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Tho Bsa'ofort Republican. . THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1SY2. J. G. TUOftlPMOX, Kditor. ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements will he inserted at the rate off 1.50 |>-r square GO Nonpar -il linos or less') for the first insertion, snbscquent insertions bye*rotn?cf. 8UB&C1UPTI0X8. Ore Year, i'i 00 I > 1 Month*, ?? ?<> | . | Official Paper of the State. Official Paper of Beaufort and Colleton Counties. GEO. P. HOWELL ft CO., NEW YORK AGFNTS. I H. T. FARMER, AGENT IN WALTER BORO. j COUNTY CHECKS.* Tn annthpr rnlnmn will hp. found tl ! complaint against the couuty commissioners, directed mainly azojnst what is an alleged violation of law commit- ! ted by them in issuing checks upon an empty treasury. We do not share the ! opinion of our correspondent on this matter. We think the attack upon the commissioners, on the contrary, j ought to be because they do not issue checks for the indebtedness of the ; county in every case. Ojr correspondent seems to imagine that the debt of the county is in some way affected by the fact that a check is issued to pay it. A moment's reflection will convince him that this is not the case. An audited hill is as ! much an evidence of indebtedness as a check. It the law forbids the issue of a check unless the money is actually at that moment in the hands of the treasurer then, by implication, it for bids them to issue what arc called audited bills. If the prohibition means anything of any value to tax payers it prohibits the creation of any debt without tho means to pay it is actually | visible. Such a construction of the j law as is contended for by our corres- ! pondent would briug to a standstill the j business of the county. There are some things- necessary to the government of the county which cannot be obtained on credit. S'ationery, stamps, fuel, printing, etc. ! The fees from liquor licenses have been set aside into a contingent fund j for payment or such accounts. Some of the checks issued and quoted by our correspondent were paid out of this fund. The report of the treasurer is no true indication of his ability to pay a chfek. Five minutes after he has reported a sum on hand it may be drawn out, and the next day after he reports 4 no funds," he may have received several hundred dollars. To show how little advantage accrues by the treasu-er's report, take ' the^incidents of the last"meeting. IIh reported $270.47 ia the p?r fund. Checks were issued .to various parties to pay for articles furnished to the Knt if era a fannil 11 in 1 iroaun t i n rr j/'/V'i ^ fcSVBV IV ?l MIO IVMUV* MJ/VM | ? VV> u Vi u J them to the treasury that Mr. Brodie had drawn out the whole amount on cheeks previously given f.>r feeding the poor The law, construed as it is by our correspondent, would not result in any j saving to the county. The injury to ; the. county is not in issuing checks for audited and allowed aceouuts, hut in not scrutinizing closely every claim 1 presented. It is also a well known fact that work can be contracted for at ' prices fifteen or twenty ptr cent, lower for a check than /or nu audited bill. When a claim has boon audited and allowed by the board the creditor his a right to demand a ch?ck for it. Whether the treasurer can pay it or not | is something with which the board has nothing to do. They have a simple j ministerial duty to perform, and it i6 ! 4 Ko f iP thn U'iiii'ii UrUUdMIC Utai it wuv ??viv j brought before a court a maudamus could be obtained to compel them to issue a cheek for every debt authorized by them. The fact that the treasurer h\s no money to-day may be of no moment to the holder of the cheek. There may i be money come in to-morrow, which, j if be had the check, he could get. lie may have no immediate use for the mopey; he can pay a tax or a license with his check, or he can sell it to : mme one who his; he can use it as a collateral; he eao. at least, close his j account with the couuly on his books, and iay his uheck by until it is availa- j ble as cash, or he can sell it at a dis count. There is neither sense, justice or reason in the narrow construction of the law insisted on by our correspond- : eut. The intention of the law-makers was to pi event the creation of a per- j manent county debt, and was intended , to prohibit the issue of checks in ex ces3 of the tax levy. We trust thai i this matter may soon receive a judicial 1 determination. To aid this we would suggest that several parties having audited bills unite in an application to Judge Farmer for a mandamus com- i pelling the commissioners to do the j ouly act they have the power to do to- , ward paying them, viz : issue a check upon the treasurer f>r them. State