The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, June 14, 1872, Image 2
COLUMBIA. S. C.
friday Morning, June 14, 18.2.
Greeley'? Record.
This is the title of a pamphlet which
.we received yesterday from New York.
'It embraces a series of editorials wbioh
have appeared in the Tribuna from the
poo of Mr. Greelery, on the subjects of
atuuesty and reconstruction, from the
timo-of tho surrender of the army of
Northern Virginia at Appomattox; also,
-speeches and extracts of speeches upon
public topics since that time. We wish
<4u?t every Democrat in tho land-at
lev?t, every Southern Democrat-could
have opportunity to read this pamphlet,
and thus learn precisely what aro tbe
.-sentiments towards the South, and what
ideas of reconstruction and of tho policy
of the General Government in tbe re-es?
tablishment of the Union Mr. Greeley
las entertained and advocated. Tbe
.pamphlet is ti satisfactory and complete
refutation of the bitter assaults made by
Bourbon or Grant Democrats against
Mr. Greeley, as being the personation of
Radicalism and the persistent antagonist
oi?c very Democratic principle. We defy
?ny candid and intelligent person to
.lead these artioles, written by Mr. Gree?
ley from after the 10th of April, 18G5,
and t?ony that Horaoe Greeley bas been
'the consistent and earnest friend of the
South; and what is more, has urgod no
.measures of reconstruction which were
not based upon the broadest philan?
thropy and purest patriotism. He has
beon right from the first and invariably
-since. The South and the Democratic
party has been wrong frequently, and
'there it is where we have clashed and
found an antagonist in Horace Greeley.
He has not done ns a siDgle wrong since
emancipation. He hos failed to sustain
an when we wero wrong, in matters in
.which we can see that we are wrong.
We should respect and esteem him the
.morefor it.
'On the 10th day of April, 18G5, the
'dav-after General Lee surrender ed, Mr.
.Greeley comes out in an article headed
?..Magnanimity in Triumph," in which
he assumes the same attitude and tone
of reconciliation to the conquered South
aa that now maintained by the Liberal
^Republican movement, of which he is
Ibo standard bearer. Liberal Republi?
canism is nothing more than the deve?
lopment of those same ideas, ibo samo
feelings of friendship for the South and
desire for a genuine re-nnion of the
States, which filled the mind and warmed
the big heart of honest old Horaoe
seven years ago. In the article referred
to, after speaking in deprecatory terms
of the efforts which were being made to
swerve Mr. Lincoln from his purpose of
issuing a proclamation of amnesty to the
.Confederates, and ??o instigate him, in?
stead, to institute proceedings to puni- u
th a more prominent of our Southern
leaders, Mr. Greeley writes ns follows:
"Nor can wo agree with those who
would punish the original plotters of
secession, yet spare their ultimate and
scarcely willing converts. Ou the con?
trary, .while we would revive or inflame
resentment against none of them, we
feel far less antipathy to the original up?
holders of 'the resolutions of 1798,' to
? the disciples of Calhoun and MoDuffie,
to the nullifiers of 1832, and the 'States
rights* men of 1860, than to the John
Bells. Humphrey Marshalls and Alexan?
der H. H. Stuarts, who were schooled io
the national faith, and who, in becoming
disanionists and rebels, trampled on the
professions of a life time and spurned
the logio wherewith they bad so often
demonstrated that accession was trea?
son." **??**
"We plead against passions certain at
this moment to be fierce and intolerant;
.bat on oar side are the ages and the
voice of history. We plead for a resto?
ration of the Union, against a policy
which would afford a momentary gratifi?
cation at the oost of years of perilous
?ate and bitterness.
"'Wo have borne for a quarter of a
ooo tu ry the unjust imputation of hating
the Sooth, when we hated and sought to
subvert only slavery, the scourge alike of
South and North-and the sole cause of
discord between them. We have done
what we could-of conree, not always
ojriaeJy-to baffle, to circumscribe-, and
ultimately to overthrow the slave power.
At length, through a snooession of
?vents which no hi man being could have
devised or foreseen, tho end wbioh we
sincerely hoped but hardly expected to
see, is plainly before ns. American
slavery is visibly in the agonies of disso?
lution; if we lire a year longer, we shall
almost certainly see it laid in the grave;
snd, whenever abolished here, its expul?
sion from the last rood of Christendom
that it now curses cannot be postponed
/fiveyears. Let us take care that no vin
-dio ti ve impulse shall bo suffered to im?
peril this glori?os consummation.
