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Scraps mi Jafts. The Bombay cotton crop this year is the largest ever raised, The prospects are now good for the production of the largest crop of sugar that has been made in Louisiana since 1861. For robbing a man of a pen-knife valued at fifty cents, two colored citizens of New York have each been sentenced to imprisonment for ten years. A Wisconsin clergyman has been found guilty by a church council of "not always teaching the truth with sufficient carefulness to meet the demands of veracity." A little boy was asked about the story of Joseph, and if he knew what wrong his brethren lid in disposing of him, when he re plied, "I suppose they sold him too cheap." Girls, as you value your lives, don't get up and get breakfast in the mornings. A young lady attempted it one day last week and was burned to death. Show this to your mammas. I don't reckolekt of ever doing ennything that I wuz just a little ashamed ov, but what sum one waz sure to remember it, and every once in a while put me in mind ov it.? Billings. A rich but parsimonious old gentleman, on being taken to task for his uncharitableness, said : "True, I don't give much, but if you only knew how it hurts when I give any thing, you wouldn't wonder." Third Assistant Postmaster General Barber, who has given the subject much attention, expresses a belief that the government is aunually defrauded out of a million dollars, or five per cent, of the amount of stamps sold, by the use of washed postage stamps. The Dunkers, a sect of German Baptists, have decided in their national convention that no member of that church should keep a piauo or other ungodly instrument of sound in his house. A Dunker family would be a good place for boarders of quiet tastes. There is said to be in this State a merchant who has been in business forty-seven years, and never advertised and doesn't mean to. He began with a capital of S800, and by strict attention to business and economical living has increased it to $805.?New York Mail. About the coolest robbery that Boston has seen for a long time is a man who went to the public library building, and borrowed tools from some workmen, removed the copper lightning rods, laboring at the job several hours, and having loaded his spoils upon a wagon, rode off. The workmen supposed he was acting under orders from the city. A New York letter says it is observed that more dry goods firms will dissolve on the coming 1st of January than in past years at the same period. It is thought that there are too many firms for the business to be done, and many are looking either toward retirement from the commercial world or to a change of business. Foolish spending is the father of poverty. Do not be ashamed of work, nor of hard work. Work for the wages you can get, but work for half price rather than be idle. Be your master, and do not let society or fashion swallow up your individuality? hat, coat and boots. Do not eat up and wear out all that you"earn. Be stingy to your own appetite, but merciful to others' necessities. Mr. David Randolph, an old gentleman living in Trigg county Ky., recently cut his third set of teeth, and his eye-sight is so far restored that he can read the finest print without the aid of glasses. He is now in the seventy-seventh year of his age, has been a widower twenty-seven years, aud speaks hopefully of his matrimonial prospects. He has a full suit of luxuriant curly hair, slightly tinged with gray. Fox hunters must take the modern world into consideration. Recently the dogs lost a fox near to the station of Ferte Saint Aubin, in France, and, though they beat up the neighborhood for two hours, could get no trace. It was thought very strange that an old dog was missing also. Next day, it was ascertained that the fox had leaped into a happape car of a train iustpoiner out. and the OO O - - _ ? - . ^ o CP - - r dog had followed and killed him. A Washington letter says: "General Sherman's friends are moving actively in his behalf and making arrangements to bring him forward for the next President. From the nature of the steps taken, it is-inferred that the plan of Gen. Sherman's friends is to run him as an independent candidate. At the same time, it is believed that there is a plot on foot by some of Grant's friends to secure J legislation that will make Sherman come back j to Washington, to be snubbed or resign his I commission as general of the army." Such are the privations of citizens of Ne-1 braska and other portious of Western territory I recently invaded by the grass-hoppers, that j the President has determined to assume the j responsibility of ordering the Commissary- J General to furnish rations for the impoverish- i ed inhabitants in the country blighted by the | summer curse. The President is conhdent j that this act, though not authorized by law, j will be sufficiently defended on the ground of, the demands of humanity, and for this reason : he will assume the responsibility of issuing ! the necessary orders. The merchants in Greensboro, Ga., seem disposed to trace up their non-paying customers, or by some united action protect each other from the frauds that are perpetrataA nnnn fViom TtiP T-fcrnld. mihlishpd fhprP says: The merchants of Greensboro are work-1 ing from two to three nights in the week, establishing the commercial standing of every j citizen in the county. They are determined | that a certain class of men who buy goods i without any idea of paying for them, at the j time of purchase, shall not impose on any of! them in future. Dead beats will pay cash if, they get goods. A young lady in the East Eud, who has just returned from completing her education in Boston, wanted to kiss her old lover | last night, and her mother