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How the Cholera is Propsgated.

The letter of DR.. Charles A. Lee, Pro.
fessor of Hygiene in the Buffalo University,
which was read recently at the meeting of
the New York Health Commissioners, is at,
tracing a great deal of attention, not only
from the medical fraternity, but also from
citizens generally. New theories in regard
to the probability of cholera are there ad-
vanced, which are go full of sound common
sense that they at once tear away all the
mystery which has hitherto been surround
ing the progress of that dreadful disease.
While all municipal corporations are about
making preparations to avert the arrival OF
cholera during the coming spring, it is well
that they should know that the only real Sc.
curity of our people against this disease is
in carrying out the most thorough sanitary
reforms, in personal, domestic, and civil
cleanliness and publication andit is work
which requires instant attention. Professor
Lee, in a letter to DR.. Sayre, our resident
physician, gives the following as bis reason'
for the above injunctions:
81 hold that we have satisfactory evidence
that the disease is communicated through
the evacuations of those infected With 1t
aud in this way only. could adducs
many instances where there can be no ques
ton that the cholera has been conveyed tt
hitherto healthy localities by means of on'
infected person, in whom the disease ha
manifested itself only BY an apparently ul
fling diarrhea. Persons so affected ma
doubtless travel from one place to aDothe
without serious development of the disease
and leave behind him in privies and water
closets germs which may give rise to a dead
" epidemic. 1t is this fact, so general
overlooked, or not recognized that has throw
SO much mystery over the causes and mod
of extension of the most fatal and myste
rious malady. This fact also explains thos
apparent anomalies in the progress OF 10
disease, why it often takes no defined cours
in its wanderings, but spreads Indifferent
in different quarters-now with the Wln
and now against it--now follow the mai
routes of travel, nevertheless often deviatin
from them, but travelling no faster in an
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YoRKvILLE, February :, ls66.-Cotton.-We are ena
bed to report better feeling In this article and slight i'm
provcmen, In prices We now quote extremes ri - TO
26S.
Flour-Is scarce. For good country, we quote s. per
hundred pounds.
Corn-very little offering. We continue quotations at
81 per bushe
Seed Oa,s.--Arc very much in demand. There having
been no sales unable TO give quotations.
Groceries, 4c.--Sugar, per pound, l2k 2Oc Coffee,
per pound 6 3Qc Baggng per yard IS TO 3Oc Manila
Rope per pound 2s 30 Hemp Rope, pound 20 10
25c; Cheese, per pound 25 TO 3Oc.
All OF the above quotations are In gold.
CHARLorrg, Feb. 5.-Thcre is not much change in the
price Cotton since last week. 2J 10 ID IS gold is about
Corn 81 10 10 81. so per bushe; Peas Sl3O $40
Flour $3.50 per hundred; Bacon 10 to ~, according to
dryness.
Nrw YORK, Feb. 3.-The market Is dun and prices are
In the buyers favor The demand s from speculaors and
exporters We notice sales of 6i25 bales. We quote fol
Uplant-Good Ordinary 44E Low MiddIing, f6H Mid
ding, fsE Good Middling, SIN.
Cu.RLrsros, February Trade still continues dull
Ii has not ceased sagnaed but there Is not that increase
OF business which the sudden Improvement o TWO weeks
ago and the approach Of Spring would warrant some
business transacted and merchants not altogether dlt
but there is hucuaton and uncertainty In the demand
for any and all kind OF goods which indicates the want
base Oi operations, and which augurs no good Tor INT
future. In addition Uhc unsettled political condition
the country, there is cause for this state OF the makc
10 which we have before alluded. tis the imperiec
communication between the city and the country whcnc,
must the supply Of the staple which is the life and
soul uf all trade III the South.
Cotton.The receipts since last have amounted tC
one hundred and foytwo bales of Sea Island, and iwt
thousaLd five hundred and twenty five bales OF GplanC
Cotton. The transactions during the early part otlc wcts
owing to fall in the English and Northern narkes wer
decline OF abOut2 cents per pound from the 4uolauu'
Of the previous week; but on "Wednesday tc spirit oil III
market improved, and considerable sales took place
I6uiT cents Tor Middng Strict Middns aud Is cent:
per pound Tor Good Middlng Cotton The sales YESTERDAY
very limited buyers apparently having no disposition
operate. We quote
liuullnB COttOn .'io9:fo S'hto pa P'N'..
Sfc, Middiny iny.................i7 Al cents per pound
Good Midd ing ..4S cents per pound
DIy GooGs.-A decline Of several cents has taken Pnc
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Results Of Mr.. Stewards Trip.

