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Scraps and Jacts. The customhouse receipts at New York during October amounted to ten and one-half million dollars. ? A prosperous merchant has for his motto: "Early to bed and early to rise; never get tight, and advertise." ? One Collins, a Wisconsin man, recently shot himself, arranging it so that he would fall into the fire and be burned up, to escape falling into the doctors' hands. A Muscatine, Iowa, father is much exercised to know how his daughter discovered that eating warm maple sugar makes gentle men's moustaches scratchy. General Walker, superintendent of the census, recommends, in his report to Congress, that enumerations be made every five, instead of ten years. Mr. W.F. Cody, better known as "Buffalo Bill," has been elected to the Nebraska Legislature from Lincoln county, The Louisville Journal suggests that he be placed on the committee to Codify the laws. There is a boy in St. Joseph, Mo., who wears shoes which are seventeen aud a quarter inches long, and seven inches round the instep. Worms don't have much show in his neighborhood. A Boston woman, who has been reading in the papers that Sunday marriages are illegal, writes to the papers to know how it is with a baby born on Sunday. If so, which should be punishable?the father, the mother or the baby ? A wedding is to come off in Philadelphia in December with twelve bridesmaids, all attired by Worth, of Paris. The bride's dress will be of Belgian lace, and co3t $9,000 in eold. A Judge in Charleston, West Virginia, has granted an injunction to prevent the buildding of a colored Baptist church there on the petition of citizens representing that the worship of the colored people is "boisterous, loud and extravagant, and would consequently be a nuisance to the neighborhood." The Memphis Savings Bank suspended on Monday of last week, its liabilities amounting to $300,000. The losses were incurred by speculating outside the legitimate business of the bank. The President of the bank has placed his fortune at the disposal of the creditors, which will pay 70 per cent, of the total indebtedness. Illinois elects her next Legislature under the cumulative system, through which the elector can distribute his votes among the several candidates in nomination, or concentrate them all upon one. This will secure what is so desirable in a Republican form of _ x-i.:? government?a minority reprcseuLttuuii. x uc new system has already been tried in several localities, in elections of minor importance; but this is the first instance in which it has been applied to a Legislature. A Washington telegram says: "There is the best Republican authority for saying that the Republicans in Congress will look very sharply after the Liberals. Banks, it is stated, will be removed from the chairmanship of the foreign relations committee, and Governor Blair from the claims committee. In the Senate it is proposed to entirely reconstruct committees. This will take Trumbull from the judiciary, and dispose of Senators Schurz, Tipton, Sumner, Rice and Fenton, as they were Democrats." A writer in the London Times relates that in the mummy pit at Sackara, Egypt, he saw many persons busily engaged in searching out, sifting and sorting femora, tiolse, and other bony bits of the human form, which almost crusted the ground thereabout. Nine camels were employed to bear these in nets to the river-side, where vessels waited to carry them to Alexandria, whence they were shipped to English manufacturers of manure. The trade is brisk, and is said to have been going on for years and may gO on for many more. To convey some idea of the immense number of postage stamps used : In the space of three "months, the National Bank Note Company have made over 143,000,000 of all denominations, valued at over $4,000,000. During the present year 520,000,000 have been completed, those made in January numbering 65,000,000. Thirty-eight and a half millions have been completed in a week, and 13,000,000 in a single day. Three times as many three-cent stamps are used as of all other denominations combined ; after them come the one cent, and then the two and six cent. The last weekly return of the company showed a manufacture of over 14,000,000 of finished stamps. xtie CAiiauiujuaijr jAJncij ui icoiowui.</ of the steel, compressed by hydraulic pressure, of which the new Whitworth gun is composed, has been proven by one of the experiments made at the recent trial of the weapon. A cylinder representing the chamber of a ninepounder gun was loaded with one and a half pounds of powder, and being screwed up at the shotted end, was fired through a touchhole only one-tenth of an inch in diameter. The cylinder did not burst, but the whole charge hiBsed through the touch-hole, leaving the chamber uninjured. This hydraulically compressed steel furnishes a metal of the greatest value, since, by using it, guns can be constructed which will combine a lightness and power hitherto unattainable. -VT? v?i- _i.?j ?? uew lurti. isjuuiiuub uvtsr tuo umi&cvt revival of her Southern trade, consequent upon the recovery of the South from the long season of depression which followed the war and reconstruction. The Evening Mail tells us: "For almost every class of merchandise, the orders have been larger and the quality of goods better than for many years past, and there seems to be an unwonted ability and readiness to pay cash or to ask only very short credit. Actual investigation shows that the increase in business with the different southern States varies from twenty-five to fifty per cent, of the whole amount for the past seasons. Not only does the demand for more and better merchandise evince a growing prosperity, but the call for agricultural implements and machinery shows that the people are earnestly at work establishing their industries upon a solid basis.' The telegraph announces the death of the wife of the Hon. Horace Greeley, in New York city, on the 30th ultimo, of consumptooo o noti TTD ATow l/IUil. IUIOi \JHWSiyj TT?0 C4r UniUTV VTA VII York, where she became acquainted with Mr. Greeley while he was the editor of the New Yorker, and boarding at,the Graham House in that city, at which place she first met him. She shortly afterwards removed to Warrenton, North Carolina, to teach school. Her maiden name was Mary Y. Cheney. Horace Greeley and Miss Cheney were married in Emanuel Church, Warrenton, N. C., on the 5th of July, 1836, according to the Episcopal form. For some months Mrs. Greeley's health has been