Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Seto SIX DOLLARS PER ANNUM VOLUME VII.-NUMBER 1046 BY TELEGRAPH. NEWS PROX WASHINGTON. o . . m WASHINGTON, Anglist 2.-The public debt stat em eat abo wa a coin balance of sixty s x millions; coin certificates thirty-six and-a-ha f millions; currency balance twenty-three mil? lions; sinking fund twelve milit?os; bonds par chased htteen millions. The Mississippi editors of the Canton Mail, ? Taroo Banner Union Democrat and Grenada Sent mei have visited Dent with assurances of ?apport. A delegation from Norfolk, Va., beaded by the member of Congress from that district, ia at the Navy Department urging the removal of Conservati vee from the Nary Tard. - Th) Commissioner of Agriculture bas ad? vice? of the appearance of caterpillars on the .ea island plantation?. Among Clapp's apprentices in the govern? ment printing office are two colored persons. Three spurious legal tender notes were taken tl the United States Treasury yesterday. ^There ia no safety in receiving greenback $10 . not?e. This does not apply to National Bank tens._ FROM NSW ORLEANS. tans OK ras-SCH OOHES ams. Nsw ORLEANS, An groat 2.-The ship Pauline David, from Liverpool, took fire near this place this morning. Vessels went to her assistance and pumped water into her. The ahip is slightly, the cargo considerably damaged, chiefly by water. The Mexican bark Non Inter vento has brought here the captain and crew of the schooner Zervea S terrell. -They were picked np in a loo g" boat twenty-three miles off South? west Pass. The captain reports that on the ' SH ot Joly, while in latitude 28, longitude 86, tod on the way from Trididad to Tobasco, the schooner sprung aleak, and sunk shortly after. _ THE WAM IN CUBA. .j HAVANA, July 31.-OQ Wednesday five thou? sand negro insurgents, attacked Puerto Prin? cipe and rained the city. Four hundrad Span? ish troops attacked them, and after a severe . struggle the insurgents re tir ed in good order, having captured sad destroyed provisions val? ued ?t fifty thousand dollars. The Spaniards kat eleven killed, and the insurgente left thirty-four wounded ip the town. A patriot detachment, while destroying the fortified plantations, defeated the Spaniards nuder Colonel Camard, wounding him and compell? ing a retreat. The negro raid on Puerto Prin? cipe enabled many Cubana to escape from the Spaniards. Captured correspondence haa led to further confiscation. More troops are de? manded for the interior, where the insurgent* are increasing m numbers and activity. EUROPE. ? DOH GABLOS HEITRES OUT OT SPAT?. PABIS, August 2.-The Evening Moniteur has information thai Don Ca?oa bas re-enter? ed France, and General Prim is about to leave Madrid on a trip to Vichy for his health. This statement of the Moniteur is generally cred ' i ted, ?nd is regarded as a "proof that the Car list movement is ended. MADBTO, August L-The Carlist forces in La ' Mancha besame disorganised, and have disap? peared from tho province. The party in Leon is hemmed in by troops wi h no chance of escape. A floating bath-house at Valencia suddenly .ask to-day, and many persons within the s true ture werecarried down and drowned. ..-.-. si rn m i., t: MT ARKS PROM THE WIRES. The recent rains have caused ran in the cot? ton about Augusta. The Coban Junto at New York have advices that Jordan- bad captured General LsTorre, after routing his forces. The leader of s gang ol horse thieves, which killed the sheriff, was bahs; st Pekin, Illinois, yesterday- 10 the final straggle the auder amt several of the lynchers, one fatally. THE OCUMEEI?JJL COUNCIL. Proposition to Unite Che Greek ?nd Catholic Cfcwreliee. 5 as* ., m It ia currently reported in Catholic circles, ?sys the New York Son, that s proposition is to be made before the coining O:umeoicsl coun? cil to unite the Greek and Catholic Churches, on the ground that they are one in doctrine, and that their disciplinary d fineness can be reconciled by means of mutual concessions. It is well known among theologians that the principal obstacles to ?the union of these' churches were in relation to the filioque in the creed or the procession of the Holy Spirit from tbe first and second Persons of the Blessed Trinity and to the tapremaoy of the Pope; bat in all else, the two churches are one in doc? trine ?ad usages*, A QtrdioM #11 publish the distinctive peculiarities of the Greek Church' before the ConnciL Should this union be * effected, Catholicity will suddenly ?receive an accession ot sixty misions of converts. TEE OCEAN BANK BOBBERY. The Borgia.ra negotiating for the Re? tara of their Plunder. Ntorly all the valuable securities stolen from the Ocean Bank in the recent daring and skil? ful raid upon that institution have been re? covered by the bank in one way or another, and still the adroit operators remain at large wa t ch? ing their opportunity to repeat the operation in some other quarter. Among the securities taken by the burglars and not yet recovered are $50,000 in bonds of tbs Portage Lake and Lake Superior Shi p Canal Companv. These bonds are secured by a lien upon 300,000 acree of ohoice mineral lands on the upper peninsula of Michigan, and are in all respects a first -class security, a fact which the enterprising burglars seomjolly to appreciate. .A short time ago the pr?sidant of the bank, Mr. D. R. Martin, received a communication from the pr?sent holders of these bonds, transmitted m a mysterious manner, asking what would be given for the return of the bonds. The president returned an answer that he would give $2000 for. them. To this be ba s received S reply, couched in the moat business hke termeT in which the burglars or their ruts express their surprise at the estimate bank puts upon these particular securities. The writer says the discount proposed is al? together too great tor bands so amply secured ?a are these, and gives the assurance that, while the holders are willing to treat liberally with the bank officials, they are not prepared to submit to the great sacrifice proposed. Tbis communication ts altogether one of the coolest gieoes of impudence one nuets with in a lde -A Mrs. Caroline Hamlin, of Twenty-sixth street, New York, was severely burned on ThBSday night by the explosion of a kerosene lamp which she was lighting. Her husband and a child were also burned, bnt not badly. Hrs, Hamlin, it is feared, ia fatally injured. FROM TBE STATE CAPITAL. The Chinese- Agricultural Pair-A, Tar. dr Treasurer-Peaches- Floods in Tex as-Insurance JLaws-Union League Meetings. [FEOM OCR OWN COBBE8P0KDENT.] COLUMBIA, August 2.