WASHINGTON, January 30, 1S66.-The
Secretary of State arrived here on Saturday
from Havana, having successfully accom-
plished most important diplomatic mis-,
sion. On Monday be had long interview
With the President, to whom he communi
Gated the results of this mission. At the
Cabinet meeting to-day, all the member:
were present, aud the matter was made the
subject of special discussion. I have be-
fore intimated that the object of Mr.. Sc
wards visit to Havana was to bring about
a peaceable and honorable settlement of
the Mexican question l am now able to
state positively that he was invested by the
President with extraordinary and plenipo.
tentiary powers for this purpose. A high
officer of Maximilisn's Government, clothed
with similar powers, met Mr.. Seward at
Havana an interview took place there, at
which the basis of the settlement was agreed
upon. The agreement does not provide for
the recognition of Maximilian, nor does it
require the United States to make any
change in her foreign policy nor to abandon
any cherished principle. l am not even a.
ware that Mr.. Seward made any pledges or
promises whatever, but on the same day
that the De Soto left Havana, French
steamer left that port for Vera Cruz, and
it bore to Maximilian the verbal assurance
that the policy of neutrality on the part of
the United States toward Mexico would be
continued and strictly enforced.
To day MIR. Seward communicated to the
Cabinet the gratifying fact that the evacua-
ton of Mexico by the French troops would be
commenced Immediately, and that it would
be our own fault if that evacuation was not
complete before next July. The Mexican
question is now in fair way to be settled
peacefully and honorably, and there are on
ly two ways by which that settlement can
be retarded-6rst, by violations of neutrali.
ty on the Rio Grsnde; and second, by
the introduction in and passage by Con.
gress, of offensive, and injudicious resolu-
tions like those of Schenck's.-Neao York
Neaos.
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of the French troops. ops.....''''On German
railroads, in the last thirty years, only two
passengers have been injured, and neither
of these. fatally. ......." BRIGHAM YOUNG
has had a new "revelation." He says it is
sthe will of God that the sisters should
make their own bonnets and hats for them
selves and their families from straw and
other material raised in the Utah Noun.
tains ......... About one thousand tons of
shot and shell thrown into the forts at the
mouth of Cape Fear River (below Whining
ton,) by the navy during the boubardment
under Admiral PORTER, have been collec-
ted, and will be sold at auction, Feb. Is,
for the benefit of the government. .'..'.''.A
life of JOHN MORGAN is in active prepara-
ton BY his devoted friend, and companion,
Basil Duke. The biography, it is said, will
fully vindicate the personal character and
military fame of that celebrated Southern
partisan. During the war nine Copfede-
rate Generals belonging to Tennessee we're
killed: ZoLLICoFFER, ROBERT HATToN,
JAMES RAINS, STEARNs, PRESTON SMITH,
STRAHL, CARTER, JOHN ADAMS, and R.
c. TYLER, the latter the last general officer
killed on either side. South Carolina lost
BEE, GIsT, GREGG, JENKINS DUNNovANT,
PERRIN, STEVENS, and MANIGAULT. .....'
The Holly Springs (Miss.) Reporter says
that the negroes are contracting in that
county, but adds, that "if all the freedmen
in the county were now employed on the
farms, not one half of the open land could
be cultivated the present year for the want
of labor, as several thousand of our best
field laborers have left during the war, and
but few have returned. ."........At recent
sale of autographs in Germany, a pen, au-
thenticated as having been used by Schiller,
was sold for about sixty cents. ''..'There
are twenty. y.one editors in the Iowa Legis-
lature. .........A London firm began busi-
ness on six hundred and Fifty dollars, three
years ago, and has just failed forever mil
lion. "a Republican editor, applying at
one of the most important departments last
week for the official advertising, was asked
if his paper would adopt the Presidents
policy. The intimation was made that on
no other terms could official patronage be
given out. .......".General NATHANIEL 6.
EVANS, is practicing law in Augusta, Ga.
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l. a8- The 2lst Illinois infantry, the regi.
ment in command of which General Grant
entered upon the brilliant military career
which culm mated in his com mission as
Lieutenant General of the American army
and navy, has just returDed from New Or
leans. This veteran regiment now mum,
bers four hundred and ninety. two men and
tweDty.one officers, among whom are only
Fifty men and two officers who started out
with General Grant as Colonel One of the
originals is the commanding officer of the
regiment, Colonel Jamisou.
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w Cultivating the acquaintance of a
moueyed stranger and Familiarity handing
him an apple filled with strychniue to eat, is
the latest mode of preparing him to be quiet
ly robbed. Some robbers banded one to re-
turned Californian in this way night or two
ago at Wellsville, Ohio, on the Cleveland
and Pittsburg Railroad In short time
the strychniue, previously placed in the ap
pie, began to take effect, causing the gen.
tleman to fall in helpless condition on
the pavement, where he was discovered at
late hour, 10 great agony, robbed of all
his money and everything of value about
his person. Apples, familiarly dealt ont by
strangers, should hereafter be considered
unhealthy.
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HSg@ The Paris correspondent of the