objected. The daughter drew up her queenly form to its full : height, and exclaimed : "Mother, terrible, | tragical and sublimely retributive will be the course pursued by me, if you refuse to allow ' him to place his alabaster lips to mine, and enrapture my immortal soul by imprinting angelic sensations of divine bliss upon the indispensable members of my human physiognomy, and then kindly allowing me to take a withdrawal from his beneficent presence." The mother feebly admitted that her objections were overruled.? Cincinnati Timet. There was a mau in Oswego, Kansas, who thought that he had fallen into a fat thing. He discovered a well full of medical \ water on his premises. He had it analyzed, and it gave iodine, bicarbonate of potash, chloride of lime and compound extract of buchu, with a trace of old Doctor Townscnd's \ sarsaparilla. The fortunate owner began to think of building a hotel, and in his mind's eye he saw no end of rheumatic and dyspeptic patients from all parts of the country, playing bluff and drinking the water. Alas! an enemy examined the well a little closer. Two defunct cats were there, aud an equally defunct rabbit added to the potency. The hotel will not be built. A war between Germany and Russia is reported to be regarded in Russian government circles lis almost certain to happen within three or four years, aud it is declared that Bismarck has contemplated it and has been preparing for it, the special object in view being the recovery of the Germau Baltic provinces from Russia. These provinces are so lose to St. Petersburg and so essential to the maritime views of Russia that they canuot be surrendered without injuring the commercial and uaval interests of Russia severely. Whatever may be the real aim of Bismarck, there can be no doubt that the naval aud military preparations of both Russia and Germany are, aud have been all along, on a prodigious scale. The danger of such a conflict as that referred to has been so -apparent as to have ' led to known efforts at au agreement between I Russia and France, and it is beyond all de! nial that upon all the leading European quesI tions the Russian policy is at the present time , directly adverse to that of Germany. The Washington correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal says any state- j ment that the civil rights bill will not pass at the next session of congress has no warrant in fact. There was nearly a two thirds ma- j I jority in the house of representatives for the! bill at the last sessiou, and not one of the j members who then supported it has since de- j clared his intention to vote against it. The j bill, owing to the parliamentary difficulties in j the existing condition of the business of the ! house, could not be taken from the speaker's table and passed, save by a two-thirds vote; but these impediments, growing out of the rules, will not obtain at the next session. For a month or more it will be perfectly competent for a majority to go to the speaker's table and pass the bill. At the last session, if the bill had passed, it is believed that GraDt would have vetoed it; but since then he has thrown himself into the hands of the carpet-baggers, and has plainly intimated to the notorious Senator Spencer (in a published interview) that he will sign the bill when it is presented. It is barely possible that an overwhelming democratic majority in the November election may alarm the radical managers, and induce them to send the bill to a committee, to be there quietly smothered ; but to secure this result, a strong expression of public sentiment will be necessary. $hc ?otMIc YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 5, 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 the subscription by draft or post-office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The postage *011 the Enquirer, to any part of the United States, is five cknts per quarter,or twenty cents peryear, and is payable in advance at the post office where the paper "is received. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which tho subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kepi in advance. 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We have contracted for, and already received several ORIGINAL STORIES by some of the most popular serial writers of the clav, and in the first number of the new volume will be commenced an unusually pleasing story from the pen of South Carolina's gifted daughter, Mrs. DEAS, now of California, whoso contributions to the press have always been well received, and whom we have secured as a regular contributor to the Literary Department of the ENQUIRER. This story, entitled "THE SEVEN SISTERS OF YORK," will be followed by others, of which we may mention as the titles?"UNCLE BRA INERIVS WILL;" "SLEEPY HOLLOWand a highly sensational story entitled "7AUITA TUC niDPIIQ ftlDI J! Z.MMI I Mj lilt. UIIIUUU Wliikj Abounding in romantic adventure and exciting incident, and portraying in vivid style the temptations and triumphsof a beautiful actress. THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS. Rev. 