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Seto SIX DOLLARS PER ANNUM VOLUME VII.-NUMBER 1046 BY TELEGKAPH. THE MEMPHIS COMMERCIAL CON? VENTION. MJOCHIK, Maj 21. -The Committee on Direct Trade with Europe reported yesterday in favor of the formatioo of lines from Southern ports, which should be supported by subscription. The committee approved of the scheme inau? gurated Ivy-the Norfolk Convention fot a line between Norfolk and Liverpool. Many letters and telegrams were read from distinguished persona, regretting their ab? sence and endorsing the work already done. A dispatch was received from General Beaure? gard, tendering a free passage to and from New Orleans to the Commercial Convention. The folk)wing oispatch was received in regard to the Southern racine Railroad : Nsw YOKE, May 21 1869.-Our most cordial thanks to yourself and friends for the action of ?he convention. Cur *bonds are quoted at the Paris Exchang-} at 79 in gold. J. C. FBLMONT, for Directors. The Committee on Levees have made an elaborate report, showing the necessity of government aid. Foe BankingCommit.ee re? port in favor of a redistribution or an expansion of thjhv-currency, so as to give the West and South their duo proportion of circul?t ion. The convention favors the redaction of the in? terest on the national debt by means consis? tent with a faithful discharge of the country's duties to its crediton. A r?solution recom? mending all States to repeal the usury laws was adopted. The Committee on Commerce, Manuiactmring and Mining reported in favor of the States freeing from taxation capital invested in work developing the resources oi the country. Speeches were made in favor of improvement in the matter of transportation aa beyond the reach of the machinations of the bulls and bea-s. SEWS FROM WASHINGTON. WASHTKOTOH. May 2L-The President has appointed Felix Coate the surveyor of customs at 8t. Louis. Alfred Sanford supervising in? spector or steamboats ia the Fourth District. P. M. Sheibly, postmaster at Rome, Georgia. W. H. Howard declines the Chinese mission, and takes a position on the Wisconsin Bail road? The day for the Mississiopi elections will not be named until after the virgin? elections, al? though both will probably take place in August. L. C. Norval) is the Reoublican candidate for Governor. Judge Lewis Dent, brother-in-law of tho President, will assist Nor veil in the cam? paign. The following assignments as superintend? ent a of Southern Indians have been made : Choctaws and Chickasaws, Major J. M. Craig; Creeks, Captain G. 3. Olmsted; Cherokees, Captain Warren. There was a full Cabinet meeting to-day. Two negroes have been appointed to clerk abifJi in the Bevon oe Department, and the ' Pol i oe Commissioners have appointed negro police. Judie Bassett, the nesrro minister to Hay ti, visited the tioeretary of State, and will receive his instructions m s few days. Douglass, the negro printer employed by Clapp, applied to Simon Wolf, the Register of Deeds, for a clerkship, sayiog that, in con? sequence of the combinations entered into by the Printers' Unions throughout the country, he is unable to obtain employment. Simon Wolf has given a favorable answer, and says that he is particularly happy at having the op? portunity. ? The President has announced that the Eight Hoar law involves no reduction in wage?. EUROPE. TRITT. A VD, DUBLIN, May 21.-The Grand Lodge of Orangemen have petitioned the Queen against the disestablishment of the Irish Church. FRANCE. PARIS, May 21.-The French elections con? tiene more or less disorderly. Since the 12th, one hundred and forty-nine arrests have been made for creating political disturbances-only seventeen of whom have been discharged. At Nismes the people sang the Marsellaise. The prison at Bourges wau forced, and blood shed in the department of A abe. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. The eteams hip Australia is in port at Key Weet, repairing her boiler. At the Old School Assembly of Presbyterians held at New York, yesterday, a committee of ten was appointed to confer with a similar New School committee on the subject of reunion. Dradfowler, a warm advocate of r?union, was chown Moderator by a vote of 122 to 93. THE ENGLISH SXBXON TOADS.-The trade in sermons (manuscript germ ma sold to clergy? men for use in the pulpit) U an English institution, as nowhere else do wo see them BO freely advertised. This trade, we are told by the English journals, has grown enoimouel.v within a few vean. The newspapers which circulate more especially among the elerey of the English (Btablishments have iegulkrly contained advertisements offering original, striking and orthodox manuscript sermons for sale, and the fact of their extensive advertise? ment shows that they are extensively used. Upon this subject the Observer of this city trathtully remarks that in this country ft would impair, if not destroy, any man's useful? ness in the ministry if it were known that he depended upon others in any way for his dis? courses, and the grossness of the evil seems to be working s cure abroad. Within a few weekes private circular has informed the clergy in England that a periodical to be made up entirely of sermons is about to be issued, ita sale being limited to gentlemen in holy orders. This is felt to be pushing the system too far, and the project seems likely to brirg about i> strong reaction. The Guai dian, wh:ch has been in the habit of publishing advert .se? ment? of thu kmd, declares that it will dj so no more. The Guardian says: "If the-ni ty once come to the conclusion that preachers MO commonly indebted to others tor their ser? mons, few clergymen will be above suspicion. Only the very able or very industrious will be able tn defy the bUggestion that they, too, have gone into the market fora disconroe, and a taint of insincerity will attach to hundreds of excellent clergymen who have done nothing to deserve it. For oe* own part we have deter? mined net to lend oar advertising columns to a sv??em which we are unable to defend. We will at least practice, at a loee to ourselves, what we preach.'' TEX FALL or ins FEMALE BLONDEN-.