Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-02-04

from New OrK 10 new OrleauS, auu Inel
offices all along the route are open for bust
ness. '.'''''''It is stated that twenty-three CT
gars are made in this country to every one I'M
ported. Sixty newspaper reporters are in at
tendance at the Beecher-Tilton trial. '''"Tht
average number of cigars smoked in the Uni
ted States during twenty four hours is 5,l6S,
900.
EDITORIAL INkL1NGS.
Political Asperities.
- Any of our politicians or public Off
cials who may feel aggrieved at the uncom
plimentary allusions indulged at their expense
by the newspapers of the day, will doubtless
find a source of consolation in the following
philippe which was hurled at General Wash
ington by one of the newspapers published al
the close Of his second term:
"The man who is the source of all the mis-
fortunes of our country is this day reduced tc
level with his fellow. citizens, and no longer
possessed Of power to multiply evils upon the
United States. Every heart in unison with
the freedom and happiness Of the people ought
to beat high with the exultation that (* X,
from this day ceases to give currency to politi
cal iniquity and to legalize corruption. 1t is 8
subject of the greatest astonishment that a
single individual should have carried his de-
signs against the public liberty so far as tc
have put in jeopardy its very existence Such
however, are the facts and, with these facts
staring us in the face, this day ought to be a
Jubilee in the United States"
New Senator's.
- United States Senators have been elect.
ed by a number of the State Legislatures
within the past few weeks. The election Of
Andrew Johnson from Tennessee, has been
the subject of much comment. Although a
pronounced opponent Of the administration
the organs of that party affect to believe that
his staunch Union sentiments will do much
in the Senatorial chamber toward prepetuity
of the Government, which it is pretended by
them will be endangered by reduced Repub'
lican majority in Congress. This alone, they
think, will compensate for all the trouble and
worry the ex-President will give his personal
and political enemies in Congress. Mr.
Johnson was elected by coalition of Repub
licans and Democrats, and the result is not
claimed as a triumph for either party.
In Michigan and Nebraska, the regular
Republican nominees were defeated by Goa
liton of the Democrats and Conservative Re-
publcans, who united upon Liberal Republi
cans-Isaac P. Christiancy in the former
State and A. S. Paddock in the latter.
The Rhode Island Legislature elected Gen
Burnside On the first ballot.
Missouri has elected General Francis W
Cockrell to succeed Carl Schurz, whose term
will expire on the 4th of March. General
Cockrell is about 40 years of age, Demo
crat, and gained considerable distinction as 8
Confederate officer.
The Tilton. .Beecher Trial.
- The great scandal case has been or
trial before Judge Nelson in the Brooklyn
City Court ever since the 18th ultimo, anc
will probably continue for several weeks. The
most eminent legal counsel in the city i:
employed on both sides, and every inch o.
ground is hotly contested. The defense have
seemed to rely upon breaking down the testi
mony of F. D. Moulton, the Mutual Friend,
and makingit appear that the charges brought
by Tilton result from a conspiracy between
him and Moulton to ruin Beecher; but in
this they have as yet signally failed. Fol-
eleven days and half Moulton was on the
witness stand, and more than half Of this time
he was subjected to the most rigid and search
ing cross-examination, in which every device
of legal tactics was brought to bear for the
purpose of confusing and entrapping him
His answers, however, were prompt and dl
rect, and during the ordeal he never falterec
in the least. He also preserved his gooc
temper in an unusual degree, and only on the
last day of his examination did he make 6
curt and cutting reply to the opposing coun
sci, for which the Court declined to reprimanc
the witness on the ground that he had beer
tortured while on the stand beyond precedent
The unexpected intelligence of his mother:
death, conveyed to him while undergoing hi:
examination, did not prevent him from com
pleting his testimony without intermission
and from the first to the last, his bearing wa:
such as to challenge the admiration of his op
ponents, no matter how they may attempt te
connect him with the case.
Death of Judge Green.
Judge John T. Green died on Wednes
day afternoon of last week, at his home il
Sumter. AS the public are aware, Judge
Green had been in feeble health for severa
months past, his declining health preventing
him from taking an active part in the State
campaign, in which, by the pastiality Of hi
friends, he was conspicuously placed. judge
Green has ever borne an irreproachable name
for pure character and sterling integrity, anc
was loved and respected by all who knew him
He died in the 47th year Of his age, retaining
consciousness to the last, with the powers o
speech unimpaired His services to the STATE
are detailed in the following sketch:
Judge Green was born in Mechanicsvllle
on October Is, 1927. At an early age he en-
tered the South Carolina College, where h'
remained for three years. He subsequently
entered the law Office of Mr.. F. j. Moses, Sr.
the present chief Justice of the State, and, at
ter thorough course of study, was admitted
to the bar in 1S49, when be had just passet
his twenty-frst year. In 1852 Judge Greer
was elected to the State legislature on the co