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Scraps and .facts. The West Point cadets complain of the ugliness of the girls, this year, and the girls reciprocate by complaining ofstupidness and awkwardness in the cadets. The Joplin, Missouri, Bulletin is authority for the story that a child was born near that place a few days ago with the head of a cat and the feet of a chicken. A special train for fast freight, making the distance between San Francisco and New York, in twelve days, is to start shortly from the former city, with thirty-oue car loads of tea and silk. A small woolen manufactory has been discovered among the ruins of Pompeii. Several charred fragments of tapestry were found, besides various machines for carding and weaving wool. Sixteen Chinese women were sold at auction in California the other day, only Chinese being allowed to bid. Eight dollars was the highest price, and one sold for sixtyfive cents, her nose being out of plumb. The New York Sun shines down with rather a vicious gleam on Graut. Speaking of Andy Johusou, it says: "Fie never took presents, and never corrupted Congressmen in order to get his salary doubled. His memory will be honored when the avarice and baseness of Grant are despised and execrated." Near Knoxville, the other night, a young girl, who was unexpectedly interviewed by the family as she was about elopiug with the object of her virgin affections, knocked the old man down, laid out two brothers with a cistern pole, kicked the hired man in the stomach, and got away with her lover aud "made the riffle." Mr Jefferson Davis has accepted au invitation to deliver an address at the Knox Couuty, 111., agricultural fair next month. Galesburg, the country seat, is an old autislavery stronghold, but the people as yet do not seem to coincide with their neighbors of Winnebago county in their auti-Davis sentiments. The wheat crop of Minnesota was too much for the young grasshoppers of 1875, and the pests were obliged to leave growing plants which produced about 32,000,000 bushels of graiu. The St. Paul Pioneer-Press estimates that of this crop 25,000,000 bushels will ? r* l lil . *. Ml L i. 4.L ^ oe ror saie, ana mat it win oruig iu me otitic over 823,000,000, or more than twice as much as was obtained for the erop of 1874. A curious conscience case occurred at Newport, R. I., the other day. A man from the country, who had supplied a towu grocer with eggs for several years which the latter had not taken the trouble to count, called upon him and confessed that he had cheated him out of 85 by short measure, whereupon the grocer acknowledged having cheated the seller by passing a counterfeit 810 bill upon him. Jefferson Davis declines to accept the gift of a homestead in Texas. He writes to a Texas gentleman : "It is enough for roe to know that your people, who have suffered by our common disaster, instead of blaming me for their misfortunes, have been willing to share the remnant of their fortune with me." The plan was to buy a farm by dollar subscriptions. The revisers of the New Testament have been at work five years, and it is said will probably require five years more. The latest London mail advices report that the four Gospels had been completely revised, except two points in dispute yet to be decided. The Acts and small Epistles had been revised once, and had to undergo a second revision. The Epistles of Paul would come next, and would take a long time. A man named Louis Burke, who lived nnnntu T^nn q at JLiUl ACOTIII^I IU AAVUUViOUM WUIIVI, A VMM., V few days ago indulged in blasphemous language, because his crops had been destroyed by high water. He cursed God for having his crops destroyed last year by heat and drought, and for destroying them this year by flood, and concluded his blasphemy of the Creator with the expression, "God damn him !" His tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, and he died the next night, never uttering another word. California is the next State to hold an election. There are three parties in the field, Republican, Democratic and Independent. The average California voter is a peculiar animal. He is the most independent individual in the United States. Party ties with him are weak. If he floes not like the candidate or the platform of his party, he votes against it. For eight years now, the parties have alternated in power. At the last election, the Independents carried the State, defeating both Republicans and Democrats. This year it is thought the Democrats will win. The Supreme Court of Virginia has recently rendered a decision which ought to be respected as a precedent by every court in the country. A woman who had been severely burned by "unexplosive" oil, sued the grocer who sold it. The grocer pleaded in defense that he really believed the oil unexplosive. The court held that as the use of the oil for lighting purposes was not at all times and under all conditions absolutely free from all danger of explosion, the defendant was not " ? - --11? ..-J ? exempt irom responsinuity in seumg, aim ordered him to pay the plaintiff 812.50 and costs. Now let the grocer sue the party who sold the oil as unexplosive. The Ohio Legislature, at its last session, passed laws that were very generous to women, among them a statute defining the rights of widows who re-marry. Under) its provisions a widow, after a contract to marry, may, without the knowledge of her intended husband, convey away her property in trust for her child, may bring the child with herself upon her new husband for support, may make the latter responsible for debts contracted by her before marriage, for her wedding outfit, and then, to cap the climax, may, if she takes a notion to abscond, descend upon his house with a constable and writ of replevin and strip it of all the furniture. Ex-Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, in his recent address before the Southern Historical Society, related a secret incidentofthe war. He said that soon after the failure of the Hampton Roads conference he was visited by the late Gov. Graham, who stated to him that many of the Senators and Representatives in the Con federate jCongress, and other leadiug men, believed that the end of the war was near, and despairing of obtaining peace through Mr. Davis, they desired Mr. Vauce, as Governor of North Carolina, to enter into separate terms with President Lincoln. Gov. Vance said