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COLUMBIA. S. C. Wednesday Kerning, May 29,1872. We "Can't Bee lt." The Charleston News thinks that we can take part in the deliberations of the Baltimore Convention on the question of endorsing Greeley and Brown and still not be bonnd by the decision, but that we may be bonnd by the aotion of the Convention, if we tako part in the nomi? nation of candidates. This the News pronounces "clear enough." It is not by any means clear to ns. We are una? ble to Bee how the nature of the ques? tion to be decided can in any way re? move or determine the obligation to ac? quiesce in the will of the majority, unless the question be one beyond the legitimate sphere of the meeting, as set forth in the call. What is the difforonoe between voting for tho ooceptanoe of tho Cincinnati nominees, and for the selec? tion of Demooratio candidates, that the participation in the one should entail an obligation to abide the result, while in the other itshonld not? The News argues as if thoro were to be two conventions-the one to deter? mine whether Greeley and Brown shall be accept ed or rejected, and the other a sort of contingent affair, dependent npon the action of the first, aud de? signed to Boleot a suitable Demooratio tioket, provided its predecessor demurs to Greeley and Brown. There does not happen, however, to bo any arrange? ment of this kind. But one convention is oalled. It is to be a Demooratio Con? vention to determine what is the best course to be pnrsued in the coming Presidential eleotion for the welfare of the country and of .the Demooratio party. The very same delegates who aro to discuss and determine, the ques? tion of a coalition with the Liberal Bo publioans, will proceed, in oase there is a negative decision of the first question, to select Demooratio standard bearers. We respectfully submit to the News that it makes a distinction without a difference. The fact that such jophieti cal arguments have to be resorted to in order to justify our sending delegates to Baltimore, shows that we cannot with propriety do it. If we understand aright the publio sentiment of the State, it is opposed to the reorganization of the De? mooratio party. The prejudices of the colored people against that party are strong, embittered, and beyond hopo of removal. What folly it would be, then, to take such steps as will sorely revive their slumbering prejudices at the vory crisis at whloh we are anxious to use every meaos in our power to influence them to give us a better Government in the State. But, says the News, the as? sembling in oonvention is not a perma? nent reorganization of the party. This means, we presume, that it is a tempo? rary reorganization whioh is aimed at. If it iatiot a good thing to have, we pre? fer not to have it at all, neither perma? nently nor temporarily. There is no way to esoape the conclusion, that if a Demooratio Executive Committee, as such, issues a call whioh is responded to, and a oonvention assembles and takes action pursuant to the call, there' is, ipso facto, a rebrganization of the party. Furthermore, it most be plain that if they rio not go as Democrats, our dele? gates have no right to a seat in the Bal? timore Convention, which is Democratic. Simple opposition to tho Radical faction of tho Republican patty cannot furnish a sufficient qualification for membership of the Baltimore Convention. If that were true, then Greeley, Sohurz, Trum? bull, and all the other Liberal Republi? cans, mast be allowed to take part in the proceedings or to have their representa? tives there. Ours is quite a different ease from that of the Conservatives of North Carolina and Virginia. They aro Democrats in national politics, and ex? pect to aot with that party, and to abide whatever decision may be made at Balti? more. We propose to aot with perfect independence of the Demooratio party or the Baltimore Convention. If that body aots as we think beet for the coun? try, and know to be best for Son th Caro? lina, we will be gratified. If it does not, and adopts some other course, we have not the remotest idea of agreeing to it. To som np, we maintain that for South Carolina to send delegates to Baltimore would be improper, unwise and useless. Improper because we have no Demoora? tio party, and do not propose to have one;unwise because it will prejudice the oanse of Greeley and Brown with the colored