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Apalachicola, Fla., is described as "a
city of mouldering ruins, and the streets grown
up in grass." A brick building which originally
coet $20,000 recently sola for $700.
Oswego county, New York, girls have
voted not to accept the company of any young
man who uses tobacco, "unless the night is
very dark and the road muddy."
T. S.Nickerson, well known as a hotelkeeper
in Charleston, Columbia and Savannah,
died in Wisconsin recently, whither he
had gone for the benefit of his health.
The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin
reports that in Louisiana more corn and less
cotton have been planted this year, comparatively,
than last year.
A New York school teacher is accused
of being drunk, because he read from the
Bible, "And the cock wept thrice, and Peter
went out and crew bitterly."
There are 20,000,000 acres of unproductive
farm lands in the State of Virginia,
which is almost equal to double the number
of acres of farm lands now in use and cultivation
in that State.
A tree in New Milford, Conn., was
struck bv liffhtninsr recently and the heart
completely torn out along the trunk, but the
opening immediately closed, leaving the tree
apparently unharmed.
A parson, reading the funeral services
at the grave, forgot the sex of the deceased,
and asked one of the mourners, an Emeralder,
"Is this a brother or a sister T* "Nather,"
replied Pat; "only a cousin."
Of the 265 present members of Congress,
99 of the representatives and senators
claim to have had oollegfate educations. Of
these only three are graduates of Harvard
and six of Yale, which is a great falling off
for the New England?eeats of learning.
An army order has been issued that
$50 for each breech loading rifle, musket, carbine
or pistol, and six cents for each metallic
cartridge, will be charged against the pay of
any enlisted men who shall loose them through
carelessness, or dispose of the same.
The ladies of the Lynchburg (Virginia)
Methodist Protestant Church, on the 27th ultimo,
presented ex-Confederate Gen. Jubal
A. Early with a superb gold-headed cane, as
"the defenders of the mothers and the protector
of the daughter of Lynchburg," alluding
specially to toe military operations near that
city in 1864.
?? From a recent English special report it
appears that Mary is the most popular Christian
name, William ranking next. Of 100,000
children, half boys and half girls, 6819
bore the name of Mary, 6690 William, 6230
John, 4617 Elizabeth, 3876 Thomas. There
was only 1237 Arthurs, 1232 Alfreds, and
1170 Edwards in the lot.
The Washington Patriot says: "Colonel
Johnson, son of Hon. Reverdy Johnson,
late marshal of South Carolina, passed through
this city last night en route for Long Branch,
to see the President in regard to his removal.
A Washington despatch, dated the 10th instant,
says that the "appointment of Wallace
as successor to Johnson, is suspended."
The drama does not appear to be very
flourishing at Exeter, England. The other
night at half-past seven, when the performance
should have commenced with "Expiation,"
or a farce, there was not a soul in the house.
About ten minutes to eight one individual
paid for entrance, and there being no one else
likely to support the actors, the audience was
politely dismissed.
The Lynchburg News gives utterance
to the following: "Let every Southern man
bear in mind that the object of the Ku-Xlux
bill is, by provoking Southern violence, to
keep out the Presidential vote of the South in
1872. If Gjant can fiud a pretext, be will do
it, and the whole aim of the South should be
not to give him a pretext. Let everybody
study self-control."
The Indiana 01 reru nave a tradition
of an immense buried treasure in that country.
They say that Athuaip&'s great reservoir of
gold, a temple with rooms full of the metal,
never was seized by the Spaniards; that it
exists still, and that the secret of its existence
is kept by a family or tribe of Indians who religiously
guard the treasure for the day when
the heir of the Incas shall resume his ancient
throne.
On the occasion of decorating the soldier's
graves at Auburn Cemetery, near Boston,
both white and colored soldiers participated
in the ceremonies. The former had engaged
some cars to take them back to the
city. The colored soldiers, however, crowded
in. They were put out, when they formed in
line of battle aud with fixed bayonets, but reinforcements
arrived from the cemetery and
other care in sufficient time to thwart their
determination.
The Chicago Tribune suggests, in view
of the conviction of the Hon. Mr. Bowen of
bigamy, that it would be well, since the Bowens
and Whittemores are developing so plentifully
in the Palmetto State, for the electors
of that Commonwealth to choose one or two
alternates at each election, to take the seats
iu the House as fast as they are vacated by
the expulsion of members, or their conviction
of felonies. Bowen was not, to be sure, sent
to prison until after his term expired ; but
then he was, as one might say, eligible to that
institution during his entire term.
An ingenious author asserts that the
length of a man's life may be estimated by
the number of pulsations he has the strength
to perform. Thus, allowing seventy for the
common age of man, and sixty pulses in a
minute for the common measure of pulses in
a temperate person, the number of pulsations
in his whole life would amount to 12,207,520,000;
but if, by intemperance, he forces his
blood into a more rapid motion, so as to give
seventy-five pulses in a minute, the same
number of pulses would be completed in fiftysix
years; consequently his life would be reduced
fourteen years.
In Baltimore the "Smith Family" an
nounce tnat tney nave maae arrangements
for their "first semi-annual excursion, which
is to take place next Tuesday, under the superintendence
of a committee of arrangements,
embracing Grandfather George M. Smith,
Father Julius H. Sipitb, Uncle James H. B.
Smith, Nephew Charles H. C. Smith, Brother
Wra. H. H. Smith, Brother Robert M. W.
Smith, Brother Thomas R. Smith, Brother
Joseph L. Smith. Ballet Master?George W.
M. Smith. "The music is to be by the "Smith's
celebrated band," and all the "Smiths, Smyths,
Schmitts, Schmids, Schmidts, Schmitzes,
Sraidts, and Smitts" are invited to attend.
There is at Lancaster, Pa., an organization
known as the "Mystic Band of Brothers,"
which makes it its business to get up,
once a month, a sort of masquerade procession
through the streets of that place, after
darkness has Bet in. The members of this
jolly crowd have never been known tojshoot
or hang any negroes or commit any other depredations,
beyond, perhaps, disturbing some of
the peaceable inhabitants of Lancaster in
their midnight slumbers; but this notwithstanding,
some one, having probably a spite
against the society, succeeded in effecting their
arrest a few nights since, under the wise provisions
of the Ku-Klux law, and they have
now been pronounced as being amenable
thereto. As a natural consequence, the greatest
indignation exists, and it is evident that the
law has also in this case got the wrong dog
by the ear. To avoid like blunders, it will be
necessary for Congress to pass a supplementary
bill, giving the exact "intent and meaning"
of the singular and unsolvable conundrum,
known as the Ku-Klux law.
