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COLUMBIA, S. C. Saturday Horning, October 1, 1870. rtc-Uiiion Proposed-Society of Grad?? ate* of the South Carolina military Academy. Before the war tho graduates of oar late State Military Academy had aa as? sociation, and aunually the members met, an address was delivered, and tbe usual social gathoring made the occa? sion a pleasant one to the participauts. It is now proposed to have a re-union of the graduates in the city of Charles? ton, on the 8th day of December next. Colonel Branch, the President of the old association, has authorized this no? tice, and wo are further requested to state that the Bev. Joseph B. Cottrell, a distinguished graduate, now of Union Springs, Alabama, will deliver an ad? dress. We hope that our Charleston coteinponiries and our cotemporaries throughout the State and the South will extend this notico. Tho South Carolina Military Academy, in its day, did its duty, both in pence and in wnh Those who wero edu catod under its auspices have shown themselves not unworthy sous of a che? rished and cherishing mother. Some have fallen hythe wayside in their youth and primo, "weary with the march of life;" many found their death on Southern battle-fields, bnt a number yet survive, and these are invited to meet together in .recognition of the memories of past as? sociations. Why DtWlmpffcn Hurrrmltml-Illa Plau to Bicape Countermanded by tho Emperor, An officer who had not quitted Gen. DeWimpffen all the morning of the 1st, writes as follows ta tho D?bats: On that morning, the Prussians, hav? ing terminated their movement, attacked ns on our right, in order to drive ns on the fresh troops, who awaited our descent from the plateau, before deploying all their forces. For a moment, Gen. De? Wimpffen was deluded, and believed in a victory, not as yet knowing that ho had before him more than 150,000 enemies. In the evening, he resolved to open a passage- for bis troops to the Belgian ter? ritory, or to march upon Cariguan. He would doubtless havo succeeded, as tho enemy, half disorganized by the contest, had remained in position on the field of battle; but the Emperor, who still held, de /ado, the chief command, prevented him, and paralyzed his best efforts by calling up the Prussians with a white flag, and by addressing a letter to the King. Gen. DeWiiupffon, after a warm altercation with the Emperor and his suite on tbe Bubject, returned to his Suarters aud gave in his resignation, apoleon refused to accept it, and wrote to him the following note: GENEBAL: Yon caunot resign at the moment when tba army may be .still saved by an honorable capitulation. You have doae your duty all day; do it still. You will render a great service to the country. The King ha3 accepted the armistice, aud I am waiting for his pro? positions. Believe in mv friendship. NAPOLEON. The General, being then persuaded that only one course was open; that in retiring alone, as he could still do, he might avoid personal captivity, but would abandon tho gallant soldiers who had braved death under his orders dur? ing the whole day; seeing also, that in so acting, he would ill perform the func- ? tions of general-in-chief placed in his hands by tim fortune of war, decided to remain at the head of the army, to share the lot of all, and to set his name to the capitulation-that terrible aot which closes by an immense disaster, by an unforeseen catastrophe, one of the most brilliant of military careers. Gen. Peile also refused to adhere to the capitulation. A letter addressed by him to his wife, says: I am prisoner of war with the whole army. Never has any people had to un? dergo such an allVont. Tell your brother that if he reads the report of the council of war held for the surrender of the army, he will see that two generals re? fused to submit. They were not named; but the world should know that the dis? sentients were Generals Peile and Carre do Bellemore.-Galignani's Messenger. REPEATING THE SIGNAL.