The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, May 31, 1872, Image 2
COLUMBIA. S. C.
Friday geming, May 31,1872.
No Policy, No Principle.
Andrew Johnson, while President of
the United States, was much denounced
and ridiculed by Radical partisans and
his unserupulons impeachers, for claim?
ing to have a "policy" of bis own, as
well as a certain unmovable fixedness of
political and constitutional opinion.
He came safely through the storm of
censure and sarcasm, however, and to?
day stands higher in the estimation of
all virtuous and honorable men than his
successor. While his course- had been
extreme in opposition to the action of
the Southern States in adopting the
ordinances of secession, and althongh he
strenuously supported the war of the
government against them, once that war
was over, he was willing, like Horace
Greeley and Gratz J3rown, to bary the
hatchet, and look ahead to a fntnre of
good will, rather than back to the ani?
mosities of war, bloodshed and bitter
prejudice. He sought to heal tho breaoh
which had BO widely separated the sec?
tions, and by substantial acts, and not
by honeyed and deceptive words of
peace, when there was no peace, to effect
a sincere and genuine reconciliation.
He had a policy, both as respected home
and foreign affaire, and neither even
brought humiliation on his oountry, or
chagrin on any respectable oitizen of it.
How different an impression from this
will a rotrospeot of the last four years
give to any candid or impartial ob?
server] General Grant gave out during
the canvass proced? n g his election that he
had no settled opinion, no policy
wherewith to embarrass his supporters,
but would be guided by his party,
and by the voice of the oountry.
This was just what the Radical leaders
wanted-perhaps had required. Their
candidato played nicely into their hands,
and beooming President, they, of course,
played his cards for him, and, at the
same time, the deuce with the interests
and honor of the oountry. The mode
in which he has enforced the reconstruc?
tion measures, the terrible Ku Klux per?
secutions, with all their attendant hor?
rors and fiendish atrocities, in South
Carolina, the wide-spread, deep and uni?
versally admitted corruption of his ad?
ministration, the Bhort-oomings and de
feota in the civil service, the gross
abases, if not collusion and personal
participation in the ill-gotten gaina of
the New York Custom Honso manage?
ment, and such like, show a home record
in full keeping with the miner able San
Domingo scheme of annexation, and the
impertinent and unnecessary intrusion
of the indirect claims into the American
case, to be followed at lost, as they have
been, by their shameful withdrawal at
the instance of the Gladstone Ministry.
This is humiliation indeed. -The mest
radioal of Gr: at's supporters feel it, and
even the wretched tools and organs
whose business it is to play and sing his
praises and excellence, at all times and
in all circumstances, have perforce be?
come silent, and refuse to pipe. Satis,
ohe, jam satis.
TEHIUBLE REBUKE TO THE ADMINISTRA?
TION.-The Savannah Republican is of
the opinion that the vote in the House
on the infamous Administration mea?
sure to extend the law authorizing the
President to sa?pend the habeas corpus
at will, is one of the most significant
events of the times. It sounds the
death-knell of despotism in these States.
It ends the rulo of power against law,
and the reign of terror that followed in
its wake. It tells the adherents of Grant
that they have made a fatal blunder in
supposing that they could keep up per?
petual war between the States and tho
Federal Government, and it strikes from
thtir grasp the only weapon that they
had intended to use in the coming strag?
gle-sectional hate. We record the vote
with a real, unaffected satisfaction. It
is the inauguration anew of the era of
law against usurpation and might, and
involves a defeat of the Administration
that ghouJd completely overwhelm it.
It was tho last desperate move to retain
abased power, and it has signally failed,
leaving the party with all the sin of
despotism on its head, without tho
power to carry out its wicked designs
against the people.
THE POLAR EXPEDITION.-Capt. All?
ston, late of the steamer Retriever, lost
off the Newfoundland coast during the
terrible storms which recently prevailed
there, brings intelligence confirming a
report that Capt. Hall's polar expedition
had been heard from at St. Pierre,
Miquelon. A Danish trader which cal led
at that port about oight weeks ago
brought an account of the arrival'at,
Disco, Greenland, of the Polaris, in a
disabledcondition.
There is a wrangle over tho Enterprise
Railroad, ia Charleston, and tho subject
bas been turned .over to the Board of
Health, and all legal proceedings are to
be suspended in the meantime.
?mall-Pox on the Ocean.
