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Straps and <facte. ? The third Lodge of Knights of Honor now in that city, was instituted in Augusta, Ga., last Friday evening, and named the "Benner Lodge," in honor of the gallant army officer, Lieut. Benner, who gave up his life in working for the yellow fever sufferers along the Mississippi. ? The only proper way to manage politics is to let the office seek the man ; but offices have become so stupid of late years that men are obliged to run after them, and often a number of men run for the same office, in the goodness of their hearts, thinking the places would not otherwise be filled. ? The proposed amendment to the constitution of Mississippi, making the payment of a poll tax of not less than 81 a necessary qualification for voters, and providing that the 1 1 11 1__ 3 X _ J A. _ 3 i! 1 proceeds snau oe aevoiea to eaucatioaai purposes, was defeated at the recent election. It is not certain that the amendment received a majority in a single county. ? Mrs. Diana Haines was made insane in Mount Gilead, Ohio, by a false report that she was heiress to $100,000, the sudden elation and disappointment unbalancing her reason. She tried to commit suicide and was sent to the asylum. Lately $700,000 was really bequeathed to her, but she will not believe it. ? Two parties of medical students in Vermont went out after the same corpse. The first to arrive on the ground ambushed themselves and let the second party exhume the corpse, then rushed upon them with wild shouts of "body snatchers1" and "arrest them!" and when their rivals had fled, carried off the corpus delicti at their leisure. ? Zack Chandler has been sufficiently ameliorated to call at the White House. He feels especially happy over defeating the Democrats in his own Congressional district? the only one they held in Michigan?says that the Republicans can elect Grant or Blaine in 1880, and considers Bayard the only candidate with whom the Democrats can make a respectable canvass. ? Since the ghouls stole A. T. Stewart's remains, a strict watch is kept over the vault in which the body of Commodore Vanderbilt reposes. The vault is believed to be secure. There are two iron doors to it through which a person must pass, and these doors are secured by heavy bolts, locks and chains. William H. Vanderbilt has had the coffin in which the remains of the Commodore are inclosed, walled in with mason work. ? The Charlotte Democrat says with much truth : "If Congress will pass a law to break up what is known as the "Cotton JfcUxchange" in New York, it would do more to benefit cotton raisers than anything else. As long as a set of men are allowed to assemble in New York each day and combine to fix the price of cotton among themselves, without regard to the supply or demand, our farmers will not often receive a fair price for their cotton." ? Thomas Conroy, a shoemaker at Tanner's Falls, Pa., hammers away at bis last, rather than return to Ireland to accept the fortune of $25,000 his father left him, but which he refuses to accept from bis uncles, who falsely accused him of being a Molly Maguire, because he would not marry the rich young woman they picked out for him. Conroy left Ireland in disgust, came to America and married, and takes no notice of the annual notification from his uncles' lawyer to come and get his money. ? The will of Alexander McGill, of Alleghany City, Pa., has just been filed. It is dated Jannary 1, 1878, and leaves his property, worth $30,000, to certain relatives for life and to three aunts in Ireland, or the survivors of them, when the American heirs die. If there are no heirs surviving in the old country, the nmney is to go to the President of the United States, to be applied in furthering the interests of the national Democratic party. If the President is not a Democrat, the money is to remain on deposit till a Democratic chief Magistrate has been inaugurated. ? A case of interest to patrons of railroads, was decided on Tuesday in the United States Court at Cleveland, Ohio. A citizen of Ashtabula county sued the Ashtabula Railroad for refusing to accept a round-trip ticket which had a printed stipulation that it was good for the round-trip only, upon which he had "stopped-ofF." The court held that the plaintiff'in accepting the ticket accepted the stipulations printed upon it; that the ticket Viorl Koon iocnort nt a rorlnppH ratp in flonsidpr- I atiou of a continuous trip only, and that the plaintiff had no case. ? That law is an expensive luxury sometimes, is well illustrated by the following case reported by the Carthage (ft. Y.,) Republican: "Great are the virtues of the jury trial as illustrated by the case in our justice courts last week. The amount in controversy was 87. To adjust the matter it required the drawing of 53 jurors, the administration of nearly 100 oaths, the windage of 4 lawyers, the services of 5 constables, the consumption of 3 whole days and a portion of 3 nights, the taking of 50 or 60 pages of testimony, and all this to reach the conclusion?no cause of action." ? A Washington dispatch of the 14th says : Interest in the attitude of the administration toward the South continues unabated, and fresh arrivals of individuals from that section with further supplies of outrage, are reported. The President, however, insists that the determination to enforce the election laws involves no change in his position ; nevertheless, the Republican leaders continue so to view it. The hope is expressed by this class that the South Carolina cases may be tried before Judge Bond, as they are satisfied in that event there will be no tempering of justice with mercy. ? In a late interview, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, recently elected to Congress from the Richmond, Va., district, expressed his views as unalterably in favor of hard money, and held the opinion that long before 1880 the "Solid South" and "Solid North" will be forgotten. He is reported to also have said: "The South is now as close a part of the Union as is New England. Virginia has the same interest in the general prosperity of the country as Massachusetts, and her representatives and the representatives of the whole South will be found as active in the support of all measures tending to the general good 1 of all sections, as the gentlemen from Maine | or Vermont." ? The New York Sun publishes a table, i embracing the cash subscribed publicly and i through tbe authorities of the various cities j and the committees