The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, July 12, 1866, Image 3

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--S?M--?--?-gS News Items. LEAVENWORTH, Juif ll--Th? BUTgeOHB, _ - , aller a consultation, "have decided that S Senator Laue -will die, but ho rhay possibly liv? a few days. A later despatch announces the death of the unfortunate man. ANNAPOLIS, MD., July ll .-Father? Gord man and Clarisse and two student? were drowned tooday, bv capsizing in a boat: two other persona clung to tho boat, which finally drifted ashore. Congressional. WASHINGTON, July IX. -Tho Sonate-, to? day, passed a bill to extend, tor ~?hree years, tho benefits cf the law granting lands io tho Southern States for tho estaba lishment of . agricultural colleges. Also, passed a bill regulating the time and man? ner of holding elections for United States Senators. Among other provisions, it re? quires that tho vote shall bo rira voce. The Senate, hy four majority, rojeetcd the bill for the re-annexation of Alexandria city and County to the District of Colmr bia. The House passed a Joint resolution pro? viding for a re-organization of thc militia . of the States and Territories in a uniform manner, and for the distribution among them of two-thirds of th? ordnance and ordnance stores, excepting tho States late? ly in insurrection; also, passed a bill grant? ing the right of way to any telegraph com? pany over the public domain. -j? ' < ? Market Reports. NEW Yonx, July ll.-Cotton qniet, with sales of 300 bales, at 35tfi37. Gold i9?. Sterling 9? for 60 day lulls. 7T. M. -Gold 491. Cotton doll, with sales of 270 bales; middling Sti. Flour dull and unchanged; Southern lower, with sales of 890 barrels, at $10@16.50. Wheat dull, at *2.29@2.55. Pork heavy; mess $31.70. Lard heavy, at 18*6^21. Whiskey dull; State $2.20. MOBILE, July ll.--Sales of cotton to-day 200 bales; middling 30; as middling is very scarce, it commands full prices; lower grades more abondant and cheaper. A SERMON ON CLEANLINESS.-In the Mutanan Congregationalist Church, last Sunday, the Rev. O. B. Frothing ham delivered a sermon on "Pesti? lence." In the course of his renuirks, the reverend gentleman said that pestilence proposes death to supersti? tion and to the piety that drops on its knees instead of using its feet and hands, and to the devotion that putt np prayers instead of putting down ignorance. We read tho meaning ol the pestilence differently. It is obvi ons it comes to teach us the primary value of our social condition. 1 charges us to live decently, cleanly and temperately, or we shall die. Th? laws of health must be observed. Ii is absolutely necessary to have whole son "1 "s. The arrow may fly, tin pest., e may walk, but we must b< made feel the necessity of livinj like ramonai creatures. Iden ant women should be clean for the joy o . it.__ Mr. Erskine S. Allin, United Stat e Armorer, at Springfield, Mass., ha invented a plan for altering the old fashioned Springfield musket to breech-loader. The new gun can h fired more rapidly than any revolvin arm, does not get foul, neither doe it easily get out of repair. The Ore nance Burean has directed the r< modeling of 5,000 Springfield mu: kets oh Allin's plan, and it is probabl that the gun will eventually be adopte as the arm for the infantry branch c our service. No new guns are bein luanufactured at tho Springfiel armory. A NEW TRICE OF BURGLARS.-Sou of the professional burglars ha\ adopted a new method of cbtainin information in regard tc desirah places for "operations." Durin business hours, when honseholdei are absent, men call at their res deuces, and, representing tbemselve to be internal revenue officers, mai minute inquiries of the servant about their masters' occupation! habits, silver plate, furniture, &c which information is taken advantag of by burglars. Citizens should ? on the lookout for such tricks i these. A paper published in tho district i Avoyelles, La., has a sad story of tl condition of agricultural proper ^ there: "Nearly nine-tenths of tl - i alluvial lands of our parish aro und water, and four-fifths of the cottc and cora planted aro destroyed 1 the overflow. lu the districts who the water has not done the mischit myriads of grasshoripers are at wor in advance of tho caterpillar inv sion, eating up everything in t! fields. Never, during or