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??TOlviBT?. Wednesday Morning, July 4? 1868. Tilt- N Inflict h ft un lim nifcry in* tho present condition of th? people ot' tlie.se Southern states, it cannot he expected that they cnn in? dulge in the old noisy and boisterous mode of welcoming in thc ever "glo? rious Fourth of July." As we have become, and will remain, a part and parcel of the people of the (Tutted . States, we hare tho same right to be proud of this day ns that of any other citizens of any other section o? this Union; but our present position, po? litically and otherwise, is not calcu? lated to create or produce any loud rejoicing, even on the return of this day, which we trust will ever be re? membered with gratitude by the peo? ple of America. To-day is the national ?Sabbath of the United States-let it be kept us such by our people. Let our prayers ascend to tho Great Ruler of nations that He will vouchsafe to tis patience, resignation aud fortitude, and that , He will, in His own good time, re? store us to tho peaceful enjoyment of OUT rights ns citizens of this great and prosperous republic. Let us not for? get that we have just emerged from a terrible ordeal, and that countless thousands of our bravest and best fell in passing through it. While grateful for the blessings we are per? mitted to enjoy under that Govern? ment which was established ninety years ago on this day, let us celebrate it in a manner that becomes us in our present condition of comparative gloom and adversity. The Colton Tax. Some idea of the amount which the cotton planters will have to pay under the proposed impost on that staple may be formed from the fact that tho two cent internal revenue tax on cot? ton has realized tho following sums from August last up to the end ol May: Maeen District, $2,000,000 Augusta District, $1,000,000: Savan? nah District, $360,000; Atlanta Dis trict, $280,000; a total of S3,G40,<HX in nine months. Those of us who arc engaged in tin business, if the midtiplication tabb has been learned to tell what tin amount of taxes are at two couts pc pound, can tell what it would bi if itlie assessment were five cents pe pound, or even at three, the pro posed moderate tax of the rn dien Congressional Senate. The Washington Chronicle admit that "the Government of the Unite* States and the people of the Nortl are even more interested in the prc ductiou of a large crop of cotton tba tho planters of the South. This fae is at once apparent, if we reflect thf a small crop sells for as much mono as a large one. A full crop of 5,000 000 bales would at once reduce th price of tho article to ten or twelvi and-a-half cents per pound; while half crop of 2,500,000 bales m~st ii fallibly keej) up thc price to twenty (ivo cents. The planters, therefor, get their 250,000,000 or 300,000,0<X whether tho crop be a full one or on' the half of it; and in tito latter cat they incur less expense for labo transportation and superintendence THE NEW ARMY BILL.- -Senat? Wilson, on Friday, introduced a ne army bill to tho Senate, reducing tl infantry regiments to five teas tin the number proposed in the Hon bill. Il is proposed, also, to kee five full negro regiments, and tim full regiments of veteran reserves. Owing to the conservative cour pursued by many of thc Union gen rals, engaged in the recent war, the former idols of the war party are i eeiving much objurgation at tl hands of their once allies. T Westliche Post, a Missouri radie paper, pots tho case rather strong! In a denunciation ol' t lenci als Rot seau and Blair for their oonservatis; that paper says: "If the sentiments which they n< profess are the same they always lu then a General who ordered his troc to kill the rebels was simply n mi derer, who rejoiced in bloodsh* und ho who allowed his soldiers take the hens and the eggs, tho pij the tobacco and the milk of t Southerners, was nothing but a ch of a band of highwaymen. " This is a queer return for the s vices that these gentlemen are si posed to have rendered the cause "the Union." And according to samo logic, wc presume such in viduals as Butler, Hunter and otb may bo looked upon as saints i patriots MESSRS. EDITORS: 1 will not bo! prosy, if X CHU help it, but when did . woman ?ive) the history of un hour ! without many little ' episodes hinder? ing its conclusion ? A friend has sent j "hie tho July number