-Wo aro told by a French paper, that some years ago the Czar bad occasion to send a tele? graphic messngo into Siberia. The elec? tric telegraph not being then in uso throughout all tho Empire, tho Siberian part of the service bad to bo done by moans of tho old semaphores, or posts with movable arms. When the dispatch reoched tho first Siberian station, tho operator was intox? icated, and neglected to repeat tho sig? nal. The next morning, sober, ho learn? ed what had happened and was in a ter? rible fright. What punishment would he get? Tho kuout, moat probably; the mines for lifo at tho very least; better kill.himself nt once. So ho hung him? self to ono of tho arms of tho sema? phore. Tho operator at the next station saw ?tho whole thing. "A singular sigual," he remarked, "and not on my book. Bnt that is no afluir of mine; my duty is to pass it on." So ho bung himself to the corresponding arm of his semaphore. Tho operator at tho third station, equal? ly tho slavo of duty, did likewise, pass? ing tho signal on, and in a few hours tbore was a string of pendant telegraph? ists all tho way to Tobolsk. "It is magui?que," said tho Czar, when bo heard of it; "but it is not tele? graphy!" Century fine-cut Chewing Tobacco, to bo bad at POLLOCK'S. Til? Election. A correspondent "O," from G rc on ville, under dato of September 28, writes us a? follows:' ? As the tim* of the fall election is drawing near, it is high time Bomotbing was doing to secure a fair election. With Scott's uommlraioners, appointed en* tiroly from the ring, and being allowed ten days to count the votes, we maj not expect a fair election. Now, sir, it is said that every man will be required to pat his vote in folded; that he will not be allowed to vote an open ticket. Under the oironmstanoes, I can see bat one way by whioh wo can detect fraud. Ijet three of - our citizens at each box in tho County, members of the Beform party, remain and count tho votes of the Beform party, as they are folded. It can bo done very well. Jf we aro required to vote a folded ticket, surely no man, who votes the Beform ticket, will be ashamed to show his ticket to tho three men whoso business it shall be to count them, qgd then lot the voter fold bis ticket and vote it in folded. By this mode, we can ascertain the number of Boform votes polled, and if thc Com? missioners do not report it so, we will buvo detected fraud in tho election. C. Mn. EDITOR: The appearance of the name of John T. Sloan, Jr., Esq., as au independent nominee for the office of Probate Judge for Bicblaud County, in a late issac of your paper, was noticed with much gratification by tho large body of tho honest citizens of the County, irrespective of their political proolivities. It cannot be too much lamented that tho party evils, ripe in oar midst, should so havo blinded men to their own simple self-interests as to create an impression that judioial offices are legitimate objects of party patronage. Justice is the one fundamental necessity of sooiety, beside which all of oar so-called political issues appear as trifling squabbles based upon an ever-changing opinion. I venture to say, if any sensible man, be he tho most uncompromising Bopublican or thc most self-convinced Beformer, were seriously and personally questioned as to the qualifications he considered tho most indispensable in his Judge, tho answer would bo-independence. This quality should be the sine qua non of every judi oial function. The Justice who submits to the bios of party will yield to tho iufluenco of personal friends, or worse. For throe reasons, the nomination of Mr. Sloan, as an independent candidate, should command the endorsement of every man who oherishes his own rights, without designing to encroach upon those of his neighbor. Mr. Sloan's well-deservod popularity in our community renders it superfluous for us to add anything as to bis character aud eminent fitness for the responsible duties of the offioe, which, if honest men do their duty, ho will soon be called upon to fill. It would be well, however, that our citizens should bear in mind the fact that, under our present laws, tbcro is no position in the gift of the country, exercising BO great and arbitrary a control over their rights and interest, as this Probate Judgeship; boneo the great importance of an honest and efficient administration in the office. Our colored citizens and poor men gen? erally havo already had a taste of tho oppression of incapable men exercising judicial functions on partisan merits. Verb. sut. Bo independent where tho protection of vour rights demands inde? pendence. " NO POLITICIAN. -?