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COLUMBIA, S. C. Wednesday M ominar. July IO, 1872. I Orr'? Policy. Judge Orr, in hie reoent interview with the correspondent ot the Charleston Neva, defines his position plainly, and with commendable oaodor declares his parposes and proposed plan of opera? tions. He takes issue squarely with Scott, Parker, Moses <& Co., and the present administration generally, and demands a reformation iu our ruinously j corrupt Qovornmout. In simply pro? fessing a desire for reform and for the selection of honest and competent men for oifloe, Judge Orr does no more than the most consummate Booundrel who olaims to boa Republican. Scott, Moses, Parker, or any other of the present offloials whom we have reason to believe have dipped their hands deepest into the corruptions and frauds of the last four years, will be crying now lustily for reform. Not a member of the last infa? m?os General Assembly will there be found who does not prate as glibly about honesty as if he had never stolen a dollar or perpetrated the pettiest fraud. The difference fd intelligent people is, that they oan trust Orr's sincerity. He has never participated in any of their rascalities, nor excused or extenuated thora, except in supporting the Scott party in 1870. He has never held a public position the duties of which be has not performed with credit to himself and the complete satisfaction of the people, so far, at least, as bis integrity and ability are concerned. There ia nothing, then, absurdly in? consistent between his precept and his example when he preaches reform, as there is when we hear the same senti? ments expressed by Scott, Moses, Non gle, or ihoBo of their ilk. But the diffi? culty is in the uneducated and ignorant colored people being able thus to discri? minate between the true and the false. The great moises of them whose votes determine the resultB of our elections live upon the plantations and farms in the backwoods,- and, being unable tq read the newspapers, or to gain informa? tion otherwise, know nothing of the con? duct of their representatives, exoept what tho latter themselves may tell them. They have a sort of general idea that things have not worked well, and that there hos been an acknowledged want of honesty in the administration of public affairs; but as to who are the gnilty par? ties, they have very ornde and erroneous notions, and are ready to be swayed in any direction their wily demagogues may desire. A significant instance of this credulity and ignorance of thc colored people waa famished at a mass meeting lately held at Calhoun's Mills, in Abbeville County. There were, it is reported, about 1,000 colored people present. They are in that -section woll-to-do, and above the average of their race., in intelligence. We fiad that" they adopted resolutions demanding only honest and capable Re? publicans for office, and immediately thereafter declared with one aooord that F. J. Moser,, Jr., the Speaker of the preseot House of Representatives, and one of the ohief leaders in the most cor? rupt Legislature which ever disgraced any State, as their choice for Governor, So it will prove in other communities. The leaders and men of influence among the oolored people are few in number, and nearly all unscrupulous carpet-bag gers or scalawags, or colored men whos( weak moral sense has been utterly de bauchod by contact with their whit* associates. Orr's work of reform, then, will no be easy, nor its success by any mourn certain, Bat he is a tower of strengt! in himself- throughout all the uppe Counties, and being backed by Oran and the Republican party aft Washing ton, and assisted, as he certainly will be by every honest Republican in the Stute and by many who are not honest, bu desire to present that appearance, hi cause is not;? hopeless, one. One thing though, ho will be disappointed in, it hi expects it, and that is theft any notioea ble part of the Conservativo white peo pie ot this State will bring themselves fe declare for Grant They will sustain by their votes and by their voices, if i be thought; advisable, any moderate!, good Republican as against a worso marj but they cannot, and should not, saori flos every'sentiment of self-respect an truth in their natures? and suppori even for the sake Of local reform, a ma whom they believe