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? craps audi Jacts. It is noteworthy that of late the Democratic newspapers starting throughout the United States outnumber very much the new papers of Republican tendencies. If in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand. No Chinese medical student can secure a diploma until he can prove his ability to saw a man's leg off with a hand-saw and whittle out a wooden leg to replace the lost limb. The fastest time ever made by a railway traiu was on Sunday last, on the New York Central Railroad. The New York Herald's lightning train on the Western eud of the road ran seventy miles in sixty minutes. ?? When a Massachusetts man walked seventeen miles to see a man hung, aud the prisoner was respited, the disgusted traveler sat down in a fence corner and hoarsely inquired if this country wasdrifting back to barbarism. The latest movement in Washington, of a peculiar kiud, looks to the removal of all the dead Presidents from the various places of interment through the country and the re-intermont of their bodies in expensive mausoleums at Mount Vernon, around the tomb of Washington. The cotton year which ends September 1, will show receipts at all the ports of about 3,485,000 bales. The exports for the year have been 2,670,000 bales, against 2,812,000 bales last year. The visible supply of American on boths sides of the Atlantic is 954,642, bales against 910,502 last year at this time. They know how to utilize matters in Iowa. A man there recently obtained a divorce from his wife, and immediately hired her for his cook. Both paties are happy. He lives much more reasonably, and she says she cau now have an occasional new dress and a little money in her pocket-book. The largest library in the United States is the library of Congress, which contains 274,000, volumes ; next in order is the Boston Public Library, with 273,000, while the Harvard University Library with 198,000, and the New York Mercantile Library, with 155,120, are respectively third aud fourth in point of size. There are at present two thousand men and six hundred horses and carts engaged on the construction of the Southern Pacific railroad in the telegraphic pass. The work to be done is of the heaviest description of grading and rock cutting. In one place in the pass the road winds around among the mountains for seven miles, whilst actually making a direct distauce of but little over one mile. The irrepressible Gil more proposes to celebrate Ihe Centennial by having 100,000 persons sing the one hundredth psalm in honor of our one hundredth anniversary. Mr. Gilmore evidently has never heard the old story of all the inhabitants of the earth assembling on a given day and agreeing to shout at a given moment. Silence reigned supreme. Everybody held his tongue to hear the rest. Voltaire said: "The more married men, the fewer crimes, there will be. Marriage renders a man more virtuous and more wise. An unmarried man is but half of a perfect being, and it requires' the other half to make things right, and it cannot be expected that in this imperfect state he can keep the straight path of rectitude any more than a boat witn one oar can Keep tne straignt course." A case has recently occurred at Goshen, Massachusetts, that seems to confirm the popular belief that beech trees are never struck by lightning. A beech and maple standing near together, with branches interlocking each other, received an electric bolt from a ^ passing cloud, which shattered the maple and passed into the earth through a prostrate hemlock tree lying near, which was stripped of its bark nearly the whole length. No trace of the lightning was left upon the beech. There are two churches in this country which are arranged with tubes for the convenience of deaf people, namely: The First Church of Nashua, New Hampshire, and the Presbyterian Church at Freehold, New Jersey. In the latter, a number of pews are connected first by flexible tubes, then by t^pipes about an inch in diameter, running dWn through the floor, and connecting with a kind of funnel, termiuary just in front of the Bible. The plan works well. Any uusiuiiu i'?u put iu tut; urraugeiueuu What is that which has three feet but no legs, is all body but no limbs, has no toes on its feet, no head, moves a great deal and never uses its feet for that purpose, has one foot at each end and the other in the centre of its body ? This is a queer creature in some respects, and is very popular among the ladies and some men. It never walks out but goes with one foot where its head might be, dragging the other foot behind. These feet have nails but no toes, no heel and no bones in the foot? A yard measure. A circular having been sent to General Fitz Lee, of Virginia, soliciting his endorsement of a movement in favor of Hon. N. P. Banks, of Massachusetts, for President, aud Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, for VicePresident in the next coming Presidential campaign, the general has written a reply in which he says: "I feel it my duty to say, that should those gentlemen be the nominees of the National Democratic Convention for the high offices you desire them to fill, it will give me pleasure to vote for them, and to aid in an humble way to secure their election." It is said that Governor Allen, of Ohio, has strong faith that he is to be the next President. In response to the prediction of a friend that he would be the next Democratic candidate for President, he is represented as saying : "Well, sir, it would be just my luck to be elected." When reminded that he was once a "bullionist" and favored specie payments, he recalled a vision of his early days, and relieved himself of the charge of inconsistency in this fashion : "I would be in favor of specie payments now, sir, if it could happen as it did one day when I was in the Senate, and the secretary of the treasury placed a notice on each of our desks that he had paid the last dollar of the public debt." A dispatch from Benton, Franklin county, Illinois, gives the following ku-klux story: Ten disguised men have been whipping and otherwise abusiug the people of Williamson and Frankliu counties. J. B. Maddox, county commissioner, received information that the marauders would visit his house and whip him for not complying with one of their orders. Maddox notified the sheriff, who summoned twenty men, and concealed them iu Maddox's house. About 2 o'clock at night, fourteen men approached, disguised and