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COLUMBIA. 8. C. Tttcsiay Morning. April 16, 1878. Speech of Gov, Gratz Brown. The father of the Republican reform movement, wbioh we think Gratz Brown, of Mis8onri, may be with propriety termed, opened with the first speech of the campaign before the Iliberal Repub? lican State Convention of EansaB, held at Topeka, in that State, on Wednesday last. The Convention was a large and enthusiastic body, and oompriseda num? ber of the most prominent Republicans in the State. Resolutions denouncing military encroachments apon oivil au? thority, demanding revenue and oivil service reforms, general amnesty and a reservation of the pnblio lands for the benefit of actnal settlers, were adopted. 107 delegates, headed by T. J. Parrot, were elected to the Cincinnati Conven? tion. The length of Gov. Brown's speech, which takes up three columns of the- Louisville Courier-Jourtial, forbids our giving it in full, which we much re grot, for it is a finished production, re? plete with sound philosophical views of tho dangers that beset Republican liberty in this country, the drifting toward mili? tary despotism that has characterized Grant's administration, and of the false political idea's engendered by Radical Republicans, and which have been car rfect to foll fruition in the wretched re? constructed governm- nts in the South? ern States. He says that the liberal Re? publican movement is an effort to join hands in friendship after the bitter and bloody strife that has just ended; an ef? fort for all sections of the Union to unite and insist that policies of peaoe shall prevail, and not hatred; to stamp out the corruptions that fattened while we fought, and demand that a constitutional role shall once more be established, and that the limita of State and national au? thority shall be respected aa of old; the military give way to the oivil order, and the people enjoy their own again. Of the change which undue partisanship has worked into the original framework of our Government, and the necessity to break away from all party shackles, he speaks as follows: "Apart from the imperative necessities already stated, there confronts the pub? lic a consideration connected with pre? sent Republican organization wbioh breeds serious alarm with all reflecting men who value the substance of things more than any form. That consists in the transformation which its partisan? ship has impressed upon the Govern? ment itself. To state it plainly, ours ?B no longer a Government of three co-or? dinate branohes-eaoh independent and a oheok upon the other, as our fathers framed it; but within the structure has been established another Government, intangible to the law, merging all de? partments into one will, known as that of tho party, and within the party has been erected a despotism, ruling all its membership to its own ordering, known as exeoutive favor. Thus it results that those barriers against abuse of power, set up with so much cure, are all broken down, and replaced by a subtle machine? ry whose secret springs few may know. Under a republic in name, we have to? day a packed judiciary aud a subservient Congress, dominated by a military chief? tain. This faot, which is visible to all who will look-this fact, wbioh sots at naught the defenoes of charter rights this fact, wbioh puts to blush the claims et party fealty-this fact, whioh arraigns the very method of that interior ruling organization-this fact, I say, necessi? tates a revolt from established routine to attain any free patriotio expression. There can be no liberty of utterance where ostracism falls upou the best and bravest who darn to dissent. Tradition has it that amongst the auoient Locrians he who proposed any reform did so with a halter around his neck, by which he was suspended if the law was not adopt? ed. Here the hanging begins before the investigation is permitted, and adminis? tration cartoons against Sumner and Schurz surpass in malignity tho imple? ment of a Tweed or a Connolly. ^Those, therefore, like yourselves, who have chosen another method of canvassing the views ot the Republicans of this nation, find full warrant for any latitude of procedure in tho surveillance tbas set by official mandate over aoy questioning. For this reason the con? vention at Cincinnati, instead of evad? ing, challenges rebuke for its irregulari? ty. It does not pretend to be a copy of its rivals at Philadelphia or