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Scraps antl Jarts. Com is offered in Dalton, Georgia, at fifty cents a bushel. Twenty of twenty-one Germau papers in Iowa, support the Democratic ticket. Joe Morris, the leader of the late Georgia riots, has been captured and will be tried in Johnson county. The Bank of California, which suspended some time ago, has made arrangements for resuming payment at an early day. Some idea of the conjugal happiness of the King of Holland may beobtaiued from the fact that his wife, the Queen, can talk every language that is spokeu in Europe. Mrs. Tilton is living with her mother, Mrs. Morse, in Brooklyn. Her youngest daughter, Alice, remains with her, but Florence has cast her lot with her father. w limn a lew nays a serious disease has broken out araoug the horses in the many public and private stables throughout the city of New York. It borders on the nature of the famous epizootic, which two years ago carried off so many valuable animals in all parts of the country. The Lynchburg (Va.) Republican reports squirrels migrating southward in large numbers, saying "they may be seen above and below the city, just before nightfall, crossing the river on their bark boats, using tails as sails when the wind is favorable." According to a careful estimate made by Mr. James Caird, whom the London Times deems high authority, there is likely soon to be a lively demaod for Araorican wheat in Great Britain. The decrease in the production of wheat in Ireland-aud England since last year has been immense, aud the amount of wheat required from abroad, it is estimated, will be "11,000,000 quarters," or 88,000,000 bushels. This deficiency is tremendous aud must have a favorable effect upou American farmers, for of course a large proportion of the wheat needed by Great Britain aud Tro land will be imported fruin this country. The Columbia Union-Herald, publishes the following item which is of interest to persons who are liable to pay reveuue license to the United States: "The collector of internal r J C ... A.i revenue lor mis uisiriei luiurius us mai ?uy firm which pays revenue license to the United States requires new stamps whenever the firm changes. The "change of firm," in contemplation of 1 iw, is whenever a partuer retires therefrom or a new one enters, or when one person doing business alone sells out his business to another. Internal revenue licenses cannot be transferred from oue person to another. This is the decision of the authorities at Washington." A man died in Tennessee last week who is supposed to be the largest man that was ever born in that State. He was but nineteen years of age, and, had he not been bent by an attack of rheumatism, he would have been nine feet high. His boots were each eighteen inches in length, and one of his hands was about the size of four ordinary ones. He could sit on a chair and pick up anything three feet from him. His head measured about fourteen inches, and his chest seven and a half feet in circumference. His cofian wa3 eight aud a half feet long, twenty-eight inches wide and two and a half iu depth. A Washington letter says : "Massachusetts Republicans represent that the party in ' - l - - * J J? J. mat otate nas not yet recovered irom me demoralization caused hy the defeat of last fall. It is admitted all around that unless great care is observed in selecting a candidate for Governor, the present Democratic Governor (Gaston) will be re-elected. It is said that I)r. Loring, who approximates somewhat to the Butler standard in the matter of demagoguiug and wire-pulling, has laid his plans so as to control a large party in the convention, with every prospect of his nomination, unless his plans can be disarranged. With him a3 the Republican standard-bearer, the better class of Republicans say that defeat is certain. A young lady of engaging personal appearance, who arrived in Burliugton, Iowa, receutly from Crestou, announced that she was going to open a barber shop on North Hill. The very next day each married womau on North Hill surprised her husband, whose many virtues she had long known and admired, with a neat little present consisting of a razor, lather brush, aud strop. And now, as oft as a North Hill man comes home, the wife of his bosom puts her arms around his neck and rubs her downy cheek agaiust his face, in all apparent innocence and affection ; but if his cheek is smother than when he went away from home in the morning, she fans him with the rolling pin until he has to wear his hat on whichever lump it will fit best. The President is credited with a little inke nt. the exnense of the editorial nrofession. The people of Vineland, N. J., have been trying to secure the removal of Postmaster Landis, who, it will be remembered, lodged a bullet in editor Carruth's brain. The President, upou hearing of the matter, asked Jewell whether there was any irregularity in Mr. Landis' accounts. "Not any," replied the Postmaster General. "Is the office well conducted ?" "No complaint on that score." "Intemperate habits ?" "Nothing of the kind charged." "What is the objection?" "The petitioners say he is rather obuoxious, and a change would be satisfactory." "Well," replied the President, "he doesn't appear to have done anything but shoot an editor, and I don't see how I can remove him for that." Freckles, says the Herald of Health, are not easily washed out of those who have a florid complexion and are much in the suushine, but the following washes are not only harmless, but very much the best of anything we know : Grate horse radish fine, let it stand a few hours in buttermilk, then strain and use the wash night and morning. Or squeeze the juice of a lemon into half a goblet of water, and use the same way. Most of the remedies for freckles are poisonous and cannot be used with safety. Freckles indicate a defect in digestion, and consist in deposits of some carbonaceous or fatty matter beneath the scarf skiq. The diet should be attended to, and should be of a nature that the bowels and kidneys will do their duty. Daily bathing, with much friction, should not be neglected, and the Turkish bath should be taken occasionally, if convenient. Egypt, it would appear from all accounts, is preparing for a brilliant show at our Centennial exhibition. Over two hundred persons will be sent over, and these will include representatives of every department of native life. There will be a band of genuine Bedouins from Arabia Petroea; the representative animalsofthecountry, includingcamels, and dromedaries, will be exhibited; water from the Nile and Red Sea will be brought over in