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$(taps and Jacts. ? Gen. Grant has been visiting Contreras, Molino del Rey, Churubusco and other scenes of his Mexican campaigo. ? The Duchess of Marlborough, writing to the Lord Mayor of London, says the distress in Ireland i9 not yet diminishing, continues to be general, and in some parts is increasing. ? In Buncombe county, N. C.,a one legged man married a woman similarly maimed. Two souls with but a single thought, two legs that serve for the entire family. ? Mayor Cooper, of New York city, draws a salary of 812,000 a year, while the Commissioner of Jurors, whose duties are not much more than those of a clerk, draws ?15,000. ? A North Carolinian who has just returned from Texas, expresses bis views upon it as follows: "If hell is any worse than that place, I don't blame the people to join the church aud quit all their evil ways in order to be saved from such a fate." ? Every department of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, at Philadelphia, is busy night and day. A large force of workmen is employed aud contracts have been closed for building twelve locomotives for the government of South Australia. ? Hon. W. E. Smith, member of Congress from Georgia, now at his home on a visit, expresses the opinion that Congress will not adjourn until after the Presidential vote is counted. He says that the wires are working for a most bitter political struggle, and that both parties at political headquarters are marshaling their hosts for the conflict. ? A railroad is now nearly finished from New York to Whitehaven, in Nova Scotia. One of the objects of building the road is to shorten the ocean travel between America and Europe. When the road is finished, the trip from New York to Whitehaven, can be m?Hfl in thirf.v t.n t.hirtv-aiv hour*. and from ~ ? "J J ? thence, to the nearest English port, in five and a halt' to six days. ? The citizens of Kansas will vote next autumn on a prohibitory amendment to the State Constitution, forbidding the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors. The temperance people, led by Governor St. John, are hard at work in its support through the press and on the stump, but the liquor dealers are as actively in the field, and at a receut convention in Topeka they voted to raise $100,000 to defeat the measure. ? The Postoffice department, on Thursday last, concluded the contracts for the Star mail service for the following ten States: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Floiida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. The contracts are for four years from July 1st next The total amount of the contracts, as awarded, is about 8885,000. The routes included in this letting are 3,200 in number. There were 62,200 bids.' ? Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken has introduced a resolution in the House appropriating ten thousand dollars to be used "in securing" a farm containing not more than one hundred acres, and for the erection of buildings and appurtenances, for the purpose of cultivating the tea plant, and developing its possibility as a branch of American industry; and an additional $10,000 for the purchase of seeds, plants, implements, and other necessary materials, and pay of the tea farmer, superintendent and laborers for the year ending June 30, 1881. The sub committee of the House discussed the general features of the bill, but took no action on it. ? What is known as the Southern claims Commission expired by lavi.on the 10th in staot. The commission was organized March 3, 1871, since which date 22,298 claims were filed against the Government, aggregating in amount over $60,000,000. About 17,000 cases, involving over $41,000,000, were reported upon, of which about $4,500,000 were allowed. About 5,000 cases remain unacted upon, the claimants having failed to take testimony as required by act of Congress. It is understood that with the completion of the work of the commission, all war claims, with the exception of those now pending iu Congress, have been finally and forever disposed of. ? The most remarkable ground for a divorce known, perhaps, in the history of divorce suits in this country, is that set forth in a complaint recently filed in the clerk's office in Lafayette, Indiana. The complainant is a well-to-do-farmer who has been married about twenty years. He lives iu a neighborhood which is strongly Republican in politics, and he wants to be separated from his wife because she will not allow him to bring Democratic newspapers in the house. The eomplainaut is a Democrat and thinks more of his politics than he does of his religion. For five years, he says, he has stood his wife's tyranny relative to his newspapers, and he declares that he will stand it no longer. He prefers Democratic newspapers to his wife. ? A female elephant was born in Philadelphia, on Wednesday of last week, in a building which is used as the winter quarters of Cooper & Baileys menagerie. The baby weighs 213} pounds, is 30 inches in height, and measures 35 inches from the base of the trunk to the tail. It is the only instance of the kind on record where a birth has occurred while the elephant was in a domesticated state. The mother was considerably exercised over the event, and amused herself by destroying the railings which separated her from the other animals and tossing a stove about the stable. All of the other animals seemed cognizant of the fact that something of an unusual character had happened, and evinced signs of joy. ? Under the heading of "A word to Merchants," the Marietta (Ga.) Journal contains the following on the subject of advertising : Advertise by the year. It is cheaper aud yields a better return in proportion to the money invested. An advertisement should always be before the public in some shape. I fit disappears, it is soon forgotten, and those that remain have the superiority and advantage of the absence of the competitor. There is only one excuse for the discontinuance of an advertisement, that of retiring from business. So long as goods are to be sold and the vast public to be supplied, advertising is a necessity, and while no single individual can expect to attract all trade, all may expect to get some portion of it, which he would not have obtained independent of an advertisement. ? The "Gate City Guards," of Atlanta, Ga., have decided to erect a memorial armory, which shall