The description of Paris just before
the culminating horror of the last few days of
the siege are terrible pictures of the misfortunes
of the gay city. The streets were darkened
early in the evening, by the order which
cooimanded lights to be extinguished, and the
.cafes closed at 11 o'clock. Peter's and a few
d^vored foreign resorts managed to stretch out
ihe time until 1 o'clock in the morning, and
these every night were full. At midnight the fi
fag end of the population would swarm on the oi
boulevards, those poor beggarly girls who, i
finding no purchasers for their wares, offered tl
themselves for any hideous purpose. Distress b
induced depravity, and young girls, formerly ai
surrounded with comfort and respectability, w
were driven by want to play the wanton in the si
streets. Father killed in the war; mother 01
taken away by fever; nO work; everything M
flat; no fhends. This is the Parisienue ofjfo
to-day. Sadly suggestive of moral rotten-! d
ness is the part which women have played 1 p
throughoutthe revolt, and the gay scenes then , ei
enacted in the fashionable haunts of folly g
form a ghastly contrast to the general desola- i
tion which proceeded the blood and slaughter |
of the street fighting that closed the tragedy. ;
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DELINQUENT TAXES.
Tuesday last was the day advertised for the v
sale of real estate in York county on which ?
the taxes remained unpaid. Only seven par- 8(
eels were sold, all the other delinquents hav- w
ing either paid the respective amounts asses- Is
sed against them, or made arrangements for tl
payment without resorting to sale of the
property. $
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. a
A friend writing to ua from Rock Hill, un- 01
der date of Thursday last, says: "During the a
heavy rain here yesterday evening, Mr. Dil- 01
lingham, the telegraphic operator at this place,
was struck by lightning. He was sitting with 01
his right arm resting on the operator's table
and near the instrument. The electric cur- P
rent struck him on his right side, penetrated ?
through the body and passed off his right leg, r<
breaking the skin in several places, ripping 01
his pantaloons and tearing open his shoes. He ^
was paralysed and speechless for a time, but
I has since recovered the use of himself and is P
doing well." lel
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IMMIGRATION SCHEME.
In to-day's paper may be found the adver- S
tisement of the "South Carolina Land and ; 0'
Immigration Association. The Association is ; L
(fader the immediate management of Messrs. I ^
Butler, Chadwick, Gary & Co., and has for ' ri
one of its purposes the introduction of irami- i u
grants into this State. It is proposed to fa- j E
cilitate this object by means of a gift enter- S
prise, in which premiums amounting to five &
hundred thousand dollars in real estate and ei
cash, are to be distributed among such per'
sons as may purchase tickets, and are lucky A
enough to draw prizes. tc
One of the objections hitherto urged against ft
nf this nViftmctpiv is that, the mana- I fc
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gers are usually irresponsible and dishonest; g(
and that all such schemes were concocted u
i solely to victimize and defraud all who might C
; be induced to engage in the venture. In this ri
; case, the character and standing of the agents ! ei
I are a guarantee of good faith. General But-; ft
; ler is well remembered as a Major-General of ft
Cavalry in the Confederate army, and more a
recently as the candidate for Lieutenant:
Governor on the "reform" ticket at the last d<
I election. John Chadwick is a man of large a*
means who resides in Charleston, and is at n
present the owner of the Academy of Music r<
in that city, which is offered as one of the y<
! prizes in the distribution. General Gary? ft
j "Mart" Gary?everybody knows him either : ft
personally or by reputation. In addition to ft
this, the honesty and integrity of the enter- oi
prise is certified to by such men as George A. ft
| Trenholm, Esq., Col. B. H. Rutledge, General , p
! James Conner, James R. Pringle, Esq., Gen. j w
! Wilmot G. DeSaussure, I. W. Hayne, Esq., tl
I Thomas Y. Simons, Esq., Henry Buist, Esq., 01
i ex-Governor Magrath and others. tl
THE OHIO DEMOCRACY.
; As a political paper of some significance, j
, and which will no doubt form the basis of the j ft
Democratic platform in the approaching pre6- j
idential campaign, we publish this week the '
i platform adopted by the Democracy of Ohio,!
i at the recent State Convention for nominating ft
1 candidates for Governor and Lieutenant-Gov!
ernor. Mr. Vallandigham is the reputed au- Q
I thor of the document, which, on account of c<
j new positions assumed, at variance with the
1 hitherto recognized cardinal principles of the ^ ft
i Democratic party, has been dubbed the "New j te
j Departure." The platform has created quite j
i a sensation in political circles, and it is believ- ( oi
| ed it will sweep the State of Ohio in favor of, R
i the party adopting it.
The nominees of the Convention are Gen. i V
George W. McCook for Governor, and Mr. S. w
F. Hunt for Lieutenant Govornor. Gen. Mc- j
Cook served with distinction on the Federal | vi
side in the late war, is an able lawyer, and is ,
i said to be a very popular Democrat. ! C(
The Washington Patriot, commenting upon !
: the resolutions, says: a'
"They are emphatic, and leave no room for P'
j doubt as to the position which the Democracy . A
mean to occupy in the coming Presidential
1 contest. They answer completely and con- j q
! clusively, all the false charges which Mr. ?.
; Morton, and other managers of the President ,,
have put forward,and they remove from con- j .
j troversy those disputed questions upon which ? S1
i our adversaries most relied, and by means of;
| which they hoped to divert attention from o^
J their usurpations, corruption, and outrages, j n(
This platform goes no farther than the tone i j3(
of sentiment in the South, which we have re-!,
cently cited from nearly all the leading news- 1
papers, fully authorized. Indeed, it is sub- j
stantialljr but a sequence to the movement j si
which originated in Virginia, and saved it re
ora the fate which overtook Georgia and
ther States.
The Convention which gave utterance to
lese opinions, was composed of many of the
est men of the State. There was a frank
ad manly interchange of views, before they
ere adopted, so that when the work was conlmmated,
the acquiescence was both generus
and unqualified. -General George W.
[organ, than whom no man in public life has
een more consistent, upright, and fearless, in
efence of the oppressed Southern States, reorted
the resolutions, and if they needed any
adorsement, that fact would be a sufficient
uaranty for their wisdom and sound policy."
STATE ITEMS.
?Judge Orr has returned from his recent
isit to the North.
? The time of travel between New York
nd Charleston has been reduced to forty
ours.
? The Times says that the wheat crop in
fnion county will turn out much better than
as expected a few weeks ago.
? The Supreme Court, after a session of
lirty-five days, adjourned on Tuesday of last
eek, until the 6th of July next.
? In obedience to a summons, Attorneyreneral
Chamberlain, Reuben Tomlinson,
Isq., and Judge Willard have gone to Washigton
to testily before the Investigation Comlittee.
