Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-19


In short, the Grange of the Patrons Of Hus.
bandry is for the elevation of the masses So
cially, mentally, morally and financially, and
we hope that the press of no political party
will so oppose US that we shall be compelled
to regard them as our enemies"
Grant for a Third Term.
- Occasionally, intimations are given out,
from various sources, that Grant is already
working to secure his election for the third
term. These reports may be only gossiping
6ctions of inventive correspondents; but COM
ing as persistently as they do, backed by the
well-known predictions Of Grant for an easy
position at high salary, we would not be
surprised if they have some foundation in fact.
A recent Washington letter says the organ
ization which was formed three years ago for
the purpose of securing Grants denomination
for second term, has already had one or two
informal meetings for the purpose of deter
mining upon comprehensive plan for the
purpose of gradually familiarizing the masses
of the Republican party with the idea of a
third nomination Of Grant. The correspon-
dent says the following ideas will be kept
prominently before the people:
First, that there is nothing dreadful, per &c.
in President serving three terms next, that
if the country has good president, it would
be foolish to set him aside for no better reason
than that somebody else wanted the position /;
and lastly, as the time for the nominating con-
vention approaches, that domestic tranquility
at the South and the integrity of the Union
can be assured only by continuing Grant in
the presidential chair for third term. The
press is to be used extensively for the dissem-
mination of these ideas; and it has been deter
mined that, after while, only avowed third
term men shall be appointed to vacancies in
the civil service, and that the tenure of Office
of every man, from the cabinet officer to the
night watchman of a custom house, shall de-
pend upon his openly expressed views favoring
a third term.
The MOdOc Prisoners.
-On the 5th instant, Gen. Davis caused
to be read to Captain Jack declaration in
which was cited the various ofenses with
which the captured Modocs stand charged,
and appointing the next day at sunset as the
time for their execution. This summary pro.
ceeding, however, was stopped by the Govern
ment, and the Indians will have trial, when
there will be no difficulty, we suppose in es'
tablishing their guilt. As recently as last
Saturday, Gen. Sherman is reported to have
said of Gen. Davis, concerning his indictment
of Captain Jack and the preparations for
hanging him and his associates:
eff the statement is correct there is no doubt
that Gen. Davis must have exceeded his duty,
and he would have been held responsible for
his acts. He should be guided by military
rules and the law. We all know they are
murderers; the President himself says they are
murderers, and had Gen. Davis shot him
while they were being pursued, 1 do not think
he would have exceeded his duty. He did
not do this, and could not afterwards shoot
them in cold blood. Davis report to Gen.
Scho6eld, Gen. Sherman said, may differ from
that published in the papers. Davis is too
experienced an officer to do anything to bring
odium upon the army or lay himself open to
military court.martial for exceeding his duty
as an officer"
The General thinks there will be no diff
Guilty about disposing of the Modocs under
arrest. Those found guilty of murder will be
hung or shot, and if it is proved there was an
agreement for general uprising among the
tribes, others will receive punishment as a
warning to the Indians. He remarked, how
ever, that it was a pity the guilty Modocs
were not shot at first; then all this commotion
of business and expense would have been
avoided. As to the killing already Of few
prisoners, Gen. Sherman says those who COM
mitted the deed are low blackguards and muir
derers, who had nothing whatever to do with
the army.
New York's Last Sensation.
-The latest sensation in New York is the
murder by young man of his father, a brief
account of which we published last week.
What gives additional zest to the affair is the
fact that the parties concerned belong to
wealthy and influential families. The wife of
the deceased man, and mother Of the parricide,
is daughter of Col. Hardin, Of kentucky.
Some years ago she left her husband, Mans
field Tracy Walworth, and with their son has
been living at Saratoga. Frequently she has
been the recipient of offensive letters and
threats from her husband, causing her, as is
alleged, to fear violence at his hands. Some
of these direful missives we're written with
blood aud sanded with gun-powder. So in
censed did the youthful son become at this
conduct of his father, that on the third instant
he shot him, as has been before stated. In
answer to the question what he had to say, if
anything, to the charge of numbering his faith
er, he said:
II am guilty of no crime. 1 will make a
statement. My father treated my mother
very cruelty for years. He was incensed
against his own father for putting his little
share of the property in trust so that my
mother and family got something out of it.
My father kept writing letters to my mother
full of imprecations against his father. He
wrote to her among other things, i will kill
your boy and defeat the id scoundrel in his
grave and cut off his id name forever He
also threatened my mothers life. About