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Jtoaps and <facts. -1 ? Ten thousand Chinamen are preparing to 1 go to the Louisiana sugar fields. ? Philadelphia has a mendicant who begs in seven languages. ? Within thirty days there have been seized in Georgia thirty illicit distilleries, two teams and about 1,000 gallons of illicit spirits. ? It transpired in a Keokuk lawsuit that the defendant had sent his wife to the poorhouse and married his father's divorced wife. ? A colored child in Laurens, about 8 years old, has a strauge pet?a large king snake, which for some time she has been feeding regularly with a part of her own food. ? In Schley county, Ga., a freedman, with one mule, this year made twenty bales of cotton, weighing over ?00 pounds each, and 200 bushels of corn. ? It has been decided by an Ohio court that "good and sufficient clothing" for a wife includes a calico dress, costing ten cents per yard, and warranted fast colors. Tti n r* T _ r_ j ? Ulysses 5. ijrant, jr., was raarrieu ju New York Monday afternoon of last week, by Dr. Newman, to Miss Fannie J. Chaffee, daughter of Senator Chaffee, of Colorado. ? A gentleman who attended the fair iu Atlanta says the exhibition consisted of a bull and a pumpkin, and that the bull ate the pumpkin Wednesday night and jumped out of the grounds and broke up the fair. ? Mrs. Fillmore, the widow of the late exPresident, is dangerously ill with paralysis at her home in Buffalo N. Y. She was attacked a week ago, and oue side was rendered powerless and speech nearly destroyed. She is scarcely expected to recover. ? A valuable heifer, belonging to a farmer near Northallerton, in England, recently broke its leg, and it had to be amputated. The animal has since been fitted with a wooden leg, on which it moves about with the utmost ease. ? On Saturday there was a fall of suow at St. Louis, Mo., but it melted as fast as it fell. At Chicago there was also a slight fall of snow, and at Springfield it fell to the depth of four inches. On the same day there was a heavy fall of suow at several points in Texas. ? After the uext census apportionment, the New England and Middle States will recede politically, while the West and South will advance. The. East has either to form a coalition with the South or go to the wall. By keeping a reasonable party solidarity, the South can make the balance of power. ? Thirty thousand immigrants, and more, landed at Castle Garden in October. It was the largest number on record for that mouth, and for the first ten months of this year ie or* fl/trrrnnrnto nf noorltr t V* ron nnnrlrfiH thousand, an increase of 150 per cent, above the arrivals for the corresponding months last year. ? A detachment of fourteen officers of the army, attending the artillery school at Fortress Monroe, are now engaged in making a thorough survey of Yorktown and its surroundings for Congressional information in view of the forthcoming celebration of the centennial of the surrender of Cornwallis. A detailed topographical map of the historic place will he prepared at an early day and published by the Government. ? The Washington Star says that Mr. Hayes saves nearly all his salary. No President ever succeeded in saving such a large proportion of his salary. His trip West will result in a saving to the economical President of 810,000. All his family expenses here are now cut off, while his Westeru trip costs him nothing. If he should remain in Colli in bus this winter, and send his message by mail, he would clinch his annual savings in a way no one here would find fault with. ? Mary Pyatt rejected John K. Arnold's offers of marriage for a long time, at Kimberly, Pa., but he was persistent, and at length she consented. There was a great wedding, and the couple went off on a tour. After a week the bride returned to her home, declaring that she had no recollection of anything between her last refusal of Arnold and her awakening to find, to her great surprise and displeasure, that she was his wife. She insists that she was out of her mind durino o the interval, and declines to even see her bushand. ? The American Bible revision committee have completed the revision of the English version of the New Testament and transmitted the result of their labors to the English British committee, which will meet sometime in November for final action, and the university press of Oxford and Cambridge are expected to issue the revised New Testament iu February, 1881. The Old Testament will be published two or three years after. The American revisers have given their time and labor for eight years without compensation. The necessary expenses have been provided by voluutary subscriptions. ? A cave in Eastern Tennessee is two miles in length, and has openings at bDth ends. The owner of the ground around each entrance charged for admissiou, and acted as guide for visitors. The rivalry led to serious fights in the cave, for each held the other to be a trespasser. Then one of the contestants hit upon a novel and effective means of ruining the other's business. He sunk a shaft so as to admit a large stream into the cave at about the centre, and, as there was an incline in a favorable direction, the water poured out at the enemy's portal, while his own was unobstructed. The matter is to be made the subject of a lawsuit. ? The New Orleans Picayune shows that over one million bales of cotton were market-1 ed during the month of October. The receipts at all ports were 960,000, and if the overland movement be no greater than for l??? Qomo mnn th lnof VPfir snmntKino lilrz* 111 Vs CUIUV J VI.I , tfVUJVVUtHg img 850,000,000 worth of the staple left plantations during the second month of the season. These figures are far in excess of any previous record. When the movement to the ports last October reached 884,000 bales, the figures were in excess of the prior season by nearly 200,000 bales, and now these are again overtopped by 76,000. The South Atlantic ports lead in the gain, Charleston, Savannah and Norfolk having already counted nearly 200,000 bales more than last year. At the Gulf ports only 521,000 bales have come in, compared with 528,000 in 1879. The Picayune adds that the trade are still divided ?n the crop question, and the estimates vary materially, though the tendency lately has been towards higher figures. The Atlantic States seem to have fared very well in gathering the crop, and the yield will probably