tanks, and the primitive processes of irrigation and cultivation will be explained and illustrated with uative agricultural implements ; the manufactures and antiquities of the country will be fully represented; learned scribes will exhibit the process of writing in Arabic on parchment; merchants and husbandmen will exhibit the products of town and country, while the interior life will be illustrated in detail; soldiers will display the uniform of the Turkish army; an Arabic band will perform the national music; and, what will be of more interest than all to the crowd, a troop of dancing girls will illustrate the recreation and diversities of the harem. A marvellous show it will be, indeed. In an interview with the reporter of a New York paper, Carl Schurz says that business is dull all over the world, in England and Germany especially so, while France seems to him at present the most prosperous of European countries; that is, ordinary business is more active there than elsewhere. The cause of existing depressions of business everywhere is more general than is commonly supposed, and though fluctuations of currency and use of paper money have bad much to do with it, yet the telegraph, itself beneficent though it be in the long run, has caused much of the difficulties under which the world is i now laboring. The first effect of the telei graph bringing information instantaneously from the most remote points was to cause active speculation; prices at once went up beyond their legitimate standard, and now ; that the reaction has set in, business becomes | dull. The condition of the tea-growing dis| tricts in China and Japan, of the vineyards 1 of France and Germany, of the cotton in the I Southern States, &c., is too well known everyI where to permit of activity in business, the | world growing so small as to be in knowledge of conditions in nearly every town, while the means of transportation are not bettered j in proportion. ?he forfcviUc <?tt<pnm. YORK VILiLIE* S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 30,1875. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-otlice, county and State in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or poxt-olliee money order, or oiiclotio the money in a rogintered letter. Postage.?The Enquirkb is delivered free of postage to all subscribers residing in York county who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where thev receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?1The datenn the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish thoir papers discontinued, the date must ftp kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance THE CALAMITY IS TEXAS. By recent advices we learn that the late storm in Texas was far more disastrous in its effects than at first reported. Besides im mense damage to shipping on the gulf, lives and property on land were lost to an alarming extent. At Indianola the light-houses, wharves, and nearly every house, were swept away, and from one hundred to one hundred and fifty lives were lost. A steamer, returning to Galveston from Indianola, reports that at the latter town no place could be found to land her cargo. The same vessel reports loss of life and suffering to be terrible. Dead bodieB were strewn for twenty miles along the beach, and over one hundred had been found and buried up to the time the steamer left. A dispatch from Houston says that only five houses are left at Matagorda, though no lives were lost. Fifteen families, living on Matagorda peninsula, are supposed to have perished. The losses of the planters are estimated at two-thirds of the crop. The picking is backward, and the sugar-cane is levelled. The tide rose twelve to fourteen feet. It could be seen coming forward in a wave six feet deep on laQd hitherto untouched. Unly two or three housesare left in Velasco and Quintara. The people saved nothing. One hundred and fifty people lived at Quintara, and fifty at Velasco. The open cotton is all blown out over a large area. The town of Velasco was entirely swept away. The storm or cyclone appears to have taken in its course a belt of country, some forty miles in width, trom the north ot tjalveston Island, and extending to the north of Houston. The hurricane swept over this entire section of the coast, to the west of Indianola, into the Gulf. Galveston was to the south of the more severe storm. The following letter from Iudianola gives a vivid description of the extent and ravages of the storm : "On Wednesday, 15th, the winds were from the eastward, veering to the north. On Thursday, A. M., they became more steady, increasing to a gale. The water was then waist deep, and every man, woman and child were seeking a place of safety. It blew fear fully, and the situation was awful. Screams from the women and children could be heard in every direction. The water ws six feet deep on the streets, and about two o'clock Friday, A. M., the wind veered to the northwest, and the waves then became chopped. Houses were washed away or tumbled to pieces. The wind, toward morning, began to lull a little, and the water was getting lower. The wind veered to the north and then came hope, and daylight began to break. Then did we behold the awful destruction around, and thanked our God that we had been saved, and that our perilous condition was as nothing compared with the sufferings of our neighbors and citizens. Along the bay broad daylight revealed a scene that was terrible to behold. The town could not be recognized as the Iudianola of the day previous. Ruiu, total ruin, was everywhere. The people were seen walkingand jumping over one gully and another; neighbors met neighbors and told of the troubles and tribulation of the previous night. Death aud destruction were all around us. Houses were crushed to the ground and others were swayed round and leaning over. The wind was dying and the water disappearing from places in the streets. Those that could, rallied to learn the news. Bodies of men, women and children were found in all directions. The police and guards were organized and the search was made for missing relatives and friends. How many have lost their lives in this fearful storm it is impossible to learn. Up to this time sixty or seventy bodies have been found and buried. Women were found and men also who had floated off on doors, or anything they could get hold of. : Some were beneath the roofs and carried away i long distances. The escape of so many of our | citizens is almost marvelous. The search for I bodies is still going on, and the number of J human beings drowned will never be known, | as there was a large number