Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 27, 1876, Image 2
Scraps and Jacts.
? Half the children in the Boston public
schools are of Catholic parentage.
? The Mississippi Legislature is considering
the propriety of compulsory education.
? The new Palace Hotel at San Francisco
took in $22,863 as the receipts of a single day.
? Judge David Davis, of Illinois, seems to
ba rising into greater and greater prominence
as a Democratic candidate for President.
? Florida is progressing in wealth and population
more rapidly than any of the Southern
States.
? James Stephens, late head ceutre of the
Fenian Brotherhood of the United States,
died in Paris recently. At one time he created
quite a sensation in this country.
? Jefferson Davis has just lost a suit for
870,000 in a court at Vicksburg, Miss. The
ex-President put in a claim for that amount
against his brother's estate, and the court decided
against him.
? There are now eight pin factories in the
United States, which make 47,000,000 pins
daily. In addition to these the importations
of pins reach 25,000,000 daily. As these are
all easily sold, it is safe to say that 72,000,000
of pins are lost: daily, or 50,000 every minute.
Where they all go is the wonder.
? A California inventor has patented a contrivance
for driving sewing machines which
does away with the treadle. A number of
springs are moved by clockwork and governed
by a lever so nicely that the needle may
be made to move at any rate of speed. The
machine will run about an hour and a quarter
with one winding up.
? The colored citizens of Crystal Spring,
Miss., in a public meeting, have declared their
intention to withdraw from politics, to cultivate
friendly relations with the white race, to
use all means to put down crime, to endeavor
to produce everything necessary for their
own consumption at home, and to organize
among themselves an association similar to
that of the Patrons of Husbandry.
? A company of twenty-one freedmen sailed
from New York in the bark Liberia, Thursday
afternoon. They were chiefly from North
Carolina and Louisiana, and were sent out
at the expense of the American Colonization
Society. The desire to go to Liberia is steadily
increasing, in consequence of the letters
received from those who have previously emigrated.
The planting of coffee in Liberia is
likely to be largely remunerative, for land
can be purchased at fifty cents an acre, and
the taxes do not exceed fifty cents on the one
hundred dollars.
? The New York Herald reasons that a war
with Spain would be a hazardous game for
Grant to play, since the first success would
probably be on the side of the Spaniards.
They have now a well equipped army of 216,000
men, while our effective army does not
exceed 20,000. Spain has two hundred and
two war vessels in an efficient condition, while
our whole array of monitors and old tubs
numbers only one hundred and sixty-six.
Tliic ftianaritv thfi TTprnld admits, would be
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overcome in six or eight months, but meanwhile
the political contest would be decided.
? The National Woman Suffrage Convention,
which meets at Washington City on the
27th of the present month, will discuss the
following questions: "Are not women also
citizens of the Republic?part of the people ?
On what just ground in discrimination made
between men and women ? Why should women
more than men, be governed without
their consent? Why should women more
than men, be denied trial by a jury of their
peers? On what authority are women taxed
while unrepresented ? By what right do
nien declare themselves invested with power
to legislate for women ?
? The Rev. J. L. M. Curry, D. D., of Richmond,
vs., wribes iro?* Aiexanana r/gypt:
"Many Confederate soldiers will be glad to
hear that Gen. Loring, so well known and
loved as a skillful and brave officer in the
Confederate army, is stationed in this city in
command of a corps of Egyptian troops for
the defence of the whole northern coast. He
deservedly stands high in the confidence of the
Viceroy. Some thirty American officers are
in the Khedive's service, but Gen. Loring
alone of all of them, is in actual command of
the troops. The general is a Pasha, but
knows how to make Americans fell at home.
He has studied Egyptian history and polity
and the Arabic language very diligently, and
is the most thoroughly posted man I have met.
He has on his staff Gen. Reynolds, a brave
Confederate officer, and a cordial, noble-heart
edTlrginia gentleman. In the Egyptian army
are Gen. Stone, well known in Richmond;
Gen. Field, of Virginia ; Col Derrick, of Halifax
county; Col. Lockett, of Alabama, and
others."
? Ex-Senator Brownlow the great thirdtermer,
ex-Postmaster Bard, two men above
all others unsuspected of any superfluous tenderness
toward "unreconcilable rebels," unite
iu condemning the attempt to make a martyr
of Jefferson Davis. Mr. Brownlow says that
while Mr Davis was the nominal head of the
rebellion, he was in reality its greatest weakness,
and so unpopular was he, that at the
close of the war, that but for his incarceration
in Fortress Monroe, he would have been hated
and despised by the Southern people. As for
the bugbear of his return to the United States
Senate, if his disabilities are removed, Mr.
Brownlow says the step would be the death
knell of the Democratic party, and he does
not believe in standing in the way of that.
Mr. Bard thinks Mr. Blaine's course was unwise
and unnecessary, and says of Southern
sentiment: "We can assure our Northern
contemporaries that the large majority of the
Southern people are for shaking hands and
wiping out the past. Let us all endeavor
to accomplish this, and meet at Philadelphia,
and the Centennial, reunited as of old?brothers
of a common country, with one destiny."
? The recent election at Memphis, Tenn.,
for municipial officers, furnished another evidence
that the cohesiveness for the colored
vote in the south has been broken, and that
the scheming white Radical politicians are
fast losing their power in bringing the colored
people to the polls like "sheep to the shambles."
At the Memphis election on Thursday
last over two thousand colored men went to
the polls and voted theeutire Democratic ticket
without solicitation, despite the fact that
light to sunset for the success of the opposition
tinlrot The Memnhis Armani mentions.
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amongst the incidents of the election, that a
well known colored man approached Barbour
Lewis at one of the polls, and embracing him
to his heart's content said: "Farewell, Barbour
; we must part forever; may the Lord
take a liking to you, for we niggers can't."
ex-Congressman Barbour Lewis, and other extreme
Radical politicians, worked from dayAt
the Democratic jubilee which followed the
announcement of the result, the colored people
took a conspicuous part, and several of
them carried effigies of Lewis and other politicians
whom they have heretofore blindly
followed.?Baltimore Sun.