show an excess over .last season. ? When the City of Pekin left San Francisco on October 19, she carried in her steerage 850 returning Chinamen. The sailing hour was fixed at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and each one of the 850 did his best to be first at the gate of the wharf. To accomplish this hundreds of them spent the previous night on the vacant lots in the vicinity and on or under the wagons loaded with their baggage. At sunrise the gates of the wharf were opened, and the crowd, encumbered with 1 bundles of every conceivable size and shape, j tumbled in pellmell, those in the rear falling over those who had lost their baggage and their balance, until nearly the whole mass was piled together on the floor in a howling, struggling heap. The officers soon restored order and ranged the Chinamen along the side of the wharf, where they stood for eight hours patiently waiting to be allowed to board the vessel. When the signal to board was given the scenes of the morning were repeat-, ed, and bundles, bedding, trunks, and no end of hats went overboard as the crowd rushed up the narrow gang-plank. The cause of the unprecedented exodous is ascribed to lack of work and to a demand for skilled Chinese inbor at home. In accordance with custom the steamer has among her stores a supply of coffins, made of trunks of trees sawed in half, in which those who die on the voyage are preserved until China is reached. ihc forMlf &ttquim. YORK YILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 11. 1880. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and State, in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirer is delivered free ol postage to all subscr ibers residing in York county, who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, are not liable i for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, ! without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.r-It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. In the canvass just closed, there were 6ve Presidential tickets voted for, as follows: Republican?President, James A. Garfield, rmss. PUioetcr A Arthur. UL V '111V. T IV^'X I V UiUViiv. \yiivuwi a*. ... - , of New York. Democratic?President, Win field S. Hancock, of Pennsylvania. Vice-President, W. II. English, of Indiana. National Greenl ack?President, James A. Weaver, of Iowa. /ice-President, B. J. Chambers, of Texas. Prohibition?President, Neal Dow, of Maine. Vice-President, A. II. Thompson, of Ohio. Anti-Masonic?President, John W. Phelps, of Vermont. Vice-President, Samuel C. Pomeroy, of Kansas. The con test, however, was between the Demcrats and the Republicans, and between these two great National parties it was conducted with the bitterness and desperation which always marks this quadrennial election. Although the last issue of the Enquirer weut to press but a few hours after the closing of the polls on Tuesday evening, yet the dispatches we published from various sections of the Union were sufficient to show that the result was in favor of the Republican party. That information is now fully verified. As returns now stand, Garfield is elected by a majority of 57 electoral votes, which will be counted as follows: Garfield. Hancock. Colorado, 3 Alabama, 10 Connecticut, 0 Arkansas, 0 Illinois, 21 California, 0 Indiana, 15 Delaware, 3 Iowa 11 (Florida, 4 Kansas, 5 Georgia, 11 Maine, 7 Kentucky, 12 Massachusetts, ..13 Louisiana, 8 Michigan, 11 Maryland 8 Minnesota, 5 Mississippi, 8 Nebraska 3 Missouri, 15 New Hampshire, SjNevada, 3 New York, 35!New Jersey, 0 Ohio 22|North Carolina, 10 Oregon, 3 j South Carolina, 7 Pennsylvania, 29j Tennessee, 12 Rhode Island, 4|Texas, 8 Vermont, 5i Virginia, 11 Wisconsin, 10 West Virginia, 5 Total 213 Total, 15G This result, it may safely be stated, was a surprise to the whole country?a surprise as startling to the Republicans as it was mortifying to the Democrats ; for besides the above States which went Democratic, it was confidently believed that New York and Pennsylvania, with their sixty-four electoral votes, would also, iu this contest, make unmistakable expression iu favor of constitutional government as expounded by the National Democratic party. But as the sequel has shown, these two great States proved defective. New York, probably by treachery of factious Democratic leaders, destroyed her hitherto [ bright Democratic record ; and Pennsylvania, through partisan hate, rejected her illustrious and honored son rather than have an administration in harmony and sympathy with the entire country. But while the defeat of Hancock is a sore disappointment to the lovers of- harmony, peace aud union?for it was through the wise aud benignant policy his administration promised that man - expected to see a complete pacification o ' the country?the people of the "Solid South," so-called, the Southern I 1 States, may have one consolation. Their ' ? ? 11 /? State governments are not in tne nanus 01 aliens, eueraies and plunderers. If the term | "Solid South" means anything, this is simply all it implies, that hereafter these States will | each, separately and individually, be "solid" for home rule and home government. Secure in this, owing to the commercial relations between the two sections, and interests alike important to each, Republican rulecaunot press hard upon the South without recoiling upon the North. The "Solid South" may be distasteful to the Republicans, and weakkneed Northern Democrats may tremble at the bugbear, but oppressive Republican rule at the National Capital, will only solidify | them for their self-preservation. I STATE ELECTION ITEMS. ? The vote for Hagood and the Democratic State ticket will foot up 49,000. Blair, Greenback candidate for Governor, received but a light vote. : ? McLean, the Greenback apostle and canj didate of that party for Congress in this disJ trict, received only 19 votes in his own couni ty, (Fairfield.) ? The negroes at Kingstree, Wiliamsburg county, came to the polls and had their arms huMfm nn the outskirts of the town, as the volleys after dark proved. ? Two thousand armed negro voters crowded into Edgefield Village on the raoruing of election day and openly threatened to seize the ballot-boxes. But they didn't do it! ? Gadsden McKnight, a colored Democrat in Kingstree, lost au infant on last Sunday evening, and the colored men in town refused to help him dig the grave on account of his politics. ? Semi-official