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TiniB?TTiiTOt'^^-'fe'r^AI hoott, to-day,
there wes a sharp engagement io the
tronchos, in front pf Forts Issy and Yan
. vera. The Versailles troops, carried by
assanlt a small redan, defended by a
force- of Communists, who were taken
prisoners. The work, however, was
. ovaooated by tho Ycrsai?liats, in conse?
quence of being exposed tb the fire of
Fort Vanvers. ...
A dooroo Issued by tho Committee of
Publia Safety, vests in Oeneral Bossel
military direction of military operations.
The committee ha70 also given orders
for the demolition of Expiatory Chapel.
General Bossel.bas formally taken con?
trol of the entire Communist army, and
inna order of the day, appoints General
Dombroweki j to command the right
. wingi General LaCeoilia to. the contre.
General Nobleoaski- to f?be,left wing and
' Generals Bergeret and Eudeato the re?
serves. Attempts at -an armistice conti?
nue, hut as yet without success. "."''
- PAWS, May 6-Night.-The- firing
Sooth of the city is vigoro as, while at
Neuilly and As nie rs it is alternately
forions and weak. A frosh attack on
tue South-west'side of (he city ia im
?lending. - 'The Commune suppressed the
oUpwing journals: The Petit Moniteur.
Jt'?tit Notional, Bau Tempi, Petit, Presse,
Petit Journal, Frances Tamps. ?.< '
uvi FBANXFOBT, May i 6.-rBismarok rand
.Favre haye had two meetings. FaVre
asked concessions of ! Bismarck, upon f
atrio t and i tn media to oompliauco witl
preliminaries. - An o th or: consultatior
odours Monday. 1 ' ;
PAIUS, May I.- Tho commandant, a
Viuoonnes 'asks 1 for reinforce in en tn
Bossel:complains.pf interference iron
the Committee pf Safety. Pecatt ha
.resigned from the Committee of Safety
Bossel and Pombrowaki are npon bat
terms.
LONDON, May 8.-The Versaillists an
within 800 yards of Port Mailot. Boche
fort announces that ammunition is ran
nina short. Gluser?t will, have a speed;
trial, i It is reported that Gambetta's ar
rpat has been orderet].
, A speoial to the Telegraph says th
Communiais sortied on Sunday, froc
.?ssy, but were repulsed with tro mond?n
losa,, and fled to'paris. They fired o
their friends, who refused to open th
gales into the Yaugirard quarter. Thor
; waa a panic at. Yan vers, where the Na
if opals deserted. thoir positions. .Boase
baa ordered the right sleeves of desert
era' uniforms to be out off.
FBANXPOBT, May .8.-^William tel?
graphs to Coun t Bismarck the following
.:t'?While strioily. adhering; to preliminar
--_??_._i_.r_-r- : iii_' .* - mit. ? i
niwaumWMSf M. am -Trnuug -tvi - nuuni' a
;posidblp facilities f?r a completo Undo
:' stand jpg. X am willing t? fully dieoui
the means for ah teaxly suppression ; i
anaroby, and for the establishment of
?^lJ?boy^rbment i? France.'". 1 ??_
. -.PA?UIJ* May,7-Evening.-Firing In
cpMjod-apparently, by mutual cooBeut
, to rompyy tho wounded and bury tt
dead. The Communists admit that7 tl
Versaillists are gaining ground. Tl
Versaillisfs are pushing between Nonjl
a'nd Levallois, for the purpose of oleo
ing the Seine and driving the Nations
to Cliohy. Five priests, havo bei
arrested as spies. The Church of E
Eustaobo baa been .converted into a p
. li ti cal cl ab-room, and others are us?
for pubiio meetings and concerts. Ti
Tailleries have been turned into an as
Jam for widows and orphans of the IS
ttonal Guard.
VKHSAILX.ES, May 8. -Thiers has issu
a proclamation to the people of Par
stating that be will not bombard Par
hut .will assault tho ramparts. He i
queata the citizens to rally around t
troops, Sod promised for their t
amnesty, and continuedr subsidy to t
poor. ... ii //,?! -
: Y!BBSAIIIIIBS, May 8-Thiers, in a p:
. clamatipn to the peoplo of Paris, BI
the Germans declare they will m ereile
ly resume .war unless the insurrection
at ouco sppproaae-l. The proolamati
.closes1 asi follows:'^'Be-nnite and op
your, gates to us: Thew?rkof cann
' Will ?then ceano, and tranquillity o
. abundance take its plac?., We are mar
ing to. deliver, you, and will be amo
you tn a few days. You can aid os."
