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, $?9 Esaafort .RepuHicaa. V _ ? THURSDAY, JUNK 37, 1872. d * *i - . x * ii r ^ MMgc 1 ."I1*? is ^ Ssteaai ?apsfr cs tfe &s& : tJlSdAl ra^r of ifeaafbrt tad OaBeton ? Comities. v r CEO. P. HOWELL A CO. NEW YORK AGENTS ? H. T. FARMER, AGEtfT IN W^LTERBORO. Our Town Council. At E time wneu every wwu iu mc South is awakening to the importance '' of attending to their sanitary condition, what have our town council done < in this direction? Can they be aroused , by any possible means, from their somnolent condition to the fact that danger threatens this community, unless the sanitary and necessary precau- | tions are taken to avoid it. We are i told that the drain running through , the centre of the town is in a bad con- < dition, that garbage and filth is allow- ( ed to accumulate m front of houses ( and in the streets, that the stench of < uhclean sinks offend the nostrils of , those w ho frequent the streets at night. , In a climate where the thermometer ( ranges from eighty to ninety five de- , grees daring the summer months, this , is an unsafe condition of things. Then |, gentlemen of the council, by tbe trust you hare imposed in you, arouse! Organise your board of health, (which you should have done long ago) see that the town is put in as good a sanitary condition as possible. Then will you have done your duty though you were slow in doing it. Show Your Hands. At the Grant and Wilson meeting1 on Monday evening, it was amusing to hear how much the speakers had to i say about Greeley and Grant, and how < little in regard to affairs in the coun- j ty and State. It is all very well to en- t large on the virtues of Grant and the i iauits of Greeley, but the people are i more interested in affairs nearer home, ( and demand to hear how the men they ( elected to office haye fulfilled their i trusts. t Tbe people begin to feel the taxes j imposed upon them, and the rumors ol c Laud and corruption that are circulat- t ed lead them to believe that they have t 'been deceived in their frieDds, and a that changes in some quarters are 1 necessary. They know that something ( is rotten, and they in vain listen to the 1 orators at the various meetings to tiud c out who is to blame, but the speakers L dare not attack any one for fear they 8 may be fouliug their own nest, and a placing in jeopardy their chances oj c I serving vue yeuytG auvtuci wiiu. in the mean lime it is becoming al- I * most id possible even with life and , * drum to get together a corporal's guard I 0 to listen to the non-committal speech | Q es that the people of Beaufort have so j D often listened to. i ^ We presume, after the Convention j ^ -meets, that the rogues will be duly ' ^ shown up, and that they will all be ; e 4<ound among the opponent* of the j v ticket, and then the people will be en- | * abled to iind out when it is too late J ^ how honestly the affairs of Slate have * been administered by those seekiug P another lease of odtce. j P We call upon all fur facts and not , * rumors, make your charges of corrup- j tion openly, aud let lLa accused an- P swer before the people. ' h a ^ I , j Consistency* Tliou art a Jewel. ~c 1. ua. ! roe lime? o: rase wttt. uuisis u*-. ^ names of Grant aad Wilson, but an' 0' parently frightened at so bold a step, it hastens in another column to assure * CJ its readers that "Our Editress, as she j w is not a voter is not pledged to the support of either Greeley or Grant.'' The ? Editress says she wiil not support Ten- : nie Clafim for the Presidency, this is , the first intimation u'e have of her be- ^ ing a candidate, la this a back handed nomination, or is'nt the Times posted? j ? ; ol Port Royal Railroad. During the month eight vessels have ic arrived at the Battery loaded with irou C tor the road and other vessels are uuder se way from New York and England. By fa the end of the week the track will be ' rt laid as far as Allendale, which is fifty-f^ve | se miles from Beaufort; from that point ; tl the track will be laid at a bout the rate of te teu miles per week. At the Augusta ci end the work is progressing as rapidly as ol possible. The Superintendant informs te us, that by the first of October the bridge, m below Augusta will be completed, and i th road be iu running order to the terminus, m "? ? 