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' romgH ?iiMrii PABIS, March 8.-The French Minis? ter at Berlin telegraphs thal Emperor William has pardoned the French pri? soners held by the Germana (or civil offenoaa. LONDON,V March 8.-The Queen de ?tarts for Germany on the 26lh, and re? ams on April 16. LONDON, March 8.-A commission ' of medical men, appointed to inquire into O'Connor's sanity, report bim sound of mind, bat an enthusiastic Fenian. He said he would have used a loaded pistol, bat only wanted to frighten the Queen; as a fatal result would have enthroned the Prince of Wales, whioh is nndesira- j ble. He wishes Victoria to be the last : English monaroh. American Intelligente. LomavrLLE, Marah 8.-Benjamin, John and Spencer Prewitt are jailed here, awaiting the requisition of the Go? vernor of Georgia, charged with the murder of Jas. H. Morris, at Morgan? town, Ga. BOSTON, March 8.-The House re? jected the taking from towns and cities the right to authorize the sale of malt liquors, by a vote of 77' to 72. LXTTT?BROOT, ABK., Marah 8.-County Jndge - John McPherson, of Benton County, killt?d p. M. Thompson, in a personal rencontre, j . ... Naw YOBRV Marah 7.-Mrs. XJtie Brooker, sister of Victoria Woodhall, spoke at Cooper . Institute, to-night, against free lovo doctrines, sud declared her belief.. that her. eis tor was insane. She denounced Theodore Tilton in etrong language, 'and 1 pronounced his biography of Victoria a series of slanders on her family.. .. :. J?AflHvuojB, March. 8.-Supervisor Emery, with a detachment of Federal soldiers; raided Coffee and Lincoln Counties, Tennessee, and Jaokaod Coun? ty, Alabama, destroying- nineteen illicit distilleries, and capturing a large amount of property and five persons. BrnrNainET/D, MASS., March 8.-The owl train hence for New York was thrown from the track by a brokon rail Twelve EersonB were injured, inolnding Admiral ?eBohan, of France. Tho mail oar was burned, with a heavy mail. ALBANY, N. Y., March8.-The legisla tive committee will report a bill remov? ing Mayor Hall. Robert Duncan, a Well-known phi lanthropist, is dead. NEW YOHK, Maroh 8.-Rev. Dr. Abra? ham B. Carter, of the Twenty-fifth Street Episcopal Churoh, has brought snit against one Emma Couoh, who aays oho ia a school teacher, for attempting to blackmail him for 9100 a month; she alleging that ho, although a pastor, and the father of a family, had been intimate with ber. A letter, in the highest style of blackmailing ingenuity, was put in ?vidence yesterday. Julia Connelly, one of six ohildren bitten by a rabid dog, in Brooklyn, died in paroxysms, last night. ? BOSTON, Maroh 8.-The French resi? dents have appointed a committee of ladies to raise money to pay the French war debt. WABBSNTON, VA , March 8.-In the Conference, thia morning, the oase of Rev. Dr. Huston was called np. The Doctor appeared before the bar, and made a statement of-the circumstances under which he left Baltimore. After much animated debate, a committee of inquiry was appointed for immediate in vestigation, which will sit during the sea Bion of the Oonferenoo. The vote was three to one for appointing the commit? tee. ST. PATJTJ, MINN., Maroh 8.-A foot of snow fell einoe Thursday. The snow extends Westward and is still falling. MAOHIAS, Ma., Marah 8.-The house bf Captain James Bryant, with himself, wife and two grand-children, were bumed to-day. Cause of the fire unknown. Nnw YOBS, Maroh 8-Evening.-As? sistant Secretary of the Treasury Ri? chardson arrived per the steamer China. The body of a male infant, partially eaten by dogs, WSB found in a vacant lot. Garvey testified in Mayor Hall's oatie that the bill paid Garvey was neither j nat nor honest. Ex-Emperor Napoleon cleared $320, 000 by selling his property, at the corner of Day and Broadway streets, to the Western Union Telegraph Company. The steamship City of Washington has arrived safely at Queenstown. WASHINGTON, Marah 8-Evening. Attorney-General Bates, of Utah, has been notified that his resignation would be accepted. The Arras Committee examined Dyer, Chief of Ordnance, at his house. No thing new was elioited. The agents at the different points will be examined, to unearth the details. In the Senate, a bill granting the right of way to the Great Southern Railroad through Florida was called up, but went over. Several Senators wished to ex amine it. The Secretary of the Interior was questioned regarding white settlers on Indian lands contrary to treaty stipu? lations. The Secretary of War was in terrogated as to what portion of the river front at New Orleans is oooupied by the Government, for what purpose and under what title. In the House, a bill making Pittsburg a port of delivery, to whioh goods may be transported in bond, was passed and goes to the President. The post office appropriation bill was taken up. Only