commemorate the reunion of the States and return of peace, as distinct from many structures erected North and South commemorative of events which occurred duriner the late war. This decision has grown out of the warmth and cordiality of the reception given this organization everywhere cn its late tour through the North, and the projectors of the building say that its doors shall always be open to all who march under the stars and stripes, which emblem shall always float from its turrets. Capt. J. F. Burke, who commands the company, started a subscription for this purpose with 81,000. A grand fair will be held in Atlanta in April in aid of the enterprise. Many individual subscriptions are being privately made. It is proposed to open subscription lists in every principal city in the country in order that all the States may be represented. ? A remarkable and perhaps unprecedented combat took place at Bostick's mill, near Pedee, N. C., on the morning of the 0th instant. It seems that General Bostick apd one of his employees, Anderson Wayless, went into a corn house, which had been stored with corn for uearly twelve months, and which has been closed for that length of time. After getting in they found that the place was literally alive with rats, which began to attack fiercely the two men, who in vaiu attempted to beat them off. The rats came upon th6m Jji droves, biting them about the hands, face and legs, several actually getting under Wayle-s' shirt. Both men cried for help, and were rescued from their perilous situation. The whole of General Bostick's left ear was eaten off and his face horribly bitten. Wayless' nose and lips were so badly bitten that his best friends could not recognize him, and his left eye was torn from its socket.?Special to Washington Post. ihr ilorlutUlc inquirer. ^3^ T ~YORKVII,L,E, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 18,1880 STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. The State Democratic committee, at a meeting held in Columbia on Wednesday evening of last week, determined to call a State Convention of the Democratic party, to be held in the city of Columbia on Tuesday, the 1st day of June next. The objects of the convention, as defined in the call of the chairman, are : first?to nominate fourteen delegates to represent the State of South Carolina in the National Democratic Convention; second?to nominate seven electors for President and Vice-President of the United States ; and third, to nominate the Democratic canTah rinrrornnr onrl nfhpr Sfftt.A nfllPPS. uiuaico 1V/X VJi Vf Ui avi uiiu v?mv? The Convention will also dispose of auy other business that may be brought before it, and will be invited, at the suggestion of the National Democratic Executive Committee, to express the sense of the party in South Caro Una upon the question whether the two thirds rule now in force in National Conventions of the Democratic party, in nominating candidates for President and Vice-President, shall be abrogated or maintained. The action of the Executive Committee in calling the State Convention for the purpose of nominating candidates for State offices, does not affect the nominations to be made for members of Congress and Solicitors of the judicial circuits. According to the provisions of the constitution of the Democratic party of South Carolina, adopted in 1878, the nominations for members of Congress are made by the Congressional Conventions, in which the balis of representation is the same as in the State Convention, viz.: a number of delegates from each county equal to the representation to which that county is entitled in both branches of the General Assembly. The Executive Committee of each Congressional District is composed of the chairmen of the counties composing the district This Executive Committee, by a majority vote, calls the nominating convention, which must meet within the Congressional District, and a majority of the votes is necessary to a choice of candidates. The provisions in regard to Circuit Solicitors is similar?the same rules applying to the counties composing the respective judicial circuits. The nominations for members of Congress and Solicitors will accordingly be made at such time and place within the several districts as the respective committees shall determine. The executive committees of the several counties are entrusted with the regulation of the mode and manner of nominating candidates for county offices, and the County Conventions regulate the mode and manner of electing delegates to the State, Judicial and Congressional Conventions. The following is the call of the State Executive Committee: Rooms of the 1 State Dem. Executive Committee, > Columbia, S. C., March 10, 1880. J A Convention of the Democratic party of South Carolina will assemble at Columbia on Tuesday, the 1st day of June proximo, at 12 o'clock M., in the Hall of the House of Representatives, to nominate candidates for State officers, to nominate Electors for President and -Vice President, to elect delegates to represent the party in the National Democratic Convention which convenes at Cincinnati on the 22d of June, and to transact such other business as the Convention may deem proper. The National Committee has requested State Conventions to instruct their delegates as to the question of the repeal of the two-thirds rule now in force in National Conventions* Each County is entitled by the constitution of the party to as many delegates as it has representatives in both branches of the General Assembly. The executive committees of the counties are charged with the the duty of calling their county conventions to elect delegates. By order of the Committee. J. D. Kennedy, Chairman. John E. Bacon, Secretary. 