1*1 *. .1 T> ? ju tne mcanwuuc at me oaiiery even ^ thing looks busy and businesslike Stores ja and Hotels are going up ready for the ki Jail trade. tb We have in our office for the inspection j0 of the timid ones a chip two feet square. er rut from one of the spiles in the Ely \\ tressels, the oldest and it is fair to pre- m surne, the worst tressels on the road fa which shows but little evidence ot decay j cl or being worm eaten. The Superintend- n< ant informs us that frequent inspections al are made of the tressel work on the ! tb road, end when ever a worm-eaten or tb pottcu spile is found it will be replaced 8t by a sound one. II m ,n< The oaso of Stokes, the murderer of di Jas. Fisk, has at length reached a trial v< after many legal technicalities have been bv set aside. The general impression seems w to be that he has too much money to be : a bung, > j b ? ' 4 < x li* u ??i. I 0 lf.r-WM?trr I .. . ?T > '?" >o Trial Jn^tice h: Town. ! 1 Ft^.ni Saturday muiiiing.^itii Tucs- d ?y noon, neither of ourfktf! Josftkw a 'ere here. Bob Bythtvpdd or any * eeatatfUk* charade!" alight hare t$rf***hoat- t? ag -la fact 1 lobett aiduc^araafriyrt opportua* t ty as to commit an uuprorofeed assault 1 ipoa Judge Wright, a member of the b Supreme Bench of the State, erne would * ore though? the gentleman's judicial er nine was suSbieni pdgmedoa against the t ittack cf such a ruffian, but ii seems t lot. This man Bythewood is no respect- t >r of person or condition; he prefers as I lis victims the weak aud defenseless. \ Sinee writing the above we have been j nformed that Trial Justice Carlton was ( temporarily dispualified from taking his j seat, Verbum sat. ~.v , GRANT AND WILSON MEETING. ' . . ? - I Ratification of the Philadelphia Nominees. On Monday night a meeting was I held in front of the Crofut's store for 1 Lhe above purpose. Tbe gathering was 1 not particularly large or enthusiastic, i' Gen. Smalls called the meeting to order, and stated the object of it He said he netd not tell them who Gen. n? "no qq manv nf h's hearers had ltiaub TTOfO^ MO UiMMjr ?. -- ? served in the army with him daring the rebellion and found him a brave sol- 1 flier. Henry Wilson, they all knew 1 as one had battled for their rights for 1 ei long time. After a few further re- j1 marks he introduced Judge J. J. 1 Wright of the supreme court of this !1 state. ] Judge Wright said he came not here to make a speech but simply to have a 1 talk, he was glad to meet them here !1 it a meeting to ratify the romioation ' Df Gen. Grant and Senator Wilson. He 1 must not be expected to take an active | < part in politics, as the duties in the juiiciary department forbade him from ( jo doing. He bad been the legal advis- { ir of many of them for a number of pears, he had not only given them le- 1 ?al advices but other advice for their ' general good. He wished however to i jay a few words about the Philadelphia 1 lominatious. Gen. Grant had adminstered the laws, during his presi- ( lential term, in a spirit of justice, tem- ' )ered with mercy, he has reduced the ' lational debt with a rapidity never * tnowu before in the history of the Rejublic. He was the hero, who had f irushed the rebellion, and given them c he rights they now possess. He had s >een tried and had come out of the fire s is pure as gold, therefore he ought to N >e President four years more. Gen. } J rant was a poor man in his early life, j le had been a tanner, but it was soon iiscovered that his sphere of action j aid in another direction. Henry Wil >n was also a poor man,and had been i shoemaker, but while setting on nis j c :obblet-8 bench he had felt the necessity * f improving his mind, and this he pished to impress upon his hearers, he necessity of following the example t f Senator Wilson and improving their o aindft. The man who neglects his \ aiod was not the man for the uation. I t tenator Wilson had been ever true to he principals of American liberty, he .ad battled slavery until it no longer f xisted, he was the firm frieud and ad- j h iser of that patriot Abraham Lincoln v rhen he took the quill and diped it in . n lood and wrote upon the canopy of c leaven Liberty to all. The speaker assed high encomiums upon the peo- j le of Massachusetts, from whence f lenry Wilson comes. c Referring again to the former occuation of Mr. Grant and Mr. Wilson, e said Grant would tan the leather j nd Wilson would make the shoes for " II the Democrats in the' land. As to the Cincinnati Convention, , ? * " - * * _ Ll! ' ie Judge said, it was me assemuiuig f a certaiu class of politicians who ri ere diesatisfud with Gen. Grant, be- tl iu*e they could not get office, They g] ere principally Democrats of the si [orib, who did not care any more for p le black man than they did about a ir lack snake. He claimed that the , J lorthern Democrats were at the bot- r< >in of all the trouHts of the South; C ere the cause of the South seeeeding, pi c. The chief plank in the Cincinnati oi latform, (he would give the substance n fit from memoiy) was that the Gov- si nment of the Uuited States shall not iterfere with the government of South arolina or any State; practically it lid, stand