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$f craps audi Jacts. ? The Russian people are said to be* kept in dense ignorance as to the events of the war, J even as to the fate of their relatives among the soldiery. ? The Virginia Agricultural Society has unanimously selected Governor Hampton to deliver an annual address at the approaching State Fair. President Hayes and his Cabinet have also been invited to be present. ? Harara, of the Dubuque Herald, and i Egg3, a member of the Legislature, are talked of by the Democrats of Iowa as candidates for Governor and Lieut-Governor. The Hamm and Eggs ticket ought to take in these times. ? The railroad system at Searcy, White county, Arkansas, consists of four miles of wooden rails laid on a natural road bed. The equipment is one working car; ths working force is one mao; the motive power is one | mule, and the fare from the outside world to Searcy is 81. There was no strike on the Searcy Railroad. ( ? The publishers of Sumner's Life and Speeches complain that there is little or no sale for the books. Many Republicans forsook Sumner when he refused to swallow Grant & Co. Many other people have lost all interest in him since contemplating the evil he has brought upon the country by his negromania. And yet Mr. Sumner was a man of very remarkable talent and industry. ? The approprirtion of the Georgia Legislature not being adequately the sura of $25,000, to defray the expenses of the late constitutional convention, Gen. Toombs advanced that amount from his own private purse, or i pocket, or safe, or whatever receptacle in which he keeps his spare change. Such men : are handy to have about when appropriations fall short. , ? Only a few months ago there were 14 1 companies of artillery and one regiment and ' niue companies of infantry in the Depart- i raent of the South, composed of the States of 1 North and South Carolina, Georgia and J U)/va!/ln fln/J Ta?^ n^nonft XTntxr fKnPO Q PA AM ] V 1 X'lUllUft auu ICUUCOOCOI x^wn vuv*v M?v v-.y six companies of artilery and two of infantry. J In the Department of the Gulf, composed of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Ala- j bam a, portions of Tennessee and Kentucky, ] there were three regiments of infantry in ' March last. Now there are only two com- < pauies. And yet everywhere in the South law and order reign supreme. ? Last Friday, as the train was leaving Pensacola, Florida, the sheriff, with a posse, boarded the cars to assist two Texan officers I to arrest the notorious John Wesley Harden, who is said to have committed twenty-seven ( murders, and for whose body $4,000 reward has been offered by an act of the legislature 1 of Texas. His last murder in Texas was the killing of the sheriff of Comanche county. 1 He has lived in Florida for several years as i John Swain. Being related to the county officers, he has escaped arrest. About twenty shots were fired in making the arrest. Hardens companion, named Mann, who had a pistol in his hand, was killed. ? A New York letter says: "Advices from India report a steady increase in the cotton manufacturing interests of that country, and i more macmnery is oeing maae ai me present i time, and has been, for a year or more past, for that far-off land, than for America or any European city. Indeed, the mills of Manchester, England, and Lowell, Massachusetts, could find active employment to-day in India, whereas they now stand, for the most of the i time, idle. In the vicinity of Bombay, where there was once but two cotton manufactories, j there are now about forty, and the progress | is onward. It is here we have the solution of ( the reiterated cables during the past year or eighteen months of a dull and depressed 1 trade in the English cotton manufacturing districts. England has lost her grip upon ( her hitherto lucrative India trade, aud India -j is manufacturing for herself. It is a revolu- , tion in trade, and the same revolution is being ' every month more and more felt in our own Eastern manufactories. Where these once had an immensely profitable business with the ' South, they now have next to no business, i because of the South steadily building its ] own factories." ? Governor Wade Hampton has said many good things within the last year calculated to , remove any doubts of his entire loyalty and . ' ?1 i ? ii? -r L!- r?-il L..4 l or me joyuiiy 01 uis iouowero, uut ue uno ucqtiently been suspected (very unjustly) of 1 speaking from motives of self-interest words ] which he did not mean and which his friends , could not endorse. He is now the Governor of South Carolina, aud under no pressure to , speak otherwise than he feels, and he recently responded to a serenade at the White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, where the surroundings ( were calculated to arouse any lingering trace > of "rebel" sentiments that he might have in i him, but his words were as bravely patriotic as ever. He said that he was willing to pledge : the people of the North that those of South Carolina would prove as brave, honest and loyal in defence of the government and Con- 1 stitution of the United States as cny people of < this Republic, aud he explained that when he < spoke of the Constitution he meant "all of ' the amendments and all that they implied." , There will be small room for misunderstand- , ings between North and South wheu all the Southern leaders follow Wade Hampton in speaking out in as clear and emphatic a style 1 as that.?Philadelphia Ledger. ? The boring of an artesian well has led to some interesting geological discoveries in the i strata beneath the city of Sacramento, California. After passing through strata of loose , sand, gravel, clay, boulders, &c., the tools, at a depth of eight hundred and eighty-six feet, struck soapstone, then passed into cemented ' Hfind and at 1.090 feet struck wood, which ( whb met with at intervals until a depth of I 1,108 feet was reached. The wood is black, ( but in a good state of preservation, looks like j, pine or redwood, and remains solid after ex- ! posure to the air. Soapstone followed the j1 cemented sand and was in turn followed by |'' cemented sand at a depth of 1,160 feet, and ' the boring tools have been in that substance 1 ever since. The tubing is full of water to J within about fifty feet of the surface of the [ ( ground. About the time a depth of 1,075 feet was attained, gas commenced bubbling up j ( through the water, and one night when a can- ' die was lowered down to look at the water,! there was quite a little explosion. The hole in the tubing was covered over at the top, ] leaving an opening in the centre through which a piece of half-inch gas pipe was passed. The gas escaping through this pipe was ignited and blazed up to a height of 2* feet, burning with a bluish flame, but neither 1 when burning nor otherwise, did it emit any i odor. The next morning the gas would not . ignite, but that afternoon it burned freely < again. Wood has been found at several j, depths besides that mentioned above, the low- j j cot hoinor 1 390 feet when some of the nieces ! " -? ? ; ?