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VOLUME X.-NUMBER 1465. CHARLESTON, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER I, 1870. S?X DOLLARS A YKAH. MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES. ITALY ENTHUSIASTIC. THE BRITISH CABINET CONSIDER? ING THE QUESTION OF INTER? VENTION. PARIS AROUSED-! H E PEOPLE AND TROOPS CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS. REJOICING OVERTHE CAPTURE OF STRASBOURG. English War Reports. LONDON, September 2S. The new Roman Government announces an appropriation of fifty million trancs, to defray the expenses of the inauguration of Rome as the capital ol Italy. The enthusiasm of the inhabitants is bound? less, and the pleblscitum is expected to be unanimous. The Pope will probably leave Rome as soon as the result is declared. The Parliament will meet on the 12th prox? imo, to ratUy the pleblscitum, and ou the ISth the King will make his entry into Rome and alight at the Quirinal. The British Cabinet met last Friday to con? sider the question of intervention. The Prussian corvette Bertha, aiter a pro? tracted engagement with three French fri? gates, was sunk in the Euxine. The Prussian troops In Poland have been re? inforced in consequence of the sympathy ol the Poles lor France. It ls reported that the Belgian militia have been recalled to the frontier. Advices (rom Tours represent that the peo? ple and troops In Paris are enthusiastic and confident, but impartial observers do not sup? port these statements. Troops are mustering in cities unoccupied by the Prussians, and large bodies are moving up from the south. The English Journals are filled with reports of military movements in different parts ol France. Pruitl&n War Reports. BERLIN, September 28. The Provincial Correspondence says that France vainly hopes to couvert defeat Into victory. Further carnage would, therelore, be vain and impious. T^ere ls great rejoicing throughout Germany over the capture of Strasbourg. GOLD AND BOND HARKET. LONDON, September 28-Evening. Consols 91 j. Bonds 90i. NEW YORK, September 28-Evening. Money abundant and supplied generally at 5, with., a little more demand late in the after? noon; no business at 4 per cent. Prime dis? counts 7a9. Gold opened dull at lSinl3?, dur- . lng the afternoon more active. Treasury sell-j lng only one million, was ma ie the basis for a slight buU movement. jUnder German aus? pices the price aivance l. Arter the brokers statements were made up the demand for cash gold revived, and considerable amounts were borrowed. Sixty-twos 12?; sixty-fours Itt-, sixty-fives ll j; sixes 11$, new lui; sevens and eights same; forties C}. Tennessees 02, new 60?; Virginias 65, new 63; Louisianas TO.j. new 6??; Levees 57*; eights 59; Alabamas 100; fives 20; Georgias 82; sevens 90; NorthCarollnas 50$. new 27; South Carolinas SO, new CC. CUBAN AFFAIRS. MADRID, September 28. The vomito is spreading at Barcelona, .and the people are leaving. Business is sus? pended. A practical nullification of Emancipation is demanded by Cuba. Writers quote advertise? ments from Havana journals of children for sale a&t contracts for slave labor, which ?3 a practical continuation of slavery, in violation of the express law ol the land. MAIL AND EXCISE CUSTOMS REGU? LATIONS. WASHINGTON, September 28. Pending the quarantine regulations at Gal? veston, letters for that place, or points in Texas supplied from there, should be sent via New York from (lie Eastern and Middle States, and via St. Loui3 for the Northwest. The Southern mail goes as usual via New Orleans and thence via Red River. The regulations for the transportation ot im? ported goods through the country, in bond, are nearly completed. FARRAGUT'S FUNERAL. NEW YORK, September 28. Admiral Farragut's' funeral will be the most imposing that has taken place since the death of Lincoln. The remains will oe borne to the Harlem depot by sailors who formerly served under ihe dead admiral. THE MISSOURI RADICALS. ST. LOUIS, September 28. Senator Drake, in the opening of the political campaign, charges the "bolting Republicans'' with a design to break up the party, and give the State to the Democrats. Ile said thai dis? franchisement was simply a question ol clem? ency and expediency. DEATH OF A LEGISLATOR. JACKSON. Miss., September 28. F. E. Franklin, speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, died to-day, near this city, ol disease of the liver. He was an officer in the Federal army, from Ohio, but te. sided in this State lor the past three years. A GREAT FIRE. ALBANY, N. Y., September 28. The works of the Washington Mowing Ma? chine Company were bumed this morning. ZEARKS FROM TUE WIRES. The question of Italian immunity will be sub? ject to the pleblscitum. The fir3t civil marriage celebrated in Austria took place at Vienna on the 16th. The bride? groom was a Journalist. The new iron-clad steamer Triumph was launched yesterday at London. The board for the revision of the Bible re? sumed its sessions in London.yesterday. There were fifteen deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans Tuesday. Among them was Rev. Father Michael Walsh. A OUR COLUMBIA ZETTER. The Oconee Land Swindle-That Con vtrsation with Scott-A Radical Failure. ;FSOM OCR OWN- CORRESPONDENT.] COLUMBIA, September 27. We have yet one point more-one word more-on that Oconee County land transac? tion, in which iii? Excellency Governor Scott figured so profitably to himself last May. For the present we will pass by the lands sold in Anderson and Pickens, and confine our attention to Oconee. The tracts in that county measured 1045 acres. 193 acres. 