-While oar people are making diligent inquines concerning the get ting ot Chinese law, tbe West is going more immediately to work at it. A gentleman just from the Bed River reg?n informs me that he is one of a society who already have an agent with fonds gone to engage Chinese laborers for their farms. The question of the expe? diency of importing this labor, he represents, bas been settled in the minds of those south? wester planters for some months. THE AGRICULTURAL F ALB. The fair grounds have been selected, and an architect and designer is busy getting np a plan of the building neceasary. Mean while tho clerk of the city conseil is advertising for pro? posals, although these cannot be matured until the plan has been fully determined on. THE STATE TREAS CR V. While Messrs. Eimpton, Scott <fc Co., through the services of Attorney-General Chamberlain, keep the Mew York Times lively with accounts of the prosperous condition of our State finan? ces, there seems to be some sluggishness felt here in Columbia io the subordinate details of the firm. A gentleman resident in New York City, who owns taxable property in this city, sent to a friend here some State bonds, with the interest on which (doe on tbe first of July) he wished his taxes to be paid. Tbe friend pre? set ted tbe bonds promptly at the office ot Treasurer Parker on the first of July. The treasurer did not pay tbe interest, bot explain? ed that the only difficulty in the matter waa that the books were not ready, but that tbey would be ready by the 15th of Joly. On the 17th the friend called again at the treasurer's office, and again met s refusal. The clerk, however, explained that the books were not yet written ap, and appointed the first of August as the time when all things would be ready. Bat tn this case there is a special hardship, for on the first ot August the tax-books are co jed, and delinquents are mulcted twenty-five percent, opon their tax?s. Accordingly, this gentleman in New York is subjected, by this de? lay of tbe treasurer, to an addition of twenty five per cent, upon his taxes. Does any one who sees daily the crowds of retainers and un? derlings of all kinds that feed about tboso offi? cial quarters for a moment imagine that-the treasurer is unible to command an adequate corps of clerks? Hardly. Another gentleman, spending the season at Flat Bock, came down to Coin-jbia to get. this interest duo on State bonds, it being his means of subsistence, and after incurring the expenses of travel and stay for some days, had to go back unpaid, because the treasurer's books were not yet written ap. It ia evident that Kimpton-"the yoong min of much* ability and promise," who operates so handsomely in New Yoi k-is mach needed here in Columbia again. "The rock of the national resources'' needs smiting by bia hand-*at least a tap or two-j oaf now. lt is rumor, d that this Treasurer Parker was aa expert financier in Massachusetts, be? fore he came "down S JU tb." May be thia en? ervating climate is chargab:e with this hebe? tude aod want of promptness in this self-sacri? ficing pub:ic servant, who bas como so far away from "hum" for the sole purpose of serving "our dear Carolina." IT?X3. A gentleman from the Piedmont region of our State-Auder ?bn Coa o ty-informs ma that they have no peaches this year. This utter destruction of peaches extends southward as far down as nearly to Greenwood. It is the same, probably, in the entire Piedmont belt of country running through Anderson, Pickens, Oo mee, Greenville ands corner of Spar tan burg counties. Apples are first-rate in the same region. Private letters from the ? flood regions of Texas, in the southeastern section, represent the destrootion of Ailerons, fences sod houses as utter along several of the rivers for about three miles on both aides. This is true of the Guadalupe, San Marcos, Ban Antonio and the tribararies of the Nueces; while the Colorado and Brazos, both large streams, have had high-water marks that the earliest pioneers never knew reached before. Along most of the streams Arel mentioned there is not a stalk of corn left in any of the bottom lands; and these bottoms extend from one to three miles on the western sides of the streams. The eastern sides are less level, and present cliffs ai some points. A letter from Some of our emigrants to Cali? fornia frivee the curious fact that the great body of the people there seem to be only resi? dent there, and look forward to some future day when they will return home. The establishment of an agency of the Pied? mont LiTe Insurance Com.?any in Columbia, mentioned last week, will increase the num? ber of insurance agencies in the State, and every agent has ta pay oat of the rands of ? tbe company he represents tbe sum of five dollars every year to the comptroller-general "for bis own use." The'office of comptroller-general is held by J. L. Neagle, a prominent leader of the Republican party ands graduate of Da? vidson College. The Union League .meeta every fortnight at this slack season. ?. CORSAIR. THE HARPERS. How they Built np their Business Squelching the small Pry. The New York correspondent of the Boston Gazette writes of the Harpers : Their invariable rule has been this : Those foreign authors that we reprint nob xiv else shall reprint; if any one does, we will kill their edition by selling ours below cost. So reso? lutely have they followed