returns place the Democratic majority in Greenville county at 2,273, not counting the box in Dunklin Township. That box was, by mistake, opened at 7 A. M. It was closed at 6 P. M., and as the votes were emptied on the table and the count began, the light was put out by a party outside the window of the managers' room and the votes seized and scattered. An official count was not made. All parties concede that no blame attaches to the managers, who endeavored to capture the intruders. Dunkling has always given a large Democratic majority. Ip Fairfield county, the Radicals were orderered by their leaders to concentrate on Winnsboro, Doko, Jenkinsville, Yonguesville and Gladden's Grove, virtually abandoning the other polling places, and they massed in immense crowds and made it very difficult to vote. Owing to a delay caused by waiting for the name of a Radical candidate for the Legislature, the Radical tickets did not appear until several hours after the polls were opened, and in the meantime other tickets were largely circulated among the negroes and voted very considerably by them. FairBeld gives a Democratic majority. ? The majority of Evins over Blythe, in the Fourth Congressional district, is about 13,000. The Greenville Nem says it is gen > . 1 .1 . i "D ~ eralJy understood mat a. oiyme, uic ?vcpublican candidate for Congress, will contest the seHt of Hon. J. H. Evins in Congress. Strolbraud will also contest Col. Aiken's seat in the other up country district. The grounds will probably be general fraud, intimidatitjp, etc. Each of the contestants was beaten by over 10,000 majority. The statement is also made that in Lancaster county the Republicans did not vote because their printed tickets did not reach them iu time. With entire unanimity they refused to vote, believing that the elecliou would be void by reason of their having no printed tickets. It is said that Blythe, their nominee for Congress, instructed them by telegraph to abstain from voting, and this word was conveyed to all the precincts. It is claimed that he will contest the seat of Col. Evins, if the next House be Republican, on this ground and that he may get his S5,000 per annum from a partisan Congress. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Charlotte Observer sports two recent incendiary fires in Providence township, Mecklenburg county. ? The Aurora says that rocks, pistols and knives were used rather freely on the Btreets of Shelby on the night of the election. The same paper contains a notice by a man offering a reward of 8100 for the person who fired a pistol at him that night. ? The Shelby Aurora says that Daniel Keath, who was convicted of murder at the last term of Rutherford Superior Court, and is now in jail at Shelby, has made a full confession of the crime of which he was convicted, and also many other crimes that he has 1 !_ j ? com mi lieu iu uav? pasu ? At Shoe Heel, Robeson county, on Sunday of last week, a young while man named Caton, who kept a store in that place, had an altercation on the street with a young raulato named Hines. On the following day, Hines went into Caton's store, and after some words, plunged his knife into Caton, twice, inflicting wounds from which he died four minutes after. Hines made his escape. ? At Stalesville, on election day, two college girls, one a daughter of a prominent Republican of the town, and the other a daughter of lending Democrat of Burke county, got into a dispute over the Presidential con testants, which became so exciting as to lead to blows. The girls were parted by their friends, but not until one had received a black eye, and the other lost a lock of hair. At Gastonia, says the Gazette, two young ladies, one a Republican, and the other a Democrat, got into a dispute, which, though it did not lead to blows, caused some excitement. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Death of a Famous Singer. Isabella McCulloch, the soprano singer, died on Monday of last week at the residence of William H. Neilson, in New York city. She was a native of Columbia, South Carolina. Her father was a well-to-do Scotchman, but the war swept away his fortune and left the family invery straitened circumstances. The daughter had a magnificent voice, and under the advice oflocal musicians paid particular attention to its cultivation. At the academy at Columbia, which she attended, her singing was famous. It was in the winter of 1867-8 that she made her debut in New York, singing with credit in "Un Ballo in Maschera." She had been a pupil I of Torriani and won success as a singer from the first. As an actress, her Scotch directness of address and bluntness of manner were blemishes in her performances. Miss McCulloch's first tour of this country was made in company with Adelaide Phillips. She sang with LaGrange in "Don Giovanni" and in "Le Prophete," and at different times was under engagement to both Max and Maurice Strakosch. When the opera of "Lurline," was brought out for the first time she sustained the title role and her friends declare that her singing of "Sweet Spirit, Hear My Prayer," has never been surpassed in sweetness. "Martha" was her favorite opera. Some ten years ago she met Brignoli, the Italian tenor, and, after two years of most persistent wooing on his part, she married him and left the stage. After six years of married life, part of it spent in Europe, Brignoli abandoned her, and her suit for divorce, about two years ago, finally separated them. For a number of years past she has supported herself as a church singer. The Election in North Carolina. North Carolina voted the Democratic ticket, but by reduced, and in some counties by decidedly reduced majorities, as compared with the elections of 1876 and 1878. The Congressional delegation from that State in the next Congress will stand seven Democrats and one Republican. Jarvis is reelected Governor by about 8,000 majority. The Legislature will stand Democratic by a small majority on joiut-ballot. The following is the vote of the border counties: Cleveland?Hancock 1,736 ; Garfield 535 ; Jarvis 1,691; Buxton 553 ; R. B. Vance, for Congress, 1,656, Atkinson, Democrat, Iude! pendent for Congress, 342 ; Love 3 ; Jasper ! Stowe, for the Senate, 1,397 ; Suttle 500; J. : Y. Hamrick,democrat, elected to the House; i D. D. Suttle, democrat, elected sheriff, and J. K. Wells register of deeds, i Gaston?Republican majority of 30 for the