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COLUMBIA. S. C. Thursday Morning, May SO, 1872. Reform tn Cae State Government. Even the Radicals themselves are now forced to admit the rottenness and ex? travagance of oar present State Govern? ment, and are crying lustily for reform. The iniquities of the Financia! Board, the.venality, corruption and profligacy of the General Assembly, and the spirit of Jobbery and plunder whian, bas per? meated every department of the Go? vernment, with the exoeption of the judiciary, is manifest to all and denied by none. How is this state of things to be oban god? We ooo fess oar inability to solve the problem satisfactorily. Bat we know very well how it is not to be done. There is no hope from the ma? jority of the Radioal leaders in this State. No rogae nor band of rogo ea will ever regenerate themselves. As well might yon expeot figs of thistles as honesty or genuine reform in the Go? vernment from Scott and. those who have been associated with him in and out of the General Assembly. Two thirds of that body were rotten to the oore. They were ready at all times, and did repeatedly sell their votos and saorifloe the dearest interests of the commonwealth to their sordid greed for money. They now prate for reform with the loudest, and each would have the people believe that he is not to blame for the bankruptcy and general rain which has been brooght upon the State. Scott and his personal henchmen would lay the responsibility opon the Legislature, who, in their turn, charge Scott and the Financial Board, and so we have it The troth is, all hands joined in plundering the State, and are equally guilty. The whole crew, from Soott down, should be hurled from places of power and trust, and would be in any. other community than South Carolina or some equally carpet-bag ridden State. It is a Herculean task. These worth - less men form a large majority of the leading Republicans in the State. They have the ear and confidence of the colored people, the great masses of whom cannot understand, or will not believe, the frightful condition into which the State has been brought by means of the men they have placed in office. The hands of the native white citizens are tied. They have no acoess to the colored people, who have been drilled to distrust them and turn a deaf ear to their entrea? ties. The battle for refdtm must be fought by Republicans. There are, we believe, Borne honest Republicans in South Carolina, who have influence with the colored people. They mnet inaugu? rate the straggle to purge their party and redeem the State. Every intelligent colored man who has the future of his race honestly at heart cannot bat appre? ciate the dangers whioh threaten it from continued corruption in a government notably under its control. There are some ot these intelligent colored men in South Carolina, and to them, with the corporal's guard of honest white men who have identified themselves with the Republican party, we have to look for whatever beneficial change we may have. They have no light tank before them. They must begin early and work hard. The work of reform must begin in the Counties. It will be too late when the nominating convention meets, for if they remain idle now, that convention will be composed of the very men who composed the late corrupt Legislature. The same venality whioh influenced them as mem? bers of the law-making body, will sway them in their nominations. They will place the very same crew in office whioh has ruled tho State for the last four years. The same men may not fill the same offices, but the nominations will be from the same set. It will be the same old ring, though porhaps different seg? ments of it may be thrust into promi? nence. Scott may shuttle aside, but an? other of his i stripe will take his place; and so with the other officers. But if a different a Lid better set of delegates con be seoured from the Counties, different and better.men maybe nominated for State offices. --??-??-? The Chicago Tribuno says the cam? paign is fast drifting beyond the control of the party managers on all Bides. It widens and deepens like a crevasse in the Mississippi. Yesterday ten men might have stopped it; now 10,000 conld not. It. will overwhelm the con? ventions that meet to oppose it. And it will bear onward into the Presidential chair the largest-hearted, kindest-souled and moat ' democrat i o of American statesman, Horace Gr- eley. ---.-??