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f raps and Jails. ? The Expositions Cotton Mills of Atlanta will begin making cloth next week. Yarns are now manufactured. The capital is $250,000, paid the stock is held at $115. Ten thousand spindles and three hundred looms will be in operation within six weeks. The mills will eventually employ 400 hands. ? the Cotton Exposition to be held next vear?whether in Cincinnati, Baltimore, or frfitfftn4, Is not decided?will mark the centennial of the first cotton ever shipped from the United States. Six bales were sent to England in 1784, which the custom house officials at Liverpool confiscated, not believing that so much cotton was raised iu this country. ? The condition of Mrs. Hardin, the widow of the late Chief Justice Hardin of Kentucky, who was in a terrible state of destitution, having been published a few weeks ago, a stream of money began to flow in to her, and the result has been still more sad. She has lost her mind under the unexpected change of fortune. ? The original amount appropriated for taking the last census was S3,000,000, which was estimated would be sufficient. But additional appropriations have been since made making the total amount S5,503,624.01, and now $100,000 more is asked for, but even that will not complete the work which has been very indifferently done. ? A number of cotton manufacturers of Atanta, Ga., met there on Tuesday and organized the Southern Cotton Manufacturers' Association by the election of J. T. Hidson, of Macon, President, and T. B. Dallas, of Nashville, Secretary and Treasurer. The former is agent of the Bibb Cotton Manufacturing Co., and the latter is the treasurer of the Nashville Cotton Mills. ? The temperance movement is about to assume large proportions in Florida. At the recent session of the Florida Conference of the M. E. Church South, a committee was appointed to go before the State Legislature and represent the cause of temperance, and another committee was appointed to prepare a plan for a general temperance movement throughoat the State. ? When Governor Bate, of Tennessee, was inaugurated at. Nashville, the other day, an eagle was let loose on the occasion, bearing on a medal about its neck the name of Cleveland, of New York, for President, and Bate, of Tennessee, for Vice-President on the Democratic ticket for 1S84. But the proud bird was so cramped from long confinement that it could not fly, and fell ignominously into a tangle of telegraph wires. ? Some of the paper?perhaps for want of other matter for gossip?are again agitating Grant's third term project. The idea of bringing one Grant for a third term is all moonshine. Grant never had less influence in American politics than he has' to-day, and the talk of bringing him forward for another term is the merest nonsense. The American imve hnri Prmn<?h nf Grant and Grant knows it. ? By the latest figures of the Agricultural Bureau at Washington, it is reported the corn crop of 1882 is placed at 1,635,000,000 bushels, and the yield Of wheat at 510,000,000 bushels. Up to 1879 the maximum yield of Indian corn in this country (wliich occurred in that year) was 1,547,901,000 bushels. Last yearns crop, by the above estimate, exceeds that of 1879 by eighty-seven million bushels, and falls only about two-hundred and seven million bushels under the crop of 1880. ? The National Republican Convention which met in Washington lately, submitted to a subcommittee to report upon the best plan for a basis of representation, but as many plans had been submitted as there were members on the sub-committee, Sena'tor Logan moved as a substitute for all new propositions that the basis of representation shall remain as heretofore. This motion was agreed to by a vote of 21 to 17, after a debate occupying the greater part of the day. ? The divorce statistics of Maine for the past five years give an unpleasant picture of home life in that State. There have been about twenty-four hundred divorces decreed during the period in question, and thus nearly five thousand persons hav? been released from the bonds which were assumed with at least nominal solemnity. The ratio is probably one divorce to ten marriages in Maine. The ratio' in Massachusetts in 1879 was one to twentyone. ?The business failures of the week ending last Friday, as reported to R. G. Dun & Co's. mere antile agency number 277, an increase of fifteen over last week. The Eastern States had 26, Western 86, Middle 52, Southern 61, Pacific States and territories 23, Canada 12, New York city 17. The failures, though very numerous are not of much importance. A very large number of them are of a class incident to the closing of the year, which, though technically failures, might almost be expressed by the words "quit business." ? On the subject of regulating railroads, the Galveston (Texas) News, says: There are twenty-one States that have laws regulating railroads and South Carolina will make the twenty-second. The matter of regulation is a well understood necessity. Certain Republicans oppose national regulation because they do not want it; and certain Democrats oppose it from a preference for State authority. The Republicans ought to inaugurate national regulation of railroads as a policy if the Democrats decline. State authority is inadequate to regulate inter-State trafic. -- Rev. Dr. Hicks, to whom Guiteau willed his body, has formally transferred the remains to the Surgeon-General of the United States. They have really been in his possession?that is, at the Armory Medical Museum in this city?since the day after the execution, at which time the body was taken from the jail at night and secretly conveyed to the museum. The bones have been divested of flesh, but have not yet been articulated. It has not yet been decided by the authorities what course wil be pursued in regard to them; hut it is pretty safe to say that they will not be placed on exhibition. ? The men who were to be chosen from the Department of Dakota to take part in the Greeley Arctic expedition were finally appointed by Gen. Terry on the 14th instant. First Lieutenant Earnest A. Garlington, of the 7th Cavalry, is to be the officer in charge. lie is a native of South Carolina and was appointed to the Military Academy at West Point from ! the State of Georgia. He entered the regular ! army 1876, and the same year received his commission as First Liuetenant. The four men who are to accompany him from this department were picked from one hundred applicants. These men and Lieutenant Garlington will immediately go into training for the expedition at Washington. ? The New Orleans Picayune of Sunday, in { an editorial on the reciprocity treaty with I Mexico, has the following paragraph : "There is an extended belief that a reciprocity treaty \ with Mexico means annexation. We oursel- 1 ves cannot see any other result. Once break j down the barriers of the custom houses and tariffs, once permit our people to accustom themselves to a free and unrestricted inter-! course with Mexico in regard to tobacco, machinery and sugar, and the result will be | more intimate political connections. It has been argued by an able and active exponent J of this idea, thatnecessarily the interests of the newly acquired Mexican territory which will be carved into half a dozen States, after annexation, will be identical with Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and California." ? While, during the present winter, floods and high waters have been the rule in the South and West, a drought has prevailed in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, from the effects of which sevenilwnills are now idle j -...