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individuals is dangerous. While certain dis
tinctions of race will remain always; as le-
gal distinction, race is not known. 1t is Sc
rious accusation to charge whole race with
with this offense.
The court is supreme in Fairfield. Should
an organized resistance to law be discovered
among the whites, the law.abiding whites must
be summoned to repress it. Should bad COL
ored men organize, law-abiding colored men
will be summoned to defeat their plots.
This report may have been originated by
bold bad men, because blow struck against
the black man will recoi on the white. Were
hundred blacks slaughtered 81 excited
whites, prisons would be filled with thousands
of white persons. Thus some object might be
gained
The court instructs the grand jury to sum-
mon witnesses and investigate this matter
thoroughly, and to report whether the county
is at peace, and whether the county's internal
police and the authority of the court 's sufti-
cient to preserve order, or whether other aid
is required.
The jury returned to their room, and ex-
amined witnesses. They reported: 1st that
there WAS no plot; End. That the reports war
ranted the whites in exciting vigilance; 3rd.
That peace now reigns.
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SOuTH CAROLINA NEWS.

A light frost was visible in Anderson on
Wednesday morning of last week.
Ex-Governor William H. Gist, died at
his residence in Union county, on Wednesday
night, 30th ultimo.
The Star says that the Independent move
ment appears to. be gaining strength among
the Republicans of Marion county.
Hon. r. B. Elliott has been unanimously
nominated as one of the Republican candi-
dates for the legislature from Aiken county.
- 1t is said that Orangeburg county has
madea better corn crop this year than for
twenty years past.
Comptroller General Solomon l.. Hoge,
who has been nominated by the Republicans
of the Third Congressional District, is a Vir-
ginian by birth.
james Z. Gafney, convicted at the recent
term of the United States Court of robbing
the post-ofice at Gaffney's Station, has been
lodged in the Albany Penitentiary.
The Georgetown Times says: "Bets are
freely offered, with no takers, that Chamber
lain will be beaten in Georgetown county by
two thousand majority"
-Charner Rice, sentenced at March term,
1874, at Union Court House, to five years
imprisonment in the Pcnitentiary for the
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was heard from among the audience, and it
soon assumed the proportions of roar.
The General tried to continue but was several
times interrupted. He failed at first to OBJ
serve the Objectionable article of table use.
He finally fixed his eye upon it and gazed
from right to left without word to say. He
again attempted to proceed, but only again
to be interrupted. Finally he shook his hand
kerchief and Strengthened himself and re-
marked: "Well, I should think that is about
as good an argument as I can be opposed to. !"
The spoon wiggled in the air and the general
continued: "There must be some opposition in
this town." A couple of very bold remarks.
AS long as he lives Butler will never get over
those New Orleans spoons.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

An Augusta dispatch of the 22nd says
The Augusta Cotton Exchange has received
answers from twentry-three counties in Geor'
gia. The yield will be about three-fourths as
much as last years crop.
General Ogden, who commanded the Nc
Emery militia in the street engagement in
New Orleans, on the 18th of September, in
his official report, says his command suffered
a loss of twelve killed and thirteen wounded.
Several of the latter have died.
This is the way the elections have gone
this year thus far: Democratic Hamp-
shire, Connecticut. Oregon, Arkansas, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Montana, North Carolina,
Wyoming, Colorado, all by increased majorl-
ties. Republican-Vermont, Maine, both by
decreased majorities No contests-Rhode
Island, Utah.
In Louisville, KY, recently, detectives
captured box containing large amount Of
money and implements, at Adams Express
office, belonging to and made by the notori'
Gus and extensive gang of counterfeiters
which has been operating in North Carolina,
East Tennessee, West Virginia, and Ken
lucky. Six of the gang, including the one
that shipped the box, have been arrested.
The box, opened at the express office, con-
tanned the following articles 2,1O0 ffty-cent
notes, unfinished; 964 tfty-cent notes, finish
ed; $50 twenty dollar Treasury notes, quall-
tity of bogus coin and some engraving tools.
THE FAIRFIELD ExcITEMENr.-The Winns-
boro News of Saturday last Sd instant, says :
Judge Mackey arrived in Winnsboro on
Thursday and opened special term of Court.
The object Of this session was an investigation
into the alleged plot at Brices. Judge Mack
ey delivered charge to the grand jury. AT:
ter some general remarks on the nature and
duties O.! the grand jury, he spoke of the pres
ent subject of investigation. He said the
Court was not prepared to forestall the action
of the grand jury, but its judgment was that
their had been no plot.
The charge made against the colored people
he believed to be unreasonable. The history
of that race for over century shows that it is
peaceable docile, unwarlike and usually faith
full to its trusts In the judgment of the court.
in Fairfield with its white population highly
intelligent, obedient to law, it is no more rea-
sonable to suspect plot against the whites
than to imagine plot of the whites to injure
the blacks. He believes such charge against
either to be monstrous The classification OF
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SALES.DAY.