people, and, what is worse, im? pair oar influence for reform in the State Government; and nseless because Gree? ley and Brown will, in all probability, be endorsed any way, and because South Carolina would exert equal, if aot greater, influence ia that direction by remaining away than by cae ting the few votes to whioh she is entitled. Twisted hemp cures felons. \Vh?t Does Tilla Mean? We are creditably informed that Se? nator Nash, In the oonrse of his epueoh before the Republican Club of Ward 2, on the evening of the 27th instant, made the following declaration: "Thu Repub? lican party must be sustained, if it cost the life of every so-called land-owner in the country." The Union tells ns that Sena tor Nash made a fanny speech. If the above was meant for fun, it is certainly 0 very grim way of joking. We have never known Beverly to be belliooso be fore, bot this is considerably ahead of even the incendiary remarks attributed to the worst of the white Radicals in the campaign of 1868. Beverly NaBh is a delegate to the Philadelphia Convention, and is among the prominent leaders of the colored Be publicans in the State. Suoh an outrageous and barbarous sen? timent as the above from him should not pass nnrebuked. There are 106 Democratic Representa? tives in Congress, and a change of nine teen is all that is required to givo Demo? crats the oontrol of the HOUB?. The support by the Demooraoy of the Libe? ral Presidential tioket will naturally have the eSeot of increasing our Congressional representation. Let the Democrats but do their duty, and the day is at hand for the restoration of constitutional govern? ment. Among the other reasons given by the Arkansas Liberals, at their convention in Little Book, last Thursday, for repu? diating Grant and supporting Greeley is, that the former has "intermeddled with Arkansas affairs in the interest of crime and disorder." Yet the advocates of the Ku Klux bill pretend that tho object of that infamous measure is to enable the President to maintain law and order at the South. ALL IN BUT ONE.-The Senate, a few weeks sinoe, was made complete by tho swearing in of Gen. Ransom, of North Carolina, and the admission into the House of Mr. Sion H. Bogers, a Repre? sentativo elect from North Carolina, whose disabilities were romoved by the amnesty bill, leaving but one vacancy in the representation in the House; the only District in the United States not represented being tho Seventh Massa? chusetts District, no successor having yet been ohosen to Hon. George M. Brooks, who resigned to accept the office of Judge of the Probate Court of Bos? ton. There are now 106 Democratic members ia a House of 243. A change of nineteen members only would give 1 them a majority. The House to be eleoted this fall, with the now apportion tionment, as increased by the supple? mental bill, will consist of 293 members. OFFICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSION EH, U. S. CLAIMS COMMISSION, COLUMBIA, 8. C., May 28,1872. MR. EDITOR: The Commissioners of CM ai m H have granted the following in? creased jurisdiction to Special Commis? sioners, which many claimants will be glad to learn: . ?* * ? Hereafter Special Commis? sioners will be authorized to take depo? sitions in cases amounting to not more than 85,000 in amount, aa heretofore in oases amounting to $3,000, or less. In cases between $5,000 and $10,000, Spe? cial Commissioners will be allowed to take depositions when specially directed to do BO by the commissioners, and in suoh cases they will reoeive special in? structions, and then, and then only, they .may take the depositions. ? **,?* Re? spectfully, yours, T. W. PABMELE. Special Commissioner. THE MICHIGAN DUMOCRACT.-OU the 22d instant, a largely-attended meeting of the Democratic Association of De? troit, Michigan, the only regular Demo? cratic organization in that place, was held at the board of trade hall, having beon called for the purpose of consider? ing matters pertaining to the coming Presidential campaign. Tho attendance was quite large, and inoluded suoh men as William A. Moore, one of the mem? bers of the National Demooratio Com? mittee, Wm. W. Wheaton, Chairman of the State Central Committee of the State, ex-M?yor Mille, ex-President of the Common Council; Dr. Wm. Brodie, and others, acknowledged leaders ol the Sarty in that oity. Mr. Moore presided, everal speeches were made, all breath? ing the same spirit, favoring the burial of dead issues and uniting with the Liberal Republicans of the country in redeeming the Government from mis? rule. Resolutions were adopted en? dorsing the Cincinnati platform, and pledgiog support to the nominees of the Baltimore Convention. Too GOOD TO BB LOST.