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COLUMBIA; S. C. -?- 1 " 'IV,-i-?-1 . Thursday Korain*. Inly 18, 1872. For President of the United States. IlOItACE GREELEY, of New York. For Yice-President. B. GRATZ BROWN, of WiMiUl. Itlburalism fa Louisiana. The most marked effect -which ibo D?mocratie endorsement of Gresley and Brown has yet had in, giving fresh im? pulse to the Liberal movement ia in Louisiana. There appears to be a strong Greeley element among the co? lored people in that State, of the more intelligent and eduoated kind, and of coarse their influence will be felt among the more ignorant of their race. Stella Martin, a colored citizen of Shreveport, Louisiana, bas written an admirable letter to the New York Tribune, stating in terse terms the reasons why he pre? ferred honest Horao? to military Grant, and giving the assaranoe that Greeley and Brown will receive 20,000 colored votes in Louisiana. Yesterday,'we were informed by tele? graph that Lieatenant-Governor Pinoh baok, who is a host in himself, has taken the Btatnp in the good cause! [ He is the most- prominent colored man In his State, and has a large following. So mnoh for the colored peoplo. Among the white conservatives, the probabilities .of uniting the different elements of opposition to the Grant faction has grown considerably brighter. The Democrats, Reformers and Liberal Republicans have hitherto failed in their partial efforts at harmony. The Democrats, some time nineo, placed a State tioket in the field, without regard to the wishes or interests of the Liberal Republicans, and there was grave causo to apprehend that this bull necked polioy would oommit the State again to the control of the Grant Cus? tom Hoase party, who have been plun? dering it for the last three years. Bat since the National D?mocratie party at Baltimore has deolared for Greeley and Brown, the Bourbonists of Louisiana appear to have opened their eyes consi? derably* and to have come into a more praoticub?o fVamo bf' mind. ! There is now bat little doubt thff the ultra Demo oratio candidates will be withdrawn, and a combination be- effected on liberal principles. There ia not more than a diff?renciai h.,50Q in the black nod, the white vbt$oi Louisiana, nod if 'any sort of coalition can be effected, the electoral vote of the State is certain for Greeley and Brown. Liberalism now offers a noble rallying point for dil the1 reform elements in the State, and the Demo? crats are at last becoming oonviuoed of it. They mast consolidate to defeat the Custom House, ring, and they oan only consolidate by centreing apon .Greeley and Brown. Ormley All Right on th* Finnncc?. The New York Herald, the great financial : organ of the country, iu an article upon the Presidential campaign and its effect upon the finances of the oountry, expresses its conviction that the election of the Liberal tioket oould not result injuriously. Retrenchment in expenditures and honesty in the conduct of affairs, the Herald acknowledges, to be among the prime objeots of. the Liberal movement, and says they can? not fail to have a favorable effect upon the public securities. The Herald lays great stress, too, upon another great object of the Liberal movement, which is, to restore harmony between the different sections of the country, and to bary ont of sight the issues of the war. Says the Herald: "This of itself would tend to promote the material interests of the republic, and particularly of the Sooth, aud therefore mast lead to .a better fl uanoi al condition.'* wei? ''Diluter DA?^AOB AS TUE RIIBUI-? OP CONSSQUBNTIAJJ .CiAIMS.,"- Mattf Mor? gan sends Nast more than that coarse caricaturist bargained for. La?t week, the readers of Harper were (treated to Nest's oarioon upon the Alabama claims, showing "ons President" with hie foot firmly planted on the tail of the waning British lion. This week, Morgan gives, in Franje. LesJte\ bis cargoon,'fupon "the Alabama business. It shows the ' 'royal beast" flattening oat Bancroft Davis and President Grant under his fore paw, wbile,Gra,ut yells, ''Oh, sir^ ' please, sir, don't, sir; Hve didn't mean it; sir. Please, sir, only our fan." England and Ameri? ca ohat cosily together, and rather enjoy the Presidential.oollapae. The inscrip? tion is, ??Direct damage as the result of consequential claims. Where the Bri? tish lion {lute his foot, to the great satis? faction of John Ball and Brother Jona? than and the real of the world." Asa bit of artiotio work, without regard