-The London Shipping and Mercantile' Gazette says : On Tuesday evening an intensely exciting scene was witnessed at Bolton. In connection with Mr. Pablo Fanques circus, the "Female Blond?n" bad been announced for an out? door performance. She was to walk. along a rope fixed from tbe third story of the Old Cor? onation Mills to the top of the circus, the height of the rope being about sixty feet, ?nd the distance some eighty feet. About half past seven the ''Female Biondin" entered the Coronation Mills, which are being pulled down, and ascended the rope. She sauntered along it for a few feet with a light an j easy step, but at about fifteen feet from where she started there waa a large ugly knot on the rope seve? ral inches long. She essayed to cross it and then turned back. In a moment, however, she resumed her pefillous jour Dey,amid the breath? less anxiety of thousands who stood sixty feet beneath her. She approached the knot cau? tiously, crossed it, but just as her lost foot was leaving it she stumbled. At once she throw ber pole to the crowd below, and with a despe? rate effort she grasped the rope. She is a strong, muscular woman, and exerted herself greatly to regain a position on the rope, but bung suspended by the hands. The wildest excitement prevailed amongst the spectators. There were loud cries of "lower the rope," which was done, but only for a very few feet. With more speed than it can be told, a great number of men massed themselves together affine piase over which she hung by the rope, and begged her to let go and tau. She did so and was caught by them, and although the distance she fell waa almost fiftv feet, she sus? tained BO injn ry beyond the fright and a shake. SOUTS CAROLINA. AND THE WEST. THE IMPORTANT RAILRO AD MEETING IN CINCINNATI. THE CLAIMS OF CHARLESTON AND SOUTH CAROLINA. Sp??eries by Governor Scott, General Harrison, J. B. Lafitte, E. D. Mansfield a nd Others. The meeting of tue Railroad Committees of the City Council, Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade, which took pla?e in Cincinnati on Saturday last, was the largest that had been hold io connection with the vitally impoi tant question af a railroid to connect Cincinnati with the Southern railroad system. There were present Governor Scott, of South Carolina; J. B. Lafitte and S. G. Trott, of Charleston; Genoral W. Harrison, Presid?nt, and Colonel J. P. Low, Chief Engineer of the Blue Ridge Railroad; Mayor M.**D. Btarden, Lflon. John H. Crozier and V. H. Sturm, of Knoxville; Colonel C. M. McGhee, of tho East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad (Knoxville to Chattanooga;) Colonel Adrian Terry, Engineer of the Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad; Dr. J. W. F. Parker, Wm. Harvey and Wm. Wood? cock, of Somerset, Pulaski County, Kentucky; Colonel Gaw, of Chattanooga, repr?sentative of the'route from:Chattanooga northwardly via Emory Gap, Chitwood, Ac., besides Ma . or Torrence, members of the City Council, prom? inent railroad men and citizens, who, during the morning session, completely packed the room, W. H. Harrison, Esq., chairman of the com? mittee, called the meeting to order at ten o'clock, and announced that tbey were again assembled to listen to propositions and sug? gestions from representatives from the South, who were interested in the projected Southern railroad. Colonel John H. Crozier, of Knoxville, was the first speaker in favor of the Knoxville route, and was followed by Colonel Terry, Chief Engineer of the Knoxville and Kentucky Rail? road, who urged the claims of the Chattanooga route, SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE SEABOARD. Colonel John P. Low, Chief Engineer of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company, next addi eased the meeting. He said there were three main advantages offered to Cincinnati by a Southern railroad communication : 1. The extension of the area to which she may supply ber manufactured articles, toe grain and provisions for which she is a great market, and over which she may distribute goods. 2. A connection with South Atlantic ports, through wbicb she may with advantage export and import. 3. A connection with Gulf ports for West In? dia trade. All considerations ofpnblic policy and com? mercial interest, then, seem to unite in urging you by no means to neglect the Knoxville con? nection. We are not here to disparage the ments of other rou tr s which are here advo? cated. If the meaos were at hand for their constrnction, all of those proposed could be built with advantages to your city beyond tbe most extravasan: statements which^avebeen mado to you: bot you can desig^^Vut one terminus. Knoxville offers advantages which no other point can pretend to do. and whiei? have been admitted without controversy, by your most able and far-seeing business men and statesmen for forty years during which the subject bas been discussed. It appears that you can secure the moet im Iiortant of tbe advantages that yon eeek by a ?ne of 112 miles loss in leogtb to build, and $3,000 OOO cheaper than by the line which wonld abandon Knoxville. CHARLESTON - CONDITION", HASBOB AND FUTURE PUC8PECTS-CINCINNATI CHIEFLY INTERESTED Di CLOSE CONNECTION-SPEECH OF SIB. LA? FITTE. J. B. Lafitte, Esq., of Charleston, was next c-tiled upon, and said that as tboso who bad preceded bim had (n'Ty explained tbe advanta? ges of the Knoxville connection, so far as the distance and comparrtive cost were concerne 1, he would confine his remarks to the commer? cial advantages to be derived from a close con? nection with tbe port of Charleston. He wonld, however, venture to express the decided opin? ion that should Knoxville be selected as the Southern terminus of the Cincinnati Road, the Bine Ridge Railroad would be completed quite as soon as the former road wonld be built to the Tennessee State line. On the other hand, should Chattanooga be selected as the termi? nus, the Blue Ridge Road would, he thought, bo abandoned. The people of South Carolina had pushed forward tho work upon their road with much energy, so long as tb ero was a rea? sonable prospect that Cincinnati would fulfil her part of the original agreement; and had the road to Knoxville have becu completed, the Blue Ridge Road wonld lon? since have been finished to that point to moot thom. Tho f iii ire to complete the Blue Rid go Road long since was owing entirely to the apprehension of the people of the State tb at after completing it they would still be as far from reaching their much desired connection with the great North? west as they ware at present. He sud that since his arrival in this city he had learned that the great object aimed at by the people of Cincinnati in building the pro? jected road was to command tbe interior trade of the States lying south and east and south? west Of this city, thereby offering new markets for ber manufactures and surplus products, and making Cincinnati the great distributing point for supplying all those sections, which should naturally obtain their supplies from this contre. He recognized the geographical position of Cincinnati as being such as to warrant her merchants in claiming for her the position ol' the great distributing centre for all the central part ot our great country;but toaccompliah this they must not onl> be prepared to supply them with the articles or her own manulncture, and with her surplus products, but must also be prepared to supply them with ?U other arti? cles tbey may need, whether of domestic or foreign production or manufacture. It j ou wish to nanke t! is city the groat central distri? buting point of the country, you must ba pre? pared to sell to every comer every artie'e he may need; for If you cannot do