-It is rumored by the quid nunca that when bis Excel? lency the Governor read the letter of Representativo Harley, declining to favor the calling of the extra session of the Legislature, he remarked, after knit? ting his brows over it awhile, "Well, I really believe Tim. is trying to pole? fan at me," Just at that moment, the by? stander laoghed, in a way that was truly provoking.-Charleston Courier. " The German army is to be furnished with a rifle of a new pattern, said to be aa improvement on the old noodle-gun, and greatly superior to the ohassepot. ..Despotism, Corruption, Nepotism sad Incapacity." Snob, axe the leading articles of accusa? tion in the indictment against Grant and his administration, recently drawn np by one of his former friends and sap porters in a neighboring State, and whioh carried the thousands of similar disgusted Republicans to Cincinnati. For the charges thus made are suscepti? ble of the plainest proof, and as palpa? bly perceptible as the light of day. Never since the formation of this Go? vernment has there been at the same time so.rotten and corrupt and so cynical and shameless an administration of the Government, both in its greedy lunt of the profits and jobs procurable through high position, nud the utter disregard of publia policy for private ends. Let as take up those charges mado against Grant by his Republican friends, who held a coroner's inquest over his body at Cincinnati, and seo whether they be merited or not. And first as to the despotism. Is it not undeniable that this has been and is a shoulder-strap Administration, from his personal at? tendants nt or noir tho White House, who aro all Generals and wear the army livery, as well as the President-giving an air of encampment to tho Presidential mansion-down to his military satraps whom he has procured to be returned to the Senate from States he has not recon? structed in the South? Has not the military ring at Washing? ton become as notorious and as nauseous to tho public as evor was the deceased Tammany ono it has imitated and sur? passed in the practice of publio plunder? ing? Has not despotism stamped every act of the stolid soldier, who baa tried to play statesman, but has only succeeded in acting tyrant? The mingled chorus of groans and ourses which bas como up from the persecuted and plundered South during his three years' reigu of terror over that section, eau best respond to that inquiry. Nay, passing from that conquered pro? vince, (aB he regarda it,) coming North, do we not see tbe manifestations of Ins desire and intention to aot the despot, trampling upon the cardinal doctrines of his own party, and suppressing "free soil, freo men aud free speech," when? ever he bas tho power? Nor, content with this, has ho re? frained from assailing States' rights, as well as individual, and the "growing en? croachments of the executive power" have formed the thorne of eloquent ex? postulations from Republican Senatore on the floor of Congress. As oar ancestors said of a previous despot, against whom they successfully rebelled: "A monarch, who has commit? ted acts like these, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people"-yet he was ac? knowledged as a king! The second charge is corruption Here "the offence is rank, and smells tc Heaven." It would be as absurd as idU to produce proofs or cite instances ic confirmation of a fact so notorious, anc already so repeatedly proven against the President and his olique, who control the policy and share the plunder, tbrougt which, in three years' time, coming inte office ns poor as Pharaoh's lean kine, they now lard the lean earth with theil fatness; and beooming insolent witt prosperity, like Jeshurun's ass, "wax fa and kick," crying aloud, "Great ii Grant, and our profits; shoot tho de sertersl" Against the charge of nepotism-thi gorging of the whole house of Cirant with Dent attachments, with the fa drippings from the Presidential larder, i were equally idle for any of his partisani to make denial. The record proves th< fact, and the long list of family pension ers, like the royal line of Banquo, seemi