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? naps and .facts. The New York Siui thinks that foi some time to come military presidents wil not be in much demand in this country. Ex-Governor Bramlette, of Kentucky and manager of the great library lottery, ii dead. St. Louis is the flour manufacturing centre of the United States. During 187c her mills turned out 1,294,798 barrels of flour and last year 1,573,332 barrels. Both branches of the Baltimore city council have passed resolutions denouncing the interference of Federal authority in Louisiana affairs. In Stroudsburg, Penn., the heirs of a suicide recovered judgment against a life insurance company, although the company pleaded that the deed had been done to de fraud them. In China, when the population of a district becomes too redundant, 20,000 men are set to work to make a canal through some extensive marshes, and 7,000 of them die before the job is completed. At Helena, Montana, on the night ol the 13th, mercury in the thermometers froze, and kegs of proof whisky, placed out-doors, froze solid. A number of Chinamen were also frozen to death in the vicinity. The Charlotte Observer says: "The total amount of the debt of North Caroliua, including special tax bonds aud interest, is $38,921,848.00, and if all the land in the State should be exposed at public sale, it is believed that it would not bring that amount." The committee of conference on the part of the Northern aud Southern Presbyterian churches, in session in Baltimore for the past week, have adjourned after having failed to agree upon a basis for the establishment of fraternal relations. The jury impanelled to try the TiltonBeecher scaudal case is composed of three Presbyterians, two Episcopalians, two Catholics, one Methodist, one Baptist, one Lutheran, aud two have no particular church leaning. The Florida House of Representatives has passed a resolution requesting Messrs. Gordon and Stephens, of Georgia, to look after the interests of Florida until the carpet bag senators ana representatives or norma find it convenient to return to Washington. Stokes, who killed Jim Fisk, in New York, and was seuteuced to the penitentiary, has already petitioned Governor Tilden for pardon. The foreman of the jury who convicted him of manslaughter, after two trials, joins in the petition, on the ground that the verdict was a compromise, he and other jurors having been iu favor of acquittal. No less than thirty Legislatures will be in session next week. Some of them are second and others special sessions, and it has rarely occurred that so many have been simultaneously at work. The Democrats control seventeen of them ; the Republicans twelve, and Federal bayonets one. The list includes all the States but seven, none of whose Legislatures meet this winter, namely: California, Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, New Hampshire and Oregou. The manager of Booth's Theatre, New York, advertised on Monday for two hunMAn *A A ?\rvAA ti m n Qkn lrcnoofian UiCU JUUUg IIIUIJ HJ in a uuttao|jvui IUU pageant, and found that morning not less than two thousand applicants, many standing from an early hour in the cold. The majority were genteelly dressed, and looked like clerks. During the day armfuls of letters were received, in which the writers begged for work at even the pay of a supernumerary, twentyfive cents a night. To send scurrilous postal cards by mail is a dangerous thing. An old and wealthy citizen ofNew York city indulged his spleen and sent fourteen, for which he was indicted and tried in the United States district court. He was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of So,000, without imprisonment, on the first count of the indictment?the judge suspending the sentence in the other thirteen counts. The extreme penalty, if imposed, would have been ten years' imprisonment and ?70,000 fiue, being ?5,000 in each case. The indications thicken that there will be a conservative sent to the United States Senate from Florida to replace the present carpet-bag Senator Gilbert, who, to do him justice, is the least offensive of his genus in Congress. He has contented himself with drawing his pay and giving his vote for partisan measures, but has not, during the whole six years of his term, opened his mouth pro 01 con against the South. The message of the Republican Governor of Florida is a cheering missive in these times of partisan hate and bitterness. The Wilmington (N. C.) Journal says "We understand that a gentleman now resi ding in New York, an old ante bellum citizen of Wilmington, but who shortly after the wai failed in the business he was engaged in, in both New York and Wilmington, gave a dinner on New Year's eve, in the former city to his creditors. It was a very pleasaut occa sion, and there was a full attendance, as the gentleman is held in high estimation. Al the supper-table, each guest found uuder his plate a check covering the full amount of hie claim against the host, together with interesl in full to date, the whole amounting to more than $25,000. It is needless to say that this fact was highly appreciated, and that the up right host was toasted more than once duriug the happy occasion." At Chester, Englaud, a woman was recently tried for killing her husband. The testimony showed that she bore patienth long continued provocation. At last, in ? moment of ungovernable irritation, she threv a sharpened steel at him, struck him, and fa tally wounded him. The judge believed froti the evidence that the consequences of the aci were deeply deplored by the wife; that six did all in her power to aid the man aftei wounding hira, aud therefore, although tlx jury convicted, he made the following uniqui address to the criminal: "All the real righ iu this case was on your side; all the rea wrong on your husband's, and God forbic that I should punish you. I will be no partj to it. I will not make this judgment evei complete. I will not allow it to be said bj auybody that you are a convicted felon, foi a conviction is not complete until a sentenci is passed, and I mean to pass no sentence a all. I shall merely ask you to enter into you] own recognizance to come up for judgmen if called upon ; and nobody in the world wil ever call upon you?God forbid they evei snouiu. The old story of the sad fate of Aaror Burr's daughter is brought to mind in th< narrative of Jean Babtiste Callistre, one o Lafitte's men, residing in Calcasieu, La., whc writes to the Galveston Xew that after La fitte