? The Toronto Globe describes a remarkable
character in that vicinity who, about
forty years ago, conceived the idea of leading
a hermit's life. The youth had from his early
age showed symptoms of derangement, and
this proceeding on his part was not considered
strange by his friends. The chosen place of
his hermitage was about three-quarters of a
mile from his parental homestead, in the recess
of a dense bush, where he erected a small
hovel and furnished it with an old log canoe,
which he used as a couch to sleep in. Divesting
himself of all clothing, he has ever
since remained perfectly nude, with the exception
of a tattered remnant of a shirt,
which his fancy leads him to retain. In this
nude state, for forty years, he has lived, walking
in the depth of winter through the snow,
and yet he has never been known to have received
a frost bite. When he requires a
drink, he walks deliberately into the river, it
mattering not to him what season of the year
it may be, and wades out till the water reaches
his waist, and then stoops and quenches his
thirst. His food is brought to him by his
friends, and when given to him is eaten with
the voraciousness of an animal, which he now
resembles more than man, his body being as
heavily coated with hair as that of a cow.
He never shows a dangerous disposition, and
chatters in monosyllables. When people cross
his path he invariably begs for tobacco, for
which he has an evident partiality, and in
chattering tones will utter "bacca" until his
request is granted. His hair is long, gray
and unkempt, falling far over his shoulders,
and his beard, which is similar, reaches down
below his waist. He is now between sixty
and seventy years of age, and is, possibly, the
only living being ever known to have lived
year after year perfectly naked and exposed
to all the inclemencies of weather which mark
the Canadian winter.
?he ?0tfeviUc inquirer.
YORKVIELE, S. C.:~
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A CALL FOR ORGANIZATION.
By authority of the State Executive Committee
of the Democratic party, James F.
Hart, Esq., has issued an address to the voters
of York county, to be found in another
column, urging upon them the necessity of
early and thorough organization, and appointing
Saturday the 12th of next month, as
a suitable day for the voters of the county to
meet at their respective election precincts for
the purpose of organizing, by the election of
such officers and the appointment of such
working committees as each locality may require.
This call is made upon every voter in
the county who favors honest government,
and should meet a prompt and hearty response.
PROCEEDINGS^ CONGRESS.
In the Senate, on the 17th, the Judiciary
Committee reported adversely on allowing the
accused to testify in the Federal Courts.
Several consuls, Indian agents and postmasters
were confirmed. The petition of General
Beauregard for the removal of bis political
disabilities was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
In the House, Mr. White moved to
suspend the rules to vote on the amnesty bill
excluding Jefferson Davis. After voting on
the amendment striking out the excluding
clause, the vote was?yeas, 165; nays, 110.
Failing a two-thirds majority, the rules were
not suspended. Among the bills introduced
was one by Mr. Vance, to open navigation on
the French Broad river; ana one oy x?r.
O'Brien, to amend the constitution, prohibiting
among other things, preachers from holding
office under general or State Government.
In the Senate, on the 18th, Mr. Cameron,
of Pennsylvania, presented petitions from citizens
of that State in favor of a subsidy for
the Southern Pacific Railroad. A bill was
passed allowing court martials to compel civ *
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li witnesses to teamy, uu pcuany ui lwu
months' imprisonment. Ill the House, a number
of bills were introduced?among them one
to allow planters to sell leaf tobacco without
license; to prescribe a peualty for mailing
obscene matter, and excluding lottery circulars
from the mails ; to prevent the naturalization
of Chinese and Mongolians. The
House went into a committee of the whole on
the Centennial appropriation, when Mr.
Waddell, of North Carolina, spoke at some
length, taking strong ground in favor of making
ample appropriations to secure a credit,
able national exposition. Referring to the
> recent defeat of amnesty in the House, he said
; that had no weight upon him, nor should it
1 influence any Southern member against an
appropriation for a national celebration. Al1
luding to the amnesty debate he said :
"One element in the House had not been heard
from in that discussion?the element of theSouth
ern soldiers in the late war. of whom he was one.
They had sat in silence ana taken the fire which
1 the gentleman from Maine (Blaino) had opened
on them, with no other feeling than that of gratitude
for having escaped from so terrible an enemy
as he (Blaine) must have been during the
' battles of the late war. [Laughter.] If now,
when that gentleman's hair was silvery and his
. natural force perceptibly abating, he could develop
such intensity of spirit, how must his plume
have waved in the fore part of that conflict which
had occurred at a time when he (Blaine) was young
i and strong and healthy. [Laughter.] That element
had not yet spoken. It could not be goaded
into the discussion. On the contrary, it had
exhibited a spirit which he believed the Ameri,
can people would not soon forget. It had met a
storm of hate and persecution as the swan meets
the billows?with a breast of down. He knew
n.n?*lAreiAr? hurl Knon onrrocrcif\ in fV?o
3VU1C ^lUiClllCIl nuv nau uvuii wn^u^vu i*? miv
same cause with him who had not intended to
vote for the measure before that discussion, but
who now intended to support it so as to set an
example of patriotism. If there were any of
them who still opposed this bill he appealed to
them to unite with him in doing an act which
could only promote the honor and advance the interests
of the country and the peace and happiness
of the people."
Without action the committee rose and adjournd.
In the Senate on the 19th, Mr. Sherman
presented a petition of citizens of Ohio asking
the construction of the Southern Pacific railroad.
A similar petition was also presented
by Mr. Wallace, of Pennsylvania, from citizens
of that State. The bill amending the
charter of the Freedmen's Bank passed.
Pending the discussion of Mr. Davis' bill
providing for an investigation of the treasury
department, the Senate went into executive
session and adjourned. In the House, several
speeches were made on the centennial appropriation
bill. Only two members spoke
against the bill?Messrs. Cochrane, of Pennsylvania,
and Mr. Tucker, of Virgiuia, who
opposed it on constitutional grounds. In the
course of his remarks, Mr. Tucker eulogized
i General R. E. Lee.
