University of South Carolina Libraries
Jtoapji and |artis. ? A cigar dealer in Middletown, N. Y., has hung in his window a list of the names of his non-paying customers, with amounts due, large and small. ? The Greenbackers, at their Washington j conference, are said to have planned for a^vig- i orous canvass of the West and South. Gen. j Butler is understood to have dipped generous-1 ly iuto his barrel of money, and a considera-; ble campaign fund was raised. ? A bride waited two hours after the time appointed for a wedding in Goshen, Ohio, but the bridegroom did not come. It was decided to send for him before dismissing the guests. He was found at home with one side of his face shaved, and so nervous that he had not been able to wield the razor any longer. ? Twenty-five thousand dozen Panama hats, of a poor quality, were sold at auction in .New York, on Tuesday last, at from thirty-five to forty-five cents per dozen. The hats, which were unfinished, were bought by manufacturers, who will put the finishing touches upon them and bring them out for the spring trade. ? The mint in New Orleans is in full operation, and the Item says it is a great advantage to the trade of that city, as well as a good thing for those reduced in circumstances, as they have only to send their old plate to the mint to have it returned to them in bright dollars of the daddy. ? A decision has been rendered by the attorney-general that Congressmen elect are entitled to the franking privilege from the commencement of the term of service, whether sworn in or not. This gives members elect to the Forty-Sixth Congress that privilege from the 4th of March. ? For the first time in twenty years, the city of York, Pennsylvania, is in Republican hands. At the recent municipal election the Democracy was routed, horse, foot, dragoons and hangers-on. This was thusly because a small ring of Democratic politicians settled down in their snug nests and proceeded to parcel out the offices in hereditary style. ? It is understood that the court of inquiry, convened at the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, of the Seventh Cavalry, to inquire into the charges that Major Reno had, at the battle of Little Big Horn, (the Custer massacre) tioon orniltv nf nnwardiee and remissness in the discharge of his duty, report that the inquiry has not deduced evidence against hiui which would convict. ? During a debate in the Maine Legislature, the other day, a lawyer sneeringly remarked to a journalist who had the floor, that it was the function of editors "to ferret out rogues and thieves." Whereupon the editor mildly rejoined that it was "the function of lawyers to defend rogues and thieves." The subsequent proceedings possessed no interest to the gentleman of the legal profession, and he soon passed out of the hall to see a man. ? Gen. Rosser, chief engineer of the Northern Pacific Railroad, has taken advantage of the thick ice on the Missouri river, to lay a railroad track across, over which he is transporting the heavy materials which will be needed in the spring for the hundred miles of new roadway which the company has made arrangements to build during the coming season. It was doubted whether the ice would bear the enormous loads, but the experiment is perfectly successful. ? Henry Ward Beecher expresses a desire to make a lecturing tour through the South. He would not lecture for money, among the Southern people, so impoverished by the war, but if he makes the tour, will devote the proceeds of his lectures to the aid of charitable institutions, schools and other public institutions. Mr. Beecher says he would be disappointed if not kindly received in the South, for he claims that whatever he "may have done to help precipitate the war and to free the slaves, it was done in the spirit of the doctor who uses a knife on a patient to eradicate a cancer." ? Joaquin Miller pleads for the Chinaman. He asserts that not half of the solid wealth and worth of the lar West, outside of the politicians, favor the anti-Chinese bill. The cry against the Chinaman, he says, comes from the Irish laborers, porters and "help," who, by extortionate wages, had brought the Chinamen in competition. The cry has long been a political shibboleth. As a miner he testifies to the honesty, industry and neighborly good nature of these "little brown men and while a magistrate in Grant county, Oregon, for four years, although the Chinese population, during the most of this time, outnumbered the whites, he says he never saw a single drunken Chiuaman, nor a single Chinese beggar. ? At the end of the last year the number of Freemasons in the word was about 5,000,000, and of lodges about 15,000. In Germany there were 342 lodges, in Switzerland 33, Hungary 44, Roumania 11, Servia 1, England and Wales 1,187, Scotland 334, Ireland 289, Gibraltar 5, Malta 4, Holland and Luxemburg 46, Belgium 15, Denmark 7, Sweden and Norway 18, France 287, Spain about 300, Portugal 22, Italy 110, Greece 11, Turkey 26, Egypt 28, Tunis 2, Algeria 11, Morocco 2, the West Coast of Africa 11, African Islands 25, the Cape 61, Arabia (Aden) 1, India 118, Indian Islands 16, China 13, Japan 5, Australian Islands 4, Australia 229, New Zealand 84, United States 9,894, Canada 535, Cuba 30, Hayti 32, West Indian Islands 65, Mexico 13, Brazil 256, other States in South America 179. ? If Arctic explorers have not discovered a practical northwest passage, whales have, as is shown by the fact that whales have been captured in the North Pacific having harpoons that were thrown into them on the other side of the Continent. Capt. Bauldry, of the Helen Mar, of San Francisco, has taken a whale having in it a large flint harpoon, supposed to have been put in by the natives of Cape Bathurst, or the regions beyond the mouth of the Mackenzie River, because the natives living to the westward of that river never use such weapons, but always bone or a /\t? i rX An /i A io ^Alirv/1 in iroil. XX 1UU1C positive CV1UOUOO lo lO 11 LIV4 114 the fact that the captain of the Adeline Gibbs took a whale in the Arctic, with an iron in it, which had been thrown the same season in Hudson's Bay. This is known to be the case because the iron bore the mark of a ship engaged at the time in whaling in the bay. ? The question of the sacredness of telegraphic correspondence is at last likely to be fully settled before the highest courts. The Western Union Company will make the fight, and finds the occasion in the arrest of E. L. Smith, its operator at Topeka, Kansas. By the company's direction, Smith has refused to furnish a committee of the Kansas Legislature, appointed to nose out the scandals attending Senator Ingalls' reelection, with the dispatches he has sent and received during the senatorial campaign. The obstinate operator was, thereupon, summoned before the bar of the House and placed in custody for contempt. Application has been made to the Supreme Court of the State for a writ of habeas corpus, on account of informality in the proceedings; Kt,t if tV>ia fails f.hp fuss will hfl fnno-ht, on ! ""'I " ?