Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, July 22, 1875, Image 2
,f top* m& Jactsi.
Avoid standing before a fire-place, or
where a current of air can strike you, during
a thunder-storm, as nearly every casualty
from that cause can be traced to something of
the kind.
According to the census of 1870, the !
conuty debts of the United States amounted
to 8187,565,540, the city and town debts to
$ >28,244,520, and the State debts to 8352,866,698?making
in all the sum of 8868,676,758.
There is talk in Western Texas of establishing
a new State, provided the Mexican
States of Tamaulipas, Nueva Leon and Coahuila
can be anuexed. San Antonio is the
proposed capital. The Radicals are said to
be in majority in Western Texas.
Rev. James M. Henry, of Clarksville,
Pike couuty, Mo., claims to have invented a
Hying machine which can move through the
air at the rate of 100 miles per hour. He
has been working forty years on the problem,
ami claims to bave solved it.
The Riehmoud Enquirer says that Gen.
John S. Preston's address before the alumni
of the university of Virginia was, in many respects,
remarkable for its billiancy and its bad
taste; for its petulance and its pomposity ; for
its intolerance and its treason.
The Adams Express Company have
notified Secretary Bristovv that they will not
carry national bank notes after thirty days at
the preseut rate of 25 cents per SI,000. Railroad
robbers are becoming so numerous, that
they consider the risk too great at that rate.
The half-yearly report, up to July 1, of
the New York Commissioners of Emmigrati'>n,
which was made recently, shows a decrease
of immigration during the first six
mouths of this year, in comparison with that
of the same period in 1874, of 23,662.
A New Orleans man claims to have invented
a process by which cotton can be manufactured
into silk. He has gone to France to
introduce his iuventiou to the silk manufacturers,
aud its adoption, it is predicted, will
largely increase the consumption of cotton.
The Cotton States Congress, receutly in
session at Raleigh, made a sensible recommendation
to planters: To raise their own provisions.
It is now well demonstrated that no
planter can buy his corn and meat and keep
out of the hands of the sheriff.
Beecher's paper the Christian Union,
has lost 30,000 subscribers, it is said, through
the sad conduct of the reverend editor. Few
men can run a religious family newspaper
and a horrible scandal at one and the same
time successfully. Even a "Life of Christ"
must suffer, under the circumstances.
A bale of new cotton was received at
New Orleans on Wednesday of last week,
from St. Landry Parish, La. It was classed
middling fair to fair, new classification, weighed
four hundred pounds,and was sold at tweuty-five
cents per pound. The first receipt of
Louisiana cotton last year was ou August 12th.
The official report of the Beecher trial
occupies three volumes, with an aggregate of
2.750 pages, all taken down in short hand.
Four stenographers were employed on the
case, with eight assistants to aid them iu wri
ting out, ana two omer writers io maae summaries
and put in the flourishes.
Fred. Douglass, in a Fourth of July
address at Hilsdale, Pa., advised his race to
cultivate independence." The cultivation of
independence is well enough, but they should
not make it a specialty. They should reserve
a mere garden-spot for independence, aud devote
the far greater amount of the acreage to
the cultivation of corn, cotton, and cabbage.
One of the largest manufacturing institutions
in the country?the Atlantic Cotton
Mills ofLawrence, Massachusetts?closed recently
; 1,250 operatives were thrown out of
work, and will lose at least 880,000 in wages.
The reason, according to the Chicago Tribune,
is a surplus of manufactured goods which cannot
be sold abroad.
A letter to the Baltimore American
contains the information, that the grass-hop pers
have made their appearance near Mountain
View, Frederick county, Maryland, where
on one farm the writer had found them swarming
the wheat field, where they had destroyed
every blade of the grain, having also devoured
the clover and rye in adjacent enclosures.
Near Atlanta, Ga., last fall, a negro
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1)11111 a COOp, SIX ieei uy stveu, luiu nruiuii no
put a dozen partridges, the ground being first
covered with grass. During the winter they
thrived, in the spring they mated, laid eggs,
and hatched out several broods of young, and
the negro now has about sixty young partridges,
all doing well. They are tame, healthy,
and seem to be contented.
It rained at Savannah on the 5th. The I
Jasper Greens, of the Georgia militia, in danger
of getting wet, were invited to take shelter
at the barracks of the United States soldiers.
The Greens gratefully sought the
proffered cover. After the shower, the United
States Troops saluted the Georgia boys,
and the Georgia boys saluted the United i
States troops. And thus was the bloody
chasm again closed up.
The bishops of the Methodist Episcopal j
church, south, have just decided that the sale
of intoxicating liquors by the large or small j
quantity, where there is a reasonable pre- j
sumptiou that they are to be used as a bever- j
age, is a violation of the rule requiring the j
avoidance of the appearance of evil and the i
doing of harm. The Augusta conference, i
therefore, calls upon the members of the !
Methodist church to separate themselves from
this traffic and requests pastors of the different
churches to "judiciously yet firmly" enforce 1
the ruling of the bishops.
ThePostoffice Department has adopted
a new design for postal cards, prepared at the
printing Department of the Treasury. On
the upper left hand corner is the raouograra j
U. S., ccross which, in a scroll, are the words 1
"Postal Card." On the upper right-hand
corner is the stamp, nearly square, instead of
elliptical, the sides of the stamp being com-!
nosed of fasces and the top and bottom of
band scrolls, the top one having the. legend I
"U. S. Postage," the lower one, "One Cent." i
In the centre of the stamp is the profile of the !
Goddess of Liberty. It will be printed in!
black upon cardboard of the Eau de Nile color,
and will soon be ready for issue.
