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Scraps and Jacts. ? Packard, of Louisiana, arrived in Auburn, Maine, (bis native place,) last Saturday. ? Ex-Governor Samuel J. Tilden sailed for Europe on Thursday last. ? There now remains but 1,200 Federal troops in the Southern States. ? Flipper, the colored West Point graduate, has been ordered to Fort Brady, Michigan, to take charge of that post. ? "Give me liberty, or give me breath," is what a Georgia girl remarked to her lover a fpw popnincrs ninpp. #v" v'v?-6 ? The colored Baptists of Louisiana, numbering 70,000 voters, bave, in convention, endorsed President Hayes. The Georgia Constitutional Convention is in session. A proposition has been introduced to reduce the homestead exemption in that State, from S3,000 to S700. ? A special dispatch to the Galveston News says Col. Brice has arrested Gen. Escabado and staff, about to cross the Rio Grande in the interest of Lerdo. ? Mr. John G. Thompson, sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives predicts that Ohio will give 20,000 Democratic majority in October. ? The exiled Modocs are living peacefully on their reservation in Kansas, and occasion ally turn a penny by selling bows, arrows and Indian notions to the whites. ? It is reported that cotton worms have appeared in considerable number at different points in the counties of Brazos, Colorado, Gaudaloupe, Nueces and Trinity River, Texas. ? Several traveling circuses this year pay no wages to ordinary laborers. Work is so scarce that men are willing to engage for their board alone, the privilege of travel beinp also an incentive. ? There are 12,000 houses to let in Philadelphia, and a real estate dealer predicts that before cold weather sets in the number will be increased to 15,000, in consequence of the doubling up of families. ? The Norristown Herald says a Montgomery county postmaster declined to purchase a photograph of Hayes because the recent order of the President doesn't permit him to meddle with politics. ? Out of twenty-one States that will hold elections next fall, the republicans are certain of only five. Thirteen are Democratic, or doubtful, with chances favoring the Democrats. ? To cure colic in horses or mules, give a tablespoonful of pulverized nux vomica in a pint of whiskey or any spirits. Relief will follow in a half hour or even sooner. If not relieved repeat the dose, but the second is rarely necessary. ? There is a most interesting widow in that appropriately named town, Hazardville, Connecticut. This lady has lost five husbands by powder-mill explosions. Is she alarmed ? Is she discouraged ? Not at all. She is about to be joined to the sixth, and he is a powdermiller, also! ? A sudden draught of hot air is reported to have passed through a cotton field and peach orchard in Western Texas, a few days ago, scorching and killing every green thing it touched for a space of one hundred and forty yards wide and four hundred yards long. ? Flipper, the colored West Point graduate, addressed an enthusiastic concourseof colored people and school marras in Atlanta the other uight. He expresses himself well pleased with his treatment at West Point, ind is sat isfied that he will be received with courtesy in the army. ? The Southern gold mines are rising again to prominence, the product of North Carolina for the fiscal year 1875-8 amounting to $10,335,000, that of Georgia to $7,379,000, and that of South Carolina to $1,381,000, a total of $19,096,000. The product for the year just closed is supposed to be much greater. Eleven stamp-mills are now running near Dahlonega, Ga., and Boston capital is the dominant interest. ? General Fields, who has been in the Egyptian military service for several years, with other distinguished American officers, announces in his last letter that the Khedive has discharged all of the American officers in his service, and he is now on his way home. The disagreement grew out of some complications arising from the position of the Egyptian Government towards the Eastern powers now at war. ? It is announced in Washington, that South Carolina Republicans, lately from Charleston, express the opinion that there will be no further contest at present by the Republicans in this State, and the propriety of assembling the Republican Executive Committee and formally disbanding the party organization is now under consideration. The Columbia Register suggests "that forthcoming developments will create numerous vacancies in the Republican State Committee, by rea /* ?1 _ C J J 1 * 1 C son oi me eniorceu auu voluntary auscuoe ui a quorum from active life in South Carolina." ? Americans are apt to be scandalized in Europe by the field labor of women, but we learu from the statements of the special agricultural correspondent of the Edinburgh Scotsman that in this country, also, women are similarly employed. Writing from the great settlement in Kansas he says : "The majority of those who have settled here within the past two years are Russians; and, being working people without capital, they have reduced the cost of labor greatly. They break prairie and plough land at 5 shillings or 6 shillings per acre, which used to cost 12 shillings or 14 shillings, and for a day's work Russian women charge only 25 cents, or 1 shilling, and ex cellent workers they are." ? William Penn soresaw, nearly two hundred years ago, the possibility of early destruction to our timber trees, and insisted on five acres out of every hundred being allowed to stand, and he especially desired that the oak and the mulberry should be preserved. Prof. Rothrock says that France requires that thirty-two per cent, of her area should be in timber, but that in the United States our proportion of timber land to area has been already reduced to twenty-five per cent. More than ten thousand square miles of timber are destroyed each year. The law of Sweden requires that for ever tree cut down two shall be planted by the tree destroyer. ? The Supreme Court of the United States has again affirmed its decisions heretofore made, that National banks are subject to State legislation, excepting where such legislation is in conflict with the laws of Congress, or where it tends to impair or destroy the utility "* of such banks as agents or instrumentalities of the United States, or interferes with tha purposes of their creation. The immediate case before us is one in which the cashier of a National bank in Vermont refused to give the treasurer of the town of Brattleboro a list of the shareholders, whereby he could impose taxes. The Vermont Supreme Court decided - ? . ? .1 . J..i_ l_ ?r. ! _l_ mat it was me uuty or me casnier to iuruisu this list, and the United States Supreme Court affirms this decision. ? A Masonic lodge in Indiana was presided over by a master who had an