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VOLUME X.-NUMBER 1465. CHARLESTON, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER I, 1870. S?X DOLLARS A YKAH. THE STATE ELECTIONS. M Altloy COUSTYGIYES SOO REFORM. MAJORITY. BOTH CHESTERFIELD AND MARLBORO' GIVE HEAVY REFORM MAJORITIES. GOOD HEWS PROM EDGEPIELD : CHESTER CUTS DOWN THE RADICAL MAJORITY. Marlon Cou?ty gives Five Hundred Majority for Reform. [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEWS.] MARION C. t *tober 19. The Reform party has gained largely at Marlon Courthouse, at High uni, at Berry's Cross Reids, at Hnllins'B, at Friendship, at Campbell's j Bridge and Ariel precincts. Trustworthy information received to-night shows that the Reformers will carry Marion County by FIVE HUNDRED majority. [The full white majority in Marlon County, according to the State census* ls 246 ] The Day In Kershaw-Heavy Vote In Camden. [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO -THE NEWS.] CAMS KS, S. C., October 19. Eighteen hundred and twelve votes were cast in this town'to-day. It is estimated that THREE HCNbKBD colored men voted the Reform ticket. The county precincts have not been heard from. [Kershaw has a colored voting malority of 627.] Gallant Edge fl titi-A Rousing. Reform Vote. [afECLU. TELEGRAM TO THE NEWS] BATESTILLE, S. C., October 19. in Norris township, Edgefleld County, one hun dred and thirty-four votes were polled-au for Reform. At Mount Welling, Edgefleld Connty, the vote was: Reform 240. Radical iso. Reform mv Ortty eighty. At Ridge Spriggs the vote was 300 for Reform and 500 for Scott. [In Edgefleld there ls a colored voting majority of 1096.] Chester Cata Down the Radical Ma. y jorlty. CHESTER, October 19. The Scott Radicals will have oger six hundred majority in Chester County. [The colored voting majority la 950.] Chesterfield and Marlboro' Carried by the Reformers. We received information, through private sonrces, at a late h<mr last night, to the effect that both Chesterfield and Marlboro', have been Carried by the Reformers ou heavy majori Vet. 2_ THE GEORGIA STATE FAIR. ATLANTA, October 19 The State fair opened to-day with 5000 persons present. The Atlanta, from Savannah, won the prize as the fastest Bingle trotter. The Governor has Issued a proclamation ad journing the House on the 25th Instant, and re assembling the Senate on the 21st November for executive session. OUR FIXAS CI Ali FUTURE. How the War in Europe will Affect ns. .[From the Philadelphia Record, October io.] The influenc? which the European war is destined to exercise In future upon United States securities, is a matter to us of vital con sequence. One of the belligerents is a large creditor of ours perhaps our largest credi? tor, ?ne rapid recovery of government bonds from their sharp decline during the panic at first caused by the declaration ol war, has been accepted asan Irrefragable proof that American credit ls beyond suspicion. The lntepretation is a just one, but we should not. however, be blind to the fact that our debt is a question of money-and of real money. Nothing but produce or coln will settle this debt, unless bankruptcy should prove the solvent. A momentary panic may effect the Srice of bonds, as lt does the rate ot interest, nt it makes neither a nation or an individual solvent or insolvent. Solvency is simply a question of assets beyond liabilities. It was on account of last year's commercial balances against ns that England was enabled to draw from us thirty millions ol dollars in coin at the beginning of the present war. The shipments for the present have ceased, not because thir? ty-two millions cancelled all her claims, but because ol the large influx of money from the Continent of Europe to London created by the war and the lear that other nations would be? come Involved In the contest. This influx has been so great that the rate of Interest has gone down In London from six per cent, to two and a half per cent. In bank, and to one and one and a half per cent, in the open market. This a:cumulatlon^of money has rendered neces? sary lor the present the collection of the bal? ance due by us, which draws comparatively a large Interest Moreover, this plethora of money has so stimulated the money making Instincts of the London bankers that they have placed large amounts of sixty day credits on the New York market at rates which yield them ten to twelve per cent per annum Interest. These credits not money-have enabled the manufacturers of England to place a larger quantity of their fabrics on the American market than ever be? fore in the same space ol time. By pursuing this pollcv'toward our manufacturing industry* aideofby our unwise legislation, they have suc? cessfully accomplished the destruction of Amer? ican