to its political force, this cartoon ranks amongst Matt. Morgan's best. A rifle company-A gang of thieves. We ?HUe to Explain." IQ oar allusion to ??.?o^.hillere,-" yes? terday, wo? -had r|feretW?Solely, t* thfct thriftless, mongrel, dilating olass, to which the)came ia.genorally applied, and not to any gooil cltizon who may ohaooe to have his home in the sand-hills. We mention this, as some of oar friends from the sandhills took umbrage at oar remarks yesterday. We desire to give no offence to honest men, and all such who live iu tho sand-hills may consider themselves as not; included among the disparaged class. A than is not a horse because he is born in a stable. No SALB.-The sale of- oity bonds which WBB to have come off yesterday, we are glad to announce, has been post? poned. It is impossible to realize at this time anything like a proper price for the bonds. The present miserable condition of oar State Government ne? cessarily effects icjarionsly all classes of pablio 8oaarit.es in the State. When the Government is reformed to some extent, and a return made to honest and econo? mical management, the oity of Columbia bonds .'ill be greatly ?nuanced in value. The bonds shaald sell at par, or not be sold at. all, and we hope the Gity Coun? cil will, at least, hold on to them until after the foll elections, when, if the re? form sought for shall be attained, a bet? ter sale can be effected. PoiiTriOAii JOTTTKOS.-The President's friends in Oberlin, Ohio, "rallied" and chopped down a Greeley flag-pole. The New York Standard, one of Gen. Grant's daily organs, is dead. The New York Tribune publishes a letter from a prominent German, show? ing that, with one exception, every Ger? man Republican paper which favored the Cincinnati movement gives a cordial support to its candidates; that the lead? ing Germans are all going the same way, and that a larger portion of the German vote than has ever before been united on one candidate will be cast for the Ilibe? ral ticket in November. The Liberal movement starts with an in-pat capital of 3,000,000 Democratic j and Conservative votes. This is a great beginning. If the Liberal Republicans can bring evana third.of this number the battle will be won without the aid of the floaters and the mercenaries, and the great number who watch the political tide. The Greeley enthusiasm is so great and so universal that many people are begin? ning to doubt : whether Grant will carry half a dozen States. The indications certainly 'are that the man of Long Branch will bo overwhelmingly, defeated. Tho Detroit fjree, Bree? contains the valedictory of its late rpolitioal editor and an announcement of a change in the proprietorship. It also pledges itself to support the Ral timbre nominations. GOING AFIJES, THE' .LOWBB?S.- The I Wilmington (N. O.) Journal, of yester? day, says: "The ' parp?se for which the United States troops have been sent to Robeson County is somewhat of a mystery, as yet, although there are many . that be? lieve they aro intended to intimidate and I overawe the conservative voters in that County. Some of the troops, it is said, assert that they are seut there to haut | oat the remnant of the Lowrey band, others that they are to enforoe the reve? nue laws in regard to illioit distillation, and others again have said that they are to influence the election. As for the former, it seems a very tardy thing in the case of the outlaws, and that the ac? tion is taken at a rather peculiar time, in view of the election so near at hand; I na for illicit distillation, it is a well kuowu faot that troops are not needed to suppress anything of the kind in that County, and the- inference is, therefore, that they are turnt there to canvass for the Radical ticket- The troops are quartered ai Mosa Neck." i ' ITHE HkVAifA LOTTERY.-The New1 York Sun says: . We learn frqm Cuba, that after the 1st o? July next, all the prizes in the Royal Havana Lottery are to be paid in bills bf the Spanish Bank, and not, as heretofore, in: gold, o ?Poi" months past, these bills have beaman a discount of ton per cent, and upward,1 according to the amoaut qt, o?sV required. Li reality they are worthless.. With a capital of only $6,000,000, the bank has, to-day, an issue of over $60,000,000, and cannot pay its notes on presentation. Besides, within the last ten duy<v rfc bas pat forth $3,000,000 ia bills of tbo, denomination of $1 add SS.jfi'Theso small notes, it is thongbt, may draw" out the small hoards of specie in the