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Scraps and .facts. : ! } ? Justices Clifford and Field, are the only * Democrats on the bench of the United States Supreme Court. j ? Regulations have been issued from the ' Post Office Department by which gold and : < silver coin may be sent through the mails as i j fourth class matter, at one cent per ounce. , ? The oldest post office in the country is ^ that at Jamestown, Virginia, where letters ( have been delivered in some form or other for , two hundred and eighty-three years. , ? A Tobacco Dealer's Protective Associa- i tion has been formed in New York, and it i9 reported that a general advance in the prices of all kinds of tobacco will soon be made. ? According to Ben. Butler, there are at least 130,000 men in Massachusetts who are disfranchised because they can neither read nor write. ? The Cincinnati Commercial (Republican) expresses the opinion that the nomination of Grant at Chicago will render the Democratic nomination at Cincinnati equivalent to election. ? The Post Office Department has issued i orders forbidding the reception of mutilated ! fractional currency at the post .offices of the | country. This prohibition includes all coins ( which have holes in them. < ? Judge Key says the Post Office Depart- j meat has not adopted the double postal card because the device is patented, which could ] not be used except by purchase, which the j law prohibits. , ? Democratic members of Cougress now 1 begin to fear that it will be the last of June before an adjournment can be secured. None, of the large appropriation bills have been acted ou in the House. j ? Scales, of North Carolina ; Cox, of New York; Atkins, of Tennessee; Stephens, of 1 Georgia; and Singleton, of Mississippi, are the only Democratic members of this Congress who were in the House of Representatives before the war. ? The first passenger train on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, through to Chattanooga, left Cincinnati on Monday morning last, and made the run through in twelve hours and fifteen minutes. The schedule time is twelve hours. ? Brand ret h, the patent pill man, recently deceased, left an estate valued at $2,000,000 to be divided araoug his seven daughters and sixsons. His vast success has engendered a horde of imitators, whose pecuniary profits depend altogether upon the extent to which they advertise. He spent a million at it. ? Queen Victoria is the richest and stingiest sovereign in the world. The amount of human wretchedness engendered during ber ~eign among her subjects is incalculable. The amount of her subscriptions for its relief may be reckoned without difficulty. She is a good wife and mother, but not a generous Queen. ? The trial of Virgil Gully for the murder of ex State Senator John P. Gilmer, one of the victims of the Chisolm massacre, was to have commenced at Dekalb, Miss., on Monday last. District Attorney Ford conducts the prosecution, assisted by Judge Ware, United States District Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi. ? Dr. Lyman Abbott says: "As you go to Capitol Hill, along Pennsylvania Avenue, you come to a liquor shop with a sign extending out over the sidewalk. On it are the words: "The last chance." The worthy Doc tor should have read what the sign had on it as you go from Capitol Hill to Pennsylvania Avenue. It is "The First Chance." The proprietor had the wit to take all the chances. ? General Robert Toombs is an intimate friend of Alexander H. Stephens, and the two talk over public affairs together far-koure at a time. A corresponds "whtTvisited General Toombe injiifc Georgia home, describes bim as v ?-^-raaifworo out with years and a passionate existence, but gloryfying in the fact that he is not a citizeu of the United States ; that his political disabilities have not been removed, and that he is the only and unrepentant rebel." ? The Westminister Review reckons the public debts of the world at the present time at $24,000,000,000. The railway indebtedness has been estimated at $6,000,000,000, and i municipal debts at $5,000,000,000, thus bringing the public indebtedness of the world up to the vast sum of $35,000,000,000. It is not , exneeted that this will ever he naid. but it constitutes an annual lien on the industry of the world of $1,700,000,000. ? A Chicago firm of clothiers offer a prize of one dollar for every male child born in ( that city during next November and Decern- i ber, and will increase the amount if allowed , to name the baby. "If we were in the dry goods trade," they say in their advertisement, "we could afford to make this prize five dol- * Jars for girls. We take a right smart interest in the increase of the male sex, aud this offer : will cost us thousands of dollars, but we ex- i pect to get a recompense in future trade." ? The Danville News says it is generally { understood that the proposed extension of the ] Virginia Midland Railroad, from Danville to . Charlotte, will be at once commenced under favorable auspices, and adds : "It is said by 1 some that tbe capital has been secured, and ' that the section through which it will pass will not be called upon for any means to aid in the building of the line, but that the Balti- , more and Ohio Road, and the city of Balti- , more, together with the Air Line Road from Charlotte to Atlanta, will provide all the means necessary for the work." 1 ? The Senate, in executive session one day last week, rejected, almost unanimously, the nomination of John McNeil as United States ] marshal for the eastern district of Missouri, j The reason for his rejection was that during the late war O'Neil, while in command of Federal troops near Palmyra, Mo., in 1862, j ordered the execution of seven private citizeus of that neighborhood, and did execute ' six of them without trial, on account of the , disappearance of a certain Union man whom < McNeil asserted had been made way with by , local bushwhackers. ( ? Three thousand residents of Houston, Texas, turned out on a recent Sunday to at- ; tend a baptism in the Buffalo bayou. As the clergyman plunged the first young woman under the water, the great crowds that lined the banks, as though occupants of the tiers of seats at a circus, burst into a loud and pro- ' longed "ouch." It sounded as though the 3.000 spectators had given one concerted shiver. The preacher stood on the bank and , held his hands aloft. When silence was secured, he read the profane crowd a hot lecture on decorum. ? The new rules of the House of Represen- 1 tatives have been finally agreed upon and adopted, and went into effect last Monday i morning. It is generally