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COLUMBIA. S. C. Sunday Morninjr, July 7, 1872. Immigration. "There are now 45,000 emigrants loar? ing the ports of France for the Argen? tine Confederation every year. Yon can have an equal number for Georgia when? ever yon set at work seriously. The above is an extraot from an inte? resting letter written by M. Edmond Farrene, editor of the Journal Officiel, of Paris, to Gol. Sch?ller, of Athens, Qa., and published id a late number pf the Southern Farm and Borne. We can sub? stitute South Carolina for Georgia and the paragraph will apply equally well to us. It is useless to discuss the benefits which would acoruo to our State if we could direct au active current of immi? gration to her borders. Ever since the war our people seem to have been ear ' neatly impressed with the importnnoo of the subject. From the general desire a number of sobomes have originated to introduce ^European emigrants into oar State. But they have all practically amounted to nothing. It appears to us that, South Carolina affords : every inducement conceivable, except that of a good government, (and thin wo aro bound to have in a few years,) to a thrifty and industrious emigrant. Our climate is unsurpassed in geniality and healthfulness. Land is more abund? ant in proportion to population, and cheaper, than in any of the older States bf the Union, and the soil is capable of being brought to the highest point of fertility at comparatively small oost. We have fine water, an abundance of valua? ble water powers, great railroad facili? ties, excellent sea-ports; indeed, our State possesses every requisite to com? pete advantageously in either of the three great branches of haman industry agriculture, commerce or manufactures. Moreover, there is a unanimous desire on the part of our people' to invite and welcome'tho industrious laborer or enter? prising Capitalist, from any quarter of the globe, to mako his home in our midst. } The reason of oar failure heretofore in'the "varions'plans whioh liave been partially tried to bring in immigrants, seems to ns to lie in the fact that we have sought for laborers rather.than set? tlers. The prevalent idea has been to suppl?ment the insufficient negro labor with white men, of the laboring classes, from the more crowded oommanities of the old world. This it is impossible to do, so long as there remain millions of acres in the more fertile West open and ready to furnish a home and farm of his own to every oue who will seek it. No man will be the servant of another if he eau engage in the same kind of business on his own responsibility, with equal or greater prospects of profit. This is why negro labor is found so inadequate at the present time. There are as many colored . people in- the State as there were in times of slavery, aqd there is but a small fraction less of them engaged now, as then, in agricultural labor.. i Bot land is so plentiful, and conse , quently so cheap, both for p?rcbase and for rent, that large numbers Of the colored laborers,' so soon'as they can muster an old mule or an ox, and get a small modicum of provisions ab'ead, pre? fer to farm, as they term it, apon their own hook. Those that are steady and industrious do well. The most of them, on account of idleness, or from laok of sufficient means, or from want of foresight, lead a sorry life, accumulating not as mach as if they worked for wages, and having lesa of the comforts of life about them. Bat they prefer it, because it is more in? dependent. White men would be even more strongly induced by the same motives to the same conrse. They will not como here and work aa common farm laborers for other men. Bnt we can see no reason why they would not como os set? tlers, if proper indaoemonts are held out to them. A farm in South Carolina, if it oould be ?ad on anything Uko the same terms, must prove more attractive than one in the unsettled West, where civilization has bat recently set its foot. ' - Now, there is scarcely a land owner In this State bot who has two and three, and some of them ten, times as ranch lancf as he can cultivate, or render iu any - way profitable. Thia surplus land sim? ply eats ap, in the way of taxes, tho profits pf the balonoe. Why,'then, could