this plan that every publisher who bas crossed their path has had cause to repent his temerity, and others who would have been glad to throw down the gaunt? let to Ibem, have wisely let "I dare not wait opon I would." The policy pursued by the Harpers has seemed harsh, bot probably under any other plan, with their long and Y a lu able list of English authors, every unfledged pub? lisher would bave a pickiog in tbeir pre? serves. A history of the different warfares in which they have b2en engaged would re? veal not a few interesting facts in literary history. Their large capital has for mary years en? abled them to be indiffjrent whether special issues were profitable or not, and they would unhesitatingly throw away large sums, if ne? cessary, to kill oil a rival's book. Toe most interesting and lively of all tbeir contests wa? that with Winchester some twenty years ago. Winchester WSB ruined in the end, but for a long time he made a plucky fight. Tb is was in the height of our cheap novel mania, wben bulwer, James, Mrs. Gray, Miss Picker? ing, and other popular novelists were turning off fiction by steam. Every steamer brought over a batch of English novels, and som times in less than thirty hours, both the Harpers and Winchester would have editions in the market-the one that was two hours ahead getting tb.3 oream of the sale. Newsboys m those times used to dash through the streets with a new novel just as they did during the war with a war "extra," and people bought the books in almost as high an excitement. Tbe moment a copy of a new novel by Bul .ver or James was received, it was hurried into the composing room, the doors locked, and not a soul allowed to leave the premises until tbe book was printed and ieady for the dealers. Those were spicy times in the book-world. ABOUT HEfTSPAI'ERS^ Tnelr Cpa and Downs In the City of New . York. The Journal of Commerce, dwelling- OD the fact that during the post thir;y-five ^eara no less than fiftj.five daily papen have been started in the City of New York, lived for a short time, and then died for nant of adequate support, after having sunk millions of dollars, moralizes in thia instructive vein: The reasons why not more than one ont ot (Say) fifty duly newspapers succeed are not generally understood. If they were, in? stances would be fewer of the sinking of for? tunes in the unavailing attempt to found a daily-a waste of money aa literal and com plete as if the owner had burned it in his par? lor grate. ' Tho first ?Ddgreit98t difficulties is the want of sufficient means. Upon this point, which has been freq nen tly elucidated,, we will barely touch. To run a first-class daily (and only Buch Stauda the least chance of surviving in the atrasrele tor existence) costs not far from $1000 a day, even with a moderate circulation. This rate of expenditure takes frightful daily bites out ot the capital, and, uoteBS the pro? jector has the purse of a Stewart, Astor or Vanderbilt, he cannot stand the inroad upon his funds for many months or ireekeTor days. Among professional newspaper men in thia city, the c sh ia hand required to giv_- a fit st? ell?? newspaper a chance ol' iife, is estimated at from a half to three-quarters of a million. Its failure, without auch a sum at its back -which it ia prepared to invest boldly and sagaciously-is certain. Its success after all the money has been spent in the wisest and most judicious manner, is still hi ?rhiy problematical. Uniese all the circum? stances favor the undertaking-if there ia a weakness or want of tact developed at any stage of it-no amount of money can put a now d.iilv paper in profitable operation in this city. The failing newspapers are usually brought up with around turn before many tens of thousands have been sunk. The backers become alarmed-and back out. If the new concern is a stock company, the subscribers lo shares pay but one or two bf the assessments, and then forfeit what they have invested rather than lose more. Only iu a few cases are men so lucky-or perhaps we abo ..ld say BO foolish -is to go on wasting a real half million, be? fore abandoning their ill-advised newspaper scheme. Discouragement and disgust com? monly supervene by the time that $50,000 or i $100,000 have vanished in the yawning gulf, j Tbe editor then goes on to show that the newspaper business diff?ra from moat others I in the fact that when unoe fairly established it can bo indefinitely extended, with no risk and but little extra trouble, and adds : A newspaper with machinery for printing 20.000. 30,000 or 50 000 copies can throw off 100,000 or 150 000 with but a few horns more work. The newspapers now existing cad sup? pl v the widest demands for their issues. They represent every variety ol public opinion and interest; no p rson has the least difficulty D obtaining a newspaper that meets his views and suits his special want. If no journal could possibly print more than 5000,10 000 or 15.000 copies, then tU9 supply would fall abort of the demand, and there would be room for other papers filling exactly the samo fields as those already established. The lightning presses cf New York newspaper offices could, arnon? them, supply at least one paper a day to every adult who con read io the United States. In the dry goods, grocery, boot and SHOO, hat and cap, drug and other lines of business, where articles dealt in are heavy aud bulky, no ten or a dozen men in one city, unless they have acres of buildings and armies of clerks, could supply the enormous demand for thos3 goods. The extension of their busi? ness is attended at every step by immeose ex penses and new risks, which are not incurred in the enlargement of the circulation of a news? paper that is once well founded. Ten or a d- sen papers can furnish the public with read? ing matter just as speedily as a hundred could do it, aud at a cheaper i dr e. * Toe promising fields of first-class daily newspapers being already occupied, now new journals can command a great success, except