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Jtoaps and |acts. | ? Gen. Garfield and Gen. Hancock are j both invited to be present in Boston at the celebration of its two hundred and fiftieth | anniversary, on the 17th of September next. ? The tax assessment lists for 1880 give a total valuation of property in the City of New York at 81,143,765,727 ; an increase over 1879 of 849,696,392. ? J. B. Walters, of the Richmond Whig,1 has beeu indicted by the Henrico county j grand jury for acting as second in the Elam-! Smith duel. No other persons connected with the affair were indicted. ? If there has been one good thing about the Hayes administration, it was his early Southern policy, and now he tells the country that this was not his; that he borrowed it from President Woolsey, of Yale. ? It is estimated tl at the Democratic convention left near half a million dollars in Cincinnati. Over 8100,000 was spent for board. Seveuty-six thousand kegs of beer were consumed during the week. ? The question is asked sometimes as to the pay of members of Congress. Both Senators and members of the House receive 85,000 per annum. The Vice-President, and Speaker of the House, receive each 88,000 anuually. ? On Friday last, at Rolling Fork, Miss., Kirk Williams was hanged for the murder of a man named Plessner. About 15,000 persons were present. Williams made a short speech warning his friends of his fate and asking them to pray for him. ? The followiug are the full census returns of the cities named: New York, 1,209,561; Philadelphia, 847,452; Boston, 352,000; Baltimore, 320,000; Brooklyn, 554,693; Chicago, 477,500 ; Cincinnati, 246,153 ; St. Louis, 375,000 ; San Francisco, 227,350 ; New Orleans, 207,328. ? In Boston, on the night of the 29th ultimo, a fac simile of the celebrated Eutaw flag was presented to President John H. Hall, of the Boston Light Infantry Veterans, on behalf of the Washington Light Infantry, of Charleston, S. C. Appropriate addresses were made on the occasion. ? Atlanta, Ga., celebrated the Fourth of July last Saturday in the grandest style since the war. The number of visitors is estimated at 20,000. There was a procession of military, firemen and vans, representing business industries. Senator Joseph E. Brown and others spoke in the City Hall Park to an immense gathering. There was a magnificent display of fireworks at night, ancl hundreds of people were on the streets. ? A Georgia man rigged himself up as a bear to have some fun and he got it, for the inhabitants turned out with dogs and ran him four miles over a stumpy country before he could make them understand that be wasn't a bear. And then they talked of tarring and feathering him for alarming the women folks in the neighborhood, and finally gave him three days to leave the county, lie won't play bear any more. ? Gen. Hancock was made a full Major-General in July 1866. The pay of that office is 87,500 for the first five years, and an addition of 10 per cent, on the original amount upon the completion of each term of five years. In July, 1871, his pay was increased to $8,250 ; in July, 1876, to 89,000 ; and if he retains his position to July of next year, it will he advanced to 89,750. This is exclusive of all allowances attached to the position. He draws about 814,000 a year. ? The Cincinnati Commercial says: We happened to pick up the figures of the expenep* nf the Presidential eandidates in the Cin cinnati convention. Gen. Hancock's friends spent less than one thousand dollars. On other Presidential candidates were spent for rent, refreshments, music, transportation, hotel hills, pamphlets, etc., the several sums of 88,000, 812,000, S13.000 and 832,000. The Cincinnati expenses of Tammany were 815,000. ? Nebraska's population, so the census ahows, will run up to fully 500,000, an increase of 300 per cent, over the census of 1870. On the appointment of one Congressman to every 175,000 people, this will give Nebraska three members, a gain of two. Kansas is likely to gain two also, and Texas four. Of the Eastern States, Pennsylvania is the only one that has any chance of increasing its representation in Congress. Ohio and Indiana will both lose Congressmen, aucl Illinois is not certain of keeping its present representation. ? A murderer has at last been hung in TVyrs His name was English Carter, and he was convicted of the murder of VV. K. Spauiding, on the 24th of last July, near the town of Dodge. He met his fate firmly, and told the minister in attendance that he would see him at. another time, which was equivocal, to say the least. The execution took place shortly after 2 o'clock. The towu was crowded with people. The murder was of the most cold blooded type. Carter rode up to Spaulding's house, professing friendship, and in leaving shot him down at his front gate. The hanging of Carter gives general satisfaction, even in Texas. ? The Washington Star has been endeavoring to interview the Surratt family in regard to Gen. Hancock's connection with the execution of Mrs. Surratt, but cannot get anything out of them. The rej)orter who talked with Prof. Tonry, who married Mrs. Surratt's daughter, however, says: "From the tenor of the talk from beginning to eud, it was very evident that the family have more or less feeling against every person having a direct or indirect agency in the execution of their mother, whatever part such person played in the tragedy. Gen. Hancock's offending appears to have been his supposed neglect or alleged refusal to plead for executive clemency." ? A dispatch of the 30th June, from Macon, Ga., says: About 12 o'clock last night, a meteor as large as a barrel, starting from the zenith, plunged down the northeastern sky, and exploded near here with a report that reverberated for thirty seconds and shook the earth even at this pont. The meteor was about five seconds in falling, during which time the city was lit up as though by a powerful electric light. Much excitement prevailed in the negro quarter, where the iuhabitants rushed into their houses and closed the doors, filling the air with screams and pravers. The time between the disap-1 pearance of the phenomenon and the report was about three minutes. This would make the distance from Macon about forty miles. ? Mr. English, the Democratic