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Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.

CHESTER, January 8, 1877.
A meeting of citizens was held at the Court
House on last Tuesday morning, for the pur-
pose of nominating an Intendant and War.
dens for the tewn of Chester for the ensuing
year. After organizing by placing J. j..
Hemphill, Esq, in the chair, on motion
committee of FIVE was appointed by the Chair
man to make the desired nominations. After
a brief consultation, the committee made the
following report: For Intendaut-John. L.
Agurs for Wardens-T. N. Youngblood, l.
L. Clubhouse, j. j. Hemphill and Joel r.
Simril. The report was adopted by the meet
ing. Some of the gentlemen, who were. not
ambitious of municipal honors, desired to de-
cline the nominations, but they we're persua-
ded to allow their names to remain with the
ticket.
AS last Monday was such an inclement day,
no sales of either real estate or personal prop
erty were made by Sheriff Walker The sales
will take place on the lst Monday in Februa-
ry. The following is some of the real estate
that will then be sold: Two tracts of land,
belonging to the estate of Jesse Castles, lying
on the waters of Sandy river tract of l36
acres belonging to M. S. Hardin, lying within
q short distance of town tract of Ito acres
belonging to Mr.. Thomas McFadden, lying
on the waters of Fishing creek an excellent
house and lot in town, once owned and occu-
MED by Major James Pagan, aud now the
property of Mr.. W. L. Esson, of Charleston
and house in town belonging to John Lilly,
the notorious forger of public school certiti.
Gates, and at the present time a refugee from
Justice. In addition to the realty, a lot of
cotton will be sold. Those who have money
and desire to place it where it will do the
most good, will have an opportunity on the
1st Monday in February.
The Odd Fellows of our town had jollifi.
cation meeting on last Monday evening. The
occasion was the installation of officers. Those
installed we're C. H. Hutton, Noble Grand;
H.C. Rothrock, Vice Grand; Edward Kain,
Recording Secretary 1. L. Clubhouse, Treas
urer; G. w. Curtis, Permanent Secretary;
NV. B. Capps, Warden j. r. Simril, Con.
ductor, and D. B. Rothrock, Chaplain. AT.
ter the installation services, which we're quite
imposing, considerable number Of the breth-
rem partook Of a,splendid supper. There was
no speaking, but any amount Of action, IN the
way of hearty eating. t.. ~.
The members of our town council, whose
successors are elected to-day, discharged their
municipal duties quite satisfactorily. They
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NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- The fair grounds at Charlotte have been
leased for a term Of FIVE years, and will be
converted into dairy.
On Friday last, Samuel W. Watts tender
ed to Governor Vance his resignation as
Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, to take
effect the 1st of next month.
- The Raleigh Observer says that the ap,
plications for Office average about twelve for
each position that Governor Vance has power
to fill. To give all these the careful consider,
alton which they ask, would consume fully
six months of the Governors term of office.
On Tuesday of last week, Mr.. W. H.
Thompson was shot and instantly killed by
Mr.. George Lloyd, at the house ofthe latter,
some seven or eight miles west of Chapel Hill.
The difficulty that led to the tragic affair
originated in friendly game ofsnow' 'balling.
- Murchison's cotton factory on Little river,
a few miles from Fayetteville, was destroyed by
fire on the End instant. The fire was the result
of accident. The building and machinery
were nearly new, having been rebuilt since the
close of the war. Sherman destroyed the old
factory at the same place.
Says the Asheville Pioneer: "Sherifi
Iweea, or MauIsou, arrived iu si,i0 pi"o~,
having in custody John Rineheart. Rine,
heart was convicted and sentenced to death
at the spring term of the Superior Court OF
Madison for the murder of man named
Joseph Turner, his neighbor. They resided
near Warm Springs. His death sentence was
commuted to imprisonment for life Rine-
heart is seventy-three years Of age, and is so
crippled in his neither limbs that he requires
staff in getting about, yet his eyesight is
good, and enabled him to bring down his fel'
low man and nearest neighbor at distance
of two hundred yards, with an old squirrel
rife" Turner was native Of York county,
S. c., and will doubtless, be remembered BY
many of our readers
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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