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THIS WE SHALL DO AV1TH0UT TAXINO TIIKSI'BSCKIBJSKK fUK i nr. a.i.ur,, i...u the only cost of the ENQUIRER to a mail stibscriber, whether in the county or out of it, will be at the following TERMS: Single copy one year, *? hh In elubs, each subscriber, per year,.... - ">h How to Rkmit.?Money may be forwarded at our risk by draft, post-otlieo order, or in registered letter?otherwise we will assume no risk. .ROT" Write names plainly, giving post-oltice, county and.State. B&- Specimen copies of the ENQUIRER will be sent to any address on application. Address all letters to Jj. M. OlilST, Proprletoi'. York ville, S. <'. CHARACTER. He that steals a man's money, according to the decision of a celebrated poet, steals trash ; but he that robs a man of his character, ac- j cording to the same authority, ruins the man. j We quote the sentiment?not the "words?of the poet. "A good name is better than precious ointment," is divine truth. Now, the great misfortune of this country is that a very respectable amount of our citizens, so far as numbers are concerned, have no character. They do not care one cent whether people 1 think well or ill of them. The word disgrace is absolutely meaningless to them. They 1 dread punishment because of the smart that it causes to the flesh ; but to that thing which < is called wounding the feelings, they are total { strangers. They have no respect for auy one, I and are as indifferent as a stone whether any < oue cares anything for them or not. They are in no sense 01 the woru a Jaw unto tnera- ! selves, and the law in its penal aspect is sira- < ply "a hangman's whip to haud the wretchjin f order." The primary office, both in point of time ] and in point of importance, which the civilized and eulightened world owes to these raon- , sters in human form, is to teach them that it < is a lasting disgrace to be punished for wrong j doing. So soon as this class of men learn j that disgrace is worse than death, they will < abstain from wrong doing. The man who 1 can lie drunk in the street to-day, and to- . morrow look and feel as well as if he had j been engaged in any of the ordinary avocations j of life, has not a just appreciation of charac- < ter. That man who does not care whether his j neighbors regard him honest or dishonest, j truthful or untruthful, cannot, with any sort of propriety, be regarded as a good citizen. He wauts respect for himself, and how can he respect auy one else? For a short period he may prop himself up with the good name of his ancestors ; but a bright line of noble an- 1 cestors will end like the far-famed Roman way?iu the mire?in the cess-pool of infamy. Such an individual may lean upon the broad acres procured by ancestral toil. This too, however, will prove as light as the chaff be- 1 fore the tempest. No man is so poor as the < man who is destitute of a good character. < He has a weight to carry which would crush a giant. 1 Now, if our whole people could only learn 1 to respect themselves, the highest acme of I civilization would be reached. The old Persians held that in order-to be able to rule I others, an individual must first learn to be I ruled. In other words, an individual must ! learn to obey and respect others before others will obey and respect him. Now, as the law ' of self-preservation is the first law of nature, < so the law or principle of self-respect, is the i primary law or principle of being respected. I Pride and self-respect, it must be remembered, are totally dissimilar. Pride is an evidence ] of a want of good sense. It plunges an indi- ! vidual into infamy and shame, and then in- ! cites him to glory in it. Self-respect lifts an i individual out of the dirt and filth, and keeps him out. I WEDDINGS AND FUNERALS. I It is the duty as well as the privilege of the ' public journaliststo advance the general good ] by commending what is commendable, and by ' censuring what is censurable. Iu this age, more than in any other of the world's history, news- ' papers are the moulders of public sentiment. ' ? ? i u,.? * A. large IllUllllUUt: Ul Hie liuiuau jauiujr nave no other guide and desire no other guide than ( their family uewspaper. This being the con- ' dition of things, we desire to pen a few sen- 5 tences about modern weddings aud funerals. In modern parlance, a wedding is a marriage j party, and a funeral is a burial party. The guests who attend the former are all expected to laugh and make merry, and the attendants , on the latter, are all expected to make long faces and be sad. To this we have no particu- | lar objection. Let all be glad and rejoice who , have just grounds for rejoicing; and let all be j sorry and sad who have cause to grieve, pro vided the joy of the former and the sorrow of | the latter are kept within proper bounds. There is this difference between a marriage j nnrtv nnd a funeral nartv. To the former, I; I'"* V * ** 1 J " , only iuvitcd guests are expected to attend. ] Any one may attend the latter that feels disposed to do so. With this conventional arrangement we have no particular objection. ] What we object to is the excesses which ( are practiced both at a funeral and a wedding. There will be burials and marriages in the world as long a9 civilization exists. All the ( human family, by an unalterable fiat, must ( die, and civilization, as well as religion, de- j mauds that the bodies of the dead be in some | decent way removed out of the sight of the j living. There will, whilst the world lasts, be , marriages ; for both good morals and the interest of civilization make it binding upon f most men and womeu to marry. Marrying, however, is one thing, and a marriage party is another. So also, burying a dead man is j one thing and the pomp aud display of a funeral is another thing. Usually, a marriage is a cause of joy ; but still it is a very solemn ' thing to marry. Too frequently it is the beginning of sorrows innumerable. It makes an epoch in any man's life, and not as seldom j as might be expected, an epoch of sorrow i and shame. A morbid state of society de- | mauds that a marriage be attended with an j j expensive and lordly entertainment. All the j j kin, and many of the neighbors, must be in- J ^ vited to enjoy the feast. All tins is, it not i foolish, at least very useless. It entails upon | the families, to which the bridegroom and bride belong, a heavy expense, and really profits