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Jtoaps and Jfads. I ? In a recent election at Americus, Georgia, the colored people voted almost solidly for'; the "dry" ticket against whisky. ? The population of Texas, by the late 1 census, is 1,614,784, an increase of 100 per ! cent, during the last ten years. ? Prof. Riley, the entomologist, who has long been studying the cotton-worm question, announce?, that he has made discoveries showing ihat its ravages can be prevented. ? The one huudred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Baltimore was celebrated last week. In 1730 the present site of the city whs sold at 88 per acre. ? A bill will be introduced in the next Legislature of Georgia, fixing the license for retailing liquor in Screven county, at 810,000 per annum. ? Aiken Moore, one of the men charged with killing Alexander Bryce in Oconee county, more than a year ago, but who was tried and acquitted, has been recently killed in an affray in Clayton county, Georgia. ? It having been noticed that young ladies who act as bridesmaid soon get married, the desire to officiate in that capacity has led to increasing the number, until now fashion allows sixteen to stand up with one couple. ? In the case of DeJarnette, convicted of the murder of his sister and sentenced to be hanged on the 29th inst., at Danville, \'a., the Supreme Court of Appeals has awarded a writ of error and supercedeas, and will hear the case at Richmond in December next. ? Dr. Tanner has at last met his match, and more than his match. A calf in Holt county, Missouri, got entangled in a pile of rails, and remained in that position for a period of forty one days, without food or water. It came out all right. ? Seventeen Mormon elders arrived at St. Louis last Saturday direct from Utah, and left the same ruoruing for Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia, whither they go to make converts to the Mormon faith, and secure Mormon emigrants to Colorado. ? A prize was offered for the mother who presented the greatest lumber of her own children at the Indiana State Fair. Mrs. Smith and Mrs. T.inp wprp pnnh amnmnan ied to the fair by nine, but Mrs. Line gave birth to a tenth on the grounds, and so took the prize. ? A bright little boy, who had been engaged in a fight with another boy, was reproved by his aunt, who told hica tha? he ought always to wait till the other boy "pitched upon hira." "Well,"exclaimed the little hero, "but if I wait for the other boy to begin, I'm afraid there won't be any fight." ? A most remarkable instance of the ability of man to survive the gravest injuries, is illustrated in the case of Max Walters, of Buffulo, who recently was severely hurt by falling into a well. He was impaled upou a piece of wood bv the fall, the stick passing completely through his body, entering at the abdomen and coming out at the shoulder. Nevertheless, lie is in a fair way to recover. ? A dispatch of the 17th from Milwaukie, Wisconsin, says the severest storm ever experienced in that region prevailed throughout Sunday and Sunday night. The barometer was never so low there before, and the wind blew from sixty to> seventy miles per hour. Trains are blockaded in snow drifts ten and twelve feet deep, and there was much de struction of property and stock and damage to shipping, though no loss of life is reported. ? Texas has a cash balance of nearly $1,000,000 in her State treasury, and it is giveij out that Governor Roberts will advise the next Jegislature to spend that and millions more in establishing a State University and building penitentiaries and a State house at Austin. The Governor hopes to counteract the disposition to split the State in twain by this means, but the measure will be opposed by those determined to make two States out of Texas anyhow. ? The cotton crop, under four years of ...1? !.? C?.,*k 1C(!C IfiCC iwi-|>ui/ju an line ui me ouuiu, iguu, iuuj, 18G8 and 1869, amounted in value to four hundred and sixty-two millions of dollars. Under four years of Democratic rule, 1876, 1877, 1878 and 1879, it amounted to nine hundred and fifiy-one millions of dollars, being more than double what it was when the carpet baggers held sway over the people, and disorganized labor aud ruined our prosperity. ? Many clergymen in this country have lately received a circular from a London dealer in second-hand sermons. He offers sermons "lithographed in a bold, round hand," so that those who happen to see them would suppose that they were manuscript, for twentyfive cents each, or twenty dollars a hundred. He has a line of cheaper sermons in print, at ten cents apiece, warranted orthodox ; and others?a little more expensive?which have "a pleasantness, yet an awful solemnity about tIt" ? The New York Telegram says it was es timated that there are 6,000 horses suffering frotn epizooty in that city, and the impression prevails that the distemper will continue until every animal has been affected. The horses in Brooklyn and Jersey City are also affected. Not a single death has so far occurred among the diseased animals. The distemper has extended as far north as St. John's, New Brunswick. It prevails along the Hudson River, has appeared in Philadelphia and Baltimore, and seems to be getting general. ? The Mormon conference, which adjourned at Salt Lake on the 10th instant, was chiefly notable for the filling of the first Presidency, which has been vacant since Brigham Young's death. John Taylor was elected President, with Gen. Q. Cannon as ?u a n ? iiji auu uuscpii x*. uuiiku ao ucv;uuu \^uuusellors. Mr. Cannon is the delegate to Congress, and was renominated on the 7th inst. Joseph N. Smith is a nephew of the original Joseph Smith. John Taylor was the ranking member of the twelve apostles. Mr. Cannon is regarded as the ruling spirit?the power behind the throne. ? Some curious animals, never before seen in this country, were landed at New York on Weduesday. They are "woolly elephants" and natives of the Malay peninsula, inhabiting the cold, rugged mountains in the northern part of the country, from whose rigors they are protected by a thick coat of . long, woolly hair. They are also very small, as elephants go, the older, six years of age, being only three feet high and weighing 550 pounds, while the younger, four and one-half i years old, weighs 200 i>ounds less. They are ! very affectionate animals and fond of atten- j tiou. Although other