not our land owners appropriate a cor. tain portion of their lands, say one-third or one-fourth, to aid immigration pui> poses. Let commissioners, for instance, be' "Pkuntod by the different County agri oultui?i societies to survey abd value the lan?a which the owners may be thus Willing to dispose of, and agreements be entered into for their convey ?noe to im migrants. After this work bad been done, and the Ianda and hornea provided, sorely it would not be, a difficult task for the Board of Immigration, which, we be? lieve, is attaobed io the State Agricul? tural Association, to get the necessary settlers. If our people are really in earnest in their desire for immigrants, the plan is not impracticable. ' **?*>?? The Baltimore Gazelle has drawn np a bill cf indictment against "The Man on Horseback," whose mortal semblance was unrolled by the wire-pullers at the Philadelphia Convention, all booted and spurred, apparently In the act of prepar? ing to ride rough-shod over the people. The counts in the indictment may bo abbreviated thus: He has oppressed the citizens with a swam of spies, oorraptionists and office? holders; be has rewarded the infamous doings of bis appointees and punished those who proved faithful to the coun? try; he attempted to bay San Domingo for the benefit of speculators, and re? venged himoelf for his defeat in the in? famous swindle by causing Sumner to be deposed from the Chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and had an unfit person appointed in his stead; he paoked the Supreme Bench with partisan judges to reverse the legal tender decision, in tho interest of wealthy corporations; he exacted dictatorial pow? ers from Congress to oppress the South? ern people; he paroeled ont offices to relatives, regardless of fitness; he has interfered with looal politics in Missouri, Louisiana and elsewhere; his namo was suspiciously mixed np with gold specu? lations on Black Friday; to serve his in? terests, important records of the War Department have mysteriously disap? peared; he dismissed Grinnell in favor of the notorious Tom. Murphy in New York, and connived at the use of Gatlin guns in New Orleans; by nature self willed, by training despotio, the associate of adventurers and absorber of gifts, this man on horseback, BO tenderly de? scribed by the New York Times, is not the man whom the people will again trust with the large franchises of the Presidential office. WAR WITHOUT END.-The organs of the Administration have already begun to publish Ku Klux stories. North Ca? rolina, ' where the first Congressional elections are to. take' place, is the scene of the imaginary outrages which have at last .aroused the indignation of the Grant?tes. A horrible state of things exists in the good old North State, ac? cording to the Grant papers, and no? thing but the re-'eleotion of Grant him? self can-put down the North Carolina Ku Klux. These outrages will be transferred to other Southern States as soon as the eleotions are over in North Carolina. They' are invented to arouse a spirit of hostility to the South in the breasts of the Northern people, and thus to secure the re-election of General Grant. We shall never have peace until the corrupt party at present ruling the coun? try! shall have been turned ont of the offices. If the Northern people want to get rid p( these harrowing stories, let them voto ?or Greeley. The trial' of Stokes, Fisk's assassin, drags its slow length along in the Court of Oyer and Terminer. A week was spent in obtaining a jary, and now thal a jory has been found perhaps a month will be spent in the trial. Money, with? out stint, will be applied on either side. Every possible effort will be made by tho prosecution to hasten the verdict, while all manner of subterfuges will be resorted to by the defence to postpone it. The jurymen are to be pitied. The Ku Klux outrage upon Mr. Set tie, in North Carolina, has settled dowr to this: Mr. Settle began an aoaount of hit stewardship at Philadelphia and else where, and "the Ku Klux began askinf impertinent questions." This is cor tain ly hot an unusual oconrrenoe in po litioal meetings. Some of the questions however, were only too pertinent. On* depraved villain interrupted the loya flow of the Judge's