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ftit# ?faufort gkp?Mlra?. THURSDAY, FBI5RUARY 1, '372. J. G. THOMPSON, Editor* si'B.scmmoys. Ctc Vear, ti 00 Hi Months ?100 ADVERTISING FLUES, Advertisement* will be inserted at the rate of 31..TO per square (12 Nonpareil lin *s or lessifor the l*t insertion, and 31.00 for each subsequent insertion. A discount will U? mad to those who advertise by the year, and special contracts will be made. AGENTS IN NEW YORK, GEO. P. ROW ELL A CO. Official Pap3r of tho State. Official Paper of Beaufort and Colleton Counties. TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONt ER>\~ Below we publish a copy of a certificate now on file in the Clerk's office of this county. We appeal an extract from law bearing upon the subject for the guidance of the interested. The lawyers will find it to their advantage to tote whether such matters as require publicity are to be seen in the co'umns of the Republican : Office Comptroller Genfrai, ) * Columbia, December IS, ls~l. ) This is to certify that the "Beaufort Republican," a newspaper publi>hed in the town of Beaufort, S. C., is hereby designated as the paper in which all legal and public notices snail be publi.-hed for the Counties of Colleton and Beaufort, in accordance with the Act of Assembly entitled "An Act to regulate the publication of all legal and public notices," which became a law February 22, 1870. J. L. Xfagle, Comptroller-General. D. H. Chamberlain. Attorney General S. C. The above is a true copy on hie in office of Secretary of State. F. L. Cardoza, Secretary of State. An extract from an Act to Regulate the Publication of all Legal and Public Notices: Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met aud sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the saiue, It shall be the duty of the At ? '* ^ n i torney-Uenerai, tne uompii-ouur-vTcuera:, and the Secretary of State, conjointly, to designate, by public notice [in] one or more newspapers of this State, in which all legal notices, advertisements, or publications for the State, of any and every character required by law to be made public, shall be published; and further to designate a proper number of newspapers for the several Counties of this State, in which all legal notices, advertisements, or publications, for the County or Counties for which respectively, each paper shall be designated, of any and every character required by law to be made public, shall he published : and the said Attorney-General, Comptroller-Genera, and Secretary of State, shall have power to make such changes and new designations, from time to time, as they may judge that the public intend requires. Sec. 2. All State and County officers, and other persons, are hereby lequired to furnish to the newspapers designated under this Act, for the State and for the respective Counties, for publication, all legal notices, advertisements and publications, of any and every character required by law to be made public; and no legal notice, advertisement or publication required by law to be made public shall have any valid force or effect unless published in the newspaper or new>aapeis de>ignated under this Act; and no publication, of any character, in any newspaper u ?t designated under this Act. shall be paid for from the funds of this State, or of any County: Provided, 1 hat the said otncers mentioned in Section one shall have power, in cases requiring unusual publicity, to order publication in such newspapers, in addition to those designated under thi< Act, and the expenses incurred shall be audited and paid in the usual manner. THE POWER OF THE PRESS. The history of American politics during the last year proves the i creasing power of a fearless Press in correcting abuses and bringing the plunderers of the people to justice. At the beginning of 1871, whoso haughty in the security of place, power and pelf, as the Tammany thcives. At the clo.