- ? ---O its merits. The Western Union officials are determined to test, once for all, the question whether legislative or Congressional Committees, or any tribunal, can compel the disclo-! sure of private telegrams passing between j their patrons. ? According to the latest statistics, there j are, in round numbers, 8,000,000 of Jews in ! the world, who are thus divided-: United States, 73,265; Great Britain and Ireland, 42,000 ; Italy, 25,000; France, 49,439; German Empire, 512,158; Netherlands, (Hollaud,) 68,003; Austria, 1,600,000; Russia in ! Europe, 2,612,179; Turkey, 150,000; Rou- j mania, 247,421; Morocco, 340,000; Den-1 mark, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Cana-! da, have comparatively few Jews?they number there from 1,500 to 7,000?while Asia has 2,138,000. Most persons will be surprised at the statement that there are less I than 73,300 Jews in this country, which is generally supposed to contain a great many more. Some reports make the number as high as 150,000; but this is probably an exaggeration. The statistics given here are said to be as trustworthy as can be had at present, though no published figures can be wholly depended on, as the Jews are scattered all over the globe, and in many places where such a thing as a census has never been taken. The Jewish population of the world is loosely reckoned at from 3,500,000 to 15,000,000?a very broad margin surely?but there is reason to believe that 8,000,000 is pretty near the truth. The two countries where Jews are scarcest are Spain and Scotland. (The ^orhtiUc inquirer. YORKVIEL.E, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, MAR. 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 Enciuirkk is delivered free of postage to all subscribers residing in York coun- I ty, 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. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate on the 26th, Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, in accordance with a resolution of the Senate, adopted some days since, reported the bill further to protect the constitutional rights of citizens and to punish violations of the same. Placed on the calendar. [The bill punishes with fine and imprisonment any person or persons who seek by intimidation, unlawful menace or any other unlawful means, to prevent the peaceful as serabling of citizens for the purpose of petitioning Congress for redress of grievances, or considering the subject of the nomination or choice of any person to be a member or dele?~ ^ *1- A I-F ^ ^ An f o 1llfllA gttic U1 tilt? 11UU9C U1 couu taifi v VI "UV shall break up or disturb any such assemblages or prevent any citizen from exercising the right of suffrage. Persons or officers charged with any duty under this act who refuse or knowingly omit to give full effect to their duties, shall forfeit 8500 to the aggrieved party. Every person who shall cast an unlawful vote or ballot, is to be punished by a fine of 85,000, or by imprisonment not more than five years, or both. Assault and bribery are to be visited with a fine of 81,000 or imprisonment not more than two years, or both.] The bill making an appropriation to pay claims allowed by the Southern claims commission was discussed, but laid aside without action, and the Senate resumed the consideration of the deficiency appropriation bill, the pending question being on the amendment of the committee on appropriations to appropriate 8250,000 for defraying the expenses of the courts of the United States and for defraying the expenses incurred under the en" ^ J 1 .1 _..W iorcemeni act. me ameuuiueiJi m?s Hie suir ject of earnest discussion, in which all the leading Democratic Senators took part, denouncing the action of the department of justice in employing deputy marshals and other subordinate officials for partisan purposes as entirely unwarrantable. Ultimately the amendment was adopted. The bill was finally passed. During the discussion, Senator Bayard remarked that the election law had been administered in the interest of one political party, and not in the interest of justice. There could be nothing more dangerous than the overthrow of law under the pretense of enforcing the law. He denounced the test oath law and said he did not believe Congress would adjourn until that law be repealed. The conference committee's report on the bill to amend the revenue laws was presented, agreed to and the bill passed. There were three amendments by the Senate to which the House disagreed. The first was that striking out the clause of the House bill providiug * i- u tnat any person wno reonnes, purines, reuues or manufactures less than 500 barrels of proof spirits a year, shall pay 8100. The House conferees insisted upon this clause and the Senate conferees receded, leaving it in the bill. The next disagreement was in regard to Lucifer matches. The committee agreed to retain the tax sc that it remains as under the existing law. The third disagreement was upon the amendments of the Senate in regard to the taxation of savings banks. These amendments were agreed to by the committee and remain in the bill. In the House, the most important action was the passing of the census bill. It provides that the enumeration shall commence on the first Monday in June and returns shall be forwarded to the supervisors on or before the 1st of July, 1880, and in any city having over 10,000 inhabitants, the enumeration shall be taken within two weeks from the first Monday in June. The President is to have the appointment of the supervisors of the census, whose number is limited to 150, and who are to receive a compensation of 8500 each. 