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?OLUMBIA. S. C. Thursday Morning, March 23. 1871. Both the New York World and the New York Sun have of late contained forcible representations and striking pic? tures of the fruits of Radical misrule in this State. Wo hold that these expos? ures must do good. Let the unpreju? diced minds of the North receive a gen nine knowledge of the true state of po? litical affairs in these parts. This will help that redemption which must come to save tho State. The Newark Advertiser, one of the calmest and most respectable of the ru? ral Republican press, admits that "tho mission of the Republican party is pretty well ended." It thinks that the party has "Lost its old power of appeal to tho future; aud au appeal to tho past, in a Republio, is of nu account." These truths are thc same we have been striving to impress upon the minds of the dull R idical journals for a long time. It is encouraging to observe that they begin to realize them at last. Butler1? "Ku Klux lilli." This outrageous and malignant bill is thus viewed from a Republican 3taud point: The Evening Post, of New York, edit? ed by Mr. W. C. Bryant, is one of the most thoughtful of Republican journals. It makes an earnest protest to its party not only against this attorapted outrage, but an appnal on behalf of our imperiled and stricken land, whose very existeuce is threatened with continued despotism and wrong. Speaking of the mis-called Ku Klux bill of General Butler, it says: "A long list of offences against the United States is created by the bill, classed as misde? meanors, high misdemeanors, felonies, and capital felonies; thus, to be found on the public highway, or near a house, even 'unarmed' and 'alone,' or 'with others,' 'with intent to terrify' any per? sons, 'so as to hinder them from the peaoeful enjoyment of their legal rights,' is a high misdemeanor in the day-time and a felony at night, and the fact of a disguise or of 'a concert with others' for whatever purpose, is made prima facie evidence of 'the guilty intent.' A ped? dler found on Christmas eve, dressed as Kriss Kringle, on the road, is thus made liable to a flue of not less than $5,000 and imprisonment fur not less than ?ve yeai a. "Why not re-enact the old Norman curfew law at once? "If auy person shall be one of a crowd at night, however large, and 'whatever part muy have been taken by each,' which shall cou taiu any person who shall 'threaten to assault' any person, each and every member of the crowd shall be guilty o' feluny and punishable in the Burne way. Bat if any membor of the crowd shall commit any act by which a mau is killed or a dwelling house burned, then each and every member of it shall be guilty of a capital felony, aud 'shall be hanged by the neck until be is dead.' "The laws of Draco, it will be seen, never approached this in atrocity; for even Draco never proposed to kill auy person not guilty of any offence, or to make constructive guilt out of circum? stances which might easily be consistent with iuuucence. Many of the crimes Set down in this bill would be the natural consequence uf a peaceable citizen's ef? fort to keep the peace and to protect himself ur his neighhurs from trouble. The attempt tu enfurce such a law UB this would make a Mexico of our oouutry ut once. "But the fundament al objection to the bill is iudepeudeut of the cruelty of its penalties, uf its loose and indiscriminate definitions of crime, and of tho bound? less aud irresistible power for persecu tiuu it puts into tho bauds uf u few hun? dreds uf men, and is more decisive against it even than these. Tho bill would repeal tho Constitution uf the United States and revolutionize our wbule Rjstem of government. "Io the first place, it is a piece of spe? cial legislation, subjecting eleven Slates to a system of criminal jurisdiction en? tirely different from any that exists, or would be tolerated, in the other States. It makes that a crime in South C truliua which is no crime in New York. It makes certain offences punishable by a different tribunal, and with incompara? bly greater severity in Louisiana thun in Massachusetts. Congress hus no mure power to do this than it has to muke dif? ferent sefs of customs or tax luws fur dif? ferent States. "But nguiu, the whole subject is one over which Congress bas nu jurisdiction. Thcro is nut n lino in the Constitution to authurize the General Guvernment to maiutaiu civil order in the States. The State authorities may, indeed, call on the President to aid them in suppressing iusurreotiou. But wheu he gives this aid, lie acts simply as an auxiliary to ibu municipal executive, and in support nf the municipal laws. Tho Supreme Court of the United States has maintained this limit of national authority from the be? ginning. It says: "All those powers which relate to merely municipal legisla? tion, or whieh may properly be called internal police, aro not surrendered (by the States) or restrained, and conse? quently in relation to these tho autho? rity of a Stato is complete, unqualified and exclusive.'