Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, May 01, 1879, Image 2
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? The New York Legislature has adopted a '
resolution tendering the hospitalities of the
State to General Grant on his return from
abroad.
? A dispatch from Vidalia, Concordia Parish,
La., reports that three thousand negroes
are on the river bank awaiting transportation
to Kansas.
? The Missouri Legislature has a novel
proposition before it to punish voters who
stay away from the polls three elections, in succession,
with forfeiture of their right to holcL^
any office inthe Stale--?rr
Mr. Abell, of Wabash, Indiana, was successively
divorced from three wives. Then
he married the first again, and now, upon her
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third has reason to hope.
? At the postal card factory, Holyoke,
Mass., designs are being made for a new twocent
international card, and a doable sized
two-cent card for domestic use. The former
will be issued about July 1, and the latter
next fall.
? Of the colored exodus, the New Orleans
Picayune says: "For a time it seemed as if
this movement was to be general, and serious
fears were felt that it might disorganize the
labor of the State and jeopardize its industrial
interests. We believe these fears were the
product of an exaggerated estimate of the extent
of the movement. From what we can
learn, the impulse has spent its force."
? William Cornwallis, grandson of the
British General, Lord Cornwallis, who surrendered
in Yorktown, died of pneumonia at
the residence of Charles H. Shinn, near Vince
town, IN. J., a lew days ago. lie aiea suiting
in a chair, as no one could persuade him to
go to bed. He was once a man of means,
ut spent his money in dissipation. He was
buried in the Friends' Grave-yard, in Vincetown,
at the expense of the township.
? The Washington correspondent of the
Charleston New and Courier says : "Corbin
is not likely to get the chief justiceship of
Utah. He says he does not want it, and only
consented to allow his name to be used at the
earnest solicitation of the President and others.
If the Senate fails to confirm his appointment,
he will settle in New York and go
to practicing law. He will probably settle
in New York at an early day.
? Jersey City is making sausages out of
horse meat. Jersey men are not, as a people,
a hippophagous community; but might take
kindly to horse flesh after a time, provided
always they are assured the animals do not
die a natural death. It is charged, however,
. that a sausage-dealer of the city named has
been in the practice for some time past of
utilizing in his business the carcasses of horses
who have died of disease or old age.
? A meeting was called in Eureka, California,
to express disapprobation of Senator
Comins's course in the Legislature, but, before
it had been called to order, the senator himself
walked in, took the platform, and made
a brief speech in defence of his acts. Then
he went down among the audience, shook his
fist in the faces of men who had started the
movement agartist him, drew a revolver, and
dared anybody to present the resolution. The
meeting was formally adjourned.
? Ben Butler is not a fool. He perceives
the immigration movement. We suggested,
the other day, that the movement would do
more to settle the negro problem than many
J'ears of discussion, through the effect of negro
abor on white labor in the North. Butler
sees the point He says the Democrats have
nothing to complain of in the movement
"Wherever," says he, "the Southern Negro
and the white Republican laborer come together
in the North, there will be one white ReEublican
vote less and one badly demoralized
lack man." Interests control in politics and
settle issues.
? Boston Transcript: The rates of money
in the future will be less than in the past.
This is a fact that has dawned upon the apprehension
of most people having surplus
funds at their command. Hence the large
subscriptions for United States securities at a
much less rate.of interest than has prevailed
for money in inflated times. Agents of capitalists
are engaged here in lookiug up well^
placed mortgages upon real estate which
have expired, or nearly so, and offering to
renew the same ^t five and a half per cent,
annually, and, in some cases a trifle lower
than that. It will be difficult to obtain six
per cent, on safe mortgages hereafter.
? Two young men went into the woods near
Aurora, Illinois, to play a game of cards.
As they were rival lovers and had not previoasly
spoken to each other for months, it is
conjectured* that the girl in dispute was the
stake that they played for. The winner,
however, was not permitted to gain the prize,
for his opponent instantly shot him through
the heart. An effort to settle rivalry by
chance had a not less sad result in Texas.
The two suitors were convinced that the young
woman would accept either if thg other would
let her alone, and they agreed^o throw dice
to decide which should give her up. The
loser honestly endeavored to keep the compact,
but the woman refused to be disposed of
in that way, and wrote to him that she would
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the winner. The latter would not believe that
his competitor had tried to retire from the
contest, and so murdered him.
? An army officer from Yellowstone Valley
tells how a herd of buffaloes were engulfed
as they were migrating southward. The
herd numbered 2,500, ana when they reached
the river ventured upon it with their customary
confidence, coming upon it with a solid
' front and beginning the crossing with closed
ranks. When the front file, which was stretched
out a quarter of a mile in length, had
nearly gained the opposite shore, the ice suddenly
gave way under them, and four or five
hundred animals tumbled into the opening,
all in a heap, and sunk out of sight in a
twinkling. By this time the rotten ice was
breaking under the still advancing herd, and
in less than a minute all were submerged.
They were wedged in so thickly that they
could do nothing but struggle for a second
and then disappear beneath the cakes of ice
of the swift current. Not a beast in all that
mighty herd escaped.
? It is said that the express companies, with
a few exceptions, have resolved to make a
new classification of rates to regain the ground
that has been lost by the competition of the
postoffice department through the money order
and reeristrv svstems. The lower rates
charged by the department for the remittance
of small amounts of money and for the transportation
of small parcels, have made themselves
felt in the express business, and it is
expected that decreased charges for such service
will result. The extension of the registry
system to third-class matter has caused a
vast amount of matter to go through the
mails that would otherwise have fallen to
the express companies, and unless the rates of
the department are adopted by the companies
or underbid, their losses will increase as the
public become more acquainted with the
means offered by the government for the cheap
transportation of money and parcels.