-"Those who invoke military oxeoution
tor the vanquished, or even for their
leaders, we suspeot, will not generally bo
found among the few who have long been
-exposed to unjust odium as haters of the
South, because they abhorred slavery.
.And, as to the long oppressed and de?
graded blaoks, so lately the slaves, des?
tined still to be the neighbors, and we
'trust at no distant day the fellow-citizens
.of tbe SoQtborn whites, weare sure their
roi co, could it be authentically ottered,
would ring ont decidedly, sonorously, on
the side of clemency-of humanity."
Tt is to Greeley and other genuine
lovers of the Union and of their brother
man, to whom we are indebted for the
escape of oar most worthy citizens from
the ignominious execution which Radical
hate and fanaticism desired to oonaign
them, and for the saving, too, of what
little property was left oar people from
confiscation. Grant WUB of the number
at that time. Proud of his unexpected
fame, the hero of the Union, and in?
debted for his glory to General Lee, he
was inolined, or seemed to be inolined,
to aot magnanimously, and not the part
of champion to his fallon foes. But he
fell from that high estate. The entice?
ments of office and power and the bland?
ishments of flatterers and sycophants
led him from the path of honor. The
sparks of a higher ambition which
brightened his life after Appomattox
wcro smothered in the sordid lusts of
pelf and political aggrandizement after
he waa made President. Where the
shattered Sooth had once looked for her
staunchest protector, sho foaad her
ohief spoliator. Tho time for execution
of Southern leaders and public conGaea -
tion wu? past, but Grant has done the
worst he contd, or that the most malig?
nant, venomous hater of the South
could desiro. The South has Dot been
confiscated to the Government, bat mil?
lions of its property has been given to
thievish carpet-baggers. It has been
beset, bedeviled, plundered and perse?
cuted with the most relentless hatred,
and Grant is tho man responsible for it;
for he and he only had the power to pre?
vent it. Bat he would not. They have
been his instrumenta who have done
those damnable things, and the work is
his. Grant was with Greeley in '66, but
he left him, and has taken counsel rather
of Morton, Beast Butler and others each
as they. Greeley stands to-day where
he stood tho day after Lee's surrender,
and hos stood ever since, the advocate
of complete amnesty and renewed friend?
ship to the South and of the protection
and enTranohisoment of the blacks. The
following is an extract from an article
following the one before oited:
* * * ??yye entreat the President
promptly to do and dare in the cause of
magnanimity. The Southern mind is
now open to kindness, and may be mag?
netically affected by generosity. Lut
assurance at onoo be given that there is
to be a general amnesty, and no general
confiscation. This is none the less the
dictate of wisdom, because it is also the
dictate of mercy. What we ask is, that
the President say, in effect, 'Slavery
having, through rebellion, committed
suicide, let the North and the South
unite to bury the carcass, and then clasp
han'lo across tl i grave."
We could go on and fill our paper with
such extracts fren the pamphlet we have
in hand. T" 3outh wants no better
friend. * .jre reliable man for Presi?
de* . .t.AU.ltlorace'Grecley.
G BANT IN BEAUFORT COUNTY.-From
all accounts the nominee of the Phila?
delphia Convention is not held in favor
in Beaufort, which embraces a large Re?
publican voting population. A gentle?
man, a Republican at that, from there a
day or two ago, said that at a recent
publio meeting only ono man threw up
his hat for Grant, and very soon after
tried to get oat of the strait he had got
into by so doing. That maa was a
Federal office-holder.
? * ??->
FATAL ACCIDENT.-A terrible accident
occurred at the Anderson Depot on last
Saturday afternoon, resulting in the
death of Mr. Banders Smith, a well
known sohool teacher of this County.