that he declined to take the desired step. Prof. Charles V. Riley, State Entomologist of Missouri, has been telling the Science Convention at Detroit of his experience in eating grasshoppers. He says that the flavor is agreeable. Fried or roasted in their own oil, they have "a pleasant, nutty taste." Broiled or stewed, they are "admirable." At the hotel, where he experimented, many of the guests ate the messes which he prepared, and were quite found of the soups, fricasees and fritters mainly composed of grasshoppers. Prof. Riley describes the use of locusts as food by various people in all ages. In Morrocco they are roasted and sold extensively in the market places ; in Southern Russia they are commonly eaten ; some of the African tribes subsist to a great extent upon them ; and they are utilized by American Indians. The part of his argument meant to be of practical value is, that if the Western farmers would eat the grasshoppers, the grasshopper couldn't eat the crops. The Hon. D. M. Key, of Chattanooga, who has been appointed by Governor Porter, ^ of Tennessee, to succeed ex-President Jonhson in the United States Senate, is at present of the Chancellors of the State, but has ^HHRHfl^hured much in Tennessee politics. He ^ HH^H^BB^^^^ears of age, of decided talent, popular sec nHHg^wn throughout the State. The appointment will give general satisfaction in East Tennessee, which portion of the State claimed the appointment of Mr. Johnson's successor. The Legislature of Tennessee meets only every second year, and its next session will begin January, 1877. Sen-; ! Key will therefore occupy the seat by the j ' governor's appointement for two whole ses- , ' sions, embracing the long session next winter and the short session succeeding the prese- j dential election. The next Legislature, to be : chosen in the fall of 1876, will elect a sena- I tor for the remainder of Mr. Johnson's term, , and will also have to elect the succesor of : Senator Cooper, whose term expires in 1877. j Ihr furhriUc inquirer. ? | YORKVITjLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 2, 1875. __ I How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-otHce, county and State in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post-oflice money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Knquiukr is delivered free of postage to all subscribers residing in York county who receive the paper at post-otlices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-ollice here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The do/con the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must he kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance HART'S BATTERY. A few weeks ago, Major J. F. Hart, of this place, wrote for publication in the Charleston News and Courier a series of sketches of the part taken by his command in the lute war, aud besides the iuterest the sketches afforded to a larger class of readers in our own State, many facts and incidents mentioned have awakened a similar feeling among such of his former foernen as have seen the sketches in j question. One instance particularly is worth mentioning. The late of iMajor John Jti. Shelmire, of the First New Jersey Cavalry, who was reported missing at the battle of Brandy Station, could never be learned by his friends or comrades, after the most dilligent enquiry, and the mystery of his disappearance was never solved until, by incidental allusion, Major Hart referred, in his sketch, to the death of that officer, who fell while leading a charge at the head of his regiment. The mention of this fact by Major Ilart brought a letter of enquiry from the editor of the Doylestown (Pa.) Democrat, which was courteously replied to by Major Hart, being, as the editor of that paper remarks, "just such a letter as one gallant soldier would write about another." Major Hart, after giving all the particulars he can call to mind concering the fate of Major Shelmire, aud promising to make enquiry from such sources as are now available for other facts, concludes by saying : "I know of no more grateful office than to soften the bitter memories of our strife, by fulfilling these sacred duties to the fallen on both sides. While we of the South like to perpetuate our deeds of valor, as a part of the heritage of our common countrv. we cherish 0 - ? without bitterness the gallantry of our former foemen." THE FINANCIAL* QUESTION. The money question will be the great issue in the next Presidential campaign, and as it is now affecting the political parties in Ohio, so will it divide and disintegrate the two great parties of the Natiou. The State canvass in Ohio is now being conducted on the issue of early resumption and hard money against "rag-money" or iuflation of the paper promises-to-pay of the United States Government. The platform of the Democratic party of that State, adopted a few weeks ago, advocates inflation or expansion of the currency and a restoration of the old State banking system, while the Republicans oppose the measures. The Republican speakers profess to adhere to the provisions of the currency acts of 1862 acid 1863 restricting the amount of legal tender issues to 8400,000,000, while the Democracy advocate unlimited paper circulation. Already is the question being discussed in other States, and the politicians are trimming their sails to suit the breeze which must inevitably come. Ex-Governor B. Gratz Brown, j of Missouri, has written a letter in opposition to the present National Banking system. Referring to the policy of contraction, he says : "One immediate result is to discourage all new industries, to compel old enterprises to suspend, to concentrate money upon speculative objects, in a frantic struggle for large gain, causing it to abandon the currents of ordinary trade that yield moderate profit, and I above ail else by causing general stagnation, to put the debts of the country upon the land in the shape of mortgages, rather than on the personal securities which sustain active business." Near the close of his letter Governor ! Brown says : "It is safe to predict that a full j and fair discussion of all the problems con1 nected with this financial controversy will reach a like conclusion in behalf of a free, J elastic currency, regulated solely by the wants o i?