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Straps aid |?ta. j; ? Gen. Joe Johnston has been appointed a ! ^ coinraissiouer from Virginia to the Paris ex- ' position. 8 ? Wm. N. Stevens, a full-blooded negro, is ; a said to be one of the most eloquent speakers ' v in the Virginia Senate. He is a graduate of j ? two colleges, and was born a slave. it ? The Hon. A. H. Stephens says he wants g to die in harness, and that, if his health continues reasonably good, he will be a candidate for election to the Forty-sixth Congress. t ? A hopeful minister says that he has no j c doubt that the time will come, when the mem- n bers of a church choir will behave just as well ? ao utuci iv/iao. ^ ? The last attempt against the Moffett a liquor-punch law, in Virginia, has failed, the c Supreme Court deciding that it is constitu- v tional, and the present estimate is that it will I net the State over half a million a year. e ? Few men have died who have been so unanimously well spoken of as the late Pope J Pius IX. Everybody seems to have a kind \ word for his memory, however much they may have differed from him iu religious belief. ? Italy can bring into the field at once 340,000 men, and has 100,000 militia for a second line ; and in addition to these available troops, she has a reserve of 300,000. The corps of the first line are armed with 1870 rifles and breach-loading cannon. The estimates for 1878 amount to about ?8,000,000. ? Kansas is a young State, less than twenty years old, and now has a population of 700,000. She has a property valued at 8229,000,- ] 000; she raised last year 866,000,000 in farm _ products; she has 2,310 miles of railroad, 233,000 school children, 4,008 school houses. 0 ller territory is not yet one-fourth developed, c ? The vote by which the silver bill passed 0 in Congress has no party significance. Of the forty eight Senators who voted for it, twenty- ? six are Democrats, twenty-one are Republi- t| cans, aud one (Judge Davis) Independent, a Of those who voted in the negative, fourteen jj are Republicans and seven are Democrats. ^ ? In connection with the Pope, frequent * - ? ,J ~ ..f A Tn f, n '' in irhmt ^ m^UllUU 19 UJUUK Ui LUC iaiii.au, iu nm?u that functionary has his abode. There are 0 11,000 rooms in the Vatican, which is not a palace, but a city compressed. An array 30,- ? 000 strong could be lodged in it. Its actual in- _ habitants number but a few hundred. Only two Cardinals lodge there, Simeoni and Ledochowski. ? Dr. Linderman, director of the mints, says ^ if the silver bill becomes a law the three mints P will probably be able to turn out ?1,000,000 f iu the new coins during the first month after c the passage of the bill ; that in the second d mouth the number of dollars coined will prob- ^ ably be increased to ?2,000,000, while there- c after a maximum rate of coinage of ?3,000,000 a month will probably be reached. ? A dispatch from the City of Mexico, da- P ted the 17th instant, says much disappoint- c ment is felt there because news has not been C received of the recognition of President Diaz \ by the United States. No ministerial changes s have yet been made. The Executive and Su- n prerne Court are iu discord,and in consequence . no Federal Courts are held in the States of Durango or Chihuahua. Eight prominent 1 citizens of San Luis have been arrested for e conspiracy; they were implicated by letters 1 from Escobedo found upon their persons, e The Lerdists say that Escobedo is encouraged n by the American war party to inaugurate a t revolution. ? The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says: . "Governor Hampton, of South Carolina, has 1 given still further evidence of his liberality by vetoing a bill which the Legislature had passed, over the solid negro vote, known as the "chain-gang bill," and providing for the emwt.wmnnt o.t ka.rd IoKaP (111 nil hllO Sf fPPtS Rlld * highways, of all able bodied males sentenced f to imprisonment in the county jails. And r the fact that but 10 votes could be rallied out ( of 112 in the House for the passage of the bill tj over the veto, is an indication of Hampton's influeuce, which it is very agreeable for the r country to see." n ? The first official batch of statistics born a of the Moffett register, in Virginia, shows that 13 fr >m the middle of September last to the 1st of February, the people of Richmond took 783,- o 668 alcoholic and 706,676 malt drinks. Leav- is ing out the liquids purchased in large quanti- j ties for exclusive home consumption, the reg- g ister would chronicle an average of 4,000,000 drinks per annum. Addiugthe register- Sl ed and unregistered (one-third more) drinks, b the allowance will be 408 drinks per voter, a or seventy-five drinks per annum for every tl man, woman and child in the city. e ? The Greenback Convention at Toledo, ? Ohio, last Saturday, after appointing the Ex- tj eeutive Committee, adjourned sine die. The , platform is wordy, and the report of the pro- ^ ceedings closed with the following: Mr. Du- j ^ rant, from the District of Columbia, read a i ti dispatch from Hon. B. F. Butler, which was j tl withheld from the press, but which urged the J ? Convention to denounce the modification of ! a the silver bill insisted on by the gold men, and to pass the anti-resumption resolutions. . A resolution was offered and uuanimously " adopted, denouncing the silver bill just passed 11 in Congress as a delusion, and indignantly o condemning it as a financial measure. o ? A dispatch from Dexter, Maine, da ed p last Saturday, says: Last evening, J. \V. Bar- 0 ron, Treasurer of Dexter Savings Bank, not i a returning home as usual, search was made for him at the Bank, when the doors of the ' Savings Bank rooms were found broken open. a Barron's groans could be heard in the vault, in which he was locked, and when entrance o was obtained to the vault, he was found lying j[ on the floor, cuffed, gagged and a rope about i Q his neck. He was taken out in a senseless ; ,. condition and died at 5:30 o'clock this morn- j j ing. He had several severe wouuds on his head. The robbers obtained less thau a bun- j c dred dollars, and probably murdered the j d Treasurer because he refused to open the safe. | 0 ? A recent issue of the New York Journal fi of Commerce contains the following iu refer- ti ence to the silver money now in circulation, j ? __ j ,. QA I ^ as CU1I1 JJttlCU W1L1I guiu . jiiauc