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COLUMBIA. S. C. Thursday Horning, August 31,1871. EUROPEAN ALLIANCES.-Among tho many rumors of treaties of alliance be? tween European sovereigns that havo lately boon transmitted by the Atlantic cables is one which has some color of probability, to tho effect that a new se? cret treaty of alliance, defensivo und of feneivo, has been oonoluded botweon the Emperor of Germnny and tho King of Italy. Tho motive of Italy in desiring such an alliance would ovidently urine from approhonsions that tho olerioal ten? dencies of the French Assembly might ultimately drive the French Government to an active interference in favor of tho Pope. The motivo of Prussia would arise partially from pecuniary considera? tions involving the security of tho in? demnity money duo by Franco; and also from the foot that Italy, having proved a valuable ally in the war of 18GG, may be as valuable again hereafter. This alliance, however, would not provo strong enough for all emergencies, aud hence tho rumors of a similar treaty between Germauy and Austria. Germany, it is olaimed, needs Austria ns a counter? balance against France and Russia, ?'chiefly so at tho present timo," says the Morden Post, of Vienna, "when the French Government is about to intro? duce a plan for the increase of her army to 2,000,000 men, and Germany is also interested that the East should not fall under the oontrol o? Russia." A Berlin telegram states, with somo appearance of authority, that a firm basis was laid at tho reoent conference at Gastein, whereby Germany and Austria are to as? sume a joint attitude, and also that Italy bas conditionally agreed to the same polioy. These statements have boen preceded by numerous vague Btories, so intermixed with prophecies that bavo proved falso, that the subjact bas been looked upou almost entirely as more speculation. It is evident, however, that diplomacy is aotive to Bccure the pacification of Europe by formidable combinations. THE YELLOW FEVER.-Tho Charleston News, of the 3D th, says: The yellow fevor continues to oxcito tho community, though the disease, as yet, exhibits no especial feature of ac? tivity in its spread or of malignity in its type. Severul new cases aro reported, and during tho twenty-four hours ending at noon yesterday, there were eis deaths resultiug from tho fover. Tho hegira of nnacclimated residents during tho pant two days bas boon very extensive, and will aontinuo to-day. All the trains go out well filled. In the event of tho fever assuming the proportions of au epidemic, tho fewer subjects that romain within its reaoh tho better. A meeting of the Executive Commit? tee of the Howard Association of Charleston, the vacancies being filled, the board of officers stands as follows: James II. Taylor, President. Thomas S. Budd, First Vico-Presi dont. Peter J. Barbot, Setjpnd Vico-Preai dent. George H. Moffatt, Treasuror. George S. Polzer, Secretary. Directors.-H. F. Baker, Thomas Mc? Carthy, T. P. Lowndes, W. H. Porou neuu, Thomas M. Hunckel, Li. D. Low? ry, Jacob Small, S. A. Nelson, S. Y. Tupper, J. fl. Devereux, Joseph A. Sanders, F. S. Holmes. B. F. Evans, James M. Eason, W. G. Whildon, W. S. Henery. The hotels und private houses iu Co? lumbia uro being rapidly filled by per? sons from the unfortunate city. Severul merchants, wu learn, aro making arrange? ments to go into business hore. <-???-?? ? ? ? - Tun HON. EDMUND MARTIN.-This CH timable gentleman died, on tho 8th in? stant, nt his resideuco, in Beaufort County, iu tho sbvonty-fiith year of his ago. Mr. Martin was eminently a repre? sentative man in his own County, (Beau? fort,) and sorved tho people for mnuy years iu tho State Sonato and House of Reprosoututives. After his retirement from public lifo ho was elected a member of aud served in two of tho most impor? tant conventions ever held in South Carolina. Tho dc?ensud was a brother of tho lato Judge Martin, of South Caro? lina, and the uncle of tho lute General Wm. E. Martin. He was well known throughout tho Statu, and had, ns ho de? served, many warm friends. THU CAUSELESS WAR ON COREA.-Thc New York Post condemns tho war on Corea, and says it hopes that this lust at? tempt of our Government to do diplo? matic work in tho E*st at tho canuou't month may be the last time our Chris? tian civilization shall appear in arms be? fore the heathens aud barbarians to ex? tort from them grants which thoy have the right to withhold. MASONIC.