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COLUMBIA. S. C. Tuesday Morning, Jnly 9, 1872. Tia o Convention To-Day. The notion of the D?mocratie Conven? tion, which meeta to-day at Baltimore, will give the finishing touch to the Pro .idential campaign. That body will de? termine who ia to be Orant'a competitor; and after their diotum is annonnoed, tho race will fairly commence. There ?B now no doubt what that diotum will be. Thc people and tbe press, North, South, Eas! and West-all who are opposed to thc farther continuance of Grant's military rule-have, we may eay, with unbroken accord demanded the honest, able and kindly old man of Ohappaqua as theil standard-bearer, and the Convention will of aourse obey the voice of the peo? ple. Thero is no botter mun who can bc had as a candidate, nor do we bolievo it possible to put forth a stronger antago? nist to Grant. For two months now bit uame has been before the people. Tbc Radical organs and orators have hurled their spears of envy and hate thiok and fast upon him, but they have straok upon .the burnished shield of his honesty aud fallen shattered, pointless and harmless to the ground. They have doue theil very worst, yet he stands now, after eight weeks of their fiercest attacks, perfectly unscathed. He may be safely considered as invulnerable. His enemies can find nothing against him. Both G ran ti tes and Bourbon Dem?crata have tried and ingloriously failed. The truth is thal .Horace Greeley fits the time and the oo .oasion os no other,man oau do. The pervading and prominent idea ol thia Presidential campaign is r?concilia? tion between the North and South and a restoration of the Southern States tc .their full legal and moral status in thc Union. The South must no longer bc treated as a half alien nor the North b< regarded as a conqueror. Suoh a stat? of things is utterly repugnant to everj principle of a free Republican Govern ment, as ours is, in theory, at leaBt. Th< titne bas come, the full time, if over it ii to corne* that the Union should be re stored inspirit as well as in deed. Nov. to effect this, to fitly represent this idei of reconciliation, we must have som? middle man. 1 No section-loving, South hating Radical will do, for the South ha some self-respect left, und she will turi her back upon him. No bull-hoodei Bourbon Democrat will do, for the Nortl will be afraid to trust him. There need some Northern man of unquestionei devotion to the Union, known to b sound on the negro question, and whofl patriotism can extend South as well a North of Mason and Dixon's line, an who, while he would prevent wrong t the black man, will not, with blin fanaticism, ignore, the claims of his ow race and blood; a man who oan rise frot the cordid ser vice of party to the noble allegiance of his country and his folio man. That man is Horace Greeley His country needs him. The peopl ?all for ' him, and they will elect hil President. Grant can mn no race against bin The man who boa made South Carolin! Mississippi and Louioianaayrhat they ar the mere prey of thieves and robber and who tried to do the same fer Geo gie, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Norl Carolina and Virginia, and did euccec for a time in tying the hands of the honest people till they were robbed i upwards of $200,000,000, suoh a man that surely eau never be President these United States again. We do n mean to say that Grant desired that the States should be so plundered, or th he had the least share in the spoil But he was President of the Unit States, with an overpowering majori in Congress, when these States were p in process of reconstruction. Ever thing was done as he and bis administi tion willed and enacted, and the Gover mont of South Carolina to-day is wh Grant made it, and nothing else. I and bia administration must be held i eponBible for the legitimate oonsequenc of their own aots. Their sole objeot w to build op a Republican party in tl State, and to this end they work through their Reconstruction Ao utterly regardless and indifferent what eonsequenoes might follow. Weih they have their party, and tl party has a taxing and bond-issuing n chine, operated by thieves and callee government. Grant knew how it wot] be; his party in OongreBS knew how would be; yet, despite the remonstrant of the pooplo here and of the Den orate in the North, they continued th devilish work, and for four years ac ally, encouraged, sustained, and e^ protected with their bayonets, the rotl thing they had erected. The conditi of South Carolina alone would hi killed any administration the eons has ever had, not even Washington's oepted; yet it is but a drop in the buc to the many misdoings chargeable to the present rolers at "Washington. Grant promises to do better now, and to support the thieves no longer. We are glad to hear it, and will do all we oan honorably to aid in tho redemption of the State. But what a oommontary is it npon the Administration, when the only alternative they can offer the ho? nest people