that, he must, of necessity, go to other markets where he can supply those wants, and in doing so will oe apt to make all of his purchases there, to thc serious detriment of your trade in articles cf your own product and manufacture. Cincinnati, being a port of en ti y< and already importing a considerable amount of goods from Europe, it is only necessary that she should open a communication with sorao Southern Atlantic port, through which sue could import all her foreign supplies at the lowest possible cost. He felt warranted in saying that no port would offer equal advantages with Charleston in this respect, and felt sure the mor^thc mat? ter would be investigated, tbe more clearly wonld this be made manifest Charleston, be claimed, had always been ac? knowledged to be the cheapest port on thc Southern Atlantic coast, and the ports in the Gulf could bear no comparison in this respect, aa they were all much more expensive than tho Atlantic ports. Freights from the Golf ports were as a rule much higher than from Charles? ton. For brief periods, and owing to excep? tional causes, this might not invariably be the case; but usually tho difference of European freights was twenty-five per cent, in favor of Cbarleston, as compared with the Gulf ports, and lo a less extent as compared with other Southern Atlantic ports. The cause of ibis difference in freighfs wo ii the moderate expenses of ships visiting that port. Our bar is quite narrow, but so situated that vessels need scarcely ever employ tho ser? vices of a towboat; and when onco over the bar. the capacity of and depth of water in our harbor is snch that they can move about at will under sail alone. The depth ot' water at the heads our wharves being uot less than forty to fifty feet. Our foreign export consisting principally of cotton, which is a bulky articlo, and our import being very small, Itrga numbe. s ot' ?bips enter our port from Europe in ballast, a.id these ves? sels would consequently be glad to take freight ' from Europe to Charles too at exceedingly rates. Another advantage Charleston was abl offer, was in the fact that she possessed w houses, wharves and other facilities for set times the amount of trade now passing thro her limits. Before the nar we received al 550,000 bales ootton and 140.000 tierces ot i now those quantities are reduced to about 1 000 bales and 30 000 tierces. It is true the ing off in the value of our trade should no measured by these figures, as the enhai value of these articles, owing to their di: ished production, nearly or quito compensi for the falling oil in quantity. Cotton be the war usually randed from eight (8! twelve (12) cents per pound; tho pastseaso has ranged from twenty-two (22) to twei nioe (29) cents per pound. Bice usually s at from two and a half (24 ) to three and a 1 (3)) cents per pound; u bas for two years i ransred from 60ven to ten cents por pon Nevertheless, having tho storage room, wi room, and other facilities for handling groater quantity, we as a consequence, b the largest portion of our wharves and st< houses entirely unoccupied, their vilue I naturally become very greatly depreciated, i they can now be purchased or leased t merely nominal price. You, therefore, h tho opportunity, if you deairo it, ofbecom owners of soma of this property at the preBi depressed valuation, or by using our pori the one through which to moko vour impoi tiona, and to export your surplus products ? can still reap the full advantage to be gah by the reduced rates of storage and od charges. Liv.ng in Charleston is very cheap as ca pared with any other seaport, and the price labor is, as a natural consequence, also very k These are but a few of the local advantages fered by Charleston os a seaport, to be used you aa an entrepot for your exports and i ports, and by building your road to Enoxvi you may be in the full enjoyment of thi within less than two years from this day. Something having been ?aid in reference the necessity of a connection with a Gulf po in order to command the trade of the Wi Indies, be wonld remark that Charleston v practically nearer to the West Indies than a Gulf port. There WAS, perhaps, a small dir! ence in the actual diBtance from some of t West India islands to Mobilo and New ( leans, as compared with the distance Charleston, but we aro nearer to you, a whilst the cost of land transportation is i creas ad with every additional mile of distant the cost of transportation by sea was vc slightly affected by such addition. As a mi ter of fact, however, freights to Chariest fx om the West Indies were lowe.* than to t Gulf ports, owing to the low rates of expense commonly called p rt charges, to which yo attention has already been call; d. What h been said of the West Indies is equally app cable to Bio de Janeiro and the oth?r Sou American ports. The two great distributii points of Bio coffee for tho great West are Bi timore and New Orleans, with a short line railroad communicating to Charleston, the is no reason why Cincinnati should not coi pete successfully with both of those points supplying at least a considerable portion the demand from this and all the adjoioii States. Another important fact should not be ove looked, and that is the difference in tho rat* of insurance fr am Charleston, and to and fro the Golf ports. Cotton is insured by first-clat sailing ships from Charleston to Liverpool i one per cent., with the usual discount: froi New Orleans the rate by the same class i ships is two and a half per cent., and froi some of the other Gulf ports the charge even higher. The difference upon other pr< ducts and merchandise is, of course, in th same proportion. This difference of the rat? of insurance also applies to tbe ships then selves, and is another reason why freights t the Gulf are, as a rule, much higher than t the Atlantic ports. Wo would also call attention to thc great ac vantages offered by the port of Charleston, a a point of debarkation for the great tide or im migtation. which has done so much to build u, tho ITOlllA nrtA f n -r?l of ??