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COLUMBIA. S. C. Simlay ?tornin*. Mareil KjJ&]2^ The Alexander Convention. This body met in the Court House,, yesterday, and, of coarse, re nominated the present inoumbent, John Alexander, for Mayor of the oity for the coming term. The nomination had all been cot and dried beforehand, and is just what everybody expeoted. There were five votes cast for Mr. S wy gert to twenty for Mayor Alexander. Tho meoting, of conran, as a general thing, was uproari? ously pleased with its action; bat there were not a few colored citizens who went off highly indignant at the manner in which things were managed. After the nomination was made and declared, a .committee waited upon Mr. Aloxander, who was not far oh, and escorted bim to the Court House, "to return bis thanks for tho high honor conferred upon bim." He said be was proud to feel that bis re-nomination was an acknow? ledgment of the arduous services which Ito had faithfully performed for the peo? ple for the past two years; that be felt 'himself the representative of the work? ing men, and always wouid consnlt their ?interests and labor in their behalf; that .he always had been for the working mon, and it was because he had so shown himself, and declared that ho believed the Republican party was the working mon's party, that he had been turnod oat of the Democratic ranks. He seemed to think it very an just and mean, that he should have been dropped from the Democratic Club, simply be . canso ho waa a Republican. Right .here, too, we think the worthy Mayor ilost sight of his pastreoord, to some ex vient. In declaring himself us having been through all tims the champion of the working men, he Beems to forget that he was the first to discharge hts colored employees-working men-from hie services, in 1868, for holding differ? ent politioal opinions to his own. This, we are creditably informed, is a fact. He claimed, too, that he had boen ostra? cised by the Democrats, on account ol his politics; that he had, therefore, nothing to ask of that party-by wbiob he meant the white citizens of Colum? bia-and nothing to give. Ho warned his audience of the citizens' movement, characterizing it as a Democratic trick, that would bring innumerable woei upon the unwary working men, if i should be suooessfnl. ' He made ac urgent appeal to party prejudices, anc .stated it to be in keeping with his politi eal oreed to vote for the devil himself once he got the party nomination. In this we think the Mayor has sta tee his own case in rather stronger word tnan we ourselves would feel justified ii using. Mr. Alexander, in oar opinion does himself injustice in some respeots perhaps, by the unwitting comparison but his satanic majesty must feel bimsel aggrieved on one score at least. Ther is aa aneodote that wo have heard tba aptly illustrates the point. A oertain old lady, a grand-mama, tb story goes, bad a heart so full of tb milk of human kindness, was so kin and charitable in her opinions of pee pie, that she always had something goo to say of any person who might come n for criticism in the family circle. Tbi lovable weakness of grand-ma was source of considerable amusement to be fun-loving grand-children. They woul make it a point to bring into discussio the obaracter and oonduct of the won reprobates in tho neighborhood, in ordc to "stump" grand-ma. Their effort however, were in vain; the dear old lad would always bave something good t say for their hardest specimens. Fiualh a bright urchin of tho family suggestc that they should try the devil, and seo graud-ma wouldn't bavo to succumb. The brilliant suggestion was uuau mously agreed to, and upon tho fir fitting occasion, the "father of evil" wi subjected to the most violent abuse i grand-ma's beariug. Ho was villified i the "arch deceiver," tho slanderer, tl father of lies, the author of all wiokedncs the destroyer of souls, aud HO OD, uutil tl little ones bud exhausted their catalogi of charges against bim. Their merry ey were then turned slyly towards grund-m and they waited with breathless intcrt to hear bow-she would extricate hers? this time, feeling almost certain that s! must gJVe in for once. The old lady hi listened patiently to their tirade abuse until