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rore!g=? A?T*Ir?. GEM EVA, Joly 18.-The preliminaries have been settled and the board has finally decided to take np the case of each ship seriatim. Professor Montague Bernard arrived to-day. The roofs and balconies of the hotels are again deco? rated with flags and streamers. LONDON, July 18.-A. despatch from Fort Bald announces the arrival there and the subsequent departure for Eng? land of Stanley, the hero of the Living? stone search. He is aooompauied by the eon of Dr. Livingstone. LONDON, July 18.-The British agent at Geneva has presented a demurrer, praying that the tribunal exclude the oases of Tallahassee, Ohioamauga, Sum? ter, Nashville, Retribution, Boston, Sallie, Jeff. Davis, Y. H. Jay and Music. Feuding a decision, eaoh side presented a process containing the esconce of the argumentative portions of the case, and a counter oase, summing up the American argument and statements in the case of the Florida was presented to-day.' American Mattera. CHARLESTON, July 18.-Arrived-steam? ships Champion, New York; Sea Gull, Baltimore. NBW YORK, July 18.-Tho Republican National Exeoutive Oommittee held a meeting yesterday afternoon, whioh was executive in character, and for the most part secret. Measures were disoussed for forwarding the canvass in Pennsylvania, Indiana, North Carolina and West Vir? ginia. Ex-Senator Abbott made a cheer? ing report of the canvass in North Caro? lina. Col. Evrett, Chairman of tbe Re? publican State Central Oommittee, ap? peared from Pennsylvania, in place ol W. H. Kimball, who is ill. A suggestion was considered from West Virginia, looking to the utilization of all elemente of opposition to the D?mocratie Liberale of that State. The details of the cam' paign will be organized within a few days at headquarters here. A secret ses sion of the Exeoutive Oounoil of the Union League of America was also hel? in the afternoon, at whioh it was resolved to co-operate with the National Commit tee. A prominent member of the German House of Representativos writes here confirming the news that Bismarck is tc try to stop by legislation the great Hov of emigrants from the empire to thii country, and characterizes the move ment as stupid, saying the only wa: to prevent emigration is to offer thi people the same advantages they hav here. HUNTSVILLE, ALA., July 18.-Th rains have damaged the orops. Bolton lands are flooded. WHEELING, W. VA., July 18.-Th heavy raina have caused great damage t the Pittsburg, Wheeling and Kentuok Bailroad. The streets were flooded th greater part of the day. ST. LOUIS, July 17.-A preliminar and informal investigation into allege cruel treatment -of the inmates of th House of Befuge, made by the board c managers, this afternoon, shows that th charges reported by the grand jury wei true. SARATOGA, July 18.-The ? first raoi hurdle, two miles, was won by Loohie beating Astronomer four lengths; Tan many Belia fourth; both dose up; tin: 4.34. Betting was four to three c Lochiel, agaiust the field. The seoon race waa a selling purse of if500, for twi ?ear olds, three-quartet a of a mil ilma won very easily, with Liverpoi second and Bouncer third. Calvert wi beaten off. Time 1.19. Lima was tl favorite, at four to three against Bounoe and five to three against the rest. Tl sequel stakes were won easily by Wac Hampton, beating Soe Byder a quart of a mile. Time 3.42>.<. CHICAGO, July 18.-Drop reports fro central Wisconsin promise well. Sun grain, with the exception of sprii wheat, will return a full average oro Spring wheat has been badly damag by drought and the ohinoh bug, and t yield will be light. Corn shows we but rain is need to insure a good crop. ST. LOUIS, July 18.-The Demoon of the Sixteenth Distriot of Illinois, convention, at Vandalia, yesterdc nominated S. L. Bryan for Congre The Liberal Republican Convention, the same time aud place, ratified t Democratic nomination, and pledged t Liberal Republicans to a hearty uuppi of the tioket. WASHINGTON, July 18-Eveuing.