Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fftap* and $M|; ? The Tennessee Republicans have taken j [ strong ground in favor of paying the State L debt honestly and squarely. ! j ? Virginia holds her State election on the j i Tth of June. A full State ticket is to be elect-1 c ed and also a Congressman at large. The con-! c test has opened and the patriots are pepi>ering ; ? away at each other quite lively. ! ( ? In a recent speech in Congress, Mr. Arm-1 ( field, of North Carolina, said that there had 1 been levied on the re\etiue officers in his (the ! : Charlotte) district for election purposes in 1880 ! the aggregate sum of $20,030 as a campaign ' fund. ? The American Emigration Society held a meeting in New York last Sunday, at which Rev. S. S. Storrs, of Brooklyn, was the first speaker. He said that there were half a milion negroes in the United States who wanted to return to Africa, and lie ureed upon the so-! ciety to make efforts to send tiiem there. ? Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, is reported as saying that "no man lias a right to decline a call of his i>eople," and as his name is mentioned in connection with the Governorship of Georgia, notwithstanding his expressed determination to retire to private life, the supposition is that he would be willing to respond to the call. ? A Congressman dropped the following re- < mark at a Republican meeting in Washington ] a few days ago, and the idea advanced is no \ doubt a key to the political prosecutions progressing in South Carolina : "Gentlemen, we ; may as well realize the fact at this early day, J that if we are to have a Republican majority j in the next House it will not come from the < North ; we must get it from the South." i ? After much labor in securing the figures, j the Atlanta Constitution has come.to the con- : elusion that the fertilizers used in Georgia this year show a falling off at least 33 per cent. ' compared with 1881. A closer attention to 1 the preservation and use of homemade fertili- 1 zers, it is thought, will make up for the de- i crease, and thus an immense saving will have i been effected when pay-day comes round. , ?The question involved in a St. Louis law- ^ suit was whether a wink, said to have been made by the defendant, qualified the words ' which he uttered at the same time. He told the plaintiff to levy on the contents of a cer- 1 tain safe, and it was claimed that, by covertly i and expressively winking, he reversed the < meaning of what he said. The jury decided j against the wink theory. ? The following sad case is rei>orted from Reading, Pa. : The Rev. J. S. Fisher, a young ' man who attended the State Normal School at ' Kutztown, and subsequently studied theology, 1 has become insane from over study. In at- ; tempting to commit the whole Bible to memo- , * y he became a raving maniac, and he has just ] been removed to an insane asylum three miles ' from Reading. He is *26 years of age, and pos- 1 sessed brilliant talents. ? The warm weather of the past ten days has materially improved the crop prospects in the Northwest. Throughout most of the ' southern part of Minnesota the soil is dry ] enough for agricultural operations, and seed- ] ing for wheat is generally going on. The , same is true of the northern part of the State, and of Dakota, except in those sections visited , by the late spring rains and floods, which have ' delayed seeding operations somewhat. < ? Hallet Kilboura, a stubborn witness, who ^ refused to testify before a Congressional Com- j mittee, a year or two ago, and was committed r to prison by order of the committee, brought < suit against the then Sergeant-at-Arms of the j House, Thompson for false imprisonment, and j the case coming on for trial last week, the | jury brought in a verdict awarding Kilbourn | $100,000 damages. The verdict was set aside, , however, on Friday, by Judge McArthur. I ? Forty per cent, of the population of Dako- , ta, according to the census returns, are for- | eigners. If these are deducted from the total \ number, there is left a very slim foundation \ on which to build the structure of a State. It f is against the genius of representative govern- ( ment to put the political power in the hands ( of eighty thousand people to checkmate five ^ millions. Yet the two Senators from Dakota, ( if it is made a State, will have as potent a voice in the government as the two Senators f from New York. ( ? It is stated as a fact, which the public t may accept, that Jay Gould has absolute con- t trol of joint stock capital?chiefly railroad? c of at least six hundred million dollars. Not e only the market value of thisimmense amount 1 of securities is at the mercy of one man's cap- ? rice, but also the management of the proj>er- j. ties it is supposed to represent. Even besides c the great enterprises among which the forego- j ing vast sum is divided, Mr. Gould has a con- t trolling interest in many smaller matters of r great variety. c ? The Cincinnati Commercial takes a gloomy f view of Republican prospects in that State, si It declares that there "need be no doubt of s one thing, and that is that in October next a ? Republican victory will have to be gained c ttMlliAiif oooiutnnoQ /vP Vflt.P " ? VYll/UUUU U1C nooiouiuv^ VI iiiv ? vvv. c It adds that the enforcement of the Pond law and the Smith Sunday law "will be a source of constant irritation and thoroughly alienate that vote.'' A Cincinnati correspondent of the New York Tones predicts that Ohio will ^ go Democratic next fall bv at least 30,000 majority. 3 ? The Philadelphia Times raises a note of ? warning for the Democratic party, advising 1 members of Congress against factious oppo- f sition to rechartering national banks. It t says : "It would be vastly better to continue ] the present system just as it is, with all its . imperfections, than to disturb business by . failing to legislate on the subject. It is a 1 Democratic danger-signal that wise leaders of ' that party will respect, for if Democracy shall i even seem to array itself against the business ] of the country, it will be defeated and will j deserve defeat." ? The scheme of converting Sahara into an . inland sea is taking practical shape. France desires it as a political matter. She hopes by ' such an undertaking to impose a barrier between hpr colonies and some hostile Arabs. < If done the effects may be very far reaching. \ A large body of water in that part of Africa may operate to render fertile other portions that for want of moisture have become entire- 1 ly uninhabitable. It may also change the cli- ( mate of Africa to a degree, and measurably ( affect that of Southern* Europe. Big results j sometimes flow from small causes. < ? J. D. Andrews, known as "Professor" ( Andrews, killed his wife at their residence near Ilayesville, Chester county, Pa., on the 25th ultimo, by breaking her skull with a 1 rolling pin. Andrews showed signs of insanity > and had an attendant watching him night and t day, but at a moment when the attendant's s eyes were off him he did the deed. Andrews ( is aged about GO, was an exj>ert mathematician, i and was called the "Lightning Calculator," and had accumulated a fortune through the exercise of this faculty. The same exercise is * supposed to have unbalanced his mind. ? Twenty-four young girls of Nevada City, j California, in mockery of the military boys ( of the place, recently