4 * PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 8th, a message and copies of correspondence touching the InterOceanic Canal were received from the President. The following is the subject of the mesmi i- . ; 1 sage : ine policy 01 mis couuiry is a caum uuder American control. The United States cannot consent to surrender this control to any European power or powers. Treaties contrary to this view should be amended. The capital invested by the citizens of other countries cannot be protected by the intervention of those countiies without the adoptiou of measures on this Continent, which the United States would deem inadmissible. If our protection is relied on we must have such control as will euable us to protect National interests and rights of private capital. The canal will be virtually a part of onr coast line. Our commercial interest in it surpasses that of any other nation ; while its relation to our power and prosperity are of paramount concern. No other great power would, under similar circumstances, fail to assert a rightful control over a work so vitally affecting its interest and welfare. There was little else done in the Senate than the discussion of the Fitz John Porter question. In the House, the Speaker announced that the new rules would be operative after that day, and in accordance with the rules, pro ceeded to call the States for bills, beginning | with the State of Alabama. The following ; were introduced and referred : By Mr. San| ford, of Alabama, a bill abolishing tariff on printing type and blank paper or material j used in their manufacture. By Mr. Nichols, j of Georgia, abolishiug the duty on paper! and reducing the duty on unsized paper to j five per cent, ad valorem. By Mr. Speer, of; Georgia, forbidding military dress parades on ! Sunday. By Mr. Gillette, of Iowa, appropriating fifty thousand dollars for the en- ; couragement and manufacture of sugar from corn stalks and sorghum. By Mr. King, of Louisiana, abolishing tariff on materials used in making paper and printing inks and on paper for books and newspapers. By Mr. Hatch of Missouri, abolishing the tariff on salt. Mr. King, of Louisiana, Chairman of the Inter-Oceanic Canal committee, offered, ! by unanimous instruction of that committee, resolutions reaffirming the Monroe doctrine and declaring that any canal constructed must ' be subject to control by this Government, and authorizing the abrogation of any treaties inconsistent herewith. Ordered to be printed. In the Senate, on the 9th, the message of the President and accompanying documents concerning the Inter-Oceanic Canal were re ferred to the committee on foreign relations. After some other business had been disposed n of, the Senate then proceeded to consider the p calendar. The bill to provide for a settle- tl ment of accounts with certain Southern rail- si way companies was objected to by Mr. Ed- a munds, and laid aside. Mr. Maxey, who re- $ ported the bill, referred to the fact that it a had long been before Congress and had of- e ten been favorably reported. He hoped it a would soon be finally disposed of and he c would try to call it up next Tuesday. The ti morning hour having expired, the Senate re- a sumed consideration of the bill for the relief ofFitz John Porter. Mr. McDonald spoke in support of the bill, and pending the con- ^ elusion of his argument the Senate adjourned. G In the House memorials were presented praying for the retention of the preseut grad UQtCU OLUiC U1 UUUCOj TTIWII bllO imuibivu ui w ^ clause to the present law, obliging all sugars c below number ten in color, testing above 92 ^ degrees, to pay a rate of duty as if between , numbers ten and thirteen?referred. Also, for the abolition of the duty upon printing ^ type. Referred. At the expiration of the ^ morning hour, the House proceeded to the ^ consideration of the House calendar and took up the Political Assessment bill, upon which Mr. Hostetler gave notice that he would at c an early day call the previous question. Mr. ^ House, ofTennessee, spoke at length in favor of the bill, reciting the professions of a desire for civil service reform, made by the Republican party and by this administration, and showing how, in spite of them, Mr. Hayes had been seated by fraud, and had rewarded with money and offices the men in Florida and Louisiana who had committed that fraud. r He thought the bill would remedy a great a evil and eradicate a terrible abuse. It would enable the feeblest man in the employ of the c Government to paralyze the arm of the cam- ^ paign collector who would endeavor to filch 1 from him a portion of bis hard earned wages. " At the conclusion of his remarks the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 10th, Mr. Ransom, of North Carolina, introduced a bill to provide for the settlement of accounts of the North Carolina Railroad Company. Considerable debate ensued upon the motion made by Mr. Thurman, of Ohio, to refer to the judiciary committee a memorial of Indian Chiefs, protesting against the passage of the bill to establish United States Courts in the Indian Territory. Pending this discussion the morning hour expired and Mr. McDonald, of Indiana, resumed his speech favoring the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter. After a somewhat animated debate iu Tfhich several Senators participated, Mr. Garland of Arkansas, moved, in consideration of the legal and constitutional questions involved, that the bill be referred to the judiciary committee. Without action on the motion the Seuate adjourned. In the House, Mr. Reagan, of Texas, asked and obtained leave to have printed the following resolution as a substitute for the resolution of the committee on the Inter-Oceanic Canal: Resolved, That while we recognize the general interest of the whole commercial world in the use of the ship canal or railroad across the Isthmus, connecting North and South America, and while we will respect that interest if such a line of Inter-OceaDic communication shall be established, we declare that as the establishment of such a line of communication would practically connect the Atlantic and Mexican Gulf aud Pacific coastlines of the United States, and as the United States would havegreat local as well as ' general interest in the work, in common with other commercial powers of the earth, and as * the political control of such a line of communi- k cation would be vitally necessary to her com- 8 mercial interests and to the preservation of her ( territorial integrity and political indepen- ' dence, she will insist, whenever and by whom- } soever such a project shall be commenced, on } such political control of it as will give securi- * ty to our commercial and political interests. * The Speaker then proceeded to call the com- . inittees for reports, the House having refused 1 to dispense with the morning hour. A num- 8 her of committees reported, among them Mr. c Dibbrell, from the iuvalid pensions commit- * tee, who reported back a bill to prevent the * withholding of pensions under the act of 1871. ) He asked to have the bill put on its passage. 