-> Baltimore is a favorite as a placo for holding national conventions, having had thirteen; Philadelphia, four; Chicago, three; Harrisburg, Buffalo, Now York, Charleston, Columbus und Cincinnati, one each. The Atlanta Sun don't like Mr. Gree? ley's letter of acceptance. "It contains not one word of oensure or disapproval of a single one of the many gross and palpable usurpations of the present Ra? dical dynasty," sayeth the Sun. The Cincinnati platform censures and disapproves of a multitude of these usurpations, and Mr. Greeley's letter says of th i 8 platform: "I receive and welcome it as a .sponta? neous and deserved tribute to that ad? mirable platform of principles wherein your convention so tersely, so forcibly set forth the conviction which impelled and the purposes which guided its course." That's "enough said." And if Mr. Greeley had named all that he has to censure and disapprove of in Grant's ad? ministration, it would require three ye?rs to read it. We approve of Mr. Greeley's letter. ? ?* ? ? The Journeymen Printers Co-operative Association have issued a little pamphlet entitled "Horneo Greeley's Jokes." Some of them aro apocryphal, and some of them are not jokes; but for all that the pamphlet is a taking one, aud we hope the journeymen printers will sell many a thousand oopies of it. MB. EDITOR: The statement published by you, yesterday, is not strictly oorreot. What I said, or the idea I meant to con? vey, was, that "when my oivil and politi? cal rights were in danger, I did not care what sacrifice was necessary of life and property-whether the bonded debt of tho State waa increased to even $170, - 000,000. Now that these rights are se? cure, I am in favor of au economical government; and not in favor of putting a stick or stone into office, for party, as has heretofore been the rule." W. B. NASH. MILITARY ARRESTS.-The following persons have been arrested within a few days past, and released on bond: D. D. Webber, Riobard Vincent, John MoLure, J. Ii, Clary, Hosea Trollender, Harry Griffin, Holden Bogan, Abner Waters; John 8. Ezell, Ruf Us Tillotson, D. Oudd, Frank Wyatt, D. H. Grab? bling, Elias Belcher, Volney Surratt, William Grogan. Z. Walker Walls, John MoMillin, W. H. Cantrell, and J. J. Ezell. Tho following persons who were ar? rested some time ago have been released on bond: Wm. Owens, James E. Lee, Pinkney George, Russell Brown, colored, and Jerry McArthur, colored, John Petty, Peter L. Speck, Daniel Miles, Bruno Hunter. Wm. Howerton, who was arrested last October, and boen in jail ever since- until last week, was released without bond, there being no cause for his imprison? ment. It appears that Mr. Howerton has been imprisoned only eight months for nothing.-^Carolina Spartan. DEATHS.-We regret to announce the death of Mrs. Hill, the wife of our young friend and former townsman, Mr. R. E. j Hill, which occurred at their residence in this vioinity, on Thursday last. She was a victim of consumption, the fell de? stroyer, that seleots as his prey the brightest and fairest. Tho friends of Mr. James Gordon, a well-known and respected citizen of our vicinity, will be pained to learn of his death, which occurred last week. He had long been afllioted with oaucer, the incurable disease, whose_slow but sure approaches gradually sap the springs of life. He was a man of kind heart and high integrity, and was much esteemed and respected by'all whoever knew him. 1 Abbeville Banner. A NOVEL BUT pRAcnoAii IDEA.-It is perhaps not generally known that the Augusta water works have been suc? cessfully applied as a motive power for tho running of light maohinery. Mr. James Lu Gow, proprietor of a job printiug establishment in this oity, using tho water from au ordinary street pipe, is enabled to run all his presses at a great saving of labor and expense. There are in Augusta various other branches of industry to which this faot might be made profitable. [Chronicle and Sentinel. The following parties, oharged with the killing of Mr. Low, at Silver Bluff Landing, last summer, were tried at Blackville, on Saturday, namely: Wm. Simons, O. L. W. Smith, Peter Allen and Samuel Jenkins. These were all colored men, aa was every man on the jury that tried them. Three of the par? tios were defended by Mr. G. W. Croft, of Aiken, and one by Mr. W. J. Whip? per, of Beaufort. The jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter in the oases of the accused.