Politics. C. P. Leslie, on Saturday last, de- i liveied a characteristic speech to his constituents at Blackville. lie declined to discuss financial questions but con- j tintd Liii.scIf to a luudatiou of his owu j course in the Senate, lie expressed a wiliiugness to withdraw should the colon d element tird among themselves ? , a fitter man than he to represent them. Letters were read from Xa^h and Jamison endorsing him. The meeting enthusiastimil)- endorsed his claims to a reelection. The bill for repairs to the State capital amounting to $700, had to bo footed - 0; Governor Scott. Qui trunrfvlit) ! Ninety as Dr. Elisor says. THE V. S. TA\ L\>DS. Mr. K^rr of Indiana on Friday last, called up the Senate Bill providing for the redemption and sale of lands held by the United States under the several Acts levying direct taxes, and moved a substitute for such Bill, providing that all the land now owned or held by the United States by virtue of proceedings under the Act of June 7th, 1SG2, and other Acts for th? collection of direct taxesin the insurrectionary States, may be redeemed and restored to their original owners within two years on payment of the tax and costs with interest thereon. The applicants a^s > to pay the value of permanent improvements that may have been made by other persons after acquisition of the property by the Uuited States. Property not claimed after two years is to be sold at public auc ion. The Act is not to apply to property used in whole or part as natural cometaries or other public purposes. Purchasers of propprfv frnm thp Sfattm hnvp. lost it through the inability to establish titles, are to be reimbursed by the Governraent. The 'substitute was agrrcd to and the Bill passed. The bill, therefore, was sent back to ?he Senate. Wheiher it p?s*ed or not we have not learned. Even if it did not it may be taken up at the next session by the Senate and become, a law. This is a very liberal bill to all parties in interest. The old owners will gr-t back all land now in possession of the United States upon payment of the tax*8 and costs up to the day of sale. .Armv and navy purchasers who have failed to complete their titles will get hack all they have paid the government and the property will be thrown open to redemption by the former owners. W'c estimate the amount of money to be returned to array and navy pur chasers at not less than one hundred thousand dollars. This will come, in most instances, to very needy persons. Many lots in town were bought by col ored soldiers who w?re flush when the sale took place, but who. when three years bad passed and the balance came due, were entirely destitute. Many parcels of plantation land were bought by clubs of laborers, who were in the same manner deceived as to their ability to pay three-fourths when it came due. The distribution of the money tr be refunded by the Uuited States wil thus be very general, all classes shar iog in it. The effect cannot fail to be an importantelement to our prosperity, for it will be the addition of just thai amount to our scanty capital. Civil Service Reform Needed ia the 1" S. Marshall Offic?. We referred last wee k to the appointineut of \\. F. 31. \\ illiams as a deputy l\ S. marshal. A littic history of this coward, liar, betrayer, assassin, whipper and ''patent witness' may be interesting to those who desire a reform in tire civi service. Tie was a confederate soldier, he says We would like some of h's comrades t< give us his military record. From tin character he lias developed since its in<i dents doubtless were the robbing of hen roots and the slaughter of stray pig1. ITvvas paroled, and took the oath of alb gianee to the Tinted States. Ilejoinei the Republican party and secured the of tice of county auditor. When the Ku Kiux raids b'g.m he found something congenial to his nuti re. lii^ anrbitior ... c_..i 'iv. 1 * .i r i.? was nrcu. j u iiuru ueieiiseie^a negroes to whip man at midnight; to shoot tin unsuspecting under cover of the dark no >?these were deeds for which lie \va well fit tod. He resolved to he the lcadei of a Klaii. IVing his reputation as ; llcptibiican he wei.t to How S-o't am asked for arms with wliich to jmt <h?n Ku K'uix. By fraud, lies and treachen li? secured enough Winchester rides u arm a baud which received the appropriate name of "Bud iiliam's Klan. The ineffable cowardice, meanness an< wickedness of the organ/at < n loa'aln ol !.? expressed hotter in a single word thai by the name of its most cowardly, mean? t and wickedest member. \\ h< n the government oonchi I l t< make Ku Kluxing dam eroti c of corn's* W'iliiain- s w its iharms depart. I'm he also .