country, and enable the Spaniards to oonvort their property more easily? and get it away in coin from the island, ^or.V?ry many years, the lottery has paul tb tho mother country, a net profit: of over $2,000,000 a year; bat, casing to pay specie, its bosineiis and its revenue taust now be enormous? ly diminished. At a dranken row at Memphis, on the night of tba ll th, a number of shots were fired by tho patt jes engaged in the di ?noni ty, at eaoh other. All of the balls sped wide of their mark, and oneof them struck a looker-on in the head, killing bim almost instantly. Thirteen ohildren were born in a steamer of the Allen line, between Liver? pool and Quebec. ..The Oppression of the tonto hy UM' Politician?-Aro We lo H?T? a. R*? For'somo vears before tba war ol. ?ho r?bellion, when Northern polltfoUne were endeavoring to consoudaie'.iut& ooo groat political organization ?U the elements opposed to the Southern States of the Union either in interest or senti? ment, a persistent and systematic effort* was made to create prejudice against lo? white oitizens of the Soath. Apart from the crusade- against the. institution of slavery'as an offence against the Divine laws, and a moral and eooiul evil, the slave-owners.weye denounced as a class, and were held up to reproach as un American, insolent, over-bearing and tyrannical. The Southern people bad themselves to thank for the success of this unpatriotic attempt to excite sec? tional animosity and [strife for political purposes. Their peculiar position had rendered them jealous, suspicious and arrogant. They had been accustomed to brow beat Northern men in Congress, and had conceived an uufavorable opi? nion of Northern conrage. The sense of the insecurity of their slave-property kept alive in their broasts a oonstaut feeling of hostility towards the free States, and the tone of their press and public speakers was offensive and galling to the people of the North. Eventu? ally, the efforts of the politicians and the indiscretion of the chivalry brought about secession aud civil war. A bitter and costly experience taught the South? ern men bow erroneously they had judged of the spirit of their Northern fellow-citizens, while the sufferings and the bravery of the South won the sym? pathy and reapeot of the North, and were aocepted as an atonement for past follies and offences, When the last gun of the war had been fired, and the great rebel? lion lay crushed and dead at the feet of Grant's victorious army, there wae not u citizen of the loyal States, outside a hand-fnl of scheming politicians, who did not earnestly desire to see the South relieved as speedily as possible from thc inevitable penalties of ber madness aud restored to all her constitutional rightf under the reconstructed Union. Thc Northern people required assurances tba! the late Confederates would oonsent tc accept in good faith the decision reached by the tribunal of arms, and were will ing, as soon aa this was received, tc bury their anger and their sorrow in ? oommon grave. Foremost among those who thus patriotically sought to reston the Union in the hearts of the people was the soldier who had rescued it fron aotnal destruction. Towards the cl OBI of the year 1865, General Grant made ai inspection of the rebellions States, foi the purpose of learning by persona observation the sentiment of their lead ing citizens and ascertaining wha amount of military force would be re quired for the preservation of order am the enforcement of the laws. In his re port to..President Johnson, the Liento nant-General expressed his oonviotioi that .the South had not only accepted th decision of battle as final, but had be como oonyineed by reflection that tbi decision had been a fortunate one fo both sections of tho Union. "My ob Bervations," wrote General Grant, "lea meto the Conclusion that the oitizens o th ? Southern States are anxious to rc turu, to self-government within th Union aa soon as possible; that ~h;le re constructing, they want and requit protection from the Government; thal they think? is required, and is not he imitating to them aa citizens, and that ; such a course were pointed ont, the would pursue it in good,,faith. It ii t be regretted," he adds; ''that there oat not be a greater commingling at th; time between the citizens of the tw sections, and particularly of those ei trusted with the law-making power. The. trouble of the recently liberate negroes was not overlooked by the vii torious general. He found them to I