? The recent placing of the four per cent
refunding loan has been several times spoken
of in a general way, as ranking with the placing
of the French loan in 1872, but a more
specific comparison will show that the latter
transaction is yet far from paralleled. Secretary
Sherman asked for one hundred and fifty
million dollars; the French government asked
seven hundred millions. AH of the United
States loan was taken within the day it was
offered; the French loan was taken twelve
times over. The syndicate's bid for one hundred
and ninety million dollars of bonds and
certificates is, probably, the largest single
financial transaction known ; but large as it
is, it is dwarfed by comparison with the total:
subscription for the French loan of eight and |
a quarter billions of dollars. The negotiation
of the United States loan was done by mail
and telegraph, but fixed bayonets were needed
to keep thousands of Frenchmen from fighting
for places in the lines leading to the subscription
books.
Ihc ftttMIr inquirer.
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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 21st, the consideration
of the army appropriation bill occupied
the day. Speeches were made by Messrs.
Bayard and Maxey advocating the clause in
the bill prohibiting the use of troops at the
polls.
The business of the House was confined
to the introduction of bills under the call of
States, the unprecedented number of 1,385
being offered.
In the Senate on the 22nd, Mr. Garland,
of Arkansas, and Mr. Davis, of Illinois, spoke
in favor of the pending army appropriation
bill; and Mr. Allison, of Iowa, spoke in opposition
to it.
The House passed the subsidiary silver
coins bill. As passed, the bill provides that
silver coins of smaller denomination than
| one dollar may be exchangeable into lawful
money when presented in sums of twenty dollars
; makes lawful money exchangeable into
silver coins in like amounts; make subsidiary
silver coins a legal tender for all debts,
public and private, in sums not exceeding
twenty dollars, and makes minor coinage receivable
at post-offices to the amount of three
dollars. Discussion was resumed on the legislative
bill.
In the Senate on the 23rd, the army appropriation
bill was discussed to the exclusion of
other business. Mr. Williams, of Kentucky,
spoke in favor of the bill, especially of the
section forbidding the use of the army at the
polls. Alluding to the presence of Confeder
ate soldiers in Congress, he said as to these
brigadiers, he wished the people of the North
had been animated by the same wise policy
as their Southern brethren, and had sent their
gallant soldiers to be their representatives,
because if questions growing out of the war
had been left for solution to the brave men
who fought the war, the return of prosperity
and approach of reconciliation would have
been hastened.
Mr. Jones, of Florida, followed in support
of the bill. The South having been restored
to its place in the Union, its people were anxious
to co-operate with other sections of the
country in restoring complete peace and prosperity
everywhere. Its representation being
on terms of equality with representatives of
other States they have, from time to time,
manifested their interest in the affaire of the
nation, and after a long night of estrangement
they have come into the light and enjoyment
of the rights conferred by the Con
stitution. Referring to the use of the array
at the polls, Mr. Jones said he had seen sol
diers marched and countermarched over his j
little State. He stated as a fact that a company
of troops was marched from Fort Barrancas
to Moravia, in 1877, to attend an
election, and after the election he saw an officer
in his own town remain with the State
officers until the returns from the voting polls
were canvassed. There was no necessity for
troops at the polls. There was no indication
whatever of trouble and none was appre
hended, and when there was so much interest
everywhere concerning the electoral vote of
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r loriaa, troops wero preseub iu euautm mc
villainy of the returning board, which defrauded
the people of their President. Mr.
Jones spoke of the changed condition of the
South under Democratic rule. There was
now more thrift, the public credit had been
restored and there was more enterprise
than under the domination of the Republicans.
All people had been stimulated in the
improvement of their condition, and they had
awakened to a new-born zeal for public liberty
and a determination to preserve it. The
people were now satisfied with their State
governments.
Mr. Blaine gave notice that he would renew
his amendment to the 6th section. He
then read from the testimony before the Teller
Committee, taken in South Carolina, that
numbers of white men came around the polls
firing guns and frightening colored men away.
Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, asked Mr.
Blaine if it was not true that within the last
three days an acquittal had been ordered by
the presiding Judge in Charleston county in
a case depending on just such evidence as
that just read ?
Mr. Blaine said he believed there had been
a dismissal upon a flaw in the indictment
But Mr. Butler insisted that it was on the
evidence.
Mr. Blaine declared that the elections in
South Carolina had been mere travesties on
elections. He also characterized, unfavorably,
the elections in Louisiana.
In the House, on motion of Mr. Wood, of
New York, a resolution was adopted, requesting
the President to consider the expediency
of entering into a convention with France
for the negotiation of a treaty which shall ensure
a more equal interchange of products and
maufactures of each country. The Legislative
appropriation bill was then resumed and
discussed until adjournment.
In the Senate on the 24th, Mr. Conkling
made a three hours' speech in opposition to
the pending army appropriation bill, his effort
in the main being an arraignment of the
Democratic party and an earnest support of
the Federal election laws. Apparently for
the sake of a little variation in the monotony
of the proceedings, Mr. Dawes presented the
petition of Mrs. Caroline Webster, widow of
Col. Fletcher Webster, asking an increase of
her pension from thirty to fifty dollars per
month. He said this lady was the only surviving
representative of Daniel Webster's
family, and had been rendered poor by the
destruction of the Marshfield property. The
bill was referred to the committee on pensions.