-aw a chance to indulge his peealiar aptitudes for those acts which :u al ages and in ail countries have beer: deemed tlie lowest and mo t revolting. He became an inlormer. lVoi?ably since Ti n Dates there has ne\er been such a witness. lb? was the main stay ol tin government |?j?locutions i?k i oiunii>i:i an I Charleston. Pay after ?Iay lie canst before (he court to denounce his dupe-, his friends an.I lu-iuhhors. W illi brazen brow lit: detailed his own perfidy ; witii all tii? vfliPties.s o'* practiced mendacity lit described the acts of those he led ; a thousand times lie told the story of his -bailie, mid now ho boeonnfr a hunter ol men. lint the record is too miu.-catiiig to he completed in one sitting. The pover.v liient used him and gave hun iimni;n:t\ for hi> deeds and probably paid him well in money. 'I he loathsome business ough; to have ended then To employ such a eatiff is to degrade every man in the public sen ice. To appoint such a wretch as a deputy argues a lack of moral sensitiveness which is net honoraple to Marshal Wallace. For God's stke rid vis oi the scab. The Woikingmcn's convention in New York which nominated Grant aud Wilson, turns out to be a huge hoax upon the reporters of tne daily newspapers, who were furnished with the proceedings by the projector of the fraud. There were only halt a dozen p tired hirers present in a ton by twelve law office in an obscure street. Rangre of Thermometer Observed at Dr. H. M. Stcart'i Dreg Store, for the week ending May 29: Date 0 a.m. 12 ni. 6 p. m Thursday, I 79 84 80 Friday, ! 78 82 79 Saturday ! 81 83 ? Sunday, l 72 76 74 Monday, 77 81 75 Tuesday. j 80 85 81 Weducaday I 73 1 82 Dr. II. M. Stuart, the county physi nan performed an amputation ofth leg yesterday at the alms house. II was assisted by Dr. Gibbs. The Pilot Commissioners, The b<.ard met at the court house 01 Tuesday last, Capt. W. B. Trevelt am S. W. Rhodes being present. Th licensfs as branch pilots of Dupons Buckley and Wigg were examined ? V -T-t | ii ? i nrrrr- jmw.nmmm mm The Collection of Taxes. The Ohio legislature has just passed 1,1 a b'.i; changing the mode of collecting taxes, the main provisions of which, we thick, would be equally applicable to the condition of affairs in this State. If the simultaneous collection of taxes in such a wealthy community as Ohio produces a stringency injurious to busim ss. how much more is the relief needed in this impoverished Slate. ; Soro? of our incipient, legislators may : benefit the State and gain glory for himself by getting tfp a similar hill for j presentation next winter to (lie assem. ! bled statesmen at Columbia. i Ti e bill requires the .commissionersI of each county to divide the county in-! ' to five collection district and provides i ! for 1h*> collection of the li st half of the taxes in these distric's consecutively in I months of October. November, IXcem- I her, January and February respectively, closing ol the 20th of each month; and the sreond half in the months of April, May, June July and August. I The month" of March and September : .are left for the, closing of books. The 1 j bill further provides that when the ' j time for collection in each district ends. ! _ J jL. I j the ounty treasurer is required on me , i order of the Auditor of State to pay ! over to the State Treasurer the taxes collected in such district for State pur! p se. as near as can then be estimated in anticipation of settlement; and also on the demand of treasurers of town- j ships, cities or villages, if included in , whole or in part in such district, to pay to such treasurers the taxes collected for them as near as can be estimated. The object sought is expressed to some extent in the title of the bill: "To j prevent the unnecessary accumulation , of money in the public treasury;" but it also seeks to relieve the stringency ; ' ' that is now felt all over theS'tatc twice a 3ear at tax paying times by collect - : ' i ing fropi the various districts at differ- i j cnt times, and providing for the. d's- j | bursement of the funds, so far as can ; be withont waiting for the semi-annual settlements, thus making the money flow out while it is being gathered into the county treasuries. THE LAST CHANCE. !i ? After the issne of this paper on ! Thursday, May 30, there will remain ! ' only two days, Friday and Saturday, ! ' in which delinquent tax payers can save th(ir lands from sale. We urge ! every man to ascertain, if he has the ! ' j slightest doubt on the subject, whether J , there h anything due the State from | 1 his land. The fact that you paid the : tax of 1-870 and 1871 is uo surety that ' your lands will noibesold; for if the lax of lsiW is unpaid, when pmhably il belonged to another person, the sale . will be made. Plenty or Rain.?Almost every day last week brought a thunder stoim i ' and copious rain. i ! The session of Congress