B@H The Paris correspondent of the In
dependent Beige, writing on the 26th ult +,
says that an attache of the French Minister
of Foreign Affairs has accompanied NJ.
Hidalgo, bearing to Maximilian. of Mexi-
co, project for the evacuation of that coun-
try and that it was no secret in official cir
ces that the Emperor Napoleon wished to
recall bis troops as soon as possible. The &C.
tion of the United States Congress, the
correspondent further says, may hasten on
a solution of the France Mexican matter
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-08

LANDS IN ARKANSAS Wild land iu
Arkansas, writes correspondent, can be
bought from the United States Governm ent
at from II! cents to 81 25 per acre the
State herself owns about 100000 acres of
land, which can be bought at from fifty to
seVenty-6ve cents per acre; and there are
thousands of acres of improved lands, in d
high state of cultivation, which can be
bought at from SIS to $50, equal to the best
cotton, to bacco and corn land in the world
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The Presbyterian Church.

The General Assembly of the Presbyte.
rian Church, one of the ablest eccleslastl-
cal bodies in the country, which assembled
in Macon, Georgia, last month, issued a
pastoral letter to the churches under their
charge, which has been greatly admired by
all denominations for its clear, calm and
Christian counsel. After reviewing the ac-
tiou of the Church in the past in relation to
slavery, and iu commenting on the present
condition of the freed people, the address
says:
"But in this dispensation of Providence
which has befallen the negroes of the South
ern States, and mainly without their agen-
cy, your obligations to promote their well
fare, though diminished, have not ceased.
Debtors before to them when bond, you
are still debtors to them when free You
are bound to them not only by the ties of a
common nature; common sin, but CON-
mon redemption also. They have grown up
around and in your households, have toiled
for your benefit, ministered to Jour CON-
forts and wants, and have often tenderly,
faithfully nursed you in sickness. They
are still around your doors, in the bosom of
your community. Many of them are your
fellow. heirs of salvation. Together with
you, they need it; greatly need it for time,
for eternity. We are persuaded you will
not turn away from them in this day of
their imagined milleuium-we fear, of ter
rible calamity. Do all you can for their
best welfare, and do it quickly, for they al
ready begin to pass rapidly away. By pure
ness, by knowledge, by lopg-suffering, by
kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love uu,
feined, by the Word of God, by the aruor
of righteousness on the right hand and on
the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil re-
port and good report, let it be shown to all
men that nothing shall withdraw the sym.
patty of your heart or the labor of your
hand from a work which must of necessity
and ever rest chiefly upon those who dwell
in the land, and not upon the strangers who
visit it. If their condition is made better,
if soulsare plucked as brands from the burn,
ing, you will have the comfort of knowing
that ycu were, under God, instrumental in
such happy results"
The above eloquent and Christian Ian
guage must commend itself to the hearts of
all who have an interest in the welfare of
their country.
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INTHE COURT OF ORDINARY,