conceded that they | will simplify business and put the brakes upon interminable debate. The "morning hour," so called, is abolished. Committees have sim- ' ply leave to report bills when called, without |J discussing them. There are three calendars j < for three general classes of bills?that of the i committee of the whole, that of general leg-! j islation, and the private calendar, precedence ! ( being given to them in the order named. ' ( Motions to suspend the rules may be made only on the first and the third Monday in each month, the previous question is regula- j ted and restricted*aud "ridere" to appropri- 1 ation bills are prohibited unless germane to i s the subject and reported by a committee. The chief effect of the new rules will be to I ^ restrict speech-making and add to the busi-; ness powers of the House. * ? R. C. Stockton, a nephew of Commodore 1 Stockton, and a cousin of Senator Stockton, : committed suicide in the Eutaw House at St. s Louis, on Sunday of last week, by taking i \ morphine. lie left a note saying, "I die be- j j cause I have no home to go to." He had { held many offices of distinction. He was a South Carolinian by birth, and graduated at; ,the Naval Academy. He was with corarao- j' dore Perry in the Japan expedition, and at * ,tbe outbreak of the civil war resigned the po-11 rition of commander in the United States Na-! ? ry to join the Confederate Navy, in which he ( was Captain, afterwards becoming a Colonel j )f the land forces. Before the war Stockton j < lad a very large plantation in South Carolina 1 md a summer residence in Newport. He ] eaves a widow and three children, who are | j jomfortably provided for by life insurance.! Stockton was wholly out of means, and his i ijoard bills fell due on the day of his death,!( which he had nothing to meet. Mrs. Stock-1 ;on is a cousin of Mrs. Jeff. Davis and was < >nce a Southern woman of high social position. I She IforMle ^tnjuircr.; YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 11.1880 How to Ord^r the Enquirer.?Write the name Df the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and State, in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage,?The Enquirer is delivered free dl postage to all subscribers residing in York county, who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional enargo to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers dis- 1 continued, the date must be kept iit advance. Cash.?It must bo distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. THE SOCTH^AROLINA RAILROAD. A reporter for the Charleston News and Courier recently interviewed Mr. Peck, superintendent of the South Carolina Railroad, on the subject of making close connection at Columbia with the C. C. & A. Road, thereby placing Charleston iu closer communication with the up-couutry than at present. The superintendent informed the reporter that there is no present intention of changing the schedule on the South Caro ina road so as to make the connection desired. He said that .... c ...L r\ ir A trutr. me OOULll V^ttXUllim luau nuo >ci jr ?! ? >1X1 el for the Charlotte road, and the present schedule suits the public very well; that the making of the connection at Columbia would not be to the advantage of auy body except, perhaps, the Neva and Courier." For the information of the Charleston people,it is deemed not amiss to say that just such a policy as that indicated by Mr. Superintendent Feck, has had much to do with diverting the trade of the Piedmont section from that city?the metropolis of the State, in whose prosperity all our people would rejoice. But it is idle to talk ahout the people of the upper counties having business relations with Charleston, when Atlanta, Richmond and Baltimore can be reached in a shorter time. Mr. Superintendent Peck, whether he means to do so or not, pursues a course the effect of which is to drive traffic and travel from the commercial city of the State. He forgets that while his road could be an important feeder to that city, emptying into her lap the products of a rich and fertile section, it is after all but local in its significance, and caur^t control the movements of longer and . equally important lines. The railroad-^s^uT'" of the State, or will hardly stop to consult the convenience of the South Caro lina road, nor will it be seriously affected by the movements of that road ; and in this reBpect Mr. Superintendent Peck might derive a lesson from Mahomet. When that worthy, after calling the mountain to him, discovered that it was not likely to obey the summons, with a courtesy rarely witnessed these days, the accommodating prophet gracefully and unconditionally walked* up to the mountain. In the circumstances, Mahomet could have ] done nothing neater. But our own people, as well as those of ' Charleston, may congratulate themselves upon < the fact that within a few months at farthest, ' a new outlet will be opened from this section to the City by the Sea?a line that will be : entirely independent of the South Carolina i Railroad. When this line is completed, the i management of the South Carolina Railroad i may discover that much of the freight it has heretofore handled will go over the new line, and the necessity for close connection at Columbia may then be even less than at present, i The new line to which we refer will be over the North-Eastern Railroad to Cheraw; thence by the Cheraw and Wadesboro Railroad to i Wadesboro, where connection will be made i with the Carolina Central, which line connects 1 with the net-work of roads concentrating at Charlotte. ' The distance between Cheraw, (the northern ( terminus of the North-Eastern Railroad) and Wadesboro is 26 miles. The Cheraw and 1 Wadesboro road has been graded the entire 1 length, and trains are running on it 20 miles ' from Cheraw, leaving only six miles to finish, ' for which the necassary iron has been ordered ( and will be put down at once after its arrival. Then the people of the up-country can go to 1 Charleston within a resouable time, though to 1 do so they may have to travel around their own ' State and through another?all because the 1 various lines extending from the North to 1 the South do not arrange their time-tables to ' suit the convenience of the South Carolina 1 Railroad. 1 SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. i ? Green peas and strawberries are abun- < dant in the Charleston market. 1 ? From the 1st of September to the 1st of j March, 10,028 bales of cotton were shipped i from Winnsboro. j ? Charleston is enjoying the best trade since . 