appointed by them, in aid , of the yellow fever sufferers. The total ag-1 gregates $1,325,600, exclusive of all private, i religious aDd society subscriptions. Of this j amount Baltimore is credited with $55,600 ;! New York, $395,000; Philadelphia, $132,000; j Chicago, $90,000; St. Louie, $85,000; San j Francisco, $60,000 ; Boston, $55,000; Washington, $39,000 ; Richmond, $9,000 ; Wil-1 mington, Del., 5,000; Wheeling, $5,000. The j foreign contributions aggregated $39,000 additional, of which Liverpool is credited with $15,000 and Paris $14,000. ? A sad incident of the recent election ' comes from New York. Mr. Alexander Smith, of the 12th district, who was elected to j succeed Clarkson N. Potter, died in the very hour of his victory. He had been sick but j two days, and while bis friends were cheering over the result, he was breathing his last. On learning of his success he smiled, and pressing the hand of his informant, be said; "You must thank my supporters for me, for I shall have no opportunity of thanking them myself." He was a man of unflinching integrity and considerable business ability, and his loss is deeply regretted by friend and foe alike. He had a large carpet factory at Yonkers, and employed seven hundered hands. One of his employees said : "He gave us better wages and treated us better than any other factory-owner in Yonkers." ? There's many a man languishing in pris on in Germany to-day, who has been guilty of nothing worse than a grim pleasantry. A cabman at a public house, a few days after i Nobeling's attempt, expressed his opinion that ; kings and emperors were not much good to anybody. They cost a deal of money, he 1 said, and nobody was the better for it. A policeman in plain clothes pounced upon the cabman as soon as be bad uttered his sentiments, and Be is now in prison and will remain there for two years. About the same time a lad of sixteen exclaimed, "I wish the Emperor had been shot in 1870 ; then we in ' Alsace should not now be Germans." The boy was condemned to imprisonment for two 1 years and six months. ?he forMle ^nqutm. YORKVILL.E. S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 21,1878. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and State in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post-office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirer is delivered free of postage to all subscribers residing in York county, who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. THE STATE LEGISLATURE. The Legislature of South Carolina will meet in Columbia on Tuesday next. The Democratic majority of the body, on jointballot, will be 142. The political complexion of the two houses is as follows: Senate? Democrats, 29; Republicans, 5. House of Representatives?Democrats, 121; Republi cans, 3. Of the Senators holding over, three are colored Republicans, viz.: Williams, of Georgetown ; Duncan, of Orangeburg; and Bird, of Fairfield ; and two white?Taft, of Charleston, and Collins, of Beaufort. At the recent election, Beaufort elected three colored Representatives, who, with the above colored Senators, three colored men elected from Charleston, and one each from Colleton and Sumter, will make eleven colored members in the Legislature, six of whom are Republicans and five Democrats. GOVERNOR SIMPSON. Under date of the 13th instant, Governor Hampton publishes his proclamation, transferrinc the office of Governor to Hon. W. D. Simpson, Lieutenant Governor. In his proclamation announcing the transfer, Governor Hampton says: It is my duty to make public announcement that serious injury, resulting from a painful accident, has produced physical inability 011 my part to discharge the powers and duties of the office of "the Governor of the State of South Carolina," and that the Constitution of this Commonwealth in such case, devolves the same upon the Hon. W. D. Simpson, Lieutenant-Governor of this State. It is my pleasure to add that the honors and burdens thus transferred by the organic law of the land, could be transferred to 110 more worthy or competent hands. In conformity with the proclamation of Governor Hampton, Lieutenant Governor Simpson has assumed the duties of Governor, making official proclamation of the fact, in which he says: In making this announcement, no words can express the sorrow which pervades this entire Commonwealth at the occurrence of this calamity to our beloved Chief Magistrate and State; a sorrow shared more largely by 110 one than him to whom the honors and burdens of this high office have thus been transferred. It is generally conceded that the cares and responsibilities of the office of Governor? whether temporarily or permanently?could devolve upon no more worthy man, as successor of the patriotic Hampton, than him to whom the office has thus been transferred "by the organic law of the State." It is not probable, in view of the circumstances, that Governor Hampton will qualify as Governor for the second term to which he has just been chosen by the people of his State. The Legislature, to assemble next week, will undoubtedly elect him to the position of U. S. Senator, to supply the vacancy to occur in the Senatorial representation from this State on the 4th of next March ; and, much as the people may regret to lose the services of their "beloved Governor," it will be a source of pride to them to know that they are represented in the councils of the nation by one so patriotic, conservative, noble and good. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Acting-Governor Simpson has appointed Thursday next, the 28th instant, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. ? The editor of the Columbia Reg'uler acknowledges the receipt of a check for 851.10 for the relief of Lieutenant Benner's family. ? The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the bonds issued by the county of Pickens, in aid of the Air Line Railroad, are valid obligations of the county. ? The total vote of Beaufort county in the recent election, was 5,385, of which number only 476 votes were cast for Governor Hampton. ? It is rumored that Nash, Hurley, Whipper, Elliott and others of their stripe, will soon be arrested upon evidence obtained before the investigating committee. ? The Cheraw and Chester Railroad is now carrying the mail, three times a week, from ! Chester to Cedar Shoals. Petitions are in circulation for an extension of the mail route from Cedar Shoals to Lancaster C. H. ? Anderson Burns, a negro minister in the M. E. Church, was