-Aiken Journal. Gen. Roger A. Pryor, a Confederate general during our late war, and a resi? dent of New York sinoo, asserts that Au? gust Belmont's opposition to the ratifica? tion of the Oinoinuati nominations grows out of the faot that Mr. Belmont belongs to the "Syndicate," has large dealings with the Treasury Department, is on the best (financial) terms with the Adminis? tration, and secretly wants such action at Baltimore as will seoure Grant's re-elec? tion. Mrs. Sarah G. Sanders, wife of Wm. Sanders, Esq., oi Rafting Greek, in the upper portion of Sumter County, died on Tuesday, the 21st instant, in the sixty-second year of her age. Mrs, San? ders hud been a great sufferer, having been in ill health for twenty years past. Tho famous Metorio race oourse, near Now Orleans, has beou bought for tho purpose of turning it iuto a cemetery, ut a cost of $120,0U0. -i^--------?-mt--gggSI Who Wrote the ConstttaUoat The followiog communication, whioh we copy from the May number of the Southern Magazine, will be read with deep interest by every Sooth Carolinian: To the Editor of the Southern Magasine. Bm: Having read with much interest a recent communication in a daily paper on the subjeot of the authorship of the United States Constitution, I bavo care? fully examined the journals of the great Convention whioh framed and adopted tbat illustrious contract and form of go? vernment; and have verified tho correct? ness of the. statements adduced ia thnt article, viz. : 1. That the original brief draft or plan of a Federal Constitution was, ou 29th May, 1787, presented to tho Convention by that distinguished lawyer, Charles Pinckney, of South Carolina. 2. That the oompleto roport of the pre? sent Constitution of tho United Staten was written and, on 6th August, 1787, submitted to tho Convention by the chairman of a speoial committee, tho eminent statesman and jurist, John Bat ledge, of South Carolina, who had been Chief Justice under the old Confedera? tion, and who had, in the first Conven? tion of the colonies (held in New York, in October, 1765, and called the "Stamp Act Congress,") written the celebrated memorial to Parliament, and afterwards the Constitution of South Carolina, of whioh separate sovereign State he was President from 1773 to 1773. and was af? terwards, in 1795, Chief Justice of thc United States. The descendants ol those two distinguished statesmen have claimed for South Carolina, that her well known interpretation, (being that ol its author,) as well as that of the great statesmen Calhoun, MoDiffle, Preston, Hamilton, and others of South Caroli? na's ablest men, is to be considered (like that, also, cf Jefferson und Madison) and to be accepted as the true construction. This is a matter of great importance tc the Sooth, and particularly to South Ca rodina, where it hos always been con? tended that the author of the Constitu? tion must have known more of the true meaning of its own production than anj other man, and where his friends and descendant? well know that he alwayf claimed the perfect right of any State oi this Confederacy of Republics to leave the partnership in the same manner ai each had entered it, viz. : by the aotioi of the primordial organic Convention o tho people of each separate State (wherein alone the true sovereignty re sides,) being the supreme constitution making government-making power. Tin separate primordial conventions of tin States of New York, Virginia and Rhodi Island, in adopting and ratifying thi United States Constitution, expressly de dared that they "reserved to themaelve the right to re-assume the powers dele gated whenever they should be pervcrtei to the injury of their people"-in othe words, the absolute right of secession which was thus first asserted and maia fained by tho State of New York as he reserved and sovereign right. In regard to the authorship of th Constitution, it is indeod a remarkabl fact that this most important questio: Bborjd have becu so completely neglect ed and ignored, and that credit shoul never bavo been given to the distill guished Rutledge, of South Carolin? for the composition and completion c the most admirable form and system c government (before its recent destruc tion) that waa ever devised by tho wi? dom of man; while the author of th Declaration of Independence has bee almost deified for that mere deolaratio of liberty aud separation from th mother country-a paper certainly h inferior to his other great declaration < the sovereign rights of tho States coi tamed in his celebrated Kentucky resc lutions of 1798-9. Tho authorship ( the United States Constitution