elsewhere. Unshackled by ordinary procedure, po? pular in its origin, limited to no specific numbers, it passes official comprehen? sion and soorns its adroit control. Therein will lie its power and its influ? ence." In a few torse words he defines tho re? quirements for a preservation of freo goverDtnont, and which it is tho aim of liberalism to seoc.'Q-to be "a President without partyism, a Congress without a price, an army without a mission, and a supremo judiciary without politics." Gov. Brown next points out tho poi? sonous errors that bavo cropt into thu public mind of the North through tho exigencies of the war and tho instru? mentalities of Radical legislation si nco, with regard to the nature and legitimate objeots of the National Government, and tho alarming changes which havo been oountenanced from tho spirit aud scope of Federal authority, aa understood, propounded and agreed by the founders of the Constitution. "In tho South," soya he, "where the very vesture of all government was torn away, and where the processes of recon? struction have taken direction from na? tional authority, we have seen the public thought of the North interpreted in tho most distinot manner. There the work of reconstruction has been followed up by an alien policy, swift to punish rather than to reconcile. There the spirit of dominion has been the synonym of Fede? ral authority, in the shaping of all local organization, open control of large bodies of dependents, interference to sustain worthless officials, and ruthless violations of the rights of person. There the failure to build a new civil and social order, replete with illustrations of con? cord and progress, has been most signal and unfortunate. There the race which was liberated has been kept solidly ar? rayed against the rest of the community, under corrupt appliances, with constant ferments, to oontrol such States ia the interest of the Administration. There the suhstauoe of entire sections hus been plundered, debts mortgaging generations of labor contracted, taxoB levied to the point of confiscation-all done under agencies upheld by the National Govern ! ment. There, whenever the system it? self has created new disorders, as in the nature of things it could not fail to do, still harsher legislation has been de? manded, and the enforcements of mar? tial law have been resorted to with need? less severity. But the texture of this rule and failure thus imposed, must be held to show forth the animating im? pulse that accredits its work. The po? litical ideas which are accepted at the North are the self-same which have thue had unrestrained vent in dealing with the South, and this might well crowd into its consciousness that mighty lan? guage of the Earth Spirit in Goethe: 'At the roaring loom of time I ply, Weaving for God the garment thoa eeeat Him bj.' "Now, I submit to you if a theory ol national policy and power, which hut developed so ruinously elsewhere, is nol dangerous everywhere? I ask yon whe ther a public opinion that has sustained so much of spoliation, and shown itseli so indifferent to the limitations of right ful authority abroad, may uot possibly be the parent cause of corni ptioni springing into snob alarming muguitudi at home? Do not auch inflictioun, like curses, come back to rooBt, aud may no the plunder of Erie corporations act venality in so macy Legislatures, fron Albany to Topeka, have a closer oonneo tion than might at first be supposed with a programme of political though and action thus set on high as type o the public conscience? Could th? $250,000,000, pillaged by the carpet-ba( governments, have been permitted, ex oept ander a dissolute political morality that connived at Tammany in a $10, 000,000 steal? Could that violence dom the Constitution in suspending tb habeas corpus have proceeded from an; other than an atmosphere saturated wit! constraint of elections and dictation ti electors, under Presidential suspioes And, as a fitting sequel, also, to such in quest, may it not be worth while to oou sider if the moulding of such depend encies on Administration favor as Loui siana and South Carolina, ruled by ai uneducated, inflamed negro vote, ma; not have a significance in tho electors college or the deliberation of Congress that will silence the protest even o Massachusetts herself, should the exi genoies of an election demand a war wit! England? "It will not be contended with an troth that the great mass of Norther men