eloquence by asking "Where were yon whenseoession began?' The Judge retorted by a sarcastic refer ence to the interrupter's stature, and thi little man suggested that if Mr. Settb would come down from the stand, thej could promptly deoide their relativ? physical value. Mr. Settle deolined tbii ordeal, : which was a proper and pruden thing to do, and there was no furthe disturbance, except loud oheers for Gree ley at the close of the meeting. James Black, often called "Blinc Jack," tho celebrated maker of the firs bowie knife, died at the residence o Col. D. W. Jones, at Hempstead, Ark. on the 28th ot June. ' A Pennsylvania paper oorreots an i ten abolit the inhuman murder of a moths by her son. It says the victim was bi mother-in-law, and so of course the deei was ezoosable. Proceedings of Council. SPECIAL- MEETING. COUNCIL C HAMB KB, COLUMBIA, B.C., Joly5, 1872. Counoil mot at 7.30 P. M. Present-His Honor the Mayor; Alder? men Carpenter, Ijowndee, Thompson, Mitchel], Carroll, H?ge, Wilder, Carr, Williams and Cooper. Absent-Alder? men Griffin and Young. The Mayor stated that he had called tho Council together to hear the report of tho committee on. the hew market, and for Council to 'taite some notion in the matter. .' The report of tho committee was read by Alderman Carpenter, sud the reasons for their recommendations explained by him fully. Motion by Alderman H?ge, to post? pone action, aurl to summons Messrs. Smith and Simons, contractors, to ap? pear before the Council on next Wednes? day evening, to give them an opportu? nity to explain the report submitted by them to the committee. Adopted. MotioD, by Alderman Carroll, to ad? journ. Adopted. CHAS. BARNUM, City Clerk. The following is tho announcement of the death of Hon. Charles M. Furman, of Charleston, by the Grand Master of tho Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Masons, of South Caro? lina: OFFICE M. W. GBAND MASTER, G. E., CHARLESTON, July 3, A. L., 5872. It is my painful duty to announce to the craft of this State that, on tho 2d inst., Most Worshipful Charles M. Fur man, Post Grand Master of the Graud Lodge of South Carolina, one of the most fervent worshippers nt our altars, passed boyond these vails into a higher temple "not made with hands." A life of such extended usefulness and purity, so rich in all that makes a full and noble manhood, asks no eulogy. Nor could we bestow a fitting one while we bend under the first shock of bereavement. While our hearts are stricken with Bor? row, we can only remember how we shall miss tho venerable form, the warm hand? clasp, the wise counsel, the temperate judgment, and "That beat portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acta Of kindness and of love." When time shall sear over our now bleeding wounds, fitting hands will gather up the threads of this broken life and weave them into a web of harmony and beauty. But that wo may give some expression to our sorrow, I recommend to the craft throughout tho entire State that our jewels and the horne of our altars bo draped iu mourning for the space of sixty days, and as we bewail our fallen chief, may we emulate the virtues we are BO proud to remember. . R. S. BRUNS, Grund Muster. "Picket," tho correspondent of the Charleston Netts, interviewed Judge Orr, nt Anderson, tho other day. Ho also visited Abbeville County. We make the following extract from his letter. We will take occasion hereafter to notice at length his interview with Judge Orr: "In Abbeville County political affairs appear to be lively. There the United Brethren flourish largely, and excited political meetings are held io different parts of the County almost nightly. Every effort is 'made to array the black men in hostility cgaicst the whites. A few nights ago one office-holder, whoae most prominent exploitsince he deserted from the Confederate army was robbing the County Treasurer's safe, made a rabid Radical speech about rebels, slavery and Ku Klux, which Frank Moses, who listened to it, declared made his blood ourdie in his veins, and which may, therefore, be assumed to have been a pretty ugly speech. The speakers are mostly, contemptible hounds who impose almost incredibly upon the ignorance of their colored auditors. One sample lie will very aptly