to be unfit for hi position and dangerous to the life of tb republic. . Viewing th? matter from the low lo vi of expediency; alone, and laying asid all sentiment oed honest political coi viotion, it would, ip our judgment, I: an unwise thing for the white people < tho State to declare for Grant and repi diate the honest old farmer of Ohappi qua. The probabilities are all vastly in favor of the election of the latter, and in ease he defeater Grant; in what an enviable condition would our people be when they would find that they had reaped only failure for their aot of shame lesa folly. A SLANDERER OF THE SOUTH SILENCED. The New York UHmes, owned and edited by Englishmen, is now the Administra? tion organ in that oity, and to earn its bread and batter is constantly harping on the old string of Northern prejudice against the South, and reviving stereo? typed slanders, which, nineo the war, have constituted the chief capital of her enemies and oppressors. The other day, it attempted to read a lecture lo the Sooth, in order to brow* beat that refractory section into the sup? port of Grant, on penalty of further dis fianehisement and despotism. That staunch Southern sympathizer, the Weekly Nexos-Ben. Wood's paper of the same oity, which, in the days that tried men's souls, steadily stood up for State and Southern rights, unawed by threats, and aoterrified by Fort La* Fayette, thus rebukes the officious or? ganist, and pays a passing tribute to Georgia, in illustration of the truth of its assertion in refutation of the slan? derer: Speaking of the South, the Times had said: "Industry is sluggish; trade creeps from point to point; manufacturers are feeble and few; agriculture clamsy and monotone! The fault is theirs, and arises from social lawlessness and threats ol political complications." To strengthen his first point, he vo? lunteers the information that "In the palmiest days of slavery thc industry of thnt part of the country wac professedly maintained by money draws from outside." Quoting and commenting on these silly statements, the News makes th.ii crashing rejoinder, the force and trutl of which oar readers will recoguize anc gratofally acknowledge: I "If oar British pedagogue knew any thing of the South in its ante bellum aon I ditton, he would have known that it die i not then need foreign capital, and tba I "the industry of that part of the coan ' try was maintained" by the agricultura produots of slave labor, which oonsti tuted so large a proportion of the ex ports of the United States, bringinj baok foreign gold and ezohonge in-re turn for her rice, sugar; cotton and' tc bacco, and making money more ' aban dant in the South, in proportion to it population, than in any other part o the country. "John Thomas does know, br shoal know, if he does not, that even unde all the terrible impediments to progrec and reconstruction thrown in their pat by its patron and master. Gen. Gran sud his military satraps, followed by tht swarm of loousts, 'the thieving carpel buggers,' ?eno?sedd by that honest ol Republican, Horaiie Greeley, the Soul has nevertheless done wonders in repai ing the ravages of war and rebuilding i lost fortunes. Had its people been pe mitted to 'keep their hard-earned gain and not been robbed of them by tl thieves who have legislated, under pr teotion by bayonets and outcries < loyalty, for that end alone-the Soul to-day would be prosperous and happ; and until 'a new order of things' established there, it never oan be eithc Ia some portions of the South tbe ic provement and progress io all partie lars in which oar Britoa declares it have retrograded since tbe war, ha' been most remarkable. "Let ?ny man viait Atlanta or Sava nab, in Georgia, and he will rec(ogai: tbe troth of this statement, and marv at the real progress making in those ti oities-types of tho same progress ma ing elsewhere where the iron heel martial law and Grant's reconstruct have not paralyzed enterprise and e orgy, or these foul harpies-the carp? baggers-have not eaten up the fatnt of tbO land'. Anti it is these tw blessings, the progeny of Grantisi martial law" pud c?rpet-bugism, whl thia British minion of the Bastard .ft poleon, who smokes and conspires at t White Hoase with his marshals, seeks perpetuate es tho sole conditions Southern prosperity. May God in I mercy avert such a visitation on afflicted land." There is both troth and manliness this vindication, and it augurs well the "good time coming," when North? journals speak so plainly and so ford' in defence o! our section and State. ?