A young gentleman of Baltimore, unmindful
of the fate of Icarus, has invented a j
Hying machine in which he proposes to cross j
the ocean during the present summer. The
machine appears to be a combination of the bal- j
loon, the wind-mill and steam-launch. The
voyager rides in a boat containing a small
steam engine, which is used for moving the
"wings" of the balloon and steering it through !
the air. The boat is attached to the flying
machine with a rope, and thus is drawn
through the water. It is said that Mr. G. W.
flail (of the firm of Gail & Ax, tobacco dealers,)
will furnish the inventor, Mr. Schroder,
with the money to build one of these flying ;
machines, and the contract for the same has
already beeu giyeu out.
Dun, Barlow & Co.'s mercantile agency, |
in their circular just issued, announce the !
total number of failures throughout the country
for the past six months to have been
i:_? 474 QJft .
ii.tW I, Willi imillUlltrs aiuuiiutitig kvs vi^iviv,
869. Of these failures Maryland furnished
08, with liabilities aggregating 81,098,135; j
Virginia and West Virginia 103, liabilities
81,383,684; District of Columbia 9, liabilities
858,100; Delaware 14, liabilities 8124,500.
This is considerably less than the average of
the previous four years. Though the expectations
whiph were indulged at the beginning
of the year as to a general revival of business
have not been fulfilled, the circular takes a
cheerful view of the future. Reports from all
the chief centres of trade indicate much that
is encouraging.
A Npw York corespondent tells the
followiugstory about female smuggling. The
Custom house inspectors lately noticed a lady
on one of the English steamers who appeared
much overdressed. She was one
solid mass of furbelows and frills, and over her
elegant black silk costume she wore an India
shawl, which completely enveloped her person.
She was stopped and escorted into the searcher's
room, where the female in attendance j
"went through her," and was rewarded by ;
finding on her person more than 85,000 worth i
of jewels, laces and gloves. The gloves were;
found sewed up in the inside lining of her bustle,
and the lace inside a large braid of false hair
which she wore. Her undergarments were
all made to contain various articles, even her
corsets being made to do service in cheating
Uncle Sam. The guilty woman cried bitterly.
She is a lady well connected, and was allowed
to go free upon payment of the sum total due
the government.
?hc fJorfeviUe (fruquim.
YORKVILLE, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 22, 1875.
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THE PARKER CASE.
The case of the State vs. Parker, which has
been on trial before Judge Carpenter in Columbia
for qoore than a week, was closed at
5 o'clock on Monday last, at which hour the
Judge finished his charge and the jury retired.
At 10 o'clock on that night, the jury gave
notice that they had agreed upon a verdict,
but it was 11 o'clock before everything was
in readiness to receive it, which was rendered
as follows : "We find for the plaintiff in the '
sum of seveuty-five thousand dollars." Mr. j1
Youmaus, counsel for the defendant, excepted j (
to the verdict and gave notice of a raotiou for 1 (
a [Jew ti mi,
Although we doubt if tho above sura, or
even a much smaller amount, could be col- 1
lected from Parker, and while, by some technicality
of the law he may eventually be re- 1
leased, yet we confess to an agreeable surprise 1
at the result of this case, and do not despair 1
of the good time coming when our State Gov- 1
eminent may be rid of thieves, and that those
who occupy positions of public trust may be
made to know and feel that they can no longer '
rob and plunder the people with impunity, j
The conviction of a Republican office-holder ,
before a Republican Judge, the case proseeu- i
ted by a Republican Attorney-General, and a <
majority, if not all the jury Republicans, has '
taught this important fact, aud the lesson will '
not be without its salutary effects.
Attorney-General Melton was but in the ,
discharge of his duty as a public officer in i
conducting the prosecution, yet he is entitled I
to the thanks of the people for the bold and j
fearless position he took in the very incipiency
of this trial, and the skillful manner in j
which he conducted it to the close. It is ,
generally known that just prior to his arrest, j
Parker was making arrangements to leave I
the State for parts unknown, which fact being I
made known to the Attorney-General, that '
officer caused his arrest to be made in auother
case, by which he could be held long enough '
to allow time for the preparation of the ne- i
cessary papers in the case which has just been i
tried. The Attorney-General was ably assist- i
ed in conducting the prosecution by James |
H. Rion, Esq., of Winusboro.
The Attorney-General's argument lasted
six hours, and being the closing argument for
the State was heard by an immense crowd of j
listeners, all of whom pronounce it a masterly
effort, and a complete expose of the frauds j
charged upon the defendant. He spoke first j
of the plunderers of the Republican party,
who had come from the victorious Union j
array as a baud of robbers to rob the dead i
and dying people of this prostrate State. He |
spoke of the disintegration of the Republican j
party, owing to the corrupt men who had been |
put in office, and who claimed to represent
that party, but argued that the principles of
the party, when justly administered, are such I
as to conserve the best interest of all the peo- |
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pie to rid the fttate ot tnese roooers, or wnora
the defendant is a fitting representative. Af- j
ter alluding to the attack of defendant's counsel
upon the press, which the speaker thought
had beeu remarkably lenient with the defendant,
he then made a long and exhaustive ar- i
gument upon all the importaut points involved |
in the case.
The charge of Judge Carpenter is spoken
of as a fair and impartial statement of the
case, enforcing the general principal that if j
the jury found by the evidence that the cou-1,
pons had been paid and sent down by Kimp-; (
ton to Parker, and those coupons were the
same missing ones, that Parker was responsi- j;
hie for the whole amount claimed by the State. (
The fact that they were divided among other \
parties made no difference.
The next case against Parker, for alleged1
misappropriation of moneys belonging to the
Sinking Fund, is also set for hearing this , j
week.
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THE BEECIIER BUSINESS.