- * , taken out had a coatiDg of cemented sand, j showing that the stick of timber from which !.' it was taken was lying in that species of de- \ posit. ( ? A reporter of the New York Tribune de- !, scribes a visit to the office of Mr. C. A. Cheev-! er, the agent of the telephone in this coun-1 try. He found that geutleman surrounded j{ by telephone instruments. Mr. Cheever has i lately placed in New York several telephone 11 instruments and wires. One of these con-11 nects his office with the Champion Burglar | Alarm Company's office at Thirteenth street j and Broadway, by a circuitous route, using . one of their old telegraph wires, between three and four miles in length, as the medium ! ' of communication. Mr. Cheever has another 1 wire running to Broad street, in commuuica- j tion with an establishment engaged in the t construction of telegraph lines. Another ( line connects Mr. Cheever's office with the of- j fice of Dickerson & Bearaan, lawyers, iD the Staats Zeitung building. The reporter en-> joyed a conversation with Mr. Beaman over ' this wire, and found that the words could be ' transmitted at the rate of about two hundred < a minute. Mr. Cheever is erecting a line for t the Clyde Steamship Company from its office in Bowling Green to Pier No. 2, North River, from which its steamships sail. This is a circuitous line about five miles in length. The piers of the Brooklyn bridge are also being connected by telephones with the superintendent's office, so that all the movements of the "travellers" in carrying the wire across from pier to pier can be communicated and directed without the use of signal flags as at present The currents of sound in these telephones are carried by a single wire in either direction. All that it is possible to do in ordinary conversation between two people sitting within two feet of each other in a room, cau be done at the distance of five or ten j miles, or even a greater distance, by simply j ?U~ on/1 onnii Lr i iwr a IWtlo aldWPr i raisiug buc vuitc auu M <iw?v , than naturally. The telephone instruments ! themselves are very simple, consisting of two \ wooden tubes, one of which is placed at the j mouth, the other at the ear. The extension j of these telephones all over the city, in place j of the electric telegraph, is thought to be only a question of time. Ibe forfeviUe tfvfMtm. YORKViIJLE. S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 30, 1877. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name r>f the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and State in full, and sena the amount of the subscription by draft or post-office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirer is delivered free of postage to all subscribers residing in York county, who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paia by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that cur terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Greenville county fair will be held about the last of October. ? The State Treasurer is engaged in paying out the school appropriations. All of the counties are to have their quota at once. ? Judge T. 0. P. Vernon died at his residence iu Spartanburg, on Saturday, the 18th instant, in the 57th year of his age. ? J. D. F. Duncan and R. L. Hope, of York county, have been drawn as jurors for the next August term of the United States District Court. ? The Governor has appointed Wm. R. Davie, Esq., of Landsford, Chester county, as an aid-de-camp, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. ? Ira White, a colored penitentiary conffiet from Cheater countv. emDloved on a plantation near Columbia, while attempting to escape, one day last week, was shot and mortally wounded by the guard. ? Ab a "sign of the times," it is announced in Charleston that the price of lager beer has been reduced to five cents a glass. It is sixteen years since this beverage has been sold at that price in Charleston. ? Ex-Clerk A. O. Jones was released from Columbia jail on Friday last, on a bond precisely the same as that or woodrutt? $27,000 in Bonanza warrants and $10,000 in real estate, his wife being surety. ? Ex-Associate Justice Wright left Columbia, on Friday night, for New York. It is stated that the Judge kept his proposed departure very quiet, and it is thought that he will not voluntarily return to South Carolina. ? Capt. Butler P. Alston, a native of Yorkville, is priucipal of the Male Academy, at Bamberg, in Barnwell county. A correspondent of the News and Courier writes a very nlcaosnt nornorrRnh in rnmmfindatinn of Cant. r """'" I 6--r- 1 Alston and his school. ? The Educational Convention was in session in Columbia last week, busily engaged in the work of revising the defective school laws of the State, with a view to having their amendments submitted to the legislature at the next session. ? For some time there has been considerable dissension in the Democratic ranks in Fairfield county, in consequence of two tickets being in the field for county commissioners and clerk of the court. One of the tickets was nominated by a county convention. The other was known as the "Citizens' Ticket," and was the result of individual enterprise. The schism has been healed by the withdrawal of the latter ticket, and the Democratic party of the county now presents an unbroken front. ? Last week a public meeting was held in Clarendon county, to take the initiatory steps for the building of a narrow gauge railroad to run from Georgetown, S. C., to connect with the Chester and Lenoir Railroad at Chester. It is proposed to run the road freni Georgetown to Lane's, on the Northeastern road, thence to Manuing, thence to Sumter, thence by Bishopville (and perhaps Camden) to