- j-. u., 01 OUSluess, ueieiujiLieti 1U iu uoc ujr ictcjjuuu for debts, taxes, customs, assured as to its value by convertibility into an interest-bear- j | iug bond of an average rate, and reposing j i upon the credit of the Government, representI ing the whole wealth of the country." The Pennsylvania Democracy also favor a "free elastic currency," in support of which one of the party papers says: "The Democracy of Pennsylvania must not be behind their brethren in Ohio upon the ! money question, which is paramount to all other questions now agitating the public mind. : ; The people of this State understand that it is ; the duty of the National Government, instead of contracting the currency, to provide enough to meet the wants of general trade, so that it may be had without having to pay for it a heavy rate of interest. The Democratic masses in this State understand these questions j perfectly, and it becomes the leaders to take a lesson from their Ohio neighbors if they exj pect this fall to tread the same road to victo ? ? ?T^AtMAnnoti/i he\aia in Vy UVCr WUIUU tuc i/cmuu uuiv/ iiuoko iu ktiv buckeye State are moving in irresistible force." But while representatives of the two parties are discussing the question, we also find disa-, greement among the oracles of the same party. I For instance, the utterances of two represen-j J tative Democratic papers, one in New York and the other in Indiana, conflict quite seri-' j ously. The Troy Press, speaking of the financial plank in the next Democratic platj form, says: "Inflation will be thoroughly squelched in the National Convention. No one really fears that it will not. What the people demand will be done. The Ohioans i might as well begin to look forward to taking ' | back seats and being required to go on proba' tion till they have proved themselves renewed . in the genuine faith." And at about the same 11 time this was printed, the Courier, of Evans- i ville, Indiana, writing on the aame question expressed the following views: "To our mind this money question is ol more importance than the preservation of par ties or the retention of the services of unruly leaders. The Democratic party of the nation will experience no difficulty in finding bold and able leaders who are in sympathy with the masses on the money question. But the people intend to settle this money question at the polls, and they do not iutend to cease in their efforts until the greenback policy has triumphed. The Presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket will be nominated by the Westaud South. That Western or Southern man who fancies he can conciliate the conflicting views of the Eastern and Southwestern people upon the money question must be beside himself." A convention of those who favor unlimited paper currency was held at Detroit, Michigan, last week, and the following resolutions were adopted as expressing the sentiments ol the Western inflationists: 1. That the people owe to the government, at all times, and in all emergencies, a loan ol money adequate to its needs, at a rate of interest so low as to be the least possible burdeu, and to offer the least possible competition to private enterprise. 2. The government owes to the people an absolutely safe and uniform currency, adapted to their various needs in amount, and of a value not materially different from that of other civilized nations. 3. That the providing of a currency for the people is an attribute of sovereignty, and we demand that the government of the United .States shall perform this duty in such a manner as to furnish the public an amount of currency adequate to the business requirements of the country, and independent of the action of banks or other private corporations. 4. That we are neither repudiationists nor inflationists, but the friends of a safe, sound and reliable currency ; that we propose to redeem the greenback circulation of the United .States, at the pleasure of the holders thereof, in bonds of the United States, bearing a low rate of interest, convertible at the pleasure of the holders into greenbacks, thus redeeming the original promise of the government when it first issued greenbacks, to fund them when desired, into an interest-paying bond. 5. That we are in favor of the issue of United States certificates or bonds, bearing interest not to exceed 3 65 per cent, per annum, to the amount equal to the whole government debt; said bonds or certificates being changeable aud interchangeable with greenbacks at par on demaud. 6. That the legal money of the country should be endowed with the power to pay all debts, public aud private, except that portion of the bonded indebtedness especially made payable in coin. 7. That as the enactment of last Congress providing for a resumption of specie payments in 1879 is impracticable and impossible of execution, and is disastrous in its effects upon the business of the country, we demand its immediate and unconditional repeal. 8. That the plan of government currency proposed by this convention would, in our opinion, tend to render our government and people independent financially, of foreign influences or complications, and not subject hereafter, as heretofore, to the disturbing control of foreign nations. 9. That we recommend the organization of greenback clubs in every State in the Union for the purpose of carrying out the principle? and measures set forth in the foregoing resolutions. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Sharks five aud seven feet long are being caught off the Charleston wharves. ? Greenville is bragging over a ninety pounds watermelon. ? Diphtheria is prevailing to a considerable extent in portions of Lancaster county. ? The bonded debt of the Air Line Railroad is said to amount to ?7,787,560. ? The Supreme Court met in Columbia on Monday last. ? A reward of five hundred dollars has been offered for the capture of the burglars who have been recently operating in Winnsboro, ? Col. Ii.M. Simms has been chosen by the trustees as principal of the Rock Hill Male Academy. ? The survey and location of the entire line of the Cheraw and Chester railroad has been completed. ? Cotton is opening very rapidly in Kershaw county, and picking has been commenced in good earnest. ? In many portions of Union county the rust is doing great injury to the cotton. Some extensive planters assert that they will not make more than one-third of a crop. ? New cotton has been sold in Charleston, Columbia, Newberry and several other towns in the State. The