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Jtoapis and ^facts. ? Two inches of snow fell at Montreal, Canada, on Thursday last. ? Two daughters of the late Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, have established a boarding school in Philadelphia. ? The cotton crop of Mississippi this year will turn out to be a good one, and the statistician, who is already at work, says that more than 50 per cent, of it is produced by white labor. ? On Thursday last, a large boulder of native white quartz rock was moved from the mining region near the Wilderness, and placed to mark the spot where Stonewall Jackson received his death wound. A simple inscription will be engraved on the.stone. ? The various cotton manufactories in and around Augusta, use $1,500,000 worth of raw cotton per annum. The annual sales from thpir nrndnct amount to about 82.000.000. The product of the Augusta flour and grist mills yields 81,500,000 per annum. ? Singular, isn't it, that when a man gives his wife a dime to buy a box of hair-pins or a gum ring for the baby, it looks about seven times as big as when he planks it down on the bar for a little gin and bitters for the stomach's sake ?" ? A real duel was lately fought at Pepinster, Belgium, by Count de Veysy, who is noted for his enormous wealth, and Baron de Vauloo. They used pistols, and the Baron was killed. The Count was arrested, and, though he offered to give $200,000 bail, was put in prison. '?The Postoffice Department is preparing the proposals for carrying the mails in Ohio, Indiana, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Kentucky and Tennessee, which will be published in November, and the opening will be in February next. ? The Comptroller General of the State of ^ * i 1_ _ J r ueorgia, naving oeeu rniptauneu iui me embezzlement of the public funds, has been found guilty. Being found guilty, he is forever debarred from again holding office of trust, honor or emolument in the State, together with such other punishment as the Court may see fit to inflict. ? Joe Pentz took a rifle to his wedding, at Mark's Gap, Texas. The sexton tried to persuade him to leave it at the door on entering the church, but he persisted in carrying it across his shoulder as he walked with the bride up the aisle to the altar rail. His explanation was that a rival suitor had threatened to kill him on this occasion, and he meant to be prepared for defense. ? Gen. Sherman, in a little speech to some school children the other day, said: "You may think, children, when you read about us war men, that we like battles and fighting. It isn't so; most of us hate it So far as I am coucerued, I have been engaged in wars and with business connected with war, (or forty ""J T liofa if TIM f h o Aoan OnH ffrAwinff Jf Crt 1 AUU X liULU AW n ibil ( UWi/ uuvi v ?i hatred." ? A writer in the Galveston New expresses the opinion that a river of petroleum is flowing through the subterranean cavities of Texas. It takes its rise in the carboniferous strata north of the Colorado River, and may be traced at various points on its course to the Gulf of Mexico, by oil appearing on the surface of springs, streams and lakes, while at what is known as Oil Bay on the Gulf, the water is so covered with oil that the waves have no effect. ? An English journal frankly gives credit to American genius for at least fifteen in ventions and discoveries, which, it says, have been adoptel all over the world. These triumphs of American genius are thus enumerated : 1. The cotton gin. 2: The planing machine. 3. The grass mower and grain reaper. 4. The rotary printing press. 5. Navigation by steam. 6. Hot air or caloric engine. 7. The sewing machine. 8. The rubber industry. 9. The machine for the manufacture of horse shoes. 10. The sand blast for carving. 11. The gauge lathe. 12. The grain elevator., 13 Artificial ice manufacture on a large scale. 14. The electro-magnet and its practical application. 14. The composing machine for printers. ? The late report of the National Cotton Exchange, places the total consumption of cotton by Southern mills during the year 1878-79, at 186,489 bales, against 147,747 bales the previous year, showing a gain of 26 per cent. Georgia is by far the largest cotton manufacturer, having 160,000 spindles iu operation, North Carolina standing second, and South Carolina third. Texas is the smallest in the whole list, her consumption during the past year having been only 381 bales. While the consumption in the Southern States last year showed an increase of 26 per cent, the gaiu in that of the North was only 2 per cent A number of new mills are now in course of construction in different parts of the South, and, the production thus being increased, the percentage during the next few years is expected to 6how a much greater rate than in the past. ? A New York letter says: "A cool, crisp weather is imparting fresh life to the business world on every hand. Merchants, in almost every branch of trade, report increasing activity. and not a few of them report orders considerably ahead. Immense quantities of merchandise of every descriptiori continue to go forward by the Southern coast steamers, taking in every point of distribution from Norfork clear through to Galveston. The Eastern transportation companies also are as busy as they well can be, and at the freight depots of the railways along the river front, the scene, night and day, is one of the busiest imaginable. Everybody seems to have employment. The hotels have as many guests as they can accommodate, and the business thoroughfares exhibit an animation and bustle the like of which has not been seen for many a day." ? The papers in every one of the great trade centres, are paying special attention, day by day, to the growth of business. The Cincinnati papers gleefully announce that the wholesale houses along one street are lighted all night packing goods. All the Chicago papers have been publishing broadside after broadside, full of encouraging interviews with the merchants, the last from the Chicago Times of the average dimensions of a circus tent. In New York, a series of in tV>a Wnrlrl ctinws that. tbfl hnt.pln are full of buyers as they never were before, and business of all kinds is overflowing on to sidewalks and streets in the narrow ways of older New York after the good, old, dirty, uncomfortable, prosperous fashion. Philadelphia shares the remarkable impetus, all manufactures show this summer, and the Philadelphia Times points out that several