Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-24
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.

EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Cotton Crop Of 1S73-74.
The amount of the cotton cropof 1873
"A, as figured up by the Financial Chronicle,
amounts to total of 4,17O,3sS bales, being
1921 bales less than the crop of 1901,
which amounted to 4,352,317 bales. This,
however, is about $4,000 bales larger than
was expected, and as the receipts at the ports
were less than 3,7S4,S50, it would give to
overland for manufacturers and Southern
consumption, about 1885, 900 bales, an amount
only slightly in excess of last year, which was
put down at 141 500 bales for the former, and
100000 for the latter, or less than 100000
bales for both. The crop of 1923 was
3,930,5OS bales.
The Tennessee Troablcs.
- Governor Brown, of Tennessee, having
written to President Grant, requesting that
the prisoners recently arrested in that State
under the ku-klux act be turned over to the
State authorities for trial, the President makes
the following reply, under date of the 18th
instant, addressed to the Governor:
SIR Your despatch of yesterday has been
received and referred to the United States
District Attorney for the western district of
Tennessee for report, as there is now no Of
fetal information of his proceedings here.
When his report is received, I will give you
more definite answer, or have the Attorney
General do so. will state, however, that it
is very gratifying to know that the State au-
thorities of Tennessee are disposed to suppress
and punish a class of lawless acts so danger
Gus to life, and so opposed to every political,
financial and moral interest of the State. But
the Constitution makes it the duty to enforce
the Acts of Congress, and Congress has passed
laws giving the United States Jurisdiction in
such cases as are referred to in your despatch.
No special order has been given to the FEEDER.
al officials in Tennessee, further than the cir
cular of September 8, of the Attorney. Gener-
al, which is general in its nature, and const-
suites instructions to all Marshals and Dis.
trict Attorneys, wherever violations of said
Acts may occur. will add, that the State
and General Governments, as you are well
aware, may have concurrent jurisdiction over
the same ofense as, for example, in cases of
counterfeiting, and the action of the State au-
thorities in such cases does not prevent the
the offenders. u. S. GRANT.
Lieutenant G.. d. Wallace.
- The Columbia Union contains the fol-
lowing allusion to Lieutenant Wallace, from
which it will be seen that in consequence of
his meritorious conduct in the exploration of
the Black Hills, he has been granted, at Gen.
Custars request, six months leave, and will
soon be on visit to his home in this county,
Lieutenant Wallace is the writer of the vari
Gus letters We have published the past summer,
descriptive of the Black Hills region and de-
failing interesting facts connected with the
exploration. We have reasons to believe
that the Lieutenant confined himself to the
narrow limits ofthe truth, in his correspon-
dence, and hence, as the Union intimates, his
description of the Black Hills is not altogeth-
er so glowing as that depicted by number of
correspondents who had other purposes to
serve. SAYS the Union:
"Marshal Wallace has received letter from
his brother, Lieut.. G. D. Wallace, of the
Seventh Cavalry, which we have been per-
mitted to read, and which contains descriptive
accounts ofinterest not contained in the fiat
tering personal notices of the lieutenant which |
have appeared in the New York Herald and
Tribune. In General Custar's recent famous
expedition to the Black Hills, Lieut. Wal
lace was in command of the vanguard, COM
posed of three companies of Indian scouts.
His conduct was such on the occasion, that
the Indians elected him one of their chiefs,
and made him quasi member Of their tribe,
after their manner, and gave him the name Of
Long Chief'-he is six feet two in his stock
ings. General Custar was so much pleased
with his management of the scouts that he
has obtained for Lieut.. Wallace six months
leave, and before many weeks he will be rus
ticating at home, among the hills of York.
From the letter we learn that the furore
about the rich mineral deposits of the Black
Hills is after the style of many others that
have preceded there are evidences of rich
minerals, but By no means in such abundance
as has been depicted. The rush of miners
will probably prove fatal to the lives Of many
and drain the pockets of more. The soil, too,'
is MOTTO his view what the newspaper CORES.
pondents have written it down. Much other
interesting information, accounts Of marches,
skirmishes, etc., is contained in the letter.
Lieut.. Wallace is son of Hon. A. S. Wal
lace, member of Congress from the fourth
district -