to the astonished gazer, as it passes it review under his eye, to "stretch out tc the crack of doom." Net otherwise much mindful of th< Scriptural precepts. Grant certainly ha: obeyed, and exceeded, the admonitioi to "provide for his own household" a publio expense. On the general obargi of gross incapacity, his whole policy foreign and domestic, convicts him. Hi bas neither succeeded at home in rican structing the Southern States, whioh hi has given up as a prey to his militari and carpet-bag jackals, nor in his fo reign policy, which has been a scries o bullrings in the beginning and bucking: out in the end. . Witness this last most humiliating conclusion of the English treaty, when the preliminary roaring of the lion hai toned down into the whining of tbi wbipt our, and oar country stands bu miliatod by boastful threats succeedci by unqualified surrender. Well may England address our Presi dont in the language of her Shakspeare "On, doff tho lion's hido, And hang a calf skin On those rooreant limbs." To have set up those high pretension) in the first place was a folly und a fraud but ignominiously to abandon and re treat from their enforcement, undei throats, was sadder still for the peoph this Administration misrepresents. In oapaoity bas been stamped on each anc every aot of thia feeble but despolio Ad ministration. It has proposed or at tempted nothing whioh baa succeeded what it has originated ha? been wiokec and mischievous, and it has only beei noted for the four characteristics whiol figure in the bill of indictment agains it qaoted above. To perpetuate suoh a state of thing and renew for four years, more a roi like this, would arguo on the part of tin American people a fatuity and a frenz; whioh would be the forerunners of th dissolution of oar free Government. No people having due respect for itsel or ita liberties or honor, could possibl; tolerate the continuance of a state o things whioh has disgraced and lowerei the Amerioan name in the eyes of it own people and of foreign nations, mat voling that so great a body should hav so small a head. Bat we have a remedy here in th peaceful revolution wrought through th ballot-box at tho expiration of every four years' term, and the days of power and plunder for the Washington ring and its head are already numbered. Tbe Oinoinnati Convention has pealed i the death knell, the funeral ceremonies will take plaoe on the 7th of November, and the reign of despotism, nepotism, corruption and incapacity will Boon pass only into a disagreeable mnmory, under the better hopes and brighter auspices which a renewed era of good fooling is to usher in.-New York News. Wax Bu ii NEVEB MABBIED.-Mrs. Slimper said it was because ebo ooold get no one to have her, but Mrs. Slimper did not know, and then besides, ia the little village where they roeided, folks did say that Mrs. Slimper need not boast, because what was Mr. Slimper, anyhow? nothing but an excuse for a man, who had been refused by every girl in the village in rotation, and had turned in very desperation to M?SB Jane Gibba, she was theo, and not so young, either, Heaven knows; and she had aoceptcd him, but Slimper had often wished be? fore bis life was worried out of him by that woman that RUO had followed suit and said no, too. She died ono day, nil alone in the still? ness of her room, with no one nigh but the angola to sooth her last moments, and yet there clung around her * s-juse of peace, and the hard-drawn mouth bud relaxed and was wreathed in a emile such a proad nnd happy smile. Her face was turned toward a picture on tho wall-a picture of a coblo, handsome looking fellow-and one baud roached out to it, on the bony fore-finger of which glistoned u largo solitaire diamond ring, making a weird and strange con? trast. On the floor, beneath tho picture, lay a piece of faded black crape, which bad fallen from tho frume, around which it had been twined, probably torn from thence, who knows, by angel bands, so that it would not inf erf ero with ber last fond look at tho face within it. They found her thtiR, and her ouly friend, uu old gray-bearded man, the sexton of the place, was called to see her. He en? tered, and gently murmuring, "Ho hus come for her at last," hu went to the bed on which she lay, and with a trembling, tender hand, arrunged the withered form. They buried her. A few of the kinder hearted villagers followed her to the grave and saw her placed from sight, und then they loft; not ouo remained, not ODO save the old sexton, who leaned upon bis spade, and murmuring again, "She has come ut last," gazed sorrow? fully on the grave. 