenden, T. B. Ferguson,
and Samuel Finley, for the House; S. J.
Douthitt for IVobate Judge; J. H. Taylor
for School Commissioner; and J. W. Bowling,
James Bannister and B. F. Mosely for
County Commissioners.
? The Conservative nominations in Spartanburg
are as follows : For Representatives,
G. Cannon, J. E. Bomar, R. M. Smith and
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WofTord. School Commissioner?Wm. H.
Richardson. County Commissioners?Leroy
McArthur, A. H. Kirby and E. S. Allen.
? In Union, the Conservatives have nominated
T. B. Jeter for the Senate; W. H.
"Wallace and B. H. Rice for the House ; Jos.
F. Gist for Probate Judge ; D. A. Townsend
for School Commissioner, and D. P. Duncan
aud Wm. Jefferies for County Commissioners,
leaving one member of the legislature, one
county commissioner and the coroner to be
nominated by the Independent Republicans.
? At a convention held at Abbeville, on
Thursday last, Comptroller-General Iloge
was nominated on the fourth ballot, as the
Republican candidate for Congress from the
third Congressional District. The first and
second ballots were: Purvis, 8; Iloge, 7; i
Niles G. Parker, 1; L. C. Carpenter, 5.
"Daddy" Cain, at present Cougressraan at
Large, being dissatisfied with the result of the
nomination, threatens to run as an indepenl
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NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The Hickory fair has been indefinitely '
postponed on account of the circus.
? The corn and cotton crops in Catawba:
county are the best they have b.eep for several j
years. j
? The United States Circuit and District!
Courts?Judge Bond to preside?will begin !
the fall term in Greensboro next Monday.
? James Hening, of Lenoir, killed a bald j
eagle last week measuring five feet seven 1
inches from tip to tip.
? Immense swarms of grasshoppers have appeared
in the fields along Yadkin river in
Yadkin county, inflicting considerable damage
to corn and fodder.
? T. P. Wells, of Shelby, has ten acres iu
grapes, six of which are bearing, and will
yield this yearseven thousand gallons of wine,
which sells readily at S3 per gallon.
? The Salem branch of the N. C. Railroad
is represented as iu a prosperous condition.
Since its completion a year ago it has done a
satisfactory freighting business, and the passenger
traffic has been fair.
? Work on the Fayetteville and Florence
railroad will commence within a few days, i
The contract has already been given for grading
from Fayetteville to the South Carolina
line.
? On the 15th ultimo a United States Deputy
Marshal named Rice shot and killed a
man named Andrew Woody at Spring Creek
in Madison county. Woody was resisting arrest
on a capias issued for violation of the internal
revenue laws.
? The boy murderer, David Martin, a negro
only thirteen years of age, sentenced to
be hung on conviction of the murder of a
little white boy, and who escaped from the
Wilmington jail on the 16th of last July, has
been recaptured and returned to prison.
? The Raleigh Xews says: "Mr. Foster, the
patentee of the type settiug machiue that has
attracted so much attention recently in New
York city, is in the city for the purpose of
starting a factory for the manufacture of the
machines. Mr. Foster is a native of this
county and desires to locate his works at
home. We wish the enterprise unbounded
success."
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Coffee Crop.
Official statements from the coffee-producing
countries represent the crop of 1874
as better than it has been in several years.
In Brazil, which furnishes one-half of all the
coffee consumed, the crop is larger than ever
before produced?estimated at over 5,000,000
bags, which added to the estimated production
of all other parts of the world, will exceed
9,000,000 cwt. A speedy decline in the price
of coffee inay be calculated upon with certainty,
and the lovers of this indispensable
table luxury will be again enabled to buy at
lower prices than the article has ruled for the
last few years.
Too Much Endorsing.
The Washington Chronicle thus raps
the South Carolina Republican papers which
just now are so lavish in their praise of Presirlnnt
firnnf
"The Republican press of South Carolina is
just now very busy shouting praises of President
Grant, which might all be eminently
proper if it was not coupled with the statement
to defeat Chamberlain, the nominee for
Governor, would be to disgrace the President.
We have no doubt President Grant shares
with every citizen of the country in the hope
that the Republican party of South Carolina
will, at the coming election, elect true, honest,
and upright men for office, that will redeem
that State from its present disgrace.