off, hands off!. It was, in Ci ,ct, the old doctrine of State rights j K tvived. The speaker confessed him- n< :lf to be a believer to 6ome extent in ' tl lat doctrine, but when any State at- t! mpted to deprive any part of the ti tizens of their rights it was the duly b< 'the United States to slip in and in- fi rfere. The speaker thought if these w en were elected (Greeieyand Brown) ' ri ley would leave the States alone to m anage their own affairs, and Ku- j luxism would be rampant The ob- : o' ct he thought of Ku-Kluxism was to i a! 11 off the colored popuiatiou so tnat ai le white people would be in the ma- rc rity. lie recommended the old southn people to help elect Grant and fa 'ilson. The Philadelphia platform j0 et his approval, it was liberal in all tl > provisions. He was struck with the u ause in it that said there should be g, 3 more grants to railroad companies. nj id with that clause granting laDds to fu lose who had fought the battles of; c< ieir country, or their heirs. They n lould be looked after. He would tell j tl orace Greeley and his friends that b ext fall they would hear something tl rop. The speaker here related the i tl jry interesting anicdote of the two tl jya who went Cooa hunting, and a hen one of them went up in the tree d shuck the limb something dropped ; g ut jt was'nt. the Coon, but the boy. g ' - r. | I - . f i .. m" ?v? . I * ."T*. .1 " v : 'he speaker closed by recommending digerice and tlie improvement of the j iindf the learning of. trades. <fcc., which i re thought was the most sensible ad- < ice he gave during hit speech. Qeo. Smalls then introduced Dr. ; fcinnsrd of Dhiln4elphia, who was an < Stimate friend of Horace Greeley, ; !enfy TTilsoh^ and Gen. Grant. * He tad known Horace Greeley 30 yean; te is a traitor to the colored people of America. He has pretended to desire o hate'the colored citizens enjoy all he privileges of the Constitution. Just >efore Horace Greeley was nominated ; called on him, and O, I felt while in lis presence, that I was in a sacred ilace,. but the old gentleman was ?ha6ged.' Horace Greeley told him the colored people were too anxious to ; get office,' they should till the soil and a.void politics, and be good citizens. I ; told him we would not woik. we want to work when we please and lay in the shade when we please, and no man can tell us what girl we shall court. God give uVmore General Grants, and 611 the world with Grants. lie then cave a, vivid account of Brooks attack on Sumner. He said after the attack Wilson armed himself and walked up to Brooks and dared him to attack him. Col.- Wiggin was then introduced; he started out with a glowing description of the first election, and never could he forget the election four years ago when his constituents first exercised the glorious right of suffrage. They arose in the might of their majesty, I and gave the Democrats a tremendous thrashing, and in 1870 we find#them , reviving under the lead of a renegade Republican, (Carpenter.) The speak sr then rambled off into the favorite theme of. Ku-Kluxism, and after exhausting his stock of explanations, called on Mr. Thomas to read Reverdy Johnson's speech as a clincher. Referring to the Cincinnati Convention, they have nominated Horace Greeley, and he must depend on the Democrats to elect him. The same men who four years before nominated Seymour and Blair and declared the iraendmeots to the Constitution null md void. The speaker promised the audience )n his next appearance to chaw up the State and county officials, and after a eeble attempt to give a cheer for Jrant the meeting dispeised. tfaS"* Saturday the 29th, is the day ixed by the Legislature for the citizens >f the different school districts to vote the itnount of school tax they shall be nsessed. Coiue up fellow-citizens and 'ote a good round assessment for this mrpo^e. If there is any thing we need t is schools. General Smalls goes up into the county n th : interest of .schools to-morrow. 08F* At the last meeting of the county oinmissioners the following resolution raa passed: 4 'Resolved, That on and after the first if July next, all paupers not residing in he poorhouse he turned over to the verseers of their respective township?.'' Ve will have something to say in regard o this resolution in our nexfcissue. Kingman is receiving the lumber Dr the new addition to his hotel He ias sent North for some Billiard Tables, re'll bet high that by fall he has the icest and neatest hotel on the Atlantic oust. Robert Davis u 1 ilot uudi r the old law, aving lost his papers, came before the loard of Commissioners here, and reeived a certificatePilot Commissioners. Au adjourned raeetfcg of the com- , lissioners will take place on Monday, i tie first of July. By