With the bark Athena, whioh arrived
ia thia pork on the 14th instant, direot
from Seemen, oomes a terrible tale of
woe. To the dangers and perils of the
seas were added the manifold terrors of
the malignant small-pox, scarlet fever
and measles, whioh cauBod the death of
several of the crew and many of th? pas?
sengers. The VOSSBI hod been bat two
days oat of Bremea when ono of the
seamen was taken ill, and in a abort time
his disease had so far developed that bis
shipmates were made aware that he was
Buffering from small-pox. Huddled to?
gether ou the ?hip were 474 passengers,
emigrants to this ooantry. Precautions
were at onoe taken to prevent the spread
of the disease, bat others of tho crew
were already infected, and were foroed
to suooumb. Among the passengers
were many women and children. Soon
deaths began to be frequent. The sailor
who was first taken ill died, and was
hastily sewed ap in canvas and aonsigned
to the ooeaa. Bat a few days, and un
other sailor died. Already had the
small-pox communicated itself to tho
passengers. Strong men awoke in the
morning nuable to leave their berths,
and the tell-tale red blotches that soon
made their appearance told all too plain?
ly why they were weak. Rapidly the
disease was inoculated into tbe systems
of fellow-passengers, and each succeed?
ing day brought fresh oases.
As the bark was a sailing vessel, the
provisions of the law did not demand
-at its complement of ofnoers include a
physician. Captain Christopher, who
commanded, although an able sailor,
was better versed in navigation than in
medioine. The only antidotes obtaina?
ble were those which were in his medi?
oine chest. These were distributed as
was thought bebt, and every effort made
to prevent the general spread of the dis?
ease. Hardly had the ofnoers begun to
hope for snooess when new horrors were
added to the measure that seemed* al?
ready to be overflowing. Soarlet fever
and measles began to appear among the
children. Mothers were prostrated with
the small-pox, and the little ones, in
many instances, suffered for the care
that might have saved their lives. Many
of them were mere infants, and their
little frames withstood the ravages of
disease but a day or two at most. Thas
whole families perished, and one after
the other were sunk into the sea. The
log of the ship tells a mournful tale of
mortality.
Twenty children, a number of them
babes, who fell Bick in their mothers'
arms, died before reaohing Sandy Hook.
The majority fell victims to measles,
but scarlet fever and small-pox also did
their work. Five adult passengers and
ono seaman died of small-pox, and one
seaman of scarlet fever, during the voy?
age-twonty-seven deaths in all. Sinae
the arrival in port, five moro ohildren
have died. The coroners have been
notified of the faot, and propose making
a thorough investigation of the cause of
the calamitous events of the voyage.
No sooner had tho Athena dropped her
anchor, than she was quarantined, and
ordered to be fumigated and cleaned.
Those who were still suffering with
disease were removed to the hospital.
The latest oommunioation received at the
coroner's office yesterday in regard to
the matter, asked for an investigation
into the death of two ohildren, Josefa
and Federiok Sohonberg, each aged two
years. The notification came from Dr.
J. O. Hallock, resident physician at
Castle Garden, who etated that they were
1..-.light there with five other dead
bodies, and sent to the morgue
At Castle Garden, there seems to be
an impression that tbe mortality on
board tho Athena was caused by the in?
ferior quality of the food. Mr. Theo?
dore Buger, the consignee, says that this
impression is wholly groundless; that all
provisions pat on board the ship at
Bremen were thoroughly examined by
Government officials, SB usual, and were
of the best quality. Captain Christo?
pher also declares that the provisions
wore both good and abundant. The
captain seems to think that the disenso
was fostered by the dirty habits of tho
emigrants, who wero chiefly Poles.
Nothing, he declares, short of physical
violence, could induce them to wash.
Gn their arrival here, they were told if
they did not wash, they would be sent
to prison. Men and women then washed
on deck, and began to clean themselves
with great earnestness.
Captain Christopher is in possession
of a testimonial from a number of the
passengers, thanking him for his kind?
ness to them and expressing their plea?
sure at tbe manner in whioh they had
been treated. Tbe German Consol will
investigate the case. - New York World.
AN ATBOOIOUS MU nu ER IN BEECH ISL?