But to hold him responsible for the election
or defeat of Chamberlain is asking too much.
Indorsing the National Republican party
and urging General Grant for a third term
does not cover the defect of bad and unfortunate
nominations."
Major Briggs on the Situation.
The position of county chairman of the
independent republican party of York county
having been tendered to Major Briggs, he
publishes a letter in the Union-Herald, declining
the appointment, in the following words:
I most respectfully decline the honor tendered
me for the following reasons: I was a
delegate to the State convention two years
ago, and recorded ray vote for the Hon. D.
H. Chamberlain at that time for governor.
Had I been a delegate to the late convention,
I would have most assuredly cast my vote for
D. H. Chamberlain in preference to any other
gentleman in the State, notwithstanding "I
am native and to the manner born." I further
expect to pull off my coat and roll up
my sleeves and stump the sixth congressional
district all over in favor of the election of D.
H. Chamberlain for governor of South Caro
lina. Therefore,don't think it would be prudent
or in good taste to accept the appointment
as chairman for ToTk county.
Very respectfully, B. F. Briggs.
Amendments to the Constitution.
The Anderson Intelligencer prints the
following summary of proposed amendments
to the constitution of this State, which wiil be
submitted to the people at the next election :
1. In regard to changing the boundary
line between Pickens and Oconee counties
from White Water to Toxaway river. The
present boundary is said to occasion great inconvenience
to the people interested.
2. It is proposed to change the term of office
of the Comptroller-General, Secretary of
State, Treasurer, Attorney-General, Adjutant
and Iuspector General, and Superintendent of
II*.1Avtit* fr\ fwa vooro hv wli!f?h
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all the State officers will be elected every two
years.
3. This amendment prohibits the General
Assembly from authorizing any county, city,
town or village to become a stockholder in, or
to loan its credit to any company, association
or corporation for any amount exceeding five
per cent, of the assessed value of the taxable
property of such couuty, city, town or village,
without the approval of a majority of the legal
voters thereof, expressed at an election
duly held according to law.
Hacking Governor Moses.
On Friday Governor Moses made a
second call upon the President, under the
constitution of the United States, for such assistance
as would enable him to restore order
and quiet to the county of Edgefield, and to
that end asked that immediate orders be sent
to Colonel Black, commanding the United
States forces in Columbia, to report to the
Governor with such of his command as it
might be necessary to employ for the purpose
named. To this the Attorney-General replied
that he was directed by the President to say
that a company of United States troops is now
stationed at Edgefield, and it is expected and
believed that it will afford adequate protection
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A Washington dispatch says that the demand
of Governor Moses for troops occasioned
no excitement whatever, but on the contrary
evoked considerable unfavorable criticism
in official circles as to the motives which inspired
the demand. Twenty-four hours previous
to the receipt of Governor Moses' dispatch
to the President, the war department
had received contrary intelligence from the
officer in command at Edgefield.
Newspaper Postage.
The officials to whom was referred the
duty of devising a plan to be adopted by the
Post Office Department relative to the prepayment
of postage on newspapers, after fully
investigating the subject, report to the Postmaster
General, who has discretionary power
in the matter, that in their opinion two of the
three modes of applying the stamps pointed
out bv the act of Congress are impracticable.
()ne of the plans suggested by the act they,
however, believe not only practicable, but the
best that can be devised. It provides for affixing
the stamps to a "memorandum of mailing."
They give a form of receipt, and say
that the coupon receipt book may be kept at
the post office, and when a consignment is received
from a publisher or news agent the re-,
ccipt is to be filled out and given him upon
payment of the required amount of postage,!
the stamps being affixed to the stub of the receipt.
They recommend that the stamps be j
canceled by perforation with a punch, instead
of being defaced with ink, and that the stamps :
range in value from two cents to sixty dollars,
all of the denominations being multiples of
the two and three cents rates. The stamps '
will be charged to postmasters and accounted .
for the same as other stamps. In reference j
to the special stamps required they state that
while the designs have not been definitely de-'
' termined upon, they should be varied and dis!
tinctive and executed in the best style, in order
to prevent alterations and counterfeits.