? An attempt is to be made to raise the
cigar boat" which was swamped in an attack
n the Ironsides in Charleston harbor during
ie war. It contains the bodies of the crew
ho perished in <it
? The Greenville Enterprise says: The
onds of Greenville and Spartanburg counes,
given in aid of the Air-Line railroad,
ave been taken by the company at seventyve
cents in the dollar.
? E. W. Seibles, Esq., of Columbia, who
as Secretary of the Executive Committee of
le "reform" party, at the last election, has
een summoned before the Investigating Ku[lux
outrage Committee at Washington.
? Curiosity prompted the editor of the
Inion Times a few days ago to enquire about
ow the colored people of that town kept the
larital vow, and he discovered that of eigh?en
colored women, all but one of them are
ving as the wives of some other colored wolan's
husband.
?The Union mentions the fact that the
lommittee appointed to investigate the finanes
of the State and the transactions of the
fficers connected with them, has gone to New
rork for the purpose, we suppose, of investiating
the condition of the financial agency
lere.
A L ki? TVT? TJnrvk Omni.
XV. Jiuuse uuuupicu wjr aiai. v/u1v1eney
and his sister, near Chester, was enteri
on Friday night of last week, by two per)ns?supposed
to be negroes?from which
as stolen about one hundred and fifty dolirs
in money, and watches, rings and other
lings to the value of about fifty dollars.
?In voting on the question of subscribing
50,000 to the capital stock of the Atlanta
od Richmond Air-Line Railway Company,
a condition that the said Company shall loite
its road by that town, with a depot in its
>rporate limits, there was not a solitary vote
gainst the measure, in the town of Anderson,
a the 5th of June.
? A call is published in the Times for a
ublic meeting to be held at Union Court
[ouse, on Saturday next, for the purpose of
iquesting the resignation of all the county
Beers, and to secure a fairer expression of
le will of the people through a new election.
Phile the Times recognizes the fact that the
resent officers are incompetent, and that their
lection was secured by fraud, it is not favorble
to the object of the meeting.
? A National Bank was organized at
partanburg last week with a capital of $60,00.
The following are the officers elected:
[on. Gabriel Cannon, President; D. C. Judd,
rice President; Geo. Cofield, Cashier. Di~
xtors?Col. Palmer and C. Gregg, of Colmbia;
Col. Evins, D. E. Converse, David
>uncan, Col. Joseph Walker and S. Bobo, of
partanbuag. All the stock has been taken
ad the Bank will go into operation at an
irly day.
? In relation to the crops in Chester, the
leporier of last week says : "We were glad
) hear persons express themselves more hopeilly
of the crop prospects than they did a
sw weeks ago. The impression seems to be
eneral that the wheat crop is almost a failre.
Oats, too, is being ruined by the rust,
ora, cotton and grass are all growing luxuantly,
under the influence of repeated show's
and the hot sun. One gentleman who
irms near Lewis' turn-out, informed us that
e has ten acres of cotton that would average
foot high, and is covered with squares."
? The Charleston papers announce the
eath of Sebring Richardson, better known
3 Old Sebe. He was the first jockey that
>de on the Charleston race course, and also
)de the first race in Savannah, Ga. For
ears before the era of railroads, he was a
iraed express and mail rider between Charston
and Augusta, and in after years was
uniliar with the turf, and widely known as
ie of the best riders on the course. His
tiling health and old age compelled his apeal
to'the public charity, but every attention
as afforded him at the hospital. He died at
?e advanced age of seventy years, having
Jtlived his generation, and was interred at
te Seaman's Cemetery, on the Ashley.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? General J. B. Hood was in Charlotte
ist Saturday.
? A large cotton seed oil manufactory is
bout being established near Wilmington.
? There are thirty-seven prisoners in Meckinburg
county jail.
? A new Republican paper, the Era, with
dentin Busbee, Esq., as editor, has just been
jmmenced at Raleigh.
? The Democrat asserts that the railroad
om Charlotte to Statesville, will be completd
by Tuesday next, the 20th instant.
?The Federal court, and the summer term
: the Supreme court are now in session at
aleigh.
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VY aier-IUCIUUB nave U|j|;caicu iu kiie
Wilmington market. The first of the season
ere sold on Tuesday for $5 each.
? Peter Tice, a well-to-do citizen of Daidson
county, committed suicide on Tuesday
' last week, by throwing himself among the
)g-wheels of his grist mill.
? Hinton Rowan Helper, notorious as the
ithor of the "Impending Crisis," published
revious to the war, has sailed for Buenos
yres.
? Judge Heath, formerly of the Superior
ourt bench, committed suicide, by cutting
is throat with a razor a few days since at
is home in Ashe county. No cause is asgned.
?It is asserted that North Caroliua, with
rer 1,000,000 inhabitants, has only sixty
swspapere, and three fourths of that numir
have no more patronage than barely
seps them afloat.
?The U. S. government has completed a
irvey of Neuse river. The engineer in charge
sports the stream in a bad condition, and
says it will take $150,000 to properly improve !
'it.
? It is stated that Judge Watts, at the
I last term of the Court in Wilson, gratified his
| artistic inclinations by whiling away the time !
J on the bench in drawing pictures
j cats, eagles, likenesses of witnesses, jurors, and ;
; members of the bar.
j ?A young man in Randolph county, who |
; had been sick for several days, adqpted the j
| novel plan of curing himself by drinking at'
| one time three pints of butter milk andnefta;
pint of the juice of dried peaches. This was |
more than his shattered constitution could
stand and he and the disease both succura^L
? The Sentinel publishes a lengtliy^rotter
! from Gen. D. M. Barringer, in which hfe gives
a complete history of the convention question
now agitating the public mind, and from which
the conclusion irresistibly Hows that the proposed
mode of providing a convention by the
i vote of the people in August is the true conI
stitutional mode.
I ? Four men were arrested in Johnston
| county on Sunday of last week, under a war
i rant issued by a United States commissioner,
charged with being disguised and committing
an outrage upon a negro on the 22d of April
last. The men were taken to Raleigh, and
after an examination of the case, two of them
Were discharged, and the others bourid over
in the sum of $500 each. ? .
? The case of the United States vs. A. S.
C. Powell, charged with holding the office of
sheriff of said county in violation of th^ederal
constitution, was triad before^tftfl^BK
Circuit Court, at Raleigh last weeL^^H
sheriff had held the office of constable before
the war, and was a magistrate during the wSh
He was found guilty by the jury.and sentenced
to pay the costs and be discharged.
?James Burress, a good citizen of MoOre
county, had a difficulty with a negro tenant a
few days since, and took steps to eject him
from his premises. The sheriff, accompanied
by Mr. Burress, proceeded to the negro's
house to serve process upon him. During the
progress of the affair the negro raised a gun
to shoot Mr. Burress, who also raised his gun,
when both fired simultaneously, and both fell
dead.