-e of tho year there arc none so poor as to do them honor. Hurled from p ace, deprived of power, and hiding their pelf, they ?w their degradation, humiliation and destruction to an independent, intelligent and unp ercha st b! e j > re -s. In the republican party Murpliv. defiant and secure, laughed at the Tribune assaults. Hut where* is he now ? The same paper has forced an administration much airaia^t its will to investigate the custom house business in New York: hidden abuses a-e brought to light and the perpetrators are brought to grief. One new-paper, the Cincinnati Gaz* *te* recently unearthed some of the dubious transactions in which Senator Harlan was concerned while he was Secretary of the Interior. He entered the canvas in Iowa for Senator with hardly any load to carry but the weight of one newspaper. He j failed. To-day he charges his defeat to the Gazette* and its correspondent in Washing- j ton, II. \ . B. There a. e tho=e in every community who ; profess to dc>pi>e the power of the press, j They may have their swing for a little while, ! but sooner or later they quail before an i aroused oublie attention. In the less cultivated sections of the country its power is. of. course, reduced, but even in such places, it , is, alter all. the mightiest lever with which to move the people. Its line upon line, and precept upon precept, fall upon the com- I munity like the constant droppings that wear the stone. Ho who neglects its warn ings or rejects its aid is loo short-sighted be long successful. South Carolina, especially, needs the , sistancc of an untratuineled, independ< i and, we may say, an unpartisan press, bring her out of the deep waters when she is wading. The politicians need t admonitions and warnings conveyed by si | means, and her people need such watehm upon the walls to give notice of approaehi : peril. Answer to Correspondents.?Y We think the twenty-second day of Febru: t ought to be observed as a holiday. To : sist on boys and girls struggling with fr ' tions on that day is tvranny of the m savage kind, and wonM doubtless vex 1 soal of the patriot G. W. if brought to i attention. $m New Advertisements. Capt. Tafft's offer to rent his elegant p1 on S*. Helena ought to attract nttcnt j from every enterprising man. The p' only needs to be seen to satisfy any one t | it is the most beautiful situation on the i Islands. The house and lot at the corner of G i Seventh-street is offered for sa'e low. Paul & Webb offer great inducement' their card. Our country friends are in li j to have such a store to go to. W. J. Trim's card ftill attract tho<?e wn t in<r poods in his line. Call and see j handsome store when you go to Chariest The Mills House, Char'eston, under supervision of its present proprietors, is excellent hotel, cheerful, clean and liber; conducted. Five hundred hands can he employed Oak Point Mines. See advertisement. Lovers of tea will find something of ' tercst in the advertisement of the Brol 1 Tea Leaf Company. To Advertisers. The Beaufort PtEPUBtlCAN has no* subscription list five times as great that of any other paper circulating in county. In addition to this we have our hot ks more than two hundred gitiz ; of Co leton county. To advertisers, j offer a medium reaching every part : this and adjmniug counties. Kentucky, by the legislature 1 just admitted negroes to t< stify in | State courts. Up to this time they h; been permitted to testify in the Uni States courts of that State, and sonu the judges and many justices of the pe have disregard'd the prohibition, beli | ing that it was contrary to the Uui ! States constitution. The confusion rcsi ing from such a state things has at Is compelled the Kentucky Rourbons to ; peal the barbarous and silly discrimi lion against color. We see many complaints in j papers of the State, of the character j the trial justices. Oar citizens are to i congratulate d in having iu Mr. R. ; Gleaves. and R. K. Carleton, ofliccrs j education, experience and probity. Tl proceedings and decisions give very geD al satis action to all classes of the c* muuity. The State Convention. The Republican State Convention is cal ; to meet in Columbia, at f> o'clock, J\ M., Monday, the I'.uh day of February next. ; elect delegates to the National Republi : Convention which meets in June next, | Philadelphia. The ratio of representst js the same .as for the lower house of general assembly. We presume our .< bers will act as delegates from this county i We would call the attention of frienus to the advertisement of Paul j Webb, in another column. They i euterprising men and deserve success. fcay* If you have a sweet tooth, go ! Odell's a ore and get it tilled, from a v< ! large stock of tine caudns just receii from New York. The iffut to renew the tariff rice has failed in Congre ss. Gen. Quiucy A. Gil more is now ? Charleston. lie is to put the haibor < fi nses in order. Ashe knocked Sum down he is the proper mau to build it again. i Zsay* Our State Senate agrees toadjoi on the 16th proximo The U S. Seui votes to do likewise on May 29. fray Colonel Joseph Whaley died Charleston, on