Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-03-24
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
In London.


At l2 o'clock last Thursday night, a po.
liceman on duty ut the Mansion House, the
official residence of the Lord Mayor of Lon.
don observed fire on the ground neaf the rear
WALL and found wooden box, with fuse
connected, to which some Lighted, paper had
been recently applied. The officer extiuguish-
ed the fire and took the box to the Police
Station, where it was found to contain about
forty pounds of guppowder, with fuse in the
midst of it. No arrests have been made, nor
has any clue 10 the perpetrators thus far been
discovered
The official police report regarding the
affair says: The policeman found the box in
a recess of the window facing the end. of
George street, under the Lord Mayors pri.
vate apartment. The brown paper in which
the box was wrapped was smouldering. The
box contained fifteen pounds of coarse gun.
powder, with fuse through hole in the
box, and the end Of the fuse close to the
smouldering paper. An explosion would have
occurred very soon but for the discovery.
At the meeting of the common council the
next day, the Lord Mayor confirmed the
above report, and said the explosion would
probably not have injured the Mansion House,
but would have damaged the Egyptian Hall
and the adjacent private houses, and entailed
a serious loss of life. He himself, he said,
was not at home at the time One account
says that an Irish newspaper was found
amongst the packages of powder.
Since the discovery of the plot to blow up
the Mansion House, great precautions have
been taken for the safety of both Houses Of
Parliament.
The Colored Population.
-- The census bureau has issued bulle.
tin giving in detail the white and colored
population. The statement shows total
white population Of 43,404,S76, and colored
population of 6,577,l5l. From the bullesn
the following facts are condensed: !
The greatest proportion of colored to white
is in South Carolina, where three tifths of the
whole population is colored. In Louisiana
and Mississippi, from one half to three.ifths
of the whole population is colored. In Louis.
ana and Mississippi, from one half to three.
6fths is colored ; in Alabama, Florida, Geor.
gia, North Carolina, Virginia and the Dis.
trict of Columbia, one third to one half is
colored, and in Arkansas and Tennessee, from
one quarter to one third is colored. Outside
of the former slave States the proportion of
negroes is very small.
The relative changes in the negro popula.
tion during the decade between 1870 and
1880, are also given in the United States as a
whole. There has been gain Of 625 on an
assumed basis of 100000 whites. Greatrela'
tive gains have apparently been made in the
former slaveholding States. Eight of these
States have made gains ranging from 944 to
nearly 1000. It is believed, however, ny
the census Office that these apparent gains
are due in great measure to the impertec-
tions of the census of 1870, and that under
the condition which prevailed at that time,
it is probable that much larger proportion
of negroes we're omitted than of whites.
South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, .Geor.
gia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee and
the District of Coiumbis, show relative
increase; Texas, Florida, Alabama and Vir.
ginia show a relative decrease Texas and
Florida take the lead of the States which
have lost. Both Of these States have received
heavy white immigration from other parts
of the country, which has more than over
balanced whatever gain in the colored popu'
latson may have been made. They have
been the scene of rapid development, and
thus the relative decrease of the blacks is to
be counted for not by exodus or dying out,
but by the infusion of whites. The move
ments of the blacks in the Northern and
Western States have apparently heen of little
comparative account, and the migration Of
the negroes has not attained to such dimen
sions as to be perceptible there. Mississippi,
Louisiana and North Carolina, States from
which the exodus principally took place,
have all apparently gained heavily in the
relative proportion Of blacks, while Kansas.
to which the major part went, has lost in pro!
portion to its increase in population, and In.
diana has gained but slightly.
The Dead Gar.
- The assassination of Alexander the II,
Car of all the Ru<sias, created profound
sensation throughout Europe, which was
shared to a considerable extent by the Nihilist
or Communist element in the United States.
With this class the rejoicing was great in
both hemispheres, the Socialists evidently be.
ieving tina, in the sudden taking off Of the
Car, they have secured an important step in
the principles for which they
contend. Appropos of this feeling in New
York, a correspondent says:
On Monday, l visited several of the dis.
ricts where the Nihiists, Communists and
socialists have their recognized headquarters,
he first in Delaney street, the second in and
about the Second avenue tenement houses
md the third in the dingy cellars and attics
If Bleecker street. French, Germans, ltal-
ans and Russians alike, were in high state
If ecstacy, and make no secret of their joy
'ver what they called the good news. In
ONE Of the drinking saloons the exultation
It one time was so great that the proprietors
efused to accept any pay for what was sold
It the bar. Everybody was invited to step
'p and drink to the downfall of tyranny,
md, as the invitations were freely responded
%, the jollicalion before night threatened to
un into saturnalia. Impromptu speeches
we're made occasionally in foreign languages,
nd the applause was frantic and unintermit'
ing Strangers who did not join in the ap
,lause were looked upon with suspicion, espe
tally ifthey were journalists, who, with these
,eople, are synonymous with spies, who are
here to betray them-a feeling which is prob.