University of South Carolina Libraries
Jtoajw mH Jacts. ? The Richmond Dispatch says that if the law is faithfully carried out in Virginia in regard to the Moffet register, $1,000,000 of the public debt can be paid off annually. ? Postmaster-General Key is a good deal of a woman's rights man. He says a great number of women have been appointed to small offices in the past four years, and they do the business in first-class shape. Take more pride in office-holding, in fact, than men. ? The Commissioner of Pensions has issued a circular to those entitled to pensions under the bill signed by the President recently, in which he says they do not need the services of any claim agent, and that no claim agents will be recognized by him in the matter. 1171 l_ _ 1 4. ? >v neu a young iooucco cuewer, wuo uoasted that his father used the weed up to the day of his death, was asked if he didn't think it shortened his days, he replied : "Not at all. Each one of his days was twenty-four hours long, just the same as if he hadn't used tobacco." ? The ice harvest on the Hudson River this season is the most successful ever known, the quantity secured being greater and the quality better. The gathering will be finished this week, and it is expected 3,000,000 tons will be obtained, which, it is supposed, will suffice for a two years' crop, a thing that has never happened before. ? The jury in the Arlington case returned a verdict for the plaintiff", Gen. W. P. C. Lee, for the whole property in fee, known as the Arlington estate, and which was confiscated or sold for taxes during the war, the Government becoming the purchaser and converting the property into a national cemetery. The case will be appealed. ? The New York Tribune states, in the most positive terms, that the remains of A. T. Stewart have not been recovered by his widow or Judge Hilton. Reports to the contrary grew out of exaggerated repetitions of hopes expressed by Mrs. Stewart to her friends in December last that negotiations then pending would result in the return of the body before the end of the year. ? It is charged by the investigating committee that General LeDuc, the Commissioner of Agriculture, only spent $20,000 of $60,000 given him for the Department of Agriculture last session, and is unable to account for the $40,000. They charge, too, that he turned over to a party, in Washington city, twelve bushels of foreign wheat for which $30 a bushel was paid by the government. He says he can account for everything. ? It is becoming common to send children by express, and a number of boys and girls in different parts of the country have been transferred safely in this novel way. The express agents care for their human freight, giving them meals at hotels along the road and accommodations in the express car. When a transfer is made from one line to another, the lad or lassie, properly billed, is handed over to the expressman of that line. ? Senator-elect Matt Carpenter is not so much of a stalwart as he wa9. In his Milwaukie reception speech, a few days ago, he said: "A chief duty and a chief means of increasing the prosperity of the country, is that the existing differences in the South be healed. Bayonet rule has had its run as long as it was useful, and civil government is now the proper instrumentality to use in dealing with the affairs of the South." ? The amount of luxuriousness bestowed upon pet dogs in New York is something almost incredible. Says the New York Home Journal: "It is not at all uncommon to see a carriage, with two liveried men upon the box, driving through Central Park on a pleasant morning with only a dog, or perhaps a pair of them inside, taking a sniff of fresh air. They have had their baths, their locks have been dressed, and fresh ribbons adorn their necks, while a short-haired dog is carefully blanketed." ? The Georgia farmers are preparing to protest in a very emphatic manner against the recent action of the guano agents' convena! A x_ rpi* i* .. /* J1 a! _ uou in .augusia. xnis convention nxea tne minimum price of a ton of commercial fertilizers at 500 pounds of middling cotton. In many counties the planters have taken the bull squarely by the horns. They have held meetings, declared that they will not use a pound of commercial fertilizers at such prices, and pledged themselves to use their influence to prevent others from using them. The prospects are that the movement will become general throughout the State. ? The whipping-post is said to have worked well in Virginia. Cases of petty larceny and the criminal charges of the State have sensibly fallen off since its adoption, and the Senate stands by the lash by a decided majority, on a motion to repeal the law sanctioning its use. A colony of 800 negroes working in a Pender county, N. C., quarry, have voluntarily adopted the whipping-post to suppress thieving ainoDg themselves. The jury of their own choice finds the guilty out every time, and the plan seems to be a success in keeping things straight. Missouri and several other States are now considering the advisibility of employing the same means to punish the petty thieves and other scamps who fear no penalty as much, and just now the tide seems to set toward the whipping-post as more effective with petty criminals than confinement or fines. ? The Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist has discovered a new miracle-worker in uic pciauii ui n lttiuicr uaiueu xvuuiusuu James, who lives about eleven miles from that city. Mr. James is about fifty years of age aDd knew nothing of his strange power until after a severe fit of illness some years ago. Since that he has made some wonderful cures of chronic rheumatism and neuralgia by simply rubbing the patient with his hands. He makes no charge for his services, and the persons cured by him are said to be of very high standing in the community, and one is mysteriously hinted at as "a distinguished statesman who once held high office in Georgia." The Chronicle says that the "impression seems to be that the power possessed by Mr. James is nothing more than animal magnetism in a very strong degree, and thus acting upon the nerves removes the pain and effects a cure." ? Washington special to Baltimore Sun: "In conversation with your correspondent, Senator Patterson said that he expected to make a speech on