branches ; of foreign trade which need a southerly port1 and prompt railroad distribution^ fruits, dry | and fresh, and the like, are centering in Dela- j ware Bay, and by a natural process the re- i turn and growing trade with South America, the West Indies and Southern Europe, is also gathering at Philadelphia. ? The Cincinnati Southern Railroad, which has had many tribulations and encountered i many vicissitudes, is now rapidly approach- j ing completion. Only thirty miles of the road remain to be built to carry it to its ter-1 minus at Boyce Station, on the Western and Atlautic Railroad. This point is seven miles from Chattanooga, and the Southern Road has running arrangement over the Western and Atlantic, which will enable it to estab- j lish its depots at Chattanooga. The Southern expects to be running its trains through solid from Cincinnati to Chattanooga by the 1st of next January. TheCincinnatiSouthern Road, as is known, has been built by the City of Cincinnati at a cost of twenty millions. The rivalry of Louisville and the advantages which accrued to that city through the Louisville and Nashville Road, impelled Cincinnati to seek an air-line route to connect with the Southern system of i.rans-continental roads. The Southern road was the result of this apparent business necessity. By it Cincinnati i is put within 336 miles of Chattanooga, one of the greatest railroad centres on the continent. At Chattanooga the Southern Road will connect with the Memphis Road, with the Atlantic and Mississippi Valley at once, and also with the Alabama and Chattanooga, giving it a line to New Orleans and Mobile, through Meridian. The Southern Road authorities expect to make the same time exactly to New Orleans as that made by the Louisville and Nashville Road. The advantages of this new connection to Cincinnati are obvious, and great as the cost of the road has been to the city?inexpedient, perhaps, as heavy municipal debts are when incurred for sueh objects?the expenditure will be recouped to the citizens themselves in an increase of trade. Cincinnati's pork business will be largely revived, since the South will be able to buy its bacon and other provisions there cheaper than at any other point. ffltfeviUt ^Bquirer., nfe vaFTHTy YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 2, 1879. DECISION ON STATE BONDED DEBT. The Supreme Court, on Saturday last, filed its decision in the State bond cases. The decision, which is quite lengthy, was delivered by Associate Justice Mclver and concurred in by Chief Justice Willard. Associate Justice Haskell dissents, holding that all the Consolidation bonds are valid obligations of the State. The following are the conclusions reached by the court: I. That all the bonds issued under an Act entitled "An Act to reduce the volume of the public debt and provide for the payment of tlie same," are valid oniigauons 01 me aiaie of South Carolina except as follows: 1. Such as wele issued in exchange for bonds issued under "An Act to authorize a loan for the relief of the treasury," or for the coupons of such bonds. 2. Such as were issued in exchange for the second issue of bonds under an Act entitled "Ail Act, to authorize a State loan to pay interest on the public debt," or the coupons of such bonds." 3. Such as were issued in exchange for those conversion bonds which were issued in exchange for either of the two classes of bonds last mentioned, viz., bonds for the relief of the treasury, and the second issue of bonds to pay the interest on the public debt, or in exchange for the coupons of such conversion bonds. II. If any consolidation bond rests wholly upon any of the three objectionable classes of bonds or coupons just mentioned, then it is wholly void ; but if it rests only in part ui>on such objectionable classes of bonds or coupons, then it is only void to the extent which it does rest upon such objectionable bonds and coupons, and for the balance of it, it is a valid obligation of the State. III. That the burden of proof is upon the State to show that any particular bond which may be brought into question does rest, either in whole or in part, upon such objectionable bonds or coupons, and, if in part only, then the State must show what part is so affected. The judgment of the Court of Claims is set aside, and the cases are remanded to that court for such further proceedings as may be necessary under the principles herein announced. The State raised nine exceptions upon which the validity of the bonds were chal lenged. The disputed bonds were those which Viori toon nnnordid?t.pd 1st. from detached coupons from the Relief of Treasury bonds; 2d, from detached coupons from Conversion bonds; 3d, from detached coupons maturing on or before July 1st, 1871; 4th, from detached coupons funded by Scott, Zealy and Owens; 5th, from hypothecated bonds and coupons; 6th, from the second issue of bonds for payment of interest on the public debt and coupons; 7th, from the Land Commission bonds and coupons; 8th, from Conversion bonds and coupons issued for the second issue of bonds for the payment of interest on the public debt; 9th, from the Conversion bonds and coupons issued for the Land Commission bonds. The Court has sustaiued the first, sixth and eighth objections, and has overruled the others. The Columbia Register gives the following as the results of the decision : It excepts from being valid obligations of the State under the Consolidation Act, as stated in the final report of the Bond Commissioners, "Vouchers not issued in accordance with law and authorized to be'consolidated by the Act" as follows : PAYMENT INTEREST PUBLIC DEBT, SECOND ISSUE. Amount Attached Detached Bonds. Coupons. Coupons. Total. 8836,000 $113,595 $ 99,845 $1,040,000 RELIEF OF TREASURY. 5094,000 5100,840 5100, I/O 5',ooo,uio CONVERSION BONDS. $203,450 $ 29,720 $ 61,879 $ 294,059 $2,409,514 If we apprehend rightly, these are the false vouchers which, wherever found, are held to be not valid obligations of the State, and are to be deducted from all consolidated bonds issued therefor, the balance, if any; being good, j That is, suppose a holder of securities funded $100,000 of vouchers of valid obligations, and another $100,000 consisting of second issue bonds to pay the public debt, or for relief of treasury, or conversion bonds issued for either of the classes of bonds as above, he would have, under the decision, the latter hundred thousand eliminated from his vouchers as never having been valid obligations of the State, and hence would receive $50,000 of consolidated stock on his good vouchers alone, or on $100,000, as by terms of the consolidated Act; the court holding that the Consolidation Act did not carry these invalid obligations. We then may estimate that this decision shuts off ?2,409,514 of vouchers as bad, and saves the ; issue of $1,204,757 bonds, or that much actual money to the tax-payers; ana tins uecanse me State is held by the court never to have incurred the obligation in conformity to its Constitution and laws. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Ex-Judge Reed has nearly entirely recovered from the operation of removing a caucer from his face. ? The farmers from almost all sections of 1 Edgefield county are complaining of a disastrous falling off of late cotton bolls, caused by the recent three weeks' drought. ? Thomas M. Cox, of the firm of Gower, Cox & Markley, carriage manufacturers of j Greenville, died in that place on Monday of i last week. ? The assessed value of the real estate in the City of Greenville, is SI ,000,890. The real estate of the entire county is assessed at $3,117,560. ? Robert W. Shand Esq., of Union, recent-1 ly appointed State Reporter, qualified in the | Supreme Court last week and entered upon the discharge his duties. ? James C. Bennett, who, some weeks ago, | killed Dr. Horton, in Lancaster county, was ! tried before Judge Wallace, in the Court of Sessions of that county, last week, and acquitted. ? In Williamsburg county, last week, a trial I justice sent a negro woman to jail, who had punished one of her children, six or seven years of age, by applying a red hot hoe to its seat until the skin was taken off. ? The Keowee Courier says that the Air Line Railway has made application to the! Comptroller General to reduce the value of the road as assessed, and to 1 educe the amount assessed against the road. The J owners of the road only want to pay tax on \ it since their purchase of the same, which was in April, 1877. ? The News and Courier puts the liabilities of James Adger & Co., of Charleston, whose failure was announced last week, at about one i million and a half of dollars, while their assets are claimed to be about one million dollars. ? The iron for the Cheraw and Wadesboro road is being delivered at Cheraw. The work of laying it will soon commence. President Townsend is fitting up coaches, and it is thought that by the 1st of December the trains will be running over the road. ? The Charlotte Observer learns that on T.ifio/lotr r\f loot isoolr qKaii! fwoluA milpS from Gaffney City, a man named Houston Jolly dropped dead while shearing his sheep. He had eaten a good breakfast and had had not the slighest warning, by sickness or otherwise, of his nearness to death. ? The Ragister of Saturday mentions that Rev. Dr. Meynardie, who has been for several weeks confined to'his room from injuries received in the recent railroad accident on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, was on the streets of Columbia the previous day. He is reported as cheerful and looking almost as well as ever. ? Col. Dargan and Maj. Earle, of Sumter, who were skirmishing around last week with the avowed purpose of fighting a dael, returned to Sumter last Friday and both were ar rested and each required to give a ooua or five thousand dollars to keep the peace. A board of houor has since settled the difficulty to the satisfaction of all concerned. ? The Times says that the cotton crop of Union county will not be over half the usual average. The late cold, dry weather has affected it worse than the long drought in th| summer. The August crop, which it was hoped would make up the deficiency in the July crop, will turn out worse than it has for years back. ? A correspondent of the News and Courier says that 0. F. Cheatham, Esq., clerk of the court for Edgefield county, has a four acre patch planted in cotton, from which he has already picked, ginned and packed five bales, averaging 448 pounds. Mr. Cheatham be lieves, and other good planters agree with him, that he will yet get two bales. Three bales o? this cotton, on account of the fine quality, brought I of a cent above the market price. ? A dispatch from Columbia on Sunday last, says that on the previous day, twentyfive sick convicts were brought down from the Greenwood and Augusta Railroad. One died on the way. Some were blind, some speechless and all helpless. It is said that more than one half of them will never do another day's work for the State, but are only food for the grave. The Governor appointed a special board of physicians, composed of Drs. Griffin, Taylor and Home, to examine them and make a .report as to the causes of their condition. ? The Charlotte (N. C.) Democrat gives the following account of the recent alleged shooting of a revenue officer at Spartanburg, and ?? ? A ? T.. J TM ?1? ?? ^am?v\o mkink urn Kfl rcieia iu uuugc jl/iuii 111 icuus uuiui mwlieve to be just:- The telegraph reported a U. S. Revenue officer as being shot at Spartanburg, S. C., on Tuesday last, aud it turns out that the officer, Thomas J. Davis, a Special Deputy Marshal, shot himself, having got drunk and was behaving in a disgraceful and boisterous manner on the streets of Spartanburg, when his own pistol was discharged, inflicting a wound in the thigh. Davis had previously arrested a man from Polk county, N. 0., named J. B. Panther, on an old charge, had admitted him to bail, and then got drunk and re-arrested Panther and. was flourishing a pistol over him when the accident occurred. We respectfully call Judge Dick's attention to the affair, as no doubt truthfully reported in the Spartanburg Herald of the 24th of September. After Judge Dick is correctly informed on any "outrage subject," we are sure1 he will make a correct representation and do justice to all concerned. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Raleigh News gives as rumor in that city, that Judge Russell, Greenback Congressman from the Wilmington District, has made arrangements to have Dennis Kearney in North Carolina during the campaign next year. ? The Charlotte Democrat says it has been six weeks since there was a good rain iu that locality. The equinox Bpell resulted in only a sprinkle, but since then the weather has been pretty cool. The cotton pickers have had a fine time. ? At the recent term of McDowell Superior Court, a jury of de lunatico inquirendo pronounced Secrest, the wife-murderer, insane. In accordance with this verdict, it is the duty of the court to confine the prisoner in jail, or in a lunatic asylum. ? Capt. W. L. Thoruburg, the Secretary and Treasurer of the North Carolina Railroad Company, died last week, at his residence at Company Shops. He was a good and faithful officer, a kind gentleman, a brave soldier and au honest man. ? The corps of surveyors who are testing the navigability of the Catawba river, have estimated the fall at Mountain Island (Tate's Factory) at fifty feet, giving a water power almost unlimited. Navigation at this point will be accomplished by means of a canal, a part of which is already cut. ? The Charlotte Observer of Sunday says: Gen. Johnstone Jones was in the city yesterday. We regret to learn that th? surgical operation which he has recently undergone has not been productive of the good results hoped for. He is still on crutches and another operation will be necessary. ? There will be a public meeting of the citizens of Catawba county at the court house in Newton, October 11th, to take into consideration the propriety of moving for the adoption of the stock law, and to appoint delegates to confer with delegates from Gaston, Lincoln and Cleveland counties, to meet at Lincolntou on the 20th of October. ? A negro who died recently at Oxford, N. C., was famous for his great strength. He could lift a barrel containing thirty or forty | gallons, and drink from the bung; could j throw an ordinary anvil twenty-five yards, ! and could pull four men with a handspike at' one time. He once killed a deer with a rock, overtook and dispatched a bear with an axe, ! and caught and hamstrung a ferocious bull. ? A special dispatch to the Raleigh Obser ver, says that in Shelby, on Friday morning last, Benjamin Williams, a dissipated lad of about twenty years, shot with a pistol and instantly killed his stepmother, Mrs. Osborne Williams. His father and a negro were both present. The young man was angry because his father refused to let him ride his horse the previous night. The stepmother was very j i kind to him. Whisky and hatred of her . 1 caused him to commit the murder. Young1' Williams tied immediately. j! ? The Charlotte Observer records the following chapter of accidents in Mecklenburg i i county: First, was the accident by which Mr. i T. P. Grier had his hand badly crippled in a cotton gin ; then, the breaking of Dr. I. W. Herron's leg, by his falling from a horse; next, an infliction of what it is feared will be a permanent injury to Mr. Allen H. Brown, by a wagon heavily loaded with lumber running over his knee; and 6nally the fracture of the ankle of Miss Nellie Price, daughter of Mr. J. J. Price, by a fall from a horse, while returning from the meeting of a singing school at Steel Creek Church on Saturday. The young lady is only slightly hurt, but the others have all sustained painful injuries. All the accidents happened during the past week and all the persons mentioned live within a radius of two or three miles square. POLITICAL NEWS. Ttin HKin alanlii.n iatroa nlflPA it 11 TllM. day, the 14th instaut. ? The man who saw Grant's vessel first, and was first to propose three cheers, has already filed his claim for a postoffice. ? Solon Chase, of Maine, is to start in a day or two on a Western stumping tour in behalf of the Greenback cause. ? The Democrats of Lebanon county, Pa.,' have declared in favor of the renomination of Mr. Tilden for the Presidency. ? Gen. Raura, commissioner of internal revenue, is about to take part in the Ohio campaign. He will make his first speech at Alliance. ? A country postmaster in Georgia, whose salary is but $45 per annum, was compelled to disgorge $2.25 as his share of the Republican campaign fund. ? A great mass-meeting was held in New York on Tuesday last, by the Tammany Democrats, to ratify the nomination of John Kelly for Governor. Speeches were made denouncing Tilden and Robinson. ? Ex-Senator Henderson, of Missouri, in a recent letter says: "Sherman is our man for President. He is the only man we can elect, and I would be glad to carry Missouri for him." ? Gen. Roger A. Pryor made a Democrat l vr v 1U OjjeeUU 111 JLHUUBljru, XI. X TT cuncsuaj evening of last week, earnestly advocating the re-election of Gov. Robinson and denouncing the Tammany bolt as a crime against the party. ? The Atlanta Constitution denies the statement recently attributed to Hon. Alex. H. Stephens, that there are not ten Tilden men in the Georgia Legislature. It has made a canvass, not to find Tilden men, but to find those who are opposed to Tilden, and the result showed "that if there was no enthusiasm for Tilden, there was no earnest opposition to him, provided, as a matter of course, that he was found to be the most available man when the national Democratic Convention meets." ? The Louisville Courier-Journal thus sums up the political prospect in Ohio: The claim of the Republicans of Ohio that they will carry the State by a sweeping majority, is all moonshine. They have performed no such work within the past six years. In 1873 they were beaten for Governor by William Allen. In 1875 Hayes* majority was only 3,500 votes. In 1876 it nearly broke their backs to elect their presidential electors by six or seven thousand majority, in a poll of nearly seven hundred thousand votes. In 1877 the Democrats elected their Governor by 23,000 majority. In 1878 the Republicans elected their Secretary of State by a plurality of 3,000 votes, but the Democrats carried both branches of the Legislature, and by combining the Greenback with the Democratic vote, the Republicans were left in a minority of thirty-live* thousand. These are the facts, and they give but little cause for Republican boasting and bragging. editobiaiTinklings. Yellow FeYor Reports. Only one case of fever was reported in Memphis last Saturday, though there were 63 cases during the week?41 whites and 22 colored. There were, during the week, 31 deaths?whites, 26; colored, 5. The total number of deaths to Saturday night are 382. Number of cases to same date, 1,279. The weekly report of the Howard Association shows that they have 117 nurses on duty, attending to 101 white and 27 colored families. At a meeting of the Safety Committee, held Saturday afternoon, a resolution was adopted to dispense with the services of two colored companies after the first of October. Ten days' extra rations will be issued to the men when disbanded. The Soldiers' Reunion at Salisbury. On our first page will be found extracts from a letter addressed by Gen. Sherman