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& maps and .fads. * ? Congressmen, representing the leading tobacco districts, do not hesitate to say that the tobacco tax will neither be abolished nor reduced materially at this session of Congress. ? Virginia can improvise a town as quickly as any of the ambitious States or Territories of the West. Four months ago a dense forest ocoupied the site now covered by the town of Pocahontas, in Tazewell county, which has a population of over 2,000. A coal mine did it. ? M. T. Polk, the defaulting treasurer of the State of Tennessee, is a graduate of West Point, a nephew of President Polk, an exConfederate officer who lost a leg in battle, isfifty-one years of age, has a large family and . was much respected. The amount of defalcation charged against him is ?400,000. ? The new Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania has discovered a three million steal. It seems that of the three million dollars paid by the general government in satisfaction of Pennsylvania claims growing out of the recent civil war not one dollar reached the State treasury. ? The Governor of Florida recommends a reduction of the taxes in that State. The treasury is full and the prospective revenues are in excess of the prospective expenditures. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and the success of Democratic aministration in Florida is attested by its benfits to the taxpayers. ? In his inaugural address, Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, makes the assertion that 164,571 voters are disfranchished in that State. He also says that there is too much "physiology, physics, botany, zoology, geology, astronomy, chemistry and psychology1' in the schools, and not enough of the spelling book. ? Rev. R. IV. Hill, who has been in Alaska, draws a gloomy picture of intemperance among the natives. "The Indians will give away wife and children," he says, "to obtain liquor, and their carousals are so fierce and reckless that murders and suicides are frequent results." He believes that if the progress of ruin is not stayed the end of the Alaska Indian is not far off. ? A local election at Cleveland, Tenn., last Saturday, was closed in a summary and effect^Kr nai manner, a disagreement about the man K^Her of holding the election resulted in the city marshal, after the election had proceeded for * an hour, taking the ballot boxes by force and hurling them and their contents into the fire. The sheriff was holding the election and the marshal disputed his right to do so. The elec tion will have to be held again. ? A Western furniture firm has sent an agent to the Piedmont country of Virginia, North and South Carolina, with instructions not to return until he has secured 100,000 acres of suitable woodland.. There is no telling the vast amount of wealth that the South is sure to realize in the near future by the sale of its timbered lands. The Northwest will be practically exhausted in the next decade. ? Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, has published a long letter in which lie seeks to show that it is absurd to say that there were any constitutional objections to the acceptance of his "donation" of $50,000 to the Georgia University with the restrictions he imposed. He says that he adheres to his plan, and intends to appropriate that sum, either in or out of the State, to the object contemplated in his proposition to the University and the Legislature. ? A Ballot-Box on the automatic principle of the passenger railway alarm punch is the latest scheme devised by Philadelphia's reform committee of one hundred for preventing fraud at the polls. The intended mission of the box is to prevent the election officer from receiving or depositing the ballot, cinu 10 v> 111 uv piuviueu ?iou evil aiaiiii lt'giai-ei -~which, it is claimed, will defy any attempts at alteration. Until the committee of one hundred put in its effective work the voters of Philadelphia, and not the ballot-boxes, were somewhat on the automatic principle. ? The adjourned session of the sixty-fifth General Assembly of Ohio convened at Columbus on the 2nd, and Governor Foster's message was submitted. It recommended the adoption of a joint resolution to submit a single constitutional amendment giving full control of the Legislature over the liquor traffic and thereby annulling the anti-license clause ; the adoption of a simple tax law for the liquor traffic, the repeal of the Pond law forbidding the sale of spirituous liquors on the premises, and the passage of a more stringent law for the punishment of sale of liquors to minors and drunkards. It favors local selfgovernment and a stringent Sunday law. ? Since the great outburst of sun spots In Noveml>er and the accompanying magnetic storms and auroras, the sun has shown very little disturbance, and on the day of the transit of Venus Old Sol's face shone free from any blemish, except a few slight specks, although it was near the height of the spot period. Soon after the transit some disturbance of the solar surface was again visible, but the spots were very few until New Year's day. Then several groups appeared, and now the sun is evidently storm-driven once more. In one place the solar surface over an area of hundreds of thousands of square miles is pitted with chasms and ridged with fiery ele vations. More auroral displays are likely to follow. ? It is estimated that at least 10,000 looms and 200,000 spindles are now idle in the cotton and woolen mills of Philadelphia and vicinity in consequence of the continued depression of trade. At the usual rate of runningthese machines, this means a total loss of work of from 5,000 to 0,000 operatives, while probably ten times as many are working at reduced wages or on shortened time. The depression is felt most severely in the business of producing cheaper grades of cotton and woolen goods. Among the principal mills are Porter & Dickey's 525 looms; John Scanlon & Son, 120 looms; Wm. Beaty, 62 looms Campbell & Elliott's 600 looms ; C. S. & J. P. Jones, 400, and James Smythe & Co., 900 hands. ? Mr. Yennor, in a note to the Boston Post, says : "I do not wish to interfere with Wiggin's predicted storm in any shape or manner, but while he is terrifying the people with what is coming in March, I may just give notice that on the 27th and 28th days of January a severe period of stormy weather is likely to be experienced at and around Xew York and Boston, and generally throughout Xew York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and adjacent States. This storm is likely to be repeated about the same dates in February, but probably with less severity. The storm period of the 8th to lltli of March is likely to be a cold and wintry blast, but, in my opinion, nothing very much out of the way. This is not a prophecy, but a probability based upon a very probable 'recurrence.'" ? The United States Supreme Court assembled last Wednesday after their holiday recess. Some very important cases have been argued, ana me uecisions upon uiese win soon oe rendered. Prominent among the cases are what are commonly called the "State cases," involving the action of the State of Louisiana in respect to her State debt. The cases