-1 Comptroller of Currency has giv notioe to the creditors of the Natioi Bank of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and 1 First National Bank of Selma, Alaban that their claims must be present within the next thirty days, or they \ not be allowed. Clai ms can be p sented, with the requisite proof, to I Comptroller of Ourreney. The steamer Pioneer is still in custody of the Treasury Departme awaiting an investiga ion by judicial thorities. Probabilities-The lowest baromi will move slowly Eastward over Son ern New England on Friday, with Not east winds and cloudy weather Norti Massachusetts. Northerly winds i oool clearing weather from Nortb New York to Lake Huron. Cool No west winds, and cloudy, followed clearing weather, from New York Virginia and Ohio. The conditions favorable for local Tains in Virginia North Carolina. Rising barometer pleasant weather will prevail in the ( States on Friday. Dr. Parish, of Philadelphia, has 1 appointed Special Indian Commissio to vieil the Kiowa camps, and H Alvord, of Virginia, has been assooi with him. NEW YORK, July 18-Evening. steamship Clyde, from Galveston, \ ashore in a log, this morning, at '. Hamilton, and remains high and dr Tweed's trial opened with an argut by David D. Field, of Tweed's cou against tho right of the people brin suits, after which the court adjourn? September next, when a decision will be rendered. At a meeting of South Carolina bond? holders, to-day, the committee report little progress in the collection of sub? scriptions for the prosecution of their claims, and a resolution was adopted re? questing all holders to deposit one per cent, on the par value of their bonds for use in the contemplated suit. Many sun-stroke cases to-day. Financial an<i Commercial. LONDON, July 18--Noon.-Tho bank rate has advanced %, and is now 3,1?. Consols 92%. Bonds 91%. FRANKFORT, July 18.-bonds 96,-B. PARIS, Joly 18.-Rentes 5 If. 22o. LIVERPOOL, July 18-3 P. M.-Cotton opened quiet and steady, but is now heavy-uplands 10%@10%; Orleans 10%@11. LONDON. July 18-Evening.-Bullion in the Bank of England decreased ?381,000 during the week. Consols closed at 92%. Money 92}<,, on ac? count. American securities unchanged. LIVERPOOL, July 18-Evening.-Cot? ton closed unchanged. NEW YORK, July 18-Noon.-Stocks dull. Gold heavy, at 14%. Money easy, ot 3. Exchange-long 9%; short 10>.i. Governments dull and steady. State bonds dull and heavy. Cotton dull; sales 296 bales-uplands 23; Or? leans 23%. Flour dall and unchanged. Wheat and oorn qniet and heavy. Pork dull, at 13.50@13.75. Lard quiet-new steam 8@8%; old 9 7-16. Freights firm. 7 P. M.-Sales of futures to-day 26,300 bales, as follows: August 211-16, 21%; September 20%, 21 1-16; October 1915-16, 201-16; November 19%, 19%; December 193 16, 19%. Money easy, at 3@4. Exchange dull, at 9%@9J^. Gold 14%@14%. New 5s 13%; 81? 17%; 62s 15%. State bonds dull and heavy. Tennessees 74; now 73%. Vir? ginias 41; new 50. Louisianas 50; nen 48; levee 6s 61; 8s 74. Alabama 8s 81 5s 60. Georgia 6s 76%; 7e 87. North Carolinas 32%; new 20. South Carol i nas 54; new 28. Cotton easier; nales 1,731 bales, at 23@23%. Southern floui unchanged. Whiskey firm, at 02).? ; hele at 93. Wheat slightly in buyer?' favoi -1.60@1.65 for wiuter red Western, Corn dull, heavy and lower; scarcity o freigbt room checks export demund Pork dull, nt 13.50@13.75 for mess Beef dull and unchanged. Lard heavy at 8@9%. Freights to Liverpool firm CINCINNATI, July 18.-Corn lower, a 19(a)50. Pork firm and iu fair demand Lard firm-kettle 8J8@9. Bacon activi and higher-clear ?ides 8. Whiske; steady, at 87. LOUISVILLE, July 18.-Flour quiet family 6.50. Corn dull and unchanged Provisions strong, with an advanoiui tendency. Pork 13.00. Bacon-side 8%@8%, packed. Lard 9%@10% Whiskey quiet and steady, at 87. ST. LOUIS, July 18.-Flour qniet an unchanged. Corn dull, at 37 for No. S mixed, ou track. Whiskey steady, e 38. Pork dull, at 13.00 for order lott Bacon firm, at 6% for shoulders; 8}?(i B% for clear sides. Lard dull, at 8 fe summer. . MOBILE, July 18.-Cotton dull an nominal-middling 22; stock 1,536 bale CHARLESTON, July 18.-Cotton du and easier-middling nominally 22; r< oeipts 17 bales; stock 6,651. BOSTON, Joly 18.