The Senate proceedings of the 20th are un
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important. Mr. Sargent introduced a posiai
; telegraph bill, providing for telegraph lines
: to connect with post-offices, allowing a com;
bination of postmaster and telegrapher and
fixing the rates of charges for transmitting
messages. In the House, the Post Office Com;
mittee reported unfavorably on the bill reducing
first class mail matter to one cent per
half ounce.
In the Senate, on the 21st, Mr. Sherman
presented the memorial of the National Hailroad
Convention recently held in St. Louis,
i a-sking aid for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Referred to the Committee on Railroads. The
j House was occupied during the day in eulogizing
Vice-President Wilson.
In the House, on the 22nd, the debate on
! the Centennial bill was continued.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The Fayetteville and Florence Railroad
will soon be graded from Fayetteville to the
South Carolina line.
? The trial of Arthur Glover, for the killing
of two men by the names of Gomillions,
in Edgefield county, more than a year ago,
was concluded in Newberry on Tuesday of
last week, and resulted in the acquittal of the
prisoner.
? Trial Justice Robertson, bound over by
Judge Mackey to appear at court to answer
the charge of compounding a felony in paying
money to the men recently whipped in
Winnsboro, claims that he was merely compromising
a civil action brought for damages,
a thing he had a perfect right to do.
? Governor Chamberlain has pardoned Jas.
W. Clack, convicted at York, April term,
1875, of assault with intent to ravish, and
oontonfpH fn twn vfiars' imDrisonment in the
penitentiary. The prosecutrix joined in the
petition for pardon, and Judge Mackey and
the acting solicitor recommended it.
? There are some three hundred hands at
work on the line of the Spartanburg and
Asheville Road, and the whole work is beiDg
carried bravely and vigorously forward. All
of the grading has been completed in South
Carolina, and the contractors are now at
work in Henderson and Polk counties of
North Carolina. It will not be long before
the most expensive aud difficult work will be
completed, and the rest of the grading to
Asheville, done on the faith of the subscriptions
made, is but ordinary work.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? In the vicinity of Greensboro ice was
2$ inches thick on the 16th instant.
? There are thirty-six prisoners in the
Charlotte jail?six of whom belong to Cabarrus
county.
? The Shelby Aurora win De removeu w
Rutherfordton, from which place it will hereafter
be issued by its present proprietor.
? The National Bank of Greensboro has
been organized, with Jesse H. Lindsay as
President and Julius A. Gray as Cashier.
? On the 7th instant, Walter Hobbs, aged
about fourteen years, son of M. V. Hobbs, of
Guilford oounty, while chopping wood, cut
his foot across the instep, from the effects of
which he bled to death.
? Randolph Sutton, colored, convicted of
burglary in Cabarrus Superior Court, and
sentenced to have been hanged last Friday,
has had his sentence commuted by Governor
Brogden to imprisonment in the penitentiary
for life.
? The Lexington Central learns that on the
14th instant, near Fork Church, in Davie
county, an altercation took place between
Robert Seaford and William Hendricks,
brothers-in-law, which resulted in the killing
of Seaford by Hendricks. Both men are
respectably connected, but were under the influence
of whisky, at the time of the occurrence.
Hendricks eluded arrest.
?
MERE-MENTION.
General Beauregard has applied to uongress
for the removal of his political disabilities.
Four negroes, confessed cotton-gin
burners, were recently take from the Coahoma
county, Miss., jail by masked men and
shot dead. In Georgia there are 121,819
white voters, to 87,569 colored. Eighteen
hundred barrels of flour were destroyed by fire
of The PopnKlioqno oh.
stained from voting in the Senatorial election
of the Mississippi Legislature. Lamar received
all the votes cast but one. Two
hundred men recently gathered at Massillon,
Ohio, to lynch Mrs. Richardson, who had shot
her husband, and the sheriff fearing violence,
removed her to Canton. An operative
in a New England paper mill asserts that it
costs from ten to twenty per cent, less for labor
to produce paper now than it did before
the war, and yet the manufactured article
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sella nearly twice as nign. ine largest
gathering of people in Savannah since the
close of the war, assembled last Saturday
night, for the purpose of serenading Hon. G.
H. Pendleton, of Ohio, who is at present stopping
in that city. Old John Robinson's
circus disbanded at Augusta, Georgia, last
Friday, for the purpose of taking a rest until
April. Hon. Jatnes B. Beck has been
elected U. S. Senator from Kentucky, to succeed
Mr. Stevenson, whose term expires
March 3, 1877.
TO THE VOTERS OF YORK COUNTY.
The State Executive Committee of the
Democratic party, representing the Conservative
and Reform policies of the past, have, in
view of recent events in this State, decided
that it has become necessary to re-organize,
speedily and effectively, the party in this
State. In this action the Executive Committee
is sustained with great unanimity by all
those in favor of an honest and economical
State Government. The undersigned, having
been charged by the Committee with the duty
of the organization of York county, earnestly
urges upon our people its pressing importance.
No effort at self-government, in modern
times, has proved so destructive a failure as
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n&8 Deen exnioneu 1U hub oiaw;, uuuer uie
so-called Republican party. It is, perhaps,
the most conspicuous example of a government,
whose legislative branch, elected by the
people, has become a compact organization
for the robbery of its constituents. No sooner
is one species of public plunder, under the
forms of law, arrested, than other and more
dangerous schemes of robbery are devised and
put in action. The most recent act in the
long catalogue of wrongs?that of attempting
to fill the seats of justice with men of acknowledged
infamy and incompetency?has
everywhere throughout the State, awakened
the conviction, that if this be Republicanism,
Republican rule in South Carolina can no
longer be endured or tolerated.
There is honesty among the masses of the
people, and to all honest men an honest government
is a necessity. If those imbued with
these purposes will unite with the determination
to restore to the State a government
whose legislative branch shall no longer be
organized for nublic Dillaue. such a result, it
O I r o >
is believed, can be accomplished. Organization
is but the first step to this end,"and must
be followed up by unceasing vigilance and
persistent work.