Ctntn on/1 notinnul tiflrpf T)f>mr)Pr?t.ifl loSS of 450 over the vote of 1876. Democrats i j lose all the county officers, except register of, deeds. Morris, defeated by 200. Mecklenburg?Democratic majority for | i electoral ticket, 116; Democratic majority for j j Governor, 84 ; for Congress?majority of j Dowd, dem., over Col. Myers, repub., 47; the ; Democratic legislative and county tickets were elected by small majorities, except the I office of county treasurer, to which Belk, the j incumbent and independent candidate, was reelected by a majority of 539. I Union?Hancock 1,518, Garfield 824;; Jarvis 1,481, Buxton 880; Dowd 1,398, Myers 419 ; democrats elected to the Legislature. Republican gain on the Presidential vote of 100. Condition of the Cotton Crop. The New Orleans Democrat of last Saturday publishes reports from 52 principal poiuts in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia, showing the condition of the cotton crop to the 5th instant, inclusive. Louisiana?Replies have been received from I 13 points, all of which report wet and unaf vorable weather for picking. The prospects are more discouraging than they were last week. There is no change in the estimates in four reports ; two report that the cfop will , be equal to last year's ; one reports a slightly larger crop than last year's, and five report ' crop from 25 to 30 per cent less; one reports the crop guthered, and another gathered as iar as opened. 1 Mississippi?Reports received from fourteen points, all but one of which show unfa- ' vorable weather for picking, though it is being pushed as fast as possible. The estimates, generally, run from 25 to 30 per cent, less than last year, though one place reports a ' substantial gain. The crop is nearly all gathered at one point. The bolls are rotting for want of suushine in one. There is no complaint of labor. Alabama?Reports from 9 points received. In six the weather is unfavorable for picking. There is little or no change in the estimates, they being from 25 to 30 per cent, less than last year to ahout the same. In three the crop is stated as nearly all picked. Receipts are comiug in rather more freely than last week. Texas?Nine reports received, all showing cold or rainy weather and an interruption to field operations on account of that and scarcity of labor. Heavy frost and snow are reported in two, frost expected in one. Picking nearly finished in one, hands scarce in three. The yield will be equal to and slightly exceed last year's in seven, and half a crop expected in two. Arkansas?Two reports received, both showing rainy weather, causing pickers to retire from the field. There will he a short crop in one, but a large yield is indicated in the others. . Georgia?Two reports from this State show bad weather prevailed during the week, interfering with picking. An increase in yield over last year of from 10 to 30 per cent, is reported. The crop yet remaining in the fields is reported to he in excellent condition. Tennessee?One report received which indicates about two-thirds of the yield of last year. Receipts to date are more liberal. Florida?Two reports indicate that the cotton is all gathered except the top crop in one place, which amounts to but little. The yield will be iucreased from 10 to 30 per cent, over last year. ECHOES OF*THE ELECTION. ? Pennsylvania's gratitude to the hero of Gettysburg?30,000 Republican majority. ? The Connecticut Legislature is Republican, which will retire Senator Eaton, Democrat. ? Curtin is elected to Congress from Pennsylvania. He contested Yocum's seat in the 46th Congress. A Democratic gain. ? The New York World is of opinion that there will he no attempt at another reconstruction of the South. ? The Indiana colonization materially reduced the colored vote in Eastern North Carolina, but increased the Republican vote where it would do that party most good. ? The New York Tribune says: "Hancock proved an unfortunute candidate for the Democrats, but he was a respectable one, and his behavior during the campaign was dignified, if not altogether discreet." ? Asks the Augusta Chronicle: "If Garfield should prove a second Hayes, with all the modern improvements, what will Grant and Conkling think of the President they made ?" ? Says the New York Star: "Four years bent*, we venture to predict, a large per centage of the men who voted for Mr. Garfield o - - - will regret the result far more keenly than will Gen. Hancock." ? The Virginia delegation in the 47th Congress will probably stand 5 Democrats, 3 Readjusters aud 2 Republicans. Randolph Tucker has been reelected, but the State aud country sustains a loss in the defeat of John Goode and Cabell. ? Says the New York Commercial, Republican : "The great victory that has been won shows that the people of the Northern States are true to the principles for which Grant, Sherman, Garfield and Hancock fought. There were other issues, hut this was the great overpowering one." ? The New York IVorid, the Democratic organ, says that the election of Garfield is virtuaJly the reelectiou of General Grant, but asserts that the continued control of the House of Representatives is assured by the election to Congress of the enemies of centralization. ? The Cincinnati Enquirer, Democratic, say9 that Grant, Conkling, Cameron and Logan have been elected President. Among the causes for the Democratic defeat it assigns the decision which made Indiana an October State and the cowardice which four years ago gave up Tilden's cause. ? No negro is ever sent to Congress from a Northern State. Only two negroes have ever been elected to a Northern Legislature. From the State and municipal offices in the North the negro is excluded. There is not a negro officeholder in Mr. Evarts' own State of New York. ? Congressman Emory Speer, of Georgia, a Democrat, and a strong supporter of Hancock, says of Garfield : "He is a liberal, conservative Republican, independent in politics. He has never been guided by the machine. His nomination was regarded as a liberal victory for that wing of the party, and unless he has seriously compromised himself with Grunt, Conkling & Co., in this canvass, the South need have no apprehensions." ? The Wilmington (N. C.) Star says: Garfield married the first cousin of a very worthy lady of this city, who would not let the fact be known if her name had to be published in that connection, notwithstanding the American people have thought