FRANCE. i
As was to be expected, the Communists
having been driven from Paris, and their purposes
defeated, complications have arisen
among the loyalists or adherents of the Versailles
government. The fusion of the monarchists
entirely failed, owing, it is all^ge^ to
the intrigues of Thiers, who privately eTOts"
over the certainty of maintaining a nondescript
republic, with himself as chief, as in the
case of Prim, in Spain, for an indefin&e period.
Increased attempts are fruitlessly made
to induce the soldiers to fraternize with the
people, and intense dissatisfaction prevails
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trouble.
The Paris papers propose the re-establishmeut
of gaming houses and lotteries as an
attraction for strangers to Paris. The abolition
of passports and the law against strikes
are also favored.
It is stated by one of the Paris papers that
a compromise has been effected by which-the
law exiling the Orleans pjinces from France
is to be repealed, and their election to the Assembly
declared valid. The princes, however,
are to agree not to intrigue for the French
throne.
It is estimated that the damage to France
by the fighting and conflagrations will exceed
800,000,000 francs. .{'
The German troops have commenc^j&ae-i
uating the department, of the fower &sine,'
and begun their homeward march.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
The Department of Agriculture authorizes
a contradiction oftfhe statement that a report
has emanated from that source predicting a
very short crop of cotton this year. No estimate
of the growing crop has been made officially,
and no reports concerning it have
been issued. An estimate of comparative
acreage, and a statement of the condition of
the crop, will be made in a few days.
The U. S. army has finally been reduced
to a peace footing, in accordance with the act
of Congress of July 15,1870. The total number
of enlisted men and attaches for whonr
rations will have to be issued are .36,284. It
is thought that it will be necessary to enlist 6,000
during the year to keep the army up to
this standard. The pay is reduced to the
rates which were allowed previous to the war.
Only about sixteen millions of the fifty-four
millions of currency, authorized as bank circulation
for the Southern State havaJbdtafcil^
ken up. The twelve months' time allowed
those States in which to apply for this distri
' i ?- ?j ? i _.:n
button naving neariy expxreu, au euun, win
be made to secu re this uncalled-for $30,000,000
to States now having their quota.
Among the claims recently before the
Southern claims commissioners is one for about
$3000, made by Moses Weinstock, of Columbia,
S. C. Gov. Orr was a witness, and stated
that he had always thought the Hebrew residents
of the South were loyal to the United
States, and that they were generally averse to
rendering military service to the Confederacy,
or upholding the rebel cause with other taaterial
support. He also mentioned, in speaking
of the conscription laws, that he himself had
always sought to release from service and the
burdens of the war those who had opposed
the secession of the States.
The Ku-Klux investigating committee have
examined a number of witnesses the past weok.
Dr. Pride Jones, of North Carolina, who was
Governor- Holden's agent last
peaceful settlement of Ku-Klux difficulties in
Orange county, testified mainly to the past
and present condition of affairs in that particular
section of the State, and represented
that good order now prevails there. Ex-Gov.
Orr, of South Carolina was examined on
j Tuesday. He stated that he had no personal
| knowledge of the Ku-Klux, and did not beI
lieve they existed in his section of the State;
j expressed the opinion that such an^rgantzaj
tiou did exist in some counties of South CaroI
Una nnrl t.lmt. it.q nhiect was to intimidate col
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ored people from voting at the election in
i 1872; believed that the constitution of the
Council of Safety, published in the Charleston
Republican last February, was the basis of
the organization; said the Legislature had
j been extravagant and some of its members
corrupt; condemned the present election laws,
! and believed they would be repealed; thought
! the white people were very blameable foHhe
J incompetency of their rulers and the inefficiency
of legislation, because of their refusal
! to take part at the outset of reconstruction in
| elections, and since by trying to get the colored
; men to vote the democratic ticket in opposii
tion to their friends, the republicans. Depui
ty United States Marshal Joseph J. Hester,
of North Carolina; S. T. Poinier, Upited
States Commissioner at Spartanburg, S. C.,
and Chas. D. O'Keefe, who was formerly a
tax collector in the latter State, and driven
from the discharge of his official duties, it is
j alleged, by an unlawful combination, have
also been examined. It is expected that the
preliminary investigations will be completed
in the course of a month, by which time the
ground will be laid for work of a similar nature
in the fall by a small sub-committee
throughout the southern States, the present
investigations being designed principally tc
determine which localities shall then be visited.
? ?
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Davidson College.
We are requested to announce to the
public that the address before the Literary Societies
of Davidson College, will be delivered
on the 28th of June, at 10 o'clock, a. m., by
Gen. Ransom, of North Carolina. On the
same day, at 3 p. m., the address before the
Alumui Association will be delivered by the
Rev. Frontis Johnston, of Lexington, N. C.
A full attendance of the Alumni is desired as
important business will come before the Association.
A Silly "Joke."
Some days ago a notice, drawn in the
most elaborate style of Ku-Klux architecture,
was served upon a Mr. Jacoby, a trial justice
of Colleton county, warning him to "beware!
beware 1!" &c., which, so far from intiraida
ting the justice, induced him to trace the au>
thorship to its perpetrators, who made an oper
confession, but say on their oaths that the
whole thing was done only in "fun." Sue!
attempts at "fun" betray very little evidence
of smartness, and are calculated to inflict ?
great deal of damage.
General Sherman and the Presidency.
Gen. Sherman has written a letter tc
^he New York Herald, in which he says:
"Now, as to politics, I think all my person
al friends know my deep-seated antipathy tc
the subject; yet, as you seem not to under
stand me, I hereby state, and mean all that 1
say, that I never have been and never will be
a candidate for President; that if nominated
by either party, I should peremptorily decline
and even if unanimously elected, I should de
cline to serve. If you can find language
stronger to convey this meaning, you are ai
liberty to use it"
Anniversary Celebrations.
We have received invitations to attenc
the anniversary celebrations of the Clariosoph
ic and Eumenean Societies of the South Caro
lina University, which will come off in Colum
bia, during the latter part of this month. Oli
ver J. Harris, of Anderson, will deliver the val
edictory oration before the Clariosoph ic Socie
ty, on the evening of the 28th; Charles P. Pel
ham, jr., of Columbia, the valedictory befon
the Euphradian Society on the evening of the
OfWk . Ua? XT W XT^lliorr? nf A mrnatn
LlXslLi f auu XlUUl Alt IT AAllllMiU) VA AAUgttwn.
Ga., the annual oration before the two Socie
ties, on the evening of the 30th.