83,000,000, (82,500,000 of which is appropriated) is limited as the maximum cost of the census. In the Senate on the 27th, Mr. Teller, from the committee to inquire as to the alleged violation of the constitutional rights of citizens during the late elections, submitted a majority report in regard to the investigation in Louisiana and South Carolina, and said the minority of the committee reserved the right to submit their report hereafter. Or dered printed. He also submitted a resolution continuing the committee until the next session, authorizing it to sit during the recess with all the power and authority heretofore conferred upon it. Objected to by Bayard, and laid aside. [A full synopsis of the report is printed in another column.] The House bill, making an appropriation for the payment of arrears of pensions was then taken up, but, pending its discussion the Senate engaged in the exercises commemorative of the late Representative Douglass, of Virgiuia, and then adjourned. The only important action in the House was the adoption of the conference report on the internal revenue bill. This bill provides for reducing the tobacco tax from 24 to 16 cents. It now goes to the President for his signature. In the Senate on the 28th, the vice-president laid before the Senate a communication from David T. Corbin, the contestant for the seat in the Senate from South Carolina, stating that he had been before the Senate two I years actively asserting his right to a seat, I I having been duly elected by the Legislature of South Carolina, and the committee on privileges and elections of the Senate having reported that he was duly and lawfully elect' ed. He refers to the vote of Tuesday last by which the Senate refused to consider his case, j and says the action of certain Senators indi: cates that his right to the seat will not be | acted on at this session, and it will be useless | for him to return here next session to renew the contest. He, therefore, withdraws from the contest, and says, in conclusion, that had he been admitted he might have been able, among other duties, to have rendered service to the colored people of South Carolina, now in need of assistance. Head and laid on the table. After passing a number of private bills, the Senate resumed the consideration of the hill making an appropriation for the payment of arreages of pensions; but without action adjourned until 8 o'clock, P. M., when the bill was passed, with an amendment making the law giving pensions to the soldiers and sailors of the war of 1812, applicable to Mexican veterans. The sundry civil bill was considered until three o'clock in the morning, when a recess was taken until 10 o'clock. Among the amendments adopted were: For the continuation of the public building at Nashville, $90,000, instead of $75,000; for the completion of the public building at Raleigh, $5,000; increasing from $45,000 to $55,000 the appropriation for military telegraph lines in Texas aud the territories, for the counectiou of military posts and stations and for the better protection of immigration and frontier settlements from depredations. In the House, the post office appropriation bill was discussed. A number of pension bills were considered, aud also bills for the removal of political disabilities from a number of persons. On re-assembling, on the 1st instant, the Senate was engaged all day in considering the sundry civil bill. Among the amendments adopted, was one eivinsr D. T. Corbin, late contestant for a seat in the Senate, as Senator from South Carolina, as the expenses of such contest, 810,000. The House proceedings were unimportant. In the Senate on the 3rd, when a motion to reconsider the bill making an appropriation to pay the arrears of pensions was agreed to, Hoar offered an amendment that no pension shall ever be paid under this act to Jefferson Davis, late President of the so-called Confed eracy. Hoar said the name in the proviso had not been singled out by any selection of his own, or from any person who agreed with him politically. The name had been selected by Davis himself by his own act, in a marked and conspicuous character, by an attack on the life of the country which educated him. That gentleman had never given utterance to an expression of regret for such attack, nor had he followed the example of so many of his associates by asking Congress to remove his political disabilities. He spurned the clemency of the Republic to-day. It was now proposed to put the name of this person, whose treason had never been repented of, on the pension rolls of the country, and to tax the loyal widows and orphans to pay the pension. This was the occasion of a spirited debate, after which the amendment to exclude Mr. Davis was agreed to by a vote of 23 to 22. A vote was then taken on the amendment of Slfields to pension Mexican veterans, and by a vote of 25 to 20 the amendment was defeated. The original bill, navini? arrears of neusions to " o ' 1 "J O - X only Union soldiers in the late war, then passed by a vote of 44 to 3. The amendments of the House to the census bill were agreed to and the bill passed. In executive session the bill making appropriations for the payment of claims, reported by the Southern claims commission, was passed. The House was engaged during the day on appropriation and deficiency bills. After an all night session, Congress adjourned yesterday morning. The proceedings of the last hours of the session were not characterized by legislation or other act of any importance. In consequence of the failure of Congress to pass a number of appropriation bills, the President has issued his proclamation calling an extra session to assemble on the 18th instant. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? In Darlington county, this year, more than fifteen hundred agricultural liens have already been registered. ? Within the last few weeks about 400,000 pounds of bacon have been received at the Air Line depot in Spartauburg. ? Rev. Lucius Belliuger, of the South Carolina Conference, died near Bamberg, in Barnwell county, on Thursday of last week. ? The Advertiser says that very little guano is being sold in Edgefield county so far, and the indications are that but a small quantity will be used. ? The Intelligencer says that many qf the Andeison farmers are borrowing money with which to buy fertilizers, in preference to purchasing on the cotton option plan. ? At a recent meeting of the county commissioners of Marion county, they adopted a resolution refusing to grant licenses for the sale of spirituous liquors. ? John Dickey, Purvis Alexander,. and John A. Bradley, of Chester, and Thomas K. Mickle and W. J. Poag, of York, have been drawn to serve as jurors at the April term of the United States Circuit Court in Charleston. ? The News says that an immense quantity of guano is being received at the depots iu Greenville, and the outlook is that a larger quantity will be sold this year than ever before. mi _ l . j._,l ? ine wnite COUU reeeuuy prcseuteu tu Conductor Bradley, of the South Carolina Railroad, by some of his friends in Augusta, has been sent to the proprietor of the Pavilion Hotel in Charleston, where guests of the house cao see it. ? On Tuesday of last week, Bamberg, in Barnwell county, had a fire, the origin of which is unknown, that destroyed property to the value fifty thousand dollars, only fifteen thousand dollars of which is covered by insurance. ? Henry Jacob, a colored Radical politician of Fairfield county, died suddenly in Winnsboro on last Thursday afternoon. He was standing on the pavement near one of the stores, when he suddenly fell to the ground I in an insensible condition. He was taken to his home, and died in a few hours. He was once the owner of considerable property, but died poor. ? In Newberry county, a colored woman was bitten two years ago by a dog which soon afterwards became mad. The wound healed, and the woman suffered no ill effects from it till recently, when she was seized with violent spasms. A physician was called, who pronounced it a genuine case of hydrophobia, She was kept under the influence of chloroform for twenty-four hours, during which time the convulsions ceased, and she began to get better. : ? A movement is on foot to restore to. the Marion Artillery of Charleston, the four Na-1 poleon guns which they surrendered, in May, j 1865, at Greensboro, N. C., which guns are J still at that place. In the House, on Monday of last week, Mr. Evins, of South Carolina, from the committee on military affairs, reported a bill authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver the said guus to A. B. Rhett and others of the Marion Artillery, and after a few minor amendments the bill was agreed to. It is thought the bill will also, without | difficulty, pass the Senate. The guns have been condemned by the General Government as unfit for army purposes, but they are in good condition for holiday and ordinary militia uses. ? At Newherry, last week, Judge Aldrich rendered a very important decision on the question of Homestead exemption. The facts were as follows: Judgment was obtained before a trial Justice against the defendant, and he claimed the benefits of the Homestead law. He owned no land. Appraisers were appointed to set him apart a homestead in his persoual property specified in the constitution, as exempt, to the amount of about 8250, but refused to set apart corn, bacon, Hour aud fodder, these articles, in the judgment of the commissioners, not being exempt by law. The defendant moved the trial justice for an order of reassignment, on the ground that the corn, fodder, bacon and flour should have been set apart to him as exempt. The trial justice decided against holding that these articles were exempt except when the products of the homestead ; that these articles were not the yearly products of the defendant's homestead, because he owned no real estate, and that they were not exempt as personal properly, because they are not among the articles enumerated as exempt in the constitution. The defendant appealed to the Circuit Court. Judge Aldrich sustained the appeal, holding that the personal property of a debtor of every description, to the amount of #500, is exempt. We learn that the judgment creditor proposes ' to appeal to the Supreme Court. That Court has already one or more cases of an exactly similar character before it. Its decision is awaited with interest. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A whale was caught near Beaufort, last Thursday, and towed ashore. ?The shipment of brandy peaches, neatly put up in glass jars, is becoming quite an item in the business of Winston. ? 0. H. Blocker, of Fayetteville, has been appointed special internal revenue agent for the State. ? The 6rst five miles of the Winston, Salem and Mooresville Railroad, from Mooresville, have been graded and are ready for the track. ? The bill to charter a branch of the Carolina Central Railroad from Lincolnton to Hickory, has been defeated in the Legislature. ? A young man named James Gardner, formerly of'Danbury, died recently in Micanopy, Fla., from the effects of eating a lump of camphor about the size of a hen's egg. ? Father Lyon, a Romish priest, from Woodlawn, Gaston county, preached in Shelby recently, the first Catholic sermon with which that town was ever favored. ? Samuel A. Stewart, a respectable and worthy young man, formerly of Mecklenburg, committed suicide in Robeson county last week, on account of unrequited love. His remains were taken to Mecklenburg for burial. ? Our staid aod sober friend of the Char lotte Democrat is responsible for the following: California threatens to secede from the Union unless the immigration of Chinese into that State is prevented. Jt is rather late now to be talking about such foolishness as secession. If California secedes, South Carolina must be appointed to whip her back. ? The recent murder of Mr. Parker, a merchant of Greensboro, who wan waylaid on the street and killed, still remains a mystery, though three professional city detectives have been employed to work up the case. Several parties have been arrested on suspicion, but none convicted. Among the parties arrested at different times, was a white man named Mebane Apple, who resides near the spot where the murder was committed. It appears from the first information of the. murder that some suspicion rested on this man, who was taken and tried before the mayor, but as the evidence given was insufficient to convict him, ? 