illustrate the absurd no? tions with which they fill the beads of the negroes. One of the speakers, a member of the late Legislature, gravely informed his audience that at the last session he offered a bill in the Legisla? ture to establish the price of bacon at ten cents instead of fifteen cents per pound, and that this bill would have be? come a law, and the negroes would have got their bacon for ten couta a pound if it had not been for the opposition of the rival candidate for re-election who had voted against it because he thought ten cents was too low. He promised, however, if be were sent back to the House that be would next winter fix the law so as to bring bacon down to ten cents, and his audience promised to send him there." THE LATEST.-For Governor, Judge James L. Orr; for Liou tenant-Govern or, W. B. Nash; for Secretary of State, B. A. Bose mon; for Comptroller-General, Benjamin TomlinBon; for Treasurer, F. L. Cardozo; for Auditor, Henry Spar nick; for Attorney General, D. H. Cham? berlain; for Superintendent of Educa? tion, F. H. Frost; for Adjutant and In? spector-General, W. J. Whipper. For Governor, F. J. Moses; for Lieu tenant-Goveruor, A. J. Ransier; for Secretary of State, H. E. H ay no, of Marion; for Treasurer, Niles G. Parker; for Comptroller-General, Robert Smalls, Of Beaufort; for Auditor, M. Gary, the .present incumbent; for Attorney-Gene? ral, Judge S. W. Melton; for Superin? tendent of Education, W. H. Jones, of Georgetown; for Adjutant and Inspec? tor-General, June Mobley. Mr. Greeley made a pleasant little speech at Boston Wednesday, and was received with great enthusiasm by the audience in the coliseum. His recep? tion contrasts most forcibly with that given Gen. Grant on a like occasion last week. A hand-to-hand affair-Marriage. APPEAL OF THE JEWS IN RODMAN IA. The Memphis Appeal publishes the fol? lowing from the German of the call the suffering Israelites in Ronmania make upbn their more fortunate brethren in the United States: ISMAIL, ROUMANI*, In the Spring, 1872. BELOVED BRETHREN : With tearful eyes and our hearts weighed down deeply with sorrow, wo desire to give you a brief description of the horrible misfor? tune whioh lately haB broko in upon our innocent congregation. Not for the purpose cf moving your hearts, not to call forth your commisera? tion, nor yet to encourage your charity, for we aro convinced that these are un? necessary; that from tbe first intelligence of our misfortune you have felt our wrongs, even before knowing their eu tire extent; that you have shared our misery without having nuy idea of its magnitude; and that you have mourned and wept over our bard trials and visita? tions with ourselves. No. It is only to exhibit to you our misery in its entire terrible form, to in? form you to the fullest extent of the awful visitation, uud to convince you that a small amount of assistance is in? sufficient to soothe and mitigate our ab? ject misery. The peu refuses to depict tho horrors. Tho heart trembles ut the very thought of the unspeakable misery, uud every fibre quivers ut the recollection of tho fearful terrors through which wu have just passed. The picture is terrible. It recalls to my ininti tho times of the In? quisition, and the horrors of the Paris blood wedding. Like a hoard of wild beasts just escaped from their cages, the mob, goaded to madness by fanatical priests, and instigated to excessive fury by rascally intriguers, flow through tho streets howling for revenge. The mur? derous, blood-thirsty rabble rushed un? restrained from house to bouse, from street to street. Heartless und without pity, they spared neither tottering old age, tbe trembling woman, nor the bube at its mother's breast. Without power for resi?tuuee, our brethren wore subjected to the mast in? human and barbarous treatment. Wives and daughters were outraced before the very eyes of husbands nud pureuts; their houser were plundered, our sanctuaries desecrated, our sacred law-rolls stolen, and even our dead were not spared, but their slumbers disturbed, uud our ceme? tery destroyed. Many succumbed to the wounds they received. Outraged wives and girls hide their dishonor, starving uud freezing iu grave-like cellars. Bick men and women lie, de? void even of a straw