-1 il/iwn Tlio nrruliipt illJU UtuciD aic oi!utbiii5 uv?tu. aiiv i'* w.v.Vv of the Maine saw mills has been reduced 20,000,000, feet, and the mills on the Penobscot will lose over $100,000. In southeastern Maine hundreds of persons have been compelled to resort to snow-water, and the cattle have been driven miles to ponds and brooks. The great mills at Nashua and Great Falls are running on half to two-thirds time, and the losses to employers and employees are enormous. In Vermont, the flush boards on the Connecticut have been raised two feet, and still there is not water enough to keep all the mills running on full time. ? The Northern and Southern assemblies of the Presbyterian Church have resumed, I by formal vote, those fraternal relations which were broken during the war. Each passed resolutions containing the following declaration : "While receding from no principle, we declare our regret for and withdrawal of all expressions of our assembly which may j lte regarded as offensive." The Rev. Dr. | Derrick Johnson, who was the moderator of i the Northern assembly, revived the question at some risk of reopening the breach. He says that clearly the regret and withdrawal were absolutely without any limitation as to expressions that were offensive. The resolution swept from the record every offending word. He reminds his denomination that a possible construction of this action would tarnish their record of loyalty and their expressed condemnation of the rebellion, making them regret it and take it all back, lie does not regard the clause, "while receding from no principle," as consistent He asks what that principle is worth, the expression of which must be regretted and then withdrawn. ferMle YORKVILLE, S. C.s THURSDAY MORNING. JAN. 25, 1883. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. Charleston has been in a Mutter of excitement for the past week over the presence in that city of the royal visitors, Princess Louise and her husband the Marquis of Lome, who arrived last Friday by rail from St. Louis via Richmond and thence to Charleston via Wilmington. The Princess Louise Caroline Alberts is the fourth daughter and eighth child of Queen Victoria, and was born March IS, 184S, and is consequently in her 35th year. Her husband, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquis of Lome, is the eldest son of the Duke of Argyle and is Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada. After remaining in Charleston for a few days the princess will sail for Bermuda and the Marquis will return to Canada. THE RAILKOAlTcOMMISSIOX. We publish in another column extracts from the Atlanta Constitution, regarding the recent visit of the South Carolina Railroad Commissioners to that city for the purpose of consulting with the Railroad Commissioners of Georgia. The South Carolina Commissioners returned to Columbia Saturday morning, but are reticent as to what their future action will be. A meeting of the Commissioners was held in Columbia on Tuesday. Regarding the probable action of the board, one of the members infoimed the correspondent of the Nexvs and Courier that the commission would at once begin work on the tariffs of rates which they are by law required to make for the railroads. This work, he said, would necessarily take much time. The first schedule of the Georgia commission was not promulgated until six months after its organization, but he expected that, without hasty and illdigested action, this commission would complete its tariffs much sooner than that. The work betore tnem ne consiaereu 01 gre.ii, magnitude. It involved the construction of a separate tariff of rates for each road, with a view to its length, adjacent population, debt and resources. "We regard this commission, and the law creating it, as important to the people of the State, and for the information of our readers, we shall publish, next week, the Act in full. IMPORTANT DECISION. A decision was rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States, last Monday, in the important constitutional case of the United States vs. R. (J. Harris and others, brought up to the Supreme Court upon certificate of difference of opinion among the Judges of the United States Circuit Court for the Western District of Tennessee. The particular question presented here is the constitutionality of Section 5518 of the Revised Statutes. The Section is as follows: If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire, or go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, for the purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly, any person, or class of persons, of the equal protection of the law, or equal privileges and immunities under the law, or for the purpose of preventing or hindering constitutional authorities of any State or Territory from giving or securing to all persons within such State or Territory, equal protection of law, each of such persons shall be punished by tine of not less than S500 nor more than S5,0U0, or by imprisonment with or without hard labor, not less than six months nor more than six years, or by both such line and imprisonment. The Court holds, in an elaobrate opinion by Justice Woods, that this Section is not supported by authority of the Federal Constitution, and that its enactment was beyond the powers of Congress. Judge Woods, in reviewing the case, discusses the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments fully, and finally renders his decision, which is confirmed by Chief Justice Waite, that the act in question is unconstitutional. A Romantic Case.?A sensational and romantic case has just been brought to light 011 the issuing of a warrant by Governor Stephens 011 the requisition of the Governor of South Carolina for the arrest of II. G. Porte. About 12 years ago Porte moved from Marion county, S. C., and settled near Palmetto, Georgia, lie was accompanied by a woman who was supposed to be his wife, and by two boys presumed to be their children, lie proved to be a man of industry and won the good opinion of his neighbors, who refused to believe in his guilt when the sheriff arrived with a warrant for his arrest 011 a charge of kidnapping and obtaining money under false pretences. Porte was taken to Pairburne, where, without reserve, he made the following statement : He and a man named Smith and a woman with whom he had been living, were raised in the same neighborhood, and when they were young, Porte and Smith were rivals for the woman's affections, but by misrepresentations Smith alienated her from Porte and married her. A short time thereafter Porte married, and the two families settled near each other and lived several years as neighbors. Porte and his wife lived happily together until she died. Smith and his wife did not live happily, frequent disturbances occurring between them, in which Smith often beat her unmercifully. The death of his wife caused the old flame for his former sweetheart to burn afresh in Porte's breast, and he sympathized with her on her cruel treatment received at the hands of her husband. She knew that Porte still entertained kindly feelings towards her, and frequently importuned him to take her away to some strange place, avowing that she still loved him and expressing penitence for the way she had treated him in marrying Smith, lie refused to be anything more than a sympathizing friend, on account of the relations that existed between Smith and himself. 