exaggerated notion ol" discipline. One night he met his lodge in called meeting?not a member absent? to instruct them in the work. Teaching them the use of the gavel, he had just called them up with three knocks, when he leaned too far back, fell through to the ground, four stories, and broke his neck. Picked up next morning, he was buried decently, but not a Mason came to the funeral. More strange still, not a Mason appeared any more in that village. It was inexplicable. Forty women left widows, two hundred and twenty children left orphans, eighty-four merchants left in the lurch with unpaid bills. Twenty years after that somebody went up into the fourth story, broke open the door and beheld the lodge, a lodge of skeletons! Strange, but true, they had Strictly obeyed the orders of the Vf. M., and, > waiting for the knock to seat them, starved to death. Each man was standing in an attitude of respectful attention, "looking to the east," and had not pitying citizens taken them down they would have been standing there still. Such is life. forfcviUe inquirer. YORKVILLE, S, C.: I THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 26,1877. LABOR TROUBLES AT THE NORTH. Several days ago the locomotive runners on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad struck against the contemplated action of the managers of the road, in doubling the length of train for each locomotive, whereby one-half the engineers would be discharged from the employment of the company. A strike by so large a number of men as is employed on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is no small affair ; for besides the engineers on the road, the firemen, brakemen and other train hands sympathise in the movement. In this case, the strike extending all along the line of one of the principal roads of the North, assumed formidable proportions, endangering life and property to such an extent that the local civil authorities were unable to afford protection by the usual process of law, and the military was brought into requisition. At Martinsburg and Wheeling, West Virginia, where the strike seems to have had its incipiency, after the powerless efforts of two local militia companies to suppress the disorder and threatened violence, Governor Mat '-J it-- T>?:j ? * r? | toewa appeaieu iu me jrretuueui iui uuucu States troops, which was responded to favorably, and detachments at once ordered from Washington, Fort McHenry and other points, to the scene of the disturbance. On Thursday, Governor Matthews telegraphed the President that the strike had assumed such proportions that the force sent was not adequate to overawe it, the strike having become general, extending from Martinsburg to Parkersburg, Benwood, Columbus, Newark and Chicago. At Martinsburg the strikers surrounded the militia in such force that the latter retired for reinforcements. Col. French was placed in command of the United States troops, with orders to hold them in reserve as a support to the militia. On Friday the railroad officials called on the Governor of Ohio for troops to quell the disturbance then arising in that State, the firemen having struck and refused to allow new men to take their places, and the civil authorities having declared themselves powerless. On the same day the strikers at Grafton, Pennsylvania, numbering one hundred, struck and were beyond control of the civil authorities, and a regiment of State militia was sent to the assistance of the Sheriff of the county. At Pittsburg, a meeting of the strikers was held on Friday, when they resolved to stick together, demand their wages prior to June 1st and that Hnuhlft trains, exnent coal trains. *wv? " " " ' 1 ' should be abolished. Governor Carroll, of Maryland, issued a proclamation, and ordered out troops on Friday, on account of the detention of trains at Cumberland. As the sixth Regiment, Col. Clarence Peters, was marching from its armory along Baltimore street to Camden Station to proceed to Cumberland, incompliance with the Governor's orders, the regiment was stoned and fired into by crowds on the streets. The regiment fired into the crowd and a number were killed and wounded. Much confusion and great excitement ensued. Four dead bodies were taken to the Middle District Station, and a number of wounded, six or seven, to the various drug stores. On Saturday two corapauies of artillery were ordered from Fort Monroe to Baltimore. Gen. French sent two companies from Martinsburg to Cumberland. At Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on the same day, at 5 p. m., the military were ordered to clear the crossing at 28th street, when the crowd attacked them with stones. The military fired a volley, when the crowd returned fire from revolvers. Four were killed outright and a number wounded. A dispatch gives the following account of the riot in Pittsburg: At twenty minutes to four o'clock, the Philadelnhia trooDs left Union deoot for the scene """?r ~ r _ i of the disturbance on 28th street crossing, by marching out along the track, and preceded by the sheriff and his posse. Expecting to fail iu an effort to disperse the strikers, the sheriff would endeavor to make arrests and call upon the military for required assistance. This was understood to be the plan of action determined upon, and a conflict was expected. They arrived at 28th street shortly before 5 o'clock, the railroad tracks at that point being completely blockaded with strikers. The black Hussars, of Philadelphia, were ordered to clear the railroad crossing; but not being able to do so, another company was ordered to their assistance. The military advanced with fixed bayonets, but were met with a shower of stones and missiles from the crowd. They opeued fire on the crowd indiscrirai| nately and in rapid succession. The crowd retreated towards Ea3t Liberty. There is a long list of killed and wounded. After the conflict at Pittsburg, the Secretary of War ordered Gen. Hancock to Bal! timore, and the Secretary of the Navy orderj ed vessels of the North Atlantic squadron to assist in transporting troops. ! The President also issued another proclaj raation ignoring State lines. His orders cover ; the entire United States, and warn the ob| structionists to disperse on or before 12 o'clock j on the 22d instant. A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, dated last Saturday says: "Complications have arisen at Newark, i The county commissioners refuse to vote ! money for the sustenance of the military. : The strikers came forward and guaranteed to 1 furnish food to the troops. It is reported : that the citizens have guaranteed the strikers I that they shall not want for eatables to susj tain life. The troops appear friendly to the 1 strikers, laughing and joking with them. Rumor prevails that the troops will shortly be