it was ended, and then, la ing her knitting down, she quietly i moved ber "specks," and in kindly ton remarked: "AU that yon have said, n dears, is very true; but think of bim you will, we must all admit that the de is a man of talents." Right there is where tho May "makes his mishtako," and fur whi "old Nick" probably docs not feol flt tered at tho comparison, which I Honor suggested. Few men cousid J?hn~Alexand?r S bad' marj, or nTmalig- j nant or bitter man iu bis feelinga; bat he is a weak man. He baa no weight in Oonnoi). He ?B a mere tool-a sort of veotriloquial/ Johnny, or uioath-picce, through whom the sly rascals, DeOastro liko, impose upon the public. He is Mayor of the present Oouncil, and though we do not kuow, nor charge, nor cannot confidently say, that we believe that he was a participator iu their fraudulent schemes, he certainly did not expose them. Upon him, equally with the mst, must be plaoed tho re? sponsibility for the City Hall swindle and the inoroose of tho oity debt, de? signed in the bill to authorize the issue of 8250,030 of additional bonds. No tax-payer or working man, who knows his true iaterest, should want any such man to preside over our municipal affairs. < o ? ? THEM AND Now.-s-The Univers, of Paris, thinking of the Alabama diffi? culty, reoalis a little incident not wholly devoid of interest just at. preseut. At the end of the year 1776, Franklin and Silas Deane arrived in Paris as charges d'affaires of the American insurgents. Franco was then at peaoe with England. They industriously set about construct? ing a fleet of privateers to prey on Eng? lish commerce. They soon bad at sea such vessels as La Beine de France, La Bepresaille, La Surprise and La Re? vanche. They provided the captains with commissions, signed by John Han? cock. These vessels traversed the ocean in every direction, and in a short time ruined or paralyzed English commerce at least, to saab a degree as to justify Silas Deane ia writing to Robert Morriu that "we have alarmed England, stopped the great fair at Chester, raised tho rates of insurance, and deterred the English morohanta from employing the national flag, so there has been seen, during the last few weeks, the singular spectacle of forty Froach vessels loading ia tho Thames with English merchandize. Further, Mr. Denne wrote that "Co? nyngham, a bold privateer, has become tho terror qf the Eastora coast of Scot? land and England. Ho is mora feared than was Thurat during the late wari" L'Univers, after reoalliug this^scrap of history, congratul?tes its readers that lapso of time preveats a demand of ton or twelvo milliards for indemnity. The Ridiaal party has had control of the Southern States ever since tho olose of tho war, and is responsible for their financial conditiou. Ia 1861, the aggre? gate indebtedness of these States was $76,415,890. Ia 1871, the liabilities of the "reconstructed States" had been in? creased to $291,626,015-more than $12,000,000ia exoessof the indebtedness ' of all the tweuty-eevon other Staten. ?Tho war debt of tho South, having boen I repudiated by order of the Government, I bas, of course, nothing to do with tho I enormous increase betweeu 1861 aud 11871. It is wholly due to the carpet-bag and negro State governments forced upon the Southera people by the Radi I cal party since the prooeas of reconstruc? tion was entered upon. THE LAURENS RIOT.-The Latirensvillo Herald, referring to tho sensational nrli ale published in the Columbia Union, a few days ago, says: "Knowing the groat passion tho Union has for sensation, particularly unythiug pertaining to Laurens, aud its proneness to over-state, our oitizeus corresponding with thai paper should be extremely cautious about mentioning difficulties, however insignificant, as they well know a very small affair is magnified by it either into a 'riot,' or a Ku Klux out? rage." DETERMINED TO SEE LOWREY -Tho New York Herald seems determined to accomplish, by correspondent, that which George Alfred Townsend was Bent ont to do, and yet failed to perform, viz: To interview Lawrey, tho chief of the gang of Robeson desperadoes. Another correspondent, a rcgulur Bohemiau in appearance as well as profession. A. B. Henderson by name, got off the fruin ut Eureka, (in tho heart of the Sciifil-dowu settlement.) Frid iy, with tho avowed ob? ject of penetraling to tho preseucu of the outlaw, nod interviewing him in the interests of the Herald. He was making streu.ions efforts at last accounts to se curo the delivery of a letter to Lowrey. Though the fate of Sanders, the murder? ed deteotive, is fresh in his recollection, hu does not think tho outlaws will harm him, and relics upon a plain statement of his business for safety. THE RICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAIL? ROAD-THE STATEMENT OP PRESIDENT BUPORD.