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For President of the United States. HORACE GREELEY, of Stir York. Far vice-President. B. GRATZ BROWN, of MlUOUrl. COLUMBIA. S. C. Sunday Morning, July 14, 1872. Greeley ?nd Brown. We have advocated the Liberal move ? ment with all the warmth of earnest con? viction from its very first inception, in the early part of the spring, and we have urged the acceptance of Greeley and Brown, by the Demooratio party, from the moment tbat the tidings of their nomination, at Cincinnati, first reached ns by telegraph. But we have refrained, till cow, from hoisting their banner to the head of our columns. This we do to-day. Until the notion of the Balti? more Convention, it was by no means certain that they would remain in the field till the close of tho race, and wo bave, therefore, awaited that event. Now the issue is fairly made np. The Dem?crata have wisely and with pa? triotic self-denial determined to combine with the Liberal Republicans, and to concentrate their powerful forces upon Greeley and Gratz Brown. We, there? fore, feel assured that they will continue the glorious struggle they have begun .gainst military despotism and sectional hate, and we nail their colors to our . mast-head, there to remain till the con? test is over and the victory won. It ?hall be ours to do all within the scope - of our bumble but earnest endeavors to aid their cause, for we feel it to be just and noble, and that upon its success de? pends the final redemption of our own - State and the preservation of genuine Republican liberty to the entire oonutry. .'?Peace and friendship with our Bister 'States of tho North, and an honest go? vernment for poor down-trodden South Carolina, are what we need. Self-inte? rest and true patriotism alike demand that we should cultivate mutual good will between ourselves and the sections with which we are politically associated and united. We see the harm which sectional ha? tred can do, in the pandemonium which the present Administration has made of thia State and of other Southern States, till their power was checked. We would not be subjected to it again, and the best means we see to avoid it is to accept the hand ot conciliation and friendship which honest Horace proffers. If he and Gratz Brown are eleoted, we may hope that the same relief will follow to South Carolina which has been given to the ox-Con redor?tes of Missouri by the Iliberal movement, whioh was inaugu? rated and carried to suooesaf ul comple? tion by Gratz Brown, there, two years ago. '.' We believe that the desire for re? conciliation is powerful at the Nortb, too. It oertainly must be in the hearts of all those who fought in or favored the iaie war, for the sake mainly of preserv? ing the Union, and not from hatred to? wards the South. The feeling may not be so universal, nor quite BO strong, there as with us, for they are enjoying prosperity, and have not had their sec? tional prejudices so thoroughly thumped out of them as we have. But intelligent people of the North cannot fail to ap? preciate the evils which must inevitably spring from a oontinned alienation of the South, and we believe they will give a strong and hearty support to the effort at re-union. ?-???-> What Air. Sumner Will Do. We do not deem Mr. Sumner's support by any means essential or necessary to the success of the Liberal movement, but there is no doubt that his active co? operation might prove of vast imp?rt? anos in some of the Southern States. Mississippi and Louisiana are doubtful, and South Carolina is certain, for Grant, as matters now stand. The rest, we believe, will all cast their electoral votes for Greeley and Brown, with greater or less majorities. If, however, an earnest -canvass is made by the Liberal Republi? cans in the three States mentioned, and Mr. Sumner concludes to support the movement, and will take the stump be? f?te the colored people, there is but little doubt of his ability to ensure Mis? sissippi and Louisiana to Greeley, and perhaps South Carolina, too. He will not, and cannot, advocate the re-election of General Grant, for of him the bitterest Democrat in the laud has not a lower opinion than Mr. Sumner. It romains to be seen whether he will heartily BUS . tain Mr. Greeley, who, we believe, has always been his friend, and against whom none of those glaring faults which he has discovered and so clearly depicted in his terrible Philippic against Grant, ean be lodged; There is no doubt of the devotion of the colored people to Mr. Sumner, and of their confidence in his judgment . They are not either ill-dis? posed towards Mr.