The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, September 23, 1871, Image 2
COLOMBIA. S. G.
B?tariay Mominsr, September 23i 1871.
?ar Oily Affairs-An Investigation De?
mandent. _J. i
|?t Was stated ia our isaaoof yesterday,
Uhat it was contemplated to apply to the
coarte fox an injunction against the oity
authorities' in the matter of the new Oity
Hall and oity market, on tho ground that
-the'oontraotors. were to receive exorbi
taut rates for their work. In the dis?
charge of oar duty, as a public journal?
ist, it beoomes necessary to briag this
matter before the public. To say the
least, if oarrent rumors be founded , in
truth, the interests of the oity have been
eaorifloed, and it becomes the duty of the
Mayor to proceed to a thorough investi?
gation in behalf of: the interests of the
.etty. We do not propose now to con?
fider the question as to whether there
was any demand for a new City Hall or
. another oity market. GrantiDg that the
<o3?ty Oouuoil were called upon to pat tho
oity to this expense, the question is have
?]?Q public interests been guarded and pro
iected in the contracte awarded for the
. building of the new Gilt/ Bail and the new
-city market. We frankly avow that we
. are not informed in the premises. Hence
we proceed first to call for an investiga
\ tioa. It is the duty of the Mayor to
have this investigation. If he should
. declino so to do, it will then become the
- duty of the citizens, as in New York,
. to look after their own interests. We
vko!d that the time has como for the ci ti?
cen in this oountry to show his nerve,
; hie manhood, MB firm resolve to put a
s stop to pablio plundering. This has
"become a orime that oharaoterizes the
.nation, the State, and the etty. The
TONO ia becoming a publio nuisance.
'{Dbe nuisance should be abated. Bat to
return. We repeat that light is de?
manded. It is stated that the architect,
MT. Parkins, of Atlanta, Ga., has been
toeard to declare that the proposed City
Hall could be constructed for about
.$75,000. . K this be true, the pablio are
-entitled to know it, and then to ask the
'. question why was it awarded to Mr.
iMen for $138,000-thus entailing upon
the city an unnecessary expenditure of
' -over $60,000. Again. . It has been
'Stated that the new market is not to be
\ ?eo large as the old one, and yet it ie to
.?oat more than twice as mueh. If this
beso, the publio are entitled to know
why this is so, and why the money of
the Citizens is to be thus squandered.
We call, therefore, for information. If
the current rumora are false, they do
?certain individuals great injustice,- and
?they should be set right befor? the
? community. If tho rumors are founded
in truth, thon the exposure should be
.mode. ..
*Ooe of the never-to-be-forgotten boasts
of the Badioal presses and orators is,
-crbat the grea? party they represent "re?
stored the.Union," when assailed by the
-?.D?mooratio rebellion." In this, there
oro two -serions errors of foot. First,
-tho rebellion, eo-oalled, is directly at?
tributable to the aggressive and fanatical
spirit displayed by the Republican party,
-and to the enoroaohmenta, actual and
threatened, ot this party on the Federal
Constitution. If those who direotly and
?indirectly caused the rebellion are re?
sponsible for its results, then we muat
-look for the sources of our woes among
the fanatics, of whom John Brown was
at once a prophet and a martyr. Se?
cond, there are serions doubts pervading
the pablio mind as to the truth of the
Badioal assertion that the Union baa
been restored and peace established.
Union implies community of interest
and fraternity of feeling. The Southern
States are not the self-governing politi?
cal communities that they were before
the wer. Tffey have bad parasitio rulers
forced upon them, whose sole in te rea t
seems to have been plunder, and whose
teile policy the perpetuation of their
%ajronet<gnarded authority to mle and
ania, Troops are relied upon as the
ever-ready supplement to official power,
'in too many instances entirely nsnrpod,
and their nae for snob purposes, in op
. position to the well-understood wishes
of the people, is conolnsive proof that
peace," aa yet, is entirely one-sided.