sympathize with tho animositie thus perpetuated, or that tiny wool willingly fester dangers thusthreatenin to all free society. But it is true tin they have surrendered the leadership c public opinion to a party organizatioi because it carried them safely throug the perils of oivil war, and have ni been ulert to prevent that control froi taking Bhapes utterly at variance wit the free opinion in which it was foundet It is, therefore, only by an appeal froi the party to the people that any re-ai justmout of the thought of the Nort can come, and it is only by arrestiu that tendency in national administrativ to extremo centralization that any indi ence can be giveu to such ro-awakeuc conscience." Goveruor Brown next makes a coe prehensive roviewof tho financial polii of Grant's administration, showing i extravagance and profligacy, and tl bitter injustice dono under the oper tious of the present tariff system, I throwing the great barden of our hoa' taxation upon tho agricultural ai laboring classes, and rolieving t moneyed capitalists and manufacture monopolists from all aharo in bcari: the expenses of the Government. T favoritism shown to largo corporatio and tho grant of millions of acres public land to them, while its price doubled to actual settlers, is dwolt up in feeling terms, and tho ruinous poli of tho Administration in regard to t lately enfranchised colored raco, is t mirably shown. In this connection says: "Another subject that has ne1 ceased to claim absorbing interest 1 been tho relation sustained by tho C vernment to tho emancipated rai Proud of tho achievement of havi liberated 3,000,000 of human bein Republicans have felt solicitous to i them so incorporated with tho comma tics in which they dwell, that tli nowly-ucquirod citizenship should wi no disturbance and incite no umbra Resuming suspended labor, mingling local concerns, giving to tho causo good government a freo support, taobed to different parties as individual judgment might determine, it was recog? nized that the rights of the colored race would be respected by all, and tbat ques tion pass finally ont of politics. Ita safety would lie in division of its suf? frage, its division wonld come from be? ing let alone. But it may be well asked, has suob a consideration for the welfare of the freedom obtained with those in power? Has not a policy the very re? verse been pursued with regard to them? has not an aotive partisanship been de? manded of them? has not their vote been wielded absolutely as a unit? and has not the rosult of all this been pro? tracted alienation, disroputablo govern? ment and endangered liberties? The oxternal control, which, by teaching po litioal dependence, uses a raoe thus emancipated as a threat and a means of dominating the sn drago of all opposed to its continuance in power, substan? tially puts tbo achievements of the war at the peril of a single Presidential cam? paign. It thus does in its own person that very thing which constitutes its gravest ohargo against former adversa? ries, and does it from purely selfish con? siderations. It regards the oolored voto as an appanage won by force to be only administered in a spirit of force, and to be taught to rely upon external force for maintenance. Must they not, however, bo-protected, yon ask, against outrage and orime, in person and in rights? I answer yes-a thousaud times yes. But ic military terrorism that only or best protection? Does all our civilization and genius ol government embody itself at last in a squadron of dragoons? Has the plying shuttle of civil law, carrying its many oolored threads, and weaving beautiful patterns of order for society, lost all its ounuing? Protection! Yes; I say protection to them as others, whe? ther in Missouri or New York, but let that protection come of agencies and administrations powcrftd by virtue of the confidence they inspire, und re? pressive of wrong because founded upou unimpeachable justice." IV Hat Were They* In an article, yesterday, upou the duties of journalism-which was a string of old newspaper platitudes set forth in the garrulous style that marks the mighty productions of the genius scrota the way-there was a statement in re? gard to this paper which we would be glad to seo how that virtuous organ can verify. We aro accused of dealing in slanderous personalities against the can? didates of the Union in the recent cit; election, "and, says tho Union, when it was demanded that thoBo