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r 'W? wai'MOT.? I Kimptoniafcarei Woy should he not ! be arrested? Why should proceedings at law ho not instituted forthwith against ?ll the officials charged with fraud? It is in vain to expect the Attorney-Gene ral, Mr. Chamberlain, to mote. He, it ia said, faUa with Kimpton. His akirta are not free. All that "ia wanted ia an qgfctnny from some one who knows. Who will move? We have been told that Dr. Neagle olaims that bis f ?rtuneS have beep nude by legitimate speculations. If so? why does he not move? If ho can give the*affidavit needed and withholds it, is he not particepa oriminis? And ao with respect to any one having the informa? tion required in law. We move for the arrest of tho parties responsible. Oar Ou ty Financial-An Ilia? tobe Met. We are told that the ring, of whiob Governor Scott is the figure head, now acknowledges thai there has been an over? issue of about three millions. As to these figures, the public will believe just what they please. We know very well that we are dealing with a set of unscrupu? lous and unprincipled officiais, who have over and over again deceived the public. Wo believe that the o ver-issue has been \ largely in exoess of what is now admitted, and ?hat this will be made apparent be? fore we are done with this business. If,] however, the over-issue shall be fixed at from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000, there will be men, who call themselves financiers, par excellenca, to take the ground that it would bo better to assume these illegal and fraudulent impositions than to decline to recognize them. We meet this issue at once. We hold that the citizens of South Carolina owe it to themselves and to their manhood, not to submit to this fraud of swindlers and robbers. The just and legal-obligations of the State should never bo repudiate'.. We know full well tho value of credit, private and public We appreciate fully public honor. AsJnnius so well Bays: "Private cre? dit is wealth, public honor is seourity; the feather that adorns the royal bird ' supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix bim to the earth." . These are golden words. We recognize as well the beauty as tho philosophy of j the sentiment. But not applicable tc , the oase of those who would have us pay ! fraudulent demands, is the proposition above stated. There is no "pu bl io ho< : nor" in meeting frauds with recognition. Nor is there in burease any "royal bird" to be stripped of his plumage. There is only a foul bird, in our case, soaring over and about the earcass of tho State in the atmosphere of FRAUD, and the sooner we strip him of his false feathers and fix him to the earth, the better for ns, for "private credit," and for "public ".honor," If the coin be spurious, nail it GfetwvDOWN,,DOWN I If tho vulture soars above us, and threatens again to feed upon the State, let us bring him down, and not equip him for bolder flights and still more ravenous feasts. A Foul Slander. . . The Union, ol this place, brags of its oironlation among the intelligent people of South Carolina. It was charged upon the editor last year, that, as a traveling correspondent of some Washington or other paper, he had pronounced us here "a set of poltroons and cowards," or words to that effect. Ho now, in his issue of yesterday, publishes the follow? ing in one Smalley's letter to the Tri? bune: -Tho average white man of South Ca rolina is the poorest specimen of the Caucasian raoe I have ever seen on either side of the Atlantic. The most discouraging feature about him, is, that he shows no doBire to improve his condi ' tion. What can be expected from a man who will not - take the trouble to put a window in his house, and who keeps his door shnt by putting a 'chunk' of wood against it, because he is too shiftless to whittle out a latch or a button. Brutal, eowardly and inconceivably ignorant/he is a Ka Elax by nature. There are, of course, a few intelligent and worthy men sprinkled over the country, or the sem? blance of civilized society would not have been possible; and these men, in the old time, controlled the lower as absolutely as did the Scottish chiefs their clans." Now, the letter containing this vile slander upon ns tho Union commends. What Carolinian, with a proper sense of manhood, will not feel like banishing such a shoot from his.home, or office, or place of business? Will our people, will onr merchants, aid and abet this enemy io our people and State? This unprincipled paper, whioh moves just as Parker or Soott dictates-tho misera? ble ally of a corrupt regime? Wo have never before read such an insult to the white men of Sonth Carolina as that contained in Smalley's letter, and yet this Union republishes this insult, flies it in oar face and puts it before our families 1 ? .?????.