1?mi1 Uoun hvaci iiirnnc in until lie became dissipated, when he got financially I embarrassed, and reposed confidence in his j friend Porte and asked him to assist him in j saving part of his projierty from his creditors. | lie had turned over some cotton to Porte to j sell for him in his own name. Porte sold it I and took the proceeds?$200?to Smith's house j to deliver to him. When he arrived, Smith ; was just leaving the house, and on going in 1 Porte found Mi's. Smith prostrate on the floor , bleeding from wounds received from her bus- j band. lie helped her up, washed the blood j from her face, paid the money to her for her i husband, and started to leave, when she clung to him and begged her to take her with him and flee to a distant country, promising to live with him if he would do so. Yielding to j her request, Porte took Mrs. Smith and her two children and elojied into Georgia, where they have lived in undisturbed happiness for twelve years. Smith having learned of their ,; whereabouts, he made a proposition to Porte ; 1 that if he would return the children, furniture, j i and the $200, he would compromise the case, i i The grand jury, however, will have something ! to say about n SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. " I h ? Tlie liquor license at Laurens C. H. is d $400. \ I ? ? There are only three prisoners in the Chester jail. v ? There were five small fires in Florence in t one day last week. 0 ? The school debt of Newberry county is $13,000 and the county debt $23,000. ^ ? The Town Council of Chester has passed v an ordinance levying a special tax on all kinds rl of business, and taxing merchants upon 'the v value Of stock on hand. t ? Mr. Frederick White, of Oconee, who was ^ arrested on the charge of being concerned in j! the murder of W. J. Hunnicut, has been discharged, there being no proof against him. ? L>r. Leonard W. Dick, a prominent physi cian, aim who was assistant surgeuu ui me 23rd 8. C. Regiment, died recently at his home e in Sumter county, in the 59th year of his age. r ? Rev. Thomas W. Smith, of Union county, a has accepted a call to supply the Baptist ? church of Gaffney City two Sundays in the J month. ? Miss Henrietta DeLeon died in Camden ii on the 12th instant. She is said to have been p one hundred years old, and her death is at- t tributed solely to old age. ^ ? Dr. Thomas Collins Austin, a soldier of tlie war of 1S12, died at his residence in Green- jj ville county, last Saturday, in his ninety-third e year. t ? Eusebio Simo, a Spanish youth, IS years of age, committed suicide in Charleston last * Monday evening, by shooting himself with a pistol. ; . y e ? Four thousand, four hundred and thirty- li four tickets were sold at the Greenville and r Columbia Railroad depot in Greenwood from 8 February 1,1882, to January 10,18S3. ? Col. John C. Haskell has been appointed t attorney for the Columbia and Greenville n Railroad in place of Gen. James Conner, re- ' signed. f ? Mrs. Mary Brawley, the oldest person in '] Chester, and probably of that section, died j last Thursday at the residence of Mr. James t Hemphill. She was aged 98 years and 4 \ months. v ? Mr. J. C. Iluske, Superintendent of fish- ' eries, is now at Georgetown for the purpose of establishing stations for the capture of ripe ^ shad and hatching out the eggs procured du- t ring the approaching season. i ? A young German, by the name of August 1 Tautz, was jailed in Lancaster last Monday, ] on charge of having stolen several fine gold ' watches and a pistol from L. C. Payseur's jewelry establishment. t, ? Mr. John A. Graham, of Chester, last week, <; expressed a fine setter pup to Mr. X. P. Appolt, a sportsman of Baltimore. He will J shortly ship one to a gentlemen in Xew York ' wno lias spoKen ior one at *>ou. ? A Laurens county man returning from \ Arkansas, to which State lie and a party went s last year, reports good land but terrible unhealthiness. The South Carolinians there all want to come back, he says. The chills drove him back to South Carolina. ? The City Council of Greenville has resolved to grant no additional liquor license during the present year. It is said this action was in consequence of information that a number of Spartanburg dealers, whose occupation had departed as the result of the late election under the local option Act, intended to transfer their buisiness to Greenville. ? The Carolina Spartan of last week says: It is very seldom that wheat makes as poor a show as at the present time. Very little of it has come up, for there has been no weather since the first of December warm enough to bring wheat up. Many persons have not yet finished sowing. Wheat sowed pretty thick on strong land as late as the 1st of February will make, some years, a fine yield. ? Chester Bulletin, Friday: Mr. William Caldwell of Smith's T. O., while out gunning on last Saturday with Messrs. Dob Gill and John Ilinton, was accidentally shot by- the ? latter. The gun was loaded with bird shot, s nine of which lodged in Mr. Caldwell's neck j and face. lie was also shot in the nose and t one shot cut the skin from one side of his t forehead to the other. The wound is not * at all serious. s ? A fire in Newberry on Tuesday of last < week destroyed two brick stores belonging to ( James A. Crotwell. Loss, ?10,000; insurance, i $0,000. Other losses and insurance as follows : c \V. E. Pelham, drugs and medicines, ?7,000; J insurance, $4,200. Pease & Co., bar and bil- < liard saloon, $3,000; insurance, ?2,000. Silas { Johnson, law office and books, $1,000 ; no in- 1 surance. Wheeler Bros., confectionery, $2,- t 500; insurance, $1,875. L. A. East, drugs ' and medicines, $2,000; fully insured. Dr. 1 E. C. Jones, dentist, instruments and office A furniture, ?500; fully insured. Total loss; t $25,000; insurance, $20,000. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ?Representative John W. Shackelford, of j the Wilmington district, died in Washington ( on Thursday last. ? A number of colored citizens held a meet- i ing in Wilmington last Thursday and resolved i to build a railroad from that city to Clinton. 