withdrawn. Passenger travel over the Pan-Handle and Pennsylvania line is not interrupted. All trains are running schedule time." i A Cumberland, Maryland, dispatch, dated 6.30 A. M., last Saturday, says : "The rioters here and at Keyser have everything in their own hands. The rioters here number 1,500, and will be largely recruited to-day, the mining element participating. The arrested rioters were released by their comrades who surrounded the jail. A number of freight cars were pillaged last night. Women and children, with baskets, assisted in removing the plunder." The strike on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad stops all shipping over the Pittsburg & Erie and Cleaveland & Pittsburg Railroads, as these roads use Fort Wayne tracks for some distance below Pittsburg. The freight trains on the Connellsville branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Road were stopped Friday night by strikers from other roads, and the trains returned to the depot. A Philadelphia dispatch says that in consequence of the strike on Pennsylvania and other main lines and gravity of the emergency which has been upon all companies, a call has been issued for a general meeting of railroad men connected with trunk lines, and connections, to be held in New York next week, for purposes of combining against the engineers' brotherhood and trade men's union. Each road to determine after a certain date to employ no one belonging to a trade organization. To this call favorable responses have been received from Illinois, Missouri, New York, Nebraska, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and California. Detectives have been employed and are now engaged in discovering ring leaders of the present strikes, and it is the intention of the rennsyivama road to prosecute them under the new law, which makes it a felony to impede the transportation of freight over railways. The following is the latest account of the conflict in Baltimore between the solders and sympathisers with the strikers: The killed will aggregate twenty-flve. Many soldiers were wounded with stones. It appears that the soldiers were slow in gathering at their armories, and Governor Carroll was finally persuaded to allow the military to assemble by a call by the fire department. The people understood this, and sympathisers with the strikers gathered in immense numbers to obstruct the troops in reaching the armory or leaving it, and finally reaching a point of departure. The Major of the sixth company of soldiers was badly beaten while approaching the armory. The first company moving out was driven back when about midway out. The second company moved out in the same way, meeting with some resistance and same success, while other companies found easier access but moved to the depot by a more quiet route. When the fifth regiment reached the vicinity of the depet, stones came in showers. Even women, the account says, hurled stones, and adds, "at the iunction of Camden and Eutaw streets a solid mass of rough looking men blocked the passage of the soldiery. They came to a halt for a moment, and although the bricks were falling fast, Captain Zollinger counseled his men not to fire. Then he ordered them to prepare to double-quick to the depot with fixed bayonets. Drawiug his sword, Capt. Zollinger Bhouted to the mob to give way that the command might pass. A brawny man, with his arms and neck bare, who stood in the front in a defiant attitude, was knocked with the blunt of the Captain's sword, then amid the hoots and yells of the crowd the fifth regiment charged into the depot. Several shots were fired at them but they gained the depot with no casualties save those already mentioned. The crowd in front of the depot swelled in numbers, kept up coutinuous cries, calling the leading railroad officials by name, saying: "Hang them, shoot them, burn them out," &c. The soldiers as soon as they entered the depot, proceeded to get iuto the cars in waiting for them. The company that suffered the most was Company C, near the rear of the line; about 25 soldiers were more or less injured. The excitement was terrible and people iu the vicinity closed their houses. At Cumberland, Maryland, on Saturday evening, the strikers, supported by boatmen, continued defiant, threatening serious work, should the railroad authorities attempt to i- j move me irmns masseu ai mm pumi. xiurty-fiveor forty oil cars, and some other property, were burned by the rioters at Viaduct Station, a short distance from Washington. While great indecision has characterized the action of Governor Young, of Ohio, great apathy has been shown by the militia, most of whom are in sympathy with the strikers. At Altoona, Pennsylvania, one company stacked their arms and refused to do anything. In Baltimore, at 12.10 o'clock on Sunday an excited feeliug prevailed. Four hundred regular troops arrived there on that morning, and were placed under the immediate command of Gen. Hancock. As the troops from Fort Columbus marched from the President street depot up Pratt street to Camden depot a few stones were thrown from the crowd on thesidewalk and one of the soldiers was struck. This assault was apparently unheeded, as the men marched on without halting. The assail aut was promptly arrested by the police. The most turbulent scenes of the rioting were enacted at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night, when the Pennsylvania troops who had beeu sent there to suppress the strikers fired upon the crowd. The following is a graphic account of the bloody conflict between the mob and the troops : The terribly fatal effects of the shots fired by the troops exasperated citizens as well as strikers, and in less than an hour the band of workingmen from the rolling mills, coal mines and various manufacturing establishments,established a scene of conflict, determined to have revenge on the troops and railroad officials. It was stated that Gen. Pearson, commander of the sixth division of the State Guards, had directed the troops to fire before any resistance had been made, and the fact that many of those killed and wounded had gathered on the hill side merely as spectators, served to increase the bitterness of the crowd, ily eight o'clock in the evening mobs were moving about the city in various directions, sacking stores to secure arms, breaking into the armories of the military companies and preparing them??1 t/i exepiite the threats freelv exnressed. of m&ssacremg the entire Philadelphia command. By this time the military had withdrawn from the railroad, crossing at Twenty-eighth street, where the first conflict took place, and were ordered to one of the roundhouses, where they could find better protection. About 10 o'clock in the evening, a mob numbering several thousand had congregated about the Roundhouse. They