Lancaster, and terminate at Chester. It is stated that the route suggested offers many advantages, being free from heavy grading till it reaches the upper end. The whole length of the road is 170 miles. ? The attorney-general, as attorney for the clerk of court of Richland county, has brought an action against T. C. Dunn the receiver of Solomon's bank, and his bondsmen, James P. Low, J. P. Southern, D. Epstin, John S. Wiley and Wm. Gorman, for costs and twentySve thousand dollars, which is the amount of: Dunn's bond. The complaint seta forth the i appointment of Dunn, &c.; the value of the ; property turned over to him as receiver, ($314,760 ;) that he has failed to submit his accounts to the special referee, Nathaniel ! Barnwell; has failed to turn over his receiv ! srship to Hoyt, his successor, and has, iu di- ; vers other particulars, neglected to discharge his duty or obey the order of the court, and j; that he is now absent from the State and be- j pond the jurisdiction of the court. ? Between the 10th and 20th of this month, i elections on the question of fencing stock or , crops, were held in several of the up-country i I counties. In Chester, every township in the j: county voted in favor of fencing stock. In A.nderson county, eleven townships voted in { "avorof fencing stock, and five in favor of iencing crops. In Fairfield county, nine {1 iownships voted in favor of fencing stock and hree in favor of fencing crops. In Lancas,er county, elections were held in but two i ;ownships?Belair and Waxhaw?both of which voted in favor of fencing stock. In : Abbeville county elections were held in four ;ownships. Three voted in favor of fencing ;rops and one in favor of fencing stock. In Laurens county every township in which an ilection was held, voted in favor of fencing he crops. No election was held in Spartanjurg county. The negroes in the several j :ounties generally voted in favor of fencing he crops. 1 i 't c ;NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. J ? Josiah Turner, Jr., proposes to write and publish a history of the Holden-Kirk war. ? The name of "Castanea~Grove," a" postoffice in Lincoln county, has been changed to Lowesville. , ? Governor Vance declined an invitation to be present at the meeting of Governors in Philadelphia last Tuesday. ; j ? A man who held a complimentary ticket on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, waved the train down as it passed a station the other day. The train did not stop, however, and the man has entered suit against the company for $1,000 damages. ? Elijah Keeter, a well-known 6sherman of Wilmington, killed his brother-in-law, Peter Robinson, on Saturday night of last week. The tragedy originated in a quarrel about house rent?the two men, with their respective familes, having jointly rented the same building. Keeter was arrested and committed to jail. ? W Pftnw?norptY>hnr n voiith emnloved at " ' 1 J ' 1 y ~ Wells' vineyard near Shelby, came td his death under distressing circumstances one day last week. He was transferring a barrel of sugar from a wagon to the wine-house of the vineyard, when the platform on which he had rolled the barrel, broke down, carryings him to the ground with it. The barrel fell across his breast, inflicting internal injuries, from which he died in fifteen or twenty minutes. ? The reported pardon by Governor Vance of Chipman, convicted in the Guilford Superior Court in 1857 of the murder of a young woman?Chipman having escaped the gallows by breaking jail?has created no little excitement in that section of the county where the crime was committed. Steps have been taken to lay the matter before the Governor with the view of obtaining a revocation of the pardon. Our readers will remember the full account we gave of this affair two weeks ago, and that the pardon was obtained on the strength of an affidavit made, or alleged to have been made, by one Stewart, to the effect that his brother, just before committing suicide, confessed to haviug committed the murder of which Chipman was convicted. The Greensboro Slate intimates that there is no foundation in fact for the statements contained in the affidavit. editorial"inklings. Extra Session of Congress. A Washington dispatch of Monday says that many leading members of both branches of Congress, have appealed to the President to revoke the proclamation calling an e?tra session of Congress in October, considering the session unnecessary, and on account of interfering with their fall business before the courts, many being lawyers. It is stated the President says be made the call after maturely considering every point, and that there are good reasons why the extra session should he called. A subsequent dispatch also says there is no possibility of a revocation of the proclamation. Hayes and the Virginia Conservatives. The effort to nominate an Administration or Hayes ticket in Virginia, against the Democratic nominees for State offices, has been abandoned. A Richmond dispatch, in announcing the fact, says: "President Hayes and the Conservative party of Virgiuia have no known aversions. No questiou can arise between them. Any turn iu party affairs that may incline them favorably?Mr. Hayes towards Virginia, and Uic Ounscivaki??e lunaid Mr. IlajroB?would 6nd no obstacle iu the way of co-operation. There is no such difficulty, and Mr. Hayes is uot a man causelessly to create one. He has proved his generous disposition to do what he can to extinguish discord and blot out tendencies to aleniate, too clearly to admit of lingering suspicion to throw doubt upon him. So, when any one talks ahout an Administration party against the Virginia Conservatives, or, what is the same, the people of Virginia, he talks foolishly, and that is the most charitable construction to put upon it." The Wily Mr. Blaine of Maine. While the President and his party were junketing in New England, Mr. Hayes received a pressing iuvitation from Mr. Blaine to visit Maine and share his bed and board. Other engagements compelled the President to decline the proffered hospitality. The Washington politicians construe Mr. Blaine's invitation to mean that it was offered with a certain hope of refusal, which will enable Blaine to quietly hint to the "stalwart" wing of the party, that the President preferred to give the Pine Tree State, which sounded the key-note of Republican majority, a cool goby, so that he