. - LqKr/b?f,,, .May *8.'?-despatch fr
Lyon? states that Gambetta waa arras
. in that bity OD Saturday, by order of
?> Yereailles GoV?rnment.
'? ' ' Ameilrn.ii Intoliiuenrn.
. ^Wf.?PRK,' May 6.r-Wm. Ryan^I
-ney ?O'Douohus and James Lorill,
longing, to. the ship William Storer, vi
? arrested for mutiny, and held in S3,
each,for examination.
Onq of : the galleries' of Sing Sing
! son, across wbioh the men were mai
ing to dinner yesterday, gave way, ]
oipitating over eighty convicta, somi
tba next gallery below, and others to
stone pavement, forty feet beneath. '.
prisoners were fatally injured.
A despatch from the great break
the Erie Ganai says navigation wil
resumed within ten days, should
weather be favorable, and no fur
trouble with laborers ocour.
The Stock Exchange has present?
sor vico plato to Seymour, Its re ti
President.. .
Speole shipments to-day, $106,000
MEMPHIS, May 6.-Tho deooratioi
Confederate graves entirely suspei
business to-day.
ATLANTA, May ?.-Bound trip rail
tiokots, for .ono fare, will be on sa
Atlanta to delegates and visitors tc
Southern Baptist Convention at
Louis, on the 10th. A special tim
'par loaves Atlanta on the evening'ol
8 th i us t. ' ? .
I* HAVANA, May 6 -The United S
War steamer Mayflower has arrived
Sisal. Tho remaining members ol
Tebanntepec expedition aro expect*
I ay few days, Tho Mayflower will ?
1 Washington in ' a few days; the oil
I and crew all well.
I SAVANNAH, May 7.-Tho stean
I Maggie Saffold struck' and sank o
I obstructions Saturday uight,
NEW YORK.; May.8.-Tb? TFord'a apo-!
blah dated Versallleo, 7?h", says Bismarck
urges Thiers* tov husten tbe red notion ' o?
Paris. The Germans ?ill not hold aloof
beyond next Sunday.,
HARTFORD, Moy 8. --In the New Haven
ward, where the oommitteo found only
479 ballots in a paokage marked 670 for
Jewell, the committee hove obtained 520
signatures to a declaration of having
voted for Jewell. j
WASHINGTON, May 8.-Donglae nota
during Pleasanton's absenoe. Seoretnry
of War Belknnp's child is dead. The
child's mother died recently. Corcoran
is worse. Doctors aro* constantly in at?
tendance. ;,
The treaty, waa signed to-day by tho
High Commission at the Department ol
State. Tho gentlemen, after this waa
done, exohnnged congratulations ou the
result of their labors, expressing the be?
lief that they bad done the most they
possibly oould for the pence and houot
of the two countries. Although tho
com mission era have been cautious in
talking to persons outside of their own
circle, tho following points will bo fonnd
to bo correct: There aro to be two
boards of arbitration or commissions.
To one will be referred the Alabama and
otho)' similar claims, which are rcoog
nized as national, and to be settled on
the principle of responsibility for ?noh
depredations, whero . the Government
has exercised tho utmost diligence and
possible precaution to prevent privateers
from being fitted out in its ports to prey
upon the oom meroo of' a power with
whom it is at peace. The other board
is to take cognizance of miscellaneous
claims, British and American, confined
principally to the period from the com?
mencement to the close of out late civil
war. Among these, are the St. Albans
claims for damage to property in that
town by tho Canadians, but no claims
for the Fenian invasion of Cunada are
to bo admitted. As to the claims of
British subjects for seizures of their
cotton, Great Britain, through its com?
missi oners, does not recognize them
in cases where such subjeotu took
up their domioil in the South,
os thereby they subjected themselves to
all tbe risk and oontiugencies of war
All legitimate claims for cotton will,
however, be considered. It has boen re
ported,, withont warrant, that they will
amount to $13,000,000 or more, but this
is considered to be a great exaggeration.
They will not probably amount to
81,000,000. There will be no difficulty
in ascertaining all the particulars, as the
Treasury Department has full data of all
tho seizures of cotton, the nucios of tho
owners thereof, and all the particulars
concerning ./the seizures.. Among the
claims which will also come bet?re this
board will be that, of our Government
growing out of the purchase of saltpetre
in tbe East, Indies during the var, and
which, was seized by the British authori?
ties.' This Government is aware that a
full lint of British claims was recently
published in that country, but it also has
information that many of them have al?
ready been adjusted, while others will
not come within the provisions of. the
treaty'. There are other miscellaneous
claims which will come before thia seem:d
board. The San Juan question will be
referred to the arbitration of a friendly
sovereign-probably the Emperor of
Brazil. From the documents which will
accompany the submission, it is believed
that the deoiaion cannot fail to bo in
favor of tho United States. The treaty
provides for the free navigation of the
St. Lawrence by vessels of the United
States and for the use of the Canadian
canals upon the payment of regular
tolls. There are alao provisions r?gul?t
ing the privilege to fishing in Canadian
waters, but these have not been ascor
tained in sufficient accuracy to justify
their statement. Tbe London Times, of
to-day, mistakes in saying that the treaty
must be ratified by both houses of Par
liament. Legislation will, however, be
required only to carry some of its provi
sionS into effeot.