commerce, and now would destroy Amer? ican manufactures. But these credits have paid no debt. They operate simply as a post? ponement or an extension of the time ol payment, and when due. they can and pro? bably will be renewed, so long as the loreign deposits are allowed to remain in London; but the moment a prolongation of the war makes it necessary for Prussia to ask for another loan, or the moment that peace shall make the re? call of these deposits necessary for business, America must resume her shipments of coin, because our chief creditors-Eogland and Ger? many-will have need for it. We say nothing of France, for she has cut loose from coln as the measure of value, ls and now so over? whelmed with debt, and has been so devastat? ed, that her only resource will be a repetition of the paper money assignats of 1790 . 11 i9 ?erefore, that thc real financial issues of the European war are vet to be felt in our country, because it has been prosecuted .n a credit; and a credit that negotiates no paper does not affect the market. When tho settlement of the expenses of the war already incurred arrives, we must be prepared to meet promptly, In coln or produce, at least the interest on the securities now held abroad, to? gether with the balance of our commercial in? debtedness; for these countries will have to mee their own liabilities and expenses and cannot be Investors. The aggregate of our In? terest and commercial Indebtedness for the last fiscal year was $250,000.000. This year, with the large decline in cotton and other pro? ducts, certainly causing a diminution of not less than $100,000,000 in our exports, and the largely Increased imports, which are Indeed, much? greater than ever before, we have pre? sented to us no pleasant prospect, but rather a foreboding financial future. ? THE LITERATURE OF THE SOUTH. An English VUw. In noticing The Memories of Fifty Years, a book recently published in London, giving .'brief biographical notices of distinguished Americans and anecdotes of remarkable men, Interspersed with sceneB and incidents occur? ring during a long life of observation, chiefly spent In the Southwest," the London Saturday Review gives its opinions of the literature of the South. We quote without comment: The Southern States at no time contributed very largely to the national literature of Amer? ica. Their scattered population, their rural habits ol life, and something peihaps in the character of the people, did not favor that fa? cile and abundant production of ephemeral writing which is almost as characteristic of the North as of the most literary countries of the Old World. The Southern Journals were com? paratively few in number, had a somewhat limited circulation, and were published almost exclusively in a few ebie! centres of social and political activity. Outside of the periodi? cal press there could hardly be said to exist a literary class-a body ot writers by profes? sion-in the South. But, perhaps for this very reason, the small number of works tbat were published at Charleston, New Orleans and such other Southern cities as could boast of publishing-houses ot their own, belonged In an unusual proportion to the. higher classes ol literature. Southern statesmen, profes? sors, physicians and thinkers wrote not for bread, nor irom the cacoethes scribendi that Infests the studious leisure ol an educated Idle class, but because they had something to say on their own special subjects, and they con? tributed a fair share to the more solid and lasting departments of American authorship. The foremost among native men of science ls a Southern officer who resigned a high posi? tion in the scientific branch ot the naval ser? vice o? the Union when his State seceded. No politician or statesman in the North has left behind literary remains more valuable than those of Calhoun, and medical and natural science have been not less deeply Indebted to Southern than to Northern writers. History and philosophy are the studies, lor the most part, of men whose lives are devoted to letters, and In these, therefore, the South has never been pre-eminent; but her lawyers, her statesmen, her sol? diers- men whose authorship springs out of and ls connected with their practical life-have held their own with their rivals. The war, however, has for the time being al? most crushed, has certainly silenced, the lite? rature of the South. The questions which ab? sorb all attention, all thought, all passion in that country, are questions on which the best and wisest of her citizens-the men whom their countrymen would most gladly hear feel lt needful to be reticent. The great sol? diers of the South-such of them as nave sur? vived the war-refuse, in their own vindica? tion, to rekindle the still red-hot embers