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Scraps and Jfattis. ! ? The time when the two cents postage I! shall go into effect has been the main sub-:' Ject of controversy in the conference com- , mittee. The House fixed the date January i \r 1884, and the Senate July 1, 1883. Then conference committee has decided upon < October 1,1883. i ? The excess of tariff and internal reve- < nue receipts over the necessities of the Gov- I em men t for the month of February was 11 nearly $275,000 daily, or. more than five j i cents every day for every man, woman, < and child in the country; and yet Congress 1 has acbourned without affording any substantial relief to the people7 ? The Mississippi has about done its worst, and gives signs of falling. The levees on the Mississippi side held well, but the new ones on the Louisiana bank suffered heavily. 3,000 men have been at work night and day since the beginning of the freshet, but the river tore its way through in many places. ? At Columbia, Mo., hist Thursday night, Edward Dai ley, a farmer with a large family, was shot and killed by Mrs. Sarah Parson for an alleged assault. Daile.v went to the house on Thursday night, in Mr. Parson's absence. When he was near the door of Mrs. Parson's room she fired upon him twice, the last shot killing him instantly. ? By the election of Senator Edmunds as 1 President of the Senate, he would become { President of the United States in case of ( Arthur's death. Mr. Edmunds is accounted : one of the best lawyers in the Senate, but he has a vein of implacable bigot and spite to- < wards the South which detracts very much- < from him as a man. However, he is honest ' and above aboard. ? Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, has s issued a fast day proclamation, concluding i as follows: "And I do specially exhort the ' ministers of the Gospel on that day to feed their flocks with the Divine word, and not J to discourse upon political and other secular , topics which may divert the serious thoughts of the people from humble worship of the Father." < ? The peanut business is assuming large proportions. 1,500,000 bushels are raised in Virginia, 400,000 bushels in Tennessee, and 200,000 bushels in North Carolina. The total value of the annual yield is estiirfated at $2,000,000, and the question as to wheth" ' ? "? -"1 1 J er tnis iramc snouia De proiecieu ur nui threatened last year to become a political issue. ? W. H. Pratt, President of the Bank of Mobile and Vice President of the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad and a prominent capitalist of Alabama, while attempting to pass between the cars of a freight train at the Louisville and Nashville Depot in Birmingham, last Saturday, fell and was run over and killed instantly. His body was terribly mangled. ? The business failures for the week ending last Friday, as reported to R. G. Dun & Co., number 274?an increase of 42 compared with last week. The failures are distributed as follows: New England States 22, Middle States 38, Southern States 65, Western States 90, Pacific States and Territories 13, Canada and the British provinces So, New York city 10. ? Two men, strangers to each other, were assigned the same sleeping room in the St. James Hotel, Atlanta. A. suggested to t* thov l/vk' thpir vflhiflhles in a bureau drawer, himseif putting in a $300 check. 1 B. agreed and put in a gold watch and $75 in money. A. locked the drawer and the , new acquaintances retired to bed. When B. awoke in the morning A. was gone, and so were all the valuables. ? The House of Representatives of the ! Maine Legislature has adopted an amendment to tne capital punishment bill providing that a jury, in rendering a verdict for murder, may recommend the prisoner to the mercy of the Court; also an amend- j ment that the counsel for the prisoner shall have the closing argument to the jury. The bill restoring in full the death penalty was then passed to be engrossed. ? "The factors of St. Louis" have united to advise southern planters of the cotton belt to raise food products. They show that the present price of cotton is 15 per cent, below the average of the past five years, and that corn is 33 and provisions 50 per cent, above the average, thus causing the mere cotton miser to lose largely in two ways. The southern planters should now combine in taking this advice. ? Mr. Benjamin's retirement from active practice at the English Bar calls out from the Law Times a statement that "his rapid and brilliant success culminated in his making in his last year the prodigious income of $125,000." It adds that when in practice in the United States he received in one case "a fee of 10,000 guineas ;" that in England he once received a fee of 1,000 guineas, and in several recent cases he received 500 guineas. ? Wiggins renews his prophecy of the storm, the hurricane, the tornado, the flood and general demoralization of the elements, which in to occur durinsr the latter part of the week, and. if verified must occur tomorrow or next day. He says that the storm will be as great as any that has ever occurred on earth or can possibly occur, and that among its other features there will be a tidal wave in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as in the Bay of Bengal, and on the coast of Australia. ? A woman was the only passenger in a Montana stage except her baby, whom she wrapped in ner fur cloak, leaving herself unprotected from the zero temperature. The driver saw that she was benumbed and Mould freeze to death unless aroused to violent exercise. He dragged her from the coach and left her by the roadside. "Oh, my baby!" she cried. The driver cracked his whip. The stage flew over the snow with the woman running after. The race was kept up for near two miles, when the driver took the mother in again and wrap(>ed his coat around her. lie had warmed ler blood and saved her life. ? Work on the great bridge which is to connect the cities of New York and Brooklyn is being pushed with unusal vigor, and tnere is now a fair prospect that the structure will be open to the public, at least so far as foot passengers are concerned, by the Fourth of July. On the New York span the carpenters have almost completed their work, and the carriage road on either side of the bridge is finished ; the longitudinal and cross planks are in position, except in one or two places, where few of the former have been torn up. The carriage road and foot walk on both the approaches are ready for use : the ballasting for the road bed of the railway track is also completed, and most of the ties are in position. ? At the Baptist ministers' meeting in New York on Monday, Rev. Harvey Wood, \vho has recently resigned the pastorate of the Baptist Church in Leadvilie, Colorado, 1 which ne pronounces "the wickedest town , on earth,''gave some incidents of life there. ijq ooiH ?.