1 ? C L. C. Jones has been appointed super- j intendent of the Carolina Central Railroad, ^ vice Y. Q. Johnson, resigned. \ ? Dockery, the defeated Coalition candidate i for Congressman-at-large, has finally deter- > mined to contest the seat of his successful c Democratic competitor, Bennett. Agents , l-"l.. in'oif a/1 PLurlnffa fnr flionnrnnoA , IILlYt 1CUC11UJ V IDltCU viiaiiuuivy iui u?v^uij/vwv i ^ of looking up evidence to support Dockery's ! t claims. i ? A conference was held in "Washington on t Thursday, at the request of Col. R. R. Brid- a gers, President of the Wilmington & Weldon, ? and Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta Rail- ^ roads, between himself and some of the direc- c tors of the Midland Xorth Carolina Railroad, i r which resulted in the withdrawal of the Mid- a land from any negotiations looking to the <jj sale of their road. j. ? George W. Wheeler, mail agent between ( Greensboro and Winston, has been arrested and bound over for trial in the U. S. District r Court on the charge of robbing the mails. The t evidence of the robbery was found on his per- s son in the shape of counterfeit money, which J had been fixed for the purpose by a government t detective. Wheeler is well connected, and is g a brother of ex-Internal-Revenue Collector r Wheeler, of Wiuston. t ? In the General Assembly of Xorth Caroli- s na, so far, very little legislation of general in- ^ terest has been had. A bill has been presen- ^ ted in the Senate to authorize the sale of the a State's interest in the Cape Fear and Yad- p kin Valley Railroad, which was referred to the Committee on Internal Improvements. If this or some similar bill becomes a law, the rn:i.fl will doubtless be built, and will be of great advantage to the section through which I it runs. A bill to protect sheep husbandry, by u imposing a tax of ?2 a head on dogs, was ta-1 ^ bled in the Senate. In the vote for United ^ States Senator, Kansom was elected his own t successor for six years from the 4th of March, j p 188J. The vote was for Ransom 108, and for | s Col. William Johnston, of Charlotte, caucus 11 nominee of the Republican members, 47. j Is it Evasion of thk Law V?The Spar- jJ' tanburg correspondent of the Charlotte Jour- I ual writes under date of last Friday as fol- j lows: 1 f Z. J. Ballue was bound over to court on j 2* Tuesday, for selling liquor ouside an incon>o- j s rated town, contrary to the act 1882. On the ! a investigation it transpired that Ballue was the agent of a government distillery in North c Carolina, and on his last trip through this v county he took orders for whisky to be deliver- 1 ed when he should return ; that some one, h unknown had ordered whisky ; that said party 1> ilid not receive the whisky, but transferred I - is order to one Maybury. Mr. Maybirry, not J osiring a whole package, four gallons and hree quarts, let the witness have two quarts j rid delivered the balance, he supposed, to May-j -J The defendant claims that the liquor j * fAS ordered and sold outside the State, and i j hat it was 110 illegal sale, but only a delivery \ f goods was made in Soutli Carolina. Trial j ustice Thomasson, however, takes a different * Jew of the matter, and bound the defendant ver to appear at the next term of court. A .-arrant has been issued for Maybury also. ^ .'his method of evading the law has been de- 1 eloped, it seems into a system, and the qtiesion should be tested at once. If this is a J iolation of the law, those selling whisky ought ? d know it; if the law can be thus evaded, the 1 tw needs sjreedy revision. THE RAILROAITCOMMISSIONERS. 3 From the Atlanta Constitution, 17th. tir.,ii.farmo.i f i.of ov.fJnvernnr "Bonhani. x-Governor Jeter and Hon. L. J. Walker, ailroad commissioners for South Carolina, re to hold a conference with the Georgia ommission for the purpose of considering the j uterest of the railways and the people of the wo States. We rejoice to hear the rumor and hope it fl ; true. We also seriously trust that the 1 resent status of the Richmond and Danville p awards the jieople of Georgia will attract the erious consideration of these commissioners. Ve cannot speak for South Carolina, but the omplaints coming up continually from the t eople of Georgia are grievous and numerous? p specially with'regard to passenger and mail ransportation facilities. These grievous complaints have been in- a ormally brought before the Georgia cominis- v ion, time and again, since the withdrawal of *: he passenger train lwrving this city in the 0 arly morning. The c^inmission insists they lave no power to 'make time tables for the , ailroads, and hence cannot order such clian- "* ;es in the running of trains as the wants of (' he public demand. v One of the commissioners, however, says i; hat one thing is very clear to his mind, p amely, that the law requires them to make just and reasonable" rates, which means air compensation to the road Tor the service nd benefits rendered the public. In this j ase the public deny that the Richmond and . )anville Road render any benefits worthy of he compensation charged in the carrying of < assengers. The commissioners, we have al- a i7uvx understood, contend that three cents a f nile is a just and reasonable compensation j or carrying passengers with safety, comfort ^ ,nd reasonable dispatch, and the rate that fives the road more income than any other ither above or below that figure. If the fig- J ire is placed below three vents, the imcoine r night possibly not compensate fairly for the ] vork done. If it is placed above three cents i mile, you reduce and circumscribe travel , mtil the income would fail to pay expenses. The commissioner before alluded to says 1 hat so far as the Richmond and Danville is lOncerned, in view of the statements of mul- ] itudes of its patrons, it has become a serious [uestion in his mind whether or not the mblic are receiving service and benefits worth wen two cents a mile. i The complaints against the Air-Line, as j ve have said, are important enough to delerve the private consideration of the two lommissions, but apart from any action that 1 nay be taken in regard to this particular mat- ( ,er, both Georgia and South Carolina are to ( le congratulated upon the fact that the com- 1 nissions have met for consultation. This meeting is in the direction of a sug- 1 jestion recently made in the Constitution in ' egard to the regulation of transportation beiween the States independently of Congress. 5 [n this view of the case, the meeting between ( ,he two commissions is of vast importance. ! it is clear that by consultation and the adustment of rates, the problem of regulating liner-State transportation as between Geor- ' jia and South Carolina can be easily solved, j \s a matter of fact, it ceases to be a problem lie moment that States with railroad commissions take it in hand. This is what Georgia ind South Carolina are about to do. From the Constitution, 18th. The railroad commissioners of South Caroli- k la reached the city yesterday at 2 o'clock, the ( >arty consisting of ex-Governor Bonham, ex- i Governor Jeter and Capt. L. J. Walker. They t vere met by Major Campbell Wallace and Col. ( L. X. Trammel!, and were escorted to the of- , ice of the railroad commission. A considerable portion of the afternoon was spent in con- 1 lultation, which will be resumed to-day. In ' tnswer to an inquiry one of the commissioners i said to a Constitution reporter last night: " We < ire here to consult with the Georgia commission, which is regarded as a very able one, and ] ;o examine into the methods of your commis- j sion. Our