- Greeley, whom many of them know to have been their friend before General Grant was known at ali. It is only required, in order to secure a diversion in Greeley's favor among them, that men whom they know to be true Republicans shall urge his claims bofore them. <????? POLITICAL JOTTINGS.-A writer to the Golden Age, who signs himself "A Gree loy Republican, "asks what are Mr. Gree? ley'a views with regard to the Confede? rate debt, and sdds that the Radicals in his town say that Mr. Greeley, if elooted, would be in favor of paying it. Mr. Tilton's answer is short and to the point: "The fools are not all dead yet." The Radicals very justly attach much importance to the North Carolina elec? tion. If Congress had given Gen. Grant the authority he so urgently demanded, of declaring martial law and suspending the writ of habeas corpus in disafFeoted districts, he and his carpet-baggers and scalawags might have some chance of carrying the old North State; but, as the day of bayonet elections and bastiles is over, they have none. A New York Radical paper says Gree? ley's portraits are to bs seen in all the low grog-shops and cafes. Well, they were not photographed on the spot, as a certain other Presidential candidate's might have been, if they had been wanted. A Radical paper says Grant was the first President to attempt civil reform; and the Boston Post adds: "And the first to make a sickening failure, as well." To avoid misapprehension, it is worth while to state that the gentlemen spoken of in oar despatches from Baltimore as "bolters," are simply a nnmber of disor? ganizes, who had no position whatever in the Baltimore Convention. They were outsiders, and their object was to induce the delegates to the Convention to disregard the wishes of those who sent them there; and failing in that, they propose to nominate a "straight-out" D?mocratie ticket, if they can find two gentlemen who will accept that dubious honor at their hands, whioh is extremely doubtful. There was no bolting from the Democratic Convention, and few have been held in our history that were so harmonious. It will be. difficult for Grant to seduce the more intelligent of the colored voters from their old friend and.patron, Horace Greeley. In all the States, the leaders are coming ont for the Baltimore and Cincinnati nominees. The last notable case that we have seen, is that of W. U. Saunders, of Baltimore, a man of cui? tare, an officer in the custom boose, and a Grant oleotor. He is ont in a very sensible letter, in whioh ho abandons the Grant wing of the party, resigns bis place on the eleotoral ticket, and declares his resolution to support Greeley and Brown. i m ? ? THE HEATED TEBM.-A Southern man who has not experienced what is known as a "heated term" in a Northern city, has no adequate notion of what really hot weather is. Of the late hot week, the New York ?W?uHesays: "The sixth day of dreadful heat has passed, and still there is no substantial relief. The 'local storms' which the weather bureau predioted for the Atlantio coast have wasted their balm npon the sands of Jersey, or drifted ont to sea and poured their refreshing waters into the Atlantic. The wind which blew over the city yesterday was as hot as tho wind of the desert. The roofs and pavements of suffering New York still blaze in the angry sun. A million people pant for a breath of cooling air. Poisonous exhala? tions rise from the festering streets. Gutters reek with fever-breeding stenches. Seventy persons dropped dead from the heat in a single day, and the hospitals are" crowded with delirious vic? tims. The night brings no rest, for it is as hot as the day. From the tenement quarters, orowds of half-dressed men and women and ohildren hnrry, when darkness comes on, to the parku and open squares, and the steps and porticoes of public buildings. In houses of the better class, people toss all night, sleep? less, on their heated beds, or pass the midnight hours at their windows, long? ing for tho cool breeze whieh never cornea, and fretting over the oppression whioh is never relaxed; The wretched? ness is universal; and to hundreds, whose occupations expose them especially to the influen?a of the sun, such a day as yesterday and Tuesday brings not merely safferiag, but death." We doubt whether any Columbian re? members suoh a day in this oity as is here described. The "Sunny South" has nothing in ita experience so fiery as this. EXPLOSION AND Loss OP LIFE.