of the State is, that they shall sacrifice their politioal convictions and go over to the Grant party, to pre? vent the Grant party from plundering them! TU? Flrat Gun. Tho political horizon in tho old North State is brightening for the reform movement. From every section comes j cheering intelligence, presaging the sue- ] cess of the State Conservative ticket, headed by Eon. A. S. Merrimon for Governor. That able, eloquent and gifted orator, ex-Governor Yance, is stomping the State in the interests of State and national reform, and every? where that he has delivered an address, the people are enthusiastic over the favorable prospects of a conservative victory, both in the national and State elections. The Radicals are becoming nneasy os to their chances, and many of them are being converted from the error of their political ways; while, on the other hand, very few of the white citi? zens have gone over to the fold of the | loyal thieves* party. The election in North Carolina takes place on the 1st of August next, and as | it will be the first that follows the nomi? nations for the Presidency, it will possess an unusual interest. North Carolina is about evenly balanced in the politioal scales, and the result of the State elec? tion will be regarded as indicative of the progress made by the Liberal Repnbli oan movement in the Southern States. The State was carried by the conserva? tives two years ago by a majority of I about 10,000; but last year, when the question of a constitutional convention was submitted to the people, the con? servatives were defeated. In the latter election, however, the full strength of the party was not developed. If the Conservative party performs its duty; if the rank und file, as well as the leaders, will work nnceasingly nntil the first day of next August; if political apathy does not possess the souls of the down-trod? den people of the old North State; in short, if the honest men, both white and black, of that glorious old common? wealth, will "pull off their coats and roll np their sleeves," and go into this political battle with "On to Victory!" inscribed upon their banners, the day is theirs, then And in November next, and each an impetus will be given to the! Liberal movement that it will sweep] every State in the Sooth, except poor, down-trodden,- plundered, debt-ridden South Carolina. The Administration party will make Herculean efforts to defeat the party of | honesty and reform in North Carolina. AU the power of the Government at Washington will be brought to bear npon the'. forthcoming election. The partisans of .the Administration, whoso duties reqnire their presence at the capitol of the nation, are deserting their ! posta, to take port in the canvass. Boot well's engagements to deliver two politi? cal speeches in the interests of the Grant party-one at Morganton and the other at Charlotte-were announced . in our telegrapnio columns several days ago. Secretaries Delano and Robeson, several Senators, among them General Logan, and probably General Batter, will also participate in the struggle. They will, however, be met by the champions of the Old North State. Yance, Waddell and Merrimon are equal to an army of suoh defenders ts the Radical party will put upon the rostrum, for "Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel | just. And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose oousolenoe with injustice ie corrupted." Money will be freely nsed by the vnltnres now in power, only with the hope of fastening themselves upon the people for another term of plunder-not servios-during whioh time they will reap a usurious interest and collect the principal invested; for they believe, as has been reoently affirmed by one of the shining lights of the dominant party in this State, that there is two years more of good stealing left in North Carolina. Senator Pool has already reeeived! $25,000 for campaign purposes; and as Seoretary Bontwell is to take part in the canvass, he will no doubt supply his party with all the money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. This honor? able Senator will oonsider no work too mean to effect his triumph. He has had printed and circulated broadcast through North Carolina, free cf postage, under his own frank, a most scurrilous cam? paign document, containing the basest misrepresentations and falsehoods. Already are efforts being made to ex cite the popolur mind of the North by Pool and thone of his stamp* by resur? recting the ory of "Ka Klux." A fee?, ble attempt to invent a Ka Klax sensa? tion ont of a few questions propounded to Jadgo Settle, at Yancey ville, and the oheers of the friends of Horace Greeley who were present, has proved an igno? minious failure. But not a word do we hear.from these conveniently horror stricken rascals when the Lo w rey swamp angels murder inoffensive citizens in the broad glare of day and in cold blood; when these loyal Ku Klux commit de? predations upon the surrounding coun? try for months and