could go home and prepare for his Southern and Western trip, which is more congenial to his tastes. It is by others construed as a sharp dodge of the "Plumed Knight" to keep his movements and actions always before the public, and in such a way that, "Lord Dundreary" like, no one can tell where he stands. There is a concurrent opin iod, however, that the invitation had business in it for James G. Blaine, which has not yet been made apparent. Effect of the War in Russia. The Moscow correspondent of the London News give9 the following gloomy description of the effects of the war in Russia: The peasants are being called off to join the Imperial array from all directions, and wherever one goes, families are mourning because either father or brother are within, perchance, only a few hours of being called 1 away. Families are broken up on all sides, 1 and wives are selling household furniture. The streets of Moscow are thronged, in mauy 1 places, with household goods. Provisions are rising proportionately. Among the upper I classes, homes are in the same state of change. Those who have retired from the army or navy are in many cases being recalled. All 1 will, it is presumed, be summoned in the 1 course of time. While I write, a general call is being made for all to serve in the militia, and notices to this effect have been served on nil those residing in No. 1 of the six divis- 1 * O *" - ----- ions of Moscow. House to house visitation i is also going on relative to the number of men servants and horses kept by every householder, a large quota of which must now be parted with for the public service. Substi- 1 tutes on the part of the former are not accepted. Funds are rolling in for the sick and wounded on all sides, the peasants even urgiug the acceptance of their mite. < The Bank Convention. The annual Convention of bankers ! that is to meet in New York on the 12th of; i September, will have two subjects presented j for its consideration. One is the removal of 1 the war taxes on banks. These taxes are se- ! verely felt. In 1865, when the correspond- j i ing taxes on other interests were removed, j 1 Congress would cheerfully have relieved the i! banks of theirs also, but the times were pros- i perous, and the banks did not ask for the re-1 I moval. Now, however, they pregs so heavily |. on them that they are forced to ask for re-'' lief, and the Convention will, no doubt, ask ; Congress to remove them. The other subject: I is one of more geueral interest?the excessive J! bonded debt of cities, counties and other mu- j 1 oicipalities that flood the markets. The un- l restricted issue of these bonds has long been . felt to be a serious evil, aud the banks are t ijreat sufferers by it. The call for the New! 1 Vork Convention says that "these burdens,' ire now so galling as to be a frequent menace < . to our public credit at home and abroad, and i unless some judicious restrictions can be de- 1 tvised to stop these reckless issues of bonds, i TheiftHcfflh favor of repudiatidti'Vftl tie dP I teuer heard in the future."" In addition to 1 these two subjects for the action of the Con* I vention, other questions of interest will be j discussed, among them the remonetization of \ silver, the resumption of specie payments, I and the union of the banks for refunding the ( public debt. I Political SpeculatioB8. '' ' t The dangerous illness of Senator Mor- t ton, which may result fatally at any time, has t suggested a canvass of the Senate politically ( in case his death should give Governor Wil- f liaras an opportunity to appoint a Democrat ( as his successor. The Senate, as now made ? up, is composed of seventy-three members, i there being three vacancies?two from Louisi- I ana and oue from South Carolina?over which f there will be contests, with chances over- ( whelmingly favoring the admission of the | Democrats. Of the seventy-three members, ? thirty-nine are Republicans, in which are in- ( eluded Christiancy aud Cameron, of Wiscon- t sin, who were elected by a coalition of Demo- i crats and Republican voters, but who usually t vote with the Republicans. There are thirty- i three straight-out Democrats, and one Inde- 1 pendent, Judge Davis, of Illinois. Now, if I the Democrats secure the admission of their 8 members to fill the three vacancies, and count- 1 iog Judge Davis as a Republican pure and ' simple, the Senate will stand thirty-six Dem ocrais aud forty Republicans. Should Mor- f ton die, the Senate would stand thirty-nine i Republicans and thirty-seven Democrats?a Republican majority of two. If, however, Judge Davis should affiliate with the Democrats, the body would be made up of thirtyeight Republicans and thirty-eight Democrats, and it would require the vote of the Vice-Pres- J ident to turn the scale when the Senate divided on political issues. It should be borne in mind, however, that Edmunds, Booth and i Christiancy frequently vote with the Demo- i crats. t Fall Trade Outlook. j The New York Timet, in reviewing the fall trade outlook, says : . "When, last fall, business men were invi- i ted to say what the prospect in trade was for t the immediate future, they were full of confi- \ deuce that the bottom had been reached and > that a new era of prosperity was about to be- j gin. It did not begin, however, immediately, t and the winter, to most of them, was one of t despondency ; since then a very slight gener- c al improvement has taken place and the con- ( dition and prospects are given as they appear t to merchants themselves. ( In the grain trade there is great hope of a J good time coming with the immense crops t from the West, aud there is a steady health e ful growth in the produce and grocery trades, f which encourages men who are satisfied with 1 small profits. The volume of business done t * ? iL!. A! a! !A oy grocers is larger up to ima nme iuau it c was at a corresponding date last year. j The clothing manufacturers are feeling a i small but good inquiry for their wares. g There has been and is animatiou among ? the boot and shoe manufacturers, and the hatters say they have not done so much business r for many years. ( Hard as the times are called, the piano-ma- \ kers have had a good business, and the dry t goods trade reports indicate an improvement i of from thirty to fifty per cent, in leading t houses. There is not as much disposition to- t day as there was last August to make san- t guine