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?wapis and ? It is estimated that the overflows in the lower Mississippi valley will decrease the cotton acreage of that section 20 per cent. On all the submerged lands planting will be delayed six weeks. ? A prominent citizen of Salt Lake asserts that Brigham Young is still alive, and that his pretended death was a trick to imi>ose upon the" faithful, it being the intention to raise Brigham when the anticipated crisis arrives among the brethren. ? A banquet in a steam boiler was recently given by a German manufacturer in the Duchy of Baden, to celebrate the completion of one of the largest steam boilers in the world. Inside the boiler a table was arranged for thirty guests, while racks for the cookery and wines were placed along the sides. ? The record in the Flipper court-martial with Judge Advocate-General Swaim's report, has been submitted to the Secretary of War. (Jeneral Swaim is understood to recommend a mitigation of the sentence of dismissal. The nnae now pops to the President, and the eener al impression is that the sentence will be mitigated to some lighter punishment. ? The widow of Daniel Webster until her death a few days ago, received the interest on a fund of $60,000, created as an annuity by public spirited citizens of Boston after the death of her husband in 1852. The principal is now to be paid back to as many of the original donors as are living, and the heirs of those who are dead. . ? It is understood that the sub-committee of the House committee on ways and means have virtually agreed upon a bill reducing the internal revenue tax on whisky and tobacco and removing the tax entirely on a number of articles embraced in schedule "A." The total amount of reduction in internal revenue to be effected by the bill is estimated at about 870,000,000. ? According to the statistics furnished by the Census Bureau, the pine forests of the lake region are fast disappearing, and the reserve in Maine, Pennsylvania and the Southern States is being drawn upon. Speculators are taking advantage of the opportunity and investing heavily in timber tracts. Cultivation of trees, if properly encouraged, will supply the coming deficiency in the lumber supply, but not in time to prevent the scarcity and certain advance in prices. ? An official report in detail of pork packing in Cincinnati far the past Winter and Summer, shows a decrease in the number of hogs packed during the past winter, as compared with the previous year, of 137,557, while the decrease in the aggregate gross weight was 38,322,648 lbs. The decrease in the aggregate yield of lard was 6,415,575 lbs. Of other products the statement shows a decrease of barrels of pork of 11,918; of cut meats, green weight, 17,192,089 lbs. ? The business failures throughout the country for the seven days ending last Friday are reported by Dun's Mercantile Agency at 143 against 128 the week previous. The Eastern States had 20, Western 41, Middle 21, Southern 44, Pacific 10, and New York City 7. The most significant failure in New York City is that of Wm. Rumee & Co., an old and respectable house in the leather trade. The stoppage of V. E. J. Magnin, Guedin & Co., importers of watches, has long been expected. ? Hereafter United States notes, silver certificates and fractional notes, equaling or exceeding three-fifths of their original proportions, are redeemable at their, full face value. Fragments of United States notes, , silver certificates and fractional notes, each * constituting clearly one-half, but less than three-fifths, are redeemable atone-half the full face value. Fragments of less than a half are redeemable only when accompanied by an affidavit stating that the missing portion has been totally destroyed. ? A story comes from New York that by reason of the recent flurry in securities of various kinds in which Gen. Grant had heavy investments, he has lost to a large extent, and that his heavy losses and the uncertainty 11 * 1 1 - 1 - ? -L - J ?J l~T oi rne iuiure, iea xiim i?> ueeums juuugi?<iuun property to Mrs. Grant, a week or more ago. "Whether this is a pitable story started for the purpose of raising another charity fund of some kind for the great national beggar is not definitely known ; but certain it is, nothing that Gen. Grant has invested in lately has been very successful, and his name has ceased to be of much importance to big enterprises. ? Of the ?111,400,000 invested in Virginia railroads, only 813,149,000 invested in five roads, yield any dividend. Only tjro out of fourteen railroads in North Carolina pay dividends. Those which pay represent 88,205,000; those which do not, 815,542,000. In Missouri, 8215,0555,160 have been invested in twenty-nine railroads, exclusive of the St. Louis bridge, and a dividend is only paid on one of them, costing $34,412,000. Out of 8258,300,000 invested in thirty railroads in California, only one road, the Central Pacific pays. This, with its Los Augeles branch, represents 8148,078,000, leaving $110,282,000 yielding nothing to the shareholders. ? The sentence of Sergeant Mason who fired at Guiteau, has been approved by Gen. Hancock. The sentence is to be dishonorably discharged, with loss of all pay and allowances, and to be confined in the peuitentiary at hard labor, for eight years. A pet ition to President . Arthur for the pardon of Mason is circulating in Ohio. It has already received the signatures of a large number of prominent business men. The grounds presented for the exercise of Executive clemency are the excitement under which the shooting was done and the claim that punishment enough has been suffered to meet the demands of military discipline. ? The Star Route rcgues were required to give bail on last Friday. Ex-Assistant Postmaster General Brady"gave bonds in the sum of $20,000 on the indictments pending against him for complicity in the Star Route steal. Ex-Senator Dorsey gave bonds in $10,000 in the same cases. His brother John W. Dorsey, was not present, but his counsel stated that he was on his way here from New Mexico to answer, when bail in similar amount \Vill be rennired. Dorsev's clerk. Berdell. did not appear. He will be called upon to give ?5,000 bail when produced in court. John R. Miner was made to furnish security in $5,000 at present, but certified checks for that amount were accepted until real estate security can t>e furnished. Samuel Abell gave bail in $5,000. ? According to the tables of the last census, the product of gold in North Carolina during the census year, was $118,753; of Georgia, $81,029; of South Carolina, $12,040; of New Hampshire, $10,999; of Virginia, ?9,321; of Tennessee, 1,998; and of Alabama, $1,301. The product of the southern gold belt was of course small in comparison