Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-11-26
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Legislature.


EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Legislature.
- The Legislature Of South Carolina as
sembled at noon on Tuesday. We have not
been apprized of the organization of the body ;
but the indications at our latest advices from
Columbia were favorable to the election of
ex.Congressman Elliott (colored) as Speaker
of the House.
Rock Hill Items.
Jacob Baer, formerly resident OF
Rock Hill, died at his residence in Philadel-
phia, on the 18th inst.
Mr. w. It. Sturgis, last week, killed a
grey eagle, measuring seven feet and nine
inches from tip to tip Of wings, while it was
attempting to carry off goose.
Messrs J. M. Ivy & Co., have established
banking house at Rock Hill, and propose to
buy and sell gold and silver coin, bills Of ex'
change, bonds, bank notes, etc., and make
cash advances in cotton or any other produce
stored in ware house or shipped to other mar
kets We learn, with regret, from the Grange,
that the attempt made last summer, to estab'
lish National Bank at Rock Hill, has failed.
The Grange mentions that from one hun
dred to two hundred and fifty bales of cotton
per day have been sold at Rock Hill within
the past two weeks In regard to the sale of
cotton in that market the Grange says: awe
are sorry to learn that the discovery of water
packed cotton has become matter of daily
occurrence as it reflects discredit upon the
farming community at large, and occasions our
cotton merchants no little loss and annoy
ance. Besides the water packed bales, we
hear considerable complaint made Of the
sprinkled bales. The habit of sprinkling
cotton to make it pack easily (Which is denied
by good authority is practiced by many
farmers, who, would they reflect but for a
moment, would at once see the improperly
of it."
Terrible Storm.
"A dispatch from Tuscumbia, Alabama,
says that on Monday last, about 6 o'clock, p.
m., a terrible storm occurred there, destroying
one.third of the residences, killing twelve
persons and wounding many more. Mrs.
VIM. Winston, mother of the late ex.Gov.
Winston, the wife and two children of Hon.
J. B. Moore, Senator from this district, F. D.
Hodgkins, Esq, editor of the Chronicle, his
wife and four children were killed. The
Catholic Church: Dishler Female Institute,
(recently Finished many of the finest resi-
dences, both of the Touring mills, and the
most substantial brick dwellings in the town
were destroyed. Many families are without
homes. A bridge on the Memphis and Char
lesion Railroad, near the town, was destroyed.
The eastern bound train was precipitated into
Spring creek, but fortunately no one was
killed but the engineer. 1t will be several
days before trains will run through. The
Mayor appeals to Huntsville, Louisville,
Nashville and Memphis aud adjoining towns
in the following terms: "Nearly half our
town is in ruins; twelve persons killed and
many wounded large number Of families
are entirely destitute. The tornado came
from the south. west, passing northeast. Un-
less immediate aid can be extended to us,
much suffering will be the result We ap,
peal to the charity of a Christian public in
behalf of the unfortunate"
The storm prevailed for twenty-four hours,
extending into Tennessee, and several casual
ties are reported in its track
Negro Rights as Fixed Facts.
- The corporal's guard of stralght-out
Democrats who still stand by the "unconsttu'
tional, revolutionary and void" doctrine, will
find little comfort in the following deolara'
tions of the New York World, the recognized
organ of the National Democracy:
"Negro rights, as results of the war, have
been finally fixed and established by amend,
ments of the Federal Constitution. Against
those amendments the Democratic party will
make no war. Whether it was wise or pru'
dent to interfere with the question of negro
suffrage by the authority of an amendment OF
the Federal Observation-Disclosures it was
wise or prudent to deprive the States OF all
control over that queston-is another matter
The country, however, has decided it; and
there can be no step backward without an az
itaton which it would be foolish to undertake
1t can scarcely be considered as worthy of a
moments apprehension, now that the more
intelligent negroes in many of the Southern
States have become allies of the Democratic
nartv that this Darty is going to turn round
and agitate to deprive them of suffrage
which they are willing to use in our behalf
This would be suicidal policy, of which We
trust the Democratic party is not silly enough
to be capable. But all questions of policy
apart, negro suffrage is so far fixed fact un
der the Constitution Of the United States
that no State can make law that will operate
to withhold the right of suffrage from any
man because of his color. With all that il
has to do in the great reformation that is be
fore it, the Democratic party has no idea Of
undertaking to repeal or get rid of the amend