uvuai, uv i ^ to 97 cents ; American silver, 21 per cent, dis- ! ' count to 1 discount in currency; Mexican dol- j u lars, old and new, 92 to 94}; five francs, 93 | r to 95. The passage of the silver bill will ; v have the effect to appreciate all silver cur- 1 i] rency. The trade dollar will mount up prob- j ably above par, as it contains 7h grains more j silver than the monetized dollar. The reason 1 that the trade dollar has been selling below v par, is not because of any want of metal about it, but because it has not been a legal tender, j ? and cannot be disposed of in as large quanti- tl ties as desired, hence they fell below par. ti The same thing is true in regard to the Mex- ? ican dollar, but its value has been fixed by the United States Treasury Department. The Mexican dollar contains, by actual weight, j 416 grains of silver." ? The great excitement at the North, at the present time, is over the question of eternal I puuishment. It is disturbing society greatly, w Beecher takes ground against eternal puuish- a ment, and attempts to prove that the Bible only intends limited punishment. Rev. De ' Witt Talmage, and other orthodox preachers, a cite many passages from the Scriptures, show- c ing that the meaning intended is nothing else b than an endless and eternal punishment. To A show how rife is the spirit of atheism, R. J. a Ingersoll, an open and avowed infidel, is lec- c turing in New York to immense audiences. ^ lie ridicules the Bible and scouts the idea of future punishment in any shape. Crowds, r unable to gain admission to his lectures, are 9 turned away every time he has appointed to u speak. Christians are justly alarmed at the s rapid spread of false doctrines throughout the L land. The human mind is naturally too ^ skeptical anyhow, and the sacreligious utter-' ances of Ingersoll and such men are working c much"harm. | ? To the query of a correspondent as to * who was Cain's wife, the New York Journal ) / Commerce replies: "There is no better way o study Scripture than to compare it with Scripture In Genesis v, 4, it is said that ^dam begat his sons and daughters. The atter undoubtedly became the wives of his ons, as it is said in Geuesis iv, 20, that Ad,m's wife, Eve, "was the mother of ail living," vhich could uot have been true if the wives f her sons had sprung from any other source, ^.s the first pair were told, Genesis i, 28, to be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the arth," and as Adam lived 930 years, begeting Seth nearly 130 years after Cain, and ontiuuing after that, as expressly stated in he record, to beget sous and daughters, the hildren of the first pair were undoubtedly lumbered by the hundreds, so that as they rew up together and intermarried, the acount of the first peopling of the earth is not t all mysterious. There is nothing more pe' '1 - - ! , Pnin'a unar iu me umis^iuu ui mc umuc ui wen.. nfe than the names of the other daughters of Ldara, or of the wife of Seth, or of the mothr of Noah. She ||0tMk inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 28, 1878. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name f the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, ounty and State in full, and send the amount of he subscription by draft or post-office money rder, or enclose the money in a registered letter. t'osiage.?uie ^mjuikkk im ueuvcicu nco ? ?stage to all subscribers residing in York couny, who receive the paper at post-offices within be county; and to all other subscribers the postge is paid by the publisher. Oursubscribers, no latter where they receive the paper, are not liable ir postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addressibel" shows the time to which the subscription is aid. If subscribers do not wish their papers disontinued, the date mu.it be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that ur terms for subscription, advertising and jobrork, are cash in advance. the reign of robbery. We print on the first page of this issue, a ortiou of the report of the committee aplointed by the Legislature to investigate raude in this State during the days of Radial Rule and Rascality. More nauseating evelopraents of crime and infamy can scarce ie found outside the records of the criminal ourts ; nor does the history of the civilized porld furnish an instance of the robbing and lundering of a people by their public officers omparable to the carnival of crime in South Carolina during the period under review. Vhile Justice, slow but sure, has overtaken ome of these rascals, and while others have aade a slight restitution of their stealiugs, it i a consolation to the tax-ridden people of he State to know that none of the plunderrs have prospered by their ill-gotten gains, 'hose who are not occupying felons' cells are ither outcasts from society, bankrupt in loney, and recognized only as crimiuals by he better classes of their own party, while thers are refugees from justice, pursued by he avenging rod of Nemesis which will ever ish them, go where they may. proceedingsTof congress. In the Senate on the 19th, Mr. Spencer, of Llabama, from the committee on military afairs, reported favorably on the bill for the eher or W m. A. .Hammond, Jate burgeon Jeneral of the array, and it was placed on he calendar. It authorizes the President to eview the proceedings of the general court lartial in his case, and to annul and set side the findings and sentence in said court lartial, if, after such review, he shall tjeera ; right and proper to do so, and in the event f the findings being set aside, the President i authorized to place the name of Wra. A. lamraond on the retired list of the army as urgeon General, provided that in case of uch restoration, he shall not be entitled to ack, present, or future pay, or allowance of ny kind whatsoever. The bill restoring to he pension rolls those on the rolls of 1812, xcluded by reason of sympathy with the lonfederacy, passed?yeas 47 ; nays 8. In he House, the Louisiana contested election of ickliu against Darrall was taken up, and 'horaas, of Virginia, chairman of the elecion committee, made a speech in support of he committee's report, giving the seat to icklin. Theu Hale, of Maine, got the floor nd occupied it for two hours, in what he ailed a personal explanation, but what was i fact a criticism of the President's conciliaon policy in Louisiana, and a denunciation f the Democratic