-*>*>? Work on this end of the Port Bo Railroad is progressing rapidly. 7 understand that the track viii Boon laid from this oity to the Savant Biver. Operations are also progress with great rapidity upon the other < of the Port Boyal Railroad. ?Wo lei that the line will be completed: to All dale, in Aiken County, by the middle latter part o? this week. If nothing toward prevents the completion of i bridge across the Savannah, it will be long before the exoarsion trip Beaufort will take place, i I Augusta GJironiclt Daring the storm of Saturday, lightning struck the building on Bi 1 land avenue, Aiken, oeba pied as au ol by Dr. A. Coffin, slightly damaging , Later in the evening it struck the Hi i land Park Hotel, bat did no demi This makes the fifth time lightning struck at some point in Aiken within ' [ past week. COLUMBIA, S. C., Joly 9, 1872. MESSES. EDITORS: Please give the fol? lowing room in your columna to refute the charge against the County Commie Bioners oontained in the looal column of the Union, ot this date, ooncerniog the security of the County jail. The Union, with its usual faoility in misrepresenting, oherges, indirectly? that the County Commissioners are re? sponsible, that proper men shonld be kept in charge of the jail, and that the jail itself should be kept iu proper con? dition by them. Tho sheriff is the jailor of the County, and he alone is responsi? ble for the safe-keeping of the prisoners ia his charge; should he doem it fit to put irresponsible parties in charge thereof, he is liable. Tho Commissioners have nothing whatever to do with that. In regard to the security of the build? ing, the BherifT has had all done in the way of repairs to the jail that he de sited or requested; and ho has denied to me that he bas made complaint thereof. The Union mentions thu escape of several prisoners recently, and from the drift of the article, leaves the people to suppose that insecurity in the building was the cause of the escape, when it ia notoriously known that the prisoners made a rush on tho jailor, when ho un? looked the door of the gallery enclosing the cells. No jail is safe against pri? soners if the sheriff or jailor allows them tools aud time to work in. There is no bank vault even safe against cracksmen if they have time to work in. And as to the grand jury inquiring into the matter, the County Commissioners are always willing and ready to court their closest scrutiny. Very respectfully, your obe? dient servant, J. H. BRYANT. S. ADAMS LEE, THE YANKEE SWINDLED. The following communication, dated Columbus, Qa., July 4, we clip from the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel: I see in your issue of the 2d a state? ment that Captain Lee, a cousin of our beloved General R. E. Lee, is to deliver a lecture on Hampton Roads, in this city. May I request you to publish this swindler and scoundrel, as an aet of jus? tice to the gentlemen who were officers in the late Confederate States navy? There never was but one Captain Lee, and his name was S. S. Lee, a brother of the late Gen. Lee. This scoundrel's name is S. Adams Lee. He is from j Washington, Pa., and is the son of a minister of that place. This swindler was Bhown up in Murfreesboro, Tenn., last summer, by General (Justis Lee, as an impostor. lu February, this year, S. Adams Lee was shown up in his true obaracter by General John C. Breokin ridge, in Frankfort, Ky. He never was on board of the Merrimac or any other Confederate ship. He might have seen her from the Federal lines. Said im? postor served in the Federal ar my,, and lost his left foot. He is now traveling with a forged letter, purporting to be from the Hon. Jefferson Davis, stating that he is from Virginia. While he was the guest of Gen. Jcel A. Battle, of Nashville, Tenn., and before he was shown up by tho papers ia Murfreesboro and Nashville, be so lieiied subscriptions for the Orphans' Home, at Talladega, Ala. Of coarse he pat the proceeds' in his own pocket. After this he traveled through Missouri and lectured for the Lee monument i. e. bia own pocket. He next turned up in Frankfort, Ky., Lexington, Ver? sailles, ?fco. At