gradually declining, and for a week past her death has been hourly expected. She has been in Madeira and Europe for a year past, attempting to restore her health, and returned within the last three months. Mrs. Greeley was a woman of intellectual culture, and devoted her time largely to the acquisition of knowledge. The London Standard thinks that the peace of Europe rests upon a very questionable footing. There is not a corner of the continent which is not armed to the teeth. M. Thiers openly boasts that he has an incomparable army, and all the elements of France?Radicals, Orleanists, Legitimists and Imperialists?are united upon the necessity of obtaining revenge from Germany as soon as practicable. Neither Prince Bismarck nor Count Andrassy, the Austrian Premier, believes that peace will continue, and the meeting of the Emperors at Berlin was due to the desire on the part of the high contracting powers interested to come to an understanding upon this subject. Even Servia claims that she can put 300,000 men in the field, and while Italy is fortifying Monte Mario on the Italian side of the Mont Cenis Tunnel, to I guard against the French military prepara! tions at Modane, on the French side of the ! Alps, Spain is urging a demand upon Engi land for the possession of Gibraltar. Involv' ed in these complications, also, is the question ' of the Pope and Prussia, introducing into the 1 troubled arena of European politics religious , dissensions. ihc ^arferiUr inquirer. j ? . ? YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 7, 1872. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is ! paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and job; work, are cash, in advance JOB PRINTING. Having determined to devote more attention hereafter to job printing than we have done in the past, we would inform the public j that our office is now well supplied with new type of the latest styles, and the best machinery in use; and with a choice stock of inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to execute as good work as can be done anywhere in the United States. Orders for Ball Tickets, Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, Labels, Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks, Bill Heads, jLaw Briefs, Business Cards, Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, .Memorandum Billheads Checks, 'Note Circulars, Doposit Tickets, j Note Headings, Drafts and Notes, ! Programmes, Envelopes, Policies, Fire A Life Ins., Election Tickets, Shinplasters, Festival Tickets, jWedding Cards, will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction as to quality of work, guaranteed in every instance. Particular attention given to fine work in colors. FACTS ABOUT ^FARMING. We propose in this article to state some plain facts, and then make some comments upon them. These fhcts, as the sequel will show, are not stated for the sake of any thing but the general good. Just beyond the corporate limits of Yorkville there lives a gentleman who, whilst he is not by profession a planter, nevertheless is engaged in cultivating what, in this county, is called a small farm. In 1870 he sowed a four acre lot in oats and after harvesting the oats permitted the lot to grow up in weeds, and in the fall turned the weeds under. In 1871 the same thing was done. In the spring of 1872, (the present year) he prepared the lot for cotton, laying off the rows four feet apart and manured in the drill, putting ten loads of stable manure to the acre. The gross products of the lot were seventeen hundred and fifty-four pounds of lint cotton, which has been sold for $289.89. The cotton seed he values at $25.00 which makes the gross income from the four acres $314.89. The actual expenses of producing the cotton, including labor, manure, horse hire and blacksmith bill?in one word, all the expenses?were $154.95}, leaving a net gain of $159.82}, or within a small fraction of forty dollars to the acre. We must not forget to mention that this lot of land is naturally thin, has never been manured, and has been cleared some seventy years. Another fact which we desire to mention is this. A gentleman residing only a short distance from Yorkville, gathered off one-half acre of bottom land (not the best in the field) thirty-five bushels of corn, two and one-half bushels of peas and a one horse load of pumpkins. We have some other facts to which in due time we will call attention. Now for the comments. The first inference which we would make, is that these facts, as well as all the experience of the past, demonstrate that poor upland is more remunerative when planted in cotton, I mkan nlonla/1 m AAm Tf nTAIllil nc luau nusu PauKU *" w,u' * rw"v,t"' be impossible for the same planter to make off the same four acre lot mentioned above, forty dollars net profit per acre if it be planted in corn. It is, however, clear that good bottom land will make as much in corn as the best upland will make in cotton. This seems to indicate clearly that corn should only, in exceptional cases, be planted on upland. Another inference is that it is always more profitable to cultivate a small lot properly, than to cultivate a large farm improperly. By the former process, money can be made ; but by the latter money and labor will be spent to little purpose. No man can, in the present state of things, improve a large farm. It is a physical impossibility. On the contrary, any man of energy can so improve a small farm that it will amply remunerate him for his labor. AGRICULTURE. It must be evident to every observing man that the prosperity of our country depends absolutely upon the development of its agricul tural resources. It is vain to preach political reformation. The reformation which we need, most of all others in this country, is an agricultural reformation. The old way of cutting and slashing and tearing things all to pieces must come to an end ; and the sooner the better. Facts demonstrate that this is a good land. The soil, whilst it cannot be said to be naturally as rich as that of some other countries, is susceptible of indefinite improve* ment; and the climate is proverbially healthy. All we need in this country is skillful and energetic cultivators of the soil. We do not ] urge our people to set their souls on wealth j and nothing else; but there is a poverty which I ir not onlv onnreaaive but disgraceful. At J -rr O" present, the agricultural portion of the South is at the mercy of speculating rings and manufacturing cliques. "We are forced to sell our crops as soon