YORK DISTRICT.
FOR DIVISION OR SALE OF THE REAL ESTATE
OF DUNCAN McCALLUM, DECEASED.
Catharlne Copeland, Applicant Peter McCaum Mary
Jackson, David Poovey and wife, Chrstlne Janet WIZ
llams, Dr. William M. McCalum, James b. Jackson
and wife, Jane; d. A. McCaIlum, and - Thomas
and wife, Nancy, heirs of Duncan McCaun, deceased
IT appearing 10 my satisfaction, that James b. Jackson
and wife, Jane; ID. A. McCallum, and Thomas and
wife, Nancy defendants In above stated case reside with
the limits Of this State: 1t is, therefore, ordered that
they do appear and object the division or sale OF the real
twelfth day February 1866, their consent 10 the same
will be entered Of record. ]. A. BROWN, .. Y. d.
NOvember9 80 Sm
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case than ships, railroad cars and men travel
Those great leaps which it sometimes seems
to take, and which have been supposed to
be owing to the poison of cholera being
carried by winds, are thus satisfactorily ex-
planned. ."-Baltimore Transcript
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IMPORTANT TO TAX PAYERS. We
present our readers with, and direct their
attention to, the following extracts from a
circular issued recently from the Office Of
the Comptroller General of this State, with
regard to the construction of the Bill "to
raise supplies" passed at the recent session
of the Legislature.
"The tax on spirituous liquors brought
into this State must be levied on all such
liquors brought 10 at any time between the
1st October, 1864 and the 1st October,
1866"
This is distinct tax, and is to be paid
by the importer; if the same liquor is sold
by him with his general stock of goods,
wares and merchandise, the amount of such
sales is not to be included in his "general
return of goods, wares and merchandise "
If liquors are purchased here and sold with
general stock, then such are to be inclu.
ded with aud reported to the Collector on
the general return of goods" &C., made
from lst May, 1865, to lst January, 1866
"In collecting the tax on the sales of cot
ton made from lst May to lst October,
1865, the Collector should look in general
to the party who actually makes the sale !;
but, on a past transaction, if it is made
plain that the seller was but an agent, and
the owner who is benefited by the sale is
pointed out, and is within the State, the
tax should be collected from the owner"
"The tax on the value of crude turpen-
tine, spirits of turpeutine and rosiu, should
be paid to the Collector of the District
where the property was located on 1st DC
tober, 1865"
"The capitation tax on male residents,
applies to both white residents aud to freed
men." ."-Charleston Courier
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SOUTH CAROLINA-YORKDI DIS

- TRICT-Whercas, SARAH FARls has applied to
me for Letters of Administration, on aIl ana singqa
FARIS, late of the District aforesaid, deceased.
These are therefore cite and nd%onsh and singular
40. hna 49, ON n Ordinary Courtfo the said Dis
rct TO be holden at York Court House OH the 10Th day
Of February next shcw cause: Il nny' why the said
Give, nnder INV hand and Seal, this 9th day OF Janua
ry, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and siyss and IN the nineteen t year oil the In
'eP'"'-">S " JOHN a. BROWN, .. Y. d.
February II -
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s9- A dispatch from the West says: {:
"The feeling is so strong in Indiana against
negro suffrage that all republican leaders
and members of Congress are obliged to
oppose it. 1t is admitted by republican
members of the Ohio Legislature, 90 the
floor of the House aud in public discussion,
that.negro suffrage will be beaten by $4,000
votes in that State
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HOUSE.PAENTING, sc.

NELSON DAYS IcSDGclGgy. ~ '1faLn0 a,s3 oiiIaaRa.a
HOUSE PAINTING, GLAZING and PAPER k-hANGiNG.
Tie nrdes himself especially In being able to initiate sue
cessuiIy the various kind Of Wood, viz MAHOGANY,
MAPLE, OAK, SATIN WOOD, WALNUT, ROSE
WOOD, &c, &c Also, Egyptian, Italian pennsylvania,
Jasper and Sinah MARBLES. .... ... ...
BY strict attention business he hopes to secure snare
of public patronage feels assured that he VIII oe ape
IN giv. anfIra satsr1con 10 those who may employ him.
G- Ali communications addressed TO him at Yorkrilie
O. W VIII "'ee' WIN p'' NELSON DAVIES.
oo,ob., os % 6m
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1866.
rs YEARS.
1866.