In pursuance of the duty imposed, I earnestly
call upon the honest voters, at every election
precinct in York county, to organize
themselves into clubs for the approaching
campaign. The work cannot be too speedily
begun, or too earnestly prosecuted. It is not
proposed that your organizations be used for
the elevation of men?the gathering of party
spoils, or the advancement of mere party
ends. A higher purpose than any of these?
that of your own self-preservation?renders
this action on your part a necessary duty to
yourselves and to the State. We seek to deprive
no class or condition of men of any
right; but shall insist upon the rights of all
being maintained by the enactment of just
lawsand the repression of public robbery.
To put into practical operation, without unnecessary
delay, the plan of organization desired,
the voters at each election precinct, fa- j
vorable to this purpose, are hereby requested
to assemble at their respective election pre-;
cincts on Saturday, the 12th day of February j
next, and to organize at each precinct by the ;
election of such officers, and the appointment
of such working committees, as each locality |
may require. James F. Hart, i
LOCAL AFFAIRS. ?
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. c
J. H. Barry and othera?Caution to Trespassers, t
E. C. Williams, Treasurer?The Stono Phosphate i
: Company. 1
Hunter A Oates?Shawls?Hardware?The New t
Store?Crockery?Glass Ware. g
T. M. Dobson A Co.?Keep's Patent Partly-Made
Dress Shirts.
J. W. Carroll?For 20 Hays.
D. C. Anderson, Fort Mills?"Harris' Empire t
Compound." i
Kennedy, Latimer A Hemphill?Ammoniated .
Dissolved Bones?Farming Utensils.
Jefferys A Metts?Cotton 15 Cents for Guano. g
J. Leander Adams, Administrator?Last Notice. ,
W. H. A J. P. Herndon?Guano?Acid Phos- .
phate. *
A. Coward, Principal?King's Mountain Military J
School. .
R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.-Lien Sale. [
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ARRESTED. j
Joseph Thornburg and his son Andrew,
who moved from Gaston county, N. C., to ,
Cheek's saw mill, about two miles west of s
town, where they were employed, were arres- 1
ted last Thursday night by Deputy Marshal 1
G. W. Taylor, assisted by Lieut. Benner and 1
a squad of soldiers, and on Saturday were (
taken to Charlotte by the Deputy Marshal, g
The charge against Joseph Thornburg is il- \
licit distilling and shooting a revenue officer j
iu the discharge of his duty, and the young (
man is charged with aiding his father in re- j
8i8tiug arrest.
PERSONAL. ]
Rev. E. J. Meynardie, Presiding Elder of I
i this district, visited Yorkville in a ministra- 1
j tive capacity last week, and on Sunday, bej
sides administering the sacrament of the <
Lord's Supper to his congregation, delivered
two able, instructive and impressive ser- |
mons. I
Last Saturday, we were favored with a call i
from Mr. J. S. Reynolds, editor of the Winns- ;
boro News, and whilom a resident of our
I town, who, notwithstanding his new field,
{ finds that Yorkville still has attractions for
him. r
THE SCHOOLS.
The next session of Yorkville Female Institute
will commence next Tuesday, the 1st j
proximo, in charge of W. R. Jones, A. M., .
who will have the aid of a full corps of assistants
in all the various departments. Mr.
j Jones assumes control of the Institute with
the view of making his school a success, and j
from his reputation as a teacher, we feel as- (
sured that he will leave nothing undone to attain
that result. Not only should the school
be liberally patronized by the town, but as
the accommodations are ample, a large number
of pupils should be entered from outside
the town limits. We learn from Mr. Jones (
that in the conduct of his school he gives es- '
pecial attention to the primary department,
the importance of which cannot be overlooked.
The next school-year of King's Mountain
Military School will also commence on the
1st of February. The reputation of this
school is too well known to require special
notice at our hands. We only hope it may
receive a patronage commensurate with its
merits as an institution of learning. As may
be seen by advertisement, pupils residing in
Yorkville aud its immediate vicinity, will be
admitted to the benefits of the class instructions
without being required to board in the
institution.
COLORED M. E! CONFERENCE. (
At the annual Conference of the Colored ,
Methodist Episcopal Church, held in Charleston
last week, the following appointments j
were made for this and neighboring counties: j
Rev. James A. Brown, stationed at Yorkfcl.W
J WM1 , W I u. TM. . W\2 IAS Auilui" f
son station, and will be succeeded here by
Rev. A. C. Dutton. Geo. Beckham, trans- i
ferred from Kock Jdill to Union circuit. J no. I
Beckham from Rock Hill to Greenville circuit.
Thomas Wright from Yorkville to ,
Orangeburg. George Torrence from York
circuit to Chester circuit. Shephard Dunham
from Landsford to York circuit. Geo. Tay- 1
lor from Chester circuit and Lorenzo McKinney
from Spartanburg circuit, to Rock Hill <
circuit.
Rev. J.-A. Brown, who had charge of the
church at this place during the past year,
conducted himself, during his stay here in the
most becoming manner, and so far as we are
aware, gained the esteem of our citizens generally.
We understand his successor here is
a white man.
club-makers.
For the convenience of those who may wish
to subscribe for the Enquirer through a
club-maker, we give below a list of persons
who are engaged in forming clubs. As other
club-makers are reported their names will be
added to the list:
John L. Miller, John J. Good,
A. E. Carroll, D. W. Mayes, 1
Mrs. N. H. Mason, A. W. Parks,
Mrs. S. R. Logan, T. G. Culp,
W. M. Boyd, Miss J. Lou Brandon,
Joseph R. Howe, A. F. Lindsay,
Brainerd McLure, S. L. Milling, '
R. L. Crook, J. L. Parker, i
I Willie Ferguson, Miss Katie McCully,
L. George Grist, J. JN. Koberts, i
\V. P. Ferguson, M. L. Dickson, ]
H. E. Johnson, Mrs. C. V. Williams,
Rev.T. J. Taylor, S. D. Simril,
Miss Rebecca Barnett, Mrs. Mary C. Grier,
J. C. Saunders, S. G. Brown,
A. J. Matthews, W. S. Garrison,
Major Myles Smith, Capt. E. R. Mills,
T. J. Roach, John T. Grist, I
S. M. Roach, W. R. Davis,
E. M. Faris, Dr. W. M.-Meador, j
J. E. Craig. G. L. Riddle, i
Zirari Carroll, D. T. Lessley, ,
J. C. Patrick, Miu M. A. Glenn. i
Mrs. E. M. Hogue, A. H. Mulholland. I
D. F. Barnett, J. R. Culp.
REPORT OF TIIE GRAND JURY.
