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fctaps and Jarts. | ? A colonization convention was held at Corinth, Miss., a few days ago, at which there were 3,500 persons present. The African scheme was not favored, but places in Arizona, New Mexico and Western Texas were considered. ? Two young men, named Joseph E. Johnston aud Fitzbugh Lee, are learning the machinist trade in the Pennsylvania Railroad machine shops at Altoona. They are neph- j ews of the Confederate officers whose names i they respectively bear. ? The Egyptian cotton crop promises well! this season. The amount of land planted equals that of last year, and none of the drawbacks which attended the harvesting of last year's crop have as yet made their appearance. ? The Western Union Telegraph Company have recently made a considerable reduction of rates on their lines, which extend throughout every portion of the Union. Points in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, which were formerly 30, 35 and 40 cents, have been reduced to 25 cents. ? Madame Bonaparte, of Baltimore is in her ninety-third year. She still exercises a personal supervision over her large estate, estimated at more than a million dollars. In the event of the death of the Prince Imperial, her grandson, Col. Bonaparte, would be in the line of succession for the French crown, should the old dynasty De restored. ? Senator Barnum says however conciliatory the Administration party may be, it is simply breaking up the Republican party. "A president causing a split in his party has never been a success in the history of the country. If there was a general election pending, I don't believe the Republican party would carry six States in the Union." ? The dedication of the old John Brown monument at Ossawattomie, Kansas, last week, was attended by at least 10,000 people. Resolutions were passed requesting the Kansas Legislature to make an appropriation to procure a statue of John Brown in bronze or marble, to be placed in the National Hall of Statuary in the Capitol at Washington. -?Brigham Young didn't put on historic airs when it came to the "last words." His son asked him if he knew him. "I should think I ought to," responded the indignant candidate for an obituary. This is only equaled by the historic declaration of Mrs. Ward when confronted by her elated husband, disguised in his regimentals. "Know you ?" said she, "of course I do, you old fool!" ? The result of examinations in the Interior department at Washington, showed that a great many of the applicants for positions were not well grounded in the subjects taught in the common schools. The questions in grammar and arithmetic were exceedingly simple; yet they proved stumbling blocks in the way of many. It is said that in some in stances college graduates were found lamentably deficient. ? A wealthy freedman in Texas has a passion for lightning rods. He has thirty-three mounted with golden balls, on his house and cotton-shed ; fifteen with silver globes on his stable, ten with zinc globes on his barn ; six with tin globes on his hen-house; three plain ones on his smoke-house ; and forty more in course of erection on the other out-houses. Three lightning-rod agents have built across the street and paid for their farms out of the profits of the proximity. ? A lady in this city sent a description of a child she wanted to a foundling hospital in New Orleans. A day or two ago she received a reply that a child was on its way to Cincinnati, and yesterday the messenger of the Adams Express rang the bell and announced a package for Mrs. , at the same time presenting a little girl of tender years with an ax press label tied to one arm?Oincin ~ Fnawiirar ??, ? A man of property dying ofsraalT-pox In New Orleans, recently had great difficulty in finding a notary to make his will for him. The whole city was scoured, and finally an impecunious lawyer ventured the job and then charged 8500 for it. And now the probate judge is in a quandary to know whether to allow a charge so much higher than the legal one. The notary backs up his claim with the deposition of innumerable lawyers and other notaries, who swear that they would not have incurred the risk for double the sum. ? Efforts have been made recently on the part oftbe claim agents, to get the treasury Department to re-open a number of cotton cases which were rejected under previous administrations. Thus fur Secretary Sherman and Assistant Secretary French have decided against all such applications, and refused to refer the cases to Solicitor Raynor for an opinion, which the persons were very anxious should be done. The fact that Solicitor Raynor is a Southern man, probably accounts for the action of Sherman and French. ? Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has been interviewed at White Sulphur Springs about the first Bull Run, and said that the troops on both sides were greatly demoralized toward the close of that battle, and that he now believed that it would have been better for the South if the North had won the battle, for in that event the war would probably have ended there. But Gen. Johnston says that GeD. Robert E. Lee was always of the opinion that our differences would never have been settled but by the fearful ordeal through which we have passed. ? Rev. Wm. S. Plumer, D. D., grows old faster than any other man in our church, at \ A. A.! O 1 1 least ill me newspapers, oeverai papers nave | referred to his speeches in the General Pres-1 byterian Council as those of a patriarch in the I 8<J th year of his age. The Philadelphia Presbyterian states that "Dr. Plumer was born in 1801, and passed his 77th birth-day in the city of Strasburg, where his fellow-travelers waited on him with their congratulations, and with expressions of thankfulness for his long-continued service in the church of Christ."