known as "Civil rights cases" will also shortly be decided. These cases are the United States, plaintiff, vs. Murray Stanley, coming up from Kansas, in which it is alleged that Stanly denied to a negro the privileges of his inn on the ground of his color; the United States vs. Michael Ryan, coming up from California, where a negro was denied access to the dress circle of a theatre; the United States vs. Samuel Nichols, coming up from Missouri, where a negro named Agee is alleged to have been denied the privileges of an inn, and the United States vs. R. G. Han-is et. al., coming up from Tennessee, in which it is alleged that certain negroes were denied, while in the custody of the law, the equal protection of the laws, and were maltreated by certain parties. ? On Thursday of last week a man fell dead on one of the streets of Brooklyn, and the body was about to be sent to the Potter's field for burial when it was identified as that of Gen. John J. Martin, an ex-Confederate officer, who has been in the dry goods jobbing business for several years at 140 West Broadway. Before the war Gen. Martin was a wealthy planter, and it is said that he owned over 800 slaves and was a millionaire. He raised the regiment known as the Charleston Blues, and became its colonel. Subsequently he was made general. At the battle of Secessionville he was wounded, but he was soon in the field again, and remained there until the ?lose of th$. war. He had but a few thousand ^ dollars left of his fortune, which he put into \ the dry goods firm of a Charleston house, gl Whgp insolvency overtook this enterprise lie turned over all that he had to his creditors, lie made enough as a dry goods jobber in New York to support himself, wife and daughter in an up-town tenement ; but, although he won many friends, he kept his poverty a secret. Although there were many in the dry goods trade who would willingly have assisted ! him, his, pride prevented it. lie left less than | $10 for his wife and daughter, and had only seventy-five cents in his own purse. His body was sent by friends to Charleston for interment. f orkviUc (frnquiwr. YORK VILLE. S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING. JAN. II, ISS3 How to Order the Enquirer,?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give nostotiice, county and State, in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or postoffice money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enqitirkk is delivered free of postage to all subscribers residing in York county, who receive the paper at post-ollices within the county ; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our sub scriuers, no liiauer t\ nuiu mvv mm v mc are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-ollire hero, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the FiguroN.?The date on the "address-label" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date, must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscriptions, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. jSST Mr. J. L. Simmons is our authorized agent for receiving subscriptions and advertisements in the town of Chester. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? There is now not a town in Sumter county where liquors can be legally sold. ? The Chester Cotton Seed Oil Mill was put to work for the first time* on December 30. ? Charles S. West, a native of Camden, has been elected junior member of the Supreme Bench of Texas. ? Mr. Thomas Comer, the nominee of the delegation for treasurer of Union county, has been pronounced inelligible by the Governor. ? About 150 colored emigrants have purcluised tickets for Arkansas, at the Air Lir.e railway depot, in Greenville. ? A daughter of Dr. Thomas Center, of Richland county, was accidentally burned to death on Tuesday of last week. ? The St. Luke's Colored Episcopal congregation of Columbia, have made a contract for the erection of a church building to cost 81,500. ? Pursuant to the local prohibition Act all but two of the barrooms in Chester have been closed, and these will close early in February, when their licenses expire. ? Don. Thomas, a Sumtercompound of Caucasian, Indian and African is, according to uie Jiavance, an arusuc puuuta anu spcnno and writes several languages. ? The Abbeville Medium thinks that the new railroad law "is unnecessary aYid that it will greatly retard and hinder railroad enterprises throughout the State." ? The house of Tenepey Williams, colored, at High Shoals, Anderson county, was destroyed by fire a few days ago, and her youngest child whom she had left alone in the house, burned to death. ? The dwelling house of Warren Snoddy at Woodruff's, Spartanburg county, wasdestroyed by fire, with all the furniture and clothing of Mr. Snoddy. The building was valued at S3,000 and was insured for S2,400. ? In Pickens county, one day last week, the body of a young man named Fortner was found beneath the trunk of a decayed tree which had been blown down. The head of the body had been nearly eaten off by hogs. ? Two runaway couples from Xortli Carolina arrived at Gaffney City, during Christmas week, with matrimonial intent, but at the last moment the young ladies declined the riveting of nuptial bonds. ? A revenue raiding party from Greenville made a trip to Panther Mountain, destroyed oiv ctaio ant\ A. HUH flrnllrms nf mnsli anrl 1fi0 gallons of low wines and captured Joe Gosnell, who was running one of the stills. ? Mr. DeSaussure Bull of Sumter took the premium of 8110 offered by the Stateburg Farmer's Club for the best acre of cotton. The yield was 2,628 pounds. AV. AAr. Anderson, Jr., came in second, with 2,611 pounds. ? Mr. Julien Bland, a prominent young citizen of the town of Edgefield, has been appointed its postmaster, and no Federal appointment in the State of late has given as much satisfaction. ? The Cherokee Falls Manufacturing Company near Gaffney City, have just made an addition of $20,000 worth of machinery to their factory on Broad River, which increases its capacity to 45,000 spindles. ? Members of the 16th regiment, S. C., Volunteers are contemplating a re-union of the survivors of that organization. Nearly every member of the regiment was from Greenville county, and many of her best citizens were on its rolls. ? Captain C. S. D wight, of AVinnsboro, formerly Chief Engineer of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, has been appointed chief engineer of the Augusta, Elberton and Chicago Railroad and will at once assume the duties of the position. ? On the 24th ultimo, at the residence of Mrs. Clark, near New Hope, Chester county, a pistol in the hands of Colly Quinton was accidentally discharged, the ball entering the head of Jackson, a youth seventeen years old, and causing instant death. The jury of inquest rendered a verdict of accidental death. ? Governor Thompson has appointed Mr. Legare J. Walker, of Charleston, to be Railroad Commissioner in the place of Gen. James Conner, who declined to qualify. The board now consists of Messrs. Bonham, Jeter and Walker. The Commissioners organized yestesday, on which day the new railroad law went into effect. ? The liquor men of Spartanburg have not yet given up their light. Mr. Wilson, their