Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, September 02, 1875, Image 2
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
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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
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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
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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.
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YORKVITjLE, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 2, 1875.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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. | 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.
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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
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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