1871. She attributes it to cheap excursions j and cheap prices. i . ? There is now on deposit in the Anderson National Bank, nearly one hundred and forty thousand dollars. ? During the parade and review of two 1 companies of colored troops and one of white last week, in Beaufort, not a single instance j of disorder or drunkenness occurred. j ? The Anderson Intelligencer says: "Our; farmers are preparing to plant a big crop of cotton this year. Many say that it will be the largest ever planted in the county." j ? Governor Simpson has respited Neil W. j Blair, colored, who was sentenced to be banged at Camden for the murder of Adamson, until June 11. | ? The Bath paper mills, near Graniteville, which have not been in operation since Au- j just, 1878, are to be repaired and started to work without unnecessary delay. j ? A prominent citizen of Anderson county j says he will give a fine hat to any one who will find a respectable man in his section who s opposed to the fence law after a thorough ;rial. | ? On Saturday last, the Senate confirmed! he appointments of Cadwallader J. Pride ' is Supervisor, of the Census for the first dis- j ? ,rict; Henry Hammond, second district; I lames L. Breeden, third district of South Car)lina. ? The Abbeville Medium says the Knights )f Honor have lodges in that county at Abbeville, Due West, Hodges, Greenwood and Ninety-Six. Several new lodges will shortly be established, and the order is becoming one >f the strongest and most influential in the ;ounty." ? A. C.* Appleby and Arthur O'Brien, of IDolleton county, engaged in the farce of a bloodless duel at Sand-Bar Ferry, near Augusta, Ga., on Tuesday of last week. After in interchange of shots without anybody being hurt, the difficulty between them was ad justed. ? Jerry Moore, Riley Moore and Aiken Moore, were tried at Walhalla last week on the charge of murdering Alexander Bryce, jr., formerly a noted Radical politician of that county. The trial lasted nearly four rlays and resulted in a verdict of "Not Guilty" as to all the prisoners. ? The directors of the Greenwood Railroad in South Carolina, and the directors of the Augusta and Knoxville railroad, met in Au gusta, Ga., on Wednesday of last week, and arranged for a consolidation of the two companies, the terms of which are to be ratihed by the stockholders of each road. ? The work of laying the mattresses for the foundation for the southern jetty in Charleston harbor has begun. The jetty runs from a point one hundred yards southwest of Battery Wagner. Over six thousand feet of mattresses for the north jetty have been laid, and the work on the two jetties will now go on simultaneously. ? The following named persons have been nominated for Governor by their respective admirers: General Gary, General Hagood, Judge Wallace, Armstead Burt, Esq., exGovernor Perry, General Connor, Colonel Keith, Chancellor Johnson, ex-Gov. Manning and Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken. ? The News and Courier has recently compiled a summary of crimes committed in South Carolina from the 19th of December, 1879, to March 1, 1880, a period of a little more than two months. The list embraces twenty-one homicides, sixteen assaults with intent to kill, and two rapes. The causes assigned for the prevalence of crime in the State, is the drinking of whisky a'nd the carrying of deadly weapons. ? Under the order of the Republican State executive committee, the secretary has issued orders to the chairmen of the executive committees of the several counties, to call county conventions for the purpose of selecting delegates to a Republican State Convention, which will meet in Columbia on April 28th. The number of delegates from each county is to be upon the basis of representation in the lower House of the Legislature. ? Col. James H. Rion, the South Carolina member of the National Democratic Committee, has informed the Winnsboro News, that it is his present intention to call a State Conven ion on Wednesday, the 19th of May next, at Columbia, to elect delegates to the Cincinnati Convention that meets on the 20th of June. Monday, the 3rd of May, is suggested to the different counties as the proper time for choosing delegates to the State Convention. ? At the recent session of the Legislature, the Act for the protection of useful animals, was amended sojt?_to_maka-;t- unlawful "for any p&rgtfjTTrT this State, between the 15th day of March and the 15th day of September, in any^year hereafter, to catch, kill or injure, or to pursue with such intent, or to sell or expose for sale, any wild turkey, partridge, dove, woodcock or pheasant, and any person found guilty thereof shall be fined not less than ten dollars or be imprisoned not less than ten days, which fioe, if imposed, shall go one half thereof to the informer and the other half thereof to the school fund of the county wherein the offence was committed." ? On the evening of the 2nd instant, at Silver Street, Newberry county, \V. Spearman, a respectable and successful farmer, entered his house, accosted his younger brother, who was just risiug from the table, saying: "1 want to speak to you, brother," and simultaneously drew a large knife, made a slash at his brother's throat, cutting a terrible gash, severing the jugular vein and causing death in a few moments. The slayer then rushed into an adjoining room and cut his wife's throat from ear to ear. He then lifted the bloody knife and deliberately cut his own throat. It is supposed he was laboring under temporary mental aberration, as he was a sober, kind 1 i i i nr? .i? x. x hearted mau.anu on most aneciionate terms with his wife and brother. Spearman was committed to jail. He refuses to answer any questions or to converse about the horrible affair. ? The Supreme Court of the United States, cne day last week, rendered a decision in the case of the State ex rel. Douglass & Jackson vs. P. C. Gaillaird, treasurer of Charleston county. In this case an application was made directly to the Supreme Court of the state, in its original jurisdiction, for mandamus to compel the county treasurer to receive in payment of State and county taxes, icank bills which had been tendered. It was urged before the Supreme Court that the proceedings could no longer be maintained en account of the Act of December 24, 1878, to facilitate the collection of taxes, although the Act had been passed after the filing of ;he petition of Douglass & Jackson. The petitioners claim that the Act was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court sustained the constitutionality of the Act and refused the nandamus, and the United States Supreme Court has confirmed the judgment of the State Supreme