\s t/ithp standard of Christian OUlUj ...v .. ity in Leadville it is not exalted. For in- ; stance, next to the church building was a blacksmith shop, and on Sunday the black- ? smith was always busy. As I did not be- ( lieve that pounding and expounding go to-1 gether on Sunday, I went out just before the i1 sermon and asked the blacksmith to stop.! The blacksmith told me to go to a place con-1 siderably warmer than Florida and added i that he was working for a member of my church. And sure enough, there stood the ! treasurer of the church having his horse j shod. Gambling is licensed and so is rum.! Last year $80,000 was paid for rum license | and $10 a table in the gambling hells. I j did my level best to get some of my people > to go into some of these gambling places, but they were afraid, for murder is an ev- I ery day affair." ? Negroes from the plantations in the riv-[ er counties of Southeast Arkansas, Missip- ; pi and North Louisiana are leaving in large numbers by boat and train, fearing a repetition of the disasters of last year. On Sat-! urday last the water was two feet deep in Arkansas City and was rising at the rate of four inches every twenty-four hours. The , cotton planting season is at hand and operations are seriously retarded. The loss between Helena and Vicksburg, 400 miles, is j1 very heavy. The latest news from the over- i flowed country along the Mississippi River is that what are known as the sunk lands in 1 the St. Francis River region are entirely i submerged, and nearly as far down as;1 Helena there are few places above water. The peopleare living in the upper storiesofj mmw \\\\\\va\vawikv houses. When there is not naore than one story to a house they are floating round on rafts or in boats. 5lost of the inhabitants, however, have deserted their homes ana gone to the highlands back from the river. The streets of New Madrid are submerged to the depth of from two to four feet and there is water in almost every house. The whole country back of that place as far as Cairo, on the Missouri side, and from Hickman south for over fifty miles, is inundated.[torn, live stock and fences have been destroyed, but no great amount of suffering imong the people is reported. ?be ?otfeyiHe tfuQuim. YORKVILLE, S*. : THURSDAY MORNING, MAR. 8, 1883. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give nostDlfice, county and State, in full, and send the unount of the subscription by draft or post3thee money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.? rue r.Nmnu-.K is unncicu nv-u af postage to all subscribers residing in York county, who receive the paper at post-oftices ivithin the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, ire not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-olhce here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "address-label" shows he 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. jpSp- Mr. J. L. Simmons is our authorized agent for receiving subscriptions and advertisements in the town of Chester ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS. Congress adjourned without day at noon last Saturday. Before adjournment the revenue tariff bill was passed. Among the last acts of the Senate was the adoption of an amendment to the deficiency appropriation bill authorizing a payment to Charles IT. Reed, for defending Guiteau, not to exceed $3,000; and a bill to refund to the State nn?w,;? n?id nut. for the common L/l VJ Wiglli IIIVUVJ defence in 1779. The President was promptly in his room near the Senate chamber and signed all the bills that were passed. The Senate refused to confirm the nomination of June S. Mobley for postmaster at Union, S. C., and G. H. Deas as postmaster at Florence. Almost at the last hour of the session of the House, an attempt was made to displace Representative John S. Richardson of the First South Carolina district, and give his seat to Sam Lee, the colored contestant, but the scheme failed. The work of the Forty-seventh Congress, just closed may be briefly stated as follows: All the regular annual appropriation bills obtained passage in both Houses and have become laws. The sundry civil, the last upon which an agreement was reached in conference, received the President's signature at 10 o'clock Saturday. During the Forty-seventh Congress 10,670 bills and joint resolutions have been introduced in the two houses, 8,018 in the House and 2,652 in the Senate during the session which has just closed. In each house the great majority of these measures still remain with the committees to which they were referred, and of those reported from committees the larger number remain upon the calendars of the respective houses. Aside from the regular annual appropriation bills 163 bills and joint resolutions have passed both houses during this session, and have become laws. Seven hundred and sixty bills and joint resolutions are left on the House calendars and 233. upon the Speaker's table, having failed to secure final action by the House, and '398 of such bills and resolutions remain on the Senate calendars. The shipping bill, which passed the Senate in its last hours, because of the deadlock on the South Carolina election case. The last bill which passed the Senate was the House bill to fix the terms of the United States Court for the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas. The bill reached the House just as Speaker Keifer began his remarks preliminary to declaring the House adjourned nine die. The clerk, bill in hand, rushed up to the ClUSK tlllU eniieuvereu IV auiwi me ?.7|jcaiver's attention, but without avail, and the gavel fell without the coveted signature. The aggregate amount of appropriations called for by the bills of the session just closed was $529,327,511. The amount of last session's appropriation was $295,509,939, including $18,728,875 for rivers and harbors. The bill providing for rivers and harbors for the session just ended was killed in the Senate. It called for $8,047,000. INTERNAL REVENUE TAXATION. In reply to inquiries the Commissioner of Internal Revenue explains the effect of the law reducing internal revenue taxation as follows: That taxes upon capital and depos its of banks and bankers and national banking associations are repealed from this date, except such taxes as are now due and payable ; that the reduction of tax upon checks, drafts, Ac., and upon matches, perfumery, medicinal preparations, and other articles imposed by "schedule A," as following section 3,457 revised statutes, takes effect July 1st, 1883; that after May 1, 1883, the tax on manufactured tobacco and snuff will