mounted. The sheriff demanded their surrender, when the leader fired, missing the sheriff. The band then wheeled to make off, but the posse fired, fatally wounding one and injuring five. All got away except the mac fatally hurt, who gave the names of the others. The citizens, at a meeting, resolved tc rid the county of these men. The band numbers four hundred. Governor Beveridge haf sent one hundred stand of arms to the county, and bloody results are expected. A Florida correspondent of the At lauta Herald, in the course of an interesting communication regarding Florida fisheries says: "The best fishermen in Florida are th( pelicans and ospreys. A pelican consumes about a peck of fish a day. They flock about the straits and inlets by thousands Supposing there are 2,000,000 pelicans ir Florida?and there are certainly more thai that?they would eat 500,000 bushels 01 fish each day, or 182,500,000 bushles pel year. The millions upon millions of whifo | and blue cranes, herons, curlews, gulls, fish| hawks, kingfishers, and other water fowl, dej vour thousands of bushels of fi$h every twentyfour hours. An experienced cracker esti! mates that 700,000 bushels of fish a day are : required to feed the birds of Florida Alone, j This would make 525,500,000 bushels each ' year. Add to this the billions of fish swallowj ed by sharks, bass and others, and the sum | total will reach nearly 2,000,000,000 bushels j destroyed by feathered and finny fishermen on the peninsula in twelve mouths. At first glance these figures appear enormous, but let any man make his own estimate and care; fully figure it up, and he will find them under instead of over." She ^jarkville inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 26, 1875. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-olfice, county and State in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post-office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirkr 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, withoutadditional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?1The datcon the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance EM) OF THE PARKER CASE. As we stated last week, Parker was discharged from imprisonment by Judge Mackey on Monday night, and afterward, when under arrest on the charge of grand larceny, he was admitted to bail by Trial Justice McCord in the sum of $2,000. Parker left Columbia on the same night, or early next morning, on the Augusta train, which was the 6rst to leave the city after the close of the extraordinary proceedings preliminary to his release. The absence of Attorney-General Melton or other counppi for the State from the proceedings before Trial Justice McCord is accounted for by the statement, that upon the withdrawal of the aforesaid counsel from the court-room after the snubbing they received from Judge Mackey, they requested McCord to apprize them if Parker should be re-arrested and brought before him that night. This the Trial Justice promised to do, and says that after Parker was brought before him he dispatched a messenger to the solicitor's office, but that official failing to appear, the Trial Justice heard only the side of the accused, and in fixing the amount of bail was governed by the arguments of Parker's counsel. From the Columbia correspondence of the New and Courier, we are led to infer that the case is not yet considered as fiually disposed of, and that it may assume a different phase, involving others who have been conspicuous in the proceedings. The correspondent alluded to says : Col. Rion, who arrived in the city on Tuesday, says that he has no intention of dropping the matter. On the first day of the October terra of the Court of Sessions, the State will apply to Judge Carpenter foj- a rule compelling the sheriff to show cause why he should | not be attached for failing to arrest Parker. The State will also appeal rrom duageiuacaey's decision in the habeas corpus case, and from his order vacating the arrest of Parker on the sinking fund case. Another warrant is to be issued, and as soon as Parker's whereabouts are ascertained, a requisition will be made for him. The officers who represent the State say that they will follow him through all the country with a view to bring him back to justice. AX UNNECESSARY EXCITEMENT ALLAYED. Jefferson Davis having been invited by the managers of Winnebago County, Illinois, Agricultural Society, to deliver the address at their approaching fair in September next, on accepting the invitation?which he delayed fnr several weeks?a storm of indignation from the "Heroes of America" and similar organizations in that State, was the consequence. Mr. Davis was objected to as being the head and front of the Confederacy, albeit the people of the seceded States placed him in the position he occupied. The fact is not denied in the South that Mr. Davis' promiuency in a cause which failed, will forever prevent him from resuming the position which he formerly sustained toward the people of the whole country, and as this fact is equally patent to the people of the North, we think all reprehensibility, if any there be in the matter, is attached directly to the managers of the fair, who, in extending their invitation to Mr. Davis, were, no doubt, actuated more by the mercenary motive of filling their coffers by the sale of tickets at the entrance gate, than the desire to promote agricultural interests or the spirit of conciliation between the two sections. No one can censure Mr. Davis for accepting the invitation ; and since it produced ! the ebullition it did, he is entitled to all praise for inditing the following letter to the Secre! tarv of the agricultural society, revoking his I acceptance: | Dear Sir :?I yesterday sent to you a teli egram auuouncing ray revocation of my con- i I ditional acceptance of the invitation to address i your association at their annual meeting in | i September next. The long period which has j ! elapsed since the receipt of your first letter, | and the cousiderate courtesy which has marked : your correspondence, make it a duty to you i and myself that sufficient explanation should i be given of this change of purpose. Three objects mainly induced me to accept j the invitation: First. The hope that a personal intercourse might remove some of the prejudices which have been generated by par- j , tisan factions and matured by individual and sectional hate. Anxious as in former years to promote the interests of our great valley