Since the conclusion of the great trial,
Beecher has been the recipient of very many
marked attentions by his congregation as well
as ministers of other denominations. His
salary, as pastor of Plymouth Church, has
been ostensibly raised from $20,000 to $100,000
for the present year, though this action is
merely a plan resorted to by his flock for the
purpose of raising funds to defray the expen-!
ses of the trial. In support of the resolution
raising the above sum, Fletcher Raymond,
who introduced it to the meeting, said tho
congregation must stand by their pastor in ,
this crisis, as the reputation of their wives and
daughters was at stako?a proposition that
can hardly be contradicted. And even with
the sustaining influence of Plymouth Church,
Mr. Beecher's innocence is not clearly established,
though Tilton may have failed to es-,
tablish his guilt. By the way, according to a
mass of information on the subject, invited by
the New York Herald, from every State in
the Union, it seems that the faith in Beecher's
innocence is stronger in South Carolina than
among the various classes consulted in any
other State.
Among the side issues to the case, the most
importaut is the action for slander brought'
by Beecher against Frank Moulton. Moulton
is clamorous for the trial to take place,
while it is quite probable that the plaintiff
will do all in his power to stave it off. Moul-1
ton says that either he or Beecher is guilty of
perjury, and when this slander case is tried
that fact can be determined, and the guilty
one must be punished.
The Woman's Journal is authority for the \
staterueut that Mrs. Tilton is about to insti- !
tute a suit for divorce, though the story is j
contradicted by another to the effect that Miss j
Florence, the eldest daughter of the estranged '
couple, is making an effort to reconcile her j
parents to live together again.
A CAROLINA KU-KLUX MADE PH. D.
Under the above beading, the Charleston j,
Nexus and Courier publishes a racy and read* !
able letter from J. A. Leland, formerly Princi- j i
pal of Laurens Female College, who details '
scenes through which he passed within the j
last few days at Williams College in the Berk- i
shire Hills of Massachusetts. In 1834, Major | (
Leland was a student in the above institu- I
tion; but when the old South Carolina Col- |
lege was reorganized, he was transferred to |1
that seat of learning, from which he graduated,
and for the first time in forty-oue years
he visited Williams College ou the occa- (
sion of the recent commencement exercises, |
where, he writes: ".Never have I been so j
much cheered with kindly sympathies and (
hearty greetings since those 'levees' I used to j
hold in the old jail in Columbia for the reception
of some of the best ladies and geutlemeu
of that place, during my four-weeks sojourn
there as a ku-klux prisoner. The ladies
of Columbia never allowed me to eat one
morsel of jail food the whole time I was with
them, and these Massachusetts sympathizers
anticipated all my hotel aud cigar bills, and
even the hack hire to all the famous places in 1
the viciuity, including the famous Hoosae
Tunnel. As to their public reception, and
the enthusiastic greeting accorded me, ray '
modesty will not permit me to write. I must *
content myself by sending you one of the
shortest aud most moderate of the many ac- J
counts in this land of newspapers. It is taken 1
from the correspondence of the Troy Daily
Times of the 8th instant, and is as follows:
'Cyrus W. Field, Horace Briggs, of Buffa- ^
lo, and John A. Leland, of Charleston, S. C.,
were elected members of the Society of Alum- 1
ni. One of the most noticeable features of the i
meeting was the election of Mr. Leland. He (
was a member of the class of 1836, but did
not graduate. He announced himself as an
old South Carolinian and a rebel, but in a
speech full of humor and pathos, renewed his 1
old loyalty to the Union and to Williams 1
College. Speeches were also made by ex-Goveruor
Washburn and David Dudley Field, j
Mr. Leland, as representing the South and :
the restored Union, was received with great .
enthusiasm.' "
A rasolution was adopted that the soldiers
and scholars of Williams College extend their
cordial sympathy to the people of the South,
after which speeches were made by ex-Governor
Washburn and others. Of Governor
Washburn's speech Major Leland says :
"Iu a glowing speech which I cannot attempt
to analyse, heexhibited more liberality, 1
generosity and sympathy toward the South 1
than any other speaker. In her present abnormal
condition, he congratulated South (
Carolina on having such a man as Governor {
Chamberlain at the helm of the State ; paid a .
very high tribute to his statesmanship and
art/1 nnrlnroD/l Vila intorr.
.imwuguiaiicu auuiij j ?*ii V4 vuuvmovu u(w .uw0
rity of character and moral worth to the full3st
extent. In a private conversation after- ?
ward, I thanked him for his speech, and said
that the commendation he had bestowed on
the private character of Gov. Chamberlain
Fully compensated for all the dust I had inhaled
in making this July trip to this distant
point. That we all acknowledged his eminent
ability and rejoiced in his fearlessness and
nerve in the administration of the tangled
affairs of our State ; but were somewhat hesitating
as to the extent of confidence we could
place in the man. That from his past political
associations we were often restrained by
the old adage: Timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes.
He replied that he had known him from his
youth up to the preseut; that he was professor
at the law school at Yale when he was a
student, and that he did not know a public
man of higher integrity of character, or of
more honesty of purpose. That the Ethiopian
would change his skin and the leopard
his spots sooner than Daniel H. Chamberlain
would violate a public pledge, or act a double
part for his own private end--; and I may add
that these sentiments have been uniformly repeated
by all the literary associates of Gov.
Chamberlain with whom I have chanced to
meet. God knows that I have felt, and feel
now, no inclination to blarney Governor
Chamberlain or any of the Radical party of
South Carolina, but I put the above on record
as'an act of simple justice to our Governor,
and with the sincere hope that the statement
may strenguieu nis nanns in carrying urn
those measures of reform for which we al* !
ready owe him much, and that it may increase '
the confidence of my Conservative fellow- s
citizens in D. H. Chamberlain as a man."