-C">-? The French gained a decided victory in a battlo fought about sixteon miles from Paris, on the line of the Orleans Railroad, on Sunday. Tho French were strongly posted and had sixteen mitrail? leuse in position, and the Prussians were drawn into a trap. They wcro dread? fully slaughtered, and in thc confusion the French charged upon their broken ranks, and the defeat was turned into a rout. They dod in all directions, throw? ing away their arms, and losing all artil? lery, a battery of steel camion, with two regimental standards, and between 600 and 700 men, who surrendered in a body, and were despatched the next day to Chartres. Tho news of tho victory created great rejoicing at Boueu and Tours. There is skirmishing almost daily out? side tho Paris fortifications. Tho gun? boats on the Seine are ready for action, and entrenchments and barricades are going up everywhere around tho city. General Troohu has ordered the execu? tion of a number of Zouavos who were panic-stricken in General Ducrot's battlo of last woek. Tho latest reports place tho Prussians also near Bourget and St. Cloud. They havo apparently concluded to abandon tho St. Denis sido. A Ger? man telegram says that Marshal Bazaine has made another unsuccessful attempt to cut his way through tho German army surrouuding Metz, and hus beon driven back with heavy loss; also, that a corps of Bavarians nro marching on Lyons. Tho magnificent steeple of Strasburg Cathedral has been so weak? ened by tho bombardment that it is ex? pected to fall to tho ground. [New York World. ALMOST A BIOT.-Last Monday night, at the Court Houso, an effort was mado to prevent tho Bov. Jonas Byrd, Bo form canvasser, from speaking. The opposition came, of oourso, from tho Bopublican party, and was very uproari? ous and violont. There wore also turbu? lent demonstrations outside tho building, and for a timo a serious difficulty appear? ed imminent. The excitement was caused to subside, howevor, by tho forbearance of tho Beformists and tho efforts of cer? tain well-behaved Bepublicans. [Greenville Mountaineer. Joe Crews has been appointed aide decamp on Governor Scott's staff, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Wanted-A Leader. The hoar of supreme necessity bas come for Franco, and tho man is want? ing?. There are talkers enough, voluble, eloquent and defiant. Talkers of the first order, like Viotor Hago, with inter? jeetional Appeals to the heart of uni? versal humanity, and the infinite abys? ses of human consciousness generally; or Jules Favre, forensio and spirit-stir? ring, though, diplomatically, not per? suasive; of tho second order, like Roche fort, acrid, opigrammatio, and uncom? promising; or of tho third order, like Qirardin, et hoc genus omne, whose elo? quence may be most fitly compared to the tones of the typical Gallic cock, combining a maximum of confidence with a minimum of intelligibility. Sol? diers there aro, of no mean fame, such as Troohu, of stainless reputation, and great constructivo ability, and Bazaine, of reputation by no means stainless, but of undoubted military honor and talent. Statesmen, too, aro left to France, such as might well guido tho destinies of a period less critical and exceptional; but in this, as in ovory other of tho existing departments of State, thero ia a note? worthy lack of a central figaro of Buffi ciont distinctness and power to become the fit exponent of all that thoro is of self-relianco and patriotism among a great and generous people. Tho real centro of a popular government is, of course, tho people itself. But tho peo? ple would forever remain au abstraction, unless represented and embodied in the chosen instruments of their will. Franco wants a man Uko Cromwell, and she can only find a Rouhofort. Frenchman have been delivered from a personal Government which stifled in? dividual energy, and demoralized the noblest impulses of tho people, only to fin 3 themselves in tho midst of a crisis which calls for the highest type of indi? vidual ability, aud which fails