The mixed Spauish Commission con
sists of Otto,'as arbitrator; dishing, at?
torney io behalf of tho United States
Polistad, arbitrator; Carlisle, attorney io
behalf of Spain.
The High Commission takes no cog?
nizance of .contracts between British
subjects and the -Confederate Govern?
ment.
Probabilities-Partially cloudy and
clear weather will probably prevail on
Tuesday on the lower lakes and the. At?
lantic coast; North-easterly winds on the
upper lakes, abd threatening weather
West^of the central Mississippi valley.
WILMINGTON, DBTI., May 8.-The Phi?
ladelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Hail road shops, with some seventeen en?
gines, were burned to-day. Cause-lo?
comotive sparks. Loss very heavy.
CHARLESTON, May 8.-Arrived
I soboouer H. G. Hand, Philadelphia.
NEW YORK, May 8.-The Stock Ex
ohauge elected W. B. Olarke, Pr?aident,
j and M. A. Wheelock, Chairman.
A ourious and beautiful effect was pro?
duced by one of the ice-making maobinea
built lately in Philadelphia. This was n
cake of mannfaoturod ice, in the centre
Of whiob, completely enclosed by the
translucent material, was a bouquet of
fresh flowers. Every leaf and flower
was perfectly visible, wbilo . the bril?
liancy of the colors waa enbancod by tho
refraction through the iao. This speci?
men of sommer entombed in winter WBB
produoed by tho Carre-ammonia process,
a French invention, under whiob these
machines are operated.
DEATH OF PROMINENT MASON.-The
Hon. Giles M. Hillyer, thirty-third de?
gree active member, and Grand Chan?
cellor of tho Supreme Council for the
Southern jurisdiction Of the United
States, di"d in Natchez, Mississippi, a
fow days since.
Constable Hollar, of Missouri, arrest?
ed Mr. Buhee, tho other day, when nil
tho Bobeo family set upon him. He
Hollared "Behoo alive or Boheo doad,
I'm bound to have him;" and he did.
. 'Thejbo?'tes of xltfenreoautat Geo. -Ash?
bury Dud J. ? 0. ' Morrison, Sargeant
Dewie and privates Hadley, Sharkey,
Pierce and Mooney, all. of tbe United
States army, who were drowned on Luke
Ontario, Thursday, near Fort Majorra,
by the swamping of a boat, were washed
ashore and recovered yesterday.
During thirty-five years, 3,000 inquests
have been bold in Savannah, of which
2,000 were upon persona drowned in the
Havannah River. '
Anna, A? Pomeroy, of Milwaokie, has
had a divorce granted and $20,000
alimony. Also, 8000 per annum. She
was the wife of Rriek Pomeroy.
' May a mah justly consider his wife
poetical wheu she is averse to bim?
FINANCIAL ANO ?iowa KliCI A I..
Nsw YORK, May 7.-Tho cotton move?
ment for the week shows a marked full?
ing off. Receipts ut all ports 51,432
boles, against 50,685 for last week;
63,042 for the previous week, and 64,156
for three weeks since. Total reoeipta
since September 3,623,373 bales, against
2,637,253 for the corresponding period
in the previous year, showing an inoreaae
Of 086,120 io favor of tho presont sea?
son. Exporta from ul I ports for the week
71,087 bales, agaiuMt 36,275 for tho same
week hist year. Total for expired por?
tion of the cotton year 2,687,062 huies,
against 1,700,606 for tho samo time hist
year. Stock at all perta 426,044 bales,
against 353,063 for tho same time last
year. Stock ut interior towns 53,632
ba'es, against 69,900 for last year! Stock
in Liverpool 994,000 bales, against 540,
000 lust year. American cotton afloat
for Great Britain 230,000 bales, against
180,000 last year. Indian cotton afloat
for Eu ropo is 275,223 bales, against 178,
113 last year. During the week cold
rains have pro vailed in the Hun th, which
have doue much damage. In some sec?
tions planting bas been delayed, while in
others a large areu of laud will, uo doubt,
have to be repl mied.