fit to make the man President of the United States. She has moreover the consolation of knowing that none of her family connections supported hira for the high office which he seems destined to fill. ? The New York Evening Telegram, commenting on the result in that city, says: "In 1876 the number of votes polled was 171,380, and the Democratic majority that year was 53,969, against a majority of 41,376, thus showing a loss to the Democrats of 12,593. These figures are more significant, considering the enormous increase of 83,831 in the registration. The Presidential vote, according to all calculations, based upon the past, should have shown a Democratic majority of not less than 63,000 in this city. As it is, the Republican vote has unaccountably increased 43 per cent, and the Democratic vote only 8 per cent, in four years." ? A New York dispatch on the day after i the election says: "At the National Demo- , cratic headquarters, there was much depres- 1 sion throughout the evening. The dejection was intensified as the night advanced and the defeat of Gen. Hancock seemed assured. The j denunciation of John Kelly as the main ( cause of the unexpected republican strength , in New York city was loud and frequent. It: was asserted that he had sold out the party ' for personal ends, and that his enmity to Mr. j Tilden was the main cause of the disaster to the Democracy. Only meagre returns were j : announced, and the national committee were secluded in an upper room. There was not : _l i\. _ /"I LI .1. mwl : I even a oueei iui nuuuuba uj? ,? mm- | night. ? The Hartford Times thinks the effort of! the Democratic organization has been, in its ! relation to the Republican party, like that of i a set of hoops on a rotten barrel. Strike off ' the hoops, and the foul barrel will no longer hold together. If the Democrats were to make no nominations, the Republican party, findiug itself no longer opposed, would quick- j ly fall to pieces as a party organization, from < the very force of its own antagonisms and j i internal corruption. This would necessarily i happen from the incongruous and hostile ele- 1 ments of which it is made up. These ele- < meats, like the ill fitting staves of a badly i made barrel, would burst asunder whenever j < the compulsory Democratic hoop was re- 1 moved. 1 < Xi OCAL A77AXES. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. F. Wallace, C. C. Pis.?Clerk's Sales. R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sales. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation? t J. E. Leech, Applicant?Joseph W. Leech, 8 deceased. a Wbitaker A Wilson?Pay for Stock. G. J. Foreaore, General Manager?Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Railway, Change of ^ Schedule. ? *] T. M. Dobson?The New York House. c Mrs. Fannie L. Dobson?Emporium of Fashion. M. Strauss?Garfield and Hancock. c Latimer A Hemphill?Our Stock?Guano Settle- t merits. * J. M. Adams?Headquarters for Stoves and TinWare?Heating Stoves. ? Herndon Brothers?Seed Wheat?Cotton?Cotton c vs. Guano?Confectionery. ? Kennedy Bros dI Barron?American King. * John C. Kuykendal?York Drug Store Para- 1 graphs. J * ( CIRCUIT COURT. fl Circuit Court was re-convened on Monday t last, and has been engaged on the civil dockets. ^ It is probable the business of the term will be t concluded this week. . ? j AN ACTIVE ELDERLY LADY. E Mrs. Sally Pressley, a white lady aged 88 ? years, residing in the vicinity of Clover, in ' this county is very active and industrious for e one of her age. She picks cotton regularly ( every day?a day's work averaging from forty j to lifty pounds. FOR THE PENITENTIARY. On Tuesday last. Sheriff Glenn forwarded to the penitentiary, in charge of Mr. John F. Wil- 1 son as deputy, the following convicts: Charles J Campbell, colored, convicted of arson, and sentenced for life. Elijah Sutton, colored, con- \ victed of robbery, and sentenced for two years. , TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR. In our notice, last week, of the sentence of 1 Samuel Crawford, colored, convicted of mur- J der in the Court of General Sessions, and sen- ' fenced to be hanged, a typographical error made us say that the day appointed for the execution of the sentence was the 27th of De- , cember, when it should have read the 17th of i7CUCIlll>Cl, BROKE HIS LEG. On Thursday last, Newton Whitesides, a young man about 18 years of age, son of Maj. T. P. Whitesides, while at McElwee's mill, got his right leg caught by the shafting connected with the bolting-cloth of the mill, and before he could be extricated, the revolving shaft broke both bones of the leg below the knee. Dr. H. G. Jackson was summoned and rendered the necessary surgical attention. MARRIAGE. Our young townsman, Mr. A. Springs Withers, was married in Wentworth Street Lutheran Church, Charleston, S. C., on Wednesday evening, the 3rd instant, to Miss Lillie M. Thames, of that city. Rev. Dr. W. S. Dowman was the officiating clergyman. The happy couple arrived at the home of the groom in this place on Thursday, and on Friday evening gave a reception, when they were called upon by their numerous friends who extended their congratulations. On Tuesday evening the young friends of the bride and groom gave them a complimentary hop, which was an enjoyable occasion. CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows: Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Thos." Gilbert, Pastor. Services at the usual hours, morning and evening. Episcopal?Church of the Good Shepherd? Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. Services at the usual hours, morning and afternoon. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. Services at Tirzah next Sunday, commencing on Friday. Communion services on Sunday. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English,'Pastor. Services at the usual hours, morning and evening. ( THE TENTH CENSUS. ' 1 -c r?