before t war, have we witnessed a worse prc peet for our unfortunate people." The New York Chamber of Coi meroe, at their meeting ou Thursds adopted a strong remonstrance Congress against tho proposed i L crease of the tnriff. Tho duties V many cases, they say, are so high to be prohibitive, and altogether c structive to certain branches of co meroe. Resolutions were also ado] ed in favor of direct steam com mu: cation with China and Japan withe stopping at the Sandwich Islands. The radical papers state that ord? have been issued to tho Postmast General by President Johnson, dismiss immediately seven post?n ters in tho Twenty-seventh Now Y( Congressional District. Reason- H position to the President's policy. A Southern relief fair will be h at St. Louis next September, grand tournament will be held connection with the fair, followed a ball at the Southern Hotel. A jury just empannelled in K York represents $75,000,000. I mont, Astor, Stewart and others cc pose it. . g Additional Foreign Itcmi. We subjoin soniq details by tbe Saxonia, from Southampton, to tbe 27th ultimo: The Italian army crossed tie river Mincio with?ut meeting any opnosi ti<m from the Austrians. Then they ?tushed on towards Pesehiern, Dom >ardy, but were repulsed by a short cannonade from the forts of that stronghold. The Italian army was finally en? countered by the Austrians ia great force, in tho -vicinity of Ycrona, and a great battle commenced. The Aus? trians had repulsed both wings of tho Italian army, but the fight was still going on. Negotiations for the capitulation, on honorable terms, of the Hanover? ian army had been agreed upon be? tween the commander of the Hano? verian army and the commander of the Prussian forces. The Prussians easily repulsed the Austrians Hussars, owing to the ef? fective power of tho "needle gun." Prince Charles' army met no re? sistance in crossing tho Bohemian frontier. It is expected that Grcncral Benedek will debouch from Bohemia with the main body of his army (Aus? trian) upon Garlitz, .compelling the Prussians to evacuate Saxouy, by a flank attack. The Prussians are arm? ing Coblentz and Ehrenbreitstein for? tresses as a defence against the Southern Germans. Sunday's engagement between the Austrians aud Italians, near Verona, lasted all day, ending in the complete defeat of tho Italians, who were com? manded by the King. Both armies fought most bravely, but the Italians were repulsed at r.U points, after a severe and bloody struggle. The Italians recrossed the Mmcio on Sun? day evening. Prince Amedeas was wounded. The Austrians captured 2,000 prisoners. The Austrians then took Castaz;*? by assault, and occu pied Bonnie. Nothing is known of Gc?. Bene dek's movement. The Prussians at tacked Gswieciu and Gallada, auf were beaten off with loss by th? Anstriau8. The Hanoveiian ann} escaped through the Prussiau corp and reached Meiningen. The Prus sians will not blockade the Hanover ian ports nor seize private property. Garibaldi intends marehingthrougl Tyrol directly to Munich. An official despatch, dated Brescia on the evening of the 25th, says : To day, in au engagement between tin Italian volunteers and the Austrians between the bridge of Oeffira au< Lioudsoro, tue Austrians were re pulsed, leaving several killed ftn< wounded. A Paris despatch of the 2fith say that a Madrid telegram announces proclamation of General O'Donnell expressing his determination vigco onsly to repress all disturbances, letter from Madrid states tliat l,7.r< prisoners were taken during the r? volt, 1S7 of whom had been shot Tho total number of killed was 1,(MM A Carisuhe despatch of the 26t says that the Baden Minister at Bo: Hu had been recalled, and the Gran Duke will join his forces to the Fed? ral army. Now AND THEN.