of strangers in j town. We estimate the number of lives lost ; at one hundred and fifty. H. J. Huck lost ! everything but his house. Eighteen bodies | were found yesterday, and the search will he I continued until all of the dead are deposited | in their last resting place. You cannot imagine the extent of the disaster, and nothing short of its full details will give a proper kuowledge of it. A number of persons were out on rafts for hours, but in many cases were I not saved. Wm. Taylor, on trial for the Sut, tou murder, was let out of jail to prevent his 1 L? A ? ? ? ? -V* A /lo Kin AO/in A 11 tKo I ueiug uruwueu, auu uiauc mo uovi*pt. i*u wiv ! churches in the town are swept away, but the I Court House is safe. Capt. Sam Brown and : two of his family were saved ; they took j , refuge in the lighthouse and were thereby saved. Brown is now the only surviving i pilot at the Pass. Great destitution prevail, j and the Victoria people, hearing of it, nobly I sent us assistance at once." The greatest suffering prevails at Galveston among the poorer classes, and many of the wealthier class are in distress. The people at the eastern portion of the city have been washed out of their houses, their clothing lost, i and provisions destroyed. The suffering at other towns in the course of the storm is equally great. In reply to an application for Government aid, as in the Alabama case, the Secretary of War says that Texas does not come within the scope of country provided for by law, in consequence of which the sufferers will have : to rely upon private contributions. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. i ? Three negro prisoners escaped from Dallas i ail last week. 1 ? A young son of H. M. Rhyne, living near t Dallas, Gaston county, was killed a few days c tgo by being drawn into a molasses mill. f ? Henry Walser, one of the best citizens of e Davidson, and who, previous to the war, rep- J esented his county for several years in the jleneral Assembly, died last week. t ? A young man named Leviticus Alfin, has )een committed to jail by a United States t Commissioner in Wilmington, on the charge 1 >f breaking into and robbiug the post-office c it Magnolia. f ? William Thomas, a noted character in ( Watauga county, was killed by Wilburn i swift during a difficulty. Thomas shot Swift i n the hand, when the latter drew a knife and ;ut his enemy's throat. ? The Carolina Railway has been comple- ? ed to Shelby. It has now a continuous track jf >f 240 miles, making it the longest railroad [ j n the State and connecting the principal sea- j ] jort with the western counties. i \ ? John W. Cheek, a merchant of Durham,! i ind a good citizen, while laboring under de- 1 ireasion of spirits occasioned by long and jj Last fall, after the removal of County Treasurer Neagle, Cardozo stated to Mr. Sol- 1 onion that Neaglc's accounts were backward, ( aud a settlement was to be forced. He sug- t gested to Solomon that he purchase a large ( amount of consolidation bonds held by Nea- ( gle, and which would necessarily he offered at a sacrifice. Solomou not having the money wherewith to purchase, the following plan 1 was suggested by the treasurer aud adopted : f The former was to buy these bonds of Neagle ' and place the cash to his credit in the bank. 1 Neagle was then to give Cardozo a check on 1 the Bank and Trust Company, which was to ( be deposited to the State's credit, aud no ( money thus be drawn out. Last January . these bouds?purchased of Neagle by Solo- ( moil?had advanced in value to fifty cents, j at which figure they were sold, and 80,(JOG profit realized. Half of this sum was pressed upon Cardozo by Mr. Solomon as his share ; 1 but in acknowledgement of several favors rendered the treasurer by Solomon, the former { insisted on relinquishing all claims to the profits. In the meantime, however, Cardozo was trying hard to have the State deposits 1 removed from Solomon's Bank without his 1 knowledge, and in this fact, on discovering it, { Mr. Solomon readily saw the reason for the c treasurer's disinterested generosity. In his f defense against impeachment, Mr. Cardozo < used overy effort to bicuk down llie ba.uk, and CfnfA Alfi/lo mmAtrnrl TIioqo ilonnQ. ^ Iiavc lilU Utatc 1U1JUO IVUiUTVU. i uvou UV|JVU its, amounting at that time to $187,000, were * soon after reduced to $100,000. Mr. .Solomon 1 called on Governor Chamberlain, and urged s the necessity for his bank holding at least i $200,000, and was referred to Mr. Dunn and J the treasurer. The latter, on being sought., ^ received Mr. Solomon quite cordially?this < i r? rr cin/?o f ho A i co nr rnnfl h 1 P H UCUJg IIICII 11IOI lU^VlUg OIUVV bliVUigugiWMviv relations existed between them. In the course of conversation Cardozo, referring to the Neagle bonds transaction, detailed the expenses incident to his defense on the impeachmeut trial. He said that the State deposits in Solomon's Bank would be increased, as desired, to 8200,000, and asked that Mr. Solmon would transfer to him his interest in the ( Union-Herald, which transfer, Cardozo said, I would make everything square between them This was done in April last, during which r month the deposits were increased, after J which Mr. Solomon signed the transfer. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ! ? The real and personal property of Rich- -| land county is assessed at 87,324,340. ? The town of Sumter is to have a street j railway, which is intended to transport freight. ; ? The residence of A. L. Solomon, of Co- 1 lumbia, was accidentally destroyed by fire on ' Wednesday night of last week. Loss 84,000. " ? Ex-Governor Scott is said to be stumping ] Ohio for Allen, the Democratic candidate for | Governor of that State. i ? Since the first of September, about fifteen < hundred bales of cotton have been shipped { from Newberry. ! ? Mrs. Clemson, the last surviving child of i John C. Calhoun, died at Fort Hill, near ' Pendleton, ou Wednesday of last week. ; ? According to the recent census, the town $ of Spartanburg hus a population of 3,488. ( Of this number 2,533 are whites, and 1,158 j blacks. , ? The Columbia papers of Saturday an- { nouuce the serious illness of C. D. Melton, i Esq. He has had several severe hemorrhages ] from the lungs. ( ? Col. Martin R. Delany, who was a candi- ! date for lieutenant-governor on the Green ticket at the last election, is writing a history ( of the African race. t ? A tremendous storm passed over the Heal- c iug Springs, Barnwell county, last Saturday t week. Among other damages, the roofs of t three houses on Mr. Blume's plantation were 1 : carried away. t ! ? The population of the town of Orange- c burg is as follows: Whites?males, 388 ; fe- ( I males, 381. Total whites, 769. Colored? ! males 348; females, 382. Total colored, 730. r Total white and colored, 1,497. i ? Tlionnrmliitirm nft.hpt.mvn nf Winnsboro 1 i . - ? - , is as follows: Whites?males, 200 ; females, t ! 