organized a broom ( brigade. They adopted a uniform dress trim- ^ med with red, jaunty jackets and blue caps. Each carried an ordinary broom made fantas- . tic with bits of red ribbon and the drill was | highly entertaining. At last one of their numl?er was married and the broom brigade , escorted the bride from her father's house to ^ tne railway station, tne oriue s iiroum, uan- | ] med in mourning goods, being carried reversed } at the head of the procession. } ? I)r. Talniage, the eminent Brooklyn preach- < cr, recently made a visit South, extending his ] trip to Charleston and Columbia. Of his first < sermon after his return home, the correspon- { lent of the Baltimore Sun writes : "He said | that his trip was a most pleasant one, and than j the kindness shown him by the Southern peo- I ] pie would never be forgotten by him. lie I 1 spoke of the blooming trees and bright flow-! ] ers, many specimens of which lie intended j ( bringing North, but on his way the plants ( withered day by day, and as they died he was ( obliged to discard them. But," he said, "the J fragrance of the hospitality of the Southern \ e people will never die in my heart." This is j j very creditable to Mr. Talniage, and is in ( striking contrast with the reports of stalwart t politicians when they have political ends to t subserve. t ? Dr. John P. Lipscomb, a merchant of Dan- i ville, Va., was killed in that town on Tuesday }i of last week, by Sterling Edmunds, of Halifax ; county, his father-in-law. Dr. Lipscomb was j 1 a man of wealth and excellent family, but be-j t came intemperate and lived unhappily with his j \ wife. Monday night he drove Mrs. Lipscomb 11 from home, but she afterward went over with ! e one of her neighbors and gained admittance. I \ The family were at breakfast that morning J ( when Mr. Edmunds walked in, and after some I 1 vords, said : ."You have been treating my j ] laughter badly, and treated her badly last j < light. "With that Dr. Lipscomb arose, and j 1 >istols were drawn. Dr. Lipscomb fired first, >ut Mr. Edmunds fired immediately afterward ' 1 aid the Doctor fell dead, holding his pistol in ! i lis hand, cocked for the second shot. Ed- j < nunds surrendered himself, and at the May-1 ] tr's investigation was acquitted on the ground | ] >f self-defence. ] ibc fJurMlc tSjnquitcv.;; YORKVILLE. S. C.: TUTTllsnAY MORNING MAY 4. 1882 ! BLAINE AXD BELMONT. jj There was a slight breeze in the room of the ! i ;oinmittee on foreign affairs at the Capitol j ast Thursday. The committee had met l'or j J ;he purpose of taking testimony in the investi- ' jation of the Peru-Guano-Shipperd scandal, Mr. Blaine being the witness for examination, i Mr. Belmont, of the committee, subjected the 1 ;x-Secretary of State to a severe cross-examilation, which became irritating to Blaine as it progressed, and he finally stated that as Belmont, after being warned on Monday, had persisted in entirely misquoting his dispatches md putting upon them a construction utterly foreign he was compelled to change his opinion of him, which, had heretofore been that he was a gentleman. An exciting colloquy ensued which the committee were unable to interrupt. Belmont intimated that he would leal with Blaine in private and followed it up with the words, "I believe that you are a bully and a coward." Blaine, addressing the committee and ignoring Belmont, replied : "Mr. Chairman, his young man has disgraced himself ; he has ueen put forward by those who are behind him to insult, but he is incapable of doing so." The scene was a most remarkable one, notwithstanding the efforts of the chairman to smooth the troubled waters and obviate the necessity for any misunderstanding. The impression prevailed at the adjournment of the meeting that the dispute had by no means ended. SOMEBODY^ELSE'S OX. The Baltimore .S'un, a paper which does not 9y off at tangent, and is remarkable for its level-head conservatism in the discussion of political prosecutions now going on in South Carolina, savs: "The remarkable spectable is presented in South Carolina of the general government waging a war on special grounds against persons of the opposite political party. The frauds which occur at every election in New York, [ndiana or California are not looked into. There is no sectional animosity to it in those States. Nor were the notorious frauds perpesrated annually in South Carolina prior to 1870, in the interest of the party to which At;orney General Brewster belongs, closely scrutinized by the United States courts. No crusade was then waged to preserve in South Carolina :he absolute purity of the ballot box. The esult was then satisfactory, and when atten- i ;ion of the officials at Washington was called ;o the means employed to carry elections in :avor of the Republican party, the easy answer was : 'The government is not more call;d upon to interfere in South Carolina than . dsewhere, there are frauds in every State and we do not interfere; why should an invidious listinction be made ?' "The reasoning is different now. Somebody ;lse's ox is being gored. The alleged frauds )f to-day are supposed to be committed in he interest of the party in opposition, and ;hey are consequently viewed with the virtu- i >us indignation of a person whose State has ] sver been the scene of frauds more flagrant, j mt less investigated. It is, of course, right md pro])er that fraud at the polls should be mnished?everywhere. It is the invidious ...4.:.... .I.t.ln). ..I'Ami.fo rm tlio I USUI 1111 ilia tiUU WAUUll [fiuuii'io TijjV! VM vnv )art of the Attorney General in one State only ; hat converts a prosecution into persecution ( tnd excites deeply felt indignation throughjut the country. Under the forms of justice i general wrong and hurt to the sentiment of i whole people is done. Even if the parties iccused are guilty, their punishment in one State under a law not enforced in twenty >ther States is substantial injustice and against food policy." GENERAL CONFERENCE M. E. CHURCH. The ninth quadrennial session of the Gen- 1 jral Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 1 Church South, convened in Nashville, Tenn., resterday. It will be composed of 152 lay delegates, from 39 annual conferences representing 5,011 traveling, 5,805 local preachers, and i lay membership of 850,811. In addition ;here are five bishops who preside over the )ody alternately. The General Conference is ;he only law making body in the Church, and ts acts govern throughout the connection, since the meeting of the Conference in 1878 n Atlanta, Ga., two bishops have died?viz.: D. S. Dogget and W. M. Wightman. Among :he important work to be done at the approaching Conference will be the election of from :hree to six new bishops, as three out of those iving are far advanced in life and very feeble. At the General Conference held in the city )f New York, May, 1841, then representing ;lie whole Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, the church was divided into :wo separate ecclesiastical bodies, on ua plan )f separation" agreed iq>on by the General Conference. The occasion of the separation ?rew ont of the disposition of Bishop James 1 J. Andrew, D. I)., from the Episcopal office )n account of his connection with slavery. A line of division was agreed on, and the jreat Methodist family parted North and south. The Southern division held a conven- 1 :ion in the city of