-President Buford, of tho Richmond and Danville Railroad, in re? sponse, tu inquiries mado with regard to tho suit recently instituted against thin road by tho United States District At toruoy, ut Richmond, telegraphs aa fol? lows: "It is only a rehash of au old claim that has been fully investigated aud set? tled in our favor by thu highest author? ity of the United States Government. I have no knowledge of any mortgage in favor of the Confederate States, made or recorded, nor of any reoordud contract for thu same. There is nothing iu tho preteuoo." Th?- 'Or?fcr-^TI?hB?yta* CMi^?=??^^^^l^d^, gUlKlmanl R. Darooet or ? Batcher 1 We pre-eat to oar readers, tbie morn? ing, a resume of thia moat extraordinary oase, oopied from the New York Herald. It ia certainly a ca?o without parallel, whether we consider the time and money expended in its trial, or the audacity of the pretended baronet-a oaae in which the costs, ?rst aud lust, were measured by hundreds of thousands of dollars, and length of tho examination of a single witness and tho speeches of single coun? sel were measured by weeks, may well be pet down among the causes celebres of the world: The abrupt and extraordinary termi? nation of the famous Tichborne case will not surprise our readers, us thc despatches received from tho Herald correspondent in Loudon, n duy or two since, announcing that the jury had ex 1 pressed themselves satisfied with the evidence so far us it bad progressed and ! ready to declare a verdiot, indicated that the claimant's cuso bad virtually broker down.- Upon this declaration, the eourl adjourned until yesterday morning, tc eoable the Tiobborne claimant and hit counsel to agree upon a line of action Their conclusion was anuouuoed jester day, the counsel for the claimant sayinj that their client had resolved to with draw his claim. The Attorney-General who reprsented the defendants, imme diately made au application to the oour for an order to arrest tho cluimunt, upoi tho charge of perjury, aud to hold hin in bail in the Bum of ?50,000. Tb order was granted, und the "baront and assumed heir to ono of the olde? and proudest names in the English bc ronetcy was arrested, yesterduy, au locked up iu Newgate prisou. S > ends, for the present, one of th most extraordinary trials in the histor of English jurisprudence. We giv elsewhere a summary of the case, the ii terest of whioh will transcend that < any romance. A young mau, au heir t un ancient title and a great fortune, bi of an idle, purposeless, vagrant naturi drifted into tho army as young geoth men of his stamp generally do, au served in Ireland aud England for shurttime. Wearyiug of military disc pline, aud yielding to the gipsy ii stinets of his nature, aud haviug had quarrel or au oustraugoment with h father OD the subject of money, he so his commission and left Euglaud f Australia. W.hen lost hoard from, I had shipped on a brig iu South Amei rica, "boUUd for Melbourne. Tho br went down nt sou, aud all OD boa wore supposed to have perished. Tl circumstances of tho young burono death came to England. An advert?s mont was published, calling upon t I world to divulge some tidings of t wanderer, whether he be dead or li vin No answer came. The baronetcy ai j the large'estate passed to the next kin. The mother of the wayward you mourned for him with all the patten i and hope of muterual love, and wot I not believe bim doud. Long after t courts had decided the case, and t new heir hud como iuto possession, a the world hud regarded her son as dei she clung to the faith that be wot come ugain. The father, who had m I ried late iu life, died in 1862 at un i vunoed age, while the mother survn uutil 