tried and convicted in i Columbia, last week, on the charge of mur-1 dering his wife in the lower part of Richland : county last summer, and throwing her body | into a well. Burns was sentenced by Judge Pressly, to be hanged on the first Friday of: May next. ? A number of citizens of each of the coun- j ties of Charleston, Richland, Orangeburg I and Sumter, have recently been arrested on charges preferred against them of violating 1 the election laws of the United States. In j every instance, the affidavits upon which the warrants were issued, were made by members of the Radical party, and all the per-! sons arrested are Democrats. All the cases i will come up for a hearing at the United States Court, which convenes in Columbia the , latter part of this month. ? The News and Courier says : It gives us! pleasure to announce that the bronze bust of our distinguished litterateur, William Gilmore ! Simm8, has been paid for, and is now in the 1 hands of the subscribers. Arrangements will soon be made to place it in position. It is a memorial worthy of the great poet, novelist I and historian of South Carolina, and as a work of art will bean ornament and a source of pride to our community. ? In regard to Governor Hampton's condition, the Columbia correspondent of thelites and Courier telegraphs the following, under date of the 15th : "I have been at great pains to obtain the following authoritative and conclusive statement as to the Governor's condition : The Governor's physicians do not consider him so well to-day as there has been slight fever, but, at present, they feel no alarm about his case. He rested well last night, and expressed himself as feeling very comfortable to-day." ? The tenth annual Fair of the State Ag ricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina, was held in Columbia last week, commencing on Tuesday, the 12th, and ending on Friday, the 15th. The attendance was quite large and the exhibits more numerous and superior to those on any similar occasion since the war. In regard to the agricultural department, the correspondent of the News and Courier says: "The most prominent feature of the present exhibition, as it is likewise the most important and most desirable on all similar occasions, consists in the excellence of the display of farm produce, farming implements aud fine stock. In these three eeveral departments the showing that is made for South Carolina would reflect credit upon the agricultural interests aud enterprise of any State in the Union. It is seriously to be questioned, indeed, whether finer specimens of grain, fruits, vegetables, cane, corn, cotton, hay, roots, &c., could be found in any other representative collection of similar articles in the cultivated world." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The case of George Pethel (white) for poisoning his wife, has been removed from Iredell court to Mecklenburg. ? The sum of $10?proceeds of a festival given by the young ladies of Pittsboro?has been sent to the family of the late Lieutenant Benner. ? William Rainey, colored, was hung at Warrenton on the 8th instant, for the murder of Jim Taylor, colored. He admitted the killing, and said the sentence wasjust. ? H. C. Secrest, who was to have been executed at Marion last Friday, for the murder ? " 1 1 L. 1 i_l or Dis wire ana step uaugiuer, iiub iuucu uu appeal, through counsel, and consequently the execution did not take place. ? The long and trying law case of Blackwell vs. McElwee, has at last been settled in the Court of last appeals in such cases, at Washington, by a decision that McElwee cannot register his Durham bull trade mark, which he has long claimed as a right. ? The Carolina Fair, held at Charlotte last week, was a decided success, considering the difficulties under which the Association labored. Very near one thousand entries were made, and there was a large attendance of people. The address was delivered by Gen. Leacb, in his usually entertaining and instructive style. ? The two South Carolina negroes?Jasper Neely and George Graham?who were recently shot in a row in Steel Creek township, Mecklenburg county, have since died of their iojuries. After the shooting, they were removed to their homes in York county, and after their removal, died. ? Governor Vance has issued his proclamation appointing Thursday next as a day for thanksgiving and prayer, and requesting the people to "commend their professions to the Lord by liberal gifts to the widows, orphans and deserving poor, of the abundance which the past season has brought us." ? The Greensboro Patriot is authorized to announce that a general amnesty has been granted by the Attorney-General of the United States to all persons in that section of the State, guilty of violating United States revenue laws in relation to spirituous liquors, upon condition that they come into court and plead guilty, and pay or secure the co9ts. ? Governor Vance has recived a letter from Hon. JesBe J. Yeates, Democratic candididate for Congress from the first district, stating that Martin's majority had been reduced to thirty-nine votes, and that he would be able to show fraud practiced on the part of MarI***-* fwiAncln ouffinianf f a a*to ronm a LIU auu UIO lllUiuo, ou UJVIV.U V uy v/f vivvtuv Martin's alleged majority. ? Messrs Melke and McKenzie, brothersin-law of Miss Liukhaw, who fatally shot Ed. Hartman, in Lumberton a few weeks ago, were arrested a9 accessories to the crime and carried before Judge Ashe, on Friday of last week, on a writ of heabeas corpus. Melke was discharged, but McKenzie was retained for trial. Miss Linkhaw is confined in the Lumberton jail. ? The Charlotte Observer 88ys that on Saturday last, \V. J. Black, a merchant of that city, was arrested and taken before United States Commissioner Pittman, on the charge of violating the revenue laws, the specific charge being that he re-filled tobacco boxes after a portion of the tobacco had been removed. The Commissioner, after fully investigating the case, decided to bind him over to the Uuited States Court which convenes in Charlotte in December. ? The Charlotte Home of Friday says: "An affray occurred iu the Merchants' and Farmers' National Bank in this city, in which Dr. J. H. McAdeu, L. W. Sanders and J. R. Holland, all took part. President McAden and Mr. Sanders had a difficulty about a business transaction, and Cashier Holland, in attempting to bring matters to a peaceful ter- j miuation, got into the fracas himself. Only a few blows were passed