candidate for Vice-President, owns, it is said, two or three hundred dwellings and business blocks in Indianapolis. He is erecting an operahouse in that city, to be managed by his son,! William E. English, whose marriage not long ago to Miss Anua Fox, a New York actress, created a temporary commotion in Indianapo-; lis society. Mr. English is a widower. He is | peculiar in his home life and somewhat aus-1 tere in his social relations. He lives in a I plain but substantial house, where he is to be found most of the time. It is said that when i he was president of the First National Bank j of Indianapolis, he had a habit of going to | the bank at midnight and devoting hours to j his account books. His success in life has. been in the direction of his tastes and abili-! ties, which are those of a rigorous business; man. ? On the morning cf the 30th ultimo, the j Sny levee, on the Mississippi river, which begins at a point near Quincy, 111., and ends near Alton, broke at what is known as the cut-off", just 15 miles below Hannibal. At noon that day the crevassee was 500 feet wide and constantly increasing in size. There are several other dangerous places in the embankment which will doubtless give way. It was impossible to prevent the flooding of vast areas of rich farming lands protected uj the levee. The water spread rapidly, and ; an area several mile3 in extent was overflow- j ed. Au idea of the damage may be gained I from the fact that Fin extent of country forty ' miles long and from four to ten miles wide was protected by the embankment. The levee 1 was built under the act of 1871, which was declared unconstitutional. It was afterward taken possession of by the United States court for the benefit of the holders of its con-1 struction bonds, aod is still in the hauds of; the court. By reason of this litigation, the levee has not been repaired for years, which, I no doubt, accounts for the present break. It ! is thought the damage will aggregate 81,000,-1 000. ifarfctfilte (grntjuiw. YORKVILLE, S. t'.: THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 8. 1880. A SENSATION IN COLUMBIA. The Columbia Register of Friday contained the particulars of a startling discovery which had but re< ently been made in the office of Commissi ner Coit, who is charged with the settlement of the bonded debt of the State in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court of the State, and also with the funding of the bills of the Bank of the State under a recent act of the Legislature. Commissioner Coil had reason to suspect Alexander C. Laughlin, his principal clerk, and expert in examining and cancelling the bills of the Bank of the State, with unlawfully appropriating tt his own use the said bills, and accordingly, on Thursday morning last, made an affidavit before Trial Justice Fickling charging Alexander C. Laughlin with grand larceny. The affidavit cited the dates and amounts of bills which it had been discovered were missing. A preliminary hearing was had before Trial Justice Fickling at 11 o'clock Friday. The accused was represented by Messrs. Wallace, McMaster and ex-Judge Melton, and the State by Attorney-General Youraans. The case was opened by Commissioner Coit, the first and only witness sworn, who testified iu substance that he is special comniis sioner under the Act to settle the debt of the State iu accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court and of the Act to provide for funding bills of the Bank of the State in consolidated bonds or stock. The latter Act provided for an expert to examine the bills presented, and determine between their validity or invalidity. It was impossible for him to examine them all in person, because the elimination of the tainted from the spurious orcounterfeit bills was involved. Witness was unable to distinguish between the two. Under the provisions of the Act he employed Alexander C. Laughlin so to ex amine these bills. Did not know how long it would take to make the examination. His object was to obtain an expert residing near the Capitol. Laughlin was employed upon the recommendation of Col. F. W. McMaster, who spoke of him as an expert who had long been cashier of the Exchange Bank of Co lumbia and who was familiar with bank bills. Laughlin bad enjoyed the confidence of the board of directors. Employed him some time in February or March last, after the extra session of the Legislature. His <lntioo icptp tn pvnrr'np nnr>kncrf>s of hills Dre MM"W "V,V V" 1 O L seated for funding and count them, separating genuiue from the spurious bills, and to cancel them after examination, put them up in packages, seal and certify upon the face of each package the amount of bills found valid, also the amount found invalid. The packages were tied up in brown paper, and all the corners sealed with wax and stamped with a seal specially made for the purpose. Upon the first intimation that things were going wrong (about the 29th of June) it was not convenient to make au examination, but witness afterwards made an examination in the presence of the treasurer and Mr. Martindale. Upon the count Ihe witness did not find the bills to correspond with the amount certified on the face of the package. The package said to contain 82,015.35 was found to contain only 81,616.10. He found nothing further. Mr. Coit stated that six hundred thousand dollars of bills had been counted, sealed and certified, for which only about 8160,000 in bonds had been issued. To recount the bills, which had been counted by Laughliu, would require fully three weeks and would not involve an examination into the genuineness of the bills. In the cross examination by defendant's attorney, Mr. Coit stid that Laughlin had no regular assistant in his work. The cancelling of the bills was done by machinery, Adam Green, the colored messenger, being generally employed in this service. Up to the 5th of June, witness had two assistants in his office, Lee Hagood and H. M. Davidson. The latter kept the key of the safe. Laughlin counted the bills, and the custom was to I put the packages in the safe. Witness was sometimes absent during the counting and cancellation of the bills. This ended the testimony. Governor Simpson, Treasurer Leaphart, and Chief Clerk Martindale, of the treasury department, were