A Sonthern Colored Convention.
In accordance with a resolution adopt
ed by a Convention of the colored people o
Georgia, held at Atlanta, in February last,?
call is published in the Philadelphia Press, fo]
a Convention of colored citizens of the South
ern States, to be held at Columbia, on the 18tl
of October next. The object of the Conven
tion, as put forth in the preamble, is to bring
about "a more practical understanding anc
mutual co-operation, to the?nd that a mor<
thorough union of effort, action and organ!
zation may exist." The
several States are to be represented ac
cording to the ratio of representation each ii
entitled to in Congress?one delega'te frorr
each Congressional District, and two from th<
State at large. Those persons who may be
elected delegates are admonished to mak<
preparations for remaining in session a week
The call is issued by H. M. Turner, Presidenl
of the Georgia State Convention, and is en
dorsed by nearly all the leading colored mer
of the South.
Statue to Professor Morse.
A statue to Professor Morse, the inven
tor of the magnetic telegraph, was erected ir
New York on the 6th instant, in commerao
ration of the man who "harnessed lightning
after Franklin chained it." The system o
telegraphy, with slight alterations, is to this
day very near the same as that introduced b}
Prof. Morse. The statue was unveiled bj
Gov. Claflin, of Massachusetts, and the ad
dress was delived by William Cullen Bryant
At nine o'clock a message was sent, conveying
a brief message from Prof. Morse, to whicl
he personally manipulated his name, anc
which was received at the same instant at al
the cities in the United states ana tne uana
das.'- Responses were made from the priuci
pal cities of Europe, Asia and Africa.
The following is the noble sentiment senl
by Prof. Morse, dated New York :
"Greeting and thanks to the telegraph fra
ternity throughout the world. Glory to Goc
in the highest; on earth, peace, good will tc
men."
Prof. Morse is now eighty years of age, and
unlike many noble inventors, has lived to sec
a full fruition of the benefits of his discover)
upon mankind.
The Spartanburg Homicide.
The Spartanburg Spartan, of last week
gives the following particulars in relation tc
the killing of John Gray Hampton by Gen
B. F. Bates, in that county, mention of whicl
was made in the last issue of the Enquirer
"On last Thursday evening?1st instant?
between the hoars of sun set and dark, Johr
Gray Hampton was shot and killed by Gen,
B. F. Bates. The parties were but a few feel
apart, and the gun being charged with buck
shot and held almost against tne breast of the
unfortunate deceased, a deadly and mosl
ghastly wound was made, causing the instanl
death of Hampton. Bates was standing in.
side his yard fence and Hampton on the out
side. We learn that a party of disguised men
had visited the house of Gen. Bates a few
nights before the unfortunate occurrence, und
he had-said to his neighbors fchaf, Gray Hamp
ton waaHmong "the party" Hampton heard
the report, as coming from Gen. Bates, and on
the fatal evening went to his house to disabuse
his mind of the false impression and tc
prevent the further circulation of the report,
We learn that this was what led to the murder
of Ihe deceased, as the parties, previous tc
the circulation of the report referred to, were
on good terras. Hampton was living with his
father, who we are informed was a tenant oi
Gen. Bates. Hampton was a young man,
about twenty-one years of age, and is spoken
of as one who was respected by those who
knew him, and had many friends. Gen. Bates
gave himself up to the Sheriff, and is now
confined in the jail at this place.
An inquest was held on the body of the deceased
by Trial Justice Wm. Irwin, at which
the following testimony was laxen :
Willis Allen, one of the witnesses, (a young
man whom Hampton came up with on his
way to see Gen. Bates,) upon being sworn,
testifies that "John Gray Hampton asked him
to accompany him to see Gen. Bates; that
he wished to do him no harm, but have a chat
with him. When they got in sight of Gen.
Bates' house, he saw several men in the road.
After themen got into Bates' yard, witness
recognized John Petty, Gen. Bates and A.
Jennings. Mr. Hampton approached, and
some words passed between him and General
Bates. Bates told him to go away from there;
they were about five feet apart?the fence between
them. He saw Bates raise his gun and
shoot deceased. Witness did not see a pistol
in the hands of deceased, but he might have had
it in his hands, for what he knows. Deceased
seemed to be turned half round as though he
was going away. Pistol of deceased went off
immediately after Gen. Bates shot; witness
heard several shots fired in Gen. Bates' yard
: after deceased fell. Gen. Bates had a ?un in !
[; his hand when witness first saw hiqa in the |
, yard; both witness and deceased were dressed i
t in ijifcizen'SiUlothes?not disguised,"
TO THE CITIZENYYF YORK COUNTY. ]
1 The undersigned citizens of York county, \
! earnestly desiring the preservation of tha pub-;
; lie peace and for the purpose of guaranteeing j
j to all citizens the protection of life and libsr- j
, | ty, respectfully urge.it a3 .a common, duty. for.
,; every citizen to discourage all acts of violence.
I j We do not.desire to dictate to others, but are
. convinced that a repetition of violence roust
? disorganize society and result in a spirit of
. general insubordination, the consequences of
, which may be deplored when too late to be
remedied. As members of the community
, whose common interest is imperilled, we
. j pledge our individual efforts and influence to
prevent further acts of violence, and will aid
and support the civil authorities in bringing
, offenders to justice. We respectfully solicit
a hearty co-operation of our fellow-citizens
, throughout the county, in our efforts to prei
serve the peace and to prevent further acts of
. violence and domestic disorder:
. W.M.Adams, A.M.Hill,
S. E. Jackson, H. M. Hill,
J. A. Hill, D. J. Jackson,
J. B. Jackson,. J. R. McCully, '
1 W. N. Abernathy, 8. B. McCulty,
> J. J. Thomas, J. M. Ford,'
t 8. W, Jackson, J. E. Adams,
W. K. Parsley, J. H. Neely,
John M. Jackson, Wm. A. Henderson,
M. Stearnes, J. F. Jackson,.
' J. L. Parker, D. M. Ford,
J.T.Davis, H.Hill,
J. A. Adams, J. L. Jackson,
> Z. 8. Hill. 8. M. Jackson,
R. T. Smith, Wm. Drennen,
W. S. Adams,
[ MERE-MENTION. - 'h h
, The present stock of cotton in towns and at
interior ports is said to be below the quantity
} on hand at the same date last year." " Peaches
1 are selling in Atlanta, Ga., for seventy-fivecents
per dozen. Georgia has full-blown cotton
blooms, and oats seven feet high. In
the First District of Tennessee the Democrats
are talking of running "Andy Johnson" for
Congress. June 18th, the anniversary
of the battle of Waterloo, is to be the day of
the triumphal entry of the German troops into
Berlin. There is a "three thousand
cow power" cheese factory at Wells, Minnesota.