Louisville, Ky., in 1845, md proceeded to organize an independent ec- : ilesiastical body, under the name and title of 'The Methodist Episcopal Church South." The first General Conference of the South- ] rn Church was herd in the city of Petersburg, < Fa., May, 1840. The session was held in the )ld Union Street Methodist Church, near Jar att's Hotel, now occupied by a congregation >f colored Methodists. At that first General 1 Conference Bishops Soule and Andrew?the 1 ;wo bishops who adhered to Southern Metholisin?presided. The conference was com- ( >osed of 07 clerical delegates from 15 annual inferences in the Southern States. But few of the men are now living who 1 ,vere members of the General Conference of 18415. The great pulpit orator, llev. Henry ] Bascom, of Kentucky, and that wonderful < nan, the Rev. Lovick Pierce, 1). D? of Georgia, together with such men as the Rev. "Wm. Capers, 1). H., of South Carolina; Rev. A. L. ' P Green, 1). D., of Tennessee; Rev. Ilezekiah i. Leigh, 1). D., of North Carolina, and many '< jthers of kindred ability, now no more, were nembers of that body. At that conference the Rev. Robt. Paine, D 1), then president of La Grange College, in I West Tennessee, and the Rev. "Wm. Capers, | D. D., of the South Carolina Conference, were | dected additional bishops in the Southern 1 diurch. Bishop Paine is still living. Bishop)] Capers is dead. There has been a wonderful growth of Southern Methodism since that day, now thirty-six ( rears ago. Then there were but fifteen annual1 ( onferences in Southern Methodism ; now! 1 here are thirty-nine conferences. Then less j1 han 2,000 traveling preachers or regular pas- \ ] ors ; now t?,S04. Then but 350,000 church I ] nembers. 150,000 of whom were negroes ; now j v ibout 000,000 white members. The general conferences since that session j1 lave been successively held as follows : In 1850 j ( he conference was held in St. Louis, Mo., at 11 vhich Rev. Henry Bascom, I). I)., was elected , (ishop. He lived but a few months after his ^ lection. May, 1854, the general conference vas held in Columbus, Ga., at which the Rev. . ieo. F. Pierce, 1). D., of Georgia, Rev. John j 2arly, I). D., of Virginia, and the Rev. H. H. r Kavanaugh, of Kentucky, were elected bisli-; )ps. Bishops Fierce and Kavanaugh are still i living. The conference of 1858 was held in Nashville, Tenn. No bishop elected. In 1862 ;lie conference failed to hold a regular session on account of the war. The confer- j nice of 1866 was held in the city of New Oreans, at which Rev. Wni. M. Wightman, D.D., LL. D., of South Carolina, Rev. D S. Doggett, I). I)., of Virginia, Rev. Enoch Margin, of Missouri, and the Rev. Holland N. VIcTyeire, D. 1)., of Louisiana, were elected bishops. Bishops Marvin, Doggett and Wightman are dead. Bishop McTyeire is still living. May, 1870, the conference was held in Memphis, Tenn., at which Rev. J. C. Keener, I). 1)., of Louisiana, was elected bishop. The Kev. ,las. A. Duncan, D. D.,of Virginia, came near being elected, and would have been elected but for the reason a part of the delegates from Virginia were unwilling to part with liim as president of Randolph-Macon College, mid on that account only did not vote for him. The conference of 1870 was the first at which there was an equal number of clerical mid lay delegates. The venerable D'Arcy Paul, of Petersburg, Va., was a member of that conference, and as one of Dr. Duncan's warmest friends would not vote for him as Bishop, because, as trustee of Randolph-Macon College he did not see how he could be spared from the presidency of the college witnout irreparable damage to the fortunes, just then, of the institution. Others of I)r. Duncan's best friends, clerical and lay, took the same ground, and barely defeated his election to the episcopacy. In 1K74 the general conference was held in Louisville, Ky. .No bishop elected. In 1878 the conference met in Atlanta, Ga. A curious feature in the election of bishops is that no nominations are made. The conference spends a short season in prayer and then proceeds to ballot. The drift of the vote points to the man. Probably two or three' will be elected on the first ballot. The ordination of Bishops elect takes place 011 Sunday following the election. It is not improbable that Virginia, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri and Lousiana or Kentucky, possibly both, will be represented iir the new bishops. This is conjecture from current opinion. I11 the general conference all the great connectional interests of the church pass in review, such as the missionary work, the Sunday school cause, publishing interests, educacation, the administration of the bishops, conference boundaries and the formation of new conferences, etc. The general conference is the only legislative body in the Methodist Church, and is at the same time the highest appellate court of the church. The sessions usually last for about three weeks, sometimes longer. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The new Code passed by the last Legislature went into effect last Monday. ? Rev. W. Beatty Jennings, of Bennettsville, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church of Lancaster. ? I11 accordance with the requirement of the General Railroad law of this State, the management of the Columbia and Greenville Railroad has instructed the agents of the road hereafter to receipt for cotton according to its weight, and to charge for it at a rate per hundred pounds. -? The last spike of the Augusta and Greenwood Railroad was driven last Friday at noon, at Greenwood, and an excursion train from Augusta carrying several hundred people arrived in the town. Several thousand people nsoomKlod of Cpoonn-nnH nurt.ininilt.ft ill t.hp HOOV/Ui C1VU ??V Utvvu MVWVI wv 2'"* v?v*|'??v>. --- ?..w rejoicing and festivities over the occasion. ? In the Richland Court of Common Pleas last Saturday, in the case of Gibbes Carter, administrator, against the Columbia and Greenville Railroad Company for $10,000 damages for the death of Christopher Carter, (colored,) who was killed last November by handling a torpedo on the track of the railroad, the jury returned a verdict of $500 for the plaintiff. ? An altercation occurred at Abbeville last Friday night, in which Mr. II. Tillman Wardlaw, one of the editors of the Press and Banner, was dangerously shot by E. Noble, -Jr., Esq. The cause of the difficulty is not definitely known. The pistol ball entered the lower part of the left side of the abdomen, and the wound, although considered dangerous, is not necessarily fatal. ? Pleasant Adams, Joe Burton and Richard Bates (all colored) were hanged at Greenville last Friday for burning the Academy of Music an December 7th, 1870. Burton, Bates and Adams passed Thursday night in singing and were attended to the gallows by a colored minister. Each of the condemned men made a brief declaration of his innocence and gratitude to his counsel. Bates and Adams died in seventeen minutes and Burton in nineteen. Only the witnesss allowed by law were present. There was a large crowd in the streets, but no disorder, and all the arrangements were excellent. ? The Steamer Marion, which was employed in cleaning out the Wateree River, Williamsburg county, exploded one of her boilers on Friday about noon. She had on board at the lime, a picnic party, 35 or 40 in number. Miss Minnie Ilenry was killed. Misses