The Ka Klux bill, now in foroe, does
?not.proceed on the theory of a peaceful
.restoration or r?cognition of the rights
.of eelf-government; in it the law of exte
Mri?r foroe and conqueror's privileges are
recognized. The war power is held
superior to oivil polity and the right of
.might to the right of rt ison. They cry,
? "peace, peaoe, when there is no peace I"
: 'FBOOBBSS OF THE OHOXIOBA.-The cho?
lera does not seem to relax its hold or
abato ita foroe in its march over Europe.
The telegrams from Berlin report that
'the disease increases in virnlenoe in the
famous old oity of K?nigsberg, where
'the ratio of deaths has inoreased from
fifty to seventy and even eighty per
cont. For tho week ending last Sunday
. -300 deaths from cholera are recorded.
?Strange Bcd-F?llovr?.
The New York Evening Poet gives as
some apt illustrations of the adage that
"politics makes strangebed-f?llows." It
recoils the foot that in 1860 Bailer wai
Bent os a Douglas deleg?te to the Charles?
ton Convention, bat was so strong a se?
cessionist and pro-slavery advocate, that
he turned his baok upon the Little Giant
and voted more than fifty times for Jef?
ferson Davis; and that, on his return, his
friends in Lowell held an indignation
meeting, to condemn his course in voting
with the pro-slavory wing of (ho party.
"A few months after that," says the
Post, ?'tho New England Anti-Slavery
Sooiety held a convention in Tremont
Temple, Boston. The pro-slavory De?
mocrats who sustained Gen. Butler de?
cided that the meeting should be broken
up. An organization was formed for
that purpose, and ruffians in broadcloth
came in from the surrounding towns to
help. For two days the society vainly
endeavored to transact their business; as 1
often as they met, the "respectable" mob
took possession of the g?llenos and
drowned the voices of the speakers with
songs and aries. At the Bame time terror
reigned among tho negroes in tho city,
and their houses and churches were wan?
tonly attaokod. On the evening of tho
socond day, Mr. Wendell Phillips tried
to address the meeting in Tremont Tem?
ple. But the triumphs of the mob had
made it bolder. The meeting waa finally
broken np, and Mr. Phillips esoaped
with some difficulty. The mob then
sought his house, and the utmost efforts
of the police were ueoessary to protect
it." And now Butler and Phillips are in
the same political bed, lying as lovingly
together aa., if they had been in oaoh
other's arms from earliest infanoy. They
both addressed a large meeting at Salis?
bury Beach the other day, "and upon
the ohief political question now dis?
cussed in Massachusetts, the fitness of
Gen. Butler to be Governor, they were
in happy harmony."
The National D?mocratie Committee
at Washington has prepared and issued
a valuable document, showing tho extra?
vagance and corruption of the Badioal
party. It ia a statement of Govern mont
expenses ander Grant, compared with
Democratic administrations. The ex?
penses, exclusive of interest on the pub?
lio debt, under Grant's first year, were
$100,796,355, and tho total expenses were
$411,255,477.63. The entire expenses of
President Jackson's administration,
eight years, wero $145,792,276.20; of
Yan Boron's administration, $120,729,
810.15; of Polk's, $147,342,853.34; of
Pierce's, $212,066,228.94; of Buchanan's,
$263,661,197.76. The eost per capita
under Jackson was $1.16; under Grant
it is $10.28. Tho expoosos for one year
under Grant were nearly double the ex?
penses for four years under Pierce. At
the rate of the first year, the whola oost
daring Grant's term would be over
$1,645,000,000, and the doable term
which he BO mnoh desires would cost the
country over $3,290,000,000.
One of the ablest speeches ever made
in the United States was delivered at
Steubenville, Ohio, last week, by Wm.
S. Groesbeck, of Cincinnati. In the
aourae of his powerful address, Mr.