hus bee usually, and without consideration, a tributed to Madison, who was styled "tl: father ?f the Constitution;" whioh d< signatiou has led to tho belief that th great production had been composed an written by him, whereas the troth ii tbat (us shown by the journals of tl convention) he was not even upon tl oommitteo which framed and reporte the Constitution, but was (as himself di clares) so constantly occupied in writin his own journal and commentaries thi he had not time even to participate, I any extent, in the debates of the Coi vention. The title of "father of tl Constitution" was bestowed upon M Madison for tho following reasons: : Beoausoho had first proposed the callie of the Convention to frame that instri mont. 2. Because he had so earnest! and industriously advocated it ia h able essays ia that admirable work calle the Federalist. 3. Because ho had c ably supported and carried its adoptic in the Virginia Convention against tl united opposition of all the other mo distinguished men of Virginia, among a hom was that great orator and state man, Patrick Henry, who, with wonde ful prescience and proph?tie vision, pr dieted the very infamous state of th i u j that now exists, and deolared that if tl Constitution, as it stood, should 1 adopted without further restriotioi upon the General Government, it wou result (as it has) in a few leading ni designing demagogues induoicg Co press to usurp all power, and to destre the prerogatives of tho executive ai thu judiciary. It may be regarded one of tho signs of the degeneracy ai demoralization of the present ora th the importance and value of the Coos tution in its original purity are so utter disregarded, and that consequently i authorship should be equally ignon and neglected. Still, it is with a linge iag hope that there may be yot soma ft patriotio statesmen and scholars wi would bo ashamed of being ignorant the authorship of tho greatest politic produotiou of our oouutry, and wi would wish to bo able to auswer the co stantly repeated inquiry of foreignei "Who wrote tho Constitution of yo country?" I am, sir, ?Seo., JUSTINIAN. Gen. D. H. Hill, editor of the Soulh? ern Home, published at Charlotte, N. (J., ?aja:. We give, to-day, the letter of accept? ance of Hon. Horace Greeley. There are some axp'ossious which we would like to see fltr 10k out. But, on the whole, it is liberal, oatholio, frank, gene? rous and manly. We think that the Baltimore Convention can safely accept bim with this letter and tho platform upon which ho Blands. He has come more than half way, with extended hand, to meet the estranged and oppressed Sooth, and we aan consistently, with our ideas of honor and chivalry, stop for? ward to wolcome him. It is simply preposterous to say that this is an abandonment of principle, or a stultification of our previous action. Tho true men of the South rejected the fourteenth amendment with scorn; it was calling upon them to ban their most trusted sons, whom they had put for? ward to be leaders in their sacred cause. They could not havG sanctioned this measure without incurring the reproba? tion of all honorable ineu, aud without consigning themselves to everlasting in? famy. The South rejected the fifteenth amendment. Sba was prepared to grant equality before the law in tho eourt house, but she knew that unlimited suf? frage among the negroes would make them the dupes of designing knaves and result in ourpet-bag rule, roguery and ruin. If the true men of the South bad to vote on these wicked measures to? morrow, they would reject them with the same scorn and indignation. But disap? proving a thing before it becomes a law, and submitting to it afterwards, are very different malters. The noblest spirits of the South resisted for four years tho yoke of the North; but when the Irish and Germans in the Yankee army proved too powerful for them they submitted, in good faitb, and have been the most law-abiding citizens of tho whole United States. The lauded property of Great Britain goes no further back than tbs Norman conquost. It wa? then acquired by fraud and violence, but the title to that property is now held to be indis? putable. It would be a greater wrong to attempt to right the wrong than to let it alone. The Liberal Republicans have forced Grant to abandon the fourteenth amend? ment, and we could not, if we would, disturb the rights acquired under the fifteenth without agitating the whole country and destroying the poace of so? ciety. Lot it puHs. It is not