AND.-At Hankinson's store, in Beeob
Island, on last Saturday night, a horri?
ble and altogether unprovoked murder
was committed by one Thoa. Williams,
a colored man, who ruthlessly tock the
life of a fellow-man, also colored, named
John Mi ms. It appears that Williams
was beating another negro ia an unmer?
ciful manner, when Minis went to Wil?
liams and begged him to cease beating
the mau, who was a friend of Minis,
wboreupon Williams becamo very much
offended with Minis, accused bim of
taking up ibo fight of bis unfortunate
friend, whioh Mims denied, aid after
giving tbe latter the d-d lie, took ap
the door bar and struck Mims a severe
blow across the templo, from the effects
of whioh blow be died almost instantly.
An inquest was held on tho body of the
deoeased on the evening of the 26th, J.
P. Harling, Trial Justice, acting as Coro?
ner, and a verdict returned in accord
ance with tho above facts. Williams
was arrested and lodged in jail at this
place by Millodge Cooper, ooustablo, on
j Tuesday last, where ho now awaits his
trial.-Edgefield Advertiser.
An English girl, who was about to be
married, preferred to steal something
and be sent to jail.
A JDesceratecl Grave.
It is not generally known that tba bro
Iber of the nominee of the Cincinnati
Convention is buried in Barke County,
ia thia State, not a great distance from
Augusta. This is believed to be the
ease, however, by parties who live in the
vicinity of the place. The story rous,
that some time daring the year 1885 a
gentleman and lady traveling through
Georgia in a private convey a nco-for
there were no railroads in those days
stopped at the house of Gol. Augustus
H. Anderson, a wealthy planter of Burke
County. They were Rev. Greeuleafe
Greeley and his wife, and stated that
they carno from a town in the State of
Maine. Mr. Greeley was then in tho
last stages of consumption, aad was tra?
veling through the South in the vain
hope of recovering his health. Unwell
when he stopped ut Gol. Anderson's, he
was so ill the next day that he wus una?
ble to continue his journey. He lin?
gered for some time in the house of the
hospitable Southerner, receiving all tho
care and attention which would have
boon bestowed upon a member of tho
family, but finally died. In those days,
we suppose, it would have been almost
impossible to carry the deceased back to
the North, and the body was buried in
the private cemetery of the Anderson
family. The widow returned to ber re?
latives and friends in Maine. Subse?
quently Col. Anderson had brick-work
built over the grave, and upon it placed
a marble slab-similar to the slabs over
his own relatives-with name, ago aud
residence of the deceased written upon it.
Time rolled on. Thirty years passed
away, and Gen. Sherman began his cele?
brated maroh from Atlanta to thc sea.
His army passed through Burke County,
and a portion of his forces encamped
upon the Anderson plantation. The Fe?
deral bummers here, as everywhere else,
wore intent on plunder, and appro?
priated everything not too hot or too
heavy to be carried. Believing that
quantities of silver plate and other trea?
sure had been hidden, they se'arohed for
them in every direction. As was often
the case, they did not spare the dead,
bat rifled the family burying-ground,
prizing np and breaking the marble
slabs, etc. The Northern man's grave
fured as badly as any of the rest, and
was desecrated in a shameful manner.
After the war was over, although, like
all hw countryman, he fouud himself
almoBt ruined, a son-in-law of Col. an?
derson had the graves of the family re?
stored to their former condition, and
likewise the grave of the Northern minis?
ter. Carious parties may now visit the
grave and reud the inscription upon it
for themselves. It it) suid that before
his death, the minister stated he was a
brother of Horace Greeley, aud it is the
general belief that his statement was
correct. Some may attempt to discredit
the statement, by asserting that Horneo
Greeley was boru in Now Hicapsuire
and not in Maine. But this proves
nothing, as every one knows who is
acquainted with the migratory habits of
tho young New Eoglaud. The evidence
seems very clear that we have sleeping
in Burke a brother of the philosopher of
the 7'ribune, who received hospitality
from and was given Christian buriul by a
Southern gentleman; that his tomb wts
robbed and dishonored by Federal sol?
diers, and restored by a relative of his
host.-Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
AN UNFORTUNATE SHOOTING AFFAIR.
On Tuesday morning last, oar young
townsman, Mr. Charlie Chase, shot and
wounded, fatally, a negro man by the
name o? Jake Lindsay, better known,
however, as Jake Moss, who died on the
next day. Mr. Chase lives with his
widowed grand-mother, Mrs. Samuel
Brooks, conducting her farming interest
and affairs generally. Jake Lindsay was
hired by them, and was, under Mr.