18(38. Upon tho futher's dea tho baronetcy passed to his sou, 1 younger brother of the wanderer, w died iu 186*0, leaving his title aud esta to an infaut son, who was boru after death, aud is now the heir presumpti The Tichborne baronetcy, which wild young ofttcor throw away to find desttuy in the wilds of Australia, is < of tho oldest and proudest in Eugla It ie twenty-second in tho order of pr? deuce, aud was created by James I, wi hu fouuded thu title. Sir linger was eleventh iu lineal descent; but long fore tho pedantic, and grasping Sa wau Iud by his ambition aud his want establish tho order, tho name of T borne was among the honored name Euglaud. It goes back to tho tim thu Suxons, when De Itcbcnborne, u wus called iu tho old Norman Frei was a famous family in thu Count Hants. Wo find that Sir lt >ger de T borno was u Knight of llenry II; Henry boiug ouly third in dosceut f tho Conqueror, who reigned ns Ki nj Euglaud aud Duke of Normuudy Aquitaine, tho first of tho IMantugei memorable in ecclesiastical bis tor J 1 Ibo antagonist cf A'lieoketf, at wi I tomb ho prayed whilo tho edified un indicted a well-earned ponunco. ' bikes us back 700 years. Wo lind aoo I Knight, Sir John, us "a person of p umiuenci)," Parliament man, sheriff justice itinerant in thu reign of Edi ' II-tho saiuo virtuous P.nd sacred Pi j who was tumbled out of his throne cruelly put to death in Barkley Cu I ouly 515 years ugo. It wm a Do 1 borne, Benjamin by name, loyal vigilant in the sor vico of tho good Q Bess, whoso zeal for tho true suocei led him, us thu world will grateful! member, lo proceed to Winehestt V'UMIII us Elizabeth went to rest with I and without orders from those iu ai rity, clearly seeing tho inevitable his prudent English eyes, to proi James I as King. For which pr< and judicious service, tho grui Scotchman made Bon j ?uni u a bun aud thus he stands recorded as the of his lino. They were Cavaliers, Tichborne.1!, and suffered for the o und were zealous in tho apostolic Ri faith, tho ii fi li of tho liuo, Sir Jobi minglid, becoming a Jesuit and dyi sanctity ut Ghent, 120 years ago. It was in 1851 when the vagrant 1 was given up as having died at Suddenly, after twelve years bad pu news came that he had not been di ed, that hu hud been discovered iu I traita, bankin thu sheep districts, le I a barbarous, nomadic life, mulei I narnu of DeCastro. Ho had, it was i really escaped Trom EES wreck ol tue Teasel which was supposed to huve eu gulphed in the ocean. His life io Aus? tralia under bis assumed name was not, ic was admitted, of a oharaoter to inspire bis noble and gentle relatives with any enthusiasm toward bim as tho head of the house. He bore an ill name. He had married badly. He had misunder? standings with the constituted authori? ties, even lo the oxtent of stealing horses. Essentially vulgar, groveling aud coarse, ho bad given way to the gross promptings of his natur?, und had lived like a convict und u vagabond. His manners were those of a boor. He could scarcely read, anil when be wrote, it was iu defiance of all settled laws of grammar and spelling. Hts ignorance amounted to a revelation. The Tich? borne who had run away from his regi? ment and his friends was a sien r, bright, vivacious young man, well vc ted io his tactics nod especially skillet iu French, having hoon educated in Franco. Tho Tichborne who came back waa unu? sually corpuleut, could uot oorupreheud tho simplest order iu military drill, not comprehend a sentence iuFruuoh; wbo believed Bouasuet to be one of tho early fathers, aud did not know whether John Bunyan was a bishop, a prize fighter 01 a h o IBO jockey. Now comes tho extraordinary part ol the story. The assumed Sir Hoger re turned to England. Some of? those whr had known the waudorer regarded him as an impostor; others who served in thi carbineers, who had beeu in bis persona! service, who bad made boots and cloth iug for him, who had ministered to bi: bodily wants and comforts, affirmed tba ho was tho real Sir Huger. A bimbam und wife, related to thu baronet, wen divided in their opinion, tbo busbaui regarding him as an impostor, the wif< us thu genuine heir. The immediate re latives of the barouet, tho young lydy his cousin, whom hu hud sought in mur riuge, no