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3f\ftaps and ? The freight handlers employed by the South Carolina Railroad at Charleston, struck a few days ago for an increase of wages, but were unsuccessful in their demands and lost their situations besides. ? The latest returns from Java say that 30,000 people lost their lives by the recent earthquake and volcanic disturbances. All communication is cut off, however, by the succession of vast banks raised in the ocean in the approaches to the ruined district. ? At Hazelhurst, Miss., the other day, Charles Hart, a boy 17 years of age, shot and mortally wounded A. "\V. Burnett, a prominent lawyer of that place. It is reported that Burnett cut Hart with a knife and he shot him while he was attempting to do further injury. ? The withdrawal of the Hon. J. C. S. Blackburn, of Kentucky, from the contest for the Speakership of the House is hailed by Mr. Carlisle's friends with joy as virtually leaving that gentleman a clear field to fight Randall in, Cox, of New York, having no considerable strength. ? Because the Georgia State bonds of 1869 were issued by a provisional government and repudiated by a constitutional convention several years afterward, the holders claim that the United States is legally responsible for their payment. This is the statement in brief of a novel and important question. ? The Greenback State Convention of New York, which met in Rochester last week, nominated Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, for Secretary of State, Louis A. Post, of New Yorkj for Attorney General, G. S. Holsey, of Uadilla, for Comptroller, and Julia Winne, of Albany county, for Treasurer. ? From a letter of complaint in the Galveston News as to the cost of living, it appears that the residents of that city pay $11.25 for wood delivered and sawed, 50 cents apiece for chickens, $4 a thousand for gas, coal $12 a ton, beef 15 to 20 cents a pound, and equally extravagant prices for other articles. ? Reliable reports received at the office of the State Commissioner of Agriculture of Mississippi show that the corn and cotton crops of that State are much injured by unfavorable weather. The decrease in the cotton crop, as compared with last year, amounts to 25 per cent., and in the corn crop to 15 per cent. With a favorable picking season this is a fair estimate. ? The Scott law of Ohio, promises to save the people $2,000,000 annually in taxes. In seventy of the eighty-seven counties in the State 1,019 recognized drinking saloons have been closed, while 6,540 have paid the $200 .license fee, and 1,182 have paid the$100 tax. The aggregate sum realized in the several district treasuries is $1,494,200. Every one can get all the beer or whisky he wants, and at the old prices. ? The business failures reported throughout the United States and Canada to Dun & Co., for the week ending last Friday, number 157, as compared with 186 last week, a decrease of 29. In New York city the assignments were few and generally unimportant. The distribution of faiiures was: New England States 15, Middle States 29, Western States 48, Southern States 23, Pacific States and Territories 13, New York city 4, and Canada 25. ? The experiment of sending a boat of peculiar construction through the Whirlpool Rapids, at Niagara, was carried out successfully on Thursday last. The start was made a few rods above the old landing at 3.40 p. m., and the boat reached the whirlpool at 3.47, a distance of about a mile, passing ine rapids safely. On going through the whirlpool the boat struck the Canada shore, when it was again pushed into the river, and passed the lower rapids, reaching Lewiston safely. No persons were aboard. About 40,000 people witnessed the experiment. ? A dispatch of last Saturday from Sangemon county, Illinois, says: Cloudy weather alone last night saved the corn from destruction by frost. The temperature is low to-night with prospect of a frost before morning. Dixon, 111., reports that unless the wind leaves the north before morning twothirds of the crop will be totally ruined. Reports from Des Moines from 15 points on the Rock Island railroad to Omaha, say that the indications point to a heavy frost to-night. At different points in Wisconsin, the mercury fell to 32, but there was no frost. ? The General Superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company has issued an order fixing nine hohrs as a day's work and seven and half as a night's work, allowing extra pay for Sunday work and increasing the pay of many operators $r> and ?10 a month. This is practically all the strikers asked for, except the placing of women on ?**on nn/1 ooncoc rrrno f till flJUUIil^ Willi mr Uidi) aiiu vftuovi? ^ivih surprise and delight among the operators. The concessions are believed to have been forced by the alarming unanimity of public sentiment in favor of building up rival lines and the goverment control of the business. ? A recent scene in the streets of Barcelona, would indicate that the days of the Inquisition are not yet over in Spain. Some 1800 Protestant school books, entitled "A Simple Method of Learning to Read and Cipher," were, by order of the government, burned in the public square because they contained extracts from the Gospels as reading exercises. Similar outrages against the Protestants are committed nearly* every month, say Spanish newspapers; but it is interesting to note that the people of Barcelona gathered in a crowd and jeered at the officers as the fire was lighted. ? Work on the Washington monument will be resumed about October 1st, when as many men as can possibly be used will be employed. The expectation that the monument would reach a height of 420 feet before the close of the season is hardly likely to be realized, as operations have been seriously delayed by the failure to obtain stone irom tne original contractors, uimer the present contract an average of ten blocks are received each day. Ninety stonecutters are now employed at the monument's base, and as soon as the stone-setting commences there will be nothing to delay the rapid progress of construction. ? The Georgia delegates to the national colored convention, which meets in Louisville on the 24th instant, have formally announced their determination to demand admittance to the hotels and to insist on firstclass accommodations. The managers of the principal hotels have been interviewed on the subject, and say that they will not admit them as guests at all. As the rooms of these hotels are now full, and will continue to be in demand during the session of the convention, there is no probability that in a suit for damages, under the civil rights bill, a case against any of the hotel proprietors can be made out. ? Frank Shelton, colored, was hanged at Greensboro, Alabama, last Friday for the murder of his wife. The trap was sprung at 11.45 o'clock. His neck was broken by the fall. The body was cut down at 12.10 o'clock, life being extinct. The execution was private. The prisoner made a few remarks, saying that he was prepared