'Twas thus we found him, and in the fullness of his heart he told us of her. Years ago, he said, thirty long years ago, sko was a winsome lass, and the pride and belle of tho village-a prize that all tho gay lads of the time strove to win, but without success. But one day-here his voice sunk low-but one day, there came to the village, from wbence no one knew, a daring, hand? some maa, whose winning ways and straight-forward manner made him a fa? vorite with all the lassies, and he won the heart of "our birdie"-that is what they called ber then. Ho was a proad and happy man, and valued his treasure at full value, if that were possible; and that he loved her, none oould doubt, when looking into his bright blue eye and hearing him breathe her name. All went well; he gave her the ring we buried with her. All went woll, till one day there came by the stngn a oouple of lynx-eyed, determined-looking men, one of whom went to him, and tupped him on the shoulder and simply said, "I want you." He turned deadly pale, and threw his hand to his forehead, and would have fallen, had not the man that bad spoken to him caught him, and sus? tained him until ho recovered himself. He said never a word, but walked away between the two with a firm and manly step, but with a faoe as white as death. It leaked out after awhile that the two men were detectives, and that he was arrested for forgery. He sent for her before they took him off, bot what he Kind no one ever knew. When he left he waved his hand from the sta go coach wiodow, and said: "I will come for you, my little one; wait until I do." And she, with a proad, confiding look which showed no matter what the world might think, sho would never believe him guilty, firmly and proudly replied, "I will." Bat he never came again. They found him gailty; they pat him in prison for a number of years and there he died. She waited for him long and faithfully, even after they told her he was dead; but as I said he never came until the other night, and then she went to Heaven with him. OOT wrm THU DRY BONES -Thimble rigging politicians of the Vorhees-Bel mont Stephens School, would sacrifice the welfare of a whole nation, in order to keep their skeleton of a party from tumbling to pieces. We say let her tumble. The Democratic is as dead os the Republican party; they both have died a natural death; and there is no power under Heaven to resurrect their dry bones. The sooner the debris is swept from tao political arena, the better for the country. Old Horace, with the broom of Liberalism, will begin the sweeping the next 4th of March, and we'll have a eleanor and a nioer govern meiit.-Rock Hill Lantern. Mr. Disraeli, the author of "Lothair," was present at the recent marriage of the Marquis of Bute, the hero of "Lo? thair," and signed his name to the mar? riage certificate as one of the witnesses of the ceremony. ARKANSAS FOB GREELEY.-The Repub? lican State Convention, which met last week, deolinod to sond delegates to the Philadelphia Oonvontion, and adopted resolutions fully endorsing Greeley and Brown. The largest aqueduct in the world is the Croton aqueduct in New York. It cost S12,500, OOO. Eiooal Ito rn ?ai. ? ? . O ITT MATTHUS.-The price of single copies of the PHOENIX is five cents. The contraot for the erection of the monument to the Confederate dead, in Charleston, has been awarded to Messrs. Heath & Roberta, atone masons of this city, for the sum ol $2,700. These gen? tlemen are competent workmen, and will, no doubt, perform their work to the satisfaction of all. The monument will be of native granite. A caso of mistaken identity occurred in au ico cream saloon, in this city, on Monday afternoon. When the faots be? came known, ample apologies were made and acoepted. I Skiff & Gaylord's highly popular minstrel band givo two exhibitions in Irwin's Hall, commencing Friday even? ing, May 31. The entertainment is varied and pleasing. The genuine Greeley hats will be on eulo at Swaffield'e in a few days. Due notice will bo given of their arrival. M. H. Burry has commenced opera? tions on his new building, next door to Major Meigban's. Proper sanitary regulations should not bo neglected. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Bead tho ordinance to establish a Board of Health. The following is tho programme of music, for this afternoon, by the baud of th? 18:h Infantry: Coucordia Quiokstep-F. Goetz. Overture Caliph de Bagdad-Baildiew. KiH8 Wallz-Ardity. Cavt?iua Lucretia Borgia-Donizetti. Flyiug Cloud Galop-F. Goetz. MAIIJ ARUANQEME??TS.-The 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 opona 12.30 A. M.; closes 12.30 P. M. Wilmington mail opens 2.30 P. M.: doses 10.30 A. M. On Sunday office open from 3 to 4 P. M. PHCENIXIANA.-Why is a sheet of post? age-stamps like distant relatives? Be? cause they are bat slightly connected. The tourist's best motive for traveling -a locomotive. What is that which works when il plays and plays when it works? A foun? tain. A rare flower-the pink of politeness. Uncomfortable snits to wear-libel suits. How to prevent bad dreams-don't gc to sleep. How to save your coal-bara nothing but wood. The Illinois farmers are discouraged their cora crop is so great. "You're a queer chicken," as the her said when she hatched out a dock. If a man doesn't take care of No. 1 hi will soon have 0 to take care of. There have been more fashionable ladies dyed during this year than ever. Dying Frenchmen make wills be queatbing their sins to Prussia. The first new baby in Cairo since thi Cincinnati Convention has been namec Horace Greeley Comings. Tho Boston Post says "Senator Wilso: is indeed to be pitied." Then, let it bi done by the small-pox. The words Dolly Varden may now bi fouud in every printer's "save galley,1 but not in tho dictionary. Papers whioh part their names in th middle: The Chicago Inter-Ocean and tb Louisville Courier-Journal. FIRE.-The alarm of fire last even in; was caused by an aooident in the celia of Mr. Niles G. Parker's residenoe, oi Assembly street, near Taylor. Mr Plumer was putting up one of the ma chines manufactured by the Columbi; Portable Gas Company, and in the ooma of his operations, overturned a can o gasoline. He struck a match, short); afterwards, and the gas arising from th liquid ignited, when the whole machin? was immediately enveloped in flames bot it passed through the ordeal un scathed, thus proving what has beet justly claimed for it-non-explosiveness It is quite a feathor in the oap of th manufacturera of the machines. We re gret to learn that Mr. Plumer, and hi son, who was assisting him, were se verely burned on their hands, arms am faoe. The journeyman printers of Bostoi and vicinity have inaugurated a move ment looking towards the support am eleotion of Greeley and Brown, whiol they will labor to make general arnon, the mombers of the craft throughout th country. It is thus far confined to th newspaper workmen; bat the idea is t embrace all branches of the professioi who desire to seo one of their cumbo placed at the head of the nation. At th preliminary meeting, all the offices ii the city were represented, tbe larges number present from any single esta blishment being from the office of a re contly established and Radical Gran organ. TIGHT BOOTS.-Of ?ll idiots he'll one of the greatest who willingly lends him? self to the attempt of wearing a boot or shoe about two sizes too small for his feet, giving to himself, forsooth, as a reason, that a weakness, common to hu? manity, leads him to redaoe the size of feet which nature has made so Tory large that "truly he is ashamed of them." Let him who has suffered a martyrdom to this absurd and foolish pride say whe? ther the small gratification to his feel? ings has balanced the hours and days of misery spent in hobbling about, wishing a thousand times in his heart that "some? body had kioked him before he made such a fool of himself;" yet the chances are ten to one that ho will do the same thing again when occasion offers. A viotim to this infirmity for the ninety-ninth time has finally determined to swear off forever, and apo the man? ners of sensible men, but desires to de? liver a parting wail which he dares to hope may prove a warning to many to "flee from the wrath to come." "Of conree it isn't my fault if my feet are big, and I suppose I ought to be philo? sophical and accept as a dispensation what nature has overdone for me, but when will men learn to be philosophers unless they can be so without any sacri? fico on their part? Number nine is about my size, and with a brogan of such di? mensions I might get along quite