be 8 cents per pound; on cigars $3 per thousand, and on cigarettes 50 cents per thousand; that there will be a rebate on tobacco, snuff, cigars and cigarettes of the difference in taxes recently imposed, and taxes as now provided for. Where claims amount to $10, they must be presented within sixty days from May 1st. Regulations upon this matter will be immediately issued, and blanks will be furnished upon which claims can be made. That the law provides for a very large reduction in special taxes upon dealers commencing May 1st, 1883. The Commissioner also states that immediate arrangements will be made for changing the form of special tax stamps, and stamps for payment of taxes upon tobacco, snuff, cigars, Ac., so as to supply collectors with these stamps in time to meet the requirements of the trade prior to May 1st, 1K83. GOVERNMENT PROSECUTIONS. The United States Government, through its agents in this Shite, headed by Attorney-General Brewster, is busily preparing for the prosecution, for political effect, of citizens of South Carolina for alleged violations of the election laws, the intimidation of voters, and similar charges. On Tuesday of last week United States Commissioner Bauskett, at Columbia, issued warrants for the arrest of the following citizens of Monticello, Fairfield county: Jas. Ilerron, J. M. Kirkland, S. S. Currv, Thos. McGill, Jr., James McGill, Joseph McMeekin, Joel McMeekin, Nicholas Peay and Thos. Aiken. Two white Greenbackers, J. W. Aughtry and J. H. Martin, swore out the warrants, charging the parties with violating the election laws in refusing to assist them as Deputy Marshals when called upon do so at the polls. Aughtry swore out a warrant against Ilerron for assaulting him at the polls. Yesterday was appointed as the day for hearing the charges against the accused. WWWVUVWWY W\W\\\\W Vfc\\\\V\\YV\\\\\V WWWWWWWWV DEATH OF HOT. STEPHENS. | ( Governor Alexander H. Stephens, of Geor-> < gia, died in Atlanta, about half past 3 o'clock i last Sunday afternoon. Governor Stephens 1 had been in a worse state of health than ' usual ever since his recent visit to Savannah, i on the occasion of the cesqui centennial, but < no alarm as to his condition was felt until I Sunday morning. An Atlanta dispatch, an- i nouncing his death, says : I The news of the Governor's death caused 1 the profoundest sensation as it was not gen- 1 erally believed he was so near death's door. I To-day his remains have lain in state at the 1 Executive Mansion where they were viewed i by 20,000 persons. This afternoon a meeting i of citizens was held and addresses were de- 1 livered by Senator Colquitt, Judge Martin, J. C. Crawford, Judge Logan, E. Bleckley, and other prominent citizens. A citizens' committee was appointed to co-operate with \ a committee from tne Legislature ana tne State House officers in the conduct of the funeral. The remains will lie in stateat the Capitol until the burial, which will occur on Wednesday or Thursday. Col. John A. Stephens, a nephew of the Governor, said last night: "I have never ] known him to speak so little of death as du- i ring his present illness, or to make so few j arrangements for the worst that might come. In all his other attacks he has been most careful to impress on me the minutest details of his wishes and intentions. In this ill- * ness he has not said a single word of any of ] his desires." This but confirms the theory . of his illness. It was exhaustion rather than disease that brought about his death. It was mind and not body that gave way. ( Mr.Stephens made his will some time ago. J He leaves $10,(KM) in money to the children i of his late brother, Judge Stephens, and the < rest of his estate, with the exception of a j few minor bequests, to his nephew, Colonel John Stephens. AY hat his estate will foot up depends largely on the sale of his new 1 History of the I nited States. He made 1 about $30,000 on "The War between the i States," and his new book is selling well. < Above his bequests his estate will probably . pay $10,000. ( The funeral ofGovernor Stephens will take place in Atlanta to-day. Several municipal , bodies, military and civic associations and ' distinguished citizens of Georgia and other 1 States will participate, and arrangements , have been made to render the obsequies of I J* 1 A^J J j ine (llSUIlgUlSIieu ueuu an impressive aim memorable affair. On the reception in Coluv ia of the information of Governor Stephens' death, Governor Thompson communicated the following telegraphic rues- ( sage: "There is the most profound sorrow among the people of South Carolina for the irreparable loss which Georgia and the country ] have sustained by the death of Governor Stephens." : James L. Boynton, president of the State : Senate, was sworn in as Governor on Mon- < day morning. Under the law, he is required to issue a proclamation immediately, i ordering an election for Governor, in not less ] than 30 nor more than 60 days, and then to i order the legislature to convene in 15 days after said election, to count the votes and ] declare the Governor. Col. Boynton will probably be the choice of the people to fill out Governor Stephens' unexpired term. THE GEORGIA RAILROAD. The Supreme Court of Georgia, in a decis- , ion rendered last Thursday, has sustained the decision of the court below in the case of the Georgia Railroad Company against the Railroad Commission. This was an ap- ; plication for an injunction to restrain the i Commission from enforcing its rates as i against the Georgia Railroad. The case ; will probably go to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court below had , sustained the Commission and refused the bill. As this decision is of general interest, the . oninmomr r\f viri 11 nnf lUliUWillg U11C1 OUiuiuai j v* mv v**?tv niuiivv f be out of place : Last Spring a bill was filed by the Georgia Railroad and BankingCoinpany and William M. Wadley, as lessee, praying the Chancellor to enjoin the Rail- , road Commissioners from enforcing certain rates of freight as against the Georgia Rail- ( road, upon the ground in chief that the charter of the Georgia Railroad Company authorized it to charge certain other rates, and that it had a constitutional right to do so ; that the Legislature could not interfere , to take those rights away. Its charter provided that it might charge not exceeding 50 cents per 100 pounds per 100 miles on freight and 5 cents per mile passenger tariff". The Commissioners' rates were of course lower. The matter' was heard by Judge Simmons, at Macon, and after a legal fight of two or three days resulted in a refusal of the application for an injunction. The case was brought to the Supreme Court by counsel for the road, and the Court rendered