inclined to idleness and imbued with tl idea that freedom from bondage meat freedom from labor. But he trusted I time and the management of tho Sta governments to render the freedme willing to work and to remove by tilo degrees the evil oF ignoranoe, the legat of their former oondition. Nearly eight years have passed siu< the war closed, and the General is no the President. The politicians, wi have unfortunately surrounded und co trolled his administration, have con) nued during tbe last three years and bali the same course towards the Sou adopted by them as soou as the rebella was over, when they were coutendii with President Johnson for the politic control of that section of the oountr The efforts of these men have been secure political power in the Southe States, by colonizing tho South wi carpet-bag politicians, and holding wi them the solid negro vote. The pro qc was simple and easy. In ten ,qi tbe e rebel States-Alabama, Florida, Georgi Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas,. Virgil aad the twa Carolinas-under the oena of 1870; there were 4,624,000 white int bitauts to 3,631,000 negroes, or less th 1,000,000 more white theo black inhab ants. Taking the proportion of one in fl for voters, the white clea tore may be oak lated at 200,000 more than the black. Sooth Carolina, Louisiana and Miss sippi, the negroes are in a majority. Alabama, there are only 6,000 more wh voters than there are colored; and Florida, the white electors are only 1,C larger than the black. Proscriptive t oaths and disfranchisement laws wi resorted to, for the pv/rposo of reduci the Southern white vote, and as amnei became moro and more a political nee aity, Ku Klux laws, authorizing tho s pension of the writ of habeas corp and placing the elections under the p teotion, or rather under the tyranny, Federal bayonets, were Invoked to coi terbalance tbe enfranchisement of i whites. In the last session of Congr? notwithstanding tho notorious fact t the Soathern States aro now as pooct and law-abiding as those of the Nor the most disgraceful scenes were enuc lu both houses, ia the effort to force ^through a roue, wal of the Ka Klux bill, M'-the risk 'pf j|he interruption of thc ffiipl? machinery of the Government. (Tooday, the So?th is held auder military despotism, subject to the rascally corrup? tions of oar pot-bag civil governments, and threatened by the dark shadow of E'olitioal negro Bupremaoy. Her people avo done all in their power to prove their willingness lo accept the lessons and fruit? of the war, and to obey the laws of their country. They point to their paralyzed industries, to their im? poverished homes, to their broken for tones, and plead . to bo allowed to enter once again the highway of prosperity and happiness, through the paths of loyalty and peace. But the question oc? curs to the minds of tho scheming poli? ticians who hold power in Congress-are the white Southern citizens to be trusted politically? Will they not uso their re? covered franchise uguinst tba regular Republican party? If those questions cannot be answered to the satisfaction of our present rulers, the South must con? tinue to be oppressed, and tho effort to force negro supremacy upou the .South? ern State? must proceed. General Grant eau have no sympathy with the courte of the meu wbo seek by such meauB to renew their loaBe of po litical power. His whole life aud the free expression of his sentiments on every occasion show that he favors a go? vernment of white men, and that he despises those who endeavor lo renew Or keep alive sectional prejudice and hate between the North aud the South. When be suffers the politicians who surround him to resort to such legislation and such policy in his behalf, he risks the loss of the sentiment of public esteem and gratitude still clinging to him and unwilling to acknowledge itself mis? placed. The people of the North de? mand that the Southern States shall no longer be treated as rebels, but shall re? ceive in good faith, and without reserva? tion, the pardon that has been extended to them. To give over the beautiful and commercially important States of thc fairest section of the Union to the igno? rant and degraded rule of negroes, just released from bondage, is nu iusultto tin white oitizans of the North, as well as ol the South, aud an outrage on the wholt nation. To subject them to the corrupt and reckless schemes of the carpet-bag plunderers is but little less infamous To hold them under military subjection for