of ' the Mississippi, and believing that with mutual confidence and co-intelligence much could be done for its advancement, I solely delayed ,' my acceptance of your invitation until n became reasonably probable that it should be! i met. The productive capacity of the Northwest needs for its development cheaper and 11 safe transportation to the markets of the Southwest, and also to foreign countries. In 11 England especially, earnest attention has been directed for several years past to more direct > and economical trade with the Mississippi valley. In this connection there was a desire ) \ to confer with the Patrons of Husbandry and , prosperous sections to discuss with them the securing of better means of transportation for your farm produce to the most favorable mar; kets, and provide agencies which should en, sure a larger return to freemen, and by such i conference to learn the views of one member i of the family of the Mississippi valley, a fam; ily, the chief interest of all of which is not . ( only agriculture, but the cultivation of such i various crops as to make trade among themi selves extensive and lucrative, while it stamps f ( upon each and all the same interests and the r; same policy. As to the foreign trade, to reu3 der such connections efficient there must needs be a disposition to attend to the subject under i consideration ; surely not a purpose to smother i it by the interposition of matters having no i just relation to it. j I was encouraged to believe that your re- I ception of me would be beneficial to your as- ! sociation. This was the more supposable because several other agricultural societies of!; Illinois had in like manner invited me to ad- j' dress their annual meetings. Yesterday I re- , ceived a printed paper, it being a protest of a ! I number of your fellow-countrymen against j! the action of your board in their invitation to | j me to address the meeting. Thereupon, I sent you a telegram withdrawing my acceptance of the invitation to participate in the meeting, and I hope neither your association or the directors will suffer harm by the delay in procuring an I orator, or by the correspondence which has i caused it. The object was to gratify wishes < long entertained to see in its cultivated dress i the country known to me as a trackless wil- I derness, but that being merely a personal grat- < ification, it may be indulged in at my convenience or postponed indefinitely. < I can well believe that the cause which has j 1 changed ray purpose was as unf'orseen by you < as by me, and you may be assured that I feel | no disaffection toward the directors or your- f self, and have suffered no personal embarrass- < ment from the event, as the invitation was unexpected, and only acceptable as an expression of general good will; so my only regret is the loss of opportunity to promote the ' public iuterest with which the welfare of your 1 community is identified. Again expressing ] the hope that neither the directors nor your- s self may suffer injury or annoyance, and | thanking you for the kindness and considera- ( tiou you have manifested, I am, yours, re- i spectfully, Jefferson Davis. THREATENED TROUBLE IN GEORGIA. < For several days past there has been great 1 excitement in the counties of Burke, John- I son, Washington and Jefferson, in the State of Georgia, in consequence of an apprehended outbreak among the negro population of those counties, who, it was alleged, threatened to 1 massacre the whites and destroy their property with the torch. The first warning of the ' threatened uprising of the negroes was conveyed by the following letter, which was 1 brought to Irwinton on the 16th, by Mr. B. Hall. The letter was picked up near Wil- 1 liarason's old store, in Washington county, after one of the nightly drills of the negroes. Its genuineness is vouched for by Rev. Mr. Baker, of Irwinton: "August 0, '75.?Jame9 Wallers, you and ; your company rauststart to killing the whites 1 on Aug. 20th. Kill every one you can find. Tell Harason Tucker to kill all the whites he can find and go toward No. 11 station, and there you will meet Gen. Morris and his staff and Gen. Rivers and his staff. You do as I tell you and Capt. Tucker. This must be a secret. You tell brother Jack to kill every 1 white man and get every gun he can. Make I out to the white men that you are sorry that they think we will hurt them, and if you know of any man that has got money make them give it to your treasurer, and we need it. Have all your companies ready. Kill with 1 axes, hoes, pitchforks, and get gun powder and shot as you kill. So I close to depend on you." i After the above letter was found, the white < people sent a spy to one of the negro meetings, ! who, upon his return, confirmed all that the letter contained, while it is also said the spy knew nothing of the existence of such a docu- i ment or its contents. These facts, together < with other circumstances, led the whites of I that county, and particularly of Sandersville, ] to make preparations for the apprehended at- I tack ; but if such a design had been enter tained by the blacks they abandoned it, as < the whites were fully prepared for an engage- ] ment, having ready for the emergency, be- < sides the local military organizations, a bat- I talion from Macon. < After the excitement had somewhat subsided, the authorities took steps to secure the j arrest of the leaders of the insurrectionary < movement, and about eighty have been arrest- j ed, who are in prison in Sandersville, Waynes- i boro and Augusta. Candia Harris, one of < the leaders who is under arrest, has made a , confession, and implicates as one of the prime { leaders of the movement, Prince Rivers, Ma- < jor-General of the South Carolina militia. Rivers, however, has published a card in the j Augusta papers denying emphatically that he ( has any connection with the affair. ( Up to Thursday, the excitement in Burke , county had become so intense, and the fears < of the whites were so great as to impel them j to apply for assistance, and accordingly Lieut.