357 acres, 154 acres, and 2G1 acres. Your correspondent bas made specific inquiries about these lands, and can prove, by at least two witnesses, who have seen the lands included in these purchases, which lie on and near Poor Mountain, that the lands there are not worth more than fifty cents an acre. Now, I call upon the land commissioner to say if these ?ands were not sold to the State through that commission, under the manipu? lations of Governor Scott and John Cochran, finally in the name of John Cochran, at six dol? lars an acre-just twelve times as much as the lands are worth. Whether he is at liberty to say so or not, does not affec: the case. It is true. One of the parties who had a hand in that transfer of lands il can give his name) has been heard to state that he made a hundred per cent, on h's money. Scott, ol course, made no less than thar. Mr. Dunbar will hardly be willing to deny that he prepared the papers, so as to have the sale to the State male ia the single name of John Cochrau, instead of Scott, Cochran and others. Governor Scott will hardly deny that he at first offered to sell the lands in his own natue to a board of which he ls a member; and had he not been otherwise advised by Comptroller General Neagle and other lriends, he would have had a vote upon his own case. The glar? ing indelicacy, if aot indecency, ol such a course, was pointed out to him in time to save him from the Just odium of it; but is not the whole case just as plain as if he hail done so ? The conference held a few days ago between Governer Scott and Mr. Selbels, secretary of the executive committee of the Reform party, did not result in much, the main points hav? ing been reached through the Ballsier corres? pondence. After the insolent fiction of their Wealers (through the Organ) that the result of the conversation was a Reform document, those readers who srlll retain a particle of re? spect for that Organ may be surprised that the Reformers are not ia a great hurry to launch lorth the imaginary campalgu documeat ia cjuestlou. They are aot, however, and the documeat may not see the light for some lime yet-loager, doubtless, thaa 6ome of the Ring may wish. The proposed grand Republican rally in mass meeting in Newberry to-day was a feeble affair. Hitherto these meetings have been able to number sometimes a thousand, but from that they have dwindled down to three hundred the outside fi cure present to-day. Messrs. Ransier and chamberlain were there, and probably other speakers; but auditors were about one hundred and fifty meu and the same ^number of women. CORSAIR. A RO TAL ROW AZ ALLENDALE. T. J. MACKEY AND R. C. DELARGE TX A PECK OF TROUBLE. An Ignominious Baokdown. .FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.] ALLENDALE, September 22. Supposing a brief account of to-day's pro? ceedings will not be uninteresting to your readers, at least your Republican readers, I enter at once in m?dias res. By various no? tices lt was generally known that a number of Radical speakers would address the people of Allendale to-day. At 12 o'clock the meeting, numbering not more than one hundred col? ored and twenty whites, was orgauized by ap? pointing Mr. Clarence Brown, colored, to the chair. Major Delaney, colored, in a few well timed remarks, urged upon the colored people to be ordeny and to give to each speaker a respectful audience, remiuding them ot the good order and decorum that characterized the Reform meeting ac Barnwell Courthouse on yesterday. The first speaker announced was the im? maculate T. J. Mackey, who coinmeuce.l uv congratulating the freedmen of Barnwell on having' had their handcuffs broken off since lie last had the pleasure ol' visiting the county. His whole speech was one calculated to en? gender the bitterest feelings between the white and colored races. He saki if the Reform party succeeded.!heir manacles would again be riveted on the black man. Just here, a re? spectable gentleman asked the speaker if he conscientiously believed what he had asserted. He replied that he did believe lt, to a modified extent. He next proceeded to limo the claims of R. C. DeLarge for Congress. He said that C. C. Bowen had done not.iing since his election for the colored race, and therefore should not re? ceive the support ol the colored man. At this moment the chairman announced that the time allotted to the speaker had elapsed; but the .vniaculace" persisted and appealed lo his audience if he should proceed-a few yelling out. "Y?-3, go on.'- The chair agaiu Interrupt? ing him, he became very much enraged, using some very opprobrious epithets against Mr. Brown, the acting chairman. As soon as he yielded the stand, Mr. B. arose, and in a cairn, yet defiant manner, exclaimed, "You are a d-j-d son ol' a b-h !** At this juncture the Wildest scene of contusion ensued: pistols and knives were drawn in every direction, but the sreat Demosthenes drew neither pistol nor knife, but made tricks with all possible haste into the store, closing the door after bim, with the exclamation, "I don't wish to Ge shot :" This state of things lasted thirty minutes, when, throughjthe efforts of several prominent members ol the Reform party, together with a conciliatory speech from Major Delaney, the confusion sufficiently subsided to allow H?H. C. C. Bowen to answer the charges preferred by the the immaculate ex-alderman, lt is due to Mr. Bowen io say that he did not leare a scale on the poor affrighted Mackey. Major Delaney next addressed the meeting at some length, giving a great lUral ot good, whole- j sonie advice to his own race. I wi^h there were ?nore Delaneys in South Carolina. He spoke finally In the interest of DeLarge. Delargij, when called on. declined to speak. He was taunted w:th bains afraid to m.'et Bowen, whereupon be.jerked oil bis coat und threw it violently ou thed)or. Hi commenc? ed speaking in a* stentorian tone, lavishing his adulations ou lus friend, C. 