In the Senate on the 3rd, various bills and
petitions of no public Importance were pre-
sented and referred to the appropriate COM
mittees. Mr.. Morton, from the committee on
privileges and elections, submitted report
declaring that the manager of the telegraph
office at jacksonville, Oregon, a witness sum.
moned before the committee to testify in re-
gard to the electoral vote of Oregon, had re-
fused to answer certain questions propounded
to him by the committee, on the ground that
he could not divulge the business of his office
and testify as to matters passing over the
wires. Accompanying the report was reso-
luton of the committee, declaring that the
manager aforesaid is in duty bound to answer
questions, and cannot refuse to do so by virtue
of his connection with the Western Union
Telegraph Company. Ordered to be printed
Mr.. Morton gave notice that he would call it
up for consideration tomorrow. In the
House, Barnes, the manager of the telegraph
Office at New Orleans, who having refused to
testify before the Congressional investigating
committee, and being under arrest, appeared
before the bar of the House, and through the
request of counsel was allowed until Friday to
file his answer. A bill was introduced to
amend the charter of the Freedman's Bank,
relative to death, resignation or disability of
commissioners of the Bank.
In the Senate, on the 4th, Mr.. Conkling
presented the petition of the bankers, mer-
chants and other business men of New York
city, in favor of an amicable settlement of
the Presidential contest. Referred to special
committee of seven Senators appointed to de-
wise means for a proper count of the electoral
votes. A bill introduced by Mr.. Wright, to
establish court to count the electoral vote, was
discussed and referred to select committee.
During the debate, Mr.. Herman, of New York,
argued that the President of the Senate is not
constitutionally vested with the duty or the
right to count the electoral vote. After quo
ting from the constitution, be said the duty
of counting the electoral vote devolves upon
the two Houses of Congress, representing the
States and the people. He cited numerous
precedents, and said it would not be wise now
for Congress to attempt to give new con-
struction to the Constitution, which would
greatly odd to what all deprecated-the heat
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Two men were recently frozen to death
in Lexington county.
john R. Tolbert, the Republican candi-
date for State Superintendent of Education,
has taken possession of the Office.
"A farmer, in Greenville county, lost six
teen hogs and goats, which perished from the
cold.
Governor Hampton has already commits
stoned a number of county officers throughout
the State.
Mr.. George Timothy Wade, worthy
citizen,of Lancaster county, aged about 49
years, died from pneumonia, at his home in
that county, on the 21st ultino.
The weather in Anderson county, on the
3rd instant, was the coldest that has been
known for twenty-one years. The mercury
registered two degrees below zero.
A diploma and medal have been awarded
by the Centennial judges to the State Of South
Carolina "for remarkable exhibition OF the
universal phosphates of the State"
The Register is authority for the state
ment that the troops stationed in Columbia
will soon be ordered to leave that point and re-.
pair to their respective quarters in the various
barracks and forts of the United States.
Mr.. James McCorkle, living four miles
north of Lancaster village, committed suicide
on Christmas-eve-night by hanging himself
to joist in his house. His family were ab.
sent from home ~ Tie ume.
The soldiers are still on duty in the State
House at Columbia, with negro constables at
the outside doors. The soldiers and consta.
bles employ their leisure time in playing at
cards.
Broad and Saluda rivers, during the re-
cent cold snap, were frozen hard to within q
few feet of the middle of the current on each
side; while floating ice, in immense cakes,
tumbled along through the open space. Even
the Congaree is icy in some portions. 1t is
the first time such thing has been known in
many years.
-Four negroes we're brought to Edge6eld
Jail on Monday of last week, charged with
the killing of another negro who voted the
Democratic ticket. He "hurrahed for Hamp-
ton" at Christmas frolic, and was set upon
by his Radical companions and so badly shot
and beaten that he died few days later.
The committee of six Democratic and six
Republican members of the State Senate,
who we're appointed to consider the question
of the legality of the Mackey House of Rep
resentatives, met in Columbia on the afternoon
of the 4th instant. The committee remained
in consultation but short time. Neither
side was willing to make any concessions, and
being unable to agree upon anything else,
they finally agreed to adjourn sine die
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EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Judpe Mackey Again to the Front.