ol' Harper: Tt! is tin* first time I have opened it since the war. I did so with some interest. An article from tim pea of a Virgi? nian, describing his "personal recol? lections of the war," fixed my atten? tion, for it is well written. Of course I would look at events from his Mtand point of national exultation, aud had 'no disposition to criticise. They ure ; not, however, a magnanimous people I iii character, as you will say when I f quote his reflections. "A frantic war } of barbaric pride, ignorance and ? passion, against the empire of art, 1 industry and civilization." Having read the article, I was thinking of its injustice, when my companion cut the pages of Scott's Monthly and read aloud several articles. One was the essay on '"the career of Legare." I closed my eyes thinking, with just pride, ot' "that bright galaxy of names which encircles, like a lumi? nous halo, fm* name of the Southern Review." One loses all bitterness of j feeling at tho reproach of Southern | ignorance, barbaric pride, Arc, when j such name:; as Harper, McDuftie, ! Legare, Elliott, Hoyne aud Calhoun, make for South Carolina, so bright a page in the past, and we have but just enjoyed the lame and influence of a Thornwell-our tears arc not yet dry nor is his place filled. Here, too, the loving, devoted, self-denying Harnwell belonged, os much a victim as any of that crowd of gentle, manly heroes, who were opposed to '"barbaric" hosts of foreigners in our late contest. Yes, we have been out-numbered and beaten by tho "powerful em? pire," and wo intend to bo as good subjects as they are. In dream-land, for about five minutes, my thoughts were busy with "names und their uses"-Bill Arp, Eegare and his eon temporaries passing and repassing. A satisfied feeling grew upon me possibly I was comparing the spirit ol' Southern productions with those freshly imported Northern-when I was aroused by hearing my compa? nion exclaim, (and he should be a judge,) "I am sure there are as good and better articles in Hill's and Scott's magazines, and in the Southern Pres? byterian Review, than in any pages prepared at the North." If you will agree to this observation, you will oblige me by asking of our Southern friends, if they do not also? Ask them why Harper is to bo seen every - ? where? They have thousands of I subscribers (Southern, we suppose, j I since January. i Let us do without pictures; we are not children ; and, if fun is wanted, just send to our hornea for it. There I ure rich scenes and ample scope in j refugee life alone to furnish, maga I zines their stock of caricatures. Sher I man has made us inventive. He dc I stroyed our homes, our furniture and j books, and the substitutes we have j aie new-certainly original -and not costly, and the reading we get is mostly the experience of poor be I reaved friends, scattered up and down the State, or the good strong thought j and individuality of Southern writers, or a good novel from abroad. Snell j are our times. We enjoy what wi j have, and hope to acquire what wt J miss. SERMON FROM BROTHF.I: BEECHER. ; Last Sunday evening, Hov. Henry. ; Ward Beecher preached to hispeoph j in Brooklyn, on thc text from thc ; Lord's prayer, "Load us not int? j temptation." His discourse wai I directed principally to young men, , whom he counselled t.> observe trutl and honesty in all the transactions o ! life. Society at the present time, lu ' said, was progressing and improving in civilization and religion, and ii '? the practice of those virtues whicl : constitute true national greatness. H< , wies not one of those who believet 1 that the human race was deteriorating Truth was the great talisman of trui j greatness and nuder no circumstance: ?should it bo departed from. Si Walter Stott denied, when question ed, that he was thc author of work , which he was then giving to tin world, and which created grea interest and a d?sir? to know wb< > tho author was. Sir Walter, in hi autobiography, in stating the cireum : stance, added that he considered h ; was justified in telling a lie to a part, who had no right to ask him tli question. Mr. Beecher could not nc. capt Sir Walter Scott 's excuse, andoi this subject denounce the practico ti telling small lies, on the prineipl that no harm could como of them Nonqpcould tell the effect of a lie. an none ever had attempted h> trace th history of a lie to its results. Trot : and honesty were more generally un I dcrstood to be thc elements of sneoef ' in business than was supposed, bu unfortunately were not to the sam extent practiced. Thc prayer, "Lea us not into temptation." should 1; constantly on the lips of the youn men entering into business, and whe the first temptation is overcome, tl; path of honest y and integrity appeal easier to the young man ns ho travo I through life. Mr. Beecher delivere ! his discourse in a very earnest lum ; ner, and was attentively listened I throughout. - Rich OK uni Ti mrs. Von can have a mau neatly mu demi iu Chicago for Si2. " THe Convention. The following is from the leading ' article of the New York Herald, on 1 the call for the Union Convention: ! This call is signed by Senators ? Doolittle. Cowan, Dixon, Hendricks, ; Ncsniith and Norton; by Assistant 1 Postmaster-General Bandall, and by , ex-Senator Browning, of HIL is. These names give it a certain signifi? cance, and import ance. The plan proposed is to assemble delegates from all the thirty-six States and nine Territories. The object is to hold counsel together, as friends and bro thees, upon the present condition of j our national affairs, and to take mea- j aurea to avert possible dangers from i the country. ? Tho principles which the delegates ! are to endorse are explicitly stated, j They affirm the perpetuity of the ! Union, the equality of the States and i the abolition of slavery, and insist j upon the constitutional "right of the j South to immediate representation in ' Cougress. As the delegates are to | subscribe to this platform, and to be , chosen by electors of the same faith, j there is no danger that thc convention i will fall into the hands of Southern fire-eaters. They, as well as the radi- j cals, are distinctly excluded. Obvi? ously, the intention of the framers of ; the call is not to rebuild tjie theories ' shattered by the cannon of Cirant, i Sherman and Sheridan, but ia effect < a union between the conservative Bo publicans and the more advanced and patriotic wing of the Demo- ? craey in support of President ; Johnson and against the radicals. | That such a uuion is a cousum- i mation devoutly to be wished, ' cannot be denied. If it had been secured in Congress at the opening of j the session, the radicals, as we have previously shown, would have been , comparatively powerless and harm- , less. It failed of accomplishment I there because of the incompetency I of the leaders on both sides, and especially of Messrs. Brooks and : Raymond, in tho House; and this' movement, for a national convention seems to be an effort tm the part of Democratic and conservative Repub? lican Senators to retrieve the lost ground. They appear to be in ear? nest; lhere are indications that they are very strongly backed by at least a part of the Administration; and that something practical may result from the movement is evident from the irritation and opposition of the radicals und then- organs. Tn fact, under this call for a consultation is a scheme for the organization of a new national Union party, embracing all conservative men, North and South. Without attempting to disetiss, in a single article, all the chances for and against such an enterprise, we may briefly refer to a few leading points of the matter. We would have pre? ferred to see this movement practi? cally inaugurated in Congress, and thence extended, naturally, to the people, at the fall elections. But our advice was not followed by the leaders of the Congressional factions, and, at this late day, having, by their dissen? sions and divisions, surrendered to the radicals every important reconstruc? tion measure, it is with mingled amusement and interest that we see them endeavoring to atone for the errors of thc past and the presont by planning great combinations for tho future. A unioji in Congress was easy and practical; the organization of a new party is a difficult, tedious and wearisome undertaking. It is a question, also, whether the Demo? crats are now as ready for a union ol forces as they once were. The local leaders are already restive under this call, and protest against it, although their opposition may not greatly affect the rank and lile, and may be over? come by events. Still, there is al way.