Chase, a sort of foreman of the crop.
That the farming operations were to bo
absolutely ordered and guided by Mr.
Chase, was, we are informed, a part of
the contract or agreement.
On the morning of the difficulty, it
seems that Mr. Chase ordered tue huuds
into a certain field, but upon going to
look after things, found them, with Jake,
io another. Aud this by Jake's direc?
tion. Mr. C. commanded them into tho
other field. The negro objected, refused,
and exhibited much wrath and obstinacy.
We would not really bo, or appear, in
tho faintest degree prejudiced in this ac?
count, but from all we have been able to
leurn, and from reliable sources, too, the
colored mau behaved on this occasion
with unbridled insolenco and blind and
unreasoning obstinacy. The upshot was,
that Lindsay quitted the field, hurried to
the house, returned with his loaded gun,
and resumed the altercation. And upon
this, Mr. Chase, much excited and exas?
perated, shot bim.
As we go to press, an inquest is being
hold upon tho body of Lindsay. Mr.
Chase, having left his homo, bas not
boen arrested. But he will, of bis own
accord, we are assured, return after the
present excitement has somewhat sub?
sided, aud surrender himself to tho pro?
per officers of the law.
[Edgefield Advertiser.
-r-.
TUB MILITARY PRISONERS.-Since tho
22d instant. Jonathan Moore, R. L. Har?
mon", Jerome P. Moss, W. D. Parkerand
W. H. White have been released from
imprisonment on bond. Oa the 24th,
John E. Carroll, of this County, was re
arrested aud committed to juil. There
aro now soven prisoners in tho jail.
[Parkville Enquirer.
FLOOR FROM NEW WHEAT.-The Au?
gusta (Ga. ) Constitutionalist has reoeivi.il a
bag of "Pride of Augusta" flour, made
from wheat of tbe crop of 1872. Sim?
ples havo been sent off to New York,
St. Louis aud other points. A salo to
an Augusta dualer was made at fifteen
dollars per burrel. .
DEATU OF JUDOE HOLT.-J migo Amasa
Holt, of Macon, Ga., who waa thrown
from his oat ringo and received painful
injuries, a few days ago, died ou Sun?
day morning.
LIBERALISM-AMNESTY-JUSTICE.- ;
The ultra Radical press?e are quite jubi?
lant over the amnesty Act. Their f?lici?
tations on the occasicn are not at all ia
keeping with their psst indifference on
the subject. Mr. Greeley hus stood
lonely enough amongst Republicans, ap- 1
pealing to the President and to Congress (
to give the country tho benefit of an
Aot of amnesty that might help to
soothe the bitter animusities of the day. '
But now that this ?B done nuder the |
pressure of the strong fueling in favor of j
the Liberal party, the Grant journals
sing hosannas to the President and Con?
gress, and declare that amnesty having '
passed and become a law, there is no i
longer any ground for Greeley and his
followers to stand upon..
How very wido they are of the mark!
Amnesty per sc waa a small matter. Dis- 1
connected from a general liberal policy 1
which shall restore personal liberty and |
State equality, and tuke from the hands ,
of tho President tho power to shut up
?.very State Court uud Legislature in the
Union, it is worth absolutely nothing. <
Immediately after the ptissuge of the 1
amnesty Act, did we not see Grunt's .
friend? in the Senate pass a bill extend?
ing tho authority of the President to
suspend the writ of habeas corpus until 1
next yeat ? What did that mean ? Did i
it not imply that although they would (
give us tho uamo of freedom and equali?
ty, they would still give General Graut 1
tho power over us to hang, draw and
quarter ua if he pleased, and to abro- I
gate all Stato uuthority at tho point of ,
the bayonet, if that suited hi? purpose?
They would give him power over the
ballot-boxes itt the Presidential efec- 1
tioa to manipulate thom to his own ad?
vantage, and furthermore, the power to
intimidate his opponents and favor his
supporters so nu seriously to affect the
aggregate votes of both sides to his own 1
advantage.
Suppose that all such objects and in- ,
tentions be denied. We ask for what is
such extraordinary power over the peo
pie of the States uud their local govern?
ments demauded? Is it merely to put a i
means of destroying Republican govern
meut and robbing tho people of their
liberties into Grout's hands as a play?
thing, just to please him, as we would
put a toy into tho bunds of a child to
amuse bim? It ?B not common for the
party leaders to do any such thing. It
ia eutirely out of tho order of political
acts for any such authority to bo put iu
men's bauds for nothing. It is always
intended for something, und u but, is that
something?