present in court, and were offered to defendant's attorneys for examination. Defendant's counsel declined to examine them. Tl,? A fnntr tirortierl th n f. t li p I JL I1C IlVlVliitJ V-VUVIM4 MlgMVV? VtfMV ... V case was one of great importance, involving the validity of over $G00,000 of bills. That a bond of $5,000 would be a mockery of justice. He asked t.iat the court would fix j the bond at not less than $100,000. After further ar> ument the Court decided : to fix the bail at $2,500 for the appearance ; of the defendant at the July term of the Ses- ! sions Court, and Geu. Wallace gave his' parole for the appearance of the accused until 11 o'clock the following (Saturday) morning, i Pet. ling this time, clerks had been count-' ing the bills of the Bauk of the State, and additional discoveries were made, necessitating a re-examination and reconsideration of the case. Accordingly, when the accused appeared before Trial Justice Fickling on Satur- i day, a second warrant, sworn out by Com-1 missioner Coit, was read. The warrant charged grand * larceny, the specific count being j that the accused had feloniously abstracted bills of the Bank of the State amounting in face value to the sum of $150,000 and of the real value ot $75,000. Commissioner Coit was re-examined, and he said that since Mr. Laughliu's appointment as clerk, there have been presented for funding, in the aggregate, about $700,000 of these bill8. Other witnesses were examined, among them John D. Alexander, George W. Parker, Thos. J. Gibson, the last two testifying that they had bought bills of the Bank of the State from Mr. Laughliu. The purchases were made at different times and at different prices. Mr. Gibson had bought from him ! probably $6,000 worth. Mr. Parker did not state the amount he had bought, but testified that at one time Mr. Laughlin offered him a lot of $2,000 which he did not buy. At the conclusion of the testimony Justice Fickling required bail ip the sum of $50,000, which the accused was unable to give, and he was therefore committed to jail to await the action of the grand jury. The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier give9 the following sketch of the personal history of the accused : Alexander C. Laughlin, who is charged with having committed the crime which has brought the office with which he is connected into such disrepute, is a native of Fairfield county, and has been the recipient of numerous evidences of confidence upon the part of the officials of the banks here, with which both parties were connected. Laughlin was O unnr h/iv Koforo fho u/*r nnrt wnn his WAV to a p??sition of trust on the Greenville Railroad in 1855. Subsequently he became connected with the Exchange Bank of this city when John P. Southern was president. This was from 1862 uutil 1865, and during that time Laughlin enjoyed the confidence of the president and board of directors of that bank.* At the time of his resignation as cashier, at the close of the war, his accounts were examined by the committee of the board of directors, and his conduct of the business of the bank specially commended, although reports were freely circulated here that Laughlin had appropriated a large amount of specie belonging to the bank. He spent several years in Europe and returned to South Carolina about 1873 and engaged in business in Charleston. The accused is of engaging manner, of affable disposition, and shrewd in his business qualifications, the latter qualification contributing in no little degree to his present downfall. The same correspondent says that it is stated upon good authority that Charles Logan, broker in Columbia, who is the attorney in fact for ex-Senator Robertson, who held sevseveral hundred thousand dollars of the bills of the Bauk of the State, first discovered the swindle by purchasing bills which he had previously funded. * ?. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? There are seventy-seven active granges of Putrons of Husbandry in South Carolina. ? The census gives Charleston a population of 49,924. ? It is claimed that only one man has been >' i i i n ,i r-1 i* , -i nno Killed id a auei in aoum uaronna since iouo. ? Mrs. Ann White, Due of the oldest inhabitants of Rock Hill, died in that town, of paralysis, on the 24th ultimo. ? The confederate monument of Newberry was unveiled on .Wednesday of last week with imposing and appropriate ceremonies. Gen. J. D. Kennedy delivered -the oration. ? D. D. Gaillard, of Winnsboro, has passed the preliminary examination, and been admitted to the West Point Military Academy. ? Walhalla celebrated the Fourth by ushering in the day with a salute of thirteen guns, a procession marching to music, read ing the Declaration of Independence, orations, a dinner, and a display of fire works at night. ? Capt. Lake, of Edgefield, anuounces himself as a candidate for nomination for the Legislature as in favor of the stock law in that county, and proposes to fight it out on that line if it takes all the summer. ' ? Ellison HamDton. colored, sentenced to " 4 ' be hanged at Sumter last Friday, for the murder of his son, was respited by the Governor uutil August 13th. ? On Thursday last good rains fell along the line of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad, in Anderson, Abbeville and Newbery counties, thereby ending the long drought which had oppressed vegetation. ? Mr. William Ross, a young man about 24 years old, was killed by a falling tree during a storm on Tuesday afternoon last. He lived in Lancaster county, near the North Carolina line. ? The Governor has not yet made any ap pointment to the vacant office of sheriff of Charleston count)'. Taft and United States Marshal R. M. Wallace are at present the most prominent candidates for the Republican nomination for the office. ? The Edgefield Advertiser says: "On Thursday night last, about 9 o'clock, a negro mau, named Harper Bauskett, living on Dr. John Mobley's plantation, near Red Bank Church, wa9 shot and instantly killed by some person unseen and unknown." ? The Columbia correspondent of the Nexus and Courier says: "I have it from an authentic Republican source that the Republican executive committee will not call their State Convention before September, and perhaps as late as October. My