* a risk in neglecting tho golden oppor? tunity, and undertaking to do some? thing upon a grander scale w hen tin opportunity to accomplish it easih has passed. But, on tin? other hand, repentance is decidedly a virtue, anti we are glad to see that oven the poli ticiuns can sometimes exercise it. Messrs. Brooks and Raymond, ant other gentlemen of their calibre, maj still hope to win national reptltatioi and defeat the radicals, and, in spit* of their past follies, we shall sa} nothing at present to discourage them ff tho movement for a new party doe: not come too late; if it is not npoi too grand a scale to be suceessfnl ii lesa that? half a dozen years; if Se ward's Presidential aspirations are no involved in it; if thc Democrats cai bo induced to join it, and if the lova men of the South will send delegate to the Convention, then it only need a strong popular impulse to become : power in tho coming State elections and. perhaps, in Hie next election fo President. Who can give it that popular itu pulse? No other person than Pre sident Johnson. How can he di? it By changing his Cabinet and di manding an immediate settlement o the Alabama claims against England We do not know whether Presiden Johnson is interested iii this scheme The fact that it is stated by his p? liticnl and personal friends convine us, however, that ho cannot d?cid?e ly disapprove of it. lint as it stand it his no genuine vitality. Win. the platform is summed up. its tot; is Southern representation In C<>J gross. That is the only practical lei j tun?. All the rest aro patriotic gel eralities. But in regard lo repre sentation, the radicals can outbid tl new party, and they will do so whei ever it becomes nt all dangerou ' There is plenty of time for a fini movement before tlie elections. "While the Convention is resolving, the radi sals can unbar the Congressional ', spates and end all controversy. It is useless to go before tint people upon . Ul issue which the radicals can sweep | sway before the elections are held. : rhe President must muk?: uew issues, \ md to de this, he must remove his present Cabinet, throw down the i gauntlet to England, and make a bold appeal to the massess, including the j Fenians, by insisting upon Canada or indemnities for the Alabama ont rages. There is no other way for j President Johnson to save himself or build up a party that will save him. j Let him adopt this course, and the peojde will rally to bis standard, ! whether it be displayed at Philadel? phia or elsewhere, and his friends may either form a new party for him, or regaiu the control of tho Republi? can party. Hut if no such action be taken by the President, this National Convention will hardly influence even ii State election. The spectacle of delegates from the North und South mice more sitting together in council tit the old Independence Hall may rdieit a little sentimental admiration; but beyond this, it will amount to nothing. -+ 4t t- .- - Prot? \V?*li tnfitoti. 'lue Democrats, as a party, do not seem inclined at present to take part in the proposed National Union Con? vention, though eminent politicians r>f the party have united in the pro? position made hythe National Union Club, lt is said by some that within ten days the Dem wraf ic members of Congress will endorse^ it. We shall see. But others think and hope that the Democrats will hold a convention subsequent to that o'." the 14th of August, and endorse the principles to be sot forth by the convention e' the 14th. The rumor that Southern luti-.Tohnsou, pro-Congress nien will hold a convention to urge upon the South the ratification of the proposed Amendment to the Constitution, is loubted. lt is said, too, that Mr. Botts, of Virginia, who was sup? posed to had that party, has of late broken fron it. [It is very little difference whether he has or not, or wlcre he goes.-so far as poli? tical weight is concerned. | The new tariff is generally opposed by the press out of Now England and Pennsylvania. It is announced as n temporary mensure to suv? the maim facture rs un.I tin: speculators ii: fabrics and merchandize of all grade* from an impending fall of prices. The Chicago Tt'thmu! estimates thal the holders of goods, foreigu and do me.stie, ol" nil kind-', will make 200, 000,000 at once by the measure. These holders to an amount of 1,000, 000,000 of property affected by this tariff will realize an advance of mort than twenty per cent. But the ebie argument in favor td' the new tariff it that it is rendered expedient and un avoidable by the refusal ol' Congres: to reduce the currency. This is Mr Morrill's view. So the 917,000,000 o paper creates the abominable tarif! and the tariff perpetuates the 'di7. 