attorney, will have another hearing before the Supreme Court, when, he hopes to get an order passed for the City Council to hold a new election, with registration preceding it, which, he thinks, will reverse the decision of the last. ? Kershaw county brings to the front the model colored farmer, who, without using a pound of guano and with an ox as his only plow animal, has the following exhibit as the fruits of his labor for 18S2 : Thirteen bales of cotton, averaging 400 pounds each, 120 bushels of corn, 75 bushels of peas, 100 bushels of potatoes and 45 gallons of molasses. ? Charlotte Observer : A policeman whose name is Benjamin Ross, was shot twice, in Spartanburg, last Saturday night, by a man named Little. Mr. Ross was trying to arrest ; Little when the latter drew his pistol and fired I twice on the otlicer, one bullet taking effect in the officer's mouth and the other in the storn( ach. Little was released on a bond of $50 for trial. The officer's injuries are not thought to , be dangerous. j ?Up to the close of business last Saturday, I the State Treasurer paid aliout 880,000 inter| est on the consolidated and deficiency honds i and stocks had been paid at the treasurer's ' , office in Columbia and in Charleston. The l actual amount of interest paid in New York < is not yet known, but the treasurer estimates that at least one-half of the entire interest on the public debt has already been paid. There are sufficient funds on hand to meet the balance of the interest. T ? The Hon. William D. Porter, of Charles- j ton, died on Thursday last. Mr. Porter had J held a high position in South Carolina for ^ many years before Reconstruction. lie serv- j ed in the Legislature from Charleston for H some years before the war, and was, in 1857, ^ elected President of the State Senate. In 1805 he was elected lieutenant-governor, thus [ also retaining the presidency of the Senate, ^ but was soon ousted by the military govern- t raent created by Congress. Of late years he V had held the oflice of Master for Charleston jj county. ? On Wednesday morning of last week, X. B. Barnwell, Esq., the Master for Richland county, met with a serious accident which terminated fatally. He was riding 011 the P road from Columbia to Lexington, and on f< getting into the buggy after walking a little, his shot gun was discharged, the heavy load ofbirdshot striking him on the left arm below the cIIkiw. From the effects of the wound :l lie died at half-past 1 o'clock P. M., next day. ^ Mr. Barnwell was the son of the late Hon. R. W. Barnwell, and was a very popular gentle- ^ man. ? The Laurensville llerahl of Friday tells of the singular death of .John Elmore, a negro boy, on Wednesday at the plantation of Mr. . L. E. Ivby, in Iirens county. The cotton " press at which he had been working bad been 11 stopjied while the hands went to dinner, and the boy, it is supposed, went to sleep snugly ensconced in about two hundred pounds of cotton in the press. When the hands returned enough cotton was thrown into the press to complete a bale and the screw of the press was 11 run down, crushing to death the ill-fated sleeper, whose presence was only discovered by ^ the protrusion, after the packing, of a piece of 0 his coat. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? William Moller, of Xew York, lias bought a two-tliird interest in the Secrest Gold Mine, ^ in Davidson county, for $35,000. 3 ? J. II. Hinshaw, of Chatham county, died last week from lockjaw, occasioned by the * crushing of his arm in a gin. ? The Eastern Field Trials Club of New | York are negotiating for 10,000 acres of land I at High Point, upon which to stock quail and i< shoot them. ? Conductors on the Richmond and Danville h lioad, who used to receive $70 a month, are d now paid according to the mileage traveled, f and cannot make over $55. ? A Railroad law, similar in many of its provisions to that recently passed by the Legislature of this State, is now pending in the ' North Carolina Legislature. d ? Gen. Strong, President of the Atchison, t Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, who is mak- c ing a tour of the Southern Railroads, pro- i( nounces the Western North Carolina Railroad, v from Asheville to Henry Station to be the * greatest piece of railroad engineering in the P world. e ? The venerable Edward J. Hale died in ^ New York Tuesday night. He was born in i! Randolph county, October 26th, 1802, and for ? forty years was editor of the Fayetteville Observer. Driven from Fayetteville by the disasters of the war, he luis resided in New York since 1806, having been extensively engaged in ^ the book and publishing business. u ? The State Institution for the deaf, dumb ^ and blind makes the following report covering c the two last years : One hundred and ninety- v six pupils have been present, 105 deaf. and 0 dumb and 91 blind. The number of admis- ^ sions since the date of the last report, 31; the s number of discharges 23. In the department r for the colored there have been during the two * years 35 deaf and dumb pupils and 22 blind. ^ ? On the 30th ultimo, as thirty penitentiary r convicts, mostly negroes and white guards, L engaged on the Cowee tunnel on the Western a Northern Carolina Railroad in Jackson coun- d ty, were crossing Tuckassegee river, Saturday s morning, one of the convicts discovered that c the flat was leaking and gave an alarm, creating a panic. The men all rushed to one end of the hat, bearing it down, and the flat immediately filled and sank. The Tuckaseegee there is swift and deep, and the rapids just ^ below. The men clung together in knots ; those who could not swim clinging to those ? who could, some were carried 11110 uie rapuis a and drowned. Only twelve of the convicts escaped. ? Governor Jams' message to the Legislature was read last Thursday. It is able in all " respects, and of great length. It states that a the valuation of property is far too low. In- u stead of being $107,000,000 it should be $300,- s 000,000. It is suggested that the valuation P be raised and the rate of taxation lowered. ^ The public institutions, three asylums for the insane, two deaf, dumb and blind institutions n and the penitentiary, are shown to be well t managed. The creation of a Railroad Com- e mission is specially urged. The work done by ^ the Agricultural Department is commended ^ as aiding greatly in developing the State and, as at Atlanta, making known her resources. It is recommended that the number of Supreme Court Judges be increased from three 0 to five and tliat the number of Superior Court Judges be also increased. Y A FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY. " 01 About a month ago, Dr. H. G. Klugh, a ^ reputable physician of this county, when pur- ^ suing some cotton thieves, was knocked from j l.io Imivo 5n tlio iinhlin rniul np'ir his linmfi. ,? with a rail and left upon the ground for dead. The people of that section were greatly excited v and aroused by this outrage. Dr. Klugh lay uncousciotis for a good while, being desperate- V ly hurt. The day after this assault Dave Rob- >i erts, colored, was arrested and charged with jj the offence. On the preliniinajy examination, the evidence was so clear as to his guilt that a he was committed to jail, at this place, to w await trial at our next term of the Court of tl General Sessions. The excitement about the p; outrage on Dr. Klugh apparently died out, and sj those who thought of the case at all, presumed that the accused would be tried before a jury, . and be punished according to law, after a fair 1S and impartial investigation of the evidence. 