Mattie and Vnunin TInnrxr on<^ ftfiloc nro nrUGQinor and are supposed to have been drowned. Miss Lizzie Henry and J. C.Eason are badly injured, and not expected to recover. Wm. Trumble was badly scalded. Miss Minnie Bates lias an arm broken and other serious injuries. Tom Richardson, colored, one of the crew, was drowned. John "Williams, another one of the crew, is badly scalded. ? The State Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association was held in Spartanburg last week. The mission work, religious literature, social meetings, and the progress of the work in the State were the subjects discussed. In addition to the representatives from the various local associations, T. X. Cree, of New York ; L. B. Wishard, of Princeton College, and Capt. W. T. R. Bell, of North Carolina, are in attendance, the last named accompanied by three fraternal delegates from the King's Mountain Association. The work in South Carolina is more thoroughly organized than in any other Southern State. Religious exercises were conducted on the public square, Saturday afternoon, which attracted hundreds of all ages and colors. ? In the Richland Court of Common Pleas last week, the case of the State ex rel. Johnson Ilagood and others constituting the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, against Ann F. Thompson, was tried. This was a suit for the possession of certain real estate, forfeited to the State, and by an Act of the General Assembly treated as assets of the State in charge of the Sinking Fund Commission. The plaintiffs, failing to show that the assessors certified within the provisions of the Act their assessment of the value of defendant's property, his Honor, on motion of plaintiffs' attorney, granted a new suit with leave to move to set aside the same on appeal, if so desired. Messrs. Pope and Haskell appeared fnr tUo tVhiiiiHffa und \fr T a*1p? fr?r thp defend lV4 WI1V riwi,4vj"wi M..VW*., ?j'vw V'v unt. This is the lirst trial lmd in the State under this Act. ?Iesse Cannon is the jnror who hung the jury in the election case of Carroll and others, in the t*. S. District Court last week, and this is what the Greenville Neu-x says about him: "Jesse Cannon is the white juryman from Greenville. It was a safe bet that he would stand until the crack of doom against convicting white men 011 the evidence presented by the government against the Mayesville prisoners. Edgefield failed and Anderson was fooled, but our Greenville man could not je either bulldozed, cajoled or blinded. Ilur*ah for Jesse Cannon who held the fort for uxty hours for fair play, justice and white uen's rights! "Whether lie had aid or not we lo not know. He has certainly done his duty, uid he ought not to be forgotten, as an honest nan with brain too clear to be turned by Melon's eloquence, courage too steadfast to be l ightened by pressure without and within the ury room, and a solid head too hard to lie node to see right and wrong." LOCAL AFFAIHS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. Bolton Smith?New Store, New Stock. John Brattou, Comptroller-General?Tusurance t License. W. B. Williams, County Auditor?Tax Returns for 1882. ! John Ij. Davies, Administrator?Application for Discharge. | James Mason, Superintendent?Change of Schedule. I W. C. Latimer?New Goods?Millinery. Kennedy Brothers it Barron?Money Saved is Money Made?Grain Cradles. | Withers Adickes?Received this Week. | J. M. Adams?Terms?Grey Enameled KettlesPot Hooks?Garden Seeds?Tobacco, Snuff and Cigais?Wooden Ware?Writing Paper. T. M. Dobson?Ron-Ton Millinery Store?Now York House. B. F. Briggs?Warning. rikT'l'ikN KNTS. The shipments of cotton from the dejiot in Yorkville, for the week ending last Monday, were 55 bales, making a total of 6,248 since September 1st. ATTEMPTED RAPE. On Saturday night hist, it is charged, Sylvan us Oates, colored, forcibly entered the dwelling of Mr. J. It. McCully, near Clover, the room he entered being occupied by two young ladies, on whom he made an indecent i assault. lie was arrested on a charge of asj sault and attempt to commit rape, and comj mitted to jail by Trial Justice E. F. Hell, to j await his trial. PERSONAL MENTION. During his recent visit to this place, we were pleased to receive a call from Rev. A. A. Gilbert, who for moreityin a quarter of century was the successful publisher and editor of the Sumter Watchman, which paper we think he founded, having been previously identified with the printing business at other points in this State. Mr. Gilliert is now in the active ministry, having connected himself with the South Carolina Conference some two or three yearn ago. THE CHURCHES LAST SUNDAY. In the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Oi.ni.nli loot Cnnflmr Tlttv f? "R "Rptfs nvpnr.hed. V11U1U11 lOOV UUIIUUJ ) MVV?? on the occasion of communion services. Rev. A. A. Gilbert, of the North Newberry Circuit, preached in the Methodist Bpiscopal Church Sunday forenoon and in the evening, and addressed the Sunday-school in the afternoon. Services were conducted in the Episcopal Church by Rev. John Johnson, of Charleston, brother of the late lamented rector. sale*s-1)ay. On Monday last, 3alesday for May, the sheriff sold, by virtue of writs of fieri facias, at the suit of A. AVilliford vs. James Rattaree, the defendant's interest in a tract of land in Catawba township, containing 100 acres. Bought by T. H. Glenn for one dollar, and bid transferred to Martin Armstrong. At the suit of G. Dawson Ileatli vs. M. Smith Hardin and others, to foreclose moilgage, the Clerk of the Court sold a tract of 100 acres, on Clark's Fork, which was bid in for the plaintiff at $1.00 per acre. church'notices. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks, Pastor. The pastor will preach at Philadelphia Church nfcxt Saturday and Sunday, and at the Church in Yorkville, on Sunday evening. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. The pastor will be absent from his regular appointmrnt next Sunday, assisting Rev. C. B. Betts, with a Sacramental meeting at Neely's Creek. Baptist?Rev. W. L. Brown, Pastor. Services at Union Church at 11 A. M., and at Yorkville in the afternoon at 3.30. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services at 11 A. M., and 7.15 P. M. firing ALL XL76Sg the line. The last Chester Reporter alludes in the following complimentary terms to the recent mention of the name of Col. A. Coward in connection with the position of Congressman I lnt.MA at Atii gc Some of the friends of Col. Coward, of York, united last week in an effort to get up a boom in his favor for Congress. The fire of cards nominating him rattled simultaneously all along the line from Greenville to Camden. Firing by file is generally more apt to be effective than firing by battalion, unless the enemy is coming rapidly to close quarters. This, however, is merely en passant. Col. Coward is as true and as good a man as there is in South Carolina. He has capacity enough to learn to do anything well; and has knowledge enough to legislate well without having to wait to learn. He would make such a representative, no doubt, as his constituents would always be proud of. DEATH OF REV.