The far famed banking house of
the Rothschilds having been founded in seventeen
hundred and seventy-one, will be one
hundred years old this year. ' The'Boston
Post, the leading Democratic journal of
New England, is very severe on Jeff! Davis
for his recent injudicious speeches. The
' yield of wheat in California this year will
average half a crop. "Western papers
unite in the statement that the wheat crop
bids fair to exceed any yet harvested in the
country. The potato bug is very lively
and voracious in the West just now, greatly
ly to the disgust of farmers. The first
peaches of the season are selling in New York
at $6 per dozen, or $200 per basket*"'"Jas.
A. Weston, democrat, was elected Govenor of
New Hampshire by the Legislature of that
State on Friday last. The vote stood, Weston,
167; Pike, republican, 159.
The crop accounts from Alabama are very
discouraging. Many of the Southern
and all of the Northern-newspapers that have
had anything to say on the subject, condemn
the recent speeches of ex-President Jefferson
Davis. One poultry fancier in Clalifor-,
niahas 10,000 hens. Londoners say that
one-third of the population of,that city never
saw tf grain field." 4r,,Th& population of
London on the 2nd of April last, was 8,251,804.
Crop accounts from Virginia are
now final as to the character and extent of
1 the wheat harvest. It will be one of the best
in point of quality and quantity secured in a
, number of years. The wheat harvest
has begun in southern Illinois. This is earlier
than ever known. The yield is abundant.
The decaying vegetable matter
in New Orleans, as well as the stagnant water,
bid fair to create an epidemic. Brigham
Young completed his seventieth year on
the 1st instant.
1 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
I S. B. Hall, Judge of Probate?Annual Returns.
| J. P. Wallace, C. C. P.?Notice to the Creditors of
F. H. Simril, deceased.
M. O'Uonneii?Trial justice.
T. M. Dobson & Co.?Valuable Information.
M. Jones, Agent?A MyBtery?Wonderful.
J. W. Carroll?Who Can't Perceive ?
l The South Carolina Land and Immigration Asso1
elation.
W. H. Brawley, Plaintiff's Attorney?Notice to
Defendants.
" J. Beattv Williams, Treasurer?Town -Taxes.
1 Green Gordon and S. M. Hanna?Administrators'
> Sale.
R. II. Glenn?Sheriff's Sale.
I SOCIAL OSTRACISM.
5 A short time ago, a correspondent of the
r New York Trobune, writing from Charleston,
made the statement that in consequence of
the prejudices existing in the South against
, Northern residents, the women of the South
> would not permit their children to play in
. company with the children of the former,
i Commenting on the subject the Barnwell
: Sentinel says:
"If our people go North without being proi
perly presented, no one thinks of inviting them
. to their houses, or sending their children to
t play with them. And so it is here. Are all
. the barriers and protections of society to be
> broken down in order to let Northern children
t play with Southern children, and Yankee
; grown people associate with Southern grown
. people ? The thing is absurd.
"The truth is, the courtesies and amenities
i of polite society are extended North and
r South now, as they were before the war, on
1 the same conditions. If a gentleman or lady
. visits Charleston, Augusta or Columbia^ with
[ proper letters of introduction, he or she is rei
ceived and introduced into the same circle of
. society that the persons to whom they bring
i their letters are moving. Just as a gentle,
man or lady from the South visiting New
. York, Philadelphia or Boston. The carpeti
baggers, the adyenturers, the spoliators, who
i have come South to rob and oppress us, associate
with negroes, on a perfect equality, al?
low negro men to dance the round dances with
their wives and daughters, and reciprocate
t these attentions, to the wives and daughters of
i their colored visitors, are not permitted to eni
ter the society of cultivated and refined people,
their children are not permitted to play
with our children, and if our women associate
' - - * 9.9 * 4 1
with such people, tney are aenouicea ana ostracised.
In a late letter from West Point, it
is said, grave fears are entertained lest the
colored cadet, Smith, may take his dusky
i belle to the hop; and this pregnant remark is
made: "I fancy that the consternation displayed
would be extremely rich. Of course,
, in such an event, the cadets would be obliged
to suffer and endure in silence, the only effect
being that the ball would be broken up."
Here is the answer to the whole complaint
It is a question of social propriety with which j
the law has nothing to do. Northern ladies j
and gentlemen who come here to live and!
work with us, not to overturn our political
and social government, not to incite the ani- j
mosity of race, not to steal,are heartily wel-1
corned, and if they bring proper letters of in-!
traduction, courteously and kindly received; j
or bringing no letters, shotf by their deport- j
ment, refinement and culture, that they are
ladies and gentlemen, no barrier is placed j I
against their entrance info society, so soon as ; <
they establish their claim to its courtesies and ! 1
attentions." | ]
POPULATION Of 80UTH CAROLINA.
Senator Robertson has furnished the Columbia
Union with thi'e subjoined table, showing
the poplatkra of South Carolina by counties,
in 1870:
- ?. ; - i *
*s
f
. ? x o
2 1 ? ? <?
Counties. !i 2 l ? >3 ?.
