Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-10-22

gia. The method be developed was briefly this
To raise the cotton plants in hot bed, so as to
have them ready to transplant, and as large as pos
sible for that purpose, SO soon as ross were gone
in the spring. Meanwhile to lay out in squares OF
hills, eight feet apart each way, and have these
nured. By early transplanting, the bolls would
begin to open in June, and, in favorable year,
produce till November With two stalks to the
hill and fifty matured bols to the stalk, his calcu.
lation was that the product would be seven thou,
sand pounds of seed cotton to the acre. But il
one were to judge by a cotton-patch we saw this
fall with an average of about three hundred bolls
and blooms to the stalk, and add the condition Of
FIVE full months fruiting time, it is difficult to tell
what would be the product of an acre Of cotton un
der such conditions. We should like to see the
experiment tried" +.," '-,.- %. :i-.E
Conspiracy TO Assassinate President Johnson.
The "Qlid Nuncs' of Washington have
recently been considerably exercised with reference
to an alleged conspiracy to assassinate President
johnson: The Washington Eapress furnishes
the following particulars on the subject: ';",i 2.
''The facts as alleged are certainly startling, and
are well calculated to inspire alarm if they have
the least foundation in truth. 1t seems, 80 the
story goes, that pending the impeachment trial q
ded together in the first ward of this city and took
the most solemn oaths to assassnate the President
if he should be convicted by the high court of i'm
parchment and should attempt to resist tho execu.
ton of. its Judgment When impeachment failed,
the object for which they had banded together
failed with some, who abandoned the organization,
while Others more bold and reckless, continued to
meet and talk over the matter until they renewed
their oaths to kill the President any how. By
some means or other man named Frank Evans,
who resides on K street, near Twenty. ty.second, and
who has been for some time employed in the ma
chinery department Of the note printing bureau Of
the treasury, became cognizant Of what was going
on Evans made the facts known, and suspicion
was at once directed towards certain localities in
the upper part of the city, where it was ascertain
ed the negroes were in the habit of secretly meet
ing and drilling. Last night Brigadier- General
Morris Miller, of the Quartermaster-G General
Department, u. s. A., called at the note e-printing
bureau, where Evans was engaged, and IN COM
pany With tho latter proceeded to the places where
tho negroes were wont to assemble, and it is said
General Miller was thoroughly convinced Of the
existence Of the plot and the name of one individu
al is given who is alleged to be the head and front
of the plot. Measures were Immediately inaugu-
rated to effect the arrest of all the parties engaged
in the scheme, and it was deemed important that
the discovery should be kept as secret as possible.
It leaked out, however, the newspaper men got
hold Of it, and whether true or false, the country
has had another exciting feast and another nine
days wonder. .... .i-
Increase Of the National Debt.
Hon. Robert j. Walker, late Secretary Of
the Treasury, has recently been writing series OF
articles on the subject of the national debt which
has attracted considerable attention. In answer
to friend writing to him from Philadelphia, with
reference to the NATTER he says:
"In reply to your inquiry would say that the
table Of the public debt Of the United States at the
various periods, referred to in the National L,te-
gencer of yesterday morning. is accurate in oil re-
spects having been taken from the books Of the
United States Treasury"
"You ask me if it is fact that the annual ex-
penditures of the government have been increased,
as therein stated, over fortysix millions Of dollars
($46, ,O56, ,559) by an augmentation to that extent
of the yearly interest in currency of the public debt
since 3Oth April 1866? / answer that it is an in.
disputable fact; and will add that from careful
consideration Of the condition of the treasury it Is
clear that this annual interest will 60 on increasing
It is possible that there may be small reduction,
of the public debt last month, but this reduction,
if made, will be in debts bearing mainly no inter-
est, or in war claims withheld, whilst the debt
bearing coin will be augmented That there is an
increased yearly expenditure exceeding forty-six
millions of dollars since April 3d. 1885, to meet the
augmented interest as currency OF the public debt
is certain.
This is the true test of our financial condition,
and to ME it seems certain that nothing but total
change of policy will save US from national bank
ruptcy. This change of policy must be based upon
q vast decrease of our annual expenditures. As
recommended in my financial letter of November
last we must abolish the freedmens bureau; we
must recall the army from the South and reduce it
to moderate peace establishment; we must ter
inmate there the joint rule of the negro and the
bayonet, and slavery and secession having been
forever abandoned, permit the Southern States, in
obedience to the federal constitution, to govern
themselves as before the rebellion.
1.-THE fact Of this vast increase of the annual in
terest of the public debt is not disputed ques-
ton-it rests on transcripts from the books Of the
treasury, and cannot be denied. This item of ex-
penditures for the increased annual interest Of the
public debt is nearly equal to double the entire
yearly expenditures of Mr. Folks administration
before the Mexican war, and nearly equal to its
subsequent annual expenditures, including the war
and heavy payments for the principal and interest
of the public debt.
"But even if we take the 30th of November last,
the date of the last annual report Of the Secretary
of the Treasury, we find the increased annual in
terest in currency of the public debt $26, 574 329
from the Both Of November last, 1867, to the 31st
of August, 1868, being an augmentation at the rate
of three millions of dollars year. ~,,. 49,.
"At this rate of increased annual expenditure,
for interest only on the 30th Of November, 1869,
little over year, this single item of yearly dis
bursements would reach seventy-two millions of
dollars 1t is clear, then, that the radical policy
leads rapidly and certainly to national bankruptcy,
and that nothing can save US but change Of men
and measures"
Speech of Hon. John Quincy Adams.
The Charleston papers publish in full the
speech of Hon. John Quincy Adams, of Massa-
chusetts, delivered in Columbia on Monday of last
week. The speech was we'll received, and is char
acterized by the Mercury as an admirable and ju-
dicious speech" The Courier commends it for
''frankness and sincerity" The speech was tele-
graphed to the World, and in another column we
publish the comments ofthat journal on it, which,
by the way is the most influential Democratic news
paper published in New York. We make the fol-
lowing extracts from the speech, and next week
will endeavor to lay the whole Of it before our
readers:
sYour relations to the political parties of the
North have very important bearing upon your
fate, at all events, just now, and demands careful
meditation Most of you doubtless regard the sue
nf tho non,ocrafic essential tn voIIr