~i n T we nave rectiveu num u. i.nu?f census supervisor of this district, a copy of the official report of Gen. F. A. Walker, superintendent of the census, to the Department of the Interior, embracing the investigations of Henry Gannet, geographer and special agent, who was appointed by Gen. Walker to investigate and report ui>on the alleged irregularities respecting the recent enumeration in South Carolina. Mr. Gannett visited this State and personally investigated the counties in which the gains reported since 1870 appeared most suspicious, and with almost exclusive Republican testimony he reports that the census of 1880 is substantially correct, and that the discrepancy between the census of 1870 and the present year is due entirely to the defective manner in which the enumeration of 1870 was made. Mr. Gannett carefully investigated Edgefield, the population of which he is satisfied has been correctly returned, and in reaching . hk? conclusion he says : "I also obtained a statement of the total vote in the Democratic primaries in this (Edgefield) county. There is no suspicion of fraud in these elections, and parties are divided sharply on the color line, there being not more than half a dozen white Republicans in the county, while no negroes are allowed to vote at these elections. Out of 3,408 white voters in the county, as shown by the schedules of this census, 3,300 votes were cast at the primary; a tolerably convincing proof that the white population has been correctly enumerated." In connection with this report, under date of October 30, the Department of the Interi- I or has published an official statement of the ' population of each township in South Carolina. j The townships in York county are given as . follows: ( Bethel 2,572, Bethesda 3,081, Broad River | 2,240, Bullock's Creek 3,340, Catawba 4,443, ( Cherokee 2,441, Ebenezer 2,228, Fort Mill 2,834, King's Mountain 2,074, York (exclusive of Yorkville) 2,018, Yorkville 1,330. To- ' tal, 30,713. * The total population of the State is given * as follows: TOTAL POPULATION. a.... ..j Iiiu.nii.1. Tntnl. Mnlp. Fpinnl*. ' The State"! ".7. 995,306 490,827 504,979 1 Abbeville 40,822 20,003 20,759 C Aiken 28,122 13,860 14,262 Anderson 33,613 16,587 17,026 Barn well 39,858 19,940 19,918 ( Beaufort 30,190 14 603 15,587 Charleston 102,825 49,152 53,673 i Chester 24,153 11,850 12,303 I Chesterfield 16,345 8,008 8,337 { Clarendon 19,190 9,600 9,590 Colleton 36,390 18,273 18,117 ? Darlington 34,485 17,127 17,358 V Edgefield 45,846 23,022 22,824 i Fairfield 27,766 13,715 14,051 J, Georgetown 19,613 9,496 10,117 Greenville 37,494 18,513 18,981 C Hampton 18,767 9,443 9,324 I Horry 15,574 7,804 7,770 n Kershaw 21,538 10,650 10,888 J Lancaster 16,903 8,417 8,486 E Laurens 29,444 14,602 14,842 j Lexington 18,590 9,126 9,464 t Marion 34,107 16,793 17,314 , Marlboro' ' 20,598 10,214 10,384 J Newberry 26,497 13,061 13,436 Cconee 16,256 7,879 8,377 Drangeburg 40,995 20,389 20,606 Pickens 14,391 7,149 7,242 6 Richland 28,585' 13,848 14,737 j Spartanburg 40,408 19,781 20,027 ? Sumter 37,037 18,: 139 18,698 Union 24,081 11,872 12,209 v Williamsburg 24,110 11,9:16 12,174 t i'ork 30,713 15,215 15,498 j Jfcg" Capt. Bates and his wife formerly the ?iants of Barn urn's show, recently made ^he r >verlaud jo(urney from San Francisco. They d ire each nearly eight feet long, and the ^ ileeping car berths are only six. In order o ;o secure a comfortable bed they took the e ipposite sections, connected the upper berths d svith an adjustable piece, and laid themselves f jrosswise of the car, the other passengers j P lindly consenting to the partial obstruction t< )f the passage at night. I & THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. 1 < OPINIONS OF THE PftESS. New York Herald.?Ind. j I As to the result of the election, the one !1 ;reat and grave danger to the country?a re- ! f ult so close a9 to he disputable?has been ! ' tvoided, and for this all good citizens, all j nen who love their country, no matter for j vhom they voted, will be devoutly thankful, j j rhere will be time enough hereafter to dis- ' :U8s the causes of the overwhelming victory ' if the republicans. It is plain,.however, that1 * he country does not faucy a 'solid South,' ' ind that it does not admire the lack of braius 1 ind of principles for which the democratic ( :anvass was chiefly conspicuous. To their 1 general honor must be added this, that the ' American people, who are, like all free peo- ' jle, conservative, and properly so, were in- |' dined to let well enough alone. They saw no :1 efficient reason for a change in the admiuis- !1 ration. The democrats asserting that there ; vere such reasons, but the vote showing that !J hey were not able to conviuce the people. 1 Whenever the democrats can agree upon a xdicy and tnuster up courage euough to as- 1 lert and explain it before the people, if at the same time they can shake oft' the load of the solid South,' they may have some hope of luccess. The republican have the presiden;y and a working majority in both Houses of Jongress. For four years from the 4th of March next they have the destiny of the country in their hands. New York Time*.?Rep. It can hardly be necessary to point out .hat with its return to complete control of the lational Government, the Republican party will take upou itself great responsibilities. No party has ever been more signally, more jompletely trusted, and to every trust there ire two parties. The momentous issues of the past are decided. They will, in the natural course of things, give place to others, perhaps not so well defined, and of a less stirring nature, but, in their turn, important1 and imperative. Yesterday's election puts the entire country on the same footing. It makes sure the disappearance of sectional questions by the triumph of national principles. It will remain for the Republican Par-, ty to administer the Government for the whole Nation. It will be its duty to complete the readjustment of the national debt, that its burdens may rest as lightly as possible on the people; to reduce taxation at every avail able point; to remove the inequalities which now exist in the operation of much of our fiscal legislation ; to make the currency wholly and permanently sound. It will be its duty to correct the evils which have crept into the civil service, to perfect the divorce which has been undertaken between that service and partisan politics, to remove all just complaint in any section that the natioual Government is partisan, to attract to the Government the upright men of all parties by its purity, integrity, impartiality and efficiency. If it hopes to reap the full fruits of the beneficent victory of Tuesday it must administer the Government iu the spirit in which the people voted?the spirit of intelligent and generous patriotism, of fidelity to the highest aims of free government, of jealous devotion to the equal rights and best interests of the whole