before the parties were separated. THE POSTAL SERVICE. The annual report of the Postmaster-General has been published in advance of the meeting of Congress. Among the recommendations contained in the report are the following : That necessary authority be given by law to enable the Postoffice Department to accept the general rules of the Postal Union respecting the payment of indemnities for registered articles lost or destroyed. That foreign books by mail be made duty free is another recoin mendation. i t is suggested that it be made the duty of the Department to give and take receipts for registered matter only when requested by the sender. It is pointed out that the Department cannot be expected to be solf sustaining. With reference to the recent minority report of the special Commission on Railway Transportation in connection with the aggregate payments for the mail service, that the South had more than her proportion in 1860, and less in 1876 ; the Postmaster General says that from thi3 it might be inferred that there had been unjust discrimination against the Southern roads in the adjustment of pay for carrying the mails, but such is not the case. The rates of pay are the same on all the roads on which the amount and character of the service are similar. It,-is true that greater rates of pay are allowed elsewhere than in the South, because the service is greater. On one route from New York City, the average daily weight of mails is thirty-six tons, while no road South of Maryland carries more than six tons of mail a day, and the same disproportion exists between nearly all the Northern and Southern Railroads, LOCAL A77AIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. j W. J. Stephenson, Clerk of Board?Report of the Board of Count}- Commissioners of York County. I T. M. Dobson & Co.?Ready-Made ClothingSinger Machine?Cloaks?Shawls?December 15?Yarn?Overcoats?Piedmont Sheeting?Boots and Shoes?Gents' Hats. Hunter it Oates?Ready-Made Clothing?Ladies' Cloaks?Sewing Machines. ! ( Kennedy Bros. Barron?New Orleans Molasses?Fish?Groceries?Pretty Dress Goods. M. Strauss?My Stock.. i J. L. McGill?Pay Up. Henry F. Johnston?G rape Vines. Colgate & Co's New Soap, , SECOND GROWTH STRAWBERRIES. James K. Wagoner lias presented us with a cluster of strawberries, the growth of a second crop produced by his vines. RETURN OF Dr. BRATTON. Dr. J. Rufus Bratton, who for several i years past has been residing iu Canada, returned with his family on Monday evening last to his old home in Yorkville. ' CONDITION OF Dr. LOVE. We are informed that the condition of Dr. Love, of McConnellsville, whose severe illness from paralysis we noticed last week, has not i changed for the better. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS'REPORT. The annual report of the County Commissioners, published this week, makes a credits- i ble showing for these officials. The retiring board have well earned the plaudit of the people, "Well done, good and faithful servants." ? ONLY HALF CONVERTED. Ex-Congressman A. S. Wallace wae in town quite early yesterday morning, having driven in from home in time to meet the train for Chester. Although he has not yet donned the red ehirt, it was noticeable that the Lew reins with which he controls his favorite sorrel are of a brilliant crimson. GIN HOUSE BURNED. On Wednesday, of lost week, between dusk and dark, the gin house of Mr. William Burris, near McConnellsville, was destroyed by fire. There were in the gin-huilding 36 bales of cotton, which were also destroyed. The loss, which in building and cotton is about 82,000, falls upon Mr. Burris, his two sons, and three colored tenants. The fire is supposed to be of incendiary origin. ILLNESS OF fir. R. J. LATTA. , We regret to record the illness of Mr. Robert J. Latta, who has been confined to his room for the past three weeks with fever. Ouly a few weeks ago he received the appointment of chief engineer to survey and , locate the route of the Ninety-Six Railroad, and had just entered upon the work when he , was attacked. Though still confined to his ; bed, he is improving, and hopes to be able to | resume the duties of his position as engineer { in a short while. I PIANOS AND ORGANS. I Prof. W. L. Johnson, of the firm of Daw- j son & Co., Charlotte, and traveling for the I large piano and organ house of Horace < Waters & Sons, New York, will spend sev- 1 J on.ni;n.n?<. Hotol oral UHytj III lUlliVlllc,, b.l jLvumiuawu a uuwi, next week. Persons desiring pianos or organs during his stay, can purchase from him at wholesale rates. He will also do any tuning or repairing of old instruments in a workmanlike manner and at a reasonable price. Give him a call. Rev. C. H. WILEY. This eminent divine visted Yorkville last Tuesday in the interest of the Bible cause, which he represents as superintendent for the district composed of North and South Carolina. Owing to the very inclement weather Tuesday evening, he did not deliver an address on the subject of his work, as had been announced he would do. A meeting of the Bible Committee of York county was held yesterday, however, and such action taken as is likely to awaken renewed interest in the Bible cause. ? 1 ' REVOLUTIONARY HEROES. A correspondent of the Charlotte Observer, writing from Whitaker, in this county, makes the following mention of the burial places of two distinguished heroes of King's Mountain : J,. It isnot generally known (for history does not give the names of all in command) that Col. Fredric Ham bright, a German, and one | of the main actors in the battle of King's Mountain, is buried within a mile of Whitaker. He died in 1817. Major Williams, who was wounded in the fight and died from the effects of it, is buried eight miles west of Whitaker, in a private place. PAST HIS THREE-SCORE AND TEN. Our venerable friend and townsman, Uol. Win, C. Beatty, celebrated his seventy-fifth t birth-day yesterday. Though past man's al- g lotted three-score and ten, Col. Beatty is men- ' tally aud physically as active as a man of J fifty, and he now attends to the daily routine 1 of his business with the same promptitude J and alacrity that ever characterized him as a g close student and diligent lawyer. Though \ there are older citizens iu town?James Jef- ? ferys, Esq., and Mr. Stanhope Sadler?Col. 1 Beatty is the oldest citizen "native and to the J manner born." In November, 1875, Col. * Beatty and his esteemed lady celebrated their j golden wedding, and that they may be spared I many more years of usefulness in this life, is ? | the wish of their numerous friends. 