with that of the Rocky mountains or Pacific States ; but it is I>ossible that the returns from our scattered mines aud mills are neither full nor accurate. The present production is certainly largely in excess of the figures of the census bureau. The leading silver State is Colorado, which gave us 10 millions against Nevada's 12 millions, Utah comes next, and Arizona, Montana and California. The product of Georgia was $322, of North Carolina $140, and of South Carolina $50. ? A Washington letter to the New York Sun claims that Blaine hopes to lead a revolt against Arthur in Congress, and adds: uMr. Blaine's conviction that he is destined to reach the Presidency next time is genuine. His confidence is entire. He has convinced himself that his plans are sufficient. All he asks of his friends is to be prepared to act. He will show them the grounds of his confidence in due time. All he asks of them for the present is to believe. His buoyancy is great. He hardly consults ordinary prudence, and is impatient for active work in the field. His contempt for opposition he can scarcely conceal. He counts confidently on a general break-up of parties and on his ability to marshal the fragments under his banner. It is the great work of his life. His whole energies are de voieu 10 it. ins ciuei ouject <it picacm, ia iu sow discord." ? The Indianapolis Sentinel publishes statistics to show that corn and not cotton is king. In 1870 there were produced in the country 1.547,901,700 bushels of corn, valued at $580,480,217 ; 448,570,030 bushels of wheat, valued 8407,030,142; and 2,307,540,000 pounds of cotton, valued at $232,240,087. The Sentinel says any other year in the decade would show the same result?corn would still head the list. The increased production of corn from 1870 to 1880 indicates its great value. The production for 1870 was 700,044,519 bushels, while in 1880 it amounted to 1,754,861,535 bushels, a gain in ten years of 993,017,016 bushels?more than 100 per cent, of the product of 1881. There was exported 92,648,137 bushels, valued at ?51,972,809, while the exports of wheat amounted lo ?107,698,485, and the exports of cotton to $247,094,740. During the year 1881 about 250,000,000 bushels of corn were consumed in the manufacture of whisky, upon which the Government collected over sixtyseven million dollars revenue, and since 1803, corn in the way of spirits, lias given the government revenue to the amount of more than eight hundred million dollars. She fforfeviUe $tu)mw. YORK VILLE. S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, MAR. 16, 1882. AH SIN TS. SAMBO. The discussion in the United States Senat< of the Chinese Treaty bill has had the effect of bringing to the surface much of the real feeling of the Republican leaders towards the negro, which, heretofore kept concealed, could not be withheld in making their arguments against the admission of Chinese immigrants to our shores?the opposition of these hypocritical humanitarians being intensified by the fact that the Chinee seeks a home among them allee samee as the negro who comfortably lives in the South. And it is there the two-edged sword cuts. It is to be regretted that the colored people cannot be correctly informed of the true feeling of the Northern Republicans towards them, and made to understand that they are respected by that party only as they cast ther votes in Southern States to perpetuate in "Washington the party of ring rule and plunder. In the course of his sj>eech on Monday, in favor of excluding the Chinese from America, Mr. Jones, Republican Senator from Nevada, enlarging upon the consideration that the intelligent and creative genius of the country in overcoming obstacles, not its material resources, consuiures us weaiui, said that the low wages of the Cliinese, while benefitting individual employees, would ultimately impoverish the country by removing the stimulant to create labor saving machinery and like inventions. Mr. Jones spoke of what he called the dearth of intellectual activity in the South, in every department but one, that of politics. This was because of the presence of a servile race there. The absence of Southem names in the Patent Office is an illustration. "We would not welcome the Africans here. Their presence was not a blessing to us, but an impediment in our way. The relations of white and colored races of the South were now nearer adjustment than they were years ago. He would prophesy that the African race would never be permitted to dominate any State of the South. The experiment to that end had been a dismal failure, and a failure, not because we have not tried to make it succeed, but 13cause the laws away above human laws haw placed one race superior to and far above the other. The votes of the ighorant class might preponderate, but intellect, not numbers, is the superior force in this world. We clothed the African in Union blue, and the belief that he was one day to be free was a candle light in his soul, but it is one thing to aspire to be free and another thing to have the intelligence and sterling qualities of character that can maintain a free Government. Mr. Jones here expressed his belief that if left alone to maintain thcGovernment, the negro would gradually retrogade and go back to the methods of his ancestors. "This," he added, "may be heresy, but I believe it to be the truth. If, when the first ship load of African slaves came to this country, the belief hud spread that tney would be the cause of political agitation, civil war, and the future had been foreseen, would they have been allowed to laud V IIow much of this country would now be worth preserving if the North had been covered by Africans as is South Carolina to-day ? In view of their non-assimilate characteristics, the wisest policy would have been to exclude them at the outset. So we say of the Chinese to-day," he exclaimed, "and for a greater reason, because their skill makes them more formidable competitors than the negroes. Subtle and adept in manipulation, the Chinaman can be put into almost any kind of factory. His race is as obnoxious to us and as impossible for us to assimilate as the negro race. His race has out lived all others, because it ishomogenious and for that reason alone. It has imposed its religious peculiarities upon its conquerers and still lived. If immigration is not checked now, when it is within manageable limits, it will be too late to check it. What do we find in the condition of Africans to induce us to admit another race in our midst V It is because the Pacific coast favors our civilization, not that of another race, that they discourage the coming of these people. They believe in the homogenity of our race, and that upon this depends the progress of our institutions and everything