years. . No infantry, cavalry and artillery are sent to the swamps of Robeson County to capture or kill theao murderers and robbers. They ore of the party, aud deserv? to bo let severely alono as a recompense for their brutal killing of disloyal Demo? crats. What will the Administration party organs say of the brutal aud cow? ardly attempt to murder Captain Biggs, of the Tarboro Southerner, who was in attendance apon a Radical pow-wow at Tarboro, N. C., on the 4th of July, as a reporter for his journal? He was as? sailed by a large number of negroes, and barely escaped with his life. The attack is supposed to have been the re? sult of a previous plan. Here is a ge? nuine Ka Klux outrage, in a community where the Radicals are in the majority. This outrage, like all others io the inter? est of the ruling regime, will either be kept as silent as the grave, or will be so misrepresented as to show the assailed party to be an interloper, who bad pro? voked the ire of the mob, and had re? ceived his just deserts; in other words, ho is a Democrat, and has no rights which the Radicals are bound to respect. As above stated, the opposition will bring to bear upon this election all the power at their command. Tho State will be hotly and closely contested, and the contest will grow hotter after the Baltimore Convention, which meets to? day, endorses Greeley aud Brown. Meet? ings are now being held in ull parts of the State, and the time, generally, is divided between the opposing elements. A grand mass meeting at Weldon, on next friday, is to be addressed by many able men. Schurz, Trumbull, Ransom, Blair, Thurman, Doolittle, Vance, Walk? er, of Virginia, Gordon, of Georgia, and other distinguished speakers, will be there and at other points during the campaign. They will create an enthusi? asm among the people that will kuow no limit this side of a glorious conservative victory. Reform is sadly needed, and now is the day and the hour for deliver? ance. Tho conservatives of the Old North State must buckle on their armor, and go boldly into the fight. They can? not afford to be indifferent. They are unwillingly governed: by carpet-baggery and ucallawugery. They must not, they will not; prove recreant to their duty in this momentous issue; but will rise in their might, and "with a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether," pull the State out of the mire of Radical cor? ruption and fraud, and place her upon the enduring rook of honesty and reform. A correspondent of the Charleston News writes as follows of a speech made by D. T. Corbin, at Greenville, on the 4th of July: After advocating Grant's re-election, &c, he attacked the ring in Columbia. I had heard Carpenter and Butler in their indictments of Scott &, Co., at the last election. I thought they had ex? hausted the vocabulary of abase against that ring; but ohl if you had heard Cor? bin, you would say thiers was musketry, and Corbin's artillery Columbiads. He named Scott, Parker, Chamberlain, Nea gie, F. J. Moses, Jr. He pronounced them all scoundrels, thieves, villains, the very worst and meanest of men; insisted that they must be driven out of the party; that taey had deceived and be? trayed the party; that they were as bad as the Ku Klux, compared them with them, (and yon know what Corbin is on tho Ku Klux.) He asserted that, with? out authority of law, they had issued $7,01)0,000 of State bonds; that they had, to his certain knowledge, bribed the last Legislature, and bought them up to vote the Blue Ridge Railroad scrip, 31,800, 000, with 8175.U00. That Moses had exceeded everything he had ever con? ceived in villainy and rascality; tbat he had issued, as the Speaker of the House, $400,000 of pay bills to people all over the State as bribes to support him and enhance his popularity. Many of them had never been to Colombia at all, and some were paid as clerks who could not read.or write; that tbo ring must be ex? pelled from office at all hazards; that the Republican party must perish if they were not. He excused Cardozo. He Raid that the Fiuanoiul Board-Scott, Parker and Chamberlain-now wished to issue more couversion bonds; that they wished Cardozo to sign them; that the law required Cardozo to do so; that he (Corbin) advised Cardozo not to do so, but dio rather; to throw himself on the people, and they would support him, and that Cardozo determined to rot in jail before he would sign any moro. Two bogs in White County, Ark., whioh have been bitten by mad dogs, have gone mad. THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVEN? TION.