1 ? SAVANNAH WEEKLY NEWS. , In that popular paper, the Savannah a Weekly News, of November !!3, will be com- f menced a new serial story of absorbing inter- > est, entitled "Afterward," from the gifted pen of Mrs. Ophelia Nisbet Reid, whose charm- 1 ing stories, "My Mother's Daughter" and J I "Mrs. Dare," have added such literary inter- t j est to this deservedly popular journal. s Its charming stories by Southern authors, c | the able contributions of its numerous corres- r { pondents, together with its agricultural de- ( [ partment, its careful compilation of the news i of the day, foreign and domestic, its rename market reports, editorial comment, and choice miscellaneous readings, makes the Weekly News one of the most instructive, entertaining and valuable newspapers in the South. MERE-MENTION. An accidental fire at the Virginia peniten; tiary in Richmond, early last Friday morni ing, destroyed a large three-story brick building over two hundred feet long, in which were a cooper shop, carpenter shop, shoe factory and machine shop. A first-olass locomotive caii now be bought for $7,000. The price three and four years ago was $24,000. Gen. C. C. Augur, of the U. S. j Army, has accepted th? trusteeship of the Benner fund. Mr.'Corbin, Gen. Grant's brother-in-law, has been interviewed, and ; says that while he does not think Grant "hankers" after the Republican nomination in 1880, he will probably deem it his duty to ' accept it if it is tendered to him. Secretary I Sherman denies the statement that one and two dollar United States notes are to be withdrawn from circulation. Owing to the severe illness of Bishop Pierce, that disi tinguished divine will not be able to preside j i over the deliberations of the approaching Vir-1 ginia Conference, The Interna] Revenue i Commissioner, in his forthcoming report, will oppose the proposed reduction of'ihe tax on tobacco from 24 to 18 cents per pound. aV"1 the last session of the New Jersey legislature, i the Democrats had a majority of nine. At < the next session the Republicans will have a majority of seven. Among the members < elect to Congress who have already gone on i to Washington, is Hon. A. H. Stephens, of < Georgia, who arrived there last Saturday. I The Grant movement, which is more ira- | aginary than real, does not meet with much < favor in the New York Cathedral fair. His 1 vote for the sword to be presented to the 1 most popular general is 22, against 515 '< for Joe Johnston of Confederate fame, I and 634 for Hancock of the Federal ar- < my. Contributions to the Benuer fund 1 were received by Gen. Augur, last Friday, from Baltimore and Chicago, amounting respectively to $900 and $700 Dispatches from Memphis report a complete revival of business since the abatement of the plague. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Outrage Mill in Louisiana. District-Attorney Leonard, of Louisiana, left Washington last Friday, for home. He was summoned to Washington for consultation with the Attorney-General concern- : ing the prosecution of political offenders in Louisiana and to receive instructions. He left after having had long consultations with ( Mr. Devens. He also saw the President. He j took bis instructions with him. They are, it is understood, not specific, but very rigid gen- ( eral instructions. He is to go ahead and 5 prosecute all who have violated the United < States election laws, against whom he can procure evidence. He is to prosecute vigorously. A reporter recently asked Senator Kellogg for an approximation of the number ( of cases which can be found against election , law breakers in Louisiana. The Senator replied, "The Lord only knows how many there are. There are any numbers of them." Polygamic Marriages. The first of a series of cases involving the right of the Mormons to contract polygamic marriages, came up for argument last Thursday in the United States Supreme Court, in the shape of an appeal from the Supreme Court of Utah. The case is of gep- , eral interest because it presents to this Court ( for the first time the question of the constitu- ( H/mioI rirrkfr nf f^nnm'PQB tf\ nrnhihif nnlvofl. LIWLJUl < >5><w WI ?V f-75my when it assumed the guiee of religious du- ; ty and is held as an article of faith. Coun- ] 3el for the prisoner contend that Congress is ( restrained from such prohibition hy the first ( amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which provides for religious freedom. | Counsel for the United States argue that this rigid interpretation of the Constitution would prevent Congress from punishing auy crime in 1 the territories which would justify itself by an appeal to religious conviction and so lead :o remediless disorder. The decison is await* 1 ?d with interest, fellow Fever Items. Refugees are returning daily to New Crleans, though the medical fraternity have * lot yet declared the city safe. The Board of Health of Mobile invites all : absentees to return, and states that the city is t low as safe as any in the land. j Speaking of the nurses on duty at Mem- j phis, a correspondent says: "The colored lurses made up in faithful attention all they acked in intelligence, and their record is one ;o be justly proud of. The best nurses are 1 laid to have come from Savannah, Ga., and c Port Royal, S. C," * The Louisville Courier Journal puts the s lumber of deaths from yellow fever through- k >ut the country during the late epidemic at ( 13,921. A. B. Farquhar, proprietor of the j Pennsylvania Agricultural Works at York, 1 Pa., writes to Surgeon General Wood worth 1 hat the vellow fever eDidemic of this vear ? * ' * I ias cost the country about $175,000,000, esti- i nating from the best data he c&d gather, and t hat in common with a large number of * prominent gentlemen and business men of the r :ountry, he feels a great interest in the inves- ji igatiou undertaken by the yellow fever com- * nission. ^ Democratic Address. j The Democratic State Executive Cora- ' nittee has issued the following address to the [ jarty in South Carolina: c The State Executive Committee extend to 1 he Democracy of South Carolina their warm- J >st congratulations upon the magnificent vie- c ory achieved in the recent election, which f las been as peaceful as it is triumphant, j [t i3 especially gratifying that so many thou- e ands of the colored people of the State have c inited with us in perpetuating home rule and 1 jood government. We extend to them our J nost cordial appreciation