people. PItilnrl*?lnM*t T Thii result was made inevitable from the moment the Cincinnati convention adopted its wholly unnecessary resolution for a "tariff for revenue only." The blundering constructor of that plank builded far worse than he knew. He forgot that the line between what used to be called distinctly the agricultural and mechanical States was no longer drawn along the head waters of the Ohio river; he forgot that that line is obliterated everywhere this side of the prairies. That preposterous piece of political blindness imperiled at once every one of the four States that it was possible for General Hancock to carry, and at least three of which it was impossible for him to do without. New York Commercial.?Kep. The great victory that has been won shows that the people of the Northern States are true to the principles Grant, Sherman, Garfield and Hancock fought for. There were other issues, but this was the great overpowering one. The tariff played its part, but it was not the fear of the South that brought the tariff question out. The South as managed to-day is antagonistic to the North in all its parts. The demand for free trade comes from the South ; the "changes" asked for were first heard there. It was the determination that the South should not rule this country through Hancock, Bayard or any other Northern man, that brought about the result Tuesday. Men may deuy this, may sneer at the "bloody shirt" and prate about the "war being over," but these are the hard facts and cannot be disputed. New York Expres*.?Dcm. The result has disappointed Democratic expectations. It was confidently expected l.hnf. Hnnrnok would he elected hv a decisive majority. The most trustworthy reports from doubtful States were were full of assurances. Capable and well informed Democrats based their confidence on ascertained facts. The result has reversed the most judicious and well founded calculations. How it has been gained, how the Republican managers were able to boast a week ago that they would carry even Democratic strongholds, how the vote has been almost preteruaturally swelled in places where there has been no increase, but even a falling off in population, are questions that will require full investigation hereafter. New York Post.?Rep. There was a still more potent reason for the inefficiency of the Democrats, and that was their want of a definite policy and their faithlessness to such fragments of a policy as they had positively avowed. A party iu opposition which invites people to abandon a party in power has two things to do. It must prove the party iu power either theoretically or practically unworthy of trust, and it must provide a consistent and attractive scheme if measures wherewith to supplant theincum bents. Now the Democratic party was an opposition, and no more. It had a great leal to say against the Republicans, and it proved a great deal?mistakes, miscarriages tnd positive offences?but it had nothing to iubstitute that was better. On all questions >f legislation likely to arise it was quite at ' lea. As to the finances, it coalesced freely : with the addle-headed teachers of the papermoney gospel, and it did so in the face of its ] >wn most honorable traditions. New York Sun Ind. When a party abandons its successful and leserving leaders; when a party allows its suemies to dictate who shall and. who shall lot be its nominees; when a party opens its jampaign by raising a white flag and beatiDg i retreat, that party has shown itself to be vorthy of defeat?such signal defeat as has ust overwhelmed the Democracy. * * * : * * * Whatever the controlling :auses may have been, the Democrats are >eaten. Let them take the defeat like men. riie Republicans have undoubtedly done Dany things to carry the country which will lot help them on the ruud to Heaven ; but I hen there have been some practices on the i democratic side not altogether saintly. There j s one thing to be said about Garfield : Oakes lines is dead, and he can have no more transitions with him. We will try to do him ; ustice. We will praise him if he affords us ,n opportunity. At the same time we will mtch him as a man not deserving such high rust should be watched in the office of Presi[ent. Philadelphia Tlipes.?Ind. "Never before in our history were so many eluctant votes cast for any successful Presiential candidate as were given to General iJarfield. He inspired no enthusiasm in his j wu contest, and he was excused rather than nlirely trusted in his public record by bun- h reds of thousands who aided in bis election, g le receives the sceptre of a free people when g rosperity leigns from the eastern to the wes- b 3rn seas and from the Lakes to the Gulf, v nd he will be expected to administer the gov- i e ?rnment with such fidelity, integrity and enlightened statesmanship as must promote the nonor and thrift of the Dation. That he may do so will be the sincere desire of the jreat majority of those who voted against lira, and his future fame and the future happiness of a long distracted country, are now his keeping. Let him well appreciate the ewel that is to he dimmed or brightened by liis reign, and all will be well. * * * The Times believed that the election of a Lried soldier, patriot and statesman like Win-, field S. Hancock would have purified the administration of the government, dignified the civil service, promoted the now assured business prosperity of the country, and effaced forever the demon of sectional strife; but, discounting the result by all that power, money and violence could accomplish, the election of General Garfield will be accepted by the country and the world as the considerate choice of the American people, and to that judgment all good citizens will how with generous trust in the ruler thus chosen. No popular government, or government possessing any features of popular power, has ever been overthrown when the people were prosperous. It is the pinch of paralysis, distress and want that overturns existing administrations ; and the election of Gen. Hancock, just when the country is emerging from years of embarrassment and business prostration; when the fires of the forges, the hum of the spiudlcs and the hoarse music of the shops of industry have been renewed after long silence and desolation, would have been an entirely exceptional revolution. That the people have preferred to continue in power a more than distrusted political domination, rather