Versailles he was folly exposed by Lieutenant W. H. Craig, who served on board of the Merrimac HS an officer in the late Confederate navy. I will, give you the names of the Lee family who held commissions in the Confederate States navy: Captain S. S. Lue, in charge of office of orders and detail; Lieutenant Sidney S. Lee, Jr., naval station, Wilmington, N. C.; end midshipmen D. M. Lee and W. A. Lee. I take the liberty cf requesting you to publish tba Yankee impostor asan not of justice to those who served the lost cause. JOHN C. BRAIN, 1st Lieut. Com'dg C. S. Navy. The mosquito crop in New Jersey this season far surpasses the yield of any pre? vious year within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The inhabitants eat mosquitoes with their food, imbibe em bryonio mosquitoes with their drink, inhale just-fledged mosquitoes with every breath of air. To the stranger within New Jersey's gates, these insects are pe? culiarly irritating, for as much as their occasional sips of the native Jerseymao's blood, while not sufficiently palatable to induce them to make a fall meal, yet fur? nish them with enough "forty-rod" ap? ple-jack to render them utterly reckless in their assault apon more succulent travelers. A party of young bloods from Lexing? ton, while on a visit to St. Louis at the Stengerfest, a few days ago, were ar? rested l>y some pretended policemen aod carried to a pretended station-house on the charge of bearing concealed weapons. Here their arms were taken from them, and they were required to deposit twenty-five dollars in ooah ave security for their appearance next morning. They appeared, bat their acousors did not; and they awoke from their unhap? py dream to fiad that they were good law-abiding meo-minus, however, their pistols oiod their greenbacks. Rev. Peter Cartwright, the famous oc? togenarian Methodist clergyman, has been adjudged iaaopable of managing his owo affairs, and his son has been ap? pointed conservator, The troops sent to Pickens Couuty, to try to arrest the marderers of Deputy Doited States Marah al Mitohel, did not sjcoeed in finding them. At Long Branch old John Harper sleeps, eats, aod in faot, lives in Long* fellow's stable. A GRANT ORGAN THREATENS A BOLT. Many of our political th in kora ia this State are busily aod anxiously eugaged at the present time, suggesting plans aod establishing organizations to seoare the election of certain favorites whom they intend to put forward as honest and capable men for State and County of? fices in the coming campaign. From the drift of their thoughts and move meats, the opinion is fast gaining ground with the people that, like Arkansas, Louisiana, and other Southern States, we aro to have two Republican factions or parties iu the field. In duo course of time a Convention will be held at Columbia to nominate candidates for State ollicers, ut which it is supposed the Republican party of South Carolina will'' bo well and truly represented. Now, the question is asked by many, why not send men to this Con? vention who will givo us a good ticket thut every honest voter can support, and, therefore, cut oil at once thu neces? sity of placing another Republican ticket in the field? The answer to this ques? tion is the old story: "There will be fraud in the Convention, and delegates cent from the people will be excluded by pertain ring-masters iu Columbia." We have conversed with many good meu on the subject, who firmly believe that the State Convention will be ma? naged by Scott, Moses und Neagle, who, it is asserted, will see that none but their own satellites are admitted as delegates. If this view of tho situation ?B oorrect, and Soott & Co. should attempt to stifle the voice of the people, and refuse ad? mission to legally elected delegations, BB was the case with the Charleston delega? tion two years ago, the people could not, and we believe would not, support no? minations made ia such aa unfair and very irregular manner. A ticket thus put forth would be a great imposition on the people's rights, aud would invoke the earnest opposition and condemna? tion of every honest mau iu the Stute. If the will of thu people should be de? feated iu the selection of candidates, and dangerous demagogues be nomi? nated through the agency of corrupt fuctions, every sensible voter in the