predictions, but the conviction is strong ] among business men that they will keep the c {ground ikoy liavo recovered and continue to 'i do a fair business, witlTmoderate returns." J Border Outrages. i The following dispatch received at the c War Department last Saturday, indicates an unsettled condition of affairs on the Texas s c frontier, which may culminate in a collision : San Antonio,Texas, August 24.?The fol- j lowing has been received from Capt. Brown : i "General Benevides handed me yesterday the 8 following message for transmission to you. ^ Colonel Gomez, commanding at Caraargo, 8 to-day communicates the following telegram : f "In an interview I had with the commanding 11 officer of State volunteers, who have arrived at 1 Rio Grande City, he iuformed me that he had c received orders from the Governor of Texas to pursue and arrest criminals wherever they 11 may be found, even though it be on Mexican r ? .i_ J-i: J I soil, in case mey are not promptly uenvereu up by the authorities. I have answered him, ^ that I have orders to pursue and arrest all ^ persons who may commit depredations on F United States territory and afterwards take 11 refuge on Mexican soil, that relative to deliv- 1 eriDg them up I shall confine myself strictly to the orders I received from headquarters. ^ I t.lso notified headquarters that there are at 8 present organizing in Texas, according to the * statement of said commander, twenty-five F thousand volunteers for the campaign against Mexico. General Escohedo, his sons and San a Monoy are still in Davis. I beg, General, ^ to call your attention to the aforesaid asser- a tions of the commanding officers of the State ^ yolunteers in his conversation with Colonel n Gomez." General Benevides. 8 I telegraphed at once to Governor Hub- 8 bard: "Your letter, with Captain Hall's, have been received. My advices do not agree c with the letter's. My orders prohibit the f. crossing on trails after any sort of raiders where there are Mexican troops to arrest or w i t! nnruim qiipm _ (/U.OIIV UMV... "Benevides telegraphs that Hall proposes to cross at Caraargo, aud says he is authorized P by orders from you to pursue and arrest all ' crimiuals wherever they may be found, even on Mexican soil. If this is so, and he crosses, unless ray orders are changed, he will cross c, without aid from the. regulars. Hall also, ?' according to my advices, stated to Colonel 11 Gomez that there were 25,000 volunteers or- a ganized in Texas for the campaign against u Mexico. Such talk, if reported correctly, is e. likely to stop efforts on the part of the Mexican authorities to capture and return the res- P cued prisoners under the extradition treaty." . E. 0. C. Ord, 11 Brigadier-General. The Governor of Texas has informed Gen. j Ord that he has never authorized the volun- t| teers to cross into Mexico after marauders, p His instructions to the State troops were to j tl confine operations to the Texas side, and that j a the escaping marauders must be extradited. | MERE-MENTION. j t< Longstreet and D. H. Hill alone survive ; of the original corps-commanders under Gen. | a Lee. Rev. Dr. Deems, the distinguished g Methodist divine, has a son who is a Presby- j o terian minister, recently ordained. In ! o r a.\ ~ia ftnnnimnno/1 ktr A Luwa tut; piautiug ui trees jo cutuuia^u uj law. Every acre of forest trees planted re-, ^ leases taxation for ten years on one huudred ^ dollars valuation of property. Eighty- j n four barrels of dried fruit, aggregating 17,-1 220 pounds, have been shipped by one firm 1 ti in Talbotton, Georgia. Dr. A. Payne,' n the Indian doctor who has lately located in ci Athens, Georgia, has a female rattlesnake ^ which recently gave birth to eight or ten ; froung ones. 'The success of the Hampton government is no longer doubted at the a North, since intelligence reached the brethren u from South Carolina that hogs are now fed ei ipon peaches. General Le Due, the new j C Agricultural Commissioner, figures out that!'' ;his country loses 860,000,000 a year by neg- u ecting the culture of the sugar beet. Mr. q Williams, Democratic candidate for Governor n )f Maiue, was a Republican, several years! tc * f) - ^ igo. E. M. Stanton, son of the famous War Secretary, has become insane, and is jow in the Government Insane. Asylum for temporary treatmetrt:***~JThe hotel at Yelow Sulphur Springs, Va., was entirely des;royed by fire last Friday night. Several juests lost their baggage, and a colored boy vas killed. The loss of property amounts to $23,000, which was insured for $12,00&""The Georgia Constitutional Convention adjourned ast Saturday. A Madrid dispatch to he London Timet states that 72,000 men go ;n Cuha between now and the 20th of Sen .ember. Dr. W. T. Cooper, living near Charleston, W. Va., was arrested on Thursday 'or poisoning his third wife. Both bis formir wives died suddenly, uuder what was conlidered suspicious circumstances. It is now tupposed that he poisoned them also. The jodies will be exhumed. "The Fifth Congressional District of New York sends a col>red cadet to West Point. The landed iroperty and houses belonging to Louisiana, ire valued at 81,720,000,000. Over 2,)00 American firms have expressed their inention to exhibit their wares and products it the French Exposition. A train on he Hudson River Railroad last Thursday nade sixteen miles in sixteen and a half minites, including one Btop. The latest re>orts state that Senator Morton, who was tricken with paralysis several days ago, is till improving. The Ohio Republican sampaign opened at Athens last Saturday, Stanley Matthews and candidate West speakng. Matthews discussed Hayes* title to ofice, his Southern policy and the civil service eform. 