commission has just been created. < [n 1878 South Carolina appointed one commis- , sioner, ex-Governor Bonham, and it is largely j lue to his influence and work that the present , :ommission law was passed. He did not have j lear the power that is vested in the Georgia , jommission or in the present commission of j ihree. The South Carolina Commission laws ire similar to those of Georgia to a very con- , siderable extent, and the provisions of the two ire about the same. The Georgia Commission 1 aws, as well as the commission, stand high in 1 lie estimation of the people of South Caro- 1 ina, and there is no doubt that the two com- < nissions can work together to advantage." The Constitution of Friday, speaking of the asit of our itauroau commissioners 10 aitum?i, says : "The .South Carolina commission- { srs made a careful examination of the forms ; md methods of the Georgia commission, and xpressed the belief that they would be very 1 naterially benelitted by the information which ' hey gathered. During the day they visited 1 iovernor Stephens." s Capt. Legare J. Walker, the railroad com- 1 nissiouer from Charleston, said to the re- ] >orter : "We are satisfied that the two comnissions will work together with profit to the 1 )eople, whom we are endeavoring to serve. * Jf course we have not formulated our plans J ret. You remember that it was nearly a year ( >efore the Georgia commission was in work- ] ng order and had its rates in operation. We ^ vill have to lay our foundation before we ian build successfully." 1 In regard to a national railroad commission, 1 lapt. Walker said : "I have not investigated ? he subject sufficiently to be able to give an j pinion that would be of much value. There , s no doubt that the people are taking an in- , erest in the formation of State commissions, ' md they are multiplying and bid fair to be- ] ? i -o.-.i 1 :ome permanent iaciurs m me uuvciiuuuin tf the several States. The tendency is tovard co-operation between the several State ommissions, and that may effect the desired esult. Our commission has very great power ,nd has the authority to regulate the rates of reiglit coming into or going out of the State. Phut is a power which has not been granted he Georgia commission yet." Greenville Correspondence Charlotte Journal. The newly appointed board of railroad comnissioners of this State are 011 a visit to Atlana for consultation with the Georgia coramisioners. As an outcome of this consultation vill be the probable reduction of passenger 1 are on the Air Line to three cents a mile in < his State and two cents in Georgia, 011 the ? ;round that those are "just and reasonable s ates" for the service and benefits rendered J he public l>y this road. Insufficient and con- I equently overloaded trains, a slow and al- t rays behind time schedule, and an unjust dis- 1 rimination against all the growing towns 011 * lie line of the road, are- "just and reason- J hie" sources of complaint 011 the part of the * iublic against the Clyde syndicate. ' - - + $???? Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. ; NOTES FROM HOODTOWX. g IIoodtown, January 16.?Christmas and the 1 sTew Year holidays have passed without any 1 musual occurrence in our midst. \ On Christmas evening there was a nice c /liristmas tree placed in tlie Methodist church tuilding, for the benefit of the children. The f ree contained many presents for the young I eople, and from it one young man drew a hand- c ome doll, which was the occasion of much i aerrinient, notwithstanding the embarrassing ! i losition in whicli it placed one or nis mouesiy. t On Friday night some persons surprised llev. I i. Ervine by placing corn, corn-meal, dried a ruit, rice, pickled pork, etc., in the portico of li is house, and turning some fowls in the yard. ! i Mrs. Mary A. Good, of our place, has made ' fi rom the milk of one cow, since the 8th of t fovember, fifty-eight pounds of butter, be- g ides supplying a family of seven persons with i s n abundance of milk. I p Before closing, permit me, on behalf of our ! ii itixens, to thank those County Commissioner i fi dio built our bridge across Bullock's Creek, p Tad the bridge not been built, our neighbor- a ood would have been divided, (as previously) q y high waters for the past month. o I {Ad AN. ti LCCAL A7FAIKS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. olin Daniel, Itoek Hill?Horse Stolen. L M. Sims, Columbia, tL CJ-? For Hale. iiitta Brothers?Don't Forget. . M. Adams?Stoves and Tin Ware. Vithers Adiekes?New Goods. ] olin T. Clark?Notice. Iunter A Gates?Attention All. . R. Lindsay A Co.?We have on hand Now. . V. B. Williams, County Auditor?Delinquent Land Sales. \ M. Dohson?Rain, Rain. Mud, Mud. t. Lathan, Chairman Board Examiners?School Notice." . Lee Latta, Hickory, N. C.?Colored Pictures, i. L. Davidson, Trial Justice?Notice. L II. Glenn, S. Y. C.?SherilFs Sale. PROF. READE. Prof. Willoughby Reade, the elocutionist ,nd humorist, telegraphs us that he will give tie of his popular entertainments in this lace to-morrow night, 20th instant. JUDGE OF PROBATE. Governor Thompson has appointed Jonathan 1. Williams, Esq., Judge of Probate for York ounty, vice Col. J. A. McLean, elected to the Rice, but who declined to qualify. Mr. Wili-iina will t-ilro clmrcp nf the nllic.P. in the eai'lv art of February. THE WEATHER. Extreme cold weather is reported all over lie Northwest, ranging from 15 to 35 degrees telow zero. Here the thermometer indicated i degrees above the freezing point on Tuesday, ,nd ten degrees on yesterday morning, the ireather being bright and clear after near three ;eeks of continuous rain. As a consequence if the rains, water courses liave been high, ,nd the roads are in a terribly bad condition. U the time the rains set in there was a good . leal of cotton remaining in the fields unpicked, vhich has been either damaged or ruined. It s estimated that at least 1,000bales have thus ?een lost in York county. CHURCH NOTICES. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. It. P. Franks, 'astor. The ltev. A. M. Chrietzberg, Presiling Elder, will preach in the Methodist yhurch at 7 o'clock to-morrow evening, and it the close of the service the quarterly conference will be held. Preaching by the pastor n Yorkville at 10j A. M., Sunday; at Philalelphia, 3 P. M., and at Yorkville, 7 P. M Presbyterian?ltev. T. It. English, Pastor. Preaching at 7 P. M., Saturday, and at the egular hours Sunday. Sacrament of the word's Supper at the morning service. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. [aithan, Pastor. The pastor will fill his reguar appointment at Tirzah next Sunday. Episcopal?Rev. A. Prentiss. Services at 101 o'clock, A. M. WHO IS SHE? Under the caption of "Out in the cold vorld," the Charlotte Observer of Tuesday has ;he following : A white woman, whose api>earance indicated esiK:ctable parentage and breeding, carrying me little child in her arms and holdinganothiv by the hand, came into the city footsore and iveary, a day or two since, and has been taken jare of at the Home and Hospital. She says she is from Caldwell county. Her husband leserted her and she started out to make her ivay to Yorkville, S. C., her old home, where die has relatives and friends who will take ;are of her. She has tried to get work, but no me, it seems, can find it convenient to employ ler on account of her being encumbered with the two children. The jioor woman has travded all the way from Caldwell county to this place on foot, and what her sufferings must lave been is something that surpasses realiza;ion. MOUMONISM AND SUFFRAGE. Pending registration in this county last jummer, we were told that in some instances dectors who had become converts to the Mornon faith were challenged on their applica;ion to register ; but we do not know that the diallenge was sustained. The following paragraph, from Tuesday's Columbia Register, ivould indicate, however, that at least one 'Mormon" was denied the privilege of voting n York at the last election, whether the dejision was right or wrong : United States Supervisor R. M. Wallace has received an official report from York county, in which the Supervisor states that at one of die polls during the recent election, a man lamed Wilson Glover (white) was not allowed to vote. His vote was challenged on the ground that he had recently become a convert ;o Monnonisni and believed in the theory of a plurality of wives, and the challenge was sus;ained. This will probably give rise to a question to 3e determined by the courts ; though it is irery plain that a citizen of a State does not forfeit his right of suffrage by embracing a form of religion tolerated by the United States Grovernnient. TilE BIBLE CAUSE. Rev. C. II. Wiley, D. I)., agent for North md South Carolina of the American Bible Society, visited Yorkville last Saturday in the .nterest of that cause, and on Sunday night deivered in the Presbyterian church a very investing discourse, which besides being a strong argument in favor of spreading the ,vord of God to all the nations of the earth, was eplete with information as to the beneficent esults accomplished by the American Bible Society and its auxiliaries. On this occasion Dr. Wiley pleaded not for foreign lands, but jonfined his remarks to the organization of a Bible Society in York county. No society ,vas organized, but a sufficient sum of money ,vas secured with which to procure a quanti;y of Bibles and Testaments, which will be told to those able to buy at the Society's irices, and to those unable to buy, books vill be supplied without price. Dr. Wiley ippointed as a committee for this purpose, lev. T. R. English, Rev. R. P. Pranks and Sev. Dr. Latham Mr. English is chairman >f the committee, Mr. Franks treasurer, and Dr. Lathan will act as agent for the distribution of books. More funds are needed for tins impose, which may be handed' to Rev. Mr. Franks ; or persons who cannot conveniently ;ee him, may hand in their contributions at his otlice and we-will pay the same over to ,he treasurer. A DISASTER AT SEA. The Hamburg American line steamer which eft Hamburg on Thursday for New York, :ame into collision with the British steamer Sultan on Friday morning off Borkum and in* itantly sank. The Cimbria had .'ISO passengers ind a crew numbering 110. She ran aground >efore leaving the '-Elbe," but got off with ;he Hood tide with the assistance of the Hansa vithout having sustained any damage and put ;o sea at 2.B0 o'clock in the afternoon. On Friday morning she came into collision, durng a thick fog off Borkuui, with the steamer Sultan. The Cimbria sank in a short time. kVhen the boat with the 31) passengers arrived it Cuxhaven, the company sent out the steamir llansa and four of the largest available iteamers at Cuxhaven to search for the other I ioat. The West Indian Steamer Bavaria also , eft during the night with a similar object, j Hie steamer Sultan, which sustained heavy i lamage, has arrived in the Elbe. A Hamburg dispatch of Saturday gives the i ollowing account of the affair: The Cim>ria sustained such severe injuries that it at ' nice became ap]>arent she must sink almost1 minediately. The oflicers, therefore, did all! n tlieir power to save the lives of the passen-1 ;ers without a moment's loss of time. Life t; >elts were distributed among the passengers j .nd order was given to lower the boats. This, i lowever, in consequence of the vessel's keel-! ng over on her side, was found to be very dif-1 cult on one side and absolutely imi>ossible on i he other. As the second officer was still en- i :aged in cutting the spars loose, so that there 1; hould be as much drift wood as possible for j. eople to cling to when the inevitable founder-1 j ng occurred, the vessel went down under his j j eet. lie seized a spar, but as several other j i ersons clung to it he was obliged to let go, j < nd he swam to a boat. This boat was subse-1 < uently picked up by the Theta. The second 1 flicer steered the Theta to Cuxhaven. Seven-! 1 een persons have been saved bv the steamer 1 Diamant, from Weser Lighthouse, making 5(5 1 thus far known to have been"rescued. ; A survivor from the Cimbria makes the fol- j . lowing statement: The weather was clear up 11 to 11.15 o'clock, but fog then set in, which ; 1 continued and increased in density. The en- 1 gines of the Cimbria were kept at full speed j1 until 1.30 o'clock, then at half speed until 2 j o'clock, after which they were kept at slow speed until about ten minutes past 2 o'clock, when the whistle of another steamer was heard ] and the engines of the Cimbria were stopped i instantly. The Sultan's green light, owing to < the fog, was not observed until she was only : 150 feet from the Cimbria. The latter was ( struck abaft the iirst collision bulkhead pn the :, port side, and she keeled over to the starboard i < and speedily sank. The llieta picked up one j ( of the Cimbria'1 s boats at 2 o'clock Saturday i l afternoon and arrived at Cuxhaven about (5 o'clock. A reporter boarded the Sultan, but j" both the captain and crew absolutely refused ; to give him any information. The captain has i maue ft siaieuient oeiore me r>nwsn cuusui, j but this is inaccessible. The Sultan has a j large hole in her bow seven feet aboye the water-line. Besides the .'19 passengers landed at Cuxhaven, a boat containing 17 was lauded at , Weser Lighthouse, and another vessel picked up eleven. It is estimated that fully 300 pas- i sengers were lost, mostly emigrants from East Prussia. Correspondence of the Vbrkyille Enquirer. NOTES FROM SMITH'S TURNOUT. Smith's T. O., S. C., January 19.?I had the pleasure of reading in your columns of the successful farming of a colored man in York township. These reports, coining as they do, through our county paper, are highly appreciated by every family in this section. Certainly it is a stimulus to the farmers. The reports are read and the enterprising and ambitious farmer says to himself, "I will try to make as much crop as my cotemporary." I will now state to you for publication what two colored men did down in this flat country. One made, with one horse, eight bales of cotton averaging 450 pounds ; six hundred bushels of red oats; sixty odd bushels of wheat and plenty of corn to do him until com comes, lie sold two hundred and iifty dollars worth of oats and has retained plenty to sow. The other made, with one mule, over eleven hundred bushels