- Professor Sill man, in his diary, speaks of a vis he made to Saratoga in 1707. It wi rather in contrast with the Saratog of our times. He says: "We mounted our horses one de and rode seven or eight miles throng the pine forest, with its delightfi fragrance, and arrived at a pla? where they said there were som*' m neral springs. There was nut even village, but only two or throe Ic houses standing among the pii trees. The people were civil, an provided hay for our horses, and f< ourselves bacon and eggs. Tin y j Joted us into a morass where natu was unsubdued, and stepping ca tiously from bog to bos.;-, wc soon n rived at" ;i spring which they calli the Congress Spring, which tasted i it does now." rm. .. i >_..:,i_ . . /r? i . n . Am; x iwlficliCe I.) i ress cu morales among the notable trees that State au ash tree which grows Apponaug. At the surface of t ground it is sixteen feet and s inches in circumference, but eig feet higher expands to twenty-sev feet. Here tho branches, twent three in number, diverge, each which would, itself, make quit?' respectable tree in size. T branches are quito regular aud prese in their circular form a pretty a pearaucc. The shade of the tn which is symmetrical, is seventy-fi feet in diameter, making a capacio shade, beneath \vhi?'h a regime might find shelter. -- - - Tarboro, North Carolina, must a fine place to live in, these ha times. The Southerner says that it full of all sorts of good things and very low ligures. Bacon hog rou 15 cents, lard, 10 to L8, lamb 10. i 10, eggs I2.':j to J5, butter ?15, spri chicken 15 to 20, grown chickens to iJO, meal SI per bushel. Vegetab of every variety, corn, tomato okra, onions, corn field pens, n beets, cabbages, cucumbers, ?fcc,; i sale. Every ono will give any one I manv as they want. ? The Rev. Paul Hamilton, on i eeiving the presentation to the chu; and parish of Broughton, nour Ed burgh, preached a farewell sermon tho ladies of Ayr; and, nota little the surprise oi" his fair auditory, g out his text, "And they fell iq Paul's neck and kissed him." End or thc Ueform BUI. The Richmond Times has the fol? lowing intelligible comments on the defeat and downfall of the late Bri? tish Ministry : The downfall, resignation, and the acceptance of the resignation, of the Rnssell-Oladston*? Ministry, was look? ed forward to as something which could not be avoided, after the news which reached ns a few days ago. It ha*-come rather more suddenly than vt .is expected, however. The end of the reform bill has brought about a ministerial crisis which has been speedily followed by a change in tho English Cabinet. "The long debates, fierce contests aud endless divisions have ended in the defeat of the bill by which Mr. Gladstone, a few weeks ago, declared that he would stand or fall. The bill and Mr. Gladstone have fallen. A far more intellectual man than -Lord Palmerston, and the foremost states? man and orator of the nineteenth century, Mr. Gladstone has signally failed where much inferior men would have triumphed. His brief career as Prime Minister has been crowded with mistakes and blunders, which his giant intellect was unable to re? deem. Like the daring pilot of Dry? den, he has steered straight on rock after rock to show how wonderfully he could nan age a vessel.'' The initial, and, indeed, the cardi? nal, errors of Mr. Gladstone, con? sisted in his introducing a reform bill in less than six months from the death of Lord Palmerston, and a reform bill which aroused the oppo? sition of the land influence without satisfying the masses, lt was a weak, timid, half-way measure, which would have been far more worthy of that old woman, Lord John Russell, than of a great man like Gladstone. It is lamentable to think that the short-lived administration of Mr. GI .cone will only be remembered as most an absolute failure. It is mournful to think that the result of all the protracted debates and br? j Liant displays of the present session is . law for the prevention of the rin I derpest. Although the late defeat of the Mi j nistry was upon one of tho minor ? provisions of tho reform bill, yet the i defeat was regarded as decisive. Mr. I Gladstone was distinctly assured in j debate that he had affronted and alienated a large body of his ad? herents. The defeat of the Ministry was hailed with a wild and furious de ! light, which proved that the preju i dices of the House of Commons were ; most violently and intemperately ar ! rayed against Mr. Gladstone. It has doubtless greatly pained the j numerous admirers in this country of this very able and distinguished i statesman, that he fell threatened by j his supporters, insulted and yelled at ' in tho moment of his defeat, wreck - i ing himself, it is feared hopelessly, j and the bill on which he had set his I heart, and baffling the nation in its earnest desire for a bold, manly re? form bill. And thus has, in all probability, j broken up a Government which