In the House, Mr. Gillette, of Iowa, made
a speech from the Greenback standpoint, in
which he denounced the Connecticut antitramp
act, and declared that before saying to
the Chinese that they must go, he would say
to every law on the statute book which oppressed
the laboring classes that it must go;
National banks must go; National bonds must
go; land monopolists must go j/mointains of
idle money in the treasury must go into thfl*'
channels of business; miUtrvna Ithanrhed by
g^^bond^^jirt^jf^nce more to make glad
1 ^CTreartofthe toiler. Did they believe that
the popular fire which was raging could be
smothered, and that outraged citizens would
be satisfied till 1880 with sectional disputes?
What the people wanted was bread,not blood.
He was amazed at the Datient endurance and
long suffering of the people, but he advised
prudeuce in future legislation and immediate
measures of relief for the country.
He was followed by Mr. LaMatyr, of Indiana,
who denounced the puerile cry of revolution
raised by those who were cowards on
the one side, or cormorants on the other side
of the great struggle. He had no language
in which to utter his contempt for it.
On the 25th, the Senate, soon after meeting,
proceeded to the consideration of the
resolution relating to appointments to office
by the Secretary and Seargeant-at-Arms of
the Senate. The amendments declaring that
no Union soldier shall be removed except for
cause, and also that no Confederate soldier
shall take the place of any dismissed Union
soldier, was defeated by a strict party vote of
26 to 34. The resolution giving the Secretary
and Sergeant-at-Arms absolute power
over removals and appointments in their
respective departments, was agreed to. The
Senate passed the army appropriation bill as
it came from the House, without amendment.
The House went into committee on the
legislative appropriation bill. Mr. Richardson,
of South Carolina, spoke in favor of a
repeal. The opposition to repeal seemed to
be an effort on the part of the Republican
party to array a Solid Noj-th against a Solid
South; the Solid South only in its adherence
to the Constitution. Mr. Van Voorhees, of
New York, argued that the election laws
were constitutional and necessary for the
maintenance of an honest ballot box. Mr.
Hooker, of Mississippi, said that a stranger
who had been present during the debate, from
that of Mr. Garfield down to the last speech,
would have supposed that instead of a simple
proposition to keep the troops from the polls,
it was a question as to whether or not the
Southern people were liable to be indicted for
murder, arson, and other crimes. He had
seen, for five years after the war closed, negroes
marched to the polls in Mississippi
headed by leaders, between drawn swords,
and that it had never been regarded by Re-,
publicans as an invasion of the rights of the
people and of the freedom of the ballot box.
This outcry of free ballot for the negro was,
therefore, all pretence. In the last two elections
in Mississippi there was not a single
colored man who had not been absolutely free
to cast his vote as he chose. Mr. Hooker
then sent to thejClerk's desk and had read, a
protest of the inhabitants of Wyandotte,
Kansas, against colored immigration, and said
that it was only when the negro was at a
safe distance that the Republicans were his
friends. They never had any use for negroes
except to keep them, like sheep in shambles,
and run them to the ballot box in the interest
of the Republican party. Mr. Haskell,
of Kansas, denied that the people of that
State were hostile to negroes, but said they
did not consider it wise to have thousands of
poor people cast upon one point destitute and
homeless. The debate was continued by
Messrs. Manning, of Mississippi, Goode, of
Virginia, Hiscock, of New York, Finley, of
Ohio, and others.
The Senate was not in session on the 26th.
In the House, at 12 M., the discussion on
the legislative appropriation bill closed. The
amendment offered by Weaver, of Iowa,
striking out all proposed legislation except
that relating to the test oath, was defeated
without a division. A vote was then taken by
tellers on Mr. Garfield's amendment striking
out all legislation, and it was defeated, 124 to
130. The House then passed the bill by a
vote of 140 to 119. The result was received
with applause on the Democratic side. Several
bills were introduced and the House adjourned
until Tuesday.
In the Senate on the 28th, the legislative appropriation
bill was received from the House
and referred to the committee on appropriations.
The Senate then took up and passed
the House joint resolution to repeal certain
clauses in the sundry civil appropriation act
of March 3rd, 1879. It makes appropriations
for the extension of military telegraph lines
in Montana and Texas, and repeals the authority
heretofore criven to the senretarv of
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war to lease the water-power at Moline to
the Moline Power Company. The Senate
then proceeded to the consideration of Pendleton's
bill, giving seats on the floor of the
Senate and House to the heads of departments,
and that gentleman made a speech in
its advocacy. Morrill followed Pendleton,
opposing the bill, which was, on motion of
Pendleton, laid on the table to be called up
hereafter.
The best information obtainable on the
subject of the consideration given by the
President and members of the cabinet to the
army bill, is to the effect that it will be vetoed.
Members of the administration intimate
that the cabinet is unanimous in favoring
such action.
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
tj
-iur> iiyiatje u. 11 luuuia, au uiu iraiu&ui
of Columbia, died at Cherokee Springs on
the 24th ultimo.
j ? From September 1st, 1878, to April 19,
! 1879, there were shipped from Gaffney City,
on the Air Line Railroad, 4,879 bales of
cotton.
? The market gardeners of Charleston have
commenced the shipment of new Irish potatoes
to New York. The first shipment was
made on Saturday last.
? At a primary election held in Sumter
last week, Dr. J. J. Bossard was nominated
as a candidate for State Senator, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
Judge Fraser.
? The residence of Mrs. Ruth Marshal, at
Adam's Run, on the Charleston and Savannah
Railroad, together with a large portion
of the furniture and other valuables, were
destroyed by fire last week.