had previously captured the guns belonging to Hutchmson's Battery, a local organization, and planted them so as to' command the Roundhouse. Several solid shots were fired at the building and a breach made in the walls, but when the infuriated mob attempted to rush in the military were ordered to fire. The volley of musketry which followed, and the rumor that the Gatling guns of the command were being brought into requisition caused a panic, and the mob fled precipitately for several squares, the military, meanwhile, keeping j up the liring. The rioters returned, however, but were again driven back. Finding it difficult to dislodge the military from the building, the crowd resolved to burn them out. An order to this effect was issued, and it was carried into execution with a fiendish alacrity by the rioters. In consequence of the blockade which has existed for two days, the sidings in the outer depot yard, as well as those ex tending eastward some iu>:ee or iour nines, were crowded with freight cars tilled with grain, produce and merchandise of all kinds, besides which a number of ladened oil cake and coal cars were j piled up in mass. While a portion of the mob j surrounded the building in which the military j had taken refuge, large bodies proceeded to set tire to the oil cars, and in a moment the huge volumes of black smoke which rolled upwards and out in every direction told that the work of i destruction had commenced. The sight of the I tlames seemed to literally craze the rioters, some of whom rushed wildly about with flaming torches in their hands applying them to cars indiscriminately. An alarm was sounded, and the ; lire department promptly responded, but the I rioters, who had complete control of the city, refused to permit them to go or to make any effort to extinguish the flames. The}'said they were determined to destroy the railroad company's property, but to do no injury to that belonging to j private citizens. They kept their word, too, and , when a lumber pile belonging to a citizen took j tire, the rioters themselves turned in and helped j | to extinguish the flames and remove the lumber J to a uafa rthmo TVain nftar W5W firfiri hv thfl infuriated crowd, but tho cars were so far distant from the Roundhouse that the heat did not I seriously ailect the military, although their posi- j tion was one of peril. Finally, a large party of j strikers captured a car filled with coke, which they ran from the Alleghany Valley Railroad I I track to asiding connecting with the Pennsylva- j nia Railroad. They then procured large quanti- ! ties of petroleum oil, anu pouring it over the j coke, ignited the materials. In a very few mo- j ments the car was a mass of fire, and it was then j pushed along tho tracks and forced against the ; Roundhouse. The building was soon ignited, | and the soldiers were now compelled to prepare; to fight their way out through the frenzied mass of humanity clamoring for their blood. The i building did not burn as rapidly as desired, and the mol>, bent on revenge, rushed out 011 the' road and sent bumingtrains towards the doomed building. From midnight until 5 o'clock next morning the main efforts of the crowd were directed to tiring the buildings and cars, but, about half an hour later, the mob which had been beseiging the military, left for some unexplained reason. This afforded the troops, who were in actual danger of being roasted alive, an opportunity to emerge from the building, and they succeeded in reaching Liberty street. In a very few moments they quickly formed in line and marched up to Thirty-third street, and thence to Pennsylvania avenue and Butler street. Their objective point was the United States arsenal on Butler street, where they expected to gain shelter. While turning into Butler street, however, the leaders had discovered their retreat, and fully one thousand, well armed and supplied with ammunition, followed in pursuit. Some of the troops tired at the citizens, either accidentally or intentionally, as they were moving along, and this added fury to the cry for revenge. When they reached the arsenal the commander refused to admit them. He said he had but ten men, and would be powerless to hold the place if the mob should attack it. He consented, however, to take care of the wounded, and they were accordingly carried to the hospitals. The main body of troops continued their march out Butler street, a fusilade being kept up on them by the mob as they moved forward. The shots fired killed one of the soldiers. Before they reached the arsenal, and while nearly opposite the Cemetery gate, fully a mile above the arsenal, two others were killed, and were left lying on the sidewalk. They continued their flight, and crossed over to the north side of the Alleghany River on the .Sharpsburg bridge, the mob following them as rapidly as possible. After reaching the north side the troops scattered and in this wav the mob was divined into very small bodies. In the meantime the city was in a state of anarchy. Thousands who had not joined in the pursuitof the fleeing troops gathered about the burning buildings and trains, and assisted in spreading the flames wherever they had not been applied. By 7 o'clock the fire had extended from Millville station to Twentieth street, and enveloped hundreds of cars, the extensive machine shops, two ronnd-houses, the depots and office of the Union Transfer Company, blacksmith shops, store-houses, and numerous other buildings making up the terminal facilities of this mammoth corporation. In the round-houses were 1'2S first-class engines, which had been housed in consequent^ of the strike. These were totally destroyed, but even the immense loss which will be sustained in this item is but a trifle in the aggregate of damage done. The scenes transpiring on Liberty street, along the line of which the tracks of the railroad run, simply beggars description. While hundreds were engaged in firing the cars and making certain of the destruction of the valuable buildings at the outer depot, thousands of men, women and children were engaged in pillaging the cars. Men armed with heavy sledges would break open the cars, and then the contents would be thrown out and carried off by those bent on profiting by the reign of terror existing. The street was almost completely blockaded by persons laboring to carry off tho plunder they had gathered together. In hun dreds of instances wagons were pressea into service to enable the thieves to get away with their goods. Mayor McCarthy, early in the day, endeavored to stop thepillage, but the handful of men at his command were unable to control the crowd, who wero desperate in their anxiety to secure the goods. The pillage was checked, but the mob lired the cars, and then procoeded with the work of destruction. The mob worked