political purposes, is not only a cruo injustice, but is a dangerous assault upoi the freedom of the republic As a cou siBteut and independeut supporter o General Grant's administration, we nov call upon him to show his detestatiou o those political Muchiuvelisms by openb proclaiming his determination not b avail himself of the Ka Klux law in th approaching eleotiops, and to withdraw from the Southern States every Federa soldier not required for the actual legiti mate purposes of the Government. Th enforcement of this odious law is options with him, sud he has the authority um the power by proclamation to declare th South in a condition to warrant th restoration of civil law and of the wri of habeas corpus in every portion of he territory. This will enable the Presiden at once' to free himself from the rt sponsibilities and the unpopularity c tho measures of firs unwise supporter in Congres?, aud u radical chango in tb character of the Federal .omeo-holder throughout the South will further she his inclination to do justice to the Soutl ern people at last. For the futan whatever may be the result of the pene ing Presidential election, the Herald wi insist apon an entire change of polk towards the Southern States under tl next administration, aud will hold evei Congressman up to the contempt an scorn of the Amerioan people wk favors any measure for the oppression < the white men of the South. We Hhs demand from President Grant or Proa dint Greeley, as the case may be, e honest obedience to the will of the pe' pie, which is unrestricted amnesty uti non-interference with the dornest affairs of any of the Southern State The Herald will diligently watch f< and expose every future attempt to coi trol the Southern negro vote us a un for any party, and any injustice tb may bo done either by legislation, I Executive action .or through the mil euoe of Federal patronage, to the whi electors of tho South. We rocogui: the courage, the manhood and tl loyalty of the Southern people now tb the rebellion and its caanos are alii dead uud buried, and we admit tin equal title with ourselves to all the pru legea und rights of the Constitutio Wo ?hull hold any administration in tl future responsible for a constitution treatment ot that section of the cou try, and shall regard au assault up< their liberties and privileges as a crit against tho republic. I Neio York Herald, July 13. - ? ? - ASSUMED CH A ?GE.-Mr. James Andi son, the newly appointed ohief engine and superintendent Of the Wilmiugtc Columbia and Augusta Railroad, in pla of Maj. J. C. Winder, recently resigne assumed the charge of the road yest day. Mr. Anderson has bad a gr? deal of experience in the business. ] was formerly chief engineer and sup intendent of the North Carolina Cent Railroad, moro latterly of the Charlot Columbia and Augusta Railroad, ti later still, of the Pensacola, Jacksonvi and Mobile Road. He will doubt! make an afBoient and energetic officer I Wilmington Star, 16th CoiiOiiED BOY DISOWNED.-YeBtert afternoon, a small colored boy, nan Harefield, aged about len years, wt bathing in Hawk's Gulley with a numl of his companions, gotbeyond his de] and was drowned.-Augusta Chronicle DIIATII OP CAPTAIN Hoon E. VINCE Intelligence has been received of death of Captaiu Vincent, of Chariest which occurred in Beaufort County, Friday lust, of congestivo chill. "WHAT IS THE QOOD OP LYING?"-Tbe Now York Times has an article ander the hr id of "What is the Good of Lying?" At say6: Harper's Weekly published the follow? ing shameful paeaage from the Tribune, giving an erroneous date, bat otherwise not altering a word or line: "When the rebellions traitors are overwhelmed in the field, and scattered like leaves before an angry wind, it must not be to return to peaceful and content? ed homes. They must find poverty at their ilre-sidus, and Bee privation in the anxious eyes of mothers and the rags of ohildreo." We consider this one of the most oruel passages ever written, and we say that LO war, no bitterness, no amount of anger, would justify it. Alarmed at being con? fronted with it at the very timo when he ?B appealing to Southerners for their votes, Greeley instructed some of his men to denounce the passage as a forgery -see the Tribune, July 9. By this he meant that the passage had been invent? ed by Mr ?sra. Harpers, und had never appeared in the Tribune. It added to ita obarge of forgery these words: "We leavo the public to judge tho moral quality of the act committed by the