abandoned his adventurous career, C'hau vet, his first lieutenant, took command of th< Vengeance, and sailed into the Gulf for i cruise, lie captured the American privateei schooner Patriot, bound from Georgetown S. C., to New York. Every person on boarc was put to the sword or made food for sharks After disposing of the dead, Chau vet descender into the cabin, and soon called out in at angry tone for Callistre and the mate to go t( him. They found him in the cabin confrontei by a beautiful woman who held an eraptj bottle in her hand, with which she had strucl Chauvet. He ordered them to tie her, ham and foot, convey her on board of the Yen geance and place her in his cabin. She fough the men and did all she could to jump over board. Callistre says she died a few day after their arrival in Galveston. She was i very handsome woman, and the daughter of; distinguished American. Her clothing, whici was of the finest material, was marked "ri A.," and she had a golden locket containin the portrait of a beautiful boy. On the loci et were the words, "To my wife Theodosia. She was buried on the island, a few hundre yards to the east of the old fort on the poini It was whispered among the men that Chai I vet had killed her because she would no yield to his wishes. Callistre is very old uow : He was the best gunner and oarsman Lafitti r and Chauvet ever had. He was nicknamei 1 L'Ecolier?the scholar. ; m futkville <?nquiw. J | YORRVILLE> S. [ THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 21, 1875, How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the narm 1 of the subscriber very plainly, give post-olliee, i county and State in full, and send the amount ol , the subscription by draft or post-olliee money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter, ! I HMio ..nclni.n li'vnlTini.'U any part of the United States, is fivk cents pei ? quarter, or twenty cents per year, and is payable in advance at the post office where the paper is rei ceived. 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 thai our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance A NEW CONGRESSIONAL JOB. E. S. Sandford, of the Adaras Express Company, has been before the post-office committee of the House of Representatives with reference to the law allowing packages weigh! ing less than four pounds to pass through the ' j mails at the rate of half a cent an ounce. Mr. i Sandford claimed that the express company pays the railroad corapauies more than double this rate, and has notified the railroad companies that if express business continues to be put into the mails, the company cannot continue to pay the railroad companies the rates now charged for its express packages. The express company asks that the evil shall be , Tn r?tbor tuni-da f.bf> pvnrfiss com 1CIUUI1CU. AU vvuvk IIV*V?W) ~ ? ^ pany asks the Government to discontinue a brauch of the public service of inestimable value and convenience to a large class of the people deprived of railroad facilities, in order that the express company may have a more complete monopoly of business, which, in the Southern States, at least, already amounts to grievous imposition. Mr. Sandford claims that his company pays the railroads, say one cent an ounce for the privilege of carrying packages over the roads?though SI per hundred pounds is nearer the correct figure?yet the express charge for delivering a one-pound package in Yorkville from any point North of Richmond would not be less than SI. This tariff affords a haudsorae profit?we might say a priucely income?to somebody ; aud the public will hardly be at a loss to understand the extreme solicitude of the express company about the overburdeued mails rendering the public a service for a moderate compensation. Unless it can be conclusively shown that the convenience of the public must be subordinated to the rapacity of an overgrown monop .. A _ ai olist, we hope the committee ou posi-omee affairs will dismiss Mr. Sandford's complaint. GOV. CHAMBERLAIN'S MESSAGE. With the exception of a few minor topics treated, which we epitomize, we publish in full, this week, the special message of Gov. Chamberlaiu to the Legislature upon the reassembling of that body. As we stated last week, the message was not only well received by all parties in Columbia, but it is praised alike by all who have read it, containing as it does, not a recommendation or suggestion that is not wise and just. He is most emphatic in urging that no appropriation be made in excess of the known revenue of the State, so that the practice shall be to pay as 1 we go. He suggests plans for paying the ' past indebtedness of the counties, but iu view of the heavy burden on the people, is inflexibly opposed to the liquidation at present of . the floating indebtedness of the State. He ! recommends that steps be takeu to secure ' competent teachers for the public schools; ! that justices of the peace be elected by the [ people; that a law be passed providing for the registration of voters; that expenses ot all kinds be cut down ; that the contingent fund be abolished ;'and that the plan of cumulative , voting be applied to all municipal elections so as to test the practical working of minority i representation. He says the constitution is L the highest law, and that constitutions are framed to be obeyed, and that he is "unable , to feel the force of any arguments drawn . from considerations of political policy when 5 opposed to a plain requirement of the constii tution. It would not have a feather's weight ' iu deterring me from currying into effect the : constitution which I have sworn to support." 