the Butler-Corbin case when it came up for action in the Senate. He said that he considered himself the bitterest kind of a partisan, that he had never given any but a partisan vote in all his life, that he voted to seat Butler because he was elected, and he should vote to keep him in his seat for the same reason. The speech which he would make on the case, would be the last one that he expected to make in the Senate, and it wniil^ Ko a *?oHlir?nc nun Wo mfonrlo/^ f a TVUIVA UC U 1 aiUJUg VUI/I ug lUI^UUUU iv I handle the Hayes administration without fear or remorse, as he knew that to its acts is due the destruction of the Republican party in the South. His previous assault on the Administration was no more than a drop of sulphuric acid as compared to the ton of dynamite which he would now hurl upon it." ? The amount of counterfeit coin in circulation in the United States is said to be 82,000,000, besides the great number of genuine pieces made fraudulent by the removal of part of the metal. Wholly spurious coins are almost always lighter than the good ones, but an exception, described by the Scientific American, is a 85 piece made of gold and silver, and really costing the counterfeiter 83.40 each. Various ingenious modes are used in stealing gold from coins. The most common is "sweating," which is done by using the coin as the anode in an electro-plating bath, the gold being attracted from it and deposited on another surface. Ag much as two dollars' worth of gold can be taken in that way from a double eagle, without making a difference that is readily detected except by weight. A less scientific plan is to file the smooth parts of the surface and reburnish the spots. The most extensive fraud is "splitting." The operator saws the coin through neatly, gouges out the centre until only a thin shell is left, substitutes a base metal, and joins the parts again. The ring of the coin is destroyed and the weight lessened. Sometimes holes are bored into the edge and plugs of lead put in. ? A Washington special to the New York Tribune says: "The resolution of Senator Windom, relative to the migration of colored people from the South, has had some effect. The Senator was visited to-day by delegations of colored people from six of the Southern States, including among their number Professor Greener, Senator Bruce and Representatives Cain, Smalls and Rainey, all of whom said they were disposed to favor Mr. Windom's scheme if he was in earnest. Mr. Windom was told that the colored people were not satisfied with their condition; that they would be willing to move, and that local clubs have al ready begun to agitate the question. The delegation thought that 100,000 able-bodied colored laborers could be induced to leave their homes if they should have even moderate assurance that they would improve their condition. Senator Windom assured the delegation that he was thoroughly in earnest, aud that he had no political purpose to accomplish by his resolution." YORKVILIiE, S. C. s THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 6, 1879. 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 poHt-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, uo 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 J paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be keptin advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. Agent in Chester.--Mr. George T. Schorb, of Chester, is an authorized agent to receive subscriptions for the Enquirer in the towu and county of Chester. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate on the 28th, Mr. Davis, of Illinois, presented a memorial signed by 3,190 persons, representing sixteen States, praying the establishment of a bureau to collect statistics in regard to and have special charge of labor interests and the appointment | of a special commission to inquire to what I extent machinery has taken the place of manual labor in general production and manj ufacture. Referred to the committee on education and labor. The Senate again considered the bill to pay Warren Mitchell for cot | ton taken from him at Savannah, which, afi ter considerable discussion, was defeated by the rejection of a motion to proceed to the third reading of the bill. The Senate theu agreed to take up Edmunds' resolutions, after which it adjourned. Tn tlie House, the legislative auDronriation bill has been reported and referred to the committee of the whole. The bill to restrict the immigration of the Chinese passed?yeas 155, nays 72, after which the House went into committee of the whole and discussed the postoffice appropriation bill. Without final action the committee rose. In the Senate on the 29th, a number of pension bills were passed, among them one granting 850 per month to the widow of the late Gen. Robert Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame. Edmunds' resolution in regard to the constitutional amendments were called up, but went over. The House was engaged as committee of the whole on the postoffice appropriation bill. AmoDg the amendments adopted was a provision requiring that no deficiency shall be made during the next fiscal year by placing postal cars on any line. Amendments were also adopted increasing the appropriation for route agents, increasing the appropriation for transportation on star routes, for railroad transportation and for eteamboat transportation. In the Senate on the 30th, Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, spoke at considerable length in favor of his substitute for the Edmunds resolutions, explaining that the substitute rested upon the ground that the amendments referred to were a part of the constitution and as valid as any other part of it. Mr. Morgan did not conclude his argument. The House passed the post office appropriation bill after increasing many of the appro 1 ? ~ 1% n f k/> Art priauuuB iu iue aiuuuni as&cu iui uj mc estimates. The remainder of the day was devoted principally to business relating to the District of Columbia. In the Senate on the 31st, Mr. Hamlin, from the committee on foreign relations, reported adversely on the House joint resolution in relation to the expenditures of the fans exposition, ana it was maenniteiy post poued. At 1 o'clock the Senate went into executive session for the consideration of the New York Custom House nominations. In