Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-14

shipping and other property Of the value Of
100000.
The President has recently appointed
some forty civilians as second lieutenants in
the regular army, and assigned a number Of
cadets to duty.
Officer VIM. Terry, of the mounted Me-
tropolitan police of New Orleans, was arrested
on the 9th, on the charge of attempting to as
sassinate District Attorney Mckay.
The cholera has again appeared in Chat
tanooga, Tennessee. Eighteen cases are re-
ported on Friday, two of which were fatal
The disease is confined to the colored popula
ton.
Twenty negroes have been arrested in
Madison county, Tennessee, charged with
lynching white man named w. H. Wyatt
All but three were afterwards released upon
$500 BAIL
Col. Hughest the Republican candidate fol
Governor of Virginia, called on the President
last Wednesday, who, it is said, gave him as
surance ofsupport in the coming canvass ir
that State.
"A fight between two brothers-Daisey
and Dan Breeze-in Alexander county, Hi
nois, on the 9Th, resulted in the death of Dan
Both were notorious characters. The mur
derer was arrested.
The New York Tribune says: ut is sta
ted that very important railroad combina
ton is to be consummated in few days, re
sulting in direct line, under single man
agement, between Halifax, Boston, New York
and all the principal American cities of the
South and West. The Pennsylvania Centra
is chief in the movement"
The Postmaster.G General has decided thai
the postage upon letters from post'masters
addressed to the Treasury of the United States
containing currency for redemption, must be
prepaid by the sender, with the full legal rate
ofpostage, the same as ordinary letters. Post
masters should not use their official stamps in
payment of such postage. 1t is, however
their duty to register such packages free ot
charge, if the mailing party requests it.
The $40 notes have been most extensively
counterfeited, and the Secretary of the Treas
ury has ordered new plates of that denomina
tion to be made. The Northern papers state
that the question of compelling the banks tc
pay for the reprinting is still undecided. The
banks have not withdrawn their protests and
no provision has as yet been found in the law
which will enable the treasury to compel
payment.
"A threatening riot is reported from San
Antonio, Texas, on the 9Th, growing out of a
severe chastisement given to negro soldier
by Captain Tobyn, whose daughter the negro
had insulted. The officers commanding the
negro troops sent word to the city officials
that they could not control their men. The
citizens Immediately turned out in force. The
military authorities ordered the negro troops
out of town, and by their influence, quiet was
restored.
"A dispatch from Elm Greek, Nebraska,
states that on Tuesday morning last while a
party of Pawnee Indians were hunting near
Republican river, on Blackwood creek, they
were surprised and attacked by large body
of Sioux and bloody fight ensued, resulting
in the defeat of the Pawnees, who lost about
one hundred, comprising some of the best
men of the tribe, and most of their horses,
arms and game. The Pawnees were pursued
thirty miles, and only escaped when night
came on.
In Columbus, Ohio, at the close of the
Democratic State Convention, Senator Thur.
man made brief speech, predicting the sue
cess of a clean Democratic ticket. Mr.. Allen
in speech accepting the nomination, says
II accept the nomination, and desire the con-
vention to accept my gratitude for it. [ &C
cept it, because the convention, by bestowing
it, expresses the belief that l may be Of some
service in promoting the success of the great
Democracy, upon whose success, and upon
that alone, rests the prosperity, liberty and
happiness of the American people,"
A late Washington dispatch says: "At
torney.General Williams does not contem
plate Wholesale pardon of the parties now
held in confinement for crimes against the
enforcement or ku-klux act, but will continue
the same policy heretofore pursued, viz
When proper petitions for pardons are re-
ceived, he will consider the cases of those
whose crimes are the least aggravated, re-
serving for the last those who are charged
with greater crimes It is the intention Of
the government to pardon all in due course
of time"
- The good old Quaker county of Wayne
Indiana, is in a state of great excitement
The couuty.site has been changed from Gen.
treville to Richmond, and when wagons were
sent from the former place to remove the re-
cords to the new court house, the citizens OF
Centreville fastened the gates, and sent for
Judge Johnson, to Cambridge, and got tenn
porary restraining order. In the meantime
bells were rung, cannon fired and the whole
community in the vicinity Of Centreville gath
cred at the court house, and the widest excite
ment prevailed for time. The wagons we're
finally unloaded and returned to Richmond
empty.
Cholera continues to linger among the
cities and towns along the valley of the Ohio
and the Mississippi and their tributaries, oc,
casionally breaking out in fresh places with
considerable virulence in proportion to their
population. An inquiry into the character
of the drinking water in the places which
have suffered most, might be of. service in
adding to the stock of medical knowledge
connected with the habits and habitat Of the