?Christian Observer. ? A New York correspondent of the Boston Journal says: "Boarding-house people complain that while there is a rush for board in New York, prices are disastrously low. Waiters who would. scorn less than 810 a | week thankfully take 85. One of our larg- j est establishments advertised for a bookkeep-; er. Hours from 7 to 6; pay 86 a week. In i one day over six pounds of applications were received. Houses that readily rented forj 81,000 can be had for $600. Good beard ; that has not since the war been less than 810 , a week, can be obtained for 86. Dinner at a i first class hotel can be had for 40 cents, with j three courses, including luxuries. Around ; the po9toffice a number of restaurants have j been opened on a cheap bill of fare, with a very fair table. Roast beef, with fixings, 15 I cents; beefsteak, 10 cents; and drinkable coffee, 5 cents a cup. Of course, a square meal is not furnished at these places, but a very acceptable lunch. ? It is noticed that there are more young | American men in this country, learning trades in the penitentiaries, than there are I outside of them. The Courier-Journal dis-1 covers as the principal cause of this, that we are educating our young men for gentlemen, i and trying to make lawyers, preachers, doctors and clerks out of material that nature intended for blacksmiths, bricklayers, carpenters, tailors and other honest trades and callings. It is a mistake and a big one, to teach boys and girls to believe that to labor is disgraceful, and that to do nothing for a living is more becoming the society in which they expect to move and have the respect of. ( There are many men's sons and daughters who are bow being educated to play the parts of "leading lady" and "walking gen- j tlemen" in tbe great drama of life, who will land in the poor house or penitentiary before they have played their parts and the curtain j drops. Go to work ! ? Mr. Alvin Adams, the founder of the ex- J press company which bears his name, whose j death occurred recently, started with very ' small beginnings, being for three years his own messenger, clirk and porter, and having only desk room in an office in Boston. He afterward took a partner. First the service was extended to Washington, then between Hartford and Springfield, and afterward throughout Connecticut. Later, agencies were established in all large stations in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana; then the West, Southwest and North were iucluded in the system, and by 1850 the business had become so important that Adams & Company arranged to send their money and small packages over the New York and New Haven Railroad, paying $1,700 a month for a small space in the car of a fast train. Soon afterward the style of the firm was changed to the "Adams Express Company," the capital was increased, and at one time the stock rose to the price of $500 a share?the par value beipg $100. The house of Mr. Adams, in Watertowu, Mass., was one of the finest private residences in New Eugland. She ffftMIe __ YORK VfLLrESlc.: THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 13,1877. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and State in full, and send 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 paid 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 our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. SOTJTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Large numbers of array worms have appeared in Richland county. ? Cotton picking has been commenced in Richland county. The price paid for picking is forty cents per 100 pounds. ? Rev. E. J. Meynardie, D. D., occupies the President's house in the University campus at Columbia. ? It is estimated that the stealings in Orangeburg?from county and State?amount to a half millioo of dollars in the last eight years. ? Last week, Rev. Tilraan R. Gaines addressed citizens of Anderson and Pickens, on the subject of immigration. ' ? Ex-Probate Judge Sparnick, of Aiken county, has been convicted of fraudulently appropriating funds. He is absent from the State and is likely to remain so. ? James Van Tassel, auditor, and J. P. Mays, county commissioner, of Orangeburg, both indicted for fraudulent breach of trust, have fled. ? William Keitt, a mulatto member of the House of Representatives for Newberry, was arrested in that county last week and lodged in jail on a charge of bigamy, in default of $500 bail. ? It is reported that ex-Judge Carpejiter has been jjromiseci the support of every member of the Cabinet, except TJenTHDevens, in his annlication for the office of United States r I ? District Attorney for South Carolina, made vacant by the resignation of Wm, Stone. ? It is said that the Investigating Committee will print the whole of the testimony they have taken, together with a tabular statement of the money paid to each person for services, real or imaginary, from 1868 down to the present time. ? At the recent election in Fairfield, the Democrats carried the county by a majority estimated at from 1,200 to 1,500. The Radical leaders made determined efforts, but many colored men stayed away from the polls, and a large number of them voted the Democratic ticket openly. ? A large meeting of delegates from the counties of Greenville, Spartanburg, Union and Abbeville, was held at Laurens, C. H., on the 3d instant, to discuss some mode of giving Laurens increased railroad facilities. The claims of various routes were vigorously urged, but that from Spartanburg to Augusta seemed to be the favorite. Another meeting will be held in October, when some decisive action will probably be taken. ? A convention of the stockholders of the Greenwood and Augusta Railroad was held in Greenwood, on the 28th ultimo. Reports of committees were encouraging. A resolution was passed to enter upon the work of grading forthwith, and a committee appointed to notify the State authorities that the company was ready to execute contracts for convicts. A board of directors for the ensuing year was elected. ? Several of the Irish admirers of Governor Hampton, residing in New York, have presented him with a black-thorn walking stick, procured in Ireland expressly for the purpose. The cane is of good size and beautifully knotted. Around it near the top is a heavy silver bandeau, which displays in the centre a harp, ornamented with shamrock leaves, with 1877 thereon. Above is the inscription "Decori decus addit aritowhich translated reads, "He adds honor to ancestral houors." Below the harp is another inscription, "An Irish twig for the home rule Governor of South Carolina." ? Governor Hampton returned to Colum- j bia on Tuesday night of last week. He has i not been to Philadelphia as reported. While ; in Washington he had an interview with the ! President and Secretary of War relative to the arras for the militia of this .State, and with reference to the Charleston Citadel, but; the results of the interview are not known. : On Saturday night last the Governor left