Assuredly amnesty and the suspension
of tho writ of habeas corpus are utterly
muompatiblo. To tuuku the citizen free
aud then buud him over to tho mercy of
one mau, is robbing bim of bis rights
und his liberty. That liberty which is
held by tho fruil tenure of ono man's
will aud caprice is no liberty ut all, and
a Republic which puts personal liberty
in such peril is a mockery.
The Amnesty Act was ooerced, and its
passage, was a tribute to that Liberalism
which linds no place iu Radical hearts.
Their true spirit is developed in the act
of the Radical Senators immediately
afterwards, which went to place every
citizen under thu unlimited tyrauny of
ono mau. The Liberal Greeley amnesty
is but a part of a system of measures
iotouded to restore equality to States
and citizens; to re-establish local State
authority; to lift up the pressure of per?
secutions of tho South by carpet-bug
rule; to establish honest administration
of Federal affairs under the guide of the
Constitution and laws, and to bring the
whole people together iu harmony and
fraternal good will. That ia the Cincin?
nati platform.-Richmond Dispatch.
SWALLOWING GKEELEY.-The follow?
ing is from a speech by Major Wm. ?.
Nelson at tho Decatur, Illinois, Demo?
cratic mass meeting:
It is truly refreshing to note the late
growth of respect of Graut partisans for
the Democratic party us a party. It
amounts almost to veneration. Their
solicitude for its iuterests is getting to
bo immense. They kindly propose its
course of action for it. They say to us,
"Now is tho time for tho Democratsl
If ever you had a chance, now is the
titnel You ought to run a straight
ticket, by all means!" They ask us,
"Are you Democrats going to lot n fac?
tion, a few sore-heads-calling them?
selves Liberal Republicans-swallow the
Deninoratic party?"
Now, gentlemen, I want to answer
that question by putting one or two to
my interrogator. I want to ask bim:
"Did you ever see a sardine swallow u
whale?" If he says he did, then I want
him to describe the process, and tell
where the sardine begau ou the whale
when he commenced swallowing; whe?
ther, like a mau, be commenced ut the
head, or slipped around aud commenced
ut the tail? And, when he has told me
how it was done, then I want to ask him
if thesardino, after it bus swallowed the
whale, didn't huve n good deul of whule
in it-if it didn't, in fact, look a good
deul like a wbule itself?
They ask IIB again : "Can yon Demo?
crats swallow Greeley?" I confess I am
somewhat out of practice ia this swal?
lowing business. I haven't swallowed
anything that tasted like a President ol
tho United States for nearly twenty-four
years. I remember thur, in 1?48, I
managed to get down a Mujor-Geuerul of
the United States army aud a horse; he
wus a white horse, too-they culled him
"Old Wuitie." Having been so unac?
customed to tho thing, I am not alto?
gether conlident of my swallowing ca?
pacity, and don't want to say now that I
can swallow Greeley, nor do I want to
say that, with a liberal share of Demo?
cratic encouragement and assistance, I
could uot, in November next, swallow
an old editor and something white-say
au old white hut.
A convict in thu Michigan penitentiary
has just fallen heir to uenrly 51,000,00(1,
by the death of his father. His sentence
expires in August.
Ciooal It ona?.
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Crrr MATTERS.-The prioe of Bingle
topics of the PHONIX ia five cents.
The Columbia Oas Company announce
.hat, having nearly completed the ne
jessary arrangements for changing their
ivorks from rosin to coal, the price, on
ho 1st of Jane, will bo rsdaoed to $6
per thousand. This will be gratifying
utelligenco to those who are using this
expensive but necessary light. It ie to
JO hoped that our streets will be illu
ninated once more.
Ono of Mr. Daley's colored drivers
jreated considerable excitement on Maia
itreet, yesterday morning, by his brutal
ireatmout of one of the horses attaohed
;o his vehicle. The butt end of the
whip was used mercilessly and repeated?
ly. It was suggested that the police
mould look after the two-legged brute,
jut as there is no ordinance to reach the
jase, he escaped.
The smoke-house of Col. John Eng
ish was entered, on Wednesday night,
ind robbed of a lot of bacon and floor.
Do). E. has been victimized in this man?
lier several times.