% ? ^.. ^ .VT. li Cb C Charleston, and he would add Savannah, ar situated in a peculiarly favored latitude, be lng to a great measure exempt from tho6< terrific gales which swoop over the North oro Atlantic for about eight months in tin year, and which are particularly severe ii tho winter season. The sufferines of th? immigrants by the Northern route must a times be terrible indeed, and many of then who have long siuc ; bocomo valued citizens o your State would bear willing testimony t< what I have said. Many of those who have more recently come among you could, no doubt add to this many truthful relations of th. troubles and losses they have encounter ed before getting away from tho cities al which they landed. It is true that specia laws have been enacted to protect thc honest immigrant from the wiles of the "land shark >' who prey upon him; but in large cities) it is impossible to givo them tho protection thai could easily bc extended to them in a smallci community. Thc trip from Charleston to this point could be made at all times at less cost than from a Northern port, and in winier with much less discomfort, not to say suffering. Thus, not only would the iuimigrRut arrive ic your mi 'st after less danger anu suffering, but with more money in bis pucket, ide reiterated what he had said in tho beginning os to thc discouragement that would bo produced by the location of the Southern terminus elsewhere than at Knoxville, aud repeated tl. at it was his firm bolief that such action would de fea' thc completion of tho Blue Ridge Road. They might have ano her terminus at Chattanooga, and as many other termini as they pleased, provided ono of them was Knoxville, by any route that was di'-ect from this point, or nearly 80. Mr. Lafitte concluded by saying that ho was aware ho bad failed to alinda to many impor? tant points, bat that he would bc at tho Bur net House for some days, and felt sure that if any person feeling an ioterest in this matter would call upon him, ho could, in a conversa? tional way, explain tho peculiar advantages of a direct connection with Charleston much moie to 'heir satisfaction and his own, and it would afford him much pleasure to have am? one call, who desired fuller information. SPEECH OF G EX EBAL HARBISON. General J. W. Harrison, President ol tho Blue Ridge Ra hoad, was called for. Ho spoke of the evidences of prosperity that he saw in Ohio. Tbe business, the railroads and sliipiuug ot Cincinnati had far exceeded Iiis expectations. Ho alluded to the early efforts to get a connection between Cincin? nati and Charleston. There was then a mutual understanding between nine States on the railroad question, lhere were inducements that entered into puolic transactions that could not be disregarded. He could not ch irgc Cincinnati with bad faith, if she faikd to make the road to Knoxville, but certainly South Carolina hadgono on with her system, upon the supposition that Cincinnati could na "et them. A railroad connection had boon made with Columbia, at a cost of $3,01)0 000. The State of South Carunna bas built and projected a perfect not weik of railways, that will give Cincinnati a direci communication with Charleston and Savnn.ah. The speaker said that, in attempt?ue; io te'l Cincinnati what ben efl s she will io p from thc Knoxville connection, he would suy something of its benfits to his own pooplo. tbey had x pectcd, for a generation, to . ?joy tho advanta? ges of your grain fiolds ana green pastur? age. We have planted cotton .nd nee, expect? ing to be fed hom other section-*. We bare been compelled to transport oro vision* two thousand miles, and have lost moro in freights from the immense roundabout il?tanos than would build the road from end to end. (Ap? plaus?.] We cannot, as things now stand, raise rice, cotton, tobacco and sugar, without also rais? ing a largo portion of our provisions. If YOU will bring us within five hundred miles of your corn fields, wc can plant all our lauds in such products as will grow most naturally with us, and exchange with you to tho mutual advan? tage of yourselves and us. [Applaus';. 1 You cannot fully realize the changed condi? tion of things in thc South. For example, wc now need a stove in every house. Before thc war it was not so. Tho South wants a million of stoves today. Would you not like to sup? ply us ? We are now compelled to use machinery iu agriculture. Do you not desire this patronage for your shops? Very little thal is used on the farm is made at home. Wo have to look abroad for these things, but we cannot afford to pay freight on wagons, buggies, &c, for two thou? sand miles around. In timber wc have the finest of walnut, cher? ry, to offer you. Tho engineer said that iu surveying the road from Walhalla to Frank? lin, il was not a rare thing to see a black wal? nut thirty feet in circumference aal seventy feet to the first limb; also cherry equal! without a limb. These trees would be something in your market. The capitalists of the Southeast are vi up to the ocean trade, a hey cannot set the produce of tbe West Indies should carried past the best of harbors at Port to Baltimore, New York and Boston, thence brought back to us. A change v effected in this regari. Many of us will j see the day when the richest trade country will be from South America, Spai the West Indies, through Southeastern ] Port Royal will, at no distant day, be a naval station, which will vastly aid us tracting that trade which, oj the laws tare, should come to as instead of possii us to Baltimore and N*w York. If j. Cincinnati, will como to our aid, a great lutiou will be speedily wrought in this re; '1 he State of South Carolina has loane credit to tho Blue Ridge Road to the an of $1,000,000. This will enable us to push Knoxville in fourteen months, c^nld a m of material aid from Cincinnati and ant million from Louisville bo procured, thought that he could so present theargu that private capitalists of Cincinnati wou once subscribe a million. It may bo that if you don't make Knoi your Southern terminus, we shall be dist aged. Cincinnati is worth more than the v State of South Carolina, and yet our Stat? expended $7,500.000 on railways, and bas i her credi? for $1,000,000 more. With such aspirations as the permlo of cinnati have in reference to kaNmn g ness, how can she neglect to extend some teri al aid to the great universe about ffer which she expects to?dmwker resources ? ET? njansrfe eji ?toa. At half-past two tue-convention again as bled, and Colonel McGhee made a speed favor of the Chattanooga connection. SOUTH CAHOLD,'A-SPEECH OF GOVERN'OB BC Governor Scott, of Sooth Carolina, was introduced. In bis opening remarks the < ernor said it was not h s intention or desii address the committee and gentlemen pre on this subject, af er it bad boon so fully ruBsed and clearly presented by others. T is no one, he said, who can not comprehend importance of a connecti. n from tho inte of the country which you occupy, with tho board, both to you and to the people of Sc Carolina, uniting, as it wiD, two legions hit to separated by the range of the All?guai Tho people or the Northwest and thu Soi ern seaboard have long felt that a bi through this barrier was of tho utmost im lance to them in a political, military and sc point of view. Even during the adminis tion of President Monroe, his Secretary of1 ordered a survey of this region of conn with the design of connecting the h waters of the Tennessee with the wal of tho Savannah River by canal. ' people of South Carolina and East T< nessee have constantly kept in view the imp tance of this identical route, through whic road can be constructed with less expense tl any other pass through the mountains. 