the House the Senate bill to erect a military post at El Paso was agreed to. The House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to abolish the volunteer navy. In the House on the 1st instant, Mr. McCreery, of Kentucky, from the joint committee to enquire into the expediency of transferring the Indian bureau from the Interior to the War Department, submitted a report signed by four members of the committee in favor of the transfer. Ordered printed. Hoar presented a minority report of the committee on privileges and elections, signed by himself, Cameron, of Wisconsin, and Mitchell, favoring the sixteenth amendment to the constitution prohibiting States from disfranchising persons on account of sex. The Senate then resumed the consideration of Edmunds' resolution affirming the validity of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. Morgan, of Alabama, continued his argument in favor of his own substitute. The vice-President laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of War, enclosing a letter from Gen. Humphreys, chief engineer, with regard to the plan for a national survey, prepared by the academy of science. After a long review of the statements made by the superintendent of the coast survey, Gen. Humphreys says experience gives no reason for believing that a national survey can be executed at less cost than $49,000,000 for a rough topographical survey, based on astronomical determinations; $62,000,000 for the same based on triangulation ; and, $168,000,000 for a thorough castradal survey. The area considered in these estimates is only that of the States admitted before 1860, excluding California, Texas and Oregon. The Secretary of War also transmitted a letter from Commissary General McFeely, showing that his department would be thoroughly crippled i by the adoption of the system of organization required by the Burnside bill. At 3.35, after a short executive session, the Senate adjourned until Monday. In the House, Mr. Chalmers, of Mississippi, spoke at length on the subject of Southern war claims?his remarks being mainly in reply to aspersions of Northern Republicans. At the conclusion of his, speech,, the. House went into committee on the arrr y appropriation bill. After some discussion the bill was read by sections, but before any action was taken the committee arose and the House adjourned. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Tennessee mules are selling in Greenville - p ?i oc a 1 CA at irom ?ito iu eicvcni-u. ? The publication of the Columbia Daily Phcenix has been discontinued. ? On Friday last, the Supreme Court adjourned until Monday, the 14th of April. ? Lancaster county bonds issued in aid of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad, are selling at sixty cents on the dollar. ? The supply of home made provisions in Darlington county this year is greater than any year since the war. ? In Sumter county, there are six candidates in the field for State Senator for that county. ? The Air-Line Railroad Company has recently added several new passenger coaches to its already fine supply of rolling stock. ? The Charleston News and Courier has added a "Chess Column" to its other attractions. This department is under the control of Rev. C. E. Ranken. ? The Herald says that the price demanded for commercial fertilizers, is causing the Spartanburg farmers to buy less this season and rely more on home-made manures. ? Capt. H. L. Farley, the late editor of the Spartanburg Spartan, has taken up his residence in Augusta, Ga. He has gone there for the purpose of finishing his legal studies. ? Governor Hampton has abandoned his trip to Florida. He has not been doing quite " ? * "? I X xl L ^ so well tor a lew days, ana it is not tnougnt advisable for him to overtax his strength. ? The South Carolina Railroad is said to be doing a thriving business at every point along the line. Receiver Fisher is managing the affairs of the road in a very satisfactory mauner. ? At a recent meeting of the stockholders of the Charleston Fertilizer Company, it was determined to wind up the affairs finally, and the solicitor was instructed to take the steps necessary to effect this object. ? The receipts of cotton at Greenville this year are seven thousand bales greater than for the same time last year. There are said to be yet three times as many bales to market as there were at this season last year. ? The Teller investigating committee concluded its labors in Charleston on Thursday last, and adjourned to meet in Washington last Monday, where E. W. M. Mackey, James B. Campbell and R. M. Wallace, are to be examined. ? The Herald says that Mr. Henry Massey, who resides seven miles north of Rock Hill, I lost a number of hogs recently from the ef fects of acid phosphate which the animals had eaten after burglariously making entrance into the lint room of his gin-house where the stuff was stored. ? XUo Alotna monh/ina that ftioro am nnmor. ous inquiries in Greenville for chemicals with which to make cheap fertilizers. The farm ers of O'Neall township in that county, have adopted a resolution in which they declare that they are not willing to pay over four hundred pounds of lint cotton for a ton of commercial fertilizer, freight included. ? In Kershaw county, most of the negroes who have made contracts for 1879, have gone to work, four days in each week for their employer and two for themselves. The employer furnishes them houses, rations and as much land as they want to attend themselves, and lets them have his stock to do their ploughing, but pays them no wages. Those who work for wages alone, get from $5 to $7 per month and rations. ? At the recent meeting of the South Carolina Conference of the Northern Methodist Church, the following appointments, among others, were made: A. C. Dutton, presiding elder of the Greenville District. Thomas Wright, Edisto Forks in Port Royal Dis trict. S. Anderson King, Greenville circuit. George W. Beckham, Cherokee. J. R. Rosemond and A. McLees, York circuit. C. F. McElwee, Chester circuit. J. R. Beckham, Anderson. ? A Washington letter says : "F. L. Car dozo, colored, ex-State Treasurer of South Carolina, who a few months ago was appointed to a 81,200 clerk in the sixth auditor's office, has at last arisen to the dignity of a secondclass clerkship, reaching that elevation after an examination in which he worsted twentyone competitors." At the August term, 1877, of the Richland Circuit Court, Cardozo was convicted of conspiracy to cheat the State "? * ? '-'I xl.