com? fortably, but how I would look going about town with such immense projec? tions tacked on to the ends of my lege, for I couldn't well get rid of the idea that I would be a marked individual wherever I might go, and even if I couldn't hear the remarks "look at them feet," I would at least imagine that they were being made, and therefore the con? s?quences would be all the same. I know, too, that a fellow with big feet can never expect to find much favor with girls of a turn of mind artistic, to the truth of which I eau testify through a bitter experience, full of mortifications. I well remember once that at a party np town I was having a charming tete-a-tete with a girl on whom I was sweet, when a gent, in walking past, stumbled over my feet, end, aching from the pain in? flicted on my biggest corn, I exclaimed, "Can't you hove a care?" "Well," said he, "thia room is a small one, and them feet don't leave a fellow muoh space." Of course everybody laughed, and I felt Eo mean that I loft as soon as I could, having ever since been ashamed to look at the girl who seemed so delighted at my humiliation. Some evil-minded chaps tell a villainous story about having experimented with one of my shoos, by dropping it from a third-story window to the banquette. It ia said that the article in question went crushing through the earth, leaving a hole of bottomless depth, and suggest? ing the propriety of making of the cavity an artesian well. Spurred by such recollections, I determined, como what would, that I would get "them" number nine feet into number eight shoes, and accordingly I purchased a pair of the latter size, and, despite the warnings and protestations of Crispin, insisted on wearing them and none others, "if they killed me." Alan! could I have foreseen the days of anguish and suffering in store for me, I would have paused ere I took a step, the mere recollection of the conse? quences of which even now make me turn pale. ? My first day's experience closed on a mournful record of mental anathemas against everybody and everything, slightly mingled with heroic determina? tions to stand it for a few days, until the darn things got "broke in." The morning of the second day was a beauty; but its loveliness was lost on me, os, with many a swear and tear, I finally got into those shoes, and thereafter limped and hopped all over town, torn by physi? cal throes, compared to which, in my fevered imagination, a life-time on the rack would be bliss. On the third day matters grew worse, and it seemed that the confounded shoes were constantly growing smaller, while at the same rate my feet were growing larger, until, nerved to a piton of desperation, I re? solved to tear from tho misery to which I had oondemned myself, heedless of all consequences to pride or anything else, thinking of nothiog bnt of a way to escape the horrors of tight shoes. The fourth day saw me a happy man, as in a spirit of calm resignation I grab? bed those ill-fated shoes and gave them away to an incipient darkey, remarking to him incidentally, "They have caused me many an unhappy hour; may yon never know Bach misery," and as I gazed into the depths of his soul, I knew in that moment that I was free. HOTEL ABBIVALS, May 28, 1872.-Oolumbia Hotel-ii B umith, W K Anderson, J W Bruff, Md; W J Brittian. lt W Bloom, Now York; A F Broda-ille, W, O A A lt lt; MW Qarov, Edge deld; Dr and Mrs DeUossett, Miss S H Gowan, 8 Haas, NO; JW O'Brien, Charleston; D M Cobb, P P 0 Co; J A Malry, Tenn; H D Gil? bert, Wilmington; ? H brooks, J E Tharne?, 8 O; 0 Well?, Pa; P B Whlsnant, N O; Wm 8 Green, Va; J U Averill, Branchville: W J Crosswell, B 0; Mr and Mr? E W Meroe?, England. dickerson Iloute-Miss MoDnffy and sister. Master MoDuffy, Ga; J 8 Harmal, Baltimore; F D Boah, Pendleton; H Chatham, Flat Book; E W averian and wife. 80; J B Brown, Mas? ter Brown, Florida; W H Tresoott Pendleton; G Patterson, Wilmington; F Goott and wife, NY: B P Hammett. Greenville; J I Lowry, York; W Johnston, J B Davidson, Mrs J M Jones? Charlotte; W T Batt, Augusta; 0 Ri? ver?, Book Hill; J Taylor, Muse? A and 0 Tailor, Mobile; Mr Rutledge, Miss Rullodg? and servant, Charleston; J M Soi g lor, New? berry. IiTST OF NSW ?DVBBTiaKiiEKTS. E. Williams-Notice. Meeting Democratio Club. Skiff & Oailord-Irwin Hall. T. P. Walker-Notice. ' Peixotto & Sou-Auction. A modest Buffalo girl recently had 2,000 photographs of herself struok off.