-By the arrival of the steamer Pilot Boy, yester? day, intelligence was received of a disas? ter at the River and Marine Phosphate Works, situated on Bull River. About 4 o'clock, on the afternoon of Thursday, the boiler of the wash-boat exploded, making a perfect wreck of the boat. A colored woman, named Lydia Atkins, whose mother lives at No. 8 Sooth Bay, opposite Logan street, was blown into tho river, and possibly into atoms, as she could not be found. Several of the hands of the boat were badly, though not fatally, scalded. No white person was injared.-Charleston Courier. To THE EDITOR OF THE PUCENIX. : In the Union, ot Friday, appeared an article under the heading of "The Courts Cast* ing Reflections Upon the Jury," in the case of Josephine Myers, charged with assanalt and battery, bringing in a ver diot of guilty of self-defence. The writer of this article was, unfortunately, one of the jurors, and must state that neither the facts of the oase, as elioited ut the trial, nor the vocabulary of the oounoil, inspired him to acquit the guilty party, Josephine Myers, a black woman, who made a murderous assault on a little white boy,'with a brick bat, sufficiently heavy to knock a bull down. Bnt no donbt the public are aware that justice in South Carolina is done gone dead. His Honor Judge Richmond, after a fair hearing of tho ense, and in consonant with the dignity of bis court, appointed Bob Cooper, colored, foreman of the jury. Ali of Bob's element were at once for acquittal, wbilo the two white jurors were for giving justino its due. Neither logia or evidence could change preju? diced minds. The white jurors went even so far as to recall a witness to the jury room, to convince them of facts which, of themselves, were BufQoient to condemn the defendant. But, no go. Talking about vocabulary eloquence, or oratory, of lawyers to lead a jury, ia ull blarney. It reminds me, sir, of a divine who was preaching at camp meeting to a large audience. During his disconroe his attention was attracted to a rowdy one of the b'hoys-who seemed to be very muoh affected, while looking at the preacher. After tho service the preacher called on the prodigal son, and inquired, "Brother, what affected thee so much in my discourse?" Rowdy answered, "I lost a bull purp that resembled you very much, and while eyeing you I thought of poor purp." It ib neither the lawyer nor the judge who have any influence upon the result of the verdict. It is the purp. The purp, sir, is the centre of attraction. 1 have endeavored to make a suggestion, but was answered, accom? panied by a shako of the bead and a shrug of the shoulders, "Dis chile kuow all 'bout jurys." Bob, the foreman, asked me to sign his name. I told bim my specs were not handy. Then they concluded to bring a verdict of guilty of self-defence. This being a poser, a Chinese puzzle to me, I gave my white friend the wink to let it slide, and see how another Daniel will Bit in judgment over this Irish bull. In conclusion, I will quote from Josh Billings: "You can't lick the bottom of a frying-pan without blacking your nose." Very re? spectfully, A WHITE JUROR. Theodore Tilton, in the Golden Age, of the 6th inst., says: The Times, of this city has gravely asserted more than onoe, that Mr. Gree? ley has made a bargain with the Tam? many ring, by which be is to receive its support in the present campaign, in consideration of favors already rendered by the Tribune, and to be bestowed in case of his eleotion. More than once, the Times bas made the strongest posi? tive assertions against individuals in this city, and when its conductors were brought into court, they were compelled to confess that the charges were made upon mere hearsay, aud without evi? dence. The Times knows that this accu? sation against Mr. Greeley is utterly baseless. It does not, and cannot, ad? duce the shadow of a proof in support of its charge. It knows that wbrn the De? mocrats themselves have repudiated Tammany, it would be fatal folly and madness in Mr. Greeley or his friend? to enter into an arrangement with that disgraced and defunct organization. It knows that with all its short-comings, the