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Jtoapjs and Jacts. The Selma Times says that "the prettiest girl there is a newspaper carrier; but then she carries them out of sight." The Pennsylvania railroad claims the largest locomotive in the country. It has twelve driving wheels and weighs seventy-five tons. Gassaway B. Lamar, who died recently in New York, bequeathed ?100,000 for the erection at Savannah of a home for aged and infirm negroes. "Woman is a delusion, madam !" ex. claimed a crusty old bachelor to a witty young lady. "And man is always hugging some delusion or other," was the quick retort. The Augusta Cotton Exchange has received answers from twenty-three counties, in rJoArmQ fViof +vial/1 Ka nVv/-v.%* JU UUMV buu Jigiu mil UC auuub blUCC" fourths of last year's crop. From returns received of the Georgia elections, the indications are that the entire delegation in Congress from that State will be Democratic. ? The Spirit of the Age says that Mr. Foster, inventor of a type-setting machine, will soon commence the manufacture of the machines in Raleigh. The machine can be furnished for about $75 and will do the work of four compositors. The gallant secretary of a life insurance company, being in com maud of a platoon during the late unpleasantness at New Orleans, struck up the gun of one of his men about to fire on a staff officer, with the exclamation : "D?n it, don't shoot at him ; we've got a policy on him." An approaching revolution in bonnets is announced by the Paris correspondent of a trade journal, who states that there are to be real bonnets once more?bonnets with brims, crowns, strings and perhaps curtains. These bonnets are, however, not to shade the face at all, but to be perched upon the head. The Rhode Island papers are always saying mean things about the warrior-statesmen of Massachusetts. Thus the Providence Press says : "If General Banks should fail of a nomination in Massachusetts, he must try Virginia. He formerly ran well in that State." The conservative papers of Tennessee all declare that Senator Brownlow has the inside track for Congress in the 2d district of that State. There are two other Republican candidates and a Democratic candidate, but the district is larerelv ReDublican. and Brown low's opposition to the civil rights bill makes him very popular. The New York Commercial learns through private correspondence from Liverpool that it is confidently believed that the stock of cotton there is much larger than the running account, and that the excess will turn out on the 31st December to be larger than last year's, which was about 120,000 bales. Give a man the necessaries of life and he wauts the conveniences. Give him the couvenices, and he craves for the luxuries. Grant him the luxuries, and he sighs for the elegancies. Let him have the elegancies, and he yearns for the follies. Give him all together, and be complains that he has been cheated both in price and quality of the articles. Something funny happened at a congressional convention in Chicago the other day. Mr. Heding was nominated by acclamation, but declined. He was nominated again, but again declined. He was nominated yet again, but yet again declined. Think of a man being nominated for congress three times, and three times decliuing! The latest Southern convert to the third term movement is Mr. James Lyons, of Virginia, a Democrat so vehement in his faith that he repudiated the nominee of his party in 1872, spat upon the platform, and could only be comforted by O'Conor. He has found that Alexander Hamilton was in favor of a third term, and announces that Mr. James Lyons is. A conservative politician in Mississippi has addressed a letter to the President in which he argues that the only true way to restore peace and prosperity to the South, is for Congress to pass an act to pay for quartermaster and commissary stores takeu by the Union army in the South during the war and to refund the cotton tax. It has been referred to the Attorney-General by the President. A letter from Pensacola, Fla., presents a most deplorable picture of the sufferings of the people. It says : "Those who escape the fever stand a good chance of starving to death. * * * * There have been more cases and deaths thau at Shreveport in proportion to the size of the places. Twenty-five little children have been orphaned by this terrible epidemic. The most of them are left without any one or thing to support them." A New York insurance clerk, while waiting in a crowd at one of the Brooklyn ferries, playfully picked a handkerchief from the pocket of a companion, when he was instantly tapped on the shoulder by a genuine pick-pocket, who had just relieved him of his pocket-book, but who returned it, with the apology that he never knowingly operated on a brother professional, and was sorry he had made such a mistake. There are twin sisters in South Bethlehem, Pa. They were married ou the same day. Their names are Mrs. Carroll and Mrs. Ford. They are peopleing their sections of the Keystone State well with Carrolls and Fords, each having given their country three pairs of twins. The first pair of cousins were born the same month, the second the same week, and the third, whose advent has just takeu place, the same hour. The sisters look alike and are becoming more and more alike in their habits. Their children all look alike, and when they are turned loose together there is some difficulty in distinguishing the members of each flock; only the mothers can separate them and pick out her own with certainty. Carroll and Ford are overwhelmed with astonishment at their effect upon the census, and the families are objects of admiring curiosity to the people of Bethlehem, in Pennsylvania. The New Orleans Times gives the following sensible advice : "The foolish prejudice which has hitherto existed in the South against mechanical and common manual labor has * 11 1 1_ provea a sna urawuaes. on uui~ geueiui piuaperity. It is high time that a new departure was taken in this matter. The old and peculiar institution, which did so much injury to the South by degrading labor, has been swept away, and with it should go all its demoralizing accessories. We cannot all fill high professional positions, nor can we all find profitable employment as politicians. Coming down to plain matters of fact, more of us must earn our bread by the sweat of our brows. Our section will be far better off when it learns to appreciate the value of the working mechanic, and when it esteems that the entry of the youth of the land upon this course of life is in the highest degree worthy and honorable." It is not a generally known fact that nearly two hundred people in Jsew York city rise at daybreak for the purpose of repairing to the slaughter houses and drinking the warm blood of animals. These people are not vampires, but consumptives, who find in the blood the means of prolonging existeuee. One lady, who has followed the practice of drinking warm blood for several years, contends that it prolonged her life fifteen years, and has bocoinc an absolute luxury. At first the taste is said to be repulsive, but, subsequently, the desire for the ensauguiued iluid beoomes intense, and its good effects make it commendable to invalids. The Irish peasantry are very fond of baked blood, which is placed in large shallow pans and baked uutil it is browned. It is notorious that consumption is a disease almost unknown among these people, and, perhaps, Velpeau and other famous physicians who have recommended the drinking of blood, have taken the hint from <he baked blond of the Irish peasants ?he $fiMk inquirer. YORKVILiLE, S. C.: ? THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 15, 1874. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and State in full, and send the amount of I the subscription by draft or post-office money | order, or enclose the money in a registered letter, j Postage.?The postage on the Enquirer, to any part of the United States, is five cents per quarter,or twenty cents peryear, and is payable in advanco at the post office where the paper is received. Watch the Figures.?'The date on the"address; label" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? B. G. Yocum has been appointed Treasurer of Chester county. ? The News says that the woods in the vicinity of Winnsboro are filled with wild pigeons. ? Smith, the defaulting ex-Treasurer of Fairfield county, has been pardoned by Gov. Moses. ? Rev. Robert Wilson, colored, the jury commissioner of Lancaster, died from an attack of cramp colic on the 29th ultimo. ? Owing to the abuse of the pardoning power by Governor Moses, it is said that Judge Carpenter will try no more criminal cases until after Moses is out of office. ? Judge Mackey has decided that dogs are property, and has sentenced a small colored boy, in Fairfield, to twenty days imprisonment for stealing one. ? A strong force is now engaged in grading the Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad, about fourteen miles north of the town, in the neighborhood of "Windmill Hill." ? The gin house and cotton screw of Dr.- J. Beatty Jennings, near Bennettsville, was destroyed by an incendiary fire on Sunday raorniug of last week. The loss is put down at $2000. ? The Southern Express Company have resumed business over the Spartanburg and Union Railroad, and have offices at Spartanburg, Jonesville, Union, Santuc.Shelton, Fish Dam, Lyles' Ford and Strother's. ? Col. F. Gardner, Chief Engineer, has commenced surveying the route of the Cheraw and Chester itauroaa ior tne purpose 01 permanently locating the line. Immediately after the survey is completed, contracts will be awarded for grading and trestleing. ? ? STATE POLITICAL ITEMS. ? Dr. J. P. Latimer, of Greenville, has declared his preference for Green and Delaney. ? The Greenville News says that Hou. T. j H. Cooke, judge of the eighth circuit, is a strong friend of Gen. Kershaw for Congress. ? The headquarters of the Executive Committee of the Independent Republicans will be at Columbia, S. C., where all communications should be addressed. ? The Georgetown Planet (Republican) says: "Chalk this down : Thirty-five hundred majority for Judge John T. Green in this county." ? General Samuel McGowan, of Abbeville, has been selected by the Conservative Convention, assembled at Newberry, as their can- ] didate for Congressman, from the Third Congressional District. ? Col. T. C. Weatherly, of Marlboro, who was nominated by the Republican County Convention on the 5th instant, without solicitation on his part, declines to accept the nomino firm | ?Judge Bryan has issued an order to the Commissioners of Election for the several counties in the State, requiring them to furnish his court, on or before the 22nd iustant, a complete list of all the voting precincts in their respective sounties. ? Gov. Moses has removed W. H. Thomas, a colored trial justice of Newberry, because Thomas supports the honest Republican State ticket. Thomas is an ex-Union soldier, and lost one arm in the war for the freedom of his race. ? Delegates from the counties composing the Fourth Congressional District, assembled in Columbia, on Wednesday of last week, and j unanimously nominated Gen. J. B. Kershaw, ' of Camden, as the Conservative candidate for In I v>uugrt?3. ; ?The Spartan mentions that a number of j the prominent Republicans in Spartanburg ; are opposed to the reelection of Hon. A. S. Wallace, and say they will vote and use their influence to elect Gen. J. B. Kershaw to Cou: gress. | ? The Rapublicaus of Marion have made : the following nominations: County Coinrais| sioners?W. E. Finklea, J. S. Barr and P. P. ! Bethea. School Commissioner?M. K. Holi loway. Judge of Probate?James Graham. | Representatives?G. W. Ofliey, Arthur EaI gerton, B. A. Thompson and B. F. Hays. I ? The Republicans have made the followJ ing nominations in Spartanburg county : For ; the legislature?E. P. Clement, Daniel Z. ! Sweeny, Henry K. Grarabling and Joseph M. i Young, Sr.; for county commissioners?J. B. . Tolleson, Andrew Foster, and Bassett Weaver ; for probate judge?W. F. Parker; for : school commissioner?A. C. Merrick. ! ?The Republicans of Marlboro have made I the following nominations: H. J. Maxwell for the Senate ; T. C. Weatherly and Jacob C. Allmau for the House of Representatives; John Wesley Smith, Probate Judge; Johu G. i Grant, Edward Ware and T. G. Sweat, Couuty Commjssiohcrs ; F. S. Nagle, School Comj missioner. ' ? The following nominations were made by the Republican Convention of Union county on the*8th instant: For Senator?J. S. Mobley; for House of Representatives?J. H. I Goss, S. P. Farrow, J. W. Vinson ; for Prolate Judge?C. W. Jeter; for School Commissioner?C. P. Nelson; for County Cora! missioners?J. L. Strain, Ed. Rice, Washing! ton Dawkins; for Coroner?W. Fair. I | ? In a public meeting at Anderson, iiou. J. i P. Reed, a prominent Democrat, declared his j preference for Chamberlain, instead of Green. He said that "if he was to be a Republican he preferred to go with that party in its integi rity than to bob at the tail of a disappointed faction which could only bring defeat." It is said that Rev. Dr. dam.es F, Boycc, of Greenville, has taken position with l^e.cd in support of Chamberlain. ? The Union-Herald says a riot occurred in Sumter last Saturday on the occasion of a Chamberlain meeting, at which Governor Moses, Chamberlain, Elliott, Huge and Cardoso were to have made speeches. That