*R. P. JOHNSON. It is with feelings of sadness we announce that 011 Monday afternoon, at about 5 o'clock, death terminated the earthly labors oftheRev. It. P. Johnson. Since 1809, Mr. Johnson has been minister to the Episcopal congregations in Yorkville and Rock Hill. As a missionary, during the same period, he labored at Rlack's Station, in this county; at Lancaster, and, occasionally, in Chester. Mr. Johnson was bom in the city of Charleston, S. C., in 18*22. His father was Dr. Joseph Johnson, brother of Judge William Johnson. In 1842, the Rev. R. P. Johnson was graduated from the College of Charleston ; in 1849, he completed the prescribed theological course in the theological seminary at Alexandria, Virginia, and the same year was ordained by the Rev. Dr. William Meade, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia. For a period of perhaps two years he labored in Halifax and Prince George counties, Virginia. From Virginia he returned to his native State, and ministered for some time to the congregation at Eutawville, in Upper St. John's. At one time he was assistant minister at Grace Church, Charleston, /in 1869, his labors in Yorkville and Rock llill began. These labors were continued until he was calledT away by the Great Shepherd and Bishop of Souls. The record of Rev. R. P. Johnson is without a blot. By every instinct of his nature, and by the force of education, he was a gentleman. He was more than this. In all his intercourse with his fellow men he was a Christian gentleman. By the people to whom he statedly ministered in sacred things, he was ardently loved and sincerely respected, and by all classes in the community he was greatly esteemed. As a token of respect for his memory, places of business were closed during the obsequies on yesterday morning, and the citizens of the town generally, and the Masonic fraternity, of which he was a member, followed his remains to the grave. The funeral services were 1 x. J t._. !-?? conuucieu uy ivev. XjIusuu v^ciyeia, ui mcni- j ville, the vestries of the two congregations i which Mr. Johnson served, and the ministers j of the congregations of Yorkville acting as j pall-bearers. THE STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. j The State Medical association of South Car- j olina met in Spartanburg on the 25th ultimo, j A correspondent of the News and Courier re- j ports the proceedings as follows: On the first day of the meeting, President Parker read his address, which was attentively listened to and applauded at the close. The following papers were read: By Dr. J. W. j Folk, of Newberry, on poiosning by cicuta maculata or hemlock eaten by mistake for angelica; a paper by Dr. Kinloch of Charleston, j on gunshot wounds in the abdomen ; also one on the latter subject by Dr. Means, of Spartanburg. The following were read by the ; secretary: A paper by Dr. Baruch, of New York, on the treatment of catarrh, and one by Dr. Kollock, of Cheraw, on fectal fistula. Resolutions, introduced by Dr. Kinlock, of Charleston, and seconded Ity Dr. Taylor, of Columbia were adopted disapproving the action of the New York State Medical Association in altering the Code of Ethics so as to allow consultations lietween regular and irreg ular physicians. A resolution offered by Dr. Forrest, of Charleston, was adopted endorsing the object of the bill in Congress to create an international commission to establish standards of examination for color blindness in the navy and merchant marine. The Association adjourned on the 20th, to meet in Yorkville next-year. The following , officers were elected : President, Dr. F. F. Gary; vice-presidents, Drs. 1'. A. Wilhite, A. A. Harrison and A. A. Moore; recording secretary, Dr. John Forrest; corresponding secretary, Dr. II. D. Fraser; treasurer, Dr. H. W. DeSaussure, Jr. The following papers were read: Chlorate of soda, Dr. McKie, of Edgefield; also one on cobalt poisoning, by Dr. McKie ; aspiration of the heart or pericuardium, by Dr. Tabor, of Orangeburg ; tetanus, by Dr. Bates, of Columbia ; fracture of the skull, by Dr. Kinlocli; penetrating wound of the brain, Dr. Holies, of Spartanburg. Dr. Taylor read a letter by Dr. Hughson, of Sumter, on hypodermic injections of morphia in puerperal convulsion. Dr. Bratton, of Yorkville, read a paper 011 congenital gangrene. Dr. Parker read a paper 011 the eye, and exhibited several abdominal tumors. Dr. U'lnlcinti ovliiVtitml ?ovor:>1 Tvitlir>lr>crir?!il Qnor-i. mens. A paper was read by Dr. Philpot, of Columbia, 011 poisoning by belladonna. Resolutions of thanks to the retiring officers were passed; also to the Spartanburg County Society, to A. M. Speights and to such railroads as had extended facilities to the Association. A committee was appointed to investigate the claims to priority of the discovery of the use of ether as an anresthetic. Twenty-six new members were elected during the meeting. THE POLITICAL TRIALS. In the United States Circuit Court at Charleston, April 25th, before Judges Bond and Bryan, the case of the United States vs. John T. Ilogg and thirty-eight others, charged with obstructing qualified voters at Buford's Bridge in Barnwell county in 1S80, which was commenced on Monday, was resumed. The following additional witnesses, all colored, for the prosecution were examined: Berry Wroten, Albert Dublin, Richard Walker, Simon Smith, Evan li. Aljear, Stepheney Sanders, James T. Orr, Thomas Draper, Dublin Ilolraan and Joe Ilogg. These witnesses all testified that the colored people had not a fair chance to vote at Buford's Bridge, but had been told that they must wait their turn until after the white men got through voting. Three of them admitted under cross-examination that they had voted without molestation and said a row between two persons at the polls had frightened some of the colored people off and after they went off the rest had refused to vote. The witnesses were unanimous in testifying that no one had been hurt during the whole day and that the only pistol fired off was by a colored man. In same case on me sum, me prosecution examined six more colored witnesses who told the same story as those who had preceded them. The government then rested its case and the defence had examined two witnesses up to the hour of adjournment. The witnesses for the defense testified that, owing to the rotten condition of the house in which they had held the election, the managers were compelled to adopt the rule that only one voter should be admitted at a time. With this object in view two State Constables were placed at the door and admitte 1 the voters one by one. The white men got to the poll first and formed into line, as is usual at elections. The negroes who had camped all night near the poll, at daylight marched down to the poll in company front and demanded the right J to vote. They were told they could vote as ' soon as their turn came, and such of them as got into line and took their turn had every opportunity to vote and did vote. Between thirty and forty Republican votes were cast before 9 o'clock in the morning. About 9 o'clock an altercation occurred between a white man and a colored man, and the main body of the colored voters, who had withdrawn from the poll and were stationed about a hundred yards off, rushed down upon the whites with a yell and with clubs, pistols, scythes and pieces of iron in their hands. By the intervention of white and colored men a row was prevented and not a person was hurt. The difficulty only lasted about five minutes. About this time the leader of the Republicans received a dispatch from one of the County leaders telling him not