? On Thursday last, in Columbia, Judge
Thomson rendered a decision refusing to require
the Treasurer of Richland county to
receive bills of the Bank of the State for
taxes.
? Judge Bond left Charleston on Thursday
evening last for Baltimore, but will return to
the former city on the 10th of May, at which
time Chief Justice Waite is expected to be
present to hear a number of important civil
cases.
? About midnight on Thursday last, the
livery stables in Columbia, belonging to
George Keenan, were destroyed by fire. Besides
the buildings, six horses, several vehicles,
and all the harness were destroyed.
The loss is estimated at five thousand dollars,
two thousand of which is covered by insurance.
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? Fish-Commissioner^Bull^f^ig now in
Washington loofeftgafter the interests of his
departm^f^ Arrangements are being made
todistribute a large number of young fish in
the larger streams of this State at an early
day. A few young salmon and shad, of last
year's plant, have been caught this season in
South Carolina waters.
? Hon. James Simons, a prominent lawyer
and citizen of Charleston, died in that city
on Saturday last, aged about sixty-six years.
In 1842, he was elected a member of the
State legislature, and was continuously reelected
up to 1862. In 1850 he was elected
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
wuicn position ne occupied lor iweive years.
? In Abbeville county, the farmers report
their crops in an encouraging condition, and
say^ that the damage done to the corn is not
so lasting or extensive as they at first supposed.
A great deal of the corn that had
been cut down to the ground by the frost, has
come out again.and is growing finely. Wherever
the wheat was in the boot, it was irretrievably
injured.
? On Wednesday of last week, the New
York agent of E. B., Wesley and others, called
upon the State Treasurer and made a formal
demand for the payment pf a million and a
quarter of Blue Ridge scrip. This action on
the part of these agents is supposed to be the
basis of a suit to be brought against the State
for the recovery of this money. It is almost
needless to say the demand was not complied
with. .
? Mr. McKinley, of the New and Courier
staff, who is in Y/ashington, writes to his paper,
under date of last Friday, as follows in regard
to the health of Senator Hampton: "I
am sorry to have to say that Gen. Hampton
has experienced?a great deal of suffering
since bis arrival here. He is a regular attendant
upon the sessions of the Senate, but
is not apparently strong enough to warrant
him in doing so. I hear the most flattering
expressions in regard to him on all sides, and
I am constantly beset with inquiries relative
to his great campaign in 76."
? The monument to the Confederate dead
at Columbia, will be unveiled on Tuesday,
the 13th instant, at 4 o'clock, p. m. The
Board of Directors of the Monument Association
extend a cordial invitation to all
friends of the cause, especially the survivors
of the Confederate States army and navy,
also the military organizations throughout
the State, to be present and assist in the ceremonies
of the day. Liberal arrangements
have been made for excursion trips with all
th? railroads leading into Columbia, and it is
expected that a large number of people will
be in attendance. It is understood that Senators
Haraptoa and jButler and many other
distinguished persons will be present on the
occasion.
? Mr. Charles Foster, a well-known merchant
of Charleston, died in Boston, on Sunday
of last week, from an attack of typhoid
pneumonia, in the 64th year of his age. At
the time of his death he was on a business
visit to Boston. He commenced business in
Charleston in the dry^oods house of Joseph
Lawton & Co., and afterwards went into business
for himself in the fiim of Bowen, Foster
& Co., where, he.ren^oed - until the business
was broken up by the* wjir. During the war
the deceased held the position of confidential
agent of Fraser, Trenholin & Co., in Europe,
and had an important connection with their
blockade business. After the war he was
connected with the firm of Marshall, Burge
& Bowen as salesman, and subsequently became
connected in partnership with Mr. E.
E. Sell under the firm name of Sell & Foster.
He withdrew from this business in July, 1877,
and up to the time of his death had been occupied
as traveling agent for several firms.
? The Grand Lodge of Independent Order
of Good Templars, assembled in Colombia on
Tuesday of last week, and continued in ses?
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Sion in ret) UUys. JUUCIl Ulicicst w?o uannmied
by those in attendance, and every effort
is being made to give such earnest attention
to the future usefulness of the order as will
make it felt for good in the State. A resolution,
looking to the holding of a State Temperance
Convention, composed of delegates
from the several temperance organizations in
this State, during the present year, was agreed
to. Resolutions were presented and referred
in relation to the passage of prohibitory laws;
also, in relation to the licensing of stills
for the manufacture and sale of spirituous
liquors. The election pf officers for the ensuing
year resulted as follows: W. H. Cuttino,
G.* W. C. T.; Rev. Thomas E. Gilbert,
G. W. C.; Mrs. C. E. Gilbert, G. VV. V. T.;
Thomas N. Berry, G, W. S.; C. L. Fike,
G. W. T.; Mrs. C. E. Gilbert, S. J. T.; J. H.
Brice, R. R. W. G. L.; Rev. S. Leard, G. W.
C.; J. H. Brice, G. W. M. The next meeting
will be held at Newberry.
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NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Miss Holton, the woman lawyer, has located
at Dobson, Surry county.
? Capt. S. E. Gilmer is building a hotel in
Winston, which it is claimed will be the finest
building in the State.
? The oil and bone of a whale killed on the
North Carolina coast,-^iSar Morehead City,
on the 11th instant, sold for $2,484.05.
? The Charlotte Demotrat and the Greensboro
Patriot report that all the fruit is not
killed in their respected localities.
? Gloster Welborne, colored, died in Randolph
county, on the 31st of March, aged 116
years.