ot national hatred, and leave It to their enemies to tell the story of the conflict; a story (rom which no ingenuity can altogether efface the brilliant traces of Southern daring, de? votion -sind heroism. Of Southerr>statesmen one alone bas held a position which enabled him to speak with some degree of freedom in lace of the victorious North; and Mr. Alexander H. Stephens has contributed to the history ol the war the best account of its remote causes, the most complete and searching investigation of its constitutional aspects, that has vet appeared. For the rest, it seems as if the South had not yet revived the spirits and the tastes neces? sary to literary fertility; scarcely here and there a fiction, a biography, a work of some safe and neutral character, appears to claim a Southern authorship. The latest of these is the one now before us-Mr. W. H. Sparks's "Memories of Filly Years."' And even here we observe the painful, unnatural reserve on the subject that must oe uppermost in the mind of the writer a father whose sons have perished In the war tallen under the Confederate flag. Of the war alone he says little or nothing, while of every previous political agitation or party .":ud ia which he or his friends bore a part, he has a full history to give and numerous illustrative and amusing anecdotes to relate. The freedom of personal description and an? ecdote which American writers assume-and which Mr. Sparks, though he does not abuse lt after the too frequent fashion of the New York and New England scribblers, -has bor? rowed from them-enables a careful observer with a good memory to serve up out of his own Individual recollections, especially li he has en Joyed the acquaintance of public men and has been behind the scenes of public lue, a pi? quant and varied intellectual treat. There ls also much Interest lu the description of the va? rious classes and races of the South, with their distinct qualities, tendencies and social and domestic manners. We have the gentle? men of the old Virginia families, much re? sembling the English, country gentlemen of the days ol the great war, and taking, wherever they may settle throughout the Southwest, a position of leader? ship and influence ; the high-spirited, fiery chivalry of South Carolina, approach? ing rather to the type of the French nobles of the ancien r?gime, quarrelsome and puncti? lious, but thoroughly brave and high-minded at heart, with a State pride as arrogant and as provoking, but as worthily sustained as the national pride of France tinder the Grand Monarque; the homelier natives of Georgia and North Carolina, and the French Creoles ot Louisiana, considerably resembling the habi? tant of Lower Ca nada, conservati ve, courteous, honest, notable rather for their personal and family virtues, than for their energy and en? terprise, but forbidden by the infectious vigor of their American associates, and perhaps by a more genial climate, to fall into the stagna? tion of their Northern antitypes." GOLD AND BOKX> MARKET. NEW TORE, October 19-Evening. The money market is without any new feature, The call demand ts promptly met at 5a6. The de? mand for discounts at oank is active at T, and there is more paper offered than can be discount? ed. Exchange firm a' 8>ia8??. Gold opened quiet at 12J? nominal to l2#al2Ji, bnt closed strong at \zyt. Governments steady all da;* Late In the day five-twenties 65; new sevens and eights advanced X, hut all closed firm. Sixes 81; coupons 13??: sixty-twos 12J?; sixty-fours n??; sixty-fives 12X; new 10#; Blxty-sevens 10X; sixty-eights 10K; forties t%. Southerns very dull, with few transactions. Tennessees 62 X; new CO'?. Virginias 62; new 63. Louisianas 70; new 66; levee sixes 75; eights 67. Alabama eights, 101; fives 70. Georgia sixes 80; sevens 90. North CaroUnas 46}?i new 27. South Carolinas SO; new 67. LONDON, October 19-Evening. Consols 92*i. Bonds quiet at S9l?. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. AV. W. Corcoran, the Washington millionare, n attempting to get on the moving cars at Staun? ton, Va., yesterday, was struck by a plano on the platform and narrowly escaped death. There was a grand display of the fire de? partment at Norfolk, Virginia, yesterday, In com? memoration of the surrender of Cornwallis. Winslow, Lanier A Co's paying teller has disap? peared Iro.n New York with $50,OC0. The firm withholds his name, and declines to prosecute. Two persons have been sentenced, in New York? to nine years' Imprisonment each, for perjury in a divorce case. The st. Laurent sailed from New York, yester? day, full of rifles, cannon, and howitzers, sold by the United States Navy Depart ment. Mr. Jefferson Davis has arrived In New Tork from Europe by the Cuba. B. F. Butler has been renominated ror