-Cotton dull ac depressed-middling 23%; receipts 41 bales; sales 150; stock 9,500. WILMINGTON, July 18.-Cotton qui and nominal-middling 24; receipts 1 bales; stock 757. NORFOLK, July 18.-Cotton dull-lo middling 22%; receipts 30 bales; stoc 197. GALVESTON, July 18.-Cotton nomin -good ordinary 20%; receipts 1 bal stock 424. PHILADELPHIA, July 18.-Cotton qui -middling 23%. AUGUSTA, Joly 18.-Cotton nominal middling 21@21%; receipts 92 bait sales 10. BALTIMORE, July 18.-Cotton dull ai nominal-middling 23%; stock 1,1 bales. SAVANNAH, July 18.-Cotton flat-mi diing 22}?; reoeipts 70 bales; stock 71 NEW ORLEANS, July 18.-Cotton qu -middling 22%@22%; receipts 1 bales; sales 275; stuck 13,515. "SNAIX" AT CHAPPAQUA.-During t recent Democratic invasion of Chupi qua, it is related that George N. Sando peering cautiously around, asked F mer Greeley if there were "any anal about here?" "There are a few copp beads just now," responded the old far or, "but they are perfeotly tami This impromptu witticism created a r< nf laughter, in which the Democr joined most heartily. . DROWNED.-A negro man camed T, lor, while assisting in pushing a p boat on the Savannah Biver, betw< the oity and Sand Bar Ferry, yesterc afternoon, about 2 o'clock, fell overboi and was drowned. An inquest was h over the body by W. W. Smythe, J. the coroner being absent from tho oi Taylor came to this plano from Oolam County.-Augusta Chronicle. Halifax, N. S., has a brave girl seventeen, named Emma Longard. ] father's house being attacked by a t glar, she dressed herself in an abs brother's olothing, and with a poker, belabored the rascal that his recover doubtful. John Robinson has sued the 1 York and New Haven Railroad for $ OOO damages to his circus, by the wr< ing of sevoral of his cars, on account a low bridge, on the 3d of July. A Milwaukee lady has just buried seventh husband. She married in ll at the age of seventeen, took hor seo husband in '59, her last in '70, and wants thoeighth during tho current y A drunken man, lately employee some of the Shelby, Ala,, ooal mi was placed in the guard bouse at Mo vallo, Monday night last, and in s way set fire to the prison, entirely suming the building, and himself wit JcaoE MACKEY S S?'EEOII.-Io oar no? tice o? J udge Mackey's speech, contained ia Tuesday's issue, we nog I coted to state that the speaker avowed himself openly and unqualifiedly a Republican, in vio? lation of his youthful teachings, and in violation of tbe traditions of the State. His convictions were formed at the sacri? fice of life long associations and friend? ships, and he proposed to stand by thom "through thick and thin." lu his opi? nion, reform could only come tbrojgh the Republican party, and must be worked within its rauks. Originating from an jr other source, it would full wholly short of its aim. Judge M. theu proceeded to expose several enterprises that have been the means of swindling the State out of many millions of dol? lars. Since tho Gth of July, 18G3, the oust of the publio printing of the Statu has aggregated $285,000 per aunum, while in New York State it hus amounted to only $170,000 per annum, notwith? standing the fact that tho populatiou of New York is nearly five times greater thdu that of this State. This exhibit abo W8 that the publio printing iu South Carolina costs more than that of New York by $115,000, despite the disparity in size of population. The legislative printing was done by a company com? posed of certain members aud officers. The Clerk of the Senate was Presideut, and the Clerk of tbe House a member. Thirteen Senators are known to have be? longed to it, one of whom was a Demo? crat. D. T. Corbin was a member of the compaoy, and acted as its attorney, receiving as salary $3,000. He is now crying out for reform. In the passage of tho phosphate bill, in 1869, $150,000 was used to bribe the Legislature to vote for it. This measure has only benefited tho State $19,000, whereas it ought to have brought into tbe Treasury at least $300,000. If the remedy, remarked Judge M., is not applied to correct these abusos, by Republican voters themselves, then Gen. Grant will certainly recom? mend to Congress to remand the State to a territorial condition, under a provi? sional government. If Republicans can't correct the abuses committed by the bad members of their party, let the State bo surrendered back to the cure of the Gen? eral Government. One poiut of Judge M.'a speech wo desire to call special uttention to is this, that the State Government is responsible for every red shroud in which Bleeps a K. K. victim, and for the sufferings and misery of every South Carolinian who languishes behind the bars of Albany Penitentiary. Upon this statemeut, we forbear comment.