1- J r\- 'Pi J ~ lie was reieaseu. v/u lusi, iiiursuuy tuc authorities received information that he had . been seen with notes and papers which formerly belonged to the murdered man. So I,he case was taken up again, and the police visited the house, armed with the necessary documents, and searched his premises, but nothing was found to implicate him or to give any light on the subject. MERE-MENTION. The Chinese in California pay, annually, $200,000 in poll taxes, besides property takes and licenses. In a recent contest between a white man and a negro for a seat in the Texas legislature, that body decided in favor of the negro because he was entitled to the seat. The officers of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society seut to the President a protest again3t the Anti-Chinese bin ........-"Brick" Pomeroy has returned to LaCrosse, Wis., the scene of his earlier newspaper work, where he will start another paper. It happens that the quarters he has rented are in a block owned by his first wife, (now "Miss" Pomeroy, the actress,) from whom he was divorced some years ago. "Brick" is poor now, and she is rich. Jefferson Davis has bought a residence near Mississippi City, Miss., where he proposes to reside in future. There were thirty-two murders, eleven attempted assassinations, five i ljucuiii^o auu t?cijij-uuc la^us m auhm uuring the last two weeks. It is estimated that during the week ending Friday next, a hundred thousand bales of cotton will have cleared from New Orleans, including about fifty thousand for Russia. Since the revival of business after the pestilence of last year, trade has never been more active in the city. Gen. Sherman visited Vicksburg last Saturday, and wont from there to Jackson, Mississippi. Greeley, Colorado, is a veritable elysium among Western towns. With a i population of three thousand persons, it requires no police or constable, has no liquor shops, and in two years has spent only seven dollars of its poor fund.*" Mrs. Emily j Grace Nathan, widow of the wealthy Jew, | Benjamin Nathan, whose murder caused such j a sensation in New York a few years ago, ! died last week. Mexico is preparing for i an international exhibition, to be held in the j1 City of Mexico, in 1880. Orders for erecting the necessary buildings have already been given. This is about the only cheering item of news that ever came from tho Mexicans.*" """Since the defeat of the British in j South Africa by the Zulus, the English Government has dispatched sixteen vessels with troops and war material to Africa. Prince Louis Napoleon has entered the British service as a volunteer. It is stated that in i the United States only 5 per cent, of uhe oper- i atives are unable to read or write, while in Lancashire there are over 20 per cent, in that state of ignorance. Australia estimates that she has 10,000 citizens who need hanging. There are now six female lawyers in the United States, and all are having a fair practice. They are Mrs. Lock wood, of Washington; Mrs. Bradwell, of Chicago; Miss Phcebe Cozzins, of St. Louis; Mrs. Foster, of Iowa; Mrs. Goodell, of Wisconsin, and Mrs. Foltz, of San Francisco. A San Francisco dispatch of the 3rd says that a feeling of deep regret and indignation exists throughout California over the President's veto of the Chinese bill. In one county the President was burned in effigy, and at Fairfield the flags were half masted on reception -A* ? ? A * IS..... L E11 u1 me liews. ni uulcii I' lai/, mc caooj/ciat' ed citizens burned every Chinese shanty within the town. Senator Wade Hampton's certificate of eleciion was duly presented before the Senate by Senator Butler on the 2nd instant. editokiaiT inklings. Veto of the Chinese Bill. As was surmised would be the case immediately after its passage, the President has vetoed the bill to restrict Chinese immigration. In his veto message he reviews the fifth and sixth urticles of the Burlingame treaty, and argues that they are of great advantage for the protection of our citizens in China, and our commerce with the Empire. He takes the ground also that the abrogation of these two articles would be the abrogation of the whole treaty, and that the power to modify a treaty does not rest in Congress, but in the President and Senate. He contends ? i-i i /-i l _ .t - i mat aunougn congress nas me cuusiuuiiuimi authority to abrogate au entire treaty, it has never been exercised, except by abrogating the treaty with France in 1798 for grave cause, and that only grave circumstances justify its exercise. He says that there is no pressing necessity for more speedy aetiou on the subject of Chinese immigration than can be reached by ordinary diplomatic negotiations, and that the abrogation of treaty articles by this bill would endanger important interests, and that it would be a breach of the faith of the Nation. He expresses a sense of the seriousness of the situation on the Pacific coast resulting from the present working of Chinese immigration, and says it deserves the serious attentiou of the whole country and a solicitous interest on the part of Congress and the Executive, but for the reasons above indicated, he cannot approve the present bill, and returns it to the House of Representatives with the expression of the belief that in reconsidering it, Congress will maintain the public duty and public honor. End of the Corbin-Butler Contest. The Butler C'orbin case was finally called up :in the Senate on the 25th ultimo and disposed of in a summary way by a vote that was even more sweeping than the friends of Gen. Butler had expected. The following facts in connection with the disposition of the case will be read with interest: The motion to take up and consider the case, offered by Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, was defeated by a vote of 25 to 36. The Republican friends of Gen. Butler took the matter in their own hands by making a teat vote of the question on its first appearance, as wa? predicted they would do. His claims to the seat were sustained by Senators Matthews, Cameron, of Pennsylvania, David Da vis, of Illinois, Conover, of Florida, and Patterson, of South Carolina. Mr* Burnside, who had announced in favor of Gen. Butler, entered the chamber just a moment too late to vole. Senator Teller, of Colorado, announced that he was paired on the question with bis colleague, Mr. Chaffe, who, if present, would vote against consideration. Jones and Sharon, of Nevada, and Sargent, of California, were all present, but did not vote. This forever disposes of the question. Some