- j Col. Barrett, commanding the Augusta bat- ( talion, was telegraphed for a detail of one , hundred men. But for some unexplained reason, Governor Smith refused to permit the men to go. Col. Barrett, on making application for the requisite order, received from the ? Governor only the brief message: "Do not 1 send any men to Waynesboro." This action of the Governor caused no little excitement in < Augusta, and about t wenty-five of the militia 1 a ? * ~ determiued, if they could not go as an organi- < zation, to the rescue of the people, to go upon J their own account, which they did. A dispatch from Waynesboro dated last * Friday, says: I The negroes are completely demoralized, J and the older citizens think they have scatter- t ed. About fifteen arrests have been made to- j day of the principal ringleaders among the negroes. Joe Morris, the head-centre of the trouble, is yet at large, and the ^general impression is that he has decamped. TEis~mdrh-"* ing fully five hundred negroes gathered about * five miles out of town, but subsequent events < caused a panic, and they scattered in every ] direction. The captain of the Hussars, who | passed their rendezvous this afternoon, did ( not see a negro in the vicinity. A negro who was arrested to-day confessed the whole plot. He says a simultaneous attack was to have been made to-morrow in Jefferson, Burke, \\7 j '> nottimn /\P Pinlimnnrl nnn n_ ( >V (ismugiuu auu a jiui iiuu ua iwwuuuuu Wu*< ties. It is now evident that there will be lit- | tie or no trouble. Nine more arrests of lead- ( ers have since been made. The citizens are j most anxious to capture Joe Morris, but the , chances seem slim. The people are fully armed and well prepared to meet auy force ' should the emergency arise, but it is believed i their services will not be needed. A box with f fifty guns and fixed ammunition was brought | down on the train from Augusta to-night. | Judge Perry and other prominent citizens believe the trouble is all over, and that the prompt arming of the white people and the 1 vigorous measures adopted will be a wholesome lesson for the blacks in the future. Two ne- i groes from Sandersvillc came down on the | j | train, and asked for Morris. They had a let- j ter directed to Morris, saying : "The jig is up | in Washington, as the white people are ma-11 king arrests of the leaders," and warned him 1 to get out of the way. Morris evidently con- j cocted the whole plan of attack on the whites , himself. Very few of his followers knew of |, his programme. He expected to marshal j them, march to Waynesboro, and then tell |, them what to do. | A despatch from Bartow, Jefferson county, dated on Thursday, contains the following in-1 formation: i No further news from the front except from <: Wrightsville, in Johnson county. A gentle- j mau who left there this morning says thirteen i negroes came into the town yesterday and surrendered themselves, their guns, their amI munition and their uniforms. The whites j ( I never knew before that they had a uniformed company of negroes in their midst. They j made confessions, implicating many others, | and arrests are still being made. In this j i county now we think that no demonstration of > a hostile character will be made. Three of the ringleaders in this county have been captured, the other three succeeded in makiug ^ood their escape. The following letter has been found in the house of the negro Candia Harris: Hon Mr Candia Harris : Dear Sir?T received your kind Express Communication all Right but tir I will say to you please to send me $H00 more ! Hollars your convention will be very Emportance please to send it in a private letter i Will get it 1 liaveenvited Genl P R Rivers from Aiken County South Carolina with '2000 Mens With arms I will send You the Minnies Right away j'our convention will hold two days containing 19 counties. Very Respectfuley Joseph Morris Waynesboro Burke county Ga. The Atlanta Constitution otThursday says: Yesterday morniner Governor Smith received telegrams from Capt. William Wartbin, exmember of the legislature, and Mr. Wylie, editor of the Sandersville Herald, stating that i formidable insurrection was brewing among the negroes. This dispatch was confirmed by another from Mr. Reuben Mayo, sheriff of Washington county, stating that he had several of the ring leaders under arrest, but feared that an attempt would be made to rescue them. Governor Smith at once telegraphed back to Sheriff Mayo to summon juch & posse comltatu&ui the citizens as would mable him to hold the prisoners. , Several of thfe negroes under arrest have made confessions to the purport that nineteen 2onuties were to be embraced in the insurrection, and that Friday of last week was appointed for the uprising. Ail the land and jpoiU captured were to be divided out among the negroes. All danger is now regarded as iver, and no further trouble is apprehended, [t is not believed that the great mass of the colored people really knew of the gravity and langer of the plot into which they were being led, the instigators of which, it is hoped, will kz* mitiioKfirl a a nrima s)aaart7?>a LJVs |;UU101JVU uo IIUVII v? Iiuv/ uuevt f vwi SOUTH CAROLIN A SEWS. ? Lancaster county will gather the largest 3rop of corn since 1866. ? Mr. William C. Gist, died at his residence in Union county on the 13th instant. ? The Beach Island Siamese twins have died, and are now preserved in alcohol. ? Osmond Barber has been appointed a trial justice for Chester county. ? On the first of September, Charles P. Pelhain, Esq., will become the editor of the Register, the new Columbia daily. ? Mr. W. M. Mason, of Fairfield, killed forty-three snakes a few days ago, while cleaning up a small piece of low ground. ? A project is on foot to build a railroad from Barnwell Court House to the village of Elko, on the South Carolina Railroad, some eight miles distant. ? The Winnsboro News is informed that there is more corn growing in Fairfield county at the present time, than during any one year since the war. ? Three hundred barrels of flour have re- . cently been shipped from the Carapsen Mills, at Charleston, to Baltimore, and about 500 more will follow. ? The recent census gives the town of Sparf-onKiifff a nnnnlo hnn lif'9 AOH?tuVi 1 tPQ 1 9QR UUIIUUIg M VTA XMU tllilVW) Aifoww | colored, 1,123. Greenville, 5,486?whites, 2,752; colored, 2,734. Camden, 2,172? whites, 939; colored, 1,233. i ? After a confinement of nearly two years in the Greenville jail, on a charge of contempt af Court, for refusing to answer certain questions, Judge Cooke has ordered the release of i Mr. Edwin F. Stokes. Phjsicians testified i that he is partially insane. i ? Governor Chamberlain has issued a pro- i jlamation, declaring vacant the office of R. M. Thompson, one of the county commission jra 01 ^lareiiaon county, in uuutjttjueuue ui ;he withdrawal of the sureties on his official bond. ? Governor Chamberlain ht.s pardoned Ben- i arain Cunningham, convicted of grand larceny, at the June terra of the Circuit Court 1 'or Union county and sentenced to six months ' raprisonraent in the penitentiary. The parIon was granted upon the recommendation of Judge Moses, Messrs. J. B. Steedraan, R. W. Jhand and a large number of the best citizens , >f Union county. i ? The Clarendon Press sayn planters along i 5antee have not suffered in comparison with < ether sections of the county. As far out from i ;he river as Mr. Sprott, the present prospects i xre good for fair crops. The crops along the ; South Black river road are cut short, the es- i ;imate of the planters are varying from a third I ;o a half. In the "Fork of Black river" the i estimate of a two-thirds crop is regarded as | iioderate. 