In consequence of the day having been ap-
pointed for the reassembling of the Demo
cratic Convention, and the fact that this was
the week for the regular term of the Circuit
Court, there was large assemblage of people
in town from the country last Monday. Va
rious farmers from different sections of the
county with whom we conversed, take rather
Responding view of the agricultural situation.
The yield of cotton will not be so good as was
anticipated few weeks ago, while the present
indications are that prices for the staple will
rule lower than it would have been reasonable
to predicate two weeks ago on a short crop
By order of the Judge of Probate the Sher-
iA' sold the home-place belonging to the es-
tate of Sylvanus Williamson, deceased, con-
tanning 2592 acres, which was bought by j..
L. Williamson at $500 per acre. Also, a
tract of $50 acres, belonging to the same es-
tate, which was bought by W. H. William
son at $500 per acre. Also, tract'of 46
acres, which was bought by j. H. Kidd at
$3.50 per acre.
The Sheriff sold under execution a tract of
land belonging to John Martin, which was
bought by Calvin Whisonant for $500.
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LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

J. A. Fatchford, A. J. Daviney and Eliza Ratch-
ford-Fair Warning.
r.. w. Clawson-Seed Oats for Sale-Cotton Gin
for Sale.
A. Wiliford-Fine Horses and Mules-Notico.
John G. Kuykendal--For Forty Cents-Attention
Tanners--More Light--In the matter of
Kerosine Oil-In the matter of Chewing To-
bacco-In the matter of Snutf-1n the mat
ter of Drugs-In the matter of Sudden
Things.
w. H. 81. P. Northumberland Up-Soon.
T. G. Dunlap, Agent -Furnituae-Bureaux-'i
Safes-ChaInber OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Fixtures-Stoves-Cha Chairs-Rocking Chairs,
Joseph A. Mclean, Judge of Probate-Ctation-
Mrs. S. R. Hicklin, Applicant-Dr. j. G..
Hicklin, deceased.
H. X. Roberts, Chairman-Bridge to let.
l.. NJ. Grist-House and lot for sale or rent.
Robert Davidson, Admr.-Sale of land.
r.. Fl. Glenn, S. Y. C-Sheriff's Sales-Judge OF
Probate's sales
Marks e. Reid, Rock Hill-Furniture Store.
II. NJ. Dobson & Co.-New Goods for fall trade.
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EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
rcnlar TO limited States MarShalS.