Tribune never hos favored the Tam? many ring, nor concealed or apologized for its crimes. But, unlike the Times, it refused to spend all its indignation and wrath upon tho Tammany ring, when other rings equally corrupt and far more dangerous were throttling ?he National Government and preying upon its lite-blood. The Times was sbarp eyedto detect every peculator who, with smallest gimblet, bored iuto tho city treasury, but has been utterly and per? sistently bliqd to tho plunderers whose huge augers have riddled the treasury of the nation-no blind that whoever knows anything of political optics suspects that it is afHioted with the same disease whioh prevented the English bishop from seeing when a guinea was held be? fore each of his eyes. The Springfield Republican, in commenting upon this matter, says: "There are journals in this country whose solemn assertion in so grave a matter as this would have very nearly the weight of evidenoe-would at least create a strong presumption against the party accused. Unhappily, the New York Times has ceased to be of their number. It is not a pleasant thing to Bay of a paper of the Times' antecedents, but it is the troth. In matters about whioh the Republican knows as much as the Times, and also knows that the Times' knowledge of the facts is equal to its own, that paper has proved itself a false witness." REMEDY ron DIPTHERIA.-The dipthe ria, that brings the torture of a thousand deaths to the little ones it assails, can be readily mastered by swabbing the back of the mouth and throat thus: Tako table salt, two draohms; black pepper, golden seal, nitrate Of potash, alum, one drachm each; mix and pulverize, pot into a tea-cap, whioh half fill up with boiling hot water; stir well and then fill np with good vinegar. Use every half hour, one, two and four honra as recove? ry progresses. The patient may swallow a small amount each time. Apply an ounce each of spirits of turpentine, sweet oil and aqua ammonia, mixed, to the throat and to the breast bone every four hours, keeping flaunel to the part. A prominent New York physician says thut in 1,000 oases where this remedy was em? ployed, not a single patient was lost. I TBK CHARLESTON Exe H AN OK.-The Courier says thia institution ia by no means a slow conon, as will be Been by the progress that has been made in its erigin and organization. The Board of Directors has elected Mr. Alfred Price Superintendent of the Exohange, Mr. Prioe is an old citizen and merchant of Charleston, aud is eminently qualified for tho duties of the new position to which ho has boon called. We under? stand that tho new Superintendent will leave immediately for the North, on a tour of iuspeotiou. Ho will visit the principal exchanges in the Northern nnd Western cities, and inform himself about the workings aud manner of conducting them. With u knowledge derived from hts personal inspection, he will return, aud open tho Clou locton Exchange upon its completion. lu tho meantime, the Financial Committee of the Exchango ure not idle. A tiito has been already procured on South Atlantic Wharf for tho erection of an Exchange building, and tho contractor, Mr. Walter Cade, has already set a number of hands to work. The now building will bo of brick, fifty feet square, and will contain a large hall, to bo used us an Exchange. Et will DO adapted to all trades and busi? nesses, und will be titted up in tim best and most improved Btyle. The work is already in good progress, and is expected to be completed by the middle of Sep? tember next. This is real go-ahead en? terprise on the part of the gentlemen who have inaugurated this movemeut, and speaks well for the business energy of merchants. PARIS GOSSIP.-A Versailles letter says: "Government has resolved that Marshal Bazuine's trial ahull not ba postponed a single day wheu once the maps, plans and other documents required by the court ure ready, which will be about a mooth hence. Tho depositions of wit? nesses, and the questioning of the pri? soner himself, will be finished about the same time. The general officer who bas charge of what the French law calls 'the instruction' of Bazaine, sees him for about two hours every forenoon; the questions put to the prisoner, aud his replies, number already some two hun? dred aud odd. Many of the officers who will have to take part in the trial, either is witnesses or employed by the court, dave already