Friday last, at the i vanced age of eighty live. The annual convocation of the Gra Royal Arch Chapter will be held Charleston on Tuesday, February Delegates will be passed and repassed I one lare. Mrs. Wharton, aojused of poiar ins; in Baltimore, was acquitted last we< Botts. th- murderer of Pet Hals'ead, w hung iu Newark, N. J., on Friday last Mr. James Salvo has been in town tl week, looking after the wreek of the W B. Mann. Lleintends to beach her atone our landing places, and remove her can of lumber. If the hull is found worth he will then repair her. to Rates of Freight Reduced. Superintendent Millett of the Port Ro as- al road has just completed a freight s ?nt rangement with Mr. Gadsen of the Charlt to ton and Savannah railroad, which mate ein ally reduces the freight tariff betwe he Beaufort and the cilies of Charleston ai ich Savannah. ten ! The Pilot Boy proposes also, to car i freights for all points on the Port R03 I railroad from either of the two cities prices much below those now charged es* ; the C. and S. railroad. iry i* jn*_ | Our County Schools. ac. i We have been solicit* d to give our i ost ! tention to the subject ofour county schoo the ! Some of tlie complaints receivtd are his ! such a character as to demand careful i quiry before action. There is no suhj< so near the hearts of.the people as this c of free schools. Every dollar of the m( ace ey so willingly and nobly spared from t ion 1 hard earnings auj scanty savings of t ace poor, ought to be husbauded with the hat ! most care and laid out in such a mam Sea ; as to produce the utmost amount of go ; fruit. We assure our correspondents tl ind we sha'l spare no effort to unearth a ! correct abuses if they exist. i in | " lcu I The Amnesty Bill. We have received from ^enator Sawi )|t ; a copy of his speech on tt amnesty b his now before l*ie Senate. We prtsent on short extract, the sentiments of which v the commen(* themselves to all thought an men: ? j I do not anticipate all the benefits fr 1 this measure which would have attenr . its passage two or three years since. Mi 1 at of the evil uect s?arily consequent upon I : system of polit cal disabilities has bi done, and is past remedy. It i^ seen m" ! the condition of too many of the southt ken Statts to day. It will long remaiu, a i wilt yield only to the slow curative p ! cesses of time. But amnesty will do g< ! now, and much good. Let us repair ! far as possible what I cannot r fraiii fr v a j calling the errors of the past by passini as i measure of real and complete amtns ' Let us make a e'eau bill. I w?iu!d w ; out the whole list of di?abiliti s at r on , swoop, and cease to peddle out relief eD8 has hitherto been done. we ' The revolution which has cms jd an t 1 hraval and overtlfow of the whole soc fabric o' a people; which has raised fr slavery a race and placed them on I same plane politically with their forn masters; which has developed the st rem Opour institutions as no other event our national existence has done; wb ave has left its imp ess in every village a ted c ty of our land; which has really mo ? (if tied our whole national life, net ds no pr tv provision for the exclusion of thi* ilCr that man fron office, to pr serve its me i,ry. In lines more enduiing than >h ted engraved on brass, in forms more sti^s t j|t. ! tial than those molded in mat hie. or br<>n i it ha* embodied its spit it in the very lift IS j the Union, and it can no more peris r re* of the memories of men than light t na j cease to stream from the sun it) heaven j ? Oa Thursday last Mr. Sawyer ^ | S >uth Carolina, presented the nsoluti ^ i of the legislature of South Caro'ina, of| ... ? , structing their senators to vote for J jj I Sumner's supplementary civil rights b ^ He remarked that he, of course, was in i vor of the mc'asure. icir ; _^ er | WAR WITH SPAIN. >,u" j '"lie JNew l ork Xun lias had tree i;i j on the bra'n for two years. It is now p j li.