informant does not think that any nominations for State officers will be made, but should they decide to do so will favor a short campaign." ? The barn and stables of Mr. John Funk, who lives about five miles south of Rock Hill, were prostrated by a violent storm on Monday afternoon of last week. His horses escaped injury, a9 they were in the lot at the time. A wheat stack was blown forty yards, and trees two feet in thickness were twisted off from the stock. The wind was accompanied with heavy rain. Mr. Funk lives on Mr. A. Williford'a place. ? Says the Charleston News and Courier: The Southern Life Insurance Company, which failed about five years ago, has at last begun to settle with its policy holders, and upon a very liberal basis indeed?for the compauy. A gentleman of Charleston who had a "paid up policy" for 8400, the original value of which was 82,000, has just received a check for two dollars and forty five cents, "dividend in full from estate of the Southern Life Insurance Company." ? Says the Charlotte Democrat: "A serious accident happened to the wife of Mr. Turner Barber, who lives in York county, near the North Carolina line, and who is well known in this city. As Mr. Barber entered his dwelling and was about taking his seat, a pistol dropped from his pocket and exploded, the ball lodging in the ankle of Mrs. Barber. Dr. Kell attended the wounded lady, and hopes are entertained that no serious consequences will result. ? The News and Courier says Sheriff Bowen left but little property, "and most of that is in the names of other people. Holding as he did for so many terms an office which under his management could not have yielded less than 815,000 or 820,000 a year it, was natural to suppose that his accumulations would be considerable ; but from the condition of his affairs, it is evident that he spent the bulk of his large income upon the army of retainers who flocked around him and who i kept him in power." ? About 1 o'clock last Monday Columbia was visited by a dreadful rain, wind and hail storm, the damage resulting from which was manifest principally at the Penitentiary. ; The third story of the machinery building was blown off, and at the time 233 convicts 1 were in the second story of the same building, j Escape by the regular stairways was impossi-1 ble for so large a number, and the whole party, among them two or three white men,'? were panic stricken. A number, in their fright jumped from the window to the ground. Five were more or less injured in this manner, but by the effects of the storm none were hurt. ? NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The census gives Wilmington a population of 17,579. The census of .Fayetteville shows a falling off of more than one thousand since 1870. ? The Charlotte Observer says Mecklenburg's cotton crop continues to be very promising. Paw Creek township will raise more than the whole county did before the war. ? In Alamance county a man was arrested and bound over to the uextterm of the U. S. Court for resisting a census enumerator in the discharge of his duty. ? The Cheraw and Salisbury Railroad has been completed to Wadesboro. This opens a new line of railroad communication from the up country to Charleston. ? The Charlotte Observer reports that rains have fallen in all parts of that county?in some places where quite a drought had prevailed. ? Governor Jarvis has commuted the death sentence of Frances Hood and George Galloway, both colored, who were to have been hanged at Charlotte last Friday for infanticide, to imprisonment for life. ? Lieut. Lemley, of the U. S. Army, a native of Salem, will, under appointment of the United States of Colombia, found a national military academy at Bogota. The President has uccorded him a three years' leave of absence in order that he may accept the duty. ? Terrific storms have visited almost every portion of North Carolina within the last week. Reports of these are to he seen in almost every paper published in the State. They have occurred from the mountains to the seashore, and have been damaging to property, growiug crops, &c. ? In the Executive office at'Raleigh is a treasure of letters, many of them written in the old colonial times. Among these are many original ones from the famous Governor Tryon, whose palace at Newbern was at once the pride and wonder of the then colony of North Carolina. The cost of erecting this building, as certified to by Governor Tryon, was ?15,000, or $75,000 in our currency. It was begun in 1766 and completed in 1771. ? At a late hour last Friday night, Win. Ray and Neil Mellon, two youDg men of PlmrliiOo m\t infn a rtifflnnlftr 111 tho wicinitw 6 ? J " * "J of the express office in that city, during which Ray inflicted two severe and dangerous wounds on Mellon with a knife, cutting him once in the right breast and again in the left side, the blade penetrating to the hollow each time. The wounds are considered dangerous, and pending their termination Ray was bound over in a bond of $2,000. POLITICAL NOTES. ? The Boston Herald (Independent) gives the situation in a word: "Well, the Democrats are happy." ? Says the Boston Herald: "Conover thinks he can pull Garfield through in Florida; but who will pull Conover through ?" ? In a recent interview, Mr. Tildeu assured a reporter that he would give the Hancock ticket his cordial support. ? A Hancock club has been organized in New York, composed mainly of veterans of the Mexican war. ? Don Cameron has written a letter declining the chairmanship of the National Republican Committee. ? The Augusta Chronicle predicts for Hancock and English a majority of one hundred thousand in Georgia next November. ? Gen. Grant's letter of congratulation to Garfield is so long on the way that fears are entertained that the third term candidate forgot to stamp it. ? Garfield's pedigree seerua to be a trifle mixed. Already it is said he came from Welsh, Irish and Dutch stock. And then there was his credit Mobilier stock. ? Col. J. R. Abney is the South Carolina member of the committee appointed by the National Convention to notify Gen. Hancock and Mr. English of their nomination. The committee will meet in New York on the 12th instant. ? Gen. Phil. Sheridan says: "I am not in politics; but Gen. Hancock is a good and