to let his men vote, and accordingly they refused to vote any longer. When questioned by several of the white men why they did not vote the negroes said that their supervisor had failed to come and it was no use to vote localise the poll would be contested anyhow. The 27th was consumed in the examination of four witnesses for the defence. The testi mony given was corroborative of the testimony by the defendants' witnesses on the previous day. The whole session of the Court on the 28th was occupied in hearing further testimony for the defence. Twenty-one witnesses were examined, who corroborated the testimony of those who had been previously examined. The defence then rested. Arguments were heard in the case on the 20th, the argument being opened by Warren R. Marshall who is associated with the District Attorney. Col. Robert Aldrich, of Barnwell, next followed with the opening argument j for the defence. Ex-Judge Maher, Senior j counsel for the defence, followed, and District Attorney Melton closed the argument with the reply for the prosecution. Judge Bond then charged the jury as follows : Gentlemen of the jury : The parties before you are charged with two offences. The first I is that they did conspire, confederate and \ agree by force, threats and intimidation to | prevent certain parties from exercising the right of suffrage at Buford's Bridge at the general election in 1880, and that they did certain acts to effect the object of such conspiracy. And the second offence is that they actually carried out the conspiracy by preventing certain parties named in the indictment from freely exercising the right of suffrage. Conspiracy has been defined at Common | Law to be an agreement to do an unlawful thing, or to do a lawful thing in an unlawful! manner. At Common Law parties may be j punished for conspiracy, although no acts may ; be done in furtherance of it, or other persons who may not have been connected with the , conspiracy originally, may be punished for j carrying it out by furthering it. Under Sec- j tion 5,440 of the Revised Statutes, upon which i this charge is brought, you must not only find that there was a conspiracy but that one or ( fmore of the conspirators did some act to carry it out. If the jury find that there was a conspiracy or combination between the parties on trial, or between them and others not on trial, to get to the poll early in order to bring it to pass that the negroes should not vote until all I the white people voted, and if there were done j acts to carry out that conspiracy, then the par-: ties who made that agreement and were car- j * ?i- :Ii-_- I lying It out are guilty or me cuiiapnu^jr : cliarged. At the polls every qualified voter is ; on an equality. He has a right to poll in his turn after those ahead of him have voted. The resolution to prevent this or require that any person or persons shall have precedence ; over others in offering their votes is an unlaw-1 ful conspiracy, and if carried out by threats or ; acts is an unlawful conspiracy executed. The jury is at liberty to determine whether therewasany conspiracy ornot, and if there was any, what its object was. If the jury find that the assemblage was not to prevent others from ! voting, that it was simply to get there early, j or for any other purpose than that charged in j the indictment, then the defendants are not guilty under any count of the indictment. If the jury find from the evidence that, though there was 110 conspiracy, the conduct of the parties at the polls reasonably put other voters j in fear, or kept them from voting, then they ' are guilty under the second and fourth counts of the indictment, for every man is supposed to intend the reasonable consequences of his i acts, and this is true, although the voter sub- , sequently voted. 11 The jury are at liberty to find one of four verdicts. You may find one or more guilty ] generally, or one or more not guilty generally. 1 One or more guilty on one of the counts and ] not guilty on the rest, or some of the defen- i dants guilty as to some of the counts and not ] guilty as to the others. 11 The Judge concluded his charge at 3.30 P. J < M? when the jury retired to their room. |: They were out until 1 P. M., Monday, when, i reporting that they had failed to agree, they | were discharged, and a mistrial was entered, i The jury stood ten for acquittal, and two for ] conviction. ' 1 The next case taken up was that against i the managers of Hope Engine House precinct, 1 Charleston, charged with sturting the ballot ( box at the election in 1880. Five witnesses t were examined on Monday. i s JUDICIAL DECISION'. j tl In compliance with our promise made at the 0 time the cause was heard, before Judge Coth- g ran, at the last term of the Court of Common ! u Pleas for York, we publish below his decree a in the case of Nichols vs. Ilriggs. The merits al of the case aud the i>oints involved are fully ^ developed by the decree, which was liled in Sl the Clerk's office last Saturday, and is as follows : ! ]r John Nichols, plaintiff, vs. It. F. Briggs, defen- j j* dant.?Complaint for foreclosure of mortgage i n of real property. j g This case came 011 to be heard before me at the York Spring Term, 1882. ! ? The pleadings consisted of a summons and ^ complaint for foreclosure in the usual form, 1 (l and the answer of the defendant, which did ^ not deny the execution of the note and mort- S( gage, but set up tne defence or tne statute or n Limitations, and by reason of said defence denied any liability whatsoever to the plaintiff. v The transaction which formed the subject of this action may be thus briefly stated : c On the fifth of June, 1874, the defendant ^ Briggs made and delivered to the plaintiff -5 Nichols his note, under seal, for the sum of ^ 8500, whereby he promised to pay to Nichols ^ the said sum of money twelve months after ^ the date thereof, with interest from date ; and j, at the same time executed and delivered to jj Nichols his mortgage deed, in the usual form, c of a plantation of land in York county, con- j, taining 500 acres, "for the better securing the p payment" of said note. ' r The sole question discussed before me by the counsel engaged in this cause, and with much elaboration, may be thus stated: Can an action for foreclosure of a mortgage of real estate be maintained, where the note which it is given to secure has been barred by the Statute of Limitations *? It cannot be questioned, since a the decision of the Court in Arnold vs. Mc- ' Kellar, 9 So. Ca., 335, that the amendment to Section 113 of the Code, (see Lynch's Code, p. r 53,) as of the 25th of November, 1873, (see Acts ^ of Assembly of that year,) notwithstanding the supposed irregularity of its ratification ' and the subsequent reenactment of it in the Acts of Assembly of 1875, is valid and effectu- t al; and that sealed notes in South Carolina t are subject to the Statutory limitation of six t years, as therein provided. g It is also true, as matter of law, that this action having been commenced in January, of the present year, that the Statutory bar is 1 complete, unless there be some existing cause ( to prevent its operation. No proof to this c effect was offered upon the trial, and no sug- ( gestion of the kind was made in argument by ? the learned counsel for the plaintiff, who insisted, with the support of many authorities, that he was entitled to a decree