In conclusion, they state that the execution of
the new law will require postmasters at publication
offices, or a portion of them at least, to
be supplied with platform scales for weighing
large quantities of matter. The Postmaster
Geueral will doubtless adopt the recommenda- j
tions of the report.
The Troubles in Edgefield.
: For several days past riotous demon;
strations on the part of a portion of the coli
ored population of Edgefield county have
j been manifest; aud at the instigation, as is
! alleged, of one Ned Tennant, captain of a
negro militia company, about four hundred
negro militia men, armed and equipped, con-1
1 gregated in the vicinity of Republican church, i
I fourteen miles below the town of Edgefield.
Tennant alleged that he had been fired at in ,
! his own house, by a white man, and hence, Air
his own protection, as it seems, called out his
j militia company, which, as the rumor flew, :
; was augmented by other companies to the ;
[ number given above. When the news reached
Edgefield much excitement ensued in the
town?the current report being that in the .
absence of the men, the women and children
would be massacred and the houses burnt.
The various accounts that we have read 1
represent that from three to four hundred
white men were soon under arms, and under
command of General Butler, held themselves
ready to meet auy attack from the negroes. <
The condition of affairs being reported to the
Governor, that official at ouce issued a proclamation
commanding the belligerents to disperse,
aud at latest accounts quiet had been
! restored in the locality which at one time was
threatened with aserious collision of the races.
Subsequent to the proclamation of Governor
Moses, a committee of conference from both :
the white and colored people was held in
Edgefield, when it was agreed and assented to
| by Lawrence Cain, Colonel of the 9th regiment.
of militia, that he should immediately
promulgate an order for the militia companies
of his regiment to have their company
drills on the third Saturday in each month, !
and at no other time, and that the captains
require their men to keep their arms at home, 1
and use them for no other purposes, except
for the company drills, unless by future order
of the (Jolouel commanding.
The latest intelligence from the locality of
the disturbance in Edgefield represents that
the troubles are ended. The negro Captain
has delivered the arms of his colored company
to Lieutenant Leahy, commanding the detachment
of United States troops, and the
negroes have returned to their homes.
Louisiana Affairs.
The political situation in Louisiana, ]
since the restoration of the Kellogg govern- |
ment, has been without excitemeut. McEne
ry's counsels of moderation seem to have been
regarded by his adherents, who quietly submitted
to the order from Washington, reinstating
Kellogg. The coalition or McEnery
party have issued an address, setting forth a
long series of wrongs from which the State |
has suffered, and claims the McEnery government
was legally and fairly elected. It (
says the people North were generally led into
an error in believing the colored voters of
Louisiana were in excess of the white voters,
or that the colored voters and white Republi- .
cans en masse voted the Kellogg ticket, and
by a compilation of figures shows the white (
males to be in excess of the colored, and claims i
that many Republicans, white una colored, i
voted the McEnery ticket. It describes the 1
means by which the citizens were deprived of 1
their political rights, and gives an explanation J
of the formation and design of the White ,
League organization, whose character it claims i
has been grossly misrepresented, and gives a .
description of the insurrection, and says that '
the fight was forced upon the citizens, and 1
that they did not begin it. It details the sto- !
ry of the surrender, and the fruitless negotia- ,
tions of the compromise committee. It also j
contains in full the appeal from the Commit- j
tee of Seventy to President Grant, dated New '
Orleans, September 8, protesting against the '
placing of troops in Louisiana upon the eve of *
such an election as is now approaching, under
the control of civil officers identified with
usurpation, and requesting that if such be
done, the present marshal be removed, and
one appointed who is not the active supporter
and leader in the Kellogg government. In
conclusion, the address says: "Our tale of
misery is complete. Nothing remains but
submission, relieved only by the dim distant
hope that the sober second thought of this
great people will reconsider calmly our conduct,
and devise, in their wisdom, some method
of relief for their unhappy countrymen."
Judge John T. Green.
The Charleston News and Courier furnishes
the following sketch of Judge John T.