to yield tho man it ought to have called forth. Thero is a pent-up energy throbbing in the veins of tho new Republic, which ono who was ot ouco a soldier, a states? man, and a natural ruler of men might bring together and direct with irresisti? ble force against tho enemies of her country. The men who fought like lions in 1703, and who have since, moie than once, stood to bc mowed down in the streets of Paris, are not to be ground down by tho iron heel of invusiou into the position of a nation existing on sufferance. But they need a man in whom tho aspirations of a free State could centre, sud who, liko our own Washington, could guido a people through, the darkest, hour of danger, only to stand as the foremost oitizen of a commonwealth in which, in tho eyes of the law, all were equal. Every day that tho war is protracted on tho basis which has been defined as the limit of Prussian demands, it must become more savage and moro pregnant with future evil. Let the bitterest disasters that could well befall a nation bo forced upon France, and even when her power of re? sistance is utterly broken, abe will only havo become liko a freshly-caged tiger, thirsting for the hour of deliverenceand vengeance. It would bo difficult to say at what point tho ability of Prussia to impose her demands upon France may stop short; it is not difficult to assume that there is a point beyond whioh neither policy, humanity, nor the ina? lienable rights of man could warrant them being pushed. This point, most unprejudiced observers are agreed in thinking, lies somowhat within tho lost reported ultimatum of King William. [New York Times. W??XDELL PHILLIPS AND HIS LATUST HOWL.-lu another column, we publish un extraordinary attack upon Count Bis? marck und Germany, emanating from Wendell Phillips, who bas been, and still is, tho "brains of tho radical party." If thero is ono thing more than another which could cause us to sympathize with Germany, it would bo just such a screed from just such a (piartor. We do not, however, propose to enter into any direct and specific controversy on matters con? cerning either belligerent, especially at this juncture; bat there is one sentence in Mr. Phillips' article which shall not poss by unnoticed. Very near tho end of his diatribe, ho says: "Our barbarous South, flannting Libby prison and Andersonville in tho faco of Christendom, may justly call across tho ocean to tho black eagle, 'Art thou, too, to become as ono with us.'" What about our barbarous North, which flaunted her Johnson's Island, her Fort Delaware, her Elmira, bor Point Lookout, and other prison pons-each one an Andcrsonvillo and Libby com? bined-without tho excase of either? What of that barbarous North, with her brutal Bastiles Haunting in the face of Christendom, and so reoently, calling across the ocean to tho black eagle: "We dofy you to become as ono of us and so have sent our darling Shoridan to perpetually remind you of tho unreached hell of your despair!" Whether right or wrong, tho South, as a general thing, has rather favored unhappy Franco from tho beginning. But if thoro arc any reasons that could mako her swerve and become indifferent at least, they will readily bn found in tho suddenly developed Yankee bato for tho Teuton, aud tho echo of such men as Esquires, of Marseilles, that American sympathy is craved for Bepublican France, because Napoleon lovod tho South and dearly wished to help her in her agony, but was prevented by tho men who run the machino ut Tours, who as eagerly desired tho triumph of tho North.-Augusta Constitutionalist. A woman at Hannibal, Mo., hung her? self becauso ber husband weut to Cali? fornia. ?Since that time thero baa been an extensivo emigration of men from Hannibal to California, hoping their wives would follow up tho fashion, but no more hangings havo come off at last accounts. It don't always work. Genuino Durham Smoking Tobacco to be bad at POLLOCK'S. "You should do everything that is cheerful and amusing. Go and see Lis too." So spake Dr. A., the great Lon? don physician of bis day, to a hypochon? driac, broken-down patient. "Sir, Jam Liston," was tho astounding reply. How sadly often does it happen that the sick at heart are those