bed, in shanties without windows uud doors, with no pillows to rest their hoads, no blanket to cover their feverish bodies. Hun? dreds of unfortunates, robbed of all save the clothes they wear, palo with terror, wander, starving and without shelter, from door to door, from street to street, and beg for succor at the doors of those few who were spared or suffered less than they. We can go no further, overcome by our agony, and rendered destitute of words by the intensity of our sufferings, we can say no more. Brethren, BO far but little bas been done to relieve our misery, to dry the tears of these unfortunates, or to miti? gate their sufferings. Therefore, we to? day appeal to you, dear brethren, HODS of our Father, w ho, like us, pray to the one living God, the God of Israel, tho foun? tain of all love, for whose sake we now Huffer; and as we rely upon Him and His mercy, so do wo hope for your generosi? ty, your goodness and brotherly love, and wo are convinced that we will not be disappointed in countiug upon speedy and efficient assistance at your bauds. Let each give according to bis means, and each who will think of Iiis unfortu? nate and despoiled brethren will deem himself rieh. And DOW, receives iu ad? vance the most heartfelt thanks of our congregation. The sincere prayers of those whom you will assist, the torrents of tears of the widows aud orphans now flowing which you will dry, will cull down tbe richest aud choicest blessings from Heaven upon you, their benefac? tors. ISRAELITIO CULTOS CONGREGATION. A CURIOUS STORY.-An old servaut of Mr. Charles Perkins, (lately deceased,) by the name of Edward Nash, was car? ried to the poor house, a few days since, and remained there under treatment for eleven days, during which time not one mouthful of food passed bis lips, be re? solutely refusing to touch it, saying that be did not desire to live now that bis old master was dead. We are informed he ate nothing for seven days before he was oarried to the poor house, making eighteen days during wbich he syste? matically starved himself. We doubt if there be a more curious case reported by the medical authors, than this one, or a stronger attachment towards one wbo had cared for bim through lifo and from whom he did not desire to be separated eveu by the King of Terrors. [Camden Journal. MARRYING A SAVAGE TO BECOME A MIS? SIONARY.-Tho Kansas City Times of the 29th ult. says that Miss Amanda Bar? ber, who married "Squatting Bear," a oruel Sioux obief, at Washington in 1867, and went to Dakota Territory with ber husband as a missionary, arrived in that oity on the steamer Fontenellc, from Fort Benton, on Friday last. After spending thron years with tho Sioux, suffering gross indignities and being compelled to perform the most menial duties, she attempted to escape, but was recaptured and beaten nearly to death by her husband, and then sold to a Cheyenne chief for three ponys. She was taken North in 1870, and remained with the Cheyeunes nutil this spring, when she escaped to Fort Bonton. Miss Barber left Kansas City on Friday last, for her homo at Milford, Mass. Twisted hemp cures felons. E?ooal Items. Orrx MATTEBS.-The prioe of single copies of the PHOENIX is five cents. The regular mooting of Myrtle Lodge, No, 3, Knights of Pythias, will be held to morrow (Monday) evening, the 8th I inst. We learn that the installation of the semi-annually eleoted officers will take place. The steam mill of Geo. W. Tamer, near the Heard mil), on the Charlotte, Columbia'and Augusta Railroad, was consumed by Ure late Wednesday after? noon. We have been unable to learn the oanse of the fire. His Honor Mayor Alexander has trans? acted considerable business in the Mayor's court the post two days. All (bic) the effects of (hie) the "Glorious Fourth," (hie.) What promised to be a scorching bot day, yesterday, proved to be delight? fully cool, with clouds and rain. Wo have received the following pieces of music from the publishers, Messrs. Ludden & Bate. Savannah, Ga.: "Dolly Varden Galop," "Golden Stars-Six Easy Dauces," "Oh, thut We Two were MayiDg," "Cuecilla March." Tho Baltimore Convention meets on Tuesday next. The military baud will play the pro? gramme Monday which was published Saturday morning. The "Indian Girl" is making a run on the "Little Gums" whioh she has brought into such popular favor. Toa judge of the weed, they cannot fail to give satis? faction. The following is the record of the thermometer at the Pollock House for yesterday: 7 A. M., 71; 12 M., 88;-2 P. M., 82; 7 P.'M., 76. I Mr. Commissioner Boozer informs us that the statement of proceedings in the case of the United States cs. Wm. H. Trezevunt, as published in the Chester Reporter and copied in our issue of yes? terday is partial in its bearing, unfair in its comments and erroneous as to facts. RELIGIOUS SERVICES THIS DAT.