5 These words have the ring of the true metal, p and in making good his promises, Governor Chamberlain will be sustained by the good 5 people of the State, irrespective of political ; ties or party affiliation. r While, with the advent of Gov. Chamber1 Iain's administration, our people begin to feel ' that a new and brighter era is dawning upon { the State, it is gratifying to note that for the l first time since reconstruction, our State gov; ernment is honorably recoguized abroad and r commanding repectt'ul mention. The N. Y, 1 Tribune, on reviewing the message, says : 2 "Govenor Chamberlaiu of South Carolina ^ deserves all praise for his manly effort to re ! deem his State from misrule and to save it from a continuance of the official robbery 1 which threatened to reduce it to absolute 1 bankruptcy. His special message to the leg 7 islature is couched in language unmistakably r sincere, and the boldness of which can bi 2 appreciated only by those who know the ra 1 pacity and audacity of the villains in his owe r party with whom, as office-holders, he has tc J deal. It is gratifying to learn that the Gov ' ernor has the hearty cooperation of hones! r men of both parties in South Carolina; oer tainly he has the best wishes of good men i everywhere." fl PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. >! The Senate on the 12th was occupied will " I a speech of Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, ir " I flpfensfi of the administration policy towarc t: Louisiana, and in reply to Mr. Schurz. Th< r House passed a number of bills, the only oik , | of public importance being a bill making i 1 ! general grant of the right of way to railroads j through the public lands, giving one hundrec j feet 011 each side of the track aud twent} I acres for each station, to the extent of oik j j station to each ten miles of road. In the Senate ou the 13th, Gen. Logan, o t! Illinois, had the floor all day on the Louisi I j ana question. His speech was a defense o * the administration, and his argument was , I that the action of Gen. Sheridan was the re s ! suit of a Democratic conspiracy. A specia a ; message from the President on Southern af a fairs was sent in and read. In the Housi II the Indian appropriation bill was considered during which there were made some charge f of favoritism in regard to Orville Graut, th ), i President's brother, a trader in Montana ^ ! who, it is alleged, enjoys extorsive wonopo 1.1 lies. i-j In the Senate on the 14th, Mr. Tipton rc t plied to the speech of Gen. Logan on Louisi ana affairs. A message was received from | the President signifying his approval of the finance bill. The House was occupied on , the Indian appropriation bill. In the Senate on the 15th, Mr. Tipton , j spoke at length, in reply to Senator Logan, -: on the Louisiana squabble. Mr. Frelinghuy! sen obtained the floor, and spoke in defense of the action of the military. Though he | derided the social equality war cry, he claimed that the people demand equal citizenship. The House proceedings were unimportant. In the Senate, on the 16th, speeches on the ! Louisiana question were made by Senators :! Saulsbury, Clayton, and Sherman, the latter j holding the floor at the hour of adjournment. ! The House was not in session. ! In the Senate, on the 18th, Mr. Edmunds, ) i from the judiciary committee, reported ad, j versely ou the memorial of the members of [j the State Central Committee of the Union , | Republican party ot Isouth Carolina, iu rein! j tion to certain allegations contained in a me> j morial of the Tax-Payers' Convention of that ' | State, in respect to excessive taxation by the i State government, and the committee was dis' | charged from the farther consideration of the ; subject. House proceedings unimportant. ? SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Dr. E. J. Oliveros, an esteemed citizen of j Orangeburg, died in that place on the 11th ! instant. ? Work has been commenced on the Laurens railroad, and it is expected that the road will again be in running order iu a short time. ? Goveruor Chamberlain has signed the bill passed by the Legislature, abolishing the Inferior Court of Charleston. The honest people of Charleston are duly thankful. ? The following persons have been elected municipal officers of Rock Hill for the curI NAnf t?A.? h T/ikn P f ntul/\n Tnfon/lnnf T xciJL ycai . u vim xv* juuhuvu, xuwuuwwv j L. Johnston, F. H. Barber, A. D. Hollar and J. J. Hagios, Wardeus. ? The National Grange of tho Patrons of Husbandry, will hold its auuual meeting in Charleston on the first Wednesday in February. The session will probably last ten or twelve days. ? Samuel Lee, through his counsel, Judge Paschal, has served a notice of contest on Representative Rainey, of the first district of South Carolina, claiming that he was elected over Rainey at the late election. ? The residence of Gen. M. C. Butler, about twenty miles distant from Edgefield Court House, was destroyed by fire about 10 o'clock one night last week. It was with great difficulty that his wife aud children escaped from the burning building in their night clothing. No mention is made as to the origin of the fire. ? During the past week, Governor Chamberlaiu has made the following appointments : For Chester?J. N. Gregg, H. G. Thomas aud C. S. Brice, Notaries Public ; Lancaster? C. P. Pelham, county auditor, vice Wm. McKenna, removed ; Williamsburg?B. P. Barron, notary public; Charleston?Reuben Tomlinson, jury commissioner. ? A very destructive fire occurred in Orangeburg on Tuesday of last week, which destroyed property to the value of near two hundred thousand dollars, including about twenty stores. Among the sufferers we regret to notice the name of our former young tnion.-mon MV T R Rr>vd ivhnsfi loss is DUt - ? ?J"> I down at S4000. ? The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier says the old State bonds and stocks are coming in rapidly under the act to reduce the volume of" the public debt. The State treasurer reports that to date ?2,700,000 of such bonds and stocks have been converted into $1,350,000 of consolidation bonds and stocks. Last week half a million dollars in j bonds came in for funding. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Legislature reassembled on Monday last. ? Work is progressing favorably on the Fayetteville and Floreuce railroad. ? A number of indictments have been found against several of the liquor dealers of Raleigh for selling liquor to minors. ? The Wilmington Star announces that the cotton factory, in course of erection in that' city, will soon be in operation. ? Jeff Patterson, aged 22 years, was happily united in marriage to Mrs. Mary Solomon, the mother of 14' children, in Person county, recently. ? Dr. Moran, the most eloquent speaker in the N. C. Conference, is temporarily ofliciating in the Church of the Strangers, New 1 York, during the absence of Dr. Deems. ? Governor Broaden has reeeived letters I I O from a mi ruber of the creditors of the State, in Europe and io the Northern States, all of whom express a willingness to be lenient in regard to their claims. ? The Charlotte Observer learns that a youth named Dixon, living about six miles from Dallas, Gaston county, was thrown by a mule on Friday morning of last week, and from the injuries received, died in about twenty-four hours. THE PUBLIC SENTIMENT. The indignation of