-hiiiir sensational dispatches assorting eertaintv of a war with Spain. That til 11 i I * 0(1 has been some movement to put the sou 0,1 ern co.vt into a state of defense is true, 1 1 t(> we do not believe there is any reason can dread a war. Spain don't want to fight-, at ; do we. If we are to have trouble will 1011 i maritime power, our harbor ought'to vece ; attention, a naval rendezvous and si ;In" ply station it is, of course, unrivaled, ? | doubtless when there is any real prospeel a war. we shall be made aware of it as s< >ur o I as anv eoinnmmtv. & _____ m ait* Sheriff Mackcy has enjoined (ion. W | fiurney, county treasurer of Chariest to ! from paying out any money until his li ifV j hill of is paid. ^ Accident on the S. Sc C. Railroad. i j (In Tuesday last, as the train fr on Charleston, switched off at Coosawhatc i f.? iv-iit tlio no triiin. flift boiler of I engine blew up The engineer and one 1,1 the firem n were thrown from tlic eng ill 1 " ami badly brusied. The engine was nm l,'r those old veterans, bruised, battered : ub worn, which ought to have been laid uj ! ordinary long airo. It hadn't ene (rn ' enough to b'uv-up in good style or sevc ijie 1 lives would doubtless have been lo.-t. POUT OF JtEAUFOIlT. Arrived, hark L'zz'e Mirrow, Jacks id- f ; n;aster from D.-roerrara to load phospha i bark Peter Crerar. Campbell masl n<] from Charleston, to load phosphates. n The s< hoorn r Farragut, which left Po 13 1 ?t:u. Maine, tor this port on Jan. 3, w for a cargo id ice for John Con ant, put it Martha's V.uyard, wind-bound. She 1 not been heard of since. It is said tl I there are fifty vessels due in Savann: whi h have been delayed by the uuusi a8 prevalence of southerly winds. I Anybody can afford to buy beef and i,s beet at that, now that our friend Tonkinq ra. ! soiling the forequarters at five cents . of poi nd, how he can afford it lie proba knows, he also has a constant supply ' pork and satisaee meat and receives by ev< it steamer from Charleston the nicest mutto ! tf. h OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE. y* tr. Washington, January 19. '8- Congress may now be said to be fairly in r - session, as the holidays are well over, the en absentees are in their places and speeches od are being made daily. Those which have attracted the most attention have been from T Mr. Conklingon the "One Term Principle,'' ml and from Mr. Sumner on his "Supplementaat ry Civil Rights Bill," as an amendment to by the Amnesty bill. The notice of both speeches attracted crowds to the Senate chamber on the different days. Mr. Conkling'sspeech scarcely realized the expectations at* of his friends, though its preparation evil?' dently sh ?wed care, and he seemed well in formed as to the matter and statistics. But in"# instead of confining himself to the real subL'c^ ject, which of course was Mr. Sumner's ,ne constitutional amendment, proposing to limit ?n* the President to a single tenu of office, lie he wandered off to discuss President Grant's -he character and acts, and to a defence of the administration. This was a mistake, as Mr. ler Sumner's amendment is no party topic, but M>d is a subject of the deepest interest, and has iat occupied the min Is of our greatest public 1 * .1 1> J i!. 1' uu men since me iounuauon oi our guveminent. .Mr. Sumner's speech was listened to by urge numbers and elicited frequent cxprcssions of approbation, as loud, of course, a1 the audience dared in their fear of tin ^ ; speaker's gavel. The colored people should ^ keep his memory green in their hearts forever. Through a long life of abuse, rnisom rePresentation, ostracism and opposition, he |e(j i has labored for their race.- It has been nc ich pleasant nor easy task. And even now hb ' he speech has brought upon him the disappro; bation of the friends of the Amnesty bil ,rn j who thinks this amendment will neutralize ud i the effects of their hill in the S ruth. Perr?* ! hips it may, som* of the eTects. } i There can be no peace nor real security it |)ra ! any society unless equal rights are secured jr a to all, an 1 Mr. Sumner is bound to do wha! 'V. j he thinks is right, though the heavens fad ; lP'' j but there is more fear of such a catistroph 'as ' scem 't0 us w^ien a Tvrong is done. j Certainly the skies have been smiling very lp- ! serenely for the last few days, and the ave 'i*1 nue has been crowded with elcgint equip ^ ! ages an I its pavements with crowds oi !)(jr 1 pedestrian?. What is termed the '"gay ?th i season" h is been inuuguarated. and yestcr in ! day the avenues leading to the White-Houji >eh wer0 ijIie} vv;th carriages, a.i 1 the vestibule, no i . i i ante-rooms an I reception parlor wen t- i crowded by a bright concourse of peopit or | coming to pay their respects to Mrs. Grant. m' The hands nue rooms brilliantly lighted by 3 : the chan iolier.s, (all day liirht being exin ! # , _ z. (eluded) the perfume of rare fl>wer.s, and of the presence of ban Isoniely dressed ladies. )Ut conspired to make a scene in pleasant co i ran , trast to the duil diy outside, as the sky hecome overclouded towards afternoon. Mr of. Grant was dressed in a scarlet siik. trimmed ion : with deep fl o i i res of black threa 1 la re, ami iI iv.