order Board. We have had occasion to mention 1 lildly on one or two occasions that ae upper part of Bay street, needs lielllnc. We d m't see that, nnr mild in. nuations have done any good, for the art of the street referred too remains 1 the same condition. If a writ of Ian damns or Habeas Corpus would Jach the case, we would apply to the ourts at once, but we are ywcfless and completely in the hands f the town authorities. Then, in lercy, geutlemen, when you do any lelling, sheU'em there. The Excursion. Last Wednesday a large party of exlrsionists embarked on the Str. Nick 1 ing, for Savannah. The steamer did it' leave till after nine; and on the way j ic captain took in tow a vessel, so ut the party did not reach its des ! ination till four o'clock. There was a ind of eight pieces in attendance which ! irni.-hed the music; and the dancing . as kept lip the whole way. On the ar- j val at Savannah, the party dispersed 1 any in carriages, and some afoot."* The steamer left for Beaufort at seven : clock P. M., and after reaching a point ; xnit three miles above Fort Pulaski the ichor was let go, and there the party Miiained till in irning. Some of the party observing the Captin gazing through his glass evidently j oking for the coming day, and thinking 1 lat a glass was a glass anyhow, seized \ ?.. ? 11 ..i -.i 1. ' puu clll WIC 11U1II IOUIU (IIIU azed at each other the most of the , ight. There seemed to he great dissatisiction with the glasses as the party were 1 > tinually making changes and before ( lidnight some of them had gazed . iroiigh the bottom of all the glasses on 1 oard and becoming so exhausted with ( leir efforts, were scarcely able to reach J bo saloon., where upon the soft carpet j ley soou rested from their great labors < nd slept the sleep of the innocent. Mrs. Odel! had a bountiful 6upply of;1 ood things and reaped a harvest of ( reenbacks. - < wintry has snared much for rai.i but T-hile I' Rm writing we ere having juite a shower aud some little hail. 1 "That portion of the cotton that was ap befbre the first drought set in is in a most premising fcouditioa, but that that iidnot a$*nejdTl the raiaslate in May is already - regarded . as a failure. This amounts to about twenty *five per cent, of mvan nnrl ftillirart an vraal^ vnll r V'U.1 . ! < ''t'll1 ~W1*P.T The SUrauaah papers are full ofthej* iccouuuj of the Stvaimali Schuctzcuie c, ivkich closed yesterday. A few of the Charleston delegation remained over. ' Among- thnm Advertiser notices Mr. J. H. Ha3?ohsS present ?n the ground, and toolt'aa interest in the shooting.' V ' * ' ' The Carolina Dramatic Club close ! their engagement here - to-nigh: after a successful seas? j ? On the excursion to Savannah a gentleman on whom devolved the labor of keeping in mind the name of Grant, exposed to view some one hundred dollar greenbacks and wanted to bet. The backers of Greeley offered to give him the odd of ?150 to $!0) that Greeley would be the next president, but he judiciously pocketed his money and gazed on the Greeleyites through the bottom of a lager beer glass. Tobacco Tax. To the Editor of the Republican : ' Allow me through the columns of the Republican to call the atten tion of all dealers in leaf tobacco to the fol- ' lowing extract from the recent act of Congress on this subject: "Retail dealers in leaf-tobacco shall each pay five hundred dollars, and, if their annual sales exceed one thousand dollars, shall each pay, in addition : thereto, fifty ceDts for every dollar in excess of one thousand dollars of their sales. Every person shall be regarded as a retail dealer in leaf-tobacco whose ; business it is to sell leaf-tobacco in quantities less than an original hogshead, case, or bale; or who shall sell directly to consumers, or to persons other than dealers in leaf-tobacco, who have paid a special tax as such; or to manufacturers of tobacco, snuff or cigars who have paid a special tax;,or to persons who purchase in original packas^ufor export. Retail dealers in leaf tonacco shall alao keep a book, and enter therein daily their purchases and sales, in a form and manner to i be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, which book shall be open at all times for the inspection of any revenue officer.'' This net shall t.nke effect on the first day of July next. From a~d after that date, all dealers selling directly to consumers must pay the tax of ?">00, or lay themselves liable to a heavy fine, one half of which will go to the informer. Respectfully, S. B. Wright, Deputy Collector. itfftiii The Charlrston Republican says: By ; reference to the proceedings of the con- | ference, which was held in New York on Thursday last, it will he seen that | it has been conceded that the Cincinnati