302. Total whites, 602. Colored?males, e 362; females, 439. Total colored, 801. To- 8 tal white and colored, 1,403. s ? There arc 302 convicts in the South Car- i r olina penitentiary, of whom twenty-five are c whites, and three are females. At least 90 ? per ceut. of the whole number of criminals c | are under thirty years of age, 10 per ceut. ; of these again being boys under twenty years, j e ? "One of the handsome black horses that 1 has been so often admired when attached to t Col. Child's carriage, died yesterday morning t i of lockjaw, says the Columbia Union-Herald, j The horse was well the previous evening, and f was found in a dying condition by the coach- 1 man as stated. It will be hard to match ? ! him." A friend, on reading the foregoing, J ! says that bleeding is a certain cure for lock-1 jaw in horses. When the animal is ascer-; I ; tained to be suffering with the complaint, i bleed him freely until relaxation of the mus- c cles ensues, or if necessary, until he falls r s from prostration, when a sure cure will be t I effected. I t :ontinued sickness, committed suicide on ~ Wednesday of last week. ? + ? 9 MERE-MENTION. Fourteen iuches of snow fell at Quebec on Friday last. The leather business of the Jutted states repro^ata a working capital of 570,000,000. There are 1,700,000 Baptists in the United States, and only 200,000 in Sew England. Virginia alone has as many is Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts put together. One-fourth >f the total valuation of the real estate of Sew York City is under mortgage. The greatest depth of the Pacific Ocean, as found >y the British ship Challenger, was about ive miles. British Columbia will send a lae-nole 140 feet long, composed of a single r ree, to the Ceutenuial. Parson Brown- y ow says that he is seventy years old, and ( ,hat he attributes his longevity to the fact that { le never voted the democratic ticket. At- } oruey-Geueral Pierrepont has received tele- ] >rams from persons of both political parties in { Mississippi, approving of his letter to Gover- r lor Ames. Vice-President Wilson, who ins been solicited to permit his name to be r lsed as the Republican candidate for Governor ( )f Massachusetts, decliues the honor. The , irst frost of the seasou is reported at Omaha \ >n Monday night of last week. West- [ >rvelt, tried at Philadelphia as an accomplice [ n the abduction of Charlie Ross, was con- t rioted. Full returns of the California ^ ilection give Governor Irwin, Democrat, 61,- j >25; Phelps, Republican, 30,922; Bidwell, 9 Independent, 29,360. Spotted Tail states t lis price for the Black Hills at six millions * >f dollars, a suit of clothes for each of his Iulians, and a guaranteed annuity for eighty rears. He pathetically Bays that "when 1 iighty years have passed away there will be to Indians." emtorialTsklings. t The Cotton Crop of 1874-75. c The annual report of the cotton crop, c is prepared by the editors of the New York ^ Financial Chronicle, has been published. In he elaboration of its details, it is fully up to t he previous able statements which have been 9 jublished by the same parties, and which have t :aused them to be esteemed of t he highest au- r hority in reference to the Southern staple, rhey make the total crop 3,832,991 bales, | igainst 3,827,845 bales as calculated by the ^ National Cotton Exchange; the difference jeing only 5,146 bales. The Chronicle's itateraent of the crop is as follows: lEt'KIPTN KOIt YKAK ENDING KEPTEMHKR 1, 1875. . Ltouisiana, 993,775 1 Alabama, 320,822 r South Carolina, 4:58,S!i7 leorgia, (503,246 ? rex as, 368,283 Florida, 10,982 J S'orth Carolina, 101,715 JStvrir,!.. 41K I 14 N'ew York, 158,22s loston, 39,6G(> Philadelphia 32,101 ialtimore, 8,132 Portland, 3,1-18 Total receipts at shipping ports, 3,497,lf>9 >verlaudto manufacturers, 205,339 Manufactured South 130,483 Total crop, 3,832,991 rhe Corn Crop of the United States. The September report of the Department of Agriculture gives the following cheerng condition of the corn crop throughout the United States: Could it be thoroughly ripened its aggregate would exceed any previous crop, and the field per acre would be one of the best, notwithstanding the losses by the overflow of jottoms and saturation of heavy flat soils, such losses proving less than the usual damages by drought and insects. While the rains iiave greatly benefitted the crop on dryer and ligher soils, nearly everywhere corn is later in maturing from one to two weeks. The genial high condition is still maintained, the iverage being one per cent, higher than in August. The State averages are: Maine, ' 105; New Hampshire, 100; Vermont, 98; Massachusetts, 100; Connecticut, 108; New Vork, 99; New Jersey, 111; Pennsylvania, 108 ; Delaware, 100 ; Maryland, 10G ; Virginia, 112; North Carolina, 104 ; South Car)lina, 87 ; Georgia, 90; Florida, 83 ; Alabama, 111 ; Mississippi, 116; Louisiana, 85; Texas, 89 ; Arkansas, 103; Tennessee, 114; Vest Virginia, 107 ; Kentucky, 103 ; Ohio, )7 ; Michigan, 101 ; Indiana, 88 ; Illinois, 95; Wisconsin, 60; Minnesota, 72; Iowa, 92; Missouri, 111 ; Kansas, 109; Nebraska, 93; Jalifornia, 95 ; Oregon, 100. forth Carolina Convention. In the North Carolina Constitutional Jonvention, ordinances have passed their hird and final reading reducing the number >f Superior Coort Judges from twelve to line; changing the time of the convening of he Legislature to Wednesday after the first Monday in January each year; empowering he Legislature to establish intermediate sourts, or courts inferior to the Superior r Jourts. The Rev. Mr. Spake introduced an ordimnce disqualifying persons of certain religous beliefs from holding office. Ordinances lave also been introduced exempting from axation for a term of years manufacturing istablishments employed in manufacturing irticles from home productions; and to retrain any Legislature from levying (axes or naking any arrangement to settle the public , lebt unless the creditors of the State will | igree to a certain compromise, say 25 cents j in the dollar. j The ordinance to remove the disabilities of j sx Governor Holden, who was impeached in ' j 1871, was refused by a vote of 53 to 56, on j e he ground, by those voting negatively, that! t he oath of the members of the convention, j * described by the Legislature, restricted them | J rom