its decision affirming the decision of the Court below. The decision was practically unanimous, Judge Hall stating that while he differed with his associates in the matter of the reasoning he did not differ with them so far as the law in the case was concerned. Commenting upon this decision, and any bearing it may have upon the Railroad law , of South Carolina, the News and Courier says: 1 1 3 mis decision esuumsiies ucyunu quenuuu, so far as the Courts of Georgia can do so, the | right of the Georgia Commission to regulate the charges of the railroads in that State, : What degree of weight will be attached to the decision in South Carolina remains to be 1 seen. There is a fundamental difference between the Commissions of the two States, inasmuch as the Georgia Commission was 1 created under a special constitutional pro- '< vision, while the South Carolina Commission is simply the offspring of legislative en- ] actment. But in principle they are the : same, and the action of the Georgia Courts, 1 in sustaining the authority of the Georgia < Commission, cannot fail to strengthen the 1 hands of our own Commissioners in dealing i with the railroads. ( THE EGYPT COTTON CHOP. 1 Advices from Cairo, Egypt, under date 1 of February 10, represent the situation in 1 that country as getting from bad to worse. Egypt is after all only a large farm. Her 1 annual revenue of $45,000,000?of which ; $22,500,000 goes directly into the pockets of the "bloated bondholder"?is derived al- { most exclusively from the crops of cotton, ' Indian corn, wheat, sugar and barley. The ..nuioiiUnHi^lu iii?u linwr (rnftiiifr frurVitAiiPil ' il^lnUllUliOlK) <11 V HUM 4A*bi?vv?IV<? about the cotton and sugar crops. Land ' which twelve years ago yielded per acre 1 ten cantars of cotton (the ran tar equals ! ninety-eight pounds) now only produces 1 two or three cantars. Chemical investigation now proves that this startling falling off is due to the fact that cotton takes more out of the soil than is put into it by tin; 1 yearly deposit left by the Nile inundation. 1 Previous to MehemetAli no such exhaustive s crops as cotton and sugar were grown in j Egypt. Consequently the cotton and sugar ( have for the past forty years been annually | i drawing upon the deposit of the Nile thathad s I for centuries been gradually accumulating, '< I This reserve fund of phosphates and nitre I ! required by cotton is now coming to an 1 end. Hence the astounding decrease in the . ! iii><trlii/ firm lipr Hfrp. . t"v""vv I"? There are now over one million acres of \ | land in Egypt under cotton cultivation, t ; The total value of the Egyptian cotton crop is about $60,000,000. The decrease in the * annual yied per acre has hitherto been com- j pensated for by constantly planting more ( acres with cotton, and this has in i\ great ] measure been done by trenching on the 1 land producing Indian corn, which is the staple food of the fellah. But the number " of acres under cotton cultivation cannot be j increased forever, and the sole remedy <. which can avert the failure of Egyptian < iotton raising?a catastrophe that would at >nce plunge the country into hopeless bankruptcy?is the use of manures and artificial fertilizers. At present all the bones in V Egypt, which would be worth their weight ?r n gold when converted into fertilizers, are j, jxported to Europe. The Egyptians steadiy refuse to allow any concessions to be j made to any artificial manure company on :he ground that the "bones of some. Moslein saint might l>e disturbed and put to rile use." If a plebiscite were to be taken to-day the overwhelming majority ofEgyp:ians would vote against the use of artificial manure. English diplomacy will soon find h itself face to face with this manure question. THE MICHIGAN SENATOR. fc The balloting in the Michigan Legislature ^ for United States Senator ended last Thursiay by the election of Thomas W. Palmer, )f Detroit, who received seventy-five votes, )n the fifth ballot that day. Forty-two si rotes were cast for Stoutr and two for Ferry y >n the last ballot. The contest has been un- w pfecedentecl in the history of the politics of :hat State, eighty-one ballots in all having aeen taken. And with the final result ig- ^ lominously ends the Senatorial career of - - - - - .. ()l Ferry, whose sudden and terrible collapse is j i sad commentary on the uncertainty of po- ^ litical supremacy, even after reaching a po- ^ jition of absolute authority, which position Ferry had attained. He had, as presiding officer of the Senate,'held the deciding voice as to the fate of Hayes and Tilden. No ? man was more resprrtisible for the commis- Irion that made fraud triumphant. Now, he 01 is bankrupt in purse and person, conuner- ^ 2ially and politically. Alcoholic stimula- I tion and morphine have, in conjunction 11 with desperate straits, brought him almost ^ bo death's door. At a dinner party it was once remarked that he refused wine and J rank only Apolynaris water. He was ^ even at that time a secret drunkard, or one of those men who keep liquor at home and imbibe it during the night. When j misfortune overtook him he soughtconsola- v tion in excessive intoxication, which is just ^ about the worst thing any man could do. rj Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. (' - P LETTER FROM BLACK'S STATION. * Black's Station, S. C'., March 5.?The { 3pirit of improvement in our little town is <l manifesting itself more at this time than ever before. Lots on Cherokee street are ready sale and command good prices. Sash, e blind and floor factories and shingle mills "v are kept constantly employed. The shingle t mill here turns out 100,000 per week, which S command ready sale at s-i per thousand. ij Cotton continues to come into our mark- li et. One firm bought in small lots 47 bales t last week. Mr. Ilufus G. Whitesides, of c Clark's Fork, sold a very fine bale last t< week. It graded high, and brought a fancy t price. It is what is known as the Ozier a variety. ' n A. S. Hopper, living near here on Broad I River, in this county, had his barn, with its contents, burned last Wednesday night. It contained about 6(H) bushels of corn, a lot y of hay, fodder, cotton, harness, &c. Mr. j Hopper narrowly escaped with his stock. His loss is estimated at $800. Dr. John G. Black and Mr. Win. F. Dye j have each received from the U. S. Fish Commissioner, at Washington, a quantity of German carp, for which they had prepared suitable ponds. Mr. Luke Weston, near here, was bit by a dog supposed to be mad. The dog had bit a mule and some other stock. The fatality among the canine race, in qur town, is j astonishing. They are found dead in every direction. It would"*not be right to suspicion any one of putting out poison to kill his