paper says the disturbance was brought about by Green men, and at one time forty or fifty , persons were fighting like wild boasts. When order was finally restored, Mr. Chamberlain was notified that he would be permitted to speak, which, however, he declined to do. ? The Spartan, in speaking of the Republican meeting at Spartanburg and the report of the affair in the Union-Herald, says "if the accounts of other demonstrations are as much colored as the accounts of the Spartanburg meeting, some of them maybe put down as tame indeed. There were not more than three or four hundred at the meeting (onehalf of whom were Democrats, who listened attentively to Chamberlain and Melton) and there was very little enthusiasm manifested in the meeting?far less than usual in Republican meetings on ordinary occasions." ? The Republicans of Richland couuty are divided into two factions?one headed by C. H. Minort, and the other by W. B. Nash? both negroes. The tickets are respectively as follows : For Senator?U. ii. Minort. .representatives?John T. Gilniore, Ii. J. Paliuer, Augustus Cooper, F. J. Moses, Jr. .School Commissioner?I). N. Simonds. County Commissioners?C. P. Pellwira, Jr., Ii. N. Wallace, Jacob Jackson. Judge of Probate?T. M. Wilkes. And ofthe Nash faction the following are the nominations : For Senator? W. B. Nash. Representatives?Wrn. Simmons, John T. Sloan, Jr., Andrew Curtis, E. | M. Weston. County Commissioners?Geo. ] W. Davis, S. Jenkins, S. Baker. School | Commissioner?C.J. Carroll. Judge of Pro- i bate?B. I. Boone. THE CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION'. I This body, called together for the purpose j of considering the propriety of making nomi-1 nations for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor in the approaching election, met in Columbia on Thursday last, in the hall of the House of Representatives. The Convention was organized by calling Simpson Bobo, Esq., of Spartanburg,to the Chair, and the appointment of J. J. Hemphill, of Chester, aud C. F. Janney, Esq., of Columbia, as Secretaries. The following is a list of the delegates: Abbeville?R. C. Sharp, J. II. Morrow, R. S. Bookman. Aiken?A. P. Butler, E. S. Hammond, D. II. Henderson, John Stevens. Anderson?J. Scott Murray. Barnwell?B. Weathersbv, James C. Brown, J. C. Miller. Beaufort?John Conant, J. II. Ruddle, John Lawton. "i i........ /? i? Afin.o ci r. v w VUtU IUDIVII IV. iUiii.il, vji. *V. ./V ?. .) ... Dawson, J. P. Lcsesno, J. F. Ficken, M. H. Nathans, James Cosgrove, R. Seigling, R. T. Morrison.J. S. Browning, W. B. Smith, A. G. Magrath, Jr. Chester?John J. Hemphill, Grandisnn Williams. Chesterfield?S. W. Evans, J. W. Harrington. Clarendon?J. L. Manning, James 13. Tindall, Joseph Rhamc, W. J. MeFaddcii. Colleton?J. O. Reed, Robert Black, C. P. Fishburne, N. K. Perry. Darlington?L. R. Ragsdale, Jerome P. Chase. Edgefield?L. Chatten, R. B. Hughes, 0. Sheppard, T. G. Bacon, W. U. Zimmerman, Fairfield?R. Means Davis, R. S. Desportcs, James H. Rion. Georgetown?Benjamin II. Wilson. Greenville?T. Q. Donaldson, Win. Beattie. Kershaw?W. T. Leitner, W. M. Shannon. Laurens?C. M. Miller, J. C. Davis, Dr. B. 13. Martin. Lexington?Gerhard Muller, Drury Nunaniaker. Marion?W. I). Johnson, David W. Bethca. Marlboro?C. W. Dudley. Newberry?John S. Ilare, William Ray, Jos. Caldwell. Oconee?Robert A. Thompson. Orangeburg?W. T. Rives, W. A. Easterling, Chas. P. Innabinctt, Ned Edwards, (colored.) Richland?John II. Kinsler, Chas. F. Janney, Nathaniel Barnwell. ~ I ?A..: Spartanburg?Jtion.Simpson noun, .mini r.vm>. Sumter?John B. Moore, J. S. Richardson, J. S. Bradley, W. E. Miles. Williamsburg?S. W. Maurice, W. J. Nettle, It. D. Rollings. York?John S. Brat ton, A. E. Hutehenson. Horry, Lancaster, Pickens and Union were not represented. The Convention adopted, without a dissenting voice, the following preamble and resolutions : Wjikhkas, The Republican party being in the majority in this State, is responsible for its government, and the Conservatives of the State having declared that if the Republican party would nominate for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor men of their own party of honesty and character, entitled to confidence, the Conservatives would refrain from opposition to them ; and whereas the regular nominating convention of the Republican party have nominated for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor men whose antecedents show them to be unworthy of confidence, and whose success will insure the continuance of the corruption, dishonesty and party tyranny, which have prostrated the State; and' whereas the independent wing of the Republican party has declared its intention to reform the government of the State, and in pursuance of tins intention have made nominations of men whose antecedents entitle them to confidence in tlieir integrity and honesty, for which nominations they have asked the support of the Conservative voters of the State ; and whereas we recognize that in the present condition of the State the necessity of checking corruption ami procuring honest officials is paramount to all questions of party politics or affiliation ; and believing that the only opportunity afforded of securing such reform will lie in the success of the nominees of the Independent Republican party, Jtcsolvi'il, Tnat it is the sense ofthis Convention, called '*to consider the necessity of making nominations for State ofiicers in the approaching elections," that no nomination for Governor or Lieutenant-Governor in the approaching election be made by the Conservative citizens of the State. ltcxoivcd, That in the opinion ofthis Convention the Conservative citizens will best promote the interests and welfare of the State by giving their support to the candidates for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor nominated by the Independent Republican party. llcjfulml. That we adopt as the platform of the Conservative party of South Carolina, honesty and economy in the administration of the State The next step was to appoint a permanent Executive Committee of the Conservative party of South Carolina of two from each Congressional District and an Executive Committee for each county in the State. The following named gentlemen constitute the State Executive Committee: Hon. S. Bobo, Chairman ; 1st District?Col. J. \V. Harrington, Col. B. II. Wilson; 2d District? Gov. J. L. Manning, Gen. James Conner; 3(1 District?Col. Win. Wallace, Col. J. N. Lipscomb; lth District?Col. James McCullough, Col. James II. Rion; oth District?lion. W. F. C'olcock, Gen. M. L. Bonhain. The County Executive Committee were appointed for York, Chester and Spartanburg,: as follows: York?W. B. Wilson, Peter Garrison, A. Jack- | son, John