no one anything. Not only is the en* i tertainment a useless expense, but the dress of J the bridegroom and bride is often nothing but a useless extravagance. It often occurs that a young couple start in the world with noth- j ing but a fine and gaudy ward-robe. It would | be far better for young people, when they determine to marry, simply to marry and save the money usually invested in cakes and | candy, and invest it in the real necessities of life. The same is true respecting funerals, j' There is no sort of use or propriety in surviving relatives going to great expense in the j burial of their dead. Much of the parade that J is made, over the dead is as empty and as transparently affected as air. It is right and becoming that the dead be decently buried ; ( but it is uncalled for and a useless cxtrava- ' trance to put a royal robe on a body to be D * laid away in the ground to rot. Living ( bodies are clothed for the purpose of making ' them both comfortable and decent, but the only object in putting clothes on a dead body ' is to make it decent. Funeral expenses often \ are really burdensome. The rich thiuk, or J seem to think, that they show their affection 1 for their dead by placing their lifeless corpses ' in costly caskets. This is all nonsense. .Not unfrequently is the glaring inconsistency demonstrated by the bitter animosities which spring up in a few days about the estate of the deceased. The poor try to ape this thing j in the rich, and bestow more upon the dead < than they are able to bestow upon the living. Whilst living, man needs little here below ; 1 and when dead he needs far less than when 1 living. < SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Governor has appointed Jos. Crews of Laurens county, a trial justice. ? The grand jury of Orangeburg county have presented School Commissioner McKinlay aud Sheriff Cain for malfeasance in office. ? The assessment of real and personal property in Richland county has been reduced $904,030 by the board of equalization. The aggregate value is now $7,843,992. ? The board of equalization for Kershaw county have reduced the assessments from $2,586,276 (last year) to 82,279,093, making a decrease nf 8307.983 ? The diptheria is raging to an alarming extent in Marion county, on the west side of Great Pedee. Three children died in one family before medical attention could be proeured. ? The merchants of Chester have organized i Protective Association, with the following aflicers: Joseph E. Wylie, president; J. H. Smith, vice-president; J. D. Means, secretary; L X. Youugblood, treasurer ; William Stringfellow, doorkeeper. ? In the United States Court at Charleston, Judge Bryan presiding, the purchaser at the sale of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company property having tendered the required bond, ind objection having been made thereto, because neither the principal nor the sureties have qualihed, and one of the sureties, viz: A.nson Bangs, is a non-resident of this State, it was ordered that the obligors of the bond ustify, and the place of the non-resident sursty be supplied by a surety who shall justify in fiftv-four davs. exclusive of the day of the # J * * granting of the order. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Legislature will convene on the third Monday of this month. ? At a publie sale in Mecklenburg couuty last week, corn sold for 81.90 per bushel. ? W. B. Dills, charged with the murder of Deputy Marshal B. N. H. Burus, was tried at Webster court last week and acquitted. ? A farmer in Lenoir county saved, the past summer, eleven tons of hay from one acre of ground, at a cost of only ten cents per hundred. ? The corn crop of Stokes county is unusually tine this fall, and the price has fallen from one dollar and forty cents per bushel to fifty cents. ? David Masten, colored, aged about fourteen, convicted of murder in Wilmington, has been sentenced to be hanged on the 18th of December. J-TfMYie loarria that \fr A P Rhyne has bought a shoa! on Dutchman ireek in Gaston county,-and will soon commence the erection of a first-class cotton factory. ? Gen. J. G. Blount, agent for the Cherokee Indians, charged with defrauding the tribe of 512,100, was tried before Judge Dick iu the Federal Court at Statesville, last week, and found guilty. Blount will appeal. ? The Salisbury fair is reported to have aeen a success. The exhibition in every department was good, ^nd from 5000 to 7000 persons were in attendance. The ruuning race, on Thursday was won by Notre Dame n 1.5S. ?At the Superior Court in Lincolnton, asl week, the grand jury failed to find a true Dill against Judge Schenck, who last summer, ictiug iu self-defense, shot and slightly woundid a negro man named Bob Burton. The jase of Owens, for the murder of Cheek, was set for last Tuesday. riHlUUlAU lillllJlilUdi Death of B. Rush Campbell, Esq. This distinguished Mason and honored jitizen, died at his residence, in Weutworth street, Charleston, on Tuesday of last week, ifter a protracted illness. Mr. Campbell was aorn in Laurens county, and was fifty-eight pears of age at the time of his death. He graduated at the South Carolina college in 1835, and was soon afterward admitted to the aar. In 1848 he was elected commissioner in equity for Laurens county, which position he ailed for nearly twenty years, discharging its important and delicate duties with credit to himself and universal satisfaction to the bar. His Masonic career commenced at Laurens :ourt house, where he was initiated at an early period of his life. In 1860 he was elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons af South Carolina, and served for one year, tn 1869 he was elected Grand Secretary to the Grand Lodge, which position he held to the i,ime of