1 commercial and other relations lt will open tween the great Northwest, rich iu every p duct of thc sod, in manufactures and in eve thing that makes a people prosperous ? great, and tho Southern country, where i products are all or a different character, wh tbe people bavo never turned their attent to manufactures, will be of inestimable adv; tage to two communities who are consum? of etch other's products. This is a matter such vital importance that we have felt it to our duty to use every means in our power secure this l:ne of communication. Believi that Cincinnati was to be equally bonetitte J not more benefitted, by this connection th ourselves, we have constantly kept ourseli in communication with you in the hope tl you might extend some of your abunda means in this direction. It has not been o expectation that you would build our roa Wc have it now nearly half couplet ed, witho any debt hanging over it. Six millions mc will complete it. Four millions of this amou bonds guaranteed by the endorsement of t State of South Carolina. Wc thiuk that on t! completion of this line of road it will pay tl interest oe its bonded debt, and that it wou even be a paying roid to the stockholders. As General Harrison, thc President of tl road, has in his remarks referred to the fina mal prosperity of the State, it jill perhaps DI be out ot place for mc to speak of it more detail, especially as bearing upon tho State ii dorsement unon thc bond*. Air. Lafitte, tl distinguished commercial gentleman, < Charleston, who addressed yon this murnini may have left the impression on your mint that thc State was not as prosperous in its a; ricultural productions as formerly, which is, i some extent, true; that is. so far as thc lailui of thc sea island cotton crop has resulted froi the ravages of thc caterpillar. Formerly Charleston was>a largo exporting point, 500" OOO bales of cotton passing through the ban i ot its merchants annually, lt is to be noticet however, that but about 200,000 bales of tbi were produced in South Carolina, the reman der coming from States lying to the wesi During tho Ont two years after the war th crops of all kinds wore necessarily very shorl the rice crop particularly so, on account of tin great expenditure necessary to repair thc in juries to dikes, water pates and machiner accessary to tho culturo of that cereal, ani caused by tho accident ct war and tho dilapida tiori resulting from abandonment. Partial); to compensate for this, however, our peopl have turned their attention to new branches ol industry. Ono which 1 will mention ii th. manufacture of turpentine, which has been very gretly increased above the products be? fore tho war, abs irbing much of tho laboi which would otherwise have been employed in the cotton and rice fields. In 18(18 the cotton crop was about au average oue; from which about twenty millions ol dollars have been re? ceived by thc people ol the ttate; and this not? withstanding the entire destruction of tbe sei island cotton crop. It is we'l known that, prior tc tho war, the credit of South Carolina stood at a point not exceeded by any other State; at no time did she ever fail to meet her obligations; but thc war swept away lier capital, and she is now simply beginning lo rise from tbe ashes of her ruins. At the time of the organization of the present State government, the credit ol the State was at a very low point, her bonds emmanding but 3(1 cents on tho dollar, anti they had fallen even as low as to 117 couts. But I ara happy to state that to-day they stand in the market at from 73 to 7 > cents, and ou the payment of thc past duo interest, which will bo" made by the 1st of next July, they must tako their place among thc b;st State securities in tho country. Even now thc holders of these bonds evince their confidence in their appreciation by tho pertinacity with which they aro held. They are almost exclu? sively in tho hands of the citizens of South Carolina, who have ever taken a commendable pride in being tho holders of the securities of their oin State. It will thus bc seen that thc means upon which we rely for the accomplish? ment of our portion of thc enterprise, in the interest ol which wc are here, ure not visionary but substantial realities, and that weare able tb perform what wc promise. Oar public debt is $0,410.000, and there aro in tho treasury assets in the shape of Btocks and bonds to the amount of about $3.500,000, leaving the State iudcLieJ ncss but S3 000,000 in round nuinbere. This uircct comaiuuication . between the Northwest and the South Atlantic slopi- pre? sents another element of great pr ictical value. Oat of nineteen millions ot acres of Hms iu South Carolina, only ab^ut oue-fifili*has'uvcr been brought under cultivation. These lands have heretof re been held iu large bodies by gentlemen of wealth, who are now anxious to dispose of thom in small tracts lo just such a class as those of your citizens who are con? stantly seeking homes in the tar West. Here thev will find a productive soil, a climate more genial and healthy than any on the continent, andacordial welcome. Herc can b: gio wu the products of both the temperate and tropical zones, and the apple and the fig grow side In? side. Corn, wheat and cotton may be seen in adjoining fields. Bv reference to thc mip you will notice that the upper tier of c tuutiea is on the same parallel of latitude with the grape gr ?wing couutrv of Portugal and Spain, and when attention i's given to its culture, the vine grows here in equal luxuriousness. As a route for tourists this hue ?ill offer great at tractions. Charleston, one of the oldest cities in the United States, has become a place ot historic interest, and attracts many visitors eveu from the far Northwest, notwithstanding the cir? cuitous and expensive route by which they arc now obliged to approach it. On account of thc mildness ol its winter climate, it must neces? sarily- attract, also, many business men who now find it necessary to transact all theiraf fairs in Ibo Eastern "cities. 