'J. Bowen. He said he had RIWUVS been and still was a firm personal friend of Mr. B jwen. But, jns! here, a iReformcr cried oat; "You are an tufernal liar. You are not a friend ol' B >wcu, for 1 can prove by a dozon ceutleman "resent that you have ibis day made your boast, that ifs russ occurred hare, you would kill Bowen. ' I need only say, that Mr. Delarge became very "small." He subsided and left the stand with? out bis coat, and very soon after made his WJV to parts unknown to the usually quiet people of Allendale. Many of our more staid colored Deople are so disgusted with this Rulcal cala day, that they vow they never ag*in will be tonne! at a political mooting. When rogues fall ont, honest mea ge: their dues. REFORM. Dr. F. G. Goodbee, oi Burk County, Ga., was fatally stabbed Tuesday night by a colored man' who escape!. FALL OF STRASBOURG. THE GAZZA. XT VZRIC CAPITTT ZATES AT ZAST. RUSSIA MAKING READY FOR WAR. OMINOUS MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS ON THE TURKISH BORDER. AN ARMISTICE AT MEZIER?S. THE FRENCH CAPITAL REMOVED TO P?ICTIERS. A LONDON VIEW OF FRENCH HEROISM. MOVEMENTS OF THE GERMANS. PREPARATIONS FOR ASSAULTING PARIS. A NOVEL MOVEMENT OF THE PRUSSIANS. PRUSSIA IN EARNEST IN DEMANDING ALSACE AND LORRAINE. FONTAINEBLEA U EVACUA TED. XOOX DISPATCHES. An Armistice. LONDON", September 2?. An armistice of forty-eight hours was con? cluded at Mezleres on Monday ?or thc removal of the wounded. . The Popnlar Uprising. TOCKS, September 2?. The disposition of the people to resist to the last is growing stronger in tbe West and South. Troops continue to pour into this city. Paris advices to Sunday, by balloons, state that perfect order existed in the city. The Prussians have marched Into Orleans. Honors to the Virtor?. LONDON. September 2S. There was a grand parade of the Prussians in the courtyard ot Versailles yesterday. The Crown Prince, standing under the statue ol Louis XIV, distributed honors to the soldiers. The Garde Mobile Dl*aflVcted. LONDON, September 2^. The Duke of Wurtemberg lies wounded at St. Cloud. It is stated that the Garde Mobile are desert? ing lrom Paris, and that two hundred have been shot for insubordination. Fall of Strasbourg. BERLIN, September 2P. King William telegraphs to the Queen that the capitulation of Strasbourg occurred at ll last evening. The Hu.?inn War C loud. LONDON, September 28. Reports thicken that Rus.ila id preparing for war. The army at the South has been mobil? ized, and movements ot an ominous character are going on towards the Turkish border. The Beleaguered City. LONDON, September 2S. .Ail the Democratic papers In Paris which were suppressed during the Empire have re? sumed publication. The people ot the suburbs of Paris have re? turned to the houses whence they were driven by the lawless men of the Garde Mobile. A region around Paris for a radius ol tweuty kilometres has been depopulated and devas? tated. A lew courageous shopkeepers alone, tempted by the enormous profits, remain In the villages. Tiie Prussians opened fire on the gunboats while passing St. Cloud, recently, killing and wounding several of the French. The Prussians are erecting a battery at Sevons. A lively fire has been opened on llieui from the Fort of Issy while at work. The French Capital again Removed. LONDON, September 2$. The Prussians on entering Meaux made a requisition for horses. It was evidently their intention to sweep to the south of France. They remained but a short time. Tile French capital has been removed to Poictiers. The Times says that France may be serious and heroic in refusing to cede her territory, but that it is rather inconsistent with her avidity in seizing the territory of her neigh? bors. y I GHI DISPATCHES. French War Report?. Tovus, September 2??. A dispatch just received states that the Prussians have not entered Orleans. They came near the city, then halted and commenc? ed a retrograde movement towards Paris. Civilians, whom the Prussians captured and subsequently released, say that Prince Albert received a dispatch which suddenly changed his plans. Tiie Prussians have entirely evacuated Fon? tainebleau. They Imposed no tax on Hie citi? zens, but made heavy requisitions lor provis? ions and forage. SPINAL, September 27. On yesterday the Prussians attacked Raon and were repulsed. German War Report?. BERLIN, September 2S. The idea broached by M. Thiers, at Vienna, that the Prussians are insincere in demanding Alsace and Lorraine, is ridiculed on all sides In Berlin. MENDEIXHE?M, September 28. The surrender of Strasbourg was completed at 10 o'clock t his morning, and at. 8 o'clo . k four hundred and fifty-one officers and seventeen thousand men laid down their anns. English War Reports. LONDON, September 2S. Tiie citizens ol Lezieres and Charleville are lugitives. Many of thom have been welcomed by the Belgians. The cause ol tile hegira was a threatened bombardment by the Prussians. Belgiun War Reports. BRUSSELS, September 28. Tiie Order of St. Jean have published a man? ifesto defending Belgium from the charge of inhumanity. Confidence in the Austrian Ministry. VIENNA, September 28. In the Reichsralh yesterday, a resolution expressing confidence lu the ministry was car? ried by a large majority. EX PO ti I OF GOLD. NEW YORK, September 28. The steamship China takes out $100,000 In specie. TUE QUESTION OF FE AC E. Pmtilan Exposition of the Prospect of Settlement-Warnings to the French Increasing Demands ns the German Armies Advance. BERLIN. September 25. The Norddendeutsche Allgemelnt newspa? per, organ o? Count Bismarck, publishes to? day a special leading article on the subject of the progress of the war and the prospects of peace. The writer says: Every sacrifice which Prussia has made in this war with the view to its termination, particularly those which have been made since the battle of Sedan, dave been useless towards the desired end. Such result only increases the Indignation of Ger? many and also Increases the Just demands of the German people on France. These considerations should weigh with and be calmly balanced by