to go to God, who would do him justice. He met his fate without a tremor. He prayed just before the drop fell. His spiritual advisers were with him on the scaffold. A large number of negroes were endeavoring to see the hanging, but were forbidden admission. ? The Commission appointed to supervise the execution of the Eamunds law against polygamy has made a preliminary report to the Secretary of the Interior, under date of Salt Lake City, August 24, in which they say : "The law known as the Edmunds Act, so* far as we have been responsible for its execution has been carefully but rigidly enforced this year as it was last. No person living in polygamy has been permitted to vote at any election or to be voted for any office, and while only 'three convictions prosecuted against polygamy under the Act of 1882 have been secured, nearly or quite 15,000 persons have been disfranchised on account of polygamic practices through the operations of the law as administered by this Commission." ? In the recent death of William Marwood, the Queen's executioner, England loses one of her most prominent if not one of her most distinguished citizens. His personal appearance did not correspond with his office. He had a benevolent countenance and pleasing manner, and looked more like a divine than a hangman. His benevolence was more than skin deep, for according to all accounts his reason for adopting the "profession" of which he wi so bright an ornament was a desire to intr , duce more humane and scientilie metho< ) into executions and to lessen the pain < | those he was called upon to deal wit] : While, therefore, his country will lia> ! cause to regret the loss of the foremost re] I resentative of a useful but unpleasant pr I fession, the criminal classes have reason i j mourn as humane and mild a mannerc i man as ever tied a knot or sprung a trap. J ? The trial, at Galatin, Mo., of Fran James, the highwayman and train robbe on the charge of being concerned in tl robbery of a railroad train, was ended la Friday by a verdict of not guilty. Tl verdict was greeted with applause froi certain parts of the court room. The Four however, quickly frowned it down, an singling out the young man who had mat a movement to throw up his hat, calk him up to the bar and administered a sevei reprimand. The young man proved to 1 Luther James, of Kansas City, a cousin ' the defendant. The question as to tl disposition of the remaining indictmen aerainst Frank James for complicity in tl killing of Westfall, at Winston and tl robbery and murder of Sheets at the (lull tin bank robbery in 18(>8 was then conside ed and the cases were continued until tl October term, the prisoner being remandt to await a further trial. It is aunounce that he will not attempt to furnish bail, bi will remain in jail until the next tern The prisoner received the verdict with pe feet composure, as did also his wife, bi Mrs. Samuels, his mother, was much atfe ted. In order to guard against any disturl auce which might follow the one saloon < the place was closed. It can be truthfull said that the verdict was a genunine su prise to the community, and much indign; tion is expressed at its nature. ?ltc ?0rfeviUc (?m)uim YORKVILLE. 8. : I THiiusniY MftRXlVft. SRPT. 13. 1883 THE BOSTON1 EXPOSITION. The Boston Exposition was formal] opened last week. The display of forei?i products was first thrown open to the publ on Monday, when speeches were made j many tongues. On Wednesday the Amer can department was opened. Gov. Butli delivered the welcome address and was r sponded to by Gov. Jarvis, of North Carol na, on the part of the visitors and the Souti We have not received a copy of the speed es but know the oratory was fine. Thee: hibition is said to be in a much more ai vanced state at the time of the opening th? was expected. To give an idea of the e: tent of the affair we give the following sho extract from the report of the first day exercises: The exhibits in the west em where the opening exercises were held, a in better shape than in other parts of tl building. They were arranged by nation national colors being prettily displayed i front of each country's exhibit. Brazil, J pan, Spain, Portugal, Austria, TIungar; Alcripr*. Holland. Sweden. Norwav. Be gium, Denmark, Russia, Persia, Turke; Siam, Cuba, Tunis, and Hawaii, were tl countries represented in the West hall. Tl display consisted largely of fabrics, especis ly carpets,porcelain, and pottery. Betwee the two halls is the art gallery, which coi tains very good, though not many picture Among them is one painted by the Prince Louise. THE COTTON CROP. The Financial Chronicle, of New York, h made its annual statement of the cotton cr< of the United States, and contrary to ge eral expectation it gives a result below total of 7,000,000 bales. The following a its figures: JUdes. Receipts at the shipping ports (>,U10,7 Add shipments to Tennessee, Ac., direct to manufacturers, (HI,-) Total, ?,(501,i Manufactured South, not included above, Total crop of 1SS2-N3, Total crop last year, ISSi-Sii, f>,4:i.V Total crop in 1880-81, (>,5811,:] The official statement of the cotton cn of the United States for the year endii August .'list, 188:1, issued by the Nation Cotton Exchange, of New Orleans, shows total crop of G,949,756 bales, including r ceipts at shipping ports, G,009,G12; shipmen by rail routes overland to Northern spinne direct from producers, G41,801. The repo shows that the Southern mills consume 313,.'193 bales, an increase over hist season 1 20,439 bales. The increase in the total cro as compared with the previous year, w 1,493,708 bales. The takings of 4jie Unite States spinners for the year was 2,073,0 bales, an increase of 108,5G1. AGRICULTCRAX REPORT. The September returns to the Depart me of Agriculture at "Washington are less fa orable than those of August. The princip . cause of injury is drought, which has r duced the prospect in every State exce Florida and Tennessee. The decline h been greatest in Texas. In North C'arolii and Virginia the temperature has been t< low at night with serious drought. TJ Gulf States report more or less general pr valence of the caterpillar and the boll wor at many points. The general average the condition is reduced to 74. The Sta averages are as follows: Virginia, 72; Norl Carolina, 78; South Carolina, 70; Georgi 70; Florida, 93; Alabama, 70; Mississipj " 75; Louisiana, 77; Texas, G7; Arkansa 80; Tennessee, 89. In Septempber of 18' the general average of condition was 8; in 1881 it was70; it was 92 in the great ere years 1880 and 1882. In some counties tl drought still continues. In others recei rains have caused some improvement. Ru has appeared very generally and is mo threaenting in some districts. THE OHIO CAMPAIGN. The fear is expressed in some of the Den oeratic papers, that the Democracy of Oh made a mistake in nominating Iloadley fi Governor. Though an able man, he is n popular with old line Democrats, who prof a candidate whose allegiance to Democrat is of a longer standing. He is also provin as was