1 believe that wc have presented to you themain reasons,which, we think, aro worthy of your consideiation, and which we bclievo justify us in asking to have this long contemplated connection with your city consummated. We believe that when yon mike an actnal survey of tbe ground there can be no question about the final result. In closing thc few remarks that I have had the pleasure to address you on this occasion, I can truly say that I have spoken to you with all the feelings and sympathies of a former citizen of Ohio, although now representing the State of F - uth Carolina. I feel, therefore, tbat in a peculiar degree I appreciate the interests of both Ohio and South Carolina. This pro? posed railroad connection will be the most effi? cient means of not only adding to the mate? rial prosperity of both States, but for bringing into contact and harmonizing communities which have heretofore been separated by moun? tain barriers and by differences of education, association and experience. Whatever may have been true of the past, I can confidently assert in behalf of tbe great majority of bur citizens, that while they arc laboring to restore prosperity and harmony within our borders, moy are equally desirous of contributing, by every means within their power, to the wollare and ad/ancoment of the whole country. Dr. Parker followed in favor ol Chattanooga and against Knoxville. WHAT IS DUE TO SOUTH CAROLINA. Tho Hon. E. D. Mansfield was the next speaker. He said : I listened with pleasure to the clear state? ments of the gentleman from South Carolina. When we fiist proposed to make the road from hc*vd fp 'the South. Utiarleaton stood over the great mount nina of Central America before ns as 1h6?ioarest seaport, and Knoxville-stood in. the intermediate way. There was then no Chattanooga, and many of the interests that have been discussed to-day bad no existence then. Perhaps some of these later interests ought to be properly considered in your delib? erations. Of that convention General William Henry Harrison, the namesake of tbe gentleman from South Carolina who spoke to-day, was Pr?sidant, and I was Secretary. Thr> pro? position was made to build a great Southern railroad from tho banks of the Ohio River to the Atlantic coast at Charleston. The propo? sition was met by the citizens of South Caro? lina and Charleston with a directness and energy of effort 1 bave never seen equalled, and we owe them something for that. South Carolina is a small State, but she plodges almost the entire wealth of Charleston to help make the road. She expected Cincinnati and Ohio and Kentucky to have given correspond? ing amounts. But they were disappointed; the enterprise for tbat time failed, bot from that day to this, during thirty years ol peace and of war, of controversy and conflict, South Carolina bas always gone as far as she could forward in that work, until, as you heard to? day from the engineer of tho road, they have completed mach of their portion of the road. 1 say, then, we one something to these gen - tlcmen, but we owe more to great geographi? cal facts, for as the gentleman from East Tennessee says, geography nevor changes. Time leaves tho great clements of nature the same. The necessities of Cincinnati are the sa ne, and there is left us the same great work to perform that we undertook in 1836. I think there is some obligation resting upon us; if there is none on a community, there is cer? tainly some on individuals, ana while I can raise my voice and pen, I feel bound to do so fur the interest of South Carolina, in that great work to which wo pledged ourselves and for? tunes in times past. lucre is a doctrine pre? valent in this day, that ono gentlemen cannot bind another, but this obligation binds me, and nobody can absolve me from it. I now come to the routes. The law does not prescribe tbat you shall go on a straight south? ern line. It says tbis-but it should not have said if-that you aro to select tho termini. This was putting the cart before the horse; tbe route should come first, and thou tbe termini; but you must get along with tho law the boat you can. The termini meant by the law allows of two or more of them, and this ls the point I make. There is not as much difficulty in ihe way us you hive had represented to you. The T.-t.?l. " fcSPS i.. 5?SS5 Sf SmmSrn il?ii.>k Ke-ntneh-f is premature. The question as to how you shall go through Kentucky is ono of engin? eering, lu order to raako sure of what you all want, thc Blue tlidgo routo on tho one hand, and thc Chattanoogt on tho other, is tbat you should do what every man in Cincinnati ex? pects you to do-build a trunk lino of road directly South, and make all the world come to it. [Applause.] There is co conflict of inter? est here. The law will admit ot Knoxville and Chattanooga, both coming in; there is no legal difficulty iu thc way. You aro all talking as if it were absolutely necessary to say A; but you have thc perfect right to say A, B. C. I am not in favor ol'compromises generally. There arc few opinions in this world that" could be compromised witbr ut a fight; but this is one case in which you eau compromise routes. As to South Carolina, you can no more ignore Chat lenton than you could ignore Clcvelanl and Buffalo. You woulJ not have a Southern railroad that didn't point toward South Caro? tina. ^Now, mike your trunk road, and put your energies in it, and make the linc just where al these interests will moot it. This is about all I wanted to say. But there aro other tbinirs wo.ought to think about to encourage us in this enterprise. Thia is an age of revolutions; the country bas just passed through one revolution, and for aught I see will pass through more. Fortunately, ns I look at these things, revolutions arc generally favorable for progress. What is going to happen? Thirty years ago South Carolina grew tea, and it was demonstrated beyond thc possibility of doubt that South Carolina could grow tea "as well ns China. It li is not b-'an done, because it requires small and cheap labor: but it will, sooner or later, bc grown in the Soul h in larg2 quantities. They fired a broadside, iu Chicago, a few duys a;?, on the recepti m of thc first tea received by the Pacific Railroad, lt will not by moro than a generation before wc will uro a broadside in glorification over the first car load or tea received over Ibo Cincinnati Southern Railroad from South Carolina. I close aa I began, by saying that I think this community owes it to thu State of South Carolina, which bas remained steadfast to her first love- for thirty yeats while a whole gene? ration Ins passed away, to so locate this road as lo a ?Joni them and us the freest facilities ot intercourse. And I join with them in tho hope that our whole Southern country will soon again bloom with thu to JO, and again bc filled with the patriotism that belongs to our beloved country. THANKS TO VISITORS. At thc Conclusion of the discussion the fol? lowing resolution was unanimously adopted: Resdteetl, That tho thanks of the joint com? mittees of the City Council, the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade of Cincin? nati aredue,and are heroby tendered to tho dele? gations from tho several Southern cities for thc vaned intelligence and informat ion relative to tho products and resources ot the districts ttnd cities wbica they represent; and wo assure them that we, as citizens of Cincinna i, will ever renn mber their visit with pleasant memo? ries, and trust that tbe intercourse in the futuro between Cincinnati aud their respective homes will bc equally pleasant and profitable to a!J. Hit committee then adjourned, subject to the call of the chairman. LITTLE IGNORANCES. ? From the Spectator.]