?| . ^ n
8 ! I IS I? 5
I ' :1 O 12 ' I
Abbeville,....! 10,838 20.202 88 11 31,129
Anderson,...! 14,377 9,588 79 5 24,049
Barnwell,....! 13,418 22,180 161 15 35,724
Beaufort. ! 5.175 29,028 | 134 24 34,359
Charleston....; 23.248 60,522 56 4956 81
Chester, | 6,175 12,512 113 5 }8,805
Chesterfield, | 6,196 4,307 79 2
Clarendon,...! 4,638 9,363 12 25
Colleton....... 8,873 16,482 9 85 10 25,409
Darlington,.. 10 031 16,141 66 5 26,243
Edgefield,.... 16 909 25,390 29 130 27 42,485
Fafrfleld,.'. 5,MO 14,009 117j 2 19,888
Georgetown, 2,723 13,379 50 9 16,161
Greenville,... 14,798 6,906 110 5 21,819
Horry, 7.465 3,234 21 j 1 10,721
Kershaw, 3)760 7,935 49 10 ll|j^4
Lancaster,.... 6,134 5,920 4 25' 4
Laurens,...,.. 9)882 12,626 72| 6 22,536
Lexington,.. 8,420 4,529 32, 7
fxarlboro',.... 5,131 6,666 15 2 **,814
Marlon, 11,371) 10,782 48 ^ 22,159
Newberry,... 7,308 13,309 149 9 20,775
Oconee, 7,983 2,421 131 1 10,536
Orangeburg, 5,654 11,148 55 8 16,865
Pickens,...:.. 7>21 2,537 1 9 1 10,289
Richland, 7,192 15,155 5 646 22 1 28,026
Spartanburg 17,298 8<405 1 78 2 25,784
Sumter, 7,360 17,797 103 8 25,268
Union,! 8,661 10,522 57 8 19,248
WiUlamsb'g, 5,311 19,141 35 2j 15,489
York, ?. 12,012 12,160 5 1051 4) 24,286
. Total,........| 281,388 415,2841537788^1 705,160
With regard fo the above table, the Uhio}
says: , \ u , 1
"In 1860, the total popalation was 703,708,
so that the increase daring the past ten years
has been only 1,952. Many of our counties
show large losses. Abbevflleloses about 1000,
Beaufort 6500, Oranjjebprg 8000, Fairfield
2000, Georgetown 5000, Laurens 1000, and
Spartanburg 1000. While Charleston gain*
18000, Edgefield 3000, Darlington 6000, Richland
5000,' and York 3000. Several othei
counties show small gains. The races are divided,
as follows: 281,689 whites, and 415,284
colored." /j\," 1
tax aai\ tv war adtvivo
riiwv in niiii vwimhat
Six square miles of .fertile ground, om
hundred building squares thickly populated
and four hundred squares more sparsely set
tied, hut highly cultivated in small gardei
patches, have been laid under water by i
break in the canal,, which runs from the hear
of the city to Lake;:^ontchartraim
A correspondent of the New York Heroic
writing under dalt offline 5th, gives the fbl
lowing account of uie 'disaster :
The break began to threaten on Hogan ay
enue on Thursday night. The Canal Com
missioners had sold to certainfpereons the right
to removedirt from the levee tofillnpvacan
lots. On Friday morning one of these met
was at work with his cart carrying awsv th<
levee at the very point where the weaknesi
was manifested. A colored man, Lucier
Fereyjean by name, living close by> beg^ec
him to desist, for an east wind was' blowing
and the waters of the lake, swollen by the immense
torrent pouring in from the Mississippi
by way of the Bonnet Carre crevasse, wren
rapidly backing up to the city.. He wrn
driven away;-by threats. Next morning s
chasm; eighty-five feet wide
was opened in the b&nks, and Luoien Fereyjean
made a perilous escape out of his. bedroom
window. Almoitt^the same instant
another break occurred a mile and half nearer
the city, where the canal company had allowed
the Jackson lUOroad to take out earth
to fill up between the cross-ties of a coal line
This break was stopped; witbont mnch difficulty.
/ The main contest was with the Hogan
avenue chasm. The citjr Surveyor and his
assistant, Mr. Peanson, with a gang of a hundred
laborers, worked day and night Piles,
flanked by sand bags and barely four inches
apart, were driven ten-feet into the ground;
and the canal dredge: boat was kept constantly
at work piling np earth. Driving out to
the scene of disaster this afternoon your reporter
found
a waste of wateb
far as the eye could reach, broken only by
tlia to no of trofa nnd thft lines of hovma and
streets. The Marine Hospital and the Hotel
Dieu, with their unhappy patients,, were surrounded
by water. Cattle, hogs and goats
huddled together on the bridges and nigh
grounds, which every now and then were sapped
and fell in. Two dogs howled dismally
from the roof of a shanty, where they had remained
unrelieved two a ays and a night A
little colored boy had just been rescued in a
small sailboat from a nigh fence, to which he
had been clinging for hours. In some of the
streets the water was five feet deep. Gangs of
naked lads waded and swam from house to
house, robbing and destroying, and ruffians in
skiffs and on rafts broke open chamber windows
mid
ROBBED THE RUINED PEOPLE .
of the scanty furniture left them. The. foreman
of the Republican newspaper saved his
wife and babe, and went back in a boat to his
house only to find it empty.
WAS IT A SUICIDE?
I passed an undertaker's cart jogging jauntily
along. Its mission was soon made apparent
; for bv the canal side, opposite the crevasse,
lay the hideously swollen and disfigured
body of Mr. G. A. Preret late Vice-President
and Cashier of the Union Bank. He
had been found drowned in a cornfield, close
to the break. Over his death there hangs a
mystery, which perhaps his prospective removal
from office may account for.
Thus far no lives are known to have been
lost by the flood, though three deaths have resulted
indirectly from this cause?one from a
bite of a snake while escaping, one from being
upset from a vehicle into the swollen flood,
and Mr. Freret as already stated. One carious
fact, showing the force of the flood, may be
mentioned. An old dredge boat sunk at the
lake end of the canal fifteen years ago, which
all prior storms have left undisturbed, was
raised by the torrent and carried four miles up
the Btream and hurried against tTjfa month of
the crevase. - .
At the hour (eight o'clock P. M.,) the break
is effectually stopped, the water on the overflooded
side being nine inches below the surface
of the canal.
The damage done, divested of the exaggerations
of some of the local papers, will probably
be not less than four to
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Suits will be entered against the canal company
to make good the damage.
Mayor Flanders called a special meeting of
Council this afternoon to take measures for
biio loiioiui wc uuua?vui u ?
three administrators was appointed to distribute
provisions. From 3,000 to 5,000 loaves
of bread a day are being made in the city
bakeries "for gratuitous distribution among the
sufferers. A committee of leading citizens is
acting with the Council. . * m .r
The overflow directly from the lake, in , the
Gentilly road quarter, has caused heavy loss
in the destruction of many fine market gardens.
The Milneburg and Pontchartrain
Railroad from Gentilly station is still overflowed.
The-water in the lake is reeeeding
slowly. 1 ' '
A train came through from Mobile yesterday
on the Chattanooga Railroad. A passenger
reports abont four miles of the roads
under water. A passenger over the Jackson
Railroad, who came in tnis morning, reports
that the road is under water for seven miles
north of Pass Manchac.