prices paid for "first bales," ranged from 12] to 131 cents. ? Col. James H. Rion has growing in his yard at Winnsboro four cork trees, one of which is twenty-three feet high. They are all seedlings, having been planted iu 1860. ? Prof. S. A. Ollever, a musician and teacher of music in Columbia, and well known throughout the State, has been stricken with paralysis. ? Mr. John T. Wightman, Sr., the father of the Rev. J. T. Wightman, died on Saturday morning last., at his residence in Charleston, in the ninety-second year of his age. ? The prominent business houses in Spartanburg are putting up telegraph Hues connecting their offices with the leading centres of trade. ? There is one man in Spartanburg county who has read all the proocedings of Beecher's trial. His head has turned prematurely gray, and he has gone to Glenn Springs to recuperate. ? The Union-Herald mentions that the money market is so stringent in Columbia that 2] per cent, is asked and freely paid for money. In one instance a money lender succeeded in loaning a sum at five per cent, per month. ? The recent election for Sheriff in Fairfield county resulted iu the choice of Ruff, the Radical candidate, by a majority of 85-1 votes. The old story?the whites refused to come up to the polls. ? Laborers in Marion are demanding seventy-five cents per day for gathering fodder, Plauters refuse, on the ground that it is cheaper to buy provender than to pay that price to gather it. ? The Laurensville Herald regrets to state that the work on the Laurens Road will cease unless the stockholders aud subscribers at Clinton pay up. Mr. Magrath, however, has expressed a willingness to push on the work provided a guarantee is given him that the amount of money promised shall be paid bj the 1st of November next. ? The county commissioners of Richland adopted the following resolution at their lasl meeting: "That G. W. Davis, chairman ol this board, be authorized to call upon the ex county treasurer, John L. Neagle, and deraanc a settlement of his account with the county aud that, upon his failure to come to a settle ment, legal steps be instituted to enforce sucl settlement." ? Messrs. Bachman & Youmans, and Hog< & Wilkes, attorneys who were in the servic< of Parker, have served a notice on L. C Northrop, Solicitor, pro tem., of the Fifth Cir cuit, that they will make application on i writ of habeas corpus, for the release of Mat tison, who is under bond for his appearand , ' for trfal on the charge of aiding Parker to escape from the Columbia jail. A hearing of f the case is appointed to be had before Judge ! Mackey to-day. ' j ? The Darlington Southerner says: "Dar[ lington county cannot produce this year more than half of the cotton that promised so well a month ago, if even a half crop. The rust is j prevailing to an alarming extent in mauy , sections of the country, and many farmers complain that the stalks have not fruited well, owing to the long drought and heavy rains following. Besides, cotton is opening premature; Ur from tVio firat hnlla ivViiph hftVfl not matUT J | V "V1" - ? . | ed, which is much lighter than the first pick, | ing should be." j ?The following persons, in York and ! neighboring counties, have been drawn to ; serve for the August, 1876, term of the Unii : ted States District Court at Greenville: j York?J. H. White, Thomas S. Jeflerys, M. ! L. Owens, James A Ratchford, Nelson Dai vies. Spartanburg?Alexander Jones, Perry Price, Claude C. Turner, M. S. McArthur, B. F. Bates, Joseph Walker, R. L. Bowden, M. 1 M. Glover. Union?George W. Hill, F. W. ( Kison, Charles Mcjunkin, D. H. Sheldon, ' William Bolt, Alfred Keeuan. Chester?T. I * r /^i i i o n v j T l j x>i. uranarn, ^v. 0. rucnarusou. xjuucasiei? ; j Robert McLain, Joseph Clark. Fairfield? j Henry Jacobs. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. j ? Hedrick, who killed Jennings some weeks I ago in Yadkin county, haB been admitted to - bail by Judge Furchesin a bond of 84,000'. ? Dr. McLain, of Chatham county, fell suddenly dead a few days ago, while at the bedside of a patient. ? A Raleigh policeman charges several parties with having attempted to poison him, and one of the accused has been held to bail. ? A special session of Mecklenburg Superior Court was begun last Monday, Judge Schenck ' presiding. ? J. H. Separk, Mayor of Raleigh, died of pneumonia and erysipelas, after a brief illness, | on Monday last. I ?Two young men, said to be respectably | connected, have been arrested at Kinston on i the charge of passing spurious nickle coin. J They confessed that they had the moulds for ! the purpose and manufactured the counterfeit, j ?Cornelius Williams, colored, was hanged | at Jackson, Northampton county, last FriI day, for the murder of Samuel Presson, a | bridge watchman on the Seaboard and Roanj oke railroad. j ?The Primitive Baptists have erected and just finished at the Falls of Tar river the largest church edifice in the State. Its seating capacity is 10,000, and is built on the site of one that was burnt last year by an incendiary. ? A statement of the condition of the lately suspended Bank of Mecklenburg, in the preparing of which skilled accountants have been engaged since the closing of the bank, is nearly completed and will be given to the public in a few days. ? The question of the approaching Conven' tion removing ex-Governor Holden's disabilities is being discussed by the papers. The i Charlotte Democrat was the first paper to suggest the measure, which is endorsed by several other papers of that party, though a few of the more ultra sheets take strong grounds in f opposition to the proposed act of clemency. ? The Charlotte Observer says that Dr. J. J. O'Connell, a retired priest of the Itoraan Catholic church, has given to the church of , his faith near Woodlawn, in Gaston county, a magnificent lot of laud, consisting of several | hundred acres, and alfeo tbe som of 810,000 in money. A part of the money is to be devoted , to the establishment of a school, male and female, at or near Woodlawn. ? A son?a mere youth?of Col. Robert Strange, of Wilmington, in company with a number of young men of that city, who were , visiting Hay wood county, on Friday of last i 1 /? - 1_ J 1 j week, shot and killed tne oriver or a vemcie who had been engaged to convey the party to , Cattalooche Fulls. The difficulty occurred in consequence of the breaking of a wheel of the hack. A youth uaraed Bridgers, son of Hon. R. R. Bridgers, of Wilmington, furnished the pistol with which the firing was done, and both the young men were committed to Waynesboro jail. It was with much, difficulty that the friends of the slain man were prevented from mobbing the entire party of young tourists. The Charlotte Observer says that Murray, the murdered man is a son of the sheriff of Haywood county, and when Strange was committed to jail, an infuriated mob gathered around the prison for the purpose of lynchiug him, when the Sheriff suro moned a posse and placed it at the jail to save the life of the man who had slain his son ! Even in novels we read of few such instances of stern resolve in the discharge of duty. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. More Heavy Failures. Besides a number of recent minor failures, reported from different parts of the country, we also have intelligence of a heavy failure in Baltimore, and the suspension of the National Gold Bank and Trust Company of San Francisco, followed by the suspension of other banks in that city. The Baltimore failure is that of Ah reus & Co., sugar refiners, whose liabilities are two and a half millions of dollars. Arrangements i have been made for continuing the business of the refinery. The San Francisco banks have suspended on account, as they allege, of an unusual demand for coiu. They claim to have ample assets to meet their liabilities, and confidence seems to be felt iu all the banks of that city, except the Bank of California. Business, however, is much depressed. Iialston, President of the Bank of California, on being re> quested by the stockholders to resign, did so, ! and soon afterward committed suicide by 1 j drowning. ! Spinner on (Greenbacks. Ex-Treasurer Spinner has been recently interviewed at Utica, New York, on the | currency question, and expressed himself free' i ly. His theory is in advocacy of an incon' trovertible bond bearing interest at. the rate 1: of 3.65 per cent., not Judge Kelley's paper !I bond, but one bearing interest in gold, and ' i capable of being honorably and easily substi1 tuted for our present government sixes. He ?: denied being an Inflationist in any sense of ! the word, but said that on the other hand, he r I was no Bullionist, and agreed with nobody , who derides our preseut currency as a "rag" 11 money currency. lie ascribed tne apparent t unpopularity of such a bond to the efforts of f the banks to becloud and deceive the people with regard to its purposes and effects, but he I predicts a time when their reason and their ; false promises will be thoroughly understood, - and when the people will take the matter into i their own hands and demand legislation in their iuterest. The effect of such a bond as 3 this, Gen. Spinner said, had been studied out 3 by him in all its ramifications, and he was not . only convinced that it was a safe and wise - measure for Congress to euact, but that it was i the only one possible whereby to achieve a - stable, equitable and permanent financial ba3! sis for the government. He did not believe ' that there was much significance in the attiI tude of the two parties in Ohio on the finanj cial question; neither of them understood what they were quarrelling about, and each was trying to throw more dust than the other;; | but he did believe the financial issue a live ; one for all that. It was the issue about which 1 ' the people thought the most, and upon which they mo9t demanded light and right action, j The Southern Temper. ( The temper of the Southern people is ; illustrated in the following extract from a j letter written by Gen. A H. Colquitt, Presi-; dent of the Georgia State Agricultural Socie-! 1 ty, transmitting an invitation to the Hon. j Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, to attend their annual Fair, to be held in Macon, Georgia, j next October. Giving an account of what the , ! Society hopes to accomplish, Gen. Colquitt :says: "It is not our intention to use the occasion J ' for anything like a party or political purpose. ( | Still the most sensitive or captious will not 8 i deny that a great deal which good men of ev- 1 ! ery party, and of every political complexion c 1 rlonlnro in iinr nnnntrv nriapa frftm an i fflin- I 1 ... ? _ O | . ; ranee of each other, and the infrequency of < personal contact and communication. We j ! of the South have suffered most severely from . I this cause. We desire that the people North ' | of u* shall all learn by actual experience of us * I that there is not in all this broad land a peo- s i pie who more ardently desire peace, and are \ J striving more earnestly for material restora- ] j tion. We want your testimony to the genu- { ! ineness of the professions." , j The Georgia Insurrectionists. ? j The trial of the negroes charged with j insurrection in Georgia, commenced last Mon- r day at Sandersville, Judge H. V. Johnson j | presiding. He made a fair and impartial charge to the grand jury, which is composed of the best citizens of the county, the foreman being the master of the State Grange. The judge cautioned thejurymen to divest themselves of all passion and prejudice, and instructed them to conform strictly to the law, and to expel from their bosoms every feeling of hatred, malice or revenge. The fact that . those charged v/ith participation in this plot of insurrection are those who were lately our slaves, said he, may influence the indignation of the whites and intensify their feelings of insecurity; but we must watch ourselves on this point. They are free and entitled to a fair and impartial trial. The law throws over both races the same and equal protection, and the jury in its investigation must ignore the fact that the accused are negroes, that they were ever slaves, and deal with them as if they were whites. He paid a high compliment to the coolness and forbearance of the whites, and instanced the fact that not a single drop of blood had been shed. In the trial the State will be represented by the State and district attorney-general and others, and the accused by Hon. A. T. Ackerman and several of the leading members of the local bar. The Release of Parker. The counsel for the State in the Parker case have fled a bill of exceptions to the order of Judge Mackey granting Parker release Koil Tko fnllnotinir ora tha orrnnnHa . miuwut uau, x uu lutivif tug mi v vnv g.vwMMv of objection as to the civil prosecution: 1st. In that his Honor Judge Thomas J. Mackey made an order in the action, he having nojurisdiction in the case. 2d. In that his Honor Judge Thomas J. Mackey made any order in the action, the same not being regularly before him for consideration. 