. A few boys and girls acquiro the art by some process which seems intuitivo, and spell per? fectly years before they can by possibility have read half tho words they are ultimately requir? ed to use. Printen all know how very little Ihe spelling, even of tho best educated, is to bc trusted; and wc have reason to believe that if English journalists were weeded by au ex? amination in which etymological accuracy was thc sine yuri uoii. the profession would lose some very comp?tent members. One occa? sional contributor to this journal, a man whoso education has been of a singularly perfectkiod, and who is a true seholar in his way, never sends in a contribution without half a dozen etymological errors; and thc rc arc double-firsts who would rather trust themselves in Ureek than English without a pocket dictionary. It is a curious proof of - he accuracy of this view that tho commercial schools, which pro? fess to teach, and do teach, spelling, do not turu out spellers half as accurate as the public f chools, wuich profess to teach nothing of the kind a .d that hundreds of persons learn to spell, or rather begin to spell, well habitu illy only iu manhood-that is, when thc attention has at last been aroused. Whether the ex? treme case, that of a min of high culture, who absolutely could not learn to spell ever happen? ed, we are uucertain; but almost all men who have tc read manuscript believe it; and a kin dred inability, tbat of recollecting dates and figures, certainly does exist. But an inability to spell, arising from a certain failure of inter? est in words, is a distinct characteristic of J 'English minds, and one which it requires ex? traordinary effort to eradicate-more especially among women. Spelling, however, is not the only deficiency of this kind, though it is, of course, the one most observed, and owing to the curions caste feeling mentioned above-a feeling entirely absent a hundred years ago-it is the one moat resented. The ignorance of many cultivated men of arithmetic is frequently astounding. We feel eure, from our own experience, that J hundreds of what are called well-educated men, and thousands of accomplished women, j could not do a rule-of-thrce sum if their for- I tunes depended noon it; while a number, pre- I sumably less but still very large, cannot do any calculation on paper at all. We venture to say the majority of middle and upper class women are worried by the simplest question about.interest, and to a very largo proportion the simple adding np of household accounts I is a wearisome labor very inaccurately per- I formed, while if thc calculation is in foreign money they are hopelessly bewildered. Thoy do not understand compound addition, while as to compound division, qr any problem of any sort involving fractions) thoy frankly de? clino to make the attempt. We have personal- I ly known a lady, mistress not only of four lan? guages, but of their hmstufesj give ujV thc effort to discover.what the 'fourth of a seventh ?whs as Bcmethinft wfiollf)beyond,ber capacity, and ten minutes after discuss a foreign budget I with keen .'intelligence, and that is not an extreme case. ''Tho most extreme we ever r kilew was that of an Oxford M. A., bead master of a grammar school, and an almost unrival? led master of Greek lyrioal poetry, who was honestly unable, and confessed himself un? able, to do the simplest sum in simple addition, who, to get an account light, would put the actual coins on the table, and always called a boy to verify the weekly statistics of the school. There must have been some odd loath? ing for figures in him, as well as want of inter est, resembling the loathing some lads have for Euclid; but we should like to try the House of Peers with a stiff blt of notation. Not one in six would put down the figures right, and of their wives, not one in sixty; yet they and all those we have mentioned hare, at some time or other, learned these things, and are ignorant of them only because their inter est hos never been excited. It is jost the samo I with geography, of which educated and com petent men often do not know the simplest facts, though they have all learned tbem ia a way as one usually learns things of no interest -that is, without learning them. They bare to learn them again when they want them, and meanwhile are just as ignorant as medical students arc of spelling. We should just like to make the English members in the House cf Commons draw each for himself a skeleton map of Ireland, and soo how many of the maps hore I a fair resemblance to the truth. Yet they were taught about Ireland as well as England, and at the same timo. No doubt the English me? thod of teaching seojraphy, even in the very best schools, is ludicrously bad, vory few mas- I ters ever thinking that distances and areas ought to enter into their teaching, and leaving pupils undor a happy bcliof that they know all about Arabia it thoy can draw its outline, though thoy do not know whether it is as big as Yorkshire or as Europe. But still, most educated mon onco knew much more of geo- I giaphy as lads than they do as men: tho rea? son being wont of interest in the subject. To test them on it would not be fair to the schools, wretchedly bad as their system is, any more than it would be to test most girls' schools by their old pupils' knowledge of figures. They have been taught them fairly enough, bzt the memory, unstimulated by any interest, refuses to retain its load. The real failure is not in these things, bat in the entire a been co of any attempt to secure tho main end of teaching, which is not the communication of knowledge, bat the develop? ment of tho powers of tho mind. Half an hour's chat by a shrewd, good-tempered arith- I metician with a lad on the rule of three, its I principle- and its management, wlU give the I student a more perfect control of that invalua- I ble machine than years of "sums" dono by cram rules without tho smallest notion why those rules yield accurate rcsnlts. We know a child of eight (a girl) whoso ac-1 quaintanco with geography is far greater than that of most men, whose study of the sub? ject was induced by the accidental awaken? ing of an interest in the shapes of tbs different countries on th? map, arising originally from some grotesquo remark about the likeness of Britain to an old lady dandling Ireland on her lap. 