State would then unite, repudiate the action of the Convention, aud scad its nomi? nees to political perdition. We, therefore, earnestly advise the gentlemen who control tho regular Re? publican party machinery in this State to be very careful and place uo obstacles in the way of au houest and free expres? sion of the people's will, or they may have a genuine Republican ticket to fight which will reuder their expected victory a sore defeat. Party machinery and party tactics may be successful in mak? ing nominations, but it is for the people who do tho voting to say whether nomi? nees shall be elected or not. Wo have faith in the honesty and good sense of the people, and know they can no longor be misled. In every County in the State there are large numbers of voters who aro determined to support rasoality no longer, even if it have the endorsement of "regularity." It would be well for those who expect to manipulate the Con? vention to consider whether it would be politic to drive these into revolt, and thus deprive themselves bf all chances of success.-Southern Celt. THE TWELFTH OF JOLY.-The Orange mea have resolved to indulge in another procession in this oity. and on . the 12th of July we may anticipate another mob and more bloodshed-an experience similar to that provided for us last year by this amiable society. We have a sus picion that very few members of these Orango lodges are American citizens perhaps not one of them enjoys that dis? tinguished honor. If not, what are we to think of their assurance in putting us, as an American community, to so much expense in lifo and money in order to accommodate them-and with what? A parade commemorative of the success of once belonging to a throne for which Americans have no reason to feel an especial a Hoc ti on? If these Orangemen aro naturalized citizeas, why do they not manifest a-proper respect for their citi? zenship-a proper self-denial, if you choose-by refusing to aid in promoting a popular disturbance merely to gratify their super-loyal zeal in behalf of Bri? tish supremacy? Wo have no word of encouragement for the Irish Roman Catholics who fancy that a parade of this kind justifies them ia acts of violcat aggression, perhaps of murder. They are just as culpable as their opponents iu their disposition to drench our thoroughfares with blood. They compel ns to order out the military to maintain the public peace, because, forsooth, they have chosen to bring with them, across the Atlantic, a bitter fued which has filled their native land with so much poverty and so much ca? lamity! Why coald they not leave their implacable nonsense at nome, where, if anywhere, it really belongs? Why should they bring hither, because we open to them a national sanctuary, the elements of such a publio disorder as a speoimen of their gratitude for our hos? pitality?-New York Sunday Times. A WORSE THAN FIENDISH OOTIIAOE. Two butchers, of Royalton, a small vil? lage near Cleveland, Ohio, having a grudge against a farmer, named Sohweit zer, who lived in Parma township, weut to Schweitzer's house, and finding no one at home but his grand-daughter, a little child, nine years old, they soized the child and poured coal oil on ber clothes and set them on fire. She was burned so badly that she died in a few hours. Before death she told the names of the fiends who committed the terrible aot. HENRY SEABROOK, ESQ.-This geutle mun, well-known in oar oity, died yester? day, after a long and painful illness. He was the partner of Hon. Jas. B. Campbell in the practice of the law, and was, daring his life, held in high estima? tion by a large circle of friends and ac quaintanccs.-Charleston Courier, 9th. THE DEATH BA^E IN PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK.-Tbe doutha in Phila? delphia, for the week euding Saturday, were 7 GI, be? og an in crease of 860 over Inst week, and of 393 over the same week last year. One-half of the deaths were of children under one year. The num? ber of small-pox deaths was 10, being n decrease from la9t week of 9. The deaths in New York during the week, amounted to 1,569, the lurgest death-roll of any week in thu history of the city. There were 1,348 deaths in aix days, and 33 from sunstroke on Fri? day. The total Dumber of deaths in Lon? don, for the week ending June 20th, was but 1,207. Thus, though London has 3,500,000 population und New York less than 1,000,000, the deaths in New York exceed those of the great English me? tropolis. TUE SADDEST YET.