charges be made specific, and that they be proven or take the oonsequenoes, it became ss silent as tho grave and as gentle as a suck? ing dove." It is not very comprehensi? ble how charges can be made to "take the consequences." But passing by tho ludicrous grammatical blunder, by which the scholar of the Union has involved himself in this absnrdity, we call upon him to mention if he eau a single charge tbat wc have mado against him or auy other candidate in the late city election, and when called upon to prove it or to take tho consequences we were "as silent as tho grave and as gentle as a sucking dove." Wu tako it that the faets of the case, like the "sucking dove," exist only in the imagination of the erudite editor that penned thc article. But how utter? ly dead to shamo and to self-respect must that man bo who, iu tho very act of diluting upon thc beauties of truth, in? dulges in the most baseless fabrications. GENERAL- LONGSTREET.-Tho Now York World says of this (now) notorious iudividual: The lute surveyor returns to private life with uone of tho cleat and sympathy which attended a similar aot uf his about seven years ngo. His affili? ation with tho Radical party has brought him no honors worth comparing with the esteem and affection felt for him by tho respectable pa?t of tho community previous to 18115. He has had his raesH ol pottage, but he has sacrificed his self respect und peace of mind. I had some curiosity iu coming here to ascertain tho ex-Confederate General's social standing. I find that he is sternly cut. His old friends pass him on the street without recognition, uud society has closed its doors upou him. Tho people say, in ex? planation, that they have no feeling against any man because ho is a Repub? lican perse; but here is ono of their own citizens who has deliberately leagued himself with tho thieves who havo buou plundering tho State and reducing them to beggary. Ho has been tho associ?t o and ally of tho carpot-bnggors nod savages who havo perpetrated outrages un a subject people a1 most unparalleled iu history. Furthermore, ho has solicited and taken office with, and thereforo has boon one of the leaders of, tho plunder? ers, oven if he has not shared in tho plunder. This is sufficient, in the esti? mation of tho Louisiana whites, to jus? tify tho banishment of General Long? street to Coventry. The General is un? derstood to bu contemplating a length? ened absence in Europe. He says ho is for Grant. Tins RAILROAD WAU.-Tho cases of tho city vs. the South Carolina aud Char? lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroads, for obstructing Washington street, on tho 5th inst., came up before tho Re? corder yesterday morning. After hear? ing tho evidence and argument of coun? sel, the Recorder dismissed tho Case against tho South Carolina Railroad, but fined tho Charlotte, Columbia and Au? gusta Railroad $'25. Tho iiuo was paid by tho agent of tho company "under protest."-Auynsla Chronicle. - - --? ? ? Quecu Victoria is worth ?10,000,000. HORRIBLE TALK OP SUFPEBINa.-We have heard many Btories told of the suf? ferings of a trip in an immigrant ship from Europe to America, and read de? tails of many very shocking cases of barbarity practiced npon the poor immi? grant by barbarous officers di ships; bnt we have been famished the particulars, by several Germans who arrived in this city a few days ago from Germany, of a series of barbarities practiced upon the passengers of the immigrant ship Hol? land, of the Liverpool aud New York line, that exceed in infamy and outrage anything of tho kiud we have herotoforo heard or read. The Holland arrived at Now York on tho 2 it h of Murd), after a long and boisterous trip, with 550 passengers aboard, all immigrants, being ut least 200 more thau she had accommodations for. A number of theso immigrants wore for Louisville, where they uriived tho latter part of last week, and from some of whom we get these particulars. Tho vessel had been at sea bat a few days when it was discovered tho stock of pro? visions was not only of tho poorest qua? lity, br was also very light. lu less than a week all the flour, potatoes, and other vegetables were exhausted, and tho passengers were reduced to a diet of ship biscuit and horse beef, and this of the poorest quality, and doled out in tho smallest portions. Starvation began to stare the wretohed immigrants in the face, although the ship's officers and crew seemed to have plenty of