Smith. Chester-W. A. Walker, W. II. Harden, J. 11. ; McDaniel. ! Spartanburg?J. II. Evins. It was also resolved that the delegates to ; the Convention attend to having supervisors appointed fur each election precinct in their respective counties, by the Judge of the jJnited States Circuit Court. The work of the Convention having been performed faithfully, efficiently and harmo-! uiously, upon motion of Col. Evins, of Spur- j tanburg, Geu. Kershaw addressed it in a mas-' terly speech, full of those wise, pacific ana just counsels which distinguish his utterances. He alluded in pathetic terms to his belief f that divine Providence had inspired the ac I tion of the Convention, and directed it to the 1 ; only mode of escape from the evils which surround the .State. He cjwelt with effect i upon the duty of a full recognition of the i rights of the colored race, and upon the duty ' and necessity of seeking their co-operation in all measures tending to the rehabilitation of the State, the restoration of its prosperity and , the recovery of its good name. Should lie be i elected to the House of Representatives, for j which position he had been nominated, he would address himself with all his powers and ! all his zeal to the grateful tasks which would ! then devolve upon liirn. He discerned al-1 > ready a change in the feeling of the people i of this great country toward the Southern States, and it would be the ambition of his life to throw himself upon the wave of its rc' turning justice. He felt a conviction that he i would live through these dark times and yet see such representatives as he now looked j 1 upon meet in these very hulls to rejoice over 1 a ransomed people. After Gen. Kershaw's address, the delibe-' rations o^'the body were brought to a close. Resolutions expiesa^iye uf the thanks of the .Convention to the presiding officer and secretaries were parsed, and the Convention adjourned. i LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Charles S. Brico, Attorney C. tfe L. N. G. R. R Co.?Pay up and save Costs. John H. Adams?Fall and Winter Goods. M. Strauss Son?Received this week. H. F. Adickes?Fall and Winter Trade?ShawlsDress Goods?Prints?For Gentlemen?Kic Gloves?Ladies' Belts?Cigars?Ribbons? Sundries?Crockery?Meal Bags?Station ery?Corsets. I W. D. Simpson, Secretary and Treasurer?Tin last Assessment called for. : Conner, llobbs it Dobson?Fall Trade. W. H. it. J. P. Ilerndon?New Arrival?Sonu Things?Flour?Some?Gin Belting. T. M. Dobson <fe Co.?Ho! For Dobson's. ' Wesley Jenkins?Ten Dollars Reward. FROST. The temperature for the past few days has been cool and bracing, and yesterday morning this section was visited with a slight frost? the first we have had this season. CORRECTION. A note received from Col. Jones, Chairmar : of the Democratic County Convention, iu< forms us that we are in error as to the name of Mr. Whyte, one of the nominees of the Convention for the Legislature. Instead ol W. J. White, as we published it last week, the geutleman is William Whyte, of Rock Hill, a son of the late Rev. Archibald Whyte, who was well known by man)^ of our people, TIIE CLAY IIILL MEETING. We learn that there was no attendance oi people at Clay Hill last Tuesday, the day appointed for the Democratic candidates to make addresses, and in consequence, among other new appointments advertised in this issue, it will be seen that a second meeting is appointed for Clay Hill on Monday the 26th instant. A general attendance of the people of both parties is desired at these meetings. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. On Tuesday evening last, while Charles Finley of this county, was examining a pistol, it was accidentally discharged, the ball grazing the thumb of his left hand and entering his left leg near the knee. The accident occurred near town, and Mr. Finley hastened to the drug store of Dr. Kuykendal, who extracted the ball and dressed the wound, which, though painful, is not dangerous. ? PUBLIC SPEAKING. The Executive Committee of the Independent Republican party have made the following appointments for public speaking in this Congressional District, when the people will be addressed by one or more prominent speakers: Spartanburg, Friday, October 16; Union, Saturday, October 17 ; Yorkville, Tuesday, October 20; Chester, Wednesday, October 21; Winnsboro, Thursday, October 22; Camden, Saturday, October 24; Lancaster, Monday, October 26 ; Greenville, Saturday, OctoKn r* 1 It is understood that the Regular Republican meeting, appointed for Yorkville on the 23d instant, will be addressed by Mr. Chamberlain, Attorney-General Melton and R. H. Gleaves. The following appointments have been made for Gen. Kershhaw, Conservative candidate for Congress: Spartanburg, October 16 ; Union, October 18; Rock Hill, October 19; Yorkville, October 20; Lancaster, October 22; Caradeu, October 24. REPUBLICAN RATIFICATION MEETING. Friday last wus appointed as the day for a Republican ratification meeting at this place. The alteudauce was very small?there not being at the speakers' stand exceeding two hundred persons, the greater number of whom were colored. There was very little enthusiasm manifested, and the day passed off quietly, without a single unpleasant incident. With the view of placing before our readers both sides of the canvass in this county, we sent a reporter to the meeting, and he gives the following full synopsis of the proceedings: The meeting was called to order at 12 o'clock, by J. H. White, County Chairman of the Republican party, who stated the object to be to ratify the nominations made by the State Convention in Columbia on the 8th ultimo. He said a few disaffected Republicans disapproved the selection of Chamberlain aud Gleaves, and had seen fit to bolt; but he claimed that the party of York county had not bolted, nor did they sympathize with the bolters' movement. The party opposing the regular nominations is nothing less than a Democratic movement, the Democrats having united with the bolters for the purpose of sowing seeds of dissension in the Republican ranks. He asked his hearers to support none other than the regular nominations, to whom they must pledge their undivided support. Chamberlain, he said, was a gentleman, aud scholar of the finest ability of any in South Carolina?a fact admitted by every Democratic gentleman who knew him. He is a Republican. which should also be sufficient reason. He cauie to this State at the head of a com raand of colored cavalry, and by his works aided in the emancipation of the slave, and the establishing of free and republican government now enjoyed by the blacks and whites. He then instituted a comparison between the past record ofCharaberlain and Judge Green, the latter, he claimed, having