Co- ; lumbia for Rockford, Illinois, where he goes to deliver the annual address before the Agricultural and Mechanical Association of that county next week. ? The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier, gives the following as the substance of the agreement with Jones and Woodruff, the late clerks of the House and Senate. A nolle pros, to be entered on the indictments against them ; they to testify in behalf of the State when called upon to do so. Each sur renders twenty-eight thousand dollars of bonanza warrants and all claims against the State for printing, &c. Jones also surrenders his Beaufort property, valued at twelve thousand dollars, and Woodruff surrenders the Republican Printing Company's building and fixtures in Columbia, valued at about seven thousand dollars, and also claims against the Bank of the State for one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Both Jones and Woodruff saved their respective residence in Charleston as settled upon the wife in Woodruff's case,' and the children in that of Jones. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Gen. Joseph E. Johnston sojourned a day or two in Raleigh last week. ? Mrs. Cicero W. Harris announces that about the 15th of the present month she will commence the publication, in Wilmington, of a monthly literary magazine, to be called the South Atlantic. A number of distinguished writers have already been secured to contribute to its pages. ? Eleven car loads of cattle, 258 in number, from Yancey and Macon counties, passed Hickory last week, en route for Baltimore. They were purchased by a Baltimore dealer for speculative purposes. The same dealer has bargained for 1,000 cows and 2,000 sheep in the western part of the State, and will ship them all this fall. ? The Raleigh News says : "A gentleman well known in this section of the State erected a cotton factory, the whole outlay for which, building, and machinery, was about 860,000. It has been running only a few months, and is now running night and day with a double set of hands, aud is turning out daily an average of $110 worth of yarns, Ac., or nearly $40,000, while the whole expense does not amount to more than one-half the income." ? The Raleigh Observer learns that on Friday evening last, Hal Worth, a gtandson of State Treasurer Worth, was shot and instantj ly killed in the streets of Asheboro by a man named Wilson. Mr. Worth was about 18 years of age ; a young man of sober, steady habits, quiet and unoffending in his manner, and from the meagre account of the affair as received in Raleigh, the supposition is reasonable that he was accidentally shot. The deceased was the son of Capt. 8. G. Worth, who was killed in one of the battles of the late war. ? Charles Fagg, well known along the line of the Charlotte and Columbia Railroad, was summoned as a witness to go before the grand jury, at the present term of the Superior Court at Greensboro, to give evidence on a bill of indictment. While in the jury room, being examined, the said C. F. got his back up at some question propounded by a juror, and, picking up a chair, he signified his determination to go for the whole array of jurors ; but W. N. Mebane, Esq., the foreman, politely informed the obstreperous witness, that he could not bull-doze that crowd in that way; whereupon the grand jury aforesaid dismissed the irate witness, and returned a "true bill" against him. BRIGHAM'S FUNERAL. As far back as November 9th, 1873, Brigham Young committed to writing directions for conducting his funeral. The instructions are as follows and were complied with as * i J _ ? _ ueariy as couia oe: I, Brighara Young, wish my funeral services to be conducted iu the following manner: When I breathe my last, I wish my friends to put my body in as clean and wholesome a state as can conveniently be done, and preserve the same for one, two, three or four days, or as long as my body can be preserved in good condition. I want my coffin made of plain one and a quarter redwood boards, not scrimped in length, but two inches longer than I would measure, and from two to three inches wider than is commonly made for a person of ray breadth and size, and deep enough to place me on a little comfortable cotton bed with a good suitable pillow in size and quality. My body dressed in my Temple clothing and laid nicely into my coffin, and the coffin to have the appearance that if I wanted to turn a litw iUWwi vtiv iviV) X oimutu titrvv j/fvw ty -of room to do eo; the lid can be made crowning. At my interment I wish all my family present that can be conveniently, and the male members to wear no crape on their hats or coats; the families to buy no black bonnets or dresses nor black veils, but if they have them they are at liberty to wear them. And services may be permitted, as singing I 1 i j :c / ?: i_ ana a prayer onereu, ana a auy ui uiy irienus wish to say a few words, they are desired to do so. And when they close their services, to take my remaius on a bier and repair to the little burying ground which I have reserved on my lot east of the White House on the hill. On the southeast corner of this lot I have a vault built of mason work, large enough to receive ray coffin, and that they may place in a box if they choose the same as the coffin?redwood ; then place rocks over the vault sufficiently large to cover it, that the earth may be placed over it?as fine dry earth as can be had?to cover it until the walls of the little cemetery are hid, which will leave me in the southeast corner. This vault ought to be roofed over with some kind of temporary roof. There let my earthly tabernacle rest in peace and comfort and have a good sleep until the morning of the first resurrection?no crying world mourning with any one. I have done my work faithfully and in good taitn. i wisn tms to ne read at tne runerai, provided that if I should die anywhere in the mountains, I desire the above directions respecting my place of burial should be observed. But if I should live to get back to the church in Jackson county, Mo., I wish to be buried there. Brigham Young, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Brigham's will was duly read in the presence of all his wives and children and a few frieuds. Brigham Young, Jr., George O'Cannon and Albert Carriugton are named as his executors. The estate is largely real estate, and is probably worth 82,000,000. The will was made four years