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f traps and Jfacts. I It is vaiu to put your finger in the water, and pulling it out, look for a hole; and equally vain to suppose that, however large a space you occupy, the world will miss you when you die 1 The Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States now has twenty-seven colleges and universities, sixty academies and seminaries?the whole valued at 87,000,000 exclusive of three theological seminaries. Three sisters of Debuque are so set in their temperance principles, that they make the hired girl smell the breath of every young gentleman caller and report the result before admittance to the parlor can be obtained. They say their armies are on a "peace footing" in Europe when they have 250,000 men in the Austro-Hungarian army, 750,000 in the Russian army, 500,000 in the French army and 1,000,000 in the Prussian army. A "constant reader" of the New York Herald proposes to contribute 81 toward a ! .. ] AA AAA 1 1 T* xunu oi oiuu.uw to induce rresident urant to resign. He thinks thousands of other persons in New York alone will join him. Collectors have been instructed by the Commissioner of Iuternal Revenue to strictly enforce the law in relation to the two cent stamps on checks, drafts or orders. The penalty is $50 for each such paper not properly stamped and effectually cancelled. The annual circular of Dun, Barlow & Co., issued iu New York on Friday, states the number of failures throughout the country last year at 5,830, against 5,183 in 1873, 4,069 in 1872, and 2,915 in 1871?total liabilities of the failures last year, ?155,239,000, against 8228,499,000 in 1873, ?121,056,000 in 1872, ?85,252,000 in 1871. Governor Iugeraoll, of Connecticut, has appointed William W. Eaton, of Hartford, to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate, caused by Senator Buckingham's death. Mr. Eaton is senator-elect from Connecticut, and would have been a senator after the 4th of March without this appointment. He is a States Rights Democrat of the strictest school. In France a man, awakened in the night by thieves in his house, called for assistance so lustily, that his neighbors came from every side. Those from one side, in the obscurity, opened fire on those from the other side, and the compliment was reciproca ted 30 effectively, that four persons were so wounded as to endanger their lives. Naturally the thieves escaped. Gov. Chamberlain, of South Carolina, is winning golden opinions from all sorts of people for his just and able course in that State. Everything seem to be going on well there under his management, and the Conservative people are giving him their hearty support. This is the true road to reconstruction and peace after all.?Richmond Enquirer (Dem.) The New York Express calls attention to several facts to prove that diphtheria is not a new disease, as most people suppose, and reminds its readers that Washington is supposed to have died of the malady. The letters of Walpole show that a disease very similar to it, if not exactly the same, was an epidemic among certain of the English nobility as early as the middle of the eighteenth century. Only three months have elapsed since the election for Congressmen for the term to coraraeuce on the 4th of March next. Siuce then three of the members elect have died. John W. Head, of Tennessee, Gamett McMillan, of Georgia, and Augustus F. Allen, of New York, are the unfortunate ones. The vacancies in Tennessee and Georgia will be filled by Democrats, but, in the New York district there is some doubt. A Missouri legislator hearing that a number of his constituents were about to present him with seven hundred dollars' worth ot plate, was so conscientious and highminded as to refuse the gift in a letter concluding as follows: "lam, and always have been opposed to public displays to officials in the way of presents, addresses, &c. If you have concluded to do anything of the kind give it to my wife." Mrs. Dowden, wharecently died in New York, made a singular request on her deathbed. She was passionately fond of dancing, and her death was hastened by an over indulgence in that amusement. When she realized that she was about to die, she requested that her remains might be laid out on a board instead of in a coffin, and that she should be dressed in her new ball dress of flesh-colored satin, with white slippers. She also asked that a fashionable hair-dresser should be employed to dress her hair in the latest style, and that her head should be turned to one side after death to show the hair to advantage. Her desire was complied with, excepting that i. c? w J a t'US&Ct WOO 3UU3UIUICU 1U1 LUC UUttlU. The death is aunounced at Jacksonville, Ohio, of a centenarian named George Wilson, who was born in England in 1775. When quite young he enlisted and was assigned to the regiment of which Wellington, then unknown to fame, was major. In 1794 he served in the low countries, and was in the memorable retreat from Bremen. Two years later he was fighting Tippoo Sahib in Iudia, and served through the Mahratta wars of 1801, 1802 and 1803. Subsequently ordered to Europe, he was at the battle of Kioge, in 1807, and went to Portugal in 1808, where he took part in the battle of Viraeira. He was at the defeat of Marshal Soult in 1806 and later at Talavera,and with Packeuham before New Orleans. After the last-named engagement he refused to re-enlist, and, making his way to Janesville, he reraanied there till the end of his very long life. The result of the subscription to the loan recently put on the market by the City of Paris, was quite remarkable^as a financial success. The city asked the French people j for 250,000,000 franca, and they responded I with forty-two times that amount, in all 10,500,000,000 francs, or twice as much as they paid to Germany in the form of a war indemnity. In our money this subscription would amount to about 82,100,000,000, or a little j short of the sum of our optional debt. The I promptness with which so vast a sura was ten- j dered not only showed the ability of the people, but was even more decided testimony : of their faith in the Republic, and their will- j ingness to give it a moneyed support. The ! rapidity with which the French nation has ! recovered from the effects of its almost subju- ' gation by Germany is one of the marvels of