as they are gathered, it matters ! not what may be the state of the market. ! Not forced by these rings and cliques, but ! forced by our necessitous condition. If the 1 planters and farmers of the cotton-growing States were only out of debt, things would ; wear a different aspect. They could sell their 1 cotton when the manufacturer and speculator j would give most for it. Now the man who I should control the manufacturer, is himself : controlled by his own squalid poverty. It is a vain delusion in men to say or think that "cotton is king," so long as the men who make it are forced to sell it at any price to hush the clamorings of creditors, i Generally speaking, our planters are not ' aware of the position which they occupy in society. Whilst they are in reality first in importance, they are content to occupy any position that those engaged in the other avocations of life may see fit to assign them. This is all wrong. The man who makes the bread that feeds the hungry, and the material that clothes the naked, ought to both feel and assert his importance. Our planters are, as a rule, not adicted to investigating the principles of their calling. The merchant devotes all the energy of his soul in devising plans and schemes by which he may be enabled to make his sales larger j and his profits greater. The manufacturer , does the same thing; but our planters are I content to just go along in the old way. If there is any man who ought to be learned, it is the man who tills the soil. This is not the general impression. We need a reformation j in this respect. We need men to till the soil | who are able to give a reason for what they I do. How many men would be able to give j an intelligent answer if asked why they plow ? j Many would no doubt say they plowed corn to j kill grass and cut the roots of the corn. We i do not doubt that many who have plowed all j their lives never thought for one moment any thing about the philosophy of plowing. The whole operation to them is like talking with a parrot. We need a reformation in this coun* try in this respect. Ignorance will prove our ] ruin. Muscles, in their place, are good j things; but the muscles of an ox without an J enlightened head to direct them, will not ac-! complish much. The days of brute force are i numbered in this country, and the man who j depends wholly upon it will soon get hopeless-, ly behind the age. THE HORSE EPIDEMIC. The continuance of the horse disease and its paralyzing effect upon business in the northern cities, are the leading themes of the press and telegraph. As the disease travels rapidly j and has already reached Baltimore, Washing- j %T 1 ^ .1 1 i* I ton, JNorioiK ana rortsmoutn, ana in view 01 the possibility of its appearance in this section, we deem it proper to refer to the subject again. The disease up to this time has appeared in three directions from Toronto, Canada, where it first broke out?the northeast, taking Montreal ; the southwest, taking the direction of Detroit; and southeasterly, via Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and New York city, thence extending south, and at our latest accounts having appeared as far in this direction as Norfolk, Va. From the fact that the disease has spent itself in Canada, and further, that the breadth of its route in any direction is narrow, its spread is not the result of contagion, but of atmospheric influences. Another law seems to be satisfactorily deduced, and that is, the disease lasts but about ten days, and is of a mild type. Most of the cases which have proved fatal were the result of neglect, over-work after the attack, and improper treatment It is also the experience of those ntUn LnnA 4t?An4-Ar1 fliA rliufiOOO fUof Qntl HO t fQQ t_ uuu uaYC tuc uiouwo) kmuvuuvhu VAVWVmeat in most of cases is not only useless, but positively injurious. Fresh air, clean, pure water and food of a slightly laxative character are all that verterinary surgeons advise, which advice is confirmed by their own experience. In the matter of prevention, which most interests the owners of horses hereabouts, it might be well enough to suggest that it must produce good results in all our stables to increase the circulation of fresh air, and to remove the offal more frequently and more completely. The odor of ammonia, which is usually prevalent in all stables, is very injurious to horses, and should be prevented by the use of absorbing substances and the free use of plaster of Paris. Pure air and pure water, and the removal of everything that tends to render.them impure, are the moat important preventives of disease in animals as well as in men. The question whether the disease can be ? ? ? ? ? J nnlrA/I imusLuibteu tu uiaii uaa uccu jncvjucutijr m&cu. In addition to what we published last week upon this subject, which was from the pen of a physician of Washington city, another writer says that men have been known to be affected during almost every great outbreak of the disease since 1695. It has been reported among others, by Valentine, Nadberny, Xeirtsky, Kolb, Hesturg, Bayer, Bosquet, Loude, Sevigny, Dundressy, Hubner, Holmes, Balfour, Karkeek and Watson. Cases of the disease in man were seen in Albany and at South Dover, Duchess county, N. Y., during the outbreak of 1870. It shows itself in man by slight feverishness and the formation on the tongue and inside the lips and cheeks, and sometimes on the head, of small blisters, rarely amounting to the bulk of a lentil. In children and young animals feeding exclusively on milk, diarrhoea and fatal inflammation of the otYMYiaoVi and hnwals ftpnaRinnallv siinprvene. WW.MMV.. WW..W.W www j 1 On chickens it has been frequently noticed? among others by Hennicke, Lagar, Lamberlecchi, Dickens, and Youatt. Chickens were attacked in December, 1870, on the farm of Mr. Eigbme, La Grange, Duchess county, N. Y. Drinking the castaway milk is probably the common cause. Dogs and cats have been noticed by Lagar, Younghusband, and others, to suffer from drinking the milk. EX-GOYERNOR PERRY'S LETTER. It seems that ex-Governor Perry is afflicted with a mania for writing letters for publication in the newspapers. His latest was occasioned by his recent defeat for Congress, and is addressed to the Democratic and Conservative voters of the Fourth Congressional District. The greater part of the letter is querulous in tone, childish, and, from our standpoint, in very bad taste. He finds fault with such of the white people of the Congressional district as failed to vote, abuses "carpet-baggers" and "scalawags," in the usual style, and then submits a remedy for the public ills whereby the State may be "redeemed and regenerated." The plan he proposes is to make a contract with employes requiring them to vote, under a penalty, as the employer may dictate. The course he suggests is wrong in principle, impracticable, and in violation of both State and Federal laws. Any person who should attempt to pursue the course suggested, would I IIAUIA nvAOAAiifiAn unrlflp flio firot aDnflnn [ UC iinuic IAJ pvogvUUVii| uuuui vuv uiuvowvivu j of an act passed by the Legislature of this | State, entitled "An act to provide for the proI tection of persons, property and the public ! peace," approved March 1, 1871, which is as ; follows: "That if any person shall assault or intirai! date any citizen because of political opinions j or the exercise of political rights and privi; leges guaranteed to every citizen of the United j States by the Constitution and laws thereof, or by the Constitution and laws of this State, ' or, for such reason, discharge such citizen from employment or occupation, or eject such citizen from rented house or land or other property, such person shall be deemed guilty i of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than fifty or more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not less i than three mouths or more than one year, or I both, at the discretion of the Court." Judge Mackey, in his charge to the grand ! jury on Monday, having made the letter of Governor Perry a subject for comment, we J | make the following extracts from the letter for the information of our readers : j In Greenville, one of the couuties composI ing the Fourth Congressional District, there i are 2,800 white voters, and only 2,300 of them went out to vote! 250 of them were scalawags, who voted with the negroes to continue our present corrupt regime. 500 staid at j home and did not vote at all. In Chester j county, there were 300 white voters who did ! not feel interest enough in being represented 1 in Congress to turn out at the election. In Fairfield, a county distinguished for its intelligence and wealth, one-third of the white voters remained at home. The same thing occurred in every county. If all had gone out to vote, and had exerted a proper influence j with the colored people, the elections would have gone very differently. We might have redeemed aud regenerated the State. I know that the negroes are banded together as a race, under the lead of vile carpet-baggers and infamous scalawags, who would as quickly sell their God for thirty pieces of silver, as they have betrayed their race and country for office, promotion and the hope of stealing, swindling aud plundering. But notwithstanding this antagonism to the white people, I know that an influence might be brought to bear on them which they could not resist, if the property-holders of the State were so disposed. Let every land-holder refuse to rent to or employ any laborer, unless he will atrree. with DroDer simulations, to vote with D ' f I ? ? his landlord or employer. This may be done without incurring any of the penalties of the Act of Congress against intimidating voters. There will be no intimidation, but a fair and legitimate agreement, which the parties have a right to make. But it may be said that our lands could not be rented or cultivated on these terms. This is presuming that the laborer can live longer without food than the employer can without his labor. It is far better that we should work for ourselves, and let the greater part of our lands lie and rest, than to live any longer under such a government as we have?robbing us of all we can make by taxation, and corrupting all the fountains oflegislation. In every other country in the world, where they are allowed to vote, the tenantry and laborers vote with their landlords and employers. John Quincy Adams, Jr., told me, speaking of this very question, that when he was a Republican, all of his tenants and laborers, about forty in number, voted with him, and when he quit the Republican party and turned Democrat, they also turned with him and voted the Democratic ticket, without a word being said to them on the subject. He expected them to vote with him, and they knew it and did so. Now, I suppose it is just as proper for a cotton planter to require this of his colored laborers in South Carolina as it is for Mr. Adams to exact it of his white laborers in Massachusetts. And especially so when these colored laborers are voting for rogues and scoundrels in preference to honest and intelligent men. Chief Justice Chase said to me, in 1868, that we need not apprehend any difficulty in controlling the negro vote in South Carolina. "Brains and property," said he, "will always control labor." I replied, this might be, if it were not for the carpet-baggers. He said the carpet-baggers would soon become identified with the citizens or leave the country. But the carpet-bagger in South Carolina, instead of leaving the country, or identifying himself with the people, has become, with the scalawag, through their influence over the negro, a sort of aristocrat or autocrat and tribune of the colored race. Now, we must get rid of these autocrats and tribunes. We must dethrone them and break their sceptre by destroying their influence over the negro. This can only be done by teaching the negro that he is dependent on us, and not we on him. Let us, therefore, resolve unanimously, and stick to it, that we will not rent our lands to or employ any one who will not agree to vote with us in all the elections. In this way, -? J AMIM AAM MA iU A nnwrtAf. auu xu tins way uuijr, unu we iuui> mc toajrtir bagger and scalawag, and get control of the colored people. Cuffee has no gratitude in general, as I have well tested, though there are exceptions, and he can only be influenced by his wants and necessities. I, therefore, urge upon the white people, all over the State, to determine unanimously and at once, to have nothing to do with the Radicals, white or black, in renting their lands or employing their laborers, without they will agree, in writing, under a penalty, to vote with them in all future elections. In three months after the enforcement of this rule, there would be no Radical party in South Carolina, no carpet-baggers, no scalawags, except in the penitentiary. And once more we should be living under an honest government in South Carolina. Until we adopt some stringent rule of this kind, and adhere to it, and go out at elections and vote for honest