Congress from Massachusetts. -A letter from Scranton, Pa, represents that a respectable and influential German citizen of Luzerne County, who had been recently natu? ralized, was refused his vote by the Republican officer oa account of aa apparent flaw In the papers. The applicant, however, went away and blackened his faee, turned his German name Into English, and h? vote was received by the Republi can officers without a word of dissent. Then, to their astonishment, he votod tue Democratic ticket. He ls threatened wliu prosecution, bnt he threatens in return a prosecution for depriv .ng ?lim of his right to vote. THE STRUGGLE FOR PARIS. THE G S HM A XS ANXIOUS TO AVOID A WINTER CAMPAIGN. The Bombardment to Begin within a Fortn igr.t-The Germans Capture Chateau Dun After Ten Hours' Fght lng-Blore French Sorties-H i n t s of Peace. LONDON, October 19. The Vienna correspondent of the Standard says that Prussia will gladly accept any terms of peace which will relieve her of a winter cam? paign. It is universally believed that a general bom? bardment will be opened In a fortnight. The Prussians lind difficulty in suppressing lawless ness In their rear and aronnd them. The expected battle at Orleans has occurred. The French fled after six hours' fighting, leaving the bridge over the Loire intact. The forces en? gaged were about equal. No further particulars. Three thousand Prussians defeated eight thou? sand French, mostly Mobiles, at Epical. The Germans are now fed from supplies captured in Normandy and Orleans. Burnside's peace nego? tiations utterly failed. French War Reports. TOURS, October 19. Credit of one hundred thousand francs has been opened by the Government for balloon service. Metun was occupied by Cranes-tiren rs 0n the 17th. The Prussians are levying heavy contributions. Troops in large numbers continue to pass through Tours, going northward. German War Reports. VERSAILLES, October 18. Official advices from Eplnal announce that the new French corps which arrived there a few,days ngo have fled. A part of them went to Belfort, the hulk by rall to Dijon. The Prussians occupy Yes ul, twenty-seven miles from Besancon. Thiers and Italy. FLORENCB, October 19. After interviewing the ministry, Thiers left for Tours, with the cordial sympathy of the peo? ple and the government. EVENING DISPATCHES. Bismarck's Declaration. WASHINGTON, October 19. Bismarck has sent a dispatch to Baron Gerolt, a copy of which has been furnished to the De? partment of State, dated Versailles, yesterday, in which he;says: "The object of Germany ls not con? quest, bnt to seenre a new boundary, which will prevent future invasion by the French Into Ger? many." -French War Reports. TOCRB, October 19. Details of the occupation or Orleans state that the Prussian levies are enormous. They have taken all the horses. The soldiers, quartered on the people, ate and drank all they wanted, and wasted a great deal. The officers are studying the maps carefully. The strength of the Prussians is 95,000. The Ger? mans have evacuated the left bank of the Lohre. German merchants are undisturbed. The Papal Nuncio ls expected ?-day. The news from Marseilles is unfavorable. The Garde Civique ls troublesome. Gambetta orders the raliway companies to bold trains in readiness for more troops at a moment's notice. There ls nothing official from the large armies confronting near Orleans. It ls understood that the French are slowly falling back, while the Prussians seem to be with? drawing towards Orleans. Tours is filled with French troops, Just arrived. A band of Irish. American volunteers have Just arrived here. PARIS, October 19. [Official.] The Prussians captured Chateau Dnn arter ten honre' fight. A force or National Guards and 900 Francs-ureure disputed every inch or ground. The Prussian force was 8000. German War Reports. VERSALLES, October 19. The Germans drove 3000 Mobile Guards from Crletcuton the 12th. Ga?era! Von Werder re? ports the enemy In his front as having retired to Belfast and Dy on. A dispatch from Chateau Dun says the Ger? mans have commenced bombarding that place. The army or the Duke or Mecklenburg Schwe? rin, twenty-two thousand strong, entered Sols sons on Sunday. Fifty thousand pounds or am? munition were round at that place. It la thought at Lille that the surrender or that city was brought about by treachery, instigated by Bonapartes, who are known to be scheming in the Island or Jersey and in London, to place the Prince Imperial on the throne, with Eugenie as Regent. English War Reports. LONDON, October IB. The explosion ol an ammunition wagon near Sedan created a panic. The gates were closed, and the drawbridge urteil. The explosion was caused by soldiers smoking pipis. The number or killed and wounded ls considerable. There