It seems that Mr. Smith was desirous of
taking the train for Belton at half-past
2 o'olook, and went to the depot for that
purpose. He was considerably intoxi?
cated, and went near the edge of the
platform. The oars were being shifted
at the time, and the freight oars were ran
oat oa the track next to the platform
with the intention of leaving tba hind?
most car. When this was "oat off" from
the train, one of the hands called oat "all
right," as is oastomary, and it is sap
posed that Mr. Smith concluded that this
signal meant to get aboard, wbioh he at?
tempted jost as the train moved rather
briskly, when the oar striking him, he
was thrown down next to the platform,
and was caught between the oar and the
platform, in which position he was
tamed round several times within a
spaoe of less than six inches, crashing
him most horribly, and breaking his left
arm and right thigh. Although the
alarm was instantly given, the train
could not be stopped until the entire
length of the oar was passed, with the
unfortunate man being crashed within
this narrow space. His mangled body
was taken into the reception room of the
depot, where he breathed bio last in a
short time.-Anderson Intelligencer.
DEATHS.-Mr. John China, another
venerable citizen of this community,
breathed his last on Sunday, tho 9th
inst. Mr. China was widely known, not
only among the people of this County,
but to the traveling public, having boon
for many years the proprietor of tho
old Sumter Hotel.-Sumter News.
Muslnpha Pincknoy, a colored boy,
wss drowned in Cooper River, last Sun?
day, while bathing.
Tbere were thirty-three deaths in
Charleston, for the week ending the
8th-whites twelve; colored twenty-one.
Judge Orr Blakes ? Speech.
Yesterday afternoon hand-bills were
distributed on the streets, announcing,
in mammoth letters, that James L. Orr
would deliver an address on the subject
of the Philadelphia Convention and its
nominees, at Carolina Hall, at half-past
8 o'clock P. M. The important an?
nouncement was not circulated suffi?
ciently, we presume, for ?there was not
so large an audience present as generally
attendu a one-borne Radical pow-wow.
The ball, however, was pretty well filled
with oolored folks of the masculine per?
suasion, and there was a tolerably fair
sprinkling of whites on tho front seats.
The Judge, who was rosy and lookad
hot, seemed to labor considerably, as bu
spoke in that hard, dry, metallic and
jerky tono characteristic of him. Per?
haps we judged with a jaundiced mind,
but we thought the Judge made a very
poor speech. Judge Orr is never elo?
quent, nor even smooth and pleasing in
his diction, not to speak of his grammar;
but ho is generally sensible, direct sud
forcible in what bo has to say. What ho
does know, he knows thoroughly and
practically, and can present in a con?
vincing manner. We presume he didn't
know much about Qrant that is good,
for he failed to show it.
The Judge spoke of the Philadelphia
Convention, and the wonderful Grant
enthusiasm which pervaded it. He hud
never before, during his long political
career-to which be frequently alluded
seen such an overpowering gush of devo?
tion to any publio mao us was mani?
fested towards Grant at Philadelphia.
One thing that struck him as remarka?
ble, was the singular unanimity with
which all tho delegates went for Grant,
and this, together with what he saw aud
heard at New York and Washington,
and elsewhere, convinced him that,
unless all indications were deceptive,
Grant waB sure to be elected in Novem?
ber.
The Judge then launched off into a
straggling eulogy upon Grant, which
was tremendous in design, but failed la?
mentably iu exeoution. As a eulogist,
Judge Orr is not a success, or else his
subject was a bad one, and he is too
much of a Washington to lie with grace
or facility. We rather think that both
causes combined to render this portion
of the Judge's speeoh particularly drag?
ging and laborious. It put one in mind
of a bulky horse, or an over-laden one.
He made desperate lunges, now and then
tightened the chains, burst the hnme
strings, and onoe plunged clear out of
harness when he called Grant a "soldier
and a gentleman." Rut he wiped bis
face and tried it again, and finally suc?
ceeded in lugging Grant from Fort Do?
naldson to Appomattox Oourt House,
showing him a pretty good soldier, il
not a gentleman, all the way.
It had been well for tbe Judge if he
had left Grant at Appomattox, where he
had succeeded in getting him sound in
health and fuir in reputation. Rut thc
fates ordered otherwise, aod tho Judge,
doubtless with an oppressed sigh, hi tehee
on to his hero again, and tugged him tc
the White House, and through it. He
bogged at nepotism, floundered ut gift
taking, and finally tumbled himself.