Groesbeck alluded to the system of
plunder inaugurated in the South by the
carpet-baggers. Since the Badioal re?
construction of the Southern States, he
said, the debt of South Carolina has
swollen from $6,000,000 to $13,000,000;
that of Georgia from $6,000,000 to $20,
000,000; and that of Florida from
$500,000 to $15,000,000. The entire in
orease in Southern State debts, under
Radical carpet-bag reconstruction, is
estimated at more than $100,000,000, and
the States have hardly anything to show
for it.
JUNKETING EXTRAORDINARY.-A Wash?
ington despatch to the New York Tri
bune says:
"The Treasury Department continues
to send o detachment of three olerks to
London with eaoh instalment of the new
bonds that goes ont to the syndicate.
Eighteen of these fortunate gentlemen
are now abroad enjoying themselves at
Government expense, and four more de?
tachments are to go, making thirty olerks
in all. Their passage and all other tra?
veling expenses ore paid, and they are
allowed to be absent for periods of six
weeks eaoh, giving them time to moke a
little trip on the continent."
The 2Vibune adds editorially :
"The Treasury, Post Office, Govern?
ment Architect's Office, and nearly every
other publio department, has each in
turn furnished recruits to the Inokyarmy
of American tourists in Europe. Once
it was thought to be o fine thing to be a
popular city pastor with a sore throat
which nothing but European air oould
cure, but the modest clergymen ore alto?
gether outnumbered by the traveling Go?
vernment clerke "
An Atlanta paper-it will not be bord
to guess whioh->-has an editorial with
this caption: "President Grant and the
editor of this journal!"
[Savannah Republican.
GEN, WADU HAMPTON ON THU SITUA?
TION.-The following letter, addressed by
Gen. Hampton to the editor of the
Southern Homo, is published in that
paper "in its issue of tho 19 th:
COLUMBIA, September 0, 1871.
MT DEAR SIB: The Southern Home, of
the 5th instant, containing your editorial
on the policy to be pursued by the South?
ern States in reference to the next Na?
tional Demooratio Convention, reached
me a day or two ago, and along with it
tho letter in which you were kind enough
to ask my opinion on this question.
Though I cannot flatter myself that ony
opinions I may entertain can have the
weight your partiality would induce you
to attaoh to them, I most cheerfully com
f)ly with tho request contained in your
?ttor, because it is only by consultation
and discussion among ourselves that we
can hope to aot judiciously and harmo?
niously.
It would, porbapB, bo snflicient to say
that I oononr fully in the views you have
expressed, aa to tim impropriety of *he
South taking any part in tho approaching
Convention; but, in deference to your
wishes, I give briefly tho reasons which
have induced this conviction in my
mind.
1. Tho Southern delegates in n Na?
tional Convention could exercise no in?
fluence in shaping the policy, making up
the issues, or selecting the candidates for
tho next contest, without seriously injur?
ing the prospect of a Democratic tri?
umph. That thia would inevitably be
the caae, is proven by the result of the
last Democratic Convention, where the
very presence of Southerners was nsod
to prejudice the notion sud to defeat the
candidates of our party.
2. If the Southern delegates could not ,
with propriety, oxert any influence, in
the Convention, while their mero attend?
ance in it might result in infinite mis?
chief to the Demooratio party, it is sure
ly the part of wisdum to refrain from
participating in the deliberations of the
Convention.
3. The Northern Democraoy will have
to bear the burthen of the fight in the
next Presidential contest, and it is only
right that they should choose the field
and select the standard-bearers.
These, in brief, are (ho reasons, in con?
junction with those yon have already so
ably advanced, that have convinced me
that our true policy ia to abstain alto?
gether from all participation in the nest
National D?mocratie Convention. Of
course, in pursuing this polioy, we
should take oare to have our conduct aud
motives fully understood by our North?
ern friends. We should aay to them,
that we aro actuated solely by the desire
to promote the success of Democratic
principios and Demooratio candidatos;
that we wish to leave them free to act, as
the best interests of our party demand;
and that we pledge them in the contest
all the aid wo caa give, only asking them
to givo us a good platform, and as ac?
ceptable candidates, os they can. When
the platform is announced, and the can?
didates selected, the Democraoy of the
South can ratify the notion of the Na?
tional Convention, and they cnn uso
every effort to secure the success of tho
party; for on ite success depends the ex?
istence of the Southern States.
