Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-10-11

mon, some time ago, in which he announced
his policy of not removing from Office, except
for cause, and then not to replace with q
Democrat if competent Republican could
be found. So that it seems, according to Mr..
Key, Democrat need expect no favor along
with his Southern policy, and applicants may
as we'll smoke their pipes in peace and puff
their 'ambrosial gales Colonel Evins is in
excellent health and will leave for Washing
ton at an early day" -
Conviction Of Ex-senator Sawyer. --
Ex-senator F. A. Sawyer, with others,
was convicted at Washington last week on a
charge of conspiracy to defraud the United
States out of $4,000, while Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury. The penalty of the
crime of which Sawyer has been convicted is
from one to five years Imprisonment in the
penitentiary at hard labor, and fine of from
one to five thousand dollars. Notice has been
given of an appeal. The Baltimore Sun
publishes the following sketch of Sawyer:
Sawyer is a native of Boston and graduate
of Harvard was professional teacher in
various New England States became princi-
pal of the normal school at Charleston, South
Carolina, ir 1859; returned to New England
during the civil war was appointed collector
of internal revenue at Charleston, after the
war ended, in 1865; took an active part in
the reconstruction, 80 called, of South Caro-.
lima, and was made United States Senator
from that State from 1867 to 1873, and As
sistant Secretary of the United States Treas
ury, 1884. ~ '@5 .s,,@ ....'
A Washington letter gives the following as
the circumstances of the transaction which
led to the convictions: "When Sawyer was
Assistant Secretary of the treasury, Parkman,
Brooks Il Co., of Memphis, fled fictitious
cotton claims, and through the connivance
of Sawyer and Haines, the latter, at the
time, commissioner of customs, they were
paid. Sawyer is convicted of conspiracy and
Haines and Brooks of bribery"
The Russian War.
- According to thedispatches to the AS
sociated Press, there has recently been severe
fighting before Kars. The Russians assaulted
the Turkish positions along the whole line and
were repulsed with heavy loss. The success
gained on the End instant, in the capture of
the great Yagni Hill, claimed by the Russians
and conceded by the Turks, did not compen-
safe for the failure at other points of the line
and the positions carried have since been
abandoned. Notwithstanding the dilatory
and fragmentary character of the dispatches,
enough has reached US to make it apparent
that the main action was fought on the End.
The Turkish line extended from Great and
Little Yagni, two fortified hills in the Kuruk.
dara Plain, as far as the Arpachai river, with
the centre advanced toward the river and
resting on Kizietepe. The Russians who had
been reinforced, both by new troops and those
lately employed against the Caucasian insur-
gents, commenced battle at daybreak by an
assault on Great Yagni, which is the extreme
outwork of Mukhtar Pasha's forti6cation,
about twelve miles due east from Kars.
Here the Turks seem to have been taken by
surprise, as much as the Russians were when
Mukhtar won Keziltepe from them, and CON-
PEELED them to abandon their fortified camp
at Kurukdars A single Turkish battalion
defending Great Yagni, was cut to pieces or
captured after two hours obstinate defense,
which gave the Turks an opportunity to pre-
pare for the next assault. Up to this point
all accounts agree, but regarding subsequent
events they are very conflicting.
The Turks estimate the Russian force
engaged against their left at thirty-fve battal
ions of infantry and nine regiments of cavalry.
They say Little Yagni was assaulted five
times, and taken and retaken. The move
ment against the Turkish right flank was so
near succeeding that Muhktar Pasha's COM
municaton with Kars at one time was actual
ly interrupted. Eventually the repulse was
complete along the whole line, and the Turks
remained in possession of the field of battle
A Russian bulletin says "We have gained
a brilliant victory and inflicted loss of over
5000 on the enemy" The Russian bulletin
concludes "To.day (Thursday) our right
flank will withdraw from the positions occu-
pied by them on Tuesday, on account of the
difficulty in obtaining supply of water"
Senator Patterson's Arrest.
We state elsewhere the fact that re-
QUESTION by Governor Hampton for Senator
Patterson has been duly honored by the legal
authorities of the District of Columbia. After
the warrant of arrest was issued by Chief Jus.
tice Cartier, on Governor Hampton's requisi-
cion, the following habeas corpus proceedings
ensued:
"On Friday evening visit was made to the
residence of the Senator by the Marshal, when
it was ascertained that the Senator was not at
home. His counsel (Messrs. Shellabarger,
Wilson, Cook and Charles Pelham, attorneys
of Washington,) however, knew of his where
abouts, and accordingly prepared a petition
for a writ of habeas corpus in advance of the
service of the writ for arrest by the Marshal.
When all the preliminaries for the petition of
a writ of habeas corpus were completed, the
Marshal was informed of the locality of the
Senator, whereupon the arrest was made by
him, and Immediately thereafter counsel ap.
pealed to Judge Humphreys for writ of
habeas corpus, the petition being based on the
following grounds: First, that Senator Pat
terson was regularly elected a Senator of the
United States in 1872 and shortly after came
to the District of Columbia, and has remained
here in the discharge of his duties; that dur
ing the interval from that period to the pres.
ent, he has visited South Carolina several
times, but that he has committed no crime in
the State, and that he has continued to reside
here temDorarily as q Senator, and, therefore,
it cannot be said, in the terms of the requisi-
ton, that he is fugitive from Justice. Sec
ond, the term of the Court at which the in.