1 Mr. Conger: "Is it to restore Jeff Davis to ^ the roll?" Mr. Dibbrell: "Jeff Davis is not 1 a pensioner." Mr. Conger: "I object; I ob- f ject." Mr. Dibbrell: "If the gentleman wants to show his malice to the Southern people so . badly he can object." Mr. Conger: "That remark is unworthy of the gentleman and C the occasion." Mr. Dibbrell: "I am responsible for all I say here and elsewhere." The bill was placed on the calendar. c In the Senate on the 11th, Mr. Sharon ( presented the petition of the newspaper pro- g prietors of Nevada for a reduction of the a duty on paper. Referred. In presenting the 1' petition, Mr. Sharon said he thought the tariff J1 might now advantageously be removed from * many articles. It was said that there is a war between capital and labor. That could not be in any just sense, for capital cannot be at war with that which it most needs, but I capital and labor united are at war with pro- h duction for the purpose of pinching the mas- v ses. The tariff's interest are always represented here?the people are not. They are a long suffering, patient and enduring, never f moving until roused by some great wrong, n The bill for the relief of Fitz-John Porter was then taken up, and after a lengthy discussion, t which consumed the day, by viva voce vote, n the bill was laid on the table, subject to be a called up by a majority vote. In the House, bills were reported from the d committee on public buildings and grounds, t and referred to the committee of the whole, a for the erection of public buildings in Lynchburg, Vji. ; Charleston, \V. Va. ; Greensboro, N. C.; Houston, Texas, and Clarksburg, W. t Va. The House then resumed considera- I tion of the "Political Assessments bill." Mr. Upson, of Texas, offered an amendment, fc Mr. Hostetter, of Indiana, demanded the pre- I vious question, desiring to prolong the de- r bate. After the waste of much time, Mr. o Aiken, of South Carolina, moved to lay the bill and amendments on the table. This the t House refused to do by a vote of 121 to 112, c a strict party vote, except that Messrs. Aiken, o Felton, Morse and Wells voted with the I Republicans in the affirmative. The House theu adjourned. g Iu the Senate on the 12th, Mr. Williams,! t of Kentucky, presented a joint resolution of: 1 the Kentucky Legislature, instructing Seu- j t ators trora iventucKy to urge tne passage 01 a u bill reducing the salary of the President of I the United States. The fortification appro-! priation bill was passed. It appropriates a 8150,000 for the protection, preservation and t repair of fortifications &nd defensive works ; y 8400,000 for the armament of the spa coast C fortifications, including the expense of con-' v yeptit/g smoothbore cannon into rifles, and ! the manufacturing of fopr improved breech- t loading rifled guns, and $50,000 for torpp.- y does for harbor defense and for experiments, c Id the House, Mr. Scales, of North Carol!a, introduced a bill, which was referred, ap>ropriating #380,000 to ratify and carry out lie agreement with the Ute Indians for thB ale of their lands. The deficiency approprition bill, with an amendment appropriatiug 600,000 for the payment of fees and expense of United States Marshals and their genral deputies, thus making the total amount ppropriated by the bill $1,265,530, was disussed in committee of the whole without acion, and when the committee rose, the House djourned until Monday. SOUTH CAROlilNA NEWS. ? There was a light fall of snow in Columia Friday night and a slight fall of sleet on laturday morning. ? Wm. E. V. Estes has been appointed tore keeper and gauger for the district of outh Carolina. ? Senator Butler is at his home in Edgeeld, where he wont to attend the sittings of he Circuit Court for that county. ? The Anderson Intelligencer quotes fox ounds in demand in that county at from five o twenty dollars a head, while sheep are a rnrr ?f fain rtnllcii-c " v,,w mwiimio, ? The Intelligencer estimates that the cotton rop of Andersou county was increased last ear, from twelve to twenty-five hundred bales, >y the abolition of the old system of fencing. ? Isaac W. Hayne, Esq., for many years Attorney General of this State, died in Charleston on Monday of last week, iu the 1st year of his age: ? The net earnings of the South Carolina lailroad, for the year ending March 1st, are eported to he 8249,000 after restocking and ,lmost rebuilding the road. ? In charging the grand jury of Hampton ounty, Judge Aldrich said that he had senenced thirty-six men to be hung during the wo years of his term,of office. Most of the nurders are attributable to strong drink. ? Judge Hudson has recently decided at 3ennettaville. that tenants occuDvincr farm ands cannot remove manures, accumulated >y them during the year, even where they taul litter from the woods and add to the acemulations about the lots. ? Arrangements are being perfected, by he surviving members of the family of John Calhoun, for the removal of his remains rom St. Philip's church-yard in Charleston, o the burial place of the family near Pendleon. It is expected that the removal will ake place at an early day. ? There are three prominent candidates for he State Senate in Edgefield county at the lext election : Hon. James Callison, for the mst four years a leading and influential neraber of the lower house; Major J. Harap. Brooks, a brother of the Hon. Preston S. Brooks; and Dr. H. A. Shaw, a member of ,he lower House for the last four years. ? Mrs. Spearman, whose throat was cut at; silver Street, in Newberry county, by her ntsband recently, is now pronounced out of langer and will recover. She says she knew ter husband had been crazy for two' weeks jefore the tragedy. He still refuses to converse on the subject, but is cheerful and talks xeelv and rationallv on ether toDics. ? The Winn8boro' Neves says that Fairfield jranite is acquiring increased reputation. Mr. Robert Crawford receutly shipped eight nindred dollars' worth to Charleston, besides illing orders for Columbia, Augusta, Green /ille, Nashville and other places. Last week granite for a monument was sent to St. Louis. The stone is of the finest quality and the supply inexhaustible. ? Cornelia Reese, of Greenville, publishes he following card in the New: "I heard Sol. Westmoreland was going to marry Texts Prior, and it must be true for she has her slothes made, but I forbid anyone to marry lim, for he and I are engaged, and I have vitnesses to that effect. He told