If our people concur in ithis policy,
arrangements should be made iu oach
State to carry it out tully and effectually.
Should they not concur, we must, in any
event, aot in portent accord and with en?
tire harmony.
Too much ia at alaka for ns to differ
amongst ourselves, and I, for one, am
willing to yield my own opinions for tho
success of ?ny plan which will tend to
save the South from ruin. I nm, very
respectfully and truly, yours,
WADE HAMPTON.
To Gen. D. H. Hinn.
Oar Union Camp Meeting
Will commence Wednesday, Septem?
ber 27th, at Trenholm'8 Grove, five miles
South of Columbia, near the South Ca?
rolina Railroad, at ll o'olock A. M.
Christians of all denominations and all
orderly friends to tho cause are cordially
invited to attend.
Satisfactory arrangements for railroad
accommodations have been completed.
Speoial trains wiil leave tho South Caro?
lina Depot at 9 o'clook A. M. and return
at 6 o'olook P. M. on Friday, Saturday
and Sunday, and othor days if necessary.
Tickets lo go and return, twenty-five
cents. M. WILLIAMS,
W. D. HARKIS,
A. WESTON.
THU SUEZ CANAIJ.-The prospects of
the great Egyptian Canal have assumed
a brighter appearance. The company
has concluded to resort to another loan, <
and have authorized tho raising of an :
additional 20,000,000 francs. To moet I
this the Vioeroy hos allowed the company i
to increase the tolls one frano per ton. i
The regular traders which use the canal I
route represent 340,000 tons. This mul- 1
tiplied by their annual voyages indicates 1
2,000,000 tona, produoing 20,000,000 '
francs for tolls per year. A line of I
steamers is to be established between i
London and Shanghai, and will com- 1
menee running on the lat proximo. I
This is expected to add 600,000 francs
annually to the treasury of the canal, I
and the company have been apprised by '
the British Government that it intends <
sending nineteen transports through be- <
tween this month and March next, the i
tolls on whioh will be from 700,000 to i
800,000 francs. The practicability of I
keeping the canal free of sand aeeumala- :
tions has been settled satisfactorily, and 1
indications aro that the question as to 1
the success of the work fiuanoially will, <
ere long, have as gratifying a solution. <
- > ? (
DEATH OP P. L. DEAN.-We regret to 1
learn that Mr. Preston L. Dean, a pro- ?
minent merchant of Fair Piny, died on
the 10th instant, after a lingering illness.
Mr. Dean waa also n good farmer-aud,
altogether, one of our best citizens. f
[Keowee Courier.
ID tho Columbia Union, of the 10th
instant, we fled the following letter:
WINNBBOBO, September 15.
"To 'mu EDITO u OP THH DAILY
UNION: This will inform yon that the
Ka Klux are etill on the warpath in thia
County. On Monday night, the 4th in?
stant, tho boase of George Fiokens, an
honest and induetriooB colored man,
who lives on the plaoo of Dr. Jeff.
Liles, about sixteen miles North-west of
this plaoo, was visited by a band of dis?
guised men, 'between the hours of 10
and ll o'clock. Tho baud dismounted
and fired about twenty allots, the moBt
of whioh went through tho house.
"PiokeoB has a fine growing crop, and
will bo compelled to abandon it. Ho is
now in thiB place, making efforts to re?
move his family here. Ho can give no
oauso for this visit of night ridors, ex?
cept that he is a Republican.
"There was also a band of Ku Klux
out noar Ridgowny, ono night Inst week,
but they committed no extraordinary
QXOHSSCB. X."