LONDON, May 8-Noon.-Money
Bonds 90^.
LIVERPOOL, May 8-Noon.-Cotton
opened steady-uplands 7>4'@7<%; Or
1 eu a s
LONDON, May 8-Eveuing.-Consols
93%. Bonds
LIVEEFOOL, May 8-Evening.-Cotton
closed steady and unchanged in price;
export and speculation 2,000 bales; Halon
on ship named ut Now Orleans 7 7-16 for
middling.
NEW YORK, May 8-Noon.-Flour
aud corn dull aud declining. Wheat
quiet and heavy. Pork dull, nt 17.12y?
(rr) 17.25. Cotton quiet and firm-up?
lands 153-4 ; Orleans sales 1,000
bulos. Freights firm. Governments
dull aud steady. Stocks quiet aud
steady. Southerns dull. Money easv,
at 5. Gold . 11)8*1 Sterling-long !0??? ;
short 103?. .
7 P. M.-Money easy, ut 4@5, with
exceptions at 3. Sterling firm, wold
lljf??slll^. Government* closed utrillo
firmer-light business.' Teunesueesvery
strong and active; other Southerns dull
and steady. TouncBsees 68; new 08^4.
Virginias 69; uew 70>?. Louisianas 69;
new 62; levees 60; 8s ?5. Alabamas 1.02;
5a 70. Georgias 82; 7s 88. North Caro?
linas 47; new 25. South Carolinas 71;
new GO}-j. Cotton quiet and firm, with
sales of 2,000 baleB, at 15%. Flour
Southern dull anfi drooping; common to
fair extra 6.65@7.20; good to choice
7.25(2)9.00. Whiskey a shade lower, at
90%(a)91. Wheat heavy and l@2o. low?
er-winter rod and amber Western 1.54
(2)1 .GD. Corn heavy and decidedly lower,
ot 76@80; choice white Southern 91.
Pork Bteady, at 17.50(2*17.76. Lard
heavy-kettle 11%. Freights-firmer.
LOUISVILLE, May 8.-Corn 68. Flour
dull. Provisions quiet nnd steady. Pork
18.00. Shoulders 7>?; clear sides 9%i
Whiskey 88.
CINCINNATI, May 8.-Corn in good de?
mand, at full prices. Flour firm nnd in
fair demand-family G. 25(2)6.50. Pork
weak, at 17.50 asked. Lard-ll asked:
Bacon iu light demand und holders firm
-sides 9(2)9)4; shoulders 7. Whiskey
firm, at 88.
BALTIMORE, May 8.-Flour firmer,
with improved demand. Wheat firm
and stock-scarce-Ohio and Indiana
1.60@1.65. Corn-white Southern bet?
ter, at 77@80; yellow Southern dull, at
75; mixed Western better, at 72(2}74.
Oats dull, at 65. Pork quiet, at 18.50.
Bacon steudy-shoulders 8; rib sides 10;
clear rib 10)?{ hams 16? 17. Lard
qniet, at 12. "Whiskey quiet, at 92}?.
Cotton quiet and firm-middling 14}? (a)
14%;'receipts 117 bales; sales 325; stock
8,840.
BOSTON, May 8.-Cotton strong-mid?
dling 15j4*t receipts 420 bales; niles 600;
stock 13,000.
CHARLESTON, May 8.-Cotton firm
middling 14%\ receipts 662; nales 500;
stock 17,858.
SAVANNAH, May 8.'-Cotton Bteady and
in fair demand-middling 14}^; receipts
799 bales; sales 1.000; stock 84,320.
NORFOLK, May 8.-Cotton quiet-low
middling receipts 987 bales;
sales 50; stock 1,414.
GALVESTON, May 8.-Cotton firm
good ordinary V?%; receipts 1,099 bales;
sales 1,100; stock 59,103.
MOEILE, May 8.-Cotton firm-mid?
dling 14J?; receipts 778 bales; sales OOO;
stock 29,760.
AUGUSTA, May 8.-Cotton closed firm?
er, at 18^ for Liverpool middling; sales
800 bales; receipts 260.
WILMINGTON, May 8.-Cotton quiot
middling 14; receipts 75 bales; Block
2,453.
NEW ORLEANS. M iy 8.-Flour firm
superfine 6.12; dont lo 8.62@6;75; treble
6.85@7.00. Co. II <: .iiet- mixed 70(2)71;
yellow 72; white l-l i)74. Pork firmer
mess 19.00. Ba. on quiet, at 7J?@10JB'?
bama 14>?. Lari hill-tierce ll j?; keg
12>4@12%. Sugar-primo 10^. Mo?
lasses firm-good to prime fermenting
35?45. Whiskey firm-Western recti?
fied 87%($97>?. Coffee quiet, nt 14(2j
15}?. Cotton strong-middling 14%oJ
14%; receipts 5,624 bales; sales 5,000;
stock 158,177.