circular LO Unlteu SIaleS haISuaiS'
- The Attorney-General has sent the fol-
lowing circular to United States Marshals in
the Southern States, in which armed bodies Of
men have committed, or are threatening to
commit acts of violence and bloodshed
Sir: would suggest that at those points
where United States troops are, or may be
stationed in your district, some prudent and
fearless person, in whose judgment you have
confidence and whom the people respect, may
be appointed as deputy marshal, to act at
once in the arrest Of parties committing out
RACES in the vicinity, so that it may not be ne
cessary in such cases to send to you before the
troops can be used for the purpose of arrest
ing those who are guilty of violating the laws
of the United States This, of course, will
not be necessary where you are easily accessi
BILE, but where the troops are placed at remote
points Before the necessary communication
as to the causes committed can be made, the
offenders, as general rule have an opportu-
nifty to escape. You will give the deputies
the necessary instructions as to procuring war
rants, and 1 need not repeat that it is impor
tant that you should delegate this power to
none but careful and responsible persons.
Heavy Gale in Charleston.
- The most fearful gale known in Charles
ton since 1854, occurred on the morning Of the
29th, beginning about daylight with strong
southeast winds, and increasing in violence
until 8 o'clock, when it had become hurrl-
cane. For all hour thereafter the gale was
the most severe ever known on that section OF
the Atlantic coast. The tide was forced up
to an unprecedented height, inundating the
entire river front of the city, damaging the
wharves, and, in some instances, sweeping
away the pier-heads The long stone sea-wall
known as the Battery, famous promenade
resort, was laid in ruins, and the public bath
ing-house was demolished. The shipping
generally escaped serious damage. Some
small craft were wrecked, but large vessels
were only chafed. Throughout the city the
effects of the gale are everywhere visible.
Fences and outbuildings were Frustrated,
branches torn from trees, and, during the
height of the tempest, the air was filled with
slate and tin, stripped from the roofs, making
the streets impossible. The massive brick
walls of the new theatre, which had just been
made ready for roofing, and which from its
position in the burnt district was exposed to
full force of the storm, was leveled with the
ground. About noon the wind shifted to the
west, moderating the violence of the sea, and
lullng the storm. Two houses we're swept
away on Sullivan's Island, and one life lost
The inmates of the bathing house were res.
cued with the utmost difficulty. Probably
quarter of a million dollars will not repair the
damages caused by the gale.
The storm also reached Wilmington, N. g.,
and Savannah, Georgia, though the injury to
shipping and property was not so severe at
those points as at Charleston,
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CIRCUIT COURT.

The fall term of the Circuit Court for York
county was to have been convened last Mon
day; but on the petition Of a number of the
members of the Yorkville bar, who requested
the postponement of all civil cases pending,
and named the third Monday of November
next as a suitable time for holding a special
term, his Honor Judge Mackey telegraphed
instructions to the Clerk to adjourn the Court
to that day, which, after the roll of jurors
had been called, was accordingly done.
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REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.

The Executive Committee of the Republi-
can party give notice that there will be pub
lie meeting at Yorkville, tomorrow, 9th in
stant, at which addresses will he delivered in
the interest of Chamberlain and Gleaves. A
meeting is also appointed for Friday, 23d in
stant.
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.
THE CASE OF SEPAUGH.

The Shelby Banner having stated that
through the intervention of Hon. Plato Dur
ham, Elijah Ross Sepaugh, convicted of vio-
lating the enforcement act, and who appealed
to the United States Supreme Court, had
been unconditionally pardoned by the Presi-
dent, and was now at his home, we learn, on
enquiry, that no pardon has yet been received
by him, and that he is still in prison at this
place.
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FINE TURNIPS.

Capt. J. NJ. Harvey has presented us with
a basket of turnips, the largest and finest we
have seen this season.
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SEVENTH CAVALRY.

BY letter received from Lieut.. Wallace,
dated at Bismarck, D. T., 29th ultimo, we
learn that the Seventh Cavalry were then
under marching orders to Louisiana. Com
panies A, B, + and G, are ordered to New
Orleans, and companies H and K to Shreve-
port.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-10-08