Our attention IJAR benn called to this
remarkable letter, not only on accouut of
tho falsehoods and inaccuracies continu?
ed io it, bat also as displaying a delibe?
rate attempt to wilfully misrepresent the
condition of affairs in this County. In
regard to the contents of the letter, wo
have this much to Ray in reply: Accord
ing to the Btatemout of George Pickeus
himself, a party of Dot moro than three
or four men did Visit his house, but
whether or not they were disguised, he
himself does not know. They did not
dismount, nor wore twenty shots fired
into his house. Wo mnke this Btatemout
upon the faith nf what he reported to a
gentleman of thin town.
* * * * * *
The report of tho appearance of Ku
Klux at Ridgeway, we pronounce infa?
mously false, and unless tho Union cor
respondent can furnish good grounds
for this statement, ho stnads guilty of a
base lie in the estimation of all right
minded people.
******
Why is not the Union correspondent
prompt in reporting nil outrages in tins
County, suoh as barn-burning, cattle
stealing, house-breaking, murders, and a
host of other crimes that are of daily
occurrence in our midst? He does Dot,
because the perpetrators aro his friends
and political allies, and sit with him in
secret conclave, plotting iujary and
harm to bis own race. But let ODO of
the "callerd brethren" be visited by
Homo private enemy, and have a few
pistol shots fired at his house, and
straightway we see in the "Munchausen
organ" of modern times a letter from
"Our WinoBboro Correspondeot," de
tniliog a horrible Ku Klux outrage in
Fairfield Coouty. Every affair in which
tho "poor" negro is the victim, is forth?
with reported as the work of tho bloody
Ku Klux.
Wo iotond to expose and dononnco
every attempt that is made, calculated to
convey a false impression of tho condi?
tion of our section of the State. Our
County is as quiet aa any ia the Stato,
and entirely free from anything of the
naturo of Ku Klnxism, tho Union corres?
pondent to the contrary notwithstand?
ing.- Winnsboro News.
SENATOR SCOTT AND THE KU Knox.
The Washington Patriot, of Taesday,
publishes the following.
Wu have received the following oom
monioation from a gentleman of this
oity, who is thoroughly conversant with
the facts. Mr. Pointer's statements will
laso their force wheo read in conneotion
with this communication:
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
September 18, 1871.
EDITOB OF THE PATRIOT-DEAR Sin:
This morning's Republican publishes a
letter from S. T. Poinier, of Spartan*
burg, S. C., in regard to Senator Scott's
reoent letter urging that martini law be
declared. I write, Mr. Editor, to let
your readers know who this man is who
says "martial law is the only remedy for
these troubles." Just at tho close of the
war. Mr. P. came to Spartaoburg, an?
nouncing that he was a member of Sher?
man's army. There were no United
States troops within fifty miles of the
place theo, yet he lived thero as safely
as the "grand cyclops" himself could.
When Johnson and Congress disa?
greed, Poinier, who had beeo keoping
very quiet, announced that he was a De?
mocrat, and was soon appointed post?
master. He made Democratic speeches,
was a member of the Conservative com?
mittee, and tried hard to get nominated
by the Democrats for Congress. When
Grant was elected, ha was kioked out of
the post office to make room for a s cal la
wag; in a few months ho doffed his De?
mocratic garb, and is now Scott's chief
Dook in the plaoo where "Ku Klux oat
rages" are prepared tor tho public pa?
late. This very man Poinier has him?
self been in apmmand of a gang when
the most brutal outragea were committed
by them. The Ku Klux Committee
know this, and yet bia letter is sent to
Garant in support of Scott's false asser?
tions. If proof of this ia wanted, the
testimony of men who, (judging from
the Dumber of fat offices they hold,) are
high in favor with the present Adminis?
tration.
But political are not the only changes
that have come over this charlatan.
When first he came to unfortunate South
Oarolina, he was a Baptist divinity stu?
dent, ex-ohaplain, .tc; then he became
in Episcopal divinity student; now we
and him forgetting all this and taking
to tho wino cup and writing for Radical
newspapers. If the Democrats carry
the next Presidential election, there will
be no more blatant Democrat in the
soimtry than S. T. Poinior, ex-chaplain,
px-Baptist, ex-Episoopalian, ex-Demo
jrat, and ex-overything, oxcept excusa?
ble for boing a turn-coat and false wit?
ness against a suffering people.