Green, of Sumter, who will probably be nominated
by the Independent Republicans as a J
candidate for Governor in opposition to 1J. "
H. Chamberlain: t
Judge John T. Green, of Sumter, whom i
the Independent Republican party propose f
to nominate as their candidate for Governor e
of South Carolina, is the son of the Rev. t
Henry D. Green, of Mechanicsville, South t
Carolina. Judge Green was born at Mechan- [
icsville on October 18, 1827. At an early t
age he entered the South Carolina College, s
where he remained for three years. He sub- s
sequently entered the law office of Mr. F. J. s
Moses, Sr., the present Chief Justice of the f
State, and, after a thorough course of study, t
was admitted to the bar in 1849, when he had \
I just passed his twenty-first year. \
In 1852 Judge Green was elected to the 1
State legislature on the Cooperation ticket, i
aud, being reelected, served for six successive c
years. Being again put forward in 1858, he c
declined to be a candidate, and continued to 1
practice his profession iij Sumter until 1864, ! 1
when he was again elected a member of the j f
! legislature. There having been some irregu- r
j larity in the preceding election, a new one was j [
j held in 1865 and Judge Green was once more ! i
j nominated and elected. In the following year, 11
j 1&66, Judge Green ran against Hon. John M. j a
: Frierson for State Senator from Sumter coun- i
' ty, and was beaten by sixty-six votes. Du- t
ring the war, and for some years afterward, r
Judge Green was in delicate health, and, as t
he took no part in the struggle, he was regard- e
j ed as a Union man. In 186G he was appoint- s
ed President of the Provost Court in Sumter, 1
and held that pqsf, lentil civil authority was i:
restored. When the Reconstruction Govern- c
ment was organized he was unanimously elect- .1
ed, by the General Assembly, Judge of the v
Third Judicial Circuit, and was unanimously t
reelected upon the expiration of his term of b
office. 11
Judge Green is a Itepijblicau in good s.and- j 11
ing, and hjs learning, impartiality and square j a
dealing, on the bejich and in private life, have j d
won for him the respect and confidence of all j r
classes and parties. Even his bitterest oppo- i j<
nents in the State Republican Convention did j
not dare to say a word against his personal | ,
and official character. They praised him extravagantly?while
declaring, very properly, i 1
that he was not a fit man to be the candidate js;
of the Carpet-Bag Ring in South Carolina. :
Senator T. C. Dunn. ! j(
A correspondent of the Charleston j j
Newt and Courier furnishes that paper with I tl
the following sketch of Senator T. C. Dunn, I b
of Horry, who is just now ouite prominent in
State politics, in consequence of the position
he occupies as chairman of the executive committee
of the Independent Republicans:
"He is a native of Massachusetts, and
early in manhood settled in Wisconsin. He
joined the Republican party at its first organization,
and was a leading man in it until the
war, when he entered the service, and continued
in it to its close. Like so many others,
Mr. Dunu came South, hut unlike most others
who came at that time, he engaged in honest
pursuits. He pitched his tent in Horry, and
went to work like a man in the turpentine
and lumber business. He did not engage in
politics uutil, after Whittemore had been
kicked out of Congress, he ventured to otfer
himself for reelection. That outrage brought
him to the surface as a candidate against
Whittemore, but he was defeated by the cadetship
broker, and quietly returned to his
work. In 1872 he ran as au Independent
r* i T _ T i A . / _ __ * _ l
nepunncan candidate ior seuaiur, auu was
elected by an immense majority of Democrats
and Republicans to represent a Democratic
county. In the Senate his course has been
consistent with his previous record. He has
sustained himself as a Republican, while always
and unflinchingly opposing all corrupt
measures. That has been at times a difficult
feat to accomplish, but Mr. Dunn has done it
successfully. He is known too for his earnest
advocacy of all measures which look to the
healthy development of the material resources
of the State. After the adjournment of the
General Assembly last winter, he went on to
New York as chairman of a committee to
make investigations iuto the State bond business,
how the bonds came to be hypothecated,
&c., (fee., and it is expected will make an interesting
and exhaustive report upon the
subject. He knows the bond ring rascalities
by heart. The earnest part he is takiug in
the new movement, his knowledge, experience,
honesty of purpose and resolutiou commend
him to the public confidence as one eminently
fit to lead the best elements of his party in
this crisis of its fate into brighter light, and
a more commanding and nobler policy than
it has heretofore practiced or known."
Chamberlain in Charleston.