his death. He was a genial, warmhearted gentleman, and was universally esteemed. Since 1869 he has resided in Charlesson, where he won many warm friends. He vas buried under the direction and auspices )f the Masonic fraternity. Hester, The Detective. The detective Hester, who is making wholesale arrests of alleged ku-klux in Alajama, is the same individual who was connected with, and perhaps instigated, the kidnapping of Dr. Bratton, in Canada, in the summer of 1872. Previous to that affair his operations as spy and detective had been confined ;o North Carolina, where he gained considerible notoriety by capturing illicit whisky and ;obacco. Of his career, before appearing in die role of detective, nothing was positively snown in the State he adopted as the field of lis exploits; and the general supposition prevailed that he was one of the vast horde of bummers and array followers left in the wake )f Sherman's army. But his identity has at length been ascertained. During an investi Ration before a Commissioner s uourt in .uobile he was recognized by Admiral Semraes is a former officer of the Confederate cruiser >vhich he commanded, and Serames alleges ,hat Hester shot and killed a mid-shipman of he steamer while the vessel was lyiug at Giiraltar, and then deserted the ship, making lis escape. Since these facts have come to ight, it is probable that the matter will be nvestigated. Yfl'airs in Louisiana. A New Orleans dispatch says the people of that city are becoming disheartened by Merrill's military despotism, and some are in avor of letting the electiou go by default and xusting to Congress for relief. The leaders if the whites, however, will strain all their "esources for a fair electiou, and send as many Democrats to Congress as possible. Kellogg daims 21,000 black majority iu the registration in twenty-three parishes heard from. It is claimed that in nine wards already janvassed, 4173 radical frauds have been deleted, and the cases sent before the grand ury. There are eight more wards to canvass, * 1 * J. Ml md it is thought 4UUU additional irauus win be exposed. Prisoners who were arrested at New Iberia liave been refused bail. A dispatch from Homer says: "Several bodies of troops are in various parts of this parish. H. H. Maxey, a Republican, says that warrants are out for over 200 citizens. Not a single threatened individual has left or will leave. There is a difference of opinion among the Republicans here as to the effect of the arrests here 011 Saturday, some of tlieni repudiating the whole ! affair and trying to shift the responsibility. I j Rumors of arrests are frequent from other i parishes. Judge Trimball has information J that wheu Sheriff" Aycock reached Vienna he i and his deputy were treated in the most con! temptuous manner, the writ of habeas corpus ! disregarded, and that shameful and abusive language was used by Lietenant Hodgsou in I command. Guns were cocked and presented ! at the law officers, and the writs defied by the I military officer. Judge Trimball is indignant ; that the civil authority was disregarded, and will take steps to punish the offender. Trimj ball is a Republican and supporter of the Kellogg administration." The War Department has approved of I Gen. Emory's action in stopping arrests made ! by Merrill on his own affidavit, and will de: cide upon the question of Merrill's violation i of orders when all the reports and correspon| dence shall be received in Washington. A 1 general order issued from the headquarters of the Department Army of the Gulf, contains the following in relation to the disposition of the troops on Monday: "The troops {in thia city are to preserve ptace and order I and to prevent a conflict between armed bo' dies of men, and to be used for no other pur| pose. They will continue to abstain from political discussions and any interference with the election. All officers and men are required to remain within their quarters during the day of the election, unless called out to prevent a conflict between armed bodies, or by orders from a superior military authority." Many of the people who were frightened away to the swamps by the Federal cavalry on the line of the Red river are now returning, and mean to vote. Ladies' Hats. The ladies will be glad to hear all about the new winter hats. A New Yurk letter says: "Certain it is, that no shadow of difference can be detected between a majority of the new feminine head-coverings and the soft summer felts worn by men. They are identical even to the narrow repped ribbon binding, and the band around the crown. There are, of course, variations of the high-crowned, mannish style; but that prevails, and may well be considered the style of the season. Indeed, certain economical persons are trimming and freshening their husbands' last summer's hats, thereby rendering themselves modish and thriftful at the same time. The brims of the hats are uuwired, and therefore offer an irresistible opportunity for jaunt, and pokes, and dents, which is eagerly embraced by the trimmers. They are turned up on the sides, before, behind, at the corners, wherever, in short, it pleases the fancy of the wearer. The effects produced are extraordinary. Now, you will meetapretty, young girl whose hat gives her the appearance of having fallen and flattened her face and hat together. The next one looks as if she had turned down the brim to shed the rain, but had neglected to bend the Vnmhnu t U ??on no n 1 nnrf iifi t K V?or lClt OIUC. liutuuci UJitt tvuito aiuug iTibii 1IV1 hat perched back at the same augle we were taught to hold our pens when we were patiently (or otherwise) transcribing the moral precepts of our copy-books. The wonder is, how a hat can be made to stay on at such an elevation, without visible means