ago, and his youngest child, born of Mary VanCott, was then three years old. Brigham Young was the father of fifty-six children, and left seventeen wives, sixteen sons, and twenty-eight daughters. The will aims to make an equitable division of the property between all the wives and children, with no preference to any. Most all of them have already had something deeded to them. On this a valuation was set, and it is to be charged to the recipients as part of their share, though not necessarily at the valuation he put on it. That it is to be equitably adjusted when the estate is divided, upon the youngest child coming of age. Meanwhile the income is to go to the various mothers according to the number of their children, and they can withhold it if the children behave badly. All are provided for as far as their present needs are concerned. His first wife and Amelia are given a life-interest in the Amelia Palace, a large, modern, new, fine house?but he is known to have changed his mind about that, chiefly because they declined it for reasons best known to themselves, although nothing in or out of the will has as yet come to light showing it, and they are not otherwise provided for except by their share of the income. Deceased held many interests in trust for the church and for individuals. His executors are directed to turn them over properly. The church is forbidden by law to hold more than 850,000 worth of property; and so it was largely held by Brigham Young in trust. His friends will not entertain the notion that he ever abused that trust. There is no inventory of the property on the estate, and it is widely scattered. With the country prosperous and full of money, it would be worth twice the above valuation. Recently Brigham Young endowed an academy with lands at Provo and another at Logan?the latter with 12,000 acres. He had determined to endow one at Salt Lake, but did not live long enough to do so. A person present at the reading of the will says it seemed to be very satisfactory to all concerned. It will be wonderful if some dissatisfaction does not creep in within the next thirteen years. X.OCAX. AT7AIES. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. W. EL <fe J. P. Herndon?Cotton Gins?LeatherGin Belts?Gaiter Tops for Gents?Watt Plows. ?* T. M. Dobson & Co.?New Firm?Salem Jems? Rustic Window Shades?Georgia Plaids? Kerosine Oil?Gold Jewelry?Bacon ar.d Lard?Tinware. E. M. Brayton, Collector?United States Internal Revenue. D. N. Wilburn, Cross Keys, S. C.?The Best Clothes Washer. H. F. AdlcTTes & Sons?Calicoes?Bagging and Ties?Prepare for Cold Weather?FlourSole Leather?Groceries?Oil at 30 Cents per Gallon. B. T. Wheeler?To Rent. A. Springs Withers, Secretary and TreasurerAttention, Company. RABh This vicinity was favored with a fine rain Monday and Monday night. A NEW CLOTHES WASHER. We direct attention to the advertisement of Bunnell & Crooker's patent clothes-washer, to be found in another column. As will be seen, quite a number who have used the machine speak of it in the highest terms. * - i ? u , me low price at wmcn it its auiu is ?u iu* ' duceraentto all who would avail themselves < of labor-saving appliances to give it a trial, i BAPTIST CONVENTION. The ninth annual meeting of the York ( Baptist Association, will commence at Cataw- < ba Church, five miles south of Rock Hill, on 1 Friday next, 14th instant. Elder B. G. Cov- ( ington has been appoiuted to preach the intro- 1 ductory sermon ; Elder T. J. Taylor, alternate. Elder A. L. Stough to preach the charity ser- 1 mon ; Elder D. W. Thomasson, alternate. 1 _ ? I WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH* ( The Western Union Telegraph Company < have recently made a considerable reduction in the rates for transmitting dispatches. According to the new rates of tariff, messages of ' 10 words or less will be sent from Yorkville to the following points at the prices men- ( tioned: r r ' Chester, Winnsboro, Coltfmbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, Gaffney's, Gastonia, Fort Mill, Rock Hill, Charlotte, Salisbury and Concord, N. > C., 25 cents. Charleston, Atlanta, Ga., Augusta, Ga., Lincolnton and Greensboro, N. C., 50 cents. Richmond, Va., Washington, D. C., Nashville, ' Tenii., and Louisville, Ky., 75 cents. Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, New Orleans, St. Louis, and Memphis, $1.00. +. ? EX-TREASURER WATSON. Reports have been rife for several days i past that John L. Watson, former treasurer of this county, has absconded for the purpose of evadiDg arrest on a warrant charging him with misappropriating public funds 1 of the county. Such a warrant has been issued and placed in the hands of the sheriff , for execution ; but when his deputy reached Rock Hill?near which place Mr. Watson resides?for the purpose of serving the warrant, it was learned that Mr. Watson bad, a few hours previously, departed from Rock Hill by rail. His friends claim that he did not leave his home on account of any charges that have been or may be brought against him ; but that bis present trip was planned several weeks ago?he having determined to place his daughter in a school in Ohio, and 1 in order to have her there at the beginning of ( the session, it was necessary to start at the ' time he did. It is also claimed that he spoke of this trip as far back as a month ago, and endeavored to secure the services of a friend 1 to relieve him from making the trip. We 1 give these statements in connection with the affair for what they are worth. A few days at farthest will determine the truth ??. - I -1X.T .,.1 -r, ? y MOtrvv ?*Aluded to charges him with breach of trust in the school fund of Catawba township to the amount of $100. ?? THE CIRCUIT COURT. In addition to the three cases on the sessions docket, reported in our last issue, the two following were also tried: State vs. John Dees, colored ; burglary and larceny. Prosecutor, C. K. Williams. Solicitor Gaston for the prosecution and Mr. J. , C. Witherspoon and Mr. Bell for the defence. Verdict, guilty. 