Court. ? On the 2nd instant, a one-armed negro named Louis Kinder, committed an outrageous assault upon a white woman named Byrd, residing near George's Station, Colleton county, about fifty miles from Charleston. A hunt was organized and the villain captured on Sunday morning, by a mixed white md black posse. He was taken to the scene cf the outrage and identified by his victim. A. vote of the posse was taken and it was de dieted not to lyncn mm, out to anow tne law ;o take its course. Kinder was then taken to 3eorge's Station and placed in the guard louse under a strong guard. Monday mornng he was sent to Walterboro jail, still strongly guarded. On their way to Walter3oro the guard was overpowered by an armed ibrce, consisting, it is said, largely of relatives >f the outraged lady, and the prisoner was conveyed to a secluded spot in the woods, ,vhere he was kept till night. About 9 o'clock hat night he was again confronted with the ady whom he had outraged, and again idenified. He was again taken to the woods, vhere preparations were made to hang him. \t the last moment he confessed the crime, md also confessed to a similar outrage upon a jolored woman in Newberry six years ago. tie further acknowledged the killing of a :olored girl near Kingstree last April, and jonfessed to four burglaries and innumerable hefts. At 10.30 o'clock he was hanged, and ifter firing a volley of pistol shots into his )ody the crowd quietly dispersed. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? High Point will soon have two cotton factories in operation. ? All the prisoners, confined in the Wade3 boro jail, made their escape on Wednesday night of last week. ? The Democratic State executive committee met in Raleigh on Wednesday of last week, and selected Raleigh as the place and the 17th of June as the time, for holding the gubernatorial convention. ? The Charlotte Observer learns that since the recent raius, those wheat fields, which before looked perfectly bare from the ravages -J? ...1 i 1 -i1_ C LI? oi ine wueai uug, are now green whii iresmjr springing grain. ? A meeting of citizens was held in Greensboro on the 2nd :in9tant, and it was decided that the centennial anniversary of the battle of Guilford Court House shall be properly celebrated on the 15th of March, 1881. ? Up to last Saturday three hundred and four visiting merchants visited Charlotte, the most of whom, it is presumed, were induced by the excursion tickets offered by the merchants of the city. The Observer thinks the enterprise was quite a success. ? The Charlotte Observer of Tuesday says : The application made by the opponents of the immediate operation of the fence law in South Point township, Gaston county, for an injunction restraining the commissioners of the county from proceeding to build the fence, , was argued before Judge McKoy last Friday night, and he has not ^et rendered a formal opinion, but it is well understood that he will refuse to grant the injunction. . ? In the Superior Court of Mecklenburg, last week, George Galloway, colored, was tried and found guilty of infanticide, the 3ffence charged being the murder of his wife's new-born infant. Henry Home, colored, was convicted of burglary, and both were sentenced to be hanged on the 7th of May, 1880. The jury, after deliberating three days on the case of Frances Hood, colored, charged with infanticide, rendered a verdict of guilty, ac companying their verdict with a petition for the pardon of the woman. PROCEEDINGS*!)!1 CONGRESS. In the Senate on the 2nd, bill3 were introduced and referred as follows: By Mr. Bailey : A bill to refund the National debt. It proposes new three per cent, bonds in exchange for the outstanding bonded indebtedness By Mr. Hoar: A resolution, which was adopted, providing that the committee on the judiciary be instructed to inquire and report whether any American citizens have been arrested and imprisoned for the exercise of their constitutional right to petition this body concerning the title to a seut of a Senator from a State of which they are citizens, with the power to send for persons and papers. This is supposed to refer to the action of the majority of the Louisiana Legislature in regard to the memorial of the minority of that body in relation to Kellogg's seat in the Senate. 8jnator Logan spoke at great length on the FitzJohn Porter bill. He opposed the bill, holding that there was no appeal from the decision of the original court martial. He was interrupted by Mr. Hill, of Georgia, and Mr. Jones, of Florida, and devoted some time to answering their inquiries. Mr. Logan's argument was technical in character. He admitted that the President may pardon Porter and that Congress cfcn authorize his appointment, if they choose, as an army officer. Adjourned. The sessian.off AheJiuivse was devoted to a consideration ot too report ot the committee of the whole on the subject of the revision of the rules. In the Senate on the 3rd, the committee on judiciary reported adversely on the Senate bill to extend the jurisdiction of the northern district court of Texas. The same committee reported adversely on the House bill to provide for the appointment of an additional clerk for the western judicial court of North 1 Carolina. Mr. Wallace, of Pennsylvania, i from the committee on appropriations, reported, with amendments, the House bill to provide for deficiency in the appropriation for the transportation of mails on the star routes for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1880. Ordered printed and placed on the calendar. Mr. Davis, of Illiuois, from the judiciary committee, reported adversely the Senate bill to facilitate the transaction of bus iness in the United States Supreme Court. Indefinitely postponed. At the expiration of the morning hour the Senate resumed consideration of the bill for the relief of FitzJohn Porter, Mr. Logan, of Illinois, speaking in opposition to the bill. Pending the conclusion of Mr Logan's argument, the Senate went into executive session, and when the doors were opened adjourned. In the House, the Speaker presented a letter front the Secretary of War, recommending an appropriation of one hundred and twentyfive thousand dollars for buildings at San Antonio, Texas; also a message from the President, calling the attention of Congress to the claims of certain Spanish inhabitants of East Florida during the years 1812 and '13?generally known as the "East Florida claims." The bill regulating the removal of causes from State to Federal courts was discussed without action, after which the House proceeded to a consideration of the Senate memorial resolutions