3d. In that his Honor Judge Thomas J. j Mackey made any order in the action without notice to the Attorney-General. , 4th. In that his Honor Judge Thomas J. Mackey made any order in the action without notice having been given to the AttorneyGeneral that proceedings would be had in the action. ] 5th. In that his Honor Judge Thomas J. Mackey prohibited the sheriff of Richland county from executing the order of the clerk ? of the court for Richland county made in this J action. 6th. In that his Honor Judge Thomas J. ] Mackey vacated the order of the clerk of the i court of Richland county made in this action. | 7th. In that his Honor Judge Thomas J. i Mackey held that the order of the clerk of the ' " i . 1 ?L? 1 court for Kichiana county maae in tnis action, wag without authority of law, and repugnant to the constitution of this State. To the decision of the Judge on the petition for habeas corpus, counsel also except as follows : The State of South Carolina, at whose suit the above named Niles G. Parker was held in custody, excepts to the ruling of the Honorable Thomas J. Mackey, the Judge of the Sixth Circuit, at the hearing of the above entitled petition, in that his Honor ordered the discharge of the said Niles G. Parker from the custody of the sheriff of Richland county, and ordered that he go thence without bail. This, | the 25th August, A. D. 1875. I The Graiu Crop. J The department of agriculture reports the following as the condition of the grain crops, on the 1st of August, in the different ] localities named : t During July there were no general condi- 1 tions of weather affecting the crops unfavora- \ hly in the Eastern and Middle States, iuolu- i j ding Maryland. Droughts prevailed geuer- j 8 ly in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minuesota; also in the South Atlantic and Gulf States. In the States of Texas, Alabama, Florida and * Georgia, they extended through almost every 1 county, and were attended with inteuse heat, c Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina g report considerable drought in some sections ; f with more favorable weather, and excessive ^ rains in other localities. In North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas and Nebraska areas of 8 excessive rains prevailed, with alternations of ^ favorable weather and drought. In the re- c raaining States east of the Paciffc slope, rains c were almost iucessant, and very disastrous to j the cereals aud hay. They also occasioned j extensive rotting of potatoes in the ground. | Along many of the tributaries of the Missis- ' sippi and Ohio the bottom lands have been ' overflowed for weeks, and in not a few locali- ? ties devastating floods are reported which have I j swept away vast quantities of small grains in s the shuck. The injury done by the mould- 8 ing, rotting, sprouting and growing of grain in the shuck or stack is very great, but to | what extent it is impossible to estimate before c the return of dry weather. ( Wheat.?The average condition of spring I wheat in the States producing it to any extent, ; i not including California, is 87. The extreme j j of the ranges are 99 in Wisconsin and Minne-; ^ sota, and 60 in Nebraska. The condition of I winter wheat is not reported after the 1st of ? July, but in all the States in which excessive * rains prevailed in July our correspondents in 1 their foot notes have very generally volun- I X 1 ~I-Uof noaf miontiflflQ Klpfnrp ! n | SmtCIlJCUU tUAt vnot ijuwuuiviw| w?<'?v y | threshed or housed, were overtaken by the i . | rains and swept away by floods, or damaged j | in degrees ranging from serious injury to ut-1 | ter ruin in the held, principally in the shuck. j' | Corn.?The average condition for all the i States is about 96. It would be over 100 11 , were it not for the damage in the low j a 1 lands by excessive rains. The injury from j a | that cause is quite liable to be over estimated. | The highest averages reported are in Kansas f 119, Tennessee 114, Missouri 112, Mississippi 1 111, New Jersey and Arkansas 109, Virginia f 108, West Virginia 106, Connecticut, Mary- c land and Nebraska 105, Pennsylvania and j North Carolina 103, Kentucky 102, Oregon s ! 101, Delaware and Alabama, 100, Illinois 99. . New York is 95, Ohio 91, Iowa 87, Missouri i 89, Indiana and Minnesota 89, Georgia 85, |8 owing to drought. Texas is reduced to 88, * by the same cause. The other States range i c >etween 83 in South Carolina, and 98 in New i Hampshire and Michigan. ] Oats.?The average condition for the coun- ( xy is 91. The reduction by rains and floods | n the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio was rery great. The States above the average in jondition are Mississippi, 119; Texas, Arkan- 1 las aud Wisconsin, 111; Vermont, 105 ; Con- i lecticut, New York and California. 104; Ore- i jon, 103; Michigan, 101; New Hampshire, i | Pennsylvania, Louisiana and Iowa, 100; ( Kentucky, Indiana and Nebraska are down , jq 63; Kansas, 66; South Carolina and Delaware, 70; Tennessee, 71; Virginia, 76; Illilois, 78. Other States range between 83 in Maryland, and 96 in West Virginia; Ohio i jeing 94. ! MERE-MENTION. There were frosts in portions of Wisconsin, [llinois and Iowa, last week, killing small fines and injuring corn and potatoes. The ' itlantic Cotton Mills at Lawrence, Massaihusetts, which suspended work in July, relumed last Monday, giving employment to 1,250 operatives. John J. Taylor, re;ently detected in rifling registered letters at ( fopeka, Kansas, is a grandson of ex-President Taylor, and was an officer on General Sher- I' nan's staff. The American Consul at Tripoli has been insulted by the Tripolitans, vho afterward apologized. Two thouand four hundred crates of Delaware peaches vere shipped on ice from Philadelphia to Liverpool last week. A cargo of Rio joffee, sold in Richmond last Friday, brought j rom 14* to 20} cents per pound, gold. The j sntire cargo realized 8100,000 in gold. The sstimated condition of the cotton crop in Tenlessee and North Alabama is 28 per cent. >etter than that of last year. A German chemist has discovered that mos- , juito bites are healthy. Lieut.