predicted would be the case when 1 made his first speech of the present canvas a very indiscreet campaigner. The Repu Means are now very confident of earryir the State in the approaching election. Wit them Obit) is absolutely essential to a vict ry next year. They cannot base a calculi tion for success in the Presidential campaig without countingOhioasa Kepublican Stat and hence their energies in the present coi test will be redoubled. THE SPEAKERSHIP. The contest for the Speakership of tl next House of Representatives grows mo; active as the time for the assembling of Coi gress approaches. Since the withdrawal < Blackburn, of Kentucky, the race has na rowed down to Carlisle, of Kentucky, Itai dall, of Pennsylvania, and Cox, of Xe York. Cox stands the poorest chance < election, probably, and the friends of Rai dall may induce him to withdraw. Carlis is the ablest man of the three, and woul prove the most acceptable to the people* the West and South. *s ALL ALONG THE LINE. Since the publication in the Exqiirer, ^ a few weeks ago, of a short communication [1> directing public attention to the violation ,?e of the law by parties in the habit of ship[) ping from prohibition towns packages of o- whisky by express to Yorkville, also a pro[o hibition town, said packages to be paid for >( on delivery, there has been a general wakj. ing up on the subject, and as a result, express r agents in all prohibition towns along the ie C., C. & A., and the C. <Sr L. Railroads have st received orders to neither receive or deliver ie any more packages of whisky to be deliver[P ed ('. O. 1). in prohibition towns. This new I 1(j order of things will evidently cut oil' the j0 supply of whisky that has heretofore been (d shipped along these roads in the manner re named. The diminution of shipments by the Chester and Lenoir road is already perceptible, and as to the C., C. & A. road, the Charlotte Jouriuif-Oftserm' of Friday hasthe ie following: ie There has been a remarkable falling off in a- the receipts of the Southern Express Compar ny since the whisky car from Charlotte to ie dry points on the Charlotte, Columbia & Au>d gusta Railroad has been cut off. It used to id be a regular thing to see the express wagon if mnvn nfl'IVirni tllO (iHlCfi in this citv with a n. top load of jugs, and demijohns and kegs, r- carefully packed in straw and the stoppers at secured with big hunks of red sealing wax c- to keep the express messengers from letting L>- the air get to the contents, all marked to of towns along theC. C.& A. that had raised the Iv black flag against the ardent. On arriving r- at these towns, this whisky put up in packa ages was sold out o? the express offices as C. O. D. matter. This dodge had a long and ? successful run, and it gave to people who witnessed the daily shipments of the stuff ' the impression that our neighbors down south of us either had a lot of snake bites to z contend with, or else were a mighty dry set. The prohibitionists, however, got to working on the business, and soon put an end to it. It was a sharp dodge to ship liquor to a customer in a prohibition town, where the sale of it is prohibited, for the express agent to deliver the package C. (). D., and the matter being brought to the attention of the courts, a decision was rendered that this was not evading or circumventing the law, hut violating it, and notice was given that if the business was "continued at the old stand" indictments would follow. The traffic was in full force, when the law shut down 011 it, and in some of the express offices there's piles of jugs and demijohns stowed away in corners waiting for the ly blockade to raise. ;n A case somewhat analogous to the scheme ic by which the traffic has been carried 011 in through the agency of the express, was deci i ded by Judge Brian, last week, in the Unipt ted States Court at Greenville, which we e- copy as follows from the correspondence of i- the Xeic.s and Courier : h. A. J. Fisher, proprietor of a licensed whish. ky distillery operated at the Block House in this county, and his agents, Benjamin " Morse and Wm. Byers, who were employed < [1" by Fisher to deliver whisky to purchasers, in were to-day found guilty in the United k- States District Court of retailing without rt license. >s The particulars of this case will probably . prove to be valuable information to the pub' lie and to licensed retailers of whisky, esre pecially those about the lines of the State. ie Mr. Fisher's distillery is only a hundred s, yards or so from the line between this State in and North Carolina. On the North Carolia_ 11a side he has license to retail whisky, but of course under the law he could not sell at any place other than that named in his li>1 cense. Under the operations of the law of y, the State no barroom or retail liquor estabie lishment of any kind is within many miles 1C of the place on this side of the line. Fisli. er's wagon made frequent trips into the counties of this State, delivering whisky, as 1,1 claimed in the defence, upon orders. His 11- agents in charge of the wagon would till oris. ders of under live gallons and take orders ss to be tilled on the next trip. It was shown that the orders were sometimes filled, not in original packages, but from a barrel, and the defendants were even charged with rotnilirwr frnm thf> U'ficrrm ill nmilltitieS IIS cl?S 11 V"* V-.W ""ft"" I small as a half pint, and to promiscuous crowds of whites and blacks who would conn <rregato at points along the road to get whisa ky when the wagon was looked for on one re of its regular trips through the country. The witnesses were principally from Laurens county, and some of them very reputa:js ble citizens of Cross Anchor and the neighborhood. w The defendants deniedthe alleged smaller ~ transactions and claimed that they were doing a legitimate business in a legal way, _ viz. : that having received orders lor whis::;4 ky they had the right to deliver it by their wagon the same as by express or by freight. &> Judge Brian ruleif against this point, how1-i' ever. In his charge to the jury his Hon)p or instructed that such transactions were ig Illegal, and ruled that whisky sold upon al orders must be delivered to the purchaser or ,x the purchaser's agent at the place where the ' seller is licensed to sell. He also ruled that e" a party could not be the agent of both buyer and seller. In this case Morse and liyers, rs who were employed by Fisher to deliver ,rt whisky by wagon, could not be the agent of ,tj Fisher and the agent of the purchaser at the f same time, and that they had therefore violated the law in taking and filling orders as lb they had done. The Express Company as could be the agent of both parties, but ?d Morse and liyers, who were in Fisher's em<i<; ployment, could not. The sale must actual "fly take place at the place licensed. The purchaser acquired no property in the whisky until it was delivered to him or his agent, and, therefore, these transactions were in . violation of the law. v al FRANCE AN1) CHINA, e- China has acted