A SAD SUICIDE-A-REMARK ABLE LET?
TER.-The New York Tribune, of May 8,
Baja:
On Monday morning, u lady, nppa
reutly abo at thirty-two years of age, and
of handsome fcatares, entered the Ste?
vens Honae, nt Broadway and Morris
street, and asked the office clerk for a
room. She said that she would occupy
it only three days, and finally engaged
Room No. 46, paying in advance. She
attracted bot little attention, remaining
quietly within during the following day.
About ll o'clock, yesterday, the Cham?
ber m aid, upon going to the room, fouud
that the door was looked. Going to the
office, she was told that the occupant
had tho key, and, presuming that the
lady did not wish to be disturbed, she
paid no moro attention to tho room.
Ltxte iu the afternoon tho chambermaid
returned, and, upon finding tho door
still locked, informed the hotel proprie?
tors of the- fact. The ofileo clerk there?
upon broke iu the door, and found the
occupant lying in bed, clasping in her
hands a largo bottlo. She was dead.
The bottlo contained chloroform, and,
from tho position of tho body, it was
plain that uftcr placing her head on the
side of thc pillow, she had inbnled the
poison until uuoonuciousuess and death
carno.
Upon a table waa tho following letter
tho only clue to the mystery:
MONDAY EVENING, May 1.-Proprie?
tors of the Stevern House-DEAR SIRS:
Forgive a heart-broken woman anything.
I shall never haunt this room; so none
need bo afraid to occupy it. Pleuse
help to havo mo forgotten us soon as
possible, and may God bless you with
prosperity. I have no relatives-no one;
but I have sunt to some friends, und I
am quite sure they will come for me to?
morrow, or Wednesday morning.
K. E. HARRINGTON.
P. S. I suppose a coroner will have to
be summoned. Well, the facts are be?
fore him-all he will ever obtuin. I did
not procure tbe chloroform in this city
or State. No one is to blame but my?
self. No soul on earth knows how I got
it but myself. I huvo taken my life be?
cause I have no means, employment, or
friends to aid me. I cannot live; so I
die. Forgive all us ye hope to be for
giveu. K. H.
ALSACE AND LORRAINE-IMPORTANT
SPEECH OP BISMARCK.-Io tbe German
Parliament on tho 2J instant, n bill in?
corporating Alsace und Lorraine with the
empire came before the Houso. Prince
Bismarck%restated the nrgumonts upon
which the mensuro woe baaed. The an?
nexation of tho provinces to Germany
was necessary - to give her a bulwark
.._i_..L , i. " _._. ._. r ir>...- -1 -
ngmuok mo u'vuiicuuo \it x- n-iiuii ?ty(?ten?
si?n, cases of which"-find been so fre?
quent in times past. Ono instance of
comparatively recent date was cited.
On the Gth of August," I860,'Franco sent
to Berlin its ultimatum -demanding the
cession o? Mayenec, and the illness of
the Emperor of the French alone pre
vontcd hostilities then. ? During the late
war foreign powers proposed tho neu?
tralization of Alsace and Lorraine, but
that would be insufficient for Germany,
and ootdd not be thought of. As for the
inhabitants, they ure still averno to thoir
fatherland. Said the Prince, in conclu?
sion, "Wo shall strive to win them
back." The bill was referred to a com?
mittee.
RBV. LOVICK PIERCE.-This distin?
guished divine left yesterday for Nash?
ville, Tennessee, where there is shortly
to be some meeting of Sunday school
teachers of the church to which he de?
voted his energies aud tuleuts for over
half a century. We uro gratified to find
him in traveling order, for he was re?
cently, and for many days, prostrated by
illness. He sprung, however, to tho
saddle at tho bugle call of duty, aud ut
the age of eighty-seven, presents in this
day n remarkable spectacle of physical
health and mental vigor.
[Columbus Suit.
SOUTHERN AND ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.
The Richmoud Dispatch, of Wednesday,
saya: Superintendent Delaney, of tho
Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Com?
pany, informs ns that he will have his
lines np to Danville in about ten ' days,
all impediments having beeu removed
aud pecuniary reinforcements received.
The company proposes to push right on
South, expecting to havo their wires up
to Charleston in ninety days, aud to Sa?
vannah in a mouth or two later. They
now have a largo force at work getting
out poles in North Carolina.