party in that State and all ver the country, for the Returning Board rosecutions. He was replied to by Gibson, f Louisiana, and Clymer, of Pennsylvania, nd the debate was closed for the day by a peech from Garfield in the same general line s Hale's. In the Senate on the 20th, Mr. Cockrell, f Missouri, submitted a resolution instructig the commissioner of agriculture to furish the Senate with such information and icts as may be in his possession relative to he disease of hogs, commonly called hog hnlpra with such sncaest.inns as ho mav ? ?oo ? ? J eera pertinent. Agreed to. Mr. Sargent, f California, from committee on naval afaire, reported, with amendment, Senate bill a organize a Life Saving and Coast Guard iervice. Placed on calendar. [It provides ar the transfer of the service from the Treasry to the Navy Department.] The bill to egulate the compensation of Postmasters, rith the amendment restoring franking privleges, passed by a vote of 83 to 2. In the louse, the contested case of Acklin against )arrall, from Louisiana, was decided in fa- ! or of Acklin, Democrat. In the Senate on the 21st, Mr. Spencer, of i Llabama, introduced a bill to provide for ! he building of a military post for the pro- J ection of the citizens of the Black Hills reion. Referred to the committee on military ; Shirs. The Senate committee on railroads, eard arguments on the Texas Pacific and be Southern Pacific Railroad bills. Among he confirmations was that of Northrop as )istrict Attorney for South Carolina, which , i&s made by 3 majority, in the face of an dverse report. In the House, the Senate mendments to the Silver bill came up for ction. Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, was re- I ognized as having charge of the matter, and e moved to concur in all the amendments. L point of order that the Senate amendments ppropriated money and must, therefore, be ousidered in committee of the whole, was iscussed for two hours, and was finally overuled by the Speaker. Then the previous uestion was seconded, and Mr. Stephens had, uder the rules, an hour to close the discus- j ion. This time (reserving but three minites to himself) he parcelled out among mem>ers in allowances of from a minute to eight ninutes, and when the discussion was over, a notion to lay the bill on the table was nmde >y Mr. Hewitt, of New York, and rejected, 'eas 74, nays 202. Then the Senate amend ! ments were severally concurred in by about a like vote, and thus the bill Snally passed, and now goes to the President for his approval. Butler reported a bill directing the Suj preme Court of the United States, to admit j to its bar all women who have practiced in the high courts of any State, for a period of i three years. Adopted by 169 yeas, to 87 j nays. Aiken and Evins voted against the J bill, but Rainey, Smalls and Cain in favor of it. Both Houses adjourned until Monday. ! In the Senate on the 25th, Mr. Conkling i presented the petition of James Gordon Ben-1 nett asking Congress to aid him, in the way j he designated, in seeking new discoveries at the North Pole. He had purchased a vessel and intended to man and run it at his own expense. The petitioner desired that his ves ael should carry the American flag. Referred to the committee on commerce. Iu the House, bill to pension the Boldiers of the Mexican and Indian wars was taken up, and Joyce, of Vermont, made a speech against it, on the ground that it would be largely for the benefit of the men who had fought against the j Government in the late war. This speech was denounced with great vehemence by Goode, of Virginia. Adjourned without ac-j tion. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Ex-Judge Cooke has opened a law office in Greenville. ? It is quite probable that the legislature will not adjourn before the 15th of March. ? The Circuit Court for Lancaster county was in session last week, Judge J. H. Hudsou, presiding. ? Gov. Hampton has pardoned L. Cass Carpenter. He left for the North immediately after his release. ? The library of the South Carolina University embraces 26,400 properly bound volumes, and several thousand pamphlets. ? The Columbia Register says that Attorney General Youmaus directed the release of Niles G. Parker, upon certain conditions, last Monday. ? Two circuses are ahout to invade the State. "Old John Rohinson's" is advertised to be in Columbia on next Saturday, and Van Amburg's on the following Thursday. ? Senator Butler will deliver the annual address before the Literary Societies of Erskine College, at Due West, on the 3rd of July nfext. ? Two regiments of the National Guard, a colored volunteer organization, were reviewed in Charleston last Saturday, by Governor Hampton. The display was the finest the colored troops have ever made in Charleston, all the companies appearing with full ranks, well armed and equipped and handsomely uniformed. Several colored bands were in the column, and the field and staff, as well as line officers were all colored. At the close of the review the company were massed in front of the City Hall, where Governor Hampton addressed them briefly, congratulating them on the improvement in their organization and efficiency during the last year, reminding them of his pledge previous to his election that the colored race should eujoy full and ? * - - -i ? * i- _ i _.:tL equal rignis unaer me iaw wuu me wmiee, aud calling upon them as citizens to co-operate with hira in carrying out his other pledges. ? JudgeMackey held court iu Anderson last week. The Intelligencer says "his administration of justice was favorably received by the bar and the people." On being serenaded during his stay in Anderson, Judge Mackey responded in somewhat extended remarks to the call of his fellow-citizens for a speech. Iu the course of hisaddrees, he said : "If the Republican party of Ohio triumph, the peace aud prosperity of the State is uninjured, or the same will be true if the Democratic party wins, but in South Carolina it is a contest for civilization and the liberty of our race. Although the Republicans of the North represent its wealth and culture, they are willing to expunge our civilization in order to restore their own power. * * * I find myself in an anomalous position. I hold the principles I held five years ago, and yet I would blush to be called a Republican. The very name has become a foul diegrrce. The Democratic and Republican parties now are not different in their platforms, but they are totally different in their aims and management. The Democracy represents the cultivation of our race, aud the Republican represents the ignorance and barbarism which threatens to overthrow the peace and prosperity of our State." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Capt. E. C. Woodson, the popular city ed itor of the Raleigh Observer, died, after a brief illness, on Saturday morning last. ? A meeting of the State Democratic Executive Committee is called at Raleigh ou the 28th of March. ? John T. Herron, a Charlotte printer, and a soldier of the Mexican war, died recently in Conway, Arkansas, aged about 55 years. ? .Notes, accounts, etc., assets ot the tfana of Mecklenburg, amounting to 8123,000, were sold in Charlotte last Saturday, briuging about 8117. ? George Pethel, of Mooresville, Iredell county, has been committed to the jail of Rowan county on the charge of poisoning his wife with strychnine. ? Rev. Charles Phillips, of the N. C. Conference, and his wife and one child, are reported to have been recently drowned in Uwharie creek, Randolph county. ? Last week, 500 gallons of whisky and 2 stills were captured in Wilkes county. The previous week 11 stills were destroyed, a quantity of whisky seized, and several persons arrested. ? The work on the railroad from Egypt to Greensboro, is said to be progressing finely. | Eighty-six convicts are now employed on the work, and the number will soon be increased ! to the maximum allowed by the act of the j Legislature, viz.: oue hundred. The road is ; to be a narrow gauge, and that part of the line which has already been built from Fayetteville to Egypt, is to be reduced to the same ] gauge. ? A lady of South Lowell, Orange county, relates the following instance of the efficacy of prayer. While preparing to make bread, she discovered that she was out of yeast, and exclaimed to her daughter, "I wish to the j Lord I had a yeast cake." Just then the doorbell rang. When the summons was answered, no one was found, but lying on the sill, neatly packed, was a single yeast cake, i It appears that some person, introducing yeast cakes, deposited this sample as an advertisement aud departed tor the next house. ? A Newton correspondent writes to the Raleigh Observer: "Our citizens are exerting their energies in building the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad from Lincolnton lo Newton, which is now graded about half way, the whole distance being about fifteen miles, and will be completed to the latter place by next fall. It is expected that the change in the main track, by turning the Western North Carolina Railroad in by Newton, will bo made during this year, and then Newton will cope with any inland town in Western North Carolina. Our merchants are energetic, having a good trade, and are anxious for a better outlet to the South, which will enable them to pay the farmer more for his produce." ? As evidence of the popularity of graded schools, where the system has been thoroughly tested, we clip the following from the Greensboro correspondence of the Raleigh Observer : "Greensboro has the best graded school in the State, and it is an ornament to the town. It is kept up by taxation ou the residents withiu the corporate limits of the city and the portion of the Peabody fund which the corporation can obtain. It has four good teachers and over two hundred scholars. A large number of poor children, who could not otherwise obtain an education, even in the rudiments. have here an ooDortunitv to tret a very w ' r? * w good degree of learniug in all branches of study. Two boys have been prepared for West Point at this school aud stood the examination of admission successfully. The best people, as well as the poorest, send their children to tbe graded school, aud every one J in the town takes an interest in it, and is proud of it." EDITORIAL INKLINGS, j Why Popes Change Their Names. ? Apropos to the recent death of Pius IX : and the accession to the pontifical throne of Cardinal Pecci, the latter of whom assumes the title of Leo XIII, it may uot be uninteresting to know why the change of name is adopted. The reason assigned is a superstitous belief that unless this is done the pontiff will uot live loug. The custom has prevailed since it was inaugurated in 656 by Octavian Conti, who assumed the name and title of John XII. Julius Medici would have made a breach had he been permitted, but his frieuds prevailed on him to take the name of Clement, he being the seventh Pope to bear that name. Thirty-two years later, in 1755, Marcellus Servius was elected, and insisted upon retaiuing his own name. As Marcellus II, therefore he ascended the throne on the 9th of April. He was a young man and in robust health, aud yet he lived but' twentyoue days after his elevation. Since that time do Pope has ventured to offend against the tradition. It is a little singular that while the uarae of John has been a favorite one, no less than tweuty-one Popes having chosen it, none have chosen it since the death I of John XXII, iu 1416. The first Pope j bearing the name of Pius took the position in I 142, and the name did not reappear after his death till 1458. Another Letter from Chandler. YV. E. Chandler has written another letter on the electoral commission, under the caption, "YVas Governor Hayes a Bargain ?" Answering the question, he says : "Unquestionably he was. Much of the coquetting with Southern Democrats during the winter was done by him. Messrs. Foster, Matthews and others kept him fqjly advised of what they were doing. Senator Sherman went to Columbus reluctant to tradeoff Packard, and returned Secretary Sherman and joined in the trade. Mr. Hayes knew perfectly well the price that he was to pay for the Presidency was the betrayal of Packard and Chamberlain and the sacrifice of his own houor, but the fear of the loss of the Presidency with its two hundred thousand dollars in money, and its patronage, was too much for him, and he deliberately paid the price. It would be cowardly to affect to think othcrwiao. If the subject io ever investigated by competent authority.it will doubtless be found that he confirmed, in some way, the assurance given by his friends before Mr. Levy proclaimed in the house that all was right, and Mr. Ellis told Mr. Hewitt that the count could proceed, and changed his vote and opposed