j the age, and has only been rendered possible j by the intense partriotism of the people. On Monday of last week, a petition was i presented in the House of Representatives by : lieneral Jtsutier, ana was reierrea 10 me committee on the revision of the laws. It is in j German and English. The petitioners desire the abolition of the Senate, because it is only a copy of the aristocratic English House of Lords and other monarchies, and pray that 1 the powers now vested in it be transferred to the House of Representatives. They also want the office of President and Vice-Presi- j dent abolished, and their respective powers ; vested in an executive council of seven mem-1 bers, to be separately chosen by the House of | Representatives, and to be jointly responsible to that body and be subject to its dismissal; also, that article fifteen of the amendment to the constitution be amended by inserting the word "sex" after the word "color," and final-1 ly that no important law be enforced until it is sanctioned by a majority of the people. An accident on the Southern Railroad of Long Island, is a novelty in railway disas- j ters. The road had sunk so that the boiler of the engine, in passing over it, came in contact with the water with which the track was cov-, ered. The sudden contact between the cold water and the heated surface of the boiler! cracked thelatter, and an explosion immedi-1 ately followed. This is probably the first ac- j cident of the kind that ever occurred to a rail- j way locomotive, and it is to be hoped that it will teach railroad men that cold water cannot be safely brought in contact with hot iron.' It is a common practice on American railroads to drench heated axles with water. Indeed, the usual method of dealing with a hot journal is to throw water on it. That this is attended with imminent risk of producing fractures in the axle which will render it liable to snap in two at any moment is obvious, and there is little doubt that many of the accidents resulting from broken axles could be traced back to this reckless use of water. fJorMk inquirer. YORKVII.I.E, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 18, 1S75. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and State in fiill, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post-office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirer is delivered free of postage to all subscribers residing in York county who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where thev receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?1The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the (late must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctlv understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash .in advance A NEW ENFORCEMENT BILL. The Republican members of Congress, in caucus on Friday night last, agreed upon a new enforcement bill, for the purpose of regulating affairs in the South, and the measure will be introduced in Congress at an early day. The proposed bill is lengthy, and among the many provisions it contains for the regulating of elections" in the Southern States and enforcing equal suffrage, is one empowering the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, whenever, in his discretion, it may be deemed necessary. While a few leading members of the Republican party have given their dissent to the measure, it is claimed that the majority of the party will favor its passage. It is said that the President gives the measure his entire approval, and when a draft of the bill was presented for his inspection, he expressed the hope that it would become a law. He is further reported to have said that "this measure, or some thing like it, is needed, and if it passes the House and fails in the Senate, or could not command a majority vote in either house, it would do no harm to press it to a vote." He argues further that the moral effect of the passage of the bill would repress turbulence in the South, while if Congress adjourns without action, it will be a sort of encouragement for the bad element of the South to continue in their present course, and it might become necessary for him to proceed to greater extremes than a mere suspension of the habeas corpus. The President may be honest and actuated by the best of motives in his desire for autocratic powers; but men, unblinded by party prejudice, whether in the North or South, will agree that there is no necessity for further legislation by Congress with regard to affairs in the Southern States. Those States, if left alone, can regulate their domestic affairs without the aid of Federal interference, Presidential proclamations or the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, and they likewise have the ability, with their own officers and their own courts, to arrest and punish disturbers of the peace and violators of the law. We do not suppose there is now a single Southern State that would deny the colored citizens their rights at the ballot-box ; nor can such a disposition, on the part of any respectable number of the Southern people, be shown by the voluminous testimony, recently taken by the investigating.committees in States where political disorders are alleged to exist. What the South most wants to restore peace and tranquility, is rest?rest from continual Congressional aud Presidential tinkering?and fair, honest State governments, no matter by which party they may be administered. Let the President and Congress labor and legislate to secure these desirable ends, and there will be no necessity for conferring mouarchial powers upon the chief executive, simply for the "moral effect" they will produce in the way of over-aweing a people who, for years, have been the victims of partisan rancour and hate. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 9th, Mr. Johnston moved to reconsider the vote indefinitely postponing the bill referring to the court of claims the claim of G. W. Custis Lee for the Arlington estate. The motion was agreed to. Mr. Davis presented joint resolutions of the West Virginia Legislature protesting against federal interference in Louisiana affairs. Pending the discussion of Arkansas affairs the Senate adjourned to attend the funeral services of the deceased member, Mr. Buckingham. In the House, after the committee on appropriations had reported the pension appropriation bill, the remainder of the day was occupied with Indian affairs. In the Senate, on the 10th, the committee on naval affairs reported adversely on the bill authorizing the purchase of a site at Port Royal, S. C., for a coaling station and naval depot. Mr. Clayton introduced a bill construing the act to place colored soldiers, who j enlisted in the army, on the same footing as j regards bounty, &c., as other soldiers. The remainder of the session was occupied with ; District of Columbia affairs. Iu the House, J a bill was favorably reported to aid the con- j struction of the Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis Narrow Gauge Railroad. In com-j raittee of the whole, the House discussed the j post-office bill. In the Senate, on the 11th the minority re-! port of the committee on privileges and elect- ; ions in thePinchback case was presented. The Senate was occupied for the remainder of the ! day in discussing District of Columbia affairs. In the House the post-office appropriation bill was considered, and passed. The revenue bill was then considered in committee of the whole. ! In the Senate, on the 12th, while considering a bill providing for the construction of a railroad from Portland, Oregon, to Salt Lake City, Mr. Frelinghuysen, of the committee on railroads, remarked that the committee would not report that or any other railroad bill1 asking Government aid. The bill was then refused a reading, and the Senate resumed the consideration of the bill for the government of the District of Columbia, which sppms to reouire as much federal legislation - - - J _ as all the late Confederate States combined. In the House, the tariff bill was considered in committee of the whole, in the course of which it was argued that the tax on matches and the two-cent stamp on bank checks could be dispensed with. The proposition to increase the tax on spirits caused a lengthy 1 debate. The bill for the relief of certain j loyal creditors, whose moneys were confisca- 1 ; ted by the Confederate Congress, was taken ' up, and pending a vote on the passage of the i bill, the House adjourned. ! 1 In the Senate, on the 13th, a bill was in-1 troduced to admit free of duty the diamonds ' presented by the Khedive of Egypt to Gen. I Sherman's daughter. The customs duty on J1 the present amounts to $75,000. The bill < providing a form of government for the Dis- 1 trict of Columbia was considered. In the i House, the bill was rejected for the relief of i certain loyal creditors whose money was con- I fiscated by the Confederate Congress. A bill i proposing compensation for supplies taken by j l the Federal troops during the Morgan raid, , was also rejected. ! In the Senate, on the 15th, Mr. Robertson introduced a bill to secure to the depositors in i the Freedraan's Savings Bank money lost by them. The bill for the government of the ; District of Columbia was tabled, by a vote j of 34 to 23, which kills it. A resolution to I seat Piuchback on his credentials was called up and was the subject of debate. The judiciary committee reported back the House civil rights bill without amendment, and notice was given that it would be called up at the earliest possible moment. Mr. Merrimon introduced a bill to prevent vexatious seizures of property on account of Federal taxes. In the House, a bill was introduced to regulate the transmission of registered letters, directing the Postmaster General to establish a uniform system of registration at all the postoftices in the United States, and prescribing ten cents as the registration fee I SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ( ? Union county has voted a subscription of i $150,000 in aid of the Spartanburg and Ashe- c ville Railroad. 1 ? More houses have been built in Camden ( during the past year than in any year within ] the memory of the oldest inhabitant. 1 ? The "Preston Mansion," in Columbia, which was purchased by ex-Governor Moses 1 about one year ago, is advertised to be sold on ' the first Mouday of March, to foreclose the 1 mortgage given to secure the purchase money. ' ? The report of the death of Judge C. P. 1 Townsend, of the fourth judicial circuit, pub- i lished in the Columbia and Charleston papers, ' was premature. The Judge has been serious- 1 ly ill, but is recovering. 1 ? A large quantity of ship pins cut out of the black locust, which erows abundantly in many of the river swamps, of this State, is being shipped through Charleston to Liver- * pool, to be used in ship building in the Eng- < lish navy yards. ? The Merchants' Union and Grange of 6 Ridgeway, believing that the freights on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad are too high, have organized a wagon train j in charge of Mr. John S. Cathcart, to ply be- i tween Ridgeway and Columbia. ? Two men in Orangeburg jail are awaiting 1 the sentence of death for the crime of murder ' under peculiar circumstances. The sheriff elect has not qualified, the coroner who acts 5 in his absence or default has not qualified, ] and the query springs up, if the trial justice J who is designated by the law to act in the f coroner's place is entitled to act as sheriff? 1 ? Governor Chamberlain has issued a proc- ( laraation ordering an election in Lancaster, j on the 16th of March, next, for two county e commissioners, iu consequence of one of the * commissioners, recently elected, having failed \ to qualify within the time prescribed by law, 1 and another having been convicted of habitual drunkenness. , ? At the recent term of the court at Lan- ( caster, Judge Mackey sentenced Jas. Martin, { a white man, to six month's imprisonment in i the penitentiary for the crime of bigamy. In < pronouncing senteuce, the judge admonished ' the prisoner, in a solemn and impressive man- j ner, of the gravity of his crime, closing sub- ( stantially as follows: "James Martin, the | Courtis credibly informed that you have six < wives now living in Lancaster county. The ' law does not tolerate such a monopoly, but ' the court recognizes, as a mitigating circura- ' stance in your case, the fact that you dwell in ( this vast solitude, and you may thereby have ] been impressed with the belief that you live in < patriarchial times, and you may thus have i multiplied your marriages to relieve the loneliness of the situation. The court, therefore, ' imposes upon