thirteen of the thirty-seven States pay their postal expenses. Probabilities-The barometer will con tinue falling from tho upper lakes to the Eastern Gulf, and Eastward to the At? lantic; the lowest moving North-east wardly ovor Southern Miohigan, and {?robably over or a little North of the ower lakes; preceded on its Northern half by brisk Easterly and North-east? erly winds, and on its Southern half by fresh to brisk Easterly to Southerly winds. The area of snow will extend during the night from Ohio to New Eng fend; ?nd-Northwards ,tbe ?vea o? rain from Tennessee, Kentuoky and Ohio Eastward to tho middle Atlantic coast. Olondy and threatening weather, with Southerly winds, will prevail daring the night over the South Atlantic States; the latter veering to Westerly, and North? westerly by Saturday evening. The ba? rometer will rise during to-night, with Westerly to North-westerly winds West of and throughout the Mississippi val? ley, and extend Eastward on Saturday over the upper lake region, the Ohio valley and the Eastern Golf States, with clearing weather and falling temperature. Financial ?ma Commercial. LONDON, March 8*-Noon.-Consols 92%. Bonds 92%. PAMS, March 8.-Specie increased 4,000,000 francs. LIVERPOOL, March 8-3 P. M -Cot? ton opened quiet and ?B now dull-up? lands 11%@11%; Orleans 11%; nearly due from New Orleans 119-16; sales to? day 10,000 bales; of the week 108,000; export 8,000; speculation 29,000; atook 629,000, whereof American is 239,000; receipts 82,000, whereof American ia 36, 000; actual exports 7,000; afloat 481,000, whereof American is 199,000. LIVERPOOL, March 8-Eveuing.-Cot? ton olosed heavy-uplands 11%@11%; Orleans 11% ; nearly dna from New Or? leans 11 ju- Manchester advioos lesB fa? vorable. Nsw YOBS, Maroh 8-Noon.-StookB weak. Gold firm, at 10%. Money easy, at 6@7* Exohange-long 9%; short 10)jj. Governments steady but dull. Flour dull and deolining. Wheat dull and nominally lower. Oom dull and heavy. Pork steady-<>new mess 13.30@ 13.37. Lard heavy-steam 9%@9 516. Cotton easier-uplands 22%; Orleans 23; sales 921 bales. Freights dull. 7 P. M.-Sales of futures to-day 8,700 bales, aa follows: Maroh, 21%, 2115-16; April, 22%, 22%; May, 22 11-16, 22%; June, 22%, 23. Cotton dull aud nomi? nal; sales 2,016 bales-uplands 22%; Orleans i 23. Flonr lower-superfine Western 5.90@6.30. Whiskey steady, at" 90. Wheat depressed-winter rod Western 1.62@1.68. Oom decidedly lower, at 69%(a)70. Bice quiet. Pork dull, and unchanged. Beef activer but unchanged. Lard a shade easier-kettle 9%. Freights unohanged. Money 7, ourrenoy. to gold, with .commission in some instances. Sterling dull, at 9%. Gold 10%@10%. Governments steady. TenneBBees firm; new South Carolinas strong; others steady. CINOINNATT, i Maroh 8.-Pork weak, at 12.50. Lard et cady-kettle 9. Bacon steady-sides 7@7%; shoulders 6>?. Whiskey 84. ?T. Louis, Maroh 8.-Whiskey 85%. Pork 12.50. Lard dull, at 8%. LOUISVILLE, March 8.--Bagging firm, at 16%(?)17. Provisions unohanged. BALTIMORE, March 8.-Cotton dull and nominal-middling 22%; receipts 114 bales; sales 110; stock 9,470; receipts of the week 3,608; sales 1,329. AUGUSTA, Maroh 8.-Cotton quiet- < middling 21; receipts 567 bales; sales 400; stock 16,161; reoaipts of tho week 2,092; side a 2,547. GALVESTON, Maroh 8.-Cotton dull and lower-good ordinary 20; receipts 752 bales; Bales 300; stock 3.9G3; re? ceipts of the week 2,740; sales 5,700. MOBILE, Maroh 8.-Cotton quiet and weak-middling 21%@21%; receipts 494 bales; sales 5,300; stock 4,978; re? ceipts of the week 2,493; sales 10,000. NORFOLK, Maroh 8.-Cotton dull low middling 21 ; receipts 575 bales; sales . 100; stook 3,630; reoeipts of the week 1 3,887; sales 900. HAVANNAH, Maroh 8.-Cotton in good i demand; buyers offer inside figures- ; middling 21%@21%; reoeipts 843 bales; , sales 850; stook 54,591; receipts of the week 5.456; sales 6,600. PHILADELPHIA, March. 8.-Cotton quiet-middling 22%; receipts of tho week 1,622 bales. CHARLESTON, Maroh 8.-Cotton dull middling 22; receipts 656 bales; sales 100; stook 21,522; reoeipts of the week 3,846; sales 3,000. NEW ORLEANS, March 8.-Cotton dull and easier-middling 22%; reoeipts 5,213 bales; sales 2.900; stook 206,649; reoeipts of the week 26,001; salea 10,000. BOSTON, March 8.-Cotton dull middling 22%@28; reoeipts 531 bales; sales 600; st'.ek 8,000; reoeipts of the week 5,007; sales 2,100. WILMINGTON, Maroh 8.-Cotton dull middling 21)?; receipts 137 bales; sales 28; stock 4,228; reoeipts of the week 953; sales 280. AMNESTY.