The following presentment of the grand (
jury, made at the recent terra of the Circuit ,
Court, was unavoidably crowded out of our j
columns last week : <
To the Hon. T. J. Mackey, Presiding 1
Judge: The grand jury for the county of I
York, at this the January term of the Court J
of General Sessions for said county, for the <
year 1876, beg leave, respectfully, to report to i
your Honor-1- i
First. That this being the first session of *
the Court at which they have served, and they 1
j having been but recently charged as to their
! duties, are unable to report as fully at the <
j present terra of the Court as may be expect- t
i aA nt tkom aa fhor t.homapl vefl mifht wifih : t
and beg leave that they may be allowed to
bear the said matters in mind and report
thereon more fully at the next term of this
Court.
Second. They beg leave to report that they t
have visited the jail and find it in a very good ?
condition; that the prisoners are well cared 1
! for, and no discrimination is made among c
| them as to race, color or condition. The jail i
| is amply supplied with the necessary material c
! and conveniences for the prisoners' comfort \
1 and warmth, both by day and night, and they i
1 are well fed with good and substantial food, s
! We find that some repairs are needed upon (s
and around the jail; but the County Com- 1
| missioners have made the necessary orders as i
to such repairs. We found two prisoners in
the jail, who, it is alleged, are insane; but 1
the Solicitor informs us that the matter has ! c
been already brought to your Honor's atten-18
tion. j 8
As to the poor-house, we find that about c
thirty-acres were under cultivation during the t
past year; that upon said lands there was; i
made about four hundred bushels of corn . 1
and near six bales of cotton. We found the i
stock in good condition. We found that three g
new houses?good and substantial ones?have j
been lately erected, and that the other houses
A ?
ire in good condition. The paupers seem to
)e well cared for and clothed, and, withal,
iontented. We are unanimous in reporting
n jour Honor that the condition of the poorlouse
does credit to the Superintendent and
o the county, and we were very agreeably
nrprised and gratified at the result of our investigation.
We have examined the books of seven Trial
Fustices, viz.: J. J. L. Gill, P. T. Murray, J.
?. Wagoner, R. L. Crook, C. J. Pride, J. B.
Williams and H. K. Roberts, and found them
latisfactory, so far as the books themselves
ire evidences of the transaction., f the Trial
Fustices. The fines charged upon these books
lave all been paid over. The grand jury report
that they find that P. T. Murray, has
iollected a fine of ten dollars, which has not
>een charged nor paid over.
We found the offices of the Clerk, Probate
Fudge, Sheriff, Treasurer, School Comraislioner,
Auditor and Couuty Commissioners all
veil and orderly kept, and have no special
natter regarding them to bring to your Hon>r's
attention.
Some members of the grand jury complain
ihat the roads in their section of the county
ire not in good condition ; but this matter
will rereive the snecial attention of the errand
ury, and if the evil be not promptly remedied,
they hope to present the parties who are
responsible therefor at the eusuing term of
Jbis Court.
The grand jury -beg leave to call your
Honor's special attention to a complaint made
ay the citizens of Bullock's Creek township
n this county, that the district school tax
levied in that township being three mills, is,
together with the appropriation made by the
State, a larger amount than is necessary for
jarrying on the schools, and imposes a very
heavy tax upon them, which matter they beg
to refer to your Honor's consideration, and
that such' relief may be extended them as to
pour Honor may seem meet, just and lawful.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
James E. Smith, Foreman.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Tredegar Iron Works.
The Tredegar Irou Works, of Richmond,
Va., the largest establishment of the
kind in the South, suspended payment on the
17th instant, but subsequently perfected arrangements
for resuming work at an early
day, by the appointment of Gen. Joseph R.
Anderson as receiver. It is understood that
the Tredegar Company lost largely by the
failure of other parties during the panic of
1873, and was compelled, in consequence of
those losses, and the continued depression of
the iron trade, to suspend payment. Before
the panic of 1873, the company was worth a
million and a half dollars over its liabilities.
Since that panic, in consequence of large
amounts due by the Chesapeake and Ohio,
and the New York, Oswego and Midland
routes, the Tredegar Company has been embarrassed.
They were granted an extension,
of time, the creditors being secured by deeds
of trust on the company's property. It is believed
that the liabilities not covered by said
deeds will not exceed $100,000. The Richmond
Dispatch congratulates the public upon
the fact that General Anderson is still to
manage the Tredegar Works, and that they
resume business after only a short suspension.
An Official Invited to Resign.
Thomas S. Cavender, who holds the office
of Auditor of Chesterfield county, and is
one of the commissioners under the act entitled
"An act to provide for the settlement and
payment of certain claims against the State,"
both of which offices are under Gov. Chamberlain's
appointment, has been requested by
the Governor. to reojgn the, appointment^
The I rouble seems to be that Cavender first
agreed with M. H. Berry, for the sum of $500
to "lobby" the Little Bonanza bill through
the Legislature, and afterward, as one of
the commissioners for auditing the claims
provided to be paid under the bill, received
a commission of twenty per cent, from Mr.
Berry for "auditiug" a claim of $9,400. These
charges are set forth in an affidavit of Mr.
Berry, aud in addition thereto, George Sym*
raers makes affidavit that Cavender demanded
from him fifteen per cent, of $6,000 for issuing
warrants to that amount in Symmers' favor
under the provisions of the same Bonanza.
The correspondence these disclosures have
produced is quite voluminous, and in closing
his communication, after reciting the facts as
presented before him, the Governor says:
"I shall, therefore, require the< immediate
r\f hnth the nffi.