1 NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. j ? H. F. Schenck has received a number of , lew looms which he will soon have in opera- ( Aon in his cotton factory in Cleveland county. ( ? Mr. Spake of Jackson county has spoken, : md speaks to the effect that he is a Democrat. ( He is a member elect of the approaching Convention, and has been classed auiong the ( Republicans. ? Last Saturday morning thirteen convicts it the State Penitentiary, attempting to make heir escape, were fired upon by the guard, , ind two were killed and two wounded, one of hem mortally. Eight of them succeeded in naking their escape. ? The Greensboro Patriot announces the ieath of Ralph Gorrell, of that place, which went occurred on Saturday of last week, in | ;he"*73rd~year of his age. Mr. Gorrell was ] me of the most distinguished members of the North Carolina bar, and has held many positions of honor and trust in connection with ( the improvement and progress of the State. ? The Charlotte Observer nays an effort is j oeing made to secure executive clemency for Wm. Ellwood, who is confined in the jail at Charlotte, waiting to be sentenced to death for ( the ipurder of Alex. Sanford, at King's Mountain, of which offense he was convicted at the last term of Mecklenburg Superior Court. The petition is being circulated by Ellwood's , wife, who has secured the signatures of nearly ill the members of the Charlotte bar, the ( sheriff of the county, and all the members of,, the jury who tried the case, except two, who j liave not yet been seen. The petition has also I received 300 signatures in Cleveland and Ciaston counties. ? The Wilmington Star records a case of parricide, which occurred near Fair Bluff, in j Columbus county, on Saturday of last week, j, It seems that about four o'clock on the inor- j ning of that day, the dwelling of Eli Cole- j mau was discovered by his neighbors to be on fire. They found it falling in, and learned :, from his two children?a son of sixteen years : old and a daughter of fourteen years old? j that their father was in the burning building.j The children had removed nearly all the fur- j niture from tbe house, except the bed on which their father lay. After the fire subsided, the ! remains of the ill-fated man were examined, ' and exhibited signs of his having been mur-1 dered. Suspicion at once attached to the 3on, and on being accused, a day or two after the deed, confessed his guilt, and says that he shot his father in the head while lying asleep ' on the bed, aud then fired the house. The boy has the reputation of being a very wicked 1 and vicious person, and has been heard to make threats against his father. Both the ! children have keen committed to jail. I LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. C. G. Parish?Dry Goods?Tea?Tobacco?Kerosene?Flavors?Lard?Turnip Seed?OatsBacon?Corn?Attention Sportsmen. J. H. Clawson?Assignee's Sale?In Bankruptcy, In the Matter of J. R. Castles, Bankrupt. William L. Webb?Oldest Crockery House in Charleston. T. N. Bennett, Chester?Guns Made and Repaired Willie Ferguson?News Agent. J. C. H. Duff?Wool Carding. E. F Bell, Agent?Singer Sewing Machine. PERSONAL. Rev. Henry R. Dickson, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of this place, who has been absent on a vacation of several weeks, returned home on Saturday evening last. SUDDEN DEATH. Rebecca Moore, a respectable colored woman aged about seventy years, who lived in the northern part of town, suddenly fell dead T unnrl n t* mnrninrr T t id Gil nnndPfl fthp tact JL ucouaj luviuiugi AW iu mm^vwvvi wmw was the victim of heart disease. REVENUE CAPTURE. On Wednesday evening of last week a man named Jacob Mull, from Catawba county, N. C., who was engaged in illicit whisky traffic, wus captured, with his team and wagon, near this place. Mull, who was committed to jail, is said to be an old, experienced "blockade runner," and had in his wagon, when captured, seven empty whisky barrels, the stamps on which were uncancelled. SEEKING PARDON. A petition has been prepared and will be forwarded to the Governor, asking for the pardon of James Moore, convicted at the last term ofFairfeld Court of forgery, and sencenced by Judge Mackey to two years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. The petition has received the approval of Judge Mackey, and we learn that the representative of the Singer Machine Company, who were the principal losers by the peculations of Moore, has also signified his willingness to sign the peti tion. ACTION OF'TRESPASS. The case of John E. Austin, of Union county, N. C., charged with feloniously taking a mule from the premises of John Caldwell, of this county, on the night of the 26th of last July, was heard before Trial Justice Williams, in this place last Monday. It will be remembered that the ownership of the mule was a subject of dispute between the parties, and Austin availing himself of the opportunity, seized the mule and rode into Gaston county, N. C., where he was arrested and committed to jail. Subsequently he was released, and he now brings an action of tresspass against Caldwell for the recovery of the mule. W. B. Williams, Esq., appeared for Austin, and Messrs. Beatty and Bell for Caldwell. The jury decided in favor of Caldwell, and the plaintiff gave notice that he would appeal. ? THE CASE OF FRED. JONES. Fred. Jones, colored, who shot and killed Leonidas McNeel, near McConnellsville, in this county on the 5th of June last, and who, on the next morning surrendered himself to the Sheriff, in whose custody he has been since that time, appeared before Judge Mackey in the Court House at this place last Monday evening, on a writ of habeas corpus, praying to be discharged