of wheat and oats, 250 bushels of which was wheat. I am informed that in addition to his small grain crop, he has made an abundance of corn and a good crop of cotton. I do not think that the farmers have sown more than half as many oats as they sowed last fall. This was in consequence of the large crop of cotton that was to gather. I am satisfied that more wheat has been sown than usual. I can't but give the newspapers credit for the large crop of oats raised last year. In every issue the people were urged to sow oats, and now, since plenty has been restored to the land, the papers have found something else to write about and left the farmer .to think and plan for himself. January has been so wet that no oats could be sown, and February is close at hand, and if the farmers are reminded that it is not too late, they may sow a good many oats yet, although the spring sowing does not pay so well as the crop sown in August and September. Last spring I sowed some red oats which produced from 15 to 25 bushels per acre, though the grain is about four pounds lighter to the bu3hel than the fall oats. The farmers have let the hogs get out of the country, and those who had a few pigs last summer, now have some meat on hand. In February, 1882, Mr. Fudge, a farmer in this section, had seven pigs. lie sold one to W. D. Blanks and one to C. F. Adams. Mr. Fudge put one of the remaining five in a pen and let the other four run out. Then they all determined to see who would have the largest hog at killing time. The hogs were all killed a few weeks ago and weighed. Adams' hog weighed .'557 net, Fudge's 320, and Blanks' 312, and the four that were turned out when killed weighed from 130 to 140 pounds net. This shows what feed and attention will do. Mr. Fudge has no pigs to sell at this time. A Subscriber. CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. In the Senate on the 16th, Logan, from the committee on military alfairs, reported favorably, with amendment, the bill to authorize the sale of the Baton liouge Arsenal and grounds. The committee on appropriations reported the postoffice appropriation bill, and Senator Plumb gave notice that he would ask for its consideration to-morrow immediately after the formal morning business. At the close of the morning business the Senate resumed the consideration of the bill for the relief of Ben. Halliday, with its pending amendment, the agricultural department bill. The bill finally went over again without action, and the Senate resumed the consideration of the Tariff bill, the pending question being the amendment making the duty on bichromate of potash three and a half cents per pound instead of three cents as provided in the bill. This amendment was taken as a text upon which the whole question of ad valorem as against specific duties wasreargued. Senators Sherman and Beck made representative speeches upon the two sides of the question. The duty was left at three cents. The Senate practically concluded the consideration of the chemical schedule, and then went into Executive session and adjourned. In the House the only business of importance was reporting and agreeing to the agricultural appropriation bill. The total amount appropriated by it is ?405,640, being ?21,640 less than the appropriation for the current year. In the Senate on the 17th, the report of the committee of conference on the agricultural appropriation bill was agreed to. The postoffice appropriation bill was then taken up, and after some discussion, but without reaching a vote, it was continued, and the tariff bill was discussed until adjournment. " In the House, Mr. Bedford, of Colorado, presented the memorial of Ilinton R. Helper for the establisment of railway communication with Central South America. Referred. J. T. Cain, delegate from Utah, was sworn in. In the Senate, on the 18th, the amendment to the post office appropriation bill, appropriating #185,000 for the fast mail service was agreed to. The tariff bill was taken up, and pending its discussion the death of Representative Skackelford, of Xorth Carolina, was announced, whereupon the Senate adjourned. In the House the naval appropriation bill was discussed. The deatli of Representative Shackelford was announced, and after the Speaker appointed a funeral escort to accompany the remains of the deceased to his late home in Wilmington, the House adjourned. In the Senate on the 19th, the postal appropriation bill, and the tariff bill were discussed. In the House, Henderson of Illinois, chairman of the committee on military affairs, reI>orted a resolution directing that committee to investigate the charges of mismanagement at the Hampton Soldiers Home. Adopted. Moore, of Tennessee, introduced a joint; resolution proposing a constitutional amend- j ment granting Congress the power to provide ! by appropriate legislation for the legal enforce- J ment of obligations of contracts entered into j1 l>y any State of the Union. Referred to the ! committee on the judiciary. The House then, at 11:45, went into committee of the whole on the private calendar. [1 In the Senate on the 20th, debate on the:! postal appropriation bill was resumed. Ed munds' motion to strike from the bill the pro- ! vision reducing letter postage to two cents was voted down by a vote of 40 to 15. The ! bill was finally reported to the Senate and ; passed, and the tariff bill was taken up. The House was devoted mainly to the con- 1 sideration of private bills, a number of which !' were passed. i j Among the bills introduced in the House on , the 22nd, was one by Blanchard, of Louisiana, j i fixing the time for the meeting of the Forty < Ninth Congress?the first session on the 5th of r * March, 1885, and the second session on the 1 tirst Monday in January, 1880 ; and each Con- 1 gress thereafter on corresponding days, ft aims at no change in the time for the election M Representatives to Congress, but is intend- } sd to so change the existing laws that the '; term of each newly elected Congressman shall " begin a short time after his election ; and also | that each new Congress shall meet shortly af- i :er the election, instead of thirteen mouths ifterw&rds, as now?the idea being that to Representatives fresh from the people should ue committed the duties of carrying out reforms and enacting remedial legislation which ;he people may indicate at the polls that they want done. MERE-MENTION. Savannah shipped her first cargo of corn in bulk to Europe last week. A poor man would feel sadly out of place in the California Senate. The forty-one members of that body ire worth $20,000,000. The total number )f pieces of mail matter of all kinds handled luring the year at the New York postoftice, was 797,481,309, a daily average of 2,400,X)0. A national convention of the Greenback-Labor party will be called to be held at Washington on the 22nd of February.?Gen. VV. C. Pendleton, late chief of artillery to the irmy of Northern Virginia, C. S. A., and rector of Grace Church, Lexington, Va.', died suddenly at that place on Tuesday night of last week. George Scheller, the owner of the bar in the Newhall House, which was destroyed by fire in Milwaukee, as noticed in our last issue, and by which