one of the vitnesses that he intended to marry me for I vas a smart girl; that he was not going to ool me, and I heard him when he told it." ? Bill Dodsoti, colored, has confessed that he, n connection with Fletcher Madison, Pleasint Adams, Rich Bates, and Joe Burton, all solored, set fire to the Academy of Music in jreenville on the night of the 7th of Decem>er last All of the accused except Burton, vho has not been arrested, have been lodged n jail to await trial. From the confession of Dodson, it appears that the only inceutive to he burning was to conceal the robbery of one if the stores in the lower story of the buildng ? Jefferson Davis has recently declined an nvitation to address Phrenakosmian Society if Newberry College. The invitation was igned by over two hundred ladies and a large lumber of gentlemen, besides, being supplenented with a special letter from Governor Simpson. Mr. Davis, in replying to the jovernor, says: "It would be peculiarly [ratifying to me to accept the invitation to ittend the commencement at Newberry Colege, but I regret that engagements that can ieither be postponed nor negleci:ed, render it mpracticable for me to be present with you ,t the time indicated." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? John Allred, a highly respected citizen of landolph, committed suicide by drowning limself in a mill-pond on Sunday of last reek. ? The injunction against building the townhip boundary fence in Gaston county was reused by Judge McCoy before whom arguaents were made in 'Charlotte last week. ? Petitions have been forwarded to the Vjstmaster General, asking for the establishnent of three new postolEces between Shelby ,nd King's Mountain. ? Cannady, the Republican oracle of Wellington, says that seven of North Carolina's en delegates to the Republican Convention ,t Chicago, are solid for Sherman. ? The Gastonia Gazette says that Messrs. Yhite & Jenkins have commenced the erecion of a woolen factory at their mills on joog Creek, in Gaston county. ? Kesnich's band, of Richmond, Va., have teen engaged to furnish music at the Chapel lill commencement this year. They will eceive for their services the snug little sum on/1 nvrmncma 1 9VVU auu VA|A/tiovo? ? On Saturday last the superintendent of he Rudisill mine, near Charlotte, took to that ity a mass of gold weighing 5 pounds 2 unces, the result of eight days' work. The limp is worth 81,200. ? The Greensboro Stale learns that the Vir;inia Midland Railroad has concluded to exend its line from Danville, Va., to Charlotte, f. C. From the intimation thrown out by he State, should this line be built, it will be inder the control of the Baltimore and Ohio lailrond Company. ? The Winston Leader says: Mr. Spaugh nd wife, from Salem, North Carolina, moved o Missouri in 1876, and after spending four ears there concluded to return to North Carolina, and started on foot and walked the fhole distance, which is about 5-,000 miles. ? Over one thousand merchants availed hemselves of the invitations extended by the pholes$le dealers of Charlotte to visit that ity. The excursion was a success, and the 1 /I Charlotte merchants are jubilant over the amount of business done by them. ? The Charlotte Observer of Friday says: The railroad running from Cherawto Wadesboro, North Carolina, twenty-six miles, will be completed the entire distance in a few days. This opens a route from the North to Charleston, by way of the Northeastern Railroad. The work has been progressing quietly but surely. ? The case of Josiah Turner against exGovernor Elolden, to recover damages for false imprisonment sustained by plaintiff during the Kirk war, at which time the defendant was Governor of the State, came up, a few days ago in Raleigh, before A. W. Haywood, Esq., as referee, to take the examination of the defendant and report the samo to Chatham Superior Court. The proceeding was supplemental to execution. The defendant declined to be sworn, on the ground that a receiver of the property, and especially of t.hA iiidcrment Acainst the defendant, had been appointed before the institution of thtse proceedings, and that therefore the plaintiff, Turner, had no right to proceed in the cs.se as at present constituted. The referee, on motion to attach defendant for contempt, ruled that he had no power to attach for contempt in such a case, but that the pro[>er way was to certify the matter up to the Superior Court of Chatham county, in order .that the defendant might be properly dealt with, touching his said refusal; which was accordingly done. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. North Carolina Legislature. - ? The North Carolina Legislature couvened in extra session, on Monday last, us is generally known, to take into consideration the advisability of selling to a New York syndicate the State's interest in the Western North Carolina Railroad. At the date of our latest advices from Raleigh, no action had been taken. It is understood that the Republican members will oppose the sale, while the Democrats are generally in favor of selling, though divided in opinion as to what should be the terms of sale. Manufacturing in North Carolina. Circular 67 of the North Carolina Ag ricultural Department, has been issued, and contains much useful information in regard to the agricultural and industrial resources of the Slate. In the matter of building and furnishing factories, much progress is being made. The report states that the High Point Manufacturing Company has established a factory for spinning warps and yarns with n capacity per day of 1,000 pounds of warps; number of operators 80, one-half to be employed during the day, the other during the night: the plan being to run the factory day and night. Buildings are being erected in the city of Churlotte for spinning warps and yarns. Six thousand spindles will be employed. In Randolph county two new factories are being built, and two others are in contemplation. In the mills of the following named companies: the Randleman, the Cedar Falls, the Franklinsville, the Randolph and Deep River, the old machinery is being thrown out and new and improved machinery is being substituted. In Alamauce a firm has recently erected the Bellemont Mills, and will begin operations during the present month with 5,000 spindles. Messrs. J. H. & W. E. Holt are arranging to erect a rnui on naw River, which will be putin operation towards the close of the year. Mr. Geo. \V. Swepson