-,-. A Ku Klux Without niisulie, H. G. Worthington, we are informed, is not Grant's Eu Klux prosecutor, but ..Sobtt's, with a fee of 03,000 or $4,000. This man is Ku Elox prosecutor, and yet he has said that the citizens ought, in broad day-light, to go to Ute State House and hang the State officials to the nearest lamp? post. Now, does ho deny that he fre? quently expressed snob sentiments? Wei are prepared, if he shall deny them, to fix the charge upon him-by witnesses. And yet this man ia Ku Elux prosecutor, and represents the United States Govern? ment. Ho, an open, avowed Ku Klux, liable, we believe, to arrest, under the Ka Klux Act. And he, also, an open and avowed Loyal League man I Artemus Ward's old home, in Water ford? Me., is advertised for sale. ?---U--W?H1, ll?lMfMM?MM> flrt.rpolat*. * The correspondent of .the New York Tribuno baa been at work for five days in trying to arrive at the real arnon ct of the State debt Parker, Neagle, Scott and Ohamberlain have at/as* agreed in a report to him, whioh will be published in tho Tribune of to-day. The total amount is set down as .16,800,000. We wish we. could believe this to be all. But Soott stated, only last July to the Senate Ku Klux Committee that the debt was $3,500,000. It seems that he either did not know, or purposely mis? stated it. Ia he right now? We do not believe it. The tax-payers will not be satisfied nntil their representatives have access to the Treasbiier's aoooants. Bat let thom keep on rendering accounts. They will get up to the proper figures about the time they are ready to leave the State for good. The r Governor has hit upon a scapegoat for his financial sins. He has been muon worried how to treat the bond business in his message, but it waa suggested that, that d-d Ohioago fire was to blame for all the fuss-i. e., being found oui. So Soott will, perhaps, speak of the finanoial cri? sis as the act of Providence, and will recommend the tax-payers to bow with resignation to the divine decrees. Will his Excellency tell ns how his head ie now? The Dennis Legislative Investigating Committee has mei every day since tue adjournment of the Legislature. Five members, with the Sergeant-at-ArmB ot tho Senate, at six dollars per diem, foi 150 days, will foot np 64,500; add bote expenses, say ten dollars eaoh per day $9,000; then for stamps, interest, etc.-vid. Ki mp ton's account-cay 81,500 more and we have a little bill of $15,000 fo an investigating committee, whioh neve saw the inside of one of Kimpton's books Kimptou's report fer the quarto? end ing Ootober 31, 1870, contains an iterj suggestive of what we may expeot in th next little bill the State will be calle" upon to settle. The account is on pag 104 of Comptroller-General's report. 1 reads: "Saptember-Ooah paid expenset express charges, stamps, interest, etc. $94,977.42." Was ever Buoh an aooouc rendered before to a Comptroller an passed? Is it not strange that Di Neagle.did not share oar curiosity as t what proportion of the bill was fe , stamps, how much for express ohargei what foi- interest. The etcetera is tl real item, doubtless. Stamps! "a penn worth cf bread4* and an "intolerah amount of sack." ' For One We Knew. 1 We see it reported that Mr. Thomi J. Mackey is writing, or has written-v know that Mr. M. wields the pen of ready writer-Governor Scott's annu message. Mr. Maokey will remembi that, in the days of his and our youtl we knew each other well. This was b fore he became ono of the "peelers, and We one of the "peeled;" or he one < tho "skinners," and we one of tl lt skinned;" or he one of the "shavers, and we one of tho "shaved." In tho days, Mr. Mackey was poetically ii dined. Whether he has since lost h poetry or not, wo do not know. Bi ono cluing wo do know, that Mr. Maota is not always a good pistol shot. I will, however, wo believe, write a goc message. If Governor Scott's m essai shall be this year without heart, it will n be without soul, for if we are not mi taken, Mr. Maokey is so fond of a job that it will surprise us if somebody not sold. On one occasion, some oi wanting in the classics, made Govern Soott say in hia message that Scip Africanus, of noble Roman parentag was a negro. If Mr. Mackey does n write some ono down, a la Dogberr then has his fondness for fun gone, ai ho has fallen "in the sere, the yolk leaf." If we aro not mistaken, when lo we followed Mr. Maokey'a young po he' was ongaged on a Miltonic them entitled, we believe, Paradise Regain*. He can now write for the gentlemi from Ohio on Paradise Lost, and fl; ample materials, at least, in the dev all around him. We hope, now, that for "Auld Lai Syne," Mr. Maokey will not think ha of this allusion to the memories of t past. Oh, Yorick, thou wast then a f low of excellent jest, of infinite fane You fought for the United States, and i South Carolina, in Mexioo. You ha tho Palmetto medal. You fought 1 the Confederaoy in the lalo war betwe the States. You had the good opini of Storling Price. You declare that yo bands aro unstained with public plundi If you have influence now, wield it behalf of your outraged mother. If y have committed errors in your politii past, rodeom them, and so live and wc for South Carolina, that when you d you may wrap the drapery of your cou around you and lie down, as it were, pleasant dreams. The Communication or "Argus." We commend to tho public the poii made by "Argos." He has relieved of the work whioh we proposed to t Mr. Smalley's communications indici very plainly what he desires