Major Leland closes his letter by saying i
that he has "seen and felt this real tidal wave '
of a genuine reconstruction, this ground swell '
of the popular heart, from Maine to Texas. '
The people arc rising in their majesty, and '
those political contrivances for party macbin- '
ery, those petty and vulgar tyrannies for mere <
party ends, must cease. This great country
will shake them off 'like dew drops from the *
lion's mane.' So mote it be." <
THE HATCHET BURIED IN MEMPHIS. >
The Memphis Appeal contains an extended 1
account of the celebration of the Fourth of i
July, in which ex-Coufederate Generals, <
Forrest and Pillow figure quite prominently
in proceedings conducted by the Pole Bear- 1
era, a colored organization of Memphis. In 1
response to invitations, Generals Forrest and s
Pillow, and other prominent geutlemen, at- i
tended aud delivered addresses pertinent to <
the occasion, and full of the spirit of harmony j t
J ? ? -v i ...?/.?? tl'A ItnA Pd/ino rionatinl I 1
UUU punuu UUIWCCU tllC IUU iUtti}, vj< ui J
Forrest was the recipient of a boquet as a to- ]
ken of reconciliation, and the following is an J
account of the presentation proceedings, as i
reported by the Appeal:
President Ilenley, of the Society, addressing
Gen. Forrest, said : "Gen. Forrest, allow (
mc to introduce to you Miss Lou Lewis, who, :(
as the representative of the colored ladies, will !
present you with a bouquet to assure you of t
the sincerity they eutertain for the objects of: ^
this occasion [cheers] and as an offering of i
peace."
Mies Lou Lewis then advanced to where ! {
Gen. Forrest was standing and presented the 1
bouquet with the following remarks:
"Mr. Forrest, allow me to present you this j j
bouquet as a token of reconciliation and an ! j
offering of peace and good will." [Applause.] j f
Gen. Forrest received the bouquet, and in ,
response said that for the past twelve years he '
had been misunderstood by the colored race, j'
This was the first opportunity he had had ! J
during that time to say that lie was their I
friend. He added :
"I will say to you and to the colored race j
that the men who bore arms and followed the }
flag of the Confederacy are, with very few ex- [
ceptions, your friends. I have an opportuni* i1
ty of saying what I have always felt?that I i
am your friend, for my interests are your in-. 1
terests, aud your interests are my interests. I <
We were boru on the same soil, breathe the j
same air, and live in the same laud. Why, (
then, can we not live as brothers ? I will say j
that when the war broke out I felt it my duty .
to stand by my people. When the time came
I did the best I could, and I don't believe I ,
flickered. I came here with the jeers of some :?
white people, who think that I am doiug, i
wrong. I believe that I can exert some influence,
and do much to assist the people in <j
strengthening fraternal relations, and shall do ^
all in my power to briug about peace. It has j
always been my motto to elevate every man?
depress none. [Applause.] I want to elevate
you to take positions in law offices, in stores,
on farms and wherever you are capable of go- t
ing. I have not said anything about politics e
to-day. I don't propose to say anything about j,
politics. You have a right to elect whom you v
please ; vote for the man you think best, and
I think, when that is done, that you and I c
are freemen. Do as you consider right and
houest in electing men for office. I did not j 1'
come here to make you a long speech, although i I
invited to do so by you. I am not much of j g
a speaker, and my business prevented me from ' p
preparing myself. I came to meet you as j
friends, and welcome you to the white people.
I want you to come nearer to us. When
I can serve you I will do so. We have but 0
one flag, one country ; let us stand together. I
We may differ in color, but not in sentiment, c
Use your best judgment in selecting men for k
rcffW RnH vote as vnn think ri^ht. Manv t
things have been said about me which are X
wrong, and which white and black persons
here, who stood by me through the war, can *contradict.
I have been in the heat of battle fi
when colored men asked me to protect them, q
I have placed myself between them and the c
bullets of my men, and told them they should 0
be kept unharmed. Go to work, be indus
trious, live honestly and act truly, and when
you are oppressed I'll come to your relief. I ,
thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for this op- 81
portunity you have afforded me to be with 1
you, and to assure you that I am with you in g
heart and in hand." [Prolonged applause.] 1 f(
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ^
? Mr. C. V. Carrington, for many years con- ^
cected with the Greenville Railroad, died in
Solumbia on Thursday last.
? The Rev. T. H. Pope, for many years T
pastor of the Baptist Church at Greenwood,
iied in that town on the 8th instant. ti
? The colored soldiers who served in the de- b
inrtment nf Smith Carolina durincr the war. t!
propose to form a veteran association. a
? Capt. John B. Cousart, Messrs. J. T. B. fi
Jauthen, Eli D. Crockett and John Steele, of a
Lancaster, died last week. d
? The agricultural department at Washing- p
;on has taken measures to stock Broad river tl
,vith shad, having placed 90,000 spawn in w
,hat river last week. tl
? Mrs. James Latta, a native of Pendleton, tl
ind wife of James Latta, deceased, died at d
,he MLghany Springs, Va., ou Wednesday of ri
ast week. a
? The Union Times calls attention to the p
'act that wherever the demand is made, trial F
ustices are required by law to furnish an o
temized bill of any costs they may claim. o
? The old city waterworks of Columbia, are p
ulvertised to be sold by the Sheriff of Rich- C
and county, at the suit of the Carolina Naaonal
Bank. A
? An election will be held in Fairfield Ci
:ounty on the 24th of August for a Sheriff to S
ill the unexpired term of L. W. Duvall, a
vhose resignation was accepted at the last
lerra of the circuit court. tl
? Last week, J. P. F. Camp, the defaulting t1
? m rt/i i Pi
Jounty Treasurer or spartanourg, was carried ;o
Newberry, and by Judge Moses admitted
,o bail on his giving security in the sum of V
>ne thousand dollars. 9
?At the last regular meeting of the Marion ir
iteara fire company, of Charleston, they re- i'
lolved unanimously to visit Philadelphia dur- C(
ng the ceutennial, and appointed a commit- ^
ee of seven to perfect arrangements to that gj
md. b
? In the United States Court, Charleston, last ^
veek, John S. Aucrum, colored, tried on an in- w
lictment to attempt to vote under a fictitious js
lame, was convicted and sentenced to pay a 'j
ine of $1000 and be imprisoned two months
n jail. T
? The Abbeville Medium advises the people
>f the State to appoint their own Commission- C1
ir to the Centennial Exposition, and says it P
linnlrl Ka thp rtuf.v <?f ftVArv onnntv in the
state to contribute something to the general C(
jollection. P
? The war between the rival towns of Barnveil
and Blackville has been again renewed. ^
Ju the 14th Judge Maher granted a manda- c
nus to compel the county officers, who had
previously removed the records to Blackville, ^
:o return to Barnwell; whereupon the Blackirillians
appealed to the Supreme Court.