elephants of this spe-' cies have been caught, they have invariably i succumbed when taken front the bleak moun- j tain ranges to the warmer plains. Hence | the fact that this species is generally unknown, and mentioned by but few naturalists. ? A circus aud menagerie proprietor writes to New York that Herr Lengel entered the j den of Brazilian tigers attached to the circus, and had nearly concluded his performance with them when he made a false step, and one of the tigers caught him by the head and neck, and in less than five minutes he was torn to pieces. His jugular vein was J caught, his ear on the right side completely eaten off" aud his body was a mass of mangled flesh and bones. The tent was densely 1 nacked with people, and ihe scene that fol- | lowed it is impossible to describe. The guard and also a few private individuals commenced firing with revolvers and rifles at the tiger, and soon killed it, thereby enabling the attaches to drag the body of Lengel through the compartment. The remaining living tiger at once fell upon the dead animal in the i presence of the audience, and tore it into fragments. No pen can describe the he-Tor of this scene. -- -At a reception given by the Mechanic's 1 Association of Boston, to Geu. Grant, on the J3lh, that gentleman made a speech of con-' siderable length upon general subjects of for- i eign fields for American industry and trade. | He referred particularly to Mexico as the country which offered great inducements to ' American enterprise, and gave the results of i his recent observation in that country and the j substance of his private conversations, with I many of its leading men. He said he told | the Mexican people that their fears of the forcible annexation of a portion of their territory by this country were groundless, now that slavery had ceased to exist in the South, and that they had everything to gain by a cultivation of closer commercial relations with the United States. Gen. Grant expressed the opinion that Mexico could produce nearly all of the two hundred million dollars' worth of tropical and semi-tropical products, which we import mostly from other sources, and would take our manufactures in payment Knth nnnn. i uieieiuj, uiua gicau_y ucucuitiug uuiu wuu . tries. fhc ftoifeviU* GNpiw. YORK VTLI,E, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 21. 1880. PROMPT ACTION' NECESSARY. In the present election, more devolves upon the upper counties of the State, perhaps than many of the people imagine. Upou the ef! forts of the people of those counties success may entirely depend. In a recent speech, Senator Hampton said that "if the great Democratic counties of the up-country do not think it worth while to poll a full vote, I warn you that when the lower tier of counties is reached on the day of the election, we will be lost." This'warning should prove a stimulus to the people of York, and cause them to take no less interest iu the pending campaign than that of 1876, when the people worked as with one resolve to free themselves from the robber band, and when each man felt that success depended upon his own individual ef fort. This feeling, actuating every voter, impelled him to go to the polls on the day of election, and the consequence was the people rose in their strength and gained one of the most brilliant political victories on record. But with this victory of four years ago, they cannot now afford to be idle. During these four years the Republicans have only been reorganizing their scattered ranks, and just j now they are specially active. At the latest day they may spring a State ticket, and with organized cohorts may easily gain the day j while the Democrats are quietly at home not dreaming of danger. In our own county, the Democrats have opposition iu two parties, which may, on the day of election, act independently of each other, or unite upou a ticket in opposition to the Democracy, in either case causing defeat. Iu this Congressional district there are three candidates openly in the field. The Republican and preenback candidates are both zealously working, and it may reasonably be presumed that their adherents are no less active. The least defection on the part of the Democrats may lose their Congressional candidate. Fifty, twenty-five, or even ten votes might change the result.' Then, not only is it the duty of every Democrat through out the Cougressicual district, as also all the Democratic counties of the up country, but especially is it the duty of York, to turn out as one man on the day of election, and work not only to save the county, but the Congressional district, the State, and may be the United States. .Let each ana every democratic voter feel that upon him alone this vast responsibility rests. Then will victory perch again upon the Democratic banner ; but if our own people are listless arid idle on the 2nd of November, their banner, on which is inscribed "Home Rule and Honest Government," may go do ivn in dark defeat. A GREENJACKER'S VIEWS. Hon. H. W. Harrington, of Indiana, who was the Greenback candidate for Governor of that State in 1876, has recently written a letter on the political situation, from which we make the following extracts, and commend them to the eyeful consideration of Demo crats in South Carolina, who, from any cause, are affiliating or propose to affiliate wjth the Greenback movement iu this State. Mr. Harrington says : "I am of the opinion that so long as the Republican party i3 in power, there is no hope of the realization of a single reform desired by the Nationals ; that this party, which has been in power during twenty years, is a serious obstacle in the way of success. It has done all the legislation of a financial charac ter of which the na ionals complain, if my memory serves me correctly. "The defeat of the Republican party I believe to be the first step toward reform. Votes for a third candidate contribute to the support of that party. Once the dominant party is out of power it will dissolve?fall to pieces of its own inertia, and out of it a new organization must arise. A third party cannot, under our system, succeed while two priucipal parties occupy the field. The destruction of one of the two dominant parties is necessary to the success of a third. The Republican party can only be destroyed by its defeat, because it is the party in power. The Democratic party cannot be destroyed by defeat, for it is the dominant