has been ; ! extended to June J. B^y Senator Stnails left for Phila1 i delphia*ou Wednesday, to attend the ' : Rt publican convention, lie will be gone about three weeks. " } ***** ' ffiT Ail delinquent lands will be - sold i n Monday next. Psy John Cooper, our opposite | ; neighbor, is always busy with improve- j I mints. He has extended his store so j r i ~ ; as to double its capacity and make ; ^room for his large stock. In the rear : of his store he has ereetid a frame' j building two stories high, with four rooms, which will still further add to his facilities. His next assault will | be upon the store front, which we will ' ; , -jK HK oi wncn completed. ' Mr. Wra. E. Sinvnons, jr., ' agent of ihe Charleston A"ars vieited ' us on Monday. 11 o is cauvusing for ' 1:is paper in this county and has met > with good succ- ss here. The Acts is ' | a good paper ami now that we have a daily mail, ought to have a list of lift) ' at ltast in Beaufort. ... It. member that, there is no re > demption for lands sold on Monday > i next. k-j" Cu'orae M. Wells ot ihe Marine t and Iliver Phosphate Company was in i town on Tutsdfty. lie reports aj scarcity of v< sm-Is at Bull river. Nothing hut'the, uirl}* completion of the ! : Bull liver railrosd will put the phoa- j l?liate business on a proper paving; j looting. ??r , A Fire. ? The root of the old house , once owned hvC'ant. Ed. Bain well 1 known timing the war a-, the * Signal , Station." on Bay street between 13th and 14th. caught tire on Saturday last ahout noon. Fortunately it was* seen in time hyOantain 15 uiellfe's fatuity in S the adjoining hotise. Water wa,< soon obtained and tlie fire put out. 'The ' engines turned out. hill it was not m tvsstry to Mjuut." j See if your name is on Aie delinquent list puhlished in our supplement. If it is. pay up or you will lose j your lard. A 'letting on St. Helena. Senator Smalls addressed a very | large and spirited ineetiug ou Saturday j I last at the Brick cbuich on St. Helena. | lie was received with greateuthusiasm j ! aod his account of the political stuation , wns listened to with attention and ap- j i plause by the large audience. St. He- i lerta rnav be courted as a unit for the i G-eneral in the coming canvas &r Sena-! tor. Fay your taxes ami gave J"*1*" ftttuls. 1 m i Applications irom .james cr. j^inyam Gordon Young for licenses as fu branch pilots were received. Th board then adiourned to meet sam place on June 10. The Charleston Republican ha furled Its flag of Grant and Scotl What is the trouble ? No doubt it i still for Grant, but Scott can't be cor trolled by the cbeap pride ottered ( being the Republican's nominee fo vice-president. If be would re move Gurney and appoint Jenks, i would still fly the flag. m BLACKBERRIES. The wild blackberry is so prolific o these ir.lands that some method ( making the spontaneous crop profitabl has often attracted the attention < residents. Many attempts have bee made in this direction. Several ha? in ) ears past experimented in wine mat in?: some have tried vinegars but a failed to find a remunerative market fc the product. Mr. W. II. Mather, this year has ur dertakeu the manufacture of wir sto<k from the blackberry. For th material Ihere is a limited marke which heretofore has bien supplic from Ge.rmany and France. Iu it preparation enough French spiril art; added to the pure juice to prevei fermentation. The stock is used intl manufacture of port and claret winei Of course, as in other new ventures d. ficultits have b?en encountered; thei h^ve been generally from lack of exp rieuee. Hut really the most se rious one least expected. Notwithstandir the. inexhaustible quantify growir wild in every field, and by every roai and the ( qually plentiful supply of id and poor children on the islands, m otic-third of the berries wanted has bet obtained. The price paid has be? sixty-five c?nts per bushel, a sum snf cient to nay any chil I of ten years or upward from fifty cents to a dullar per day during the season. 'Another serious drawback to ente prise in this direction was found in tl internal Revenue laws which made necessary to take out a distillers cense, costing two hundred dollar This would uot have so bad if tl whole busini ss could have been coi ducted uuderone license; Mr. Math had intendtd to press the berries several other points where supplies them was obtainable, hut a license w; demanded at each point. *4- M 4,. ^,,4- ,, A* 11. IMullll 1 111 [Til IV JJdVU JfUU U tiiis season a hnudrtd barrels but it doubtful if lie obtains more than a h;i that quantity?tbe lark <>f berries b ing the maiu cause. SANITARY MEASURES. To the Editor of the Eejntbucan : Beau furl, 8. C., May 23. 