of their good sense * ind patriotic action, and we would impress c jpon our people the necessity of continued j inity and harmony. We have achieved grand \ 'esults, and 6very true Carolinian's heart re- t iponds with gratitude, hut much remains to t )e done. We must keep our armor bright J md girded on, and our ranks closed up, to * neet any exigency the future may develop. H ind now that the campaign is over, and its ^ vork done, we feel that we cannot lay aside a >ur active duties without expressing profound I 'egret at the distressing accident which has t >efallen our beloved Chief Magistrate. This ' iloce mars the completeness of our triumph, 'n his suffering he has the sympathy of a ^ grateful people to cheer him, and their fer- N rent prayers that a kind Providence may c oon restore him to his wonted vigor and use- \ u In ess. > Senator Cockling- and the President. Senator Conkling is reported to believe c 'implicitly with President Hayea that the south has not returned in kind, the geuerous 1 reatment it has received." The Senator is s laid to hold that, so far as the southern poli- a :y of the President is concerned, he can not j1 jow undo what he has done, if he even so ^ lesires; that his southern policy exhausted i tself, so far as it could be called a policy, 1 vhen the President gave South Carolina and ? Louisiana the benefit of home rule, but that 1 he President is now beginning to realize f vhat leaders in the party, from the very be- ? ginning apprehended, that the south, in con- p lideratiou of the boon of home rule, will not ? idrainister the 14th aud 15th amendments to j he constitution in the spirit in which the t ramers of those articles intended tbey should f >e administered : that all the harm that the ? . . ... 1' epublican party sustained in its divisions e )ver the wisdom of the President's policy has s ieen felt to the uttermost, and that the very act that the President is not satisBed with a he result of his dealing with the south, is the 1 jest evidence that the party can readily be 1 e-united on the basis that the laws of the | jountry must be enforced and the constitu-' ^ ional amendments which apply to the freed-11 nen not only be accepted, but likewise hon- t ;stly interpreted. * riie Next Congress. 1 In the present House, the Democrats j r lave 156 members and the Republicans 137, ^ jiviug the former a majority of nineteen. The j a 'eturns so far indicate that the Democrats 1; lave elected this fall 146 members, and the ^ Republicans 132, and the Greenbackers 11. j a California, which is entitled to four members,' r does not elect antil next September. This will complete the 293 members of'which the bouse is composed. In the presefit Houfe^ CaliforniaTs represented'^ two Delrhocrats and two Republicans. One of these Democrats was seated by the House An. an, aJJsged majority of four votes over the Republican opponent. If, in September next, California should elect two Democrats and two Republicans, the new House wiU stand 148 Democrats to 134 Republicans, and eleven Greenbackers, giving the Democrats a majority of three over both. It is known, however, that from their former political affiliations, that eight of these Greenbackers will vote with the Democrats on all party questions, and three with the Republicans. This will increase the Democrats to 156, and the Republicans to 137, leaving the Democrats with a majority of aineteen, which is precisely the majority they now have. The recent elections give the Democrats a majority in nineteen States, and the Republicans a majority in eighteen. If the House should be called upon to elect the next President, the Democrats would have a majority of one, supposing California equally 1 LI .' 'J.' . L..i jiviueu ana unaoie lo voie; out 11 mat amie should elect three Republicans in September, then the election for President would result in <1 * " ei tie vote. Preparing for Resumption. As opening the way to resumption, the New York Clearing House Association have decided upon the following plan of action after January 1st, 1879 : First, to decline receiving gold as special deposits, but to accept and treat them only as lawful money; second, to abolish specipl exchanges of gold checks at the clearing house; third, to pay and receive the balance between the banks at the clearing hrrbse either in gold or United States legal tenders ; fourth, to receive silver dollars upon deposit only under special contract to wittfdritw the same in kind; fifth, to prohibit payifcent uf balances at the clearing house in silver certificates or in silver dollars, excepting as subsidiary coin in small sums, say under $10; Bixth, to discontinue gold special accounts hy notice to dealers on the 1st of January nest, to terminate then. ' i * Hon. A. H. Buckner, of Missouri, chairman of the House committee on, banking and currency, has arrived in Washington. During the last session of Congress, Mr. Buckner, both in committee and in the House, acted with the inflation wing of the Democratic party, aud moreover was a prominent member of the silver league. Notwithstanding this fact, however, bis constituents nominated in opposition ta him, a greenback candidate, but he (Buckner) was returned to the 46th Congress with a reduced majotftyi Judge B. does not seem disposed to cbaog? bis views with respect to the feasibility of re... M nl!/vn U ta n/tl ? fti 1 t r\ n/4 rt ko a a YTl/%] AF1 f SUIlipi/IUU. lie 13 UUb lUtllUCU kU UV OC VIVICUV is Geo. Ewing and other prominent greenbackers in their prediction that resumption ueans ruin. He favors & double metalic itandard ; the establishment of postal savings janks and the substitution of legal tender Tot ' lational bank notes. The jud^e does not ap)rehend that the session of Congress just enluing can pass any measure, which will interfere with Secretary Sherman's plan of reumption, but he does thiuk th it the discrim nation agaiust the silver dollar as set forth ibove, in the plan of the New York Clearing 1 louse Association, will evoke a spirited debate. t > ' , CHANGE OFPOLICT. < 1 * J. ' I i . it The Washington Republican of the 13th nstant, publishes the following as the views ( >f the President iu regard to the situation in j he South: ' i In answer to a question as to whether the ( Southern policy had been discussed in the , iabinet, the President is reported to havfetfaid: 'That is a mistake; the time for discussion ^ las passed. It is now too late for anything >ut the most determined and vigorous action. , rhe determination