The Charleston News and Courier contains
a spicy account of a Chamberlain ratification
meeting which was attempted to be
held in that city last Thursday night. It
seems that the meeting was called by the political
adherents of Chamberlain, and was attended
by about one thousand persons, the
majority of whom were opposed to the nominee
of the Republican party for Governor and
favored Green. Consequently, anti-Chamberlain
men were elected officers of the meeting,
and the orators of the occasion, Mr. Chamberlain,
Congressman Elliott, Attorney-General
Melton, Treasurer Cardozo, Judge Mackey
and others, were so interrupted by the constant
cheering for Green, which rang from the
crowd, that they fouod it impossible to speak.
To add to the confusion a portion of the
platform which had been improvised for the
speakers gave way while Judge Melton was
speaking and precipitated him to the ground.
While Chamberlain, who followed Judge
Melton, was attempting to speak, the whole
cf the platform gave way throwing its occupants
violently to the floor, and exploding
a kerosense lamp, which set fire to the debris
of the stage and splashed Judge Mackev's
beaver with the burning fluid. Some time
elapsed before order was again restored, and
Chamberlain failing to re-appear, calls, interspersed
with cheers for Greeu, were made for
Judge Mackey. To these calls the Judge responded,
who as the News and Courier says,
in closing its report of the meeting?
"Began with an attempt to intimidate the
crowd, saying that he proposed to address the
meeting, and if any Republicans should break
the peace they would be held responsible for
it within their party lines. [Three cheers for
Green, from the audience.] If any Democrats
? - - 1 ? 1 - 1 J -
attempted to interrupt mm ne wouia rase
them before the United States Court to-morrow
morning and have them punished. [Three
more cheers for Judge Green from the crowd.]
A.t this point Ben Mills, one of Bowen's ad-1
herents, got up a separate meeting on a small
scale, but was routed out by the police, when
the audience again gave three cheers for Judge
Grreen. Judge Mackey then changed his tactics,
and said he did not mean to charge the
interruptions on any Democrats who were
present, but there were a few persons who
were interrupting the meeting. [Renewed
cheers for Green.] This failing, the judge
said : "I ask this meeting what candidate it
will support?" To which the meeting answered,
almost to a man, "Judge Green."
'Well, then," resumed thejudge, "I tell you
that, unless your commissioners of election be
changed your d?d votes won't be worth a
jent in this county." [Cries of "that's so"
from the crowd, supplemented by the usual
three cheers for Green.] I tell you that the
aovernor, in appointing the three commissioners
of election for Charleston county, has
in view only the securing of eighteen votes in
;he Legislature to elect himself speaker of the
House. You may talk of Green or ChamDerlain,
[here the remains of the platform
;ave way] but it will be of no earthly use. If
ivery man in the county casts his vote for
ludge Green, under the present commission;rs,
he may as well cast his vote into the broad
)cean. They will not be counted. [Three
jheers for Green.] I charge you, both Coniervatives
and Republicans, to hear me, if
,'ou dou't want to be ground to dust by the
:orrupt Ring. If you vote for that pure pa,riot
and statesman, the Hon. W. D. Porter,
f you vote for Judge Green, or if you vote
'or Mr. Chamberlain, neither of them will get
i vote, unless C. C. Bo wen "hooses to give it
,o them. The plan is to count in all the couny
officers, and seize upon the county funds.
A voice: "They can't do it; we will wash
hem in blood first."] These commissioners
ire appointed by Gov. Moses to carry out a
tupendous fraud." At this point the deraontration,
on the part of the audience, became
i least bit noisy. The judge evidently reilized
the situation, saw that they did not
vant to hear him, and, after a few more words,
vhich could not be heard, put on his splashed
lat and descended from the table. The raeetng
renewed their cheers for Judge Green, and
:alled loudlv for Seabrook, but the chairman
)f the meeting introduced Congressman Eliott,
black, who mounted the little table. At
lis back stood a cross-eyed brown man who
lourished a tallow candle over the congress-1
nan's head, and greased his wool and coat I
dentifully with the drippings. The audience, j
lowever, were not anxious to hear even El-'
iott, and forthwith resolved themselves into |
i dozen impromptu Green meetings, with as
nany speakers, all of whom kept up such a :
alking that Elliott's measured sentences and j
oiling R's could not be heard beyoud the lit-1
le fringe of officials in front of him. He was ,
vidently determined to get in his speech, and
poke about an hour, always to the faithful !
ittle knot of Customhouse officers. In the
ueantime fully two-thirds of the meeting, now
Iwindled down to about six hundred persons,!
lad adjourned to the north side of the hall, j
vhere Primus Creeu had organized an en- j
husiastic Green meeting, with Mr. E. B. Seairook
in the chair. Seeing the unfavorable ,
urn of affairs, the Chamberlain party deter-1
nined not to offer any ratification resolutions
t all, and Elliott having concluded his ad- j
Iross to the six Customhouse clerks who sur- j
ounded him, the meeting was declared ad- j
Durned."