-General Pemberton, late of the Southern Army, is low in the employ of the Pennsylvania Rail oad Company. On Sunday last Beech- , ir preached to more than five thousand peo- ( )le at the Twin Mountain house, New Hamp- ( ihire. The blacksmith shop of the Air- ( Line Railroad, in Atlanta, was destroyed by ire on Tuesday morning of last week. A italk of Illinois corn fifteen and a half feet iigh was exhibited at the produce exchange, .^ew York, on Saturday. The estate left iy ex-President Johnson is now valued at rom $150,000 to $175,000. The congregation of a Methodist Church in New fork has decided to have a lady as their pernanent pastor. The sword of Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox" of the Revolution, s in the possession of William Jones, of Armitrong county, Penn. During the past fear, seven hundred divorces were granted in Vlaine. Headache is the name of a lostoffice in Michigan. The publishing louse of Lee & Sheppard, of Boston, aud of Lee, Sheppard & Dillaghan, of New York, lave suspended with liabilities to the amount >f half a million dollars. "'Information las been received in Washington from a proninent officer on the Rio Grande to the effect ;bat cattle stealing and murders of peacable A.merican citizens are still perpetrated by Mexican marauders, and in all probability ;hey will continue, in spite of the forces sent ;here by the United States Government, uness the bands of assassins and thieves on the )ther side of the river, and far into the interior of Mexico, can be broken up. Josephus Savy, Jr., State treasurer of New Jersey, ias defaulted to the extent of ?50,000. His jondsraen are abundantly good Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER fROM CHESTER. Chester, August 30,1875. On last Monday night, a party of citizens left town for the purpose of capturing, if posiible, the negro thieves, who successfully resisted the efforts of the police force to make iheir arrest on the Saturday night previous, rhe pursuing party had good reason for supposing that one of the negroes had been wounded in the exchange of shots that had ;aken place between them and the policemen, [ndeed, the report was current on Monday :hat the wounded man had oeen seen on mat Jay, within a few miles of town, lying on the ground and suffering greatly from his wound. The spot where it was reported he had been leen was visited, but, unfortunately, no woundjd negro thief was there found. Aaron Welch, vho was convicted some time ago, of belonging ;o a thieving band that committed depreda;ions in the vicinity of Rich Hill, was sen?nced by Judge Mackey to an imprisonment >f one year in the State Penitentiary and was iflerward pardoned by the Governor, answers ;ery well the description that was given of he wounded man. An embracement of an larly opportunity to steal and rob is the re- . urn these penitentiary rascals make for the . eniency shown them by those in authority. Rt. Rev. W. B. W. Howe, accompanied by ; ilev. Mr. Edgerton, of Aiken, arrived in our own on Tuesday, and was met at the depot >y Rev. Mr. Johnson, of Yorkville. Services { vere held at St. Mark's on Wednesday morn- 1 ng, Rev. Mr. Edgerton and Rev. Mr. Johnon conducting the preliminary services, while he Bishop preached a most excellent sermon | rom the text, "He that ruieth nis spirit is i letter than he that taketh a city." The Bish- I >p presented, in forcible and beautiful lan- 1 ;uage, the nature of the inner life of man, its | eeliugs, desires and passions, and dwelt upon j he duty of bringing these, through divine as- j istance, into subjection to the law of Christ, j rhe sermon sustaiued the reputation of this i listinguished divine. St. Mark's was again I ipened for service on Wednesday night, when, j u addition to a good sermon from the Rev. dr. Edgerton, the solemn rite of confirmation ( vas administered. The sermon, which was lased upon the words, "Let not him that < ;irdeth on his armor boast himself as he that i lutteth it off," was listened to by a large aud 1 ittentive congregation. At the close of the ' ermon, two young ladies presented themseves 1 ? ;?j .L. 1 .t the cnancei, ana were receiveu iuiw lue nembership of tbe Protestant Episcopal Church by the holy rite of confirmation. The lishop's exhortation to the candidates was mpressive and touching. The clerical party ook their departure for Yorkville on Thurslay, leaving behind them delightful impresions of their brief stay in our midst. It may >e well to state, for the information of some Episcopalians who reside in the county, that Hev. Mr. Johnson, of Yorkville, who by the ray, is a good preacher and a most estimable ;entleman, will favor the members of St. dark's Church, (Chester) with a service on l he third Saturday of every month. J According to appointment, Colonel Wyatt; Uken, Master of the State Grange, delivered : in address at this place on Thursday. After i few preliminary remarks, the speaker enter- j id upon an elaboration of the Grange system? j ts meaning, objects and purposes. He deined a Grange to be an association of agri-1 iulturists. The object of the Grange was the | ilevation of the farmer and his family. The iccomplishment of this object depended upon he cultivation of the social element. The | peaker dwelt at some length upon the isola-1 ion of the farmer's life, and the consequences j >f this isolation?the want of that refinement | 't md polish which is discernible among the inhabitants of towns and cities. The "rough jdge," as Colonel Aiken termed it, can only be rubbed off by the mingling together of farmers. In addition to social advantages, mother object of the Grange was the intellectual improvement of the farmer. The ignorance of the farming community was lamentable. The startling fact was announced that there were 290,000 children in the State of South Carolina under twelve years of ago who were unable to read. Between 18 aud 25 there was a vast host who were not able to write their names. There were 30,000 farmers in South Carolina, and yet, there were not three thousand agricultural papers circulated throughout the State. Colonel Aiken exhorted the farmers to take newspapers, to read and improve their minds, and especially to trample under foot the false idea that "book farming" would be of no benefit to them. ^ But in addition to the social and intellectual benefits, another object of the Grange was the pecuniary benefit .resulting to