-The meeting of the Democratic National Conveation in Baltimore, to? day, the 9th, has drawn to the city dele? gates and others distinguished in the politics of the country, end the city is overflowing. No more important polit:? cal assemblage, in view cf the great coa? lition which ?B proposed with Liberal Republicans and non-partisan elements has, perhaps, ever assembled iu the country with reference to a Presideutial election. The pressure for tickets is absolutely overwhelming. The theatre will hold, at tho outside, not moro than 3,500 peo? ple, while there uro 20,000 npplicutions for seats, with 400 applications from representatives of the press. How every? body is to bu satisfied, it is impossible to Bay. The Opera House decorations, under the joint mauogemcnt of Mr. McLuue and Mr. Ford, are of the most elegant uud brilliant character, eclipsing every? thing of the kind ever seen in Baltimore in tho way of decorative art. Besides the pictures, mottoes, .Src, heretofore mentioned us forming part of the sploudid adornment of the theatre, there are numerous bunners, ensigns, bunging buckets, boqueta, exotics und other taste? ful ornamentation, suggestive of the "peace and good will" which is tho key? stone of the preparations for the event, as well as the foundation sentiment of the campaign which the Convention will probably inaugurate. It is understood that nouo but dele? gates will be admitted to the main floor of the theatre, parquette and parquette circle, aud that none but bona fide news? paper workers and telegraph operators will bo allowed to go on the stage, ex? cept, of course, the presiding officer, vice-presidents and official secretaries of the body. For the numerous visitors to Baltimore during the Convention, com? prising straugers, clubs from other cities, .Vc , the balcony cirole and gallery of the Opera House will bo set apart. There will be sixteeu seats and tables on the stago for the phonographer and writers for the Associated Press. Also, twenty tables for other reporters in the orchestra, and 200 seat?, without tables, in tho rear of the stage for editors and members of tho press generally. Tba National Executive Committee will oc? cupy the stage boxes. The silkeu badge for members of the Convention, adopted by the resident committee from the design by Mr. John T. Ford, is of blue and gold, represent? ing a dove, with out-spread wings, carry? ing un olive branch iu its mouth, sym? bolizing "peace." Under thu design is the monogram of the Convention, priuted in gold, D. N. C., of antique type, tastefully intcrwined, the whole forming a most beautiful and appropriate budge, valuable and artistic enough to insure its preservation, after the Cou veutiou, as a memento of the new era which it will inaugurate. --? A Columbia letter tu the Beaufort Re? publican soys: The movements and speeches of Judge Orr are alarming the friends of Frank. Moses. It is evident that tho Judge means business, and that be has a host of determined, influential and energetic friends. It is also certain that his avowed desigu of securing the nomi' tion of au honeit Stute ticket is in . - oordauce with a pledge of Qraut to si. ? port the eliot t with all the power of the Federal Administration. It is asserted, with great earnestness, that unless the coming State Convention accedes to the demands of the Orr men, there will be a split, and a thorough reform tiaket will be put in the field. Snob a ticket would receive tho cordial support of Qrant and the party outside this State. Frank. Moses is said to be very blue. He is working against the tide for the nomination, and even if he gets it, the chances are that he will be defeated in the election by the combination of tho Orr men, reformers, and the Democrats. It is not certain that Orr wants the nomination for Governor for himself, but unless ho is satisfied with the State ticket, there will be trouble in the camp. THE FALL ELECTIONS.-Previous to the great Presidential contest in November, the following States and Territories hold olee tion s this fall: North Carolina, August 1; Kentucky, Montana and Utah, August 5; New Mexico, September 1; California, Sep? tember 2; Vermont, September 1; Maine, September 0; Colorado Territory, Sep? tember 10; Dakota, Indiana, Iowa, Ne? braska, Ohio, Pennsylvania and the Dis? trict of Columbia, October 8; South Ca? rolina, October 16; West Virginia, Octo? ber 24. All the States vote for Presi? dential electors on the 5th day of No? vember, and on the same day the follow? ing choose Slate officers: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Miohigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Tennesseo and Wis? consin. Atizona holds her territorial election on the 8th of November. The first State eleotion to take place this fall, it will be seen, is that in North Carolina, August 1, and the campaign is an animated one. State oilicers and members of Congress are to be chosen. WnccK OP A CIRCUS TRAIN.-John Ro? binson's circus met with an accident on thu 3d inst., at West Haven, Conn., on the railroad. While going under the bridge, tho bridgo settled, and tho me? nagerie cages on the platform cars struck it. Six auges were knocked off and broken up. Tho lion and tapir escaped, but were soon secured. The zebra was fatally injured. A cage of birds wnsalso brokon up, but all were paved. A cage oontaiuing fifty monkeys was among those wrecked, and the monkeys nre now loose ia West Haven woods. The loss is estimated at $10,000. So far 800 dead bodies have been re coveted hom the ruins at Antioch. 