fillibustering. At all events, it is enough to convict him that his first act on arriving in Washington was to procure or advise an order from Gen. Sherman withdrawing Federal support from Packard, and inviting the White Leaguers to crush hira." The New Pope. ^ ' nn.L it. - n t?.,? Ull tne zuin ujsihiii, me emitintc ui Cardinals assembled at Rome elected Cardinal Gisachino Pecci as Pope, to succeed Pius IX. The new Pope is an Italian and takes the name of Leo XIII. The populace of Rome was very tranquil pending the election of the Pope, and the choice of the Sacred College seems to give general satisfaction to the Catholic'world, as well as the different governments of Europe. The coronation of Pope Leo XIII took place privately iu the Sixtine Chapel last Sunday. It has been decided that he shall not, for the present, leave the Vatican. Cardinal Pecci, who now assumes the title of Leo XIII, was born on the 2nd of March, 1810, at Carpinete, near Anagui, of an old patrician family. He wa9 in favor with Pope Gregory XVI, in whose household he was for some time as a prelate and riferendary, and who employed hjm as his delegate, 6rst at Beueventi, then at Spolito and Perugia, where he did good work in ridding some of those districts of the scourge of brigandage. He is tall, with a fiue head, high forehead, narrowing at the temples, long face and straight features. He has a large mouth, prominent chin, cheerful, open countenance, and large, well shaped ear9. He has a fine, sonorous voice, great dignity, even austerity of manners in public life, but privately is affectionate, unassuming, socisble and witty. He enjoys the confidence of the Liberal Cathi olics, and his private life at all periods is above reproach. It is generally conceded that the tiara could not have crowned a more worthy head. Advance of Freight Tariff on Cotton. The Charlotte Observer gives tiae following information, which is explanatory of a statement recently made to the effect that the main lines had determined to advance the freight tariff on cotton: The following railroad men have been closeted here, having met by appointment at the Central Hotel: General Freight Agents, A. Pope, of the Atlantic Uoast i-iine; 001 naas, of the Richmond & Danville Railroad; and F. W. Clark, of the Carolina Central Dispatch Line. Dr. A. H. Davega, President of the Chester & Lenoir Narrow Gauge, and Capt. V. Q,. Johuson, Superintendent, of the Carolina Ceutral, were also in the city at the same time. It is understood that the object of the meeting was :o Belect a man to attend to the shipment of cotton from Charlotte by all the lines represented above?one who should have entire coutrol of the business. It seems that the freight agents of these routes have already agreed to pool the cotton business of Charlotte, the per centage which each road is to get having been settled by arbitration. It is not exactly known what this apportionment is, but report fixes it as follows: Richmond & Danville Railroad, 46 ; Carolina Central, 34 ; and Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta (Atlantic Coast Line), 20. The object of selecting a man to attend to the shipments by all three of the lines, is to insure each line its stipulated proportion. As the companies have assumed the insurance, that is, have added it on the old standard rate, and as the rate is of course the same by any one of the three lines, the shipper will , have no choice, and the Charlotte agent will have the privilege of sending the cotton by any line, so as to maintain the proportion. LOCAL AF7AZES. | NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. T. M. Dobson ACo.?Seeds?Bargains?Window Shades-Charlottes ville Goods-Plows--Acid Phosphate?Red Damask?Crockery?Irish Potatoes?Specialty?Ticking?Another A.r- , rival?Come and See Me?Shoes. H. F. Adickes A Sons?Prints?Seed Irish Pota- 1 toes?Buck Wheat?Knives and Forks, Ac. Hunter A Oates?Miles' Shoes. Fannie L. Dobson?Recherche Patterns. John C. Kuykendal?Beautiful, Fragrant, Use- ; ful-Elixirs and Fluid Extracts?A New Advertisement?Irish Potatoes?I'll Never | Take a Cent Less. F. H. Youngblood and others?Warning. Clark Brothers?Cat-Tail Millet. E. M. Brayton, Collector?U.S. Internal Revenue Sale. Kennedy Bros. A Barron?Pass 'Em Right Out? : Irish Potatoes?Flour?Calf Skins?Feed j Your Cows?Platc-s?Hams?Shuck Collars. W. H. <ft. J. P. Herodon-ZeU's Acid Phosphate. H. H. Thomson <fc Co.?Chattel Mortgage Sale. J. M. M. Cain?Notice. VV. H. McCorkle Intendant?The Fence Law. LEGISLATIVE "DOCUMENTS. We return thanks to Hon. I. D. Witherspoon, Senator from York, for sundry legislative documents. REVENUE* SEIZURE. Last Monday, Deputy Marshal Snider seized, on the premises of Hiram Turney, about eight miles north of town, a keg containing seven gallons of whisky, alleged to be "blockade." THE FESTIVAL. The festival, given by the ladies last Friday night, in aid of the Methodist church, was a decided success. An abundance of edibles, including substantial as well as delicacies, had been prepared and displayed in the most tempting manner, in the handsomely decorated hall, and the evening was enjoyed by quite a throng of all ages and sexes. We learn that a handsome sura was realized, which speaks well, not only .of those entrusted with the management of the enterprise, but also of the liberality of our citizens. ENTERTAINMENT AT BLACK'S. We acknowledge the receipt of an invitation tn Ml, oil turf u i 11 moil t f n hf> crivPfl lit Rlack's V?WU IV UK VUVV. ?w --- 0 Station, on the 4th of March, for the bene6t of the Methodist and the B.iptist churches of that enterprising town. The entertainment will cousist of charades, farces and music, and judging from the programme, will he interesting and amusing. Mr. Joseph Black will be stage manager, and the music will be under the direction of Prof. Johnson. The ladies will also give a hot supper at the Haas House, at 4.30 P. M., the proceeds to be applied to the same object. REV. W. VV. DUNCAN. According to previous announcement, this eminent divine of the Methodist Church, and Professor in Woflbrd College, Spartanburg, preached in the Methodist Church at this place in the morning aud at night, and addressed a mass meeting of the Sunday Schools in the Presbyterian Church in the afternoon of last Sabbath. It htis been some time since the citizens of Yorkville have been allowed to listen to more earnest, calm, eloquent and forcible proclamation of the truths of Chris tianity than came from the Professor; while it would be a difficult matter to muke the children?even some of the "grown up" children?believe that they were not highly pleased and pro6ted by his address in the afternoon. We think we but express the opinion of all who heard him, when we say we hope Professor Duncan will visit Yorkville again. TRANSFERS OF-REAL ESTATE. The following trausfers of real estate have been recorded in the office of the County Auditor since our last report: Mrs. C. J. Robertson to W. T. Barron. Lot of 2 acres in Yorkville. Consideration $40.25. George Miller to Allen Chambers. Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration $62. R. W. Shaw to Catherine Hobbs. Tract * x-r* i ir ? _ ? _ 4. i_:_ or iuy acres in rung s mountain lowuuuip. Consideration 81,000. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to T. P. Whiteaides. Tract of 471 acres in King's Mountaiu township. Consideration 84,660. Mary D. Corder to John Shilliuglaw. Lot of acres in Catawba township. Consideration 824.85. W. H. Hardin, President C. & C. Railroad, to J. C. Hicklin. Tract of 200 acres in Catawba township. Consideration 8500. David H. White to Mrs. M. A. Brem. Tract of 193 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration 82,600. MARRIAGE LICENSES. The proposition before the Legislature, requiring parties to procure license before entering the holy bonds of wedlock?paying, of course, a fee for the privilege of placing their necks in the matrimonial noose?does not meet with much favor in this State, whose people, since the foundation of the Government, have been educated in the doctrine that all legal preliminary requirements to making the fatal leap have been complied with in the struggle to obtuiu the girl's consent. To a people thus imbued, paying the clerk of the court a fee for a wife, would invoke a feeling similar to that expressed by a newly-married man in an adjoining State, where the license system prevailed, tbe fee for the document being seventy five cents. While yet enjoying the pleasures and illusions of the honeymoon, he engaged an artist to paint a portrait of his wife. Iu due time the painting was completed, and the limner presented his bill of one hundred dollars, tbe customary price at that time for painting a portrait iu bridal array. The benedict was dumb-founded. "What 1" exclaimed he, "one hundred dollars for that picter, wheu the woman herself only cost seventy-five cents!" BREVITIES. ? The Intendant publishes an important notice this morning in reference to enforcing the fence law within the corporate limits of York ville. ? Messrs. Clark Brothers publish an important notice in our advertising columns, to which the attention of farmers is specially directed. ? Johnson's Dixie Minstrels, a Fort Mill organization, purpose giving an entertainment in Yorkville, on the 8th of March, for the benefit of the Fort Mill Light Infantry. ? A young woman in New York got into ; trouble by marrying "just for fun." We j know of at least one woman who accomplished precisely the same result by marrying in ' earnest. J ?The manufacturer of a headache specific I says, "many of our leading ministers use it j with great success." A friend, who knows I how it is himself, indulges the hope that the j afflicted clergy are not under the necessity of1 applying the remedy early in the morniug. ? Services will be held in the Presbyterian Church to-dav, iu couformity to a rule of the j ! Church iu this jurisdiction, which sets apart a special day on which to invoke divine bless*, ing in behalf of the youth of the land, and : especially those in the schools and colleges. ! ?"Do let rae go to the festival," pleaded a little girl whose mother was averse to the child's wish, on account of the expense it | might involve, "I dou't want to buy a thing; j all I want is just to see the auimals." That child evidently had heard her father framing | an excuse to go to the circus. I ? Mr. J. Ed. Jefferys, employed at the rail road shop, while moving a heavy piece of timber last Monday, came Dear being seriously hurt. By some means, he was throwo violently across the railroad track, bis bead and back striking the rails. He received two severe contusions, disabling bim for a day or two. ? The Yorkville Cornet Band have added j two new instruments, of the helicon pattern, to their number. It is their iutentiou to re- i place all their old instruments with the helicon ; style. The band is making steady progress in the divine art, under the leadership of Mr. Robert J. Herndon. ? That kissing goes by favor is clearly shown in the case of an Ohio school-master, who marked a pretty girl pupil nine fn the examination in chemistry, although her real grade was six, and wanted her to kiss him as a recompense. She told her mother, and now the school-master is in trouble. ? A business letter received at this office divides compliments between the Enquirer and its readers. The writer says the Enquires. is not only the best advertising medium of any country paper, but from his experience, the people of York are more intelligent and progressive than those of any county in the State. ? An exchange enthusiastically declares that Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, in his speech on the occasion of Congress accepting the painting of Lincoln reading the emancipation proclamation, "covered himself with glory." The speech, no doubt, had a happy effect on the whole country ; but we object to the metaphor. In corporeity Mr. Stephens is quite small and can be covered with a very scant nn ffern. ? A pair of chirapanzes has beeo lately received in New York, and according to all accounts, they more nearly resemble the human species thau any class of voter in the raw material yet introduced into this free land. They laugh and simper, chatter to each other in very unintelligible jargon, and speak several words in German and English. They are thought to supply the missing link, which for a long time baffled Darwin, and clearly establish the theory that the human race is descended from monkeys. This being true, one consolation may he derived from the the fact that our ancestors were educated in the higher branches. MKHE-MENTION. Seventy million people are reported to be starving in Northern China. In one district, containing a population of 85,000, it is said at least 70,000 humau