nominees are admitted to possess that strength which alone can defeat Grant. The action of that conference , commends itself to all thoughtful men; ' and the unanimity which characterized j its deliberations is an earnest that the advocates of reform will be successful in the pending contest. The Charleston Refivblkan is again j published daily. We recommend it as an able, and"dignified sheet. A Valuable Invention.?Messrs. Wrieht & Waroock, of Barnwell and Beaufort Countu s, S. C., have just introduced to the market a valuable ad- . dition to the mechanical department of plantation labor, in the form of a ' new horse-power, which is represented by those who have seen it in operation as the most simple, efficient and economical horse-power ever manufactured. It is of home invention and manufacture, and is in the hands of gentle- : men whose names are a guarantee that the machine is all that is claimed for it. It is called the Auti Friction : Iloise-Power, and it is claimed that, by its peculiar arrangement of cogs j and pinions in relation to earh' other, the absolute minimum of friction has Bonn nKfuSnnrl Tt- ia onntttopf rlnroltlo VUbUlUUU. JL w 10 VVlll^iUVVf V4 Mi Uk^iu and portable, and can readily be moved and put up, and one of its greatest advantages is that the rising or falling of the floor upon which it rests docs not in any way effect the working of tne gear. Range of Thermometer Observed at Dr. II. M. Stuart's , Drug Store, for the week ending June 27 : ~~ Date 9 a. in. 12 m. ?! p. m. Thursday, 78 I SO I 79 Fridav, ' 79 I 82 80 Saturday 81 83 j 81 Sunday, 81 ; 80 81 Monday. 80 ? ? Tuesday, ? 84 84 Wednesday 81 84 ? PORT OP ORAL'POUT. Arrived?June 20. bark Christi- | ane, Meseell master, from Charleston; June 23, schooner Anne E. Sterens, i from New York, with railroad iron, June 25, schooner A bbie Dunn, from New York, with railroad iroD, ship Calhoun, Crary master, (1,865 tons burthen,) from New Y'ork, to load phosphate. Cleared ?June 19, Irig Wm. II. , Parks, Williams master, for Charles-' ton. in ballast; June 21, schooner M. ! A. Folsom, for Portland, with lumber. | The ship Calhoun is the largest ves- , sel by seven hundred tons that has ever arrived at Bull River. Reports from Southwest Georgia and Florida. A correspondent who has recently travell I ed through southwest Georgia and Florida writes us as follows in reference to crops in that section. I find in the wes- j tern part of Decatur County very poor ! corn crops indeed. The cotton crops ! are very good, particularly where they i have been properly cultivated. lu this , comity, (Jackson County, Fla.), the cot ! ton is very small as a genearl thing, j aud the corn crops very i ferior. There , re cannot possibly be more than half crops of corw made in Jackson and Decatur Counties. The caterpillar has made its appearance in many of the crops already, and should they begin lestroytng the crops now, but little, | cotton wiU be made' This part of the , laav HUM 1VIV iy iuv J1V1V* mu be in that proportion, even if the seasons from this time forth shall be propitious.'' Correspondent writing from ^tbdkton 3ay9: "The farmers of this vicinity have been rather discouraged for some weeks past on account of the drought. It is the general opinion that com is cut off one fourth, while cotton is looking very well, and the recent rains, with fair prospects for more, will make a good yield ol cotton in this section. The Fifih Avenue Talk. The New York newspapers are fillet with the details of the conference o Thursday at Mr. Lloyd's rooms, in th< Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. Th( result of the meeting apparently is tha' the weight of the expressions is mani festly in favor of Greeley and Brown though a few of those who participated in the deliberations were determinedly opposed to the ticket. The meeting was held with closed doors, some o the outsiders facetiously styling it Lh< '"air tight convention," but notwithstanding the presence of a dooikeepe: and other adjuncts of secresy, tbi opinions of the individuals and theii positions taken, and the general senti ment expressed was quickly conveyee to those outside and collected by the reporters in various ways. POLITICAL NOTES. Col. Bromley of the Il irtford Pos\ writes the following of the Philadel phia convention. We think it a very fine description: It would hardly be true to call thii a convention of Office-IIolders, for though some States were representee hv a maioritv of office-holders, in the "j ? / ?