the country at the re, cent action of Gen. Sheridan in ejecting from their seats, by military force, members of the ? Louisiana Legislature, has been expressed in terms unmistakable. We do not perceive that j - the merits of the claims of the ejected members j I enter into the question ; they may or may not ' j have been entitled to seats. Yet it is claimed , I that the safety of the Republic does not war- j j j rant the intervention of the military arm in j organizing a .State Legislature or determining 11 who shall sit as its members. Besides mass ' i meetings of the citizens of the various cities of '! the North and West, expressing in the strong'' est terms of condemnation the action of the , ! administration, it has also been the subject of ! disapproval by the Governors of various : States, who by message, have communicated , their views to the respective Legislatures. ' j The meeting in New York city on the 11th 11 is said to have been the most remarkable in ' point of numbers and enthusiasm known in 4 1 ? rni -*?- _ n ' j that city lor yenrs. ine xuayor 01 me city } j presided, and prominent among the speakers 1 were Wm, Cullen Bryant, August Belmont, 3 Hon. Wm. M. Evartsand other distinguished I . . 1 citizens, who were influenced in their action r regardless of political or party feeling. } Among the resolutions adopted was one that ^ "the manner in which the federal troops have r; been employed in Louisiana constitutes an *' abuse of authority which is dangerous to pub* lie liberty in an equal degree in every part of 31 the Union." This is the tenor of the resolu* tions adopted by the various meetings ; while 1 i the language of Governor Tilden, of the same * .State is no less expressive. In his special 2 message on the subject, referring to Gen. Sher? idan's published statement, Governor Tilden s says: e j "The pretexts for that officer's action are : '' | First, that he acted by directiou of Kellogg, * | who is recognized by the President as Gover* u."1' ?f Louisiana. Second, that the members i-! of the Lpgis!d!:,rc why wore forcibly ejected had no legal rights to seats in that body. Third, thut a fear existed iu Sheridan's mind ! that in some undefined contingency violence j might happen. With respect to the first and I second of these pretexts, it is a decisive answer that the Louisiana House of Representatives ' had, by the constitution of that State, exclusive judgment as to the rights of these members to seats ; that its judgment is subject to ; no review by anv judicial authority, still less j to review by the Governor or by any officer of the United States army ; that its judgment in favor of these members thus partly reviewed is binding in law and conclusive upon the j Governor and Lieutenant General Sheridan, and upon everybody else. Iu respect to the j third pretext, the fear in the mind of Lieut. I Gen. Sheridan of possible future violence, I J when no violence really existed, is not only I no lawful occasion, but even no excuse for ini vasion of the right of the House of Represen- | j tatives of Louisiana to judge for itself of the time to seat its own members. Interference i by United States soldiers was not only unlawful, but it was without a color of legality; it was an act of naked physical force, in viola-1 tion of the laws and constitution of Louisiana i and of the laws and constitution of the Uni- I i ted States." Subsequently, in the House branch of the j Legislature, a majority of the committee ap! nninfpd to draff, a resolution evnressive of the sense of the House on Louisiana affairs, made a report utterly deprecating and condemning the interference by the military in the organization of the Legislature and the course of President Grant and the Secretary of War in relation thereto. The minority made a J report which agreed with the majority that i the action which had taken place in Louisiana deserved a most prompt check, but they could not agree upon the terms in which the protest should be made. They therefore submitted a series of resolutions expressing their disapprobation of the action, and setting forth | the duties of the officials iu the matter. The majority report was adopted by a strict party | vote. Iu his message to the Legislature, Governor Taylor, of Wisconsiu, says: "If authorthority exists in any branch of the federal government for what appears to be assumed by recent proceedings iu the State of Louisiana and in the extraordinary proposals of the Lieutenant-General of the army in his dispatch from New Orleans, I believe the time has come for all of us to bury partizan spirit iu a common effort for the preservation of our constitutional sovereignty and the inherited liberties of the American people." Iu his message to the Legislature, the Gov- j ernor of Georgia refers to the question in the | following terms: "During the last ten years the general government has violated the liberty of the citizens, overturned and created State governments at will, and committed other flagrant violations of the constitution. The crowning act in this course of usurpation and wrong is the attempt to stifle by the strong arm of military power the will of the peoplcof Louisiana expressed at the recent election. This grave wroug has evoked a change in public sentiment that leads us to look for an early reformation of the policy and practice of the federal government toward the Southern States. If the policy of irritation should be abandoned and the people be left to themselves, the two races would soon establish social and business relations with each other as their own peace, happiness and true iuterest require. In other words, our people only ask that they be secured in the great right of local self-government as it once existed in all the States of the Union, but which is now enjoyed alone by the people of the Northern States. If the government will but give us home rule, a revenue tariff, an honest and economical administration, and a sound circulating medium, we shall not have long to wait for the return of peace and prosperity to all parts of the country and among all classes of people." In the Pennsylvania Legislature, a select committee of the House of Representatives reported a preamble and resolutions in reference to Louisiana affairs which were passed by a strict party vote?102 democrats to 85 republicans. The preamble recites the circumstances of Sheridan's interference with the Legislature of Louisiana, and the following are the resolutions: Resolved, That this House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, speaking for her people, do solemnly protest against so heinous an abuse of power as that committed by the President; we protest against it as a prece dent which substitutes the will ot tne executive and federal bayonets for the functions of the Legislature in determining the qualification of members, endangering personal liberty and imperiling free government. Resolved, That we commend the forbearance exercised by those whose rights were so unconstitutionally violated. We assure them of the sympathy felt for them by all who are zealous of the preservation of the principles of civil liberty upon which our government is founded. Froni all sections of the Union the same voice of condemnation rises, while apologists for the administration, outside of Congress, are few and weak. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Louisiana Legislature. Affairs at New Orleans are reported quiet. The Legislature, with a Republican majority, is in peaceable possession of the State House, and holding its sessions regularly. Both Houses passed a resolution declaring that Pinchback was duly elected U. S. Senator in 1873, and affirming his right to a seat in the U. S. Senate for the terra of six years from that date. Resolutions have also been passed by both Houses requesting Congress to immediately institute a thorough investigation into the affairs of the State. The Finance Hill. Presideut Grant has approved the finance bill, providing for the resumption of specie payments, as passed by both Houses of Congress. In approving the bill, the President recommends an increased revenuo to carry out the obligation of adding to the sinking fund annually, one per cent, of the public debt, which would nrnouqt to about thirty-four million of dollars per annum. To increase the revenue, he suggests that the duty on tea and cofi'ee might be restored without permanently enhancing the cost of these articles to the consumers. The bill also provides that fractional currency shall be redeemed in coin as rapidly as practicable, but as there is no legislation preventing a fluctuation in tho value of currency, legislation to that end is recommended. On the subject of final resumption, he says: As the present law commands final resumption on the first day of January, 1879, and as the gold receipts by the treasury are larger than the gold payments, and the currency receipts than the currency payments, thereby making monthly sales of gold necessary to meet current currency expenses, it occurs to - al_4. ii AI IE,*., romariiorl | me mat uie&e unuuuitius lui^m ^ >V.mwM.V%? j by authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury j to redeem legal tender notes whenever preI sented, in sums of not less thau one hundred ! dollars and multiples thereof, at a premium for gold of ten per cent., less interest Q.t the rate of two and one half per cent, per annum, from the first day of January, 1875, to the date of putting this law into operation, and diminishing this premium at the same rate until final resumption, changing the rate of premium demanded from time to time as the interest amounts to onequarter of one per cent. I suggested this rate of interest because ! it would bring currency at par with gold at 1 the date fixed by law for final resumption. I suggest ten per cent, as the demand premium at the beginning because I believe this rate would insure the retention of silver in the country for change. The S. C. Legislature. j The crowded state of our columns prei vents us from giving in detail our usual daily report of the proceedings, and for this week we are compelled to present only a disconnected summary. The bill introduced to enable a landlord to eject a non-paying tenant more expeditiously than at present, was defeated ou its second reading. In the House, Sim kins, of Edgefield, introduced a bill to provide for the protection of certain laborers in the county of Edgefield, j lately employed on farms, and who have been discharged from such employment because of I having exercised their political rights and ! privileges. The bill provides for levyiug a tax on Edgefield county of two mills on the dollar to support persons who could not obtain employment on account of their political opinions, instructing the county commissioners to find out such persons and pay them the sum of six dollars per month. Iu order that money may be obtained without delay, the bill empowers the county commissioners of Edgefield, to borrow the sum of 85,000 from auy person or persons, corporation or corporations that will make such loan, which sum shall be apportioned out to said unfortunates in certain forms in the same bill presented. On motion, the bill was referred to the committee of the whole without going through the regular channel. Subsequently the bill came up tor consideration in committee of the whole, when a resolution was adopted "that the bill I be laid on the table, and that the committee on the judiciary be instructed to ascertain if combinations, such as are named in the preamble of the bill, can be punished by existing laws, and if not, to report what additional legislation is necessary to reach the case." In each House, a bill was presented to levy a special tax in York county, to retire bonds issued in aid of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, and for other purposes relating thereto. The committee to ! which the bill was referred submitted a favorable report and recommended the passage I of the bill. Reports were submitted ou a number of bills which had been introduced, proposing to j extend the time for the payment of taxes and suspending the penalties attached. The reports were unfavorable iu every instance, for the reason that the powers intended to be (conferred were already vested iu the comp, troller-general. The bill to require the county treasurer in | each county to set aside and retain out of the State taxes collected by him in each year, the amount of the free common school funds of the State apportionment to that county by the State superintendent of education, was rejected, for the reason that the bill is in con fliet with the provisions of the constitution and laws referring to thesubject embraced therein. The enacting clause was stricken out of the hill consolidating the office of county auditor and treasurer into one office. A bill was introduced by Mr. Couch, to authorize the county commissioners of Chester county to apply the surplus fund