Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-10-04
StEaps aud fafts.

The true rendering ls: wv hen Greeks
joined Greeks then came the tug of war" 1t
occurs in play called Alexander the Great,
by one Lee, act iv., scene 2.
"A special to the Baltimore Sun, from
Ohio, reports that the Republicans there have
made gains recently, and expect to carry the
State by handsome majority. The reasons
given are unusual Democratic apathy, in neg
lecting to register, and the withdrawal from
the ticket of some of their leading legislative
candidates.
Butler intends, it is stated on the author
ity of one of his friends, to introduce bill in
to the next Congress for the purpose of in.
creasing the army. The plan outlined in
cludes the idea of inserting a clause in favor
of frestoring to the regular positions in the ar
my the old officers who entered the Confed-
crate service.
The planters in Mississippi are on strike.
Meetings have been held and resolutions
adopted to the effect that they will not
permit their cotton to pass into the hands Of
merchants who advanced them means to pro-
duce it, at less price than fifteen cents per
pound. Shipments of cotton by the jackson
Railroad have almost ceased, and the move
ment is causing good deal of uneasiness in
New Orleans.
And now the news comes from Washing
ton that Secretary of the Treasury John Sher-
man, has been weaned on paci6cation soup.
He has appointed to position in the Treasu-
ry Department, Major E Griswood, of Balti-
more, who was on the staff of General Winder
in command Of the Southern prisons during
the war. 1t is long stride for John to make
such an appointment, but then he has long
reach.
- The amount Of bank notes issued during
the present month is $1,325, $40, making it
necessary to retire under the law of the Uni
ted States notes to the amount of 1861 ,232.
The Secretary of the Treasury has determined
not to sell gold this month as has heretofore
been done to meet their liability, but to retire
the United States notes from the current
balance in the Treasury, which is ample for
that purpose.
In Windham county court, at Brattlebo.
70, Vermont, last Thursday, Ophelia Snow
recovered verdict of $4,000 against Daniel
G. Carpenter & Son, hotel proprietors, and
prominent citizens of Preadsboro, on account
of injuries received by being thrown from a
wagon in consequence of her husband being
drunk. The liquor was purchased of the de-
PENDANTS, and as the suit was test case under
the Vermont liquor law, it excited great in
terest.
As result of the schism in the Republi-
can party of New York, as developed at the
State Convention last week, a call is published
for National Liberal League Congress to be
held in Rochester on the 26th, 9th and 18th
of October. The platform will be total
separation of Church and State, National pro-
lection for national citizens, and universal
education the basis of universal suffrage.
The question of nominating President and
Vice-President for 1880 will be considered.
- Advices received from Turkish sources
represent that Plevna has been revictualled
and reinforced, and that the rainy season hav-
ing set in, army operations will soon cease for
the winter. A Vienna dispatch reports that
the Russian council of Ministers has been dis.
cussing the question of peace, and that all the
Ministers except two favored peace. This is
manifestly absurd. The war is as far from an
end now as when it commenced, unless the
great Powers intervene to stop hostilities.
The French seem to be easily pre-eminent
in finance. The Bank of France was allow
ed by law to resume specie payments when
the Government indebtedness to it should
reach 3OO,000,000 francs, on the first of Jan
uary, 1879. Only 100000 of the required
sum remains to liquidate, which the govern
ment could readily pay, but retains simply to
fall within the letter of the law. The Bank is
as ready to resume as the Government is abun-
dainty able to pay. Really the French 6nan-
ciers are marvels in their way.
The grand jury of Kemper county, Mis-
sissippi, following the advice given to them
by the presiding Judge in his charge on the
opening of the fall term of the court, has re-
turned no less than thirty-one indictments
against the parties concerned in the Chisholm
aud other homicides. Six of the indictments
are for murder and twenty-five for being &C.
cessory thereto 1t s stated that 80 far as the
officers of the law are concerned, there is de.
termination that Justice shall have its due
course.
A petition, which has already been signed
by more than nine hundred New York bank
presidents, merchants, manufacturers and
business men generally, and which urges the
Senate to confirm the course of the House of
Representatives in repeating the bankrupt
law, is now in circulation in that city. The
petition itself is remarkable document, con-
tanning ss it does the autograph signatures of
many of the most eminent men of the mercan-
tile community of New York. The reasons
assigned for the proposed repeal are that the
law affords an opportunity for fraud, and that
it is differently interpreted in different places
Because the colored brethren are encour-
aged to 60 to Liberia so that they may have
slaves of their own and tap gum trees for
champagne, the Chicago Tribune cruelty says: /:
"Men who can be cheated by statements of
this description, ought to emigrate; they are
not fit to vote and govern in State of the
American Union" A few years ago, when
the Iribune's friends were persuading these
same negroes into "forty acres and mule"
and the "Freedman's Bank" they were ever
so good to remain as voting machines. Since
the colored man has ceased to be a power in
the South his former Radical chums now de-
lberately consign him to perdition.
The third resolution adopted by the Ma
ryland Democratic State Convention, makes
the following reference to the administration
of President Hayes: 1t is cause of congrat-
ulation to the country at large and especially
of pride and satisfaction to the Democratic
party, that its peaceful policy ofhome rule and
non-intervention in the civil affairs of the
States, has become cardinal rule of action
even in an administration whose title to Office
is not derived from an election according to
constitutional methods, but exists by the ad-
Indication of tribunal unknown to the con-
stitution, but whose award has been acquies-
ced in by the peace loving people.
Gen. A. G.. Jones. who has lust returned