of support. The elastic which once secured it is no longer visible, and awful suggestions of glue, gum and tin-tacks, present themselves. The wise ones say, however, that the secret cousists in a wonderful skill in preserving the centre of gravity, and?unlimited use of long hair pins stuck straight through the felt into?I had almost said the head?but, on reflection, I do not believe the heads are all soft enough to admit of this. I speak of felts alone, because, thus far, scarcely any made hats are shown. Gray is the fashionable color, and the tall, brigand hat?without the dent in the crown? the favorite shape ; though other colors and other, shapes are not uncommon. The trimming is comparatively plain ; a plain velvet binding, or no binding at all, on the edge, and a plain velvet and silk band around the crown. The bows and loops, which are not many, are placed wherever the brim is up-turned agaiust the crown, aud are supposed to hold it in position. Among the bows are stuck the feathers, ostrich-plumes, game-wings, or robins' breasts. If flowers or leaves are desired, these too are added to the general mass. Jet and blue steel, in the shape of sprays, fringes and single ornaments, are interpersed wherever they can be, and that is almost all over the whole." NEWS OFTHE DAY. ? There was a killing frost and ice at Pensacola, Florida, Monday morning. ? An inch of snow fell between Buffalo, N. Y., and Erie, Penn., on Saturday last. ? Murray county, Georgia, claims to have a woman with beard five feet nine inches in length. ? Jacob Thompson's house in Memphis, Tenn., was robbed and then burnt last Friday night. i ? A bloody but not fatal row between the I adherents of Platte (white) and Norton (col-1 j ored) radical candidates for Congress occurred ' i at Yorktown, VaM last Saturday, i ?Miss McDowell, a young lady, was killed : instantly last Saturday by an engine at the j railroad crossing at Whitehall street in Atj lanta, Georgia. j ?John Frode is no more. You probably i didn't know him. He lived in Western Mis! souri, aud on euteriug the smoke house of a , friend to see how the haras got along, a trap guu blew his head off. j ? The Alta Calif or man of the 19th says the vintage is now in full progress, and the yield J promises to be not more than 7,000,000 gal- | ! Ions, two-thirds light or dry, and oue-third ; heavy or sweet wine. ! ?Information has been received in Washton, from Pennsylvania, to the effect that the ; Democrats there are thoroughly aroused by J 1 ' .i l f ; the recent elections in me west, uuu are euu- i ! fidently expecting to carry the State. The j | Granger vote will go solid for the Democrats. ' 1 ?The bark Thomas Pope sailed from New York on Saturday for Liberia with twenty-' seven colored immigrants under the auspices j of the American Colonization Society. The ! immigrants are from North and South Caro- | lina and Tennessee. j ?A Salt Lake City journal relates that a citizen of that place, while digging his tur-1 nips, had his attention directed to one mon-, strous turnip by reason of a slight motion, i observable while the turnip was on the ground. On cutting it open a good-sized frog tumbled out and hopped off. j ?A San Francisco paper says:/'Deputy j U. S. Gauger C. J. Murphy, was knocked ; down aud run over by a runaway team on ' - - -n?.. ? 'Pi i Sacramento street, near rruin, un xuuisuaj afternoon. Mr. Murphy has but few bruises,' but the vehicle was smashed to pieces." It hardens a man to hold a Government office. I Careful Cotton Picking Pays.?Let cotton picking be pressed with all your energy and force, so as to gather the lint as fast as the bolls open. You lose both in quantity and quality by delay. The first picking should be well sunned. Do not allow your hands to pull off the bolls while picking, as they are sometimes inclined to do; and avoid 1 picking immediately after a shower. In all cases where large quantities are stored in bulk, stir the heaps occasionally, and expose the cotton to the air, to keep it from heating. Keep the different qualities of cotton separate, \ so as to avoid selling mixed cotton for the Drice of the poorest portion of it. It is best, if practicable, to gin cotton as soon as it is dry, as it is far safer in bales thau lying in bulk in the gin house.?Rural Carolinian. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. s Kennedy, Latimer ifc Hemphill?Calicoes?Cassi- i meres?(Jailersand Shoes. W. H. A J. P. Herndon?Time Up? Smokers? j ? Syrup?Sheep Bella?White Fish?Trays? Flour?White-Wash Brushes?Dinner Boxes and Baskets. J T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankrupt- t cy?Application for Discharge?In the Matter of Ira Hardin, Bankrupt. H. F. Adiekes?Ladies' Cloaks?Underclothing? . Useful Articles?Silks, Laces, Ac. M. Strauss A Son?New Supply. f Joseph M. Adams?Clear the Track for the Nar row uauge nn cnuu. , R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sale. ' ? I VV. H. McCorkle, Chairman of Executive Com- : inittee?Female Institute. . j THE ELECTION. j The election in this county passed off very quietly, and without any undue excitement by either political party. In order to give i the result at the earliest moment, we perfected [ ( arrangements by which the votes of all the ; precincts were received at our office by 12, i ( M., yesterday, and the figures may be relied j I upon as correct. The total vote is 4679, being 373 votes; larger than the vote of 1870, which was 4306, and is 907 votes larger than the vote of 1872, j' which was 3772. Since the election of 1872, ( according to the returns before us, the whites 1 have gained 412 in numbers, and the blacks 1 495. According to the returns, it will be ' seen that Chamberlain's majority is 513, and the majority of Wallace over Kershaw is 575. The Republican nominations for Legislature and county officers are elected. The repre- { seDtation in the Legislature is W. C. Beatty, 1 Thadeus K. Bates, Nelson Davies and Henry Steele, of whom the two latter are colored. , Of the County Commissioners, Edwards and 1 Massey are colored, and also the School Com- j missioner. < O f70i?0 0r?5-o0ci 1 X S1?r?2 s,g Ts 2 =?? 