on which are built our hopes." In the same debate, Senator Teller, Republican, of Colorado, said: No man in this country ever discussed the question of the rights of the human race with as much intelligence as Abraham Lincoln did, and yet he declared over and over again in that "memorable debate between Stephen A. Douglas and himself in 1858, which attracted the attention of the whole world, that the negro was an inferior race to the white man. He repeated it again and again, and notably at Columbus in 1859, that the negro was and must ever remain the inferior of the white race. Now, because he thus asserted, did he deny to the negro any rights that a man ought to exercise ? He said : "Because he is my inferior in intellectual and mental development, and because he has a color to his face not as good as mine, it is no reason why I should deny to him any of the rights that were given by the Almighty." It was, however, a fact that the man was lower in the scale of hnman rWpinmiipnt- and hp nneht not to be denrived V.W O . of anything that would enable him to rise. That was Abraham Lincoln's position upon this question. Thus it seems that even Mr. Lincoln did not have a very exalted opinion of the colored race ; and while the Republican Senators give utterance to sound doctrine when speaking on measures involving their own welfare, unfortunately when a similar question is transferred to the South, and Republican votes are to be secured, they lose sight of their theories altogether. GEN. GARFIELD'S ILLNESS. A Washington letter says the minority of the committee on expenses incident to Gen. Garfield's illness will oppose the extravagant allowance to the physicians made by the majority. They will not recommend any specific amount, but will oppose anything like $25,000 for Dr. Bliss, and i thers in proportion. It appears that the co oiuittee has had a stormy time over the consiv eration. At the last meeting Blackburn denounced the doctors and declared that it would be a burlesque and an insult to the intelligence of the country to pay a ! man $25,000 for treating a pus cavity for two | irinnt-lia uu <? criiriclmt. wniiml 1111 <1 llftVPr diseov- I ering his mistake until the dissecting knife revealed it after the victim was dead. The friends of the high allowances, it is said, have been trying to arrange for the passage of their j bill through the House the same day with a | rush and without reference, trusting to senti- j ment to aid the accomplishment of this end. j The minority, however, will insist that the bill take its place on the calendar and submit i to the light of examination and discussion. I It is not believed that it will be reached till next session, and many are in favor of that course, thinking that then time will have cooled the passions of all concerned and that it , will be possible to have it impartially considered. Said one of the committee : "If the people of this country could see the bills brought in for allowance general disgust would l>e the result. I would as soon think of asking Congress to pay me for nursing my wife through an illness as to put in such bills as some of these if I were in the place of certain persons I could name." FARMING IN THE STATE. ? A Ridge Spring correspondent of the News and Courier says there is an unusual area in Edgefield county planted in wheat and oats, and the prospect for abundant yield is orx.-wl Vavmoid <1 l-p nrpl 1 prill 1v milkilKT A fair ij?vu. * o~- ./ o - start in preparing for corn and cotton. Commercial fertilizers are freely taken, though not so abundantly as last year. There seems to be no appreciative diminution of supply of labor, notwithstanding the draft made upon our laboring classes of population by the exodus of last winter. Certainly that draft will not seriously affect the production of our county, even in the present year. Our people have removed many lane fences and have fenced their pastures. Many valuable portions of abandoned fields are being prepared for a crop, and with favorable seiisons the yield this year may be unusually large. ? The Anderson Intelligencer of the Oth says: "There will probably be a larger area of land in cultivation in this county this year than ever before. While the crop of small grain, particularly of oats, is largely in excess of former years, the acreage in cotton, from present indications, will be almost as large as last year, and in corn somewhat larger." The guano dealers of Anderson are cutting down the prices of fertilizers?competition?and the farmers who have not yet purchased are rejoicing. ? The Chester Reporter says : Farmers from various sections of the county report the condition of the small grain crop as most promising. Not much said about "that fly" now. Some fear that the forward crop may be damaged by the April frosts. ? Says the Lancaster Ledger : A few days of beautiful weather put the farmers to ploughing last week. Great quantities of old field pines have been cleared from the ground, and our farmers, we hope, may be impressed with the necessity of planting all their low land in corn. ?It is a remarkable fact, says the Williamsburg Herald, that over #8,000 changed hands last week in Kingstree for the purchase of mules and horses?the most of it being ready cash and not advanced by factors. ? In Spartanburg county there have been registered this year 1,000 agricultural liens, representing in round numbers #75,000. STATE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist brings his political horoscope on the field in this State with the following results : Some of our State paj>ers said that the political campaign opened when the Legislature adjourned, but it is not improbable that a little, just a little, electioneering was done previous to that time, and soon the pot will be boiling and bubbling. The most prominent gentlemen so far mentioned for Gubernatorial honors, with the exception of Governor Hagood, are ComptroyerGeneral Bratton and Lieutenant-Governor Kennedy. Both will make good races, as they have many warm personal friends and old war comredes, who will "spread" themselves for their respective candidates. It is [ said that General Bratton has never sought j ofiice, but lias worthily won honors that have been conferred upon him unasked, and would make a safe Executive. Gen. Kennedy is a genial friend, a fine orator, a capital stump speaker, and possesses a personal magnetism that would draw friends to him and win advocates for his cause. Perhaps no man in the State would make a more i>opular or efficient Executive. There is a strong disposition in some portions of the State to renominate Governor Hagood. It has been generally understood that if Governor Hagood consulted his personal wishes that he would retire from political life