-//. Peters' Reports, 102. "If such an Act were passed, tending to interfere with civil order, to disturb tho authorities of the ponce, establishing 'Commissioners' in every County whu wrest his prisoners from the sheriff sud stop his process, what would bo tho duty of thu State officers? Plainly to resist S ich men at all hazards. Were it at? tempted in Now York or Massachusetts, the army and navy of the United Stales could not enforce snoh A bilk for au hour. Tbe law-abiding mind abd conscience of every free oitisen would sustain the Con? stitution and the principles of free go verumeot against the usurpation ;and this new rebellion again st the Union, though expressed in an Act of Congress and sus? tained by an adminstrntiou at Washing? ton, would bo put down as resolutely us was the lust. "Let the Republican party in Con? gress tako warning before it is too lute. The election of yesterday io New Ham} - shire is believed by the Democrats to indicate that their time is coming. If this bill is passed, it will come witb the certaiuty of the doom that always falls on madness in power." MB. EDITOR: I buvo noticed for some timo swarms of idlers, mostly men, loaf? ing about the streets, standing about the corners, byways aud highways, as if the curie resting on man had been removed -"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." They might loaf through the streets for me, but no, they have to eat and bo clothed, and this must be done, nod how? Every merchant can Iel! you; as Josh Bi?icgs says, every? thing "lying loose" about thoir stores are fobbed, missing, gone-where is it? If some one's needy stomach, back, head or feet could speak, they could tell. This is the natural consequence of "idle? ness," which is tho "mother of vice " Mr. Editor, the questiou is, oan this evil be remedied? I would answer, yes, iu less time than a week, if our city fa thcrs will apply the proper remedy. I will cite a circumstance which occurred iu Spartnnburg, the year alter the late war closed, in explanation of my remedy and its workings. It was about this sea? son of the year, when planters were or should have been busy on their planta? tions. The streets were duily crowded with idlers, as ours are now. This was brought to the notice of the officer in charge of the placo, who immediately took up all able-bodied young men who could not show that they were properly employed, and put ODO of his men uver them to work the streets, cleaning out drains, filling np gullies, etc. The first day he hud u large gang of hands; the second, hands were pretty scarce; and the third, all were missing and gouo into the country, made engagements, and went to woik. Mr. Editor, I think and hope that those in authority will see the impor? tance of applying th.) same remedy, and compel all idlers, not ouly iu our city, but throughout the State, to go to work. This remedy properly and judiciously applied to all able-bodied loafers, would soon remedy the evil. No more nse for the Ku Klux; they would soon dry up and go to work also. I have never seen a K. K. K. to my knowledge, but I buve alwuys supposed that if there ever wus an orguuized body, it was to mutch the Union League. It is said they wear great long horns on their heads and dreudful faces. I do not know whether the members of the Union League wear horns or not. I have never met with either party to my knowledge. I go ont but little ut night, and I sup? pose that is their limo to stray about. If you have ever seeu one, Mr. Editor, or if any of your friends have, I would like very much to buvo a description of them, so that I would know them on sight, and be frightened or not, as the case might be-I mean both the U. L.'s and K. K. K's. CITIZEN. TAX-BURDENED SOUTH CAROLINA. Tho Now York World, of the 16th, says: The people of South Carolina ure to be called ou this year to pay two years' taxes, not to speak of aa extra tax ol' $118.000. gold, for special