was reached several days ' igo, and the deliberations of the cabinet on his subject since then liave been comparativey brief and confined mainly to the considera,ion of the duty of the attorney-general in he premises." The President has always thought that his xriicy would win back the South. He was isked how he accounted for the 'result in the ace of the fair promises of the South. "That luestion," said he, "leads to a discussion of vhat has latterly been termed the Southern >olicy of the administration. .When that polcy was fir st inaugurated, it was with an eariest desire to conciliate the Southern leaders, o round off the sharp angles of a sectional lifference arid to soften the asperities of poitical strife. No one will deny- that the afc empt to enforce this policy was most earnesty made, nor that it was carried out with a onscientious desire to accomplish the result or which it had been inaugurated. Of the ersonal and partisan sacrifices I made in this lfort, and of the consequent interruption of :ertain relations which had' previously existed etween myself and some of my supporters, I lave nothing to say just now. But it appears hat the leaders who made those. pledges ither did not exert themselves to kqqp them r were unable to do so. In faef.J^^unjreuctaritly forced to admit that the expeririient vas a failure. The first election ofiniporance had since it was attempted, has 'proved hat fair elections, with free suffrage for every roter in the Soutlv, are an impossibility under he existing condition of things.,?!! "It is not >ecause the Republican party appeals as the ulferer in these results that I complain," ontinued the President; "it is becaqstj free uffrage arid freedom of iwlitical right's have >een interfered with that I am called upon to ake cognizance of these disturbances. If the acts were exactly reversed, and if the repubicanshad committed the.outrages upon the lemocrats, my duty would be the same. If vill not do for me, or for any official before vhom these questions may come, to treat them itherwise than in a non-partisan way. The artisan press will naturally take a partisan dew of the case, and I will be held to account or aiding the republicans?the stalwarts, I nean?in flaunting the bloody rhirt, as it is tailed." Mr. Hayes 'saitPfurther: "I can't expect to lold the office I do without being kicked and tuffed a little, you know, .but for all. that I hall do my duty as the Chief Magistrate of ill the people, democrats and republicans like, and if; in the faithful execution of the aws, justice shall deriiand the punishment of < liia or that man, whatever hie political con- ? lections may be, I shall not be deterred by i lartisan criticism. All that I know is, great; rimes have been committed, and it is my duy to aid in the punishment of ,the criminals." , The President said that ^'GoVernor Hamjiton, , or example, has tried repeatedly to repress ( lie violence which has characterized the cam- . taign in South Carolina,' and failed. Such relublicans as Judge Lee and Mr. Bainey and . x-State Senator Swails, of that State, , bay? j .(lvised me of these facts. They say that r Iampton cannot control tlie 'red shirts,' as hey call them, and they have rei>eatedly in- 1 onned me of speeches he has made deiirecatirlg j iolence in the conduct of the campaign. And i t appears that! Gov. Nichols in Louisiana, is . ainesGy opposed to these proceedings or the ame kind of violence.in his State." ( As confirmatory of the above/: the usually ; iccurate Washington correspondent of tbe Baltimore Sun telegraphs that paper as fol- t ows: It is ascertained that the purported inter- 1 lew with the President is a correct reflection < if the present view and policy of the adminisration as regards the South. The statement < hat the President said, in express language, hat he was convinced his Southern policy was , failure is understood, however, not to have ieen authorized, although his apparent deteriunation to reverse that policy might be un- < lerstood as an admission to that effect. ' In < he language of a member of the Cabinet, the ] dministration is determined that every vio- ' ation of the election laws in every part of the J louth shall be ferreted out and the full penal- , y of the law visited ui>on the perpetrators, j nd those that are sent to the penitentiary j nay be sure that no pardon of the President j will intervene to prevent the serving out the full terfaa of sentence. A-number of "pudding" tickets, so-call in alleged to have been used by the Democratsed, Sb'tTth Carolina, hhf& been sent to this city. Several gentlemen have taken samples of them to the White House for inspection by the ftesideilt. "Hel fexaihiuefl''thfcm with I much interest, and was anxious to know the manner of their fraudulent use. If he had sent for one of the Cincinnati ballot box-stuffera whom he has released, he could be.initiated into all the njysteries^ of the businessv The "stalwarfs^Tn " tfie "Republican party thihlf'now that the President has thrown himself into their arm& One of them said to-day, after reading the President's views as given last ^ night, that the old-line Republicans had not seen anything emanate frorfi the White House since Lincoln's proclamation emancipating the slaves, which would give them so much pleasure. A number of stalwarts were at the White House to-day, including Representative Harry White, of Pennsylvania, Postmaster Snowden, of Philadelphia, Col. Mosby, Col. Keogh, chairman of the North Carolina Republican Committee, Commissioner Raum, Postmaster-General Key and others: The ProaJ/lnnf nno vlrr tho at%fivA /lotr +/\ X 1U01UUI1U UV T V^V/U ligailJ IIIC Ullblic UOJ tu conversation with these gentlemen, and was warmly congratulated by some of them on his change of views. The President took occasion to observe that he does not consider that there will be any change in his policy, because his policy has always been to uphold the constitution and the lawsand enforce the ecual rights of all citizens. Col. Mosby said to-day;tnat in his opinion the battle of 18$0 is already fought and won, and Grant is the man. The new crusade, which it has been determined by the Republican leaders shall be inaugurated against the "Solid South," has now formally been entered upon. Of one thing these, leaders are convinced, that the best way for them to secure a "Solid North" is to keep up a "Solid South." This is the plan upon which the last two campaigns of the Republican party were conducted. Mr. ZacKanali