mainly effect. To give the North an exouse, palliate President Grant's military pi seedings in the up-country of the Sta he makes his points, bringing out [bold relief matters oaloulated to rent the whites odious, and keeping in t background those ; circumstances tl gave rise to What there was of a Ku Kl character. His slanderous assaults up "the average white man of South Ca lina," wo rofor to with the oontempt merits. fifick-hand?d Cou.pllnienl?. Mit. EDITOR: It seems tb at the New york Tribune, keeps sr^r?jgpon?euiat '?the Boat of war" in the *ebellioua Coun? ties, whose duty lt is to enlighten the readers of that voraoioOB journal lu re? gard to tho condition of things in-this portion of Grant's dominions. In bis communication from Yorkville, ander date of November 10, appears the fol? lowing langnage: "The average white man of South Carolina is the poorest speoimon oi the Caucasian raoe I have ever seen on either side of the ?t! s nt io." Now, it strikes me, Mr. Editor, that this highly intelligent and most astute (ass tute) and critically observant "knight of the quill," who has seen the Caucasian race on both sides of the Atlantic, pays rather a book-banded compliment to that branch of the Caucasian race resident in the "loyal North." Let us see how it is. This samo Mr. Small-ey and his worthy coadjutors are in the habit of ! representing South Carolina os the "head and front" of the "great rebellion," which, they say, was the most gigantio rebellion: the world ever saw. It is a well-known faot that the Confederate States did not contain exceeding one fifth of the whito population of the once United States. It is matter of record and that a record that all the efforts of the whole tribe of Smalleys can never eradiaate from the history of the civil? ized world-that tho 5,000,000 of white population of tho rebellious territory did put into the field ah army that for four long, weary years held at bay all the "embattled hosts" that the 20,000, 000 Northern patriots were able to set in martial array against them. What a compliment to the boasted superiority of the "loyal masses" of tho North! A population of 5,000,000, hedged in on every side by besieging hosts, depend? ent entirely upon their own internal re? sources, with the prejudices of the world against them, ned the masse* of that 5,000,000, composed of a class of popu? lation the average of which constitutes the poorest specimen of the Caucasian race on either side of tho Atlantic, con? tending for four years against a popula? tion of 20.000,000, who, beside their own population, had the nations of the old' world from which to recruit their armies; and contending so successfully, for a long timo, as to cause the patriotic hearts of the truly "loil" to sink within them when they contemplated the situa? tion. But again, whats compliment do these hired scribblers pay to their own sec? tion, when they assort, as they BO fre? quently do, that this same beuightcd region did for a poriod of seventy years control the policy of the Federal Go? vernment to their own aggrandizement. What a pity that, during that seventy years of Southern nsoondaucy in national affairs, tho great North did not contain within her borders a sufficient number of this ignorant and degraded material of which tho South is almost exclusively made up, to form a foundation upon which to rear a superstructure com? posed of intellectual power sufficient to aope with the intellectual giants of the South. "The long and tho short of it is," that those venomous reptiles who are besliming the South at such a rate, so far "outveuom all the worms of Nile," that in their blind rage against the peo? ple of tho South, who, in the midst of their poverty and degradation, their moral and intellectual inferiority, are yet too proud to crouch, spaniel-like, at the foot-stool of power, and lick the band that smites, they are continually over-reaching themselves, and placing themselves before tho world in an atti? tude that will, one day or au another, omiso them, or their posterity, in case God does not, in his mercy, deny them a posterity, to curse the hour that ushered them into existence. There is a jnst God presiding over the affairs of the universe, and though justice he tardy in its approaches, the inevitable hour of its triumph will arrive, and that in this world; and then woe to the Smalley tribe who aro now reveling amidst the ruins of a onoe prosperous and happy, but now oppressed and down-trodden, people. ARGUS. A BLACK MAH'S OFINION OF THE NEW CITY. GOVERNMENT OF CHARLESTON.