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ces be dow holds under my appointment.
Whatever further steps may be taken, either
to vindicate or condemn any parties connected
with these transactions, will be properly
conducted by other tribunals, having greater
powers and better facilities than I have for
reaching the exact truth "
The Chester Burglary.
In addition to the account furnished by
our Chester correspondent of the recent bold
burglary in that town, we received from
another source, by telegraph, last Sunday
morning, the following version of the affair:
One of the boldest burglaries every committed
in this State was perpetrated here on
last Thursday night, by breaking into the
store of W. Holmes Harden and robbing it
of three or four hundred dollars' worth of groceries,
which were carried off in a wagon. As
joon as the fact became known, Judge Mackey
ordered several search warrants to issue, authorizing
the search of all houses in the corporation
and its vicinity. All the stolen
property was found to-day, locked up in the
gin-house of John Lilly, near the town. Lilly,
md several suspected parties having fled,
TnHrrp ordered the Sheriff to summon
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i posse of twenty men, armed and mounted,
to pursue and capture them at all hazards.
Lilly and several of the band, to the number
if eight or ten, were overtaken' and found
concealed in a brier patch, seven miles from
town, yesterday afternoon. They scattered
is the advance of the posse, to the number of
four, came up; but Lilly was taken, after receiving
a slight wound in the side from a pis;ol
shot. The entire band, consisting of ten;
cave since been taken and are now in jail.
Some of them have confessed. Lilly is an
ex-representative of the county, and a captain
n the State militia. Cannon, bis partner in
i bar room here, was sentenced recently by
fudge Mackey to the penitentiary for gamcling.
The grand and petit jurors have been specially
summoned to try this band of criminals,
ill of whom are colored men, on the 31st of
his month. Observer.
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For the Yorkville Enquirer.
CONCERT AND EXAMINATION.
In my peregrinations last week, I got into
be neighborhood of Miss Walsh's Female
School, and attended the concert which closed
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sompositions and music, alternately, entertainng
a very large assemblage in the highest
legree for full three hours. The compositions :
vere of the very best grade and remarkably j
veil read. Th? pieces of music were happily j
elected and well performed^ the young ladies j
howing evidently that they had been taught,
>v a lady of the highest culture and refine- j
nent.
To my surprise, I learned that about one j
lalf of the pupils had only taken lessons for j
me session, proving clearly what a profession-1
d teacher who takes a pride in her vocation, ;
ind who is ever better fitting herself for her j
luties, can do. I reasonably conclude that j
he people of that section have been fortunate !
n securing her services, and all who may !
lave daughters to educate, have a rare chance, j
n her school, to have them taught by a thor-1
mgh, experienced and successful educator of <
rnuth, at comparatively cheap rates. i
Viator. <
Correspondence of the Yorltville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, Jan. 24, 1876.
Stephen Yongue, who expiates, by bis life,
on Friday of this week, the killing of George
Mercer, appears to be profoundly sorry for
the commission of that horrible deed. In a
recent interview with him, I observed manifestations
of his sorrow and remorse. While
he confessed the crime, he endeavored to extenuate
its enormity. Whisky, as usual,
played a prominent part in the perpetration
of the bloody act. In answer to my inquiry
if he was drinkiug at the time, he replied in
the affirmative, though he was uuwilliug to
admit that he was drunk. Upon interrogating
him as to his cherishing any hostility towards
George Mercer, previous to the night
of the sad occurrence, he replied that he did
not; and upon questioning him still further
as to the cause that instigated him to the
commission of murder, he said he felt that he
was "imposed on" by Mercer and his friends,
and thought they intended doing him some
harm. According to his version of the story,
two of these parties had struck him, and another,
with a pistol drawn, threatened to take
bis life, before he gave the fatal blow that
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ably unnecessary to state that this account of
the unfortunate affair is incompatible with
that rendered by the witnesses for the State.
The paiuful fact stares every unprejudiced
observer in the face, that the colored people
are taking no steps forward in the path of
improvement Their love for ardent liquors
is increasing, and with this is an increase
among them of every crime mentioned in the
decalogue. Their standard of morality is
very low, and instead of deriving improvement
from the march of time, they are yearly,
if not daily, degenerating. To illustrate?
at the coroner's inquest summoned after the
killing of George Mercer, testimony was rendered
to the effect that the negroes danced
for a considerable time over the dead body of
the murdered man. And now that Stephen
Yongue has been condemned and sentenced
to be hanged, the people of his race look forward
to the day of execution as a holiday,
and will enjoy the horrors of that scene as
they would a circus.
There was considerable talk on our streets
on Wednesday, in reference to the failure of
Culp & Ragsdale, of Blackstocks. The liabilities
of this firm are about $18,000, the
greater portion of which is due to Northern
parties. The amount of their indebtedness
in this Dlace is only $50. Their failure is at
tributed to their iuability to make collections.
If my information is correct, they did not
exercise a wise discrimination in. the selection
of persons for whom they made advances of
supplies. The many friends of this good
firm in our town heard, with sincere regret, of
their misfortune, and indulge the hope that
they may succeed in making such arrangement
with their Northern creditors as will
permit of their continuance in business.
Gen. W. A. Walker, in his address to the
members of the Democratic party of this
county, urges the immediate organization of
Democratic clubs in the various townships.
In speaking of the present condition of affairs,
he regards it as an "important crisis in the
history of the State," and says "it becomes us
as citizens to prepare for the issue." The election
of Moses and Whipper to judicial positions
is viewed as "an insult to every honest
citizen, and * violation of every safe-guard
which the law affords to life, liberty and
property." The Democrats of the county,
both white and colored, are earnestly exhorted
to engage manfully and zealously in the good
work of organizing the party for the coming
campaign. The address comes up to the full
measure of the occasion, and will, it is to be
fervently hoped, arouse our people to a sense
of the duty that lies so plainly before them.
Trade was unspeakably dull in our town
last week. This gave rise to bitter complaints
among the merchants. With stores
filled with goods, and so few buyers, they
yield to depression of spirits, which finds expression
in gloomy forebodings as to the future.