indebtedness. The custom heretofore in this State has been to collect in each succeeding year tho preceding yt>ar's tax, so that rightly hut the 1870 tax would be payable this year; and this, as being four times great? er than the whola amount necessary to support the entiro State Goverumeul I for a twelve-mouth nuder the old regime, would seem enough iu all conscience; but 30 enormous are the exactions of the rascal State Government that tho tux for 1871 is to be oalled iu beside, making ono whole year's tax to be collected now, und another vear's taxes in November, and the 8118,000, gold, to bo picked up during the year as it may be found that anybody has anything left. As the Chai lenton Courier remarks: "Those who occupy the State Government might as well at once pass au Act confiscating the property of every citizen and appro? priating the proceeds to their own en? richment and self-aggrandizement." Pro? bably, however, this is merely in reserve when it is found that taxation, at its ut? most, is too fragmentary and slow. A j Philadelphia negro, black as iuk, who ? came into South Carolina without a dol? lar, und now bus six blooded horses, deck us satin, in his stables, aud other things according, is a type of the Re? publican rulers of the State; and that negro must keep np his style. A Sau Francisco mao claims to have invented a machine which will produce 150 pounds of ice per hour. lie says that "by tho simple process of extruotiug the air from tho water to be frozen, sol.d and transparent ice can bo produced, and that in a recent experimental trial 1,000 pounds of wator plucod in the hexes was solid at the end of six hours, and the temperature had fallen to sixtecu degrees below ireeziug poiut." Roohefort's watchword of regicide is exercising its influence in Denmark, whore Charles IX hus recently been shot nt. Tho king, very sensibly, took no notice of tho attempt at assassination, ordering the would-be-murderer's release and advising him to practico with his pistol if ho intended lo remain in the business. Christiun ia evidently a humor? ist. THE EFVBOTS OP RADICALISM TN PER? FECTION.-Tho Edge?eld (a. C.) Adver? tiser draws ? gloomy piolare of affairs in South Carolina, bat gloomy and dismal AS tho piatnre is, the reality is far worse. The Advertiser says: "The session just ended lasted three months and a half, with a per diem of six dollars, arid coat the 8tate $260,000 actual outlay, in two appropriations, for the pay of per diem, mileage and em? ployees of tho two Houses, to cay no? thing of thu printing. and State House swindler, and all the other numerous and nameless rascalities whioh wero perpe? trated on a lesa extensive eenie. The members drew all the time, even during the holidays, their six dollars a day, and did nothing in tho wey of useful legisla? tion. They displaced two of their own Judges, whose bud habits-if they were bad, and we are inclined to think they were-they kuew )efore they elected thom; aud by impeachments, und free fights, aud WranghugH, and threatenings, and bogus investigations of former Ralli? ed stealings, and burying colored mar? tyrs with civic und military honors, ami erecting monuments to deud negroes, and adjourning uow and then to attend homo races, and varions other useless and .shameless doings, they managed to ludehuitely protract the session aud de? plete the Srute Treasury. "Last year, when the opposition party was urging tho necessity for reduced taxation aud economy, the Radicals ad? mitted it all und declared their purpose to secure these resulta ti the State. And what is the upshot? They have been infinitely more-lavish with tho pub? lic money than ever before, aud their tax bill for the current year bas boen much heavier thuu the last, although it ts well known that the people of the State are woefully impoverished and that every industry is paralyzed. This is the way these gentry redeem their promises. "Aud all this villainy nnd all this plundering; does it help tho uegro race? No. It is undeniable that tho masses of these people are annually becoming poorer aud poorer. And there is hardly au official, high or low, who dors not use them for his own purposes aud then pluck them to the lust feather. "If the blacks of San Domiugo aro sensible, they will steer clear of Grant's commission and Grant's Government, for they may judge, from tho condition of this Suite what their own fate will bo if over taken under the Radical wing. A select number of 'tho saints' will muko fortunes but