Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-05-14

cludIng j JetfersOns and st. Glars near lslanu
No. 63, and threatens several other levees at
Helena and Friar's point. The White river
is inside its banks down to Augusta, and be.
low there. Planters are yet hopeful of being
able to make crops. On the lower Arkansas
the water is off all the plantations except
Rawlings, and the planters are at work"
A Georgia Senator on Civil Rights.
ON Thursday, while the civil rights
bill was under discussion in the United States
Senate, Mr.. Norwood, of Georgia, INDUCED in
the following seriocomico strain, which car
ries with it some potent arguments against the
pet measure of the ultra republicans. In the
course of his remarks he said
"When the morning stars first sang togeth-
er it would have been worth some dollars to
the republican party to have been present, for
had it been present it never would have con-
sented to the creation of man unless all were
made equal and upon the same footing. He
then commented at some length on the legis'
lation of the republican party in Congress in
reference to the negro. He said that less than
ten years ago four millions of slaves were
made free, year later they we're invested
with civil rights, next they were given the
ballot and next were made rulers of men, and
after that made citizens. History furnished
no such parallel.
"In forty years of the 100000 Israelites
who went from Egypt into the wilderness but
two were found competent to be rulers, al
though they were instructed by the Creator
himself. But the republican party had made
100000 rulers in few minutes He charged
that the republican party was entirely insin-
cere in its professions for the welfare Of the
negro, and all that it had done was to catch
the negro vote. The negro was now beginning
to see the hollowness of their professions, and
this bill was last sop to be thrown to him.
He denied that the democratic party opposed
this bill on account of prejudice. The demo-
Gratis were not actuated by any more preju-
dice than the republicans, and in their social
relations the democrats treated the colored
people as we'll as the republicans He then
insisted that the bill did and would inevitably
force social equality, and that the attempt to
enforce it would result in bloodshed. He pre-
dicted that disaster would come upon the
party which passed such BILL"
Arkansas and the Cabinet.
- The action of the President in non-in-
reference with the Arkansas contestants is
ascribed to different motives by the papers of
the respective parties. We presume he is dis
posed to adopt the same policy by which he
was governed in the contest that was attempt
ed to be esprung recently in the State Of Texas,
and allow the people of Arkansas to settle
their local difficulties among themselves as
best they can, on whom the responsibility will
fall. The Federal arm has been used so far,
only to prevent collision Of arms between
the adherents of the contending claimants ;
but from a Washington dispatch of last Fri
day, it is probable that the Executive will yet
interfere and end the dispute by a proclama-
tion which must be regarded as final. The
dispatch gives the following as the phase of
the question when last discussed in cabinet
meeting:
"The cabinet was in session for nearly two
hours, during which the Arkansas question
was under consideration. 1t was expected
that the general government would have made
some decision in response to the many appll-
cations therefor from representatives ofthe con-
tending factions in this case but no conclu-
sions have been reached as yet The decision
of the Supreme Court favoring the Brooks
side of the case, in such direct contradiction
to its previous decision that the legislature
had exclusive control of the question, has the
effect to augment the difficulties under which
the general government rests in arriving at d
solution of the vexed question. This new
phase of the matter was talked Of at some
length in the cabinet session, and the reversal
of the former opinion of the Supreme Court
of the State occasoned some surprise. No
member of the cabinet has made definite
and positive expression Of opinion on the sub
iect. All the papers that have been presented
in the case were read. There may be some
decision soon, but there is no certainty
of it, as the attorneys of the different parties
are continually sending kilograms and pre-
senting new points and arguments that they
are anxious to have considered. A cabinet
officer said this afternoon, (Friday,) that the
government was heartily tired of the contro-
versy. When its decision is made procla'
nation will be issued, which all will under
stand must settle the case.'
A County Treasurer in Trouble.
At the recent term of the Circuit Court
for Fairfield county, H. A. Smith, the Treas
urer of that county, charged with being de-
faulter to the amount of $4,000, was convict
ed and sentenced by Judge Mackey to be
imprisoned one year in the penitentiary and
to pay a fine of two thousand dollars. In re-
lation to the trial, the Columbia Union says
yesterday, the first day of the May term
of court, found Attorney General Melton and
Mr. Fllebrowne, assistant to Comptroller.G Cen
eral Hoge, promptly on hand at Winnsboro,
and, when court was opened by his Honor
Jud ge Mackey, at 10 A. NJ, the grand jury
was polled, and the bill banded them against
Mr.. Smith, charging him with malfeasance in
Office, in that he had failed to comply with
the provisions of the law requiring county
treasurers to report to the State treasurer once
each month, and to turn over all State mon
eys in their hands. After few minutes ab
sence, the grand jury returned with a true
bill, the prisoner was brought in, and a mo-
ton made for continuing, when the sparring
between Attorney General Melton and the
counsel for the accused-Colonel Rion-be-
gan. The attorney. general had willy and
able opponent in the person of Colonel Rion,
but he was equal to the occasion: He made
one ofthe most telling arguments of his life,
fairly sweeping every vestige of opposition
away. The prisoner was then asked to plead,
and Immediately pleaded guilty. After Col
onel Rion, his counsel, had asked that the
mercy of the court be extended to the prison.
er, Judge Mackey, in an impressive manner,
addressed the prisoner as he only can do, and