13 Such, however, was not the case. Last Sab- tl bath, about midnight, a party of unknown men came to the jail, ostensibly to commit a horse thief. Under this pretence, they gained access to the jail, and overpowering the sheriff and his son, took the keys, seized the unfortuliate prisoner and carried him away. The par- ^ ties were heavily armed and the sheriff so sud- C denly surprised, by such numbers of apparent- u ly desperate and determined men, was helpless g( in their hands and could do nothing to save q the life of the unhappy Roberts. The party . came into town quietly, and having possessed themselves of the prisoner, left without noise w or confusion. Monday morning Roberts was R found hanging, cold and dead, to the limb of in ' -1 .1 4-?tt/\ il tree, Oil tlie ureeiiwoou ruau, iiuuub tnu i pj miles from town. lie was hung with a common cotton plow line, his feet nearly reaching | the ground. In his struggles he had kicked |tr his pantaloons off and, naked and ghastly, he swayed to and fro in the icy breeze of morning. e< An inquest was held over the dead body. No 01 trace of the party was left behind. cl So far as we have heard, this deplorable af- , fair has met with the unqualified disapproba-1 . ' tion of the people of the county. The hang-, 1,1 ing is regarded as wrong and unnecessary. SI The prisoner was in confinement. Our courts ni are open. No murder had been committed by 1 w him. The evidence against him was strong, ! sc and, if convicted, his punishment would have been sure. If, immediately upon the commission of the assault, ltoberts had been hotly e(' pursued and slain, in the excitement of the th hour, there might have been some palliation pe for the unlawful .act. As it was, though, the ( 0f people can see no circumstance that excuses or ' f, justifies the tragedy of Monday. The life of the humblest citizen should be held sacred and j w be taken from him only by the rules of lawand w evidence.-- Abliivillc Malium, -1 tli. , hi LOCAL AFFAIRS. ' ( NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 Intrh Hehmidt?Yorkville Laundry. 1 . R. MagilI?Wholesale Grocer. /. H. Carroll? Administrator's Sale, os. F. Wallace?Clerk's Sale, ohn R. Roller, Tenn.?Horses and Mules. >r. J. li. Patrick, Jr., D. S.?Dental Notice, am M. Grist?News Agency. lOSt. ' * fart A Hart, Plaintiff's Attorneys?Notice to ( Defendants. K A. A. Watson and J. A. Watson?Executors' 1 Notice. ' . M. Adams?Job Work, Ac. Kennedy Brothers A Harron?Millinery Room. ' I. Strauss?Now is the Time. '. M. Dobson?To Give Away?Keep Clean. 1 Withers Adickes?Groceries. lerndon Rrethors?Fertilizers. 1 obson A Parish?Our Stock. ? LARGE TURNIPS. i Mr. J. Leander Parish has favored us with ' basket of turnips averaging in weight 4i ounds and measuring 25 inches in circum- < 3rence. 1 COTTON SALES. Despite the bad weather and almost impass- ( ble condition of the roads, a few bales of cot3n are brought in every day. The shipments ] rom this placce front the 1st of September up i ~ > r 1 1~~J. A- 4-~ A iVTO LaIao 1 J iUUIlUiiy lilSl, UlllUllIlt IU Uiuca. CHIJRCIl NOTICES. Episcopal?Rev. A. Prentiss. Services in he Church of the Good Shepherd, Yorkville, i tlie forenoon ; in the Church of Our Saviour, \ Lock Hill, in the evening. < Associate Reformed Bjesbyterian?ltev. R. j .athan, Pastor. The pastor will fill his rogu- ) ir appointment at Tirzah next Sunday. I Methodist Episcopal?Rev. It. P. Franks, I 'astor. Services in the Church at Yorkville, 1 lorning and evening. : Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor, ervices at the usual hours, morning and ' veiling. ? . ( KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF HONOR. j At a regular meeting of Home Lodge, No. 1 0, Knights and Ladies of Honor, held last 1 londay night, the following officers were in- J tailed for the ensuing term : H. F. Adickes. Protector; Miss Annie E. ( "ergoson, Vice-Protector ; Thos. C. Dunlap, i heasurer ; II. W. Hope, Guide, J. G. Fergu- 1 on, Secretary and Financial Secretary; C. H. i )ixon, Sentinel. Trustees?J. C. Kuykendal, 1 . I). Witherspoon and J. A. McLean. Medial Examiner?Dr. J. F. Lindsay. : The times of the meeting of the Lodge have een changed from the second and fourth Friay nights of each month to the second and ourth Monday nights. j 1 r.jiiir.osrie. lu.-iji. ( The first shipment of coul to Yorkville for ] eating purposes was received here last Saturay, three car loads having been ordered by wo of our citizens with the view of practi- J ally testing the relative difference between < fc and wood for fuel. Commencing to-day, ;e propose hereafter to heat the rooms of the Inquirer office with coal. This coal is shiped from Knoxville, Tenn., and costs, deliver- j d at the depot in Yorkville, $o.0o per ton. ! Vith such railroad facilities as we are prom- i >ed, it can probably be delivered here next all at a lower figure. THE WEATHER. | The snow of December 29th was succeeded J y rain which has been falling almost every ] ay of the present month. As a consequence ( he earth is saturated with water, and as a re- i ompense for bad roads and swollen streams, pells that had not recovered from the drought 1 f 1881 are beginning to fill up again. We . jam that Broad and Catawba rivers are much ; wollen, the latter being so high as to prevent < ailroad communication between Chester and Lancaster. The Cheraw and Chester Railroad eing without a bridge? at the crossing of the j iver, uses ferry boats for transferring cars at , hat point, which cannot he done with safety t present. Two inches of snow fell on Tues- . ay night, and yesterday was the coldest day, 1 o far, of the winter, the thermometer indi- ( ating 5? below freezing point. KNIGHTS OF HONOR. It may be interesting to the members of the [nights of Honor in this section?and there i re two thriving lodges in this county, with 1 he prospect of a third one?to know that the i rder is in a progressive and highly satisfac- j ory condition. From circular No 4 of the upreme Dictator, issued last month, we copy he following paragraph: Lodges and members may enter upon the ; ew year with an encouraging knowledge of he state of the order. They are advised that , pHrpfni nnmnilation made under mv direction ip to December 1st shows the paying memberhip on assessment 103 to be 123,829. At no revious period was the membership so large, nd it shows an increase over May, 1881, of 7,520 members. Our growth is healthful , nd steadily upward, and must so continue if j aembers and officers are faithful to their du- ; ies. Let the new year awaken a new zeal in ! very member to strengthen his lodge and ring to its fold worthy and deserving men, ' hat ours may remain a true knighthood?the i anner order of the world. , OUR EXCHANGES. j The Associate Reformed Presbyterian, the . rgan of the church of that denomination in s lie South, is now under the charge of the Itev. \ V. M. Grier and the Rev. J. M. Todd as ed 1 lors, with the Rev. I)r. Boyce as associate ditor. The connection of Mr. Todd, is of ecent date and his many friends hope that ] e will find his new field a congenial one. < le will prove an acquisition to the editorial I jrce of the Presbyterian, already one of the : ery best religious Journals of the country. Mr. George B. Cromer succeeds Mr. "\V. II. ] Wallace in the editorial management of the ] 'ewberry Herald, and comes before the pub- 1 c in a salutatory at once brief, pointed and j ppropriate. Mr. Cromer's first editorial ut- , trances give assurance that the reputation of ( ae Herald will be safe in his hands, and the ( aper will continue to hold a high place in I! .. | f oum Carolina journalism. The Chester Bulletin lias been enlarged and j ] i now printed on a power press. Mr. W. F. I \ labcock lias been admitted as a partner in j ( le publication of the paper. 