trv taking away sub-.crtuers from other papen, luis is a very difficult tbiag to do. lt never can be done except in cases where the paper to be supplanted wantonly and persistently ne? glects the i unrest a or abuses the confidence of its subscribers. So long as it pursues a just, honorab e and judicious course, meeting the wants of its customers in all or most respecte, tho ties of friendship between the subscribers and the paper are as hard to break by any ou ts ido third party as the links which bind old friends tn business or social life. Occasional defects and error?, if such there bo, in a newspaper, aro overlooked by those who have become attached to it through its daily perusal for yeats. They may sometimes become dissatisfied with it on account of something whick has slipped iuto its columns, and may atop taking it; but the absence of the familiar sheet at their house or office for a few days becomes an insupportable deprivation, and they hasten to take it again, and possibly to apologize for having stopped it. This we believe to be a common experi? ence in the history of all established newe pipers. No friendship on earth is more con? stant than thaftontracted by the reader for a journal which makes an hongst and earnest effort to merit bis continued support. HEAVY EXPRESS ROBBERY. The Augusta Chronicle brings us the parti? culars of a heavy robbery, which occurred in Georgia a few days ago, and of which the Southern Express Company has been the vic? tim. The booty captured on the occasion was considerable, the thieves getting four thous? and nine hundred dollars in currency. The facts of the case are as follows: There is in the employ of the Southern Ex dress Company a young gentleman, a resident of this county, and of the best family, Ur. But? ler B. Mays, who had a situation as messenger, and rao in that capacity ou the Central Rail? road, between Savannah and Macon. A few nights since he left the company's office in Sa? vanna") lo go to Macon, receipting for and tak? ing on board ot his car with him a quantity of Express freight, and-one of the iron chests in which the money forwarded by the com? pany is usually "tmraported. Entering his oar with the money all riebt, the train left Savannah for Macon. On the portion of the line between tiavanmh and Mil? len, we understand that Mr. Mays wont to sleep, leaving hts money and freight all rieht. Ou arriving at Millen be awoke and found a a pickage containing four thousand nine hun? dred dollars bad been stolen from hie posses? sion while be slumbered. Not knowing what else to do, the horrified messenger immediate? ly returned to Savannah and reported the loss to his superior officers. We are informed thal Superintendent Dempsey and General Superin? tendent O'Brien were fortunately in Savannah at the time, and at once took tho matter in h ind and endeavored to ferret out the robber or robb si s. Up to this time, however, their efforts in that direction have been of no avail, and tho affair -till remains enshrouded in mystery. Mr. Mays came this city a day or two since and waa closely examined by both the officers ot the Expreas Com? pany and the chief of police; but WH8 unable to give any information by which a ciuo to the guilty parties could bo ob tained; but wo are glad to bear that no crimi? nality attaches itself to Mr. Mays. Turee men who were on the train at the time ate suspect? ed of being the guilty parties, but sufficient proof has not yet been collected to warrant their arrest. Oue of these men is said to have come to Augusta, and the police here are ou his track aud are busy endeavoring to get a clue by which he may be nabbed. Io Savan? nah thc police is also busily engaged in work? ing up tue case. The most reasonable hypo? thesis seems to be that these men followed Mr. Mays from havannah, where they had proba? bly seen him, and planned the robbery, and bad watched him on the train until he slept and then bagged the booty. -A good story comes from Rome. In pre? paration for the Ocumenical Council the Pope ordered from his architect certain embellish? ments, the plan of which waa brought for bia inspection by that gentleman's lit*-le boy. Charmed by the plan, the Pope opened a drawer full of gold, and said to the CLM, "lane a handful of coin as a reward for the beauty of your f ithcr's work." "Holy Father," replied the child, "take it out tor me; your hand ia bigger than mine." Pi us IX could, not help smiling, and obeyed the child. FOREIGN NOTES. -Along the oater boulevards of Paris steam cars are DOW running without rails ou maca? damized toad?. -A clock work apparatus, for working sew? ing machines, has just been devised in Ger? many, which will run for three hours wben wound up. -Tbo Czar is taking tba put af the young ladies, bless him. fie bas decreed that no pa? rent nb all compel his daughter to marr j agaiust her will. -London has an Anti-shoppiBg-on-Satur day-afternoon Association of fourteen hundred ladies of fashiou. Tbe object is to give tbe trade folks a half holiday. -Tne Jewish Theological Socioty, which con? sists of pome of the moat learned rabbis in Germany and Austria, in a late sitting at Bres? lau, resolved to prepare an encyclopaedia of the Talmud in order to facilitate the study of, that work. -Sea sickness bas been introduced upon the stage in a farce called "Tbe Chops of tbe Channel," now performing at the Strand Th??? tre, Lou lon. The intrigue ie conducted in the intervals between spasms of sickness, and the humor depends upon the lun to ba extracted by thc passengers from the doleful situation in which they are placed. -French and German students in training for professorships in public schools, it is -re? ported, will hereafter, by arrangement of the authorities, be transferred from educational establishments in the one country to similar Institutions in tbe other. White the Germana will finish their education chiefly with regard to French, at French seminaries, the young Frene!) students are