you the mildest sentence per- J mitted by the statute; one month for each wife." I ? In regard to the lease of the Charlotte, * Columbia and Augusta Railroad, by the I South Carolina Railroad Company, the Phoenix says : "We are advised that the editorial * *U/-? ATlowio sv*is/ A11IW/W nf* ftntnwl*H7 the fit.h I I \J 1 Lljg XTC/U/O icaw VVWI ?VI f W4 umj j v?w ??M iust., under the heading of "Discrimination against Charleston," does injustice to the com- i mittee appointed by the stockholders of the s j Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company. In reponses to the proposition of the South Carolina Railroad Company, the committee insisted that, as a pre-requisite to the consideration of any proposition, the leasing road must agree to give a bond, with adequate security, conditioned for the performance of the terms of the lease. Considering the fact that the South Carolina Railroad Company has a very large mortgage debt in addition to a large floating debt, this require ment of the committee cannot be regarded as t unreasonable, before entrusting a large a- t mount of bonds not issued or used as collater- * als, and a very valuable railroad property, to the charge of the South Carolina Railroad 1 Company." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. 1 ? Greensboro reports the average thickness * of ice in that locality last week at 44 inches. ? J. C. Gorman has been chosen Mayor of < Raleigh to fill the vacancy occasioned by the j death of Mayor Holden. { ? The Legislature has created a new coun- ( ty, to be called Pender, out of a portion of v New Hanover. j ? Daniel Thornton, a citizen of Gaston ] county, was kicked to death by a mule on Fri- ] day of last week. i ? Mr. Glenn, Republican member of the i1 ^ ^ P D.MM.nAninfinAO f.nm Vd/^Hn /irtllTl- l ^ IlUUSt; Ul XVCpiC3CUlBI(l>? 11UUI * UUU.II WUM ^ ty, has introduced resolutions in the Legisla- | ture comdemning the civil rights bill. ? The Shelby Aurora says: It is rumored that a widow lady, on her return home from this place, where she had sold her cotton, a few days ago, shot and killed a white man who had blackened himself and stopped her in the road for the purpose of forcing her to give over her money. ? Swasey, who has obtained judgment as a bondholder against the North Carolina railroad, has given the defendants notice that on the 1st of March, he will move to quash their i appeal from the decree ordering the sale of stock for the payment of interest due by the .State. Should the motion succeed, legisla- s I tion will be required to prevent the sale. 11 ? A serious, if not fatal, shooting affair took ! 3 place at Monroe, on Friday last, between El-! ^ dred Griffith and a man named Moore. The ! t dispute was about a bale of cotton, which j Griffith, a9 clerk in a store, was purchasing j from Moore. Moore fired the first shot, wounding Griffith in the back, and Griffith 3hot Moore in the thigh. Moore, being deemed the aggressor, was arrested. ? Regarding the story of the sane lady, the j wife of a minister in Shelby, who, it was stated some time ago, had been placed by her husband in ihe South Carolina Asylum, the ; Charlotte Observer says that "when the facts ! were made known, a petition was gotten up ' in Shelby, and sent to Dr. Ensor, the Super- j inteudent of the Asylum, asking for an inves- j Ligation. Friends of the lady pressed the ' matter, and we learn from a Shelby gentle-j man that she has been released, and is now at j Ridgeway, S. C. It is said that the lady was ; \ little eccentric at times, but it never occurred to an}' of her acquaintances that she was tisane. Her husband, we are told, desired to >e rid of her, and took this method." MERE-MENTION. A torchlight procession and other honors ire reported to be awaiting the arrival of Au1 T^l \V_.i A II C*> UUIIUDUII 111 VT (toll llJg kwll* n. LIC^Ilsw of Stonewall Jackson married a niece of 3ren. George B. McClellau, at Denver, the )ther day. The postal card factory in Sprinfield, Mass., shipped 26,420,500 cards luring the quarter ending on the 1st of Janlary. Gen. Frank Blair, who was a :audidate for Vice-President on the Seymour icket in 1868, is reported as seriously and lopelessly ill at his home in St. Louis Two nillion five hundred thousand tons of ice lave been secured and housed on the Hudson River, this season. Mrs. Lydia Bradley, )f Peoria, 111., has just been elected a director )f the First National Bank of that city. She s a wealthy widow and a large stockholder if the bank. A California man pounded lis wife, was fined 890, and he sold her silk Iress to pay the fine. Congressman Beck, of Kentucky, broke his wrist, on Friday ast, by falling on the ice in Washington. A bale of cotton weighing 1,035 pounds, was received in Augusta last week. It las been cold enough in Kansas to freeze whisky, and some of the drunkards there lave become solid men. There is noth. ing more hazardous than to be bothering an irritable woman with foolish questions on wash lay. ;There is said to be a growing demand in Massachusetts for a society for the protection of husbands' rights. RAINEY ON CIVIL RIGHTS. The following is the concluding portions of thesneeoh of Renresentative Rainev. of South 1 i" J , -- Carolina, recently delivered in the House of Representatives at Washington, in reference to iocial equality and mixed schools: I venture to assert to my white fellow-citisens that we, the colored people, are not in juest of social equality. For one I do not ask ;o be introduced into your family circles if pou are not disposed to receive me there. A.mong my own race we have as much respec;ability, intelligence, virtue and refinement Dossible to expect from any class circumstan:ed as we have been. This being so, why ihould I cast imputation upon my people by saying to them, "I do not want your society; [ prefer to associate with the whites." Why ihould I be ashamed of them with their blood lowing in my veins ? Such is not the promptngs of my heart nor of my colored colleagues >n this floor. We are not naturally more lisposed to immorality than others. Under ,he new order of things we are hopeful, how;ver, that a higher order of morality will be established in the South than existed there in mte-bellum days ; for the time has come when t is admitted that the negroes have rights ;hat white men are bound to respect. Among my raco I