Chandler managed the eampaigiif ihj A8T<j. When Southern Republicans afcjMred^o him for fundrfne refused. He was frank and open in assigning his reasons. want. We want a solid South, and then we will have a soKd North." Mr. Chandler's'sonin-law, Mr. Hale, managed the campaign of 1878, which has just closed. He conducted it on the same principles exactly, but was. more diplomatic in liis language. When the Southern Republicans came to him for money, he talked sweetly and said he would see what could be done; and nothing was done. It is said;: by' the ''way, tliat the Republican-campaign committee did aid the cause in the South to the extent of printing tickatai for Jere H^l^pn, the colored man who ran ip the fourth district , of Alabama, and perhaps it was not the fault of the: committee that half of the tickets were Stolen before they reached Mr. Haralson. ^ Correspondence of the Yorkvilte EnqvlVer. " LETTER, r?6k CHESTER. I " Mi,. Chester, S. C., November, 18. Rev, Dr. Hart well, a returned missionary from China, preached at the Baptist Church on Tuesday evening. The sacred edifice was 1 filled with a large and attentive congregation. The subject of the sermon was fellowship witli Christ. After stating and dwelling upon the virtues essential to the enjoyment of this fellowship, Dr. Hartwell concluded with an announcement ofj and enlargement Upoti, another indispensable requisite, viz.: Our duty to do all in bur'power to^adVance the Kingdom of Christ throughout the world; This gave him an opportunity of speaking of mission work 'In foteigto lands; especially, in China, where h^ hid' labored with great devotion for many years. He told of the great and good work that had been accomplished in the conversion of heathen in that benighted land. His heart, he said, had often been saddened since his return by questions of Christians as to the genuineness of heathen conversions. These conversions were, he said, as genuine as those of the unconverted in this land. His dwii eyes had witnessed such evidences of divine grace in the hearts of converted heath sns as the divine Spirit alone was capable of producing. Missionary effort had been attended with blessed results, for in proportion to tbe means employed, a greater number of conversions, he said, had been effected in China and other foreign fields, than in .civilized countries. He closed his interesting sermon by urging his hearers to contribute, to the misnonary fund. During the singing of a hymn i collection was taken up in behalf of the cjood cause. Before concluding the services, Dr. Hartwell read one of the parables and jang the long metre doxology 'in the Chinese language. , (. The Lee tight Infantry, undey the qorntnand of J. K. Marshall, left here on Tuesday for Colunibia, mid returned'on Friday. "/They jpent their time V&y pleasantly 'in beholding the sights of tlie city; and the things visibleat the Fair^u They had no opportunity of showing their proficiency in the march 'and mam ual, as theirs was the only company visiting tlie Capitid, and-, consequently, there were no competitive drills. Hie Governor's Guards, if Columbia, entertained them quite liandjomely one night. Our "boys," with their military brethren, were doubtless extremely lappy when they finished with the "punch." Mr. W. K. Wix, an industrious and. successful farmer from Halsellville township, gave me a sweet potato last week weighing seyep pounds. The potato crop has been excellent this year in our county. A better crop was probably never grown. Potatoes are ?o abuniant that the price per bushel'is only about thirty cents, and some sales of this desirable vegetable have been made at lower figuuea. < business continued; exceedingly /dhttdnring the past week.> An old merchant pf our, town ^ * !...4 1,^ ?t? l.?^? t Lcujaiikcu.bu iiac tuoi/ uc iicvui iui^w uuaineaa to be so depressed at this season of the year. . riie 'cktise of this deprteriion ft tUb row price ^ yt cotton, and' the small ahiount hovr'selling! riie prospect for an improvement in:-the price is not bright* though holders of "the fleecy jtaple. are jcontident of a rise, j .. >,va , A trial of a cpse. in which, Hj C. Brawley nid some of his employees were the prominent parties, was held before Trial Justice McDouild oh Friday. The colored men bM'b'&ht suit for the recovery of the money dtie*vthem for their labor. "Mr. Brawley'held that he was not bound to pay them for the reason of their laving left him. The testimony shewed that lie discharged them because of their refusal to nbey an order of his. The jury found in favor oi the plaintiffs." r' 1 : Ilevi E. 0. Steele preached his farewell sermon at St. Mark's Church on. yesterday, He lias been, called to the rectorship of the Episcopal Church at Florence, and lias accepted the call. ,, |ie leaves tq-day for Charleston, where he will spejid.a few days liefore enteripg upon the discharge of his ministerial duties. He t akes with him the best wishes of thfe Utile flock in Chester, of which he has been the ;ood sliepherd during the past year. The Court of Common Pleas for Chester county met to-day, pursuant to adjournment, Judge AldripU presiding,., The Court will.be m session during the entire week. A leading cotton raiser of Hale connty, A Alabama, has introduced .upon his plantatiun _ ^jj ib'e thousand English ."sparrows, iu the bojie ;hat' Utief ^ wiirprovfe 'eiffeptual destroyers of ;he cottoq wyrm,' Few aveiaffare of the importance of check? ... . i.l - a ..... g a cougn or common' eoiu in its nrsc siaget Fh&t wbieh'ta tfte beginning would yield to i mild remedy, if neglected, soon preys u'pod ;he lung#. > Dr. Bull's Cough Syrop affords ostanti rfeliefl" PrM*i 25 ?enta. - ' -.I jfmaiitial anb Cctmttmial' YORKVILLE, November 20.?Cotton, 7Jto 8*. CHARLOTTE, November 17.?Cotton?Ex ;remes, 7J to 86. NEW. YORK, November 18.?Cotton quiet and iteady. Middling uplands, 9 7-16. CHARLESTON, November 18.?Cotton quiet. Middling 9J. LIVERPOOL, November 18.-CoTTON.-Mfdlling uplanda, 5 9-16d. Financial. ... . < NEW YORK, November 18.-Gold $O.OOJ. . 'Comparative Cotton Statement* NEW YORK, November 15.-Tbe following is ^ ;be comparative cotton statement for the week inding to-day: 1878. 1877. Receipts at all ports for the week, 176,878 192,150 9H rotal receipts to date, 1,359,288 1,102,597 Exports for the week, 127,358 91,557 rotal exports to date, 630,762 399,592 V 3tock at ail United States ports, 514,029 579,371 Stock in all interior towns, 104,480 74,679 Stock at Liverpool!- 282,900 37.1,000 1 ? ~ A