the poor devils who inhabit tho land will be made to mourn. "And amidst ull this ruin and corrup? tion the white population is powerless to interfere, aud looks on and Buffers in silence. No word, even, of remon? strance or protest is now beard; but the State staggers and reels under tho crush? ing wrong. Emigration of tho bolter ?lusses to other States steadily increases, and those who cannot get away submit with resignation, but show a mental und financial depression which promises lit Un for the future. Nor, as we have said above, will the negroes escupe the penal? ties of such wretched misrule. Every planter driven from the State makes ouo employer less. Anti driving away capi? tal intensifies the poverty of the blacks. "Tho Commonwealth of South Carol. na is much poorer to-day thuu at the close of the war, and this year will be ?ino of greater suffering aud trial to the people, white and black, than uny since the surrender. Business is dull to stag? nation, and the future which looms tip nuder snell a regime is not one to invite or encourage enterprise of any kind." Tho Vicksln rg Herald thus disposes of tho effort to briug about negro equality in th? State of Mississippi: To ?ii MtiT AT ONCE.-Tho insolent demand of the negro members of the Legislature, that negroes with their wives, or those they call such, shall sit in the railway ears assigned to ludios uud their escorts, may ns well bo met at ouco uud promptly. Radical carpet-baggers and thieves may p iss a la'v decluriug that uegroes shall sit in the same curs with wbito people, nod ut the suma table iii hntids with them, and they may allix what penalty they choose us a punish? ment lor those who deny them those seats in the cars or in the hotels, but those laws ami penalties will avail not li? ing. Tho wbito men of Mississippi do not propose that Sambo and Dinah shall sit by their sides or by the sides of their wi yea und daughters, either in railway carriages or public hotels, and Senators Gray and Gleed, aud Mr. Jacob R iss, of the House, muy as well understand that at once. There is uo power ou earth t hat can compel our people to this. Tho army of Grant cannot travel on railway trains to protect negroes in tho right to intrude themselves where they ure not desi rod, and ?hero their presence will not he tolerated, aud nothing short of this eau over force our people to submit to tho insolent demand for social equality for negroes. This attempt of tho negroes will only produce bad blood, a score or so of impudent scoundrels will be killed, a few worthless carpet? baggers will "pass in their cheeks," aud the knaves and thu fools will theu sub? side. If the negrera ::r:? wiso they will subside before any of them get hurt. --. - - - . - FIRE.-A fire neem rod nt three quar? ters past 1 o'clock this morning, in tho rem* of the old Monroe mansion, No. 3 Bedon'a alley, ut present occupied by Mr. Wm. D.iruu. The dames were con? fined to the building iu which they ori? ginated, which wus completely gutted, and tho fire wus speedily cheeked by tho exertions of the firemen. Tho contents were of little value. The origin of the lire could not bo ascertained. [Charleston News, 22t/. A colored boy, named Williuin Bull, was run over aiid killed by a tramway cur ut the Wando Works, near Charles? ton, ou the 21st. Thero wero 20 deaths in Charleston for the week eudiug tho 18th-whites 5; colored 15. 'HON. LINTON STEPHENS' SPEECH IN KENTUCKY.-Tho Louisville (Ky.) Jeffer? sonian Democrat publishes Hbo. Liu toD Stopheus' Augusta speech, with the fol? lowing editorial comments: 4,THB SEED Tues OF IDEAS.This | expression occurs ia the speech we pub? lish thin week. Mr. Stephens occupies in thia speech the ground taken by UB more than two years ago, and already re? iterate aud reiterated in this journal, that it ia now necessary to red ?seuss the broad principle and theory upon wh>oh our institutions were first planted. There is no help but in a readjustment of our institutions, and in a renewal of oar constitutions. This is pre-eminently the work of the tinkers, and the agita? tion of thorough public discussion of ftiudameutid principles will, indeed, he the seed time of ideas. Wo are glad Mr. Stephens is for the o >u nt ry and the States more than hr party, and that he eau see n promise that the Southern people "will be uuited in the resolve, to r cognize no alliance with any party" that will not staud by Demo? cracy and lead in the agi'ation which shall carry tho country back to tho Itu publican