to be al mit te J free of all expense to the benefits of German colleges for a certaio number of years. -Tba Viceroy of E?ypt has issued orders for the building of three now palaces-one at Sakarah, the ancient Necropolis, another at the base of the Pyramids, and the third at the Virgin's Tree. They must a.l bo finished by October for the reception of the expected royal g jests. The first is situated four leagues from Cairo, in the middle of the desert, in a waste cf sand, to which waler has already to be brought for the use of travellers, from the Nile, which is two hours' distant. The seo: nd will be built under the shadow of the tombs of j the ancient Pharaohs. -lt is announced that a committee of the Boyal Collego of Physicians of Lon:on, after ten years' labor, has pu .dished a revised medi? cal nomenclature. In the hst of diseases to j each English name is added on the opposite page tho corresponding; Latin designation, and the equivalent terms in tae French, the Ger? man and the Italian languages. The classifi? cation adopted ts ba'red mon the anatomical regions of the human body, and is so frame d as not to imply any doubtful t.eories. It is to be hoped this work will be fully adopted for use in the United States. -The King of Prussia has done a wise and right soldierly thing in ordering that the anni? versary of Sadowa shall not any more be cele? brated. The gallant Greeks had a law which , forbade them to raise a trophy. They bad so many fights among themsel /ea that they felt a trophy-raising would make the growth of ami? cable feeling impossible. King William has learned that beautiful Greek Icsuon, and says, in fact, that he does desire to hurt tb e feel? ings of any German people - a sentimen t'that does him more honor than be could have from ten Sadowas or countless needle-guns. -In 1864 a n?w mineral was discovered in Nassau, which was particular.y rich in phos? phate of lime. As the great value of this sub? stance lu agriculture was immediately recog? nized, ebafes were at once sunk in the Lahn and Dilk districts, where the "phosphorite," as it baa bet n called, exists in thick layers. In this way a new branch of industry baa arisen in that part of the country, and an entire pop? ulation of miners, carters, Ac., hare been es? tablished in the most favorable apota for ob? taining the phosphorite by a?rerai competing companies. The mineral is bought by manu? facturing chomistSr'Who make from it a favor ite manure known aa superphosphate of lime. -Some curious devices ware resorted to at H. Oppenheim^ ball, (the splendor of wh ich is still tbe talk of Paris,) to amase the Vice? roy. New figures were invented for tho after suppor cotillion. Large sealed envelopes were distributed among the .ladies, ^uo opening them found grotesque heid dresses inside, with which they wore expected to crown their part* ners. Crackers containing pieces of fancy costume were also pulled between the figures of one of the dances, and the gentlemen bad to wear the finery which fell to their share. In what was called the steeple chase dance, the ladies reoeived fans bearing the narnia of well known race horses, ana the gentlemen cards similarly inscribed. At a signal the music struck dp, and each gentleman ' hastened to discover the lady on whose fan was written the same name a-t on his card. Another fantastic novelty was the distribution of hoops among the gentlemen, one to each six. Tue six ad? vanced to a lady, carrying their hoop between them, and on touching a sprigg it suddenly imprisoned the one destined to be the lady's partner. Both the Oriental visitors and the native visitors are said to have been mao h amused by these performances. DEATH OF A RAILWAY KING. ills Career-What Energy Can Do. The New York Evening Post of Saturday says : The death of Henry Keep, fie railway king, will be geuerally regretted. His integrity, manly qualities, and sagacity as a man ol bu? siness, Dad won tor him a popularity and gen? eral esteem which is not commonly enjoyed by our railroad financiers. He was not a mere adventu: cr, lo dazzle by his daring operations, but a mau who labored assiduously and faith? fully tor the beueflt of those with whom ho was associated. Henry Keep vas born at Adams, New York/ on the 22J of June. 1818. The exact place is not absolutely aetertnme1. His mother died in bis miaue v; of his father, little is known. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to Joseph Gnmmonds, and lived with him five years. But he a/as not contented in this home. He ran away at the age ot seventeen, and was duly advertised in the Sackett's Harbor North American; and "all persona were forbid trust? ing bim." ? Young Keep went to Bochester and engaged as a driver on the Erie Cana'. Winter setting in, he sought and obtained employment as a teamster for /olin G. teller, of Bochester. He soon conceived the idea ol speculating, and beginning with the investments of small amounts, was not many years m acquiring a snug little competence. He becam-j an ex? change broker at nineteen; and after the pas? sage of the General Banking law. established in turn the Bink ot Potsdam, the Union Bink, Henry Keep's Bank and several others. About fifteen years ago he became a resident ot this city. Mr. Keep soon became a "power" in Wall street. He began to operate io railroad stotts, and finally became identified with several rail? way lines, iinprov dent management had entailed disaster on many of the road*. Mr. Keep set himseir to their improvem-nr. The Cleveland and Toledo Bailroad was impover? ished, and its stock was selling at sixteen per cent. He obtained contre! ot it at.d became its president. Its shares arose to pur in a short time. Ho next undertook the Michigan Southern Railroad, which was about to pass into the hands oF receivers, fte shares were quot-d at five per cent. His administiation soon raised the valne to seventy-seven, and the road at the samo time was made one of the best equipped in the country. Several