beiugs have starved to death within the past three months. Hon. Alex. H. Stephens is sixty-six years old, and his health is said to be improving. The New Orleans Times asserts that a Court in East Carroll, La., adjourned for two hours the other day to hear a hand-organ. A Georgia Presbyterian deacon, who permitted a dance at his house, during the Christmas holidays, has been suspended frftiik the church. Eighteen million dollars in judgments have been entered in the courts against Tweed,and the proceedings to declare him a bankrupt have failed. Several marine disasters are reported to have occurred last Friday night. Fort Providence, Khode Island, was flooded, and the details of high water damages in California aggregate millions. Judge Whitaker has refused a new trial to Anderson of the Louisiana returning board. The annual meeting of the National Association of Mexican Veterans commenced in Baltimore last Friday. The secretary's report shows a membership of 4,1)49 members. The National Agricultural Congress, in session at Washington, has adopted a resolution that the Government ought to control interState commerce, and that the Congress of the United States be asked to take some action in regard to it Lieutenant Flipper, the only colored graduate of West Point, is to be appointed military inspector of the Agricultural and Military College of Texas. Russia has one. hundred and thirty-nine holidays in every year, and the Russian that doesn't get drunk on these days is supposed to be in sympathy with the Turks. A Washington correspondent says: "A most peculiar man in Washington is Col. Evins, of South Carolina. He never makes a remark unless he has something to say.' England has an army of 462,829 men available for a foreign war. Pecei, the new Pope, is pronounced Petchee. The latest dispatches from the Turco-Russiac war indicate that the terms of peace were signed last Monday. At a communistic meeting in New York, last Monday, one of the speakers said : "Only let the army be abolished and labor would make such a move as would ensure its rights and render it equal with capital." An accident occurred od the Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad, Sunday night, killing one passenger and seriously wounding three others. The impression prevails in Washington that the President will veto the silver hill. A GALA DAY'ITCHARLESTON. The auuiversary of Washington's birthday was celebrated in Charleston last Friday with great eclat. Several battalions of militia, includiug a visiting compauy front Richmond, were in line, a uuinber of distinguished personages, among them Governor Hampton, were present, and for the first time in all the military displays in Charleston since the war, were all the appointments successfully carried out. Not the least interesting feature of the occasion was the presentation, by Major James F. Hart, of Yorkville, through G vernor Hampton, of the war guidon of Hart's Battery, to the Washington Artillery, which took place on Friday night at Military Hall. Major Hart was introduced by Captain Smyth, and after the applause occasioned by his appearance had subsided, said : Gentlemen of the Washington Artillery: Seventeen years ago to day, occurred in this hall a circumstance connected with your corps which to-day finds a sequel. Near seventeen years ago, after Fort Sumter had falleu, many of the younger members of your famous old corps, believiug that the war cloud which for a time had threatened your coasts was about to break in all its fury upon the frontier of Virginia, sought the opportunity of being foremost among her defenders. They formed from your ranks the nucleus of a light battery, to which were added gallant spirits from many parts in the interior, forming altogether a complement of some of the best manhood of the State. In June, 1861, this battery was accepted into the Hampton Legion, then organizing at Columbia, S. C. On the 14th of June of that year, on the eve of its departure, its tents being struck for the march, it assembled in this hall to receive, through the hands of one of your members, a handsome guidon, an offering of love and patriotism from mauy fair ladies of your city. In July, 1861, this battery had taken its place under the banner of the chivalric Wade Hampton, and during the four years that followed, it shared the hardships and toils, the triumphs and disappointments of the immortal Army of Northern Virginia. When the end came in April, 1865, its survivors returned with one great consolation in defeat. They were conscious tbey had done their whole duty?to the last man and to the last hour of the great conflict. The battery left South Carolina with Stephen D. Lee as its first commander, and after his promotion it fell to my lot to command it. During this latter period, it became known in army orders, from convenience of designation, as "Hart's Battery." After the close of the campaign of 1864, the command devolved upon Capt. E. L. Hasley, one of its first veterans from your old company, a battle trained i? * - * T * ioou t M\t mv ft\r~ ueuieutuil. ui tueuatwi;. U BM WW- ?J--? tune to remain with it to the end. During itf eventful career, the guidon was borne by Louis Sherfessee until his sterling worth and gallantry placed him in the line of promotion in the ordnance department. Of its lieuteuants, Horsey, Hamilton, Marshall, Bamberg and Adams, and of its rank and file, I ueed only say that their record is known to you and to the State. I have been commissioned by the surviving remnant of those faithful men to place in your hands, Captain Smyth, and that of your gs.llant old corps, this, to us at least, sacred relic of our past history. We know that it could not find worthier or more faithful guard:acs. We cannot give it away, for we waut our children and grand children to fee) that they, too, have a property in the history of which it forms a part. It now being almost in a state of orphanage, and as you constitute its nearest kindred, we desire to constitute you its guardians in perpetuity, and beg that you guard it tenderly. Perils and privations it has borne. [Immense cheering.] Woman's tears and prayers consecrated it td our cause. [Applause.] Brave men and faithful, gave their lives a willing sacrifice in following it, and even its foemen knew and respected it. Tattered and torn by shot and shell, and bearing the staius of over one huudred tlin.a io nul a utuin nf iliikiinnp nrvm UattiCO| bliwi V to uuv ? wvm t< ?