? J. N. Pattison, the eminent musician and
composer, has been spending several weeks in
Raleigh.
? Quite a number of railroad officials, of
various roads in Virginia and North and
South Carolina, were in conclave at Raleigh
last week.
? James Duncan, an insane man, who had
for some time been confined in the jail of
Greensboro, hanged himself in his cell on
Sunday night of last week.
? The Shelby Aurora says there have been
something over 5,000 chsttel mortgages given
in Cleveland county since the 1st of last January.
? Judge Kerr has telegraphed the Sheriff
of Gaston, that his physician would not consent
to his attempting to hold the Superior
Court of that county, wlich was to have begun
last Monday.
? The Newbern NuteJull reports a terrible
casualty by which, on Thursday of last week,
near Adam's creek, tw) young ladies and i
their horses were stricken to the earth by a !
thunderbolt. Miss Mattie Ireland and her j
horse were instantly killed. Miss Nora Holland
was rendered almost blind, and was
paralyzed on one side. Her horse was only
severely shocked.
? The Raleigh Observef learns that a whole
family of colored people living in Pender
county, were poisoned from eating honey ob
tained from a bee tree. One who ate the
heartiest, died in two hours after eating the
honey; the others, by proper medical aid, have
nearly recovered. It is dangerous to *&tfconey
in thejearly. anvhig months that bees have
"fecently made, especially if the honey is of
wild bees, as this was.
? Richard Lee, who was convicted of burglary
at the fall term of Fayetteville Superior
Court, and sentenced to be hanged, and who
appealed to the Supreme Court, was resentenced
last Saturday to be hanged on the 9th
instant, the Supreme Court having affirmed
the judgment. Three burglars, under sentence
of death, are to be hanged in Hillsboro
to-morrow, the Supreme Court having also
refused them a new trial.
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MERE-MENTION.
Recent heavy rains in Texas caused a
flood in the city of Houston last Saturday.
The water rose to the height of ten feet in
some of the streets, and swept away many
dwelling and warehouses. A member
of the Texas Legislature, addressing that
body the other day, spoke in the 8panish
language, and whs comprehended by a majority
of bis hearers. An attempt was
made at Chicago, last Thursday night, to
assassinate Booth, the tragedian. While on
the stage, two shots were flred at him from
the gallery. Neither took effect. The would
be assassin, whose name is Gray, was arrested.
He bears a slight resemblance to Booth, and
fancies that he is the tragedian's slighted
son. Bi9hop Ames, of the Methodist
Church, North, died in Baltimore on Friday
last, in the sev&nty-fourth year of his
age. John E. Poindexter, tried recently
at Richmond, Va., for killing C. C. Curtis
some time ago for insulting a lady, has been
convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The
jury assessed his punishment at two year's imprisonment
in the penitentiary. ?,,Florida
negroes are said to be otuigrating to Louisiana
to take the places of the victims of the Kansas
fever. Gen. James P. Brownlow,
late cavalry officer in the United States army,
and son of ex-Senator Brownlow, died at
his mother's residence in Knixville, Tenn.,
last Saturday night. The remains were taken
to-day to Franklin for interment. Prof.
Warren DuPre, at one time a member of the
faculty of Wofford College, at Spartanburg,
died at Abingdon, Virginia, on Friday last
EDITORIAL INKLINGS. ,
Success of a Domestic Loan.
Georgia has just disposed of a large four
per cent loan to her own citizens without the
expenditure of a penuy in the way of advertising
or commissions, and is quite justified
in feeling rather proud about it When
Mr. Garrard, a young man serving his first
term in the Legislature, brought forward
the scheme of such a loan, he was laughed
at, but he felt sure he was right, and kept
pegging away till he succeeded in getting his
bill through. The result has fully justified
his confidence. The State Treasurer simply
gave notice that the bonds were to be had, and
they have all been sold over his counter
without any expense to the State, the great
bulk being taken by small investors and
scarcely any going outside of Georgia; while
orders for $150,000 more were on hand when
the last had been dispose'd of. There could
be no more convincing proof of the State's
financial soundness, and good judges already
predict that the whole indebtedness, which
now pays seven and eight per cent interest,
will soon be refunded in fours, thus reducing
the burden of the interest charge nearly one
half.
The Army Appropriation BUI.
The army appropriation bill having
passed the Senate with the provision prohibiting
the use of troops at the polls, speculation
is rife as to what disposition will be made of
it by the President. While it has been given
out, as if by authority, that he will veto the
bill, the contrary opinion prevails with many
that it will receive his official sanction. The
New York Herald argues to that effect as
follows:
He cannot veto the array bill merely be
cause his own party demand and expect it.
He cannot veto the army bill on account of
something which may or may not be in the
legislative appropriation bill. He cannot
veto it because other legislation is attached to
it as a rider, for that is the common practice
of Congress. He cannot veto itron the ground
that he thinks the presence of soldiers at the
polls is necessary, because, in the first place,
he does not think so, and has officially declared
his repugnance to interfering with civil
government by the military arm, and because,
as Mr. Blaine showed in his late speech,
the soldiers are not to be had for the purpose,
even if they were needed. In fact a
veto can no more be justified to the country
at large upon rational grounds, than a refusal
to veto the bill could be justified to the
"stalwarts" upon any ground.
Twelfth Regiment, S. C. Y.
A meeting of survivors of Companies
C and F, of the Twelfth Regiment, 8. C. V.,
was held at Winnsboro, on Saturday last
The meeting was organized by calling Lieut
J. R. Boyles, of Company C, to the chair,
and requesting Mr. Nathan C. Robertson, of
Company C, to act as secretary.