neighbor's dog; but it is evident that the work of death among the dogs goes on c and no investigation of the cause has been 11 had. Every one seems to think that some ^ other animal in the shape of a hog or sheep 0 would be more profitable than the worth- d less, prowling cur. a Week before last there was a party here from Lexington, N. C.f and this week an- t other party from Georgia, was here, looking after the minerals of this section. ^ A party of capitalists are also expected in i a few days from the North for the same 1 purpose. This section is rapidiy gaining a j reputation abroad for its mineral resources, ( and properly so, as every succeeding inves- (. tigation goes to show. Ego. j Importance of the Publication of County Treasurers' Reports.?Some weeks ago the treasurer of Richland, in com- a pliance with requirements of the Act of 1882. r published in the Register his statement , of the disbursements on school claims, giv- L ing the names of all parties to whom pay- * ments had been made and the amount paid B to each. On examining the statement the a school commissioner discovered that the amount exceeded by $75 the amount vouched for in his office, and he immediately proceeded to ferret out the cause of the discrep- a ancy. It was found after dilligent search a that the treasurer had paid a check for $75, ? drawn in favor of Sarah Allison, purporting J to be a teacher of the Fifth school district . a The check was apparently genuine, but as p no teacher of that name appeared on the fc lists of the Fifth school district, further in- 0 [juiry showed that the whole thing was a well executed forgery of the names of John McLaughlin, chairman, and Dave Roberts, one of tne trustees of the school district, and idso of School Commissioner Sylvester. Treasurer Gibbes cannot recall from whom t' I./-. wuinintmrl tlia si ml flip llWS Will I lie ictue V WiV v?yv?) MV?W ?... ^ fall upon him. It if* certainly the duty of the scool commissioner, the treasurer and other officers whose names have been forged T to make every effort to discover the forger e. and bring him or her to justice. And the I i-ase suggests that some certain method t should be used by the treasurer or other dis- -y bursing officer to enable them readily to trace the checks paid by them to the parties who present them.?Register, Saturday. ^ Sunday's Register says that parties from a the country embraced in the school district 0 involved in the forged certificate held by ^ Treasurer Gibbes were in the city on Satur- * lay and called to examine the paper. This ^ examination brought out imforination ^ which, it is thought will soon fix the. crime an the guilty party, as there are earmarks M ibout the transaction which in the opinion T 3f one or two of the parties, give unmistakible indications of the perpetrator of the forgery. 11 Indian Piioghess.?The report of the tl Board of Indian Commissioners shows a d eery gratifying improvement in the condi- j ^ tion of the nation's red wards during the | past few years. The efforts to civilize them i ind make them self-supporting seem to be! j crowned with success, and they are rapidly j learning and practicing many of the arts of j Q civilized life. Considerable progress has i15 been made in education. A number of If schools have been established among them, j h uul one-tiftli of the Indian youin 01 scnooi; v ige are now attending either day or board- jj ing schools. I j In the matter of industry, the improve- j ? ment is even greater, and the agricultural ^ ind stock wealth of the red-skins has quad-1 rupled in the last few years. The following tl ire sonic of the figures for 1808 and 1802 : j w Acres of land under cultivation increased | from 54,207 to 569,082, an increase of 955 per : u ent.; bushels of wheat produced increased : . from 120,117 to 670,983 bushels, or 4.32 peri?1 . ent; hogs owned, from 29,890 to 424,740, or 1,350 per cent. ; and sheep owned from 2,083 fa :o 1,304,730, or more than 50,000 per cent. j k No state in the Union can make a better }tj showing than these savages, and these fig- j ires would seem to prove that the despised Indians can be civilized so as to become re-; spectable and industrious money-making, fo itizens. j e< ,ww LOCAL AFFAIES. . NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Withers Adlckea?Wooden Ware. [. Strauss?Yes! Yes!! . M. Dohson?Read ! Read !! Read !!! olm R. Ashe?Fertilizers?Powder?The Cox Cotton Planter, olcock <fe Miller?(iuano. atta Brothers?Baker's Standard (iuano and Acid Phosphate. . H. O'Leary?Parlor Furniture?Bed-Room Sets?Chairs?Stoves?Saddles?Collars, Bridles?Harness. SALES-DAY. There were no official sales of property . IOU Auuuviaj Pftic^-via^ u/i maiviii COTTON SHIPMENTS. The shipments of cotton from this place j >r the week ending last Monday were 277 ! ales, and the total shipments of the season | ) that date aggregate 6,(592 bales. LIENS RECORDED. There have been 1,223 liens for rent and applies recorded in the clerk's office this ear, of which 168 were recorded during the eek ending last Tuesday. DWELLING BURNED. A dwelling house on the plantation of Ir. H. II. Thomson, on Broad River, and L'cupied by Ilufus Jeter, was accidentally estroyed by fire, at noon last Sunday, he contents of the dwelling, consisting of lrniture and wearing apparel, were lost. THE ROCK HILL CASES. A preliminary hearing in the cases of lenry and Julius Massey, colored, of Rock till, charged with the illicit sale of spirituus liquors in Rock Hill, was held in Ches;r, last Friday, before U. .S. Commissioner Aidd. The accused and two other colored len were bound over for trial in the U. S. istrict Court. GONE NORTH. Mr. Hunter of Hunter & Qates; Mr. Lindiy, of J. R. Lindsay & Co.; 31 r. \V. C. Latilerand Mr.T. M. Dobson, leave thisweek to lake their purchases of spring goods. Mr. Vilicnn aniumiiuiniatl lur \trc ,dio goes for the purpose of making a selecion of millinery goods for the spring trade, 'lie milliner connected with Mr. H. F. Adickes' house is also in New York making urchasesof millinery goods for tlie opening eason. The present outlook is favorable jr a good spring trade, and our merchants re making ample preparations to meet it. THE CONFEDERATE ROLLS. Adjutant-General Manigaulthas made an arnest call in an official circular on the suriving Confederates to aid him in coinpleing the roll of the troops furnished by the itate to the Confederate army. He also niblishes a list of the commands not yet leard from. From this list, it seems that he rolls of all the companies from York ounty have been made out and forwarded o the Adjutant General's office, except hose of Company A, Twelfth Regiment, nd Company K, Eighteenth. This last amed company was enlisted in York and Jnion counties. CHURCH NOTICES. Baptist?Rev. R. W. Sanders, of Chester, /ill preach at Union church nextSunday at 1 o'clock, A. M.j and in the church at Yorkille in the afternoon at 3.30. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. t. Lathan, Pastor. The pastor will fill his egular appointment at Tirzah next Sunday. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pasor. Services at the usual hours, morning nd evening. Episcopal?Rev. A. Prentiss. Services 111 A. M. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks, 'astor. Services in the church at Yorkville ,t the regular hours, morning and evening. THE PALMETTO REGIMENT. On Wednesday of last week the various oinpanies composing the Palmetto Reginent voted for Colonel of the regiment to ill the vacancy caused by the resignation f Hon. Hugh S. Thompson. The candilates for the office were ('apt. J. Q. Marshall nd ('apt. R. X. Richbourg, both of C'olumiia. The following are the full returns of he votes cast: Mars/mil. Richbourg. lovernor's Guards .'51 14 licliland Volunteers 1 44 *1 vimr Artillery 'JS .fight Dragoons 24 2 enkins Rifles 21 iUnoaster Grays 34 iordon Light Infantry 37 !ataw ha It i fi es 15 7 klisto Kitlcs 27 3 .ee Light Infantry 311 2 Totals 223 10!) Tlie Palmetto Rifles, of Aiken, reported , vote of 84 all cast for their commander, Captain Williams. One vote was cast in Columbia for Major White. The total vote herefore shows a majority for Capt. J. Q. Marshall over Capt. R. N. Richbourgof 114, ntl a majority over all of 79. club-make rs--pr emi ums. The time limited in which persons were uthorized to form clubs for the Enquirer t $2 per annum expired on Monday last, 'lie following club-makers having returned nd paid for the number of subscribers oposite their names respectively, are entitled o choice of premiums in accordance with ur offer: W. O. Glover GO J. D. Gwin 54 J. C. Wood 50 C. A. Domett t-i The following persons having returned vventy or more names are entitled to a copy f the Enquirer for one year and any weekly newspaper or monthly magazine ublislied in the United States: J. N. Robrts, W.J I. Crook, C. M. Smith, Mrs. D. A. iUinpkin, D. T. Lessley, Capt. E. R. Mills, '. G. C'ulp, H. K. Roberts, R. lv. Seaborn, V. N. Elder. The following persons having returned jn or more names, but less than twenty, re entitled to a copy of the Enquirer for ne year: Mrs. M. C. Grier, S. M. McNeel, Irs. Mattie It. Pegram, J. Parks Boyd, D. ). Gaston, S. G. Brown, Maj. M. Smith, . M. Adams, T. J. Roach, J. C. Sanders, V. B. Byers, Jr. Those entitled to choice of premiums, and 'ho have not yet signified their choice, will lease notify us at once of their selection, iat we may order them immediately. According to our published prospectus no lore names will be added to any of the hnvp flubs; but until further notice anv of le above club-makers or others desiring to o so, may form new clubs at $2 per annum? le subscriptions invariably to be paid in d vance. JEATH OF MRS. NANCY L. WALLACE. Mrs. Nancy L. Wallace, wife of Hon. A. . Wallace, of this county, died at 3 o'clock tst Saturday morning, at the residence of er son-in-law, Mr. Calvin Brice, near Woodward's, in Fairfield county. Had she ved until the 17th of the present month j le would have completed her seventy-third ear. Mrs. Wallace was the oldest daughter of io late George Ttatchford, whose residence as about two miles south of Yorkville. In ecember, 1833, she and Mr. A. S. Wallace ere married. She became the mother of ght children, six of whom are still living, s a wife and mother Mrs. Wallace was itliful until death ; as a neighbor she was ind and charitable to a fault, and was ighly esteemed by a large circle of friends id relatives. Mrs. Wallace had been in delicate health r several months and in the hope that she add be temporarily restored, by change of scene, visited her daughter in Fairfield, j about three weeks ago, but while there her | disease relapsed, and death ensued. j th Her remains were brought to Yorkville tii on Saturday afternoon, and on Sunday the di funeral services were conducted in the Pres- ai byterian church by the pastor, Rev. T. R. ! English. After the funeral services, her re-! di mains, followed by a large concourse of people from the town and country, were con- e]j veyed to the cemetery and deposited by the j)( plat of ground which contains the dust of tt lier ancestors. She lived and died a consist- hi ent and exemplary member of the Presbyterian church. ti DRAWING OF JURORS. ti On Tuesday last, under supervision of , , Jury Commissioner McKnight, the follow- ^ ing grand jurors were drawn to serve as the fr inquest of York county for the present year: oi Juror. Township. al Alvin Smith, colored Broad River, ir W. S. Crawford ...Bethesda. st J. C. Gwin York. p) William Dickson York. J. P. Epps Fort Mill. ' D. T. Part low Bethel. James Betts Catawba, hi r i? iVonlr 11 Alphonso Gettys York, n A. W. Gladden ; Bethesda. yy R. M. Carroll .- Bullock's Creek, jj Andy Hall, colored. Kbenezer. Peter Nance, colored Bullock's Creek. ' George Gunning, colored...'!, York. P Joseph A. Smith York. W. J. Garrison York. P S. A. Fewell Kbenezer. \\ James K. Plexico Broad Uiver. o The following petit jurors were drawn to w serve at the ensuing term of the Circuit " Court, which convenes on the fourth Mon- * day of this month : j, Juror. . . . .. Township. Jerry Darwin, colored Broad River. v W. 1). Parks Bullock's Creek. (). J. Gwiu Bullock's Creek. 11 Thomas J. Garrison Fort Mill. I). C. Williams Catawba, h W. If. Moore Bethesda. h J. W. Beamguard .T. King's Mountain, f] W. R. J. Stanton Bethel. ^ Ben Youngblood, colored. Bethel. 1 Harmon Blanton, colored .....Vf!. Cherokee. Samuel Jackson, colored.....V?King's Mountain. J. M. Wylie Broad River, d .1. C. Brown Broad River, n W. A. Carson Bethesda. u Perry Anderson, colored York, f] Andrew Atkinson, colored..'/fT. York. ? L. M. Davis Catawba. J. A. Dickson Cherokee. W. T. Sinarr Bullock's Creek. D. W. McCarter ^.. Bethel. s< Jacob Caldwell, colored.King's Mountain, h D. W. Brown Bullock's Creek. x\ W. S. Starr s-u** Kbenezer. ^ Miles Dates, colored..JfTT. King's Mountain. , D. M. Hall King's Mountain. 0 T. M. Allen Catawba. 9 George II. O'Leary York, i' James It. Kennedy .-Broad River, il B. F. Garrison ! Fort Mill, h William Caldwell Cherokee. R. B. Youngblood King's Mountain. ' W. Y. .Jones Bethesda. . S. A. Matthews Kbenezer. " W. G. Finlev Bethel, & Elijah Nix....*.T Bullock's Creek, ti Robert H. Moss C'hdVokee. f< SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. 