opposition party out of power. The Nationals claim that the Republicans have, by class legislation, added millions to our public debt?that even greenbacks would have been takeu out of circulation if that party had not been prevented by Democrats. ' I think that every voter who objects to such j class legislation, who desires reform, or the | success of a third party, should cast his vote for the dominant opposing party against the party in power, 'ivventy years' continuous I power is long enough. Corruption will creep j in with lapse of time, and, besides, such party loses the substance of representation ; it; establishes an oligarchy of politicians, iustead of a representation of the people. The nom-1 inatiou of Hancock opens a new era iu the Democratic party ; it introduces the young, new life-blood of the people and of the republic into its workings?brings it up to the standard of the times." These are the views, candidly expressed, of an honest man, who sees no hope of success of the Greenback party, and freely admits that the efforts of that party in the present National contest can have no other effect than to weaken the prospects of the only party to 1 which the people look for relief and reform ; and what he says c.i the subject bears with equal force upon the election in South Carolina, not only for State but county offices as well. Mr. Harrington says there can be no reform iu the currency or anything else so long as the Republican party is in power. There is not the slightest hope of the success of the Greenback party, and hence his argument iu favor of that party acting with the Democrats in order to secure the reforms desired. "The first step towards reform," says Mr. Harrington, "is the defeat of the Republican party." It therefore behooves our peo-! pic, instead of organizing a party which may have the effect of weakening the Democratic vote, to unite for the common good in defeat- j ing the party that is guilty of every act of which the National Greenback party complains. We hope all Democrats in York county, now affiliating with the Greenback movement, will consider well the points which Mr. Harringtou makes. THE RECENT ELECTION. Elections were held in Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia on Tuesday of last week. Indiana and West Virginia elected Governors, State officers and members of Congress, and in Ohio inferior State officers and members of Congress were voted for. Indiana voted Republican, as also did Ohio. In the former State, returns from 85 counties give a uet Republicau majority of 6,889. The couuties to be heard from are Hancock, Noble, Perry, Tipton Spencer and Union, all of which are Democratic except Union. These counties gave in 1876 a net Democratic majority of 1,566, which, if there " ? . ..1 J 2 are no changes irom tnat voie, woum give the Republicans a majority on the State ticket of 5,325. The contest in the Fifth District is very close, and will require an official count to determine the result. The Republicans claim it by a small majority, which would give the Republicans nine to four Democratic Congressmen. From the most reliable returns, the Legislature will stand : Senate 25 Democrats; 25 Republicans; House 43 Democrats ; 57 Republicans; a majority of 14 on joint ballot. Iu Ohio, returns from 84 out of 88 counties, show Republican gains of 8,599, and Democratic gains of 6,781 over the last election. The Republicans, besides electing State officers, elect fifteen out of twenty Con gressmeu. West Virginia went Democratic. The Democrats claim the State by from 12,000 to 15,000, and the Chairman of the Republican State Committee concedes it by 8,000. It will take several days to settle precisely how the State has gone, as no reports of any consequence have been received from the Kanawha Valley region, where the Greenback vote was principally cast. Melvin and McConnelly, Republicans, are elected Judges iu the First Circuit. The Legislature will be Democratic in both branches. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The brick work of the cotton factory at Rock Hill is about completed. ? The Supreme Court has ordered the case of York County vs. John L. Watson to be reargued. ? Judge Willard has written a letter to the Greenbackers declining the nomination for attorney-general. They placed hira in nomination without authority. ? The American Union Telegraph Company is now putting up posts and wire along the line of the Charlotte Columbia aud Augusta Railroad, and an office is to be established in Winnsboro', in a few days. ? One day last week, twenty-seven mocking-birds, which were being taken out of the State in violation of the game law, were taken from a steamship in Charleston harbor and turned loose on the battery. ? The Carolina Review tells of three cotton gin accidents in Lancaster county during the week. Mr. Best, working for the Messrs. Draffin, lost two fingers and was otherwise painfully cut; Ransom Jones, colored, lost an arm, and Jesse Yarborough, white, had his left arm and hand severely cut. ? It is positively asserted in Columbia, by leading Republicans, that no nominations for State officers will be made by that party. It is also asserted as positively true that the Republicans will make desperate efforts to carry the electoral vote for Garfield, and elect Congressmen in the First, Second and Fifth Districts. ? A fire broke out on North Commercial wharf in Charleston, on Sunday afternoon last, which destroyed about 2,500 bales of cotton, seriously injured several ships, the wharf, and the buildings uear the wharf. The loss is estimated at 8480,000, which is largely covered by insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed to have been communicated to the cotton by a pipe or cigar. ? There are 682 postoffices in this State, divided among the counties as follows : Abbe---ii "o. * :i no. a ,j o" . ] Vine, ?0 ] lh.t'11 Z.U j niJUCI 3UU, i.'J , JJUI n v? en, 23; Beaufort, 14; Charleston, 23; Chester, 14; Chesterfield, 16; Clarendon, 14; Colleton, 25 ; Darlington, 16 ; Edgefield, 40 ; Fairfield, 14 ; Georgetown, 7 ; Greenville, 34 ; Hampton, 20; Horry, 15 ; Kershaw, 9 ; Lancaster, 19 ; Laurens, 27 ; Marlboro, 9 ; Newberry, 14 ; Oconee, 28 ; Orangeburg, 17 ; Pickens, 18; Richland, 10; Spartanburg, 41; Sumter, 17; Union, 25; Williamsburg, 19; York, 23. ? Dr. Thompson, of Union, is trying the experiment of keeping green food for his stock during