On motion of Mr. Geo. S. Hinnant, the
names of those present who were members of
Company C or F, were enrolled as follows:
Company C.?Capt. John A. Hinnant,
Lieut J. R. Boyles, Sergt 8. W. Broom,
Lawrence D. Carter, Henry N. Hinnant, J.
W. Robinson, Dr. T. F. Broom, N. C. Robertson,
Robert Smart, Frank N. Wilson.
Company F.?S. W. Ruff, J. Henry Brice,
filjmn danrrra S Hinnant Milt/in f!
U ailiUO uiuaii| gw miuummvi utikvM -w?
Harrison, Jaraea T. Tims, William McDowell,
Daniel Bird.
On motion, it was resolved that Daniel
Bird, Samuel Thomas and Kelly Miller, colored
men who were with the regiment during
the war, be admitted as members of the organization.
Capt. John A. Hinnant, of Company C,
and Mr. S. W. Ruff, of Company F, were
appointed corresponding secretaries of the
organization.
On motion of Mr. Geo. S. Hinnant, it was
resolved that a meeting be held at Winnsboro
on the last Saturday, being the 28th
day, of June next, at 11 o'clock, a. m., for
the purpose of receiving statistics and perfecting
the organization.
Better Times in New York.
Alluding to the revival of business in
New York, a recent letter from that city
says:
There is comparatively little complaint
this season about trade. The majority of the
dealers seem well satisfied thus far, and take
a hopeful view of the future. There appears
to be a decided improvement all around.
The head of one of the oldest and largest
firms in New York said the other day that
all the indications point to a decade of the
souudest prosperity that the country has yet
known. He did not quite like the disposition
shown by the Greenback men iu Washington,
but he thought the time was past
when they could do any serious harm, even if
Congress gave them a chance to talk all their
theories threadbare. The currency question
has practically settled itself, and there won't
be any more actual trouble on that score.
This view is shared by nearly all busings*,
men who express jMesdr^-oir tFe subject
at alL Mothci good sign is the evident in-efease
of employment There are not near
so many idle men to be seen as we bad a year
ago. If exact statistics could be obtained, it
would probably be seen that the general condition
of the working classes is very nearly
as good as before the panic. I know that
the contrary view is the one most generally
expressed, but the result of my own observation
does not agree with it The decline in
wages has been great, hut not so much more
so, if any, than the decline in the cost of food,
fuel and clothing. The situation is certainly
more cheerful on all sides than it was twelve
months ago, and there is abundant reason to
believe that the change for the better will
continue.
Pardoa of Cardoso and Smalls.
A_ rrr 3 3 ./ I..* 1_ n
yju vy eaneauay 01 just w<;?*., vjuvcinor
Simpson pardoned ex-State Treasurer
F. L. Cardozo, and ex-Congressman Robert
Smalls, both colored. Cardozo, who was
confined in the jail of Richland county was
immediately set at liberty. The following
are the faots in connection with the conviction
and sentence of Cardozo and Smalls.
. CardoZfe was convicted on the 8th of November,
1877, before Judge Townsend and a
jury of six whites and six colored men, of
conspiracy to defraud the State, and was
sentenced to two years' imprisonment in the
county jail of Richland and to pay a fine of
$4,000, or in default of the payment of the
fine, to an additional year's imprisonment.
From this sentence Cardozo took an appeal
to the Supreme Court, of the State, which
appeal was dismissed, by the Supreme Court,
on the 29th of November last. Shortly afterwards
Cardozo, who had been at large on
bail, pending the decision of the Supreme
ry . ?. 1 n?l u:? J
uuurt) nsuiiucu iu vuiuuiuio, duucuwiui
himself to the sheriff, and was incarcerated in
the Richland county jail.
Robert Smalls was tried and convicted before
Judge Townsend and a jury of six white
and six colored men on the 11th of November,
1877. The charge was that he had reeeived
a bribe of $5,000 as 8tate Senator on the 18th
of December, 1872. He was sentenced to.
three years at hard labor in the State Penitentiary.
8malls also appealed to the Supreme
Court of the State, a motion in arrest
of judgment haviug previously been made
and refused by the State Court. The Supreme
Court dismissed this appeal at the same time
as the appeal of Cardozo. Smalls, however,
took bis case before the Supreme Court of the
United States. On Tuesday of last week
these proceedings were discontinued by Smalls,
who threw himself on the mercy of the State.
Address by Frederick Douglass.
Frederick Douglass, the colored orator,
and the foremost man of his race in the
Union, delivered a lecture, last week, in
Staunton, Virginia, for the benefit of a colored
church. The Staunton Virginian publishes
a synopsis of the lecture as follows:
The lecture was largely attended by the
most cultivated white people of the place, who
warmly congratulated the speaker upon the
conclusion of bis lecture on "Self-mnde Men,"
which occupied over two hours. He advised
his colored hearers not to trust to Providence
aud prayer, but to go to work honestly, systematically
and conscientiously. He him
self had prayed tor three long years that rree
dom might come to him ; but ii never came
until the prayers got down into his legs and
carried him away. He believed in helping
no man who was able to help himself, ana
advised the colored people to be diligent, isduatrious,
economical, clean in their persons
and honest in their dealings, and stay where
they are. He deprecated the exodus from the
South, saying that the warm climate was the
best for thSra, and that one of the most unfortunate
predicaments that can be imagined is "a
negro in a snow bank." It don't look right,
"the colors do not blend harmoniously. Stay
where you are," said the lecturer, "and so
conduct yourself that men will be bound to
respect you?work with head and handsseek
to acquire knowledge as well as property,
and in time you may have the honor of going
to Congress, for if the negro can stand Congress,
Congress ought to be able to stand the
negro."