relative to the late Senator Houston, of Alabama, and after eulogies by different representatives, adjourned. In the Senate on the 4th, Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, introduced a joint resolution reci ting the 14th amendment to the Constitution, and declaring that the Indians born in the United States are persons within the meaning of that amendment and citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside. The object of the resolution, Mr. Morgan said, was to determine and fix the relations of the Indians to the Government of the United States. It was referred to the judiciary committee. The Senate then resumed consideration of the Brill for the relief of Gen. Fitz John Porter. Mr. Logan of Illinois, continued his speech in opposition to the bill, reviewing at great length the evidence pre sented to the court martial by which Porter was tried, and endeavoring to show that Porter intentionally disregarded Gen. Pope's orders on account of personal ill feeling towards him. At 4:30, p. m., pendiug the conclusion of Mr. Logan's argument, the Senate went into executive session, and when the doors were reopened, adjourned. In the House, the Speaker announced the regular order to be the consideration of the bill regulating the removal of causes from State to Federal Courts. The question was on an amendment offered by Mr. Culberston, of Texas, and was agreed to without a division. It amends section two of the act to determine the jurisdiction of the United States Circuit Court so as to read as follows: "Section 2. That any suit of a civil nature, at law or in equity, arising under the Constitution and I laws of the United States or treaties made, ! or which shall be made under their authority, i of which the Circuit Courts of the United i States are given original jurisdiction by the ; ; preceding sections, which may now be pend: ing, or may hereafter be brought in any ' 1 State Court, may be removed by the defend- i ; ant or defendants therein to the Circuit i : Court of the United States for the proper; I I district, whenever it is made to appear from I' the application of such defendant or defend- i : ants that his or their defense depends in whole i' ' or in part on the correct constructiou of some < provisions of the Constitution or the Jaws of < the United States, or treaty made by their! 1 authority; and any other suit at law or in j i j equity in which the Circuit Courts of the Uni-! 1 ! ted States are given jurisdiction by the prece-1 i ding section, which are now pending or may ' < hereafter be brought in any State Court, may J be removed to the Circuit Court of the United j j States for the proper district by the defend- i ant or defendants therein, provided such de-' i fendant or defendants are non-residents of the State in which said suits are pending." The amendments offered by the minority of the committee on judiciary, making the minimum amount involved in a suit five hundred dollars, in order that the United States Circuit Courts may have original jurisdiction, instead of two thousand dollars as proposed by the bill, was rejected. An amendment offered by the minority, allowing the United States Circuit Courts to take original cognizance of a suit of a civil nature arising under the patent and copy right laws between a corporation and a citizen of the State in which the corporation was carrying on its business, was agreed to without division. The minority amendment, striking out the clause prohibiting United States Circuit Courts from taking original cognizance of any suit between a corporation or a citizen of a State, except in cases arising under the patent and copyright laws, and in like cases which said Courts are authorized to take original cognizance of, or suits between citizens of a State, was rejected? yeas, 68; nays 167. The minority amendment was adopted providing that this act shall not affect jurisdiction over the disposition of any suit removed from the Court of any State or any suit commenced in any United States Court before the passage hereof. The bill was then passed, yeas, 163 ; nays, 75. Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina, from the committee on agriculture, reported a bill making the Department of Agriculture an executive department of the Government. Pending action thereon, the morning hour expired. The House then, by a vote of 127 to 102, refused to take up the special order, which was the political assessments bill, and went into the committee of the whole on the public calendar. Mr. Wood, of New York, proceeded to address the committee on the Funding bill, and at the conclusion of bis remarks the committee rose. Mr. Gillett?, of Iowa, asked aud obtained leave to have print ed the bill to provide for the payment of the public debt, which he said he would ofTer as a substitute for the Wood Funding bill. The House then took a recess until 7:30, p. ni. The evening session was mainly devoted to discussion, in committee of the whole, of the pension laws and the consideration of private pension bills. The committee rose at 10:15, and reported fourteen pension bills to the House. The bills'were passed, and the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 5th, Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, from the committee on terri tories, reporter! a bill to establish a territorial government for the territory of-Alaska. Mr. Harris, of Tennessee, presented a memorial of the G>tton Exchange and fifty leading firms of Memphis, praying that the mail serf vice may not be reduced, but maintained by proper appropriations. Mr. Maxey, of Texas, from the committee oil post offices and post roads reported, with amendment, the Senate bill to des'gnate, classify, and fix the salaries of persons in railway service in Alaska. Also, a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting information as to amounts paid for star postal service, etc. Mr. Logan, of Illinois, contiuued his argument against the passage of the Fitz John Porter bill. He pointed out on the maps the relative positions of the various forces on the field, and said it was evident that there was no obstruction in the front of Porter to prevent his pushing forward to strike Jackson's right before Longstreet could come up, as Pope intended should be done. Mr. Logan {iraised Pope's plan, in this instance, and euogized Pope as one of the ablest officers in the army. The Confederate Generals' reports show that the Gmfederates were deceived by Pope's strategy, into throwing their forces to the left of Jackson's command, thus leaving. Jackson open to Porter's attack, and it was -1- m | r- 1 .1 D oniy rorier a remain woucj- x u\k umi i-ouocu the stratagem to fail. Te pass this bill would be to condone a great crime, establish a dangerous precedent and be an injustice to the officers whose promotion in the army would be delayed by Porter's reinstatement In the House, Mr. Carlisle, of Kentucky, in troduced a bill fixing the duties on sugars as follows : On all grades not above No. IS D. S. in color, 240-100 cents per pound ; above No. 13 and not above No. 16, 275 100 cents per pound. All over No. 16, 4 cents 'per pound, providing that nothing herein con lained shall be construed to alter or amend the act of August 15th, 1876, to carry into effect the convention between the United States and the King of the Hawaiian Island. Referred. Mr. Cox, of New York, intro duced a bill to increase the efficiency of the Life Saving Service ; to authorize the establishment of two additional stations on the North Carolina coast and six houses of refuge on the east coast of Florida. The bill provides for a pensiou of fifteen dollars per month to the widows of officers and twelve dollars per month to the widows of members of the crew who may lose their lives in the service, or from wounds or sickness contracted in the discharge of their duties. Adjourned until Monday. In the Senate on the 7th, the Vice President presented a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a letter from the commissioner on pensions, submitting a revised estimate of the deficiencies of army and navy pensions for the fisca l year ending June 30, 1880. The secretary earnestly recommended an appropriation in accordance with the estimate. The bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter was taken up, and Senator Carpenter addressed the Senate, taking strong grounds against annulling the sentence of the court martial. He charged Gen. Porter with being responsible for sacrificing the lives of no less than 200,000 Union soldiers, by his failure to obey the orders of his superior officer. At the conclusion of Carpenter's speech, Bayard obtained the floor, out yieiaea to a niotiou ior uu Mauuvc session, and when the doors were reopened the Senate adjourned uutil Monday. MERE-MENTION. The Presidential election occurs this year on Tuesday, 2ud of November." The negroes of Kansas have perfected an organization to discourage further emigration from the South. The present equipment of the Cincinnati Southern Road is 40 locomotives, 22 passenger coaches, 2 smoking cars, 10 baggage cars, 25 caboose cars, 500 box cars, 200 stock cars, 200 coal care, and 200 flat care. Reports from various counties in Virginia say the wheat crop, which at one time promised a total failure, now gives evidence of an average yield. The factory of the Domestic Sewing Machine Company, in the city of New York, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday night of last week. It is stated that the paper makers of the Northwest are unanimously agreed to make a vigorous effort to prevent legislation by Congress abolishing the tariff on articles used in paper manufacture. Both houses of the Virginia Legislature have passed a bill repealing the Moffet bell punch liquor law, and reestablishing a license system, which is to go in operation May 1st. The repealing vote was nearly unanimous. There is more money in the South now," says the Vicksburg | (Miss.) Herald, "than there has been at any time since the war. Any first class paper in- ; stantly commands loans at reasonable rates." Mississippi was the banner cotton State last year, having raised 75,000 bales more than i Texas, which stood next on the list. For want of funds, nearly all work in the govern- i ment printing office at Washington has beerf ; suspended, and a thousand men and women i have been thrown out of employment. R. I T. Wilson, a New York banker and million- i lire, has purchased the Macon and firuns < wick (Ga.) Railroad. He is a native of i 3eorgia. Rev. Dr. Tucker, of Atlanta, i ielivers the baccalaureate sermon before the University of North Carolina, at Chapel < Hill. Senator Edmunds is fond of old i adies and always has been. Personally, he i s irreproachable, and this is saying a good J leal of a Senator these times. Robert j L. Montague, Lieutenant-Governor of Vir- j jinia in the early part of the late war, died ] it his home in Middlesex county, on the 3rd i nstant, aged 63 years. At the time of bis i death he was Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit. The Chinese are leaving California and going to New York and Philadelphia io large numbers. A Mormon church has recently been established in Paulding county, Georgia. Georgia has 187,000 spindles in cotton factories?more than any other Southern State. The Crawfordville (Ga.) Democrat says it is true, but not generally known, that Gen. Longstreet is related to Gen. U. S. Grant. STATE AND FEDERAL CASES. On the 1st instant, the Supreme Court of the United States rendered decision in the following cases, which huve been regarded of importance since their removal on appeal to that tribunal: Ex parte Commonwealth of Virginia, petitioner. This was a petition for writ of mandamus to compel Judge Rives, of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, to restore to State authorities two colored prisoners namod Reynolds, indicted in the State Courts for murder, and taken by Judge Rives out of possession of State officials and held for trial in Federal Court on the grounds that they (the prisoners) had been denied in State tribunals trial by competent-jurors without distinction of race or color, such as the law of the State guarantees to them. The removal of the case of prisoners to the Federal Court was based on section 641 of the Revised Statutes. This Court held that the section in question has reference to legislative, not a judicial denial of the rights secured by law, and that the Constitution and laws of Virginia do not exclude colored citizens from juries. The petition for rdinoval did not, therefore, present a case for removal under 641st sectioq of the Revised Statutes. The defendant in this case demanded that some part of the jury should be composed of his own race. The denial of that motion was not a denial of the right secured to him by any law providing for equal civil rights of citizens of the United States, or by any statute, or by the 14th amendment. A mixture in a particular case is not essential to equal protection of the la we. It is a right to which any colored man is entitled that in the selection of jurors to pass upon, his life, liberty or property, there shall be no exclusion of his race because of color, but that is a different thing from what was claimed as of right and denied in the State Court, viz.: A right to have the jury composed in part of pnlnrpd mpn Fmm thpap nrinninles it fol lows that the Federal Court had no rightful jurisdiction of the case, and that the writ of mandamus for the restoration of the prisoners to the State authorities must be granted, and the Court so orders. Justice Strong delivered the opinion. 