been identified with those who fought to perpetuate slavery. To prove what would be the effect of Democratic supremacy in South Carolina, he read extracts from a newspaper giving accounts of alleged ku-klux outrages in the south-western States. He then introduced A. S. Richardson, the post-master at Chester. Mr. Richardson js a bright mulatto of slender build aud pleasing address, and gives evidences of good education, while he has at command a ready flow of language, He said we are here 011 the eve of a political demonstration fraught with forebodings of good or evil?the .prosperity or the adversity of the commonwealth of South Carolina?the life or death of the Republican party of the State?whether the banner emblematic of liberty shall bid freemen hope, or whether it shall be trampled in the du9t. These are the questions his hearers must ponder in preparation of the election. It was through the instrumentality qf tl>e ballot that our liberties were bought, and on the day of the approaching election we roust again declare ouraeivea ju favor of a government of the people. Other nations may pride themselves on theirachievements in the arts and sciences and commerce, but to our pride the white man or the black man can, in tjic language of another say?"I am a Roman, which is better than to be a king," and apply it to himself. He next apostrophized the Hag, and spoke of the drift of popular sentiment in monarchial Europe, which is gradually pointing to free political institutions in opposition to aristocratic government, and regretted that in free America we have a class of people?the Democratic party?who are two hundred years behind the spirit of the times, and are fostering the very sentiments so obnoxious where kings and emperors reign. The Democratic party would ignore the sentiment inculcated in the Declaration of Independence, and would substitute the sentiment uttered by Justice Taney from the Supreme Court bench, that the black man has 110 rights that the white man is bound to respect. While in this regard the Democrats have been stultifiers, we can, with ennobling thought, point to the record of the Republican party, which recognizes that all men are free. The Republican party was then extolled. He said it was organized to finish out slavery, and had accomplished its mission?doing the work well, though it cost a vast amount of treasure and life. He theu reverted to State qilestibus.' ' As to the gubernatorial canvass, he said Green was' dissatisfied at the result of the State Nominating Coriii ? ' . " vention, not that he loved Chatnberlaiu less, but himself the more. It was a notorious fact that Green was anxious for the nominatiou 1 bestowed upon Chamberlain, and had he received it we would not now hear of the bolters' movement, of which he (Green) is at the . head. He said Green does not scein to know I the doctrines of the Republican party?one [ of which is that the will of the majority must rule the minority. Chamberlain had received ? a majority of fifty in the Convention, and was, therefore, duly nominated, and it was the duty 3 of all other aspirants to cheerfully acquiesce ! in the selection. That Green is not willing to abide the decision of the Convention is one indication that he is not a good Republican. He may claim to be a Republican because he j shakes hands with negroes, but his actions r ' otherwise, prove conclusively that he is a first' j class sorehead. Of Delaney, candidate for Lieutenant-Governor on the Green ticket, , though a colored man, yet from his earlier 1 education and past associations, he could not nrnnprlv rpnliro th? ennditinn and the necessi . j ties of the black race so receutly emancipated t1 from the shackles of slavery. As evidence of ' | this, he charged that Delaney abused Con!; gress for having passed the 14th and 15th f; amendments ; that Delaney says it is too soon , ! for the black man to think about going to Con; i gress; and that he compromises with Democj racy by saying that the Democrats are not as bad as they are represented. He told his ! ' I hearers that they must not forget the past, j They are leminded of the days of slavery at ?! every turn, and they must remember that it: | is the Republican party that has elevated [ them thus far from a condition of servitude, i 1 j and that it is the only party to which they j ' | can look for salvation. He next touched i upon the "possum policy" and cautioned Rei publicans against being entrapped by any such snare. He closed by giving a hearty endorsement of Hon. A. S. Wallace, candidate for reelection to Congress. He said that the charge had been made that Wallace is an inceudiary, but he knew of no better man ; that he had recently beeu called to the bar of justice to answer as to his innocence or guilt of 1 having circulated a slanderous and damaging ' report on the black people of Fairfield ; that ; the grand jury, after several days investigation, had honorably acquitted him. As to , the idea of an uprising of the negroes in Fairfield or elsewhere, the idea is absurd ; their conduct during the war, when the women and 1 children of the Southern States were at their mercy, exhibited a degree of nobleness not found in the savage breast; and as a people to-day they harbor no unkind personal feel' ings for their former musters. Hon. A. S. Wallace was next introduced i by the Chairman, who, in doing so, instituted . a comparison between the antecedents of that gentleman and his competitor, Gen. Kershaw. He urged upon all Republicans to rally to the support of Wallace who had been their 1 faithful representative. Du-in<* ku-kluxdays, j ; he corresponded with Mr. Wallace and re- j ported the deeds of the invisible klan. On one occasion, when a desperate raid had been made, he informed Mr. Wallace, who was then at the national capital. On receipt of the information, a caucus was called,' and Butler ' demanded that the letter be read from the ! Speaker's desk, which was done,- causing a rupture between himself (White) and Gov. Scott. And for the same reason, (the exposure of Scott's imbecility) the Governor had refused to protect Wallace's property, which had been threatened with destruction, and it was through the exertions of Mr. Wallace, more than any one man, that the general govment was finally induced to move in behalf of the oppressed people of this section, with what results all knew full well. For this reason, he urged Republicans not to desert Mr. Wallace, while, if they voted for Gen. Kershaw they would aid in putting one vote in Congress against the civil rights bill. The report having been circulated that Judge Mackey would support Kershaw, he would say that Judge Mackey had but recently told him that uudcr no circumstances, would