The attention of delinquents is called
to the tax sales advertised by Auditor
Calnaa. That the property will be sold,
there is no manner of doubt, as the Act
af the Legislature is peremptory.
Skiff A Gaylord's Minstrels, (which
liave been highly commended through?
out tho South,) give an entertainment
this evening, in Irwin's Hall. The
music, singing, dancing and gymnastic
exercises are admirable. Scoured seats
can be obtained at LyBrand's.
State Auditor Gary states that pro?
ceedings have been oommenoed in court
to test tho question as to whether the
State is bound to. receive revenue bond
scrip in payment of past due taxes, and
directs treasurers not to receive it until a
decision is reached.
The Supreme Court convened yester?
day-Judges Wright and Willard pre?
sent. There being no special business,
adjourned to Thursday, Jane 6.
The caUloguo of the eighteenth col?
legiate year of Wofford College, Spar
tauburg, S. C., has been, received. The
college is in a flourishing condition.
Col. S. S. Crittenden occupies the edi?
torial chair of the Greenville Moun?
taineer.
It is currently reported that excursion
tickets at low rates are to be issued by
tho rail road companies, to visitors to
Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore.
Wouldn't it "pay" one or the other of
the steamer lines from Charleston?
The Charleston Republican has changed
proprietors, and dropped the names of
Graut and Scott, and hoisted the names
of Greeley and Brown as candidates for
President and Vice-President, at the
bead of its columns. It will hereafter
bo published in the interests of the Li?
beral Republican party.
The Beaufort Times, heretofore print?
ed in Charleston and issued at Beaufort,
is now printed at Beaufort. W. J. Whip?
per is announced as proprietor and Mrs.
P. A. Whipper as editress.
There will be co regular programme
by the band, at the garrison grounds,
this afternoon-battalion drill taking its
place.
Mr. John Burns, an employee of the
South Carolina Railroad Compaoy, had
several of his toes taken off by a Char?
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
train, yesterday, in Augusta.
We learn that the three colored men
on trial before Judge Melton, at Lexing?
ton, for the murder of Mr. M. H. Har?
man, were convicted yesterday.'
Attorney-General Chamberlain boa
givon an unqualified opinion to County
Treasurer Gurney, of Charleston County,
that County Treasurers throughout the
State are compelled by law to receive
revenue bond script in payment of all
tuxes and dues to the State, exoept
special tax levied to pay the public debt.
This decision will settle any doubts
whioh may exist in the minds of the
community on tho subject.
PnaiNixiANA.-Voices of the night
cate.
Tho spendthrift's prayer-"Leave me
a-loan, will you?"
Scrutoh a Grant editor and you'll find
a Government job.
A grocer is willing to admit that honest
tea is the best policy, but whoo it comes
to coffee, he doesn't bolieve in running
the thing into the ground.
It is so pleasant to know that Agassiz
has found a few species of gasteropods,
fourteen kinds of sbinoderns, including
an euryale, fifty specimens of ophiaraus,
and, to crown the whole, a lurga heli
uster.
Recently a Raltimorean, lately mar?
ried, committed suicide, leaving a letter
behind him warning young men against
matrimony. Tho telegraph said he was
insane, but, doubtless, tho operator wns
a lady.
GEBEN & RUSSELL'S Boston Pott-Boy and
Advertiser, containing the freshest ad
?ices, foreign and domestic Hon
day, April 14, 1760. No. 139-weeks
since this paper waa first published.
A oopy of the above newspaper lie?
before ns, and is as quaint ? specimen of
the "art preservative" as one would wish
to see. In it we find the Mississippi
River called "The great river of Sb.
Loma." It is described as "navigable
for 900 leagneB from the Bea;" and it ie
added: "The natives have always known
it by the name of the Monet Ouhesisaipi,
which signifies grand-father of all rivera;
but tho French, naturally careless in
pronouncing foreign names, dipt it to
Mis8?6sipi." We admire the ingenuity
of the Frenchman who eliminated the
modern name of the aforesaid grand?
parent out of Meact Oahssissipi. The
piper is a great curiosity. Those inter?
ested may devour its contents at the
Citizens' Savings Bank, where it will be
"served up" by the obliging Capt. J, C.
B. Smith, Assistant Cashier.
MAIL- ARRANGEMENTS.-Tho Northern
mail opens at 2.30 P. M.; CIOSOB 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 12.80P. H.