/ ? ? convention the office holders were in i minority. And yet, it is apparen enough, I think, to any candid observ er, that it was an office-holders' con vention, in the sense that they madi and controlled it. Tl.ey were wisi ?nough not to be in it, but to sent their representatives. To get at thi influences which were potent in it: composition, it will be necessary t( run down the lines from the delegate to the conventions, from conventioi again to caucus, from caucus to man aging man or men, and to discover hu or their relations to Government pat ronage. Who prepared for the caucu the "regular" ticket for delegates t< the National Convention? In nim cases out of ten the line leads down t< a Government otlice, and there i< where the spider sits. You may saj there is not terrorism there, do inter ference with freedom of choice. True uo general order was issued, no remot est hint conve}< d. These are puppet1 that do not wmk by wires. They art sensible to the subtlest influences, anc ihc central mind from which radiatt all the invisible cords that had tt them plays upon them by thought and not by touch. And. after all, this was shrewdly done. There was n< noise or outcry. The man at Wash ington did not net d to say to any othei man on earth that he wanted a renom inati<m. lie only did not refuse, anc his silent thought thrilled through al O ? the Departments of Government,?Pusi Office, Treasury, War, Navy, State and Interior?the farthest Consulate felt it. and the neanst Postboy wai magnetized by it. Tidewater anc Mail Carrier, Postmaster, Collector and Assessor interpreted the silence with an office-holder's instinct, anc took their instructions accordingly. Of the platform he also sa}s: Put there is something in thi^hud die or resolves, a sort of contagion o the convention and the party, frorc which we can gather its spirit, its ani mating influence. It lies cuiled up ir the self glorification of the first resolu tion, and it sets Cincinnati and Phila delphia, as I think, fairly at issue. It may be stated almost ic a word. Cin cinati said, 4 We are brothers." Phila delphia "Me big Injun." Cine'nnat turns her back upon the griefs and dis sensions of the past, and, with fact aglow, leans forward t$ a future o peace and good will. Philadelphia folds its arms for four years more o; heroworship. Brum. m i -rx i. -L . rw !i xne .ueuiscne /jeuuog reports iruu. Innsbruck: "Never before lias a Jew became a member of the Common Council of the capital of Tyrol. Such an event took place in consequence ol the last election. The enlightened German merchant, W. Tannhauser, although a Jew, and although the clergy warned the orthodox Tyrolese against his election, was elected to the Common Council. Who expected such a change ten years ago?" The Juarists, at Matamoras, have been reinforced, and threaten to take the field against the revolutionists. The rapidity with which armies are dispersed and organized in Mexico is puzzling to people who do not know that after a battle all the prisoners are pressed into the service of the vicrors, and fight zealously against their old comrades until the fortune of war again makes them Juarists or Revolu 5 on iol a Ill 9U *kj The report is received", with some show of probability, that another change in the Erie Directory is to be made, General McClellan succeeding General Dix as President. It was understood at the time of the Sickles ooup-d'etat that General Dix was only a locum te'nens, and that " Littl? Mack" was to be made President at an early day. * 0 * - t t V'V' ? xr^ v;.r?i % ?i JM .. i ? 1 1.1 A GSOA?: 03 A R02E. j ? From Punch. " On tht Alabama bore I When are we to hare it o'er, Kerer bear aboat it more, Bo* long, 0, how iMg before ? Bonr much tedious proae in store Hare*the Journals still to pour On that threadbare theme, galore ? Hang the Alabama bore I The incorporation of the Continental Railroad Company, with a capital of $100,000 000, to build a railroad fiom New York to Council Bluffs, with feeders extending to the North and South, is an event of interest. More lines and j quicker communication between New York and Chicago are needed. The present accommodation is inadequate i | to the rapidly-increasing business of f the West, and at least six great trunk i j lines between the lakes and seaboard } must be built within the Dext five 11 years, jf business maintains its present - enormous rate of increase. i Senator Harlan is now financially in* I tcrested in three newspapers, all da1! ilies. j j. Chandler Smith, formerly of PawI I nvpt ann nf Pgntain "Ruminatnn J 1 ? ?f? ? . I Smith, and now a resident of Madison 1 Florida, is the Conservative candidate ? for Governor of Floiida. 