who have to make the fun of others. A wretched instance has jost occurred in London. A gentleman named Bowles, for fourteen years mana? ger of tho Crystal Falaee, toe most de? lightful of English pleasure haunts, hos destroyed himself. A little beforo his doath he wrote to a friend: "I am quito unable, I think, oven to attend our poor President's funeral; I feel so weak, so ill, so worn out, I eau do nothing; head, hand and energy, all aro gone." He had been urged to take a holiday sometime beforo, but sense of duty, and anxiety about his work, made him hesitate, and gradually his mind gave way. It is painful to reflect that suicide is too often the refuge of tho most conscientious and excellent of mon. A wiso old darkoy iu tho Southern part of Kentucky came to his old master tho day beforo tho late election, and said ho, "Mars John, I wants to vote do De? mocratic ticket. Tho fact is, I think do niggers ought to split up anyhow. Ii wo goos au' votes Democrat, radicals say wo is ungrateful, and then tho League hues us 85 au' warns us. If wo votes radical, do Ku-Klnx'll git us shore. I wauts to divido like, so as to make it de intrust of hoff parties to treat ns kin' au' friendly." That darkey is a statesman aud a philosopher. His head is emphati? cally "lovel." SOUTHERN MANUFACTURES.-Kuoxville, Tennessoo, is rapidly acquiring import? ance as a manufacturing centre, aud in that respect is setting a good cxamplo for other Southern and South-western cities. Already leather, boots and shoes, sashes, doors and blinds, merchantable iron, paper, and many other things, aro supplied to a large extent of country. Several gentlemen aro about embarking largely in the manufacturo of agricultu? ral implements and woodenware. Cypress Manufacturing Company, COLUMBIA, S. C., October 1,1870. TtlE O ni co of this Company will bo movod to Georgetown, 3. C., on and after THIS DAY. All communications and orders must be addressed tbero. THOS. E. GREGG, Oct 10_ President. For Sale. MTHE DOUBLE ONE-STORY BRICK BUILDING, situated on Main or Rich? ardson struot, East side, betwecu Blan? dina and Laurel streets. Tho building is 80 feet loDg. by about 4G in width-the lot mea? suring 52 feet - in. front, and 208 feet - in. in depth. If not diaposed of at private ealo before 1st Doccmbcr ensuing, it will be sold about that time, at public auction. E. 8TENHOUSE, Qualified Administrator Estate Goorgo Sten? house. Oct 1 sS ADDITIONAL. GUANACO UMBRELLAS FOR LADIES AND GENTS. THESE "ALPACCA UMBRELLAS" have the appearance of Silk; perfectly fast in color. Each is enclosed iu an enameled cover, and will wear longer than a Gingham or Silk. Sold only bv XV. I). LOVE ?ii CO., Dry Goods Merchants. SOLE AGENTS FOR "GOULD SONS PATENT STEP LADDERS.*' From two to ten feet high. Hundreds of pooplo in this city can tostify to tbeir light? ness and durability. CARPETS In Brussels and Threc-Ply-many of them aro privato patterns-OIL CLOTHS, DRUG? GETS, RUGS and HASSACKS. They aro perfect boautios. Thia Stock is entirely now. THE NOVELTIES OF THE SEASON In our Retail Dry Goods Stock will bc exhi? bited from this dato. PRICES GUARANTEED AS LO W AS THE LO WEST. W. D. LOVE & CO., Columbia Hotel Building, Main street. W. D. LOVE. B. B. MCCUEERY. Oct 1 IMPROVEMENTS, "W"E3 H-?L "XT : 'I OUR LARI O Ulli GOODS, CARPETS, A NEW DEPA PAPER H AND AHE NOW PR A GOOD ASS AND HAVE U9L OOMPE"] WHO CAN PROPE1 { Oct 1 3mo A BEAUTIFUL THOUOUT.-It may be truth? fully Haid that the greatest of all blessings is health, for without it the joys vouchsafed are turned to Borrows. To all health is essential for life's enjoyment and pursuits, to the {'oung and old, to tho rich and poor. Are you n search of wealth? Health is necoasary. Do you doBiro omeo and worldly honors Of what avail would theBO bo without health? Tho beauties of spring, the song of birds, tho deep bluo sky, the rolling ooean, all havo a poetic fascination which charms only tho healthy in mind and body; but to tho sick what aro those but mockeries. Tho body dis eased, tho mind sickly o'er with the saddest of thoughts. Obi that I may iivo to appro ciato tho blessings of houlth. This rich boon is within tho reach of all. Tho remedy at hand in UEiMTsn's QUEEN'S