1S72. Permit me as a resident of Bi-auro to remind the citizens to prepare f the retention of their own and ueig bors good health by the immediate r moval of all offensive materials abo their premises, and the pilling up bricks and lumber in sueh a maun as to permit the free circulation of a around and through iliem, that dam ikss ma} bediicd out and lime easi thrown in aLd under the same. Th all cella s, sinks and cesspools i thorough y cleansed, as small quant lit s of intectious materials can he jr vidtd with absoi hauls and disiuftc antsiar more easily than larger quanl tie 8. Let all profit by last summer's e perieuce, and in case of inability to i move nuisances themselves from tin own premises, or know'of an} thing r the premises of their neighbors that likely to prove a uulsance when tl weatlnr beconus warmer? report tl sunn; lo the J ion. intciiuent, \vno doubt not will take immediate steps cause the correctivt s to be applied. To Hon. Aldermen, I would say. ii spect 3'our wards, and to the Couuci organize tIre hcahb hoard of live mei and provide *JU0 or .*>, 0 barrels of lin for their use. and don't be caught ni ping again as you were last summer. With the arrival of phosphate at lumber vessels, it is more than prob ble yellow fever will prevail nraot their crews. So he prepared to keep out of our town or if it gets iu Lo kce it from spreading. It is no slight task for men inexp riencid in such matters to organize set of heaith laws iu a few hours, is a subj< ct that requires deliberate aDd time to set the machinery in m tion after the programme is determine upon, therefore ci!Tzcns and count wake up and be doing for cur mutui welfare. There are several sinks that salu the (^factories of passers upon tl the public streets with anything hi agreeable odors, and we call the Hoi Intendant'a attention to them. Rcapwtfully, A Citizen, Politics in C'ollefon. s At a meeting held in the town of Walterboro' on the 20th inst., by the colored Republican delegates of the - polling precints of that county, Mr. ~ A. P. Holmes was elected chairman and E. A. Brabham, Esq., secretary. The following subjects were introduced and acted on. We, the representatives of the people of Colleton county, in caucus assembled, for the purpose of reviewing the history of the present administration of public affairs in the State of South Carolina, and to devise means ol escape from some of the evils which dc n exist, declare d 1. We find the finances of the Stat( e 1 have been so mismanaged as to brins : the State almost to a condition ol I. j bankruptcy. i 2. While the administration of th< 11 federal government has thrown around e us its protecting influences, and by e every mpans in its power, supported, sustained and enforced the rights and privileges of the people, and it is en 5 titled to our acknowledgments anc endowments, our State administratioc g has been weak, vacillating aud ex \m I ^ travagant, and it is undeserving oui I confidence. 3. We believe in a free ballot-box in free speech, free schools and a fre< press, and these we we will support The election law must be strictly anc honcs'lv enforced. 4. We mean to be liberal and wil u i not allow personal prejudices to in >f j flucnce us in our actious toward oui le fellow men. 5. We will require fitness and gooc n character as necessary qualification: re for office and we believe that as far ai practicable, there should be a just dis H trihution of offices among all classes o ,r citizens upon purely Republican prin ciplcs. 0. The present State administratioi ie i having failed materially in al' that wa 18 expected froqj. it, we shall risk uolhinj ^ by a chauge of public officers. Ii working for this change we will adhert ts to the doctrines and principles of th Republican party. 11 The following preamble and rcsolu ie 1 linns were also adopted: ^ "Whereas, there is an apparent dis ; position on the part of some of th ;C" i Republicans of our county to create : | split in 4he Republican party iu t.hi is | county, and then to take advuntag of the disruption, therefore, be it ig It. solved, That we, the rqmscntn lives of the Republican citizens of Col t ! leton county, in caucus assembled, d n ; pledge oursJves to repudiate any ma ,u j or 8 :t of men, who may attempt t r 1 create a spbt or rupture within on 1(j j rat ks* AJs >, R solved. That a cor v.ntion of the Republicans of tt i county of Colleton be he !1 on the d \ r i previous to the regular county noin 1C nating convention, and that the ehaii man of this caucus he it structed t it II communicate the. same to the lead in >s | Republicans f?t each polling precinc 3e within the c junty. ,j. i E. A. HRAim.ur, br f .Secretary. of ; 1/dter From Colleton. To the K'Utor of the Repub-ic vi: ^ Recent wants indie ite that a spir . of ref-rm has reached CoFetoi). O ,P the 20!h inst, n ciuus ?f deWa^ ii[ e from all parts of the caunty assemble at Walterboro for the purpose of cot saltation, and to make out and prepai j plaus for their future course in relatio to the puhjic welfare. It was undci ; stood to be a caucus purely of c- !