1 Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER PROM CHESTER. Chester, August 27,1877. The negroes of this county, at the present ime, are afflicted with the Liberia fever. The eaders are holding meetings in town and ;ounty, and endeavoring to stir up their ignoant followers on the subject of emigrating to Africa's sunny shores. Their principal argunent in favor of this movement is the inabiliy of the colored people to live in this State, low that the government has passed into the lands of the Democracy. And this is a very convincing argument with negroes. Their 'eelings have beeu so wrought upon by ap>ealsof this kind, that there is no doubt that i large number of them, if not a majority, vould take their departure with little or no reparation, if the ways and means for their emoval were provided. At some places in .he couuty the desire to shake off the dust of heir feet against this Democratic State is so jreat, that they are talking of selling out their :rops and their personal effects, save what hey will need in their new home. But there ire colored men of sufficient smartness to enow the folly of emigrating, or desiring to emigrate to Liberia. It is their purpose to itay where they are. The present emigration ixcitemeut will end in talk?with no action, laving for its object the accomplishment of he end in view. Those who declare their delire and intention of finding a new home in Africa, will be compelled to forego the carry* ng out of their desires and intentions, for the limple reason that they are destitute of means, ind, consequently, unable to go. In the absence of Captain J. L. Agars, Mr. L N. Youngblood is the Intendant protem. >f our town. He holds the reins of authority vith a firm, yet discreet band. When opportunity offers, he increases the laboring force ipon the streets; and when offenders belong 0 the female sex, they are given the alternate of adding a fixed amount to the town reasury, or takiug rooms for a few days at tiurphey's hotel, otherwise known as the lounty jail. On Wednesday morning two iegro woweu, after a trial before * the acting mtendaut and other Counciimen for quarrelng and using improper language, had these lisagreeahle alternatives placed before them. Rain fell here on Wednesday night, ending 1 dry spell which was beginning to injure the irops. In some portions of the county, sever,1 weeks had passed without rain. Its timey coming, it is hoped, will ensure a productve yield of both corn andjwtton. There is ome complaint of the latter plant having leveluped into an undue amount of weed, .nd failing to put on the usual number of brms. The geueral opinion of the corn crop 3 that it will be very fine?probably the best hat has been grown in the county since the lose of the war. The store of Mr. Gohagan was burglarously entered on Wednesday night and obbed of a small quantity of goods. Mr. loward, the watchman at the depot, saw the i-_ _.i i :? _:.l l:_ u mrgiar wneu leaving wiiu ins uuuujr, auu ired upon him, which caused him to drop a lortion of his goods, and take his departure n double quick time. The perpetrator of his robbery has not yet been discovered. On Wednesday a negro was tried before i?riul Justice McDonald, charged with an asault upon Mrs. Duffie, of the vicinity of jewis' Turn Out, He was found guilty, and tut in jail for twenty daiys. Mr. Allen Jordau, after spending a pleasnt vacation of several weeks' duration, left lere on Thursday for the military institution ,t West Point, of which he has been a stulent for the past two years. He has two note years before completing the course of tudy, when he will graduate with a Lieutennt's commission in the United States army. Mr. J. J. Hemphill, a member of the Judiiary Committee, which was in session for sevral days at Greenville, returned home on ^hursday. He tells me that the Committee rill recommend an amendment to the present rial justice system, and have devised a scheme or the organization of a county court. The reort will be submitted to the Legislature, and hat body will decide whether to continue the rial justices, or adopt a county court. General W. A. YValker, Senator from this ounty, and member of the committee now itting in Columbia to examine the bonded idebtedness of the State, returned home, for brief stay, on Saturday morning. I was nsuccessful in drawing from him auy intersting declarations or revelations respecting he work of the committee. He declined to ass the ordeal of an interview. The meeting at Lockhardt's Shoals in the iterest of the Chester and Union Railroad, ook place on Saturday. Dr. A. H. Davega ias the chairman of the meeting Judge T. . Mackey, in a lengthy speech, advocated he building of the road. The surveyor's reort was read. According to his estimates, he road can he graded from Chester to Union, nd the hridiriiier constructed, including the Q- ?O ? w ridge across the river, at a coat of $99,000. 'wo fifths of this amount, so the report staid, could be saved by obtaining convict laor, and with iron at $900 per mile, the enre line could be graded, bridged, iron laid, nd an engine bought, at a cost of about 100,000. The books of subscription were pened, and $12,000 were subscribed. No rganization of the Company was effected, as subscription of $40,000 is necessary before lis can be done. When the meeting had nished, the crowd, numheriug several bun-; red, paid their respects to some barbecued i ieat, and other articles of diet Mayor Agurs returned home from the Ca- j iwba Springs on Saturday night. He was j let at the Depot by the colored band and a onsiderahle number of colored men, and was ; ivored there, and soon afterward at home, ith music. He acknowledged the honor in suitable manuer. The uniou meeting took place last evening t the Buntist church, which was filled to its { trao9t capacity. Rev. Mr. Trenholm deliv- i red a very excellent sermon upon the subject, \ hrist?the friend of sinners. It was a sermon )at could not fail to make an impression pon the hearts of those who heard it. Messrs. Dozier, Risley and Morgan, from , reorgetown, are here in the interest of a railjad they hope to construct from Georgetown t Lancaster or this place. Qui. ' v LOCAL A77AZHS. ' 4 ? NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. R. Lathan?Prospectus. A**.- "S| J. R. Gardner, Agent?Railroad Freights. John C. Kuykendal?Violin Strings?"Sweets for the Sweet"?Important to Physicians?Kidney Leaf Compound?Dye 1 Colors?Tobacco?Plasters. Clark Brothers?Sugar?Coffee?Hams?FlourTobacco?Molasses?Salt?Our Motto? Notice. Kennedy Bros. A Barron?Just Received?School Books?Dry Goods?Candies?Cheese?Examine our Stock and Prices. H. F. Adickes, Jr.?Pay Up. Walsh A Wright, Managers, Augusta, Ga.?The Chronicle and Constitutionalist Ludden A Bates, Savannah, Ga.?Pianos and Organs. Cad Jones, Sam'l E. White and William C. Black, Commissioners?County Indebtedness. W. A. Moore, County Auditor, Ac.?Board of Equalization. ? Henry W. Smith?Rose's Hotel. RAWLIN80WS HOTEL. The work of removing the debris, preparatory to rebuilding the fallen wall of the north ?' / T? !