other lines W?re beneficed by his operations m like manner. Last year a silver service, prepared by Brown A; Spaulding, was presented to bim; and on the pitcher was in? scribed a h:Btory of these occurrences. Ic 1857 Mr Keep and another capitalist pur? chased the Brick Church property, where the Tines building now stands. The price was considered extravagant at the time; but tho rc Bult abundantly justified the enterprise. In 1866 Dean Richmond died, and the famous contest to ^k place for the control of tho New York Central Railroad. Mr. Keep was elected president on the 12th of December. He made an unsuccessful endeavor to procure legisla? tion m behalf of the company, the bill being defeated bv tbe v9to of Governor Fenton. A question of veracity between Mr. Keep and tbe governor bas never been determined; Mr. Keep and his friends always persisted in accusing the governor of perfidy aud falsification ot bis word. They assert that he declared unofficial? ly his approval ot the bill which parsed the Legislature, and intimated that be would sura it when it roached him. The result of tbis quarrel was tho overthrow of the Republicans in tbe S'ate. Mr. Keep shortly afterward resigned the presidency, and was succeeded by Mr. H. H. Baxter. A few mouths later he was elected president of the chicago and Northwestern Railroad The same prospcirtv which attend ed other railway corporations under his con? trol, followed lu th rs instance. Mr. Keep as a financier is entitled to high appreciation. Boru in tho most abject pover? ty, be made himself rich, but not by over? reaching or extortion. Vigilance, intelligent energy and sagacity, DOI often paralleled, characterized his, operations. He was reticent, but gentleman!?; bc never violated his word; he was straightforward, and sustained a high character for integrity. His hi alta failed under bis incessant labors, and for many month* he has been uuablo to do business. His complaint was heart disease. HQ failed gradually till at six last night, when death closed th* scene. ^Harrte). PENDARVls - LYNCH.-On Tuesday evening, July 27. 1819, by f e Rev. C. 0. PINCKXE?. Mr. J. T. PKNDABVIs, of Kum merv ile, to Miss \. C. LYNCH, voungeat daughter ot Mr. F. C. LYNCH, of thia city. No card s. . (fl b ii ii ? nj. FRASER.- Died at Aiken, on the SOtb of July, HENRY WILLUM, Infant son or Dr. and Urn. HENHY r>. I H? tu. a Spf rial notices. MW AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF UNION STAB FIRE ENGINE COMPANY, tbe fol? io win? Officers were elected to servo for the ensuing year: W. H MiaBaw. President; A. MOCOT, Vice Presiden'; Wu. HAMILTON, Ftrtt Director; A. KIN? LOCH Second Director; ALEX. MOTT, Third Direc? tor; TITUS JILLIABB, Fourth Director; ELISHA LE? TT, Secretary; HABCH Erv SHS, Treasurer; J. DAVIS, Tm-tee; LEWIS BBJWN, Fit st Ai man; J. GIBBS, Second Arman. 1* August 3 WlHE NEATEST, THE QUICKEST AND THE CHEAPEST.-Twx NEWS J08 OFFICE, No. 148 EAST BAY, having replenished ita Stock with a new and larne assortment ot material of the finest quality and latee t styles, ls prepared to execute, at the shortest notice and In the beat manner, JOB PRINTING of every description. Call and examine tbs scale of Brices before giving your orders elsewhere. ?W DANIEL RAVENEL, PRESIDENT, AND OTHERS, DIRECTOR3, va. THE PLANTERS AND MECHANICS' BANE A VD OTHEBS, CLAIM? ANTS THEREON-TN EQUITY.-THE PLANTERS' AND MECHANICS' BANE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, CHARLESTON, JULY 21,1869 -The President and Director* of th's Bank, in obedience to the decree in the abevo cause, made by bia Honor Judge CAR? PENTER, on the 16th Ju'y inf t?nt, do hereby call upon the Stockholders to attend a meeting at the Bank, on TBUBSDAT, the 12th day of Auguat, at 12 o'clock noon, to consider and take such action as they may choose upo J tba report which is to be laid before them. Ibo Stockholders are alao notifie 1 that if they fail to organic? a meeting, the duty will then devolve upon the Board of Directors to determine whether to win i up the said Bink or to apply to the Gover? nor and Comptroller-General for the benefit of the Act of^the Legislature of the 12tb March. 1869, enti? tled "An Act to enable the Bm ks of this State to re? new business or to place them In liquidation. W. E. HASKELL, Cashier. FORM OT PROXY. CHAKLE8TOS, S. C. , ---- 1869. I hereby appoint ----- tor me and ia my name, io vote on the bharea I hold in the Plantera' and Mechanics' Bank of South Carolina, at the meeting of the Stockholders, to be held on the 12th day of-August. 1869, and at all subsequent meet? ings of the Stockholders of said Bank, until revoca? tion hereof. - - Jury 22_8 tntbi-8 ay MARENGO.-F EVER AND AGUE CURE, TONIO, FEVER PBEVKNTTVE.-This val? uable preparation has been in private uss for many years, and through the persuasion of friends, who have u ed it with tbe most beneficial resalta, the proprietor has been induced to offer it to the pub? lic. It ls warr meed to cure CHILLS AND FEVER of howevet long standing, removing the cause and entirely eradicating its effecta from the system. It will PURIFY THE BLOOD, strengthen the diges? tive organs, induce an appetite, and r?stete the patient to perfect health. It ts a purely VEGETABLE preparation, und so harmless that children of all ages may take it with safety. As a tonic MAKENGO ha- no superior, and for debility arising from the effects of fever, or from other cause, is invaluable. A few doses is sufficient to satisfy the most in? credulous sufferer of its virtue and worth. All who try one bottle of MARENGO will be so much pleased with its effect, that they will readily en? dorse it, NO HUMBUG. For evidence ol its effi? cacy and value, refer to MARENGO circulars, which contain certificates of well known and respectable citizen?. MARENGO is a genuine Southern preparation, the proprietor and manufacturer being a native and resident of Charleston, and it is fully guaranteed to give complete and universal satlsfacJon. NO HUMBUG. TRY