<re j men, who intended to take such steps ! as will in the ensuing election secui rt ! the ad ministration of public affairs uj or j on a new basis. After cousiderab] h- difficulty, through much oppo?r,ior e- created by parties not delegates, bi ut: employees of individuals whose intei of j tsts seerat d to be in opposition to th tr honest intentions of lb< s : colortd me ir who had thought proper to throw o p- I the shackles of part}' machine ry and i ly I the spirit of freemen to assemble an at to discuss means to promote their tru be inletests, Mr. A. P. Holmes was elei ,i- ted chairman. And here it is propf ,j ; that I sh mid remark, Mr. llolnus a t- a ri pr< scntative of the people in oil A- State Legislature, has discharged hi ' public trust in a commendable mannei x In his reply to the circular of A (. e- ! Jones, E n , cjeik of the House of Itei ir resentalives rtq testing his signatur >u 'toaeailfbr au extra session of tl is j legislature, Mr. Holmes sa^s, 1 my sig ic nature is respectfully withheld, belie \ iu ing that Lite public iutensts of th 1 Slate would not Ik* bvst promoted b Lo i the carl}* reassembling of the Getters 11 i ' ?:-i! ?:I,. t. i A >f*tuoi\. nor vyou.u existing e\n? l i- ; remedied." il i It has bun roportid, that our Per n, | ator is actively engaged iu this call fo :e an extra session. We very muchdouh ; if in so doing he represents the wNhe of his constituency, but how should h id know w hat are .the wishes of his cor a stituents? lie seldom enrucs here. II ig may have reasons for s'ajing away, ii We do not mean to say that he i :p like the It >man pro consuls who pai large sums for their offices, and in 01 e- der to compensate themselves rxtorte a large amounts from the inhabitant It nor that the rumors which have bee ?u set afloat by some one, who it is sai( o- have confessed to paying black mai ;d are true. Hut we imagine that thi :il ' extra sessioD was not to be called witb al out a purpose, dud that the hope ( j gain was not the least cousideratioi te | One might at least make ''pin money ie out of the job. And it was this ca at for an extra session of the legislature n. among other things, which induced th call for this caucus. Aftet; the hir: ; lings, who foisted themselves upon th ] meeting were fairly worried out < iheir purpose, the meeting proceeded harmoniously and patriotically in its work. Having laid a foundation, they will go on and build up a purely Republican structure. They will not depart from pure republicanism, but they say they mean to purify the so-called republicauismDf the present day, which makes an honest man blush to be called by its name. No Body. Boreas on a Bender. The storm of Saturday afternoon was very severe in Charleston and , vicinity. The frames of several new houses in the city were blow* down; a M whirlwind in Wentworth street de^, stroyed many trees entirely and injur' ed nearly all; street cars were blown : 1 from the track; fences, shingles, branches and sign boards so obstructed the railway tracks as to suspend travel. ! More than twenty frame buildings were ' either destroyed or injured; fences were prostrated and trees uprooted in ' every part of the city. ' j A large shed, two hundred and twenty feet long, on the wharf north ' ; of thit of the Savannah and Charles1 I ton Railroad and used by Messrs. Daw' , son A Baker for "storing phosphate r rock, was completely demolished and , levelled with the ground, along with a ? house on the same wharf and leased by J the same firm. * | Part of the large shed over the 8a* * vannah and Charleston Railroad was ; also blown off, and the tin peeled back, ^ ; and a small house on the wharf, "belonging to the Telezraph Company, 1 was also blown overboard. The office s of the Telegraph Company, on the op* posite side of the river, was also blown s from the wharf, and two truck cars 9 were lifted from the track and badly shattered. The shipping in the harbor escaped^ ' with little or no damage. Oneschooner was blown from her mooring at 3 Adger's wharf, hut with no serious 8 results,* and no other accidents have ? been reported. It is probable that the 3 threatening aspect of the clouds gave - suffi cient warning to the small craft e with which the harbor is generally tilled, and these were not backward in | getting into positions of gnft ty. No loss of life is reported. e POLITICAL NOTES, a s Tbe Illinois Tie publicans met in con e vtntion on the 2'2d in?t., and nominated by acclamation C ?1. I) ck O^lfsb)' .. i