the winter, by burying it in a pit, prepared for that purpose. The pit, is about ten feet square and planked up to within about four feet of the top of the ground. This pit he has filled with green pea vines, corn, etc., (about forty two horse loads,) which are cut up with a feed cutter and packed in the pit with feet and malls. The food is covered with plank and four feet of dirt. People in France and several of the Northern States keep green food all winter this way. STATE POLITICAL SEWS. ? A Garfield and Arthur club, composed of colored people, has been formed at Lewis' Turnout, Chester county. ? The Bulletin says that if the Radicals in Chester county are solid, they will be hard to ; outvote. ? The Fairfield News says that although j the Radicals in that county have been making i no outward demonstration, they have been j holding secret meetings for some time, and j ?1a<w1a?ci stunrrrarroto in Wiimolinrn ! groups Ul icuvitio vwug.v^uvv ?M aud have confabs on the street corners. ? The Uuited States District Court opened i in Charleston on Monday last for the appoint-; inent of supervisors of election at all the vo-! ting precincts in the State. County chairmen are requested to select their men and send 1 a list of the names at once to Chief Supervisor ' Sam'l T. Poinier, at Charleston. ? A special dispatch from Camden, to the 1 Columbia Register, dated 011 Saturday last, j says: "The Radicals of Kershaw held a ratification meeting here to day, aud it is no use to disguise the fact that it was a bigger thing < than was expected. Taft, Rainey, Freeman and Blythe all made speeches to an assembly of about eight hundred." ? McKerrall, of the Marion Star says:1 "If we owned a Republican Government with Garfield at its head, and Sam Lee in Congress, and hell, we would rent out the Government and live in hell?we would. We think we would have more peace and prosperity in the latter place. We think so. Let the Republicans get control of the county and State a second time, and you will all think so." ? In speaking of the Greenback ticket, the Edgefield Advertiser says: "This ticket is composed largely of sore-heads, and we may j ] fairly style any man who accepts such a posi- j J tion on it as a disorganizes In South Caroli-1j na there is no middle ground. The issue is j fairly and squarely between the friends of j good government and its enemies. All who 1 oppose the Democratic party assist the Re- . publicans, and are either their dupes or tools, j In either view they make themselves enemies ; of good government, and deserve the condemnation which is meted out to the public enemy." j ( ? The Democrats of Charleston have uomi- < nated the following ticket: For State Sena-j I tor?Augustine T. Smythe. For Represen-!) tatives?C. II. Simonton, J. B. E. Sloan, j1 James Simous, C. P. Richardson, J. Jenkins, H. L. P. Bolger, E. McCrady, Jr., A. S. J. j Perry, John F. Ficken, J. C. McKewn, E. J. ' Dennis, T. W. Baker, John H. Devereux, ] ^ ^ T71_ Ol U...L , V.T. \v . xiigan. r or oneriii?iiugu x-ciguauu. For Clerk of the Court?W. W. Sale. For Corouor?John P. DeVeaux. For Probate 1 J :dge?Win. E. Vincent. For School Coramissioner?Rev. P. F. Stevens. For County Commissioners ?T. A. Huguenin, Philip Fo | garty, Win. H. Cain. ? The Lancaster Review of last week says: i "Four out of the nine precinct chairmen of the Republican party of the county, who, to- ' gether with the county chairman, Charles j Jones, compose the county executive committee, met at this place last Saturday. The ob- j ject of the meeting of the executive committee is understood to have been for the pur- I pose of deciding the question as to whether the party will put a ticket in the field in this { county. The feeling among those present is said to have been very much iu favor of ( making a fight. The possibility, however, is?and our information is gathered from a 1 very creditable source?that the Greenbackers of the county will make nominations for the county officers, and those nominations will be endorsed by the Republicans." i EDITORIAL^INKLINGS. Progress of the Railroad. ? On Wednesday of last week the editor of the Gastonia Gazette visited South Fork I River, where the bridge of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad across that stream is being built. Speaking of the progress of the work, he says: The bridge is being erected by Messrs. Wilkins, Post & Co., of Atlanta, Ga. The mason work was completed Tuesday evening by Messrs. Reese & Deming, which is rough, but very substantial looking. We found Mr. J. H. Rousseau, superintending the bridge work. He said he would 1 have it ready for the trains to pass over by the first week in November. There are three 1 spaus, 110 feet each, and the entire length of : the bridge is 330 feet. The mason work is 25 feet high and the bridge 18 feet 6 inches; total heivht 43 feet 6 inches. 0 _ - - Mr. Rosseau got the stHging across the 6rst span Wednesday evening, but complains of a scarcity of hands. We were surprised to find 1 the track, instead of being temporarily laid, to be in excellent condition. Upon the whole 'the wo k has been creditably performed ; and the ttcstle on Long Creek, built by Henry Setzer, Esq , is the best ou the road. 1 Who is Weaver ? 1 The Rochester (N. Y.) Union, after ( stigmatizing Weaver, the Greenback candidate for President, as a traitor to the Green* , back cause, sketches his political history as j follows: 1 That James B. Weaver, the Greenback candidate for President, is a traitor to the ' Greenback cause, and has been upon the stump in this canvass nothing but a hireling of the Republican National Committee, has 1 long been evident to every man of political ' intelligence in the country. No proofs be- ; youd his public course were needed to estab- j lish the fact. Still, the letter of Dr. Lum, ' the Assistant Secretary of the Greenback Na- ' tional Committee, given in part in our tele- j graphic colutnus to-day, is interesting. Dr. 1 Lum's evidence and strictures, addressed to ' the chairman of the committee, Congressman 1 Murch, of Maine, whose deteat weaver i sought to accomplish by his visit to that State 1 before the election there, will open the eyes 1 oi' such members of the Greenback party as J have heretofore been deluded by Weaver. This man Weaver is a native and long ' time resident of Dayton, 0., and a cousin of 1 James A. Garfield. He is a Republican, dis 1 guised as a Greenbacker, and