-- The Columbia correspondent of the
Ne,us and Courier telegraphs to that paper the
following, under date of Sunday night last :
"A rumor of a decidedly sensational char
acter is current on the street that Judge I. j.
Mackey, who arrived yesterday, and Cover
nor Chamberlain, have been summoned before
the Senate Congressional Committee, and that
Mackey has notified Gov. Chamberlain by
letter that if be does not withdraw bis claims
to the gubernatorial Office before the lst of
February be will make public documents now
in his (Mackey's) possession, the contents of
which would consign Governor Chamberlain
to the penitentiary."
Hands off in the South.
The following, telegraphed from Wash
ngton under date of the End instant, can be
taken by our readers for what it is worth:
Enquiry confirms the statement that the
action of the Cabinet to-day was negative and
conservative. No action will be taken regard.
ing South Carolina, Florida or Louisiana, nn.
less some overt act of disorder makes Federal
interference imperative. The recognition of
Hampton or Chamberlain in South Carolina,
Nichols or Packard in Louisiana, Stearns or
Drew in Florida, will be avoided if possible.
The taxpayers have the issue in their own
hands"
Views Of the Governor Of Maine.
- In his inaugural address to the Legis-
lature of Maine, Governor Conner uses the
following language in reference to the COM
plications of the Presidential vote:
"A heated Presidential contest has not been
followed as is customary by the acknowledged
election of the candidate of one party, and the
ready submission of the defeated party to the
result, but there is no present reason for fore
boding. Partisan clamor will be hushed in
the majestic presence Of the law when the time
comes for it to manifest and assert itself. We
cannot doubt that the tribunal upon which
devolves the settlement of the vexed question,
composed of men chosen Of the nation for wis
dom and patriotism, will establish the right by
clear proof of law and ancient custom, and
that the general voice of law-abiding people
will accept their decision"
The Florida Governorship.
The Supreme Court of Florida refusing
to receive the canvass as made by the Return.
Board on the 9th ultimo, on the 3rd instant
the Board made another return in compliance
with the order of the Court. The Court &C.
cepted this as a substantial answer to the
writ of contempt and discharged the parties
with proper costs. What action will be TAX
en- regarding the electoral vote has not been
determined
Drew, Democrat, was inaugurated Govern.
or on the 3rd instant, Chief Justice Randall
administering the oath. The inaugural guar
auteed full concession and protection in the
enjoyment of all rights and privileges under
the constitution and laws of the United States
to the freedmen. A great many colored peo'
pie witnessed and took part in the inaugura-
ton and but few Republicans abseuted them
selves. Nearly, If not all, Of Gov. stearns
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THORNWELL ORPHANAGE.

THORNWELL LORPHANAGE.
The following extract Of letter from W.
P. Jacobs to Miss M. E. McP Pheetefs, Of this
place, agent for ThornwelI orphansge, ex-t
plains itself: IS, Sss..s 81.
~ received by mail for the Tnornwell Or.
phanage Si4.50, for which please give our
thanks to the generous donors. Ihaye also.
received q box. Please, if possible, Ietpfps
our heartfelt thanks 70 the noble friends who
have, responded SO generously. God bless
them-epery one Yours sincerely. 3,
w. r. JAooBs.n'' -, s.,
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and excitement of the hour. Mr.. Sherma