have attempted to account for the votes of Senators Matthews and Burnside on the grooud that the Administration desired Gen. Butler to retain his seat, but this is a mistake. His overwhelming victory can be attributed more to his personal popularity than to any other cause. Since his entrance into the Senate he has been dignified, obliging and conservative. His intimacy with Mr. Burnside arose from their service together inthe armv commission last summer. But the most significant vote by far was that cast by Don Cameron, and nothing so well illustrates the well known trait of political gratitude in the Cameron family. It seems that years ago before the war, when Simon Cameron was in the Senate, old Senator Butler, of South Carolina, an uncle of the.present member, who for 18 years was chairman of the judiciary committee, rendered the Winnebago chieftain a very signal service which he declared he would never forget. . When the present case, involving the political fortunes of one of the old senator's descendants, was originally presented to the Senate, Simon announced that he would pay the long-standing debt of gratitude by voting for Gen. Butler's admission. His son came forward to-day at the old gentleman's request and squared the account. Gen. Butler was warmly congratulated on the result, and, according to the precedent of the Senate, a resolution will soon be introduced to give Mr. Corbin 810,000 and a cold potato and.let him go. Governor Hampton's Resignation. ,j: , Governor Hampton's formal letter of resignation was received in Columbia on the 26th ultimo, and he was duly commissioned as United States Senator, and his certificate of election forwarded to Senator Butler for presentation. On the reception of Governor Hampton's resignation, Governor Simpson qualified as Governor before Chief Justice Willard, the ceremony being quietly performed in the Attorney-General's office. TUq 1X11/.u> in or ia fJnvernr>r Ffumnt.nn'fl lflfc A ?? 4Ug w?w? vaw.w* ter of resignation: Oakland, S. C., February 24, 1879. 3ijy Dear Sir: In tendering, as I now do, ray resignation as Governor of South Carolina, it is proper that I should give the reasons which have caused rae to postpone doing so until the present time. When the General Assembly did me the honor to elect me United States Senator, there were some official acts which, it was supposed, could be properly discharged only by myself. I proposed, therefore, to resume Executive authority for a few days to perform those duties, but my health has never permitted me to do so, and the recent decisioh of the Supreme Court renders it unnecessary for me to take any action in this matter. I can, therefore, now resign without any prejudice to the State or any embarrassment to myself, and in doing so I feel that I commit the Executive authority to one in every way worthy and competent to wield it. It will always be a source of pride and gratification to me to recall my official connection with yourself and with the other officers of State. We have been in perfect accord on all the great uublic questions which | have agitated the State, and our personal relations have been those of the closest friendship. In severing my .connection with them officially, I beg to express my great obligations to them, and my earnest, wishes for their prosperity and success. To the people of South Carolina, who have done me such undeserved honor in the past, who have sustained me with such unfaltering confidence, and who have manifested towards me, during my late illness, an affection never surpassed, I have no words by which adequately to express ray gratitude. I can only promise to devote whatever of life and ability God may grant me to their service, only. Hiking them to remember that I have never so licited office at their hauds, and if I fail in the new sphere to which they have elevated me, it will be my misfortune but not my fault. They have placed me there, and it shall be ray earnest effort to prove myself vrorthy of their confidence. Thanking them profoundly for their kindness to me and invoking on them the choicest blessings of God, I am, with great respect, very truly yours, Wade Hampton. 1118 excellency, governor oimpson. On assuming the duties of the office, Gov-* ernor Simpson issued the following proclamation : Whereas the Hon. Wade Hampton has resigned the office of "The Governor of the State of' South Carolina," and, whereas, by the Constitution of this State, the said office has devolved on me, William D.Simpson. Now, therefore, I, William D. Simpson, the Governor of the said State, do proclaim that I have this day taken the oath of office as the Governor of South Carolina, and entered upon the execution of the duties thereof. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set rv,? k?,w] an,l tU nrrnaf aoa 1 nf ihc ?J HOUU (tuu vauouu HIIV glVt?v uvm* w* vmv State to be affixed, at Columbia, S. C., the 26th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven ty-nine, and in the one hundred aud third year of the independence of the United States of America. W. D. Simpson, Governor. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. Rock Hill, 8. C., March J. It is a somewhat difficult task to gather items of sufficient importance and interest to communicate for publication in the columns of the Enquirer. The weather has been comparatively pleasant?some days quite spring like. The most agreeable sight we have witnessed is the many preparations of the farmers, getting all things ready in order to start their plows. At this season we never fail to get restless and feel a peculiar desire to engage in that most pleasant of all industrial pursuits?farming. Notwithstanding the stock law is in force, and our city fathers have published a strict but most reasonable ordinance with reference to stock running at large, we notice, every day, cows aud hogs roaming about through .l- -x?.L:. a ? me Bireeuj. V/wmg to bins mob, aim as a precaution to prevent depredations from other sources, we noiice that many of the garden fences are being repaired. We are glad to see that the Rock Hill Htraid has called attention to the shameful fact that some evil disposed persons, to gratify a private grudge, or from an innate meanness, mutilate shade and fruit trees, tear off paliugs from the church enclosure and private yards, and commit other similar