- TT - . -1 wing ui ivawjiusuu a auwi, wo* l-uuiujcuwu last Monday. - #rain. ' A slight shower fell on Tuesday, thongh not sufficient to be of much benefit to the crops which have suffered considerably by the prolonged drought pomona'grange. There will be a meeting of the Pomona Grange at Rock Hill, next Saturday, at 10 o'clock, to which the Grangers of the county are requested to send representatives. hose'8*hotel See advertisement of the above House, in which the announcement is made that it is now open and ready for the reception of guests, under the management of Mr. Henry W. Smith. eclipse of the moon. Promptly on time, aud fully in accordance with the prediction of the almanac man, the moon was in eclipse last Thursday evening. Clouds partially obscured, for a while, the view to be obtained here; but during the latter part of the eclipse it was unobstructed. county indebtedness. The Commissioners appointed by Governor Hampton to investigate the indebtedness of York county, give notice, in our advertising eolumns, to those holding claims against the county, that they will commence investigating the same at the Court House in Yorkville on the 2nd of October next. case of shooting. By a letter from Fort Mill, we learn that on the evening of the 2d th instant, a difficulty occurred between J. Walter Harris and J. H. Bradford, citizens of that place, which resulted in Bradford shooting Harris, inflicting a painful though not dangerous wound in his side. Both parties were bound over by Trial Justice Powell for trial at the next term of the Circuit Court. "webb." A communication over the above signature is respectfully declined?first, for the reason that it is not accompanied by the name of the writer ; and secondly, because the subject matter of the article is not at this time under discussion by the people. ' Should the question of which it treats come before the public ftio uritpf hw oivinor hifi name, shall have "?i ,uv ~j a e ' a hearing through our columns. DEATH O? A WAR HORSE. "Celeste," Col. Coward's favorite mare, died last Tuesday, aged about 21 years. She served him faithfully in the Virgioia campaigns from March, 1802, until the close of the war; and received three wounds in as many different battles?two of the wounds being severe. Faithful in war, she was no less serviceable in the more quiet walks of peace, and as a fitting recognition of her fidelity, her master gave her a decent burial. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Messrs. Ludden A Bates, of Savannah, Ga., the great wholesale piano and organ dealers of the South, have withdrawn all local agencies for the sale of their instruments, and will hereafter supply purchasers, direct, without the aid or intervention of agents, at strictly factory prices. There are no more reliable men in the music trade than Ludden & Bates. Read their advertisment aud send for cata* logues, etc. THE METHODIST CHURCH. Rev. Dr. Meynardie, Presiding Elder of this district, delivered three able and eloquent sermons at the Methodist church?preaching Saturday night, Sunday and Suuday night last. A a A/v*inliiaiAn kin mAvnino anrmnn nn ilb bUG tUUUllOIUU ul uio *mw? ?? ?? wvimwm vh Sunday, the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered. Dr. Meynardie is among the foremost pulpit orators in the Methodist church, and his visits here are always looked forward to with pleasure. NEW ENGINE. Mr. Robert Black, who lives about three miles west of town, has just received a new and elegant steam engine from the works of Talbot & Son, Richmond, Va. Mr. Black is now engaged in putting up his engine, which is designed to run a cotton gin. This is another step iu the right direction, which we chronicle with pleasure. There is nothing more conducive to success in either farming ' or mechanical operations than improved machinery?a fact to which our people are gradually awakening. ? ( AUGUSTA CHRONICLE. ( A prospectus of the Augusta Chronicle and , Constitutionalist will be found in our adver- ; tising columns. We have often had occasion ( to commend the enterprise and energy which ( characterize the management of the Chronicle, while the temperate, conservative tone of its editorial columns render it a safe and reliable counsellor on the leading political questions of the day. To those wishing a lively, inter- 1 eating daily from our sister State, we unhesitatingly recommend the CAnmicfcasonesuited to their wants. MORE LIGHT ! The County Commissioners have come to the rescue of the Court and members of the bar, by placiug ou the walls of the court-room four lamps with powerful reflectors, which, when lighted, illumine the hall quite brilliantly. This is a want which has long been needed, and for which the officials of the Court will feel thankful. Especially would they regard it as an exceedingly meritorious act. were his Honor Judge Mackey expected to preside at the approaching term. Aud if I that Honorable Justice knew how haudsomely the room is now lighted, we doubt not he would long to hold a Court in York, just to try the light?not to test the patience of lawyers, bailiffs, jurors, suitors and witnesses. HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Rev. Robert Lathan has issued a prospectus for the publication of a complete History of South Carolina, from the first discovery of the soil; the settlement of the territory at different periods; the history of the State under the Proprietary Government; under the Royal Government; and through the Revolutionary period, or to the close of the Revolutionary war. We suppose no man in the State is better qualified for the task than is Mr. Lathan. A close student and a ready writer, he also baa possession of many facta I and much material of which no former histo- M riah of the State fas jet availed himaelf. The ^ ItJhTof the prop&feff work maj be inferred | from ~ the very complete and satisfactory (Sketches whiqh.have appa*re<U? ttje.colemns of the Enquirer. The desire, expressed by many persons, to obtain these sketches in permanent book form, has suggested t^e idea of the publication. These sketches will be care fully revised and re-written before going to the (publisher, andr the whole will make a 4 ,r ' v / - . i* >> ^ large and elegant volume, containing many important facte never before published. Attention is directed to the prospectus in our 1 advertising,: columns. Subscriptions' tog > the book will be received