-The death of Hugh McGuire, on Thursday night, at his resideuce, 96 North Sixth street, Williamsburg, was surrounded with tra? gic incidents. The unfortunate man seemed to be in good health in the morn? ing, and in the afternoon attended tho funeral of ono of his children at Calvary Cemetery. During his absence bis re? maining child died, and this affliction, I in conjunctim with the extreme heat, so preyed upon bis mind, that he became frantic with grief. His own death fol owed in less than two hours. His wife has also taken sick, and her death id momentarily expected. I New York Star. "My dearest uncle," says a humorous writer, "was the most polite man in the world. He was making a voyage on the Danube, and tbe boat sunk. My uncle wus just on tho point of drowning. He got bis head ahove water onoe, took off his hat and said: 'Ladies and gentlemen, will you please escnset me!' and down he went." DEATH FROM FRIGHT.-During a severe thunder storm Thursday night, Mrs. Peter Scheidt, a German woman, resid? ing in Philadelphia, died from apoplexy, I superinduced by great fright. She was kneeling and praying nt the time of her death. A man incarcerated in the Toomba, has been figuring in chalk on the walls of his cell. It reads: "In New York City, the spires of 312 churches, worth 841,130,000, point heavenward. I'm here for stealing a loaf of bread for my starving child." The saw mill of Mr. John Pementer, located at Montmorenci, Aiken County, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday light. The mill had but recently been finished, and proves a heavy loss to Mr. Pementer. M. Theirs has broken out again with the resignation fever. It is the army bill that troubled him this time. The poor old man is as unfortunate in his temper as in his tactics. A. S. Wallace, C. C. Puffer, J. J. Pat? terson and Judge T. J. Mackey, are re? garded the most prominent candidates of tba Radicals for Congross from thc Fourth Congressional District. Pere Hyacinthe does not believe in the oelibaoy of the clergy, and for the best of reasons. He has fallen in love with the only daughter of a Bavarian nobleman. Who ever knew of a lover who believed in celibacy? Boss Calhoun, a faithful and valued servant of the Calhoun family, died at Gen. Hagood's plantation, Abbeville County, on Wednesday last, at the ad? vanced age of 114 years and five months. Byas and Jamison, two of the mouthi? est members of the lost Oeneral Assem? bly, are candidates for the Orangeburg Senatorship. The Cincinnati minister who was hatcheted for kissing a fair parishioner, will recover. It is paying pretty dear for a kiss, but it might have cost more. A snake bit a man in Atlanta, Ga., and then immediately bit itself. The man is living at last accounts, but the snake ex? pired immediately. A boy was recently killed in New Or? leans, by being struck in the abdomen by a base ball. An absconding Radical sherxT in Texas wan recently pursued, captured and reinstated in chico. A border ruffian of a postmaster out West cancels letter stamps with bis boot heel. Horace Greeley has no cottage by the sea. Wanted to Rent. A COTTAGE HOUSE, near the busi? ness part of tho city. Apply at this bulee. '_Joly 7 Barbecue. THE Barbecue, Ohioken Fight and Shoot? ing Match, which waa to take place at Whitlock's Hills, on Friday, tho Tilth, has been poatponed to FRIDAY, the 19ib, at whiob time a big orowd and lots of fun may beexpeoted. W. M. L. WILSON. July 10_2_ j Phoenix Hook and Ladder Company. ASPECIAL meeting of the Company will be held at the Hall, THIS (Wednesday) EVENING, at 8 o'clock. A punotual attend? ance is requested. By order of tho Presi? dent. D. GOODMAN, Secretary. July410_1_ Illustrated Maps of Columbia, WITH FRAMES of all kinds, 600 new STEREOSCOPIC VIEW8 Southern, Europoau and California. Also, Stereoscope. ALSO, A new lot of CROQUET, at rcducod prices. For aale at R. L. Blt Y AN'8 Jujy_10_Bookstore. Fall Turnip heed. YELLOW STONE, Lang'*? Improved Buta Baga, j } Robson's Improved Ruta Baga, ..' ? Large White Norfolk, Large Whito Globe. HOPE St GYLES. July 10_ On Consignment, 1i\C\f\ BUSHELS CORN. .UUU 100 barr?le FLOUR, Which we offer at a heavy decline. Il must be sold. L?RICK St LOWRANCE. Ei?oal Ito Orrv MATTERS.