he support Kershaw in preference to Wallace. On stepping forward, Mr. Wallace said he would have been glad to have met all the peonlfi of the oountv: he had not been permitted I y i # * to speak before in York county iu consequence of sickness, and was now too feeble, from a recent attack of fever, to say a great deal. He alluded to the labors of a few iu the past to build up the Republican party iu this couuty, aud if Republicans will be as faithful in the future as they have been heretofore, the party will triumph again. He had beeu unanimously nominated for reelection, which he regarded as the proudest achievement of his life. He had the endorsement of the white and colored Republicans of the District. He urged all Republicans to rally to the support of the regular nominations, and not to neglect the duty of voting when the day of election comes?not to be induced by the offer of higher wages on that day to remain at work?but togothepolls early and quietly, and in a peaceful manner, exercise the privilege of l'ree citizens. He then repeated to them the admonition given to his hearers in a recent speech atGoudeysville, which was that if they properly handled the ballot-box they would never have occasion to resort to the cartridgebox, aud said this had been grossly perverted by his enemies, who, to make capital against him, had resorted to falsehood, the only means they can use to defeat him. He had a certificate, signed by twelve responsible men, I mn 1/n naa nf fhp Inn- I ?JlUVlUg LilUI/ lie U1U nut IUUUU U.)W Vi V..W guage attributed to hira by political opponents. He charged that the story originated with former ku-klux, and said that only a few days ago, on the train, he told one of them so to his face, creating a lively time in the car. He then and there disavowed any such sentiments ; aud wished obstructions placed against no man from voting. It was the privilege of all citizens, and one which, under no circumstances, would he deprive a political opponent. Referring to the Green movement, he would say to the Democrats that if they wished to embrace Republicanism, it would appear better in them to vote the ticket right, instead of "nibbling" at one end of the rope. He had noticed that when a colored man voted the Democratic ticket he wjjs regarded a gentleman ; but if a white man voted with the negroes the Democrats stigmatized hiin as a ! scoundrel. As to Chamberlain, lie went over very nearly the same ground of those who had previously spoken ; said Chamberlain was his choice two years ago, and he approved his nomination now. Green may be a pure man, but he is in bad company, and all intelligent Democrats will concede that one who will | sacrifice his political principles for emolument I vvill not do to trust. He theu referred to his | own services ii) Congress for his constituents, j and said, if reelected, he should continue to i | labor for their welfare, fie conciuaea Dy ! 1 again referring to the perversion of his GouI deysville speech, claiming that the white or j ! black man who would not endorse the words; ] which he did utter, was unworthy to be a free- j man ; and further, that he never had said any ; thiug at any place, calculated to antagonize ; the races. | When Mr. Wallace had concluded, C. E. Bessear olfered the following resolution : Jfrnolvrd, That we, the Republicans of York ' J county, in ipass meeting assembled, do pledge i our undivided support to the Hon. 1). IT. Cham- j j hcrlain for Governor, Hon. K. H. Gleaves, for j ! Lieutenant-Governor, and Hon. A. !s>. Wallace for Congress. I Mr. liichardsoij tpude a few remarks advocating t)je resolution, when it was unanimously adopted, and the meeting adjourned till even ing, to meet ftt the Court House, when it was aunounced that speakers from Columbia I would be preseut, a misunderstanding having j prevented the arrival of those who had been expected to address the meeting daring the day. MEETING IN THE COURT HOUSE. On the arrival of the train, it was reported that Senator Patterson and Mr. Thompson, one of the editors of the Union-Herald, had 1 arrived for the purpose of filling the appoint; ment that had beeu made for Yorkville, and j by 8 o'clock the court-room was cleverly ' filled, a third of the number being Democrats { i who Were 'attracted by the presence of one i occupying the exalted position of a United I States Senator. Senator Patterson is a tall, well-formed man, with a rather stern counte- i nance, which is euhunced by a bristling tnous- j I tache. While the soubriquet of "Honest John" | is evidently applied to him ironically, it must not be inferred that he is one of those oily, ; smooth-tongued politicians, "child-like and bland but to the contrary, he is brusque iu manner, and his style of oratory is eminently ! of the fanfaronnade order. He said he came on the present occasion, * : not so much to make a speech as to visit , ' York, whose people he complimented, and to | whom he felt under obligations, having received the support of her delegation in the legis- | lature for the position he holds, and so long as he holds that position, he shall do nothing ! that they will regret. He complimented his audience in point of numbers and hoped it contaiued no "Green-horns." There was a spontaneous spirit in the party, which, in spite ' of abuse, did not prevent them from meeting | and declaring that they are not ashamed 01 the regular nominees. The present struggle was an important one, as the party were called to meet an enemy in their own ranks; but it must be done fearlessly. He did not appear as an apologist for the Republican party. , I He was a Republican by ties, having voted { with it from the first, and in consideration of what it has accomplished for the black man and the white man, he don't apologize for any of the charges brought against it by its opponents. He was proud of his party. Before apologizing for any of the alleged short-comings of the Republican party, as charged by the Democrats, let the Democrats explain their own record; let them defend themselves. They ruined this State. Who held power before 1868? Did Republicans? Did you vote before 1868? No! Who voted before the war? You? No! Democrats had power. They rushed the State into secession, and with what result? Governor Orr told them at the time, and pictured their future poverty. Who, then, is responsible? Did Orr charge Republicans? No, of course not, when there was no Republican party at the time. Orr put the responsibility where it belonged. Democrats then ruled the State, and under the administrations of Perry and Orr, are responsible for the present condition of things. Did the legislature of South Carolina, in those days, pass a single act in the interest