very quietly, and it was a noticeable fact that a few of the railroad employees were engaged in the work of destruction. Here and there a man who had been discharged might have been seen leading a crowd, but generally the ringleaders were men who had never been employed on any railroad. Many half grown boys were foremost in the work of devastation. At 3.30a burning car was run down the grade under the sheds surrounding the Union depot. Up to this time it was hoped that the build ing would escape, but the mass of pine lumber used in the shedding over the tracks was soon a sea of fire. While the fiames were raging here, themob pillaged the freight depot ofthe Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad which is in close vicinity. Boxes of freight received for shipment were broken open and their valuable contents carried off. Alter plundering the depot for nn hour, and when flour, hams, and all kinds of provisions had been carried away, the torch was applied, and soon the vast depot and company's general offices adjoining were a mass of names. The railroad buildings destroyed at Pittsburg were as follows: Two round-houses, one machine shop, superintendent's office, car repair shop, blacksmiths' shop, three or four oil houses, the Union Transfer Depot, and the offices of the Pullman Car Company, landing and offices, dispatchers' office, powder house, the Union Depot Hotel, the Pan Handle Railroad engine house, general offices and freight depot, and the freight depot of Adam Express Company. The freight DiHoKin./, PinoSnnnf! Otul Sf T.OIliu ucpui ul i/IIC x ninuui^, viiivuiuatii mum ..-j and the general offices of the same company were tired at half-past 4 o'clock the same afternoon. These are in close proximity to the Union Depot. LATEST?THE STRIKE COMING TO AN END. A Pittsburg dispatch dated last Sunday conveys the following information, from which it appears that the troubles will eud without further violence: Citizens early in the day effected an organization which has subdued the rioters and restored the control of the town to its municipal authorities. They have invited the fugitive Philadelphia soldiers to return, assuring them of protection. Many citizens marched to the wharf and prevented accessions to the thieves from the river. The disorderly element should not now be called strikers, because the real strikers are rendering effective aid to the municipal authorities in maintaining order. The Mayor has possession of the cannon and most of the arms used by the mob, and the reign of terror may be regarded over. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Rev. J. M. Carlisle, of Spartanburg, has invented a corn-husking machine. ? The citizens of Doko have changed the name of that place to Blythewood. ? Onvornrkr TTumnton returned to Colum- I bia on Thursday last. ? Sixteen thousand dollars of State and county taxes have been collected in Anderson. ? The summer meeting of the Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance, convened at Williaraston, Anderson county, on yesterday. ? Mr. J. R. Garvin, aged twenty-two years?a son of Leauder Garvin, formerly of Yorkville?died in Winnsboro on Thursday of week before last. ? Deputy-Marshal Hubbard, who was lodged in jail in Columbia several weeks ago, on the charge of assault and battery, has been released on bail. ? Senator Buck, of Horry county, has turned over to the Board of County Commisfin nf tiio Qfllarv onvinor t.hat. hp OIUUCIO V A VV/ \J A IIIW HMlttlJ) W ...fe - M. , voted for $500 and be thinks that amount enough. ? The Abbeville Medium advocates the removal of the State capital from Columbia to Charleston, with the additional suggestion that if the up-country desire a full share of the honors, there be two capitals, one at Charleston and one at Greenville ! ? The Democrats of Fairfield hare nominated the following persons as candidates to fill vacancies in that county: Clerk of the Court?W. H. Kerr. County Commissioners?R. E. Ellison, Capt. John A. Hinnant, and Cornelius R. Means, colored. The time for the election has not yet been fixed. ? There is a rumor from Columbia that evidence before the investigating committee convicts D. T. Corbin of using the mining phosphate royalty to buy his Senatorship by paying $200 each to the Mackey legislators, and that he has taken fright and sailed for Europe. ? Dr. G. Washington Airaar, during the latter years of the war, a resident of Yorkville, died in Charleston on Thursday last. Dr. Airaar had been confined to his bed about three weeks with rheumatism, which finally affected his 9pine and resulted in a peaceful death, in the 49th year of his age. ? The Comptroller-General has instructed County Auditors to receive returns of person-; al property without penalty until the expira-1 tion of seven weeks from the date of com-! mencement. The books of the Treasurer are J to be kept open for the collection of taxes for thirty days from the date of the public an-! nouncemeut of his readiness to collect the! said taxes. In York county, the collections were commenced on the 5th day of July. ? Ex-Treasurer Cardozo was arrested in Co- J lumbia, on Saturday last, charged by the in-1 vestigating committee with having raisappro-1 priated public moneys belonging to the State. The charge is that he had paid an account, amounting to 815,816.90, f.o T. W. Price & Co., of Philadelphia, in the face of a special I enactment of the legislature forbidding the payment of the account. Cardozo was bailed in the sum of $20,000 to appear for trial at the October term of the Court of General Sessions for Richland county. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Col. Thomas M. Holt has been re-elected President of the N. C. Railroad. ? Mrs. Bragg, widow of the late Governor Bragg, died in Raleigh on the 17tb instant. ? The McGinn Mining Company, in Mecklenburg, struck a very rich vein of gold ore last week. ? Capt. Joseph Hildesheimer, of Greensboro, will probably be appointed Consul to Bremen. ? David P. Ligon, well known for a number of years pastas a conductor on the N. C. Railroad, died in Richmond, Va., on the 17th instant ? A. W. Howerton, a mail agent on the Western N. C. Railroad, has been arrested, charged with robbing the mail. The detectives caught him by means of a decoy letter containing a euiu ui iiiuuojr. ? The Supreme Court?Justice Reade rendering the opinion?has decided that causes may be removed from the State Courts to the United States Courts where defendants have been indicted for acts done under the revenue laws. ? A. W. Loyns, the merchant who so mysteriously disappeared from Charlotte two or three months ago, returned on Wednesday last. He says he was robbed in Washington, pursued the robbers to Omaha, then returned by way of Atlanta, Ga., where he was detained by sickness. ?In