-Fairfield News. THE CANADIAN ADDUCTION CASE. - Some attempt wus lately mude to treat with levity and discredit the fact that the Canadian authorities bad taken measures to investigate tho recent forci? ble abduction by United States detec? tives, from Canadian territory, of Dr. Rufus Bretton, who was oharged with being guilty of Ku Klux offences in South Carolina. The case, however, has been formally presented in oourt at London, Ontario, the place of the al? leged seizure of Bratton, and a statement mado by the latter identifying Cornwall, the prisoner, as the person who, with the assistance of a cub-driver, hand? cuffed him, thrust him into a oab, and carried him into the United States. The case has been farther remanded. As there can be no doubt of the truth of the facts alleged, it is fair to presume that the Canadian authorities will make an appropriate example of the parties employed in the disgraceful affair. [Bedtime-re Sun. A nnmber of women in San Francisco have just started the Women's Pacific Publishing Company, and had it duly incorporated with a capital of $25,000, all of which is distributed by the gentler sex. Its officers, superintendent and business agents are all women, its type setting in done by women, and in fact, all the work of the establishment, with a few necessary exceptions, in performed by lovely women. Some of the Paris journals lately an? nounced that tho firm of Rothschild lately received thirty-one wagons of gold by railway from Germany. These con? signments, the Constitntionel announces, arise from the reimbursement of the dif? ferent wur loaus, rendered possible by the first distribution of tho French iu demnity, and falling duo for tho most part on July 1. The theory that Stokes was the geutlo man who wus present when Col. Fisk fell down stairs und killed himself, is to be discarded. He is now mentioned as the gentleman who gave a blundering surgeon a chance to murder Fisk with u probe. Kate Hanly, an eighteen-year old girl of Temeschnl, Cal., who has been an idiot all her life, after a deep sleep of seventy-two hours, a week or two since, awoke as bright and intelligent as others of her ago, to the joy of her friends. An Indiana paper describes the feast of a legislative delegation at a railroad din? ner. The reporter narrates the facts in the oase very pointedly: "The delegates set at 3 P. M. They upset at 5." A five-year old visiting at the sea shore and obliged to sleep three in a bed, nar? rated her dream, which bei ag unfinished, she accounted for fully, by not having room to dream the rest of it. A new attachment is now being mude at Colt'u armory, Hartford, Conn., for the Gatling gun. It is known us tho "dram-feeder," by whioh 400 shots aro discharged per minute. There is a fat, clumsy boy, seventeen years old, in the village of Timmous ville, S. C., who has learned to walk the wire like Prof. Bond. The natives are astonished. A far West father, iu pursuit of his eloping daughter, was killed and sculped by the Apaches. The latest marriage in high life at La? fayette, Iud., was a wedding in a balloon a mile above the earth. THE MORALITY OF CARDS.