at last and France stands pt face to face with a difficult, dangerous and ,IS doubtful war, the last, worst result of an expedition begun rashly, and continued in foolish disregard of itspossible consequences, j )0 To extend the boundaries of a colony whose ie chief trade has been carried on under the e- English flag, and whose revenue has never m paid the cost of occupation. France has f risked a war which will need a land force of 20,000 men, the better part of her fleet, and te from $o(),000,000 to $100,000,000 of treasure, tli The close approach of this war finds France a, with (>,">00 men all fully occupied in Touquin, luwfo nnmurh coivn o f'li in/ico i wArf }] tV 11CCI/ lill i;V/ VllWU^ll V \ / OVICJV 4.V J/V/l v g' or two, but unable to blockade a tithe of the 2' Chinese coast, and with reinforcements throe , months distant, for, while France has been S able thus far to send ships, troops and sup)p plies through the Suez Canal, in the proseie cution of petty enterprises in the Tonquin at delta and on the coast of Annum, it is gross,x ly unlikely that England, in full possession ' of the Suez Canal, will permit that waterst way to be used against a friendly power, even by France. England, it must be remembered, has in this war all to lose and nothing to gain from n- a quarrel whose early origin hasarousetl the io jealousy and disturbed the trade of Great or Britain. Of the total trade of the Chinese ^ seaboard with Europe, which in lkso aggre gated $;fc?3,(HMl,Of10, France enjoys barely a | ^ sixth, and her exports to China, the real j y measure of the interruption of her trattic, I g, are barely S4,000,000 annually. Great Britie ain enjoys one-third of the Chinese trade, j s sells nearly one-half of China's imports and j u' buys two-thirds of China's exports, while one-fifth of the revenue of India is derived from opium, which will fall dead on the I h market on the declaration of a Chinese war. ! o- This alone will entail sudden confusion and j a- hopeless loss on the delicately balanced bud-1 ,n get of British India, whose enormous total j ' of $7f>0,000,0(i0 quivers year by year on the! ' edge of a deficit. Our own share in the !1" Chinese trade is not small, nearly a tenth of I the whole, averaging for the last three years, over $30,000,000, ami while, uniiKe our general trade, it is divided between the Atlanie tic and the Pacific coast, seven-eighths of* it re enters at New York, Philadelphia and Bosx. ton, and a war between China and France means silent looms at Patterson. To the in- j terruptionof her direct trade, Great Britain [ r" must add the loss of an enormous carrying trade, ofi per cent, of the 14,000,000 tons em- ( w ployed in the Chinese trade, coast and forjf eign, being under the British flag in 1870. :1_ For, like ourselves enjoying a broad curve . of seacoast, China has a coast trade equal in value to its aggregate foreign traffic, and " employing an enormous tonnage under eve-, of ry maritime flag but the French, which fur-, nishesa bare percent, ofthe tonnage against ">per cent, from a merchant marine relative- j ly as small as (fermany's. ' France, therefore, has provoked war where [ her own interests are small, her probable ; profits petty, save in prize money, and the [ losses she inflicts on others enormous. Her i consumption of tea is a bare trifle, the least of all civilized nations, the enhanced value of her own silks will more than match the loss of raw silk from China, and the market for her own manufactures will be helped rather than hindered. England will suffer i in her finances at home and in India, the j price of a necessity of life for her people ; will be needlessly advanced, the chief outlet I of her cotton goods will be closed, and a favorite field for the employment of English shipping cut oft'; the L nited States will suffer next at every like point, except her revenue; Germany will come in for a share of damage to her growing foreign trade, and all Europe will bear its share in the burdens of a causeless war. In the face of these facts, it may easily prove that the protests of Europe M ill prevent M'ar and enforce peace. China has not lacked for the powerful aid oi uermany at every step of her negotiations; the sympathies of England are with China, and both countries are in a position to make it dangerous for either combatant to refuse an honorable mediation. Nor is the French Government unlikely to shrink from the untoward consequences of an enterprise upon which Challemel-Lacour rashly ventures with a light heart. The Assembly \Fhich I voted &">,(i<)0,()<)0 for an expedition of Tonquin, but which refused the Egyptian credit, may well hesitate before a difficult and vastly more costly conflict. The French peasant has never borne with patience service abroad, the French army has never been organized for campaigns beyond the seas, and is least of aready for them now; nor is the issue of the war altogether certain. France can inflict wounds upon China which that empire cannot return; but the Asiatic power has steadily refused to sign the articles of Paris and remains at full liberty to prey on French merchantmen with privateers purchased in this country or Great*Britain. By the nature of the war, Franco must <lo 'more than blockade the Chinese coast, and, after a port or two has been shelled and the Chinese fleet driven under cover, a landing, and still more, a march inland will be no such easy work as in China has shown in the last twenty years powers of growth, recuperation and assimilation of Western ideas which make it easily possible that in the next century China and the United States will divide between them the dominion of the Pacific, while the present strength of China renders it highly probable that on land France is doomed to failure?if war comes.?Philadelphia Press. " COL. CASH INTERVIEWED. Col. E. B. C. Cash, who is reported to have attended the recent Mahone conference in I Washington, was interviewed while in that city, by a correspondent of the New York Times. He said to the correspondent that he did not think the people and newspapers at the North took the right view of the Independent movement in his State. As for himself, he was in 110 sense an office seeker, did not come to Washington to get control of office patronage, and did not profess to be a Republican. Said Colonel Cash : "Iain a Democrat, but I left the Bourbon Democracy because I could not stand their methods any longer. In my State the boss-1 es have become so corrupt and savage that they have forfeited every claim upon decent, peace-loving, patriotic citizens. They have grossly violated every pledge made in 1870. They do not regard their most sacred oaths, nor have they any consideration for the rights of anybody, and they are plunging the State into distress and ruin. Elections are an absolute farce. The whole machinery is in the hands of the Bourbons, and any majority is returned that is considered necessary. Violence is resorted to where fraud fails, and the rioters know they will not be punished. The