0 ? The physicians of Rmcaster county will ^ organize a medical society on the first Mon- ^ day in April. a ? George Clark, a negro horse thief, was t captured in Newberry county last week and t lodged in jail. o ? Manning is soon to have telegraphic n communication witn ine ouisiae worm, s The poles are being put up. 11 ? Rev. \V. N. Prentiss of Hampton lost his dwelling house and nearly all its con- n tents by fire last Sunday night. Accidental. F ? Rumor says that the authorities of the I.1 South Carolina Railway have in serious con- 1( templation the extension of the Camden 8 branch to Raleigh. P ? In the election held at Belton last Friday !] on the question of a subscription for the Carolina, Chicago and Cumberland Gap Rail- J! road, 40:3 votes were cast, the advocates of ^ subscription scoring a majority of one. 't ? Three thousand dozen eggs were shipped from Williston, Barnwell county, last week. ? They were the surplus from portions of v Rosemary and Williston townships, and (| netted the nice sum of 8481) to the shippers. v ? The Marion Index says that some of the c horse drovers who have visited that section a recently have their horses' teeth filed to h put the right age on them. Many pur- p chasers have been swindled. v ? By a supposed incendiary fire, the barn and stables of Mr. Frank Gilbert, in Abbe- ti ville county, were burned last Friday night, o Three mules, two horses and all of Mr. Gil- b bert's corn and fodder were burned. Loss, ti about $1,500; no insurance. ti ? The remains or the late touis Tetonte. ^ who died last week in Colorado, reached Columbia at 11 o'clock last Saturday, having s been in transit five'days. The funeral ser- & vices were conduced under the rites of the " Episcopal Church. t ? Captain P. L. Breeden of Marlboro coun- 0 ty gathered 321,000 pounds of seed cotton # from 194 acres and packed 217 bales weighing over 500 pounds, and none of it classed ? below low middling. He also gathered 172 u bushels of clean peas from 8 acres sown after .? oats. ? ? Lewis Coleman, a near sighted and im- 0 beeile negro boy, while chopping wood near c Greenville, on Monday, killed a negro child {j four years old. The child ran in the way j, of the axe just as it was descending. Its ? skull was split and its death instantaneous. ^ ? The U. S. District Court at Greenville c, will adjourn this week, if it did not adjourn n yesterday. Over one hundred criminal cases have been disposed of at this term. Of a these thirty-nine were found guilty, seven- p teen not guilty, eighteen entered pleas of d guilty and thirty one were discontinued. 0 ? The following patents have been issued si to South Carolinians during the month just a ended: Henry I). Wilson, Abbeville, head sj rest and attachment for railway car seats; P. II. Low, Williston, floating caisson; tl Thomas 1). Faulkner, Fort Mill, spring mo- g tion; H. O. King, Greenville, ice cream e< freezer. ii ? Columbia Re//iater: In reply to an inquiry as to the sale of tobacco by farmers to r< their hands, Internal Revenue Collector P Brayton says: "Under the department ruling they are made liable as regular dealers and have to pay special tax. Until about a year and a naif ago, farmers were allowed ' the privilege, but based upon the decision N of the United States Circuit Court, the de- ^ partment made the above mentioned de eision." ^ ? The Barnwell People &lys: "Mr. John 11 B. Nixon, an energetic and intelligent n Charlestonion, is preparing to start a first class stock farm in our county. Ileisthor- C oughly posted on the subjects of grass and p< grain growing, and is making his lands Si ready for the new departure. He will set a n hundred acres in Bermuda grass for a per- manent pasture and hopes to prove in prac- S] tice, as he has done on paper, that it is more tl profitable to buy improved implements than ai to hire unimproved laborers and to raise! t<: fine stock than to raise low priced cotton." yi ? The Aiken Recorder says that the fen- resin that county are gradually disappear- e< ing under the operation of the stock law. Ci .So far it has worked in a most peaceful and tl satisfactory manner. We have heard of no 11 ill feeling or inconvenience experienced by t?; any one. Some farmers have removed thei r . fences and others are allowing them to gracl- a ally rot down. If stock are found straying a it ...... 4....... .,.,,1 +1.,, mi-iuip ic ?l liiuy arc uikuii uu (luu uiu wn uvi *.7 m/v...v? , iu in neighborly fashion to come and take j tli them away." This is a sensible way in |)( which our farmers are acting and it is pleas- j _ ing for us to record it. p] ? McCarney Alexander, Lewis Lineber-; to ger, Joe Tillman and Frank Crawford, j i,| colored Republicans, competetely demolish- a ed the school-house in Waxliaw township, tli Lancaster county, a few nights ago. It: w seems that the teacher, a competent colored man, employed by the trustees, but who 1 was a Democrat, did not give satisfaction to (n a few of the colored population 011 account j? of his political principles. Hence a number w of them visited the house at night and razed it to the ground. The trial justice of jj1, that township took immediate action and ()f very properly indicted them for misdemeanor and sent the case to the Circuit Court in session at Lancaster. But the house was; u built upon lands belonging to a colored ol church, although built by the patrons of the sli school, and for this cause the case was nol. i Pi prossed by the solicitor. I to SOUTH CAROLINA ROAD LAW. The following is a complete synopsis of le road law of this State, showing the dues of overseers of public highways, their iscretionary powers in repairing roads, id a list of exemptions from road duty. Each township constitutes a highway i strict. The county commissioners shall annually ipoint a superintendent of highways for ich highway district, for which he is aplinted and liable to road dutv, but exempt lerefrom by reason of his office. He shall ive superintendence of*highways in his istriet,.under the direction of the county unmissioners, to whom he shall make report once in three months of the condi011 of the roads in his district. Each superintendent shall divide the ighways in his district into suitable .secons of not less than two, nor more than ve miles and appoint overseers for each F said sections. He shall likewise divide 1 persons liable to road duty in his district lto two companies or squads and assign a marl f/? mwh nvorseer. as far as nractica fe, assigning the road hands to the near-\ it road, and shall require the overseer to \ ill out the hands to work the roads, repair \ nd build bridges of same whenever he lay deem it necessary, after twelve hours otice and shall require each hand to bring ith him a hoe, axe, mattock or other tool, le shall determine the number of days for ich working and the tool to be brought, rovidod not more than twelve days work mil be required of any hand in a year, 