at the end of his term, but he could not refuse the nomination if lie believed that his people desired him re-elected. lie has made an admirable Executive, and is much stronger to day, with the people, than when he was nominated, in 1880, although he was unanimously nominated at that time. The second place on the ticket?Lieutenant Governor?will doubtless be filled by Hon. J. C. Sheppard who isayoung man of commanding abilities, and has rendered his State good service. . For Congress at Large the following are understood to be in the race: Major T. G. Baker, of Charleston; Col. J. N. Lipscomb, of Newberry; E. B. Murray, cf Anderson ; J. L. Orr, of Greenville; Wm. Elliot, of Beaufort ; George Johnstone, of Newberry ; James Callison, of Edgefield; A. T. Smythe, of Charleston ; Harry Hammond, of Aiken ; W. II. Perry, of Greenville; Col. Blue, of Marion; J. J. Hemphill, of Chester. A few others are waiting to get the consent of their "friends" before they allow their names to be used. It it needless to say this consent will be obtained if their friends happen to be in the nominating conventions. # THE INUNDATED SECTION. A dispatch of last Friday from Bayou Sayra, La., says that on that day there was a fearful mass of water escaping from the river at that point. The gap was about 1,000 feet wide. A New Orleans dispatch of the same day says: The New Orleans, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad is again submerged and is impassable in the neighborhood of Water Valley, Miss. The overflow has assumed alarming proportions, inundating all that section of the country. The trains are linable to proceed further north than Coffeeville station, this side of Water Valley. Capt. Richard Sinott, arrived from Red River, reports 250 families below Alexandria living on rafts and in a deplorable condition. He thinks the State should send them rations at once, or that some private provision should be made to relieve their great misery. The levees along the New Orleans city front are inspected daily, well guarded, weak points strengthened and every precaution taken to prevent a crevasse. The same precautions are taken all along the line from Baton Rouge to the Gulf. On Saturday, in reply to a request from Gov. McEnery, the Secretary of War ordered 100,000 rations to be delivered to the Commissioner at New Orleans for sufferers by the floods. The situation 011 Sunday is given in the following dispatches : A special from Helena, Ark., says : The river has fallen an inch, but the overflow in the city has risen an inch. Careful watch is being kept 011 the levee, and every effort is being put forth to make assurance doubly sure. The relief committee have their hands full and are doing good work. Rations for 900 persons were issued yesterday. These do not include applicants who are supplied by the marshal as special commissioner. Many colored persons are coming from the lower districts, and, from the outlook now, labor will be scarce 011 plantations when the time for making crops conies. Intelligence from Clarendon, fifty miles from here, gives a gloomy picture of the situation there. Little or 110 business is being done 1 there and the water in some places is six feet ( deep in the streets. The board of health announced yesterday that starving cattle had been killed and sold in the market, and passed 1 resolutions calling 011 the city authorities to ' prohibit such sales as being dangerous to the health of the city. j At New Orleans the river showed the high- , est record of the season, being at 0 P. M., only six inches below the high water mark of 1874. Capt. J. M. Lee, the army officer appointed by the secretary of war to ascertain the condi- < tion of affairs on the Mississippi, says : From a point twenty miles below Memphis, where the first break on the levee occurred, the entire country is one vast sea of water. The people all through this submerged region are utterly destitute, and in a starving condition. Their stock has been drowned and they are living in gin-houses, stable-lofts and the upper stories of cabins. Hundreds are subsisting on parched com. Many have been temporarily relieved by the distribution of Government rations, but others could not be reached and their suffering is very great. The levee along the river front is broken at forty different places between Memphis and Arkansas City. At some points the river is fifty miles wide. All published reiwrts have fallen far short of giviug an idea of the damage that has been done or the destitution prevailing. His first estimate to the secretary of war that $360,000 would be required to feed 18,000 needy in the State of Mississippi will, he says, fall short, as the destitute probably will be double the number first estimated. Careful estimates place the number of people rendered destitute by the inundation, at not ICDO U1JCIU TU,VVV. It is thought the damage and suffering caused by the overflow will be followed by some recompense. The Vicksburg Herald says: "The situation of the people of the valley is bad enough without having it exaggerated. The great sensations that have been printed and pictured have done great harm. Where crevasses have occurred, the land or the greater portion of it is, for the time being, lost. There are very many persons of the Valley uninjured as yet. We have no doubt that fair crops will be raised almost in all portions of the Valley. While the people in many places are inconvenienced and losing some of their livestock, they are.not fit such a dreadful plight as has been described, as there are two months before cotton time is past and the water is almost sure to subside in time to raise a crop." The Marksville, La., lleview also takes the same consideration of the subject. It says : "But what of these overflows that carry so much dread with them ? Do they not enrich the land, and are not heavier crops made ui>on them? We incline to the opinion that in point of fact the inundations are beneficial." SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? In a population of about 1,000, Darlington has fifteen bar-rooms, and no temperance organization. ? The grand jury of Marlboro have presented two persons for retailing liquor in that county. ? On Monday last, as we learn from the Newberry Herald, work was commenced on the Greenwood and Laurens Railroad, at the Laurens end. ? The representative of the Federal government, appointed to aid District Attorney Melton in the political prosecutions in this State, is now investigating alleged violations of the election laws in Sumter county. Several arrests have been made. ? The case of the County Commissioners vs. the Cheraw and Chester railroad has been decided by the Supreme Court. It is decided that preferred stock is entitled to vote. The decision