the provisional government In Paris. Frenchmen should at? tend to lt lor the sake of France. Pms la ls unable to know if Hie Imperial government ol France would have made peace after the bat? tle of Sedan, but the Prussian people do know that previous to, and Immediately after, that event the German conditions lor peace would have been very different from what they now are, now that the Prussian army ls in slght'of Paris. The conditions will be again different when the Prussian troops are bet?re the gates of the French capital from the conditions which will be demanded and insisted on when the King's array is lnside-the gates. The vast responsibility ol this state of affairs for France, adds Count Bismarck's official organ, attaches to those, the meu who having overthrown the existing, government in Paris, avowed their very rlrst purpose to be that of carryin on Hie war. The Spirit in Paris-The Particulars of the Rejection of Bismarck'* Demands. LONDON, September 25. The false report of dtrhting iu the streets of Paris originated probably in a mistake ol the Prussian observers ou the heights of Sceaux, who supposed the exercises oCthe troops tobe an internal conflict. The etty ls reported as tranquil, and busy in organizing its defence, by un officer of rnnk who arrived at Tours yes? terday, having passed through the Prussian lines by permission, to bring the important news that Jules Favre had been authorized to reply to Count von Bismarck, formally reject? ing the terms on which alone Prussia hud con se?ted to tre-U for peace or to grant au arrais tice. You have already received the procla? mation which followed this action and an notmced it to the people of France. DETAILS OF TUE REJECTION'. M. Jules Favre left Ferrieres for Meaux on Thursday morning, and returned to Purison Thursday night. Immediately upon his re? turn, a "meeting of the Committee for the De? fence ol the Nation was held. After a brief statement of Hie negotiations lie had carried on with Count Von Bismarck. M. Jules Favre submitted to the committee the terras on which alone Count Von Bismarck would con sent to treat with France lor peace. These were: 1. Thar. Strasbourc:. Toni. Pfalsboun: and Verdun should be immediately surrendered. 2. That. France should supply the German army with free transportation tor provisions and munitions of war. as well as lor recruits to All. up the broken German regiments In France. On these conditions Count von Bismarck had expressed his willingness to proclaim an armistice during Hie election and meeting of the Constituent Assembly. When M. Jules Favre had tlnlshed reading these propositions, General Trochu rose in his place, quiet, grave and stern, and In a few concise sentences call? ed for the rejection, instant and unconditional, of propositions which he said, "I should de? scribe as iusiiliing did I not believe them to be Intentionally illusory.'' General Trochu then went on to speak of tile conditions ot the con? test. He said: "I should condemn a hopeless coutest boll) us a citizen and ns a soldier. No man hus ti right lo recommend suicide to a nation any more than to a man. But France ls in no such emergency. The capital is able to re? sist, and with thc lull of the capital the depart? ments will rise. The winter ls fast approach? ing, and the annies ol' the invader, already harassed and suffering, will then be exposed to the greatest want and misery. From all parts of the country the Republic Is warmly indors? ed and accepted. New armies are forming on tlie Loire and at Lyons. All these brave Frenchmen, mustering in arms for the defence ol the nation, would disown our action were we to humiliate France by such a surrender of her rights, her honor and her dearest Inter? ests, as Prussia now demands of us. The great, cities ot France would not abide by our capitulation. The trials of a cruel war. made a war ot necessity by our implacable Invaders, will restore the manhood ami elevate the spirit ol the French people. I propose that the committee unanimously reject the condi? tions offered by Cotiut von Bismarck. These remarks were vehemently applauded and the terms ol Prussia were unanimously re iected. T1IE EFFECT ON GERMANT. Since the reply ol M. Jules Favre for the government reached Count von Bismarck at Meunx. he luis boen obviously disturbed in mind. M.SMAROK TALCS OF A CONGRESS. The Prussian Embassy here begins to speak ot proposing u congress ol' Hie European powers, to guarantee the fuldltnent by France ol' whatever tenn* of peuce may be finally suggested and adopted. This change of tone excites much remark here, but no one antici? pates that a favorable reception will be ex? tended to any such a plan al present. Forces ol" the German? in France, OSTEND, September 25. From German sources I have the tallowing estimate of Hie German armies now In France: Bet?re Mel/., Strasbourg, Bit selie. Verdun and PfUlsbunr. 220.000; before ?ind around Paris, 400.0(10; 'guarding the communications, 50.000. Total 070,000. New French Army of the Northwest. ROUEN, September 25. A new army, being the illili in the field out? side td' Paris, is now tanning .it inls capital o? Normandy. The material is splendid-the hardy and prosperous Normans, ami Hie fierce, de? termined Britons-and Hie armament received by way ol Havre ls excellent, lt is estimated that lhere are now nuder arms here with the soldiers ot the line more than sO.OOO men, of whom about one half occupy a fortified posi? tion on Hie slopes of the hill of >.t. Catherine. The annies now assembling and organizing are' roughly computed ?ts follows: The Army of the Northeast, Lille. 75.H00; Hie Anny of the North? west. Rouen, bO.OO'J: Hie army of tho Loire, Tours, 120,000: the Army of Lyons, Lyons, 150.000; the Artuv ot' the Soul li, Marseilles. 