1Ex parte Commonwealth of Virginia and J. D. Coles, j>etitioner. This was a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to bring before this Court the case of Judge Coles, of Virginia, indicted in the Federal Court for the western district of that State, for violation oi the act of March 4th, 1875, in excluding colored citizens from the jury lists on account of race and color. This Court holds thai the act under which Coles was indicted is fully authorized by the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution, and that it was Judge Cole's duty to obey that act. If he failed to do so he \vas properly liable to ibdictment in the Federal Court. The petition for a writ of habeas corpus is therefore dented. Justice Strong delivered the opinion. Justice Field, in a dissenting opinion, concurred in by Jus tice Clifford, holds that the act under which the petitioner was indicted, so far as it relates to jurors in State Courts, is unconstitutional and void, and even if it were not, the indictme^gjfc^ribes no offence under it, but is void on its facer"~ifr bolds-that nothing can be fouud in the Constitution orTtraiHetldmettto which authorizes any interference by Con gress with States in administration of their government and the enforcement of their laws in respect to any matter over which jurisdiction was not surrendered to the United States. Nothing, in his judgment, could have a greater tendency to destroy independency and anatomy of States, reduce them to humilia, ting dependence upon Central Governmentengender constant irritation and destroy that domestic tranquility which it was one of the objects of the Constitution to insure, than the doctrine asserted in this case; that Congress can exercise coercive authority over judicial officers of States in the discharge of their duties under State laws. It will be only another step in the same direction toward consolidation when it assumes to exercise coercive authority over Governors and legislators of States. After reviewing the history of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments and declaring that tbey offered no warrant for the act of Congress under which Coles was indicted, Justice Field says those who "regard the independence of States in all their reserved powers as essential to the successful maintenance of our form of government, can not fail to view with gravest apprehension for the future, indictment in the Courts of the United States of a judicial officer of a State f/?r the manner in which he has discharged ,w* v"w ** "" " o his duties under her laws, aod of which ?he makes no complaint. The proceeding is ? gross offense to the State. It is an attack upon her sovereignty in matters over which she has never surrendered her jurisdiction. The doctrine which sustains it, carried to its logical results, would degrade and sink her to a level of mere municipal corporation. For if Congress can punish an officer of a State for the manner in which he discharges his duties under her laws, it can fix the nature and extent of the punishment It may imprison for life or punish by removal from office. To these results Justice Field thinks the doctrine held by a majority of the Court necessarily leads. A Danville, Va., dispatch of the 4th instant says that in accordance with the above decision, Judge Rives has ordered a writ for the arrest of County Judges Coles, Parish and others for trial at his Court in Lynchburg, at the March term. In a case from Tennessee, of a revenue officer charged with committing murder while in the discharge of his duties as such officer, the Supreme Court decides that the accused, whether on the charge of murder or any other crime against the State, if committed in the discharge of his official duties, he may of his own motion, be tried in the Circuit Court of the United States, and a State Court cannot try him. These opinions,especially in the last-named case, are the subject of much comment in legal and political circles, some persons even expressing the belief that they may momentously affect the destinies of the Republic in the near future. Hon. J. Randolph Tucker, perhaps the ablest lawyer in the House of Representatives, has recently reviewed these decisions, and his opinions, critically rendered, are entitled to the most serious consideration. Summing up the results, he says that the Federal Courts strip from the State Courts jurisdiction over crimes coumuiteu against a State. In the Coles case a Federal Judge drags a State Judge from the seat of justice and arraigns him at his bar for the trial of his motives under the probe of a presumption of guilt which it would be wellnigh impossible for the accused to rebut The principles of the decision sanction the possession of a power by Congress, which, pressed to its legitimate consequence, would put all officers of the State government under the supervision of the Federal Court and subject all the State officers to criminal prosecutions before Federal juries. If these decisions, said Mr. Tucker, are not arrested by public opinion, the federation system is at an end, and a centralized, absolute government is at hand. Mr. Tucker characterizes Judge Field's iissenting opinion as strikingly able and narked by a judicial eloquence which reminds one of the halcyon early days of the Supreme Bench. The constitutional princiDles expounded by him are luminous and iplendidly put. They present, he declared, a allying ground for the defenders of States' ights in their imminent contest against the j menace of consolidation and empire. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. M. Adams?Economy is Wealth?Wooden Ware?Beeswax Wanted?Potware. Herndon Bros?Wanted?Potatoes?Hoes?Bash Scythes?Back-bands?Bran?Bacon. J. B. Gardner?100 Bags More of those Standard Fertilizers. J. D. Rattaree, Chester, S. C.?Special Announcement. Ilunter A Oates?New Goods at Low CashPricea. T. S. Jeffervs, Agent?Phosphate and Guano?A Wonderful Contrivance. T. M. Dobson?Cheap Goods. Mrs. Fnnnip L. Dobson?Spring Hats and Bonnets Kennedy Bros. A Barron?March, March On. Withers Adickes? Assortment?The Largest. F. Happerfield?Removal. Dr. John May?The Corner Drng Store. R. Lathan, School Commissioner?Notice. R. H. Glenn, H. Y. C.