-Ex Senator and Rev. It. H. Cain, in the last issue of the Missionary Record, utters the following "Well Done!" regarding the conreo of tho now city administra? tion: "Tho new municipal government has begun business in a business-like man? ner. The paying off the city employ?es and curtailment of the expenditures in? dicate what may bo done in the futuro. Every day exhibits tho ability of the present Counoil, and illustrates this groat principle: that men who are successful in their own business relations are well qualified to discharge public trusts. We hail this new administration as a Provi? dential interposition in behalf of our stricken people, and hopo the greatest good may result to this community. We observe a reduction of the prioe of wages; but a promptness in payment, which amounts to an inorease of money, by virtue of no twenty per cent, dis? count on every poor policeman's wagoe, and the orders issued in lieu of monty. The street laborers may rejoice that $7 per weok will be miro, with no disoounts nor shaves. Wo hope to soe suoh finan? cial arrangements by tho committee os will cheer overy heart." A private lotter from Chester says: "There are about 125 men in jail, and a largo amount of them have had no oharges preferred, but they will not be allowed to go before the United States Commissioner. Pupers are made out against all, and will bu submitted to the grand jury, and those that bills are found against, will bo sent to Columbia, and the others discharged. Mujor Mer? rill will feel that he has had some re? dress. He is very bitter against this community." SOUTH CAROLINA BONDS.-The Finan? cial Chronicle, (N. Y.,) of Saturday last, says: In State bonds, South Carolinas con? tinue to be tho chief feature, and have further declined, os indicated in the table of prices below. No further infor? mation has been given in regard to the finances of tho State, and, from all the facts obtainable, the debt known tn bo outstanding is about $12,000,000, but ns it cannot be mnch less, and may possi? bly bo much moro, tho uncertainty works entirely against tho firmness of prices, Lo, THE POOR INDIAN'S RBVENOEI The Piegans seeding the small-pox into Philadelphia io packages of buffalo robes. SO?TH OAHOII?NA.-?koKmao, who waa down there himself, and' tho rest of Grant's ss rt era in Bo a th Prolins, haye attempted to foist opon tb? credulity of the country the Impression that tho dis? orders, which are alleged to exist in the outlawed Counties of the Palmetto State, are sanctioned by publio opinion there, and that the Ka Kips are harbored and abetted by the people of those Counties. This malicious charge baa been refuted in a substantial and sufficient manner by the representatives of the very people apon whom it was thrust-by the State Survivors' Association in oonvontion al Colombia. This society is composed of, I to quote from its articles of nmani/d. tion, "those who served in the Confede? rate army or navy to the close, or wore honorably discharged or resigned there? from." Any persona? not members of the army or navv, who performed service for the Confederate cause, of distin? guished gallantry and merit, may also become members. Upon the rolls of the association are the most distinguish? ed soldiern of thc State. Gun. Wade Hampton is President. Lieut. Gen. Anderson, Maj. Gen. Kershaw, Brig. Gen. McGowan, Maj. Go?. Butler and Gen. Arthur M. Manigault are Vice-Pre? sidents. The Survivors' Association, in a word, representa more thoroughly than any other organization could do what the Northern press are pleased to cnll "the rebel element" in South Carolina. From snoh an organization the North? ern people would hardly oxpect a con? demnation of Ku Hluxism. They would quicker look to it for a tacit approval of tho wrongful nets which are attributed to that organization. But tho Survivors' Association, in its recent convention, at Columbia, reflecting tho sentiments of the people, has taken up tho question of ! Ku KluxiBm, and adopted a resolution | declaring its earnest and solemn disap? proval of ali organizations or combina? tions for tho purpose of violating any laws of tho State or Genoral Govern? ment, or the right of any people there? under. This resolution was adopted without dissent. No better ovidouco than this could bo adduced to provo the irresponsibility of the pooplo for the wrongful nets on account of which they are being so outrageously persecuted. If thero wore any justine, sense oi right, or even common sonso in tho administra? tion of President Grant-, or if his endea? vors had any othor purpose than to se? cure his own rc? election, or if tho people of the one section had not lost all re? spect for the rights, and liberties, and feelings of their fellow-oitizens in tho other section, this fact of "rebels" de? nouncing Ku Kluxism would not fail to have its weight in ohanging the oppres? sive polioy now being pursued with re? spect to the Democratic citizens of South Carolina.-Louisville Courier-Journal. THE AMENITIES OP POLITICS-HOW ONE PRESIDENTIAL . CANDIDATE "GOES" FOR ANOTHER.-George Francis Train who is, as nil the world knows, nu inde? pendent candidate for President ugainst tho field, made ono of his rip-staving narrations ut St. Joseph, Missouri, one night last week. The following extract will serve both to show George's style, and nlso what he thiuks of one of hin I opponents: Grant is tho most gigantic sell over played off on an outraged peoplo. Ho is an ignoramus. He thinks Lafayette came from Germany and the Hessiuufl from Franco. Hence he sided with a rotten empire against a live republic. Don't hiss him; he don't know any bet? ter. I never see thu General that I don't feel like saying: General, I've only five minutos, tell me all you know. You might as well try to light rt wet squib us to get a popular cheer for the great dead? beat, dead-bead, bribe-taker! His pas sago through tho Cast and West is a funeral cortege, with Morton, Butler and tho official thieves as pall-benrors. Hin own party swallowed bim as they would a doso of calts and senna. They are ashamed pf him. His ignorance, hm nepotism, his disgusting habits, aro minutely portrayed by ?Sumner. Tilton and Phillips, once his bosom companions, Greeley and Butler loathe him, whilo the party Obligos these professional hacks to sleep witk him. A fust horse, a short six, some rot-gut, a tan-yard, n big steal, and stolid stupidity, make up his grand total. EDOENIE'S JEWELS.