DELIGHT, the health pa naooa. Now is tho time to try it. A 2 "It's mity curis," said Mrs. Partington to Iko, while rending about tho impending war in Europe, "that the llollerhorn creates Buch an ado in Yurrup, when it's sich a common diseuso among tho cattle in Amoriky." Thc old lady, having delivered herself of thc above, took a doso of LIWMAN'S GREAT GER? MAN Bm ?its to cheer her dopresBcd spirits, and resumed hor knitting. Lippman's Bitters are for salo by all drug? gists and dealers. Depot in Columbia. H. C., at GEIGER St MCGREGOR'S, Druggists. S 18 THE attention of the reader is respectfully invited to tho advertisement of Bradfield ?fc Co., in another column. They are undoubt? edly soiling tho best remedies out for tho diseases they aro recommended for. BRAO EIELD'S FEMALE UECULATOR and Dr. PIIUPHITT'S CELEBRATED DIVER MEDICINE, has certainly cured moro afflicted persons than any two medicines of their aijo. Try them and bo well, :is thoso gentlemen guarantee satisfac tion or money refunded. A 7 Cabbage ! Cabbage ! ! /"VNE erato very lino Northern CABBAGE v_r received this day, and for salo under market rates, by WM. McQUINNIS. Oct 1 1_ Notice. MB. J. C. B. BMI TH will act as my Attor? ney, during mr absonco from Columbia. Oct 1 fi_TIIOS. E. GREGG. For Sale, _ AT W. C. Anderson's Stablo, a 7VT?^NO. 1 Family HOUSE-good action /^HrA^aiid styilsh-will bo sold cheap. r 1 fl Octl 2* NEW GOODS. I HAVE just returned from Now York, Lwith my Fall and Winter stock, consist? ing of French, English aud American 'OASSIMEREH, VESTINGS, otc. My old customers and tho public gonerally are in? vited to call, as I feel assured lean satisfy all, either as regards prico or quality. Oct 1G_C. D. EBERHARDT. Notice. A LL persons having elaims against tho es ?X. tate of GEORGE STENHOUSE, will, be- | fore tho 31st of October instant, presont them for payment-aud thoso knowing themselves to be indebted to said estate, will make pay? ment to the undersigned, during same period. EBEN STENHOUSE, Oct 1 3 Qualified Administrator. Notice. THE members of tho South Carolina Club arc requested to meet at Columbia, 10th November, 1870. Applications for member? ship must be sent to WADE MANNING, Treasurer, at Columbia, S. O. R. E. ELLISON, Jn., Oct 1 t_Secretary S. C. Club. MURRELL & TANNAHILL, COTTON FACTORS AND COMMISSION MIC ll CHA NI S, No. 130 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK. Cash Advances made on Shipments. ROBT. MURRELL. ROBT. TANNAHILL. Oct 1_*_lin School Notice. THE HOWARD SCHOOL will open its next regultr session on MON jfeDAY, October 3, 1870, at 0 o'clock, rtj'in tho morning. It is desirable that all pupils in fonding to attend during tho com? ing school vear should bn present at tho opening. N. E. EDWARDS, School Commissioner Richland Co. Oct 1 3_ Desirable City Lots on Arsenal Hill. THREE squaro ACRES on Arsenal Hill, lo catod bet,vc un tho Governor's mansion and tho residence of Mayor John Alexander. Loi N?. 1, bounded North by Lumber etroot; Wost, by Pulaski street; South by lot No. 2, and East by lot of E. W. Wboelor. Lot No. 2, bounded North by lot No 1; Wost by Pulaski street; South, by Richland street, and East by lot No. 3. Lot No. 3. bounded North by lot of E. W. Whooler; West, by lot No. 2; South by Rich? land street, and East by Wayno street. Tho above aro very desirable for building purposos. and presont excellent opportuni? ties for that or for investments, and will bo sold in lots to suit purchasers. FOR TERMS, ETC., apply to D. C. PEIXOTTO St SON, Auctioneers and Commission Merchants and Real Estate Agen ts._Oct 1 8 Flour! Flour!! Flour!!! Qr\rV BARRELS FLOUR, consisting in Ov/v/ part of Choico Family Flour, "the beal in the world;" also, Extra and Super Flour, at very lowest market prices for cash, for sale by J. & T. R. AGNEW. ADDITIONS, ETC. ES ^.X>X>3ESX> o 3rE STOCK OIL CLOTHS, ETC., UTMENT, VIZ : A N G I N G S ! EPARED TO SHOW SORTMENT, EMPLOYED ? IE3 INT T tLY TUT THEM UP. R. C. SHIVER. E-ocal Items. Those whoso constitution requires a stimulant, try tho "Woodcock Whiskey, Send your daughters to the Femalo College, at Duo West. Tho session opens Monday, tho 3d October. Miss Duio will commence tho exercises of her school, about tho 18th inst., on I tho corner of Plain nod Marion streets. NEW LuMnEii MILL.