1 i RAILROAD RUMORS. i There are rumors that important changes j | ill soon be made in the schedules of the j i harlotte, Columbia and Augusta and the i * olurabia and Greenville Railroads. It is ? nderstood in Columbia that the day passen- i ( 3i" and mail train going North, which leaves folumbia now at 11.40 in the morning, will i discontinued and that the night train, j ^ hicli reaches Columbia now from Augusta at j ).25 at night will run on through to Charlotte ? istead of stopping at Columbia, as under the a i-esent schedule. It is also understood that J mixed train, for the accommodation of local j avel, will be run from Columbia to Char- i a tte during the day, leaving Columbia at an ( c Lily hour. It is also said that the schedule , c l the Columbia and Greenville Road will be r langed so as to make the time of leaving ^ *7 aIaIaoIt in flia mnrn i nrr UiUUlUicfc (iUUUb I U lyiuoa n* miw , ste;ul of 11.42 as under the present schedule. { lould these changes go into effect, corainu- j cation between Charleston and the interior r ill be at least 24 hours behind the present 8 liedule, besides the vexations of delay of ^ issengers at intersecting points. It is claim- ^ [ by the C. C. & A. and the Greenville roads n at they are forced to cut down their ex- c inses. Roth companies have already turned a f a number of hands, and it is rumored that c iere will be a still larger reduction of their ? orking forces. Slower time and fewer trains ^ ill also reduce their expenses. It is also ti ged by railroad officials that the Railroad 5 aw of the last session of the Legislature will; jperate so seriously against the successful j nanagement of the railroads as to render retrenchment necessary. ?????m Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. - I LETTER FROM BLACK'S STATION. Black's Station, S. C'., January 8.?The j farmers of our section have closed the fall by j mowing a large crop of small grain, which, I they are convinced, is the cheapest crop proiuced and will grow in importance. Mrs. Lucy Green Black, widow of the late Thomas P. Black, and mother of Mr. Joseph H. Black, deceased, who was at one time con iiecieu wun tne lorKvuie jk.nquiher, aiea in Pope county, Arkansas, on the 17th ultimo. She was in the 8.'5rd year of her age at the time jf her death. Her maiden name was Prince, md she was a native of Abbeville county, where, as in York, she had a large circle of friends. A firm here has contracted to furnish a Saffney City lime manufacturer with 50,000 Dan-el staves i>er month for the next twelve months. C. M. Green, Esq., is on a visit to his father, Mr. William Green, who lives in Husk jounty, Texas. Mrs. Hannah Goforth and her son, who moved to Arkansas last year, have returned with the intention of making their future lome in their old native State. Ego. For tin: Yorkvllle acquirer. THE FREE SCHOOL SYSTEM. Wiiitakeii's, S. C., January S.?1 see in the last issue of the ExquniEii that some jne has let off his big gun, aiul said we must juard against excessive diffusion with the same jealousy that we watch centralization.Then lie goes on to say that our system might De greatly enhanced in its good attainments by a more concentrated employment of the funds and agencies of this department. And [ would like to know the- difference between liis concentrated system of running our free schools. If that is not centralization, what would he call centralization ? To put one school house in a township, would say at or.ee Lliat there were three-fourths of the children in the township unworthy of being educated because they were poor and paid in a manner no taxes, ilis plan, on his concentrated or centralized nlan. would denrive the verv class of education which the free schools were intended to educate. The poor are the class of children that should be met as near their own doors as could be done. That has not been done?as the poor children of our country, with the poor laborer have to make all that pays our taxes, sustains our lawyers, preachers and doctors?with their children at iv concentrated, or I would call it, a centralized school for the rich at the expense of the poor laboring class of our country. Our free school system is a very good one if it were carried out impaitially, and our authorities knew no favorites and would do as they wish to be done by, which is one of the orthodox principles of the Bible; and when government or the people lose that principle, which should govern all honorable men in their dealings with each other, we are in about the same situation as Sodom was when there could not be found live righteous persons within her Hints. W. II. Carroll. STATISTICS OF CRIME. TIip \tpw York Kt'.p.ninn Tclenram has kei)t !i record of crime perpetrated in the United States during the past year, from which the following facts are condensed : During the year 1SS2, on an average there were each day two murders and one suicide. On the other hand, executions have averaged only two in a week and lynchings only one. Since January 1, 720 persons have met their deaths at the hands of their fellowmen. One hundred and twenty-five were mysterious murders. There were 52 wife murders, 5 murders of husbands, G parricides, 4 matricides, 5 fratricides and 2 sororieides. Forty children were killed by their parents. In twenty-three of the crimes there were two assassins ; in three instances there were three of them. Twentyfour of the murderers committed suicide and one died in jail. In regard to murders New YqH< leads with 131; 7G of these were committecffftNeWY-ork-and 15 in Brooklyn. The other States and Territories rank in the following order : Missouri, 44 ; Virginia 43 ; Pennsylvania, 40 ; Kentucky, 37 ; Texas, 31 ; Illinois, 30 ; New lersey, 30 ; Ohio, 28 ; Massachusetts, 27 ; Arkansas 24; Tennessee, 21; Indiana, 10 ; North Carolina, 10 ; Georgia, 1G ; Mississippi, 15 i Colorado, 13 ; California, 10 ; Iowa and Minnesota, 0 each ; Alabama, Connecticut, Maryland, Michigan and Wisconsin, 8 each ; Louisiana, Maine and South Carolina, 7 each ; Kansas and Rhode Island, 6 each ; West Virginia, 5 ; Arizona, District of Columbia, Indian Territory, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming, 4 each ; Florida, Nevada and New Hampshire, 3 each; Dakw?,- Nebraska and Washington