-The New York Tribune pitchoQ into Morton and his Radical followers in tho ?Senate in the following oharaoteristic way: We begin to despair of any appeals to the gentlemen controlling the admini? stration majority in the Senate, save ap? peals based on partisan necessities. On that low plane, therefore, we once more beg of them a prompt, generous bill of amnesty. Would it be too much to ask of Senator Morton, for instanoo, who was once latitudinarian enough to favor even Andrew Johnson's way of dealing with tho South, that he should get above his crude, passionate prejudico, and give the party some ghost of a chunco to carry an occasional Southern State next fall, by now abandoning the useless and aggravating proscription of Southern men, confessedly not the worst of those we encountered and finally subdued seven years ago? A COLD-BLOODED MURDER.-From a letter received hore, we learn that Mr. J. Butler Nelson, a former citizen of this County, and a yonng man of much promise, was murdered in his own honso, while usleep in his bed, near Griffin, Ga., on the 18th January lase. Mr. Nel? son was a member of Company I, 12th South Carolina Regiment, and was noted for his gallantry iu tho late war. Suspi? cion attaches to a negro mau whom ho had in his employ.-Lancaster Ledger. Louis Napoleon has been denied per mission to sojourn n short timo in Italy. ABBWB A THRITIT PaoPiiB)?-Aoy one wno has lit ed abroad and has aeon' how people in Franc? and Germany-not to speak of other continental countries manage on incomes which, to an Amori can, appear little short of beggary, can? not bat bo struck with the apparent Ina? bility of our middle class people to make a little go a great way. I will venture to say that ninety-nine out of every hun? dred American families on limited in? comes throw away, fritter away, and mis-spend in buying things that they oould as well do without, and in paying exorbitant prices for those things and for others, as much in one year as wonld support decently a continental family of the same size. In Europe tho English are acknow? ledged tobe the most extravagant nation, but Americans may bear off the palm in that respect from every nation on the face of the earth. And in the end what have they to show for their lavish expen? diture? They have neither the solid comfort of the English nor the airy ele? gance of the French in their houses and dress. I am au American. I say this premeditatively. I mean it. I hare had occasion to learn something about what I am talking of in all the three countries mentioned. The grand excuse of our model Ame? rican for his thriftless doiogs, his reck? less expenditure, his heud-ovor-heels way of going at things, is that he "hasn't time." He never has any time for pains? taking. He is born in a hurry, educated in a hurry, is always in a hurry on the street. In short, lives and dies in a hurry. He always undertakes to do abont three times 09 much as he can possibly get through with-it ia the na? ture of the animal, and the consequence is, that usually he does nothing well. Others have to oome after hi m und finish up what he has left undone. It is not want of strength, not want of capacity, not want of courage, not want of means. No! thu rook upon which he Bplits is simply an imagined want of time-or, rather, an inability to calculate fairly just how mach time is needed in whioh to do a certain thing. In this respect, he is always imagining that he can get two feet into one boot and split one m?? nate into two. Yet, somehow, he is usually behind-hand. You'll see him running after a street-car as if his life depended on getting into it, althoogh another ono will be along in lees than two minutes. And he thinks nothing of risking a, plunge into tho river in a mad race after a departing lorry boat, or of putting his life in danger by springing aboard a car while it is in motion. All this because he doesn't want to wait five or ten minutes longer. Eather than do this, he risks his life be ve ral times daily. And you talk of economy to a raco like thin, to men and women who wonld rather do anything in the world than wait und take things easily 1 Economy goes with a luisurely habit of life. To be economical, time is re? quired above all other things. And it is simply because we cannot, or will not, afford the time that we are not on eco? nomical people. To rush into the near? est store npon yonr ronte and buy what you aro in need of at a cost of one-third more than if you had gone ont of yonr | way to get it, is in many oases a saving : of time, according to our notions; and . this is the way in which the money goes. ? We haven't time to hunt np just what will suit us as to the price and quality. Wo are at tho meroy of all with whom ; we deal. They in turn are at the mercy < of others, and nobody ii benefited. The results of this chronic state of being ! in a hurry are to be seen every day in , high prices and poor wares-bad food , and worn-out stomachs-in houses that 1 are put up only to tumble down over 1 onr heads-in terrible railroad and j steamboat disasters. It is everywhere. There is no time for this, nor for that, i nor for the other thingl We worry 1 through life to death, in whioh alone, j for the first time, we must rest. What j is the nae of preaching economy to such i % people? The defeot is in oar national 1 oharaoter and in our way of life. We ahull never be economical until we have \ proper idea of tbevalne of time, health and money, and a better appreciation of the dignity cf leisure; until we learn to anderstand that display and luxnry are aot necessary to happiness, and that the middle stato in life is often the most do rirable.