SOUTH CAROLINIAN.
Capt. M<.see E. Coxo, un aged and re?
spected oitizou of Marlboro, died on tho
L7th.
A Worro ABOUT SPBOIB PAYMENTS.
The ex trafagan ft congratul?t i oas in which'
a portion of the party press have been
indulging up ou the subject of the honor?
able the Seoretary of the Treasury's suc?
cess in plaoing $200,000,000-a drop in
the bucket-of the national indebted?
ness at five per oent. suggests to us two
questions, the answer to one of which
will go far to annwer the other. First,
why should thin financial achievement
admitting it to be all that upon tho sur?
face it appears and professes to be-in
the case of a nation so great, so wealthy,
so prosperous and growing as tho United
States, bo the Bnbject of congratulation?
Secondly, why is it that of late we have
hoard so little upon the Bubjeot of a re?
turn to specie payments? We take for
granted that if this lust event had taken
place, if to-day government promises to
pay were worth their face in gold, dollar
for dollar, Mr. Boutwell wonld have bad
no difficulty in placing not $200,000,000
merely, but the whole of the 8500,000.
000 nt five per cont. This is all that is
required to place our national credit in
the foremost rank of the financial mar?
kets of tho world. With a paper cur?
rency at par, with the demonstration
which the history of the last ten years
bas furnished of tho strength of onr in?
stitutions, and of the ability and dispo?
sition of our people to grapple success?
fully with tho heaviest financial burdens,
and to bear uncomplainingly whatever
weight of taxation the vindication of the
national good faith may require, what
foreign power could compote with ns in
an appeal to capitalists necking an in?
vestment at onoe profitable and secure?
What is there to-day to hinder the fund?
ing of our entire debt upon tho mest fa?
vorable terms, but the fact of our irre?
deemable and depreciated currency ?
This remains a foot in Bpite of all that
has been done by tho Treasury, and all
that has been borne by the people for
the purpose of sustaining and olevating
tho national oredit. We have approxi?
mated to the standard of specie pay?
ments, but we have not reached it.
Worse still, the Government in its poli?
cy appears to have lost sight of it. Why
is this? Has a depreciated ourronoy
ceased to bo considered a national evil?
If so, all the teaohings of political eco?
nomy, all the experience of former times
and of other nations, not excluding our
own, have boon at fault. Ia the last for?
mal debate which took place upon this
Bubjeot in the Senate of the United States
in tho last winter of Mr. Johnson's ad?
ministration, if we remember aright,
there was no difference of opinion ex?
pressed as to tho importance, the neces?
sity oven of a return to specie payments
at the earliest practicable moment, that
is, if we would impart a healthy tone to
trade, prevent confusion of values, re?
store the balance of exchanges, and
place American oredit upon the pinnacle
where it really deserves and ought to be.
The only difference of opinion was as to
the best method in which this desirable
end should bo accomplished. Senators
Trumbull, Sumner, Fessenden, Sher?
man, Morton, all had their sohomes
differing in principle, perhaps-differing
in detail largely, but. alike in this, that
all aimed ostensibly, and we believe ho?
nestly, to make tho paper dollar of the
Treasury equal in value to the gold dol?
lar of the mint.
