Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-05-21
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.


ington Chronicle says with the exception Of
those which have been devastated by floods
the crops promise to be abundant for this sea
SOD. The wheat crop in the border States
was never better, and there is ut present nc
indication of rust or weevil. The corn croE
is the most promising that has been seen fol
years, and the area planted has infringed
greatly on the grounds hitherto devoted to the
tobacco plant. From the rice-growing regions
of the Carnlinas, and from the wheat-growine
regions of North Carolina and Virginia, the
same news comes up. ave have planted
more than ever this season, and the crops
look splendid. If we meet with no misfor
tune We shall have a plentiful harvest" The
sugar crop on the banks of the Mississippi
must necessarily be failure, and the planters
will do we'll to provide means for the propa
CATION of a crop for the next year, and ever
this will be difficult matter unless the hand
of the general government shall be stretched
forth to aid them.
The Senate Currency Bill.
"A synopsis of the currency bill, as adop
ted by the Senate, will be found in our sum
mary of the proceedings of Congress. The
effects of the bill, should it become law, may
thus be briefly summed up:
1t will require the reserves on deposit to be
kept by the banks of different parts of the
country in their own vaults, instead of send.
ing them to New York, to be loaned for spec
ulative purposes in Wall street, and provides
that part of these reserves shall be constitu
ted of onefourth part of the coin received as
interest on the bonds held by the Government
as security. These provisions may serve to
strengthen the banks at home, and perhaps
tend to keep up better distribution of the
currency; the volume of which, however, ii
seems inevitable, must be increased. Thus
there is to be more or less of initiation under
it. The provision releasing the banks from
the maintenance of reserve on their deposits
except FIVE per cent. deposited in the treasury
for the purposes of redemption, is liberal one
for those institutions.
The Flood in the South. West.
According to the appeal recently ad'
dressed to the people of the United States in
behalf of the sufferers by the overflow of the
Mississippi and tributary streams, the flood
has covered an area equal to that Of large
State One hundred and forty thousand peo'
pie have been driven out by the waters, and
possess no supplies of any kind whatever.
Most of the lands will be unfit for crops and
too late for cultivation this year. The ques.
tion is how these one hundred and forty thous
and people are to be subsisted and transport
ed, sheltered, housed, and supplied with uten'
sils for household uses, and implements for
farming and planting for the nextfour months
and may be much longer? New Orleans pa
pers estimate the districts and people flooded
as follows: Louisiana, $4,000 square miles un
der water, 75,100 people, mostly sugar and
cotton producers; Mississippi, 5000 square
miles submerged, 2s,50O people; Arkansas
1000 square miles, 81 400 people; Missouri
5000 square miles, 5000 people. Many Of
these items, especially from Arkansas and
Missouri, are probably far too small One
hundred and forty.two thousand five hundred
people is considered an estimate entirely with
in bounds of the number of people embraced
in this vast afliction. Such a population will
consume, in provisions alone, S25,OO0 worth
per day; their clothing, shelter, and medical
attendance, will add nearly half as much
their transportation to shelter and places
where they can 60 to work and cultivate the
soil, together with supplies of utensils and i'm
plements, will add another $4,000, making
an aggregate of over $4,000 per day that
has to be supplied to avoid or arrest the fam
inc.
The Arkansas Governorship.
The question of the troubles in Arkan.
sas, arising from the claims of Baxter and
Brooks having been referred by the President
to Attorney-Geuera Williams, that official
has given his opinion. He says it would be
disastrous to allow the proceedings by which
Brooks obtained possession of the office to be
drawn into precedent, as there is not State
in the Union in which they would not produce
conflict, and probably bloodshed. He further
says they cannot be upheld or justified upon
any ground, and in his opinion, Baxter should
be recognized as the lawful Executive of the
State of Arkansas. In accordance with this
opinion, on Friday last, the President issued
the following proclamation, which is to be re-
garded as final disposition of the question {:
Whereas certain turbulent and dsorderly
persons, pretending that Elisha Baxter, the
present Executive of Arkansas, was not elect
ed, have combined together, with force and
arms, to resist his authority as such Execu.
tive, and the other authorities of the said
State and whereas said Elisha Baxter has
been declared duly elected by the General
Assembly of said State, as provided in the
Constitution thereof, and has for a long period
been exercising the functions of said Office,
into which he was indicted according to the
Constitution and laws of said State, and oug ght,
by its citizens, to be considered as the lawful
Executive thereof; and whereas it is provided
in the Constitution of the United States that
the United States siall protect every State in
the Union, on application of the Legislature,
or of the Executive, when the Legislature
cannot be convened, against domestic vio-
lence; and whereas said Elisha Baxter, un-
der section of Article " of the Constitution
of the United States, and the laws passed in
pursuance thereof, has heretofore made ap-
plcation to me to protect said State and the
citizens thereof against domestic violence; /;
and whereas the General Assembly Of the
State, convened in extra session, at the capt.
tai thereof, on the 18th instant, pursuant to
call made by said Elisha Baxter, and both
Houses thereof have passed ajoint resolution,
also, applying to me to protect the State against