has I been in office for several years, and ! at a moment, too, when the continent of Europe is being lit up by tho lurid fires of a war that threatens to bring about greater changes than Europe has seen for half a century-to shat? ter thrones, to set brother against brother and son against son. to opea an earthquake under nearly every throne, aud chango the fate of many a proud and haughty dynasty. The two possible heads of a new j ministry belong to the samo family, j and to tho samo party, while the*, ? represent almost opposite pol?tica ; tendencies. Lord Deri)}* has, in lii> later life, become a Tory, pure nm" simple, although he is not in tin habit of offering obstinate resistance i to any necessary concessions whicl may be pressed upon him by pliabh associates. A high position, a popu !ar c.i.tract er and a great oratonca -ii ! y have acquired for Lord Derbj a i honorary pre-eminence, whicl will not bo disputed if he claims tin vacant Premiership. He is very old now, however, and his failing healtl and growing weariness of pol?tica affairs would devolve the real arrange mont of a Derby Government on i young and moro ambitious states mau. Thc coming man, who wil take the placo of poor Mr. Glad j stone is, in all probability, Mr. Dis raeli, who is neither bigoted nor im practicable. The other possible head of the nev j Government is Lord Stanley. Bu the leading measures of any Govern ! mont, formed by either Derby o Stanley, would bc very similar, a both are conservative chieftains o the same school. ?-???? The Baltimore Association for th Moral and Educational Iniprovemen . of tho Colored People, has succeede ; in establishing eight schools, with daily attendance of not less thu ' 2,500 pupils. One of the schools ', comprising OOO scholars in its dail .average, and 3,000 during the yeal 1 had its first annual exhibition lat j week. Tho Sun pronounces th I exercises on that occasion as vcr ! meritorious, and of a nature calci I luted to excito the highest hopes ft I the future. j The Jonesboro (Tenn.) Flag of i recent date comes to us with an eigl j column extra, almost entirely filk with sheriff sales. If this don't sho hard times in that section, whi I would? The Truth. The Richmond Times hos no hesi? tation in speaking oat tho truth, as may be seen from the following : Shoddy and Petrolio are on the rampage at the Northern watering plates, and Jenkinses and Bohemians of every stripe and character are chronicling their performances with ludicrous minuteness. The honors of the old codfish and mackeral aristo? cracy pale before the mushroom splendors which surround and follow the people who have not made any contribution to the "conscience fund." The men who furnished pa? triotic beef and loyal bacon and bread to the "Union" armies, and who supplied the mules and horses with oats and hay, are now about- to take out patents of nobility at Sara? toga and Newport. There is already a blaze of diamonds, a whirl of new vehicles, and a rustle of new and costly dresses, a bundle of gold-head? ed canes, a number of gold snuff? boxes, a profusion of gandy breast? pins, and a very limited amount of true gentility and refinement. Many of those gems mid precious ornaments, if closely examined, will be found to contain Southern initials imperfectly erased, like "U. S. " or "C. S." on a horse or mule, which the possessor has not come honestly by. Some of the holders of these "relics" of the wai-, more frank or moro impudent than thc rest, will exhibit publicly ?orne ring which he stole down in "Dixie,"and will plume himself greatly on this "trophy," which he snatched from tho finger of some Southern dame or damsel. Per? haps it was her wedding ring, or the pledge of vows made to some hero whoso dust now reposes in Holly? wood. No matter; the ex raider or ex roguo no less conspicuously parades it as if it were a sword or pistol taken in the honorable heat of bloody couibat. He had no taste for the acquisition of these deadly weapons; hence his raids were confined to rings, family plate, chickens, ducks, turkics, geese, house linen and huttcr-milk. He, therefore, in consequence of tho dis? cretion which he exercised during the war, managed to survive its dangers, sud, to-day, he is a great man at the watering-places. As lying is gene? rally the companion of theft, he is at no loss to describe all the terrible bat? tles and single encounters in which he has participated, and generally goes to bed at night with sin enough on his conscience to toke him to Hades, if he dies before next morn? ing. But ho does not die; Satan has use for such men, and keeps them rdivo f\o long o>a possible. SKNSATIOSAJ-. - The notorious For? ney, writing from Washington to his paper in Philadelphia, says: "Should th?