than accept one of the purest and noblest of our chieftains with a distrusted,party behind him, is not a matter of surprise, nor will it in any degree dim the lustre of General Hancock's fame. Like Winfield Scott, the great captain i f the last generation, and like ^Clay, whosj followiug bordered on idolatry, he has fallen in a race because no man can be greater than the convictions or presumed interests of the whole nation. He emerges from the struggle without a stain upon his record, and the Republic will continue to honor him. His place in history and in the affections of his countrymen is assured?can as much be said with entire faith of Gen. Garfield? Louinvtllv Courier-Journal Dem. We are unwilling to believe that the disaster which has overtaken the Democratic party is a defeat of the people, but is a defeat of the politicians. The politicians of the Democratic party, iguoring moral forces, undertook to play a game of battledore with ' the Republican politicians. To do this they deserted a great leader and abandoned a great principle. * This was an irrecoverable blunder. Alter it a series 01 accidents ana mistakes followed as matters of course. Tlie revolt of Mr. Kelly, the obduracy of Mr. Hendricks, the nomination of Mr. Landers, the ruling of the Indiana Supreme Court, which set aside the verdict of the ballot box and restored the October vote, and the nomination of Mr. English, all of which conspired to* belittle a campaign ill planned and illmanaged, and never big with inspirations, begun upon a low tone, it failed to give out from the first to the close one breezy, soulstirring note. In spite of the captivating personality of Gen. Hancock, the early days of the canvass, which were devoted to the foolish work of smirching the character of Gen. Garfield, fell stale, flat and unprofitable on the country. The spur of activity, while seizing upon a local complication in Maine to hammer out a few lurid sparks that dazzled and misled us, was pratically lost by identifying our nominee with the Greenback rottenness, and no sooner was the issue taken with the tariff plank in our national platform, then, instead of maintaining a doctrine as old as the Democratic purty, Gen. Hancock was induced to halt, hesitate, aud put his foot in it. Then Mr. English proved a disappointment, and, declining to come down with the "* stumps made confusion worse confounded - in Indiana. Montgomery, Ala., Advertliwr.?Dein. The lawlessness and oppression, profligacy and plunder of the Republican party, compelled the solidity of the South. To that solidity more thun ever before she must remain steadfast and immovable. Under our benign home rule our people have prospered to a degree that has astounded our friends and confused our enemies. There need not. be and will not be any "let up" in ihe^wonderful progress of I he South ; under the new regime whatever it may be which the Republican party seek to inaugurate, it cannot materially affect the South. It will indeed, prove a blessing to the extent that it will induce greater self reliance, greater energy and wiser efforts in developing the wonderful wealth and unlimited resources which a kind Providence has bestowed upon the sunny South. The sun will still shine, gentle showers will tall, seed tune and harvest win still bring their blessings, and our staple must continue to be a power in the commercial world, while our coal and iron and other minerals will yield wealth of which the world Jl does not dream. . If. Let the solid South, solid always for home rule and honest government, now give -* its greatest vigilauce and widest counsels, not to national politics or to conflicts and the passions of the. national parties, but to the building up and advancing of our educational moral, and material interests. Herein the South is and must continue to be scflid ; solid as her glorious mountains and as strong and increasing as the flow of her own broad and beautiful streams. It may be that Garfield will prove a very different man from what his past record indicates as first officer of our great repubiic. With the responsibility of the government of many milliou3 of people depending upon him he may possibly prove a wise and beneficent ruler. Augusta, Ga., Chronelcle.?Dem. The South at least has the satisfaction of knowing that she kept her part of the bargain, and if "the hero of Gettysburg" is not President, it is not her fault We think, too, that she has for the last time been led lamblike to the daughter. Her experiments with loyal civilians and military heroes have not been propitious in the past, and the future holdsout no hope iu that direction. What she will do, in the future, time must disclose. Much depends upon how great a gain the .Jl Republicans have made in the Senate and what their policy will be toward this section. The South will be kept reasonably solid for her own protection, and for the purpose of preserving the balauce of power after the next apportionment, when the political domain shifts from east to west The tremendous problem now confronting the two parties and ill sections, is: Will the administration of Mr. Garfiehl be, in case of a control of ConTrocq mndpM iinon thar of Haves, or dicta :ed by Grant and G'onkling, with Zacbariah Chandler's spirit as the inspiring goblin ? Un;il we know the exact nature of that adminstration, we remain in abeyance. Meanwhile, ve may as well prepare for the worst, but lope for the best. It is not at all certain that Mr. Garfield, low that he has been elected, will permit jrant, G'onkling & Co. to rule him. He may >ut them in the background. Honors change nanners. We know from personal and oth;r experience, that helping a man to honors loes not carry with it an obligation of reward. 3ut it unfortunately happens that Mr. Garield has always been, at least, guided by the talwart element of his party, and may be so n the future. If so, the storm will come. Grant's eulogy of th; carpet-bagger, and the loutests made in the South for Congress are leralds of the tempest Chairman Hubbell, if the Republican Congressional Committee, .lready forecasts the party design. The Remblicans expect to control Cougress. Hear dm : He thinks Congreis will be called toother in special session next Spring and or;anized, the Republicans controlling both tranches. He says that, in the House, they rill proceed to throw out any of the Sou thru Democrats who may be returned by open