depredations. We hope the police will be able to catch them in this most outrageous and uncalled for conduct, and will have them dealt with according to the law, which provides for the punishment of such petit misdemeanors. Chief of police, S. G. Keisler, succeeded, last Friday, in arresting the notorious Jim Stuart. Jim was charged with having stolen an overcoat from the passage-way of E. P. Moore's dwelling, in Chester. He stoutly resisted the police and posse before his arrest was effected. He was committed to the county jail to await further prosecution for threats and resisting the officer. We aire informed by the constable who conveyed Jim to jail, that he made several efforts to escape, and swore vengeance upon Rock Hill and her people, should he ever be free again. lhe night on which Jim Stuart was arrested, and prior to his arrest on that night, the overcoat of F. H. Barber, with three cloaks of his daughters, were stolen from the hat rack in the entry of his dwelling. It is generally believed that the rogue was one of Jim Stuart's gang, as we learn there were two strange men of color in company with him. As yet, no trace of the stolen articles has been discovered, nor has anything been seen or heard of the suspected thieves. The firemen's engine-house and hall have been completed, and the firemen propose to celebrate the event to-night with a supper and wine collation. The event will fix the date for many an anniversary, we hope, fraught with as pleasant and bright anticipations as this, no doubt, will be. The members of the Methodist Church and Sunday-school connected therewith, have orn M iasi/\t\o wvr Ci\niAfir txrif U f bn PaI 1 r\rrt ??i*Ul?CU a iiiiaoiuiioMr uwvtcuj mui tuo ivnyning officers: Hon. F. A. Conner, President; Capt. B. P. Alston, Vice President; N. P. Alexander, Secretary and Treasurer; Rev. J. M. Boyd, Corresponding Secretary. The object of this benevolent society is to procure funds, one half of which is to be applied to foreign missions and the other half to be used in purchasing books for the Sunday-schools. The society is not denominational; but the invitation to become a member is extended to all who feel an interest in this noble work?*a cause which has eugaged the attention of the Christian world since the command was given by the beloved Saviour to go into all the world and preach the gospel. Lox. THE PEST IN RUSSIA. 1 A recent letter from St. Petersburg, gives the following distressing account of the ravages of the "black pest" in Russia: ' I have a sad story to tell. You have probably heard some reports about the epidemic prevailing in Russia. It is a most fearful dis ease, brought here by the soldiers from the East. It has8preadin the Southern province of Russia at a rapid rate. Thousand? upon thousands have died with it within the last five days. The victims, when taken, live only' about two hours, and turn as black all over aa a negro. All the physicians ordered td the care of the sick have died withip. twenty-four hours after their arrival. The corpses are burned and so are the houses in which the people died. Whole towns have been laid low during the past few days. The Govern-' ment has placed a cordon of soldiers around the infected provinces, so that the people cannot get out and spread the disease. Any one who attempts to leave and break through the cordon is shot dead on the spot The people are beginning to feel uneasy all over the Empire. The Government, of course, does not allow the news to get out. All reports are suppressed, but the worst of all is that nobody can get out of the Empire. The Austrian and German Governments have placed a double cordon of soldiers along all the fron .? 91 ? tiers, preventing an person irora entering their territory from Russia. All persons from Russia by railroads are Btopped at the froutier and detained twenty days in quarantine, their baggage and clothing disinfected, and if they prove all right after the lapse of twenty days, they are permitted to cross the border. During the twenty days, quarantine the people are housed iu large sheds and barns, without any accommodation or comforts. Of course, a knowledge of this fact keeps people from traveling. There is no possibility of slipping out anywhere. May God graut that the disease?"black pest," as they call it here?may in some way be checked. I believe the Government is doing all in its power to prevent the disease from spreading, but if it is not stayed soon, then the victims may fall by the thousands daily. It is much worse than the yellow fever was in the South last summer. It was brought by a Tartar soldier a month ago, who, on leaving the Turkish territory, pulled off from a dead Turk, on the battle field, a handsome silk shawl, which he tied around his body. On arriving in his native town he presented the shawl to his sweetheart, a girl of nineteen years. She tied it around her body and danced about for joy in a room in which were some twenty-five people. In two hours she died, and five hours after the introduction of the shawl into the room the whole party of twenty-five had died. All turned black. In throe days the whole town, containing 1,100 people had died, with the exception of forty-three.persons whahad fled in time. From this town the pest began spreading all over the country. LOCAL AFFAIRS. new advertisements. Hunter A Oates- A Partial List of Our Goods. ; J. M. Adams?Stoves and Tin-Ware?Patent Dinner Kettle?Stove Polish. J. H. Hoffman?Rough and Ready Mills. Latimer Hemphill?Flour?Guano?Hams? Saddles and Bridles. county commissioners. We have been requested to announce that the Board of County Commissioners will not meet again until the fourth Monday of the present montlu r . i. l . ?t < r, ' ' nalen-day. There was a very large attendance of people in town on Monday, it being sales-day for March. Only one piece of probity was sold by the Sheriff, viz.: A tract of land levied on as the property of R. M. Sims. Bought by David Hutchison for $1. agents for the enquirer. The following named persons are authorized to receive the names of subscribers to the Enquirer and give receipts on payment of subscriptions: T. Gid Culp, Esq., Fort Mill, S. C. George T. Schoro Chester, 8. C. Capt. Ed. M. Mills,. Rock Hill, S. C. Joshua D. Gwinn, Esq., Clover, S. C. phenomenon of a well. We are informed that on one night of the past