-Howard Q lyndon in New York Evening Mail. Down in Wilmington, some time ago, va. old man who was vory feeble was helped across a crowded street by a youth jf twenty. A month afterwards the old man died, and AS an expression of bis gratitude he left the youth 810,000. And now no old man's life is safe in Wilming? ton. All tho young fellows have had ?heir ambition exoitcd, and as soon as my venerable man appears on tho aide walk a dozen chapa rush at him, grab nm by the coat and the collar, and the sack hair, and try to carry him across ;he street whether ho wants to go or not. When he gets there, a lot more fasten on to him and sot him back again, and then present their oards. Bo the old men in Wilmington aro having a lively time low, and they have to tack up the street whenever they go out for a walk. Thus :ur very little cash has been evolved, but di the young men study tho obituary ad? vertisements carefully, and when they see the words "at the age of seventy lix," or "sixty-six," or anywhere in that neighborhood, they hurry down to the jffloo of the Register of Wills and poro iver the last testament of the deceased. \11 this goos to show how much distress JUO inconsiderate action will canso. If :!>at first old man had loftus that $40,000 this foolishness might have been pre? vented.-Max. Adder. Lostl strayed! or stolen! the A meri? no navy, for which tho people paid $500,000,000 during tho war, and siuce 520,000,000 a year. Tho property has jone beyond recovery, but u suitable reward will bo paid for tho detection ?nd conviction of the thievos. KamaM City, Missouri. We copy the following interesting letter, written by an old Sooth Carolinian, from the Charleston Courier. It is dated Kansas City, Missouri, February, 1872: Bo many friends io Sooth Carolina have written to me making inquirios about thia section, that it is impossible for me to anawer each separately. Therefore, I ask permission, throng h your columns, to make the following statements: The population of Kansas City, on the 1st of January, 1872, waa 38,764. O? thia number only 8,000 are negroes. The whites are from every btate in the Union, and from Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, * rance, Ger? many, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The Southern States most numerously representad are Keutuoky, Maryland and Yirgima. There are fewer from South Carolina than any other. Tho assessed value of all tho pro? perty, real and personal, in the city, is 912,000,000. But this assessmont ia put at ; from one-third to one-half of tho aotual m ir lt ot value of property, so that tho actual valao is between $21,000,000 and $36,000,000. The aggregate of the sales of merchandize in the year 1871 was over $27,000,000. In that year wera built 865 dwellings, and 104 business houses-in all OOO-at a cost of $2,113.000. As an illustration of how business here grow?, take the packing of cattle aud hogs in UH beginning and now, viz: 1868, of cattle 4,200 nead; of hogs 13,000 head; 1871, of cattle 45,513 head; of hogs 68,633 hoad. Thurs are ten banks in aotual operation, and about thirty wholesale stores, which duplicate the Chioago aud St. Louis prices. There are five daily newspapers, among which the Time? is tho loading Democratic, and the Journal, the leading Republican paper, both of which abound from time to time with in? teresting and important information, relative lo this city and teotion. And any ono con? sidering a move to this section conld not do a wisor or moro profitable aot than to tako and road one of those, or both, Th? price of both ls the samo-tho daily is ono dollar poi month; tbo weekly is seventy-?vo ceuts for six mouths. There ia a street railway in ope? ration, running a diatanao of four milos. There are four other companies chartered, all aggregating about thirty miles. Ho active are the various brauches of bosinuBSthat the usual rate of interest for money, in sume ol $1,000 or more, is from ?fteen to* twouty pei cent.