is, therefore, in favor of the County Commissioners, and sustains the decision of the Court below. ? Burnings of barns, fences and dwellings still continue in Edgefield, and have become so frequent that the people are organizing vigilance committees. It is not so stated directly, but seems to be intimated that the intense feeling caused by the stock law has something to do with the matter. ? The grand jury of Union county, in their presentment, say: "We regret out inability to make a congratulatory report of the moral condition of the county, and appeal to our better citizens to assist us as a body to suppress the nefarious and demoralizing influences of the vices of gaming, lewdness and miscegeneration." ? Mr. W. McB. Sloan lias been appointed clerk by Adujutant-General Manigault to assist in making up the rolls of Confederate troops from this State. A great deal of valuable information has been received by the adjutant-general from different parts of the State, and the work of enrolment is making good progress. ? Says the last Spartanburg Spartan: The exodus exhorter is abroad in the land. He was 011 the streets on salesday. Exaggerated reports have gone out as to the number of colored people who have left this county. You can hear all reports, from 100 to 400. About two weeks ago about fifty left, and last week about twenty-five. All told, seventy-five have left the depot at this place. This information is from the agent at the Air-Line depot. ? Carter Ross alias Tobe Lee, who was tried and convicted of grand larceny?stealing a horse?at the April term of the Court of Sessions for Chester county in 1S77, and was sentenced by Judge Mackey to seven years in the Penitentiary, was pardoned by Governor Ilagood last Monday. The pardon was granted upon the petition of numerous prominent citizens, the statement of the solicitor and the petition of the directors of the Penitentiary, setting forth their belief that the prosecution was a malicious one, and that Carter Ross was entirely innocent of the offence charged. ? The Carolina Spartan relates the follow iug amusing incident: "One of our citizens aims to beat the world in raising Irish potatoes this year. He wished to plant a peck and gave a colored brother full instructions as to how he should scatter cotton seed in the drill with a sprinkling of acid phosphate. When the citizen returned home in the evening he was much surprised to find that his gardner had put a sack of acid, 200 pounds, on one peck of potatoes. Heavy manuring, that. It looks as if some guano dealer was at the bottom of it." ? The Citadel Academy at Charleston, which since the war, has served as barracks for Federal troops, was formally re-occupied by the State authorities on "Wednesday of last week. Tn honor of the event, a salute of twenty-one guns was fired by the LaFayette Artillery on Citadel Green, and a banquet was given in the evening at which many distinguished citizens were present. The limited appropriation allowed by the State will not provide a full faculty, and only the lower branches, will be taught at the reopening of the academy, on October first. ? The Greenville News says that within the week ending last Friday about 140 colored people have left that section for points West and South. It has been developed upon investigation that labor bureaus are in active operation in Texas and Louisiana, which have been organized for the purpose of meeting the large demand made by sugar and cotton planters in those States for laborers. These bureaus appoint agents who are regularly paid for the purpose of securing hands, and who travel from point to point in the South gathering parties of colored people whose expenses they pay to the locations to which they desire them to go. ? Says the Columbia Regisier' of Sunday : Colonel Butler is in receipt of letters from Professor Baird, of the United States Fish Commission, of date 8th March, which an nounce that the applications for German carp are beyond the ability of the department to fill, and that 110 further distribution of them can be made this season. The number of these fish issued to South Carolina has been 4,600, all of which have been distributed over the State, excepting the small number retained for breeding poroses in the ponds here. These are all in fine condition and will spawn in June, and from this hatching the fish will be ready for distribution in October, when Colonel Butler hopes to be able to fully supply the demand for them. ? The Abbeville Banner makes the following creditable statement about a colored farmer in that county: William Mattison, a colored farmer living near Ilonea Path was at v. Abbeville Court House last Monday to buy the Maddox Mill property. lie ran it to $5,500, and tlie best of it is, lie had the money and property to make good his bid. This man ] was emancipated without a dollar in his pocket, and by industry, good judgment and economy \ is now well off in this world's goods. His i money he made at farming, while hundreds of ] farmers in this county have' in that time squandered their farms and gone in debt. ( Mattison never buys on a credit, but general- 1 ly has money enough to help his less thrifty ?j neighbors. Let no man say that farming will not pay in this country. When we hear a 1 man say he can't make a living on a good farm, ] we think there is fault somewhere. ] NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The telegraph office at Concord has been placed in charge of Miss Mary Ormand, of i Fort Mill, S. C. i ? A citizen of Haywood county recently sold y one hundred walnut trees to a northern company for $4,000. i ? Gov. Jarvis says the Legislature of that f State will be convened April 20th, for the pnr- ] pose of redistricting. ? The survey of the narrow gauge railroad from V.Tatauga Gap to Cranberry Forge, on j the Imboden line, has been completed and the f corps of engineers has been dismissed. t ? Owing to the fact that "the present edi- f tors and owners of the Lincoln Progress differ so widely in business and other matters," the publication of that paper is suspended for ( the present. ^ ? Two brick stores at Goldsboro were de- ^ stroyed by fire early Friday morning. They f were occupied by "VV. S. P. Royal, A. Kent and J. M. Dodson. The origin of the fire is unknown. The buildings are insured for $4,000. The loss on stock is heavy. ? The first load of new steel rails for the Smithfield extension of the Midland Railway has arrived at Goldsboro, and the work of j putting down the ties and preparation for placing the rails has been commenced near ^ that city. ^ ? The stockholders of the Midland Railroad, at Alexandria, Va., last, weex, oruerea am to be given Col. J. Turner Morehead, President of the North Carolina Division, for the pur- 1 