Failures aud suspensions, accompanied
by a financial stringency of exceeding severity,
loom up before their minds' eye with acontinuance
of the present condition of business affairs.
In addition to the general hardness of
the times, the unusual dullness in trade at this
season is due, in a measure, to the low price of
cotton and the small amount offering for sale.
As an extension of time for the payment of
taxes has been made, those who have not settled
with the State and who are holding cotton
for this purpose, will hardly sell, unless
there be a rise in the price of the fleecy staple,
until the end of the allotted period approaches,
which is the 15th of February. Treasurer
Yocom, while exercising an act of clemency
toward the people, might have given them
until the 1st of March ; but, I suppose, their
hearts must overflow with thankfulness for
the additional time allowed them to cancel
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tneir Claims wun coe oiate.
On Thursday night the grocery store of
Mr. W. Holmes Harden was broken open,
and a large amount of goods takeu therefrom.
Sixteen boxes of cigars, one box and a half
of tobacco, five sides of bacon, six hams and
ten gallons of molasses were stolen and carried
away, besides other articles such as coffee,
sugar, rice, lard, etc., to which they helped
themselves very liberally. The colored policeman,
William Jeter, who was on watch
over the street upon which the store is located,
says that the burglary must have been committed
after 4 o'clock, for he left at this hour,
and the store had not then been interrupted.
On Friday, upon the affidavit of Mr. William
McConnell, the gentleman in charge of Mr.
Harden's store, search warrants were issued
by Trial Justice Sanders. The parties in
whose hands the warrants were placed made
a diligent, but an unsuccessful search throughout
the day of various suspected houses and
places. But better luck attended their efforts
at night, for after a faithful search, the stolen
goods were found in the gin house of John
Lilly, an ex-legislator, and a colored politician
of some prominence in the county. Suspicion
pointed her finger toward the following
negroes : John Lilly, Green Lee, Sidney Hill,
Green Washington, Travis Wood, Jas. Kennedy,
James Howard, James Price, Lafayette
Davis and Charles Simmons, all of whom
have been arrested and lodged in jail. As
the majority of these thieveB are members of
the Jjaod, this institution win prooauiy ue
broken up, to the intense delight of the people
of this community, who for years have
been tortured with their discordant strains,
falsely called music. Next to seeing the rascally
musicians take their departure for the
Penitentiary, will be the inexpressible pleasure
of getting rid of the horrid sounds that have so
frequently broken the silence of night. Green
Washington, on being arrested, announced
his willingness to make a clean'breast of the
whole matter, at the expense of -his confederates
iu crime ; but as others of the robbing
party, I have been informed, are also willing
to make a good confession, Green will derive
no advantage from turning State's evidence.
Wm. H. Anderson, Esq., an old citizen of
our town, departed this life on Friday and
was buried on the following day. Several
years ago he filled the office of Clerk of the
Court for a long time, in a very acceptable
manner. He was a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and an Odd Fellow, an^was buried
with honors by the latter society.
The good work of laying the track of the
Chester and Lenoir Railroad is progressing
rapidly and successfully. An engine, belonging
to the Company was sent from this place
to-day, which will be used in conveying iron,
spikes and fishbars along the line as the trackit.
vinrr ia miehorl fnrwftrH T tnlrA nlpRHlirP in
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making my acknowledgements to Dr. A. H.
Davega for a complimentary ticket over the
Chester and Lenoir Railroad.
The Stonewall Fire Engine Company will
give a supper to-morrow evening at the "Cotton
Hotel." I have been honored with an invitation,
and, deo volente, will be present, without
iloubt. A glorious jollification is expected,
as an abundance ef good eating and good
Bpeaking will be provided for the enjoyment
of the guests. Qui.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
Columbia, Tuesday, January 18.
Both Houses assembled promptly at the
appointed hour. The Senate transacted no
business of any general interest during its sitting.
In the House, eighty members answared
to their names upon the calling of the roll,
among the number twenty-nine Conservatives.
On the eve of the recess, Governor Chamberlain
vetoed the bill to locate the county-seat
of Barnwell county, which bill was one of the
pet measures of the notorious CL P. Leslie, of
land commission fame, aud at present one of
the members of the House from Barnwell
county. It was also claimed that Leslie,
upon the re-assembling of the Legislature,
would make great efforts to have the bill passed
over the Governor's veto. The success of
Leslie, it was also understood, would be regarded
as a triumph of the opponents of Gov.
Chamberlain. So soon as the work of the
morning hour was ended, the speaker announced
that the bill to locate the county seat
of Barnwell at Blackville had been returned
by the Governor without his approval, aooooolpanied
by a statement of the reasons for the
veto. The message was then read. The Con<m.i*mnanflont
nf fli# nhiirlmtnn vkmi
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and Cbwricr says: #
"Brayton moved to make the consideration of
the veto the special order for Friday next; which
was lost by a vote of 51 nays to 32 yeas. 8everal
like motions of postponement were made, bat
were lost by a large majority. Leslie then rose to
make a speech; but before ne got started, Whipper
claimed the floor upon a privileged question,
to answer the charges made against him, in the
press of the country. His harangue occupied
fully an hour and a half in the delivery, and, as a
whole, is far too indecent for publication. It consisted
of bitter denunciation of The Newt and
Courier and Governor Chamberlain, with a general
denial of all the charges made against mm.
A few extracts will show the general tenor of the
speech. In drawing a comparison morally .between
Moses and Chamberlain, he said:."When
Moses is a saint in Heaven, Chamberlain will'be
howling in hell. D. H. Chamberlain is unfit for
earth ; to Heaven he could not ascend; and in
hell itself the devil would spurn him oat. Chamberlain
Is a black-hearted traitor, and he has gone *
so far that he must take the consequences. He
his resisted the will of the people, and the seme
spirit which rose in the time of Charles the,First
will rise now and behead him. The Constitution
commands the Governor to issue commissions to
all State officers elected, and. in refusing so to do,
Chamberlain proves himself a perjured wretch.
