Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-04-10
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.


There are four laws of the United
States which the Democrats tried to have
repealed at the last session of Congress. The
failure of the effect the repeal of these laws
resulted in the present extra session. These
laws are:
/. The law authorizing two supervisors of
election, one belonging to each party, to be
appointed by the Federal courts for each vo'
ting place.
9 The law authorizing the marshals to
appoint an unlimited number Of deputy mar
shals, all of whom may be Of one party, to sus-
tain and support the supervisors in their et'
forts to secure a fair q election.
8. The law authorizing the district attor.
neys and other persons tc require the grand
and petit jurors in the Federal courts to take
the iron-clad oath.
4. The law authorizing the President to
station troops at the polls to preserve the
peace when elections for Congressman are
going on. ..,.:
The Cold Snap Last Week. IT,. ...
- Accounts from all sections report dam
aging frost last Thursday night. At Charles
ton it seriously injured the early vegetable
crops on the truck farms in that vicinity.
The injury to the potatoes is estimated at
25 per cent. The. cucumber, tomato and
bean crops are almost entirely killed straw
berries are badly hurt and retarded fully two
weeks. The loss to the truck farmers around
Charleston is estimated at quarter of mil
lion. ...
At Norfolk, the thermometer fell to %
degrees, and it was thought that considerable
damage was done to fruit and early vegeta-
ton.
An Atlanta, Ga., dispatch reports the
weather as having been quite cold on Thurs
day and Friday, the thermometer indicating
81 degrees. The peach, pear and apple crops
are ruined. The vegetable crop is not seri-
ously damaged. The cold snap does not ex-
tend all over the State.
At Provincetown, Mass, severe storm, on
Thursday night, did considerable damage to
shipping, and some lives are reported lost.
The Negro Exodus. ........ ...
Sixty thousand negroes are said to be
leaving Louisiana and Mississippi, seeking
homes in Kansas, and as consequence there
is paralyzation of the agricultural industries
in the States from which the blacks are emf
grating. Giving the alleged reasons for this
unprecedented hegira, the New Orleans cor
respondent of the Chicago Times writes as
follows: ...... ....,.. ..r
Your correspondent has information from
two reliable negroes, one Representative and
the other parish Judge, just from Madison
Parish, that the exodus Of negroes exceeds
anything that can be imagined except by
those upon the ground. They say that
10000 laborers and their families will leave
for Kansas within the next six months, and
that the action of the white people in endeav-
oring to check the movements will onl y pro-
mote the hegira. They give the following fig,
ures as evidence that the negroes are forced
to seek some other location in selfprotection !:
Annual rent charged per acre of land, SlO ;
cost of ginning, SIS mule 81; bagging and
ties, So; total, S24 Average product, one
bale to the acre average price Of one bale OF
cotton, $780,
Meetings have been held in all the colored
churches in the city, and subscriptions raised
to assist the colored residents of Natch!toches
to remove to Kansas. Several prominent
bank officers have assured the Times cores
pondent that this exodus of the negroes IS the
most disastrous occurrence in the annals OF
Louisiana, and that their disappearance will
destroy a source of wealth which can never
be replaced withouta social revolution. The
Times correspondents informants say this
exodus includes many who have their crops
already in the ground.
What will the President Do?
-- The contest over the supervisors'ot-
election clause in the military appropriation
bill having passed in the House, the struggle
will soon commence in the Senate. While
there is not much doubt that the Senate will
follow the action of the House and maintain
the clause prohibiting the use of soldiers at
the polls, there is much speculation as to
what will be the fate of the bill when it goes
to the President for his signature. The Wash
ington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun,
speaking of this subject, says: "Notwlth-
otondinr tho lond Manifestations Of the parti.