Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-04-09


of her death reached him, he became so
frenzied that he attempted suicide by shoot
ing himself. 1t is thought the wound he in
ficted will not prove fatal.
"A resolution was adopted by the last
legislature "to provide for the celebration of
the hundreth anniversary of the Mecklen.
burg declaration, by an exhibition Of the arts
of the State" The printed journal, as handed
down for posterity, substitutes the word rats
for arts, and the question is, shall the patri.
otic citizens organize a grand rat.catching
association
NEWS OF THE DAY.
One thousand workmen are thrown out
of employment by the burning of knitting
mill at Cohsos, New York.
- Three Indians were hanged at Fort Smith,
Arkansas, last Friday, for murders of white
citizens committed last year in the Indian
country.
- Mcclellan, the Ohio desperate, whom G.
L. Valandigham was defending when he &C.
cidentally shot himself during the trial, was
shot and severely wounded at Hamilton,
Ohio, one night last week.
w. D. Coleman, a clerk in the treasury
Office Of Virginia, has been tried and found
guilty of embezzing the funds Of the State
The trial developed Irregularities of the State
treasurer, and a defalcation by that official,
and he has gone craZy
- The strike on the Erie railroad, in which
over nine hundred men participated, has en-
ded. Two regiments of State militia were
ordered to Susquehanna to protect the rail
road company iii its rights, and, if necessary,
to suppress riotous demonstrations by force
of arms.
The Georgia Direct Trade Union, Pat
rons of Husbandry, has organized at Atlanta,
and elected A. H. Colquitt pres dent. Twelve
directors were chosen. The meeting was
largely attended, all parts of the State being
represented This body expects to control
all the cotton exported from Georgia.
Gen. McLaws, of Georgia, was nominated
by the President and has been confirmed by
the Senate, as collector of internal revenue
for the first collection district of Georgia.
This is the first instance in which a promi.
nent ex.Confederate has been appointed or
confirmed to office without having previously
sealed his allegiance to the dominant party.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Gen. JOhnston's Book.
- Gen. Joseph Johnston has written
book on the late war, which has just been
published. As would seem natural, whether
the imputations are just or not, the General
attributes the failure of the Confederacy to
the bad management of the civil administra-
ton, and is quite severe in his criticism
of the Richmond government. Gen. John
ston does not admit that the superior popula-
ton and resources of the North caused the de-
feat of the South nor does he attribute the
defeat to detection, or Indifference, or want of
harmony in the Confederate movement. The
great mistake, he urges, was the financial pol
icy adopted in the early part of the war. He
seems to entertain the same views which MIR.
Stephens urged in 1861, in regard to taking
the cotton on hand in the Confederacy and
sending it to Europe as basis on which to
raise funds. The money thus raised, in Gen.
Johnston's opinion, would have been amply
sufficient to equip half million of men, and
yet leave in the treasury sufficient means with
which to defray the other expenses of the war.
This criticism of State affairs by one so
prominent and distinguished in the military
branch of the Confederate Government, is at
tracing much attention, and has already
evoked reply from Mr.. Memminger, first
Secretary of the Treasury, and also commu-
nication over the signature of "T." which is
supposed to be from the.p pen Of MIR. Trenholm,
Mr. Memminger's successor. These articles
appear in the Charleston News and Courier.
IT,, argument in these replies is in effect, that
the Confederate Government could not have
obta ned the cotton for shipment before the
blockade became effective, except by seizure,
which would have been impracticable; that if
the Government could have bought all the
cotton on hand in the South, there were no
vessels with which to transport it; that before
the Government was fairly organized the crop
was beyond its reach and, at that time, no.
body, North or South, thought the war would
last long.
Domestic Volcanos.
- The excitement occasoned by the recent
volcanic disturbances in North Carolina has
almost entirely susided, without inaicting fur
ther serious damage than the demolition Of
the widow Nannie's chimney, which is not rep
resented as having been very durable struc-
ture at the BEST Gen. Clingman, who has CIV
en- the subject much attention for many years,
and who is an enthusiastic student, says the
phenomenon of the past few weeks is not new
in that section, and he further believes that it
can be traced to the remotest traditions of the
Cherokee Indians, and thence by scientific re-
search to the volcanic upheavals from which
these mountains were undoubtedly formed.
In the northeastern corner of Haywood coun'
ty near Fines creek, forty miles northwest of
Stone mountain, there is a mountain which
has been subjected to periodical shakings, af-
ter intervals of two or three years, ever since
the year 1912, and for how long period be-
fore he cannot tell. The immediate locality
of these disturbances is about mile in length
and quarter of a mile in width. The shocks
under this mountain have not been, within
his recollection, of longer duration than a
few minutes and yet with each recurrence,
after an interval of rest of two or three years,