good and healthy food. To all appeals for a fair division of this food among the immigrants, the officers and crew answered only with curses and blows. Sickness broke out among the immigrants, and in their desperation, some of them made on effort to secure more food, but were knocked down and kicked and beat by the crow. Many of theso miserable people, men, women and children, wore exposed on deck to tho oold, and were budly frozen. Our ?L formants state that tho captain and mate of [the vessel were particularly brutal and cruel iu their treatment of the poor immigrants, and as a consequence of all their sufferings, there was much sickness and many deaths during the trip. To such a degree of starvation were theso immigrants reduced, that when their scanty allowance of food was issued to them they had to fight for its posses? sion, tho desperation of tho half-starved passengers, under tho impulse of self preservation, leading them to try to toko by force from tho weukest their share of tho wretched food. The horse beef, our informants state, was absolutely half rotten, aud its stench almost stifling; yet tho immigrants were forced to eat it to save themselves from a horrible death by starvation. Tho limbs of many wo? men and children, as well as a number of moo, were so severely frozen that in many eases amputation will be necessary. A report of the sufferings of these immi? grants was made to tho authorities at New York, but our informants say no atteutioo, so far as they know, was paid to it. It is a case that requires tho most rigid investigation, and if the facts are as stated to us, the captain and other officers of the ship should be brought to tho speediest and severest punishment. [Louisville Ledger. Cvu.su or THE FIRE.- Whilo in Co? lumbia and Charleston last week we were somewhat rudely attneked by some prom? inent Republicans, in consequence of our stating that tho late tire iu this towu was "a political fire." It waa industri? ously reported in thoso cities that tho fire originated from a pile of limo lying near tho building first discovered to be on tiro. Wo bavo uo hesitancy in pro? nouncing this report falso, and wo be? lieve was btarted to cover up tho infamy of the act. Twelve witnesses, most of thom colored poisons, and Republican.0, woro examined by tho Town Council, tho day after tho lire occurred, and till of them testified that tho fire was nu incendiary act. Thero was no pile of limo lying outside of tho building whero tho lire was first Been; but if such a pile had been there, as no building or work of any kind in which limo is used had been doue thero for many months, and none in contemplation, common seuce teaches that tho heavy ruins of tho past winter would have mudo tho limo so exposed porfectly harmless. Threats havo afton been made to "burn tho d-d rebel" and "d-d Democratic town of Uuiou," and throo attempts to commit tho hellish net havo been discovered and frustrated, withiu tho past eighteen months. It is also a peculiarly suspicious fact that each at? tempt was made within fifteen minutes of tho samo hour (4 o'clock) in tho moru iug. Tho time of night, direction of tho wind and tho Bpot selected for tho torch of the late !iro, wore all peculiarly favor? able for a wholoBulo destruction, and we hopo tho fiend who planned and execut? ed tho deed has satiated his thirst for re? venge, mid his malice toward tho citi? zens of Uuiou is satisfied. - Union Times. THE OLDEST MASON.-This gentleman exists in tho greatest abuudanco. His last appearance is in Orangeburg, as will bo seen by tho following paragraph from tho Oraugeburg Times: "Wo aro advised that Mr. F?tor Howe, who lives withiu tivo miles of our village, was made a Mason in 1800, aud has conse? quently boon a Mason for sixty-two or sixty-three yeurs. Further, if ho sur vivo till Juno noxt, ho will have com? pleted 101 yours of ago. Ho is, wo be? lieve, still activo and hale. Can any? where beat this?" Some of tho Radical newspapers aro down upon Judge Davis as tho working men's candidate, because ho is a man of ; wealth. Ho will novor command tho contidouco of such newspapers until ho either gives away all his money, or proves to their satisfaction that ho stolo , it.-Courier-Journal. A Florida negro ato two bushels of dried tipples on a bet, refreshed himself at tho town pu tun, mid burst. Xii ocal Items. -? ? . CIT? MATTERS.