YES quarter Of Century spent In prescribing, using,
and selling DRUGS AND MEDICINES, surely must enti
tie the Proprietor Of the YORK DRUG STORE a thor
ough knowledge Of the business he has undertaken In the
town Of Yorkvlle, g. c. In this New Year or 1885, he,
therefore, continues HIS BUSINESS AT THE OLD
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, OILS, Dye Suffs Perfumey,
Glass Patty, Patent Medicines Combs, Brushes and Fancy
Articles generally, at the lowest market prices
PRACTHTIONER OF MEDICINE
May rely with certainty upon having their Bills filed with
neatness and dispatch, and with Drugs and Medicines
every way pure and rellable at the LOWEST CASH
PRICES whilst their PRESCRIPTIONS shall be prepared
"secnden dTe1n, properly labelled, with directions In
plain and iegibe manner .s..' ...'.
FAMILIES -r.a. e..
Can be sure of having GOOD AND RELIABLE MEDI-
ClNES put up In just such quantity and style will suit
them and their freedmen, with such information generally,
In their VIII be valuable them In their adnnisra
don. The heads Of Families, therefore, In puclasngffom
me- may always be sure Of gong pure articles besides my
COUNSEL AND ADVICE.
THE LADIES
WIN always find hand excellent variety Of ARTI-
Giles FOR THE TOILET: such as Penumery, Pomades,
Hair Oils and Hair Toncs Soaps, Toilet Powders Tooth
Powders, Combs, Brushes, &C.. &c. -. -.-.-.-
THE GENTLEMEN
VIII fpd for their the choicest brands of CHEWING
and SMOKING TOBACCO, Segars, Pipes, Snuff, Tobac-
co and Snuff BOXES, &C., &c. ,-, ..-
SCHOOL BOYS AND GIRLS
VIII be sure to get sates Slate Pencils Lead Pencils black
and white and assorted colored Crayons Pencil Points,
Steel Pens Pen Holders, Large Fooseap Paper for Copy
Books Note and Commercial Papers, Envelopes, ac &c.
All NJ the York Drug Store. DIR. JOHN MAY.
January lS 30 II
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RENOVATING AND CLEANSING
,EN GOODS.

MRS J. E. GRIST respectfully informs the cluzens OF
Yorkye and vicinity, that she Is prepared 10 RENoVhIE
AND CLEAN Gentemens Goats, Pants and Vests, ana
Ladies' Cloaks. REPAIRING DONE IF NECESSARY.
Satisfaction Guaranteed Ii the garments are not too much
WORN or FADED. -, ,,.,
RrprRs TO: Capt. I. d. WitheHpoon, G. r. Ratchtord,
r. NJ. Dobson, Thos II. Dickson, NJ Jones, w. l. Cia~-
Articles Ic at the Printing Office will be attendedto
December II -
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:finantial 4 GonullertiaI.
OMMERCIAI.

- 1t VIII be remembered by readers that the prices
erwse specially stated.
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STATE TAX COLLECTORS

AND Commissioners to approve Public Securities are
hereby noed that the Actof December 1885, "To raise
supplies" &c. Sec 81 requires "The Treasurer cause
the official bonds of the several Tax Collectors of this State
TO be examined by the Commissioners appointed In their
respective Tax Districts approve public securities, and
II the said bonds found 20 be sufficient and satisfactory
they shall affirm their original approval thereof but
found insufficient and unsatisfactory, they shall require the
same be reexecuted and renewed with good and su
cient sureues." The PoST'OFFlCE and ADDRESS of
each Tax Collector and Of each Chairman of the Board Of
Commissioners, must be furnished without delay,
that information to the penalty of each bond and the
Of the suretes thereto may be forwarded IL Com.
missoners should adudge any bond TO be insufficient and
unsatisfactory, they will Immediately give notice thereof to
the Treasurer or Comptroller General. ..a.s
WIN. HOOD, State Treasurer.
j STATE Treasury OFFICE Columbia, January y, 1895.
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JEFF. DAvIs-STRANGE RUMoRS
The ruimors of the rescue of Jefferson Davis
from prison are assuming new aud strange
character 1t is now hinted that the au.
thorities desire his escape, and that facili.
ties have been offered him, but that he acoa't
90. Chief Justice Chase does not hesitate
to say that he cannot be convicted of trea-
son, and Thad Stevens declares that he is
nothing more thap.a foreign leader, about as
much amenable to the laws of the United
C,eves as Macmillan. l have 1t from the
best authority-from authority which you
cannot question-tbat Mr. Davis feels the
most ample security. He said less than a
week ago, "my defence is complete now,
and rests solely upon the law, which will
be administered fairly, l know, and iu per-
feet accordance with civil justice" The
shameful petticoat story will be put to the
blush when that time arrives. Mr. Davis
is at present in good health, eats heartily,
reads a good deal and possesses, as he said
the other day, "a good digestion and good
conscience" He receives letters frou biz
wife three times week, and keeps jour,
nal every day - Washington Cor. NASH
viUe Banner.
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COTTON SEED.

sN0 BUSHELS OF COTTON SEED FOR
H&V1 SALE. Purchasers furnishing SACKS can
have their SEED DELIVERED AT ROCK HILL, on the
Charlotte and !. G. Railroad Apply to Col J. '" RAWL-
INSON, or thr York Drug Stor", 10
Or. JOHN MAY.
- Columbia Ph1niJ and Fairfield Ne copy three times
and send accounts TO this bhce.
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