Grunt aud all headlong into the chaste
created by tho suspension of habeai
corpus. On the subject of Grant's nepo
tism, tho Judgo tried to be legal ant
eyllogistioul, and ended in being verj
silly. He begged tho question aud mad;
no case, auy way.
If, he said, Grant's relatives whom h<
bas appointed are competent, he baa ai
much right to appoint them as anybody
else. The only obligation that Gram
owed tho people was that the public
service should be properly managed, aoc
if his relatives answered tbe purpose, i
was nobody's business.
We advise Judge Orr to read Sumner'i
speech ag ?D, and see there with wha
abhorrence Washington, Jefferson anc
other great and good men looked opoi
this disgraceful offenoe of nepotism. Wt
know, though, that Judgo Orr did no'
mean what be said here. He was play
ing the roi? of the advooato rather thai
the conscientious Judge, and he ough
to be ashamed to instill such false senti
meats into the hearts of Iiis coloree
hearers, who were listening attentively
aud receiving as gospel every word hi
uttered.
Judgo Orr bas been Governor of Sontl
Carolina, and had offices and appoint
ments in his gift. Was he in the Imbi
of appointing his relatives to office'
We think not. We bave heard it sait
in his praise that he was not, but on tin
contrary was scrupulously exact ii
avoiding all appearanoo of evil io thii
respect. Wo do not know, oor have wi
ever heard, of a single relative of his
and he bas a legion-whom be appointee
to office while Governor of this State
The samo reasons that dissuaded bin
from aoting tho nepotist, should han
made bim blush when he attempted ti
justify Grant's condnot in this regan
before an ignoiant people.
We hope he bas not obanged his
wholesome views on tbis subject since
he tamed Republican; and if he has not,
he is inexcuBuble in justifying that in
another which be would be ashamed to
do himself. On the subject of Grant's
gift-taking, the Judge was soaraely more
pleasing, and even less ooovincing, than
on nepotism.
When ho reached tho Ku Rlax out?
rages, the Judgo put on all his mettle.
He hnd evidently crammed on this sub?
ject probably from somo of the edito?
rials of our Ku Klux martyr across the
way.
But wo must close our comments hero
on account of the lateness of the hour.
On the subject of State affairs, Judgo
Orr spoke but a few words at the wind?
ing up. He advised tho colored people
to send only honest men to the nomi?
nating convention, end vote only for
honest officiais. Hu said that the State
Government sadly needed amendment,
and was the cause of much anxiety to
the party ut large. Governor Scott, who
was sitting in front of the speuker, put
on a dry grin here. Ho evidently
thought tho Judgo was getting personal
in bis remarks.
? -??-?
TnE GIFT-TAKEII ACCEPTS.-Tho fol?
lowing is Grant's letter of uccuptance of
thu Bread and Butter nomination:
WASUINGTON, Juno 10, 1872.
HON. THOMAS SETTLE, PRESIDENT OF
TUE NATIONAL IIEPUDLICAN CONVENTION:
Your lutter of this dule, advising of tho
action of the Convention held in Phila?
delphia, cn thu 5th uud Gth of the mouth,
and of my uuuuimous renomination for
the Presidency, is received. I nccept
the nomination, and through you return
my heart-felt thanks to your constitu?
ents for this murk of their confidence
and support.
If elected in November, and protected
by a kind Providence in health and
strength to perform the duties of the
high trust couferrud, I promise the same
zuul and devotion to the good of the
whole people for the future of my of?
ficial lifo as shown in the past. Past ex?
perience muy guide me in avoiding mis?
takes inevitable with novices in ull pro?
fessions and in all occupations.
When relieved from the responsibili?
ties of my present trust by the election
of a successor, whether it be at the end
of this term or the next, I hope to leave
to him, as Executive, a country at peace
in ita own borders, at peace with outside
nations, with a credit at home aud
abroad, and without embarrassing ques?
tions to threaten its future prosperity.
With the expression of a desire to see
a speedy healing of bitterness of feeling
between sections, parties, or races of
citizens, and the time when the title of
citizen carries with it all tbe protection
uud privileges to the humblest that it
does tho most exalted, I subscribo my?
self, most respectfully, your obedieut
servant, U. S. GRANT.
By way of comment, the Richmond
Enquirer observes:
We bad no idea he would accept.