-The price of siegle I copies of the PHONIX is five cents. Governor Scott has appointed S. W. Rhodes und W.D. Waters Pilot Com? missioners for the port of Beaufort, vice A. H. Alston and J. A. DnPong, re? moved; and Henry Preston Commis? sioner of Deeds for South Carolina, resident at Abingdon, Virginia. A musical concert, under the manage? ment of the ladies of the oity, iu aid of ono of the Sunday schools, is promised about tho first of May. Tho public may expect a brilliant and highly entertain? ing affair, as tho best musical talent will bo engaged. AF the large gate at the frout of the State House yard is left open for the ac? commodation of a few parties, why not bo generous, and leave tho rear largo gate open for tho accommodation of the many? Tho Galaxy for May is to hand. It in published by Sheldon & Co., 677 Broad? way, Now York, at Si per annum. Yesterday reminded us, forcibly and unpleasantly, of the days of March, be? ing blustering and windy. Old awnings and now ones are being called into requisition. A couple of drunken women were racing a horse and buggy below the State House, on Main street, Sunday. A policeman warned them about their behavior, but they heeded it not. They were not arrested, however. Wo have received the third number of Tripp & Linton's Musical Monthly, pub? lished at Louisville, Ky., at $1.50 per annum. New $20 counterfeits are reported and should be guarded against. It is stuted that Professor Holmes is prepariug an interesting and accurate "Illustrated Guide to Charleston and Vioinity," which will afford much intel? ligence to tourists, and also our own peo? ple. Tho Martinetti-Ravel troupe have decorated the fences generally used foi that purpose with their laughable show? bills. Wo are iu receipt of a catalogue ol the officers and students of the Uni? versity of Virginia, located at Charlottes? ville, Va. Among tho students, wc notice the name of J. B. Adger, Jr., J. C. Robertson and J. F. Walker, of Co lumbla, and many other natives ol South Carolina. There are seventeen students from this State. Tho Palmetto is recognized in Wush? ington City. Senator Robertson is th( fortunate possessor of a handsome lan daulet, built accordiug to his own direc tion, with a Palmetto treo emblazoned on each panel, which attracts much at ten tion on the avenue. He has a spank iug pair of blood bays-"Charley Lo gan" and "Billy"-purchased in Colam bia. The turn-out in regarded as th) handsomest in tho Federal Capital. Mr. Joyner ?B rejuvenating the Es change House, aud is making addition: to tho first quality stock of tho forme: proprietors. His latest addition is S. T Suet's "Capitol" whiskey, tvhich is ra pidly gaining favor for its purity an< geueral adaptability to tho palates 0 those who appreciate pure liquors. Messrs. T. J. & H. M. Gibson aro tin sole agents in this city for tho celebrate! "Die Vernon" brand of family flour. I is white, and can bo converted into th best of biscuits, as wo can testify fror actual experiment. It can bo obtaiuc* at their new store, North-east corner c Richardson and Lady. It is put up i: bags. Attentiou is directed to tho audio salo advertised by F. P. Sallas, c Charleston, to take placo in that city o Thursday next,tho 18th instant. Winei almonds, olives, fruits, molasses, aro included in tho list. Mr. Patrick Shelton, ono of tho stril ing stone-sutters, who had been re-en ployed on tho Federal court house an post office, was discharged yesterday We have heard no cause,assigned for tb recent discharges. As will bo soen by tho notico of Seen tary Carrington, published in anotlu column, the stockholders of tho Oreel ville aud Columbia Railroad will hoi their annual convention in this city o Thursday, tho 2d of May, proximo. TL attention of stockholders is specially d rectod to the advertisement. Tho proper timo to pull hemp is on Friday a good judge may select. At tho request of tho committi Profesior M. LaBordohas consented 1 act as permanent chairman of tho Mon memorial meeting, to-night. Judf Willard has consented to bo ono of tl speakers. It is announced that all tho South C rolina railroads have agreed to retui visitors to tho Sch?tzenfest from Charlo ton to their homos freo of charge, full fare has been paid going to Charle tou. Mus?a.-The following is the pro gramme of music by the band of the 18th United States Infantry, for half post 5 o'olock, this afternoon, Joseph Buohar, ehief musician: 1. Distant Greeting Quickstep-by Doringer. 2. Salute a Ia France. 3. Ascension Waltz-by C. Faust. 