tack. This is tho ouly issue of real importance to tho people. Tho crime of reconstruction produces aliena? tion aud anarchy, aud there is no escupe but in restoration; aye, we go further, and demand a ie-udjusttnout of our in? stitutions ttpou renewed constitutions. We propose to rally ou a deeper and more siguilicunt cry tbun "tho Constitu? tion is the cause of us all." Democra? cy, the State, the country, tho liberty of self-govorum-'Ut is thu cause of ns ult. The yacht Maria, engaged for years in tho West India fruit business, is sup? posed to have been lost in t he storm of October Glh, us uothing has been heard from her since September last, when she sailed from Sf. Andrews for New York. It is though; all on board-tweuty-five or thirty, perhaps forty, persons-must have, gouo down with bur. Suicide often seems as hereditary a disease as consumption. Royal Briggs destroyed himself, at Sherman, Conn., a duy or two ago, the last of fcix brothers who had laid violent hands on them? selves. He made several attempts ou his life before he achieved success. A colored man has been found in Sumana who has reached tho age of 120 years. Ho was originally u native African; has lived in Java, Madeira, Sicily, Malla, the Bermudas, and Ha? vana, and is still in full possession of his senses. Tho inventor of a new microscopical writing machine in England claims that the en tiro contents of tho Bible can, with tho help of his contrivance, he written twenty-two times in the space of a square inch. The stables of the Binden Land Com? pany, Abbottville, N. C., were totally destroyed by fire on Thursday night last. Loss $1.000. The Japanese at last have a news? paper. It appears once a mouth in the form of a stitched pamphlet of about 100 pages. Acacia Lodge No. 94, A. F. M. Si A REGULAR Communication of this ?%7^rrLodge will be bold in Masonic Hall /\tf\THm (Thursday) EVENING, at 7 o'clock. AU members in arrears aro hereby summoned to attend. Article 19, Section 2, of thu Hy-Laws will positively be enforced. Ry order of tho \V. M. F. M. DRENNAN, Ju., Secretary. March 23 1 A CARD. Awaro of thc fact that most all our mer i chants South have bought very light for the I summer, wc have purchased heavier than ! ever, and to-day own tho most valuable stock we ever handled. Our idoa is that in every community there aro prudent people, who al? ways have money laid away for "rainy dave." j These will want goods, and nice goods, and ! wo want to supply them; therefore, we have ! et-tabliakod a Humple Bureau with our bu?i I noss, from which wo send samples ol' all j goods requested for selection, and then for ' ward the goods by Express, C. O. D. in all I cases, guaranteeing entire satisfaction. Per j sons desiring to avail themselves of barine; a ' ono hundred and fifty thousand dollar stock ! spread out, aa it wero, almost at their door to I select from, will order samples of such gooda ; aa they desire to buy, aud wo will guarantee J they c tn savo ten dollars ou every forty bought j of our house. Samples sent freo except to j points not reached by mail. Address j R. C. SHIVER A CO., Columbia, 8. C. : R. C. SIIIVKU. DAVID JON UH. March 23 3mo ! *9" Every paper in the Stato within 100 I miles ??f OolnmlMa copy onco and send bill. NOTICE. LAST CHANCE. j TI? BALLAR STU j IN OOIiU M23IA j Wir i, c'.oao IN A FEW DAY?. Tho stock I is jet completo. Make your selections at : once. j Tho storo will opon TniS MORNING at 0 I o'clock, and remain open till S o'clock P. M., ? in order to accommodate all. March 23 3 A young man camed MoCardie, twen ty-two yeura of age, and recently from Kentucky, while hunting near Like Jessop, Florida, in company with a Mr. Brock, and another gentleman, was in? stantly killed by the accidental discharge of Brock's gun. The entire load of buck-shot passed throngh bis head. Speaking of the majority report on Ku Klux outrages, the Selma (Alabama) TYmeseays: "We brand the report, in the name ot the Southern people, os au infamous slander, aud iu regulur accord with the system of lying aud misrepre? sentation adopted as tho cardinal princi? ples of the Radical party." Jud go Barnard, of New York, hos de? rided that if a mau and woman publicly live together as husband and wife, and acknowledge the marital relations, it is not necessary that a formal murriage ceremony should havo been performed to entitle the reputed wife to ull her legal j rights. Tho Missouri Legislature hus passed a bill authorizing the ?nie of nil the arms aud accoutrements belonging