legislative action. An ordinance will,! lowever, be passed giving the Legislature, j. general pardoning powers. r lassacliusetts Democratic Convention. f The Democratic State Convention of j ifassachusetts, met in Worcester on the 22nd F ri ustant. Edward Avery was made permanent jj ihairman. In the course of his address, he j s aid the varied accounts of the annual auumnal outrages at the South no longer divert c he attention of the people from the incapac- j i THE FAILURE OF SOLOMON'S BANK. I We published last week the correspond- j 1 ence, which up to that time, had passed be- j tween F. L. Cardozo, State Treasurer, and Hon. T. C. Duun, receiver of Hardy Solo-! ] I mon's suspended bank. The first of this ' ? epistolary controversy gave signs of acrimonious feeling on the part of the writers, and ] subsequent correspondence has brought them , i into a mere personal quarrel in which the . ( j public cau have no interest, and by which no ! one can be enlightened. ; 1 Cardozo seems to stand in the attitude of a ( ; personal enemy to Solomon and charges j c i Duun with being Solomon's personal friend, !f ; which precludes him from making a fair and | honest statement of the condition of the bank, 1 | and asks permission to have access to the books ' ! of the concern for the purpose of making a per- j i I sonal examination. Dunn refuses to comply < i with this request, and from this point the State Treasurer and Comptroller Dunn indulge in t ; hurling tirades of abuse at each other? c j termed by some persons, "dirt-throwing," in j i ; which accomplishment, we regret to perceive, j I : hnth officials disDlav remarkable nroficiency. I " { J - 4 ? In the meantime, however, Receiver Dunn ? publishes a statement of the assets and lia- } bilities of the bank, which is far from satis- c factory to the State Treasurer, who with a 1 terrible array of figures and mathematical propositions, proceeds to annihilate the mod| est statement of the receiver, which occupies j | but about twenty lines, u.11 told. TLo cou- ^ ! troversy having reached this point without a < ray of light being thrown out to the tax-payers as to what amount of the deficit, if aBy, may possibly be recovered, Mr. Hardy Soloomon, President of the bank, enters the i fight, and explains what was the "pecuniary" and "valuable consideration," rendered by i j the State Treasurer for Solomon's interest in the Union-Herald newspaper. Receiver t Dunn charges that Treasurer Cardozo re- i ceived from Mr. Solomon a transfer in his i share of the Union-Herald without paying , him any pecuniary consideration whatever; 1 while the Treasurer retorts by saying that t while the stock of the paper was worthless, j he was "willing to assume additional expense t to rid the paper of the influence of the President of the South Carolina Bank and Trust j Company." Mr. Solomon relates the trans- t actiou, in substance, as follows: ty, mismanagement and corruption of those I n power. Men begin to discover that the 1 >lood is artificial and the agony manufacured, and are ready to administer the affairs 1 >f the government like their own private af- i airs. Nominations?Wra. Gaston, the pres- ( int incumbent, for Governor, and William F. i 3artlett for Lieutenant-Governor. 11 On the financial question, the third resoluion of the platform is as follows: "In the interests of public morals, the naion's credit and the common welfare, we opwseany further issue by the government of a :urrency incontrovertible with gold, the vorld's recognized measure of value; and we avor a speedy return to specie payments as issential to the revival of the commerce, busness and credit of tho country, and to the velfareof the laboriug masses." The platform concludes as follows : "We take an honest pride in the cordial ind enthusiastic approval by the people of I I I ? 1?7.L T..na 187^ im wnuie country, uu me uiu ui uuuc, iviu, i if the policy of reconciliation, peace and raternity, advocated by the Democratic and Liberal Republican parties in 1872. We velcome with especial satisfaction the assuance that that policy will be inaugurated by he administration to be placed in power in [876." itonewalPs Statue. Foley's statue of Gen. Stonewall Jack- 1 on, presented to Virginia by the Hon. Beresord Hope, Member of Parliament, and other ^Dglitb gentlemen, arrived in Richmond on Wednesday last, and was formally received he next day by Governor" Kemper. The >eople turned out en masse to witness the releption, the streets presenting a holiday apjearance. At 3.30 p. ra., the First Regiment if Virginia Volunteers, the Veterans of the Did First Virginia Regiment and the Rich- I nond Howitzers, proceeded to the wharf of he Powhattan Steamboat Company, where he case containing the statue awaited trans)ortation to the Capitol. It had been placed ipon a wagon, and was covered with the flags >f Great Britain and Virginia. Long ropes vere attached to the wagon, and at the word >f command, the Veterans of the Old First, ogether with a large number of citizens, took lold, and with a portion of the preseut hirst Regiment at the head of the column, took up he line of march, the reraaiuder of the Reginent and Howitzera bringing up the rear. Upon reaching theCupitol square, the wag> was drawn to the foot of the steps of the Capitol, where Col. Bradley T. Johnson, comnandant of the First Regiment, formally deivered the statue to Governor Kemper in a jrief speech, referring in feeling terms to the ime, twelve years ago, when he commanded he funeral escort of the true and gallant sollier, who was now being honored by the peo>le of Great Britain. Governor Kemper reponded, receiving the statue in the name of he people of Virginia, thanking the soldiers ind citizens for the spontaneous honor which tad been done to as true a hero as ever trod ' he earth. In doing this they had done much ilso, to testify the gratitude of Virginians to he noble friends on the other side of the vorld, who had sent this great tribute of adniration and sympathy, from the Old World o the New. Governor Kemper, in the name >f Virginia, took possession of the gift, reviving it not more as a great sculptor's work >f art, than a work of Euglish affection for Virginia and her immortal son. In response to loud calls from the immense hrong present, Mayor Kelley also made a ttrrinrr onfloph Thp fnAR WRS thpn nlanpd in W...U6 " , he basement of the Capitol, where it will renain until the pedestal being prepared in the Capitol square is ready. The statue will be mveiled in the latter part of October, during lie State fair week. iovernor Ames' Appeal lor Troops. Having published last week the