-sometimes higher; and in small sume for short time, it is not onfrequently aa high aa two per cent, per month. The railroads having termini hero, and which run their cars into this oity, oach on itt own separate track, are eoven. Then there it one that runs through the city, making practically two roads by ono company; thcrt are in addition two others in the course oi construction, each having thia place as a ter minus, and oach having its separate track Resided those eleven that are built and it course of construction, there are compauioi already org tiiized to build still three more which will make fourtoen railroads, eaob bar lng a separate track, which, in a year or two will be in running order to and from this city The drat was only built io 1866. Our papen enumerate "sixteen difiorent railroads run ning into this city or terminating hero, oi providing feeders for this market." I conflu? my atatementB to roads having oach a sopa rate track on which its trains run into tin city. T?oao different railroads furnish to tin trado aud business of this city live difforen oouipotiug lines from here to New York Water transportation is furnished hy th Memphis River, not only down toth?t"in laud sea," the Mississippi, bat above hero lo a distance of 2,000 miles. For a distance of 100 miles or moro ii every direction, and in many directions for i rouen greater distance, the fertility of th soil oannot be surpassed anywhere in th United states. The city is on the vorgo of tho Stato o Missouri. The corporate limits extend t tho Stato lino. It has nover had any of th advantageous aida that attond the capitals < Slats? and County seats. It nover was eve a County soat. Yet its trade and busines havo beou such as have given it a Coui House, which is the largest and finest in th State outsido of St. Louis, it having con 1120,000. The city, moreover, is located iu a rough and broken a aite as can well he ims gined, much of the city having beeu built o high hills and deep ravines. Socio of th bluffs are 200 feet above the bed of tho rivet A part of tho market square was niado h (Illing up a raviue thirty or forty foet doei Duly two squares from the market the root af thruo-story bouses are hardly as high a the natural surface of the earth on adjoiuin unimproved lots. Main street was OBtf bliahed partly on a hill-side, with a lut muuntaiu on ono band and a ravine on tb jthor. Other parts of the street are in tb bottom of a ravine, lt was at first a genuir. mountain road, engineered around hills gri dually to a ravine, and thence down to tl. boat landing. Tho general direction of tho Missouri Bivi la almost duo West to the Western border i tho State of Missouri, whero it reaches a albow by turning and running nearly Norl for a considerable distance. This elbow familiarly called "Big Bend." And in cons quenco of thia elbow, this vicinity at au ear lay assumed importance in tho trado wu tho lndiaus, whose territory and bunin jrouuds, even until 1854, comprised all th raat torritory between the Wostern herder Missouri aud tho Rocky Mountains. Tho la fien. Thoa. ll. Beutou predicted a great oi kt or noar thu "Big Bund." Gen. Frorao made this bis startiug polut in his explor lions across tho Rocky Mountains. A Irai tpraug up at an early day botweon tho Mi souri River and Santa Fe, Mexico. As tli trade increased, it kept coming up the riv to one placo after another, each place io tu being nearer tho bend. Finally, this tra Bstabli?hod itself at Westport, a town in tl. [Jae..non) County, four milos from tho rivi Nearly all Santa Fe freight was discharged [tig Bend for Westport, where merchants c taged in the Santa Fe trado bad their bu HOBS headquarters. At last some of thc uegan to think it woola be well to open stu iowu at the boat landing, and for a cousidi iblo limo this locality waa only known Westport Landiug. But when tho iuhal tauts of the "Big Bond" began to feel th importance, they aspired to "Kansas Cit; vftur a river named Kausas that boro flow oto the Missouri. A town was laid out iu 18J3, hut no i jrovomenta of much valno wcro made i 1846. Tho city charter was granted in 18 it which time there wai a populatiou of ah. >00. In 18C0, tho population had gi own )ver 4.000, and continued rapidly to incrcc ill tho war. During the war, thu city i mly did not grow, but retrograded; and Hay, 1865, tho population waa only abi 1,000. Then there was not a ainglo r.?lrc iure-tho nearest railroad point was titi niles distant. But in January, 18G7, tho i julation was 15,061; and iu August, 1863, vas over 25,000. The advantage gained by Kansas City \ JO enhanced as her railroad system shall :omo moro fully developed, and her prcs< inoB become trunks of innumerable branch iesidoa her present Ave competing linet Mow York, and her present railroad conn ion with San Fraucisco, and bor several li malling Northward, abo will soon havo m .han ono through connootion, by rail, vi 3alveston. thoa bringing to the trado ot K isa City the products of tho Gulf coast i .ho West ludios, and giving tho additional rantage of water transportation fruin East :ities to Galveston, leaving only about .nile? of railway, instead of about 1.5U?, a aresont. Tho following aro tho prices of the loni irticlcs of family