-i aua sentenced to tne jan 01 tnat couiuy iur two years and to pay a fine of four thousand dollars; failing to pay the fine, to be imprisoned for one year more. Cardozo appealed to the Supreme Court, pending which, the execution of the sentence was suspended by order of the presiding judge. A petition is being circulated in Columbia asking for Cardozo's pardon. ? Mrs. Elizabeth Leopard, died at Graniteville on the 26th ultimo at the age of 107 years. She was born in Buckingham county, Va., on the 25th of December, 1771, and emigrated to South Carolina when she was seventeen years of age, and lived near NinetySix. She raised twenty-two orphan grandchildren and great-grandchildren. At the funeral was her only surviving son, over eighty years of age. Around her grave stood this son, a grandchild fifty-six years old, several great-grandchildren over forty years of age, great-great-grandchildren twenty-five years old, and a number of great-great-great grandchildren?five generations in all. There are living at present eighty of her descendants, and two hundred and ten have died, making altogether nearly three hundred. Last fall Mrs. Leopard knitted two pairs of stockings for one of her grandchildren. She read the Bible, without spectacles, the Sunday before she died, and conversed with friends and relatives almost up to the very moment of her death, passing away gently and without pain, from old age. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The work of grading the Winston and Salem and Mooresville Railroad, has been commenced at several points on the line. i ? Alexauder Oliver, a shoe-maker in Union county, has recently invented and patented a method of making seamless shoes. ? Governor Vance has tendered his resignation, which took effect yesterday. Lieutenant-Governor Jarvis has been duly inaugurated Governor. ? The Raleigh Observer, advocating the narrow gauge railroad system, says a thous and miles of road ought to be built in North Carolina within the next five years, v? A meeting of the farmers of Cleveland county was held in Shelby last Monday, for the purpose of considering whether or not they shall ask their representatives to advocate the passage of the fence law for that county. ? The Charlotte Observer says: A party of reyenue officers, under the charge of Deputy Collector J. R. Lewis, made a raid on some illicit distilleries near the Lincoln and Gaston line on Wednesday, the 29th ultimo, and made the following seizures: One copper still and fixtures, twenty stands of beer and mash and two barrels of whisky?supposed to be the property of Argo Yarborough. ? It is known by many in this section that the horse upon which Stonewall Jackson was riding when he received the wounds which resulted in his death, is now in the possession of his brother in-law, Mr. Joseph Morrison, who lives at the old Morrison homestead in Lincoln county. Mr. Morrison rode him down to Charlotte recently, and an enterprising photographer got a first-rate picture of him. The gallant old sorrel shows the effects of age, but is still able to travel and do enough service to pay for the expense of keeping him. ? Aunt Nelpie Outlaw, a good old colored woman of Bertie county, came to the conclusion the other day,:that it would be a pleasant thing to know what the preacher aud the folks would say about her when she was dead. So the old woman got the Rev. Luke Pearce to preach her funeral Sermon. This he did in the presence of Nelpie and the congregation. The old soul was highly delighted at the discourse, though she is still in good health and likely to live some years yet The correspondent of the Raleigh Observer, who tells the story, is not able to give the text, but supposes it was from Jeremiah, 8th chapter and first half of the 11th verse. ? A Charlotte dispatch of the 30th ultimo says that Alfred Edmundson, Elijah Church and Riley Tedder, notorious outlaws, who have for some time been evading the officers by concealing themselves in the mountains of Wilkes, one of the wildest of the western counties of North Carolina. A disagreement took place some days ago between Church and Tedder on the one side, and Ed mundson on the other. The two former went to a house where Edmundson was stopping, for the alleged purpose of taking from him a pistol which he had stolen. He refused them admittance, whereupon they knocked the door from its hinges. The moment they attempted to cross the threshold Edmundson began firing. One bullet went through the brain of Tedder and another entered the breast of Church and passed out through his shoulder. As he fell, however, he plunged a knife into Ed? mundson's shoulder, but the wound is not serious. Tedder died instantly and Church is mortally wounded. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Dealing in Futnres. The Kentucky Court of Appeals has recently rendered a decision upon a case of "futures," the points of which may be summed up as follows: Speculating in futures, where no actual delivery of the article bought or sold is made, but only the difference in money between the value at the time of purchase and at the time fixed for delivery is to be paid, is gambling and illegal. But the intent to pay only the difference in value, and not to deliver the goods, must be clearly proven, not inferred from custom. Even proof that the difference was actually paid in money in this way will not suffice, unless it be also proved that it was the intent at the time of the contract, that the settlement should be made in this way. The Court admits the wrongfulness of this practice, and that as practiced it is gambling, but it will not take as proof of gambling in this case the well known custom that prevails, or evidences that would establish other species of gambling. Manufactures in the Sonth. The advantages of Southern millsbringing them to the cotton?have been so clearly demonstrated by practical test, that argument on that score is unnecessary. But it seems that the scheme has its drawbacks with the capitalists of the North, not the least of which is the repudiation talk agitated in some of the Southern States. The practiced observer