BST The North is beginning to reflect upon
he consequences of its work in the South since
he war. The Herald, in a recent editorial,1
ays, with a good deal of significance, that j
he North has' overthrown Davis and Lee,
ut in their stead has built up Moses and
Cellogg; "the Rhetts, the Masons and the
Ireckinridges have been extinguished, and in
heir places we have the Warraoths, the Pinchacks,
the Whittemores and the Rlodgctts."
i LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
j Joseph M. Adams?New Tin Factory?Particular
Attention?Stove Pipe?Repairing,
i M. Strauss <fc Son?New Goods Every Week.
. G. W. Chalk ifc Co., Charlotte, N. C.?Cotton Com- j.
mission Merchant,
j I. D. Witherspoon, Plaintiff's Attorney?Notice
to the lieirs-at-law of James D. P. Currence,
deceased.
T. S. JefFerys, Secretary?Masonic Meeting.
FAIR OF THE CAROLINAS.
1 We have been favored by the managers
' with a complimentary invitation to the New
Fair of the Carolinas, to he held in Charlotte v
on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th of Novem
' ber next.
_
THE FALL TRADE.
Our merchants, in expectation of a good
: business season this fall, are making the necessary
arrangements to meet it, by purchas|
ing full and varied stocks. Besides those
| whom we mentioned last week as having gone
; to market, Mr. Adickes and Mr. Herndon
| have since gone on for the purpose of buying
i goods. Mr. Herndon represents the house of
; liis sous, who deal in groceries and heavy
! goods exclusively. Mr. Adickes has long
been known as the oldest merchant now doing
business in Yorkville, and his stock includes
nearly every Hue of goods to be found in a
dry goods store. Messrs. M. Srauss <fc Son,
as will be seen by their advertisement, are in
receipt of new goods weekly.
TRANSFERS OF*REAL ESTATE.
The following are the transfers of real estate
recorded in the office of thj County Auditor
up to the 26th ultimo, and which have not
heretofore been reported:
Marcus R. Bird to Margaret Stewart.
m?c?
jl weuty-iuur aurca m vuciuaco nv u houi^i
Consideration 862.
M. V. Darwin to E. S. Darwin. Tract of ?
165 acres in Broad River township. Consideration
8554.
J. H. Clawson, Assignee of Hamilton Wilson,
Bankrupt, to Hamilton Wilson. A tract
of 146 acres in Cherokee township. Consideration
8146.
Thos. Blalock to Wm.'B. Massey. Lot in
Rock Hill. Consideration 8300. |
Zimri Carroll and wife to David P. Boyd. i
Forty-nine acres in Bethel township. Consideration
8245.
C. S. Cline to Thomas Spencer. Twentysix
acres in Catawba township. Consideration
8180.
C. J. Pride to Thomas Spencer. Nine acres j
in Catawba township. Consideration $45.
L. R. Williams to John D. Mitchell. A
tract of 151 acres in Bethel township. Consideration
8552. ^8
Jane Brown and others to Andrew Jackson.
Fifty-six acres in King's Mountain
township. Consideration 8421.
John T. Whitesides to Wm. F. Dye. Thirty
acres in Bullock's Creek township. Consideration
8450.
Win. F. Dye to John T. Whitesides. Two
hundred acres in Broad River township. Consideration
8500.
T. A., S. R. & W. A. Moore to Judy Poag.
Lot in Yorkville. Consideration 850.
J. W. & G.C. Leech, Executors, to M. J.
Watson, trustee. A tract of 402 acres in
Broad River township. Consideration 81600.
J. M. Kendrick and others, Executors, to
Samuel Younts. Twenty-four acres in Fort
Mill township. Consideration 8422.