3~B ooal Items. Orri MATTERS.-The price ol single copies of the PHCBNIX is five cents. We hear that Major John C. Winder has resigned the Superintendency of the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. On Saturday last, a freight traiu on the Cbarlotte, Columbia aud Augusta Railroad was wrecked near Batesville, causing a detention of the up passenger train, which did not arrive until 6 o'clock Sunday morning. Five or six freight oars were demolished. The accident waB caused by a brokeu axle. We have had a bountiful supply of rain during the past two days, accompa? nied by heavy thunder and vivid, light? ning. A little boy in the Northern part of tho city, yesterday, practiced base ball pitching. He played too near the par? lor though, and in bis energetio efforts to learn to pitoh well, he succeeded in throwing the ball against hie mother's parlor mirror, which left that piece ol iurniture in a scattered state. That boy now sits very uneasily upon anything else than a pillow. ? A timber train on the Greenville and Columbia Road jumped the track Thurs day, near Honea Path station, causing couaiderable damage to the track ant demolishing four fiat cars. No one wai injured. A friend of oars offers to wager SICK that there are 500 cats in a certain looa lily in the city. We are" on the Josi Billings platform, which, korreotb speaking, iz: "From kats that iz coart iug good Lord deliver us." An inquest will be held at the cit; hospital, at 10 o'clock, this morning ou the body of a colored woman, win died Sunday evening, from tho effect of wounds received in her head las May, at the hands of another coloree woman. Passengers on tho down train of th* Greenville and Columbia Railroad repor heavy rains through tho up country which will prove disastrous to the crops A horse ran off with a buggy, dowi Bridge street, yesterday. Nobody hurt and the buggy but slightly damaged. The thermometer recorded as follow at the Pollock House yesterday: 7 A M., 74; 10 A. M., 8S; 2 P. M., 74; 7 1 M., 75. The commencement exercises of th Walhalla Female College will begin tc morrow, the 10th of July. Tho following is the programme c music at the garrison parade ground this afternoon, at 5 o'clock: Orpheus March-Offenbach. Cen eren tutu-Bossini. Good-Night Quadrille-E. Marie. Cavatina Lucrezia Borgia-Donezett Flying Cloud Galop-F. Goetz. IVY POISONING.-The best remedy fe ivy poisoniug is said to be sweet apiri of nitre. Bathe the parts affected freel with thia fluid three or four times duric the day, and the next morning scarce' any trace of poison will be foand. the blister be broken, so as to allow tl nitre to penetrate the outiole, a sing application wiil be sufficient. The apiri of nitre may be prepared by disaotaii one part of nitrons ether in eight par of common alcohol. PUCENIXJANA.-Joeeph wore the fii Dolly Varden coat of which mention made in profane or sacred history. They arrest persons for fortune-tellii in Fayetteville, N. C. A good examr for some of oar larger cities. A favor done grudgingly had beti never be done at all. You owe it to society never to pa; haokman more than his legal fare. A sooial glass to which ladies are ? dieted-The mirror. To become the lion of a party it is i necessary to make a beast of one's self It is with our judgments as c watches, none go just alike, yet each I lieves his own. Friendship doses its eyes rather th see the moon eclipsed; while malice < nies that it is ever at the full. You should not atone your neighb but you may rook his baby. All the traveling shows are biri acrobats to break a leg or two this s son, in order to get the benefit of a ti graphic advertisement. Men are too apt to lay before, tb the actions of great men, and neg] what is of more importance-the moti of their models. The man who popped tho question starlight got his sweetheart's cons in a twinkling. Tho ono species of liou thut no om afraid of-The dandy-lion. One of the rarest and most pleasinj flowers is the pink of politeness. OUB AOENTS IN CHAHTJESTON.-' advertising agenoy of Messrs. Wal! Evans & Cogswell, represented by I well T. Logan, Esq., is the only anti ized agency for this paper in Charles! MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.-The Northern mail opens at 2.80 P. M. ; oloees 12.00 A M. Claurieston day mail opens 4.30 P. M.; closes 6.00 A. M. Charleston night mail opens 7.00 A. M.; closes 6.15 P. M. Greenville mail opens 6.45 P. M. ; closes 6.00 A. M. Western opens and oloses 1.80 P. M. Wilmington opens 2.30 P. M.? closes 11.30 A. BI. On i Sunday office open from 3 to 4 P. M. HOTEL ABRIVALS, July 8, 1872.