and well known correspondent, Edward King, in a recent letter to the Boston Journal, relates how a northern gentleman who had been making a trip through Georgia and South Carolina, came back strongly impressed with the prospects of those sections for the development of manufactures. He had been in Augusta and Graniteville, Columbus and other places where the manufacture of cotton goods is carried on with great success. He had seen a Scotchman who was settled in Georgia, and who told him that he is making fine ginghams as fast as the machinery will turn them out. Every yard of these ginghams is sold in the Southern States " if ia tvitt mtn rv-i n ulr nf Tko i j ust oo iaot ao iu is |;ui tutu nic iuai rwcu auo Scotchman said that he began by bringing labor from Scotlaud, but that it proved worthless, for reasons which he did not state, and that as soon as the native population was induced to labor, it furnished all the operatives required at the most reasonable rates. He was always besieged by girls anxious for work and the places of "substitutes" even were battled for. The Northern man was so much impressed by various advantages that Southern cotton mills must always have over Northern ones, that he has* |ecome convinced that the South will in the future be our great manufacturing section. Mr. King adds: "There are a hundred economies unknown to our New England mills which are daily practiced in the establishments at Augusta and Greenville. Cotton which is brought only a few miles does not have to be pressed so that its masses in the bales are almost as hard oc imn onrl on that it ia macopnroft vuhpn it. comes to the picker. All the water wheels, &c., which in the North are protected and barricaded against cold and ice, are unprotected in the South. There are so many superiorities in the Southern location that every visitor in this region admits them. Then the Southerner says : " 'Well sir, why don't you come down here and start manufacturing on a large scale?" "And the Northerner answers: " 'Because you have no settled government. Because you do not hang people relentlessly when they commit murder. Because your public debt may possibly be repudiated. Because I could not be sure that my property would be worth anything for any length of time. Because?' "And there in nine cases out of ten . the matter rests." The Black Death In Rnssia. Great alarm prevails in Eastern Europe over the rapid spread up the Volga river in Southeastern Russia of an extremely fatal disease believed to be the plague. It is thought to have been brought to Russia by two regiments of Cossacks, returning from the war in Turkey. The disease was regarded at first as a variety of typhus fever, and neglected, but its terrible mortality soon compelled the authorities to take steps for its restriction. A rigid quarantine was enforced against Astrachan where it originated, but the panic stricken inhabitants of that city fled in all directions and scattered the germs of infection over the provinces of 8amara and Saraloy lying albng' the river Volga higher up, and in spite of all efforts at restriction it soon reached Tsaritzin, an important trading town on the Volga, connected by rail with the whole of Russia aud Eastern Europe, and finally appeared in Nisbnij Novgorod, only a few hours distant from Moscow. Some' Rus sian newspapers consider the disease only a species of malignant typhus fever, but the St. Petersburg Medical Journal says that it cannot be doubted from the tenor of communications to official papers, that it is the plague. Dr. Zolekauer and Prof. Botkin conclude, from its rapid spread and extraordinary mortality, there being few if any recoveries, that it is the Dlasrue in its worst form. The most * o rigid quarantine is enforced against the infected towns and village*, which are divided into districts, and notallowed to communicate with one another. The Astrachau correspondence of the St. Petersburg Qolos traces the origin and spread of the plague as follows: The epidemic appeared in the Cossack Village of Vetylan Stanitza, soon after the return of two Cossack regiments from the war in Asia Minor, and was very likely brought over with their old clothes and rags. It is well known that there were many cases of typhus in these regiments during the war, but it has also been ascertained that during their return homeward no one was attacked by the disease. Prior to their homeward march the Cossacks' clothes and other effects were disinfected and well smoked; but probably the men did .not expose all their rags and booty to that process, and thus many articles remained infected. The report regarding the appearance of typhus was received by the Cossack authorities toward the end of November. An army surgeon was at once dispatched to Vetlyanka. He returned with the news that there was no typhus, but that there were slight attacks of ague and febricula. Several days passed by, wheu suddenly news was brought of frightful mortality in the Stanitza. From fifteen to twenty persons died every day, among a population of 600. By December 10 the mortality had increased. There died, among the rest, the doctor of the AstracfyflffS'egiment; the priest met the same fate, his wife and children running away from fear; several of the local chiefs were also attacked. The Cossack population were seized with a panic; they ceased to approach the sick, and feared to bury the dead. It is reported that the dead bodies lay for days in the streets, with a slight covering of hay thrown over them. At last the inhabitants reached the conclusion that the disease was not typhus, but the plague. TAUitV. eniTTHFRtf fT.AIWSl On Saturday last the House of Representatives fairly launched on the long impending debate on Southern war claims. The discussion was opened by Mr. Chalmers, of Mississippi, who made an eloquent exposition of the attitude of the South, in a lengthy-speech of which the following is a condensation : ' Mr. Chalmers opened by stating that he cared nothing for the payment of loyal Southern war claims, because loyalty to the Union during the war meant disloyalty to everything that he held dear. That many men in the South had been loyal to the Union was, nevertheless, true, and he did not envy the cheap political capital that a Union soldier could make by telling such men that he had no