-Messrs. Buff & Rawl, sis mile? from our city, on the Lexington side, are now selling in this market good and sound lumber. A largo and enthusiastic meeting of tho Deform Club in Wards 3 and -1 was? held last night. Addresses were deliv? ered by Col. Thomas, E. W. Seibels and John T. Slo-u. PUBLIC MEETING-MONDAY NEXT-Oc ToiJEii 3.-Wo havo been requested to givo notice that a mass meeting of the citizens of Bichland, in sympathy with tho Reform movement, will bo held on Monday next, at ll o'clock a. m., iu the Park. Distinguished speakers are ex? pected to address tho meeting. POST OFFICE HOURS.-Northern mail opens 4.30 P. M. ; closes ll A. M. Charleston and Greenville, open 4.30 P. M. ; closo 5.30 A. M. Western, opens 12.30 P. M.; closes 2.45 P. M. Charleston, evening, opens 8 A.M.; closes C P. M. Office open Sundays from half-past 4 o'clock to half-past 5. We dislike very mnch to appear queru? lous, but it would gratify us exceedingly if some individual would do us tho dis? tinguished favor to inform us what ails thc gas? It has burned somewhat like what wo imagine the "blue-lights" did in years agone, for tho past few nights, and there is nu ample margin for im? provement. Will not tho "muster of the situation" let us havo light? LOCAL SKILL-"THE CITY MACHINE WORKS."-Our active nnd enterprising fellow-citizen, P.. Tozer, Proprietor of the City Machine Works, halted a fine locomotive on wheels in front of our office, and allowed us to inspect his work. We found it a fine specimen of mechanicalskill. It was an eight-horse power engine, bearing tho name of "General Bratton," and was on its way to tl mt well-known citizen and planter of Fairfield. Mr. Tozer keeps fully posted in his business, and is quick to adopt overy improvement. S?FREME COURT, September 30. Present-Chief Justice Moses and Asso? ciate Justices Willard and Wright. Mr. Unison resumed his argument for respondents in tho Blackville and Barn? well case. Mr. Maher was heard on the same side. Mr. Attorney-General Cham? berlain in reply. Decision reserved. Tho following opinions have been filed: Edgar W. Charles vs. C. Coker & Bro., el al, Decree moditied and case remand? ed. William J. Whito vs. R. J. Kibbs, Administrator. Decree set aside and ense remanded. J. S. G. Bichaidsou, Esq., of Sumter, was appointed Beportcr of the Court vice William Hutson Wigg, Esq., re? signed. Mr. Albert M. Boozer was re-appoint? ed clork. HOTEL ARRIVALS, September 30. Columbia Hold.-D. M. Ward, J. J. Car? rington, Newberry; W. E. McMelty, Fairfield; J. C. Waunamaker, Orange burg; S. C. Gilbert, Charleston; W. P. Hill, W. H. Dickson, J. M. Hill, W. H. McKinstry, B. W. Payne, Memphis; C. S. Dule, D. M. Georges, Ala.; Wm. Fort, Lexington; A. S. Duncan, Green? ville; D. S. Maxwoll, Anderson; J. S. Crojton, Pendleton; J. W. Davis, F. M. Pope, C. W. Doyley, T. E. MoBeo, Alex. Mclice, Jr., Greenville; A. Jefferson, wife and four children, Bichmond; John? son Hagood, Greouville; W. H. Town? send aud wife, Aiken; Robt. Tanuahill, New York. dickerson House.--N. A. Lookett, T. C. McCreery, Alabama; B. Donahue, C. Dalv, New York;T. J. Steers, B. B. E.; B. L. Gulp, W. L. Culp, Union; B. WT. I Barber, E. K. Hardin, Chester; Mrs. E. W. Cain, Mrs. F. F. McNide, Baltimore; James W. Fowler, Abbeville; James E. Farland, C. Witteudall, T. C. Demproy, S. F. Colcomb, L. J. Goodrich, T. Bich ards, Ga. ; T. J. Perkins, F. Gamble, Alabama; G. Pratt, Bichmond; J. B. Crain, F. H. McKenny, Dawson; H. F. Liles, Elberton; C. A. Portley, U. S. A.; T. A. Jones, Ga.; A. J. Johnston, Mont? gomery; Mrs. A. C. Thornley, Green? ville; J. J. Patterson, S. S. Hale, S. C.; Mrs. F. H. Gordon, two children and nurse, Augusta. LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. lt. C. Shiver-Improvements. Thos. E. Gregg-Cypress Man'g. Co. Eben Stonhouso-Notico, -fcc. C. D. Eberhardt-Now Goods. Thos. E. Gregg-Notice. W. C. Andorsou-For Salo. N. E. Edwards-School Notice. W. D. Lovo Sc Go.-Additional, ?cc. Murrell Ss Tanuahill-Cotton Factors. D. C. Peixotto & Son-Desirable Lots. B. E. Ellison, Jr.-Notico. Wm. McGuinnis-Cabbage! Cabbage. New York Lion Lager, to bo had at POLLOCK'S.