arrived at Versailles, and apartments of all kinds are fust rising to tho fabulous prices that were paid for them daring the Commune. It is curi? ous to observe, by the way, how this most decidedly monarchical town has ac? commodated itself to the simplicity of republican manners. When ~M. Thiers goes-as he does nearly every day at pre? sent-to the Assembly, he has no escort, ao guard, often not even a carriage. A little old gentleman, dressed in black, wearing spectacles, with an overcoat thrown over his arm, may be seen wend? ing his way under the shade of the trees in the Avenue de Paris, and across the blazing bot Place d'Armes, to the Cha? teau, leaning on the arm of a somewhat alder and taller man, with whom he is in jam est conversation. No one would for a moment imagine that the shorter of the two-hardly known by sight to many of the persons he meets on the road-is the Chief Magistrate of this great nation, a man who has befora&him a task and a work to achieve such al few have under? taken or could undertake even in the prime of life, and yet M. Thiers is up? wards of seventy-four years old." TUE REMAINS OP LOUIS PHILIPPE. The Paris Gaulois states that the ques? tion of the hour in Versailles is the translation to France of tho ashes of Louis Philippe. M. Thiers hus made io official promise on the subject, but it B probable that the work of removal viii be done privately and without any Dtiblio ceremony whatever. The Duo 1'Aumalo and the Prince de Joinville viii soon go to Claremont, in order to ixhumo the remains of the late King, vhich they will then deposit at the Cha eaa d'Eu, where the Orleans family will ill meat. The ceremony wiil take place n the presence of a few invited friends, or tho public are not to be admitted, [a England, it is said, exists a curions luperstition upon thc subject of mortu iry transfers of this character. The English say that whenever a ruler aa bonzes the return to his country of the tody of a sovereign of the past, trouble ollows to him who rules. The fact is, hat the return to Franco of the ashes of Napoleon I did not bring good luck to Liouis Philippe. HELPING THEMSELVES.-If the white Radicals are indisposed to do for the ne? groes what might be expected from their profuse professions of affection for this (lass of population, the negroes, it ap? pears, will not be fonnd backward in ?oming forward to do for themselves. It s the old fable of the lark and her young mes over again. Thus, it is not sur? mising to know that the colored Sooth karolina Congressman Elliott has ap join tod a negro boy to be a cadet mid itu pm an at Annapolis, and that the other solored members of Congress will follow lia example. As the future will probably iee many more negro Congressmen, so in inorease in the members of colored youths at West Point and Annapolis may so anticipated as time rolls on. THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE.-The Pos? ai Record gives some instances of for? getfulness and inattention that appear ?imply fatuitous and absurd. Imagine 100,000 letters sent to the Dead Letter J Hi co last year for tho want of stamps. 3,000 letters were put into the post office without any address whatever. And in these letters so carelessly deposited were fonnd checks and drafts to the amount yt 88,000,000, and over 892,000 in oash. Much of this sum was of course returned to the owners, but muoh of it was also lost irretrievably, and was doubtless the causo of trouble, ohargos of dishonesty, and ninny estrangements. I'm ocal Ito m si CAMPAIGN NEWS. - The Presidential campaign is now upon as, and is des* tined to prove the moBt exolticg and in? teresting one that we have had for many years. We are determined to furnish our readers with the fullest and freshest information from all quarters of the Union, as the campaign progresses, and to this end will inorease the number of our news columns, so that the PLUENJX will contain for the campaign more read? ing matter than any daily paper at the capital, and as muoh as either of our Charleston cotemporaries. To the citi? zens of the upper Counties of the State, tho PHCENIX, as furnishing news twenty four boars ahead of the Charleston news? papers, particularly addresses itself. All ye who feel an interest in the election of Greeley and Gratz Brown, and desire to know tho correct status of the campaign as each new development is made, send in your subscriptions to the PHONIX, either daily or tri-weekly. We promise yon a lively, readable and reliuble paper. CITY MATTERS.