Who could have thought he would take
anything of so little vaine, and with
thanks? But he has really written a
lutter, and it is all of bis own composi?
tion. It bas his unmistakable ear-marks.
No one else could huve manifested such
self-complacent egotism, profound stu?
pidity and unblushing impudence, tte
speaks of his zeal und devotion to the
good of the whole people. That is a
very grim Presidential joke, and bis sa?
tanic majesty, who stood at our Presi?
dent's elbow, must have grinned sar?
donically as hu prompted this "devilish
inaccuracy."
Tho idea of a Prosidtnt confessing
that he entered upon his duties a mere
novice four years ugo, and laying all the
blame of his mismanagement upou his
want of experience! Great heavens!
what bas tho republic como toi Thu
vuiy idea of our Government was based
upon tho necessity of a person ex?
perience being iu the President's chair
a man who had learned the art of go?
verning a country.
It was not created as a school for
novices and tyros-a place for young ap?
prentices -to experiment in. This is
Healthy. We havo been ia the hands of
a novice for the last five years] He has
just begun to leam what his duties are,
and we must keep him four years longer,
that wo may got tho benefits of his ex?
perience acquired at our expense, and at
tho expense of our murdered institu?
tions. Wo think it time we dispensed
with this journeyman or apprentice, and
selected a master workman for the posi?
tion.
Wo understand a committee of gentle?
men-practical cotton planters-will
shortly take a trip of some seventeen
miles over on the "Dark Corner" side of
the District, to witness an uourual ano?
maly in the cotton plant thus early in the
si'ason, which we aro assured by Mr.
Press Blackwell, and other reliable gen?
tlemen, is already bursting its bolls and
will soon bo ready for the nimble fingers
of the cotton piokers. Wo hope to send
a reporter with fchis sight-seeing and in?
vestigating committee, and will present
oar readers with a full description of this
now species of cotton, whioh is now ex?
citing considerable comment among cot?
ton planters. Mr. B. tells us that ail tbe
seed of this wonderful cotton have been
engaged ut fabulous prices.
f Rdge?-?d Advertiser.
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A coroner's jory was summoned yester?
day morning to hold an inquest upon
the body of an infant child, whioh had
been found in the viein ty of the poor
bouse.-Augusta Constitutionalist.
Tbe post office formerly at Clear
Spring, in Greenville County, has boen
ru opened, mid Mr. Robert League ap?
pointed postmaster.
Eiooal Items.
m ? m
GiTT MATTERS.-The price of single
copies of the PHOENIX is five cents.
Defaulting city tax-payers will bear ?D
mind that to-day is the last day of grace.
All taxes unpaid to-morrow will have the
penalty added.
The agricultural meeting announced
for yesterday afternoon bas been post?
poned until Saturday.
Brookbanks bas a fresh lot of oranges.
They uro largo, Bwcct and juicy.
Our readors oan hod nothing which
tends to fill tho home circle with such
cheerful faces and happy hearts as the
cultivation of music around the fireside.
Whitney's Musical Ouest is doiog much
towards the advancement of this beauti?
ful art. It gives in every number music
worth more than the subscription price
per year-SI. Send ten cents for a spe?
cimen copy and satisfy yourselves. Ad?
dress W. W. Whitney, Toledo, Ohio.
Governor Scott bas re-appointed E. li.
Losesno and Samuel T. Cooper Trial
Justices for Williamsburg County; P?.
H. Carlton for Beaufort County, and ap?
pointed Melton Wallace a Trial Justice
for Uuion County.
The following is the programme of
music by tho band of the 18th United
States Infantry for this afternoon:
No. 1-Rifle Club March, by Buch.
No. 2-Duetto Opera Semiramide, by
Rossini.
No. 3-Potito Polka, by Faust.
No. 4-Selections from J_iaPerichole,
by Offenbach.
No. 5-Leap Year Galop, by Samuels.
There is a colored man in the City
Hospital who claims to be 111 years old.
The Charleston Nc tc s states that De?
tective Hendricks made a brutal assault
on Mr. John Moroso, of the Courier, on
Wednesday last, in the public street.
The provocation was the publication of
his arrest in Atlanta, Ga., recently.