-A gentleman, traveling in Enro?o, writes of seeing 8250,000 worth of Eugenie's jewels in pawn at London. Thero wero tiaras, necklaces, two largo anchors, of dia? monds, and about Uve inches long; lots of brooches, ono being a butterfly, tho body of which was a large opal, about two inches long, and tho wings sot upon springs, aud made of diamouds, rubies and emeralds. Thoro was a wonderful necklaco of black pearls-the only otto in existence-each b_>ing about UH largo as a marrowfat pea; also, au emerald oross, quite unique, tho emeralds being oblong and sot edgo to edge, nothing be? tween, and about six inches tho loog part of tho cross, and one each sido of the centro, to form the arms; this was about four and a half inches long. Two ear-rings of diamonds, the vory put cst, but each cut Uko n drop of water, and hung pendant and swinging from the small end, several ear-rings, all largo diamonds, und six diamond rings, ono a superb one, worth ?100. A STRIKING CONTRAST.-Under tho | head of "A Contrast," tho Now Orleans Picayune draws an instructivo and time-1 ly parallel betweon the present material j condition of Now Jersey, which yestcr- | day elected its State government, and ? Louisiana, which patiently und man? fully awaits to bo allowed to elect one. The Stato government of New Jersey costs each resident sixty-four cents ti year. In the Stnto of Louisiana, willi n population of 726.000-or 180,000 less than Now Jorsoy-the oxpenditnros for the fiscal year ending November 30, 1870, amounted to moro than $7,000,W)0, or 89.09 for every man, woman and obild in the Stato, or more than fifteen times the rato in New Jersey. New Jersey's : legislative department oost $56,980 (or I the year. For thu same year, tho oom- j pensntion and contingent expenses of tho Louisiana Lcgislutttro amounted to i 8995,776, or twelve times us much. For j the same year, tho Stato printing of New I Jersey oost $53,949, while that of Lonisi-1 una cost $318,446-or nearly six times as much. In a suit brought by tho widow nf a passenger killed by tho explosion of tho Staten Island steamer Wost field, iu Sow | York, lo recovor damages, tho owners of the vessel set up the extraordinary plea that tho passenger had no right on the boat, because, nuder tho laws of thu Stato, Sunday traveling is a misdemean? or. That is to say, remarks tho Tribune, it was illegal for tho murdered man to travel on Sunday, and, therefore, legal to blow him up on that day. ?'CHICAGO AND THE SbtJTH."-?The mcancal thing that has appeared in a IUj?jc^i newspaper lately, has been a re? proach oast ripon tho Sooth that it did not oontributo moro largely to the relief of the sufferers by tho Chicago fire: The insinuation made ' is that the hearts of tbs Southern .people overflow with bit? terness against their Northern neigh? bors, and that the ory of distress which went up from the ashes of the desolated o?ty touched no chord of sympathy in their jaundiced aud implacable breasts. It is unpleasant to think that there is eron a Radical so wicked as to strive to make political capital out of tho Chicago calamity, ariel y?t thia ia the only inter? polation we oan give to this Radical attack on tho impoverished South. It is made apparently for the purpose of prodaoing further estrangement between the sections. As for the oharge that the Southern people are selfish and unfeel? ing, we will venture to say that it is en? tirely unfounded. In the first place, they havo given from their limited menus quite as much, in proportion, as more favored localities. New Orleans font $30,000. Charleston, devastated by war worse than Chicago ever was by the fire-fiend, and never rebuilt, bankrupt ia fortune, and scourged at the momont by yellow fever, contributed her mite, kindly and cheerfully, though it wa. wrung from shrunken purses. If tuero ia any excuse for drawing comparisons, tho stricken Palmetto Stuto will stand quite as well in the eyes of the nation os her wealthy and pros-1 porous Western sister. It is remember ed ia South Carolina to this day, that when an eminent divine of Columbia appealed to a Christian brother of the samo denomination, in Chicago, to go among his people and ask for sucoor for those whose homes had been burned and whoso substance had been eaten np by Sherman's army, the brother sadly re? plied: "I fear my flock would rather burn yon ovor again than give you a dol? lar." The Carolinians who, remember? ing thia, eent mouoy and clothing to Illi? nois tho other day, deserve something better than Radical sneers at their offer? ings. Lot it further be remembered, to the credit of these unfortunate people, that when they exhibited this noble spirit of forgetfulness of tho past, an Illinois Boldicr, at I he bead of the Go Vernmcnl, was ravaging the State with hie troopers, crowding tho prisons with peaceable citizens and spreading terror and cousteruution in every direction. I [Arete York Times. A BLACK MAN'S PLEA.