great man. The Democrats have not made any mistake this time. They have nominated an excellent and a strong ticket." ? Lively betting has already commenced on the issue of the Presidential contest. In New York $500 to $400 are offered in favor of Hancock, and several bets at those figures have already been made. ? The Tammany Hall Democracy of New York held a rousing Hancock ratification meeting Thursday night; and on the same night a similar meeting was held in Irving haU. The divided Democratic household of# New York is fast becoming united. ? A veteran organization of St. Louis, largely composed of Graut men, proposes to resent the treatment of the "old commander" at Chicago. They will do this by supporting Hancock. Sixty # of them seceded from the Republican partv in a body the other night. ? Senator Hampton returned home from the Cincinnati Convention last week. Speaking of political matters, he says that the Democratic skies are bright, and that the Democratic National ticket had been selected to win, and that it would do so. If it should be deemed necessary, he says he will take an active part in the campaign in this State. ? The Philadelphia Times, one of the lead * O .t -VT ,1 _ ing independent newspapers or tne norm, in its issue of July 1st, in speaking of the Cincinnati nominees, says the Democrats have put up a ticket which has not only made New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana surely Democratic, but Pennsylvania doubtful, with the doubt against the Republicans." ? The selection of Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut, as chairman of the Republican National Committee, is not looked upon by Washington Republicans in a favorable light. Mr. Jewell is a worthy, good man, but one entirely wanting in the arts and wiles of politics, with no power of concentration or of organization. But it seems that the place went a begging. ? Gen. Garfield ended a speech at Painesville, Ohio, last Friday with the story of the crossed swords referred to by Thackeray in "The Virginians," saying in conclusion : "I trust the time is not far distant when under the crossed swords and the locked shields of Americans, North and South, our people shall sleep in peace and rise in liberty, love ? j - - - ?:? ...... ?e anu narmony unaer uie uuhju ui uui nug ui the Stars and Stripes." ? At the Democratic ratification meeting in j Indianapolis, Ex-Governor Hendricks presi- J ded. Speeches weft made by ex-Gov. Hen- j dricks, Hon. W. H. English, the nominee for Vice President, and others. Mr. English, in the course of his remarks, said he would accept the nomination when officially tendered bim, and, if elected, would perform his duties in no bigoted spirit. He also said Mr. Hendricks would stand high in the confidence of the next Democratic administration. ? A suggestion has been made by the Boston Herald that "the Republican National Committee should assert the nationality of the party by making vigorous campaigns*in the Southern States." It adds : "Prominent Republicans of the North, like Blaine, Conkling* Logan, Ingersoll, and others, would be respectfully listened to in the South, and by coiner there thev would accustom the South 0 D J ern people to broader and more tolerant views of political differences." ? Senator Bayard will, it is learned, canvass New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana for Hancock and English. He says he considers Gen. Hancock as good a constitutional lawyer as there is anywhere, and that he will make an honest, straightforward, constitutional President. Senator Bayard said to a reporter that he was very glad that his friends had so ardently supported Hancock. "Of course," he added, with a smile, "like all candidates for the highest honor the world offers, I would have liked to win. 1 made a Democrat's endeavor to win, and now I shall go with Democratic earnestness into the canvass, to do all I can for Hancock and English." ? The Raleigh Pout gives the following as the Republican intentions in North Carolina: Judge YVm. P. Bynutn is apparently growing in favor as the candidate for Governor. Hon. Oliver Dockery, they say, will be on either as Lieutenant-Governor or Secretary of Stute. Augustus M. Moore, of Chowan, is rising for Attorney-General. Honest old Dave Jenkins is to go up for Treasurer, and they say J. VV. Bowman, of Mitchell, for Auditor. Twenty thousand dollars are said to be ap propriated from the national committee for North Carolina. A ticket for the L gisJature, either straightout or independent, is to be run in every county, and the most vigorous campaign ever made on the part of the Republicans in this State will be that of this year, their leaders say. EMT01UAL INKLINGS. A Northern Mail's Opinion. Thos. B. Keogh, Esq., a native of Wisconsin, has been a citizen of Greensboro, N. C., ever since the surrender of Gen. Johnston, he having entered that town with the Twenty-third Army L'orps, commanded Dy Gen. Cox, of Ohio. Since his residence in North Carolina, he has been prominent as a member of the Republican party, having been until recently chairman of the State Executive Committee of the party, and now holding the position of Secretary of the Republican National Committee. He is also Register in Bankruptcy in his district. On a recent visit to his native State, he was interviewed by the Milwaukie Daily News, in the course of which he said : ' Vnn urnnHpp rln vnn whv T ?ni such a pronounced Grant man. Well, I'll tell you. I supported Grant because 1 believed that in a greater degree than any other inun named by the Republicans, his election would have tended to do away with the worst features of sectionalism. When I first went South the opposition to Northern immigration was confined ulmost wholly to the Democrats. Now everything has changed, and the hostility shown towards new comers from the North is largely manifested by the native Republican element. Strange as it may seem, this is a fact, and I am in position to know whereof I affirm. The Bank Bill Scandal. The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier, speaking of the recent de r* m veiopmenis in commissioner ^ons ouice, says: The Republicans here are jubilant over the scandal, and whatever may come of it, they are evidently bent upon