Charlotte on Wednesday evening last, a young man named Jno. W. Roberts stabbed and seriously, if not fatally, wounded Mr. McD. Arlcdge, who keeps a store near the N. C. Railroad depot. Roberts has been a cotton-sampler in Charlotte for some time past. The affair took place at Arledge's store, whither Roberts went and engaged in the fight. In default of $1,500 bail Roberts was committed to jail. At the latest accounts Mr. Arledge was considered out of danger. ? The Charlotte Observer says an agent of the Catholic Colonization Society, of Philadelphia, has purchased 30,000 acres in Transylvania and Henderson counties for emigrants, and that he has made arrangements for the removal to these lands of sixty-five families of people, who expect to come to them about the first of September, settle on them, and there make their homes. These families are from eight different States of the Union, including Maine in the East and Wisconsin in the Northwest, and locating here they will turn their attention to farming, stock-raising, etc. They are practical, industrious men and women. THE FENCE*"QUESTION. The following article on the fence question, from the pen of Mr. J. Hunter, of Mecklenburg county, N. C., is another strong argument in favor of the proposed change. Mr. Hunter writes from his observation of the practical working of the no fence system in his own township. Mecklenburg, N. C., July 17, 1877. Dr. A. P. Campbell?Dear Sir:?You write, requesting me to give my opinion on ti e operations of the "stock law," or as we sometimes call it, the "no fence law." We have been under the workings of this law in Sharon Township, in which 1 live, for two or three years, and I feel safe in pronouncing it a real blessing to the people. When 1 say people, I mean all classes engaged in the cultivation of the soil. The land owner is exempt from a considerable out-lay in fencing up his farming lands, and, besides, he can preserve his forest timber for more important purposes. The soil on every farm is growing richer every year by the 1 J _ ? ^ _ l_ 1 _ undisturbed railing ana aecayingui vegeiauie matter and exemption from the treading of domestic animals. It benefits the poor man in enabling him to live comfortably on a small tract of land, even though he has but little timber. I know a man in this county, who has a small tract of good land, but having no timber he was unable to settle on it. Now, that the "No fence law" has carried in that township, he says be is going home. No tenant here is without as good pasture as his landlord unless he is unwilling to assist in keeping up the required fence. Common sense teaches every man that he who purchases a piece of land should not be compelled to fence it at cost equal to its clear profits for years, merely to keep his neighbors' stock from grazing on it. The large amount of land now cultivated, and the difficulty and cost of getting and preparing timber to enclose it, is the strongest argument in favor of the law under consideration. Every farmer should aim to cultivate every suitable acre of cleared land on his farm, and improve it at the same time by a system of intelligent management, with green crops turned under, or in some other way. But this is totally impracticable under your presentsystem of fencing. Since our redemption from that burdensome system, we are making great advances in that direction. Hundreds of acres are now successfully cultivated that could not be cultivated before, owing to the cost and inconvenience of fencing. Acres of meadow lauds are now producing good crops of natural grass that could not be utilized before. Not only the utility of this law, but the beauty of its workings are attractive. How it would delight you to ride along some of our roads, where we once had a fence on each side, doubled and twisted with grape vines and bushes; but now, corn, cotton, wheat and oats growiug to the very track of your buggy, and some times even under it, if the roads be a little muddy. When a farmer here wishes to haul his hay, oats, or corn from the field, he is not compelled to place Johny at this gap, and Harry at that; no, he drives unhindered and unobstructed all over the premises, provided he has skillfully arranged his turning rows before hand. Everv farmer knows bow laborious it is to keep up fences across streams, and also how injurious fences are in stopping ditches on low grounds; but carry your "stock lata" and you will have none of this trouble. When this law was 6rst agitated with us, there were many sensible men opposed to it. They could not see how a man could live out in the United States, and have his crop out there too, without, in some way, suffering damage. But I do not know a laud owner in our township opposed to it now. Gates are a great annoyance to travelers, and I think from what experience I have in traveling in your State, that you have your full share of them. Just adopt the stock law and you will give them as deadly a blow as you did the carpet-baggers and thieves a short time ago. Since the adoption of this law in our township, five times the amount of clover and the various grasses are sown that were before; enabling the industrious farmer to nave an abundance of nutritious food for his stock. There is also a decided improvement in the quality of the stock, considering the short time the law has been in operation. I am decidedly of the opinion that the profitable < workings of this new, but excellent law, will become more and more popular.until it will nn fVia oarv thnm.hedges and remove the juui, up ?,uw ?~.J ..... 0 stone-fencings to make way for the more profitable productions of the earth. Our ancestors, you know, in Old Meeklen < burg, were the first to declare their independence from British domination. And is it' i not a little strange, as well as praiseworthy, j that we, their descendants, are the first to set I at naught and defy that old usurper, Fencing,' i which demanded our labor for that which j < was not bread. You asked me to write in . haste. When you read this, you will see that! < I obeyed orders. J. Hunter. i < LOCAL AFFAIRS. HEW ADVERTISEMENTS. C. H. Judson?Greenville Female College. A. H. Davega, President?Stockholders' Meeting. W. H. A J. P. Herndon?Flour?Meal?Gin Bristles?Candy?Canned Goods?Leather?Mo- ' lasses. | M. Strauss?Preserving Process. Samuel M. McNeal?Nothing Short of It. I J. A. McLean, Judge of Probate?To the legal i heirs of William Anderson, deceased. T. C. Robertson, County Treasurer?Tax Notice. 1 -= r* .. i FINE TOMATO. Mr. E. P. Castles has presented to us a ] mammoth tomato, weighing a pound and a ] quarter. ^ FINE FLOUR. i Mr. E. D. Thomasson, proprietor of Laurel { Mills on Crowder's creek, has favored us with < a sack of flour made at his mills, which is of j choice quality, and equal to any we have ever < known produced in this section. j TAX COLLECTING. 