, *
Mutilated Currency.?The . Treasury
Department has adopted and rigidly enforces
the rule of deducting from the full value of
each mutilated currency bill just in proportion
as the paper of the bill is missing. The
paper of the bill of each denomination is di
i vided into twenty parts, and if one-twentieth
of a bill is missing from any cause five per
j cent of the face value is deducted before the
l Treasury will give a new bill in exchange for
it Thus, from a five dollar bill it deducts
twenty-five cents for each twentieth of the
i note that is missing; from every twenty dollar
note one dollar for each twentieth; from
every hundred dollar note five dollars ; from
every thousand dollar note fifty dollars, and
in that proportion for every twentieth according
to the denomination of the bill. In the
enforcement of this rule is to be found the
reason wfiy so much ragged and mutilated
greenback currency is in circulation, as ho
holder, bank or individual, will willingly in|
cur the loss of this deduction imposed by the
Treasury, and hence, according to the rule
ever governing, in currency circulation, the
worst land most depreciated is ever the most
persistently kept m use. The banks refuse,
as far as possible, all mutilated greenbacks,
and this accounts for'the greatly increased
amounts in the hands of the public. HORACE
GREELEY ON 80UTHEBN WHITES.
o* ii i IT _ n i r
oince me reiuni ui xxuraee vjrreeiey iroin
his recent trip to Texas, he has been writing
for the Tribune articles upon the impressions
; conveyed to his mind by his travels in the
, South. To the question, "Do the Southerners
acquiesce in the abolition of slavery?"
| he answers:
i "I am entirely confident that no considera1
ble number of the Southern people either ex;
pector purpose to re-enslave their former
; chatties. None know better than the great
1 body of the 8outhernwhites that the re-eo'
slavement of the freedmen is a moral imponii
bility. Their very general cbmplaint, he adds,
that "we can't control our labor" has a very
real foundation. A given forOh, say twenty
families, will not pick $g much ootton in the
month qs they did ten years ago.
i He thinks that einancipation has borne less
1 hardly upon pTante? than their wives. Of
I these he say*: "Many of the wisest afcd most
resolute amonw them have ieanted to on their
' own work, with their daughters' help: some
1 have obtained white help, mainly of foreign
- birth; others get on with hired black ser'
vants, bat most of these get on badly."
The poor white next claims his attention,
I and is found to bemuoh less black than he
has been painted. Certainly there are idle,
trifling "poor whites" still, as there are equally
worthless blacks; but they are fewer than
they have been, and growing fewer; day by
' day. The "corn-crackers," "sand-hiliers,
- "cLay-eaters/* &c., ofthe last generation:, will
i be unknown as a class after this century.i
The political views of the Southerners are
t thus intimated: "They propose to renew the
fight, but not with gun and saber. They ex.
Dect to re&ain as democrats throuffh elections
the power they lost as rebels through war.
* They herein evince that wisdbm which profits
by the lessons df experience.
"Andwhilea bitter spirit is cherished by
- many, I feel aire that the number who act
quiesce, if they do nofcwbeolately rejoice, in
t tne restoration of the Union, is daily inqreasi
ing. Thonsands hate the "carpet-baggers,"
5 with their alledged corruptions and spolia$
tionfi, who protest that they do not hate ,the
i Union."
1 Upon a review of the immediate outlook in
r a partisan sense hit conclusion is:
"Should the South show an anti-Repoblii
can majority in.1872, it will be a consequence
> of injndicioos appointments and removals of
i actual or reputed prodigality in legislation or
i in office."
A summing np of the situation in a material
and moral sense is stated in these terms:
"That the South is steadily recovering from
t the calamities and. losses consequent on our
' late civil war, is very obvious. The process
might be more rapid, but could hardly be more
i substantial" .
"It were irrational to expect that all the
| bitterness engendered by twenty years of sectional
collision, including fonr of bloody war,
should be eflaced in a day, and of comwit is
not; bat the tendency is right and time will
exert its healing influence if nc untoward
event should interpose to prevent it" , "
And in this connection it may be interesting
to quote the extract from one of Mr.
Greeley a speeches, as reported by the Vicksburg
Herald, if only as throwing some light
upon the character of the man, and his mental
attitude toward the Southern people while
making the observations npon which the foregoing
conclusion was based:
"I greet you here, said "Mr. Greeley, "as
citizens who will in time feel honor in ike glory
of Stonewall Jackson as well as those who were
in the opposing armies, [cheers ;f who will glory
alike in the glory of R. K Lee as well as those
who fouaht aaainst him. He felt that the
clou<3a that now hover over the country would
soon be swept away, and vanish in the stand,
growing, and rising republic which wUl one
aay embrace all the cpunpee and,all ihe
people of this North American Continent""
HORACE GREELEY *AND JEFF. DAVIS.
The Memphis Avalanche of the 4th instant
says: "About 12 o'clock yesterday, Hon.
Jeff Davis called at the Overton Hotel, and
was ushered into the presence of Mr. Greeley,
at whoee hands he met a very cordial recej>
tion. The philosopher and his visitor sat juicing
each other in the centre of the room, the
broad, open and plain countenance of the one
in strange contrast with the wiry, nervous
and somewhat delicate face of the other.
Mr. Davis was dignified and somewhat formal
in manner, while Mr. Greeley was frank,
easy, and quite talkative. There was scarcely
a reference to the political situation. Mr.
Greeley inquired concerning the health of
Mrs. Davis, with inuoh warmth and earnest1
ness, and again referred to the high regard he
entertained for that lady and the family of
which she came. Mr. Davis responded appropriatelyfSud
expressed the gratitude of
himself and Mks. Davis, to the philosopher
for Hif kindly services soon after the war.
This brought up Mrs. Davis's interview referred
to above, on which Mr. Greeley seemed
to dwell with much pleasure. In the course
of conversation, Mr. Greeley again spoke of
the Blain, and especially of the seniors of
that distinguished family, remarking en passant
that Frank P. Blair, jr., and others of
the present generation, did not do justice to
the old stock, to whom he re&ned with ap
parent deep feeling. Mr. Greeley then passed
on to subjects nearer home, and finally dwelt
for several minutes on the memory of General
Quitman, of whom he spoke as a warm
personal and political friend in times gone by.
Not a word was said on either side that our
reporter could overhear, concerning Mr. Davis'
condition and prospects. Ajl through
the interview, which lasted ten minutes, Mr.
Davis maintained a very reserved demeanor,
while on the other hand the free of the philosopher
was wreathed in kindness and smiles,
with occasionally a hearty laugh breaking the
stillness.
It was a scene worthy the pencil of an artist,
one that would make a picture valuable
now and in future generations. Rising at
the conclusion of the interview, Mr. Davis,
withdrew with a stately bow, and in a few
minutes after Mr. Greeley was en route for
the railroad depot, where he took the 12.45
train for Louisville, accompanied by General
Merritt, his friend and traveling companion.
The Militia Arms.1?It will be remembered
that a committee off gentlemen, representing
a large publfc meeting of the citizens
of this county, waited upon Governor Scott
ajx>nt two months ago, and requested, among
other things, the removal of the arms in the
possession of the militia to Columbia. The
GotOrnOr assured the committee, with every
consideratiou of respect, that their requests
would be immediately granted, and that be
would instruct Gen. Anderson to send an officer
at once to this county, with authority to
collect them up. Mr. R. W. Cousart, acting
under authority, published a notice a few
weeks ajjo calling m the arms, but one of the ?
companies refused to deliver up. We have
just learned from those who have the best
right to know, that at the time they were or