> attempt to bribe and intimidate the Legislature o? the so? vereign States succeed in thu defeat of the article adapting tho National Constitution to the changes demand? ed bj' the overthrow of treason and slavery, Andrew Johnson's next step will bo to call upou the recently se? ceded States to elect members to Congress, and to choose electors in the coming Presidential election on the present, basis ol' representation. Here you have his programme at a glance. The result may answer the question, whether the war for human freedom was fought in vain. If I understand the utterances of Mr. So? ward, who seems to be tho presiding genius in this terrible proceeding, the President and his friends do not deny that they intend to employ foreo if the people of the United States do not tamely submit to it." Th?- Treasury Department, during tho week, printed fractional currency of the several denominations, am< unit? ing to ?221,145; and the amount shipped was 8342,000, divided as fol? lows: To the Assistant Treasurer at New York, 8100,000: to the Assist? ant Treasurer at Philadelphia, 880, 000; to the National Depository at Baltimore, 884,000; and ?78,000 to National banks and individuals throughout the country. No national hanks were created, nor Government depositories desig? nated, for the week ending July T. 1866. Tho amount of national bank currency issued during the v. eek wa: 61,072.ib5, and tho total amotinl is? sued to dato is 8283,027,605. The amount of mutilated national hankcurrencv redeemed and burned, anterior to July 1,1866, was 8282,000. Of this amount, 837,000 was cancelled in Juno.-Cor. 2few York Herahl. The London tort merchants give each year a prize of 85,000 to the ship that brings the first new tea to England. Of course there is great competition among the vessels, and this year no less than ten clippers arc to start from Hong Kong and race all the way to England. Last year tin clipper ship Fiery Cross won tin race. She and the Taeping sailed from Hong Kong around the Cape ol Good Rope and into the Englisli Channel, side by side, when the wind failed, and the Fiery Cross, procuring a tog, beat 1er competitor a few hours, accomplishing the voynge it eighty nine days. ? . - At Demopolis. Ala., a negro made application to the Bureau to recovo his runaway master, lt seems that i Yankee settler had employed a nu m ber of negroes to work a cotton plantation, but tho crop got? so mud "in the grass" that he found ho wai doing a losing business, and de camped. Mexico. By tlio arrival at this port last j evening, of the steamship Corsica, from Havana, we received our special j correspondence from Mexico, dated at Tampico, the 19th, Mexico city ' 22d, and Vera Cruz the 26th of June, j Tho whole tenor of the communica- : tiona goes to show that the Mexican j people, so long scattered and hitherto so divided in iutcrest, were be coming more aud more united, and t much more warm in the cause of the independence of their country. As a first result, the imperial forces, French and native, had sustained a nunilier r ''"feats, of greater br less severity, Lu the field, and the cause of Maxi-' .oilian was still more gloomy in cou ' sequence. Marshal Bazaine had become ex? cited and set out for San Luis Potosi, with, it is said, the intention of open? ing a stirring campaign against the. Liberals in the North-west; indeed, it appeared as if the Marshal dreaded that thc French troops would not bc permitted to retire from the country in quiet marching order, but perhaps becompelled to leave in the attitude of men forced to go. To prevent, if possible, such a contingency, by con? sultation and action with his officers and soldiers at San Luis Potosi, was thc object of his visit to the towu. Tf Maximilian could obtain money he might, it is said, raise an army which would perhaps sustain him for some time longer; but DO person j could conjecture from what source, j foreign or home, he could