was a sortie from Paris on the 14th, when the French were driven J>ack. The French en? trenching at Vil'ejulf were driven off. Five hun? dred French Mobile Guard prisoners escaped from tbe Prussians at Chutean Thleren. MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES. Facts and Rumors from London* LONDON, October IB. lt ls reported that Napoleon has 10,000,000 francs Invested through the agency or Brown Brothers, or New York. The peace negotiations by Favre and Burnside have been rejected. It ls stated that the terms are: 80,000,000 sterling Indemnity; Alsace and Lor? raine to remain neutral for ten years and then to decide their roture status by a popular vote; the Germans to enter Paris and sign the treaty there. General Beyer, with a flag or truce rrom Ba? zaine, has visited Bismarck. Russia demands a revision of thc treaty of 1856. There has been a spirited fight on the Rouen road. General Bourbaki ls at Blois. The Prussians burnt the bridge at Beaugency. The French as Vegetarians. PARIS, October 19. (Special balloon telegram to the New York World.) The squares and the pleasure grounds are planted with cabbage and? cauliflowers. There ls no anxiety to make peace [peas JJ. The Germans asked six hours time to bury their dead at Bagneux. Successful Sorties. Tot'RS, October 19. Gambetta has returned. Dispatches from Bel? fast report a successful sortie from New Brelsach. driving the Germans, with considerable loss, rrom their positions. A sortie rrom Montmedy sur? prised the Germans, the French capturing 400 men, and camp chests with 20,000 francs, also two wagon-loads or chassepots. On the following day the French attacked an artillery train, cr.p turing a number of cannon. The commandant ol the army or the Loire bas issued a general order, threatening to punish in? subordination with death, and bidding the men shoot him it he fall in his duty. The Paris fortlflcatlons keep up a constant fire, preventing the Germans from constructing works. Garibaldi was enthusiastically received at Bel rast. Prospects of Peace. WASHINGTON, October 19. A dispatch has been received at the State De? partment from reliable sources In London, to the effect that the report that peace ls arranged ls mach believed, although not yet officially stated. BULWER OX EXOLAXD'8 X>XTTT. Slr Henry Bulwer has once more written to the London Times on the subject of mediation. Following are salient points of his letter: ENGLAND'S POSITION. It may be that England has, within the last few years, fallen so low in international es? teem, that any opinion she may express may be as Indifferent to Europe as that of ths Bey of Tunis. This conclusion ls possible, but I dispnte its accuracy. What I grant is 'that the people who think they will not succeed in any? thing, will not succeed; that a government which thinks lt has no Influence, will have no influence; that lt is the soul which animates a statesman, or a State that makes or mars his or its power, whether in council or In action, j But, just as I believe that Prussia owes her j present Droud position to the conviction In ; her minister that he could give It to her, so I ' believe that the Just, well-considered opinion of England, delivered in a quiet, dignified and impartial manner, by a Cabinet that was ltselt conscious of the immense moral power which that opinion ought to wield, would weigh with an irresistible pressure on the public conscience, which sooner or later guides human affairs, and would exercise that authority on any present project of peace which most arise from the persuasion that no permanent peace would be Sosdlble that was not In conformity with it.1 av, allow me to go further. Let me avow I feel convinced that if England, when the Prince of Hohenzollern withdrew, had then expressed her opinion in that tone and with that manner which I now wish her to assume, we should never have had the disastrous war which has disturbed, perhaps for many years to come, all the peaceful relations of civilized lile. In say? ing this I do not Imply a censure on her Ma? jesty's advisers. It is true that a government can form in no small degree, as I have said, the mind of a people, but it is true, also, that it cannot do this in a week; and the minds of I Englishmen at the time of which I am apeak- [ lng were so dimmed and daunted by a ti nid, mistrustful, and miscalculating egotism that! doubt whether a minister who felt that appa? rent boldness was real prudence would have been understood. Such a warrant o! earnest? ness, Indeed, was there about us that we could not even adopt neutrality earnestly, but did so in that half-and-half, unsatlsiactory, shopkeep? ing manner that we are at this very moment despised as a friend by one power, and accused as an enemy by the