200.000. Growing Engli-.li Freiing for France. LONDON, September 25. The exciiement caused in England by Hie determined refusal of the Prussian Govern? ment lo grant peace to France, except on terms humiliating anti lafal to the new-boru RepuWie. ls growing daily and threatens to lake a shape mo.it embarrassing to Mr. Glad? stone's Cabinet. ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC DEMONSTRATION. To-day ?i third grand D?mocratie meetlmr was held In the ?pen air In Hyde Park. ? huge procession was formed in Trafalgar Square, which gos Into motion about three o'clock. Ii stretched in au unbroken line, willi thurs und bunds ol music, from Trafalgar Square through Cocfcfljur street lo Waterloo Place, and thence bv Piccadilly to the gates of Hyde Park, ?it Apsley House. Tue bulk' ol' Hie enormous umnilesuillon was made up of or? ganized societies of the lower and middle classes, most respectable la their appearance. NO ENGLISH FLAGS CARRIED. An ominous and Striking feature ol' this ex traordinary d?monstration was the entire ab? sence of thc English flos from the procession. I saw not one carried along Hie entire line, but hundreds of white banners with the liber? ty cap, and the words. "The Republic," in golden letters, and many American and French standards. lu the park the assem? blage numbered many, many thousands. Six separate stands were erected, over each ol' which floated Hie white flog and the stars and stripes twined willi Hie tricolor. At one ol' them Hie Rallan standard also was raised. Around each stand a separate meeting was held and the most enthusiastic speecnes were made, bitterly denouncing, in the language of one orator, "Hie shani of Hie British monarchy, which was chloroforming Hie British nation." The feeling tnuuilesled against the present course of "Prussia was iutense. The police were out in conslderaole uutnbers, but there was little disorder aud no rioting. The upper classes are now for the most part out ot town, and the park was consequently filled with masses of people who sympathized with the manifestation. But though the disposition of the higher orders ls to hold aloof from these displays, as lt is of the press systematically to belittle them, lt Is not to be denied that a considerable and increasing section of the educated class are raplply drift!n" towards a similar feeling. When the procession moved out of Trafalgar Square, a knot of gentlemen came out of the union club, and, standing on the pavement, cheered for France and the United States. At the windows of the St. James, on Picadilly, simi? lar manifestations were made. It is becoming clear that trouble is anticipated on this ques? tion, and from these increasing and open re? publican organizations, at the assemblage of Parliament. If the United States were now represented hereby a minister of American sympathies, of force and of influence, there can be no doubt that a popular feeling might be easly excited which would compel justice to the claims ol America. As lt ls, all the official weight of the United States in London ls thrown against the popular cause. Mr. Motley talks lreely and carelessly in depreca? tion of the course of Mr. Washburne, and slightingly of the Republic in France. Mr. Disraeli's Organ on tlie War. The London Standard to-morrow will have a lead r baying Bismarck made a gt eat mistake tu treating the provisional government with hauteur and contempt. He ought to have wel? comed it as the best auxiliary force for a aat i*factoy termination of the war. No possible government in France or abroad could sitro a peace (riving so much and riving it so genuine? ly. 1 he permanent conquest of France is out ot question. The occupation of France may bo possible ii Germany can keep up her armies. Every day the war con? tinues reduces the ability .of France to pav the German bill. Bismarck and the ?tog will yet regret that they refused to deal more gener? ously with the ceutlemen of Ibo pavement. It is not impossible, even now, that Paris m ly make a resistance which will compel the be? siegers to retire, and the struggle miy last all throuph the winter. Fortnue, with Prussia to? day, may be witb France to-morrow. In furc ing her power she cannot lay claim to magua niraity. Had she insisted ouly on the razing of the fortresses the world would have applaud? ed. The refusal of France to acceptan armistice is politically suicidal. Misgoverned, defeated, but defiant, France may well excite the sincere sympathy of the world, LOUIS BLANC STANDS BY THE REPUBLIC. Madame Louis Blaoc has received a most touching and beautirul loiter from her hus? band, in which he tells her tint he hos made up his mind to remain in Puns and share toe fate of the great city, "which princes once more threaten because it has once more con? fided itself to the virtue and the capacity of the poople, to stand or fall with them.'' - DECISIONS OF SUE REX E COVET. Alexander vs. McKenzie.-Held that the Supreme Court hasjurlsdlctlon under Section 389 of the Code ol' Procedure of a controversy admitted without action, where the question of difference was the right to a public office. That the formal remedy In such cases under the Code, is an action Instead ol a proceeding by quo warranta. That Article IV, Section 4, or the Constitution of the State, conferring on the Supreme Court power to Issue writs of quo warranta, does not operate to deprive the Legislature ol power to abolish such writs In form, so long as the remedy afforded thereby is secured. That the constitution baring con? ferred on the Supreme Court original Jurisdic? tion In cases of 7ito warrante lt can enter? tain jurisdiction ol an action, based on grounds that would formerly have supported the writ. Held, that upon the election and qualifica? tion of municipal officers for the City of Co? lumbia, in pursuance of the act of February 26th, 1870, the offices of the lorraer Incumbents ceased, notwithstanding the term for which they were originally elected had not expired; that such former Incumbents have no property In their offices, nor a vested Interest under contract, so as to deprive the Legislature of power lo diminish the term to which they were originally elected; that political powers were Inclusive to the beneficial use of the political community, and never to the exclusive use ol private persons, and are movable at the will of the government communicating them; that a public officer has neither a property nor a vested interest under contract In the compen? sation attached by law to his office, beyond what ls due to the services actually performed by him. Held, that although the net of February 26. 