winter?not during the coldest weather of the winter either?ice formed in the well rtf Mv .Tnhn Smith who Uvea on Broad river. in this county. The well is 55 feet deep. The ice was about an inch in thickness, and required some force to break it before water could be drawn from the well. McCONNELLR VILLE. A note from this station on the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, informs us that business has been quite good there the j?ist season. A considerable number of bales of cotton have been purchased and shipped at that point since the first of last September. Dr. William Campbell, a practicing physician, has recently located there, and is now building a handsome residence hi the vicinity. MEDICAL STUDENTS. Dr. Miles J. Walker returned last Monday morning from the Louisville, Ky., Medical College, where he has been attending a course of lectures. He has now taken the prescribed course, and returns home a full-fledged M. D. Mr. John R. Latimer recently returned from the Baltimore Medical College, where he has been attending his first course of lectures. Dr. Montague J. Lowry, of this place, graduated 011 the 27th ultimo from the Louisville Hospital Medical College. The first prize, nrmsistinff of a nocket case of instruments. was awarded to Dr. Lowry for the best notes of Prof. Wilson'8 clinical lectures on diseases of the chest. We learn that Dr. Lowry contemplates remaining for a year longer, during which time he will probably be connected with the hospital of the college. YORKV1LLE SILVER HELICON BAND. The Yorkville Silver Helicon Band, under lead of Mr. Robert J. Herndon, discoursed ; some fine music on the public square last Saturday afternoon. This was their first appearance in public for several months; but the proficiency they displayed in the rendering of several new and beautiful pieces, shows that they have not been idle. We acknowledge the compliment of a number of airs played in front of the Enquirer office. JOB PRINTING. To our former varied assortment of job type, we have recently added several new styles, which, with presses of the most approved pattern, enable us to execute job printing in the best style of the art. Commercial, railroad and legal printing, specialties. Note, letter and bill heads printed on good pa]>er and at as low prices as the same quality of work can be p procured in I?7ew York. Merchants and business men are invited to examine our work or ' write for specimens and prices. Special attention given to brief printing?both as to accuracy and neatness of style. A BELLED* BUZZARD. {, We have often heard the story that a buzzard with a bell attached to its neck was to be seen in the upper portion of this county, though we never heard the statement verified until'a gentleman informed us - that one day last week he r saw the veritable bird, near the residence, of Mr. R. Caldwell, fourteen miles north,of X<}rl?ville. Some surmise that this is a Charleston buzzard, that had been belled in that city, somewhat after the practice of mischievous boys attaching tin cans to dog's tails, and that the bird, affrighted! by the noise it made, flew' from its favorite city haunts to find a home in the rural districts where bad boys do not play their sportive tricks. If this theory fails, then the buzzard must have been belled in the neighborhood where it now hovers. Can any one tell who did it, and when it was done ? Misfl LIZZIE ROSS. : ? h'A Miss Lizzie Rosa, the young lady who so "> narrowly escaped with her life from the burning building of J. Leonidas Moore, on the night of the 17th ultimo, was jn town.. last week, visiting her friends and relatives here, this ^ being her hoip^- Miss Ross was only slightly burned about the neck and head',-though she sustained contusions on the body, the result of being dragged down the stainii We had been, misinformed as to her ignorance! of the fire until Mr. Moore rushed to her rescue. During the progress of tb?flajpes sbp displayed much courage and presence of mind, awakening and takjng to a place of safety three of Mr' 'Moore's children, after which she went to her own room to endeavor to secure hertrtmk, and while thus engaged was suffocated and blinded by smoke. Miss Ross is engaged in teaching in that neighborhood, and returned this week to resume her school * . si tiir. TRANSFERS OF*REAL ESTATE. ' The following transfers of real estate'have been recorded in the office of the County Auditor since our last report: - JP. B. Darwin to J. Wv P. Hope. Lot in Yorkville. Consideration $560. J. T. and M. B. Lowry to J. W. P. Hope. Tract of 99 acres in York township. Consideration $1,237.50. '! W. C. Beatty to Thomas N. Wood.' Trsict of 117^ acres in York township. Consideration $470J : .-.? <?; fi.om i 4 R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to J. X. McElWee. Tract of land in Bullock's Creek township. Consideration $500. . , B. F. Massey to Alice A. Massey. Tract of 200 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration $625. T. S. Neely to R. A. and E. A. Smith. Tract of 169 acres in JjJbenezer township/ Consideration #400. . " i : > ''SOUTHER!* IMMIGRATION. ; On Thursday evening last, according to appointment, Mr. TilmanR. Gaines delivered an address in the Court House on the subject of "Settling and building dp the State by moneyed immigration." The audience, though, not large, was interested, in the subject, and before the lecture commenced, a regular organization of the meeting was effected by calling Prof. "VV. R. Jones to the chair and requesting A. W. ^ T*-? r?al/1 f a Q/?f QO ooorofoTO XU^UIU VV WV/ V C*U0VVI>VV(MJ? The chairman briefly explained the object of the meeting and introduced !Mr. Gaines, who sketched the various enterprises in which he lias been engaged previous to entering, Sb 1874, upon the self-imposed task, without State aid or the patnjnage of an organized society, of attempting to induce immigration Southward, and especially to South Carolina. In his first effortB, contrary to his own judgment, and in deference to what seemed-to be the populaf denhffld' here, he confltied his Work to the securing ; of immigrants composed entirely of the laboring classes. Over 500:people of this class of immigrants weretumed hither,. with what unsatisfactory results, in a majority of cases, our people already know; whilp.financially it was ruinous to himself and for a