crime of manslaughter, has recently been
pardoned by the Governor.
Governor Moses has appointed T. S. Rid
die, ]. G. Montgomery and Benjamin Marks,
Commissioners of Election for the county of
Lancaster.
A new post office has been established in
Union county, on the route between York
vile and Limestone Springs, which is to be
known as Pine Grove. Mr. Coleman f.
Hammett is the postmaster.
- Governor Moses has pardoned Geo. w.
Fowler, sentenced at Union Court House,
March term, 1874, to ten years Imprisonment
in the penitentiary for the crime Of man.
slaughter.
A correspondent of the Greenville Enter
prise and Mountaincer having called upon
Col. James H. Rion, of Winnsboro, to allow
his name to be put in nomination as candi-
date for Congress from the fourth district,
Col. Rion says: "In reply would state that
1 never have, and never will be a candidate
for, or accept if elected, any political office"
The Charleston Ne,cs and Courier of Sat
urday last says Omitted States Marshal Wal
lace has just arrived in the city from New
York. He states that Mr.. S. T., Pointer will
arrive here on the 10th instant after which
time applications for supervisors of elections,
for every polling precinct IN the State, will be
promptly attended to- In he meantime the
marshal states that it will be ,dvisable for all
parties to prepare their applications as soon
as possible, and hand them into him at his
Office when they will be presented to MIR.
Pointer on his arrival"
A mass meeting, numbering about four
thousand, and composed Of both parties, was
held in Charleston on Thursday night last 10
protest against the Bowen Board of election
commissioners for Charleston county, and to
devise measures to secure a fair election.
The meeting was addressed by H. D. Lesesne,
Chairman, Major Delany, Colonel E. W. M.
Mackey, Joseph w. Barnwell, Hon. G. A.
Trenholm, Congressman Rausier and others,
and committee was appointed whose duty
it shall be to wait upon the Governor and
request the removal of the obnoxious board,
and the appointment of acceptable men in
their stead
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COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