pose of pushing the Road on from Danville to j Charlotte. j ? A man named "William Brown has been ar- " rested for attempting burn the Orange Cotton ' Factory, Orange county. He had some dif- ) Acuity with the proprietor and set Are to the , lint room, but the Aames were extinguished before much damage was done. Brown was lodged in jail. ? A Raleigh dispatch of Sunday says that on the previous day, at Third Creek, N. C., fully one hundred whites and negroes were engaged in a riot. A negro attacked a white 1 man, and when the latter defended himself, 1 more negroes took part, when more whites < came to the aid of the man attacked. Troops ( went to the scene and arrested many of the rioters and placed them in jail. ? At a meeting of the directors of the Caro- ' lina Central Railroad, held at Wilmington on the 8th, Col. John M. Robinson, President of 1 the Bay Line, Seaboard and Roanoke, Raleigh j and Gaston and Raleigh and Augusta Air ' Line Companies was elected President to All the vacancy caused by the death of Capt. D. Murchison, and Mr. Livingston Munns, of Boston, was elected director in his stead. 1 ? Says the Statesville Landmark: The two factories at the Catawba river in which Dr. A. M. Powell, of Catawba, owned an interest, '< were sold under decree of court on the 6th. ' The Powell &. Shuford factory, about 1,000 spindles, was bought by Mr. J. U. Long, of Catawba, for ?2,850. Persons who had ex- < pected to bid on this factory did not arrive in time and it sold low. The factory of the 1 Catawba Manufacturing company was bought by Mr. E. C. Graham, of Asheville, for $14,- ^ 100. 1 ? Miss Sallie M. Moore, living a few miles 1 from Charlotte, started to church about 11 o'clock last Sunday, and was followed by a negro boy named Ben Withers, aged only ( about 15. A short distance from the house < the boy struck the woman over the head with , a large stick, which felled her to the ground. ] He subsequently cut her throat and left her | for dead. Pursuit was made almost immedi- ] ately, and he was arrested and placed in jail. , No cause has been assigned for the deed. The , woman may recover. ? A correspondent informs the Greenville News that a most horrible murder was com- ( mitted near Tryon City, just over the North Carolina line, and on the Asheville and Spar- ] tanburg Railroad, last week. It seems that . Jane Jackson had been receiving considerable 1 attention from the sweetheart of Delia Mills, and the latter becoming jealous, went, accompanied by her brother, to the house of her rival, called her out, and brutally murdered * her with rocks and sticks. The brother, Dan Mills, has been arrested, and we understand ( that Sheriff Hampton is in close pursuit of * the woman. The parties are all negroes. MERE-MENTION. j The total visible supply of cotton for the world tost Saturday was 3,059,470 bales, of . which 2,330,296 were American, against 3,008,152 and 2,535,078 respectively, last year. Re- ' ceipts of cotton at all interior towns for the ! week were 28,442 ; receipts from plantations, 31,048 ; crop in sight, 4,890,138.- - The Imperial commission of German scientists who ( will come to America to observe the transit of ' Venus, on the 0th of December next, will establish posts of observation in Charleston, S. C., and in Hartford, Conn. There was a heavy snowfall in Wisconsin Saturday, block- i ading railroad trains. A medical college J for women has just been incorporated in Baltimore. The late Governor Blue Jeans 1 Williams, of Indiana, is to have a granite < monument twenty-eight feet nine inches high, 1 to cost $2,000. The Illinois State board of agriculture reports the acreage of wheat { sown at 2,070,000 acres, being 275,Q00 less than < last year. The condition is 3 per cent, above the average. Several of the New England i print mills have shut down work, in order to < curtail production. Ben Butler has a claim t to a large tract of land in the mountains of ? Virorinia. and attempted to have it surveyed | last week, but the squatters 011 it ran the sur- c veyors off by force of arms. The Southern States had 10,500,000 acres planted in cot- ? ton last year. The charge is made, aud 1 documentary evidence produced to substantiate it, that Garfield, as chief of Gen. Itosecran's staff, acted with great perfidy towards c his chief, his machinations resulting in the re- t moval of Rosecrans from his command. A ( majority of the Nihilists recently tried and c condemned to death, intend to present peti- j; tions to the Czar for mercy. The Vicks- 3 burg Herald says the condition of the Missis- a sippi Valley is bad, but not so bad as has been s described. A negro prisoner set fire to the p jail of Prince George county, Va., last Friday a night. The alarm was given by a fellow colore# 0 prisoner, and the fire was was extinguished g before any harm resulted. The grand jury p of Bucks county, Pa., have declared "the jail D unfit for a gentleman to live in." The k latest advices represent that fresh breaks are t occurring daily in the Mississippi levees, IS and the sufferings of the people are on the increase. The situation about Helena, Arkansas, e is said to be deplorable. The Associate d Justiceship of the U. S. Supreme Court, de- 0 clined by Conkling, was next tendered by the e President to Senator Edmunds, and he, too, t: publishes a letter, declining. Guiteau h ceases to attract public attention. Corkhill t says he will surely hang. u 0 LOCAL AFFAIRS, j; - NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. jowry and Walker?Agricultural Implements 11 and Labor-Saving Machinery. , r. C. Kuvkendal?York Drug Store Paragraphs. ! Vithers Adickes? Received this Week. l\ S. Jefferys?Prices Reduced. 1. F. Adickes?Just Received, l^tta Brothers?Family Groceries and Plantation Supplies. i lolcock, Miller <fe Co.?Acid Phosphate?Steam Engines, f. M. Adams?New Goods, Ac. r. M. Pobson?Dohson in Northern MarketsMillinery. iV. C. Latimer?Gone North. Dohson <fc Parish?A Fair Trial. -ferndon Brothers?Genuine Kainit?