-Some of the religious journals buve been indulge ing in argument relative to gambling, in which ideas no less novel than strik? ing have soen the light. "Can Qod be glorified," asks tho Christian Examiner, of "Richmond, Virginia, "or Christ honored and his cause advanced, by such abominable games as smut, euohre, seveu-up H ml old-maid, tho very names of which female-modesty should blush to pronounce?" Rev. George Harding, editor of the Indianapolis Journal, re? plies: "We presume uot. However, there are many worse things that Christ? ians may do than play cards. Seven-up is a scientific game, useful as a discipline of the mind. Whist inculcates tho virtue of silence. Euchre teaches prin? ciples wbioh may be practically adapted to every-day life; for instance, the folly of attempting to go it alone on a weak bund." This, we presume, Hetties the question forevermore, and we are curious to learn how Mr. Tremaine feels now. In defending Stokes the other day, he said be loathed a gambler moro than he loathed any human being, nnd that such a man would steal the coins from his dead parents' eyes to gratify bis wretched passion. He had no thought then of the soothiug influences that seven-up exercises over the mind. He bad not learned the virtues of old-maid, or the blina of coppering the ace. His client could not have been a devotee to euohre, or be would never have gone it alone on a weak hand. The Christian Examiner bas a very weak case. Its questions remind us of a sermon deli vol? ed against base-bull, wherein the preacher asked: "Why play this game? Would a dying sinner play base-ball on bis death bed? Then avoid this snare of Satan, my hearers." Uuder the heading "A foretaste of political millennium," tbe New York Herald, of Saturday, says: The most thorough shuffling of the political pack that this age has ever seen was exhibited at the Greeley jubilee ut Chappaqua yes? terday, when the Southern members of tbe Democratic National Committee made a visit to Horace Greoley. There was Duke Gwin, of Sonora, arm and arm with Franois W. Bird, of Boston; General Chalmers, of Johnston's old army, hob-nobbing iu lemonade with Geueral Stephen G. Burbridge, of Ken? tucky ; ex-Postmaster-Generai Reagan, of the ex-Confederacy, in social discussion with Theodore Tiltou, aud tbe represen? tative of "old secosh" of tho South shaking hands iudeed across "tho bloody chasm" witb the representative old abo? lition agitators of the North. Is there not something suggestive beyond the more uotiou of u political dodge in all this? Is it not, indeed, a typo of that true re-union, where old errors and trou? bles, oven those ghastly ones that led to civil war, may be reviewed in a friendly manner, with concession and pardon on both sides, ready to smooth over all re? curring anger? The political millennium is ooming. OFFICIAL MURDERS IN ARKANSAS-THE PEACE WHICH GRANT OFFERS.-A Little Rock (Arkansan) despatch, under date of the 12th, states that at a Clayton po? litical meeting, held in Pope County, July 0, Deputy Sheriff Williams report? ed that he bad been shot at bat not burt. Sheriff Dodson, with a crowd of twenty eight men, accordingly arrested Tucker, Hale and son, and West, four prominent citizens, whom Williams suspected. Tbe crowd started to take these men to Perry County, and under pretense of ?a at? tempted rescue, they killed three of the prisoners. The people in the County believe the affair was intended as a pre? text for proclaiming martial law, and to intimidate the anti-Grant men. Pope County has been peaceable for years, although the officials aro mostly Claytou appointees. No civil process was issued in the caye. A FREEDMAN MURDERS HIS FATHER-IN LAW.-A most heinous murder was com? mitted on Bear Creek, near Ridgeway, last Tuesday night, on tho person of Charles Crayon, alias Charles Johnson, by Sbadrack Harris, both colored. The particulars, as we have heard them, aro substantially these: For somo time past Sbadrack Harris has been living with Charles Crayon's daughter as bis wife, and Charles Crayon desired Llarris to bj legally maried to her, whereupon a quar? rel ensued, and Harris drew a knife and stabbed Crayon in the region of the heart, from tbe ellects of which he died in a few minutes. Harris, np to this writiug, is in tho woods.- Winnsboro News. THE SMITH FAMILY.