its members. Hnlnnol Ailron nrnwH thia nninf pi AO rl X7 nnrf r.w,? ?? r1"" ? v ??? < conclusively. His illustrations were of the most convincing character. He showed that wagons, plows, etc., could be bought at a considerably reduced rate if bought in a lot. Another way of saving, and consequently making money, was to "pay as you go," which was a ruling principle of the Grange. This gave Colonel Aiken an opportunity of paying his respects to the lien law of the State, which he did in a very forcible, earnest and vehement manner. "Slavery," "nose to the grind stone," and, indeed, the strongest language that the vocabulary afforded, were used to portray the miserable condition oT that man a lien. In Abbeville three thousand liens were given, costing $5,000, which the farmers paid, as they, the speaker sarcastically said, were the only persons benefitted by the transaction. Col. Aiken said that there were $60,000 spent by the farmers of this State in recording liens. He then pointed out the way of relief to those who.complained of their inability to carry on their farms without giving liens. Every one so situated was advised to sow at once five acres in oats for every mule worked, and the happy result would be a sufficiencv of feed for their stock durin? the en j . O tire year. Colonel Aiken spoke from experience upon this point, as this had been the course he had pursued upon his plantation. He contended that a mule could live, work and keep fat upon oats without an ear of corn ; and, moreover, a mule would live longer upon oats than upon corn, for the reason that there was "no whisky in oats." Col. Aiken then alluded to the ruinous rates at which money was ruling throughout the South, and its abundance in England, which English capitalists were willing to loan to our people, if they can be assured of the safety of the loan. In other words, it was necessary to create a feeling of confidence toward the South, before we can expect to get any money from England. The necessary steps must be taken to create the desired confidence, and the Grange is the organization that must take the neces- ^ sary steps. The interesting and pleasing idea of obtaining "cheap money" from the old country was agreeably developed at some length. The Grange can count upon a great increase of its membership if it succeeds in this movement. Colonel Aiken's address, which was both interesting aud instructive, was listened to with attention by a large audience, the vast majority of which were whites. He has stirred up the Grangers considerably. The members of Fishing Creek Grange gave _ a pic-nic at Smith's Turnout on Friday, at which Colonel Aiken and Gen. D. H. Hill, of Charlotte, were expected to deliver addresses. Saul Anderson, negro, of the Cedar Shoals ^ neighborhood, committed rape, recently, upon a white child, 6ve years of age. He was committed to jail by Trial Justice Ragsdale, to await his trial at the September term of the Sessions Court. It is to be hoped that this ' .-S-J r-.-J ?J 1 _.:,L neaa Will oe ineu, couvicieu auu uuug nuu all the despatch the law admits of. It is an evidence of the forbearance of our people, that the case has not been acted upon before Judge Lynch's tribunal. A negro was arrested on Saturday in the neighborhood of Fishing Creek Church, and brought to town upon the supposition that he was one of the thieves who lately committed a burglary in Winnsboro, and had intentions of doing the same thing here. As the evidence was insufficient to connect him with the thieves, he was discharged by the Trial Justice, and allowed to go on his way rejoicing. Mrs. George C. Gill departed this life on Wednesday, the 25th instant, at her residence ear Lewis' Turnout, and was buried on Thursday. A large circle of relatives and friends mourn her death. Rust has appeared in the cotton, and is injuring it greatly. Qui. The Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad.?It is gratifying to learn that the work on this road is progressing favorably, the contract for grading having recently been let out to prompt and responsible contractors, from Dallas to Lincolnton, and there is strong assurance that the road bed will be ready for the superstructure between these points on or before the first of January aext. This road is a very important one to the Dusiness interests and the commercial prosperty of this section of the State, opening up, as t does, a large area of country rich in the products of fields and forest, orchards and rineyards, pastures and dairies; and all that las been hitherto needed to develop and utilize ;hese abundant sources of wealth aod trade, aas been the want of facilities for a quick and jheap mode of transportation to a reliable ind paying market. The Chester and Lenoir Railroad, when completed, will furnish these needed facilities, md beside this, it will open a competing line 'or the transportation of cotton to the seaboard ind to the Northern markets, whereby our planters and farmers will be vastly benefitted n the reduction of freights. Our merchants, and all dealers in grain ind groceries, will at the same time be enabled ;o secure a corresponding reduction in the tariff of freights on their goods, resulting in a mutual benefit to dealers aud consummere. The completion of this line of road will save thousands and thousands of dollars annually x> the people of the counties of Chester and York, amounting in a short time to far more ;han the sums subscribed by these counties to the capital stock of the company. It is then plainly the duty and the interest >f all of our people to extend to this enterprise their hearty and cordial sympathy and support. The company is experiencing some difficulty in procuring iron, growing out of the fact that the county bonds can not be made immediately and promptly available with the iron men in the purchase of the requisite supplies. These bouds are perfectly good, and is an investment will pay a handsome interest, and they should all be at once taken up by our people here at home. Our people are therefore asked to consider this matter in all its bearings, and to come forward promptly and take the bonds at a fair and just valuation, and thus enable the company to procure the iron without further ielay, so that the superstructure may be completed to the Air Line in time to compete for he transportation of the present cotton crop. We need the road?we cannot afford any