Mr. W. H. Trezevant was carried to
Charleston, last night, to appear before
Judge Bryan, this morning, under a
writ of habeas corpus. Several gentle?
men from Chester will testify in bis be?
half.
Spring chickens have sprung up very
high in our markets, and there is no
guessing when they will come down.
CuAniiESTOii REPUBLICAN.-We have
received a circular of this journal, in
which it invitee encouragement and sup?
port. We make the following extract,
which explains its position better than
wo cao :
"The Republican is firm in its advocacy
of the Liberal nominees at Cincinnati,
thoroughly endorsing the platform there
adopted; and, in the approaching cam?
paign, will lead its influence among thc
members of its party to secure a change
in tbe administration of the State, striv?
ing to placG in power those above re?
proach, battling for an honest reform, r
diminution of tho taxes, and the protea
tion of tbe citizen in every capacity,
In fact, atriviug to placo in power those
against whom a word of doubt bas nevei
been raised, and whom every citizen cai
thoroughly endorse.
PHOXIXIANA.-Engagement braceleti
aro the latest novelty. They aro placet
on the lady's arm as soon as papa hai
given bis consent, and locked on with i
small gold key.
An old revolver-Tho earth. Hop cul
turibts-Dancing masters. The disease
from which our journals suffer most
Rumor-tism.
A gentleman who was buying a watel
to replace one that had been stolen fron
bim remarked th; t he was "making n]
for lost time."
What Bort of ascent is descent? A tri]
up, for it brings you down.
The dead are never ill. Consequent
ly all diseases may be classified as affec
tiona of tbe liver.
''Forever" in the rhetoric of a woman'
affection, is a sentimental hyperbol
meaning a period of exactly two mouthe
When a house barns down it barn
up; when you drink a glassful you drin!
it empty; and when you take a car i
takes you.
We are told that "California lawyen
assert the legality of wife-beating." I
may bo legal, but it strikes us as beioi
in rather bad taste.
Smiggles says that the most thrillin
tale be ever listened to was that of a ral
tlesnake.
Dr. Johnson is reported to have sal
that a second marriage is the triumph c
bope over lore.
ID Paris 21,056 babies are "farmed
out every year. Maternal iosensibilit
?nd fashion aro the causes.
Through a correspondence based o
matrimonial advertisements, a youri
man in Louisville, Ky., rcosntly pre
poaod marriage to bis sister and was at
[jppted.
A Greeley Republican Club has bee
formed at Springfield, 111., that airead
?umbers 200 members-all Republican!
iTet we aro told by some people that ther
tiu't any Greeley Republicans.
"No oow8, no cream," was tbe way ai
intelligent compositor set np the word
"No croBB, no crown."
O un AGENTS IN OHABTJBSTON.-The
advertising agency of Messrs. Walker,
Evans & Cogswell, represented by Bos?
well T. Logan, Esq., is the only author?
ized agency for this paper in Charleston.
MAIL Aim ANO EM ENTH.-The Northern
mail opona at 2.30 P. M.; closes 10.45
A. M. Oharleston day mail opens 4.30
P. M.; oloses 6.00 ?. M. Charleston
night mail opens 7.15 A. M.; closes 6.00
P. M. Oreen ville mail opens 6.45 P.
M. ; oloses 6.00 A. M. Western mail
opens 12.30 A. M.; oloses 12.30 P. M.
Wilmington mail opens 2.30 P. M.:
oloses 10.30 A. M. On Sunday office
open from 3 to 4 P. M.
HONOR TO WHOM HONOB is DUE.-In
our issue, of yesterday, we made an?
nouncement of tho successful examina?
tion of several of our fellow-townsmen
as pharmaceutists, and regret that we
omitted our young friend, Mr. S. F.
McGregor. His examination was as
completo and fully as creditable SB that
of his compeers, though we believe ho
is their junior by several years. He re?
ceived his diploma, and is now as well
qualified to componnd a prescription or
prescribe a compound ns any other
druggist We referred to Mr. W. C.
McGregor in yesterday's issue.
SUIT AGAINST THE STATE TBEASUBEB.
The examination of Niles G. Parker,
State Treasurer, was commenced yester?
day, before John T. Bhett, Esq., as ie*
feree, appointed by his Honor Judge
Willard, to take the testimony in the
caso of T. J. & H. M. Gibson and Wm.