other. FAULTS OF FBANCE. To the fault of an unjustifiable war, to which it ? absurd to deny that the French nation cheered on the chief whom lt had just re-elect? ed bv almost universal acclamation, has b 2en added almost every fault which could render a reasonable peace difficult, though it ia but just to acknowledge that generous sentiments, ara* volt against despotism, aod a patriotic spirit of j independence may have dictated some of the late errors I deplore. Still, it should ha's struck the common sense of France that the overthrow of an established government without the immediate creation of another with eome legitimate oririn and sanction, must be in eome degree an impediment in the way of negot?tion with any foieign powei; that tbe armament of an insubordi? nate population was .not the way to preserve order or promote internal confidence in a beleaguered city; and that such language as that of which M. Hugo bas furnished the most notable example is rather calculated to incite a mob against its leaders if they do not pei form impossibilities, than to nerve a nation io ila duty to defend itself as long aa defence can be prolonged without ruin and destruc? tion. But with these difficulties we bavo to deal, and we just learn that negotiations for an armistice and peace have failed. Ton have stated in powerful and simple language the alternative-two millions of people are to be starved ur bombarded; and the works which it baa required the arl, the wit, the genius and gradual civiliaation of contonee to produc? may be lost to mankind. And f jr what ? To obtain the assent of five or six genMemon, whose authority to give is disputable, to the cession of some distant' territory and fortresses which have been taken, or are being? taken, or wdl probably be taken without this dreadful tragedy to desecrate the deed. TEE SITUATION. The situation is one which, for the interest of all parries directly and indirectly concerned, requires the interposition of Europe; it is one, also, in which all parties may accept her as a mediator, for their interests and hers are in? separably combined. I confess I have clearly in my own mind tho form which that media? tion should take, but I am loth to state it, be? cause no one ia more convinced than myself | tht.t yon often mar a negotiation by stating crudely and broadly in the first instance the result you desire to arrive at; still, I do think that I seo a position in which the neutral powers might place themselves-a position sufficiently advantaceous to both the belli? gerents to obtain from each some not unwil? ling surrender of conflicting pretensions. THE ALTERNATIVE. I do not now presume to prescribe any par? ticular cours9 concerning them to the able men to whose judgment we have, in a certain de? gree, confided the conduct of England at this crisis. If they think, on their terrible respon? sibility, that peace can be attained without our interference; if they think that it can be arrived at by our interference exercised in the most mild, invisible manner: if they think that the prese >t moment is not the best to speak, and see through the gloom which obscures the public view-the moment when our voice may be more abvautasreoaaly raised, though everv minute that is lost with tho dreadful prospect before our eyes seems to me an eternity-still even up to this point I will defer to their au? thority. But ir, on the verge of horrors at the mere thought of which Christianity and civili? zation shudder, it is deliberately determined that the morality of Great Britain is to be that of a man who will see a fellow-creature drown rather than run tho risk of wetting his feet ti save him-if, standing in view of an immeasurable calamity about to inflict the world, we are wrapped up m an unchangeable resolve to remain mute and motionless, with? out making an effort, without saying a word to avert it-then, indeed, 1 cannot refrain from expressing my mournful apprehension that thc dty is not far distant when God will wan? dra w; from us a power we have not known how to use worthily, and that a policy so calculated to excite disgust by ita selfishness, and con? tempt by its cowardice, will be as fatal to onr future interests as to our past renowa. ?J RE AT EARTHQUAKE IN ASIA. Over Three Thousand People Killed. A correspondent of the London Timea writes from india: The Hornau Catholic Bishop or Batana;, on the connues of Thibet, China and Burmah, sends to India a terrible account of an earth 1 quake in that region, affecting an area of ono hundred and eighty by ninety miles. The 1 event occurred on tbe 11th of April, and hm last letter ia dated the 30th of May. Consider? ing that the missionaries there jan commu? nicate only by Shanghai, the transit ortho let? ters has been rapid. Last year, it may be re? membered, there wan a very destructive earth Snake in tho. in one sense, adjoining British istrict of Cachar. A ahock at five in the morning and a stronger shock at noon was followed at sunset by an earthquake which levelled thc whole town and killed or bruised half the population. Tho missionaries escaped to their garden, and only one of their servants perished. The large and splendid Lamoaerai, inhabited by three thousand Limas, fell with The Chinese official reports, which Dr. Chau veau tells us are a little exaggerated, estimate the loss of human life at 418 Lama priests. 