ir. For sale by all Druggist?, and bs DOWIE A MOISE, coiner Meeting and Hasel streets; GOOD? RICH, WISEMAN 4 CO., Hiyue-street, and G. J. LCHN, Druggist, Agent of Proprietor, corner of Eing and John streets, Charleston, d. C. H June 8 nae Smos mW ' FRESH AS A MAIDEN'S BLUSH" Is the pure peachy Complexion which follows the se of HAGAN'S MAGNOLIA BALM. It is the True Secret of Beauty. Fashionable Ladies in So? ciety understand this. The MAGNOLIA BALM changes tbs rustic Coun? try Girl into a City Belle more rapidly than any other one thing. Reines-?, Sunburn, Tan, Freckles, Blot -he3 sud all effects of the Sommer Sun disappear wben it U ured, and a genial, cultivated, fresh expression is obtained, which rivals the Bloom of Youth. Beauty la poss!, ble to all who will invest Btv >nty-five cents at any respectable store and insist on getting the MAGNO? LIA BALM. Use no'hing but Lyon's Kitbairon to dress th? Hair. DAC mwflmo July 26 *J3-BATCHELORS HAIR DYE.-THIS splendid Hair Dye ls tbe best la-the world; tbe only true and perfect Dye; harmless, reliable, instants' neou=; no disappointment; no lidiculous tints; rem? ?di?e the ill effects of bad dves; invigorates and leaves tb? bair soft and beautiful black or bro?n, Sold ly all Druggiataand Perfumers; and properly applied at Batchelor'* Wig Factory, No. - ^Jond. street, New York, ly* May IS PRINTING. THE NEWS JOB OFFICE, No. 149 Eut Bay, Executes all Und? of PIAIS and F A NCI PAIN UNG with neatness and dispatch. The beat work guaranteed at less than New York prices. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION JOB WORK, BRIEFS, PAMPHLETS, POLICIE9 CARDS, CIRCULARS, NOTE3 BILL-HEADS, POSTtBS, RECETEIS CATALOGUES, BANK-CHECKS 8HOW-CARD3, PROGRAMMES TICKETS, DRUG LABELS, ?c., 4c. AB WELL A4 LAW BLANKS of every description. Printed at the sborteet notice, and cheap for cash, at THE NEWS JOB OFFICE. THEATRE M AN AO EUS, TRAVELLING SHOWMEN, RAILROAD AGENTS. HOTEL KEEPERS, STEAMBOAT AGENTS. And all those who have JOB PRINTING to do, will find it to their interest to call at a THE NEWS JOB OFFICE, No. 149 East Bay. A large and well assorted stock ef PAPEBS ?nd MATERIAL kept on hand, from which selections may be made. OUR FRIENDS IN THE COUNTRY may send their orders to THE NEWS JOB OFFICE, And rely upon their receiving the same attention and being filled as promptly and as eheaply as if given personally. Oar Job Department is in charge of Mr. JAS. D. PARRY, a practical and ex? perienced Job Printer, who win affoid every facility poabtble in the execution of orders, Address THE NEWS JOB OFFICE, No. 149 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. Prags, (Cijem?rals, Ctr. JjERG'S UNIVERSAL RUSSIAN 1 ' HEALING SALTE. THIS VALUABLE BEMEDY HAS EFFECTED innumerable eurea, and bar gained for itself a great reputation. 1 he discoverer of this Salve has applied ltwith eminent succets in thousands of cases dur? ing the Crimean War, and has cured dangerous wounds, in manv casrs considered mortal. MB. E. BEBG is the soie possessor of the valuable secret of making this halve; from bis experience In using it in Europe and the success attending its ap? plication there, he has been iuduced to introduce lt into the United States. IT RELIEVES PAIN 1 Tho-e ?ho have Wounds, Bruises, Cuts of all kinds, or Sores, Felona, Scratches. Musquito Bites. Frost Bitten Joints, Sore Libs, Chilblains. Children's Scorbutic complaints on Head and Face, are speedily cured. It has proved nf great advantage to ladles, and is peculiarly adapted for pattered breasts, ?ore legs, Atc, through confinement, and other causes It acts like magic In removing Boils, Pimples, and Cutaneous Diseases, and bas been successfully u-ed for Corns, Bunioas and Sore Throat, by apply? ing externally every evening before going to bed. For sale by all druggists. Price 25c, 53c, and Si per Jar. Office. No. 2C0 Bowery, N. Y. None genuine unless countersigned E. BERG'S UNIVERSAL RUS? SIAN BEALING SALVE, No. 260 Bowery. New York. stuth ly_July 3 I SON'S TOBACCO ANTIDOTE. Warranted to Renioye all Desire for Tobacco. It ls Psurely Vegetable and contains slothing Injurious. The following ia one of thousands of testimonial* that are daily received by the Manufacturer: RICHMOND, VA., November 98,186?. DEAB FIB-The "Tobacco Antidote" prepared bj you according to the receipt you have submitted tc me, and the Ingredients of which I have examined is purely vegetab e, entirely baimless, and contains nothing in the least injurious. It is not disagreeable to ike taste, and aa a home article, I hope you wil meet with ready sale for lt, and I believe that if tb? directions are lollowed, it will do all you claimed foi it JOHN DOVE, M. D. tfg- Price 50 cents per Baw. The usu il discoun to the Trade. ?S- For tale hy Dr. H. BAER, WHOLF8AXE AGENT FOR SOUTH CAROLINA. June 7 VESSELS WAHTKD TO LOAD FOB NEW FORE. BOSTON-. v PHILADELPHIA AND BiLTIMOBEr 7 Cargoes ready. Apply to ...? H F. BAEER A CO., I ugust a 2 Ko. 20 Cumberland-street. EXCURSIONS! EXCUHttlONS! THE FINE FA9T SAILING YACHT ELLA ANNA, tba Campion of tba Sonfh, , ls now ready and p\ " --'-rt onfltr 'trips, tbos afT>rdtnga? opyv..^MB who mar wish to visit points of interest in oar bean*. ti ru I harbor. For passage, apply to tbe Captain en Union Wharf. June 21 NEW YORK ANO CHARLESTON STEAMbiJlP LINE. POR N E W Y ORK. CABIN PASSAGE 120. TBE SPLENDID SIDE-WHEEL 'STEAMSHIP CHAMPION, B. W. LOCKWOOD, Commander, will sail from edger's txratb Wharf on ?JAT CREA Y, 7th August, at 6 o'clock P. M. AT1 An extra charge of $6 made for Tickets pur? chased on board siter sailing. 49* No Bilis of Lading signed after the ste .mer leaves. Through Bills La il cg given for Cotfjn to Boston and Providence. B. I. I hrougb Bills ol Lading given to Liverpool. AW Marine Insurance by tbis hoe >? per cent. 49* The Steam ?TB of this line am firs: class in every respect, and their Tables are (upoli*. with an the delicacies of the New Fork and Charl ston mar? kets. For Freight or Passsge, apply to JAME? ADGER A CO. Agenta, Corner Ad?e-** Wharf and East Bay Op-stairs.) 