? The Grange mentions that the Rock Hill n
Manufacturing and Industrial Association, e
with a limited capital of one hundred thous- ti
tnd dollars, has been chartered by the clerk a
if the court. This company was the original .
Building aud Loan Association to which the
Legislature refused a charter at its last session.
a
? It is stated that Barnwell county has a S
genuine case of Siamese twins. A woman in ^
fl
that county recently gave birth to two chil- .
iren who are joined together by a ligature
rery closely resembling that which united the H
oodies of Chang and Eng. At last accounts, ft
die twins were alive and doing "a3 well as ir
jould be expected." '*<
? Collector Carpenter, of the third South T
Carolina District, reports to the internal rev- |
;nuc department the recent capture of hve il- o
icit distillers, the seizure of four distilleries, n
ind the destruction of one still. He says that ti
within forty days he has seized fifteen distille- ti
"ies, captured ten men and destroyed a large 1
juautity of illicit whisky.
? Mrs. Jane T. Butler, relict of the late Dr.
Wm. Butler, died in Greenville on Sunday of
ast week. The deceased was in the seventyiixth
year of her age, and had been a sufferer
'or many years. She was the mother of sixteen c,
jhildren, eightof whom are now living, among tl
,hem Gen. M. C. Butler and G'apt. 0. N. But- 111
er. She was the sister of Commodore Oliver ?
H. Perry, who won the famous battle on Lake ^
Brie- t,
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. c
? The Shelby Banner says the heavy rains
)f the past ten days have done considerable tj
lamage through that section. w
? The United States troops heretofore sta- ei
,ioned at Marion have been removed to Mor- s(
janton. f(
? . j II
? Lzekiel Alexander, an esteemeci citizen i
; 61
)f Mecklenburg county, fell dead on the 15th tj
nstant, while engaged in threshing wheat. j f
? Mr. Randolph W. Hill, son of Gen. D. j ft
R. Hill, sailed on Saturday from Wilmington ' e<
.'or an ocean voyage to Liverpool, Glasgow a
tnd other points for his health. j j>
? The Lincoln Progress says that A. P. j |
lihyue & Co. are erecting a cotton factory on
Dutchman creek in Gaston county, and that ft
die work is progressing as rapidly as possible, tl
? The railroad bridge across Buffalo is now tl
in condition for trains to pass over it safely,' ^
ind within three weeks it is expected the ^
railroad will be completed to Shelby.
? The Shelby Aurora says that T. P. Wells g
has one of the finest vineyards in the State, tl
:ontaining over one hundred varieties of S
grapes. He expects to make ten or twelve ?'
thousand gallons of wine this year. 11
? Cadet Mark Bridgers, son of Hon. R. R.
Bridgers, of Wilmington, died suddenly at t]
Annapolis, Maryland, on Saturday morning \
af last week. He was just sixteen years of c
tge, and was an unusually promising lad. j o
? The grand jury of Wake county have inlicted
the officers of the Richmond and Dandlle
Railroad, for changing the gauge of the
^orth Carolina Central Road, in violation of
he act of the last General Assembly. j
? Mr. Johnstone Jones is again in the edi- (
orial chair, having taken control of the Raligh
Sentinel, which he will conduct until after
he election, Mr. Turner having temporarily 1
withdrawn from the paper on account of his
andidacy for the Convention.
? Rev. B. Craven, President of Trinity Col- '
ege, who wa9 nominated by the Democrats of 1
landolph, for the Convention, declines on the I
;round that politics is incompatible with the
irofession of a minister of the gospel. M. S.
iobins has been nominated in his stead. e
? John Hall made an attempt on Saturday t
flast week, with two men named Gregg and
soon, to rescue his brother, \V. H. Hall, a ?
onderaned prisoner in Asheville jail, but was p
illed by the guard, who were on the lookout, r
t is rumored that Boon was wounded.