A notorious desporado, Diego Lucero,
sent to prisou for murdering Manuel
Garcia, a constable of Albuquerque, New
Mexioo, aud accused of havina killed a
number of mon, women and children at
different timcR, was recently tnken from
confinement by a band of armed and
disguised regulators, and hanged from a
beam of the porch iu front of the jail.
Lucero wus considered ono of tho most
desperate and savage ruffians iu the
whole Territoiy, which abounds in vil?
lains and assassins of every kind.
The Chicago papers announce that the
grave of Douglas in that oity is to be
sold for taxes. It appears in a commu?
nication from the city colloctor to the
councils that an assessment of 62,200
for improvements had been made upon
tho ground wherein reposes all that was
mortal of the Littlo Giaut, and that the
courts have given judgment, he shall be
compelled to proceed.
Women have a much nicer sense of the
beautiful than tho men. They aro by
fur tho safest umpires in malters of pro?
priety and grace. A* mero school girl
will bo thinking and writing about the
! beauty of birds and flowers, while her
brother is robbing tho nests und dstroy
, ie g the Howers.
It was Colebridgo who said of a school
! master who was fond of applying the
i birch, that it was lucky for the cherubim*
; who carried him to Heaven that the}
were all heads and wings.
HOME AND ITS QUEEN.- Th oro ia pro?
bably not an uoper verted man or woman.
living who dooB not (eel that , the sweet
eat consol?t iona and best rewards of lifo
are found in tho loves and delights of j
home. There aro very few who do not
feel themselves indebted to the inila- j
enees that oluBtered aronnd their oradles
for whatever of good there may be in
their characters and conditions. Home,
based upon Christian marriage, is BO evi?
dently an institution of God, that a mon
must beopme profane before be can deny
it. Wherever it is planted, tbero stands
a bulwark of the State. Wherever it is
pure, and truo to the Christian idea,
there lives an institution conservative of
all the nobler interoats of society. Of
this realm woman ia the qneen. It takes
its cue and its hue from her. If she is
in the best sense womanly_if she is
true and tender, loving and heroic, pa?
tient and Belf-devoted-she consciously
or unconsciously organizes and puts in
operation a set of Influences that do
more to mould the destiny of tho nation
than any man, uncrowned by power or
eloquence, cno possibly effect. Tho men
of tho nation are'what their mothers
make them, as a rule; and the voice
which those men speak in the expression
of their power is the voice of the woman
who bore and bred them. There aan be
no substitute for this. There is no other
possible way in which tho women of tho
nntiou can organize their influence and
power that will tell BO beneficently upon
society and the State. Neither woman
nor the nation cnn afford to have home
demoralized or in any way deteriorated
by the loss of her presence or the lessen?
ing of her influence there. As a nation
we rise or fail as the character of our
homes, presided over by woman, rises or
falls; and tho best gauge of our be3t
prosperity is to be found iu the measure
by which these homes find multiplica?
tion in the land. In true marriage, and
the struggle after the highest ideal of
home life, is to bo found the solution o'
more of the ugly problems that finiront
tho present generation-r-^ral, social
and political-than we nave space to
enumerate-?Scitoner for February.
FORTONE-TEIJXIEBS.-A reporter of the
Kow l'ork Tribune hus beeu visiting the
female fortune-tellers of that city, and
finds that they are not only humbugs,
but ofteu criminals of the worst sort.
The principal business of the most of
them is to provide victuals for libertines,
tho pretended gift of foreknowledge be?
ing the bait by which they attract silly
and credulous girls within their dutches.
Ex-Governor John Wood, of Illinois,
bas donated bis mansion at Quincy, to?
gether with the furniture and a whole
block of ground. surrounding it, .to the
city, for the purposes; of a female semi?
nary, open to all'denominations. The
building cost 350,000, and the whole
property is valued at half a million.
KAT RIDDANCE.-It is claimed that rats
may effectually bo driven away by pow?
dering with common red pepper the
holes through which they get into the
houses. So simple a way of ridding a
place of the vermin ought at least to be
tried.
An Indiana paper feels called upon to
rebuke the youths and maidens in its
town who block up the sidewalk in front
of the drug stores whilo they count up
their cash in hand to ascertain if they
have a sufficient amount to purchase one
i glass of soda for each couple.
There is a great de-d of theology in
the idea of tho little girl who wished she
could be good without obeying ber
grand-mother. She said it waa easy
enough to read books and pray, but
pretty hard to mind grand-mother.
A cynical old bachelor, who firmly-be?
lieves that a woman has something to
say on all subjects, recently asked a fe?
male friend: "Well, madam, what dc
you hold on this question of female suf?
frage?" To bim the good lady respond?
ed calmly: "Sir, I hold my tongue."