consumption, at retail, tho best quality of each article, vi/: Flour lack, 100 pounds, fl; hams, sugar-cured, lound, oightoen cents; beef steak, per pot twelve to iitleeu Centn: chickens (live) ci tweuty-llvo to thirty-five- couts; butter, .lound, twenty-fire to thirty cents; eggs dozen, twenty to twenty-five oente; baker's br*ad, delivered daily, persforty loaves, $1; milk, delivered daily, per pint, five cents; ooft fee per pound, thirty to thirty-flvo cents; te? per ponnd, $1.80; kerosene' oil per gallon, forty cents; gas por 1,000 feet, $4 60; wood per cord, $5 to $ti; board per week (weekly in ad? vance, not including lights or fuel,) $8; honae rent per room, per mouth, $5; servants wages per month, $8 to $12. Theroisa great eaarcityof good building timber. AU need here ls brought from a great distance; but the best quality of brioks oan be made anywhere in or near this city. Btone, for foundations and basements, abounds in almost every part of the city, and often iu tho digging ont of foundations and basements the stone is quarried at band. Lime of the best quality is manufactured within the cor? porate limits. Bricks are solidly laid in the well at $10 per 1,000- A half dozen different kinda of ornamental atone for fronts, of beau? tiful varieties and susceptible of high finish, aro found in abundance cn our different rail? road lines, and ?oat very little more than brick. Them is a liberal system of public schools, where every child can be sent and taught free of charge. These schools give a good Eng? lish education. Ad olaasea of porsons send to them. The schools are ssven in number, and located in different parts of the oity, one or more being iu each ward. Theae buildings are amongst the best and handsomest in the city. The number of pupils enrolled in these schools is over 8,000. Besides theae there are some institutions founded hy private enter? prise, that are well patronized, chief amongst winch is one for young ladiea, under the Pro sido noy of Bov. A. ?. Stacey, A. H., a distin? guished Methodist divine, formerly of the South Carolina Conference. All denominations are represented here by public service, most of them by regularly or? ganized churches. The Southern branches of the Prosby terian, Methodist and Baptist, each have large and growing congregations and churches. The Bev. Mr. Madeira, of the Southern Presbyterian, and Bev. Dr. Camp? bell, of the Southern Methodist Church, are both popular pastors, as well a? able and elo? quent preachers. From a residence hore of fourteen months, embracing Dubalauiially two winters, as well as one summer, during whioh time I have made diligent inquiry of physicians and citi? zens generally, I am convinced that this oity is as healthy as any place in the United States, either city or country. Last summer, (which is said to have been an average one,) was sometimes intensely hot in the annshine, but in the shade it would at the aame time be pleasant, because of the almost constant breeze. And even in tho hottest days, it often became delightfully cool, aa soon as the sun went down. A sultry night is hardly ever known ia Kansas City. During all laat Bum? mer, there were only six nights during which I would have been more comfortable to have boen cooler. There ia but little need for any one living hore to need a summer retreat. But it may not be unlnteroBtipg to state, that last Bummer, during the month of August, the Kansas Pacific Bailroad Compa? ny-from hero to Denver, (Colorado,) (338 miles, and just at Mio baas of the Rocky Mountains-issued exemeion tickets, to be good thirty days, for the round trip, for thirty-five dollars. In winter, the thermo? meter indioates an intense degree ot cold. This winter bas boon considerably colder than last winter, and I am assured by old settlers that this IB tho severest winter that haa been hero for twenty-five or thirty years. The ground has been in a continued hard freeze from about the 20th of November. Soveral mornings, the mercury haa been below zero, and there havo been but few days in all that lima that there has been any thaw, even upon the surface and under a noon day sun and on a perfectly clear dayl Tho coldest weather here is always tho cloareat. StUl I doubt very much whether I have felt the cold hore any moro sensibly than I would have felt it in any of the upper Districts of ?South Caro? lina. Thia is accounted for by the great dry? ness of tho atmosphere here, lt soldom rains hore in the wiuter. It 1B now the 17th of February, and all the rain that has fallen bore since October would not have more than settled the dnst. And tho greater part jf January was as dusty as July or August. Last wiuter, it did not rain any aftor October lill February. T'ie coolness of the summers :oire admits of houses being built for winter. This, with "heaters," (stoves,) gives a