Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-06-18

1lmeS, MOSES dlsLlnctly anu emPnaIlcally ue-
clared he would be candidate for the nomi-
nation of Governor at the next convention.
On Tuesday of last week, j. H. Quash,
colored, the clerk Of the court for Aiken
county, was arrested on the charge of being
defaulter as postmaster at Aiken, while in
charge of the Office two years ago.
- The Southern Home learns that on the
18th instant, the dwelling-house of Ira Har-
din, at Blacks Station, on the Airline Rail-
road, was fired by all incendiary and burned
to the ground.
- Governor Moses has pardoned Cesar
Cove, one of the thieving County Commits
sioners Of Barnwell, recently sentenced to the
penitentiary. Cove remained in the peniten-
tiary but one week.
The grand jury of Georgetown county,
consisting of fifteen colored and three white
men, have presented the County Commission
ers of that county for irregularities, malfeas-
ance and defalcation in Office which is set
forth in ten different specifications. The
clerk of the court was presented for irrcgu-
larities in his Office, and as being utterly unfit
and incompetent to discharge the duties Of
the Office.
Judge Mackey, having been informed
that ex.Treasurer Smith, of Fairfield, who was
sentenced to Jail for one year, on account of
official misconduct, had been granted unusual
license by Sheriff Duvall, has ordered that all
privileges beyond the usual Jail regulations,
be at once suspended; and that the Sheriff
show cause at the next term Of the Court of
General Sessions, why he should not be in
dicted for the illegal license alleged to have
been granted.
Judge Graham..has filed his decision upon
the question whether Governor Moses is SUBJ
iect to Indictment and trial by ordering a
criminal process previous to impeachment by
the Legislature. He holds that the action of
Moses, as charged in the indictment, was in
truth an official action. If it was misconduct
or a crime, it was still official misconduct, or
a crime committed by him as Governor. 1t
is, therefore, ordered, that the indictment for
larceny as to Franklin j. Moses, Jr., be
quashed, and the case as to him be stricken
from the docket.
The Columbia Union.Herald is response
BILE for the following: "Tbe friends of Mr..
Walter Jones, the young, handsome and ac-
complished fnancier and City Treasurer, will
be pleased to learn that he has succeeded in
negotiating the purchase Of Mr.. B. F. Jack
sons elegant trotting buggy. Mr.. Jones is
only one month in office, and enterprise and
success like his should be encouraged by all
mems Of course the taxpayers will grum-
b.; but who cares about taxpayers If
they feel aggrieved, let them convene and
memorialize Above all things, the carriage
business should not be allowed to languish,
nor treasurers allowed to walk-except it be
into the affections of grateful constituency"
- The city registrar of Charleston furnishes
the latest evidence of the decadence of the
race for which Congress would jeopardize
the liberties of the white people and the peace
of the country. He shows that the rate of
mortality among the colored population is
twice as great as amoung white inhabitants.
The number of deaths in that city from May
1, 1878, to May 1,1S74, was 1855. The
population of Charleston is some $4,000, of
whom about $4,000 are whites and $4,000
are blacks. The deaths among the whites
we're 4S5 in number, and among the blacks
1910. This gives a mortality rate of little
over two per cent. for the white, and more
than four and one.tenth per cent for the COL
ored population.