aoi free to confess that we have some immoral'men and women, but )ur consolation is that such regretful examples ire not confined to any race or people. It night be said, however, in extenuation of this eondition of affairs, that many of them have Deeu kept bowed down in the fetid trenches of slavery for so long a time that their senses lave become blunted beyond a keen concep;iou of their own rights and interests, which las led many to believe that they are contented with such privileges as they now enjoy, without desiring further legislation in their sehalf. The misfortunes of this class are not ehargeable to any but those who delighted to iegrade us in the past and desire to continue ;he same treatment in the present. It is to be loped, therefore, that they will not be considered as reflecting the opinions or wishes of the more intelligent in tnis regara. The earnest desire for the passage of this Dill as a measure of justice and equity, becomes more evident from the stubborn opposition made to it. There has been no measure passed by Congress, having for its avowed object ;he benefit of the negro race in any way, but what has met the same contention that has Deen so apparent in this instance. Much has been said about the constitution ind its bearing upon the passage of this bill, ind the ultimate result of such an event, rime will not permit me to refer to them all. [ will say, by way of general reply, that those who read the constitution with partial and selfish motives in view, fail to see the interests )f the colored race apart from what is implied n the last three amendments thereto, and frequently with a narrow conception of those. We claim equal rights and interests with other lifi'/ona wbn ftrp fimhraofid within thfl limits )f all its provisions. If this should not be admitted, the people would soon lose appreciation for that instrument, and clamor for a ehange that would afford them more general md better protection. Believing it to be adequate for the ample security of all, the people ire content with it. Article 4, section 2, of the constitution reads bus: "The citizens of each State shall be enitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in these several States." According to this provision it is unconstitu.ional to deny any privilege or immunity to eolored citizens in either Virginia, Georgia, Kentucky or any other State that is guaran,eed to other citizens. It-must be remembered that we are not dealing with the past, but .vith the immediate present and for the future. In this conneection reference may be properly made to the public schools. All the obeetions that have been urged against the i - -i? o 1 l J jenerai commingling 01 wliilb ?uu uuiurcu ihildren in these schools have been stated and mccessfully refuted in the past. There was jreat dissatisfaction shown at the inaugura;ion of this system in those States where it las been in successful operation for years, tt is gratifying to state that the satisfactory esultsof its workings have dispelled all doubts n regard to its practicability, quieted apprelensiou, aud contributed largely to remove 'ears and annihilate that prejudice which has | jeen declared upon this floor should be fos-1 ;ered and respected. It is with the aim of J naking more complete the destruction of this j incharitable sentiment and proscription that1 he opening of the public schools to all is so I nuch to be desired. Surely the children are I lot better than their parents, who now sit j -vith us iu the jury box, the legislative hall, i md are daily to be seen in the same public j jonveyance. Therefore, I can see no reason j vhy the white and colored children cannot j ittend the same public school. What we desire, Mr. Speaker, is to have , he cloud of proscription removed from our , lorizon, that we may clearly see our way to ntellectual and moral advancement. This is lothing more than what all good citizens de ire to enjoy and ought to have. I therefore avor the passage of the SeDate bill now on 'our table. This being done, complaints will cease, for ve can then justly say, let "caps, hands, and ongues applaud it to the clouds the Repubican party has been just and true to its iledges. I LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Herring A Co.?Patent Champion Sales. T. M. Dobson A Co.?Great Discovery?Guano. W. il. it J. P. Herndon?A Hare Cl)anee?Wando?Prices?Acid Phosphate?Seed Potatoes?Sea-Fowl Guano. John H. London, Rock Hill, S. C.?Dealer in Standard Fertilizers. T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?First Meeting of Creditors?In the Matter of John B. Elkin, Bankrupt. J. H. Clawson?Assignee's Sale?In the Matter of Jeremiah Moss, Bankrupt. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation? Win. Barber, Applicant?George Barber, deceased. T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?Application for Discharge?In the Matter of E. Lanford, Bankrupt. THE McCAW* PROPERTY. As will be seen by reference to their advertisement, the executors of the late Col. McCaw will sell the property mentioned in two lots, instead of three, as was first advertised. ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S REPORT. We acknowledge the receipt from AttorneyGeneral Melton of a printed copy of his report of the cases argued, tried or conducted by him in the Supreme Court aud Circuit Courts during the past year. FELL ON THE ICE. During the sleet on Friday last, Dr. J. B. Allison, while walking on the slippery pavement, lost his footing and fell to the ground, dislocating his left collar-bone, from the effects of which he has since suffered severely. THE MURDERER OF CIIEEK. Owen, who was convicted at the last term of the Superior Court of Lincoln county, N. C., of the murder of J. W. Cheek, of this county, appealed to the Supreme Court. That tribunal has been in session six weeks, but as yet we have seeu no reference to the case in the published proceedings of the Court, nor does it occur in the list of cases, as published in the News, yet to be heard. THE NEWS AND COURIER. By a recent change of railroad schedules, the Charleston News and Courier now reaches this place on the same evening of the day of publication, bringing telegraphic news simultaneous with the daily papers of Columbia and other cities. The News and Courier is the most enterprising daily iu the State, and as a newspaper, containing the latest and tresnest lnieuigeuce, is wnnoui a rivai among its State contemporaries. ADMITTED TO BAIL. On Monday last, J. Albertis Hope, who for several weeks has been in jail on charge of complicity in the death of Miss Castles, was taken before Judge Mackey at Chester, on a writ of habeas corpus, and after a hearing of the petition, the Judge granted bail in the sum of $10,000. I. D. Witherspoon, Esq., appeared for the petitioner, and the State was represented by Solictor pro tem. Mackey. The accused, on his return from Chester, Monday night, promptly gave the required bond, J. W. P. Hope, J. A. Carroll and B. T. Wheeler becoming his bondsmen, whereupon he was released from custody. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. We learn from the County School Commissioner that during the school-year of 1873-74, one hundred and ten public schools were taught in this county, averaging three months. One hundred and five teachers were employed, and the number of children, between the ages of 6 and 16 years, attending the schools, was 7,074. The amount paid out on account of the public schools for the above-named year, is $9,494.07, and the amount yet due to teachers is $1,600. For the previous schoolyear, the sum of $11,753.22 was paid to teachers, and the amount yet due them for that year is $500. TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE. The following are the transfers of real estate recorded in the office of the County Auditor since our last report: J. H. Howell to W. T. Glasscock. Tract of 127 acres in Catawba township. Consfderation $800. John A. and E. F. Blake to Al. F. Craig. Tract of 100 acres in Catawba township. Consideration 81270. H. A. Galloway to Henry Davis. Tract of 15 acres in Bullock's Creek township. Henry Massey to J. J. Drakefield. Lot in Fort Mill. Consideration 8800. L. M. Dinkins and wife to R. B. Bradford. Tract of 30 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration 8330. D. H. and S. E. White to R. B. Bradford. Lot in Fort Mill. Consideration 8350. T. B. Withers to Solomon Harris. Tract of 24 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration 8300. L. M. Diukins and wife to A. S. White. Tract of 18 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration 8219. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to Richard Young. Tract of 54 acres in Fort Mill township. Con sideration $275. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to E. C. Tate. Tract of 42 acres in York township. Consideration $504. J. V. McFadden to George W. Laffait. Tract of 57 acres in Catawba township. Consideration $350. J. P. Hunter to W. C. Good. Lot in Fort Mill. Consideration $150. Joseph Miller to N. E. E. Tavlor. Lot in Rock Hill. Jane A. Williams to Samuel G. Hemphill. Tract of 148 acres in Betliesda township. Consideration $1300. J. H. Clawson, Assignee, to J. M. Williford. Tract in Bethesda township. Consideration $174. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to L. M. Grist and F. Happerfield. Lot in Yorkville. Consideration $40. T. A. Douglas and others to J. L. Wright. Tract of 364 acres in Ebenezer township. Consideration 82000. J. H. Douglass to J. L. Wright. Tract of 64 acres in Ebenezer township. Consideration 8650. J. E. Massey to J. W. Ardrey. Lot of 8 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration 8180. J. P. Creighton, Agent, to Win. B. Drennan. Tract of 24 acres in Catawba township. Consideration 824. James B. Tbomasson to Nancy D. Tate. Tract of 200 acres in Bethel township. Consideration 8600. J. H. Clawson, Assignee, to A. F. and W. B. Fewell. Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration 860. Same to same. Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration 866. Andrew Wood to John Nichols. Tract of 50 acres in Ebenezer township. Consideration 860. A. A. Erwin to W. D. Dunlap. Tract of 125 acres in Bethesda township. Consideration 8450. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to Luke Wesson. Tract of 69 acres in Cherokee township. Consideration 8207. J. D. Jackson to B. F. Briggs. Tract of 24 acres iu Bethel township. Consideration 885. Same to same. Tract of 19 acres in Bethel township. Consideration 897. R. II. Glenn, Sheriff, to Sampson Robin , son. Tract of 94 acres in Catawba township. | Consideration 856. ^ J. F. Hart to Sloan Johnson. Lot in York- ; ville. Consideration 830. J. F. Hart to Harmon Johnson. Lot in | Yorkville. Consideration 830. I J. F. Hart to Mrs. N. W.Jones. Tract of 188 acres in Broad River township. Consideration 81280. John G. McDowell to J. P. Moore. Tract of 121 acres in Bethesda township. Joseph Miller to Win. J. Miller. Tract of 146 acres in Ebenezer township. < J. Randolph Wallace to T. M. Grant. Tract of 20 acres in Bullock's Creek township. Consideration 860. J. H. Sutton to R. Gibson. Tract of 13 , acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration 8500. i Eliza A. Neely to Samuel Moore. Tract of 50 acres in King's Mountain township. , Consideration 8324. J. S. Baily to Elijah Nix. Tract of 200 acres in Bullock's Creek township. Consideration 82500. , R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to Thos. K. Mickle. ( Tract of 120 acres in Bullock's Creek township. Consideration 8652. ( J. I. Farris to S. D. Farris. One-third in- , terest in 49 acres in Ebenezer township. Con- j sideration 81500. , EDITORIAL INKLINGS. An Important Industry. ( The Lincoln Progress gives the follow- | ing interesting facts in regard to the exten- j sive manufacture of paper by the Messrs. ( Tiddy: , Very few persons are aware of the extent ( to which the manufacture of paper is carried i on by the Tiddy Brothers in Lincoln county. Their Long Shoal Mills, four miles South of Lincolnton, is the most complete in the South- 1 ern States, and as large, if not larger, than < any other in the South. It is running now j altogether on colored paper, of which they turn out 2,500 pounds per day, at an average price of 12* cents per pound, or $312.50 aggregate. The paper is of the finest quality and subjected to the operation of a calendar, or set of rollers, costing $3000, the most complete machinery of its kind in the world. The mill makes ten different tints of paper, yellow, buff, blue, gray, pink, straw color, Ac., which is put up in assorted lots, and makes quite a handsome show. Much