com? fort, even though the mercury may bo at zero, .rhich is scarcely attainable under tho "fire? places" and open gr it os of Southern houses ind two winters' use of ''heaters" baa entire ly overcome my prejudices, and made me a 3 on vert to their uss. 1 Tho spring and well water in this section is til, more or lese, impregnated with lime; but noni persons here have.cisterns, and thus rot the very best of water. The cistern .valer ia delightfully cool till June or July, by .vhich time and before, ico is delivered to '-undies every morning at IA cents per pound. Tho construction ut water works has been jeforo tho public mind for a year or more. Taxation is about 2J per cunt, on the actual uarket valuo of property. It is fivo por ceut. )u tho assessed value; but the asaesBmont ia jardly ever moro than from one-third to one lalf of the actual market value, making the uxation as stated, 'ibis includes btate, Jonnty and city taxos. The professions of law and modicine are :rowdcO. Each has some members of high 'Oputation for professional attainments SB veli aa for natural ability. Lawyers number ibout 120, ph} Biciana about 150. There ia a aw library, whioh is owned jointly by a large najority of the lawyers, containing a full set if all tho reports in each Btate in the Union; his ia iu addition to the individual libraries if the different members of tho bar. Thore s also a medical college of two or three years' growth, which promises success, lt recently eceived a donation of $20,000. The morcan? do business in aa muon crowded aa law and uodicino. No ono without experience need <xpect tu start here with more pay than $35 1 ir $40 per month-very little more than . nough to pay for board and washing. They miai rise early and be up late, and work hard 1 di tho time; and moreover be ready and villing tu lend a band to anything, without ilggling about "ooutracts" or "splitting 1 lairs" about "duties." And if a young mau s not prepared fur thia kind of life, he had letter not come to Kansas City. But when ho mee gets a start and shows a capacity and a 'will" to work, his promotion, I think, ia moro ?apid and pay is natter than in ibo older ?Hates. Tho timo for applying for mercantile situations ia from 15th february to 1st March, ind from 15th September te 1st October. In ho mechanical branches, thore are better . pollings'. Qood brick-layers commandabout 15 por day; carpenters about $3; cabiuot nakerB about $2.60 per day. There is a vory iroditablo start for a mechanics' institute in incorporated society of over 200 members, villi a library of several hundred volumes of .Hittable booka. Our courts meet as regularly aa tho days ionio. Our juries are not only all white, but competent. On this point. 1 think Jackson Jouuty, Missouri, could safely challenge the thule United ?states. Not even the South karolina junes, before "roconatrnction," wore jotter than those of Jackson County, Mo., low. Tho two ooutts, Oircnit (civil) and Criminal, aro presided over by judges both lido and upright-mou above even too suspi? cion of weakness or partiality. Judge Saw? yer, of tho Circuit Court, of whoso presiding [ havo seen most, is able, loarnod and ready, iud withal patient and affable. The subordi? nate officers, as County judges, clerk, sheriff, usiices of tho peace, Ac, are generally capa? do and faithful ofiicura. Tho Major of tho city is a Radical Republi? can, though the Aldermen elected at tho same limo were Democrats-the Democrats spliton the vote for Mayor. In tho municipal olection inst preceding, v z: lt>70, the Democrats oleot .d a full ticket. This County (Jackson) is Democratic; hrs an entire representatiun of Democrats in tho L?gislature-both Senate and Home-and ia called th? Bannar County of the Democracy. The Btato hts not Jost now any Bach defined Blatas demonstrable by election reenlta as the city and Oonnty. GOT? Brown, elected in 1870, is a Republican, while tba Legislature, eleoted at the lame tim?, ia sufficiently Demooratio to make ona of their first aots the election of Frank P. Blair to tho United States Senate. Bot whatever may be the future c realization of par tie a in this State, Mil aoori ia Bore to be governed by ? broad, comprehensive and statesmanlike policy-such aa characterises Gov. Brown, Senator Blair and Senator Schurz. Gov. Brown ia a liberal Republican, and a worthy representativa of real '-reconstruction." Bia administration gives great satisfaction to the moderate men of all parties. In conclusion, I would Bay that, after mak? ing up my mind to emigrate from South Caro? lina, and before I determined where I would -zo, I made a tour of observation to this city, 'slut Joseph, Atohinson, Leavenworth, Fort Scott, Baxter Spring, Topeka, Denver and Central City. I came then firmly to the con? clusion that, ot all tho . plac??