now on hand in the said county, known as the kuklux fund, to the payment of the past indebtedness of said county. Also a bill to amend the charter of the town of Blackstocks. Col. Beatty has presented the memorial of citizens of Rock Hill asking an amendment to the charter of said town. On Saturday last a resolution was introduced proposing to adjourn sine die on the 12th of February, but its consideration was postponed until Monday when the resolution was adopted by the House. The President on Louisiana Affairs. Agreeably to a Senate resolution of the 8th instant, the President, 011 the 13th, transmitted to that body a special message on the subject of Louisiana affairs. He commences with a review of the turbulence which it is alleged has existed in that State since 1866 ; cites the Colfax massacre and the later affair at Coushatta last August; refers to the scenes enacted in New Orleans on the 14th of September, wheu the effort was made by D. P. Penn to usurp the State government; explains the object of Sheridan's mission, and says "no party motives or prejudices can reasonably be imputed to him ; but honestly convinced by what ho has seen and heard there, he has characterized the leaders of the White * X J A. l Lieaguers m severe terms auu suggesieu summary modes of procedure against them, which though they cauuot be adopted, would, if legal, soon put an end to the troubles and disorders in that State." Thus paliating Sheridau's action, aud at the same tirue deploring military intervention, for which he conteuds Congress is blamable, the President concludes: To summarize: In September last an armed I organized body of men, in support of candidates who had been put in nomination for the offices of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, at the November f lection in 1872, and who had been declared not elected by the board of canvassers recognized by all the courts to which the question had been submitted, undertook to subvert and overthrow the State government that had been recognized by me in accordance with previous precedents. The recognized Governor was driven from the State-house, and but for his finding shelter in the United States custom-house in the capital of the State of which he was Governor, it is scarcely to be doubted that he would have been killed. From the State-house, before he had been driven to the custom-house, a call was made in accordance with the fourth section, fourth article of the constitution of the United States, for the aid of the general government to suppress domestic violence. Un der these circumstances, ami in accuruuuce with my sworn duties, my proclamation of the 15th of September, 1874, was issued. This served to reinstate Governor Kellogg to his position nominally, but it cannot be claimed that the insurgents have, to this day, surrendered to the State authorities the arms belonging to the State, or that they have in any i sense disarmed. On the contrary, it is known [ that the samearmed organizations that existed on the 14th of September, 1874, in opposition to the recognized State government, still re| tain their organization, equipments aud comj manders, and can be called out any hour to resist the State government. Under these cir: cumstances the same military force has been continued in Louisiana as was sent there under the first call and under the same general instructions. I repeat, that the task assumed by the troops is not a pleasant.one to them ; ; that the army is not composed of lawyers ca? I pable of judging at a moment's notice of just how far they can go in the maintenance of i law and order, and that it was impossible to ; give specific instructions providing for all , possible contingencies that might arise. The troops were bound to act upon the judgment ! of the commanding officer upon each sudden contingency that arose, or wait instructions, i wliw.h nnlv roach them after the threat "II1VM J ! ened wrong3 had been committed, which thej 1 were called on to prevent. It should be re| collected, too, that upon ray recognition of the Kellogg government I reported the fact? with the grounds of recognition?to Congress, and asked that body to take action in the mutter, otherwise I should regard the silence ! as an acquiescence in ray course. ! No action has been taken by that body, and I have maintained the position then i marked out. If error has been committed by tho army in these matters, it has always been on the aide of the preservation of good order, the maintenance of law, and the protection of life. Their bearing reflects credit upon the soldiers, and if wrong has resulted, the Jblam.e is with the turbulent elements surrounding thera. I now earnestly ask that such action may be taken by Congress as to leave my duties ; perfectly clear in dealing with the affairs of Louisiana, giving assurance at the same time, I that whatever may be done by that body in 1 the premises, will be executed according to the spirit and letter of the law, without fear or favor. ! Correspondence of the Vorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chestkk, January 18, 1875. Mr. Felix Whitloek, who was in towu a ' few days ago, gave me an account of an unI fortunate affair, of which, asan humble chroni icier of the news, I will briefly speak. Mr. j Whitloek lives near Halsellville, in the lower ! portion of this county, and theoecurreuce took | place not a great way from his residence, in I the limits of Fairfield. The rnaiu facts are I I as follows: At the place of the disturbance, which occurred about ten days ago, is a store kept by a son of Mr. Whitloek. On the evening of the occurrence, this young man received . i-.?. :._ui? atl invitation to taae tea at a neiguuui o uuuk, which he accepted, and was, consequently, absent from his store several hours. After enjoying, for a time, the hospitality of his friend, Mr. Whitlock returned to his store, to find that the building had been entered, the money-drawer broken open, and a considerable amount of cash takeu therefrom. However, stealing, like murder, will out in the vast majority of cases. In a short time, some one came into the store and asked Mr. Whitlock to change a bill, which, he recognized at once to be a torn and patched bill which had been lying in his drawer for a considerable while. Finding that a colored man, by the name of Hawkins, had passed the bill, be went, without delay, to a trial justice, made a statement of the facts, and obtained a warrant for the arrest of the thief. Hearing that