of this paper is shipped to St. Louis, Philadelphia and other cities, aud used for fine books, pamphlet covers and ornamental work. The Lincoln Mill, two miles from Lincoluton, also on the South Fork river, runs entirely on newspaper. It turns out 500 to 700 pounds daily. The Buffalo Mill, at the head of the Carolina Central Railway, in Cleveland county, is also owned by these enterprising men. It is run exclusively on wrapping paper, and turns out an immense quantity of this useful material. The rags for these mills are purchased in New York, Charleston and other cities by the bale. It is interesting to see the thousands of varieties of fabrics thus collected to be worked into paper. The buttons taken off of the old clothes are a study in that line for their infinite variety. One girl informed us that they never needed to buy any buttons, and that on one occasion she found a five dollar gold piece in the pocket of an old vest. Over two hundred persons are indirectly dependent on the labor at these mills, which run day and night. The Louisiana Legislature. The New Orleans correspondent of the New York Times, thus describes the Louisiana Legislature now in session at New Orleans : The Statehouse is situated in the French portion of the city, and was once a fashionable hotel. It is a low. ambling, tumble-down, structure, entirely unfitted for the uses to which it is put, and cost the people of Louisiana aotrornl hmidrpd thousand dollars. A majority of the members of the Legislature l now in session are unable to read, and some ' of them never learned to sign their names. This is particularly true of the lower house. , It is no exaggeration to state that half the members of that body are unable to read print. Nearly all of them are negroes who, 1 a few years ago, were laborers on rice and ; sugar plantations. On the day of the cor- I respondent's visit, all the entrances to the ( building were filled with a crowd of wrang- , ling negroes. They were of all ages and . colors, many of them being field-hands who . had come to town, as they stated, "to see dat Legislature show." They were all well sup- < plied with bacon and corn-bread and well- ! filled whisky bottles. The dirty floor of the ] hall was strewn with the ends of half-smoked ( cigars, mouldy bits of meat and a bone or two. , All light and air were excluded by the huge plank barricading the windows. One sickly gas jet was burning, but only tended to heigh- 1 ten the gloom. This did not seem to dampen 1 the spirits of the legislators, however. The 1 scenes in the Legislature were indescribable, i Six or seven black men were on the floor < shouting like maniacs. Twenty different mo- ^ tions were put and none of them acted upon. The expressions "liar" and "nigger" were fre- 1 quently used, and at one time it seemed as if 1 the meeting would break up in a fight. The 1 speaker was powerless to preserve order, and 1 finally Kellogg himself came in, bareheaded j and excited, and coaxed them into compara- ^ tive quiet. The President's Attitude to Arkansas. The recent recommendations of Presi- ^ dent Grant, in his special message, last week, on Arkansas affairs, seems to have been unlooked for by all parties, and fell upon Con- ^ gress so unexpectedly as to provoke unfavorable comment, not only from members of the | Senate, but from the press throughout the North and South. Four months ago, the ' President declined to interfere with the State government of Arkansas ; but now the President intimates to Congress that he believes Brooks was elected in 1872, aud if Congress does nothing to place Brooks in power, he will. This is construed as the gist of the message, and no wonder that the President's ^ action is regarded as inexplicable. It is contended by all, and even admitted by the Congressional investigating committee, that the ^ n/metitnflnn nf the State wfiQ aHnnt.pd in . UC?Y U/UO...U r f proper form and manner, and that the people had the right to make and adopt a constitution as this one of Arkansas was framed and ^ adopted. Speaking of this subject, the Bald- c more Sun says : t It is astonishing to hear the President addressing Congress on this subject as he now r does. He must have fallen into the hands of ? the Clayton and McClure faction of Arkansas j v I which has its headquarters in Washington. : 1 | How this radical ring has bled Arkansas near-j jj ly to death, is made manifest iu a recital of . the financial condition of the State in a joint resolution of the Arkansas Senate. It sets t forth that the treasury of the State is empty, 1, J its credit bankrupted, its bonds under protest, and its revenues anticipated by the issue of; ; treasurer's certificates and other items of float-: ing debt, which are receivable in payment v "for all debts due the State except interest on j s the public debt." It is stated that examiua- j fi tions of the books show that when Powel i ii Clayton, present United States Senator, took j : possession of the State in 1868, as Governor,. o the bonded debt of the State amounted to d 83,252,401 50; that its floating debt was t nothing?ou the contrary, there was 8319,- c 237 35 of United States currency in the t! treasury. Further examinations, it is alleged, t! show that from 1868 to 1874, the period the d State had been under carpet-bag rule, there tl was collected from the people, in taxes, for o State purposes, the sum of 88,674,511 65, and fi that there was paid out during that period on 8 account of interest and the sinking fund, t4 ;he sura of 8515,204.59. The deficiency as ihown by the floating debt is about 81,700,000 :'or the same period. Thus, after deducting ihe 8515,204.59 paid for interest and sinking Fund, 88,178,544.41 is the cost of governing :he State for six years. Three hundred thou>and dollars per year, or 81,800,000 for the whole period, would have been ample for a jood government! In addition to the above rams, these people, it is stated, on one pretext ind another, increased the bonded debt nearly 59,000,000, for whieh the State has received no substantial benefit. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, Feb. 15,1875. A few days ago, a difficulty occurred in the vicinity of Bullock's Creek Church, near the line between York and Chester counties, be- /a tween Columbus Cranford, colored, and three W white men?J. C. Kirkpatrick, Samuel Blair and Zedrick Hardwick. Columbus Cranford, who was the prosecutor in the case, claimed to fl have been grievously injured by his white op- m ponents. Upon the affidavit of Columbus, who reported the facts to Trial Justice Santo .i _ n ders, warrants were issued ior tne arrest 01 -j Kirkpatrick, Blair and Hardwick, charging them with assault and battery and making a riot. At the trial, the evidence being wholly Insufficient to sustain the charge of riot, it was withdrawn, and the charge of assault and battery was tried. The testimony established the 1 fact that the injuries upon the head, claimed to have been received by Columbus at the landsof the defendants, were obtained by him in falling upon the ground in an intoxicated \ condition. At the conclusion of the evidence, the jury, composed of three whites and three colored, rendered a verdict of "not guilty." J [t was proven that the prosecutor, Columbus f Cranford, was rather a notorious character, with an excessive fondness for whisky, and lisposed to be quarrelsome and troublesome. [ have thought it best to give the maiu points in this trial for the reason that there are those who will probably endeavor to pervert the 'acts for the purpose of making political captal out of the case. Harvey Williams, who was severely stabbed by Abram Carter a short time ago, and Samuel Leach by Jeff Delane, about the same time, all colored, are recovering, and will soon ae restored to their usual health. Delane is jj jtill in jail, but Carter has been released on . jiving bond for bis appearance at the approaching terra of the Court of General Sesjions. Several Northern gentlemen are expected X) arrive in our town, in a short time, to make nquiry into the condition and prospects of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Rail oad. If, after information upon all essential 3oints bearing upon the road, they are pleased with its prospects, they are expected to furjish the iron for the road, to be paid in York ind Chester county bonds. If this arrangenent is perfected, as there is every reason to mppose that it will be, the laying of the track will begin in a short time. By the lime the irrangement is made and the iron delivered, ,he grading between Yorkville and Dallas will probably be completed. The President md directors have seriously felt the inconvelience occasioned by a number of the stocklolders failing to pay up their subscribed itock. This tardiness in meeting their engagements has been brought about partly by ;he scarcity of money ; but for the most part jy the feeling that the road would never be' jonstructed. But these "doubting Thomases" will shake off their incredulity when the iron ? *>r fclio roa<i 1?<m ;he good work of laying the track begins. [f such be not the pleasing effect, they will be ^ forced to believe when the iron-horse goes whizzing by, bearing greetings to the good people along the line from Chester to Dallas, and from Dallas to Lenoir. An incident occurred a few days ago in our town, with which one of our prominent lawyers was connected, which is too good not to be told. The professional gentleman, it seems, lesired to obtain some grape cuttings, of fine varieties, which he purposed sending to friends in tfio lnw nrmnfrv fin hp snnke to a well koowir character about the place, to get the cuttings, which the latter promised to do. But be got them in a way unexpected by the limb of the law. Going to the woods, and joming across a wild grape vine, the very varieties of cuttings he had been asked to get were found and appropriated. They were licely labelled according to their respective ? varieties, and brought to our professional friend, who was highly delighted in getting ;hem. He lost no time in sending them, by jxpress, to bis friends in the low country ; but ,he cuttings had barely reached their destina;ion, when he found out that he had been grossly imposed upon, and that the cuttings iad been obtained in the woods. Of course, le was compelled to write and inform his friends of the imposition that had been prac- j ;iced upon him. It is probably needless to .1 . * J i.- J J: lay mac our irienu vemeu uia luuiguauuu, when he met his deceiver, in language more forcible than elegant. Rev. Mr. Eason,of Newberry, has declined Recall extended him by the members of the Baptist Church of this place, to become their 3astor. They have tendered the place to Rev. VIr. Pierson, of Ridge Spring, who will, in all probability, accept. Grading on the Chester and Lancaster rail oad begins at this point to-day. Fifty labor;rs, who were employed last week, in building juarters near this place, for a temporary d ibode, begin work, under the superintendence )f contractor Deal. He expects to have ;hree hundred hands at work in a short time, jrading began at Lancaster several days ago, ind is progressing finely. A Republican meeting was held at the Dourt House on Saturday night, at which Du? )lin Walker, our colored Seuator, favored his :onstituents of the African race with an actount of hid stewardship. Condemnation of Chamberlain for the appointment of W. A. Sanders, Trial Justice, for the nomination of 5. G. Yocura for the Treasurership, and his efusal to name a day for the election of a Sheriff for Chester county, was the text upon irhich he expatiated at great length, to the deight of his hearers. In passing along, he paid lisjrespects to Judge Mackey, whose influence, t seems, is greater with the Governor than hat of the Senator. Dissensions are evidenty brewing in the Radical camp. Qui. SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. The bill to repeal the agricultural lien law iQO UClCilbCU All II1C IJLUUC^/} wu u uivoivu w trike out the euacting clause, by a vote of ~ ifty-seveu to thirty-three. The result of this 5 that the law remains in force. A bill introduced by Mr. Meyers, colored, f Beaufort, has received some consideration uring the past week. It is a bill to reduce he salaries of certain State and couuty offiers, and should it become a law, will save he State and counties about 8119,000. It is he most important bill that has been introuced during the session, and the only one hat indicates practical reform. The salaries f the State officers under its provisions are xed at the following amounts: Governor, 3,500; Lieutenant-Governor, 81,000; Secreiry of State, 82,500; Comptroller-General,