is putting in 120 additional looms, increasing his capacity 8,000 yards of plaids per day. The Concord Factory has discarded the old machinery, substituting the latest and best, and has increased its capacity. The Harden Manufacturing Company at Windsor, Bertie county, is running mills with the "Clement Attachment," with success. Virginia and the U. S. Supreme Court. In the Senate of the Virginia Legislature on Wednesday of last week, a preamble and resolutions were adopted relative to the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of J. D. Coles, County Judge of Virginia, indicted in the United States Circuit Court, Judge Rives, for failing to put negroes on juries. The preamble recites in effect that the decision threatens the very existence of State governments as distinct sovereignties, and places the judiciary of the State completely under the control of the United States, and if followed to its logics.1 results will enable the United States Congress to coerce the State judiciary as well as the State executive and legislative department in all matters, thus destroying every vestige of State sovereignties, a very alarming doctrine to all who value the blessings of liberty, for the security of which the United States constitution itself was established and ordained. The resolutions urge Virginia's Senators and Representatives in Congress to procure a repeal of all the laws of Congress which tend to the exercise of powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution nor prohibited by it to the States, and especially of that act under which the decision mentioned was rendered, and requests the Governor to communicate copies of the resolutions to the Governors of the several States, with a view to having the Legislatures thereof take similar action. For the Centennial Celebration. Under the above caption the Charlotte Observer of Saturday says: It is estimated that it will require at least; $15,000 to celebrate King's Mountain centennial in a manner suitable to the eveut commemorated. and the executive committee of the centennial association have already addressed themselves to the work of raising the funds. At a former meeting, a resolution was adopted empowering them to make such additions to the ways and means committee as would enable them to carry out the objects of the association, aud, in accordance with this resolution, the secretary has appointed a number of representative citizens throughout the section of country contiguous to the battle ground, each of whom is requested to take Bucb measures as he may deem best to accomplish the object in view, and to report to the committee at its meeting to be held on the 24th of March, in Charlotte. The Kuoxville (Tenn.) Tribune, referring to preparations making in that section for the approaching celebration, has the following: Our distinguished fellow-citizen, Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey, has suggested what strikes us as very appropriate, the idea of raising in this neighborhood a cavalry company of the descendants of those who participated in the battle of King's Mountain, to attend the centennial celebration of that important event in our struggle for independence. Let the company be equipped in the frontier style of! 1780, and cross the mountains?camping out? j as near as practicable by the old trail pursued by their fore-fathers. Capt. John M. Brooks, ; who probably has more of the blood of the , heroes of King's Mountain in his veins than any one man in this immediate community, \ is suggested as a proper person to take the' initiative in the matter. Let us raise the1 company. Adrlce to Farmers. ! The regular annual advice to farmers as to their wisest course in planting the com-1 ing crop is beginning to appear in the news- j papers. We have never sought to thrust j gratuitous counsel upon thoso engaged in the # principal leading industrial pursuit of tbe country, supposing tbe farmers, severally sod individually, capable of managing their own affairs, and that each from his own standpoint will pursue that course which he thinks will best redound to bis proht. The farmers are told that they are preparing to over do the cultivation of cotton ; a crop of 6,500,000 bales is predicted and the ruin of thousands of farmers presaged, as it is urged that this crop will be attempted at the expense of breadstuffs and the meat supply. And in reading the farmers a lecture on this subject, the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph throws out the following suggestions, which we repeat for what they are worth : 1. Over one-fourth of the cotton raised must be handed over to the guano dealers, even if the crop is an average one. If the worm, drought, storms or early frost, contract the yield, so much the worse off will the'farmer be. 2. Labor, mules and plantation implements are from twenty-five to thirty per cent, higher than last year. 3. Corn (of which immense supplies must be purchased) and bacon, have advanced twenty-five cents; and 4. It is evident from the tremendous trade of the Winter and early Spring, that our farmers have had their heads turned by the rise in cotton, and are disposed to go back to their old habits of extravagance. The above is undoubtedly intended as a friendly and kind admonition, which those who may can heed before it is yet too late; hut if they think differently it cannot be helpe<L What is to the interest of the farmer is to the interest of all other classes ; for upon his success depends all other industries. MERE-XENTIOH. State Democratic Conventions will be held as follows: Nebraska, at Columbus, March 31st; Arkansas, at Little Rock, June 3rd; Wisconsin, at Madison, May 19th; r "*T /\_1 A ' 1 1 ftiL . TTI Louisiana, new urieans, Apm iiu; Virginia, at Richmond, May 19th. Dennis Kearney, the notorious California agitator, was arrested at San Francisco last Thursday ou two charges of misdemeanor, based on remarks made at a political meeting on the Tuesday night previous. He gave bail. A destructive fire occurred in Augusta, Ga., on Thursday night, destroying a livery stable containing about 150 buggies and other vehicles, and iwostores and other smaller buildings. Seven horses were burnt in the stable. Total loss $32,000 ; insurance $26,000. Emil J. Proff, who has been for some time on trial at Harrisburg for attempting to bribe members of the Pennsylvania Legislature, has been found