1 Treasurer Robertson will commence the I collection of taxes at Yorkville to-day, and 1 will continue until the time 6xed for closing < the books. The treasurer has made a new ! appointment, as will be seen in his advertise- 1 ment, for McConnellsville. The amount col- ( lected up to this date is about $3,300. < GREENVILLE FEMALE COLLEGE. We direct attention to the advertisement of the above institution, which offers superior 1 educational facilities to the young ladies of ' the land. The President of the College is assisted by an able faculty, whose zeal and | ability as teachers have placed the school in the front rank of similar institutions. . i THE FESTIVAL. I The festival last Thursday night, in aid of | the Jenkins Rifles, was a complete success in j every particular. Notwithstanding the in- | ?(MAAtltAM an/] tkvoafano/] pain UieuiGUUJ Ul 1*110 ncaiuu, auu ?uiv?vwuvu j during the night, the attendance was large, ( and sales of the various articles offered were j brisk. We learn that a handsome sum?about , 8150?was realized. ( I THE RAIN FALL. An abundance of rain has fallen during the 1 past few days, and from -he overflowing of ' streams, much damage has been inflicted, upon 1 fencing and the growing crops on bottom 1 lands. According to the statement of our Rock Hill correspondent, the damage to 1 property in that section of the county is un- ' precedented. , ( j YORK COUNTY COTTON. ( The Charlotte Observer says that a few days , ago a 6rra in that city bought forty-eight , bales of cotton from York county, S. C., ( which, that paper adds, is pretty good, con- j sidering the season. It is pretty good for the , farmers who carried it over from last year, and what, in hatter, we are inclined to the be- . ~ "w 9 " I lief that there are several bales more of the j staple hid away in various parts of the county. "THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE." The writer of the following, who signs himself "Maul and Wedge," and who evi- ' dently regards the making of rails and build- < ing fence a pleasant recreation, has handed ( us the following short argument in favor of ' his theory, complaining, at the same time, 1 that he has seen nothing in the papers in op- ' position to the proposed change. We "fix 1 up" his communication and print it with 1 pleasure, as follows: It seems to me that it is the aim of some < men to have as many poor people as possible, : and this fence matter is another dive to make a hireling a slave. The State has a good < many grumblers. They go for individual 1 government. Now, I honestly wish that all ' the laboring men will think for themselves. > Come to your place of voting and stop the < inpvilahlp iniurv. I sav what I think. Maul and Wedge. THE SIMMS MONUMENT. The Rock Hill Herald reminds the editors of a duty imposed upon them at the meeting of the Press Association, last May, when it was resolved by that body that every editor in the State should become a committee of one to solicit subscriptions, to the amount of $50 in each county, for the purpose of paying the balance due on theSimms monument, the bust part of which has been hnisbed in New York more than a year and not shipped because the artist has not been paid. Capt. Ivy, of the Herald, has assumed the collection of half of the above amount in this county, and leaves it to us to collect the other half. We therefore give notice that we are prepared to receive and forward such sums as the admirers of Mr. Simms may feel disposed to contribute for the object in view. Mr. Simms' reputation as a writer and historian is national, and yet the people of bis native State are slow to recognise his woith by erecting over hia last resting place a tribute in ' honor of so illustrious a man. We hope the ' appeal will meet a generous response, and j feel assured that Yorkville and vicinity will ( not fall behind our neighboring town of Rock | Hill, in subscribing the required sum. < I THE FAST SCHEDULE. ( By the fast schedule on the Greenville and i Columbia Railroad, the Charleston papers now reach Yorkville about eight hours earlier ^ than formerly, coming via Greenville and 8 being delivered at 8 o'clock, A. M., instead of j being detained at Columbia and reaching here f in the afternoon, via Chester. This arrange- e ment is quite acceptable to the people of Yorkville; for, besides receiving the Charles- t ton papers at an earlier hour, business corres- c pondence received in the morning can be an- ? swered, via Greenville on the afternoon of the f same day. This convenience, however, does f not seem to apply to Greenville, as the mail { is delivered there at 10 o'clock at night, too a late for an answer to be returned by the mail c next morning, and hence four days are occu- 8 pied in the transmission of a letter and itsreply on a Hue that makes the trip in a single n dav. This fact is urged as an argument d against the new schedule, which does not seem i to meet the approval of the business men * along the line of the Greenville and Colum- 8! bia Railroad. 1 In this connection it is but due to remark that the Columbia Register reaches Yorkville, p as heretofore, on the same day of publication, n anticipating the Charleston papers about fif- a teen hours. e ROCK HILL NEWS. g We clip the following items from the ^ Hampton Herald of last week: j Mr. John A. Shurley, of Ebenezer, met g with the serious accident on Tuesday night of a having bis pistol to fire in his own hands, the ? entire contents passing through his left hand, a He is said to be a great sufferer, and it is i; feared that the hand may have to be amputated. I On Sunday before last, LaFayette Gillum, ti a negro tenant living on the plantation of Mr. b Jeff. Lumpkin, about five miles north of h Rock Hill, was found dead in his house. It ( aeems that the unfortunate man had been in si bad health for several months, but was able to work much of the time, and had spent most S of the day previous to his death in hoeing fl cotton. Trial Justice Fewell summoned a o jury of inquest, whose verdict was that the 1 deceased came to bis deatn irom natural i v. causes. . .. -i. , w, . I d Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTEB FROM ROCK HILL. Rock Hill, S. C., July 23. i Since my last communication to the En- w juiber, many and varied have the changes ^ been in our town and the State. Since the J poke of oppression has been removed, our M people are progressing onward with renewed ^ rigor and untiring energy, cheerfbl aud hopeful of a better time coming. The wheat and oat crop have exceeded the most sanguine expectations, and some of the roost uncommon yields have been realized by farmers of the surrounding country. Mr. J. 3. Poag gathered from a choice patch of three teres, seventy-five bushels, the rest of bis whpafc rrnn ftveracin? fifteen bushels to the " ??