-Tri? nity Church-Rev. P. J. Shand, D. D., Rector, ll A. M. and 4 P. M. Lutheran Church-Rev. Prof. Davis, 10,?.< A. M. Marion Street Church-Rev. W.D. Kirkland, 10>? A. M. and 8 P. M. Washington Street Church-Rev. Manning Brown, 10}? A. M. and 5 P. M. Catholic Church-Rev. James Fuller ton, First Mass, nt 7 A. M.; Seconc Mass at 10 A. M. ; Vespers at 4>? P. M, Baptist Church-Rev. J. L. Reynolds, 10}.,' A. M. Presbyterian Church-Rev. Joseph R Wilson, 10J? A. M. REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.-Bj direction of the Republican State Exe cutivo Committee of the State of Soutl Carolina, a convention of the Republi can party of this State is called to mee in the city of Columbia on Wednesday August 21, 1872, at 12 o'clock M., fo the purpose of nominating seven candi dateG, for electors of President and Vice President of the United States, for Go vernor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretar, of State, State Treasurer, Comptroller General, Attorney-General, Adjutant an Inspector-General, State Saperintendea of Education, and for one member e Congress from the State at large. Alse to choose a State Executive Committe of four persons; and one penan frot each County, who shall act as Count Chairman, and one from each Congre: 8?ouul Distriot, who, together, will cot stituto the State Central Committee fe the term of two years from their elei tion, aad whose duty it will be to mi ungo and conduct the ensuing campaigi PHCENIXIANA.-An Illinois man wb sat on a railroad to read the newspupe furnished an item for the next day's c< lnmn of accidents. A paper says: "We have adopted tt eight hour system ia this office. W commence work at 8 o'clock in tl mornincr, and dose at 8 in the evening, Several of our exohanges are remarl ing that "there's a policeman in evei man's conscience, though not always c duty." But is there a conscience i every policeman? that's the question. Henry C. Bowen writes a letter sa ing there was never a convention cor posed of men of higher "social etan ing," than the Grant Convention Philadelphia. How does he get at thc social standing-by Addition, Divisit or Silence? The latest reason for supporting Gra is, that he is "a good citizen, hasbai and father." If so, lot's limit him those functions immediately, for he is blessed poor President. Now is the time to get tho gen tweedie D. D. hung on to the back e of your name. The leso you know ai the more you are known, the more like you are to get it. OUR AGENTS IN CHARLESTON.-T advertising agency of Messrs. Walk Evans & Cogswell, represented by R< well T. Logan, Esq., ia the only auth< ized agenoy for this paper in Charle?te MAIL ARRANGEMENT.-Tho Northern mail opens at 2.30 P. M.; olosea 12.00 A.. M. Charleston day mail opens 4.30 P. M.; olosea 6.00 A. M. Charleston night mail opens 7.00 A. M.; closes 6.15 P. M. Greenville mail opens 6.45 P. M. ; doses 6.00 A. M. Western opens and closes 1.30 P. II. Wilmington opens 2.30 P. M.; closes 11.30 A. M. On Sunday office open from 3 to 4 P. M. LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Cottage Wanted to Bent. Union Savings Bank-Notice. Convocation Myrtle Lodge. T. P. Walker-Notice. HOTEL ARRIVALS, Joly C, 1872.