-A now Musouio journal will be published in the city of Washington on tho lat of Octtrber next. Tho title will bo Mackey's National Free Mason, and the journal will be published month? ly. It will bo edited by Hon. Albert G. Mackey, now residing in Washington. It will have many contributors from tht different a^ctious of tho couutry. A writer in the British Qiuiilirly, in i paper ou .?Hereditary Legislatura," pie sages tho ubolition of tho House o: Lords, aud says that "exulted r::uk, do rivod from birth alono, must bo permit ted to die out by tho flux of time." The Burning or Columbia, S. C.-Who Did Hf A writer in the Atlanta, QA., Planta? tion, writing over tho signature of "B. A. A.," says: A few weeks ngo I saw the announce? ment of the sadden death of Mr. T. S. Niokeraon, tho formor proprietor of Nickerson'B Hotel, at Columbia, S. C., and more recently in charge of the Sore ven Ileane, Havannah. I saw this nowa with rogrot, as he was a warm-hearted, amiable aud benevolent mun, und his aptitndo for his profession was remarka? ble. I have heard it said that there were more mon born to mako good Pre? sidents of tho United States than there i wero to bo good hotel-keepers. Mr. Niokerson certuinly was ouo. During the war, ho kept the best IIOUBO in the Confederate States, and although ho was known to bc a Unionist, yet his uniform kindness to our soldiers mado him very popular. He accumulated an independ? ent fortune, maoh of which was invested in his hotel. When Shermun WUB at Dalton, I happened to bo in Columbia, aud Mr. Nickerson asked mo if I thought Sherman would ever reach Atlanta? I roplied, Yes. Ho then said: "Do you think ho will get to Colum? bia?" I replied: "If hoover passes Kenne saw Mountain, bo will sweep over the country like the waters of a mill-dam broke loose, and the vory point he will make for will be Columbia." At this Mr. Nickerson looked con? cerned, and ho asked mo, in a very ear? nest manner, what I would udviso him to do in such an event. Said I: "When Sherman gets hore, make friends of the mammon of un righteous? ness; place your houso, your horses, your wines, and everything else that you have, ut his disposal, and ask h..u to protect yon. This is tho only course for you to pursue. This may savo you; I know of nothing else." In due time Sherman reached Colum? bia; the city was Backed and burned, and Nickerson, like everybody else, lost ali he hud. After the surrender, at Charlotte, I was returning home, and in passing through Columbia, called on Nickerson. He was living in a small house on the outskirts of what was once tho city. He looked haggard, and I may almost say despairing. After bid? ding mo welcome, he said: ..Well, Colonel, I took your advice. When Sherman got hero, I turned over all I had to him and his staff. I wore myself down in waiting on them, and at 8 o'clock, in the evening, I went to my room and put on my slippers and throw myself on the bed for a short nap. I had soaroely composed myself, when Isaac, whom yon knew well au my bil? liard-marker, came rushing into my room and said to me: "Mr. Nickerson, you had better get Mrs. Nickerson ont of this hotel; they oro going to burn this town at 9 o'clock!' " He Buys ho was so bewildered, that he simply remarked: "Great God, nol" "YOB they are," said Isaac, "beoanse I bearii General BarncB and the officers say that tho Oro would commence ut 9 o'clock, while I was waiting on them nt supper." Nickerson said tho boy'a manner was so earnest, and bis expression so indica? tivo of alarm, that he rushed down stairs, and as ho approached tho ellice, he saw the stall oiiioers examining his horse blankets. "Groat heavens, gentlemen, what docs this mean?" They sneeringly replied: "We just thought we would ap? propriate these, as you will not need thom any more." He then went to Gen. Barnes and bogged him to save his house, which be agreed to do, and or dored a detachment of men to bo in readiuess. Nickerson then commenoed to collect all the blankets and hud them saturated, and even procured an eugine. Sure enough, at 9 o'clock, the rockets wont up, and in ten minutes tho whole city was in flames, and thousands of poor womon and children wore running to and fro, shrieking aud screaming in despair and alarm. Niokerson succeeded in preventing the flames from reaching his houso for some time, until a baud of soldiers came rushing into tho houso aud '.ailed for him to bring out a Confede .ato flag which they hud hoard ho had. "Bring it out, d-u you, or we will mur? der you." Ho brought it out, and they tramped it nuder foot and then proceed? ed to cut tho bose and fire his houso. Ho said: "In ton minutes moro I was a ruined mau. I