of the people, and especially the colored people ? Not one! The three years' rule was distinguished by the passage of the Black Code. This and similar euactments was the substance of the legislation from 1865 to 1868. Do the o Democrats defend that? No; they can't! At this time, if a member of the legislature steals fifty cents, the Democrats set up a terrible howl; but in their eyes the Black Code was all right! He was from Pennyslvania himself, and was proud of it. But there are mean Democrats in Pennsylvania as well as in South Carolina?worse, perhaps. He knew the policy of the Democrats. In Pennsylvania they pass acts for their own beuefit, and the moment they are kicked out of power they commence complaining, but never complain of themselves or their own acts. To Republicans he would say, do not apologize for your party any more. Look at the records of the Democratic party. If the records show that Democrats are responsible for the bad condition of affairs, should they be again placed in power? No ; and we don't propose to admit them by the Green movement. Let no Republican hesitate about his own party. We have nothing to defend. We have been in power six years, and I ask any man if South Carolina has not improved during that time? Railroads have increased ; productions have increased twice as much as in 1868 ; then there were but two banks in the State, and now there is a bank in every priucipal town. I have been in several States recently, and, financially, South Carolina is in as good condition to day as Pennsylvania. In this State our productions last year were $34,000,000, while Virginia, under Democratic rule, exported only $5,000,000. Our exportations were more than North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. We have laws to protect labor and to compel the payment of wages to the laborer. By that, good crops are ensured. Of the bond i :J 1 3 i?~ question, ne saiu some uau uccu muugiuuj issued under Repub'icau administrations; but the Republicans were not responsible for eight or nine millions that had been issued by Democratic administrations. Both parties had issued bonds that they ought not to have done. But who has suffered by it? The bonds were sold for money which was brought into our State; I got a little of it; you got a little?we all got a little; and if the bonds are never paid, will we be any worse off? The holders of the bonds will be the only losers, and surely we who got the money, can stand it, if they can! The State is not damaged. Even the Democrats don't complain about this; it is only the morality people who complain. Chamberlain was regularly nominated, and every member of the Convention, with one or two exceptions, endorsed it. But Green claims to be more honest than Chamberlain. Why is he more honest? Who is he? A judge in the lower part of the State. Did he ever make a Republican speech before he was nomiuated by the bolters? Did he ever claim to be a Republican ? Could no other good Republican have been nominated? Offices do not go begging iu South Carolina. He has entered the party too late. I am a Presbyterian, and don't believe in death-bed repClJllUIUCS Micjr ?iu nut tu uo Mcp&uugu u 111 Judge Green said that if he had been in Congress he would have voted for the civil rights bill. I doubt it. All colored Republicans are interested in the passage of this bill; and the speaker had this to say about all such men as Green, that with the exception of Mr. Wallace, no white representative from the South in Congress voted for it. Iu the Senate, Robertson voted for it, and all other white Republicans from the Southern States voted against it. What is Green's legislative record ? In the legislature he voted for the Black Code. Was he a Republican then ? He has a bad memory and a bad record. But he is even worse than some others who helped to enact that code. He made an amendment prohibiting the colored men from selling the products of their own labor from the farm, without a written permit; aud even worse?he wanted to restrain them from selling poultry and eggs. He not only objected ! to colored men selling their own productions, j but he even wanted to place an inhibition on the sale of the products of their liens! Are you, as Republicans, willing to trust such a man ? Green has never broken away from old prejudices, and his record shows that he j will vote for laws that would disgrace the ! nineteenth cpntury. No man can defend such legislation. Who are his supporters? Dunn, chief-fugleman; carpet-bagger, like myself. Says he's honest. I have liever tested my honesty iu South Carolina. He has. and his records are bad. [Here the speaker read the charges preferred against Dunn by Attorney-General Melton, which we publish in another column, and reiterated the truth of these charges. He also read cards from Cardozo and Hardy Solomon, substantiating these charges, and continued]? Nice man to talk about hon sty! Does Qreen know about this ? Dunn recently told a man they had all the ipqnev they wanted ; for the campaign. Where din it come from ? ' From some body in New York?the bond-, holders? The speaker next took up Sam Lee, whom he charged with making speeches for Scott and trying tc> dissolve the party for pay. Then Jones, of Georgetown, whom he denominated as "Rioter Jones," but who could not effect much, being a carpet-bagger from Canada, received a slight excoriation. He next took up Hayne, Reading-clerk of the House, who, as he charged, received regular pay for that service, and also drew 83200 on a warrant that he stole, and didn't reform until after he stole the warrant and drew the money. Bowley, of Georgetown, was also de-1 nounced as a blackmailer, and a corrupt man,: and the Green movement characterized as a 1 deep-laid scheme to sell out the Republican party. At this point a voice in the crowd was heard?"Now tell us about the fox-chase." This request, which seemed to have been made in a spirit of humor, exasperated the speaker, and advancing to the front seats on the side of the room whence the voice proceeded, he poured forth a storm of words which fell so fast and furious that our reporter, in the confusion and merriment that ensued, could not hear. But finally quieting down, he said he bore no ill will against any one; that he only wanted good government, and good laws, and was willing to forgive and forget. He was again interrupted by a voice?"Go back to Pennsylvania, then." To this he replied that he would leave when he was ready ; i,?