\ru ft,p.-? i I Pi,,,, nvi'i' the shoulder ,Ir. ! her manners arc very pleasing an 1 cordia , ill. land she has a wjrd of welcome for ecerv fA. I one. The President aril six lady friv-ii 1 j assisted her in receiving the strangers wh'i | poured in for three h )urs. To-morrow th i families of tin Cabinet ministers "receive," iba i or in other words stand for lour hoti'? uh- j elaborately dressed and shake hands with 'he | gome three hundred people, finding a span ore moment perhaps for- a word or two with th- : some intimate friend. These official recep hut J tions have several aspects. There is tin. i to one in which, as black Sam says, you cat nor | "cultivate the habit of observation, ami ? u ! speculate on the infinite variety of the huive j man countenance and the human character: up- then there is the ludicrous side, where you md i see grave senators and th ;ir families, foreign I of ministers vainly endeavoring to make tin it )on Knglisli intelligible, handsome women, dis tinguMicd looking people and queer looking neonle. all el owing each other, staring at m each other, taking punch. and la4 uiakini: ?n* the grand bow of exit to the hostess. Thor 0 there is the sad side, when you look at the i huge piles of cards which have overflowed j from the card receiver, covering the hall ; tables, and you think of the time and labor the j i hostess must expend in returning those calls j and of the entertainments that must be j I given and attended in the meanwhile. Tru I lv official position has its pleasures, but it.ine * . . , .. penalties also. i of in<1 We find the following notice of one o | our late residents in the X. V. Mtlh'xlist ol ' January l'O ual The Rev. Mansfield French, widely known as ''Chaplain French," of the South Carolini Conference, has been transferred, at the re < < . < i ,.i i ... inn : 01 suvor:l' WI l|,e presiu 1115 fiuur>, u , ! tiic New-York east Conference. T?> Mr, er 1 French tlic country owes the first introduc' I tion of teachers and missionaries to the ; freed men of t!ie South. lie helped form the South Carolina Conference, in Hi labored industriously for the benefit and im las l,rovemont frcedmen, and in aid o! the Freedtuen's Bureau, while that in-tituVI t k ' tion was in existence. The Southern , | climate being unfavorable to his health, he ual , - . . . ; took a supernuuierarv relation and cauie North, where he has been laboring as an f.lt | evangelist for the last two years. : is i a ?The oslrichi s in Central Park, New M.v ! York; have diminished to two; they once ?* | were six in number. The monkeys are dyn j ing in large numbers from colds aud con* ; sump lion. I ? OUR COLUMBIA CORRESPONDENCE. ( M Columbia, Jan, 30,18*2. ( the comptroller's report. ] We have had some curious reports dur- j i ing the present session of the legislature. ] You dont often see a committee ot investi I gation bring in a unanimous report revealing gigantic frauds on the treasury and j recommendiug the punishment of the perpetrators, and when the vote comes half the committee opposing the adoption of i their own report and defendiag the action ! of the men they had just deuounced as I thieves. The treasurer's report was, to j 1 say the least, an unusual production. < Kimpton, too, gets up a report boyond the common; but Comptroller Neagle beats 1 them all. lie cauuot tell what amouutof money is needtd for the coming year, be- j cause he don't know how many bonds ! have been issued. He evidently either has nevea heard of, or does not believe in, the reports of the governor, the attorneygeneral and the treasurer?to say nothing of Kimpton. He regrets the unsatisfactory condition of the finances, but stys be i is unable to make any recommendations] ! looking loan improvement for the future, j j He adds: "But in view of the fact that - the finances are managed by a financial board, of which I am not a member, and ; of whosi further plana I am not advised, . ; you will, I trust, pardon me for refraining | ! from an expression of ray views, and for ! hoping, perhaps vainly, that their plans j for the future will woikout our relief as , rapidly a9 those pursueifin the past have , worked our financial ruin." < To the pii-us wishof the last sentence, we, : . in common with the whole body of taxi pavers, earnestly say, amen! We suppose now we shall have a committee to whom : will be re'erred Neagle's report. What ! will they do with it? May be it will do to , 1 put the comptroller on the financial I j board! When the legis'ature assembled it was considered cerium that a little light would . ne let tu upon the management of our finances. But we are more iu the dai k than ever. Oue thing is certiiu, however, and J the people are awake to.it, and that is thai ' . if we pay our debts the burdtu oftaxa-j I tion must be increased. The legislature being indisposed to deal with the subj. ct, eupposc they atijoui u and let the people > lake it in baud. '?