stood bowildered aud brokon spiritod, looking upon tho charred ruins of all that was loft mo of a loug lifo of energy and toil." And yet Sherman says Hampton burned Colu mbiul Tho Now York papors for tho last threo days have contained lengthy ac? counts of the finding of tho dead body of a handsome young woman, pucked in a trunk, ut tho Hudson River depot. It is supposed that an attempt at abortion had been mado, but no cluo has as yet boon obtained. The trunk into which tho remains wero crammed in thirty-two inches in length, oightoen in width and fourteen inches in depth. It will be se eu, therefore, that extraordinary pres suro, us well as nerve, was necessary to got the body into so small a space. A young man iu Now Hampshire agreed with nu acquaintance that if ho would eat six quarts of boiled custard, ho would swim two miles iu a pond. Tho challenged mau disposed of the custard, aud the next morning tho other swam to tho prescribed poi?t, aud then turned around and swam back iuto tho lake Homo twenty rods, giving us a reason that his friund, on finishing tho pudding, lickod tho spoon, and ho wauled to do tho square thing. Tho Convent of tho Good Shepherd was burucd at Cincinnati, on Thumlay morning. Tho IOSH is estimated at 825, 0U0. Thoro wore sevonty sisters and two hundred pupils iu the building at tho time, all of whom escaped. TUR I?OST CAOSE.-A. A. Gilbert, E?q., editor of the Sumter (S. C.) Watchman, who ia now io Now York, publishes the following communication in the Herald: To THE EDITOR, OF THE HERALD: I have read with surprise the document purporting to be tho address of u South? ern "Coucessionist," unfolding a s?beme for tho establishment of Sonthern inde? pendence iu a separate Confederacy, and yonr editorial thereon, published iu your issuo of the 27th instant. From my in? timate knowledge uf Southern senti? ment, boing a South Carolina editor of twenty-one yenni' experience and obser? vation, I do nut hositute to pronounce the document alluded to a bogus pro? duction and intended to prejudice the South iu the outside and surrounding world. And I think that you do Mr. Davis and Mr. Stephens great injustice ev eu in supposing that they could be? come the champions of any such a eruzy scheme, sud certainly misapprehend our people entirely when you say that the document, alluded to "doubtless speak; tho sentiments and tho purposes of u largo body of Southern men." There iu no desire of an effort iu tin South to renew the issues of tho war, aud much loss a second movement to estab? lish Southern independence, (?it bei peaceably or otherwise; and tho idea ii so perfectly impracticable and abuurt! that it could scarcely outer thu brain ol any sane man. When the document ir question points to my own loved Statt und calls tipou thc world to "look at tin ever proud, chivalric and glorious Statt of South Carolina transformed into i burlesque African republic," it speak truth, and a truth not half told; bu when it proposes to cou neut that State at t'.iis moment, with any movement o any character looking to separation fron the Nntiouul Government, it grossly mis represents her people, as it does th? whole Southern people, and tho thin) boars upon its face its owu falsity. The document is a ouuuiugly deviect political trick, or supposed, no doubt, si to be by its authors, for tho purpose o misrepresenting the Southern people am flinging discord and dissension into tb ranks of tho Democracy. It is wilful]; and maliciously false when il represent that any Southern man, and much mor Mr. Stephens, could advise that "tb first step is to turu our backs foreve upon the venal, hypocritical, false-heart ed Yankee now departure Democracy c tho North." The people of tho South-tho honest intelligent, respectable masses-aro ii accord with tho Northern Dcmocrac5 aud if thoy have hopo of a change f?j the better, that hopo is centered in th success of that party. Tho principle and policy of tho "new departure" wu first promulgated anti acted upon b Virginia, and next by South Carolina, i her "Press Conference resolutions" an "reform" movement, and tho able an venerated Vallandighumbut followed tL South in tho movement inaugurated b him in Ohio a abort time previous to h death. The peoplo of tho South aro now wi ling to leavo the matter of platform art nomination mainly in the hands of the Northern brethren, convinced that tl part they took in tho last Democrat National Convention in this city was pr judicial to the success of tho Preside tial candidates; au3 whatever course tl Northern Democracy mny deom it wi to pursue will be oudorsed aud sustain* by all the better musses of thu South. I felt called tipou to nay this much the iuterest of my section aud of trot and trust you will give it u place in yo columns. RoBliixa THE DEAD.