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? 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.
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THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 28, 1878.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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