000,000 of paper. It is understood that an address t tho people of the United States ha been agreed upon by the Democrat! and conservative members of Con gross, and is now being signed. I fully endorses the proposed Natiour Convention tola.' held nt Philadelpbi on the 14th of August, and urges pal ticipatiou in its proceedings. It i bended with the names of Senate Guthrie and Representative Niblacl The miscellaneous appropriatio bill reported to the House contait] an item of $50.000 to establish n; tiona! cemeteries, aud to pureba* sites for the same, at such points f the President may deem proper: alst providing for the care of the sam? ?.200,000 ar.- appropriated for cree ing. in connection with the Trcasm Department, a brick tiro-proof bnih ing for the currency-printing burea ami for storage.- Cor. Baltitnor* >>'". '.SCOTCHED, HIT NOT KH.LED." appears front the statement of tl Minister ol' Finance to the ('anadia Parliament that thc Fenian raids co the Government ?1,100,000, and th: the sum of $000,000, heretofore ask* for militia purposes, bus been ii creased to the heavy sum of ?51,50f] 000. lu presenting Iiis budget, tl Finance Minister stated that tho F niau snake has been "scotched, b not killed." and hence it was nece sary io prepare for future warlil action on the part ol' tin? Broth c hood. lids shows that, the Canadi: appr?hension-- about the Fen i n have not yet entirely subsided. B we think the Canada people eau cal their fears for the present. Wc i not believe tito bold Fenians will u dertake to tight both tho Vmoric: aud British Governments. That, course, would be folly. Their bm ness will, in all probability, for sot time to come, be directed more tot value of polls than pikes in aid of t . anse; and under the familiar cry . repeal" they will make the neutra ty laws a test question in tho corni Congressional elections. Then a Canadian friends nia,\ prepare foi "scare" in earnest. I \,-,r y,,rh ?fr aid. The Albany Aryn*, says thal so sporting mell in l ister County ? a citizen ot sonic previous standing have been held in ?1,000 bonds tito o,lenee of poisoning a race ho of n rival. The noble animal wi stood tho effects of the drug lc enough to win thc race, uud fell d< at the judges' stand. .Ic ?Ter?on Va vi*. ** '.*""' Our readers will recognize in the following tersely written article the pen Of the editor of the Richmond Timem ? When Napoleon Bonaparte died on I the prison rock of St. Helena, at the ? time lie breathed his last iiud for boors after his death, one of the most tremendous stormw that ever swept the facti of land or sea was fiercely raging. Dark clouds draped the canopy of Heaven like a funeral pall, while the straggling winds, with dread and mournful sounds, seemed to give expression to paroxysms of grief and agony. Vast waves thun? dered furiously against the rock? bound shores of the lonely island, as if they sought to tear it from its ? adamantine base. Scorching light? nings shivered the granite crags, and high above the walls of the Jjpnpest and crash of this awful elemental strife came the booming of signal guns from vessels in distress, as they were whirled through the darkness of that night and the dangers of that sea down to destruction. Amid such scenes as these, the soul of Napoleon took its flight. Superstition did not fail to connect as cause and effect the death of such a great mau and the coincidence of such a storm. The1 friends of the imprisoned and exiled Emperor saw in this great hurricane a manifestation of Heaven's anger and vengeance at the conduct of his enemies and the inhumanity of his jailor. Certain it is, that this re? markable tempest was not without its effect upon the mind and conscience of Hudson Lowe. ! ff Jefferson Davis, like Napoleon I Bonaparte, shall die in prison, we know not whether there will be a j physical storm similar to this to he- j raid his entrance into eternity, und strike terror into the hearts of his | enemies. But this we know-that I the death of such a mau in prison, j after the world now knows what he I has suffered, u-ill ar<msea mond ?torm i which ic i tl sweep from the centre lo the. circumference, of fhristen<lom, and