nothing else. J He lias been a Republican officeholder under ' the State government of Iowa, where he now resides, and was for six years and until the 1 office was abolished, Assessor of Internal Rev- ] enue for the first district of Iowa under the Republican Federal administration. , The Chief-Justiceship. ' On Friday last, the Supreme Court, through Judge Hudson, acting Associate Jus- ] tice, reuderered its decision in the cuse of 1 William D. Simpsom, plaintiff, against A. J. Willard, defendant, denying the claim of Judge Willard. The decision is concurred , in by Associate Justices Mclver and McGowan. The opinion concludes as follows: | "That when, on the 15th duy of May, A. D.,1877, the Hon. A. J. Willard, the present J defendant, was elected Chief Justice, to fill , the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Hon. F. J. Moses, Sr., on March 6, 1877, 1 whose term expired July 30, 1880, he was ] elected to fill such unexpired term only. That f said term having expired on the 20th day of ' July, A. D., 1880, the lawful term of office of j the defendant as Chief Justice of the Supreme . Court of South Carolina ended on the said 1 30th day of July, A. D. 1880. J "That when on the 18th day of December, A. D. 1879, the Hon. W. D. Simpson, plain- 1 tiff herein, was elected to the office of Chief j Justice by joint vote of the General Assem bly, he was elected to "fill -the full terra of .Tlllw SI 1 RSH BTld Pnd OI A J UU1 Oj U^gllillKlg u U1J u*| ? w Vf MMM ?? % ing July 30, 1886. 1 "That he is, therefore, entitled to have and to hold the said office of Chief Justice of 1 the Supreme Court of South Carolina against < the said defendant, and for the full constitu- . tional term aforesaid, and it is accordingly bo adjudged." Northern Republicans Turning Southward. The editor of the Charleston News and Courier telegraphs to bis paper from New York under date of last Saturday, the following intelligence, which would indicate that . the Republican leaders of the North contemplate a political raid on the South : Their victory in Ohio and Indiana has induced the Republicans to push their campaign in the South. At the meeting of the , Republican National Committee yesterday, Sam Lee gave a picturesque account of the , political situation in South Carolina, asserting that Hancock's letter on Rebel claims has . disgusted the Democrats and disposes them to help the Republicans in exchange for the support of their local Democratic tickets. The Independents, he says, are courting the negro vote, and are determined that there shall be no intimidation and a fair count. 1 Lee declared that all bulldozing in South ! 1 Carolina is at an eud, instructions haviog i t been issued against violence, and that not a I disturbance has yet been heard of through the Stute. He believed, he said, that if North- j. ern speakers of prominence were sent to South J Carolina, the Republicans could elect their 1 Congressmen in the First, Second and Fifth s Districts at least, and that the National Re- r publican majority being 25,000, and with the j protection afforded by the position of the , Democrats, the State may be secured for Garfield. The Republican committee, at night, deter- r mined to devote attention to the doubtful dis- ( iricts in Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, ? Florida, Tennessee and Mississippi. Secret* y Sherman has agreed to put in some work n Virginia and the Carplinas, and Carl Schurz likewiso has offered his services in ;he same held, rhe Cotton Crop. Under date of the 15th instant, the Department of Agriculture at Washington nakes the following report of the condition >f the cotton crop: The cotton returns of October 1st, received it the department, give the condition of the jotton crop at 83, being a decline of 8 per 2ent. since September 1st. As compared with Lhe returns received at the same time last year, there is a gain of 2 per cent. The following is a summary of the reports by States : North Carolina.?Forty-two counties reporting give an average of 93 against 77 laBt year. South Carolina.?Twenty counties reporting give au average of 87 against 82 last year. Georgia.?Fifty four counties reporting give an average of 88 against 77 last year. Florida.?Twelve counties reporting give in average of 88 against 80 last year. Alabama.?Thirty-two counties reporting o: : . 7(i give vu a^amat I u IUBI* jcai. Mississippi.?Forty-four counties reporting give 75 against 85 last year. Louisiana.?Fifteen counties reporting give 70 against 80 last year. Texas.?Sixty-five counties reporting give 38 against 65 last year. Arkansas.?Thirty-two couuties reporting jive 85 against 96 last year. Tennessee.?Fifteeu counties reporting give 87 against 80 last yeur. The Atlantic States all report favorable weather and the crop is two weeks earlier than last year. In Florida there is universal complaint of damage from the storms. In Alabama there are too much ruin, rust and caterpillars reported in many localities. In Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee the weather has been too wet, and great loss from cold, the worm, rot and rust is reported. In Texas too much rain in many localities, and worms in nearly all, are reported. Correspondents state that there is as much cotton as can be gathered. Democratic National Executive Committee. The Democratic National Executive Committee was in session last Friday at Democratic headquarters in New York city. The result of the October elections and the prosecution of the campaign were the subjects under discussion, after which the following address was adopted: Tv the Democratic and Conservative Voters of the Country: The election of a President and Vice-President is now before you. State aud local dissensions are eliminated from the issues of the day. The magnitude of a victory or a defeat can only be estimated by the forces and means employed in securing it by fraud aud corruption. The people of the country were defeated in their purpose in 1876, and the rightfully elected President was kept from office. With the combined capital of the Republican party, aided by repeated assessments upon an army of office holders; with the power of the Federal Government, represented by United States marshals at the polls; with intimidation, fraud aud a resort to every corrupt appliance known to States, our adversaries have succeeded in procuring a probable return of their local candidates. Can