A clergyman strayed into a gambling
house in Memphis lust Tuesday. Yield?
ing to the temptation ot endeavoring tc
win filthy lucro, he lost all of the money
he had, and had to thank the polios fox
rescuing the spoil from the man of Be?
lial.
Thc head of a Vermont railroad shop
was applied to for permission to work on
a fast day by a couple of men who were
noted for their laziness. Permission
was given, "for," says the ohief, "you
oau't either of you work bard enough tc
break the doy."
"Ma," said a little girl to her mother,
"do men want to get married as much ai
the women?" "Pshaw I what are y ot
talking about?'* . "Why, ma, the womel
who come here are always talking abou
getting married; the men don't do so."
A stone-cutter in Ohio bas achievci
immortality for himself by tracing on t
tomb-stone the assertion that the litth
child buried beneath "was an angle 01
earth, and now she is an angle in Heaven.1
In Tennessee a hotel-keeper is cal lei
a "hash-mill boss."
HOLE AND CO ?NEU WOUK.-NOW la the tim
io attack tho rats, mioe, bedbugs and roaobe
to overy bolo and corner. Just put ISAAC
BKN'S "SonE POP" in their reach,.and they"!
troop out of their haunts, devour it and dio
Bold by all druggists, .. V l i tu
.? SSSSUBBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Y. M. C. A.
rpnE recular monthly meeting of the Y. M
A C.A.will he held, TH? EVENING, at
o'clock, in the Heading Boom of tba Associa
non. Au ousay will be read by one of th
uiembors. A full attendance is requested.
B. FRANK MAU LD IN,
May 9 1 _Recording Secretary.
Gas Light Bills for Month of April.
CONSUMERS wilt please attend to tho pay
meut of their bills. The rule rsffarrtiiij
defaulters will be enforced, on and after 15tl
iiiBtaut. JACOB LhVIN,
May 9 S Heorotary Gas Company.
Goshen Butter, Ste.
5TUBS strictly chojoe GOSHEN BUT 1'fc.r
t-pt ciallv selected fur fauilly usu.
1 bi l Full on Market Huef.
2 casks Davis' celebrated Dianinud Haini
for sale lu* roi cash at CAN rWELL'B,
Ma* 9 1 Matu street.
Boc?n at Auction, on Account oj Shipper.
BY JACOB LEVIN, .
THIS (Tueeday) MONNING, at 10 o'clock, I
will aoll, without roBorvo, buToro my store,
on account of shipper,
4,000 pounds Dry Salted SHOULDERS,
1,000 pounds Smoked Shoulders. -
1,500 pounds Dry Salted Sides,
ALSO,
35 barrels FLO UH. warranted, &ud sundry
articles of Groccrios, ?U?.: ??to.
Salo positivo._ May 9 .
Bichland Lodge No. 39, A.P. M.
A AN EXTRA COMMUNICATION of
^ff^'tlnn Lodge will be hold in Masonic
/V\Hall, THIS (Tuesday) EVENING,
at 8 o'clock. Tho 80coud Degree will bo con?
ferred. Ry order of tho W. M.
May 9 1 G. T. BERG, Beo'y pro tem.
Attention, Independents!
A 8PE0IAL meeting of this
TfVjh Company will bo held at your Hall.
^fgggRTUIS [Tuesday] EVENING, 9th of
HPT tit, May, at 7? o'clock. A full attond
auco ia requested, tu take into consideration a
trip tn Charleston, to enter ' tho content on
17th Maj, inst. By order President.
J OLIAN O. PEIXOTTO,
__May D 1_Pocrctary pro. tem. _
Increase of Stock.
CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK.
PAID UP CAPITAL 810O.00O.
OFFICERS:
JOHN B. PALMER, President.
A. G. BRENIZER, Caahisr.
. C N. G. BUTT, Assiataut Cashier.
TUE degree of SUOCOBS that has attended
tho operations of thia Baak since its
establishment in February last,'and the do
sir? ou the partof tho Directors to have asso?
ciated with thom moro of their country
rr iti nd a, has induced them to add $60,000.00 to
tho capital. Shares $100 00 each.
Payments may be made/at any time prior to
tho 1st of July, entitling tho holder of tho
Htock to ita pru rata share of profits earned
during tho time the money Is in possession of
tho Bauk; or if on Ih? 1st July, to fi? r--r*?/"
tion of all dividends mano thereafter. In
either event, the no?? -*???* ^?1 participate
equally with *ko utQ Is tho surplus fund.
ADPUMUODS for stock may be made person?
ally, or by lotter, to tho officers of tho Bank.
Hanking House opposite the Columbia
Hotel.