-bat?Tcen Saint Louis and the Rocky Mountains, Kanato City was the place, present and future. I te*tti. my conclusion by the opinions of all with whom I conversed on the subject-in railroad coaches, and at totola, in Missouri and Kan I aaa, and Colorado-and I found an overwhelm? ing majority ov these had the same opinion. And a residence here of fourteen months haa continually strengthened my conclusion. In my opinion, in the elementa of material pro? gress, no locality, even in thia marvelously "rowing. "Weat," can compare with Kansai ?ty. ^ JAMES FABBOW. THE GREAT HAIR PRODUCER_Hair Oils Pomatums and Pomades have had their, day. They belong to the musty paet. Nobody that understands tho chemistry of the hair and the philosophy of its growtb thinks of using them. Instead of clogging tho poroa of the scalp with thiok onguents, and tuna obstruct? ing the insensible perspiration which ia essential to th? health of the fibres, we how I tone the surface of tho bead with an invigo? rating application which penetrates to the roots of the hair and stimulates them in the esme way that tho fertilizing agents spread over the meadows stimulate the grass' roots and canee the blades to spring up In myriads, coating tho earth with verdure. The m vi go rant best adapted io ibis purpose ia LYON'S KATH AIP.ON. It may well be called the fertili? zer of the ?lead. To tho barren scalp it com? municates vegetative power. If the hair ia dropping out or becoming dry and withered, it arrestB the process of dilapidation or blight. The hair thickena and beoomes glossy and flexible under ita genialonoration, andas a dressing it is unapproaohea by any preparation that has yet been laid on the toilet of Fashion. 49* If you deslro roay cheeks and a com? plexion fair and free from Pimples and ll lo tc ti es, purify your blood by the use of Dr, Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It bas no equal for this parp?se. M 7 43 The death of Kager Beauvoir is an? nounced at St. Hyacinthe, Canada, at the age of 132. Living under monar? chical auspices, he had, fortunately, no chance of voting for every President sinoe Washington. Savannah tried to imitate Chicago a few nights ago. A kerosene lamp ex? ploded in a stable, and the prospect seemed blight for awhile, but the flames were soon ignobly.extinguished. WHOLES AI,IS PRICE? CU 11IUC NT. CORRECTED WEEKLY BT THE BOARD OF TRADE. APPLES, Wbu.2 ??2ES 00 MoLASSKs,Ouba,40?5O BAQOINO.18@23 New Orl'ns 72?90 BALE ROPE,Ma.22f??24 SugarU'eo.. 85?i0 N. Y.or Wes?rb 7?10 NAILS, fl kog5 ?0@6 00 BOTTER,North. 584010 ONIONS..# boa_2 00 Country, ^ &.20?25 OiL,Kerosene,g85?45 BAOON. Hams. 12?18 Machinery. .75@1 00 Sides, H Ib..8i@10 SPECIE, Gold QI 08 Should or a.... 7@8J Silver..... (iii 03 CANDLES, Sperm40@60 POTAT'B,Irisl 50Q200 Adamantine lb 18? 20 Sweet, bus 75?ico COTTON YARN 160? 1 76 BICK, Carolina lb 8@10 COTTON, Stet M ,...22 SHOT, $ibag. 2,75?8 00 Middling.21} SALT,Liverp.200?2>10 Low Midi*g,.21 SOAP, ?tb,.7a@10 Good Ordny,.20 SPIRITS, Aloohol.gl?OO Ordinary .18 Brandy . .4 00@12 00 CHEESE, E.D.D>. 22@25 Gin.1 G0@6 00 factory.20@25 Rum.1 60?7 00 COFFEE, Rio, WU>25@27 Whiskey.. .1 85?6 00 Laguayra... ,2G?28 SUGAR, OrusAP14i@16 Java.33? 35 Brown.11J?13 FLOUR. Co. 800@1200 STARCH, %) lb... 8??10 Northern.800@12 50 TEA, Greon fbi 00?2 50 GRAIN, Corn 1 05? 1 10 Black,_1 00? 1 10 Wheat-2 00@2 60 TOBACCO, Ohw.60@l 00 Oat.05? 1 00 Sm oking.Ib. .50? 1 00 Poss.1 20@1 30 VINEGAR, Wine,.60?60 HAT, Nor tn, Wowt.2 50 French.?l CO HIDES,Dry, *0>12$@ll< WINK, Oham.t25@28 00 Green.@8 Port, ?gal 300@5 80 LABD, y rt,.12? 15 Sherry.... 2 75? 7 00 LIME, y bbl. 2 25?2 40 Madeira...800?8 00 Sweet Potato Slips. 1 i\f\ BUSHELS for eeed-YAM8, Spanish JLUU and Bod. For Bale by March 9 E. HOPF, EVERY 3ATUBDAY, extra inducements will be offered to all who wish to purobaae CI? GARS for Sunday smoking, at "Indian Girl Cigar Stnro." _ _March 9 1 OFFICIAL. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, EXECUTIVE DXPABTMENT. WHEREAS a vac-.ncy now ousts in the office of Coroner for tho County of Sumter: Now, know ye, that I, ROBERT K. SCOTT, Governor of the State of South Carolina, by virtue of the power and authority vested in mo by an Act of tho Goneral Assembly of said State, entitled "Au Act concerning the office, duties and liabilities of Coroner," approved January 27. 1870. do hereby appoint and con? stitute Myer D. Moses, a Trial Justice of said County, as Coroner of the said County of Sumter, to fiil said vacancy and to perform the duties of said office until the Legislature shall order an election to fill said vacancy. In testimony whereof, I havo hereunto sot my hand, and oaueed tho groat [BEAL] Heal to bo affixed, at Columbia, this 7th day of March, A. D. 1872, and in tho ninety-sixth year of the indepen? dence of the United Statcsof America. ROBERT K. SCOTT, Governor. F. L. CAUDOZO, Secretary of State. March 9 I