/? v?tw?4\suv? m|?vm it. [Immense applause.] Governor Hamjyton! Into your hands, in behalf of the Washington Artillery, I now resign this emblem?[Governor Hampton here rose and was received with deafening applause.] It is fitting, continued Major Hart, that you should be the recipient of it for those who will be its future guardians. It is not unfamiliar to you. [Cheers.] Its history is intimately interwoven with your military history. [Cheers.] Where you led it followed. [Deafeniug cheers.] I am sore;sir, that you can even say on behalf of those gallaut artillerists, who bore it and of whom you were long the beloved chieftain, that in the boor of danger you often relied upon them, and that you never relied upou them in vaiu. [Cheers.] They always came when you commanded? and always stayed until you seut them away. [Cheers.] There are rich and precious memories clustering arouud it?memories that we will nof willingly let die. It has been in battle with the immortal Lee. It has followed the dashing Stuart over the hills and slopes from the Susquehanua to the Roanoke. It has followed in the charge of the chivalric "Runy" Lee, and has seen service with Johnston; ^ Beauregard, Hood, Magruder, the ^ills and Longstreet. [Immense cheering.] And last, but not least, sir, it was flung to the breeze upon nearly every battle field in which you led the Southern horse during those trying years. [Immense applause.] May the command on whose behalf you receive this flag never have occasion to bear .it save in holiday processions, and may they prove as loyal in preserving South Carolina's honor through the peaceful agencies of your administration, as their predecessors were faithful in defending it at thecanuou's mouth, flmmense annlause.1 U II J # During the delivery of these burning words, which stirred every heart to its inmost core, the tall, proud form of Governor Hampton had stood immovable, but o'er his features could be seen to play the emotions which the vivid picture of the past conjured up to his mind's eye, and as he stepped forward to receive the sacred relic, so intimately inter- " woven with his own military history, his heart was too full for utterance, and his sight became dimmed with tears. Smothering the sad emotions whhh welled up from his soul, he came to the front with the guidon in his hand, and was received with prolouged and vociferous applause. GOVERNOR HAMPTON 8 ADDRE88. As soon as be could make himself heard, Governor Hampton spoke as follows: My Comrades of the Washington Artillery?I did not know when I came here, how many memories of the past would he stirred iu my heart when I stood once again under this little flag, which I have seen wave iu 143 fights. [Loud and prolonged applause.] And it never waved in dishonor. [Cheer alter cheer.] That battery never failed to take the place it was ordered to do! [Applause.] It never moved without orders, and wherever the fight was thickest, the meu of Hart's Battery?the brave sons of Carolina?men who perilled all in her defence, were always found standing to their guns to the last. But their bravery is best told by the number that fell at those guns. [Applause.] There were 147 members of this gallant command that went into the fight for liberty. When the war ended there were but twenty-three survivors of that brave band. [Cheers.] They left their hones on every field upon which the Army of Northern Virginia had fought. [Applause.] Their guns were the first to flash for Southern independeuce, and they were literally the last gun8 that fired in the defence of Southern liberty. [Immense cheering.] The memories and associations which bind me to this company are very dear, indeed. As your old captain has said, it was one of the first batteries to join my legion, and it was the only company of that legion which, through all the rotations and fortunes and trials of the ser 1 *.i . .1 I vice, served wnn rue 10 me ciose or me great struggle. Would that I had time to tell you what I could of their bravery aud heroism. How I have seen those men charge, and how I have seen a boy?a mere boy?as the Federal cavalry charged through their ranks, pull out the sponge staff, with which he was swabhing his gun, aud strike an enemy from his horse am I kill him. [Cheers.] When I cam'- to South Carolina years ago, I felt that it w?i m\' duty to bring that company to my new beni of service. Soon after reaching South Carolina I was placed on duty, and the first thing which I did was to telegraph for ' Hart's Battery. [Cheers.] They responded promptly and came into position just in time to check the enemy, as they had done on scores of fields before. Thus it is that I can say that those guns were the last guns fired in Northern Virginia in defence of Southern liberty, under Johntson's command. When they heard that the army was to be surrendered, for the first time since their organization they turned their backs upon the enemy?not from an enemy, but from a surrender. [Applause ] But as I have said siBce, and I followed them for twenty-five miles before I overtook them, that the memory of that scene will forever be indelibly impressed on my heart. As I rode up and the battery was halted by my men, the sun was just gilding the tops of our forest trees, the last sun that ever rose on the Southern Confederacy. I told them that they had been good and brave soldiers ; that they had done their whole duty ; that no reproach could rest upon them, and that I knew that they would follow me. I told them that they had been surrendered by superior authority, and that it was their duty to remain where they were and obey commands. A _ 1 __? T 1- -1 1_ .1 -1 ? And wnen 1 naa spoaen mu8, toe veterans ot Hart's Battery threw themselves upon their captured guns (for they had no others) and, passionately kissing them, wept like children. [Immense applause.] You cannot imagine, my friends and comrades of the old artillery, how dear you have been to me. And this little flag, which has led you through the whole war, I have now the honor to transmit again to your keeping, free from all stain, save the honorable scars it h is received in battle. I transmit it now to you in the time of peace, and I feel that I have the right to say to you, my old soldiers, and you who represent them?not to order you; but as a father to hia children, to appeal