Messrs. Harper." We then gave the correct date of the quotation, and stigmatized the course of the Tribune, in describing the passage as a forgery, as dishonest to the last degree. It oould not disprove our reference to ita own columns, but it made the following attempt to sneak out of its obarge of forgery: "Well," says the Times, "it did ap? pear on the 1st of May, 18til. Sv> it did, aud many things were written and spoken, both North and Sooth, during the mouth that followed the bombard? ment aud capture of Fort Sumter, by Beauregard, and whioh witnessed the massacre of the Massachusetts volun? teers ip the streets of Baltimore, whioh no one would have uttered at the olose of lBtiO." The Times, however, does not add the very gist of the Tribune's reply, viz: that Mr. Greeley did not write the paragraph lu question, nor induce any one else to write it. In view of this suppression of the truth, it need only bo said, iu regard to the Times' query, "What is the good of lying?" that if that paper cannot en? lighten the world ou the subject, it is useless for auy one else to mulle the at? tempt. We desire, however, to call attention to the admission that the demouiao ut? terances which it quotes are not justified by war, bitterness or any amount of auger. We cordially agree with this statement, and venture to say, that the tiles of the New York journals, including Harper's Weekly, the journal of civilisa? tion, will exhibit daily and weekly, at that time, a perfect parallel to this atro? city, even if they do not surpass it in wickedness and malignity. Indeed, if we had access to the files of the Times, it would not be difficult to prove that it was as "truly I?U" in this regard as the Tribune. The North and Sooth were then at white heat, and very few citizens of either section would now be willing to approve their own utterances at that pe? riod. But here is the point to which we would call' attention: That while the Times and ita like profess to execrate a sentiment thrown off in the first fury of the war, like a blazing fragment of rock from a volcano, and which, suoh as it was, never came from Horace Greeley, they are the vehemeut upholders of a j policy whioh, seven years after tbe war bas closed, carries out in practice, car? ries oat in deliberate cola blood, that passionate mania, and does not permit I the people of the South to have "peace I ful aud contented homes," bat compels them to "find poverty at their firesides, and see privation in the anxious eyes of mothers and rags of children." S ooh is the spectacle which is now witnessed in many a Southern home, as the unhappy father, son or brother is marched, band? en lied aad guarded by a tile of soldiers, through Southern cities to Northern penitentiaries, on a obarge of Ku Klux, or more horrible still, as has been the oase, shot down in their tracks by F?de? ral soldiers, in attempting to escupe from arrest for alleged violations of the enforcement luw. Yet the men who ad? vocate cruelty aud wroug unknown at this day in Kassia, Turkey or the worst despotism of Asia, roll up their sancti? monious eyes in holy horror at uttcr I anees of passionate men in the war, which, even it carried out, would not have been as merciless and horrible as what they are now encouraging in oold blood to secure the perpetuation of their political power. The sentiment attributed to Mr. Gree? ley, it is sufficient to say, is declared by his own journal never to have proceeded from his pen. We may add, that it is not in accordance with his oharaoter, of whioh benevolence has always been a prominent feature, nor with his acts, for from the moment the war closed, he has exercised all bis influence to enable Southern men to "return to peaced al and contented homes," and not to "find po? verty at their firesides, and see privation in tho anxious eyes of mothers and the rugs of children." Those who may never have uttered a threat so purely sa? tanic are carrying it out in action at this moment, and are applauded to the echo by such journals as the New York Times. "What is the good of lying?" Not muoh good, we devoutly trust, ia the long run.-Baltimore Sun. The death warrants read to culprits on the gallows in New Jersey, cover eleven pages, and the performance usually takes place in the hottest part of the day. As the sheriffs have to "spell out" all the hard words, the operation is rather tedi? ous to the gentleman waitiog lo be hanged. Bo always frank and true ; spurn every sort of affectation and disguise. Have the courage to confess yonr ignorance and awkwardness. Confide your faults and follies to but few. 3Za ocal ."' X -fe e m ?