? Joseph Beckley, who drugged Mr. James
5oyd, of Chester, S. C., in Charlotte, Jast v
ill, and then robbed him, and who subse- D
uently removed his case to Cabarrus, was 0
onvicted at the recent terra of court in Con- y
ord, and sentenced to ten years' hard labor n
1 the penitentiary. 8
? The Cotton States Congress, after a ses- ^
ion in Raleigh of three days, adjourned on D
'hursday last. Col. D. E. Butler, of Georia,
was elected president; Col. J. D. White>rd,
of North Carolina, secretary; R. M. j,
,im9. of South Carolina, treasurer. Nash
fl
ille was selected as the uext place of meet- ^
1g> 1
EDITORIAL INKLINGS. b
he Postage Law in Court. p
A curious case, involving the constitu- c
onality of the amended postage law has been is
rought in the Uuited States Circuit Court for o
le district of New York. A gentleman offers b
book for mail transmission to Philadelphia s
om that city, postage at the old rates being C
ffixed. Being refused, he applies for a man* t<
amus to compel the postmaster to receive the
ackage. The argument of the applicant is
mt the sundry civil appropriation bill into r
hieh the amendment increasing the rate on g:
lird class mail matter was inserted, was not
ie bill for raising revenue ; that amendment
id not provide ways and means for raising g
evenue; that the Senate has no constitutional q
nthnrit.tr to rirnvidfi man auras fnr that rmr- r
ose; that being the sole prerogative of the g
louse, and the postal amendment having
riginated with the Senate aud been grafted g
n the bill which was not oue for revenue t:
urposes, is unconstitutional,
rop Reports for July. ^
The July returns to the Department of ij
Lgriculture show an improvement of the
otton crop during June in all the cotton
tates, except Texas. The State averages are
s follows: 8
North Carolina, 95, an improvement of
iree per cent.; South Carolina, 99, improved
kvo per cent.; Georgia, 97, improved six per "
ent.; Florida, 101, improved seven per cent.; d
Jabama, 102, improved one per cent.; Mis- t<
ssippi, 103, improved three per cent.; a
Louisiana, 103, improved ten per cent.; Texas, c
3, declined three per cent.; Arkansas, 104, ^
nproved fourteen per cent.; Tennessee, 109,
nproved ten per cent. Some portions of the n
otton area were effected with drought, which, n
owever, was less injurious to cotton than to fi
ther crops. Its injuries were mostly corapen* a
ited by the opportunity it afforded for the e
etter working of other crops. In Texas cut
'orms, cotton caterpillars aud grasshoppers .
ere injurious in some localities. A few
dated reports also mention cotton lice, but t
lsect depredations so far have not affected t
le crop to any extent worth estimating. r
lie Necro Problem.
The Chattanooga Commercial depre- a
ates the course of a portion of the Southern h
ress in advising the colored population to p
migrate westward, and argues that such a ii
3urse is unchristian, and impossible. The ii
resence of the colored race in our climate, c
le Commercial contends, is inevitable, and b
ie sooner their moral, intellectual and physi- p
al condition is improved, by properly instiJted
measures, the better. The Commercial S
jrther remarks:
"The part of wisdom, then, is to foster and J
ncourage self-reliance, steady labor, frugality h
nd all other virtues among the race. And
o less should we see that it is enlightened and
levated in the scale of humanity. Such _
reatmeut iusures not alone more intelligence, *
nd therefore more intelligent labor, but re- t,
loves the danger that always threatens free g
istitutions where the voter is sunk in igno- ?
ance. D
"Upon this subject the press of Tennessee is ^
unit. We are far in advance of any other
tate in the South?and of many in the
forth?iu our Christianity, as exemplified in 8
ie treatment the ex-slave has received from t
ur people. The most industrious, enlightened h
nd deserving colored men in the State feel a
nd appreciate this, and are opposed to the c
jolish emigration scnemes, wnicn are ueiuier
lore nor less than small speculations of raillads
aud their agents." 0
he North and the South. 8
The New York Heriild closes an article '
n the Fourth of July with the following re- 1
tarks bearing upon the relations existing be- a
,veen the North and the South and the atti- ^
ide of each section during the rebellions of ^
776 and 1861: r
"It has of late been customary, to express a n
ish that the centeunial, with its preliminaes,
may restore the old fraternal sentiments n
etween the South and North. Such senti- g
lents are wise and timely, and they are cer- s'
tin to gain strength with the approach of the ?
sntenuial festivities. But we apprehend that
le repeaters of this wish or this advice see P
3 yet only a part of the strength of their case, j f1
t is not merely that Massachusetts and South ! j(
Carolina stood side by side in '76, powerful as j '*
lis appeal to early recollections is and ought j Jj
) be. The strong point is?and before trie 11
lose of the centennial year the North will C(
cknowledge it?that our Southern brethren 11
ave a livelier appreciation of the patriots of
le revolution than is possible to us. What S
e inherit as a tradition, they have experi- P
need as a reality. They have been them- Cl
lives in the position of rebels. They, too, have j ?'
jught for independence, and while so fight-! w
ig, they nourished their hearts and strength- |
ied their fortitude by constant meditation on
le deeds and the heroes of the revolution. !
'he position into which we of the North were
irced for the maintenance of the Union tend- C
J to put us out of sympathy with revolution- i
ry spirit. We learned, for the time, how ' ^
overnmentsfee! that are rebelled against, and j
>st our former admiration of rebels. Up to ( r
le outbreak of our civil war, there was not a ! g"
jbellion in Ireland, or in South America, or jr
i Greece, or in Hungary, or in any part of, c,
le world, in which the warmest sympathies of. C(
lis country were not freely giveu to the re- j ^
els against their government. The South e:
ontinues to retain this feeling, and as danger 1 q
) the Union is forever past, there is no reason r
hy we should not relight the partially extin- j,"
uished torch at the Southern altar, where ^
le fire has been kept steadily burning. Our <.
nuthern brethren will ultimately ackuowl- t|
Ige that we did them an invaluable service 0
i frustrating their attempt and making its 1
spetition hopeless; and, on the other hand, we i
mil yet acknowledge that they acted from
le noblest sentiments to a mistaken object.,
Ve have something to gain from them in the J
apacity to enter into the spirit which achieved j d
ur independence." I c
ZiOCAZI AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Toseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?
A R. Banks. Applicant? Rev. Win. Banks,
deceased.
r. M. Elliott, Winnsboro, S.C.?Cotton Saw Gins,
Z. G. Parish, Agent?Good Tobacco?Lemon Sugar?Smoking
Tobacco?A Little More Cider,
too?Confectioneries?Starch?HamsDry
Goods?Glassware?Concentrated Ley.
J. K. Roberts, Chairman?To Contractors.
COUNTV COMMISSIONERS.
We have been requested by the County
Commissioners to give notice that there will
tot be a meeting of the Board until the first
ilonday in August next.
ERECTION OF A FLAG-STAFF.
Col. Coward has recently caused to be erectid
on the grounds of the King's Mountain Miliary
School, a flag-staff seventy-two feet in
leight, on which he will raise a United States
lag of the largest size. The flag for the purlose
has been ordered, but has not yet been
eceived.