and wise men, we shall be getting worse and worse every year, until the most horrible aud terrible revolution and civil war covers the land with bloody desolation and ruin I The remedy is simple and easy and peaceable. The evil is frightful to think of! Let me beseech you to avoid it. ******* I will mention to you that I have heard of great frauds in the election. It is said that hundreds of North Carolina negroes, at work on the Air-Line Railroad, who had not been in the State twelve months, voted in several counties. It is further said that hundreds under twenty-one years of age likewise voted all nv#>.r t.he Cnnirressional District And it is likewise rumored that gross frauds were practiced at several places in Laurens, by refusing to open the polls at the proper time, and throwing out a large number of Democratic votes at Clinton. These matters are for future investigation. In conclusion, I return you who went to the polls and voted my most grateful thanks; and to such as were too indifferent to turn out at the election, I can only say that I hope you will never be so apathetic again. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? An effort is being made to divide Beaufort into two counties. ? William H. Brawley, Esq., has been elected Solicitor of the 6th Judicial Circuit, by a majority of 8,860 votes. ? It is rumored that J. L. Neagle, Esq., will be a candidate for the United States Senate, vice Hon. F. A. Sawyer, whose term expires on the 4th of March next. ? Mr. Charles H. Giles committed suicide at Union Court House on Tuesday of last week, by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. ? The United States Circuit Court for South Carolina, will commence its sittings at Columbia on the 4th Monday, the 25th day of this month. It is understood that Judges Bond and Bryan will preside. ? Mr. E. M. Seabrook has been appointed register in bankruptcy for the First Congressional District. The counties embraced in the first Congressional District, are Lancaster, Chesterfield, Marlborough, Darlington, Marion, Horry, Georgetown, Williamsburg, Sumter, Clarendon and Kershaw. ? Two new post offices have recently been established in Union county. "Coleraine," of which Daniel A. McLaughlin is postmaster ; and "Fair Forest," with Jasper Gibbs as postmaster. Both offices are located on the route leading from Union Court House to Woodruff'8, in Spartanburg county. ? According to a table published in the Charleston Courier, the majority for F. J. Moses, Jr. for Governor, over Reuben Tomlinson, is 34,905. In 1870, Scott's majority over Carpenter was 33,534. There has been a falling off in the total vote, as compared with 1870, of 28,787. ? Notice is given in the Chester Reporter that application will be made to the Legislature at its next session for a charter for a Narrow Gauge Railroad from Chester via' Yorkville to a point on the North Carolina line, to connect with the Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad. ? Under the election law of this State, the Board of State Canvassers will declare the result of the recent elections in this State on or before the 10th instant. The Board have no power over Congressional or Legislative candidates, and can merely certify to the I Commissioners' returns as to these. In re-1 gard to county officers, the law directs them to determine and decide, after due examination, who are elected. This, we judge, implies the right to investigate by count of ballots or otherwise the grounds of protests, if any such are presented. ? The following named persons have been arrested in Laurens and bailed in bonds of | 85000 each for their appearance at the next term of the United States Court at Columbia: Captain W. J. Leak, A. B. Byrd, A. M. Copeland, Jas. M. Clark, C. C. Ferguson, C. J. Workman, Elihu Cunningham, M. C. Cunningham, Robert A. Cunningham, W. F. ! Cunningham, Augustus Wallace, W. L. Fowler, Drayton Barksdale, Richard C. Watts, C. M. Miller, J. F. Ramage, S. P. Teague. j ?W. T. Ford was tried at Chester last l_ it. . _i n i ri , weea, 011 tne cnarge 01 murdering ueorge | j Cresswell in that town on the night of the 28th | of July last. The jury, after an hour's delibI eratiou, found Ford guilty of manslaughter, j Amzi Triplett was tried for the murder, about j the firet of May, 1865, of Aaron, a slave of Mrs. Mary Mobley. The Reporter says: "Mr. Triplett was at the time of the unfortunate occurrence employed as overseer on the plantation of Mrs. Mobley. Upon reproving the deceased for the manner in which he was doing his work he was fiercely assaulted by the deceased with a hoe, and finding dimself overpowered and in danger of great bodily harm, if not losing his life, he fired the fatal shot. The jury very properly regarded it as clearly a case of killing in self-defence, and in a very short time brought in a verdict of not guilty." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. n i r ir *r a /? . i . 1 1 ? <joi. ju. m. ivicAiee is reported to De lying very ill with consumption at Shelby. ? Major Merrill was President of the Military Court which was in session at Charlotte last week for the trial of cases connected with the United States army service. ? Mr. Turner is again attempting to prosecute ex-Governor Holden, Kirk and others for his arrest made by the order of Holden two years ago. ? The wife of Baynard, the escaped murderer of Hendersonville, and Baynard's father and brother, have been arrested for complicity with his escape by wearing his wife's clothes. ? The Fayetteville people are agitating the subject of building a railroad from that town to Florence, S. C. Meetings have been held, and hopes are entertained that the effort will be successful. ? The cavalry command under Colonel Hart, which has been stationed at Lincolnton, has been transferred to Charlotte, and the post at Lincolnton discontinued. The company of artillery, formerly stationed in Charlotte, has been ordered to California. ? A bill of indictment for libel has been sent to the grand jury of New Hanover county, against the editors of the Wilmington Journal, the alleged libel being an article published in the Journal which stigmatized Judge Bond as a scoundrel. The jury refused to find a true bill, although specially charged by the Judge that it was their duty to find a bill of indictment. ? In Goldsboro a few days ago, while the people were leaving the pavilion of the circus at the close of the evening exhibition, a negro woman stepped into an open well on ?he same lot where the tents had been erected. Her cries for help attracted quite a crowd around the scene of the accident, and one of the showmen jumped in to try to rescue the woman. Another circus man, rendering assistance to those already in the well, was accidentally pushed in, and to add to the horrors, a large kerosene lamp was knocked into the well on * * *1 i* -- - - _ ??L!