-We give place to tho following as the only satisfactory ex? planation we have met with concerning the generosity with which the world has been besprinkled with a certain inoffend ing family: lt has always been a mystery to us where all the Smiths came from; but while lately visiting a neighboring city, the matter was satisfactorily explained by the appearance of a large sign over the door of a factory, with the announce? ment that this was tho "Smith Manu? facturing Company." THE MILITARY PRISONERS.-On Friday last, P. S. Webber, of Union County, who had beeu in jail here for several weeks, was released on bail. He was tho last alleged Ku Klux under confinement; and with the exception of E. B. Se paugh, the jail is now empty of military prisouers. Sepaugh, as we have hereto? fore stated, is under conviction, but was remanded to the jail of this County, ponding the proceedings in his case-he having prayed an arrest of judgment. [Fortville Enquirer. DEATH OF MR. E. H. GRAY.--Oar whole community will learn with feel? ings of sadness the suddeu death of this gentleman. Ho died yostorday af er noon, ubout 4 o'clock, ut lia th, S. C., from exhaustion caused by the heat. f A tig usia'Constitutionalist. SPURIOUS SYRUPS.-Chemistry hos got the advantage of the sugar-grower in tbe matter of manufacturing syrups, and now patronizes the wheat and potato raiser. A New Orleans chemist has found this out. His attention was direotcd to a substance sold largely by dealers under the name of sugar drips, and afterwards retailed as golden syrup, which, on examination, is found to be a triumph of science over nature. It does not contain a partido of sugar, but is produced by the destructive notion of sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol) upon starch. He gives tbe following as a means of de b/rmining the character of a syrup. Dissolve- a tea spoon-ful of the "goldeu syrup ' in a wine glass of rain water; then ndd a few grains of tannie ncid, when it will turn as blaok as ink if the article is spurious. If not convenient to procure, mako a cup of strong tea (which contains tannin) and add a tea? spoon-ful of the "golden," and a fair quantity of ink will appear. The pure cane syrap will mix with the fluid with? out producing any chemical changes on tho addition of the tannie add. Adul? teration is everywhere, and at the rate we are drifting now, it will not be long be? fore it will be impossible to procure any article in oommon uso in a pure state. THE RUSSIAN MINISTER'S PAMPHLET. The muoh-talked-of pamphlet of M. Catacazy, lately Minister of Russia at Washington, recently published in Europe and republished in New York, is in the form of a letter addressed to Chief Justice Chase. It recounts the di arges brought against him by Seoretary Fish of offensive conduct and slander? ous assertions concerning the Adminis? tration, and attempts to refute them. The ex-Minister assorts that he was not dismissed from his position, but was re? lieved at his own request. He goes at length into the history of the Perkins claim, ns well as other matters in whioh he was said to bs involved, and asserts that most of the charges against him were based apon old women's stories, which were groundless. The documents which he appends in his defence com? prise letters of Secretary Fish, Horace Greeley, Charles A. Dana, James Gor? don Bennett, Jr., and others. The pamphlet appears, in fact, to have been written rather as an apology than as a medium of revenge, and as it contains nothing now and but little of interest which has not already been ventilated, it is not destined to attract any unusual atteutiou. A case of self-immolation by a Hindoo widow bas occurred in Brighton, Eng? land. The woman was the widow of one Moses Spinemann, a rioh merchant, who married her in Malabar, of whioh coun? try she was a native. During her resi? dence in England, she always retained her own religion and customs, and caused to be constructed on her husband's estate in the country a Hindoo temple, into which she went every day to offer up her devotions according to the rules of her own faith. When Spinemann died re? cently, she conducted herself in the moRt frantic manner, tearing her hair and disfiguring her beautiful features with her nails. Her remains, consumed by fire, were subsequently discovered by the servants in the temple whioh she had built, and their condition dearly re? vealed the fact that, in accordance with the old Hindoo superstition in such mat? ters, she had burnt herself alive. A similar case occurred a few moaibs ago in Naples, where a woman, widow of a Hindoo grandee who bad died in that city, immolated herself npon a funeral Pyre-_ THE DEATH ROLL IN NEW YORK.