to the committee having in charge the arrangement for a reunion of ex-Confederate and Federal soldiers at Salisbury, N. C. Of the mistake in extending a courtesy to Sher man, the Charlotte Democrat speaks as follows : If it was unfortunate or a mistake, or in bad taste, for our Salisbury neighbors to invite Gen. Sherman to join them in a soldiers' celebration, the least now said about it the better. If Gen. Sherman insulted them with his letter in reply, it will afford them very little comfort to say hard things about Sherman?they should not have placed themselves in a position to be insulted. By the by, it looks like the Salisbury reunion is going to be productive of a little more bad feeling than good feeling. We had hoped that such meetings would result in promoting good and kind feelings between Southern and Northern men when the soldiers of both sections were invited to participate, but now we doubt it, and doubt the propriety of such meetings either North or South. At the North, the "Grand Army of the Republic," a soldiers' organization, only promotes hatred towards the South and a demand that all the offices shall be given to Northern soldiers, while such organizations at the South result in no material good, but give our enemies an excuse for charging that all Southern men are untrue to the Federal Government and disposed to rebel on the first opportunity. The Political Situation in New York. A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun \ thus speaks of the present political prospect in the State of New York : "Hon. Montgomery Blair, in conversation with your correspondent, expresses the opinion that if Tilden had "set up" the Kelly bolt in New York, it could not have resulted more to that gentleman's advantage than it has and will. He has no idea that Kelly will have more than a contemptible following when the day of election comes round, and the whole affair, according to his view, will only tend to help, what he thinks was certain at any rate, the nomination of Mr. Tilden by I the next JJemocrattc uonvennon. in regara ' to Judge Blair's views as to the effect of the J Kelly revolt, it is interesting to know that a 1 very shrewd Republican politician, who has : for a long time been active in National politics, and who arrived from New York yester-1 day, holds the same opinion. He says there is nothing more certain in politics than that the adherents of any leader will fall largely j from him when they know that defeat iuevi- j tably awaits them. For this reason, he says, j Mr. Kelly could not possibly have committed j a more foolish act than to get up and pro- j claim to the host of Tammany that he had , o hopes of his own election, and all that he could expect was to defeat Robinson. The Tammany masses take no interest in Mr. Kelly's personal quarrels with Mr. Tilden and Governor Robinson. All that Mr. Kelly is to them is as the dispenser of crumbs of patronage. Therefore, as the politician aforesaid sagely remarks, when Mr. Kelly confesses himself in advance that all he hopes to accomplish is the satisfaction of his private animosity, that affords no prospect of material advantage to them for throwing their votes away, and they will make haste to enrol themselves with the Tilden and Robinson forces, where they may expect something. Perhaps, after all, it did not need Mr. Kelly's admission that his followers could anticipate no substantial fruits from adhering to him. They saw how Mr. Kelly was defeated in the local elections of last fall through the influence of Mr. Tilden, and the most densely ignorant among them could not fail to realize that if Mr. Kelly preferred a Republican Governor to Robinson, Mr. Tilden and Mr. Robinson would prefer Republican local success to that of Mr. Kelly." THE NEXT PRESIDENCY. WHAT GENERAL M'GOWAN THINKS ABOUT IT. A correspondent of the New York Herald has been talking with some well known Southerners, sojourning at the White Sulphur Cn.inno aK/tnf ttia onminiT Praoiilanfidl tjpi IUgO| 0UUUV MilV VVUHMg S? I VUtUVUUIW* V*VV tion. He says: "The opposition to Mr. Tilden's nomination is much stronger than the views given would seem to indicate. One gentleman remarked to me that 'if Mr. Tilden is nominated, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and other Southern States would go for the Republican candidate.' Another said 'the Southern States, in selecting their delegates to the Nominating Convent ion, will, if necessary, instruct them to vote for the two thirds rule, which will effectually defeat Mr. Tilden's nomination.' There are indications of a desperate contest in South Carlina next year, the apprehension of which is only partially conceded by the guarded expression of Gen. McGowan. In the other Slates,-though the Democrats may he divided on local issues, they will vote solidly for the Democratic ticket in the natioual campaign, provided, some say, Mr. filden is not at the head of it. But this remains to be seen. WHAT GEN. M'GOWAN THINKS. Gen. Sam. McGowan, of Abbeville, S. C., has been a visitor at the Springs. He commanded Maxcy Gregg's South Carolina brigade after that distinguished soldier was killed. After the war he took a prominent part in the politics of the State, and in 1876 was one of the Tilden and Hendricks electors. He is now spoken of as successor of Representative Wyatt Aiken in Congress, when that gentleman's term expires. ' "How is South Carolina progressing under Democratic rule?" I asked. "Very well indeed. We are getting competent and honest men in office, reforming the government and exercising economy in the offices, public and private. In the single matter of the costs of legislation alone, we have saved largely. In a session of twentysix days the Legislature does more work now than they did in four months under Radical rule. The State is quiet?never freer from violence. There has been an immense de crease in crime, mod relations exist oeiween the races, aud all are as contented as it is possible for a people who have been lately so humiliated and plundered. The properly destroyed cannot be restored in a day, but there is confidence and hope for a gradual restoration of prosperity. It is easier to pull down than to build up?to be the architects of ruin." "Do you anticipate a lively campaign in 1880?" "There is a general belief that we are to have a lively time next year. There would not be the least trouble if outside influeuces are not brought to bear. If left to ourselves all will be well, but as it will be a