guilty as charged. Several other pending legislative bribery cases will now be pressed to trial. The election for municipal officers of Camden, N. J., resulted in a general victory for the Democrats It is said that there are signs at Washington indicating tj^Ta regular movement is to be made in favor of General Hancock for the Presidential nomination. On Wednesday of last week, the citizens of Augusta voted a subscription of $50,000 in aid of the Augusta and Knozvilie Railroad. This subscription is to defray the expense of building a bridge across Savannah river. The road is graded to Greenwood, S. C., and will soon be ready for use. The Mississippi Legislature has imposed a tax of $3 on all bachelors over twenty five years of age. George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, has made a liberal subscription to the Lee memorial fund for the purpose of erecting a monument to Gen. R. E. Lee. The storms of last week seem to have spread over a wide area. Snow fell in the North and Northwest to a considerable depth, and heavy rains are reported from the South, while the wind blew a gale all along the Atlantic coast. The Rhode Island House of Representatives has passed a bill repealing the law prohibiting intermarriage of whites and blacks. The trials of Henry Virgil and Houston Gully, indicted in Kemper county, Miss., for the murder of John P. Gilmer, have been abandoned for the present, in consequence of the impos sibility of getting an impartii&l jury. It ap pears that nearly every man in the county has expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused. The Methodists of Phillipaburg, N. J., are having a great revival. About 300 persons have professed sorrow for their sins, and it is expected that the total number will foot up at least 500. Over 2,000 have signed the temperance pledge. Dr. H. H. Toland, formerly of Columbia, died in San Francisco, California, on the 27th of February. Dr. Luther R. Dickinson, editor and proprietor of the Planter and Farmer magazine, and a prominent citizen of Richmond, Va., has been detected in a series of forgeries, covering a pe riod of two years. He has absconded, leaving a letter in which he confessed bis crimes, and promises to devote the remainder of his life to the payment of his indebtedness. The forgeries aggregate $23,000 or more. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester. S. C., March 16.?The Circuit Court is still in session, and is now engaged on the civil dockets. The sessions docket was gone through on Wednesday, with the exception of a murder case, which was tried o'n Saturday. The grand jury made their report on Wednesday and were discharged. On Thursday the following sentences were pronounced: ?? ' J T i. Henry .rencueron. coiorea, assaun, auu u?ctery; three years fiard labor in the penitentiary. John Hambrick, a white youth of fifteen years, charged with complicity in the same assault, and found guilty, although he struck no blow, was sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for one day. Suett Knowland, colored, convicted of burglarizing the store of Wylie & Agurs, was recommended for clemency by the prosecutors, and received a sentence of one year in the penitentiary. Alexander Berry, colored, breach of trust with fraudulent intent. Four years in the penitentiary. Charles Landrum, colored, found guilty of a murderous assault on Mrs. Hunter, was sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years. Green Stuart, colored, convicted of stealing live stock, was sentenced to the penitentiary for one year. Berry Robins, found guilty on the same charge, was sentenced to the penitentiary for three years. Ben. Cousar, colored, convicted of larceny of corn from the field, was fined $50, and on filing affidavit of an insolvent debtor, was released. This is the same negro who was shot while in the act of the theft, by Robert McDowell, who was tried for the shooting at the last term of the Court. In the present trial, Cousar was ably defended by F. T. Morgan, Esq., one of our young and rising lawyers. After the sentences were passed, the Court of Sessions was adjourned until Saturday morning, when the case of Scott Hopkins, colored, for the murder of James R. Stroud, white, was called. The State was well represented by Mr. Solicitor Gaston and W. A. Sanders, Esq. The prisoner was ably defended by Hon. J. J. Hemphill, and S. P. Hamilton, Esq. The jury was composed of both white and colored men, and took the case at 11? o'clock Saturday night. After remaining out about threequarters of an hour^they returned with aver aid or gunry. un uemg urougui uau vuuri, yesterday morning for sentence, the prisoner's counsel made a motion for a new trial. The motion was refused, after argument by counsel, and the Judge, sentenced Scott Hopkins to be hanged, withiu the limits of the jail yard, on the 23rd of April, 1880. I learn that on the 8th instant, on the plantation of James Kirkpatrick, in this county, ! Wesley Robins, colored, was dangerously shot by Mo jes Knox, colored. On yesterday, considerable amusement was created by a dispute between two trial justices. The constable of one of the justices was tried before the other justice on the charge of maltreating a prisoner. He was found guilty and sen termed to jail; but the justice who appointed the constable demurred to the proceeding, and a good deahof talking ensued; though finally the offender was taken to jail. Chester is becoming a progressive town. We are soon to have sFfactory, and now have a good machine shop unaSr the control of Bennett & Moffatt. They are! constantly employed, and are turning out wheelbarrows, plows, guano machines, and almost everything in that line. Chester. THE STATE DEMOCRACY. constitution of the democratic party of south carolina. The Constitution of the Democratic party of South Carolina, which was adopted by the State Convention, and went iuto force iu the campaign of 1878, is as follows: Article I. There shall be one or more Democratic Clubs organized iu each election precinct, each of which Clubs shall have a distinct title: "The Democratic Club," and shall elect a President, one or more Vice Presidents, a Recording and a Corresponding Secretary, and a Treasurer, and shall have the following workiug committees, of not less than three members each, viz: A Committee on Registration, an Executive Committee and sucn other Committees as to each Club may seem expedient