hope to ; draw the funds. His treasury was literally empty and most of the pub? lic works, undertaken after his ar? rival, were in a languishing condition. ' The straits to which the Emperor has . been reduced financially may be I estimated from tho fact alleged in our i Washington telegraphic report, to i the effiiol that news had been received in that city, dated at Vera .Cruz on j 21st of June, -'n which it was sdleged that Marshal Bazaine had aprreed to pay Maximilian the sum of 35,000 a month, for his more pressing uses, I from the French army chest, i Santa Anna still engrossed a large i share of the public attention. The ! Mexican Liberals proclaimed the j theory that an understanding had been como to between Mr. Seward, ? the Emperor Napoleon ?nd the ex I President, by which Maximilian would be "let down' gracefully, j Santa Anna restored ami elected ': President, the United States Cabinet I holding itself read} to approve o? the "eventualities" arising from the change o? executive. The Liberal? j who were imbued with tiri? idea did , not entertain sn ?li au implicit confi? dence in Mr. Seward's friendship ar they did sonic months ago. Saut;: Anna, it is said, will remain nupopiv lar with them, no matter iii what official form he may be presented. The city of Tampico .v.is closely ? besieged by the Lib?rai forces, win had made a dashing attack, riding 'into the very streets .it the placea ? one time. I Desertions from the Imperial t< 1 the Liberal army were frequent. Tho idea of annexation to tin I United States was widely fostered ii the liberal ranks.-New York Herald j ANOTHER LOT or MOKMOKS.-Th< j Elm City brought up from New Yorl I 575 Mormons and Morinoncsses, oi j their way to Utah, hy the Vermon j Central and Grand Trunk Railway ; They came under the care of "Brothe . Miles," a special agent who formet : the train in England for the land o golden promise, on the other side o ; the Rocky Mountains. Tho majorit1 of them are Welch and English, wit! tho scattering of here and there : I Hollander to make upa varier}*. Tb ] sexes are about equally divided, am j are mostly young people of hale am i hearty constitutions, whose connte nances look tho picture of health ? We are informed by the agent tha ' there are now over 0,000Mormons o: I tho way from the coast of German; j to the Rocky Mountains-, and that a : tho train ure expected to reach Sal : Lake City before October. I New Ha~ 'n Register. i _t t_ GOIXCJ TUF. WHOM: Hoo.-Dr. E rho statistician of the Treasur partment, has compiled som .jgures in regard to hogs and the ho .rade, that throws some light upo . tho expression "going t he wliol ' hog;" or, at least, show that if sue j a phrase is allowable anywhere, ; would bo in America. In seven of the chief European ni lions, with a population of 215,000 I OOO. there is only one-sixteenth of J pig of 200 pounds to each perso* < In this country we have a hog an 1 three-hundredths apiece, thus ci abling Americans not only to "go tl ? i whole hog," but to do so with a amii ' margin to spare. Severa! attempts to in.rodr.ee w hi ' labor in the cultivation of cotton : [ Alabama have been made and faile , The German Emigration Soeietie 1 which promised to supply the ant L free black-labor planters with lube > ! ors, have turned out to bo gio ' I swindles. Ono planter, who w 1 foolish enough to try it, had a lot crop-eared bounty-jumpers sent him, who deserted after bavin- the ' j passage paid and receiving tho fir instalment of their wages, i _ , ? , , _ " j D' lois is bigger than New Eu 1 ? land and New Jersey, Delaware ai 1 j Maryland besides-the latter Stat * j having, altogether, an area of 54,8 " 1 square miles, while Illinois baa 5J ?405. Among the curiosities which will figure at the Paris exhibition, a per? petual motion pendulum is .au nouneed, which has already been oscillating for three years without interruption. The inventor of this apparatus is a well-known watch? maker in Paris, but he will not as yet allow his name to bo published. Three years is scarcely a test of per petusl motion. Cao PS ix EAST TENNESSEE.-A cor respondent writing from Bristol, East Tennessee, in regard to the crops of that locality, says: The prospect for an abundant yield of wheat is not promising. Corn and oats look web ; the latter never better. Our grass crop is also flattering, and if the wea ther permits there will be a large quantity of hay mown. HYDROPHOBIA.