-The price of single oopies of tho PHOENIX is five cents. See what Mesara. D. C. Peizotto & Son have to say relative to their stock of crockery and glassware. This is the season for bargains. The attention of coai-burners is called to the advertisements of Messrs. Harper and Keenan, who propose to furnish this necessary heat producer at very low rates-fully thirty per cent, less than last year's figures. A large and varied lot of cards, suita? ble for weddings, invitations, visiting and business purposes, have just been re? ceived at this office, whioh, owing to the dall season, will be printed at very low rates. Messrs. W. D. Love ? Co., in antici? pation of a change of base in September, offer their present stock of goods at low rates, as they are desirous of filling their new store with a new stock. District Attorney Corbin's Greenville speech, a healthy expose of the thieves, is to be published. Frances King, a colored female con? vict in the State Penitentiary, was yes? terday, after an examination by Dr. B. W. Gibbes, deolared a lunatic, and was sent to the Lunatic Asylum. THE UNITED STATES VS. WILLIAM SARTOR.-Pursuant to previous adjourn? ment, the prisoner was brought up be? fore Commissioner Boozer, yesterday. Messrs. Melton & Clark appeared for defendant. On motion of defendant's counsel, tho preliminary examination was waived, and the prisoner remanded for trial at the August special term of the Circuit Court. Pua: six IAN A.-It is a good plan to speak little of persons, and never ill of one, unless by silence yon wrong your neighbor. You can trust no man who unnecessarily speaks against another. "Ah, ladies," said an old bon vivant, as he opened a bottle of wine, "what is more delightful than the popping of a champagne cork?" "The popping of the question!" unanimously cried the ladies. "Stove-fodder" is the Yankee slang for kindling-wood. No mun is so great as mankind. Marriage is the nursery of heaven. Manners are stronger than laws. It is impious in a good man to be sad. Those who live for something usually find it is something to live. Why are balloons in the air like va? grants? Because they have no visible means of support. The title "grass widow," is of French origin. It is derived from the French word "grace," and originally meant a widow by courtesy. The Boston balloon refused to go up on the Fourth. The jubilee had ex? hausted the supply of gas. They should have taken Mr. Gilmore instead of hydrogen. One of our religious journals, speaking of another, says that "it is an excellent paper, though we sometimes wish it would mix a little more Christianity with its intelligence, and add a little intelli? gence to its Christianity." EXCESSIVE WATER DRINKING.-There is no habit whioh is so disposed to grow upon one as that of drinking. Even water-drinking, apparently so harmless, becomes, with some people, a most per? nicious habit; they are regularly in the habit of drinking many glasses of water between meals. This habit is an injuri? ous one; it gently weakens the digestive power, hastens the waote, and very pro? bably tends to produce corpulenoy. Un? fortunately, however, water-drinking is far loss freqaontly a habit than beer drinking, whioh, in quantities very far short of intoxication, is much more in? jurious. By water-drinking, we dilute our tissues; by beer-drinking, we con? taminate them. RELIO joua SERVICES THIS DAY.-Tri? nity Oharoh-Rev. P. J. Shsnd, D. D" * Rector, ll A. M. and 4 P. M. Lutheran Church-Rev. A. R. Rode, 10X A. M. Marion Street Church-Rev. S. H. Browne, 10>? A. M. ; Rev. J. W. Dick? son. 8 P. M. Washington Street Church-Rev. Manning Brown, 10>? A. M. Meeting of the Sunday School Society at 5 P. M., on which occasion several addresses will be delivered. Catholic Church-Rev. James Faller? ton, First Mass, at 7 A. M.; Second Mass at 10 A. M. ; Vespers at 4>? P. M. Baptist Church-Rev. J. L. Reynolds, 10M A. M. Presbyterian Church-Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, 10?? A. M. OUR AGENTS IN CHARLESTON.-The advertising ageuoy of Messrs. Walker, Evans & Cogswell, represented by Ros? well T. Logan, Esq., is the only author? ized agency for this paper in Charleston. MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.