-Ni^kerson House-T W Woodward, James lt Aiken, lt E Ellison, Winnsboro; E T Weat, Charleston; J L Johnson, T G Murdock, Ga; Wm -L Lee, Chicago. PouniNO MOLTEN IKON OVEB A MAN. Albany bas the latest horror-one of the most frightful we ever read. The Ex? press tells the story: "Yesterday afternoon two workmen employed iu Ransom's foundry, named Thomas Sheebey end Nicholas Sbilfard, bad an altercation while the work of casting was going on, which bad a fear? ful result. Sbeebey, accidentally or otherwise, dropped from his ladle a little bot iron on Shilfard'e foot and burned it. Sbilfard ran to a tub of water and plunged his foot into it, and somewhat eased the pain. He then returned, and taking a position in the passage way be? tween the moulds, as Sheehey came along with a ladle full of molten iron, knocked Sbeebey down. According to allegations which Sbeebey makes, Shil fard, after knocking him down, picked ?p the ladle containing the molten iron and poured its contents on Sbeebey's body from his chin down, and then nt ruck bim with the ladle. Sheebey was rendered frantic by the terrible agony which he experienced, and ran to the door, when he was seized and bis burn? ing garments torn from him by other persons present. The whole fore part of bis body was burned in a terrible man? ner, so that tbe flesh peeled off. He waa taken to bis home. Sbilfard was ar? rested." The New York Herald, of Wednesday, says: "The Southern State bonds were dull to stagnation. A few orders in South Carolinas appeared to be the ? only business, and these were executed at a decline in the new bonds to 29*?. The old bonds were firmer at 55, on a rumor that the several insurauco compa? nies who bold these securities, by rea? son of a State law that compelled the insurance companies having agencies in South Carolina to make a deposit of collaterals at the State Department, in? tend moving the courts for a mandamus to compel tbe Comptroller to pay the iuterest." A GEORGIA COLORED REPUBLICAN TALKS WITH GREELEY.-Wm. Richardson (colored) of Soreven County, Ga., had au interview with Mr. Greeley on Thurs? day. Speaking.of Mr. Greeley's chances for receiving the colored vote, be said: "He will receive nine-tenths of the co? lored vote; for he and Mr. Sumner were admired by the colored people, and if the Cincinnati ticket is endorsed at Balti? more it will be eleoted-for to-day, if you leave aside the secret societies, Gen. Grane has no chance. For my part, I think the reign of the carpet-baggers is nigh ended." ABOUT LONG BRANCH.-I think some of the people who come and come and come are tbe ne plus ultra of fools. They leave pleasant homes for grasping hotels, ample bed-rooms for cubby-holes, easy beds for bard straw matting, cleanliness for bed-bugs, a borne table for flies and dirty waiters, and the quiet of a New York night for the glare of a Long Branch parlor. Habit is everything. Some people, with lots of money, never bave comfort; other people, with a knowledge of the world, get all they want at a fair price. So it is here. \Cor. New York Star. Oa Wednesday, Messrs. Bowen and .Tervoy made telling speeches against the Scott ring and in tbe interest of reform, denouncing the corruption and bribery which, in the shape of bad whiskey, muskets and money, weie already at work among the people. Mr. Bowen said that he would pursue the fight he was making for the honor of the State and good of all the people day and night, and that he would not spare his j comfort, health or means until tbe Re? publican party bad purified itself in this campaign. A woman has been found in Mercer County, Pa., courageous enough to risk her life rather than give np her money on the demand of robbers. She was found alone in the house by two ruf? fians, and though ohoked till she was insensible, refused to tell where the money was. She was Anally rescued, aud both her money and her life were saved, and gave her reason for not giv? ing tbe desired information, that she might as well bo dead as alive without mou ey. A GEORGIA FUGITIVE IN CANADA.-A man from Georgia, who calls himself Elliott Ellis, and says he belonged to the First Georgia Cavalry during the war, is at Windsor, Canada, opposite Detroit, uud a party of Government detectives are on this side carefully watobing with tbe hope of being able to kidnap him. He is described as having a sabre soar on bis face, and the name of Ellis is doubt? less assumed. A lady writing from Fiorenoe, says that Hart, the Kentucky sculptor, is en? gaged upon "the most beautiful female figure the world has ever seen," and that it will require many years to complete the work. "You know, my dear friend," said Hart, "it takes even the Almighty nineteen years to make a perleot woman."