-A despatch, gi ing particulars of tho last Mussuchusel railway horror, says: In tho crowd attracted by the acoide on Saturday night were many who proper place is behind prison bal These robbed tho dead and the Kufleri: wounded. Ono poor fellow, gasping f breath, was robbed of $100 iu tho fi minutes ho was loft alone, by some o who was pretending to caro for hil Thousands have visited tho scene of t disaster. Many came from long d tuncos, and excursion wagons were r from tho villages about to uceo ni modi thu curious. Tho road was cleared eui in tho day, but mauy marks of tho ti riblo destruction were not obliterate Tho hunters for relics, even of such sad event as this, were present in lui numbers. Ono mau picked up a fing which he carefully wrapped in his hat kerchief to carry to his home; nuothe piece of a foot, another u torn coat, n about a blood-saturated stocking a gre was gathered wrangling for its poss sion. Two men and a woman, in Enste Adams County, Wisconsin, aro uccin of whipping a littlo boy, eight years o with a heavy iron wiro, of branding h on the nock with a hot trou, and of cu pelling him to bold live ennis in hands until tho flesh and muscles w scorched and shriveled. They aro jail. Tho poor boy is a ROU of tho \ man by a husband now dead, and it alleged that sho has boen tho most act in inflicting upon her child the hor cruellies ho has endured. At almost every stop in lifo wo m with young men from whom wo nut pato wonderful things, hut of who after careful inquiry, wo never bea word. Tho efforvusconco of youth II passion, and tho fresh gloss of in tell and imagination, endow thom witt falso bnlliaucy, which makes fools themselves and other people. Like c taiu chintzes, calicoes and ginghat they show finely on their first nownc but cannot stand tho sim and tho ru and nssumo a very sober aspect ul washing day. Dahlonega, Ga., reports a rumor tl Bob Latham, of Hall County, killed t F?deral soldiers, whoattomptod tosca his wagon, aud was afterwards killed the comrades of tho boys in blue. STANDISH VS. SMITH.-Th? Hieb mond Enquirer, quoting a paragraph from tho Baltimore Sun, in regard to the proposi? tion in Massachusetts to oroot a monu? ment to Miles Standish, tho first military leader ul the Plymouth Bottlers, says: "Oapt. John Smith W?B a 'warrior brave' in hit* time, aud several miles ahead of Milos Standish in reaching Anierioa. Lot him have n monumout iu the Square. A statue ju full cuvaliur dress, aud at tho unveiling all tho John Smiths iu tho country should be ou haud. What n sun.Hution that would mako! And if the particular rook upon which his head was placed to be mudo level, by that jolly old bruiser Powhatan, can be dug up, lut it become tho 'hoad of the corner.' "Soriously, why should wo uot pay proper honors to tho memory of the great enptuiu? His nu tn o is associated with nil that is during aud romantic in our curliest history, and stands bright in our IIUUUIH, and his statue ought to tied a piuco among tho honored worthies of Virginia. lie was our Romulus, onr founder, and his memory should not be neglected." To which tho Sun responds: "It bus always been matter of mirpriiu that a monument should not have been ruined by Virgiuia to Cupt. Johu Smith. 12vou in ono of tho towns of Now Lug land, to which section he gave its mime, that tribute has buen paid to his memo? ry. To uo uno inor? than to him is the Kettleni'Mit of the North American cousi justly due. Without him tho Virginia colony would havo miserably ?igriulied. Ho was tho first to recommond the set? tlement of New England, and spured neither time nor labor iu his efforts to titivation the oolonizatiou of America. Ile was looked upon with reverence by the Indians, and although he sometimes treated them with severity, they ad? mired the pcrsoual valor which' was us conspicuous ia the New World as the Old, uud ugaiust his justice they never brought any complaints. Yet this bene? factor of America, in a statement to his Majesty's commissioners for tho refor? mation of Virginia, probably written about 162-1, says that he has 'spout five years aud moro than ?500 in tho service ot Virgiuia und New Luglutid;' yet, he continues, 'in ueither of t hose two coun? tries have 1 one foot of land, nor tho very house I builded, nor tho ground I digged with my owu bauds.1 This plain? tive ntterratice will