and excitement of the hour. Mr.. Sherman
spoke briefly on the same question, saying
that the result of the twenty-second joint rule,
which the Democrats claim to be in force, and
by which they claim both houses should be
governed in counting the electoral vote, is
worse than that of any rule in Mexico. The
House passed bill granting pension of So
per month, to soldiers and sailors OF the Mex
ican, Florida, and Black Hawk wars, and
their widows. 1t excludes all persons under
political disabilities. A resolution of Mr..
Throckmorton, of Texas, directing an inqui.
ry into the purpose for which troops have re-.
Gently been stationed in Washington, was ob-
jected to on the Republican side of the House,
and was, therefore, not received.
In the Senate on the 5th, the resolution re-
garding the telegraph manager in Oregon
G ,ming up, Mr. Kelly urged that it should be
adopted. The debate assumed legal char
acter as to the sanctity photographic dispatch
es, and the final question, upon the adoption
of the resolution, failed for want ofa quorum
only S6 Senators voting-yeas 33; nays, 3.
The Senate then adjourned until Monday.
In the House, Barnes, telegraph manager at
New Orleans, was presented at the bar for
contempt of its privileges in disobeying the
subpoena requiring him to produce certain
telegrams before the New Orleans investiga'
ting committee. The answer WAS by an argu'
ment prepared by his counsel, taking the
ground (6rst) that the paper served on him
was not subpoena at all; (second) that be-
fore its service he had transmitted to the Su.
perintendent at Mobile all the business of the
Office from the 1st of November to the 9th of
December; {third) that even if any Of the
messages were in the Office they we're not le-
gally in his possession, but in that of the COM
pany and (fourth) that the demand made is
at variance with public policy and with con-
stitutional rights. The whole subject was re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee No other
business of Importance was transacted.
In the House on the 9Th, most of the days
session was devoted to business in the District
of Columbia.
The proceedings of either House on the 9th
were unimportant.
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SUDDEN DEATH.

Patrick Goforth, colored man, died sud-
denly yesterday morning at the house Of Ells, !.
Good, near Yorkville. He had been in bad
health for some time. yet able TO. benp. and
yesterday morning, while kiudling tire he
was suddenly seized with difficulty Of breath
ing, and soon ex pired. ~ 4.
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rOWN REJECTION.

The municipal election, last Monday. re-
suited in the election, for the fourth term, Of
the old board Of officers, viz: Intepdans-'
W. H. McCorkle; WardeM Joseph Hern-
don, J. R. schorb, Robert Wright and Ed
ward Wheeler. $50 t 4s.s u Z
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THE METHODIST CHURCH.

Rev. W. s. Martin, the newly.appointed
pastor of the Methodist Church q this place.
has arrived, aud delivered his FIRST sermon
to Yorkville congregation last Sabbath, in-
pressing very fsvorably, all who heard his {
discourse, assst 5&3 -
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Cen. Crook is notiisposed to belittle the
foes whom be has ben fighting since last
spring. He thinks that an Indian warrior
makes the best cayalry man in the word, and
he ia undoubtedly rigi. In his annual re-
mort he saws: "When the Sioux Indian was
armed with bow and arrow ne was more
formidable, fighting d ne does most OF the
time on horseback. tba, when he got the old,
fashioned muzzle loadpg rifle. But when ne
came into possession Of the breech loader and
metallic cartridge. whrh allows him to load
and fire from his horse with perfect ease, he
became at once ten tho, and times more for
nn;dahle With the IN proved arms, I have
seen our friendly Inc Jams, riding at full
speed, shoot and kilIa s'olf also on the run,
while it is q rare thing that our troops can
hit an Indian on horseback, though the sol'
dier may be on bis feE at the time. The
Sioux is cavalry soldf,r from the time ne
has intelligence enough to ,ride morse or
fire gun. If he wishefto dlst,ount, bis har'
dy pony, educated By ing usage. will Craze
around near where, he pas oeen lett, ready
when his master wants lim, either to move
and families they can ,ovs Il Che rate Of
6fty miles per day. EFey re perfectly ia:
miiiar with the country have their spies and
hunting parties out llahe time at distances
of from twenty to thirty miles each way from
their villages, know t6f number and move.
ments of ali the troops fffst may be; operating
against them, just about what they can prob
ablv do. and hence c,n choose their own
times and places of conflict or avoid it alto.
pether, T<;jsis<s ~ ~ 'rt .i=s1]- F.aSt4 =
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GIRCUITCOURT.