^ mi_ ^ lop oi toe inree umortunaiea wunin. j.ne woman was soon enveloped in flame and burned to death, and the men, though rescued alive, were badly injured. TOPICS OFVHE DAY. ? The forthcoming annual report of the Postmaster General will show an increase in expenditures of $2,250,000, and $2,000,000 increase on receipts for the current year. ? The Western Union Telegraph Company have applied for an injunction restraining the working of all opposition lines in the United States, claiming that the system is a violation of the Page patent improvements, which they claim to be used in the Morse system. ? The bankers of the oil regions held a meeting at Titusville, Penn., on the 1st instant relative to the nlan recentlv adoDted bv the convention of producers to control the market for crude oil. The plan consists of the formation of an agency, with a capital stock of $2,000,000, through which the entire production is to be bonght and sold, with ample storage, restraining the production when necessary. It is believed that the price of oil can be maintained at $5 per barrel. The bankers offer their support and willingness to cooperate in the scheme, and at a subsequent meeting resolutions were unanimously adopted expressing confidence in it. ? ? Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. FROM UNION COUNTY. THE FAIR?ALBERT GUERRY AND HIS GENERAL LEE. The Fair of the Carolines lately held in Charlotte was considered a success. The very unfavorable weather detracted much from the interest and benefit of the occasion. Stock, farming implements, and every thing to be shown out of doors, appeared to bad advantage. The large building on. the grounds was crowded with fruits, vegetables, sewing machines and a thousand and one other things. The picture gallery was also crowded. Pictures of all sorts and sizes were there; but chief of all were the two portraits of General Lee, by Albert Guerry, of Spartanburg. One of these was taken in military, and the other Jn Mr. GllfirfV IS a VOUDff af m ~ J , o tist who has already become distinguished, and he promises to take a high stand amongst his brothers of the brush. From the old soldiers who had often seen General Lee, but one opinion was heard as to the portraits, and that was very complimentary to the ability and success of the artist. It has been our good fortune to see other portraits executed by the same artist, and they all indicate a native genius coupled with untiring energy. Persons desiring portraits of friends or relatives would do well to secure the services of Mr. Guerry. In a former communication the white Touzelle wheat was mentioned?not "Tourelle," as was printed. In your last number, "children's department," article "snow," the writer speaks of "hail or sleet" as if they were the same. This is perhaps an error; but a very common one. The Smithsonian Institution authorities say, "sleet consists in small balls of snow, white and opaque commonly without a crust of ice, like the opaque nucleus found withiu hailstones, falling more frequently in spring and autumn." "Frozen rain drops should be distinguished from the preceeding forms; they make little balls of transparent ice." Hail differs from both the above in several respects. These definitions may differ from those found in our dictionaries, but they are perI haps better. P. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. W. II. Jk J. P. Herndon?Hardware?Wooden and Willow Ware?White Fish?Mullets. B. T. Wheeler?Seed Wheat?Plantation for Sale, j M. Strauss A Son?New Goods?Flannel?Alpaea, Ac.?Stripes?Broad Cloth?Hate, Ac.? Raglans ana Overcoats?Shawls?A New Assortment?Boots?Dress Goods?Sewing Machines. J no. N. Davis, Commissioner?Valuable Gold Mine for Sale. R. T. Brown, Administrator?Application for Discharge. R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?fudge of Probate's Sale. R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Common Pleas Sale. j PERSONAL. Dr. A. H. Davega, the President of the ! Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, j is in town looking after the interest or tins new project. The Doctor is brirafull of enthusiasm on the subject, and is fully satisfied that if the people along the line will only do their duty the completion of the road is in the early future. We notice in attendance on the Circuit Court this week, Solicitor Brawley, Major S. P. Hamilton and James Hemphill, Esq, of Chester. Maj. E. C. McClure, the genial and talented editor of the Reporter was in town on Tuesday evening, and favored us with a call. Ex-Senator W. E. Rose is on a flying visit to Yorkville, in consequence of having business in the Circuit Court. THE ELECTION. The election in this county on Tuesday for Presidential Electors passed off* very quietly. So far as we have heard, the voting was principally confined to the negroes, the whites manifesting but little interest in the matter. It is altogether probable that the county has ?ui_ ?!i_if n l A k given a consiueraoie majuriiy iur urauu nt the Yorkville precinct 817 votes were cast, of which 463 were by negroes. The vote stood : Grant, 508; Greeley, 309; O'Connor, 2. Majority for Grant, 199. Through the courtesy of Mr. Falconer, telegraph operator at Chester, and Mr. George T. Schorb, the operator at this place, we learn that New York city gave a majority of 22,928 for Greeley. Greeley's majority at Charlottesville, Va., is 200, and at Gordonsville, Va., 41. The following majorities are reported for Grant: Philadelphia, 64,000; Chester county, Pa., 1700; Raleigh, N. C., 620; Jackson, Miss., 644; Charlotte, N. C., 118; Lynchburg, Va., 170; Danville, Va., 48; Columbia, S. C., 200; Winnsboro, 15u; Chester, 499. THE CIRCUIT COURT. The Circuit Court for this county com- j meuced its sitting on Monday last, His Honor Judge T. J. Mackey presiding. The juries were organized, after which Judge Mackey addressed the grand jury, substantially as follows: Gentlemen of the Grand Jury: The present term will close your official relations with the Court, and relieve you of the arduous and important duties with which you have been charged by the laws of the State for nearly a year. It is doubtless a mikio/if nf nmfnnni) /innnrotiilatinn