$'2,000. rt.'H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?SherifPs Sale. I. Lathan?Cemetery Association. COTTON SHIPMENTS. The cotton shipments f com this place for the veek ending Monday last, were 196 bales, naking a total tor tue season or o,?yo naies. ISSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERY. The First Presbytery of the Associate Re'ormed Presbyterian Church, will meet at Sharon, 9 miles south-west of Yorkvil'e, on Monday, the 3rd of April next. FERTILIZERS. The demand for fertilizers continues steady, ;lie farmers hauling them away about as fast is the dealers receive them. The receipts for he week ending Monday were8otons, making i total of 1,186 to date. GONE NORTH. Mr. John J. Hunter, of the firm of Hunter, Dates & Co.Mr. T. M. Dobson and Mr. TV. j. Latimer, dry goods merchants, are now in he northern markets making spring purchases 'or their respective houses. STATE vs. THORNBURG. In this case, appealed from York county by he defendant, who was convicted at June ;erm of the Circuit Court, Judge Aldrich pre;iding, of retailing spirituous liquors contra y to the laws of thisState, the Supreme Court las rendered a decision, sustaining the verdict )f the court below. The opinion is by Justice VfcGowan. In our next issue we will publish he full text of the opinion. A NEW ENTERPRISE. \rpQqrq T,nwrv St Walker have ODened a ivareroom in the Bratton building, opposite ;he Court House, for the sale of agricultural raplements and farming machinery of all kinds. The farmers of York county are progressive, ind the general introduction by them of laborlaving machinery, is only a question of time. The introduction of improved machinery will :ollow a perception of the advantages claimed :'or it. Read Messrs. Lowry & Walker's advertisement and give their line of machinery ind implements an inspection. ESCAPED CONVICT CAPTURED. Amzi Darwin, colored, who, at January ierm 1876, was sentenced to the penitentiary irom this county for the term of two years, on conviction of burglary and larceny, and who escaped from the penitentiary in the month of May folio: ing his conviction, was captured at Iron Station, N. C., on Wednesday of last sveek, and on Friday passed down the C. & L. Railroad, in charge of an officer, en route for Columbia, where he was returned for confinement. He has been casting his vote for severil years as a citizen of North Carolina, under die name of Amzi Dervine. CHURCH NOTICES. Baptist?Rev. W. L. Brown, Supply. Services next Sunday at 3.30 P. M. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks, Pastor. Services at King's Mountain Chapel it 11 A. M. In the church at Yorkville at J P. M. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. [fathan, Pastor. Services at 101 A. M. Sunlay-school at 9. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services at 11 A. M., and 7 P. M. Episcopal?Church of the Good Shepherd? Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. The rector will se unable to officiate in the Church of Our Saviour next Sunday. ROYAL ARCH MASONS. Mackey Chapter No. 15, Royal Arqh Masons, >f Yorkville, which has not been working for several years, was reorganized last Thursday light, under a dispensation from the Grand Royal Chapter of South Carolina, by the elec;ion of the following officers for the ensuing Masonic year: Dr. J. R. Bratton, M. E. II. P.; Jos. F. Wallace, E. K.; W. H. McCorkle, E. S. : J. L. Clark, C. of II.; J. Ed. Jefferys, P. S.; R. II. Glenn, R. A. C. Grand Master Third Veil?J. B. Allison; Grand Master Secnul Veil?Ed. Thomas ; Grand Muster' First Veil?J. S. Lewis. Treasurer?John R. Walace ; Secretary?.John R. Gardner ; Sentinel? \. Cody. The installation of the officers will ;ake place in Masonic Hall this evening. EYESIGHT RESTORED. ' An unusual case of the restoration of eyelight is reported to us by Dr. II. G. Jackson, ;he subject being one of his patients, Mr. Anlerson Latham, (58 years of age, and living seven miles south of town. About thirty rears ago Mr. Latham lost entirely the sight >f his right eye, the result of an accident, and t remaint*d sightless until within the past lew days, during which he has been subject to medical treatment for dropsy of the chest. After the treatment was commenced his diseased iiye began to assume its hormal condition and now its power of vision is fully restored, i t is not claimed that the medical treatment nas had any special influence over the disjased organ, though the case presents points if interest to the medical profession, to say ;he least. LOCAL DOTS. ? The small grain crop is reported fine in all sections of the county. And what is?equally 'ratifying, a large area has been sown. ? By an oversight in taking a copy of the letit jurors drawn for the next term of the Circuit Court, the name of Mr. S. S. Smith, of Bethel township, was omitted. ? Monday was a windy, blustery and disagreeable day. The wind calmed at night, and >n Tuesday morning there were frost and ice. ? Col. W. II. McCorkle has received his coinnission as Supervisor of Registration for York :ounty. Registration of voters will commence ;he 1st of May, of which due notice will be jiven. ? Mr. Lawson Howell, of Bethany, in this :ounty, has been appointed a notary public. ? Hon. J. H. Evins, Representative in Con- , jress from this district, has our thanks for a ( lumber of public documents. ( THE TOZE*R ENGINE. Attention is directed to the advertisement if the Tozer Engine, on the fourth page of 1 his issue, manufactured by Tozer & Dial, Columbia. The foundry and machine works i ?f this firm is an establishment in which the ] >tate may take pride, as it is the most exten- i ive and has the best equipment of appliances i md machinery of any similar establishment < outh of Richmond. The establishment em- < iloys regularly from sixty to seventy hands, < ,nd though engines are usually kept ahead of 1 >rders, yet if an order is received for an en- ? ;ine ranging in size from six to eighteen horse 1 lower that may not be on hand, it can be fur- 1 lislied in from three to six days. They make ] loilers as well as engines, completing the en- < ire engine under the practical supervision of < Ir. Tozer. As an evidence of the jiopularity of the Tozer 1 ngine in the western part of the State, in An- 1 erson county alone, there are fifty-four in i peration, and wherever introduced it gives i at ire satisfaction. Besides portable engines,-] 1 hey also manfacture stationary engines and a 1 trge variety of other machinery adapted to i he needs of our people. A superior qualifi- ] ation of their work is that it is first class 1 throughout. Within the past five months the Tozer engine has taken premiums over a large number 'of competing engines at the State fair Columbia, the Atlanta exposition, and at the exhibition of the South Carolina Agricultural Society in Charleston. For the past ten years we have been using a Tozer engine for driving our presses, and it gives the same satisfaction now as when first put in oj>eration BLACK'S STATION ITEMS. From our Black's Station correspondent, we learn that the Cherokee Falls cotton mill is now in successful operation with nearly 3,000 spindles running on No. 20 warp, for which , there is a demand. The first shipment of* warp from this mill was made last week. There is some talk of a cotton seed oil mill at Black's Station. John II. Allison, who lived in Cleveland county, N. C., while returning home from Gaffney city last Saturday with a load of guano, accidently fell.from liis wagon and was killed. A singular phenomenon has recently been discovered in all the wells at Black's Station. The water is infested with a small black insect, i.