our sin. Let an era of good feeling be inaugu? rated by the electiou of Mr. Greeley. Wc mibt get rid of this thievish bayonet rule, ciao the South will become a desert. Tho Democracy of the North cannot un? derstand our position, for they know nothing about it. They do not see daily arrests of our best citizens upon the tes? timony of brutish negroes or more brutish whitea. They do not see officers of the army, gentlemen hy birth and education, playing bum-baili (TM to gratify the money greed of dirty United States Marshals. They do not seo the industry of the country paralyzed, tho fields and farms abandoned, homusteads deserted, und poverty and ruin staring in the faces of thousand*. They do not hear the cries of wives and mothers, whuu their loved ones arc hurried o? to felons' cells. None of these things are understood bj them, aud they accuse the South of being recreant to principle, because she is ready to accept Mr. Grooloy. We know certainly that tho election of Gen. Grant means robbery, outrage and oppression. We believe that the election of Horace Greeloy will bring relief. We ore in no condition to try experiments. It is pos? sible that a Democrat eau be elected, but it is not probable. Property, life and liberty are at stake with us. We cannot afford to take any risk, and we ought to Bay to the Northern Democracy ?hat wc will not lake any! We believe that it is better for the South to keep away from Baltimore. The Northern Democracy would then seo thu hopelessness of putting up a can? didate of their own. But if Southern delegates must go there, let them go re? solved to win. Seldom are thoughts of such pregnant meaning conveyed in words so few and terso as those we quote) below, taken from a conversation held with Judge Black by a correspondent of the Wash? ington Capital. Speaking of the present ooudition of affairs under Grant's admi? nistration, Judge Black said: As we gain our liberties through revo? lution, it is a popular error to suppose that they are lost through violence The loss comes in the slow, subtle and insidi? ous encroachment that first rots, and then it seizes, ns tho boa-coustriotor slimes over what it swallows. All ?B gone before we awaken to the danger of its going, and then comes revolution and blood to regain what we have willingly parted with. Now the revenues of the Government are used to eurioh incorpo? rated monopolists, legislatures are owned by railroad companies, Senatorial chairs are openly sold to the highest bidders, our courts aro packed aud corrupted, the Presidency fought over by factions, while the people are ground down by heavy taxation so arranged as to rob from labor to enrioh the capitalists, and we suffer from hard times that come of bad government. How muoh longer this will be borne. God only knows; but unless human nature is greatly changed, sooner or later there will be resistsnoe. This is the opinion of our present con? dition hold by a ripe statesman, whose long experience lends weight to his judg? ment. And this is the state of things that no small portion of our people would see again fastened upon the coun? try for another four years. Tho Union and American, a Nashville Democratic organ, regards Vorhoes' speech os containing all that can bo said against Greeley, and says his friends must work in harmony to secure his nomination at Ballimore. THE RADICAL REFORMERS.-Oa Mon? day evening, a crowd assembled in the beautiful moonlight to hear the speaking wbioh took place in front of the Repub? lican office. O. O. Bowen led off with a short speech, mainly directed toward R. E. Scott. He called to mind the advice he had given the people in 1870 not to re? nominate a man who had proved his in? capacity and dishonesty. All the ills he had predicted as certain to result from tho re-election of Scott had been more than fulfilled. Ten millions had been added to the dobt of the State, taxes had been increased, the Stato disgraced by non-payment of her interest, her bonds selliug for a quarter of their face, the schools closed, aud utter bankruptcy in? evitable. He said the next campaign would be between - the thieves and the citizens, and predicted a victory for ho? nest people. He was followed by R. O. DeLarge, who seemed to speak only beoause Bowen had done so. The main point of his re? marks was that the white man was "mighty uncertain," and that the co? lored men should stick to their own race iu the selection of officers. Gen. Smalls was then called for, and gave a slashing