-We call the attention of tho New York Tribune and tho ot lier leading Radical journals of the North to the rudo but striking com? ments of the only negro newspaper organ iu South Carolina, upon the re? cent disclosures of the robberies of the rascally ring which now controls the re? venues and tho credit of our State. Northern Republicans have of late shown a deal of sympathy willi tho few colored people who have suiTorcd nt the hands of tho Ku Klux. Rut here is a wrong of gigantic proportions which dwarfs the Ku Klux outrages into insignificance, und which not only bring.s nun to blacks and whites alike iu South Carolina, but which indicts heavy luanes upon credu? lous investors in other Slates. Will not tho Northern press, which bas so often before undertaken to interfere in our troubl?e, como to our assistance in our present strait, and, before tho lately awakened ardor for reform hos had time to cool, help us somehow to shuke off tho rule of a ring, compared with which Tammany itself waa a beuiguaut, unself? ish and nio.iL conscientious institution? [Charleston News. j CATHOLIC MISSION PROM ENGLAND.-A Gabbi despatch announces the sailing from Eugland on Saturday of tho first Roman Catholic mission ever despatched from England to America, consisting of four priests, whoso duty it will bo to la? bor exclusively nmong tho colored peo? ple of tho United States. The priests, it is slated, aro of the St. Joseph's So? ciety. Tho mission was inaugurated in England, and Archbishop Spalding has donated sixty acres of laud upou which it is located, with an ample building for? merly used us an aoademy, in aid of tho work. The establishment of sohools for colored children at practicable localities will bo among tho first duties of tho mis? sion, which comprehend thu general mental and spiritual improvement of the colored race. Curiously enough, ac? cording to tho despatch, tho mission has been established by tho Catholio Church in Eugland, because, in thu languago of Archbishop Manning, England hud im? posed slavery upon America, and it was titting that Englishmen should be tho first to move for tho amelioration of the emancipated people. Some mouths ago, a young man-a stranger-presented to ono of tho banks io Wilmington a $10,000 United Stutes registered bond, which ho oll'ured either as collateral on a small amount, or to sell for a vory insignificant sum. These facts aroused the suspicions of tho bank official, and advnncing a small sum on tho bond, bo retained it and telegraphed to thc person in whoso namo it was drawn -Mrs. Kean, ot Philadelphia-when ho received un answer that it had boon stolen from lier agent. Tho man was at once arrested ; audio tho United States Circuit Court, Judge Bond presiding, now in session in Wilmington, tho trial of tho man was concluded last week, lio has stubbornly refused to givo his namn and tho section from which he hails, and iu sonsequuuee, the Judge sentenced him to tho utmost, penalty of the law-eight yeais' bard labor in tho penitentiary. Tho boud lins been re? stored to its rightful owner. Tho Louisville Courier-Journal, under tho beading of "Tho South Caroliun Shame," says: "Thorn must be some oud to snob a course of uniform injustice and oppression and fraud and malprac? tice UH that with which tho -people of South Carolina have been afflicted PO long. Tlie frauds of the Radical officials who have ruled there so ruthlessly, and been mainly instrumental in bringing on the present outrageous condition of af? fairs iu tho outlawed districts, are about to bo exposed. They have boen carried to such au extent that, tho solvency of thu State is imperiled, and Oov. Scott himself is unable satisfactorily to ex? plain. Tho despatches tell the whole i ?tory. There ave still a few people left, j in this enlightened country who would not bo at all surprised to liud Grant, pro? tecting with his bayonets such a bordo )f thieves und swindlers us thin." . -fe? lt was rumored yesterday that u com [>auy of United Skates soldiers hud pro? ceeded to Qrauitevillo, South drolina, iud arrested several persons, and that martial law would soon bo proclaimed ivor tho County of Edgefiold. I Augusta Constitutionalist. ???in. M Tirrel.npipiyF EIOO?I Items. ?. ? ? ?? ?? PIKSKTXIANA.