to tho Stute, and directing the Adjutant-Go ?eral to call iu all arma belonging to the Stato from all the Counties except St. Louis. This will disarm thu State mili? tia. A Richmond paper says that not less than 20.000 Southerners, many of whom took part in the war on the rebel side, are now residiug permanently in New York, and adds that nearly all of them uro poor. Io Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday Inst, a steam boiler exploded, iusluutly killing Byram J. Beers, fatally wounding his brother, Benjamin J. Beers, and danger? ously injuring their father, B. P. Beers. Twenty-five bridges iu Morgan Coun? ty, III., were swept away by the teoent flood. The damage to property is im? mense. Dresden has i's Niobe. Au nOTcted mother living there has lost in tho war live sous and six sons-iu-luw. A cartridge factory at Chancey, France, reoently exploded, and eighteen persons were killed and forty wounded. AS CONSUMBRS aro hereby notified VJT that all euell who havo bills unpaid to lol ol March, will bo dopiivud ol' thu ligbt un? less i m med lal ely settled. Tho price being now reduced, it is necessary that all bills at tho old price bo uaid up at once, as no bill will bc allowed to rou over ono month. JACOB LEVIN. Secretary Columbia Gas-Light Com pun v. March 23 1 Gas Reading: Lights, WITH French Gutta Percha TUBING, trou? tho celobratod factory of Corne? lius A Sons, received this dav and for sale at S TAN Lb Y'S. N. B. Ordors taken for Cornelius Sb Sons Gas Fixtures. Photographs of all tho latest styles on exbibition._ Mnrch 23 1_ LOST-A Gold EAU-DKOP, tonie where between tho Nickerson House a.id Colum? bia Hotel. The Ear-Drop is of no valus to any one except tho owner, by whom it is prised for its associations. A liberal reward will bo paid to any ono leaving t hu sumo at Mr. baan Sulzbaehcr'a Jewelry Store. March 22 _ _ _2_ Guano. ?)/\ TONS pure PEBUVTAN GUANO, ?\ * iii) tons Berger A Butzo's Superphos? phate, for salo low to planters and deniers, fur cash, by WELLS A CALDWELL, Near G A C. lt. It. Dey ot, Columbia, S. C. March 10 JUST THINK OF IT i ! Can Ruy very flue Alpacas at 25 cts. per Yard. A.ND a host of other cheap Articles whish will be sold at only a nominal profit. Call, seo, and bo your own judge. At C. F. JACKSON'S, Dry Goods Do: 1er, March 19 Main Street. Seegers' Beer DON'T contain Strychnine, ll ia pure, and warranted t<? bi w?. .March il United States Internal Revenue, ASSISTANT AKSESSOU'S OFFICK, Col.USfUIA, March 21, 1H71. A Lb persons having a gros? income ol i\. ?2 000 during tho your 1870, arc hereby notified lo mako rt turn of tho SHIUH, to the undersigned, on or betoro tho 181' DAY L"i; APBIL, 1871, ns tho haine aro now duo. A penalty ot' 5J percent, attaches by law on all returns not made by the above lime. G. A. DABBING, Assistant Assessor. Office over Scott's Bank Murali 22 Notice to Liquor Dealers. NOTICE is herebv given that ail personB desiring to renew LIQUOlt LICENSES, (expiring Mandi 81 .?!?,) must do HO on or be? t?re M AUCH 31, lh71. WILLIAM J. ETTEIt, March 22 City Oleik and Treasurer. _ Natural Frozen Ice. AS tho summer season is now approaching, I wis? to inform my old customers, and the public in general, that having secured a Hood crop of natural fiez ;u Uko ICE. thin winter, wo are prepared to famish it, in any qnantity. as low as any that can bo procured here, that is, from ono to ou i and a ball colite per pound, according to qnantity, and have been beliing at that prion since tho 1st ol January. J. D. BATEMAN, Ag't. March 17 2mo Columbi* Ice Hon???; Every One Drinks Seegeis' Beer, BECAUSE it gives strougth and improve? their health. March ll Warfield's Cold Water Soap, FOB salo by E. HOPE, Solo Agent for South Carolina. March 19 Couutry Flour. OAA RACK d good COUN PU Y-O HOUND ?\J\J FLOUlt, tor sale low. March 19 _ E. HOPE. Potato 81 i ps. fl f\f\ BUSHELS Yam Sweet POTATO JUJU SLIPS, for salo low, for cash. March 3 JE. HOPE. The Doctors Recommend Seegers' Beer IN preference to Loudon Porter and Scotch Ale. Why? Thoy know it is unadulter? ated. March ll 000 Barrels J71XTRA Family, Medium and Common li FLOUR, for sale low. E. HOPE. Booal Items. -- MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.-TN? Northern j mail opens at 3.30 P. M.; closes 12.15 P. M. Charleston day mail opens 1.30 P. M. ; closes 11.30 A. M. Charleston night mail opens 8.30 ?. M.; closes COO P. M. Greenville mail opens 7.30 P. M. ; closes 8.30 P, M. Western mail opens 1 30 P. M. ; olotes 1.30 P. M. On Sunday office open from 3 to 4 P. M. PHONIXIANA.