speech in favor of a more careful scrutiny of tho character of the next State ticket. He said that Scott, Parker, Neaglo and Chamberlain were responsible for the fraud and mis? management rampant in the State. These men were found by the Republi? can party poor and unknown; they were elevated to the highest offices, which they had prostituted to their own ad? vantage, and new v?ero millionaires. Snob men wero soon to be hurled from power by au indignant people. There were some of this same kidney in Beau? fort County. Men who had been en? trusted with office, bat had UBed their positions to acquire wealth. On the small per diem of members fortunes had apparently been aooumolated. These would be attended to during the canvass. W. J. Whipper was then loudly called for. He excused himself from speaking, but promised to give the people an ac? count of what had become of the taxes during the campaign. The people seemed to enjoy the meet? ing hugely, and oheered each of the speakers with great impartiality. The significant point of the speeches was that all harped upon the one string-reform. \Beaufort Republican. A COMPLIMENT INDEED.-Speaking of the old-lino party leaders of the South, G. A. Townsend 6ays: ' Did you ever think what a great race oj men live at the South, to have been subject to the licentious and profligate contact of slavery for twonty genera? tions, and still preserve such energies and co much manly character? We miss them from onr public counsels to-day. How capable and direct they were in foreign diplomacy-courtesy and chi? valry, truth and death, in their address! Then, slaveholders as wo were, the world knew that we said no moro than what we meant. We did net needlessly irritate our peers among tho nations with sardonic sentences like Bancroft Davis' With the glove in his hand, and tho tal ii of u king's herald, the Southerner made his proposition to the foreiguer. Of him, it might be said as of Cromwell: 'While he lived, no Dutch? man swept the narrow seas! No Castle raaines dishonored the high places I Vice and folly trembled in his eye, and all good things lay safe beneath his mighty Bhadowl' " FATAL POISONING BY CATERPILLARS. The Trentou (Tenn.) News bears that five persons have died in Skullbone, Gib? son County, in consequence of eating fish caught in a river into which cater? pillars had fallen and been swallowed by the fish. Also, that an infant while crawling on tho floor picked up a cater? pillar, and before its mother could pre? vent it, swallowed it, from which the child died in loss than two hours. The family, to test whether caterpillars were poisonous, put ono in soma dongh aud gave it to a dog, which also died it a few hours. Tho speech of Congressman Voorhees against Greeley was widely circulated by the supporters of Gen. Grant. The ooutest by the two wings of the Repub? lican party for Democratic votes is lively and interesting. So the Democrats are not the monsters that the Republican fancy painted them, after all. A lady in Cnlpoper, Virginia, recently presented her husband with three fine boys, and named one after General Lue, one after General Beauregard and one after Generul Jackson. A Texas negro murderer, recently taken out to be hanged, put the rope around his neck and kicked himself into eternity without waiting for the cere? mony. D irren ER'S LIGHTNING FLV-KILLER Bweepa them off and dears the house speedily. Try it. Sold by dealers every? where. A 30 ii 2 m SIXTEEN YEARS or BOOOESS.-. In 1858, tho now famous MOBTAKO LINIMENT was first made known to tho public by an extensive system of advertising. From that time to the present the demand for it has boon atoad ilj iucreaaiug uutil it has taken the load of all embrocations, lotions, ointments, and other extornal remodies, imported or domes tio, ovor introduced into the American mar? ket. In the most celebrated raoing and trot? ting stablos, in the establishments of stago and city oar companion, and in tho stables of privata gouMemen, it is tho only recognized cure for such diseases of the horse as require outward Uoatmont. Nor is it less valuable as a local application for ?orne of the moat distressing complaints to which man is sub? ject. Rheumatism, stiffness of tho Joints, neuralgia, soro throat, tumors, wens, ear? ache, tooth- aoho, j ?old to its paiu-subduiug, counter-irritant properties, aud burns, loalus and cuts aro homed with incredible rapidity undor ita operation. f l OOO reward is offered by tho proprietor of Dr. l'ioroo's Golden Medical Discovory for a me.heine that will equal it in the ouro of bronchitis, severe Coughs, and the oaily stages of Consumption. M 10$3 ?ooal Items. Cm MATT Bits.