5T soldiers, and 2812 common people. A series of earthquake shocks were felt aa far aa Punsr mou-tang, where ilr. T. T. Cooper met Seer iSuffguteing, the Nepaulese Ambassador, in 18C8. The village and many others are de? stroyed, and so many of the authorities and the soldiers have been buried under the ruina ot their houses that robbers, like wild beasts, run everywhere. To conclude, in the bishop's own words, "the imperial highway from Pekin to L'Hassa 6eens, and is said to be now, to? tally impracticable near Kong-dze-tin by the fall of a mountain and the pudden upheaving of a new one." -The proprietors of the Imperial Opera House at Paris display a rare economy. The objection? able word Imperiale has been partly obliterated from the gilt letter title, so that lt readB Acad?mie .ale de Musique. They mean, if necessary, to mak ?lt read Xationale, saving the expense on three letters. MATTERS IN COLUMBIA. Transfer of United States Troops-Tbe New Telegrapn Line-Scott's Latest Dilemma-The Great Grant in Sontb Carolina-The University* [FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.! COLUMBIA, October 18. The garrison of United States troops at Co? lumbia ls to be transferred to New Tort City, their new quarters to be one of the forts in the harbor. The orders direct these troops to remain here until after the South Carolina elections on the 19tb, and then repair to New York before the approaching elections there in November. They will leave here about Friday of the present week the 2lst. Two companies of the 18th regiment, now at Atlanta, have been ordered to Columbia. What officers are to command has not transpired yet. The motive for removing the officers and men of this garrison will be explained in dse time. Ur. Johnson, of Richmond, agent of the South? ern and Atlantic Telegraph Company, ls In Co? lumbia, presenting the claims of the new com * pany to our citizens. Among the directors of the company are such names as Wade Hampton and John D. Gordon. The president ls Mr. R. W. Dorp hi ey, of Philadelphia. The new enterprise ls, I am Informed, being reoelved with much favor by our community. Not? that his Excellency Governor Scott has followed the unfortunate advice of bis friends In publishing, under his own signature, a denial of the acconnt of the famous interview of 1868, j given by General Hampton, and has drawn out | the full endorsement of that account by the two other witnesses of the interview, Messrs. Childs and Gibbes, our community, and doubtless every honest man in South Carolina, feel obliged to his Excellency for putting the matter ao sharply be? fore the world. Our people knew his character, but never had lt on record so clearly before. And, now that he has been Induced to subscribe to his own Infamy, we hear definitely some of those additional matters of the same Interview, which have been remotely referred to by several parties; all con? firmatory of the main charge-treachery to the negroes. Those additional matters are (l) the letter he gave to somebody In Sumter, lu order to get the Radical tickets; (2) what he said about his appointment of anybody the Democrats should designate as managers, who could control the Ed gea eld elections; and (3) something about that proclamation he straightway published. General Hampton has, In his g?nerons mercy, spared the wretched man as far as possible; but there are others who are being forced to the conclusion that to thus favor a traitor, may do real harm to honest men and detriment to the State. It la understood here among military men that President Grant will pass through Columbia to? morrow, the 19th, on his way West. He is not to stop over, but go on through. The University of South Carolina, at the begin? ing of the third week, has thirty-two matriculates. _ _ _ CORSAIR. THE BOURBONS. * The Comte de Chambord Claims the French Throne. The Phalre de Loire, publishes the following; letter, which, lt asserts, has been written and distributed by the Count de Chambord: Monseigneur ls greatly affected by the sit? uation of France. He follows with anxious solicitude the disastrous events which have brought the enemy before Paris, and