Art. II. The meetings of the Clubs shall be frequent after the onening of the canvass, and some member of the Club or invited speaker should deliver an address at each meeting if practicable. Art. III. The President shall have power to call an extra meeting of the Club, and ^ members of the Club shall constitute a . ( quorum for the transaction of business. Art. IV. The Clubs in each county shall be held together and operate under the control of a County Executive Committee, which shall consist of one member from each Club, to be nominated by the respective Clubs and elected by the County Convention, and such other members as the Convention may add. The Executive Committee, when elected, shall appoint its own officers and fill all vacancies which may arise when the Convenin oonoiAn Tka fannwo nf Affinn nf 11UU AO live 1U OVOOIVUl AUV bV UU1V VI VI the Executive Committee shall be until the next general campaign, unless sooner removed or suspended by the County Convention. The present County Executive Committees shall continue in office until the first meeting of the County Conventions under this organization. Abt. V. County Democratic Conventions shall be composed of delegates elected by the several Local Clubs?one delegate for every Club, and an additional delegate for every tweuty-five (25) enrolled members?with the right to each County Convention to enlarge or diminish the representation according to circumstances. This Convention shall be called together by the Chairman of the Executive Committee, under such rules as each county may adopt, and when assembled shall be called to order by the Chairman of the Executive Committee, and shall proceed to elect from among its members a President, one or moro Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and Treasurer. The convention shall proceed to business, and when the same is transacted, it shall adjourn sine die. Abt. VI. The mode and manner of nominating candidates for county offices or for delegates to the State, Judicial aM Congressional Conventions, shall be regulated in each county by the respective County Conventions. Art. VII. The State Convention shall be composed of delegates from each county in * the numerical proportion to which that county is entitled to representation in both branches of the General Assembly. Art. VIII. The officers shall be a President, one Vice-President from each Congres- " sional District, two Secretaries and a Treasurer. Art. IX. The State Executive Committee shall be composed of three from each Congressional District The delegates from the counties comprising the Congressional District to nominate the candidates from that district, and the Convention shall proceed to an election. Art. X. The Executive Committee shall elect its own Chairman and other officers, and shall meet at the call of the Chairman or any five members, at such times and places as he or they may appoint. Art. XI. The Executive Committee shall / have power, by the vote of a majority of the whole Committee, to call a Convention of the A Democratic Party of the State at such time \ and place as it may designate; and is charged with the execution and direction of the poncy of the party in the State, subject only to Constitution, the principles declared ia^'the platform, and such instructions, by res/dfation or otherwise, as the State Convention may from time to time adopt; and pfiall continue in office for two years fnyih the time of election, or until the assembling of the next State Convention for tjy^ nomination of a State ticket, unless superseded by the action ' of the State Convention. And if any vacancy be occasioned by*' death, removal, or any other cause, the Committee shall have power to fill the vacancy, j Art. XII. Whisn the State Democratic Convention assembles, it shall be called to order by the Chairman of State Executive Committee, shall elect a temporary President, and shall proceed immediately to the election of permanent officer* and the transaction of business. S . The Convention, wheb .it has concluded its business, shall adjourn tine die. And when a ~ Convention is called by the Executive Committee, such Convention shall be composed of newly elected delegates. Art. XIII. Representation in Judicial and Congressional Conventions shall bef on the same basis as in State Conventions/ A majority of delegates shall be preset at a Convention to constitute a quoruqt; for nominating a candidate either for Congress or Solicitor. The delegation of each county, in a Congressional or Judicial Convention, shall have power to fill any vacancy in uhe delegation. In every Convention to nominate a candidate for Congress or for the office of Solicitor, A a majority of the votes shall be necessary to a choice, and the vote shall be taken viva voce and recorded, unless there is but one candidate, in which event the vote may be taken by aeclamation. As soon as a Congressional or Judicial Convention has nominated the par ty candidate for Congress or Solicitor, it shall adjonrn sine die, and whenever a candidate to fill an unexpired term of either office has to be nominated, it shall be done by a new Convention of delegates fresh from the people. The Executive Committee of each Congressional District or Judicial Circuit shall consist of the several County Chairmen of the respective counties composing such District or Circuit, which Committee shall elect its own Chairman, Secretary and Treasury, who shall continue in office for two years in a District and for four years in a Circuit, respectively, or until their successors shall have been elected. It shall require the consent of a ma- 1 jority of the whole Executive Committee in any District or Circuit to call a Nominating Convention. The Executive Committee of each District or Circuit shall be specially charged, in its discretion, except as herein provided, and subject to the State platform, as well as under the supervision of the State Executive Committee, with the conduct of every election for Congressional Representatives or Solicitors in such District or Circuit, and said Committee shall meet at the call of the Chairman or of auy three members at such times and places as he or they may appoint. 1 Each Congressional Convention shall meet within its Congressional District, and each Judicial Convention shall meet within its Circuit. Art. IV. This Constitution shall not go into force until the State campaign of 1878, j . .. .