-Tho price of single copies of the PltozNix is ?vo cents. A fount of minion of about 200 pounds, together with two-line letter, nearly new, will bo sold nt ?O cents a pound, with tho cases. This is a bargain, as the foundry price is GS cents. Also, a lot of second-hand bourgeois and miuion, at '25 and 30 cents. Besides leads, rules, chuscs, etc. Pamphlets, briofs, catalogues, dodgers, posters, hand-bills, bill-heuds-in fact, j everything in tho way of job priuting gotten up in tho best style and on terms that we pledge ourselves will be satisfac? tory to all parties. Lot us hear from you, business mon, in tho shape of or? ders for the spring trade. With ap? proved machinery and steam power, we challenge comparison in prices. Plain und fancy colored printing exe? cuted with neatness and despatch, on the most reasonable terms. All the latest styles of cards, ?c., on hand and printed in excellent style, at the PHONIX office. As will be seen by an advertisement in another i olumn, the ''Dollar Store" is about to be closed. There are still a number of articles on hand which buy ors would do well to examine. Another mapquerade comes off at the Skating Bink (Irwin's Hall) this evening. Lovers of fun should attend. Tho Southern Express Company will disposo of, nt auction, a largo lot of un? claimed articles, this morning. Lucky individuals should attend, as, doubtless, bargains will be secured-although, of course, there is a chanco of getting a blank. A lost colored ohild, in our streets, yesterday, was taken charge of by a white l.idy. Tho child's dilemma excited tho risibles of a number of darkeys. Tho Governor has appointed Mr. T. S. Cavender Treasurer of Chesteifield Coanty, vice John Mcdills. The gas got into tantrums yesterdny evening, but after a short time came right again. Be careful, Mr. Superin? tendent. ROOFING PAINT.-The attention of the citizens of Columbia is invited to the merits of tho patent roofing paint now being applied to tho Nickersou House, by the patentee, Mr. R. P. Hind, of Au? gusta, Ga. It is wari anted to stop leaks when nil other remedies have failed. It hus been successfully used in the West? ern States, and is everywhere favorably commended. Mr. Hind-Ibo patentee and inventor-is quartered at the Central House, and will impart ull necessary in? formation. The paint is warranted to stop all leaks. The following certificate, sigued by Mayor Estes, of Augusta, Ga., Judge John P. King, President of the Georgia Railroad, and Thomas S. Nick erson, Esq., of tho Screven House, Sa vanuah, Ga., will attest its useful quali? ties: "Tho undersigned, after four years test, of ll. P. Hiudb' Brunswick Paint, pronounce it superior to any iu use." UoTiiL AmtrvALS, March 22. - Colum? bia Hotel-W. H. Evans, T. D. Wngner, A. H. Tyler, W. J. Magrath, S. Moneas? te, J. E. Thames, Charleston; T. H. Trent, IT. P reel) tel, W. M. Dickson, Bal I i more; S. B. Simmons, Columbia; A. J. Orme, At lau ta; F. C. Johusun, Sa? vannah; S. M. Burns, Shreveport; J. K. Rogers and wife, Boston; J. P. RobertK, J. W. Hoffman, Philadelphia; T. D. Gil? lespie, J. Walker, A. J. Frederick, S. C.; i E. B. Trenton, Now Yolk; F. Tupper, edy; T. B. Ferguson, W. C. Humphreys, T. W. Davis, Greenville; A. P. Means, Spa il au bu ig; T. F. Frencker; NV. Wade, Augusta; J. E. Williams, mother and niece, J. McCnlister, Ala. dickerson House-Mrs. E. C. Look wood, Spartanbtug; Miss C. C. Daniels, Jumes L. Orr, Anderson; H. T. Adam?, i Marion; E. S. J. Hayes, Lexington; Miss Gelston, Miss Ogden, New York; W. Barleycbe, Albany; M. Niceby, G. Sc C. R. R. ; J. W. Westmoreland, Phila? delphia; T. T. Moore, eily; H. S. Wil? liams, Baltimore; John Williams, Edge field; W. W. Miiddra and ?ou, N. Y. E. It. lt.; J. Cully, W. F. Burdwell, N. G. i A. R. lt.; Thomas Cavinder, Brewer Mine; F. D. Bush, W. MoCaw, S.O.; H. J. Ames, Pensacola; Wm. Bell, Lex? ington. --?? ? - - LIST OP NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Acts of the Legislature. Dollar Store. R. C. Shiver Sc Cc-A Curd. Jacob Levin-Gas. Stanley's-Gas Reading. Meeting Acucia Lodgo. - m - ? A STATISTICAL FACT.-If all tho bedbugs, rata, unco and roaches that Lave beni alan by ISAACIKN'S "licuK Fop" were laid out in singlo file, it is calculated that tho Imo wnnld bo twico as long as tho Atlantic cable. Sold l?y all druggists. F IC th Lippmau's Hitters aro for sale hy all drug? gists and dealers. Depot in Columbia, H. C., al G KIO KU & Mc?KKoou's, Druggists. 8 ia