longer young, but u matronly I Well matured ltira, K idol i Ile-iuHistci that he was au impostor. Hut if tin woman he loved disowned bim, the wo mau who bore him took him to her arm au her long dost son. Lady Tichborne who would never believe tbut Sir Huge had been drowned, but wbo continue to seek bim over the world and to pru for his coming, instantly accepted hit us her sou, und remained with him tint: her death. Ho followed her body to th grave us chief mourner. It was sai that grief and years of waiting had u: footed Lady Tichborue's mimi; that sh was incapable of judgment, and that sh accepted this adventurer in tho bungt of maternal love ut a time when age un sorrow hud dimmed her reason. lu tim public opinion was attracted to tho Bit gular claimant. His story was evin vasse in all circles. And, aa is so often th case, cue elans, the nobles aud gen tr; denounced him us au impostor, whi the other chases felt that hu wus an oj pressed, outraged man, and that the) was no justice in England unless S Huger could come to his own. The v gabond was poor, of course, but his pa tisans furnished him with monoy. Bunt woro exu luted to be paid out of the r venues of the Tichborne, estates, win the law took its course, and these we purchased by bis friends and those wi bolieved his story and felt that Euglii justice demauded bis reinstutemeut the baronetcy. So in time it carno trial. The leaders of the English b wore urrayod against ouch other, tl Attoruey-Ueueral, Sir John Colorido, leading tho caso for the defence; Al Ballantyne for the cluimaut. Tho tri hus been goiug ou, with a few interval since May. During the proceeding tl claimant went upon the stund aud to his own story. For several weeks 1 was cross-examined by Ibo Attorue General iu what certainly was tho mc extraordinary examinai ion known iu Ul trial. All the resources of legal ski handled by tho* leader of the Eugli bar, were exhausted in this ooutroverf Wheu this was concluded, it was fi that while Sir John Coleridge mig have shaken the caso, hu hud not i Istroyed it. If Tichborne was an imp? tor, ho was certainly a most remarkal impostor, for ho hud submitted to ordeal that would huve tried tho mi profound and accomplished intelle lio held to his story, and the trial wi on until tho defeuco presented it? ct and adv.mee.1 a part of the evidem The result of tho evidence has been oouvinco tho jury tina.t the claimant is impostor, to throw bim out of cou anil to send bim to Newgate as an leged perjurer, awaiting bail in X50,0l This is a sudden aud dramatic close tho case, if it really ends hero. We not see, however, that it is tho et The claimant was sustained by extra dinary ovidouce, and there is uo dot that there is a largo party iu Euglo who regard him us the real baronet, a man deprived of his rights by an at tocracy, which does not caro lo admi butcher, n vagabond and a bor.se-thici share precedence with noblemen n baronets. lint tho comm < n Engl mind hus board of the Marquis of iii ings and the Dalco of Newe sile, n even of His Gracious Majesty Geo IV, and it sees in this stolid, nugaiu ignorant Tichborne quite us much : biltty us iu any of them. Tho sever of tho court's action-his committal Newgate nuder bail which makes his lease impossible-will excite sympntl Somehow thero is an impression t the court has been unfair towards hi and that iu no event bas ho had abu ant and oveu-bnudod justice. What details of tho last few days' procoedi will develop, wo do not know; bu would not stirpri.su us lo find thu N gale prisoner the cause of as much eitcnient ns was known in thu du\f thu Monmouth who was believed have been the legitimate sou of Cha ll, ami who, but. for his own fool feeble vanity, might have risen by credulity of tho common people to English throne. - Fiery men aro easily put ont. . . < MEETING OF CITIZENS OF WARD 2.-We are requested to state that there will be a meeting of the oitizenu of Ward 2, of both races and without regard to poli? tics, at tho Oourt House, on Tuesday evening next, at 8 o'clock, to nominate Aldermen for thnt Word. Every oitizon, not fully satisfied with ull tho present nominees, is expeuted to attend. CITV MATTERS.