the lives of 81 persons were lost, has been arrested on the charge of setting fire to the same. The Richmond, Va., Dispatch, records the death of Duncan Ford, of Powhatan county, aged 120. The city of Brooklyn, N. Y., owes $37,493,723.40. Twenty-six newly elected Senators take their seats in March. The mayor of Richmond made a ten-line speech of welcome to the Marquis of Lome and party, and the Marquis made a five-line reply. This was model speech-making. The population of Dakota is estimated at 300,000, having doubled in ten years. The amount of taxable property is $50,000,000. The Vicksburg Herald estimates that there are forty pistols to every subsoil plow in the State of Mississippi. Prince Frederick Charles Alexander, brother of the Emperor of Germany, died in Berlin, last Sunday, aged 82 years. In consequence of the continued rains, the Sa- . vannah river is unprecedentedly high, having readied thirty feet and six inches at Augusta last Sunday. No damage of consequence to property has been done in the city, though on the South Carolina side, opposite and below Augusta, the water extended over a large area of country, washing out small grain wherever it had been planted. Heavy snow storms and intense cold are reported throughout Iowa and Minnesota last Saturday. Trains were delayed, and in some cases abandoned. ? The search in the Milwaukie ruins is ended. Fortyeight bodies were recovered.. One hundred and seventy-six are now accounted for, as follows : Identified, 28; not identified, 40; saved, 102 ; still missing, 1; making the total loss of * life 75. Judge Quarles, of the Criminal Court of Nashville, has fixed the appearance bond of M. T. Polk, the defaulting treasurer of Tennessee, at $10,000. By an explosion of the Giant Powder Works, at Oakland, Cal., last Monday, twenty-two Chinamen and one white man were killed. Eight tons of powder exploded. Immediately after the death of Gambetta, Prince Jerome Bonaparte issued a manifesto, for which the French Government placed him in prison. He will probably be banished. _ TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT. Shortly after 12 o'clock last Saturday night, the overland express on the Southern Pacilic Railroad, which left San Francisco at 9.20 Saturday morning, stopped near Teachapi sta- ^fl tion to cut out an extra engine taken on at V Sumner to assist to pull up the Teachapi grade. ^ While making the change, by some means unknown the train got away and started back northward down a grade of 120 feet to the mile. The train consisted of two engines, the express, mail and baggage cars, two sleepers, v one coach and a smoking car. It went down the grade at a frightful speed for about four miles, when the hindermost sleeper jumped the track and went over an embankment about 100 feet high, carrying with it the other sleeper and mail, baggage and express cars, which were piled in a shattered heap. They then took fire and were consumed. The coach and smoker kept on the down grade and were stopped without leaving the track about two miles further on. All on board the latter were unin- ^ jured. The scene ioiiowmg uie wreca was wsrrible. The wrecked cars caught on fire from the stoves and lamps and were instantly in a blaze. Harry Conners, the news agent, who was sleep- ? ing in the baggage car, was awakened by the movement of the car, and aroused James Woodhull, the baggage master, just as the cars made the jump. The roof of the car was split open and both men were thrown out and severely bruised. Conners, while lying on the ground, unable to render any assistance, saw the train enveloped in ilames and heard the + . shrieks of the dying victims and saw them vainly endeavoring to struggle from the burning ruins. Porter Ashe and wife, who occupied the drawing room of one of the sleepers, were awakened by the crash. They succeeded in getting out without injury, but of sixteen other occupants of the car not one is believed to have escaped. The occupants of the coach which kept on down the grade succeeded in stopping it, thereby saving the lives of some forty occupants of that and the smoking car. They immediately walked back to the scene of the accident, but found only the smouldering remains of the train and the few who had escaped with their lives lying beside it bleeding in the darkness, shivering in the piercing cold night air, or rendering assistance to each other. Relief soon arrived from Teachipa, four miles distant, and as soon as possible medical attendance was sent from Sumner and Bakerfield and subsequently from Los Angeles. Search for the dead soon showed that twentyone persons had perished. Eleven were be- ^ yond recognition, only headless and charred w. limbs being found. NO MORE EYE-GLASSEST More Eyes. MITCHELL'S EYE-SALVE A Certain, Safe and Effective Remedy for SORE, WEAK AND INFLAMED EYES, Producing Long-Slghtedness, and Restoring the Sight of the Old. Cure* Tear Drops, Granulation, Stye, Tumors, Rod Eyes. Watted Eye Lashes, ANI) PRODUCING QUICK RELIEF ANI) PERMANENT CURE. Also, equally elUcacions when used in other maladies, such as I'lrers, Fever Sores, Tumors, Salt Rheum, Burns. Piles, or wherever inflammation exists, MITCHELL'S SALVE may h? used to advantage. Sold by all Druggists at 25 rents. January 25 4 lyJfntaatial anil Commercial. YORK VILLE, January 24.?Cotton 7 to 9. CHARLESTON, January 22.?Cotton lirm ; middling:, 92 to 92. LIVERPOOL, January 22.?Cotton .steady; uplands aid. NEW YORK, January 22.?Cotton quiet and steady; uplands, lftj. Futures closed steady, with sales of 71,000 hales, as follows : January 10.08 to 10.09; February 10.10 to 10.11; March 10.24 to 10.25; April 10.38 to 10.39; May 10.52; June 10.(55 to 10.(56; July 10.78 to 10.7i?; August 10.89 to 10.90; September 10.62 to 10.64; October 10.24 to 10.2(5; November 10.08 to 10.10. Comparative Cotton Ntatement. New York, January 19.?The following is the comparative cotton statement for the week ending January 19: 1883. 1882. Receipts at all ports for the week, 148,752 5*5,251 Total receipts to this date 4,017,424 3,552,208 Exports for week 129,786 01,954 Total exports to date, 2,554,230 1,807,849 Stock at all U. S. ports 928,213 1,1.59,246 Stock at all interior towns 182,630 15(9,411 Stock at Liverpool 814,000 55(7,000 American for (ireat Britain 25H(,J)00 204,000 Liverpool Cotton Market. Last Week's circular of the Liverpool Cotton Broker's Association says : Cotton was in fair Icmand, with an abundant supply. The market was heavy and quotations were slightly reduced. American was pressed for sale, and although the :radc bought freely, prices were weak and generally 1-16(1. lower. In sea island sales were moderate and rather easier prices were accepted. Quotations were reduced Ad. Futures fluctuated dighily and declined 5-64d. for January and February, and generally 3-64d. for more distant positions. The Cotton Supply. The total visiblesupplvof cotton for the world iast Saturday was 3,214,021 bales, of which 2,595,521 bales was American,against 3,0551,182 bales and 1,577,75(2 bales respectively last year. The re- ^ eipts of cotton at all interior towns are 79,508 riles. The receipts from plantations 138,189 ales. The crop in sight, 4,5(06,795 bales.