2 : ? S"2a -SSifrs * : a = 22..=^=: =f j j# X 1 2 : s* < ? : : : : : s l : : s ?: i : : : : : / : s S: 3 : ; ; : ; I : : : .r\P : 1 : : : : : : 8 tea. NIA-- tc- *"UiBiJaquiwqo o 1 ?I O tv 5i il p lv wi yj ? w X < I M 5 - 4. ;-i 5 c tc & 5 -i ^ j- J g ?,c U99J0 O ' * 4- 3c 4. to ~ C. X u | ? 1 b .A in to CP "S3AB9I0 *H -a O j r. ? tc ? bi ? ? >t? w It ? ? -i 1 4. to O - ^ S 4. ^1 -I C 33 2 , - ?- - ?C 1 - - ? S ( ? 88888888888>l~-*r?-^!l IIiisigsfeMisSj;-^^ I II ??slii?g?3aSl J Ilfe?a?5gg=?iSll"a"g'M-ila'yi 1 II SS^S^gBgSlill'"**"10'1''* I ! 11 SjejlggsgSSS I "ad?"w ? I UlSg^lilagggSi'53""" uos|ai; | 1 1.1 isggjgsgisas I | ; 11 ilsli5?a8sal I' '*mB g j I I 5|s| = S2g51S| I '""a-f B?u.oqJ, | J | I IIgigj?sssisiih^!?Z2 \ ; II slfcEif aaaSSgl I -"*** ? ; *J gg-iS-SSSS jS I'oa*l3''re "x'f ' lTi.issj5s^M!sssIz":*** if; 11 fei?illgg5l!ll I sure!""tt 'a M s*i i ~: g . 8 tcv. tcN)-- *c- e> - unJBIM uqof 2 < s gsgggsfesggga ? i 11 Slsiggillial I g ,J I j IlgMaggsgggggtl *?"'* g I II igalSgjjSigSl paJ0|0? p | ? I | ajOA auiSa-irfSv 1 TAXABLE PROPERTY IN YORK COUNTY The County Auditor has completed the tax j! duplicates of this county for the year 1874,; ^ from which we gather the following statistical 1 information. There are, according to the re-1 ( turns of the tax-payers, 469,470 acres of land ; in the county, of which 377 acres are in I meadow; 107,058 under cultivation; and 1 362,035 not iu cultivation. * Total value of real estate, $.1,074.4S*'? . Total value of personal property l.?*?M44 J Total of all taxable property $4.740,??;tO ( Value of town property, included it. above, .* $407,:?4'.t Value of horses 17S\??SH t Value of cattle, r22,:tli> j Value of mules, ?U>,11"? Value of sheep and goats 7.0U8 Value ol hogs | i Value of watches and jewelry,... 'Jl,:i7;t 'i Value of pianos, Ac., ". PJ.12S Value of pleasure carriages 44,_)4.'> Value of dogs, at $.*> per head 1P.344 : 1 No. of polls, 2,07."? j 1 The total valuation of taxable property iu ! i the countv will reach near five million dol-1s Ian?, as not included in the above is the valu-, 1 ? I c ation of the railroad property in this county, j which is not assessed by the County Auditor. TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE. Since our last report, the following trans-' * fers of real estate in this cuunty have been i recorded by the County Auditor: , t J. D. Jackson to Robert Currence. Tract i t of 10 acres in Bethel township. Considera- a tion 850. : j; M. H. Currence to Robert Currence. Tract I of 42 acres in Bethel township. Considera- q tion 8300. 1 J. L. Jackson to M. H. Currence. Tract o of 25 acres in Bethel township. Considera- s tion 888. : f S. G. Westbrook to J. M. Williford. Tract " of 73 acres in Catawba township. Conside- * ration 8365. * s, Win. Gibson to T. J. Cureton aud others. ? Lot in Fort Mill. Consideration 8500. J. M. Bigger to Dempsey Cook. Tract of p 101 acres in Bethel township. Consideration e 81100. jS R H. Glenn. Sheriff, to C. Whisouant aud " John McGill. Tract of 190 acres in Broad ^ River township. Consideration 8800. j Elijah C. G. Davis to W. J. Davie. Tract t! of 200 acres in Catawba township. Consideration 8175. a J. C. H. Duff to J. C. Poag. Lot in Rock 1 Hill. Consideration 81450. R. H. Glenn, Sheritf, to D. H. Smith. A p tract of 90 acres in Catawba township. Con- s sideration 845. d A. D. Holler to T. L. Johnson. Lot in u Rock Hill. Consideration 81200. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to Mrs. E. Christman.' J Lot of two acres in York ville. Consideration t oat j ' Cut. J. F. Hart to Sloan Johnson. Lot of two : a acres in Yorkville. Consideration 854. Ic SALES-DAY. On Monday last the following lands were ;old by order of the Judge of Probate: The McFadden tract, 250 acres, bought by W. Mendenhall, at $2.00 per acre. Lands of Galbraith Caldwell, deceased, [80 acres, bought by J. N. McEIwee, Sen., it $12.00 per acre. Lands of Jane Steele, deceased, 237 acres, lold by Administrator; bought by Joab Price, it 87.25 per acre. Lands of David M. Watson, deceased? lold in three parcels. Nos. 1 and 3, containng 1944 acres, bought by J. D. Currence, at $10.25 per acre. No 2, containing 253 acres, sought by Win. Sahms, at 812.50 per acre. A. Frank Smith, Executor, sold the lands sf Mrs. Ann Smith, deceased, situated on Broad river, as follows : The "Island tract" sontaining 43 acres was bought by at the price of 82150. The other tracts, containing 640 acres were bought by Wesley McKeown at the price of 84100. POTATOES AND TURNIPS. Mr. Jesse A. Hogue has furnished us with specimens of sweet potatoes and turnips produced on his farm. The specimens were very Sue, and indicate clearly that Mr. Hogue is not one of those who know nothing "about farming." SOUTH CAROLINA. George Alfred Townsend, a corespondent jf the New York Herald, writes as follows to that paper from Columbia, under date of the 12th ultimo: A Northern man is agreeably disappointed in this old Palmetto State, whatever his repulsions may be. It is not a ruined nor yet i chaotic State. It is not a retrograding State. It makes more cotton and wheat to the acre, has more busy hands, more ships in its docks, more acres under cultivation and ..?.!?tino nf npnrtiirtii than avar hpfnrp mure vaiicuco u* |/>v?mvw?, ? ? ?? v?v* Wv?w.v. [t is, to a citizen of the world, a country ahead of its development under slavery. No thanks to the bad