-A young mau ut Manayunk, Pennsylvania, died last Sunday, with "very violent symptoms of hydrophobia, who had been moen late?! with the disease from tho bite of a cat, which sprang at him, and made her teeth meet in his leg. On Satur? day, at the sight of water, was seized with spasms, and suffered unutter able agony until Sunday noon, " hen death mercifully gave him a release. They do things in a hurry in Cali? fornia, as witness the following pro? gramme of a "pleasant little p flair:" San Juan Nevada stage robbed at 5 a. m. of 83,000; reward offered at 7 a. m. ; robber shot and all the money recovered i 2 p. m. ; coroner's in? quest at 3 p. nv. ; funeral of the thieves at 6 p. m TROUBLE IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI. - lu accordance with instructions from the War Department, Gen. Fisk has sent three companies to Mississippi to restore order and quiet to the country. The report of General* , Fullerton and Steadman has caused this action on tho part of the Govern ment. The Sumter Watchman says; The drought now prevailing, succeeding an unusually wet season, is affecting tho corn disastrously. From no quar? ter do we hear even tho hope express? ed that more than one-half of a suffi ciency of bread will be made. Somebody who lately saw the Rev. Theodore Tilton (the originator of the "Tilton whoop") in Washington, says he looked like a college fresh man, with a profusion of brown locks and not enough beard to make a door mat to a bee-hive. A special despatch to the Charles ton Courier says that tho President'.* veto message of the new Freedmen's , Bureau bill is written. It is under ' stood that the President had deter mined upon the restoration of the sea . island lands before the bill passed. The New York Times (Republicanj tiays: "The Republican party can? not exist an hour upon its universal negro suffrage platform.'' Still, Maine, Vermont and Iowa have de 1 dared for universal negro suffrage. An Irishman, giving his testimony , in one of the Dublin police conrts, a ! few days ago, in a riot case, said "Oh, your honor, the nyst man I saw coming at me, when T got up, wa^ two brickbats." There are said to be8,500,000 acres of public land iu the Southern States to be disposed of under the new ' homestead law, just signed by the ! President. i Gigantic omnibuses on a new model ? have been constructed in Paris, i They aro so contrived that upwards of tifty persons can be seated on the roof. MESSRS. EDITORS: Yon will pica at? an? nounce HENRY E. SCOTT, Ks^., us M oj?iidida'. e for Alderman of Ward No. 2, at the eh ctiou on Mouday next, and oblige ?.luly I-4- MANY CITIZENS. Notice. A LL persona indebted n> Goldsmith A Kant are hereby forewarned to make n,i contracts, or pay money, except bv the consent of TETEU '?IXD. ? I cly 12 1* Richland Lodge ?o. 39, A. F. M. A AN extra communication of tLio Lodge will be held THIS (Thurs /Wla\ > EVENING, 12th instant, at s o'clock, at Odd Fellows' Hall, for the pur? pose of conferring the Pellow-craftsmen'a Decree. By order of the W. M. I July 12 1 J. MENDEL, Secretary^ NOTICE. rilUE annual meeting of the Stockholder.-) X in the King's* Mountain Iron Company will t^e held at Gibbes' Hall, Columbia, on WEDNESDAY, tho sth of Augubt, at 10 , o'clock a. m. A full meeting it earnestly i requested, as business of importance will be brought up for tho action and considor I anon or the Stockholders. Stockholders who aro unable to attend will please for? ward their proxies to some member of the Company. S. H. ANTHONY. jVgenl King's Mountain Ire n Co. July 12 _ 12 2i Heai- the Voice of the People! "vox yoPTJL?r 1IIAVE tried your GERMAN HORSE . rOWDERS, und a:n well pleased with the result. Hoad me f > worth bv express, nd Obligo "P. J. C. Good for all diseases t<> which h orso ia subject. A valuable medicine. No ono should be without it. Fer sale hv FISHER A HElNiTSH, July 12 Druggists. QUEEN'S 'DELIGHT And Sarsaparilla! ?\TTONDEBFUL EFFECT of only one W bottle. Copv of a lotter: "I have , used only half a bottle- of Queen's Delight ! and Sarsaparilla for boils and eruptions of ! tao skin aud ltohiog humor ot tho blood, which annoyed mo very much. I am cv tirclv cured. I think vour medicino a valu ! ablo'oue. F.W. C." For sale bv FISHER ?I HEIMTSH. I July 12