4. Selection from Der Fraohatz-by Weber. 5. Quickstep-by P. Einser. MAIL. ARRANGEMENTS.-Tba Northern mail opens at 2.30 P. M.; closes 10.45 A. M. Charleston day mail opens 4.30 P. M.; closes 6.00 A. M. Charleston night mail opens 7.15 A. M.; closes 6.00 P. M. Greenville mail opens 6.45 P. M. ; closes 6.00 A. M. Western mail opens 12.30 A. M.; closes 12.30 P. M. Wilmington mail opens 2.30 P. M.; closes 10.30 A. M. On Sunday office open from 3 to 4 P. M. THE PANTOMIME TROUPE.-The fa? mous Martinetti-Ravel Troupe will ap? pear at Irwin's Hall, on Friday and Saturday nights. The excellence of this pantomime troupe has been gene? rally conceded. We have before ns a number of valuable notices of their per? formance, in all of which the highest praise is given its powers to amuse. We anticipate for them a large attendance during their two night engagement. A DouniiB MURDER.-A gentleman from York County, yesterday, informed us that on Friday last, a squad of United States troop?, engaged in arresting par? ties suspected of violation of the En? forcement Act, shot and killed two bro? thers, named Craig, wbom they were endeavoring to catch. The troops, as our informant heard the story, were in chase of the Craigs, and were dose opon them, when, reaching the Broad River, about fifteen miles from York vi lie, the pursued parties plunged in, and were shot while swimming across. One of the brothers was shot and sunk instantly, and no more has been seen of him. The other was fatally wounded through the thigh, was captured and brought on Bhore, but died on Saturday. Let -us have peace! PHONIXIANA.-Never bemoan your lot, if the taxes are paid on it. Outward bound-A woman in corsets. George Francis threatens Washington City with a newspaper-to be edited by himself. A newly married woman, of genteel appearance, went into a furniture shop a few days since, and inquired for a "family fruit basket." She was shown alarga cradle, which was just what she wanted. The last question that has troubled philosophers is this: Which causes a girl most pleasure, to hear herself prair i or another gill run down? Can a cross-examination be a good na? tured one? To raise corn-Destroy the crow-ouses. Blacksmiths are given to disturbance, making A poke R and A shove L. A color that has never been seen "Blind man's buff." A Western poet calls tho dew the "perspiration of the moon." Where's Joaquim? Advice is like snow, the softer it falls the longer it remains and dwells in the mind. Wo are apt to search tho distant hori? zon for beauties, while the flowers are beneath our feet. A foud wife enoonrnges her husband when he comes homo early in the morn? ing, by calling him "the latest thing out." A Pennsylvania paper speaks about "Church Sociables." What eau they be? Not funerals, of course. LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Acts of tho General Assembly. Meeting S. C. Medical Association. Meeting In-'apendent Fire Company. E. H. Heinitah-Drugs, Aro. C. R. Frauklin-Strayed or Stolon. F. P. Salas-Wines, Almonds, Ac. C. V. Carrington-G. & C. R. R. Co. John T. Sloan, Jr.-Summons. Rooms to Rout. P. ll. Joyner-Exchange House. Capital Building and Loan Associat'n. HOTEL Ansi VALS, April 15.-dickerson House-E J Wadwell, Cheraw; Mrs B Pierce, N C; E a Hubley, Walhalla; fl J Bankhoad, La; Mr and Mrs Johnson, Miss Johnson and sister, Mass; E W Mercor, SC; G W Stony, Mo; G NV Huntly, Agent Martinetti-Ilavel Troupe; C M Joy, Md; J M Soigler, Newberry; F J l(u Bh, G .t ? lt II. Columbia Hotel-G M Kellogg, C K Knowles, F Simmonds, N Y; A G Button, Rocheatoi; J W Gorman, Baltimore; W D Kennedy, Au? gusta; J II Averill, B G Whitney. A G Ma? grath, W J Magrath, Jas Connor, II Crumb, Charleston; D W Woodward, Winnsboro; D L Filly&n, J D Gardner, Wilmington; D L Tur? ner, W J Huiett, Edgetield; J McNamara, Orangnburg; T D Wilder, Memphis; Dr T A Kvans, Dr \Y fl Nardin, Anderson; J Dolan, Timbucto. VENETIAN BLINDS.-NO invontion was ever BO important to the peoplo of hot climates as tho Yonotian blind. Admitting tho air and a ^hailed light, whilo keeping out tho heat and glare, they aro absolutely essontial to com? fort in this country. If tho houses of any of our readers aro destitnto of thoso valuable contrivances, they should at onco, before thc hot weal her ?eta in, send their orders to Mr. P. P. TOA LC, No. 2i) Bayon street, Charleston, S. C., manufacturer and dealer in door?, sashes, bliinls, balusters, mouldings, Ac, Ac. Mared? 21 %