-The price of Bingle oopies of tho PIIONIX is Dvo couts. To-morrow evening, our citizens will bavo on opportunity of witnessing a raro exhibition-a comic opera company, composed of talented performers. Mrs. Oates, tbu principal member of tho troupe, hus performed in all.chief cities of tho Union. Tho operetta for to-mor? row is tho much-admired "Daughter of tho Regiment," and all who have a de? sire to get within hearing distance of the stage should oall ou tho Messrs. Ly Brand. The Legislature, during its late ses siou, passed 33G Acts and joiut resolu? tions. Tho Governor pussod two (which were carriod, nevertheless) and allowed four to become laws without his approval. The managers will accept our thanks for a oard of invitation to the Hibernian snppor, to-morrow evening, at McKen? zie's Saloon, ia honor of Ireland's pa tron paint. Winter resumed supremacy, yester? day, completely upsetting Mrs. Som mer's good intentions. Seo what Messrs. W. D. Love Sc Co have to any in this morning's PHONLX relativo to dry goods, etc. A membe of tho firm is now in New York, makin) selections for tho spring and summe season s. I The attention of our merchants i called to tho depredations committed b several colored women, who, with bal kets upon their arms, visit differer] I stores, and, whilo tba attention of th clerks is called off by ono or two iu th purchuso of sundi articles, the othei raid on tho goods, deposit their slea ages io tho baskets and cover thom wit their shawls. Yesterday, iu ono of tl ?tores of Messrs. T. J. & H. M. Gibsoi some of these light-fingered fumali wero overhauled. One of tho malo pe suasion was likewise caught iu a simili fraudulent attempt, in tho store of M E. Hope. R. M. Stokes, Esq., of the Unit Tv nc st, arrived ia Columbia, last nigh Although he lost his entire office, he uot disheartened, but will soou refu nish nod bo at work again io a vei short timo. PiicENixiANA.-Dark ages-the ladi? Io tho Now Hampshire electio Straws show how the wind blows. Among tho warmost friends of the oi term principle oro convicts. "Chamber music-Baby. Whoa a woman caa faint, and has capital opportunity for fainting, ai yet does not faint, you may be BU that she has some other feint in view. Indian meal-baked dog. A kiud word will often tell more th severest reproof, aud a sigh of som mikes far deeper impression than op censuro. A Cincinnati woman sold her hair bail out her drunken husband, and showed his appreciation by getti angry at tho loss of her tresses aud p. euriug a divorce. Who cannot koop Lis own sec ought not to complain if nuother tells Over-warm friendships and hot po toes aro generally dropped as soon taken up. Many a girl thinks she eau do noth without a husband, and when she g ono finds sim can do nothing with bil A good man, who has seen much tho world, and is tired of it, says: "I grand essentials to happiness aro soi thing to do, something to love ami soi thing to hope for." A nenr-sigbled man, beiug advisee uso glasses, took four, ho says, and i double! It is a sad comment upon human but soft soup, iu sumo shape, pleii I most folks, and generally the more J'1 you put into it thu botter. Tho Now York Evening Post et "Wo do not ouvy Geo. O. O. How his duties ns special ngoot of tho i verument to 'invostigato' the Apa Indians of Arizona." No; but if mus tho agency as successfully iu owa interest as ho did tho Freedaii Bureau, you may well envy him stoalngo of it. Tempor?neo and labor aro tho best physicians of mau; labor bhnrr. tho appetite, and temperance prov? hun dom indulging ia excess. Frightened Mormons, instead oft ing any number of now wives, aro i carefully concealing tho number of w they have. The Englishman who called Hoosaa Tunnel a "blasted bolo," literally correct. < -HoM??r?E7-=m " T?