Presidential year, our State will be drawn into the maelstrom of the national election. The colored people appreciate the blessings of peace and justice which they enj'oy under Democratic rule, and would not be unreasonable if left to themselves; but we fear that they will be agitated by demagogues for the purpose of securing their votes in the Presidential election, and as a part of that agitation an effort will be made to restore the State Government .1 ? L_ i?i :?. c? i? ? J u.. *i,? lu must; wiiu imu 11, iur teu jrc?io, nuu uj ujo common consent of mankind gave us the most offensive, corrupt and infamous race domination ever known in the history of the world. This is as well established as any part in history. It seems to us strange, indeed, that any person could be found who would struggle, or even consent, under any circumstances, to the restoration of such a miserable caricature of Republican Government. Having had most bitter experience of such infamous rule, we do not intend that it shall be re established without a great struggle?even greater than that of 1876." THE MOST AVAILABLE MAN. "Then you anticipate trouble from the Republicans ?" "As I just said, we anticipate no trouble whatever, except what may come from the Republicans?or, rather, Radicals for there is in fact no real Republican party in South Carolina. It is a nondescript race domination, which, for its corrupt purposes, assumes the name of Republicanism. If the colored people are let alone we will have no trouble whatever. There will be, as now, peace, quiet and prosperity. The effort to overthrow all that has beendoneand restore the old rule must necessarily produce disturbances and be resisted to the last extremity." "General, who, in your opinion, will be the next President?" "We have had such bitter experience of corrupt rule that our first desire is to prevent its restoration. We care little, comparatively, who may be President, only provided that he is a good Democrat and that he is willing lo do us simple and equal justice. We ask no more. We feel such an overwhelming interest in the great question of self protection that we desire the most available man. We need, indeed, we must have, Democratic success. To obtain that success, in which alone is our safety, we are willing that the Sooth shall put forward no claim to the nomination, and thus dispose of the charge of ambition and a desire to control." "Will the Democratic nominee be the next President?" "Yes. I think the Democratic nominee will be the next President, whoever he may be." "Well, will it be Tilden, Bayard, Thurman or Hancock ?" "We have no prejudice against Mr. Tilden. I voted for him at St. Louis from the first. T? tka nomnainn urti/iti fnllnuroH T flHvnmtpH All bliu W?".KI"6" ..M.V,.. his election upon ever stump in South Carolina as one of the Democratic electors of the State. I did it 'con amore'?without personal acquaintance and without the lea9t expectation of any reward of any kind, except the good of the country. I thought then, and I still think him an able man and a great reformer; but I think we are more likely to succeed with new men. There is a freshness and a charm about novelty. Bayard, Thurman and Hancock are all good men. Mr. Bayard is the first favorite of our people. Judge Thurraan has for years done good service in the Senate and he deserves reward, but events may take place before the nomination which may control it." EWING NOT THE MAN. "Suppose Gen. Ewing should carry Ohio this fall, do you not think that he would stand a good chance for the Democratic nomination ?" "It does not seem to me that Gen. Ewing would be a good nomination in case of his carrying Ohio this fall for Governorj which I hope he will do. That election, to some extent, will- be controlled by local issues, which would not result so favorably in a general election." "Do you think the Democracy can carry "the Presidential election without the votes of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut?" "We may get some other States in their place, but it would be more comfortable to have the votes of these States. We must have the ereat Democratic State of New York." I XaOCAXa A77AZES. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. N. Roberts?Fresh Meats. Ludden & Elates, Savannah. Ga.?Music House. J. W. Dobson and T. M. Dobaon?Valuable Land for Sale. John 0. Kuykendal?Compound Syrup of Saraaparllla with Iodide of Petasslum?Expectorant Mixture?Compound Fluid Extract Bnchu?Syrup of Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda. T_ M Hnhann?Plonks?Shawls?Clothiiior?Yarn and Shirting?Shoes?Shirts?Caasi meres and Jeans?Ladies' Hose?Miles' Shoes? Alamance Plaids. A. Williford?To t'iiose Indebted. Latimer A Hemphill?Jnst arrived from the North. Kennedy Bros. A Barron?Dry Goods Department?Grocery Department?The American Machine. Withers Adickes?Come and Coming?Coflee and Sugar?Cheese?Hardware--Hams, Ac.? Crockery, Ac. M. Strauss?Buy your Goods of M. 8transs. Mrs. Fannie L. Dobson?Great Attraction. John L. Rainey?Executor's Notice. Clark Brothers?We ask a return of Favors?For Sale?Fertilizer Notes for Collection?Cotton. Herndon Bros. - On the Line. J. M. Adams?The All Right Hot Blast?A Good Endorsement?Stoves Advancing. Latimer A Hemphill?New Goods?Groceries. Witherspoon A Spencer, Plaintiffs' AttorneysNotice to Defendants. Whitaker A Wilson?Puy Up. J. A. McLean, Judge of "Probate?Citation? J. F. Wallace, C. C. C. Pis., Applicant?Joseph E. Hetherington, deceased. EARLYFROST. The first frost of the season in this locality, was seen on the morning of the 26th ultimo. It was light and inflicted but slight damage to vegetation. IN THE PENITENTIARY. Sandy Pagan, the fancy barber, who flourished the razor in Yorkville about a year ago, and averao-ed two auarrels a dav with the com mon niggers who on the street did congregate, was convicted of petit larceny at the recent term of Burke county, N. C., Superior Court, and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. RELIGIOUS HEV1VAL. A meeting was commenced at Union Baptist Church, four miles north of Yorkville, on Sunday last, conducted by Elder D. W. Thomasson. Owing to the feeble health of Mr. Thoraasson the meeting was brought to a close on Tuesday evening. The meetings, however, resulted in seven accessions to the church, five of whom were received by baptism, the ordinance having been administered on Tuesday morning. A deep religious interest is still manifest in the congregation. SNAKE BITTEN. On Tuesday