-Sheriff's Sale. Adickos A Colcock?Price Reduced. J. 8. Biggs?Mules Wanted. GONE NORTH. Mr. T. M. Dobson started to the Northern markets on Monday last to purchase his spring stock of goods. PERSONAL MENTION. Mr. Robert J. Herndon, who has been taking a course of musical instruction at the Boston Musical Conservatory, returned home on Tuesday morning. MAIL CONTRACTS. Contracts for carrying the United States mails on all the routes, except one, leading from Yorkville, were awarded to non-residents of the State. "Bethel" route, which after the 1st of July will extend from Yorkville to Garribaldi, N. C., was awarded to Mr. J. N. Roberts, of this county. YORKMARBLE YARD. Mr. F. Happerfield, proprietor of the above establishment, has just built knew, handsome and commodious shop near the depot, to which he has removed from the house so long occupied by him up town. He gives notice that he is now tetter than ever prepared to fill all orders for work in his line. SKETCH UP KING'S MOUNTAIN. We have just issued, in phamphlet form, a sketch of the Battle of King's Mountain, by Rev. Robert-Lathan, and will fill orders for the same at the following rates: Single copy, 15 cents; per dozen, $1.50; per hundred, 9.00. Orders by mail will be promptly filled at the above prices. BURGLARY. On Thursday night last, the office of Trial justice Lewis was burglariously entered, and a trunk, containing the papers pertaining to his office, broken open and the contents scattered over the floor. It seems that none of the papers were carried oft; though no other motive can be assigned for the act than a desire to obtain possession of papers. No arrests have been made. , ARHE8TED ON A BENCH WARRANT. On Tuesday afternoon Sheriff Glenn was i telegraphed by Sheriff Walker to be on the lookout for Aleck Berry, colored, a refugee from justice from Chester, who might arrive at this place on the afternoon train, and for whose arrest he had a bench warrant. The matter was . given in charge of town marshal McClain, who i repaired to the depot and awaited the arrival i of the repair train, soon expected from Ches' ter, on which he found his man. He was lodged in jail over night and returned to Chcs ter yesterday morning. 8TATE AND COUNTY TAXES. The following is the tax levy in York county for the current fiscal year: For State purposes 4} mills For School purposes, ..2 " For ordinary county purposes, 2 " For interest on county bonds 1} " For retiring cotfnty bonds I " Total X Ill mills - - B^idesthe above, an additional levy^bich cannot~yet be detergRM^will be^made in King's Mountain townshipto pay expenses i of building boundary fence. CIRCUIT COURT. . For the information of jurors, suitors and witnesses at the ensuing term of the Circuit Court, we would state that members of the Yorkville bar having applied to Judge Mackey by written request, that his Honor "will discharge the petit jurors, immediately upon the adjournment of the Court of Sessions, until Monday of the siecond week, and that the remainder of the first week be devoted to the transaction of such business as may be had without the intervention of juries"?his Honor replied that he will cheerfully comply with the request. CHURCHES NEXT 8UNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows: Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Thos. Gilbert, Pastor. The pastor will conduct services at Philadelphia Church in the forenoon, and at Yorkville at 7 P. M. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. The pastor will fill his reguular appointment at Tirzah next Sunday. Episcopal?Church of tlie Good ShepherdRev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. Services at the usual hours next Sunday. Services also during Lent on Wednesday at 7 P. M., and Saturday at 11 A. M. Presbyterian?Services at 7 P. M., by Rev. J. Lowrie Wilson. OBSTRUCTING THE BAIL HO AD TRACK. On Friday last, after a hearing before Trial Justice Lewis, Sarah Wilson alias Sarah Brooks, colored, was committed to jail for trial in the Court of Sessions, charged with placing an obstruction across the railroad track half a mile below town, causing an accident to a number of colored section hands on a dump car. The obstruction consisted of a fence rail placed across the track, which the dump approached at full speed on a down grade, and could not be stopped after the discovery, in time to avert a"catastrophe, which, however, was of no more serious nature than the dumping of the passengers into the ditch, one of whom was slightly hurt. The woman stood by unawed at the mischief she had wrought, and when confronted by the startled passengers, the whites of whose eyes in fine phrenzy rolled as they gathered themselves up, frankly confessed that she did the deed, and defied the crowd. On information being given to the superintendent of the road, he promptly and properly caused the woman's arrest. She now claims that the obstruction was not placed upon the track with malicious intent. There are two theories as to her conduct, and they will be fully ventilated on the trial in the Sessions Court. COMMERCIAL FERTILIZER TRADE. Of manufactured commercial fertilizers there are 37 different brands in this market, represented by 15 agents or dealers, to which may be added 3 brands of domestic fertilizers, ? - * - : 1- -2 -t-i T- .L tne iormuia or cnenucais iur iuaKiug wuicu are furnished by some of the same dealers. The trade in fertilizers has been unusually brisk this season, and from the most reliable data we can obtain, exceeds the sales of last season to this date by 583 tons of manufactured fertilizers, and of formulas or chemicals for the home-made, the excess over the sales to this date last year is 343 tons; making an increase of 926 tons over sales last year. The relative sales, as we learned by a canvass among the agents, are as follows: TO THIS DATE. Manufactured fertilizers, tons, .. 1283 Formulas for home, tons, 406?1068 TO UAMK DATE LAST TEAR. Manufactured fertilizers, tons,.. 680 Formulas for home, tons, 62? 742 ? TOTAL SALES LAST YEAR. Manufactured fertilizers, tons, 1245 Formulas forborne, 62?1307 A notable feature in the above sales is the increased demand for home fertilizers, the sales of which having increased from 62 tons last season^ to 405 tons to this date the present season. Notwithstanding prices rule higher, and freights are higher than last year, agents report either limited stock on hand, or stock exhausted, with little prospect of increased supply beyond shipments now in transitu, which will probably increase the stock in this market 150 tons. The shipments over the Chester and Lenoir