pt this office. ''' ebenezer township." We learn that a uumber of voters of Ebenezer township?in which the fence law was defeated at the recent election?will memorialize the Legislature to grant them the privilege of the fence law, the same as 'if it had been carried by a majority at the elecfiOn.A petition will also be presented to the "Cputfty Commissioners, praying such relief ia, the premises as, in their official capacity, they can afford. These memorials will be agued by a majority of the voters of the township? , J many of thoee who voted against the change having come to the conclusion that it will be " : for the best interests of the township to adopt the law, p08tjia8ter*at gaston i a. Our complaint, a few weeks ago, of' the non-arrival of packages of the Enquirer - at differerent points on the C. C. & A. Railroad, has evoked a card from the portmjaster at Gaston ia, in which he assures the public, that the fault of which we complained did not lie \ at his door. We did not so much as intimate .e . ? i* t t a n aI .1 a _ ? coat it aid, oemg iuuy aware mat ne aoes not handle mails transferred from the C.' A L. Railroad to the Air-Line. We only said the fault was with some official between Yprkville and the post-offices which the Enquires failed to reach. Had we known the delinquent official we should certainly have published his name and called the attention of the Postoffice Department to the fact. As regards the post office at Gastonia, we have heard from different sources that the postmaster is attentive to his duties and obliging to the public, which facts it is a pleasure to us to publish. A LIBERAL OFFFR. | Capt. J. F. Workman, of the vicinity of V Rock Hill, has taken the initiative step in re- gard to pasturiog stock for those owoing no pasture land, which not only commends itself as the proper course, but also illustrates the disposition of the land-owners toward those not possessed of lands. We feel assured that " there are men in every community who would | only be too willing to follow the example of Capt. Workman, as being less onerous than the expensive system of fencing in their arable lands. The Rock Hill Herald says: "Capt. Workman authorizes us to say that he will cheerfully give pasturage to fifty head of cattle for the people of Rock Hill. This he does, he says, in appreciation of the unselfish attitude of the voters of the town in the late election. We understand, too, that bis generous wife has offered pasturage to all her widowed neighbors who may need it. Let this example be followed by the land-owners generally, and the new fence law will prove 'a blessing in disguise' to its strongest opponents." COURT* WEEK. .] The members of the bar are busily engaged in making preparation for the approaching term of the Circuit Court, which will convene next Monday. An accuinulation of business on the civil (lockets renders it probable that the term will occupy folly two weeks. At the present time there are fewer cases on the Sessions docket than we have known for several years, though the number of this class of offenders may be increased within the next few days. The following is a list of the prisoners now in jail awaiting trial, with the offences charged against them: Amos Moore, colored ; house-breaking and larceny. Ben. Pettv, colored ; burglary and larceny. Andrew Springs, colored, and Alexander Marion, colored ; conspiracy. Greene Adams, colored; assault and bat tery with intent to kill. Nathan Wilson, colored ; larceny. RAILROAD ACCIDENT. On Tuesday morning the eugine of the down train on the C. A L. Railroad, when about half a mile this side of Beaver Dam trestle, ran off the track. The accident happened at a road crossing and was caused by one of the planks of the crossing being out of its proper place, one end projecting across the rail. This was not perceived by the engineer, and he ran against it, which jolted the engine off the track, causing it to turn over. Mr. Smith, the engineer, had one foot bruised, and his leg was slightly scalded. He was sent back to Gastonia, where, as we learn by the down train yesterday morning, he is doing very well. No other person suatained injury by the accident The repair train happeuiug to be at the head of the road, the engine attached to it was run down, and a temporary track laid by which it was moved around to the bead of the train, when they ivaha /iniindAfa/^ anrl fka t.atn n.n>ifuulail aM TTCI C WUt ICV/W.U, OUU bUU III ?IU jJIULCOUCU) at" riving here about 5 o'clock, P. M. Thia is the first accident that baa occurred on the road since the track was put in proper condition?over a year ago; and it is but proper to say that this was not the resalt of inattention of the engineer?it haviug occurred on a curve?and under similar circumstances the heaviest locomotive would have been thrown off the track. DR. MEYNARDIE'S LECTURE. According to appointment, Rev. E. J. Meynardie, D. D., delivered his lecture on the Life and Works of W. Gil more Simms, in the Court House last Monday evening. The eminent ability of the distinguished lecturer and his intimate personal relations with the illustrious character forming the subject of his discourse, were sufficient promise that the large and intelligent audience would enjoy id intellectual treat, sucn as is seldom placed < before them. Nor in this were they disappointed. For more than an hoar, the speaker enchained his hearers with an impartial, yet j just and equitable review of Mr. Simms as a ' poet, a novelist, a historian, a reviewer and essayist, following him in these different departments of his literary labors from his first published effort, to the last known sketch traced by his fascinating pen. Occasional prose and poetical selections were read from the writings of Mr. Simms, which, rendered in the speaker's effective elocution, were gems in themselves. The lecture is a happy conception, sparkling with rich seuti ments of thought, creditable alike to its distinguished author ind his worthy theme. At the conclusion of the lecture, a collection was taken, realizing the sum of $6.45 for the purpose or augmenting the tuna tor the purchase of a suitable monument to place over the last resting place of Mr. Simms. This leaves $18.55 yet expected to be douated by the people of Yorkville and vicinity, and , mrely the admirers of Mr. Simms can easily < ( contribute enough to make that amount. As \