1 State vs. Ben. Petty, colored; burglary and larceny. Prosecutor, J. B. Wood. For pros- 1 ecution, Solicitor Gaston ; for defence, W. P. Good. The plea of guilty was entered. This ended the sessions business, which was j concluded on Wednesday afternoon. This < term is remarkable for the limited number of sessions cases coming before it?there being only 6ve?which speaks well in favor of the people of York county as law-abiding citizens. i On Thursday morning his Honor pronounced the following sentences: William Wilson, white; convicted of assault and hatterv. Sentenced bv the Court to sixty days' imprisonment in the county | jail; to be discharged after ten days if a fine ( of $30 and costs be paid. Ben. Petty, colored ; burglary and larceny. Sentenced to hard labor in the peniten- , tiary for the term of one year. _ i Sara and Jasper Partlow, colored ; burglary and larceny. Each sentenced to hard labor ( in the penitentiary for the term of one year. I John Dees, colored; burglary and larceny, i Sentenced to hard labor in the pententiary for ' the term of three years. The following report of the grand jury was j read: j To the Honorable J. B. Kershaw, Presi- f ding Judge: The grand jury would respect- i fully submit the following report to this < Court: I That they have examined the books of the $ following trial justices aud find them correct, I viz.: Samuel M. Fewell, R. L. Crook, S. Da- i vidson, R. T. Gillespie, J. S. Lewis, A. L. i Nunery, J. C. Chambers and P. B. Darwin. ( The trial justices complain in behalf of the | constables and jurors. The complaint with < regard to the constables is that they are c6m- i pelled to summon the jurors without any com- t ) pensation ; aud in behalf of the jurors it is ? complained that they are compelled to sit as t j jurors without being compensated for such ser- j ! vice?the County Commissioners refusing to ( i now f-hom ftnvf.hincr. [ t"V ?j eSo far as we are able to judge, the public 1 offices of the county are properly kept. f On examination, we find that the jail is in I ] proper condition, and that the prisoners are j c well attended to. ! t We find the poor-bouse to be under proper y management. We would recommend that the Maddocks family, inmates of the poor-house, be removed out of the house they now occupy, k into the house on the premises used as a work- j8 shop. We make this recommendation because } r the house in which the said Maddocks family '< c now are, is not comfortable, and the house now f ! used as a workshop is comfortable. The free common schools of the county are i | in a peculiar condition. Several of the school j districts are burdened with debt. How much j ! is the amount of this indebtedness, it is appa- j j rently impossible to ascertain witn correct-1 j, ; ness. Under all circumstances, the schools are in as flourishing a condition as could be t expected. Free schools are in operation in j all the school districts in the county except j two. The number of free schools in opera-1 c tion are, in the aggregate, about 80. t i We are happy to report that peace and j quiet predominate throughout the county, j j. Respectfully submitted, , W. M. WALKER, Foreman, j Jj On Thursday morning, the trial of causes ? on the calendars was commenced. Calendar r six was ended, when calendar three was taken ! s jp. Among the causes on that calendar at;racting considerable attention, was that of Mrs. Huffman vs. F. H. Barber, to recover $360^rhich she surrendered to him on his denand, previous to bis becoming administrator >f the estate of J. J. Watson, deceased. The plaintiff had for several years been in the employment of Watson, and claimed that he pad given her the above amount in gold coin, rhe coin was claimed as a part of the estate, ind surrendered by plaintiff under protest, rhe verdict of the jury was in favor of the plaintiff, allowing her claim, which in cur encv and with interest, amounts to $500. , Messrs. Beatty and Bell for plaintiff; Messrs. Hart and Rion for defendant. Lorentz <fe Ritler vs. Cureton, Ardrey & , Do. Action on debt of $500. Plead as set- ( >ff commissions, &c., amounting to $354 on { tales of guano. Verdict for plaintiffs for $334, allowing a discount of $190. Wilson < & Wilson, for plaintiffs; Witherspoon & ] Spencer for defendants. As a presiding officer, Judge Kershaw has 1 von the good opinion of all who have had occasion to observe the proceedings in the court room. Patient and laborious pending the investigation of a cause?noting down with his >wn hand a summary of the evidence?learned in the law, and a gentleman of unim- 1 reachable integrity, suitors and members of ;he bar alike feel that in his Honor's hands the scales of justice are equally poised. Besides the resident members of the bar, tve notice in attendance during the term, ihe following lawyers from a distance : Col. J. H. Rion, Winnsboro; Maj.S. P. Hamilton, Gri'ea J. Patterson, and Solicitor Gaston, Chester; Messrs. John P. Gage, John C. Witherspoon and W. B. Wilson, Jr., Rock Hill; R. E. Allison, Lancaster; and J. S. R. rhomson, Spartanburg. It is probable the term will continue until the end of the present week. EDITORIAL INKLINGS, rhe Pennsylvania Republicans. The Republican State Convention of Pennsylvania, in session last week at Harrisburg, adopted the following resolution as expressing the feeling of the Convention towards the policy of the Administration : Resolved, That, while we recoguize and respect the difference of opinion existing among us to the course pursued by President Hayes towards the South, we are heartily in accord in bouoring the patriotic motives which have guided him and in hoping that the results of i Ml 1 J !11 1 1 UIB policy win oe peace, goou win ami equai rights of all meo io every section of the country, and to the efforts of his administration to carry into effect the principles of the platform upon which be was elected, we pledge our hearty and cordial support. Death of Ex-Senator Owens. Ex-Senator Y. J. P. Owens, of Laurens county, a notable interview with whom was published in our last issue, died at the Howard House, Baltimore, on the night of the 5th instant. The clerk of the hotel has possession of Owens' effects, including $42,000 in money and securities, subject to averse claims from Owens' heirs aud the State of South Carolina. On the 6th instant, a notice was served on the Carolina National Bank of Columbia, to attach the funds payable on certificates of deposit issued to Owens, amounting to over $20,000. Owens was surety on the bond of MJloo n Purbor PY.Rt.Ata TrflAAiirftr. who ia largely indebted to the State. n mnno! ?A?r?i?tnn Pa I*?