3i r It having recently been said in the - presence of President Grant that Sen1 ator Sumner did not believe the Bible, i the President is reported to have quietly responded, '-How can he? he did not originate ill" ?A few days since, an American f j was seized in the streets of London, ! Canada, forced into a cab, cbolorof formed, and taken to Detroit, frhere a warrant of arrent was made out. The i Dominion Government was notified of 3 ; this high-banded outraspe, and, on last i ; Tuesday evening, Sir John Macdonald 1 : stated to Parliament that memorials b j on the subject had been sent to the t British Minister, at Washington, and t ; to the Imperial Government. It has been claimed that the man kidnapped * was a notorious criminal. The Lon2 I don Herald declares that, on the conb trary. he was a Southerner, of high 1 i standing, who had incurred the enmity b i of the South Carolina capet-bag ring; ; had been threatened with arrest under the Ku Klux law; and had fled to Can; ada to < scape the machinations of his enemies. It seems a little hard on an American citizen to be delivered over to carpet-baggers at home, and then be punished for not stajinu at home and submitting quietly to robbery and ii.8ult. Mr. Greeley, alwa s ready to tell what he knows about fanning and gardening, answers Colfax's enquiry, with the assurance tha * "Squash season 'will arrive this year early in November. ?We arc pleased to boar that Peoria proposes to contribute a whittle to the Jubilee. It will not leave Illinois, but *.7ill ? receive te'egraphic signals when to } shriek, and can bj clearly beard in 1 BostoD. i An ingenious and phil m?hrop:c , chemist in Georgia has invented a distilling apparatus coin pact tnough to be 1 kept on one's txdroom mantel-piece 5 and capable of producing some twenty> live bottles of whiskey per diem. ?An African king ha* arrrved in Europe r He,is accompanied by premier, an eunuch a number of w. mien, officers of his aruiy I and a cook. It is probable that he uiav I make a tour to the United States. In ^ Europe he is officially received. The Paris Journal makes the follow' iDgamusing statements regarding Miss j Nellie Grant, daughter of the Presij dent, now traveling in Europe* "Miss Grant is one of the most high, ly educated women in Europe. She I speaks with facility English, German, Freneh, and Italian. She has contributed under the veil of an anonymous signature to several'American maga zines;* and on her return to har own f | country she is to marry the son of one i ' of the richest manufacturers of New York, who is a member of the Amer i ican Parliament." I Along" with this important informa' j tion tlie Journal states that Miss I ; Grant's journey in Europe has no po" ' litical character, and that no m'sun" de standing between Frauce and the II United States is likely to arise from aDy point of etiquette connected wHh J1 it. This fully meets the demands of ^ our friend Hannibal Chollop, "We 1J must be cracked up, we must, or we ^ shows our teeth fierce, we do." ; Lo, the poor Indian, whom the unt tutored mind of General Howard has r i been unable to appreciate. Sent on a , miesion of peace to the Apaches, he i | has brought not peace but a sword, f His advice is to cry havoc and let loose [ General Crook upon the thieves and ( murderers who infest Arizona. Gen. eral Howard evidently agrees with > Josh Billings, that the only evidence . of Iudian civilization is about two i inches in diameter, and has hair at* J tached to it. The Charleston Republican says: The Greeley hat made its appearance on our ! streets yesterday. It differs materially from the Vnrden. ! The spotted fever will he kuown to , irreverent pargraphers as '"Dolly Var, deu" meningitis. Senator Morton of Indiana pokered I John Morrisey out of eight hundred ' dollars a few evenings since. | Northern Visitors to Florida ? The Jacksonville (Fla.) Union says that i i never beforo has that ci ty had such an -' influx of Northern visitors as during the , ipa>t season, and estimates that their numbe rs during the past six months have reached 13,000. The register of one hote , shows for that term 3,842 names. That js only one out of thirteen hotels and , boarding ho uses in the city. Aa ordinary Mississippi River raft js worth from 120,000 to 430,000. > ' Napoleon and his Body-guard, Ac., Mr. J. A. Brenner, supt. Western B9 Union Telegraph Company is in town flBB looking after the interest of the compa- Jj^H fiOur subscription list increases every week. Come up, ye who wouhfc^^MH know the truth, we will promise to give you a faithful record of the different candidates for office during the campaign. We are owned by no clique or party, and* consequently speak untrammelled. flHB ?. .111 hi ?. w IP-1 v-ny^^ jfl The Vi ry Uovfcrcnil T. BermiiigbJtn H Vicar General of the Diocese of South fl Carolina, died on the 4tu inst., aged 75 H years', at New York, whither he had H gone a few days before for the benefit of bin health. \i? It is thought tbatvb* wheat crop of Northern and Central