telegram of Attorney-General Pierrepont to Govsrnor Ames, demanding his grounds for callng on the general Government for aid to sup>re88 the alleged disorders in Mississippi, we jive below the Governor's reply : Jackson, Miss., September 11. Attorney-General Pierrepont, Washington: The necesssity which called forth my dispatch of the 8th instant to the President, still sxists. Your questions of yesterday, repeated o-day, ask for information which I gladly jive. The violence is incident to the politi:al contest preceding the pending election. Unfortunately the question of race, which has )een prominent in the South since the war, has issuraed a magnified importance at this time u certain localities. In fact, the race feeling sso intense, that protection for the colored ieople by white organizations is despaired of. A political contest made on the "white line" brbids it. The history of the colored people iince reconstruction, and its b^aring on the situation at this time, and a detailed statenent of the troubles here, cannot be condensed n a telegram. This State has been opposed o organizing a militia of colored meu. It ias been believed by them that it would develop a war of races, which would extend berond the borders of this State. The orgaoi;ation of whites alone, where the issue is one >frace, would be equally ineffectual. The nost complete protection would be found in he strict non-interference of the whites. Conradictious will be numerous, and so they vere last December; but the reports of the Congressional committee proved the correctiess of ray assertions. I am aware of the reuctance of the people of the country to naional interference iu State affairs, though if here be no violation of the law there can be io interference. Permit me to express the , lope that the odium of such interference shall lot attach to President Grant or the Repub- ( ican party. As the Governor of the State, I nade a demand which cannot well be refused, liet the odium in all its magnitude descend ipon me. I caunot escape the conscientious | lischarge of ray duty toward a class of Araer- i can citizens whose only offense consists in | heir color, and whom I am powerless to pro- i ect. Adelbkrt Ames. j Governor Ames ha3 ordered out a number >f the State militia, on the pretext of sup- < iressing violence and insurrection ; but Chief ? lustice Peyton, (Republican) has granted an 1 njuuction restraining the Auditor from pay- | ng money to support them, which will doubtess cause a speedy disbanding of the troops. , The Chief Justice holds that mustering the i nilitia in a time of profound peace is creating t i standing array of State troops in violation ' if the Constitution. 'resident Grant's Hopes and Plans. After a hasty trip from Long Branch ( o his farm in Missouri, President Grant and , lis family have returned to Washington. A < orrespoudent of the Boston IVanscript, re- < dewing the President's hopes and plans, gives ' he following information regarding his views if the issues of the next campaign, with a breshadowing of the prominent features of ( he forthcoming message : I There is good authority for saying that i ^resident Grant is well pleased with the prea- 1 int. nnlitical outlook. For the Dast few davs i he President has abandoned the reticence for ^ rhich he is usually remarkable, and has not lesitated to express his views of current events ! reely among his friends. | Under all circumstances, President Grant iclieves the people will be compelled to recoglize the Democratic party as the party of in- j lution and repudiation, and the Republican j >arty as the friend of resumption and of the (reservation of the uational honor and credit, rhe issue of next year's campaign, says the 'resident, is already made, and has been cho-; en by the Democracy. I In his message to Congress, when a Demo- i ratic House of Representatives will have the (rivilege of considering his recommendations, I < be will set forth as strongly as he possibly ean, the depressed and suffering condition of the business and commerce of the nation, and will direct attention to the necessity of taking measures to establish the currency on a sound basis by preparing for resumption under the i existing law in 1879, to which he will say we j alone can look for a restoration of confidence and credit and a revival of trade. He will enlarge upon the necessity of increasing the national revenues as preliminary to resumption. He will to that end recommend the restoration of the duty on tea and coffee, by the abolition of which the government has lost some 820,000,000 to $25,000,000 a year without any benefit to the consumer, the taxation of all articles of foreign manufacture, and probably the abolition of the entire free list. In addition the President will probably suggest such an amendment of the legal-tender act as will require the payment of all internal revenue dues in gold, as a further provision for resumption. The President will make it clear in his message to Congress that he intends to practically carry out the duty imposed upon the Government by the resumption act, by proceeding to contract the present greenback issue to the limit allowed by the law. Upon this point, more than any other, he relies for the support of the moneyed interests of the country in the Republican presidential convention. The Currency Question in New York. A grand mass meeting of the working men of New York city was held at Cooper Institute last Thursday night, at which there were present on the platform a number of ttie capitalists-of ttoe-etty," among'tnem ttir wealthy philanthropist, Peter Cooper. Letters were read from Wendell Phillips, Geo. Butler, Hon. W. D. Kelley and others. The meeting was presided over by Hon. Richard Schell and the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That the contraction of the currency heretofore made, and the further contraction proposed, with a view to the forced resumption of specie paymeuts, has already brought disaster to the business of the country and threatens general bankruptcy. We demand that this policy be abandoned, and that the volume of currency be made and kept equal to the wants of trade, leaving the restoration of legal tenders to a par with gold to be brought about by promoting the industries of the people, and not by destroying them, and that we favor the payment of at least half of the customs in legal tenders. Resolved, That we demand the abolition of the present national banks, and the establishment instead of a system of free banks of discount and deposit, under such regulations as the States may respectively prescribe, and no paper