HOT WEATHER.
The warmest days of the present season
rere last Saturday and Sunday, the theroometer
indicating 95 degrees in the shade
n the afternoon of each of those days. Toward
evening on Sunday the temperature
moderated considerably, and on Monday a
hower fell, cooling the atmosphere and renlering
it more comfortable to sweltering humanity.
BOOK OF POPULAR RESORTS.
We have received from the author and pubisher,
John B. Bachelder, his annual stand,rd
work on "Popular Resorts, and How to
leach Them," just issued for the season of
875. The volume is elegantly printed and
found, and contains 152 engravings of noted
daces in the United States; and while it gives
learly the information required by the tour3t,
it also forms a valuable descriptive work
n popular and historical localities. The
iook is furnished at $2 per copy. Orders
hould be addressed to Geo. A. Foxcraft, Jr.,
Jeneral Agent, 41-45, Franklin street, Boson.
TRANSFERS OF*REAL ESTATE.
Ttio fnllnojinrr are t bp transfers nf real estate
ecordetl iu the office of the County Auditor
ince our last report:
J. H. Clawson, Assignee, to A. E. Hutchison.
Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration
500. Same to same. Lot in Rock Hill.
Consideration $580. Same to Mrs. C. L.
lyuura. Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration
37.50.
J. B. Alderson to J. C. Russell. Tract of
0 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideraion
$300.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to Wm. and Thos.
IcGill. One-half interest in a tract of land
a York township. Consideration $1,000.
DISTURBANCE AT KOCK HILL.
We learn that on Monday last, a disturbnce
occurred in Rock Hill, which had its
rigin in the turbulent and noisy conduct of
party of negro excursionists, who came
own from Charlotte on the railroad. The
isturbance, as we are informed, was confined
o the excursionists, who were quarreling
mong themselves, until a special police force,
onsistiug of colored men, was detailed by
Iayof London to restore order. The policelen
were resisted, wheu a number of white
len went to their assistance, and a general
ght ensued. Pistols were fired recklessly,
nd two bystanders?a young gentlman namd
Fewell, and a negro woman?wereslightly
rounded, the former haviug been shot in the
sg, and the latter in the hand. Several of
hose eugaged in the difficulty were hurt,
hough none seriously, and a number of arests
were made.
The above are the facts as nearly as we can
scertaiu them. We learn that the Sheriff
ias seut a deputy to Rock Hill for the puriose
of making some arrests on warrants placed
q his hands, and that there are also warrants
a Rock Hill for the arrest of Joseph Massey,
olored County Commissioner, who seems to
ie the only colored person of Rock Hill irailicated
in the disturbance.
OUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTENNIAL.
At the solicitation of the editor of the
few York Herald, Governor Chamberlain
ias written a letter to that paper on the subjet
of the representation of South Carolina at
he Iuternational Exhibition to be held at
'hiladelphia next year. The Governor thinks
here is at the present time a wicie-spreaa ana
;enuine interest felt by the people of this
itateiu the Centennial, but from causes which
:eed not now be stated little has yet been
lone toward a practical expression of this inerest.
The Governor says: "It is but just to
ay that no State has a better right to appear
here than South Carolina upon the score of
ier Revolutionary record. She was early
nd constant in her adherence to the colouial
ause; her soil was the scene of numerous
onfiicts, and her partisan leaders supplied
ne of the most brilliant chapters in the great
truggle. A high authority has declared that
the romance of the Revolution was found in
he Carolinas.' These early glories are again
ppealing to us all. Nowhere is it truer than
iere that the chords of memory are 'touched
y the angels of our better nature,' aud are
espouding in toues unfamiliar to our ears in
lore recent times," aud concludes as follows :
To one point I am glad to bear wituess,
amely. that if there is a want of present pro
- :e c
reSS 111 Mie WUTK. iiere, ui 11 uuutu ^aiunuo.
ball finally fail to be properly represented at
'hiladelphia, this result will not arise from
be indifference of the people at large, noresecially
from any sullenness of spirit or hoslity
toward the Centennial celebration, but
, will be occasioned by other causes, which it
i easier to understand here than toadequater
state to the country.. My hope and belief,
owever, is that before the great occasion
imes on we shall have devised ways and
leans to present the proofs of the past, presut
and future character and greatness of our
tate, when America shall meet at Philadelhia
to take note of the results of the first
snipleted century of her national life. The
bject is so grand and inspiring, that no State
ill be found wanting, especially one of the
Old Thirteen." Very respectfully,
D. H. Chamberlain,
Governor of South Carolina.
Commenting upon the letter of Governor
hamberlaiu, the Herald editorially remarks:
"We fear that the means of South Caroliear
but a slender proportion to her patriotic
ood will. While she is rich in Revolutionay
memories and distinguished names, the misovernment
of recent years has left her poor
1 resources. But the wealth of a State is no
riterion of its patriotism and valor. The
Duntrymen of Wallace or of Tell would not
ave made an imposing figure in a Centennial
xposition of art and industry, and South
!arolina may rival either of them in the poety
of heroism. Where in our Revolutionary
istory can we look for parallels to her Suuijr
and her Marion ? Bryant's noble song of
Marion's Men" is one of the many spirited
lings inspired by the romance of South Carlina's
part in the Revolution :
Well knows the lair and fricndlj' moon
The hand that Marion leads?
The glitter of their rifles,
The scampering of their steeds.
The Draytons, Pinckneys, Rutledges, Midletons
and Gadsdens were men of high
ulture and statesmanlike views, as well as
devoted patriotism, and South Carolina was
also illustrious by her Moultrie, Laurens,
Horry, Pickens, Williams, the Hammonds
and many others who rendered signal service
in the Revolution. The Philadelphia Exposition
will of course be no representation of the
Revolutionary services of the States. Of the
thirty-eight which will participate in this Exposition
only thirteen have any Revolutionary
j memories at ail. South Carolina was the
peer of any of the thirteen, but she cannot
take her famous battlegrounds to Philadelphia.