-The New York Star says: "The deaths in this city dubing tbewoek jnst ended number? ed 1,056, a large decrease when com? pared with the deaths of the previous week, but yet a terrible record. It ex? ceeds the rate of any oity on the globe. No other reason can be given for this than neglect of sanitary measures. Our tenement houses need reorganizing in some way that shall prevent the terrible crowding of men, women and children together like pigs, for it is the tenement houses that make so much work for tho undertakers. Tbe health commissioners do something certainly, but their notion is spasmodic, and their supervision of their places is not continuous nor effect? ive. Something must be done. With 1,000 deaths per week, and 300 births, our ruco will soon become extinct." Grant bas evidently put his foot ia it for rewarding Clarke, the disgraced Con? gressman, with tho best post office in Texas, and Flake's Bulletin says: "The incumbent of the Galveston pout office is a matter of trifling importance to the nation, but the question as to whether he who sits in the seat of Washington, of Jefferson, of Jackson and Lincoln, shall deal with the people of this great coun? try as the 'Cheap John' and the pinch? beck jewelry man deals with the publio, is a matter of great moment, and will sink deeply into the hearts of all re? flecting men at this important crisis in publio affairs." DROWNED.-A letter to the Washing? ton Patriot oontains an account of the drowning of Mr. L. F. Post, of New York, at Cape May on the 10th inst. Mr. Post had plunged into the sutf to save a boy who had got beyond his depth, and the under-current taking them, both perished together. Mr. Post is a stenographer, who, in Columbia, in conjunction with Bon.' Pitman, of Cincinnati, reported the Ku Klux trials last winter. ESCAPED FROM JAIL.-Wm. Gibson, the Fort Mill murderer, who was com? mitted to jail here a few weeks ago, made his escape on Saturday afternoou last, and is now at lar ire. f YbrkoiUe Enquirer. COMMITTED SUICIDE.-On last Satur? day, thu 13th instant, Mr. H. Crawford Lem mond, of Munroe, Union County, N. C., committed suicide at that place by taking morpbiue. THE GOOD TIME COMING.-The follow? ing is an extract from a letter dated July 12, written by a wealthy Northerner, who owns a considerable amount of t real estate in Aiken, tu a prominent citizen: "Since Greeley's nomination by the Baltimore Oonvention, I feel that my South Carolina property is worth more, and, therefore, am not so anxious to sell. If the inhabitants of South Carolina who have landed interests can do the State legislating, and laws are enacted by tho General Government to heal the es? trangement between tbe South and the North, I will have no fears of the pros? perity of your State." FEARFUL DEATHS.-A man named Thomas Gwynn and his son met a fear? ful death at Loyd ville, Belmont County, Ohio, last week. They were engaged in siukiug a well. After blasting, the father descended to examine the bottom; he instantly felt the effect of poiconous gas and called for help; his son de? scended, tied a rope around bim, while those above polled him out, but too late, as life was extinct. When he reached the surf nco the rope was instantly low? ered for his sos, who made it fast around his body and was drawn out, but in the same condition es his father. Yoong men who will set up late on Sa? turday nights playing cards, and go to ohurch next morning with a "full deck" in their pooketa, should be careful about their being so bestowed as not to fall out. When Bob Howe went to the Baptist meeting at Circleville, and took his seat with his sweetheart in the front pew in the gallery, he had occasion to use his handkerchief, and drawing it rather suddenly from the breast pocket, drew out with it the entire pack of "Cohen's best linen," which flew all about below. The good minister "saw" it, and know? ing whereof he spoke, simply'observed, "Young man, your psalm book has been poorly bound." DEATH OF A FOLLOWER OF THE FIRST NAPOLEON.