-The price of single oopiep of the PHCBNIX is five cents. Aunt Clarissa Tacker (or Ward, as she is generally known,) is slowly recovering from a severe spell of siokness. We are indebted to the Marshals of Wake ForeBt College, N. C., for a card of invitation to the commencement ex? ercises on the 25th, 26th an ? 27th Jane. Mr. P. H. Joyner, of Ihe Exchange House, yesterday, furnished the PHOENIX with a liberal sample of what he furnishes his patrons for lunch every day. Ono and all thank him for his at? tention. This might bo aptly termed Dolly Varden weather, variegated with patches of sun-Bhine and a black olondy over skirt. Private letters from Chester and York indicate that the white citizens are a unit for Greeley and Brown. Greeley and Gratz-Brown Bands and White Hats! The pleasant weather, yesterday, car? ried many persona to the garrison grounds. The following is the pro? gramme fer this afternoon: Grand Duchess Quickstep. Offenbach. Aria Somiramide. Bossini. Quadrille Ohne Sitel. Strauss. Selection from Fra Diavolo. Auber. Friendship Galop. Strauss. Wo are eredibly informed that many ^ planters and producers are deterred from fl coining to Columbia through fears of a " license tax. State Auditor Calnan as- J sures us that these fears are groundless; * therefore, we hope our country friends will bring their products to market. In? terested parties are making these state? ments for their own advantage, we have reason to believe. 0. O. Martindale, Esq., has been ap? pointed a member of the Board of Health in Ward No. 4, vice Dr. J. W. Parker, relieved. PARDONED.-Georgiana Brooks, con? victed of larceny at the session of the Circuit Court in Newberry, in January last, and sentenced to six months' im? prisonment, was pardoned on tho 24th. Robert Perrin, Giles Pride and Spenoer Hagood, convicted of arson before the Circuit Court at Columbia, Jone, 1869, and sentenced to ten years' imprison? ment, were pardoned on the 27th. INT EH EST i NO Tm AL.-We learn from the Dispatch that the trial of Simon Black, Jake Johnson and Solomon Noophlet, charged with the murder of Mr. M. H. Harman, who was killed in December last, is going on before Judge Melton, at Lexington. Mr. Nathaniel Barnwell and Messrs. Meetze and Bice appear for the State, and Messrs. T. H. j Cooke, J. W. Tradewell and B. I. Boone defend the prisoners. PUCENDCIANA.-Tillotson very'-Joatly says that shame is a great restraint apon the sinners at first; but that soon falls off, and when they have once lost their innocence, their modesty is not likely to be long troublesome to them. Mississippi and Tennessee are each spelled with only four different letters of the alphabet, although one contains eleven letters and the other nine. Noses aro worn rather shorter than formerly, with an inclination to tarn up. Ears are no w worn on both sides tho head-one on each side-and those of pink color are preferred. Hair is again fashionable. Chinamen are growing civilized. They now drink their lager straight in New York, and enjoy it. Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has ?lipped through the hands of some thou sands that some fellow, by good luck, holds on to it. It is now proposed that those ladies who wish to wear a real hair mattress on their head, surmounted by several stories of hat, with a parterro of flowers to crown the whole, shall insert in their head-dress for the theatre an opera glass to rest on the top of tho head, ranging fore and aft, so that gentlemen sitting behind them can seo through it to the stage. It's only the shoe that knows whether Ibo stocking has holes, say? a Haytien proverb. How about the toes? Articles of silvor offered as wedding presents have been voted not exactly vulgar, but' uncultivated and unrefined. Instead of these, works of art, statuary and paintings, "something abont which a sentiment can be entwined," are henceforth to be the things to proffer to the newly-wedded. A woman's heart is the only trao plate for a man's likeness. An instant gives an impression that an age bf sorrow and change cannot efface. lu rural New York, they are getting up "wood choppers' dabs," with whito hat uniform, in the Greeley interest. LIST OP NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Communication Acacia Lodge. P. F. Frazee-Sheriff's Sale. C. F. Jackson-Keep Cool.