morning last, while a little girl, 9 years of age, daughter of Mr. James Love, who lives 2 miles south of town, was at play near the house, she was bitten on the foot by a "ground rattlesnake." The usual remedies were resorted to, but the foot and ankle swelled rapidly, and about 9 o'clock that night, Dr. H. 6. .Jackson was summoned to attend the child. From him we learn that she is doing well' but is not entirely out of danger. DEATH OF Mr. STANHOPE SADLER. We have intelligence of the death of Mr. Stanhope Sadler, which event occurred at Gainesville, Florida, on the 26th ultimo. Mr. Sadler was a native of York county, having b$en bora in the year 1798, near Brattonsville, on the spot where the Revolutionary battle of Houck's defeat was fought. At the time of his death, he was in the 82nd year of his age. Until within the last few years Mr. Sadler was a citizen of Yorkville from his early manhood, during the greater part of which time he was engaged in mercantile pursuits. CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Aorvipoa will he held In the ehnrehes next Sunday as follows: Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Thos. Gilbert, Pastor. The pastor will be absent, assisting Rev. L. A. Johnson, of the Chester circuit. Services will be conducted at 7$ P. M., by Rev. S. L. Wilson. Sunday-school at 3$ P. M. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 7$ o'clock. Church of the Good Shepherd?Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. The rector will officiate in the Church of Our Saviour at Rock Hill, next Sunday. Associate Reformed?Rev. Robert Lathan, Pastor. Services at 10$ A. Mi PERSONAL MENTION. Miss Alice Owen has returned from her visit to Chester. Miss Fannie Corbett, of Pleasant Ridge, N. C., is visiting Miss Lessie Witherspoon. Mr. R. H. Screven, of Charleston, brother of Mrs. R. P. Johnson, was here on a visit last week. "We were pleased to receive a call, the other day, from C. Herbert Beard, traveling agent of the Columbia Register. Mr. Joseph Herndon, of the house of Hemdon Bros., has gone to the Northern markets to make their purchases for the fall trade. FA8T COTTON PICKING. Our Black's Station correspondent alludes to the large amount of cotton picked last Saturday by Mr. J. M. Allison, a one-armed exConfederate soldier, and his five children. The mania for fast cotton picking is more creditable than that for fast walking or boat rowing, and we note that several persons have recently tested their expertness in gathering the fleecy staple?among them Mr. James MeCarter, of Bethel township, who, on Monday of last week, picked 303 pounds; and Andrew McKnight, colored, employed by Mr. Wm. A. Robinson, of Blairsville, who on the 24th ultimo, picked 427 pounds. DEATH OP Air. JAMES H. BARRY. We regret to record the death of Mr. James H. Barry, son of Maj. J. H. Barry, which occurred at Rose's Hotel, in this place, at 6 o'clock on Saturday morning last. Mr. Barry was a young gentleman universally esteemed for the kind qualities of his mind and heart. He was a victim of consumption, having suffered with that disease for several months past, and at the time of his death was in the 23rd year of his age. His funeral was largely attended at the Presbyterian church, of which he was a communicant, on Sunday afternoon, on which occasion Rev. J. Lowrie Wilson, officiated, delivering an able and impressive discourse. A88OCIATE REFORMED SYNOD. The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod met in Union Church, Chester county, at 11 o'clock A. M., on Thursday last. Rev. W. S. Moffatt. the retiring Moderator, preached the opening sermon from Pkilippians I :xxi?"For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." The duty of self-consecration to the service of the Lord was presented in a strong and convincing light. Rev. James H. Peoples, of Columbia, Tenn., was chosen Moderator. Committees were appointed and the greater part of Thursday and Friday was devoted to reading and referring papers. The financial condition of the Church, while by no means as good as it might be, is nevertheless greatly improved since the last meeting of Synod. Reports were read from the missionaries in Egypt and Mexico. These reports indicated an encouraging state of things, and Synod determined to vigorously prosecute the work of foreign misions. For the want of laborers, and more especially for the want of means to support laborers, Synod was unable to make provision for the home field as it desired to do. To the State of Texas, which' asked for the whole time of three ministers, only one could be sent for the year, and another but half a year. During the sessions of Synod, two sermons were preached each day in the grove.- On Sunday, the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was dispensed. Professor E. L. Patton preached in the church on Sunday morning, and Rev. D. F. Haddon in the grove. In the afternoon, the venerable Dr. W. S. Plumer preached in the church, and the Rev. W. S. Pressley in the grove. At noon on Tuesday, Synod adjourned, to meet at White Oak, in Wilcox county, Ala-1 bama, on Thursday before the fourth Sunday in September, 1880. The sessions of Synod were well attended by the people of the surrounding country, and on Sunday, an immense concourse collected. It is due to the people to say that no better behaved a multitude ever assembled. The pulpits of .Fishing Creek Church, of Hopewell, aud of two of the churches in the town of Chester, were filled on Sunday by members of Synod. . SURVIVORS' ASSOCIATION. , We would direct attention to the communication, in another column, over the signature of "Ex-Confederates," proposing an organi zation of all the Confederate soldiers of York county into a Survivors' Association. We fully accord with the spirit of the communication, feeling assured that much good can be accomplished by such an association, while it would more closely bind in common fellowship those who alike shared the dangers and tlje glories of the field. As will be seen, it is suggested that a preliminary meeting be held in the Court House next Monday, for consults tion, and to devise a plan for the proposed organization. Let there be a fall attendance of ex-Confederates on the day suggested. ? . AMONG OUR ADVERTI8ER8. Attention is directed to the advertisement of Mr. M. Strauss, who has just returned from market, and is opening a fine stock of dry goods, boots, shoes and clothing, which he offers at the lowest prices. For the accommodation of their