^ nn mipst.ions of that kind. VIIC V* ai IJttu uumiv*. ? , which never prevailed only in Southern States ; that in the North, people, if worthy, are treated kindly, no matter where they were from, and he had as much right here as the person who interrupted him. He then closed by commending to the Republicans the course of Mr. Wallace in Congress, and urging them to rally to his support in the coming election; and also urging his party to s<md only good men to the legislature. /Mr. Patterson was followed by Mr. J. G. fThompson, one of the editors of the Union|Herald, who desired to make a few remarks as to the origin of the tax-unions. He claimed to be the originator of the movement, and that he organized the first one in the State, in 1873, at which time he was editor of the Port Royal Commercial. The organization, in its inception, was purely a protective society to guard the rights and interests of the tax-payers, and nothing was more foreign to his thought thuu that it would ever be used as a political engine, such as he had witnessed the previous day in the body that had assembled in Columbia as the tax-payers' convention. This convention endorsed Green, though under the constitution of the tax-union the members had no right to assemble for political purposes. He then spoke of the leaders of the Green movement, all of whom were corrupt men, and Bowley, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, especially, he accused of being a blackmailer and bribetaker. As instances of Bowley's corruption, he cited that when an appropriation of 84,600 (that being the lowest bid) was wanted for binding legislative documents belonging to the .State library, he refused to report the bill unless the amount should be made 85000; that when an appropriation of $20,000 was required for tax-collectors' blanks he refused to report a bill for more than $15,000 unless he had the promise of $5000; on the penitentiary appropriation, for which $65,000 was required, he wanted to report the bill for $80,000, and divide the extra $15,000 with the superintendent, he, (Bowley) being willing to take only $5000 of the extra amount; that of fifteen attaches of the legislature who were entitled to $75 each, he only paid $40 each. As a writer for the press he had made these charges in print, and would prove them, and hoped to yet have Bowley in the peniteutiary for his crimes before the election. He charged Daddy Cain with being a swindler, aud also G. F. Glass, a member of the legislature whose regular scale for a bribe was a donation for the roof of his church, which needed repairing, by which means he had obtained money enough to roof all the churches in the State. The speaker then closed by comparing the surroundings of Green with those of Chamberlain, the former he said being infinitely worse ; and if Green were elected, he would either be compelled to take such associates or go entirely to the Democratic party. ^ At the conclusion ofMrTTThorapson's remarks, the chairman again put the resolution above reported, which being adopted, the meeting adjourned. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The name of Judge Settle is mentioued . s in connection with the Russiau mission. ? The bail of Houston, the Charlotte forger,. ^ has been 6xed by Judge Bynum at $10,000. Failing to give the required bond, he was remanded to jail. ? The Associate Reformed Presbyterian denomination of Statesville are building a church edifice. Rev. Mr Pressley has been chosen to nil the pulpit. ? The Statesville American says several Canadians have secured homes in Iredell county, and will move their families to that locality in the spring. ? A. H. Reams, a noted auctioneer at Durham's, suddenly lost his voice, one day last week, after crying the sale of tobacco at his ware-house. ? Catawaba River Council, Patrons of Husbandry, has appointed S. Watson Reid, of Mecklenburg, an agent to visit the Contineit and Great Britain in the interest of immigration. A ? Rev. Henry Asbury, of Lincoln county, was burned to death on Thursday of last week. He was an aged man,-subject to rheumatism, and while annointiug his body near a fire with kerosene, the oil ignited and burned him so badly as to cause bis death. ? Jennie Phillips, a widow woman, and a man by the name of Napier, have been arrestn/I nViornrti/1 iinfk tko on Tniok v\ a J _ cu, tiiaig^u niui ujuiugi ui au xi 1011 pcu" dler near Roaring Gap, in Wilkes county, \ about a month ago. The body of another J Irish peddler, supposed to have been murder- ^ ed, was recently found near Salisbury. ?IXD^PEXDEXTS?TND "REGULARS." DUNN AND MELTON. At the recent ratification meeting of the Independent Republicans in Charleston, Senator Dunn, the chairman of the Executive Committee, said: "And now, I don't think I can do better .1 , l 4 . i i i <? .1 /^i? tnan 10 respond to tne aeraaua or tne unamberlaiu organ in Columbia, to make a report of the result of my investigations. I know that figures are very dry things, especially when they refer to money that has been taken from the pockets of the people. But as tbey have demanded it, I will give it to them. Here is what I found out. I found that, in addition to the six million dollars of fraudulent conversion bonds now out there are one and a quarter million dollars of the bonds which the last Legislature declared legal and valid that are just as fraudulent as the conversion bonds. When I returned to Columbia last June I informed the attorney-general and the honest State treasurer of this. Having laid the proofs before them, I asked the attorneygeneral to take out a mandamus to prevent Cardozo from receiving and funding these bonds. He told me that he couldn't and wouldn't do it; that it was his duty to support the executive officers of the State and not to ^ interfere with thera. I then went to Treasurer Cardozo and told him that he would have to bear the responsibility of receiving these bonds, and he said he reckoned he would have to do it. This was all the report the Legislature authorised me to make before its meeting, and the State Treasurer decided to receive these bonds, although I laid tfye evidence of theii illegality befqrp nim. I then forgot my party and went to a Democratic lawyer, ffi in Columbia, Mr. Youmans, and in placing ? the evidence in his hands, asked him to lay it before the executive committee of the Taxpayers' Uniou. I also told the Attorney General that the law validating these bonds was, in my opiuion, unconstitutional, and that I thought the Supreme Court would so decide. It was unconstitutional because it increased the public debt, by making good the bonds which had no legal existence, and I wanted a mandamus, so as to prevent the holders of these bonds from coming before the Legislature again. The Ring, however, were afraid " ^ to have a decision from the Supreme Court, w, which would invalidate the illegal claims, and they refused to take any notice of my report. Another thing that I discovered in L