bring to the reader's mind tlio closing scenes in tho life of the discoverer of this continent, when, sevouty years old, his claims tejectod by tho ti punish King, aud broken iu body, although with intellect unimpaired, ho had, iu his own words, 'no place to re? pair to except au inn, and often with no? thing to pay for his sustenance. ' Tho marble tomb that was afterwards placed, for very shame's sake, over his remains, with the inscription ordered by tho King, 'To Castile and Leon a tiew world gave Oolon,' was ono of thoso tardy acts of reparation which, while they come too lute for tho dead, are never too late to retrieve from imputation of utter forget? fulness and ingratitude the good name of a community. In regurd to Capt. John Smith, it hus boen no lack of apprecia? tion ou the part of Virginia thut he has not long ago had a suitable monument, and indeed he has ouo iu the civilization which he founded that will be more lust? ing than bronze or granite. Thia, how? ever, should not, ?ny more thnn in the case of Washington and other illustrious men, prevent the establishment of un outward uud visible sigu of tho inward sentiments of the country towards u great publie benefactor." THE STU KM IN Fnoicm.v.-All accounts, both private and official, which have reached us relativo to the storm in Flo? rida represent tho damage done as fear? ful. We conversed with n gentleman who reached hero yesterdny by a round? about route, who says that tho whole country is under water. All the springs luivo closod up iu consequence, and tho damage to tho crops has been incalcula? ble. Tho train which left here at 10.15 Sunday night had not reached its desti? nation yesterday at 5 P. M., and it is supposed that it has been stopped by breakages in tho road, resulting from the deluge of waters which has fallen during tho last two duys. Tho wires aro down, and no telegraphic communient iou has reached tho railroad regarding tho cause of tho detention.-Savannah Republican, By un assessment just completed it appears that the total valuation of Bos? ton is 8012,063.550, and the number of polls Ul, 148. Lust year tho valuation was $534,089,400, and tho number of polls 5(3,1)20; showing an increase in twelve mouths of 828,571,150, and of .1,222 polls. Tho valuation of this year returns au averago of 810,010 per poll, on which the Stato, city aud county tax is 8131. The taxable bank stock is tri ven as 801,519,541, of which 815,358,0U0 is ou account of residents of Boston, and 8-10,1GI,541 on accouut of non-residents and corporations. BEN. BUTLER,-Bon. Butler said, in a speech tho oilier day, that Miles Stan? dish, tho old Puritan, was fortunato be? cause ho lived in a ti mu wheu there wera no newspapers. Tho Now York Sun thinks that B. B. moutionod only a mi? nor point, and that Milos Standish's moro extremo felicity was that be lived at a time wheu there wore no Ben. But? lers. We coincido with tho Sun, for old Miles doubtless had n supply of tino old silver spoons, which would not have re? mained in his possession long hud the Beast been about. It becomes our sad duty to chronicle tho untimely death of Mr. Jamos V. Murphy, from tho effects of an uver-doso of laudanum, which, nuder a temporary insanity, superitiducod by liquor, tho unfortunate yoting man administered tu himself, Sunday afternoon, about five o'clock, from tho effects of which ho died yesterdny morning. I Savannah llepublieaH. DULL TIMES AND MONEY PLENTY.-A scarcity of money was formerly supposed tobo a siga of "dull .times or of hard times, while, ou the other hand, when money was plenty and to be had at low rates, it wus a question whether wo were uot enjoying prosperity. A people who have plenty of money at command ought to ho, uceording to all intelligent opi? nion, in a prosperous way, and when capitalists were eudeavoriug to induce people to borrow their money at rates of interest preposterously law, tho only iu ferouco was that ensy times smiled "over the community. But, actunlly, it would bo hazardous to place too great reliance upon such a theory. Duriug tho prnsout year, money was to be had at lower rates by borrowers than has boen known for a loug time. The Bank of England was unable to loan out as much of her sur? plus as was desired, unless by offering great inducements to borrowers. Tilt rate of iutorest at tho bank lins bcoD ie low ns two per cent, per annum, and some of Hie .Loudon banks bavo made loans at lower rates still, lu fact, moncj hus boou a drug, and even in our o wt country, where two and three per cont per month iu tight times has