Hawkins was at a negro-house, near by, in company with a friend, he went to the place, found him and informed him that he had a warrant for his arrest. A considerable number of negroes then surrounded Whitlock, and manifested an inclination to prevent the arrest of Hawkins, when the latter leaped out of a window of the bmiao and made his escane. The escape proved only temporary, for he was soon discovered, by his pursuers, in another negro house. Hawkins was again called upon to surrender and submit to arrest, but instead of doing so, he seized a club and was on the point of dealing Whitlock a blow, when the latter drew a pistol and fired upon his assailant. He fell severely wounded, when Whitlock, in company with his friend, walked back to the store, which they securely fastened, and then began the immediate loading of all the shooting irons which they could find in the establishment, as a crowd of negroes, intending violence, was momentarily expected. This expectation was soon realized in the collection of enraged negroes near the store. But they were prevented from attempting to carry into effect their murderous intention, by the arrival of a number of white men, who had heard of the shooting, and gathered at the store. At one time, indications favored a regular engagement between the whites and blacks; but wiser counsels prevailed, and the negroes were finally induced to go to their homes with the understanding that Mr. Whitlock would surrender himself to the proper officer and give bond for his appearance and trial at court. This he has done. No blame is attached to Mr. Whitlock by the commuuity in which he lives, for the result of the unfortunate affair. The recovery of Hawkins from his wound is most likely, if not certain. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the National Bank of Chester was held on Tuesday last. I have been told that the meeting was very harmonious and agreeable. After the meeting, refreshments were in readiness, which were greatly enjoyed by the stockkrvMorc unit their friends. The flow of SDiritS iiv<uv>? W4,v% *""* " 'IT added considerably to the flow of soul on the happy occasion. The declaration of a dividend of six per cent, during the past six months, indicates the flourishing condition of the National Bank of Chester. The same directors and officers were reelected to preside for another year over the destinies of this excellent institution. In accordance with the instructions of Judge T. J. Mackey at the late sitting of our court, bench warrants have been issued against Dublin Walker, late school commissioner, and Ben Michael, Julius Stevenson and Henry Blake, late school trustees, for malfeasance in office, and the same have given bond for their appearance for trial at the April term of the Court. The accused are all colored, and are charged wilh issuing fraudulent school claims. As they are prominent Republican politicians, some curiosity is felt to know the part the presiding Judge and counsel for the State will play in the case. If the case is stricken from the docket, and the accused allowed to go scot-free, without trial, it will be for the reason that party welfare is to be se cured at the expense of the public good. And the people will know thut the era for reform and good governrueut is not so near as some would suppose, and others have promised. Two or three days since, two colored meu of our town, whose names have slipped my memory, engaged in a fight, which resulted in one receiving a dangerous wound, iufiicted by a knife. The unfortunate man is still living, I but may at auy moment take his departure for the spirit land. And then another murder to be added to the long list of Southern outrages! Possibly another Sheridan may come down, ere long, ou this offending community like the wolf on the fold. And then look out for another batch of?misstatements. Mr. J. A. Hasseltiue, President of the Chester and Cheraw Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, was in our town on Friday. He says that the road from Chester to Lancaster will be graded, bridges built, aud all things in j readiness for laying the track by the 1st of I August. This will be hailed as good news by ! all who are desirous of seeing direct and speedy communication effected between the | eastern and western sectiqns of our State, j Mr. S. J. Couch, a representative from | Chester in the Legislature, has been appointed ' i r T._i Oi i trial justice 1U piace or dunus oievensou, uoi1 ored, removed. The appointment does not give general satisfaction. ! A difficulty occurred yesterday in our couui ty, in the Carmel Hill neighborhood, between Carter and Williams, both colored men, in which the latter was so severely stabbed that he will in all probability die. Dr. J. A. Watson, the attending physician in the case, tells me there is very little hope of the wounded I man's recovery. The petty sum of thirty ; cents occasioned the misunderstanding that led to so sad a termination. This is auother j "Southern outrage," r?he "banditti" are evidently on the war path. The engine ordered a considerable time since for the Chester and Lenoir Narrow j Gauge Railroad from a firm in Pittsburg, is expected to arrive in Chester to-day. Instead of making the trip iq ten days, it has been six weeks on the way?almost' long enough to travel round the globe. Q17. | It is stated that President Grant has placed a company of troops at the disposal of i the Governor of Mississippi. | LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. | R. P. Smith, A. B., Prirulpal?Reidvillo Malo i High School. ! W. P. Hobbs?Notice. i T. M. Dobson A Co.?Gold Jewelrv?GroceriesShi rting? Com 111 ission Goods?Buckwheat Flour?Nails and Iron?Cheese?Axes, j Clark Brothers?Price Reduced. T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?First Meeting of Creditors?In the j Matter of J. B. Marks, Bankrupt. II. W. Hope, Secretary?Masonic Meeting. | T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?Application for Discharge?In the Matter of W. T. Sealy, D. G. Wallace, Bankrupts. Charles Petty, A. M., Principal?Limestone Springs Female High School. R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sale. J. F. Wallace, Administrator?Notice. D. V. Walker?Mules and Horses. 11. H. Benner?Wanted. Jefferys & Metts?The Stono Phosphate Company?Cotton 15 Cents. W. H. A J. P. Herndon?Guanos. J. F. Wallace,'Agent?Sale of Furniture. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Oitation? Dr. S. A. Kell, Applicant?Sarah Merritt, | deceased. E. C. Tate?Administratrix' Sale. Dr. Clopton?At Rock Hill. 1 APPOINTMENTS FOR YORK COUNTY. Governor Chamberlain has appointed Col. William B. Allison a Trial Justice for Ebenezer township, in this county; J. A. Newton, Jury Commissioner; and G. W. S. Hart, Notary Public. NEW LOCOMOTIVE. The second engine placed upon the Cheater and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad reached this place last Tuesday night, having been received in Chester on Monday, and immediately put in running condition. The new engine?called "A. H. Davega"?is designed for greater speed than the first one purchased. THE STATE TAXES. Mr. Enloe, County Auditor, has received a circular from the Comptroller-General notify- ? ing him that the twenty per cent, penalty for non-payment of State and county taxes for the fiscal year, 1874, will not attach until February 1st. Agreeably to instructions, the Auditor has given the above information to the Treasurer, and consequently those who have not yet paid their taxes can have until the 1st of next mouth in which to do so, without incurring the penalty. COLLAPSE OF A CIRCUS. Carrington's Circus, so-called, failed to arrive here last week, as had been advertised. We learn from the Lancaster Ledger that the concern reached that town, but did not exhibit, although the followers and swindlers attached to the show pitched their tents in the streets and fleeced a number of victims. The authoritiesof this place very properly fixed the price of license so high as to prevent the "show" from exhibiting withiu the corporate limits of the town, even had they reached here. We learn from the Charlotte Observer that the manager and a portion of his company arrived in Charlotte a few days ago, and that the agent of the concern has attached some of the property for claims due him. DEATH OF P. J. O'CONNELL. We learn that P. J. O'Conuell died at his residence in Gaston county, N. C., on Monday ' 4 ??AT*. A' ( r> a1 1 if a a o momKor UI JU9L 1U1. V/ \juuucii nno us wvuii/vt of the Legislature from this county for two terms, having been first elected in 1868 and serving until 1872, when he failed to receive a nomination at the hands of his party, and as an independent candidate was defeated in the electiou of that year. Soon after, he married in Gaston county, N. C., whither he removed. Mr. O'Connell had the advantages of a splendid education, which he received in Rome, and in coming to this county in the days of reconstruction, unfettered by test-oaths or political disabilities, he joined the Republican party and had no difficulty in gaining the confidence of many of its adherents, which, for a while, he retained as one of the prominent leaders in this county. Mr. O'Connell was a native of Philadelphia. Since his residence in North Carolina, we believe he was engaged in the occupation of farming. THE CASE OF MISS CASTLES. On the morning of the 17th of November last, Mary J. Castles, a young woman living in the family of J. Albertus Hope, in the western part of this county, died soon after giving birth to a male child. Circumstances connected with the death of the young woman gave rise to suspicions in the neighborhood, aud after information had been given to W. B. Williams, acting coroner, that officer, on the 25th of November, impanelled a jury of inquest, which commenced an investigation, and continued the same from time to time - * j. t - ...i? At... until tne inn or mis muuiu, wueu me luuuning verdict was rendered : "South Carolina?York County. "An inquest, indented, begun to be bolden at Smyrna Church, in York county, on the 25th day of November, A. D. 1874, before W. B. Williams, Trial Justice, acting as Coroner of said county, upon view of the body of Mary J. Castles, of same county, then and there being dead, and continuing bv adjournment and liolden on the 26th and 27th days of November of said year, and ending on the 14th day of January, 1875, before J. Beatty Williams, Trial Justice, acting coroner of said county, by the oat js of James A. Wallace, Foreman, Miles Wallace, James M. Cain, John L. Davis, James K. Hambright, Minor R. Nichols, Robert W. Smith, Samuel L. Smith, D. W. Brown, J. A. Dickson, R. J. Love and R. J. Brown, beinga lawful jury of inquest, who being charged and sworn by the trial justice first named, to enquire for the State of South Carolina when and by what means the said Mary J. Castles came to her death, upon their oaths do"say that the said Mary J. Castles came to her death on the morning of the 17th of November, A. D. 1874, at about 3 o'clock, at the house of J. A. Hope, in saidcoun- ' tv St.ita aforesaid.'after civimr birth to a male child in the yard of the said J. A. Hope, and that the said deceased came to her death from the intentional mistreatment of J. A. Hope and Elizabeth Hope, wife of the said J.A.Hope. And so the jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid do say, that the said Mary J. Castles, at the time and place aforesaid, came to her death from the causes aforesaid." After the rendering of the above verdict, a warrant was issued for the arrest of each of I the accused, who were committed to jail on the same day. On the day following, Mrs. Hope appeared before Judge Mackey on a writ of habeas corpus, and on her petition was admitted by the Judge to bail, giving bond to appear at the April terra, at which time the case is set for trial. Pending the investigation of this matter we purposely refrained from alluding to the circumstance, preferring to await the action of the coroner's jury. Much testimony was taken by the coroner, but as it is not our purpose to prejudice the case or to provoke comment, we have decided to produce uone of it in our columns until the trial takes place, when it is our intention to give a full report of the proceedings. % CIRCUIT COURT. The January terra of the Circuit Court closed on Saturday afternoon last. The following cases were disposed of subsequent to our report of last week : Statem Wesley Brumfield ; larceny. Found guilty aud sentenced to one year at hard labor in the peuitentiary. State vs. Samuel McNeel and J. G. McNeel; assault and battery. Not guilty as to Samuel McNeel. J. G. McNeel found guilty and paid fine of ?25 and costs. State vs. Thomas Thomasson ; grand larceny. Acquitted. State vs. Dawson Kimball; grand larceny. Found guilty and sentenced to six months in the penitentiary. State v8. Peter Kelly ; assault and battery y with intent to kill. Pleaded guilty of assault M