pil lory to shame forever on the page of history the actors in the dark tragedy of Fortress Monroe. The ileuth of\ Daris in prison will be au indignant theme before which the deeds of the Inquisition, the crimes of the Bust ile, the murders of London Tower, and the horrors of the Austrian Dungeon, will grow radiant with the light of justice aud mercy. It will be in vain then to place the burden of such a sin on Miles alone. He may alone be thc guilty party; but the name, fame 1 and reputation of the American peo? ple, as represented by the blood? hound party in power, will have to reel and stagger under the gigantic infamy, never tobe relieved by death or burial in oblivion. No penance will then atone for the treatment of Mr. Davis, for the world will only re? collect his virtues and his injuries. For the radical party there will then be eternal shame and degradation, and for Miles there will be peace and happiness neither herc nor hereafter. Wherever he may go, conscience will lash him with her scorpion sting, and tho hissings of the universe will fol? low him. In the song of every bini he shall hear, "Oh! thc shaine, the shame!" and in the rnstlo of evory i leaf breathed upon by the summer's softest z?phyr he shall hear the harsh rattle of the manacles and the piteous moans of his victim. Will he travel by sea? Then a spectral form from Hampton Roads will haunt his ima? ginations and fill his dreams, clothing the crest of each wave with a winding sheet amd shouting vengeance in the loom of each billow. We repeat, if Jefferson Davis shall die in prison, let all amenable for it prepare to meet a tempest and deluge of wrath and shanie, such as never before avenged a deed of wrong to the living or the dead. The Philadelphia Age has been doing a very bad thing for D. D.*s re? putation for consistency-if that bird of ill omen ever had any. Ferney, who is a iHindidate for the United States Senate from Pennsylvania, having recently been inflicting a speech upon the people of Lebanon, in that State, the Age bikes the trou? ble to wade through his nine columns of words on that occasion, printed in the Philadelphia Press, for the pur? pose of seeing how closely he stuck to the text of a speech that he deli? vered at Lancaster, in 18?5. The re? sult is-and tho Age shows this in carefully collated extracts from tho two speeches printed side by side that Forney of 18f>.r> and Forney of 18<>i"> are at bigger-heads in almost every sentence of the two efforts, and tho reader is left in a maze of bewil? derment at the numerous instances in which this political Janus of a. har? lequin manages to give himself tho lie. If it wi ro possible to kill a dead din k, we should say that Forney's speech of 1K,~K> would be enough to cause Forney of 18f>(> to give np the ghost. In the way of a campaign document, we know of nothing l>etter for D. D.'s rivals to do than to print his Lancaster speech by thousands, and then to pay everv voter so much a pago to read it. - Netr York News. -? ?-? Under cxistinglaws, the Superinten? dent of Wo<^ Point must belong to the engineer corps of thc army. The Sonate has, however, iu one bill said that ho may bo taken from any corps, and the House had said the same thing in another bill. Whether both Houses eau agree to say this in tho ?ame bill, remains to be seen. Xjooal Itom?. s i cpFN SION. - To-day beiug the Fourth i ? f July, no paper will be ie?ned to-morrow. . SALE POSTPONE?.- Tue sale o? Mgur. niolnMsex.cte.. advertised by Hr. H. Habt*, luis been pout ?M.ii rd until Saturday, the 7th ?nat. Purchasers will keep thia in mind. Tar. JOHNNIES. - Thc concert of these amateur minstrels was well attended, lari night. They give another performance, tin? evening, with a change of programme. McKenzie's iee cream garden presen i attr?ctioim which should not bedisregarded in thia warm weather. See bia adwrtise n>ent in thin morning's paper. BOOK VNII JOS PRINTINO. -The PUu-n.* office iv now fully supplied with cards, colored Mid white paper, colon.cl ina, wood type, etc., ?na ia in condition ko execute ali manner of hook and joh printiuK in (hf shortest, possible time. Tnt BCKNINU OF COLUMBIA. ? An inter? esting acepnut ol the "Sack ami Destruc? tion of the City of Columbia, H. C.,** lie* just been issued, iu pamphlet form, from the Ptuetdv power press; Orders tilled io any extent. Single copies 50 cents. M AH. AERAXOEMEXTS.