Pursuant to notice of Col. Cad. Jones,
Chairman, made in consequence Of the decli-
nation of Col. \. B. Springs, the Democratic
Convention of York county reassembled with
the former officers, in the Court House, on
Monday last, the following delegates answer
ing to their names on calling the roll:
Bethel-S. D. Stowe, w. W. McElwee, D.
J. Glenn, S. S. Smith, John Nichols, ]. Lean
der Adams, N. B. Campbell.
Broad River.-S. G. Brown, j. L. Davis,
John Smith, J. B. Whitesides, j. NJ. Hope,
j. G.. Chambers.
BullocEs Creek.-Thomas Harten, Samuel
Blair, w. NJ. Kennedy, G. w. Moore, John
Mcknight, John Ramsay, R. D. Mcknight
Ebeuezer.-H. H. Hart, DR.. E. L. Glenn,
B. C. Presley, G.. E. Nc. Steele, DR.. G. P.
Sandifer, Col. Cad. Jones.
CAeroiee.-W. w. Gafney, R. E. Porter,
B. Tolbert.
Catauba. E. Hutchinson, j. F. Work
man, David T. LESLEY, A. M. Black, A. X.
Smith, F. H. Barber, j. P. Creighton, }. l..
Moore.
Kings Nountain-Joseph R. Howe, J: J.
L. CHI, J. W. Beamgard, Lowry Smith, T. J.
Bell, John Knox, VIM. McGill, DIR. A. P.
Campbell
YorkviVe-W. B. Wilson, Jun, S. R.
Moore, w. J. Stephenson, Robert Latimer.
Bethesda.-J. Leonidas Moore, j. W. Moore
w. B. Byers, DR.. R. L. Love.
Fort Mls.-T. B. Withers, L. N. Culp, A.
G.. Sutton, j. NJ. Spratt, T. Faulkner, j. E.
Massey, S. H. Epps, j. H. Sutton.
A.E. Hutchison moved that in voting for
names proposed before the Convention, the
votes be taken by townships, each township to
cast ten votes. Adopted.
r. j. Bell, Esq, addressed the convention,
remarking that inasmuch as the nominations
for the General Assembly made on the 23rd
ultimo, were made as unit, the force of
which was destroyed by the decination of
Colonel Springs, he felt it his duty also to de-
cline the nomination with which he had been
honored. He did not expect the nomination
at the former convention; was not candl-
date for the nomination; never had been
candidate; was notnow candidate; and never
would be a candidate in the ordinary accepta-
ton of the term He referred to the resou-
tion which was declared adopted at the former
convention, relative to the nominating of men
of undoubted Democratic principles, which
resolution he opposed; but the almost unani-
nous nomination of himself, in the face of the
supposed adoption of the resolution, seemed to
test the sense of the convention to be different
from the purport of the resolution, and under
no circumstances would he have consented to
become candidate of the Convention had it
appeared that the resolution referred to had
the endorsement of that body. He felt
grateful for the confidence reposed in him
by the Convention of the 23rd, and without
meaning to imply disrespect to the delegates,
he felt it his duty, under the circumstances to
withdraw his name.
Mr. Bell was followed by Messrs. Gaffney
and Chambers, each of whom for like reasons
given by Mr.. Bell, withdrew their names.
The Chairmen then announced that all the
nominees for the General Assembly having
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NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- Haywood county raised 100000 bushels
of wheat this year.
w. H. H. Houston, the forger, has been
arrested in Montreal, Canada, and is now in
the Charlotte Jail to answer the charge against
him.
1t is feared by the Charlotte Observer that
the severe storm in that section on the 18th
ultimo, inflicted great damage to the corn
crop in the bottom lands.
Col. Connally, who commanded the Both
N. c. Regiment in the war, has resigned a
State senatorship in Virginia, and entered the
Baptist Seminary in Greenville, S. c., to
study for the ministry.
1t is stated that the negro who was re-
Gently shot and slightly wounded by Judge
Schenck has COTTON upa petition asking for a
re.hearing of the case, and that the petition has
been forwarded to Washington.
- The equinoctal storm on the 2Sth, along
the coast was very disastrous to the rice crops
on Cape Fear and Brunswick rivers. The
rice had recently been cut, and on many
farms entire stacks were swept away by the
flood. Hyde and Dare counties also suffered
greatly.
Bad whisky, which both parties had in
dulged freely, during fox hunt on Saturday
of last week, caused Joseph R. Branch, white,
to shoot and kill George w. Daniel, the col
ored representative elect to the General AS
sembly from Halifax county. Politics had
nothing to do with the fracas. Branch es'
capped arrest.
Rev. Dr. Pritchard, of Raleigh, in a re-
cent sermon in the Baptist church of that
city is reported to have said that Samson was
Y fsilure-that is, he did not accomplish the
objcct whereunto he was sent. Of Adam,
the reverend speaker also remarked that he
had no ambition, no hope, no reverence, no
energy, no passion, no caution, no judgment,
no nothing, except a wife, and she was too
much for him.
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al Legislation the emOryO statesman Will pro-
cure is not stated, but certainly the candor with
which he proclaims what he will do shows
that he is unquestionably satisfied that he will
make an unusually influential member of
Congress.
- Thereseems to be steady rehux tide of
emigration from the United States back to
Europe this year, and this, taken in connection
with the marked decreasein European emigra-
ton to this country, shows that during 1874
the United States will not receive near as
large an accession to her population from for
eign sources as she has during previous years.
The current back to Europe is shown not
only by the reports of the transatlantic steam
lines, but also by the statements of our con-
temporaries in the Western States, which
generally agree in reporting what they call
IAN almost unprecedented rush" back to the
Old World. Of the travel to..Europe, whilst
a proportion is made up of visitors who 60
for pleasure and intend to return again, it
is said that at least seventy per cent. are dis
appointed emigrants, who have found labor
scarce and wages low in this country, and
who 90 back to their former homes from ne.
cessity. The prevailing commercial depres-
slOn ol tne PasI year Ill Ino Couutly hoo oeoh
the chief cause Of this.
- For once Gen. B. F. Butler has moth
ing to say to a joke. In his recent speech at
Essex, he was just at the point where he took
occasion to solicit the suffrage Of his fellow
citizens for his return to Congress, because he
wanted to show the unreconstructed rebels
that their outrages could not be continued in
free America, and because he proposed to do
his share toward preventing mob violence in
the South, and then proceeded to discuss
the financial problem. While he was holding
all men paying their honest debts a spoon vas
lowered by means of string through the roof
which hung like spectre in mid-air. A laugh