-The Northern mail opens at 2.30 P. M.; closes 12.00 A. M. Charleston day mail opens 4.30 P. M.; doses 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 closes 1.30 P. M. Wilmington opens 2.30 P. M.; closes 11.30 A. M. On Sunday office open from 3 to 4 P. M. ARCHITECT, ETC., OF RICHMOND COL? LEGE.-The Richmond Whig, of the 6tb, says: "A. Y. Lee, Esq., Architect and Civil Engineer, was yesterday selected as ar? chitect and superintendent of construc? tion of the additions to Richmond Col? lege, by a unanimous vote of the Build? ing Committee of the Board of Trustees of that institution. This is a very marked success for Mr. Lee, who came among us unknown and unheralded from South Carolina, not many months- ago. His adopted home has been quick to re? cognize his merits and his determined energy, and already he has established not only a ?ne reputation here, but has acquired a large legitimate business ia bis profession. There is no doubt about Mr. Lee, for he is a mau who has socoess stamped on his brow. Richmond is large enough for more of the same sort. We heartily congratulate Mr. Lee." LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meeting Columbia Lodge. Meeting Hebrew Congregation. D. C. Peixotto & Son-Crookery, ?frc. W. Muller-Teaching. X-Wanted to Borrow. W. D. Love & Co.-Bargains. HOTEL ABBIVALB, July IS, 1872.-Hickerson House-E T West, Charleston; Col J S Goth ran, Abbeville; Gen W W Harliee, Mar's Bluff: H Mciver, Cheraw; J M Johnson, Marion; Gol A A N M Taylor. Greenville: Gen W H Wal? lace. Union: Major J A Sadler, N G; M J Belgier, Newberry. Columbia Hotel-3 F Gardner, Ga; D Hemp hill, Chester; A T Smythe, J W O'Brien and son, Charleston: H 8 Johnston, Columbia: D H Bbnlnr, Ala; J S Bates, Richland; J A Wat? son, Yorkville; J T Heen, So Ex Co; I Holmes, W A Bradley. Charleston; H W Addison, Edgefield; O H Buber, Newberry; PS Whia nant, N C; E W Mercer, S G. SUGGESTIONS FOB SAFETY IN THUNDER STORMS.-Sedulously avoid all conductora of electricity. Do not shelter nuder I trees, nor go near them; the great ma? jority of accidents arise from want of this precaution. Do not handle or be close to rae tali o bodies; a servant clean? ing a silver fork at a window, during a thunder storm, the prongs being out? wards, was struck, but not killed ; a young lady, during the same storm, sowing near a window, was thrown from j her seat ami experienced a blow. The centre of a room, if a metalio lustre is not pendant, is safer than any other part I of the apartment. It is not safe to be between the window and the door, or a fire-place, where there is a current of 1 air. A bed is the surest retreat; so all ye who fear, and fail to derive pleasure mingled with awe, in beholding this, the grandest of nature's meteors, en? sconce yourselves within the woolen folds, and sink down in your downy couch, if ye cannot fall into gentle slumber, think, at least, that you can enjoy comparative safety. [Dr, Thomson's Meteorology. How OLD JOHN HARPER FLANKED THE NEW YORK SPORTS.-The New York Sun says that when old man Harper brought his stud of horses North, he had a white jockey. The boy soon became intimate with many patrons of the turf, and drank and smoked with thom. He was a gene? ral favorite. As soon as the old man found out that the sports and knowing ones knew the boy, he telegraphed for his oolored jookey, John Sample, who rode Longfellow at Lexington. When the bell rang for the riders to mount, the white boy came out. Apparently not noticing bim, Uncle John told the darkey to step on the scales. Finding he weighed one pound too ranch, he made him run round the track and sweat the extra pound away. The experiment was successful, and the darkey won the race. It is said that while the white boy is rioher by several hundred dollars, some politicians aro of the opinion that they threw some?money away carelessly. They think Uncle John Harper is too smart for the New York boys. THE LAURENS RAILROAD CASE.-This case was brought before the United States Court, yesterday. The assiguee reported the sale of the effects, and asked that the sale be confirmed by the court. Messrs. Pressley, Lord & Ingles by, Hayne & Son, Simonton & Barber, on thc part of the creditors of the road, moved that the sale be set aside, on the ground that the effects had been sold for less than $61,000, the price fixed by the order of sale. The Judge granted the motion, and issued au order setting aside the bale.-Charleston News.