not beet unusual, large amounts have been loauce during tho present year at four, five ant' sis per cent, per annum. The reasoi for this must bo because few desired tc borrow. They do not wish to borrow because they have uo uso for tho mouej after they get it. Aud ali this result from the fuct that little is doing, ant business aud industry is at a stand-still It will be no as long as tho Govurnmeu paralyzes industry by unnecessary taxa tiou, and discourages thrift by iuforminj thrift that if she saves, the Uuitod Stute will bo ready to demand from her th greater portiou of her savings. I Ph iladelph ia fnq ti irer. THE LIMITATION or SOOTH ERN DEBT? A recent decisiou of the United State Supreme Court, in reference to tho ruu mug of tho statute of limitations ii cases where Northern creditors bel claims aguinst residents of tho Souther States, at tho time of tho outbreak of th robelliou, might have been much mor important, if sooucr matin, than it j uow likely to bo. Tho decisiou, in faol says that from tho time of declaration t blockade of the Southern ports, Apri I'd, 18G1, until the proclamation of reste ration of Federal authority, of Angus 2t), 18GG, idl limitations were suspended Under this decision largo amounts t money, which might have been recovei ed if claim had boen sooner made, wi bo lost. Tho Statute of limitutiou usually mua for six years after tho cre? tion of u debt, or after tho dato of tl last promise to pay it. If tho Statut?) had begun to run i 18G1, and were suspended till 18GG. u suppose tho effect will bo to eouut th remainder of the aix years from tho la ter time. Thus claims of four or flt years old, in 18G1, will bo too late to Li enforced uow. A debt which was coi tracted ns late as tho 1st of April, 18G: eau have a little more than a j ear, froi the present time, to bo put in BU it fe collection. It is, therefore, nccessar that persons holding Southern claia should bestir themselves. Thoso ni fortunate creditors who now fiud th: it is too lato to prosecute their claiu will have a new causo to ooinplai against tho law's delay, which, som? times, is really the law's injustice. [Philadelphia Inquirer. DEATH AND HEAIITLESS ROIUIEKUY.-? Monday uigbt a Mr. Subi th, who use to keep a small store in King street, net Trndd, died. His wife had been ill ft some time, but is now convaloscen While the family were in this conditio] with no oue to attend to their nff-iirs, heartless robbery of everything valuab was perpetrated in the dwelling of tl unfortunate mau. Over S10U worth i jewelry was thus stolen, and upon tl death of the proprietor some intrude went to look nt his watch to see tl: hour of his dc .li, when tho watch, wil a g?)hl chain, was appropriated. A val abie riug was also stolen from the ve: hand of tho dead mau. Little care hi been taken of these things, and tho di bolieul thieves found no ono to oppo or detect them. None eif tho urtiel have been recovereel. - Charleston News "What is a syndicate?" asked a Wei ern schoolmaster of one of his pupil "An original sin," was tho reply. "WI st)V" "Because it has something to e with money, and money is tho root of i evil." "That's a smart answer, my boy says tho master, "but if you indica any moro punnish proclivities, I shall I guilty of tho sin of punishing you wil a rod that was notmaele by Aaron." Be rotires, muttering in his sleeve "O Moses 1" A few wooka ago, Mrs. Ann Foley at Mrs. Mary Garrey, two elderly ladies, West Sixteenth street. Now York, had hostile oucounter, in the course of whit Mrs. Foloy got the thumb of Mrs. Gu rey between her teeth and bit it badi Suppuration ensued from tho bite, ai Mrs. Currey died at Bellevue Hospit yesterday. A warrant has been i SH in for tho homicidal bitor. I JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE.-On Sat urda as a negro named Recd, who had bei coovictod of hog stealing in two case was being conducted to jail by tho co stablo, Mr. Albert Weeks, tho neg broke away and attempted tt> escape. 1 was repeatedly orderest to halt, anti, < his refusing to obey, was fired on. . tho second shot ho fell.-Sumter News. FATAL SHOOTING.-An affray occnm four miles from O Iel Effingham, in M rion County, on Tuesday? tho 15th insl which resulted in tho death of ouo Cur lina Cusack, colored, at the hands Richard Osborn, colored. / KILLED.-A nogro, on tho plantalie of Mr. A. B. Honugan, Mai Ibero Count recently mot bis death by nilling from treo which bo had ascended in pursuit a coon. Steady work-walking on a tight rep PnozNrxxAN?.