= CITY MATTHUS.-The price of Bingle copies of the PHCBNIX is Ave cents. Henry T. Peake, Esq., ex-superintend ent Sooth Carolina Railroad, is tempo? rarily quartered at the Columbia Hotel. John C. Seegor?, Esq., is the Alpha and Omega of the Richardson street eqaare upon whioh the PHCBNIX office is located. He erected the first brick building on the blook, and, yesterday, broke ground on the last vacant lot. Mr. Seegera belongs to the go-ahead olass, and we jet hope to greet him as "Lord Mayor" of Columbia. The sale of city of Columbia seven per cent, bonds, advertised tooome off, yes? terday, has been postponed until Thurs? day, August 1. As money is unusually scarce at present, we think it would be advisable to postpone the sale until business springs up in tho fall or winter. The thermometer ranged as follows at the Pollock House yesterday: 7 A. M., 79; 12 M., 91; 2 P. M., 91; 7 P. M., 86. The following is the programme of music by the band of the Eighteenth Infantry, at the garrison parade grounds, this afternoon, at 5 o'clock: Faust Quickstep. By Faust. Caprioia. By Hagan. Ascension Waltz. By C. Faust. Cavatina, from Lombardi. By Verdi. Tanz Jubel Polka. By Optus. QUICK WOUK.-The saw mill of Mr. W. H. Whitlock, which was destroyed by fire about the 1st instant, has been re-erected, and the first log was cut yes? terday. The work of reconstruction was commenced on the 5th. Where is your aixteen-day Sullivan's Island building now? The up-country folks a^e ahead. Tbe mill is located on the Greenville Railroad, about six miles from Colombia. By reference to our advertising co? lumns, it will be Been that the Independ? ent Fire Company, of this city, are forced to dispose of their hand engine. We know the machine well, having served in the company many years, and assert most positively that she is hard to beat-in fact, has come off oonqueror in all contests where she was entered. She plays three good streams of water, and has "thrown" over' 200 feet. Cannot the city authorities purchase this highly valuable eugine, and keep it here? An? other fire company could surely be formed. One is much needed in the upper portion of the city, near Hurley - ville, where property is almost unpro? tected, because of tbe distance the other companies are forced to ran to reach tbat portion of the city. J THE NEW BANK BUTLMKO.-We again I refer to the banking house now being erected on the corner of Richardson and Plain streets, for the purpose of giving credit to the Citizens' Seringa Bank for its share ib the erection bf a building that will contribute so much to the adornment of oor principal street. The enterprise is due to the wanta and ra? pidly increasing business of the Central National Bank, and of the Citizens' Sav? ings Bank of South Carolina-the prin? cipal office of whioh is located here. As we have already described the oharaoter of the building, we have only to add, that the investment will, doubtless, be a profitable one to the banks, and that it affords gratifying evidenoe of their pros? perity and skillful management. In the hands of Mr. Clark Waring, we may ex? pect shortly to see the beautiful struc? ture completed and occupied for the va? rious purposes for whioh it is designed. Our only source of regret is that the bank offioials have deemed it essential contrary to the expressed desire of the principal tax-payers-to t?ka up one third of the side-walk. It ia to be hoped that ere it is too late, they will recon? sider the matter, and prevent unplea? santness, and, what is highly probable, an injunction by the courts hereafter. PHCENIXIANA.-The difference between Mr. Grant and Mr. Ht?muer is, that the former prefers his stud and the latter his study. He who brings ridicule to bear against troth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary. Flash language-Telegrams. The conjunctive mood-Thoughts of matrimony. Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. Tomkins, who is terribly hen-pecked, says the greatest miss-take he ever made in his life was on his wedding day. His wife denies it, and says it was she who was miss-led. If a cause be good, the most violent attacks of its enemies will not inj are it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends. LIST OP NBW ADVERTISEMENTS. P. Cantwell-Sweet Cider. I. Sulzbaoher-Diamonds. J. McKenzie-For Sale. C. Barnum-City Bonds.