politicians of the State for this. The schoolmaster was a necessity. There never was any community, except France at the revolution of 1789, which underwent so radical and rapid a change. South Carolina was the proselytizing high priest of slavery. The greatest sugar plantations of Louisiana, the greatest rice plantations of Carolina, the most delicate and exacting quality of cotton in the world, were owned by these keriditary planters, who are now the republican subjects nfa vast negro majority of their former slaves. The colony was modeled for slavery; its constitution, by John Locke, provided for peonage; its colonists first began the deliberate 3usiness of selling captive Indians to slavery ; ;hey fought for the products of slavery as such, n the provisional organization for British aon-intercourse; when we acquired Louisiana ;he Hamptons and others were the foremost Anglo-Saxons to proceed to that new territory md herd their slaves upon the sugar lands :here. Slaves were brought to South Carolila but a little while before the rebellion, and ;he present independent republican candidate for governor told me that his relative owned, ind he had talked with, native Africans, forcibly imported upon the soil of the State. A JUMP FORWARD. And yet I am of the deliberate opinion that ;he political conditions of this State are better settled, better ordered, more durable and learer a large and loDg prosperity than elsewhere in the union. I can give native testimony from the wisest and best habituated white men to this state of things, and I shall lo it. In my judgment the observations of Vlr. James S. Pike, author of a new publica;ion, called "The Prostrate State," were spasmodic and derived from less than cosmopoli;an study. The most radical slave-propagandng State in the South is coming out ahead of ill the rest in the experiment of free labor ind free suffrage. This it will owe to the > . 1_:?-? Hopelessness 01 political amuuiuu uiuuug tue whites, whereby they are neglecting politics md attending to industry; to the more perfect ;limate and soil they possess over any of the slave States ; to the discovery of vast deposits rf natural mineral manures since the war, whereby one acre is equal to five, and the disorganized labor equally available in the ratio Dfits replacement by chemistry; to the orthodox and homogeneity of the blacks, who are without the Creole restlessness; to the chastened intentions of the whites, who, having the most inevitably inevitable black government, are treating their labor with most justice; to a reflex wave of immigration, repelled from Texas, and even from Georgia, by the barren realization of exaggerated hopes there; and to the increased versatility of products and enterprise compelled by the situation. NOT A BARREN SCEPTRE. Look at the facts. The debt of South Carolina is not ?35,000,000, as has been alleged loosely. It is not ?20,000,000, as Mr. Pike was led to believe. It is almost ?18,000,000. By the decision of the legislature and courts, themselves partisan republicans, it is only *12,000,000, thus divided, according toSenaior Dunn, who is not politically interested to nnke it less than he can. Legally authorized funded debt less thau $12,000,000; floating leht, $500,000; total, ?12,000,000. Add ilegally negotiated conversion bonds, $6,000,XX); total, in the worst emergency, $18,000,XX). ] The debt of Charleston city is in round lumbers $5,000,000, all ante bellum, except some funded interest. The debt of Columbia ity. which has built a new court house and i new eity hall, is 8785,000, funded and floatug. Improper and dishouest things have >eeo done in Colum bia and in the State financial board, but no good purpose is subserved >y exaggerating what is bad enough and bor-owiug that old querulous and ignorant asertiou that "nobody cau find out what the lebt is." He who cannot find out what the lebt is has no business to be conspicuous in J> ;uessing at it. TESTIMONY. General Kershaw said to me: "I do not hink we need be laying up misery for ourelves in a suppositious expectation of debt, think the State can stand its debt. I regard he discovery of our native phosphates and heir cheap and copious employment as an bundant recompense for the loss of our slaves, am disposed to look out hopefully upon the utureof South Carolina." Mr. Miles, a very accomplished lawyer of Charleston, and brother ofex-Congressman W. \jrcher Miles, said to me as well: "There is ne thing I must confess and am agreeably urprised in?an old and long nightmare of ocial equality has proved to have nothing in t. There is no tendency toward amalgamaion. We are ridden by an unscrupulous ring f adventurers, but the blacks, left to themelves, would prove to be a wdjjlisposed and aoderately progressive race." Colonel Harrington, whocoramandetnFfeettfae^^^flH iany of mouuted rangers, and is uow a plantr, said : "My hands work very well. I find louth Carolina the only place where I can lake a living. I tried Missouri and failed here, and came back here to recover my forune. Formerly I owned 300 slaves. I think am no worse off, except for ready money, ban before the war." Mr. T. H. Clarke, of Camden, a Confederte officer, said: "When I came home from he war I found several hundred bales of coton which had escaped the vigilance of SherQau's soldiery. It brought forty cents a iound; but the money did me no good. I pent it in immature speculation and came lown to hard pan. Now, I look hopefully pon the future, attend to my own business, ook after my free negro labor, advance supdies to the laborers and small planters, and guess lam as well off as a young man ought o be. 11 These statements could be multiplied. They re all derived from members of the demo1-atic conservative convention. The fact is, Jl