using it at present. The politics of the defendant have beeD brought into prominence, and they charge a general looseness and neglect in Commissioner Coit's office in regard to the counting, cancellation and certification of the bills being left alone to any one person. This view is sustained by a great many Democrats who give Col. C'oit credit for the best intentions and the utmost honesty and integrity. Nevertheless, they think he has been imposed upon in a-manner which could have been averted by a proper surveilance of the transactions of his office. It is but due to Col. Coit to say that he has devoted almost his entire time to the discharge of the arduous duties imposed by the Act providing for the funding of these bills, and it was absolutely necessary for him to have the services of an expert in not only counting the bills, but in determining which were genuine issues of the bank and which were not. As is geuerally known the bills were issued during the war, and were easy to counterfeit, being printed upon indifferent paper. The whole matter is unreservedly spo ken of on the streets, and it is useless to feign any sentiment concerning the opportunities, which, as is apparent from the evidence taken before the Court, were allowed to be taken advantage cf. June Reports of the Crops. The June reports of the Department of Agriculture in Washington say that the acreage sown in oats shows an increase of 2 per cent, over 1879; the Gulf and Southern Inland States show little or no change from last year. The average condition of the crop is much better than last year, and 93 against 81 in June, 1879. Texas, of all the Gulf States, is the only one that reports above 100. A general complaint is of drought in all the Middle and South Atlantic States, and rust and too much rain in the Gulf and Southern n. . rot _ r _1 ^ otaies. ineacreugeoi uiuver snuws a yciy , material change from last year, the only change from last year being an increase in the cotton growing States and Pacific slopes. The prospect of a good fruit growing season is very favorable. A Chicago dispatch of the 2nd instant says that frequent and heavy showers throughout the Northwest ha ve already greatly delayed the harvest of wheat and impeded the cultivation . ;orn and hay making. In Central Illinois, Thursday night, there was a heavy rain, which damaged grain already cut and made it impossible to get into the ripening fields for some days. Uuless the weather clears and remains dry, damage equal to that of twenty years ago may result. Unfavorable reports from Minnesota are received, but are not verified as yet. The Man Who First Named Him. Daniel Dougherty, of Philadelphia, who has the satisfaction of knowing that he nominated Gen. Hancock for the Presidency, thus related his experience in the Convention to a reporter of the Philadelphia Times: "I went out to Cincinnati," said he, "without the slightest idea of nominating Hancock. I was invited by the Americus Club to accompany them as their guest, and after a day's deliberation I decided to do so. On Tuesday evening I was at supper with the Queen City Club, when some gentlemen present told me they wished me to nominate Hancock next day. I was thunderstruck, and said that I had no pens, paper or place to prepare a speech, and had thought nothing of the subject. Then they told me that they had a house where I could go, so I went there, and, after dashing off a few lines, went to sleep. The next day I was afraid they wouldn't do, but I read them to a gentlemen who said they were all right. I was full of excitement when I arose to speak, but I had hardly uttered the first line before the Convention saw who was intended and interrupted me with cheers. It was the greatest scene of excitement I ever witnessed. Last evening I received a complimentary telegraph from Gen. Hancock thanking me for my services. I have not seen him for several years. Every, one along the line we have come across is in favor of Hancock, and I have not the slightest doubt of his triumphant election. The banners with his name, have created the greatest enthusiasm, both in Pennsylvania and Ohio. At Columbus they detained our train while they raised a flag pole, fired a salute and made speeches indorsing Hancock and English. We have been received with one continuous ovation ever since we left Cincinnati." Mr. Eyin.s on the Nominations. Hon. J. H. Evins, representative in Congress from this district, was recently interviewed by a correspondent of the Greenville Neioa, upon the subject of the Cincinnati nom nations, and spoke of Hancock in the following terms: The Convention at Cincinnati did its work wisely and well, and the glad shout of approval is coming up from every quarter of the Union. A high-toned gentleman, a gallant soldier of three wars and a hero of a hundred battles ; Hancock possesses all the qualities to attract and bind the hearts of the people to him, South as well as North; for among all the distinguished officers of the Federal army, there was not one for whom the Confederate soldiers who met them in battle had a higher regard. His nomination puts an end to the waving of the "bloody shirt-," and enables us to make an aggressive campaign. In the language of the eloquent Virginian who sec nnded his nomination at Cincinnati, we are now ready to obey his order "to move upon the works of the enemy." His spotless character, beside that of Garfield, like a diamond set in jet, shines only the more brightly for its surroundings. If we had not a sufficient guarantee in his name and lineage, that he would be true to those principles of civil liberty which form the warp and woof out of which our fathers wrought the freest government the world ever saw, his conduct and declarations, while possessed of almost absolute power as military commander in the South, during the period of Reconstruction, would furnish it to us. His letter to Governor Davis, of Texas, and the various orders issued by bim, exhibiting hia tlwirmnrh knnwlpdcrA anil full flnnrpcift- i '"6 V" b" ?a ~~ri lion of our free institutions, and his great reverence for the majesty of the civil law, form a complete answer to all objections which may be urged against him as a "military man," unused to the ways ot civil life. His splendid record