from arrest. Instead of submitting an affidavit, the prisoner made an oral statement, in which the slaying was not denied, though he urged that the deed was committed in self-defense. The evidence taken at the coroner's inquest was then read, when, after a short argument by T. J. Bell, Esq., counsellor for the petitioner, Judge Mackey decided that the case was bailable, and fixed the amount of bond at ?500, with two good sureties, for the appearance of the prisoner at the next terra of the Court of General Sessions to be held for this county. The prisoner has not yet succeeded in giving the required bond. SUCCESSFUL FARMING. Dr. John F. Lindsey, of this place, owns a small tract of land about four miles south of town, on which there is a bottom piece of nine acres, that only a few years ago was a morass of cane and flag, on the outskirts of which grew spontaneously the varieties of grass known as cat grass and blue grass. At no season of the year could a man attempt to walk in any part of this swamp without miring. It was one of the waste places so commonly found in all sections of the country, the native grass it produced being attended with more trouble and expense to procure it than the hay thus saved was worth. The Doctor decided to reclaim this marsh, and cause it to produce something more beneficial than rank weeds and cane; and so far did he succeed, that now, instead of the wild bog which originally flourished there, the entire bottom is a wilderness of waving corn, the finest field of this cereal that we ever saw growing. As the plan pur sued by Dr. Lindsey for tbe reclamation ot this swamp is simple, and inexpensive when compared with the results obtained, we deem it but proper to call attention to this instance, find urge upon those whose lands contain similar swamps, the importance, in an economical point of view, of bringing them to a state of cultivation. The plan adopted by Doctor Lindsey was simple, consisting only of a system of underdraining by means of "blind ditches" cut through the swamp, to convey the water to a main open ditch on one edge. These ditches, which now serve to carry off an excess of rainfall, soon drained the water with which the ground was impregnated to the depth of from two to four feet, and after the growth of vegetation was cleared away, a rich, loose soil was found ready for the plow. The expense of ditching this land and preparing it for cultivation was about $50 per acre, and no year since it has been cultivated has it produced less than 50 bushels to the acre. Last year the yield of the nine acres was 575 bushels, of which 520 bushels was good, merchantable corn. This season it will not be less, while the Doctor feels confident that by composting, which he contemplates doing next year, the nine acres will yield 1,000 bushels. The plan of cultivation pursued is not different from that under general adoption, with the excep.i . .t J lion tnai ine preseui aeanuii, luobcau ui pivrring the crop three times, as is usual, this received but two plowings, iu consequence of rapid growth, it being so large at the proper time for the third plowing, as to render it liable to be broken down. The same swamp extended on Mr. B. T. Wheeler's land, which adjoins Dr. Lindsey's place. Mr. Wheeler pursued the same course as did the Doctor, and with similar results. There are, in York eounty, and especially on the Fishing creek bottoms, hundreds of acres of similar swamps, which could be made equally productive as the one under notice, and we hope the gratifying results of Doctor Lindsey's efforts in this direction will induce others to a similar spirit of enterprise. Ha?" Minnesota woman killed eighteen bushels of grasshoppers in one week, and got one dollar a bushel. ISy The new style of pantaloons this fall will be large enough to tie back. A TRIP TO FORT MILL. Editor of the Enquirer: Perhapa the notes of a trip recently taken by the writer through a portion of Yprk county, may be of interest, and afford some information to your many I readers. Several considerations must occur to every reflecting mind why a truthful and approximately correct narrative of the progress and industry of any part of the country should be interesting to all. As there is a lack of information regarding the size and configuration of the county, in like manner?if not to a greater extent?does this ignorance prevail as to the progress made in the agricultural and mechanical pursuits, and the skill, energy and enterprise of a portion of our population. The Enquirer, too, by being the central organ of the county, may be the medium for disseminating much information, become the means of removing local animosity or jealousy, and rendering our whole population more homogeneous and united. Such are the views suggested to the writer of these notes. Certain it is, that our western farmers and planters know noth * ' - n . 1 /? il A ing, or know Dut imperiecuy, or me eastern portion of the county; and doubtless this is true of the east as to the west, and likewise of the northern and southern portions. In company with a friend, I recently made a trip from Yorkville to that portion of the county lying east of the Catawba river. On the two roads leading from Yorkville to Thome's and Wright's Ferries, the portions of the section seen by your correspondent presented tolerably good crops, where they had been well worked. The cotton, though small in many places, seemed to be well laden with fruit, and will doubtless make more than the yield of last year, where uninjured by rust and the excessive rains which for some time had visited that section, On Tuesday night the 17th, we arrived at Fort Mill, and were very kindly received and entertained at the hospitable residence of Dr. S. A. Kell, whose house is situated on the summit of the chief hill of the towu modestly called the "Young Rome." Wednesday morning the sun rose clear and cloudless, and early the city was all agog with bustle, noise and stir, all betokening an approaching festival and celebration. The red coats of the firemen, the tramp of horses and the rattle of vehicles, as the substantial yeomen and planters, with their wives and daughters and little ones, came pouriDg in from York, Lancaster, and even the good Old North State, told plainly that the celebration gotten up by the "Grangers" of the vicinity and surrounding country, was to be au elegant affair. Under direction of the Fort Mill Grange, a procession was formed iu front of Grauge Hall, and