\e have a shrewd suspicion that it will be Settled wh. u the voters g* t euauce at it. ; IMPEACHMENT AGAIN. O.i the 24th Mr. W flipper brought up ' his Second iiupeaoliuiwut resolution*, tin* f lime oirec.ed against the governor alone. ' The us in Willi 1 Wind of talk ensued The cad of ihe yeas anil uays being finally ' reactnd, it was fouu.l that a sutbcient . uuuiber oi members were hot prtseiu to 1 I carry the resolution under the two thirds I j rule iu auy ease, there being but eightyI One members pus ut, while uuder the j ! speaker's ruling, au alii, mauve vote of - ighiy tight is heeessary. The vote tak , ew, however, showed a larger number ol | m. nitiers iu tavor of imp uch uent than i 1 bad voied tor it before the leeeSs, and re- ' I suittd in a lie, by 40 to 40. The speaker having the eastiug vote recorded himselt : ; with tiie auti iuipeachers, and s ?the leso- J i lution was lost once more. Nehemias was the onlv member from ' our county voting with Mr \\ flipper ill la- j vor ut impeuehu. ut. A REPTILE. I Thj bill to cancel the State endorsement of the bonds of tlu! IJiite Ridge ttuilroad was before the Senate oil Saturday. I he bid provides that the Stite -h ill pay th: in t debtedness of the road and then cancel the . endorsement. This doubtless wou d be no bad thing for the State and would un- j r doubtediv be a very good thing for the rail ! road. The bonds, four million dollars worth, p ; are now put up as collateral tor about ( j 000, and if not redeemed soon will certainty , j be sold to pay the money loaned upon them. I j thus making the State responsible for the l | whole amount. The other provisions of the ? ; bill ure vague, loose an 1 suspicious, and I i probably conceal a sn ike of the mo<t veno , i nious sort. The parent of the reptile i? j probably Hynest .John Paterson. Among other thing it is ordered that the treasurer I shall sell bon It to pay the iudebrcdne s of i the road. At the present price of bonds lie fj would have to sell about four millions, so I*1 perhaps it is well to let the railroad bonds I be sold. On the whole it is a very safe bill to vote against. i t MISCELAXEO: S ITEMS. Of bills of interest to your readers may ? be named one by .Mr. Myers to incorporate . the B aufort banking and tru-t company; | one by (deli. Smalls to amend the quarantine ' ; law; so as to change the quarantine ground j i from Hilton Head to a point north of Parry isi ind, and to create a new health office at 1 St. Helena sound. ! Mr. Whippor from tho ways and mean- j committee reported the general appropria- 1 i tion bill. No provision is made for interest > | on the State debt. ; ! It appropriates for educational expenses ! i $335,850; salaries $157,900, ordinary civil I expenses $139,809; extraordinary expends j (construction of the penitentiary, ?!fco.,) r $80,000; executive department $25,000; ' i judiciary department $23,(MX). On Mo.iday in the Senate Mr. Smalls gave notice of the introduction of a bill to ; incorporate the Beaufort v . .anufacturing 1 i Company. In the House, a bill to provide or the election of county treasurers and aulitors. A bill to amend the charter of [Jeaufort. and a bill to authorize the buildng of a wharf at Port Royal city were aassed. Mr. Nehemias introduced a resolution, that after the 1st of February,. the House meet in additional sessions, at 7 P. M. and adjourn at will, which was immeiatcly considered, and adopted. a The House is very tar behind the Sen.ite in its business. Mr. Yocuui also introduced a bill to divide the State into five Congressional districts, to he comprised as follows:' First district, Georgetown, Williamsburg, Horry, Marion, Marlboro', Chesterfield. Darlington and Clarendon counties; second district. Charleston, Colleton and Orangeburg counties; third district, Richland, Fairfield. Newborn', Laurens, Anderson, Pickens. Oconee and Abbeville counties; fourth district, Suuiter, Kershaw, Lancaster, Chester, York, Union, Spartauburg and Greenville counties; fifth