^rm"T? ^ Sn fiBul?oe that a diffioulty occurred last night, about half-past 7 o'clock, ia the co-ope? rative storo of tho Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, Blandlng street, between Mr. John Simpson, an employee of the company, and a colored man, named Wm. Lucas, io which the former was killed, by a cut across the thigh, from a emull pocket knife in the hands of Lucas. The origin of the difficulty we did not learu ; the murdered man wa?, it is said, somewhat under the influence of liquor. Simpson was a gallant soldier in the late war - -serving in tho Richland Voluntoer Rifle Compauy-and his un? timely death will bo deeply deplored by I his many friends aud old comrades-in? arms. Tho murderer was arrested, after I slight resistance, by Messrs. J. E. Eog J Hsh and Joseph Prim, (who were present wheu the unfortunate affair occurred,) and carried down to Sheriff Frazee, who afterwards-ably and promptly assisted by these gentlemon and Mr. W. Reeves, in tho absence of policemen-succeeded, after considerable difficulty, in arresting Haunch Bridges and Wm. Dennis (co? lored) as accessories. Tho prisoners were lodged in jail about 12 o'clock. An in? quest will be held over the remains thia morning. _ M Ain ARRANGEMENTS.-The Northern mail opens at 3.0? P. M.; closes 7.15 A. M. Charleston day mail opens 4.00 P. M.; closes 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 6.00 A. M. Western mail opens9.00 A. M.; closes 1.30.P. M. On Sunday office open from 3 to 4 P. M. FIRE DIVISIONS.-Chief of Police Jack? son has matured a plan for dividing -the city into fire divisions. It is simple, and can bo carried out at but slight ex? pense. He thus describes it:' "The four wards are divided into divi? sions each, Richardson being the divid? ing line one way and the ward streets tho other, being the ward linea, aa de? signated by streets. In case of fire, the steeple-man, after the general alarm, for instance, would strike oue, aa interval, and then strike one agaiu, for the first ward, first division, two for the seoond division, and so on. It is proposed to have the plan and explanations posted at tho engine houses, and a sufficient number distributed to make the matter plain. Tho convenience will be a great one." THE UNION FIRE.-Wo learu that an investigation has been made by the town authorities into tho cause of the fire at Union, on Friday morning, and it is generally conceded that it was tho work of an incendiary. This is not the first attempt at inoendiarism oa the same premises. The fire originated io a woodoo building, back of Mr. Eller's store. We aro gratified at beiag able to state that the reported death of a colored ohild is iucorrect. Ia addition to the losses reported yesterday, we have to re? cord that of Mr. Malloy's stock of groce? ries and dry goods; the saddlery shops of Messrs. Robinson aod Harlan. Parties from Union state that the re? ported tiring upon the sheriff, recorded in a cotcmporary, is untrue. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS, March 16. L. D. Mowry el al. vs. J. Stogner et al. Judgment and verdict set aside, aod a new trial ordered. Opinion by Willard, A. J. : B. F. Massey et al. vs. John Adams. Motion dismissed, und case remauded to j Circuit Court. Opiuiou by Moses, C. J. Held, tho order of a Circuit Judge grauliug a new trial on the facts of the case is final, and this court is without power to reverso it. To give jurisdiction to the Supreme Court to be? aside an order for a new trial granted by the Cir? cuit Judge, it must appear that the order involved only error io law. Oa the denial of the motion to reverse the order of the Circuit Judge granting a now trial, judgment absolute is to be rendered against the appellant, as pro? vided by the 11th section of the code of procedure, aud the case will bo remitted to the Circuit Court for snob proceed? ings as may be necessary to render tho j judgment effectual. RETJTOIO?S SERVICES TUIS DAY.-Tri? nity Church-Rev. P. J. Shaud, D. D,, Rector, ll A. M. aud 4 P. M. St. Peter's Church-1st Mass, 7 A. M.; ; 2d Mass, 10j? A. M. Afternoon Service, 4 P. M. Lutheran Church-Rev. M. Waldo, D. D., 10>? A. M. Presbyterian. Church-Rev. Jos. R. Wilson, 10!? Al M. and 7 P. M. Wushinglon Street Church-Rev. Man? ning Brown, 10>? A.M., and 3>? P. M. Marion Street" Church-Rev. W. D. Kirkland, 10^ A. M. aud 7)? P. M. Baptist Church-Rov. 3. lu Reynolds, 10>.< A. M. LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. R. C. Shiver & Co. -Dry Goods. W. D. Love & Co.-Dry Goods. Reese fe Thomson-Removal. J. F. Eisenmann-Now Goods. Rooms to Rent. Communication Gaza Lodge. A roan looking for a site for a paper mill has found one in nu Iowa town, where, ho says, there are moro rugs in proportion to tho population than in j uny other place ho over saw.