--The prioe of single copies of tho PHCKNIX is five cents. Wo had tho pleasure of seeing a plea? sant and familiar face in oar office yester? day-that of "Yours, truly, John A. Renno." We are in receipt of the Southern Farm and Home, published at Memphis, Tenn., by Boyle & Chapman. Notwithstanding the immense quanti? ties of melons in market, they command very high prices. Peaches command a high figure. Governor Scott has pardoned Jake Williams, from Darlington Connty, con? fined in the State Penitentiary for lar? ceny. The hot weather han produced parasol thieves in this city. We have received the American Farm? er's Advocate, devoted to the interests represented in the National Agricultural Congress, published at Jackson, Tenn. A select State Council of the IS O. D. 13., a secret political league, has been or gan i zed in Columbia. George A. Rich? mond is Select State Preceptor and Niles G. Parker Select State Treasurer. Quitting advertising in dull times is like tearing oat a dam because the water is low. Either plan will prevent good times from ever coming. Maj. J. C. Winder, the very efficient Superintendent of the Wilmington, Co? lumbia and Augusta Railroad, has re? signed that position, to take effect on the 15th inst. The road will lose a valuable and faithful officer, and que who has dis? charged, most zealonaly, tho responsible duties of bis position to the best of a by no means ordinary ability. We also un? derstand that the office of Superintend? ent of the Sooth Carolina Railroad has been extended Maj. Winder, but that he ie uncertain, as yet, as to whether he will accept the position. Governor Soott has appointed A. F. Browning a Trial Justice for Orange burg Connty, vice A. B. Knowlton, re? signed; and Jae. F. Harting Auditor for Aiken County. Tho thermometer at the Pollock House recorded as follows yesterday:*7 A. M., 75; 12 M., 87; 2 P. M., 85; 7 P. M., 80. A single stroke of the city bell, yester? day afternoon, caused the steamers to"be fired ap, thus displaying the ever prompt response of our firemen to the alarm of fire. The Palmettoes bad their steamer at work, yesterday afternoon, at the corner of Main and Blending street?. The following is the programme of music by the baud of the 18th United States Infantry, at the garrison parade ground, this afternoon, at 5 o'clock: Peace Jubilee March-Schacht. Overture Slave-Bishop. Song and Waltz-Wellman. Selection La Periohole-Offenbach. Storm King Galop--Mcskcw. INQUEST.-Coroner Coleman ended the inquest upon the body of Margaret I Ellet, colored, who died on Sunday I afternoon lost, in the City Hospital, from the effects of blows received upon the head in May lost, at the hands of Margaret Broome, colored. Several witnesses were examined, and after a ?post mortem examination by Dr. T. N. Roberts, the jury rendered a verdict in accordance with the abovo facts. OUR AGENTS IN CHART-EBTON.-The advertising agency of Messrs. Walker, Evans & Cogswell, represented by Ros? well T. Logan, Esq., is the only author? ized agency for this poper in Charleston. MAH. ARRANGEMENTS.-The Northern mail opens at 2.80 P. M.; closes 12.00 A. M. Charleston 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 land closes 1.30 P. M. Wilmington opens 12.30 P. M.; closes 11.30 A. M. On Sunday office open from 3 to 4 P. M. PHGZNIXIANA.-Reoent experiments have established the fact that some plante are as sensitive to the influence of ohloroform as animals. An Ohio hen defies the provisions of the Ku Klux Aol by destroying all her black chickens os soon as they are hatched. The fees of a Wyoming paper for marriage notices are as high "as the eoataoy and liberality of the bride? groom will permit." _ HOTEL AnnrvALs, July 9, 1872.-Nickerson i nouse-3 A Sadler, Charlotte; J 8 Bhuck, Aiken: B T West, Charleston: M J Bujao, Philadelphia; B 0 Wright, Virginia; J A ' Watson, SC: J BChatham, Helena. Columbia Hotel-VI M Nioholson, Cheater; O 8mith, Marion; E W M Maokey, W Dudley, B W Butler, W A Bradley, Oharlestlb; J W Cri der, 8 MoOriokard, Va; DL Fiilyan, Wilming? ton: PD Bush, Greenville; JP Pool, New? berry; W B Wells, Yorkville. .-?.-?-.? LIST OF Nsw ADVERTISEMENTS. R. L. Bryan-Maps, &o. Pheonix Hook and Ladder Company. Wells & Caldwell-Notioe. Hope & Gyjes-Turnip Seed. W. M. L. Wilson-Barbeoue.