Unless, as wo have remarked, all for?
mer experience is at fault, all former
theories, in error, and the whole Senate
of the United States, and with them the
entire world of thinking and business
men, mistaken as to the very principia,
the alphabet, so to speak, of the science
of political economy, this great desider?
atum is as much to be desired to-day as
ever before. Why, then, is it so entirely
lost sight of by those having the manage?
ment of our national finances? And
have the American people, lolled to
sleep by the indifference and apathy of
their rulers, come to regard the present
condition of tho currency with equa?
nimity, and to consider an irredeemable
carrency in the light of a blessing? Be?
fore wo congratulate Mr. Boutwell upon
his success in placing the new loan at
five per cent., we would like to know
whoso fault it is that American oredit is
so low, that this result, after so much
hawking and advertising and such ex?
traordinary efforts, a well paid "syndi?
cate" being called in at the last, deserves
tn he hailed OB a great achievement in
ti nance. And this, be it remembered,
is a question wholly apart from the
doubts and insinuations that are np in
financial circles as to the real cost of
placing the loan, the commission paid to
the "syndicate," and the legality of the
expedients resorted to by the Treasury
for the purpose.-Ballimore Sun.
THE LOST CO URTI.-In explanation of
the catastrophe, of which intelligence
was given recently, by which an entire
County of Florida is represented to have
ennk and been replaced by a lake, we are
told that the ooean waters flow nnder bog
omets in that State for many miles, that
salt water fishes have been taken in "sink
holes" or openings in this orust sixty
miles from the sea-shore. Snoh a caving
io soared the people of Orange County,
New Jersey, lately, and recalls the simi?
lar phenomena in Iowa that recently, in
the same way, destroyed several miles of
railroad that had been built over an un?
suspected lake. So, too, in York Coun?
ty, Maine, the railroad that bad been
completed around a pond in Alfred sud?
denly sank, and when tho cause was
aought it was found that an unsaspeoted
pond, sixty feet deep, lay under the
meadow over which the road had been
constructed. But in Florida snoh condi?
tions exist more extensively than any?
where oise.
OPENING FOR THE SEASON.-We under?
stand the Mills House is about to be re?
opened for the coming season, under the
auspices of a well known dry goods mer?
chant of this oity, who was some timo
since ono of the partners in the manage?
ment of tho Charleston Hotel. This is
a welcome sign of reviving trado and
prosperity.-Charleston Courier.
Cocal Xtomio.
PuQBSB?&A,-The] pjk??t off pip?le
copies ot the rnajNix ?B ayoioe'?ife^ '. jj
Tho drawing o? the prizeain the ??ufch
Carolina Land and Immigration Society,
advertised for the 31 et October, baa, ire
are informed, been unavoidably post?
poned. .
The Randolph Rifles, Capt. Angostas
Cooper, had a target excursion, yester?
day , in the vicinity of "Gie nd alo." The
ou tiro day was spent in a pleasant man?
ner,- and the company, on their return in
tho afternoon, paraded' through tho prin?
cipal streetn. There were three prisses
contended for, which were awarded aa
follows: Miles Cary, silver capt' Thomas
Johnson, silver cop; Henry Champion,
silver goblet. The judges wero Mayor
Alexander, Policeman Knott, Alderman
Hay ne, C. L>. Lowndes and James Gra?
ham.
The thermometer at the Pollock House
yesterday recorded as follows: 7 A.' M.,
58; 12 M., 64; 2 P. M., 66; 7 P. M., 67.
A fan is a good thing, bot to a gentle?
man a Fanny is bettor.
Our merchants, and others wishing to
prepare for the fall business, will please
take notice that the PBXBHTX o flic O is
supplied with all necessary material for
as handsome oards, bill heads, posters,
circulars, and other printing that maybe
desired, as any office in the city. Give
ns a call and test oar work.
W. D. Frazee has been appointed No?
tary Public for Richland County.
M. H. Berry, Esq., will accept our
thanks for late New York papers.
Oar old ' friend and fellow-oitizen,
John Yeal, Esq., was one of tho Trus?
tees of the old Methodist Church, and
fills the same position in the new one.
Mr. E. F. Gary-conneoted with the
State Treasurer's office-has been ap?
pointed State Auditor, ad interim.
It is said that the King of Siam is
about to free all the slaves in his domi?
nions. If the abolition of slavery there
is to produce snoh a crop of carpet-bag?
gers and scalawags as was produced by
the abolition of slavery here, we wonld
advise his Majesty to go slow.