of foreclosure 1 of his mortgage, non obstante. The defendant's i counsel, with equal zeal, as stoutly denied the ( plaintiff's right in this regard. , The question thus presented is one of some J difficulty of determination, owing to the great " conflict of foreign authorities upon the sub- 1 ject, (to which I am forced to express my regret that we are becoming so much addicted,) i as also on account of the apparent absence of any direct adjudication of the matter by our own Courts. The plaintiff's counsel, with great propriety, insists that the Statute of Limitations does not discharge or extinguish the debt, but only takes away the remedy for enforcing the payment cf it. Since the case of Sturgessvs. Crowninshield, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States as far back as 1819, and reported in 4 Wheaton, p. 122, and followed by numerous decisions of our own Court, this doctrine may be accepted without question. lie further insists, and apparenely with equal confidence, that though the debt be barred, the lien of the mortgage should be enforced ; and to support this proposition, cites Chapters 20 and 27 of Jones on Moi-tyayes, 2nd Vol., and the numerous authorities thereto be found. Upon the other hand, the learned counsel for the defendant contends : That in South Carolina the mortgage is but an incident of the debt, deriving its vitality and perpetuity only from the debt itself, and that it cannot, in the very nature of things, survive the substance of which it is but the mere shadow ; that the Act of 1791, so explicit in this regard, was a departure from the English doctrine and has wrought a fundamental change in the nature and character of mortgages, and of the means of enforcing them ; that our own decisions have steadily maintained this divergence ; cit- ' ting numerous authorities, among otliers : Simons vs. Bryce, 10 S. C. 11., 367 ; Warren vs. Raymond, 12 S. C. R., 21; Reader vs. Dargan, MS., Supreme Court. And not with unbecoming confidence does he rely upon the opinion of Dargan Ch., in Gibbes vs. Holmes, 10 Rich. Eq., 487, in which that learned Judge says : "If a mortgage be given tosecure a simple contract debt, when the debt is barred, the mortgage is discharged. Anything that satisfies the debt discharges the mortgage." Unfortunately for the defendant, however, this is but obiter dictum, as the question of which this would otherwise have been decisive was not before the Court. Nevertheless, as the positively expressed opinion of a very prrpnt .Tndfre in his own times?and there were O" O" ? - . giants in those days?it is entitled to great 1 consideration. The added expression above : a "Anything that satisfies the debt," &c., seems 1 to me, however, greatly to weaken the force f; of the first proposition ; for whatever conten- a tion there might be as to that, there never j. could have been a doubt as to the second, which clearly relates to satisfaction of the c debt?not to any suspension or abridgement j: of the remedy. Satisfaction is the whole ? object, aim and end of the law in all things. ' I have ventured to say this much in the way of respectful criticism, for the-reasons that [ the expression is very positive; it was much j relied on by defendant's counsel, and if other 0 reason be needed, it may be found in what a Judge Wardlaw said under like circumstances j in Mitchell vs. Bogan (I believe) in venturing D to differ with Judge Nott. ^ It might not be a matter of unprofitable n speculation to enquire how far this expres- t sion may have been evoked by the peculiar \ remedy for foreclosure, furnished by the Act r, of 175)1, which it will be remembered, was a j proceeding at law, and was bottomed upon j] "judgment being obtained in the Court of ^ Common Pleas." But I forbear. It sure- j ly could never have been successfully contend- p ed in South Carolina that the right of fore- a" closure in Equity, which became, long before S( the abolition of the Court of Equity as such, the universal mode of proceeding, was absolutety dependent upon the character or quality of the bond or debt intended to be secured. p In the case of Gillet vs. Powell, Speare's e Eq., p. 143, property was sold and bonds and mortgages taken for the purchase money, b Foreclosure of one of these was sought, and p it was discovered that the bond had been p altered in a material part and thereby made j void. There was no reference in the mort- ti gage to the bond as produced in its mutilated v condition. Ch. Harper, in delivering the Cir- \ cuit decree which was affirmed on this point p by the whole Court, said: "13ut I am of opin- tl ion that the alteration of the bond does not ? affect the mortgage, and that it must be taken (j as evidence of the debt. If the mortgage p alone had been taken, there can be no doubt a but that it would have constituted a specialty C( debt. At law, it is regarded as a conveyance p of the property; in equity as evidence of the u debt intended to be secured by it. * * * c The defendant is estopped by his deed to deny ti the existence of the bond." p See upon this point, in part, McCaughrin vs. c< Williams, MS. decision, .Supreme Court, 1882. ii Perhaps what has been already said is suffi- b cient to show the bent or inclination of my t( mind ; but in the view which I shall now take gi of this case, it is not necessary or proper even T that I should make a decision of this vexed rc and interesting question. It is somewhere re- c< lated of King .James the First, of England, bi who largely affected learning and the society of u; learned men, that upon one occasion he sum- m moned to his presence the savans of his time and propounded to them the following enqui- d< ry : "Why is it that a iish placed in a Dowl of | ai water filled to the brim, will not displace a j w particle of the contents of the vessel V" Many re learned and scientific and highly satisfactory tc replies were given by the several philosophers aj interrogated in turn, until the last of the wise | la men cautiously enquired, before undertaking | hi to account for the alleged phenomenon, if, in- i bi ieed, the fact were so ? Actual experiment ai ihowed that it was altogetherotherwise. Can j w it be so in this case V Let us see : j 01 On the 5th of June, 1874, the defendant j di made and delivered his sealed note to the j tli daintifT, secured by the mortgage in question, i de 'or the sum of $500, payable twelve months ex vfter date. On the 5th of June, 1875, the note j tli lecame due, and the Statute began to run. j di l)n the 24th of December, 1880, the Legisla- { w aire, (see ixcts of Assembly, 1880, page 415,) de imended Section 113 of theCode, by extending lo; le time for bringing actions "upon bonds or ther contracts in writing, secured by mortage of real property," to twenty years. The Statute of Limitations had operated pon the sealed note before the Court for bout five and a half years, and it had still liout six months to run before the bar should e completed. What effect did this extenion have upon "the contract in writing" jcured by the mortgage here V , The answer is found in the case of Wardiw vs. Buzzard, 15 Rich. L. li., p. 160, and i in these words: "* * * nor was it deied that the Legislature might extend the tatute of Limitations before the bar was com* lete without impairing the obligation of the ontract. In fact, its extension gives aditional vitality to the contract, and furnish nn nmiitirl nf onninluinf fn Hohtnr r?r (>rPf1i. J 11 yj V* VV v? V.WV. or. The debtor, if he wishes to pay can do o; and if tlie creditor desires to sue, there is othing in its extension to prevent him." This seems to me to be the conclusion of the hole matter. Wherefore, it is ordered, adjudged and dereed that it be referred to the Clerk of the ,'ourt of Common Pleas for the county of fork, to enquire into and compute the amount !ue upon the demand herein sued upon ; and! hat upon such ascertainment, that the plainiff have judgment of foreclosure of the prem ies mortgaged and described in the complaint, n the usual form, for his debt, interest and osts. And that the plaintiff herein have eave to move for any further order that may ie necessary to effectuate the judgment herein endered. " J. S. Cotiiran, Lately Presiding Judge, 6th Circuit. Abbeville, S. C., April 26,1882. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Bonitz Hotel, in Goldsboro, a fine ,nd costly building, was destroyed by fire on Vednesday of last week. Uninsured. ? T. X. Cooper has been confirmed as inter lal revenue collector of the Sixth or Statesrill district, vice Dr. Mott, tfho has held the osition for several years. ? All the buildings belonging to the Bing1am Military School at Mebaneville were mrnt last Monday morning. They were sixeen in number. Loss ?30,000: insurance, '20,000. ? The Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the ndependent Order of Odd Fellows of North Carolina will meet in "Wilmington next Monlay ; and on the 30th instant the Masonic irand Chapter of the State will meet in the lame city. ? The Gastonia Gazette reports that 011 Wednesday of last week the picker room of r. II. Wilson's cotton mill near that town, ;aught on fire, and was consumed, together rvith all the machinery. Loss about $3,000, ininsured. The machinery destroyed will be eplaced at once. ? Martin P. Dixon, a North Carolina inventor, who went to New York to sell a pat:nt car coupler, was paid $1,800 for the couper last Friday, and shortly afterwards was eniced to a saloon by a man and woman, and ho illeges that the woman robbed him of $1,200 )f his money. ? The railroad from Wolf Creek to Paint [lock, Tennessee, a branch of the East Tenlessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, was ;ompleted last Friday, connecting Western STorth Carolina with the Tennessee system, ind giving another line- from the North Caroina seaboard through the Blue Ridge Mounaius. ? A desperate affray is reported as having iccurred at Hickory last Friday. A day or ;wo previously arrests had been made by the jolice of the town of several young men :harged with raising a disturbance and resistng an officer. On Friday they returned to lie town and five of them made a desperate issault on Policeman Ed. Bradford. The stacking party were Pink Rowe, Charley *owe, Pink Symon, Howell Parish and a man lamed Corliss. The policeman was wounded, rat he fired eight shots at his assailants and vounded Pink Rowe, Ilowell Parish and Cor?> iss. Rowe was shot in the head and shouller, Parish in the bowels?both dangerous, rwo other men, named Charley Bradford and larriss, were shot accidentally." ? In its report of the proceedings of Linoln Court last week, the Charlotte Democrat ays: The State docket was quite small. s early all the important civil suits had been ompromised previous to the meeting of court, ncluding all but one or two of the suits for lamages against the Carolina Central Raiload, in consequence of the disaster at Indian Ireek, in December, 1880. In the case of ohn Schenck, of Charlotte, versus the Richaond & Danville Railroad, which was tried at he last terra of Mecklenburg Superior Court, eturning a verdict of $3,000 damages, a moion was argued to set aside this verdict, and decision was rendered granting the motion. ?he ground for thus setting aside was the act that the defendant, during the trial, held , conversation with one of the jurors about he manner in which the accident occurred. ? An altercation in Yanceyville, Caswell ounty on Wednesday of last week, resulted a the instant killing of Nat. Johnston and robably fatal wounding of George Williamon, Jr., besides the wounding of Felix Roan, ostmasterat Yanceyville. The affair originaed on Saturday previous between Postmaster loan and Col. George Williamson, late memf the North Carolina State Senate. Ex-Sentor Williamson playfully twitted Postmaster loan about receceiving his appointment as ostmaster from a Republican administration, diick gave umbrage to the postmaster, but o collision occurred then between the paries. The matter was renewed, however, on Wednesday, among the principals of the quarel and their friends, with the above results, t would seem that Roan shot Johnston, and a doing doing so was acting clearly in self efence. Roan was also painfully wounded, le gave himself up. All the parties are liighf connected by birth and marriage, and the ffair has caused great excitement in that ection. ~ MERE-MENTION. In the Superior (Jourt or jn ew i oik city, ist Friday, Mrs. Verina M. Chapman recovred a verdict of $21,017.73 against the Phoenix rational Bank of New York?the value of onds and stock of the bank confiscated durlg the war on the ground that she was friendf to the rebellion. A young man named Libert Young, was arrested at Spratboro and iken to London last Saturday for having written a letter threatening the life of Queen rictoria. He is supposed to lie a lunatic. It i reported that Gen. D. H. Hill has resigned lie presidency of the Arkansas Industrial chool at Fayetteville, Ark. Ralph Walo Emerson, poet and author, died at Boston ist Thursday, aged 79 years, lacking one ninth. Owing to the absence of several alleagues, the colored bishops who met in ialtimore to confer together for the organic nion of the African and the colored M. E. hurches have adjourned without consummang the plan. The Virginia Legislature as adjourned sine die.'"'"'The corn and itton crops of Texas are reported promislg. The country contiguous to Vicksurg, Miss., is now almost entirely out of wa;r, and planting and plowing is becoming sneral. A full crop will be made. The 'exas Legislature has fixed the price of railiad travel in that State at not exceeding three into nor rnila -Afro Sipnvillp to llftl" J VkJ J/v, i. liJ llV/i .kixi ui > >**v ? ? ? ?- ? rother with sisterly devotion. She will get p a petition praying the President to comlute.bis sentence to imprisonment for life. Till New York Times of Saturday publishes stailed crop reports from thirty-seven .States id four Territories. The showing on the hole is encouraging. The substance of the port from South Carolina is as follows: Cot111 looks well with a slightly diminished acreje. Winter wheat and oats show a very rge increase. Rice promises not more than llf the usual crop. A. T. Fielder, a other-in-law of Gen. Dick Taylor, was shot id killed in an altercation in Louisville, Ky., ith officer Gus Rosenburg. The light grew it of an olu difficulty. A New York spatch of Sunday says an attempt was made e previous day on the lives of W. II. Vanirbilt and Cyrus W. Field, by sending them plosives through the mails. Fortunately e dangerous character of the packages was scovered en route to the post office station hence they were to be delivered at the resince of these gentlemen, and so a probable ss of life was prevented.