Wilmington mail opens 2.30 P. M.:
oloseB 10.30 A. M. On Bunday office
open from 3 to 4 P. M.
HOTEL Anni VALS, May 30, 1872.- dickerson
House-J N Long, Hy: O Preaaley and wife,
Miss; T T Wright, Atlanta; H P Hammett,
Miss F ? Hammett, Miss E LeBter, W Ames,
Greenville; O L Bartlett, M Kenaheidt, H O;
Mrs ME Orrell, Hillsboro; F D Bush.New
Market; T J Steers, DO: ? M Levey, Wash?
ington; P F Howard. Richmond; J S Brockin
ton, Yorkville; W L Wilson, Ala; J Prim. Bal?
timore; F J Murdoch, N O.
Columbia Hotel-R W Lawton, W H Evans.
Augusta; James Stuart, USA; W 8 Oreen,
Spartanbnrg; Henry 0 Platt, Augusta: T
Hurley, J S Browning, Charleston; T B
Rraddy, M J M Herald, Marion; E 8 J Hayes,
Lexington; W A Jones, Thomasville; John
Carroll, Rlaokstock; Fred D Rush, O & O B
R; D L Fillyan, Wilmington; A Dal Molen, H
M Ramley, Now York; C D Nathan, N 0;
Miss E A Jones.'Thomaaville.
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
C. Barnum-Notice.
P. Oautwell-Cider.
Hostetter's Bitters.
J. Levin-Reduction.
L. Carr-Telegraphic.
A. C. Squier-Establish?d 1836.
HopBon Sc Sutphen-Seasonable.
COTTON "FUTURES."-A New York
cotton dealer, in a letter noticing the
effect of tho establishment of the Cot?
ton Exchange of thatoity, in developing
the business in cotton for future delive?
ry, which has now attained snob vast
proportions, takes occasion to give to the
planters of the South a bit of wholesome
and timely advice. He says:
"Whether this new departure is to ul?
timately benefit the planter, the factor,
tue dealer, or the spinner, is still a rid?
dle; and if either is to be more directly
the gainer than the other by as complete
a metamorphosis ns this new system of
future contracta has created, no one class
thus far is given the credit of prominent
favoritism. It is generally admitted by
all in interest that the marketing of cot?
ton for delivery far into the future by
the planter is, and is to be the fact. The
securing of such contracts by the spin?
ner must grow and become, in course of
time, an equal part of the same fact,
and the object of this note to your good
journal is to hint to the planters through?
out tbe South the utility of preparing
the orops this season and those of the
future to meet the rigid requirements of
the New York Cotton Exchange. New
and improved maohinery for ginning
cannot fail to pay large dividends, as low
grades containing sand, leaf or seed can?
not be delivered, and always find a hard
and unsatisfactory market. False pack?
ing, light bales, and those containing
gin-tug or water damage, always inter?
fere with the deliveries, and always cost;
the owner many times more than any
labor or oare needed in firtt rendering
the bales merchantable. A bale of cot?
ton weighing about 400 pounds, and in
good order, of any grade, from good or?
dinary to good middling, inoluding half
grades, returns to the own er its full grade
value according to contract price. Lower
grades, or singular cottons, do not, and
the Booner the planter finds it out and
acts upon it, the better for him and for
his agent in this market, as well as all
concerned."
BOND PAID.-It will be remembered
that Dr. Edward T. Avery, of this
County, while on trial before tbe United
States Court in Columbia, last winter, on
a oharge of violating the "Enforcement
Act," departed from the court before
the conclusion of the trial. Proviens to
the commencement of the trial,- he had
been admitted to bail in a bond of
$3,000, with Capt. J. Thomas Lowry, of
this County, as surety. Shortly after
the departure of Avery, the court order?
ed the bond to be declared forfeited, and
for several weeks past property belong?
ing to Messrs. Avery and Lowry bas
been advertised to be sold on the first
Monday of next month, with a view to
making the amount of the boud. By a
despatch, however, from the United
States Marshal, we now learn that Capt.
Lowry ha8 Pai(* tue bond, and the pro?
perty been withdrawn from sale.
? Yorkville Enquirer,
A correspondent of the Savannah
News says that there is a man living ia
Oolquitt County, Ga., who now has his
third wifo and a family of thirty chil?
dren. He owns several thousand acres
of land, about 2,000 head of cattle, and
about 2,500 hoad of sheep.