'or refusing or neglecting to carry out any ork required by the county commissioners, rany of them, the superintendent of high ays shall be deemed guilty of a misdeleanor, and upon conviction, before a rial Justice shall be lined not less than $10 or more than $50. Overseers for neglectlg to call out hands and work roads, when squired by the superintendent, upon coniction in trial justice court, shall be fined ot less than $5, nor more than $20. Superintendents shall jointly divide a ighway running along the line of two ighway districts, and shall assign hands om their respective districts to work the ime. Overseers shall require their hands i to do such work on bridges, as will presrvethem and keep them in order, when 5 can be conveniently done. If bridges eed such repairs as should be given out nder contract, superintendents shall report lie same to the county commisioners withut delay. When any highway shall become obtructed by storms, or otherwise, the over?er shall summon a sufficient number of ands to open and repair such highway, my overseer failing to call out hands, for lie space of a day, after application made y any citizen, shall unless he has sufficient xcuse therefor, forfeit $15, to be collected l an action in the name of the county commissioners. Any person liable to work on ighways and neglecting to turn out, on Lich extraordinary occasions and assist in poning and repairing such highways, after eing summoned, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor una uponiuiiviiuuii uuan uc ned $.'1 per day. If any person shall perjrm more days labor than is required y law, he shall be paid $1 per day tor the verplus. All able bodied male persons, between be ages of sixteen and fifty years, are liable a road duty, except members of the State nd county boards of examiners, school rustees, members of boards of assessors, eachers and students at colleges; ministers f the gospel, millers engaged in grist or aerchant mills, where they are kept open ix days in the week, and the warner fbr ive days. The overseershall make a list for the warier, requiring him to give notice to each ierson of the Kind of tool to be usedA which lotiee shall be given twelve hours hours beare the time fixed in the notice and also tate the hour and place of working. If any ierson, after receiving such notice shall icglect to appear or refuse to work accorling to the direction of the overseer, he hall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor nd upon conviction before a trial justice, hall be fined not less than $o, nor more han ?10, or be imprisoned in the county lil for not less than five days nor not more han twenty days. Any person notified to. rork can pay the county treasurer $1 per ay for the time he is required to work, rhich shall be received in lieu thereof. Iverseers shall allow two days labor for man working one day and furnishing a lorse and plow, or three days labor for any ierson working one day and furnishing a ragon and two horses or mules or oxen. Overseers have power to cut down and use imber, or use any woodj stone or earth, in r near the highway, bridge or causeway to e repaired, necessary for that purpose, but be owner snail be entitled to compensation herofor if demanded. But no overseer hall authorize the cutting down of timber rees reserved by the owner, or planted for hade or ornament, either in the fields, round the spring, or about the dwelling ouse or appurtenances, the cutting of rai l iniber when other timber can be procured, r the taking of stone or earth from enclosed rounds without the owner's consent. Any person prohibiting or hindering an verseer from cutting down and using timer, or from using wood, earth or stone, in r near roads or causeways, for the purpose f making or repairing such road or causeways, or for making such repairs of bridges, r shall obstruct the passage of said roads, auseways or bridges, by gates, fences or itches or any other obstruction, or shall inder or threaten or forbid any traveler rom traveling any public road, shall be eemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon onviction shall be fined not less than $o, or more than $10. Any person removing from one county to nother, who has, prior to such removal, erformed road duty, shall, upon the prouction of the certificate, or receipt of the verseer of the district where he last resided, bowing the labor performed, be entitled to complete discharge for the amount therein pecified. Persons over whose lands any road, other ban a public highway, shall pass, may erect ates thereon, but shall be liable to be indict (1 for a nuisance, should he fail to keep them 1 good repair. Superintendents of highways shall cause >ads to be posted and numbered, and a ointer placed at each fork and for neglect of lis duty, he is liable to a fine of $10. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ?Mrs. J. M. Worth, wife of State Treasurer ^orth, died at her home, in Randolph coun/, last Friday. ?Col Samuel L. Wright, a prominent and realthy citizen of Edgecombe county, comlitted suicide in New York last Friday _ v ight by shooting himself. ? The emigration of negroes from North arolina to Arkansas has grown to such proortions that the Legislature of the former tate has been urged to apply remedial leasures. ? Col. It. Y. McAden, President of the [>artanburg and ASheville Railroad, says mt the road will be completed to Asheville id connect with the Clyde Syndicate line > Maryville and Knoxville within two ears. -The North Carolina Legislature has pass1 a bill giving relief to the Western North urolina Railroad Company, and allowing ait company to market its bonds and reeving it from its contract to build its line > Murphy. -A Charlotte clergyman was walked half mile through the mudafter dark to marry runaway couple. When the ceremony was )out to be performed the groom discovered tat he had lost his gloves and went out to ly another pair. He did not return. -The Charlotte Observer says that the peoe in the vicinity of the Rock Island Faery, on the Catawba River, are having a g time killing wild geese. The river for mile above and below the factory has been ironged for several days past by flocks of ild geese and numbers of them have ?en killed. -While some little boys?the oldest not wr fourteen?were playing with anairgun i Greensboro, on Wednesday of last week, hen the gun was in the hands of John Mcean it was prematurely discharged, and iebali struck George W."Alley in the back the head, from the effects of which he is cpected to die. 5-2?* Another effort is soon to be made to >tain a pardon for Sergeant Mason who lot at Guiteau and is now confined in the onitentiary. It is thought that an appeal the President will now be successful.