now his bosom swells with the thought that lt is per? haps .to him, with Providence for his help, that should be confided the honor of saving our unhappy country. The French Monarchy, of which Monseig? neur ls the heir, and which is resumed In his person, has done great tilings In days past, and more than once has saved France. Monsigneur is convinced that this noble task ls now bis, and that to-day, as ever, right will triumph over might. He ls, therefore, about to devote himself to this great work with all the prudence and energy which the circumstances require, and he calls upon his Irlends to accord him their devoted assist? ance. The cause of Monarchy is now what it has al? ways been-the cause of France herself. Many have given lt to events, to Interest and Influ? ence, and other considerations. But now we have light. Revolution, whatever Its form, has never given peace, security or liberty to the country. From the beginning she has al? ways oscillated between anarchy and despo? tism, and to-day, for the third time, her sacred soil ls Invaded and defiled by the foreigner. * * * * Monseigneur says, therefore, to all, "Do not be disquieted, but hope. On the proper occasion I will present myself. On the day when France will nave need of me, for whatever purpose, I shall be there. For lorty years I have shown that I have not cared for Eower; but I have always cherished In my eart the love ol France, and my devotion will always keep on a level with my duty." The oath ls abolished, and consequently he can say that to his friends which he could not say before. Monseigneur earnestly calls upon them to avail themselves of the electoral func? tions, to become members of the communal and departmental councils, mayor?, adjuncts, Ac, In order to be present everywhere where they may advance the moral and material In? terests of the country. In a few days a Constituent Assembly is to be elected. Will lt be able to meet and do its work in tbe midst of the dangers and, per? haps, disasters ot the country ? * * * it ls necessary, then, for the safety of our country that all parties set aside their Indecision and susceptibility and come to us, because we rep? resent right, truth and justice It ls necessary that all those Frenchmen who have bowed the head to circumstances, and to the ephemeral powers which have owed their existence to circumstances, should at last recognize that hereditary monarchy ls now the only haven In which they;can find peace, honor and se? curity. The Empire has delivered us over to the for? eigner: the Republic ls impotent in the pres? ence of so great a disaster, and besides, she alarms by her doctrines and exaggerations. There remains, then, hereditary traditional monarchy, which, in unison with the whole country, will hunt the Invaders from our soil or obtain from them an honorable peace, which peace will be sincere and lasting. Inas? much as it will preserve intact both the honor and territory or France. ?**#?? Monseigneur presents these reflections to the consideration of all his friends, and earn? estly requests them to conform to these In? structions In all those provinces where they have the right to count on success. Confidence, devotion and firmness ! God will do the rest ! September 16, 1870. -A correspondent writing from Versailles furnishes the following account of an Interest? ing scene which recently occurred there. Early in the evening Bismarck entered the hotel dusty and hungry; he was attended only by a few officers. He ordered dinner in the salle-a manger, which was already crowded with peo? ple. Recognizing General Burnside at a table with Generals Sheridan and Forsyth and Mr. Forbes, he saluted them, and Joining them, chatted pleasantly regarding Forbes's visit to Paris. Some one at this time called the at? tention of the Count to the map ot Germany, hanging on the wall overhead. "Yes, Ger? many as lt was !'' was the significant reply. -Rev. Dr. Bellows, president of the "Amer? ican Association for Relief of Misery of Battle Fields," in response to a telegram from Mr. Sandford, our late Minister at Belgium, dated Brussels, October 7th, says: "Pray direct the American charitable movement rather for destitute than wounded victims of the war. There are 200,000 starving In Ardennes alone." He suggests that a new society be organized, and asks: "Cannot a humane sentiment, such as once fed Ireland, be again excited In the American breast toward French and German Bufferere.'' fFlame?. CHAPMAN-TROUT.-In Smithville, N. C., on Thursday, October 13th, 1870, at the residence of J. H. Tnees, Esq., by the Rev. Wm. M. D. Moore, WM. 0. CHAPMAN, Esq., or Charleston, S. C., to MABT HANNAH, youngest daughter of the.late Captain Geo. 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