- . .. more last Friday for interment in LanrenB county. Pennsylvania Labor Troubles. Indications are that the labor troubles in Pennsylvania have not yet come to an end. A special dispatch from the mining districts says: The strikers of the Lehigh regions have resolved on a general uprising if the military make their threatened arrests. Five thousand members of secret orders are drilling with weapons in Hyde Park, in the suburbs of Scranton. The Molly Maguires are trying to induce the railroad employes to unite in a general strike September 15th, but the railroad men have had enough of strikes. The miners in the bituminous regions of Clear6eld county threaten to strike for an advance in wages corresponding with the advance in coal. A party of disguised men recently visited the cottage of a man named Gerringer, and compelled him to kneel and swear he would not resume work until the strike was ended. Similar affairs are happening in different parts of Luzerne. Dissatisfaction among members of the Locomotive Brotherhood relative to the management of its organization is becoming great. Engineers and Bremen of the Pennsylvania, Northern Central and Philadelphia and Erie railroad, favor severing their connection with the Brotherhood rather than cooperate in the intended general railroad strike September 15th. Patterson Quaking. A Washington letter to the Baltimore Sun gives the following respecting Senator 'Honest John" Patterson: "Sonaf^r Paf.tprflnn and ouite a number of ather South Carolina refugees from juaticeare hanging around here, and seem to think this is a sanctuary from which the hand of the law cannot snatch them. Patterson follows the example of Wells and Anderson and seeks consolation for his troubles in frequent interviews with the President. Just after the presidential election last fall, when it was suggested that certain prominent Democrats should visit South Carolina to see a fair jount, Patterson proclaimed very loudly in ; public places here that if they went down to * south Carolina to meddle in the affairs of ] ;hat State, they would be put in the peniten- 1 iary. If he goes there now, voluntarily or ; nvoluntarily, he will be very apt to meet I ;hat fate which he was so very profuse in ( aroraising for others. Patterson's friends here ( jxpress apprehensions that the late developnents in South Carolina will have a strong i endency to imperil his seat in the Senate. 1 should the charges against him be sustained, I he Senate cannot afford to do less than ex- I Del him. His expulsion will materially re- , luce the already exceedingly meagre Repub- | ican majority in the Senate, if it does not lave the effect to wipe it out altogether. In inticipation of this probability, some of the 1 Radical officers of that body who were diseasing the matter to-day, were quaking in I heir boots." i rVbitteruore on Hayes. ] Wbitteraore, who is characterized as a i South Carolina political tramp, was present i it a reunion of the 53rd Massachusetts regi- . nent, at Fichburg, Mass., last week, when he 1 lelivered himself on the political situation as 1 bllows: i "We are standing over a volcano ready for 1 in eruption at any time. People cry peace 1 j >eace ! and there is no peace. Our battles j f oust be fought over again. When the speak- j r thought of the friends and comrades he ; tad seen shot down, and then of the existing 1 tate of affairs, it had seemed to him that | < hey had died in vain. He not only believed ( n being a loyal soldier, but in being a Repub- j t ican as well, and when he thought what' ? Southern Republicans went through to elect |' he President, who had turned them over to ! . heir enemies, he was ready to say there had j teen no line of policy bo base since the days f f Judas Iscariot. We fought to preserve , t ur liberty, and now it seems as though every | t nan in the country must feel that all our sac-; 1 ifices are to go for naught, if we are to have s uch men rule over us as are at present in po- c aition and power. The time ia coming when fou Northern men will be called upon to pay for all the slaves whose liberty you fought for, and you will be asked to pay all the constructive damages by the war, to commerce and to industry. If you refuse you will be treated as rebels. In closing, he expressed the wish that Northern men might have their eyes open to the danger that impends, to the end that the old flag which he had fought for, which be loved and which he wanted to be wrapped in when he died, might ever remain the symbol of freedom and liberty. Hllitary Prizes. We learn from the Columbia Register that the committee appointed to make arrangementsfor military prizes, to be contended for at the State fair in November, have decided to restrict the list of contestants to South Carolina companies. The committee have agreed upon the following points: 1st. To offer a prize of 8200 for the best drilled infantry company in the State, and a prize of $100 for the second best company; provided, that not less than three companies contest for them. 2d. A prize of $100 for cavalry, and one of the same amount for artillery; provided that not less than two companies of each of those arms of the service contend for them. 3d. The minimum number of men allowed to infantry and cavalry to be thirty-two, exclusive of commissioned officers and sergeants ; for artillery twenty-eight men, exclusive of commissioned officers and sergeants. for a batterj of four pieces. 4th. The drill of infantry and cavalry to include the "school of the soldier" and. the "school of the company" in single rank ; for artillery to include the school of the "soldier dismounted," excluding "manual of the sahre" and "manual of the pistol." The drill in all arms of the service to be according to Upton's tactics. 5th. Each company to be drilled by its own officers in such movements aud such portion of the manual as the judges may direct 6th. The judges to be selected from persons familiar with Upton's tactics. 