Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-20

lslana, Arkansas, tennessee and Texas. these
reports show that there has been general
falling off Of receipts, except in Georgia,
Florida, Southern Louisiana and Texas, com.
pared with 1879. The towns in the Missis-
sippi bottom all report considerable decrease.
In thia section much cotton, varously estima-
ted at from 10 to- l5 per cent, remains un-
picked in the fields, and there is no hope Of
saving more than one half of it. Much of it
is reported as rotting in the fields
The Democrat also has reports Of the Loui.
siana sugar CROP which 20 to confirm its
former estimate of 236, 900 bogsheads Small
planters have finished sugar making and only
few of the large planters are still grinding
A very small per centage Of cane remains in
the field, and all will be gathered in two
weeks, contrary to expectation. The Decem-
Der freeze did little damage The yield eve
rywhere has been fine. and in some sections,
notably in larger sugar parishes, has been
enormous. The reports indicate an average
of so per cent. over last years crop, when the
yield for the State was l72,424 hogsheads.
Garfield's Policy Foreshadowed.
- A late letter to the New. York Times,
speaking of Gen Garfield, says the President
elect has steeled himself for the ordeal of
starting right, and foreshadows his policy in
regard to Office seekers as follows:
The General remains quietly at home,
having gone to Cleveland once or twice dur
ing the past three or four weeks, and even
ventured so far as Solon, his hoyhood home.
cursions are kept quiet until put i'll actual
execution, to prevent the crowd and crush
that would ensue. A gentleman who has
been with him in semi-oticial character for
the past few months said to the writer, few
days ago: "All the iron that is in his nature
will be brought to the surface during the
next three months, not as against his enemies
but against his friends His acquaintance,
large in the school circle, large in the army
circle, and larger in the political circle, ex-
tends all over the United States, and were. he
to begin the distribution Of political favors
on personal grounds he would only invite the
deluge 1t is not for him to give notice to
friends everywhere that to their appeals he
must set up a bar of bronze, but it is their du
ty to stand for a moment in his place. He
has steeled himself to thel ordeal, and be.
lieve that before the FIRST mouth Of his ad
ministratiun closes. he will have laid out a
line of iron policy in this direction that shall
he his salvation during all his years of office
He will expect anger, disappointment, and
the loss Of friendship on the part of some
and every event will be wound in his heart
But believe that he has already laid out his
plan for the future, and he will have the
courage and determination to follow it."
To delegation Of colored men from differ
ent Southern States, headed by R. B. Elliott
of South Carolina, who called upon Gen
Garfield last Friday, demanding share o.
official patronage of the administration, the
General replied somewhat significantly:
"This is not the time nor the place for me
to indicate anything as to what shall have
to say and do by and by in an official way
But this l must say | noted as peculiarly
significant one sentence in the remarks oi
Gen. Elliott to the effect that the majority o.
citizens, as he alleges, in some portions of the
South, are oppressed by the minority. Il
this be SO, why is it so? Because trained
man is two or three men in one, in comparison
with an unframed man, and outside of poll
tics that suggestion is full, cram full, of sig
ni6cance that the way to make the majority
always powerful over the minority is to make
it's members as trained and intelligent as the
minority itself. That brings up the equality
of citizenship, and no law can confer ant
maintain in the long run a thing that is mo-
upheld with reasonable degree of culture
and intelligence. Legislation ought to do al
it can. -...