Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-07-21


State was represented by Solicitor Orr and
by Col. w. E. Earle, of Washington, D. G.,
and the defendants by Messrs. j. T. Nix and
E. F. Stokes, of the Greenvile bar.
EDITORIAL 1NKLINGS.
The New York Senatorship.
- Warner Miller, who came into the field
as a candidate for the long term United
States Senatorship from New York, ou the
withdrawal of Mr.. Platt, was elected last
Saturday, having received seventy.three votes,
one less than he had received the day before.
When he received seventy.four votes, as he
did Friday, he lacked FIVE, seventy-nine be.
ing necessary to elect, but on the following
day he pulled through on seventy-three, four
teen members being absent from their seats.
The balloting on Monday resulted without
an election of the second Senator. The vote
was as follows Lapham, 90; Potter, "a !;
Conkling, 27 Evarts, l. Necessary to a
choice, SO.
MOrmOniSm in Georgia.
- Most people have an idea that Nor
morism fourishes only in Utah, but judging
from the following notice which appears in
the Atlanta Constitution of Friday, it would
seem that the peculiar sect is making some
headway in Georgia:
The annual conference of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter. Day Saints, Georgia
Mission. will be held in Mormon meeting
house, Haralson county, Ca, July %, % and
d, to which cordial invitation is extended
to all. There will be present ten or twelve
travelling elders from the different parts of
the State, also John Morgan, President of the
Southern States Mission.
WALTER SCOTT, President"
The Constitution makes this notice the sub.
ject of an editorial, in which it acknowledges
that, surprising as it may seem, these people
have made considerable progress in that
State. That paper says:
"This nefarious business has been making
considerable headway in certain sections Of
the State for several years past. Only a
short while ago, q number of wretched emf.
grants from the mountain regions of Alabama
and Georgia, passed through Chattanooga
on their wav to the great centre of moral
degradation in Utah, and this has been going
on for years. When it assumes the aggres
sive, as it seems to have done in Georgia, and
establishes missions in the States for the pur
pose of contributing fresh victims to the
unbridled lust of the Saints it is time tol
Congress. to apply the remedy. There is q
Georgia Mission,' and there are missions in
all the States, and fresh supplies Of converts,
mostly women, are constantly arriving in
Salt Lake City. In view of all these things
it is the duty of Congress to pass such laws
as will efectually abolish the lustful practices
of the Saints They should be made to con
form to the code of morals which govern
decent people everywhere"
Mr.. Davis on the Assassination.
- The Philadelphia Press contains q
lengthy interview between representa-
tative of that paper and Jefferson Davis, al
his home in Mississippi, few days after the
attempted assassination of the President. The
6rst words of Mr.. Davis to his visitor were
an inquiry as to the condition of the Presi
dent. After hearing the purport of the latest
bulletins Mr.. Davis said:
"This assault on General Garfield is hor'
ible crime, and there can be but one senti
ment among the people of this country at the
enormity of the offense When man will
kill the President because he refuses him
office, what may not be expected? Assassi
nation is usually the outgrowth of seasons
of oppression. Even then it is the result Of
force or sentiment too cowardly for revolu
tion-too contemplate for civilization to tol
crate. This crime is without even the ex
cuse of excitement A vul gar man murders
the President in his wild delirium about Of
fee. Such crime makes the whole nation
kin, halters all prejudice and bushes partisan
thoughts 1t is evident that the crime is
the outgrowth of greedy scramble fol
office, which of late years has been so mark
ed. 1t is hoped that the reaction which this
great crime will produce, will correct this
alarming evil. 1t has for long time been
growing into our system until it has finally
resulted in the murder of the executive. The
South had much hope in the Presidents
administration, and will sincerely mourn his
loss as it Joins in the national sorrow in the
attempt upon his lfe I earnestly hope he
may speedily recover. Appointments and
removals for political consideration is bad
use of executive power. When the Confed'
eracy was organized at Montgomery, it was
provided that no man should be removed from
office by the executive except for cause, which
the law required should be specifically stated
The political power concentrated in the hands
of the President by his control Of patronage
has been growing greater every day, and its
administration has for a long time been vi.
cious."
Reports of the Growing Crops.
-- Returns to the Agricultural depart
ment at Washington to the 1st instant show
an increase in the condition Of the cotton
crop since the reports Of June. The average
condition is 95 per cent. against 100 at the
same time last year. The following are the
reports by States:
Thirty four counties in North Carolina av-
erage 81 per cent nineteen counties in South
Carolina average SO ; ffty-seven counties in
Georgia average SO; thirteen in Florida av-
erage SO; thirtytwo counties in Alabama av.
erage 1O2; thrty-nine counties in Mississip-
pi average 81 eighteen counties in Louisiana
average So; sixty-four counties in Texas aver
age SO ; thirty. two counties in Arkansas aver.
age 92 eighteen counties in Tennessee average
1O5. The plant is generally reported small
and ten days late Hot and too dry wealth
er is almost universally noted, except in
Southern and Western Texas little injury