tulfVl untl OUUJ^b U1 P'UiUUUU ' ? J ~-t as it is with the presiding Judge, that peace and order prevails everywhere within the limits of your county, and that kind Providence has blessed the tillers of the soil with abundant harvests, and kept far from us the pestilence that has made its fearful visitations to other sections of our country. You are vested, gentlemen, with great powers, and with a high trust. In law as in morals, your responsibility is proportioned to your power. Acting within your proper sphere, you are supreme; no legal penalties attach to your violations of the trust reposed in you by the laws of your country, and you are a Jaw unto yourself. Jtlence, you snouia be all the more sensible of the obligations imposed upon you, and resolve to discbarge them with untiring diligence and unswerving fidelity. The grand juror's oath is his honor and his bond, and upon that the Court must rest itsconfidence. If you are derelict, then there is a wrong without a remedy. ****** His Honor, after enjoining upon the grand jury to make a severe examination into the manner in which the several county officers had performed their duties, and especially as to whether proper provision had been made by the County Commissioners to secure medicines and medical attendance for the sick poor throughout the county, proceeded as follows: THE KU-KLUX. Within the recent past, this county was the scene of armed violence, prosecuted by a powerful organization, composed of bold, bad men, who scourged and wounded and killed many American citizens because of their political opinions or party 'affiliations. These armed bands asserted the law of the strong hand against the laws of the land. They paralyzed the arm of justice, and struck down unoffending victims almost within the shadow of this building, which is dedicated to the protection of the weak against the strong. Indeed, while these outrages were flagrant, members of the grand juries themselves, who were active participants in these crimes, sat where you now worthily sit, and with unblushing forehead, looked the presiding Judge calmly in the eye as if unconscious of the existence of the Supreme Judge of all, who has recorded their violated oaths. These banded criminals, who for so long a period thus grievously oppressed hundreds of their fellow citizens and bid defiance to the laws, were but a part of a mighty organization that extended through many populous States of the South, and into many counties of this State. This tremendous and lawless power drew its deadly circle of fire around its designated victims, and then pursued them with an untiring step and a sleepless eye into exile or death. The archives of the national government contain the sworn testimony, proving that up to April 1871, nf bIt VAftTA ffftlTl thft form&l YT1VU1U t* *VM v* ? ?? j ?? .? -- cessation of hostilities in the open field, seventeen thousand American citizens were maimed and scourged, and six thousand slain outright by the bloody mandates of the organization in question. The State of South Carolina having failed to protect citizens of the United States, resident within her limits, in the free and safe exercise of their vested rights as such, the government of the United States intervened by its Courts, sustained by its army, I to protect its citizens in the enjoyment, un! questioned, of all their rights of citizenship, I and to bring to trial and punishment all who ! had by force invaded those rights. That interposition was timely, merciful and just. The first great duty of a government is to protect its citizens. In fact, this is the paramount object for which governments are founded. For this purpose the ships of the Republic carry their guns on the waters of every sea, and the consuls of the United States fly the national flag in every civilized land. Less than twenty years ago, in the year 1853, Martin Kozta, a former subject of Austria, who had only declared his intention, pursuant to law, to become a citizen of the United States, was arrested or kidnapped on the coast of the Mediterranean, and taken on board of an Austrian vessel of war, to be borne back to Austria, where he would have ! suffered the death to which that empire dooms ! all adjudged guilty of treason. The commander of the United States brig, Saint Louis?a native of South Carolina, and still a venerable citizen of our State?having been informed of the circumstance by the United States Consul at Smyrna, resolved to throw around - the man, then heavily ironed, and chained ! down in the hold of an Austrian frigate, the protection of the American flag. That resolve j was bravely executed. He demanded that the prisoner should be delivered up. The demand was refused. He then moved his vessel near j the Austrian, which carried a much heavier i armament, and with his American sailors I m standiug at their shotted guns, he made the now memorable demand?"The man must be given up in five minutes 1" He was given up. In the present year another unfortunate victim of oppression?J. Iiouard?who claimed American citizenship by virtue of the naturalization of his father, although he himself was born and reared in the island of Cuba, was, by the assertion of this supreme obligation in the Government, rescued from a Spanish dungeon. But a few years ago two subjects of Great Britain were brutally put to death, without just cause, by the King of Abysinnia, and three others were held in chains by his orders. The Government of England instantly resolved to avenge the wrong, and to rescue the imprisoned Englishmen from the bands of the African monarch, although they were more than three thousand miles away. The barbarous king first learned of the coming of the forces of Great Britain by the flames of his burning villages and temples, and waa slaughtered himself at the head of his army, which was almost utterly destroyed. The English prisoners were thus saved, and protection to British subjects asserted at a cost of many lives and forty millions of dollars. Who, then, shall question the right of this nation to protect American citizens on American soil? And who that surveys events in South Carolina during the past four years, will be bold enough to deny that such protection was needed here ? If, however, the grand juries and the courts do their duty faithfully and fearlessly, there will never again arise a necessity for the assertion of this protection, by the exhibition of a military force on the part of the United States. The State of South Carolina has never abdicated, for