Bourbons defend their course on the ground that it is necessary to keep negroes out of office, but, as a matter of fact, there is no raceissueat stake. Last Fall the entire State and Congressional ticket, and alrriosttevery place on the country Independent tickets were white and our candidates were fully equal to theirs in all that make up good citizenship. On a fair vote we should certainly have carried my district and the State. Almost all the colored people go with us. There are scarcely enough white Republicans to till the Federal offices, and the few who are there do not possess the confidence of the colored peonle. I think Northern newspapers ought to deal with more sympathy with these opposition movements at the South. They go far toward making honest elections possible, and it is through them that the tyrannical Rem-! ocratic machine can be overthrown. "There is one question I should like to ask the Times and the North generally," said Colonel Cash, in conclusion, "and it isa timely and important one. In case a Democrat is declared elected President next year by the help of certain States, namely, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina, carried by the notoriously unlawful methods which now prevail in those States?what are the people at the North j - 1 . i i. g01Ilg 10 (10 UDOUt II : Concerning the above interview the New York Times editorially says : Colonel E. B. C. Cash, of South Carolina, complains that the newspapers and the people of the North do not take the right view of "Independent movements" in theSouth, and he asks what the North would do incase a Democratic President were elected next year by the help of such States as Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina, carried by the notoriously unlawful methods which now prevail in those States." Colonel Cash may be a very unselfish and patriotic person, and he may be entirely sincere in his wish to overthrow the Bourbon rulers of the South, but if so, we advise him to take good care what company lie Keeps, ne win ou an oojeci ui suspicion to most- Northern people until he cuts loose from such unsavory politicians as Mahone and Chalmers. Such companionship is improper and compromising for a man who stoutly protests that he is still a Democrat. As to the possible election of a Democratic President by the aid of Southern electoral votes, it is the present intention of the Northern Republicans to prevent such a disaster by a steady adherence to sound principles and honest methods, and in particular by insisting that such fellows as Mahone and Chalmers shall let go the party's coat tails. ? 4Tin-: Bi sixkss Outlook.?In respect to most of the leading staples, dealers and merchants take a hopeful view of the situation, present and prospective. The requirements for consumption will be none the less, and values will, it is expected, be maintained. Already many jobbers from the South, West and Southwest, are in the market,atul evidences are not wanting that importers are findiug ready sales for their goods here. Iron and metal, wool, hardware, hides and leather, groceries and other trades speak for themselves. While, of course, temporary drawbacks, in particular instances, naturally exist, there is in nocase any serious menace to any of the interests named. And it may also be added that there is nothing in the'general condition of the country to in b'/mto +li*i /.A?nmoroi?i 1 onrl Kiicinnu^ Illl'clli; mat UlU V.unuuuu KU mm portion is not now on a solid foundation. The current conditions all tend to fortify that view. Mercanti' 'embarrassincntsappeartohave culminated vith the recent troubles in the shoe and leather trades in the east. Of late there have been no failures anywhere of consequence, and there is no reason to suppose that any are impending. It is a matter of congratulation, also, that the yellow fever, which has been threatening the Gulf States, is likely to he kept at a safe distance the remainder of the season. Workingmen's strikes are about over; all the leading industries are fairly employed; the crops, on the whole, have turned out well, even with a shortage on wheat, and there is a promise of a ready market for whatever surplus we may have to export. For the time being, excessive speculation has pretty much exhausted itself, and, as far as we can judge, trading throughout the country is conducted upon an unusually conservative basis. We enter the first month of autumn, therefore, with clear skies, smooth seas, and with few or no signs on the distant horizon that can be tortured into "breakers *ahead."?Xrw York /in tiffin. SOUTH CAROLINA NETVS. ? The Edgefield Baptist Association includes forty-five churches, a large majority of the Baptist churches of Edgefield county. ? The shipments of cotton from Lancaster amounted to II,(Mia bales during the pastj year. I ? Moody, the North Carolinian charged j ' with forgery, made a clumsy and unsuccessful effort to escape from Spartanburg jail ' last week. ? The AV/rs and Courier prints a call on Mayor Courtenay, of Charleston, to stand for re-election, signed by 2,700 voters. He has consented. ? Crops in Union county are worse than was feared, many farmers only awaiting rain to plow up their fields and sow oats. Bottom corn is the only coinlort. ? Dr. Frank Butler, who was thrown from his horse at Lancaster several days ago, is rapidly recovering from the severe injuries he then received. He has been removed to Edgefield. ? James Massey, colored, of Spartanburg county, was killed in Greenville last Saturday night, it is alleged, by Tom Good, also colored. The quarrel which led to the fatal oltnTvi tinn tirnun frmn 11 rlimillfo over :i illlT of stolen whisky. ? \V. C'. Johnston, a native of Greenville, but for the last twelve years a citizen of Noland county, Texas, was thrown from his buggy on tiio first instant an^l killed, lie was clerk of the Xoland county court at the time of his sudden death. ? The county board of equalization of Georgetown has fixed the following standards of valuation for personal property: Work horses and mules, $1(H); cattle, $0 to $S per head ; yokes of oxen, $2.">; single oxen, $15. i ?There is a growing suspicion in Col. Sim's neighborhood that the burning of his residence on Monday morning of last week was the act of an incendiary. Several circumstances point to this conclusion, but so far nothing has been ascertained which would fix the crime upon any particular person. ? Governor Butler of Massachusetts ex niuliul tn O/ivnrnnr Thnnuvsnn n. courteous and cordial invitation to attend the opening ceremonies of the New England Manufacturers' Institute and to be the guest of the State during his stay in Massachusetts. Governor Thompson acknowledged thecourtesy in fitting terms, but had to decline the invitation. ? There are now about (510 patients in the Lunatic Asylum. If the recent rate of increase continues there will be 620 or 630 in the institution by November 1, against 6">0 on that date last year. The pressure for room is becoming serious. It is feared that