~?ii? imiuiy visjuics w tue liaiteu ejrc, uui wmuu the microscope reveals to have a trumpetshaped body, with legs like a grass-hopper's. After a bucket of water has been drawn and let stand awhile, thousands of these animalcules rise to the surface, covering it with a black scum. Our correspondent naively says it is not known whether or not these larvae exert a deleterious effect upon the water. PRISONERS IN JAIL. The following prisoners are now confined in the York county jail awaiting trial, for the offences named, at the next term of the Court of .Sessions, which convenes on Monday, 27th instant : Jack Helms, white?attempted rape and carrying concealed deadly weapons. Walter Nelson, colored?stealing corn not severed from the field. Joseph Murray, coloredgrand larceny. Newton Douglas, coloredassault with intent to rape. Thomas Anderson, colored?burglary. Walter Anderson, colored, burglary. John Starr, colored, burglary. Mack Smith, colored?burglary. J. S. Knight, white?assault and battery with intent to kill. Solomon King, colored?accessory to felony. John Woodruff alias Woodson, colored?house breaking. Anna Briant, coloredarson. Bob Ward, colored?accessory to! arson after the act. Jack McKinney and Lem Gardner, both colored?reoeiving stolen goods. John Morrow and Phebe Ann White, both colored?adultery. Besides the above there is also one murder trial?the case of J. H. Sutton charged with the murder of N. T. Gibson at Fort Mill, on the 9th of last November. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate on the 7th, Mr. Beck, of Ken tucuy, or tne nuance committee, reported iavorably with the amendment to his bill to punish unlawful certification of checks by officers of national banks. A resolution was passed, authorizing the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to use hospital tents now possessed by th^ war department, to furnish temporary shelter to the distressed people driven from their homes by the Mississippi overflow. Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, spoke against the Chinese treaty bill. In the House, Mr. King of Lousiana, offered a resolution directing the committee on appropriations to consider what measures of relief should be extended to the sufferers bV the present floods of the Mississippi river and its tributaries, and report by bill or otherwise as speedily as pbssible. Referred. The bill authorizing an appropriation by Congress to aid in celebrating at New Orleans, on the 9th of April, the two hundredth anniversary of the mouth of the Mississippi, by La Salle, was laid on the table. The Senate bill appropriating #20,000 for a statue of Chief Justice John Marshall was passed. The agricultural appropriation bill, appropriating $396,880, was passed. Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina, after an effort for an appropriation for the encouragement of tea culture in this country, branched off to a general discussion of the question of tariff, advocating a revision of customs duty, and especially a reduction of duty upon iron. Mr. Aiken was followed by several other members who spoke on the tariff question until the hour of adjournment. In the Senate on the 8th, a bill was reported contributing $25,000 for continuing the improvements of the Memphis harbor. The bill for a commission on the alcoholic liquor traffic came up on the calendar, the question being on Mr. Bayard's motion to commit to the finance committee. 'Che motion was rejected by a party vote, w (th the exception of Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, who voted with the Democrats. The Chinese treaty bill was discussed at length, but without action. In the House a number of committees reported on bills, after which the bill authorizing the purchase of the property known as the Freedman's Savings Bank in Washington, and appropriating $250,000 therefor, was passed, after some debate. The anti-polygamy bill was reached, but pending a decision of the chair as to which committee it should be referred, the House adjourned. In the Senate on the 9th, the bill for a commission on the subject of alcoholic liquor traffic was taken up again and further debated. The pending amendment, directing that not more than three of five members of the commission shall be of the same political party was agreed to. Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, moved that not more than three of them shall be prohibitionists, which was agreed to. Pending further debate on this bill, the morning hour expired, and the Chinese bill was taken up. The title of the bill was amended so as to read: "An act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to the Chinese." Thte bill was passed by a vote of 29 to 15. The text of the bill, as passed, is printed in another column. In the House, a bill providing for cancellation of stamps on tobacco transported by rail was discussed. The agricultural appropriation bill was also considered. Amendments to this bill were adopted appropriating 825,000 for experiments in the manufacture of sugar from sorghum, and 810,000 for experiments in the manufacture of sugar from beets. Other amendments were adopted and the bill was passed. In the Senate on the 10th, Mr. Brown, of Georgia, presented a memorial from merchants, bankers and other prominent citizens of Atlanta, for an adequate appropriation for the improvement of the harbor of Savannah, lie subsequently introduced a bill appropriating $.150,000 for that purpose. A resolution was passed directing the secretary of war to use steamers and other vessels belonging to or now employed by the government on the Mississippi or its tributaries in the transportation and distribution of supplies to sufferers in the overflowed district. The billfora commission on the alcoholic liquor traffic, which again came up on the calendar, was discussed upon the pending amendment offered by Mr. Bayud (noted above) and the amendment was lost oy a party vote?ayes, 24 ; nays, 25. The bill was then reported to the Senatefrom the committee of the whole, and Mr. Jones, of Florila, argued against the power of Congress, unler the constitution, to regulate or interfere with the liquor traffic. Mr. Sherman replied "loot tlin Vkill nnt tY^nnAon ar?v intflrffirpn^rt UUV Vlli UIU nut ^/JLUJ^UOU UI1J ?MW* ?v> V...Wwith the license or sale in the States, but nerely instituted an inquiry as to the best node of dealing with the evils growing out of :he traffic. He thought it a sufficient answer ;o the objection to say that the information was neuled to enable Congress to deal with the District of Columbia and the Territories, aud ;o regulate the revenue. Mr. Maxev corrobo