-The price bf single copicB of the PHONIX is five cents. Tho thermometer ranged as follows at tho Pollock House yesterday: 7 A. M., 72; 12 M., 82; 2 P. M.. 85; 7 P. M., 85. The .Southern gas generator, now in usu at tho PHONIX. o dice, is muon ad? mired. It is just the thing for large es? tablishments; and in country towns is in vain nhl o. A little hoy, three years old, who hsB a brother of three months, gave as a rea? son for tho latter's good conduct, "Baby I doesn't cry tears, because bo doesn't drink any water, and he can't cry milk." I Among the arrivals at the Columbia I Hotel, yes'erday, were General -John A. Wagoner, Mayor elect of Charleston, and Myron Fox, Esq., of the Charleston Re piibiicm. Oar merchante, and others wishing to prepare for the fall bnsiuess, will please take notice that tho PHONIX office is I supplied with all necessary material for as handsome cards, bill heads, posters, circnlars, and other printing that may bo j desired, us any office in the city. Give us a call and test our work. We loam that tho Citizens' Savings Bank has sold the stock held by that in? stitution in the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. It was a large lot, amounting to nearly 1,200 shares. This seems significant, aa, wc believe, Col. Palmer is a Director in tho railroad. Rumor lins it that, with this purchase, the Pennsylvania Central-or other ; parties, "whom deponent knoweth not" -hold possession of nearly 10,000 shares -almost a controlling interest in the company. , Owing to the illness of Major J. P. : Horbach, General Agent of tho Charles ? ton Charitable Association, the mille of awards will be suspended for the present. Due notico will he given of their resump? tion. Why is a woman tying her corset like a mau driukiug to drown care? Be? cause in so-lacing herself she becomes tight. I From advance sheets of tho censas, it appears that tho present population of South Carolina ia 705,600, classed as fol? lows: Whites 289,607; colored 415,814; ' Indians 124; Chinese 1. I The water will be shut off on Blanding street, East of Main, this morning, at 7 o'clock. j MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.-The Northern mail opens at 3.00 P. M.; closes 7.15 A. M, Charleston duy mail opens 4.00 P. M.; closes 6.00 A. M. Charleston night mail opens G.30 A. M.; closes 6.00 P. M. Greenville mail opens 6.45 P. M.; closes 6.00 A. M. Western mail opens 9.00 A. M. ; closes 1.30 P. M. On Sunday offico open from 3 to 4 P. M.. I HAVE ?bu ANY OLD SEQAR BOXES? The Chicago Republican says there has been a recent judicial decision touching the lax upon qcgars, making it a penalty of fifty dollars not to destroy the box after tho segars shall have been taken therefrom. This applies not only to tho regular dealer in the article, but to the consumer; end tho individual who has a dozen empty segar boxes "kicking around" his house, or in tho possession of his children, had better put his foot in them, or institute a savings bank in order to meet the peuulty, sineo tho law does not excuso ignorance. SUPREME COURT DECISION, August 30. Andrew J. Kiblor vs. John J. Bridges. Order set aside and a new trial granted. Opinion by Wright, A. J. ARREST OP A THIEF.-Yesterday morn? ing, during tho temporary absence of Mr. L. Simons from his storo, n colored man entered nnd secreted three watches about his person. Before he could make his escape, the proprietor entered and asked what ho wanted. Tho reply was a pair of pants. Just then the watches were missed, and tho darkey being ac? cused of tho theft, run off; but was overhauled after a short race, by a gen? tleman on horseback, who happened to bo passing. Tho thief was carried to tho guard house, when ho was searched and tho watches found secreted in his shirt. It is expooted that ho will tako up bis quarters with Gen. Stollhrand for a eea sou. LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. K. C. Shiver & Co.-Dry Goods. James B. Steadman-Summons. ll. Barry-Carolina House. D. Epstin-Notice. Kinsman & Howell-Factors, ito. Milch Cowa for Sale. Exchange House-Wet Goods. Jucob Levin-Auction. Iii PO UT ANT TO HUinnEHS AND CoXTHACTOllS. Wo learn fruin our Charleston exchanges that Hr. P. P. Toaln, tho well-known manufacturer .if Doors, Hashes, blinds, ty)., has established a depot at No '20 Hayna street, where ho keeps constantly on hand not only all articles from bia own manufactory, but a HO eve ry variety of builders' hardwaro, French and American window glaus, both plain and orna? mental, sUtu mantels, and, in short, every? thing necessary lo finish handsomely a robi d?lice, a aloro, or a church. aug 31 %