patients will have to be placed two in a room, which is considered a dangerous expedient. ? The oldest book in the clerk's office at Barnwell is the"\Yinton Court Minute book from October, 1776, to February, 1791." The backs arc made of thin pine board covered with several sheets of newspaper, and an outside cover of green wall paper. The first eutry is the minute of the organization of the county court for Winton county, Orangeburg District, on the 17th October, 1786. ? At the opening of the Court at Camden on Tuesday, Judge Aldrich remarked to the grand jury that lie sympathized with them upon the present apparent condition of Kershaw county. Before the war it stood second to no county in the State for its wealth and for its generous hospitality ; but on Monday the clerk of the board of county commissioners sent an order for a few pounds of ice for the court-room and it was refused. ? A letter from Edisto says that caterpillars are so numerous there that the planters find it, almost imnossiblo to save their crops even by the application of Paris green arid London purple. As far as the negroes' crops go the majority of them are already destroyed. The yield will fall short at least sixty per cent. Added to the evils attending caterpillars it is found that the continued use of green and purple, particularly the latter, injures the plant. Reports from St. Helena state that island to be eaten out. ? The (iovernor has commuted the sentence of James Brown to imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. Brown is acolored man who was convicted of burning a cotton house and its contents. The arson was committed in Oconee county, and he was under sentence to be hanged at Walhalla, on Friday, the 7th instant, but the (Jovernorupon the recommendation of leading citizens of Oconee, the Solicitor who prosecuted the case, and the Judge who presided at the trial, has commuted his sentence as above indicated. ? Barnwell People: A gentleman who has just returned from a ride through that section of Lexington county in which antistock law men burned barns and committed other violations of the law tells us that a perfect state of terror prevails. Many men have left their homes through fear of arrest, fields are deserted and women and children eneiwt. nwrv stmmrer to be a Sheriff in dis | ^ - C*-~ gui.se. In one instance a merchant was arrested and carried before a Trial Justice for | examination because lie bad sold goods to some of the originators of the trouble and was supposed to be in sympathy with them. [ ?Rev. C. R. Hemphill, of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Columbia, has brought the prohibitionists down on him by a sermon recently preached in that city. He said the church had 110 right to go outside the Bible to make rules for its members and referred particularly to wine drinking, and said that that which Christ, the head of the church, did not make or consider sinful^ man had no right to do. Christ made wine, and the modern idea that it was what is now- called "unfermented," is one for which there is no foundation in fact. ? A singular suit is under consideration at Lexington. It was brought by I). J. Griffifth, administrator of the estate of W. S. Hook, deceased, against the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Co. Mr. Hook some time since was killed by a negro and his body placed 011 the Charlotte Raj 1 road track. * Three trains ran over the body. Suit is brought to rocover damages for injuries done to the corpse. The plaintiff charges negligence 011 the part of the railroad in allowingsuch mutilation, and claims . that there is property in a dead body as well as in the domes it may wear. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Long Shoals paper mills of Win. R. Tiddy, located at Lincointon, on the Catawba ltiver, were totally destroyed by fire on the night of the ">th instant. ? In Xewberne, last Friday, Mrs. Penelope Whitfield, aged JG years, fell into an uncovered cistern at the Central Hotel and was drowned. The accident was not discovered until several hours afterwards. ? The trial at Hendersonville of the two Rrittons, father and son, for shooting Samuel Cunningham, resulted last Saturday in a conviction of manslaughter, and they were sentenced to ten years each in the penitentiary. ? Elizabeth Aldfcandor, living near Morganton, broke the neck of her baby on Tuesday night of last week, by placing it on the edge of a box andsittingon it. The woman is now very sick, and the house is guarded. She will be tried for infanticide. ? Joseph M. Reece, postmaster at Sandy Creek, Randolph county, was arrested last Saturday for purloining from the mails a letter containing a bill of exchange for $104. lie was examined at Greensboro, before L*. S. Commissioner Payne, and held to await ti p letinn of the Grand Jurv in October. |: ? A suit for damages is progressing in the ( Mecklenburg Superior Court?L. J. Kirk, plaintiff, against the Air-Line Railroad Company. IMr. Kirk brings suit against that corporation, laying his damago at$20,- ( 000 for the loss of an arm, by being run over , by the cars, near Charlotte, in September, 1879. ? Patrick II. Winston, Jr., of Rockingham county, the Greenback apostle of North 1 Carolina in the last Presidential campaign, has published a lengthy card withdrawing ] from the Democratic party and joining the , Republicans. Though a Greenbacker three j years ago Mr. Winston has always professed i devotion to the Democratic party, and his i recent action has caused considerable ex- j citement in North Carolina political circles. ] ? The case of Thomas L. Shields, for the 1 murder of Joseph G. Sitton, wascommeneed i before Judge Gilmer in the Superior Court l of Mecklenburg county last Monday. A i special venire of two hundred names was 1 summoned, and all of Monday was consumed : in drawing and empanelling a jury. In- < tense interest is manifested in the ease, and the Court House floes not begin to hold the crowd thatisanxious to hear the testimony. ? A Raleigh dispatch of Friday says : On j Sunday morning last three prisoners escaped from the McDowell county jail, and on leaving the building rudely pushed Mrs. Fin ley, the jailor's wife, aside, injuring her slightly. The fugitives were captured the same morning and returned to the jail. About 10 o'clock repeated pistol shots at the ! jail attracted the attention of a number of I citizens, who were surprised and indignant J to find the jailor, enraged by the treatment ( of his wife and inflamed by whisky, shoot- 1 ingoneof the lately escaping prisoners, a negro, as he stood in the cage chained and handcuffed. Four painfbl wounds were in- I dieted, none of which are dangerous. No j one justifies or excuses the inhuman con-j duet of the jailor. .?