-The price of single o?piee of tho PBao?x Is five cents. The PHXENIX office ls supplied with all necessary-matetialfox as handsome cards, bill beads, posters, pamphlets, hand-bills, circulars, and other printing that maybe desired, as any office in tho South. Give us a call and test our work. Messrs. L?rick & Lowrance are in receipt of a lot of the celebrated brand of flour, "Fancy Family," manufactured by Jackson & Go., of Augusta, Ga. The ehief branch of industry among the Mormons just now is making tracks, though somo have gone into the hide business. A gambler who has lost all his green? backs may aptly exclaim with Shake? speare: "So much for bucking 'em." Among tho most readable articles in the Galaxy, for December, is "The Ad? ventures of tho Duobcsso de Berri, Mother ol the Count de Chambord," by John S. C. Abbott. It is identical with a chapter in Mr. Abbott's just published "History of Louis Philippe" The other good things in the mogazine arc "The Eustace Diamonds," "Admiral Farragut and New Orleans," by Gideon Welles, "Ought We to Visit Her," and the various editorial departments. The Norfolk Virginian considers that it has enriched pur languogo with another word, when it calls Governor Scott, of South Carolina, a "twoedite." A. C. Kaufman. Esq.. the well-known stock broker, of Charleston, was in Co? lumbia, yesterday. The planet Venus is the conspicuoui object in the Eastern sky just befon day-light, and nome mornings shinei brightly even after tho rim of the sui has risen abovo the Eastern hills. BOOK NOTICES.-We aro indebted t< Messrs. Bryan &' McCartor for twi volumes, which we commeud as gooc reading. 1. THE DIAMOND ON THE HEARTH. B; Marion Jumes, author of "Ethel," "No an Angel," "Katherine Evoriug," &c A pleasant story, pleasantly told. 2. MORTON HOUSE. BV the author c "Valerie Aylmer." This volume ?B em bellished with handsome illustration and contains a moving, a pathetic story Our frieudn, Messrs. Bryan & McCai tor, have a large and fino assortment <j books of all kinds and degrees. BEFORE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONEI Daniel Black, of Union County, oharge with morder and conspiraoy, was befoi United States Commissioner Boozei yesterday, for a preliminary examini tion. Two witnesses wore examinee after which the prisoner was remandet to await his trial, at the ensuing term < the United States Court. Mr. Bunk! for prisoner. H. G. Worthington f< the Government. Fra uk Gregory, from tho samo Com ty, and charged with the same offend was also brought before the Commissioi er, but being without counsel, the hen ing was postponed. COLUMUIA-ITS PAST, ITS PRESENT AK FUTURE.-The Columbia Board of Trat havo published a pamphlet on the aboi subject, with tho view of presenting people abroad our local advantage The Board have done well, and, iu doii this work, they deserve tho publia reco nition for theil* public spirit. In th pamphlet, the past of Columbia is r ferred to, and muoh interesting matter produced. The author details to us tl birth of Columbia, her paralysis at She man's hand and her resurrection. I suggests that our city is destined to ! tho future manufacturing and comme o?al centro of the South. Wo hope s j Certain are we that Columbia presen , rare advantages, and is ono of the mo progressive cities in the South. In tl first placo, let us remark that her situ tion is excellent for beauty and drainag Situated on tho level lauds near tho Co garee, the ruin water paseos off on i Hides, leaving tho city dry and health The health of the city is excellent. Tl climato is lino. Tho garden spots ai farms in tho vicinity are fertile. Colui bia is tho centre of numer?os railroad We havo at our command a water pow that is said to exoeed that of Lowell that is, after wo havo utilized our oppc tunities, it will exceed Lowell. In ad( tion thoroto, we have churches ai schools to meet religious and intellect! wants. We have, also, numerous fou dries and machine shops; and an ent< prising class of merchants and meche ice. Ia fine, wo present Columbia ai Carolina city in all respects, worthy tho attention of settlers from abroad w may oomo with honesty and capital, either, or-both. ? In spite of great disa vantages, we are moving on, and we ft sure that were we relieved of the m mle aud corruption that prevail in o State, that this good oity would move < and up with great strides. Even as it we intend to go ahead. We hope 1 better times and a better obance. Wi the removal of Graut's military law the up country, with a redeemed Sb goverumont and a more intelligent a useful oity regime, ul 1 of which we ho to secure soon, thero will be, we tru no obstruction in Columbia's pathway the largor and brighter destinies whi we trust God has in stcro for her. I our peoplo, however, bear in mind wi thoir public duties oro. Lot uscultivi a liberal, a generous publio spirit, t let us, also, form a stern publie opinit that will not tolerate domestic treacht or official corruption. To us it will at once a pleasure and a duty to fur tl ovory good work and to lend a helpi hand in thoir enterprises to all good wi zens, without regard to party or color HAWEAS 0OB*?S.-J. Daniel Tacker, ?ra Cornirady, Gray Poni??, Y^m FQX-. worth, Tim Foxwor?h, Galo way nelson, Brno? Littlejohn-all colored-charged with riot and assault and battery, at the Messrs, Joyner's oamp, and who bad. had a preliminary 'examination, before Trial Justice Coleman, and committed to jail in default Of bail, were brought before Justices Nash and Thompson yes? terday upon a writ of habeas corpus, the hearing of which will bs concluded to*, day. MAID ARRANGEMENTS.