headed by the local band, and followed by the Grangers, the firemen in uniform, and the citizens and people generally?male and female?the long procession wended its way to the newly-erected Presbyterian Church. The church building, supposed to be capable of seating 400 persons, was densely packed, and did not contain more than half of the assemblage, which was estimated at from 800 to 1,000 persons. Many, no doubt, were attracted by the expectation of seeing and hearing Col. D. Wyatt Aiken, who is one of the champions and expounders of the Grange organization and its principles; but owing to some cause he failed to arrive, though his place was ably filled by that gallant native son of York, Gen. D. H. Hill, the senior editor of the Southern Home. General Hill's address was an able and exhaustive summary of the arguments in favor of the Grange organization, as well as a complete refutation of the many objections which have been urged against it. It must have enlightened the minds and gladdened the hearts of the Grangers and citizens gt..erally to have listened to the sterling good sense and admirable advice the address contained; and without going into detail I would particularly mention that the speaker exhibited more than his usual animation and fire, when he showed by unanswerable arguments that the Grange movement, neither in its incipiency or in any stage of its progress, warred against any legitimate business or pursuit or avocation or profession of life, whilst the whole batteries of his wit and sarcasm, and even scorn, were poured out against those noisy and selfish creatures, who are continually throwing cold water on the movement, and thereby contributing to depress and tie down in chains of solitude and ignorance, the farmers of the country. Like Burns, the General held that? "The rank is but the guinea-stamp? The man's the gowd for a' that." After the conclusion of the address, two long tables were spread and filled to overflowing with solid and choice viands, well prepared aud cooked?such only as the Grangers' wives and daughters can do?and every body had enough, and to spare. After the repast was over, our attention was arrested by the music of the violin, proceeding from the basement story of the Grange Hall; and hieing thither, we found a large number of the votaries of pleasure making merry with the attractions of the dance. The beauty and chivalry of the "future London" and of the neigboring villages of Rock Hill, Chester and Lancaster, had gathered there. Even the interior town of Sumter sent representatives of her refinement and grace to en' -? A 1 ? 1 A. A 1. liven the occasion, ai nigm me scene was renewed, and so ended the Grange festival. "All went merry as a marriage bell" with the guests and citizens of the "Queen of the Catawba." Fort Mill, as a station or interior village, is pleasantly located on the C. C. and A Kailroad, about two miles, at its nearest point, from the Catawba river, on the eastern side, 8 miles from Rock Hill, and 17 miles from Charlotte. The town takes its name from an old fort, about a mile south-west from the place, supposed to have been built and used by the English settlers on the Catawba as a protection against the predatory incursions and invasions of the Roanoke tribe of Indians. The town has made considerable progress in population, in building, in trade, and in the industrial arts during the past five years. Being the centre of one of the richest and most fertile townships of the county, it annually ships from 6,000 to 7,000 bales of cotton ; has ten stores inclusive of all k iuds; a drug store ; two public halls?one Grange and one Masonic; three churches?Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian?and a fine brick academy in process of erection. Also, three physicians; two places where the trav * J i c?i?i eier may siup auu uc reneauew?x/ia&ciuiuo and Hotchkia3'; only one liquor shop; and many substantial and elegant residences, and a fixed resident population, at the present time, numbering between 300 and 400 souls. In company with a mutual friend and Capt. Sam. White, your correspondent visited the fine cotton and corn farms and mills of Capt. White, on Steel creek, east of Fort Mill. The Captain is an energetic, earnest, practical aud thorough-going farmer?a Granger?and expects this Beason to make from 150 to 200 bales of cotton, with provisions in abundance. His mill saws 3,000 feet of lumber per day, and his grist mills are provided with the most approved machinery. We likewise visited, in company with Col. . John White, his farm, lying west of Fort Mill I aud along the "Catawba river. Hp, too, has a fine farm with a fine corn crop. Much of his extensive cotton fields will average, under j j favorable conditions, from 1,200 to 1,500 pounds of cotton to the acre. The Colonel has recently erected and completed an elegant { and tasteful brick residence at a cost of near $10,000. He has the contract, and is carrv' ing it out, of building a substantial brick ^.academy for the use of the town, and is also erecting a water gin and press for himself, and besides, is an earnest Granger. These two farms are only mentioned because they came uuder the critical observation of j the writer, and perhaps are fair illustrations of the fertility of the soil and the present promising crops of Fort Mill township. On j all sides Prospero seems to have waved her , wand, and the fabled horn of Fortunatua to have poured out its contents. Many considerations present themselves to the writer why this township is destined to become the gem of the county. Most of the land is still in a virgin state, having been but recently cleared?and a larger part being yet in forest. The population is naturally a good one; and awakened by the bugle blast of the Granger, and adapting themselves to the progress being made in agriculture at the present timo, will improve, beautify and adorn their farms and homes. The writer cannot conclude these rambling observations without testifying to the good order, sobriety and hospitality of the good people of that locality during his brief sojourn among them. In an assemblage of persons numbering 800 or more, from all directions, not a drunken man was seen, nor a single ar- * rest made for disorderly conduct. And with- X out discriminating, I would particularly mention the hospitality and kindnesS of Dr. S. A. Kell, who is rapidly rising in his profession, and is destined to be a fixed institution in Fort Mill. I would