- ? Ml'KF-MENTION. While Company A of the Ninth Illinois , Militia was returning to Springfield from an ; encampment, on the oth, nine men were killed and fifteen wounded by a railroad accident. Edward L. Labitue, a colored tailor of Charleston, S. C., dropped dead at Saratoga on the night of the oth. The Southern Telegraph Company has consolidated with the Merchants'. The trial of young Nutt, the slayer of Dukes, who killed Xutt's father, at Uniontown. Pa., has been postponed until the December term of Court. Nutt remains in jail, not having made any effort to give bail. It is now computed that the total annual reduction in the revenue on tobacco, snuff and cigars, growing out of the new internal revenue Act, will be about $36,000,000. A convention of cotton experts was held last week at ti.e Cotton Exchange in New York to fix upon the samples of the different standard grades of cotton for the ensuing year. A boy of 15, died in New York on Thursday, of nicotine poisoning caused by the excessive use of tobacco. All of the hazing cadets at Annapolis have escaped with acquittal or light punishment. The Leadville (Col.) Herald of August 30th has a complimentary notice about the Richmond and Danville Railway mineral exhibit at the great Mining Exposition now being held in Denver, Col. The coroner's jury, after sixteen days' investigation of the Hartel murder, in the suburbs of Savannah, three weeks ago, after examining i;ju witnesses, returned a verdict last Monday, finding Joseph Jackson, colored, the principal in the crime and Thomas Hamilton, also colored, an accessory. Both the accused are in jail. Thomas Peters, of Birmingham, Alabama, who died in Louisville, Ky., on Sunday was one of the pioneers in the development of the mineral regions of Alabama. He did much to build Birmingham, and no man in the State was better known or more generally beloved. Governor Krntt, of Kentucky, has designated October 12 as the day for the execution of Ellis Craft, who was twice found guilty of the murder of the Gibbons children at Ashland, Ky. The Court of Appeals refused to grant him a new trial. "Win. Neal, who is accused of being implicated in thesame crime, still awaits trial. Frost, last Sunday night, is reported at various points in Ohio, Wisconsin, New York and Michigan. A Bloody Siiam Battle.?At Princeton Junction, N. J., on the 5th instant, a sham battle was fought by ex-soldiers who had served in the Union army, one division representing Federals and the other Con federates. The afternoon was bright and breezy. The Union detachment, commanded by Commander Cole of Post 3, consisting of three cannon detachments and fifty men, were posted on the hill side near the Millstone River. They lay under arms for a long time while the Confederate forces were forming fortheattack. Theattacking party, under the command of Col. Cooper of the Sixth Regiment, was divided into four battalions, and used five cannon. Finally the Confederates advanced in battle lines, tiring continuouly. Bombs were exploded over their heads from the Union side. One Confederate battalion charged across the field, and was met by a skirmish lint; of Union soldiers, who made it retreat -l/-,..LL-> /-<iiLdr A ( 1aii_ UJ1 IIIU UUUU1C ijllltiVi nu; v/vuui wit federate assailants pressed up the hill they came in contact with the main body of the Union army. The tiring became general. Bombs were shot incessantly from both sides. In many instances men ran into opposing lines, and were thrown down, contrary to instructions. The resisting party refused to surrender. Confederates tried to capture Union cannons by jumping upon the pieces, preventing their discharge, or by throwing down the gunners, who got up and caught their assailants around the neck. There was intense excitement among the 7,000 spectators who fringed the plateau. The guns of the soldies were thrown about like Hails. In the height of the confusion a soldier jerked off his jacket, exposing to his comrades a white shirt covered with blood. Col. Cooper saw it, and roared to his command to throw down their arms. He was obeyed. In the melee twelve men had been hit with the wadding of blank cartridges; they were nearly all lying on the ground. Stretchers were sent for, and the wounded were removed to Brigadier-Surgeon Gauntt's tent. The commands returned in a bedraggled condition. Many men were hardly able to carry their muskets. A Horse Thief's Story.?Dr. W. W. Watson, a/to* Wilson, is now confined in jail at Laurens, charged with stealing a horse from Mr. J. Wade Anderson, of Laurens county, several weeks ago. He was interviewed last week by a reporter for the Laurensville Herald. Watson said that he was a resident of Hickory, Catawba county, X. /1 x.-.j. ?r...?i x ..e x x.* ka I Kj., UUl reiuseu IU SUy in WJlill/CMUUb^' lie ?ao a native, "on account of his relatives." He said that lie was graduated at the Baltimore College in 1871, and that he has since been practicing in North Carolina and Texas, having lived in the latter State six years. He returned to North Carolina eight months ago. He did not know why he came to South Carolina, but had been on a drunken debauch before he left home. He said that he had been married eleven years, had two children living and was visited by his wife and infant child three weeks ago, who stayed with him a week and then returned home. As to the charge against him he said : "I took the gentleman's horse, but not with felonious intent?not for the purpose of making the animal my property. I was afoot; had been on a somewhat lengthy spree, was quite weary, and only took the horse to ride for the night, intending to turn the animal loose next morning, llefore I did so, however, I was arrested with the animal in my possession. I was then 011 my return home." He hopes that he will beable to compromise 1 ...2 1 i.l.^4. Al.!? the matter 111 some way, ami sum uuu uu? was his first offence. ? ? Sow Barley.?The farmer who employs the present opportunity to sow as much land in barley as he can thoroughly prepare and enrich, will reap an abundant reward next spring. Parley is a most valuable crop for green food for stock of all kinds, and is very profitable as a crop to thresh for market. ()n good land, a farmer can make more money to the acre out of barley than from cotton, and make it with one-third of the expense. It is a much more profitable crop than cotton. After the barley is cut oil', the land can be planted in peas, and will make a considerable yield in peas, besides a very valuable crop of hay. The best of this culture is, that after getting the barley and pea vine hay. from the land, the soil will be in a better condition for making another crop than it would be after taking a crop of cotton from it. A large sowing of barley, oats and rye this fall will do a great deal to obliterate the effects of the disastrous drought of this summer.?Anderson Intelligencer. I Another Railroad Purchase.?An Augusta, (fa., dispatch of Monday says: 1 The report that Gould has gobbled up the i Louisville and Nashville and Central Rail- ( roads created a sensation in commercial circles here. The Central Railroad Com- , pany controls four of the railroads coming to Augusta, namely, theCentral,theGeorgia, 1 cue rort I'oyai unci me ^vugusiu uuu umu[lie, and if Gould obtains the control he