DiuECToas.-John B. Palmer, J. EH Gregg.
F. W. MoMastor, R. D. Benn, (of H. D. Benn A,
Son,) G. W. Reardon, (of Copeland & Dearden,)
R. L. Bryan, (of Bryan ?k McOarter,) W. C.
Swftffield, (of BJ jj W. C. Swafflold.) May 9
IB WIN'S HALL.
Botnrn of the Great Southern Favorites
TUE CHAPMAN SISTERS,
The Famous Comodiau,
O. B. BISHOP,
AND their newly-organized and most
powerful oombination.
FOR THREE NIGHTS ONLY!
THU USO A Y KVKNING. BI AY ll,
"fae Musical Rurleequc of
LITTLE JACK SHEPPAK.D;
' OR, THE IDLE APPRENTICE. ..
FAIOA1 EVENING, MAT 13,
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY,
IN THE ENCHANTED WOOD.
S ATURDA T BVBIfllfO, MAT 13,
The Famous Burlesque, .
THE F0BTY THIEVES.
The CHAPMAN SISTERS, Mr. BISHOP
and tbs entire Company appearing In each
play. Boats can be seoured at LyBrand A
fjn's, commencing Wednesday, May 10.
May 9_ ?
NEW SPRING STOCK
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HATS AND CAPS,
TRUNKS AND UMBRELLAS.
Eadie*', Misses' and Children's
LACE, CONGRESS
ANO
BUTTON BOOTS,
Geutlemon's, Boya* and Youths'
BOOT8,
CONGRESS GAITERS AND OONGREE8
SHOES.
OXFORD TIES AND DRESS SHOES.
Mado to order for this market and season.
Gents having tender feet ara invited to call
sud examine Glove Kid Shoos for them a elves.
Particular attention is requested to my
' choice block of Men'*. Boy*' and Children's
hUMME'R HATS.
May 7 5* _ J, MEIGHAN.
Sewing Machines.
THE undersigned have the agency of C.
Bowers A Co.'s IMPROVED COMMON
SENSE FAMILY SEWING MACHINE, which
they offer to tho pnblio at greatly reduced
prices. It has no ?nperior. It will stitch,
hom, fell, tuck, quilt, braid, bind and embroi?
der, in a most aoporior manner. Most ele?
gantly finished, with gold leaf, landscape,
tl.) wert-, fte. Warranted for three years. In?
cluding oil oan, guide, sorewdrlVer, four differ?
ent size needles, clump and printed direc?
tions, all for $15. OaU and aee it for yourself,
and get circulars, giving foll description, Ac
Ttu'v havo also superior Machine Oil and
Needles, Barnum's Self-Sower and Hemmer,
oxtra. OHAMRER8 A BRYCE.
April 27_6t
Lands and Beal Estate-Opportunity
To Bell.
PARTIE8 having LANDS AND REAL
ESTA : V. TO SELL will find it to their
advantage to communicate with the under?
signed, giving the usual detail?. I have tba
opportunity of placing such c flu rs as may be
made before Northern capitalists desirous of
investing in Lauds and Real Estate in ?South
Carolina. Address, J. W. PARKER,
Insurance and Real Estate'Agent.
April 29_$6
MISS M. A. BUTE'S SCHOOL,
Corner ot Marion and Plain Slreett.
MISS BUIE beg? to inform her
friends, and the public, that ?he is
able to furnish new and suitable
School Booka to aa many as fifteen
more girls. Books furnished free
_,_ of coat. Drawing. and Fancy
Painting, and Wax Work, taught to music po
Siin free-tho pupils paying for the materiale.
liss IE. desirous of educating those unable to
pay, has had as mans aa five free pupil* in her
Bcbool since Octobsrlo tho prosent. Sho bega
to ask the patronage of those who sympathize
with those who are struggling to educate
thoBO loft to the mercy of the humane and be?
nevolent for an education. Miss Buio teaches
all tho higher branches, and orri tnu nt als,
bavins moon experience aud BUCCCSS.
* M. A. RUIE,
April G t Conferl?rato Soldier'a Friend. |
Fiokling & MoCaw,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND SOLICITORS
IN EQUITY, will practice in the Courts
of Uiuhland, Kershaw, Lexington and Edge
field; in the Supreme Conn oi the State ol
South Cand?na; fetid III tho Circuit and Dis?
trict Courts of the United state? for the Dis?
trict of South Carolina.
FRANCIS W. FICKLIN G.
April 9 tl3 WILLIAM IL MPOAW.
A flu? Buuuiinr tonic bi Hattorfs Bit:ors -
can be ha I at POLLOCK'S