Territory, 2 each ; Delaware, Montana and Vermont, 1 each. One hundred and one persons paid the penalty of their crimes by death during the past year. Of this number ninety-eight died on the gallows and three were shot, the scene of the execution of the latter being the Indian Territory. Of those who forfeited their lives fifty-two were negroes, thirty-eight were white, eight were Indians and two were Chinamen. Three women were executed. One was hanged in Georgia, with four men for having committed a murder at a camp meeting, another was executed in South Carolina, witli her brother-in-law, for murdering her sister, and the third died on the gallows with two men in North Carolinafor killing her husband. Eighty-eight of the executions were for murder, five for arson, three for treason, two for lying in wait and stabbing and three for assaulting women. The persons hanged for treason were three Indian scouts, executed by the United States authorities at Fort Grant, Arizona. The 101 executions are divided among the several States and Territories as foilows [_ Georgia 11 ; South Carolina, 9; Lou isiana, 7 ; Missouri ana iNortn uaronna, u jach ; Dakota, Illinois, Indian Territory and ( Pennsylvania, 5 each ; Kentucky, New York, Tennessee and Texas, 4 each ; Alaska, Arizo- ] na, Arkansas, Mississippi and Virginia, 3 ' 2ach ; Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Idaho, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico and Oregon, 1 each. ( Judge Lynch during the past twelve months, , lias been very busy. By his orders fifty-seven . >ersons were put to death in punishment for ] various crimes. There were twelve double ] ind four triple lynchings. Thirty-four of j Jiese on whom summary justice was indicted < were white men, twenty-two were negroes and , me an Indian, who was longed in California. \ )t the fifty-seven lynchings, thirty-four were ( ?or murder, three for horse stealing in Mis- ( >ouri, two for cattle stealing in Colorado, two < :or cotton stealing in Texas, two for robbery ; md attempted murder in Louisiana, two for j nurder and stage robbery and twelve for oth- ( ;r crimes which the residents of the South and t iVest generally punish with death. The hang- { ngs by mobs and vigilance committees occur- ( ...1 ? i.t. _ -c.il : . 1 . x eU III l/lie lUliUWlll^ OLilLCa illlU lClllluun . I Colorado 0,' Alabama o, Kentucky, Louisiana, { STew Mexico, South Carolina, 4 each, Kansas, ( Missouri and Washington Territory 3 each, Yrizona, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, Mis- s iissippi, Ohio and Texas 2 each, Arkansas, t Jalifornia, Louisiana, Missouri, Oregon, Yir- t finia and Wisconsin 1 each. i There were .383 suicides during the year, of f vhich number New York contributed 18-4. t A Great Railroad Scheme.?Two mort- 1 ;ages in the Carolina and Cumberland Gap tnd Chicago Railroad in favor of the Farmers' iOan and Trust Company of New York were 1 iled in the clerk's office in Anderson shortly >efore the holidays?one a first mortgage imounting to 810,000,000 and the other an in- I ome mortgage amounting to ?7,000,000. In irder to equip the the road the company have j e esolved to issue ten thousand first mortgage s i per cent, gold bonds oJL?l,000 each, to run J hirty years, coupons to be paid semi-annually, j J nd in order to secure said bonds have given j i o the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, of ; a 7ew York, a mortgage of 810,000,000 on the | a ight of way, road-bed, road fixtures, rolling > d tock. &c.. and also a mortcasre of 87.000,000 n n the profits of the road. The bonds are to ie issued at the rate of $22,000 per mile, and c he conditions provide that until default be t (lade in the payment of the interest and prin- t ipal of these bonds the company shall run s nd enjoy the profits of the road, and if the f ompany well and truly pay the amount of in- fi erest and principal then the mortgage and rust shall be yoid. These mortgages are p eing recorded in every county through which s he projected line runs.?Anderson Journal, o Ih. a TEMPERANACE LEGISLATION. Columbia, January 1.?Without much show of fanaticism and with no extraordinary exertions on the part of the temperance apostles, I it cannot be denied that the legislation of the past few years has had a very salutary effect ! unon the liquor traflic in this "State. There i sire frequent violations of the law, it is true ; but the action of the General Assembly, confining the traffic to incorjiorated towns and villages and allowing the various communities i to choose for themselves whether or not whis-1 ky shall be sold within their limits, while it j may not have reduced the number of drunk- j aids, has curtailed the consumption of ardent | spirits and given a strong foothold to the | temperance people. Men who have become conlirmed whisky drinkers will manage some-! how to get their supplies, whether they live in j town or country, but the abolition of the cross-1 roads dram shops has been a great relief to I country communities and has had a good effect upon the industrial prosperity os the people. The old idea that the sale of whisky is necessary to the commercial prosperity of the place has about been exploded. The people of Laurens and other towns in the State which have tried the No-License plan testify that their business was never so profitable as when there was an entire suspension of the liquor trade. In three of the seven new towns incorporated by the Legislature the sale of liquor is positively prohibited in their charters. The charter of the Town of Martin's Depot in Laurens county provides "that the sale of Ill toxical JJ1? liqUUlB 111 rtllj auafC Ul IVIUI whatsoever within the coprorate limits of said town is hereby prohibited, and the said town council shall not have power to grant license therefor." The charter of the Town of McCorniick in Abbeville county provides that it shall not be lawful for any intendant or wardens to issue a license to any person or persons to sell any kind of spirituous or intoxicating liquors, wines, beers, bitters, fruits prepared with such liquors in said town, and any person or persons selling liquors, wines, beer or fruit prepared with such liquors shall be subject to all the penalties imposed by the laws of this State as if no such license had been granted. The charter of the town of Ridge Spring in Edgefield county provides "that the said town, council of Ridge Spring shall not have authority to grant license to sell or retail any intoxicating or spirituous liquors within the corporate limits, and that no intoxicating or spirituous liquors shall be sold or retailed within the corporate limits of the said town within ninety-nine years after the passage of this Act; and that any person or persons retailing or selling any intoxicating or spirituous liquors within the.corporate limits of said town within the time named shall upon conviction thereof by any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in a sum not less than $100 or more than $500 or be imprisoned for a space of time not less than one month or longer than twelve months, or both lined and imprisoned at the discretion of the Court, for each and every offence." The charter of the town of Madison