more confidence in their honesty than that of a mouse in a stuffed catskin. The claims now presented come from women and children, against whom the statutes of limitations seldom run. The gentleman from Wisconsin (Bragg) taking advantage of a well known opposition, everywhere sought to blend war claims with claims for Southern improvements, and endeavored to throw the odor of his dead cat over them. That gentleman announced in advance that he was unwilling to trust the honesty of either claimants or court. Such readiness to suspect corruption in others, sometimes indicated an inuate tendency to corruption in one's self, and he should therefore not charge corruption on any one. The issues of the war were certainly dead, with him. He had but one political faith to preserve inviolate, and that was local self government. But one political hope, to build up the waste places in the South destroyed by the war. He cklled attention to the difference between the speech made by the gentleman from' Wisconsin, (Mr. Bragg,) not as toned down in the Record, but as delivered and partially published in I t -kt tr i rr it 1. ti " V tne iNew iorK neraia, ana ine speecn coming from a Republican member from New Hampshire, (Mr. Blair,) both of which appeared in the Record on the same day. When the West bad been in its iufancy it had been foBtered by the South. Mississippi Democrats had stood side by side with those from Michigan in the work of Western improvements. He warned Northern Democrats last session that a refusal to recognize the just demands of the South might result in the defeat of Southern Democrats and the sending of other representatives who would form alliances -flvith other parties. The rapid growth of independent candidates in the'South had already sustained his declaration. He had nothing to take back, not a line, not a syllable. He repeated all that he had then said. He hoped that the solid South might still be solid for the Democratic party, but for that portion of it that had the courage and the , manliness to treat the people of the South as equals and not as inferiors in the Union. The gentleman from Wisconsin, after haviug slept in his speech for nearly a year, after "nursing his wrath to keep it warm," had come forI ward to excommunicate him (Chalmers) from the Democratic church aud to give a general j ticket of leave to the rest of the Southern I men who dared to ask for justice and for the | equal distribution of appropriations from the Federal treasury. He (Mr. Bragg) had assumed to speak in the name of Northern Democrats, and even if he had authority thus to speak, it was the first time anybody had ever heard of a minority undertaking to turn out the majority of a party. But this great leader from the solid Democratic State of Wisconsin proposed to show him to the door of the Democratic party, and when the South asked for a small proportion of government. aid. he treated her like a mendicant, and said to her, like Van Beekman to old Rip Van Winkle, "Give her a cold potato and let her go." As the representative of Northern Democrats, the gentleman from Wisconsin had stated that they would not sell out body and soul to Southern Democrats, and intimated that they could do better by getting recruits from the North without the South than with it. He should like to know who had appointed that gentleman salesman of the Northern Democrats. How many Northern Democrats could he deliver if he found a purchaser ? That geutleman reminded him of the "cowboys and skinners" of the revolutionary war, who belonged to neither party, but robbed indiscriminately I from both, and fl^d in terror when danger i approached. The gentleman struck first on j one side and then on the other, and when| ever a question came up requiring fearless j courage and manhood, he rushed in frantic j terror into the Republican ranks to shelter his political head. If such men were Democrats, he asked upon what principles of Democracy they stood. The principles of the Democratic party at the end of the war had j been peace and restoration, that the dead past might bury its dead and that the bloody shirt should wave alone from the flag pole of Republican banners, but the gentleman from Wisconsin had found a bloodier shirt than had ever waved from the battlements of the Republican party, and he was stretching his legs in the frantic effort to climb up to the Republican platform and rob it of its last banner. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVEEITI8E8IENT8. PiedmontWagon Co., Hickory, N. C.?Bargains in Wagons. Latimer <fe Hemphill, Agents, Yorkville, S. C.? The very latest and very best Sewing Machine. James Scoggins, Chairman Board of County Commissioners?Road Notice. H. F. Adickes <fc Sons?Coffee?Books?Valentines?Trays?Irish Potatoes. T.' S. Jefferys, Agent?The Phosphate War Ended. R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sales. J. F. Wallace, C. C. Pis.?Clerk's Sale. Herndon Bro.?Bread, Bread. T. M. Dobson A Co?Positive Notice. W. B. Metts, Agent? Etiwan Dissolved Bone. R. Latban, County School Commissioner?Notice to Teachers. ? PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. Hon. J. H. Evins has our thanks for the Annual Renort. of the Clommissioner of Acri culture, and other public documents. PER80NAL. We were pleased to meet in town, this week, Mr. C. L. Williford, of Rock Hill, who has so far recovered from the wound he recently received as to enable him to be out. REMOVAL. Mr. T. S. Jefferys, banker, has changed his location one door south of the room formerly occupied by him. His new office is fitted up quite handsomely and conveniently for the trasaction of business. SALES-DAY. On Monday last?sales-day for February? the sheriff sold the following property: House and lot in Yorkville, sold as property of W. B. Williams. Bought by W. C. Beatty for $-200. Tract of land, 180 acres, in Broad River township, sold as the property of J. D. Wylie. Bought by J. L. Hoffman for 8300. Tract of land, 405 acres, in Fort Mill township, sold sis the property of B. H. Massey. Bought by B. F. Massey for 81,500. THE 8CHOOL8. King's Mountain Military School opened last Monday, with good prospects for the ensuing session. Mr. F. A. Gilbert's school for boys, also opened on Monday with a fair attendance of juveniles. Prof. W. R. Jones is teaching in