49- MANHATTAN to follow BAXJRDAX, 14th August, at ll o'clock, A. M, August 2 6 BALTIMORE AND C H A R L. E S TON STEAMSHIP COMPANY THE STEAMSHIP FALCON, 'Captain J D. HOB JET, will sail fer Bal ti m oie on TBXDAT, 6th of i august, at 5 o'clock P. M.,from Pier No. 1, Union Wharves. 49- Through Bills Lading signed -.br all clasaes of Freight tJ BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, WILMING? TON, DEL., WASHINGTON CITT, and the NORTH? WEST. For Freight orpassag?, apply to COURTENAY k TBENHOLM, August 2_8 Onion Wharvss. KOK PHILADELPHIA AAL? BOS ION. TEE STEAMSHIP J. W. EVER? YMAN, Ca?)tam W. H. SNYDEB, will 'have None All?nelo Wharf, on . SATURDAY August 7tb. at - o'clock. For Freight cr passage apply to JOHN A THEO. GETTY. August 2_ North Atlantic Wharf. FOR NEW I OR?. I HEG UL All LINE EVERY WEDNESDA Y. PASSAGE $20. * THE SPLENDID STEAMSHIP 'SARAGOSSA, Ca pt. in C. Rvs Ka, will leave Vandeihorst's Wbiri on . WRDSKSTJAI, 4th August, D6?, at half-past 1 o'clock P. M. July 80_RAVENED k CO.. Agents, PACIFIC MAIL BTKANSUIP COMP YB THBOCOH 11MI TO CALIFORNIA, CHINA AND JAPAN. CH A SOB OF SAILING DAT SI 8TEAMFB8 OF THE ABOY line leave Pier No. 42, North Blver. foot of Canal-street, New York, at 12 o'clock noon, of the 1st, 11th and list of every month (except when these dates tall sn Sunday, then the Saturday preceding]. Departure of 1st and 'Jlat connect at Panama with steamers for South Pacific and Central American perts. Those of 1st touch at Manzanillo. Departure of 11th ot each month connecta with tbs new steam line from Panama to Australia and New Zealand. Steamship OREGONIAN leaves San Francisco tor China and Japan Augujt 4, lt)6a. No California steamers toucn at Havana, but go direct from New York to AspinwalL One hundred pounds baggage free to each adnl', Medicine and attendance free. For Passsge Tickets or further Information avoir at the OOM PAN Y'S TICKET OFFICE, on the wharf foot of Cauel-street, North River, New York. March 12 lyr F. R. BABY, Agewt. Spf rio! lotta*. SfcTNo. 281 EAS I 81ST STREET, NEW TOBE.-DXAB EIB-For three weeks past I have been using your PLANTATION BITTERS. For more than four months past I have been, goffering from what my doctor said waa nervous jproebretton, being unable to endure hardly any physical or men? tal labor without great fatigue. But I had not used the Bitters a week berore I was conscious of their benefit ting me as nothing else had, and I have con? tinued to gain very rapidly since, till now I am able to be about my nanti household duties. To all who ere afflicted with general debility I can testify from, experience that the Bitters s re Invaluable. Yours, truly, MARGARET B. STONE MAAJTOUA WATZX_Superior to the heit imported German Cologne, and sold at half the price Augusta _tuths3 43-B0?SE THE SYSTEM-IT IS A SAD thing to pass through life only half alive. Yet there are thousands whose habitual oondltion ls one of langoor and debility. They complain of no specific disease ; they suffer no positive pain ; but they have no relish for anything which affords montai or sen? sual pleasure to their more robust and energetic fellow-beings. DJ nine caves ont often this abate of lassitude and torpor arises from a morbid stomach. Indigestion destroys the energy of both mir d and body. When the waste of nature ls not supplied by a due and regular assimilation of the food, every organ is starved, every function Interrupted. Now, what does common sense suggest under these circumstances of depression ? The system neecs rousing and strengthening; not merely for an hour or two, to sink afterward into a more pitiable condition than ever, (as it assuredly would do if an ordinary alcoh-altcslimu'ant were resorted to,) ont radically and permanent'?. How is this desirable object to bo accomplished? Thc answer to this question, founded on the unvary lng experiences of a quarter of a century, is easily given. Infuse new vigor into the digestive organs by a course of HOSTET TER'j 8IOMACH BITTERS. Do not wa te rime in administering temporary rem? edies, but wake the system up by recuperating the fountain-head of physical strength and energy, the great organ up m which all the other organs depend for their nurture and support. By the time that a doz -n doses ot the great vegete ble tonic and in vigoran t have b jen taken, the feeble frame of the dyspeptic will be jin lo feel its benign influence. Appetite will be created, ana with appe rite the capacity to digest what it craves. Persevere until tho cure is complete-until healthful blood, flt to bc tbe material ol flesh and muscle.bone and nerve, and brain, flows through the channels of circula? tion, instead of the watery pabulum with which they have heretofore been imperfectly nourished. July 31_?AC_t teg- B08ADALIS.-DB. LAWRENCE : MY son was terribly sfflicte f for a long time with Epi? lepsy or Fits. Be usually had from Ave to twenty a day. I tried the best medical skill without benefit. I then commenced giving him your BOS AD ALIS. After taking it a few week?, his fits began to de? crease in number until about four months ago, wh-n they stopped entirely. Bis general health has also been completely restored, and he is nowa jprigh t ind sprightly boy. I believe that, if he had not taken your Rosa dal is, ly this, time he would net have known cay from night. I have also used the Losadaiis in my family, and know li to have been used by my neighbors as a general health restorer, with tbe greatest success. Truly I can say that lt is a medicinr cf extraordinary merit I am, sir, your obedient servant, JAMES DAVIS. For sale by GOODRICH, WINBMAN k CO., Im porter.? of Drugs and Chemical.. Cherioit^ S. C. July 31_.*n>n3 49- ESSAYS FOB ?OUNG MEN.-ON THE Errors and Abuses Incident lo Youth and Early Mon. hood, with the humane view of treatment and cutt, tent by mail Iree of charge. Address HOW ABD AS? SOCIATION, Box P. Philadelphia, Pa. , May 22 ,na0*