-Nicker son Howie-S W Khackletord, Ga; G P Hoffman Doko; B Miller, G 1 bomas, D /ivant, J 8 Green, S C; J D McLeod, Florida; T M Cox, Mr? C J Hascall, Greenville; J O Uudnutt; D McIntosh and wife; OH Agnew, San Fran? cisco; W L Lee, Chicago. Columbia Hotel-W J Black, Charlotte; H M Levy, W D K>nnedy, F J Moses, Augusts; C H 8obulken, J C Winder, O G Parsley, Wil? mington; J S Stewart, HA Smith, Wiunsboro G P Cotcbett, So ET Co; J McCord, Van Ham barg'a Panorama; J B Kershaw, Camden; T J Lloyd, W P Martin. ? S A; J L Breeden, Marl? boro; T J Mackey, Chester; J F C DnPre Master J H DuPre, Abbeville; W H Evans, Charleston; Miss Moses, Master C Moses, Master M MoBes, Newberry; O T Swandale, P Clay well, Greenville. LIST OP NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. An Important Consideration. Meeting Acacia Lodge. Pelxotto ?fe Son-Auction, ?fee. J. C. B. Smith-For Sale. L?rick ?fe Lowrance-Corn. E. E. Jackson-Radish Seed. Agnew ?fe Son-Ale. OUT OP THE HEATED CTCLE.-The extraordinary heated term, whose op? pressive fiery rices waa quenched in the torrents of lost night's thunder storm, has loft a sad record behind it. Although a kind Providence preserved as from the outbreak of any alarming epidemic, the destroyer counted an unprecedented number of victims stricken down direotly by the merciless heat. The mortality from coup de soleil has exceeded anything in the recollection of this generation, os the hot spell itself lasted over a greater number of days than any other within the paBt twenty years. Over 200 deaths occurred within the past fortnight from sun stroke, while the cases of persons actually attacked lie between 800 and 1,000. The lower animals, particularly horses, died by hundreds from the blis? tering heat. It seemed in vain to at? tempt escape from the excess of ambient caloric, and the exodus to the seaside, tho valleys and the mountains was in? creased by the baking influence of the sun's rays upon brick walls. A light, bot breeze, coming .n disappointing puffs from Southerly and Westerly direc? tions, did not help matters much. Yes? terday, however, a cool breeze, veering from the North-east to North-west, brought an array of dark-looking clouds laughing along with it, and a glanoe at the heavt>U8 told there was some commo? tion aloft, for heavy, black, lightning laden cumuli could be seen sailing majes? tically from the South-west. This could end but one way, and after nightfall the storm broke forth, the rain fell in tropi? cal torrents and New York's humanity and car horses took heart of grace that the fiery death had turned its Sahara visage from them.-New York Herald. NATURAL GAS-A PHENOMENON TN THE OIL REGIONS.-The Titos ville Courier, of the 27tb, gives the following interest? ing particulars of the Newton well, on the Nelson farm, six miles North of that city: "It has been down about twenty days and has continuously poured forth such a volume of gas that it was found impossible to pamp it, as the' valves would not work- The tubing was pulled Wednesday, and the well was cased in order to let the gos blow off, so that it might be pumped. After the cosing was pat in, the sand-pump was lowered for the purpose of agitating the well, and the gas raised a column of water, throw? ing a solid stream into the air 100 feet. The noise was terrific, and could be heard for a distance of more than two miles. The noise was something like the loud roar of thunder, and when the co? lumn burst at the top it threw the water each way for fifteen rods from the well. The water was exhausted in about twenty five minutes, and then a column of gos followed, rising with tremendous force fifty feet above the derrick. The out? pouring of the gas makes a roaring noise that can be distinctly heard for two miles from the well. The noise around sounds like the rushing of a whirlwind. The colnmn can be Been a mile from the well. No tools can be pat into the well. AB soon os the attempt is made, with such force does the gas oome oat that the tools are carried into the air. From descriptions of eye witnesses this is pro? bably the greatest gas well ever etrnek in the oil region. Up to last evening the gas showed no signs of being ex? hausted. The people in that vicinity are very mach alarmed, and the oattle ran about the fields perfectly wild with fright." "As one leading Republican after an? other," says the Chicago Tribune, "joins the Liberal ranks, the party of prejadioe, and plunder, and hate, devotes itself to proving that this particular man has been everything that waa bad. Tram ball, Palmer, Koerner, Sumner, Bird, Greeley, Tipton, Julian, Clay, Schurz, and many others, have all been bitterly denounced. It is painful to think of what a consummate sot of scoundrels have hitnerto led the Republican party. That organization is to be congratulated on having freed itself from such men, and having como auder the leadership of each pare patriots as Cameron, and Butler, and Grant, and Clayton, and Casey, and Leet, and Pomeroy, and the long line of kindred souls." -. ? ? William Kiempora, white, a native of Amsterdam, Holland, and cook and steward on the British brig Simoda, in j Charleston harbor, committed suicido in the forecastle of that vessel, on last j Saturday. Georgia banks close at 1 o'clock dar I icg the sommer months.