1870, does not in terms declare the o'T.ce of the former incumbents vacant upon the election and qualification of their successors, yet such effect ls necessarily implied from the oct, lt be? ing essential to Its efficiency In accomplishing the obvious Intent ol' the enactment. [Opin? ion. Willard. A. J.] T. F. McDow, administrator, Ac, vs. D. W. Brown, executor, Ac-Held, when a guardian's account had been settled between the personal representatives ol' the guardian and ward, both being deceased, and the administrator of the ward sought by bill to open such account, alleging it to be incorrect and unjust, as not embracing an account ol the administration of an estate ol which the ward was a distributee and the guardian administrator, and lt appear? ed that at the lime ol stating and settling such guardian's account, the complainant had substantial knowledge of the facts constituting the ground of opening the account, and of which the d?fendant was ignorant, and also that the administrator's account could only be approximated and conjecturally stated In con? sequence of lapse of time ?ind loss of evidence, that the account ought not to be disturbed. That when a stated account is settled by pay? ment, the rights ot the parties are concluded, and equity will not disturb lt unless fraud, im? position or mistake are specifically alleged anil established. That equity grants relief against an act or contract resting on mistake or Ignorauce of a material fact, where the mistake ls mutual, or when il appears that an innocent party ls pre? judiced thereby through mistake to some ma? terial fact, caused by (rand, Imposition or breach o? trust and confidence on the part ol' one against whom such relief ls sought. That when the complainant ls chargeable with want ot due diligence and prudence either in preventing the mistake, or in seeking re? dress therefor, relief wlll.be dented. That If the settlement was a compromise of a doubtful or disputed right, or ll the partie* agreed to assume the existence of a state of facts, the court will not interfere on thu gruiind or mistake. That when entrusted with Hie control or management of a lund in a confidential or fiduciary capacity, and having, or supposed to have, either exclusive or better Informa? tion ol the matters ot accounts relating there? to, than the person beneficially entitled to the fund renders au account, and it is accepted and seulement made upon lt, il will be pre? sumed that the seulement was made ou the laiih that Ute account was full, lair und accu? rate, and such assumption must be regarded as entering with the consideration of such settlement That au error In such settlement must be re? garded as proot of either a mutual mistake or imposition on the part of the one bound to render the account. That when Hie allegation ls that lhe whole of a distinct account has been omitted troui the accounting, the complaint need not set lort li the items of such omitted account, for if entitle?! to relief, lt will be to rtpeu the settle? ment quoad the omitted account! and the parly bound to render such account will be required to do so. That ii is not competent for the parly seek? ing lo establish eirors to rely on merely prob? able or conjectural evidence, but having the onus probandi, he must establish the errors by clear and conclusive proof. Circuit decree reversed and the bill dismiss? ed.-[Opinion, Willard. A J.] -The mourning dealers are having a good time oflt in Europe. English hollies have re? ceived (rora Germany very heavy orders, and France, loo, ls a sadly good customer iu the same way. No doubt" absolute fortunes are being made now by the purveyors of trappings ol' war. it was oy a lucky coup in crapes that Mr. Morrison, of the fatuous firm Morrison, Dillon & Co., who lett behind him the greatest estate ever known in England, made the germ of his uollossal fortunes. He speculated on tlie probable demise of the Princess Charlotte of Wales-first wile of the late King of the Belgians-who died In childbirth. No royal death, not even that of the late Prince Con? sort, ever caused such universal lamentation in England, and ihe whole naiion went into mourning. Every one was de? manding crape, and Morrison found him? self In the same enviable condition with that commodity as Joseph with the corn In Egypt. I ELECTION OF A SENATOR. RicnwoNT), September 28. B, G. Green, Republican, was to-day elected State senator, from the Petersburg District, by two hundred and fifty majority over Colonel William Cameron, being a Republican lo3S of nearly three hundred. Three colored laborers on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad were killed at Wayneboro', yesterday, by the falling of an excavation. A CIRCUS SMASHED. MIDDLETON, N. Y., September 28. The train containing Lent's circus came Into collision with the Express train this morning. Director Whltbeck, of the circus, was killed. " AMICABLY ADJUSTED." LOUISVILLE, September 28. It is thought that the impending duel be? tween Colonel Kelly, of the Commercial, and General Burbridge, wUl be settled amicably. The seconds of the respective parties are in consultation. THE PILOTAGE QUESTION. An Appeal In Behalf of Northern Ship? owners and Underwriters. To