Texas will reach 1,000,000 bushels, three times the amount ever before raised in one season. ';; * Among some curioeitDs.from Florida Goyernor Crosby, of Belfast, has a grasshopper that measures five inches in length from head to the end of the * ?? i - ?. ? ?. J ??:*U a V-?tt Ao K!op oa a D1DQ legl", UUU nnu a uvuj ?a wig m ? sparrow. New Ygbk. June 25. Of the many jurors called on Stoke's j trial, to-day, there was not one who had ! not impression, opinion, bias or predjudice. The juiy, when- completed, will be much more intelligent than on any murder trial here for years. So much is due to the new jury law passed last winter, which does not exclude for having an opinion or impression. No more jurors ijcre obtained in the Stoke's case at noon. L The Italian government has announced an open competition for a lifesize statue of Joseph -Mazzini. Ail sculptors, foreign and native, are invited to present models up to the 18th of June, when a competent committee will examine them all and select the best, which will be transferred to marble at once. There has been considerable excitement among the Jews of Mobile, Ala., in consequence of their rabbi, who baa had charge of the synagogue, professing Christianity. Upon a profession of faith, he was received into the Baptist | Church, and was baptized on the evening of May 5, in the presence of a large congregation. The B:shops of the Methodist Episcopal Church South have recoramended that the week of August 1118 b3 < observed as a week of fasting an<J A prayer. The following objects are set x x ! fiirfh unnn which nravera and sunnli- mH cations may be united: ' That the Lord |H would send more laborers into His vineyard; for His blessing upon our institutions of learning, and for the V conversion of the young, and fo^ the increase of His kingdom among men." Mayor John fl. James, of Atlanta, Ga., is forty-two years of age, owns $ 200,000 worth of real estate in the city, and is the leading banker. He was born in Banks County, and left his father's farm in 1SJ0, and obtained ^ ? employment in Atlanta at a salary of twelve and a half dollats per month. Afterwards he was a peddler. J Notice.?Any person employed on 4 this work-Cnpe Foulwcather lighthouse?who shall speak disrci-pectfully ! on or oft-duty, of the President of the United .Stales, of any member of the . Cabinet, or of any superior officer of ! the Government, will be immediately discharged., Henry M. Robert, Major of Engineers, U. S. A. This piece of petty despotism, which assumes that an employer has a right to dictate to those under him what ihey 6hall do, not only in, hut out of. working hours, is an admirable illustration at once of that Civil Service Reform and of that regard for labor of ; which the Philabelphia platform prates. The wife of Gratz Brown is a handsome and winning lady, mother of seven children, of whom six are living, the oldest not being over 14 years of age. Of these children five are girls. i I It is related of the Governor that he married for loye, when Mrs. Brown was a country maiden, and that he fiist -saw her swinging on a gate in JBE front of a country farm house, as be and two or three other members of the Missouri legislature were strolling out *1 : of town after one of its sessions. The country is building a light-house at Yaquima Bay, Oregon. The laborj ers thereon are under the direction of ; Major Ileury M. Robert, of the Engi1 neer Corps. This gifted official has , posted the following for the benefit of his employes: j Fernando Wood writes to a friend in ] Alabama: 4iI am confident that the J general ac quiescence in the nomination j ! of Mr. Greeiey by the Democratic par- ]| ty will secure his election, and that i such a result will remove all the difficulties which the South now rest under." | Tobacco Under Transportation Bond. T\ r\ T ,1; WASHINUTON, U. U., ^une za. j The commissioner of internal revenue i| has decided tHat tobacco arriving in a 1 collection district tinder transporta- J tion bond since June 6, for which wareJ housing has not been given, may be returned to the factory and the bond cancelled by the payment, of the tax of | twenty cents by stamps immediately affixed and cancelled. ( Died. Beaufort.--'On Sunday the 23rd, at Jiis residence, Richard II. Daily, of Pneumonia; aged about 56 years. I LECTURE. 1 Rev. Dr. Kinnard will deliver a Lecture at the 1 | Tabemaclr? Church on Monday night (July 1) on the 9 ; subject of Religion and Education. He will Intro- ,m duce into hia Lecture descriptions of the World's fl Exhibition in London, House of Far 1 lament. West. fl minster Abb-y, British Museum, Pharaoh's Body, 9 and the account given of it; A Visit to Paris, and a 9 j description of the Prince of Egypt and his Costume,