it be possible that in every State throughout this broad lund the same methods can be brought to bear that were used by Republi* can managers in Indiana and Ohio? Oan ?reat States like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, California, Nevada and New Hampshire be bought, intimidated or defrauded ? Even without the vote of Indiana, which we believe will be redeemed in Nuvember, with New York and New Jersey, and States that are conceded to us, including Maine, the ?lection of our candidate is assured. The Republican party have put in nomination for President and Vice-President two men who, by admission of their own party and press, are unworthy of your confidence and your suffrages. It is impossible that fifty millions of intelligent and patriotic people will consent to place themselves upon the humiliating level thus prepared for them by Republican managers. Fellow-citizens, the first day's repulse it Gettysburg ended on the third with Hau:ock in front in glorious victory. That victory secured to us our Union. The question is not now the preservation of the Uuion, but if constitutional government. Hancock is now as then, in the front; the repulse is now, is then, an omen of victory, which will se lire tn rviminor <renprnfion8 the inestimable vv ""o e> blessings of civil liberty. By order of the National Democratic Committe. Wm. H. Barnum, Chairman. Bethel Presbytery. The fall session of this body convened it Winnsboro on Wednesday of last week^ The following ministers were present: Revs. James H. Saye, D. Harrison, James Douglass, J. W. Querry, D. P. Robintfon, James W. Spratt, F. L. Leeper, W. W. Mills, H. B. Pratt, J. L. Williamson, R. E. Cooper, J. C. McMullen, L. R. McCormick, J. Lowrie Wilson. The following churches were represented ay the elders named: Bethel?J. Leander Adams. Fishing Creek?G. W. Neely. Bethesda?J. L. McDowell. Allison's Creek? W. B. Allison. Rock Hill?J. F. Worknan. Fort Mill?B. F. Powell. Hopewell? F. B. Thomasson. Beth-Shiloh?J. A. L. Stewart. Purity?J. L. Harris. Catholic? W. A. Bngley. Pleasant Grove?Jas. Hamlton. Concord?A. B. Douglass. Mount 01vet?James Beatty. Siou?0. R. Thompion. Horeb?J. M. Ashford. Salem?G. F. Andrews. Lebanon?J. VV. Evans. Dougass?H. H. Gooch. Waxhaw?J. N. Neely. 3ix-mile Creek?J. J. Porter. Cedar Shoals? I. S. Anderson. Yorkville?James F. Hart. Rev. James Douglas was chosen moderator ind James Hamilton, temporary clerk. A letter was read from Rev. J. Spratt White, tendering his resignation as pastor of Catholic and Pleasant Grove churches, on recount of ill health. The churches having consented to a dissolution of the pastoral reation, the resignation was accepted. Rev. R. F. Taylor, of the Atlanta Presby;ery, was received on certificate and exarnimtion as a member of the presbytery. The Rev. J. H. Saye offered the followng, which was adopted: Resolved, That this Presbytery make an effort to raise 84,000, to make up the 830,000 >f the Howe memorial in aid of the Theological Seminary at Columbia, and appoint the Rev. J. L. Williamson, the Rev. R. E. Cooper, the Rev. G. A. Trenholra, and the Rev. W. W. Mills agents in their respective coun.ies, to secure the same ; that the Rev. R. E. L'ooper be appointed chairman of such coranittee; aud that the committee convene at >nce and propose some plan to raise the sum leeded. ? On motion, Rev. W. G. White, of the Louisville Presbytery, was received as a mem>er of the presbytery, ou certificate and eximinatiou. A call from the Yorkville Church for the ninisterial services of the Rev. Thos. R. Engish, of the Macon Presbytery, was presented n the usual form. On motion, it was reolved that this Presbytery hold an adjourned ; neeting during the session of the approachng Synod, and that the call be retained until hat time. On motion, it was resolved that the next neeting of Presbytery be held at Lancaster . } H., on Wednesday night before the first , junday in April, at 7i o'clock. I; X. OCAXi A77AIHS. ? . r NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. S Adickes A Colcock?Democratic Rally. 5 H. F. Adickes. Jr.?Call and See Our Stock. * Miller A Lindsay?Our House?Flour?Sugar and Coffee?Glassware?Meat?Shoes. C Hunter A Gates?Hampton is coming, Ac. t! J. M. Adams?Look Out for the Yorkville Tin Factory?Three Cheers for Hampton ! M. Strauss?Candidate for Greenbacks. J. J. Smith A Co?We Have Now in Stock. Mrs. Fannie L. Dobson?Emporium of Fashion. * Latta Brothers?Grand Democratic Red Shirt C. Rally?New Goods?Rust Proof Wheat. v Withers Adickes?Our Stock is Now Complete. Kennedy Bros. A Barron?At Cost. , J. C. Kuykendal?York Drug Store Paragraphs. ^ Dobson A Parish?A Com plete Stock of Crockery. J Clark Brothers?Important Notice?Last Guano 1 Notice. J S. A. McElwee, Chairman?Managers of Election, j J. F. Wallace, Administrator?Notice to Cred- t itors. , Latimer A Hemphill?Millinery ! Millinery !!? } For Sale, 1 H. W. Hope?Notice. ^ James A. Glenn, D. D.8.?Dental Notice. 3 G. H. O'Leary?Saddlery and Furniture. ) T. M. Dobson?The New York House. LIGHT FROST. ^ A light frost?the first of the season?fell ^ here on Thursday morning last. It was quite * light and did little damage to vegetation. j MILITARY COMMISSIONS. 1 Governor Jeter has issued commissions to J the following officers of the Jenkins Rifles, j Yorkville, of the Eighth Brigade, Second Divison: J. Robert Lindsay, Captain; R. A i Parish, First Lieutenant; J. G. AVardlaw, I Second Lieutenant. J - ] a njtd r?MinrnMii OT 17 'J LAnuL i/U i lun ni Ai<n> ^ Primus Ellis, colored, exhibite<l in the Ey- ^ ^uiker office, last Monday, a stalk of cotton 1 feet high and containing 134 fully matured 1 bolls, besides a number of "forms." The stalk j grew in a field near the railroad depot, which ^ was planted about the 15th of May. '] LEG BROKEN. As Mr. Win. Garner, who lives east of York- ^ ville, near Beth-vShiloh Church, was returning from Yorkvilleto his home on Friday last, when about two miles from town, his horses ran away, throwing him from his wagon and r breaking both bones of one leg below the knee. . I)r Bratton was summoned and rendered the j necessary surgical attention. j FINAL MEETING. The secretary of the King's Mountain Cen- i tennial Association, gives notice that there will be a meeting of the Association at Gastonia on Friday, the *22nd instant, at 5 o'clock f P. M., for the puriiose of hearing reports of ] the officers and making a final settlement of j all