She will do what she can and do it
heartily, for no State will be in more complete
sympathy with the occasion.
MERE-MENTION.
The Democratic State Executive Committee
of Missouri have published a resolution
declaring that as an act of justice to the Democracy
of the West, the next National Democratic
Convention should be held at Saint
Louis. It is claimed that more people
were killed and wounded in celebrating the
Fourth of July, this year, than in many of
the first class battles of the war. The
rear portion of the City Hotel at Lynchburg,
Va., fell on Wednesday of last week, killing
one lady. A riot occurred among labor
r i r 1 . 1_
ers in Lawrence, Mass., last wees, uuriDg
which a boarding house used by one of the
parties was burnt, and two of the inmates
perished. It is estimated that one hundred
and twenty millions of postal cards will
be needed this year. At the National
Division Sons of Temperance, which met at
Providence, Rhode Island, 94 representatives
were present. A dispatch from Omaha
, says that on the 15th instant a squad of soldiers
shot two Indians and wounded others
on Little White River reservation. The Indians
are greatly excited, and all negotiations
and work of the commissioners is suspended.
Gen. Longstreet has been reviewing the archives
of the war in the Congressional library
at Washington, with a view to writing up his
personal record at Gettysburg. Of the
255,000 headstoues to mark the resting places
of Uuion soldiers in national cemeteries, 105,
000 are for graves of the unknown. During
the past week the Atlanta board of trade
has marked down the price of Hour fifty cents
a barrel. The city and county debt of
New York now aggregate the euormous total
of 8214 a head for every man, woman and
child in the city?thrice as much as any other
city in the world. An open boll of cotton
,yjas left at the office of the Augusta ConstUulionaliit
on Thursday last. "The Sultan
of Turkey has eight hundred wives, and
devotes to his own and their use ?2,000,000
out of the ?7,000,000 that constitute the whole
income of the Turkish Empire. Long
Branch is now familiarly spoken of as the summer
capital of the United States. Florida
killed ten thousand alligators for their
hides last year. Yesterday, 21st day of
July, was the fourteenth anniversary of the
first battle of Manassas. "Only eleven
cents for the heathen !" exclaimed a Georgia
colored minister; "give it back, brudder
Jones, the Lord nebber heard of dis one-horse
congregation." Three bales of new cotton
have been received at Galveston, Texas,
.1 . 1_
witmn tne past wees.
Donaldson, the balloon man, who made an
ascent several days ago, in company with a
Chicago reporter, aud has not yet been heard
from, is supposed to have been drowned in
Lake Michigan. Lady Franklin, the
widow of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer,
died in London on Monday The
first bale of the new cotton crop was put up
for sale at the Cotton Exchange in New York ? _
on Monday, and was bought by Merrill <fc "v" -?
Co., at 18 ceuts per pound.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, July 19,1875.
The colored population of the county will
doubtless be kept in a ferment until after the
day of election, which takes place on the 28th
of the present month. The names of the Republican
candidates were given in my last
correspondence. Mr. John W. Walker, Coroner
and acting Sheriff at the present time,
will be the candidate of the Conservatives for
the sheriffalty of the county. Their candidate
for the meraher of the House of Representatives
to fill the unexpired term of 8. J.
McCullough, deceased, has not been nominated.
There seems to be some difficulty in
finding a good man who is willing to accept
thenomiuation, even though his election could
be assured. The principal objection is the
length of the sessions of the Legislature, which
compels the absence of a member from his
business for several months. The whites are
more interested in the Sheriff's election, and
will be very well satisfied if they succeed in
electing Mr. Walker, whose prospects are very
good, notwithstanding the Republican majority
in the county. Mr. Walker is popular,
even among the colored element, a considerable
number of whom have declared their inj
tention of voting for him. Iudeed, there are
those among them who have entered the political
arena, and are using their influence in
prevailing upon others of their race to vote
for him. With the assistance of a good colored
vote, Mr. Walker can be elected, provided
the whites turn out on the day of election
and give him their votes. Considerable ap!
prehension is entertained upon this latter
point. Some are of the opinion that the whites
will not take the trouble to attend the polls
on election day.
A sulphur spring has recently been discovered
in the vicinity of our towu. It is located
on land belonging to Mr. John Withers, about
i a mile from the Court House. A number of
our people visit the spring daily and partake
freely of the water. The taste and smell of
j the water is abundant and convincing evij
dence of its containing sulphur to a very
great degree. This spring may have a very
; important bearing upon the future of Chester.
! When its medicinal properties beoorae known
' to the world, what will prevent Chester from
j becoming a celebrated summer resort? It
i seems written in the book of fate that our town
i is destined to become a place of considerable
! importance.
I AT?mi. ft P TTomiUnn of nin* town will
probably deliver a lecture in Chester, and one
| in Yorkville, during the month of August,
upon the late war, for the purpose of assisting
in raising a fund for the completion of a moiiuj
ment to be erected at Columbia, to the rnerao:
ry of our Confederate dead. He will, without
doubt, present the subject in a most interesting
and entertaining manner. When he
appears in the capacity of a lecturer before
the people of the two towns, let him be greeted
with overflowing houses. Major Hamilton
will deliver the lecture in accordance with
the request of the Ladies' Confederate Monument
Association of the State, who have not
' yet raised a sufficient amount to complete the
monument according to the original design.
The monument, in its uncompleted state, is
expected to arrive in Columbia in the course
of a few weeks, when it will be erected in due
form and ceremony. When finished, it will
be a tribute worthy of the noble dead, and of
i the noble ladies of the Confederate Associa