His Excellency R. K. Scott, Governor of the Stale of South Carolina: Sm-Occupying, as you do, the office of Chief Magistrate of the State of South Caroli? na, clothed with supreme powers scarcely less than autocratic, Invested with very extensive official patronage, far beyond anything con? ferred on your predecessors, your acts In the administration of the government entrusted to your charge cannot fail to have a most impor? tant Influence lor good or evil, for weal or for woe, on the welfare of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth which you govern. Nor ls it confined to them only, but In some cases the interests of your fellow-citizens of other States, who trade with the people of South Car? olina, may be seriously affected by the manner In which you administer that government. Trusting that your Excellency will not deny that the possession of such vast and extensive powers carries with lt a degree of responsi? bility commensurate . therewith, and that you will not hold yourself above such responsibility, we venture to approach you with a simple and respectful statement of a grievance now existing under your authority, ey which our Interests are exposed to great and unneces? sary peril. Among the many offices in the State which your Excellency has the sole right of filling by appointment, and changing that appointment at your pleasure. Is that of the board of com? missioners of pilotage. It ls the duty of this board to examine applicants for the position of pilots for the bars and harbors on the coast of South Carolina-say Georgetown, Charles? ton, St. Helena and Port Royal. This board determine, without appeal, who shall and who shall not be pilots on your coast. The trust committed to this board, ls of very great im? portance to the commerce of the country. Masters of vessels arriving off your coast, with the Intention of entering one of your ports, must, according to your law, take the flr?t pilot who speaks them. The vessel, with her cargo, worth, it maybe, hundreds of thou? sands of dollars, must be put in charge of such pilot, who has to perform the difficult and sometimes dangerous task ol piloting her (by his knowledge of the channels, lights, beacons and landmarks, and of the influence of the winds and tides,) safely Into port. If the pilot is unskilful In his calling, thc danger of loss or disaster to which the vessel ls exposed, be? comes very great. Owners of vessels would be very unwilling to allow them to trade with ports where lt was known that there was dan? ger of having to commit them to the care ot Ignorant and unskilful pilots. Nor would un? derwriters be willing to Insure either vessels or cargoes bound to such ports. The trade of such port would suffer great diminution. It follows, therelore, that lt is of the utmost im? portance In this connection that there should be no room for doubt as to the skill and intel? ligence of your pilots. In order to have proper and skilful pilots, lt is necessary that the members of the board of commissioners who examlue applicants, and have tiie power of making and unmaking pi? lots, should be not only experts themselves in the business, but possessed likewise of suffi? cient degree of education and ger ral intelli? gence to enable them to conduct their exami? nations properly, and arrive at Just and reliable conclusions on the cases submitted to their Judgment. But we are credibly Informed that, of the commissioners of pilotage now acting under appointment by your Excellency -three In number, two colored and one white -not one of them can read or write. We have been told that the white man, who was a watchman on one of the wharves In Charles? ton, on receiving the commission sent him by your Excellency, being unable to decipher the document, was compel? led to get some one to read lt for him. These commissioners are of course unable to fill up any of the documents required in the discharge of the duties of their office, or to Judge of their accuracy after they are filled up by others. Neither are they able to subscribe their names to such documents to give them official efficacy, but must, like the rude and untutored savage, make their mark. It must be manifest to all lhat a board of commission? ers constituted of men so utterly deficient In the first rudiments of education, must be ex? ceedingly liable to make the most serious mis? takes, affecting greatly the interest of those whose property must by law be committed to the appointees of such ignorant men. When the appointing power ls incompetent to judge, there is reason to apprehend that the number of unskilful appointees will not be lew. Tiie appropriateness of these remarks will, we think, be acknowledged by every candid and unprejudiced mind. In view ol a circum? stance which happened on the coast of South Carolina a short time ago, where a vessel and cargo, valued at $IG,000, seeking to enter the pori of Charleston in charge ol one of your pilots, suffered considerable damage and came very near being totally lost by the Ignorance of the pilot, in being unable to distinguish be? tween St. Helena bar and Charleston bar. Tiie circumstances alluded to may be briefly stated thus: The schooner W. L. Springs, Captain Jones, from a Northern port, arrived, in the latter part of August, off the coast of South Carolina, bound for Charleston. At day? break on the morning of Monday, the 22d, When about "0 miles N. E. of Charleston, she was boarded by George B. Wilson, colored, a full branch pilot, who took charge and rnn down along the coast, having a fine breeze from N. E., a fair wind, and the weather being hazy. After running down along the coast for about twelve hours, at 5 o'clock in the atter noon they made a buoy. Soon after the vessel struck and kept thumping lor hali an hour, duringwhlch the pilot made three tacks to try and get Into deeper water. When asked, the