January term Of the Circuit Court for
York couutywas called last Monday, but in
consequence Of the abseuce Of his Honor
Judge Mackey, the juries and suitors were
dismissed until Tuesday next, 18th instant.
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LocALEATTAIRs.
NEW ADVERTIsEMENTs.

w. B. Allison, Executor-Land for Sale.
Fl. g. Strauss-Private Boarding. -
J, M. Rawlinson--Card of Thanks. =.
w. A. &J. P. Hernlon-ls77-Time Waits on no
Ma,,-For Casf-F Flour Groceries. &
r. II. Glenn, s. Y. Y.C.-SheriR's g Saies-Judge Of
PrObate's Sale @s
Francis D. HiIlson-Chromos, DC.
Joseph A. Mclean, Judge OF Probate Petition
for Homestead.
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FORT MILL ITEMS.

From our Fort Mill correspondent We
learn that Catawba river was frozen over
from bank to bank for several days during
the recent cold weather The ice was thick-
or than has formed in the river since 1858:
At Dinkins ferry the ice was sufficiently
strong to admit Of persons crossing on it with
safety. ,glss5
There have been eight deaths near Fort Mill,
within the last nine days -six colored and
two white. Among the latter Was Tillah Yi.
ola, aged nine years, daughter Of Richard
Younge, her disease being diphtheria. "a
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MHRE.MENTION..

Two companies Of the Second Regiment
II. s. troops have beea.ordeaed from Atlanta
to ,Jeaersopyille. Indina. Two companies
of the Sixteenth Regiment, lt sss sald, nave
also been orderedgfrod 'Aiabamat 70 Jenerson-
Vile. .....'".A death finn administering ether
occurred in New j, fsey dentists offlce last
Saturday. ."'.''...Van1erbilt, the money king
of New York, died Lash Thursday. :. :: Epb.
Horne famous for the last twenty-five years
as negro minstrel, H dead L. J: ne ''
Louisiana taxpayers deciare their determ'na-
ton to support with msterlal ana NM nnancla' aio'
Nichols the Democratf Governor. r. 80 "a Jas <
Gordon Bennett, was assaulted on the street
in New York one day pst week by Frederick
Nav. brother of Miss Ida May, the young
ladv to whom Bennett mad been engaged. The
marriage was broken sff by the lady's father
refusing to give his consent, and in addition
thereto her biz brother attempted to cowhide
the expectant groom. = duel is now taiKeo
of as the result ".....Y2he New York Cham
har If Commence urpeE lat the silver dollar
be made the standard I gal coin throughout
the United States, wh;f the Boston Board OF
Trade oppose the silver basis . .''' An ex, ';
tradition treaty betwenn the United States
and Spain has been signed.
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,huel Edwards. The
. displayed to the
ice. with this exhor;:
ID to your party"
,oinprnnise ticket,
kns and Democrats,
a square fight
Etwo parties. For
Ito be an exciting
hrty will doubtless
poll. a heavy vote.
are almost sure OF
|&cient majority to
man will vote.
! day in town. Ear.
rain began to fall,
Foughout the day.
we're exceedingly
i as veil have been
that was done. Po-
eedingIy had wealth,
| annihilated bust
patton in business
|nths longer, there
bme mercantile fail.
QuI.
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kood order Of the
{s@ ID good repair.
7 their administra.
II Wylie street to
provement is both
Two good buildings
| upon the corners
bets j; one by Mr.. T..
by Mr.. w. Holmes
the latter gentle
'ery great improve.
town. Mr.. John
.hg . splendid brick
/. The two rooms
|e dimensio ions, and
iaa second hoor will.
hail. So notwith.
and the financial
thereupon, Chester
Of her way, which
! Improvement.
been appointed and
at this place, vice.
pom, in the build.
Hotel will be used
L q very central To-
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CHEsTER, January y, io1f'

his State. The Su.
decided in favor of
|npton government,
tere was no appeal.
bit, he said, would
the Hampton gov.
frforined by Cham.
would be regarded
! The Judge, in al
enth, called for by
It was a voluntary
breed by execution.
that those who re-
Hampton, would be
Of the amount paid
srstax shall he col.