will i have it in his power to do what he pleases ( with Augusta so far as the railroad business is concerned. It is not believed, however, that even Gould can succeed in having the 1 railroad commission of Georgia abolished. None of the railroad authorities here have my information in regard to the reported hange. L OCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Withers Ailirkes?New Arrivals. J. M. Adams?Fruit Jars. Hunter A* Oates?Monday morning at "The.Mammoth." Clark Brothers?Wagons, Bagging and Ties. B. T. Porter?Band for Sale. Madame (Jriswold's Corsets. DIED IN ITS INFANCY. The negro infant found in a corn field near Green Pond, at which place a camp meeting was progressing at the time, died last .Saturday night, as we are informed. There is no clue as to its parentage. NEW COTTON. About sixty bales of new cotton have been sold in this market since the season opened. We are inclined to hope that the outcome of trie crop will be better than the farmers predicted even two weeks ago. REVIVAL MEETING. A revival meeting at Bethel church under the ministration of Rev. R. A Webb, closed on Sunday afternoon of last week. The meeting resulted in eight additions to the church. There was a very large congregation at the closing services on Sunday. DWELLING BURNED. At 4 o'clock last Friday morning the dwelling house and all its contents of furniture, clothing, A-c., of Mr. William Miller, six miles from town, on the Landsford road, was destroyed by fire. The place is more generally known as the Joyner or Albert Johnson house?Mr. Miller having purchased it recently. There is no surmise as l to the origin of the fire. DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN. Mr. James Graham died at his home in Chester last Friday. He was a native of North Carolina, but moved to Chester in early life, and being the oldest citizen of that town?in his eighty-eighth year at the time of his death?he saw the most of that thriving town grow up around him. For many years prior to the late war he was one of the leading merchants of Chester. He was the father of Mr. T. M. Graham, formerly a citizen of Yorkville. KILLED BY A FALLING TREE. Last Saturday evening about sundown, Lancaster Bratton, colored, who lives about six miles east of town, in the "Nation,"sent his two sons, Alexander and Beney, to the field for some corn tops. About a half an hour after they left the house, a deadened tree in the field was blown down and in falling it struck Alexander on the neck. The tree crushed the bones of his face and fractured his left thigh bone. Death re suited almost immediately. An inquest was held on Sunday by Trial Justice Lewis, acting as coroner, and a verdict was rendered by the jury in accordance with the foregoing facts. The deceased was about 18 years of age. CHURCH NOTICES. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks, Pastor. Services at King's Mountain Chapel at 11 A. M., next Sunday. A recess of one hour, and a second service. Preaching in the church at Yorkville, at night. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. There will be no service in this church next Sunday. Episcopalian?Rev. A. Prentiss, Rector. Services in the Church of Our Saviour, at Rock Hill, next Sunday. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. Services at 10} A. M., next Sunday. Sunday-school at 9 A. M. Baptist^Rev. J. E. Covington, Pastor. There will be no service at Union church next Sunday. _ THE FREIGHT TARIFF. ! The managers of railroads in this State and the Railroad Commission conferred in Columbia last Friday, but were unable to agree on the construction of the law. In regard to the failure of the conference, the correspondent of the jVews and Courier writes: "I am able, however, to forecast one thing, and it is this: The through rates between Charleston and the up country will be much lower than the recently established local rates, and will further be lower in great part than they were last year. The \ orkville merchants have complained about the assumed higher rate recently fixed by the Commission, but the through rates to be announced soon will be lower than the previous through rates between Yorkville and Charleston. The business of Charleston will not suffer under the new rates." Mr. McKENZIE'S LOSS. When last week's issue was printed we had only a meagre account of the burning of Mr. Joseph R. McKenzie's barn on Monday night the Gth instant. We have since learned that his loss amounts to nearly $1,800. Besides the building, worth $550, and horses and mules worth $000, there was also burned a thrasher and horsepower, worth $27o; corn ana otner proauce, worm $200; a wagon and all his harness, worth $100; straw and the fencing around the lot, to the value of $50 was destroyed. The fire was discovered at 10 o'clock, but it had made such headway that any attempt to extinguish it was entirely useless, and the horses and mules in the stables were already dead from suffocation. Mr. McKenzie has good reasons for believing that the lire was of incendiary origin. RAILROAD ACCIDENT. The trains on the Chester and Lenoir Railroad were delayed about fourteen hours on Wednesday of last week by the result of an'accident occurring at Newton just as the train started out. It seems that the switch near the Newton depot was left open and the train, running at a slow speed, went headlong into the opening before the engineer made the discovery that an accident had occurred. The engine and tender and a box car were thrown off the track. Though a portion of the train was thus derailed, fnrtnnntplv nn nno was hurt. The engine sustained some damage, and an accident occurring from such a cause might have proved very serious in its consequences. The accident was immediately investigated and as a result engineer Hughes and conduc- , tor Rumrnel were suspended from the service, and baggage master Jim Gill was discharged. PERSONAL MENTION. Mr. John J. Hunter, of the firm of Hunter & Gates, started to the northern markets last Tuesday, to make fall purchases for his house. Mr. James It. Kennedy, of the firm of Kennedy Bros. & Barron, started to the northern markets on Tuesday. He is accompanied by his son, Robert. On the same day Messrs. Jos. F. Wallace, James L. Clark, and L. M. Grist started from Yorkville to visit the Louisville Exposition. They were joined at Clover by Messrs. ueorge 1j. luurue, .j . l.eanuer Adams, and perhaps others, who are also going to see the great show. Mrs. Margaret Camp, of Gainsville, Ua., and 3fi*s. Julia Elam, of Mecklenburg county, Va., daughters of Mr. Joseph Herndon, of this place, are here on a visit. Mr. Joseph (j. Ward law, who entered the field last July as a commercial traveler, returned last Saturday, having given up that business for the more congenial employment of book-keeping. He is in the house of Messrs. Hunter & Gates. Mr. M. Strauss will start to the northern markets next week. ? L. II. Iluske, a prominent citizen of Lexington county, cut his throat on Friday with a razor, and is in great danger ofdeath.