pilot said the vessel was on Charles? ton bar. Laid the vessel off shore Monday night, and at daylight, on Tuesday, saw a buoy, which pilot said was-located on Charleston bar. He also made several other marte, all of which he said belonged to Charleston bar. On Tuesday afternoon pilot again stood In with the vessel, when' she again struck: the bottom hard, and remained fast ashore. Pilot said she waa lu the middle of Swash Channel* one of the entrances to the port of Charles? ton. The captain went In his boat to i:he light? house, when lt was found out that the schoon? er was on the breakers ol St. Helena bar, about thirty miles to the southward of Charles? ton. The captain employed a St Helena pilot, who put a press of canvass on the ves? sel, forced her over Into deep water, carried her up towards the lighthouse, where she was anchored in safety. While the vessel was ashore, the sea broke around her heavily, causing her to leak badly. The St. Helena pilot said that had the schooner remained on the breakera^another tide, she and her cargo would ^ave'been totally lost Some temporary repairs were made to dimin? ish the leak, which being done the captain de? termined to proceed with his vessel to Charles? ton. He discharged pilot Wilson (but gave him a passage to Charleston,) and the vessel was taken to sea by the St. Helena pilot and on arriving off Charleston bar took another pilot who brought her safely into port The damage to the vessel by being run ashore amounted to upwards of $5000, which falls heavily on the captain, who ls said to ne a poor man, and not insured. The commission? ers of pilotage, after investigating the matter, suspended Wilson from the exercise of his business as a pilot for the term of three months. Now, we respectfully beg leave to call tho attention ot your Excellency to the Anal result of this case: First. An Ignorant pilot boards a vessel thir? ty miles from Charleston bar and undertakes to pilot her Into that port having a fine, fair wind, weather hazy. Had the pilot been equal to his business, he would have known that with such a wind lt would not have taken the vessel twelve hours to have made thirty miles. But after he had run her down the coast - for that space of time, and had actually made sixty miles, he supposed he was off Charleston, when he was really off St: Helena, and this opinion he continued to maintain after he had run the vessel ashore, and again asserted lt the next day. Second. The pilot (Wilson) being utterly In? capable of relieving the vessel from the dan? gerous position in which he had placed her, Is discharged by the captain, who seeks and ob? tains assistance elsewhere, and ls thereby en? abled to bring his vessel to her destined port, although damaged to the extent of $6000. Third. The commissioners of pilotage sus? pend Wilson for three months, after which time he will be empowered again to board vessels bound for Charleston. Now we respectfully submit to your Excel? lency whether, Irom the facts of the case, lt is not highly probable that the pilot (Wilson) knows as little about Charleston bar as he does about that of St. Helena, seeing that he de? clared the vessel to be In the Swash Channel, when she was actually on the north breakers of St. Helena. Another query we would sulk * mit is whether an Intelligent board of commis? sioners, either themselves expert pilots, or calling In such to assist them In their examin? ation, would have been likely to have com? missioned Wilson as a full branch pilot and whether, also, a portion of the moral responsl- . blllty for the loss which has occurred in this case does not rest upon your Excellency's ad? ministration? When we make Inquiry as to the reasons which moved your Excellency to make such Inappropriate appointments, we are told that the necessities of the Republican party In South Carolina require that all the offlces should be filled by Republicans. But surely this subserviency to party should not be allowed to extend to the injury of tho citizens generally, and more particularly of your fellow-cltlzens residing beyond the do? main of your Excellency's government Can lt Indeed be the case that the Republican party in South Carolina ls so deficient in men of intelligence and education, that such Im? portant offices have to be filled by Ignorant and unlettered appointees ? Have the princi? ples of that party such a weak hold on the iople of the State as to require the spoils of party to be distributed to them to keep the or? ganization from falling to pieces ? We trust that your Excellenc 7 will give the subject the serious consideration which its idf* porlance demands, and will take such action in the premises as will remedy the evil com? plained of. We remain your Excellency's obedient ser? vant, In behalf of NORTHERN" SKIP-OWNERS AND UNDERWRITERS. Special iVotuis. p?f UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, SOUTH OAROLINA DISTRICT, ss.-IN RE WILLIAM HENRY HEYWARD. BANKRUPT IS BANKRUPTCY.-AU the Hen creditors of .WILLIAM HENRY HEYWARD, Bankrupt, are required, by order or elie United. Status Cjart dated 18th day of May, 1870, to come In and es? tablish their liens before J. C. CARPENTER, Reg? istrar, at Charleston, S. C., on or before the 10th day of October nest, or be debarred from au bene flt of the Dacree In this case. J. C. CARPENTER, sepl7-s3_Registrar In Bankruptcy. p9-k GRAND EPOCH LN SCIENCE. From the time when, in 1884, Dr. RCOOE discov? ered "Carbolic Acid" and Its extraordinary medi? cal effects, nothing in the history of Medicine has squalled it. Largely used by the French physi? cians in treatment of consumptive and scrofu? lous diseases, it was introduced by the Court Phy? sician of Berlin, MAX ERNST HENRY, into Prus? sia, and from thence to the United States. No? thing else of the present day can equal HEN? 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