- - T d ~~O sere. Mr. J. Rattaree realized ao average crop of nioeteeo bushels to the acre. Oats in many places proved equally as good. More oats and wheat were sown than at any time since the war. the farmers having devoted their time, money and best lands to the cultivation of cotton, almost to the entire neglect of small grain crops. It is highly gratifying to see that the farmers of this country seem now so folly aroused to the utility and economy of growing small grain enough, not jnly for home consumption, but for market, in the sale of which they will, doubtless, in sll cases, realize more clear profit than by growing cotton exclusively. The growing crops in this section, were, up Lo Thursday, very promising. On that day, between the hours of 11 and 1 o'clock, there came a rain which some of the oldest citizens my is unprecedented. Never before, to their recollection, has so much rain fallen in so short a time. Capt J. F. Workman says he bas lived upon Fishing creek for more, than thirty years, and he has never before seen the stream at such a height. The waters covered the whole face of the country, rendering it impossible to locate accurately the'channel of the creek. The other smaller creeks were correspondingly high, sweeping everything before their turbid, rapid waters, and bearing Etway every fence along their course. Col. Little says he has been a resident near the creek (it running through his place) for fiftysight years, and be is satisfied that the creek, from the rains of last Thursday, was four feet higher than since his recollection. All Lbe fences in range of the waters of Fishing creek, Wild-Cat and Toole's Fork were swept sway, leaving not a rail. . Major W. L. Bobsrtson had three hundred dozen bundles of very fine rust-proof oats washed away, and up to Saturday night had not found a living cow on bis place. He thinks the cows were in their usual range on the oreek bottoms when the rain came, and were drowned. The railroad bridge over Toole's Fork was glided, by the water, some twelve inches, causing the down train to lay over here till after 12 o'clock that night Mr. R. W. Workman informs me that on Friday morning following, be and his laborers went into the bottoms to gather the rails and straighten up the corn. While tbasengaged, guile a heavy rain came upon them. They worked on, regardless of the shower, but soon they were forced to leave the bottom for high land, as the water had, in a very short time, risen up around them to their waists.- He asked the negro man working with him? 'Tom, what do you think of the fence law, now?" "Ah! boss," was the answer, "God Almighty has done passed the fence law now. Tt's no use to resist him !" The darkey was sertainly correct; for the farmers cannot now rebuild the fences which were swept away' by the freshet. The only way to save themselves now is to erect gates at the ends of the lanes m the highways. I am sure, uuder the existing circumstances, none will raise a dissenting voice. There need be no legislation in this case of extreme necessity. None, as yet, have been able to _ ' ascertain the amonnt of damage they have sustained. The question of Fence or No Fence has agitated the minds of the citizens of Catawba township since first an election was ordered, rhe new system, proposed by the law, of fensing the stock, instead of the crops, meets with more determined opposition, on the part >f many, than was first anticipated by the * . <*.? . i r : IdVOCaies or roe new system. v annus rraiKiOB ind arguments of every conceivable idea have been advanced by the opposing party to defeat the project; while, on the other hand, the idvocates as strenuously and forcibly present he utility and economy of the proposed :hange. On last Saturday our town was alive with litizens. The fence question Wits the entire ind consuming topic of the day. Excitement an high, reminding one of the Haitapton :anvass. Some, I'regretted to observe, who )ppoeed the present measure, were disposed o introduce politics, and bring op old issues, vhich now rest and sbonld ever rest,' buried ar beneath the better feeling which seems to jrevail amongst us. The changing of the election precinct from Rock Hill!to Hopewell Church; teemed to lisconcert a few; but-their better feelings iredominated, and soon they became recon:iled, and resumed their efforts in hehilf Of he proposed change with a cheerful but more - ?j -?i? leujruiiucu rcuuivo w WIU, AUO vuaugc 10 lot conducive to a defeat. . 1 ' Oar town baa been dull fatfi: tame time. Basineas seemed stagnant. Our eyes were eldora gladdened witb the appearance of a gentleman from the country, either ' for retention or on business?an evidence that the armers were otherwise and more profitably iraployed. The Rock Hill Dramatic Association enterained quite a large crowd in Holler's Hall ?n Friday night last, with the highly amusing, uggestiveand instructive temperance drama, 'Ten Nights in a Bar room," concluding the tvening's entertainment with the laughable arce, "Rough Diamond." The entire perormance was a complete success. All of the ictors and actresses acquitted themselves in a nost handsome and creditable manner. They ire all amateur performers?some even iovicea. Notwithstanding the performance $ tras par exellence. More especially would we lotice the character of Sample Swicbel in the rama of Ten Nights in a Bar-room, rendered n a most charming, natural 8nd becoming tyle by our friend, J. B. Hope. Most of the cenery used upon the stage by the Associa* ion was designed and painted by hira. It j beautiful and appropriate. '' The evening entertainments given by the Lssociation tend greatly to relieve the mootony of our town, and enable us to while way pleasantly, and often profitably, the arly evening hoars. Our new trial justice, S. M. Fewell, injrms me that within the past month, his ofce has not paid enough to defray the expense necessary to keep the office in operation, le has thus far given entire satisfaction, iince entering upon bis duties he has had ome vexed questions of law brought into his ourt. He bids fair to make one of our best UU IJ1UOI CiiiUIUUt JUOUt'CQy U lopcuoiug JUOblWO a a fair and impartial way. We are reliably informed that on last Viday, in the town of Lancaster, an altercaIon took place between Mr. Thomas F. Clyurn and Mr. William 8ims. It ended m a rah words for the time; bnt afterwards Mr. Hyburn found Mr. Sims standing on the treet. He walked up to him and struck him sveral blows with his walking-cane. Mr. >im9 drew his pistol and fired upon him, inicting severe wounds through both thighs, ne in the side, and one in the abdomen, 'he last is likely to prove fatal. Mr. 8ims ras lodged in jail. 1 As to the cause of the ifficulty, I am uninformed. Lux. :