the Female Institute building. Mrs. W. B. Williams and Misses Edwards and Miller are also conducting a school in the Latta building. These two last-named schools are aided by the public school fund. HAD DEATH. We regret to announce the death of Mr. Francis T. White, a young gentleman of nineteen years of age, which occurred at the residence of Mr. J. Albertis Ratchford, two miles south of town, at 8 o'clock P. M., on Tuesday last. The deceased is a son of Mr. Matthew White, of Chester county, and after suffering from an attack of diabetes, was advised by his physician to visit York, thinking his condition would be improved by the change. But so far from improving, he grew worse rapidly until death ended his suffering. His remains were taken to Chester yesterday for interment. / . / TRAN8FERS OF REAL E8TATE. The following transfers of real estate have been recorded in the office of the County Auditor since our last report: W. H. Stewart to A. R. Banks. Lot in Fort Mill Consideration $1,700. W. A. Burns to M. F. Beattie and others. Tract of 50 acres in Broad River township. Consideration $255. W. B. Metts to B. T. Wheeler. Tract of 119 acres in York township. Consideration $2,600. Same to same. Lot in Yorkville. Consideration $400. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to J. A. L. M. Stewart. Tract of 224 acres in Bethel township. Consideration 81,062. W. J. C. Roberts to E. and B. T. Turner. Lot at Whitaker Station. Consideration $150, R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to Willis Brannon. Tract of 136 acres in Cherokee township. Consideration $68. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to George Parker. Tract of 65$ acres in Cherokee townsnip. Consideration $32.62. John B. Withers to L. E. Parish. Tract of 90 acres in York township. Consideration $700. S. E. White and others to Mrs. F. H. Brem. Tract of 202 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration $2,100. ., ! . T. M. Dobson to J. W. Dobson. Undivided interest in tract of land in York township. Consideration $500. Mrs. Ann White to Town Council of Bock Hill. Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration 825. Industrial Association of Rock Hill to Ivy & Fewell. Tract of 102$ acres in Catawba township. Consideration $410. J. Nicholas Jackson to Eliza Jane Greene. Tract of 50 acres in Catawba township. Consideration $300. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to John J. Ash. Tract of 118 acres in Bethesda township. Consideration $515. John S. Bratton to Wylie A. Wyatt. Tract of 75 acres in Bethesda township. Consideration $800. John S. Bratton to H. J. Dunlap. Lot in Yorkville. Consideration 81,000. J. W. Thomas to W. C. Thomas. Undivided interest in tract of land. Consideration $112. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to F. H. Barber. Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration $2,035. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to B. F. Massey. Tract of 405 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration $1,560. R. W. Workman to Ivy & Fewell. Tract of 00$ acres in Catawba township. Consideration $333.75. Mrs. Ann White to Mrs. J. D. Smith. Lot of 0 acres in Rock Hill. Consideration $512.34. Cynthia E. McCreight to Eliza Fulwood. Tract of 60 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration $600. J. F. Wallace, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, to A. Haffner and others. Tract 007 uorfm in Bnllnek's Creek townshiu. Consideration 8681. R. B. McFadden to J. Hartwell Edwards and others. Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration 8180. HERE-MENTION. Another crisis in the government of France, though happily without a revolution. McMahon has resigned and M. Grevy, a moderate Republican, has been elected President of the French nation. The largest demand for the new silver dollars during the first half of the past month, came from Charleston, S. C.?$12,000. The next largest was from Columbus, Ga.?$10,000. No other city took more than $5,000. The Legislature of Louisiana has elected B. F. Jonas to succeed Eustis in the United States Senate. Jonas is a Democrat. The Virginia Senate has refused, by a very decided majority, to repeal the whipping post law, taking the ground that a great saving of expense has occurred and there has been a very notable decrease of petty thefts. Georgia has about seven regiments of colored militia subject to duty for domestic defense. A resolution has been offered in the Florida Legislature instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the expediency of appointing Presidential electors' by the Legislature. Wm. Barnes, recently convicted at Frenchi burg, Ky., of the murder of Thomas Stephens, in March last, has been sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for ninety-nine years. Barnes is said# to be a reckless desperado. Governor Marks, of Tennessee, gives point to his message on the reduction of State expenses, by relinquishing $1,000 of his own salary. The statement for January, shows a decrease in the public debt of $2,751,980.66. The Secretary of the treasury has issued another call for twenty million 5.20 bonds. The directors of the Bank of Glasgow, which failed some time ago, have been sentenced to imprisonment for periods ranging from eight to eighteen months. They were convicted of fraud, theft apd embezzlement, and uttering false abstracts of balance sheets. 4 4- - Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, S. C., February 4. The graded school system, but recently inaugurated in Chester, bids fair to prove an entire success I learn from Prof. W. H. Witherow, principal of the white school, t tat it now numbers 114 pupils. The academy building has been repaired and furnished with seats, desks, etc., for the pupils, and altogether it will prove a very suitable house for the purposes of the school. Another male teacher will soon be added to the corpe of instructors. The colored graded school, under the management of the Rev. S. Loom is, is also in successful and satisfactory operation. I learn that the loss sustained by Davega & Howze, by the recent fire, has been satisfactorily adjusted. They were insured in different companies, and the promptness with which the companies met the loss has given quite an impetus to the insurance business in our town. There have recently been some transactions in real estate, in the county, of sufficient importance to demand notice. The large plantation, three miles east of town, belonging to the estate of Biggers Mobley, deceased, was disposed of at private sale by the administrator of the estate. One body, of 330 acres, seutb-of the Lancaster-rued, was -bought by Wylie & Agurs. The homestead, including 590 acres;-was purchased by Mr. A. Triplett for ?4,500. Another tract of 580 acres was bought by Mr. Hamilton McCandless for $2,500. At the close of the war, Mr. Triplett was a man of limited means j but by indusity and economy, he is now the owner of about 1,800 acres of good land. Mr. McCandless came here from Ireland, about ten years ago, . avortinti llDB WnmA I hp nOR. a 1114 ifj ma unu v*vi hum umw wwu-w - ?