currency except such as may be issued directly by and upon the faith of the General Government. Resolved, That we send cheer and sympathy to the great Democratic party of the West, and that we hail their success as the triumph of the people over a mouopoly, which threatens the safety of the country. Resolved, That we recommend that the electors throughout the State of New York assemble in their various districts and form legal-tender clubs, in conformity with the resolutions adopted by this meeting, to give strength to the great Democratic party in Ohio and Pennsylvania in the approaching canvass. Resolved, That the policy already initiated, of abolishing legal-tenders, and giving the national hanks power to furnish all the currency, will increase a power already a dangerous monopoly, and the enormous burdens now oppressing the people; and that we oppose this policy, and demand that all the naI /*Innnlo*lAM Kn nrAmtitlv onrl nor. UUiiai "aim v.. w lauwu uv y.umf.v.j ...... raanently retired, and legal-tenders issued in their place. Resolved, That the public interest demands that the government should cease to distrust its own currency, and should make its legaltenders receivable for all public dues, except where respect for the obligations of contracts rem) ires. The chairman stated that this was the first of a series of mass meetings to be held under the auspices of the Legal-tender Club, and the meeting adjourned. The audience was mostly composed of laboring men, and filled the immense hall. ? ? Correspondence or the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, September 27, 1875. The Court continued its sessions at this place throughout the week. Correspondence of last week closed with a statement of the principal points of Judge Mackey's charge to the grand jury, and a reference to the case of the State vs. Carter Ross, charged with an assault and battery, with intent to kill. The defeudantwas found guilty of an assault, and sentenced by the Judge to five minutes' imprisonment in the county jail. This case was followed by that of the State vs. Newton McClintock and Arazi Vance, L_.I_ ?i J .1 J ..U ?*? OOIQ coioreu, eimrgeu wilu assault auu uattcry. The State was represented by A. M. Mackey, Esq., and the defendants by Gen. W. A. Walker. Felix Pendleton, colored, the prosecuting witness, charged Arazi Vance with throwing at him a flask, which struck him in the eye, knockiug it out. His testimony was corroborated by other witnesses. Newton McClintock was accused of aiding and abetting in this cruel work. The case was too plain to admit of any verdict by the jury save that of "guilty." After the conclusion of this case, the Judge delivered a special charge to the grand jury in reference to certain stores in the eastern portion of the county that were reported to be engaged in the business of buying stolen cotton at night. The Judge stated that numerous complaints had been made to him concerning these stores. The grand jury were instructed to investigate this matter, and if they found, after due examination, that there were stores in the county doing the nefarious business charged against them, to present them as nuisances and the keepers of the same as charged with an offense, for which they should be tried, and if found guilty, punished according to the enormity of their crime. The Court met at the usual hour on Tuesday morning, when the trial of the case of the State vs. David Kelly, colored, charged with stealing a horse, ensued. The defendant swore that in accordance with the custom of the neighborhood, he had ridden the horse away from the plantation of Dr. Forte, who was the prosecuting witness, but had no inten-1 tion of stealing the horse. The Judge directed thejurytofind in favor of the defendant, which was accordingly done. The case of the State vs. Isaac Castles, colared, charged with the intimidation of voters at the recent election for sheriff, was then jailed for trial. Thedefendautwas represented S. J. Couch, Esq. The testimony in the :ase was of a very conflicting character, the evidence of the defendant and his witnesses being diametrically opposite to that of the witnesses for the State. Isaac Babcock, colared, swore that at the time of his taking the aath preliminary to voting, the defendant remarked that "he ought to have his d?ra ;hroat cut for voting the Walker ticket." He j ilso swore to his leaving the voting precinct I for fear of receiving bodily harm. The testi- i mony of Garland Smith tended to the impli-1 jation of Castles in the intimidation scheme.; But the testimony of the defendant was a com-; plete denial of the allegations of the State's witnesses. And the defendant's testimony was conflrmed by the evidence of other wit-' aesses. The Judge alluded, in his charge to' ;hejury, to the fight in 1870 between the! whites and the negroes at Carmel Hill, where ! Oastles was alleged to have intimidated vo;er8, and stated in emphatic terms that that! was one place where the liberty of the ballot box must be maintained. The jury, in consequence of the conflicting and unsatisfactory aharacter of the testimony, gave the defendant the benefit of the doubt in rendering a verdict j jf"not guilty." I The Judge then passed sentence upon Amzi Vance and Newton McClintock, who had been found guilty of the charge of assault and battery?the former, to an imprisonment of twelve months iu the State penitentiary ; the latter, to an imprisonment of six months in the sames place. Saul Anderson, colored, who had pleaded guilty to the committing of a rape upon a child in Landsford township, received his sentence, which was imprisonment for life in the State penitentiary. - - -** ? On NVeduesday, upon the assembling of the Court, the trial of the State ??. Dublin I. Walker, Benjamin Michael, Henry Blake, and Julius Stephenson, charged with forming a conspiracy to defraud the county, began and continued throughout the entire day. A. M. Mackey, Esq., appeared for the State, and Gen. W. A. Walker and S. J. Couch, Esq. for the defendants. Ex Congressman Elliott, of Columbia, was expected to be one of the defendants' lawyers, but a telegraphic dispatch was received from him on Tuesday, stating his inability to be present. The parties charged with conspiring to defraud the county were the late public school commissioner of this county and the public sehool trustees of Chester township, and the ray in which their embezzling propensities were directed, was the issuing of a fraudulent school certificate while in office. Julius Stevenson, one of the defendants, turned Slate's evidence, and a nolle prosequi was entered in his