7th. The artillery drill to be restricted to such movements as can be performed without horses. All companies of this arm desiring to do so can use the battery of four pieces belonging to the Columbia Flying Artillery, thus saving expense of transporting their own guns. 8th. All prizes to be in money. A Lynching in Kentucky. A Cincinnati dispatch of the 4th instant gives the following account of the lynching of four men in Henry county, Kentucky: Henry county, Kentucky, is in a state of great excitement over the lynching of four men who were confined in the jail at New Castle. For seven years the counties of Owen and Henry, situated in the southeastern part of the State, have been terrorized by a gang of banditti who have shot, burned and stolen almost without fear of law. The roads in much of the region are narrow, rocky bridle paths that run along the sides of the mountain streams. Travel is almost entirely on horseback or on foot, and the familiarity of the outlaws with every turu of the roads and dark corners io the thickets enabled them to put travellers out of the way with very little inconvenience, and without fear of detection. During the war many of their murders were charged to rebel soldiers, and at one time General Burbridge caused a number to be shot in retaliation. A few weeks ago one of the band, named Shuck, was hung at Owenton. He protested to the last to his innocence, and made a statement implicating several of his comrades. Soon after another of the gang, named Carter, made a full confession, and on the strength of this four men were arrested and lodged in New Castle jail. Three of them were brothers named Goodrich ; the other was James Simmons. At KftJf.nasi nao /v'nLuilr.. in tlin. jnuMniing > .mnh. . numbering fifty men,surrouuded the jail, took the four men out of their cells, hurried them a short distance from the building and hung them in a ghastly row. The victims, before the hanging, confessed to the murders and other depredations with which they were charged. Nobody seemed to know whence the lynchers came or whither they went. The officers 1? ? i wcro puworicw \At uuoi i coiaiauvyo, auu kiio people, if they know anything, are afraid to give information. The bodies were taken down and an inquest held, but no further facts were developed. MERE-MENTION. M. Thiers, the French historian and politician, is dead. Latest advices from Rome state that the Pope's illness is increasing. The Independent Greenback party of Massachusetts have held a mass convenvention in Boston and nominated Wendell Phillips for Governor and a full State ticket. The opinion is expressed by a Washington physician who visited Mr. Morton, that the paralyzed Senator will not be able to attend the extra session of Congress. The working-men of Baltimore have nominated a blacksmith for mayor of that city. The farmers and residents of small villages in the townships of Wayne county, Pennsylvania, are organizing vigilance committees for protection against the raiding strikers. The Chicago Pod wishes that Mr. Moody, who is so successful in conducting religious revivals, would try to make a revival in business. The City Council of Augusta, Georgia? all Democrats?have passed a series of resolutions unanimously approviug the course of the Administration, and inviting the President to call at that city during his proposed Southern tour. The postoffice department has received letters from a number of principal newspapers, refusing to publish advertisements at the rates allowed by law. The railroad rioters, convicted at Harrisburg, Pa., last week, have been sentenced to the county jail for from two to eight months, and fined from $20 to $500. In Florida the cotton crop is reported two weeks later than last fear. In Georgia it is ten to fifteen days late, k..t ?:n a The hanH I uut "in jr.o.n - ??.. 6 af Crazy Horse is dismembered. Geo. Crook telegraphs that this is the eod of all trouble as far as the Sioux are concerned, except as to Sitting Bull. Crazy Horse is reported to be dead. It is estimated that the total harvest of wheat in Minnesota this year will measure 31,000,000 bushels, and that 25,000,100 bushels will be spared for exportation to consumers outside of the State. The total yield last year did not exceed 18,000,000. The colored laborers in portions of Alabama are making contracts this early for next year. Frank Leslie, the New York publisher, has been compelled to make an assignment, owing to shrinkage in the value of real estate, in which he has large investments. All his publications will be continued as here;ofore. The average report of the cotion crop in Tennessee and northern Alabama 8 better than last year. In the recent ocal election in California, that State has jone Democratic. The New York 2H)une advocates immigration to the South, and ias the manliness to tell its readers that actual lettlers will meet a hearty and welcome reieption. An effort will be made at the soming session of Congress, to increase the irmy to 50,000 men. Some of the Georgia papers are advocating the election of Gensral Toombs to the Senate in the place of jeneral Gordon. Governor Wade Hampon was considered the best billiard player his season at the White Sulphur. Govirnor Wade Hampton is described by a Northern paper in somewhat flowery language is a "master of deportment," a man who stulies men and women more clqpely than books; a politician whose grand passion is J his love for his State, and who knows every 9 part of it and every man of consequence in 9 if......... The New York World wants Geo. I Joseph E. Johnston to be sent to the Rio I Grande with full power to examine into, and J report on the true state of affairs. } THE PRESIDENT AT MARIETTA. ;i The Presidential party arrived safely at * Marietta, Ohio, in attendance upon the Na- | tional Federal and Confederate Survivors' Assembly, on the 7th instant. After an address of welcome by Mayor Palmer, the President stepped forward and was greeted with ^ great cheers and waving of handkerchiefs. He said: , Ladies, Fellow- Citizens or*.? Survivors of the j Great War:?I wish that I was prepared to speak suitably upon this occasion. My friend, Mayor Palmer, in his address, informs me that in every speech made at this great national reunion encouragement has been given to that spirit of fraternity which it is the deaire of those associated with me in the administration to do something during our term of service to advance. We do not, in meeting the people, propose to discuss any of the great party questions which divide the people who honor as with their attention. [Cheers.] We leave these to be discussed before the people by those who may be appointed by the respective parties to carry on those debates, but we do feel that if, in visiting our feJIow-citisens in *, different States, we can add anything to strengthen the sentiment alluded to by the Mayor, it is right and proper that we should do it. [Applause.] AH who are familiar with the history of our country know that an J hundred years ago there was no North