business connected with the Association | since its organization. i PERSONAL MENTION. < During the past week we have received calls j from Lieut. Geo. D. Wallace, of the Seventh U. S. Cavalry, who is visiting his home in this J county on leave of absence; and also from Mr. S. C. Sadler, of Florida, and Mr. Robert 1 M. Wood, of Pulaski county, Arkansas, form- 1 er residents, who availed themselves of the ! centennial occasion to visit their old homes. \ COMPLIMENT TO Mrs. McLEAN. On Thursday evening last, a company of vocalists and performers, assisted by Prof. E. W. Lineback, composer of the music, and ' Col. A. Coward, serenaded Mrs. Clara Dargan McLean with a rendition in front of her resi- ' deuce of the lyric written by that gifted lady ( for the centennial celebration. Mrs. McLean ! was deprived attending the celebration, and this was the first time she had heard the composition sung. It was a neat compliment, j happily rendered. Prof. LINEBACK. ( This gentleman, who set to music Mrs. Mc- i Lean's centennial lyric, is now visiting York- 1 ville in a professional capacity?that of piano s tuner. He is a musician of fine ability, and t for a numl>er of years was professor of music i in Salem Female Academy. A gentleman of t integrity, he can be safely depended upon as a i tuner of instruments, while his skill is readily J attested by several persons here whose instru- > ments he has repaired and tuned. lie will re- 1 main in town a few days longer and can be seen at Rawlinson's Hotel. ^ 1 DECLINATURE. I The following note from Mr. James Dillincr w O ? W g ham, declining the nomination of the Green- j back County Convention for the Legislature, ^ has been handed us for publication : , York County, S. C., Oct. 14,1880. Hon. I. D. "VVithkrspoon, Dear Sir: I see ! the Greenbackers have nominated me for the ' Legislature, which I denounce, as I never con- i sented to such a thing to favor the Radicals, t I wish you to publish this in form, and I will satisfy you. 1 am no Greenbacker at present. t Yours truly, James Dillingham. ( CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. f Services will be held in the churches next J Sunday as follows: * Episcopal?Church of the Good Shepherd? c Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. Services at the g usual hours, morning and afternoon. t Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Thos. G.* ert, 8 Pastor. Services at Philadelphia in the forenoon. Preaching at Yorkville at night by J Rev. A. M. Chrietzberg. 1 Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor, t Services at the usual hours, morning and S evening. i DECLINES THE HONOR. J We have received the following card for 3 publication from Mr. J. C. Poag, nominated J on Tuesday of last week by the Greenbackers j of this county, for the office of County Com- * missioner: to tiie public. c Rock Hill, S. C., Oct. 18,1880. 1 * ? 1 * .My name una ueen useu m cuuhcchuh nan . the so-called Greenback nominations of this c county, without my knc fledge or consent. I ] am now, sis I always have been, a straightout j Democrat, and therefore denounce any affilia- t tion with the Greenback or Republican parties i as a slander upon my character; and I warn ' the parties concerned not to trespass a second ' time. It is to be hoped that no Democrat in 1 York county will so far forget himself as to be ] decoyed by the name of a psirty that has no r chance under the sun of ever coming into power, and surely the Confederates have not forgotten in this short time what becomes of a f paper currency which has no solid basis. ' < J. C. POAG. I DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS. On Saturday next a Democratic mass meet- ^ ing and barbacue will be held at Rock Hill. A number of distinguished speakers have been ^ invited, and an imposing parade of Red Shirt r Democracy will be had. We are requested by ^ J. R. London, President of the Rock Hill _ Club, to say that the banner awarded to that ? Club as being the largest in the county in 1878, j, shall be carried on Saturday by the largest g company of red shirts at that place ; and on v Tuesday it will be sent to Yorkville to be carried by the largest company here. The meeting at Rock Hill on Saturday is 3 preparatory to the grand county demonstration to be had in Yorkville 011 Tuesday follow- a ing, the 2bth instant, when it is expected that I the entire Democracy of the county will turn 8i out and give one day to the cause of Home a Rule and Honest Government. It is the de- fi sire of the County Executive Committee, for the 2(ith to be the most magnificent political demonstration ever naci m 1 one couniy, ana such it can be made. Every Democrat is expected to be on hand, and it is desired that all ^ who can do so shall come mounted and in red shirts. Besides the stirring music of two brass bands, there will also be eminent and J popular shakers?among them none less than the gallant Hampton, who has promised to attend. Senator Butler is also expected. It has often been remarked that such demonstra- j tions as distinguished the year 1876 occur only u once in a generation; but if the Democracy 6. of York will only bestir themselves, it can be ^ shown that our i>eople are equal to such emer- y gencies whenever they occur. That emergen- b cy is now upon them, and let it not be said n that through over confidence in their strength, r< or from any other cause, they failed. h As will be seen by the announcement of the n Executive Committee, there will be a grand y parade of red shirts through the principal it streets. The procession will be under the di- 1? rection of Sheriff Glenn as Chief Marshal, and sj fter the parade it will move to the grove in ear of Major Hart's residence, where the peakers' stand will be erected. Business in forkville will be entirely suspended on that ay. The stores will all be closedv and. exerises in the different schools will suspend for he day. CIKl'UIT COURT. On Monday of last week, the following petit nrors were drawn to serve at the term of the Jircuit Court, to convene on Monday next, at riiich his Honor Judge Hudson will preside: Juror. i. S. Hopi>er, Cherokee. liles Poag, colored, Catawba. Ihoraas S. Dowdle, Bullock's Creek. ohn Parker, colored, .Cherokee. ames Gordon, '.. .York. I. IV. Hope, York. Valter T. Piarron, York. 1. E.M.Steele, Ebenezer. Vm. McGill, Cherokee. .lonroe Dickson, colored, Ebenezer. ,Vm. H. Camp, ?Cherokee. ^.dolphus Chambers, colored, York. Vm. T. Darnell, Fort Mill. labe Bowden, colored, Ebenezer. Daniel J. Biggers, King's Mountain. Fosepli Allison, colored, Broad River. ^ Jenjamin "\V. Dawson, Broad River. Vm "R Tlavida/in Ifinor'a WnnnlQin lames M. "VVhitesi -es, Broad River. i >amuel W. Mitchei.1, Broad River. rolinG. Brown, York. iVra. S. Adams, Bethesda. rValter A. Bridges. Cherokee. "j. S. Blakely, colored, Fort Mill. (ohu D. Burgess, Broad River. r. J. Brandon, King's Mountain. >V. T. Boheler, Cherokee. filter J. Moore, Catawba. iV". N. Ashe, Bethesda. diles S. Carroll York. ? )avid J. Moore, Bethel. 