-Dr. Joseph Fiehrer, who died suddenly in Richmond, Ya., last week, in the seventy-ninth year of his age, was the oldest member of tba first German lodge of Odd Fellows instituted in the United States, Herman Lodge, No. 7, of Pennsylvania, and was, also, one of the few surviving followers of the great Nopoleon, having been attached to a cavalry corps of the French army, six? ty years ago, in the capacity of veterin? ary surgeon, which profession he fol? lowed to the day of bis death. SOUTH CAROLINA CLEANED OUT.-If nothing more is stolen from the South Carolina treasury, it will be because there is actually nothing left to steal. The State Govennment is paralyzed, the finances are exhausted, and the system of publio instruction is brought to a stand-still, for the lack of funds. The carpet-baggers, many of whom are speci? fied by name in correspondence recent? ly published by the New York Tribune, have actually "cleaned out" the State. And it is a noticeable faot that all of the carpet-baggers are for President Grant. The corporators of the Cheraw and Little River Railroad held a meeting on Tuesday last at Marion. They organized by electing Capt. T. C. DUDO President. Books of subscription were ordered to be opened at such times and plaoes as the President may direct. Tribute ot limped At a regular meeting of tho Independent Steam Fire Engine Company, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereaa it having pleated Qod, in His all wise judgment, to ente.* our ranks and take from among us our late brother-comrade, FELIX TON ON EY- one who, as a fireman, waa ever faithful, energetio, and prompt to duty; one who waa always ready and willing to obey the mandat?e of his officers. H?ring the few years that he was connected with us in the capacity of a fireman, he gained the kindly feeling of the Company hy his gene? rous and unobtrusive manner. But a short time has elapsed since we met together, in response to the call of the alarm bell, to proffer a helping hand, to render that aid ne? cessary to relieve our fellow-mortals. But now no more forever will we meet that pleas? ing faco upon this earth; no more that will? ing hand shall be raised to turn back the fire demon from ita onward course of desolation. He baa been called away. That response to the call from the MoBt High baa left a void upon oar company roll, and many ead hearts to monro his untimely end. It ia but our ead privilege to bow lu humble Submission to the decree ot our Divine Master, graciously trust? ing that ho haa been transferred to the realms of the glorious heavens beyond the sky. It ia, therefore, bnt juat and meet that we, hi? surviving corara des, who have been connected with him as a fireman, should pay this last feeble but j out tribute to bis memory. Be it, therefore, Resolved, That in the death of Felix Tong ney, in thia oity. on June 18,1872, the Inde? pendent Steam Fire Engine Company baa sustained the loee of a highly valued and honored member. Resolved, That we sympathize with the re? latives of the deceased iu their bereavement. Resolved, That a page in our minute book be inscribed to hia memory; that our hall and apparatus be draped in mourning; and that tbe members wear the usual badge of reapeot during the ?pace of thirty days. Resolved, That thia preamble and resolu? tions bo published in the DAILY PBCBNIX, of this city, aud that a oopy of th? same be for? warded'tu the relatives of the deceased. JOHN MCKENZIE, President. J. F. SOTPUKM, Secretary. _ Taken Up, ^ffWaBwa ON tho 17th instant, a GOW Btt^BMand a CALF, which tho owner can _JE2JS-recover by proving property and pa WUK tor this advertisement. C. SCHULTZ, Jnly 191* Corner Oreen and Pulaski ata. I Palmetto Lodge, No. 5,1. 0. 0. F. THE regular meet ling of thia Lodge will -_-'be held in Maeonio Hall, TH1& (friday) EVENING, at 8o'olock. By ordor of the N. O. _ I. BULZBAOHER, July 19 1 ?eoretary.