for Governor and ex-congress man J. |. | L. Bjveridg< for Lieut. Governor. Col o Ogles by is the beauideal of a stump n orator, very popular with the people, 0 and especially t lie old ? wlieis; his milir tary record is good. The liberals have called a State mass convention for June e | 2d. to nominate a loll Statu ticket. v ine uemocrauc assooianon w ur i tr? iL. Michigan, fully ajyrovts lh Cincinnati nomination?. I I'x-GnwnorTh' odorn K. K mdo'ph r : of New .Jersey, is wmking tor the. La' :t j timore vie*- presidential nomination. I IIoiaHo Seymour advisi s :li.? Donoc I i:i?v, u>k cp cool and wiit the action i of their national convention. ? The Cotton Association of St. Louis offers a prize of -f 10 00?> for the hest ; bale of cotton. The same to be ou exit hibition at its lifth annual fair, to he n held this fall. An opportunity is here :s afforded our sea island aud upland (1 ; friends to compete. South Carolina j. ! cat) certainly win this prize. *e 1 Madame Thiers has invited Miss n .V ine (frant to nine with her, and the r Sultan of Turkey has sliaktn hands d ' with Fred. Selahl ' j Among the Alabama delegation t<> ? the Philadelphia convention are two i prominent colored llepub'ieans, b< th | of whom were disinisMd from responsij hie positions in the Mobile custom ! house hy Senator Spencer. ie I General Ca^ius M. Clay of Ken tueky, has written a letter to 15. Giaiz ! Brown in which he sava that the C'ini cinuati ticket gains steadily in Ken(j tueky. lie proposes to stump the r | S ale in the interests of Greeley and Brown. General Clay is one of the old whig irt e sailors and among the . colored people of the State has great |r iutiuence. is i The republican party In Arkansas r. has split in twain. The cow bell fac). ' tion, (Clayton wing) endorse Grant >- and Colfax; the Brindle-tails (Rice e & Co.,j declare for Greelev and Brown, e I The t:mtT reformers in Ohio are '* j v o kin .' like bearers against Greeley. Should she Baltimore nominations suit them, or shov'd they?as they loudty ^ j hope to do,?succeed in nominating at L' their national convention which mcels rc one d.iy before that of the Baltimore, 1 a candidate which the democrats will l" take up then tht ir cup will be full. ' ; The Louisville ledger of the 23d May contains an editorial, authoritatively denying that General J. C. f llreckenridge advocates the Greek v ticket or has ever spoken in support ol C it. General Breckenbridge will await, as all good democrats should, the acis j tion of the acknowledge director of ! party action, (he national convention, ^ i in reference to candidates, before he advocates adhesion to any ticket. b | ? ||n^_. Litest News Items. I The Senate has adopted the House lg resolution for adjournmen t on June 3d. The tariff question, it is thought, how^ ever, will prolong the session. i In the House on Wtduesday, Poland o moved to snspend the rules and pass H the Senate bill extending the Ku-Klux j, bill till the end of the next regular sese sion of Congress. Rejected, yeas 94. j. nays 103. Some twenty-three Repubie licans voted with all the Democrat! >f against the bill. Mavnard moved tc suspend the rules aud pass the Sen&t^^^H supplementary civil rights bill. jected, yeas 113, nays 83?less than required two-thirds voting In the firmative. This was a strict partjHHH n Chief Justice Moses has been chosen 9 by the board of visitors at the Annap^HH lis Naval Academy to deliver the ad^^HB dress to the graduating class. ? It is estimated that forty thousanfl^^^H men are engaged m the New VorkH H ?Further developments regardiog^HH the Methodist Book Concern indicate^HH that it was a huge swindle in all its ds? narlmonlij paiviuuura, ?The cable reports the death jester- |B day at Vienna from typhoid fever of |B the Archduchess Sophia, the mothei^^M of the Emperor of Austria. ?A terrible tornado swept over 99 southwest Missouri on Saturday, jm wrecking houses, barns and everything 9 movable, and destroying many lives. jB ?A terrible calamity in the iceberg 9 J region, involving the loss of forty ship# 8 and several thousand men engaged in H the Newfoundland seal fisheries, was 9 reported yesterday from New York^ but later telegrams from Boston say^^H ? # W| hat the catastrophe has bean fearfully exaggerated. 8 Charles Sumner. 8 Mr. Sumner's political position 8 defined by the following correspond* 8 Little Rock, Ark., May 22. I j 2b Jfi'i. Chart'* Sumner, Wasfiingon, D. C, mm I "tl t' IJioo .Cr Crt rpnnrt that ' have a telegram from you stating that u9| you will support Greeley. We think it is not true, and is reported to catch I j the colored mo in the State Conven- i S | tiou to-day. Pleaee answer as soon as ^9 I possible. IH (Signed). J. P. Jones. 