in Aiken county vests the power to refuse or grant licenses to keep a tavern or tp retail intoxicating drinks in the town council. The right to grant or refuse licenses to sell liquor and keep tavern in the town of Inman in Spartanburg county is vested in the town council. The act prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors within the corporate limits of the town of Mayesville in Sumter county provides that from and after the first day of January, 1883, it shall be unlawful for any one to sell "any ardent spirits or intoxicating liquors" within the corporate limits of said town upon the penalty of not less than ?200 fine or imprisonment for not less thau six months, or both. The act also provides that one-half of all the fines imposed and collected shall be paid to the officer or person detecting and reporting violations of the law, and that the other half shall be turned into the county treasury for the use of the county of Sumter. The Act prohibiting the sale of "ardent spirits or liquors" in the Town of Williston in Barnwell county provides that "it shall not be lawful for the corporate authorities of the town to issue any license for such purpose," and upon the violation of the provisions of the Act the party so offending shall be fined not exceeding fifty 'dollars or imprisoned for not exceeding six months. The charter of the town of Summit in Lexington county has been repealed. It is understood that this was done in order to prevent the sale of whisky at that place. Several bills were before the General Assembly bearing upon the liquor traffic. Every effort looking to the repeal of the local option law or the repeal or modification of the law imposing a State tax upon the dealers in whisky licensed by municipal corporations were voted down by large majorities. There is uo likelihood that a general prohibitory law will be passed in this State for years, and the policy of such a measure may well be questioned, but the temperance people have good cause to hope that the legislation upon this important question will continue to improve from year to year until the liquor traffic will be so surrounded by conditions that its evils will be less damaging to society. To show what value business men place upon temperance, it may be stated just here that the charters of three of the most important cotton manufacturing companies incorporated by the Legislature contain special provisions prohibiting the sale of liquor within three miles of their factories. A negro sober, bad as he may be, is ten times a better member of society and a more efficient laborer than a negro drunk.?Correspondence of the Neivs and Courier ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. TftE KATE OF INTEREST. An Act to amend Section 1288 of the General Statutes, regulating the Kate of Interest upon any Contract arising in this State for the Hiring, Lending or Use of Money or other commodity. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assemby, and by the authority of the j same : That Section 1288 of the General Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended ( by inserting after the word "commodity," on the third line of said section, the following words, to wit : "expect upon written contracts, wherein, by express agreement, a rate ( of interest not exceeding ten per cent, may be 1 sharged," so that said section, when thus 1 amended, shall read as follows : "No greater ] rate of interest than seven per centum per annum shall be charged, taken, agreed upon or 1 allowed upon any contract arising in this J State for the hiring, lending or use of money |' 3r other commodity, except upon written contacts, wherein, by express agreement, a rate >f interest not exceeding ten per cent, may be jharged. No person or corporation lending ir advancing money or other commodity upon i greater rate of interest shall be allowed to ecover in any court of this State any portion )f the interest so unlawfully charged ; and ;he principal sum, amount or value so lent or idvanced, without any interest, shall be deem;d and taken by the courts of this State to be ;he true legal debt or measure of damages to ill intents and purposes whatsoever, to be re;overed without costs." I Sec. 2. That any person or corporation who ihiTll receive as interest any greater amount I ban is herein provided for shall, in addition j o the forfeiture herein provided for, forfeit | dso double the sum so received, to be collect-. id by a separate action, or allowed as a coun-1 er claim to any action brought to recover the I nincipal sum. Approved December 531, 1882. THE SOUTHEIIX L.IXI) LOAX. | iv Act tn Iiwornomte the Southern Land Loan Association. | t Section 1, Be it enacted by the Senate and li louse of Representatives of the State of s South Carolina, now met and sitting in (Jen- j a ral Assembly, and by tlie authority of the e aine: That William Fielding, Morris K. a esup, Frederick Wolffe, Charles K. Lewis, h ohn 11. Palmer, James II. ltion and John It. s ^.bney, together with other parties who now , v ,re or hereafter may be associated with them, ! v ,nd their successors, be, and they are hereby, 1 a leclared a body i>olitie and corporate under the . t lame of the Southern Land Loan Association. : 1 Sec. 2. That the capital stock of said asso- h iation shall be one hundred thousand dollars, p lut the association may increase the same to u he sum of three million dollars, and after it h hall have been in operation two years it may ti urther increase its capital stock to the sum of ive million dollars. Sec. 3. That said Association shall have li lower to lend money on real estate security at b uch rate of interest not to exceed the rate g f ten per centum per annum, as may be o greed upon in writing between the borrower a and the Association ; Provided, such loan is for more than sixty days ; Provided, further, that no general law of the State in relation to interest be thereby infringed, and the said Association shall have power to purchase, hold and sell real estate and issue debenture bonds upon the security thereof or upon other security. j Sec. 4. That all the privileges, rights and immunities conferred upon any and all chartered banking corporations in this State be, and the same are hereby, conferred upon the Association hereby incorporated, except the power of issuing bank notes. Sec. 5. That said Association shall be governed by such directors and other officers as it may provide by its by-laws. That it may have a common seal, sue and be sued in any of the courts of this State, and make all needful bylaws for its government and the conduct of its business as may not be in conflict with the laws of this State. 8ec. t). 11 uit tins Act snau take enect rroin the date of its approval, and shall continue in force for the term of twenty-one years. Approved December 22, 1882. HELATiyO TO JUR0B8. An Act to Amend and Declare the Law Relating to tnc Kmpunelingand Challenging of Jurors. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same. Section 1. That in all civil cases, except in Trial Justices' Courts, in which a jury shall be charged with the trial of any issue, each party shall have the right to challenge without cause therein two of the jury so empaneled and the place of the jurors so challenged shall be supplied as provided by law. Sec. 2. That the right of challenge shall extend to jurors drawn to fill the place of those challenged : Provided, The party challenging lias not already exhausted the number of challenges allowed by law. As a juror is challenged his place shall be tilled by another juror before the challenging is further proceeded with. The plaintiff may first challenge one juror, then the defendant, and soon alternately until each party has made two challenges. Sec. 3. That any person who shall be arraigned for the crime of mnrder, manslaughter, burglary, arson, or rape, or grand larceny, shall be entitled to all the incidents of an arraignment and to peremptory challenges, not exceeding twenty, and the State in such cases shall be entitled to peremptory challenges not exceeding two, (and may be allowed to require i._ .i. i~ i.:i .,n Ai.~ jurors losiauu asiue uuwi an nit: juiuia liavo Ixjen drawn.) And any person who shall lje indicted for any crime or offense other than those enumerated shall have the right to peremptory challenges of five, and the State in such cases shall be entitled to peremptory challenges, not exceeding two, (but shall not be allowed to require jurors to stand aside as provided in cases where the prisoner is arraigned. ) Sec. 4. That Sections 2202, 2203 and 2041, Title II, Part III, of the General Statutes of South Carolina be, and the same are hereby regaled. MERE-MENTION. The legislatures of twenty-seven States will be iu session this month. There were 7,574 business failures in 1882, against 5,929 in 1881, an increase of 1,045. In the South there were 1,732 against 1,313 for 1881. Jeff Walker, a mail carrier betweea Belfield and Ilicksford, Va., has been arrested on the charge of robbing the mails. lie confessed that he had been robbing for three years. The Garfield monument fund of Cincinnati now amounts to 89,099 77. Take a new grip on your New Year's pledge if you have broken it. It is still worth keeping. Capt. Ed. Cox, the slayer of Col. Alston, and who was recently pardoned from ihe Georgia penitentiary, has gone into business in Atlanta. Some friends have backed him with ample means, and he will deal in mules and horses. The people of Louisville, Ky., have subscribed $225,000 to the cotton exposition proposed to be held in that city. The amount required is $300,000. Texas has a school fund of $4,000,000 of interest-bearing bonds and money, and thirty million acres of land worth now $1.50 an acre, and which will be worth much more as the State increases in population and develonment. ? A negro entered a planter's house near D&rien, Ga., last Saturday, and assaulted him at the dinner table. A light ensued in which both the negro and the planter were mortally wounded. The remains of John Howard Payne have been shipped from Tunis to the U. S. A Confederate bond is worth now exactly what it was in 1804. Honest John Patterson is in trouble in Baltimore, it being alleged against him that he wrecked a horse railroad and gobbled the proceeds. An incendiary fire last Sunday night destroyed twenty-five thousand dollars worth of property in the suburbs of Macon, Ga. At Cheney, Washington Territory, last Sunday night, eighty citizens took a Chinaman from jail, who was arrested for killing and robbing a Chinese woman, and hanged him to a tree. The 138th anniversary of the battle of New Orleans was appropriately celebrated in that city last Monday night. Senator Butler has returned to Washington, and reports that his son, recently so ill, is recovering. Small pox is raging to an alarming extent at Atlanta, Ga., Wilson, N. C., and Lynchburg, Ya. Among the moat important bills under discussion in Congress is one relating to the Presidential succession in case of the death of the President and Vice-President ; bill to establish a postal telegraph, and for the reduction of letter postage to one cent, and in similar proportion on other classes of matter. On Monday Senator Hampton presented the credentials of his colleague, Butler, which were read and filed. Tiie Floods in Eubope.?By the recent Hoods in Europe, ten thousand persons were rendered homeless in the district near Worms onH are in donorprof starvation. The railroad between Geneve and Belgrade was washed away. At Ludwigshafen three thousand persons were rendered homeless, and an equal number at Manheiin. A dispatch of the 4th instant says that town then appeared to stand on an isthmus in the middle of a vast sea. The great Rhine dam gave away on the night of the third, and as the town was inundated the inhabitants were rescued by a steamer and forty-five boats by torchlight. The village of Triesenlieim has been deserted and one-third of the inhabitants of Oppan have abandoned their homes. A Berlin dispatch of the 4th to the London Times says : The inundations are taking the form of a great public catastrophe. The distress is increasing hourly. The military or civil authorities are making great exertions to mitigate the misery of the disaster. There is no sign yet that the crisis of the calamity has been reached. High temperature ind rains continue. At Ludswighafen, opposite Manheiin, where the great Rhine dam jave way last night, the lives of hundreds of people are imperiled. The deepest distress prevails. The Danube has risen to a height )f 470 centimetres. A thousand persons rending in the lower part of the city have been . ompelled to quit their homes. Traffic on the ailway connecting Vienna with Moravia is suspended. The large bridge over the Danube ins been demolished and the Vienna terminus >f the road is flooded. A bridge of boats at Jttensheim was washed away to-day, with several persons on them. The boats floated lown and in an hour reached Lisle, where hose on board managed to run them ashore. L'he Paris and Lyons Railroad, on. the French rentier, is washed away. Direct railway serfi/iol\otirnon Qnrif C Arlunrl nnn on/l Tfmltr i o yvinvvu u miL.aiunu^ x kuivu UliU XMiiJ io nterrupted. Biuep, uut Appkopkiatk?The inaugu* ?il address of Governor Cleveland, of New fork, was brief, but in exceeding good taste. Addressing his fellow-citizens, he declared hat the interest now transferred to new lands are theirs, and the duties newly asunied should be performed for their benefit ,nd good. The right to demand and the powr to enforce performance was in their hands, nil should be exercised. The Governor said e entered upon his duties with a profound ense of their responsibilities, but his hope fas in the guidance of a Divine Providence, .iiicli lie believed "will aid an honest design, nd the forbearance of a just people, which lie rusted would recognize a patriotic endeavor." 'he impression created by Governor Clevemd was, according to all the Albany corres 1 i. ~ U 1.1 i* 11 -- J t i uuuenis, uuogemer iavoraoie, ana ne enters pon his office with excellent prospects for a ighly creditable and successful adroiuistraion.?Baltimore Sun. A Strange Story.?A few days ago a reable gentleman said to us: "In my neighorhood nine young men, intimate friends of ood families and in comfortable circurastanes, have died in the past three months. They 11 died of the same disease, typhoid fever,