Addressing himself to the white people
present, Marshal Douglass said: "These negroes
are among you, and will remain with
you. You need not expect them to die like
the Indians. They are too fond of civilizing
influences for that. An Indian is contented
with a blanket, while a negro's ambition is a
swallow tailed coat; the Indians don't like
churches and steeples, while the negro thinks
the higher the steeple the nearer they are to
Heaven. They are essentially imitative, and
if by their efforts they seek to raise themselves
from poverty and attain to the excellence
of gooa citizenship, give them a chance.
Sell them lands, and let them practice your
economy and thrift Teach them to be honest,
industrious and systematic, and yon will
yourselves reap the reward, foe on the trade
winds of eternal justice there will come to
this land a peace and prosperity it has never
known before."
The Hnrderer of Col. Alston,
The case of Edward Cox for the murder
of Col. Alston, was taken up in the Atlanta
criminal court on the 21st ultimo, and
after some discussion among counsel, Judge
Hillyer ordered the case to be set for Monday
last, the 28th. Alluding to the pending trial,
the Herald says:
This case is, of course, of the intensest interest,
and is attended by the ablest.counsel
in Georgia. Cox will be defended by ex-.j
Congressman Candler, Gen. Gartrell, K. R.
Jeffries, Col. Abbot Billupe and four other
londirifT firmn. The nrnftecution will be con
ducted by Solicitor-General Ben. Hill, Jr.,
Judge Hopkins, Judge Hall, of Macon, Col.
Hawkins, of Amencus, Judge Twiggs, of
Augusta, Gen. Garlington, of South Caroli*
na, Hon. W. H. Hulsey and perhaps half a
dozen others. The defence will be based upon
the statement that just before Alston shot,
he turned as if to walk away,'drew his pistol
while his back was turned, and fired as he
wheeled. Treasurer Renfroe has sworn, however,
that Alston turned to try to walk into'
the next room, but, seeing Cox entering that
room by another door with his pistol in his
hand cocked, saw that there was no alternative
but to fight He, therefore, turned and
drew his pistol, Cox's already being out Mr.
Renfroe further swears that the men's hands
crossed as they fired, and that the explosions
were so nearly simultaneous that he could not
tell which fired first Another point of defence
is that Alston followed Cox to the Capitol,
which is explained by the prosecution as
follows: When Gov. Colquitt left Alston at
Berron's restaurant, he said he would go and
talk with Cox and effect an adjustment of the
difficulty. Shortly afterward Alston walked
over to the Capitol. That his purpose was
still to avoid Cox is shown by the evidence,
that?as he passed the treasury window the
janitor told him that Cox was up stairs, looking
for him. Went over, retraced his steps
and went into the treasury, and in abundant
caution ordered the janitor to close the door.
In a moment Cox burst the door open and
TKo nonoral imnwwainn in that C)m
CUIC1CU* JL liv gvuvtw* ww.vu .? ? ?
will be convicted. A strange circumstance is
quoted in this connection. It has always
been the law in Georgia that in case of purely
circumstantial evidence, "a recommendation
to mercy" by the jury made hanging impossible,
and commuted the sentence to imprisonment
for life. Col. Alston, at the last session,
by earnest advocacy, bad a bill passed,
that a recommendation to mercy should save
the prisoner's neck in all cases of direct or
indirect evidence. Probably the first man
who will appeal to the clemency of this new
law framed by Alston's kindly impulses*will
be his own murderer.
Cox has entirely recovered from his wounds,
and upon looking at him it would be hard to
tell that he had been shot The wound in
his mouth is singularly closed.
r*?se*!*u stairs.
NEW ADTERTI8EKENTS.
Andrew Jackson, Jadge of Probate?Citation?
J. P. Moore, Applicant?Robert M. Love,
Deceased.
Latimer $ Hempbill?Remember that Latimer A
Hemphill's-Is the plaoe to get the worth of
Your Money.
Kennedy Brothers A Barron? Dry Goods, Notions,
Etc.?Ready-Made Clothing.
Bennett A Motfatt, Proprietoi h?' The Best/'
W. G. Patterson, Proprietor?'Fdr Health and
Pleasure go to Pattersons Celebrated
Springs.
Jno. T. Patrick, Sole Manufacturer, Wadeaboro,
N. C.?The Millionaire.
W. A. Moore, Auditor of York county?Tax Returns
lor 1879.
J. F. Wallace, Clerk C. C. Pis.?Notice to Creditors
.
? 4 nio s./v/TTSkll DlfOrUAQV l >. 4 J
IIAHUD WI VII a. vnvunoui
On Wednesday of last week, Capt. J. E.
Gardner, who represents at this place the
house of J. M. Ivy & Cd., of Rock Hill, purchased
244 bales of cotton in this market.
TROPICAL FRUITS.
Mr. Wash Hope, on his return from Charleston
last week, brought with him a variety of
tropical fruiBfecluding a few water melons
imported to Charleston from San Salvador.
The melons were about the size of a ten-cent
melon in our market at the middle of the sea- 1
son, and sell in Charleston at $5 per dozen.
PERSONAL.