an instant, her sovereign jurisdiction overall offenders against her laws on her own domain. The government of the United States has never demanded that she should abdicate that jurisdiction ; but, on the contrary, demands that the.State shall effectually assert it. You will, therefore, make a most rigid in? quisition into the organized system of crime in question, and present for indictment and speedy trial, all persons who may be shown, by the testimony before you, to have been concerned therein, whether such persons stand indicted in the United States court for violating the enforcement act of Congress or not EX-GOVE11NOB PERRY'S LETTER. The Court desires, further, gentlemen of thegrand jury, to bring to your attention, another matter, not entirely irrelevant to the. ooe just considered. The newspapers are giving currency to a letter purporting to have been written and signed by a resident of this State, of high authority upon legal questions, which letter is not only a seditious libel upon its face, but is calculated to seduce many wellmeaning citizens into a grave in fraction of the laws. The writer of the letter complains therein of two classes of persons, in connexion with the recent Congressional election in thiji District ; the one whom he terms the "white voters," and the other "negro voters." He charges that the first class generally refrained, from voting, and that the second class nniversally voted, but voted against the writer. The letter is not entirely explicit, as to wheth er it iB designed to subject the first class named, to any "pains ana penalties" for so refraining from voting; but its purpose in re-, gard to the second class is unmistakably set forth in the following paragraph : V "I know that the negroes are banded together, as a race, under the lead of vile carpet-baggers and infamous scalawags, who would as quickly sell their God for thirty pieoee of silver aa they have betrayed their race and oountry for office, promotion and the hopeof stealing, swindlingana plundering! But, notwithstanding this antagoi* nisra to the white people, I know that- an influence might be brought to bearon them which they could not resist, if the property-holders of the State were so disposed. Let every land-holder refuse to rent or employ any laborer, unlet* he will agree, with proper stipulations, to vote with hie landlord or employer. This maybe done without incurring any of the penalties of the Act of Congress against intimidating voters." The Court would state that if the exaction of such a stipulation from laborers and tenants -5 ? ?? t/* ? ??* Aviaiinn A /if pAnnM^fl uuea uub viuiaic aujr uAiouuj^ aw v* wugiwui it Ib "devoutly to be wished," that there will soon be an Act of Congress that would be thereby violated. Any attempt, however, to enforce such a stipulation, would be an infraction of the election laws of this State, as a manifest "intimidation of voters," and, if the voter consented and fulfilled the "stipulakim liakla fko |%nn. UUU, 111 nuuill tcuu? 1IIIU 11UU1U w HIV fiyv alties of the law. A voter cannot legally make bis ballot the snbjeot of such astipulation. He holds it as a high and sacred trust for the country of which he is a citizen, and the law prohibits him from using it for, pecuniary gain, or making profit for himself in casting it The writer further says:, n ... "In this way, and in this way only, cap. ,we imp the carpet-bagger and scalawag, and get con&rol of the colored people. Cuffee has no gratitude in general, as I have well tested, though than are exceptions, and he can only be influenced by his wants and necessities. I therefore urge upon the white people, all over the State, to determine unanimously and at onoe, to have nothing to do with the Radicals, white or black, in renting their lands or employing their laborers, without, they will agree, in writing, under a penalty, to 'vote with them in all future elections/' To "determine unanimously" upon suoh * matter, implies consultation, and a coofedoracy to attain the end proposed; Such determination, so reached, will subject the patties engaged therein to indictment for conspiracy. It will be the duty of this court, with your aid, gentlemen of the grand jury, to check, by prompt and decisive action, in obedienoe to the laws, every such proposed system of debauchery, aimed at the free electors of the State. ;<; On Monday and Tuesday, the grand jury returned true bills in the following cases: i The State vs. Isom Buchanan, for assaslt and battery on Britter McKeown. The case was ordered to be continued until the next term. The State vs. Samuel B. Hall, for assault and battery on George Witherepoon.. Continued until the next term. The State vs. Randolph Sutton and Alfred Faris, for burglary and larceny on the premises of John A. Thomasson, near Thorn's Ferry. Sutton pleaded guilty upon arraignment, but has not yet been sentenced. Faris was tried and acquitted. . < TU. ?? W *n Pi.lri fn* aaaoult: vitli JL I4C UUibC VO. TT X/. Jk HI OWj 4W? ?? *VM intent to murder Lawson B. Bam The case was continued, and a new bond required of the defendant in the sum of one thousand dollars. The State vs. Isora Buchanan, for assault on James Moore, one of the Marshals of the town of Yorkville. The defendant was.tried and found guilty. Owing to the fact that the defendant was severely injured by the Marshal at the time of the assault, the Judge sentenced him to but five hours' imprisonment. The State vs. Lawson B. Davis. This is a "cross indictment" for an assault on W. D. Parks. The case'was ordered to be continued until the next term. The call of the civil docket wastammenced on Wednesday morning. / JUDGE T. J. MICKEY. At the recent term of the Circuit Court for Ohestar cnuntv. the Bar of Chester adonted the following preamble and resolutions in re* gard to His Honor Judge Thomas J. Mackey: State ok South Carolina?Chester County. In the Circuit Court, September Term, 1872. Whereas, We have just reached the close of the first term at which the Hon. T. J. Mackey, lately elected Judge of the Sixth Circuit, has presided, during which the Bar of the county have been profoundly impressed with the ability, impartiality, patience, discrimination, and laborious attention displayed in the discharge of the arduous duties of the Term, and Whereas, We feel under personal obligations for the high courtesy displayed by the Presiding Judge towards the members of this Bar, which we conceive to be the harbinger of continued pleasant relations, Resolved, That the Bar of this county do