3. R. T. Bowen, York. I". B. Kirkpatrick, Bullock's Creek. I. T. Fewell, Catawba. . iVm. L. Plexico, Bullock's Creel;. [frank Moore, colored, Fort Mill. HAMPTON AND SHERMAN. On Monday last, Secretary Sherman furlished for publication the following corresxmdence, consisting of four letters, which rnve passed between himself and Senator Hampton, of South Carolina: Daggers Springs,September 17,1880. To Hon. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treattry: Sir?Some days ago I saw a report of your ipeech at a conference held by the National Republican committee at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, and you were quoted as having used the following language: 44And now you are asked to surrender all you have lone into the hands of Wade Hampton and the Kuklux, and the little segment in the North that is called the Democratic party." May I ask if you used these words, and if you did so, did you mean toconnect me directly or indirectly with what is known as the Ku klux Klau? Requesting an early reply, addressed to me care of Augustus Schell, Esq. New York, I am very respectfully, your obedient servant, Wade Hampton. Washington, September 21, 18P0. Hon. Wade Hampton, New York. Sir?Your note of the 17th instant is received, in which you inquire whether at a conference held by the National Republican joinraittee at the f ifth Avenue Hotel, JMe\v York, I used the language attributed to me as follows: "And now you are asked to su rrenier all you have ioto the hands of Wade Hampton and the Ku-Klux, and the little legment in the North that is called the I)emicratic party." In reply, I have to advise fou that while I do not remember the precise angu&ge, I presume the reporter correctly stated, in a condensed way, his idea of what I ? taid. I no doubt spoke of you as a leading cprescntative of the Democratic party in the south, and referred to the Ku-klux Klan as eprekmtatives of the barbarous agencies by vliich the Democrats have subverted the civ1 and political rights of the Republicans of he South. I did not connect you personally with the E?u klux Klan. Indeed, I know that you tad, in oue or two instances, resisted and debated 'its worst impulses. I appreciated the lense of honor which makes you shrink from leing named iu connection with it. Still you tnd your associales, kndiug men of the South, low enjoy the benefits of political power deived From the atrocities of the Ku klux ?lan, ill which phrase is iucluded all the lumerous aliases by which it has from time o time been kuowu in the South. Your power in the Southern States rests innn the actual crimes of everv prade in the :ode of crimes, from murder to the meanest orm of ballot-box stuffing, committed by the ?u-klux Klan, and its kindred associates, ind, as you know, some of the worst of them iommitted since 1877, when you and they . jave the roost solemn assurances of protection o the freedmen of the South. These crimes ire all aimed at the civil and political rights if the Republicans in the South, and, as 1 beiove, but for these agencies the very State g hat you represent, as well as many other States in the South, would be represented both n the SenAte and House by Republicans. iut for these crimes, the boast attributed to rou that the 144 solid Southern votes wcuid >e cast for the Democratic ticket, would be >ut idle vaporing; but now we feel that is so>er truth. While I have no reason to believe that you >r your Northern associates personally paricipatecl in the offences I have named, yet vhile you and they enjoy the fruits of these [rimes, you are joint co-partners with the ?u-klux Klan in a policy which so far has >eeu successful in the South, and which it is loped, by the aid of a small segment of the Democratic party in t he North, may be exended to all departments of the government, t is in this sense that I spoke of you, the iu klux Klan and the Northern Democratic >arty. Permit me, in conclusion, while frankly inswerfcg your question, to say that the most atal policy would be by such agencies as I % tave mentioned to secure again political astendency in this country, for I assure you hat the manhood and independence of the forth will certainly continue the struggle intil every Republican in the South shall lave free and unrestricted enjoyment of diect and political privileges, including fair a otes, a fair count, free speech and a free * ress, and the agitation made necessary to ecure such results may greatly a Sect injriously the interests of the people of the louth. Very respectfully your obedient serant. John Sherman. Charlottesville, Va., October 1. ?o Hon. John Sherman : Sir?Your letter has been received, and, 9 you do not disclaim the language to which have called your attention, I have only to ly that in using it yen uttered what was bsolutely false and what you know to he ilse. My address will be Columbia, S. C. I am your obedient servant, Wade Hampton. Washington, D. C., October 18. 7o the Hon. Wade Hampton, Columbia, 8. O. Sir?I have to acknowledge the receipt of our note of the 1st, banded me unopened by Ir. C. McKiniey a few moments ago. After ly return from the West 1 had this morning sad what purported to be an extract of a peech made by you and published in the Jews and Courier, and upon yoor general reptatiou had denied that you made such a seech or written such a letter as is attribu:d to you in that paper. What I stated to ou in my letter of the 21st of September, I elieve to be true notwithstanding your de* ial, and it can be shown to be true by public jcords and as a matter of history. As you ad, long before your letter was delivered to te, seen proper to make public a statement of our views of the correspondence, I will give to the press without note or comment, and it the public decide between us. Very re>ectfully, John Sherman, _ |