99 Washington, D. C., May 22. \!9 I To J. P. Jonc*, Little Roc':, Ark*, \ ; I await the action of the Philid**% 9 phia Convention, hoping for a nominal ? 9 tion that will unite the Repablicao* t 9 party, which Grant cannot. 9 I (Signed) Cha kles Sumner. 19 The Responsibility of the Parties in the 9 Port Royal Movement. 9 j (From the Augusta Chr.mkie and SentinJ.) JHj The principal parties in the Port j^fl Royal Railroad move men tare Robbios j^9 ! & AppletoD, of New York and Boston. In const qu-nce of sotuc of the remark*-9H iu the course of the debate iu tbe Geo* i/'a Rai road stockholders1 conventiou. ^H| which f 11 from the lips of an opponent 99 } of the Port Poyal alliance, we have i ' been solicited to make known all the * M : information wuhm our ie?ch respect1 tug the character ai <1 responsibility of ! the leading liiin c?nc. nod in this en-v tei prise. i he r rnuiks above referred M 1 to hU.:g? stt d the possibility that this 9 firm mLht b? Jong to ihe class of "de- a Vi f p-rs" ami *,bnno?TersM that tvrfe I ! aftl ru d and Hirtf reesul and plundered V j Hie Mou li. Tuat insrugt should ? xi'st/ M after our p?Hi experience. of utw paf* ' lit a c m.itpt $ ?u h to in v si in enter- i i pi 18/8. if feu ti? r unnatural nor uinx! pected. When we have h .(I sucn t-xpeilcuee with Bitch uuttus Chapman, as bummer... and Kunbull as "d< v< !opeis," ami such piuudcrs as Jvtiieficld, and a ho tofnk> euu rptisiug loyalist* i a f cling of distrust; is not only to be i rxpectea, but finds ample justificitioo ! iti their history. 1 VV'e have never fail* d i to c >ndeiun tliese developers, or to ex- i pose them nieieil s-dy, and we have j been particularly enuti- us to avoid * i givirg seeming endors in ut, v\ hicii i might diceive our people Our information ie-pcctinu ilie above miutioned lirm. obtain* d /'rum ikouth| ern men at the North, is l hat this firm i and i s members aie in even/ rts/xct rt liable aud A No. 1. (Join neicial rat- j iugs place the house as possessing very I large means and of the highest grade ot' credit?as being worth, each inem- VI b r f the lirm. over one million of do'- V| i?.rs, and possessing unlimited credit, i s of the largiet means and of the : highest chat actor. I Private intelligence does not dimin- fl 1 j lt-h ihese comuieicial ratings, but con- M firms and strengthens ibeiu, adding fl largely to tin lr v.ilue in unqualified A testimony as to the sterling intetii ity fl and ebaiacter for fair dealing, whn-U i this firm maintains where known. We are satisfied that this lirm, so far from deserving to be put in the same classt- I fica'ion with those whom they untbr- a ; tunate'y succeed, merit the trust and J I confidence of our people as being up- jfl j right and honorable, and possitsiug the means and credit to carry out what j they ha\e undertaken, and that the Port R <yal Railroad, now progressing : to completion, will b* come a fixed fact, i , ; on a secure foundation, before the close ^ of the year. Hie Diplomatic Muddle. Our foreign relations, especially with England, are becoming I'akwickian in their g rotes pi ties-. At one time the t t ileg.aph advises n? of a note from ; Secretary of State, of portentous signifi. eanco, enclosing a thunderbolt of war, which will cau-e the ihti-h Lion to roar , 1 with fury. In a few hours, we receive another dispatch, saying that the note of our Government w.is sweetened with all ' the usual diplomatic condiments, and r was received with a smirk by .John Hull. This kind of sensational tlummery is earned on for a mouth or two under the at- w tractive heading-, ''War with England,'' * Consequential Damages Insisted I pun i by our tiovcrnmcnt.'' and such iikr ! catch-penny scn-ati-mal features,until, at j la.-t; it ail simmers down to an imtnate- 4 j rial additional article to the treaty, pro-' J I jKsel l?y England, which is in effect, ^ '{that both governments agree that our J j Government never had the right to chum ,1 : con-equontiul damages, although it (lid ' A II ^o. and that, hereafter, it will never d<? j I so again. Which England affirming all the while that wc never luul the right to M do so at any time, and that she never intended to payor submit to. and never intended to ask, in any similar ease, now flfl inagnammooahr agrees to consent that hi future she will never do what she do elares she never intentded to do. And M I thus endeth this lesson in diplomatic cor- B re>pondenee, the solution of which any straightforward business man, of good IH common sense, could have developed hjflfl an hour's application. It really appeafs^H as if statesmen, ot late, are addicted to^^H t making mountains ot t of mole hills, in^^H order to exhibit their greatness io thcirflH demolition ^^9 WHAT'S IS A NAME I HI TBB BZiS ABOAHH Will now become the favorite.