- - The Post Office ia open during the week from 8 a. m ?to 1 p. m. and from 5* p. m. to 7 p. m. On Mon? day, from H to 0 a. m. Northern mad opeu? S a. m.; close?24 p- ?? Southern " ."?Ap. m.: '* 9 p.m. Charlrnton jip. m.: " 9 p.m. Greenville ll. li. *' S a. m.: " 8* p. m. Edgefield .' 8 a.m.; " sj p. m. All mada clone on Sunday at 2 p. m. ScxDA? SCHOOL CELEBRATION. The Ma? rion street Methodist Church Sabbath School, one of tho most flourishing insti? tutions of the kind in this city, will ceb bratc its eighteenth anniversary, thin morning, at 9 o'clock. This exhibition will be one of great in teros L; appropriate ad? dresses will be delivered, and the singing + of the large classes will, of itself, be a suf? ficient inducement to attract a large au? dience. THE COXOARKE RESTAI RANT. -Mesero. Trevet Ss Berraghi have opened a reatan rant, on Lady street, next door to th? Post Office, where, the best of everything in thc way of eating and drinking will be ? kept on baud or prepared at short notice. ? AH both of the principals are practical m PU , t and on? of them hus been in a business ot the kind for a number of years, we think i it more than probable that they will be ! successful in their prese.ut undertaking. 1, j you want a tine ?teak, chop, or a goou ! plate of houp, give them a call. THE HONORS ro THE CONFEDERATE DRAB. , Owing to the late hour at which the cere ! monies were concluded yesterday aftor noou, it was lound impossible to give a j report of the proceedings in to-day's paper. A full description of the beautiful and truly touching ceremonies, together with tl?? eloquent addresses of Ber. Mr. Bogga and i Col. F. W. McMaster, will be published in the l'hosn?x of Friday morning--extra I copies of which can be obtained at the j office. I Business waa generally suspended, our citizens having apparently determined to I ohow the ut most respeet to the memory of I our dead hcroce. i The music for the c "asion^aa furnished j by th? ?dd Richland Hi?e band, and, oou Nidcring th'at they hare only recently re? organized, an<l consequently Iud but a ! short time to practice, performed remark - I ably well. { The ladies return their thanks to thc gentlemanly officers of the National and Southern Expreso Compauies for the us. of their teams during the entire day. Also, to Mr. Wm. Hitchcock, for the use of his omnibuses, etc.- Several other gentleman also provided means of transportation. THE RACES. -It is perhaps unnecessary to remind our readers of the race this after? noon, as tho matter bas been the subject . of conversation for several week? past. The entries for the nice will bereen in a.i ; other column. The proprietor ha? gone to , (considerable expense in fitting up abuild I ing, mid it is boped that a goodly number j of ladies will be in attendance. A sufficient j police force will be on the ground to pre-" . serve order. At a meeting of the Club, last night, the ! following named gentlemen were elected j aud added to the list of Tice-Pre?identa: i Col.T. S. Nickereou, Major Theodore Stark, j R. C. Shiver, Edward Hope, Major "W. D. I Peek, .T. O. Gibbes, Captain W. B. Stanley, i Also thc following named gentlemen re I quested to act as a ladies' committee: W. t B. Stanley, Major W. D. Peck, R. C. Shiver j and F.. Hope. PROVOST Coe RT.- The following case*? i were disposed of yesterday: 77?e United State* rs. P. J. Pearson^ citi . zen. - Charge Assault and battery' with a ! pistol on a freedwoman. Plead guilty, t Fined ?0. 77ie United States cs. R. S. BradxctU, citi j tel?.--Charge -Assault and batterjjf on a freedwoman with a knife. Plead guilty. ' Fined $50. 77e l'nitc-1 Sf ute* tv. RiUj J>iseker, fi'eedman.-- Charge-Assault and batter? : on a freedman. Plead guilty. Sentenced j to thirty days bard labor, t The Court adjourned until Thursday. Xr.w ADVERTISEMENTS. -Attention IS call eil tn the following advertisement?, which j are published tins morning foi ibo nisi time: Richland Lodge, No. :w. \. F. Nf. Notice to Tax-payers. H. K. Nichols-Insurance Agency. R. Sala?- Sale Postponed. Columbia Jockey Club-Races. The nerve of the pocket is sometime? aa j sensitive aa the nerve of the tooth. The universal demand for the fragrant Sozo I dont, in preference to all other dentifrices, I ia swamping all tooth powders and tooth I washes of the experimental clase of den tlst*. Hones they d?noune? it.