The supposition is that Captain Hall's
reception by the Esquimaux will be a
cool one.
Weare informed that David Benno,
Esq., the thoroughly competent bridge
builder, has closed a contract with
Comptroller Neagle for the ereotion of
an iron bridge over the Congaree, the
Bite of the old Columbia Bridge.
Well-timed silenoe is more eloquent
than speech.
The cares of the day should be flung
off with our clothes.
Predictions of another meteoric shower
"about the lost of this month" are again
going the rounds.
MAIL ARRANOEMEHxs.-The Northern
mail opens at 3.00 P. M.; closes 7.15
A. M. Charleston day mail opens 4.00
P. M.; CIOBOB 6.00 A. M. Charleston
night mail opens 6.30 A. M.; closes 6.00
P. M. Greenville mail opens 6.45 P.
M.; closes G.00 A. .M. Western mail
opens 9.00 A. M.; closes 1.80 P. M. On
Sunday office open from 8 to 4 P. M.
HOTEL ARRIVALS, September 22.
Nickerson House-J. B. MoCants, Winne
boro; W. R. Kline, S, C.; S. O. Clyde,
S. A. Townes, Greenville; W. F. Ootte,
Ya.; A. E. Alden, Washington; Mrs. J.
>D. Henry, Miss. ; D. D. Aling, New Or?
leans; John H. Winthrop, Mass.; J. H.
Henry, Laurens; M. 8. Chester, S. C.;
J. W. Greene, New Market; Miss CC.
Daniels, Anderson; W. H. Elliott. Md.;
J. H. Walker, Norfolk; Miss L. Bryoe,
Miss M. Bryce, Colombia; Wm. J.
McCormick, Charleston; Eugene Mikel],
Summit; M. M. Bailey, Va.; Daniel
Horlbeok, ?. C. ; 8. E. Blanobard, Ga.
Columbia Botel-S. t?. Gilbert. F. S.
Rodgers, W. E. Howland, Charleston;
David Homphill, James M. Brawler,
Chester; G. M. Green, Illinois; John M.
Bauer, St. Louis; W. A. Bradley, Au?
gusta; M. W. Abney, Edge fi old; E. B.
Blakeley, Clinton ; Mrs. Shoenberg, Wal?
halla; J. T. Craig, Clinton; Walter Hur?
ley, S. & A. T. Co.; John Moon, Rich
mond; Edmund ?. Fisk, New Orleans;
Frank S. Roberts, Augusta; I. W.
Hayne, New York.
LIST or Nsw A D vEimcEnmsTa.
J. Soimonelli-Removal
J. B. Sitton-For Sale.
W. S. & J. M. Tolbert-Malea.
L?rick & Lowrance-Oats.
J. B. S teed man-Summons.
IMPORTANT TO BurLDBBS AND Co NTH A OYO OB.
Wo learn from oar Charleston exohangea that
Mr. P. P. Toalo, the well-known manufacturer
of Doors, Bashes, Ulinda, Ac, has established
a dopbt at No. 20 Hayne street, whore be keeps
constantly on hand not only aU articles from
bis own manufactory, but aleo every variety
of builders' hardware, French and Amorioau
window glass, both plain and ornamental,
slate mantels, and. in short, ovory thing, ne?
cessary to fluifth handsomely a residence, a
Btoro. or a church. Aug 81t
ONLY TW J TEA-SPOONFULS of Doo ure's YEAST
POWDEB to a quart of flour are necessary to
produce extra biscuits, rolla, Ac, while tboBO
of ordinary manufacturo require nearly dou?
ble that quantity. This is owing to ita per
Poet purity and extra strength. Asido from
this faot, oaeh package contains tho full
?mount that is represented. Hence, DOOLEY'S
Itt the OH KAI'EST, DEST AND MOST RELIABLE in
market, and takes tho precedent of all others.
Grocers koop it everywhere DOOLEY A Bno.,
manufacturers, 60 New street, Now York.
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