John Bratton aud Belle M. McCaw, Executors,
to Alfred and Riley McDonald. A
. ? - r t on !_ m 1
iraCL 01 ioo acres iu \^ueruaee luwusuip.
Consideration 8141. J
1 Jos. W. Leech, to GeoTC. Leech. A tract
of 284 acres in Broad River township. Consideration
8400.
Wm. Wallace to Wm. Sabrus. Eighty
acres in Ehenezer township. Consideration
8700.
N. M. Miller and others to Wm. Sahms.
Nine acres in Ebenezer township. Consideration
8100.
Wm. Sahms to Amanda E. Sahras. Eightynine
acres in Ebenezer township.
J. B. Mintz to Nancy S. Blalock. A tract
of 125 acres in Cherokee township. Consideration
8500.
Eliza A. Barnett and others to J. C. Patrick.
A tract of 140 acres in Bethel town
OIUJJ* VUUC1UU1 (ibIUU VvVV*
A. M. Jackson to J. W. Neill. A tract of
178 acres in York township. Consideration
81150.
R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C., to M. S. Hardin. A
tract of land in Cherokee township. Consid- "
eration 850.
A. C. Sutton to J. H. Coltharp. Fiftyseveu
acres of land in Fort Mill township.
Consideration 8400.
B. T. Wheeler to Monroe Taylor & wife.
Lot in Yorkville. Consideration 820.
T. L. Carroll to S. E. Carroll. Half interest
in 252 acres and one third interest in 155 |
acres in Bullock's Creek township. Consideration
81400.
T. L. Carroll to S. E. & D. H. Carroll.
One-third interest in 184 acres in Bullock's ^
Creek township. Consideration 8500.
S. E. Carroll to T. L. Carroll. One-third
interest in 738 acres in York township. Consideration
81400.
John B. Faris to Jas. Clark. Thirty-six
acres in King's Mountain township. Consideration
850.
A. H. Barnett to R. J. & W. B. Jones. A
tract of 126 acres in Bethel township. Consideration
8345. --
R. J. & W. B. Jones to Perry Ferguson.
A tract of 126 acres in Bethel township. Consideration
8450. ~
T. B. Withers to A. M. Kee. Lot in Fort
Mills. Consideration $150.
J. P. Creighton, agent for Wm. Sturgis.
Thirteen and three-fourth acres of land in CafniuKa
tnipnoViin rinnaidopqtifin 81 3 7ft
VUII WM bV If WUW*V?V?*?ViWM V*v" **
Same to John Rives. Fourteen and three*
fourth acres in Catawba township. Consideration
$14.75.
John W. Avery to J. B. Williams. House
and lot in Yorkvilie. Consideration $900.
Sarah P. Jones to Iredell and Allen Jones.
A tract of 438 acres of land in Ebenezer township.
Consideration $4500.
A. M. Black to W. L. Roddy. Lot in j
Rock Hill. Consideration $35. -A
John B. Mintz to Thomas Martin. Six- 1
teen acres of land in Cherokee township. f
Consideration $86. :
J. P. Creightou, agent of Wm. Sturgis, to
.T V \fnPrtrlHpn Fnrf v.aounn q nrna r\P S
V* ? mv?v?v?. A v? wj gvfvu ?u?vo VI iaUU
in Catawba township. Consideration $<|6.
Martin J. Jackson to Pamela A. L. Jackson.
Half-interest iu 150 acres in King?? ?
Mountain township. Consideration $450.
Thomas L. Johnson to John Rattarce. Lot 1
in Rock Pill. Consideration $2dj. 9|
Jarpes F. Hunter to Vf. D. Phillips. Lot | <
in Fort Mills. Consideration 8200. ,
J. S. White to Eliza Mathis. Half inter- |
est in a house and lot in Rock Hill. Consideration
850. <
Henry Massey to J. W. Ardrey. Lot in
Fort Mills. Consideration 8165.
W. C. and T. P. Black to John Smith. g
Niuetv-three acres in Broad River township.
Consideration 8325. ^
J. H. Clawson, Assignee of J. N. McCall, 4^
Bankrupt, to B. R. Miller. A tract of 193
acres of land in Bethel township. Consideration
8772.