Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-10-09
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
1tra Session of the Legislature.

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Extra Session of the Legislature.
The Columbia Union- Herald of Tues
day announces that there will be an extra
session of the Legislature called on the 21st
instant. The following is the paragraph con-
veying the information:
"We are authorized by his Excclency the
Governor to state that the extra session of the
General Assembly will be called for the 2lst
instant. His proclamation to that effect will
appear in few days, but this announcement
is made now in order that the members may
have full and ample notice to arrange for
their departure to the capital"
The Financial Crisis.
- The excitement attending the monetary
excitement has about subsidized, and business
seems to be gradually resuming its wonted
channels, though it will doubtless be many
months before an easy feeling of confidence
and security can be fully restored. The stock
and gold gamblers of the money centres were
the first to experience inconvenience, and
many of them, no doubt, sustained heavy
losses as the result of reckless and illegitimate
speculation; but, as is most generally the
case, the brunt of the shock will fall upon the
laboring and industrial class, from the effects
of which they cannot so easily recover.
The Cedar Springs Asylum.
The following is the substance of a letter
addressed by the Superintendent of Educa-
tion, to the Superintendent ofthe Deaf, Dumb
and Blind Asylum, at Cedar Springs. near
Spartanburg Court House:
"The following points relative to the ad-
mission of colored pupils into the institution
will be strictly and rigidly insisted upon:
Colored pupils must not only be admitted in
to the institution on application, but an earn
est and faithful effort must be made to induce
such pupils to apply for admission. Such
pupils, when admitted, must be domiciled in
the same building, must eat at the same table,
must be taught in the same class-rooms and
by the same teachers, and must receive the
same attention, care and consideration as
white pupils"
All of the officials and teachers of the insti-
tuition have resigned, and it is now closed.
We understand that the designations were
made in consequence Of the unwillingness on
the part of the superintendent and teachers
to comply with the requirements of the Su-
perintendent of Education.
Charleston City Election.
The city election in Charleston, last
week resulted in favor of Cunningham, radi-
cal candidate, over Gen. Wagner, Democrat,
by a majority of 1885, The Ne,os and Cou-
rier gives lengthy account of the manner in
which the election was conducted, character
ising it as one.sided process and the greatest
burlesque upon the right of popular represen-
tation since the advent of freedom.
The Ne,us and Courier charges that the
people were kept in profound ignorance Of the
whereabouts of the polling precincts until af:
ter the polls had been opened; that the polls
were clandestinely opened before daylight,
and that the radical voters were compelled to
use lanterns to light them on the way; and
that at the precincts in the outskirts of the
city the most shameless ballot-box stufing
was resorted to; while adopted white citizens
who had voted in Charleston for the past twen-
ty years we're required to produce their pa
pers, of the average colored voter no questions
were asked negroes from the adjacent islands
were brought in by the boat-load, and, as the
News charges, voted early aud often. The
conservative voters have entered a protest,
which was placed in the hands of the chair
man of the board of commissioners of elections
before any official publication of the result of
the election had been made.
The Cotton Crop.
Regarding the last cotton crop, the
Commercial and Financial Chronicle of New
York city has compiled the following statis-
tics, to prove that free labor is more effective
in the production Of cotton than slave labor.
On the question of the one kind of labor as
against the other, argument at this day is
quite unnecessary. An increase in the pro-
duction is admitted but the circumstance is
not attributable to the character of the labor.
The Chronicle only looks at results without
considering the means employed. The acre.
age under cultivation and the laboring force
have each diminished as compared with pre-
vious years, and the only true solution of the
question is the fact that more attention is CIV
en- to the cultivation of the soil, and better
system of tillage is employed. The results,
however. are none the less gratifying. The
Chronicle says:
"The crop of 1872 foots up 1880, 800 bales
of the average weight of 464 pounds each.
This crop has been surpassed only three times,
viz: in 1870, in 1859, and in 1856, leaving out
the year 1861, of which we have no statistics.
It thus appears that of the four crops known
to have exceeded 100000 bales, two have
been made since the war. Again we find
that the average crop of the six years 1856, to
1860, inclusive, was 100000 bales, while the
average of the three years, 1870 to 1872, in.
elusive, is 3,75O,000 bales. The crops of 1858
and 1856, we're each less than three million
bales. These figures we submit amply de-
monstrate that free labor is quite as effective
as slave labor in the production of cotton. AS
the capital of the South increases-and it is
certainly increasing rapidly-we shall proba-
bly have to record series of cotton crops far
surprising in bulk those of the ante.war Pc
riod."
Correspondence of the YOrkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
P1rrsBoRo, N. c., Oct. 4, 1872.
After a silence of more than fortnight,