case. Besides endeavoring to establish by testimony, that Benjamin Michael, io whose favor the alleged fraudulent certificate was drawn, had never rendered the service to the county called for by the sum stated in the were directed toward showing by the evidence of the late treasurer of the county, David Hemphill, Esq., and the present school commissioner, F. B.. Loyd, Esq., the fraud connected witn tne scnooi certincate in queetion. The counsel for the defense endeavor* ed to establish, by rebutting testimony, that Benjamin Michael had rendered service for the amount claimed in the certificate, and that the alleged fraudulent certificate wag a copy of a school certificate issued in favor of Benjamin Michael in 1871, and upon which he had never drawn the money, for the reason i of his having lost or misplaced the same. After arguments from the Solicitor, and the attorneys for the defense, and the delivery of a strong, vigorous charge from the Judge, which carried no comfort to the souls of the defendants, the jury retired to consult over their verdict. The jury, composed of one white man and eleven colored men, spent all the night in the jury-room, and announced their agreement upon a verdict at six o'clock Thursday morning. The verdict was guilty, with the recommendation of the defendants to the mercy of the Court. Considerable importance attaches to this case from the fact that the defendants were prominent and influential colored politicians ; one of them, Dublin I. Walker, representing, at the present time, this county in the State Senate. I suppose, in consequence of his conviction of the crime of misapplication of the public ! funds, he will be deprived of his seat in that honorable body, which will occasion the elec| tion of another Senator from this county. The case that resulted so unfortuuately for the defendants, was splendidly managed by the representative of the State; indeed, I am exceedingly doubtful if the case could have been conducted with more skill had it been in the hands of the learned Judge, himself, who presided upon the bench at the time of the trial. The State business having been concluded, the trial of civil cases was begun on Thursday. The cases on that day and Friday were not such as to merit any special mention. Saturday was consumed in the trial of the case of the Chester aud Lenoir Railroad Company vs. the Presideut aud Directors of the late King's Mountain Railroad Company. The object of the suit is to recover 81,500, with interest, which the plaintiffs a J lego to have been, or should have been, in the hands of the defendants at the time of the transfer of the assets of the King's Mountain Railroad Company, and which has never been turued over into the hands of the Directors of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad Company. The defendants admit that the amount claimed by the plaintiffs was in their hands at the time of, or immediately previous to the transfer, but allege that it was disposed of as the Directors nf TTintr'a Mnnnfain Railroad ComDanv V. ...... -?b - f J ordered, viz.: by the declaration of a dividend and the distribution of the pro rata portion among the stockholders. The plaintiffs deny the truth of the allegation of the disposition of the amount claimed, in accordance with the order of the Directors of said Company. The plaintiffs are represented by Major S. P. Hamilton and C. S. Brice, Esq., of this place, and the defendants by Colonel J. H. Rion, of Winnsboro. The case was not concluded on Saturday, and is now progressing toward a conclusion, which will probably be reached this afternoon or tonight. Upon the assembling of the Conrt this morning, a very large audience was present to hear the sentence of the presiding Judge upon Dublin I. Walker and Henry Blake, who had been tried and found guilty of issuiug a fraudulent school certificate. Benjamin Michael, who was charged and convicted of the same crime, and who mysteriously disappeared on the evening before the day of the trial, will be sentenced at another time if he is ever caught. Judge Mackey expressed his "profound sorrow" in imposing sentence upon oue who had been so highly honored by the people as the prisoner, Dublin I. Walker. Yet the verdict, he stated, was just; having been found against him by eleven men of bis own race, and one true man of the white race. The Judge informed the prisoner of the fact that twenty-two additional fraudulent school certificates issued by him had been found by the grand jury, and that if he was tried upon each one, be would spend the remainder of his days in prison. The prisoner was told that, judging from the school certificates that had been issued, there ought to have been one hundred teachers in the county in 1871, when in fact there were only thirty. The abuse by him of the high trust that had been confided to him, was dwelt upon for a time, when hit Honor proceeded to impose the sentence, which was, inasmuch as the jury recommended mercy, one year in the State penitentiary. Henry Blake then received his sentence, which was three months in the State penitentiary. Judge Mackey directed the jailor not to place handcuffs on Dublin I. Walkerwhen taking him to Columbia, as he had already been sufficiently degraded. Five prisoners leave this place to-day for the penitentiary. They are all colored. The lamentations of their friends, who were at the depot in force to say farewell, were quite die tressing. v^ui. Chester, Sept 28. The Railroad case did uot reach an end yesterday as was expected. The morning was spent in closing the testimony for the defense; the afternoon and a portion of the evening were devoted to the speeches of Mai. S. P. Hamilton, and Col. J. H. Rion. C. S. Brice, Esq., occupied the attention of the Court a considerable time this morning, in behalf of the plaintiffs. Upon the conclusion of his argument, the presiding Judge delivered his charge, when the case was given over into the hands of the jury. Their verdict was in favor of the plaintiffs for the full amount?the amount claimed with interest? about 81,800. The jury, in finding their verdict, eliminated the element of fraud; charging the defendants simply with exercising powers that were not properly theirs. The Court will probably continue in session until Thursday or Friday. Captain John Witherspoon, a young lawyer of ability from Rock Hill, is in attendance upon the Court to-day. He is thinking of forming a partnership in the law with one of our Chester attorneys. He has my best wishes for his success and happiness in any alliance he may now or hereafter make?legal, matrimonial or otherwise. Qui.