Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-01-30

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EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Georgia Senatorship.
- The contest for Senator from Georgia
resulted in the election of Gen. j. B. Gordon,
whose competitors were A. H. Stephens and
B. H. Hill. The prospect is quite favorable,
however, for Mr.. Stephens to represent the
Augusta District in Congress, in place of
Gen. Wright, member elect, who died few
weeks ago. At "a meeting held in Atlanta on
Wednesday after the election for Senator, it
was determined to request Mr. Stephens to
become a candidate for Representative, each
of the candidates declaring in his favor, and
all of them uniting in making the request,
thus leaving the field unobstructed. Mr..
Stephens, it is understood, has consented to
serve if elected.
Crime in New York.
Murders accumulate in New York. Two
more have occurred within fortnight. Two
young men quarreled in regard to supposed
insult which one thought he had received from
the other, which resulted in the fatal shooting
of one of the parties. And later, a reckless
and drunken driver shot man off his horse
in crowded street in a dispute about the
right of way! Surely, a few wholesome ex-
amples ought to be made in community
where there is so little regard for human life.
The newspapers are urging the rigid pun
ishment of crime as the only remedy. The
Supreme Court of New York has rejected the
appeal of Foster, the car-hook murderer, for a
new trial, and he has been sentenced to be
hung on the 9TH Of March. The belief pre-
walls that Stokes will also pay the penalty OF
his crime; and it would seem that he is OF
the same opinion too, he having transferred
his property to his mother.
New Postal Measures.
1t is in contemplation to reduce the
rates of letter postage to two cents for each
half ounce instead of three cents, as the law
now stands, and to require the prepayment OF
all newspaper postage, whether the papers be
transient or regularly mailed to bona fde
subscribers. The former measure is generally
approved but the practcability Of prepaying
newspaper postage is seriously doubted, to
say nothing of the Inconvenience it would
cause, especially with dailies and weeklies Of
large circulation. 1t is not believed that the
prepayment Of nepspaper postage would add
materially to the revenue of the Department,
while it is further claimed that if the post
masters were more particular to enforce exist
ing regulations, no matter would 60 through
the mails unpaid. The large deficiency in
revenue of the Post-oAice Department is at
trbutable largely to the mail-car service, and
the non-paying character of the extended ser,
vice in the southern States.
The Bankrupt Act.
- The passing Of bill by the House OF
Representatives to repeal the Bankrupt law
took the people by surprise. The question
was promptly called and put; no discussion
was allowed, and without moments consid-
GRAFTON the vote was taken and the resolution
passed by decisive majority. But notwith'
standing the precipitate haste Of the House, it
is not thought that the Senate will agree to
it. Since the act passed in the House nu-
merous petitions have been sent from various
parts of the country against the repeal, and
but one in favor of the measure, which was
from the merchants of New York.
So far from. repeating the act, it would be
better for the country to enact permanent
bankrupt law, so that the creditor should
know what laws are to affect the debtor at
the time he contracts the debt. Such law
as this would equally protect the creditor
and debtor, and would be a national blessing,
while temporary enactments for the relief OF
debtors who contracted their obligations in
the absence of such laws are generally harm
full in their effects, and tend to the diminutlon
of confidence between man and man.
Marine Disaster.
"A terrible marine disaster occurred on
the night of the 23rd, in the English channel
off Dungess Light House. The London emil
grant ship, Northfeet, which sailed from Lon
don several days previous to the disaster,
bound to Australia, with four hundred and
twelve passengers, was run into by an un'
known vessel and sunk. Only ninety-seven
persons on board the il-fated vessel are known
to have been saved-all the others having
been drowned. No attention was paid by the
steamship to the emigrant vessel after the COL
lision, and she proceeded on her course, leav-
ing the sufferers to their fate.
The collision caused frightful panic on
board the emigrant ship. The passengers
who were asleep rushed from their berths to
every portion of the ship where they thought
they might be safe, and utterly refused to
obey the orders of the captain. That officer,
as a last resort to enforce obedience to his
command, was compelled to fire upon the
terror-stricken people. One of them was
wounded 1t is believed that if the passen-
gers had obeyed the orders of the captain
more of them would have been saved.
A sunken vessel has been discovered near
the scene of the calamity, which tends to the
belief that the colliding vessel was also sunk,
thus increasing the horror.