-The Northern mail opens at 8.00 P. M.; closes 7.16 A. M. Charleston day mail opens 4.00 P. M.; closes 6.00 A. M. Charleston night mail opens 6.80 A. M.; doses 6.00 P. M. I Greenville mail opens 6.45 P. M.; closes 6.00 A. M. Western mail o pe OB 9.00 A. M. ; doses 1.80 P. M. On Sunday office open from 8 to 4 P. M. WEBSTER'S UNABRIDGED, NEW ILLUS? TRATED EDITION.-As the traveler at the eternal oity gazes with rapture upon the wondrous dome, and upon each recur? r? D? visit beholds something new. Some nen feature he had not seen before, so ?it is with the Btudent of Webster. The 'oftener ono turns over its almost endless {>ages, the more his admiration is ohal euged. It would be superfluous. to speak in detail of the merits of this great work; yet it would be impossible to say a word too much in its praise. I Charleston (3. G.) Gasette. Notwithstanding the report that the Nation*! Hon?"; in T won ty-th i rd street. Pf Uannt-nd- Mr, John Mnrriwwy rm? boldly bought it, and, it is said, will open it as a "club house." In which l?vent, visitors may be sure they'll see no ghost-not even a ghost of a ohanoe. HOTED ABWVADS, November 21. Nickerson Bouse-W. B. Peake, Winna boro; B. Wesley, Ark.; W. G.iWymes, Va.; G. A. Darling and wife, L. F. Poss and wife, oity; Mrs. B. J. Hnrdee, Ga.; E. D. Nixon, Md.; Mi?* E. A. Blum, Miss A. F. Eicken, Charleston; J. Nor? ton, Sr., Chester; B. F. Whitner, An-, derson. Columbia Botel-Vf. B. Dingle. Mrs, Porter and two children, D. E. Johnson, W. A. Bradlev, W. Dudley, Charleston; W. T. Gary, ?dge?eld; W. H. Parkins, Ga. ; T. E. Carter, Pa. ; W. S. Manning, Clarendon; J. B. Weed, J. P. Suther? land, N. Y.; C. S.D wight and wife. Mo.; J. Birnie, J. P. Boyce, J. Boper, W. E. Earle, G. Johnston, Greenville; T. C. Robertson, oity. LUST OF NEW ADVERT?S KM BUTS, ,. Official Drawing-C. C. A. Store to Bent-Apply at this office. MARRIED, At the First Baptist Church, in Richmond, Va., on the7th Novimbek instant, h v tho Kev. Wm. D. Ttomae, CHARLES F. JANNEY, or Columbia, 8. C., and LUCY H., eldest daugh? ter ot Bobert H. Boaher, Esq., of Bichmond, Va. S^-Greenville papers please copy. OFFICIAI, BAFFLE NUVBEHS Charleeion Charl I table Association, for benefit Free School fund: BAWDS CLASS No. 208 -Morning, November 21 ? 24-G0-35-7-44-76-15-C9 61-45-10-2 WitnoBs my hand at Columbia, this 21st day . |of November, 1871. FENN PECK, Nov 22 Sworn Coin missioner. To Rent, A STORE, ou M vin street. Possession a. given immediately. Apply al this office. Nov 22_ Newspapers, Periodicals, &c. 7 CALL at GIBSON'S Book aud Newspaper. Depot, next door' to Pollock House, where ino latent Now York, Philadelphia. Charleston and city lepera, together with ali tho latest .Norcia, Bung Booka, Ac, are kept constantly on hand. Nov 21 G Law Notice.' |r|lUE undersigned have formed a partner* JL ship in the practico of law, under the ?style of KIO* & THOMAS. And will give careful cousideiaiion and at? tention to any business entrusted to their ohargo. Office ut Bauekett'a building, on Law Bango. JAMES U. RION. JOHN P. THOMAS. COLOMBIA, S C., November 10, 1871. NOT 21_Gmo Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Co. THE annual mooting o', the Stockholders of thia Company will bo held at the office, No. 61 New street, iu tho citv of New York, New York, on MONDAY, the *4th day of De? cember, 1871, at 2 o'clock P. M., for tho elec? tion of ofhoers for the ensuing year, and for auch other bu-unous ?is may ho brought before tho meeting. J. M. COLLINGWOOD, Nov 28 _0_Secretary. Strayed. FROM tho premises North-west corner Plain and Oates atreeta. on _^the lGth instant, an Aycrahiro DOW, omi red, with white spots about tho back and dank. A reward of to will be paid the tinder for delivering ber on tho promises, or euch information as will lead to her dis? covery._Nov 21 2 WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY. I HAVE OD baud a select at.u k of WATCH ES. JEWEL-s_., iimt|RY. CLOCKS. SILVER aud PLATED A At.i'., which 1 will disposa of at most rea? sonable prices. Also, SPECTACLES to snit all ages. REPAIRING fn my line done promptly and on good lenin. All articles and work warranted to bo aa ropreaeute.l. GEO. BRUNS, 2d door below Pnu'.six office, Maiu otreet. Oct 29_ Mountain Butter. KITS MOUNTAIN BUTTER, for aalo low. E. HOPE. 15 Toys, Candies, &c. TOYS of all kinda and descriptions, plain and fancy Candice, Nota. Lemons, Elga, Jellies and Canned Fruits. Bread, ?ako* and Unlit*, fresh evorv morn? ing, at P. W. KRAFT'S, Nov 7 Main atreot._ Oats! Oats! OArV BUSHELS SEED OAT*. 6J\J\f 500 bushels FEED OATS, for salo low by T. J. A H. M. OIBSON. _NovJ9_3 Native and Foreign Wines. 80UPPERNONG, Concord, Pa?teme, Cla? ret, Champagnes, just received- and for sale low, by_E. HOPE._ StovaU's Excelsior Mills Flour, j WE koop large supplies of this CEL&. 'BRATED FLUOR, whioh wo soil it _.wholesale or retail, and warrant, tba quality. J. A. HENDRIX A BRO., Nov ll Imo_ColumhlaiB. 0. One Puncheon Loohgilphead. THE beat SCOTCH WHISKEY. Dealers can have it nearly at coat. Nov 15 _JOHN 0. SHAPERS. For Sale. A LOT of fine Kentucky A ?%k" , MULES and HORSES, je.st ar-f/J?T ?Mrivod. Call at .CCD. .JUL DALY'S STABLES, Oct 7 On Assen bly street.