We were pleased to receive a call last Tuesday
from our former townsman, Mr. Joseph
W. Colcock, who for the past two years has
been living in Texas. Mr. Colcock is on a
visit to his friends and relatives here. He is
in business at Paris, and we are gratified to
learn that his prospects in the Lone Star State
are quite flattering.
PICNIC.
There will be a picnic at Pleasant Ridge, on
P ami T. RailrrauJ. next Satiirdav. the
train lor that point leaving here at 8 o'clock,
A. M. The excursion will be under the management
of H. H. Beard, F. E. Smith, F. A.
Gilbert and J. M. Hope, and they promise a
pleasant time to all who would avail themselves
of the occasion to take a day's recreation.
AGENTH FOB THE ENQUIRES*
The following named persons are authorized
to receive the names of subscribers to the Enquires
and give receipts on payment of subscriptions
:
T. Gid Culp, Esq., Fort Mill, 8. C.
George T. Schorb, Chester, 8. C.
Capt. Ed. M. Mills,.. Rock Hill, a O.
Joshua D. Gwiou, Esq Clover, 8. C.
OUR FIRST SNAKE STORY.
Our townsman Dr. Walker, contributes the
first snake story we have received this season.
Taking a walk the> other day, he informs us,
he met a spreading or black adder, which he
classifies with the viper family. The snake,
discovering the presence of an enemy, pretended
to bite itself on the back, and then
with much writhing, and apparently in great
agony, affected to die?lying quite BtilPand
motionless. The Doctor, suspecting a trick,
waited near by for about ten minutes, when,
as he surmised would be.the result, the snake
attempted quietly to crawl away. The Doctor
then dispatched the snake, and on close inspection,
discovered that it did not bite itself
at all; and he is further convinced, by examination,
that this species of snake has neither ^
deadly fang nor poisonous venom. He say* also
that the viper's eye is not a glass window, as
it appears to be, but the eye has a washer the
same as the eyes of animals. :
STEELE, ri. C, C.&A. RAILROAD.
The Supreme Court has just rendered a decision
in the above case, which was an action ?
by the plaintiff against the defendant for
$15,000 damages for injuries sustained by him
in the falling in of the railroad bridge and
cars at the South Fork of Fishing Creek, in
this county, in November, 1877.. The case
was tried before Judge Aidrich and a jury aV
the September term, 1878, of the Circuit Court
for York county, and the jury rendered a verdict
of $10,000 for plaintiff. Defendant's
counsel made a motion for a new trial on the
grounds that the verdict was againBt the preponderance
of testimony and the damages excessive.
The motion was refused and the defendant
appealed.
The Supreme Court dismiss the appeal on
the ground that it has no power, under the '
Constitution prescribing its jurisdiction, to
award new trials for errors of fact in the verdict
of juries, alleged to have been committed
in this case, on the ground that the verdict
was against the preponderance of testimony
and the damages excessive; its authority in
granting new trials being limited only to the
review and correction of errors at low in the
decisions and rulings of the Judge. Messrs.
Wilson & Wilson attorneys for plaintiff, and
Bion and Hart for defendant.
RAMPANT ABOLITIONISTS. ?
WHAT THE OLD-LINERS BAY IN REGARD^ TO
THE NEGRO EXODUS.
A mass meeting was held at the Cooper ^
Institute in New York, on Wednesday of last
week, to express sympathy with the colored
people who are leaving Louisiana and Mississippi,
to seek new homes in the West. The
meeting was large in numbers, the audience
consisting almost entirely of colored people of
both sexes. The features of the affair were
the bitterness of what was said and the insignificance
of what was done?only $234 having
been collected. The following liberally
savage resolutions were, however, adopted: :
Whereas the colored, people are leaving
the South by thousands and are seeking new
haunts in the West; whereas their innocent "
fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, wives, and.
other relatives and friends have beeo stricken
down in cold blood and their lifeless flesh
been left as food for the Southern turkey buzzard
; whereas a tree has been made by brutal
men a perpendicular delivery bed for an
innocent pregnant wife and a mother to die A
on; Whereas.the colored people have toiled
I without being compensated, and have been
marmleAalv rnhhed: whereas extreme ex tor
tion has been the policy of those who hare
furnished them with, the needs of life;
whereas education has been denied them;
whereas they have not been permitted to
worship God in peace; whereas uey have relied
on the Federal arm at Washington, and
it nnder the control of professed friends, and
found no protection and have baen made to
live a 1 ife of peril; and whereas the colored
refugee; have horror stricken fears as to the
state of things which will be true of the South,
should the Federal army after 1880 be under
the' control of those who have affiliated with
their oppressors ;
We approve of their movement to such a
new home in the West and resolve to do all
in our power to assist them, and do call upon
every man, woman and child to extend to
them a helping hand.
Thurlow Weed and others of less note,
black and white, spoke. Wendell Phillips
and William Lloyd Garrison sent letters, the
reading of which called oat the most enthusiastic
applause. Wendell Phillips wrote:
"I am exceedingly sorry that I cannot be
with you. My health is not such as to allow
of it. I have no words to describe what I
consider the importance of your meeting.
Only two paths are open to the coloAd men
of the South: one is to resist and protect
themselves against intolerable oppression by
arms; the other is to leave, one-half of them,
their homes, and teach their oppressors justice
by the severe lesson of suffering. Leave the
tyrants and bullies to till their own soil or
starve, while they do nothing but wrong and
rob their laborers. Without laborers the
Southern acres are worth nothing. Even a
Southerner will come to his senses, or if he
never had any senses, obtain some, when he
is starved. I trust the North will, as in Kansas
days, organize and help to open channels
and contribute means for a large emigration