as a soldier dwarfs into insignificance the military career of Garfield, and thousands of soldiers who have heretofore trained with the Republican party, will flock to the standard which we have placed in the hands of their old commander. His nomination makes Pennsylvania, at least, a doubtful State, and will prevent the Republicans from concentrating all their forces upon New York next November. With Garfield's record on the Chinese question, I believe we stand a good chance to carry California and Oregon. Iu fact it looks as if we might be carried iuto power upon a tidal wave of popular enthusiasm. But we must not be too confident; we have a foe to deal with who will not relinquish power without a most desperate struggle. Defeat is death to them, and they are fully aware of it. MERE-HENTION. In Leighton, Pa., on the 28th ultimo, George Dick was found dead in a grave he was digging in the Catholic cemetery. His death was caused by sun stroke. For the present action has been suspended on the report of the West Point Academic Board, recommending the dismissal of Cadet Whitaker, in order to allow the latter an opportunity to ask for a court-martial if he disiresto. One year ago cut nails were 82 a keg ; last February they were 85.25, and now they are 83, and dropping. Senator Wade Hampton has accepted an invitation to deliver an address at a fair in Lexington, Ky., next auA . . J T* _ T t .1 turan Ayres ana 10m jones, oromens, moonshiners, were acquitted in Atlanta on the 30th ultimo, of complicity in the murder of Lieut. Mclntyre, of the Eighteenth Infantry, in Gilmer county, three years ago. The heat in New York city last week was intense, and forty-four deaths occurred in consequence of it. The Democratic workiugmen of San Francisco have repudiated Kearney, the agitator. A fire in Augusta, Ga., last Saturday morning, destroyed a foundry and machine shop, valued at $25,000; insurance, $16,000. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM BLACK'S STATION. Black's Station, S. C., July 5.?We have at this time exceedingly dry weather, and garden and field crops are very much iu need of rain. Up to this time that portion of the cotton crop that has been well worked does not seeui to have suffered much from drought. Col. J. W. Mills, of California, and Mr. Jacob Hester, of Pennsylvania, both capitalists, have recently spent several days in this vicinity, prospecting for gold. They were favorably impressed with their discoveries, and will soon, probably, extend their researches in the vicinity of Yorkville. From accounts he has received, Col. Mills is led to believe there are valuable minerals in that section. His experience as a practical miner is considerable, he having been in the business profesionally for years in Mexico, California and Central America. J. A. Deal, Esq., census enumerator for Cherokee township, reports the number of inhabitants of the township to be 2,441. Of that number there are 85 between the ages of ^ ? -J - ? A . OQ knfmAAn f KA AifACI fll vflT I miy auu BiAly , CU uctnccu mo ngco ui aiatj i | and seventy ; 24 between the ages of seventy and eighty; 19 betweeu the ages of eighty and ninety; and 3 between the ages of ninety and one hundred; making 229 persons over fifty years of age, and 2,212 under that age? there being comparatively few ovor fifty years of age. A strange fact is that there are more persons living between sixty and seventy years of age than between fifty and sixty ; and more females over fifty yeare than males. One colored woman reports her age at ninety-five and another at one hundred years. A. Hardin, Esq., is the only white person in the township that is ovor ninety. His age is ninety two. There are 9 males and 9 females over the age of eighty and under ninety. Of those between the ages of seventy and eighty, there are two more males than females; but from fifty to seventy years the females are in the majority. Mr. Deal's work of taking the census of this township is very neatly and correctly executed, and is supposed to be without an error. He used every elibrt to make it complete and thorough. Speaking of elderly persons, I may be permitted to relate the following in connection with two of the "old inhabitantsMr. < Prestou Harmon, of this vicinity, who is eighty-seven, employed Jacob Randall, who i is eighty-four years of age, to make him a coffin, which was completed a few days ago. Mr. Harmon, went to his former home in Cleveland county, N. C., and procured a wal- i nut tree that he planted with his own bands fifty years ago, and had it sawed into lumber for the purpose of making his coffin. In i taking the handles and other trimmings to the shop, he walked a distance of fifteen I miles in one day, which will give some idea of his activity for one of his advanced age. Major T. W. Woodward, of Fairfield county, paid our town a visit a few days ago. It is generally understood that he is on an electioneering tour for Congress from this dis- i trict, his candidacy being subject to the nora- I inating convention. While here, he made some warm friends, Among improvements here may he mentioned the residences of M. L. Ross and G. M. Moore, which are approaching completion and will be neat buildings. Mr. P. S. WhUonant has Buished a shop, and is putting in it the necessary machinery for making moldings, brackets and other ornaments used in building. The town council of this place has passed J an ordinance prohibiting the carrying of con* cealed weapons. Mrs. J. 0. Carltoc, of Union county, is paying a visit to our town. In Trial Justice C amp's court, to day, Jim Stewart, colored, was convicted of assault and battery upon tlie persons of Jim Falls aud wife, and sentet. 2ed to. pay a tine of thne dollars. Efio. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CLOVER. Clover, S. C., July 5.?The new store i room of J. B. Jackson <k Co., has received a new coat of paint, and the house now presents a neat appearance. As a matter of some curiosity, I would state thaL the counters in this store are made from a walnut tree planted by Mr. J. B. Jackson, the seuior member of the firm, when he was a boy. Among other improvements in progress, is the erection of a two-story building on Academy lot?the first floor of which is to be used for school purposes, and the second story for a Masonic Hall. Arrangements are making to institute a Masonic lodge here as soon as the ball shall be completed. Clover now has an interesting Sunday-school, with Mr. J. A. Wilson as superintendent ^ According to the census just taken, our township has a population of 2,654, a gain over the census of 1B70 of 836. We are iu the "dry streak" again this year, and consequently the crop prospects are Dot very flattering at present. Ground here has f nnt. heen f.hnroutrhlv saturated with rain since ? o J t the middle of April. We have had a few light showers?sufficient to keep vegetation alive, but not enough to give it vigorous and flourishing growth. Mr. 3. L. Campbell, a blind man, who has charge of the railroad pump here, had his watch i tolen last Thursday. His vest, in the pocket of which was his watch, was hanging in the pump house, and a negro boy, passing througla, stopped for a drink. He gave his 1 name as Rufe Lindsay. Half an hour later, Mr. Campbell, in putting on his vest, discoverd that his watch was missing. Next morning Messrs. J. B. Pegram and J. R. Barron instituted a search for the watch, the strange negro being suspected with its theft, and in Yorkville he was overhauled., the watch found on his person, and he was lodged in jail for trial. Vox. Correspondence or the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CflESTER. Chester, S. C. July 6.?Since my last letter we have had a few showers of rain, which did considerable good, but they have been insufficient to thoroughly moisten the parched earth. In some portions of the couDty there have been good raius, while other sections have had none. * On Tuesday of last week we bad a heavy wind storm. Large trees were blown down '' in different parts of town, and the engine house of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad was badly damaged. Fortunately, a locomotive recently overhauled and re-painted had been moved out of the house that morning. On the same day lightning struck St. Mark's Episcopal Church, knocking off the. large cross and seriously injuring the cupola and the interior of the building. ^ From all reports corn is growing finely, notwitstanding the ravages of the worm. Cotton is also very promising. Mr. Israel Hood, of this place, took a nearly full grown ^ cotton boll from his field one day last week. An excursion of five coaches passed through here one day last week from Augusta to New York. They telegraphed Mrs. Nicholson to prepare dinner for 150 or 200 persons, and when they arrived only 30 of them ate. It was quite a loss to the lady. The sanitary committee, consisting of Dr. D. Lyle, S. B. I*atlian, J. L. Chambers and I. N. Cross, were busily engaged on Saturday, examining cellars, ?&c., with a view to the health of the town. n Quarterly meeting will be held attheMeth- * odist church here next Saturday and Sunday. Rev. A. M. Chrietzberg, Presiding Elder of 4 this District, will be present. Dr. Q. B. White, Vice-President of the Dental Association, left for Charleston on the 5th, to attend the annual meeting cf that body. By consent of the parties, the sheriff's sales, advertised to take place yesterday, were postponed. Rev. Wm. White, of Kentucky, will preach at the A. R.'P. Church next Sunday, in place of the pastor, Rev. J. P. Marion, who is absent. d The closing exercises of Brainerd Institute (colored) Rev. S. Loomis, principal, took place last Wednesday. There were a great many vixitors preseut, white ana colored. The exercises were interesting, and the pupils acquitted themselves quite creditably. The principal is an excellent teacher, and is highly esteemed in this community. From the census returns filed in the Clerk's office, the following items are taken : Population of the town of Chester, 1,900, mortality for the 12 months past, 21, chiefly aged persons. Population of townships?Chester, 4,065; Rossville, 2,400 ; Blackstocks, 2,400; Halselville, 1,323; Baton Rouge, 3,560; Landsford, 2,650. A few townships are yet to be reported. The smoke house of Mr. John Ford, on ^ Rocky Creek, was broken into last week, aud all of his bacon stolen. Saturday was a lively day. Two excursion trains, composed chiefly of colored people, came up on the Cheraw and Chester Kailroad, and on the homeward trip they got into a general row. Two darkeys were stabbed?one severely. He received seven wounds. Saturday night there was a fight between some whites and colored persons near the depot. The parties were brought before the Council yesterday and fined. There was a large crowd of colored persons in town yesterday. The Champion Hook and Ladder Company (colored) celebrated the Fourth with a parade in the forenoon and a dance at night. There was also an exhibition in the Court House at the same time. All passed off* pleasantly, with the ? exception of one small fight. President W. Holmes Hardin, of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, has gone North to purchase a new locomotive and material for twelve additional cars for the road. This road is now in fine condition. The road-bed i is in excellent order. Mile-posts have also ( been erected between this place and Dallas. f Track-laying commenced last Saturday on the Lancaster side of Catawba river, on the / Cheraw and Chester Railroad. The Congressional Executive Committee meets here on the 14th instant, to make arrangements for the approaching Congressional Convention. Messrs. David Pendergrass and Thompson Johnson,, very aged citizens, of West Chester, died last week. Mrs. Margaret Colvin, aged 80 years, of Halselville, died on the 2nd instant from the effects of a fall received a few weeks ago. At the regular meeting, last night, of LaFayette Lodge No. 8, I. 0. 0. F., the following officers were installed: John F. Douglas, N. G.; W. I. Clawson, V. G.; O. M. Massey, R. S.; J. L. Chambers, Treas.; G. W. Curtis, P. S.; E. M. Evans, R. H. S. N. G. ; W. H. Roseborough, L. H. S. N. G.; J. R. Simril, R. H. S. v. G.; S. Heyraan, L. H. S. V. G.; F. M. Nail, R. S. S.; W. E. Moffatt, L. S. S.; J. W. Rothrock, Con.; W. B. Murr, Warden ; G. T. Schorb, I. G.: A. C. Fischel, 0. G.; D. B, Rothrock, Chaplain ; M. V. B. Capps, Past Grand. After the installation of officers a bountiful collation was served. Chester, 1 -