The News and Cornier sanctum smells of helL I
feel it my duty to myself, to my supporters, and
to my race, to take my seat as judge at 411 batards,
and I will either be denied that position by
law or be relieved by death. I will aie before I
will resign." In reviewing the charges made
nrMinot him Whinnur nfForcxA nrt nuiHonivt trv His.
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prove them, but simply denied them, one after
another, with the exception of the charge of gambling,
which he confessed was true, bat eaid that
he had sworn off now. The entire speech was
characteristic of the man, and has had the happy
effect of illustrating the charges made against
"At the close of Whipper's harangue, Leslie
got the floor, and seeing that the only chance to ,
get the matter of the veto postponed was to keep
talking till the hour of adjournment, kept np btt
sickening twaddle until his time?one hoar?had
expired. Crittenden then called the previous
question, upon which Elliott ruled that Leslie
hud another hour to speak. This Leslie took advantage
of until the hour of adjournment, when
he still had forty minutes left for to-morrow. If
a vote could have been reached to-day, the Governor
would have been sustained by a majority
vote; and it is still oonfldently believed that
Leslie is beaten in spite of all his circulars and
harangues.
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Wednesday, January 19. "
In the Senate, a bill relative to the rights
of sureties who pay the debts of principals,
and a bill relating to trial justices, passed a
third reading. . - . */i
The committee on judiciary reported favorably
upon a bill to regulate the payment of
all claims against the several counties, with
an amendment looking to the retention of the
school money in the hands of the county
treasurers for payment upon the orders of
trustees, countersigned by the school commissioner.
Mr. Hope introduced a resolution instructing
the committee having in charge the house
hill to reduce salaries, to report at ma. early day.
In the House, so soon as it met, Leslie
resumed the floor and proceeded to finish his
speech on the Barnwell-Blackville bill. Leslie
said, in opening, that he saw that nothing
that he could say would alter the evident determination
of the H6use to sustain the veto;
but he would talk out his forty minutes anyhow;
which he did, treating the members to
one of his blood-and-tb under harangues, in
which he prophesied the downfall of the Kepublican
party aud the complete subjugation
of the negro race in South Carolina. No fur
ther debate was allowed, and the vote result- S|
ed in the veto being sustained by a vote, of 76
to 22, as follows: W
Those voting in the affirmative are: Messrs. v
Bamptteld, S. Coleman, Collins, Gaither, Gantt,
Ouffin, Humbert, Jordan, Keith, Leslie, Milton,
Peterson, Rush, B. Simmons, J. A. Smith,Steele.
Thomas, Weston, Whipper, Williams and
Young?21.
Those voting in the negative are: Messrs. Austin,
Barker, Barnwell, Beattyy Bo mar, Bradley,
Brayton, Bright, Cannon, Colt, Coker, E. C. Coleman,
Copes, Cosgrove, Crittenden, Conch, Davis,
Farrow, Ferguson, Freeman, Gaillard, George,
Gary, Gibson, Goggins, Grant, Hayne, Henderson,
Hirsch, G. HTHolIand, W. M. Holland: R.
G. Howard, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson; Johnston,
P. E. Jones, Lewis, Livingston Meetze,
Melchers, Miller, Morgan, Mnller, Nesbitt, Orr,
Pinckney, Ramsey, Reedish, Reofearne. Rice,
Richardson, Richmond, Robertson, Russell, Sessions,
Scott, A. Simmons, Simons, A1 8Hhkfas,
P. Simkins, Simpson, Sloan, R. M. Smith; 8UQ*pr
ter, Thompson, Tinsley, Yandeipool, Vandlver,
Wallace, Weatnerly, Weldon, Wesberry, WMe&
man, Woodruff and Wright?78.
Speaker Elliott entered the hall immediately
after the vote bad been announced,
(Curtis being in the chair,) rose to a qdef^on
of privilege and said :
Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably anient
from the'House when the vote was taken 'OH:
the question of reconsidering and passing
"An act to locate and establish the county
seat of Barnwell county at Blackville," the
objections of the Governor to the contrary
notwithstanding, but, had I been present, I
tcould, have voted "aye" u>"
The News and Courier correspondent aaya
that "Leslie looks like a whipped cur, and
vents his spleen by proclaiming that his nqctcandidate
for Governor will be General W?,de
Hampton. The friends of the Governor are
jubilant over this."
The enacting clanse was stricken out of a
bill to establish a new judicial and election
county from portions of the counties of Colleton
and Charleston, to be known as Dorchester
county. ,^ri
A bill to bar dower in lands belonging to the.
husbands conveyed during coverture, was
postponed. ' ?
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thursday, january av.
In the Senate, J. M. Smith introduced
a concurrent resolution to adjourn sine die on
the first day of February. The resolution *u
ordered for consideration next day.
Mr. Cochran introduced a joint resolution
providing that a committee of ten be appointed,
five from each house, such committee to consist
of two from each congressional district, to
prepare a bill to re-district the State, in accordance
with the returns, of the last .census.
The resolution was ordered for future consideration.
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A bill to authorize the land commissioner
to reduce the prices at which lands purchased
for the land commission hate'been;'or* hereafter
may be, sold to actual settlers, was recommitted
to committee on public lands.
In the House, The bill to bar dower , fa
lands belonging to the husband convened.
via airain fa Iran nrt Mr.
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Brayton, Mr. Cannon, Chancellor Johnson
and Mr. Hirsch spoke on the bill, none of
whom warmly espoused the changes contemplated.
The enacting clause . was finally
stricken out of the bill, . .
The next business on the calendar .was the
reports (majority and minority) of the coor
raittee of education on school text bhbfcii,
which was postponed until the 1st of Fsbraa.
ry, until the investigations into thnfhliftSia
made against the chairman of thp OmaidlUiij
on education be reported upon.
A resolution was offered rescinding the order
made previous to the recap, debarring the
reporter of the News and Cbtirterfrom the
privileges of the floor. The resolution was
opposed by several members, hot upon the.
suggestion of Leslie for the House to demand