B. Guliok, against the said State Trea?
surer. The plaintiffs are represented by
Messrs. Pope & Haskell, and the de?
fendant by Mr. C. D. Melton and Mr.
Chamberlain. The defendant not being
ready to proceed, the case was adjourned
over ti) this morning, at half-past 10
o'clock. It is understood that the exa?
mination will be conducted at the State
House, so as to permit the Treasurer to
be near to his office, as the investigation
may be protracted, and probably will
be for days. Well, there is enongh to
do. Let it all come out. We believe
that Jndge Willard means to probe this
thing to the bottom. And every good
citizen in South Carolina will say "God
speed!" There is no politics in this
matter. It is law and order.
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
P. Cantwell-Lemon Sugar.
B. L. Bryan-Map Frames.
Phoenix Hook and I .adder Company.
Jacob Levin-Corn.
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
DUTCHEB'8 LIGHTNING FLY-KILLER
sweeps them off and clears the house
speedily. Try it. Sold by dealers every?
where. A 30 tlj2m
HOTEL ABBIVALB, June 18, 1872.-Nickerson
JIouse-E B Wesley, N Y; K B Calhoun, 8 C;
J O I lanko 11, wife, three children and servant,
Mrs J lt Chivea, Savannah; A 8 Buford and
wife, richmond; W J Yates, W Johnaton, N
O; L Smith, Atlanta; B D Townsend, Society
Hill; Q E Lee, Jr, wife and child, 8 C; JU
Piolert, N J; B M Harris. N Y; Mrs Edwards,
Mrs Jndge Murry. Anderson; F D Bush,
Greenville.
Columbia Hotel-S Kuhn, Philadelphia; C F
Brem, NU; WM Beynolds, Qa; H D ailbert,
O PCutchett, Wilmington; Geo Addison, 8 O
Gilbert, J M Brawley, A ti Magrath, A Doug?
lass. W D Kennedy, H C Mazyck, Charleston;
E M Clayton, O 8 Clav ton, Walhalla; W O
Fergus, Baltimore; T 8 Mille, A H Davega. W
Nicholson, B H Jordan, J W Walker, Chester;
J W Walker, NY; JA Cbambliss, Bichmond.
FATAL SHOOTING AFFBAY.-A Spaniard,
named Francisco Victor Yeldes, and a
young Cuban-Jose Perez-were discus?
sing the independence of Coba last
evening, in Market, near Meeting street.
Tbe discussion became very warm, when
Veldes called Perez a "traitor." Pistols
were immediately brought into requisi?
tion, and rapid firing commenced.
Seven ehots were exchanged, when the
young Cuban fell, having been shot in
the right lang. He was taken into the
store of Joss Jara, at the corner of
Market and Meeting streets, and laid on
the floor. Dra. Davega and Robertson,
Jr., SAW him as soon as possible, and pro?
nounced the wound fatal.
Lieut. Chapman, of the police force,
who happened to be in the vicinity, took
immediate oharge of the murdered man,
and sent him to the City Hospital in an
ambnlance. He had scarcely been laid
in a bed ia one of the wards of the insti?
tution when he expired. Valdez, who
had left the sceno as soon after the firing
as possible, was sought after by Lieut.
Chapman in every direction, and at
quarter of 12 o'clock, was arrested in a
boase in George street, and taken to the
gnard house. The affair caused consid?r?
able exoitement, and drew a large orowd.
[Charleston Courier.
Tho I biladelpbia Presssaya: "Alargo
number of thieves and disreputable cha?
racters generally aro arriving in the oity
to prey upon the strangers who will visit
the convention." These thieves and dis?
reputable characters should have been
content with the privilege of preying
upon the Government for the last three
yean, without going to Philadelphia to
prey upon strangers and reno mi nate
Grant.-Courier-Journal.
TBNNIE GETS A COMMAND AT LAST.
Tonnie C. Claflin haviug failed to seoure
tho election to the colonIcey of Fisk's re?
dmont, the Ninth New York, has been
jhosen to command tho Veteran Guards,
i colored organization, and has accept
sd. This command has been in exist
:nce two years, and numbers about 150
nembers. Colonel Claflin will formally
kssumo command on Wednesday next.