- j- ? sessor of about 1,000 acres. Chester would gladly welcome more such good citizens. On Friday night last, the Methodist congregation at Capers' Chapel, in the West Chester circuit, gave a festival for the benefit of the parsonage. Owing to the inclement weather there was not as good attendance as had been expected; though $70 was realized by the entertainment, while a pleasant time was enjoyed by all who were present The "soap man" paid our town a visit the other day. He sold soap and glass-cutters and gave each purchaser a premium of ft mocking bird whistle. He was himself ah expert?a virtuoso, so to speak?on the magic whistle, and to hear and see him blow the instrument, it seemed as natural and easy as fiddling. Consequently, he drew ft crowd, sold much soap, and soon had a goodly number of the irrepressible small boys to assist him?with the whistle. The boys evidently have a better opinion of the whistles than the soap, and use them more extensively. '' On Saturday there was a good attendanoe of people in town from the country, and business was brisk. The farmers are progressing satisfactorily with their arrangements for the coming crop; though there seems to be much dissatisfaction among them on account of the new rates at which the standard fertilizers are to be sold. Services were held in all the churches last Sunday. ? The Associate Reformed congregation still worship in the Court House, but expect soou to occupy their new church. Only one piece of property was sold by the sheriff, yesterday?a tract of laud of 200 acres, levied on at the suit of Wylie & Agurs v w. J. A. Waters. Bought by Wylie & Agurs for $300. After the sheriff's sale, a number of horses and mules were sold at auction on the public square, the prices obtained ruling low. Am*...***- Vi/v?NMAn mad a ofnlan Ana a uivJiig tllC UUJOCC tt no a otuiv/u vuv, nuivii had been exchanged for another, the stolen one having been taken in Union county. The alleged thief was arrested and lodged in jail, and the money be had received was secured by the police. The Globe Comedy Company gave a good entertainment here last night, with Brennecke's string band as orchestra. The performance and music were both good and highly enjoyed by the audience.;: vj . i/ M;l/ Chester. ; THE 30BTHERN METHODISTS. * 1 . The South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (Northern) has recently been in session at Greenville. The proceedings are said to have been more of a political than of an ecclesiastical character, and the report of the "Committee on the Scate of the Country," is characterized as the "first campaign document for 1880." The Greenville New, in regard to the report, says: It is entirely devoted to politics, prepared in the kind of language to reach and have effect with the colored race, and calculated to ? do more mischief among the negroes: than the speeches of a score of Radical politicians. It treats of 'fraud and intimidation, political rights,' Ac., in a style characteristic of adven? turers and demagogues. It was a prepared paper, and intended for no other than political purposes. The speeches that were madeon the motion to adopt this report, were of such a character that if they had beeu delivered upon the stump during the campaign, .they would have been unhesitatingly denounced as incendiary harangues. The chief, speaker was the Rev. Dr. Webster, a well known carpet-bag politician and mischief maker, whose mission since he has been South, has been to set the blacks and whites against each other, and by lying letters to Northern religious prpers, to keep alive the embers of sectional hate. This reverend hypocrite gave full vent to his spleen. He began at slavery times and brought up events to the present day. He gloried in the Federal Union, in the Federal flag; and thanked his God that it now waves over Fort Sumter. He spoke of the stealings, of political parties, ana said the greatest and moat masterly steal of all was when the Stars and Stripes were taken from Fort Sumter and the*v flag of the Confederacy placed in its stead. He spoke of frauds and intimidation in the elections of this State, and asserted that his tale was true about his old colored brother refusing 83,000 to vote the other way. In short, he made a capital campaign harangue, as biti J _ J* A! ... J* i.j ' n i* ter aau vmuicuve as ever disgraced a Radical raeetiug. ' u Webster was followed by a negro preacher named Berkely,and when he got through, the Conference was in a state of such wild excite* ment, and the disorder became so shameful, that the Bishop, Jesse T. Peck, a respectable Northern clergyman, who was presiding, could stand it no longer, and with a wave of his hand commanded them to their seats, and let them know very abruptly that it was not a po- 4 litical meeting, and he would have no more of it In this connection, the following in regard to this branch of the Methodist Church, may be of interest to some of our readers: When the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States was riven in twain by the Slavery question, all the congregations in this State joined the Southern division, which adopted the title of Methodist Episcopal Church South, while the Northern division retained the old name of Methodist Episcopal Church. Until the close of the War of Secession, therefore, there was no Methodist Episcopal Church, so called, in this State. With the Federal army, however, came the emissaries of that religious body, and soon took possession of the colored congregations