district, Beaufort, BarnweH, Edgefield, Aiken and Lexington counties. A Shooting Affray, On Thursday night last, near Bearing, Georgia, at the house of Seaborn Baker, John Btker shot and almost instantly killed John D Thomson. Tne circumstances of the shooting, from what he have been ahle to gather from the tcstiin.inv at tha rnrm.er's Hidiiest, Were that Thomson, an employee ?u the Georgia ttailioad, had gone that Dig t to a prayermeetiug at Baiter's, aud. while there, created some dismrbauce, so as to be orderid out of the hous^ by Mrs. Baker. After going nut and remaining a short time, be returned and tound the door closed. He begged permission to enter, but Mrs. Bak- r. securing a pistoF, opened the door aud ordered hrm to leave or she would kid him. Alin-st in an iustaut, John Baker.?sou of Mrs. Biker, seized the pistol from his m ?iher and shot Thomson live times in succession, the first shot Liking tfl'ct in his head aud the other four in ins b^dy. The la-t four shots w. re fir. d aft r Tnomsou had fallen to tile lioor. A warrant has been issued for Biker, but, so *ar, the Sueiiff hus betu uuaolc to ui ii st h m. ?A ybung man iu Columbia c >unty, Ohio c 'urted a girl for a week. K lowing hat proerastiuatiun Was the ihief of time, he got a can of ot stera and a license, invited iho justice to his fair one's house at 8 o'clock, aud then popped the question, was accepted, pu led out Ins document, and informed the maid, n that the quire would be there at eight. She pleaded delay, he cou du t see it. II. r si:k dress wasn't made: calico w.uld do. Tire re was uoslove in the west parlor; off c<>at, aud iu ten minutes there was a lire roaring. The squire came, the job w as fixed, aud the uew made wife cooked the oysters. ? A Fearful Engine ok War.?I in. mediately after the dicar.tiiiu of war against the F usoius. propog*s were maife to the E uperor X tpoleou by an iu v. ntor for annihilating the Prussians ou moderate terni9. .\n immense net of liue wire c ipable oferm loping an entire army tro 'ps, with solid cauuou t?alls at the co a is to k?ep it stea- y, was to have been fir (l it the fie from a monster mortar pr>vi.hd for tout purpose. Trie wire n? t would according to the intentions of the inventor, hive falltn on the body of troops marked out for destruction or captun ; when, seeing the enemy entangled >u themeshes, the Freueh would have nothing todo but to march up to them and disarm them, or, in ca*e of resistance, put them to death. The rcjectiou of this new military machine wasattr bultd by the inventor to "treachery" on the part of. the chief, who declined to tin ploy it. ? An Indianapolis newspaper says that a batujuet in that ity was opened with, prayer by the It v. E usley llamdlou, wtitskey ganger lor the* sixteenth District." TO RENT," A SEA ISLAND COTTON PLANTATION. The undersigned proposing a change in business, oilers for lease the Plantation occupied and cultivated by liiiu lor the part even yews, known as I/>ngwood, oil StHelena Hand. It comprises 12U0 IV\U-|, lira o iUtlUlt'f xj.rr iciir>ur |rmrrK^.g i\ji .the pro [netion of Ska Island Cotton. Fronting over one miio on Station Creek, affording imequaled facilities tor proeurring the riehe.it and most economical fertilizers; two miles from rort Koyal harbor, good, wearf for vessels drawing from eight totwelve feet ? Charleston and Savannah steamers receive and deliver freight at the wharf; one of the most comfortable and cmnmodintti ni'hixiniis on the sea islands; Two^StoKks well located for business; modern hutir Stakkk : ttrx llftsks and Cotton IIotsKs recently erected; tulltlt oood tknk.mknts for laborer.-. To parties having in view the purchase of sea island cotton, particularly of the finer grades, this location is unsurpassed by anyupon S". Helena or the adjacent islands* Land- and tenements can be rented to the people living upon and near the place sufficient to cover the yearly rent of the whole; One of the mo-f hc.dthy locations in the world, commanding a tine view of the magniiicieut harbor of Port Koyal and of the ocean. i. rrA ? 1 / OfW'A", .rim/inir/y, li'/iux; x?>/<(f#/r#\ Booft, dr., <fv., f< r ale, together with >tock of goods .in two stores on the place. The whole presenting an opportunity for an enterprising man with a small capital, to engage in a safe and luerauve business? seldom found' For further information address or apply to the undersigned at Ixmgwood, .St. Helena Island, or to A. S. Davenport, Esq., Heal Estate Agent, Beaufort, S. C. H. S. TAFFT,