or I South. The fathers were one throughout the J whole country. Washington and Jefferson were side by side with Franklin and Adams. Daniel Morgan and his Virginians marched from Virginia to Boston. They were at Saratoga, and Nathaniel Greene and biaContinentals were in the Carolines. The whole country belonged to the fathers. It is to that state of harmony, of fraternal friendship, that .we desire our country to return. [A voice, "good for you I" and cheers.] We are for the Uoipn no 'o fPkaaiKj 1 Wo nvo frti? fko Pnntfiltit. AO II# 10? ^VUTOID'J ?T V Ml v IVI vuv -WWHBM>w tion as it is. [Cheers.] With all its amendments. [A voice, "that's it 1" Great cheers.] We want the citizens of every State to feel at home ip everjr, other State. [Ameo. and cheers.] -If a citizen of Vermont travels to Georgia or Texas, for business or pleasure, we want him to feel at home in those States. [Cheers.] If a citizen of Texas or Georgia travels North, we want that citizen to feel at home everywhere throughout the Union. , Now, my friends, I do not propose to detain you. I have made a much longer speech elready than I intended when I entered your town, but you understand the purpose. We may make mistakes in method, mistakes in measure, but the sentiment we would enoourage is a sentiment of nationality throughout ^ the Union. [Applause.] We all regard the ' ? service of that four years' war, we regard that period of four years as the most interesting of our lives. We fought then, those of as who were in the Union army, fought, as we believed, to make this forever hereafter a united people, forever hereafter a free people, and we rejoice to-day to believe tbat those who were against us in that struggle now are with uson both of these questions. [Cheers, loud and long.] And uow, my friends, you will desire to hear from some of those who are associated with me in the government. Two members of the Cabinet are here?Postmaster-General Judge Key, of Tennessee, and Gen. Devens, Attorney-General. They fought on opp site aides during these four,years, but to-day and here they are prepared to fight if need be, on the same side. [Great cheers.] The President was followed by Mr. Key, who alluded as usual to his peculiar position, ntttj-muuu o luug o^cuu rcfiowrag tuc uisujry of the conflict of opinion about slavery, and of the conflict of arms that resulted therefrom, deducing from his review the conclusion that neither should harbor ill feeliugs toward the other. THE ROGUE'S ROLL. Before the holding of the special term the Court of General Sessions at Columbia, there had been some scattering arrests of Re* publican politicians, upon charges made by the Investigating Committee, hut until the Attorney-General and his assistants gave out their bundle of indictments to the Grand Jury, the public had no conception of the extent of the work undertaken by the Committee, or of the number of persons affected by their inquiry. It was well known that the State had been robbed year after year, but so vain had been the previous efforts to bring the offenders to justice that the people were not particularly hopeful of any tangible results. The Committee, however, without going far below the surface, have secured evidence that, with a fair jury, will ensure the conviction of the accused, and, by its character, give the lie to the charge that the proceedings in Columbia savor strongly of political | persecution. For the opinion of professional i slanderers in the North, South Carolinians care not a farthing. We are anxious that they who have a good opinion of us, who pioned their faith to the declarations of the Democracy of this State, through the agonizing weeks of last winter and spring, shall not be disappointed, or feel that their confidence was undeserved. They will see, as events riSm, that every charge ever made by the ?, emocracy against the Republican party in South Carolina, is fully sustained by indispu- V table facts, and they will see that the evidence is famished by Republicans, not Democrats, 1 and that out of their own mouths and by tbe 1 work of their own hands the culprits are con- I demned. Some inkling of the mode in which 1 the investigation has been conducted should be given. To begin with, we make up a roll of the rogues who were indicted in Columbia last week: 1. Robert Kingston Scott, of Napoleon, Ohio, Governor of South Carolina from 1868 to 1872, two terms of two years each, indicted for conspiracy to defraud the State, in making and issuing spurious claims on tbe Treasury, in the name of fictitious persons, under the Joint Resolution of February 8, 1869, authorizing the Governor to employ an armed force for the preservation of the peace. * Scott, when last heard of, was saying pretty things in Ohio about Governor Hampton and the South Carolina Democracy. 2. F. J. Moses, of Sumter county, Governor of South Carolina from 1872 to 1874, onsl finoalrap nf f Ko 17/MIUO AT PanMOAnfaliana wuu ia^vt?aba vi i>uo ajluuoc via xncpi cocuvovitco from 1868 to 1872, indicted for (l)tbe fraudulent isaue, aa Speaker, of legislative pay certificates, and for (2) hiring and counseling a breach of trust No notice has been taken - '^j of bis misappropriation of the Contingent ^ fund and bis other rascalities while Governor. Being accepted as State's evidence, Moses is comparatively happy. 3. John J. Patterson, of Pennsylvania, elected United States Senator for South Carolina in 1872, indicted (1) for conspiracy to defraud the State under the Joint Resolution of February 8,1869; for (2) conspiracy, with Parker and Kimpton, to bribe members of the Legislature; for (3) bribing members of the Legislature ; for (4) hiring and counselling State Treasurer Parker to commit breach of trust and larceny. It was Patterson who announced a year or two ago that there were "five years' good stealing vet in South Caro liua." It is a notorious fact that be was elected Seuator by bribery, his agent being H. G. Wortbington, the present Collector at this Port, who in public has boasted that he elected Patterson. Senator Patterson is in Washington. 4. R. H. Gleaves, mulatto, a native of Philadelphia, Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina from 1872 to 1876, indicted for (1) conspiring to defraud the State by means of 1 fraudulent pay certificates, and for (2) fraudulently issuing legislative pay certificates. Gleaves has fled. 5. C. W. Montgomery, State Senator from