'Ibo teachers even in commeicial schools are not such bad machines as they arc des? cribed; but then thoy usually are machines, and wo need intelligent teachers instead. Mero practico will not cvon onablo boys to spell, and it is practice only whioh is required of them. J T. HUMPHREYS, BROKER, A UCTIONEER AND COMMIS? SION MER CHA A 7. SALES OF BEAL ESTATE, STOOKS, BONDS, SE? CURITIES AND PERSONAL PROPERTY ATTENDED TO. No. 3 7 DllOAU-STREET CHAKI.h - ION. S. 0. TIE F UK K N C EAM Eon. HENRY BOIS I. W. J. MAGRATH. Esa,. General JAMES CONKER, T. K. WARING, Esa. October I T> ETER TOTANS, 1 URN Ii It AND DE \LER IN IVORY, | And Manufacturer of BILLIARD BALLS AND (CES, , AND IMPORTER OF BILLIARD CLOTH, CUES, Letter Chalk, and Billiard Merchandise in general. No. 89 Fulton-strcct, New York. May 7_sCmos JAMES XKOX.JOHN GILL JT? V O X ?Si GILL, Cotton Factors ASO GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Ka. 123 SMITH'S WHARF, BALTIMORE, CONSIGNMENTS OF COTTON, BICE, fcc, RE? SPECTFULLY solicited, and liberal advances made thereon. Ordors for CORN and BACON promptly executed with care and att"uticn. amos Mai 13 QHAMPOOIBTO ANO HAIR-CUTTING. LADIES AND CHILDREN* attended at their residences promptly and at rpason able rates. Send orders to W. E. MARSHALL, Barber, Aprill4_No. 31 Droad-slreet mp stairs.) JOHN D. ALEXANDER, ACCOUNTANT, NOTARYrUBLIC AND GENERAL AGENT, No. 10 Droad-strcct. RESPECTFULLY SOLICITS BUSINESS IN AD JUSTING ACCOUNTS ol Merchants and others, and in WRITING UP AND POSTING their BOOKS, either in part or whole. Ac._January 9 BUSINESS DIEN. THE SUMTER NEWS, 'PUBLISHED AI SUMTER, S. H ONE OF THE BEST PAPEBtj IN THE UP? COUNTRY; has a larjc circulation, and affords su? perior advantages as an advertising medium. Terms low. Addles DARR & OSIERS, February 23 Propr^to**. FOR THE HAIR. JUST RECEIVED, FHALON3 CHEMICAL HAIR INYIGORA TOR AYER'S HATS VIGOR MONTGOMERY'S LT AIR RESTORER BURNET'S COCO AINE HALL'S SICILIAN HAIR RENEWER CHEVALIER'S LIFE FOR THE HAIR CHALFANT'S COCOA CREAM LYON'S KATH AIRON BARRY'S ntlCOPHEROUS REEVE'S AMBROSIA HAIR TONIC. For sate by Dr. H. BAER, Mav 8 No. 131 MEETING-STREET. FOR LTV'KR POOL. THB PINE SHIP B. a WINTHROP. J. ?H. METffABT Mw ter, having a Larve part y of ber car?" enpagod and going onboard, .vin have dispatch. For balance of cargo apply to PATIKBSON k STOCK, May 22_South Atlantic Wharf. FUR li I VE It FOL) Ii. TBE Al BRITISH BABB DALKEITH, V CHIRLES H. ANDEBSON Vaster, naring a ?large portion ot her cargo on board, viii .meet with dispatch. For Freight engagements apply to B. MUHE k CO.. May 19 _Boyce's Wharf. EXCURSIONS! EXCURSIONS! TBE FINE FAST BAILING YACHT 'ELLA ANNA, tbs Champion of Ute South, sis now ready and preparad to make regalar ?Hips, thus affording an opportunity to all who may wish to visit points of interest in our basa? nt ul barb or. For passage, apply to the Captain on Union Wharf._imo_May IB EXCURSIONS AROUND THE HARBOR. THE FINE, FAST SAILING AND OOM? *FOBTABLY appointed Yacht ELEANOR kwlll resume har trips to historic pointa lit ?the tarbor, and will leard Government Wharf daily at Ten A. M. and Foar P. M. Foi Passage apply to THU M AH yourie}, December 18 Captain, on board. f. Itt IBW YORK,. REG ULAM LINE JFvERT WEDNBSDA T\ PASSAGE |30. THE STEAMSHIP SABAGOSSA, ' Captain 0. HYDES, will leave Van der - 'hom's whart, OD WKDBcanar, May r 20,1869 ai 7 o'clock A. M. May 20_BAVENBL > 00.. Agatttt. V KW VOR KL AN O CBABLBITOBT STEAMSHIP LINE. FOR N ? W YORK? CABIN PASSAGE $2?. TBE SPLENDID S IDE-'H'H EEL 'STEAMSHIP OHAMPION, B. W, LOCKWOOD Commander, wlB sail from Auger's oouth Wharf on FAT CETJAT, the 22d inst, at half-past 4. o'clock P.M.,. preciie'y. BW An extra charge of $5 nude for Tickets pur? chased on board after sailing, ny No Bilis of Lading signed after the steamer leaves. tar Through Bills Lading giren for Cotton to Boston and Prov;deuce, B. L &W Marine Insurance by this line >? per cont MW The Steamar* of tbla line ar? Ant class In every respect, and their Tables are m railed with aU the delicacies of the New York and Charleston mar? kata. For Freight or Passage, apply to JAMES A D?t h & 00.. Agents, Corner Adger*s Wharf and East Bay (Upstairs.) MW 'the MANHATTAN follows on SATURDAY, the 29th instant, at 9 o'clock A. M. May 17_6 PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMFY S y THE or O H El? i. TO CALIPOBNIA, CHINA AND JAPAN. CHANGE OF SAILING DATS! STEAM F P. S OF THE ABOVE line leave Pier No. 12, North Hirer, foot of Canal-street. New York, at -_ ll o'clock noon, of the 1st, 11th and ??1st ct every month (except when thew date? fait - on Sunday, then the Saturday preceding^. Departure of lat and '21st connect at Panama with steamers for South Pacific and Central American port?. Those of lat touch at Manzanillo. Departure of 11th ot each month connects with the new steam line from Panama to Australia and New Zealand. Steamship GREAT BEPUBLIO leaves San Francis? co for China and Japan July 3. 1860. No Ca Ufo mia steamers touch at Havana, bst go direct /rom New York to AspinwalL One hundred pounds baggage free to each adult. Medicine and attendance free. For Passage Tlckota or further Information avals at tb? COMPANY'S TICKET OFFICE, on the what? foot of Canal-street, North Biver, New York. March 12 lyr F. B. BABY, Agent, FOR SAVANNAH-INLAND ROUTE, VIA BEAUFORT AND HILTON HEAD. ' THROUGH TICKETS TO FLORIDA ON ANT) AFTER MAY 1ST * PASSAGES REDUCED. To Savannah.. .$3. To Beaufort. ...94. r ??ICJH the STKAMBb PILOT BOY, OAP JjgEggflGTAIN FETO PECK, will leave Accom moda?on Wharf every MOOTAI and THURSBAY MOBS. ruo at 8 o'clock Returning will lear o Savannah every TOSSOAT and FRITAY MOUSING at 8 o'clock. JOHN FERGUSON, April iw_Accommodation Wharf. FOR SAVANNAH. m .a-ff-?a? THE STEAMER DICTATOR, ?EtatSCCAPTAIN W. T. MCNELTY, w?l ?at (rom cha-le?ton for Savannah on SATOBDAT E"R KtSO, at 'J o'clock. nETrirsTito. "Viii leave Savannah'for Charleston on Sea JAY. TEHNOOS, ut 4 o'clock. For Freight or Passage, applv to April JD_J. 1). AIKEN k CO.. Agent*. KOK PALATKA, FLORIDA. VIA SAVANNAH, Ft BN ANDINA AND JA0K80N. VILLE. i- -J?dE-^?J*. TnE FTB&T-0A8S BIEAUE'l ??SBEMMSCDICTATOR, Captain WM T. McNx?> TY, will Ball from Charleston ever? Tut!Jay Eecnin ;, at Nine o'clock, tor tho above points. The first-class Steamer CITY POINT. Captain Gio, F. MCMILLAN will tail from Charleston every F.-i~ day Evening, at Nine o'clock, for above points. Connecting with the Central Railroad at Saranai h forMobUeand Now Orleans, and with tbs Flori? a Railroad at Fernandina for Cedar Keys, at wh!.-h point xie?mer? connect with New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola. Key West and Htvana. Through Bills Lading given for Freight to MobI.e, Pensacola and New Orleano. Connecting with H. 8, Hart's steamers Otlateaha and Griffin for Silver Springt and Lakee Griffin, Hus fit, Harris and Durham. All freight payable on the wharf. Goods not removed at sunset will be stored at ria and expense of owners. For Freight or Passage engagement, apply to J. D. AIKEN st CO., Agents, South Atlantic Wharf. N. E.-Ne extra charge for Meals and Staterooms. November 21 Shirts an?i /nrnisftmjj ?oo?s. SOOT x ? s " SHIRT EMPORIUM," THE ONLY EXCLUSIVE GENTLEMEN'S FUR MS HING STORE IN' CHARLESTON r.."CEIVED A NEW DTPLY OF THE CELEBRATED STAR SHIRT S AND COLLA W S, ALSO, ALL SIZES OP GBA.Y'3 PATENT MOULDED PAPEB COLLARS, Which arc offered at very Low Prices. MEETING-STREET, OPPOSITE MARKET HALL. CSLER THE STAR SHIRT SIGN. January 1 Cm08 fjrrfLLIS d? CHISOLM, FACTORS, COMMISSION MERCHANTS ANO SHIPPING AGENTS, Wn.L ATTEND TO THE PURCHA8E, 8ALB AND SHIPMENT (to Foreign and Domestic Ports) of COTTON, RICE, LUMBER AND NAVAL STO?ES, ATLANTIC WHARF. Charleston, 8. C. E. WILLIS.A. B. OHIBOLK October 25