numerous customers, Messrs. Latimer & Hemphill have opened a millinery department in connection with their dry goods house. This department is under charge of Mrs. Perkins, of Baltimore, who comes recommended by Armstrong, Cator & Co., as being second to no milliner in that city. In our reference, last week, to the business conducted by Mr. W. C. Owen, we should have more explicitly stated that as agent for New York and Philadelphia houses, he will receive orders for custom-made clothing. He has a fine line of samples from which to select. Correspondence of the Yorkrille Enquirer. letter from rock hill ~ Rock Hill, 8. C.', September 29. Since the decline in the price of cotton, the receipts at this place have not been quite so heavy; notwithstanding, our town has been lively enough. The force of circnm tances which compelled some of our farmerato dis pose or a portion or tneir cotton at. low ngures, has determined them to hold the balance of their crop for a better price. Another new enterprise has been added to the business of oar town. Mr. Brook field,, of Charlotte, N. C., commenced an auction house here last Saturday. The day was very proSitioua, there being a large crowd in town. ud^ing from the crowd collected around the auction-room, he must have done a good business. While we do not advocate such estab- ' lishments, they clearly indicate the prosperity of a place. The reference in the long and ably contested case of J. J. Roach vs. J. M. Ivy, was finally concluded here last Wednesday^ Maj. S. P. Hamilton and Col. W. B. Wilson officiated in adducing the testimony pro and eon before J. J. Hemphill, Esq., referee. John Williams, the colored man whose lew was amputated some -three weeks ago, died last Thursday. We learn that his death was not the result of the amputation, but from piemia, which disease had commenced to prey upon his system prior to the surgical operation. ' ' * The bridge over Fishing creek, in Chester county, was completed last Friday. The county commissioners, Messrs. Thompson and Gill, were there to receiveit from the hands of the builder, Mr. A. D. Holler, of our town. The commissioners pronounced the bridge a master piece of work. I bad the pleasure of- being present at the time of its completion, and was among the first to cross over upon it. Persons who have lived there 4 for a number of years, and have deen three bridges swept away by the high waters, do not hesitate to say that the bridge just finished is the best they have ever seen erected there. I visited the mills situated a short distance above the bridge, and now owned by Mr. F; H. Barber. They are in fine running order. The water power is among the best in the State?there being a natural fall of twentyseven feet in about five hundred yards. There is an island in the creek which divides the water, throwing the largest body of water on * the opposite side from the mills, and with very little labor the entire stream could be turned, and made to run on the side npon which the mills stand, thereby giving waterpower sufficient to run a dozen mills and a targe cotton factory. Even now the power is sufficient, but to form this new and natural aqueduct, the entire force can be utilized to run all the machinery. Mr. Barber contemplates erecting a cotton factory there. He desires to organize a joint stock company, putting the shares of stock at fifty dollars each. Such an enterprise would be but the consummation of what has been long and much needed and wished for. , Situated as it is, in the very centre of one of the best cotton-growing sections in the State', it would open a market for the consumption of the staple at the doors of the farmers and give employment to many who are poor, aud not able to engage in agricultural pursuits. We notice one peculiar advantage this location has over many others: the water never gets too high nor too low to run the machinery. We take pleasure in calling attention to this grailu enterprise, iuu iuc vppvu tuuii/j uun afforded for enhancing the vaine of oar prop-' erty. ..... While visiting these mills last Friday, I had the pleasure of meeting a Centenarian, Mr. Peter Hollis. In 1836, when troops were being raised for the Florida war, he enlisted, giving his age as 57. While assembled for the purpose of enlisting, the question arose as to who would be able to mount and equip themselves. Mr. Hollis cried out: "Put me down, horse, man and rider T He is well {)reserved for one of his age, and no one, to ook at him, would take him to be more than 70. Lux. Correspondence of the Yorkrille Enquirer. LETTER FROM BLACK'S STATION, Black's Station, S. C., 8ept. 29, 1879. The present fall has been the most pleasant imaginable, and the fanners have gathered their cotton as rapidly as it was ready. Last Friday and Saturday we had a keen, cold air, and frost was seen in the morning, though little or no damage was done. This is quite early for frost in this locality?a warning that winter is approaching. Joseph Hardin, who was ordered to appear before the late term of the United States Court at Greenville, under charge of resisting U. 8. officers, was convicted and sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and a fine of $100. He is at present undergoing imprisonment in the jail at Spartanburg. Mr. Hardin was ordered to be taken to the York county jail, but was lodged in the jail at Spartanburg to remain over from Saturday night until the following Monday, and in the meantime Marshal Davis, ' , who had him in charge, was shot and wounded, ? J ii ? J: v.-u-ili. aim lulus uiaauicu liurn piuuctum{$ tu jl ui&yiuc with his prisoner. Mr. Hardin, with many others, had judgment suspended in their cases at the August term, 1879, for illicit distilling. Owing to the extra charge against him for resisting the officers, and under the instructions of the AttorneyGeneral to prosecute such cases, he was allowed a continuation of his case, under bond,' from one court to another. The three last courts had excused him; but W. H. Carroll, his bondsman, delivered him up at the late term, and hence his trial. The Judge and District Attorney signified their willingness to sign a petition for his pardon. J. M. Allison, a one-armed ex-Confederate ? soldier, with his five children, on a wager of $10, undertook to pick 1,000 pounds of cotton in one day. The following is the result of their day's work, from sunrise to sunset, resting I one hour at noon : J. M. Allison, 183 pounds; ) Hayne, 15 years of age, 251 pounds; Mary, 13 /