also mention Mr. Henry Banks, who, with one of Alabama's fairest flowers, has recently settled on the Unnonotoorl aP Vi i q fotkor tko lata Pat? WT m uv/ui^ob^au \j i mo iwnivi | nit iaic ivcfi ?f uii Banks, and who, by his skill and energy, will doubtless build up a high school for this place. Amicus. MERE-MENTION. The Governor of Tennessee has appointed Hon. D. M. Key, of Chattanooga, to the seat in the United States Senate made vacant by the death of Andrew Johnson. A colored woman has sued the Pullman Palace Car Company for $10,000 for refusing to allow her to ride in a Pullman Car from Cincinnati to Washington. The body of Grim wood, who accompanied Donaldson in his last balloon ascent, has been found near Whitehall, Michigan, and returned to Chicago for interment. Among the bids recently opened for printing check stamps, one firm offered to do the work for nothing, and * another offered to pay $2,000 for the privilege. The stamp affords an advertisement to the j printer. The New York State Democratic Convention will meet at Syracuse, on the 6th of September. Henry(T. Helmbold, the Buchu man, has returned from Europe, and been placed in an insane Asylum at Philadelphia. McCreery's majority for Governor of Kentucky is 36,139. The House will stand Democrats 90 and Republicans 10. Nineteen hundred mortgages have been recorded in Hinds county, Miss., during the present year/ The Air-Line Railroad makes the run from Richmond to Atlanta?a distance of 548 miles?in twentysix hours. The largest mirror in the world has just been put into the parlor of one >jf the Saratoga hotels. Two platform cars were required to transport it. It is a notable fact that while not one ex-President is living, the wives of five.of them survive? Mrs. Polk. Mrs. Fillmore. Mrs. Tvler. Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Johnson. Postmaster Pease, of Vicksburg has been sued for three cents over-charge on a letter. Benjamin Barker, a murderer of Monroe county, Pennsylvania, has been surrendered by his wife, who receives a reward of $1,100. The Presbyterian population of the world is 30,000,000. A Kentucky court lately sent a man for two years to the Penitentiary for killing a man, and a second culprit was sent for four years to tho same place for stealing hogs. Three hundred passenger trains daily enter aud leave a single depot in Jersey City, opposite New York. The hay crop in the United States for the past year was over 27,000,000 tons, valued at 8500,000,000/ EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Lleht.-Goreruor Gleavcs Explains. ? Lieutenant-Governor Gleaves has published a letter in vindication of his recent ?- A terference in the sentence of death pronounced ^ upon the murderer Gibbes, whereby he commuted the sentence to tweuty years imprison- ^ ment in the penitentiary. He claims that under the provisions of the constitution he is empowered to act, under certain circumstances, during the absence of the Governor, and that the case in question was one of emergency, in which he believed the Governor was not only disqualified from acting on account of his absence from the State, but that it was impossible to lay before him by telegraph all the statements and circumstances which re % . % . T .1 quired immediate consideration, in ine meantime, the Lieutenant-Governor desires that the question involved shall be determined by either a decision of the State Supreme Court, or by some specific enactment of the Legislature. In reply to the letter of Governor Chamber- ? lain, Judge Reed has written to his Excellency the following under date of the 14th inst. Dear Sir Your letter addressed to me, in reference to the attempted commutation of the sentence of the convict Joseph Gibbee, by / Lieutenant-Governor Gleaves, has just reached me at this place, where I am indulging, temporarily,.a brief summer vacation. I was preatlv sumrised and shocked udoo receipt of O ^ 4 * * the announcement of the action of LieutenantGovernor Gleaves, for Gibbes had been justly convicted after an impartial trial and an able defense, and was, in my judgment, the ringleader, the head and front, as compared with his associate, John Smith, who has suffered the extreme penalty of the law, in one of the most atrocious, pre-arranged robberies and murders that has even been committed in the country. I had determined, therefore, at once that, upon the reassembling of the Court of Sessions for Charleston county, it would be my duty to take such action as might be deemed necessary to determine the power of the Lieutenant-Governor in the premises, if there be - any doubt about it, and to vindicate the constitution, the laws and public justice. Entertaining these opinions, I need scarcely add that I concur in the suggestion of your Excellency, that an official duty rests upon me to see that the matter is properly inquired into, and that justice, as it maybe adjudged in mercy, shall be done, however painful or prejudicial the responsibility so unexpectedly thrown upou me. - I have the honor to be your Excellency's obedient servant, J. P. Reed,^ Judge F^rst Circuit. THE CROP OUTLOOK. Late advices from Memphis say that a rapid decline in the river has dispelled all fears of further damage to the crops; but so great is the diversity of opinion in regard to the damage done to the cotton crop in that district, that it is impossible to estimate the amount, which varies from twenty to eighty thousaud bales. There is no precedent by which the overflow on cotton at this season of the year can be approximated. The number of acres of corn ruined by the flood is largely in excess of the cotton. ^ The statistics of the sugar cane crop for July, at the agricultural department, show that Mississippi has an increased acreage of eight per cent.; Georgia one per cent. Other sugar-producing States show a decline: Louisiana two, South Carolina three, Texas five, Alabama six,Florida fourteen percent, below last year's acreage. Louisiana reports an average condition, and Mississippi three per cent, above. Other States are all below from three to ten per cent. The Cincinnati Price Current has reports from three hundred and fifty points in nearly as many counties, and gives the following summary of wheat. The reports indicate in Ohio and Indiana a full average acreage; yield somewhat short, large losses by rain, and quality very inferior. The Illinois crop is below an average; condition largely bad, and quality inferior. In Iowa the acreage is as about as usual.